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Oct. 3. |
13. Minute of the King's debts, and of a plan for the discharge of
the same, &c; and agreement made by the Privy Council with the Merchant Adventurers. |
Oct. 4. |
14. Memorandum of certain suits to be preferred to the King. |
Oct. 7. Lambeth. |
15. Archbp. Cranmer to the Council. Has received their directions
that the Book of Common Prayer should be diligently pursued, and
the printer's errors therein amended. Arguments defending the practice of kneeling at the Sacrament. |
Oct. 7. Sandwich. |
16. Sir Tho. Cheyne (Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports) to Cecill. Has
sent his letters to the Customers, Searchers, &c. Words will be all that
can be got of the Commissioners in compensation to the Merchants. |
Oct. 7. |
17. Sir Walter Bucler and Thos. Parry to same. The Princess
Elizabeth has applied to the Dean, &c., of Worcester, for a little farm.
They request the King's letters to further it. |
Oct. 8. Byland. |
18. Earl of Westmorland to same. Will send the lease of Cranmore
and other evidences relating to Stow and Deeping. |
Oct. 9. Lowth. |
19. Lawrence Eresbye to same. Has provided for Cecill's horses out
of his own store of beans, and will send 20 sheep for his housekeeping. |
Oct. 11. |
20. Memoranda for the Council. Mr. Wayneman's business; one
Dyrrick, a goldsmith, to be examined. |
Oct. 12. |
21. Geo. Williams to Cecill. Proceedings of the Escheator at Grantham
as to Hall's lands. Claim to the Guild Lands in Baston. Details the
proceedings and verdict of the Jury. |
Oct. 13. |
22. Northumberland to same. To move the Council concerning
Princess Elizabeth's application in favour of Penn; and also for an
answer as to West Tilbury. Is unwell. |
Oct. 14. Stamford. |
23. Aldermen, &c., of Stamford, to same. Desire a commission to
call John Allen and Wm. Campanet to account for money received
from the sale of Church property. |
Oct. 15. Saint James's. |
24. Northumberland to same. Desires to know what answer he
must make to Princess Elizabeth's letter; and for payment of Morysine's half year's diet. His illness continues. |
Oct. 16. Ashridge. |
25. Tho. Parry to same. Desires him to take Digby's summons in
good part. Arrangement for payment of Rents, &c. |
Oct. (18.) |
26. Northumberland to same. To hear the bearer's statement as to
the letter he brings. Incloses, |
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26 i. Henry Cornyshe to Northumberland. Offers to renew a correspondence for the delivering up of the Castle and Town of
Cherburg to the English. Oct. 18. |
Oct. 20. |
27. Memoranda of matters to be brought before the Council. |
Oct. 20. |
28. "Articles concerning an Uniformite in Relligion." [These contain
45 Articles, and are the basis of the 39 Articles of the Anglican Church.
They were submitted to the Privy Council, and by the Council returned
to the six Royal Chaplains, on the 21st of October 1552.] |
Oct. 21. Higham Park. |
29. Sir Ro. Tyrwhyt to Sir Wm. Cecill. Has a right to two acres
of wood yearly within the Lordship of Wimbledon. Makes him a
present of it. |
Oct. 23. Burleigh. |
30. Geo. Williams to same. Has written to the escheator for some
document. By the death of John Hall, of Grantham, more land has
descended to Arthur Hall, Cecill's ward. Particulars of rents paid in. |
Oct. 25. Launde. |
31. Eliz. Lady Crumwell to same. Regrets that he did not visit
her poor house of Launde. Is willing to take on her the charge of her
four nieces, Somerset's daughters. |
Oct. 26. Gedney. |
32. Adlard Welby to same. Repairs and erection of bars on a bank
called Gouxland. Wishes to do the same at Baston Dyke. Works at
Pinchbeck and Spalding. Incloses, |
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32 i. Indenture of lease between the King and Adlard Welby,
of certain Lands in the Lordship of Sutton, co. Lincoln,
parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster. Westminster, June 1. |
Oct. 27. Pinchbeck. |
33. Ric. Ogle to same. Good works of the Commission of Sewers,
under the direction of John Burton. Has sent to the Council a forged
licence taken from the players; a matter worthy of correction. |
Oct. 27. St. James's. |
34. Northumberland to same. Confessions of one Hawkins that he
has circulated seditious libels and counterfeited the Archbishop of
Canterbury's handwriting; thinks, by fair means or foul, he should
be made to discover his accomplices. |
Oct. 28. |
35. Same to same. Wishes the King would appoint Mr. Knox to the
bishopric of Rochester, he would be a whetstone to the Archbishop of
Canterbury and a confounder of the Anabaptists lately sprung up in
Kent. Proposes the Dean of Durham to be bishop there, and other changes. |
Oct. 30. |
36. Same to same. Offences of Mr. York, in packing up groats and
bullion for Ireland. Requests certain benefices and gifts for his friends.
Advises one Litster in York, who uses a book of prophecy, to be
apprehended. |
Oct. |
37. Same to same. Evil consequences throughout the realm of the
restraint laid upon lead. |
Oct. |
38. Same to same. Private conference with the French Ambassador's
Secretary, relative to Stukley's false dealings. |
Oct. |
39. Same to same. Slanderous words spoken by one Ford against
the Duke and his brother. |
Oct. (?) |
40. Memoranda of matters to be brought before the Council. |
Oct. (?) |
41. A brief of all the King's debts, external, and within the realm. |
Oct. (?) |
42. "The note of ye Ks Mats dettes, wt some meane towarde ye
"discharge thereof," in Cecill's hand. |