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1. The King to the Judges of the Court of —. For them
all to be present at the hearing of a cause between the King's
servant, Sir George Perkins, and Richard Greaves, respecting certain
lands in co. Derby, and to call into court and examine vivâ voce
John Milward and Henry Bridges, witnesses to a deed which is in
question. [Copy.] |
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2. Draft of the preceding. |
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Another draft of a letter intended to be written in lieu of the
above. [Written on the same sheet of paper as the preceding.] |
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3. The King to the Dean and Chapter of—Cathedral.
Robert Creighton, one of the Canon Residentiaries of that church,
being about to be employed in the royal service, his residence was
thereby dispensed with. [It appears from a part of the paper which
is struck through, that the employment alluded to luas the tutorship
of a brother of James Duke of Lennox.] [Draft.] |
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4. The King to Sir Robert Naunton, Master, and to the rest of
the Council of the Court of Wards. Mary Lady Teynham, Henry
Earl of Worcester, and William Lord Petre, who had applied for
the wardship of Christopher Lord Teynham, being recusants were
incapable; no other of his allies having applied, his Majesty conferred the wardship on Sec. Conway, he paying the usual fine and
rent for the same. [Draft.] |
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5. The King to —. John Grey having received from the
late King James a grant of the Long Mountain alias Taven Digoth,
cos. Salop and Montgomery, the same had ever since been detained
from him and his heirs, by such as had no claim thereto. Directs the
persons intended to be addressed to make a fair accommodation
between the heirs of John Grey and the pretenders to the use of
common in the premises. [Signed, but not directed.] |
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6. Warrant to deliver two brace of bucks for the Tellers of the
Exchequer. [Draft.] Annexed, |
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6. i. Note of the names of the four Tellers, and how the bucks
were distributed to them in the last year, 1627. |
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7. The King to [the Council ?]. Having been moved by the late
Extraordinary Ambassador from Venice for discharging certain
priests out of prison, but being informed that the grace shown in
that way in no way disburthened the kingdom of these men, his
Majesty desires that the Council should consider by what means the
King's purpose not to touch the lives of any of them without further
cause than yet appears may be continued, and yet the kingdom as
far as possible be eased of that kind of people, whether by banishment, or adoption of any other course of restraint in other prisons
less open to the resort of people. |
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8. Sec. Conway to the same. Letter to the same effect as the
preceding, but purporting to be written, not by the King, but by
the Secretary under the King's direction. [Fair copy, unsigned.] |
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Proclamation of the effect of certain branches of the Statute made
in anno 33, Henrici VIII., touching the maintenance of artillery,
and the punishment of such as use unlawful games. [Coll. Procs.,
Car., I., No. 98 A.] |
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9. Letters Patent whereby the King releases to John Evelyn the
younger, of Godstone, co. Surrey, 2000l., paid to him by way of imprest under an indenture dated July 1, 22nd James I., 1624, and
made between the late Duke of Buckingham, then Lord High Admiral, George Lord Carew, then Master of the Ordnance, and Sir
Richard Weston, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the King's
behalf, and the said John Evelyn, being a contract for the supply
of gunpowder for the King's stores. [Copy.] |
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10. Suggestion of fourteen several Acts to be sent by the King
to the Lower House, to be drawn against the next Session. |
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11. Note of various suggested inquiries, indorsed "The King's
Paper of Inquiries touching divers Abuses of Pressing Men, &c."
They principally relate to the conduct of high constables in pressing
and releasing whom they would, and the misconduct of saltpetre
men. |
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12. James Martin, a clergyman, to the King. Gives information
of a knight of great estate who had accused the late King and the
Duke of having falsely dealt with him respecting a promise of the
Comptrollership of the Household; and of a Doctor of Divinity,
chaplain to a bishop, who had declared that the Duke's death was
undoubtedly God's work. |
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13. [Sec. Conway] to the same. Statement, termed a Remonstrance, of the inconveniences of passing away from the King the
lands in the Isle of Wight which were in mortgage to the city; the
trees would be immediately cut down, and the strength of the
island, and its capability of defence, be thereby much impaired.
[Copy.] |
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14. Draft of the preceding. |
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15. Dr. Roger Mainwaring to the same. The Church of St. Giles
has not one foot of land, nor tithes more than 6l. yearly; nevertheless he is selected out of all, and an information filed against him
in the Star Chamber. Sure he is that he is the unfittest to be
tossed and torn in that high court, that in a higher has been so lately
bruised only for his devotion to the King. If not redeemed by
the King from this great trouble he can but perish. |
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16. Minute of petition of Doctor Theodore Diodati, for a grant
of the office of Physician of the Tower, for which he has the consent
of the Governor, and "Mons. de Mayerne" will satisfy his Majesty
of the petitioner's personal fitness. Fr. |
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17. Petition of Thomas Trussell to the King. In the seventeenth
year of the late King he granted a patent to Sir John Key, then
Surveyor of the Ordnance, and others, for reformation of abuses in
wine casks. That patent was afterwards stayed by proclamation.
Petitioner prays that the patent may be referred for examination to
some of the Lords of the Council. Underwritten is an unsigned
reference, probably merely suggested, to the Earls of Arundel and
Holland, calling to them some of the Judges. |
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18. Petition of Joseph Harrison and Henry Goodwyn to the
same. The late King granted to Richard Hooper and William
Randes a pension of 30l. per annum in consideration that they
undertook to clear the Narrow Seas from the Isle of Wight to
Yarmouth of all slipt anchors and cables. The grantees being both
deceased, petitioners pray for a similar grant to themselves. |
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19. Petition of the Company of the West India Merchants in the
United Provinces to the same. In September 1627 the King gave
the petitioners free ingress and egress to and from all his Majesty's
ports and havens. The Golden Wolf, of Medenblick, a ship of the
petitioner's, was lately set upon by certain ships of Henley, Phillips,
and Polehill, and taken into Plymouth. Prays for its release. |
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20. Petition of William Belou to the King. The King gave
petitioner a warrant for payment of his arrearages, on which he
obtained an assignment to be paid out of the sale of woods, but
there were so many assignments that petitioner could not obtain
anything. The Lord Treasurer that now is commanded the petitioner
to surrender his assignment, and he would give a new order; yet
he cannot obtain payment nor order. Having fallen into sickness
and want, prays for an effectual order for payment of 200l. on
account to Charles Boussine, to whom petitioner is indebted. |
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21. Petition of Henry, Dorothy, and Katherine Erskine, the orphan
children of the late Earl of Buchan, to the same. Their father on
his death-bed being demanded concerning the livelihood of petitioners, replied that he had nothing to leave them save moneys due
to him from the King for the Shrievalty of Bamff, which he besought
the King to bestow on them. Had not their grandmother, Lady
Knyvett, relieved them they must have perished for want, but her
estate is small, and her own charge of children and debts great.
Pray for relief. |
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22. Petition of Endymion Porter to the same. Prays for a lease
of Marsly Park, parcel of the lordship of Bromfield and Yale, co.
Denbigh, and Raby Park, with the spring there, parcel of the lordship
of Raby, in Durham, for 30 years after the expiration of estates in
being. |
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23. Petition of Michael Prescott to the same. On Wednesday
last, before dinner, in the Queen's presence chamber, petitioner
presented the King with a book setting forth abuses in the customs
on the river. Prays the King to give speedy consideration thereof.
The convoy for Dutch traders is come into the river, and if the King
will give warrant, petitioner will fetch out of that ship 10,000l. or
20,000l. worth of goods not entered at the Custom House. |
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24. Minute of petition to the King from Sir Thomas Longfield
[Longueville ?], Sir Thomas Cony, and Capt. Gunter, that they
may have the training of the horse in various counties, with such
allowances as had been granted to Sir Richard Grenefield [Grenville]
and Mons. Demin. |
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25. Reference by the King to the Lords Keeper and Privy Seal,
and to the Master of the Rolls, of a petition addressed to his Majesty.
[Copy unsigned.] |
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26. Minutes of businesses to be submitted to the King. They
comprise, applications from Lord Mohun for purchase of a manor of
the King's; from William Cradock, chaplain to the late Duke of
Buckingham, for dispensation to hold Stonegrave with Nuneaton;
from the Earl of Ormond, for confirmation of an award of the late
King respecting the co. Tipperary; from Sir Andrew Gray, as
Governor of Berwick, to have his fee extended to 666l. 13s. 4d.;
with others from Mr. Hen and Bickerstaff, Mr. Sydenham, William
Daynes and Roger Daynes, and Sir Giles Mompesson. |
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27. Information by Robert Rous and Thomas Hippisley, that
William Brookings said the King had cousened the country. |
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28. Note, by Viscount Conway, of speeches by Hopkins, Bacon,
and a third person dwelling in the parish of St Sepulchre. Hopkins
said in their presence that the King would not live long. |
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29. Queen Henrietta Maria to Sir John Finch, her Attorney
General, and to the Clerk of her Signet for the time attending. To
draw up a grant of the custody of Hyde Park to Sir John Smith
and John Cope, after the decease of Henry Earl of Holland, for the
lives of the Earl's sons, Robert Lord Kensington and Charles Rich.
[Draft.] |
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30. Minute of a warrant to be prepared for the King's signature,
to authorize the Earl of Suffolk, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports,
to send back all persons coming from any foreign port who shall
refuse the Oath of Allegiance; and also to exchange Dunkirk
prisoners for English, according to the effect of a within written
Order of Council of May 16, 1627. |
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31. Reasons in favour of an Act of Parliament for re-estating
certain lands in co. Somerset, late of William Morgan, of Penrose,
co. Monmouth, and discharging the same of certain trusts. |
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32. Minute of request of the Duke of Buckingham to [Sir Robert
Naunton, Master of the Wards], that the wardship of Nicholas
Gildredge should be granted to the ward's grandmother. |
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33. Petition of the Students of Christ Church College, Oxford, to
Lord Keeper Coventry, Lord President [Manchester ?], the Duke of
Buckingham, William Earl of Pembroke, Lord Steward, Bishop
Laud, and Lord Chief Justice Hyde. The King having referred to
the persons addressed the consideration of certain grievances now in
controversy between the petitioners and the Dean and Canons of
the College, the petitioners pray that some indifferent persons may
be named to inspect the books which concern the revenue of the
College, so that the referees may be truly informed of the state
thereof. |
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34. Petition of Robert Bruce to the Council. The Mayor and
Aldermen of Canterbury, with reference to annexed petition, allege
that the petitioner was pressed for the country and not for the city,
and therefore refuse him relief. Prays that he may be placed in
some hospital, or may have letters to the co. of Kent to relieve him.
Annexed, |
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34. i. Petition of Robert Bruce to the King. Being on his return
from the wars, he was pressed in Canterbury to go with
Count Mansfeldt. Was afterwards in the King's service
in Denmark, in which he lost the use of his limbs, and
received many wounds. Prays for a place in some
hospital, or an allowance from Canterbury, where he was
pressed. [Underwritten is a reference to the Mayor and
Aldermen of Canterbury to relieve the petitioner, so that
his Majesty be no further troubled therein.] |
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35. Petition of the same to the Council. The Quarter Sessions for
Kent had given him only a suit of clothes and 10s. Prays for a
place in some hospital, or competent relief from the Quarter Sessions
at Canterbury. |
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36. Petition of John Milton, gent., to the Earl of Arundel, Lord
High Marshal, and other the Lords of the Council. Petitioner
having been committed by the Council to the charge of Robert Smith,
one of the messengers in ordinary, was, whilst in his custody,
arrested by Thomas Moss, on behalf of Anthony Gifford. The
Council thereupon ordered the apprehension of Gifford, but he being
privately advertised by Moss, has ever since lurked in co. Devon,
giving order to Mr. Dennyson to prosecute the petitioner in his
absence, whereupon, by the practice of Moss, a judgment has
been obtained, and petitioner been arrested into the Compter, besides
which, actions have been laid upon him to the value of 200l., the
matter in difference being only a due claim of but 5s., and that upon
a supposed breach of covenant about the business depending before
his Lordship and the rest of the Commissioners, and petitioner also
by the whole Parliament made incapable of performing the said
covenant. Petitioner having been detained thirteen weeks, having
propounded businesses of great emolument to his Majesty's coffers
and the weal public under his charge, and having offered his adversary reasonable composition, prays order for his release. |
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37. Petition of William Levett to the same. The late King
granted to certain patentees, for the use of the Countess of Sussex, a
certain toll in Doncaster, the interest whereof for a great consideration came by assignment to petitioner, and a new grant thereof made
to him. One Francis Harwood complained of the same in this last
sessions of Parliament, whereupon the House ordered a petition to
be drawn up to the King for cancelling the same. The toll having
been quietly enjoyed for divers years, and petitioner having laid out
the greatest part of his estate in purchasing the same, he prays that
the patent may be restored to him until its validity be determined
in a legal proceeding. |
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38. Petition of Archibald Nicoll and others, merchants of the north
parts of this realm, to the Council. When they made seizure on the
Scottish ship at Dover, petitioner Nicoll repaired to Sir Jasper
Fowler, then scarcher for his Majesty at Dover, to get proof of the
goods to be lawful prize, and gave Sir Jasper a bond for 60l., for
which he has made petitioner spend a great deal of money in the
Exchequer. It having pleased the Council to take those goods from
them to the King's use, with a slight exception, they pray that Sir
Jasper Fowler may be called before the Board, he having been the
King's officer, and what pains he took having been for the King, and
not for the petitioners. |
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39. Petition of Sir Thomas Gerrard to the King. States the
origin and increase of his great pecuniary difficulties, and prays the
renewal of his protection for one year more. He alleges that his
estate had been ruined by his father's expenses, he having been a
pensioner to Queen Elizabeth for 20 years, and a gentleman of the
Privy Chamber to the late King for 18 years, without fee. |
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40. Petition of the same to the Council. Shorter statement of the
same circumstances, with prayer that they would by their consent
second his Majesty's clemency for renewing his protection. |
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41. Petition of John Dike, Thomas Ferrars, Timothy Wade, and
others, merchants, to the same. Capt. Neason, about a year ago, took
from a Salleeman a ship and goods of the value of 20,000l., which
the Salleeman took prize from a Portugal man that came from Brazil,
for which ship and goods suit is now made by Capt. Harrison, the
King's agent for Barbary. Petitioners have goods in Sallee worth
18,000l., and ever since the peace have had kind usage, and found
the place very convenient for trade, having sold there this year goods
worth 50,000l. They fear that if the Salleeman have not justice,
they will take example by Algiers, where goods of petitioners and
others to the value of 8,500l. were lately taken from them for
wrongs done by Capt. Driver, of Bristol, and others. Pray for a
speedy despatch of this business. |
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42. Petition of John Blachford to the Council. Prays that he
may have his third part of a prize ship taken by Capt. Hinckley in
a vessel belonging to petitioner and John Gardner, and lately
sequestered by Order of Council into the hands of Sir John Drake. |
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43. Petition of Henry Russel to the same. Prays, with reference
to the same case as the preceding petition, that the sequestration of
the goods in the prize ship above alluded to may be discharged. |
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44. Petition of Samuel Langham, merchant, to the same, for
licence to transport 1,000 quarters of corn to the Low Countries. |
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45. Petition of John Southwood to the same, for licence to transport 200 last of corn into Holland. |
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46. Petition of John Tailer, John Locke, and Edward Ballehash,
Merchants Adventurers, to the same. For permission to export 700
foders of lead cast or to be cast at Mendip, co. Somerset, to states in
amity with his Majesty. |
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47. Petition of masters of ships trading to Newcastle for coals to
the Council. Have been at great charges in detaining their vessels
in the river until they were a competent number to go together.
Their ships so congregated are now stayed in the river. Pray for
some special order for their relief. |
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48. Petition of Thomas Locke, Keeper of the Council Chest and
Records, to the same. In October last petitioned for money due to
him for providing stationery for the Council table and the Clerks of
the Council after the usual rate of 40l. per annum, and for an increase
of that allowance. The Council referred it to Mr. Chancellor of the
Duchy to speak to Sir William Uvedale, Treasurer of the Chamber,
thereon. Sir William answered that he had no money in his office
but such as is allotted for other payments. Prays that course may
be taken for petitioner's present satisfaction. He has served "in this
chamber" above 20 years. |
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49. Petition of Richard Archdale, Henry Lee, Martin Bradgate,
Edward Browne, George Rouckes, and Benjamin Wright, merchants,
to the same. Having procured part of their estates detained in
France to be transported to Holland in wines, turpentine, rosin, and
other commodities, they pray permission to land the same in this
kingdom. |
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50. The Council to the Officers of the Navy. To give warrant to
the Victualler of the Navy to allow George Burrowes, purser of the
Recovery, of Ipswich, for goods wasted in his absence, attending to
other of his Majesty's service. [Torn; apparently cancelled; probably
because it should have been written to the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty.] |
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51. Certificate that the sums mentioned in the conveyances of
the manor of Risborough Principis and the town of Cannoll to
Edward Ditchfield and others, to the use of the City of London,
were parts of two aggregate sums of 229,897l. 2s. and 120,000l.,
already paid into the Exchequer. |
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52. Petition of Richard Ballard to Sec. Conway. Served upwards
of 30 years in the Low Countries, under Lord Conway's command,
as a gentleman of his company, and being disabled by hurts, came
over into his native country to procure relief and maintenance in
his "dewexed" age; not having succeeded, he prays the Secretary
so much to commiserate his old soldier's distressed estate as to grace
him with a packet into the Low Countries. |
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53. Minute of a letter by Lord Conway, in his own handwriting.
It does not appear to whom it was addressed. It relates to plans
for the restoration of the writer's ancient friends, the King and
Queen of Bohemia, and certain requests of the person addressed
which his Majesty had granted, and which would be communicated
by Sec. Conway to an Ambassador. [Imperfect.] |
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54. Notes, by Lord Conway, of an information of George Bell
respecting a crew of young gentlemen who had formed themselves
into a society, distinguished by a badge. Many of them were recusants, and they were buying up armour, old and new. |
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55. Copy of the preceding. |
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56. Memorandum to move his Majesty from the Lord Steward
for a letter to Dr. Love, and the other electors of St. Mary's
College, Winchester, to choose, as a scholar, on the first vacancy,
Edward Molesworth, one of the many children of Capt. William
Molesworth. |
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57. Minutes, by a Secretary of Lord Conway's, of a letter to the
Warden of St. Mary's College, Winchester, in accordance with the
preceding memorandum; also for a Privy Seal for payment into the
Treasury Chamber of overplus monies in the Court of Wards; and
for two Commissions for the business of the Venetian Ambassador
and the Earl of Arundel. |
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58. Minute of request of Sir William Brouncker for a letter from
the King to the Prince of Orange and the States, that Sir William
may not be prejudiced in his entertainment by his stay in this
country, which the King knows was enforced. |
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59. Walter Montagu to Dudley Viscount Dorchester. To procure
a letter from the King to the Bishop of Ely for his confirmation of
a promise made to the Duke for conferring the rectory of Feltwell,
co. Norfolk, on Mr. [Richard] Damport, President of Sidney College,
Cambridge, and Chaplain to the King. |
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60. Certificate of the Mayor and others of Westbury to Lord
President Marlborough, in behalf of James Aldridge, a poor man,
70 years of age, who had done good service in the wars. |
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61. Petition of Edward Nicholas and Henry Cusse to Lord
Keeper Coventry. Pray for a remedy against Hugh Audley, who,
having agreed to purchase the lands of William Hunton, had since
obtained possession thereof under an extent granted to Sir Edward
Baynton, and now refused to complete his agreement. |
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62. Pass of Sir John Hippisley for 14 Dutch hoys, long stayed
in Dover harbour, but ordered by the Council to be released.
[Copy.] |
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63. Thomas Newton to Katherine Viscountess Conway. Being
again, by the malice of his old enemies, fallen into troubles, and
imprisoned in Newgate, where he has continued eight weeks in
contempt of Lord Conway's warrant, prays her to put her Lord
in mind of him, and otherwise to give him her assistance. |
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64. Statement by [Matthew de Quester?] of the days for the
departure of the ordinary posts with the several foreign mails. |
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65. List of the Post-stages throughout England, with the rates of
payment to the same per diem. Up to September 15, 1625, the
total payment on this account had been 3,404l. 3s. 4d.; on that day
certain new stages were laid, which added 720l. 17s. 0½d. to the
yearly expense. The question raised in this paper is, whether the
old fixed payments per diem should not be abrogated, and the posts
be allowed to charge 2½d. per mile for all packets. |
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66. Two short poems, in the handwriting of Nicholas. One commencing, "Had she a glass and fear'd the fire;" the other, "My
dead and buried love is risen again." |
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67. Lines commencing "If love's true fire be kindled in thy
breast." [Draft.] |
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68. Propositions, attributed in the indorsement to Mons. Briot,
made to the King concerning what is necessary and profitable to be
done for the good of his Majesty and of his subjects, about the
ordering of his coins. The writer proposes to coin 66 pieces of
silver out of the pound weight, which was an augmentation of four
pieces in the pound; also to coin small silver money down to silver
pence, and brass or copper money down to half a farthing. |
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69. Minute of petition of Mr. Andrewes for a new grant of a
moiety of the tenement of Rosedale, co. York, in order to rectify a
mistake of Francis Swale instead of John Swale in his present
grant. |
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70. Statement by Attorney General Heath of the circumstances
under which the King had conveyed to the City of London lands
of the yearly value of 12,496l. 6s. 6d., in discharge of a debt of
349,897l. 2s. for money lent to the late and present King, and of
the unexpressed trust or agreement entered into by those who dealt
for the City, under which the King was to receive back again any
surplus lands after the City had sold enough to pay their debt. |
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71. Note of the yearly income formerly derived by the King, and
at present by the Queen, from the manor of Holdenby, co. Northampton, purchased by King James, and by him demised to the Lord
Treasurer Suffolk. |
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72. Report of Robert Tanfield on the King's title to the manor
of Moulton, co. Northampton, and the course to be taken in order
to convey the fee simple of the same to the City patentees. |
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73. Note of profits arising from various manors in cos. Leicester,
Buckingham, Essex, and Northampton. |
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74. Warrant of Sir Henry Vane, Cofferer to the King and
Steward of his Majesty's manors of Raby and Brancepeth, co.
Durham, for appointing Thomas Tempest, of Lincoln's Inn, Deputy
Steward of those manors. |
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75. Request that a letter be written to the Commissioners in a
Melius Inquirendum, after the death of Matthew Thimelbie, into
co. Lincoln, that they will have special care to see the same duly
executed. [Probably the letter of Sec. Conway to Lord Sherrard
and others, Vol. xc., No. 79, was written in pursuance of this
request, although the name of the deceased is there stated to be
Thimblethorp.] |
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76. Reasons stated by the Officers of the Bishop of London
against the Officers of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and in defence
of the right of the former to have the proving of the wills of
parties that died at sea or in foreign parts, that were inhabitants of
the diocese of London, and had no goods in any other diocese. |
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77. Proposal of Festus Hommius, entitled "Hypotyposis, seu
delineatio novæ editionis Bibliorum Regiorum, cum apparatu."
This contemplated new edition of the Bible was designed to be
published in 10 volumes, folio, and was to be termed "Biblia Regia
Britannica, or Biblia Regia Carolina, cum novo atque utilissimo
apparatu." Besides the original Hebrew, Greek, and Latin texts,
it was to contain a great variety of supplementary matter. The
proposal is indorsed by Lord Dorchester, "For my Lord Bishop of
London;" and by Bishop Laud, "The Project of Festus Hommius." |
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78. Copy of the same. |
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79. Articles objected by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners against
Edward Lake, Clerk, probably incumbent of some parish in co.
Berks. Copy folded as a letter, and directed to Francis Windebank,
at the Signet Office. The offences charged are, drunkenness,
omission to read divine service, and indecent conduct in the Church. |
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80. Opinions of Drs. Thomas Rives, Arthur Duck, and Thomas
Eden, on a case in ecclesiastical law, as to the consequences of an
unavoidable failure by the wardens of a parish chapel, in payment
on the day of an annual composition due to a mother church.
[Copy.] |
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81. Names of the Separatists in Great Yarmouth, stated in an
indorsement by Bishop Laud to have been "delivered in by Bishop
Harsnet." Sixty-one names are given, and it is stated not only that
there were many others, but that they daily increased, and that they
came ten miles out of the country to the conventicles in that town. |
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82. Particular of leases and patents granted and confirmed during
the time that Bishop Neile held the see of Durham. |
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83. Statement of the title of Francis Earl of Rutland to the
impropriate rectory of Dixley [Dishley], co. Leicester. |
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84. State of the Church and Hospital of Saint John the Baptist in
Bedford, with petition of the corporation of that town that there may
be no further proceedings against them in respect thereof, except
only by course of law. |
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85. Certificate, by Humphry Cross, one of the messengers of the
chamber, of priests and jesuits taken by him since March 12, 1628. |
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86. Extracts from Statutes of a monastic body established in
connexion with the Roman Catholic mission into England. Latin.
[Imperfect.] |
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87. Portion of a paper of advice to the members of some monastic body how to conduct themselves, so as to procure gifts and
legacies for their houses; how to make known the severity of their
discipline; and how to treat members who are ejected and those who
take ejected members into their favour. [Translation from the
Latin ? Imperfect.] |
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88. Points to be considered by occasion of Books written in
the controversy between the Bishop of Chalcedon and the English
Catholics; to inquire of Mr. Colleton whether he wrote the Latin
letter to Petrus Aurelius, printed at the end of the book called
"Petri Aurelii Theologi Anæreticus, &c.;" whether these books
should not be burnt by the hands of justice, and Mr. Colleton be
informed how quick a sense the King has of these presumptions to
usurp jurisdictions and create offices. |
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89. Remonstrance of certain Catholics of Scotland to the King on
the persecution to which they are exposed. They pray the King's
order to the Council of Scotland and the Archbishop of St. Andrews
that the Catholics should be absolved from excommunication, by
virtue of which they are deprived of all civil rights. |
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90. Question submitted to the twelve Judges and their opinion
thereon as to the liability of the lands of the Dean and Chapter of
Durham to contribute to the common charges of the country. The
Judges certified that they knew no difference in that respect between
the possessions of the clergy and those of the laity. [Copy.] |
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91. Statement of Case in the Exchequer between the King and
Sir Robert Binloss, respecting the liability of tithes purchased by
the defendant from feoffees to the use of Ury Babington, to the
payment of a debt due from Ury Babington to the Crown. With
notes, in the handwriting of Attorney General Heath, of the
argument thereon of Sergeant Henden. |
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92. Copies of ancient documents stated in the indorsement to
concern "Mr. Bayly's parsonage of Holdgate, co. Salop." They
consist of copies of a charter of "Holgat de Reisolent," for endowment of a paschal candle for the church of the castle; a statement
of rents or charges payable to that church from various persons and
places; and an account of the application of the three parts or
prebends into which the revenue of the collegiate church of Holgate
is divisible. |
