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29. Benjamin Norton to George West (Thomas More) (6 & 10 June 1612) (AAW A XI, no. 95, pp. 271–2.)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
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My good frende: thease seven weekes I have beene far awaye from my good neighbours & a meere strainger to my man & dame. from whome I have receaved noe lettre in all this tyme by reason whereof I can saye nothinge of any thinge in those partes neither of any other matters but of suche as I have by the relation of an olde acquaintance of yours one I: Younge to whome I give greate creditt. whoe tellethe mee firste that he hathe rec. xxs in silver from the Clarke for yow. I saye in silver bicause had it beene in golde ytt had beene worthe 22s, which moneye I have & desire to knowe whatt I shoulde doe with it. secondlye hee telleme mee that a little before & after Ester that theare was muche a doe in the easte of sussex vz breakinge uppe of howses at midnight by the Counstables at Mrs Brookes of Asson, and some of her sonnes at Berricke farme to fe[t]che [?] her & them to take the othe. some fledd, some weare taken, and some tooke, & some refused to take the othe. abought that tyme thear was searche at Bentlye by a pursephant and ii Iustices of peace for seminary pp. for informations or lettres of information from beyonde the seas, & for libellous bookes, but theare was noe harme donne there and the poore scott dyed some weeke beefore. over all the Cuntrye theare was sittinge of Iustices & caulinge all kinde of howseholders beefore them to take the othe as well at other places as at Battell where amongste diverse protestants some of susewell weare brought but none of the towne meddled with all, beefore the sittinges off which Iustices theare was watche & warde to staye all roges & wanderinge persons but for all that none weare stayed but Catholiques & some people weare not far from Robertsbridge brought thither (whome I muste not name) whoe I thinke [word deleted] made butt bad shifte & in some sence tooke the othe. The thursdaye beefore the Assention the Lorde Vaux was condemned in a premunire for refusinge the othe albeeit some saye (howe trulye I knowe not) that hee offered after a sorte to take it.
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782 Richard and Constance Lambe.
783 Possibly John Young, recusant, of West Firle.
784 Probably the widow of Robert Brooke of Frog Firle in Alfriston, who died in 1610.
785 Berwick is a parish north of Alfriston.
786 Bentley in Framfield, Sussex, the property of Edward Gage. See Letter 30.
787 Shoyswell hundred (in Hastings Rape in East Sussex), virtually coterminous with the parish of Ticehurst.
788 See Letter 23.
789 Sedlescombe.
790 Probably John Downton of Sedlescombe, steward of the Battle estate. His will was proved on 11 January 1611, ESRO, Lewes Archdeaconry Wills, A 13, fos 99r–100r; Henry E. Huntington Library, Los Angeles, BA 56/1623 (for which reference I am grateful to Christopher Whittick). His wife's name was Mary.
791 John Salkeld, formerly a Jesuit, who had now abandoned Roman Catholicism. See CRS 75, 287, 349. For Salkeld's arrest, see Downshire MSS III, 331Google Scholar; CSPD 1611–1618, 124Google Scholar. On 20 May 1612 Birkhead was still not sure whether Salkeld was in fact leading a Jesuit mission. He had no faculty or permission from his superiors, ‘yett he saieth that he doth nothinge, but which the best lerned in Spaine did approve, before his departure thence’, AAW A XI, no. 83 (p. 237).
792 John King.
793 John (Augustine) Bradshaw OSB told More in July 1612 that Salkeld was with Archbishop Abbot and was writing against the Jesuit Francisco Suarez. Salkeld was said ‘to have asked leave of his Generall to be a Carthusian and coming to Maclin with ill wether was carried into England so that you see he is no Iesuit’, AAW A XI, no. 110 (p. 303). Salkeld had a brother, Henry, whom Anthony Champney and Christopher Bagshaw used in September 1613 to take correspondence to More in Rome, and who later renounced his Catholic priesthood in order to join the Church of England, AAW A XII, nos 166, 168; Anstr. II, 276.
794 William Ramsay.
795 Philip Herbert, Earl of Montgomery.
796 The earl of Montgomery had quarrelled with Ramsay at a horse race in Croydon, , Downshire MSS, III, 269Google Scholar. Robert Pett noted that there ‘were more then a hundred swordes drawen’, and that ‘undouptedly yf one stroke had ben given ther had much harme ensued therof for that one in the Company cried out downe with the scot’ but Charles Howard, first Earl of Nottingham had imposed order, AAW A XI, no. 59 (p. 176).
797 Robert Creighton, eighth Baron Sanquhair.
798 John Turner.
799 Of the original quarrel, years before, which led Sanquhair to harbour thoughts of revenge, Richard Broughton noted that when Sanquhair was ‘exercisinge weapons with a fencer in a prise, the fencer confessed he could not hurt him but in the face’. Sanquhair, ‘gave him leave not to spare any part of him, so they continuinge to play, the fencer put out one of his eyes’Google Scholar, AAW A XI, no. 103 (p. 289). See also Benjamin Norton's account, Letter 30.
800 See Letter 28.
801 Robert Cecil, first Earl of Salisbury.
802 See McClure, , 351Google Scholar. On Salisbury's departure for Bath, Edward Bennett noted that James was as close to his lord treasurer as ever, AAW A XI, no. 69.
803 Norton's brother-in-law. See Letter 1. Norton refers to him also as ‘Ned Godface’, AAW A X, no. 29.
804 In February 1612 Birkhead had informed More that Thornell was trying to organise financial assistance for the secular clergy, AAW A XI, no. 25.
805 Sybil, Norton's sister. See Letter 1.
806 Roland (Thomas) Preston OSB.
807 i.e. good friends (OED).
808 See Letters 15, 20, 21, 27.
809 William (Maurus) Scott OSB. See Letters 30, 31.
810 Robert (Anselm) Beech OSB.