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Betwixt us two, that were else parties, there was no controversie, for we both, or the first, offered agreament and refused the lawe ; mary, neither of us both durst agree with the other till the Kinges title was acquietid. This was, I cannot tell how, against both our myndes dalied by th'officers. Betwixt us the mutier was so easy to agree, that I put it to his wife's brother, onely to apoinct th'ende, and therto I stande : and his own lawiers to drawe the writinges. Yf this be extremite, I knowe not what is gentlenes. The house my yonger brother lieth in, and it is rather Ms house than myne, altho it be faire, yet so farre of that I can have no comodite of it. a Neither of myne nor any of the colledgis Carlile or Eaton I never raised rent, nor heighted fyne, either of copie or free, nor yet to this daie put out tenaunt, nor to my knowleage yet have had none in sute. I mervaile where th'extremitie and soreness shulde be. I beseche your grace let the reaporters tell, for I cannot gesse. A thirde point was covetousness. In this behaulf it is in two parties, th'one of mynde, wherein God onlie can be judge, that point I must dispute with him, whom onely I like, and knowe to judge not by enviouse men and women's tales, but by truth ; and therefore I remit me unto him aither to stonde or falle thearin at his mercie. Th'other for outwarde apparaunce ; whearin I am so stoute of courage, that I think I am hable to aunswere all the worlcle, howsoever I can be charged ; and because the charge I am sure can be but fonde of those that hath shcwid your grace, and moved you hearin, I can but gess at their gessings, and fondcly aunswere there fonde mocione. I am a great purchaser, they say, as I heire saie. I besech your grace let them tell wherof. Lande cannot runne away, and it may soone be lerned where it is. All the lande I have in the worlde, besides one litle house in Chanon rowe of xxx*. by yere, which Mr. Comptroller 11 hath, and that other my brother hath in Philpot lane, yet not fully all paid for, is in two places. Yarlington, in Somersetshire, which is a manour to me wourth xxx". a yere, is one, and the Colleage of Darbye, of xxxiij". a yere, th'other. The i'urst I boughte at my furst commyng to my Lordes grace service. The money I bought that for, I must nodes have it of bribory, as they saie ; and here is a great evidence that when I had Mr. Cicilles rome, c I was a great bribour. Yf the money came of bribory, it was gotcn at Cambridge, not here, and that none can better beare witnesse then Mr. Thynne, d for as sone in manor as I had any acquaintance with Mr. Thynne (which was within litle more then fortnighte after I came fully to my Lordes grace service) before I had any thing to doo or office with my Lordes grace, I shewid him I had money of myne in coyne to the summe of CCC". or thereaboutes in my yonger brother's handes here in London, a merchaunt, the which money I had at tymes alwaies, as I savid any money of my living at Cambridge, sende to him, to occnpie and amend his stocke, without peny or half-peny profit to me, but onely to helpe him ; for, I thanke God, I was well contentid with my living there, and had ynoughe yerely and 1 This house was in Philpot Lone, in the city of London, and is again mentioned presently. h Sir William Paget ; Strype states incorrectly that it was let to him for thirty pounds a year, instead of thirty shillings. See another passage, hereafter. c That of Master of Bequests, in which Cecill had succeeded him. ' Sir John Thynne, steward of the Duke of Somerset's household.