560 ORIGINAL PAPAL BULLS AND BRIEFS October Bonner. Anulus Piscatoris lost. [' Exponi nobis nuper V] [Letters and Papers, ii, 2692, p. 848 ; Dugdale, Monasticon, ed. 1817- 30, ii. 390.] Vit. B. iii, fos. 116b-17. Imperfect. 268. [Rome], St. Peter's, 19 May 1517. Brief to Henry VIII announcing arrest of two cardinals for conspiring against the pope's life. Anulus Piscatoris lost. ' Cum comperiissemus dilectos '. [Letters and Papers, ii, 3261, p. 1045.] Vit. B. iii, fos. 171 b-2. Imperfect. 269. Rome, St. Peter's [20 June 1517]. 2 Brief to Henry VIII asking credence for Nicholas Scomber, sent to request aid for Holy See against the enemies of the church. Anulus Piscatoris lost. 1 Non ueremur ne '. [Letters and Papers, ii, 3382, p. 1080.] Vit. B. iii, fos. 186 b-7. Imperfect. 270. Rome, Sfc. Peter's, 24 August 1517. Brief to bishop of Coventry and Lichfield enjoining him to collect one entire tenth of all clergy in his diocese, to assist the Holy See in the war against the duke of Urbino. Anulus Piscatoris lost. [' Compellit nos urgens 3 ] [Letters and Papers, ii, 3619, p. 1146.] Vit. B. iii, fos. 200 b-1. Imperfect. 271. Rome, St. Peter's, 24 August 1517. Brief, to the same effect, to bishop of Exeter. Anulus Piscatoris lost. [Letters and Papers, ii, 3618, p. 1146.] Vit. B. iii, fos. 202 b-3. Imperfect. 272. Rome, St. Peter's, 24 August 1517. Brief, to the same effect, to bishop of Winchester. Anulus Piscatoris lost. [Letters and Papers, ii, 3620, p. 1146.] Vit. B. iii, fos. 204 b-5. Imperfect. 273. Rome, St. Peter's, 3 September 1517. Dispensation to John Wilbore, perpetual vicar of Lamberhurst and Hartley, to hold in addition mastership of hospital of St. Mary of Strood. Leo. Silk threads of bulla. ' Religionis zelus uite '. Stowe Ch. 586. 274. 4 [Rome], St. Peter's, * Quarto . . . Iunij ', 1519. Commission to [Wolsey] to investigate and correct, along with Campeggio, abuses in English religious houses. Leo. Bulla lost. ' Nuper (?) . . / [Apparently not in Letters and Pa,pers.] Vit. B. iv, fos. 244 b-7. Imperfect. 275. Rome, St. Peter's, 4 June 1519. Brief to Henry VIII in reply to letter from him. Anulus Piscatoris lost. ' Ex litteris maiestatis '. [Letters and Papers, iii, 284, p. 98.] Vit. B. iv, fo. 10. Slightly imperfect. 276. Corneto, 17 November 1519. Dispensation to William Varre 1 Taken from Rymer and Dugdale ; the early part of the brief is now lost. 2 From Rymer ; the date is now incomplete in the original. 3 From Rymer. The initium is not now fully preserved in any one of the three original briefs. 4 This bull is at present in eight fragments, all much damaged by the fire of 1731. On being recovered and mounted they were wrongly placed, the two left-hand and the two right-hand fragments being put together (fos. 244 and 245), while the middle ones form a separate sheet (fos. 246 and 247) ; but there can be no doubt that all eight fragments belong to the same document. The bull is not given by Rymer and is apparently ignored by Brewer. It is not mentioned in the life of Wolsey given in the Dictionary of National Biography, vol. lxii, but reference is made (pp. 329-30) to various grants to Wolsey of powers to visit monasteries.
