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Dec. 1.
Westminster. |
1. Sec. Windebank to Robert Davison, keeper of the new prison
in Maiden Lane, London. Warrant to set at liberty Henry Moore,
prisoner in his custody. [Half a page.] |
Dec. 1.
The Henrietta. |
2. Capt. Thomas Austen to Nicholas. Has caused two Flemish
pinks to forbear taking in oysters. They had given earnest for
eight wash a piece. Their names are Jacob Galence and John
Boane of Flushing. Hears there are three more Flemish pinks at
Hastow, but he will be down with them and make stay of them this
night. [Three quarters of a page.] |
Dec. 1. [?]
Scadbury. |
3. Sir Thomas Walsingham to the same. Has made stay of
divers Flemish bottoms, but Mr. Austen has been very officious and
has arrested divers of them in Milton hundred, which never any
captain of a ship did before; he only does it to lessen the writer's
authority. The chiefest place where they resort is Harty shore, in
the King's channel, near Faversham. Mr. Austen will not come
there. Desires to know what course shall be taken with the ships
stayed. Mr. Boate and one Simpson of Queenborough are now in
London. Wishes them to be examined what money or toll of
lobsters Austen takes of the Dutch boats. One Boane, a Dutchman
at Rochester, whom Boate and Simpson can inform him of, brings
in and carries out prohibited goods at his pleasure, and is suffered
to come over the chain when he pleases. Sir Thomas will cause his
ship to be arrested and condemned, and then he hopes he shall have
reparation against Austen. [One page.] |
Dec. 1.
Edinburgh [?] |
4. Patrick Wood to Sir Henry Vane. His friend and he have
resolved for 1,000 quarters of oats at 16s. per quarter, to be delivered betwixt that and the end of April if he so like. Wishes
warrant in Mr. Abercomby's name and four or five hundred pounds
in part. [Half a page.] |
Dec. 2.
Whitehall. |
Lords of the Amiralty to Officers of the Navy. The Lion's Ninth
Whelp will come into Bristol about the end of December to be
repaired. The men belonging to her are to be paid, and so many of
them discharged as are useless, and no more continued upon charge
than are necessary for keeping and repair of her against the 1st
March next. [Copy. See Vol. ccxxviii., fol. 98 a. Half a page.] |
Dec. 2.
"On board the said Pinks riding in Stanlet." |
5. Capt. Thomas Austen to Nicholas. Has made stay of three
pinks riding in Stanlet, two of which had begun to lade oysters, one
having taken in eight wash and the other three wash and a half.
He has also stayed the master of a pink riding at Queenborough
who has taken in eight wash of oysters. The masters have come up
to attend the lords. Hears there were three pinks at Faversham to
lade oysters, and on Saturday night there went in a sloop of Dunkirk and carried away two of them and the third they put ashore.
[Three quarters of a page.] |
Dec. 2.
Chilham. |
6. Sir Dudley Digges to the same. The bearer [Henry Boate]
was a servant under Sir Thomas Walsingham about three years since,
when, out of a desire to have the King well served, the writer took
him to be steward of his liberty of Faversham. Is confident Nicholas
will find him free from blame. Prays he may be dispatched, for which
the Lord Treasurer may thank Nicholas when he sees this man, in
whose house (with Sir Anthony Maynie, his lordship's old friend) he
has been very merry, who is so truly noble that he forgets not old but
poor friends. The writer's desire is that the Lord Treasurer may be
surprised in seeing this delinquent, who proving an honest man may
deserve thanks rather than complaint. [One page.] |
Dec. 3.
Westminster. |
7. Robert Reade to his cousin Thomas Windebank at Orleans.
Is amazed at his perfection, and thinks that he possesses before-hand
the prerogatives of old age. Begs him to rejoice on that account,
and to proceed in such way that on his return he may be a pillar of
the state. French. [Draft. One page.] |
Dec. 4.
Whitehall. |
8. Order of Council. The petition of the town of Colchester
presented to the King, and referred to this Board, having been read,
wherein they complain that their charter is called in question upon
a Quo warranto. Upon information of their submission to resign
their old charter the Lords order the Attorney General to call the
petitioners before him and take order for such resignation, and to
make a draft of a new charter as may best stand with the good
government of the town. [Underwritten are notes by Attorney
General Noy, referring to various papers once annexed which
explained what the townsmen were questioned for. One page.] |
| Dec. 4. |
9. Petition of George Bland to the Council. The Vice-President
and Council of York about July last decreed petitioner to pay to
Thomas Unite a sum of money. On an affidavit of James Story
that he served petitioner with the decree Unite obtained a commission of rebellion, and arrested petitioner in London, whereas
petitioner was never served. Petitioner had his Majesty's protection
before the decree obtained, which he showed to William Pickering,
Thomas Scargall and James Story, the parties who arrested him.
Prays order for his discharge, and that all the other parties may
answer for their contempts. [Underwritten "Nihil." Three quarters
of a page.] |
Dec. 4.
Whitehall. |
Lords of the Admiralty to the Bailiffs and others of Scarborough.
A Hollander laden with deals being taken by a Dunkirker on the
coast of Norway was brought into Scarborough, and there first sold
to Thomas Noble on the part of Capt. Lancelot Alured, and afterwards to some others, by whom it was passed over to the persons
addressed. The sale to Capt. Alured is attested by four or five
witnesses, but he desires relief in a friendly way. The Lords wish
the persons addressed to take consideration thereof and give Capt.
Alured satisfaction. If he appeal to them, they shall do him justice.
[Copy. See Vol. ccxxviii., fol. 99. In the margin is written that
the letter was brought ready signed by Mr. Alured, the Lord
Keeper's gentleman, to be sealed. Three quarters of a page.] |
| Dec. 4. |
10. Officers of the Navy to Lords of the Admiralty. Having
received orders at his Majesty's being at Deptford (a Dutch man-ofwar lying then before the yard where the stores are kept), that they
should prohibit all foreign men-of-war from coming so high up the
river, the same ship's commander Capt. Bore, though he had knowledge last summer of his Majesty's pleasure, is now come to anchor
at the same place, and having notice that he must remove further
down, answered, that unless he saw the King's hand, or received
command from authority beyond theirs, he would not stir. Leave
the redress thereof to their lordships. [One page.] |
Dec. 4.
Mincing Lane. |
11. The same to the same. On examination of Sir Wm. Russell's
account, they find he is in surplusage for building the two new
ships, the Charles and Henrietta Maria, for 1632, 942l. 5s.; and on
their transportation to Chatham 162l. 14s. 6d.; and has paid on
the two new ships building at Deptford and Woolwich, 7,669l. 13s. 5d.,
and must pay for works unperfected 3,697l. 10s., all which make
him in surplusage 4,000l. 1s., to be demanded as a surcharge. [One
page.] |
| Dec. 4. |
12. The same to the same. Have advised of a ship of the third
rank to be employed the year following as admiral for guard of the
coast of Ireland. Recommend the Bonadventure, in regard she
is a floaty, snug vessel, and of a broad floor, able to endure to lie
on ground. Her charge will not exceed that of the Antelope.
[One page.] |
| Dec. 4. |
13. The same to the same. The two new ships built at Deptford
and Woolwich, being preparing for launching, it would be requisite
to place a master carpenter in each of them. Recommend certain
choice shipwrights under-named who have wrought as foremen and
quartermen in the late works, and have good certificates. The
persons named are Joseph Pett, John Rowley, John Bright, John
Westall, John Dalton, Thomas Rumney, and William Safford.
[One page.] |
Dec. 4./14.
Orleans. |
14. Thomas Windebank to [Robert] Reade. The melancholy
of the writer's good friend Aston, which is so great a contrast to
his past jovial humour, proves the uncertainty of everything in this
world. Sends thanks to Mr. Elphinstone for his remembrance,
would write to him but for his imperfect acquaintance with French.
French. [One page.] |
Dec. 4.
Colchester. |
15. Edward Nuttall to Nicholas. Lets him know how the current
goes there about the wreck. She is held strong in the possession of
Serjeant Darcy. Whether his grant bars the King that the writer
leaves to Nicholas to consider. If it should be absolutely the
King's, he suggests that some merchant should be found to buy the
ship and all things in her. Now all the country comes down,
and "every man catch what they can, and stave and stroy more
than they get." All goods that are taken out and come into their
parts Nuttall has in possession, and his deputy at Ipswich does the
same. Begs authority and direction. [One page.] |
| Dec. 4. |
16. W. Valentine, prisoner in Newgate, to [Sec. Windebank].
Understanding his Majesty's pleasure for the writer's enlargement,
and the business resting in Windebank's hands, begs him not to
take information from the writer's commitment, but from the
integrity of his heart. The main duty required in the oath he
conceives to be loyalty to his Majesty. To that he gives his oath
as faithfully as his vow to God in baptism. His difficulty is only
in point of circumstance, which is not his scruple alone but common
to the major part of Roman Catholics. This my Lord of Canterbury did so mildly "conster," as he thereupon gave order for the
writer's enlargement. Would have waited upon the secretary but
for lameness. [One page.] |
| Dec. 4. |
17. Attorney General Noy to the Council. Report on petition of
inhabitants of Misterton against Sir Cornelius Vermuyden and Sir
Philiberto Vernatti. The Attorney General certifies all the causes of
complaint, principally arising out of the stoppage of the river Idle,
with the answers of Sir Cornelius and Sir Philiberto, without expressing any opinion. [Two pages and a half.] |
Dec. 5.
Dublin. |
18. Edward Viscount Conway and Killultagh to William Weld.
He has not been so diligent as he should have been, but his sister Wake
is very ready to take alarm. She is choleric and suspicious. Has
sent her money. If Weld will add a little patience to his goodness
and courtesy, he shall not be a loser. The writer is returning home
from Dublin. [Three quarters of a page.] |
Dec. 5.
Dublin. |
19. The same to [Sir Robert Naunton] master of the Court of
Wards. Thanks for his friendship on the death of Lady Smith.
Whatever trust the person addressed shall put in the writer or
his cousin Reade's hands for the ward shall be faithfully discharged.
[Draft. One page.] |
| Dec. 5. |
20. Account of anticipations of revenue as they now stand
charged: total, 357,984l. 7s. 9½d. Among them are—"Sir Thomas
"Roe, 500l., 300l., and 200l.," "Mr. Heriot 500l.," "Mr. Ruthen
"[Patrick Ruthven] 500l." [Four pages and three quarters.] |
Dec. 6.
Whitehall. |
21. Order of Council. His Majesty's patentees for making soap
have made it both sweet, good, and serviceable, and have put great
quantities to sale, yet some turbulent persons, persisting in the like
contempt with others that have been censured in the Star Chamber,
have raised up women and some of mean condition in the street in
open manner to publish that the soap of the patentees washes not so
white, nor so sweet, nor goes so far as the old soap, and that it spoils
and burns the linen, and frets the hands of those that wash therewith. The Lord Mayor, assisted by Sir William Balfour, Lieutenant
of the Tower, Sir Robert Ducie, Sir Henry Spiller, Sir William
Becher, Sir James Cambell, and Sir Abraham Williams, are to
cause a trial to be made thereof. [Copy. Two pages and a half.] |
Dec. 6.
Whitehall. |
Notes by Sec. Windebank of proceedings before the Council on
petitions of the Gloucestershire clothiers touching the employment
of gigmills for stretching cloth. It was ordered that no more gigmills should be set up, that a trial should be made by water of the
cloths dressed in these mills, and the business be suspended in
the mean time. [See Domestic, Car. I., Vol. ccl., No. 53, 12th
November1633.] |
Dec. 6.
Christ's College. |
22. Testimonial of Dr. Thomas Bainbrigg, Master, and eleven
Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge (amongst them Joseph
Mede), in favour of Richard Freeman, B.A., of that college. Latin.
[One page.] |
| Dec. 6. |
23. Justices of Peace for Devon to Lord Chief Justice Richardson
and Baron Denham. Certify their proceedings under statutes for
relief of the poor within their subdivision, comprising the hundreds
of Witheridge, South Molton, and North Tawton. [One page.] |
| Dec. 6. |
24. List of causes to be heard in the Court of Admiralty this day;
among them the East India Company versus Waterman and
others. Written on a sheet of paper used by Nicholas (as appears
from his indorsement) as a cover for the surveys of hulls of the ships
of the navy, and a statement of their wants of repair, and of stores;
received by him in May 1633. |
| Dec. 6. |
Entry on the register of the Lords of the Admiralty of the appearance of Henry Boate, of Newington, co. Kent. [See Vol. ccxxviii.,
fol. 99. Five lines.] |
| Dec. 7. |
Grant to John Weekes of a prebendary's place, in Bristol, void by
the decease of William Yeomans. [Docquet.] |
| Dec. 7. |
Grant to William Cowper and John, his son, of the office of
collector of imposts on goods of merchant strangers brought into the
port of London, during their lives, with the yearly fee of 150l., upon
surrender of the like grant to William Cowper and Nathaniel
Masters deceased. [Docquet.] |
| Dec. 7. |
The King to the Mayor, recorder, and aldermen of Lincoln. His
Majesty approves of the account of Robert Morecroft, appointed by
James I. to be collector of moneys to be raised for cleansing the
Foss-dyke, with direction to pay him the money due upon the same,
and instructions for raising moneys towards perfecting the said
work according to the late King's intention. [Docquet.] |
| Dec. 7. |
Presentation of Francis Hathway, M.A., to the vicarage of
Churcham with the chapel of Bulley, co. Gloucester, void by simony
or lapse of time. [Docquet.] |
| Dec. 7. |
Licence to Sir Thomas Barker, at the request of Henry Wentworth, his Majesty's servant, to alienate certain lands in co. Suffolk
to be holden of him and his heirs in socage, with licence to others to
buy them, so that the old rents be reserved. [Docquet.] |
| Dec. 7. |
Grant to William Gilding of a gunner's room in the Tower, with
the fee of 6d. per diem, from the death of Humphrey Rowse.
[Docquet.] |
| Dec. 7. |
25. Petition of Richard Cole to the Lords of the Admiralty. Sets
forth past services for 16 years, and prays to be admitted purser to
the Black George which the present purser is willing to resign to
petitioner. [Three quarters of a page.] Annexed, |
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25. ii. Officers of the Navy to the same. Certificate in favour
of Richard Cole. [Indorsed by Nicholas, "This is
granted if the purser will resign voluntarily." [One
page.] |
| Dec. 7. |
26. Information of Daniel Billington, of North Kilworth, co.
Leicester, baker. Was in company of John Belgrave and John
Abbott on 26th November, at the time that Abbott charges
Belgrave to have said, "it was pity the gunpowder plot was not
effected." Billington denies that he heard Belgrave say so, but
charges words to that effect on Abbott. [Half a page.] |
| Dec. 8. |
27. Petition of William Huchenson [Hutchinson], D.D. and one
of his Majesty's chaplains, to the King. The late Archbishop of
Canterbury had for many years nominated petitioner to the archdeaconry of Exeter, being his Grace's prerogative in that diocese; but
the executors to his Grace have lately presented another. Prays
that the hearing of this business may be referred to the Archbishops
of Canterbury and York. [Half a page.] Underwritten, |
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27. i. Reference to the Archbishops to hear and determine.
Whitehall, 8th December 1633. [Half a page.] |
| Dec. 8. |
28. Robert Earl of Lindsey to Nicholas. Desires that George
Smith of Boston may have the Registrar's place of the Admiralty of
co. Lincoln, and that Robert Whiting may be marshal of the same.
[Quarter of a page.] |
| Dec. 8. |
29. Substance of a late submission drawn from the English Church
at Delft by Mr. Forbus [Forbes] and his elders. It is endorsed by
Archbishop Laud as "The four propositions subscribed to at Delft."
They are,—1. That God's Word is truly preached and the sacraments rightly administered in the church of Delft; 2, that the
discipline used there is according to the Word of God; 3, that they
submit to be ruled by their pastor and elders; 4, that whosoever
will not so submit shall he held as a heathen and publican. [Half a
page.] |
| Dec. 8. |
30. Declaration of Henry Lloyd, that he verily believes that
David late Bishop of Bangor, deceased, never certified that
Edmond Griffith, Dean of Bangor was a fit man to be his successor
as Bishop of Bangor. [Half a page.] |
Dec. 9.
Whitehall. |
Order of the Lords of the Admiralty on the petition of Henry
Boate. Petitioner stated that two Dutch pinks, whereof John
Solomon and Martin Nunings are masters, being arrested by his
Majesty's pinnace for transporting oysters, a certificate was drawn
up under the Dutchmen's hands, wherein it was expressed that
petitioner should give licence for the transportation. The Dutchmen deny any such licence granted by petitioner, and say that they
knew not the effect of the certificate, having no knowledge of
English. The Court referred the matter to Sir Henry Marten.
[Copy. See Vol. ccxxviii, fol. 99a. Third of a page.] |
| Dec. 9. |
31. Extracts made by Sec. Windebank from a discourse upon fishing
lent to him by Sir Thomas Penruddock. These extracts principally
relate to the advantages derived by Holland from fishing in the
English seas; the numbers of herrings vented by them in various
places, and the cost of their busses and pinks. [Four pages.] |
| Dec. 10. |
32. The fifteen articles and covenant of Hugh Peters, minister of
the English congregation in Rotterdam, stated in an indorsement,
which is in the handwriting of Sir William Boswell, to have been
proposed to that congregation before their admission to the communion. The following are examples of these articles:—"1. Be contented
with meet trial for our fitness to be members. 2. Cleave in heart
to the truth and pure worship of God, and oppose all ways of
innovation and corruption. 3. Suffer the word to be the guider
of all controversies. 10. Meditate the furthering of the Gospel
at home and abroad as well in our persons as with our purses.
11. Take nearly to heart our brethren's condition, and conform
ourselves to these troublesome times in our diet and apparel, that
they be without excess in necessity. 14. Put one another in
mind of this covenant, and as occasion is offered, to take an
account of what is done in the premises." [Indorsed by Archbishop
Laud as received this day. Three quarters of a page.] |
Dec. 10.
Plymouth. |
33. Mayor and others of Plymouth to the Council. Their letter
touching the restraint of transportation of fish in aliens' bottoms
was received on the 7th inst., and made known to the merchants
and owners of shipping there and at Looe, Fowey, and St. Ives, and
the other ports in Cornwall. The traders of Plymouth transport
neither fish nor other commodities in aliens' bottoms, but yearly, on
return of their ships from Newfoundland, the Dutch and French
repair thither and buy for ready money quantities of Newfoundland fish and pilchards, paying custom for all the fish they
transport. This certain vent for fish has, within a few years,
doubled the number of ships and seamen engaged in the trade, and
now the fishermen are able to furnish both Londoners and aliens,
unless when fish fails, as it did this last year. If the alien should
be restrained, there will be no other vent than the Londoners, who
are not able to take off half the fish the fishers usually make, and
they will have them at their own price, of which the fishermen have
had miserable experience. The fishermen are not able to transport
the fish themselves, their bottoms being mostly Dutch built and
bought in Holland, and their country yielding no timber to build
shipping with, and Dutch bottoms being prohibited in Spain, the
chief market for their fish, so that by this restraint their fishing
trade, the nursery of many thousand seamen, must decay, the importation of 40,000l. yearly in ready money will be lost, the customs
much lessened, the alien incited to make the same restraint against
English bottoms, and the Dutch enforced to employ their own
bottoms with Newfoundland fishing. [One page.] |
Dec. 11.
Office of Ordnance. |
34. Officers of the Ordnance to Lords of the Admiralty. Have
received from Richard Paxford, gunner of the Vanguard, late under
Capt. Pennington, an account of the expense of powder in the last
service, in which they find that there has been expended 966 lbs.,
with shot proportionable, in salutes, which, by proclamation and
their late direction being restrained, the officers forbear to give
allowance thereof, and leave the same to the consideration of the
Lords. [One page.] |
| Dec. 11. |
35. Certificate of John Landon, headborough of St. John's Street,
and James Wadsworth. Francis Newton having a Council warrant to
apprehend Jesuits and others, on the information of Wadsworth, and
with him, went to the house of Sir Thomas Hawkins, a great papist
and harbourer of priests, this morning, to search for Father Symons,
a Carmelite friar, and others. Lady Hawkins would by no means
suffer her house to be searched without a special warrant, saying
that she did not care nor fear that warrant, that Sir Thomas had
the great seal of England in his trunk to protect her house, on which
assurance the messenger forebore to proceed. [One page.] |
| Dec. 11. |
36. Certificate of Gower Barton and Robert Harper, constables, and
of James Wadsworth. They certify that by virtue of a council warrant, and assisted by James Wadsworth, the constables went to the
house of William Crispe in Milford Lane to search for some of the
parties mentioned in the warrant. Crispe being orderd to open his
chamber door, after other rooms in the house had been searched,
he answered that he was in bed with his wife, and that he could not,
nor would not, rise to open his chamber door; whereupon they all
departed, it being the 28th November last past. [Three quarters of
a page.] |
| [Dec. 12?] |
37. Report of [the Attorney General to the Council], on the
petition of [Capt.] John Pennington. Tenants of assart lands in the
Forest of Dean obtained letters patent thereof at rents payable at
the receipt of the Exchequer, or to the farmers of St. Briavel's, or
to the hands of Edmund Kingston, all which rents amount to
28l. 11s. 11d. per annum. In the 22nd of his reign, King James
granted the said rents to Pennington for 31 years. Pennington
endeavoured to receive those rents, but the tenants have maintained
they ought to pay but one rent, and according to the reservation in
their grants they have paid the same. It also appeared that 20l.,
part of the 28l. 11s. 11d., had been granted to her Majesty as parcel
of her jointure. The Court of Exchequer in Easter Term 6th
Charles ordered the rent of 28l. 11s. 11d. to be paid over by the
persons to whom the same had been paid, to Pennington, but in
respect that the 20l. was granted to the Queen, and the remainder
to the Wardrobe, Pennington has not received any benefit from his
grant. [Copy. Examined this day by Henry Croke, auditor of the
pipe. Three quarters of a page.] |
Dec. 12.
Bulwick. |
38. [Sir Thomas Roe] to Francis Lord Cottington. Roe apprehended the answer Cottington gave him from his Majesty as an
emblem of Roe's successes:—that when he endeavoured most observance he had failed by too much care, like those that kill themselves
with preservatives. Cottington knows that Roe had not petitioned,
out of modesty and loth to trouble a great King with mention of
money, and a kind of shame to confess to want. As Cottington has
begun this mediation, hopes he will perfect it. Beseeches the King
not to let him lack and shame, who would spend the rest of his life
at the least "accennation" of his pleasure. Begs Cottington to let
him know his doom by "this gentleman," that he may keep the
merrier Christmas. [Copy. One page.] |
Dec. 12.
The Marshalsea. |
39. J. Rotherford to Archbishop Laud. Something of no small
consequence is added to the writer's knowledge by his studious
scenting and heedful observation. If it please the archbishop to
command his speedy appearance before him, it shall be faithfully
unfolded. [One page.] |
| [Dec. 12.] |
40. [Dean and Chapter of Durham to Bishop Lindsell of Peterborough.] Mr. Bayly has tendered unto them the Bishop's commendam with the King's dispensation therein for retaining his
prebend. As far as they are bound they are ready to submit.
Nevertheless they hope he will forbear to urge the utter extent
thereof. When he was there no man was more watchful for the
freedom of the church. Pray him to consider what will become of
the statute and laudable custom of the church for keeping residence,
if dispensations of that nature (whereof that is the first) be pressed
upon them. Send him 40l. notwithstanding the great burthen that
has lien upon them this year, and will presume his contentment
therewith, promising the like due respect according to ability for
the time to come. [Copy, unsigned, indorsed by William Dell,
Archbishop Laud's secretary, who gives this day as the date of its
receipt, and states by whom and to whom it was written. In the
margin are written observations by Bishop Lindsell. He affirms
that Sir Adam Newton had a dispensation to have his dividend
non obstante his perpetual absence, and that the then present Dean
[Dr. Richard Hunt] lived about London and in Kent for four
years together, and had notwithstanding his full dividend.
"This," he adds, "is the first example that any bishop's commendam received such an answer from a cathedral church
wherein the Bishop was a commendatory." One page.] |
Dec. 12.
Bridgewater. |
41. Justices of Peace for co. Somerset to Sir John Carew, sheriff.
State the results of their care in executing the book of orders for
relief of the poor within the hundreds of Whitley, Huntspill and
Puriton, Cannington, Andersfield, and South Petherton. [One page.] |
Dec. 13.
Chester. |
42. William Sparke, late Mayor of Chester, to the Council. By
their letter of the 14th of November, delivered to him the 11th of
December, it appears that they had had information that before the
expiration of his mayoralty he had returned back moneys received
towards reparation of St. Paul's. Never received any sum but one
from the Recorder, which, having no other, he returned to him, and
retained his own proportion till further course for others to contribute therein. Hopes the new mayor and aldermen will collect as
is required. [One page.] |
Dec. 13.
The Gatehouse. |
43. Capt. Henry Bell to Sir William Becher, clerk of the Council.
Incloses a petition respecting his treatment in prison. The wickedness, craft, subtilty, hypocrisy, oppression, and deceitful usage of
the keepers towards him is beyond all compare. It is a case most
lamentable, that he, touching his cause in the Star Chamber, defying
all favour, not desiring therein so much favour as may be showed
to a dead dog, but only pressing for a just and legal trial, should be
kept in prison, and for want of maintenance should be suffered to
starve and perish. The like was never known in the Christian
world. If the Lords be pleased to order a redress, and curb the
keepers' tyranny, well and good, otherwise he shall be forced to
make a declaration thereof to the world. [One page.] |
Dec. 13.
Maldon. |
44. Richard Pulley, deputy vice-admiral of Essex, to Richard
Wyan. On Friday Mr. Spicer and the writer went to Colchester.
The latter went to Mr. Nuttall, and acquainting him with the commission, he seemed much troubled, and produced a warrant from the
Lord Treasurer, dated 3d inst, whereby he was solely authorized for
seizing all the goods. The writer urged the execution of the commission, and in the meantime Spicer and he went to Little Holland
where the ship lay, and there found Sergeant Darcy, a sergeant-atlaw, whose answer was, that the ship lay upon his manor, and that
he had all wrecks of the sea. The writer put an officer on board to
keep possession for the King, and took order for boats and men to
save the goods. He then rode to Harwich and Nacton after goods
claimed by the bailiffs of Ipswich, Sir Richard Brooke, lord of the
manor, and Thomas Cleere, customer at Ipswich, which goods the
writer seized, and went afterwards to Ipswich and Harwich for the
like purpose, and thence to Colchester to open the commission.
Many persons complained of Nuttall for taking goods from them.
In his justification, he produced another warrant from the Lord
Treasurer, dated the 9th inst. When the writer saw this he was
much moved, but in the end resolved to get an inventory, and took
the same as if he were Mr. Nuttall's man, and the Lord Treasurer's
warrant of more force than the King's commission. If Sir Henry
Marten be acquainted herewith the writer presumes he will move
the Lords Commissioners therein, that at least the Court of
Admiralty may have a concurrency of jurisdiction. [One page.] |
| Dec. 14. |
45. Note by Sec. Windebank of proceedings before the Council,
principally relative to the export of fish in strangers' bottoms.
These are notes of probably only one speech on the subject; it is
stated "18,000 lasts of herrings transported from Yarmouth in a
year to the southward, as appears by the custom-books." One
suggestion is that "a custom to be paid to the King at Newfoundland, which hath been hitherto neglected: it is of great value."
Others are, "herring, pilchard, and Newfoundland fishing to be all
transported in English bottoms;" "no prohibition of buying fish,
but only of transportation." [Half a page.] |
Dec. 14.
Chester. |
46. Mayor and others of Chester to the Council. On receipt of
commission to collect moneys for repair of St. Paul's, William Sparke,
the late mayor, with the aldermen and justices of peace had several
meetings, and used their best endeavours for the advancement of the
service, but found such backwardness that they could not effect what
they desired, whereupon they were enforced to take further time of
consideration. There was but one contribution paid to the late
mayor, which he repaid, but they will again make trial of what
can be effected. [One page.] |
Dec. 14.
Bulwick. |
47. [Sir Thomas Roe] to William Earl of Exeter. It is better
cheer to the writer to hear of the Earl's recovery than he can expect
at Christmas, though he shall eat the Earl's venison. It is out of
fashion to say "I will pray for your health," to drink to it fits the
time, but Roe will do both, without offence of either. Mirth seasons
the gravest thoughts, it is the salt of life that keeps it sweet, without
which sleep that is void of care were the easier wearing out. Few
men know how to use and enjoy life and health so well as the Earl.
Wishes the Earl and his Lady at this feast, all the good companions
of feasting without the fulness; joy, alacrity, delight, sweet conversation, the effects of wine without it, and these not measured by
twelve days but to fill up his life. His next wish is to hasten away
the unsociable and lean face of winter, for whose deformity the
French can devise no perruque, that Roe may wait on the Earl in
the country. [Copy. Half a page.] |
Dec. 14.
The George, near Charing Cross. |
48. Bishop Goodman of Gloucester to Sec. Windebank. His
desire to speak with his Majesty proceeds not out of any intent to
crave an abatement of the debt, but only to give him thanks and
desire the continuance of his favour, and withal to propose a course
for the accommodation of things whereby he may give his Majesty
satisfaction and himself contentment. The course is not ordinary,
and therefore desires that he may privately impart it, and that his
Majesty would give him a fair and full hearing. Begs that by his
Grace's [Archbishop Laud's] means he may be admitted on Sunday
after dinner. [One page.] |
| [Dec. 14. ?] |
49. Notes by Sec. Windebank of what seems to be a message sent
by Bishop Goodman of Gloucester through the Secretary to the
King. His thankfulness to the King for nominating him to the see
of Hereford. He desired another bishopric that it might appear
that he is a man without exception, that so he might the better
return to a private life. That the Archbishop of Canterbury may
appoint him a coadjutor in the jurisdiction. He protests he knows
not wherein he has offended his Majesty or the Archbishop. He has
been strangely hastened to pass this business of the bishopric. The
Lord Almoner advised him not to accept it unless the debt might be
cleared first. [One page.] |
Dec. 14.
Woolwich. |
50. Edward Boate to Nicholas. Recapitulates the reasons which
induced him to petition for the removal of his son out of the
St. George to the ship the writer is now building. [See Vol. ccl.,
No. 35., Nov. 9.] Recommends John Westall for carpenter of the
ship he is now building. [One page.] |
| Dec. 14. |
51. Note, said in the indorsement by Sec. Windebank to have
been "delivered by Mr. Griffin," of the sums standing charged in
the Exchequer as due from Bishop Godwin, late Bishop of Hereford.
They are five payments for the diocese of Hereford of subsidies
granted to the King by the clergy ; total, 1,347l. 6s. 8d. [Three
quarters of a page.] |
Dec. 14.
London. |
52. Declaration of Philip Burlamachi that he has perused the
accounts of moneys received by Edward Norgate and Edward
Stevens, commissaries and deputies to Sir William Heydon, treasurer
of the troops sent for succour of the Palatinate, and that the receipts
amount to 346,578 guilders, 13 batzes and a kreutzer. [One page.] |
Dec. 16.
Whitehall. |
Lords of the Admiralty to Thomas Wyan, Richard Pulley, deputy
vice-admiral of Essex, John How and Philip Allen, merchants, and
David Spicer. A ship was lately wrecked, or left derelict, on the
coast near Colchester or Harwich, and a commission is issued out of
the Court of Admiralty directed to them, to take the ship and goods
into their custody for his Majesty's use. Being informed that goods
belonging to the ship are embezzled and carried away into towns
corporate, which pretend to be exempt from the Admiralty, they
are to seize the same for his Majesty until further order, and if any
persons hinder them they are to bind them over to answer the same
before the Lords. All mayors and other officers are to aid them in
the execution of their commission. [Copy. See Vol. ccxxviii.,
fol. 99 a. One page.] |
Dec. 16.
Wallingford House. |
Lord Treasurer Portland to Edward Nuttall, — Eldred,—
Pellam, and — Strickson. On advertisement of a ship wrecked
near Colchester or Harwich, the writer gave them directions, by his
letter of the 9th inst., to seize the same for his Majesty's use. A
commission being issued out of the Court of Admiralty they are to
deliver, by inventory, to the Commissioners, such goods as they
have got into their hands by virtue of the writer's letter, and to
forbear any further execution of his directions. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 100.
Half a page.] |
Dec. 16.
Hackney. |
53. Horatio Lord Vere, Master of the Ordnance, to the Lords of
the Admiralty. Recommends John Spencer, one of his Majesty's
feed gunners, to be gunner in one of the new ships. He had made
proof of his care in the King's service by finding out divers pieces
of brass ordnance which lay concealed in the north, had been a
scholar in the Artillery Garden, and had also been at the siege of
Bosch in the Netherlands. [One page.] |
Dec. 16.
The Henrietta, in Tilbury Hope. |
54. Capt. Thomas Austen to the same. Reports his proceedings
in preventing the exportation of oysters. Had also taken away
14 out of 17 firkins of butter found aboard a pink at Sheerness, and
wishes an order what to do with it. [One page.] |
Dec. 16./26.
The Hague. |
55. Stephen Goffe to William Brough. Talk there that Mr. Forbes
comes to be a lecturer, and to have another to perform "the prayer
business." Mr. Oldsworth and three others have been named to
come, but they refuse to succeed unless the place were more justly
void. Another Bishop is come, who will take it ill if he have not
more than absolute primacy. It is Mr. Damport [Davenport] who
came over disguised in a grey suit and an overgrown beard. His
errand is to Amsterdam to be chosen minister there. Knowing the
story of Hooker, how he was not received at Amsterdam, and of
Damport's perversion by him, Goffe procured Mr. Paget to promise
that what questions were proposed to Hooker, the same Damport
should undergo. Goffe also acquainted Mr. Vossius with the business,
who took notes thereof and promised to see the facts respecting
Hooker and Damport put in proof. Goffe wishes that Vossius
should have some sudden letter to encourage him, as a zealous,
excellent instrument for the Church of England. Lord Vere has
resigned his regiment to Mr. Goring, who will advance whatever
Goffe has begun. He can therefore now walk more openly "in
rn [relation] of my good Lady's fury." Being at Leyden, Goffe
desired Mr. Goodyer the minister there to admit him to the sacrament. He stoutly rejected him, for being a non-resident, and a
man that had a prejudice to such ministers as he is. Goffe thanks
God with all his heart for this, for he has since heard that Goodyer
is no minister, never having had any ordination. Indorsed, |
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55. i. William Brough to Mr. Bray. Prays him to peruse the
above letter and acquaint Archbishop Laud with the
passages about Davenport and Vossius. Cornhill, 18th
January, 1633-4. [Indorsed by Archbishop Laud as
received 18th January. Letter and indorsement, one
page.] |
| Dec. 16. |
56. Receipt of William Sharman, Mrs. Bradshaw's man, for 16s.
paid by Edward Nicholas for beer. [Six lines.] |
Dec. 17.
Westminster. |
The King to Richard Earl of Portland, Lord Treasurer, Thomas
Earl of Arundel, Earl Marshal, Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Lord Chamberlain, Francis Lord Cottington, Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Sir Henry Fane [Vane], Comptroller of the Household, and Sec. Coke. Commission. Recites orders for regulating
the great wardrobe, and the wardrobes of robes and beds, made on
15th April, 1630, a copy whereof is annexed. Such orders not
having been as yet observed in all their exigency, the persons named
are appointed commissioners to examine the officers of the great
wardrobe, as well as those of the wardrobes of robes and beds, and
generally to investigate the condition of the wardrobes, and to make
rules for their management. Latin. [One skin of parchment.]
Annexed, |
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i. Orders established by the King with the advice of his Privy
Council for regulating the office of the great wardrobe.
Fourteen articles. The Master of the Robes was to have
an assignment of 16,000l. per annum, by way of imprest
on account towards the expenses of the wardrobe. 15th
April 1630. [Copy.] |
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ii. Similar orders for regulating the wardrobe of robes. Seven
articles. The gentleman of the robes was to have an
assignment of 5,000l. per annum, by way of imprest on
account towards the expenses of the office of robes, which
had under its charge the King's "wearing apparel of all
kinds, with all manner of furnishing to the same, as
hats with bands to them, girdles and hangers, points,
stockings, garters, shoe strings or roses, boots, shoes,
pantoffles, spurs, swords, rapiers, fauchions, woodknives, or any other such like necessaries as shall be
required for his Majesty's service, excepting his Majesty's
linen of all kinds, which is to be furnished out of his
Majesty's great wardrobe by direction of the groom of
the stool, or some other gentleman or groom of his
Majesty's bedchamber." Underwritten, |
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iii. Order of the King that the 16,000l. per annum abovementioned shall be paid only to the hands of the master
of the wardrobe or his deputy, and the clerk of the wardrobe; shall be kept in a chest with two locks, of which
each of those officers shall have one key; and shall not be
expended in discharge of debts due before the date of the
orders above-mentioned. Debts due before that time will
be discharged as soon as money can be had for payment
of the same. [Document annexed written on three rolls
of parchment. See Dom., Car. I., Vol. ccliii.] |
| Dec. 17. |
57. Breviate of the preceding commission, setting out the authority given to the commissioners. [One page and three quarters.] |
Dec. 17.
Westminster. |
The King to Archbishop Laud, Lord Keeper Coventry, Archbishop
Neile of York, Lord Treasurer Portland, Henry Earl of Manchester,
Keeper of the Privy Seal, James Duke of Lennox, James Marquis
of Hamilton, Master of the Horse, Robert Earl of Lindsey, Lord
Great Chamberlain, Thomas Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Earl
Marshal, Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Lord Chamberlain, Theophilus Earl of Suffolk, Lord Warden of the Cinque
Ports, Edward Earl of Dorset, Lord Chamberlain to the Queen,
William Earl of Salisbury, William Earl of Exeter, John Earl of
Bridgewater, Lord President of the Council of Wales, James Earl of
Carlisle, Henry Earl of Holland, Captain of the Guard, Henry Earl
of Danby, George Earl of Kenoville [Kinnoul], Lord Chancellor of
Scotland, William Earl of Morton, Lord Treasurer of Scotland,
Thomas Earl of Haddington, Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland,
John Earl of Mar, Thomas Earl of Kellie, William Earl of Stirling,
Secretary for Scotland, Edward Viscount Wimbledon, Thomas
Viscount Wentworth, Lord Deputy of Ireland, Charles Viscount
Wilmot, Henry Lord Maltravers, Jerome Lord Weston, Bishop
Juxon of London, and the Bishops of Durham, Winchester, Hereford,
Worcester, St. David's, Lincoln, Salisbury, Lichfield and Coventry,
Gloucester, Exeter, Llandaff, Chichester, Ely, Chester, Norwich,
Bath and Wells, St. Asaph, Carlisle, Rochester, Bangor, Oxford,
Peterborough, and Bristol, Francis Lord Cottington, Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Edward Lord Newburgh, Chancellor of the Duchy
of Lancaster, Sir William Howard, K.B., second son to the Earl
of Arundel and Surrey, Sir Thomas Edmondes, Treasurer of the
Household, Sir Henry Fane [Vane] Comptroller of the Household,
Sir Thomas Jermyn, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, Sir
Robert Naunton, Master of the Court of Wards, Secretary Coke,
Secretary Windebank, Sir Julius Cæsar, Master of the Rolls,
Sir Francis Crane, Chancellor of the Garter, Lord Chief Justice
Richardson, Lord Chief Justice Heath, Lord Chief Baron Davenport,
Sir John Denham, Baron of the Exchequer, Sir Richard Hutton,
Justice of the Common Pleas, Sir William Jones and Sir George
Croke, Justices of the King's Bench, Sir Thomas Trevor, Baron of
the Exchequer, Sir George Vernon, Justice of the Common Pleas,
Sir James Weston, Baron of the Exchequer, Sir Robert Berkeley,
Justice of the King's Bench, Sir Francis Crawley, Justice of the
Common Pleas, Sir Dudley Digges, Sir Henry Marten, Judge of the
Prerogative Court, Sir Thomas Crewe, King's Sergeant, Attorney
General Noy, Sir Richard Sheldon, Solicitor General, Sir Nicholas
Carew, one of the Chamberlains of the Exchequer, Sir John Lambe,
Dean of the Arches, Sir Charles Cæsar, Master of Chancery, Sir
Nathaniel Brent, Vicar-General to the Archbishop of Canterbury,
Isaac Bargrave, Dean of Canterbury, Thomas Winniff, Dean of
St. Paul's, John Younge, Dean of Winchester, Walter Balcanquall,
Dean of Rochester, Matthew Wren, Dean of Windsor, John Warner,
Dean of Lichfield, Edward Lyttleton, Recorder of London, William
Kingsley, Archdeacon of Canterbury, Henry King, Archdeacon of
Colchester, John Montfort, one of the Prebendaries of St. Paul's,
Thomas Goad, Thomas Westfield, Roger Bates, Thomas Wirrall, John
Hackett, Robert Newell and Thomas Turner, Doctors in Divinity,
Arthur Duck, Chancellor of London, Thomas Eden, one of the
Masters of Chancery, William Sams, Thomas Gwyn, Basil Woodd and
Robert Aylett, Doctors of Law, and William Bray, B.D. Commission to exercise Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction within England and
Wales. [See Dom., Car. I., Vol. ccliii. Three and a half skins of
parchment.] |
| Dec. 17. |
58. Copy of the same, with marginal abridgment of its contents.
[Sixty-two pages.] |
| Dec. 17. |
59. Another copy, derived from the entry on the patent roll, with
marginal notes indicating the differences between this and former
commissions. [Thirty-one pages.] |
| Dec. 17. |
60. Another copy, being a copy of the preceding article. [Fortyone pages.] |
| Dec. 17. |
61. Abstract of the commission above-mentioned showing the
powers given by it to the commissioners. [Nine pages and a
quarter. |
| Dec. 17. |
62. Copy of the Attorney General's docquet written under the
sign manual of the preceding commission for Causes Ecclesiastical.
[One page.] |
| Dec. 17. |
63. The King to Lord Treasurer Portland, Francis Lord Cottington, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Chief Baron Davenport,
Barons Denham and Trevor, Attorney General Noy, and Solicitor
General Sheldon. Commission to compound for the estates of convicted recusants, and to make leases to them at yearly rents, in
a form annexed to the commission. [Abstract of the commission
and lease, made for Lord Cottington. Four pages.] |
Dec. 17.
Westminster. |
64. The King to Thomas Best and John Roofe of Stepney.
Warrant to pay to Capt. Constance Ferrer, as the King's gift to
him in consideration of faithful service, and of his losses in the
King's service in America, 190l. remaining in their hands, but forfeited to the King by reason that William Best had abandoned his
country, changed his religion, and now lives within the Turkish
dominions. [Imperfect. One page.] |
| Dec. 17. |
65. John Reynolds, master gunner of England, to the Lords of
the Admiralty. John Spencer was a scholar at the Artillery
Garden, and was able to do well at the tail of a piece of ordnance,
and to gain experience, was a canonier at the taking of Bosch.
Has since served in a Holland man-of-war of 30 guns, and been
employed in sundry services of his Highness. [Three quarters of a
page.] |
Dec. 17.
Minorites [Minories]. |
66. Sir John Heydon to the same. Recommends John Spencer.
By a voluntary service this last summer he travelled into the
remotest parts of the north, and not only discovered divers pieces of
brass ordnance that had been embezzled from his Majesty, but on
his own purse caused 18 pieces to be transported from divers castles
to the Tower, where 23 pieces more by him likewise discovered are
daily expected in a ship from Berwick. [Three quarters of a page.] |
| Dec. 17. |
67. Sir Benjamin Ayloffe and Sir Thomas Wiseman to Edward
Lord Newburgh. There was lately brought before them Francis
Barrett, a poor straggling fellow, by profession a sailor, who was
accused by John Brewer and his wife for speaking words which
amount to treason as the writers conceive, being uttered in this
manner. Brewer demanded of Barrett if he came from London.
Barrett answered he did. "Then you heard," said Brewer, "of a
Jesuit lately executed for treason; to which he replied he did,
and there is three more of the company, but it skills not where
they be, I know not." The writers have committed Barrett to gaol
at Colchester, and desire further direction. [One page.] Inclosed, |
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67. i. Information of John Brewer and Alice his wife, alehouse
keepers of Witham. State the words uttered by Francis
Barrett as above mentioned. Barrett said he had been a
letter carrier for 16 years. 17th December 1633. [One
page.] |
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67. ii. Examination of Francis Barrett. Gives an account of his
past life. Called for divers jugs of beer at the house of
Brewer, drank them with his host and hostess, and does
not remember the particulars of their conversation concerning a Jesuit that was lately executed. Denies that
he was ever a letter carrier. 17th December 1633. [Two
pages.] |
| Dec. 17. |
68. Certificate of John Lorkin, rector, and William Adams, clerk
of St. Nicholas, Rochester, that William Sparke and Mary Wager
of the parish of St. Nicholas, widow, having been married out of
that parish had satisfied all duties to the rector and clerk, as if they
had been married in their own parish. [Indorsed by Nicholas, as
being a certificate against Sparke, cook in the St. Dennis. One
page.] |
| Dec. 17. |
69. Separate depositions of Henry Barber, Thomas Jaques, and
Dennys Cadowe, servants to Signor John de Nicolaldi, resident of
Spain, and of Anthony Day, apprentice to Anthony Curtys, vintner
of Turnmill Street, and Susan Curtys wife of Anthony Curtys.
They detail the circumstances of the arrest of Captain Duperoy in
the stables behind the residence of the ambassador in Clerkenwell,
on the 12th inst., by the servants of John Hatch, a marshal's man.
The captain resisted, the servants of the ambassador came to his
help, one with his rapier and another with his carbine, when the
bailiff's men ran away. 17th December 1633. [Two pages and
three quarters.] |
Dec. 17.
Westminster. |
70. John Durie to Sir Thomas Roe. Thanks for a gift of 40s.,
which will help to make up some of the writer's clothes, and repair
those of his servant. Has given the Archbishop of Canterbury a
draft touching the state of the churches in Germany, the chief
points in which are here mentioned. Has given his narrative to
Sec. Coke, who entertained him with great affection. The writer
mentioned to Coke that he had made his application to Sec. Windebank, because he was a man very intimate with the Archbishop of
Canterbury, which Coke liked well of. The King has gone out of
town, the writer takes it to Theobalds, and will be back on Saturday.
Mr. Helt, who was left here by Mons. Colbe (ambassador from the
Administrator of the Palatinate), to attend to the dispatch of some
affairs of lesser moment, is to go from hence next week. News out
of Germany, great if true. Wallenstein retiring out of Silesia
towards Austria. [One page.] |
