147] Duke of Suffolk to Henry VIII.: _State Papers_, vol. vii. p. 183.

[148] HALL, p. 744.

[149] When the clothiers of Essex, Kent, Wiltshire, Suffolk, and other
shires which are clothmaking, brought cloths to London to be sold, as they
were wont, few merchants or none bought any cloth at all. When the
clothiers lacked sale, then they put from them their spinners, carders,
tuckers, and such others that lived by clothworking, which caused the
people greatly to murmur, and specially in Suffolk, for if the Duke of
Norfolk had not wisely appeased them, no doubt but they had fallen to some
rioting. When the king's council was advertised of the inconvenience, the
cardinal sent for a great number of the merchants of London, and to them
said, "Sirs, the king is informed that you use not yourselves like
merchants, but like graziers and artificers; for where the clothiers do
daily bring cloths to the market for your ease, to their great cost, and
then be ready to sell them, you of your wilfulness will not buy them, as
you have been accustomed to do. What manner of men be you?" said the
cardinal. "I tell you that the king straitly commandeth you to buy their
cloths as beforetime you have been accustomed to do, upon pain of his high
displeasure."--HALL, p. 746.

[150] LEGRAND, vol. iii. p. 157. By manners and customs he was referring
clearly to his intended reformation of the church. See the letter of Fox,
Bishop of Winchester (STRYPE'S _Memorials_, vol. ii. p. 25), in which
Wolsey's intentions are dwelt upon at length.

[151] Ibid. pp. 136, 7.

[152] _State Papers_, vol. vii. pp. 96, 7.

[153] Wolsey to Cassalis: Ibid. p. 100.

[154] State Papers, vol. vii. pp. 106, 7

[155] Ibid. p. 113.

[156] Ibid. vii. p. 113.

[157] Take the veil.

[158] Instruction to the Ambassadours at Rome: _State Papers_, vol. vii. p.
136.

[159] _Letters of the Bishop of Bayanne_, LEGRAND, vol. iii.

[160] LEGRAND, vol. iii. 231.

[161] Instrucion para Gonzalo Fernandez que se envoie a Ireland al Conde de
Desmond, 1529.--MS. Archives at Brussels.--_The Pilgrim_, note 1, p. 169.

[162] Henrici regis octavi de repudianda domina Catherina oratio Idibus
Novembris habita 1528.

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