rs
raised against him was brought into divers and sundry vexations and
troubles during which time one Sir Thomas Saunders Knight and
William Saunders of Ewell on pretence of comande did take into their
heads and possession the said armure and eight of his great horses
and did convey the same in 17 great waynes thoroughly loaden and at
the same time spent no small quantity of his corne hay and strawe
and had only restored 4 loades and of the said 8 great horse oon of
the best the iii^rd day after died. And the rest are in so evil
plite and lykyng and were never since otherwise liable to serve in
the carte to his great hindrance and undoing."

When Sir Thomas died, his funeral was prodigious. No expense was spared;
the feasting was Gargantuan; the villagers mourned with the best beef
and beer. Mr. Granville Leveson-Gower, in the _Surrey Archaeological
Collections_, has obtained from the Loseley MS. a full account of the
charges, from which I make extracts. It is headed:--

Suche CHARGES as grew the Daye of the OBSEQUIES of Sir THOMAS
CAWARDEN, Knight, decessed; viz.--

Fyrste to George Melleshe Mchaunt Taylor for black lxxv^li v^s.
It^m two tonne of beare iii^li.
It^m iiii quarters wheat iii^li xiiii^s iiii^d.
Item ii oxen vi^li xiii^s iiii^d.
Item iiii vealls xiii^s iiii^d.
Item iiii muttons xvi^s viii^d.
Item iiii piggs v^s iiii^d.
Item iiii doz. pyghons viii^s.
Item vii doz. conyes xvi^s.
Item iv doz. checkens vi^s viii^d.
Item sugere spyces and frutes v^li.
Item wyne v^li.
Item to one Garrett for helping in the kitchyne too days ii^s.
Item to Richard Leys for monye borowed of him to be dystributed at
Horselye when S^r Thom Cawarden dyed for neesorryes iii^li.
Item for the lone of black cottons xiii^s 1^d ob.
Item for the waste of other cotten iii^s.
Item for xxvii yards of black cotten that conveyed the wagon wherein
the corse was carried to Blechinglie from Horselye xv^s ix^d.

The black and the bakemeats and the beer cost altogether L149 16_s._
11_d._ But Sir Thomas had foreseen it all. There were estimates obtained
for such things in those days. Here is the estimate made by a herald of
the funeral charges of Sir Thomas's lady:--

PREPARATION to be made for the BURYALL of the LADY CARDYN.

First the body to be well syred (cered) and chested.
Item a place to be appoin