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district, and close upon the time of the occurrence itself. The 
fact is that Sir Jonn Brypess had only been created a peer a 
few months before, so that people about here had scarcely got 
accustomed to his new title. 
The part played by this man in some of the great scenes 
of his own time, was remarkable. He had fought under the 
young King Henry VIII, at the battle of the Spurs, in France, 
in 1513; and Henry made him Constable of Sudeley Castle. 
On the death of Hpwarp VI, he was one of those who brought 
the Princess Mary Tupor to London to claim the throne: he 
rode with her to the Tower, which she at once put under his 
charge. As Constable of the Tower he had, about a year before 
the period which concerns this paper, stood on the scaffold with 
the unhappy Lady Janu Grey, when the latter presented him 
with her prayer book, as a parting token. Ten months before 
he was in Gloucester with Bishop Hoopmr, he had received the 
Princess Exizasetu on the Tower steps; where she sat down in 
the rain, and seemed in no hurry to pass the bourne from which 
so few, similarly circumstanced, had ever returned. Sir Jonny 
Brypaes begged her to come in, for that she sat unwholesomely 
there in the rain; when the future Queen replied with some 
shrewdness, “ Better sit here than in a worse place.” It was for 
these services to Queen Mary that he had just been created 
Baron CHanpos. 
His son Epmunp, who was one of the spectators of the 
burning, became on his death, the Lord Cuanpos of Sudeley: 
but so far from the memory of the stake making a good Romanist 
of him, the effect of the lesson seems to have told the other 
way: for Epmunp Brypers became very active as an enforcer 
of the new or Protestant form of worship under ExizaBeru. 
It is worthy of remark that several of the names occurring 
in the page of accounts I have facsimiled, are those well known 
as of staunch adherents of Queen Mary. The “Sir RicHarpb 
Morean, Knight,” who is described as being at Hempstead (i.e, 
about a mile from Gloucester) was made Recorder of the city 
a few years before this. He was Chief Justice of Common 
Pleas; and Fosproxe mentions his having used some very bitter 
