246 Charm, Lord Slourton, 8fc. 



shott at hym in hys passynge but he was not hurt. Hys father the 

 sayd Willidm Hartgyll and hys wyff beynge old folkes were dryven 

 to go upp in to the towre of the churche with towe or thre of theyr 

 servauntes for save gard of theyr lyves. When the sayd John 

 Hartgill was come in to hys fathers house, he toke his longe bowe 

 and arrowes and bent a crosse bowe and charged a gonne and 

 caused a woman to carry the crosse bowe and gonne after hym, and 

 hymself with hys longe bowe came foorth and drave awey the sayd 

 Lord Charles and all his men from the house and from aboute the 

 churche. So that not one of all the cumpany taryed, savynge half 

 a score that were entred in to the churche, emongist whome one 

 was hurt with hayle shott in the shulder by the sayd John Hartgill. 

 And when all that were abroed were fledd, the sayd John Hartgyll 

 axed hys father what he shuld do? IJnto whom hys father answered 

 and payd " Take your horsse and ryde upp to the Court and tell the 

 honorable Councell how I am used." Wheruppon when the sayd 

 John Hartgyll hadd taken order to provyde meat and dryncke to 

 be pulled upp in to the Towre of the churche to releve them that 

 were there, he rode awey, and the Mundaye toward evenynge he 

 told the honorable Councell how hys father was delt withall : wher- 

 uppon they send downe Sir Thomas Speake, Knyght, then high 

 Sheryff of Somerset not only to dely ver the sayd captyves but also to 

 brynge up with hym the sayd Lord Charles Stourton : whom, when 

 he came, the sayd honorable Councell commytted to the Flete where 

 he taryed not longe. Yt ys to be reraembred that assone as John 

 Hartgyll was rydden toward London to th'onorable Councell, the 

 Lord Stourton's men retorned to the churche of Kylmyngton, and 

 aboute Hartgills house agayn, and so contynued untyll the com- 

 mynge down of the sayd Sheryff whiche was the Weddensday in 

 the Wytson weke, durynge all whiche tyme the sayd William 

 Hartgill and hys men were kept in the churche Towre. Mary, the 

 sayd Hartgylles wyff, was permytted to go whome the Wytsondaye 

 toward nyght. In thys meane tyme the sayd Lord Stourton's men 

 went to a pasture of the sayd Hartgilles and there toke upp hys 

 own rydinge geldynge, beynge then well woorth eight poundes, and 

 caryed hym to Stourton parke pale and there shott hym with a 



