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1530.] was Dr Buckmaster, the vice-chancellor, who, in a letter to a friend, describes his reception at the royal castle.

'To the right worshipful Dr Edmonds, vicar of Alborne, in Wiltshire, my duty remembered,

'I heartily commend me unto you, and I let you understand that yesterday week, being Sunday at afternoon, I came to Windsor, and also to part of Mr Latimer's sermon; and after the end of the same I spake with Mr Secretary [Cromwell], and also with Mr Provost; and so after evensong I delivered our letters in the Chamber of Presence, all the Court beholding. The King, with Mr Secretary, did there read them; and did then give me thanks and talked with me a good while. He much lauded our wisdom and good conveyance in the matter, with the great quietness in the same. He showed me also what he had in his hands for our University, according to that which Mr Secretary did express unto us, and so he departed from me. But by and by he greatly praised Mr Latimer's sermon; and in so praising said on this wise: 'This displeaseth greatly Mr Vice-Chancellor yonder; yon same,' said he to the Duke of Norfolk, 'is Mr Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge,' and so pointed unto me. Then he spake secretly unto the said Duke, which, after the King's departure, came unto me and welcomed me, saying, among other things, the King would speak with me on the next day. And here is the first act. On the next day I waited until it was dinner time; and so at the last Dr Butts [king's physician] came unto me, and brought a reward, twenty nobles, for me, and five marks for the junior