By Charles Edward Long, Esq. 217 



Chancery proceedings of that period. Yet he had by no means fallen 

 80 low as to be repudiated by his family and his friends. He was 

 in the Commission of the Peace, and we have a very interesting 

 letter written to him, by his distant cousin Marmaduke, afterwards 

 Sir Marmaduke, Darell of the Scotney and Pagham branch of the 

 family, on the very day of the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, 

 viz. Feb. 8, 1586, and which was printed in the Excerpta His- 

 torica, page 17. The contributor of this letter intimates that the 

 papers amongst which it was found, viz., as we presume, those be- 

 fore alluded to at the Tower, had been "seized by the Crown," 

 but on what authority he makes this assertion does not distinctly 

 appear. This solitary fact might be advanced in evidence of some 

 crime committed, or supposed to be committed, by Darell; it will 

 be said the crime in question, but it so happens that there is amongst 

 them a paper written subsequent to his decease. How could 

 this get there ? Still amongst these papers we meet with the fol- 

 lowing, which I give in cxtenso, and which, from Darell's own 

 indorsement, exhibits a date closely bordering on that of the tra- 

 ditional narrative. The writer, Antony Hinton, was son of Thomas 

 Hinton of Escott, by Ann, daughter of John Goddard of Upham. 

 His cousin, Michael Cawley, was second son of Ralph Cawley or 

 Calley, of Highway, by Agnes, daughter of Henry Lawrence of 

 Tisbury. 



" Worsliippfull, understandyng you bare displesure agaynst me, as yt hath 

 well appored in sondrye attempts you have of late made to have displesured me, 

 grownding yo' quarell of displesure conceved agaynst me, to be uppon certen 

 wordes w<^'' Mr. Cawlye, as yo" sayd, spake unto yo", reportyng me to be the 

 occasion of yo" were indited at Marlburrow, at Michaelmas will twelve moucths, 

 w"^*" he doth utterly denye that ever he spake those, or the like words unto yo", & 

 oflfer him selfe to be swome that he ys greatly abused and wi'ongcd by you, in 

 yt as yt may appere unto yo" by his note made thereof, w'*' I have sent yo", 

 whereto he hath putte his hande, but whether he be abused or no, I am sui-e I 

 am abused in yt, and as gyltlesse of yt as the farthest man in the worlde ys gylt- 

 lesse of yt, and knew no more that yo" should be indited there, then I knew or 

 thought my selfe to be indited there. I litle loked lor .suche harde dealingc at 

 yo' hands, as of late hath been offred, yf ever I dyd yo" any pleasure in lonyng 

 yo" money or borouring for yo" when I had yt not my selfe, and jjayd yt agayue, 

 when yo" have broken daye, of myuo owne purse to kepe my credit (w*^^'' I love 

 as my lyfe). I am very evell requited yf I have traveled in any cause of yo", 

 and done yt houostlyo and faythfully, 1 am evell repaycd w"' those yo' hard 



