5. “Of the Vanity of the World.” Lond. 1549, 8vo. 6. “Translation of Cato’s speech, and Valerius’s answer; from the 4th Decade of Livy.” _Ibid._ 1551, 12mo. He also made some translations from the Italian, which are still in manuscript. Mr. Thomas might have rendered further service to letters, instead of mixing himself up in conspiracies, had he received a favourable answer to an application which he made to Cecil, to be sent at the expense of the Government to Italy. A copy of his letter to Cecil, taken from the original at the Record Office, here follows:— _To the right honorable Sʳ William Cecill Knight one of the King’s Mag. twoo principall Secretaries._ Sʳ myne humble comᵉndacons remembered According to yoʳ pleasʳᵉ declared unto me at my departure I opened to my L of Pembroke the consideracon of the warde which you procured for yoʳ Sister wherein he is the best contented man that may be and made me this answer that though he wrote at his friends request yet he wrote unto his friende to be considered as it might be wᵗʰ yoʳ owne comoditie and none otherwise ffor if he had knowen so much before as I tolde him he wolde for nothing have troubled yᵒ wᵗʰ so unfriendly a request Assuring yoᵘ faithfully that I who have knowen him a good while never sawe him more bent to any man of yoʳ degree than I perceave he is unto yoᵘ and not without cause he thanketh yoᵘ hertily for yoʳ newes yoᵘ sent him And Sʳ whereas at my departure we talked of Venice considering the stirre of the worlde is nowe like to be very great those waies I coulde finde in myne hert to spende a yere or two there if I were sent I have not disclosed thus much to any man but to yoᵘ nor entende not to do. wherefore it may please yoᵘ to use it as yoᵘ shall thinke good Howe so ever it be yoʳ may be sure to commande me as the least in yoᵘ house. And so I humbly take my leave. ffrom Wilton the xiiijᵗʰ of August 1552. Yoʳˢ assuredly to thuttermost WILLM THOMAS. From the following extracts from the indictment, and other records of his trial, taken from the Record Office, it will be seen that he did conspire against Queen Mary, and not only, as Ball supposes, against Gardiner. _Report of Deputy Keeper of the Public Records_, iv, p. 248.