425 4th. That he receiv'd sallary of the king for forty warders, and had not neere so many, but fill'd up the list with false names, and tooke the pay to himselfe. 5th. That when he had receiv'd money for those warders he kept, he had detein'd it many months, to his owne use, while the poore men were thereby in miserable wants. 6th. That .he sold the warders places, and lett them houses at a deare rate, and yet tooke the most considerable prisoners, which ought to have bene committed to them, into his owne house, and ma.de them pay him excessive rates for bed-roomes, and sett his man Cressett over them, making them pay him for attendance, what the warders shonld have had. 7. That he made many false musters in his owne company belonging to the Tower, and though he had receiv'd the souldier's mony, was runne in arrears to them five or 'six pounds a man; at which they cruelly murmur' cl, because by this meanes their main• tenance was strcightned, and their duty brought more freqnent upon them. 8th. That notwithstanding all his defrawding, oppressive, and exacting wayes of raysing mony, he had ungratefully complain'd of the king's scanty recompence of his service. g, That after the sterving of the poore prjsoners and their miserable outcrie, when shame forc'd him to allow about a dozen poore tradesmen ten shillings a piece,' though at that time he receiv'd forty of the king for each of them, he and his man Cressett denied the king's allowance, and saycl it was his owne charity. lOth. That he was frequently drunk, out of the Tower till twelve, one, and two of the clock, and threatned one of the warders, who ~ lt hence appears that many more in number) and persons of a different description front what other accounts mention1 were made pri soners of state at this time.
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