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rain T will sec th'uttermost of that quar. The Frenchmen are well nigh xxxs. in 

 debt for beer, victuals and other borrowed money and are ix in number of 

 thorn, and have receyved all their wages withen 4 or 5 days, after 8 pence the 

 workmen and 6 pence the labourers. 



To the Rt. Worshipful Sir John Thyn at Syon or elsewhere. 



8. — The Same to the Same. 



1549. June 17. Mr. Hind appointed a diche to be cast at the place where 

 the water of the trenche did avoide and to run up the hill to serche uppon the 

 very top. We have don so : and have found a goodly spring hable to fill a pipe 

 of an inch over within a hundreth foot long and 6 foot deep, and we be like to 

 have more. And I doubt not but and if the same and all th'other that cometh 

 out of the trench wer congregat together, it woll mayntayne a pype of 2 inches 

 over with as much water as is avoyd and by estimation it is a foot above the 

 other. 



The springs in the pitt at the trenches end is clensed but little or nothing 

 will come from thence. It is drye and no spring is there more than that soketh 

 through the ground on every side and wyll not fill xx gallons in 2 days at most. 



The extremity of the weather is so much, and the slewth [sluggishness) of 

 the people together, so that much work can not be done at so few men's hands ; 

 but when soever my lord's grace cometh he shall perceive we have not been idle, 

 the hindrances being considered. 



I beseech ye to write unto Mr. Barwick that he kepe apoyntment with our 

 men for the payments, or else shure our men will not aply ther works so well 

 as els : for the poor men here do much complayn although they be prolonged 

 but from Satterday to Monday next following, yet sumwhat it hyndereth and 

 the poor men can not forbeare, because they must take the advantage of the 

 market, or els they can not live with their wages ; for when an ox selleth for 

 xx nobles ther will be but smal peny worths arise, and when it is bought out of 

 the market then it is worse. This do the poor men alledge unto me with such 

 an exclamacion that I can do no lesse then write the same unto your master- 

 ship desyring that by your letters Mr. Barwyk may give his man a greater 

 charge whose negligence is the cause of this rumour, and as I am shure 

 unawares to Mr. Barwyk himselfe, and further than reason willeth me I will 

 not yeld unto their complaints if extremity will serve, which yet always is not 

 best to be showed, as knoweth the living God who preserve your Mastership for 

 ever and ever. 



9. — The Same to the Same. 



1549. 18 June. Has had no answer about the well and many other things, 

 and is afraid to do them for fear of offending my Lord's Grace. Prays to have 

 knowledge of my Lord's Grace's coming that he may make all things somewhat 

 the more handsome. 



10. — The Same to the Same. 



1549. 25 June. It may please your mastership to understand that my 

 Lord's Grace's works here do proced to effect with such expedition as it pleaseth 

 God to permitt them : and whereas the court next the gate be appoynted to be 



