Charles I - volume 521: March 1625 | British History Online

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1625-49 Addenda. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1897.

'Charles I - volume 521: March 1625', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1625-49 Addenda, (London, 1897) pp. 1. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/chas1/addenda/1625-49/p1 [accessed 19 April 2024]

March to September 1625.



[March 27.]	1. Manuscript copy of the Proclamation of the Privy Council declaring the accession of Charles I. [Already calendared, see Domestic Calendar, 27th March. ½ p.]
[March.]	2. Notes by Secretary Conway's secretary of the proceedings on the decease of James I. and accession of Charles I. The King died Sunday 27th March, between 11 and 12 at noon, at Theobald's. The Lords of the Council with many others presently assembled together, penned and signed [the] Proclamation and, instantly, at the Court Gate, proclaimed Prince Charles King, &c. This done, they came all to Whitehall into the Council Chamber, signed the Proclamation new drawn, and about 5 o'clock went together into London proclaiming King Charles. The King came that night to St. James', and the next morning declared his intention to continue all the late King's officers [and] councillors in their charges, and gave commission presently [for] administering the oath to all the Council, which was done that [even]ing, and the next [day] Sir Humphrey May was added to the [pa]per; and all other commissions are in preparation.
[March.]	[He then] likewise resolved to prosecute the ways and counsels [of his father], and to that purpose dispatches to foreign [States and neigh]bours for maintenance of the same correspondence [between] the ambassadors and agents; approves all instructions [given] them and their negotiations, which they are to pursue constantly; [and] Parliament is forthwith to be called by new writ. [The] funeral, coronation, settling the household, businesses [are] presently to be ordered. [A further report of the proceedings of the Privy Council is already calendared in Domestic Calendar, Vol. I., No. 5. Damaged by mice. ²/3 p.]
[March.]	3. Estimate [by Captain Vaughan] of the monthly expense of the officers, crew, diet, and repairs of the pinnace called the "Lion's Whelp," [bestowed on the Duke of Buckingham]; total, 2,203l. [²/3 p.]