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Aug. 1.
Gloucester. |
1. Sir William Jones and Sir Thomas Trevor, Justices of
Assize for co. Gloucester, to the Council. At Gloucester, there were
presented to the writers several petitions from the weavers, spinners,
tuckers, and clothiers of that county, with a certificate from the
Justices of Peace, informing the writers of the misery the country
was like to fall into, by reason that the clothiers began to cast off
their workmen, with the clothiers reasons for the same. The writers
have charged the Justices to look carefully that the peace be kept
and the poor maintained. Inclose the petitioners' reasons and
certificate, and recommend the business to the Council's wisdom.
Inclose, |
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1. i. Petition of Weavers, Fullers, and Spinners of Leonard
Stanley and King's Stanley, co. Gloucester, to the Justices
of Assize. They complain on behalf of themselves and
others of those parishes, to the number of 800 persons, who
have heretofore been well wrought and employed in occupations belonging to the trade of clothing, but now they
are likely never to be employed again, and to have their
trades become no trades. Not only these parishes, but the
whole country is maintained by the trade of clothing,
which standing still, must bring impoverishment upon
the whole, whereby many thousands of poor people will
be utterly undone. Pray them to take such course as
should seem best. [Signed by, or for, forty-four persons.
One page.] |
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1. ii. Petition of certain Broad Weavers of Woollen Cloth in co.
Gloucester to the Justices of Assize. Have maintained
themselves by the work they have had in the trade of
making red cloth; but of late their masters, by reason of
the King's proclamation, cannot dress their cloth as
formerly, and are constrained to put away two parts
of their workfolks. Pray that some speedy course may
be taken for setting them upon some work or other
whereby they may maintain their families. [Signed by,
or for, thirty-two persons. Two pages.] |
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1. iii. Petition of Clothiers of co. Gloucester, making broad white
cloths there, to the Justices of Assize and Justices of the
Peace for the same county. A proclamation dated 16th
April last was set forth against frauds used in drapery,
&c. They find so many dangers therein that will fall
upon them, in the exercise of their trade, as may constrain them to give over making cloth, to the utter undoing of many thousands of poor people. Pray that
a course may be taken for prevention of such evils.
[Signed by fifty persons. One page.] |
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1. iv. Justices of Peace for co. Gloucester to the Justices of Assize
for the same county. Many complaints having been
made to them by weavers, tuckers, and other poor people
that depend upon the trade of clothing, that the clothiers
refused to continue their work to them, the writers called
the clothiers before them and demanded the reasons why
they discharged their workfolk, which reasons the writers
present to their consideration, in regard that their
county depends much upon clothing, above 20,000 poor
people being maintained thereby. Gloucester, 31st July
1633. [One page.] Annexed, |
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1. iv. i. The Clothiers of co. Gloucester that make red cloth to
the Justices of Peace. The reason why they cannot
keep their former number of workfolks is, that without
the use of their moseing mills they cannot dress above
half the cloths they formerly did. The king-teasels
could not be provided under two years if they should
attempt to work their cloth by hand; for the first
year they are sown they will not grow to any perfection: besides that it is impossible to work the cloths
so substantially by hand as with the help of the said
mills. The mills they last used are not the gig-mills
prohibited by statute, which were used with card
wires, theirs being used only with small teasels, for
the gentle raising of the wool at the first working, to
be after perfected by handy-work. [Signed by ten
persons. One page.] |
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1. v. Clothiers of co. Gloucester making broad white cloths to the
Justices of Assize and of the Peace for that county.
Reasons why they are enforced to put off many of their
workfolks, as also touching their grievances concerning
the proclamation against frauds in drapery of 16th
April last. His Majesty commands that no cloth shall
be hanged for drying in any rack or tenter that has any
lower bar. The want of a lower bar enforces their cloths
to become faulty in length and breadth by reason of the
wind and sun's working upon them in the drying,
whereby the clothiers become subject to the penalty of the
statute and proclamation. 2. His Majesty commands
that the clothiers should use only one mark; having
received their trade from their ancestors, who made divers
sorts of cloth and had several marks which were well
known abroad, to alter such marks would be to the
clothiers' great disadvantage. 3. His Majesty commands
that the clothier should set on his seal, containing the
length, breadth, and weight of the cloth, before the searcher.
Reasons are given why, practically, this cannot be complied with, and similar reasons are given in three other
cases, numbered 4, 5, and 6; and it is added that such
was the deadness of trade, that if large credit had not
been given them they had been forced to put off their
workmen long since. [Signed by fifteen persons. Two
pages.] |
Aug. 1.
The Vanguard, in Stokes Bay |
2. Capt. John Pennington to the Lords of the Admiralty. The
Henrietta Maria arrived there last night. Hopes to have his
epairs done by Saturday night, when he purposes to come away
for the Downs, and from thence back to the westward to scour the
coast. They have but seven weeks' victuals remaining. [Half a
page.] |
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3. Sir Francis Nethersole to [Sec. Windebank]. Mr. Dinley's
servant waited for Windebank yesterday, whilst he was gone to
Greenwich, so he missed the opportunity of beseeching him that
Nethersole having performed entire obedience to his Majesty's
commands, might be admitted to kiss his hands according to the
humble suit of the Queen [of Bohemia] on his behalf. Sends to
Windebank to beg that favour of him, and by him of the King. Also,
that being commanded by that Queen to return to her Majesty with
Mr. Dinley, he may be favoured with one line from Windebank to
the Lord Treasurer concerning his arrears in the Exchequer, which
he assures himself the King would find reasonable should be paid.
Desires answer that he may attend the Lord Treasurer in this time
of the King being at Theobalds. [Three pages.] |
Aug. 1.
The Ninth Whelp. |
4. William Brooke to Nicholas. His ship is come to Bristol with
50 sail of small barks to the fair. They are all safe; but a villain
lay for them whom they had sight of. They have received money
by order of the Lord Deputy for a main mast, which by the 8th
shall be finished, and they shall be ready to return with the fleet.
Capt. Plumleigh sends his true love, and so does Mr. Kine [Ken ?].
— P. S. Their captain [Plumleigh] is a most noble and worthy
commander, one who is most faithful to do the King good service,
without respect of gain or other private ends. [One page.] |
Aug. [1.]
Whitehall. |
5. Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery to —. Invites
the person addressed to become a member of the Association for Fishing. Recites what has been done by the King and others towards
the establishment of the Association, sends a book that the person
addressed may see what others have adventured, and requests him to
subscribe his name to such a proportion as shall seem meet to him,
and to endeavour to bring in others. [One page.] |
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6. Certificate of Thomas Newport, master of the Dreadnought, and
others, of the amount and quality of victuals aboard the Dreadnought, then in Tilbury Hope. [Indorsed by Nicholas as received
2nd August 1633. One page.] |
| Aug. 2. |
The King to Robert Earl of Warwick and other the Commissioners of Sewers for the levels of Havering and Dagenham, co.
Essex. Recommends Styward Trench to be clerk to the said Commission, notwithstanding his Majesty's former letters. [Docquet.] |
| Aug. 2. |
7. Note of time for which the Dreadnought is victualled. [Received by Nicholas this day. Half a page.] |
Aug. 2.
Sleaford. |
8. Justices of Peace for co. Lincoln to Sir William Thorold,
sheriff. Met this day at Sleaford, as formerly monthly, and find
all things in good order. Desire him to make certificate to the
Judges of Assize. [Half a page.] |
Aug. 2.
Deptford. |
9. Officers of the Navy to the Lords of the Admiralty. In their
letter of 27th June last they represented the inconvenience to his
Majesty's service by the neglect of persons in co. Berks to perform
the land-carriage of ship timber from the forests of Shotover and
Stowood to the waterside at Burcot, claiming privilege under the
University of Oxford. By their example other towns and persons
assume the same immunities, so that timber had not been seasonably
brought into the King's yards for building the two new ships now
in hand. Without redress of these evils his Majesty's service cannot
but be foreslowed, with other consequences, which are enumerated.
They also present another impediment in the water-carriage of
timber from Burcot to Deptford and Woolwich. The barges must
pass through Wallingford Bridge, which no barge above 16 feet
4 inches can do. All towns on this side that bridge build barges of
greater breadth. The smaller barges above Wallingford Bridge
which are fit to transport timber exceed not the number of ten, and
they are equivalently charged with the barges on this side the
bridge, at 19 locks between Burcot and London; the whole charge for
locks being 2l. 2s. 2d. The rate allowed by his Majesty is 8s. 6d.
per load, at which rate the owners affirm that they lose in every
freight 5l., and sometimes 6l., so that on the carriage of 400 loads
of timber the grievance is great. Suggest either to allow a competent rate which may encourage these poor men to undertake the
water-carriage, or that the barges below Wallingford Bridge contribute in some proportion to the water-carriage, in like manner as the
barges above that bridge bear a share in the water-carriage of
provisions for his Majesty's household. [One page and three
quarters.] |
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10. Petition of John Lathbury to the same. States past
services, and that he was thought a fit man to be gunner in one of
the two ships last built as appears by the annexed certificate. Those
places having been bestowed prays that he may have the gunner's
place in the Dieu Repulse when it shall become void. [Half a
page.] Annexed, |
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10. i. Certificate of the Officers of the Navy. Having received
annexed certificate from the Master Gunner of England,
they recommend John Lathbury to be gunner in one of
the new ships. 4th Jan. 1633. [One page.] Annexed, |
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10. ii. Certificate of John Reynolds, master gunner of
England, that John Lathbury had served in sundry
good ships, and is a fit man to serve as gunner in a very
good ship of his Majesty. [One page.] |
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10. iii. Certificate of Richard Paxford and others of past
services of John Lathbury. [One page.] |
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11. Sir Henry Spiller and Lawrence Whitaker to the Council.
Certify that they have taken a view of the taverns and victualling
houses within the Convent Garden [Covent Garden], and a little
lane adjoining lately called Russell Street. In Covent Garden
there are 8 taverns and one building, and 15 alehouses; in Russell
Street, 5 alehouses. The alehouses showed licences subscribed by
the Clerk of the Peace of Westminster. [One page.] |
Aug. 2.
Richmond. |
12. Nicholas to Katherine Duchess of [Buckingham]. If he had
as much ability to serve her as he has unfeigned affection, he would
press hard amongst the number that, now since her being a favourite,
throng at her doors to attend her. Reminds her to move the King
to give command to make a collection of all the ships built or
repaired, and other good services that were done in the Navy whilst
his dear lord and master was Lord Admiral, and that when the
writer has done it he may present it to his Majesty. This, the
writer conceives, may make that acceptable to the King, which,
if begun by another way or without his command, may be misinterpreted. [Draft by Nicholas, written on a fragment of a letter
from Sir James Bagg. One page.] |
Aug. 2.
Fleet Prison. |
13. James Martin to the King. Answers three objected impediments to his liberty. 1. His former withdrawing, and doubt of
the like hereafter; he answers that the reason thereof was the
apparent danger of the Bishop [of Chester's] power and Sir Gilbert
Houghton's oppression. 2. Touching his deprivation from his
lecture and benefice, he answers that he was ousted without cause
and under circumstances of injustice, which he details. 3. A pamphlet called "Panthea." He answers. that had not the Bishop of
Chester been "malè-conscious" he would never have assumed the
things written therein to himself. The writer is heartily sorry that
he had any hand in that publication, but oppression is able to
make a wise man mad. [Two pages.] |
Aug. 3.
Whitehall. |
14. Notes by Nicholas of business to be transacted by the Lords
of the Admiralty, with marginal notes of their directions. Among
other things mentioned are the following:—To resolve into what
port the Antelope shall come to winter; [Margin, "Portsmouth."]
Capt. Cooke complains against trawlers and the exportation of
fuller's earth; petition of Robes referred formerly to the Officers of
the Navy and their report thereupon; [Margin, "Fiat."] Lord Falkland desires Mr. Henry de Laune may be registrar in his ViceAdmiralty of Munster. He was born in England and his lordship
will be responsible for him; [Margin, "When a full meeting."] The
Dreadnought has but six weeks' victuals, to resolve whether she
shall come in presently; Officers of the Navy's letter to know who
shall build the two ships this next year; [Margin, "Mr. Sec.
Windebank."] To appoint a time to consider papers which were
deferred till the King's return from Scotland; [Margin, "When the
Lord Treasurer comes."] [One page.] |
| Aug. 3. |
Minutes by Nicholas of who were the Lords of the Admiralty
present at their meeting this day, and of the appearance of Thomas
Berry and others, fishermen brought up for fishing with trawls.
[Written on the same sheet of paper as the notes calendared hereafter,
No. 15. Three quarters of a page.] |
Aug. 3.
Whitehall. |
Order of the Lords of the Admiralty for John Vaughan and
George Russell, of Barking, fishermen, to be carried before the
Attorney General, who is to examine and proceed legally against
them for using trawls, they insisting that trawls were allowed by
statute, and that the King's proclamation prohibited only such
trawls as were unlawful. [Copy. Vol. ccxxviii., fol. 73. Third of
a page.] |
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Entry of appearance before the Lords of the Admiralty of
Thomas Berry of Stroud, William Gilvin of Rochester, and the
above-mentioned John Vaughan and George Russell, formerly sent
for by warrant. [Ibid. Eight lines.] |
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Order for discharge of Thomas Berry and William Gilvin, they
having entered into 40l. bond not to fish any more with a trawl.
[Minute. Ibid. Four lines.] |
Aug. 3.
Whitehall. |
Lords of the Admiralty to Sir Francis Sydenham. The Dreadnought, lately come into Tilbury Hope, being very foul and having
aboard but 6 weeks' victuals, he is to bring her into Chatham for
present payment and discharge. [Copy. Ibid., 73 a. Third of a
page.] |
Aug. 3.
Whitehall. |
The same to the Officers of the Navy. To give warrant to the
Treasurer of the Navy to pay and discharge the Dreadnought.
[Copy. Ibid. Third of a page.] |
Aug. 3.
Whitehall. |
The same to the Officers of the Ordnance. To permit
Thomas Collins and others, owners of the Alice and Hannah
of Dover, burthen 180 tons, to furnish their ship with 4 sakers and
10 minions out of the founder's store in East Smithfield. [Copy.
Vol. ccxxviii., fol. 73 a. Quarter of a page.] |
Aug. 3.
Whitehall. |
The same to the Officers of the Navy. The Lord Deputy having
desired that the Antelope may be called in about the middle of
October, for that there will be few or no merchants trading after
that time in those parts. The officers are to take order that there
be a deduction made of so much of the victuals and wages formerly
allowed on the privy seal and estimate for maintenance of that ship
and the Ninth Whelp, and that the Treasurer of the Navy prepare
to pay the said ship accordingly. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 74. Three
quarters of a page.] |
Aug. 3.
Whitehall. |
The same to Capt. Richard Plumleigh. Repeat the facts stated in
the preceding article, and pray him therefore to bring the Antelope
into Portsmouth by the middle of October, where order had been
taken for her payment and discharge. He is to give directions to
Captain James, of the Ninth Whelp, to continue still upon the Irish
coast, and to apply himself for guard of the same, and of the Severn.
[Copy. Ibid., fol. 74. a. Three quarters of a page.] |
Aug. 3.
Whitehall. |
Lords of the Admiralty to the Officers of the Navy. To enter
John Lathbury master gunner in the Eighth Whelp, in the place of
— Bellingham, deceased. [Copy. Vol. ccxxviii. fol. 74 a. Quarter of a page.] |
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Order of the Lords of the Admiralty on the petition of Thomas
Robes. The petitioner showed that for four years there has been
due to him as deputy purser of the Phœnix from William Willett,
of Bristol, the chief victualler, 19l. 14s. 4d. It having been reported
by the Officers of the Navy that Willett is fully satisfied out of the
office both for wages and victualling of the said pinnace, the Lords
desire —, and Robert Kitchen, of Bristol, to examine and
compose this difference, or to certify to them the true state thereof.
[Copy. Ibid., fol. 75 a. Two thirds of a page.] |
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15. Notes delivered by Nicholas to Sec. Windebank of businesses
whereupon he was to move the King, apparently by resolution of the
Lords of the Admiralty at their meeting of this day. They relate
to the several questions of whether the Dreadnought, the Vanguard,
the Henrietta Maria, and the two Whelps employed under Pennington, should be continued at sea or be discharged; whether Peter
Pett the elder, and Peter Pett the younger, son of Capt. Pett, should
build the two new ships next year [Margin, "His Majesty will
consider of it"]; persons appointed to survey the ships now building
before the decks be laid. [Draft. One page.] |
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16. Fair copy of the same without the marginal memoranda, and
indorsed by Nicholas, "Memorial for the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty to move the King." [One page.] |
Aug. 3.
Taunton. |
17. Mayor and another of the borough of Taunton to William
Walrond, sheriff of co. Somerset. Certify the prices of corn and
grain in the market held at Taunton on Saturday July 27 last:
wheat, 5s. 8d.; barley, 4s.; oats, 2s. 4d. [Half a page.] |
Aug. 3.
St. Albans. |
18. Complaint of the Inhabitants of the parish of St. Stephen's, in
St. Albans, against John Wells, postmaster of that town, being the
substance of depositions taken before Sir John Garrard and others,
Justices of Peace. The witnesses seek to establish that under
colour of a commission granted by Lord Stanhope, Wells sent to
the constables of the several parishes in and about St. Albans to
furnish horses for his Majesty's service, there being not any such
horses needed, but the warrants being issued merely to compel the
owners of the horses to compound. [Two pages and a quarter.] |
| Aug. 3. |
19. List of fishermen of Stroud, Gillingham, and Rochester, who
had used trawls since the proclamation, testified by William Gilvin
and Thomas Berry. [Half a page.] |
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20. List of fishermen of Barking bound not to trawl, with the
names of their boats. [One page.] |
Aug. 4.
Cowes Castle. |
21. Capt. Humphrey Tourney, captain of Cowes Castle, to the
Lords of the Admiralty. Sends an inventory of such goods as were
preserved of Capt. Jacob Mette's prize, cast away upon the south
part of the Isle of Wight. Relates the circumstances under which
he interfered to save the goods from wreckers. The goods were conveyed in carts to Newport, where they remain in the storehouse of
one of the officers of customs. The anchor and cable lately brought to
Cowes Castle were left in the Bay, when the East India ships went
away in contempt, disobeying the arrest, and are imagined to be
confiscated. [Two pages.] Inclosed, |
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21. i. Inventory of goods above mentioned, with a note of disbursements by Robert Newland, to and for Capt. Jacob
Mette, he being wind-bound at the Cowes and in great
want of provision to return to Flushing; total, 83l. 3s. 4d.
[Two pages.] |
Aug. 4.
Greenwich. |
22. Order of Council on a petition of Mary Cocks, widow of
George Cocks, keeper of the Council Chamber. Petitioner prayed
the Lords to be mediators to his Majesty for granting a reversion of
the said place to George Cocks her son. The Lords, although
resolved not to move the King for the granting of any reversion,
yet, in consideration of the long and faithful service of George
Cocks, the father, ordered that Sec. Windebank be prayed to
move the King that a caveat be entered in the Council Book and in
the Signet Office that no reversion be granted of the said place, but
that when it be void his Majesty be moved to take into consideration the claims of George Cocks the petitioner's son. [Copy.
One page.] |
Aug. 4.
Deptford. |
23. Officers of the Navy to Sec. Coke. Have called to their
assistance for survey of the new ships, the master shipwrights,
master attendants, some choice Elder Brethren of the Trinity House,
with the Masters and Wardens of the Shipwrights' Hall, and
examined all things fit to be considered, as by the certificate therewith sent will appear. The ship at Woolwich is much forwarder
than that at Deptford, which being the greater ship is more backward, occasioned through want of materials, by neglect of landcarriage, and the unseasonableness of this wet summer. The
master shipwrights have built them of greater dimensions than the
writers gave them, especially the ship at Deptford, so that the
charge will greatly exceed the estimate. Inclose, |
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23. i. Certificate above mentioned. It states the dimensions of
the two ships and the opinions of the subscribers as to the
quality of the materials and workmanship. 2nd August
1633. |
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24. Paper of Questions respecting the course to be taken for
sale of the soap of the new company, with a paper of answers
thereto. [Indorsed is a resolution or proposed resolution that
since it has appeared by divers trials that the new soap is very
good, and that the old soap-boilers have untruly laid scandal upon
the new soap, the Court [of Star Chamber, where the subject was
under investigation] should take some course for the punishment
of these seditious and scandalous tongues. Three pages and three
quarters.] |
| Aug. 4. |
25. Statement of William Hanson, fishmonger, that on the 4th
April last, by warrant of George Dannett servant to Sir Sampson
Darrell, 800 cods were delivered aboard the Dreadnought, and that
Mr. Beaumont, purser of the Dreadnought, delivered 400 of those
fish to the Antelope, bound for the coast of Ireland, Beaumont
saying that his ship was bound to the northward, where he might
provide fish much better. Hanson thereupon paid Beaumont 10l.
for the 400 fish delivered to the Antelope. [Half a page.] |
Aug. 5.
The Antelope, in the Road before Dublin. |
26. Capt. Sir Richard Plumleigh to the Lords of the Admiralty.
They have not heard of any English pirates this year to trouble the
coast of Ireland, nor till now of any Turks being in the Channel,
but yesterday he received intelligence of two which lie about
Ushant and Belle Isle. They have been extremely vexed with
swarms of paltry Biscayners, who, under pretence of letters of
reprisal from the Spaniard against the Hollander, stop the traffic,
and use his Majesty's subjects at their pleasure. In the beginning
of the year they came into the port of Dublin and fired a Dutch
ship, and seeing some company draw from Dublin discharged a
piece of artillery amongst them. Having lately gotten intelligence
of a Dutch ship laden with merchandise of value which rode in the
mouth of the river of Dublin, on the 29th July, about midnight,
they fell on board, and, cutting her cables, carried her off. Having
received intelligence by a Bristol ship, the writer directed his
course towards the Land's End. On the last of July he got sight of
them, and, after a six hours' chase and a few shot, recovered the
Hollander, and in her thirteen of the rascals, and brought them into
the port of Dublin. By warrant of the Lord Deputy he gave
possession of the ship to Monk and Cane, officers of the custom
house there. An inventory shall be sent to the Lords. Has heard
nothing of Capt. Quaile's ship. [Two pages.] |
| Aug. 5. |
27. Copy of the same. [Two pages.] |
Aug. 5.
Aldingborne House. |
28. Bishop Mountague of Chichester to Sec. Windebank. Will
be short, for the Secretary's occasions are exigent and the Bishop's
gout (a new disease) is violent. About his Chancery Lane business
has written to the Bishop of London, who will acquaint the Secretary
therewith. The Lord Treasurer must also be privy to it. Windebank and the Bishop of London must be the writer's directors.
[Half a page.] |
Aug. 5.
Navenby. |
29. Justices of Peace for co. Lincoln to Sir William Thorold the
sheriff. Certify the measures taken by them within the hundreds
of Boothby-Graffo and Langoe, for relief of the poor. [Three
quarters of a page.] |
| Aug. 5. |
30. List endorsed by Bishop Laud, as being that of "Incests of
several kinds committed in the diocese of Chester within these
14 or 15 years." The parties are named and the particular
degree of relationship which constituted the incest. [Three quarters
of a page.] |
Aug. 5.
Axe Court. |
31. Certificate of William Gruffith that Thomas Ellis, who was
about to travel beyond seas, had taken the Oath of Allegiance.
[Half a page.] |
Aug. 5.
Gray's Inn. |
32. Sir John Bankes to Sir Henry Vane, Comptroller of the
Household. Vane's assurance from the city cannot well be done in
his absence, because he is not there to seal counterparts and the
conveyance is conditional. Mr. Dingley had proposed the question
as to the forests of Teasdale and Langley. Because Vane purchased
only the tenements and lands within the forests, they might well
pass from the King, notwithstanding the forests are excepted.
Vane's assurance was consequently good. Shall be at Durham
Assizes, which begin the 5th of August, and purposed to return
about the end of that month. [Three quarters of a page.] |
Aug. 6.
Stokes Bay. |
33. Capt. Thomas Ketelby to Nicholas. That day shall make an
end of fishing their main mast and to-morrow hopes to set sail for
the Downs. For the sailing and yare working of their two ships
knows not which to commend first; they both prove as well as can
be desired. For an easy ship in the sea and one that rolls or labours
little, Ketelby dare commend the Henrietta Maria before any he
ever set foot in. In that respect may be a ship for a Queen. Nor
is she tender sided as most of their new ships are, but stout and stiff
as the Vanguard. [One page.] |
Aug. 6.
Barnard Castle. |
34. Bond of William Barnes to Sir Henry Vane, in 40l., for
faithful performance of his office of bailiff in the lordship of Barnard
Castle. [Three quarters of a page.] |
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35. Justices of Peace for Salop to Sir Philip Eyton the sheriff.
Certificate of proceedings in execution of statutes for relief of the
poor within the hundred of Oswestry. [Three quarters of a page.] |
Aug. 7.
Whitehall. |
Lords of the Admiralty to Capt. John Pennington. Approve his
diligence in scouring the seas and freeing them from Turks and
pirates. As he has had full trial of the Vanguard and Henrietta
Maria, desire him to advertise them how they sail, steer, work at
sea, and carry their ordnance, that they may remedy those that
shall hereafter be built. Will take order for a timely supply of
victuals for the ships with him. [Copy. Vol. ccxxviii., p. 75. Half
a page.] |
Aug. 7.
Whitehall. |
The same to Sir John Heydon. To take a survey of the
ordnance and gunner's stores remaining aboard the Lion's Eighth
Whelp and to cause the same to be delivered by indenture to John
Lathbury, now her master gunner. [Copy. Ibid. Third of a
page.] |
Aug. 7.
Whitehall. |
Lords of the Admiralty to John Griffith. Have received his letter of
the 24th July with inventory of goods bought of pirates. Find them
exceeding low-priced. He is to procure a judgment for the same,
and then to proceed to the sale of them for the King's best benefit.
He is to acquaint Sir Henry Marten and the King's Advocate and
Proctor with the names of those who have bartered with pirates
and the proofs against them, and then to proceed legally against
them. Now that the writers have appointed a judge and registrar
for his vice-admiralty they expect that he will keep courts. [Copy.
Vol. ccxxviii., fol. 75 a. Half a page. |
Aug. 7.
Whitehall. |
The same to Adam Viscount Ely, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
On the death of William Ellisworth, late marshal and waterbailiff of the Admiralty of Ireland, the writers conferred that
place on Robert Smyth, in consideration of his good service and
long attendance on the affairs of the Admiralty here. Pray the
Lord Chancellor to send them Ellisworth's patent, that the present
officer may be settled in that place as may be for the advantage of
his Majesty's service. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 76. Three quarters of a
page.] |
Aug. 7.
Whitehall. |
The same to Thomas, Viscount Wentworth, Lord Deputy of
Ireland. The Lords have given order to Capt. Plumleigh to
bring the Antelope about the middle of October into Portsmouth.
Henceforth the ships for guard of the coast of Ireland (if moneys be
paid according to the times appointed) shall be on that coast by the
beginning of March. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 76 a. Two thirds of a
page.] |
Aug. 7.
Whitehall. |
The same to Sir Henry Marten. Send complaint of William
Davison, Deputy Vice-Admiral to the Earl of Lindsey for co.
Lincoln, against Alexander Fox, Stephen Holland, and Benjamin
Adams, and desire him to take such course against the said delinquents as may best conduce to vindicating the jurisdiction of the
Admiralty in those parts. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 76 a. One third of a
page.] |
Aug. 7.
The Fleet. |
36. James Martin to Sec. Windebank. Though in this doleful
place, debarred from all hope of relief, the writer reputes himself
but as a dead man, yet, in zeal to his Majesty and love to the late
Duke [of Buckingham], his great benefactor, he presumes to advertise that if due inquisition be made, there is apparent hope to
detect the conspiracy against his [the late Duke's] life. It was the
writer's hap to premonish him of his designed death, but his ill fate
to neglect his own safety, for the writer gave him express notice of
some persons of quality in Suffolk that menaced his cutting off, and
the minister in whose parish they lived was ready to depose the
truth, but his Grace professing to the writer that he feared them
not, and other accidents intervening, the business was, for that time
smothered, and the next news the writer heard was his assassination
by Felton, a Suffolk man, if the writer errs not. The persons that
menaced the Duke's death were not merely vulgar but wealthy men,
most of them of fair estates. It is exceedingly probable that they
were privy to that devilish design, yea thought it an act meritorious.
If Windebank will send for the writer this day, he will discover
more than is fit to be written, and upon such testimony as shall
give good satisfaction. The minister told him that their estates
were such as 10,000l. might accrue to his Majesty upon the discovery,
and that it cost them a great sum to save them out of the fire in
the Duke's time. Mr. Smith of Gray's Inn, son of Sir William
Smith, offers to be bound in 200l. for rendering the writer to the
warden as a true prisoner if he may go abroad, but he and all others
are afraid of recognizances. [One page.] |
| Aug. 7. |
37. Nicholas to Capt. John Pennington. The Lords [of the
Admiralty] approve Pennington's care in keeping so much at sea.
The King came to Greenwich on Saturday, 20th July last, and is
well and looks healthy. The Duke of Lennox was the 28th July
sworn of the Privy Council at Greenwich, whereupon divers give
forth he shall be Lord Admiral, but Nicholas can learn no ground of
truth in that report. The King began his progress the 6th of this
month, and his gists are the same that were appointed before his
journey to Scotland. There has been a great overthrow given by
the Duke of Luxembourg and the Landsgrave of Hetz [Hesse] to
Merode and two other generals of the Emperor, in which the
imperialists lost 6,000 men, all their ordnance and baggage; God
continue his mercy still to the poor Protestants in Germany. The
Prince of Orange is drawn near to Breda, which some suppose he
will besiege, though the Archduchess had a good army in Flanders.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is very sick and weak at Croydon,
inasmuch as it is thought he will hardly escape or live long. The
King knighted all the pensioners in Scotland, and amongst them
Capt. Sydenham, who is now Sir Francis Sydenham, for the honour
of sea captains. The Lords that were in Scotland and their fellows
very much applaud the entertainment they had in Scotland.
Nicholas has got the Lords' warrant for John Lathbury to be master
gunner in the Eighth Whelp, as Pennington desired. — P.S. The
Archbishop of Canterbury died on Sunday last, and the Bishop of
London has already a congé d'élire for Canterbury, and some say
Dr. Wren shall be Bishop of London. [One page.] |
| [Aug. 7.] |
38. Remonstrances [unsigned] of the deportment of Sir Benjamin
Ayloffe, Bart., at a Sessions of Sewers held at Stratford Langthorne,
Essex, on 15th July last, in opposition to the King's letters. His
Majesty recommended George Glanville to be chosen clerk to that
commission. Sir Benjamin so far slighted his Majesty's letter as he
not only gave his voice of election for one Sedgewick, but said that
Glanville was a knave. If Sir Henry Mildmay and others had not
been present, nothing had been done in obedience to his Majesty's
pleasure, the said Sir Benjamin falling so violently upon Glanville
by opprobrious and scandalous speeches. It is also alleged that the
Justices having suppressed an alehouse in the division of Becontree,
Sir Benjamin, although not resident in that division, had licensed
the same. [Three quarters of a page.] |
| Aug. 7. |
39. Commissioners of Sewers for certain levels in Essex to Sir
Benjamin Ayloffe. According to his request have re-collected into
memory those things which were spoken by him at the Commission
of Sewers at Stratford on the 15th of July concerning George
Glanville, which were, that if he that informed his Majesty of him
had known him so well as Sir Benjamin, he would not have done
his Majesty so much wrong, for that Sir Benjamin had known him
to be Sir Thomas Fanshawe's servant for many years, and that by
his means he had gotten his estate, yet he had been a knave to
his master, for which cause he durst not give his voice for him;
and that, besides, he was an insufficient clerk for that service.
[One page.] |
Aug. 8.
Northampton. |
40. Mayor and others of Northampton to the Council. On
information of William Gomeldon, the chief officers of Northampton,
among other towns, were ordered to inquire what sums were collected
many years since for the recovery of the Palatinate, and what the collector's name. The return was sent up, but another similar order
was made on the 3rd inst. They now certify that 30l. and some odd
money was collected by Richard Wollaston, but the same being no
greater a sum the Board would not accept thereof, and the amount
was ultimately returned to the contributors under threat of suit.
Since which the Attorney General has exhibited a bill against the
collector for an account, who has answered, setting forth the names
of the contributors with the sums by them contributed. [One
page.] |
| Aug. 8. |
41. Dr. Matthew Nicholas to his brother Edward Nicholas. Has
received full proof of Edward Nicholas's will and power to redress
the injury of Dr. Henchman's intrusion, and hopes "this" will
settle the writer's election so that it will not hereafter be impugned.
Has penned his thanks unto his lordship [Bishop Laud], how fitly
the writer leaves to his brother's censure. Entreats that he may
defray the charges of the King's letter. Wishes him to acquaint
the Dean with the King's letter, and desire his furtherance as if he
conceived him to be a favourer of the writer's desires, as he will
express himself. Dr. Mason procured the Duchess Dowager of
Lennox to write to the Dean on his behalf. According to his art,
the Dean shaped her so fair an answer as she was satisfied, but
Mason's friends have told him there can be no security as long as
the act of Dr. Henchman stands unrepealed, and he is gone to
London to see whether he can get any other hopes. Mr. Dean
advised him to be quiet, "as the writer was," but he told Mason
that he had committed the business to the wisdom of his friends.
[One page.] |
Aug. 8.
Allington. |
42. Hum[phrey] Ludlow to his brother Sir Henry Ludlow.
Entreats him to come over to his house, according to promise, by the
19th inst., as Mr. Mayor is very importunate to treat with him
concerning the writer's lease and stock. Presumes Mr. Beriew will
wait upon him if Sir Henry pleases; and if he will bring a haunch
or side of venison the writer promises as fragrant a cup of wine
as he can get in Hampton [Southampton]. [One page.] |
Aug. 9.
Whitehall. |
43. Order of Council. A letter and several petitions having been
sent from the Justices of Assize for co. Gloucester concerning
clothing [see 1st August 1633, No. 1, of this present Vol.], it is
ordered that the Commissioners for Clothing should report to the
Board thereon. [Three quarters of a page.] |
Aug. 9.
The Vanguard, in the Downs. |
44. Capt. John Pennington to the Lords of the Admiralty.
They have completely repaired their defects and are returned there
for further order about victualling, as also whether they shall go
again to the westward before they have a supply. Expected to
have found the Dreadnought returned thither, but does not so much
as hear of her. [One page.] |
Aug. 9.
The Vanguard, in the Downs. |
45. The same to Nicholas. Is at that instant arrived there
and earnestly expected he should have heard from Nicholas, but
finds no intelligence from any one, so that he is like a man of
another world, that is a mere stranger to all passages. Prays sweet
Mr. Nicholas to let him hear from him as soon as possible, and to
procure the Lords' answer to the above letter. [One page.] |
| Aug. 9. |
46. Sir Francis Nethersole to Sir William Becher. Prays him to
procure a pass for him, his wife, a gentlewoman and three other
maid servants, five men servants, a page for the Queen, his household stuff, trunks of apparel, a coach and a Holland waggon, and to
let his addition be "Master of the Household to the Queen of
Bohemia." [A pass in accordance with the preceding letter will
be found calendared under date 31st July 1633, No. 54. One
page.] |
Aug. 10.
Bulwick. |
47. [Sir Thomas Roe] to Lord Treasurer Portland. Had not the
happiness to wait on the Lord Treasurer on his return [from Scotland], though the writer cannot accuse his endeavour. His prayers
have had their effect for the Lord Treasurer's health and safety.
Does not know whether his letters, which were three, found a right
passage to him in Scotland. In them he moved the Treasurer to
give his countenance to the negotiation of the peace of the Churches
in Germany, by some instruction to Sir Robert Anstruther, it being
so far advanced that letters of provocation had been sent to the
Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London, or were ready to
come. The Ambassador of Poland in his return brought Roe certain
letters whereof he sends copies to his Majesty. The Ambassador is
mnch perplexed with his answer, concerning especially his Majesty's
purpose to continue mediator between Poland and Sweden. Roe
has asked leave to give the King an account of the state of the
business, and has sent the Treasurer a copy of his letter to the King.
[Copy. One page and a half.] |
Aug. 10.
Dublin Castle. |
48. Dr. John Bramhall to Bishop Laud. Is to give him a brief
account of the present estate of the Church of Ireland. For the
fabrics; it is hard to say whether the churches be more ruinous and
sordid, or the people irreverent. In Dublin one parochial church is
converted to the Lord Deputy's stable, a second to a nobleman's
dwelling house, the quire of a third to a tennis court. In Christ's
Church, the principal church in Ireland, the vaults are made into
tippling rooms, and the table for administration of the blessed
sacrament in the midst of the quire made an ordinary seat. He
cannot omit, in the other cathedral of St. Patrick, a glorious tomb
in the proper place of the altar, as if it were contrived to gain it
worship and reverence, which the chapter and whole church are
bound by special statute to give towards the east, and either the
soil itself, or a licence to build and bury and make a vault, in the
place of the altar, under seal. This being the case in Dublin, the
Bishop may judge what to expect in the country. For the clergy he
finds few footsteps of foreign differences, but doubts whether they be
very orthodox, and could wish both the articles and canons of the
Church of England were established by Act of Parliament. The
inferior sort of ministers are below all degrees of contempt in respect
of poverty and ignorance. The boundless heaping together of benefices in the superiors is but too apparent: it is affirmed that one
Bishop in the remoter parts holds twenty-three benefices with cure.
For the revenues, how small care has been taken for the service of
his Majesty or the good of the Church, is thereby apparent that no
person can inform the Lord Deputy what deaneries or benefices are
in his Majesty's gift, and above 300 livings, besides two bishoprics,
are omitted out of the book of tax for first fruits. The alienations of
church possessions are infinite. The Earl of Cork holds the whole
Bishopric of Lismore at the rent of 40s. or five marks by the year.
For the remedy of these evils, next to God and his Majesty, the Lord
Deputy depends upon the Bishop's wisdom and zeal for the Church.
States the acts already adopted by the Lord Deputy. It is not
possible for the intentions of a mortal man to be more serious and
sincere than his in those things that concern the good of the poor
Church. It is some comfort that the Romish ecclesiastics cannot
laugh at them. They come behind none in point of disunion and
scandal. [Copy, the original being in the Irish Correspondence.
Two pages and three quarters.] |
Aug. 10.
Whitehall. |
49. Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery to Capt. John
Pennington. Recapitulates various measures adopted by him in
observance of the King's pleasure with the view of drawing in as
many adventurers into the Fishing business as possibly he might.
These measures, although successful in the instance of Pennington,
had not answered expectations. The season for fishing is at hand.
The four busses are ready to be taken off the stocks, but not without
the supply of 2,400l., which is 1,800l. more than is in hand. By
advice of a Committee at Baynard's Castle, the Company had
ordered to advance the second adventurers one quarter of a year, that
is for the person addressed to pay his next 30l. at Michaelmas
instead of Christmas. If this be approved by him, he is desired to
give order for payment to Capt. Styles, treasurer for the Association,
at his house in Fenchurch Street. [One page.] |
Aug. 10.
Whitehall. |
50. Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery to Sir Thomas
Roe. Similar letter. [One page.] |
| Aug. 10. |
51. Bill for silk, lace, sewing silk, and silk fringe [supplied to
Nicholas]. Total, 9l. 13s. 8d. [Third of a page.] |
Aug. 12.
Oatlands. |
Proclamation for the use of the bow and the pike together in
military discipline. William Neade, an ancient archer, has presented to the King an invention of the bow and the pike together,
and the King has by commission authorized the said William Neade
and William Neade his son, whom he has instructed, to teach his
Majesty's subjects therein. This proclamation declares the King's
pleasure that the said invention shall be put in practice within the
realm, and that all persons who exercise arms may be instructed
therein by William Neade and his son or their deputies. The
Deputy Lieutenants are directed to prescribe times for all such
persons to assemble for the purpose of instruction, and the Deputy
Lieutenants and all other the King's officers are to be aiding to
William Neade and his son therein. [Coll. Procs., Car. I., No. 166.] |
| [Aug. 12.] |
52. Statement by William Neade of the contents of the commission granted to him and mentioned in the preceding article.
[Half a page.] |
Aug. 12.
Westminster. |
53. Nicholas to Capt. John Pennington. Finds that his man
delivered a packet for Pennington sent on Wednesday last to the
postmaster without directing it to the Downs. Sends him a copy
of the letter of the Lords of the Admiralty, and will recover the
packet again. The Dreadnought is called in and discharged. Her
captain was knighted in Scotland when all the pensioners that were
there were knighted. The Lords of the Admiralty will meet this
week and resolve about victualling of Pennington's fleet. They
have met but once since the King came from Scotland. The Archbishop of Canterbury is dead, and a congé d'élire sent for the
Bishop of London to succeed him. Dr. Juxon, Clerk of the Closet,
shall be Dean of the Chapel, and Dr. Wren, Clerk of the Closet.
Some say the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Dr. Wren, or the Bishop of
Oxford shall be Bishop of London, but which of the three is uncertain. There had been reports that Pennington had been desperately
sick, and that they should have a Lord Admiral very shortly; the
voice ran most on the Earl of Danby, but there is no thought or
intention to have a Lord Admiral as yet. The Duke of Lennox was
sworn of the Privy Council the Sunday after the King came home.
The King's progress holds to Woodstock, according to the "gists"
which his Majesty set down before his going for Scotland. The
Lords expect to hear from Pennington about the Turks that pillaged
or fought with a merchantship, which complained of it to Pennington,
about Plymouth. [One page and a quarter.] |
Aug. 12.
Wellington. |
54. Justices of Peace for Salop to Sir Philip Eyton the sheriff.
Certify their proceedings in execution of the statutes for relief of
the poor in the hundred of Bradford North. [One page.] |
| Aug. 13. |
55. The King [to the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury]. The
King lately directed his letters to them in favour of Dr. Henchman,
chanter of their church, whereupon they have pre-elected him a
supernumerary resident, and have given him some privileges and
profits which may be prejudicial to a former pre-election of Thomas
Mason, then B.D. and now D.D., at the recommendation of the
Duchess of Richmond and Lennox, whose chaplain he is. The King
never intended by his letters for Dr. Henchman that they should do
anything contrary to the act formerly made for Dr. Mason, and his
pleasure is that they should preserve the right of Dr. Mason, and
suffer him to enjoy such of the five canonical houses as shall be next
void. [Draft. Two thirds of a page.] |
| Aug. 13. |
56. The same to the same. Another draft form of similar letter, in
the handwriting of Robert Reade, Windebank's secretary. [Half a
page.] |
| Aug. 13. |
57. Another previous draft of the latter half of the last preceding
paper, corrected by Sec. Windebank. [One page.] |
| Aug. 13. |
58. The King to the Mayor of Boston and others, commissioners
to make composition for fens in co. Lincoln. By letters patent
dated 1st June 1629 the King granted in fee farm to Sir Robert
Killigrew, Sir John Heydon, and George Kirke, the east, west, and
north fens, parcel of the honor of Bolingbroke, with power to assign
a part for draining, and a further part to the commoners, reserving
to the King for every acre 4d. annual rent. A considerable quantity
of the fens being now drained, the King appoints the persons
addressed commissioners to make a final accord between the
patentees and the commoners. [Two thirds of a page.] |
Aug. 13.
St. Nicholas, Harnham. |
59. Dr. Matthew Nicholas to his brother Edward Nicholas. Grateful
for the redress of Dr. Henchman's intrusion. Is glad he approved of
his letter of thanks to the Bishop of London. The King's letter is
come down to Dr. Barnestone, and a chapter is warned for this day.
All the residents at home express joy that they shall be called to
perform an act which themselves affect. Has protested against any
practice against Dr. Mason. The residents tell the writer that they
intend to place Dr. Henchman after the writer in the assignment of
a house, and some of them will endeavour to put him by his present
possession of commons. Shall meet Edward Nicholas on Monday
night next in Basingstoke, at the Maidenhead, if that be his inn
still. [One page.] |
| Aug. 13. |
60. Justices of Peace for Salop to Sir Philip Eyton the sheriff.
Certificate of proceedings under statutes for relief of the poor
within the hundred of Overs. [Three quarters of a page.] |
Aug. 15.
Whitehall. |
Lords of the Admiralty to Bishop Laud. There being a great
quantity of timber to be carried out of the forests of Shotover and
Stowood for the use of the Navy, the Council appointed the counties
of Berks, Buckingham, and Oxford to join in performance thereof.
It will be a great prejudice to this service if any persons shall be
exempted; yet being unwilling to press anything that may trench
on the privileges of the University of Oxford, which divers resort to
to avoid this service; they pray him to take some course, without
prejudice to those privileges, that a business of so much consequence
may be cheerfully performed. The parties shall not be troubled on
any less important occasion. [Copy. Vol. ccxxviii., fol. 77. Three
quarters of a page.] |
Aug. 15.
Whitehall. |
The same to the Officers of the Navy. The Vanguard, the Henrietta Maria, and the Eighth and Tenth Whelps employed for guard
of the Narrow Seas, are victualled but to the 20th of September.
It is the King's pleasure that they be continued at sea for two
months longer. They are to give warrant to the surveyor of marine
victuals to supply them; also that boatswains and carpenters' stores
be sent to them. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 78. Half a page.] |
| [Aug. 15.] |
61. Estimate for two months' victuals for the above-named ships;
total, 1,157l. 6s. 8d. [One page.] |
Aug. 15.
Whitehall. |
62. Lords of the Admiralty to Capt. John Pennington. Like
very well his diligence in repairing his ships, and his active
disposition to be stirring abroad at sea. Have given order for
revictualling his fleet for two months. Approve his purpose to
stand with his ships to the westward, whilst the victuals are
providing, which shall meet him in the Downs about the 12th of
next month. [One page.] |
| Aug. 15. |
Copy of the same. [See Vol. ccxxviii., fol. 77. Half a page.] |
Aug. 15.
Whitehall. |
The same to the Officers of the Ordnance. The ships for guard of
the Narrow Seas before named are to be continued for two
months longer. They are to supply them with powder and other
gunner's stores. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 78. Half a page.] |
Aug. 15.
Whitehall. |
Minute that on the petition of Capt. Richard Bradshaw to the Lords
of the Admiralty, and Sir Henry Marten's report on the captain's
complaint against Sir William Killigrew, captain of Pendennis
Castle, the Lords' order thereupon was signed anew. [Minute.
Ibid., fol. 79. Seven lines.] |
Aug. 15.
Lombard Street, London. |
63. William Moorhead to Sec. Windebank. Forwards a letter
from Sir George Douglas. He has had a longsome, tedious, dangerous, and expensive journey. [Half a page.] |
Aug. 15.
Tower Hill. |
64. Sir Sampson Darrell to Nicholas. Prays him to inform the
Lords of the Admiralty that Thomas Osborne, prisoner in the
Marshalsea, has delivered to Sir Sampson the possession of the
King's bakehouse and storehouse at Tower Hill. Knows their
lordships will be pleased to give order for his enlargement. [Half
a page.] |
Aug. 15.
Bristol. |
65. Robert Kitchen to Nicholas. The Lion's Ninth Whelp came
thither against St. James's fair wafting over the Irish fleet. Having
sprung her main mast, a new one had to be supplied, which is done.
On the 12th instant was aboard her in King Road, and mustered her
men. She has her numbers and good men. Captain James desires
four additional guns for purposes which are described. [Three
quarters of a page.] |
| Aug. 15. |
66. Attorney General Noy to Sir William Becher. Desires to
have a sight of the examinations concerning Mr. Lunsford, that he
may be the better able to examine the persons to be examined
according to an order of the Council. [Quarter of a page.] |
Aug. 15.
Shrewsbury. |
67. Account of the confession of Enoch ap Jevan [Evan] at his
arraignment, transmitted by Justice Jones, judge of the assizes.
He was of the age of 40, a mean freeholder's son, dwelling in the
parish of Bishop's Castle, in a lordship of Sir Robert Howard, called
Clun, and was indicted for murdering his mother and brother. He
confessed the indictments to be true, and that some few days before
the fact there were conferences between him and his mother and
brother concerning the manner of receiving the sacrament, which
they received kneeling, which he conceived not to be well done, for
it was to thrust the heels and legs behind the body, but the same
ought to be received bowing. A year past he received the communion kneeling, but his mind was since altered by inspiration.
To-morrow he is to receive judgment, and it may be then he will
make a more free confession. [One page.] |
| Aug. 15. |
68. Statement submitted by Capt. James Duppa to Sec. Windebank of the cost of a sufficient number of ships for scouring the seas
from Turkish pirates, so that within two years they may be totally
ruined. [One page and a quarter.] |
Aug. 16.
Whitehall. |
Lords of the Admiralty to the Officers of the Navy. In the survey
delivered in May last of the state of the King's ships, a demand
of 7,000l. was made for reparations. The Officers are to certify
not only when provisions of materials may be had for the same, and
in what time they are to be done, but also how reparations to the
hulls of ships may hereafter be expressed in the estimate for the
ordinary, to the end that the ships may be in readiness for employment so soon as men and stores shall be put aboard them. [Copy.
Vol. ccxxviii., fol. 77 a. Half a page.] |
Aug. 16.
Whitehall. |
The same to Lord Deputy Wentworth. Send him copies of examinations of a great outrage committed at the Isle of Lundy by a manof-war of Biscay. Conceive that she was either the same whose
company were apprehended by Sir Richard Plumleigh, or one of her
consorts, and therefore pray him to cause the company of that
Biscayner to be examined touching the fact mentioned in these
examinations, and to be proceeded against as pirates. In the meantime, they also request him to send an inventory of the goods aboard
the Dutch ship recovered by Sir Richard Plumleigh. [Copy. Vol.
ccxxviii., fol. 78a. Half a page.] |
Aug. 16.
Whitehall. |
Lords of the Admiralty to Capt. Sir Richard Plumleigh. Send him
a copy of the examinations mentioned in the preceding article. Understanding from Plumleigh that men-of-war of Biscay, howsoever they
go forth with letters of reprisal, are most of them of the like condition,
the Lords require him to use his best diligence to apprehend the
Biscayner mentioned in these examinations, or any of his consorts,
especially such of them whose company are of mixed nations.
Expect a true inventory of the ship and goods he took from the
Biscayner on the coast of Ireland, and shall make known his good
service therein to his Majesty. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 79. Two thirds
of a page.] |
Aug. 16.
Whitehall. |
69. The same to Capt. John Pennington. Sends him a copy
of a letter received touching a great insolency committed by a
Biscay ner at Lundy. Require him if he can meet with that
Biscayner, or any of his consorts, in any part of the Narrow Seas,
to apprehend them, especially if their company be of mixed nations,
for that under pretence of letters of reprisal they pillage and rob his
Majesty's subjects, and disturb trade not only in the Narrow Seas,
but even in his Majesty's roads, and on the coasts of the King's
dominions. [One page.] Inclosed, |
|
69. i. Copy of the examinations transmitted by Sir Barnard
Grenville and Ralph Byrd on 30th July, 1633. No. 48. i.
[One page and three quarters.] |
| Aug. 16. |
70. Copy of the preceding letter. [Three quarters of a page.] |
| Aug. 16. |
Another copy of the same. [Vol. ccxxviii., fol. 77 a. Half a page.] |
| Aug. 16. |
71. Petition of the Clothiers of co. Gloucester to the Council.
Pray the Lords to hear the petitioners concerning the decay of their
trade, and some grievances lying on them in the honest exercise of
the same at this present. Underwritten, |
|
71. i. Answer of the Lords. They cannot now appoint a time
in a business of such weight, but after the progress they
will give direction for the committee of clothing to meet
and to consider of the letters written by the Justices of
Assize and the petition therein inclosed. Whitehall, 16th
August, 1633. [Petition and reference, one page.] |
| [Aug. 16 ?] |
72. Petition of the White Clothiers of co. Gloucester to the Council. Humbly desire to be heard in these three particulars before the
Council—1, The casualties that are in making and drying of their
cloths; 2, the use of the ancient marks which they have made
upon their cloths; 3, the order now appointed for the searching
and sealing of their cloths. [One page and a quarter.] |
| Aug. 16. |
73. Bond of William Benson, of Halstow, co. Kent, fisherman, and
of Thomas Blake, of the parish of St. Mary at Hill, Billingsgate,
in 100l., for the appearance of Benson before the Council to answer
for attempting to convey certain of his Majesty's subjects over the
seas contrary to an Act of State lately made in that behalf. [One
page.] |
| Aug. 16. |
74. Extract from the Register of the Archbishopric of Canterbury of entries relating to the confirmation of the elections
of Archbishops Abbot, Bancroft, Whitgift, Grindal, and Parker,
to the see of Canterbury. Latin. [Indorsed by Archbishop Laud
as being the form of the process of the election of all the Archbishops of Canterbury since the Reformation. Two pages.] |
| [Aug. 16.] |
75. Mode of proceeding on the confirmation of an Archbishop of
Canterbury, indorsed by Archbishop Laud. [Two pages and a
quarter.] |
Aug. 16.
London. |
76. Tract by Thomas Eyre, "an unworthy servant and member"
of the Fishing Society, in which he comments on the several
passages in Holy Scripture which make mention of fish. [Thirteen
pages and two thirds.] |
| Aug. 17. |
Commission to William Neade, archer, and William Neade, his
son, to instruct such of his Majesty's subjects as should be willing,
or by the Lieutenants or Justices of Peace should be appointed, to
learn the use and exercise of the bow and the pike together in
military discipline. [Docquet.] |
| Aug. 17. |
Discharge to Sir James Levingston and others, tenants of marsh
grounds in co. Lincoln, of 2,945l. due for arrearages of rent for those
marshes by the space of 15½ years, at Michaelmas 1632. [Docquet.] |
| Aug. 17. |
Commission to the Heads of Houses of the University of Cambridge
to inquire cencerning Dr. Lane and his crimes and excesses, for that
between him and Mr. Holdsworth is competition about the mastership of St. John's College. A former was drawn to inquire of both
their excesses. The alteration in this part is made upon signification
of his Majesty's pleasure by the Earl of Holland. This as the former
gives power to examine the behaviour of the Fellows at the election.
[Docquet.] |
Aug. 17.
The Vanguard, in the Downs. |
77. Capt. John Pennington to the Lords of the Admiralty. Is
much encouraged that they are pleased with his proceedings. Concerning the Vanguard and Henrietta Maria, they are both very
good men-of-war and go well for great ships, and work and steer
well and yare. The Vanguard's lower tier lies nearer the water
than the Henrietta Maria's, and there are other differences between
them on which he comments. He complains of the Vanguard not
having been built altogether of new timber. He pronounces the
Henrietta Maria to be a well wrought ship, and very strong, and
says she had been a dainty man-of-war, but for the thickness and
smallness of her ports, the fall in her gunroom and her extraordinary
housing in aloft. He had had much speech with Peter Pett, who
builds at Deptford, concerning all these things, as also with Capt.
Pett, before Pennington's coming to sea; so that he conceives they
will be contrived otherwise hereafter. [One page.] |
Aug. 17.
The Vanguard, in the Downs. |
78. Capt. John Pennington to Nicholas. Thanks for his care and
love of him. Would see by his letter to the Lords that he had dealt
clearly with them concerning the building and working of these ships.
Indeed there had been a great abuse in the Vanguard, both in the
materials and workmanship, and in the Henrietta Maria in her contriving; but no better could be expected when ships are built by the
great as these were. Is weary of lying still, and longs much for their
lordships' resolution what he shall do Thanks for his despatch of
his gunner's mate, and entreats him to think upon Pennington's
cousin, William Drewe, for a boatswain's place in one of the new
ships. Longs to hear what they do about the runaways, for daily
men run away still, and ever will do till they make some of them
examples. [One page.] |
| Aug. 17. |
79. Bond of John Stone, of St. Botolph Aldgate Without, mariner,
John Taylor of St. Martin in the Fields, clothworker, and Richard
Lane, citizen and writer, in 200l., for the appearance of John Stone
before the Council to answer for endeavouring to transport out of
England certain Irishmen without licence, contrary to an Act of
State lately made. [One page.] |
| Aug. 17. |
80. Examination of George Carter, one of the messengers of the
Chamber, taken at Cobham before Sir Anthony Vincent. On the
16th inst. being employed with letters from Sec. Windebank to
Viscount Montagu, residing then at Cowdray in Sussex, he met,
about a mile from Cobham, a man to him unknown, who took his
horse by the bridle and charged him to deliver his purse, and also
held his pistol, with the lock up, unto his bosom. Carter told him
he would deliver the money be had; and so, both alighting from
their horses, the man held his pistol to the breast of Carter with
one hand, and rifled his pocket with the other, taking from him a
piece of 22s. in gold, and some 2s. in silver, whereupon Carter
"chopt" near to him, and laid his hands on the pistol crying "Now,
you rogue, I will deal well enough with you !" The man then drew
out a short dagger which he had at his side, and stabbed at Carter,
who laid hold on the dagger, but not so readily but that it made
a great hole in his riding coat. They then both struggling, fell to
the ground, and after considerable contest, which is somewhat
minutely described, Carter, with his own dagger, gave his assailant
four or five wounds into his body, whereupon the unknown man
presently died. [One page and three quarters.] |
