Charles I - volume 533: July 1631

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

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'Charles I - volume 533: July 1631', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1625-49 Addenda, (London, 1897) pp. 413-415. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/chas1/addenda/1625-49/pp413-415 [accessed 23 April 2024]

July 1631

July 4. 41. Order for a copy of the petition of Henry Edlin, of Addington, [see Vol. 194, No. 23], to be delivered to Sir Francis Leigh that he may be prepared to make answer thereto at the next assizes to be held at Southwark for co. Surrey. [½ p.]
July 7.
Westminster.		 Grant to Edward Messervy, Esq., Advocate-General in the Isle of Jersey, of the sole privilege of drawing out conveyances and other writings which pass under the seal of that Isle. [S. P. Dom. Warrant Book, Vol. 33, No. 864.]
July 17.
Bulwick.		 42. [Sir Thomas Roe to Sir John Finet]. You began well by mistaking this place for one far more remote, for certainly I am here farther removed from the world and the distempers thereof than when I was in either India; and yet I can especially say I am now at home. Perhaps the moral is to teach me that this world is not my home; yet such content I find in the sweet air of a calm rest that I have determined to winter here and to wean myself from the deceitful food of fools,—hope— hope of those things that wise men should despise. I will let the ambitious see that every man's content is in his own power, and what is not so is either wages which may be given and taken away, or servitude which is the basest condition of man; and I hope to live to think that only good and noble, which no man can take from me; yet I would not be so resty as not to use my mind, nor so rural as not to know whatsoever my friends, especially of so much confidence and judgment as you, shall think fit to communicate with me; and therefore to thank you is to pay one debt and contract another, to desire you to continue the favour you have begun; and you see what return shall be made you, grateful meditations. For the news you write me, I wonder not at honour conferred that way, nor envy the German undertaker. Let him boast that puts off his armour. I see clearly in this air that I mistook in a fog of passion; I could not have done what may undo better beginnings; lastly, trial by combat is unchristian. I like it not, but I would fain know what is the accusation; and what the greater secret of the business I left in whispers and darkness: if I may not I shall not be much curious. Endorsed: "To Sr. Jhon Finnet, 17 July, 1631." [Copy. 1 p.]
July 21. 43. Statement containing the names of the captains of the regiment serving in Germany under [Donald Mackay] Lord Reay in aid of the King of Sweden, presented by Sir Thomas Conway, Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment, to the Lords [of the Council] at London this day. The Lord Reay, whose regiment was almost all cut off at the loss of New Brandenburg, was sent hither by the King of Sweden with his commission to solicit His Majesty for leave to raise recruits to make up his regiment, of which part is already there with the Sergeant-Major, and was furnished with bills of exchange and credit to take up money for the work. His Lieutenant-Colonel being lost in the town of New Brandenburg, he has made choice of Sir Thomas Conway to be his LieutenantColonel, and has treated with him to raise five companies of 150 men each, upon these conditions, viz.:—That Sir Thomas Conway, undertaking to raise and transport 750 men to Straelsund, shall be allowed 8 rix-dollars for every man, 20s. in hand, and good security to receive the rest at their landing at Straelsund, where they shall be presently received into the King [of Sweden's] pay, and transported to the rest of the regiment which is already there. The captains are Sir Thomas Conway, Lieutenant-Colonel, Captains Ralph Standish, Gilbert Haughton, Walter Owen, and Edward Shadwell, against whose names are grouped the counties [in which the design was to raise their soldiers]. And he humbly desires your Lordships would give him license and warrant to raise his men in these counties above-named, and to ship them at Hull, Boyston [Boston], and London, or at any of them. [1½ pp.]
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