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 1920 THOMAS HARDING 243 objects were given to the children of N. Warner, who used to be Harding's farmer at ' Hinton Chappell vnto Crawley ^ Part of some goods that had been deposited in the house of William Nicols, in Winchester, was left to Nicols himself, and the rest was divided between four of his old servants or their survivors.^ As to William Smyth, who had followed his master in his exile and had assisted him to the day of his death, he received the rest of the goods in Bigges's care that had not been disposed of ; further all the remaining copies of The Confutacion of the Apologie, that he might turn them to the best advantage. Smyth, more- over, was released from a debt of 324 florins, which he owed for books, so that he must have acted as Harding's literary agent, and was probably one of the messengers who smuggled into England the polemical tracts of his master and of his friends. To the executor Thomas Hyde, Harding bequeathed his best gold ring, a gold portague, and an additional 5 pounds sterling ; to his second executor, Thomas Bayley, his best gown with a gold portague. These two friends carried out their charge with a scrupulous deference to his wishes. They ordered the burial and funeral services, the trigenaria and anniversaries in St. Gertrude's and in the Syon house ; they paid the rent of Harding's rooms, the debt owing to Robert Payne,^ a priest, the wages of the English serving woman and of William Smyth, who, notwith- standing the ample legacy left to him, claimed the payment of several advances made during his master's illness. To put an end to his unceasing complaints the executors gave him, on the order of the rector, the sum of 20 florins. They further entered the money due from Thomas Dorman,*and claimed what was owing by Henry Co veil and one Austin Legge. They superintended the sale of goods and books, and executed whatever was prescribed by the will as to gifts and legacies. When all had been cleared, they requested the rector and the deputies of the university to hear a dignitary in the church of Salisbury, and who died in 1559 (Wood, i. 659). This John Gryffyth may have been Doctor Griffyth's uncle and Harding may have confused the two. been. A Warner is mentioned amongst the household in Gardiner's will (Nicholas and Bruce, p. 46). '^ Their names are : John Scarlet, Robert Budd, Thomas Jonson, and John Simmes. ' ' Robertus Peyn Anglus ' was matriculated in the University on 12 November 1563 (Lib. iv Intit., fo. 399). Netherlands in the beginning of Elizabeth's reign. Wood says that he settled at Antwerp. The absence of his name from the university matriculation register does not prove that he did not live in Louvain. At any rate he worked under the direction and on the suggestion of Thomas Harding and wrote several books against Jewel (Wood, i. 149, 272 ; Diet, of Nat. Biogr.). R 2
 * Perhaps Crawley, near Winchester, where most of his possessions seem to have
 * Thomas Dorman, formerly professor of civil law in Oxford, had migrated to the