Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex Quote

I have meddled in so many matters under your Highness that I am not able to answer them all... but hard it is for me or any other meddling as I have done to live under your grace and your laws but we must daily offend.


Letter to Henry VIII whilst imprisoned in the Tower of London. (Merriman, ii. p. 266.)


I have meddled in so many matters under your Highness that I am not able to answer them all... but hard it is for me or any other meddling as I have...

I have meddled in so many matters under your Highness that I am not able to answer them all... but hard it is for me or any other meddling as I have...

I have meddled in so many matters under your Highness that I am not able to answer them all... but hard it is for me or any other meddling as I have...

I have meddled in so many matters under your Highness that I am not able to answer them all... but hard it is for me or any other meddling as I have...