I haue also eftesones sent vnto my lorde of Caunterbury according to your grac_i_ous co_m_maundement touching the dissymuled holynes and supersticious demeanures of the Ipocryte Nunne, And haue declared yo_ur_ gracious pleasure vnto the Staple whom in man_er_ I do Fynde agreable to all thing_es_ according to yo_ur_ grac_es_ demaunde sauyng onelie they as yet requyre lenger dayes for the payment of the some of x m[798] pounds by them now graunted, and also fermely requyre that yo_ur_ highnes will graunt them their house for a reasonable so_m_me of money yerelie, which I do stycke w_i_t_h_ them in. and as to morowe they will gyve me a resolute answer in the hole. And thus I shall daylie pray vnto almightie god for the prosperous conseruacion of yo_ur_ royall maiestee in long lif and good helth felyciouslie to indure. at London the xxiii day of Julie. Yo_ur_ highnes most humble subiectte and s_erua_unt THOMAS CRUMWELL. _Add._ To the king_es_ royall maiestee. 53. ‹CROMWELL› TO AUDELEY. R.O. Cal. vi. 894. July 26 ‹1533›. Desires him to permit the annuity of £20 which has just been granted to Stephen Vaughan to bear date from a year ago this summer, as there was already £20 due to Vaughan for one year’s service. Right honourable syr after myn_e_ hartie commendac_i_ons. So it is that the king_es_ hieghnes hathe lately graunted Vnto a seruant of his named Stephen Vaughan a certeyne annuytie of xx li by yere to be paide from the faste of the natyuytie of saynt John Baptiste now last passed Vnto the whiche Stephen by cause there is owyng by the kyng_es_ hieghnes xx li for one yeres seruyce ended at Mydsomer now laste paste, therefore is it that by cause he hathe no waise to demaunde it of maister Tuke by patent or other sufficient warrant from his hieghnes. he hathe desyred me who vndoubtidly do know that his pleasure is that he shulde be payde the sayde xx li. to Requyre yow that when his annuytie co_m_mythe to the greate seale your pleasure maye be to suffer it to bere date from Mydsomer Was a yere and that he maye by force therof be payde the yere now passed. And doubte ye not thus to do. for the king_es_ pleasure is he shulde be paide the xx li due for the yere passed. And I shall alwayse warrant yow to be sufficiently discharged and to be blameles for so doyng. The saide Stephen had obteyned the king_es_ warrant for the same, oneles his highnes had now sent hym into Germany for thexpedicion of certeyn his affayres there. And thus the holy trynytie p_re_serue yo_ur_ lordeship in long lyfe goode healthe and much hono_ur_. from London the xxvi daye of Julye. _Add._ To the right honourable S_ir_ Thomas Audley knyght lord chancello_ur_. 54. ‹CROMWELL› TO THE ABBOT OF WOBURN. R.O. Cal. vi. 778. ‹July, 1533.›