Arrest of Sir William S/tarinfflon, January, 154-9. 163 



the qnenes deathe ix"=" paid for him to the lord Marques Dorset m" and paid for 

 the buildj'ng of his ship vi"^'" my hole payments amounting for him to v™ c", by 

 which accompt by me then declared it apered that he was in my debt mmviij"^" 

 which accompt thadmyrall at that tyme could not denye, yet dyd I praie him 

 bicause I had ever taken him to be my good Lorde that I might make and give 

 him a bill confessing a debt of mm" to him, so that if any treble shuld happen 

 afterwards unto me, it shuld appere that I was in debt to him the said Admirall 

 in mm''. And also for thinterest of the same (for iiij yere which was viij'^'')* 

 My lord Admirall was contented with this my request aud so toke the bill of me, 

 which I think is in his house at London. And at the same tyme I praied him 

 to be my good Lorde and if any troble shuld happen unto me to here me in any 

 thing he coulde, which thing he promised me to do/ 



12. I remembre also that I have hard thadmirall saye that the Ladye Jane 

 the Lord Marques doughtert was for hir qualities and vertues a fit mariage for 

 the king if he shuld mary within the Bealme, and that he had rather the king 

 shuld mary hir, then his brothers the Lord Protectors doughter/ 



13. Further I remember that xii or xirij dales before Christmas Last past 

 thadmirall comunyng w' me in his howse told me that he was not contented that 

 he was not placed in the parliamet-house as one of the kings uncles/ 



14. I have also hard him say at diuers tymes that he had ginen to the kings 

 ma"^ to the Valo'' of Ixxx" which money Fouler J receivid of him and did dis- 

 tribute the same according to the kings Ma"" pleasure to the pagis and other 

 poor waiters/ 



15. Mo"' I remember that the first dale of this parliamet as I was going 

 thitherwards I met with Smythweke who toke me a side advising me freendly 

 that I shuld not come to my Lady Elizabets. I asked him whye but he said n» 

 mo"^ to me ; hereuppon I gathered matier touching my Lo. Admyrall determyning 

 that I wold speake w' him in this matier when I came nere unto him, but yeat I 

 forgot to speake to him more than a seveneth, till he cam to my house § oaa 



is made with an illustration of Kenelm's Well Conduit House, at page 53 of the 

 Annals of Winchcomhe and Sndeley, by Emma Dent. The conjectural date 

 1572 is there given, but the real date is probably 1548. The Conduit House has 

 since been restored by Mrs. Dent, and a figure of St. Kenelm added. 



* Sharington's idea seems to have been, that, in case of exposure, it would not 

 appear that he had aided the Admiral in the matter of funds. 



t Lady Jane Grey, eldest daughter of Grey, Lord Dorset, by Frances, grand- 

 daughter of Henry VII. 



+ Fowler was a gentleman of the King's household, much employed by Seymour. 



§ This house was probably at Bristol, aud may be the house, called " Canuyngs 

 tenemente," in EedclifEe Street which was granted.with ^^ garden adjacent, <^c., 

 July 1, 3rd aud 4th of Philip and Mary (1557), by Henry Sharington, Esq., 

 brother and successor of Sir William, to his brother, John Sharington and Agnes^ 

 his wife. It was then in the tenure of George Wynter, merchant, and formerly 

 in the possession of Sir Miles Partridge, deceased, and Hugh Partridge, gentle, 

 man, having late belonged to " Cannyngs Chauntrye " in the Church of St. Maiy 

 Redcliffe. John Sharington married Aune Ketwiche or Kekwiche, so either 

 Agues is a mistake or a second wife is referred to. 



