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Charle*) Lord Stourton, fyc. 



Stourton's side, that he was fined in a certain sum to be paid to the 

 Hartgills, and was imprisoned in the Fleet." The sum that he 

 was ordered to pay for damages was £368 6s. 8d. (See Document 

 No. 57). He obtained his liberty under a Recognizance for £2000 

 to re-appear : but this judgment against him was never for- 

 given and was certainly the immediate cause of Hartgill's death * 

 The sequel of the story is taken (as already mentioned) from a 

 different fragment of MS. (Lansdowne, No. 3, Art. 49.) 



TH'ORDER OF MY LORD STOURTON'S PROCEEDINGS 

 WITH THE TWO HERTGILLES. 1 



" Being lycenced a ly tie before Christmas for certeyn consider- 

 acons to repayre into his countrey uppon bandes of two thousand 

 pounds to render him self prisonner agayne in the Fleet the first 

 daye of the tearme, promising faythfully in the meane time to paye 

 unto the Hertgilles such somes of monney as he was condemned to 

 paye them, he devised within thre or iiij dayes after his arryvall 

 at his howse of Sturtone Caundel 2 to send certain parsonages to the 

 said Hertgilles to declare unto them that he was readye to paye 

 unto them the said somes of monney according as yt was ordered 

 in the Starre chambre, and to commune with them also for a further 

 ending and quyeting of all matters between them : for the which 

 purpose he desyred a place and tyme to bee appointed of meeting 

 togithers. The two Hertgilles receyvd this errand with much 

 contentacion ; and albeit theie stoode in some feare that my Lord 

 ment not all together as he had caused to be declared unto them, 

 and therfore stood in much dought to adventure themselves, yet 

 were they in th'end content to meete. with him at Kylmingtone 

 church the Monedaye after Twelfth Daye. At which Mondaye, being 

 the xi th of Janua^e, abought x of the clock the saide Lorde 

 Sturtone came to Kylmingtone accompanyed with xv or xvj of his 



1 On the back: " Articuli contra Dominum Sturton." In another hand, 

 " Declaration of the whole manner of the murdering of the two Hertgilh." 



2 Stourton Caundel is in Dorsetshire : but at no great distance from Stourton 

 House in Wilts. 



