least eight or ten days before we can be ready to depart hence. Yet we trust to be at Lintz before the emperor; for he will tarry by the way at Passaw ten or twelve days. As for the Turk, he resideth still in Hungary in the same place environed upon all parts, whereof I wrote unto your highness in my last letters. And the emperor 7 departed from Abagh toward Vienna the second day of this month by land, not coming by this town: but the same day the king Ferdinandt departed from this town by water, and at Passaw, fourteen miles hence, they shall meet, and so pass forth unto Lintz, which is the midway from hence unto Vienna. And there the emperor will tarry to counsel what he will do: and there all the ambassadors shall know his pleasure, as Monsieur Grandeveile shewed me. I have sent herewith unto your grace the copy of the emperor's proclamation concerning a general council, and a reformation to be had in Germany for the controversies of the faith. Also I have sent the tax of all the states of the empire, how many soldiers every man is limited unto for the aid against the Turk. Wherein your grace may perceive, that the greatest prince in Germany, (only the duke of Burgundy and Austria except,) is not appointed above 120 horsemen and 554 footmen. Thus our Lord evermore have your highness in his preservation and governance. From Regenspurgh the iv. day of September, [1532.] Your grace's most humble subject, chaplain, and beadman, THOMAS CRANMER. t[i. e. The brother of Charles V. who succeeded him in the empire.] NUMBER III". A PARCEL OF JEWELS SENT FROM GREENWICH TO HAMPTON COURT TO THE KING. TO THE RECEIPT OF WHICH HE HENRY R. to Sir W. SENT unto the king's highness from Greenwich Hampton Court, by Master Norrys, the 21st day September, in the 24th year of his grace's reign, these parcels ensuing. Which parcels his grace doth knowledge himself to have received by this present bill, signed with his most gracious hand the day and year above expressed. First, one carcan of gold antique work, having a shield 1. of gold, set with a great rose, containing twelve diamonds. One fair table diamond. One pointed diamond. One table ruby. One table emerald. And three fair hanging pearls. Item, another carcan of gold of hearts with two hands 2. holding a great ouch of gold, set with a great table balasse. One pointed diamond: two table diamonds: whereof one rising with lozenges, and the other flat. And one other long lozenged diamond. And four pearls, with one long pearl pendant. Item, Another carcan of gold enamelled with black 3. and white, with an ouch of gold enamelled white and blue set with a great rocky ruby: one rocky emerald : One pointed diamond. One table diamond. A heart of a diamond, rising full of lozenges. And one fair hanging pearl. Item, Another carcan of links of gold. The one 4. enamelled black, the other gold: having an ouch of gold, 8 5. set with a great rocky balasse: two small table diamonds; and one lozenged diamond. Five slight pearls, and one long pearl pendant thereat. Item, Another carcan of gold, garnished thoroughly with twenty-two collets of diamonds, containing in all seventy-seven diamonds small and great and forty-three pearls, with an ouch of antique, set with thirteen diamonds, one rocky ruby, and one rocky emerald; and a flat round hinging pearl. 6. Item, Another carcan of gold, enamelled black, with an ouch, set with a fair table balasse, and three small triangled diamonds, and five pearls. 7. 8. Item, A George on horseback, garnished with sixteen small diamonds. And in the belly of the dragon a rocky pearl. Item, Another carcan of gold: all black, having a George on horseback; garnished with eighteen small diamonds. And in the belly of the dragon a pearl ragged. 9. Item, A chain of gold, of Spanish fashion, enamelled, white, red and black. Harl. MSS. [NUMBER III.*t TO ARCHDEACON HAWKYNS". In my most hearty wise I commend me unto you, and even so would be right glad to hear of your welfare, &c. These be to advertise you, that inasmuch as you now and then take some pains in writing unto me, I would be loath xviii. p. 78. you should think your labour utterly lost and forgotten Ellis' Orig. logia, vol. Letters, for lack of writing again; therefore, and because I reckon you be some deal desirous of such news as hath been here first series, Lett. cxiv. t [See above, P. 36.] u [Nicholas Hawkyns, archdeacon of Ely, succeeded Cranmer as ambassador to the emperor Charles V. and died A. D. 1534. See Le Neve's Fasti, p. 73.] 33, 4. ed. with us of late in the king's grace's matters, I intend to vol. ii. pp. inform you a part thereof, according to the tenor and Lond. 1824. purport used in that behalf. Todd's And first, as touching the final determination and con- Cranmer, vol. i. p. 80. cluding of the matter of divorce between my lady Katherine and the king's grace, which said matter, after the convocation in that behalf had determined and agreed according to the former consent of the universities, it was thought convenient by the king and his learned counsel that I should repair unto Dunstable, which is within four miles unto Ampthill, where the said lady Katherine keepeth her house, and there to call her before me to hear the final sentence in the said matter. Notwithstanding, she would not at all obey thereunto, for when she was by doctor Lee cited to appear by a day, she utterly refused the same, saying, that inasmuch as her cause was before the pope, she would have none other judge; and therefore would not take me for her judge. Nevertheless the eighth day of May, according to the said appointment, I came unto Dunstable, my lord of Lincoln being assistant unto me, and my lord of Winchester, Dr. Bell, Dr. Claybroke, Dr. Trygonnell, Dr. Hewis, Dr. Oliver, Dr. Britten, Mr. Bedell, with divers other learned in the law, being counsellors in the law for the king's part: and so there at our coming kept a court for the appearance of the said lady Katherine, where we examined certain witness, which testified that she was lawfully cited and called to appear, whom for fault of appearance was declared contumax; proceeding in the said cause against her in pœnam contumaciæ, as the process of the law thereunto belongeth; which continued ▾ [John Longland, who was confessor to Henry VIII.] [Stephen Gardiner.] x [The reading in the manuscript is, contumaciam, but Mr. Todd reads as in the text.] Coronation of queen fifteen days after our coming thither. And the morrow after Ascension-day I gave final sentence therein, how that it was indispensable for the pope to license any such marriages. This done, and after our rejourneying home again, the king's highness prepared all things convenient for the coronation of the queen, which also was after such a manner as followeth. The Thursday next before the feast of Pentecost, the Ann. king and the queen being at Greenwich, all the crafts of London thereunto well appointed, in several barges decked after the most gorgeous and sumptuous manner, with divers pageants thereunto belonging, repaired and waited all together upon the mayor of London; and so well furnished came all unto Greenwich, where they tarried and waited for the queen's coming to her barge: which so done, they brought her unto the Tower, trumpets, shalmes, and other divers instruments all the ways playing and making great melody, which, as is reported, was SO comely done as never was like in any time nigh to our remembrance. And so her grace came to the Tower on Thursday at night, about five of the clock, where also was such a peal of guns as hath not been heard like a great while before. And the same night, and Friday all day, the king and queen tarried there; and on Friday at night the king's grace made eighteen knights of the Bath, whose creation was not alonely so strange to hear of, as also their garments stranger to behold or look on, which said knights the next day, which was Saturday, rid before the queen's grace throughout the city of London towards Westminster palace, over and besides the most part of the nobles of the y [For the details of this coronation of Anne Boleyn, see Stow's Annals, p. 562, et seqq. ed. Lond. 1615.] |