He having received it would have shifted off the Punishment of the Malefactor.

But we day after day followed him from house to Court, and from place to place, where-ever he went, demanding Justice and Satisfaction for the wrong we received, shewing the black and blew blows upon the English mans shoulders to all the rest of the Noble men at Court.

He fearing therefore lest the King might be made acquainted herewith was forced tho much against his will to clap the Chingulay in Chains.

In which condition after he got him, he released him not till besides the former fee he had given him another.
[An English man preferred at Court.] Lately was Richard Varnham taken into the Kings service, and held as Honourable an employment as ever any Christian had in my time, being Commander of Nine Hundred and Seventy Soldiers, and set over all the great Guns, and besides this, several Towns were under him.

A place of no less Profit than Honour.