text:  Their gambols were beautiful to behold; and to complete the good work which was so well begun good Mr Snowton did send to my care at the same remuneration two young gentlemen of tender years Master Walter Mannering and Master John Carey--the elder of them being eight and the other seven; and as if fortune never tired of raining down on us her golden favours the great Lady Mallerden herself did use her interest on my behalf and obtained for me the charge of a relative of her noble house--the honourable Master Fitzoswald of illustrious lineage in the north of the age of nine years