[1] [page 1094] Sir Thomas Wiat had written vnto sir Robert Southwell shiriffe of Kent,Sir Thomas [...]iat writeth [...] sir Robert Southwell. to moue him in (respect of the preseruation of the common-wealth now in danger to be ouerrun of strangers, through the pre|tensed marriage, if it should go forward) to ioine with him and others,The shiriffe of kent and the [...] of Abur|gauennie as|semble a pow|er against [...]. in so necessarie a cause for the disappointing of the same marriage, and to worke so with the lord of Aburgauennie, with whom he might doo much, that it might please him also to ioine with them. But as well the said sir Robert Southwell, as the said lord of Aburgauennie, and one George Clerke assembled themselues with such power as they might make against the said sir Thomas Wiat and his adherents; and comming to Malling on the saturdaie, being the market daie & seuen and twen|tith of Ianuarie, the said sir Robert Southwell ha|uing penned an exhortation to dissuade the people, and to bring them from hauing anie liking to Wi|ats enterprise, did read the same openlie vnto all the people there assembled, in confuting, reprouing, and refelling the proclamations set forth by sir Thomas Wiat and his adherents.