By the Rec. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S.A. 



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on earth. An I the L. Chauneellor * at Powles Crosse on Sonday last, being 

 present (he King's Maj tie and Gardynalls theare, with a marvellous multitude of 

 people, signified to the people that the Houses of Parliament had so determined 

 the same, inducing not onely th intent and meaning of K. Henry the 8 th to be 

 see to have voided that title up again to the Pope (w ch had taken place in case 

 eerten obstacles of worldly pollicy had not ben), but also how the title of Supremacy 

 was abused in the tyme of the late King Edw. VI th ; who, being a child, for the 

 first part of his Reign had a Protector or Hedde over him, that ordered, ruled 

 and governed him so as therby he proved, that the same K. Edw. who bare the 

 name of Supreme Hedde had a hedde above him, aud therefore concluded that 

 the Kinge was but the shadow of the supreme Hedde, and in all his Reign no 

 Hedde at all. And then after the Duke of Somerset was goon then succeeded 

 another (naming the D. of Northumb d ) who for a while also ruled the roste f and 

 all was as he wolde have it, and then had the King another hedde over him ; 

 and this said last duke, without any title took upon him a like authority, as 

 Capt. Kett of Norfolk might have done in case he had wonne the battle at 

 Norwich. And then came the Quene's Highness and she w d . not medle at all 

 with the supreme Hedde so as thys long tyme we were, by my Lord Chauncellor's 

 argument, without that which now God be thanked we have." 



XIII. A.D. 1568. Lawrence Hyde, Grandfather op Lord 

 Chancellor Clarendon, to Sir John Thynne, asking to buy 

 from him some place where he might " plant his issue," in 

 the West of England. 



[This letter is written from Wardour Castle, which had been con- 

 fiscated in 1552 by the attainder of Sir Thomas Arundell and 

 granted to William Herbert, first Earl of Pembroke. It appears 

 that at this time, 156cS, Laurence Hyde had a lease of Wardour 

 which had six years to run and would expire in 1574. The 

 Earl of Pembroke died in 1569 : and the Arundell family soon 

 recovered their estate by purchase. 



Laurence Hyde was a lawyer, doing county business, managing 

 estates, elections, &c. He lived for some time at West Hatch in 

 in the parish of Tisbury. In the Wilts Institutions he is named 

 as "de Warder, gent." Patron in 1564 of Stratford Tony.] 



* Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester. 



+ In common usage this word is spelled " roast," as if the meaning were " to preside at a dinner." 

 Todd, in his edition of Johnson's Dictionaiy, suggests that the word may have been originally 

 roist, a tumult; and that ruling it, meant, managing the rioters. Hut is it not more likely to be 

 derived from the A.S. hrost, the roost on which a bird sits, in which case, he who ruled the roost 

 would be, in barn-yard phraseology, the " Master bird," or cock of the dung-hill? 



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