308 Charles, Lord Stourton, 8fc. 



at Westminster at a serten daye and under a certan payne by your highnes to 

 be lymytted, tber to answer unto the premisses and after to abide suche decree 

 and order as your said most honorable Counsaill shall take in this behalf. And 

 your said subject shall daily praye to God for the preservacion of your noble 

 estate long to endure." 



Maiden Bradley Manor. 



It has been mentioned that W. Hartgill on ceasing to be Steward 

 to the Stourton Estate acted in that office for the Protector Somer- 

 set's property at Maiden Bradley. Upon the transfer of Maiden 

 Bradley from the Protector to the elder house of Seymour, under 

 the circumstances described in the note, Hartgill not only lost his 

 office, but had the mortification of seeing it bestowed on William 

 Stourton brother to Charles. This did not improve the state of 

 affairs. 



(No. 40.) Charles Lord Stourton to Sir John Thynne. {Original at Longleat.) 

 " After my harty eomendacyons. Whereas as oflFlate the Manor off Maiden 

 Bradley is ordred to the use of my coosyn Edward Semor,* the stewardship 

 wheroff [as not unknown to you] is by patent geven to my broder Wyllyam , 

 wherin I am desyred [bycause of his absens] to take some payne for the better 

 servys off the King's Majestic and quietnes off his peple ther, notwithstanding 

 my good meanys to that effecte that honest grome Hartgyll doth not only pro- 

 claime his accostomable talk, but also sayth that nether my broder, Gyles Slade, 

 nor I, shall have to do therwith : also contrary to his hauctoryte or comyssion 

 for the same doth make replevyns, which you know doth appartayn to the 

 Steuard to do, which well apperyth by patent, and also that yn all my fader's 

 tyme the replevyns weare made yn his name and not yn Hartgyll's. Att my 

 last beying yn London, I brak thes matters to my cosyn Semor, who lyke a 

 kynsman advised me as I culd desyre. Therfor, bycause I know you to be in 

 credytt with my cosyn Semor, I shall desyre you to send me word wheder 



• The arrangement to which Lord Stourton alludes was as follows. The Protector Somerset was 

 twice married; 1st, to Katharine Fillol by whom he had John Seymour eldest son, Sir- Edward 

 Seymour (of Bury Pomeroy) and other children. Secondly, to Anne Stanhope, by whom he had 

 Edward Earl of Hertford, and other children. The Priory Lands of Maiden Bradley belonged to the 

 Protector by Grant at the Dissolution, but other lands adjoining had been bought with the money of 

 Anne Stanhope the second wife. At first the Maiden Bradley estate was settled upon the chUdi-en of 

 Anne Stanhope : but upon its being alleged that the Protector had sold certain lands brought by his 

 firtt wife Katharine Fillol, and sold them without her consent, an Act of Parliament was passed to 

 make good that loss to the family of the first wife, out of lands settled on the children of the second 

 wife. On 11th October, 6 Edw. VI. [1552] William, Marquis of Winchester was ordered to set out the 

 lands : and he accordingly assigned the Jtanor of Maiden Bradley to .John Se>Tnour the eldest son of 

 Katharine Fillol. John Seymour died without issue December or January 1552 — 3. His brother Sir 

 Edward was his heu- : but doubts afterwards arising from the Attainder of their Father the Protector, 

 another Act of Parliament was passed 28th January, 1553, restoruig Sir Edward Seymour in blood, as 

 heir to the Duke, and assui-ing to him the Manor of Maiden Bradley, as originally appointed to his 

 brother John Seymour deceased. [Sir K. C. Hoare, Mere 113.] 



