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And the last of the series, although only a portion of 
the letter, has evident respect to the foundation already 
referred to :— 
(E.) “ Edward,* &c. To o' trusty & welbeloued in 
God, Thabbotes of the Monast’ies of Hayles, Rewley, 
Thame, Bittillesden, Brewern, Bordesley, Pipwell, Mira- 
uall, Combe, Wardone, Woborn, Sawere, Kirkestede, Riv- 
isby, Louth, P’ke, Fountayns, Mewx, Cristall, Fournes, 
Calder, Whallaye, Salley, Roche, Holmes, Newmynstre, 
Jaruais, Biland, Ryevax, Cumbermer, Vawdi, Dieuleucres, 
Hilton, Garadon, Rufford, Crokesten, Dore, Variatt, 
Stondeley, and all oy’, aswele in Walyes as in Englnd, 
greting. For asmoche as it is shewed vnto vs, vt antea,— 
And do vs singuler pleasur. Geving ou’ this playne cre- 
dence vnto ye said Abbot of Stratford in y! he shall 
shewe you oure desire for ye vtter p’fo'myng of ye same: 
So y! by y’ writinges and by him we may be c’tified of 
yo" singuler abilites & h’tynesse in y! behalue. Youen 
&c. y° xxiijje day of May, A° primo.” f 
It may not be amiss to add that S. Bernard’s College was 
founded for student monks of the Cistertian Order in 1436; 
and that, after falling into the King’s hands at the Disso- 
lution, and being given to the Dean and Chapter of Christ- 
church, it was purchased by the great and good Sir Thomas 
White, Alderman of London, in 1555, and re-built and 
endowed by him two years afterwards, under the name, 
which it still bears, of the College of S. John Baptist. 
* In these letters, which were originally written during the eleven weeks 
of the reign of Edward V., the name of his successor, by whom they were 
issued, is substituted. This alteration has been unintentionally forgotten by 
the scribe in the present instance ; but I think it better to adhere to the MS. 
asitstands, and to explain the discrepaney in this note. I have given the 
letters in the order of their sequence in the volume, but in striet chrono- 
logical arı angement they would probably stand thus :—D, E, C, B, A. 
+ Harl. MS. 433, f. 230b. 
