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To the Ryght honorable my
very good Ladye the
Countes of Shrewsburye
S.ir Francis Leak of Sutton
made a Bar.onet in 1611 Lord Deincourt
1624, & Earl of Scarsdale 1645, &
died at Sutton, in 1655. a great
Royalist, & after ye Kings Murder went
in Sack cloth, exercised himself in Acts
of Piety, made his Grave many years
before he died, in which he laid him down
every Friday.
X.d.428
(46)
148
May yt please your Right honorable Ladyshyppe I haue receyved your Lettre
tuchynge the Landes I latelye purchased of therle of Lecestre, sometymes
parcell of the Monasterye of Croxton/ which dyd coste me xvjli in redye money
as Master Iohn dudley knoweth to whose handes I payde the money for the
Erles vse; over & besydes xx yde for makynge thassurances/ the
tytle conserneth nothinge my Coseyne George foliambe but that yt pleaseth
hys wyffe to deale with that neyther he nor she hath anye wayes to deale
withall/ neyther is he of any kinred vnto you/ ytt ys myne enheritance
and he hath no tytle therto, for yf eny haue ynterest therin yt ys a
bastard which my late Coseyne Godfrey ffoliam dyd geve his landes in Wygley
vnto/ Wherfor I byesyeche your Ladpe to haue consyderacon to my
lawfull interest/ I am not wyllinge to althoghe the bastarde would
geve me fortye powndes in redye mon for ytt/ I dyd not purchas
vnto that end/ nor I do not knowe any reason to Leade me for to
eny landes and sell ytt agayne for thalffe money I payed your Ladyship
to greatt experyens in the lyke/ but I do assewer myselff my Coseyn
ffoliambes wyffes so hath so enformed you/ vnto whome I besyeche
geve no further creditt then she wurthelye deservethe/ ffor the mat
betwene Master Pierponnt & me, I fynde he hath prevented me for
fully reysolved to haue compleyned vnto you of his open wron
dysordered nge/ Assewrynge your LLadyship I haue done
red me to do dyvers tymes, as my
th dyverse others of as good callyng
to haue his tytle dewlye consydered eyther by our
cown or other wayes, I wyll har hartely thanke hym
for the same, so as ytt meybe ordered before michaelmes next, And that
in the meane tyme my pore tenantes mey quyetlye enioye theyre
comons, for god defend that I showld so assent to satysfye hys gredynes
in Leaving my possession that a great nomber of pore men aswell hys
tenantes as my tenantes and many freholders there haue quyetlye
enioyed from the begynnynge/ And for myselff I haue had it xxxiiij yere
withowte contradycsyon So do prey god longe to contynewe your happye
dayes in health with encrease of honowre./ Sutton thys viijth of Apryll
att your comandment
Fr Leek
Initial release version, September 2013