your Worthinesse the smallest halfe of your due, I doe onely desire to leaue your Ladyship in assurance, That when encrease of Age and Learning, sets My Minde in wealthi'r state then now it is, I'll pay a greater portion of my debts, Or mortgage you a better Muse then this, Till then, no kinde forbearance is amisse, While, though I owe more then I can make good, This is inough, to shew how faine I woo'd. Your Ladiships in all humblenes, Willam Bas.W.H. Gunner, 'William Basse and his poems', Notes and Queries, Vol. I: Nov. 1849 to May 1850 (George Bell, London 1850), No. 22: March 30, 1850, pp. 348-49 (Google). Death and legacy At his death, which occurred suddenly early in 1603, he was buried in the old church of St Andrew's, Holborn in London, in the Ward of Farringdon Without. Sir Thomas Tasburgh was shown to have been indebted in considerable sums (£2,530) to the Crown upon the remainder of his account for his office as Teller. Hawridge was further demised to John Tasburgh in Thomas's will. In 1605, in the wake of the Gunpowder Plot, Lady Tasburgh stirred up a hornets' nest by disclosing potentially treasonable correspondence of Elizabeth Vaux, and concerning correspondence between Sir George Fermor and Lady Wenman, resulting in various interrogations. At this time the severe statutes of the Popish Recusants Act 1605 were introduced. In November 1611 Thomas Tasburgh's twenty-two sureties were listed, headed by Henry Wyndsore, 5th Baron Wyndsore, Sir William Brydges, 4th Baron Chandos and Sir William Pope of Wroxton, later 1st Earl of Downe (sons-in-law of Owen and Anne Hopton), Sir Thomas Kitson, Sir John Peyton, Lieutenant of the Tower, Richard Blount (II) of Dedisham in Slinfold (married to Jane West's sister Mary), Richard Fermor of Somerton, etc.: Dame Jane was permitted to compound, with the assistance of Sir John Tasburgh of Flixton and of Richard Blennerhassett of Kelvedon. Sir John (V) was the builder of Flixton Hall in 1615, which was rebuilt by Anthony Salvin in the later 1840s following a "disastrous" fire. Around 1605 Dame Jane married, as her fourth husband, that notable adherent to the Old Faith, Ralph Sheldon (1537-1613), Esquire, of Beoley, Worcestershire, whose first wife had been Anne Throckmorton. Sheldon still referred to her as "Lady Jane Tasborough", and the date of the marriage is established by its mention in a suit between Sheldon