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Chancellor said were to the slaunder of the Court and to be 

 His speeches used punished, yet the punishment respited till the Q,ueen might 

 to the Lord Chan- be advertised thereof. The Chancellor declared to the Lord 

 ceiior tending to the Sturton, that there was an informacion against him for cer- 

 defof the tort^ taine misdemeanors committed against the Hartgills which 

 judged to bT" ' un Was °P eD ty rec ^> whereby it appeared he pretended a frendly 

 ish( T d ende to be had between him and them, and so drew them to 



meete under that colour that hee meant to pay them mony 

 according to the order of the court ; they meetinge to that 

 ende were imprisoned in his own house, bound hand and 

 foote, and after that never heard of. Hee being asked by the 

 Councell, where they were ? said hee could not tell, but 

 thought escaped from the constable to whom hee comitted 

 them : where upon the Court comitted him and three of his 

 men to the Tower close prisoners, and put him out of Comission 

 for the Peace. Some other of his men were comitted to other 

 prisons. 



S r John Fitz Williams and his men comitted close prisoners 

 for the suspition of the murther of the said Hartgills.* 

 (No. 4.) In the Starr Chamber the vij day of February An 0 1556-7. 

 It was ordered that Arthure Sturton f havinge in his custodye 100 pounds 

 appertayninge to the Lorde Sturton should delyver the same to Sir John Mason 

 to be by him employed in such soarte as by my Lordes should be appointed for 

 the charges that might fall out by the said Lord Sturtons case presently in ure, 

 ("i.e. noiv in action.") (Council Book.) 



Orders were issued for the apprehension of his servants, one of 

 whom, E-oger Gough, as appears from the next document, had made 

 his escape into Wales. He was no doubt taken, as four appeared 

 for trial. 



(No. 5.) At the Starr Chamber the xiij th day of February An 0 1556-7. 



A Letter to the Vice president of Wales to cause dilligent searcbe to be made 

 for one Gogh who lately served the Lord Sturton and is presently fledd in to 

 Wales ; and upon his apprehension to comyte him to safe warde : which Gogh 

 was supposed to have ben of counsaill in the shamefull murder of the Hartgilles. 

 (Council Book.) 



(No. 6.) 23 Feb. 1556-7. 



A Letter to Sir John Mason to pay to M r . Hampton vi 11 xiij s iiij d of the 100 

 pounds which remaine in his handes of the Lord Stourton's for so much paid by 

 the said M r Hampton to M 1 ' Wadham, Sheriff of the counties of Somerset and 

 Dorset, for bringing up of certain prisoners thither. (Do. ) 



* Harl. MS. 2143. Is this a mistake for Sir James Fitz James, see Document 62. 

 t Younger brother of Charles and M.P. for Westminster 1555. In 1 and 2 Ph. and M. he had a 

 grant of the custody of the palace called York Place, part of the palace at Westminster, with great 

 garden and orchard : also garden and orchard at Charing Cross, tennis play, howling alley, Pheasant's 

 Court, &c, with •« Paradise, Hell and Purgatory," being within " our Hall at Westminster." (9. pt. 

 Pat.) 



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