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The two letters following ore from Mr. John Berwyke to Sir 

 John Thynne. Mr. Berwyke was Agent or Steward to the Pro- 

 tector for that part of his vast estates which lay ahout Savernake and 

 Bedwyn. He is believed to have been the Mr. Berwick (some- 

 times spelled Barwick) who owned the Wilcote estate near Pewsey, 

 father of the heiress Anne Berwick by whom it passed to the 

 Wroughtons. He died 1574 and his monument is on the north 

 side of the chancel in Wilcote church. The letters are dated from 

 Easton Priory (now destroyed) near Pewsey, which had been 

 granted to the Protector at the Dissolution and was for many years 

 the residence of his son Edward, Earl, and great-grandson William, 

 Marquis of Hertford. 



(No. 33.) 1549, July 12. John Berwyke to Sir John Thynne, (.Original at 



"^"^ After my moste hartyest comendacons to you and to my good ladye your 

 hedfeloughe, desyring you to be Good Master to your olde frend and myne Mr 

 Hart-yll! I perceyve my Lord Sturton hatha complaynyd of hym to my Lord s 

 Grace- And he" (i.e. HartgiU) " hathe answered the same truly as he wUl 

 ahvde hy, as he saythe he hathe many thyngs more to declare agaynst my seyd 

 Lord Sturton the whyehe he forbearythe at thys present for trowblyng my 

 lord's Grace. I pray you helpe that he maye lyve in more quyetnes or else yt 

 were better for hym to dwell in Turkey, as ye maye perceyve partlye by hys 

 answer and letter. And thus wysshyng you no lesse healthe and felycytie then 

 your gentle herte desyrythe, From Eston the xij'*- of Julye 1549. 

 •' ° "Your assured to commaunde 



" John Bekwtke. 



- cSeyn'of thes lewd people of Hamshyre entryd my Lord's Grace parke 

 at Ludgarsall on Fryday last at nyght, brake t^eparke and toketheyr pleasure 

 in huntyng and kyllyng the dere. But although Mr Richard Brydges,* wha 

 hathe the custody and profytts thereof, dyd not resyst theym, yet I thought it 

 not ryght to be sufferyd beyug my Lord's Grace's: and desyered theym ta 

 remove in the mornyng erly, that happy was he that could runne fastyst 

 nevertheles takyng many of theym dyd show no manor of erueltie "PPon they^ 

 further promyse that they wyll do no more so: and hath bownd them to answer 

 when they shal be comaundyd. Further Mrs. Kyngsmyle, her husband beyng 

 from whome, sent me a letter herein inclossed the whyehe T pray you show unto 

 my Lord's Grace for true it ys theys lewd people be cvyll dispossed. 



«' To the Ryghte Worshyppfull and myne especyaU frend 

 Sr, John Thynne, Knyghte, deliver." 



. Sir Richard Brydges K.B., «.ceaU>r of the D>>ke. of Chandos. died 1558. His monumeat iB in 

 LudgarshaU Church. See " WUtehire OoUeotions," Aubrey & Jackson, p. 359. 



