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mynds trusting verely that yor grace will accept the same lovingly
and thankfully, notw'standing they sayth that in all the
premisses they be contented to be ordred by yor gracs charitable
conscience, singuler wisedome and goodnes. And seing
theys their loving aunswers, we permitted theym to departs
untill yor gracs farther pleasur may be knowen in this behalfe.
Finally, we did rede to theym. the minute of theis or lres, and
also deliverd the same minute to theym in place wher we dyd
sytt in commission, which, aft that they wt good deliberations
had reden it, they furthwth redeliverd to us ayen, saying that
they wer therwt contented, which ordre we used to thentent
they should not thinke that we do certify yor grace otherwise
than they have sayd to us. It is a common fame and brute in
theis parteeis that yor grace hath remitted the payments of such
Sommes of mony as wer demaunded of yor gracs subjects of yor citie of London,
wth fame and brute (as it is thowght) hath
don but litle good her, [1525].
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16. FROM ARCHBISHOP WARHAM TO WILLIAM WHETNAL
AND OTHERS.
(Appointing a certain day for them to certify to him the feelings
of the inhabitants as to a proposal for founding a grammar-school at
Tunbridge.)
I commende me to you; and where at my late beeing at
Tunbrige I required you and other thinhabitantes of the same
towne and of other places ny adioynyng, to be here before me
this day, to shewe you and their myndes in writing whethir ye
and they shuld thinke it more expedient to have a free Scole
of grammer founded at Tunbrige, for xl scolers, mennys children
of those parties, and they afterward tobe promoted to
Oxford, having exhibition for their fyndyng at scole there,
orelles to have the contynuance of the prioury there, as it hath
be used in tymes past; so it is that a good multitude of the
said towne, according to the said appoinctement, hath be here
with me this present day, shewing aswel by mowthe as by
writing, that they thinke it more expedient to have the
continuation
of the said monastery, wt the priour and his convent,
thanne to have a grammer scole; and they have presented a
booke of diverse persons names, their neybours, in a grete numbre,
which, as they saieth, be of like mynde in that behalve.
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