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In all w ch matier I pray you show yo r selfe the child's great frinds nowe at 

 his nede w ch shal be better to him than C tymes some oth r service another tyme. 



And retourne me this bringer ymediatelie out of delaye ; for the matier must 

 take his ende before the King go out of London. So fare you hartelie well. 

 From London the xii th December 1552. 



I pray you mete together to oonsulte upon this mater & consider well the 

 booke I send you herew th , and marke what faulte ye finde in the booke of the 

 lands in possession & of the lands sold: and of the lands demaunded for recom- 

 pence : and lett me knowe if any thinge be omitted, or any other thinge leafte 

 unremembered, that you thinke worthie remembraunce or mention, and as you 

 find, so certifie. 



And iu any wise faile not to send th accompts, the bargynnes, the covenaunts, 

 that ye have, to prove any of thies things: and that, w th the dilligence you may. 

 And yo r letters be written alike word for word, as the one may understand what 

 is written to the other ; as the same may give you the better occason to meate. 



Yo r loving frind 



Winchester. 



To my loving frinde Sir John Thynne, Knight, in haist. 

 (Endorsed by Sir John Thynne) " E,ec d . from my lord 

 Marquis of Winchester xvi December 1552." 



2. — Anne (Stanhope), widow of Peotectoe Someeset to Sie John 



Thynne.* 



1553. Nov. 11. Synce yo r beying with me, the Q,uene's highness [i.e. Queen 

 Mary~\ hath resolved my Sonne to be restored in blood onely by parliament, and 

 meanith to make him Earl of Harford by creation, wherwith her highnes is 

 bent to geve him such lands as was my L. grace at the death of King Henry. \ 

 And for as moche as yo r knolege herein for lerning what lands and manors my 

 L. Grace held the same tyme, is more perfect then any others his officers ; thes 

 shalbe ernestly to desire yo u to call to yo r remembrance and peruse yo r books, 

 that we may have your ernest help herein. I have already written to Mr. 

 Barwicke and to Hanam for their accounts, in the xxxviij yere of K. H. the 

 viij, and likewise have I spoke with Gowehe, Colthurst, and Seymo r the sollicitor, 

 to get what may be had at theire hands, but specially whether my L. Grace had 

 any lands twixt Michaelmas and the King's death, which appereth not inthe 



* Original Letters from this Lady are very rare. 



+ The Protector Somerset was attainted, not of treason, but of felony. This would not have 

 affected his dignities, and entailed estates. But by an Act of Parliament, passed shortly after his 

 death, all his titles and estates were declared forfeited to the crown. It therefore required a fresh 

 creation to make his son Earl of Hertford. The Dukedom of Somerset remained forfeited until 

 1660, when, by another Act of Parliament, the Act of forfeiture was repealed. 



In 5 and 6 Edward VI., after the death of the Protector, several Acts of Parliament were passed, 

 touching the limitations of his estates. On the 12th January, 1553, [6 Edward VI.,] about a year 

 after his death, the Master of the Wards and Liveries made an" appointment of the estates to the 

 young son and his heirs male, in pursuance of the Acts 5 and 6, Edward VI. 



Queen Mary, in the first year of her reign, with the advice of the Court of Wards, granted unto 

 Ann (Stanhope), Duchess of Somerset, widow, great part of the Wiltshire estate, (among others,) 

 for the minority of Edward Seymour, her son, 



