Cecil Papers: March 1606 | British History Online

Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 24, Addenda, 1605-1668. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1976.

'Cecil Papers: March 1606', in Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 24, Addenda, 1605-1668, (London, 1976) pp. 61-72. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-cecil-papers/vol24/pp61-72 [accessed 19 April 2024]

March 1606



	Ralph Cox to the Earl of Salisbury.
[After March 3, 1605–6].	He requests to be given the benefit of the wardship and marriage of the heir of Laurence Haddock, late of Horton, co. Yorks., deceased.—Undated. ½ p. (P. 432.) [Commission for Inq. P.M. issued on March 3, 1605–6. See PRO, Wards 9, Vol. 170, fo. 59b.]
	The foreign curriers to the Privy Council.
[Before March 14, 1605–6].	They refer to the action of the freemen curriers in procuring an act in the late Parliament which curtailed the trade and livelihood of the foreign curriers. In response to a petition from the latter, the Privy Council referred the matter to the Lord Mayor of London with the object of either affiliating the foreign to the freemen curriers, or achieving some modus vivendi between them. The Lord Mayor failed in his mediation and matters have been allowed to drift, with the result that petitioners and their families face ruin and starvation. Since it appears that the freemen curriers "are of an ungodlye disposition" petitioners beg the Council to issue an order that they be not interfered with, nor the shoemakers who employ them molested, until their case be raised again in Parliament.—Undated. ¾ p. (196. 114.) [See The Journals of the House of Commons, Vol. I, p. 352.]
	The same to the Earl of Salisbury.
[Before March 14, 1605–6].	In the late Parliament an act was passed which declared that, "noe artifecers usinge, workinge or cuttinge of leather dwelling within the saide Citty [of London] and three miles compas of the same shoulde putt anye leather to be corried to anye person but onlie to suche as were fremen of the saide Companie of Corriors of London". This prohibition has threatened all curriers living within that radius with complete ruin and the consequent starvation of their families. They beg Salisbury to take the necessary measures in the Parliament, which has now assembled, to rescind the act, so that they may be allowed to earn their living at their old trade which they and their predecessors have practised since time immemorial. They appeal for his assistance in respect that they are too poor to prefer a bill in Parliament themselves, so much so "that they can scarce gett breade to feede themselves withall nor att the weeks end to paie the debts they owe for their victualls".—Undated. Endorsed: "The humble petition of the forreine corriors inhabyting neare unto the Cittye of London." ½ p. (196. 115.) [See Statutes at Large, Vol. II, Cap. XXII (1602), pp. 975–983.]
	The Royal Household.
[Before March 18, 1605–6].—
	The King's Servants
	Lord Haddington	200^l
	Francis Stewart	100¹
	Sir John Shaw	100¹
	Sir Mich. Balfoure	100¹
	Sir Henry Balfoure	100^l
	Thomas Lamsden	100¹
	John Levingston	100¹
	Sir James Ffullerton	100¹
	Bernard Lyndsey	100¹
	John Gibbe	100¹
	John Murray	100¹
	John Auchmutie	100¹
	Archibald Napper	100¹
	Sir John Gryme	50¹
	Isaac Casaubon	75¹
	Sir Peter Younge	75¹
	Sir Roger Aston	50¹
	Sir James Atherlony	50¹
	Robert Amstruther	40¹
	Sir Edw. Bushell	33¹	6^s	8^d
	Sir William Constable	40¹
	James Hudson	30^l
	Alex. Levingston	25¹
	John Howme	25¹
	James Hetley	25¹
	Sir Alex. Hay	58¹	6^s	8^d
	— Welles
	Sir James Himlton	25¹
	Sir Patricke Murray	75¹
	Geo. Murray	50¹
	William Rider	37¹	10^s
	Sir Peeter Saltonstall	50¹
	Sir Geo. Reynell	25¹
	Marmaduke Wyvell	25¹
	Thomas Ffootes	40¹	12^s	6^d
	Patricke Maule	65¹
	William Belon	25¹
	Sir William Woodhouse	25¹
	Sir John Brooke	25¹
	More to him	50¹
	William Bellendon	25¹
	Sir Charles Howard	50¹
	Sir Geo. Keere	50^l
	William Ramsey	65¹
	James Marroth	12¹	10^s
	William Grimsditch	50¹
	Robert Gordon	50¹
	John Barkeley	50¹
	Humfrey May	73¹
	More to him	33¹	6^s	8^d
	Sir Geo. Carew	50¹
	Sir Henry Wotton	50¹
	Geo. Wood	45¹	12^s
	Sir Robert Maxwell	100¹
	Geo. Marshall	66¹	13^s	4^d
	Sir Richard Coningsby	66¹	13^s	4^d
	James Maxwell	66¹	13^s	4^d
	Sir Edw. Zouche	11¹	13^s	4^d
	Robert Browne	20¹
	Bevis Theloall	13¹	6^s	8^d
	Walter Toddericke	13¹	6^s	8^d
	John Carse	13¹	6^s	8^d
	Ellis Rothwell	13¹	6^s	8^d
	James Bowey	25¹
	Rafe Holland	20¹
	Patricke Young	25¹
	Robert Hay	50¹
	Archibald Armstrong	9¹	2^s	6^d
	James Buchannon	20¹
	The Prince's Servants
	Sir David Murray	40¹
	Adam Newton	50¹
	Lo. of St Anthony	90¹
	Walter Alexander	25¹
	Anthoine Abington	16¹	13^s	4^d
	Alphonso Fferabosco	12¹	10^s
	Sir David Ffowles	29¹	13^s	4^d
	Rich. Connocke	25¹
	John Harrison	33¹	6^s	8^d
	Thomas Giles	16¹	13^s	4^d
	John Garrett	6¹	13^s	4^d
	Thomas Birchmore	12¹	10^s
	Eustace Norton	12¹	15^s
	Lewes Rogers	22¹	10^s
	Alex. Wilson & Blake	13¹	13^s	9^d
	Rowland Wynne	12¹	10^s
	William Tallard	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Peeter de la Costa	12¹	10^s
	Tho. Parker		100^s
	Rob. Jameson		100^s
	Tho. Younge		100^s
	Attendants upon Ambassadors
	Sir Lewis Lewkenor	50¹
	Sir William Button	30¹	8^s	4^d
	Sir Edw. Prynne	12¹	10^s
	Sir Steven Leizure	12¹	10^s
	Riders of the King's Horses
	Andrew Zinzan	16¹	13^s	4^d
	Henry Zinzan	25¹
	Andrew Zinzan	12¹	10^s
	Phisitions
	Do^r Craigg	25¹
	Do^r Atkins	25¹
	Do^r Poe	12¹	10^s
	Do^r Hamond	25¹
	Do^r Mayerne	100¹
	Surgeons
	Gilbert Primrose	25¹
	Jo. Nesmith	20¹
	More	15¹
	Sergeant Gudderous	16¹	13^s	4^d
	Geo. Baker	10¹
	James Harvey	10¹
	Abraham Allen	12¹	10^s
	Apothecaries
	Jo. Wolf Rumler	20¹
	Geo. Sheires	28¹	6^s	8^d
	Rafe Cleyton		100^s
	Gedeon de Lawne		100^s
	Queenes Servants
	John Elphinston	50¹
	Peeter Ffranke	50¹
	Jo. Chalke	25¹
	Jo. Seringius	40¹
	William Murkey, cooke	12¹	10^s
	Jaques Bochan	15¹
	Jane Dromond	250¹
	William Hay	30¹	8^s	4^d
	Eliz. Shawe	100¹
	Wm. Edgeley	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Musicians
	Do^r Bull	10¹
	Arthur Bassano	14¹	13^s	6½^d
	Andrew Bassano	11¹	12^s	8½^d
	Edw. Bassano	11¹	12^s	8½^d
	Jerome Bassano	11¹	12^s	8½^d
	Scipio Bassano	11¹	12^s	8½^d
	Robert Baker	16¹	10^s	7½^d
	Jerome Lanier	11¹	12^s	8½^d
	Alphonso Lanier	11¹	12^s	8½^d
	Peeter Edney	15¹	0	7½^d
	Peeter Guy	10¹	2^s	3½^d
	Tho. Mason	11¹	12^s	8½^d
	Samuel Garshe	11¹	12^s	8½^d
	Henry Troches	11¹	12^s	8½^d
	Cormocke M'Dermott	11¹	12^s	8½^d
	Jo. Phelpes	17¹	13^s	4½^d
	Wm. Gosson	8^l	11^s	10½^d
	Jeffrey Crewse	8^l	11^s	10½^d
	Jo. Lanier	12^l	10^s
	Tho. Cardall	35¹
	Nath. Giles	10¹
	Peeter Pulliard	8¹	11^s	10½^d
	Rich. Thorne	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Sergeants at Arms
	Tho. Bradshaw	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Geo. Burrell	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Wm. Goodfellow	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Mich. Cobbe	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Jo. Cotton	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Tho. Dixon	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Hen. Batten	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Jo. Bennet	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Wm. Ffountaine	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Rich. Hale	11¹	8^s	1½^d
	Jo. Rolles	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Jo. Neve	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Hen. Snelgar	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Edw. Grimeston	9¹	2^s	6^d
	Jo. Freed	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Lancaster Gibbons	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Rich. Wydmer	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Heralds
	Wm. Cambden	10¹
	Rich. St George	10¹
	Rafe Brooke	6¹	13^s	4^d
	Samuel Tomson	6¹	13^s	4^d
	Jo. Raven	6¹	13^s	4^d
	Wm. Penson	6¹	13^s	4^d
	Rob. Treswell	6¹	13^s	4^d
	Thomas Knight		100^s
	Wm. Smith		100^s
	Phillip Holland		100^s
	Mercury Patten		100^s
	Rich. Charles	6¹	13^s	4^d
	The Duke's Servants
	Sir Robert Cary	50^l
	La. Cary	50^l
	More to her	200^l
	Tho. Murray	33¹	6^s	8^d
	Julian Ffoster		100^s
	Anne Ffortune		100^s
	Geo. Kirke		100^s
	Jo. Lysle	9^l
	James Young & his brother	30^l
	James Elliott	12^l	10^s
	Wm. Clowes	10¹
	Norman Lisle		100^s
	Sir James Ffullerton	33¹	6^s	8^d
	Tho. Trevor	10¹
	Jane Swarlen	9¹	2^s	6^d
	Ladie Elizabeths Servants
	Eliz. Piggott		100^s
	Blanche Swanstead	9¹	2^s	6^d
	Eliz. Hay	15¹
	Ladie Maries Servants
	Marie Tomson	25¹
	Eliz. Townsend		66^s	8^d
	Mabell Lynley		70^s
	Anne Bartie		75^s
	Katherine Paddee		75^s
	Margaret George		75^s
	Anne Progers		75^s
	Anth. Knyvett		50^s
	Arthur Bodren		25^s
	Mary London		25^s
	Late Queenes ffootemen
	John London	12¹	10^s
	George Stone	12¹	10^s
	Anthoine Bennett	12¹	10^s
	Ambrose Jenney	12¹	10^s
	Hugh Miller	12¹	10^s
	Rich. Miller	12¹	10^s
	Rich. Stringer	12^l	10^s
	John Thorne	12¹	10^s
	Geo. Symonds	12¹	10^s
	The Queenes Ma^tie	3200¹
	La. Arbella	400¹
	Countesse of Nottingham	150¹
	Countesse of Kildare	50¹
	Countesse of Oxon.	50¹
	La. Burgh	100¹
	La. Lumley	75¹
	La. Woodroe	12¹	10^s
	La. Adelm	12¹	10^s
	La. Edmondes	25¹
	La. Hill	12¹	10^s
	La. Southwell	50¹
	La. Vavasor	16¹	13^s	4^d
	Mrs Bridges	10¹
	2 daughters of the Erle of Westm'landes	66¹	13^s	4^d
	Mrs Ratcliff	50¹
	Mrs Stapleton	50¹
	Mrs Kirton	50¹
	Mrs Higgins	10¹
	Mrs Somervile	10¹
	La. Bartlett	20¹
	La. Dorothie	50¹
	La. Borlas	83¹	6^s	8^d
	Mistris Ffortescu	12¹	10^s
	Anne Barkeley	15¹
	Huntsmen and Ffalconers
	Sir Patricke Howme	55¹
	4 yeomen prickers	36¹
	Rich. Lazonby	10¹
	Alex. Mongreife	90¹
	Geo. Mongreife	22¹	16^s	3^d
	Tho. Mongreife	9¹	2^s	6^d
	Jo. Waters	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Wm. Gatacre	16¹	13^s	4^d
	Geo. Colmer	50¹
	Lawrence Weekes		45^s	711/24
	Wm. Risbrooke	20¹	10^s	7½^d
	Tho. Pott	71¹	16^s	3^d
	Hen. Halfheid	12¹	3^s	1½^d
	Rich. Gwynne		103^s	10^d
	Jo. Wood	11¹	8^s	1½^d
	Tho. Cockeyn	9¹
	Rob. Rayne	12¹	10^s
	John St Leger	10¹
	Sir Rich. Perry	45¹	12^s	6^d
	Knights of Windsor	59¹	6^s	3^d
	Sir Hen. Ffowkes	25¹
	Sir Wm. Dethicke	50¹
	Geo. Kirkham	19¹	6^s	10½^d
	Reignold Bye	10¹
	Discoverers of y^e Traitors
	Th. Banister	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Bolles
	Jo. Ffynwood	6¹	13^s	4^d
	Jo. Streete	9¹	2^s	6^d
	Jo. Stone	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Rich. Rice	4¹	11^s	3^d
	Servants to the late Queene of Scotts
	Tho: Baldwyn	16¹	13^s	4^d
	Rob. Tunstead	25¹
	Anth. Rolston	25¹
	Sir Charles Yelverton	12¹	10^s
	Lord Ffivie	100¹
	Lord Erskyn (fn. 1)	50¹
	Lord Gordoune	50¹
	Lord of Kinlosse	50¹
	Wm. Stafford	25¹
	Wm. Stafford jun.	27¹	7^s	6^d
	Wm. Stallenge	15¹	4^s	2^d
	Wm. Inglebert	16¹	13^s	4^d
	Revells	5¹
	Armory	190¹
	Clerks of y^e Counsell	95¹
	Keepers of y^e Counsell Chamber	35¹	15^s
	Readers of phisick & Law lectures	40¹
	Jewellers	387¹
	Grooms of y^e stable	44¹
	Posts	68¹
	Harbingers	47¹	10^s
	Keepers of houses	106¹
	Gamme keepers	208¹
	Wardrobe keepers	62¹
	Gonners and others in y^e Towere	380¹
	Total	13470¹
	Undated. Endorsed: "Pentioners." 4 pp. (211. 3^c.)
	Lewis Eynon to the Earl of Salisbury.
[Before March 18, 1605–6].	He is a Yeoman of the Guard. A debt of £614:14 has been long due to him by the King, and it is the only means he possesses to support a wife and ten children, except his pay as a Yeoman. He has petitioned the Lord Treasurer for its payment, but lack of money has prevented it. Petitioner has consequently been in danger of finding himself taken and imprisoned by his own creditors, who have asked permission to do so from the Lord Chamberlain and Lord Dirleton, the Captain of the Guard. The debt represents money disbursed by him for the Treasurer of Ireland. He requests Salisbury to further the suit which he proposes to submit to the Privy Council.—Undated. ½ p. (P. 1057.)
	George Grimes to the Earl of Salisbury.
[After March 18, 1605–6].	He is in the service of Viscount Fentoun, and informs Salisbury that hearing a certain Laurence Woodward of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields making defamatory statements about Mr Brian, one of Viscount Cranborne's servants, he "in friendly manner reproved him". For his pains he was insulted, attacked and beaten up by Woodward and one of his confederates, who also maltreated his wife. As a result he is confined to his bed, and cannot follow his master's business on the occasion of the progress. He is indignant that he has been so abused by "a base fellow that keepes a tiplinge howse and that very disorderlie", and asks that Salisbury summon Woodward before him and punish him in an exemplary manner.—Undated. ¾ p. (P. 1091.)
	Steel.
[After March 18, 1605–6].	"My Lord Treasurer was made acquainted with the matter of steel by one Ball. Afterwards, my Lord Fenton was acquainted with it and imbraced it by means of one Kendal. His wyf lyeth at the house of one Brabant, an atturney in Milford Lane. Barkesdal is a merchant in London. He knowes not where he dwels, but his wyf doth. Sir James Crighton is the party that deales with my Lord Fenton. He hath a knyfe of this new kind of steele. He hath acquainted one Mathew a cutler by Fleet Brige with this secret."—Undated. Endorsed: "Concerning a new invention of steele." ½ p. (130. 178.) [See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XIX, pp. 393, 394 and 397.]
	Steel.
[? After March 18, 1605–6].	Notes on the different kinds of steel, the uses to which they are put, the variety of tools, instruments and domestic goods manufactured from them, and the expediency of converting certain iron products into steel.—Undated. Endorsed: "Concerning the differences of steeles." 1 p. (130. 177.)
	John Roper to the Earl of Salisbury.
[After March 31, 1606].	Concerning the misdemeanours of John Anderton, Justice of the Peace. When 30 persons committed a burglary in petitioner's house at night time, wounding him and two of his sons, he asked Anderton to assist him in arresting some of the guilty party and disclosed their names and addresses. Anderton refused, and so allowed the criminals to escape. Moreover, when the late Queen Elizabeth died, Anderton and four others "tooke the Bible and service booke out of Leiland church and bestowed them in an alehowse, and thereby hindred the publique service and prayers to God for his Ma^tie, by which recusants taking encouragement twoe masses were said the next Sunday in that towne or parrishe". When a sermon was arranged for St. James Day, in honour of the King's coronation, one hundred people armed with guns entered the church and disturbed the preacher. A complaint was made to Anderton, who declined to punish the offenders. Petitioner adds that all these charges were proved by deposition under the hand of Sir Urien Leigh and other commissioners in the Court of the Star Chamber. He himself is 80 years old, and the prosecution of the case in that court has impoverished him. Besides, Anderton has been able, by means of his influence and wealth, to prevent any date being fixed for the hearing of the case. He requests Salisbury to intervene with the Lord Chancellor that a day be appointed for the examination of the matter in Michaelmas term next.—Undated. 1 p. (197. 52.) [See PRO, Star Chamber Proceedings, James I, 252/2.]
	Sir Edward Clere to the King.
[? March, 1605–6].	He requests him to accept satisfaction from Sir Thomas Parry as to his conduct towards the ambassadors, since he was present at the meeting. The honour which petitioner received in the presence of the French King was bestowed without the slightest reflection on or discredit to the allegiance he owed to his own sovereign. It was a recognition of Clere's relationship to the late Queen Elizabeth, revealed by Count Beaumont, of King James's favours to the French Ambassador, and of Clere's lineal descent from the Earls of Clermont. He asks to be released from prison, where he has been detained for three weeks and hindered from attending to his duties in Parliament.—Undated. Endorsed: "The humble petition of Sir Edward Clere, knight, prisoner in y^e Marshalsea". 1 p. (P. 210.) [See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603–10, p. 307.]
	Michael Borstade to the King.
[Before April, 1606].	He is a native of Odislo (Oslo) and a subject of the King of Denmark. For a long time he has been a suitor to the King of England concerning his ship, the Spreadeagle, which was seized on the high seas with her cargo of masts in the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth. He produced letters written on his behalf by the King of Denmark, and was granted his suit on the condition that he produced irrefutable evidence that the ship was his. He has produced valid certificates to that effect for Sir Julius Caesar, (fn. 2) Master of Requests, and also proved that neither the ship nor the cargo was the property of a Spaniard and, therefore, not subject to confiscation. He requests to have his ship restored to him in accordance with the King's promise to the Duke of Holstein.—Undated. ½ p. (P. 1061.)
	Captain Francis Clayton to the Earl of Salisbury.
[Before April 3, 1606].	He has been forced to spend much money on surgical treatment for the wounds which he received on active service during the late Queen Elizabeth's reign, and has been driven to the extremity of having to pawn the patent of the small pension bestowed on him through the kind intervention of Salisbury. In regard of the service performed by his deceased father, Captain William Clayton, and his eighteen sons in the Irish wars, of whom 13 lost their lives, and of the 28 years' service completed by petitioner himself in Ireland, "I am an humble suitor in this Parliament for a small allowance of two shillings out of every Stage play that shalbe acted, and twelve pence out of every showe of strange beasts as Bavians [baboons] and such like within the citty and suburbs of London, to be paid unto mee or my assignes during my life by the owners and actors of those plaies and showes." He requests Salisbury's support according to the latter's advice "in your garden at Theobalds upon the motion I then made to your Lordship concerning this suite in the presence of the Earl of Devonshire". (fn. 3) —Undated. ¾ p. (P. 1580.)