Addenda, Elizabeth - Volume 11: November 1562

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3 With Addenda 1547-65. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1870.

'Addenda, Elizabeth - Volume 11: November 1562', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3 With Addenda 1547-65, (London, 1870) pp. 528. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1547-65/p528 [accessed 19 April 2024]

November 1562



Nov. 4. Exeter.	63. John Granfield to Lord Treasurer Winchester. I received your order to certify my knowledge on the cause exhibited in the Exchequer by Rich. Thimbleby, for certain lands in these West parts. I know Thomas Hussey, uncle to Thimbleby, for he waited upon the Duke of Norfolk at the time I waited upon Lord Audley, then Lord Chancellor; when our Lords were sitting in Council, we kept company together. In Edward VI.'s days, Hussey had certain possessions come to his hands in the counties of Devon and Cornwall, viz., the manors of Dyesham and Halton; I asked for the stewardship, but Cutler, his receiver and surveyor, declared the offices were passed by a former grant to Mr. Williams. Hussey at times would make me great entertainments, and I often went with him to the house of Domyngo, and sometimes to Lambeth. Mr. Thimbleby waited. Hussey said that if Thimbleby would be ruled, be would make him his heir of a great portion of land in Devon and Cornwall, and procure him a marriage with a very worthy man's daughter in Yorkshire, named Gascon, who upon Hussey's suit, was content that his daughter should have parcel of his inheritance if she married Thimbleby.
	Shortly after I met Hussey at Somerset Place, when I perceived there was a break between him and Thimbleby, and he requested me to get a merchant to buy his lands in the West parts; I requested to see his title, that I might make a report of his estate, and he said that Cutler, his servant, would shortly come into the country, and declare the whole matter. Upon Cutler's coming, and my asking him if his master's lands were to be sold, he answered that he was otherwise minded, and had made a conveyance to his kinsman.
	I have no records save an old deed sent herewith. I met Thimbleby in Exeter a year since, and told him I had a writing made in his name by his uncle Hussey. He requested me to find it by the time he returned from Cornwall, which I did, but declined delivering it to him, as I was in doubt as to who gave it to me, and whether they might not require it again. [1¼ pages.]
Nov.?	Grant to William Allen, for life, of the office of porter of Her Majesty's house, called the Minorites [Minories], now intended to hold munitions belonging to the Ordnance Office in London; fee, 8d. a-day. [Latin, Warrant Book I., p. 163.]
Nov. ?	Grant to James Thomasin, for life, of the keeping of the Queen's stables at St. Alban's, belonging to the late dissolved monastery there; fee, 12l. 3s. 4d. yearly. [Warrant Book I., p. 163.]