By the Rev, J. E. Jackson. 255 



Chancellor said were to the slaunder of the Court and to be 



His speeches used punished, yet the punishment respited till the Queen might 



to the Lord chaa- be advertised thereof. The Chancellor declared to the Lord 



celior tendiiiff to the Sturton, that there was an iuformacion against him for cer- 



dishonour and elan- jj^iQ^ misdemeanors committed against the Hartgills which 



e oui , ac was openly redd, whereby it appeared he pretended a frendly 



judged to bee pun- ] t i i i . . /• i ..i j j ^i / 



jgj^ , eude to be had between him and them, and so drew them to 



meete under that colour that hee meant to pay them mony 

 according to the order of the court ; they meetinge to that 

 ende were imprisoned in his own house, bound hand and 

 foote, and after that never heard of. Hee being asked by the 

 Councell, where they were ? said hee could not tell, but 

 thought escaped from the constable to whom hee comitted 

 them : where upon the Court comitted him and three of hia 

 men to the Tower close prisoners, and put him out of Coraission 

 for the Peace. Some other of his men were comitted to other 

 prisons. 



S"' John Fitz Williams and his men comitted close prisoners 

 for the suspition of the murther of the said Hartgills.* 

 (No. 4.) In the Starr Chamber the vij day of February An° 1556-7. 

 It was ordered that Arthure Sturton f havinge in his custodye 100 pounds 

 appertayninge to the Lorde Sturton should delyver the same to Sir John Mason 

 to be by him employed in such soarte as by my Lordes should be appointed for 

 the charges that might fall out by the said Lord Sturtons case presently in ure, 

 (" i.e. now in action") (Council Book.) 



Orders were issued for the apprehension of his servants, one of 

 whom, Roger Goiigh, as appears from the next document, had made 

 his escape into Wales. He was no doubt taken, as four appeared 

 for trial. 



(No. 5.) At the Starr Chamber the xiij*'' day of February An" 1556-7. 



A Letter to the Vice president of Wales to cause dilligent searche to be made 

 for one Gogh who lately served the Lord Sturton and is presently fledd in to 

 Wales ; and upon his apprehension to comyte him to safe warde : which Gogh 

 was supposed to have ben of counsaill in the shamefull murder of the Hartgilles. 

 (Council Book.) 



(No. 6.) 23 Feb. 1556-7. 



A Letter to Sir John Mason to pay to M^ Hampton vi" xiij* iiij"* of the 100 

 pounds which remaine in his handes of the Lord Stourton's for so much paid by 

 the said M"^ Hampton to M"' Wadham, Sheriff of the counties of Somerset and 

 Dorset, for bringing up of certain prisoners thither. (Do, ) 



• Harl. MS. 2113. Is this a mistake for Sir James Fitz James, see Document 02. 

 + Younger brother of Charles and M.P. for Westminster 1555. In 1 and 2 Ph. and JI. he had a 

 grant of the custody of the palace called York Place, part of the palace at 'Westminster, with gieat 

 garden and orchard : also garden and oichard at Charing Cross, tennis play, bowling alley, Pheasant's 

 Court, &c., with " Paradise, UeU and Purgatory," being within " our Hall at 'Westminster." (9. pt. 

 Pat.) 



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