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Dec. 18.
Whitehall. |
1. Order of Council on a petition of Robert Hare, prisoner in the
new prison. The petitioner stated that he was much impoverished
in his estate by his long imprisonment, and was grown so weak
through infirmity that unless he might enjoy fresh air, his life was
in great danger. The petition being recommended by the Queen, it
was ordered that upon his giving good security to attend the Board
within 10 days after notice, the petitioner should be discharged
[One page and a quarter.] |
Dec. 18.
Mincing Lane. |
2. Officers of the Navy to Lords of the Admiralty. Upon a
return of sundry delinquents in Surrey who refuse to assist towards
the land carriage of ship timber from the Forest of Alsenholt [Alice
Holt] to the waterside, the writers sent for certain persons undernamed, inhabitants of Cheam and Ewell. Perceiving that by
pretence of certain privileges they seek to be freed from that service, the writers refer them to the Lords. Pretences of privilege
exempting from this service have of late increased. [One page.] |
Dec. 18.
Whitehall. |
3. The Council to the Judges of Assize for co. Lancaster. Complaint has been made by petition of the Society of Skinners,
Whittawers, and Glovers in Wigan, Preston in Amounderness,
Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, and Newton-in-Makerfield, in co.
Lancaster, that they are much interrupted in their trades by persons
who interlope upon the same, being such for the most part as have
run away from their masters before they served their times, or
otherwise use the said trades contrary to law. Send the Judges
their petition inclosed, praying them in their next circuit to take
order for the petitioners' relief. [Copy, inaccurate in several of
the signatures; that of the Treasurer has probably been misread
"Yorke." Indorsed "My cousin Pilkington's business." One
page.] |
Dec. 18.
Mincing Lane. |
4. Officers of the Navy to Lords of the Admiralty. At the
instance of Sir Wm. Russell certify that all moneys for building
the four new ships, and launching the Charles and Henrietta Maria
are paid, and that the demand of 5,332l. for supply of the magazine
is served into his Majesty's stores, and bills passed for the money,
which the Treasurer has undertaken to pay at Christmas. [One
page.] |
Dec. 18.
Doctors' Commons. |
5. Sir Henry Marten to Archbishop Laud. Upon the death of
the Archbishop's predecessor the writer and others who executed
ecclesiastical jurisdiction under him, according to custom, sent one
of their clerks to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury for commissions during the vacancy. They propounded that these offices
should be farmed out at a rent during the vacancy; but on the
opposition of Sir Henry that motion ceased; but besides the two
commissions for the Arches and Prerogative, for which they took
4l. 10s., they compelled the messenger to pay for a third commission
for the peculiars 45s. more. He refused and told them he was not
sent for it, and it could not be worth 45 farthings, notwithstanding
he must either take that commission also and pay 45s. more, or
none would be sent to Sir Henry. This money Sir Henry must
repay the poor man or he must bear the loss. Repay it Sir Henry
will not, for he has no reason so to do, and it will half undo the
poor fellow if he lose it, and therefore there is no remedy but to
commence a suit against them in a court of equity, wherein Sir
Henry will yield him all the assistance he lawfully may. Before he
begins Sir Henry thought fit to advertise the Archbishop. The
writer complains of this conduct as an indignity to his person, and
contrasts it with that of other deans and chapters towards him.
[One page and a half.] |
| Dec. 18. |
6. Copy of the same. [Four pages.] |
| Dec. 18. |
7. Act of Renunciation by Bishop Goodman of Gloucester, of his
election to the bishopric of Hereford, with a proviso that the same
shall take no effect unless his Majesty shall accept the same. [Three
quarters of a page.] |
Dec. 18.
Knaresborough. |
8. Justices of Peace for co. York to Sir Marmaduke Wivell, Sheriff.
State their proceedings for relief of the poor within the wapentake
of Claro. [One page.] |
| Dec. 18. |
9. Examination of Thomas Rabould of St. Catherine's near the
Tower, turner, one of those who were at the Spanish Resident's
house at Clerkenwell, in company of John Hatch the marshal's man,
when Capt. Duperoy was arrested. It appears that Duperoy had
been lately arrested by Anthony Whalley, bailiff of St. Katherine's,
from whose custody he had escaped. Whalley had traced him to the
Spanish Resident's, and Henry Wisdom, Hatch's man, and Francis
Young, a waterman of St. Katherine's, effected his arrest in the stable
of the Resident, and were afterwards driven thence by the servants.
Rabould asserts that he was merely a looker on. [Three quarters of
a page.] |
Dec. 19.
Westminster. |
10. The King to the Treasurer and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer. Warrant to authorize payments and allowances to Endymion Porter, one of the grooms of the bedchamber. Recites grant
to Porter, dated 16th July 1628, for his life, of the office of Receiver
of Fines in the Star Chamber, with a moiety of the amount received
above 743l. 6s. per annum, which, upon a medium of three years,
appeared to have been formerly answered for those fines. On an
account up to 25th March 1631, Porter craved allowance of
2,600l. 5s. 8d. [sic] for his moiety of 4,012l. 11s. 4d., which the fines
amounted to, over and above the 743l. 6s. per annum, towards
satisfaction of which sum he had detained in his hands 1,073l. 13s. 6d.,
leaving 932l. 12s. 2d. still to be allowed him. But Porter had lately
purchased of the King Hartwell Park, co. Northampton, and 200l.
remained unpaid on the valuation of the timber, which sum Porter
craved to be allowed him for botes in respect of a former lease. The
allowance was not thought fit to be granted, but the King was content that the 200l. should be taken as part of the 932l. 12s. 2d.,
and that the persons addressed should discharge him of the 200l.
according to the usual course of the Exchequer. [Attested copy.
Four pages.] |
| Dec. 19. |
11. Archbishop Laud to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury.
Sends them the letter of Sir Henry Marten (18th December, No. 5.)
What answer they shall be pleased to give, the Archbishop will
return to him. Complaint has lately been made to the Archbishop
about greater fees than ordinary received for confirmation of the
patent of the Dean of the Arches and of a lease which the Archbishop
lately let. For the lease, sees no reason why any stress should be
put upon the tenant, for the patent, he takes it they can put no fees
upon it but that which is ordinary for their seal. One thing more
he must acquaint them. It concerns his visitation, which he thinks
fit should begin at his own seat and diocese. Hopes all reports are
not true; but he hears that some of that body have been a little
too bold with him. If he find it true, he shall not forget that nine
of the twelve prebends are in the King's gift. He cannot take it
well to be ill used and undeservedly, especially at such a time as he
was endeavouring their good. [Copy, in the handwriting of William
Dell. One page.] |
Dec. 20.
Whitehall. |
12. Order of Council on signification of the pleasure of his Majesty.
The Bonaventure and one of the Whelps are to be prepared for
guard of the coast of Ireland, upon the charge of the revenue of
that kingdom. [Three quarters of a page.] |
Dec. 20.
Berwick-upon-Tweed. |
13. Bailiffs and others of Berwick to the Council. Thanks for
their letter and the King's writ for discharging Edward Moore from
his mayoralty of that borough. They had proceeded in their new
election in a moderate and orderly manner, and had chosen William
Grigson to be mayor in place of Moore. [One page.] |
| [Dec. 20 ?] |
14. Petition of Daniel Walderon, cook, to the Lords of the
Admiralty. For thirty years has been employed in the Navy, and
has served as cook in divers ships. Prays to be admitted cook in
one of the new ships. Annexed, |
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14. i. Certificate of Capt. William Cooke and seven others in
favour of Daniel Walderon. 6th September 1633. [It
may be doubted whether the above be the petition which
Walderon presented at this time, for Nicholas has
indorsed this certificate as received this day with a
petition from Walderon "to be cook in the St. Dennis
"in place of Sparke who is fled because he hath two wives."
Half a page.] |
Dec. 20.
Deptford. |
15. Kenrick Edisbury to Nicholas. Has collected and sends the
particulars increasing the demands on the ordinary estimates for
1634 above that for 1633. Sends also a breviate of the valuation of
provisions lent and sold out of his Majesty's stores, whereof a great
part have been discovered by his particular industry. Wishes it
presented to the Lords, and to mind them to take some course with
the decayed materials as also to enable him to do service. He discerns no hope of any salary. The Scripture says that no man goes
to war on his own charge. Sends also reasons in support of the
petition of his fellows and himself for augmentation of their salaries.
[Three quarters of a page.] |
| Dec. 20. |
16. Receipt of Richard Maud and others, masons employed on
the new building at St. John's College, Oxford, for 170l. 13s. 4d.
paid them by Dr. Baylie, president of the said college, as the free gift
to them of Archbishop Laud; with an underwritten certificate of
Dr. Duppa, the Vice-Chancellor, and thirteen other heads of houses,
that the masons acknowledged that they signed the receipt as their
own free act. The total sum previously paid to them had been
997l. 11s. 10d. [Indorsed by Archbishop Laud "The final end
with the masons about my building in St. John's." One page.] |
| Dec. 20. |
17. Justices of Peace for co. Devon to the Judges of the Western
Circuit. Certificate of numbers of persons bound forth apprentices,
and of those punished as vagrants in the hundreds of Braunton,
Fremington, and Sherwell. [Three quarters of a page.] |
| Dec. 21/31. |
18. H. Tayller to Nicholas. The Resident of Spain has desired
the writer to address these lines to Nicholas to be made use of before
the Lords of the Admiralty in reference to an inclosed petition. It
will prove a very hard and unequal proceeding to punish thus the
Spaniards when the Hollanders have taken thirteen Spanish ships
with above 500 of their men in his Majesty's ports since May last,
without any kind of punishment or satisfaction. Much different
from what has been done on the Spanish part, having restored within
six weeks after the taking a Holland pink, two years and a half
since taken about Faversham, only upon his Majesty's desire to that
purpose, declared to Don Carlos at his departure. [Two pages and
a half.] |
Dec. 21.
Whitehall. |
19. Notes of business partly in the handwriting of Nicholas to be
submitted to the Lords of the Admiralty with Nicholas's notes of
certain resolutions. They relate to the Holland man-of-war that
will ride over against the magazine at Deptford. Estimate for
launching the two new ships: [Margin, "Sec. Coke to speak with
the officers about it."] The King to be moved not to give away the
derelict near Colchester, but assign it for service of the navy. Order
for stay of proceedings at common law in a maritime cause complained of by Capt. Stevens. Consider the abstract touching the sale
of cordage: [Margin, "Sec. Coke to acquaint the King with it."]
Appoint a gunner for the Black George. Estimate for ordinary for
the next year. Capt. James's letter. Capt. Priske's papers touching
a harbour at the Lizard. Officers of Navy desire warrant to Stephen
Danske and William Willoughby to survey timber in the Forest of
Dean: [Margin, "Sec. Coke has given the names of these surveyors."]
[One page and a half.] |
Dec. 21.
Whitehall. |
Order of the Lords of the Admiralty on the petition of Baitain
Semaes and his fellows, prisoners in the Marshalsea and in Faversham. Petitioners stated that having come from Dunkirk with a lawful
commission against the Hollanders, they happened to meet three
Holland pinks about the mouth of the Thames, which having taken,
petitioner and his fellows were put into them to be sent to Dunkirk,
but the people of Faversham sending after them recovered two of
the pinks, killing two or three of the petitioners' fellows and taking
the rest, whom they keep still in prison. The third pink being set
to sea for Dunkirk was forced by weather up to Gravesend where
she was seized, and petitioner with six more sent to the Marshalsea
and there kept twelve days, suffering extremity of hunger and
cold. They prayed for their liberty. The Judge of the Admiralty
was ordered to certify the true state of the business, and to bring his
certificate to the Lords on Monday afternoon. [Copy. Vol. ccxxviii.,
fol. 100 a. Three quarters of a page.] |
Dec. 21.
Whitehall. |
Lords of the Admiralty to Officers of the Navy. They are to
cause the Bonaventure now at Chatham, and the Ninth Whelp now
at Bristol, to be fitted and furnished for service on the coast of
Ireland, the former with 160 men, the latter with 60 men. [Copy.
Vol. ccxxviii., fol. 101. Half a page.] |
Dec. 21.
Whitehall. |
The same to the same. Understanding by their certificate that
John Wright, purser of the Bonaventure, and Charles Clarke, purser
of the St. Andrew, execute their places by deputy without licence,
and that Roger Dack, purser of the Red Lion, attends very seldom,
the officers are required to take order that the clerks of the cheque
fail not to check all the time those pursers have been absent, and
henceforth every day's absence of all subordinate officers; and the
Treasurer of the Navy is to take order that no wages be paid to any
subordinate officers who shall fail to perform the duties of their
places. [Copy. Ibid. Three quarters of a page.] |
Dec. 21.
Whitehall. |
The same to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. On the death of
William Ellesworth, late water-bailiff and marshal of the Admiralty
of Ireland, the Lords conferred that place on Robert Smyth. They
understand that Smyth is kept out of his place by one Samon who
pretends interest from some grant of the person addressed, which
they presume he will not insist to have authority to do. Pray him
to settle Smyth in the place according to his patent. [Copy. Ibid.,
fol. 101 a. Half a page.] |
Dec. 21.
Whitehall. |
The same to [Sir Henry Marten, Judge of the Admiralty]. To
prepare patent for George Smith of Boston, co. Lincoln, to be
registrar of the Vice-Admiralty of that county. [Copy. See Ibid.,
fol. 102. Fourth of a page.] |
Dec. 21.
Whitehall. |
The same to the same. To prepare similar patent for Robert
Whiting of Boston, co. Lincoln, to be marshal of the Vice-Admiralty
of that county. [Copy. See Ibid. Fourth of a page.] |
| Dec. 21. |
20. Petition of Robert Powlett to the Lords of the Admiralty. Has
a long time attended for reparation for the losses sustained about
three years since by the manifest piracy of certain Dutch of Rotterdam,
and the open injustice of that Admiralty. Sir Henry Marten by
his report certified that his Majesty had just grounds to require
satisfaction by a day prefixed, and no satisfaction given, then to
grant letters of reprizal. The Dutch Ambassador being lately
returned from Holland may be a means for the petitioner to have
some satisfaction, for they acknowledge they have taken security of
the defendants to the value of 40,000l., out of which the States
General have power to raise moneys to satisfy the demands of his
Majesty's letters. Prays that the Dutch Ambassador may be
required to give a speedy resolution, and that the Lords would take
into consideration petitioner's inexpressible sufferings by the Dutch
of Rotterdam, as in the annexed papers, and that the same happened
in a service designed for the benefit of his Majesty. [Three quarters
of a page.] Annexed, |
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20. i. Brief relation of the principal damages which Robert
Powlett and company, of the Dove of Minehead, have
sustained by Capt. Michael Cornelius T'Kint and the
St. Peter of Rotterdam. [One page.] |
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20. ii. Brief relation of the present state of the cause of Robert
Powlett and partners. [One page and a quarter.] |
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20. iii. Statement of facts in relation to the capture of the
Dove of Minehead. [One page and three quarters. Indorsed by Nicholas "To be remembered among the other
of the Dutch."] |
| Dec. 21. |
21. Hannibal Bonithon, lieutenant of St. Mawes Castle, to
Nicholas. If it be possible to get a reference under the petition, the
gentlemen whose names are underwritten are the chiefest thereabouts, which being done the warrant for his appearance shall be
also delivered. [Underwritten are the names of Sir Francis
Godolphin and five other gentlemen of Cornwall. Nicholas has
indorsed the letter as relating to Bonithon's petition against Sir
Robert Le Grys. Three quarters of a page.] |
| Dec. 21. |
22. Certificate of Robert Cooke, of the Covent Garden, constable.
The vintners of Covent Garden having been commanded by the
justices of the peace to forbear venting wines, and to pull down
their bushes, do not withstanding keep up their bushes and continue
to sell wines. [Underwritten is a statement of the names and signs
of the vintners referred to. One page.] |
| Dec. 22. |
23. Consent of Margaret Kirby, that Philip Gerrard of Gray's Inn,
be trustee for her jointly with those named for the Countess of
Dorchester, to take the assignment from Lord Chief Justice Heath
and the other patentees trusted for Sedgmoor. Underwritten, |
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23. i. William Lake to Sec. Windebank. "My Lord" [the Lord
Treasurer] desires that Philip Gerrard may be nominated
as above mentioned. Wallingford House, 24th December
1633. [One page.] |
Dec. 23.
London. |
24. Thomas Burgh to William Weld. His master, Sir Robert
Harley, at his going out of town, turned over the 20l. he was to
receive from Mr. Smith to the writer. Begs Weld to give him leave
to get it of Mr. Briggs the merchant. [Three quarters of a page.] |
| Dec. 23. |
25. Estimate sanctioned by Lords of the Admiralty and Officers
of the Navy for launching, rigging, and furnishing the two new
ships building at Woolwich and Deptford, and transporting them to
Chatham; total, 4,076l. 12s. 6d. [Two pages.] |
| Dec. 24. |
26. Brief of the account of the Farmers of the Customs and Subsidies in all the ports of England, for one whole year, ended this
day. The rent paid for the customs and subsidies was 150,000l. per
annum; against which the farmers charged 35,589l. 12s. 2¼d., the
balance due to them on their last account, and a variety of defalcations, fees, and annuities, amounting (with the balance) to
63,287l. 13s. 9¼d.; also payments to the cofferer of the household
20,293l. 17s. 7d., to the master of the great wardrobe 3,064l. 19s. 6d.,
into the Exchequer 99,859l. 8s. 8d., and various other payments,
amounting in the whole to 124,834l. 19s. 6d.; so that the farmers had
over-paid their rent to the amount of 38,122l. 13s. 3¼d. [One page.] |
| Dec. 24. |
27. Copy of the preceding. [One page.] |
| Dec. 24. |
28. Bill of Thomas Hicks for medicines supplied to Edward
Nicholas and his wife, total 4l. 19s. 2d., with receipt indorsed.
Among electuaries and boxes of digestive powder, there occurs "a
quilted cap with spices for Mrs. Nicholas, 10s." [One page.] |
Dec. 25./Jan. 4.
Orleans. |
29. Thomas Windebank to Robert Reade. Does not understand
the passage in his last about the writer's having become old before
his time. Such praises are rather the offspring of Reade's eloquence
than of the writer's merit. Thanks his sisters for their agreeable
letters. French. [One page.] |
Dec. 25.
Westminster. |
The King to Sir Richard St. George, Clarencieux, and Sir John
Borough, Norroy. Commission to visit all England and Wales,
reserving the rights of Garter. [Minute. See Dom., James I.,
Vol. xc., No. 154.] |
Dec. 26.
Wymondham. |
30. Sir Henry Berkeley to Sec. Coke. According to his Majesty's
charge he has received the body of Lady Elizabeth Berkeley, wife
of Lord Berkeley, who came late in the night, being Christmas eve,
to his house. Will be careful to fulfil his Majesty's commands.
[Three quarters of a page.] |
Dec. 26.
The Court at Whitehall. |
31. Sec. Windebank to Nicholas. Mr. Secretary [Coke] and himself have acquainted his Majesty with Capt. Bonithon's complaint
against Sir Robert Le Grys. His pleasure is that Sir Robert shall
be immediately sent for by the Lords of the Admiralty. If Nicholas
will prepare a warrant to that purpose, the writer will sign it.
[Half a page.] |
Dec. 27.
Whitehall. |
Lords of the Admiralty to Sir Robert Le Grys, captain of St.
Mawes Castle. He is to give his personal attendance upon the
Lords at the Council Chamber in Whitehall on Friday the last day
of January next at the farthest, when he shall understand the cause
of his being sent for. [Copy. Vol. ccxxviii., fol. 102. Third of a
page.] |
Dec. 27.
New College, Oxford. |
32. Dr. Robert Pinck, warden of New College, to Sec. Windebank.
Writes to him on behalf of Thomas Reade, bachelor of the civil law,
and fellow of that college. His behaviour of later times has been so
regular and respectful that the writer prays the Secretary to reinstate
him in his favour. He is withal very desirous to humble himself to
the Archbishop of Canterbury. Without some manifestation of his
Grace's reconcilement, he will have no peace within himself. [One
page.] |
| Dec. 28. |
Warrant to pay to the Farmers of the Customs for wines and
corinths 150l., with consideration for the forbearance after the rate
of 8l. per cent. per annum, so much being by them advanced upon
their rent for 1634, towards redeeming a jewel of his Majesty's
pawned to Adrian Christian. [Docquet.] |
| Dec. 28. |
Warrant to Spenser Earl of Northampton, master of the game
within the Forest of Whittlewood, co. Northampton, for apprehending such as offend against his Majesty's game or woods there.
[Docquet.] |
| Dec. 28. |
33. Sir Francis Nethersole to the King. Suggestions, termed in
Nethersole's indorsement, Memorial, upon the most likely way to
prevent the French from getting possession of the fort of Udenheim
and encroaching afterwards on the Palatinate. Nethersole advised
the dispatch of Curtius with such an answer as might assure the
Administrator of the Palatinate and the friends of the House Palatine, that his Majesty does not stick at the proposition of his
nephew's going into Germany with an army, in respect of the
charge, but only takes a like time to advise thereupon, and will
speedily signify his resolution. And that howsoever his Majesty
shall determine, he will always give all convenient assistance
to his nephew's affairs, and for proof thereof has sent the money
heretofore promised towards reparation of the fortifications, which
money, provided to that use in public notice, may, by a private
commission, be employed in rendering the Governor of Udenheim
as willing to put the place in the hands of the Administrator as
of the French King, if not, then be really employed to the use
suggested. If the King think fit to advise with the committee
thereon, Nethersole suggests that his name may be concealed.
[Damaged on the outer edge of the paper. Three pages.] |
Dec. 29.
Whitehall. |
34. Order of Council. A certificate from the Lord Mayor and
the rest of the Commissioners, concerning the business of making the
new soap, was ordered to be entered on the register of the Council,
and the original, with other papers, to be sent to the AttorneyGeneral to prepare a draft of a proclamation thereupon. And it
appearing that certain refractory persons make and utter soap prohibited and unmarked by the assay master, it was ordered that the
Earl of Dorset, lord lieutenant of Middlesex, should appoint the
sheriff, or one of the deputy lieutenants, or justices of peace, to
repair to the houses of such persons and seize all vessels for soapmaking and all soap found there, and sequester the same, until
further order. Similar orders were to be sent to the Lord Mayor,
and to the Lord Lieutenants for Surrey. Underwritten, |
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34. i. Certificate of Ralph Freeman, Lord Mayer, and others
above mentioned. In pursuance of the order of the 6th
December 1633, they had gone to the storehouses of the
new soap in Lambeth, St. Katherine's, and the Strand, and
had made trial of the new soap which they plainly perceived did, with a small difference, lather much better than
the old soap did, and that clothes washed therewith were
as white and sweeter than clothes washed with the old crown
soap. They also recite a certificate received from above
fourscore persons, including four countesses, four viscountesses, and others, including common laundresses,
that the new soap goes further than the old soap, and
neither frets their maids' hands nor spoils their linen.
They also report that the petitions against the new soap
were clamorous and untrue. Guildhall, 24th December
1633. [Five pages and three quarters.] |
Dec. 29.
Whitehall. |
35. Order of the King in Council for the Earl of Nottingham and
Viscount Wimbledon, the lord lieutenants of Surrey, to seize vessels
for soap-making and soap, as mentioned in the preceding order.
[One page and a quarter.] |
Dec. 29.
Cardiff Castle. |
36. William Herbert, one of the Deputy Vice-Admirals for South
Wales, to Nicholas. Understands that a wreck has been lately discovered in the channel of the Severn, and that some part of her
lading which is in cask, may be recovered. Requests Nicholas to
procure a warrant from the Lords of the Admiralty, to enable the
writer to employ men about that business. [Half a page.] |
| [Dec. 29 ?] |
37. Minute of request to Nicholas to move the Lords of the Admiralty
for the warrant to William Herbert above mentioned. [One page.] |
Dec. 30.
Bristol. |
38. William Brooke, master of the Ninth Whelp, to Nicholas.
Hears from London that Capt. Cooper intends to have the writer
up, which he is ready to yield unto, but that being left upon the
ship in ordinary, Mr. Kitchen would in nowise spare him. If Capt.
Cooper will not be satisfied, let him procure a commission to have
the hearing in Bristol. The cause of all this is for that the writer
would not yield to dishonest purposes whereby to dishonour his
Majesty's service. His malice has been one cause of the death of
Brooke's wife, leaving four children whose bread Cooper seeks to take
from them. [Three quarters of a page.] |
Dec. 30.
Peterborough. |
39. Dr. John Towers to Sir John Lambe, Dean of the Arches.
Thanks for what he read in Sir John's last letter to the Bishop of
Peterborough concerning himself. Hears that that Bishop is to be
translated to Hereford, and the writer is not thought on to succeed him.
Hopes the Archbishop of Canterbury will commiserate the writer's
need, and what an utter discredit it will be to him in his country,
when he shall be intercepted by whomsoever, now the third time
after his Grace encouraged him to pitch upon that bishopric, in his
house at Westminster. If the writer miss it, he shall have no joy
to show his face in the diocese. Begs Sir John to be his solicitor
that he may not be so disheartened. Should be as glad to see
Dr. Sibthorpe in the deanery almost as himself in the palace. Sir
John's interest may be a mediator for both. [One page.] |
| Dec. 31. |
40. Proposition, stated in the indorsement of Sec. Coke to be that
of Daniel Nuce, to prevent frauds upon the customs. The proposal is
to erect near the Exchange Royal in London, and in every port of
England, an office for entering bills of lading, which being afterwards compared with the Custom House books will prove whether
duty has been paid upon all articles imported. [Seven pages.] |
| Dec. 31. |
41. Account of pay due to the officers, gunners, and soldiers at
the fort at Landguard Point and at Harwich from the first establishment of Landguard Fort, 1st July 1627, to this day, with
observations on the account rendered by Capt. Gosnold. [Three
pages and a half.] |
| Dec. 31. |
42. Another account of the pay mentioned in the preceding article,
but in some respects not so particular, and without the observations
on the account of Capt. Gosnold. [Two pages.] |
| Dec. |
43. The King to the Lord Keeper, the Lord Privy Seal, and the
Earl Marshal In the Court of Star Chamber a cause is appointed
to be heard wherein John Burges is plaintiff and Lord Willoughby
and others, his servants, defendants, which rises upon an assault
made by Lord Willoughby upon Burges, and blows given him, but
no such hurt as was thought worthy the fining by the justices of
peace in their sessions for co. Lincoln. Some of the Privy Council
having called up Burges before them, and finding the matter so
slight, moved him to forbear prosecution of his suit, and refer himself to them for his amends, yet he frowardly refused. The King is
willing that all his subjects should find his courts of justice open to
all men alike; yet when a man of mean quality shall prosecute
against a noble man for an offence of passion or heat only, and that
provoked by ill words and saucy carriage, it is not reasonable to
give way to every man's will in such a case. The persons addressed
are to send for Burges, and take such order in the business as they
shall think fit. [Draft, in the handwriting of the Lord Keeper, indorsed "Minute of a letter directed to the Lord Keeper, the Lord
Privy Seal, and Lord Marshal, for the Lord Willoughby." Three
quarters of a page.] |
| [Dec.?] |
44. Petition of Susan Bland to the King, The King this last year
granted her a protection to enable her to gather in the estate of her
deceased husband and to make payment of his debts, which she
has done to the extent of 15,000l. The unsatisfied creditors threaten
to prosecute her to the ruin of herself and thirteen children. Prays
a renewal of the protection for one year more. [Three quarters of
a page.] |
| [Dec. ?] |
45. Petition of certain Clothiers who make red cloth, in co.
Gloucester, to the Council. Have long attended in town waiting
for a day of hearing concerning the mosing mills. Pray that they
may be heard this day, whereby they may be dismissed from further
attendance. [Half a page.] |
| [Dec. ?] |
46. Notes by Sec. Windebank principally in reference to the case
of the Bishop of Chester. To give the Bishop of Chester an admonition not to carry too heavy a hand upon Wigan; pressure upon
them would only be to the benefit of Dean Murray. The inhabitants
groan under the Bishop's hard usage, he having made them tenants
at will for their own inheritance, upon no other ground but presentments in his own court. They were here when his Majesty was in
Scotland to have made known their grievances, but they saw things
carried with such violence for the Bishop that they durst not stir. To
remember that the Archbishop of Canterbury give order that some
declaration be made in the High Commission Court, at the publishing of the King's letters, for clearing Sir Thomas Canon of the
scandals. Note of the income of the Bishop of Chester, in which his
bishopric is put down at 700l. per annum, and Wigan at 800l. per
annum, with other facts relating to his case. [One page.] |
| Dec. |
47. The Lord Keeper, the Lord Privy Seal, and Sec. Windebank
to Bishop Bridgman of Chester. His Majesty having dealt so
graciously with the Bishop, and, in respect of his place and person,
put an end to those questions which might have been of trouble to
him, expects, as the writers perceive, from the Bishop the imitation of
that goodness he has received, wherefore, if the prosecution have bred
any ill conceit in him against any that prosecuted the cause, that
he must remove and forget, and, as his friends, the writers advise
him that, towards any of his diocese that have been required to
declare their knowledge upon the business lately in question, he
should bear no show of ill affection. The writers know his charity
and gravity to be such as they shall not need persuasion or further
advice in this matter. [Draft, in the handwriting of Lord Keeper
Coventry, indorsed as minute of a letter to the Bishop of Chester,
signed by the persons above mentioned. On the same page, and
above the preceding, is written a copy in the handwriting of
Robert Reade, of the form in which it was originally suggested
that this letter should be written. One page.] |
| Dec. |
48. Draft of the first suggested letter mentioned in the preceding
article. As originally drawn, the letter was stated to have been
written "by his Majesty's direction." These words were struck
out, but it was still suggested that the writers should say, "We are
to signify to your Lordship," without indicating by whose direction.
[Three quarters of a page.] |
Dec.
Lambeth. |
49. Archbishop Laud to the Inns of Court. Upon the report which
the Lords made to his Majesty after the late hearing of the business
between the two Societies of the Temple and the Master there
[Dr. Micklethwaite], the King considered not only the present
business of him and his maintenance, but that also which concerned
both himself and his government both in church and in temporal
affairs, for he presently apprehended of what consequence it is, not
only that such men as serve there should be learned and able to
preach well, but also discreet and very obedient to those ecclesiastical laws which are settled by authority in this church and kingdom,
foreseeing that almost all young gentlemen spend part of their time
in one or other of the Inns of Court, and afterwards, when they
return to live in their several countries, steer themselves according
to such principles as in those places are preached unto them. His
Majesty therefore has commanded the writer to signify to the
persons addressed that though he will not infringe any of their just
and ancient privileges, nor have the writer to write this as if he
should take it on him by his ordinary jurisdiction to intromit himself there, yet he requires them to take order that their minister do
every Sunday and holiday, in his surplice and hood, morning and
evening, read the whole entire service before the sermon, as it is
ordered in the Common Prayer Book, and that the preacher also
once at least in every quarter, read the whole divine service, in his
surplice and hood, as is before required of the curate, for his Majesty
is resolved that no one of those places shall use any pretence of
privilege against government civil or ecclesiastical. And as often as
the place of curate or preacher shall fall void, they are not to make
choice of any but men qualified. [Draft, in the handwriting of
William Dell. It appears from the indorsement that the letter was
drawn and was intended to be sent before Bishop Laud was translated to Canterbury, and that it was sent afterwards "with very
little alteration." One page and a half.] |
| [Dec.?] |
50. Note of words uttered on 1st December inst. by Humphrey
Mackworth, in the presence of Sir William Owen, Edward Owen, and
Richard Poole, minister, and afterwards reported by Richard Poole.
They were to the effect that the Archbishop of Canterbury sent
lately divers commissions ratified by the royal assent to the Lord
Keeper to be confirmed under the Great Seal, and among them
foisted in a special commission "for the adoring of all the churches of
England," which had not been allowed by the King: which commission being espied by a servant to the Lord Keeper, the Lord Keeper
put it up in his pocket and went and showed it to the King. [Three
quarters of a page.] |
| [Dec.?] |
51. List of the certificates up to this time presented to the King
by the Commissioners for inquiry after exacted fees. The certificates range in date from 17th July 1630 to 23d December 1633.
[Indorsed in the King's own hand "Certificat about Exacted Fees."
Two pages.] |
| Dec. |
52. Statements of J. Rotherford concerning words against the
King alleged to have been uttered by John Baylie, and the conduct
of Thomas Lane and Robert Morteleck [Mortelake] in reference
thereto. [One page and three quarters.] |
| Dec. |
53. Minute of an application for a warrant from the Lords [of the
Admiralty] to enjoin George Thorold, William Dainson, and John
Prime to deliver the books of the Admiralty of co. Lincoln that the
King's service may be effected. [Quarter of a page.] |
| Dec. |
54. Articles and exceptions preferred by William Campe against
John Debley for misconduct in the management of the commission
against exactions, innovations, &c., to which he had procured himself to be appointed clerk, in the place of Edmund Woder, and
instead of William Campe. Campe states various cases which had
been proceeded with, but none of them to any useful end, and sets
forth the inconveniences of delay. Among the cases so stated is
one against Dr. Mainwaring and the vestrymen of St. Giles in the
Fields, for innovating a new table of fees, and against — Robinson
the parish clerk there, who would not suffer a poor parishioner,
Charles Hawes, to be buried, without such "exactious fees as were
unreasonable," whereupon the deceased was carried to a bank by
a ditch-side, and there was interred near the bowling-place in
Islington Fields. [One page and a quarter.] |
