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Oct. 1. Hampton Court. |
1. The King to Attorney General Heath. Sir Cornelius Vermuyden being to pay 5,000l. for the purchase of Malvern Chase, co.
Worcester, 4,000l. thereof had been directed to be paid to Philip
Burlamachi, in discharge of debts owing to him. The Attorney
General is to prepare a bill for the other 1,000l. to be paid to
Theophilus Earl of Suffolk, towards laying dry the copper mines,
co. Cornwall. |
Oct. 1. Hampton Court. |
2. Sec. Dorchester to the same. To prepare a pardon for Richard
Bancroft, of Willesden, co. Middlesex, for misdemeanors objected
against him before the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. |
Oct. 1. Mincing Lane. |
3. Kenrick Edisbury to Nicholas. Sends names of shipwrights,
to whom warrants for survey of the reparations performed by special
contracts made by Mr. Burrell and Capt. Pett may be directed. |
Oct. 2. |
4. Petition of Nicholas Briot to the King. On a proposition
about the fabrication of the King's moneys, a warrant was sent to
the Officers of the Mint, on 2nd February last, to place petitioner
in such lodgings as should be requisite for trial of his proposition.
But he has never been able to obtain sufficient lodgings for his
instruments and workmen thereby to perform his promise. Prays
for a commission to some persons to put him in possession of
sufficient lodgings in the Tower, where he may work. Has already
lost six years since he first came into England. Underwritten, |
4. i. Reference to the Attorney General to call to the Officers of
the Mint to have perusal of the warrant of February
above mentioned, and thereupon to draw a commission to
the purpose desired. Hampton Court, 1630, Oct. 2. |
Oct. 2. |
5. The same to the same. Complains that he has been hindered
by the Officers of the Mint, upon the pretext that he is not of their
body or corporation. John Gilbert, joint patentee with Edward
Greene, in the office of Chief Graver of the Irons in the Mint, is
willing to surrender that office. Petitioner prays that he may be
joined with Greene. Underwritten, |
5. i. The King being well acquainted with the abilities of the
petitioner, directs the Attorney General to call for the joint
patent for Chief Graver of the Irons, and if he finds
that his Majesty may without prejudice grant the petitioner's request, he is to prepare a bill accordingly.
Hampton Court, 1630, Oct. 2. |
Oct. 2. |
6. Copy of the preceding petition and reference. |
[Oct. 2 ?] |
7. Nicholas Briot to the King. Observations on the present
objectionable character of the copper coinage. The farthing token
is of excessive lightness and price (the value being at the rate of
26s. 2d. the pound, of 16 oz. of copper), and is of an ugly and
deformed stamp, easily counterfeited. Suggests that the weight
ought to be increased by two-thirds, and that the coinage should be
made in the Tower, and wrought by mill and engines, which will
prevent counterfeiting. Suggests also a coinage of halfpennies of
pure copper. |
Oct. 2. Hampton Court. |
8. Minutes by Nicholas of business to be considered by the Lords
of the Admiralty at their sitting this day, with marginal memoranda
of the results. The Miniken, the Fortune, pink, and the Convertive,
were ordered to be victualled for actual service. |
Oct. 3. York. |
9. Thomas Viscount Wentworth to Bishop Laud. Through
Smart's wilful folly it is likely he will be degraded within these
fourteen days, whereupon his prebend at Durham will fall void.
Mr. Carr, who is at this instant gone to Cambridge to take his degree
of Doctor, has lived in the writer's house near twenty years. He has
been infinitely happy in his conversation, and desires to place some
good upon him. Not having an advowson in his gift, is a suitor
that Bishop Laud would recommend Carr to my Lord of Durham
for that place. There is not a learneder man on the north of Trent,
nor a priest of a better temper and life. |
Oct. 3. Stanford. |
10. Sir Thomas Roe to Sec. Dorchester. Sends letters forwarded
to him from the Duke of Courland for his Majesty. The restoration
of that family concerns his Majesty in honour, religion, and reason
of state. Makes no question that Mr. Gordon has written to him
on the business, as well as of the other great controversy between
the English merchants and the stubborn town of Dantsic. Instructions may still be sent to Mr. Gordon before the breaking up of the
next assembly at Warsaw. Roe has bought a cell in that country,
not to retire from service, but because his blue coat has wanted a
badge, some mark to be known whom he has served. Will wait
upon him this winter, to take his leave of London. [Copy.] |
Oct. 3. Stanford. |
The same to Henry Earl of Holland. Repeats the information in
the preceding letter, and states the grounds on which the confiscation of the family of the Dukes of Courland should be endeavoured
to be averted. [Written on the same sheet as the preceding.
Copy.] |
Oct. 6. Haverford West. |
11. Justices of Peace for co. Pembroke to the Council. Acknowledge receipt of letters to suppress forestallers and transporters of
corn. The prices of corn are higher in their market than usually at
that time of year, by reason that some have attempted to export
corn, whereof they have stayed one bark laden. Others have contracted to do the like. Pray them to stay any licence for carrying
corn out of that country. |
Oct. 7. Chatham. |
12. Sir Guilford Slingsby to Nicholas. Henry Place, the ancientest boatswain of the navy, is desirous to pass over his place in
the Nonsuch to John Johnson, who has been his deputy for five
years. Johnson is highly recommended to Nicholas's favour. |
[Oct. 7 ?] |
13. Petition of Nicholas Neale to the Lords of the Admiralty.
Prays appointment of cook in the Nonsuch. |
Oct. 7. Penryn. |
14. William Carran to Sir Robert Killigrew, Vice-Chamberlain to
the Queen. Received at Exeter of Mr. Tickle 70l., and made up
125l., which has been paid to Sir William Killigrew for his quarterage to Michaelmas. At least 10,000 bushels of wheat have been
taken up in the west part of Cornwall by several merchants, whether
for home or foreign use is not known. Their bushel is 20 gallons.
The result has been that the price of wheat has risen from 8s. to
12s. per bushel, and before Easter will be 20s. |
Oct. 7. Chilton Foliat. |
15. John Packer to Francis Windebank. The land he had at the
coronation was in Berkshire. If Windebank thinks he ought to pay
in that county, and not in his present county, where then he had
nothing, begs him to lay down the amount for the writer. He
understands it is two subsidies and a half for land, according to the
rate in the subsidy book. His proportion will be 12l. 10s., which
he will repay through his brother Hawkins, who is now at Westminster. |
Oct. 8. East Retford Sessions. |
16. Justices of Peace for co. Nottingham to the Council. At the
sessions at East Retford there were certified four recognizances taken
before Sir Hardolph Wasteneys, of John Molanus and three others,
workmen of Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, to keep the peace towards
Francis Thornhill, and all others. Send copy of the information
against these persons. Inclosed, |
16. i. Copy of Information of Mary Thornhill, wife of Francis
Thornhill, and Edward their son. On fifth of August
deponents going into a close of Francis Thornhill, where
John Molanus, a Dutchman, with eight others, had
wrongfully entered and digged, after divers speeches
Molanus struck at the said Edward, and offered to strike
the said Mary, and afterwards used wrongful and undecent words against Sir Francis Thornhagh. |
Oct. 8. |
17. Certificate of William Man and Peter Heywood. Joan Price was
complained of to William Man, one of the Justices for Westminster,
that she was a person of loose life, out of service, vagranting, idling,
and shifting from place to place, lodging in "heymoughes," or haystacks, in a field near Tyburn, and sometimes in outhouses upon the
bare boards in Petty-France and Longditch, and many times scraping
trenchers at tents and other places for scraps. She was sent to the
House of Correction in Tuthill fields, and afterwards by pass to
Tewkesbury. Ten or twelve days afterwards she and another
woman brought an accusation of bigamy against Henry Shelton.
Having been put upon his trial at Newgate he had been acquitted. |
[Oct. 9.] |
18. Mayor and Recorder of Oxford to Sec. Dorchester. Appeal
to his connection with the University and county of Oxford, and the
advice of the Earl of Danby, as reasons for addressing him. Send
inclosed examination, relating to a person of comely personage, wellspoken, and very penitent, whom they detain in prison until the
Sec's pleasure be known. His accusers are strangers or residents
usually found in alehouses situate in suburbs. |
18. i. Separate Informations of Francis Thornton, Methuselah
Flower, Henry May, and Walter Powell, who deposed
that on the last day of September John Langton, at a
victualling house in the suburbs of Oxford, uttered words
in derogation of the King's soldiers as compared with
those beyond seas, and also of the King's treatment of
them in respect of pay. He moreover asserted that the
Gunpowder Conspirators were no traitors, which he offered
to maintain with his sword. To these informations are
added two examinations of the person accused. He was
a native of co. Lancaster, who had served in English
regiments abroad. About three weeks since landed at
Dover, and came through London to Oxford, where he
had kindred. Does not remember the words imputed to
him. Was in drink at that time. |
Oct. 10. HamptonCourt. |
19. Order of Council. Prejudice being done to his Majesty's
service in the business of compounding for knighthood, by reason of
partial and negligent returns made by Sheriffs, the Attorney General
is to proceed against such of the Sheriffs as had been most delinquent
in that kind, of which number the Sheriff of co. Northampton is
conceived to be one. |
Oct. 10. Scadbury. |
20. Sir Thomas Walsingham to the Lords of the Admiralty. The
Justices of Peace for West Kent find that transportation of corn is
one of the chief causes of dearth and scarcity. The searchers of
London, and some other parts in Kent, having molested his officers
for doing their duties in that kind, he cannot get them to look after
this service without some further warrant. |
Oct. 10. HamptonCourt. |
21. Sec. Coke to Nicholas. His Majesty this day required a particular account of what ships had been employed at sea this year, for
what times, under what commanders, and what accounts the captains
had given of their employment, his Majesty's reason being that information had been given him of much negligence in the Narrow
Seas, both by absence of commanders, and by lying in harbour or
in the Downs. Sec. Coke is charged to deliver these particulars next
Sunday. Requests Nicholas to furnish him with the papers and
information. The King's end is princely. If they can give him
satisfaction for the present they will for the future put things into a
due form of account, both for better government and his Majesty's
better contentment. He begs Nicholas to deal freely in all he knows.
Nicholas is aware that the Lords have referred to the Earl of Dorset,
Sec. Dorchester, and the writer the examination of that tumultuary
complaint with which his Majesty was troubled at Tichfield. Which
of the masters or boatswains were with Sir Henry Mervyn at that
time ? The purser of Sir Henry's ship to be sent to Coke at Twickenham. Sir Kenelm Digby is made a Commissioner for the Navy,
and will, as Coke hopes, be a good means to advance the service,
though some be displeased at it. |
Oct. 10. Scadbury. |
22. Sir Thomas Walsingham to Nicholas. Sends his letter to the
Lords of this date to be delivered if not disliked. The clamour is
very great for transportation of corn. All the wheat that this year
grew in Erith marshes is a-threshing, to be transported, only under
colour of sending it into Essex. If the Lords will give him authority he will stay it when it is waterborne. Sent a restraint of
transportation of oysters, but in the Hundred of Faversham and the
King's channel, of which Sir Dudley Digges claims to be Lord, there
is no restraint. Urges the grant of a new warrant which may extend
over that jurisdiction. |
Oct. 10. Chilton. |
23. John Packer to Francis Windebank. Thanks for his friendly
offices. The Commissioners for that county have returned the writer's
name, notwithstanding the constable had no warrant to warn him,
but made answer that he had no land in that county at the coronation. Thinks the surest way will be to pay in Berkshire, and desires
his friendship to compound as he thinks fit. |
Oct. 10. |
24. Account of moneys due to the Queen of Bohemia out of the
Exchequer; total 9,950l. |
Oct. 11. London. |
25. Sir Henry Mervyn to Lord Treasurer Weston. Has fallen
lame and cannot wait on him. Cannot fit another Whelp to
strengthen the convoy of the ordnance, the Whelps being all at
Portsmouth. Suggests that they should go under guard of the
Second Whelp and the Miniken to Yarmouth, whence the Mary
Rose can stand over with them for Holland. |
Oct. 11. Bircham. |
26. John Hassall, Dean of Norwich, to Sec. Dorchester. The
bearer is recommended to the Sec.'s favour, and the writer humbly
requests that he would descend so low as to accept from him a
patent of the High Stewardship of his Cathedral Church, with the
yearly stipend of 20 nobles thereunto belonging. If the writer
shall ever be transplanted from this barren to a better soil, he shall
not, like the accursed fig tree, frustrate his planter's desert of better
fruit. The late King named the Earl of Northampton in their
charter as the first steward; the Earl of Pembroke succeeded. If
he pleases to "succenturiate," sic ab Jove tertius Ajax. As soon as
the church-audit is passed he will present this service in person. |
Oct. 11. Aboard the Second Whelp in Margate Road. |
27. Augustin Bright, master of the Second Whelp, to Nicholas.
A French bark, the Jane of Caen, having been brought to with
difficulty and after firing many shots at her, is found full of English
goods with various cockets all from London, but without a discharge from Gravesend. Requests instructions what he shall do
with her. |
Oct. 11. |
28. William Willett to [the same]. Long details of his dealings
with the cargo of the St. John of Dunkirk, in answer to informations
against him of having embezzled a quantity of salt. |
Oct. 11. Exeter College, Oxford. |
29. Dr. John Prideaux to Bishop Laud, Chancellor of Oxford.
The Vice-Chancellor had acquainted them with the Bishop's dislike
of accumulating degrees. Is ready to conform, but submits that
sufficient notice should be given before execution be urged. Mr.
Bayly and Mr. Hodges have been at great pains and charge to
perform their exercises before any intimation given of stopping
accumulating, which if it presently take place, their hopes, travels,
and expenses are all frustrated. |
Oct. 11. |
Lease from Mary Allanson, of Fleet Street, widow, to Thomas
Beadle, of Shoe Lane, London, "coque," of a messuage called the
Crown in Shoe Lane, in the parish of St. Bride's, for two consecutive
terms of seven years, if the lessor or her son Edmund Allanson
should so long live, at the yearly rent of 30l. In a schedule of
fixtures attached are enumerated, "a pipe of lead that bringeth
"Middleton's water, with a cock belonging to it," and "the sign of
"the Crown hanging in the street." [Case A., Charles I., No. 12.] |
Oct. 12. |
The King to Sir Kenelm Digby, one of the gentlemen of the
Privy Chamber. Appointment as a principal Officer of the Navy,
especially in making estimates, taking up provisions, giving instructions to inferior officers, in rating wages, signing books for payments,
and all other things which concern a Commissioner or principal
Officer. [Copy. See Vol. of Admiralty Collections, Dom. Eliz.,
end of 1590, fo. 94 b.] |
Oct. 12. |
30. Estimate for victualling 410 men, to serve in the Garland,
St. Claude, First Whelp, and Third Whelp, for guard of the Narrow
Seas, for three months, and of victualling the Convertive for 200
men for 28 days: total, 1,454l. 5s. |
Oct. 13. Langley. |
31. Lord President Conway to Sec. Dorchester. In conformity
with the King's desire to have a certificate from the Judge in the
case of Grismond, before the reprieve should be revoked, the writer
applied to the Judge who tried him, and received the inclosed. Has
no inclination to spill blood, but is moved by a zeal to the King's
justice, and to vindicate it from such aspersions as the pardoning
of so foul a murder would cast upon it. Thanks the Sec. for refusing
to accept a suit from Lord Conway's cousin, Sir Fulke Greville,
until he understood it had his approbation, because it concerned a
principal place in the government of the Isle of Wight. Inclosed, |
31. i. Mr. Justice William Jones to Lord President Conway.
William Grismond was arraigned for murdering Margaret Clarke, a young woman whom he had gotten with
child, and who was found in a broom-close with her
throat cut. Sends copies of examinations which were
given in evidence against him at his trial. The whole
Bench conceived him to be guilty. Inclosed, |
31. i. 1. Examinations of Edmund Durning, Edward Taylor,
and William Grismond, setting forth the facts above
mentioned. Thornton, 1629, Nov. 1. |
[Oct. 13 ?] |
32. Minute of a petition from the inhabitants of co. Hereford,
that justice might be done on William Grismond for so barbarous a
murder. |
[Oct. 13 ?] |
The like of a similar petition from the same, that justice might
be done for the murder of John Rogers, late of Netherley, co. Hereford,
whereof George Shepherd who had fled was suspected. [Written
on the same paper as the preceding.] |
Oct. 13. London |
33. Horatio Gentileschi to Sec. Dorchester. Intreats his intercession
with the Lord Treasurer to procure him payment of money promised,
so that he might pay his debts and live in peace. Ital. |
Oct. 13. Sherborne Lodge. |
34. John Earl of Bristol to [the same ?]. Solicits that Mr. John
Stone, the Earl's kinsman, and formerly his secretary in Spain,
afterwards the King's agent in that country, and finally Consul at
Lisbon, may be reappointed to his Consulship at Lisbon on the
restoration of peace with Spain. |
Oct. 13. |
35. John Paltock to Nicholas. By reason of infirmity of body,
desires to transfer his place of purser of the Constant Reformation
to Robert Whetnall as his deputy. Subjoined, |
35. i. Certificate of Kenrick Edisbury of the fitness of Robert
Whetnall for the proposed appointment. Deptford, 1630,
Oct. 13. |
[Oct. 13 ?] |
36. Certificates of Kenrick Edisbury and Stephen Alcock, of the
sufficiency of Nathaniel Busher to be purser of the Constant Reformation in the place of John Paltock. |
Oct. 13. |
37. Minute of a recognizance entered into by Edward Greene
before Sir Robert Rich, Master in Chancery, whereby he acknowledged a surrender formerly made by John Gilbert of the office of
Graver of the Irons for the moneys of the late King, held by him
jointly with Greene. |
Oct. 14/24 Paris. |
38. James Duke of Lennox to Sir Henry Vane, Ambassador at
the Hague. Either himself or his son shall freely command the
Duke. His son need not call upon Sir Henry to disengage him;
he is rather a creditor than a debtor. The Duke's resolution for his
place of abode was agreeable to Sir Henry's advice. In the matter
of exercises, no place in France is considerable in regard of Paris.
The best masters are to be found where most money is stirring.
Sir Henry's son gives him example to be diligent. Has followed
his advice in writing to the Queen of Bohemia. |
Oct. 14. |
39. Report of Sir Robert Chester and W. Ayloffe on a cause in
difference between Agnes Grenill, of Barley, co. Hertford, widow,
and Daniel Smyth, of the same place, yeoman. The question in
dispute related to the titles of the several parties to lands called
Mr. Johns in Nether Chishall, co. Essex. The right was reported to
be in the widow, but Smyth was in possession, and resisted all
terms of accommodation. |
Oct. 14. |
40. Exchequer account of Receipts and Issues from the 28 Sept.
last to this day. Among the payments are James Elliott, 25l.; Sir
John North, 50l.; Lord Stanhope, 30l.; David Ramsey, 110l.; Richard Cartwright, 22l.; Elizabeth Skipwith, 100l. The receipt was
18,001l.; the issue, 17,632l. 17s. 8d.; the remain, 2,129l. 1s. 1d. |
Oct. 15. |
41. Sec. Dorchester to the Mayor and Recorder of Oxford. The
King is pleased with their care in making stay of Langton, whose
unwary tongue durst meddle with the censure of things so much
above him, but considering his denial, person, and penitency, and the
slight condition of his accusers, his Majesty is content to think his
imprisonment has been a sufficient punishment. [Draft.] |
Oct. 15. Ordnance Office. |
42. Officers of the Ordnance to Nicholas. The Lords of the
Admiralty having advertised Lord Vere, that his Majesty's pinnaces
employed on the coast of Ireland are to be victualled upon the
Revenue of Ireland, and required him to order such an increase of the
proportions to be sent thither as should supply the said ships, they
inclose a schedule of what provisions of munition may be made
conveniently in Ireland, and what must be supplied from hence.
Beg him to move the Lords to signify their pleasure thereon. Inclosed, |
42. i. The schedule above mentioned. |
Oct. 15. Arundel House. |
43. Thomas Forster to the same. By his Lord's command intreats
his favour on behalf of Mrs. Harpur, who is brought so low by
Mr. Ward's vexatious suits that she can scarce find bread. He
cannot or will not bring forth Mr. Howell, to whose oath she was
content to submit her cause. She intreats Nicholas to make a
speedy certificate to the Board. |
Oct. 15. |
44. Sir Guilford Slingsby to the same. By an inclosed letter
from Capt. Gibbon, he will perceive how his gunner has misbehaved,
and that the captain's resolution is, not to carry him to sea with
him. If he have a warrant for his place, it is not reason he should
be dismissed until he have answered for himself. If he have no
warrant, another may well be put in his place for his presumption.
In that case Sir Guilford will recommend an able, sufficient, and
honest man. |
Oct. 15. Fulham House. |
45. Bishop Laud to Dr. Prideaux. Thanks for his readiness to
join in upholding government in that famous University, whose
flourishing shall ever be with the first and at the highest, in the
Bishop's desires. For the particular de accumulandis gradibus,
thanks him for his interposition. His desire is to propose nothing
but what is just and honourable, and in such manner as no man of
quality may have cause to except against. Mr. Bayly has forgotten
himself to Mr. Vice-Chancellor, and not spared the Bishop, who
pities his passion and shall pass it by for his father's sake. Hopes
Bayly will make this his warning, else he will quickly make him
know that the Bishop's proposals are far from tricks to catch him
or others. Prideaux should chide him into better temper. P. S. in
the Bishop's own hand. Begs him to be more careful of the Act
Questions. The late question about the sickness was unseasonable.
His Majesty took great distaste at it, and commanded the Bishop to
write to Prideaux about it. This is a private advertisement which
none knows but himself. [Copy.] |
Oct. 15. |
46. Bishop Laud to Dr. William Smith, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford.
States his objections to the cumulation of degrees, but he thinks
a time should have been prefixed before his views were put in
execution, that so no man might be taken upon the sudden as
Mr. Bayly and Mr. Hodges are reported to be. A long custom,
though never so bad, should have a warning peal before its dissolution. Recommends him to call the heads together and settle
everything as statute requires. [Copy of a portion of the letter.] |
Oct. 16. |
47. Philip Burlamachi to Sec. Dorchester. Sends a packet of
foreign letters. Two of them are for the King, one from Hamburgh, the other from Amsterdam. No one has written to him.
Spinola is at last dead, and his secretary for foreign languages has
returned to Brussels. He had fallen into a frenzy. Fr. |
Oct. 16. Hampton Court. |
48. James Earl of Carlisle to Sir Henry Vane, Ambassador at the
Hague. The progress and want of conveniency of sending to him
has made him thus long defer. They have had much discourse there
of his negotiation and carriage, and both his master and friends
are very well satisfied and acknowledge his dexterity, zeal, and
judgment. He will find but little alteration in Court, and they
expect to find none at all in him. |
Oct. 16. Wokingham. |
49. John Knight to Francis Windebank. Has perused, apparently,
the draft of a lease to be granted by Windebank to Mr. Halsted.
He is to pay "17s. 6d. for an ancient custom of Eyle silver." |
Oct. 16. Tresmere, near Bodmin. |
50. Sir Francis Godolphin to [Nicholas]. Particulars of a wreck
which happened in the Islands of Scilly some years since are at
length arrived in the main. A due appraisement and just account
shall shortly be given in. |
Oct. 16. The Mint. |
51. Answer of the Officers of the Mint "to the calumnies of
"Nicholas Briot, delivered in a petition to his Majesty, and referred to
"Mr. Attorney General." They deny the truth of his allegation that
they had not provided him with sufficient lodging for his instruments, workmen, and household, and pray that when he shall give
notice to be fitted with his instruments, some judicious persons in
those businesses may be joined with the officers of the Mint, to make
report on the trial undertaken by him to be made. |
Oct. 17. Eccleshall Castle. |
52. Sir Charles Vavasour to Sec. Dorchester. Reminds him of a
letter from the ever-honoured Queen of Bohemia on the writer's
behalf. Understanding the Marquis of Hamilton is undertaking
a charge for Sweden, and that there is other action afoot for Venice,
he prays for employment. |
Oct. 17. Hampton Court. |
53. Minutes by Nicholas of business to be considered at the next
meeting for affairs of the Admiralty. The business comprised the
dealing with the 23 Hollanders brought into Yarmouth by Capt.
Sydenham; instructions for Capt. Plumleigh; Sir Thomas Walsingham's application for a new warrant; the intended sale of the St.
John of Dunkirk to Frenchmen [ordered to be prevented]; Capt.
Cooper's complaint against Mellow; Sir William Killigrew's complaint against Hum. Bonithon, Lieut. to Sir Francis Vivian, Keeper
of St. Mawes' Castle; to consider of repairs of the forts at Milton
and Gravesend. |
Oct. 17. |
54. Copy of part of the preceding. |
Oct. 18. Hampton Court. |
55. The King to Attorney General Heath. He was heretofore
directed to prepare a pardon for William Grinkin, of a censure
imposed upon him and one Gill in the Star Chamber. The King is
now inclined to extend his mercy to them both, their cases not
much differing. He is to prepare a pardon for both accordingly. |
Oct. 18. Hampton Court. |
56. The same to Sir William Balfour. Appointment as Lieutenant of the Tower void by the death of Sir Allen Apsley. [Copy.] |
Oct. 18. Hampton Court. |
57. The same to Henry Earl of Manchester, Oliver Viscount
Grandison, Henry Viscount Falkland, and Edward Viscount Newburgh. The Lieutenancy of the Tower being void, the King has
made choice of Sir William Balfour, one of the gentlemen of the
Privy Chamber, to commit the same to him. They are accordingly
to repair thither, and on view taken of such things as were in the
late Lieutenant's charge, to deliver the same over to Sir William,
with the present letters, and also to publish the King's pleasure to
all inferior officers of the Tower, and command them to be obedient
to him, and namely [especially] the gentleman porter to deliver him
the keys. [Copy.] |
Oct. 18. |
58. Attorney General Heath to Sec. Dorchester. The bill for a
grant to the widow Kennedy (see Vol. clxiii., No. 22.), has been
ready for the King's signature, but stayed at the instance of Sir
James Fullerton, on behalf of one William Kennedy, who for name's
sake made a claim. Since that time the young man has committed
so great a fault that Sir James desires he should be sent out of the
kingdom, but the Attorney General has mediated that he should
have 40l. to defray his charge. Begs him now to prefer the bill to
the King for his signature. |
Oct. 18. Aboard the Convertive. |
59. William Thomas, purser of the Convertive, to Nicholas. The
Convertive has been ready to grave ever since the 5th of this month.
Having no money the shipwrights could not proceed. They have lost
the benefit of two springs. The next will be the 25th. Prays him to
hasten the money. The victualler has paid 300l. towards their four
months' victuals, so far as the money received Mr. Holt will go and
no farther. The King is at charge of 240 men every day on the
Convertive and Tenth Whelp. |
Oct. 18. Bristol. |
60. William Willett and Robert Kitchen to Nicholas. Mr.
Wright, one of the Commissioners for sale of the St. John of Dunkirk, is now in London, and will impart to him the whole particulars.
Send an account of what has been taken out of the ship. It was
done by those that long since went out of the ship, and are not to
be found. What salt Sir Thomas Button had, they presume he will
give a fair account of. The quantity landed out of the ship will be
testified. |
Oct. 19. |
61. Edward Johnson to [the same]. Recommends — Williams,
gunner of the Esperance, for gunner of the Tenth Whelp, if the
present gunner be dismissed. |
Oct. 20. Hampton Court. |
62. Sir Edmund Verney, Robert Tirwhitt, and Edward Sydenham,
to Lord President Conway. The King had on their intercession
agreed to show mercy to William Sneade, who for an unfortunate
act has been banished his country these 17 or 18 years. Find that
three or four years ago the Lord President stayed such a pardon.
Pray him to withdraw his opposition. |
Oct. 20, Kensford. |
63. Thomas Windham to Edward Earl of Dorset, Lord Chamberlain to the Queen. Derrick Popley, of Bristol, sent down one
Yeomans of the same place along Severn, on the English side, to
buy up all the salt he could get. At Barnstable Yeomans pretended
he had a fishing voyage, and went from merchant to merchant, and
bought up above 700 bushels. At Watchet he and Jacob Andrewes
of Bridgewater bought up the lading of two French ships. Salt
has in consequence risen from 4s. 8d. to 15s. the bushel, to the great
grievance of all people, and ruin of many poor fishers for herrings. |
Oct. 20. Oxford. |
64. Bishop Howson, of Durham, to Bishop Laud. Sends papers
from which he may guess at the reason that moved the Lord President to solicit Bishop Laud for that prebend. (See Vol. clxxiv., No. 9.)
The straight the writer is in arises from his desire to yield his poor
kinsman some comfort for his many sufferings for the writer in body,
estate, and good name, wherefore he gave him a promise under seal
of his first prebend; again, there are his Majesty's letters, procured
by Mr. Gib, for one Maxton, a Scottishman, who has already obtained
a good benefice by the like letters, and is a very rich man, having
increased his estate by secular means, as by farming Sherborne, and
managing Mr. Gib's lands. But cannot deny Bishop Laud any contentment, especially this which may also give contentment to the
Lord President. Leaves the matter in the hands of Bishop Laud, but
begs he may not be pressed with the King's letters for the next
prebend. Has sometimes pitied Smart on his protestation of future
conformity. Conceives that so many innovations in Church service
superstitiously urged, and displeasing to other men well affected,
drove him into the most intolerable actions, for which it is reported
he shall not be deprived, if the writer shall have power to dispose of
his livings. |
Oct. 20. |
65. Kenrick Edisbury to Mr. Gibbon. Begs him to advertise
"my Lord" that all the money to defray charges at Portsmouth for
the Convertive and the Tenth Whelp, has been provided. The remainder is to buy stores to be sent from hence. |
Oct. 20. |
66. Inventory by William Drake, of tenths of the Gabriel of St.
Giles, taken by the St. George, John Cooke, captain, and brought
into Bristol, June 1629. |
Oct. 20. |
67. Presentments made by Thomas Steavens, alias Tincker, and
John Godfrey, Churchwardens of Caerwent, co. Monmouth. They
charge John Dowle, D.D., the vicar of Caerwent, with various
omissions of clerical duty, and acts of immorality with many of his
female parishioners. |
Oct. 20. |
68. Certificate of John Reynolds, master gunner of England, of
the competency of Thomas Williams to serve gunner in any of his
Majesty's ships. |
Oct. 21. |
69. Exchequer account of Receipts and Issues from the 14th
October to this day. Among the payments are, Ja. Bradshaw, 25l.;
Sir Stephen Lesieur, 25l.; Sir John Peyton, 196l. 15s. 1d. Total
receipts, 1,348l. 17s. 5d.; payments, 2,739l. 0s. 7d.; remain,
738l. 17s. 11d. |
Oct. 22. Croydon. |
70. Archbishop Abbot to Sec. Dorchester. Praises God for the
King's care for the residence of Bishops and others, whereof he
purposes to give account at the time appointed, which is in the
beginning of January. Being to have a consecration of the Bishop of
Peterborough, he has been put to all his shifts to get Bishops thither,
and what will become of it he cannot promise until Sunday next.
Has been constrained to put it to the last day of the twenty, and
has sent messengers from man to man, to require them on their
canonical obedience to assist at that service. The fear of the pestilence and the dislocating of the Term, has so far put things out
of order. |
Oct. 22. |
71. John West to the same. Thanks for favours to himself and
his nephew, Capt. Sibthorpe. Begs him to further the latter with
the King. He is the Sec.'s "vowed creature." |
[Oct. 22.] |
72. Petition of George Tayler, purser of the Assurance, to the
Lords of the Admiralty. Being very infirm, prays that he may
resign to Laurence Fisher. |
Oct. 22. |
73. George Tayler to Nicholas. Formerly wrote to him concerning the placing of John Hart as purser in the Assurance, in the
writer's stead. Hart having relinquished the same, he now desires
Nicholas to further the appointment of Laurence Fisher. |
Oct. 22. |
74. Kenrick Edisbury and Stephen Alcock to the same. Recommend Laurence Fisher to succeed George Tayler. |
Oct. 23. Fort near Plymouth. |
75. Sir James Bagg to the Lords of the Admiralty. On the
21st inst., six Dutch men-of-war cruising from the east Plymouthward, off Arme, a small port within three leagues of Plymouth,
espied a Dunkirker at anchor. The Dunkirker, seeing the Dutchmen, put into Arme, where Mr. Pollexfen went aboard, and seized
her to the King's use. After the ship had been divers hours
aground, on the flood, the Dutchmen sent in three boats, turned
ashore the English, and put to sea with the Dunkirker. Conceives
they will think this an act of great boldness and unjustifiable, and
will require satisfaction. |
Oct. 23. Fort near Plymouth. |
76. Sir James Bagg to Nicholas. Sends him the above letter, and
begs him to press it as much as he can. The Dutch are bold both in
doing wrong and seeking right. The Dunkirker was five hours in
possession of his Majesty. The name of the Dutch captain is thought
to be Quaster. The Dunkirk ship is the George, about 80 tons, six
pieces, and four murderers, with 100 men. |
Oct. 23. Hurst. |
77. Margaret Lady Savile to Sec. Dorchester. Incloses a letter
with a suit in behalf of her brother's daughter, Sir Thomas Dacres'
sister. If he will join with Judge Jones, they are assured to
obtain the place. If her nephew Dacre come home before the Sec.
goes from Theobalds, he will be a suitor on his sister's behalf. |
Oct. 24. |
78. Petition of Daniel Gorsuch, merchant in London, to the
Council. Petitioner shipped into Barbary, in the Harry of London,
bound for Tetuan, ten tons of iron. Giles Penn, who carried letters
from his Majesty to the Governor of the town, agreed to sell the
iron, but it was afterwards sold by others, and the money made
thereof returned in the same ship to London. Richard Berrisford,
who had obtained a royal protection for Penn, pretending the produce of the iron to be the estate of Penn, has attached the same in
the hands of the factors. Prays that Berrisford may be called before
the Lords, and commanded to withdraw his attachment. Underwritten, |
78. i. Order for Berrisford to attend the Board on Friday next.
Hampton Court, 1630, Oct. 24. |
Oct. 24. |
79. Capt. Henry Skipwith to Sec. Dorchester. Being unwell,
begs him to cause the writer's cousin, Matthew Carleton, or Dorchester's secretary, Mr. Lucas, to call upon him for the case and
questions respecting the suit which he had lately preferred, and
to carry them to Mr. Hadsor, of his Majesty's Council for Irish
causes. |
Oct. 24. From his house in Cardiff. |
80. Sir Thomas Button to Nicholas. On Thursday last arrived
in the road of Pennarth, having been ever since the last of September
coming from Dublin, and so much beaten with storms that he has
neither cables, sails, ropes, or ought else, and so much out of health
as to be unable to travel. Hopes in ten days to deliver to the Lords
a letter from the Lords Justices of Ireland, desiring that the pay of
both Whelps and their supply of stores may be paid and furnished
here, the pay until Michaelmas, and the stores for some months to
come. Begs immediate order for graving and trimming his ship.
Was stayed at Dublin three weeks, to waft over a ship which
belongs to his Majesty, and whereof one Mr. Demetrius had the
care. She was insufficiently supplied, and in a gale of wind she lost
Button's ship, and bore up for Dublin. Begs speedy dispatch that
he may haste back to Ireland. Hears that the Dunkirk ship that
he brought in has been bestowed on others. |
Oct. 24. Penshurst. |
81. Robert Earl of Liecester to James Earl of Carlisle. The
Earl of Carlisle is so noble in his favours, that if a man be not well
provided of gratitude, there is danger in making a request to him.
Thanks for his recent favour in giving the Earl of Leicester a
lodging, both in his house and his heart. The Earl of Leicester has
but one heart. There is but one room in it, and there come but
few guests to be lodged there. They who are entertained are so at
home as they may do what they will, and "as we say, [may] throw
"the house out at the window." The Earl of Carlisle is there. |
Oct. 24. |
82. Distribution among the servants of Archbishop Abbot of 4l.,
given by Dr. Piers, Bishop of Peterborough, at his consecration. |
Oct. 25. |
83. Account of Matthew de Quester for carriage of packets from
foreign countries for his Majesty's service, from 7 April 1630 to
this day. Total, 150l. 10s. [Underwritten is a memorandum that
on the 2 Nov. 1630, 135l. was allowed thereupon.] |
Oct. 25. Scadbury. |
84. Sir Thomas Walsingham to Nicholas. Is glad to hear the
Lords' resolution. Hereafter, let things go which way they will, he
will not meddle. The 3rd of this month there was a great wreck
of a Rotterdam ship, bound for Venice, on the coast of Kent, near
the North Foreland, two miles from shore. Goods from this wreck,
taken up by men that dwell in the writer's jurisdiction and presented
in his courts, have been claimed by the Court of Admirality, by
which means the Duchess and himself shall lose their shares and
the right of his place. Wishes advice thereon. All wrecks are
granted to him in his patent. |
Oct. 25. Exeter College. |
85. Dr. John Prideaux to Bishop Land. Thanks him for undeserved favours, and trusts his future expressions will justify his
thankfulness. They are all bound to praise God that the Bishop
sets his thoughts to reform what is amiss among them. For cumulations, sees not what could be more deliberately set down than his
last advertisement. Mr. Bayly accounts himself made by the Bishop's
goodness. He has been well chid, and acknowledged his folly.
That untoward question at the last Act was never approved by the
writer in those terms it passed. Will take care that hereafter no
such occasion of exception be given. Tenders to his consideration
the neglect of divinity disputations for term these five years past,
and the proceeding of divers in law of late to the prejudice of
divinity. |
Oct. 25. |
86. Inventory and appraisement of goods taken up by John
Snedall and Richard Punnett out of a wreck within the ViceAdmiralty of Kent; total value, 50l. 5s. |
Oct. 25. |
87. Indictment found at a Sessions held at Pool [Welshpool], in
co. Montgomery, against Charles Griffith, for the murder of John
Owen, at Newtown, in that county. |
Oct. 26. |
88. Petition of Thomas Ivett, late master gunner of the Crane,
to the Lords of the Admiralty. The Crane being sold, and he the
ancientest gunner that belongs to his Majesty, prays that he may
be continued in pay until some other place fall void. [Indorsed,
"Thos. Ivett to be gunner in Warham Sconce."] |
Oct. 26. Hampton Court. |
89. Lord President Conway to Sec. Dorchester. Moved his
gracious master for leave to put himself into the hands of Dr.
Mayerne, to finish the course of physic he was in, which having
obtained, he is going to Langley. If there be occasion for his
service, hopes he shall be able to come at a short warning. Good
wishes for the Sec. and his noble lady. |
Oct. 27. Portsmouth. |
90. William Thomas, Purser of the Convertive, to Nicholas. The
Convertive and Tenth Whelp cannot be victualled for four months,
according to the order to Mr. Holt, because the money remitted
is only for three months. Begs him to let the Lord Treasurer
know so much, if his captain be not in town, to whom he has
written. |
Oct. 28. |
91. Petition of Edward Boys, of Bunnington, co. Kent, to the
King. Petitioner's son and heir, John Boys, being at Canterbury,
one Thomas Alcock, "an infirm person, resorting ordinarily to stran"gers' company," most uncivilly provoked him with such insufferable
language as young men who have seen the wars can very hardly
digest, and which incited petitioner's son to give him a blow on the
head, of which he died. The coroner's inquest has found petitioner's son guilty of manslaughter. Prays that he may taste of
his Majesty's clemency, dispensed on the birth of the Prince.
Underwritten, |
91. i. Reference to the Mayor and Recorder of Canterbury to
certify the truth of the circumstances. Hampton Court,
1630, Oct. 28. |
91. ii. Report of the Mayor and Recorder of Canterbury. They
send copies of the coroner's inquest and grand jury,
whereby it appears that John Boys is guilty of manslaughter. Canterbury, 1630, Nov. 4. |
91. iii. Reference to the Attorney General to prepare the solicited
pardon. Whitehall, 1630, Nov. 15. |
Oct. 28. |
92. Petition of Ralph Killinghall, ensign to Capt. William Halls,
to the same. A little before the last voyage to Rochelle petitioner
was married to Mary Hutchins, he not remembering that he was contracted to Elizabeth Pressith [Presick]. Since his return, Elizabeth
Pressith had so prevailed with him, by reason of the pre-contract,
that he had made her his wife, whereupon Mary Hutchins had prosecuted the law against him, and he is now convict and condemned.
In consideration of his services, and his descent from the house of
Manners of Rutland, prays for a pardon. Underwritten, |
92. i. Certificate of Sir Heneage Finch, the Recorder, which sets
forth the circumstances of the petitioner's two marriages,
and recommends him for mercy. 1630, Oct. 28. |
92. ii. Direction to the Attorney General to prepare the solicited
pardon. Whitehall, 1630, Nov. 15. |
Oct. 28. Hampton Court. |
93. The King to Attorney General Heath. To prepare a pardon
for John Hurst, late of the Inner Temple, Esquire, convicted by
his own confession of manslaughter in killing Bartiue [Bertie ?]
Haselrig. |
Oct. 28. |
94. Petition of William Daynes and Roger Daynes, his son, to
the King. Roger Daynes had the loan of 10 drakes, with their
carriages, belonging to the King, which came to 229l., for which
petitioners gave bond for 300l. By means of these drakes petitioners brought in three prizes, of the value of 7,000l., the benefit
whereof came to the King, but by casualty of the sea petitioners
lost their two ships and the said drakes, to their utter undoing.
Their whole estate is now extended, and Roger Daynes is in durance
in consequence of his inability to return the borrowed drakes. Petitioners pray that under the circumstances they may be freed from
their said bond. Underwritten, |
94. i. Reference to the Master and Lieutenant of the Ordnance
to certify what they think fit for his Majesty to do.
Hampton Court, 1630, Oct. 28. |
Oct. 28. |
95. Henry Earl of Kent and Thomas Earl of Cleveland, Lord
Lieutenants of co. Bedford, to the Council. The plague has been
so generally dispersed through that county that they have hitherto
forborne the training of the companies of horse and foot. |
Oct. 28. Lambeth. |
96. Archbishop Abbot to Sec. Dorchester. Reports what became
of their consecration at Croydon on Sunday last. The Bishop of
Winchester took the pains to see them, and Oxford also, the latter
being called from home by authority. Rochester was in the summer
time beat from his house at Bromley by the plague, but the Archbishop sent for him up out of Berkshire. St. David's also, being in
London, was sent for, but had like to have sunk down in a swoon
in the chapel. Has no return from the Bishops but that his
Majesty's Injunctions are well observed. The Bishop of Ely is very
sick of the dropsy in London, whither he is forced to come up for
help of the physicians. Durham will be accounted for by the Archbishop of York. |
Oct. 29. Whitehall. |
97. Abstract of a Commission [from the King] to Anthony Wither
and Samuel Lively to repair into the cos. of Gloucester, Wilts, Oxon,
and Somerset, and the several places there where white cloth is
usually made, and there to notify the Commission and inquire in a
manner therein directed how the statutes for true cloth-making are
executed. |
Oct. 29. |
98. Petition of Sir William Saunderson to the Council. A few
years since, petitioner being not well stored with ready money, was
forced to take up of Richard Mawdet [Mauduit ?], silkman, certain
wares at an unconscionable rate, to the value of 46l., for which he
gave bond. Afterwards, petitioner assigned over to Mawdet two
debentures of greater value than the debt, but Mawdet would not
wait until his Majesty's occasions could permit the debentures to be
paid, but arrested and imprisoned petitioner, although he knew he
was the King's servant. Mawdet was thereupon committed by the
Marquis Hamilton, but petitioner, on Mawdet's entreaty, procured
his release on his delivering up petitioner's bond and executing a
release. Mawdet having lately petitioned the Council, and petitioner
having been ordered to show cause, he now prays to be dismissed
from further attendance. Underwritten, |
98. i. Order of the Council that if Mawdet shall further petition,
the Clerk of the Council shall put the Lords in mind of
this answer of Sir William Saunderson. |
Oct. 29. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. |
99. Certificate of proceedings of the Mayor and Aldermen of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, as Commissioners for conservancy of the
Tyne, from Easter to Michaelmas 1630. |
Oct. 29. Langley. |
100. Lord President Conway to William Weld. Directs him to
use all the Lord President's influence to procure Sir Giles Bray and
the Lord President's cousin Maxwell to be omitted from the bill of
Sheriffs. Prays him to examine the houses, the Lady of Orgilles
[Argyle's ?] and the Lady Davesses [Davis's], and help the writer to
resolve which to prefer. Will send a coach to Richmond on the
morrow for money business. Weld knows his distress. Wishes to
be informed whether he will have the leases for Ireland sent by the
next opportunity. |
Oct. 29. |
101. Sir Thomas Roe to Sir Robert Anstruther. It is thought
that our peace with Spain is made. The articles sent from hence
[thence ?] were corrected by his Majesty, and returned signed with
a peremptory order to change nothing. Believes the success of the
war or peace in Italy will guide them. Discussion in Court on an
article of the treaty of Ratisbon between France and Spain, that the
French have renounced their alliances, and by name the King of
Sweden. That King does not rely upon the French, and it matters
not much what they do, for a bigotry governs them, and Roe is persuaded that all leagues with any papist-blinded estate are Egyptian
reeds, and that all their inward counsels are directed to root out our
religion. Our Court is constant. The Lord Treasurer only is able
to open and shut. He is Anstruther's friend, and will be publicly
obliged to him if he will make peace. Roe himself has let fall an
anchor in the country, and has as little belief of preferment as
ambition. These are not times for him and his rules. [Copy.] |
Oct. 29. St. Martin's Lane. |
102. The same to the Queen of Bohemia. Knows now less
than when he thought he knew nothing. Next year will be a blab
and tell all, and we shall know who is cozened. Now the jugglers
are in high action at Ratisbon, where he wishes they may not
mistake the medicine of peace and make rat's-bane for us all proscribed heretics. No plays these six months, and that makes our
statesmen see the good use of them. If our heads had been filled
with the loves of Pyramus and Thisbe, or the various fortunes of
Don Quixote, we should never have cared who had made peace
or war, but on the stage. Now every fool is inquiring what the
French do in Italy, and what they treat in Germany. Perhaps Sir
John Finet, as Master of Ceremonies, can say more to her Majesty.
Roe finds it safe enough to be her Majesty's fool. If she laughs at
him, it is all he asks. |
Oct. 29. |
103. Sir Edward Bagshaw to Endymion Porter. Sir James Ware,
his Majesty's auditor, has informed the writer that no sum being set
down in the estimate of the customs for Porter's "tenth and a
"half from his Majesty," he must expect no more thenceforth,
although the customs should improve. |
Oct. 29. |
104. Particular of the first works intended to be done for repairing
the Vanguard at Woolwich, according to a schedule dated 1st of
May last. Sum agreed for doing the work, 530l. |
Oct. 29. |
105. Exchequer account of Receipts and Issues from 21 Oct. inst.
to this day. Among the payments is 118l. 12s. 6d. paid to Colman,
Brown, and others, in all 13, knights of Windsor, in sums of 9l. 2s. 6d.
each. The receipts amounted to 3,038l. 7s. 7½d.; the payments to
2,964l. 16s. 2d.; there remained in hand 812l. 9s. 4½d. [Damaged
by damp.] |
Oct. 30. |
106. Statement by Roger Langford of the office and duty of the
Clerk of the Prick and Check at Deptford, as the same was
executed by Philip Ellis. |
Oct. 30. |
107. Copy of the preceding, with an underwritten confirmatory
certificate of Edward Dalton, who served from 1577 to 1599, as
clerk to William Holstock and William Borough, Comptrollers of
the Navy. [Copy.] |
Oct. 30. |
108. Another copy, similar to the preceding. |
Oct. |
109. Petition of the distressed prisoners in the King's Bench and
Fleet for debt, to the King. Queen Elizabeth granted a commission
to the Archbishop of Canterbury and other dignified officers and
their successors for release of poor prisoners for debt. In July last
the King caused her said act to be exemplified, but the said Commissioners have not yet executed their commission, although moved to
do so by the prisoners. Pray that they may be commanded to do so. |
Oct. |
110. Petition of Robert Kemp, of Chenston [Chaunston], co.
Hereford, to the same. Petitioner being young, and having occasion
to resort to London, was seduced to marry Elizabeth Cooke, a woman
of mean condition, his former wife being yet living. Prays a pardon. |
[Oct. ?] |
111. Petition of Sem Whitton, Innholder of Bristol, to the Council.
For many years the house where petitioner dwells has been resorted
to by carriers, with a great number of horses. Prays, that notwithstanding the proclamation of 28 Sept. last, he may have liberty to
buy in cos. Somerset and Gloucester 50 lasts of wheat, oats, and
beans, he giving security to expend the same in his own house. |
[Oct. ?] |
112. Dr. John Moseley to the Council. Having discovered some
special means whereby the differences in Church and State might be
composed, his desire was to have opened himself to the King, but his
Majesty having referred the matter to the Council, the writer
scruples about revealing his proposals to that body, considering from
its nature that to do so would ensure the frustration of his scheme.
Before another Parliament be called the King should enjoin a public
fast. |
[Oct. ?] |
113. [Lords of the Admiralty] to the Officers of the Navy. To enter
John Johnson as boatswain of the Nonsuch, in the room of Henry
Place. [Draft. Indorsed are notes by Nicholas, apparently with a
view to the preparation of some paper relating to an encroachment
on the King's sovereignty of the Narrow Seas.] |