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came, and with force took her away against her will, and they 

 withhold her, although ordered by the Earl to deliver her." (Vol. I., 



pp. I, 2.) 



Glossop, etc. The Earl of Shrewsbury to his brother-in-law 

 John Manners. 



1588, July 28, Sheffield. " I earnestly require you during this 

 troublesome time to cause a general watch to be kept day and 

 night throughout the country near Chapel-le-Frith, Glossop, 

 Glossop-dale and the Woodheads, and to apprehend all vagrants 

 or rogues." — i7w/. MSS. Com., Rutland MSS., Belvoir /., 



255- 



This injunction was issued during the struggle between the 

 English fleet and the Spanish Armada. John Stowe writes : 

 "The Spanish Navie for sixe dayes space having endured many 

 sharpe fights and fierce assaults coasting and discoasting from 

 England to the coast of Fraunce and from thence to England and 

 ihen to Fraunce agayne, the seaven and twentieth of Julie towards 

 night they cast anchor neere to CalHs Roade, the English likewise 



rid at anchor verie neere vnto them The English Generall 



with his counsell of warre concluded to make their first stratagem 

 by fire, and thereupon the eyght and twentieth of Julie, they 

 emptied eyght of their basest Barkes and put therein much 

 combustible matter which in the evening were subtillie sette 

 on fire .... whereupon some of the Spanish ships cut cables 

 others let the Hawsers slippe and happiest they (who) could first 

 bee gone though fewe coulde tell what course to take," &c., &c. 

 (" Stow's Chronicle," p. 747. Edit. 1614.) 



A letter immediately preceding the above injunction to John 

 Manners, says that the Lord Admiral prepared seven ships filled 

 with pitch and tar on the twenty -seventh of July, and " aboute 

 eleaven oclocke in the nyght the wynd and the tide servynge put 

 the stratagem in execution." 



Glossop-dale. " The names of those who were committed and 

 bound over by recognizances for the burglary and murder of 

 Thomas Walkeiate done upon Friday, August 26th, 1597. 



Charles Botham, Robert Botham, Christopher Longsdale alias 



