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86. Examination of Robt. Garrerd, of * * * tingham, co. Suffolk,
before Sir Owen Hopton. Edm. Baxter said that Lord Robert
[Dudley] kept Her Majesty, and that she was a naughty woman,
and could not rule her realm, and that justice was not administered. That the Lord Keeper was a wretch, although he(Baxter)
was fain to go on his knees and call him good honourable lord, and
that he kept two gentlemen in the law, and bought their land
at his own price, and that he was a very traitor, but that if examinate betrayed this, he would cut off his ears; that several lords
had told Lord Robert that he kept the Queen, and he gave them
thanks. Was told by Lady Willoughby, now wife of Baxter, that
while Her Majesty was at Ipswich, she looked like one lately come
out of child-bed. [1 page, damaged.] Also, |
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Examination of Joan, wife of Robt. Garrered, and Agnes Mannell,
her servant. Heard Lady Willoughby say that Her Majesty looked
very pale,—like a woman out of child-bed. [½ page.] |
Jan. 20.
Office of the Archdeaconry of Cornwall. |
87. Power from Matt. Selack, official of the Archdeacon of Cornwall, to Thos. Mitchell and Nich. Wood, clerks, to admit in his stead
Allan Payne, to the parish church of Ruon Minor, to which he has
been canonically instituted by Rob. Longher, B.C.L., vicar general
to William Bishop of Exeter. [½ page, Latin, with fragments of the
seal of the Archdeaconry.] |
Jan. 25.
Bewdley. |
88. Sir Hen. Sydney to Sec. Sir Wm. Cecil. Sometime since you
granted me the wardship of Charles Walcot, son and heir of John
Walcot, of Walcot, co. Salop, which I promised to a man of mine.
He denied that he was the Queen's or any other person's ward.
After much search by myself, friends, and servants, however, I
found amongst the Bishop of Hereford's records, the evidence upon
which the jury declared him to be a ward, which I send herewith
by my servant Ralph Knight, and which I suppose is recorded in
the Court of Wards. I beseech you that such order may be now
taken for the possessing and enjoying of him in my name as in like
cases is accustomed, and also for some consideration of my great
charges in finding him, and of his small living, as the greatest part
thereof remains in his mother's hands during her life. [1½ pages.] |
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89. Notes by the Speaker of the House of Commons [Thos.
Williams?]. The Queen was barred of Fisher's debt until I proved
the deed forged which barred it. I then procured his lands to be
extended, and the extent is set over to me to pay her debt,
and has been more loss than gain to me hitherte. My humble
suit is to be defalked of my payment of the debt so much as she is
pleased to give me for the allowance of the Speaker of the Parliament, which was never certain, but more or less according to the
length of the Parliament. It may be thought that it stood me upon
to avoid the deed, in respect of my own inheritance subject thereto,
but that which I complained of was another forged one, that I
avoided by a suit in law which prejudiced me; this that hindered
Her Majesty I coupled in my bill, to show the ill-dealing of the
man, and to help Her Majesty to her debt. [1 page.] |
