Charles I - volume 537: July 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: July 1637', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1625-49 Addenda, (London, 1897) pp. 561-563. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/chas1/addenda/1625-49/pp561-563 [accessed 25 March 2024]

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July 1637

July 1. 39. Notes of proceedings at the Middlesex Sessions held at Westminster before Sir Edward Spencer, &c., from 3rd March to 1st July, including licenses granted to alehouses in St. John's Street, Clerkenwell, and Holborn, 3rd March; a list of treasurers for maimed soldiers, viz., John Huxley for the hundreds of Osulston, Edmontire [Edmonton], and Gore; Michael Grigg for Elthorne, Spelthorne, and Isleworth; William Cheyney of Hackney for the Marshalsea, King's Bench, and hospitals within Osulston; and Randal Nichol for the Marshalsea, Elthorne, &c., 20th April; persons bound over by recognizance and discharged and also those bound over and not discharged, 23rd May; licenses to badgers [pedlars], killers, and drovers; and licenses to informers to compound upon informations, 1st July. [16 pp., of which only 7 have entries upon them.]
July 1.
Court at Greenwich.
40. Petition of Francis Newton, one of his Majesty's messengers for the apprehending of Jesuits, seminary priests, &c., to the King. For five years he has had a warrant for the apprehending of Jesuits and seminary priests, which he has performed, neglecting all other employments, and oftentime endangering his life in the service, having taken 29 priests and Jesuits, whose names are annexed. Some he has carried to prison, and many he has kept in his custody, without any manner of allowance either for his pains or for the meat, drink, and lodging for the parties detained, in which service he has expended more than 200l. of his own estate. In February last, having apprehended one Morse, a Jesuit and a very dangerous person, who seduced this last summer great numbers both in the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields and in Westminster, he was commanded by the Council to prosecute him to his trial at Newgate, where he was found guilty of treason, Morse was kept 30 days at petitioner's charge, and afterwards, at his like charge, 17 witnesses were produced and maintained, for all which he has had no recompense. Prays reference to the Council. Underwritten, Reference accordingly. [1 p.] Annexed,
[July 1.] 40. i. Schedule of the 29 priests and Jesuits apprehended by Newton, with his disbursements for their apprehension and maintenance. The names are as follows:— Jesuits—Francis Lloyd, alias Smith, alias Rivers, alias Symonds; John Egerton; Henry Gifford; John St. John alias Everard; Henry Morse. Secular priests— William Ward, alias Slaughter, alias Waller; Peter Curtis; John Hawkeshead alias Oxenbridge; Francis Harris; Thomas Reignolds; John Southworth; John Goodman, formerly a minister of the Church of England; Mr. Ashelby; John Browne; Mr. Windmore; Thomas Smith; Thomas Williamson; Huddleston; John Smith alias Whitebread. Franciscan Friars—Austin Rivers alias Abbott; Richard Palmer alias Maddox. Grey Friar—Mr. Valentyne. Dominican Friar—Walter Coleman. Benedictine Monks—William Tresham; Thomas Leake; Thomas Edmonds; Mr. Holmes; Albone Rowe; George Cox. Newton also seized two rich Popish vestments, worth 100l., given by the Lords of the Council to him, the obtaining whereof cost him 10l.; but Secretary Windebank sent for them, promising that he should either have good satisfaction or the vestments returned. He has however had but twenty shillings. [2½ sheets.]
40. ii. A list of the names only, agreeing with the preceding excepting that Thomas Colles is given instead of Huddleston; probably an alias of the same man. [1 p.]
[July 18 ?]
[Lambeth.]
41. Proceedings in the Court [of Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical]. This day and place Dr. Rives, his Majesty's Advocate, informed the Court that John, Bishop of Lincoln, had been convicted by the Lords of the Council in the Court of Star Chamber of sundry enormous crimes and offences, heinous in themselves, but far greater in the said Lord Bishop in respect of his eminent place in the Church, and worthy of a heavy censure; and that their Lordships had adjudged that he should be suspended from his bishopric and deanery of Westminster, and all other ecclesiastical promotions and benefices, with the rights and emoluments thereof. Their Lordships therefore recommended the said bishop to this Court to be suspended ab officiis et beneficiis during his Majesty's pleasure; his Majesty's Advocate exhibiting a true copy of the decree of the Court of Star Chamber, bearing date the 11th day of this present month of July, under the hand of Mathew Goad, Registrar of the said Court, and desiring the cause to be proceeded in and justice to be done. Signed T. Rives. [1¾ pp. See Vol. CCCLXIV., No. 12.]
[July ?] 42. Petition of Joseph Bryan, Edward Maddison, Francis Offley, Martin Browne, and Michael Holman, executor to Robert Wright, deceased, creditors of Sir Richard and Sir Walter Tichborne, to the Earl of Pembroke and Secretary Windebank. Long since, petitioners lent sums of money to Sir Richard and Sir Walter Tichborne, which, with interest for almost four years, remain unpaid. For two years the said Sir Richard and Sir Walter have had a royal protection, which expired on 13th June last, but on the 18th of June they obtained a warrant signed by your Honours, to protect them from arrest until some of the Lords of the Council had treated with their creditors for a reasonable composition of their debts. In obedience to this warrant petitioners have forborne any action against them, and, finding that their lands and goods are conveyed and extended, are hopeless to recover their debts. Pray leave to take such course against the said Sir Richard and Sir Walter, and their servant, Robert Courtman, as by counsel shall be advised. [1 p.]
[July ?] 43. Application by Sir William Killigrew to the King. Sir Robert Killigrew (his father), searching the records for Mr. Locton's title to the fourth part of the Eight Hundred Fen, found that his Majesty had a title to the remainder, on which he and Mr. Kirke prayed for the said interest, for which they were to pay 100l. a year and 12,000l. [sic.] towards walling the new park near Kingston, and to recover his Majesty's interest at their own charges. His Majesty gave consent, as appears by two letters to Attorney-General Noy to draw up their books, which letters are in Kirke's hands, but the books were never drawn up, by reason of unkindnesses between Attorney Noy and Sir Robert. Since both their deaths his Majesty, being informed that his title was of greater value than appeared, has resumed it, promising recompense. Prays a continuance of the favour shown to his father. [1 p. See Vol. CCCLXIV., No. 38.]
[July ?] 44. Petition of Edward Elding to the King. Petitioner was master of the "Fifth Whelp," which conveyed the Prince Palatine's goods into Holland, and, returning thence, was cast away on the 28th of June last, when 17 men were drowned, and petitioner lost property to the value of 80l. Prays the first gunner's or boatswain's place that may be vacant. [½ p.]