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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 1  1858   page 32

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

And considering that ye were assigned to be here this day wt me in like wise, to make aunswer of yor opinion and mynde in this mater, with the names of asmany as be of like mynde as ye be of, I gretely mervaile that ye comme not hider to shewe yor aunswer therein accordingly. Wherefore I requir you to be here wt me on Monday next, by ix of the clok before noone, to make and ley in yor aunswere in this behalve, as ye shal thinke good, wt the namys of asmany other persons as be of yor opinion and mynde in the same mater : to thentent that I may certify my Lord Cardinal thereof accordingly; and yor  myndes knowen I shalbe glad that suche order and wey may be taken in this mater as ye shal thinke may best stand with the pleasire of God and the common weale of thinhabitantes of that cuntrey, nowe beeing and which hereafter shalbe : and in case ye can not thus certify me by Monday next, then I requir you to certify me of yor mynde, and of others of like myndes, at Maidestonne, on Sancte Thomas day next commyng. If ye had made yor aunswer herein, I mought have certified my said Lord Cardinal thereof furthwt howbeit by yor delay I am compelled to differre the said certificat. At Otford, the last day of Juny [1525].
                                                        WILLAM CANTUAR

   Addressed : To my right welbeloved William Whetnal, William Waller, and Henry Pane, and to every of theym.
   Indorsed : Thinhabytauntes of Tunbridge had rather theyre Pryory stode still than to have a schole for xl children, to be sent thence to Oxford.

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17. FROM THE SAME TO CARDINAL WOLSEY.
   (The state of feeling among the inhabitants of Tunbridge, at the suppression of the Priory there, and the proposal to found a free school.)
   Pleace it yor grace to understand, that upon sight of yor late letters, I wrote immediately to certeyne substantial persons of Tunbrige and theraboutes, to be advertised by theym, what murmur or brutes were made there concernyng the prioury there, and if any suche were, the same tobe diligently suppressed. Whereupon this morenyng I have receved aunswere

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