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1. Offer of Alessandro Gatti, Majorduomo of the Venetian Ambassador in England, to preserve wheat and other kinds of grain for
ten years from all corruption, external or internal, and particularly
from rats and other noxious animals. [¼ p.] Underwritten, |
1. i. Note from [Lord Fielding to Lord Treasurer Juxon ?] that
the above-named gentleman had made the above strange
offer, which he was desirous to discover to some personage
of authority. Sends the proposition, and refers it to the
wisdom of the person addressed. [½ p.] |
2. Points to be considered respecting an invention of two Dutchmen. They offer an invention of a gum, whereby all kinds of clothes,
linen, woollen, silk, leather, &c., can be made impenetrable by water
or air. The gum is made of oils and other things so that it dries
very easily; and though astringent, remains limber. It is principally
put forth as applicable to apparel, so as to make it resist rain, to
make durable tents, to pack up all manner of goods, and to make
nets, ropes, sacks, girdles for swimming, bridges for soldiers to pass
rivers, windmills, and sails. The invention is offered first to the
King, as being the defender of the Protestant faith. [2 pp.] |
3. Statement by [Sir Robert Osborne] of acts done by Sir Francis
Crane, which induced Sir Robert to say that Sir Francis had taken
the forfeiture of the honor of Grafton. Courts were kept and rents
received by Sir Francis in his own name; new estates were let in
his name; fines were received by him; church livings were disposed
of; and materials were carried from Grafton House to build Stoke
Lodge, being Sir Francis's inheritance. Sir Robert protests that
for all other matters alleged in a declaration to his Majesty, he had
no meaning but to have the King redeem the mortgage from Sir
Francis Crane. [2/3 p.] |
4. Copy of the preceding. [2/3 p.] Annexed, |
4. i. Note of a lease made 16th September 1633, by Sir Francis
Crane, to Richard Church and Ann his wife, of a cottage
in Hartwell, for 31 years, at the yearly rent of 3s. 4d., and
on payment of a fine of 13l. 6s. 8d. [⅓ p.] |
5. Sir Francis Crane to the Council. Answer to the paper
delivered by Sir Robert Osborne. His present interest in the lands
of Grafton is,—first, the mortgage, which was for two years and
upon which there was lent 7,500l.; second, upon a promise made
since by his Majesty, that for 6,000l., Sir Francis should have passed
to him 200l. a year of those lands in fee farm. Upon this promise,
about three years since, he paid 5,000l. With his proceedings in
both these, Sir Robert Osborne was acquainted, and knew that the
forfeiture upon the first was neither taken nor intended to be taken,
and that he, Sir Francis, was rather desirous to give over the latter
bargain than to proceed in it. Notwithstanding Sir Robert's knowledge of these circumstances, of which Sir Francis states facts in
proof, Sir Robert informed the King that the forfeiture was taken,
and to prove it, alleged the facts stated in the paper last calendared.
Sir Francis answers that all these alleged facts were warranted by
his letters patent, and that he is accountable for all that he has
done on repayment of his money. Sir Francis concludes that Sir
Robert sought not for truth in what he had done, but that he had
cast aspersions upon Sir Francis with the view of injuring him in
the estimation of the King and of the world. [2¾ pp.] |
6. Petition of Robert Ryther, keeper of the Castle of York, to the
same. The said castle and gaol being in great decay, two orders
have been made by the Justices of Assize, that the Justices of Peace
should take order for repair of the same, together with the present
erecting of a house of correction. Further, they were required to
levy money for building the house of correction, and for a stock to
set the poor on work, and for binding poor children apprentices.
The Justices of the North Riding have made an order therein, but
those of the West and East Ridings have not met according to the
order made at the assizes, although the gaol and castle are so ruinous
that petitioner is enforced to watch the same, and yet divers
prisoners have escaped since the last assizes; and many who are in
gaol for petty offences are likely to starve, while others are very
unruly, all which might be helped by erecting a house of correction.
Prays the Lords to redress the neglects aforesaid. [1 p.] |
7. The King to the Master and Fellows of a College not named.
Understands that his servant, J. Crane, one of the clerks of the
kitchen, has two sons of their house, and that William Crane, the
eldest, being a fellow there, is willing to resign his fellowship to
Robert Crane, the other brother, now a scholar there. Recommends
him to be admitted on his brother's resignation. [¾ p.] |
8. Certificate of Dr. Brian Duppa, the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford,
and three others, that James Chudleigh, B.A., of Christ Church, had
been four years in the university, had given himself diligently to his
studies, and had conducted himself piously and soberly, and that as
to those things which belong to religion he had not believed or held
anything save what might be gathered from the Old and New
Testament, and which the Church of England at that day approved.
[Latin. 1 p.] |
9. Notes, by Nicholas, of Orders of the [Lords of the Admiralty],
upon petitions of Browne and Sutton, and of Mondeford. On the
former the order was, that the petitioners should be discharged,
giving Halse satisfaction for his undue arrest, and paying their fees;
in the latter that petitioner should be discharged, paying his fees.
[4 lines.] |
10. List of manorial and other privileges claimed by the Earl of
Norwich as appurtenant to lands not named. They are stated to
have been granted by the crown to the abbots of Waltham, and since
to have been allowed to the Earl upon a quo warranto, brought
against him in the King's Bench. [2/3 p.] |
11. Minute of application of Viscount Chaworth, for a grant of
the forfeiture of his brother, Lieutenant Thomas Chaworth, convicted
of manslaughter, for being in the company of John Jones when he
slew Thomas Merick. [½ p.] |
12. John Ashburnham to Nicholas. Narrates an interview with
Lord Hertford in relation to an agreement made with him for a lease
for lives, which the writer had taken for Nicholas. Lord Hertford
had made a bad bargain with Ashburnham, which had been discovered
by his officers, and after discussion, it was agreed to add one year's
purchase more, provided Mrs. Goddard, who seems to have been the
then lessee in possession, should die before the sealing of the new
lease. Mr. Brue had the counterpart of the original lease, and he
was in London; but Lord Hertford had promised to get a copy of
the lease itself on his going to Netley. Ashburnham wishes
Nicholas not to conceal the matter any longer from his father. [Seal
with arms. 1 p.] |
13. James Levingstone to Sir David Cunningham, Receiver-General
for his Majesty, at the Council House, next to the sign of the Lute.
Has received a letter from Sir James Carmichael, to put Cunningham
in mind to receive his pension, for which he must be quick; desires
him also to receive the writer's pension, which is 250l., the fees, and
20l. more being abated for his brother Alexander. Sir James
Carmichael writes that Robert Alleyn is dead. [1 p.] |
14. Dr. Paul Micklethwaite to Mr. Savile. Entreats him to pay
the money that is due to the writer to the bearer, Richard Pickard,
his servant. [⅓ p.] |
15. Philip Warwick to Mr. Savile. Prays him to let Simon Prickles
set his hand to the book for the writer's pension, being 50l., and 10l.
for his father. [¼ p.] |
16. Petition of Bartholomew du Masson to the Council. Petitioner levied a troop of horse in the town of Emden for the King's
service, at the instance of Mr. Dulbier, and became engaged to the
said town in several sums of money, which money Dulbier has
received from his Majesty. On complaint to his Majesty, there was
a reference to the Lord Treasurer, who committed the decision
thereof to Sir David Cunningham and Mr. Burlamachi, who found
that Dulbier had received from his Majesty the moneys claimed by
the town of Emden and petitioner, and was indebted to them
7,080 florins, and to Adam Arsemberg 1,670 florins. Although
Dulbier has kept the money these nine years, petitioner has been
for these nine months fed with delays, which redound to the ruin of
petitioner, who dares not return by reason of his engagements to the
said town. Prays them to cause Dulbier to give speedy satisfaction.
[1 p.] |
17. The like of Rachel Andrews, wife of Peter Andrews, mariner,
prisoner in the Marshalsea, to the same Petitioner's husband,
upon the complaint of Edward Kinswell, has been a prisoner full
16 months. As she knows not when the Lords and other Commissioners for Foreign Plantations will meet, and in the prison many
have lately died of spotted fever, she prays the Lords not to let
her husband suffer any longer for a dispute between Mr. Vassall
and Mr. Kinswell, but to give order for his enlargement till the
Commissioners for Plantations shall sit. [1 p.] |
18. [Francis Egiock to George] Rawdon. Prays Rawdon to pay
3l. to Mr. Burgh. Has received from him 20s. for a sword and 30s.
for a coat. A quarter's wages is now due to the writer. [1 p.] |
19. Petition of Henry Whitney to Sir John Lambe, Dean of the
Arches. Has long had a dependency on the Court of Arches and
the other courts ecclesiastical. Finding Sir John to be the chief
disposer of the steward's place, then vacant, petitions in favour of
his brother, who is a bachelor and approved by Dr. Zouch and some
other doctors. [½ p.] |
20. The like of William Younge, prisoner in the Fleet, to the
Council. Petitioner being a gentleman of about 500l. per annum
in the country, and having occasion to use 1,000l. in discharge of debts
and legacies, procured that sum of Alderman Parkhurst, late Lord
Mayor of London, and for security entered into a statute staple of
1,000l. Times of payment accruing and 150l. remaining unsatisfied,
petitioner delivered that sum to Robert Paddon, but he detained
the same, and petitioner to save the extent of his lands, was enforced
to procure the money elsewhere. The payment of this 150l. being
delayed by Paddon about six years, petitioner is now a prisoner for
money taken up to save his estates, and Paddon being deputy paymaster under Sir William Uvedale, pretends privilege in his Majesty's
service. Petitioner being an aged gentleman, and desiring to end
his days in the society of his wife and children, prays the Lords to
direct Paddon to give him satisfaction. [¾ p.] |
21. Instructions to Counsel to prepare a settlement of the estates
of Thomas Earl of Cleveland, comprising the manors of Stepney and
Hackney in Middlesex, and Toddington, Tingrith, and Harlington,
co. Bedford, in order to effect the payment of debts and to make
a provision for the Countess, and Thomas Lord Wentworth and
his wife. Drawn up by Robert Dixon, the Earl's solicitor. [1⅓ p.] |
22. Petition of Robert Phelipps, his Majesty's servant, to the King.
Petitioner, for the maintenance of himself and his family abroad, has
contracted a great debt, and is involved in suits of law for the
recovery of his wife's inheritance. Prays the King to confer upon
him the statute office void by the death of Sir Thomas Hampson.
[1 p.] |
23. The like of Levin Brinkmary, prisoner in the Gatehouse, to
Sec. Windebank. Is detained in prison upon Windebank's command,
but for what cause is not expressed in the warrant, neither can he
imagine. Beseeches the Secretary to send for him that he may know
his accusers and accusation. [What follows was added at a subsequent
time:] Was the night before examined by the King's attorney and
solicitor. In regard that he is a stranger and would return into his
native country, prays the Secretary to take his present state into
his consideration. Hopes he has discharged his conscience so far as
he possibly can. [2/3 p.] |
24. The like of the same to the Council. Petitioner ignorantly
and most innocently receiving two letters from a woman, a mere
stranger to petitioner, which letters concerned the state of this
kingdom, he did in loyal obedience discover the same, for which he
was by Sec. Windebank committed to the Gatehouse, where he
has remained these 32 weeks, suffering unspeakable misery for want
of necessary sustenance, he being a stranger far remote from country
and friends, and utterly destitute of means. Thought that he had
done the King and State good service, and discharged his conscience,
in the delivery of the letters, yet is still detained prisoner for no
other cause. Prays warrant for his enlargement, or order for relief
during his imprisonment. [Underwritten, "Negatur." 1 p.] |
25. Account of William Hunton's incumbrances by judgments
and statutes, derived from the records and extending from Michaelmas
Term 19th James I., to Trinity Term 12th Car. I. [1 p.] |
26. Petition of Robert Wright, prisoner in the King's Bench, to
the Council. His father-in-law, Thomas Paradoine, of London,
merchant, deceased, in 1604 lent to William Steward upon bond
100l., for which the now Lord Ancram became surety. Neither the
principal nor interest has been paid, neither can petitioner take any
course for recovery thereof, because Mr. Steward is his Majesty's
servant. Prays the Lords to appoint some reasonable time for
payment of the 100l. with interest, which if Steward neglect the
Lords will give petitioner leave to use such means as he shall be
advised. [½ p.] |
27. Duplicate of the preceding, save that for 1604, as above
stated, this copy reads 1624. [½ p.] |
28. Petition of Philip Burlamachi to the King. He that knows
all hearts knows with what zeal petitioner has ever served his
Majesty. When he failed, his Majesty caused proclamation to be
made that though the King owed him little, yet that, if upon
examination of his accounts, it should be found that his Majesty were indebted to him, just satisfaction should be made.
Thereupon the King granted petitioner his protection, and since
continued the same, and made a reference to the Lord Treasurer
and Lord Cottington for stating his accounts, who, after long
examination, have made a report. Although Burlamachi believes
verily that they pity his case and sufferings, yet he finds that, as
great and wise officers, they rather turn him to his Majesty's grace,
than allow anything for which they find no clear warrants. Their
doubts related to disbursements of factorage paid beyond seas, and
exchanges of money paid in Scotland, to freights due for ships of
petitioners own that served the King, to a debt due upon the rent
of sea coals diverted for the King's service, and to the consideration
or interest, "pretended" on sums advanced for the King's service,
because they find no contract to authorize the allowance. Petitioner
answers all these objections seriatim, and shows that the late Lord
Treasurer had agreed with him for the allowance of the items now
disputed. He prostrates himself before his Majesty's justice and
mercy, and prays warrant to allow the disbursements and forbearance objected to, and for the other parcels for charges to allow a
sum in gross; to the end that petitioner may satisfy those to whom
he is indebted, or else after twelve years spent in the King's service,
and many before in his father's time, and after having hitherto
enjoyed his liberty by a protection, petitioner will be forced to
render his aged body to the misery of a prison. [1 p.] Annexed, |
28. i. [Lord Treasurer Portland to the persons appointed to audit
the accounts of Philip Burlamachi.] Being informed
that they desire to have a particular warrant for casting
up the interest "pretended" by Burlamachi, the Lord
Treasurer authorizes them "according to justice and
equity" to cast the said interest, taking care that the
King be not charged doubly. Then is added a list of
sums on which interest is to be allowed. [Extract. 1½ p.] |
29. The like of Capt. Thomas Dirdoll, Henry Fisher, and Edward
Davis, to the Council. The first two petitioners had each of them
a son, and the last a brother, taken about twelve months since upon
the Irish coast, by the Sallee men-of-war, and sold at Sallee at such
rates that petitioners were not able to pay their ransoms. Pray
the Lords to take some course for their redemption. [2/3 p.] |
30. Instructions for Job Harby concerning the redemption of his
Majesty's jewels pawned at Amsterdam, and those that remain in
the hands of Philip Calandrini, redeemed in the year 1631. All
the transactions, respecting the pawning of the jewels by Sir
Sackville Crow in 1625 and 1626, and the subsequent dealings
therewith of Philip Calandrini, are here detailed, and many of the
jewels are described. The amounts paid for interest are also stated,
and various claims of Calandrini are explained, by which he was
thought to desire certain undue allowances, in the enforcement of
which he took advantage of the circumstance of his having certain
of the jewels in his hands. All the accounts were to be settled by
Harby, and all the jewels to be redeemed, and on the completion of
his mission he was to return to England, and deliver the jewels into
the hands of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who had ordinarily
the keeping of them. [7 pp.] |
31. Draft of the same Instructions, partly in the handwriting of
Philip Burlamachi. [French. 5¾ pp.] |
32. Petition of Francis Lownes to Lord Treasurer Juxon.
Petitioner delivered a petition to the Lords of the Treasury showing
that he was employed by the late Lord Chamberlain to attend the
Spanish ambassadors whilst they lay at Exeter House, and to
furnish them with damask and diaper tabling, to the quantity of
10 or 12 sets a day, with promise before Lord Arundel and other
Lords, that he should be royally paid, so that the ambassadors made
no complaint, in regard it was upon the treaty of the match with
Spain. He had performed the service to the good content of the
ambassadors and at his own great cost, having disbursed 300l.
besides his own store, and the most part of the said napery being
worn out and lost, petitioner was promised 100l. impress money
and the rest monthly, but hitherto had not received any part, having
only obtained a Privy Seal for 550l. 10s. Prays order to receive the
same. [The petition to the Lords of the Treasury above mentioned
occurs in Vol. cclxxxiii., No. 20. 2/3 p.] |
33. Statement, prepared for some legal purpose, respecting the
rights of Mr. Kirke under a grant made the 29th Feb. 1632, of
"package, balliage, and scavage." This grant being contested by
the city of London, they ultimately compounded with Mr. Kirke
for 4,000l., but in January 1635–6, before the matter between
Mr. Kirke and the city was completed, Lord Holland got a reference
for "ostage," which had been discontinued 300 years. The "common
host" had anciently taken the moiety of the scavage, and the
revival of this ancient claim occasioned the city to decline the
agreement they had made with Mr. Kirke. The question is raised
in this paper whether Mr. Kirke was not really entitled to the
ostage, and it is suggested that Lord Holland and Mr. Kirke should
make common cause. [1 p.] |
34. Statement of the case of Francis Wallworth with reference
to the office of common packer in the city of London. Wallworth,
whose ancestors were memorable in the city of London, being
bred a scholar in Trinity College, Cambridge, having since been a
clerk in the Sheriff's court in the Guildhall, London, procured the
King's letter to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council to
grant him the reversion of the office of common packer, which was
then held by John Massingbird. Massingbird being unwilling that
such a grant should be made, suggested to the court by way of
excuse to his Majesty for not making the grant, that Wallworth had
obtained letters from the Lord Privy Seal for the reversion of
another office, which had been granted him. Wallworth explains
this transaction, and shows the small value of the reversion now
sought, and that the office had been granted in King James's time
on the King's recommendation. [32/3 pp.] |
35. Further particulars relative to the office of package mentioned
in the preceding article, and Wallworth's claim to the reversion. In
the 18th year of Edward IV. the city purchased the office in
question of the Crown for 7,000l. [1 p.] |
36. Certificate of six Justices of Peace of Middlesex of the
names of nine chandlers, mealmen, and millers who sell meal near
the city of London, and had been warned to appear before the said
Justices to enter into bond not to buy corn within 35 miles of the
city. Seven of them had refused to appear, and two to be bound,
alleging that they were freemen of the city of London and were to
be bound there. [½ p.] |
37. Petition of Daniel Pennington, Thomas Foster, and the rest of
the tenants of houses on the wastes and grounds belonging to the
King near the Tower of London, to the King. Petitioners, to the
number of 150 families, have taken estates under a lease of the said
grounds made by James I. to Sir Roger Aston for 80 years, at 60l.
yearly rent. After long quiet possession they have bestowed great
costs in improvements, so that the revenue of the Crown, after the
term expired, will be greatly augmented. They have spent much
money in suits at law for defence of the King's title, and obtained
two verdicts against Mr. Cary, who of late was, and against
Mr. Langeston that now is, gentleman-porter of the Tower, who
claimed the grounds to belong to their office. On former occasions
Sir John Bankes, and formerly Sir Robert Heath, being AttorneyGeneral, assisted petitioners with their counsel. Suits are still
depending and to come to trial, but the Attorney-General forbears
further to assist petitioners, by reason of some misinformation they
fear to have been given by Mr. Langeston. Pray that the AttorneyGeneral may inform the King of the truth of the premises, and may
still be of counsel for petitioners as formerly, otherwise his Majesty's
title may suffer wrong. [½ p.] Annexed, |
37. i. Brief in a case of William Bold, gentleman-porter of the
Tower, plaintiff, and the tenants round about the Tower
and Tower Ditch, being above 100 families, defendants.
The title of the tenants and the grants from the Crown
under which they claimed are fully set forth. [1½ p.] |
38. Petition of the Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens of London
to the King. His Majesty having required petitioners to deliver up
a bond entered into by Thomas Plummer to petitioners for payment
of 400l. for excusing him from holding the office of Sheriff of
London and Middlesex, and likewise that he should not be chosen
again to that office or to the office of alderman, petitioners present
the said bond accordingly. Mr. Plummer was born a citizen, and
got a plentiful estate in the city, and being chosen sheriff in
1633 voluntarily entered into the said bond, whereby he freed
himself from the expence of about 3,000l. which he must have been
at if he had held the place of sheriff, and about a twelve month
since being called upon for the money, he then sought the King's
favour to free himself from the payment, under pretence of an
infirmity in his hearing, which was not at the time of his election so
great as is now pretended. Pray the King to leave petitioners at
liberty against Mr. Plummer, or to provide that the example may
be no prejudice to them in future time. [1 p.] |
39. Statement by Nicholas of the injury done to him by Mr. Kinnersley, yeoman of the Wardrobe, who had pulled down an old
house adjoining that of Nicholas, had erected a new one of greater
height, and had also built up a shed, where none was before,
contrary to the proclamation, thus darkening and overlooking some
of Nicholas's principal rooms and subjecting him to other inconveniences. [1 p.] |
40. Information addressed to the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Burgesses
of Leicester, that Daniel Morris, innkeeper, at the White Hart in
Belgrave Gate in that borough, having had an ostler die of the
plague and divers of his house sick thereof, concealed the same,
kept venison feasts, and gave various entertainments to the Earl of
Stamford and others of good worth and quality. After seven or
eight weeks the plague breaking out in other places of the town, it
was discovered that there had died eight or nine of the plague
before. [1 p.] |
41. The like of John Denne that, as soon as the Earl of
Portland alighted out of his coach at Deal, before he could enter the
inn whither he was going, a Spaniard complained to him of injustice
received from the host of that house, and solicited assistance to
recover some things which had been taken from him; the Earl
spake with the host, who pretended that the Spaniard owed him
1s 2d., which the Earl offered to pay. The host refused it, and
said if the Earl would give him 10l. he would not redeliver what
he had. He spake in so uncivil manner that Denne doubted
whether he knew the Earl, and told him privately who he was. He
answered that he cared for never a Lord in Christendom, for what
he had he would keep. Denne spake to his servants to incline him,
but by what they said Denne could discern that the host robbed
more in his house than any thief could do upon the highway, as
could be discerned in the case of this Spaniard, for as soon as he
had fettered him with so small a debt, he stripped him out of his
clothes, and finding nothing but a dial in his pocket kept that and
his clothes. The Spaniard valued not the dial above five rials of
eight, the host at above 10l. There were with the Earl his brother
and Mr. Waller, and he gave Denne leave to wait upon him. All of
them joined in desiring the Earl to appear in the Spaniard's behalf.
[1 p.] |
42. Another narrative of the preceding transaction, from which
it appears that the inn was the Pelican, and the host's name Robert
Smyth, and that, although urged to show the Spaniard's watch, he
would not do so. [Endorsed partly by Sec. Windebank or Reade,
his secretary. [1¼ p.] |
43. Petition of Henry Hunt, M.A., to the King. Petitioner's
father was master of the King's free school at Berkhampstead for
30 years, but was lately deceased, leaving a widow and six children
destitute. Petitioner prays the King to confer the place on him.
[½ p.] |
44. The like of Philip, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Lord
Chamberlain, on behalf of the collegiate church and the inhabitants
of Westminster, whereof petitioner is high steward, to the same.
By reason of his Majesty's residence in the said city and that the
courts of ordinary justice usually sit there, the concourse of people
thither is very great, whence many offences are often committed,
which for want of a larger power of jurisdiction in the church or
inhabitants, can neither be conveniently punished nor prevented.
It is conceived that if the inhabitants were incorporated, with
power for punishing offenders, a great good would redound. Prays
his Majesty to refer the consideration thereof to the Lord Keeper
and Lord Privy Seal. [Slightly imperfect at the close. ¾ p.] |
45. The like of Marcellus Croson, William Ingle, William Croxall,
and Henry Croson, to the same. The Attorney-General, about two
years since, preferred an information in the Star Chamber against
John St. John for depopulating Coulderton [Cole-Orton ?], co.
Leicester, and converting the lands thereof from tillage to pasture,
and petitioners were subpœnaed to come to London to prove the
same, which they did. Since which time Mr. St. John, having made
his composition for the same, upon spleen drives petitioners out of
the said town, where they were born and their ancestors have lived
above 100 years, and will not suffer them to have anything there to
live upon. Pray the Lords to cause Mr. St. John to suffer them to
enjoy some means there to live upon. Underwritten, "Mr. St. John
to see the petition and give an answer." [2/3 p.] |
46. Statement, in the handwriting of Nicholas, explanatory of the
transaction between Endymion Porter and Thomas Kynaston and
Samuel Bonnell, to which the deed of covenant calendared under
date of the 31st May 1635 had relation. This paper, which seems
to be a rough draft and is probably imperfect, contains particulars
not mentioned in the deed of covenant. [1 p.] |
47. Petition of Thomas Lord Brudenell, to Archbishop Laud, and
the other Commissioners for Depopulations. States the manner in
which his lordship of Hougham, co. Lincoln, in the 44th Elizabeth
and again in the 11th of King James, when the inclosure was
parcelled out, was made. It was impossible that he should have
dispeopled 27 farms, when there never were more than 21 messuages and 6 of them never kept plough. The inclosures made
within man's memory amount not to the decay of one farm, only by
enlargement of his park at Deene, two farms are lessened, and yet
the park not great. Having paid 500l. of his fine of 1,000l. prays
the residue may be remitted, unless thereby he be found to merit
ruin. [1 p.] |
48. "A note of the moneys laid out for the necessaries of the field
of Tuttell [Tothill Fields, Westminster]". The expenditure alluded
to was principally in repairs of a house termed the shooting house,
in fixing a sun-dial there, and setting up posts in the neighbourhood
of it. The total sum was 3l. 7s. 8d. [Damaged by damp. 1 p.] |
49. Particular of certain lands in Stoughton, co. Leicester, held
in capite, and let at rents which amounted to 126l. 13s. 1d. per
annum, but in nine years would produce 220l., which was warranted
by Sir Henry Beaumont. [1 p.] |
50. The like of Mr. Ward's lands in Carleton, co. Leicester,
tenure socage, held of the manor of Theddingworth. Yearly value
360l. [¾ p.] |
51. The like of the rents of the Castle of Starborough with
the manors of Starborough alias Princkerne and Shernden in Surrey
and Kent, with the names of the tenants; total of sums paid,
799l. 6s. 8d. Part holden of the manor of East Greenwich and
part of Cobham. [1 p.] |
52. The Churchwardens and Headborough of Lambeth to the
Council. Having received an order from Dr. Featley for the
removing certain families in the pest-house in Lambeth Field, had
removed two of the four families inhabiting there, leaving only a
poor ancient widow and a woman ready to be relieved of child,
whom they left to keep the house from stealing. [2/3 p.] |
53. Petition of the churchwarden, parishioners, and collector for
money assessed towards the relief of people visited with the plague
in that part of the parish of St. Sepulchre without Newgate situated
in Middlesex, to the Council. That Sir Abraham Williams of Westminster having divers poor tenements in St. John Street, two have
been shut up for the plague, and the parishioners have disbursed
towards relief of those families that were in the same 10l. 17s. 3d.,
which sum has been assessed by the Justices of Peace that
Sir Abraham should pay, neither can petitioners by ordinary course
of justice recover the same against him. Pray them to send for
Sir Abraham and order him to pay. [½ p.] |
54. Petition of Anthony Percivall, captain of Archcliff Bulwark
in Dover, to Lord Treasurer Juxon. Archliff Fort adjoining the
pier is very conveniently seated for the King's service, and commands the town and all Dover Roads, yet by want of repair is
almost unserviceable. The King imposed by letters patent a duty
upon all strangers' goods, to be received by Dover towards repair of
their pier. Prays for a Privy Seal, that the payment of the duty
upon strangers' goods may be continued for reparation of Archcliff,
which will amount to about 1,200l.; the collection to begin at
Michaelmas, when the sum for repair of the pier will be fully
received. [1 p.] |
55. The like of divers inhabitants of Oxford to the Council. John
Sayer of Oxford, alderman, by the consent of the mayor, bailiffs,
and corporation, is erecting a building 14 yards in length, in breadth
six yards, and 28 feet high, in the middle of a public street in the
parish of St. Peter's in the Bailey. Pray the Lords to interdict his
proceeding any further in the building, and to refer the matter to
the Vice-Chancellor of the University. [Signed by seven petitioners.
As to the nature of the building petitioned against, see Vol. cccxx.,
No. 58. 9th May 1636. 1 p.] |
56. The like of Sir Henry Gibb to the King. His Majesty procured for petitioner from the late King an annuity of 200l. payable
out of the Court of Wards, but which had been unpaid for some
few years by past, in regard of a restraint for payment of pensions.
Since his Majesty promised not to take anything from petitioner, he
prays order for payment. [1 p.] |
57. The like of the same to the same. To the same effect as the
preceding. [2/3 p.] |
58. The like of Francis Bluett, of Arwanack, Cornwall, and of
Lady Jane his wife, to the Council. Sir John Killigrew, about
29 years last past, on his marriage with the said Jane, daughter of
Sir George Farmor, conveyed as part of her jointure his manorhouse of Arwanack, whereof the Castle Hill, upon which the castle
of Pendennis stands, is parcel, containing about 60 acres, and worth
35l. per annum. Notwithstanding the said conveyance, her former
husband, Sir John, leased the Castle Hill for his Majesty's use at the
rent of 12l. 10s. Since the death of Sir John in January last was
twelve months no rent had been received. Pray payment of the
same, and an order to the receiver of the revenues for Cornwall to
pay the same for the future. [2/3 p.] |
59. [George Rawdon ?] to Frances Lady Conway. Sends a letter
from Lord Conway. The writer stays there this week upon a despatch
into Ireland about Mr. Guilliams and Peirs. There is little news.
The bill of the plague for the week is not yet come out, but it is
hoped it has not increased. Ralph Rawdon, who writes weekly to
"my Lord," will send her letters to sea or for the coachman.
[Draft. 1 p.] |
60. Petition of Margaret Slingsby, widow, to the Lord Keeper,
Lord Treasurer, Lord Privy Seal, and Earl of Dorset. Petitioner,
by their Lordships' command, sued the forfeiture of a bond of 100l.
against Thomas Horth, and after three years suit and the expense
of 500l. had obtained execution, which is stayed by their order, so
that what his Majesty intended for her relief is like to prove her
ruin. Prays that she may either make benefit of his Majesty's
grant, or that they would recommend her to his Majesty to be
relieved some other way. [½ p.] |
61. Petition of the same to the same. To the same effect as the
preceding. [½ p.] |
62. The like of Robert Crosse, one of the Messengers of the
Chamber, to the Council. Petitioner having fetched up five men
from Chelmsford, was commanded to keep them at his house, which
he did for seven weeks, after which they were committed to the new
prison at Clerkenwell. The Lords gave order to the keeper there
that they should not depart thence until they had satisfied petitioner.
Understands that they are to be removed into the country, whither
if they go, he is hopeless of getting a penny. Prays order for
relief. [¾ p.] |
63. List of medical and scientific books, with their prices and
general remarks thereon by Sir Kenelm Digby. [Slightly imperfect.
1 p.] |
64. Declaration of a method of raising money not hitherto
practised in England. It is that his Majesty should order a little seal
with which all parchments as well as all papers on which documents
are written should be sealed. This custom has been practised by the
Kings of France from 1542, and an account is given of the produce
of the petit sceau in various districts in France. [French. 1⅓ p.] |
65. Petition of William Crauford to the King. States certain
statutory provisions regulating the sale, breeding, and killing of
cattle, which laws are commonly and continually broken. Prays
commission to inquire into such abuses and to compound with or
legally to proceed against offenders. [2/3 p.] |
66. Latin verses signed "Savill" and designed for an inscription
upon the tomb of the late Earl of Carlisle. Memorandum endorsed
in the handwriting of Sec. Windebank. "Herbert Higgens at the
Star in New Fish Street." [2/3 p.] |
67. Fragment of a copy of a grant to George Talbot, son of John
Talbot, tenth Earl of Shrewsbury, giving him such precedency as
he would have had if his father had been Earl of Shrewsbury at
the time of his birth; with notes of similar grants of precedency
made in the times of King James and King Charles. [Only half of
the grant, the copy having been torn in half perpendicularly.
3 pp.] |
68. Petition of James Naper, servant to Mr. Woolley, Keeper of
the Council Records, to the Council. John Wynn, servant to Mr.
Locke, deceased, then Keeper of the Records, had an allowance for
making pens and attendance on the Board. Prays the Lords to
require the Auditors of the Imprest to certify its amount, and that
thereupon the Lords would give petitioner the like. [2/3 p.] |
69. Two indexes, the latter incomplete, but both containing
proper names alphabetically arranged, being chiefly those of persons
well known in the reign of Charles I. It seems to have been made
to a book of grants or warrants. It is endorsed in a hand of much
later date "Lord Cottington's writings." The second index does
not extend beyond the letter S. [36 pp., of which 12 are blank.] |
70. Bills for repairs of a carriage, amounting to 20l. 7s. 4d. [1 p.] |
71. Notes of grants made from the 4th to the 12th year of the
present reign of debts and arrearages in the Courts of Wards or the
Exchequer. The grantees were Sir George Manners, Thomas Bray,
Lady Saltoun, the Earl of Rutland, the Countess of Denbigh, and
Sir John Farewell. [½ p.] |
72. Petition of Edmund Thurman, clerk, John Stacy, and Edmund
Pakeman, to Archbishop Laud and the Council. The complainants
[George Meade, Robert Heath, and others, see Vol. cccxxv, No. 4,]
made a most unequal rate for the ship-money for Much Hallingbury,
16th December 1635, privately, among themselves, and fraudulently
obtained Sir Cranmer Harris, then Sheriff, to confirm the same.
On complaint to the now sheriff he confirmed another rate, made
on public notice, bearing date the 29th February. On the 8th March,
petitioner Stacy, being collector, paid in 20l. 0s. 6d., part of 25l. 0s. 6d.
levied on the town, and promised that on the 18th March he would
pay in the residue. Not being able to gather the same, he failed
that day, but within a short time after paid it out of his own purse.
After the 18th March, on a most false suggestion, the Sheriff confirmed a copy of the plaintiffs' first rate, but by some indirect means
ante-dated the same as upon the 20th February, nine days before the
date of petitioners' rate, which petitioners did not espy, whereupon
the Lords took petitioners for liars, and were very much incensed
at them, and ordered the Archbishop to hear the petitioners, in
regard petitioner Thurman was a clergyman. Pray the Archbishop
so to hear petitioners that innocency and truth may not suffer, and
that if sufficient satisfaction cannot be presently given there may
be a reference to examine the same fully, and that in the mean time
petitioners, (two of whom have been eleven days in the messenger's
hands), may have their liberty. [Probably presented the 3rd June
1636. 1 p.] |
73. Note of complaints made by cos. Chester, Flint, and Northumberland, and by the towns of Shrewsbury, Haverfordwest, and
the city of Canterbury, of being over assessed to the ship-money.
[12/3 p.] |
74. List of ministers to be joined with the Sheriffs for consideration of the complaints of the clergy respecting ship-money. The
list relates to cos. Bedford, Hertford, and Buckingham, to which
Sir John Lambe has added Leicester and Lincoln. [1½ p.] |
75. Petition of the inhabitants and parishioners of Holmer and
Hampton Bishop, co. Hereford, to the Council. Great part of the
lands in the said parishes border on the city of Hereford, for which
the owners have time out of mind been rated with the rest of the
inhabitants. Great part of the lands is lately purchased by citizens
of Hereford who deny to join with the rest of the parishioners in the
payment of the last assessment for shipping. Upon petition to the
Judges of Assize these citizens of Hereford were ordered to contribute,
and an attachment was awarded against the refusers as appears by
the papers annexed. These parishes being wholly within manors
belonging to the Bishop of Hereford, and altogether freed from
impositions within the city, petitioners pray they may have such aid
in the payment from the said citizens as anciently they have had.
[1 p.] Annexed, |
75. i. Petition of the Churchwardens and Overseers of Holmer,
co. Hereford, on behalf of themselves and the rest of the
inhabitants, to Sir William Jones, one of the Justices
of Assize. State the circumstances mentioned in the
preceding petition and pray relief. [Copy. ½ p.]
Underwritten, |
75. i.i. Order of the Court of Assizes that the citizens of Hereford
who had purchased lands as above stated should be
equally taxed with the constant inhabitants of the
said parish. 10th March 1634–5. [Copy. 6 lines.] |
75. i. ii. Petition of the Churchwardens and Overseers of Holmer
as above-mentioned, to Sir William Jones. Thomas
Alderne, Charles Booth, and divers others that have
lands within Holmer have refused to pay the taxations
assessed upon them. Pray further order for relief.
[Copy.=⅓ p.] |
75. i. iii. Fiat of Sir William Jones that an attachment be granted
against all them that refuse to pay according to the
former order. 15 July 1635. [Copy. 5 lines.] |
76. Algernon, Earl of Northumberland, to Sec. Windebank.
His Majesty's command shall be obeyed. The Mary Rose shall be
at Portsmouth ready to receive the Duke of Lorraine's minister. A
less than she is not fit to send into those parts lest she should meet
with some Turks who at this time of the year are very busy in those
seas. [1 p.] |
77. Book of Accounts relating to the Anne Royal, containing,
1. Valuation of her rigging and carpenter's stores. 2. The like of
provisions delivered out for weighing her up. 3. The like of her
rigging and stores returned to Chatham. The whole charge was
6,401l. 1s. 5d., the return 2,965l. 17s. 1d., so that there had been
wasted by her loss 3,435l. 4s. 4d., and in victuals for 300 men for
five months 1,487l. 10s., besides powder and munition and damage
to the hull. [24 pp., of which 7 are blank.] |
78. Account of charges to be deducted upon the Anne Royal, being
not pertinent to the weighing of her, of which proceedings Sir
Henry Palmer and Capt. Pett were eye-witnesses, who gave
attendance night and day to further the business. These charges
comprise the cost of the hire of vessels and of labour for taking out
the ordnance, masts, and stores, and for carrying the ship up to
Blackwall. [1½ p.] |
79. Certificate of Bence Johnson that Thomas Methwold, purser
of the Great Neptune for the late expedition, served from 1st March
1635–6 to 1st October following. [¼ p.] |
80. Petition of Dame Elizabeth Darrell, widow and executrix of
Sir Sampson Darrell, late surveyor of marine victuals, to Lord
Treasurer Juxon. The late Commissioners of the Treasury, on
view of her husband's accounts, and her demands thereupon examined
by Sir Edward Wardour, Sir William Becher, and Mr. Nicholas,
referred the consideration of some things therein to the Officers of
the Navy, and appointed petitioner to pay to Sir William Russell
3,282l. 3s. 2½d., monies which her husband formerly received of
him, and expressed their intention, that sum being paid, to take
into consideration her demands. The Officers of the Navy have
made their certificate, and the money has been paid to Sir William
Russell. Petitioner has yet some of her husband's estate remaining
in her hands, and is willing to pay the same in satisfaction of any
further debt to his Majesty, but cannot do so until the Lord Treasurer determines what allowance shall be made her upon her
demands. If not settled before next term she shall be obliged
to pay the amount in her hands away to other creditors, under
suits of law already commenced. Prays for a settlement accordingly. [1 p.] |
81. Propositions for making Gunpowder, by Samuel Cordewell
and George Collins, the contractors who succeeded John Evelyn
as gunpowder-maker to his Majesty. A copy of this paper is already
calendered under the date of 29th April, 1636 (Vol. cccxix. No. 69).
The present copy is attested by Nicholas. [3¼ pp.] |
82. John Miner to Thomas Thornhill, saltpetreman. Complains
of William Hopkins of the Isle of Wight, soapboiler, and Thomas
Baskett, recorder of Newport, for refusing to allow him to purchase
potashes for the saltpetre works in that island, committing him to
sergeants' ward, and keeping him in the same until he deposited 3l.,
when he was released upon an undertaking to return with a better
authority. [This was probably dated in November 1636; see other
papers relating to this transaction at pp. 217, 220. 1 p.] |
83. Account of money paid to the Lieutenant of the Ordnance for
emptions and powder for the 25 ships fitted out this year, with a
separate account of the sums disbursed for emptions for the first fleet
of 15 ships. [2 pp.] |
84. Similar account of all ordnance, ammunition, and habiliments
of war, delivered during the year 1636, out of the stores of the Office
of Ordnance, for supplying the Triumph and 23 others of his Majesty's
ships, with the remain and expense thereof, and the value of the said
expense. Total value of the expense, 7,949l. 9s. 11¾d. [136 pp., of
which 23 are blank.] |
85. Allegations to be proved [in the Court of High Commission ?]
respecting the drunkenness and scandalous misconduct of Mr. Harrison, tutor to Mr. Francis West's sons. Some of the transactions
mentioned occurred at Barnes. [¾ p.] |
86. Notes of various payments made to the Officers of the Ecclesiastical Court at Ipswich, probably materials used in the preparation
of the articles preferred against Henry Dade, the commissary there,
as to which, see Vol. cccii., No. 140. [4 pp.] |
87. Collection of papers relating to a cause in the Court of Arches
between Richard Newbery, parson of the parish of St. Katharine
Creechurch, London, complainant, and John Brewer, Richard Glover,
James Parker, James Smith, and others, defendants. The cause
related to the proper mode of electing churchwardens and sidesmen
in that parish; and the point in the same was, whether such election
was in the vestry of the parish or in the parishioners at large. The
papers here thrown together consist of the following separate
articles:— |
87. i. Copy of the libel in the said cause. [Latin. 5¾ pp.] |
87. ii. Minutes of various proceedings in the above cause as to
the admission of the libel and monition of witnesses.
13 June 1636. [Latin. 4 pp.] |
87. iii. Answers of John Brewer, Richard Glover, William (sic)
Smith, and George (sic) Parker, to the preceding libel.
[3 pp.] |
87. iv. Articles in the said cause exhibited on behalf of the defendant Brewer and others. 18th June 1636. [3 pp.] |
87 v. Answers of John Bill to interrogatories exhibited in the
above cause on the part of Newbery, the complainant.
[9½ pp.] |
88. Notes upon the title of Basil Lord Fielding to the manors of
Newnham and Monks Kirby, co. Warwick, with other lands and
tenements in the same county and in co. Leicester, with some words
inserted by Solicitor-General Littleton. [3¾ pp.] |
89. "Reasons to prove the draining of the Flete, near Weymouth,
to be of dangerous consequence to the State." The Flete severed
"the sandy beach or Chesill, as they term it," from the mainland,
and the danger anticipated was principally the facility for landing
which would thereby be given to an invading enemy. The reasons
pro and con are stated at length, and from an annexed slip of paper
it would seem that the case was solicited by Barnard Michell, one of
the magistrates of Weymouth. [2 pp.] |
90. Number of alehouse keepers in co. Lancaster, as divided into
hundreds, and by whom they were licensed, anno 1636. [1½ p.] |
91. Objection stated [by Henry Lambe] to a certificate returned
to the Board with respect to the recovery of any damage which may
be done by his barges to mills situate upon the stream from the
Ouse to Bury St. Edmunds, which he was to make navigable. It
was sought to be provided that if such damage, assessed upon oath
by two witnesses, was not paid within 14 days, the patent should be
forfeited, the locks be stopped, and the boats be debarred from
passing for ever. Lambe suggests that it would be sufficient to stay
the boats until satisfaction were made. [½ p.] |
92. Petition of Henry Lambe, servant to the Queen, to the King.
A fourth commission issued out of the Court of Chancery, authorizing
divers gentlemen of Suffolk and Norfolk, for viewing and making
navigable a river from Bury St. Edmunds to the Ouse, having been
executed, is ready to be presented to the Board. Nothing being
alleged against the work in general, but some scruples raised to
discourage undertakers, and especially petitioner, who has been put
to the expense of 2,000l. for defending so good a work. Prays the
King to be present at the Board, which shall put a period to the
business. [¾ p.] |
93. Justices of the Peace for co. Hertford to the Council. Having
been importuned by two grand juries, and by the judges at the last
assizes, and otherwise, they offer a statement of the inconveniences
and damages which are discovered to arise in that county from the
restraints of malt-making, and chiefly in the towns of Stortford,
Hitchin, Baldock, Ashwell, Royston, and other of the champaign
parts of the county. The most maltsters in that county are of mean
ability, and are chiefly employed by gentlemen and others, who send
their barleys to them to be malted for the provision of their houses;
also widows, the portions of orphans, servants who have some small
stock, and others who like not to put their money to usury, buy
barley and hire the malting of it by the quarter. These poor
maltsters are very useful to the county, pay good rents, and have
borne all taxes. So in the villages, many petty maltsters make malt
for themselves and supply the markets; they bear offices and pay
taxes, but being restrained, must turn day-labourers, of whom many
already want work. So again, malt making continued little more
than half a year; many mechanics and men of small trades employed
their wives, children, and servants in malt-making, whilst themselves
followed other callings. The disastrous consequences of a change in
such a state of things is strongly urged and exemplified in a great
variety of ways, especially as regarded its effect upon the county and
the King's service, all which is humbly submitted to the consideration of the Council. [1½ p.] |
94. Minutes of petitions of Capt. Pennington, that he had received
no penny by the Privy Seal for 1,000l., or the grant of the reversion
of Hansloe [Hanslope] Park, given to him for good service, and prays
a further grant of Hanslope Park and Manor; also of the yoeman
and three grooms of the robes, and the two gentlemen of the
cellar and buttery, praying that they may have the like grant
of fees on creation of peers, bishops, and knights, as was lately
given to the pages of the bedchamber; also of William Barker,
Examiner of the Court of Chancery in Ireland, praying an examination of the reasons inducing the new grant whereby he has been
deprived of the moiety of his said office; also of George Detton,
uncle to Mary and Anne Detton, co-heirs and wards, praying the
King for a reference to settle an order for redress of wrongs done to
the said wards by Sir George Wrottesley, surviving grantee of their
wardship since the death of George Detton, their grandfather; and
also of Abraham Vanderdort, praying that he may have one patent
for his life of his several offices of Keeper of his Majesty's Cabinet
Room at St. James's, and provider of patterns and stamps for
coining gold and silver. [1 p.] |
95. Petition of Mary Burrell, widow, and the five sons of William
Burrell, deceased, the sister and nephews of Lancelot, late Bishop
of Winchester, to the King. Petitioner's husband, who was a faithful
servant in the Commission for the Navy, disbursed the greatest part
of his estate in building engines and wharfs for cleansing the
Thames, which cost him 2,862l., of which sum he paid 740l. unto
divers servants of the late King for two patents to enable him to
perform that work. Thomas Smith has, of late, plotted to raise a
tax of 2d. to be paid by the city for every ton of ballast taken out
of the Thames, and 2d. a ton to be paid by the coal ships, it being
only to enable him to pay the King a rent of 1,000 marks, and
wrest petitioners' estates from them. Pray that petitioners' rights
may be protected, or that if such a rent is to be paid, it may be
divided between petitioners and the said Smith, and that petitioners
may receive the payment of 2d. a ton from the city and the coal
ships for such proportion of ballast as they shall take out of the
river. [¾ p.] |
96. Hubert le Sueur to the King. Prays him to order payment
of 100l. for a Mercury for her Majesty's fountain; also for his
Majesty's portrait with the imperial crown wholly gilt, what he shall
please. [The King or some one else has written in the margin, £30;]
also for three patterns,—two of Venus, one of Bacchus, all of wax,
9l. [Subscribed by his "Majesty's most humble, obedient, and
unworthy Praxiteles, Le Sueur." 1 p.] |
97. Bill of Hubert le Sueur for various works of sculpture
delivered to the King. They comprise 18 heads, whereof 15 are
of philosophers and three of "the like bigness," charged at 30l.
a piece, but reduced by the King to 24l., two great busts at
50l. a piece, but reduced to 40l.; a great Diana, 200l. and not
reduced; an image pulling out a thorn, 60l., reduced to 50l.;
his Majesty's image, with the crown and order well gilt, 60l.,
which is struck out, the King having written against the
item, "This I will not haue." For reforming a brass head and
making for it a foot of black marble, and also for renewing
all the moulds and make the same of plaster, 10l., reduced to 6l.—
Total 720l. [Signed: "Praxiteles; le Sueur." 1 p.] |
98. Estimate of the new building of the Tower that is now
fallen down at the west end of the cathedral church of Chichester,
1636; total 3,404l. 3s. The estimate included not only the rebuilding of the tower which had fallen, but repairs of that part of
the north side of the church which was called the Subdeanery, a
general repair of the roofs, with the lead on the roofs, which
latter was much decayed, and had been the ruin of all the rest;
also the removal of the bells from the steeple where they very
unnecessarily hung, "to the great hurt of the steeple," into the
new western tower intended to be erected. [2 pp.] |
99. Minute of an application of William Wyn, who had a
grant of the office of prothonotary in North Wales in reversion,
that he might renew his grant with the addition of two other
lives. [½ p.] |
100. Sir Robert Sharpeigh to Mr. Hanby. Has given William
Shepard 20s. towards his journey to Bristol and other places.
What money Hanby shall disburse in prosecution of this business he shall have allowed out of the moneys from Gomeldon.
[½ p.] |
101. Minute of a licence to Dr. Tucker, the vicar of [Old]
Windsor to read divine service, not being in deacons' orders nor
20 years of age. He was son of the former incumbent. [In handwriting of Archbishop Laud. 4 lines.] |
102–103. See "Papers relating to Appointments in the Navy." |
104–110. See "Returns made by Justices of Peace." |