The following is a copy of Thomas
Cromwell's indulgence, taken from the Townley MSS.:--
"To all estates due honour and reverence, and to all other commendacioun
in our Lord everlastyng. Know ye that we John, abbot of ye monasterie of
our blessed Ladie of Whalley, in Com. Lanc., by ye assente and consente
of ye convente, have freely granted untoe ye right honourable Mr Tho.
Cromwell, secretarie, general visitor, and principal official to our
most sovereign Lord Kyng Hen. VIII., an annual rent or fee of vi: xiii:
iv: yerele, to be paide at ye nativitie of St John Baptist unto ye saide
Maister Thomas Cromwell. Wee, ye saide abbot and convent have put to ye
same our handes and common seale. Yeven at Whalley 1st Jan. 28 Hen.
VIII."
But every act of submission, every stratagem and advice, had failed to
ward off the blow. Within ten weeks from the date of this document there
was neither abbot nor abbey of Whalley.
After the dispersion, imprisonment, and execution of the principal
leaders of the rebellion, the day of reckoning and retribution was at
hand. Shrewsbury, by the king's orders, sent a herald with a troop of
horse, who, taking Paslew, Eastgate, Haydock, and some others of the
monks prisoners, they were arraigned at Lancaster, and convicted of high
treason.
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