Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Dame Florence Bonnewe, Prioress of Amesbury's letter to Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, dated August 10, 1539

Source:

Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 14, Part 2: August-December 1539, published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1895


The letter:

I have received the King's letters and yours, and have accordingly resigned my office in the monastery before the commissioners thereto appointed, trusting the promises made me will be performed. I beg your intercession with the King that I may be put in surety of my living. Ambresbury, 10 Aug.

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