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March 16.
Westminster. |
1. The King to Bishop Coke, of Bristol. The revenues of divers
bishoprics have been so diminished that they suffice not to maintain
the Bishops according to their place and dignity; the King, partly
to see the Bishops decently supplied and partly to prevent their
holding churches in commendam, which has bred some scandal, has
thought fit to signify his pleasure to the Bishops of those sees for
joining some convenient means unto them. Being informed that
there is but one life remaining in the lease of the manor of Abbott's
Cromwell, near Tortworth, co. Gloucester, of good yearly value, the
Bishop and his successors are commanded to hold those premises in
their own hands, or at least not to let the same otherwise than for
the term of their continuance in that see. These letters are to be
safely kept in the office of the Bishop's register. [Copy. Two pages
and a quarter.] |
| March 16. |
2. Sir James Perrott to Nicholas. Has written to the Earl of
Pembroke, entreating him to apply to the Lords of the Admiralty
that there may be a reference to some chief gentlemen of the
country to examine the complaint against Sir Thomas Canon, for
Sir Henry Marten is not in town, and neither he nor any other can
examine it here. If the letter to Lord Pembroke comes to Nicholas's
hands, the writer begs he may receive the resolution of the Lords
before he departs. [Three quarters of a page.] Incloses, |
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2. i. Names of some principal persons to examine the complaint of Sir James Perrott against Sir Thomas Canon.
[Half a page.] |
| March 16. |
3. Minutes by Nicholas of matters to be submitted to the Lords
of the Admiralty; among them, George Mynnes, clerk of the
hanaper, attends upon complaint of the saltpetremen of Surrey.
[Margin, Is discharged.] What ships shall be appointed to go to
Scotland. [Margin, Dreadnought.] Lord Chief Justice of Ireland's
letter complaining of Norman, the pirate, who was Nutt's viceadmiral. Consider the order drawn respecting Thornbury and the
Mayor of Chichester, and what shall be done with the two men in
prison on suspicion of piracy. [Three quarters of a page.] |
| March 16. |
The Lords of the Admiralty to the Officers of the Navy. Return
them a letter of the Lord Marshal desiring satisfaction to Robert
Cousins, master of a hoy called the Amity, as well for the hire of
the same as for losses sustained, which are estimated at 30l., upon
which letter it seems the officers have given warrant to the
Treasurer of the Navy for payment of the same. When a vessel is
taken up for his Majesty's service, there ought not to be allowed
anything but the freight; yet, as the poor man was forced to go
farther than he was hired for, the officers are authorized to give
warrant for 30l. in full. [Copy. Vol. ccxxviii., fol. 32a. Three
quarters of a page.] |
March 16.
Whitehall. |
The Lords of the Admiralty to the Officers of the Navy. To
give warrant to supply the Dreadnought in such sort that she may
be completely victualled for five months from the first of May next.
[Copy. Vol. ccxxviii., fol. 33. Third of a page.] |
March 16.
Whitehall. |
The same to the same. To enter Robert Fisher, master carpenter
of the Garland, in place of William Hall, deceased. [Copy. Ibid.
Third of a page.] |
March 16.
Whitehall. |
The same to the same. To enter John Hodyern, master carpenter, in the new ship the Charles. [Minute. Ibid. Quarter
of a page.] |
| March 16. |
4. Opinion of Attorney General Noy on the proposed grant to
Sir Alexander Gordon and Robert Moore, of power to compound
for pardons with those who have not served apprenticeships.
(See Vol. ccxxxii., No. 123.) The Attorney General argues, that it
may be for the public advantage to license particular men in such
cases, and refers to the proclamation of 10 July, 19 James I., in
which a similar patent formerly complained of was revoked. [One
page.] |
March 17.
Aboard the Bonaventure, in Dover Road. |
5. Capt. Thomas Ketelby to the Lords of the Admiralty. Has
observed their commands for fetching over the Lord Ambassador.
At his first coming into Boulogne road he found there the Admiral
of Amsterdam, who bare her flag until the writer gave her a shot,
when she struck it and presently hoisted it again. He sent his
Lieutenant on board to command him to take in his flag, or prepare
to defend the same. He argued and kept it up till he saw the
Lieutenant entering his ship, and then he took in the same. Two
days after came into the same road the Admiral of Holland, with 10
or 12 ships of war, who, within reasonable distance struck his flag,
and at a time after hoisted the same, the second time struck it,
saluted the ship with seven pieces of ordnance, and again hoisted
the same. This homage the writer conceived not sufficient, and
therefore sent his lieutenant as before, but the Hollander took in his
flag, and so kept it till his departure. On Ketelby's return with
the Ambassador he met on our own coast ten sail of Hollanders
between Dover and Folkestone, one bare his flag on the maintop,
the other his topsails a-trip; what the effect was he leaves to the
relation of the Lord Ambassador. Will repair to the Downs for
further commands. [One page.] |
| March 17. |
6. Extract from the same. [One page.] |
| March 18. |
7. Attorney General Noy to the King. Report on claims preferred by Sir Edmund Sawyer to certain forest liberties long since
granted to the Abbots of Waltham. The opinion is that these
liberties did not pass to Sir Edmund, most of them being extinguished by the union of possession of the manor [now in possession
of Sir Edmund Sawyer], and the forest in the Crown, on the dissolution of the monasteries. [One page.] |
| March 18. |
8. William Boswell, Ambassador at the Hague, to the Council.
Extract in the handwriting of a secretary of Bishop Laud, of a
passage descriptive of the state of church government among the
Merchant Adventurers at Delft. He describes it as entirely Presbyterian, and that the company fell into that fashion at the first
grant of free exercise of religion. Mr. Davison, Queen Elizabeth's
Ambassador, was an elder of their church, as Mr. G. Gilpin, then
Secretary of the Company, was afterwards. In Divine Service they
neither officiate "according to their mother English," nor keep
the canons of the Reformed Belgic churches. They have never
had any regular constitutions. The Deputy, Mr. Misselden, and
Mr. Forbes, the present minister, are irreconcilably at variance, the
Deputy challenging them for want of Liturgy, Catechism, Confession, set forms of Prayer for Marriage, or for celebration of the
Sacrament, exercise of the Lord's Prayer, and solemn Thanksgiving
and Anniversaries for the Birth and Death of our Saviour, "things,
if true, of most insufferable nature, and most dangerous consequence." [Two pages and a half.] |
March 18.
Mincing Lane. |
9. Kenrick Edisbury to Nicholas. Wishes him to send a warrant
to fetch away two cables now in a storehouse of his Majesty in
Dover, in charge of William Leonard. How they came thither the
writer cannot learn, but the boatswain sent to view them reports
that they are acknowledged to be the King's. The old cordage at
Chatham is allowed to have been sold for the King's use, why
the officers deferred so long to account for it they must show reason.
Reports his progress with the survey. Would fain hasten to Portsmouth. [One page.] |
March 18.
Whitehall. |
Lords of the Admiralty to the Officers of the Ordnance. To
permit the owners of the Blessing of God, of London, burthen 60
tons, Alexander Child and others owners, to furnish their ship with
six pieces of cast-iron ordnance out of the founder's store in East
Smithfield. [Copy. Vol. ccxxviii., fol. 33 a. Half a page.] |
March 18.
Whitehall. |
The same to the Officers of the Navy. To send for two cables
and an anchor long since left at Dover in the charge of one Leonard,
and bring them to his Majesty's storehouse at Chatham. They are
also to cause the remains of past times to be searched that it may
be discovered how this abuse arose. [Copy. Ibid. Half a page.] |
March 18.
Whitehall. |
The same to Capt. George Carteret. Warrant of appointment as
Captain of the Eighth Lion's Whelp, employed for guard of the
Narrow Seas. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 34. Quarter of a page.] |
March 18.
Whitehall. |
The same to Capt. Richard Fogg. Warrant of appointment as
Captain of the Tenth Lion's Whelp, employed for guard of the
Narrow Seas. [Minute. Ibid. Four lines.] |
| March 18. |
10. Petition of Francis Chaldecott and William Chaldecott his
son to the Lords of the Admiralty. They have in all dutifulness
submitted themselves, and have given full satisfaction to the owners
of the shipwrecked goods. Pray to be discharged from personal
attendance. [One page.] |
| March 18. |
11. Sec. Windebank to [the Justices of Assize] of co. Bedford.
By letters of the 10th inst. from the Council they were required to
call before them Sir Edward Duncombe, and cause him to find
security for speedy repairing a highway between Hockley and
Woburn. His Majesty will take some other course for that reparation, they are therefore to forbear to proceed according to the
directions of that letter. [Draft. Half a page.] |
March 18.
Christ Church. [Oxford.] |
12. Paul Viscount Bayning to Anne Viscountess Dorchester.
Thanks her for inclining to his request about the house in Mark
Lane. She fears the censure of the world, which considers not the
reasons that make him a suitor for it. Begs her to rest satisfied.
He will be most thankful to her, and the world shall never know
other than that she bears the loss of it herself. [One page.] |
March 18.
St. Martin's Lane. |
13. Sir Francis Nethersole to Sir Dudley Carleton. Has received
a command from the Queen his mistress, to speak to the King her
brother, for Sir Dudley, in her Majesty's name. Begs him to give
his own help. His Majesty is confident the letter was opened before
it came to Sir Francis's hands, and is resolved to know who durst
be so bold with him, and is fully persuaded that Sir Dudley is able
to discover. There is no possibility of recovering his Majesty's good
opinion unless Sir Dudley can give him better satisfaction of his
ignorance, or resolve to confess more of his knowledge. Till he will
explain how, having delivered the King's letter to Sir Francis in
the manner and with the words he did, he should now be so ignorant
how the blemish came thereunto, and will reconcile other points in
his depositions as improbable as that, he must excuse Sir Francis if
he still holds him guilty. Urges upon him the duty of confession,
and above all things to beware, lest fear of shame in this world
make him fearless of confusion in the next. [Three pages and a
half.] |
| March 18. |
14. Suit proposed by Walter Morton touching the tithes of
certain fens in Lindsey and Holland in co. Lincoln, which are
beyond the bounds of any parishes or titheable places. As soon
as the waters are removed by draining, discord will grow about
these tithes. Prays a grant of a moiety thereof under a fee-farm
rent to be paid to the King. [One page. An indorsement, in the
handwriting of Sec. Windebank, contains a note of the several
fens as they are undertaken to be drained, and by whom, with the
extent of the several enterprises.] |
| March 19. |
15. The King to Bishop Laud, Chancellor of the University of
Oxford. The King having made choice of Thomas Turner, B.D.,
and one of his chaplains in ordinary, to attend him in his journey
into Scotland, and understanding that he purposed to take the
degree of D.D. at the next Act, his Majesty intending that his
employment should be no prejudice to him, recommends him to be
forthwith, on his performance of all usual exercises, admitted to
that degree. [Draft indorsed with the date in the margin, but
there is also indorsed a subsequent memorandum that the letter
was dated on the 23rd March 1633. Three quarters of a page.] |
March 19.
Whitehall. |
Minutes by Nicholas of proceedings of the council of the Society
for Fishing. John Moore, M.D., Edward Robinson, one of the six
clerks, Peter Ricaut the younger and Thomas Eyre, merchants,
were admitted and took the oath. [See Vol. ccxxxiii., No. 74.
Half a page.] |
March 19.
Durham. |
16. Justices of Peace for co. Durham to the Council. They have
taken care for all the highways and bridges. The great high road
between the southern and northern parts shall be in sufficient repair
as soon as the season of the year will permit, and before the time of
his Majesty's coming into the country. [One page.] |
| March [19 ?] |
17. Petition of divers inhabitants upon Fresh Wharf, near
London Bridge, to the same. Pray that they would compel
Richard Chamlett, tenant and lessee of a house upon that wharf, to
repair the same, being likely to fall down by the decay of the
foundation and principals, which would hazard the lives of many
of his Majesty's subjects. [Three quarters of a page.] |
| March 19. |
18. Joseph Darnell and Edward James, carpenters, to the Lord
Mayor and Court of Aldermen. Certificate that Richard Chamlett
had repaired his house on Fresh Wharf. Underwritten is a farther
certificate from neighbours in confirmation of the preceding. [One
page.] |
| March 19. |
19. Order of the Court of Common Council. Richard Chamlett
having been bound to appear before the Council to answer the complaint of one Pitman, touching his house upon Fresh Wharf, which
was in danger of falling, it was now certified that he had so underpropped the same that it may stand many years, wherefore the
certifying of his recognizance was respited. [One page.] |
March 19.
Ludham. |
20. Minute of proceedings at a meeting before Bishop Corbet,
of Norwich, for the decision of certain differences between Matthew
Brookes, minister of Great Yarmouth, and George Burdett, lecturer
there, both those persons then appearing, together with Thomas
Johnson and — Meadowes, burgesses of Yarmouth. The
Bishop ordered that the minister and lecturer should each of them
read prayers before his sermon; that all fees should go to the
minister; that the lecturer should preach on all the "scarlet days,
as they name them, and the minister should preach the blessing
to their fishing yearly, which they call the fishing sermon." On
Wednesday the lecturer was to begin his sermon at ten o'clock in
the morning, but if there happened on that day a christening sermon,
marriage sermon, or funeral sermon, or sermon at the churching of
any woman, then the lecturer was to begin his sermon at eight
o'clock in the morning. [This paper is a copy of the original sent
by Bishop Corbet to Bishop Laud, and he has added in a note that
two other things were left to his consideration. The minister
wished that Mr. Burdett should assist him in the communions
"which are great and often;" the lecturer that he might have
power to appoint a substitute during his forty days absence
allowed him in the year. Bishop Corbet states his own opinion
and asks Bishop Laud's counsel on these points. Two pages.] |
| March 20. |
21. The Council to the Justices of Peace for Surrey. By a letter
of the 17th inst. the Council had eased the Justices of the carriage
of a third part of the 1,200 loads of timber, being the remainder of
the 1,600 which were charged on that county, and they likewise
understand in what manner the 800 loads are to be carried which
are still charged on that connty. By the letter of the Justices of
the 1st inst. they allege that the inhabitants of the Forest of
Windsor are by charter freed from carriage, but they are to take
notice that in those things which concern the state, especially as
this service doth, being for the defence and safety of the kingdom,
foresters are no more to be excepted than other subjects. [Copy.
One page.] |
March 20.
Whitehall. |
22. Order of Council. It is his Majesty's pleasure that the
Antelope and one of the Lion's Whelps shall be prepared for guard
of the coast of Ireland upon the charge of the revenues of that
kingdom. [Nicholas has indorsed this order as relating to the
Antelope and the Ninth Whelp. Three quarters of a page.] |
| March 20. |
23. Capt. Richard Plumleigh to the Lords of the Admiralty.
Certificate in favour of Jacob Lovell, who had served for the four
last years as his lieutenant; "as fit a man for action as any at this
time employed in his quality in his Majesty's service, of which
rank he is now the eldest." [One page.] |
March 20.
King Street. |
24. James Martin to Richard Earl of Portland, Lord Treasurer.
Having been formerly made known to their then Sovereign by the
late Duke of Buckingham, he has desired to demonstrate his loyal
duty by imparting ways of raising great sums. One particular he
communicated to Sir Henry Mildmay, viz., the unepiscopal practices
of the Bishop of Chester, of whose pillaging the country under
colour of commutations of penance, &c., the writer was an eye-witness during the time he was his late Majesty's preacher in Lancashire,
and one of the Bishop's colleagues in the High Commission. The
writer was moved by Sir Henry to sign a petition to his Majesty,
on promise that the writer should present it; but no sooner was the
petition written than Sir Henry flees away with it, causes some
other to exhibit it, and designs to commit the writer to a messenger,
and afterwards to betray him to pursuivants on the Bishop of
Chester's pretended quarrel about a book. Since Sir Thomas Canon's
return with superabundant evidence the writer is advertised that
there is great soliciting to handle that Nimrod mildly. He beseeches
the Lord Treasurer to take notice that the Bishop is in a premunire.
The writer detests the Bedlam fury of Puritans, and highly honours
the Episcopal hierarchy, but this star is only a glittering composition
of pride, avarice, and hypocrisy. [One page.] |
March 20.
Cowes Castle. |
25. Capt. Humphrey Tourney to Sec. Coke. There has been a
fleet of States men-of-war with the Admiral of Holland, Mons.
Dorp, in number 12 ships, which anchored two days in Cowes Road.
They sailed the 9th inst., and the next day returned and went out
by the Needles. Knows not whether the Sec. means States menof-war or merchantmen, because he has only specified "Hollanders."
The writer's best service shall be employed to stop either if they
come under his command. Craves further orders. [One page.] |
March 20.
Jesus College, Cambridge. |
26. Master and others of Jesus College, Cambridge, to Bishop
Laud. Request him to accept their resignation of the patronage of
the church of Elmsted, in Essex, to avoid a lapse. Lat. [One
page.] |
| March 20. |
27. Indenture between Horace Lord Vere of Tilbury, Master of
the Ordnance, and the rest of the Officers of the same, of the one
part, and Botting Bellingham, master gunner of the Eighth Whelp,
of the other part. Receipt for various enumerated gunners' stores
to be duly accounted for at the end of the service. [Two pages.] |
| March 20. |
28. Account of all the saltpetre brought into his Majesty's store, and
delivered to Mr. Evelyn, from July 20, 1632, to March 20, 1633;
total brought in, 1,541 cwts. 3 quarters, 12 lbs., being a deficiency of
297 cwts. [One page. Indorsed by Nicholas as received on the
16th March 1632–3.] |
| March 20. |
29. Duplicate of the preceding. [One page.] |
March 21 [?]
Exeter. |
30. Lord Chief Justice Richardson and Bishop Hall, of Exeter,
to the King. Report on a reference made to them upon a petition of
Roger Jennings, clerk. They gave notice to William Lane, the
adverse party, to attend them, but he wilfully absented himself, and
remarked, on sight of his Majesty's reference, that he would not be
so fiddled out of his title, and that before he had done, he would
make the best friends the petitioner had ashamed of the business.
The petitioner is a man of good ability, conformable, and well
reported of, and they conceive that he has been pursued in a
malicious and uncharitable way by people of no good fame nor
credit. Hold it just that the petitioner should quietly hold his incumbency, and that there should be no farther proceedings until
Lane submit himself. [One page.] Underwritten, |
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30. i. Minute of the King's pleasure that Mr. Jennings be continued in his incumbency, and be no farther troubled
with vexatious suits. Whitehall, 1633, May 7. [Half
a page.] |
March 21.
Whitehall. |
Proclamation against making collections without licence under
the great seal. Forged certificates have been made in the names of
persons of quality, upon which public collections have been made
as well in churches as otherwise. To prevent this abuse is the
object of the present proclamation. [Coll. Procs. Car. I., No.
162.] |
March 21.
Oxford. |
31. Sir James Perrott to Nicholas. Before his departure from London, he left with the Earl of Pembroke a new petition, with a letter
from Dr. Rives, to be delivered to the Lords of the Admiralty. If
his Lordship be not sensible of his own suffering, and his Majesty's
loss, by such a busy fellow's interrupting those services, the writer
must leave it to whom the Earl shall appoint. Doubts Mr. Oldisworth will not deliver Mr. Prichard's letter. If anything be done
wishes it to be sent to him by the Bishop of St. David's, who lodges
against Westminster Abbey, and is to come thence on Tuesday
next. [Three quarters of a page.] |
March 22.
The Bonaventure, in the Downs. |
32. Capt. Thomas Ketelby to the same. That day they take in
their provisions. The hoy which first brought them down was cast
away in Ramsgate pier. Some ships report that ten days since
they met with Nutt's vice-admiral twixt Scilly and the Land's
End. One of them he fought with, and killed and spoiled him three
men. He is in a ship of 16 pieces of ordnance. Divers reports
being made of Ketelby's last accident, the Lord Ambassador being
on board, he relates the truth. The Ambassador and the other
Lords being at dinner in the great cabin, the gunner sent word that
a Hollander was passing with his topsails on trip, to whom Ketelby
gave order to make a shot. The Lords and gentlemen left the table
to see the event, but the Hollander, neither for that shot nor two or
three others, would lower the same one foot, whereupon Ketelby
gave order to shoot him through, which was done, with as much
speed as they could bring ordnance to bear, so as before she passed
she had twenty shot in and through her sides, which they heard to
crash in the same. They could perceive but one piece she had forth;
to that fire was given twice. The shot came not near, but they might
well hear the same. After her came the Admiral, with his flag on
the main-top. She being more fit for their ordnance, lest she should
fight, Ketelby gave order to clear the decks, and prepared to fire
both lower and upper tier together. Whilst thus disposing the
business, the Lord Ambassador sent for him and desired him to give
over, and stand his course for Dover. On his second sending, Ketelby
considering that the tide of ebb was just coming, when he should be
forced to land the Ambassador at some other place, submitted his
will to his Lordship's desires. Conceives the two ships were East
India ships. Had Ketelby been free from his passengers, he doubts
not to have brought them in to answer these contempts. They
kept their course westward without altering a foot, with eight
others in company.—P.S. A master of a Scotch bark reports that
the ship that bare the flag was a States man-of-war, and the other
bound for the West Indies. The man-of-war reported that one of
the Indian ships had fought with one of the King's, and had shot
her masts and yards by the board. [Two pages.] |
| March 22. |
33. Extract from the preceding letter. [Two pages.] |
| March 22. |
34. Receipt of Ambrose Mason for 18l. received by Richard
Hamby for Mason, being his fee from Mr. Carne. [Quarter of a
page.] |
| March 22. |
35. Henry Goodwin to Humphrey Fulwood. Received his letter,
wherein he writes of Sir Henry Jenkins's business, touching the
nichiled issues, for which he desires a favourable composition with
Mr. Vernon. Promises his assistance. [One page.] |
| March [22.] |
36. Notes of the objections made by the Attorney General to Sir
Alexander Gordon's project for granting pardons to persons carrying
on trades without having served apprenticeships [see this present
Vol., No. 4.], with answers thereto, and the King's judgment upon
those answers. [Two pages and a half.] |
March 23.
Whitehall. |
37. Minute of his Majesty's pleasure, on the business of Sir
Alexander Gordon, concerning composition with persons exercising
any manual occupation without having served apprenticeship. The
Lord Keeper and Lord Treasurer, calling unto them the Attorney
General, shall consider the same and certify thereon to his Majesty.
[Draft. One page.] |
March 23.
Whitehall. |
38. The Council to the Lords of the Admiralty. Notwithstanding
his Majesty's proclamation, and the directions given by the Lords of
the Admiralty, fishermen at sea still use trawls, and thereby destroy
the fry of fish. They are to cause search to be made for trawls as
well on shore as at sea, seizing all that are found, and taking bond
of all fishermen not to use trawls any more. [One page.] |
| March 23. |
39. Minutes by Nicholas of business to be submitted to the Lords
of the Admiralty this day; among them, to move the King to
appoint an Admiral for the Narrow Seas, and to direct instructions
to be given to the captains; to resolve of ships for the guard of the
coast of Ireland; to move the King about renewing the commissions
for saltpetre; what to be done with the two men of Capt. Powick's
company. [One page.] |
March 23.
Wallingford House. |
Lords of the Admiralty to Officers of the Navy. To send estimate for setting forth, for service in the Narrow Seas, the Charles,
the Henrietta Maria, and the Garland, for three months. [Copy.
Vol. ccxxviii., fol. 34. Quarter of a page.] |
March 23.
Wallingford House. |
The same to the Attorney General. The late King appointed
Sir Alexander Temple captain of the Blockhouse of West Tilbury,
in Essex, and granted the reversion thereof to Carew Saunders, of
London, merchant. Sir Alexander deceasing, Saunders succeeded,
who was discharged by the Council for insufficiency, and Capt.
John Talbot appointed. The Attorney General is to prepare a bill
containing a grant of the office to Talbot. [Copy. Vol. ccxxviii,
fol. 34 a. Three quarters of a page.] |
March 23.
Wallingford House. |
Lords of the Admiralty to the Officers of the Navy. To make a
particular note of the cordage necessary for this next year, and
treat with Job Harby for supply thereof. [Copy. Ibid. Three
quarters of a page.] |
| March 23. |
40. Draft of the same. [Three quarters of a page.] |
March 23.
Wallingford House. |
The same to the same. To enter Edward Lascelles purser in the
Fifth Lion's Whelp, in place of William Brissenden, who has
surrendered the same. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 35. Third of a page.] |
March 23.
Whitehall. |
41. Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Lord Chamberlain, to Lord Treasurer Portland. As it appeared by the inclosed
petition that not so much the person of Sir James Perrott, the
writer's Deputy Vice-Admiral, as the office of the Admiralty was
affronted by Sir Thomas Canon, the Earl addressed the same petition
to their Lordships, and they referred it to Sir Henry Marten, a
gentleman beyond all manner of exception; yet because the parties
to be interrogated are some of them of slender fortunes, and all of
them remote from hence, he offers it to them whether they would
not give order to some one on the place to take the examinations.
If they cannot fix upon commissioners, he will name such as he will
be answerable for. [Three quarters of a page.] Inclosed, |
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41. i. Petition of Sir James Perrott to the Lords of the Admiralty. Copy of petition, mentioned Vol. ccxxxiii.,
p. 563. [Three quarters of a page.] |
| March 23. |
42. Petition of Bryan Smyth, clerk, to the Lords of the Admiralty. In the late employment with Capt. Pennington, petitioner
went preacher of the Second and Tenth Whelps. There being no
competent means for two preachers, Capt. Pennington appointed
petitioner for both the said ships, and he performed his duty
throughout the service, as appears by Capt. Pennington's testimonial annexed. Being a suitor for his pay, the Officers of the
Navy answer that they cannot give him the same without directions from the Lords, on account of a privy seal to Mr. Wells to
receive the pay in those small ships wherein is no preacher. Prays
their order for his payment. Annexed, |
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42. i. Testimonial of Capt. Pennington above mentioned. 1633,
March 23. Underwritten, |
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42. ii. Reference to the Officers of the Navy to certify whether
there be any such allowance, and what is fit to be done.
Whitehall, 1633, April 6. |
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42. iii. Officers of the Navy to the Lords of the Admiralty. Report the customary payment of the preacher's groats.
But in the Whelps the allowance is so mean that seldom
a man of quality will attend to one of them. Capt.
Pennington directed the petitioner to attend both these
Whelps, but there is a privy seal to Mr. Wells for receiving the groats where there is not a particular preacher,
towards a debt which his Majesty owes him. The Officers
cannot give an order for payment, so long as that privy
seal remains, without the directions of the Lords. 1633,
April 12. [Petition and other writings, two pages.] |
March 23.
Whitehall. |
Humphrey Fulwood to Henry Goodwin. Favour shewn to his
father [Sir Henry Jenkins] by himself or Mr. Vernon, will not be
to the disservice of the general business. [See this present Volume,
No. 35. Copy.] |
| March 23. |
43. Receipt of Ambrose Mason for 8l., borrowed of Richard
Hamby. [Quarter of a page.] |
March 24.
Westminster. |
44 The King to Archbishop Abbot and the rest of the Commissioners for the Hospital at the Charterhouse, called Sutton's
Hospital. At their next election they are to admit Richard Day,
son of George Day, a tradesman now deprived of sight, into the
first scholar's place which shall become void. [Copy. One page.] |
| March 24. |
45. Edward Lascelles to Nicholas. Incloses a letter under the
Captain's hand to give him satisfaction that he has truly taken the
place from Mr. Brissenden by his own request. Intreats his favour.
[One page.] Incloses, |
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45. i. Capt. Francis Hooke to Nicholas. Begs him to favour
Edward Lascelles, Capt. Pett's kinsman, Mr. Brissenden
having resigned his place of purser in the Fifth Whelp
to him. [Half a page.] |
| March 25. |
46. Sec. Windebank to Archbishop Abbot. Is commanded to
signify to his Grace, and the Bishop of London, that there have been
of late complaints exhibited against the Bishop of Chester, for undue
proceeding in commutations of penances and some other things
of the same nature. To the end that the Bishop may make good
his protestations of innocency, his Majesty commands the Archbishop to take present order that the Court of High Commission be
assembled with as much expedition as possible, and the Bishop of
Chester summoned according to usual course. [One page.] |
March 25.
London. |
47. Matthew de Quester to Sec. Coke. Complains of Thomas
Witherings, now postmaster, for breaking open a packet directed to
de Quester, and using disdainful speeches of him. Reminds the
Sec. of a promise that he should receive no damage or detriment.
[One page.] |
March 25.
Busby. |
48. Sir Henry Jenkins to Ralph Jenkins. Perceives the composition for Hitchilling still holds for 17l. 13s. 4d., besides the 'chequer
fees, which will come to about 4l. Thinks his son Fulwood should
be in town when the 17l. 13s. 4d. is paid, in order to get a deduction. His son Fullwood and his daughter are to be at York at the
King's coming down. Mr. Tanckard and his wife mean to make
them great entertainment there. If they will come to Busby they
shall have as hearty entertainment as a father can give them. Does
not intend to be at York at the King's coming down, on account of
charges at that time incurred in repairs. [One page.] |
| March 25. |
49. List of papers concerning the business of the Bishop of
Chester delivered to Sir Henry Marten. Among them Sir Thomas
Canon's and Mr. Hunt's report at large, and interrogatories proposed
to the Bishop, and his answer. [Half a page.] |
March 25.
Portsmouth. |
50. Kenrick Edisbury and Phineas Pett to Nicholas. Before they
entered on their business of survey at Portsmouth they went aboard
the Eighth Lion's Whelp to see her readiness to go to sea, and were
told by the master that neither the victuals nor munition was on
board. Mr. Holt, the victualler, says that he has a month's victuals
ready within two or three days; but the gunner knows not when
his stores will come down. Desires him to send to the Office of
Ordnance, or acquaint the Lords with this neglect. [One page.]
Inclosed, |
|
50. i. Certificate of Botting Bellingham, gunner of the Eighth
Whelp, that he had not received from the Office of the
Ordnance munition, emptions, cordage, or stores. 1633,
March 25. [Three quarters of a page.] |
| March 25. |
51. List of his Majesty's ships, with their measures, burthens, and
the number of men appointed for each, entered by his Majesty's
express command. The numbers of men propounded by the
Trinity House for service on the coast and on foreign service are
approved by his Majesty. The list is under the Council seal, and
was forwarded by the Council to the Lords of the Admiralty. [Two
pages.] |
| March 25. |
52. Copy of the preceding list. [Two pages.] |
| March 25. |
53. Another copy. [Two pages.] |
| March 25. |
54. Another list of the same ships, containing—i. The dimensions,
burthen, and number of men ascertained by survey under order of
22 May 1632; ii. The same particulars as formerly stated; iii.
The measures and true burthens, calculated according to a new rule
by the true length, mean breadth, and depth from the ceiling. [Skin
of parchment.] |
March 26.
Lambeth. |
55. Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes to Humphrey Crosse,
Richard Tomlins, and John Wragg, messengers of the Chamber,
and to all Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, and others. Warrant to
apprehend Sir Robert Willoughby, of Turner's Piddle, co. Dorset,
and Elizabeth Willis, now or late his servant, and to detain them
until each of them enters into a bond in 100l., to appear before the
Commissioners in the manor house of the Archbishop at Lambeth.
[One page.] |
March 26.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. |
56. Mayor and others of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Sec. Coke.
Their comfort that his Majesty approved of their endeavours in
suppressing the late riot. They made proclamation in sundry
places. For calling out the trained bands they doubted their power
to do so, and besides, the trained bands consist of townsmen, and
finding not such forwardness as they expected in them to assist the
Mayor, they doubted thereby to add more strength to the rioters.
Since the riot was suppressed, all has been quiet. The Council
established in the North have arrested most of the delinquents,
and they are now at York, to be censured by that Court. Until
they are dismissed from thence, the writers cannot send the chiefest
of them to London, as directed. [Two pages.] |
| March 26. |
57. Justices of Peace of co. Somerset to the Sheriff. Certify
their proceedings for relief of the poor and supply of the markets.
Very few wandering persons amongst them, more than now and
then a troop of Irish, that begin again to swarm out of that
country, for reformation whereof they desire the Lords to take
order. [One page.] |
March 26.
South Witham. |
58. Justices of Peace of co. Lincoln to the Council. Had not
only taken a personal view of the highways and bridges in that
great road, lying within the hundreds of Battisloe and of Winibriggs and Threo, and caused repairs to be done, but had appointed
persons in each hundred to see the rest of the defects made good.
[One page.] |
| March 26. |
59. Minutes by Nicholas of business to be considered at the
meeting of the council of the Society for Fishing. Whether the
oath for the commons shall be registered; order for swearing the
commons, and by whom they shall be sworn; resolve of a seal:
appoint days of meeting and a room for the clerks; commission of
deputation, and instructions for Judges to be deputed in places and
cities remote; oath for the Judges, ministers, and servants. [One
page.] |
March 26.
Whitehall. |
Minutes by Nicholas of proceedings of the council of the Society
for Fishing. Peter Ricaut, the elder, and others, admitted of the
Society. Resolved that procuration shall be given to an able
solicitor, to follow the complaint of the losses sustained by some of
the Fellows, by the busses taken from their servants by subjects of
the States of the United Provinces, in the Courts of the United
Provinces, or elsewhere. [See Vol. ccxxxiii., No. 74. One page and
a half.] |
| March 26. |
60. Minutes by Nicholas of business in which the Lords of the
Admiralty should move his Majesty. To appoint a day to settle
the differences concerning the numbers of men in his Majesty's
ships; approve appointment of William Cooke to be pilot of the
Black Deeps; settle rank and burthen of ships to be built in 1634;
appoint Admiral of the Narrow Seas, and Captains of the Eighth
and Tenth Whelps. Underwritten is a note of captains fit to be
appointed for these two Whelps. [One page.] |
| March 27. |
61. Officers of the Navy to Lords of the Admiralty. Job Harby
offers to supply his Majesty with 400 tons of cordage at 35l. per
ton; 100 tons to be delivered this year and the remainder before
Christmas 1634. Touching yarn unlaid, Russian spun yarn appears
fair on the outside of the winch, but is often false and ill-conditioned
within. Recommend the Lords to send a workman to make choice
of the hemp and see to the true making thereof. Harby offers to
supply canvas for sails. [One page.] |
| March 27. |
62. Survey by the Officers of the Navy of the state of the hulls,
masts, and yards, and also of the boats, of the ships in harbour at
Portsmouth, that is, the Triumph, the St. George, the St. Andrew,
the Swiftsure, the Warspite, the Third, Fifth, and Eighth Whelps,
the Maria, and the Fortune pink. The survey was made on the
25th and 27th inst. [Sixteen pages.] |
March 27.
Sarum. |
63. Justices of Peace for Wilts to the Lords of the Admiralty.
Reply to the petition from Salisbury to be excused from providing
122 carts for the carriage of his Majesty's timber. When a service
is required from the whole county the Justices distribute the charge
upon every division, and Salisbury and corporate towns were ever
reputed members, and have paid their parts. Not 122 loads required, but only 52. There is no double charging; the citizens of
Sarum who have livings in the country are rated by those, and not
according to their worth in the city. Want of carts cannot excuse,
for they are rated by their values, not as having carts. [One
page.] |
| March 27. |
64. Henry Viscount Falkland to Humphrey Fulwood, secretary
to Sec. Coke. Begs him to return the copy of the King's first
letter, touching the levy of Sir Arthur Savage's fine in Ireland, and
desires to peruse the draft of Sec. Coke's letter now intended to be
presented to his Majesty. Is to take some advice of counsel thereon.
Wishes them, if possible, despatched by Sir Charles Coote's messenger. For all Fulwood's pains therein, he shall receive gratification. [Three quarters of a page.] |
| March 27. |
65. Robert Evelyn to Humphrey Fulwood at his house near the
Broken Cross in Westminster. Mr. Consett came to live in Clerkenwell Close about Christmas. He has a wife and many children.
No man knows his means, but there is no want. He has a horse,
but what talent he has in managing horses to a better than natural
pace, his neighbours know not. His country is Yorkshire. Store
of company resort to him, but not ill demeaned. Hears nothing ill
of him. [One page.] |
March 28.
Oakham. |
66. Justices of Peace of co. Rutland to the Council. Have viewed
the ways and bridges of co. Rutland, through which his Majesty is
to pass, and have seen such reparation made of both as will witness
their joy to receive his Majesty and their obedience to their Lordships. [Three quarters of a page.] |
March 28.
Whitehall. |
Lords of the Admiralty to Officers of the Navy. To cause the
Antelope and the Ninth Lion's Whelp to be with all speed repaired
and furnished for guard of the coast of Ireland, so that they be
ready to put to sea on the 22nd April next. [Copy. Vol. ccxxviii.,
fol. 35. Two thirds of a page.] |
March 28.
Whitehall. |
The same to Capt. Dawtry Cooper. On the 18th February they
gave him directions to bring the Ninth Lion's Whelp into Bristol to
be repaired. He is now to repair to the Lords with all convenient
speed, leaving the ship in charge of the master and officers. [Copy.
Ibid., fol. 35 a. One third of a page.] |
| March 29. |
67. Indictment found at the Sessions at Newcastle-upon-Tyne
against Edward Glavering and others, for the riot and misdemeanors
lately committed by them in the destruction of the limekiln of
Christopher Reasley, situate on the West Ballast Hills in Newcastle
before mentioned, and in other unlawful acts in connexion with the
recent riots. Lat. [Two pages.] |
| March 29. |
68. Certificate of 13 officers of the Ninth Lion's Whelp, that
William Brooke, having served as master with them these three
years, had always behaved himself as an absolute honest man.
[Half a page.] |
| March 29. |
69. Statement of seven officers of the Ninth Whelp with reference
to Capt. Dawtry Cooper's averment that William Brooke, the
master, would not go to sea with him. [Three quarters of a page.] |
| March 29. |
70. Survey by the Officers of the Navy of the cordage and other
provisions in the charge of Francis Brooke, Keeper of the Stores at
Portsmouth. [Eleven pages and a half.] |
| March 29. |
71. Petition of Sir Thomas Canon to the Lords of the Admiralty.
Understands that information has been given to their Lordships by
petition of Sir James Perrott touching a commission pretended to
be surreptitiously gotten by the petitioner in the time of the late
Earl of Pembroke, whereupon a reference has been made to Sir Henry
Marten. Since which petitioner understands that Sir James Perrott
has taken up the petition from Mr. Nicholas, whereby he would
stifle this causeless information. Prays that the petition and information may be examined and reported upon according to their
Lordships' order. [Three quarters of a page.] |
| [March 29.] |
72. Master and Seniors of St. John's College, Cambridge, to
Henry Earl of Holland, Chancellor of that University. At their
late election of Fellows his Majesty recommended divers persons to
their choice, and in two of them a faculty was granted. The third
recommendation on behalf of Sir Digby, of Christ's College, was no
way in their power, and the party neither attended the three public
days nor shewed himself to any of the Seniors. [Copy. Three
quarters of a page. Sec. Windebank has indorsed upon the next
article a note of the contents of this letter, with the date assigned
in the margin.] |
| March 29. |
73. Master and Seniors of St. John's College, Cambridge, to Henry
Earl of Holland, Chancellor of that University. In obedience to
his pleasure they have inclosed a paper of arguments for their freedom
from the vast expenses demanded by Mr. Tabor and Mr. Buck about
the execution of his Majesty's late commission. Hope he will consider the grievous expenses they have been at in vindicating themselves and the College from the foul crimes objected and weakly
proved, and will not impose upon them a new burthen. [Half a
page.] |
March 29.
The Tenth Whelp. |
74. Capt. Richard Fogg to Sec. Coke. The Tenth Whelp, of
which he has received the command, is now over the chain, where he
expects order how he shall dispose his course. [One page.] |
| March 30. |
75. Survey by Officers of the Navy of the anchors, cables, ropes,
and other naval provisions on board the King's ships at Portsmouth,
surveyed from the 26th to the 30th inst. [Thirty pages.] |
| March 30. |
76. Petition of Nicholas Pollhill, Robert Powlett, and others
merchants in the West, to the Lords of the Admiralty and of the
Council. Pray them to consider the manifest injustice they have
received from the Dutch, and after a full hearing, to move his
Majesty to receive them into his protection, and grant them a
remedy according to precedents. [Half a page.] |
| March 30. |
77. Account of presentments made at the Petty Sessions held at
Millbrook, in the hundred of East in Cornwall. They relate principally to the passing of vagrants, binding apprentices, and setting
fines on persons selling ale without licence. [Two pages and three
quarters.] |
| March 31. |
78. Matthew Nicholas to his brother Edward Nicholas. Relates
with great minuteness the circumstances of a fire at Winterborne,
which destroyed many houses in that village. It began at Kidgell's
house by his wife's carrying a firebrand over the straw yard. The
straw thus was set on fire, and afterwards Kidgell's house. The
wind carried the flames to Mr. Webb's house, and thence to Mr. Sherfield's, and so to Nicholas's father's parsonage house. Mr. Sherfield
had a house plentifully furnished with good furniture, both his own
and his eldest son's. He saved nothing but his money, about six
score pounds, his plate, and the apparel on his back. Nicholas's
father lost his farm buildings and corn in ricks and barns, and great
part of the parsonage house. His dwelling-house at the farm was
saved. The whole loss was estimated at 10,000l., of which Nicholas's
father's proportion was calculated at about 1,000l. Other fires had
taken place in the neighbourhood, which the writer hoped did not
presage more evil. He mentions many family details. Doubted
Mr. Chandler would scarce be had for a husband for one of his
sisters, for the Bishop had bestowed a prebend upon him, which he
looked upon as a bait to entangle him with one of that kindred.
Illness of the writer's godchild, a son of Edward Nicholas. [Two
pages.] |
| March 31. |
79. Note by the purser of the Ninth Whelp of the money due
[for wages] for the Second and Ninth Whelps; total, 780l. [Quarter
of a page.] |
| March |
80. Lords of the Admiralty to Officers of the Navy. Their
letter of the 9th inst. no way satisfies the directions of the Lords
concerning payments formerly made to Mr. Goodwin. Complain of
the remissness and neglect of his Majesty's service by the Officers of
the Navy. Once more pray them to certify what has been formerly
allowed to the said master attendant for his extraordinary employment at Portsmouth. [Unsigned. Half a page.] |
| March. |
81. Petition of Capt. Salleneuve to the Lords of the Admiralty.
About four years since the mother of the Lord de Soubise gave
petitioner a ship, in which petitioner served in the expedition to
Rochelle under the Earl of Lindsey. In that service his ship was
cast away. Not long before, the Duke of Buckingham lent petitioner a French prize bark, the John, of Olonne. Prays the Lords
to bestow on him the bark, and discharge him from his security to
return the same. [Half a page.] |
| March. |
82. Officers of the Navy to the same. Have collected the
charges for building the two new ships, the Charles and the Henrietta Maria, and compared them with those of the St. George
and the St. Andrew, built in 1622, and have briefly abstracted
the same in the paper annexed. Annexed, |
|
82. i. Abstract of charges for building the Charles and Henrietta Maria, compared with those for building the St.
George and the St. Andrew: the former amounted to
10,961l. 19s. 6d., the latter to 9,445l. 15s. 9d.; so that the
charge for the new ships exceeds that of the older ones by
1,514l. 15s. 6d. [sic]; but there was spent on the new ships
in timber 471 loads more than on the others, which comes
to 706l. 10s. [Copies. Letter and paper annexed, two
pages and three quarters.] |
| March. |
83. Project for reducing the expenses of the Great Wardrobe,
which are now 26,000l. a year, to 20,000l. The projector proposes
to effect this reduction by purchasing on fairer terms with ready
money, and by a more judicious expenditure of the amount allowed.
He would allow for the arrasmen, the tailors, the maundy, the
chapel and closet, 7,000l. per annum; the stables, 6,000l. per
annum; the King's fine linen and bone lace, and fine linen for his
sheets, 1,000l. per annum; the charge of the removing wardrobe,
3,000l. per annum; for the Prince and Lady Mary, 3,000l. per
annum. As exemplifying the kind of items he would reduce, he
mentions that the upholsterer puts fine down, at 3s. a pound, into
chairs, stools, footstools, leaning pillows, &c., where the best feathers
of 14d. a pound would serve; again, cloth of tissue, of 8l. a yard, is
used, where cloth of gold of 30s. or 40s. a yard is appointed. [In
the handwriting of Windebank's secretary, perhaps originally
written by John Grymesdych. Two pages.] |
| March. |
84. Notes concerning a lease of the Alienation Office made by
King James at a rent which is stated to be greatly below its real
value. The King is advised to act upon a clause in the said lease,
which empowers him to put an end to the same, and to take the
office into his own hands. [Indorsed by Sec. Windebank as delivered to him by the King's command by Mr. Murray of the
Bedchamber. One page and a half.] |
| March. |
85. Notes by Sec. Coke on the cause of the recent riots at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He attributes these disturbances not to the
pretence of destroying the limekiln, built on the town dryingground, but to a desire in the commons to have a change in their
government. He states various circumstances connected with the
audit of the corporation accounts, and the last election of Mayor,
from which he draws this inference. [Two pages and a half.] |
| March. |
86. Names of eight persons of the parish of St. Martin-in-the
Fields, ordered to attend the Council Board, for not paying their
assessment to the poor. Among them were Mons. Aubert, Richard
Brigham, Anthonis Verney [Margin; "Hath conformed], Richard
Light, Mons. de Veau. [Half a page.] |
| March. |
87. Answer of the Lieutenant of Portland Castle to a complaint
of the States Ambassador, of having fired at and detained certain
Dutch ships. The Hollanders are stated to have put up their
colours in face of the King's colours flying at Portland Castle, which
occasioned the Lieutenant of the Castle to fire at them. [Two
pages.] |
| March. |
88. Estimate by the Officers of the Navy for setting forth the
Garland and the Ninth Whelp, to serve on the coast of Ireland for
one year, as also for repairing their hulls twice a year at Bristol;
total, 10,548l. 10s. 6d. [Two pages.] |
| March. |
89. Similar estimate for two Lion's Whelps, the one for eight
months, and the other for a year, for the like service; total, 4,021l.
5s. 8d. [Two pages.] |
| March. |
90. Similar estimate for the Mary Rose for eight months, and
one pinnace for a year; total, 5,501l. 0s. 6d. [Two pages] |
| March. |
91. Note of payments to officers in command of ships of war,
and others employed in 1617, to attend King James on his visit
to Scotland. Among them is a Scottish ship, the Vanguard, of
"Kickollie," hired to transport his Majesty's buckhounds from
Harwich into Scotland, "to be ready against his Majesty's coming
there." [Three quarters of a page.] |
| [March?] |
92. Petition of the parson and inhabitants of St. Magnus at
London Bridge that suffered by the late fire, and other the parishioners there, to the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Viscount Wimbledon, and Sec. Windebank. Petitioners have often petitioned the
Court of Aldermen for rebuilding the houses consumed by the late
fire, but finding their petitions take no effect, and that the persons
addressed have lately been at pains to take views of the ruins;
petitioners pray them to consider their miserable condition and the
weight of the reasons annexed, and to look down upon the heavy
pressures and extremities that lie upon them. [Three quarters of a
page.] |
