pointed by the kinges deputie to waite uppon the saide gonnes, that if nede require they may be shot for the defence of the same; and that the saide gonner soo appointed shall not faile to kepe his saide warde, upon lyke paynes as bifore expressed upon those that make defaulte of ther warde dayɛs in the saide herring tyme.

[Here follows, in the same manuscript, the second copy of the king's device for the fortification of the town, already mentioned in p. 125.]

MEMORIAL OF LORD BERNERS WHEN DEPUTY OF CALAIS, AND THE OTHER OFFICERS OF THE TOWN, TO THE KING, RESPECTING THE SCARCITY OF FUEL, &C. IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE FRENCH CRUISERS.

The date of this document wants the year, but it was written whilst lord Berners was deputy of Calais, and probably belongs to 1522, when hostilities broke out with France. The three jurisdictions" represented in the signatures were those of the council, the town, and the staple.

Pleaseth your highnes that all we your most lowly servauntes and subge[ctes of the th]re jurisdiccions of this your highnes toune of Caleys, in our moste humble wyse do shew and ascerteyne your [highness] that here is an unyversal great lack and default of wode and fiewel within your saide toune, by reason [that of] late dyvers and sundry hoyes, playtes, and other ships freghted and repeyring toward this toune with [wood] and cole have been taken on the see by Frenchmen, as well before the opening of the warres as syns, so that by a serche lately made within this toune there is not fiewel sufficient to serve the same [for] xv. days; the lack wherof begynneth a great rumour amonges the generaltie of this toune; and it is thought by us, if remedye be not shortly provyded for relief and helpe of the same by your highnes, greater inconvenyence and daunger is lyke to follow and come to this toune, which God defend, for we [have] done asmoche for our partes as in our possibilite is, as wel in wrytyng and sending over into Englonde w[here] wode lyeth to such persons as have ships there, as also in causing the hoyes, playtes, and other ships which lie here in the haven, with the masters and maryners of the same, to fetche, bryng, and convey out [of En]glande wode to this toune; and have offered unto them moche more largely for their freghtes than [they ha]ve bene wont and

accustomed to take or demande; but they utterly do refuse to adventure th[emselves] or ships on the see onlesse they mighte have Englishe ships of warre to conduyct [them] bothe to and fro. And, bycause they daily see byfore their faces ships taken by Frenshmen here [about]e without any maner of rescuyng of the same, they be in so great drede and fere that they had rather. . . . . to jeobarde themselfes on the see without conduyct. And, inasmoch as we can fynde no fu[rther help] or remedye herein of our selfes, we can no lesse of our dueties but to advertise your highnes in [what] estate we stonde in that behalf; wherfor all we of the forsaid thre jurisdiccions w[ould] beseche your highnes to have tendre consideracion and pitie apon this your grace's toune and servauntes [inhabitants] within the same, to se some provysion that wode and fiewel may be shortly conveyed over hiddre, and [to be] brought unto us, if it may pleas your highnes to appoint and commaunde six ships of werre to a [ct in] arredines for the releif of this your said toune, wherof thre ships to have their most abode co[mmor]aunte about the Camber, and other thre about the haven and rode of this toune, orels atte le[ast two shi]ps about the Camber, and other two about the said haven and rode of this toune, that than they [safely ma]y conduyct and convey over hiddre not oonly such ships as wold repeyre hiddre with wode, fiewel [and cole], but also the passages that from tyme to tyme shall passe to and fro betwext this toune and the [coast] of Englond. And otherwyse we see not how any thing necessarye for us can be poзsibly brought] over to this toune in suretie; for, if any ships shuld be appoincted by your highnes for the sa[iling] about the downes, we see such daily experyence in theym that they nothing shalhelpe for [the] convey of any ships which shall resorte with wode, fiewel, and victail to this your said to [une]. Written at the same your toune of Caleys, the xxti, day of June.

Your humble servauntes,

RAYMOND CUTTURVS, m[ayor.] GEORGE
MEDLEY, levetenant of the staple.

JOH'N BERNers.
WYLL'M SANDYS.
ROBERT WOTTON.

EDWARD GULDEFORD.

CRYSTOFFER GARNEYS.

[BA]RTYLMEW TATE.

(The signatures are autograph.) Directed, To the kinges highenes.

BERKELEY.

[P. 44.] WILL of Lord BernERS, DEPUTY OF CALAIS, 1532.

John Bourchier lord Berners, now better known as the translator of Froissart, had been appointed deputy of Calais in 1520. Here he amused his leisure with his literary employments; and his translation of Marcus Aurelius, made "at the instant desire of his nevewe sir Francis Bryan knight," was not completed until a few days before his death, and one week later than his will: it was "ended at Caleis the tenth daie of Marche, in the yere of the reigne of our soveraygne lorde kyng Henry the viij. the xxiiij." Lord Berners died on the 19th March, 1532. (Life by Mr. Utterson, prefixed to the edition of Lord Berners' Froissart, 4to. 1812, p. 21).

His will was made at Calais on the 3d of March 1532, and commences in the following terms: "I, John Bourchier knight, lord Barnes, the king's deputy-general of the town and marches of Caleys, &c. make this my present testament and last will, in manner and form following. First, I bequeath my soul to Almighty God, &c. and my body to be buried in the parish church of our lady St. Mary the Virgin of the said town of Caleys, within the chauncell of the same church," &c. He gave to "Francis Hastings esq. and Jane his wife, &c. my great tenement I dwell in in Caleys." He appoints "Francis Hastings and Robert Rolf, recorder of Calais, executors; to Robert ten marks sterling; I make my lord Edmund Howard my brother+ overseer of the same my present testament, to whom my brother I give a standing cup of silver and gilted, weighing 22 ounces, &c. In witness whereof, to this my present testament and last will I have set my seal of arms, and subscribed my name, the day and year first above writ, in the presence of the said lord Edmund my brother, and sir Edward Ringesley knight, high marshal of Calais, sir Edward Brindelyolyn, paroche preste of the abovesaid church of our Lady, our ghostly father sir William Petous my chaplain, &c." This will was proved by Francis Hastings, 4 Feb. 1533. -(Collins's Baronies by Writ, fol. 1734, p. 337.)

[P. 44.] RETUrn of the duke of Richmond AND EARL OF SURREY FROM FRANCE.

The passage of our chronicler, which states that these young noblemen "cam to Caleys out of Fraunce, where they had bene almost xij. monthes," is remarkable as being in contradiction to the view taken by Dr. Nott in On this subject see another note appended to the Table of Contents, p. vi.

† Lord Berners married lady Katharine Howard, daughter of John duke of Norfolk.

his Life of the Earl of Surrey. It was supposed by previous writers, from the statements of lord Herbert the historian, that Surrey had accompanied the duke of Richmond during his stay in France; but Dr. Nott (p. xxvi.) considers it uncertain whether Surrey went to Paris; and in p. xxvii. he states that lord Surrey bore the fourth sword at the coronation of queen Anne Boleyne in May 1533. In p. xxviii. he says that the duke of Richmond arrived in London on the 7th Sept. just in time to be present at the christening of the princess Elizabeth: whereas our chronicler states that the duke and earl were only come so far as Calais on the 25th of that month. The explanation of the latter of these discrepancies is furnished by the fact that the duke of Richmond did not actually accompany the duke of Norfolk (who really came in time for the christening), but followed shortly after him. The former may be attributed to the circumstance, that the names mentioned in ceremonials are often those who were considered by the heralds as entitled to be present, rather than such as actually attended. The earl of Surrey, then, may have passed these twelve months in France, the companion of "a king's son," as he styles himself in one of his sonnets, even though his name was set down as destined to take part in the ceremonial of the queen's coronation.

[P. 46.] LETTER OF STEPHEN Gardiner, bishop of Winchester.

After the visit of the bishop of Winchester to Calais, mentioned in p. 46, he addressed the following letter of civility to lord Lisle, acknowledging the hospitality he had received from the lord deputy and his lady.

(MS. Harl. 283, f. 214.)

My lord, after my right harty commendations, I thanke yowe for your sondry gentyl lettres, and partly to recompense them, I have spoken diligently to the emperor's counsay] that such pullery and wylde-foule maye passe by Graveling as ye require, without interruption, whiche I have had promyse shalbe doon without faulte. I have noo newes to wryte of that ye wold knowe; ye be nerer the market of [them] thenne I am. God send them to be in the conclusion such as al good men desire.

Herewith I send two lettres, oon to my lord of Duresme,* and an other to mastre Wallop,† which I praye youe cause to be sent unto them.

I

praye youe I maye be commended to my good lady, with thankes for my good chere to youe both; and soo I pray God send youe hartely wel to fare. At Antwerp the last of Novembre.

Your good lordshippes assuredly,

STE. WINTON.

Directed, To my very goode lorde my Lorde Deputie of Calais.

ELECTION OF BURGESSES FROM CALAIS TO PARLIAMENT, 1536.

In the following letter from lord chancellor Audley to viscount Lisle the lord deputy of Calais, the writer reminds his lordship that it had been provided by an Act of the last Parliament, that is, in the last session of the parliament then assembled, that Calais should always send two burgesses, one to be chosen by the deputy and council, and the other by the mayor and commonalty: directing him now to see such order fulfilled. He forwards also a writ to lord Lisle himself, but intimates that his attendance will be dispensed with. (MS. Cotton. Titus, B. 1. f. 144.)

After my righte herty commendacions, it may like your lordshipp to understond that the kinges highnes hath somonyd hys parlament to be holden at Westminster the thursday in Wyttsonweke † next comyng; wherfor I send your lordshipp oone wrytt for your somon; to be there. Neverthelesse ye shal not nede to com, oonlez ye have further knowleyge of the kinges plesure that his grace ys content that ye shalbe absent from your charge at Calys; but I send you the wrytt, bycause it ys the order that every nobilleman shuld have his wrytt of somon3 of a parlament.

I also send by this brynger ij. other wryttes, oone to the counselle for eleccion of oone burgez, another to the mayer and comonalté for eleccion of another burge3, praying you and the counselle so to execute the wrytt dyrectyd to you that ye may chose and name a man that bothe for gravyté, honesty, reputacion, and wytt, may be abyll to serve the kynge for oone burgez in his parlament, for his towne and marches of Calys; and likewyse desire you to move the mayer, that he and his bretherne take suche respect in the eleccion of another burges as shalbe of like gravyté, honesté, reputacion and wytt as ys aforesayd. Signyfying to you that ther ys an act passid at the last parlament, that Calys shal alweyes at every Parliament

* See Statutes of the Realm, vol. iii. p. 649.

The parliament met on the 8th June 1536.

See these writs printed in Rymer, xiv. 567; and the like, dated 23 Nov. 33 Hen. VIII. 1541, ibid. p. 740.