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Also, that it may be enacted by authority of parliament,
that all recognisans, statutys, penaltyes, newely forfeyted
during the tyme of the commission, may be pardoned and
discharged, as well against the king as stranger.
Also the privilege of the ryght of the church to be
confirmed by act of parlament, and prysts not to suffer
onles they be degraded; a man to be saved by his booke;
sanctuary to save a man in all causes in extreme need, and
the church to save a man for forty days: and further,
according to the lawes as they were used in the begining of
the Kyngys dayes.
Also the libertyes of the church to have their old customes,
as the county Palatine of Durham, Beuerley, Reppon, St Peter
of Yorke, and such other, by act of parliament.
Also the statute, that no man shall declare his will on his
land, to be repelled.
Also the statue of treason for wurdys, made fith anno xxi of
our soverigne, that now is, to be likewise repelled.
Also, that the common law may have a place as well as was
used in the beginning of your gracious raign, and that all
injunctions be clearly denied, and not granted, unlesse the
matter be heard in the chancery, and there determined.
Also that no man upon sub poena, or priuy seal, from
Trent northward, appeare but at Yorke, or by atturney,
unlesse it be directed, upon the penne of allegyance, or for
like matter concerning the King.
Also a remedy against exchequar for fining of false offices,
and extortions in taking of fees for that which is not held
of the King, and against the promoters thereof.
The King wrote them a long answer with his own hand; but
being tedious to copy, and neither very entertaining or
interesting, I shall only observe of it, that as he told
them that there were so many propositions without
distinctions, that no man could truly answer them, neither
by God's laws nor the laws of the realm. However, he granted
them a general pardon, which was proclaimed throughout the
North of England, and they all for that time dispersed. But
the year following, Robert Ask the General, Lord Dacres, the
Abbot and Prior of Saurey near Hawkshead, &c. rising
again, were taken and beheaded.
I have inserted this for nothing more than to shew what
illiterate warlike people this northern part of England was
inhabited by; for it is told of the aforesaid Robert Ask,
that so terrible and fierce were his words and countenance,
that when the King sent an herald at arms, called Lancaster,
to declare the King's message at Pomfret Castle in
Yorkshire, that the herald fell upon his knees before Ask,
begging pardon, and excusing himself, saying he was but a
servant, and came but to deliver his majesty's message
there.
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Now leaving Hawkshead, we will proceed upon an agreeable
ride, on very good road, towards Grathwaite, at the
distance of about five miles. This is as pretty a journey as
any I know, exhibiting woods, water, and lawn, dispersed by
nature in the most beautiful order; the cottages remarkably
well built, and commonly standing under a clump of wood,
sometimes in full view, at other times hid, and again half
seen. Grathwaite consists of two houses, called High
and Low Grathwaite; the first, viz. High
Grathwaite, belongs to Miles Sandys, Esq; owner of
Estthwaite Water. From this family and place came
William Lord Sandys, chamberlain to King Henry the VIII. who
was by that king (bene merito) advanced to that
dignity.
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