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He came close up to her, scarcely according her the civility of greeting. Never had she seen his countenance more gloomy. "You can tell me truer than those drunken devils below stairs," he said. "Where is your sister?" "At Lady Sarah Tewkesbury's." "So her major-domo swears; but her chairmen, whom I found asleep in the hall, say they set her down at the palace." "At Whitehall?"
Jawleyford, who saw where the shoe was pinching her bear. 'I wish he was off, observed Jawleyford, after a pause. 'He bothers me excessively I'll try and get rid of him by saying we are going from home. 'Where can you say we are going to? asked Mrs. Jawleyford. 'Oh, anywhere, replied Jawleyford; 'he doesn't know the people about here: the Tewkesbury's, the Woolerton's, the Brown's anybody.
The truth of the matter was, however, that as Tewkesbury was examined for the first time on the 8th May 1529, and immediately afterwards recanted, the event occurred several months before Sir Thomas More became Lord Chancellor; and therewith falls to the ground the story of Tewkesbury's being tortured in Mores garden, the punishment of heretics being part of the Lord Chancellor's office.
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