258 NORBURY MANOR HOUSE AND THE FITZHERBERTS. 
Itm whether he haieth not kepe howse this 20th years spaces as well duringe 
his Imprysoment as his abode at Londone by comaundyme . . onlie for 
the relyfe of Jesuyets semaryes and massinge prestes and other recusauntis 
his servaunts and tenaunts and straingers and haieth more resorte of suche 
to his howse Norbury then ever he had sinces her Majestes reaine. 
Itm whether the moste of his tenaunts be not recusaunts or almoste all in 
genyrall other weayes be nether lyckes or loves or truste anye of them yf the 
doe not as he doieth yf he be never so ny kyne to hyme. 
Itm whether he haithe had the popes pardones browght hime at anye tyme 
and whether he and his howseholde have received the comunion uppone the 
same pardons and howe oftene and howe longe sytheances. 
Itm that Sur Thomas haithe for these 20% years spaics looked for alteracio 
frome yeare to yeare and frome mychelmes to Mechelmes and saide it woulde 
chainge ether by the Q. matics death or by some forrayne poware arvinge 
heare or by the Q. of the Scotts her advancment to the crowne and thear by 
he assuredlie looked for great advancment and callinge. 
To prove these to be trewe all his sarvaunts and tenaunts 
withe these under wryttine 
Mr Richarde fytzharbert 
Mt Edmunde Drelicot 
John Bodeleay 
Xpor Roulesone 
Martyne Audleay 
Richard Bobbiet 
John Roulesone 
Wyllyame Shawe 
Richard Twyforde 
Thomas Coxsone 
Thymothye Browne 
George Cooke 
Thomas Arnolde 
William Knowles 
John Collpar 
Raffe Assone 
William Pocker 
Richard Alsoupe * 
*Everyone of the witnesses named in this list, and throughout the 
Interrogatories, who were expected to prove the charges, were, without 
exception, either relatives or tenants of Sir Thomas Fitzherbert, and were 
every one prosecuted for recusancy. It is not likely that much could have 
been made of such witnesses, even if the charges were true, unless torture was 
applied. 
