Three chapters of letters relating to the suppression of monasteries / Edited from the originals in the British Museum by Thomas Wright.

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1843
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Credit: Three chapters of letters relating to the suppression of monasteries / Edited from the originals in the British Museum by Thomas Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following letter must have been written before the preceding, but it will be best understood in its present position. Cromwell was inclined to shew more favour to Latimer than his opponents expected, and the ease with which the latter excused the mistaken harshness of their censures is very remarkable. Little is known of the history of the house of Dominicans, or Friars Preachers, in Bristol, and there is no list of the priors. Dr. Hylsey succeeded Fisher as bishop of Rochester, wdiich shows that he was compliant with the spirit of the times. V. JOHN HYLSEY TO CROMWELL. [From MS. Cotton. Cleopat. E. iv. fol. 140.] Master chawnselar, I commende me unto you as hartly as I may thynke, trustynge yn Gode that you be (the which Jesu con- tynewe) yn good prosperyte. Ytt is nott owt off your master- shyppys remembrance, that yn the Lent I dvd wrete unto you off the grete dyvysyon that was (ye and yett ys) amonge the peple yn the towne of Brystoll, off the whyche I wrote unto yowe that hytt came by the prechynge of owne Mr. Latymar, a man nott un- knowne. I wrote to you allsoe that he spake off pylgremages, worshyppyng off seyntes, wurshyppyng off ymages, off pur¬ gatory, etc. yn the whyche he dyd vehemently perswade towarde the contrary, that the peple ware nott a lytle offendyd. I wrote alsoe that some men thowht necessary to preache agenst hym, the whyche I supposyd nott best, except that he sholde be put to sylence, for fere off fardyr dyvysyon (the whyche by this cause ys nowe happenyd yn dede) ; and some thowht hytt metur to have hym before hys ordynarye to be examynyde, and soe the trewthe to be knowen; and yn thys thynges I desyryd you to do that you thowht metyst to reforme your peryshynge flock, to whome I wrote as to the shepparde off the sayd flocke. Nowe upon thys my byll men hathe crafftly usyd them selfe, ye and crafft was usyd to me or thys byll camme frome me, but that makythe nott nowe, the lettre ys off myne owne hande as thys ys, and nowe seynge that men hathe fownde the way to convey hytt to you otherways then they ynformyd me that they wolde, I cannott denye mye hande, nother wyll nott; wherfore puttynge asyde all thnges that sholde
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