Pp.  2.     Add.    Endd. :  "  A  letter  with  no  8[ub8cri]ptiou."

7  Oct.      586.    Abp.  Lee  to  Cromwell.
B.  O,  Thanks  him  for  receiving  into  his  service  the  archbishop's  nephew

Ric.  Coddington.  Is  much  bound  already  for  other  of  his  kinsfolk  in  Crom-
well's service  as  Poynengs,  Owen,  Welbecke,  Fogg,  and  Weshington.  Two
monasteries  of  nuns  are  void  within  his  diocese,  the  one  a  very  poor  house,
not  past  201., &  year,  the  other  of  lOOL  or  more.  Dare  not  proceed  to  any
election,  as  they  are  lK)th  under  the  Act  of  Suppression,  and  as  yet  they  have
no  confirmation.     Thinks  if  they  should  sue  for  their  cong^  they  cannot  bear

that  charge  and  pay  first  fruits  also.     Cawood,  the  7th  of (blank).
Signed^

P.  1.    Add, :  Lord  Privy  Seal.    Endd. :  Oc.  7.
7  Oct      587.    G.  EARL  OF  Shrewsbury  to  Henry  VIII.
R.  O.  At  seven  o'clock  that  morning  lord  Clynton  arrived  with  the  King's

letters.  Many  of  his  fellows  to  whom  they  are  directed  are  with  the  rebels,
so  he  has  forborne  sending  the  same  to  them.  Sends  this  day's  news  of  the
**  unthrifty  rebellious  "  in  writingi  and'  by  whom  it  was  showed ;  also  letters


28  HENRY  VHI.  239


1536.
sent  him  from  lord  Hossey  and  lord  Burrowe,  and  a  copy  of  his  answer  to
Hussey's  letter.  Will,  according  to  his  letter  yesterday,  be  at  Nottingham
tomorrow  night,  and  there  tarry  for  the  King's  subjects  on  Monday  or
Tuesday.  Begs  remembrance  of  the  bill  he  sent  yesterday,  signed  by  himself
and  others,  for  money  and  ordnance :  ''  for  money  is  the  thing  that  every
poor  man  will  call  for."  Herdwyk  in  Shyrwod  Forest,  7  Oct.  6  p.m.  Signed,

P.  1.     Add,     Endd. :  *«  The  lord  Steward's  letters,"  &c.
