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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 1  1858   page 23

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

make a better aunswer in avoiding of farther daunger. I assure yor grace that suche as be of the religion, of suche howses as be nowe newely suppresed, grudgeth sore therat, whether it wer better or no to spare the preceding ferther therin tyll this greate matier of the kinges grace be ended. I referr it to yor grace, albeyt it hath been thowght good policye, in tymes past, not to broche to many matiers of displeasur at ons. 
   My chancellor hath been in other places of Kent to practise wt the clergy for ther graunte; and what he hath found therin, this berar, my servaunte, William Potken, which was present wt hym in every place, may at large enforme yor grace, if it shall pleace the same to geve hym audience, to whom I desier yor grace to geve credence in this behalfe. I have nowe writen to yor grace concernyng bothe the spiritualtie and temporaltie of such thinges as be don already. If I wer present wt yor grace, I could shewe no more as yet, as I shall further hire and see, so in this matier I shall advertise yor grace from tyme to tyme. At Otford, the xijth day of Aprile, [1528.]
                                      At yor graces commaundment,
                                              WILLAM CANTUAR.

Indorsed: To the most Reverend father in God, and my verey singuler good lord, my Lord Cardinal of Yorke and legate de latere his good grace.

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11. FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME.
   (Complains that he is disquieted in his jurisdiction by the Cardinal's officers, contrary to law: begs that Wolsey will look to this, as he has often promised to take away no part of the jurisdiction of the Archbishop, who thinks that this is done without the Cardinal's cognizance.)
   Pleace it your most honorable grace to understand that your Officers, as Doctor Dolman wt other, very busiely inquietith me and my jurisdiction, specially of my courte of Audience of causes, apperteynyng to me in the right of my church, bireason of the legacy graunted to the same, thorowgh their inhibitions calling almaner of causes out of my handes and of my said court, being their at the sute of parteis, or of mere office, or of promotion of any party. And so at length, the same contynued, my jurisdiction of my audience shuld be extincted. Wherein,

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