Charles I - volume 293: July 1-16, 1635

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1635. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1865.

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'Charles I - volume 293: July 1-16, 1635', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1635, (London, 1865) pp. 237-280. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/chas1/1635/pp237-280 [accessed 24 March 2024]

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July 1–16, 1635

July 1.
Westminster.
1. The King to Bishop Curle of Winchester. Understands that in the leases of his bishopric, his predecessors have bound him to find timber out of his own wood for repairing the houses of the tenants, which will be the destruction of the woods of that bishopric. For prevention, his Majesty commands him to omit that covenant in all future leases, and to cause that command to be registered that his successors may take notice thereof. The Bishop may have understood that some informations have been exhibited to the King of wastes committed in the Bishop's woods since his coming to that see, his Majesty thinks good to let him know that he holds that report injurious and false, the King having ever observed him to be as careful of the benefit as he has been of the government of the church. [Copy. 1¾ p.]
July 1.
Whitehall.
2. The Council to all Mayors and other Officers His Majesty goes in progress this summer to some places where there are no ordinary stages for posts. It is thought meet that stages be laid for the time only his Majesty shall continue in his progress, for performance of which service the writers have authorized John Wytton, deputy postmaster of the Court, (receiving directions from Lord Stanhope, Master of the Posts,) to take order therein, and they command the persons addressed to appoint sufficient men to be posts who for their wages shall receive 2s. per day. [Seal of the Council attached. 1 p.]
July 1. 3. Wardens of the Mystery of Goldsmiths of London to the Council. Certificate that notwithstanding the Company's endeavours, in pursuance of orders of the Council of the 12th November [see Vol. cclxxxvii., No. 34.] and 23rd January last, for supplying Goldsmiths' Row and Cheapside with goldsmiths, there is but small reformation. Present, 1. The names of such persons of mean trades as formerly submitted and promised to let their shops. 2. The names of such goldsmiths as submitted to procure shops. Neither of them performing the same, the Company refer to the Council for further proceedings, desiring that the reformation may be general in reducing all goldsmiths to dwell together, and that Cheapside and Lombard Street being supplied, all other goldsmiths may be enforced to seat themselves within the walls of London. If any goldsmith be permitted to keep shop in Fleet Street or the Strand, the number of goldsmiths' shops in Cheapside and Lombard Street will be sooner decreased than augmented, and the abuses intended to be suppressed be daily increased. Underwritten,
3. i. Names of fifteen persons who have not let their shops according to their submission.
3. ii. Names of forty-nine goldsmiths who have not seated themselves in Cheapside or Lombard Street. [2½ pp.]
July 1. 4. Sir John Corbett to Sir John Lambe. Understands by Mr. Young, solicitor to Viscount Kilmorey, that that Lord has moved the Archbishop of Canterbury for erecting a new piece of building to the church of Adderley, co. Salop, of which the writer is patron. For the present he remains in the Fleet, during which time, nor ever, he trusts, he shall not by Sir John suffer in his rights or inheritance. When he is enlarged he will wait upon Sir John to know his commands. [¾ p.]
July 1.
Whitehall.
Lords of the Admiralty to Officers of the Navy. Acknowledge their letter of the 23rd June [see Vol. ccxci., No. 31.] touching the timely providing of certain quantities of hemp, tar, Ipswich canvas, and other provisions estimated at 38,750l. Pray them to treat for the purchase of the same, and to send certificate of their proceedings, that order may be taken for payment. [Copy. Vol. cclxiv., fol. 140 a. 2/3 p.]
[July 1.] "Orders to be observed for felling timber." No tree to be felled that has not been viewed and registered in a book by proper officers, and every tree designed to be felled to be by them sealed with the King's axe specially appointed to that end, on some spur near the root, that the mark may be evident after the falling of the tree; trees fallen afterwards found unserviceable to be sold and the officers to receive the produce. Every tree fallen and found serviceable to be registered in the book before mentioned with the dimensions thereof, and such book to be presented from time to time to the Lord Treasurer and Chancellor of the Exchequer. [Copy. Ibid. 1 p.]
July 1. 5. Dr. Thomas Rives to [Lords of the Admiralty]. Has considered the information stated to be annexed, and if there be no more in the case than that those five men commanded the Dunkirkers ashore and afterwards brought in the prize which they had taken, the matter is no ways so foul as the information makes it to be. The prize taken by the Dunkirkers appears to be French. If there were no war between Dunkirk and France he conceives they did that which was rather commendable than otherwise, for then it was no lawful prize but plain piracy on the Dunkirkers part, and in case there were war, yet being both friends to us, and the prize being brought unto his Majesty's road, and under the command of his castle, and consequently in amicum solum, whether they who were taken ought to be rescued from the takers or no is a question unresolved in the Admiralty Court. The fault was that the five men without authority did what they did, which as it cannot be justified, so they and others by their example ought not to be overmuch intimidated for looking into ships which come into that road, for fear of dis-service to be done to his Majesty upon occasions, as they may happen, nor is there any such scruple made in arresting ships of his Majesty's subjects in other parts. He is of opinion that, as Mr. Percival's care is to be commended, so the poor men ought to be delivered, with charge only that thereafter they make no such attempt without authority. [1¾ p.]
July 1. 6. Sir William Russell to Nicholas. Received verbal commandment from Sec. Coke that the fifteen ships already abroad be supplied with two months' victuals more, and the ten ships for a month more than the former warrant. Desires that the Officers of the Navy may receive warrant from the Lords of the Admiralty, and withal prays the Lords to direct to what place he shall send the victuals for the fifteen ships, for provisions would be sent away as they are made ready, especially beer, and there must be a certain rendezvous where the ships may be found to take it in. Prays also for the letter for materials for next year's preparations that must of necessity be partly contracted for and put in hand, especially hemp for cordage, canvas for sails, and pipe staves which must be sent for out of Ireland. [1 p.]
July 1. [?] 7. The Marquis de Pougny, Ambassador of France, to the Lords of the Admiralty. Complains that Mr. Choune and George Elfick refuse to deliver up to a person appointed by the Ambassador the goods of the French ship driven ashore at Cuckmere Haven. Pray order for such delivery that the goods may be restored to the owners. French. ½ p.]
July 1. 8–11. See "Returns of Justices of Peace."
[July 2.] 12. Sec. Coke to Henry de Vic and Mons. Augier, the King's agents at Paris. The French Ambassador Senneterre, instead of the negotiation of a treaty for a confederation between England, France, and the States General, for restitution of the Elector Palatine, has proceeded to raise "impertinent questions" concerning the King's dominion at sea. His Majesty was not willing to enter into any such debate, and thereupon referred him to Sec. Coke. After much discussion, he delivered to Coke what he called "a Temperament," in reply to which it was told him that the King would give satisfaction to his good brother if there should be cause. Senneterre, upon a demised [the King altered this word into "supposed"] report that a Hollander meeting our fleet at sea, was asked by the admiral where the French and Holland ships were, and whether they would strike sail, pressed his Majesty to a declaration in this point. The King again referred him to Sec. Coke. Upon conference, Coke assured him that the Admiral's instructions were no other than had been given in effect in all former times, and for near forty years within his own knowledge, namely, that his Majesty's Admiral should defend and maintain the ancient known rights of his crown; that he should guard the seas, secure freedom of commerce, suppress pirates, and oppose hostile acts in prejudice thereof; that he should aid and assist his Majesty's friends and allies, attempt no innovation, nor do anything contrary to his treaties with his allies; and so, presuming that none will impeach his Majesty's ancient and undoubted rights, it cannot be conceived but the effects of this fleet, tending to preserve peace, will be honourable and just. Upon this fair answer (which his Majesty doubts not will satisfy his good brother the French King) Mons. Senneterre could not rest, but would needs put into Sec. Coke's hands a Règlement of his own, wherein he takes upon him to prescribe to both Kings when and where the one shall vail his bonnet to the other. His Majesty passed this over for the time, yet considering no ambassador has heretofore thus far trenched upon the rights of the King, and that Senneterre has not shown any particular composition [sic] for such an act, his Majesty has reason to expect that his proceeding will be disavowed, which, instead of increasing that amity and correspondence which the ambassador had in charge, sows seeds of new debates, contrary (it is believed) to the intentions of both Kings. The persons addressed are to frame their relation to the French King to this effect, and must intimate that they were required provisionally to give information of this passage, which his Majesty's ambassador who is now dispatched [Lord Scudamore] would declare more at large. They must not enter into any debate with the French King or his ministers about his Majesty's right to the dominion of the sea, nor about the extent thereof, nor take upon them any further knowledge of the designs of his Majesty's fleet than has been expressed in their instructions, but may in all things remit themselves to the ambassador whom they daily expect. They are afterwards to complain to the chief Ministers of State against the wrong lately done by two shallops of Calais, which took the post-bark with the budget of letters, and rifled the passengers. They are to press this as an act of extreme wrong, not only as contrary to the treaty, but as plain piracy, wherein they are to require restitution of the letters and goods, with reparation of damages and severe punishment of the delinquents. [The King, as appears from a copy of this draft, which occurs in the French Correspondence, altered the above passage from the mention of the Règlement produced by Mons. Senneterre to the end of that sentence as follows, the words in Italic being in the King's own hand:—"a Règlement wherein he would show when and where the one fleet should vail bonnet to the other; and though his Majesty thereupon, for respect to his good brother, would not give a direct answer, yet considering no ambassador hath heretofore trenched thus far upon the rights of our King, his Majesty hath reason to expect that his good brother the French King will no further insist upon this, but leave it according to ancient course." Copy draft. 1¾ p.]
July 2/12.
The Hague.
13. Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia to Archbishop Laud. Now that she has recovered of her ague, she must not forget to give him thanks for letters by Robin Honywood and the bearer, to whom she entreats the continuance of the Archbishop's favour. Within a few days she must make a dispatch to the King concerning the business of her sons in Germany. She knows the King will acquaint the Archbishop and the other Lords of the Committee with it. She entreats him to further all the good resolutions the King will make with his good counsel. By what she sends the Archbishop will see how little the Emperor from the beginning regarded the peaceable ways of treating that the King her father or her brother had taken; therefore, knowing how much the Archbishop loves the King's honour, and being confident of the Archbishop's affection to her and hers, she doubts not but that he will further what she will beseech her brother to do. What she sends is the articles of peace betwixt the Emperor and the Elector of Saxe, which they would have general, and utterly exclude her children from the Electorate and their countries, which by the laws of Germany they cannot do. She hopes this will open her brother's eyes to see how he is abused by that side. She writes this freely to the Archbishop, because she thinks it concerns the King's honour to be revenged of their falsehood and neglect. The King's honour is as dear to her as her children's; she makes no difference in it. [Two seals with arms. 2 pp.]
July 2/12.
The Hague.
14. The same to Sir Thomas Roe. She has now got up her strength again of her ague, which lasted eight weeks, in which time she had nine-and-twenty fits. She would all were of Sir Thomas' mind concerning her affairs, but she fears, as he does, that the old maxims will not be left. If ever anything will move them it must be the dispatch which will be ready to send with this passage. It is the articles of peace concluded betwixt the Emperor and Elector of Saxe, which is as base a one as can be. She has it from Berlin, it being sent to that Prince Elector. In it her children are quite excluded from their country and electorate, which the Emperor confesses he had promised long ago to the father of this Duke of Bavaria and his descent, but if her children will humble themselves to the Emperor he will give them some means to live of his grace. She desires Sir Thomas to judge whether this will not open their eyes of Sir Thomas's side [of] the seas, if they be not shot out with pistols. Concerning the promise of the Electorate, the Queen has the original of those letters which were intercepted, and the copies sent to the King her father, but not believed, by the instigation of the Earl of Bristol, who ever assured the contrary, though his own cousin, Simon Digby, honestly wrote from Vienna at that time that what the Queen said was true. The other articles are so base as can be, and at the end they confess that it is not in their power to do all this, it being the right of a general Imperial Diet, yet notwithstanding this shall stand without prejudice to the diet. She now writes to Archbishop Laud, and has done it freely, desiring his assistance. She forgot to tell Sir Thomas of an article, that they will suffer no religion in the empire but the Lutheran and Catholic, but for the Emperor's poor subjects of their religion, or the Lutherans, the Elector of Saxe's tender conscience has left them to the Emperor's mercy, so as they must either leave their religion or their country. She thinks Dinley wrote to Sir Thomas concerning Rupa's sister that the writer recommended to her sister the Electress of Brandenburgh. The Electress has promised to take her as soon as a gentlewoman she has shall be married. For the Poland business, Sir Thomas's successor does more than he need, for instead of being an equal mediator, he threatens the Swedes that if they will not agree her brother will assist the King of Poland with his fleet against them, which she knows is more than his commission; he wrote them such a letter, the copy whereof the Swedes sent hither, and it is sent to the King. For the other business he published that it is all agreed upon, as if it could be so without her being acquainted with it, and she has had nothing said to her in it since the gentleman Sir Thomas saw was there, and he does it in such a manner that he makes people think that her brother rather seeks it than that he is sought to. She has made Dinley write to the King concerning what she hears, but as not believing it, yea, giving him warning of it, for if anybody should conclude a match for her children without her knowledge, let them be never so reasonable, she would break the match. There is yet another thing which as yet she will not write to him concerning, she has not yet found it out as she would, but by the next passage she will be able to tell Sir Thomas either of a great knavery, or else of as strange a proceeding of one that is esteemed; she knows he will be with child till he hears it, and till then she leaves him; by the first he shall have it.—P.S. Prays Sir Thomas to speak with the Archbishop concerning their German affairs. She will not tell him what he shall say, because he knows as well as she, but let the Archbishop know she has a great confidence in him. [Two seals with similar arms to the preceding. 3¾ pp.]
July 2.
The James.
15. [Vice Admiral Sir William Monson] to Mr. Hailes, master's mate of the James. Instructions to take the small boat that attends the fleet and repair to Ushant, Conquet, Brest, or other place on the coast, to get intelligence what Turkish pirates are or have been on that coast. If chased by the pirates, and he see no way to escape, to run his boat ashore, and if his boat perish, to "carve" assistance of the King's officers, there to furnish him with a small vessel to bring him over to Falmouth. To make a speedy return that the Earl of Lindsey may take the likeliest course to cut off the pirates who are the scourges of all Christian navigations. [¾ p.]
July 2. 16. Breviat of account of Sir William Russell in respect of moneys received and paid for the fleets of fifteen ships and ten ships set out to sea at this time. Sir William had been directed to receive out of the ship money, and to expend on the fleet of fifteen ships 82,439l. 3s. 4d.; out of this sum he had not yet received 4,608l. 2s. 3d. (of which sum 2,955l. had been retained by the city of London on account of the remainder of stores which would be found in the ships on their return from sea, and 1,653l. 2s. 3d. remained outstanding in other places on account of ship money); so that Sir William had received in the whole 77,831l. 1s. 1d. Of that sum he had paid to Sir Sampson Darrell, the victualler, to the Lieutenant of the Ordnance, and to other persons in respect of the fleet of fifteen ships, 63,653l. 13s. 4d. leaving in his hands, on this account, 14,177l. 7s. 9d. But he had disbursed on account of this fleet of fifteen ships other sums by warrant from the Lords of the Admiralty amounting to 16,180l. 5s. 6d.; so that on his actual receipts and payments Sir William was in surplus 2,002l. 17s. 9d. There remained payments to be made on account of the two fleets of 15 ships and 10 ships amounting to 44,055l. 17s. 9d., on account of which there were expectant, from Lady Darrell the surplus of her husband's account, amounting to 3,425l. 5s. 6d., and the outstanding ship money 1,653l. 2s. 3d. together 5,078l. 7s. 9d. [2 pp.]
July 3.
Durham.
17. Capt. Phineas Pett to the Council. Having proceeded in preparing materials for building the great ship, and considered the best way for conveyance thereof to the water side, he addressed himself to the Bishop of Durham and others the justices of peace of the county, to whom he delivered the letters of the Council, which were received with expression of readiness to have the service expedited, wherein the extraordinary care of the Bishop gave such expedition as order was taken though the whole bishopric, to dispatch the service required. The other letters directed to the justices of Northumberland were "respectively excepted;" but had not yet brought forth any certain resolution, only they have taken order to make a begining. If the Lords will quicken them with a second letter, the service will be more effectually performed. Both counties desire helps from neighbouring places, the convenience whereof he submits to the Lords. [Seal with arms. 1 p.]
July 3.
Durham.
18. The same to Sir Henry Vane. Beseeches Sir Henry to certify his Majesty that the writer will there prepare such provision for the new ship as England cannot parallel, though somewhat remote and difficult. Also to acquaint his Majesty with the great care of the Bishop of Durham to further this service, and by his example the readiness of the county. The justices of Northumberland have not yet expressed their answerable forwardness, and the writer doubts their neglect if not wakened with a second letter from the Council, which he beseeches Sir Henry to further. Has received no warrant from the Commissioners of the Treasury concerning Brancepeth, but goes on, grounding his warrant on Sir Henry's letter, neither can he hear [of] any order from Sir William Russell for supply of moneys there, whereby Pett will subject himself to much disgrace, and the service must suffer. Has twice written to Sir William and the writer's fellow officers, but has received no answer nor order for supply but what he takes up on his own credit. [Seal with arms. 1 p.]
July 3/13.
[With] the Army.
19. Charles Louis Elector Palatine to Archbishop Laud. The Archbishop's letter he received in the army returning from Louvain towards the Ma[e]se. The passage of letters is so unsafe that he dares set nothing freely in paper. Finding that nobleness and zeal in the Archbishop's words which all the world speaks of him, he will, on his future encouragement, address those matters to his counsel and protection, under the King, which nearly concern the writer. [1 p.]
July 3.
Whitehall.
The Lords of the Admiralty to [Montjoy Earl of Newport]. To permit Arnold Brames, Peter Nephew, and Charles Vayley, owners of the John of Dover, to supply that ship with cast-iron ordnance. [Copy. Vol. cclxiv., fol. 141 a. ½ p.]
July 3. 20. Petition of Arnold Brames, Henry Booth, and others, merchants of Dover, as also of the mariners of the same place, to the Lords of the Admiralty. In these times of war between Holland, France, and Flanders, there are ships of war set forth from those places in such multitudes that scarce any vessel which petitioners send to those parts but are by some of those nations met withal in the Narrow Seas, and many times carried away, and when best used they are pillaged. And now petitioners are most of all hindered by the French, who lie with their small shallops in sight of the harbour of Dover, and in the way of passage to Flanders. Pray for a warrant that when any of his Majesty's ships lie in the Downs, they may waft vessels from Dover bound to any parts near unto them within the Narrow Seas. Indorsed,
20. i. Note by Nicholas that Sec. Windebank is to acquaint his Majesty, and know his pleasure. 4th July 1635. [¾ p.]
[July 3.] 21. Copy of the above petition without the indorsement. [1 p.]
July 3. 22. Notes, by Sec. Coke, of proceedings of the Lords of the Treasury:—The Earl of Somerset's case of 60,000l. to be prosecuted in the Exchequer Chamber. Greenwax; Lord Berkshire has near 19,008l. besides 1,000l. to the Earl of Leicester. Ordered the moneys to be called for. Barons resolve; that debts due by judgment are no part of the greenwax, because they cannot be mitigated nor [sic] the Lord Treasurer and Chancellor, "though they may install it." Letters to the Lord Deputy to signify the King's pleasure to take off 4s. upon the coals, but to refer it to him to husband it for the King; that the sum grow not too great, and he desired to send note speedily what proportion it may come unto. [¾ p.]
July 3. 23. See "Returns of Justices of Peace."
July 3. 24. Account of receipts and payments of the Exchequer from 26th June last to this date. The remain on the 26th June was 4,757l. 19s.; subsequent receipts amounted to 14,520l. 9s. 3d; payments to 18,190l. 1s. 11d.; so that there remained 1,088l. 6s. 4d. Among the payments there are,—to the Earl of Ancram, keeper of the privy purse, on account of 1,500l. for the quarter at Midsummer last, 500l.; to Sir Thomas Roe, in part of 2,500l., remainder of 3,500l., for two pendant diamonds by him sold to his Majesty, 500l.; to the Paymaster of the Works, in full of 300l. imprest, for setting in hand the work of painting and gilding the banqueting house at Whitehall, 100l.; to Dr. William Harvey, one of his Majesty's physicians in ordinary, his annuity for a year at our Lady-day 1631, 300l.; to Hubert le Sueur, sculptor, for his charges in passing a privy seal and in receiving 280l. by virtue thereof for a brass statue, &c., 17l. 11s. Among the fees and annuities paid are,—160l. to Abraham Vanderdort; 25l. to Patrick Young; 250l. to Sir Robert Ayton; 55l. to Henry Alexander alias Zinzan; 18l. 5s. to Archibald Armstrong. [3 pp.]
July 3. 25. Another account substantially the same as the preceding, but differing from it in some minor particulars. [2 pp.]
[July 4.]
about.
26. The King to Attorney General Bankes. There is a statute of the 21st year of King James for suppression of cursing and swearing, with a penalty of 12d. for every offence, to be distributed among the poor. His Majesty, considering the great increase of that sin, has thought proper to erect an office and appoint an officer to see that the same statute be put in execution. The Attorney General is to prepare a grant to Robert Lesley, one of the gentlemen of his privy chamber of this office, for the term of seven years, with power to authorize deputies in every parish, who shall receive the penalty from the party offending, and shall half yearly pay the same to the bishop of the diocese, who is to dispose of the same for the good of the poor of the offender's parish. And for his pains therein Robert Lesley is to deduct twelve pence in the pound. The Attorney General is also to prepare a proclamation to the effect aforesaid. [Draft with alterations of Sec. Windebank. ½ p.]
July 4. Grant of denization to Matthew Van Dick, gent., born at Antwerp. [Docquet.]
July 4. The like for John Owen, "drugster," also born in foreign parts. [Docquet.]
July 4. Release to William Randall and William Sprigg, gent., and others, of a writ of deceit for levying a fine of lands in Bromby, Bromby Wood, and Burringham, co. Lincoln, which were held of his Majesty as of the manor of Kirton in that county in ancient demesne, and in that respect it is in his Majesty's power to reverse the said fine, which is by this release made good. [Docquet.]
July 4. Warrant to pay the Governor and Committees of the East India Company for 40 lasts of double refined saltpetre, after the rate of 4l. the hundred, or for so much as shall be delivered to his Majesty's powder maker. [Docquet.]
[July 4.]
Saturday Night.
27. Frances Duchess of Richmond and Lennox to the King. His Majesty may believe that either some councillor or courtier hastens up the merchants, especially Deputy Lowe, that his Majesty does not send this message himself to them, therefore she beseeches him to give order that if any petition be brought either to Sec. Windebank or the Master of the Requests from them, that they stay the messenger, and send the Lord Chamberlain to them and Sec. Windebank, and if his Majesty thinks fit Lord Savage, with a command that they obey his letter, and she assures his Majesty they shall hold it no longer, at her request, than Midsummer next. Prays him to be peremptory and say plainly they shall not give up till then. Hopes he will give order this Sunday, that she may receive her half year's rent this week (it was due at Midsummer day) for the farthings. Prays him to speak to her "son of Canterbury," that some time between this and Saturday next he come to her. Is ashamed to be this troublesome to him, but that Sec. Windebank said he had no order to go to the merchants. [Seal with coronet and crest [?] 1 p.]
July 4.
Whitehall.
Lords of the Admiralty to Robert Earl of Lindsey. Sir Philip Carteret, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey, is to repair thither with his wife and children, and for his safer passage has desired to be transported in some of his Majesty's ships, The Earl is to give order to some of the ships under his command to transport Sir Philip and his family. [Copy. Vol. cclxiv., fol. 142. ½ p.]
July 4. The same to Henry Clarke, Recorder of Rochester, and Richard Lea, Justices of Peace for Kent. Recite the petition of Martin Coates, gunner of Bay Sconce [see Vol. ccxci. No. 76]. They are to take order that Coates be exempt from all charges and offices in the parish of Frindsbury, he having no estate in lands therein save only a cote which he hires for his better accommodation in his attendance in his place. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 142. ½ p.]
July 4.
Whitehall.
The same to the Officers of the Navy. By letters of the 12th June they gave the officers order to furnish the Ann Royal, the Triumph, the Victory, the Repulse, the Charles, the Unicorn, the Garland, the Entrance, the Convertive, and the Assurance for two months' service. His Majesty's pleasure is that those ships shall be furnished with one month's victuals more; as also that the fifteen ships abroad, under the Earl of Lindsey, shall be supplied with two months' victuals more, to be put aboard at their coming into the Downs. The Officers are to act accordingly. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 147a. 2/3 p.]
July 4.
Whitehall.
The same to Sir George St. George. Send copy of exceptions taken against his account for the Vice-Admiralty of Connaught, dated 3rd September last, and require him to pay into the Court of Admiralty in England the moiety of the sums excepted unto, which amounts to 344l. 12s. 8d. unless he can produce warrant for delivery of the same to the persons named in his account. Sir George is liable to answer all such perquisites as come to hand in his ViceAdmiralty, which shall not by a judicial sentence in the Admiralty Court be adjudged away from his Majesty. [Copy. Vol. cclxiv. fol. 143. ½ p.]
July 4.
Whitehall.
Lords of the Admiralty to Attorney General Bankes. Send two papers received from Nicholas Snooke of St. Thomas Apostle, concerning a quantity of gunpowder bought by merchants from persons belonging to his Majesty's ships, and likewise touching Spanish tobacco imported contrary to proclamation. Pray him to send for the parties, and take such order therein as he conceives best. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 143. ½ p.]
July 4. Order of the Lords of the Admiralty on petition of Nicholas Snooke. Petitioner showed that Captain Scras made stay of a Dutch ship in the Isle of Wight, in which was found a letter full of scandalous matter and divers prohibited goods. His Majesty released the ship to gratify the then States Ambassador, paying such charges to Capt. Scras as Sir Henry Marten should think fit, who made certificate of 392l. 15s. Sir Fulke Greville, then Captain of Cowes Castle, cleared the ship without payment of these charges, notwithstanding strict orders to the contrary, neither are the same paid. Scras has assigned over the 392l. 15s. to petitioner. There are ordnance in several parts of Sussex, and other goods which have come out of Dutch ships, as certain guns at Brighthelmstone. Petitioner prays the Lords' order that petitioner might sell the said guns and goods by appraisement, paying salvage and rendering account. The Lords ordered his Majesty's proctor to certify what he conceives fit to be done. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 143a. ¾ p.]
July 4.
Whitehall.
Order of the same Lords on petition of Elizabeth Austen, wife of John Austen, deceased. Petitioner's husband became surety for John Coleman, of the Isle of Wight, for 300l., and paid 100l. thereof, and was prosecuted for the rest. Coleman having 700l. in money, and 60l. per annum in lands, about Easter twelve months covertly got out of the Isle, taking with him the money, and conveying his lands to his wife's brother, to defeat his creditors, and obscured himself, till of late he got entertainment as a seaman in the Leopard, under Capt. Lewis Kirke. Petitioner prayed leave to take the benefit of the laws against Coleman for recovery of the 100l., also a discharge from the said engagements, and an order to Capt. Kirke that Coleman might be no longer sheltered. The Lords referred the petitioner to the Earl of Lindsey. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 143a. ½ p.]
July 4.
Whitehall.
Similar order on the petition of Thomas Hopper and John Pratt. Robert Carrell, merchant, drew petitioners to serve the French in two fisherboats to the North Seas, petitioners not knowing them to be French boats till their clothes were aboard to the value of 36l. Petitioners prayed order for Carrell to give satisfaction for their apparel, and other losses. The Lords ordered the Bailiffs of Yarmouth that petitioners' clothes, or satisfaction, should be given by Carrell. [Copy. Vol. cclxiv., fol. 144. ⅓ p.]
July 4.
Whitehall.
Order of the Lords of the Admiralty on petition of his Majesty's Ship-caulkers, praying leave to carry small chips, or to receive a penny a day for them, and to have their ancient place of mending and trimming ships at sea, and their former privileges, &c. The Lords referred the petition to the Officers of the Navy to certify. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 144. ⅓ p.]
July 4.
Whitehall.
Lords of the Admiralty to [Sir Henry Marten]. Have appointed Francis Gape Registrar of the Vice-Admiralty of Dorset. He is to cause the usual patent to be issued. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 144. ⅓ p.]
July 4. The same to Lord Keeper Coventry. Certify that Dennis Fleming, clerk of the Navy, has served from 1st January 1634–5 to 30th June last, and is entitled to 3s. 4d. per diem for his travelling charges, amounting to 30l. 3s. 4d., as also for 3l. for boat hire. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 144a. ½ p.]
July 4. 28. Petition of Hugh Grove to the Lords of the Admiralty. Having been appointed saltpetreman in the counties formerly granted to Mr. Barrett, he finds that the work is to be removed near forty miles, and that the furnaces and vessels used by Barrett must be renewed and sent 100 miles to the work, which will ask time and charge, it now being upon harvest time. Prays till October next to settle his works, and also that he may have duplicates of the King's commission, and deputations from the Lords. [¾ p.]
July 4. 29. Thomas Wyan to the same. In accordance with their orders to Sir Henry Marten, to make a list of persons accountable for profits of the Admiralty since the death of the late Lord Admiral, the writer has made search of what ships and goods have been adjudged to his Majesty since that time, and to what persons commissions were issued for disposal thereof. He thereupon certifies that the following have not accounted:—1. Sir Henry Mainwaring, Sir Paul Harris, Capt. John Heydon, George Fielding, and Richard Dike for goods sold out of the Tower of London, and divers ships. 2. Sir John Wentworth, Sir Charles Le Gros, Sir William Woodhouse, Dr. Clement Corbett, and Dr. Bing, for goods seized in Norfolk in the Isabel and Charity of Hamburgh. 3. Sir Peter Riddell, Henry Muddison, William Hall, and Alexander Davison, of Newcastle, for the Fortune, of Newport, seized at Newcastle. 4. William Willett, Thomas Wright, William Cann, Richard Vickris, and Robert Kitchen, merchants of Bristol, for the St. John and her lading taken by the Convertive. 5. William Herbert, deputy to the Earl of Pembroke, Vice-Admiral of South Wales, for the St. Michael and her lading seized in the road of Mumbles in Wales. 6. Capt. Crispe and Humphrey Slaney, of London, merchants, for goods bought by them out of a derelict ship seized near Little Holland in Essex. 7. Philip Burlamachi for the St. John and her lading in Ireland. 8. Mr. Burlamachi also received moneys upon the Frederickstadt and her lading at Scilly. 8. [9]. Sir James Bagg, collector for Devon and Cornwall, Anthony Percival, collector for Dover, Richard Cockram, collector for Rye, Richard Streater, collector for part of Sussex, William Drake, collector for Bristol, and Matthew Brooke, collector for Hants, have not given any account for tenths of prizes. The rest of the ships and goods adjudged to his Majesty since the death of the Lord Admiral will come under the accounts of Vice-Admirals, for bringing in which subpœnas are going out of the Court of Admiralty. [4 pp.]
July 4.
Westminster.
Nicholas to Thomas Choune. Has acquainted the Lords with Choune's letter concerning the order given by the French ambassador to Captain Scras. At the same time they received a memorial from the French ambassador desiring the goods saved out of the French bark to be delivered to such person as the ambassador had appointed to receive the same for the use of the owners. The answer of the Lords was that there being order already given by the Council to deliver the goods to the proprietors they could give no order for altering the same. Nicholas's opinion is that Choune should apply himself to the performance of the Council's order, taking witnesses hands to the parties' receipt to whom he delivers the same, according to their lordships' order and the bills of lading; he conceives the same will be a sufficient discharge. [Copy. Nicholas's Letter Book, Domestic, James I., Vol. ccxix., p. 112.]
July 4.
Bay Sconce, Upnor, in Frindsbury.
30. Martin Coates the younger to Nicholas. It is reported by the parties of whom he complained that they have had the day of him, and there is much rejoicing in the parish about it, so that as it seems he will be subject to whatsoever charge the parish, with the consent of the justices, shall put him unto. Entreats Nicholas for that the assizes for Kent are the next Wednesday, that Nicholas would send that letter down by the hearer to the justices to stop their passages. [¾ p.]
July 4/14.
The Hague.
31. John Dinley to Sir Thomas Roe. Sent his last to Sir John Finet his good neighbour. The Electress of Brandenburg has promised the Queen of Bohemia to receive Mistress Jane Rupa into her service. The Queen is well recovered after her long eclipse. The discharge of her physicians and writing to Roe with her own hand are two good arguments of her health. The peace between Saxony and Austria has determined of all the princes and estates in the empire. The sum of the articles is that none shall be ranged in this treaty who are not of the Popish religion or of the Confession of Augsburg. That the ecclesiastical goods shall remain with the possessors for forty years. That the Swedes must give up their holds in the Empire, and retire without recompence, unless the Protestants have a mind to content them. That the Palatine Electoral dignity shall remain in the house of Bavaria, to the descendants of Duke William for ever. That both the Palatinates shall be confiscated to the Emperor, to repay the charges of the wars, whereof the Palatine was the cause. That some allowance shall be granted to his children if upon submission they keep in obedience. That whoever does not accept this treaty shall be rebels and enemies of the Empire, and for execution thereof an army of 40,000 men shall be levied upon the Empire, whereof the King of Hungary shall command three parts and the Saxon one. If they subdue Germany, or catch it in the net of this treaty, they will assemble an Imperial Diet and make this monster be called a Fundamental Law. What resolutions will be taken by the Princes both within and without the Empire is yet uncertain. The most safety seems to be where is most danger, for in abiding in war they preserve their honours and rights though they lose their country. The Chancellor of Sweden is in the Saxon Circles making comments upon this treaty. If he persuade them, it will be a salutiferous work, but if a breach should fall between Poland and Sweden, he would go near to be drawn from the stage of Germany. The Rhenish Circles must stand or fall with the fortune of France, which may prove a reed of Egypt. The Prince of Orange has retired towards Maestricht, and left a wasted land to the enemy. What can save this poor and oppressed party ? What but Deus è machinâ, or the Northern League Roe speaks of ? Of all this Sir William Boswell has advertised his Majesty, and sent him from the Queen some memorials thereupon. The Prince Elector is in the army—a fit place to receive the news of such oppressions. At Christmas he will be of age—too soon for his land. Prays God to bless the King his uncle, that he may never need alimentation from the Emperor. Now the world sees to the bottom, for which God will in his time provide an antidote. All this is for Roe's entertainment in the walks of Bulwick. [4 pp.]
July 4. 32. Notes, by Sec. Windebank, of business transacted by the Lords of the Treasury:—To speak with his Majesty concerning Mrs. Wyndham's suit of arrears of fines and amerciaments; also, concerning the Earl of Annandale's pension. Note of Sir Basil Brooke's offer [for a lease of Dean Forest]. He is to pay down half his fine, namely 6,000l. The 5,000l. of mines in his hands to be reserved for his Majesty. He is also to agree with the Lord Chamberlain. [¾ p.]
July 4. 33. Further note, in the handwriting of Sir Basil Brooke, of his proposal mentioned in the preceding article. [½ p.]
July 4.
Whitehall.
Commissioners for Saltpetre to Attorney General Bankes. To prepare a bill for his Majesty's signature containing a contract between these Commissioners and John Evelyn for making gunpowder for his Majesty. Such contract to be similar to the contract of the 17th June 1632, except that in one covenant it is to be stipulated that no other person is to be permitted to make gunpowder in England or Ireland during the contract, and in two other covenants certain formal alterations. The contract to continue until 31st October 1636. [Copy. See Vol. ccxcii., p. 229. 1 ¾ p.]
July 4.
Whitehall.
Commissioners for Saltpetre to Stephen Barrett. Barrett having failed to bring in his proportion of saltpetre, the Commissioners have appointed Hugh Grove. Barrett is therefore to strike his works and return his deputation. [Copy. Vol. ccxcii., p. 230. 1 p.]
July 5.
Westminster.
34. The King to Henry Earl of Holland, Chief Justice in Eyre of the Forests on this side Trent. Sends him a schedule of deer to be bestowed upon the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Recorder of London. He is to cause the same to be killed and delivered accordingly. [Copy. 1½ p.]
July 5.
Greenwich.
35. The same to the same. Similar letter for killing and delivery of certain deer to various enumerated ambassadors and agents of divers princes residing with his Majesty. [Copy. 2½ pp.]
July 5.
Greenwich.
36. Order of the King in Council. The King had resolved to assume into his own hands the disposing of the offices of the Six Clerks of the Court of Chancery, and to annex the nomination of them in perpetuity to the Crown. In pursuance thereof by letters patent he had granted to Robert Cæsar, one of the sons of Sir Julius Cæsar, Master of the Rolls, for life, the office of one of the Six Clerks which shall first happen to fall; and also by six other letters patent had confirmed to George Evelyn, James Morley, Edward Robinson, Lawrence Maidwell, William Carne, and Rich Colchester, the now Six Clerks, their said offices for their lives. The King had also by other letters patent erected the said Six Clerks into a body politic, and settled their fees, with the allowance of the Lord Keeper, Master of the Rolls, and Attorney General, and, now with the advice of the Council, declared that the said several letters patent shall thereafter be firmly observed by all whom it may concern, and if the same be found defective that they shall be supplied by lawful grant, and that the then Master of the Rolls and Sir Dudley Digges, to whom his Majesty had granted the said mastership in reversion, should do such acts as were necessary for the accomplishment of his Majesty's intention expressed in the said letters patent. [Copy. 4 pp.]
July 5. 37. Proposition made by the Corporation of Soapboilers to the King. As his Majesty has expressed his intention that they should, for transferring the trade, have a full recompense for moneys laid out, with interest and damage, they pray that their account may be viewed by his Majesty, and when agreed upon, that they may continue the business, paying his Majesty 8l. the ton, and repaying themselves the sum agreed on by 4l. the ton. They thus gave an answer to his Majesty's proposition on Sunday last that they should be preferred giving the same, and his Majesty will thus preserve the dignity of his letters patent, decrees, and proclamations, save the ready money which they must receive to pay away, settle a new revenue to the Crown on the hard soap, and save 9,000l., which from the Soapboilers has been a long time due, but not received, because no estate of theirs could be found. [Unsigned. 1 p.]
July 5.
The Merhonour, in the middle of the Channel between the Lizard and Heissant [Ushant].
38. Robert Earl of Lindsey to the Lords of the Admiralty. By his last, the Lords understood that he had passed as far as Scilly; now intending to ply up and down in open sea, he gives account of his proceedings since the fleet met in the Downs. He continued there a week, but the fault was not his. Divers captains were not come aboard, and some ships not fully victualled, yet hearing of fleets abroad he made use of that interim for discovery. Having removed from thence, there happened such calms and contrary winds that it was five days before they could gain the length of the Isle of Wight. When they came to that coast the wind came west-southwest, and blowing with great force they were constrained to take St. Helen's Road, not without hurt done to the topmasts of four of the the ships. He went not ashore, nor made longer stay than necessity required, being kept there with fog, rain, and cross winds, as also to repair those ships, and ballast his own. As soon as this was done he hastened forward to meet the French fleet, which he understood continued at Portland; but it appeared that the same wind which brought him thither carried them out to sea, and he doubts not but their intelligence was so good, that if the wind had favoured them sooner, they had sooner quitted the place. It seems they joined with the Dutch, and afterwards stood off to Ushin [Ushant]; he is sure they cannot keep the Narrow Seas but sooner or later they must come thwart his way. As he went on there came a boat two leagues out to sea, from the Mayor of Dartmouth, to let the writer know that the French fleet had been at Torbay, and joining with the Dutch were bound for Plymouth and so to the Lizard. To understand this a little more punctually, he anchored in Plymouth Sound, where he made but a dinner ashore, to learn what he could more particularly thereof. The weather proved then exceeding stormy, and he was driven to have a consultation about the leaking of his ship. He took the first fair weather and stood on to the west as far as Scilly, where, saluting the castle, a boat made to him, and having spoken with the men he tacked about and stood back further to seaward. After some three days he put into Plymouth Sound to rummage his ship and search more narrowly for the leak which he hopes they have found and stopped. While he was there he caused the ships to take in water and ballast with other necessaries, that they should have no pretence afterward to put into harbour, and so he stood out to the middle of the Channel, where he had plied ever since. Meeting but few ships he is now steering over to the coast of France. When he comes back he will continue beating to and fro in the Channel until it be time to re-victual. Thus has he composed a short abstract of his actions, to prevent sinister information and truly to possess them how free he is from the least neglect of duty, having since the 6th June anchored but thrice in road (never in harbour), and that upon urgent occasion without longer abode than necessity required. For the place where they are to take in victuals, whether at Portsmouth or in the Downs, he leaves [it] to their choice. [2¾ pp.]
July 5.
The Merhonour, between Heissant [Ushant] and the Lizard.
39. Robert Earl of Lindsey to Sec. Coke. The Earl has received a sharp letter from Coke. He neither deserves Coke's scorn for a fall in a coach, nor his blame for negligence in staying in the Downs or any other place. He went from the Downs so soon as it was possible, and if he had not stayed at St. Helen's Point he must have gone back to the Downs. If the French went away before the Earl could come to them, was it his fault that they did seek to avoid him? They have left the English seas; they could do no more if the Earl had fought with them. Coke is not to let this displease him that they have not met and fought, for if they come again the Earl shall meet and fight, time enough. If Coke has heard reports of merchants' ships whom the French have made to strike sail he would do well to seek for the men, that he may be sure of the truth, for the Earl has not met with any that were so used. The French fleet, the Earl hears, is at Heissant [Ushant]; he plys it to and again before the Lizard, Falmouth, and Plymouth, which is the way for them to come again, and where he must meet with those ships Coke would have him protect. He purposes sometimes to stand over to the coast of France, and so to spend the time till they repair to the place where they must take in their victuals. When he commits a fault, punish him; till then, he does not deserve chiding. [Seal with crest within the garter. 1¾ p.]
July 5. 40. Sir Basil Brooke to Sec. Windebank. Acknowledges his obligations to Windebank. Great necessity enforces him to move that Windebank will peruse the enclosed paper, of which copies shall be delivered to Archbishop Laud and Lord Cottington, and that Windebank will move them both to offer the same to his Majesty as much to the writer's advantage as the equity of his case requires. Thereby it will appear how careful they have been of his Majesty's service, and how much equity there is for a very great defalcation out of the present fine of 12,000l. As Windebank has hitherto moved the Archbishop and Lord Cottington to commiserate the writer's hard case, he hopes to procure the continuance of his favour. [Seal with arms. 1 p.] Inclosed,
40. i. Considerations offered to the Lords of the Treasury by Sir Basil Brooke, after his treaty with them yesterday, the 4th July 1635. He desires that these particulars, which are founded upon various losses to which he will be subject under a proposed new arrangement, should be submitted to his Majesty, in the hope that he would forgive him the sum of 12,000l. claimed from him as fine and damages upon granting a new lease. [1 p.]
July 5.
Broadhurst, near Grinstead.
41. Thomas Choune to Nicholas. Can hardly be at the delivery of the goods this week, by reason of his attendance as justice of peace at the assizes and sessions; wherewith he has acquainted Mr. Brames and desired his presence with the rest of the owners or factors, on Monday the next week. It will be impossible for him to follow the directions of the Lords, or to have sufficient discharge, if the owners or their factors, or at least more sufficient deputies than Mr. Pringle, be not present at the delivery. [¾ p.]
July 5. 42. Account by Sir William Russell of ship money received and issued up to this day, in continuation of similar account to the 20th June, see Vol. ccxci., No. 26. The total received was now 77,831l. 1s. 1d. [¾ p.]
July 5.
Dover Castle.
43. [Anthony Percival], Deputy Lieutenant of Dover Castle, to Theophilus Earl of Suffolk. This day the packet boat came to Dover, and he sent for the master who has again been rifled by the shallop of Calais. Incloses examination of the master and one of the company, and also the news he has learned out of Flanders. Suggests that the Council should order some strength to be put into this passage boat. The master is confident that the shallop of Calais will be at them again and then they might bring her to Dover. [Copy or extract. ¾ p.] Inclosed,
43. i. Examination of Henry Hendy, master, and John Pollen, owner [of the packet boat from Dover to Dunkirk], taken before Anthony Percival. On 4th inst. about noon, being at anchor about three leagues off Calais, as they came from Dunkirk with the King's packet and merchants' letters for Dover, the same shallop which formerly rifled them laid their ketch aboard, after they had shot one musket at them, and turned and tumbled over all that was in the ketch, and took away their victuals, and one rapier, and some other toys, and opened the King's packet a little way, saying they were merchants' letters and that there was money in it, which was all they looked for, and when they parted from examinants, they, with many reviling words, threw them back about 2 lbs. of cheese and one loaf of bread, for six men, which examinants were forced to beg very hard for. Further, that at this time they had increased their number from twelve to eighteen [men] armed with muskets and swords, all which entered their ketch, and struck at Hendy three or four times with swords, calling them English rogues and dogs. They are much discouraged to go on in this course of doing his Majesty's service, in regard they go in fear of their lives. [1 p.]
July 5. 44. See "Returns of Justices of Peace."
July 6. 45. Petition of William Freake, curate at St. George's in Southwark, prisoner in the King's Bench, to Archbishop Laud. Petitioner was arrested by John Glascock, under-bailiff in Southwark, at the suit of Godfrey Clay, on Sunday the 14th June last, as petitioner was coming out of church in his gown, and going to visit some sick persons who had desired public prayers. He is still detained prisoner contrary to a statute, and to his utter undoing. The arrest was merely malicious and unjust, as petitioner is able to make appear. Prays that Glascock and Clay may be called to answer their contempt. Underwritten,
45. i. Reference to Sir John Lambe to take some course for petitioner's relief. 6th July 1635. [1 p.] Indorsed,
45. ii. Appointment of Sir John Lambe to hear this cause on the morrow between two and four in the afternoon. Wishes Clay and Glascock may be there. His lodging in Doctors' Commons. 6th July 1635. [¼ p.]
July 6.
Whitehall.
46. Sir Henry Vane to Edward Viscount Conway and Killultagh. His letter that advertised that he had yet seen no green peas at Scilly the writer presented to his Majesty, who read it twice. Notwithstanding he has resolved to send out ten ships more, all to be commanded by Conway's General. Letters of last week advertise that the passages of the Valteline formerly taken by the French are all retaken by the Emperor's forces. Mons. de Rohan has retired into Switzerland. Gallas, having made a bridge over at Philipsburgh, is come into the Lower Palatinate, and has taken Heidelberg, peradventure Frankendale too. For the Austrian States, the Duke of Deux Ponts and their council, with the dead corpse of the King of Bohemia, are come to Metz in France; from thence they go to Sedan. Duke Bernard upon their passing the Rhine was forced to retreat within twelve hours going of Metz (sic) with his horse, having put the foot he had into such safety as he could. These are the effects of the peace of Saxony. This state of affairs has given such an alarm in France that that King is throwing all the force he can make into those parts. Rumours out of Holland that the Prince of Orange has risen from before Louvain with the loss of 1,000 men, necessitated thereunto by want of victuals. Notwithstanding, the King holds his resolution of setting forth his second fleet. It is not well taken that they [the fleet] do not put over to the coast of Flanders, Holland, and France, not that they should go into the harbours to force them to salute and strike, but keep at sea upon those coasts, and govern themselves according to their instructions; and it is expected they should always leave two or three of the smallest ships, with one ship of countenance, to ply to and again between Dover, Calais, and Dunkirk; this Conway would do well to advise the Lord General that he take special care of, and for the future govern themselves accordingly. The writer has been employed abroad, and has found by experience that men in their best actions have been subject to misinterpretations, and therefore the Lord General cannot be too circumspect. He knows that some attempts have been already made upon the Lord General [by] the French Ambassador; that he should declare publicly a greatanimosity to the French, and not only himself but his commanders, and that in his examinations of those French captains he commanded aboard some words have been used [that] might have been forborne, which though for the writer's part he does not believe, yet he knows not how they may be apprehended by others. This makes the writer remember a French saying the Prince of Orange has often used unto him. "Il faut faire, ou se taire," which is an excellent rule for us to observe who are neutrals, and to declare neither way before action does it. It has been advertised by some out of the fleet since their coming to Catwater that two French dragons coming to anchor by them, they saluting and paying all respect to the fleet, were commanded either to take in or tie up their ensigns, a thing never required before. For the writer's self, he will ever make a pause between his ear and belief; what others may do Conway can judge. Sir Henry would not have Lord Lindsey startle at this. If Lord Lindsey think fit to have any thing spoken to his Majesty, when his letters give the writer commission he will most faithfully give him account thereof secretly, and in the meantime he will do him the best office he can. Let Lord Lindsey be comforted with this, that he serves a just master that will be paid with reason. The King and Queen are gone this day to Theobalds; "the drabb" is gone with her Majesty and grows into favour. Lord Holland is gone to Tunbridge to drink the waters for fifteen days. Lord and Lady Carlisle have been at Petworth this last week, and on Saturday next the Earl of Northumberland will be at Court.—P.S. Has written to the Lord General but refers him to Conway for particulars. Expects this will find Conway at Portsmouth, from whence he shall expect an answer to this, or as soon, and of [sic] governing themselves as he has intimated. When he sees Conway he will acquaint him with the weight of what he has now written. It will be necessary Lord Lindsey should govern himself accordingly. Will expect daily to hear from Conway. Begs to be commended to Wat. Stewart and all his friends. The Consulta of the divines of the Gallican Church have resolved for the cassation of Monsieurs marble [?], and [it] was delivered to them in form at Fontainebleau in writing. Monsieur himself, and the Prince of Condé are sent for the Court, to be at the publication, which is to follow presently. [Modern copy, said to be of an original letter formerly in the Conway collection. 2¾ pp.]
July 6.
Merthyr-Mawr.
47. Deputy Lieutenants of co. Glamorgan to the Council. Report muster of the trained forces of that county taken by direction of the Earl of Bridgewater, Lord Lieutenant. [2 pp.] Inclosed,
47. i. Certificate of musters. The able men of the county from 16 to 60 were 1,400 in number; whereof 400 were trained and 200 mustered but untrained; 300 had muskets, and 300 corselets. [2 pp.]
July 6.
Westminster.
Nicholas to Richard Wyan, proctor for his Majesty. Has perused Mr. Bassett's letter and the examinations concerning the Love of Amsterdam, and thinks he had just cause to stay the vessel, as well to prevent the spoil she might do by turning pirate, as to preserve the vessel and goods for the owners, which otherwise would have been embezzled by the skipper. Most of the goods belonged to Jews, but whether they were Hollanders or subjects of Spain the writer cannot clearly determine; conceives Mr. Bassett cannot safely render up the ship or goods without some order from the Admiralty. There is just cause for Sir Henry Marten to give a proportion for salvage. [Copy. Nicholas's Letter Book. Domestic, James I., Vol. ccxix. p. 113.]
July 6.
From sea.
48. Capt. Thomas Ketelby to Nicholas. States the substance of Sec. Coke's letter to the Earl of Lindsey, blaming him for misspending his time, and his reply [see pp. 146, 243]. What is become of the French and Dutch fleets they cannot learn. The English keep the middle of the Channel, so as no ship can well pass in or out, either by the English or French coasts, but they will see them. Some fourteen days longer Lord Lindsey intends to continue in those parts, and then to repair towards Portsmouth or the Downs to take in the remainder of the six months' provisions. The state of the fleet, and how the ships prove, he will receive from Mr. Markham. Charges Nicholas not to let his seamen doubt but Ketelby and the rest can think how to do mischief as well as they. Every ship long since has made the best provisions she can against fire and for defence. For the leak in the Merhonour they have found it, and have sufficiently repaired it for this voyage. [Seal with arms. 1 p.]
July 6. 49. Examination of Timothy Tiddeman, master of the Blessing of Dover, and Matthew Downe and Roger Dunstan, two of his company, taken before Anthony Percival, deputy lieutenant of Dover Castle. On the 5th inst. examinants were laid aboard by three shallops of Calais. They took away from a merchant of London all the money they could find about him, and searched all his clothes from top to toe; and though the merchant affirmed that he had lived in Calais and knew them every one, yet they would not desist, but told him he was a Spaniard, and gave him many vile words; and likewise the shallops took away two "Portugals" which were bound for Dover. Examinants saw the mail wherein the merchants' letters for Dunkirk were put, which the Frenchmen had newly taken away from the packet-boat, but they told examinants they would deliver it back again, which examinants believe they did. By reason of examinants being laid aboard they were hindered getting to Dover about 24 hours, and by means the merchant lost all his money, examinants lost all their freight. In every of these shallops there were 12 or 13 men armed with muskets and swords and as they laid them aboard, it being very foul weather, they did so beat and bruise their bark, that it was so leaky they could hardly bring it home. [1 p.]
July 6. 50. Bailiffs of Great Yarmouth to the Lords of the Admiralty. In accordance with their command of the 27th June last they have apprehended Robert Carrell, and now send his examination. [1 p.] Inclosed,
50. i. Examination of Robert Carrell, a Frenchman, inhabitant of Great Yarmouth, compass maker, taken before Edward Owner and Leonard Holmes, Bailiffs of that town. A month before Christmas he received a letter from Mr. Billyard, of Dieppe, in behalf of Mr. Lockin and Capt. Cabbock, that he should procure two men to go in two fisher-boats of France which should be sent to Yarmouth, to conduct them to the North Seas, and teach the French to take fish by the use of the drove sail after the English manner. According to which letter examinant hired Thomas Hopper, who was to have 9l. and a barrel of fish for his wages. Afterwards Hopper used means to examinant to hire John Pratt for the like wages, and they were to have half their wages before they went to sea. Being forbidden by the Bailiffs to deal further therein, examinant proceeded no further, nor gave them more money than he had formerly disbursed, which was 32s. 6d. to Hopper and 40s. to Pratt. When the two fisher boats came, they brought letters from Lockin and Cabbock to fit them of necessaries, and he has disbursed 7l. or 8l. more than he has received. He did not conceive any offence would have been taken therefore, in regard of the league between his Majesty of Great Britain and the French King. Great Yarmouth, 6th July, 1635. [1 p.]
July 6. 51. See "Papers relating to Appointments in the Navy."
July 6. 52. Certificate of Officers of Navy of a surcharge of 9,243l. 9s. 6d. in respect of the fifteen ships at sea and the ten ships commanded to the seas, being the aggregate of the amount to be repaid by Lady Darrell, an extra payment of 1d. per man per day for victuals on account of the increase in the price of provisions, the sum retained out of the ship money by the City of London, and three weeks extra wages in harbour. [1 p.]
[July 6. ?] 53. Estimate by Nicholas of the money which will be necessary to be provided (over and above the amount received for ship money) to supply the ten ships now about to proceed to sea with sea victuals for three months, and the fifteen ships now at sea with victuals for two months beyond the time to which they are at present victualled: total, 11,022l. 7s. 9d. [Draft, ½ p.]
July 7. 54. Officers of the Navy to the Lords of the Admiralty. Find that his Majesty may be supplied with 600 tons of hemp at 32l. and 33l. Russian, and 37l. and 38l. "Rine," to be paid at Lady Day next, upon security. Presume they may have French canvas enough, but find it difficult to supply the service with Ipswich canvas. For tar there is enough to be had, and the merchants will be content with the price of the market when he delivers his goods. Of masts there is a great parcel expected, and the owners have tendered "the refuse" to his Majesty. Timber and plank they doubt not to furnish as occasion shall require. If the service requires a great quantity of hemp, it must be forthwith contracted for, and the converting thereof into cordage undertaken by private men. The ropeyards at Chatham and Woolwich will neither spin so much nor so soon as they conceive the service will require. Desire further warrant for these and all other provisions, both for what quantities, at what rates, and upon what days of payment. [1 p.]
July 7.
Wapping.
55. The Deputy Master and Wardens of the Shipwrights' Company to Nicholas. They have summoned divers persons to make appearance for tendering their submission to his Majesty's charter, and entering bond not to serve any foreign prince, but still perceive a general revolt. The persons formerly complained of have been since thrice summoned, to wit, Manley Callis, Edmund Naylor, Andrew Brogrove, William Pollard, and since that John Martin and George Taylor with others, who still refuse to come in. Entreat a further course against them. [¾ p.]
[July 7.] 56. The same to Lords of the Admiralty. Certify their proceedings in accordance with their lordships' letter of the 7th June as stated in the preceding article. Find a general revolt, having received the appearance only of three persons out of forty warned, which contempt they have conceived it their duty to tender unto the consideration of the Lords, and also the names of some of the chiefest in the faction. [Underwritten are the names as stated in the preceding article, with the addition of that of Richard Neale. 1 p.]
[July 7 ?] 57. Lords of the Admiralty to a Messenger unnamed. Warrant to bring before the Lords, Manley Callis and William Pollard of Ratcliffe, Middlesex, Edmund Naylor and Andrew Brogrove of Wapping, and John Martin and George Taylor of Limehouse. [Undated and unsigned. ½ p.]
[July 7 ?] 58. The same to the same. Similar warrant to bring up Richard Neale. [Undated and unsigned. ½ p.]
July 7.
From sea aboard the Merhonour.
59. Edward Viscount Conway and Killultagh to Sec. Coke. Thanks for his good admonition and quickening, not that the writer has need of it at this time, but for time to come, for there is not any that is careful of his duty at one time but may be negligent in another. If they anchored often, or put into harbour, it was necessity; if they went along the English coast, it was the next way to the French fleet. That fleet went away before the English fleet came, and it was not possible for the latter to make more haste. They stay now about the Lizard, Falmouth, and Plymouth, that the French cannot come again but the English must meet with them. The English now command the seas, and Conway believes the French will not seek to beat the King from the sea, until they also attempt him by land. Conway was glad of this employment, only because he might have occasion to gain the King's good opinion, and he assures himself that if he were employed by him, he should gain it. Beseeches Coke to let his favour seek to preserve Conway from misunderstandings. [Seal with arms. 1 p.]
July 7. 60. Robert Earl of Lindsey to Sec. Windebank. Thanks him for good offices; amongst the rest for his care concerning the business of Sir Anthony Thomas. Sec. Coke has been silent since the Earl came first aboard, but only the other day he dipped his pen in vinegar, making but ill construction of all the Earl has written, which has caused him to trouble Windebank and the rest of the Commissioners with a letter stated to be inclosed. The satisfaction he will tender to his Majesty about the Hollander is utterly to disclaim any such language concerning the French Admiral, as mettre bas son pavillon; the whole passage Windebank will understand by the inclosed. Has no more to acquaint him with, but the welfare of our fleet, and having many days ploughed the middle of the Channel, that he is now putting over to Heissant [Ushant], where he is advertised the fleet of French and Dutch were last. Sends dispatch for Sir William Boswell. [Indorsed by Windebank; received by his servant, 10th July; answered, 23rd July. 1 p.] Inclosed,
60. i. Memorandum signed by the Earl of Lindsey. He met with a Hollander off Beachy, and asked whether he had seen the French fleet; he answered he had, and that it was joined with the Dutch, resolving to meet with the English. The Earl replied that they stood on very good terms, and were friends; to which he answered, he knew not, but that the English would find they had very good ships, with a gesture of shaking his head. This was all that passed. [¾ p.]
July 7.
The Merhonour in the middle of the Channel, between the Lizard and Ushant.
61. Robert Earl of Lindsey to Nicholas. Sec. Coke has afforded the Earl no answer concerning any point in the writer's letters. For ought he perceives Coke makes but ill construction of all that the Earl writes, as by a sharp letter lately from him, the Earl has good reason to be jealous. Cannot understand of any insolency done by French or Dutch to "our English." Prays Nicholas to be truly informed of that he hears about Dover, and to let the Earl know the ground of it. Is now steering to the coast of France; at his return he shall ply awhile in the middle part of the Channel, as being the most likely place to meet with ships.—P.S. Prays the conveyance of a letter to Mr. Gerbier, by means of Capt. Percival, deputy lieutenant of Dover Castle. [1 p.]
July 7.
Grays' Inn.
62. John Cockshutt to Nicholas. This morning Cockshutt's master [Attorney General Bankes] sent to Peter Fountaine to have a reason wherefore he had not answered the information exhibited against him in the Star Chamber, for transporting gold; and one excuse was his being denied access to his books of account, which Cockshutt's master desires Nicholas will let him have a sight of, to enable him to a perfect answer, which he has assured Cockshutt's master he intends forthwith. [Seal with arms. ¾ p.]
July 7.
Charing Cross.
63. Sir Henry Vane the younger to his father Sir Henry Vane. Is newly come back from speaking with Mr. Cradock concerning the writer's intended journey, and despatches this bearer to Sir Henry with the information of what seems most necessary to be done, which is that, in regard of safety and the season of the year, it will be necessary for the writer to lay hold of these ships which are now in the river, for his transportation into N[ew] E[ngland]. And although the notice (Mr. Cradock told him) was very late, because the ships look every day to be gone; yet Mr. Cradock hopes to gain him ten days to prepare himself, and has offered him accommodation when he comes there, so that what he cannot now provide himself with, he may take order with Cradock that it may come after him. His suit is, that Sir Henry will despatch the writer's pass with his Majesty, and vouchsafe him an assurance that he has really resolved this place for the writer to go to, that he may prepare things suitable. Begs him to believe this from one that has the honour to be Sir Henry's son, (though, as the case stands, judged to be a most unworthy one,) that howsoever Sir Henry may be jealous of circumventions and plots that the writer entertains and practises, yet that he will never do anything (by God's good grace) which both with honour and a good conscience he may not justify or be content to suffer for. Were it not that he is very confident that his innocency shall be cleared to Sir Henry before he dies, protests that the jealousy Sir Henry has of him would break his heart; but as he submits all other things to the disposal of his good God, so does he also his honesty; and though he is compassed about with infirmities, and is but too great a blemish to the religion he professes, yet the bent of his heart is sincere, and thence flows the sweet peace he enjoys with his God, amidst these many trials. This is his only support, and this he doubts not of, but that he has an all-sufficient God able to protect, direct, and reward him, and who in his due time will do it, and that in the eyes of all his friends. [Seal with arms. 2 pp.]
July 7. 64. Information of Kirkby Mosseman, of North Scarle, spinster, taken before two Justices of Peace for co. Lincoln. Being at Eagle Hall, the house of John Monson, Esq., on the 2nd instant, to crave an alms, and sitting at the door, she saw Monson, John Berisford, and others standing in the kitchen; and among other discourse she heard Berisford say, that they cared not for the King nor for all his men, although he had so many promised him, for they were strong enough of themselves to destroy England; and she also heard them name divers Lords and Earls, who they said were of their side, and among them Berisford named an Earl (whose name she does not remember) that would bring in twelve light horses. [Copy. ¾ p.]
July 7. 65. See "Returns of Justices of Peace."
July 7. 66. Sir Henry Marten to the [Lords of the Admiralty]. Report on reference of the 2nd May last, on petition of Abraham Vandecouter, in his own name and that of Daniel Le Clerke and others, against Abraham Biggs, concerning 74l, 7s. 5d. pretended by Abraham Biggs to have been by Biggs disbursed about the Nostra Senora de Rosario, lately adjudged to Daniel Le Clerke. Sir Henry states the circumstances under which Biggs took upon him to disburse the amount now claimed, and recommends that the same should be divided between the two parties. [1 p.]
July 8. Grant of privilege to Benjamin Austen for practising an invention for shooting with bows and muskets at butts and marks, and to take 1d. for eight shots in a long bow, and 2d. for six shots in a musket, of those that are willing to give the same, with a clause of revocation if it be found inconvenient. [Docquet]
July 8. Warrant to the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex and the Keeper of Newgate, for delivery of Maurice Cavenaugh, Richard Greene, Jane Wood, Anthony Bromley, Mary Fortescue, John Humfreys, Margaret Challicombe, Joan Howell, Jane Pryn, Elizabeth Branscombe, Mary Burbeck, Elianor Sutton, Elizabeth Williams, and Thomas Merry, to Capt. Thomas Hill or Capt. Richard Carleton, to be transported by them into Virginia, with a clause for executing any of the said prisoners who return. [Docquet.]
July 8. 67. Officers of Navy to Lords of the Admiralty. At request of Nicholas Hilson [Wilson ?], mariner, going out master of his Majesty's ship the Garland, the writers recommend to the Lords his suit for wages to himself and servants for 17 months, amounting to 140l., in a late voyage in the Civil Merchant, of London, which the rest of the owners are not willing to allow. His service for his Majesty may be some hindrance in case the owners defer payment till his return from sea; wherefore he is a petitioner for a reference to the Judge of the Admiralty. [1 p.]
July 8. Brief note by Sec. Windebank of proceedings of Lords of the Treasury in reference to the proposal of Sir Basil Brooke for a new lease of the forest of Dean. [See this present Vol., No. 32. 3 lines.]
July 8. 68. Offer of Sir Basil Brooke in connexion with the lease above mentioned. He proposes, over and above the rent intended to be reserved on his lease, to pay his Majesty a fine of 4,000l by certain instalments running over two years. [Indorsed by Sec. Windebank. ¾ p.]
[July 8 ?] 69. Considerations offered by Sir Basil Brooke to the Lords of the Treasury concerning the bargain which he now holds of the King's ironworks in the Forest of Dean, with a variety of reasons urged upon the King for a large reduction of a fine of 12,000l. set upon Sir Basil at the late Justice seat at Gloucester. [2¾ pp.]
July 8. 70. Examination of John Perkins the elder and John Perkins the younger, taken before Anthony Percival, deputy-lieutenant of Dover Castle. Being employed to carry the King's packet and the merchants letters from Dover to Dunkirk, on Sunday the 5th instant they were laid aboard by two shallops of Calais, having 16 or 20 men a-piece, who took from a gentleman whom examinants know not about 10l., a watch, and his sword and belt, and also from examinants the mail wherein the letters were put, and kept it about an hour, and then, after they had ransacked it, delivered it back again, abusing examinants both by words and blows. Further, on the 7th inst. they were again laid aboard by another shallop of Calais (as they came from Dunkirk), having about 16 men in it, all armed with swords and muskets, who took from Capt. Thomas Roan all the money he had, and his ring off his finger, and pulled off all his clothes and searched him from top to toe, and likewise struck examinant, Perkins the younger, because he told them they should not have the King's packet. [1 p.]
July 8. 71. Examination of Nicholas Redwood, taken before Anthony Percival. Being master of the Mary Magdalen, of Dartmouth, bound from Long Sound, Norway, to Dartmouth, he was chased between Gravelines and Dunkirk, as he stood over for the English [coast], by a sloop of Calais, having two murderers and twenty-eight small shot, who, fetching examinant up, bade him strike for the King of France. Examinant answered that they were friends of the King of France. The captain of the sloop said it was all one, and crying "Amain!" shot at examinant a whole volley of small shot, and presently boarded examinant, and giving him many ill words, saying that if he were bound for Dunkirk they would cut off his head by his shoulders, they took away four gowns, and divers caps and shirts, and other trifles from the company, searching them all for money, and likewise from examinant they took away three pieces of beef. The captain and his company shot divers holes through examinant's main sail, and tore it very much, ransacking all his letters and writings, and telling him they would carry him into Calais, they left him. [1 p.]
July 8. Notes of the several restraints put upon private trade to the Levant Seas, between 2nd August 1627 and this day, and the resolutions passed thereon at meetings of the Levant Company. [See Correspondence of Levant Company, Vol. I., No. 92. 1 p.]
July 8. 72. Examination of John Berisford, of Eagle Hall, co. Lincoln, gentleman, taken before two Justices of Peace of that county. On 2nd July inst. he was at the house of John Monson, Esq., in company with Mr. Monson and Thomas Markham, son of George Markham of Ollerton, co. Nottingham. Monson asked examinant, "What news at Newark ?" where he had been the day before; to whom he replied, that he knew no news, but there was mustering and training, and that Mr. Gervase Markham (a kinsman of Thomas Markham) had one of the best horses that were there shown. Thereupon Thomas Markham asked examinant when they should train in Lincolnshire ? who answered, on the Tuesday following. Markham observed that they had mustered in the South long before. Examinant replied, that he thought the muster was general. Markham said he had heard there was an order above that every Earl should be charged with twelve light horses for the King's service, and every Lord with eight, and so proportionably. Thereupon examinant fell into commendation of the Earl of Exeter and the Lord of Newcastle for having in their stables so many able horses for service, but did not name any other Lords. Saw Kirkby Mosseman at the door of the house all the time of this conference. They were some three or four yards from the door where Mosseman sate, and the door was half shut. [Copy. 1¼ p.] Underwritten,
72. i. Another examination of the same John Berisford taken before the same Justices on 18th July inst. Denies that he ever spoke the words attributed to him by Kirkby Mosseman, or any words to that purpose, and, as in the presence of Almighty God, protests that he never had any disloyal thought against the King or State, but shall be ever ready and willing to spend his life and fortunes in their defence against any foreign power or treasonable attempt. [Copy. 1¼ p.]
July 9. 73. The King to William Earl of Salisbury and Patrick Earl of Tullibardin. The parish of Cheshunt, co. Herts, was wont to furnish hay and oats for winter provision for his Majesty's deer in the park at Theobalds; but this year, by reason of the extraordinary drought, there is not sufficient in the said parish. Commands the persons addressed to take up, at such reasonable prices as they shall think fit, so much hay and oats out of other parishes near Theobalds, in Herts and Essex, as cannot be conveniently had in Cheshunt. [Draft in the handwriting of Nicholas. 1 p.]
[July 9.] 74. Copy of the above, "Middlesex" being added to "Herts and Essex" in an interlineation. [½ p.]
July 9.
Whitehall.
75. Resolutions agreed to at a meeting of the Council for the business of Fishing:—1. Resolved to make a deputation to Judges to determine all matters concerning the Fishing business, according to the charter granted to the Society, and hope that his Majesty, having in a peculiar manner called himself Protector of that Society, will really effectually protect that business. 2. The deputations to be given to the Judges shall be signed and sealed by so many of the Council as his Majesty's charter directs, and not be sealed with the common seal, but with the Lord's seals of arms that sign the same. 3. To move the King to sign the letter prepared by Henry Alexander to be sent to the Council in Scotland to reform abuses concerning the fishing business. 4. To move the King to write his letter to Sir John Hay to see his letter to the Council in Scotland performed, that so public a work may proceed with effect and without interruption in those parts. 5. His Majesty to be also moved to write a particular letter to the Earl of Seaforth to assist those of the Society. [6.] To move the King to write to his Majesty's agent with the Cardinal Infante, to procure the imposition laid there on the English herring brought thither by those of the Society to be taken off, for it is conceived that such imposition was intended to be laid only on the subjects of the States of the United Provinces, and not on his Majesty's subjects. [In Nicholas's handwriting ; and he has written on the back, "I wish the King would command all those of the bedchamber to be adventurers in the Fishing."pp.]
July 9. 76. Fair copy of Nos. 1 and 2 of the preceding resolutions. [Indorsed "Memorial to move the King about the Fishing business." ¾ p.]
July 9. 77. The like of resolutions Nos. 3, 4, and 5. [Indorsed as the last preceding. ¾ p.]
July 9. 78. The like of the resolution No. 6. [Indorsed as the preceding. ½ p.]
July 9. 79. Thomas Wyan to Nicholas. The inclosed contains some complaint against subjects of the King of Spain exhibited in the Admiralty, which he prays Nicholas to return unaltered. There are many more complaints to come in, but he finds not the merchants very forward therein, being fearful, as he conceives, to give discontent therein to some. Nicholas, among the rest, may remember the complaints of Sir John Pennington certified by Sir Henry Marten; there came also complaints from Yarmouth about some or one of the King's subjects that were slain there by some Biscayners or Dunkirkers, but the Yarmouth men had the papers back with directions to [s]tay the men, which he thinks they have done, and believes there was some complaint to the Lords about the same. [¾ p.]
July 9/19.
The Hague.
80. John Durie to Sir Thomas Roe. It was his luck to meet the Queen of Bohemia at the Hague, she not being gone to her country house at Rhenen. She very graciously accepted Sir Thomas's letter and message. She had heard before of the first point and the second; for the third, it is her desire to do what shall lie in her power, but she has little hope. With this answer she broke off from that purpose, and fell upon the Saxon treaties: where she told Durie how great prejudice it was to the cause, and that now it was apparent that his [the Elector of Saxony's] aim was to overthrow the Palatine House in giving way to the Emperor's injustice in transferring the Electoral dignity to Bavaria, and confiscating the whole Palatinate to the Emperor, who offers to the young Princes of the House, out of mere favour, an annual pension. Durie details the Queen's comments upon the terms of the treaty, which he mentions nearly as they are stated in Dinley's letter of the 4th inst., No. 31, before calendared. Lord Chancellor Oxenstiern is at Magdeburg, and labours to draw the Princes to a meeting at Magdeburg or Gottingen. Durie hopes by this means the rest will be soldered the more strictly together to maintain their liberties and religion, and so (it may be) his propositions will be seasonable to bind them up in one body of a church which will strengthen their politic considerations. Statements of Camerarius as to the position of affairs between Sweden and Poland. The Prince of Orange is retired back from Louvain, and is now about Ruremond; half of the French are run away from him, but on the other hand Piccolomini's Crabats do the country as much harm as the enemy did; they make havoc of all. The Synod of South Holland will begin within a few days. Durie labours to have his purpose recommended to it by the Deputies of the General States. [1 p.]
July 9. 81. Sir Henry Spiller and Laurence Whitaker to the Council. According to order of 1st May had viewed the many taverns in Drury Lane, and had forbidden John Clapton, who formerly kept a disordered house in Fleet Street, to proceed any further with a tavern in Drury Lane. But Clapton has notwithstanding laid in his wine, set open his door, and hanged up his bush. [1 p.]
July 9. 82–83. See "Returns of Justices of Peace."
July 10. 84. Petition of John Saintloe, wharfinger of Porter's Quay, to the King. Petitioners quay was, in the first year of Queen Elizabeth, by act of Parliament, made free for landing and shipping merchandizes, and enjoyed that freedom until the 18th August 1634. One Coleman, late wharfinger of Custom House quay, prevailed with the last Lord Treasurer to make an order, naming it an exemplification of an old order made in the seventh year of Elizabeth not put in execution, by which order petitioner's quay and all other free quays, except Custom House quay, are debarred from shipping anything made of wool, and landing such as are named fine goods. This order took away petitioner's maintenance, he having disbursed more than his whole estate for a lease of the quay. The pretence of this order is because cloth and fine goods pay much custom to his Majesty, and are therefore to be shipped and landed at Custom House quay, where the officers are usually present. Petitioner's quay joins Custom House quay, and for that reason may be preferred before all quays except Custom House quay. Yet so it is, that the merchants trading in lead, (which pays so great custom that none except wine pays more,) being ill used at a more remote quay, have covenanted with petitioner to land their lead at his quay, and have caused petitioner to lay out great sums of money to fit his quay for laying and weighing their lead. One Clayton, wharfinger of a quay formerly used for lead, gives out that he will compel the merchants to land all their lead at his quay, and has obtained a reference from his Majesty to the Council to report. Petitioner prays that he may be heard by his counsel at the Council Board, and that his Majesty would grant a reference to the Council, or leave petitioner to the common law. Underwritten,
84. I. Reference to the Council to determine the matter of this petition. Theobalds, 10th July 1635. [1 p.]
July 10.
London.
85. Sir Robert Parkhurst, Lord Mayor of London, to the Council. According to their order of the 3rd inst., the eighteen pipes of white wine belonging to Peter Van Paine, merchant stranger, have been racked. In eight have been found eight bundles of weeds, in four some quantities of sulphur, in another a whole piece of match, besides in every cask a kind of gravel mixture, by which mixtures the wines are conceived to be very unwholesome, and of the like nature with those which were formerly destroyed. [1 p.]
July 10. 86. The Baymakers of Colchester to the same. Petition and answer to the petition of the Merchants of London trading for Spain and Portugal. 1. Of late time some have been delinquents in stretching baize, who upon discovery have been punished. 2. Deny any false stamping or contenting. 3. For sixty years half an ell Flemish has been allowed in a piece for shrinking, and if any shrink more, the merchant may return the same to the maker, who is to make satisfaction, and pay costs, or restore the price. 4. Their baizes never shrink less than at this instant, and are all measured by a sworn measurer. 5. Their baizes have continued for sixty years the staplest manufacture in this kingdom, whose seals have warranted the sales. If the Council conceive any abuse, petitioners are ready to submit to further order. [¾ p.]
July 10/20
The Hague.
87. Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia to Archbishop Laud. "This honest gentleman" being desirous to be known to the Archbishop, the Queen takes the occasion to continue the assurances of the confidence she has of his affection, which again she must entreat him now to show. She has much need of the King's help, as by her last she wrote to the Archbishop. If now that her son is coming of age, the King will not give him means to defend what he has of his country and get the rest, but force him to sit still, the world will think that he consents to the wrong that is done him ; besides, it will reflect upon the King's honour, if now he should not give her son a good assistance, for by way of treaty there is no more to do, though she doubts not but the Spanish agents will do their best to excuse this, and deceive the King for one year more, so to make him lose time, which is precious, the peace being openly proclaimed by the Emperor, and he will be quick enough in the execution of it, therefore she prays the Archbishop to do all he can, and think of a message she now sends him by honest Mr. Goffe.—P.S. The bearer Croft has served her faithfully. She has recommended him both to King and Queen, that he may have some good place about her nephew the prince; being the only one she has recommended in that kind, and if for her sake he may have the Archbishop's assistance, she shall esteem it amongst her other obligations. Croft is worthy of the service. He will tell the Archbishop all that passes there. [Seal with arms. 1¾ p.]
July 10. 88. Account of receipts and payments of the Exchequer from the 3rd July to this day. The remain at the commencement of this account was 1,088l. 6s. 4d.; the receipts since, 11,245l. 7s. 2d.; the payments, 11,284l. 17s. 2½d.; leaving a balance in hand of 1,048l. 16s. 3½d. Among the payments are,—to Sir John Hales, paymaster of the band of gentleman pensioners, 1,200l., in part of 3,037l. 10s. 3½d. for their wages for half a year ended Michaelmas 1633; 1,000l. in part of 2,000l. for a suit of hangings belonging to John Baptista van Lemens; to Captain Henry Wentworth, serjeant major of the regiment that served the King of Denmark under Sir Charles Morgan, 200l., in part of 669l. 11s. 5d., remainder of 1,169l. 11s. 5d., in satisfaction of arrears due to him and other the officers of that regiment; to Sir Sigismund Alexander his annuity for a year ended at Christmas last, 100l.; John Talbot, Captain of the Fort at West Tilbury, for wages of the gunners for 1¼ year ended at Lady Day 1632, 98l. 17s. 1d.; Thomas Lord, captain of the fort at Milton, the like sum for wages of gunners for 1¼ year to Lady Day 1631; to Sir John Borough, Garter, for escutcheons for knights of the garter for a year on St. George's eve last, 7l.; more to him and Edward Norgate, Windsor herald, for the registrar's fee and reparations of the house and office of arms for a year ended Lady Day 1631,15l. Among the fees and annuities paid, there occur, Verney [? Sir Edmund, knight-marshal] 200l. Richard Delamain, 10l. [3 pp.]
July 10. 89. Demands made by the present farmers of Dean Forest with their overtures answered. The demands alluded to amounted to 56,000l., which the present farmers solicited should either be paid to them (if the King required their lease to be given up), or that they might be continued the King's tenants on the terms offered by the persons soliciting a new lease. The object of the present paper is to show the futility of these demands. [5 pp.]
July 10.
Whitehall.
Commissioners for Saltpetre to [Thomas] Willis, clerk of the Crown. The Commissioners having appointed Hugh Grove their deputy for making saltpetre in cos. Cambridge, Huntingdon, Lincoln, &c., in place of Stephen Barrett, displaced, Willis is to cause to be delivered to Grove two duplicates of his Majesty's commission to the Commissioners for his better performance of this service. [Copy. See Vol. ccxcii., p. 231. ½ p.]
July 11. 90. Sir John Wentworth, Sheriff of Norfolk, to the Council. Replies to a complaint of the Mayor and Burgesses of Lynn, that notwithstanding letters of the Council of 30th December and the 30th January last, requiring him to assess certain towns mentioned in a schedule inclosed, and the moneys thereof to go to the aid of Lynn, the contents thereof he has not performed. He answers that in obedience to the same letters, he rated those towns at the sum of 150l. 11s. 9d., and appointed collectors to pay the same over to the Mayor of Lynn, which he knows not but that the Mayor has received, save only 52l. 10s. 0d., which he rated upon West Walton and Walsoken, and appointed Mr. Whick collector, who having collected the same, the Lord Privy Seal gave warrant to him to pay the 52l. 10s. 0d. to the writer, and he to pay it over to the Treasurer of the Navy, which the last term he paid accordingly; and he was bold to do it, for Lynn is behind of its rate 312l., and does not endeavour to pay it, notwithstanding the express letter of the Council. [Seal with arms. 1 p.]
July 11.
Whitehall.
Sec. Windebank to Sir Henry Marten. Upon petition of Mr. Powlett and Mr. Polhill, and on consideration of Sir Henry's certificate concerning their proceedings in the Low Countries for recovery of their great losses, his Majesty's pleasure is, that letters be written to the States General in the ancient and requisite form, prefixing them a day to do his Majesty's subjects justice, or else that his Majesty cannot any longer delay to grant them letters of marque and reprisal, whereby they may right themselves, yet with declaration that is not with any intent to make a war, but only to satisfy the particular losses of his Majesty's subjects; which letter, that it may be drawn according to form, and as may stand with the civil law, and the usual practice in such cases, and being the first that of late has been sent in this kind, the Secretary desires Sir Henry to take the pains to make a draft of it for the King's hand, and to send it to the writer. [Copy. Vol. cclxiv., fol. 145. 2/3 p.]
July 11.
Whitehall.
Lords of the Admiralty to [Montjoy Earl of Newport]. To allow John Thompson, John Bundock, William Walcott, and William Otwell, owners of the William and Elizabeth, of London, of 200 tons, to supply their ship with 22 pieces of iron ordnance from the founder's store. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 145. 2/3 p.]
July 11.
Whitehall.
Order of Lords of the Admiralty on petition of Nicholas Wilson, mariner. Petitioner showed that being late master and part owner of the Civil Merchant, of London, some differences arose between him and other part owners, which were discussed before Sir Henry Marten, who ordered that the ship should be sold, which is performed. That now the difference remains in point of allowance of wages to petitioner and servants for seven months, during which time by reason of the differences the ship laid still. Petitioner being commanded to serve as master in the Garland now ready to put to sea, prays the Lords to recommend the final determination of all differences to Sir Henry Marten. The Lords ordered that Sir Henry Marten should give a speedy despatch herein. [Copy. The name Hilson (see p. 262.) has here been altered to Wilson. Ibid., fol. 145 a. 2/5 p.]
July 11. 91. Officers of Navy to Lords of the Admiralty. State previous recommendations of Master Shipwrights for cutting down the Warspite into a lighter, and the King's order to the contrary that she should either be broken up and the materials employed in making a new dock at Portsmouth, or otherwise be sold. State difficulties in carrying out this order, and the renewed recommendation of Capt. Pett and other Master Shipwrights that she should be converted into a lighter, in which capacity she would do good service for seven years. Beg the Lords to move his Majesty therein. The writers also solicit that until the erection of a hemp house the lower rooms of the long storehouse in the new dock at Chatham may be appropriated for keeping the store of hemp, and not as his Majesty had ordered on the motion of Capt. Pett for keeping the rigging of King's ships. [2 pp.]
July 11. 92. The King to Bishop Morton of Durham, the Mayor of Newcastle, and the Sheriffs of Northumberland and Durham. His Majesty finds that the port of Newcastle, being of great importance, is either not at all, or very weakly defended against incursions. Requires them to resort thither, and certify what fortifications are upon the Tyne, or what are fit to be made, with an estimate of the charge. [Copy. ¾ p.]
July 11.
Southampton.
93. Nicholas Pescod to his cousin Jasper Cornelius. By Cornelius's order has demanded certain money of Hallom, or Hollom but could not get it. States the advice of Mr. Hillary. Hears nothing of Capt. Towerson's business. About the 5th inst. Uvedall came to the writer, and demanded 20l. as if by Cornelius's order, and on nonpayment gave the writer the note inclosed. [Seal with fleur de lis. 1 p.]
July 11. 94. Receipt of John Taverner for Thomas Bennet for 3l. 15s. 0d. from Nicholas, for beer. [¼ p.]
July 11. 95. Examination of John Rotunburgh [Hans Rodenborch], taken before Anthony Percival, deputy lieutenant of Dover Castle. Examinant being master of the Rose of Swineshound [Swinesund], Norway, and bound homewards from Dover, on the 8th inst., about midway between Calais and Dover, was laid aboard by a shallop of Calais, having ten men and a boy in her, all armed with swords and muskets, and having one murderer in the head of their boat, who took examinant and wound his head between two ropes, and beat him with a rope's end, holding their rapiers at his breast, and threatening to kill him if he would not confess where his money lay, and in the end they took from him and his company to the value of 20l. [¾ p.]
July 11. 96. Act questions in theology, civil law, medicine, and philosophy, to be discussed at Oxford this day and on the 13th inst. The names of the inceptors are George Aglionby, George Griffith, Edward Stanley, Thomas Heath, George Riddell, William Denton; of respondents, George Gisbye, Joseph Henshaw, John French, L.L.B., Thomas Clayton, A.M, and Robert Antrobus, A.M. [Printed. 2 pp.]
July [11]. 97. Information of Edward Cropley, that James Priest, of Cambridge, painter, came upon the Market Hill on Sabbath day the 5th July, and said "Some scurvy popish bishop hath got a toleration for boys to play upon the Sabbath day after evening prayer, and so I will begin myself," and so danced and played and used many unfit speeches. Also he said "Some foolish bishop hath gotten a toleration for these boys to play upon the Sabbath day, which if the King did understand himself he would not suffer it, but he is over-ruled by his servants—a company of knaves." Priest used many more unfitting speeches against the Vice-Chancellor about altars and organs in the churches. [1 p.]
July 12. 98. Thomas Choune to the Council. In obedience to their commands of 12th June last, he has delivered the French goods-taken by him out of a French ship lately chased by a Dunkirker and forced on ground near Seaford, to Arnold Brames, Henry Booth, and other merchants and factors of Dover, who appear to be the proprietors. He has taken 10,000l. bond from Brames and Booth for being saved harmless, and received his charges, and given notice to the Officers of the Customs at Dover. [¾ p.]
July 12.
Frogfirle.
99. The same to Nicholas. Presumes that Brames and Booth have acquainted him with the delivery of the goods. Incloses the above letter to be presented to the Lords. [Seal with arms. ½ p.]
July 13.
Denmark House.
100. The King to Archbishop Spottiswood and the rest of the Council of Scotland. Incloses papers concerning wrongs done to some of the Association for the Fishing of Great Britain and Ireland. They are to consider the same, and if they find that any there have, contrary to the laws of that kingdom and the charters of the Association, wronged that company or any of them, the persons addressed are required to see the goods unjustly taken restored and the delinquents punished. Concerning the busses cast away in the harbour of Stornoway, which is now depending in the Admiralty Court there, the King's pleasure is, that it be adjudged there because there were no judges deputed by the Council of the Society when those vessels were cast away, and the persons addressed are to see that the Judge of the Admiralty determine it with equality and expedition; and seeing now that there are Judges deputed by the said Council, if any matter henceforth happen touching the fishing business it is to be determined by such Judges deputed only. Persons pretending charge or authority from the King exact from the Association an excise or duty upon the fishings. The Council are to examine this matter, and certify what may best conduce to the King's royal ends, his pleasure being that no particular interest may prejudice so public and good a work. [Copy. 1½ p.]
July 13.
Denmark House.
The same to Sir John Hay, clerk-registrar. Having written to the Council of Scotland touching wrongs done to some of the Association for Fishing, his Majesty has made choice of Sir John to see the abuses complained of exactly tried and punished, and that the business may proceed without interruption. [Copy, written on the same sheet of paper as the preceding. ½ p.]
July 13.
Denmark House.
The same to George Earl of Seaforth. Recites the above letter addressed to the Council of Scotland. The King has thought fit (in respect of the Earl's residence thereabouts) to recommend him to assist those of the Association from being interrupted in a work in which the King has taken so much pains, and which tends so much to the public good. [Copy also written on the same sheet of paper as the preceding. ½ p.]
July 13.
Chester.
101. William Earl of Derby to the Lords of the Admiralty. Has received their letters of the 2nd May last, with certain rules to be observed in his Vice-Admiralty. Being required to recommend fit men to be judge, registrar, and marshal therein, he recommends Matthew Anderton, bachelor of laws, to be judge there; Nicholas Ratcliff, a public notary and proctor in the spiritual court at Chester, who has been brought up in the Arches at London, to be registrar; and John Tilston, gentleman, to be marshal. For the rest of the Lords' directions he will see the same performed. [Portion of seal, with crest and garter. 1 p.]
July 13.
Gravesend.
102. Mayor and another of Gravesend to Sec. Windebank. The Council directed warrant to the writers for stay of seamen that should ship themselves into strangers' ships. They have accordingly stayed John Davis, Henry Ransome, John Willerkent, Robert Williams, and Thomas Williams, who shipped themselves in the Lion, of Amsterdam, Hendrick Hendrickson Copp, captain. Desire his further direction. They are also desired by the poor people that his "Lordship" would send order that the captain of the ship might be compelled to pay their wages which are due. [1 p.]
July 13.
His lodgings in Bishopsgate Street.
103. Hugh Grove to Nicholas. If the letter be signed, begs Nicholas to appoint it to be directed to the Justices of Peace, Mayors, Sheriffs, and other officers in cos. Lincoln, Rutland, Huntingdon, and Cambridge, and deliver it to the bearer. [Seal with initials. ½ p.]
July 13. 104. Certificate of Inigo Jones of the names of the crew of the James, of Weymouth, to be employed for carriage of stone from Portland to London for repair of St. Paul's; being instructions for warrant for protection against impressment. [¾ p.]
July 13. 105. Examination of Thomas Markham, son of George Markham, of Ollerton, co. Nottingham, taken by Archbishop Neile, of York, at his manor house at Southwell. Being at Eagle, at the house of John Monson, on the 2nd inst., there being together, in the hall, examinant and John Monson, there came casually into their company [John] Berisford, who had been the day before at Newark, where there was a training of the horses of co. Nottingham. Monson asked, "What news from Newark ?" Berisford answered that he had seen the horses trained, and that the horse of Gervase Markham, examinant's cousin, was one of the best. They three had speech of the general musters now had throughout England, and of an order that every Earl should keep twelve horses to do his Majesty's service, and all other Lords according to their abilities; and they had speech of the Earls of Exeter and Newcastle being well furnished already. Berisford, in reply to examinant, said, that the mustering in Lincolnshire would be on the Tuesday following. Berisford asked what news of Sir William Monson, their countryman, that was at sea? Examinant answered he had heard that Sir William had caused twenty fiddlers to be pressed, six whereof he had taken into his own ship, and therefore examinant said he conceived they meant to be merry on shipboard. Being told that a wench [Kirkby Mosseman] had reported certain words relative to this conference [see this present Volume, No. 64], he protesteth that there were no such words spoken, and that as he hopes to be saved, he is far from any such disloyalty, and would think himself unworthy to live if he should even have had any such thought, and is ready to spend his life in his Majesty's defence, and that if Monson or Berisford had spoken such words he would have discovered it. Hearing, on the Tuesday following, that the wench that sate at the door had made such a report, he went to Sir Gervase Neville to clear himself. If he had heard Berisford speak such words he would instantly have defied him. [2 pp.]
July 13. 106. See "Returns of Justices of Peace."
July 14.
York.
107. Sir Edward Osborne, the Vice-President, and the Council of York to the Council. They received from one of the bailiffs of Scarborough the inclosed letter importing a fight within the harbour there between two ships of war, the one of Dunkirk the other of Holland. The harbour is of great importance to his Majesty, being the refuge for the Newcastle ships in their way to London, and for all the fishers upon the coast, and (as they are informed) the ordnance in the castle are old, dismounted, and of no use as they are now, which they leave to the consideration of the Lords. [Seal with arms. ¾ p.] Inclosed,
107. i. Martin Atmarr to Sir Edward Osbury [Osborne], VicePresident, and the rest of the Council of the North. Yesterday about 5 or 6 o'clock towards night, there came into the harbour of Scarborough a Dunkirk ship of war, the captain and company whereof brought with them a ship belonging to Holland called a buss, and within less than an hour a Holland man of war, one Captain Browne belonging to Amsterdam, and the ship called the Post of Amsterdam, boarded the Dunkirk ship, which presently discharged a piece of ordnance, and the Hollander the like against him, so multiplied shot upon shot the one against the other with great ordnance and muskets, and had a great fight in the harbour, till most of the Dunkirkers swam ashore, the tide flowing, notwithstanding there being ten or twelve Dunkirkers slain besides those were hurt, and bullets flying from the Hollander hurt divers of the town and some strangers that were on the sands by chance, to the great amazement and discouragement of the whole town. After the Hollanders had gotten the victory, they took both the Dunkirk ship of war and the prize the Dunkirkers had taken, forth of the harbour and piers of Scarborough, and would not come ashore when a special messenger was sent, neither to show their commission nor make help with their surgeon to save some who were shot. Submits the circumstances to their consideration, and craves advice how to prevent the like accident hereafter. [1 p.]
July 14. 108. Sir John Wentworth, Sheriff of Norfolk, to the same. Had received letter from the Council, directed to the Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and himself, wherein they mentioned 341l. 13s. 11d. to be in arrear of the charge of the ship to be set forth by cos. Norfolk and Cambridge, wherein he conceived some mistake by the Treasurer of the Navy, for he had paid him 5,880l. 6s. 1d., and the Treasurer had further received from the Trinity House for the lights in Norfolk 12l., and the Sheriff of Cambridgeshire had paid 513l., all which amounts to 6,405l. 6s. 1d., so as then there remains only 329l. 13s. 11d. unpaid; viz., from Norwich 30l. 3s. 11d., from Lynn 259l. 10s. 0d., besides 52l. 10s. which is allowed them from West Walton and Walsoken, and from Yarmouth 40l. By letters of the 1st May the Council informed him that they had written to Norwich, Lynn, and Yarmouth, charging them either to pay to the writer or to attend the Council board. They have not paid him, and he has neither power nor authority to collect the same. [Seal with arms. 1 p.]
July 14/24.
St. Sebastian.
109. Prestwick Eaton to George Wellingham. Wonders he received no letters from Wellingham. To send him, of each of certain patterns stated to be inclosed, twenty-six yards of satin lace for the mayor of that province, also for the mayor's lady a good pair of carnation silk stockings. [1 p.]
July 14.
Whitehall.
Lords of the Admiralty to Officers of the Navy. Require them to proceed to bargain for the several proportions of provisions expressed in the Lords' letter of the 1st inst., and also for a sufficient quantity of pipe staves for next year's service, and to take order to receive again the ropehouse at Woolwich, formerly lent to the East India Company. The charge of these provisions they are to set down in an estimate. [Copy. Vol. cclxiv., fol. 146. ½ p.]
July 14.
Whitehall.
The same to the same. Require them to send an estimate with their opinions which will be least charge to his Majesty, either presently to discharge the Triumph and the rest of the ten ships and to supply the fleet at sea with two months' victuals, or to send forth the Triumph and ten ships, and calling in ten others of the like burthen, to transfer into them their men, munition, and provisions. [Ibid., fol. 146 a. ⅓ p.]
July 14.
Whitehall.
The same to Robert Earl of Lindsey. Recite petition of Arnold Brames, Henry Booth, and others of Dover [see Vol. ccxiii. No. 20.], and pray the Earl to give order that when any of the fleet shall be in the Downs, Dover Road, or thereabouts, upon notice from the merchants of Dover they waft over such barks of that town as shall be bound to any parts within the Narrow Seas. [Ibid., fol. 146. 2/3 p.]
July 14. 110. Minutes, by Sec. Coke, of warrants to be prepared concerning the ten ships; viz., the Merhonour ending her four months victuals on 14th August next, the Admiral is to be at Portsmouth at that time, and there to shift his men and ammunition into the Triumph. The Officers of the Navy to discharge all the extraordinary men now aboard the Triumph, and to cease pressing. The Admiral to cause the Swiftsure and the rest of the King's ships to be in the Downs, so as those may come to Chatham which shall be exchanged, and the ten ships to be also ready in the Downs to receive a supply of men from them. The Officers of the Navy to discharge 500 men at Chatham, and the masters and officers appointed for the ten ships, leaving only so many as may serve to carry them to the place where they may meet the other ships. Care to be taken to send home ships of like burden for the ten which go forth. [Indorsed by Nicholas: "This proceeded not because the King afterwards gave order the ten ships should be discharged." 1 p.]
[July 14?] 111. Herbert Palmer, vicar, Ed. Waller, and eleven other Inhabitants of Ashwell, co. Hertford, to the Council. Certificate that Robert Nicholls, baker, who keeps an alehouse in their town, has always lived painfully and honestly and never kept any ill rule in his alehouse. [Cetificate to procure for Nicholls a license to sell tobaccco. ¾ p.]
July 14. 112. Notes, by Nicholas, of proceedings at a meeting of the Earl Marshal, the Earl of Newport, Lord Cottington, and Sec. Windebank, commissioners for ordnance, to whom the King had referred a petition of Mr. Browne [the founder of iron ordnance] with heads of an intended Report; also notes of business respecting which John Evelyn was to be spoken with. They relate to certain powder which was to be sold to the King at 12d. the pound, the retailer in London was to sell the same at 13d., and in the country at 14d. Mr. Evelyn was to be spoken to about a supply of musket, pistol, and birding powder. [1¼ p.]
July 14.
Whitehall.
Commissioners for Saltpetre to the Mayors, Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, and other his Majesty's Officers in cos. Lincoln, Rutland, Huntingdon, and Cambridge. Stephen Barrett, late deputy of the writers for working saltpetre in those counties, having failed in making the proportion assigned to him, has been displaced and Hugh Grove deputed in his stead. The writers have also required Barrett to strike his works and send back his deputation. The persons addressed are required to take care that Barrett proceed no further in his works and to assist Grove in the execution of his deputation. [See Vol. ccxcii., p. 232. ¾ p.]
July 14. 113–15. See "Returns of Justices of Peace."
July 14. 116. Return of the Constables of the Liberty of the Duchy of Lancaster in the Strand of all strangers born resident therein. The whole number, exclusive of women and children, is 31. Five are tailors, three clock makers, one jeweller, three comb makers, one cap maker, five shoe makers, one jeweller, and several are servants. "Mouncer Petar" was servant to Lord Herbord [Herbert of Cherbury], "a Frenchman" servant to Lord Lumley, and others to Mr. Arpe and Mr. Dunch. [½ p.] Annexed,
116. i. Two similar returns for the Westminster Liberty in St. Clement Danes. There are eight strangers in these lists, among them Vincent Gregory, D.D., an Italian; Gedion Leuine, a Frenchman; and two Dutchmen, Gracchianus Hannamor and Cornelius Blewe. [¼ p.]
116. ii. Similar return for the Westminster Liberty in the Savoy parish. Here are nine gentlemen and ten tradesmen. Peter Burbey and "Angrosiam, an Italian gentleman," were at Mr. Morgan's, Mons. Delay at Mr. Robert Murrey's, and Mons. John Barboy at Alexander May's. [¾ p.] Underneath,
116. ii. i. Sir William Slingsby to the Council. Humbly presents the above certificates. 17th July 1635.
July 15.
Inner Temple.
117. Solicitor General Littleton to [the Council]. According to order of 8th instant, has taken examinations which he presents to the Lords. If Gaunan's coming into England, Nugent's and Baker's words, or Pilcher's absenting himself from his Majesty's service, were of ill intent, they are crimes of a high nature; but if qualified as themselves pretend, they merit the less correction after divers weeks imprisonment. [1 p.] Inclosed,
117. i. Separate examinations of William Gaunan, James Nugent, John Baker, and Stephen Pilcher. Gaunan stated that he had been a Romish priest ten years, and took his orders from Maurice Hurley in Ireland, where he had performed the office of a priest, as also at Paris in Our Lady's Church for alms, and intended to return out of France to his native country of Connaught. Has taken the oath of allegiance and will take it again, but not that of supremacy. Nugent stated that he was an Irishman born and a Roman Catholic. In discourse he said that if his Majesty would go to hell he would go to the doors thereof with him, words which in the Low Countries are an expression of the greatest love between nearest and dearest friends. Offers to take the oath of allegiance. Baker, described as of the Isle of Thanet, schoolmaster, confessed that being in drink, he said it was a poor silly thing that the King and Council would make such orders that men could not have more than a pennyworth of tobacco for twopence. He is heartily sorry and beseeches pardon. Pilcher confessed that he was pressed for the fleet that is gone to sea, and received 2s. 6d. press money, and served six weeks. He was discharged by the Earl of Lindsey with others, there being more mariners than needful. He had a ticket which is in the hands of Mr. Holland, an officer under Sir William Russell. Being sent to Chatham to rig the ships which were afterwards to go forth, he had 10s. given him to buy clothes, and four days allotted for the doing thereof. For that purpose he went to Hastings, where he was apprehended, and so could not return within the time. All the examinations taken this day. [4 pp.]
July 15. 118. Notes, by Sec. Windebank, of a proposal made by Sir Basil Brooke, probably vivâ voce, to the Lords of the Treasury. He expressed a hope that if the King could not get so much by his undoing as by preserving him, he would not ruin him. He proposed to take a new lease of Dean Forest at 6,000l. per annum rent, and to pay 4,000l. of the fine. If he were put out he should lose 14,000l. [¾ p.]
July 15. 119. Examination of John Monson of Eagle, taken before Sir Gervase Nevile, Justice of the Peace for co. Lincoln, in relation to the conversations between himself, Thomas Markham, and John Berisford, referred to in several previous articles. Monson confirms (with some unimportant deviations in minute particulars) the statements of Markham and Berisford. [Copy. 1 p.] Underwritten,
119. i. A further examination of John Monson, in which he was asked whether on the occasion above referred to, he did not hear John Berisford speak the words attributed to him by Kirkby Mosseman. Monson denied that he ever heard those words or any like them, and protested for himself that he never harboured a disloyal thought towards his Majesty's person or state, but should always be willing to spend his life and fortunes in their defence. 18th July 1635. [Copy. 1 p.]
July 15. 120–2. See "Returns of Justices of Peace."
July 16.
Westminster.
123. The King to the Commissioners of Sewers for co. Lincoln. Has formerly signified his resolution for draining the Fens in co. Lincoln, wherein his intention always was to reserve the Eight Hundred or Holland Fen to be drained by itself, and because he is now resolved that the same shall be presently drained, he appoints George Kirke, gentleman of the robes, to be undertaker for draining the same, and expects the Commissioners to proceed to the fen and make a bargain with Kirke for such a recompense in land as will suffice to defray the charge of the work and reward his pains. [Copy. ¾ p.]
[July 16 ?] 124. Minutes, by Nicholas, of various Admiralty matters on which the King was to be moved. What shall be done about setting forth the ten ships. Whether order shall be given to the Earl of Lindsey to come to the Downs to receive a supply of victuals. To appoint a ship to transport [Lord Scudamore] ambassador to France. To appoint a Surveyor of Victuals and Victualler. To appoint that at the Victualling House in East Smithfield there may be places appointed for the Officers to dwell in, and for keeping the papers of the Navy. Whether the Maria pinnace, employed at Portsmouth, shall come thence with the Triumph to ply about Dover and Calais to secure the passage-boat and other small vessels. To appoint a convenient place wherein to lay the hemp. To acquaint his Majesty with the state of Sir William Russell's account of ship-money. [1½ p.]
July 16.
Whitehall.
Lords of the Admiralty to Sir James Bagg. Being certified by the Court of Admiralty, that he having been trusted with the collecting of tenths of prize goods within cos. Devon and Cornwall, had not given any account. They require him forthwith to attend Sir Henry Marten, and deliver a true account; and also to pay into the said Court what shall be remaining due upon such account, and to follow such further directions as should be given him by Sir Henry. [Copy. Vol. cclxiv., fol. 147. 1 p.]
July 16.
Whitehall.
The same to Sir John Heydon, Sir Henry Mainwaring, Sir Paul Harris, George Fielding, and Richard Dike. Similar letter for delivery of an account to Sir Henry Marten of divers prize goods disposed of by them out of the Tower of London. [Copy. Vol. cclxiv., fol. 147 a. ½ p.]
July 16.
Whitehall.
Lords of the Admiralty to Robert Earl of Lindsey. Viscount Scudamore, his Majesty's Ambassador for France, is speedily to repair into that kingdom. The Viscount and his Lady and followers are to be transported in some of the ships under the Earl's charge. He is to give order to the captains of the Leopard and the Swallow to repair to Dover Road, to receive aboard the Viscount his Lady and their train, and to land them in such place as the Viscount shall direct; the Viscount is expecting to hear when the ship will be there, that he may set forward from hence. [Ibid., 147 a. 2/3 p.]
July 16.
Whitehall.
The same to the Officers of the Navy. By former letters, the Lords gave the Officers directions to mark for his Majesty's use such of the Earl of Southampton's timber exposed to sale in Tichfield Park as they deemed fitting. They having accordingly contracted for 1,000 trees, for payment whereof an estimate is signed and a privy seal passed, the Lords require them to bring the said 1,000 trees into his Majesty's yards, and to give warrant to the Treasurer of the Navy to pay for the same. [Vol. cclxiv., fol. 148. ½ p.]
July 16. 125. Petition of John Talbot, captain of the fort at Tilbury, to the Lords of the Admiralty. About four years since, petitioner became bound to the Bradshaws, brewers of Westminster, for 7l. due from a friend of his. They falling to decay, assigned the debt to Richard Daniel, who demanding the same of petitioner, he offered payment, and still is ready to pay the same, but Daniel said he would not take anything save the principal with use and charges, or what he could get by law, and lately caused petitioner to be arrested in London, by Hugh Osborne, a sergeant, and his yeoman, and though petitioner acquainted them that he was captain of the said fort, and justified the same by Capt. Witham, yet they violently detained him till he had deposited money for his enlargement, and to regain the same was since constrained to put in bail. Prays the Lords to send for Daniel and Osborne, and his yeoman, to answer their contempt. [¾ p.]
July 16.
Whitehall.
Lords of the Admiralty to a messenger not named. Warrant to bring Richard Daniel of St. John Street, and Hugh Osborne of London, and —, his yeoman, before the Lords, to answer matters to be objected against them. [Copy. Vol. cclxiv., fol. 148. ⅓ p.]
July 16.
Whitehall.
The same to Sir Henry Marten. The Lords have appointed Leonard Dykes to be Judge of the Vice-Admiralty of Westmorland and Cumberland. Sir Henry is to cause a patent to be issued out of the Court of Admiralty, and directed to Dykes for that purpose, the same to be in force during pleasure. [Ibid., fol. 148 a. ⅓ p.]
July 16.
Whitehall.
The same to the same. Similar letter for a patent for Thomas Senhowse, appointed Registrar of the same Vice-Admiralty. [Ibid., fol. 148 a. ⅓ p.]
July 16.
Whitehall.
Lords of the Admiralty to Sir Henry Marten. The like for Matthew Blemerhassett appointed Marshal of the same Vice-Admiralty. [Copy. Vol. cclxiv., fol. 148 a. ⅓ p.]
July 16. 126. Petition of Robert Carrell, prisoner in Yarmouth gaol, to the Lords of the Admiralty. Being justly committed for hiring Thomas Hopper and John Pratt to go to sea in two French boats for a fishing voyage, which he then thought was lawful, prays that he may be set at liberty, giving security that he will not any more offend, and the rather for that petitioner is a weak man, and the prison very close and many people there, and consequently very dangerous for the infection wherewith the town has been much visited. [¾ p.]
July 16.
Canbury.
Letters Patent reciting an Act of Parliament of 22nd Edward IV. whereby it was enacted that no merchant should set any herring to sale by barrels, half barrels, or firkins, except the barrel contained 32 gallons, and the half barrels and firkins in proportion. The King now erected an office of Searcher of all barrels of red herrings, and granted the same to Thomas Davys, with the fee of 2¼d. per barrel, he paying into the Exchequer a rent of 4l. per annum. [See Charles I., Case C., No. 7. The seal taken off.]
July 16. 127. Statement or Estimate of the King's revenue for the year 1635 from the various duties classed under the head of "Customs:" total 358,000l. [Indorsed are memoranda of Sec. Windebank and the writer of the preceding statement respecting the Customs. Windebank's memoranda relate to Lord Aston, ambassador in Spain; Sir Ralph Clare; news out of France apparently communicated by Capt. Roydon [Rawdon ?],—among them "the States ship and their insolency to a merchant of London, Mr. Nicholas hath order to send for Roydon." The writer of the statement intimates that 300 Walloons (workmen) had come into England within the present month. ½ p.]
July 16. 128. Abstract made for Archbishop Laud by Sir Nathaniel Brent, of his visitation as Vicar-General of the Archbishop, of the dioceses of Norwich, Peterborough, Lichfield, Worcester, Gloucester, Winchester, and Chichester. The following itinerary indicates the course of the visitation and the several places where the Vicar-General held his court:—
1635.
April 6, 7, 8. Norwich.
10. Swaffham.
13. Lynn.
15. Fakenham.
17. Yarmouth.
20. Bungay.
22, 23, 24. Ipswich.
27, 29, 30. Bury St. Edmunds.
May 2. Peterborough.
May 4. Stamford.
6. Oundle.
8. Rowell.
11, 12. Northampton.
15, 16. Lichfield.
20. Shrewsbury.
22. Stafford.
25, 26. Derby.
28, 29. Coventry.
June 1, 2, 3. Worcester.
5. Stratford-upon-Avon.
8, 9. Gloucester.
11. Moreton-in-the-Marsh.
13. Cirencester.
16. Chipping Sodbury.
June 19, 20, 22, 23. Winchester.
25. Southampton.
27, 30. Chichester.
July 1. Arundel.
3, 4. Lewes.
7. Guildford.
14. Southwark.
The Vicar-General's abstract contains a general account of the reception he met with from the local authorities of the places visited, some particulars of the disposition of both clergy and laity towards conformity or puritanism, brief notes of the state in which Sir Nathaniel found the cathedrals and some other churches which fell in his course, and of the principal orders given by him. The paper is altogether of such interest and importance, that instead of abstracting in this place, it is proposed to print it entire in our Preface. [31¼ pp.]
July 16. 129–30. See "Returns of Justices of Peace."