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Sept. 10.
Guernsey. |
101. Bailiff and Jurats of Guernsey to the Privy Council.
According to your order of 29th July, requiring us to examine
witnesses in a case of perjury between William le Breton and
Nicholas le Beyr, both natives of this isle, we appointed a day of
hearing, at which time Le Beyr appeared but alleged nothing why
we should not proceed to the examination of the said witnesses, so
that we took their depositions and present them to your Lordships
here enclosed. The latter part of your order required me, the Bailiff,
to tax such costs as is usual in such cases upon Le Beyr for not
obeying the Advocate's warrants and towards Le Breton's long
attendance. I acquainted Le Beyr with the demands of Le Breton,
but when the day appointed came he refused to appear, and sent me
word that he had counsel given him not to appear before me. Signed
by J. de Quetteville, Bailiff, and Samuel de la Place and Thomas
Milet, Jurats. [¾ p.] Enclosing, |
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101. i. Depositions of John Le Page, James Ozanne, Thomas
Godefroy, John le Feyure (Fébre), John Breton, son of
Etienne, Collas le Jersies, John Mourain, John Breton
of the mills, and Peter le Roy. Le Page, Le Févre,
Mourain, and Breton of the mills, sign by their mark.
[2½ pp. Seal.] |
Sept. 10.
Jersey. |
102. Sir Philip Carteret to Nicholas. The warrant you obtained
got me the "Whelp" that Captain Lindsey commands to pass me
to this island. I could not have fallen into a more noble gentleman's
hands, whose care and entertainment of me and those of my family
has been far more than I could expect. He is civil, religious, not
given to any scraping or undue lucre, and I think will prove an able
seaman. I find all the gentlemen of Normandy gone to the wars,
having taken leave of their families with much regret, unusual to
the nobility of France. The most have engaged their lands for
money; those that are left, old and decrepit, pay near the third of
their estate towards the war. The country is in a miserable state
and like to continue long, howsoever the issue of the wars may
prove. Endorsed by Nicholas, "Received 17th September 1635.
Sir Philip Carteret commends Captain Lindsey. News from
Normandy." [1 p.] |
Sept. 11.
Castle Elizabeth. |
103. Report of Captain John Paperill to the Privy Council, on his
survey of Elizabeth Castle, made according to their warrant of
26th of June. Sir Philip Carteret has cut off part of the little
island where the castle stands, and made a fair stone wall about
it twenty feet high. States what works will be needed, as the
raising and strengthening of walls, building of gates, portcullises,
bridges, &c. An old chapel, very much ruined, may be made
useful for storehouses, and if a wall were made about it, would be a
second fortification. Soldiers'. lodgings must be built, and new
lodgings for the Governor are much wanted. Sir Philip Carteret
has demanded 200l. and 100 tons of timber, which will be no bad
bargain for their Lordships. The whole sum required will be 1,238l.,
besides 100 tons of timber. [2 pp.] |
| Sept. 24. |
104. Extracts from the Journal of the Earl of Lindsey on certain
days in June, August, and September, the last being 24th September. [4½ pp. The journal is calendared Vol. CCXCIX.,
No. 28.] |
| Sept. 26. |
105. Sheriffs of Middlesex to the Privy Council. We have
received your letters, dated at Hampton Court, the 21st of this
month, requiring us to make a new assessment for the shipping
money, upon information that the hundred of Osulston is overcharged. On receipt of his Majesty's writ on 25th August last,
with your Lordships' letters of instructions, we summoned the
Chief Constables and divers discreet and able men of the several
parts and parishes in the county to meet in Westminster Hall on
Thursday, 27th August, and having openly read the writ and
letters, we did then and there assess upon the city of Westminster
the sum of 1,300l., and upon the rest of the county the sum of
4,200l.; and gave time to the Constables and others until the 7th
of September to consider the most fit way for the equal assessing
of the hundreds. At which day we all met again, but finding
much difference in their opinions, we again adjourned till the
14th of September that we might consider the rates that had of
late been made in the county. Upon inquiry we found that there
had been three rates, the first for building a house of correction
and providing a stock, &c., the second for maintenance for the same,
and the third for the relief of maimed soldiers, all which we
considered, and herewith send your Lordships the calculations,
together with the like for Brandford [Brentford ?] Bridge, now
sent to us in your Lordships' letters, but not then spoken of.
These rates differ much in themselves, and are all of them land
rates, so that to raise this sum according to them would lay a very
unequal burden on most of the five remote hundreds, three of them
being very small, while the hundred of Osulston lies round the
city of London, the land and people are of much better value, and
the hundred is very large and populous. We then perused the
subsidy rolls, by which the proportion we had laid upon Westminster fell out right, and those of Westminster are very well
content, for aught we know, and there were no reasons alleged by
those of the hundred of Osulston but such as might be applied to
the city of Westminster also. Believing this to be the most equal
way, we assessed the hundreds accordingly and sent warrants to
the Chief Constables to proceed to assessing the parishes, but upon
your Lordships' second letter we have given warning for another
meeting on Thursday next, that they may receive what your
Lordships may determine. Signed by John Highlord and John
Cordell, Sheriffs of Middlesex. [Seal with impression of a Greek
head. 1¼ pp.] |
Sept. 27.
Salisbury House. |
106. Warrant from Lord Cottington to Sir Thomas Fanshaw,
Remembrancer of the Exchequer, to appoint Anthony Howe, Richard
Procter, Daniel Beningfield, Nicholas Turbervile, and Robert
Chambers, to be a commission to enquire what lands or tenements
the late Thomas Lewen had in the city of London or elsewhere, in
whose possession they now are, and by what title they are held, and
whether they ought to have come to His Majesty by virtue of the
Act of Parliament, 1 Edward VI., or any other Act since made for
the suppressing of chantries and seizure of lands or tenements given
to any superstitious uses. Also to issue a mandamus to the sheriff of
London or any other sheriff whom it may concern to impanel a
jury for the said Commissioners at such time and place as they may
appoint. [¾ p.] |
