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.