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 1920 COURT OF STAR CHAMBER 429 present, in the Kinges name that they shuld goo with hym into the said Manoir of Nusshelyng to take the said Peter Marmyon as a false traytour vnto the Kyng, and he then with his neighbors went with the said Thomas Hargrave into the place of the said Peter Marmyon then beyng ther in the said Manoir. And when the said Thomas Hargrave saw the said Peter, he drew out his sword and toke the said Peter by the Collar and strangeld and shooke him and toke him and ther kept him all that night in prison. And soo forth tyll that Tywesday next after he was in his kepyng to thentent, as it was proved after, that the said Peter Marmyon shuld relesse his titles of the said Manoir and alle his landes in the Countie of Hampshire to the said Thomas Hargrave. Vpon the same Tywesday next after the said Thomas Hargrave caryed the said Peter Marmyon to Winchester to make the said Relesse, and soo the said Peter than and ther made the said Relesse, as it was seyd, unto the said Thomas foreuer and sore ayeinst his wille and oonly for force. Item, Richard Engrame of Nusshelyng of the age of Ix yeres saith and deposeth vpon a boke that the Sonday and yere at Nusshelyng aforsaid, he then being ther at that tyme the tythyngeman of the said lordship. And then and there came the said Thomas Hargrave and required him in the said Kynges name to aide him to take an Errant traytour to the Kyng, oon Peter Marmyon. And ther at his request the said Richard Engrame Required diuerse other persones at that tyme in the Kinges name Walter. . . Parker and other to goo with hym and the said Thomas Hargrave unto the said Manor ... of the said Peter Mar- myon. And ther they founde the said Peter in his house, and the said Thomas Hargrave toke and arested the said Peter Marmyon as a traytour to the Kyng and putt him into a Chamber as a prison [and kept him] in prison all that night to thentent, as I herd say, that the said Peter Marmyon shuld Relesse all his title of the said Manoir of Nusshelyng to the said Thomas Hargrave. And furthermore he saith that the Tewsday next after the said Svnday the said Richard Engrame saw the seruauntes of the said Thomas Hargrave cary the said Peter Marmyon a prisoner to Wynchester to make the said Relesse to the said Thomas Hargrave. And ther as alle the Country said made Relesse for fear of his lief. Item, Robert Kelyng, yoman, of thage of Ix yeres and more saith and deposeth [on a boke] that on Monday seven nyght next ^ after the Feld of Tewkesbury the s.]^^ yere of Kyng Edward the iiij*^ he was the same Monday at Skydmore at that tyme, the whiche was the dwellyng place of oon John Hamond at that tyme being Recorder of the Cite of Wyn- chester and that as he was in communicacion with the said John Hamond for [diuerse] variaunces between him and John Ewyrby, ther at that tyme came running oon Thomas Gardyner at that tyme seruaunt to the said Thomas Hargrave and said thies wordes at that tyme to the said lohn Hamond, that his Maister Hargrave recommaunded him to the said John Hamond and prayed him to come to him at Nusshelyng aforsaid in haste for this reason [that. . .] Peter Marmyon [and. . . that he] was aferde lest he shuld kylle him or that the seid John Hamond [came] vnto he shuld [lose] his title of the said Manoir : and therupon the 1 13 May.