[1] [2] The cardinall by his power legantine sent one of his chapleins called doctor Iohn Allen, to visit the religious houses of this realme about this season, which doctor practised amongst them greatlie to his profit, but more to the slander both of himselfe and of his maister. On the eightéenth daie of Iune, at the manor place of Bridewell,K. Henries base sonne created earle and duke in one daie. the kings sonne (which he had begot of Elizabeth Blunt, daughter to sir Iohn Blunt knight) called Henrie Fitzroie, was created first earle of Notingham, and after on the selfe same daie he was created duke of Richmond and Sum|merset. Also the same daie the lord Henrie Court|neie earle of Deuonshire, and coosine germane to the king, was created marquesse of Excester: and the lord Henrie Brandon sonne to the duke of Suf|folke and the French queene, a child of two yeares old, was created earle of Lincolne: and sir Thomas Manners lord Roos was created earle of Rutland, and sir Henrie Clifford earle of Cumberland, and the lord Fitzwater sir Robert Ratcliffe was crea|ted vicount Fitzwater, and sir Thomas Bullen trea|suror of the kings houshold was created vicount Rochefort.