...Duke of Suffolk at Greenwich    13 May 1536  Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, wrote to Thomas Cromwell   I perceive by Raynold Carnaby that there is supposed a pre-contract between the Queen and me; "whereupon I was not only heretofore examined upon my oath before the archbishops of...

...Received his letter on the 10th, and thanks him for the comfortable articles therein touching his son Thomas and himself. Asks Cromwell when it shall be the King's pleasure to deliver him, to show him "that this punishment that he hath for this matter is more for the displeasure that he hath done...

...Gentleman of the Privy chamber  was ordered to London for questioning  He was working with Thomas Cromwell to bring about his cousin's downfall as queen. It was at this time that Cromwell coined Sir Francis' unfortunate sobriquet "the Vicar of Hell" in a letter to the Bishop of Winchester,...