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of the college ther, and also for other causes concernyng the
reformation of certeyne religiose places within my diocese, for
whose apparence I have sent oute citations, which I can not
conveniently revoke. Wherfor thies premisses considered, I
hertily beseche yor good lordeship that I may understand yor
pleasir and mynde at what tyme it may please yor lordeship to
take the peyne to be at my power place at Otforde. My lorde,
I had levyr lose vc marke than the matir that is intended shuld
take none effecte, for diverse and many considerations which
wer to long to write. Almighti God knoweth best my mynde
in this behalve, which ever preserve yor good Lordeship. At
Otforde, the thirde day of Juing, [1519 ?]
Ever yor owne
WILLIAM CANTAB.
Indorsed : To my lorde of Bukkingham is good lordeship.
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2. FROM THE SAME TO CARDINAL WOLSEY.
(On the coming of the Emperor Charles V., and his entertainment at
Canterbury.)
After moost humble comendations I thank yor good grace as
hertly as I can, that it hath pleaced the same tadvertise me of
thestableshed and certaine determination of themporours maiestie
for his repaire to the Kinges moost noble grace, and of
the Kinges grace gieftes for the meting of themporoure at
Cauntrebury, and for the deducting of his Maieste to Wychester.
My Lord, I am verey muche bownd to yor good grace for the
manifold tokyns of greate favors and kindnes, whiche I fynd
dayly more and more encresse in yor grace towardes me, for whiche, if I were able to do yor grace pleasure agayne, I were
far unkynd if I wold not bee very diligent, redy, and glad to
do it. And sory I am that I can not bee at Cauntrebury, to
gyve yor grace attendance, and do my duety acordingly at yor
gracs comyng thither, whiche I assuer yor grace I wold not
failed to have doen, if I had not been diseased now of late,
whereof I am not yet holy deliverd. Notw'standing I trust in
Good, that by that tyme that I have doen my duety to the
Kinge grace at my power house at Otford, I shalbe able furthwt
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