1546

1546 – 47

On the 24th of March, the Duke of Somerset and others of the Privy Council, wrote to the University and Town, requiring both bodies to conform themselves to the orders and decrees made by the Council in the time of the late King, upon occasion of variances between them; and in all other matters to demean and use themselves in such gentle and quiet sort, as no occasions of any further variance, trouble, or unquietness, should arise between them. Touching the grants and liberties claimed by the two bodies, inasmuch as the examination would require some time, it was intimated that the Council would thereafter take some meet season for the view and consideration of the same.

1547

Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, K.G. Guardian of the King's person and Lord Protector of the Realm, was in the course of this year appointed High Steward of the Town, in the room of Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk, who was a prisoner in the Tower during the whole of this reign. About the same time, Sir William Paget (afterwards Lord Paget) succeeded the Duke of Norfolk as High Steward of the University.

On the 13th of May, the Duke of Somerset wrote to the Corporation, complaining that they had distrained for toll on the inhabitants of Walden, who, as parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster, were exempt from all tolls.