James 1 - volume 72: February 1613 | British History Online

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I, 1611-18. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1858.

'James 1 - volume 72: February 1613', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I, 1611-18, (London, 1858) pp. 169-174. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/jas1/1611-18/pp169-174 [accessed 19 April 2024]

February 1613.



Feb. 4. London.	23. John Chamberlain to Alice Carleton. Projected marriage of Sir Hen. Savile's daughter Elizabeth with the only son of Sir Wm. Sedley, of Kent, who married the Lady Abergavenny. The Countess of Salisbury has a daughter, and lies in in great state. The Prince Palatine feasted the Council, showing great attention to the Archbishop. Liberality of Count Maurice to Garter Kingat-Arms and Sir Ralph Winwood, on receiving the Garter. Death of Sir Thos. Bodley. Particulars of his will. He has left legacies to great people, 7,000l. to his library, and 200l. to Merton College; but little to his brothers, his old servants, his friends, or the children of his wife, by whom he had all his wealth.
Feb. 5.	Order in Council, made by the King's special direction, to restrain the killing and eating of flesh in Lent, or on Fridays throughout the year. Printed. [Proc. Bk., p. 263.]
Feb. 9.	24. Assignment by Isabel, widow of Lancelot Coker, of Barking, and Thos. Green, of East Smithfield, and Katherine his wife, to Thos. Cranwell, of London, of the lease of a tenement in Chitterling Alley, in the parish of All Saints, Barking, in London, leased to Lancelot Coker by Elizabeth, widow of Sir Fras. Cherry.
Feb. 10. York House.	25. Lord Chancellor Ellesmere to Carleton. Desires his promotion, and will do all in his power to forward it.
Feb. 11. London.	26. Chamberlain to the Same. Return of the Court from Windsor, where the Count Palatine and Count Maurice, represented by Count Louis of Nassau, were made Knights of the Garter. The Lords displeased that Count Maurice had precedence given next to the Princes. The Queen grows more favourable to the marriage, and it is hoped will be present. Suspicion of some intended treachery. The city has raised 500 musketeers to guard the Court. General musters ordered. Troubles in Ireland feared. Details of preparations for fireworks and mock fights on the water, Sir Robt. Mansell being commander. The Princess's followers have no means to provide their equipage, but to sell knightages at 150l. each. All her gentleman attendants are Scots, but the women, English. A benevolence talked of to be kept sacred for defence of the realm. Circuits of the judges changed. Lady Bedford, the Queen, Countess of Derby, and Lord Admiral stand sponsors for the Countess of Salisbury's daughter.
Feb. 12. London.	Isaac Wake to Carleton. Visct. Rochester promises Carleton the pictures. Thos. Murray, who is about the Prince, is much courted, but his honesty makes him well esteemed. The Count Palatine made Knight of the Garter, and took the oath with a salvo of the laws of the empire; Count Louis with a similar one, for the constitutions of the United Provinces. Particulars of the feast. Lady Elizabeth going into Germany. Details of her suite, who are all Scots, which displeases the English. Count Schomberg governs the Prince Palatine. Sir Thos. Glover is confident of escaping blame, and boasts his services as rescuing 300 Christians from slavery, obtaining privileges for English ships in the Levant ports, &c. Sig. Foscarini (fn. 1) wooing a daughter of Sir Fras. Lacon. Anxiety of the Ambassadors to be invited to the coming feast. [Venice Corresp., Feb. 12, 1613.]
Feb. 12.	27. Extract from the above.
[Feb.]	28. Extracts from the above two letters; also from a third, not given, naming the persons forming the suite of the Princess. Lord and Lady Harrington are going, at their own expense, to see her settled in Germany. The Queen caresses the Count Palatine as if he were her own son. Lady Arabella, though still in the Tower, has shown her joy by buying four new gowns, one of which cost 1,500l.
Feb. 14.	29. James [?] Hay to Sir Thos. Lake. Signifies the King's pleasure to grant to John Bird a fine of 100 marks, imposed on Hen. Wayles, of Norfolk.
Feb. 18. London.	30. John Chamberlain to Alice Carleton. Fireworks on the water. Details of the marriage ceremony of the Prince Palatine and Princess Elizabeth. Dresses of the ladies. Masque of the Lords, and of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn men, described. That of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn, which was the marriage of the Thames and the Rhine, devised by Sir Fras. Bacon, failed, the King being so weary and sleepy that he refused to see it till Saturday. No farthingales were admitted at any of these shows.
Feb. 18.	31. Extract from the above, with slight alterations.
Feb. 22. London.	32. John Finet to Carleton. The Archduke's Ambassador refused to attend Lady Elizabeth's wedding, because the Venetian Ambassador was invited to an earlier part of the festival. The King offered explanations, but they were unavailing. Pretensions of the French and Venetian Ambassadors to have chairs, &c. at the feast. The French Ambassador's lady threatened to leave, because Lady Effingham wished to take precedence of her. Details of the marriage ceremonial, the dresses, order of procession, splendid jewellery, &c. The jewels of the King, Queen, and Prince were valued at 900,000l. Masque of the Lords rich and ingenious, and those of the Inns of Court much commended. The King's feast to them was paid for by certain noblemen who were vanquished at the ring. The Prince improves daily, and has thrice carried off the ring. The King gone to Royston, where the Count Palatine is to join him.
Feb. 22.	33, 34. Two extracts from the above.
Feb. 22. Strand.	35. Sir Julius Cæsar to Carleton. Thanks for favours shown to his son at Venice. Cannot write news, as he has not even time to salute his friends.
Feb. 22. London.	36. Giov. Franc. Biondi to [the Same]. Mr. Wake leaves with such good opinions of all, especially of the King, that he should be obliged to Carleton for having sent him over.
Feb. 22. Whitehall.	37. Thos. Murray to the Same. A great wound recently inflicted on England and Europe [by the death of Prince Henry], but still hopes left for the future. Will send the Prince's portrait, when finished, to Sir Hen. Savile.
Feb. 22.	38. Account of sums paid into the receipt of the Pells by Fras. Jones, collector of the new impositions, since Oct. 1611. Total 2,261l. 7s. 0½d. Latin.
Feb. 22.	Special commission to Hen. Earl of Kent of Lieutenancy in co. Bedford. [Grant Bk., p. 89.]
Feb. 24.	Commission to the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Northampton, and others, to sell any lands in the survey of the Exchequer, Duchy or County Palatine of Lancaster, and to pass defective titles. [Ibid., p. 89.]
Feb. 24. Lambeth.	39. Archbp. Abbot to Carleton. The two honest men sent over by Carleton last year do very well. Has received an Italian treatise dedicated to the King, being a supplication to all Christian Princes against the Court of Rome. As all despatches are now addressed to the King, Carleton will have a good opportunity to show his industry and good parts.
Feb. 24. Lambeth.	40. The Same to the Same. Has concerted with Wake a cipher to be used in correspondence between himself and Carleton, when necessary. Wake's long delay is not for want of diligence, but because he cannot get his despatch.
Feb. 24. London.	41. Sir Thos. Overbury to the Same. Note of affection. Sir Hen. Neville and Sir Robt. Killigrew desire remembrances.
Feb. 24. London.	42. Andrews, Bishop of Ely, to the Same. Reference to a matter on which he had spoken with Mr. Chamberlain, whose late writing is not suitable to see the light. Revising the Council of Trent is a matter of great importance, but God and Christian Princes must take up this matter by other means than the pen.
Feb. 25. King Street.	43. Sir Hen. Wotton to Carleton. Is in Westminster with a few books about him, "more attending the study of truth than of humor;" contented with his own poor thoughts, and "vicinæ nescius urbis." Has lost two great patrons within the year.
Feb. 25. Chancery Lane.	44. Sir Matt. Carew to the Same. Has endured great misfortunes, his estates in Worcestershire, for which he paid 9,000l. to Sir Wm. Bond, proving to be much encumbered. His son [in law] Cromer, ill; one of his sons roving after hounds and hawks, the other studying in the Middle Temple, but doing little at law. His daughter is his only comfort.
Feb. 25. Durham House.	45. Adam Newton to [the Same]. Waited to reply to Carleton's letters in hope that the late Prince would also write, but his "incomparable loss" has precluded that hope, and also his own chance of doing Carleton service.
Feb. 25. London.	46. Sir Edw. Phelips to the Same. Festivities at the marriage of the Princess. The Masques of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn were praised above all others. The King feasted the Inns of Court, sitting at the same board. No Treasurer nor Secretary yet appointed, nor likely to be. The question whether the Duchy of Cornwall now reverts to the King or to the Prince is settled in favour of the latter.
Feb. 25 ? London.	47. Declaration of the King confirming the title of Prince Charles, Duke of York, to the Duchy of Cornwall, to which his right is proved by legal arguments and former precedents, which are all given at length. Published by the King's command. Printed.
Feb. 25. London.	48. Chamberlain to Carleton. Was sent for by Sir Walter Cope to see Carleton's papers burnt [his letters to the late Earl of Salisbury]. The King went on Monday to Theobalds, Royston, and Newmarket. The Prince and Count Palatine will follow him. The match gives general satisfaction, and the Queen is quite reconciled to it. The masque of the Gray's Inn and Inner Templars came off very well, and the masquers were entertained by the King, but at the cost of the Prince and his followers, who laid a wager for the charges of the feast, and lost it in running at the ring. No Peers created except the Deputy of Ireland, who is made Lord Chichester. Sir Thos. Bodley, in his life written by himself, never mentions his wife nor Secretary Walsingham, nor the Earl of Leicester, who were his chief raisers. At the late wedding, Lyon King-at-Arms wore the arms of Scotland before those of England, which was much noted.
Feb. 26.	49. Examination of Rich. Grimstone, Pursuivant. Was sent by the Countess of Essex after Mary Woods, to whom she had delivered a ring set with a diamond and some money, to take charge of when she was going in haste to Court. Davison, of Norwich, says that Mary Woods professed skill in palmistry, deluding simple women and threatening if they prosecuted her, to accuse them of trying to poison their husbands.
Feb. 26.	50. Re-examination of Rich. Grimstone. He did not persuade Mary Woods to call herself a laundress, but if she would have returned him the goods which Lady Essex sent him to reclaim, he would have let her alone, though he knew of the Lord Chief Justice's warrant against her.
Feb. 26.	51, 52. Copies of the two preceding papers.
Feb. 26. Suffolk.	53. Examination of Mary Woods, of Stratton-Strawless, near Norwich. She received a goblet and a diamond from Mrs. Clare, and a ring from Lady Essex, with the promise of 1,000l. if she would procure some poison to kill the Earl of Essex, that should not act within three or four days. She repented afterwards, would not get it, and left London.
Feb. 26.	54. Examinations of Fras. Minshull and John Woods relative to the peculations of Mary Woods.
Feb. 26 ?	55. Relation of [Rich. Grimstone], Pursuivant, of his apprehension of Mary Woods. She refused to give up the goods, and when told she must go before the justice, said she would declare that she had them given to induce her to poison the Earl of Essex.
Feb. 26.	Commission to the Lord Chancellor, Earl of Northampton, and others, to allow to Robt. Typper such recompence as they, or any five of them, shall think meet, for his service concerning the Commission for sale of lands, &c. [Grant Bk., p. 89.]
Feb. 26. London.	56. Wm. Lake to Carleton. Thanks him for hastening his return to England, and giving him a letter of recommendation which will avail him should Sir Thos. Lake be advanced.
Feb. 26. London.	57. Sir Hen. Savile to the Same. Sends more copies of his work; the price is 8l. per copy, exclusive of carriage. Death of Sir Thos. Bodley; he is to be buried by his own appointment at Merton College Church, Oxford.
Feb. 26. London.	58. Sir Hen. Neville to the Same. Sends no news, as his Secretary [Wake] will tell all. Thanks for remembrances. All wheels standing still, depending upon that at Court.
Feb. 26. Savoy.	59. Geo. Lord Carew to the Same. Will endeavour to obtain for him a portrait of the Queen, but the mourning for the Prince, the marriage of the Princess, and the Queen's own indisposition, have prevented his soliciting it hitherto.
Feb. 27. The Pall of London.	60. John King, Bishop of London, to the Same. The festivals have passed, not without caution against "some practise so much prognosticated." The King shows his people that he will not be surprised sleeping. Rome would be mistress of the church, and Spain, of nations. The University [of Oxford] prospers, for though the "great Ptolemee [Sir Thos. Bodley] is gone, he liveth in his bountifull legacy."
Feb. 27. Doctor's Commons, London.	61. Dr. Hen. Marten to Carleton. Thanks for remembrance. His [Marten's] old servant Nicholas is now coachman to the Lord Chief Baron of Ireland.
Feb. 27. London.	62. Sir John Bennet to the Same. Is trustee to Sir Thos. Bodley's will, making the University of Oxford his heir. Thanks him and Lady Carleton for their kindness to his son in his dangerous sickness.
Feb. 27. London.	63. Sir Thos. Lowe to the Same. Thanks for kindness to his son and to Hen. Parvis.
Feb. 28. London.	64. Matthew de Quester to the Same. Sent him packets from Mr. Wake last week. Professes zeal in his service.
[Feb.]	65. Nich. Lanyer to the Same. Love and service. Refers to Mr. Wake for news. The world so altered since the death of his good master [the Prince] that he knows not which is "the more dangerous attempt, to turne courtier or cloune."
[Feb.]	66. Anagrams on the Princess Elizabeth and Frederic Count Palatine, by Geo. Tashe, formerly page to the King's father.