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again (in which Htirtgill opposed him) was one of the principal 

 causes of their falling out. 



(No. 70.) 1548, 27 October. William Hartgill to Sir John Thynne. {Orig. 

 at Longleat.) 



" My boundea duety right lowly remembred. Yt may please you to be 

 advertised that by my servant I have received your kinde letters whiche I take 

 greatly for my consolation : and as concrning my offices in the Holte and 

 Bradely woods there ys a tall fellowe dayly walkinge to kepe the same whiche 

 shall stande you in no penny charge and shall fultill your comaundement to the 

 utterest. And where as you wrytt to me that no man shall knowe who made 

 informacon of Nycholas Fitz-james unfittinge words for your good will, I 

 thancke you, but my meaniuge ys no lesse but I wolde that all the worlde 

 knewe that it ys my deade to sett fourthe the same, and I am able with honest 

 recorde to approve the same to be as I firste to you dyd wryte in every poynte. 

 Althowght my Lorde Stowrton, Horner and the most partye of the beste of the 

 hearers of the matter do daily goo abowt to paynte the matter, yet the trewth 

 wilbe proved at al tymes, I thinke you do take my Lorde Stowrton to be 

 your lovinge frende, and so yt may he true, but there ys in hym but lyttell 

 frendship shewed towards you or enny of yours, for I have herde my Lorde 

 saye of your frendship he passiethe not so greatly as men thynketh. And as 

 tuchynge the matter in varyance betwene my lord Stowrton and M"'. Ryce I 

 have accordinge to your advertisement not modelled in it as yet. Furder, you 

 shall understand that my L. Stowrton ys fallen at defyance with Mr. Ludlowe 

 and me bycause we woU not falsley and most untreuly deseave my Lady his 

 mother from all her right and tytle of porcion that shall cum to her by reason 

 of my Lorde's ( William Lord Stourton's) death and when I had caussed my 

 sayd Lady to goo from my howse against her will to Stourton to be onely at 

 his mynde ordered, he devised Articules of his owen mynde in manner and 

 fourme foUowinge. Firste, that she shoulde release unto hym all her titles, 

 and that she shoulde ever remayne in his howse at his fyndinge, takinge by the 

 yere one hundreth markes in mouney and not to be charged with man nor 

 woman. If there were matters of variance betwene them unpossible to be 

 remedyed and peaced, then she to goo to his manner of Caundell and to have 

 two hundredth markes of monney erlej by his handes, but yf she shoulde hap- 

 pen to marry or contract her to enny, man or boy, then the payment of the 

 said two hundreth markes for ever to cease and no penny thereof to be payed 

 after. And I tolde hym 1 had no learninge to frame so great a matter, and 

 tolde hym I wolde not make yt withowt a clause of dystrese to be appoynted in 

 serten lands for the trew payment of the same whatsoever should happen uppon 

 hym, and then he defyed me false vyllaine, and sayed a fore my Lady, M'". 

 Ludlowe and my wyfe that he found the report of my Lord's Grace " {i.e. the 

 Protector Somerset) "to be very trew of me, for his Grace shewed hym that he 

 should fynde me a false vyllaine as ever lyved, whiche words went very neare 

 my harte. If I wyste that my Lord's Grace sayed so to hym then I wolde I 

 were owt of this worlde, for I trust I never gave his Grace suche cause : my 

 hole trust ys in you. Also I trust my Lord's Grace shall lyke well the pro- 

 ceadinge of your workes as touching your moynnars {miners), for in one plaoe 

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