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Charles, Lord Stourton, fyc. 



menne" This was the watche-worde that he gave to his menne as 

 he came by the waye thitherwarde, and therewith he laved handes 

 on them boothe saying " I arrest yowe of fellonye." And therewith 

 his men which to the nombre of x or xij stoode purposely rounde 

 aboughte him, layed hold on them and with all crewelnes straight 

 tooke them boothe and by vyolence thruste and drew them into the 

 church-howse, where with his owne handes he tooke from them 

 their pursses, of the which one of them fallinge from him was by a 

 servaunt of his named Upham taken upp and afterwarde brought 

 by him to Sturtone where my Lorde receyved yt, and fynding a 

 turquoyse therin he made therof a present unto my Ladye. 



And then the saide Lorde Sturtone having in a redynes two blew 

 bandes of incle 1 which that morning he had purposely brought 

 with him from Sturtone, delivered them to his men to bynde the 

 saide Hertgilles withall in the saide church-howse, and whilest 

 they were a bynding he gave the saide Upham, being one of his 

 men, two greate blowes becawse he went abowght to pynion them 

 and did not tye their handes behinde them. And to the yonger of 

 the Hertgilles being bounde he gave a greate blowe in the face for 

 that he said the crueltye shewed unto them was to moch. 



And coming owte of the howse with his naked sworde, fynding 

 at the dore the saide yonge Hertgille's wyef, first spurned at her 

 and kycked so at her as with his spurres he rent a greate pece of 

 one of her hosen from her legge, and fynally he gave her with his 

 saide sworde soch a strooke betwen the necke and the hedd as she 

 fell therwith to the grounde as deade, so as in three howres the 

 companye had moch a doo to kepe lyfe in her : of the which strooke 

 she kepeth yet her bedd and lyeth in soch case as Godd knoweth 

 what wilbe coom of her. 



From thens being fast bounde he cawsed them to bee convayed 

 to the Parsonnage of Kylmingtone where all that daye they wer 

 kept, their armes being bounde behind them, withowte meate or 

 drincke ; in the which place, hadd he not bene otherwise perswaded 

 by one of his men, they hadd that night have bene murdered. 



1 Inkle : a kind of ooarse tape, or web. 



