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Nov. 2/12.
Constantinople. |
Sir Thomas Roe to the Lords of the Privy Council. I have now
for almost four years lived in good correspondence with all the
ministers and subjects of the State of Venice; and, because I understood to have so well deserved of them in many of their occasions,
which the Senate hath acknowledged by particular thanks, I hoped
to have finished this my service [as Ambassador to the Grand Signor]
without any dispute or controversy with them. But pride and
covetousness have no friends, and Lot quarrelled with Abraham for
a sheep's pasture. For an insolence offered to our nation by the
Venetian Consul in Aleppo, I am enforced to become the advocate
of the Levant merchants and to be an humble suitor to His Majesty
and your Lordships to vouchsafe them that protection that they
may trade in these dominions, at least without disadvantage and
upon equal terms with other nations, and that I may conclude my
time with that reputation I have hitherto maintained and which
I cannot lose, but by being forsaken by your Honours. I will not
trouble your Lordships with long discourse unproportional to a
letter, but having made ample declaration of the merits of our cause,
to be presented by the Company, in this I only entreat, that you
will give credit to that which therein I will aver, whereof I have
taken "fede" in the chanceries of all the other residents, and sent
them to Venice; presuming you will accept my own testimony in
those things, the truth whereof, upon the penalty of your Lordships'
censure, I am bound to approve. I am informed one Ricaut, a
Dutchman, inhabiting London, is the correspondent of the family of
the Spinolas in Genoa, and of whose courses I advised Lord Conway
and Lord Baltimore now a year past by my letters of the 4th and
20th September 1624. The substance whereof was that the Genoese,
by their factor in England were interested in divers of the best
merchants' ships of the Thames, being most part owners of the
"St. George" of 500 tons, of the "Benjamin and John" and the
"Peter and Andrew," the ships now mentioned, and of many
others, being all of great force. The accusation may be false, but in
my humble opinion worthy of examination, yet the liberty to trade
under the colours of other Princes will utterly eat out and destroy all
the trades of His Majesty's subjects in the Levant, by ease of charges
and assurance, in two or three years; ten or twelve in the hundred,
in both, is an advantage that no other industry will counterpoise.
I fear I have run beyond my limits in presuming to give your
Honours so much trouble; but assured in your wisdoms and favours
always extended towards me, referring myself to the declaration of
our cause, I humbly beseech you to afford me your direct answer,
whereunto I may conform myself and in all other my ways I desire
to be approved. [Levant Company, Vol. I., No. 53. 3 pp.] |
| Nov. 2. |
Minutes of Letters of Sir Thomas Roe. [See Lecant Company,
Vol. I., No. 70.] |
Nov. 2.
Hosdon [Hoddesdon.] |
26. Thomas Tracy to Lord Conway. That you would speak to
my Colonel, Lord Willoughby, for me to be promoted to the post of
Lieutenant under Captain Levitt, I having had the command of the
company this half year, my Lieutenant having gone as Captain in
this voyage [to Cadiz]. [½ p.] |
Nov. 2.
Hampton Court. |
The King to Buckingham. Commission authorising him to grant
letters of reprisal to persons whose ships or goods have been seized
by the subjects of the King of Spain. [See Domestic, Elizabeth,
1590, Vol. ccxxxcii., Admiralty Collections, fol. 45.] |
| [Nov. 2]. |
Instructions by the Council for such merchants and owners as
may obtain from the Lord Admiral letters of marque against the
subjects of the King of Spain. [See Domestic, Elizabeth, 1590,
Vol. ccxxxvii., Admiralty Collections, fol. 45b.] |
Nov. 2.
Burton. |
27. Sir Thomas Mounson to Lord Conway. When I considered
how the times have been both by reason of the sickness and your
extraordinary important affairs of State, I little expected to hear
of my poor business and did not think to trouble you with it.
Seeing this bearer, my son, hath no other occasion in the Court nor
in the south, my request is that you would further him in this
business my dwelling being far distant. [Seal with device. 2/3 p.] |
| Nov. 3. |
28. Two Petitions of William Woad, merchant of Dover, to the
Privy Council. At the time of his Majesty's late sending forth
soldiers under Count Mansfeldt, he was charged with supplying provisions for them to the value of 295l., yet unsatisfied. Prays a royal
protection for himself and his sureties until the same be satisfied or
that he can recover in his own debts. [½ p.] |
| [Nov. 4.] |
29. George, Duke of Buckingham, to Secretary Conway. I send
enclosed a letter from Captain Pennington whereby you will be
able to judge of the state the late storm hath put us in. I am
making all the haste I can to prepare a fleet fit to follow and to
meet them [the Dunkirkers], but am loath before I have a sufficient
one to let his Majesty's ships stir from Harwich. Those directions
I have hitherto given are all slowly executed by reason of want of
money, wherefore I pray you to solicit the Lord Treasurer. I think
the King will do well to send for the Earl of Clanrickard and send
him presently into Ireland, for I believe the Dunkirkers are gone
thither. I have by land sent to advertise the Lord Deputy [of
Ireland]. I have sent the Earl of Warwick upon all these co[a]sts
to prepare ships; I have also sent for Sir John Coke to have his
advice. I have Sir Humphry May here and shall to-morrow have
Trumble [William Trumbull]; I have sent to London to see what
shipping can be had there, and so all along the Tems [Thames].
Some of the Dutch fleet that I stayed from going with the fleet to
Spain are come, and I hope that His Majesty's ship which comes
from Plymouth to guard the prizes will soon be here. I pray you
send to Plymouth lest the King's ships should yet be there to
hasten them away and to give them orders to bring away with them
Sir Arthur Georges' ship which is upon that coast, I think at
Portsmouth, and to bring the Scotch ship with her to Dover. I
have sent a post to your servant in France with this new occasion
to press the restitution of our ships. I have thought fit out of pity
to spare his Majesty this time with my letters, tell him so much.
Your servant will inform you of some things I have learned since
my coming into these parts. As I was ending this letter in comes
[Sir] Thomas Germaine with his Majesty's letter and yours. I find
by the King's letter that he thinks it fitter for me to be seen in the
calling home of this Ambassador than any other, but since I am to
go thither [into France] it's fit I make friends rather than enemies.
I did rather expect for an accusation of my own ill hand than a
justifying of your one. If the Ambassador still continues his complaints of Sir John Erslie [Hippisley], answer him that we look
for justice for an injury that was done to Gerbere [Belthazar
Gerbier] at Bollion [Boulogne] where he, his men and all he had
were taken by the directions of the Governor and carried up to him
by a dozen soldiers and there, after long delays, ill used. Thus
wearied with writing of letters and signing of warrants I end.
[Modern copy amongst the Conway Papers, stated to be from a
holograph in the Duke's own handwriting. 1 p.] |
Nov. 4.
Tottenham. |
30. Thomas Stockdale to the Duke of Buckingham. Scarcely a
house in Portsmouth was clear of the plague. Yet I had the
hatches of Watson's ship nailed down, and put her into Captain
Gyles' charge, and I hope by this time he has brought her to
Dover. She had in her copper worth 10,000l. besides other
merchandise worth 30,000l., and yet there is still remaining in the
King's storehouse 105 packs which cannot be less worth than
20,000l.; this I have sealed up and committed to the charge of
Brookes, the key being detained by Nicholls and Wright, who
claim possession of those goods; though I could and would have
forced the door, if I had not feared to have spread the infection
amongst the goods and mariners by the necessary concourse of
people on such an occasion. Seeing the goods are yet safe and in
sure keeping for your Lordship's use, and the apparent danger in
removing them, I thought it better to let them rest for a time till
the sickness were something assuaged. [Seal with arms. 2 pp.] |
Nov. 5.
Hampton Court. |
31. The Lords of the Privy Council to Mr. Milles. We have
determined on some alterations to be henceforth made in those
schedules or certificates to be delivered to you. You are therefore
to alter those received by way of increase in manner following,
viz.:—Every English baronet assessed under 40l. to be increased
to 40l., every Irish baronet to 30l., every knight to 20l., and every
sum under 10l. to be raised to 10l., for which this shall be your
sufficient warrant and discharge. [Council's Seal. 1 p.] |
| Nov. 5. |
32. Sir Edward Denys and Sir John Oglander, DeputyLieutenants of the Isle of Wight, to Secretary Conway. According
to your directions we have sent you all the names of those knights,
gentlemen, and others within our Island who are anyway fitting to
lend His Majesty money, together with the sums, according to their
worths and abilities. Enclosed, |
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32. i. List of names comprising three knights, two esquires, and
six misters, rated at 20l. each, and seven misters at 10l.
each. [½ p.] |
Nov. 6.
Falkland. |
38. John, Earl of Annandale, to Secretary Conway. I will never
forget your many favours to me. There are no occurrences here
worthy your notice. His Majesty for his affairs will learn them
from his faithful servants here to whom he trusts them. For
myself, I must say my journey was wearisome, but we arrived here
safe. I would gladly serve you in anything here. Let me hear of
our gracious master's well-being, and if the Duke [of Buckingham]
be returned or when he will, which I desire may be soon and with
safety. [Seal broken. 1 p.] |
Nov. 6.
Brocklesby. |
34. Sir William Pelham to the same. We have hitherto written
by uncertain messengers without any hope of answer now the old
slow foot post is despatched upon promise to make a short return.
I thank God our good [daughter] is recovered from her pains of childbirth and looks abroad; her three boys prosper well, who are no
small comfort to this family, which hath ever prospered more in
boys than wenches. Our news here is of the Dunkirk ships before
Scarborough, which carries so fearful a name as that they dare not
land any men to attempt it. They have wreaked their malice, as
we hear, on the herring busses. Our county [Lincolnshire] is
through our Lord Lieutenant's extraordinary pains and care in
good equipage, only we want gunpowder, which these parts cannot
supply. The next week the Earl of Rutland has appointed a
general rendezvous of all the horse troops, and intends to take a
view of them. I am not yet fit to undergo a journey, though my
strength is somewhat amended. We pray heartily for the good
success of the Navy, and live in hope to understand upon the return
of this messenger that they have effected some great design.
Thanks for the preferment of my son Thomas. It is here reported
that the late Lord Treasurer has the custody of the Seal, and that
yourself have charge of the Treasury, we hope the news may prove
true. My son Henry was so hot upon the alarum that he would
have ridden up post to have proffered his service to you, and
William's hawks prosper well. Addressed, "To my singular good
Lord and brother, Lord Conway. [Modern copy amongst the
Conway Papers. 1 p.] |
Nov. 7.
Pera, near Constantinople. |
Order issued by Sir Thomas Roe to all captains, pursers, and
officers of any English ships and all other His Majesty's subjects
serving or sailing within the Levant seas. Having been appointed
by Letters Patents, dated 13th September 1621, His Majesty's
Ambassador at the Ottoman Porte, I have authority not only to
protect and defend the trades and privileges granted to the Levant
Company, but to direct and govern all His Majesty's subjects of
what degree soever, in the ports and dominions of the Grand
Signor. Being given to understand that some captains and
masters of ships and other officers have presumptuously not only
borne the flags and banner of other Princes and States, but have
taken protection of their Consuls and Ministers to the dishonour of
His Majesty and in contempt and disobedience of his lawful
magistrate whom they ought only to acknowledge and obey, and to
the defrauding of the ancient rights and privileges of the Levant
Company by which only such men and ships have admittance into
these dominions. By virtue, therefore, of His Majesty's authority
to me in that behalf granted, I do straitly charge and command all
such captains and other His Majesty's subjects upon their allegiance
and obedience to the laws, that from henceforth they presume not
to use or bear any other flag or colours than the usual flags and
Red Cross of England or St. Andrew's of Scotland neither in the
Levant Sea nor in any port of the Grand Signor's dominions upon
what pretence soever, and if any such captain, owner, or master
shall have hired or freighted his ship to strangers, that then his
ship and sailors shall remain under the command and protection
only of the English Consul, Vice-Consul, or other their deputies
lawfully constituted, and that they neither presume to unlade or
lade a single bale, pack, or parcel of goods until they have first
showed their bills of lading to the Consul or his substitutes, and have
obtained his leave thereunto; that thereby may be discovered both
what consulage is due upon the goods of strangers, and what unfree
men or interlopers, subjects of His Majesty, do trade under such
pretences to the infringing of the privileges of the Levant Company.
And if the said merchant strangers shall refuse to pay such duty of
consulage, that the captain or other officers presume not to take
protection of their consuls, nor to obey them, nor to lade and
unlade their goods, nor to depart out of the port or road without
license first obtained of the English Consul. Endorsed: "Sir
Thos. Roe. An order to the captains and masters of ships to be
published in Aleppo. For the [Levant] Company. 7 Nov. 1625.
Registered." [Levant Company, Vol. I., No. 54.] |
Nov. 7.
Hampton Court. |
35. The King to James Lord [Ley, Lord Treasurer]. Whereas
amongst other things contained in a petition presented by the
Commons lately assembled in Parliament, it was propounded that
there might be strict provision against transporting English
children to the seminaries abroad, we then gave answer that
the law in that case should be put in execution, and further, that
letters should be written for strict search to be made in all ports,
their members, and creeks. You are therefore required to give
special order to the officers of our ports that they make diligent
search so that no person be suffered to pass to that purpose. No
persons under 21 years of age to be suffered to pass over the seas,
except such as shall be licensed by warrant, from ourself, our Privy
Council, or one of our principal Secretaries, or otherwise are well
known to be merchants or merchants' factors. All other persons
to be stayed, and notice given thereof to our Council or principal
Secretary who will give order how to dispose of them. [Copy
countersigned by Windebank. Damaged by damp. 1 p.] |
| [Nov. 7.] |
36. Warrant to the Lord Admiral [Buckingham]. To the same
effect as the above. By the transportation of English children to
the seminaries beyond seas, the Houses conceived that besides the
danger to the security of our people, great sums are yearly
expended for this purpose to the impoverishing of this kingdom.
Knowing no better means for the effecting thereof than setting a
strict watch upon our ports that children be not suffered to pass,
we have given order to that effect, and recommend the same to
your special care, requiring you to address your letters to the
officers and ministers of the several ports and harbours that they
suffer no child under 21 years upon any pretence to have passage
beyond the seas. [Draft. 1 p.] |
Nov. 8.
Hampton Court. |
37. Secretary Conway to the King. May it please you to cast
your eye upon the three papers herewith sent, one being the effect
of what [Henry] de Vic has negotiated with the most Christian
King upon your last letters of credence. Another, a relation of the
present condition of affairs in that kingdom. The third being the
humble remonstrance and necessitous suit of Monsieur Soubize,
whose poor 1,500 men are like to fall into extreme misery and
ruin except you give present order to the Lord Treasurer by bills
of exchange to pay them a month's more pay which is but a small
matter to do so great a work. If into France or concerning Soubize
your Majesty be pleased to direct me anything, I shall gladly
obey. |
| [Nov.8.] |
The King's reply to the above. "The tymes you know ar
scarce of monie yet if the Tresorer can fynd meanes to relive
Soubize's men he shall doe verre well and I will willinglie allow of
it; if this can be done it will be the best answer I can make to
Soubize's letter that he sent me; if not, he must be ansured with the
necessetie of the tymes. As for letters of mart, I have no mynd to
sett out Pyrats, for so I know they will be, what caution soever
they give; the rest of the French business I will order when I
come. Charles R." [Holograph. Written on the same paper as
the above.] |
Nov. 8.
Ilford. |
38. Jane Westmorland to [Sir Robert Pye]. Her great extremity
by reason of her pension having remained unpaid three and a half
years. Entreats him that if, upon the signifying of the King's
pleasure, the Lord Treasurer have not already given you order to
pay, that then you would move him to give order that she may be
relieved. So remembering my best love to your worthy self, my
Lady Pye, and all your pretty young birds, I rest. [1 p.] |
Nov. 8.
Hampton Court. |
39. Certificate by James Levingstone, a Groom of the Bed-chamber.
Specifying the parcels of jewels belonging to His Majesty delivered
by him to Secretary Conway. Amongst these the collar of balass
rubies containing 20 pieces of gold, ten being set with great balass
rubies and ten with 16 round pearls in each piece. [½ p.] |
Nov. 8.
Close of Sarum. |
40. John Lee to Secretary Conway. Returns thanks for three
pieces so generously bestowed upon his two children. Was gratified
by Conway's acceptance of the use of his poor house every way
unworthy of so noble a personage. Were I worthy but of this
testimony to my Lord of Pembroke from you as to say upon any
fit occasion—I think Lee, your Lordship's Chaplain, to be a scholar
and an honest man—it would grace me with my Lord. [1½ pp.] |
Nov. 11.
Maidenhead. |
41. Sir Henry Marten to Secretary Conway, as Vice-Admiral of
Hants and the Isle of Wright. Has lately received from His
Majesty mandatory letters for shutting the ports and restraining
the passage of any persons going abroad to live in seminaries. I
pray you according to his Highness' charge therein given to take
order that the King's pleasure may be duly executed. [Seal with
arms and crest. Damaged by damp. ½ p.] |
Nov. 16.
Lincoln. |
42. William Pelham to his assured loving father Lord Conway.
Was sorry to hear of his indisposition from the Earl of Rutland's
servant. I would gladly hear of your recovery sooner than I fear
I shall do by the lingering post. Had I not so opportunely met
with this messenger of Sir Christopher May's, who is hastening
southwards with the joyful news of his lady's safe delivery of a
son, I should have sent my own servant to have attended on you.
I am now attending on the Earl of Rutland who is so zealous to
have the King's letters punctually executed, that, though the forces
of this country have been lately trained, yet yesterday he viewed
every particular defect of the horsemen of the four troops of this
county to have them repaired and some men to be newly armed
according to the last commands from the Council Board. His
Lordship and Sir George Manners desire their love and service to
you. I left all well at Brocklesby and have received further
assurance of it in a letter from my father since my coming hither. |
| Nov. 17. |
43. Secretary Conway to Lord Keeper Coventry. I received
your letters and the three names submitted for Oxfordshire, viz.,
Sir Richard Blunt, Sir Gyles Bray, and Sir Henry Poole, of whom
His Majesty has pricked Blunt. [Minute of this already calendared
under date. Draft. 1 p.] |
| [Nov. 18.] |
44. Lord Conway as Vice-Admiral for Hants to [Owen Jennings,
one of his deputy Vice-Admirals]. The enclosed copy of the King's
letter to the Lord Admiral, or, in his absence, to the Judge of the
Admiralty, from whom it comes to me, will show you his pleasure
and direction touching the well keeping of the ports, and restraining
the passing over of children or others sent to live in seminaries
beyond the seas. You will see the strictness of His Majesty's
command, and I assure you there will be a strict account taken of
the execution. I therefore recommend it to your care to be discharged with that exactness as it ought in all the ports, members,
and creeks in my Vice-Admiralty. I received your letter concerning
the prize ship come into that harbour [Portsmouth], and approve
and thank you for making stay of her and giving me advertisement
of it. Continue her still under restraint till you receive further
directions which I will hasten to you so soon as I hear from the
Judge of the Admiralty to whom I have written concerning her.
[Draft. 1 p.] |
| Nov. 18. |
45. The same to Captain Ersfield, Deputy Vice-Admiral of the
Isle of Wight. To the same effect as the preceding, but instead of
the last paragraph about the prize ship this clause was added:—
I have received yours of the 8th concerning the shipwreck at
Chalebay, and thank you for upholding the privileges belonging to
my office of Vice-Admiral which I will not quit in any part, you
are therefore to keep safe those things you have seized for me, and
either take the usual course against those who presumed to buy the
goods without warrant and disobeyed your Deputy, or else certify
me what accompt it is meet to call them unto and in what way.
[Draft. 1 p.] |
Nov. 20.
Polesworth. |
46. Sir Henry Goodere to George, Duke of Buckingham. As in
the late change of government there is no change in your power,
so I am confident I shall find no change in your favour to me. You
know my pretences in Court, and King James's promises to me.
I beseech you to reserve that favour for me in mediation to His
Majesty, who I see to my comfort in your person intends to pursue
all his father's purposes. Meantime I pray procure for me and my
sureties His Majesty's royal protection for 12 months so that I may
have time to sell my land, which I have endeavoured to do these
three years past. I offered your Grace a little before our old
master's death the reversion of my land, to procure for me the
creation of a baron of England, which you promised earnestly to
move for me or else to mediate for the creation of an Irish Viscount,
and though the late King's sickness prevented you then, yet I
beseech you let me find the same disposition in your noble heart
now to help me. [2 pp.] |
Nov. 24.
Fowey. |
47. The Deputy Lieutenants [of Cornwall] to Monsieur de Menti.
We have lately been advertised that you intended with your fleet
now at Falmouth to come to this port of Fowey to commit some
hostile act on those French ships and company lately come in there
under His Majesty's protection, we cannot therefore do less than
acquaint you both of the inability of this harbour to relieve and
receive two such fleets, besides the inconveniences that may grow
thereby as well for want of victuals, as fit places to harbour so
many great ships, and the sickness is now here amongst them, and
as we hear it is also in your ships. If your design be to attempt
anything against them in the King's port till his pleasure be further
known, to his dishonour and the prejudice of his subjects, we must
also entreat you to know that as all His Majesty's ports are free
and open to the French as the subjects of his dear brother and
ally, so, if anything be unfitly attempted to the hurt of the State, it
is and must be our duties to withstand it to the uttermost with the
power of our country. We therefore wish that you will be pleased
to accept of our desires rather to stay at Falmouth, that good
harbour, till some fitter course may be taken for the avoiding of
any further danger. [Copy. 2/3 p.] |
Nov. 25.
Reading. |
Order of the Lords of the Council touching the matter in
difference between the Levant Company and the Corporation of
Southampton. The Lords having fully heard whatsoever could be
materially alleged by the parties interested on either side then
present, were pleased, on behalf of the town of Southampton, to
make some proposition to those representing the Levant Company,
which the latter, wishing to communicate to the rest of the
Company before giving any direct answer, the Lords deferred the
final hearing till the first Star-Chamber day of the next term.
Two letters having been produced on the part of Southampton, the
one from Lord Brooke, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
others to whom this business had been referred, addressed to the
Levant Company, and the other from the then Governor and others
of that Company to the town of Southampton, the Lords
ordered that copies of these letters should be given to the persons
soliciting for the Levant Company, in order to remind that
Company what former passages and agitation this business hath
had, and how far themselves have heretofore condescended to the
demands and claims now insisted on by the town of Southampton.
[Certified copy. 2 pp. Levant Company, Vol. I., No. 55.] |
| [Nov. 25.] |
List of letters and other papers bearing on the matter in dispute
between the Levant Company and the Corporation of Southampton. [Ibid, No. 56.] |
| [Nov. 25.] |
Note of arguments adduced before the Privy Council on the
hearing of the matter in dispute between the Levant Company
and the Corporation of Southampton. The Company did heretofore appear before the Lords [of the Council] and other Commissioners to make answer to a complaint and petition against
them by the town of Southampton; and upon the hearing of the
cause they gave such full satisfaction to the Committees that their
opinion then was, and so delivered by Mr. Attorney-[General] (he
being one of them), openly at the Council Board, that the general
and public good was to be preferred before a particular, therefore
[he] advised the Southampton men to rest content. The Company
are ready to clear their direct dealing in the procuring of that
Proclamation [complained of], it being grounded upon a petition of
the Trinity House to His Majesty for repair of great ships and of
the general trade then much decayed. [Levant Company, Vol. I.,
No. 57.] |
| Nov. 25. |
The Council to the Lord Treasurer. To send directions to the
officers of the several ports to take bonds of the merchants to the
King's use not to alienate or sell any of the ordnance, tackle, or
furniture of their ships to foreigners. [See Correspondence of
Levant Company, Vol. I., No. 59.] |
| Nov. 28. |
48. Statement of the case upon the office found at Chichester, in
Sussex, the 29th April last, after the death of John Gunter, Esq.,
by virtue of a commission in nature of a writ of mandamus. It is
found that Sir George Gunter, knight, father of John, was seized in
demesne as of fee amongst other lands of one messuage, 60 acres of
land, 20 acres of pasture, and 10 of wood in Funtington, co. Sussex,
called Chamber Place, alias Knights. Further particulars as to
these lands. The question is whether George, the son of John
Gunter, ought to be in ward to the King, either for body or lands.
[1 p.] |
| [Nov.] |
49. George, Duke of Buckingham, to Secretary Conway. My
dear friend, —To-morrow, Wednesday morning, I shall go for
Holland. As you love Kate [Lady Katherine Conway ?], and as
she goes with [me ?] keep it secret, and esteem me your faithful
friend. Postcript.—To dissemble the business with my wife, I have
directed my Lady Conway to meet me at the Court so that I think
she will be there, and I need say no more in her business than this,
that if it were dispatched, my wife, my mother, myself, nay, all my
family, would be much eased, and the country better satisfied, for
her being at Bushey makes us all suspected. [Modern copy amongst
the Conway Papers. ½ p.] |
| [Nov.] |
50. The Duke of Buckingham's instructions to Sackville Crow
from the Hague, touching two parcels of the King's jewels and one
of gold plate set with stones to be transported from the Hague to
Amsterdam, and there to be disposed of in accordance with these
instructions. [1½ pp.] |
| [Nov.] |
51. Mem.—Because I [Secretary Conway] have not heard of any
order given for disarming the Lords [who are] Recusants, I doubt
whether the intention has been pursued, and that the stay may be
upon this, that it has not been resolved [by the Council] who the
Lords shall be who are to disarm them. His Majesty may be
pleased to appoint such Lords in the several counties for receiving
those arms as he shall think fit. And in counties where no Lord is
to receive them, then the Bishop of the diocese with some DeputyLieutenants or Lords from another county. Underwritten in the
King's handwriting, |
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51. i. Let the names of the noblemen be sent me, and I will
appoint those that shall be disarmed. Charles R. 2/3 p.] |
| [Nov.] |
52. Mr. [Thomas] Ogle's information against Recusants. Disturbances committed by them. Danger to the parts of the country
in their possession or intrusted to their direction. Number of the
Recusants in Northumberland and Hexham. Notes tonching two
weeds in Northumberland, recusancy and theft. [9 pp.] |
| [Nov.] |
53. Notes relative to letters sent by [way of] the port of Antwerp
and opened in Flanders. The particulars of the contents of which
are here given and relate chiefly to mercantile transactions.
Annexed, |
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53. i. Six certificates of Jungen Huckfeldt of Hamburg. [German. 6½ pp.] |
