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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 1  1858   page 18

Archbishop Warham's Letters (1518? to 1528?), (from H. M. State Paper Office)

liberius conferre licebit. Ex ecclesia mea Cantuariense, tertio Aprilis, [1522.]
                           Ejusdem Reverendissimae paternitatis vestrss
                                  Obsequentissimus deditissimusque,
                                          WILHELMUS CANTUARIENSIS.

Addressed: Reverendissimo in Christo Patri et Domino, Domino Thomse, miseratione diviaa tituli Sanctae Ceciliae Sacrosanctae Romanse Ecclesiee presbytero cardinal!, Eboracensi Archiepiscopo, Angliae Primati, et Apostolicae Sedis a latere Legato, . . . Angliae Cancellario, tanquam Domino meo.
   Indorsed: William, Archbusshop of Canterbury, thankinge Cardynall Wolsey for a Jewell, verye Ryche, sent to be offred to St Thomas of Oanterburye, &c.

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6. FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME.
   (Sends to the Cardinal, Sir Henry, the parson of Sevenoaks; who has used "unfitting language of his Grace." Hopes Wolsey will be "good, gracious, and piteous" to the poor man, and not commit him to prison.)

   Pleace it your grace, I hare sent unto the same oone Sir Henry, paroche prieste of Sevenocke, which (as it is surmised) hath used unfitting langage of your grace, otherwise then semyd hym to do. "Upon communication hadd wt hym, I perceived hym well willing to come unto yor grace, to geve attendaunce oone the same for his excuse, which trustythe that yor grace wolbe good graciouse and pituouse to hym, seing he is so well willing to come to yor grace; he is a powr prieste, and pitie it is, my lord, that he shuld be extreamely entreatyd wtll or comytted to prison; he is unhable to susteyne or beare any great charge or coste, and I doubt not but if it might lyke yor grace to be graciouse lord unto hym nowe, he wilbe at all tymes the rediar to owe unto yor grace his service. As towching the matier that yor grace and I had communication, concernyng Tonebrige on Monday next ensueing, I entend, by Godes grace, ther to bee, and as I shall spede, so I will ascerteyne yor grace. At Otford, the xxij day of June.
                                      At yor graces commaundment,
                                                    WILLAM CANTUAR

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