Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 25: March 1577

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

'Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 25: March 1577', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda, 1566-79, (London, 1871) pp. 510. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1566-79/p510 [accessed 24 April 2024]

March 1577



March 15. Gorhambury.	4. Grant to Rich. Oseley, clerk of the Privy Seal, of Courtenall manor, co. Northampton, late belonging to Lenton monastery, co. Notts, rent, 30l.; with the reversion after Margaret, John, and Wm. Clerke, of two tenements with land thereto belonging, rent, 45s. 4d., and three tenements with land, rent, 45s. 6d.; with hedgebote, firebote, ploughbote, and cartbote; also the office of bailiff and rent collector of the lands of the said late monastery, in reversion after Rich. Conyers, for 21 years, beginning 1611, fee, 40s. a year. [12 sheets, Latin.]
March 23.	5. Receipt by Henry Russell for 13l. 6s. 8d., from Sir Wm. Catesby, for rent of lodgings in Gloucester. [Scrap.]
March 24. York.	6. Henry Earl of Huntington to Sec. Walsingham. I have received yours of the 21st and one of the 20th subscribed by divers of my Lords as well as yourself, which mentions a letter of Her Majesty's enclosed, but which was forgotten; pray send it. I also received a letter from my Lords of the 21st, written on my late relation concerning the women prisoners in the Kydcote for religion, but I see no warrant to release those that will submit, and you know the Act of Parliament appoints the punishment.
	P.S.—Until I receive your answer, I must stay any order for mustering or training of men. [1 page.]
March ?	7. Statement by Ralph Lever and Rich. Fawcett to the Dean and Chapter of Durham. Leases are made and sealed with our chapter seal to foreign persons for 21 years, of sundry of the prebendaries' corpus [lands] without any proviso that the prebendary himself or his successor may resume the same upon a year's warning, when he shall be minded to keep hospitality. This is against our statutes, which say that no prebendary who will keep residential hospitality shall be defrauded of the use of his corpus for more than one year. As the contrary is maintained by you, we request that you will join us in a petition to the Queen to have the statute expounded, as this letting out by lease is slanderous to the whole company, an utter decay of hospitality in our successors, and a wilful contempt of the will and meaning of our founder. [¾ page. Signed by Lever only. See Dom. Eliz., Vol. CXI., No. 52.]