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80 far as to swallow the traditions about the Judge, unsupported 

 as they are by even a rag of testimony. 



Popham's intimacy with Darell continued to the last, and we 

 find them in juxtaposition in a letter still preserved in the State Paper 

 Office. It is dated " Saperton, Feb. 18, 1588," and addressed to 

 Sir Francis "Walsingham by the following parties ; Henry Poole, 

 Anne Poole, Carew Paleigh, George Wroughton, and James 

 Wroughton. The object of the writers is to contradict a tale told 

 by a certain Mr. Moody, to the effect that Sir Henry Knyvett, at 

 his table, was " inquisitive" to know what sum the said Moody had 

 given to Sir Francis " to the ende to bolster him" viz. Sir Henry, "out 

 of his Shreifwicke." They then go on to say, "Howbeit of others, 

 thus much we all doe well remember, that Mr. Moodie himself, at 

 that time offered speeche of Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Darrell, 

 affirming that the one of them {viz., Mr. Attornej'-,) had used him 

 very roughlie in speeches, as to call him knave, with other harde 

 tcarmes, and that Mr. DarreU had cozened him of £60, or to that 

 effect, but that onie mention was made of ought that might con- 

 cerne your selfe, or the honor of y^ place, we are all veary sure 

 there was none such." 



It is true that there is no evidence to prove that this Mr. Darell 

 was the one whose history we are endeavouring to trace, but there 

 can hardly be any doubt of the fact, and it will, perhaps, be admit- 

 ted that the affair of the £60 is a strongly corroborative circumstance. 

 The party was, it seems, assembled at Sir Henry Knyvett's house 

 at Charlton, now the property of his descendant, the Earl of Suffolk. 

 Mr. Moody was most likely Richard Moody, or Mody, of Garsden, 

 an old mansion afterwards in the Washington family, about two 

 miles off, and whoso son, Henry, was created a Baronet in 1621. The 

 rest were all relatives. George and James Wroughton were 

 younger sons of Sir William Wroughton of Broad Hinton; Carew 

 Raleigh, the brother of Sir Walter, had married Dorothy their 

 sister; and Henry Poole of Saperton in Gloucestershire, had mar- 

 ried Anne, another sister. 



liut we have evidence as regards his property, to show that only two 

 or three years before his decease, Durell levied a Fine on his estate 



