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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 1  1858   page 40

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

send hys lytter to Dover for my Lorde Legate,1 and so to conducte liyni to Cantorburie, and will in noo wyse lende the seid lytter any ferther, for he seithe he may goo ne ryde hymself, and to be with owte oon at hys nede he will not. And thus Thu preserve yor grace. At Canterbury, the foreseid day and houre ; yor most humble chaplen and servaunt, [1528.]
                                                  THOMAS BENET.

   Addressed : To my Lorde Legates grace.
   Indorsed : Doctor Benet, of the xxviij day of September.

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23. FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME.
   (Introducing to Wolsey the celebrated "Nun of Kent," Elizabeth Barton.)
   Pleace it yor grace. So it is that Elizabeth Barton, being a Religiouse woman, professed in Sainct Sepulchres in Cantrbery, whiche hadd all the visions at our lady of Courtopscet, a very well disposyd and vertuouse woman (as I am enformyd by hir susters), is very desierouse to speke wt yor grace personally. What she hathe to say, or whether it be good or yll, I do not know; but she hathe desyeryd me to write unto yor grace, and to desier the same (as I do) that she may come to yor graces presence. . Whom when your grace have herde, ye may ordre as shall pleace the same. For I assure yor grace she hathe made very importune sute to me to be a meane to your grace that she may speke wt you. At Cantrbery, the first day of October, [1528 ?]
                                    At yor graces commaundement,
                                         WILLAM CANTUAR.

   Addressed : To the moost Reverende father in god, and my very singular good lord, my Lorde Cardinall of Yorke, legate de latere, his good grace.

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