By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 245 



two tombs in the church-yard, and one small mural tablet in the 

 church, but all to later members of the family. In the Register 

 are forty entries of his legitimate descendants, the last of whom, a 

 female, was baptized in 1760. 



NARRATIVE OF THE MURDER. 1 

 " Lea# No. 36. The murder of Mr. Eartgil committed by Charles 

 Lord Stourton. 



In the tyme of kynge Edward the YIth William Lord Stourton 

 havynge charge of one of the kynges peces 2 nygh Bullen dyed, 

 shortly after whose death Charles Lord Stourton sonne and heyre 

 of the sayd Lord William Stourton came to Kylmyngton in the 

 countye of Somerset to th'ouse of one William Hartgyll Esquyer 

 where Dame Elizabeth late wyff to the sayd Lord William and 

 mother to the sayd Lord Charles Stourton did sogorn, and then and 

 there was ernestly in hand with the sayd William Hartgyll to be 

 ♦ a meane unto the sayd Dame Elizabeth that she shuld enter in to 

 band to hym the sayd Lord Charles in a great some of money, that 

 she shuld never marrye, whiche the sayd William Hartgyll refused 

 to do onlesse the sayd Lord Charles Stourton woold assign owt some 

 good yerely portion for hys sayd mother to lyve uppon. Diseours- 

 ynge of thys matter the sayd Lord Charles Stourton fell utterly 

 owt with the sayd William Hartgyll, and shortly after uppon a 

 Wytsonday in the mornynge the sayd Lord Charles Stourton came 

 to Kylmyngton churche with a great many men with bowes and 

 gunnes, and when he came almost to the churche dore, John Hart- 

 gyll sonne of the sayd William Hartgyll, being a tall lusty gentle- 

 man, beyng told of the sayd Lord Stourtons cummynge, went owt 

 of the churche and drew his swerd and ranne to hys fathers house 

 adjonynge fast to the churche yard syde. Diverse arrowes were 



1 From Harl. MS. 590, ff. 76, 76&. 

 3 In Sir R. C. Hoare's Modern Wilts this is wrongly printed, " having charged 

 one of the King's pieces," leading the reader to suppose that William Lord 

 Stourton's death was caused by the bursting of a piece of ordnance. " Peece » 

 (from the Spanish) is an obsolete word used by Spenser and Speed for a Castle 

 or other fortified building. See Todd's Johnson's Dictionary. 



