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Wulfhall and the Seymours. 



ruyscd on the lower syde and abayted on the upper syde the same wil be this 

 night or to morrow by noon at a point and ready finished, and the houses about 

 my Lord's Grace's lodgings, as according to appointment, digged round to the 

 depth of 3 foot, so that the inner court being raysed 4 foot ther remayneth 2 

 foot for the lights into the court to serve the 9 foot story. Also it may please 

 your mastership further to understand that the gardin on the lower side of the 

 house, where the ground did fall 7 foot, shall be by the help of God, which 

 rulyth all things, raised to the height appoynted within thes xiiij dayes at most 

 and made levell in all places. As touching the conduit, is a thousand six 

 hundred foot long and the most part thereof 15 foot depe and tomorrow having 

 all things prepared the rough layers shall be in to lay the vault which shall 

 gather the water, to whom with the rest of my Lord's Grace's workmen in all 

 places not forgetting your affaires the loving God send felicitous success. From 

 my Lord's Grace's works the 25th of June. 



Bet an Teshe." 



No. IX. 



Letters from William Paulet, Marquis of Winchester, Master of 

 the Wards, and Anne (Stanhope), widow of Protector Somerset, 

 to Sir J ohn Thynne : about the circumstances of her son, a 

 minor. See p. 151. 



l.-Vi. Paulet, Maequis of Winchester, to Sie John Thynne. Dec. 



1552. 



After right hartie comendacions you shall understand that I can not well 

 grow to no end w th Mr. Chancellor of th'augmentacons for young Mr. Seymor's 

 lands till I may make perfect what he (i.e., the Peotectoe) had in possession 

 A 0 xxx do Hen. 8 [1540]* and what thereof he sold before his attainder w ch they 

 require to have aproved by patents from the King by dedes of purchase of 

 other men and by accompts for the contynuaunce of the possessions and receipt 

 of the lands. 



And as touching the letters patents from the King and dedes of purchase and 

 covenants, all other dothe appere amongst th evidence w th Mr. Chancellor, but 

 some ther be lacking, w ch is thought remayneth wth you ; and specially the 

 dedes of yo r owne purchase of my lord w ch I pray you send to me by some one 

 of yo r Servants that T may retourne you the same after they have been seen. 



And suche other patents covenants and grantes as you have in your keeping 

 of my lords purchase & the booke of accompte aproving what lands was in his 

 hands yerelie after A 0 xxxij, yf it may be, send unto me also. 



And if you, Mr. Barwicke & Mr. Colthurste may com all iij w th dilligence 

 you shall do the heire great service : and if you may not come all iij, come ij or 

 one, bringyng with him the bookes and the sayings of the other ij under their 

 hands. 



And yf it lyke you Mr. Oolthurst to take the payne come to my house, and 

 there you shall remayne for iij or iiij daies from the perrell of Campion's 

 action, and yet in that case have yo r ende I trust. 



* In this year an Act of Parliament had been passed entailing the lands. 



