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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.] |