By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 



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grete charges, but I trust not so grete. Also yowe put yn newe men at youre 

 plesure as thoughe my olde servaunts were not worthy truste. You have made 

 Harry Sethe and John Butler chief controllers over my men, and Harry Sethe 

 makethe a high waye ynto my Parke and carieth my haye awaye by nighte 

 whiche shulde serve to preserve my dere. Also yowe have sett yn a newe 

 Keper ynto my Parke wythout my knolege by meanes whearof I have lost a 

 C dere, and more. Wherfor I comaunde yowe to avoyde hym oute of the 

 parke agayne. I wolde yow shude send for my sonne Brent * and cause hym 

 to remayne at Stourton untill I come home, for I here saye he dothe lytle goode 

 by hys ray king abrode and specially to Syr William Carent's : Also at youre 

 next beinge at London I wold yow shuld repayre to my daughter Clynton,f 

 and tell her for a directe answer that I nether maye nor will lett my farm of 

 Henton \ to any bodye. Yf I do she shall have her requeste, but yowe knowe 

 I entende to kepe yt for my provision after Collins yeres be expired and so 

 aunser her ; and as for the matter in the ende of your letter, tell her she shall 

 not nede to care for my dishonour.§ I wolde yow shuld see better to my profytts 

 then the reporte ys made. I wolde be sorry to find them all trewe. From 

 Newhaven the xxi th of June. 



" W. Stourton." 

 " To my trusty Servaunt "William Hartgill." Seal as before. 

 {Docketed by Charles Lord Stourton,) " My fader's lett r to Hartgyll." 



PROCEEDINGS AFTER WILLIAM LORD STOURTON'S 

 DEATH; Mrs. AGNES RYCE, &c. 



William Lord Stourton, being still absent from home, died on 

 the 1 6th September, 1548. This appears from an Inquisition post 

 mortem held by Commission on the 22nd Nov. following, at the 

 Castle in St. John's Street, London. He possessed at his death a 

 house and garden with ten acres of arable and ten of meadow 

 in the city of Westminster, and nothing else in co. Middlesex. 

 His son and heir Charles was 24 years old and more. 1 



(No. 20.) Will and Codicil of William Lord Stourton. 



In the name of God Amen, 8 Sep. 1548, 2 Edw. VI. * * I William Stourton 

 Knight, Lorde Stourton Deputie Generall of Newhaven and the marches of the 

 same being sicke of bodye and parfytt of rememhraunce, utterly revokinge and 



* i.e. His son-in-law, Richard Brent who married Dorothy, youngest daughter of William Lord 

 Stourton and Elizabeth Dudley. 



+ Ursula Stourton wife of Edward Clinton, Earl of Lincoln. 

 t Henton St. Mary and Margaret Marsh, Chapelries in the Parish of Ewer-minster, co. Dorset, 

 Hutchins's Dorset, h., 201, (Old Ed.) 



\ Probaoly some allusion to Mris. Agnes Ryce. 

 1 I. p. M. Chancery Series, 2nd part, 2 Edw. VI., 35. Among the " Par- 

 ticulars of Liveries " about this date, Charles Stourton is said to have been 

 thirty years old at his father's death in Nov., 1548. This would make him 

 nearly thirty eight and a half years old at his own execution in March 1557. 



