Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 24: May 1575

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda, 1566-79. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1871.

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'Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 24: May 1575', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda, 1566-79, (London, 1871) pp. 484. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1566-79/p484 [accessed 29 March 2024]

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May 1575

May 7.
Antwerp.
21.Rich. Hopkins to Lord Burghley. Mr. Copley tells me your answer to my suit to return, and not to be molested for conscience, but to have restitution of my living, notwithstanding the statute of fugitives. I came over here very young, by the late Lord Treasurer's licence, and not as a fugitive. I have travelled much, taken no pension of a foreign prince, and Mr.Greville, whom I trusted, never told me I was proclaimed. The Queen's ambassador told me and six others that if we returned we should not be molested, so I appeal from the statute to her clemency. I beg your help. [½ page.]
May.17. 22. Reasons to induce Her Majesty to grant Mr. Leighton's petition for permission to export 200 tuns of beer to the Isle of Guernsey, before Christmas 1575. It is much needed, for wines and cider failed last year in France, whence they are wont to make their provision. He will play 13s. 4d. per tun, and take a bond that none shall be transported save to the said island. [½ page.]