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Charles, Lord Stourton, fyc. 



well knowcn. T do not knowe the contrary but that you are as like to breake 

 good rule as I ; and I as like to punisshe you and you me ; but let the broaehe 

 of your allegeaunce be example to your procedinges hensfourth, and then I doubt 

 not of your part. No more you shall have nede to doubt of myn." 

 " To William Sharington." 



(In dorso) « Sharington's Ire from the Lord Stourton." 



Proclamations op Lady Jane Grey and Queen Mary. 



The course of public events at that period now brings Lord 

 Stourton before us in a High Official capacity, for which, how little 

 he was qualified by tact and evenness of temper, the reader will be 

 able to judge on perusal of the correspondence next to be produced. 



The Protector Duke of Somerset had been beheaded on the 22nd 

 January, 1552, and then, as we are assured by a French Eccle- 

 siastic present in England at the time, 1 " the whole kingdom trem- 

 bled at the nod" of his successful rival John Dudley, Duke of 

 Northumberland, whose title the foreigner has metamorphosed 

 into " Milor Notombellant." On Thursday, the 6th July, 1553, 

 King Edward VI. died ; and on the 10th July (four days after- 

 wards) "Milor Notombellant" caused his daughter-in-law the 

 Lady Jane Grey (daughter of the Duke of Suffolk) the wife of his 

 son Lord Guilford Dudley, to be proclaimed. Lord Guilford 

 Dudley was nephew to Charles Lord Stourton; Lord Stourton's 

 mother, Elizabeth Dudley, being sister of John, Duke of North- 

 umberland. On the 19th July, Queen Mary was proclaimed, the 

 news of which was conveyed to Longleat in the following hastily 

 written note, now preserved there. 



(No. 42.) "Mary, Qttene of Yin-gland, was so proclamyd Wenseday last at 

 vi off the clock e at Chepe crosse in the presens off the Erlys of Pebroke, 

 Shrewsebiry, and Arrondell, and Bedford, and the lord Darcy, Cobhara, &c. 

 Thes lettars credable cam yestarnyght very late. Wrytton thys present Fryday 

 morninge. 



To M H. Poyntz." 



(Addressed) " To S r John Sentlow." 



( Docketed by Sir John Thxjnne) " Mr. Pointz letter to Mr. Sentlow and me— 

 Julii 1553. 



A Commission dated 8th July was sent (as he afterwards stated) 



1 Stephen Perlin, whose curious "Description of England," &c, is printed in 

 the Antiquarian Repertory, iv., 501. 



