250 NORBURY MANOR HOUSE AND THE FITZHERBERTS. 
for suche feugetyve chaindges wc? Broakers do not wyshe Padley to yor L. for 
dewty or loove, but for other dyvicess. And if I had not known in my hartte 
that there is a God, who will cawllemyghtye & meane unto an accompt, how 
they heappe upp lande to lande, howses to howses, and also Townes to Townes, 
& often Townes to one howse, I colde have hadd foorther footte houlde in 
Hadersedge, Norbury, Ridwayre, & in all those staytlye maners & parkes, 
Then anye purchazer as yet hathe. And with bitterness of soulle some 
purchazer will buy his bargayne dearlye. For Padlaye I did knowe that it was 
no partte of Fitzharberts Ancyent Inheritaunce, but gyven to St Thomas, 
& to him by Dame Ane Fitzharbert, and Thomas Fitzharbert did asseure it 
to me & to my heires: I dearly paieinge for it & for the resedewe 
adioyninge to it, partly with my pursse with Adventewrs with chardges, & 
with above seaven yeares toylle & travell for him. I therefore hoape that 
your lordship whome God hathe blessed with so meanye thowsande pounds of 
staytlye lands synce I did first knowe you, and synce yo L. did first loove me as 
entyrelye as you did any gentillman in England (if eather worde or writinge 
may be believed) and of your loove I have founde tayste; that you wiil 
contynewe yor good opynyon of mee & suffer mee to enjoye with your favore 
Padley & the resedewe assewrid unto mee: To whome I can proove good 
Queane Elyzabethe intreatted yor Lordships favour & assistance under grant of 
her Counsellers hands in the defence of my right unto Padley, when you were 
fyrst Erle. And if your lordship will vouchsayffe to.lett me knooe your resolve 
& answer to that letter last sentt by Mr. Fenton, By your lettt I shall (with 
dewty) resolve myselfe to that coorse of lyffe whiche shall best beecume mee, for 
whiche purpose, if y. L. had stayed but toowe dayes longer I had waytted upon 
you at Sheffilde or at Woorsoppe to have desyred to knowe whereunto truste 
or to dispayre. And often cropedout fowlle abuses there used at Padley 
(whose fortune soever it shalbe to enjoye it) it woulde bee a very honorrable & — 
charytable partte for posteryte if y. L. woolde gyve chardge unto some 
gentillman of distenssyon who is neere adjoyning to that howse ffor refoormacyon 
of toowe foowle abuses whiche be usedd in that howsse of Padlaye synce the 
tyme of those contencyons, & never so fowllye as in these toowe times that 
your Lordship’s servantts and possessyon-keepers have beene Resyant there : 
The one is that those fewe, pleasant, & needfull woodds of all sortts, grate 
& smale (that Raveners have leaftte unspoyllede) maye bee now preservedd & 
kept frome distruction (Woodde beinge so daynty in that playce). The other 
abuse is that viij or tenne continuall fyres & I thinke so many househouldes of 
inmaytts, sutche and of so badd conversacyon as Spainished Clarke & Chaindge 
Dawkyns have beene known to bee, may not bee contynewally keppt, & 
norreshed there as in tyme past, feugetyve traytors, hoaremongers, Bawdds, & 
like abhomynable persons have hadd habytacyon & refuidge, like a Soadome 
or Saynctuary of fylthyness. Whereof if your Lordshipp hadd knowen I doubt 
not but you would have seene Reformacyon, as y' honour hath mayde one 
