Arrest of Sir William Sharington, January, 1549. 167 



delivered to my Ladie Somers' who afterwards told my wief that the same were 

 of no value, wheave in very dede they were no lesse worthe but rather better- 



Itm a Turcase worthe x'' left in my Chambre, a diamont worth xl'' and uther 

 Jewells to the value of 1" and upwards remaigneng in my Compting house wer© 

 conveighed I knowe not whither. 



Moreover one Caskett contrigning so many specialities as I do esteme to 

 amount unto seven or eight thousand pounds. 



M"*. that I occupied in Flaunders,* being free of the companie there and had 

 a stocke of mm. pounds and upwards. 



Whether the bulk of this property was restored to Sir W. 

 Sharington, we do not know; but among the Lacock papers in the 

 Record Officef there is preserved a document relating to the receipt 

 by him from the Earl of Wiltshire, then Lord High Treasurer, of 

 the Duchess of Suffolk's jewels, and certain " Obligations, Bills and 

 Specialties," possibly some of those referred to in Sharington's 

 " Statement," though he there only mentions specialties at Bristol 

 and London, while they are stated in the following Indenture to 

 have been found at Lacock. It may be suspected that those things 

 which were taken away " to the Duke of Somerset's use ■" did not 

 find their way back into Sharington's possession. The following is 

 the text of the document (Record OflSce, Court o£ Wards, etc.. 

 Deeds, Box 94, D. 3.) J 



This Indenture mad the x"" daye of February in the fourthe yeare of the 

 Eaigne of our Soveraigne Lorde Edwarde the vj"' by the grace of god Kinge of 

 England &c Betwene the right honorable Willm Erie of Wilshere and Lorde 

 Highe Treasorour of England on that one p'te and S'. Will'm Sharington Knight 

 on thother p'te Witnes.ieth that the said S' Will'm Sharington as well by vertue 

 of the Kinges Majesties L'res patent of Restitution under the greate Scale of 

 England to him made asalso by ordre and Comaundemente of the Lords of the 

 Kings most Honorable Counsaill hathe receaved of the said Lorde Treasorer all 

 thes p'celles of Juelles hereafter named delivered to thands of the said Lorde 

 Treasorer by John Barwik gent whiche were founde at Lacocke in Wilshere ia 



* Sharington's family was of Norfolk, and he probably engaged in the East 

 Anglian cloth trade with Flanders. Occupied, i.e., traded ; cf. St. Luke, xix., 

 13, " Occupj' till I come." 



t Court of Wards, etc. Deeds, Boxes 94 A, B, C, D, E. How these deeds 

 came into the possession of the Crown is not quite clear, but probably during the 

 minority of Sharington Talbot, the grandson of Sir Henry Sharington. 



X For knowledge of these Lacock deeds and transcripts of this and severaj 

 others, I am indebted to A. Story-Maskelyne, Esq., of H.\I. Record Office. 



