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rain I will see th’uttermost of that quar. The Frenchmen are well nigh xxxs. in 
debt for beer, victuals and other borrowed money and are ix in number of 
them, and have receyved all their wages withen 4 or 5 days, after 8 pence the 
workmen and 6 pence the labourers. 
To the Rt. Worshipful Sir John Thyn at Syon or elsewhere. 
~ 8.—THE SAME TO THE SAME. 
1549. June 17. Mr. Hind appointed a diche to be cast at the place where 
the water of the trenche did avoide and to run up the hill to serche uppon the 
very top. We have don so: and have found a goodly spring hable to fill a pipe 
of an inch over within a hundreth foot long and 6 foot deep, and we be like to 
have more. And I doubt not but and if the same and all th’other that cometh 
out of the trench wer congregat together, it woll mayntayne a pype of 2 inches 
over with as much water as is avoyd and by estimation it isa foot above the 
other. 
The springs in the pitt at the trenches end is clensed but little or nothing 
will come from thence. It is drye and no spring is there more than that soketh 
through the ground on every side and wyll not fill xx gallons in 2 days at most. 
The extremity of the weather is so much, and the slewth (sluggishness) of 
the people together, so that much work can not be done at so few men’s hands ; 
but when soever my lord’s grace cometh he shall perceive we have not been idle, 
the hindrances being considered. 
I beseech ye to write unto Mr. Barwick that he kepe apoyntment with our 
men for the payments, or else shure our men will not aply ther works so well 
as els: for the poor men here do much complayn although they be prolonged 
but from Satterday to Monday next following, yet sumwhat it hyndereth and 
the poor men can not forbeare, because they must take the advantage of the 
market, or els they can not live with their wages; for when an ox selleth for 
xx nobles ther will be but smal penyworths arise, and when it is bought out of 
the market then it is worse. This do the poor men alledge unto me with such 
an exclamacion that I can do no lesse then write the same unto your master- 
ship desyring that by your letters Mr. Barwyk may give his man a greater 
charge whose negligence is the cause of this rumour, and as I am shure 
unawares to Mr. Barwyk himselfe, and further than reason willeth me I will 
not yeld unto their complaints if extremity will serve, which yet always is not 
best to be showed, as knoweth the living God who preserve your Mastership for 
ever and ever. 
9.—TuHE SAME TO THE SAME. 
1549. 18 June. Has had no answer about the well and many other things, 
and is afraid to do them for fear of offending my Lord’s Grace. Prays to have 
knowledge of my Lord’s Grace’s coming that he may make all things somewhat 
the more handsome. 
10.—THE SAME TO THE SAME. 
1549. 25 June. It may please your mastership to understand that my 
Lord’s Grace’s works here do proced to effect with such expedition as it pleaseth 
God to permitt them ; and whereas the court next the gate be appoynted to be 
