Rent ac- VI. All Wolsingham park,

the watermil there, chapel

walls, &c.

34 0 8 VII. All the manour of Hovedon, in Yorkshire, &c.

62 1 8 VIII. All Coundon graunge, &c. All the manour of Mor

ton, in the county of Duresm. Twelve messuages

in Stanhope park, at Westgate, &c.

18 1 0 IX. All those meddows and

pastures, called Bishops

Close, neer Ryers graunge. All Bishop Midlam park, with appurtinences. All the demesne of Midlam, &c.

Sept. 29. an.

reg. 28.

80 108 19 5 X. All the manour of Crayke;

and all graunges, houses, messuages, milns, &c.wasts, woods, demesn lands, quarries, wards, mariages, hariots, fines, courts waves, &c. All jurisdiction, privileges, franchises, &c. All the manour of Welehal, the demesn lands there. The fishings in the waters of Owse. The demesn lands of Walkington, &c. All the wood and underwood at Walkington. The passages, shores, fishings, and fire-boot, at Hovedon dyke, &c.

Number XXXV.

BOOK

I.

Dr. Gardiner to the bishop of Norwich: in answer to an angry letter of the bishop's to him, about the archdeaconry of Norwich.

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YOUR letters, my lord, have always been as welcome to Int. Epist. J. ep. Parkh. me as good. I did earnestly look for them at my last being MSS. Joh. in London about your business. But tho letters came at ep: nuper length to divers, I received not so much as any line: whe-67 ther that defect was in your lordship, or in your secretary, or in your messenger, I know not. Now unlooked for, I have received such an one, as I did think never to have received from your lordship, considering I never deserved any such at your hands. I do admit your love to your friend; and omit your bitter words to a well-willer: and so to the matter. What reports are I weigh not. The truth shall try it self. That I went about to do nothing, before I had made your lordship privy to all. And I stayed the finishing of my thing to such time as I had obtained Mr. Roberts goodwil: without the which I was assured never to have yours. If I had been well, I had been with Roberts, or now. I have, as your lordship requested me, written unto him, and desired him to send your lordship my letter.

But I beseech your lordship to pardon me to speak for my self, being thus ill used at all hands. Why should it be said, that I undermine any? Have I not said, and do say still, that if he have any just title to it, he shall never be hindred by me? And that though he have no just title, yet for your sake he shall enjoy the mean fruits, viz. 1207. Do you think that Mr. Roberts, or any in Norfolk, would deal so with me? And I am well assured, he hath no more matter for him to enjoy that archdeaconry, than I have to enjoy the benefice of Dicleborough. If your friend, for my friendship offered, use me in this sort, I will call back my word, and I will either enjoy all or loose all. I had no cause to boast of your consent, to plesure me to his hindrance. No, I could wish your lordship yet to be but upright and indifferent: as you gave me not the archdeaconry,

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BOOK so not to hinder me of it, when the queen's majesty hath given it me: in this you do me wrong. I made your lordship privy to it. I stayed it in the midst, as I declared at my return. I was willing to abide your end in all things: yea, I had rather loose that, and all the living I have, than loose my lord the bishop of Norwich. Unto whom, in a reverend respect of his great good will towards me at all times, and of that faithful and unfeigned service, in friendship whereof I have bound my self with a religious vow, I my self, and all that ever I have beside.

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Your lordship writes, your lordship will withstand any that offereth him [i. e. Roberts] so great wrong. It is an easy matter to withstand me, but not so easy to withstand the queens presentation, when she hath right. I sucked not this out of my own fingers. It came from other heads, how it [i. e. the archdeaconry] came void. And it is so far in other men's heads which wished me unto it; because they thought I should have your goodwill, and do good in the room: which had need of a waking archdeacon, and one that hath eyes: that if I have it not, Mr. Roberts shall not enjoy it.

I trust my credit remaineth uncracked for any note of You have a ambition shewed in this. O Lord, where are men's eyes? burt your, I speak it plainly, it is no ambition for one man that is rich, in confirm without charge, well provided for, yet no travailer in the opinion that church of God any maner of way, to seek an archdeaconry goeth of you for the living only; when there is an advouson out, [by tious, and which Rugg was presented ;] which indeed is, and was good seeking your in law, if it had been well handled; and to defend the intage. Bp. trusion fas nefasque. But it is ambition in the poor man, in his letter that hath wife and four children unprovided for, and that to Dr. Gar- hath travailed (absit jactantia verbo) painfully in the church of God these eleven years in one dioces, to seek for an archdeaconry, when it is clearly void in law, and not without a care to discharge that great charge that this office bringeth: and to seek it in such humble sort as he referreth his furtherance to them that hinder him most. Judge then my cause, O God.

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Where you wish me to give you no cause of misliking, or BOOK of breach of friendship; O my good lord, as I have`at all times and in all places acknowledged your fatherly friendship towards me, so do I now. And loth were I ever to have any occasion to the contrary. Even so, I speak it boldly, have I acquired your goodwil with as true a heart as ever poor man did bear to prelate. You may, to plesure your other friends, cast me off, yet shall the world witness with me, that it was don without my deserving.

As for your parenthesis, to continue as of old, (if I use 68 you and your friendship well,) I wish to breath no longer than I use your lordship as it becometh; yea, your friends, your servants, and your dogs for your sake. And although you have provoked my patience, as much as ever it was, with a sharp, a bitter, and taunting letter; containing untruths, which you have received of reports; yet shall you not loose my heart, my hand, my service, and all I have to command at your will, as much as it pleaseth you. I wrot once before, that if the whole right of the archdeaconry were in my hand, your lordship should order the matter as it pleased you. So do I now, when I am fully persuaded, it is in my hand indeed, &c. I mean plainly, let Mr. Roberts ask counsil, and then answer me surely. Thus with my humble commendations to your good lordship, I take my leave, 29th of June, 1573.

Your lordships as heretofore, so to the death,

Geo. Gardyner.

Number XXXVI.

'Dr. Gardiner to Mr. Roberts; concerning the archdeaconry of Norwich: which he sheweth him was lapsed to the queen: and so became his by her grant.

SALUTATION in Christ Jesu, &c. I have received Ubi supra.

a very rough letter from my lord bishop; and such an one as I did never think to have received from him, consider

ing I never deserved the like. The matter concerneth

you

BOOK and your archdeaconry. Wherein you shall well perceive, I. that I never undermined you, as I am falsely accused, but

have carefully sought to keep your good will, and to seek your commodity, as mine own; and more than I think any man would have don for me. So it is, that in Easter term I understood by those that are well learned in the laws, that John Rugg could not enjoy the archdeaconry, because he was not presented thereunto by Bernes, or any of those unto whom Thimelthorp had made a deed of gift of his goods and chattels: which otherwise without controversie he should have enjoyed, if either the deed of gift had not been good, or if he had been presented thereunto by any of those four unto whom the deed was made. Then was it certain, and so is it still; and so shall you find it: that seeing that their advouson was good, if it had been well handled, your advouson could take no place (this is plain) at this time. But after six months, it fell into lapse in my lord of Canterburies hands; and after twelve months, into the queens. Where now it doth remain. For my lord, our bishop, can have no advantage of lapse, in those things that he is patron of.

I declared all these things to your atturny, and to Mr. Baispole, in Easter term; offering this, that if he would sue for it to the queen's majesty, for my lord his sake, you should have my furtherance. If not, then if I might have my lords good will and yours, I would sue for it. And in consideration of your advouson lost, I would give you the mean fruits of these two years by-past. To this Mr. Baispole answered, that he would warrant me it should be mine own. For he thought that you would not enter into new charge and trouble. Yet dealt I not upon this warrant; but returning home, I told my lord as is before. Who, after the old manner, wishing the thing to you above all men, if it might be, next graunted his goodwill to me upon the obtaining of your goodwil. Which he willed me to crave. Whereupon I was determined to come to you in my journey to London: but that I was caried another

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