A CURIOUS PETITION
The following was found amongst the domestic pipers in the State Paper Office, under the year 1572 ; " Petition against Geo. Gascoigne, May, 1572. "To the Right Honnorable the Lordes of the Privie Cownsaile.
“ Certaine objections why George Gascoigne oughte not to be admitted to be a burgesse of the Parliament.
” First, he is indebted to a greate number of personnes, for the which cause he hatha absented himselfe from the citie, and hathe lurked at villages neere unto the same chip by a longe time, and nowe being returned for a burgesse of Midehurste, in the countie of Sussex, doethe shewe his face openlie, in the despite of all his creditors. “ Item—He is a defamed person, and noted as well fpr manslaughter as for other greate crymes. " Item—He ia a common rymer, and a deviser of slaunderous pasquelles againste diverse personnes of great calling. " Item —He is a notorious ruffianne, and especialle noted to be both a spie, an atheist, and godlesse personne.
“ For the which causes he is not meete to be of the Cownsaile of Highe Courte of Parliament.”
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Dunstan Times, Issue 2482, 24 May 1909, Page 3
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184A CURIOUS PETITION Dunstan Times, Issue 2482, 24 May 1909, Page 3
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