Charles I - volume 537: March 1637

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 537: March 1637', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1625-49 Addenda, (London, 1897) pp. 552-555. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/chas1/addenda/1625-49/pp552-555 [accessed 25 March 2024]

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March 1637

March 1.
Chester.
10. Richard Williams to William Gwynne, Auditor for co. Chester. I made bold to acquaint you with my urgent employment at the County Court, and that it would be better to come to you after I had paid the charges upon last year's account. The amount altogether is 90l. I intend next term to pay all that is due to the King or to Sir Kellam [Kenelm] Digby. I pray you let me have an abstract of what is charged. What is due to the King I will pay forthwith and get it again as I can. What is due to Sir Kellam was, upon the Michaelmas account, totted upon the last sheriff, which money I have not received, but will gather in with expedition, and so give content for Sir Thomas Aston's account. When I parted from you at Westminster, as I went out of London, I had a note from Mr. Woods, your deputy, to pay 48l. 7s. 1d., which I have sent, and hope I shall have my quietus est. For the whole, I have paid 148l. 5s. 4d. besides the money now sent, which makes Sir Thomas Aston's account above 200l. The like service hath not been done by any sheriff these many years. [1 p.]
March 1. Petition of William Murray, groom of the Bedchamber, to the King. The Castle and Wapentake Court of Holdernesse, co. York part of his Majesty's honour of Albermarr, with all rents, wrecks of the sea, and other profits, having been unjustly withheld from his Majesty for more than 80 years, petitioner prays for a grant in fee-farm of the same, for which he will pay rent of 100 marks yearly. Underwritten,
Order to the Attorney-General to prepare a grant accordingly. Court at Whitehall, 1st March 1637. [Book of Petitions. Dom. Chas. I., Vol. CCCXXIII., p. 100.]
March 5.
Westover.
11. John Ashburnham to Edward Nicholas. Being at my brother's when our Andover carrier went, I missed the opportunity of saluting you, wherefore I have seized on this passenger and forced him to be the instrument of my reparation. Your brother Doctor [Matthew Nicholas] was with me the other day and told me that Mr. Glanville and he are agreed to refer their business to the arbitration of two friends, and he hath been pleased to make choice of me. He hath not mended the matter, I conceive, to take it from you and trust me with it, but if I am wanting it will be in ability, not in good inclination. I desire for the discharging myself therein, that you will send me the [points] you persisted upon, and what of them he consented to. Your brother could not stay with me a moment, by reason his wife was very ill, otherwise I should not have troubled you. The meeting is within a fortnight, as I understand, therefore (I hope you are not idle in your own business) expedition will not be amiss. I pray you kiss your wife's hands for me and my wife, and thank her for her oranges, lemons, potatoes and the thousand other things which came safe to us. You will oblige me to hearken after my Lord Lambert's (?) employment in town, and when you have an opportunity to speak with the secretaries, I pray ask if he renew his suit to the King. Keep me in Harry's good graces. My breed of lambs prosper well, thank God. [1 p. Damaged.]
March 15. 12. Draft by Nicholas of his examination of Humphrey Dimock, calendared under this date, Vol. CCCXLIX., No. 115. [¾ p.]
March 16. 13. Report [by Sir Nathaniel Brent to the Archbishop of Canterbury] concerning the stranger churches in London, in his metropolitical visitation. At St. Mary Bowe, there appeared before me the ministers and elders of the French, Dutch, and Italian churches. I laid upon them the two inquisitions formerly put upon the stranger churches elsewhere, and obeyed by them. Dr. Primrose spoke somewhat in opposition, but not much. The 10th of May ensuing was assigned for their final answer. The day following, one Mr. Host, a Dutch elder, came to me in the name of that Church, and desired that the ministers and elders might be sent for to profess their obedience. But as I was then ready to take horse, I wished them to come at the time appointed. I convented one Mr. Hughes, minister, of Watling Street, who denied all my objections, except only his disobedience in not doing reverence at the name of Jesus. Because he persisted in his opinion, and would not yield to the grave persuasions of divers learned doctors there present, I suspended him in case he did not change his mind within a month. There appeared only thirteen parishes, and I do not remember any other matter that deserves your Grace's more particular knowledge. Endorsed by Archbishop Laud, "The answear of the French and Walloone Churches in London at mye metropolit: visitation thear." [Copy. 1¼ pp.]
March 17. Order of the Privy Council in the case between John Blanche of Guernsey and John de Quetteville and others of the same island, ratifying the report of Sir John Bankes, permitting Blanche to proceed according to a certificate of Attorney-General Noy, dated 28th April 1632, and allowing the said Blanche his costs and damages. [Copy. ¾ p. See No. 27 ii. below.]
March 18. 14. Bill for hay, oats, and barley for the keep of Sir Henry Crocke's (?) grey gelding, from 21st January to 18th March, and for Mr. Boyden's and Mr. Crocke's nags for one night; amounting to 3l. 10s.
Underwritten.—Received of my master towards this bill 50s., paid 21s. more for this bill. 18th March 1636–7. [Scrap. Damaged.]
[March 22.]
Whitehall.
15. Draft by Nicholas of the letter from the Commissioners of Gunpowder to the Earl of Newport, concerning the sale of gunpowder from His Majesty's store, already calendared under date, Vol. CCCL., No. 63. [1 p.]
March 24. 16. Secretary Coke to Sir Arthur Hopton [Ambassador in Spain]. Complaints having been made to the King that the ships and goods of his subjects of the Isle of Jersey, trading into Spain, are arrested for French, you are to assist and protect all such merchants and their goods, and prevent them being mistaken for French because they speak French, and their commodities are linen, wax, and such like, usually made in Jersey, as well as in France. You are to receive of every Jersey ship coming into those parts a certificate under the hand and seal of Sir Philip Carteret, and thereupon be pleased to take the same into your knowledge, that they may not suffer loss in their affairs. [Draft. 1 p.]
[March ?] 17. Answers to objections against a project concerning cloth. The matter propounded is to take off all duties on exported cloth, other than the "Ancient Noble," and lay the like duties on the "domestical vent." The objections hereto are,—1. That it is hurtful to the poor, indearing the commodity. 2. That it is an innovation, and consequently against the law. To the first it is answered, that though the poor man may give eighteenpence more for his suit, yet it will last him two years, as on working days he wears sackcloth, canvas, or skins, so that the increase is only 9d. in a year, the price of one day's work, while the increase of manufactures would bring him many more weeks' work in the year; and to the second, that it is not an innovation, which is the instituting of a thing that never was, but a mutation, which is the transferring from one thing to another. [2 pp.]