correspondence that he ha with Sir John Daunce is preserved, relating to the repairs of the manors of Tunbridge and Penshurst (ib. Nos, 1501, 1550, 1592). In December l525 he was assessed for the subsidy at 800l. (ib. p. 1331), an income probably equal to about l0,000l. a year in our day. On 17 May 1527 he received a commission in conjunction with Clerk, bishop of Bath, and Sir Anthony Browne to go to France and take the oath of Francis I to the new treaty between him and Henry. He was one of the English noblemen who received pensions from Francis for promoting a good understanding between the two countries. He took his place in the parliament which met in November 1529, and) on 8 Dec. hewas created Earl of Wiltshire and Ormonde (ib. Nos. 6043, 6085). The latter earldom had for many years been in dispute between him and Sir Piers Butler, who had actually borne the title; but the matter was referred to the king's arbitration, who, making Sir Piers an allotment out of the lands, compelled him to relinquish the title in favour of Boleyn (Calendar, ii, Nos. 1230, 1269, iv. 3728, 3937, 097). On 24 Jan. 1530 he was appointed lord privy seal. The authority for the tent of this odice had already been issued four days previously; at which time he received a commission along with Stokesley, afterwards bishop of London, and Lee, afterwards archbishop of York, to go to the Emperor Charles V, and explain to him the