Catalogue description THOMAS, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, to the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

--"I detayned one of the messingers heere for a daye or two, to see whether the partie sought for would returne to his howse; specially having his wife abrode with him in his companie, and his children, being yong, left at home: But wee find now, that he not only sendeth some of his brethren (pretending to come to see him) to learne what was done at his howse, but also dispatcheth spies, both to the towne where the justices and I am, and even to myne owne howse, to see how long the messingers tarrie, and for what officers wee send. By the resorting of one of these spies hither, being the keeper of Bedhampton parke, I conjecture that he keepeth himself close in Warblington or Bedhampton, two of his eldest brothers howses, not farre from Emsworth, places wherewith he is well acquainted, as having spent the most part of his life there while his father lived, and the howse of Warblington soe fraught with dores, galleries and stayres, that it is in vaine to serche for him there without a great number of men well affected and well directed And as for the justices betwene mee and Emsworth, and all the sea-coast on this syde, they be all dead, save ould Sir William Uvedale. Wherefore as things stand here at this present, I thinke it fitt, unless your Grace give other direction, not only to send away the messinger, but to calme and cover all things here as thoughe wee sought not for him, to see whether it will draw him home to his howse; and within a weeke or some suche tyme, if he come not, then to provide both to besett and serche Warblington and Bedhampton howses, if by conference with some of the ablest justices upon their coming home I find it may be secretly and effectually done. Farder at this tyme I can not write, but wishe your Grace all health and happines in Christ Jesus. Signed.