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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    11 concerned in tlie conspiracy, bnt who had undertaken to examine the last-mentioned person, and gives us a brief catalogue of the principal visions of the nun. VI. LETTER TO SECRETARY CROMWELL. [From MS. Cotton. Cleopat. E. iv. fol. 75.] Sir, may it please you to be advertysed that accordyng to your comaundement I have put the artykvlles of the communycacion be- twene me and Mr. Ryche in wrytyng, and, as he sayth yow have them in wrytyng before, ever as I hard thynges wurthy to be notyd uppon the margent of my bok in the Doche and Frenshe tong, to thentent he shuld not understond my purpose, I dyd writ them. Yet dyd I not beleve sutche taylys (which he cawlyth revelacions), for I have lernyd the gospell, Attendite a falsis prophetis. Yf I had remembred another comaundement as well as I dyd that, Non concupisces rem proximi tui, with the saying of Catho cum bonis ambula, I shuld not have fallyn into this mysery. I have in remembraunce xxx. or xxxj. of these taylles which ar not possible to be set forth in wrytynges, that there intent shuld be known, and I suppose that xx. sheytes of papor wyll not wryte them at lengh in order. Wherefore I have written the name of the story whereuppon it dothe treate, so that then (yf it be as he sayth) the hole story wulbe in your re¬ membraunce. Fyrst, of an angell that appered and bad the nun go unto the kyng, that infydell prynce of Inglond, and say that I comaund hym to amend his lyve, and that he leve iij. thynges which he lovyth and purposyth uppon, that is that he tak none of the popis right nor patrymony from hym, the second that he distroye all these new ffolkes of opynyon and the workes of there new lernyng, the thyrde that yf he maryed and tok An* to wyffe the * The King was married to Anne Boleyn in the January of 1533.
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