see ynafect, ande trustyng yn God suche fryndys as y have schall put to thyr handys, the whych schall doo grett eys ande profytt att later ende. Y schall wys1 theys persones when y get nomore grace. Item: Yff y cannot spede hyt for this sum off mony, to know youre plesure, whether y schall goo any forder or not, by the next currer. Withowte the Pop do cauys hyt to be spede pryvatly by the Chamber, hyt ysnot possebell to spede hyt by the Chansery, for hyt wylbe taxyd yn mych mony, and soo Jħu preserff you. From Rome the xxv. day of Apryll, 1520. 1 Item: Wheyr as y wrot that Your Grace schulde sende a cuppe of golde to the Pop hyt had been weyl don, and schulde have don mych yn this cauys. Y am yn gret favour with the Pop ys suster, the whych knowyth hys nature. Y truste sche schall doo grett goode yn this mater. Item: Yff theyr be a hunder olde men yn Cantorbery lett them be examinyd by a notary, and theyr namys wrytyn, how that they hath been att the seyde Jubyley. Hyt ys not possebell but theyr hath ben sum men to tymys 2 att the seyde pardon; for a man that hath lxv. yer maye testefy that he hath ben ij. tymys at the seyde Jubyley. Yf Your Grace make dylygens yn thys mater hyt schall make gretly for the expedycyon off hyt. Item: The Pop sendyth a byssop to go to the metyng of our Soverayn Lorde the Kynge and the France Kyng, the whych ys Auditor Camere; Master Secretary knowyth hym weyl. Cauys the Kyng to speke unto hym, yff ye hyre not from me schortly that hyt ys spede. Ande also make sum nobellmen that hath ben att seyde 1 wys=uys use. 2 A man who had been "two times" at the Jubilee, that is at the last two celebrations of 1470 and 1420, would at the date of these letters be 115 years old, supposing that at the first Jubilee he were 15 years of age, the earliest time at which his testimony could be received. Dr. Grig calculated as if the festival of 1520 had actually just taken place. 1 Jubyley to schow hym that hyt ys ynvys, if owre supplycasyon ys put abacke, ande all ys to have a gret sum off mony, for becauys we have no Bull to schew the grant. Y do by the counsell of My Lorde Cardynall Campegius, and sethens y delyveryd the supplecasyon on to the Pop y have ben with hys holynes vj. tymys, and every tyym y have ben remittyd to Sancti iiijor. REVERENDISSIMO IN CHRISTO PATRI DOMINO From Rome the vth daye of Maye. 5 May 1520. L. B. 74. at Rome and espe Plesyt hyt your Grace thys day y have spokyn with Dr. Grig the Pop ys Holynes for the expedycyon of your cauys, reports and he hath deferryd hyt unto the xth daye of Maye, progress and then shalbe the singnature, and theyr schalbe cially redyversse Cardynallys apon thys mater; y have desyryd commends my Lorde Cardynall Campegius and he hath promysyd be made me to be theyr and do the beste he can. The Pop Pope's lyyth owte of Rome. interest to with the Auditor Cameræ, who in at the of the Calais. Item: The Pop hath sende the Auditor Camere to be presant at the metyng of thys grett princes, and tends to be yff ye brynge before hym wyttenys, ande also cauys present the Kynge to speke to hym, and also my Lorde meeting Cardynall, and cauys hym to wrytt a letter to the Kings Pop that hyt ys ynvys, we schall have oure purpoys near as for the Jubyley; ande let thys letter be sende unto me secretly; and also cauys Master Secretary to wryti a letter to the Pop ys Holynes by the Kyngs commandement with the seyd Auditor Camere ys letter, as mych as the Kyng hath ons wrytyn, and not regardyd; ande yn the meyn seson y schall do the best y can. (May 1520.) L. B. 75. Item: Let Master Archydyacon sende me an instructyon ther off hys mater, ande when hys tyme ys expyryd y schall cauys hym to be dyspensyd by a breff for vi. yere. And so Jhesu preserff your Grace. Y My Lorde, yn any wyys spede ye the lettrys, and yff y can make an ende of hyt yn the meyn seson the letterys schall doo goyd and no harme. thyng or theys letterys com we schall do but lytyll good. 1115.--DR. GRIG AT ROME TO ARCHBISHOP WARHAM. Plesit it your Grace, the xiiij. daye of Maye y recevyd a letter from Master Bydell datyd at Lambeth Dr. Grig continues the xix. daye of Apryll, by the whych y understande the narra that your Grace wyll wryt thankys to Sancti iiijor, ineffectual ande also to my Lorde Campegius aude to my Lorde attempts of Worcetter, the whych ys weyll don, ande as schortly the Pope's as ys possebell soo to do. tive of his to obtain confirm ation of in spite of the Item: Y haue ben dyverss tymys with the Pop the jubilee ys Holynes for the expedycyon off your Jubyley, and specyally the iijde ande the iiijthe tyme, when y interest delyveryd your letterys to the Pop ys Holynes; he Cardinal gaff me good wordys, and promysyd to sende the supCampeggio plicasion to the Datary, the whych was not sende, Bishop of synyd nother unsynyd. shown by and the (Silvester and the Worcester Item: Y wende euery ijde daye by the spays off x. Gigliis), dayes to the Pop, ande att laste yn publica signatura lukewarm y wende to the Pop knelyng before hys Holynes to help of the make expedycyon of your cauys, seyyng thys wordys, Cardinal qualiter: "Reverendus Cardinalis Sancti iiijor dedit michi in commissionem ire pedibus Sanctitatis vestre, et presentare istam supplicationem, et michi retulit Martyrum" qulaiter Sanctitas vestra habebat maximam dubitationem an fuit in usu. "Sancto rum qua tuor Co ronatorum Leo X. offered to 66 Ulterius, beatissime Pater short that half Sanctitas vestra dignetur confirmare istum Jubileum, grant a "et committere Legato de latere, per breve Sanctitatis jubilee on "vestre sub pœna excommunicationis, vel alicui pre- condition lato, ut isti debeant examinare hanc causam Jubilei, the obla"constare quatenus fuit in usu, et tunc confirmatio tions should go "Sanctitatis vestre possit suffragari, et locum habere. to the "Sin autem remittam bullas pedibus Sanctitatis building of "vestre." Immediate Sanctitas sua michi dixit: Do"mine Johannes non nobis est honor ita facere, "confirmare et immediate revocare." Item: At that tyym the Pop concludyd that Sancti iiijor schulde wrytt to the Legat, my Lorde Cardynall, and also another letter to the Auditor Cameræ, that they schulde examine wytnys that they have ben at the seyde Jubiley; that then Hys Holynes wylbe content to confyrme the seyde Jubyley. Item: Upon the same y haue solycyt to haue the seyde letterys dyverse tymys, he answeryd me he wolde schow them to the Pop hys Holyness ande soo to delyver them unto me. Item: Y, seyng that the tyym was prorogyd, as sone as the Pop came to Rome y desyryd my Lord Campegius to speke wyth Sancti iiijor ande then afterwardys wyth the Pop in publico concistorio, ande soo he dyd, ande (to) thys the Pope made a playn answeyr: yff hyt coulde be provyd that hit ys ynvys he wolde be glade to confyrme hyt; otherelse to grant the seyd Jubyley in festo Sancti Thome Martyris ande iij. dayys afterwardys folowyng to have cleyn remission ; ande such oblasyons as ther weyr made halfe schulde goo to the byldyng of the church of Rome; unto whych y wolde not ynclyne withowte consent off your Grace yn no manner of weyys. Item: Wheyr your Grace wrote unto the Pop that thys Jubiley was grantyd in Honorius days the iijde, he schewyd me then theyr ways no such thyngs grantyd. The first Jubiley that ways grantyd yn Rome ways yn St. Peter's. 1520. tempore Bonyfacius 8the, whych ways yn the yere off Oure Lorde a M. ij. hundreyd lxxxv. erys, but Honorius ways yn the yere off Owre Lorde 1214, longe afore; ande seyde hyt was not lycly no such thyngys to be grantyd not yn hys dayys. 6 June 1116.-MASTER THOMAS BEDYLL, SECRETARY TO ARCHBISHOP WARHAM, TO THE PRIOR OF CHRIST CHURCH. L. B. 76. The Archbishop's Secretary recom mends the Prior to claim of a granted, better terms may be made, but he does My very good Lord Prior, in my right herty wise I recommend me to Your Lordship, doing you to understand that yesterday My Lords Grace receyved letters from Rome, whiche I send unto you now with a cerconsent to taine suggestion conceyved by Doctor Grig and his the Pope's counsail concernyng the Jubiley. Item: Seing that so half of the great difficulte is made at Rome for thobteinyng of our profits of the jubilee, purpose, whiche is like to be graunted but for a few if one be dayes as My Lorde of Worceter hath written, a new unless by way is devised for thobteynyng thereof, with the any chance whiche in a maner we be forced to be contented if we wol have greate thing of our desire. It is this: the Pope hathe desired to have halve of thoblations in this yer of Jubiley if it shuld go furthe, the whiche if he not advise have not his mynde it is to be thought we shall not concession have what we wold have. Wherfor long and serious should be communication hathe bee had with the Popes Orator, unless the Auditor Cameræ Apostolicæ, in this matier by Maister indulgen- Parr the Kings Grace Secretary at My Lords request. made once Uppon the whiche communication the said Auditor Cameræ Apostolica wrote speciall letters to the Cardinal Sanctorum iiijor and also to the Popis Holines for the succeeding short expedicion thereof, shewing to the Popis Holines that he shuld have half the oblations of this yer of Jubiley, only if he wool graunt it imperpetuum, so that after this yere the said oblations may be only to the Churche of Canterbury. Of the whiche effect My Lord that this made ces be for all to be avail able for every fiftieth year. |