A Lettore certefying the incontynensye of the Nuns of Syon, with the Friores, and astore the acte done, the Friores reconsile them to God. Endoised, To the Right Honourable, Master Thomas Cromwell, chief Secretary to the Kings Highnesse.
IT maye please your goodnesse to understand thatp Bushope this day preched, and declared the Kynges tytelle very well, and hade a grete Audyense, the Chorche full of people, one of the Focaces in his said declaration, only called him false knave, with other foolish words; it was the foolish fellow, with the corled head that kneeled in your waye when you came forth of the Confessores Chamber. I can no lesse doe, but set him in prisone, ut poena ejus sit metus aliorum: yesterday I learned many enormous thinges against Bushope, in the examination of the lay Brederen, first that Bushope perswaded towe of the Brederene to have gone theire wayes by night, and he himselfe with them, and to the accomplishment of that, they lacked but money to buy them seculere apparell. Further, that Bushope would have perswaded one of his lay-Brederen a Smithe, to have made a keay for the doare, to have in the night time re∣ceived in Wenches for him and his fellows, and especially a Wiffe of Uxebridge, now dwelling not farre from the old Lady Derby, nigh Uxebridge: which Wiffe his old customer hath byne many times here at the grates communing with the said, and he was desirous to have her convoyed into him. The said Bushope also perswaded a Nunne, to whom he was Cenfessour, ad libidinem corporis perimplendam And thus he perswaded her in Confession, making her believe, that whensover, and as ofte as they shold medle together, if she were, immediately after, confessed by him, and tooke of him absolution, she shold be cleere forgeven of God, and it shold be none offence unto her before God. And she writte diveres and sundrye Lettores unto him of such their foolishnesse and unthriftynesse, and wold have had his Broden the Smithe to have polled out a barre of iron of the window, whereas the examyned the Ladye Abbas, that he might have gone in to her by night.q And that same window was their com∣moning place by night. He perswaded the Sextene that he would be in his contempla∣cion in the Chorche by night, and by that meanes was many nightes in the Chorche talking with her at the saide gate to the Nunnes Quire, and there was their meeting-place by night besides their day communications, as in cofession: It were too long to declare all thinges of him that I have heard, which I suppos it true. This afternoone I intend to make forder serche, both of some of the Brederen, and some also of the Sisters of such like matters; if I fynde any thing apparent to be true, I shall God willing thereof sertefy your Mastorshipe tomorow, by vij in the mornyng. And after this daye I suppos there will be no other thinges to be knowne at yet here; for I have