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Appendix. 189 
No. X. 
The following paper contains the substance of several letters and 
documents relating to the Earl’s affairs, too long for insertion. 
His claims had met with some opposition from certain parties, 
Lord Wentworth and others; and the time, at which he presented 
to the Lord Treasurer the statement here compressed, was in 1573, 
when he was about 35 years of age. See page 152. 
The Protector Somerset (then only Earl of Hertford) had in 32 Hen. 

VIII. (1540) lands of inheritance of the yearly value of .. £2400 
His lands acquired by purchase, gift and increase of living from 
1540 to 28th Jan., 1547, when Bee Henry VIII. died, were of the 
yearly value of .. £2000) 5000 
His purchases and increase of lands from 1647 antil his own 
death, Jan., 1552, were, yearly +. ve .. 3000 
£7400 

The Earl says that all these ought to have descended to him: but there was 
taken from him in his minority (he being about 14 years of age, and in ward to 
the King) £5000 a year, viz.: all that his father had acquired between 28 
Henry 8 (1537)* and his death, 1552: leaving to him for living and inheritance, 
only such “lands as his father had been in possession of before and down to the 
year 1537. Also, that he was entitled to, and was to have received, recompense 
for certain lands parted with by his father after 1547. 
* William Paulet, Marquis of Winchester, Master of the Wards, was to esti- 
mate the recompense, and make it within one year. If he failed to do so, the 
now Earl of Hertford was, on coming of full age, to enter on so much of the 
lands taken from him as would amount to such recompense. 
Sir John Thynne and other chief officers of the Protector happening to be at 
the time in the Tower, Winchester could not get full information; but acting 
on imperfect information decreed £753 14s. 3d. a year as recompense. 
Afterwards, Winchester discovered that £81 a year more ought to have been 
awarded as recompense: and so assigned three manors to that amount, viz., 
North Perrott, Chillington and Southarpe, Co. Somerset. 
The now Earl says that he contented himself with this arrangement. But 
Lord Wentworth and others disputed his rights. He defending them, dis- 
covered—1. That he ought to have had still larger recompense: 2. That he 
ought not to have paid certain rents which he had been paying, about £400 a 
_ year. 
Still, in order to put his claim to what he had got on a safe footing, and to 
prevent further disturbance, he prays that his title may be confirmed. 
*In 28 Henry VIII., (1537) an Act of Parliament had been passed for settling lands in Somerset- 
shire and what other lands he might acquire upon the heirs male by Ann Stanhops; and in 32 Henry 
_ YVIII., (1540) another Act for entailing lands, 
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