James 1 - volume 75: December 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 75: December 1613', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I, 1611-18, (London, 1858) pp. 213-219. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/jas1/1611-18/pp213-219 [accessed 13 April 2024]

December 1613



Dec. 2. Royston.	Proclamation prohibiting the import of dressed felt hats or caps, in order to encourage the dressing of them at home. Printed. [Proc. Coll., No. 26.]
Dec. 2.	31. Northampton to [Lake]. The bark Pearl shall be brought from Ireland to London, as the King commands. This course is the safest both for the Ambassadors and the proprietors, but the Lord Admiral thinks that by his patent, all those matters belong to his jurisdiction. The cargo is not so valuable as was reported. Asks for an answer to the Bishop of Durham's letter, touching the disposing of the Borders, &c.
Dec. 3.	32. Earl of Suffolk to the Same. Thanks for favour to Hen. Howard concerning Manshall Park. Asks a renewal of the warrant for the sale of land. A Privy Seal to be drawn for the Gentlemen's Masque, adding 100l., to be given to Sir Sigismund and Hen. Zinzan, for the running at the tilt.
Dec. 3. Whitehall.	33. Earl of Suffolk and Sir Julius Cæsar to the Same. To draw a warrant for payment to Meredith Morgan of sums needful for the Gentlemen's Masque at Christmas.
Dec. 3.	Grant, in reversion, to Geo. Ravenscroft, of the office of Keeper of the Council Chamber, for life. [Grant Bk., p. 120.]
Dec. 5. Whitehall.	34. Duke of Lenox to Lake. [Edw.] Sackville laughs at the idea that there was an attempt on his life, as reported, only his horse was struck by some drunken fellow; but Archibald Primrose says one Bruce is resolved to kill him.
Dec. 7. London.	35. Sir Walter Cope to Somerset. Sir Rich. Cheetwood little deserves His Majesty's favour in a certain cause. Sends his own answers thereon.
Dec. 7. Strand.	36. Sir Julius Cæsar to Lake. Sends an inventory of Anderton's books, to be presented to the King from the Bishop of Chester. Incloses,
Dec. 7. Strand.	36. i. List of Popish books [belonging to Anderton ?].
Dec. 8.	37. Earl of Suffolk to the Same. Asks a warrant for the expenses of Mrs. Mercer, a skilful midwife, to be sent to Heidelberg to attend her Grace. Hopes Edw. Sackville may be allowed to run at the tilt at his cousin's marriage, in spite of Primrose's report. No haste in adding Thos. Murray to the commission for the Prince's chamber. Wishes the Lords Marshal would end the quarrel between young Cornwallis and Patrick Ramsay. A mere commandment will not be sufficient to prevent the Judges inditing young Weston. Some other course must be thought of.
Dec. 8. Wednesday.	38. Earl of Northampton to Lake. Mr. Marshall finds the corruptions under a certain patent have been flagrant. The complainants will speak more freely when sworn before a commission. Hopes the King will stand firm in allowing Lord Cavendish to purchase Harlington. Lady Shrewsbury is almost mad about it. Hopes the foundation of trade with the Great Mogul is well laid. Our merchants have had a bloody struggle with the Portuguese. The Spanish Ambassador's proffers about trade are to be heard. Incloses
Dec. 8. Wednesday.	38. i. Articles concluded between the Governor of Amadevaz, on the part of the Great Mogul, and Capt. Thos. Best, on the part of the King of England and the East India Company, for settling a trade and factory at Surat and other places. Oct. 21, 1612.
Dec. 8.	39. Sir Walter Cope to the Same. Sir Rich. Cheetwood's case is altogether misconceived. The granting his petition will be a dangerous precedent. The King will be daily importuned, and his Court disgraced, if parties are allowed to refuse compliance with decrees, without express letters from His Majesty.
Dec. 9. Whitehall. Thursday.	40. Earl of Northampton to the Same. Fears that Her Majesty will displace him from his office of Keeper of the Game in Greenwich Park, with possession of the lodge. Was brought up in the place from a child; has expended upwards of 2,000l. there, and desires to lay his bones there. Requests the King, in passing the grant of it to the Queen, to provide for his remaining, otherwise he will be at the mercy of a wrathful mistress, and his expulsion will be inevitable.
Dec. 9.	Lease to John Gray of the King's two parts of the lands of Eliz. and Thos. Wells, recusants. [Docquet. Dec. 9 and Feb. 1614.]
Dec. ?	41. Project for raising the King's revenue by instituting an office for registering debts contracted upon usurious bonds, bills of exchange, &c.
Dec. ?	42. Project for increase of the King's revenue by his resuming into his own hands the grant of sole importation of tobacco, and regranting it to an agent, who will yield him half the profits, estimated at 15,000l.; with reasons why he may resume the grant.
Dec. ?	43. Proposition that one year's rent be paid in advance by His Majesty's tenants, farmers, fee-farmers, and others, to be allowed again in three years.
Dec. 9. London.	44. Chamberlain to Carleton. Sir Ralph Winwood lately at Royston. The King suffers from relaxation of the uvula. Great lack of money. Projects abound, but they all come to nothing, except the sale of lands; the value of 2,000l. per ann. sold since Michaelmas, and another 2,000l. ordered; but of the 17,000l. which was to come in this week, and was intended to stop some urgent claims, the King reserves 10,000l. for jewels for the bride, and the other 7,000l. for other followers. The very guard for his person, and his postmen from Royston, are unpaid. Sir Hen. Neville and Sir Thos. Lake no more spoken of for Secretaries. Sir Thos. Edmondes may be the man, but he can be ill spared [from France] during the marriage treaty. The Lord Chief Justice has summoned recusants to the King's Bench, and committed many for refusing the Oath of Allegiance. All persons who go abroad to fight duels are to be censured in the Star Chamber. Death of Lord Berkeley, whose granddaughter has married Lord Coke's eldest son; and of Sir John Leveson, Sir Wm. Walgrave, father and son, and young Sir Wm. Cornwallis.
Dec. 9.	Grant to Thos. Hooper, Ranger of Cranborne Chace, of a forfeited recognizance of 300l., acknowledged by Edw. Downes, his brotherin-law, deceased, as surety for Jeremy Downes, which grant is intended for the relief of the children of the said Edw. Downes. [Docquet. Dec. 9 and Feb. 1614.]
Dec. 9.	Presentation of David Owen to the parsonage of All Saints, St. Gregory, Northampton. [Docquet.]
Dec. [1]1.	45. Earl of Northampton to Lake. Thanks for the King's request to the Queen not to thrust him out of Greenwich Park. She professes that she does not intend it; but his security depends upon an express provision in the grant, without which she would have power to do it as soon as her patent is passed.
Dec. ?	46. Statement of grants of offices and lands made to Thos. Sheffield and Lord [Northampton ?] in Greenwich.
Dec. 11.	Commission to the Lord Chancellor and others for the sale of lands entailed according to indenture, dated 8 May, 7 Jac. I. [Grant Bk., p. 109.]
Dec. 11. Whitehall.	47. Duke of Lenox to Somerset. To procure the King's direction to stay the ministers of Lord Harrington from proceeding in the matter of the farthing tokens, they opposing, for their own profit, the transfer thereof to the Duke, though he has offered terms satisfactory to Lord Harrington.
Dec. 13. Great St. Bartholomews.	48. Lord Chief Justice Hobart to Lake. The escheats incurred by Lord —, Sheriff of Cumberland, for escapes connived at, come to 415l., and should be levied at once; but it would be grievous to his Lordship, and against the King's own book [for granting or withholding of suits], and also without precedent, to grant the fines to another, rather than have them levied to the King's own use.
Dec. 14.	Commission to the Lord Chancellor and others to sell reversions or remainders of lands in the survey of the Exchequer and Duchy of Lancaster, inheritable of divers persons by former entails. [Grant Bk., p. 103.]
Dec. 19.	49. — Sanders to the King. Concerning the proceedings at law for the confiscation of the goods of the pirate, lately executed, left in the hands of an Earl in Ireland. The Lord Privy Seal, to whom it was referred, refused to have anything further to do in the matter. Thinks it a pity that so rich a prize should be lost, and proposes means to recover it by law. [See Dec. 2.]
Dec. 20.	Confirmation to Hen. Earl of Northampton of the office of Keeper of Greenwich Park, and the herbage and pannage of the same. [Grant Bk., p. 117.]
Dec. 20.	Commission to the Lord Chancellor, &c. to sell on lease any (entailed) lands contained in an indenture, dated 8 May, 7 Jac. I., in the survey of the Exchequer or Duchy of Lancaster, including wood and timber. [Ibid., p. 105.]
Dec. 20.	Commission to Sir Robt. Carey, Sir Jas. Fullerton, and Sir Robt. Carr, for the rule and government of Prince Charles and all his family above the stairs. [Ibid., p. 105.]
Dec. 20.	Commission to Sir David Fowlies, Cofferer, for the rule and government of Prince Charles and his household below stairs. [Ibid., p. 105.]
Dec. 23.	Confirmation of the sentence annulling the marriage between Robt. Earl of Essex and Lady Fras. Howard. [Ibid., p. 111.]
Dec. 23.	Grant to Wm. Garway, John Wolstenholme, and Nich. Salter, of the customs and subsidies on currants for seven years. [Ibid., p. 125.]
Dec. 23.	50. Memorandum of the delivery of a messuage and tenement called Vambers Poole by John Vaughan, under warrant of attorney from his mother, Judith Vaughan, widow, to Thos. Fitzgerald and Frances his wife, &c.
Dec. 23. London.	51. Rev. Geo. Carleton to Padre Paolo, at Venice. Disapproves the endless contentions in the church. Thinks the true church is that which serves the same God, and holds the same rule of faith, wherever it be placed. God is glorified by his delivering the English church from tyranny, and preserving the integrity of other churches through it. Their church the more to be pitied as being near the fountain of evil [Rome]. Thinks true Christian membership is not being united with one church or another, but having the communion of saints, &c. Latin.
Dec. 23. London.	52. Chamberlain to Carleton. Much whispering about offices. Sir Ralph Winwood will ask to be sent back to Holland if he be not appointed soon, having had so many promises. Sir Thos. Overbury prevented his having the place last year. He is too plain for the tender ears of the age. Lord Coke rivals the Earl of Northampton for the Treasurership. Sir Fras. Bacon prepared a costly Masque in honour of the approaching marriage, and will accept no help towards the charge. He feasts the whole University of Cambridge, and lives in splendid style, though he pretends he will take no fees. The ship Advantage burnt in Scotland. Schomberg is come over to obtain leave for Mrs. Dudley to remain with the Electress Palatine. The King has spoken approvingly to [Geo.] Carleton on his new work.
Dec. 30. London.	53. John Chamberlain to Alice Carleton. Description of the marriage of the Earl and Countess of Somerset, of the Masque that night, and the running at the ring the next day. The Dean of Westminster preached in commendation of the young couple. Details of rich presents given to them by many of the nobility, Sir Thos. Lake, Sir Ralph Winwood, and others; also by the City, the Merchant Adventurers, East India Company, &c. Sir Hen. Bowyer dead.
Dec. 31.	54. Indenture between Edw. Grent, Robt. More, Martin Smyth, and Fras. Hexham, all of London, Patentees of the office of Surveyor, for giving in the names of the inmates within three miles of Westminster and London, and for enforcing the laws for maintenance of the poor, and suppressing vagrancy, whereby they agree to divide the said limits into four parts, north, south, east, and west, and each to exercise his office within one of the said divisions; also to hire a house for the business of the office, to keep registers, &c.

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1613 ?	55. Petition of David Drummond to the King for a grant, on behalf of Rich. Connock, lessee of the manor of Lylesdon, co. Somerset, of all debts due to the Crown from that manor, which was forfeited by attainder of Hen. Duke of Suffolk.
	Satirical papers relating to the foundation of a Mock College for Innocents or Fools, to be called Gotam College, Oxford, as follows:—
	56. Epistle to the reader, and account of the circumstances attending the foundation.
	57. Licence for the above foundation from the Emperor of Morea.
	58. Foundation charter of Sir Thos. a Cuniculis.
	59. Foundation statutes of the college.
	60. Copy of the above, with additions.
	61–65. Five papers relating to the regulations, offices, and privileges of the above-named college.
	66. Complimentary ode to Dr. Wm. Laud, President of St. John's College; indorsed with notes [by Laud] relative to the above-named Gotam College.
	67. Notes on the course pursued upon the petition of Sir John Bourchier and [Wm.] Turner to the King, that he would redeem his pledges in making payments to their creditors for the alum business. The petitioners desire that the King would enter bonds for the payment, and that their bonds may be discharged.
Pig and Capon, Aldersgate Street.	68. R. Lane to —. Details of frauds practised in the alum manufacture by Turner and his company, the late Earl of Salisbury, and Sir Art. Ingram. Offers to expose and rectify them.
	69. Statement that the Patent granted 19 Eliz. to the Company of Tallow Chandlers to be searchers of soap, vinegar, and barrelled butter in London, Southwark, St. Katherine's, &c., was deputed to the late Lord Chamberlain for life, and for ten years after his death; that he sold the right to the Lord Mayor of London; that the period having now lapsed, it again devolves on the Tallow Chandlers, whose right to exercise it is questioned by the offenders.
	70. Observations touching the commercial treaty with France, the necessity which compelled the establishment of a French commercial company, and the advantages that have accrued therefrom.
	71. Statements respecting the title of Wm. Essex, and the heirs of Lawrence Rushbrook, to a farm belonging to the late monastery of Wallingford, Berks. Thos. Hansacker, a lawyer, who married Rushbrook's widow, combines with Essex to defraud the heirs of the land.
	Grant to John Slade, of Pool, Cheshire, and Thos. Brooke, of London, on payment of 1,884l. 2s. 4d. by Sir Thos. Savage, of the manor and lordship of Frodsham, co. Chester, value 43l. 16s. 4d. per ann. Latin. [Sign Man., vol. III., No. 119.]
	72. Sir Dud. Diggs to the Lord Chief Justice. Requests him not to mention the letter from Sir John Digby till he see him at York House.
	73. Reasons for the petition [by some of the Justices of Northamptonshire] to the King for alternating the Quarter Sessions between Northampton and Kettering; with answers thereto.
	74. Copy of the above reasons.
	75. Precedents for the use of other counties, of twenty-three counties which hold their Quarter Sessions in divers towns.
	76. Statement of reasons why the Quarter Sessions should be held at Northampton, and not elsewhere.
	77. Petition of the Plasterers' Company to the Council. Complain of encroachment on their privileges by the Tilers and Bricklayers, who in the suburbs of London employ poor men, not of the Company of Plasterers, contrary to the terms of their charter.
	78. Note that in a commission lately issued, at nomination of Hen. Howard and Hen. Gibbs, for granting patents of charter warren to those who desire them, the scale of fees to be paid is made so low that the Secretary and Clerks of the Signet are great losers thereby. Request for redress therein, or stay of the grant.
	79. Statement of the terms of a proposition to purchase the reversions in the Crown of lands entailed, value 500l. per ann.; with arguments in its favour.
	80. Copy of the above.
	81. Project for searching out concealed lands, to the value of 10,000l. or 12,000l., the reversion whereof is now in the Crown, the entail being spent; one third to devolve on the finder and two thirds on the grantee.
	82. Statement [addressed to Hen. Earl of Northampton] of abuses in the hospitals of St. John and St. Giles, near Wilton, the funds of which are appropriated by the masters, &c., instead of going to the poor. The King having issued a commission of inquiry, the masters will reform their abuses, if they know his Lordship will take notice thereof.
Northampton House.	83. [Earl of Northampton, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports,] to his Deputy. Commands him to examine and punish persons dredging oysters within the liberty of Brightlingsea, in the place allotted to John Wolphe.
	84. Memoranda of abuses committed in the manufacture of Spanish cloth and kerseys by bad dyeing and over stretching on the tenters.
	85. The Council to the Justices of Peace and Officers of Corporations. To put in force the regulations for searching and sealing cloths, in order to prevent the making of false and deceitful cloth, which is much complained of by the Merchant Adventurers, and very injurious to trade. The Deputy Alnager is to be one of the searchers.
	86. Warrant to pay to Sir Alex. Hay, Secretary for Scotland, 635l. 1s. 5d. for levy and transport of 200 men from Scotland to Ireland, and for two months' wages for them.
	87. Warrant to the Lord Chancellor to draw out a commission of lieutenancy for the county of Gloucester, for Visct. Lisle, Chamberlain to the Queen, and Lord Berkeley.
	88. Copy of the above.