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[Jan. 1?] |
1. Estimate of the ordinary charge of his Majesty's ships in
harbour, and serving in the Narrow Seas, for the present year.
Total, 27,905l. 13s. 5½d. [Two pages.] |
[Jan. 1?] |
Copy of the same. [See Vol. ccix., p. 94.] |
[Jan. 1?] |
2. Assignments made by Lord Treasurer Weston and Lord
Cottington, Chancellor of the Exchequer, for supplying the sum
required by the above estimate. [One page.] |
Jan. 2. The Bonaventure, in the Downs. |
3. Capt. John Pennington to Nicholas. His victualling draws to
an end. Wishes Nicholas's advice whether he may come in without
a further warrant. Longs much to be at home for his own occasions, besides that it is high time his ship was graved. Begs
him to write the news, and especially when the King goes to
Newmarket. The Duke de Vendosme is expected that night at
Dover, where the writer's lieutenant is attending, to know when
he purposes to embark, that the writer may be there at the time.
The wind blows so fresh he cannot ride in Dover Road. [Two
pages and a half.] |
Jan. 2. Whitehall. |
4. James Earl of Carlisle to Sir Henry Vane, Ambassador to the
King of Sweden. The passages are so dangerous that without a
cipher holds it not safe to use much liberty in writing. "Your
friends are better than ever and your enemies worse; make you
English of that!" [One page.] |
Jan. 2. |
5. Certificate of Mayor and others of St. Alban's of measures
taken for relief of the poor within that borough. [Indorsed as
received from Mr. Justice Vernon. One page.] |
Jan. 2. Taunton. |
6. Mayor and another of Taunton to Thomas Luttrell, Sheriff of
co. Somerset. Similar certificate for that borough. [One page and
a half.] |
Jan. 2. |
7. The same to the same. Similar certificate of the price of corn
in their market on the preceding Saturday; wheat, 5s. 4d. to 5s. 8d.
per bushel. [Half a page.] |
Jan. 3. Whitehall. |
8. Sir Thomas Jermyn to Sir Henry Vane. Is stirred up to
write to him by warning given by Vane's trusty servant, both by
his words and by his notable furred coat. They are, for the most
part, in great opinion of the happy success of the King of Sweden's
enterprises; in some, however, there is a dubious cautiousness that
is fearful to take a work begun for a work concluded. Two things
have troubled the town with much discourse, whether Tilly be
alive, and the little they have heard of the Marquis of Hamilton.
Of late they are told that Tilly is come to Brussels, to put a pious
end to his noble life in some monastery. If Vane could see the
Court on the morrow, he could not imagine from any change that
he had been away. Christmas has been very dull, by the Queen's
keeping her chamber on account of a little thing that bred in the
corner of her eye, which is now well again, and they expect a more
jolly end than they had a beginning. The distance in which he left
some of their great friends remains still, notwithstanding overtures
of a better understanding. The Duke de Vendosme and Mons. de
Mercure, his son, have been there these two months, and if they had
received half France on the same terms, the matter had not been
great, for he got leave to spend his own pistoles. They have passed
the fear of the Queen Mother's coming. The King's journey to
Scotland was so far advanced that Sir Thomas Merry, with some
others of the green cloth, were with the committee with lists of
those who accompanied King James, but the writer believes the
purpose is now at rest for this year. [Four pages.] |
Jan. 3. London. |
9. Grant of arms by Sir William Segar, Garter, (with ratification
by Sir John Borough, Norroy,) to Alexander Davison, of Newcastleupon-Tyne. Lat. [Two pages.] |
Jan. 4. |
10. Petition of Hugh Morrell and Charles Snelling, merchants,
to the Council. On the 14th of last month it was ordered that
petitioners should communicate a certain order to the coal farmers,
and if they could not agree, the Lord Treasurer was required to
take order therein. Petitioners have attended 20 days, but can
have no settled answer from the farmers. Pray the farmers may
be warned to give present attendance on the Lord Treasurer. [One
page.] |
Jan. 4. London. |
11. Elizabeth Williams to her brother, Sec. Dorchester. Thanks
for a gift of 20l. per annum, which he has bestowed upon her. Her
sister has also given her 10l. to pay for her diet, which her sister
Carleton has agreed upon at 12s. a week. Prays for his health and
his lady's safety in her confinement. [One page.] |
Jan. 4. Whitehall. |
12. Cornelius Holland to Sir Henry Vane. It is reported that
there will be a surplusage of 800l. or 900l. on the year's account of
the household. The writer thinks there will rather be 600l. or 700l.
saved, but if there should be a surplusage it will be accounted
for by Lord Savile's warrants, extraordinary warrants in the stable,
with increase of price on account of the dearth of corn. There is
now a further charge for the young Princess's house at St. James's,
which will amount to about 2,500l. a year. [One page and a
half.] |
Jan. 4. |
13. Bill of charges disbursed by Charles Ramsey principally for
maintenance of the banks in Marshland, co. Norfolk, during the
year 1630, and exhibited to him this day as a witness in a suit in
which he was examined upon interrogatories. [One page and a
quarter.] |
Jan. 5. |
14. Forms of oaths taken to the Bishop of Salisbury for the time
being by the steward of his demesnes and manors in Wilts, and to
the Dean and Chapter during a vacancy of the See by the Bailiff of
Sarum. [Indorsed by Bishop Laud. Three quarters of a page.] |
Jan. 6. The Bonaventure, in the Downs. |
15. Capt. John Pennington to the Lords of the Admiralty.
Since the arrival of the Duke de Vendosme at Dover, which was on
Monday last, the writer has daily turned down with his ship into
that road, and was ashore with him on Wednesday, when he appointed to take shipping that day. There has been such a sore
stress of weather that Pennington has had much ado to ride it out.
Has stayed the Robert Bonaventure, of Plymouth, from St. Christopher's, laden with salt and tobacco, and made the captain enter
into bond to bring his ship into the Thames. Frauds committed
upon the Customs by ships laden with tobacco. The Custom-house
officers at the out-ports should make them enter into bond as soon
as they arrive. [One Page.] |
Jan. 6. |
16. Justices of Peace for co. Hertford to Richard Hale, Sheriff.
Certificate of measures for relief of the poor within the division of
Broadwater and half hundred of Hitchin. [One Page.] |
[Jan. 6 ?] |
17. Petition of Benjamin Cooper, his Majesty's servant, Alderman of Great Yarmouth, to the Council. On articles of complaint
against petitioner, preferred by unknown adversaries, it was ordered
by the board that petitioner should attend on the 20th instant.
The articles and order were not delivered to petitioner until the
4th instant, he being in ill health. Prays that his appearance may
be deferred until the first week in May. [Three quarters of a page.
Petitioner's appearance on the 20th instant was entered on the
Council Register. Reg. Conc. Car. I., Vol. vii., p. 357.] |
[Jan. 7.] |
18. Justices of Peace for co. Somerset to the Council. No corn
hoarded up within the hundreds of Whitestone, Wells Forum,
Glaston, and the Twelve Hides. Want of corn in their parts is
occasioned by the badgers of Bristol. [Undated, but indorsed as
received Jan. 7. One page.] |
Jan. 8. Westminster. |
19. Appointment by Robert Earl of Lindsey, Constable of England, of Sir Henry Marten, to be his locum tenens in the Court
Military, and to adjourn or continue the cause therein depending
between Donald Lord Reay, appellant, and David Ramsey, defendant. Lat. [Copy. One page.] |
Jan. 9. |
20. Miles Jackson to the Council. Sends copy of the second
letter of the Sheriff of Wilts to the Mayor and Aldermen of Bristol
to furnish him with ordnance and gunners for performance of their
commands. John Berrow being appointed gunner for that service,
honestly performed the same, which service had been neglected by
the former gunner. [Half a page.] Prewritten, |
20. i. John Toppe, Sheriff of Wilts, to the Mayor and others
of Bristol. Sends them copies of directions he had
received from the Council authorizing him to apply to
them for ordnance to batter a house which resisted his
authority. One piece having been deemed inadequate,
he requests them to send another for the required service,
with gunners and ammunition, offering security for payment of their expenses. Stockton, 1631, Dec. 1. [Copy.
Two pages and a half.] |
Jan. 9. Arundel House. |
21. Appointment by Thomas Earl of Arundel and Surrey of Sir
Henry Bourchier to be his locum teneus in the Court Military to do
what shall seem to him right in the cause between Donald Lord
Reay, appellant, and David Ramsey, defendant. Lat. [Copy. One
page.] |
Jan. 12. |
22. Petition of Justices of Peace for Berks to the Council. Have
received their Lordships' letter dated 28 Sept. 1631, but not delivered until the 10th instant, to take order for carriage of a third
part of 1,000 loads of timber from Shotover and Stow-wood, to the
most convenient place for transportation. They present the following reasons for desiring to be spared: 1. Inequality of the assessment on Bucks. 2. A great deal of Berkshire privileged from
carriage. 3. Great part of the county distant from the place
whence the wood is to be carried. 4. Heavy charges already on
the county. [One page. On the 26th inst. the Council informed
the Justices that the required service, being for defence of the
realm, might not be neglected, and that they expected the Justices of
Berks to set a good example to other counties. Reg. Conc. Car. I.,
Vol. vii., p. 367.] |
Jan. 12. |
23. Rough draft of the same. [Indorsed with this date. One
page.] |
Jan. 12. |
24. Lords Chief Justices Richardson and Heath to the Council.
Report on a case between Frances Lady Worsley, plaintiff, and Sir
Bevis Thelwall, defendant, in which a decree of certain commissioners had been referred to their consideration. They think that
Lady Worsley ought not to be concluded by the decree until certain
facts relating to a breach in a sea-bank, whereby certain lands were
flooded, be cleared by trial at law. [One page.] |
Jan. 13. Whitehall. |
25. Order of Council. One Bois Godre [Boisgaudre], a Frenchman,
prisoner in the King's Bench, takes upon him to cure the king's
evil, and daily a great concourse of people flock to him, although
it is conceived that if such cures have been, it is rather by sorcery
and incantation than by any skill he has in physic. The Lord Chief
Justice of the King's Bench is to call Boisgaudre, the keeper of the
King's Bench, and others before him for examination, and that he
cause Boisgaudre to be indicted for cosenage, or transmit him to the
High Commission. [One page and three quarters.] |
Jan. 13. |
26. Petition of John Delbridge, merchant, of Barnstaple, to the
Council. In July 1630, petitioner freighted a small bark to the
Bermudas and Virginia, and to return to Barnstaple. In the time
of her being forth the proclamation came forth that no tobacco
should be landed at the out-ports. The bark returned in March
last so leaky that the owners would not adventure her to come to
London, whereupon the tobacco was landed and put into the keeping
of his Majesty's officers. Prays that they may be authorized to
take custom and impost thereupon. [Underwritten, "Read the
13th of January 1631, and denied." One page.] |
Jan. 13. Siston. |
27. George Ashby, Justice of Peace for co. Leicester, to Gregory
Brokesby, the Sheriff. During the visitation [of the plague] they
have not dared to call the hundred of East Goscote together for the
services commanded in the Book of Orders, but as soon as they
may they will be as forward as any others. [One page.] |
Jan. 13. Gillmorton. |
28. Other Justices of Peace for co. Leicester to the Sheriff.
Certificate of presentments made to them for the hundred of
Goodlaxton. [One page.] |
Jan. 14. Westminster. |
29. Commission to Sir William Russell, Bart., Sir Richard
Sheldon, Solicitor General, Sir John Banks, Attorney General to
Prince Charles, Edward Lyttleton, Recorder of London, William
Trumbull, Anthony Lowe, Edward Bishop, Edward Nicholas,
Charles Harbord, and John Skynner, to inquire into frauds practised
upon the customs by landing goods by night in improper places,
evading duties on exportation, and in various other ways. Lat.
[Copy, six pages.] |
Jan. 14. |
30. Petition of John Dearsly and Robert Clement, shipwrights,
John Bradey, blacksmith, Randall Crew, deal merchant, David
Davison, ropemaker, John Crome, pulley maker, Thomas Robotham,
joiner, and Widow Sanderson, plumber, to the Lords of the Admiralty. Petitioners and those of their professions have been
accustomed to have payment for fitting out ships at the full fitting
thereof, and to have always the hull of such ships for their
securities. By ancient custom of the Court of Admiralty, ships have
been stayed in the river by warrant until satisfaction were given.
Having lately in this manner arrested the Unicorn, one William
Vincent having colourably got an interest therein from Winsor and
Roper, endeavours to stop the petitioners by prohibition out of the
King's Bench. Pray the Lords to give directions to the Justices of
the King's Bench not to make a precedent of granting prohibitions
in such cases. [Three quarters of a page.] |
Jan. 14. |
31. Minutes by Nicholas of business to be transacted by the
Lords of the Admiralty this day. Ships to be chosen for guard of
the Narrow Seas; Sir Francis Stewart's demands; accounts from
Vice-Admirals. [Half a page.] |
Jan. 14. |
32. Statement of Peter Marsh, Robert Tranckmor, John
Dearsly, and Robert Clement, in reply to allegations of "Parker,
More, and Allen," who contest the authority of the Shipwrights of
Rotherhithe. They set forth the uncivil and reviling speeches made
against the Master of the Company by Parker, and that he had
served a warrant upon the Master for his appearance at the Quarter
Sessions. [One page.] |
Jan. 15. Hinton. |
33. John Lord Poulett to Sec. Dorchester. Having lately
received a letter from the Council has sent an answer, not doubting
to find the Sec.'s favour in the writer's excuse, and to preserve
himself in his Majesty's favour. No man living shall be readier to
lay his life and all that he has at the King's feet, but he cannot
bring himself to compound for a neglect or omission for which he
has a just excuse, nor under colour thereof to agree to redeem a little
sin with a great sum of money. Begs his help. [One page.] |
Jan. 15. |
34. Philip Burlamachi to the same. Is sending off a dispatch of
the Lord Treasurer to the Hague about the jewels. Apprises the
Sec. lest he should also desire to write. The messenger starts that
evening, and goes by way of Antwerp. Hopes he is better. Fr.
[Half a page.] |
Jan. 16. |
35. Petition of Thomas Farnaby to the King. Petitioner has
published Comments on Juvenal, Persius, Seneca, Martial, Lucan;
as also Greek and Latin Epigrams, Index Rhetoricus, Phraseology,
&c., and now intends to set forth the same "with after cares and
better advised studies, more emendate and enlarged," besides that
he has redeemed them out of the printer's hands, who suffered some
of them to lie dead, by reason of great store brought from places
beyond seas. Prays an inhibition of the importation of these books
from abroad. Underwritten, |
35. i. His Majesty being well informed of the abilities and painful endeavour of the petitioner, recommends his suit to
the Council to give order on that behalf. Whitehall, 1632,
Jan. 16. [Petition and reference one page.] |
Jan. 16. |
36. Statement, apparently of Bishop Mountague, of Chichester,
addressed to Bishop Laud, of London, respecting a dispute between
Mr. Stockton and Mr. Hickes, as to a canonry in the church of
Chichester. Bishop Mountague complains that Mr. Hickes does not
attend to read personally, and that he sends as substitutes "whom
he can get, sometime good, sometime bad, any riff-raff, whom he
can light upon, shifters, unconformitants, curates, young boys,
puritans, as the whole city hath often spoken against it." He
intends to proceed against him ad amotionem, unless Bishop Laud
advises otherwise. [Two pages and three quarters.] |
Jan. 16. Claxton. |
37. Justices of Peace for co. Leicester to Gregory Brokesby, the
Sheriff. Report their proceedings for relief of the poor within two
divisions of the hundred of Framland. [One page. Indorsed, as
received [at the Council office] from Mr. Justice Hutton and Justice
Croke, 7 May 1632.] |
Jan. 17. |
38. Officers of the Navy to the Lords of the Admiralty. Recommend Israel Reynolds, boatswain of the Rainbow, to succeed
the late William Adams in that character in the Prince, Thomas
Arkingstall, of the Assurance, to succeed Reynolds, Thomas Carrall,
of the Third Lion's Whelp, to succeed Arkingstall, Thomas Seavern,
of the Maria pinnace, to succeed Carrall, and Robert Pettley to be
appointed to the Maria. [Received by Nicholas, 28th inst. One
page.] |
[Jan. 17.] |
39. Certificate of John Reynolds, Master Gunner of England,
that William Cane, master gunner of the Fourth Lion's Whelp, is
a very sufficient man for master gunner in any of his Highness'
ships, with underwritten confirmation of his employment by Kenrick Edisbury. [Half a page.] |
Jan. 18. |
40. Officers of the Navy to the Lords of the Admiralty. Present
to their consideration the names of eight ships, out of which they
may choose four, for employment in the Narrow Seas. [Received
by Nicholas, 19 Jan. 1632. One page.] |
Jan. 18. [Braintree.] |
41. Dr. Samuel Collins to Dr. Duck. My Lord of London's
displeasure pierces deep into him, not so much in regard of his
power, as his fatherly love towards the writer, for which he conceived his Lordship to be the best friend he had in the world. The
complaint which has provoked the Bishop the writer occasioned by
his endeavours to reform the error of sundry in his town, who would
not be persuaded, but that it still lay in him to procure them a
toleration of their wonted inconformity, which he laboured to draw
them from. He attained thereby, in some measure, his end, and
since the last court has gone on by degrees to the practice of conformity. It is no easy matter to reduce a numerous congregation
into order that has been disorderly these 50 years, and for the
last seven years has been encouraged in that way by all the
refractory ministers of the country by private meetings and leaving
schismatical books among them. These persons have laboured to
make his person and ministry contemptible and odious, because he
would not hold correspondence with them. If he had suddenly
fallen upon the strict practice of conformity he had undone himself
and broken the town to pieces. Upon the first notice of alteration
many were resolving to go to New England. By his moderate and
slow proceeding he has made stay of some, and hopes to settle their
judgments. Mr. Hawkins has been acquainted with all his proceedings. The Bishop need not employ the arm of the High Commission against the writer; the least finger of his will suffice. If
what he has said and done will not satisfy, he submits to his
censure. [Indorsed by Bishop Laud. One page.] |
Jan. 18. Braintree. |
42. John Debnam and Samuel Smyth, churchwardens of Braintree, to the same. Since the Bishop of London's last court their
minister, Samuel Collins, has conformed himself to the orders of
the Church of England. [Indorsed by Bishop Laud. Half a
page.] |
Jan. 18. Melton Mowbray. |
43. Justices of Peace for co. Leicester to the Sheriff. Return of
measures for the relief of the poor within two divisions of the
hundred of Framland, not those comprised in the article calendared
under Jan. 16, No. 37. [One page.] |
Jan. 18. Worcester. |
44. Justices of Peace for Worcester limits to Sir James Pitt,
Sheriff of the County. Similar return. Wheat is now at 4s.,
meslyn at 3s. 8d., rye at 3s., barley at 2s. 8d., pease at 2s. 2d., and
oats at 1s 4d. the bushel. [Indorsed are, 1, mem. of the delivery
of this, and, perhaps, other certificates, to Mr. Justice Jones, on
20 Oct. 1632; and, 2, receipt of Judges Jones and Trevor for the
same. One page.] |
[Jan. 19.] |
45. Petition of the Principal Masters of the Navy, signed by
Peter White and John Goodwin, to the Lords of the Admiralty.
Pray for a restoration of their former allowances, ordinary and
extraordinary. [Almost verbatim with the petition presented on
17 Feb. 1631. See Vol. clxxxv., No. 21. One page.] |
Jan. 19. Drayton. |
46. Certificate of Justices of Peace for co. Salop as to presentments made to them by the constables within five of the allotments of the north part of the hundred of Bradford, viz., Hodnet, Moreton Saye, Stoke and Arcoll, Drayton, and Cheswardyne,
from 15 Dec. last to this day. [One page.] |
[Jan. 20.] |
47. The Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical to the Council.
Answer to the report of Earl Rivers, Sir Harbottle Grimstone, and
others, in reference to the disputes between the town of Harwich
and William Innes, (See Vol. cxcix., No. 50. i.) If the writers had
not seen the subscription of such worthy persons, they should, by
the sharpness of the style and the harsh passages against Mr. Innes,
have conceived the paper to have proceeded from angry adversaries,
and not from indifferent commissioners. They condemn a judgment
pronounced by the writers upon Sarah Peck for profane christening
of a dog. The Council will not expect the writers to make any
exact answer, but they represent the strangeness, insolency, and ill
consequence of this proceeding by private men against the highest
ecclesiastical court in England. [One page. Sir Harbottle Grimstone. Sir John Barker, and Sir Thomas Bowes, were this day sent
for by warrant. Co. Reg. Car. I., Vol. vii., p. 357.] |
Jan. 20. London. |
48. Philip Burlamachi to Sec. Dorchester. Two young men from
Geneva, silk weavers, having come to this country on account of
the misery which war has brought on that unhappy town, are
opposed by persons of their own trade and forbidden to work,
notwithstanding a permission of the Lord Mayor. Prays the Sec.
to write to the Master and Wardens of the Company of Silk
Weavers on their behalf. Their names are Jacob Domenici and
Isaac Domenici, brothers. [One page] |
Jan. 20. Doctors' Commons. |
49. Sir Henry Marten to the same. On 16 December received a letter of the Sec., dated 23 Aug. before, signifying his
Majesty's desire to have speedy justice done for John Baugh, a
subject of the King of Denmark. The ship and goods claimed by
him were adjudged to the takers for good prize, nobody showing
cause to the contrary. But from depositions of John Baugh, a
presumption arises that the judgment was obtained non bonâ fide.
The sentence cannot be reversed by the writer, but may be so by
the Sec. and the other Judges, by way of appeal. [Two pages.] |
Jan. 20. |
50. Copy of the same. [Two pages and a quarter.] |
Jan. 20. |
51. Certificate of Thomas Austen, Peter White, and seven others,
that John Vincle, late boatswain's mate of the Bonaventure, is
able to take charge as boatswain of any of his Majesty's ships.
[Three quarters of a page.] |
Jan. 20. |
52. Separate informations of Edward Seabrooke, John Tuttle,
and Fromabove Done, setting forth causes of complaint against John
Wells, postmaster of St. Alban's, in pressing their horses for the
service of the post maliciously or corruptly, in order to procure a
bribe for their release. [One page and three quarters.] |
Jan. 21. |
53. Similar informations of John Mitchell, of Sandridge, Ralph
Heyward, of Bushey, Henry Pedder, of Luton, and John Bolton,
of Harding, all containing charges of corruption or misconduct
against John Wells. [One page.] |
Jan. 21. |
54. Deposition of Edward Cooper, John Bryan, George Pegg,
and John Abbotts, that they this day ascertained by admeasurement
that the pit at Colly Craft belonging to Thomas Robinson and John
Buggs was upon a lower level than the pits at Griff belonging to
the people of Coventry. [Three quarters of a page.] |
[Jan. 21 ?] |
55. Answer of Matthew Collins and others to the petition of
Thomas Robinson and John Buggs, or rather to the allegations
contained in their answer, calendared Vol. cciv., No. 83. [One page
and a half.] |
Jan. 22. |
56. Petition of Henry Barrett to the Council. Was sent for on
complaint of the Mayor of Devizes (See Vol. cciv., No. 30). It
appears by the annexed certificate that petitioner has conformed
himself. Prays that he may be discharged. [One page.] Annexed, |
56. i. Certificate of Robert Drewe, one of the Justices of Peace
for Wilts, that Henry Barrett had acknowledged his
offence and promised conformity in future. 1632, Jan.
22. [Half a page.] |
Jan. 23. |
57. Justices of Peace for Sussex to the same. No hoarding of
corn in the rape of Arundel. The recent extraordinary price
of corn arose in that district from the adjacent markets in Surrey
to which purveyors for the City of London resort. Best wheat now
32s. per quarter. No transportation from Arundel. [Two pages.] |
Jan. 23. Deal Castle. |
58. Capt. William Byng to Capt. Edmund Lisle. Last week a
French man-of-war came in there with his flag in main-top. The
master coming ashore with his boat the writer sent to him to strike
it, which he did. At going away he hoisted it again, whereupon
Byng gave him five shot without hitting him, and away he went in
that manner. Lisle's Castle also gave him one shot, as he may see
in a letter inclosed to Mr. Moore. The Council approved the like
action of Byng's against the Dutch, who never since have offered
to wear their flag in this road on the main-top. Never heard that
the French attempted the like. If he meets Sir Edward Dering
he is to acquaint him. [Received by Nicholas 27 January, and
communicated to the Lords of the Admiralty on the day following.
One page and a half.] |
Jan. 24. Westminster. |
59. The King to the Keeper of the Clink. On the request of
Mons. Biscarat, in the name of the King's mother-in-law, the Queen
Dowager of France, the keeper is to deliver Matthew Wilson, a
Romish priest, to Edmund Barker, a messenger of the Chamber, to
be conveyed to the sea side, and shipped as Barker has been directed.
[One page.] |
Jan. 24. Westminster. |
60. The same to the Keeper of the New Prison. Similar warrant
for John Ponsford, a Romish priest. [One page.] |
Jan. 24. |
61. Justices of Peace for Norfolk to the Council. On consideration
of their letter of the 18th October perceive that their Lordships are
jealous of the careful execution by the writers of the orders published
last year touching matter of corn; and that they were the rather
moved therein by occasion of one Archer, sentenced in the Star
Chamber last term. State their proceedings in the great dearth of
1630, and that they were induced thereto by the course successfully
adopted in that county in the year 1586, which they also explain.
Sir Henry Spillman [Spelman], a grave person, well knowing the
state of their country and well known to their Lordships, will give
them further explanations. [One page.] |
Jan. 24. |
62. Some of the Justices who signed the preceding to the same.
Their letters of 18 October never came to the knowledge of the
writers until the Quarter Sessions at Norwich on the 10th inst.
No corn of last year's store hoarded up. Great quantities transported into other counties. Last harvest a happy one, but the
corn proves small in kernel. Wheat is now at 18s. the comb. No
combination to raise the price nor any secret transportation. [One
page.] |
Jan. 24. Kingston. |
63. Foulke Reed to Edward Viscount Conway. All the time of
Lord Brooke's being in the country the writer had not heard from him
concerning the outlying deer, therefore believes he intends to agree
with Lord Conway at his coming to town. He has not appointed
any one to take care of Ragley House. Repairs of the house and
park pales needed. His cousin Verney's mare not fitted for Lord
Conway's use. [One page.] |
Jan. 25. Whitehall. |
64. Order of Council on complaint of the Muscovia Company
trading to Greenland. It appearing that Thomas Hoarth had
traded to Greenland in contempt of the order of the Board and
contrary to his bond of 1,000l., it is ordered that his bond should
be put in suit in the Exchequer, and that in the meantime neither
he nor any one not of the Muscovia Company should directly or
indirectly trade to Greenland, or enter into any of the fishing
places of the said Company there. Hoarth to remain in custody of
the messenger until further order, and Sec. Coke to move the King
to grant the Company the benefit that shall accrue from the
forfeiture of Hoarth's bond. [One page and a half.] |
[Jan. 25 ?] |
65. Petition of the Bailiffs and others of Great Yarmouth to the
Council. On a petition preferred against petitioners by Mr. Brookes,
it was ordered that they should have a copy of the petition and
articles, and time to make their answer. The articles being
numerous, and this their time of setting forth 200 sail of ships for
Westmony, Iceland, and the North Seas, which employ about
3,000 mariners, they pray that the day of appearance may be the
15th March, and that a commission may be issued to take depositions. [Three quarters of a page.] |
[Jan. 25 ?] |
66. Another petition of the same to the same. A petition having
been lately preferred to the King against petitioners by the Dean
and Chapter of Norwich, the consideration whereof was referred by
the King to that Board, petitioners have employed two aldermen
and one principal burgess to attend the Council with their answer.
Pray for a favourable hearing to their substitutes. [Three quarters
of a page. With respect to the disputes between the Dean and
Chapter of Norwich and the town of Yarmouth, and between
Mr. Brookes minister there and the same town, the Council
directed a Commission to be issued to Sir Roger Townsend, Sir
John Wentworth, Dr. Clement Corbet, and Francis Mapes, to take
the depositions of witnesses, and fixed the 20th March for the day
of final hearing. Co. Reg. Car. I., Vol. vii., p. 364.] |
[Jan. 25 ?] |
67. Petition of John Lathum to the same. The late Lord
Stanhope, about 13 years since, granted to petitioner under his
hand and seal the reversion of the place of post of Berwick after the
decease of Henry Shafton, then post there. Shafton dying about
three weeks since, one Dallavell, servant to the now Lord Stanhope,
has got his warrant for the place, his Lordship excusing himself
because petitioner came not sooner. Prays their interference.
[One page. The Council resolved that Lord Stanhope was bound
in honour to make good his father's promise, and if he refused
Lord Salisbury and Sec. Coke were to call him before them. Co.
Reg. Ibid., p. 360.] |
Jan. 25. |
68. Sir Thomas Leigh, Basil Fielding, and others, to the same.
Send up various papers and depositions respecting the charge
against Thomas Robinson and John Buggs, of having drowned the
Coventry mines [probably some of the papers on that subject
already calendared], and report that there is a way to turn the
water by Eaton's Close, so that it shall not be prejudicial to either
party, and that Robinson and Buggs are contented to effect that
way at their own charge. [On 14th February 1632, the Council
approved the suggestion above made, and authorized the writers
of this letter to see the same carried out. Co. Reg. Car. I., Vol.
vii., p. 386. One page.] |
[Jan. 26 ?] |
69. Henry Earl of Holland to Sec. Dorchester. Returns all the
dispatches from France and Spain. Shall find a good effect of this
ill weather, for it will hasten them to London a week sooner than
their Majesties intended, which they are all joyed at. Nothing
now sticks with the Commissioners in France but Port Real, as to
which he hopes the King will take a resolution for his honour and
the advantage of his affairs. By Wat Montagu, whom they daily
expect, they will be fully informed of all things. [Two pages.] |
Jan. 26. |
70. Sir Henry Marten to Nicholas. Understands there is a
charter passing to incorporate the fishermen of the Thames. This
charter was formerly desired and committed to the writer's consideration, and upon his reasons the Duke stayed it. Begs him to
let the Lords of the Admiralty be acquainted with this circumstance, and desire them to hear his reasons. [One page and a
quarter.] |
Jan. 26. |
71. Receipt of Thomas Atkin for 50l., to be paid for Sir Owen
Smith, with underwritten note from Thomas Atkin to Sir Owen,
inquiring whether bond or bill should be called for when the money
is paid. [Half a page.] |
Jan. 27. Whitehall. |
Proclamation commanding the execution of laws against eating
and selling of flesh in Lent and at other times prohibited. [Coll.
Procs. Car. I., No. 149.] |
Jan. 27. Whitehall. |
72. Order of Council that in all letters from their Lordships to the
Lords Chief Justices, the latter should be styled by their names,
and titles of knights, with the addition of their several offices.
[Unsigned. Half a page.] |
Jan. 27. |
73. Petition of Elizabeth Pinford, alias Squire, a poor distressed
and oppressed woman, to Lord Keeper Coventry, and the rest of
the Council. Petitioner being lamed by the fall of part of a mill
working in Bridewell, and desiring means from John Squire,
minister of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, her husband, in seeking the
same she has sustained extreme disgrace and imprisonment by
reason of a decree which he procured against petitioner. Prays
that such decree, which is against her and her mistress Sara Jerrom,
may be reversed. [Three quarters of a page.] Underwritten, |
73. i. Minute of Order of the Council that petitioner is to be sent
to Bridewell if she troubles the Board any more. Whitehall, 1632, Jan. 27. [Quarter of a page.] |
Jan. 27. London House. |
74. Bishop Laud, of London, to Sir Henry Vane. Promises to
take all the care he can of Mr. Blechenden's business. If Dr.
Anyon have denied Dr. Hunt his dividend in the church of Canterbury, it is not with any eye to Sir Henry's chaplain, but to
increase their own dividend. If they refuse to give the Dean of
Durham anything, Mr. Blechenden cannot challenge any part of it,
being as yet no prebend. Whoever caused Sir Henry to write in
that way did much deceive both himself and Sir Henry. Prays
that all may go well for the settlement of Christendom and the
honour of their master. [Received 18th March by Cole at Frankfort.
Three quarters of a page.] |
Jan. 28. |
75. Petition of Henry Dunning, master of the Miniken, to the
King. Has served in the Miniken many years, attended the King
from Spain, landed him in Scilly, and has taken many prizes, without
obtaining any reward. Prays for the boatswain's place in the
Prince Royal, now void by death. [Half a page. Received by
Nicholas 28th Jan.] |
Jan. 28. |
76. Petition of Roger Yaxley, prisoner in the King's Bench, on
behalf of his Majesty of Spain, and also of the owners of the
Katherine, of Aldborough, to the Council. Petitioner was freighted
by Thomas Hoarth to sail to certain ports in Portugal, with a
lading, which he did, and on his return took in a freight of salt at
St. Ouall's, being the King of Spain's salt, to be transported to
Galicia. On the voyage he fell into two great storms and ultimately
brought his ship to Yarmouth Roads to refit. Hoarth thereupon
treated with petitioner to deliver the salt to him, which he refused,
whereupon Hoarth laid upon petitioner fourteen actions, for which
he could not procure bail. He also arrested the ship and endeavouring to bring her into Yarmouth she sank and all the salt perished.
Prays warrants against Thomas Hoarth, Thomas Goose, Nicholas
Goodson, Ezechias Harris, Thomas Greene, and Henry Todd, the
chief actors in this business. [One page.] Underwritten, |
76. i. Order that Thomas Hoarth should see that petition and
make answer thereto at the next meeting of the Council.
Whitehall, 1632, Jan. 28. [One quarter of a page.] |
Jan. 28. |
77. Copy of the same petition. [One page.] |
Jan. 28. Whitehall. |
78. Lords of the Admiralty to the Keeper of the Marshalsea.
Warrant to detain William Allen, shipwright, until he take out
the defective timber in a ship building by him at Wapping, as
complained of by the Company of Shipwrights at Rotherhithe,
and supply it with such as is sufficient. [Copy. One page.] |
Jan. 28. |
79. Draft of the same by Nicholas. [One page.] |
Jan. 28. |
80. Minutes by Nicholas of business to be transacted by the
Lords of the Admiralty. To appoint ships for the Narrow Seas,
appoint a boatswain to the Prince, sign letter about Sir Francis
Stewart's demands, consider reasons against the charter to the
Thames fishermen, petition of Milton fishermen, letter of Capt.
Byng (No. 58.), petitions of the Four Masters, of Mr. Blackall,
son of Dr. Primrose, Mowle's petition, Sir Thomas Button and
Stephen Alcock appointed to attend, warrant to fetch More and
Parker. [One page.] |
[Jan. 28.] |
81. Submission of William Allen to be obedient to the Company
of Shipwrights of Rotherhithe, so far as may consist with his
privileges as a freeman of London. [In the handwriting of
Attorney General Noy. Underwritten is the acceptance of the
submission by Peter Marsh, Master of the Company of Shipwrights.
One page.] |
Jan. 28. |
82. Dr. Roger Mainwaring to Bishop Laud. Much has he been
grieved since he understood that there is a resolution to abate or
abolish the accustomed church duties due by title of prescription and
commutation. This will be the greatest prejudice that has lighted
upon the church since the dissolution. Submits that so devout and
blessed a Prince ought to be very tender in giving way to so great
a destitution of his poor clergy:—1. On account of the equity of
such dues. 2. Their necessity as the church now is; without them
what shall the incumbent have to repair his chancel, to discharge
tenths and subsidies, procurations to bishops and archdeacons, to
buy books or bread? As for hospitality, they must return ad
sportulas. 3. The slight objections which are brought to the
contrary. Adduces his own claims for preferment. [One page.] |
Jan. 28. Market Bosworth. |
83. Justices of Peace for co. Leicester to John Maior, Undersheriff of that county, in Clifford's Inn, London. Certify their
measures for relief of the poor within the hundred of Sparkenhoe.
[One page.] |
Jan. 28. |
84. Certificate of Sir Robert Pye that the last payment out of
the Exchequer to Sir Marmaduke Darrell and Sir Allen Apsley,
surveyors of victuals for the Navy, upon their allowance of 3s. 4d.
per day, and for each of two servants 12d. per day, ended at the
Feast of the Annunciation, 1617. [Half a page.] |
Jan. 30./Feb. 9. |
85. Bill of sale, whereby John de Clerck, merchant of London
and Dunkirk, sells the Priscilla, of London, to Thomas Symons,
shipmaster, also of London and Dunkirk. [Attested translation
from the Dutch. Three pages.] |
Jan. 31. |
86. Attorney General Noy to Sec. Dorchester. Having received
warrant for drawing a pardon for George Monger for killing
Edward Raynes in a sudden quarrel, he finds that Monger is indicted
on a finding of murder and no trial had. Thinks his Majesty
does not intend to pardon under such circumstances, neither may
he prepare it; and thinks that they who laboured to procure the
pardon did not inform the Sec. [Half a page.] |
Jan. 31. |
87. Colin Earl of Seaforth to Sec. Coke. Wishes to know if
anything has been done in the business of fishing since the last
meeting, or if the Attorney has given in the charter to the King.
Urges quick dispatch for which both their master and public ought
to thank him. The Earl is a great sufferer by delay. [One page.] |
[Jan. ?] |
88. Petition of Lady Baker, wife of Sir Thomas Baker, to the
Queen. On 23 December 1630, the King granted petitioner's
husband and brother a protection, under which by sale of lands
and otherwise, they have satisfied 12,000l. or 13,000l. Prays her
Majesty to be a suppliant to the King for a renewal of the
protection. [Half a page.] |
[Jan. ?] |
89. Margaret Lady Slingsby to Sec. Dorchester. There was
such more than friendly emulation between her husband [Sir
Guilford Slingsby] and Sir Thomas Aylesbury, whose month is now
to wait, that she can expect no friendly office from him. Beseeches
the Sec. that as he shall pass through the lobby before the King, he
will take so much notice of her that her petition may not pass his
hands. What she solicits extracts nothing out of the King's purse,
and is particularized in the book of bounty. Appeals to her
husband's merit, his loss by sea, his many children, and the misery
of a poor widow. |
[Jan. ?] |
90. George Viscount Chaworth to the same. Begs him to
favour a petition sent to the King praying for the writer's release.
[Much mutilated. Half a page.] |
Jan. |
91. William Chambers to Edward Viscount Conway and Killultagh. Is assured that he has entertained three Papists for his
servants. Entreats him to part with them that they may not have
a divided house at Lisneygarvey, prayers above in the drawing
room and mass underneath in the buttery. He would not put a
black mare among his bay mares in his coach. Beseeches him not
to keep idolaters among the rest of his servants, though they were
the best in England, which the writer believes them not to be.
The offices held by the persons objected to were those of [cook ?],
butler, and gentleman of the horse. Warns him that he may one
day be told that he had more regard to the making of a Bologna
sausage, or the covering of his table, or the training of a horse,
than to the worship of Almighty God. [One page. Damaged by
damp.] |
[Jan. ?] |
92. Certificate of Justices of Peace for Sussex, of measures
taken for relief of the poor within the rape of Chichester. [One
page.] |
[Jan. ?] |
93. Notes of three warrants granted to Humphrey Slaney,
Thomas Massam, and John Stapeley, for transporting pipe-staves.
[Three quarters of a page.] |
Jan. |
94. Note of the true state of the new soap settled by patent.
The advantages of the new soap as made altogether from home
materials are briefly set forth, with a computation of the profit to
be anticipated from its sale. [One page.] |
[Jan. ?] |
95. Notes concerning Kenrick's legacies to Reading, written by
and for the use of Francis Windebank. They are principally
queries upon the transactions and accounts of the Mayor and others
of Reading. [Five pages and three quarters.] |
[Jan.] |
96. Grounds for concluding that the legacies of Kenrick to
Reading have been misemployed. [One page.] |
[Jan.] |
97. Notes by Sec. Coke on the Kenrick legacies to Reading, and
the way in which they had been employed. [Six pages and a
half.] |
[Jan.] |
98. List of captains who served last year in his Majesty's ships
in the Narrow Seas, and of others who have heretofore served in
his Majesty's ships. [One page.] |