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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 1  1858   page 26

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

moch as the said persons of small substaunce be farr moo in nomeber than the other sorteis bee, which indescrete multitude it shalbe verey hard to ordre, bicause multitudes comonly be more ruled after thaire own. selfe wilfulnes than after good reason or discretion, and some woll fall in to fumes, and so fallen woll not be ruled by other persons, nether can or woll well rule or ordre thaymselves, we desier yor grace to know yor mynd and pleasure, whether ye shall thinke it best to assemble thaym, whome if we shuld call befor us, we suppose we shall hare moche busynes wt thayme, and litle profecte shall ensue therof to the Kinges hieghnes.
   Item, the Kinges graces said subjectes dwellith far aparte, and the nomber of theym is greate. Some of theym having skante money to bring theymselves to Canterbery or other places wher we haue appoinoted to sitt, will sore grudge to labor, so farr leiving thair husbanndry. And whether it shall stand wt yor graces pleasur that the Kinges graces Comissioners, which have devided theymselves in to diverse hundredes, shall or no sitte by vertue of the Kinges graces comission (whiche they have now in the said hundredes to theym allotted, and call befor theym such persons as be under the some of xli., as is abovesaid, we pray yor grace that we may knowe yor graces advise and counsaill. And in caas it shalbe yor graces pleasure, that the said comissioners may sitte as is beforsaid, thesaid greate nombre shall assemble in diverse places, and not to gether, in avoyding ther greate expenses, coostes, and charges. And the rather it shall pleace yor grace to ascerteyne us of yor graces pleasur, the soner and better this matier shalbe handled.
   Finally, the comon fame and brute of theis parteis is that the Kingges Hieghnes hath remytted the paymentes of such somes of money as wer demaunded of the Kinges graces subjectes of the Citie of London, which fame and brute, as it is thowght, hath doon litle good here. 
   Item, we have sent unto yor grace the coopy of suche our lettres as we have sent unto the Kinges hieghnes. At Cantbery, the third day of May, [1525 ?]
                         At yor graces comaundment,
                           WILLAM GANTUAR, THOMAS BOMOT,
                           T. LORD COBHAM, HENRY GULDEFORD

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