326 Charles, Lord 8tourto7i, 8fc. 



super caput suum similiter percussit, dantes eisdem J. H. & W. H. duas seper- 

 ales plagas mortales ex quibus plagis W. H. & J. H. ad terram corruerunt et 

 semi-mortui jacebant. Quo facto W. Farre, &c., immediate corpora ipsorum 

 W. H. & J. H. susceperunt et portaverunt super humeros suos in prsedictam. 

 capitalem domum Caroli Dni. Stourton, transeundo per quoddam ambulatorium 

 vulgariter vocatum " A Galerie " infra praedictam domum usque ad quandam 

 cameram domus illius super quendam locum infra domum vocatum " A Don- 

 gyou " portaverunt, in quam quidem cameram Carolus Stourton circa mediam 

 noctem personaliter accessit ac corpora predictorum W. H. & J. H. feime 

 mortua jacentia inspexit et vidit, iisdemqne Carolo, W. Farre, &c., ad murdram 

 perpetrandam ad tunc prresentibus, VV. Farre cum quodam cultello precii 4 de- 

 nariorum quam in manu sua dextra turn tenuit gulas sive guttura dictorum 

 W. H. & J. H. non plene mortuorum sed adtunc spirantium et gementium 

 voluntarie scidit, per quod dicti W. H. & J. H. instanter obierunt. Et quod 

 sic Carolus Stourton, W. Farre, &c., prsedictos W. H. & J. H. murdraverunt 

 contra pacem Dni. Regis et Reginse coronam et dignitatem, &c. Et cum cito 

 W. H. & J. H. sic interfecti fuerunt, eorum cadavera in prffidieto loco vocato 

 " a Dongyon" per mandatum dicti Caroli et in prtesentia sua per R. Sjmmes 

 et R. Gough profunde in terra sepulta fuerunt. Et Carolus exultans in ne- 

 phandissimis murdris prsedictis Willielmo Farre et cseteris hrec Anglicana 

 verba sequentia adtunc et ibidem dixit et propalavit, viz. ; " It is but the ryd- 

 ding of a coople of knaves oute of the waye, the which have longe troubled us 

 in Godde's lawes and the Kinge's," in pessimum et perniciosissimum exemplum 

 aliorum consimiliter delinquentiura." 



{In dorso) " Inquisitio capta apud civitatem Novae Sarum in com. Wiltes 

 xix° die Februarii coram Johanne Prideaux Serviente ad Legem, Henrico 

 Brounker, Christophero Willoughby et Johanne Hooper, Armigeris. 



" Per me Johan. Pkideattx 

 By me Henry Bkotjnckee 



" Billa Vera." By me Christopher Willotjghbt 



Per me Johan. Hooper." 



{Inserted at the top are these words), " Cognovit et ponit se in misericordiam 

 Dominorum Regis et Reginaj." 



From the " Council Book " it appears that one Ellice, and Sir 

 James Fitz- James ' were charged with complicity. 



(No. 61.) 14 Marh 1556-7. 



"A lettre to Edward Baynton that where he hath dispossessed the wief of 

 one Ellice, who is comitted for Lord Stourton's cause, of all his goodes and catalls, 

 forasmuch as his doinges herein appere to be against the order of the lawes both, 

 for that the said Ellice is not yet attainted and because also that if he so were 

 yet appeareth it not that the said Baynton hath eny title to the goods, he is 

 willed either to restore the said goodes to Ellice wiefe again untill the lawe shall 

 otherwise determyne, or els to make his indelaied repaire hither to answer why 

 he ought not so to doe." 



* In page 255 above the Council Book mentions Sir Joha Fitz-Williams as 

 " committed prisoner on suspicion." 



