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| Brigstock. |
| 1643–44, March 1 to 1646, September 29. | Payments by
Nicholas Jackson, bailiff of Brigstock. Inter alia: |
| Ffor provision for ye Earle of Manchesters army att
their first goeing northward. | 12 | 6 | 5 |
| Ffor quartering horses for Sir William Waller putt over
by ye comittee of Northampton to ye castle of Rockingham. | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Paid for oats and hay for Coll. Rossiter. | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Ffor ye weekely tax for both garrisons of Northamton
and Rockingham from 7th May, 1644, to September
24, and for relief of the Irish. | 72 | 4 | 0 |
| Ffor Sir Thomas Ffarfax his army. | 9 | 19 | 3 |
| Ffor ye Scotch army. | 9 | 2 | 2 |
| Ffor ye Irish army. | 2 | 14 | 1 |
| Paid ye 6th of Aprill (1645) with ye chardge of 9 soldiers
goeing against Banbury. | 19 | 4 | 0 |
| The 5 garrisons to which ye tenants of Brigstock pay
are Lynn, Cambridg, Huntington, Newport Pagnell
and Bedford. |
| For 20 troopers of Capt. Lawrences quartered upon
his Lordships land for 14 days. | 28 | 0 | 0 |
| Ffor 2 of these troopers being sick in ye towne a moneth. | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Ffor 40 men chardged upon ye towne for demolishing
ye castle of Rockingham. | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 5 pp. (Accounts 43/5.) |
| Civil War Exactions. |
| 1643–44, March 25 to 1645, September 30. | Disbursements
made by Allen Winsor for the tithes of Blagdon. They include
inter alia: contributions towards the maintenance of troops,
Poole, Warham and other garrisons; money to Captain Fry; for
horses impressed to move the King's carriages from Blandford
to Newbury; team impressed to move a great gun from Cranborne to Oxford; horses impressed to go to the New Forest for
coals for Lord Goring's army when it lay at Cranborne; raising
of dragoon horses and saddles for Sir William Waller, Sir Lewis
Dives and Colonel Coker; team impressed for conveying provisions to several garrisons and for carrying lame soldiers from
Cranborne to Fovant "which came forth of Poole uppon exchange"; for provisions at Whitsuntide, 1645, when Prince
Maurice and his army lay at Cranborne; for quartering men commanded by "Sir James Hambelton, Lord Crafford, Colonel
Bartlet, Colonel Ashley, Sir William Waller, the Earl of Essex
when his army returned out of the West, 24 September, 1644";
for provisions when the King and his army lay at Cranborne,
October 13 and 14, 1644; for quartering men under the command
of Captain Lile and Captain Newiance, and when Lord Goring's
forces camped at Cranborne in February, 1644–45. Finally, for
quartering men commanded by Colonel Carrack, April, 1645. |
| Note at bottom by Winsor: "In regard that men doe not sowe
thaire ground itt is a cause that I am not able to pay my Lord
his ffull rennte for the tithes. Ffor sence thes trobls thay have
left untilled above one hundred ackers of ground in Blagden.
Besids that which hath benn sowne hath bene much spoyled by
solldiars horses. And that which wee have gotten into our
barrenes, when any armie have marched neare unto us, wee have
suffred much by them. So by this meannes the tithes are not
halfe as much worthe as they have bene in times paste."
Endorsed: "Allen Winsor his accompt for Blagden tythes for
contribution money disbursed by him till the xxxth of September, 1645." 2 pp. (Bills 254/7.) |
| Forest of Dean. |
| 1644, May. | A paper in the case of Henry Peck as to ironworks,
etc, in the Forest of Dean. People mentioned in the case include
Sir Sackville Crow, Sir Thomas Pelham, Sir John Winter, MajorGeneral Massey. "Now in regard the iron works in the time of
this unnaturall warrs were burnt downe by the Kings forces, and
that the Parliament hath granted the premises to Major Generall
Massey, whereby Mr Peck cannot enjoye the benefit of his bargaine", his suit is that Parliament should recompense him for
losses which he has sustained.—May, 1644.
1 p. (Legal 238/29.) |
| Roger Kirkham to the Earl of Salisbury. |
| [? 1644, September 10]. | "The vent of the wood in the New
Parke is to slow for the impatient desire I have to washe off the
imaginary spotts which malitious jealousie would faine fasten on
that action. I shall therefore take in the small remainder by
estimate and soe represent the whole state of that businesse to your
Lordships view. And herein I shall endeavor (or rather evidence)
two thinges; first the vindication of my integritie, secondly the
justification (in this particular onely) of my discretion and care."
Reminds Salisbury that the wood in question was open to sale
for a number of years and that no offer was made for it corresponding to its real value. Even Sir Robert Ffenn, who talked
glibly of making £3000 from the purchase of the wood, refused to
buy it at a reasonable offer. He "could hold his purse though
not his tongue, for he continued the same report", although he
refused a second offer. Moved by reports suggesting that he was
neglecting Salisbury's interests, he finally struck a bargain in
1640 which at the time was not disadvantageous to the Earl, since
the price agreed to was £1200. "He that searcheth the darkest
cranies of all hearts knows that that which made me sell it was
your Lordships unresistable commands, and that I sold it for
noe more was because I could not gett it." As to the question of
his care and discretion, he had caused all the trees "even to the
bushes" to be numbered by John Siggins, and grouped according
to their size and "cast into stacks", as long ago as 1637. By
"this 10th of September" the stacks already made amount to
7997, and the wood still standing would account for another 600.
However, since the sale the price of stackwood has risen for reasons
beyond his control, and has enhanced the value of the wood to the
purchasers to the extent of £750 above the purchase price of £1200.
As for the causes of this spectacular rise in price, "the first is
the falling in of the Scotts into Newcastle some 5 or 6 moneths
after the sale, wherby London grew distressed for fewell and
charcoale raised to formerly unknown rates, which advantaged
them (the purchasers) not onely in the price but by the quicker
returne of their moneys, for therby they were enabled to vent
that in 4 years which otherwise would hardly have been done in
six. A 2nd reason is that, being colliers, they could tell how to
make as profitable use of the rootes as of the best wood they had,
by dispersing them into the stacks and coaling all together." He
requests Salisbury that all this should be taken into consideration
by Sir William Ashton, William Collins or whoever he appointed
to examine the matter, "for my conscience doth soe smile on this
action that I dare remitt it to the judgment of my enemies, if I
have any". |
| As for a general defence of his behaviour and actions, he refers
to a report by a certain person known to Lord Cranborne that he
had bought £500 a year of property since he had entered Salisbury's service some seventeen years previously. "I ever thought
that lyes raised on matter of fact had ever some ground or colour
for their report, but this is wrought out of the spiders own
bowells." During the whole of his service he has purchased
neither lease nor land, except his house at Cheshunt. "That
man, be he what he wilbe, whoe shall follow my wayes, shall
purchase noe land but in the churchyard, and his winding sheet
(like mine) must be of his wifes spinning." He has written this
letter with the sole purpose of retaining Salisbury's good opinion
of him and "to prevent the cunning of that malice that would
weaken your Lordships inclination to your poore servant by
suggestion of dirtie and excessive advantages of his own making."
—Undated.
Holograph. 3½ pp. (General 18/16.) |
| Accounts. |
| 1644, September 29 to 1645, September 29. | Household
expenses, etc, compiled by Samuel Percivall. Inter alia: |
| Given to redeeme Hugh the footmans
livery sword which hee pawned at his
goeing away. | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| 2 July | To a messenger that brought a letter
from London about the taking of
Leister. | 0 | 04 | 0 |
| 15 July | Another from London about Naesby
fight. | 0 | 04 | 0 |
| 28 August | For letter about the Kings being at
Huntingdon. | 0 | 02 | 0 |
| 29 August | To a messenger to carry Mr Algernone
horse back to Cambridge. | 0 | 05 | 0 |
| 54 pp. (Box K/2.) |
| Accounts. |
| 1644, September 29. | Henry Michaell's demand for allowances
for Rockborne woods and grounds up to Michaelmas, 1644. |
| Ffor contribution, quarteringe and sendinge in provisions to the armyes and garrissons. | xxii1 | xvs | xd |
| Ffor a horse taken out of the woods by the
Kings souldiers when Prince Maurice came
into the West. | vi1 | | |
| ½ p. (Bills 254/9.) |
| Accounts. |
| 1644, September 30 to 1645, April 8. | A bill for books and
paper. |
| October 4 | Britanicus | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| November 4 | Letters of advice by Mr Withers | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| November 23 | Draytons Poems | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Vindication of my Lord of
Manchester | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| January 1 | (to Mr Edward Cecil) |
| Drexelius of Eternity | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Grammer | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Puerilis Sententiae | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Cato | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Lillies Rules | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| February 20 | Natalis Comes | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| April 5 | (to Lady Katherine Cecil) |
| Bible bound in turkey leather | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| For a payre of silver clasps to it | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| April 7 | (to Bryan) |
| Diurnal | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Britanicus | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| April 8 | (to Mr Markham) |
| Answere to the caracter of the
London Diurnal | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| At bottom: Receipt signed by Hugh Perry and dated 16 April,
1645.
Endorsed: "10 April 1645. Mr Pirryes bill for bookes etc."
4 pp. (Bills 254/5.) |
| — to — |
| [After December 1644]. | "Sir Ffrancis Leigh died on fryday
the 13th of December 1644 in Westminster. His sonne (fn. 1) dyed
either a little before him or presently after him in Oxford in
Allsoules Colledge."—Undated.
Unsigned. Endorsed: "Sir Ff. Leigh and his sonns Wooleys
deathes." and in another and [? later] hand: "1644". ⅓ p.
(General 90/16.) |
| Charterhouse. |
| [1644]. | Appointment by the Governors of the Hospital of
King James in Charterhouse of the Earl of Salisbury to be one
of the Governors.
Faded. Seals. Endorsed: "The patent of William, Earle
of Salisbury, to be one of the Gouvernors of ye Charterhouse,
1644." 1 m. (Deeds 74/3.) |
| Laurence Lisle to the Earl of Salisbury. |
| [?1644]. | As to a house of the Earl's in St. Martin's Lane of
which he was tenant. Prays allowance for certain wainscot, the
inventory of which is annexed.—Undated.
2 pp. (P. 1833.) |