[499] Strype, Memorials, Vol. I. p. 323. Leyton to Cromwell: Suppression of the Monasteries, p. 71, et seq.
[500] Id quod meis oculis vidi, Leyton writes: Ibid.
[501] Leyton to Cromwell: Suppression of the Monasteries, p. 71, et seq.
[502] Leyton to Cromwell: Suppression of the Monasteries, p. 48. Let it not be thought that the papal party were worse than the other. The second confessor, if anything the more profligate of the two, gave his services to the king.
[503] The prior is an holy man, and hath but six children; and but one daughter married yet of the goods of the monastery. His sons be tall men, waiting upon him.—Leyton to Cromwell: Suppression of the Monasteries, p. 58.
[504] I leave this passage as it stands. The acquittal of the papal courts of actual complicity becomes, however, increasingly difficult to me. I discovered among the MSS. in the Rolls House a list of eighteen clergy and laymen in one diocese who had, or professed to have dispensations to keep concubines.—Note to Second Edition.
[505] Leyton to Cromwell: Suppression of the Monasteries, pp. 75, 76.
[506] Leyton to Cromwell: Suppression of the Monasteries, p. 91.
[507] Leyton and Legh to Cromwell: Suppression of the Monasteries, p. 100.
[508] Christopher Levyns to Cromwell: Ibid. p. 90. But in this instance I doubt the truth of the charge.