By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 267 



But there is another Schedule which appears to exhibit the 

 account between Charles Lord Stourton and Hartgill down to the 

 time when the latter was dismissed from his stewardship. He 

 appears to have owed his Lordship for Three quarters of a year's 

 Rent of the various estates ; also for wool, corn and cattle sold : 

 Total £917 10s. 6d. On the other hand Lord Stourton is debtor 

 to Hartgill for various payments made in his name. Nothing is 

 marked here as disputable, but there were other accounts on which 

 they never came to any settlement. Lord Stourton claimed from 

 Hartgill, as mentioned in p. 265, £211 Os. 5d. for back-rents which 

 Hartgill never acknowledged his liability to pay. Hartgill on the 

 other hand claimed £368 6s. 8d. compensation for seizure of his 

 cattle and corn (also mentioned above p. 248). This debt is alluded 

 to in his Will dated 12 January 1555, where he gives his wife "one 



1543 : but that Hartgill's name does not appear in the documents as a subscribing 

 witness. As Lords of the Manor of Shipton Moyne the Stourtons appear to 

 have had some claim to suit of court or other kind of acknowledgment from the 

 owner of Estcourt ; which duty having been, as it appears, not punctually per- 

 formed, the following bolt was launched at the offender's head. It bears the 

 signature, not, as it well might have done — of Tiberius writing from Caprefe — 

 but of a William Lord Stourton. The signature to the original letter is so 

 unlike that of William, father of Charles Lord Stourton that (hoping we do him 

 no injustice) we mnst take the liberty of attributing its imperious and arrogant 

 spirit, to an earlier William who died in 1522. 



(No. 15.) "Estcourt, I gryte you well. And where it is so that ye have 

 oxen of my fermers of Shepton I will and comande yo" that ye deliv" or cause 

 to be deliv'ed the same oxen agayne and to take yor tenants oxen that be in the 

 kepynge of my seid fermor. And also I will ye certilie me shortly howe I 

 shall be awnshered of suche sute as ye ofte right to doo unto my Court of 

 Shepton. And also wyll advise you to speke shortly with yo"' lerned Councell. 

 And that yo" and theym to make me awnshere how I shal be contented and 

 recompensed of my grete costs and charges with other grete trespasses that ye 

 have done and comitted within my lordshipp there. And this to order yourself 

 or els to send me yo' mynde in wretinge what yo' mynde is, to th'intent I may 

 advertise my Councell lerned, as the case shall require. Wreten fro Stourton 

 the xiiij"' day of May. 



It'm, diverse tymes ye have ben required for to do yo' homage and ye do it 

 not. I hav ben spokyn withall by my Baily tber and other of my Servants to 

 respete the mater or els T wuld a distreyned yo" or this tyme. Ye made 

 promise to sptke with me for your causes and change of land but ye come not. 

 Do yo' duty and ye shall have have that ye ofte to have of right. 



Wtlliam L. Stourtow." 



