By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 



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betters of more honest trust can be my wyttnes what my intent was. Wheras 

 you somewhat touch me with the bloud of a traytor, supposing summe parcy- 

 alytye in me for the same, if you allege the same susspectyon by question to 

 the Quenes Highnes, her Ma tie , I am sure, will fullie answer you. I let the 

 witt, Bonham, ther is nether the blood of uncle nor brother which shall make 

 me forgett my naturall aleageaunce, and therefor set thy foot to myne when 

 thou wylt, I doubt not but my truth shall waye thy malece. As for your 

 goynge to the quenes highnes w th y or ayde in her behalf, I saye it is after meat 

 mustard. As for the copye of my commyssion I suppose ye have alredy sene it 

 at the hands of my cosyn S r Henry Longe, also in the cittie of Sarum at the 

 Mayor's hands, wherin ye may do as ye think good : and so, consydering my 

 dutye, wilbe yo r watcher. 



11 To Jhon Bonham of Brook." 



{Endorsed) "Themynute of my Lord Stourton' s letters lewdly written to 

 Mr. Bonham, July 1553." 



The next document does not appear to be in any way connected 

 with the Proclamation quarrel, but by the order of its date it must 

 be inserted here. It refers to some collision between the followers 

 of the two Lords, Pembroke and Stourton, about which nothing is 

 known. But as William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, had been 

 displaced from the Lord Lieutenancy of Wiltshire to make way for 

 Queen Mary's nominee, Lord Stourton, the retainers on both sides 

 had probably conceived themselves in duty bound to take the 

 earliest opportunity of getting up a fight. In Haynes's State 

 Papers (Edw. VI. p. 162) it is mentioned that ' ' Roger Erthe alias 

 King, servant to the Earl of Pembroke, and William Ferror, 

 servant to the Lord Stourton, were, for making of a fray, committed 

 to the charge of the warden of the Fleet." 



(No. 49.) 1553, Aug. 19. The Council at London to the Council at Court.* 

 "After our right harty comendations. * * * Touching the mattre betwene 

 the Earl of Pembroke's servauntes and the Lorde Sturtone's,t what is allredy 

 doon, you my Lorde of Norfolk can well declare. This afternoone we will 

 traveil to the best of our powers to make a parfight ende thereof. And thus 

 we bedde your goodde Lordeshyppes most hartyly well to fare. From London 



* State Papers Domestic, Mary, vol. i. Art. 9. 

 + To this feud, Aubrey thus alludes in his Lifeof William, 1st Earl of Pembroke. " Wm. 1st E. of 

 Pembroke being a stranger in our country (Wilts) and an upstart, was much envyed, and in those 

 days of sword and buckler, noblemen, and also great Knights, as the Longs, &c, when they went 

 to the Assizes or Sessions at Salisbury, &e., had a great number of retainers following them, and 

 there were in those days, feuds— e.g. quarrells and animosities, between great neighbours. Particu- 

 larly this new Earle was much envyed by the then Lord Sturton of Sturton, who when he went or 

 returned from Sarum, (by Wilton was his rode) would sound his trumpetts, and give reproachfull 

 challenging words. T'was a relique of Knight errantry." (Lives of Eminent Men, ii., 479.) 



