186 Wulfhall and the Seymours. 
raysed on the lower syde and abayted on the upper syde the same wil be this 
night or to morrow by noon at a point aud ready finished, and the houses about 
my Lord’s Grace’s lodgings, as according to appointment, digged round to the 
depth of 3 foot, so that the inner court being raysed 4 foot ther remayneth 2 
foot for the lights into the court to serve the 9 foot story. Also it may please 
your mastership further to understand that the gardin on the lower side of the 
house, where the ground did fall 7 foot, shall be by the help of God, which 
rulyth all things, raised to the height appoynted within thes xiiij dayes at most 
and made levell in all places. As touching the conduit, is a thousand six 
hundred foot long and the most part thereof 15 foot depe and tomorrow haying 
all things prepared the rough layers shall be in to lay the vault which shall 
gather the water, to whom with the rest of my Lord’s Grace’s workmen in all 
places not forgetting your affaires the loving God send felicitous success, From 
my Lord’s Grace’s works the 25th of June. 
Bryan TESHE.” 
No. IX. 
Letters from William Paulet, Marquis of Winchester, Master of 
the Wards, and Anne (Stanhope), widow of Protector Somerset, 
to Sir John Thynne: about the circumstances of her son, a 
minor. See p. 151. 
1.—Wm. Paver, Marquis or WINCHESTER, TO Sin JoHN THynnzE. Dec, 
1552, 
After right hartie comendacions you shall understand that I can not well 
grow to no end w* Mr. Chancellor of th’augmentacons for young Mr. Seymor’s 
lands till I may make perfect what he (¢.e., the Prorecror) had in possession 
Ae xxx‘ Hen. 8 [1540]* and what thereof he sold before his attainder w™ they 
require to have aproved by patents from the King by dedes of purchase of 
other men and by accompts for the contynuaunce of the possessions and receipt 
of the lands. 
And as touching the letters patents from the King and dedes of purchase and 
covenants, all other dothe appere amongst th evidence w Mr. Chancellor, but 
some ther be lacking, w* is thought remayneth wth you; and specially the 
dedes of yo" owne purchase of my lord w I pray you send to me by some one 
of yo Servants that I may retourne you the same after they have been seen. 
And suche other patents covenants and grantes as you have in your keeping 
of my lords purchase & the booke of accompte aproving what lands was in his 
hands yerelie after A° xxxij, yf it may be, send unto me also. 
And if you, Mr. Barwicke & Mr. Colthurste may com all iij w* dilligence 
you shall do the heire great service: andif you may not come all iij, come ij or 
one, bringyng with him the bookes and the sayings of the other ij under their 
hands. 
And yf it lyke you Mr. Colthurst to take the payne come to my house, and 
there you shall remayne for iij or iiij daies from the perrell of Campion’s 
action, and yet in that case have yo" ende I trust. 

*In this year an Act of Parliament had been passed entatling the lands, 
