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| Oct. 1. |
1. Justices of Peace for co. Salop to Thomas Ireland, the Sheriff.
Certify that at their monthly meetings at Acton Burnel for the
hundred of Condover, they have had the high constables, petty
constables, churchwardens, and overseers of the poor before them,
and that there has not been any complaint of neglect of any of
them. [Three quarters of a page.] |
Oct. 2.
Salop. |
2. Other Justices of Peace for co. Salop to the same. Certify
their proceedings for the hundred of Bradford South. [One page.] |
| Oct. 2. |
3. Justices of Peace for co. Northampton to the Sheriff. Similar
certificate for the East division of that county. [Half a page.] |
Oct. 3.
Westminster. |
4. Warrant under the Privy Seal for payment of 4,000l. as
his Majesty's free gift to Thomas Cary, one of the grooms of his
Majesty's bedchamber; the same to be paid within four years.
[Eight lines. Seal removed.] |
| Oct. 3. |
5. Estimate of the Lords of the Admiralty (Sir Henry Vane, one
of them, signing) and the Officers of the Navy, for launching, rigging,
and transporting to their moorings at Chatham, the two ships now
building at Woolwich and Deptford. Total, 3,494l. 0s. 7d. [Two
pages.] |
| Oct. 3. |
Copy of the same. [Vol. cix., p. 98. In the margin of this copy
Nicholas has written, "These ships were named by his Majesty, the
one the Charles, which was she that was built at Woolwich by
Peter Pett, and the other the Henrietta Maria, which was built
by Mr. Goddard at Deptford." Two pages.] |
Oct. 4.
Broughton. |
6. Morgan Owin to John Nicholas, at Winterbourne. The person
addressed having suddenly removed Edward Nicholas's son John
from the writer's care, on the ground that his scholars, and especially
William Holmes's son and the sons of Sir Philip Carteret, were
permitted to haunt alehouses, he defends himself against this charge,
and courts inquiry into some "reports" which were alluded to.
[One page and a half.] |
Oct. 5.
Mincing Lane. |
7. Officers of the Navy to the Lords of the Admiralty. Matthew
Rider, boatswain of the Warspite, having died, Thomas Carrall,
boatswain of the Third Lion's Whelp, is recommended to succeed
him; Thomas Severn, of the Maria, to be promoted to the Third
Lion's Whelp; and Matthew Rider, son of Matthew Rider deceased,
to be appointed to the Maria. |
Oct. 5./15.
St. Sebastian. |
8. Prestwick Eaton to George Wellingham. Thinks it long before
he hears of his chain of pearl. Wishes to have sent to him two
globes (not maps) in frames of about 40 or 50 shillings; two black
embroidered girdles, a good black pair of silk stockings, some four
pieces of good mohair, and for the writer's hostess, a woven Norwich
petticoat of some civil colour. [One page and three quarters.] |
| Oct. 5. |
9. Account of monies paid into the receipt of the Exchequer in
last July, August, September, and up to this day, by Philip Burlamachi. Total, 46,874l. 8s. 2½d. Examined by Sir Edward Wardour.
[Half a page. Copy.] |
Oct. 6.
The Second Lion's Whelp, in Queenborough Road. |
10. Capt. Simon Digby to Nicholas. Reports that, having put
into Queenborough for repairs, he found there a patache, of Dunkirk,
Captain Jacob Carinson, some of whose crew confess that there is a
patache at Gravesend full of Spaniards, with English pilots, who
have pillaged a Scot near Harwich lately, and that this Carinson
was with him at Harwich selling his pillage there. Gave Mr. Aston
charge of this captain and his patache, with the other at Gravesend,
and begs Nicholas to let the Council or the Lords understand.
[One page.] |
| Oct. 6. |
11. Authority given by the Churchwardens and other parishioners
of Eltham, co. Kent, to Arthur Clarke and William Elliott, to prosecute the matter in difference with John Warren concerning certain
timber felled from the parish land. [Copy. One page. John
Philipot, Somerset herald, signed the above paper as willing to
assist his good friends of the parish of Eltham.] |
Oct. 7.
The Henrietta, riding near Gravesend. |
12. Capt. Thomas Austen to Nicholas. Riding with Capt. Digby
at Queenborough, there came in a Dunkirk sloop with 35 men,
having a commission which appeared to be very good, but in consequence of rumours and suspicious circumstances, both that ship and
also one at Gravesend have been detained, and the examinations of
their captains are inclosed. Sends also names of trawlers taken
since his last return. They are now grown so cunning that when
they see them come they heave their nets overboard, and after that
get them again with a grapnel. [One page.] Incloses, |
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12. i. Examination of Jacob Carinson, captain of the St. Peter,
of Dunkirk. Came out of Dunkirk the 27 September
last; has been into Harwich; a month ago was at Burlington Bay. [Three quarters of a page.] |
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12. ii. Examination of Manuel de Santus, captain of the
St. Elizabeth, of Dunkirk. Came from Dunkirk 24
September last to take Flemish busses; put into Harwich;
was forced to come up to Gravesend, and himself to
London to the Spanish Ambassador, to procure money
from a merchant. [Half a page.] |
Oct. 7.
Broseley. |
13. Stephen Smalman, one of the Justices of Peace for co. Salop,
to Thomas Ireland, the Sheriff. Certify the proceedings of himself
and the late Sir Richard Foxe for relief of the poor within the
hundred of Mounslow. [One page.] |
Oct. 8.
The Second Lion's Whelp, in the Downs. |
14. Capt. Simon Digby to the Lords of the Admiralty. Having
his victuals aboard, and finding here a warrant of the 27th August
to ply to the westward, but no more of his Majesty's ships being in
that part of the Narrow Seas, he thought fit to understand their
Lordships' pleasure before he proceeded further. [One page.] |
| Oct. 8. |
15. Officers of the Navy to the same. Recommend Captain
Richard Fogg for captain in one of his Majesty's ships now bound
to the seas. [One page.] |
Oct. 8.
In his bed. |
16. John Nicholas to his son Edward Nicholas. Reports his
illness; great pains in his feet and knees. Would have gone with
Jack that day if he had been well. Sends him Mr. Owin's letter
(see No. 6); the poor man is much troubled. [One page.] |
Oct. 8.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. |
17. Mayor and Aldermen of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the Council.
Certificate of their proceedings as Commissioners for the Conservancy
of the Tyne from Easter to Michaelmas 1632. Since their last
certificate sundry persons have been presented for irregularly casting
their ballast overboard. They have imposed several fines on them,
and have thereout caused the damage done to be amended. [One
page.] |
| Oct. 8. |
18. Estimate by the Lords of the Admiralty and Officers of the
Navy for setting forth to sea the Victory, the Bonaventure, the
Dreadnought, and the St. Dennis, for three months on foreign
service. Total, 11,761l. 7s. 11d. [One page and three quarters.] |
| Oct. 8. |
Copy of the same. [Vol. ccix., p. 97. One page and a half.
Stated to have been "Received 9 October 1632."] |
| Oct. 8. |
19. List of trawls taken this day by Capt. Thomas Austen.
[Quarter of a page.] |
| Oct. 9. |
20. Sec. Windebank to Robert Davison, Keeper of the Clink in
Southwark. Warrant to discharge William Waller, committed for
recusancy and on suspicion of being a priest, and to deliver to him
his apparel, left in his chamber when the keeper gave him leave to
go abroad at the Queen's desire. [Half a page.] |
| Oct. 10. |
21. Laurence Whitaker and John Withers to the Council.
Report upon the present state of Bethlehem Hospital. Its history
is briefly sketched from A.D. 1247, and the gradual increase of its
settled income is traced from 34l. 13s. 4d., in 1555, to 277l. 3s. 4d. in
1632. Besides these sums there were considerable gifts from the
Lord Mayor (six penny loaves, two stone of beef, and a pot of pottage
made with half a peck of oatmeal every Monday morning), from
the Sheriffs (a like proportion every Wednesday and Thursday),
from many charitable persons, from parishes and from the friends
of the inmates. The number of distracted persons then in the
house was 27. Dr. Crooke was the master of the house. He
received an allowance of 12d. per week for each patient up to 1629,
and from that time 2s. per week for each patient, of which allowance
a very small portion was expended upon them, the doctor seldom
coming there but once a quarter to receive his money. The steward
received all the casual gifts and the allowances, and sold them to
the patients at excessive rates; a penny loaf for a groat or sixpence,
and two pennyworth of bacon for 12d. The meat sent in was
dressed by the steward and his wife for themselves, and the drink
was sold to the poor at a penny or a halfpenny per dish. Oftentimes
the poor patients wanted many meals together. The report concludes with some general statements of the expenditure since 1614.
[Eight pages.] |
| [Oct. 10.] |
22. List of causes specially appointed for hearing this day in the
Court of Star Chamber. They were; the Attorney General versus
William Steward and others, for a riot in Feckenham Forest; Sir
Thomas Pelham versus Walter Double and others, for riotous hunting; the Attorney General versus Sir Edward Peyton and others,
for riotous waylaying and provocation to fight; Jane Medcalfe
versus Christopher Seaborne, for forgery. [One page.] |
| Oct. 10. |
23. Notes of Sec. Windebank taken on the hearing of the first,
second, and fourth of the above causes, with minutes of the sentences
in the first and second. [One page and a half.] |
| Oct. 10. |
24. Justices of Peace for Suffolk to the Sheriff. Certificate of
measures taken for relief of the poor within the hundred of
Hartesmere. [One page.] |
Oct. 11.
Senate House, Cambridge. |
25. Vice-Chancellor and Senate of the University of Cambridge,
to Bishop Laud. They have elected — Philipps to be inducted
into a living, the presentation to which came to them by reason of
the owner being a Roman Catholic. Lat. [One page. Dated
5 Iduum Octob. 1632.] |
| Oct. 12. |
26. — [signature defaced] to the same. The tailor's
'prentice committed to the New Prison for his familism for affirming
himself to be perfect God and perfect man, seems to be sorry, but
it is not so. He does not repent of his blasphemy, but that he has
so far opened himself as to let the Lord Mayor and others understand it from his mouth, saying that though Christ was often demanded whether he were the Christ, yet would he not confess it;
and when his apostles understood it, he charged them not to tell it.
He should be sent to work in Bridewell till his mind be changed
indeed. In the New Prison he gets a little work and there he
sits, now working, now conferring with his associates. It is a way
to make him a most perfect scholar in his opinions. One Greene,
a tailor, was sent thither for holding that God could see no sin in his
children. After, he went to Cambridge, and in short time returned
to London and set up his bills, "Short Hand taught by a Cambridge scholar." This Greene got to preach at Blackfriars, Mr. Damport's [Devonport's], Bridewell, and other places, and is still about
town. [One page and three quarters. The name of the writer is
scored out, but underneath is written "His name is Richard
Leane." This may, however, be the name of the tailor's apprentice,
for Bishop Laud has indorsed the letter "Richard Lane's blasphemies."] |
Oct. 12.
Sutton Cheney. |
27. Justices of Peace for co. Leicester to the Sheriff. Their continued performance of the orders for prevention of rogues and
vagabonds, and adoption of measures for relief of the poor within
the hundred of Sparkenhoe. [Three quarters of a page.] |
| Oct. 14. |
28. Thomas Viscount Wentworth, Lord President, and the Council
of the North, to the Council. The Sheriff of the county of York
came to them that day to desire their advice concerning the
execution of a Writ of Injunction out of the Court of Chancery
for taking possession of Lord Eure's mansion house at Malton, on
which service he had spent some days without effect, the defendants
resisting with force of arms. The Sheriff delivered to them certain
propositions for assistance, of which they inclose a copy. They
state the advice they gave the Sheriff, and request the further
directions of the Council. Their advice was, to set the house about
and prevent provisions being carried into it; to apprehend all
persons coming out of or going into the house; to obtain cannon
from Scarborough, but not to use it without further directions from
the Council; by pretence of parley or otherwise to endeavour to
arrest Lord Eure. [One page and three quarters.] Inclose, |
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28. i. Certain propositions of Sir Thomas Leighton, the Sheriff of
co. York, offered to the consideration of the Lord President, touching the service to be performed by the Sheriff at
Malton. He requests to be provided with ordnance and
persons capable to manage the required service. [One
page and a quarter.] |
| Oct. 14. |
29. Sir Sampson Darrell to Nicholas. Begs him to move the
Lords of the Admiralty for a letter to the Lords Justices of Ireland
for 635l. due for victualling the Whelps, and that they should from
time to time make payment for three months victuals beforehand.
[Three quarters of page. Damaged.] |
Oct. 14.
The Henrietta, in the Medway. |
30. Capt. Thomas Austen to the same. According to their
warrant, has conveyed the two Dutch hoys laden with ordnance to
Gravesend, and has sent away the two sloops and showed them
their Lordships' warrant that they must not come into the Thames
or Medway. Brought the hoys to Gravesend on the 12th instant.
[Half a page.] |
Oct. 15.
Newmarket. |
31. Sec. Coke to Sec. Windebank. Delivered his letter to his
Majesty, and has as yet received no farther direction. Mr. Lesley
has pressed for a renewal of his protection, which because the debt
grows by reason of moneys due to him from his Majesty, Windebank
is to recommend to the Lords. [One page.] |
| Oct. 15. |
32. Order of Lord Treasurer Weston and Lord Cottington for
payment to Thomas Jones, Master of the King's Toils and Tents,
of 50l., one half-year's payment to Midsummer last of his allowance for providing two rooms for the said toils and tents. [Half a
page. Underwritten is Sir Robert Pye's direction to Mr. Carew to
pay the same.] Annexed, |
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32. i. Receipt of Thomas Jones for the 50l. above mentioned
being paid by Edward Carew. 1632, Nov. 9. [Half
a page.] |
Oct. 17.
Star Chamber. |
33. Order of the Council. Upon consideration of the great
abuse in the printing of gazettes, and pamphlets of news from
foreign parts, and upon signification of his Majesty's express
pleasure and command to the Board, for the present suppressing of
the same, it was ordered that all printing of the same be suppressed
and inhibited; and that as well Nathaniel Butter and Nicholas
Bourne, booksellers, under whose names the said gazettes have been
usually published, as all other booksellers, presume not from henceforth to print, publish, or sell any of the said pamphlets. [One
page.] |
| Oct. 18. |
34. Answer of Sir John Lambe to the bill of complaint of John
Pregion, respecting the registership of the archdeaconry of Leicester,
and certain bills given by the plaintiff as security, on his appointment to the registership. See Vol. ccii., No. 1. [Copy. Eleven
pages and a half.] |
| Oct. 18. |
35. Draft of the same answer, indorsed by Sir John Lambe as
"Copy of my answer to Mr. Pregion's bill, of my own drawing:
Vacat. Not given in." [Nine pages and a half.] |
| Oct. 18. |
36. Another draft of the same answer, indorsed by Sir John
Lambe, "A draft of an answer for me to Mr. Pregion's bill.
Drawn by Mr. Puleston, but mended after." [Three pages.] |
Oct. 19.
Chester. |
37. William Earl of Derby to the Council. Sends inclosed letter
of his deputy lieutenants, respecting the musters for the co. Chester.
[Three quarters of a page.] Incloses, |
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37. i. Deputy Lieutenants of co. Chester to William Earl of
Derby. Have viewed the gentlemen's forces and trained
bands of that country, and report favourably as to their
condition. As any arms become defective they will cause
them to be made of the best modern fashion. All the
captains and officers have taken the oaths of supremacy
and allegiance. The beacons are in good repair. [One
page.] |
Oct. 19.
Office of Ordnance. |
38. Lieutenant and other Officers of the Ordnance to the same.
Having been required by their Lordships to take into consideration
an estimate of his Majesty's stores of munition in Ireland, and to
certify what proportion is fit to be supplied, they think it fit, after
consideration, that the whole proportion demanded should be sent.
[One page.] |
| Oct. 19. |
39. Notice addressed to John Hudson, and twelve others, that
"Sir Richard Wiston," Lord High Treasurer, had appointed the
persons addressed to attend him "at his house called Wallingford
"House, near Whitehall," on the 27th inst., to hear the business
concerning the right of fishing of the places called Sowdeep and
North Channel, co. Kent, Sir Walter Pye, Attorney of the Court
of Wards, having preferred an information against the persons
addressed on behalf of Christopher Lord Teynham. [Three quarters
of a page. Indorsed by Nicholas, "Received 26 October 1632.
Sir Thomas Walsingham gave me this paper this day."] |
| Oct. 20. |
40. Sec. Windebank to the King. Has according to his commandment, proposed those businesses to the Lords which the King
left in his charge. Finds them very affectionate and cheerful, in
furthering his princely care of the public good. 1. Concerning the
Sheriff of London, the Recorder has undertaken to see him suddenly
settled in the place of an Alderman, and in default, Mr. Attorney
has promised it shall be done, and some course taken to regulate
such popular disordered elections. 2. Concerning the City's trained
men [practising in the] Artillery Yard, the Lords submit to the
King the nomination of a captain in place of him who is lately dead.
3. Concerning extorted fees; the business is pending in the Star
Chamber. 5. The Council have appointed a conference with the
Judges for accommodating the differences touching the jurisdiction
of courts. 6 and 7. Concerning Paul's; the houses compounded for
are demolished, and the walking in time of divine service much reformed. 8. Proposed magazine for corn in the City; some of the
Aldermen required to give account. 9. Restoring Barnet market;
Aldermen and Justices of Peace appointed to confer with the Lords
on general regulations, for settling the assize of bread and sale of
corn. 12. The Judges are to return their certificates from the
Sheriffs upon the articles of the Book of Orders, concerning charitable uses and binding apprentices, that it may appear where the
defaults are. 13. False making of white cloth; to consider orders
made on the complaints of [Anthony] Wither and others. 14.
Keepers of prisons ordered to attend. 15 and 16. Postponed until
Sec. Coke's return. 17 and 18. The like. The surveyor and others
are to take a view of new buildings. The Council recommend that
those who have abused their licences may be questioned by the
Attorney General, and that the King should give way that the better
sort should be questioned rather than the poorer and meaner persons.
The writer hopes that the King being thus solicitous of the state,
his endeavours may be attended with answerable success. Thanks
the King for having honoured him so far beyond others, and beyond
his merit. [Two pages and three quarters. Indorsed by the writer,
"Minute of my letter to his Majesty concerning the business his
Majesty left with me in charge, to be proposed to the Lords in his
absence at Newmarket."] |
| Oct. 20. |
41. Mayor and others of Exeter to the Council and Commissioners
for assessing the rates of wines. Complaint of the country enforces
them to make known a great abuse of the vintners there, in taking
more for their wines than is taken in any other place in the kingdom.
Pray that when they assess the price of wines for London, the
vintners of that city may be included. [One page.] |
Oct. 22.
York. |
42. Thomas Viscount Wentworth to the Council. In September
last, John Rawson, of Hull, master of the Susannah, in his passage
from Hull to Dantzic, was about midnight surprised on the coast
of Norway by two small ships of Nieuport or Flanders, the master
and merchant carried aboard those ships, and detained till their
ships were ransacked to the amount of 250l. The Admiral of one
of the ships called himself John Fox [Margin, John Vos.]; the
captain of the other Peter Andrews, or Anderson [Margin, Peter
Willart]. Recommends the complaints of these poor men for satisfaction. [One page.] |
| Oct. 22. |
43. Petition of Humphrey Robinson, stationer, to Archbishop
Abbot. Petitioner having some books lately sent to him out of the
Low Countries in his absence, they were sent to the Bishop of
London. Amongst them were found the controversy of Socinus,
not above three or four copies, one of which he intended for the
Archbishop, another for the Archbishop of St. Andrews, and the
third he supposed the Library in Oxford would have of him, which
books have never been prohibited. Prays that he may dispose of
the books as above, or give security to return them into Holland,
and never meddle more in them. Underwritten, |
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43. i. Request of Archbishop Abbot to the Bishop of London to do
therein as he shall think fit. 1632, Oct. 22. |
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43. ii. Concurrence of the Archbishop in the books being disposed
of as above mentioned. 1632, Nov. 12. |
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43. iii. Undertaking of Humphrey Robinson and Octavian
Pullen, that the books shall be disposed of according to
the petition under a penalty of 20l. [Petition and other
writings, one page.] |
Oct. 23.
London. |
44. Ralph Wedgwood to [the Company of Merchant Adventurers].
Gives them information of illicit export of fullers' earth into
Holland. Two cases are specifically mentioned; one of John
Hutchinson, of Plymouth, who fetched the commodity out of Kent
about Gillingham, and the other of a Mr. Cox. Describes the great
increase of the clothing trade in the principal towns of Holland.
Suggests the appointment of proper persons at the English outports,
who might stay the alleged export. [Three pages.] |
Oct. 24.
York. |
45. Thomas Viscount Wentworth to James Earl of Carlisle.
Thanks for his sending a footman so long and wearisome a journey.
That his Majesty rests satisfied in the course the Viscount holds in
that government is his chiefest exaltation before men, and his fullest
contentment in his inmost retirements. Will never omit to serve
him in his own way where he understands it, and when that beam
leaves him, serve him the most profitable way the dimmer lights of
his own judgment shall lead him. In this truth he will live and die.
All the devils of hell, all other ministers on earth, shall never be
able to impeach or shake it. For Sir David Foulis, the writer pities
him, especially as a kinsman of Lord Carlisle, whom he cordially
honours. Will exercise justice towards him with such moderation
as shall show the Earl he is "as far from drinking a la confusion
des personnes as the Frenchman the last summer." It is an insolent vanity, written in capital letters, which has brought forth all
this trouble. He says it was the wonder of every one that the
writer did not hear him. He did hear him, and it was the wonder
(catholic enough) to see him meanly humble himself where he had
insolently demeaned himself. The poor man dares tell us that by
taking his business into his own hands, his Majesty would make a
purchase of him. A purchase with a witness, so clogged with
encumbrances as to be nothing worth. He overrates his influence.
Not half a score would either follow or be persuaded by him. This
is an arrogance grown frequent now-a-days, which the writer cannot
endure. Every ordinary man must put himself in balance with the
King, as if it were a measuring cast, who were like to prove greater
losers upon the parting. Silly wretches! The King's service cannot
suffer by the disgrace of him and the writer, and forty more such;
the ground whereupon government stands will not so easily be
washed away. What he has merited of the Crown in former times
the writer knows not, but it is visible he has served himself to a
fair fortune by the means of the Crown. He has been content to
bag up five or six thousand pounds of the King's money, and has kept
it close this 20 years; in plain terms cheated the King of it, and
now, he being bound to pay it, has occasioned all this foul weather.
For his promise of amends, trust him that list, the writer will never
flatter himself to hold him fast. One Taylor was fined 1,000l. for
incest. This fine his Majesty bestowed upon this church for buying
a pair of organs, adorning the altar, and such sacred uses. The
inclosed shows how it is endeavoured to be carried another way.
Begs the Earl to confirm the King in his pious intention. [Three
pages.] |
Oct. 24.
Stainton. |
46. John Prichard to Dr. Thomas Rives. Complains of Sir
Thomas Canon, who withstands the Admiralty jurisdiction in
South Wales. He contends that constables are not bound to do
service in these courts, withstands the amercements laid upon them
by Dr. Rives, and terms the Admiralty "a frivolous jurisdiction."
[One page.] |
| Oct. 24. |
47. One of Christopher Foster's petitions in his prayer before his
sermon at Oxford, this day. He prayed the Saviour to inspire the
curranto-makers with the spirit of truth, that people might know
when to utter praises for the King of Sweden's victories, and when
to pray for him in his distresses. They often did both these, and
then found out that the supposed causes did not exist. [Half
a page.] |
Oct. 25.
Westminster. |
48. Minute of Letters Patent granted to Thomas Cary, his
Majesty's servant, to find out certain forfeited bonds, and to recover
the penalties thereof, paying one eighth part thereof into the Exchequer. [Underwritten is a note that certain other bonds are to
be added to those enumerated in the letters patent before mentioned.
One page.] |
Oct. 25.
Lanmasse. [Llanmaes] |
49. Deputy Lieutenants of co. Glamorgan to the Council. Report
their fulfilment of directions for musters. There arms are now of
the modern fashion, and the persons charged with the service perform it in their own persons or by their sons, nephews, or kinsmen,
and not by servants. Inclose a plot of the whole forces of the
country. [One page.] |
| Oct. 25. |
50. Notes of statement of Colonel Arthur Aston respecting his
commission to levy 1,200 men for the King of Sweden, and what
he has done under the same. John Taite and William Layton are
Captains in his regiment. Sir John Caswell has a warrant from
the King of Sweden, for completing Sir Thomas Conway's regiment.
[Half a page.] |
| Oct. 25. |
51. Minute of the petition of Mary Turnour, widow of Cyril
Turnour, calendared, Vol. ccxv., No. 44, apparently with the view
of directing Nicholas's attention to it. He has indorsed it, "Received
25 October 1632, Mrs. Turnour's petition to be read at the Council
of war." |
| Oct. 26. |
Grant of the office of Purveyor of Timber for the Office of the
Ordnance to Anthony Fereby and Robert Dugdall, during their
lives, with the fee of eight pence per diem, upon surrender of
Francis Carter, and Christopher Playle, and in regard that the said
Fereby has executed the office eleven years. [Docquet.] |
Oct. 26.
Welbeck. |
52. William Earl of Newcastle to the Council. Has observed
their directions of 31 August last, and incloses certificates, which
show the state and forces of cos. Nottingham and Derby. [Half a
page.] |
Oct. 27.
Westminster. |
53. Writ out of the Court of Exchequer for protection from
arrest of Lawrence Squibb, servant of Francis Lord Cottington,
Chancellor of the Exchequer, grounded upon certain liberties stated
in the Red Book of the Exchequer to belong to all the officers of
that court. [Fifteen lines, exclusive of signature.] |
Oct. 28.
The Second Lion's Whelp in the Downs. |
54. Capt. Simon Digby to Nicholas. On the 19th inst. Capt.
Pennington was well, his ship then riding afore Gluckstadt, the
king of Denmark being there. There are many ships in the Downs
from the Straits and Spain, most of them laden with salt, the
rest with wool and wine. The coast is clear of pirates. [One
page.] |
| Oct. 29. |
Protection to Robert Lesley for one year. [Docquet.] |
Oct. 29.
The Downs. |
55. Capt. Richard Plumleigh to the Lords of the Admiralty.
Their warrants for his present return to England he received at
Kinsale. On the 23rd he gave the Lords Justices of Ireland notice
of their pleasure, on the 24th set sail, and on the 29th arrived in
the Downs. Left the coast in peace both from Turks and pirates,
and now it will be sufficiently secured by the season of the year.
The Fifth Whelp, under Capt. Hooke, has been employed for guard
of the passage from Chester to Dublin, and the Ninth Whelp, under
Capt. Cooper, has been sent to secure the northern coast about
Galloway and the Isles of Aron [Arran]. Prays licence for ten days
to come to London about the affairs of his poor estate. [One
page.] |
Oct. 29.
Ash. |
56. William Drake to Nicholas. Is so sick that he shall not be
able to wait on him this term. His brother has sent the bearer, his
servant, to attend him. Begs him to procure their discharge from
the Lords of the Admiralty when his accounts are brought to him
from the auditor. Have not paid in all the moneys to the Duchess
in regard of the charges of procuring their discharge. If he will
obtain their discharge they will testify their thankfulness by a
free remuneration. [Three quarters of a page.] |
| Oct. 29. |
57. Notes by Sec. Windebank of an information of Mr. Misselden,
Deputy Governor of the Merchant Adventurers at Delft, respecting
abuses prevailing in the English Churches in the Low Countries,
and the means of reforming the same, with a detailed statement
upon the subject, probably also written by Sec. Windebank. The
preachers of the Merchant Adventurers are the chief of the persons
complained of. They observe no forms of prayer, nor any solemnities, administer the sacrament without form, and plant churches
and ordain ministers at pleasure. Letters to be written to the Merchant Adventurers to select conformable divines, and to Mr.
Boswell, and a threat to be held out of calling in the Company's
charter in default of reformation. [Two pages and a half. Injured
by cutting.] |
Oct. 29.
Yarmouth. |
58. The Bailiffs and others of Great Yarmouth to George
Burdett, M.A. Grant of annuity of 100l. per annum to the same
George Burdett, elected Lecturer of Yarmouth, so long as he
shall continue resident amongst them, and shall duly preach the
word of God as their lecturers in former times have been accustomed
to do. [Twenty-four lines. The town seal wanting.] |
| Oct. 30. |
Warrant to the Great Wardrobe, to pay to William Jones, his
Majesty's servant, 80l. in arrear to Christopher Moreland, deceased,
late one of the grooms of the Privy Chamber, who assigned over the
same unto the said Jones, for a greater sum of money by him disbursed to relieve the said Moreland in the extremity of his sickness.
[Docquet.] |
Oct. 31.
Westminster. |
59. The King to the President and Chapter of Lichfield. To
elect Dr. John Warner to the deanery of that cathedral, vacant by
the preferment of Dr. Lindsell to the bishoprick of Peterborough.
[One page and a half. Copy.] |
| [Oct. 31 ?] |
60. Petition of Henry Bludder to the Lords of the Admiralty.
Has served his Majesty and his predecessors as Deputy Victualler to
the Navy these 30 years and upwards. Sir Allen Apsley was
indebted to him 224l. 9s., and he disbursed in building the house
he lives in within his Majesty's storehouse at East Smithfield
221l. 8s. 10d. In his old age he is dismissed from his employment,
and commanded to give possession of the house to Mr. Crane by
Lady-day next. Is willing to do so, but prays them to direct Mr.
Crane to give him satisfaction for his money disbursed, and that in
the meantime petitioner may retain possession. [One page.] |
| Oct. 31. |
61. Officers of the Navy to the same. Recommend Peter Ray for
appointment as purser in one of the ships now building. The letter
is also signed by Sir Sampson Darrell, and there is added a certificate
by Kenrick Edisbury. [One page.] |
[Oct. 31 ?]
Whitehall. |
62. Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery to Sir Henry Vane,
at the Hague. Thanks for a letter, which he would have answered
before; but having been absent from Court, it was almost a month
before he received it. Expressions of strong attachment. [One
page.] |
| Oct. 31. |
62. List of debts claimed from Sir Allen Apsley upon the Lords'
reference to Sir John Wolstenholme and others. Nicholas has
indorsed that the total of the demands amounted to 19,012l.
[Three pages.] |
| Oct. 31. |
63. Account of Sir Thomas Walsingham, Vice-Admiral of Kent,
of the profits of his Vice Admiralty from 20th April last to this day.
[Half a page.] |
| [Oct.] |
64. Sir George Whitmore, Lord Mayor, and others of London, to
the Council. According to an order of the 12th inst., they certify
their opinions for the better regulation of the assize of bread.
They recommend that to enable the Lord Mayor to fix the
assize, reports should be made to him by the Justices of the
Peace of the price of corn in the principal markets near London,
and that various suggested regulations should be adopted for prevention of the purchase of corn to sell again, and of the excessive
consumption by brewers in brewing strong ale and beer above
the rates limited, much thereof being exported. [Two pages and
three quarters.] |
| [Oct.] |
65. The Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of London to the
same. State reasons why the City is unable to buy and maintain
a magazine of 30,000 quarters of corn; decay of trade, want of
stowage, great cost of building granaries, the influence of amassing
so large a store in raising the price of corn, loss of corn stored by
vermin, shrinking, and screening. Ten thousand quarters would be
a sufficient store if restraint were had of the newly erected buildings,
and the brewers were restrained from using such great quantities of
corn. The assize of bread is duly set. Great sums of money were
last year raised for relief of the poor and setting them to work.
Fifty vagrants were bound apprentices to merchants to serve in the
Islands of Barbadoes and Virginia; 70 were taken as apprentices into
Bridewell; 773 poor children were maintained by Christ's hospital,
40 had been put apprentices to trades since Easter last, and 4,000
and odd vagrants conveyed according to the statute. The writers
have given attention to the cleansing of the Thames, but they are
informed that the engines used by John Gilbert, and James Freese,
the patentees, for that purpose, do much hurt to the river by
taking up gravel from the firm ground and making great holes.
[Three pages.] |
| [Oct. ?] |
66. Petition of John Williams to the Lords of the Admiralty.
States past services in the Adventure under Sir Richard Bingley,
and in the Prince Royal when she brought his Majesty from Spain,
and prays for a cook's place in one of the new ships. [Half a
page.] Annexed, |
|
66. i. Officers of the Navy to the Lords of the Admiralty.
Recommend the suit of the above petitioner. [Three
quarters of a page.] |
| [Oct. ?] |
67. Justices of Peace for Suffolk to the Sheriff. Certify the
measures taken by them for relief of the poor within the liberty of
St. Etheldred, which consists of the hundreds of Plomesgate, Wilford,
Carleford, Colnies, and Thredling. [One page.] |
| [Oct. ?] |
68. Account of rents received by Richard Pratt for Robert Ramsey.
The rents alluded to became due from Lady-day 1631 to Michaelmas
1632. The places named are in Norfolk. [Three pages.] |
| [Oct. ?] |
69. Abstract of examinations of witnesses respecting the capture
in the Thames of the St. Jacob of Enckhuysen by the Esperanza of
Dunkirk, John Powick, master. The captors of the St. Jacob took
out of her certain pieces of holland cloth. The plunder was afterwards sold to the captain and crew of the Speedwell of Burlington,
who came into Harwich and there disposed of the same. [Twenty five pages and a half.] |
