Letter from Thomas Norton to Francis Mylles

Below is a transcription of a 1581 letter from Thomas Norton to Francis Mylles, an employee of Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth I’s master spy. Norton identifies Thomas Cromwell as the mastermind behind the dissolution of the English monasteries, begun in 1536.

This transcription was featured in Open City: London, 1500–1700, one of the Exhibitions at the Folger.