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vaunting him selfe and boating that he had as great nombr of gentilmen that 

 loued him as any noble man had in England, And further said that he thought 

 he had more gentilmen that loved him then my lord protecto' had, whereof he 

 seemed muche to reioise, sayeng that he was happye that had freends in this 

 world whatsoever shall chaunce/ 



7. And besides his freends he told me that he coulde make or bring of those 

 which be within his rules, and of his own Tenants and Servauntes ten thousand 

 men if he shuld be commaunded to serve/ 



8. After this at an other time f whiche tyme I can not certainly remember f 

 thadmirall asked me, what mony I coulde make him if nede were, I said abowt a 

 foure thousande pounds f English f Tushe quod thadmyrall that is but a 

 lytell, but what can yow make (me) in dede ? Marye, said I it wold be veraie 

 harde for me to make yow more sodeynly, but if yow give me a litell warnyng I 

 shall be hable to make yow as muche as I shall haue stuf to make it of, then 

 thadmirall willed me to get as muche money into my hands as I could get, And 

 in like sort he wold warn me and advise me many tymes sayeng it were good to 

 have allwaies a good masse of mony redye And to get into my hands as much 

 monye as I could and then (said he) a man may do some what withall/ 



9. At another tyme ridynge with the said Admirall as is aforesaid and com- 

 munyng as we had before he said unto me, how muche mony will find tea 

 thousand men a moneth, and up[>on that accompting awhile w' himself, he did 

 cast that after the rate of vjd the day for a man, x"'' or thereaboute wold serve 

 and theruppon further said it were good leving of buylding, and to haue alwaies 

 a good masse of monye for if a man have redy monj' he male buyld at all tymes/ 



10. At whiche tyme he said also further unto me in this sort Godfather 

 Sharyngton if we had ten thousand pounds in redy mony that were well, could 

 not yow be able to make so muche monye? I trust we shuld not lack it then : 

 to whom I made answer that he shuld not lack if I were able to make it, and if 

 the mynt did stand at Bristoll I said I wold warrant him he shuld lack no monye 

 Whereunto he said he had no doubt but the mynt shuld continue/ 



11. About Christmas weke last past after my returne from Canterburye 

 suspecting that some trouble was like to come to me I went to the lord Admirall 

 and told him fthat, andf that I could not iustifie my doings in the mynt if they 

 were knowen, Nevertheles (said I) I have so ordred the matier that no man shall 

 be hable to accuse me. And therefore where I had receivid of him the said 

 Admirall when he went to Landersey* m" for the which I promysed to pay him 

 interest amounting in this space to ix'^'=. And so my principall debt w' interest 

 comythe to xix'^" And where I had receivid of him wole for cccc'' And so my 

 whole debt amounted to him to mmccc^\ whereof (I told him) I had laid forthe 

 for his buyldings at Bromham xv'^'" for his buildings at Sudleyij! xi"='' lent him at 



t t Erased in MS. 



*Landrecy in Flanders, besieged by Heni-y the Eighth's army in October, 1543. 



X Sudeley Castle. The windows of the earlier Elizabethan work, at the castle, 

 resemble Sharington's work, but are probably rather later — about the beginning 

 of the reign of Mar}'. The Conduit House, however, called Kenelm's Well, at 

 Sudeley, appears to have all the characteristics of Sharington's work, at Lacock, 

 and is the only building in which they are known to be matched. The comparison 



