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Lamehith than is before; for if I cowde possibly be ther rather,
I wold not faile so to be. At Maidestone, the xiiiith day of Marche, [1523?]
At yor graces commaundement,
WII.LAM CANTUAR
Indorsed : To the moste reverend fadre in Grod, and my
sing'lar good Lord my lord Cardinal of Yorkes grace. Legate a
latere.
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9. FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME.
(The proceedings against Master Rawlyns, Warden of
Merton College
in Oxford.)
Pleace it yor good grace to understand that, acording to yor
graces mynde and pleacire, I have made abbreviat of the
depositions
of the fealowship of Merton college, concernyng
maister Rawlyns1 cause, whiche I send now unto yor grace
wt
the originall depositions. The hole matier resteth uponn trialle
of v. articles :—ferst, is whether maister Rawlyns hath been
intolerable
in the said college; secunde, whether he hath been
unprofitable to the same; third, whether he hath diminished
the state of that college in thinges moveable or immoveable;
fourthe, whether he hath duely observed thexercise of lernyng
there; fyveth, whether he hath diminisshed the numbre of the
fealows of the same. And in all the said articles maney of the
said felowshipps, ten in number, have deposed against maister
Rawlings, and have shewed diverse and manifold reasons and
causes to every article why they have so deposed, as it may
evidently appere unto yor grace, by the said abbreviat, not
varienge
from the originall, but in brevyng of the matier. In
the whiche abbreviat at thende of depositions, in every article,
a summe is set, shortly comprising the contentes in the same.
And in like wise bee orderd the depositions of such as doeth
that in thaim is, to excuse master Rawlyns in the said articles,
which so deposing bee fyve in number. But after thair depositions no summe is set, bicause the moost part of thaim is but
as a summe in it self.. It may pleace yor good grace, at yor
1 Richard Rawlyna was elected Warden of Merton College, Oxford,
December 19, 1508, and deprived of the same office, September 19,
1521
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