Henry VIII: June 1517, 1-15 | British History Online

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Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 2, 1515-1518. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1864.

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June 1517



1 June. Add. Chart. 1525. B. M.	3330. JOHN DUKE OF ALBANY, Governor of Scotland.
	Receipt to Jean Lalemant, treasurer of Languedoc, for 2,500 livres Tournois, towards the sum of 10,000 livres, part of 40,000 assigned him "by the King our said lord" through Anthoine du Prat, Chancellor of France, for the sale of a vessel called "La Michelle dEscoce," furnished with artillery. Dated 1 June 1517. Signed and sealed.
	Fr.
1 June. Galba, B. v. 250. B.M.	3331. SPINELLY to HENRY VIII.
	Wrote last on 30 May. The Pope has advertized the King of his difficulties. They have dispatched 1,200 spears of the realm of Naples to his aid. The French have required the Pope to revoke the administration of the see of Tournay, and restore the French Bishop. Has seen this in the letters of Cardinal de Medici addressed to Fra Nicolas, who says if there be no remedy the Pope must comply. The Geldrois have again been defeated. Today the Bailly of Henego goes to Mons, thence to Calais. He will meet Daussy at Gravelines. Ghent, 1 June.
	Hol., pp. 2, mutilated. Add.
1 June. R. O.	3332. J. DE BERGHES to HENRY VIII.
	In behalf of the bearer, who is known to the King, and is going on business to England. Ghent, 1 June 1517. Signed.
	Fr., p. 1. Add.
1 June. P.S.	3333. For JOHN PEYLSTON.
	Annuity of 20 marks out of the lordship of Denbigh, a former patent (granting him the same for his services at Bosworth) being void. Greenwich, 28 May 9 Hen. VIII. Del. Westm., 1 June.
	Pat. 9 Hen. VIII. p. 1, m. 9.
1 June. P.S.	3334. For JOHN AP ELYS.
	Annuity of 10 marks, out of the lordship of Denbigh, Marches of Wales. Greenwich, 28 May 9 Hen. VIII. Del. Westm., 1 June.
	Pat. 9 Hen. VIII. p. 1, m. 9.
3 June. Calig. B. II. 278. B.M. Green's letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies, I. 223.	3335. QUEEN MARGARET to HENRY VIII.
	On Tuesday, Cawter came to her at York from Albany with a writing, of which she sends a copy. Albany sends also letters for Henry, explaining his departure from Scotland, and stating that the Council would not allow him to pass through England. Thinks he has taken this purpose very hastily, as he had not thought of it within this short while. Thanks Henry for this, without whom it would not have been. Trusts he will take care that he do not return to trouble her, as his purpose is. Supposes Albany has informed Henry how he has left everything, and who is to have authority on the Borders. He has informed her of these points, and how she shall be answered of her conjunct feoffment, according to the agreement between Henry and him. Desires to represent one point. The agreement is, that she shall have all that belongs to her by right; but by one clause she is to restore what belongs to her son, without specifying what that is. This may be construed to her disadvantage: for the King, her husband, before he went to the field, gave her a warrant under his hand for 18,000 cr. of weight that the French King sent, which was without the consent of the Council of Scotland. They will be able to claim anything that the King her husband gave her; most part of which she spent before she came to England. Requests that Henry will command Dacres "to see a sure way for me and Master Magnus or I go in." Now that the Duke is going, cares little about the arrears. Has no doubt the lords will be glad to please her for fear of Henry. York, 3 June.
	P.S.—Since writing this, Cawter, the bearer, told her the Duke desired her to write for a prorogation of the peace beyond St. Andrew's Day. "Sir, I troust you do remember that I spake to your grace, vhan I vent to Vendsor thys last tyme, that it schuld not be long contynud vythout my dessyr for causis: but do to me as your grace thynkes best for me, so that I may know it before him whan it is contynud, soo that I may have the thanke of Scotlande."
	Hol., pp. 3. Add.
3 June. Calig. B. II. 286. B.M.	3336. MAGNUS to WOLSEY.
	My Lord Steward and his lady attended the Queen of Scots to Doncaster. She was honorably received on her entering Yorkshire by Lord Darcy, at York by Lord of Northumberland and the mayor. On Whitsunday dined at St. Mary's abbey: on Monday with the Dean of your church: on Tuesday with the Archdeacon of Richmond. Sir Richard Tempest, the sheriff, and Sir William Bulmer, do their duty nobly. York, 3 June.
	P. 1. Add.: U[nto my] Lord Cardinal's g[race].
4 June. R. O.	3337. G. DE CROY and J. SAUVAIGE to WOLSEY.
	Praise the unanimity existing through Wolsey's means between their sovereigns. Hope the King of England will never be separated from the King Catholic. They will use all their endeavors to strengthen the alliance. Ghent, 4 June 1517. Signed.
	Lat., p. 1. Add.
5 June. Galba, B. V. 256. B.M.	3338. SIR ROBERT WINGFIELD to HENRY VIII.
	Last night at Brussels, having come thither to collect certain writings and other stuff of his, which have been there ever since the meeting of the King and the Emperor at Terouenne, received from Worcester and the Vice-chancellor, then at Hawes, two Brabant miles hence, a copy of the King's letters of 30 March, dated Greenwich, addressed to all three, desiring Wingfield should follow the Emperor into Germany as his ambassador. Begs the King to remember how he has fulfilled his charge for more than seven years, and how impossible it is to comply: 1st. Because he is so deeply in debt: the payment of 75l. for his diets remaining due out of 100l. on the 14th ult., having been so long delayed. 2ndly. The journey to Cologne, where the Emperor is, is so unsafe, especially to him who is so greatly hated by the French. Not one of his servants will remain longer abroad. Intends to pass straight to Calais, and remain there until he hears again. Begs earnestly to have leave to visit his highness, and perform the pilgrimages he promised when in danger of his life. Brussels, 5 June 1517.
	Hol., pp. 3, mutilated. Add.
5 June. Er. Ep. VIII. 35.	3339. ERASMUS to URSWICK.
	His genius of a horse has been very favorable to Erasmus, and carried him twice safely backwards and forwards to Bâsle,—a long and perilous journey. He has visited so many universities, he is now as wise as Homer's Ulysses:
	"Mores hominum multorum vidit et urbes."
	Whilst Erasmus has grown as lean as a rake by hard study during ten months at Basle, the horse has had nothing to do, and has grown so fat he can scarce enter [his stable]. Doubts not Urswick has seen the New Testament. St. Jerome will soon appear, together with his work, De Principis Institutione, &c. Has sent four volumes of St. Jerome to the Archbishop by the One-eyed Peter, Urswick's alumnus, "quem offendi sic incumbentem scribendis libris, ut se laboribus propemodum confecerit." St. Omer, nonis Juniis 1517.
5 June. Er. Ep. XII. 19.	3340. ERASMUS to WM. LATIMER.
	Begs his assistance in the New Testament. The first was edited under difficulties, and the two persons employed to correct the press were insufficient. Is now engaged in the second edition. He is not to breathe a word of this, as it would spoil the sale of the first. Is glad to see the progress of learning. Non. Jun. 1517.
5 June. Vit. B. III. 152. B. M. Rym. XIII. 590.	3341. CÆSAR ABP. OF PISA, and others, to [HENRY VIII.]
	In behalf of Cardinal St. George, papal chamberlain, imprisoned by the Pope, for what cause they know not, but hear it is for some words spoken in his presence by the Cardinal Sienna, a young man, not very cautious in what he says. Cannot believe St. George culpable, as his whole life has been remarkable for meekness and patience, even in the days of Julius II. Rome, 5 June 1517.
	Signed: Cæs. Abp. Pisanus, patriarcha Alex, Octavianus Eps. Viterbiensis, Galeacius Vic. de Reario, Franc. Sfortia, Vic. de Reario.
	Lat., pp. 2.
6 June. R. O.	3342. MARGARET OF SAVOY to HENRY VIII.
	Joins her recommendation to that of the King Catholic, her nephew, in favor of Andrieu le Costé, merchant of Bruges. Ghent, 6 June 1517. Signed.
	Fr., p. 1. Add.
7 June. Galba, B. V. 252. B.M.	3343. TUNSTAL to [HENRY VIII.]
	After they had left for Tournay, and Master Wingfield had gone to Brussels, he and Worcester received at Hawes the King's letter, dated Greenwich, 30 May. Tunstal also received, with other letters, one for himself apart, desiring him to remain in the King of Castile's court till his voyage into Spain. Tunstal returned towards Ghent, where the King now is. As Richmond is too ill to travel, sends by a servant the original confirmation and articles of the new amity, as the King desired. The night before he left Antwerp John de la Nucha came to his lodgings and spoke much of his services to the King of Castile; that at his accession he was promised his pension should not be diminished?, and that as he was an ancient knight of the Order of Calatrava, he had been promised a commandry soon to fall vacant. It had not been given to him, but to Don Diego de Gavaro, by those about the King. He rehearsed other ill services he had received, and how much he had favored England for which he trusted the King would have allowed him to visit England. Tunstal urged that the refusal had been withheld for good reasons, and asked why my Lady continued "so heavy lady unto him, that by no means she may be reconciled. Upon that he began to rehearse how my Lady, before she was reconciled to the Lord Chievres by one Friar Boniface, was wont often to demand his counsel in her affairs, like as the last winter she did, sending for him, and desiring him to come speak with her at an hour in the evening by her appointed; whither after he was come, and had demanded what my Lady did, it was answered, she played at 'tyk takk' with the Lord Chievres, by the reason of whose being there, he tarried, leaning in a window without, unto he was departed; and after came and knocked at the door, and advertized my Lady, by one of her gentlewomen which came unto the door, that he was there according to her appointment; to which gentlewoman my Lady answered aloud, that he might hear: Shut the door; let him not come in: what time is this to come? which he said, after he heard, he said he came sent for by her, and would not be so ready another time, if she took the matter so. And upon that, within few days, she desired the King he might be avoided the court, saying he intended to have dishonored her; which he said he never thought, as he took God to his judge." On his wishing to know when Tunstal should leave for England, in order to send his servant to obtain for him a safeconduct thither, Tunstal told him it would be more for his honor to go into Spain with the King of Castile. He answered he did not believe the King would go this year, as he would be prevented by the French.
	On Tunstal telling him that the King of Castile was on good terms with England, and that Chievres and the Chancellor were well inclined, "he said with a merry smiling countenance, that he though it was good that your grace should use them for a time, and dissemble with them, seeing they were so great in favor with their master: but I answered, that, without any dissimulation, both they might be sure of your grace, and ye would trust the same to them." Tunstal thinks this was a trick to see what he would speak against the governors: for the Dean of the King of Castile's chapel told him on a previous occasion that De la Nucha had openly said in the Council there was no need for the King to go into Spain that year, and then pretended among his countrymen the Spaniards that he was sorry for the delay. He has certainly been reconciled to Chievres and the Chancellor. Brussels, 7 June.
	P.S.—The King of Castile wishes he would go to Ghent. Signed.
	Pp. 6, mutilated.
7 June. Galba, B. VI. 46. B.M.	3344. SPINELLY to HENRY VIII.
	Wrote last on the 1st. The estates of Flanders have granted the King's petition, continuing the aid of 800,000 fl. for four years. The disturbance in Andalusia between the Count Doregne and the Duke of Medina Sidonia is nearly appeased. Charles will not go to Spain before August. By news from Rome the design of the two Cardinals against the Pope looks daily worse. The Duke of Urbino was still before Perugia without doing much. If the Pope can hold out till the coming of the Viceroy of Naples he may succeed. The Spanish footmen are very discontented with the Duke for having put to death five of their captains. Yesterday the Marquis of Pescara arrived in the name of the lords, who refused to obey the King's commands "touching the restitution of divers goods and lordships unto the Angyoyns and others that hadethe kepeth the French partye at the conqueste of the royaulme by the King Catholico, deceased, and it is thowght he shall have good answer in his charge." Mark Antony Colonna is retained in the French service. Matters in Friesland proceed as usual. The Emperor is thought to be at Mayence. Six of his ambassadors are at Caen,—Counts Mansfeld, Rokendorf, Fellinger, Casius, Dr. Felkerke and John Hamart,—who agree only in one thing; what that is, Wolsey may guess. De la Roche, the French ambassador, is coming home. The Vice-chancellor of Arragon has been advertized from Naples that the Mamelukes who had escaped with the Soldan had defeated the Turk in Cairo. The French King is at St. Quentin, and will go to Teru[enne], Motroyll and Boleynne; so into Normandy and Britanny. Ghent, 7 June.
	Lord Daussy will start without fail at the end of the week. "I am informed the King hath. desired your grace to a[id] the Pope by the means of the Swissers."
	Hol., pp. 3, mutilated. Add.
7 June. R. O.	3345. SPINELLY to WOLSEY.
	Has written the news to the King. Has determined to take his journey into England, which he has already earnestly requested, as he is advertized that the Master of the Rolls is coming over. The King here has given the writer credentials for England. The Council here send Wolsey a pension of 3,000 fl., in token of their regard for him: the first year prepaid. Ghent, 7 June 1517.
	Hol., p. 1. Add.: T[o m]y Lord Cardinal's grace.
8 June. R. O.	3346. LORD DARCY to WOLSEY.
	All quiet in the North; the laws well observed. Few countries are in better condition. The uncle of Sir Robert Waterton's son has taken away his nephew's wife, to whom he was married by the Lord Abp. Savage, and used her as his own wife. Thinks justice should be done. Has endeavored to reconcile William Copley and Thomas Luttell, coparceners in right of their wives in the lands of Fitzwilliam his cousin. Sir William Gascoigne detains the feoffment of Herwood Castle from Lady Lee. Gives a history of the dispute, and of the connection between the families of Gascoigne, Redman and Sir Ralph Ryder. Sir William Gascoigne is very malicious, and obtained one precept to Sir William Percy, then sheriff, and another to John Pullayn, now escheator, to defeat justice. His brothers-in-law, Sir Ralph Ryder, Sir Henry Boynton, Sir William Medilton and Sir Thomas Fairfax, are afraid of him. Thanks him for a pardon for further attendance of the Queen of Scots. At his return beyond York she was merry and well content with the entertainment she had received there. Templehirst, 8 June, Signed.
	Pp. 3. Add. Noted by Wolsey in the margin: "My Lord Cardinal's grace."
8 June. R. O. Rym XIII. 591.	3347. CHARLES KING OF SPAIN.
	Patent for a pension to Wolsey of 3,000 livres, of 40 gros per livre, Flemish money; commencing 1 July 1516 last past. Ghent, 8 June 1517.
	Fr., with Charles's great seal attached.
8 June. P. S.	3348. For CORNELIUS VANDERTOLLEN.
	To be gunner in the Tower of London vice Rob. Cutting, with 12d. a day. Greenwich, 27 May 9 Hen. VIII. Del. Westm., 8 June.
	Pat. 9 Hen. VIII. p. 2, m. 4.
9 June. R. O.	3349. TUNSTAL to WOLSEY.
	Arrived at Ghent today, where the King of Castile remains for a short time. Hopes to have audience tomorrow. Spinelly, the bearer, on Tunstal's coming, stated that he must go to England, although he had no leave. He trusted to do so without offence, and begged a recommendation from the writer. Will deliver Wolsey's letter to Friar Nicolas, the Pope's commissioner. Ghent, 9 June.
	Hol., p. 1. Add.: My Lord [Ca]rdinal of York.
10 June. R. O.	3350. FRA NICHOLAS to WOLSEY.
	The affairs of the Pope are in great danger. He is in much want of aid. Is commanded by the Vice-chancellor to urge Wolsey to use his endeavors with the King to advance the Pope money upon security, in order to meet his enemies and succor the Church. The King has gained great honor by rescuing two Popes from danger,--Julius and Leo. Has conferred about the matter with Spinelly, who is now going to England. Ghent, 10 June 1517.
	Hol., Lat., pp. 2. Add.
11 June. P. S.	3351. For JOHN BURY.
	To have a corrody in the monastery of Mountegewe, vice John Bevyn, deceased. Greenwich, 8 June 9 Hen. VIII. Del. Westm., 11 June.
12 June. Vit. B. III. 153. B. M.	3352. NEWS FROM ROME.
	Extracts from letters of the Bp. of Worcester, dated Rome, 12 June. The Pope is very much surprised, considering the state of the times, that he has so very few letters from the King, and considers Worcester's excuses very unsatisfactory. The Bishop says he urges the Pope to send the bull for the administration of Tournay to England. The Pope pleads delay till he is safe from the French shears, and thinks England is indifferent, as he has not heard from it for three months. Writes of the confession of Cardinals Sauli and Sienna, and Cardinal St. George, who acknowledges he was privy to their designs; of the Consistory summoned on the 8th; their profession of their innocence; the Pope's urgency that they should confess whether they knew of any conspiracy against him (for at that time the perjury of Cardinal Hadrian was unknown); of the solemn denial of Cardinal Volaterra; of the confessions of the two guilty Cardinals, which had been taken apart, one confessing that Hadrian was his accomplice, the other Volaterra, but one was not privy to the other. The Consistory urged Hadrian and Volaterra to fall at the Pope's feet and beg his pardon, which they did with tears in their eyes, confessing their guilt. He pardoned them, referring their penalty to the Consistory, which was set at 60,000 ducats, and was finally fixed by the Pope at 25,000. The Bp. of Worcester, at his private audience with the Pope, obtained his leave to give an account of the whole affair to Wolsey. Cardinal Hadrian has the assurance to request a brief from the Pope to the King, attesting his innocence, but has been refused. " ... suspecto habere quod utrumque ... "
	Lat., in the hand of Vannes; pp. 4, mutilated.
12 June. P. S.	3353. For TH. STARKE.
	Annuity of 10 marks out of the lordship of Montgomery, Kery and Kydyowyn, parcel of the earldom of March, his patent 6 Feb. 4 Hen. VII. being invalid by the act of resumption. Greenwich, 29 May 9 Hen. VIII. Del. Westm., 12 June.
	Pat. 9 Hen. VIII. p. 2, m. 16.
12 June. R. O.	3354. TH. STARKYE of Wrenburye, Chesh.
	Petition to Sir John Dauncy and Rob. Blagg, a Baron of the Exchequer, stating that Henry VII., for Starkye's services "at his first entry into this his realm," granted him an annuity of 10 marks out of the earldom of Marche at Montgomerye, as appears by the present King's confirmation of the grant. But Sir Ric. Herberd, receiver there, owes the petitioner 22l. 13s. 4d., the arrearages of the said annuity, and refuses to pay him, though ordered to do so by Dauncy and Blak. Starkye beseeches them, therefore, to call Herberd before them, and compel him to pay the arrearages.
	P. 1.
	ii. His second petition to the same, stating that Sir Ric. Herberd did not appear before them, either at Hilary term or on the octaves of St. Trinity last, though commanded to by their privy seals. Prays, therefore, for a privy seal of proclamation, ordering Herberd to appear on pain of his allegiance.
	P. 1.
13 June. Galba, B. V. 258. B. M.	3355. FRA NICHOLAS to WOLSEY.
	After the departure of Spinelly yesterday, to whom he gave letters for Wolsey, received Wolsey's letters of the 27th May from the Master of the Rolls, by which he finds that his labor in the matter of the league has been satisfactory. Nothing will give him greater pleasure than to visit the King and Wolsey, which he hopes to do before he goes to Italy, or is on his way to Spain. Will not need to visit them a second time for the sake of the league, as he has done what was required already at Brussels, when the King Catholic took his oath. He did not, as Wolsey writes, demand the Pope's admission, but acceded to it at once, as a suitable occasion was offered by the terms of the league itself. The Pope will give his ratification in three months, though not perhaps in the way the English ambassadors required. He is very anxious to satisfy the King. When he comes to England will explain the difficulties, and on considering them Wolsey will see he did right not to come. Ghent, 13 June 1517.
	Hol., Lat., pp. 2, mutilated. Add. at ƒ. 261*: Thomas Cardinalis.
13 June. Giust. Desp. II. 108.	3356. MARCO MINIO, the Venetian ambassador at Rome, to the DOGE.
	This morning Hadrian went to the palace with the Cardinals S. Crucis and Grimain on money business, "and he, as it were, asked pardon a second time, although, according to report, his transgression was very slight. For being with the Card. of Sienna, Petrucci and that ribald Master Giovanni Baptista of Vercelli, the same who was to have poisoned the Pope's fistula, as Hadrian chanced to pass by, Sienna said, That fellow will get the college out of trouble;' and the right reverend Hadrian, for having heard these words and not reported them, has been in great peril so as to be obliged to expiate his crime in coin." 13 June.
14 June. Galba, B. v. 261. B. M.	3357. MARGARET OF SAVOY to HENRY VIII.
	In favor of the Prince of Chimay, in whose behalf the ambassadors of the King of Castile have something to declare to Henry. Ghent, 14 June '17. Signed.
	Fr., p. 1, mutilated. Add.
14 June. Galba, B. V. 259. B. M.	3358. SPINELLY to WOLSEY.
	Wrote yesterday. Sends a packet received from Pace, who tells him that Henry may have the whole of the Swiss cantons. Spinelly thinks it would be wisely handled if the league offensive were first concluded, and the Swiss entertained with fair words. "Their separation" from the French is important, for then the French would desist from their attempts against Charles, which are not for the interest of England. It is not wise to give any more money to the Emperor till the King be secure of this new business. Pace advertizes him "that he shall not receive the money sent to him [by] Mr. Fowler. Wherfor I like from your grace to knowe the Kinges please therein; certifying the same that the Fockers, by reason of the bowndis (bonds) they have of yours ambassadors for the money borowd [by] Fryscobaldy yontely with theym, the sayd Fockerrs wol stowpe (stop) suche money in dimynucion of payment. Furthermor I signyfye unto your grace that thow Mr. Pace sayth to not receyve the sayd monney, I haythe not sent the bylle of exchange again." Louvain, 14 June.
	Hol., pp. 2, mutilated. Add.: To my Lord Cardinal.
15 June. R. O.	3359. CHARLES DE CROY [PRINCE OF CHIMAY] to WOLSEY.
	Having received no answer to his memorial of the losses sustained by him at the King's last descent on this side the sea, has requested the bearer, the Provost of Cassel, to urge his suit to Wolsey. Ghent, 15 June. Signed.
	Fr., p. 1. Add.: Mons. le Cardinal Diork, Primat, Chancellier Dengleterre.
15 June. R. O.	3360. G. DE CROY (CHIEVRES) to HENRY VIII.
	The ambassadors now sent to England by the King, his master, are commissioned to touch on the losses sustained by the Prince of Chimay at Henry's last descent on this side the sea, no answer having been received to the representations made through former ambassadors. Ghent, 15 June. Signed.
	Fr., p. 1. Add.
15 June. P. S.	3361. For TH. BENOLT, CLARENCIEUX KING-AT-ARMS.
	To be bailiff, in reversion, of Boston, Linc., doorward of "Halgarth" in the same town, and collector of "Jesarhall" and tronage; now held by Leonard Pinchebeck. Greenwich, 29 May 9 Hen. VIII. Del. Westm., 15 June.
	Pat. 9 Hen. VIII. p. 2, m. 18.
15 June. P. S.	3362. For RICHARD and WILLIAM, sons of WM. JOHNSON, native of Gelderlande, "cordyner."
	Denization, on the testimony of John and Barth. Flamak, yeomen of the Guard, that their father was "sworn English." Greenwich, 3 June 9 Hen. VIII. Del. Westm., 15 June.
	Pat. 9 Hen. VIII. p. 2, m. 16.
15 June. R. O.	3363. CHARLES [KING OF SPAIN] to HENRY VIII.
	Credence for the Sieurs Dauxy and de Fresin, the Grand Bailiff of Haynnau and the Provost of Cassel, whom he sends in embassy in behalf of the Prince of Chimay. Ghent, 15 June. Signed.
	Fr., p. 1. Add.