By the Eev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S.A. 287 



Edington to serve your orders for the Queen, wherewith Oswald Burrall a ser- 

 vant of Sir James Stuinpe hath given much evil language to the said Kobert, 

 and not so content but hath hurte him also : Whereupon you have caused the 

 same Oswald to be bound to the peace which is well done but yet not enough for 

 so evill a ruled man, but thinke him worthie to be commytted to Warde and in- 

 dicted as a common barratter and disturber of the queen's peace : and thereupon 

 to put in sureties for his good a-bearing against all the queen's liege people ex- 

 cept he wolde better obey her Maj tie ' s commandment then I fear he doth : praying 

 you to take order with Mr. Stumpe and other your f ellowes for ref ormacion of 

 this matter that men serving the queen by your commandment may serve in 

 peace and without hurte. Thus fare you well. 



" Written the xviij rh of August 1562 a* 



" Your lovinge frende 

 " To my loving frende, S r . John <f Winchester." 



Thynne Knight one of the 



Justices of peace in the Countie 



of Wiltes." 



Seal: within the garter, an eagle volant. 



The first Marquis of Winchester died in 1572. His son John, 

 second Marquis, married an heiress of the immediate neighbourhood, 

 Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Willoughby, Lord Broke, of Brook 

 House, Westbuiy. At Longleat are two letters from this nobleman, 

 relating to Ediugdon. The first is to request (in some case that 

 had arisen affecting his woods there), the assistance of Sir John 

 Thynne (the builder of Longleat) who had been in charge, on behalf 

 of the Crown, of the Monastery estates after confiscation : — 



No. 1. — John, second Marquis of Winchester, to Sir John Thynne, 

 2nd May, 1574. 



" S r , by information into the Exchequer certen woodes of myne about Edington 

 be brought in question for Her Maj tie and therein my Pattent verie hardlie 

 skanned to my prejudice, and the disadvantage of the most men's pattents in 

 England, yf it should take place : But for the better travaille of the matter, there 

 is a commissiou graunted to to the enformere to enquiere of the right thereof by 

 the voyses of the cuntrie. And it is allso graunted unto me to joyne certen 

 comyssioners in my behalf to enquiere & examyne wytnesses for my right. 

 Whereuppon I am so bould of your frindshipp as to name you, requesting you 

 to take the paynes in my behalf so far to extend your travail as to meet together 

 with the reste of the comyssioners, at the time and place appointed, whereunto I 

 am so hardlie pressed, as yf you faile to shewe me this curtesye yt will redound 

 to my great disadvantage which I trust your frindship will prevent. I have allso 

 sent you the interrogatories whereuppon I would have the wytnesses examyned. 



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