rhoddi ei hanes yn gryno yn ystod y blynyddoedd hyn, dodwn hi yma :
Considerations whereupon John ap Rece maketh his suit to the King's Highness.
His office is decayed, and no fee attached to it, yet it is charged with the keeping of the King's muniments. He has written for the King these things following without any allowance therefor:
Professions of all prelates persons and bodies; Divers instruments for my ladie Marie concerning the abdication of the Bishop of Rome's power and renunciation of appeals;
Divers great instruments as well of the process of divorce of Queen Anne, as of the contract and solemnization of the same between the King and Most Noble [late] Queen Jane, all which instruments and others he is charged by his office to keep,
He wrote to the King the abridgements of the comperts of the late visitation, also the confessions of the late rebels in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire and abridgements of the same. He rode post to the examination and execution of that traitor Halom and his accomplices at Hull. He was promised a pension of £40 out of Guysborough, but had it not. He has ever since been occupied in the examination of traitors, felons or heretics and daily is and shall be ready to do.
He kept one David at the King's appointment for half a year or more in his house at his own cost also he hath ridden upon his own costs to the execution of divers other the King's affairs. All which be now reciting not to ask anything therefor of duty but for the furtherance of his suit in this part by revocation of the same to the
