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Wul/ hall and the Seymours. 



would keep none. I brake with the tenants afar off therein, but I perceive 

 that should be much grief to them. And as it is an old saying, Inough is as 

 good as a foste, I pray God wo may find owte lands, medowe and something, to 

 satisfy them for that which they shall now forego. 



I sent to Barnardiston by his own servant and bailiff here three weeks past, 

 that he should attend my Lordes Grace, and he is not as yet returned ageyn. I 

 have also sent another of his servants so that I trust you shall heare of him 

 shortlie. My Lord's Grace must go through with him forthwith, so that the 

 Tenants whose landes we have taken in may sow their barley crop there now or 

 at our Lady day next, for otherwise they must be drevyn to sowe their awne (?) 

 within the inclosure. Bushell's mylne and his whole grounds must be within 

 the compas so that we must studdie where to settle him. We have begunne a 

 ditch on the further side of the medow towards Grafton as Bryan can declare 

 you further therein. Te must remember to send downe Hyde for his further 

 advise howe the laborers shall dygg for the spring. Ye must also send downe 

 bryckmakers so that the cleye may be dyggyde in season. I have wrytten to 

 Mr. Lyne to certefye my lord's grace of the mettall mencioned in your letter. 

 Concerning the furzes of which my Lord's grace sent me a sample to be set in 

 the new hare warren, there is none to be gotten in these parts of that kynde 

 or sorte as I can learn yet, but wee will sett the best we can finde. The wild 

 bore, and the Red dere shai be sent next week. — From Hampton the 23 Novr. 



2. — Me. Bryan Tesh (of Wilton, near Btjrbage) to Sir John Thynne. 



1549. 30 March. Has received orders to set forward my Lord's Grace's 

 works. He must of necessity have water before he can lay any foundations ; so 

 in the mean season while the plumber is getting ready for the same, he will 

 clear the springs which are filled up with earth. And for that it hath bene 

 declared unto my Lord's Grace that neyther Chalke nor Wilton stone will 

 abyde the weather, ther is in the proof of them here good tokens of them bothe 

 or at the least no cause of despayre in eyther of them. For of the chalke 

 there is iij stones whose nether bed is made the parelment,* so that these stones 

 shovers out into brode spalters and thin, but the other that is set with the right 

 bed downwards, or that standyth joint by joint, as they call it, dothe remayne 

 sound enough. And in the stone of "Wilton consydering it was set green and 

 unseasoned and being of the up moste of the quarr which is worste, it spalters 

 out in thick peces and will not abyde ; but now they be cum to great stones in 

 the quar that will make ashelour xvi or xvij inches high, and have brought him 

 to a fair bed more workmanlyke then it was before, so that I trust within this 

 fortnight or iij weekes we shall cum to good stone, for it fashioneth in every 

 condition lyke unto the quarr at Mr. Kyngsmille's. The brickmakers have cast 

 as much earth as will make xx hundred thousand bryks by estimation, but they 

 tell me they will moulde none these iij wekes, so that we shall have none burned 

 these vi wekes at least, but I will cause them if I can to begin this next week 

 if the weather will hold up dry, and in the mean season before that he hath don 

 all thes necessaries I will trace and set forth my lords grace's house according 

 to the plat which my lord's grace resolved upon the last time, and so be ready 

 to lay the foundation, and the labourers also which are about the dyke will be 



* The facing-stones in a course of masonry. 



