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64. Deposition of Margaret Bartholmew, of Norwich, widow,
that she knew Richard Stevens, of the parish of St. Martin's, near
Palace gates, his wife Elizabeth, and their son John, the bringer of
these bills, which she is ready to swear when required. Sealed and
delivered in presence of Thos. Bett, Rich. Hasold, and Wm. Goodwin,
clerk. [2/3 page.] |
| Dec. 8. |
65. Note of intelligence recently received from Jersey, 28 Nov.
M. de Martigo has left Rouen with his train for Countances. A Norman gentleman, living in Jersey for his religion, has been advised to
return by a friend, who writes that though the persecution in France
is great and pitiful, he had better return, as he cannot, without
great danger, abide in the isles. |
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Dec. 8; a large army is prepared in Brittany, and may take
the isles in their way for better furniture in victuals, of which there
is great scarcity. [1page.] |
Dec. 15.
Castle Cornet, Guernsey. |
66. Francis Chamberlain to Sec. Sir William Cecil. Through you
tell me I need not report the spiritual and temporal requirements
here, as Sir Hugh Paulet and the other commissioners will report it,
I must remind you that formerly the state of the isles depended
on the Pope's bulls and patent of France, as well as privileges of
England; therefore they think they should rather be friends of all
than subjects of any, and the generality here mislike the late alterations in England, so as the Queen has few faithful favourers, and
there is little hope that the temporal justices will answer their trust.
The Queen's estate here depends mainly upon her castle, which,
though ill-fortified, I will defend to my utmost. I hope the Queen
will not, by defending others, receive any foil in maintaining her
own. If some well-manned ships or pinnaces lay between England
and here, they would keep these parts in surety, and comfort our
neighbours, who hope the Queen will deliver them from the great
tyranny wherewith they are oppressed, chiefly in Lower Normandy,
where neither Papist nor Protestant escapes the spoilers. [1¾ pages.] |
| Dec. ? |
67. Notes of "entails by creations to collaterals, of their honours
by record," in the families of Thos. Percy, Lord Percy, 3 and 4
Philip and Mary; Butler, Earl of Ormond, 30 Henry VIII., and
Ambrose Sutton, Lord Lisle, 4 Eliz. [2/3 page.] |
| Dec.? |
68. Request [by Armigail Waad and others] for a grant of the
Salt Marshes between the harbour of the Camber and the parish
of Lydd, with licence to enclose them, on condition of repairing the
harbour of the Camber, according to the plans detailed by Adrian
Shedam, and presented to Council; with leave to compound with
Cuthbert Vaughan to surrender his present lease. [2 pages. See
Dom. Eliz., Vol I., Nos. 66, 67.] |
| Dec.? |
69. Offer by N.—on grant of the fee-farm of the salts adjoining
the Chamber, whereof Mr. V[aughan] has a lease for 60 years, with
licence to enclose the same, on rent of 46l.—to pay the first year the
said rent of 46l., the next year 50l., and then 200l. yearly, Her
Highness contenting Mr. V[aughan] with Eastbridge and other lands
in Kent, on rental. He will, moreover, surrender his patent of 100l.
a year for life after two years. |
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If he may have the advantage of the Commissioners of Sewers,
and benevolence of the city of London, he will repair the decayed
harbour of Rye, as devised by Adrian Shedam, if allowed commission to take up workmen, carriages, &c. |
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The advantage to Her Majesty will be,— |
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1. Rye harbour amended without charge. |
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2. The saving the yearly pension of 100l. |
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3. The gain of 1, 240l. during the remaining years of Mr. V.'s
lease. |
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4. The increase of the yearly rent. [3 pages, much damaged.] |
| Dec.? |
70. Further offers [by the same ?] for repair of the haven of Rye
and the Camber, the redemption of Mr. Vaughan's lease always
pre-supposed:— |
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1. If the Queen will give 5,000l. towards the amendment of both
harbours, I will pay Her 345l. rent for the fee-farm of the Salt
Marshes, when they become good ground, which may be in three
years, and meantime the 46l. paid by Mr. Vaughan. I should require a commission for workmen, and provisions at Her Majesty's
prices; fines to be livied on the marshes enclosed within 30
years; to have the contributions of Rye, and a patent to collect
the benevolences of London, Kent, and Sussex. |
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2. For the like fee farms and rent of 50l., I will undertake the
amendment of the Camber, according to Adrian's device, with like
commission. |
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3. If I may have the fee-farm of the marshes, on rent of 46l., I
will undertake the amendment of both harbours with the privileges above named, and make the best profit I can by reasonable
fines on the marshes enclosed. [2 pages.] |
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71. The Queen to the Bishops. We have appointed, by advice of our
Council, to receive a loan of 100l. each from divers spiritual persons
in your diocese, to whom we have addressed letters of privy seal;
these we require you to have delivered; to receive the said money,
and subscribe the said letters for repayment on the specified day; to
use your best diligence to get it in speedily, and then pay it to Sir
Edw. Rogers, controller of the Household. [¾ page, damaged.] |
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72. Geo. Calton to Sec. Sir Wm. Cecil. In hope of favour for my
crime, and as bound to detect transgressors of godly laws, I have
already revealed to you the two chief devisers of these forged evidences,
and now recall others of their adherents. Charnock, a vintner, partaker of this fraudulent device, in whose house I should have lain
to avoid apprehension. Harry Crede [this Crede was son to one
Crede of Cambridgeshire], dwelling about Salisbury, was an assistant
in these matters in the Gatehouse, and can reveal much. There were
two other gentlemen, one of whom was Mr. Broughton, who lodged
in the same house as Mr. Thimbleby did, in St. Clement's Church
Yard [this was Geo. Broughton], but the other I did not know.
One of them opened a letter directed from my Lord Treasurer to
the Lord Keeper, which they and Thimbleby read, as also the
evidence therein, and which was one of the counterfeit evidences.
They reading it caused me to write, "Hœc indentura testatur," which
was the beginning of the evidence, and counselled me to take heed
of my chirography; one said my hand nothing differed from the
evidence, but the other said there was difference enough, and
promised I should be well rewarded if it took effect. |
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While I was in Dr. Ingram's house, Charnock's wife resorted
to the doctor, who counselled her to will her husband to reveal
nothing, or he would undo them all. This is all I remember to have
been joined to Thimbleby in. I wholly depend upon your clemency,
being wearied with the intolerable penury that I here sustain, yet
accepting it all as a just punishment for my deserts. [1 page,
damaged; the passages in brackets are marginal notes.] |
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73. Project, by Thos. Ferrers, for preventing the export of coin and
bullion, and the better observance of the laws respecting the trade
of merchant strangers. The laws have had special care to restrain
the conveying of gold and silver in coin and bullion out of this
realm, and prevent it by providing that all strangers, merchants,
and others should be answerable for their commodities brought in
and transported; and it was expressly ordained that no Englishmen
should in entries shadow the goods of strangers, whereby Her
Majesty might lose any of her customs or subsidies. These statutes
[17 Edw. IV., 3 Hen. VII. and VIII., 1 Hen. VIII., and 2 Edw. VI.]
had never more need to be put in execution than in these times, as
strangers are engrossing the gold of the realm, which is growing to
such scarcity, and the strangers to such wealth, that the exchange
among merchants, especially in London, is very much prejudiced,
their returns being nothing answerable to their bringing in, and
their goods being customed in the names of Englishmen. |
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Means suggested for redress. In most foreign countries, no merchant stranger buys or sells but with a sworn broker, as at Middleburg, Stade, and Hamburg; as also in France, Spain, Portugal, &c. a
certain brokerage is allowed, and if any buy or sell without broker,
his goods become forfeit. The broker is to be an indifferent person between the buyer and seller, and keep books thereof. There
might be ordained, for the port of London, one officer to be called
the chief broker for strangers, who shall be limited how many
under brokers he shall use, and all others should be restrained
from dealing as brokers for strangers. He and his deputies all to
take an oath as appointed, which oath shall be recorded in the
Exchequer. |
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No alien, stranger, or denizen who pays aliens' customs shall
buy, sell, or exchange but through a broker, the brokerage to be
2d. in the 1l.; and as it is in Her Majesty's power to restrain to
strangers all exchange, they shall not deliver any moneys by way
of exchange, but through a broker; as if the exchange be not known,
the truth of the employments cannot be ascertained. |
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Every such chief officer shall, once or twice a year, have a book
delivered to him out of the Exchequer, as customers have, and make
the prescribed entries, and return it into the Exchequer. |
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For discovering the truth, and showing coloured and false entries,
every customs' officer in the port of London shall compare his book
with the books of the chief broker, and shall advertise the Lord
Treasurer of defaults. |
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Whereas the statute of 3 Hen. VII. c. 6. ordains that as brokers
have often been bargain makers of unlawful cherisances and unlawful exchanges, such shall be removed, it seems that by the ancient
laws of this realm, none ought to occupy brokerage without lawful
assignment. By this project Her Majesty will only resume Her
due prerogative in appointing such chief officer or broker; and for
every pound either delivered or taken up by exchange, all merchants
only allow one farthing upon the pound. The merchant strangers
in London have great trade, and are lately grown very rich, and
the trade of English merchants has much decayed; if not prevented,
the strangers will procure the most trade into their own lands. |
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The reasons are, first, they are the only instruments that
carry out gold and silver. Then having their sons and kinsmen
residing in all places of trading beyond seas, they there buy such
merchandise as they know are most vendible in this realm, which
are brought to the places beyond seas where Her Majesty's merchants are settled, as at State and Middleburg, and the merchant
strangers first sell their worst merchandise for the best kind of
English commodities to the English merchants, and will not be
known to have any more; but when the English ships are there,
and take in lading for London, the merchant strangers secretly
send their best merchandises to the English ships, bring them
to London, and sell them at an extremely high price. The merchant
chant strangers find great favour of the inferior customs' officers,
to the hindrance of customs. |
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When Her Majesty has need of loans, &c., these people are most
backward, excusing themselves by disability, or because they are of
the intercourse, and so the charge rests upon the subjects. |
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When these strangers have filled their purse, they go into other
countries, so that Her Majesty has neither service nor help of
them. By these means coin, &c. is conveyed out of the realm, Her
Highness deceived in her customs, and her commonwealth and
merchants impoverished. [3 pages, with marginal notes of the
statutes referred to.] |
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74. Grant by the Queen to R.L., for seven years, of the office of
general surveyor and searcher for putting in execution all laws and
statutes as recapitulated, from 9 Edward III. to 1 Eliz., against the
transportation of gold and silver coin or bullion, &c. out of the
realm, from cos. Hants, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Sussex, Kent,
and from Wales; with writ of assistance, leave to search the customers' books, and to seize any bullion, coin, plate, or jewels that
he finds ready to be exported without licence, implead the offenders
in the Courts, and receive for himself half the fines imposed, or
to compound with them, by consent of the Lord Treasurer and
Chancellor of the Exchequer. [14 sheets, damaged, draft.] |
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75. Pleadings in a suit of intrusion, the Queen versus William
Lord Dacre and Leonard Dacre, in the manors of Ekington, co.
Derby, West Harlesey, Aslaby, Upsall, Whawton, and Heyton, co.
York, claimed by Leonard Dacre. With pedigree of the descent
from Sir James Strangways of Francis Ratcliffe, through whom
the said lands are claimed. [3½ pages.] |
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76. Breviate of particulars in the same suit, with the same
pedigree. [3 pages.] |
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77. Particulars of the interest of Leonard Dacre in the lands of
Sir James Strangways, in the manors of West Harlesey, &c. above
specified. [1½ sheets.] |
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78. Further particulars in the suit between the Crown and
William Lord Dacre and Leonard Dacre, for their interest in the
afore-named manors. [3 pages.] |
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79. Specification of the moiety of rents claimed by the Crown in
the aforesaid manors, having been received by Lord Dacre for 21
years; total, 2,408l. [2/3 page.] |
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80. Declaration by seven justices of co. Devon of their payments out
of 300l. raised by the county to provide armour and weapons for the
furniture of 500 men raised in that county for service at Newhaven;
for coat and conduct money, 208l. 6s. 8d.; balance due to the Queen,
91l. 13s. 4d.; with note [by Sir W. Cecil] that it was paid to Hugh
Consell. [1½ pages. 7 original signatures.] |
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81. Proposal for a reasonable tax of 10s. per acre to be set by the
Queen upon all grounds converted to wood within the realm, in
lieu of the loss sustained in the Customs, and which is presumed to
to be reasonable for causes mentioned. [¾ page, damaged.] |
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82. Pedigree of the descent of Harry Touchet, 10th and present
Lord Audley from Jas. Touchet, 7th Lord Audley, by his first wife,
daughter of Sir Edw. Darell; with particulars of the issue of the
said James by Joan, his second wife, daughter of Fulke Lord Fitzwarren. With note that Sir Wm. Hoddie, Chief Baron of the
Exchequer, and others were seized of the manor of Netherstoye and
others, co. Somerset, to the use of James Lord Audley and Joan his
second wife, and their heirs male, as appears by a deed of feoffment
from the said Lord Audley to Hoddie and others, in Sept., 8 Hen. VII.
[1 page.] |
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83. Heads of a covenant whereby John Hilton lets to Rich.
Oseley a house, barn, and garden in Stratford Langthorn, Essex,
for 21 years, at 6l. 13s. 4d. rent; Oseley to do all the reparations,
but Hilton to find great timber; Oseley not to fell any timber;
to lend Hilton 50l. for a year, on good surety; to pay 40 marks
fine for the said farm, one half on taking possession, and the other
at Lady Day, and to agree with Hilton for all the implements
therein. [2 pages.] |
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84. Receipt by Thos. Persse, on behalf of Edmund, Bishop of
London, of 40s. 3d. from Dr. Wm. Latimer, late rector of St. Mary
Abchurch, London, for arrears of tenths due to the Queen at
Christmas, 1559. [Scrap, printed form, filled up, torn.] |
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85. Like receipt for 36s. 3d., the third part of the subsidy due to
the Queen, 25 March 1560. [Scrap.] |
