[1] At hir entrie into the tower there were presented to hir certeine prisoners; namelie,Prisoners discharged. Thomas duke of Norffolke, who in the last yeare of king Henrie the eight (as you haue heard) was supposed to be attain|ted of treason: but in the parlement of this first [page 1089] yeare of quéene Marie, the said supposed attaindour was by the authoritie and act of parlement, for good and apparant causes alleged in the said act, decla|red to be vtterlie frustrat and void. Also Edward Courtneie son and heire to Henrie marques of Ex|cester, coosine germane to king Henrie the eight, and Cutbert Tunstall bishop of Durham, with o|ther persons of great calling; but speciallie Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester, whom she not onlie released out of imprisonment,Stephan Gardiner made lord chancellor. but also immediatlie aduanced and preferred to be lord chancellor of Eng|land, restoring him also to his former estate and bi|shoprike, and remoued from the same one doctor Poinet, who a little before was placed therein by the gift of king Edward the sixt.