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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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