|
| [Aug. 6.] |
32. Note of a grant to Louis Duke of Lenox, of Settrington,
Temple Newsham, and Wensleydale, part of the Lenox lands; value,
400l. a year. [¾ page, draft. See Calendar James I., Vol. III.,
No. 12.] |
| [Aug. 9.] |
Commissions received from the Lord Chancellor, viz., warrant
for his usual fees and allowances; licence to keep a certain number of retainers; warrant to make denizens on reasonable fines; also
to confirm charters and patents, as usual at the beginning of a reign;
also to make out liberates for payment of fees and annuities
granted by the late Queen. [1 page, docquets.] |
| [Aug. 18.] |
33. Warrant appointing [Lord Burghley] warden of Rockingham
Forest, co. Northampton, and keeper of the game and deer there, it
being much decayed and wasted by poachers and others; with
power to prosecute offenders, to prohibit hunting or shooting for a
specified time, and to report to His Majesty in any case where the
law will not apply, so that further order may be taken. [1¼ pages,
draft, fragments. See Calendar James I., Aug. 18, 1603.] |
| Aug. 19. |
34. The King to Sir Edm. Anderson, Sir Wm. Periam, Sir Fras.
Gawdy, and Sir Peter Warburton. It appearing by the certificate of
the Lord Chief Justice of our Bench and Common Pleas, and by
the petition of John Cage, that there have been a multiplication of
suits long depending, between Cage and Richard Peacock, besides
their many submissions of compromise, and yet no end made;—We command you to examine the cause, and set down such order as
you shall find most agreeable to equity. [1 page, copy.] |
| Aug. 20. |
35. The King to Lord Treasurer Buckhurst. Having directed
you to consider a suit moved to us by the Earl of Southampton, for
the farming of the impost of sweet wines coming into this realm, at
the rent of 6,000l., and received answer that you knew of no inconvenience likely to arise to us by such a grant;—We require you
to order the demise of the said impost for a term of years, with
such clauses and convenants as in the demises to the late Earls of
Leicester and Essex, or with such other as you shall think meet.
[¾ pages, draft.] |
Aug. 22.
Basing. |
36. The King to Lord Treasurer Buckhurst and Sir Geo. Hume,
Chancellor of the Exchequer. For some special services done to the
late Queen by a person employed in foreign parts, she purposed
to have given a liberal reward. We are pleased to perform that
which she had no time to do, and to grant to the use of the wife
and children of that person, in fee farm, the parsonage of Brigstock,
co. Northampton, and the advowson of the vicarage, and such other
lands as shall amount to the yearly value of 13l.; wherefore, we
will you to order a grant of the said parcels to the use aforesaid,
to Robert Stratford, gent., reserving the usual rents and covenants.
[1 page, damaged. Signed by the King.] |
