"an hundred for the payment therof. The Howse and the "Particulars be past, but, I thinke, not the Pension, for "which I must make Allowance, and it hath cost me in "" goinge to London for my Assurance above 20 li. be"sides my Charges and Short's att Yorke, and as yet I "have no Assurance from Typper, but from Ballard, be cause of Welbecke and Brewster, because they would "buy it, and are some what a kynne to Mr Typper; but "Mr Typper was commaunded to lett me have my As66 surance at the next Tearme, or to shew some good cause, why I should not have it. t "I am bound in an 100 li. to Thomas Short, to war"rant him this Assurance, and for a Pawne allso I have "delivered to Thomas Short my Uncle Robinson's Will, "wherin I made him a Letter of Atturney, to sue for "the same, with a Bond of 200 li. for Performance of "the Will. If I may be freed from Thomas Short for "my Pawnes and Bonds, I would be contented with "my Money, if he will be contented. "By me Thomas Robinson. The Confession of Thomas Short before the high 1 "Thomas Robinson was att bord at the Hospitall "nere Bawtrie with Mr. Brewster, for one Quarter, about "Easter last, duringe which tyme Mr. Brewster moved "the said Robinson, to procure the Queene's Right of "the Hospitall of Bawtrie to the said Brewster's use, and ❝ told him he should have 30 li. for his paynes. 2" About May day last Mr. Brewster and Tho. Ro"binson did disagree, and went from Mr. Brewster's 1 1 I Sic. "howse, I "howse, and went to gett the Hospitall for himselfe at "London, and being there did procure a Bill of vocante " from one Ballard, deputie to Mr. Stanhopp, as he said, "and came and entred into the Hospitall the last Sum 3" The last Sumer Mr. Welbecke, Father-in-law to "Mr. Brewster, offred Thomas Robinson, as he said, a "100. Markes for his Intrest, which Summe he refused. 4"About Michaelmas last the said Robinson did lett "to me Thomas Short, the said Hospitall, with thappurtnances, for a yere for 4 li. being worth VI. li. in "the yeare, and promised me, when he gott his Assu66 rance, I should have the Purchase therof for 60 li. up66 pon conditions, that I should lend him as much Mo ney, as then I could, whereuppon 1 lent him 15 li, and "tooke his Bond for the payment of the said Summe of "15 li. I borrowed it of John Noble, not tellinge him "for what cause I borrowed the same. "To the Reverend Father in God, his singular good Lord and Patron, his Grace of Yorke: "In most humble wise sheweth unto your Grace your poore and daily orator James Brewster, Maister of the " Hospitall of Mary Magdalen juxta Bawtrie, Wheras "I understand the xixth, day of March last past of your "Grace's Proceedings against me, and the last time of my appearance beinge the sixt of Aprill, there to shew "cause before your Grace of my not appearance; These 'Sic. F. vacante. Sic. are "are in most humble wise to crave your Grace's Favour, "favourably to consider of my far distance from the "place, and my necessarie charge dependinge upon me, "especially at this tyme. This bearer hearof Mr. Han"cocke can certify your Grace more largely, whome I "desired to supplie my place at the Hospitall in my ab66 sence; so that I cannot come my selfe before your "Grace at this time, and therfore I humbly crave your "Grace's Favour, accordinge to your Grace's Discre❝tion, to grant me longer tyme of appearance, or other"wise to help me out of these Troubles, as it shall seeme "best to your Grace's Wisedome, "And I shall make it knowne, that I have laboured "in the suite against them the directest meanes I did "know; and thus I cease this 20th. of March, prayinge "for your Grace's Prosperitie, and long to continue, att "Chelmford "Your Grace's most humble, ❝ comumst "James Brewster. A coppie of Mr Typper's Letter. "To the most reverend Father in God, the Lord Archbyshop of Yorke, Metropolitane of Eingland, "My very good Lord, "My humble dutie to your Lordship remembred &c. "Wheras the XX11th, day of December last her Maje"stie granted to Mr. Edward Dyer, in my name, the "Hospital of Bawtrie in the Countie of Nottingham, F. commune servant. "which, I "which, since the same was past, I have understood, that "the Patronage therof belongeth unto your Lordshipp, "which since I knew I have made stay therof in my "owne hands, by order from Mr. Freeascue, for that one "Robinson hath sought to have had the same from me, "to whome I minde not to passe it, nor to any other "without your Lordship's consent; and what your Lord"ship's Determination is herein, if it might please you, I "would gladly understand, whose honourable direction I "mind to follow. Here was one Ballard, who very earnest"ly solicited the matter to my Lord Treasurer and Mr. "Fortscue, by whose meanes the stay came, and after "the stay made by them, Robinson found meanes to 66 procure my Lord Chancellor's Letters to me for the "assuringe the same to him, which in like manner I have "refused to do; Therfore I shall entreat your good "Lordship to direct me some Course herein, and I will "not faile, but performe it, Thus restinge at your "Lordship's Commands, most humbly I take my leave, "from my howse in Aldersgate Street, the 3 of April * 1590. "Your Lordship's humbly to be commaunded "William Tipper. Now comes the Title of the Hospitall to be in thexchequer Chamber, before the right honourable Sir William Cicell, Knight, Lord Burghley, Lord Treasurer of Eingland, John Fortescue, under Treasurer, Sir Roger Manwood, Lord Cheife Barron, and before the rest of the Barrons. Sic. Sic. "John "John Cooper of Suthwell, Muster of the Hospitall of "St. Marie Magdalen neare to Bawtrie, collated to it "by John late Archbishop of Yorke, 66 "Sheweth unto your Honours, John, by the Provi"dence of God Archbishop of Yorke, that, whearas "ther is, and, time wherof the memorie of man is not "to the contrarie, there hath beene a Hospitall, founded "for the reliefe of certaine poore people, and of a Ma*ster of the same Hospitall, beinge an ecclesiasticall person, called the Hospital of Marie Magdalen, neare "the Towne of Bawtrie in the County of Yorke, beinge "scittuate att, or neare unto, the Confynes of the Coun "tyes of Yorke and Nottingham, being there neare bor"deringe and adjoyninge together; And the same Ho"spitall hath beene, from time to time, maintained with "certaine Lands, Rents, and other Pocessions, as by "divers Writings may appeare, & wherin Devine Service ❝ and Common Prayers have, or ought weekly to have, beene said, had and done; And the said Hospitall by "the like time allso hath been, and yett is, or ought to “be, of the Patronage of the Archbishop of Yorke for “the time beinge, and of her Majestie, and of her High"nes most noble Progenitors, in the Vacation of the same "Sea, by reason of the Temporallities. "Butt now so it is, if it may please your Honours, "that, within two yeares last past, one James Brewster, "now, or late, of Chelmsford in the County of Essex, 66 clayminge and pretendinge himselfe to be Maister of "the said Hospitall, and preposterously to overthrow, "and utterly to dissolve, the State of the same Hospitall, "and to make acquisition to himselfe, and to his Heires, I Sic. ог |