[1] Sir Iohn Oldcastell. The seruants of the abbat of S. Albons go about to catch the lord Cobham.The same time, the lord Cobham, sir Iohn Oldca|stell, whilest he shifted from place to place to escape the hands of them, who he knew would be glad to laie hold on him, had conueied himselfe in secret wise into an husbandmans house, not farre from S. Albons, within the precinct of a lordship belonging to the abbat of that towne. The abbats seruants get|ting knowledge hereof, came thither by night, but they missed their purpose, for he was gone; but they caught diuerse of his men, whome they caried streict to prison. The lord Cobham herewith was sore dis|maied, for that some of them that were taken were such as he trusted most, being of counsell in all his deuises. In the same place, were found books written in English, and some of those books in times past had beene trimlie gilt, liuined, and beautified with ima|ges, the heads whereof had béene scraped off, and in the Letanie they had blotted foorth the name of our ladie, and of other saints, till they came to the verse Parce nobis Domine. Diuerse writings were found there also, in derogation of such honour as then was thought due to our ladie. The abbat of saint Albons sent the booke so difigured with scrapings & blottings out, with other such writings as there were found, vnto the king; who sent the booke againe to the arch|bishop, to shew the same in his sermons at Paules crosse in London, to the end that the citizens and o|ther people of the realme might vnderstand the pur|poses of those that then were called Lollards, to bring them further in discredit with the people.