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| Jan. 1 ? |
1. Wm. Seymour to the King. Is penitent for the transgressions
of his youth, and implores pardon, and leave to come home.
Annexed is, |
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1. I. The Council to Seymour, conveying the King's permission
for him to return. Jan. 5, 1616. |
| Jan. 1. |
Grant to John Potkin of the Clerkship of the Pavilions, &c., for
life. [Grant Bk., p. 165.] |
| Jan. 1. |
Grant to Sir Rich. Morrison of the lieutenancy of the ordnance,
and keeping of the storehouses near Aldgate, London, and the
artillery garden, for life. [Ibid., p. 165.] |
| Jan. 2. |
Special licence to Simon Sturtevant and Abraham Williams to
use the mystery of fortage and lineage for thirty-one years. [See
undated, 1615, No. 43. Ibid., p. 166.] |
| [Jan. 2.] |
Grant to the Earl of Worcester of the office of Lord Keeper of the
Privy Seal. Latin. [Warrt. Bk., I., p. 175.] |
| Jan. 4. |
Grant to Thos. Platt of the Clerkship of the Great Wardrobe, for
life. [Grant Bk., p. 165.] |
| Jan. 4. |
2. Memorandum of the wreck of the Abraham on the Godwin
Sands, and the disorderly conduct of the Deal boatmen, in violating
their agreement made with the captain touching the salvage, rifling
the goods, &c. |
| Jan. 4. |
3. Memorandum of the wreck of the Jonas on the Godwin Sands,
and similar complaint against the Deal boatmen, for bursting open
the merchants' packs, and rifling them, &c. |
| Jan. 5. |
4. Thos. Fulnetby to Lord Zouch. Two ships ashore on the
Godwin Sands. Some of the goods landed. |
| Jan. 5. |
5. Note of sums due to victuallers of Dover, for diet and lodging
of [Capt. Thos. Hill's company], lately serving at sea under Capt.
Mainwaring, who were stayed by authority on Dec. 24, 1615. |
| Jan. 8. |
6. Confession of the Countess of Somerset, that in her letter to
the Lieutenant of the Tower about sending tarts, jelly, wine, &c. for
Overbury, she meant that the tarts and jellies then sent, wherein
were poisons, should be given to Overbury that night Prefixed is, |
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6. I. Countess of Essex to the Lieutenant of the Tower. Forwards
tarts, jellies, &c. sent to her. He is not to allow his wife
to taste the tarts or jellies, for there are letters in them,
but none in the wine. Sir Thos. Monson will bring
news. [With marginal notes by Coke, endeavouring to
prove therefrom the complicity of the Earl of Somerset.] |
| Jan. 8. |
7. Queries [by Coke] for examination of [Sir Wm. Monson ?] as
to his connexion with foreign Princes, or favouring English Jesuits
and priests, &c. in Flanders. With queries for the Countess of
Somerset relative to the meaning of her letter, Franklin's mission to
the Prince Palatine the death of Prince Henry, the sickness of the
Queen, &c. |
| Jan. 8? |
8. Memoranda [by the Same] on searches to be made for papers
belonging to Somerset, in Coppinger's or Lord Norris's custody,
and precautions against their being destroyed. |
| Jan. 10. |
Special licence to Rich Dike, Matthias Fowle, and Fras. Dorrington, to make Venice gold and silver thread, &c., for twenty-one
years. [Grant Bk., p. 160.] |
Jan. 11.
Philip Lane. |
9. [Lord Zouch] to [Thos.] Fulnetby. Sir Noel Caron, Ambassador of the States, having solicited that the goods of two ships
wrecked on Godwin Sands may be safely kept for their owners,
directs him to see them placed in custody of the Mayor of Sandwich. |
Jan. 15.
Chester. |
10. Wm. Aldersey to Sir Thos. Lake. Relates a dispute between
the Ironmongers of Chester and Thos. Aldersey, whom they refuse,
contrary to an Order in Council, to admit into their Company,
because he is also a merchant embroiderer. |
| Jan. 16. |
Commission to Thos. Earl of Suffolk, Lord Treasurer, and others,
to execute the office of Earl Marshal. [Grant Bk., p. 160.] |
Jan. 20.
Dover. |
11. Peter Dibb to Rich. Younge. Has taken possession of the
goods and parts of the great ship cast on Godwin Sands, which is
broken in pieces; and also one anchor and cable. A portion, cast
ashore at Dymchurch, in Romney Marsh, was claimed by Sir Ant.
Deering. Annexed is, |
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11. I. Note of the sums realized by the sale of the above goods
and portions of the ship, Jan. 29. |
Jan. 20.
Walmer Castle. |
12. Capt. Wm. Boughton to Lord Zouch. The late storms have
greatly injured the sea-wall near Walmer Castle. It needs speedy
attention, as do also the roofs of the Castle, which admit the rain. |
Jan. 21.
Dover. |
13. Peter Dibb to Rich. Younge. Begs for directions to the Bailiff
and Jurats of Lydd not to meddle with anything that concerns the
Lord Warden's jurisdiction. Incloses, |
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13. I. Robt. Martin and Peter Stronghill to Peter Dibb. Have
taken up portions of a wreck driven on shore near Lydd,
but the town claims them. Ask whether they are to give
them up. Tuesday. |
| [Jan. 22.] |
14. Petition of Robt. Godfrey to Lord Zouch, to be appointed
Porter of Dover Castle, in place of his late father, Wm. Godfrey.
Annexing, |
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14. I. Certificate in his favour by Sir Thos. Ingham, his late
master, and And. Steward. Jan. 22, 1616. |
Jan. 22.
Deal Castle. |
15. Wm. Byng to Edw. Lord Zouch. The recent storm has
carried away the beach and part of the outer wall of Deal
Castle. |
Jan. 24.
Savoy. |
16. Geo. Lord Carew to [Sir Thos. Roe]. Sends items of news
since his last of the preceding April, as follows:— |
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April.— Young Walter Raleigh wounded Robt. Finet, the Lord
Treasurer's servant, in a duel; he fled to the Low Countries, and is
received by Prince Maurice. Sir Walter has the liberty of the
Tower. Geo. Villiers knighted, with a pension of 1,000l. per ann.,
and is "like to prosper in the way of a favorite." Sir Julius Cæsar
has married the widow Hungall, sister to young Lady Killegrew.
Oliver St. John fined 5,000l., with imprisonment for life, and a
public confession, on account of a letter he wrote to the Mayor of
Marlborough. |
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May.—Lady Chichester, Sir Hen. Bromley, and Lady St. John,
dead. A daughter of the great Earl of Essex married to Sir Geo.
Shirley. The Irish Parliament prorogued, and a subsidy granted;
Sir Dud. Norton sent over as Secretary. Lord Hay made a
Baron of England, also Sir Robt. Dormer, who paid 8,000l. to Lord
Sheffield for it, "besides other driblets elsewhere." John Dackombe
joined with Sir Thos. Parry, as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. |
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June.—Sir Chas. Cornwallis, Dr. Sharpe, and Mr. Hoskins, set
free from prison, "and will no more burne there fingers with Parliment busines." |
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July.—Sir Hen. Neville, who aimed at the Secretaryship, dead;
also Lady Grey, mother to Lord Grey, of Wilton. Baronet Portman,
of Somersetshire, married to the Earl of Derby's eldest daughter. |
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August.—Peacham, a minister, sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and
quartered, for writing a sermon against the King and Government;
but execution stayed. The Bp. of Winchester sworn a Councillor,
at intercession of the Earl of Somerset. Sir Brian O'Brian, the Earl
of Thomond's son, married to Lady Sanquair. |
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September.—Lord Norris pardoned for manslaughter of a servant of Lord Willoughby, with whom he had a sudden quarrel.
Lady Arabella dead in the Tower, and buried by night in her grandmother's tomb in Henry VII.'s chapel. The Dowager Countess of
Dorset, the late Lord Treasurer's widow, and the Earl of Lincoln, dead. |
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October.—The King being informed at Bewdley that Sir Thos.
Overbury was poisoned, "though the information poynted at the
Erle of Somerset," ordered strict inquiry. Particulars of the
poisoning. Weston hanged at Tyburn. Sir John Hollis, Sir John
Wentworth, Sir John Lidcott, Edw. Sackville, and Lumsden the
pensioner, fined or imprisoned for their conduct relative to the trial. |
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November.—The Duke of Lenox made Lord Steward of the Household. Mrs. Turner hanged; and also Sir Gervase Helwys, who
implicated the Earl and Countess of Somerset, Earl of Northampton,
and Sir Thos. Monson. Sir John Leedes and his wife, Monson's
daughter, committed for "unreverent speeches of the Kinge, and
spekinge to much of this poysoninge busines." Sir Thos. Chaloner
and old Lady Windsor dead. The Duke of Brunswick, aided by the
King of Denmark, was besieging Brunswick, but raised the siege on
approach of Count Henry. |
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December.—Death of Sir Chas. Wilmot's wife, Lord Howard
of Effingham, and Mrs. Dudley, Count Schomberg's wife. Sir Thos.
Monson arraigned for Overbury's murder, but proceedings stayed.
Jas. Franklin executed for it. The Countess of Somerset delivered of a daughter. Coppinger, and other servants of the Earl,
imprisoned. Earl of Pembroke made Lord Chamberlain. Sir Robt.
Cotton imprisoned, for reasons unknown. The Queen and Prince
stood sponsors for the Countess of Argyle's twin sons. |
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January.—Earl of Worcester made Privy Seal instead of Master
of the Horse, with a large pension. Sir Geo. Villiers made Master of
the Horse. Sir Thos. Lake joined with Sir Ralph Winwood as
Principal Secretary. Lady Penelope Spencer, the Earl of Southampton's daughter, dead. The Lord Deputy of Ireland removed and
the Lord Chancellor and Chief Justice of Ireland appointed as substitutes. Sir Wm. Monson imprisoned; cause unknown. Cottington
going to Spain. Sir John Digby to be recalled. Lord Roos to
marry Sir Thos. Lake's daughter. Nothing done in reference to the
north-western or north-eastern passages. The Virginia and Bermuda plantation sleeps. |
| Jan. 25. |
17. Warrant from the Commissioners on Overbury's cause to the
Marshal of the King's Bench, to bring Mrs. Thornborough before
them at York House. |
| Jan. [25]. |
18. Notes [by Coke] of interrogatories to be used to Mrs. Thornborough, as to her preparations of certain waters and powders, her
procuring and delivery of poisons, the means by which she obtained a
grant of lands near Knaresborough, Yorkshire, and what she had heard
of an attempt against the Prince, Palsgrave, or Lady Elizabeth. |
Jan. 28.
Dover Castle. |
19. Nich. Knott, Marshal of Dover Castle, to Rich. Younge.
Denies having said that Sir Robt. Brett kept poor watch, when he
was Lieutenant of the Castle. Asks where to get money to pay
for Capt. Hill's Company. |
Jan. 28.
Whitehall. |
20. Winwood to [Lake]. The inclosed shows that the Archduke
does not speak such plain language as the Spanish Ambassador does
for the reduction of Wesel. An Ambassador arrived from the Marquis
of Brandenburg. |
| Jan. 30. |
21. Lord [Zouch] to Thos. Fulnetby. Orders restoration of the
goods wrecked on the Godwin Sands to Valentine de Best and Louis
Van Hobrook, factors for the proprietors, on composition with the
savers. |
| Jan. |
22. [E. Reynoldes to Hugh Allington ?], Clerk of the Privy Seal.
Remonstrates against his entering into a composition with young
Lane for the reversion of his office in the Privy Seal, which he had
promised to his [Reynoldes's] kinsman, Castle. Offers to buy it for
his kinsman. |
| [Jan.] |
23. E. Reynoldes to Fras. Mills. The Earl of Worcester made Lord
Privy Seal. The clerks should consult how to oppose his demand of
one fifth of the fees, should he make it, as the last Lord Privy Seal
did; will stand firm in his refusal, if supported by his colleagues.
Mr. Packer seeks to trick his cousin Castle out of his reversion, in
behalf of his own son. |
| Jan. ? |
24. [The Same] to John Packer. Reproaches him for breaking
his promise of giving his interest in the reversion of his place to
Reynoldes's cousin Castle, and using it in behalf of his own son, who
is still an infant. |
| Jan. ? |
25. Notes by Sir Lionel Cranfield of articles which are not to be
altered in custom or impost, in the book of rates, and of those which
are to be altered; with memorandum that this alteration will ease
those who make the clamour in Parliament, and that the changes
are in lowering imposts on necessary things, and charging them on
superfluities. |
| Jan. ? |
26. Book of debts due to officers, servants, and creditors, in the office
of Ordnance, of which payment was made to Sir Roger Dallison,
late Lieutenant thereof, but which he failed to discharge, and therefore they make part of the sum of 9,900l. in which he is indebted
to the King, and for which his lands are extended. |
