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Jan. 1.
Whitehall. |
1. Lords of the Admiralty to Officers of Navy. The Lords have
received order from his Majesty and the Council for preparing
twenty-four ships for a first Fleet, and ten ships for a second Fleet.
The twenty-four ships are to be prepared for six months service
and to be ready to put to sea by the 1st April, the ten ships to be
ready to reinforce the former Fleet upon weeks notice. The
ships that can stow six months victuals are to be victualled for
that time, the rest for four months, and to be supplied with two
months victuals more about a fortnight before their first victualling
ends. Estimates are to be made of the charges, which are to be
defrayed out of the monies to be paid according to his Majesty's
writs, dated 16th November last. The first Fleet is to comprise
the Triumph, the St. George, the St. Andrew, the Victory, the
James, the Unicorn, the Red Lion, the Charles, the Henrietta
Maria, the Rainbow, the Garland, the Convertive, the Entrance,
the Leopard, the Dreadnought, the Adventure, the Mary Rose and
five Whelps, and the two small pinnaces then building. The second
Fleet is to consist of the Swiftsure, the Vanguard, the Repulse, the
Reformation, the Defiance, the Assurance, the Antelope, the Swallow,
and two Whelps. [Seal of Lords of the Admiralty. 1p.] |
Jan. 1/11.
The Hague. |
2. Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia to Archbishop Laud. Before
coming from Rhenen she received a kind letter from him. She gives
him many thanks for his free writing to her concerning the
investiture. By this time he will find her son's willingness to
comply with the King her brother in all things. He could not
demand his investiture sooner not being of age, and the administrator could not do it by reason of the confederacy he had sworn to,
but it is now time enough. She prays that it be not cause of more
loss of time, for without the investiture her son's right is just.
She only fears still that they will give a delaying answer and
amuse the King as they have done these fifteen years, and being
so long plagued with these delays, nobody can blame her to fear
them, though the infinite favours and honours the King does to
her son give her no small comfort, and confidence that he will afford
him a real assistance for regaining his rights. The many kind
testimonies her son writes to her that the archbishop gives him of
his affection, assure her that his good counsel and assistance will
not be lacking. [Seals with arms. 1 p.] |
Jan. 1.
The Hague. |
3. John Dinley to Sir Thomas Roe. How welcome Mistress
Rupa was among them. She found in that town two sisters and a
little brother, which with one sister more in Poland is all the
remainder of their stock. Finds an inclination to have her placed
about the Lady Elizabeth, but her sister and they at the Hague
are of another opinion, both because the business of Poland wavers
in uncertainties and the Electress of Brandenburg's service is no
less pregnant for her advancement; she is exceeding pretty and
exceeding witty, and if she were at Venice would be a tall proper
lady. Mr. Dury has told the writer that Sir Thomas finding the
times improper persuaded him to retreat, but Dury himself takes
strength from discouragements and is willing to spend and be spent
in the prosecution of his work. Dinley beseeches Sir Thomas who
first blew the coal to keep it from dying. They have long relations
of the Prince Elector's reception in England, but all are summed
up in one touch of Sir Thomas Roe's pen, that counsel, maintenance,
protection, supplies, armies, victories, and restitution are all in the
breast of the King. If the Prince can possess that, he possesses all
things. He has at this time in England the fortune of his time
to come. For the suppleness which Roe desires in that state,
Dinley confesses they are a stubborn clay; perhaps Mons. Beveren
of Dort going shortly ambassador into England may have some
buxom instructions to comply with the King; certainly nothing is
worse for both than wrangling and distrust. French objections to
the offer of England that if they will restore Lorraine, England will
press the Emperor to restore the Palatinate, and if he refuse will
declare war. Dinley's answers. Prosperity of the Swedes and the
third great blow given by them to the Duke of Saxony, making
him feel, who was past understanding, that as they had a buckler
to defend so they have a rod to scourge him. The Swedes have
learnt this wisdom from their King, to treat with their enemies
but to trust in their arms. This success may bring on Mr. Dury's
business. The French thrive not so well about the Rhine, yet they
stand to their tackling. Duke Bernard is in a great ascendant
among them and they say shall marry the daughter and heir of the
Duke of Rohan. And thus affairs are floating in the world as
though all were in "shipwrack" without England. Prays God to
preserve peace in the land in whose blessed arms Dinley leaves Sir
Thomas. [4 pp.] |
| Jan. 1. |
4. Estimate of Lords of the Admiralty and Officers of Navy
for setting forth the Leopard for eight months with 160 men, and
the Ninth Whelp for a whole year with 60 men, for guard of the
coast of Ireland; total 6,172l. 6s. 9d. [2 pp.] |
| Jan. 1. |
5. Memorandum of Robert French, under-sheriff of co. Oxford,
that he required Thomas Nicholls, one of the chief constables of the
hundred of Bloxham to attend the High Sheriff with the names
of persons inhabiting within his division, and a note of their lands
and their ability, which he refused to do, and would not so much
as give the names of the persons dwelling in Bloxham wherein he
lives. So also George Howse, petty constable of Hornton in the
same hundred, refused to attend the High Sheriff with a like note
for his town, by reason of whose averseness divers others refused
in like manner. French required the like note of the petty constables of the two Sibfords in the said hundred, who likewise
refused. [1 p.] |
| Jan. 1. |
6. Receipt of Sir William Russell for 180l. paid by John
Hodgshon, on behalf of Daniel Duke, mayor of New Romney, in
part of 8,000l. charged on Kent for ship-money under writ of 4th
August last. [¾ p.] |
| Jan. 1. |
7. Receipt for William Caldwall for 10l from Nicholas, a
quarter's rent for premises in King Street and Axe Court, Westminster. [¾ p.] |
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8. Account of plate included in the New Year's gifts [presented
to the King ?] Many of the gifts are from persons who had
recently received appointments. The account is ranged in three
divisions; "gilt plate," which is valued at 405l. 5s.; "white plate,"
valued at 1,447l. 17s.; and "plate to be kept," valued at 2,248l. 10s.
Among the givers of gilt plate are Mr. Calthrop, a cup and cover,
53l. 18s.; Mr. Nichol[a]s, clerk of the Council, two cups and covers,
60l. Of white plate, the donors comprise Mr. Attorney-General,
two flagons, 108l.; Mr. Evelyn, the powder-man, two flagons, 183l.;
the Earl of Newcastle, two flagons, 203l.; Sir Richard Young, six
fruit dishes, 54l. 3s.; Mr. Weekes, keeper of the Gate House, a
bason and ewer, 110l. 13s.; Sir Robert Carr, two flagons, 180l.
In the last division of plate to be kept are found, Mr. Lowther,
recorder of Chester, two white cups and covers, 46l. 14s.; Baronet
Cooper, four dishes, 377l. 15s.; Lord Baltimore; a sconce, 169l.;
Sir John Finet, two cups and covers, 38l.; Lady Wake, a great
dish, 148l. 3s.; Mr. Foster, a little sconce, 38l. 13s.; —,
eighteen dishes, 797l. 12s.; Sir Peter Osborne, two gilt tankards,
81l. [1 p.] |
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9. The Seaman's New Year's gift to the King. An anonymous
letter in which the writer, a gunner, urges the importance of
emigration. He points to the Ambuzonos, which he terms the land
of God's bounty, and the north-west, or the land of God's mercy,
as especial fields for emigration. The former, if God were served
in it and it were wisely "husbandred" would produce wines, oils,
sugars, corn, fruits, speckled wood, and it may be expected "gold."
In the latter land, thieves, robbers, and other "vilde bloodsuckers"
should be employed for punishment "to kill whales, sea-horse, seaunicorns." The places of execution would not then be the utter
destruction of the bodies, and it was to be feared of the souls, of thousands, but their labours would bring great profit and their branches
spring to the flourishing estate of the King's posterity. He also
recommends that harlots and the idle and lascivious portion of the
"female sect" should be exchanged with the Turks for their male
captives, so one harlot might redeem half a dozen captives that are
made slaves to fulfil the lustful desires of the heathen Turks. [At
one corner of the direction of the letter is written (in a different
hand from the letter itself) the name "Coleman," perhaps that of
the writer. 1 p.] |
| Jan. 2. |
10. John Crane, Surveyor of Marine Victuals, to the Lords of
the Admiralty. At his entrance into his office, found in store 1,500
pipe staves and 300 tons of casks. He has direction to provide
for 6,000 men for six months which will require 5,500 tons of casks.
Before his time the officers of the Navy had agreed with Mr.
Chambree's factor for a supply of staves at certain stated prices,
which agreement the writer accepted, and sent Thomas Colley to
Ireland to see the business performed. Understands that the Lord
Deputy imposes certain restrictions at variance with the agreement
made by the officers of the Navy. Beseeches the Lords to write to
the Lord Deputy to hasten the present sending away of the pipe
staves, without which the Fleet cannot be victualled. [1 p.] |
| Jan. 2. |
11. Account by Sir William Russell, of moneys received on
account of ship-money under the writs dated 12th August last.
Total received, 44,026l. 3s. 7d.; whereof he had paid 10,500l. to
the victualler, 4,000l. into the Exchequer, and the remainder
(29,526l. 3s. 7d.) had been issued for provisions delivered into his
Majesty's stores, and for surcharge of the last year's account. [1 p.] |
Jan. 3.
Hinton [St. George.] |
12. John Lord Poulett to Edward Viscount Conway and Killultagh. Sent a Cheddar cheese, and now sends two more, which are
all that can be gotten of last summer's making; if he likes them,
will take care to victual him better against another winter. Thanks
for his servant Hellier. The writer has been ill with a great pain
in his heart these three weeks, but is a little recovered, and in hope
shortly after Christmas to wait on him at London. [Fragment of
seal with arms. 1 p.] |
Jan. 3.
Portsmouth. |
13. William Brissenden to Nicholas. Wednesday, the 30th December last, the Third Whelp, from Guernsey, arrived within the
Isle of Wight, near Yarmouth, with the company of Mr. Beere's
ship, the transporter of His Majesty's ordnance, one from Jersey,
four from Guernsey. Mr. Stone, the man employed in the service,
repaired the next day to Hurst Castle, demanding the ordnance
there, which were not denied, but Lord Gorge, captain of that
castle, being within 10 miles from thence, the lieutenant desired to
know his pleasure for their delivery. This day Mr. Stone is expected
to acquaint the writer's captain whether they will be delivered.
After those taken in, Calshot Castle, Portsmouth, and Southsea
ordnance will require one month's time before they can well be laid
in. Beseeches Nicholas to understand their case; the Third Whelp
has now 19 days victuals on board, and warrant there to Mr. Holt
for a supply to the last of April. The writer's captain (being a
worthy gentleman and deserves better employment) is the main
instrument to cross it, conceiving if she stays out so long to fail of
his hopes in the next year's employment in a greater ship, alleging
she is a ship leaky and unserviceable. Not to eclipse his worth, if
a survey be taken she will be found very serviceable. At his being
at Guernsey, for Nicholas's use, the writer lighted on a waistcoat of
that country, of which he entreats his acceptance, a mite for a million
of Nicholas's worthy favours. [Seal with arms. 1 p.] |
| Jan. 3. |
14. Report by Nicholas to the Council, that William Mansergh,
under-sheriff of Westmoreland under the Earl of Cumberland,
advertises that he has assessed 500l., moiety of the sum required of
that county and Cumberland, and that there is levied already above
200l.; the rest is collecting. [½ p.] |
| Jan. 3. |
15. Similar report of Nicholas respecting co. Warwick. In December
last Sir Greville Verney, the new sheriff, certified that as soon as he
received the writ and directions he would be careful of the business,
and give account of his proceedings. He had since certified that he
must reassess the county de novo, by reason of abatement of the
amount set upon Coventry, made by the Council Board, and until
he shall receive order from the Board whether he shall expect a new
writ and directions, it seems by his letter the service will remain
unperformed. [¾ p.] |
| Jan. 3. |
16. Another similar report as to Wilts. By previous reports it
appeared that 6,000l. out of 7,000l. had been paid by the sheriff to
the Treasurer of the Navy. Mr. Hussey, whom the sheriff accredited,
now reported that the writ directed to the late Bailiff of Chippenham
(who was dead) being not fully executed (only 14l. out of 30l. levied)
was not to be found, and therefore he desired directions of the Board.
[1 p.] |
| Jan. 4. |
17. Petition of Melicent Birkenhead, widow, Patrick Crayford
[Crawford], and Edward Thorowg[ood] to the King. Petitioner
Birkenhead's late husband and the other petitioners having obtained
two grants to erect in West Chester, Liverpool, Hull, Bristol, and
other ports, offices for registering persons licensed to pass beyond the
seas, petitioner Birkenhead's late husband and the other petitioners
not only spent four years time, but also petitioner Birkenhead's
whole portion, and all that ever the other petitioners could raise, in
establishing the said office, which being in some sort effected, and the
small benefit allowed of his Majesty all the means petitioners have
to maintain themselves and nine children, yet Mr. Mayhew, upon
some unjust pretence, endeavours to deprive them of their grants,
and has obtained a warrant to the Attorney-General to prepare a
grant [to] him whereby petitioners will be undone. Pray order for
stay of Mayhew's grant and reference to the Lord Keeper. [¾ p.]
Underwritten, |
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17. i. Reference to Lord Keeper Coventry to report to his Majesty
before any patent pass for the office mentioned. St. James's
4th January 1635–6. [Copy attested by Lord Coventry.
¼ p.] |
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17. ii. Lord Keeper Coventry to the King. The grant to
Mr. Mayhew imports a grant in reversion after the surrender, forfeiture, or other determination of former patents,
yet petitioner Birkenhead and her counsel object against
it, that there is a clause in it prohibiting the Commissioners to sign any passes but such as shall be prepared
by Mr. Mayhew or his deputies, which clause in the
Lord Keeper's opinion cannot take place until the grant
of the office itself take effect; also she seems to fear lest
Mayhew will molest the former patentees by setting on foot
forfeitures, which in respect of their poverty they cannot
defend, which fear how to secure he does not well know,
nor dares he certify that in respect of such a fear his
Majesty should restrain himself from granting that which
is in his power legally to grant. 20th April 1636.
[1 p.] |
Jan. 4.
[Mis-dated 1634.] The Vanguard, in the Downs. |
18. Sir John Pennington to Lords of the Admiralty. Since
sending into Sandwich the frigate Gray Horse, of Flushing, there is
come in the Scotsman, viz., James Clarke, master of the Blessing of
Dysart, whom Sir John sent to Sandwich to see whether this was
the other ship that robbed him, but he finds it not to be her, though
very like her, whereupon Sir John has given her a discharge, but
the shallop [the St. Peter, of Calais,] he has continued there, and
the captain of her (who was formerly gunner of the said frigate),
for that it appears that he is a very rogue, and meant nothing but
mischiefs, therefore he will not dismiss him till he has order from
the Lords. The other vessel that pillaged this Scotsman is now upon
our coast, the captain's name being Peter van Broage, whom he hopes
to meet withal shortly. The Eighth Whelp is not yet returned from
the northwards, neither can the Swallow get a wind to go to the
westward. The Third Whelp is returning from Jersey and Guernsey
to Portsmouth. [1 p.] Annexed, |
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18. i. Certificate of James Clarke, that the Gray Horse is not the
vessel that pillaged him off the North Sands Head on the
25th October last, though she be very well like her. 4th
January 1635–6. [½ p.] |
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18. ii. Names of all the men belonging to the St. Peter, of Calais,
on the 28th December 1635. [½ p.] |
| Jan. 4. |
19. Officers of Navy to the same. Have perused the warrant
of the 1st inst. for preparing 24 ships in a first fleet and 10 in
a latter fleet [No. 1], and have considered the present wants in the
state of the ships' hulls, and finding some of them so defective as to
require longer time than to the 1st April to repair them substantially, and that two of the ten ships prepared last summer are put
in the list of the later fleet, they move the Lords to alter the lists,
and present a list of the same number of ships little or nothing
differing in point of force, which may be very suddenly prepared
for the first fleet, and in six weeks or two months after they doubt
not to repair the rest. Desire that divers of the ships may take in
part of their beer at the Downs or Portsmouth at two or three
months' end, which the victuallers will undertake to deliver. Pray
the Lords pleasure also concerning the two ships for Ireland. [1 p.] |
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19. i. List of the 34 ships in most readiness to be fitted for sea
service the next summer. The list is divided into two
fleets as above mentioned. For service in Ireland the
Leopard and Ninth Whelp are suggested, and a list is
given of the nine remaining ships of the Navy, which it
is proposed shall remain in harbour. [1 p.] |
| Jan. 4. |
20. Jerome Earl of Portland to the Lords of the Admiralty.
Last week two Hamburgh ships with wines from Malego [Malaga],
were cast away on the south of the Isle of Wight. One was split
all to pieces and all the men drowned, save the steersman; the
other lies on the rocks ready to perish, but all her men are saved.
Officers being sent for preservation of goods, William Howard,
servant to Mr. Cuttell, who has some land thereby, with many of
Mr. Cuttell's tenants, with staves and bills set on them, and took
from them much of the ship's goods, seven butts of wine, and two
pieces of ordnance, notwithstanding they were commanded the
contrary, Howard affirming that Mr. Cuttell would bear them out,
though it cost him 1,000l. If the Lords think fit to make an exemplary punishment of this, it will be an advantage to his Majesty's
service, for there are many who pretend charters of wrecks upon
their own ground, but have never produced any. [1¾ p.] |
| Jan. 4. |
21. John Nicholas to his son Edward Nicholas. Wrote not last
week by the letter carrier, who came too late, but by the venison
carrier. Thanks for news and new year's gifts. The writer is
sorry for his cousin Lane's master. Hopes the King will pardon
him, but the Lord Deputy will press it hard against him, and he is
powerful with his Majesty. Edward Nicholas's boys are well; the
doctor [Matthew Nicholas] has examined them. Sends John's new
year's gift to the writer. Ned is much improved likewise. Death
of Mr. Lowe, and of Mr. Tookey, one of the wise aldermen of Salisbury. Edward Nicholas's sister Kate came out of her chamber
yesterday; his mother still troubled with the humour in her face.
Directions how Edward Nicholas may send his dog. The bearer
must be caused to say that it is the Lord Chamberlain's dog, and
then it will not be taken from him. The tailor that made Edward
Nicholas's boys' clothes in London made their sleeves of the new
fashion, that their arms are naked half ways to their elbows, which
is neither wholesome nor handsome. [Seal with arms. 2 pp.]
Inclosed, |
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21. i. John Nicholas to his grandfather John Nicholas. Latin
letter of congratulation on the return of the new year.
[¾ p.] |
Jan. 4/14.
The Hague. |
22. Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, to Sir Thomas Roe. Not ten
days ago she received his of the 20th October, and though it was
long, she was not weary to read it. She wishes that some others
would give as good counsel to her nearest friends as he writes; she
will follow it as near as her unfortunate condition will suffer her.
She has also received his letter by little Rupa, who shows by her
carriage how well she has been bred. The writer would be very
unthankful if she did not esteem it one of her greatest obligations to
Sir Thomas, that for her sake he has been so good to Rupa. She
must say that when Rupa came to her, and spoke of Sir Thomas and
his wife, she had the tears in her eyes. The letter Rupa brought,
and that which Sir Thomas wrote to Dinley spoke so well, as she
sent Dinley to speak from her to one of the States that she is very
free withal, Mons. Vosberg, upon that subject of a good understanding betwixt the King her brother and them. What passed Dinley
will let Sir Thomas know. For her son's business, he tells her the
same that Sir Thomas and all the world do of the infinite favours
and honours her brother does to him, more than he deserves. She is
glad Sir Thomas likes his carriage so well; fears Sir Thomas looks
upon him with too partial an eye as her son. She prays his business
may have as good fortune to be well looked into as his person is
cherished, and that the loss of time does not endanger all; yet she
counsels him not to press his uncle too much, but gently, and seek,
as Sir Thomas says, to gain him by his observance. She hears that
some were troubled at that which passed about the French ambassador, concerning his refusal to give her son the title of Elector;
she wonders they should stumble at it; in her opinion her brother
did well, and it is a sign he will maintain his nephew's right.
Repeats at length what passed between Charnassé and herself upon
the same subject, and upon the proposal made by England to France,
that the latter country should offer to the Emperor to restore the
Duke of Lorraine if he would restore the writer's son. The French
laugh at this proposal as ridiculous, saying "Lorraine cost too much
blood and money to give it up for nothing to be rendered them
but a stranger Prince's restitution." She said that the Emperor's
refusal would engage her brother. He said they did not trust to
that, for he that had these fifteen years promised a great war [?] if
the Palatine family were not restitued [?], how will he keep with
them that has so long broken to her ? For the Poland business, the
Queen can tell no more than Roe. Hears that that King complains
of Sir George Douglas, but cannot imagine why, for he was more for
him than for the Swedes in the treaty, except he follows the old
proverb, d'aimer la trahison et haïr le traitre; indeed Douglas has
complained that since the peace was made neither the King nor the
other great men of that country have regarded him as they did before,
and though while the treaty lasted the King said he was his best
friend of all the ambassadors, yet now he gave all the praise of
effecting the truce to the French ambassador, and made no small
difference in using the French better than him, which he could not
but resent. As for Rupa, if the writer had a place she would take
her; does not recommend the service of her daughter, who is governed
all by one person, so that none that knows it is fond to be with her.
The writer's sister the Electress of Brandenburg is the best woman
in the world to serve. If the marriage with Poland should come to
pass, and Rupa desire it, the Electress will not refuse to put her to
the writer's daughter. In a memorial her son has given her brother,
he represents to him how necessary it were for him to have an
ambassador in Germany, and if the King should resolve to have one,
the Queen has commanded her son to name Roe, if he likes the
employment. [Seal with arms. 4¾ pp.] |
Jan. 4.
St. John's Clerkenwell. |
23. William Earl of Exeter to Sir William Becher. Mr. Harvey
having submitted for his neglect of musters, and promised to conform,
the Earl desires he may be discharged. [¾ p.] |
Jan. 4.
Rothwell. |
24. James Flint to [Sir John Lambe]. Prays for some assistance
for relief of his distress [Latin, endorsed by Sir John Lambe.
¾ p.] |
| [Jan. 5 ?] |
25. Petition of Thomas Chicheley, Sheriff of co. Cambridge, to
the King. Petitioner had rated the county to the shipping, and
therein divided one-third part of the whole rate upon the Isle of
Ely, in the same proportion as the same has been done these forty
years, and in the two former rates, according to the direction of his
Majesty and the board, signified by letter of 21st September 1635
to the then sheriff. Petitioner has been lately informed that upon
the petition of the said Isle of Ely against the same proportion, his
Majesty was pleased on 2nd December last to refer the same to the
judges of assize of that county and the judge of the said isle. In
regard that the petitioners did not inform his Majesty of the former
settling of the rates by his Majesty and the board, and the general
rates being now set by the present petitioner, and the particular
rates sub-divided by that proportion as they have been for many
years levied through the whole county, and partly now collected,
prays that he may receive direction to proceed according to the
rate assessed. [1 p.] |
Jan. 5.
Westminster. |
Nicholas to [John St. Aubyn,] the Sheriff of Cornwall. There
was no possibility for him to get himself eased of the office of
sheriff, till he had finished the service for furnishing a ship, neither
could there be any abatement made of the charge required of that
county. Hears that the hundred of Penwith complains that having
(all but two or three men,) paid the assessment on six days warning,
he had altered again all the rates of that hundred on the complaint
of only one man, who alleged that his parish was over-rated. If
the complaint be true, recommends the sheriff to put a speedy remedy
to it, for doubtless when an assessment is settled and paid, it must
cause a delay and render men refractory to lay a second assessment
upon them. In such case it were better to have a mischief than
an inconvenience. Regrets the sheriff's affliction and loss. [Copy
Nicholas's Letter Book, Domestic James I. Vol. ccxix, p. 119.] |
| Jan. 5. |
26. Certificate of churchwardens of St. Mary-le-Bow, London, and
Edmund Kinsman, mason. Since their last certificate touching
their forwardness in rebuilding their lanthorn, they have prosecuted
the work so far, that the forty tons of new stone in the last certificate
mentioned is almost all wrought out, and that they are upon agreement with workmen for scaffolding and rebuilding the lanthorn,
whereof they have caused a model to be drawn, which is ready to
be shown. [¾ p.] |
| Jan. 5. |
27. Petition of Mayor, Sheriffs, and Commonalty of Norwich to the
Commissioners of Saltpetre. Upon some misdemeanours and
endangering the foundation of the townhouse of Norwich, by
Nathaniel Sykes and his workmen in digging for saltpetre, petitioners
by letter of 4th December last, complained to the Lords, who by
their letter of 17th December gave order that the workmen should
forbear to proceed in the said work, and should by the 5th instant
appear before the Lords to answer petitioners' complaints, and that
petitioners should attend the Lords to make proof of their complaint.
Petitioners have accordingly sent up John Utting, John Payne,
Jonathan Smith, and Richard Arnold, and have annexed a certificate
of other inhabitants of the city. Petitioners entreat the Lords that
they be no further troubled, that the townhouse may be repaired,
and the parties undergo punishment for their insolency. [¾ p.]
Annexed, |
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27. i. Separate informations of John Lambe, Thomas Willion,
keeper of the House of Correction, George Lambe, jailor of
the prison in the Guildhall of Norwich, and John Thacker,
late sheriff of that City, who depose to various acts of
misconduct committed by the saltpetremen. [3¾ pp.] |
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27. ii. Joint certificate of John Anguish, mayor of Norwich, and
Christopher Barrett, the late mayor, that in their several
mayoralties they made warrants to the constables of
every ward of the city, and to John Lambe and William
Herrick, marshals of the city, to prepare daily carriages
for the saltpetre service, and that they delivered to them
schedules of the names of such persons as had carts and
carriages, to the end they might sort every of them to their
several days. 30th December 1635. [1 p.] Annexed, |
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27. ii. i. Warrant above mentioned as having been granted by
the present mayor to the constables and marshals of
Norwich to provide carts for the saltpetremen.
Dated 5th October 1635, with underwritten subsequent
memorandum that the service prescribed by the
warrant had been duly performed up to the 30th
January instant. [1 p.] |
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27. ii. ii. Names of the constables of the several wards of Norwich,
with the names of such residents as have horses and
carts in the same. [1¾ p.] |
| Jan. 6. |
28. Watkin Lougher, Sheriff of co. Glamorgan, to the Council. Two
letters of 12th and 23rd of December last were delivered to him,
the first on the 4th and the other upon the 5th instant, touching
1,449l. levied within that county towards ship-money. He intends
to bring that sum up with all speed possible. [Seal with device
and motto. ¾ p.] |
| Jan. 6. |
29. Laurence Whitaker and Thomas Baldwin to [the same].
According to their order of 28th October last, the writers have
viewed those places in "the Covent Garden," where the head of the
spring is that brings the water to Durham House, and they report
how the water may be brought to that house for the present and
secured for the future. The head of the spring was then under a
new-made cellar in an ill-built house in the skirts of "the Covent
Garden," where a floor was made over it. The writers recommend
a variety of practical arrangements, by which the spring and a
watercourse connected therewith might be kept free from contamination from its source to Durham House; they also recommend
that the works by them suggested should be effected and maintained
by the Earl of Bedford, but that the Bishop of Durham should be
at the expense of the necessary legal instruments for securing the
benefit of the same to the bishop and his successors. [3 pp.] |
| Jan. 7. |
The King to James Earl of Castlehaven. Grant whereby the
King, to enable the said Earl to sell the manors of Bishopstrow and
Stalbridge, in Wilts and Dorset, and the advowson of the church of
Stalbridge, releases a proviso in a grant of the said manors, made
the 27th May 1633, that he and his brothers should make further
assurance to his Majesty of the manor of Fountill [Fonthill], Wilts.
[Docquet.] |
| Jan. 7. |
Grant to Thomas Warner of an alms room in the hospital of
Ewelme, void by the death of William Merrells. [Docquet.] |
| Jan. 7. |
Warrant to discharge James Marquis of Hamilton, Master of the
Horse, of 400l. received by virtue of a privy seal bearing date the
7th November last, for provision of horses for the service of the Queen
and Prince; also a further warrant to pay him 116l. disbursed over
and above the said sum, and also 400l. more for like provisions.
[Docquet.] |
| Jan. 7. |
30. Edward Chute, Sheriff of Kent, to the Council. Has used
his best endeavours to cause the inhabitants of Herne to give content
to Mr. Milles the farmer of that parsonage, but finds it so hard to
bring them to restore the 45s. imposed on him towards the former
ships, that he would more willingly pay the sum out of his own
purse, than undertake to bring them to do the same, the whole
parish being strongly inclined to oppose it, the reasons whereof he
has formerly presented to the Lords. [Seal with arms. ¾ p.] |
| Jan. 7. |
31. The same to Nicholas. Prays him to deliver the preceding
letter to the Council. P. S. Hopes at his coming to town to hear
that all the ports have paid in their ship-monies. As for that which
he is to pay, it will be paid at his coming up, which will be at the
beginning of the term. [Seal with arms. ¾ p.] |
Jan. 7.
Whitehall. |
32. Notes by Nicholas of business to be transacted by the Lords
of the Admiralty. Consider the complaint of Norwich against
Sykes, the saltpetreman, and his servants. Peruse a complaint of
Sir Henry Marten against the Spanish resident, for detracting him.
Consider a letter of Sir Thomas Bowyer and others not yet open.
Peruse a letter from the Earl of Portland concerning the King's
service. Give directions for answer to Sir John Pennington's letter
of the 4th inst., concerning the Gray Horse, of Flushing. Consider
a letter from Scotland to the King, referred to the Lords. Consider
the shipwrights' complaints, or appoint the same to be read and Sir
Henry Marten's order on Saturday next, when the King has appointed
to sit, that the orders may be confirmed and settled. Appoint ships
for guard of the coast of Ireland. [¾ p.] |
| Jan. 7. |
33. Separate examinations of James Walbankes, rector of Greatworth, co. Northampton, William Osborne, rector of Thenford, co.
Northampton, George Herford late curate of Marston, and then
rector of Stutsberie [Stutchbury,] co. Northampton, Sampson Gaydge,
rector of Edgcott, co. Bucks, John Hunt, vicar of Sulgrave, Richard
Taylor, of Middleton in the parish of Marston, John Chester, of
Westrop in the same parish, James Slatyer and Charles Blincoe,
churchwardens, and Thomas Daniel, parish clerk, of Marston St. Lawrence. The examinations were taken before Drs. Samuel Clerke and
Robert Sibthorpe, and Henry Alleyn. They are upon the point of
the conformity of Charles Chauncey. The witnesses speak of his performing ecclesiastical functions in church without surplice or hood, of
his not bowing at the name of Jesus, or standing up at the reading
of the Gospel; the removal of the communion table into the body
of the church at communion time, and his administration of the
sacrament to non-kneelants and to persons not belonging to his
parish. [3 pp.] |
| Jan. 7. |
34. Affidavit of Richard Arnold of Norwich, carpenter. Deponent
went to view how deep the saltpetremen had digged under a pillar
of the Town House, and found they had digged a yard and more
lower than the foundation of one of the pillars of the fabric, and to
hide the same had left some clay about the place, of all which when
the saltpetremen understood that he had informed the Mayor, Sykes,
Langley, and White threatened that he should be sent for to London
by a pursuivant, and that they would make him spend all that he
was worth toward their charges, whereupon being fearful and a
simple man who could neither write nor read, he put his hand to a
writing drawn up by them. [1 p.] |
Jan. 8.
Whitehall. |
35. Order of Council. His Majesty's pleasure was signified that
the Leopard and the Ninth Whelp should be prepared for guard of
the coast of Ireland, (for such time as the Lords of the Admiralty
shall think fit,) upon the charge of that kingdom, whereof the Lords
of the Admiralty are to take notice [¾ p.] |
| Jan. 8. |
36. Another order of the same. His Majesty's storehouses at
Tower Hill were in the hands of John Crane, Surveyor of Marine
Victuals. It was ordered, that since he makes no private benefit
by letting the same, the Sheriff of Middlesex forbear assessing him
towards the business of the shipping for those houses. [Draft ½ p.] |
Jan. 8.
Westminster. |
37. Bishop Wren, of Norwich, to — Bray, chaplain to Archbishop Laud. The bearer has so often been mentioned to the writer
by his brother for a learned man, faithful to the church, and honest
in all his fortunes, that he cannot but commend him to Bray's favour
to give him an opportunity for delivery of his petition to the
Archbishop, whose commiseration of distressed churchmen the writer
is well assured of. Dr. Eden pities the man so far in these insolences
against him, that he has promised to see the business followed gratis,
if the Archbishop will require the King's Advocate to pursue it
ex officio. [¾ p.] |
| Jan. 8. |
38. Account of anticipations as they now stand charged upon
current payments of future revenue; total, 388,562l. 6s. 5½d.
[5 pp.] |
| Jan. 8. |
39. Receipt of Sir William Russell for 31l. 5s., paid by William
Thorpe, Mayor of Winchelsea, in part of 5,000l. charged upon
Sussex for ship-money, under the writ of the 4th of August last.
[¾ p.] |
| Jan. 9. |
Lease for 31 years to Thomas Smith, Humphrey Streete, William
Montjoy, and Thomas Leighton, and their assigns, of the soil of the
Thames, with the sole selling thereof for ballasting ships. These
lessees are to have 2d. per ton, and other allowances contributed by
the city of London for cleansing the river, and are to take the
gravel from shelves of most danger, and to land the same on wastes
near the river. They are to pay the King a rent of 466l. 13s. 4d.
per annum for the first five years, and for the residue of the term
1,000 marks. The lessees are to have sufficient lighters always in
readiness, and to have wharves on the river side for draining their
ballast, that it may be dry for shipping of clothes. If the lessees be
not able to furnish river ballast, shippers for that time may provide
them elsewhere. The lessees' servants are to be exempted from his
Majesty's service. The Lords appointed by statute of 27 Henry 8.
are to determine complaints touching ballasting of ships. This
grant not to restrain the powers granted to the Trinity House.
[Docquet.] |
| Jan. 9. |
Pardon to John Culpeper, Francis Bent, and Fulke Harbach, late
of Weston-in-Zoyland, Somerset, from burning the hand; they were
tried before Sir John Finch, Chief Justice of Common Pleas, concerning the death of William Nicholas. [Docquet.] |
| Jan. 9. |
Grant of denization to Jacob Jacobson Van Hone, Albert Belten,
Frederick Fortsen, Hans Becker, and Peter Serops, born in foreign
parts. [Docquet.] |
Jan. 9.
Westminster. |
40. [Sec. Windebank] to Lord Keeper Coventry. His Majesty
having been moved in behalf of [James] Maxwell and [Alice] his
wife, lately sentenced in the Star Chamber, in regard of their poverty,
pardons their fine and the punishment ordered to be inflicted upon
them saving only their sending away into Scotland, which is to be
forthwith performed. The Lord Keeper is to cause them to be
enlarged out of the Fleet, and to give order for discharging their
fine and punishment, and for sending them away accordingly.
[Draft. ½ p.] |
| Jan. 9. |
41. John Goold to Nicholas. Forbears making out any list this
week, in respect there has been so little received, as thereunder
appears. P.S. Received of the Mayor of Maidstone 160l., and of
the Mayor of Winchelsea 31l. 5s.; total, 195l. 5s. received this week.
[Stained by damp. 1 p.] |
Jan. 9.
Little Sodbury. |
42. Edward Stephens, Sheriff of co. Gloucester, to Nicholas. Has
received of the sum of 4,920l. rated on the county for ship-money
3,400 and some odd pounds. Prays order where and to whom the
bearer shall pay the same. The bearer is able to give account what
places and persons they be that have neglected and refused to pay.
The copies of the returns of those who have neglected or refused
are delivered to the under-sheriff that he may go on further to
execute his Majesty's writ. [Seal with arms. ¾ p.] |
| Jan. 9. |
43. Return of Sir John Gore, alderman, and Arthur Mowsse,
deputy of the Ward of Walbrook, of the strangers born resident in
that ward. They are five in number, all merchants; among them
Giles "Vanbrugg," a freed denizen born at Haarlem. He had lived
in the parish of St. Stephen Walbrook eleven years. [1¾ p.] |
Jan. 10.
Westminster. |
44. The King to Sir John Bramston and Sir John Finch, the
Chief Justices of the King's Bench and Common Pleas. The King
understands that his clerk of the market and his deputies, notwithstanding the King's directions to the late chief justices, are still
molested in the execution of their office. According to his Majesty's
former intimation, and minding to preserve the right of that place,
both in regard it is an ancient office of the crown, and likewise very
needful and beneficial, the King thinks fit to recommend the same
to the special care of the persons addressed, requiring them to
inform themselves of the truth of such complaints as shall come
before them against the said officer and his deputies, and in particular
against Benjamin Agar and his servants, being an ancient deputy to
Hugh May an ancient officer in that place; and if the justices find
that they have misdemeaned themselves, especially in exacting fees
not warranted by custom, then to proceed against them according to
their offence; but if it shall appear that the complaints against
them are ill grounded, then the chief justices shall assist them in
their courts for the better discharge of their duties, and shall make
it known to the justices of the peace that his Majesty expects that
they shall be aiding according to the proclamation. [Copy. 3 pp.] |
| Jan. 10. |
45. Sir Thomas Edmondes, Treasurer of the Household, and
Sir Henry Vane, Comptroller of the Household, to the Lords of the
Treasury. By his Majesty's letters of Privy Seal of 20th October
last, there was warrant given for impresting 1,000l. to Mr. Cofferer
towards the expense of the diets of the Prince Elector Palatine of
Rhine and his retinue, and so much more as should be certified
under their hands to be expended for the said diets. Certify their
lordships, that there has been expended to the 10th January inst.
1,000l. more than the 1,000l. already imprested. [1 p.] |
Jan. 10.
Plymouth. |
46. Thomas Crampporne, Mayor of Plymouth, to the Council.
Will make speedy payment of the money for the shipping to
Sir William Russell. Has sent the examinations of the English
soldiers aboard the Dutch (except Flood's whom he sent heretofore).
Has likewise sent the shipper's and steersman's examinations, and
detains the latter in prison until he shall receive further directions.
Capt. Ketelby, commander of the fort under Sir James Bagg, has
commanded the writer to imprison Flood, Weare, and Brisell, (whom
the writer had before required not to depart the town, they being
material witnesses,) until further order. The rest of the soldiers
have all left the Dutch, and are gone to their several places of abode.
Likewise encloses the examination of one Derby O'Chaligan, an
Irishman and Romish priest, lately apprehended there, who has Popish
books, crucifixes, beads, indulgences, pictures, and such like superstitious things found in his trunk; he is a titular dean and public
notary, by authority from the Pope, and is bound for Ireland, and
arrived at Plymouth three weeks since in a Dutch ship, put in by
contrary winds, with one William O'Reordaen, an Irishman and a
Romish priest also. Being arrived there, the master of the Dutch
ship brought them to the writer in poor ragged clothes, telling him
they were poor Irishmen, and that they had nothing aboard him,
whereupon the writer took their examinations, wherein they misnamed themselves, and pretended that they were married, and lived
four or five years in France in the nature of beggars, and confessed
they were Romish Catholics, but denied they had taken orders, and
took the oath of allegiance, and [O']Reordaen pretended that he
could not write, whereupon the writer dismissed them; but two or
three days since being informed that they had two trunks, which
they had put aboard an Irish ship, he sent for them again and their
trunks, and [O']Chaligan the owner of the two trunks, wherein are
very good clothes, thereupon discovered himself and [O']Reordaen
who has fled. Has made hue-and-cry after him, and intends to send
O'Chaligan to the common gaol. [Seals with arms of the town.
1 p.] |
| Jan. 10. |
47. Receipt of Sir William Russell for 160l. paid by Samuel Marshall, on behalf of the Mayor and others of Maidstone, in part of
8,000l. charged on Kent for ship-money under writ of 4th August
last. [1 p.] Annexed, |
|
47. i. Similar receipt for 300l. paid by Samuel Marshall, Mayor
of Maidstone, being ship-money under writ of 20th October 1634. Dated 23rd March 1634-5. [1 p.] |
|
47. ii. Similar receipt for 40l., paid by John Wale, on behalf of
Samuel Marshall, Mayor of Maidstone, being ship-money
under writ of 20th October 1634. Dated 20th April
1634-5. [1 p.] |
| Jan. 11. |
Pardon to Sir Paul Neile, of the manslaughter and other felonies
whereof he stands indicted before the Coroner of London, for the
death of Thomas Howton, carman, together with a grant to the said
Sir Paul of all his goods accrued to his Majesty thereby. [Docquet.] |
| Jan. 11. |
Pardon and release to William Cowse, gent., (a commissioner
amongst others for sale of logwood and timber in the forest of
Dean), of the residue of a debt of 1,079l. 7s. 8d. due to his Majesty
upon those sales, there being 700l. thereof already by him paid into
the Exchequer, and is done in consideration of his service about
apprehending John Williams alias Skymington, who with others
committed riots in Dean Forest. [Docquet.] |
| Jan. 11. |
Docquet of the King's Letter to the Lord Chief Justices before
calendared under the 10th January inst. |
| Jan. 11. |
Docquet of a similar Letter to the Lord Chief Justice Finch and
Sir John Denham, Justices of Assize for the Western Circuit. |
| Jan. 11. |
48. Mary Countess of Westmoreland to Sec. Windebank. His
Majesty does not rightly conceive of her request. She moved him
that the justice of his laws may proceed in her suit in Scotland.
But if her adversary, upon pretence of her absence, should obtain a
letter to stay justice till her return, his Majesty in granting it would
do a thing that would prove to the writer's wrong; for when her
adversary is in Scotland, she will find delays enough in false oaths,
and then if she can get his Majesty to delay it while she is absent
from thence in this manner, she will never have an end, therefore
her case is wonderfully to be pitied. She sues "this lady here" in
the Arches for a legacy of 150l. value, who hath laid upon it 1,000l.
debt to stop that legacy, and has laid the same debt in Scotland
upon the goods there, to take them up, and by such like tricks and
false oaths has found ways to delay the writer's suit in the Arches
now above three years. It is well enough known how many kind
letters she wrote unto her, and how often she sent servants, and
men of quality unto her before she began any suits in either of
these kingdoms; and for this suit in England the writer was willing
to refer it to her adversary's own cousin-german, the Lord Privy
Seal; but she refused all accommodation, and bid the writer do her
worst, she knew of nothing that was due unto her, with many
scornful words. Beseeches Windebank [to] inform his Majesty
according to this letter. [1 p.] |
| Jan. 11. |
49. John Nicholas to his son Edward Nicholas. Thanks for tokens
he and his wife had sent the writer and Edward Nicholas's mother,
and therein had sent his wife a poor token. Sent Mr. Pinckney 10s.
and his wife 5s. according to Edward Nicholas's direction, and has
added 5s. more to the usher. The remainder due to him for the
last quarter ended at Christmas is 8l., which he will receive therein.
Edward Nicholas's sister Kate is about the house again. [1 p.] |
| Jan. 11. |
50. Affidavit of Clement Shereman, William Morgan, Francis
Langton, and Thomas Bird, disgrossers of gold or silver, that there
being no forging, fining, or melting furnace to be built in that
yard which was lately a common bowling alley, where now the
sheds are building for disgrossing gold and silver, there can be no
stench, ill fume, or vapour of lead or smoke, or noise of hammers,
to the annoyance of the French ambassador's house or any other
thereabouts. And further, that the suggested noise of the falling-off
of the tongs in the drawing down of the silver at the bar can be
no disturbance to the French ambassador's lodging, being so far
from the sheds, and that no neighbour to any disgrossing place has
made any complaint of annoyance by the noise of their disgrossing
tongs. [¾ p.] |
| Jan. 12. |
51. Sir Thomas Reynell, Inigo Jones, and Laurence Whitaker,
Commissioners for Buildings, to [the Council]. Have taken a view
of the house in St. Bartholomew's which is now preparing for the
gold and silver works, and which they minutely describe. They
have also repaired to the Tower and found there several rooms
lying together in the place heretofore employed for the Irish mint,
which might in some short time be fitted for those works. They
viewed also a third place adjoining to that house in St. Bartholomew's which is now a stable, which the disgrossers are content
to hire and to employ in their work, and which opening towards
the street cannot be any considerable annoyance to the neighbourhood, the rather because the workmen affirm that they intend not
to use any refining of silver there which may annoy with smell,
nor make any offensive noise, which are the two annoyances most
feared by the neighbours. The sheds lately erected should be taken
down, and the workmen may instantly proceed to fitting that
stable for their present use. [1¾ p.] |
| Jan. 12. |
52. Master and Wardens of the Company of Shipwrights to the
Lords of the Admiralty. Since the command for all the members
of that company to enter bond and take oath not to serve a foreign
state, they have given divers summonses to Robert Higdon, of St.
Saviour's; Richard Neale, of Ratcliffe; Edmund Naylor, of
Wapping; Jasper Williams, of Limehouse; William Pollard, of
Ratcliffe; and to Andrew Brogrove, William Redknap, Richard
Parker, and John Cooper, all of Wapping; and many others, to
yield obedience thereunto, but have received from some a peremptory denial, and from all a wilful neglect of appearance. [¾ p.] |
| Jan. 12. |
53. Bishop Bridgeman, of Chester, to Archbishop Laud. The
chancel of the archbishop's church at Rochdale, co. Lancaster, being
formerly out of order, the writer has caused the same to be fairly
paved, and the seats therein uniformed choir-wise, and the rest of
it decently repaired and adorned at the charge of Sir John Byron,
the archbishop's farmer. At his request and upon certificate from
the minister and churchwardens, as also upon affidavit by the
workmen, who deposed that the charges will amount to 40l., the
writer signifies the same to the archbishop. [1 p.] |
Jan. 12.
Westminster. |
Nicholas to Sir William Savile. Sends a copy of the petition
of Thomas Crosland, and likewise a copy of a letter written to Sir
William and the other referees, requiring them to examine and
settle the differences contained in a petition referred by his Majesty
to Sir William and the rest. It is conceived that the petitioner is
rather to blame for not having delivered the letter of the Lords to
Sir William and the rest, than that they would not have ended the
poor man's difference or have certified why they could not do it.
The Lords desire him forthwith to put an end to the business or
certify: see Vol. cccv., No. 88. [Copy. Nicholas's Letter Book.
Dom. James I., Vol. ccxix., p. 121. 1 p.] |
| Jan. 12. |
54. Propositions of Sir William Monson for various improvements
in the Navy, founded principally upon his experience during the
last voyage. In that voyage he had seen more topmasts carried by
the board in a reasonable gale of wind than he had known in great
storms in the Queen's time when they had kept the seas four, five,
or six months together, and never anchored in all that space; for
avoiding the like inconvenience, he suggests that one of his
Majesty's ship-carpenters be appointed to go in the fleet to direct
all such things. Concerning victualling, he remarks that the
King's appointment of a careful and honest man gives great hope
that thereafter there shall be no cause of complaint, but Sir William
wishes him to take the opinion of masters that have the ordering
of victuals in merchant ships, for he finds they have a better way
for saving their beef and pork than he has known in the King's
ships. Touching pressed men, he would have no more than five
lusty young watermen in every hundred sailors, and he recommends
that some masters or their mates should be sent out with the
press-masters, and that, without increasing the total charge, the
wages of seamen should be increased or diminished in proportion to
their sufficiency as judged of by the master for those abaft the mast,
by the boatswain for those before the mast, and by the gunner for
those in the gun room. He also suggests that in every fleet there
should go an under-treasurer with money to give content to men
upon their landing sick or hurt. This course was adopted by
Queen Elizabeth in the last fleet that she sent to sea against Spain,
of which Sir William was Admiral, and she meant it ever after to
continue. Sir William dwells on the wasteful consuming of powder,
which the English above all nations ought to avoid, "considering
the mischief we found by the want thereof in 88." He proposed
to limit salutations to admirals, and when visitors of rank came
aboard to salute them not with great ordnance but with muskets
from the upper deck, and when healths were drunk and leaves
taken "to give a volley of shot against a mark made like the shape
of a man and put into a barrel point blank distance, where the
soldier shall take his aim." [3½ pp.] |
| Jan. 12. |
55. Copy of the same. [3¾ pp.] |
| Jan. 12. |
56. Observations of Capt. Thomas Ketelby, entitled "Things
considerable for the advancement of his Majesty's service for sea."
A variety of suggestions principally relating to the oversight by the
officers of the receipt and consumption of stores, the proper keeping
of accounts of pay, the more convenient re-victualling of ships
serving in the narrow seas, and the maintenance of a magazine and
dock at Plymouth and Portsmouth. The paper concludes as
follows:—"That his Majesty will be graciously pleased to consider
that as the captains are no way able to live and maintain themselves and the honour of his Majesty's service out of that stipend
or wages which is now allowed by his Majesty, for (besides that
he hath no benefit on board beyond a foremast man) no private
captain of any ship of his Majesty's can accommodate himself for six
months' service with such conveniences for the furnishing of the
cabin, cook-room, and necessary servants as are requisite for the
honour of the King and his command, in a ship of the first, second,
or third rate, under 100l., 70l. 50l., his wages for six months [being]
84l., 67l. 4s., 56l., so as the whole charge of this [his] expenses
of diet, apparel, riding charges, and transportation of stuff, &c.,
must be borne out of his own fortunes, besides his expence of time."
[1¾ p.] |
| Jan. 12. |
57. Copy of the same. [2¼ pp.] |
| Jan. 12. |
58. Receipt of Dr. Richard Baylie, President of St. John's
College, Oxford, for 120l. paid to him by the Bishop of Oxford
towards Archbishop Laud's buildings at that college. [½ p.] |
| Jan. 13. |
Warrant for installing the first fruits of the bishopric of Norwich,
after the rate of 834l. 11s. 7½d. (the tenth being deducted), to be
paid in four years by four equal portions, the first payment to be
made on the 19th Dec. 1636. [Docquet.] |
| Jan. 13. |
The like to pay to John Van Belcamp (whom his Majesty
employed unto France to take that King and Queen's pictures) the
sum of 300l. in satisfaction of moneys disbursed and recompense of
his pains in that service. [Docquet.] |
| [Jan. 13.] |
59. Francis Earl of Bedford to the Council. According to their
order of the 16th December last, [see Vol. cciv., No. 27], he had
considered the petition of the mayor and burgesses of Totness.
That town is an ancient corporation, and abuts on the river Dart,
in which respect it is appointed to maintain 60 trained soldiers
and a magazine of 24 barrels of powder, and till of late time the
soldiers were accustomed to be trained within the precincts of the
town. This town has also the custody of six field pieces which he
finds not mentioned by petitioners, perhaps because they desire to
be freed of them, yet since it is the most convenient place for them,
it is a matter of consequence that the town should always be furnished with a sufficient strength of soldiers to secure them and it
from any sudden surprise. About nine years since, upon a like
petition presented by Barnstaple, he received directions to grant
that town permission to muster within their own precincts, which
he finds to have produced very good effects, and that his Majesty's
service has been thereby much advanced. [¾ p.] |
| Jan. 13. |
60. Account of 162l. 10s. taken up by Thomas Windebank at
Madrid, with underwritten receipt for the amount by Peter Richaut
from Sec. Windebank. [½ p.] |
| Jan. 13. |
61. Information of John Gardiner, of Ditchilling [Ditchling,
Sussex], taken this day. Capt. Scras came to examinant's house
(being an innkeeper at Ditchling) upon Sunday last was a fortnight,
and told examinant there was some company coming. Upon
Wednesday following there came to Ditchling three score and ten
persons or thereabouts, whereof thirty lay at the examinant's house,
and with them one whom they called Capt. Drury, Ancient Rookwood, Serjeant Roe, one Field, and Mr. Greene, and said they were
all to serve Capt. Winkfield, who with his wife were to come after
them, and the next day those that lay at examinant's house went
to Brighthelmstone, and one "Tee Greene," an Irishman, went
with them to Brighthelmstone. They were to take shipping at
Brighthelmstone and Shoreham, but did not say whither or for
what service. One Stockden, sometime an attorney (as he said)
went clerk of the company. [1 p.] |
Jan. 14.
[Whitehall. |
Notes by Nicholas of business to be transacted by the Lords of
the Admiralty. Resolve what order shall be given upon papers
presented by Sir William Monson and Capt. Ketelby. Consider
whether the commission on the state of the chest at Chatham shall
proceed or be renewed to other commissioners. Mr. Surveyor of the
Victuals desires he may be left out of the commissions for survey
of the victualling houses, and that John Lightfoot, a lawyer, may
be put in. Consider Mr. Surveyor General's certificate concerning
the victualling house in East Smithfield. Consider the form of oath
prepared for a captain of one of his Majesty's ships. [Margin.
C. B. Council Board.] Appoint cook for the Henrietta Maria.
[Margin. Leonard.] Sign warrants for preparing fleets to be set
forth. [Margin. Fiat.] John Brooke has long attended, who
says he has some things wherewith to acquaint them for the good
of the service. [Margin. I am to abstract it.] Pitcher, the master
gunner of the Antelope, is apprehended and in the messenger's
custody for embezzelling stores delivered for the Triumph. [Margin.
Referred to the Master of the Ordnance.] To peruse letters from
Ireland, and the Officers of the Navy, and a letter from Scotland
to the King. [See No. 32 of this Volume. 1 p.] |
Jan. 14.
Westminster. |
Nicholas to Francis Goddard, Sheriff of Wilts. Sends new writ
to be delivered to the bailiff of Chippenham, the previous one
having been mislaid on the death of the late bailiff. The sooner he
finished that business the sooner he would be eased of his office, but
until that be despatched there was no hope of his being freed.
The sheriffs of cos. Derby, Lancaster, and Monmouth having paid
all their money were upon showing their acquittances freed, and
new sheriffs pricked for their places. [Copy. Nicholas's Letter
Book, Dom. James I., Vol. ccxix., p. 120.] |
Jan. 14.
Salop. |
62. John Newton, Sheriff of Salop, to Nicholas. Having previously remitted 1,000l., he sends Nicholas three bills for payment
of 2,000l. at particular days. Intends on the 21st March next to
return 1,000l. more, and the other 500l. in Easter term following.
Because he will be out of office this term, and 500l. is uncollected,
he desires assistance from the Council for collecting the same.
Furthermore, by reason of a mistake of 100l. and odd moneys
wanting in the assessment, he was forced to cause that sum to be
assessed upon the county and the corporate towns, in all which
places he finds a regularity, except in Shrewsbury. It is rated to
pay 6l. 10s, which they refuse either to assess or collect, but show
forth an order from the Council upon a petition for the abatement
of their general assessment of 450l., that that assessment should
stand, as he conceives mistaking the true meaning of that order.
Lastly, he acquaints Nicholas how he is wronged by a petition
delivered from Shrewsbury to the Council: "That the Sheriff of
Salop did of himself, without any of the head officers of the corporation, assess upon Shrewsbury 450l.," where in truth the bailiffs
were present when the 450l. was agreed upon, and called to him
for a warrant for assessing the same, and proceeded to the assessment thereof without his assistance, wherein they spared the abler
sort of men and imposed great assessments upon the common people,
which he was loath to address [sic], knowing it would hinder his
Majesty's present service. Desires that the Council would let the
town know that the 6l. 10s. must be assessed and collected, and
for his own particular abuse refers himself to them to think of it
as they shall think fit. He has acquainted them with no particular
but what his under-sheriff, Robert Madocks, can personally make
good before them upon oath. [2 pp.] |
| Jan. 14. |
63. Memorandum of William Stone, that he delivered the
warrants of the Lords and the Master of the Ordnance to Mr.
Barret, lieutenant under Lord Gorge, at Hurst Castle, who rode to
Lord Gorge and returned this answer, that Lord Gorge thought
the warrants were not for this ordnance, in regard they were dated
so long ago, and that he would not deliver them before he had
spoken with the Master of Ordnance, and that he thought those
ordnance were intended for the last fleet, which being returned he
presumed there might be no need, upon which answer Stone was
forced to return, leaving the ship and convoy, not able to do any
thing until his coming back with further order. [½ p.] |
| Jan. 15. |
Pardon to Bartholomew Parker, brewer in Westminster, who
by judgment of the Court of Exchequer was fined 500 marks for
brewing with sea-coal, and was also committed to the Fleet.
Parker is to give security not to brew any more in Westminster
with coal. [Docquet.] |
| Jan. 15. |
Grant to Sir Thomas Reynell for 21 years of all fines accruing
to his Majesty upon judgments given in the King's Bench and
Exchequer, wherein a capiatur shall be awarded, rendering to his
Majesty the yearly rent of 10l. [Docquet.] |
| Jan. 15. |
Grant to Robert Dardes, Laurance Ball, George Wyld, Thomas
Rawson, and James Godfray, conducts of his Majesty's bakehouse,
of the benefit that may accrue upon the conviction of William
Southgate, an attorney of the Common Pleas, dwelling in Northumberland, who was indicted for a common barrator. [Docquet.] |
| Jan. 15. |
Commission to Sir Henry Spiller, Sir Abraham Dawes, Laurence
Whitaker, and others, authorizing them to see to the execution of
the laws against engrossing and transporting salt butter beyond
seas, and against such as convey the same aboard ships of strangers
to the great loss of his Majesty's customs. And his Majesty
appoints Oliver Lloyd and Berrington Webb to prosecute offenders
in the premises from the beginning of his Majesty's reign until the
15th September last, and these Commissioners have power to
compound with offenders, and his Majesty appoints Sir Abraham
Dawes receiver of monies arising by this commission, and grants
to Oliver Lloyd and Berrington Webb one fourth part of the fines
and compositions. [Docquet.] |
Jan. 15.
Pembroke. |
64. Richard Gwillim, Mayor, and others, of Pembroke, to the
Council. Acknowledge receipt of writ with copy of instructions
for levying ship-money. The sheriff, omitting to do anything
therein during the times whereby [sic] the head officers of the
towns had power to join with him in the assessments, then took
upon himself the whole rating of the sum imposed. By the
instructions the Lords directed that 10l. should be levied on
Pembroke, yet the sheriff, either out of favour to the county or not
knowing the state of Pembroke to be much impoverished by decay
of trade, not only raised the rate to 13l. 6s. 8d. and abated other
places of better ability, but also tenements in other parishes which
are holden of the town and ought to have been rated with the
town, he has rated with the parish wherein they lie, which has
caused the inhabitants of the town to dislike the inequality of the
sheriff's assessment. Yet notwithstanding, the writers, in obedience
to his Majesty's writ, have collected the 13l. 6s. 8d. and paid the
same to the sheriff, but beseech the Council that the same unequal
rate may not on any future occasions be a rule or precedent on the
said town. [¼ p.] |
| Jan. 15. |
65. Officers of Navy to Lords of the Admiralty. According to
their directions have considered the propositions delivered by Capt.
Rainsborough for taking away the galleries in his Majesty's ships,
and have thus resolved: First, to prevent the danger of firing (the
main objection against them), so to reform them, that by making
them hereafter close to the ship's sides, and taking them away in
the fore part of the galleries now left open, as that danger shall be
prevented. Next, by addition of one piece of ordnance or two in
such as will conveniently bear them, to strengthen their quarters,
covering the turrets with lattin. But for the absolute taking away
the galleries, unless in the smallest vessels, the officers are of
opinion that it will much diminish the beauty of his Majesty's
ships. [1 p.] |
Jan. 15.
Whitehall. |
Order of Commissioners for Pious Uses. Some persons inhabiting
at the great north door of St. Paul's, who were ordered to depart
thence within fourteen days after Midsummer last, still remaining
there and their houses undemolished, and there being special
occasion to set up scaffolds in those places, it was ordered that such
persons should remove within fourteen days, and upon their removal
the houses be demolished and scaffolds set up. [See Dom. Car. I.
Vol. ccxiii., fol. 39 a. ¾ p.] |
Jan. 15.
Hounster [?] |
66. M—Aylworth to George Rawdon. Sees he has heard out of
Ireland. She received the fan. Sir Francis Popham thanks Rawdon
for sending to him. He knows the piece of land very well; it is a
fine thing, but he must sell land to pay debts for his sons, so that he
is in no case to buy. "My Lady" [Conway] is very glad to hear of
Mr. Edward, and believes Dr. Wri[gh]t will be very careful in giving
him physic; but withal, she says, though his itch be troublesome,
yet she hopes it will be much for his health, and wishes physic might
be forborne till the spring. Those that before were sorry for Lord
Mountnorris are now glad; but they could not yet learn what his
offence was.—PS. Must trouble Rawdon to buy another fan, and
sends the money for both. [1 p.] |
| Jan. 15. |
67. Statement of the facts in a case between John Compton and
William Underhill, the question in which was, whether John Compton,
who was attainted in 1625 of killing William Lambe, was entitled to
an annuity of 30l., issuing out of the manor of Hartpury, and granted
to him on the 22nd February 1624-5 by Walter Compton, to commence on the death of the said Walter, which event happened on
the 12th June 1627, or whether such annuity was forfeited to the
Crown. An inquisition was this day taken by which his Majesty
was entitled. [1 p.] |
| Jan. 16. |
Grant to George Lord Goring of a fourth part of such fines and
compositions as shall accrue by censure of his Majesty's courts, or by
virtue of a commission lately granted for prosecuting offenders in
engrossing and transporting butter, from the beginning of his
Majesty's reign until the 15th September last. And his Majesty
authorizes Sir Abraham Dawes, the receiver of those fines and compositions, to make payment of the said fourth part to Lord Goring.
[Docquet.] |
| Jan. 16. |
Similar grant of another fourth part of the said fines and compositions to Sir Henry Hungate, one of the gentlemen of the Privy
Chamber, with like authority to Sir Abraham Dawes. [Docquet.] |
Jan. 16.
The Vanguard, in the Downs. |
68. Sir John Pennington to the Lords of the Admiralty. The
Eighth Whelp is returned from the northwards from the pursuit of
Capt. Pronoville. He stayed not upon that coast, but so soon as he
had taken that prize, went home for Dunkirk. He took her out of
the pier where he had ridden divers days before her coming in,
which was a most insolent part; but that is all the reward the English
have for the use of their coast, roads, and harbours. Has now sufficient mark for the knowledge of Pronoville, if it be his fortune to
meet him, which he will endeavour to do. Desires to know what
shall be done with the shallop St. Peter, of Calais, and the captain
of her, John de Wolfe, who is yet prisoner at Sandwich. The
Governor of Calais and some others have written to the Mayor for
their release, alleging that they were legally set out from their town,
which admit they were, yet Sir John believes his Majesty will not
suffer them to lie off and on Dover Pier, and there in the Downs, to
intercept any that they can master that go out or in. He cannot
accuse them of any fact they have committed, more than attempting
to lay one aboard close by Dover Pier. Understands that the frigate
called the Swan of Flushing (which he formerly sent into Sandwich
for pillaging the Scottish ship) is the swiftest sailer in the world.
She is Dunkirk built, and they took her from them by an accident.
The mould of her may be very advantageous for the King's service;
therefore, he could wish she might be kept, though there be some
recompense given for her. There came in, three days since, a great
fleet of Hollanders, of 150 sail, outward bound, some for the East
Indies, some for the West, some for the Straits, and others for
Rochelle; there were three or four of them cast away upon the
Goodwin within sight of Sir John's ship. Encloses his gunner's note
for some petty things called emptions, which Sir John desires may
be speedily sent; the value of them is very little, but they cannot
be without them, and they are not to be had there. Sir John sent
for them to the Officers of the Ordnance long since, when he first
came into the Vanguard, and then they promised to send them,
which they now say they cannot do without warrant from the Lords.
[Seal with device. 1 p.] Enclosed, |
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68. i. List of Emptions to be supplied to the Vanguard, Richard
Paxford, gunner. 9th January 1635-6. [Copy. ¾ p.] |
Jan. 16.
Christ Church, Canterbury. |
69. Dean and Chapter of Canterbury to Archbishop Laud. As
from the Archbishop's hands they received lately some of his Majesty's
commands, so they return their answer the same way:—First; they
bless God that they have both a gracious sovereign and a careful
visitor, concurring in their noble zeal to restore to the Church her
ancient lustre, and therefore, in this charge (concerning encroachments made upon their church and churchyard) they intend to use
all diligence to observe his Majesty's commands, as faithfully as they
received them cheerfully. His Majesty's letters to that end they
have entered in their register, and the copy they have returned to
the Archbishop, with this unanimous profession,—that they have
hearts in so good a disposition to obedience as shall not misbecome
the title wherewith the Archbishop has honoured them of his humble
and faithful servants. [1 p.] Enclose, |
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69. i. The King to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. His
Majesty's care for the service of God and honour of His
Church. The church of Canterbury has been, from the
very first planting of Christianity, the prime see of this
realm; and the King will omit no opportunity of maintaining it in its ancient immunities and flourishing estate.
Divers mean buildings and other encroachments have of
late been made upon the church and churchyard. This
profanation the King is resolved not to suffer. Therefore, he commands the Dean and Chapter to look to it,
and see that this abuse be remedied with all convenient
care and speed. Henceforth, no lease of such buildings
is to be renewed, and that, at least as soon as the present
leases expire, every of the said houses be demolished.
[Copy. 1 p.] |
| Jan. 16. |
70. Account rendered by Sir William Russell of ship-money
received:—Total received 46,544l. 8s. 7d., of which he had paid the
victualler 10,500l., into the Exchequer 6,000l., and the remainder,
30,044l. 8s. 7d. had been issued for provisions for his Majesty's stores
and for wages and victuals of the 15 ships' company last year. [1 p.] |
| Jan. 16. |
71. Receipt of Sir William Russell for 60l., paid by Martin
Pyndar, of London, on behalf of George Bull, Mayor of Wells,
co. Somerset, in part of 8,000l. ship-money, charged upon the said
county by writ of 4th August last. [Seal of Pyndar, with arms.
¾ p.] |
| [Jan. 16.] |
72. William Somner, Registrar of Canterbury, to Archbishop
Laud. Gives the Archbishop account of what he had done respecting the muster-roll of the clergy of his diocese. The Archbishop's
command was, that it should be delivered to the deputy-lieutenants,
which Somner accordingly did on the Tuesday preceding to Sir
Edward Hales and Sir Dudley Digges, who received the same with
all humble respect, in the presence of divers knights and of Mr. Dean
of Canterbury, who, upon sight thereof, charged Somner with unkindness and unneighbourly dealing, for that he did not, before he went
to Croydon, acquaint him therewith, and advise with him and others
that had been commissionated for the former taxing of arms, saying,
in disgrace of Somner's name, that he knew no reason that sumners
and proctors should value ecclesiastical livings. The writer proceeds
at length to vindicate his valuation of Dr. Bargrave's, the dean's,
rectory of Chartham, at 160l. per annum, and his other rectory of
Eythorne, at 100l. per annum. Hears that the dean means to
endeavour to obtain a mitigation of arms; and if the Archbishop
grant it, Somner will not be a whit sorry, though the dean charges
him with malicious dealing and hoisting of the churchmen to unreasonable rates of arms, which is utterly untrue. Somner answered
the dean, that in these accusations he did the Archbishop more
wrong than him, whereupon he began to comply in milder terms,
especially when Somner told him he should certify the Archbishop
how the dean used him, and carried the business boldly, and the
knights cheered him up in his ear, and said the dean would stir so
much that he would hurt himself. The dean goes about to set all
the churchmen upon Somner, but Somner thinks they love him
better than the dean does, and appeals to the Archbishop, that he
never meddled with them of the cathedral, but left them wholly to
the Archbishop, who promised to free Somner from envy. For his
valuations he will maintain them for reasonable contra omnes gentes.
Dean Neville that had only the deanery, found two or three horses,
and that no coach-horses as are sent now-a-days to musters. [Endorsed by William Dell as received on the 16th instant, and as
relating to "the squabbling betwixt Mr. Dean of Canterbury and
him, &c.," to which Archbishop Laud has added "about the arms of
the clergy." 1 p.] |
Jan. 17.
Whitehall. |
73. Order of the King in Council. On information that the
Sheriff of Sussex had rated the Dean and Chapter of Chichester and
the inhabitants within the close, for the business of shipping, and
that the mayor and magistrates of that city had likewise assessed
them and had levied moneys of them for the same service, it was
ordered that such moneys as had been so levied should be forthwith
paid back, and that the sheriff should assess upon the dean and
chapter and the close the sum formerly assessed by the mayor, and
that the sum so assessed should be deducted out of the sum assessed
upon Chichester. There being other differences betwixt the dean
and chapter and the mayor and magistrates, it was ordered, that
the Attorney-General should hear persons instructed on both sides,
and make report to his Majesty of the true state of the business.
[1½ p.] |
| Jan. 17. |
Report by Nicholas to the Council that the Sheriff of co. Gloucester, certified that he had sent up 3,400l., and had given copies of
the returns made to him of such persons as had not paid their
assessment to his under-sheriff. [See Vol. cccii., no. 54. 5 lines.] |
Jan. 18.
Whitehall. |
Proclamation for restraint of consumption of the coin and bullion
of this realm, and the deceitful making of gold and silver thread.
No coin, plate, or bullion was to be used in making gold and silver
thread, copper, gilt or silvered, gold and silver "foliatt," purls,
"oaes," spangles or wire, but what should be imported from foreign
parts and be supplied to manufacturers by persons appointed for that
purpose. The King also commanded that all gold and silver thread,
copper, gilt or silvered, thread and wire be well and truly made,
and that all thread be made up in skeins and not on quills, and that
no copper, silvered or gilt, be made or spun upon any silk, and that
such manufactures be brought to commissioners to be tried and
according to their natures sealed with one of the several seals
which are described at the foot of this proclamation. [Coll. Procs.
Car. I., No. 202. 3 pp.] |
Jan. 18.
Canon's Ashby. |
74. Sir John Dryden, Sheriff of co. Northampton, to Nicholas.
Since his last letters he has made many journeys into the east and
west divisions of the county, and has sent out his warrants to
gather up moneys by distress or other due means, yet he has not
received one half of the moneys, in regard that some hundreds, both
in the east and west divisions, cannot agree to make their assessments. The county is large, being fifty miles in length, and he has
no officers to employ in this service, the bailiwick being in other
men's hands. [½ p.] |
| Jan. 18. |
75. Henry Earl of Manchester, Lord Privy Seal, and Francis Lord
Cottington to Sir Robert Pye, Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer, Sir Edward Wardour, Clerk of the Pells, and the rest of the
Officers of the Receipt of the Exchequer. It appeared by certificate
of George Evelyn and Anthony Williams, that there was turned
over to the Queen by her charter of liberties 839l. 15s. for post
fines happening in the account of 1634. Upon the said certificate,
the writers gave order to make allowance to the Earl of Berks out
of his Majesty's rent for the post fines due at Lady Day last of 400l.,
parcel of the 839l. 15s., and to forbear to give allowance of the
remainder until the writers were certified that the same was
received by her Majesty's officers. Now forasmuch as they are
informed that post fines are good money, and clearly answerable
to her Majesty's Receiver, therefore talleys are to be levied and
allowance made to the Earl of Berks, of the 439l. 15s., remainder
of the 839l. 15s. [1 p.] |
| Jan. 18. |
76. Francis Phelips, Auditor of the Exchequer, to Sec. Windebank.
Certifies the state of the account of moneys due to Philip Calandrini,
with reference to sums by him received and paid in respect of the
jewels pawned in Holland. In June 1633 the account was investigated by Sir John Ducie and other aldermen of London, and a
report thereon made to the late Lord Treasurer, from which it
appeared that there was then due to Calandrini l1,065l. 9s. 4d.
An assignment was made on 6th February 1633-4, of 5,000l. to be
paid the 25th of June 1637, which reduced the sum due to
6,065l. 9s. 4d. Subsequent demands for interest and further payments raised this sum to 7,887l. 16s. 2d., and other charges were
allowed to Calandrini by privy seal amounting to 3,329l., on payment of which two sums he was to deliver up plate and jewels
which had been redeemed for 15,428l. 10s. [2 pp.] |
Jan. 18/28.
Amsterdam. |
77. John Dury to Sir Thomas Roe. Sends an account of his
Amsterdam, business, to be be delivered to Archbishop Laud. Knows by speeches
of Sir William Bos well that the Archbishop has not taken Dury's
silence in good part, but it is against his heart to write of things
that seem to tend towards strife, and it is inexpedient for him to
tell any one but Roe, what jealousies exist in that country against
England, and how Dury's adversaries have prevailed by reason of
the suspicion that Dury had been sent from England to trouble the
waters there. Odious tales are spread concerning the defection of
the church of England, and the state and church of Holland are
jealous of an intention to work the ceremonies of England upon
them. They are therefore exceeding shy to concur in anything
wherein England seems to have a hand. States what he had learned
concerning the treaty between that country and Spain, which was
stopped by Spain insisting upon the dissolution of the Dutch West
India Company. Enters at great length into the position and nature
of the influence of the Prince of Orange, and the unpopularity of the
league with France, which the Prince had forced upon the States by a
faction, through whom it had been carried in a very subtle way.
Dury dwells upon these points and upon the manner in which the
fears in respect of the religious changes taking place in England, the
partiality towards Spain evinced in that country, and the alleged ill
will shown towards ships of Holland in the havens of England,
operated against Dury's project. His reliance now was upon the
formation of a political party supported by the King of England to
second the Prince Elector in the recovery of his palatinate. Prays
that Roe might be sent over to Holland and Germany to frame such a
party. Thinks if his Majesty's intentions in favour of the Prince
be real, the thing cannot be well done without Roe, and one word
from the Queen of Bohemia or the Prince Elector to his Majesty
would procure Roe's appointment. [4 pp.] |
| Jan. 18. |
78. Note of [Edward Stephens], Sheriff of co. Gloucester, that
divers of the chiefest gentlemen of that county had paid nothing
towards the ship-money, though the sums assessed had been often
demanded, with a list of constables who had not made any return
to their warrants. The sheriff had been at 150l. charges in
collecting the ship-money in this and the past year and prayed
allowance thereof. [1 p.] |
| Jan. 18. |
79. Account from the same sheriff of how the ship-money had
been assessed upon co. Gloucester, what had been paid, and what
remained in arrear. The whole amount charged on the county
was 4,920l. 5s. 6d., the corporate towns paying 580l. The sum in
arrear was 1,445l. 8s. [1 p.] |
| Jan. 18. |
80. See "Papers relating to Appointments in the Navy." |
Jan. 19.
Westminster. |
Proclamation for restraint of the multitude and promiscuous use
of coaches about London and Westminster. Of late times the
great numbers of hackney coaches in London and Westminster,
and the general use of coaches therein, grows to a great disturbance to the King, Queen, the nobility, and others of place and
degree in their passage through the streets; the streets also are so
pestered and the pavement so broken up, that the common passage is
hindered and made dangerous, and the prices of hay and provender
rendered exceeding dear; his Majesty therefore commands that no
hackney coach be used except to travel three miles out of London,
and that no person shall go in a coach in the streets of London,
except he keep four horses for his Majesty's service whenever his
occasions shall require. [Coll. Procs. Car. I. No. 203. 1 p.] |
| Jan. 19. |
Grant to the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University
of Oxford and their successors. The King confirmed all the ancient
charters of the university, and explained and enlarged the liberties
granted by the same in twenty particulars relating to a great
variety of subjects, and which particulars are here all enumerated.
[Docquet. 3 pp.] |
| Jan. 19. |
81. Extract from the preceding docquet of the nineteenth particular above alluded to, whereby the King enlarged the power given to
the University of Oxford to print books, by extending the same to
all manner of books, even to those formerly mentioned in the
charter of the Stationers of London. [½ p.] |
| Jan. 19. |
82. Petition of Thomas Violet to the King. Petitioner has taken
pains in bringing to perfection the business touching wire-drawers
and finers, by which a revenue of 8,000l. per annum may be paid to
his Majesty if it be carefully looked unto. It is expedient that an
officer be made for sealing all gold, silver, and copper thread that is
spent in this kingdom, and surveying all silver spangles, "owes,"
purls, and wire, to prevent frauds in making thereof, and for receiving
such moneys as are to be paid and answered to his Majesty. Petitioner prays his Majesty to grant him the said office. [½ p.]
Underwritten, |
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82. i. Reference to the Attorney-General to prepare a bill granting
to — Johnson, — Rich, and Thomas Violet, the
sealer's place above-mentioned, the grantees to have 4d.
upon the Venice pound weight, (which is ½d. upon the
ounce, and 4d. upon the pound of avoirdupois) for the
copper thread, spangles, "oes," and purls. Leonard
Welsted is to be named comptroller, who is to keep
counter accounts, and to whom the sealers are to allow
80l. yearly fee; and Andrew Palmer, assay master of
the Mint, is to be assay master, and to be allowed 50l.
per annum; and Francis Archer to be clerk of the commission, whose fees, together with those of the messenger
and under-messenger, are referred to the Commissioners. [1 p.] |
| Jan. 19. |
83. Order of Council on a petition preferred to his Majesty by
the agent of the Hanse Towns, concerning the Stillyard [Steelyard],
and by his Majesty referred to Archbishop Laud and others. After
long debate, and the testimony of the Merchant Adventurers that
the King's subjects at Hamburgh and in those parts were favourably
treated, the Lords ordered that there should be no further prosecution of the information in the Exchequer on the inquisition
taken in June 1632, but that the merchants of the Hanse Towns
should quietly enjoy their guild and steelyard as long as the fair
usage of his Majesty's subjects in those parts should invite his
favour and grace. [Copy. ¾ p.] |
Jan. 19.
Whitehall. |
84. Similar order. His Majesty is resolved to take to himself
all saltpetre made in England and Wales, and to sell such powder
as is made thereof, over and above that which shall be necessary
for his own service. It is therefore ordered that the AttorneyGeneral prepare a warrant to the Commissioners for Ordnance for
the time being, to give order to the Master, Lieutenant, and other
officers of the Ordnance to sell to such persons, and at such prices
as the Commissioners shall direct, such gunpowder as shall be
required by his Majesty's subjects; also, that the moneys proceeding
from such sales shall be delivered to the Lieutenant of the Ordnance
and by him be accounted for into the Exchequer; and lastly, that
this service shall be performed by the officers of the Ordnance and
Exchequer without any fee for the same. [Copy. ¾ p.] |
| Jan. 19. |
Copy of the same. [See Vol. ccxcii., fol. 1. 1 p.] |
| Jan. 19. |
85. Mary Countess of Westmoreland to Sec. Windebank. It
pleased his Majesty to send to the writer a petition presented unto
him by Lady Home, the most part of which is utterly false, especially
that wherein Lady Home saith, she has hastened justice in the suits
between her and the writer, and the writer has delayed them.
The writer's suit is, that the favour his Majesty now pleases to
grant Lady Home may have reference to the truth of her petition
in that point. His Majesty knows that the writer has had three
letters from him to the sessions in Scotland to hasten justice, and
Lady Home has obtained letters only to stay justice. Beseeches
his Majesty that the letter which he now grants may be perused
by indifferent persons, that it may not do the writer any further
prejudice than a small time of delay. PS.—Desires that it may
be settled in his Majesty's mind that the writer will never abuse
him with the least untruth. [Seal with arms. 1 p.] |
Jan. 19.
St. John's, [Clerkenwell.] |
86. William Earl of Exeter to Sir William Becher. Mr. Hiccock
and Mrs. Buswell having submitted themselves for defaults at
musters and promised to conform, the earl is content they may be
discharged. [½ p.] |
Jan. 19.
Grub Street. |
87. Robert Pratt to George Rawdon. Expected long ago to have
seen him in London. Did Rawdon see what a loss (and it may be
cross too) each day of delay brings, he would say the time were
now as good as past for such a purpose. As he tenders Lord
[Conway's] benefit, prays him to hasten to some conclusion. [¾ p.] |
| Jan. 19. |
88. Receipt of Sir William Russell for 3,466l. 10s. 0d., paid by
George Oldfield on behalf of Edward Stephens, Sheriff of co.
Gloucester, in part of 5,500l. charged on that county for ship-money
by writ of 4th August last. [1 p.] Annexed, |
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88. i. Similar receipt for 700l., collected under the writ for shipmoney dated 20th October 1634. Dated 9th April 1635.
[1 p.] |
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88. ii. Similar receipt for 366l. 13s. 4d., paid by John Driver
on behalf of Edward Stephens, Sheriff of co. Gloucester,
collected under the writ for ship-money dated 20th
October 1634. Dated 7th May 1635. [1 p.] |
| Jan. 19. |
89. Names of such persons as were pricked Sheriffs for the
counties of England. [2 pp.] Annexed, |
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89. i. Similar list of Sheriffs pricked for the counties of Wales.
[¾ p.] |
| Jan. 19. |
90. Receipt of Ed[ward] Searle for Thomas Bennett, for 4l. 10s.
from Nicholas, for beer. [¼ p.] |
| Jan. 20. |
Licence for John North, second son to Dudley Lord North, to
travel into parts beyond seas with one servant and 40l. in money,
there to remain for three years. [Docquet.] |
| Jan. 20. |
Grant to Willoughby Hickman and his heirs, of two fairs to be
kept in Gainsborough, co. Lincoln, each of them for nine days,
under the yearly rent of 40s., which fairs Queen Elizabeth by her
letters patent of 1st February 1591-2 granted to Thomas Lord
Burgh to be kept for three days, which space does not suffice the
merchants of London and others resorting thither. [Docquet.] |
| Jan. 20. |
Warrant to pay Sir Richard Wynne, Treasurer to the Queen, 200l.
for secret service. [Docquet.] |
| Jan. 20. |
Similar warrant to pay to the Countess of Denbigh 270l., to be
disbursed according to his Majesty's directions at the Queen's lying
in. [Docquet.] |
| Jan. 20. |
The like to the Exchequer and the Farmers of the Customs, to
suffer Job Harby, merchant, (whom his Majesty has appointed to
make over by bills of exchange or otherwise such money as shall
be requisite for redemption of his Majesty's jewels pawned in
Holland) to transport from London to Holland 20,000l. in Spanish
coin, either rials of eight or otherwise. [Docquet.] |
| Jan. 20. |
The like to the Exchequer, to pay to James Levingston, one of
the grooms of the bedchamber, 1,100l. due to James Nesmyth at
his death, upon a pension of 2,000l. per annum granted by King
James to Henry Nesmyth and James Nesmyth, his son, as by a
certificate of Sir Edward Wardour appears, which sum is now due
to Levingston by marriage with his now wife, the sister and sole
executrix of James Nesmyth. [Docquet.] |
| Jan. 20. |
Restitution of temporalities of bishopric of Hereford to Theophilus Field, late Bishop of St. Davids, now Bishop of Hereford.
[Docquet.] |
| Jan. 20. |
Licence to Robert Barr, merchant, to pass into Ireland and return
into England as often as his occasions require; it is to continue
until his Majesty shall revoke the same. [Docquet.] |
Jan. 20.
Westminster. |
91. The King to Sir William Le Neve, Clarencieux King-of-Arms
of the south-east and west parts of England from the river Trent
southward. Commission to visit all his province and all South
Wales according to the laws of arms from time to time as often as
he shall think meet, and to call before him or his deputy all manner
of persons that pretend to bear arms or are styled esquire or
gentleman, and to cause them to produce by what authority they
challenge and claim the same. The commission also gave Sir
William a great variety of other powers to be exercised in the
rectification of arms and the control of ornaments and mourning
apparel to be worn at funerals. All disputes that might arise
were to be heard and determined by the Earl Marshal. [Copy.
10¾ pp.] |
| Jan. 20. |
Docquet of the preceding commission. |
| Jan. 20. |
92. Another copy of the same docquet. [1 p.] |
| Jan. 20. |
93. Fragment of a collection of notes of Commissions to visit,
granted to heralds, with other matters having connexion with the
College of Arms. The notes relate to the preceding commission
granted to Sir William Le Neve, Clarencieux, and to others granted
to holders of the office of Norroy. The latter comprise commissions
to William Harvey, 15th June, 6th Edward VI., [1552]; to Lawrence Dalton, 27th June, 3rd Elizabeth, [1561]; to William Flower,
10th July, 6th Elizabeth, [1564]; to Richard St. George, 25th
May, 9th James, [1611]; and to Sir Henry St. George, of the same
date and in the same form as the preceding commission to Sir
William Le Neve. There follows in this collection a copy of a
similar commission to Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, dated 21st June,
26th Elizabeth, [1584], with underwritten copy of a note by Lord
Burghley that authority was given by that commission to Clarencieux only; finally, there is in this collection a copy of the orders
of Richard Duke of Gloucester for regulation of the Office of Arms.
[15¼ pp.] |
| Jan. 20. |
Docquet of the above-mentioned Commission to Sir Henry St.
George, Norroy King-at-Arms of the east, west, and north parts of
England from the Trent. It gave him like authority as the commission to Sir William Le Neve above mentioned to visit the
northern province and North Wales. |
| Jan. 20. |
94. The King to Sir Henry Mildmay, Master of the Jewel House.
To deliver to each of Sir William Le Neve, Clarencieux King-atArms, and Sir Henry St. George, lately created Norroy King-atArms, a crown and collar of SS. of silver and gilt, to be made in
manner accustomed. [Copy. 1 p.] |
| Jan. 20. |
Docquet of the same. |
Jan. 20.
Whitehall. |
95. Order of the Council. Sir Abraham Williams and Edward
Nicholas having taken a view of the papers remaining in the
study of John Dickenson, lately deceased, at his dwelling house in
the Strand, are to separate the papers which concern his service at
the Council board, which are to be brought to the Council chamber;
for papers which concern his estate, they are to be preserved until
the ecclesiastical authority have determined how his goods shall
be administered. [1 p.] |
Jan. 20.
Lambeth. |
96. Archbishop Laud to Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia. Thanks
for expressions of favour in her letters sent when the Prince Elector
came into England. The Archbishop has done his best to serve
his Highness, and will continue so to do; the young prince discreetly observing the King his uncle in all things, which, as it gives
the King great content, so it makes the writer full of hope that it
will in the end bring safety and content both to her Majesty and
the prince. Takes himself very much bound to his Highness, that
he has written to her Majesty to express his acceptance of such poor
service as the writer has been able to do him, for so much the
writer understands by her letter from the Hague, January 1/11. To
this second letter, which is in answer to his about demanding
investiture, the Archbishop will now give answer. Truly since
the Prince is willing to comply with the King, the Archbishop
doubts not but he can and will demand investiture. For the time,
though he be but now come to age, yet he might have demanded it
somewhat before, which must needs have hastened the Emperor's
answer, and cut off the delays which her Majesty fears. But,
howsoever, right glad the Archbishop is that it will now be done,
for though there be time enough yet there is but enough, and the
Archbishop never held it fit to put off necessaries to the last,
especially in great affairs; some time left to spare is of great use
in all things, chiefly in such. Secondly, whereas her Majesty writes
that without investiture the right of her son the Prince is just, yet
'tis just too that investiture shall be demanded, since the constitutions of the empire require it. And if she look for justice from
the Emperor, will she not see that justice be done to him. But
God be thanked, the Archbishop sees she is willing to it; and for
himself he thinks this must soon bring it to some issue, which he
hopes will be honourable for her son and leave the Emperor without
excuse if he does not what is fit. The King is upon all the ways
that can hasten the Emperor's answer and cut off delays. [Copy,
in the handwriting of William Dell. 1¾ p.] |
| Jan. 20. |
97. William Scudamore, Sheriff of co. Hereford, to the Council.
The commissions concerning contributions for repair of St. Paul's
were executed by Lord Scudamore (now ambassador in France),
the writer, and others, and certified under their hands. The returns were delivered to Mr. Wilcox, deputy clerk of the peace, to
be brought up to the Chamber of London, and the collectors,
Sir John Kirle for certain hundreds and Richard Seaborne for
others, have paid in the money levied on the first commission,
and will next term bring in the amount collected under the second.
[1 p.] |
Jan. 20.
Trethurfe in Lasack near Truro. |
98. Sir William Courteney to Nicholas. The writer is appointed
by the Court of Wards and Liveries to take care of his nephew's
estate, who is his Majesty's ward, by virtue of which he conceives
he is to be freed from all rates, being he has no other land in this
parish but four nobles a year. He has not denied or disobeyed the
command he has received by the constables, yet may be the[y] will
return his name, but he will desire Nicholas to do him the office
of a friend, in regard he thinks himself free, and denied not the
command that has been brought. The raters give much discontent,
but they are matters that concern him not. [1 p.] |
Jan. 20.
Whitehall. |
Order of Commissioners for Pious Uses. The Lords with the
Bishop of London took account of one year's receipts and payments
for the repair of St. Paul's, and ordered that the sub-committee
should take a view once a month of the monthly books kept for
those disbursements, and upon examination give such allowance as
they should think fit, the auditor receiving no other vouchers;
further to allow the Clerk of the Crown a mark for every skin for
commissions issued concerning these repairs; as also to — Hudson,
23l. 6s. 8d. for pains taken in that service last year. [See Dom.
Car. I., Vol. ccxiii., fol. 40. 1 p.] |
Jan. 20.
Botrythan. |
99. Sir John Conway to Edward Viscount Conway and Killultagh.
Lord Conway's letter, wherein was expressed his disposition to serve
the writer, emboldens him to offer to wait upon Lord Conway in
those parts, being on the road towards Conway. [1 p.] |
| Jan. 20. |
100. Certificate of Sir Edward Wardour of the receipt of 29l. 2s. 8d.,
and 3l. 4s. 8d., sums levied by the sheriffs of London on goods of
William Washer and William Barber, soap-boilers, and paid into
the Exchequer on account of a fine imposed upon them in the Star
Chamber; also of the receipt of 211l. 18s. 8d. and 23l. 10s. from
William Barber, on account of a similar fine of 500l. imposed upon
him. [27 lines, on parchment.] |
| Jan. 20. |
101. Receipt of Sir William Russell for 54l. 10s., paid by Richard
Milles, mayor of Rye, in part of 5,000l. charged upon Sussex for
ship-money by writ of 4th August last. [1 p.] Annexed, |
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101. i. Similar receipt for 85l., paid by Andrew Bate on behalf
of Thomas Bate, bailiff of Lydd, for ship-money under
writ of 20th October 1634. Dated 14th April 1635.
[1 p.] |
| Jan. 20. |
102. See "Returns made by Justices of Peace." |
