'We commende ourselves unto thee, Thomas, in pease and love, and are well assuride itt is noo lesse joye to thee to heare fro' us than for us to hear fro' thee. In truithe and honeur thou art much extemyde. Wold it wor our fortune convenientlie to have seen thee when in our nebourhede, when thou didst journeye last from Ox'nforde to Ippyswiche. We heare that thou art a prest, Thomas, devoted to hevyn. We do heare this fro' thy mod'r Johan, and fro' thy friende and uncle Edmunde Dayndye; and that Bushop Gouldwelle dyd ordayne thee. We are informyde that thou art so contentyde in this matter that the bushop's haundes have ben doublee well bistowide. If all succede with thee wee shall rejoyce. Wee wish thee prosesperous in thy determyning; and hope yt is for the best for the Churche sin thy learnin is gret and thy demenor gude; for ther levithe no man more hartilye devotede to God. We wish to tell thee it is in thy pow'r and provinc to serve us, by givin us agen thy companie. And wee think thou canst hardley deny'de us as wee send all way to beseeche thee come. 'If itt soo had fortunyde that wee had sen thee we wou'd have explaynede to thee what wee now do. We hould thee to thy promyse upon the holy ewangelysts to be presente at the ceremonie of marrage whensoewer and whhersoewer suche shall take place tween Ellen De Freston and whomsoweer it may be. Now that thou art a prest, Thomas, we shall looke for thy help which we hope for at St. Lawrence Churche in Ippyswiche the XII day at next moneth. 'Willyam Latymer wrott latelie to thee, as he haythe declayrede, telling thee how muche he suffrid not hearinge from thee: and then informynge thee of his plesure to have thee his friende present at his nuptials. Not doubtyng of thy mynde to promoat the joye of oders wee hope thou wilt come. Our plesur will be gret in thy companie at Frestone Castel; and thy moder Johan will be glad to have thee. So, Thomas, wee shall hope, that on this behalve thou wilt not forsayke us, but unyte William Latymer and Ellen De Frestone in the bonds of matrymonie. 'Wee hope thy answer by the haunde of the sayed Arthur Burch, and are thy loving friends, 'DE FRESTON 'and ELLEN. 'To Thomas Wulsey, 'Magdalyne College, 'Oxnforde. 'JUNE xviii, A.D.MCCCCXXXXXVIII.' This epistle created a deep impression. It had been enough for him to discover his own blighted hopes, with regard to the first and fondest attachment he had formed in life. But Wolsey then had no thought of the ambitious projects which afterwards swayed him. The pride of the man never was greater than in the tone of argument he held with himself at that time when his nature said 'Do not go,' and his spirit said 'Go!'