Thomas Cromwell: The Rise And Fall Of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister (51 page)

Cotton MS Nero E vi, fols. 64–64B – List of properties of the Knights of St John, late 1530s. Another copy is in BL Royal MS 18 A.L.

Cotton MS Otho C x:

fol. 159 – Licence from Henry VIII to Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, to examine and determine the matrimonial cause between him and Catherine of Aragon, 1532.

fols. 164B and 166B – Letters from Thomas Bedyll to Cromwell detailing the progress of the divorce proceedings against Catherine of Aragon, Dunstable, 10 and 17 May 1532.

fols. 168–170 – Arguments to be used to persuade Catherine of Aragon to forgo the title of queen and accept a new title of dowager, 1533.

fols. 199–203B – Reports of a meeting between Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII’s privy councillors at Dunstable, July 1533.

fol. 209B – Letter from Sir Edward Baynton declaring that only Mark Smeaton would confess anything against Queen Anne, May 1536.

fol. 213 – Letter from Thomas Bedyll to Cromwell, reporting that Catherine of Aragon’s servants were still addressing her as queen, 10 October 1534.

fols. 216–216B – Will of Catherine of Aragon in English and French, 7 January 1536.

fol. 221 – Henry Percy, Sixth Earl of Northumberland, to Cromwell, denying any marriage pre-contract with Anne Boleyn, Newington Green, 13 May 1536.

fol. 222 – Letter from Sir William Kingston to Cromwell reporting on Anne Boleyn’s behaviour and speech in the Tower of London, 3 May 1536.

fols. 222–225 – Letter from Sir William Kingston to Cromwell on Anne Boleyn’s arrival at the Tower of London and three other letters regarding her behaviour while imprisoned, 3 May 1536.

fol. 225 – Letter from Archbishop Cranmer to Henry VIII consoling him about Queen Anne’s misconduct, 3 May 1536.

fol. 228 – Letter from Queen Anne Boleyn to Henry VIII protesting that she is innocent of the charges against her, May 1536.

fol. 232 – Order for an inquiry into the ‘pretended’ marriage of Henry VIII with Anne of Cleves, 1540.

fol. 240 – Anne of Cleves’ letter to her brother, Duke William of Cleves, 1540.

fol. 241 – Questions to be put to Cromwell, written (in his own hand) by Henry VIII, 1540.

fol. 241B – Henry’s deposition to the Clerical Convocation on his marriage with Anne of Cleves, 1540.

fol. 242 – Cromwell’s letter to Henry VIII regarding his marriage to Anne of Cleves, Tower of London, 30 June 1540.

fol. 246 – Cromwell’s signed copy of Henry’s questions on his marriage to Anne of Cleves, 1540.

Cotton MS Titus B i:

fol. 71 – Sentence of divorce between Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon (in Latin), 23 May 1533.

fol. 265 – Letter from Cromwell to Henry VIII on his interrogation of the Countess of Salisbury, 19 April 1539.

fol. 267–269 – Cromwell’s letter to Henry VIII, Tower of London, 12 June 1540.

fol. 275 – Letter from William Capon, Dean of Cardinal’s College, Ipswich, to Wolsey, 26 September 1528.

fol. 365 – Letter in Italian from Wolsey’s doctor, Augustine de Augustinis, to Cromwell, seeking leeches for his master’s medical treatment, Esher, Surrey, 19 January 1530.

fol. 389 – Letter from Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk, to Cromwell, Redbourne, Herts., 10 November 1537.

fol. 390 – Letter from Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk, to Cromwell, Redbourne, Herts., 24 October 1538.

fol. 437 – Cromwell’s ‘remembrances’ for November 1537.

fol. 481 – Instructions from Henry VIII to Cromwell for parliamentary business, St Michael Term, 1531.

fol. 503 – Copy of the Act of Attainder brought against Thomas Cromwell.

Cotton MS Vespasian B v – quarto volume of ninety-one folios, with the grounds for the divorce of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon written in Latin in Cranmer’s hand.

Cotton MS Vespasian F xiii:

fol. 91 – Letter from Cecily, Marchioness of Dorset, to Cromwell, 14 August 1522.

fol. 116 – Letter from John, Lord Hussey, to the Mayor of Lincoln, urging the suppression of rebels, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, 3 October 1536.

fol. 157 – Letter from Elizabeth Cromwell to Henry VIII, appealing for pity for herself and her husband Gregory, after July 1540.

Cotton MS Vitellius B xiv, fol. 220B – A Frenchman’s account of the wax candles around Catherine of Aragon’s tomb ‘lighting of their own accord’, June 1536.

Cotton MS Vitellius B xxi:

fol. 178 – Nicholas Wotton and Richard Berde to Cromwell reporting their negotiations regarding Henry’s marriage to Anne of Cleves, Cleves, 3 May 1539.

fol. 186 – Nicholas Wotton to Henry VIII giving an account of Anne of Cleves, Düren, 11 August 1539.

Cotton MS Appendix XXVIII:

fol. 52 – Details of the spoil from the Church of St John, Clerkenwell, May 1540.

fol. 68 – Bill, dated 17 July 1540, for one month’s work maintaining the gardens at Cromwell’s home at Austin Friars, after his arrest.

fol. 76 – Letter from Wolsey to Cromwell asking him to come ‘urgently without delay’, Esher, Surrey, 2 December 1529.

Cotton MS Appendix XLVIII, fol. 25 – Wolsey’s letter to Cromwell, distraught at the dissolution of his colleges, July 1530.

Egerton MS 2,679 – Inventory of plate and jewels belonging to Henry VIII, including spoons engraved with the arms of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex,
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.1545.

Harleian MS 6, fols. 6 and 148ff. – Appearance of Elizabeth Barton before a special commission, 1533.

Harleian MS 69, fol. 18 – List of those taking part in the May Day celebrations joust at the Palace of Westminster, 1540.

Harleian MS 282:

fol. 211 – Cromwell’s letter to Sir Thomas Wyatt, English ambassador to Charles V, informing him of the birth of Prince Edward, St James’s Palace, 12 October 1537.

Harleian MS 283:

fol. 75 – Letter from Queen Anne [Boleyn] to Lord Cobham, her chamberlain, announcing the birth of a princess, Greenwich, 7 September 1533.

fol. 158 – Letter from John Clerk, Bishop of Bath, to Cromwell, on his appointment as Dean of Wells Cathedral, 26 September 1537.

Harleian MS 442, fol. 149 – Mandate to Mayor and Sheriffs of London to make proclamation limiting access of persons to the court for the christening of Prince Edward, Westminster, 12 October 1537.

Harleian MS 530, fol. 54 – Privations of three London Carthusian monks: Exemere, Newdigate and Middlemore, June 1535.

Harleian MS 3,362, fol. 17 – Cromwell’s last words on the scaffold, 28 July 1540.

Harleian MS 6,074, fol. 57B – Creation of Cromwell as Earl of Essex, Palace of Westminster, 18 April 1540.

Harleian MS 6,807, fol. 25 – Order establishing ‘The Spears’ or Gentlemen Pensioners, the new bodyguard for Henry VIII, December 1538.

Lansdowne MS 515, fol. 44 – Act of Attainder of Thomas Cromwell, June 1540.

Royal MS 7C xvi, fols. 18–32 – ‘The Book of the Queen’s [Jane Seymour’s] Jewels’, October 1537.

Royal MS 7F xiv, fol. 78 –
Valor
of Queen Jane Seymour’s lands in Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Surrey and Berkshire, October 1537.

Royal MS 18 A.L. – Twenty-five-page quarto treatise ‘Persuasion to the King that the Laws of the Realm should be in Latin’ by Richard Morison, Old Royal press-mark ‘No. 1249’.

Royal MS Appendix 89 – Memoranda of the return of jewels to the King by Cromwell, as Master of the Jewel House, 4 and 7 October 1532.

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Manuscripts of the Marquis of Salisbury: CP prefix denotes Cecil Papers.

CP 1/22 – Deposition of Henry VIII’s chief physician, Dr William Butts, to the commission investigating the validity of the marriage to Anne of Cleves, 1540.

CP 1/23 – Deposition of Henry VIII to the commission inquiring into the validity of his marriage to Anne of Cleves, 1540.

CP 1/27 – Letter from Thomas Cromwell to Henry VIII, Tower of London, 30 June 1540.

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ACC/1720 – Records of Dunford Manor, Surrey, recording sale from Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, to Thomas Cromwell in 1539 and, on his attainder, its passing to the crown.

E/NOR – Records of the Manor of Canonbury.

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C 1/218/49–52 – Alexander, son of Edmund Fognall Esq., deceased,
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. Thomas Grene concerning the manor of Frognall and lands, rents and services in Teynham, Tong, Linstead and Bapchild, Kent, conveyed to Sir Thomas Wyatt, deceased, under a threat by Grene and Cromwell to hang the complainant’s son, then in sanctuary.

C 1/1,063/75 – John Stokes of Fulham, Middlesex, committed to Newgate Prison by command of the Recorder of Middlesex, for saying that Cromwell ‘should at the hour of his death depart very sorry and penitent and die like a Christian man’,
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.1538.

E 24/23/1 – Wolsey’s commission to Sir William Gascoigne, William Burbank and Thomas Cromwell to survey five monasteries and their possessions which were about to be converted to the use of Cardinal’s College, Oxford, 4 January 1525.

E 25/82/2 – Renunciation of papal supremacy and acceptance of the King as supreme head of the Church of England by the prior and convent of the London Charterhouse, 18 May 1537.

E 36/77 –
Black Book of the Forests
, an account of the forests north of the River Trent, taken by order of Cromwell, 1539.

E 36/85 – Inventory of the King’s jewel house, late in the custody of Robert Amadas, deceased, and now under care of Cromwell, late 1532.

E 36/113 – Method of deposing or removing a Knight of the Order of the Garter, and letter to Cromwell, Earl of Essex, on the same subject, 1540.

E 36/139 – Catalogue of deeds, petitions and other papers in the custody of Cromwell, 1530–4.

E 36/191 – Indenture between Sir Richard Weston and Cromwell regarding documents delivered into the Treasury of Receipt for safe keeping, 1530.

E 101/421/8 – Indenture concerning transactions by Cromwell relating to Wolsey’s debts, 1532–3.

E 101/518/14 – Cromwell’s account book of moneys spent on behalf of Cardinal Wolsey, 1528–9.

E 163/10/19 – Warrant under the Signet to Cromwell, Keeper of the Hanaper, for the delivery of letters patent to Lady Anne Rochford, creating her Marquis of Pembroke, September 1532.

E 344/1 – E 344/21/8 –
Valor Ecclesiasticus
, Cromwell’s survey of Church property in 1534/5.

KB 8/7:

Part One: Special Oyer and Terminer roll, defendants and charges: Robert Feron, alias Fern, and John Hale, clerks, alleging high treason, exciting sedition and rebellion; and the Carthusian priors of London, Axholme, Beavale and Syon, alleging high treason and denying the King’s supremacy, 29 April 1535.

Part Two: Similar roll, defendants and charges: John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, and three monks of the London Charterhouse, alleging high treason and denial of the King’s supremacy, April 1535.

KB 29/162/12 – Indictment of praemunire against fifteen clerics, September 1530.

SP 1/65/132 – Letter to Cromwell from Reynold Littleprow of Norwich, 6 February 1530.

SP 1/77/203 – Report of seditious words by William ap Lli, priest of Wales, July 1533.

SP 1/82/151 – Reports of statements by the Colchester monk Dan John Frances, 22 January 1534.

SP 1/106/250 – Letter from Sir Robert Tyrwhit, Sir Edward Maddison, Thomas Portington and William Ainscough, lay subsidy commissioners and local gentry, held by the commons of Lincolnshire, to Henry VIII, 3 October 1536.

SP 1/116/187 – Reports of seditious words uttered by John Tutton of Mere, near Glastonbury, Somerset, March 1537.

SP 1/121/67 – Interrogation of George Paulet, June 1538.

SP 1/128/110 – Questioning of John Raven, January 1538.

SP 1/129/73 – Report of conversation between John Hampson and Richard Hore, Boarstall, Buckinghamshire, February 1538.

SP 1/132/163 – Report of seditious songs being taught to schoolboys by Edward Eland, chaplain to the Vicar of Wakefield, May 1538.

SP 1/133/51 – Case of Thomas Cowley, Vicar of Ticehurst, East Sussex, June 1538.

SP 1/136/226 – Interrogation of Lewis Herbert on rumours that parish registers were a tax-gathering measure, September 1538.

SP 1/144/93 and 135 – Rumours in Horsham, West Sussex, that the establishment of parish registers would involve new taxes, March 1539.

SP 1/144/128 – Account of sermon of Richard Mawde, of Whatcote, Warwickshire, March 1539.

SP 1/162/157 – Interrogation of Thomas Molton about his seditious words concerning Cromwell, July 1540.

SP 1/239/298 – Letter from Cromwell to heads of monastic houses earmarked for dissolution, 10 May 1536.

SP 3/5/93 (Lisle Letters) – Letter from John Hussey to Lord Lisle reporting his conversation with Cromwell about the dismissal of a soldier of the Calais garrison, 1539.

STAC 2/7 – Action of Christopher Burgh, Parson of Spennethorne, Yorkshire, alleging that Cromwell, late servant of Cardinal Wolsey, extorted £20 from him, ?1530.

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Loseley MS (LM): papers relating to the offices and estates of Sir Thomas Cawarden.

LM/128/11 – Declaration by Mr Cawarden of ‘stuff’ received for the King’s timber house at Whitefriars out of the Earl of Essex’s house, no date – ?
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.1543.