300 Charles, Lord Stourton, 8fC. 



(No. 34.) 1549, Sept. 14. _ The same to the same. [Original at Longleat.) 

 " After my most hertest comendacons to you and to my good lady with lyke 

 thanks for many your gentylnes. And although I nede notte desyer you to be 

 good Master unto this barer your very frend and myn Mr. Hartgyle, yet he 

 comyng this way, and I heryng the matter wyche he wyll declare unto you, and 

 of the yvyU deallyngs of my lord Sturton, could no les but desyer the same : 

 so that by youi* meannys my lord's Grace may be advertessed of the seid lord 

 Sturton's extreme doyngs agenst hym, wherby I dought not his Grace wyll take 

 order that his servant may lyve withought danger. I nede not wryght to you 

 of the seide lord Sturton for that ye harde inough yourself at your late beyng 

 in thos parts th'wyche wer not myte (meet) shuld be kept from my lord's Grace. 

 My Lady, my lord's Grace's mother, desyryth you to remembre her as well for 

 th'hangynges of her late chambre at Bromham as also for the blake velvet 

 gown the wych^ the late Queue * gave her, as she sayth. And thus most 

 hertely far ye well. From Eston the xiiij*'' of September. 



" Your most assuredly to comaunde 



John Beewxke." 

 "To the Rjght woshipfull my assured frende 

 Sir John Thynne Knyghte be this delyvered." 



Lease of Kilmington Rectory, and Assault. 



We now come to matter more serious than the capturing of 

 hounds. William Hartgill makes a formal application to the Star- 

 chamber, in which he states that whereas under a regular Lease 

 from Thomas Bennet, Rector, he (Hartgill) was Lessee of the 

 Rectory of Kilmington, certain of Lord Stourton's men had forced 

 an entrance into the house, and had hurt his (Hartgill's) shepherd, 

 and one Richard Coker, gentleman ; and that upon a Warrant 

 having been obtained against those men and process served upon 

 them on the part of Hartgill by John Butler, in the parish church 

 of Stourton on Christmas Day 1549, other servants of Lord Stour- 

 ton's had set upon the said John Butler and beaten him within 

 danger of his life at the very door of the church. He prays a 

 summons for their arrest. 



The original document relating to this case has been injured by 

 rats, and the v^ords reciting the precise year and day on which the 



* My Lord's Grace's mother was Mary, fceond daughter of Sir Henry Wentworth of Nettlested 

 CO. Suffolk, wife of Sir John Seymour of Wolf hall. She died 1550. Bromham (old) House had been 

 the residence of her son Sir Thomas Seymour Lord Sudeley who was executed March 1549-50. "The 

 late Queen " was Queen Katharine Parr, who had married Lord Sudeley, and died 1548. Queen 

 Katharine Parr held in dower, among other estates, the following in co. Wilts : — Rowde near 

 DeTizes, (adjoining Bromham), Chilton Folyot, Tockenham near Wootton Basset, Ashton-Keynes, 

 and Marston Meyey, 



