The true Copie of the Vicar of Brom∣leys Letter in Kent, sent to Ma∣ster Thomas Walsingham of Scadborough in the said County, Esquire: who sent the same Letter to Sir Tho. Saunders, Knight, he being also one of the Queenes Iu∣stices of the Peace in the said Coun∣tie; to examine the severall parti∣culars therein, concerning the liber∣tie of the said Friers, &c.
RIght Worshipfull; you shal un∣derstand that I have received your kinde Letter; according whereunto,* 1.1 these are to satisfie your minde; That I was dwelling in the Blacke Friers foure or five yeeres, and came thither from Oxford, where I had beene a Student of Divinity. I was al∣so Curate of the Parish within the Blacke Friers, called Saint Agnes. Wee had within us a Porter, who did shut all the Gates every night; at nine of the clocke in the Winter, and at ten of the clocke in the Summer. No Sheriffe, Bailiffe or Constable, nor yet the Maior of London, tooke interest there at any time, nor forreine porters had to doe within our Priviledge: And the Friers did pave both within the Turn-gate and without, unto Saint Andrews Church, downe by the great Garden wall: And without the Turne-gate there was a Cage, pulled downe by my time, which was set up by the Lord Maior of London. The inhabitants within the Friers never watched, neither the Constable of Saint Martins Parish warned any watch there, neither came within the Gates, after the houre appointed at any time. The Sheriffes of London had no Felons goods there, neither did arrest any per∣son within the Precinct of the house. As for Bakers and Brewers that belon∣ged to the house, they be dead.
There is one Iames Norrice,* 1.2 Curate, alive, who was brought up in the house, and dwelling at Saint Michaels in Cornehill, he can give you further in∣structions: whether there be any more living, I know not.