|
| Sept. 1. |
Grant, in reversion, to Hen. Elsing and Thos. Knyvet of the office
of Clerks of the Parliament, for life. [Grant Bk., p. 112.] |
| Sept. 5. |
Grant to Sir Baptist Hicks of payment to him from Sir
Marmaduke Darell, Sir John Trevor, and Sir Thos. Bludder, of the
several sums of 2,050l., 2,016l. 13s. 4d., and 1,833l. 5s. 4d., out of
the money arising from imposition on coals. [Ibid., p. 126.] |
Sept 9.
London. |
56. Chamberlain to [Carleton]. Sir Ralph Winwood has returned
from Holland, and had an interview with the King, but the Secretaryship was not named. He who holds it really [Rochester] will
not soon give it up, and may take the title. The projectors at a
loss to find schemes to get money, all the land not entailed being
sold. The Ambassadors' pay is nine months in arrear. The
farmers of the wines have compounded for 16,000l. fine and 6,000l.
increase of rent. Quarrels or threatened duels between Lord Bruce
and Sir Edw. Sackville, Lord Chandos and Lord Hay, the Earl of
Rutland and Lord Danvers, and the Earl of Essex and Hen.
Howard. Progress of the Divorce Bill [of the Countess of Essex].
Commissioners appointed to hear the Irish deputies, who are
confined at Croydon. Sir Robt. Brett made Lieutenant of Dover
Castle. Death of Lords Harrington and Russell, Sir Oliver Manners,
Sir Wm. Godolphin, and Sir Rich. Weston. Marriages of Sir Art.
Ingram, Sir Hen. Montague, and Sir Wm. Webb. The King come
to town. |
Sept. 11.
Wanstead. |
Proclamation prohibiting the bringing in of French wines before
Dec. 1. Printed. [Proc. Coll., No. 24.] |
| Sept. 13. |
57. Sir John Swinnerton to Rochester. Prays him to obtain for
him a prolongation of his lease of the farm of sweet wines, in compensation for his services in discovering the frauds in that of the
French and Rhenish wines, the farm of which he failed to obtain,
his Majesty having compounded with the former farmers. His
many services have raised the revenue of the Crown 60,000l. a year. |
Sept. 21.
Whitehall. |
58. Earl of Suffolk to Sir Thos. Lake. To draw up a grant to
Hen. Martin of the place of Serjeant Trumpeter, void by decease of
Benedict Browne. |
Sept. 22.
Madrid. |
Sir John Digby to the King. The Spanish Ambassador has sent
home the following particulars of the English Court, viz.:—That
the King grows too fat to be able to hunt comfortably; spends
much time in reading, especially religious works, and eats and drinks
so recklessly that it is thought he will not be long lived; he is
obstinate in his religious opinions; his chief favourites are Scotchmen, and especially Visct. Rochester. That the Queen leads a quiet
life, not meddling with business, and is on good terms with the King.
That the Prince is a fine youth of sweet disposition, and, under good
masters, might be easily trained to the religion his predecessors lived
in. That the Council is composed of men of little knowledge, some
Catholics, but most schismatics or atheists, and the King resolves
on all business with Visct. Rochester alone, who is no persecutor of
Catholics. That the Duke of Lenox and Lord Hay are pensioners of
France. That Catholics are persecuted by the Archbp. of Canterbury and Bp. of London, and by the King, in hope to propitiate
Parliament into granting subsidies, and that he may have their forfeitures to give to his servants. This persecution was increased, and
a fresh Oath of Allegiance exacted, from the fright caused by the
death of the late King of France. That the King has impaired his
revenue by sale of his lands, &c., and yet is five millions in debt, and
is profuse in his gifts. The Earl of Northampton opposed in
Council the calling a Parliament for supplies, because they would
censure the King's modes of raising moneys. He intends to raise
three millions by sale of the Royal woods and of deer. The
shipping, castles, and forts going to decay. [Spanish Corresp.,
Sept. 22.] |
| Sept. 22. |
Grant to Fras. Godolphin of the office of Receiver General in
cos. Devon, Cornwall, and York, for life. [Grant Bk., p. 125.] |
| Sept. 24. |
Grant to Fras. Cottington of the Clerkship of the Privy Council,
for life. [Ibid., p. 110.] |
| Sept. 25. |
59. Memorandum that the cause between Lady Fras. Howard
and the Earl of Essex was begun May 17, 1613, and sentenced
Sept. 25. |
| Sept. 26. |
Grant to Sir Robt. Phelips of lease of Sherborne Park, &c., co
Dorset, for ninety-nine years. [Grant Bk., p. 118.] |
| Sept. 28. |
Licence to Sir Lionel Cranfield to receive 3d. in the pound imposed
upon merchant strangers, above the charges paid by natural subjects, for exportation and importation of merchandise. [Ibid.,
p. 104.] |
Sept. 28.
London. |
60. Sir Ralph Winwood to [Carleton]. Sir Thos. Overbury found
dead in bed at the Tower. Sir John Lidcott, his brother-in-law,
begged his body, but was refused. The marriage between the Earl
of Essex and Lady Fras. Howard pronounced null and void by the
Bishops of Winchester, Lichfield, Rochester, and others; the Archbp.
of Canterbury, Bishop of London, and others, dissenting. No money
is to be had. The King and Queen at Hampton Court, where the
advisability of a Parliament will be discussed. |
Sept. 30.
Reading. |
61. Order by the Commissioners of Sewers for Berkshire and
Oxfordshire, that Rich. Harrison keep in repair the banks of the
River Loddon, adjacent to Whistley Mill, of which he is occupant. |
| Sept. ? |
62. Answer of Wm. Barker to the questions propounded by the
Archbp. of Canterbury and other Commissioners, relative to his
registration of the sentence pronounced in the Court of Delegates,
in the cause between the Lady Fras. Howard and Robt. Earl of
Essex, in which Dr. Edwardes wished him to insert, contrary to
custom, the protests of several of the Commissioners, &c. |
| Sept. ? |
63. Commission by Hen. Earl of Northampton, Lord Warden, &c.,
appointing Sir Robt. Brett, Lieutenant of Dover Castle, the Mayor
of Sandwich, and others, to be Deputies for the charge of the passage
at Sandwich. |
| Sept. ? |
64. Duplicate of the above. |
| Sept. ? |
65. Declaration by Walter Devereux and Rich. Ouseley, of the
falsity of a new relation of the quarrel between the Earl of Essex
and Hen. Howard, since the King reconciled them, which relation
differs "in some mayne points" from that which they subscribed,
and which showed that they might have fought if they would. [See
Nichols' Progresses, vol. II., p. 676.] |
| Sept. |
66. Monthly account of the fees of the Clerks of the Signet. |
| Sept. |
67. Indenture of lease from the Wardens of the Company of
Farriers of London to Robt. Glover, of London, their Clerk, and
Elizabeth, his wife, of certain rooms in their house, commonly called
the Trinity Hall, or Common Hall of the late dissolved fraternity or
guild of the Holy Trinity, in the parish of St. Botolph Without,
Aldersgate, London. |
