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| May 1. |
26. Petition of John Blanche, of Guernsey, to the Privy Council,
against the unjust proceedings of John de Quetteville and other
jurats of the island, who for 13 years have molested him.
Although the last three Attorney-Generals have given certificates
in his favour, he was arrested in June 1635, and not being able to
procure bail, was in the Gatehouse for 14 months. Since that
time their Lordships have referred the business to the present
Attorney-General, who advises that petitioner be sent to Guernsey,
and have recompense for costs and damages. Begs that their
Lordships' letters may be directed to such jurats as are not parties
to the case, and that they may be authorised to tax costs and
damages, and also to levy the same. [Received 1st of May. 1 p.] |
| [May 1.] |
27. Copy of the same. Underwritten, |
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27. i. Copy of Sir John Banke's report of 15th April 1635.
[See Vol. DXXXIV., No. 65, above.] |
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27 ii. Copy of Order in Council of 17th March 1637,
calendared under that date, see p. 554 above. [4 pp.] |
May 3.
Inner Star Chamber. |
28. Order of Council. Having considered an order of 17th of
March last, in the difference between John Blanche, of Guernsey,
and John de Quetteville, and others of the same island, whereby
they confirmed a report of the Attorney-General, dated 15th of
April 1635; and also calling to mind an order of 8th of July 1635,
grounded upon a report of the Earl of Danby and the AttorneyGeneral, dated 29th of May 1635, by which the said Quetteville
was discharged from further attendance until Blanche should give
good security to pay costs and charges to Quetteville if the complaint were not found just against him, and that in the meantime
all orders in favour of Blanche should be suspended, their Lordships
now give order that the order of 17th of March last shall be
cancelled, and that the order of the 8th of July 1635 shall be
ratified and confirmed. [Draft by Nicholas. 1 p.] |
| [May 10.] |
29. Petition of John Arundel to the Privy Council. Petitioner
having been ordered to attend to give account for placing his
children with Otho Polwheele, a recusant, pleads that he placed
them in the house of the said Polwheele that they might have
convenient diet and some little knowledge of music, but took care
that they might be instructed in learning by one Imber, a licensed
minister in Winchester. Prays discharge, on promise that hereafter
he will not dispose of his children in any school but such as the
King and their Lordships approve. [½ p. See Vol. CCCLV.,
No. 176.] |
| [May 17?] |
30. Petition of Robert Tichborne, of London, skinner, and Michael
Holman, scrivener, to the King. Have lent sums of money to Sir
Richard and Sir Walter Tichborne, amounting with interest to 4,780l.,
of which they have often desired payment, but have hitherto after
many expenseful journeys, been put off with promises. Two years
since the said Sir Richard and Sir Walter Tichborne obtained Royal
protection against certain debts for which they stood bound with
Sir John Philpott, which protection they have since used against
their own creditors, and so pay neither principal nor interest, but
reserve great estates to themselves. Pray that their debts may be
paid before the protection is renewed. [¾ p. See Vol. CCCLVI.,
Nos. 108–115.] |
| [May 17 ?] |
31. A like petition to the Privy Council. |
| May 19. |
32. Depositions of Edward Lake in the two causes of the
Attorney-General versus Bishop Williams of Lincoln and others.
Relates a difference between John Prigeon, the Bishop's Registrar,
and Henry Allen, and what occurred when they, Sir John Lambe,
and Dr. Sibthorpe met at the Bishop's house at Bugden on or about
25th July 1627. Deposes that he has known the Bishop for 21
years, and for four years, (from 1625 to 1630,) was his domestic
servant and secretary; and that he has observed him to be no
favourer of Puritans, but a strict observer of the rites and ceremonies of the Church. Narrates proceedings of the Bishop against
divers Puritans, viz., against Lottemale and Whyte; Mr. Jones,
parson of Abbot Ripton, co. Huntingdon; Mr. Tookey, vicar of
St. Ives; the lecturer at Amphill, co. Beds., at complaint of Hugh
Reeve, the vicar; John Viccar, minister of Stamford, co. Lincoln;
and the lecturers at Bedford. Believes that John Prigeon would
not forswear himself, and that he has dealt fairly in the duties of
his place. Heard the cause between Edward Blunt, vicar of
St. Margaret's, Leicester, and certain persons of Knighton, and
declares that the Bishop did not lie heavy upon Blunt, but brought
about a friendly reconciliation, writing also in favour of Blunt to
Sir Henry Martin. Spoke to Sir John Lambe in Doctor's
Commons touching Allen, whom Sir John then called a cockbrained fool. As regards the second cause, he deposes that he was
at the Bishop's house on 24th July 1627 and two following days;
that Lambe, Sibthorpe, and Allen came in the afternoon of the 25th
and went away next day before dinner, and that on the 25th he
read a chapter of Latin in the presence of the Bishop at dinner,
and in the presence of the others at supper. [Copy. 8 pp. The
2nd deposition was taken 19th May 1637.] |
| [May ?] |
33. Breviate of examinations of John Hill, Henry Blunt,
William Spicer, John Somerfield, Robert Weldon, John Baker,
Thomas Mottershead, John Berridge, Francis Mundie, and
Reginald Burden, tending to show that the Bishop of Lincoln is a
favourer of Puritans and Nonconformists. They declare that he
approved of Mr. Sherman's rising at the receiving of the Communion, or only kneeling upon one knee; that upon complaint of
the Puritans he discharged Blunt from his office of Surrogate;
that the Puritans make great vaunt of his favour to them; that he
was displeased with Dr. Sibthorpe concerning some examinations
against his Lordship, and said he would cry quittance with
Sibthorpe and Sir John Lambe; that John Prigeon, his late
registrar, is a great favourer of Puritans; that it is said the
Bishop would have questioned Mr. Alleyne in the Parliament, if it
had continued, for matters in his epistle against Mr. Burton (see
Vol. CCXI., No. 65); and that Berridge received a letter from
John Prigeon, saying that if Mr. Marshall, formerly his curate,
might be dealt with truly to confess how much he paid to
Dr. Sibthorpe for the resignation of that parsonage, he would
undertake that he should have the same and another as well, and
should be received into a noble Lord's favour. [2 pp. It seems
probable that this paper was drawn up about this time, but the
examinations themselves (excepting that which speaks of Prigeon
as late registrar) are apparently of a much earlier date.] |
| [May ?] |
34. Petition of Lady Skinner, widow, to Secretary Coke. Having
given her the great comfort that her son Thomas, prisoner in the
Tower, shall are long be released, she begs him also to procure for
her said son the liberty of the Tower until he is set free, as he has
long endured close imprisonment in a room on which the sun lies
all the day, which is very great hazard of bringing him into some
violent distemper. [The order for Thomas Skinner's release was
given on 14th May. See Vol. CCCLVI., No. 57. 1 p.] |
