IV.
Powell’s charges against Earl of Warwick and Painter (Abstract).
(Hatfield, Calendar iii., No. 581.)
September, 1587. John Powell to the Queen, offers to expose frauds in the Ordnance Office, and begs the Queen to grant him a hearing before the Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, Lord Admiral, and Earl Warwick, which last named he accuses of great oppressions, and one Painter of false recording the office books.