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said John Hartgyl asked his father, what he should do. Unto whom his father answered and said, ' Take your Hartgil'i horse, and ride up to the Court, and tell the honourable ¦£&* Council how I am used.' Whereupon, when the said £«»m<;>i «.i John Hartgyl had taken order to provide meat and drink ward . to be pulled up into the tower of the church, to relieve them that were there, he rode away. And the Monday, towards evening, he told the honourable Council how his father was dealt withal. Whereupon they sent down vol. in. a <|
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XLVIII. Anno 1556. " In his ab- sence they come again. 369
Their out- rages.
Hartgyl complains to Queen Mary's
Council. A treacher- ous act.
Sir Thomas Speake, kt. the high sheriff of Somerset, not only to deliver the said captives, but also to bring up with him the said Lord Charles Stourton : whom when he came, the said honourable Council committed to the Fleet ; where he tarried not long. " It is to be remembered, that as soon as John Hartgyl was ridden toward London, to the honourable Council, the Lord Stourton's men returned to the church of Kyl- mington, and about Hartgyrs house again : and so con- tinued until the coming down of the said sheriff, which was the Wednesday in the Whitsun-week, during all which time the said William Hartgyl and his men were kept in the church tower. Mary, the said HartgyPs wife, was permitted to go home the Whit-sunday towards night. In the mean time the said Lord Stourton's men went to a pasture of the said HartgyFs, and there took up his own riding gelding, being then well worth eight pounds, and carried him to Stourton park pale, and there shot him in with a crossbow, and killed the gelding : noising abroad that the said William Hartgyl had that night been hunt- ing in the said park upon the gelding. Thus the said Lord Stourton continued his malice still, during all King Edward's reign, and with violence and force took from the said William Hartgyl all the corn and cattle that he could any way come by, which were the said HartgyPs. " When King Edward was dead, the said William Hart- gyl, and John his son, made humble suit to Queen Mary her honourable Council for some redress, her Majesty ly- ing then at Basing-end in Hampshire. Which said Coun- cil called the said Lord Stourton and the said William Hartgyl before them. And there the said Lord Stourton promised, that if the said William Hartgyl and his son would come home to his house, and desire his good-will, they should not only have it, but also be restored to their goods and chattels that he had of theirs. M Whereupon they, trusting his faithful promise made be- fore such presence, took one John Dackcombe, esquire, with them, to be a witness of their submission. And
UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 595 " when they came nigh Stourton house, in a lane, half a CHAP. " dozen of the Lord StourtorTs men rushed forth, and let- XLVI1[ - " ting Mr. Dackcombe and the said William Hartgyl pass Ann0 1336 - " them, stepped before the said John Hartgyl, and when he " turned his horse to have ridden away homeward again, " six other of the said lord's men were there with weapons " to stay him. And so being beset both before and behind, " they strake at him, and before he could draw his sword " and get from his horse, they had wounded him in three " or four places. Then he got his back to a hedge, and •* there defended himself as well as he could, albeit they " wounded him in the hand, the body, and the legs, and " left him for dead. Nevertheless, when he had lain so almost " half an hour, he came to himself again, and by the help of " a cook of the said Lord Stourton 's, who took pity upon " him, he got upon his horse, and so rode to the house of " one Richard Mumpesson, of Maiden Bradley, gent. 1 ' This at last became a Star-chamber business ; and in fine, Lord s t°u«"- the matter appeared so heinously base on the Lord Stour- BO d im- ton's side, that he was fined in a certain sum to be paid prisoni;d h Y
whence he obtained licence, upon some pretence, to retire for a while into his house in the country : where he took his opportunity to murder both these gentlemen in a most horrible manner. For this, having been arraigned and condemned at Westminster, he was sent down to Salis- bury, and there hanged in a silken halter: which halter was hung up and shewn in the cathedral church of Salis- bury, till of late years. This lord thought to bear out himself, because he was a Papist, and the Hartgyls fa- vourers of the gospel. " But the Queen and Council," saith Cooper's Cooper in his Chronicle, " were much displeased with this "act; and therefore fearing lest the example might take " place in others, willed process and judgment to proceed " against him.'' ,
false, and inhuman proceedings of this lord, with these poor gentlemen, as I transcribe them out of my papers.
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" thousand pounds, to render himself prisoner again in the Anno 1556. " Fleet the first day of the term, promising faithfully, in the d Ha"t- " ^ e mean time, to pay unto the Hartgyls such sums of gyis trea- " money as he was condemned to pay them ; he devised eroufc y. (i ^j^ tnree or f our (J a j S after his arrival at his house of " Sturton Caundel, to send certain personages to the said " Hartgyls, to declare unto them, that he was ready to pay " unto them the said sums of money, according as it was or- " dered in the Star-chamber, and to commune with them " also for a further ending and quieting of all matters be- " tween them. For the which purpose, he desired a place " and time to be appointed of meeting together. The two " Hartgyls received this errand with much contentation. " And albeit they stood in some fear, that my Lord meant " not altogether as he had caused to be declared unto them ; " and therefore stood in much doubt to adventure them- " selves; yet were they, in the end, content to meet with " him at Kilmington church the Monday after the twelfth " day. At which day, being the eleventh of January, about " ten of the clock, the said Lord Sturton came to Kilming- " ton, accompanied with fifteen or sixteen of his own ser- " vants, and sundry of his tenants, and some gentlemen and " justices, to the number of sixty persons in all.
" my said Lord Sturton to be at hand, and to come with so " great a company, began very much to dread. My Lord " came not to the church, but went to the church-house, " being forty passes distant from the churchyard. From " thence he sent word to the Hartgyls, who yet were in " the church, that the church was no place to talk of " worldly matters ; and therefore he thought the church- " house to be a fitter place. The Hartgyls came out of " the church, and being within twenty passes of my Lord, " old Hartgyl, after due salutation, said, ' My Lord, I " see many enemies of mine about your Lordship, and " therefore I am very much afraid to come any nearer."' " My Lord assured him first himself, and after him Sir " James Fitzjames, Chaffyn, and others, emboldened him
UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 597 " as much as they could, saying, < they durst he hound in CHAP. " all they had, they should have no bodily hurt/ Upon XLV1U - " this comfort he approached to my Lord's person. And Anno 1 556-. " then my Lord told him he was come to pay them money, " which he had brought with him, and would have had " them to go into the church-house to receive it ; but the " Hartgyls fearing ill to be meant unto them, refused to " enter into any covered place, the church excepted. " Whereupon some being present thought good, that a Lord Stur- " table should be set upon the open green ; which was done [ n e n ^of StS " accordingly. My Lord laid thereupon a capcase and a felony. " purse, as though he had intended to make payment ; " and calling near unto him the said two Hartgyls, said " unto them, that the Council had ordered him to pay unto " them a certain sum of money, which they should have " every penny. Marry, he would first know them to be " true men. This was the watchword that he gave to " his men, as he came by the way thitherward. And there- 37] " with he laid hands on them both, saying, ' I arrest you of " felony.' And therewith his men, which to the number of " ten or twelve stood purposely round about him, laid " hold on them, and with all cruelness strait took them " both, and by violence thrust and drew them into the " church-house : where, with his own hands, he took from " them their purses. Of the which one of them falling from " him, was by a servant of his, named Upham, taken up, and " afterwards brought by him to Stourton ; where my Lord " received it. And finding a turquoise therein, he made " thereof a present unto my lady. And then the said Lord " Sturton having in a readiness two blue bands of inkle, " which that morning he had purposely brought with him " from Sturton, delivered them to his men to bind the said " Hartgyls withal in the said church-house. And whilst " they were a binding, he gave the said Upham, being one " of his men, two great blows, because he went about to " pinion them, and did not tie their hands behind thcni. " And to the younger of the Hartgyls, being bound, he " gave a great blow in the face, for that he said, the cruelty " shewed unto them was too much.
598 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP. " And coming out of the house with his naked sword, " finding at the door the said young Hartgyl's wife, first Anno 1556." spurned at her, and kicked at her as with his spurs, he An th Th~ " rent a S reat pi ece of one of ner hosen from her leg, and away with " finally, he gave her, with his said sword, such a stroke him bound. a i, etween ^g nec i i an( j t h e head, as s he fell therewith to
" had much ado to keep life in her. Of the which stroke " she keepeth yet her bed, and lieth in such case as God " knoweth what will become of her. " From thence being fast bound, he caused them to be " conveyed to the parsonage of Kilmington : where all that " day they were kept, their arms being bound behind them, " without meat or drink. On the which place, had he not " been otherwise persuaded by one of his men, they had that " night have been murdered. Conveyed " About one or two of the clock in the morning, they is ouse. i( were f rom thence conveyed to a house of his, called Bon- " ham, two miles off, within a quarter of a mile of Sturton, " where my Lord himself lay. Where arriving the Tues- " day about three of the clock in the morning, they were " laid fast bound in two several places without meat or " drink, fire, or any thing to lie upon. About four of the " clock in the afternoon, my Lord sent unto them two " justices of the peace to examine them, whom he made be- " lieve he would the next morning send them to the gaol. " And to that end he caused the said justices to put their " hands to a Mittimus. As soon as the justices came unto " the house, finding them bound, they caused them to be " loosed, and advised my Lord's men, that kept them, to " suffer them so to continue, saying, that there was no doubt " of the escaping of them. Conveyed " But as soon as the said justices were departed, my close! " Lord sent first Saunder Moor, and then Frank, and " finally Farre, being all three his men, to cause them to be " bound again, and to be laid in several places ; command - " ing further all the keepers to come away, saving such as " he had especially appointed for the murder, which en- 372 " sued, whom he had before procured to do the act, pro-
UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 599 " mising that they should do no more than he himself CHAP. " would do. About ten of the clock, my Lord sent to Bon- d "ham, William Farre, Roger Gough, John Welchman, Ann ° iM6. " and Macute Jacob, commanding them to fetch the said " Hartgyls to the place appointed ; warning them, that in " case by the way the said Hartgyls, upon suspicion what " was meant to them, should make any noise, to rid them " of their lives before the coming of them to the said place. " The four above named finding at Bonham Henry Simmes, " who was appointed to watch the house, went into the " same, and brought out the two Hartgyls, and bringing " them into a close joining hard to Sturton, they were " knocked in the heads with two clubs. Wherewith kneel- And there " ing on their knees, and their hands fast bound behind the head . " them, being at one stroke felled, they received afterwards " sundry strokes, till the murderers thought they had " been stark dead. My Lord, in the mean season, standing "at the gallery door; which was not a good coit's cast " from the place of execution. This done, they wrapped " them in their own gowns, and so carried the bodies among " them through a garden into my Lord's gallery : at the " door whereof they found my Lord, according as he had " promised. And from thence into a little place in the end " thereof, my said Lord bearing the candle before them ; " where he that carried old Hartgyl, missing a plank, fell " down into a hole, and the body with him. " This place was hard by my Lord's chamber : to which And their " place the bodies being brought not full dead, they groaned " very sore, especially the elder Hartgyl. Which hearing, " William Ferre, one of the murderers, swearing by God's " blood they were not yet dead, and Henry Simmes saying " it were a good deed to rid them out of their pains, and " my Lord himself bidding their throats to be cut, lest a " French priest, lying near to the place, might hear; the " said Ferre took out his knife and cut both their throats, " my Lord standing by with the candle in his hand. " And one of the murderers then said, ' Ah ! my Lord, Lord stur- " this is a piteous sight; had I thought that I now think, ^ ^J^ ' ' before the thing was done, your whole land could not words.
600 MEMORIALS UNDER QUEEN MARY I. CHAP. " have won me to consent to such an act.' My Lord an- " swered, ' What, faint-hearted knave, is it any more than Anno 1556. a fa e ridding f two knaves, that, living, were troublesome " both to God's law and mans ? There is no more account " to be made of them than of the killing of two sheep.'' The bodies u Then were their bodies tumbled down into a dungeon, my buried in a . - , . . _ dungeon. * Lord walking by up and down. And alter, Harry Simmes " and Roger Gough were conveyed down by cords, (for " there were no stairs thereunto.) who digged a pit for them, " and there buried them both together ; my Lord often- " times, in the mean time, calling unto them from above to " make speed, for that the night went away. Digged up. " The bodies have siththen been digged up by Sir An- " thony Hungerford, sent purposely to the place for that " purpose, and were found in the self-same apparel that they " were taken in, buried very deep, covered first with earth, " and then with two courses of thick paving ; and finally " with chips and shavings of timber, above the quantity of " two cart-loads. 373 " In the examination of these matters it is fallen out, that Other mis- " he caused, not long siththen, a barn of one Thomas of the Lord " Chaffin to be set on fire by three of his servants. Against Sturton. <¦< which Chaffin, for that he said, ' It was not done without " the knowledge of the said Lord Sturton, or of some of his " servants, 1 he took an action upon his case, and recovered " of him an hundred pound damage ; for the payment " whereof he took out of his pastures by force twelve " hundred sheep, with the wool upon their backs, and all " the oxen, kine, horses, and mares that he could find in " the said pastures. " From one Willoughby he caused to be taken, for his " pleasure, an whole team of oxen : whereof two were found, " at this present, a fatting in the stall of his house.
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