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his pardon, and that he would he allowed to re-purchase his estates. 

 Accordingly he furnished the Council with the evidence which 

 follows, printed from the original in the Record Office. (State 

 Papers, Domestic, vol. vi.. No. 13.) 



At such tjme as the Lord Admiiall was made Admirall* he said unto me that 

 he was as glad of that office as of any office within the Eealme, and that no man 

 shuid take thnt office from him but he shuld take his lif also, why my lord 

 said I there be many much better offices then that which yow maie have, what 

 office soever I shall haue (said he) I will not giue up the patent of the Admyrals 

 office whiles I Hue. I asked him wherefore, wherefore (said he) mary nowe I 

 shall haue the rule of a good sort of shippes and men. And I tell yow it is a 

 good thing to haue the rule of men/ 



2. At such tyme as the Lord Protecto" toke his Tourney into Scotland.f 

 thadmyrall said to me that he misliked that my said lord Protecto' had not 

 apointed him to haue the government of the king before so dronken a fole as Sir 

 Richard Page was/ 



3. I have knowen thadmiiall alwaies muche desirous of Stewardships and to 

 entertain gentillmen, but to what eande I did ueuer know otherwise then to serue 

 the king for so he did allwaies say/ 



4. I remember that at an other tyme hfi t old m e that thearle of warwike 

 wold haue had the Manno'' of Stratford uppon aven of him, and ofEred to giue 

 him a better thing in some other place, Mary then let him haue it said I for it is 

 owt of your wayes but beggerlye bowses, nay said he I will not depart from it, 

 for yt is a pretye towne and will make a good menyj of men/ 



5. The lord Admirall hathe diuers tymes caused me to loke with him uppon a 

 Cart of England in the loking wherof he wold many times shewe me howe strong 

 he was, what nombres of men he was able to make, howe farre his laudes and 

 dominions did stretche, And howe his landes lay betweine his house of Bromham 

 and the holte/§ 



6. He wold also many tymes shewe me what Shy res and places war for him, 

 and (noting the places in the plat) wold also say diuers tymes in this place and 

 in that place I am amonges the myds of my freends, and in these talks he used 

 also some tymes to shew me where my lord Protectors lands and my^lord of 

 warwikes lay unto whom I know he had no great affection/ 



In the begynnyng of this last wynter ridyng w^ the lord Admyrall from my 

 lord marques Dorsets house the said Admyrall used sondry tymes to shew me as 

 we rodde togither the Cowntrees rounde abowt saying all those which dwell in 

 thes partes be my freends/ 



7. At this tyme talking with me of his freends he reioised moche therat 



* Immediately after Edward the Sixth's accession, 

 t In September, 1547. 

 X Meny— a company of followers. Halliwell's dictionary of Archaic and 

 Provincial Words. 



§ Bromham : probably not Bromham in Wilts, which belonged to the Baynton 

 family ; there is a Bromham near Bedford. The Holte : Holt in Denbighshire. 



