Appendix. 



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No. X. 



The following' paper contains the substance of several letters and 

 documents relating- to the Earl's affairs, too long for insertion. 

 His claims had met with some opposition from certain parties, 

 Lord Wentworth and others ; and the time, at which he presented 

 to the Lord Treasurer the statement here compressed, was in 1573, 

 when he was about 35 years of age. See page 152. 



The Protector Somerset (then only Earl of Hertford) had in 32 Hen. 

 VIII. (1540) lands of inheritance of the yearly value of .. £2400 



His lauds acquired by purchase, gift and increase of living from ^ 

 1540 to 28th Jan., 1547, when King Henry VIII. died, were of the I 

 yearly value of . . . . . . . . £2000\ 5000 



His purchases and increase of lands from 1547 until his own [ 

 death, Jan., 1552, were, yearly .. ,. .. 3000j 



£7400 



The Earl says that all these ought to have descended to him : but there was 

 taken from him in his minority (he being about 14 years of age, and in ward to 

 the King) £5000 a year, viz. : all that his father had acquired between 28 

 Henry 8 (1537)* and his death, 1552 : leaving to him for living and inheritance, 

 only such 'lands as his father had been in possession of before and down to the 

 year 1537. Also, that he was entitled to, and was to have received, recompense 

 for certain lands parted with by his father after 1547. 



William Paulet, Marquis of Winchester, Master of the Wards, was to esti- 

 mate the recompense, and make it within one year. If he failed to do so, the 

 now Earl of Hertford was, on coming of full age, to enter on so much of the 

 lands taken from him as would amount to such recompense. 



Sir John Thynne and other chief officers of the Protector happening to be at 

 the time in the Tower, Winchester could not get full information ; but acting 

 on imperfect information decreed £753 14s. 3d. a year as recompense. 



Afterwards, Winchester discovered that £81 a year more ought to have been 

 awarded as recompense: and so assigned three manors to that amount, viz., 

 North Perrott, Chillington and Southarpe, Co. Somerset. 



The now Earl says that he contented himself with this arrangement. But 

 Lord Wentworth and others disputed his rights. He defending them, dis- 

 covered — 1. That he ought to have had still larger recompense: 2. That he 

 ought not to have paid certain rents which he had been paying, about £400 a 

 year. 



Still, in order to put his claim to what he had got on a safe footing, and to 

 prevent further disturbance, he prays that his title may be confirmed. 



*In 28 Henry VIII., (1537) an Act of Parliament had been passed for settling lands in Somerset- 

 shire and what other lands he might acquire upon the heirs male by Ann Stanhope ; and in 32 Henry 

 yilt., (1540) another Act for entailing lands. 



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