By the Rer. J. E. Jackson. 



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harted knave ! ys yt anny more then the rydding of two knaves 

 that ly ving were trooblesome bothe to Goddes lawe ^ and man's ? 

 There is no more accoumpt to bee made of them then the kylling 

 of ij sheepe." 



Then were the bodyes tombled downe into a dongeon, my Lord 

 walking bye upp and downe : and after Harry Simes and Roger 

 Gough wer convayed downe by cordes (for ther were no staires 

 therunto), who digged a pytt for them and there buryed them bothe 

 together, my Lorde oftentymes in the meane tyrae calling unto 

 them from above to " Make speede, for that the night went awaye." 

 The bodyes have sythen (since) bene digged uppe by Sir Anthonys 

 Hungerforde sent purposely to the place for that purpose : and wer 

 found in the self same apparayle that they wer taken in, berryed 

 very depe, couvered first with earthe and then with two coursses 

 of thicke paving, and fynally with chippes and shavinges of tymbre 

 above the quantetye of ij cartte loodes. 



In th'examynacon of these matters yt is fallen owte that he- 

 cawsed not long sythen a barne of one Thomas Chaflfyn to bee sett 

 on fyer by iij of his servantes ; against which Chaffyn, for that he 

 sayed yt was not doou withowte the knowledge of the saide Lorde 

 or of some of his servauntes, Lord Sturtone tooke an action uppon his 

 case and recouvred of him a hundred pounds domage, for the pay- 

 ment wherof he tooke owte of Chaffyn's pastures by force twelve 

 hundred sheepe with the woll uppon their backes, all the oxen, kyne, 

 horsses and mares that he coulde fynde in the saide pastures. 



From one Willoughbye he cawsed to bee taken for his pleasure 

 a hole teme of oxen wherof ij wer founde at this present a fatting 

 in the stall in his bowse. Hys other routs, ryottes, robberyes and 

 murdres yt wer to long to wright." 



" And thus " (adds Strype) " ends this relation, which was writ 

 soon after this bloody act was done upon the Hartgills, from whence 

 I transcribed it." 



The above Narrative was evidently written, immediately after 

 the murder, (because it mentions that the younger Hartgill's wife 



1 Misprinted " love" in Sir R. C. Hoare. 



