324 Charles, Lord Stourton, fyc. 



string-maker, Margery his wife, spinster, Henry Danyell mason and Joan his 

 wife, spinster, all late of Kilmington, and John Marteyn husbandman late of 

 Yarnfield, did on xij January 1556, armed with swords, shields and staves, 

 forest-bills and knives, riotously and forcibly take possession of a messuage 

 called Modon's with 6 acres of meadow, a sheep-yard (bercariam) * and 24 acres 

 called Hollens-hays : also a pasture and grange called New-hays and 24 acres 

 of pasture and wood, all in the parish of Kilmington, whereof William Hartgill 

 Esquire was then seised in his demesne and of fee, and therefrom did expel the 

 said Hartgill, and he from the said 12th January to the present 14th August 

 is forcibly kept out of possession. The said Owen at Yew and the others, having 

 been summoned to appear at Westminster by Leonard Sanhill their Attorney 

 on Monday next after the morrow of All Souls say they are not guilty and put 

 themselves upon their country. Sir Thomas White, Kt., being prosecutor for 

 the Crown, the Trial is appointed for the Octaves of St. Hilary next." 



The " Octaves of St. Hilary next " would have been 20th Jan., 

 1557 : but the Hartgills did not survive to see the day. 



Lord Stourton was committed to the Fleet Prison, but was 

 released 19th December, 1556, under a Bond for £2000 to re- 

 appear, &c. The judgment against him, and his imprisonment 

 were never forgiven. Under pretence of paying the £368 6s. 8d. 

 damages, he went to Kilmington and carried off the Hartgills to 

 their death. It is a curious coincidence that the day of the mur- 

 der 12th January, 1557, was the anniversary of the Ejectment in 

 1556, and also of the day on which (as above-mentioned) W. Hartgill 

 executed his last will in 1555. 



Lord Stourton 's Trial, &c. 



The names of the Jury on the trial were the following. 1 



_ " Jurati proJDomino Rege et Regina. 



Willms. Horsey, armig.' Johes Abyn, gent. Johes Batt, gent. 



Anthonius Barrowe, armig.' Willm. Eyer, gent. Carolus Moggryge, gent. 



Thomas Sowthe, armig.' Ricus Bryant, gent. Johes Nycholas, gent. 



Robtus Gryffyth, armig.' Thomas Pyle, gent. Xtoferus Tuckar, gent. 



Willms. Webbe, gent. Robtus Baylye, gent. Thomas James, gent. 



Oabriell Pledell, gent. Willms. Moggryge, gent. Simon Hunt, gent. 



Ricus Hungerford, gent. Thomas Cater, gent, 



Anthonius Hungerford, miles, Vice-comes." 



* " Locus berbicibus alendis idoneus, alius tamen ab ovili » [« A place adapted for rearing sheep, 

 but not the same as a sheepfold."] Ducange. 



x rrom the "Baga de Secretis," a pouoh containing Offioial Documents of 

 the trial, such as Writs, &c. 



