ORIGINAL LETTERS,

ILLUSTRATIVE OF

ENGLISH HISTORY;

INCLUDING

NUMEROUS ROYAL LETTERS:

FROM AUTOGRAPHS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM,

AND

ONE OR TWO OTHER COLLECTIONS.

WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

BY

HENRY ELLIS, F. R. S. SEC. S. A.

KEEPER OF THE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

SECOND SERIES.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

HARDING AND LEPARD, PALL-MALL EAST.

MDCCCXXVII.

LETTER

CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

PAGE

XCVI.

XCVII.

XCVIII.

XCIX.

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Richard Fox Bishop of Winchester to Cardinal

Wolsey, in answer to some Inquiries concern-

ing Calais and its fortifications......

Anne Boleyn to her father Sir Thomas Boleyn,

upon her coming to Court

...

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The Vice President and Fellows of Magdalen

College to Cardinal Wolsey, upon his re-

quest to dig stone from their quarries in

the neighbourhood of Oxford for his New

College

Cardinal Wolsey to King Henry the Eighth,

chiefly upon the discontent expressed at the

manner of suppressing the small Monasteries

with which his College at Oxford was to be

endowed

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10

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c. Henry Stafford to King Henry the Eighth,

praying to be restored as son and heir of

Edward Duke of Buckingham. A. D. 1529. 22

Cardinal Wolsey to Thomas Cromwell, en-

treating him to come to him, and to enquire

if the Lady Anne's displeasure is assuaged..

Cardinal Wolsey to Thomas Cromwell, con-

cerning his House, belonging to the See of

York, at Battersea, in Surrey

CII.

CIII.

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Cardinal Wolsey to King Henry the VIIIth.

recommending to the King his College at

Oxford

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