By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 



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Sir John Thynne and Sir John Bonham then proceeded to bring 

 an action against him for slander, probably grounding it on the 

 following "Articles," the draft of which, revised by Sir John 

 Thynne, is among the papers at Longleat. 



No. 51.) " Certen Articles to be objected against Charles Lord Stourton on 

 the behaulf of S r John Thynne and S r John Bonham, Knights. 



1. First; his proclayming hymself Lieutenant of the Thre Shires, viz., 

 Wiltes, Somerset and Dorset, without shewing any commission to warraunt 

 the same [to any gentleman of Wiltes to our knowleadge ; erased}, 



2. Item ; the keaping of the Quene's Hieghnes Letters bearing date the viii th 

 daie of July, without publisshing or proclayming the same untill the xxij th daie 

 foloying. 



3. Item ; Thornehill, being more familiar with the said Lord Stourton 



then others, came the xvij th day of the said July to the house of the said Lord 

 Stourton, and tarieng there all that night departed from thence the next 

 morning, viz., the xviij th daie to the Towne of Shaston in Dorsetshire being 

 distant from the said Lord Stourton's house not past v miles, and there pro- 

 claymed the Lady Jane Grey, for the title of the Crown. 



4. Item ; the xix th daie of the same July was the said Lady Jane Grrey 

 proclaymed at the town of Frome in Somerset-shier, being in like sort distaunt 

 from the said Lord Stourton's house on the other side not past v miles, he 

 doing nothing to the let or withstanding of the said proclamation. 



5. Item : at Welles in the said countie of Somerset, being distaunt from his 

 house x miles, wheare the like proelamacion was made, and the Busshop of 

 Bath * preaching a vile and unseamely sermon in his Cath. Church (what daie 

 certainly we know not) against the Q,uene's Hieghnes Title, the saied L« 

 Stourton neverthelesse neither sturing or doing any thearein untill iiij or v 

 daies after th'apprehension of his unkle the Duke of Northumberland: and 

 also that Sir John Saintlow, Knyght, had taken order for the said Busshop's 

 fourthcoming, according to the part of a good subject, at the least iiij daiea 

 before, and then the saied L. Stourton rode to the saied Busshop and by his 

 auctoritie newely apprehended hym. 



6. Item : After the Bishop of Sarum f had proclaymed the saied Lady Jane, 

 Wensday the xix th daie of July, and by letters that came to him in post the 

 Thursday foloying about vi of the clok at night had revoked the said former 

 proclamacon and set furth the Quene's Highnes just title, a servant of 

 the L. Stourton's lieing at the said Busshop's for newes advertysed hym 

 thereof: howbeit incontinently the said L. Stourton not geving credit thereunto 

 wrote his letters to the said Bishop to be advertized of that he wolde aunswer 

 unto. Whereappon the Bishop sent hym the veary letters, whereby he 

 proclaymed the Q,uene's Highnes, which were from — Penruddok, servaunt to 

 th'Erle of Pembroke." 



♦William Barlow : deprived by Queen Mary in 1553. 



+ John Salcott or Capon, formerly Abbot of Hyde, Bishop of Sarum 1539—1557 : called by Stevens 

 the "Judas" of Salisbury Diocese. 



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