Addenda, Mary - Volume 8: June 1557

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

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'Addenda, Mary - Volume 8: June 1557', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3 With Addenda 1547-65, (London, 1870) pp. 451-452. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1547-65/pp451-452 [accessed 24 March 2024]

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June 1557

June 2. 11. "Note of Remembrances for the better furniture of the West Border:"
To employ Netherby citadel to countervail Langholme fort in Scotland.
To plant gunners at Bowness against the gunners at Annan.
The Captain of Bewcastle to lie continually at his charge.
To repair the dungeon tower of Carlisle castle, and a house in the late friary to keep the munition.
For the customership of Carlisle.
For a house at Holme Cultram, and the domains to be laid thereto, that the officer may lie there.
That no fines be taken of the King and Queen's tenants, nor leases let for decay of service.
For a surgeon and trumpeter. [¾ page.]
June 4. 12. The King and Queen to the Earl of Westmoreland and Bishop of Durham. For reasons mentioned in the proclamation sent herewith, but which you are to keep secret till the 7th instant, we are forced in honour to publish war against the French. Yet as we do not intend to break peace with the subjects of Scotland unless they give occasion, we inform you in order that,—as you are soon to meet the Scottish Commissioners on Border matters, and they may think that something is intended against them,—you may assure them that we mean continuance of the treaties and amity, and will avoid occasions of the contrary, unless provoked by them. Let us know their answer thereunto. [1¾ pages, draft.]
Endorsed, "1557, 3 July."
June 11.
York.
13. Earl of Shrewsbury to the Queen. I have caused the proclamation of war with the French King to be executed; the people who are in good obedience like it well, desiring rather to have the said King known as an open enemy than a secret dissembler, and they will resist his malice offered to these parts. I will serve the better when occasion offers, because Council has ordered me to supply needful wants. [1 page.]
June ? 14. Memorandum of matters for the North. Sir James Crofts to be sent to confer with the Earl of Shrewsbury, on the order to be used in the army, in case of invasion, on the Borders. Thence to go to Berwick, and confer with Lord Wharton about the surety of Berwick, the frontiers and the new fort; in both places to give advice tending to the good order of the Borders, and remaining thereabout, to write us the resolutions taken, that their Majesties' pleasure may be known.
The Lord Privy Seal, Earl of Pembroke, Lord Montague, and Lord Clinton, to name three gentlemen expert for wars, to go with Sir J. Crofts to Berwick, and be employed under Lord Wharton in the East and Middle Marches, and two under Lord Dacre in the West Marches. As to victuals, Abindon is to be sent to Berwick to order the victualling of 1,000 men, by advice of the Lord Treasurer. [12/3 pages, draft.]
1557 ?
J[une] 17.
15. Katherine Countess of Huntingdon to her uncle [Cardinal Pole]. One Kingston, who had been my Lord's servant 15 years, has lately received coiners into his house. I cannot ask his pardon for so heinous a fault, but I beg a reprieve. He has been faithful to my Lord and the Queen, and but for him, my Lord had been in danger from the Duke of Suffolk, when he took him. He has done faithful service, both here and beyond seas, which I hope may weigh against this first fault, which he greatly laments. [1½ pages, damaged.]