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A69688	The negotiations of Thomas Woolsey, the great Cardinall of England containing his life and death, viz. (1) the originall of his promotion, (2) the continuance in his magnificence, (3) his fall, death, and buriall / composed by one of his owne servants, being his gentleman-vsher.	Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?; Cavendish, William, Sir, 1505?-1557.	1641 (1641)	Wing C1619; ESTC R223198	84,018	137

well for I assure you that the King is his very good Lord and hath given me most hearty thanks for his entertainment And therefore goe your way to him and perswade him I may find him in quiet at my comming for I will not tarry long after you Sir quoth I and if it please your Lordship I shall endeavor to the best of my Power to accomplish your Lordships command But Sir I doubt when I name this Sir William Kingston that he will mistrust some il because he is Constable of the Tower and Captaine of the guard having in his company 24. of the Guard to accompanie him That is nothing quoth the Earle what if he be Constable of the Tower and Captaine of the Guard he is the fittest man for his wisedome and discretion to be sent about such a businesse and for the Guard it is onely to defend him from those that might intend him any ill Besides that the Guard are for the most part such of his old servants as the King hath tooke into his service to attend him most justly Well Sir quoth I I shall doe what I can and so departed and went to my Lord and found him in the Gallery with his Staffe and his Beades in his hands and seeing mee come he asked me what newes forsooth quoth I the best newes that ever you heard if you can take it well I pray God it bee true ● then quoth hee my Lord of Shrewsbury said I your most assured friend hath so provided by his letters to the King that his Majestie hath sent for you by Master Kingston and 24. of the Guard to conduct you to his Highnesse Master Kingston quoth hee and clapped his hand on his Thigh and gave a great sigh May it please your Grace quoth I I would you would take all things well it would be much better for you content your selfe for Gods sake and thinke that God and your good friends have wrought for you according to your own desires And as I conceive you have much more cause to rejoyce then lament or mistrust the matter for I assure you that your friends are more affraid of you then you need be of them And his Majestie to shew his love to you hath sent Master Kingston to honour you with as much honour as is your Graces due and to convey you in such easie journeys as is fitting for you and you shall command him to do and that you shall have your request And I humbly entreat you to imprint this my perswasion in your Highnesse discretion and to be of good cheere wherewith you shall comfort your selfe and give your frinds and poore servants great comfort and content Well quoth he I perceive more then you can imagine or doe know presently after came my Lord to acquaint him with that I had so lately related my L. Cardinall thanked the Earle for his great love and called for Master Kingston who came to him presently and kneeling down before him saluted him in the kings behalfe whom my Lord bareheaded offered to take up but he would not then quoth my Lord Master Kingston I pray you stand up and leave your kneeling to me for I am a wretch repleat with misery not esteeming my selfe but as a meere abject utterly cast away but without desert God he knowes therefore good Master Kingston stand up Then Master Kingston said the Kings Majestie hath him commended unto you I thanke his Highnesse quoth my Lord I hope he is in good health Yea quoth Master Kingston and he hath him commended unto you and commanded me to bid you be of good cheere for hee beareth you as much good will as ever hee did And whereas Report hath been made unto him that you should commit against his Majestie certain heynos crimes which he thinketh to be but yet hee for ministration of Justice in such Cases requisite could doe no lesse then send for you that you might have your triall mistrusting nothing your truth and wisedome but that you shall be able to acquit your selfe of all complaints and accusations extended against you And you may take your journey to him at your pleasure commanding me to attend you Master Kingston quoth my Lord I thanke you for your good newes And Sir hereof assure your selfe if I were as able and lusty as ever I was to ride I would goe with you post But alas I am a diseased man having a sluxe at which time it was apparant that he had poisoned himself it hath made me very weake but the Comfortable news you bring is of purpose I doubt to bring me into a fooles Paradise for I know what is provided for me Notwithstanding I thanke you for your good will and paines taken about mee and I shall with speed make readie to ride with you After this I was commanded to make all things readie for our departure the morrow after When my Lord went to bed he fell very sick of the Laske which caused him to goe to stoole from time to time all that night insomuch that from that time till morning hee had 50. stooles And the matter that he voided was very blacke which the Physitians called Adustine whose opinions were that he had not above 4. or 5. daies to live Notwithstanding he would have ridden with Mr. Kingston the next day had not the Earle of Shrewsbury advised him to the contrarie but the next day hee took his journey with Master Kingston and them of the Guard who espying him could not abstaine from weeping considering he was their old Master and now in such a miserable case whom my Lord tooke by the hand and would as hee rode by the way sometimes talke with one and sometimes with an other till he came to a house of my Lords standing in the way called Hardwick hall where he lay all that night very ill at case The next day he came to Nottingham and the next day to Leicester abbey and the next day he waxed very sick that he had almost fallen from his horse so that it was night ere he got to Leicester abbey where at his comming in at the Gates the Abbot with all their Covent met him with many lighted Torches whom they honourably received and welcommed with great reverence To whom my Lord said Father Abbot I am come to lay my bones amongst you riding still on his mule till he came to the stairs of his Chamber where hee alighted Master Kingston holding him by the arme led him up the staires who told me afterwards that he never felt so heavie a burthen in all his life and as soone as he was in his Chamber he went straight to bed this was upon Satterday and so he continued On Monday in the morning as I stood by is bedside about eight of the clock in the morning the windowes being close shut and having wax lights burning upon the Cupboard I thought I perceived him drawing on towards death Hee perceiving

necke holding in his hand an Orenge the meate or substance thereof being taken out and filled againe with a part of Sponge with Vineger and other Confections against pestilent Aires the which hee most commonly held to his nose when he came to the presses or when he was pestered with many suitors And before him was borne the broad Seale of England and the Cardinalls Hat by some Lord or some Gentleman of worship right solemnly And as soone as he was entered into his Chamber of Presence where there were daily attending on him aswell Noblemen of this Realme as other worthy Gentlemen of his owne Familie his two great Crosses were there attending upon him Then cry the Gentlemen Vshers that goe before him bare-headed On Masters before and make roome for my Lord Thus went he downe into the Hall with a Serjeant of Armes before him bearing a great Mase of Siluer and two Gentlemen carrying two great Plates of Silver And when he came to the Hall doore there his Mule stood trapped all in crimson Velvet with a Saddle of the same Then was attending him when he was mounted his two Crosse-bearers his two Pillow-bearers all upon great horses all in fine Scarlet then he marched on with a traine of Gentrie having foure Foot-men about him bearing every one of them a Pole-axe in his hand And thus passed he forth till he came to Westminster and there alighted and went in this manner up to the Chancerie and stayed a while at a Barre made for him beneath the Chancery and there he communed sometimes with the Judges and sometimes with other persons and then went up to the Chancerie and sate there till eleven of the clocke to heare suits and to determine causes And from thence he would goe into the Starre-chamber as occasion served him hee neither spared high nor low but did judge every one according to right Every Sunday hee would resort to the Court being then at Greenwich with his former rehearsed traine and Triumph taking his Barge at his owne staires furnished with Yeomen standing upon the sayles and his Gentlemen within and about and landed at the three Cranes in the Vine-tree and from thence he rode upon his Mule with his Crosses his Pillars his Hat and his broad Seale carryed before him on horse-backe along Thames-street untill he came to Billingsgate and there hee tooke his Barge and so went to Greenwich where hee was Nobly entertained of the Lords in the Kings house being there with staves in their hands as the Treasurer Comptroller with many others and conveyed into the Kings Chamber and so went home againe in the like Triumph CHAP. VIII Of the Cardinals magnificence in his houses HEe lived a long season Ruling all things in this Realme appertaining to the King by his wisedome and all other matters of forraine Regions with whom the King had any occasion to meddle All Ambassadours of forraine Potentates were ever disposed by the Cardinals wisdome to whom they had continuall accesse for their dispatch His house was alwayes resorted unto like a Kings house with Noblemen and Gentlemen And when it pleased the Kings Majestie as many times it did hee would for his recreation resort unto the Cardinals house against whose comming there wanted no preparation or goodly furnitures with victuals of the finest sort that could be had for money or friendship Such pleasures were here devised for the Kings delight as could be invented or imagined Banquets set with Masquers and Mummers in such costly manner that it was glorious to behold there wanted no Damsells meete to dance with the Masquers or to garnish the place for the time with variety of other pastimes Then was there divers kinds of Musick and many choyce men and women Singers appointed to sing who had excellent voyces I have seene the King come suddenly thither in a Masque with a dozen Masquers all in garments like Shepheards made of fine cloth of gold and silver wyre and six Torch-bearers besides their drummers and others attending on them with Vizards and clothed all in Sattin And before his entring into the Hall you shall understand that hee came by water to the water-gate without any noise where were laid divers Chambers and Gunnes charged with shott and at his landing they were discharged which made such a rattling noyse in the Ayre that it was like thunder It made all the Noblemen Gentlemen and Ladies to muse what it should meane comming so suddenly they sitting quietly at a Banquet In this sort you shall understand that the Tables were set in the Chamber of Presence covered and my Lord Cardinall sitting under his cloth of State and there having all his service alone And then was there set a Lady and a Nobleman a Gentleman and a Gentlewoman throughout all the Tables in the Chambers on the one side which were made all joyning as it were but one Table All which order was done by my Lord Sands then Lord Chamberlaine to the King and by Sir Henry Guilford then Comptroller of the Kings house Then immediatly after this great shot of Gunnes the Cardinall desired the Lord Chamberlaine to see what it did meane as though he knew nothing of the matter They then looked out of the window into the Thames and returning againe told him that they thought they were Noblemen and strangers arrived at the Bridge and comming as Ambassadours from some forraine Prince With that said the Cardinall I desire you because you can speake French to take the paines to goe into the Hall there to receive them into the Chamber where they shall see us and all those Noble personages being merry at our Banquet desiring them to sit downe with us and take part of our Fare Then went they incontinently into the Hall where they were received with twenty Torches and conveyed up into the Chamber with such a number of Drums and Flutes as I have seldome seene together at one time and place Then at their arrivall into the Chamber they went two and two together directly before the Cardinall where he sate and saluted them very reverently To whom the Lord Chamberlaine for them said Sir forasmuch as they are strangers and cannot speake English they have desired mee to declare unto you that they having understanding of this your triumphant Banquet were assembled such a number of faire Dames they could doe no lesse under the supportation of your Grace then to view as well their incomparable beauties as to accompany them at Mumchance and after that to dance with them so to beget their better acquaintance And furthermore they require of your Grace lycence to accomplish this cause of their comming When the Cardinall said he was willing and very well content they should doe so Then went the Masquers and first saluted all the Dames and then returned to the most worthiest and there opened the great Cup of gold filled with crownes and other peeces to cast at Thus perusing all the Gentlewomen

you but not to the Earle without I see his Commission and also you are a sufficient Commissioner in this behalf being one of the privie Chamber Therefore put your Commission in execution spare me not I will obey you and the King for I feare not the crueltie of mine enemies no more then I doe the truth of my Allegiance wherein I take God to witnesse I never offended his Majesty in word or deede and therein I dare stand face to face with any having a difference without partiality Then came my Lord of Northumberland and commanded mee to avoide the Chamber And being loath to depart from my Master I stood still and would not remove to whom he spake againe and said there is no remedie you must depart with that I looked upon my Master as who would have said shall I goe and perceiving by his countenance that it was not for me to stay I departed and went into an other chamber where were many Gentlemen and others to heare newes to whom I made a report of what I heard and saw which was great heauinesse to them all Then the Earle called into his Chamber diuers of his owne servants and after he and Master Welsh had taken the keyes from my Lord hee committed the keeping of my Lord unto five Gentlemen and then they went about the house and put all things in order intending to depart the next day and to certifie the King and the rest of the Lords what they had done Then went they busie about to Convey Doctor Austine away to London with as much speede and privacy as they could possible sending with him divers persons to conduct him who was bound to his horse like a Traytor And this being done when it was neere night the Commissioners sending two Groomes of my Lords to attend him in his Chamber where hee lay all night the rest of the Earles men watched in the Chamber and all the house was watched and the gates safe kept that no man could passe or repasse untill next morning About eight of the clocke next morning the Earle sent for me into his Chamber and commaunded mee to goe to my Lord and as I was going I met with Master Welsh who called me unto him and shewed me how the Kings Majesty bare unto me his principall favour for my love and diligent Service that I had performed to my Lord wherefore quoth hee the Kings pleasure is that you shal be about him as chiefe in whom his Highnesse putteth great confidence and trust and thereupon gave mee in Writing the Articles Which when I had read I sayd I was content to obey his Majesties pleasure and would bee sworne to the performance thereof whereupon hee gave mee my Oath That done I resorted to my Lord whom I found sitting in a Chaire the Table being ready spread for him But so soone as hee perceived me come in he fell into such a wofull lamentation that would have forced a flinty-heart to mourne I then comforted him aswell as I could but hee would not for quoth hee I am much grieved that I have nothing to reward you and the rest of my true and faithfull Servants for all the good Service that they and you have done mee for which I doe much lament Upon Sunday following the Earle and Master Welsh appoynted to set forward for my Lords Horse and ours were brought ready into the inner Court where we mounted and comming towards the Gate ready to ride out the Porter had no sooner opened the same but we saw without ready attending a great number of Gentlemen and their Servants such as the Earle had appointed for that Service to attend and Conduct my Lord to Pomfrait that night But to tell you the Truth there were also many of the people of the Country assembled at the Gate lamenting his departure in number above three Thousand who after the opening of the Gate that they had a sight of him cryed out with a loud voyce God save your Grace God save your Grace the foule Evil take them that have taken you from us wee pray God that vengeance may light upon them And thus they ran after him through the Towne of Caywood for he was there very well beloved both of rich and poore CHAP. 20. Of the Cardinals entertainment at the Earle of Shrewsburies and of his death and buriall at Leicester AFter our departure from Cawood we came to Doncaster the third day wee came to Sheffield-parke where my Lord of Shrewsbury lived within the lodge and the Earle and his Lady and a great company of Gentlewomen and Servants stood without the Gate to attend my Lords comming at whose alightning the Earle received him with much honour and imbraced him saying these words My Lord you are most heartily welcome to my poore lodge and I am glad to see you Here my Lord stayed a fortnight and was most nobly entertayned he spent most of his time and applyed his minde to prayers continually in great devotion It came to passe as hee sate one day at dinner I beeing there perceived his colour divers times to change I asked him if hee was not well who answered me with a loud voyce I am suddenly taken with a Thing at my stomacke as cold as a Whet-stone and am not well Therefore take up the Table and make a short dinner and returne to mee againe suddainly I made but a little stay but came to him agayne where I found him still sitting very ill at ease Hee desired me to goe to the Apothecarie and aske him if hee had any thing would breake Winde upwards Hee told me hee had Then I went and shewed the same to my Lord who did command mee to give him some thereof and so I did and it made him breake winde exceedingly Loe quoth he you may see it was but winde for now I thanke God I am well eased and so he arose from the Table and went to praiers as hee used every day after dinner In the afternoon my Lord of Shrewsbury sent for mee to him to whom he said forasmuch as I have always perceived you to be a man in whom your Lord putteth great affiance and I my selfe knowing you to bee a man very honest with many words of commendations and praise more then becommeth mee to rehearse he said your Lord and Master hath often desired me to write unto the King that he might answere his accusations before his enemies And this day I have received Letters from his Majestie by Sir William Kingston whereby I perceive that the King hath him in good opinion and upon my request hath sent for him by the said Sr. William Kingston Therfore now I would have you play your part wisely with him in such sort as he may take it quietly and in good part for he is alwaies full of sorrow and much heavinesse at my being with him that I fear he would take it ill if I bring him tidings thereof And therein doth hee not

my shadow upon the bedside asked who was there Sir quoth I t is I how doe you quoth he well I Sir quoth I if I might see your Grace well what is it a clock quoth hee I answered it was about eight of the Clock quoth he that cannot be rehearsing eight of the clocke so many times Nay quoth he that cannot be for at eight of the clock you shall see your masters time draw neere that I must depart this world with that quoth Doctor Palmes a worthy Gentleman standing by bid me aske him if hee would bee shriven to make him readie for God what ever chanced to fall out which I did but he was very angry with me and asked what I had to doe to aske him such a question till at the last Master Doctor took my part and talked with him in Lattin and pacified him After dinner M. Kingston sent for me and said Sir The King hath sent unto mee Letters by Mr. Vincent our old companion who hath bin in trouble in the Tower for mony that my Lord should have at his departure A great part of which money cannot bee found wherefore the King at Master Vincents request for the declaration of the truth hath sent him hither with his Graces Letters that I should examine my Lord have your Counsell therein that he may take it well and in good part And this is the cause of my sending for you therefore I desire your Counsel therein for acquitall of this poor Gentleman Master Vincent Sir quoth I according to my duty you shall and by my advise you shall resort unto him in your own person to visit him and in communication breake the matter unto him And if he will not tell you the truth therein then may you certifie the King thereof But in any case name not nor speake of my fellowe Vincent Also I would not have you to detract the time for hee is very sicke and I feare that he will not live past a day or two and accordingly Master Kingston went to my Lord and demanded the money saying that my Lord of Northumberland found a book at Caywood-house that you had but lately borrowed 10000. pounds there is not so much as one penny to be found who hath made the King privie to the same wherefore the King hath written to me to know what is become thereof for it were pitty that it should bee holden from you both Therefore I require you in the Kings name to tell me the truth that I may make a just report thereof unto his Majestie of your answer With that quoth my Lord oh good Lord how much doth it grieve me that the King should think any such thing in me that I should deceive him of one pennie seeing I have nothing nor never had God be my Iudge that I ever esteemed so much mine owne as his Majesties having but the bare use of it during my life and after my death to leave it wholy to him wherein his Majestie hath prevented mee But for this money that you demand of me I assure you it is none of my own for I borrowed it of diverse of my friends to bury me and to bestow amongst my servants who have taken great pains about mee notwithstanding if it bee your pleasure to know I must bee content yet I beseech his Majestie to see it satisfied for the discharge of my Conscience to them that I owed it to who be they quoth Master Kingston That shal I tell you quoth my Lord I borrowd two hundred pounds of Iohn Allen of London another 200. p. of Sir Richard Gresham and 200. pound of the Master of the Savoy and also 200. pound of Doctor Highden Dean of my Colledge at Oxford 200 pound of the Treasurer of the Church and 200. pound of Master Ellis my Chaplain And an other 200. pound of a Priest I hope the King will restore it againe forasmuch as it is none of mine Sir quoth Master Kingston there is no doubt in the King whom you need not distrust but Sir I pray you where is the money quoth hee I will not conceale it I warrant you but I will declare it unto you before I dye by the grace of God have a litle patience with me I pray you for the money is safe enough in an honest mans hands who will not keep one penny thereof from the King So Master Kingston departed for that time my Lord being very weake and about fowre of the clock in the next morning as I conceived I asked him how he did well quoth he if I had any meate I pray you give me some Sir quoth I there is none ready then he said you are much too blame for you should have alwaies meate for me in readinesse whensoever that my stomack serves me I pray you get some ready for mee for I meane to make my selfe strong to day to the intent I may goe to confession and make mee ready for God quoth I I will call up the Cookes to prepare some meate And also I will call Master Palmer that he may discourse with you till your meate be ready with a good will quoth my Lord and so I called Master Palmer who rose and came to my Lord Then I went and acquainted Master Kingston that my Lord was very sicke and not like to live In good faith quoth Master Kingston you are much too blame to make him beleeve he is sicker then he is Well Sir quoth I you cannot say but I gave you warning as I am bound to doe upon which words he arose and came unto him but before he came my Lord Cardinall had eaten a spoonfull or two of Callis made of Chickin and after that he was in his confession the space of an hower And then Master Kingston came to him and bad him good morrow and asked him how he did Sir quoth he I watch but Gods pleasure to render up my poore soule to him I pray you have me heartily commended unto his Royall Majestie and beseech him on my behalfe to call to his Princely remembrance all matters that have bin between us from the beginning and the progresse And especially betweene good Queene Katherin and him and then shall his Graces Conscience know whether I have offended him or not Hee is a Prince of a most Royall carriage and hath a Princely heart and rather then hee will misse or want any part of his will he will endanger the one halfe of his Kingdome I do assure you I have often kneeled before him sometimes three houres together to perswade him from his will and appetite but could not prevaile And Master Kingston had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King he would not have given me over in my gray haires But this is the just reward that I must receive for my diligent paines and studdy not regarding my service to God but onely to my Prince Therefore let me advise you if you

be one of the Privie Counsell as by your wisedome you are fit take heede what you put in the Kings head for you can never put it out againe And I desire you further to request his Grace in Gods name that he have a vigilant eye to suppresse the hellish Luthrans that they increas not through his great negligence in such a sort as he be compelled to take up Armes to subdue them as the King of Bohemia was whose Commons being infected with Wickliffs heresies the King was inforced to take that course Let him consider the Story of King Richard the Second the second sonne of his Progenitor who lived in the time of Wickliffs Seditions and heresies Did not the Commons I pray you in his time rise against the Nobilitie and chiefe governours of this Realme and at the last some of them were put to death without Justice or mercie and under pretence of having all things common did they not fall to spoyling and robbing and at last tooke the Kings person and carried him about the Citie making him obedient to their proclamations Did not also the Trayterous Heretiques Sir Iohn Old-Castle Lord Cobham pitch a field with Heretiques against King Henry the fourth where the King was in person and fought against them to whom God gave the victory Alas if these be not plaine presidents and sufficient perswasions to admonish a Prince Then God wil take away from us our prudent Rulers leave us to the hands of our enemies And then will ensue mischiefe upon mischiefe Inconveniences Barrennesse and scarcitie for want of good Orders in the Common-wealth from which God of his tender mercy defend us Master Kingston farewell I wish all things may have good successe my time drawes on I may not tarry with you I pray you remember my words Now began the time to draw neere for hee drew his speech at length and his tongue began to faile him his eyes perfectly set in his head his sight failed him Then wee began to put him in minde of Christs passion and caused the Yeoman of the Guard to stand by privately to see him dye and beare witnesse of his words and his departure who heard all his communications And then presentlie the clocke strooke eight at which time he gave up the Ghost and thus departed he this life one of us looking upon an other supposing he prophesied of his departure We sent for the Abbot of the house to annoint him who speedily came as hee was ending his life who said certaine praiers before that the life was out of his bodie Here is the end and fall of pride for I assure you he was in his time the proudest man alive having more regard to the honour of his Person then to his spirituall function wherein he should have expressed more meekenesse and humility For Pride and Ambition are both linked together and Ambition is like Choller which is an humor that makes men active earnest and full of alacrity stirring if it bee not stopped or hindred in its course But if it be stopped and cannot have its way it becommeth dust and thereby maligne and venemous So Ambitions and proud men if they find the way open for their rising and advancement and still get forwards they are rather busie then dangerous But if they bee checked in their desires they become secretly discontent and look upon men and matters with an evill eye and are best pleased when things goe backewards but I forbeare to speake any further herein The Cardinall beeing departed Master Kingston sent post to London one of the Guard then was Master Kingston and the Abbot in consultation about the Funerall which was solempnized the day after for Master Kingston would not stay the returne of the Post They thought good that the Major of Leicester and his Brethren should see him personally dead to prevent false reports that hee was alive And in the Interim whilst the Major was sent for his Bones were laid in the Coffin and his shirt of haire and his over shirt of fine holland were taken off and were put into the Coffin together with all such ornaments wherewith he was invested when hee was made Archbishop as Miter Crosse Ring and Pall with all other things due to his orders Thus hee lay all that day with his Coffin opon and bare faced that all that desired might see him And about 3. of the Clock he was buried of the Abbot with great solemnity And being in the Church his corpes were set in the Ladies Chappel with many Tapers or poor men about him holding Torches in their hands who watched the Corps all that night whilst the Canons sung divers dirges and other divine Orisons And at 4. of the Clock the next morning the Cardinalls servants and Master Kingston came to the Church to the execution of many Ceremonies in such manner as is usuall to Bishops burialls And so he went to Masse where the Abbot did offer and divers others And then went to burie the Corpes in the middle of the said Chappell by this time it was fire of the Clocke being St. An●●●●s day Then we prepared for our journey to the Court where wee attended his Majestie the next day I was sent for to the King conducted by Master Norris where the King was in his night gowne of Rochet velvet furred with sables before whom I kneeled the space of an houre during which time his Majestie examined me of divers particulars concerning my Lord Cardinall wishing rather then twenty thousand pounds that he had lived He asked me concerning the fifteen hundred pounds which Master Kingston moved to my Lord Quoth I I thinke I can perfectly tell your Grace where it is and who hath it can you quoth the K. I pray you tell mee and you shall not bee unrewarded Sir quoth I after the departure of Master Vincent from my Lord at Ser●oby who had the custody thereof leaving it with my L. in divers baggs he delivered it to a certaine Priest safelie to bee kept to his use is this true quoth the King yea quoth I without doubt the Priest will not denie it before mee for I was at the deliverie thereof who hath gotten divers other rich Ornaments which are not Registred in the book of my Lords inventorie or other writings whereby any man is able to charghim there with but my selfe Then said the King let me alone for keeping this secret between me and you Howbeit three may keepe Counsell if two be away And if I knew my Cap were privie to my Counsell I would cast it into the fire and burne it And for your honesty and Truth you shall bee our servant in our Chamber as you were with your Master Therefore goe you your wayes to Sir Iohn Gage our Vice-Chamberlain to whom wee have spoken alreadie to admit you our servant in our Chamber and then goe to the Lord of Norfolke and hee shall pay you your whole yeares wages which