“Surely, in myn opinion, you have done therein a gracious and a blessed deed; and God, I doubt not, shall highly reward you therefore.  And when, in your said letters, ye write that, insomuch as this matter and the danger thereof, if remedy had not been provided, should not only have touched you, but all the bishops within your province; and that it is no reason that the holle charge and cost thereof should rest only in you; but that they and every of them, for their part, should advance and contribute certain sums of money towards the same:  I for my part will be contented to advance in this behalf, and to make payment thereof unto your servant, Master William Potkyn.

“Pleaseth it you to understand, I am well contented to give and advance in this behalf ten marks, and shall cause the same to be delivered shortly; the which sum I think sufficient for my part, if every bishop within your province make like contribution, after the rate and substance of their benefices.  Nevertheless, if your Grace think this sum not sufficient for my part in this matter, your further pleasure known, I shall be as glad to conform myself thereunto in this, or any other matter concerning the church, as any your subject within your province; as knows Almighty God, who long preserve you.  At Hoxne in Suffolk, the 14th day of June, 1527.  Your humble obedience and bedeman,

“R.  NORWICEN.”

[500] FOXE, vol. iv.

[501] The papal bull, and the king’s licence to proceed upon it, are printed in Rymer, vol. vi. part ii. pp. 8 and 17.  The latter is explicit on Wolsey’s personal liberality in establishing this foundation.  Ultro et ex propria liberalitate et munificentia, nec sine gravissimo suo sumptu et impensis, collegium fundare conatur.

[502] Would God my Lord his Grace had never been motioned to call any Cambridge man to his most towardly college.  It were a gracious deed if they were tried and purged and restored unto their mother from whence they came, if they be worthy to come thither again.  We were clear without blot or suspicion till they came, and some of them, as Master Dean hath known a long time, hath had a shrewd name.—­Dr. London to Archbishop Warham:  Rolls House MS.

[503] Dr. London to Warham:  Rolls House MS.

[504] DALABER’S Narrative.

[505] Clark seems to have taken pupils in the long vacation.  Dalaber at least read with him all one summer in the country.—­Dr. London to Warham:  Rolls House MS.

[506] The Vicar of Bristol to the Master of Lincoln College, Oxford:  Rolls House MS.

[507] Dr. London to Warham:  Rolls House MS.

[508] Radley himself was one of the singers at Christchurch:  London to Warham. MS.

[509] Dr. London to Warham:  Rolls House MS.

[510] On the site of the present Worcester College.  It lay beyond the walls of the town, and was then some distance from it across the fields.