 However Legh then wrote to Thomas Cromwell, enclosing the letter about Giffard’s lease of the property and pointing out that Littleton too had been given a firm promise that it would be his.He sarcastically noted that the new custodian of Lilleshall Abbey, to which he had travelled immediately from Black Ladies, was concerned lest he too be supplanted in his absence.He had, he said, put Littleton and Giffard jointly in charge "till they know the king’s further pleasure."