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Aug. 9.
Carlisle. |
106. Orders set down by Baron J. Clench and Fr. Rodes, justices
of assize at Carlisle, between the officers, farmers, and tenants of
the Earl of Arundel, and Lord Wm. Howard, of the one part,
and Fras. Dacre of the other part, concerning the inheritance of
the late Lord Dacre, in Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Northumberland:— |
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1. The peace is to he inviolately observed by all parties. |
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2. The tenants and occupiers on both sides shall peaceably hold
and enjoy their several tenements, crops, &c. until either the
Council, the Lord Lieutenant of the North parts, or a trial at
common law shall otherwise direct. |
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3. All the tenants, &c. on both sides shall pay their rents to
such of the said parties as they do now, unless they are willing,
without force, to pay it in any other sort. |
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4. Edw. Blewerhassett, committed to ward for telling the
Sheriff that if one knight carried his hay to his barn, he would
burn the barn, though he were hanged an hour after, is to be
bound before his enlargement to his good behaviour, that neither
he, nor any by his procurement spoil any houses or grounds of
any person. |
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5. That neither Launcelot Carleton, nor any other of the
Carletons, nor any by their means, shall take or do any waste in
any house or building now upon any of the lands, wastes, or
moors in question. |
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6. All the buildings and woods now standing upon the premises shall be henceforth preserved, until further order from
Council. |
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7. No distresses shall be made on either side, for any rent or
service, until like further order, as there are 140 suits commenced
against Dacre and his tenants, and as many distresses taken. |
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8. Thomas and Launcelot Carleton, with two sureties each, shall
be bound in 500l. for performance of these orders, and for their
good behaviour. |
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9. Dacre shall be bound in 500l. for performance thereof. |
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10. Leonard Musgrave shall be bound to his good behaviour,
because he went into the pulpit to move certain persons to adhere
to Dacre. |
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11. As there have been some disorders against Dacre's keeping
his Courts, the keeping of Courts shall be stayed on both sides,
until further order from Council. [1 page, copy examined by
R. Somerscales.] |
Aug. 13.
Newcastle. |
107. Similar orders. Adding that no buildings or woods in Northumberland be wasted on either side; and that as the steward and
officers of the Earl of Arundel and of Lord Howard have, without
stop or let of Mr. Dacre, kept the three weeks' Court at Morpeth,
the keeping of such Courts shall so continue until next Christmas,
when they are to cease, and not be renewed by either part. With
bond of Edw. Gray of Morpeth, Lucas Ogle, and Ant. Felton,
attorney, in 500 marks each, for Gray's performing the said orders.
[¾ sheet.] |
| Aug. 13. |
108. Memorandum that 6,000l. is to be paid to Sir Wm. Reade to
be conveyed to the Earl of Huntingdon, President and Lieutenant
in the North, to be issued by direction of the Lord Treasurer for the
service there, by a Privy Seal dated 13 Aug. 1588. With notes [by
Burghley] how such sum is to be distributed between Mr. Bowes,
Mr. Anderson, Lord Scrope, and the Earl of Huntingdon; also for
a warrant for 4,000l. to be sent to Ireland, for moneys due upon
bills of the Treasurer there, to be paid to sundry persons in England.
[Scrap.] |
Aug. 16.
The Court. |
109. Warrant to John Phillips, gun founder, to cast 12 bastard
demi-culverins, weighing 25 cwt. a piece, for Michael de Decher to
transport for defence of Middleburg in Zealand. [½ page, draft.] |
