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Bowland’s goods came to but £431 : 6 : 8. His land is given to three
children, the eldest not twelve years old. As the land cannot be sold
during their nonage he humbly begs that the land may be extended and
prays that some allowance may be made for the education of the children.
Turville’s substance was chiefly in debts, his household stuff was of
the value of £120 : 3 : 4. Of this £1,441 : 19 : 7 is to go to William
Saintbarbe, the most part of which sum remains in the hands of the Earl
of Warwick and Sir Philip Sydney. Notwithstanding he is willing to pay
as much as His Honour shall think good.
William Painter craves remembrance of a note of his estate delivered in
1586, expressing the particulars of all he has in the world to live upon
in these his aged days, amounting to about £64 a year. He has a wife and
five children all marriageable and unprovided for. He begs his Honour’s
favourable consideration of his case and promises to be the occasion of
saving unto Her Majesty of far greater sums than what he owes to her.
III.
CHARGE AGAINST TURVILLE, BOWLAND, AND PAINTER (Abst.).
(_Brit. Mus. Lansd. MS._ 55, No. 3.)
Charge informed in the Exchequer by John Powell against Geoffrey
Turville, Richard Bowland and William Painter.
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£7,077 : 8 : 1
Of which
Upon G. Turville 2,715 : 2 : 8
” R. Bowland 2,413 : 2 : 8
” W. Painter 1,949 : 2 : 8
Of this sum of £1949 : 2 : 8 William Painter confesses in his answer to
owe £1079 : 17 : 3 which leaves unconfessed the sum of £869 : 5 : 5 of
which he himself prays to be disburdened for divers good and reasonable
considerations:--
For Iron sold to the amount of £ 16 : 8 : 4
For Powder sold for £ 4 : 8 : 10
For things conveyed from the Storehouse at Woolwich 4 : 0 : 0
For unserviceable shot sent into Barbary 173 : 13 : 4
For Powder Munition &c. 205 : 0 : 0
For sale of Sulphur 10 : 10 : 0
Divers allowances 373 : 6 : 8
Work done at Portsmouth 8 : 6 : 8
He promises to pay what is due from him in reasonable time.
The value of the Lands in Gillingham, Kent, belonging to William Painter
is £413 : 10 : 0, which brings him in £94 : 10 of which he has to pay
£33 : 3 : 2 leaving him £61 : 6 : 10.
The said William Painter owes £1200 for land in mortgage and is indebted
to divers persons besides.
He humbly beseeches Her Majesty to have pitiful regard for his wife and
marriageable children.
IV.
POWELL’S CHARGES AGAINST EARL OF WARWICK AND PAINTER (Abstract).
(_Hatfield, Calendar_ iii., No. 581.)
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