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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2009
5. Sir William Wentworth and the earl of Shrewsbury 1597–1612 (SC, xx/82).
A note of some of Sir William Wentworth's duetifull respects and actions touching the Earle of Shrewsbury for 17 or 18 yeres.
1. First the said Sir William during that time suffred the said Earle's kepers and seruants wholie to comaund his grounds and woods wherein time owte of mynde his ancestors haue norished and bred deere. [Margin]loke my lord's letter 1597.
page 37 note 1 For this election, see Neale, J. E., The Elizabethan House of Commons (London, 1949), pp. 88–92.Google Scholar
page 38 note 1 Lambeth Palace Library, MS. 702, fo. 55r; the countess of Shrewsbury to Henry Butler, 4 March (no year, but probably about 1609) ‘…and tell Jhon both from my lord and me that if he sopres the evedence he can geue touching the quelit betwex my lord and mr wentworth his aliance will not be sofecient to protect him…’
page 43 note 1 The background to this letter is a violent quarrel between Sir Thomas Reresby and William Wentworth which had developed shortly after the trouble with Ralph Reresby (above, nos. 6(a) and 6(b)). It arose about land in Wentworth's manor of Hooton Roberts and led to Sir Thomas challenging Wentworth, who refused to meet him. Sir Thomas then assaulted Wentworth on the bench at Rotherham Quarter Sessions and was fined £1000 in Star Chamber, c. 1602; Memoirs of Sir John Reresby ed. A. Browning (Glasgow, 1936), pp. xxxii-xxxv. An undated draft agreement before June 1596 shows that the dispute was about division of commons in Hooton and that Wentworth also claimed that the Reresby manor of Thribergh was held of the manor of Hooton Roberts so that Reresby owed suit of court and a freehold rent. Disputes about the relationship to the manor of Hooton Roberts were still going on in 1678; Sheffield Central Library, Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments, C. 6/199.
page 43 note 2 A draught of part of this is to be found among the manorial documents deposited in the Central Library (WWM, C7-75).