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Wher yor grace writeth that I shuld the rather pay at this
tyme because I shalbe repayed by Michaelmas next of that
money which I last avaunced to the Kinges grace by wey of loone, my lord, the said money was promised to be repayed
to me at Candilmas last, which as yet I have not receved.
Howbeit, if I had xm li. of money, I wold be as glad to make
loone thereof to the Kinges grace at this tyme, wt as good a
wil and mynde as any man living wold doo.
My lord, wher it hath pleased the Kinges good grace of his
singular grete goodenes to remitte to his commissioners and
other his graces temporal subjects of this his countie of Kent,
which have made alredy graunte half the summes of money
at the first sitting demaunded, as by his graces newe instructions
it appereth; I trust, and so humbly beseche yor grace
to be mediate1 for me to his highnes, that in consideration of
my charges and peynes in his graces causes, susteyned by his
graces commaundment, I for my parte may be in no worse
condition than any of his graces said commissioners or subjects
be ; howbeit, as I have before writen, I shalbe glad to doo that
that may lye in litle power for th'accomplisshing of his graces
high pleasir. At Maydeston, the viijth day of May, [1525.]
At yor graces commaundment,
WILLAM CANTUAR
Indorsed: To the moste reverend fadre in God, and my veray singular good lord, my lord cardinal of Yorke and legate de
latere his good grace.
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15. "WARHAM AND HIS FELLOW-COMMISSIONERS TO
HENRY VIII.
(Commending the liberal spirit of the inhabitants of Kent, who had
"kindly, freely, and willingly offered their bodies, lives,
and goods," to
serve the King. They consider themselves more bound to this, not
only
as he is " a loving, kind, and valiant Prince," but as
he takes himself to
have been born in Kent, and consequently has shown special favours
to
that county.)
Pleace it yor noble grace to understand that we and other
yor gracs Commissioners, to the nomeber of lxxx or therabowghts,
assembled at yor Citie of Canterbury the second and
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