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1. Articles touching the reformation of abuses in ecclesiastical
government [probably submitted to the Lords' Committee appointed
to consider the Bill of Bishop Williams of Lincoln]. (1.) All the
Bishops under 70 years old, in their own dioceses, not being sick,
to preach every Lord's Day, or pay 5l. to the poor. (2.) No Archbishops, Bishops, or any other person being in orders and having
care of souls, to be Judge of the Star Chamber, or Privy Counsellor,
or Justice of the Peace, or a commissioner from any temporal court,
under several penalties and disabilities, excepting the two Universities, honourable persons by descent, and the Dean of Westminster
in Westminster and St. Martin's-le-Grand only. (3.) 12 assistants
to the Bishop of every diocese respectively to be chosen out of
every shire or county of England and Wales, whereof six to assist
the Bishop and approve of every ordination of ministers; one or
two to assist in all ecclesiastical judgment or sentence, and to allow
of appeals; six to be present in the hearing of appeals made to the
Bishop, and the assistants to attend upon summons under penalty
of 10l. (4.) Election of Archbishops and Bishops for the time to
come to be performed by the Dean and the Chapter, and all the
assistants in that diocese, who are to recommend three persons in
holy orders out of that or any other diocese to the King's Majesty,
who will be pleased to name one of them that shall be consecrated
and translated to the Bishopric within 20 days after the congé
d'élire received, else the nomination is devolved to the King.
(5.) No Deans and Chapters or Residentiaries or Prebendaries in
Cathedral or College Churches to reside from their said cure above
60 days in the year. To preach two sermons every Sunday, and
one lecture in the week day, in the place where their cathedrals are
situated, upon a pain of 100l. to the King, and loss of their profits
for one year, which is to go to raise a stock for the poor of that
town or city. (6.) The fourth part of the fines of all leases made
by the Archbishops, Bishops, Deans, Deacons, and Chapters,
Dignities, Prebendaries, as also of Masters, Fellows, and Scholars
of Colleges in both Universities, to be set aside to raise a stock to
buy out all the impropriations of this kingdom. This money to be
delivered to collectors named by the Parliament, who are to present
clerks the first time to the said impropriations, and afterwards
for every the Archbishops, Bishops, and other Corporations from
whence the money was raised, and of the remaining fine upon all
impropriations, the vicar or curate to be paid the tenth part.
(7.) All residentiaries that have a benefice with cure of souls to
pay to the curate (who is to be a preacher) for the time of his nonresidence, in proportion to the moiety of the entire value of such a
benefice; and all double-beneficed men or pluralists to keep a
preacher that shall preach twice on the Lord's Day upon the
benefice from which he shall be non-resident, and to allow him an
entire moiety of the profits of the said benefice for his labour and
pains. (8.) The regulating of Courts Ecclesiastical. No citation to
be issued forth before the libel and the articles be in. No proceedings hereafter ex officio mero, but the Judge and Registrar shall
pay the costs to the party innocent. None to accuse themselves in
criminal causes upon oaths imposed upon them. The defendant is
to answer within 20 days after citation. Both parties to examine
their proofs within four months after. No exception against the
credit of witnesses, but upon matter of record in a court civil or
ecclesiastical. All causes to be ended within the year. A competent number of proctors and apparitors to be assigned to every
consistory by the Bishops and six assistants. No suitor to go to
law upon trust in those courts. No proctors to take fees for
desiring continuance of days. No more appeals but two, one to the
Bishop in person and his assistants, and the other to the King's
delegates. The Arches and Audience in matters of appeal set
aside as unnecessary and vexatious. (9.) The laws ecclesiastical
in use in this kingdom to be collected and abridged in the English
tongue by 16 learned men, to be named, six by the King, five
by the House of Lords, and five by the House of Commons;
that Archbishops, Bishops, Deans, Archdeacons, and Prebendaries
may understand (which now they do not) by what laws they judge,
and the King's people may likewise know by what laws they are
to be judged. [12/3 p.] |
| July 1. |
2. Pass for Sir Henry Audley, Knt., and Lady Anne his wife, to
travel into foreign parts for three years, and to take with them
four servants, their trunks of apparel, &c., with a proviso not to go
to Rome, and the usual clause to the searcher. [Minute, ½ p.] |
July 1,
Whitehall. |
3. Sidney Bere to [Sir John Pennington]. By the enclosed you
will see what has passed in the business of Father Phillips, and
wherefore he was examined, but since nothing has been done or
mentioned therein. The journal will tell you all till Monday, since
which the Earl of Holland is gone to the army to disband five
regiments; and that he may be better obeyed now that martial
law is forbidden, the enclosed proclamation is published. The
treaty with the Scots is finished between the Commissioners, and
to-day or to-morrow Lords Rothes and Dumferlin go for Scotland
to have it ratified there, and then it shall be enacted in both
Parliaments. Till their return the total disbanding will hardly be,
but 'tis said they shall begin as we, with five regiments, and retire
out of the Bishopric to Newcastle. Another particular, I am told, is
agreed on, which is very material,—that Commissioners are appointed
to know the debts due to the counties of Durham and Northumberland by the Scots, and that their payment shall be deducted here
before the moneys be given to the Scots. The day for the King's
journey is not fully resolved; the Parliament insist for the 10th
of August, to which the King will agree if the Scots will dispense
with his promise till then. There has been to-day in the Commons
a motion to divide the Bill for putting down the Star Chamber and
limiting the Council Board, referring this last to further debate,
and that at present the Bill should only go for the Star Chamber,
which is a good moderation for the present, for the Lords will not
easily let go anything concerning the other. Sir Balthazar Gerbier
has let himself be drawn by degrees into a business before the
Upper House, whereby I fear he will suffer in Court, having done it
without the King's leave. It is a discovery of divers passages of
moment concerning the States of Flanders which reflect on this
State very much, and Lord Cottington is, as it were, accused to be
the person that did the ill service. In fine, it will be hard to prove
whoe'er it be, and so you may imagine what a strength of ill will
he brings upon him. He alleged me in one particular, whereupon
I was sent for, and was fain before the whole House to answer
what I knew; which I did freely, since I was by authority commanded so to do, but would I had been let alone, for all truths are
not expedient to be known. Yet I hope I have not suffered for so
little as I had to say, and that my ingenuity of expression will
excuse me; but in these ticklish times and on such occasions, it's
safe to know little. What will be the issue of all I know not. Not
to return, I think, is the least effect of the displeasure, nor indeed
were it any [loss], considering how the Spaniards hate him, so that
he may justly suspect there is little safety for him there. I have
news from the Hague that Mr. Murray was gone to the army, so
that by this time he may be on his return. The Portugal treaty
was as good as concluded till this week's letters brought news of a
treaty concluded in Holland so prejudicial to our merchants that it
hath caused a stop in ours. The report is here very rife that the
French Ambassador will speak high, but as yet I find it not.
[2 pp.] |
July 1,
London. |
4. Thos. Wiseman to [Sir John Pennington]. There is found still
one device or other for staying the Scots, being 14 days' license
more given to them. God send us well rid of them, and then we
may hope to enjoy our ancient peace, both of Church and Commonwealth ; for till they are gone, whate'er they pretend, we find they
are the only disturbers of both. The Parliament sat close, and I
believe will hardly adjourn this year; they have so much business
cut out to finish, besides new that is brought to them continually.
Sir Balthazar Gerbier two days since accused Lord Cottington of
high treason, but I hear his witnesses fail him in the proof, and it
is like to come to nothing. What the particulars are is variously
reported ; only this is the general, that he should advise the King
of Spain of some employment our King some five or six years ago
had given Gerbier to his prejudice. But Gerbier is utterly lost, and,
it is thought, will never see Brussels again, though his commission
was signed for his departure. It is thought likewise my Lord of
Leicester will be prevented from going Lieutenant into Ireland,
because, they say, something he has done has displeased the Parliament, and my Lord of Bristol stands upon as ill terms with
it. [1 p.] |
July 1,
Westminister. |
5. Edward Nicholas to Sir John Pennington. I am now come to
this town to reside during this my month of attendance at the
Council Board, and shall be very glad of any happy occasion here
to serve you or any friend of yours. The King's journey towards
Scotland is put off till about the 10th of next month; and what in
these active times may happen between this and that, God knows.
The Queen's going to Holmby is likewise deferred, but for how
long is not yet known. The Parliament is passing of an Act
for levying of money by the poll, which Bill is passed the
Commons, as is alse the Bill against the Court of Star Chamber
and the Council Board, and is now with the Lords, where it is
thought they will pass with expedition. Marquis of Hertford is
made Lord Governor to the Prince upon the resignation of the Earl
of Newcastle. Sir Balthazar Gerbier has presented a heavy charge
or accusation to the Upper House against Lord Cottington, but it
is conceived he will not be able to make it good, two of his principal
witnesses having upon oath declared that they know nothing of
the business. Mr. Capell, of Hertfordshire, shall be made a baron
for certain, and some say that there shall be two or three barons
more created shortly. Baronets are now become so cheap as that
honor is sold for only 400l. It is said that the Earl Marshal shall
be restored to the honour of Duke of Norfolk, but of this you will
hear more certainly very shortly. Yesterday Mr. Pollard (one of
the soldiers committed for treason) was by the House bailed, and is
gone into the country. Sunday last the French Ambassador had
audience at Whitehall; he is homme d'épée, and an expert courtier.
By this inclosed you will see the heads of propositions preparing by
the Parliament to be presented to the King. There is nothing done
of late against Episcopacy or against the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The charges against the Judges are by the Commons transmitted
up to the Lords, but without naming it treason, misdemeanour, or
anything at all. My Lord Admiral is now at Sion, and goes on
Monday to the wells at Tunbridge to try the virtue of the waters
there. We are here in a very unstable and uncertain condition,
expecting every day some alteration in the Government or amongst
the Governors. Your news of the great overthrow given by the
Hollanders to the pirates of Algiers is very welcome, and will ease
you of care and trouble. I shall now continue my weekly letters
to you, and be ever ready though unable to serve you. P.S—The
Earl of Traquair is absented from hence, no man knows whither.
Our friend Mr. Jacob Braems was well on Saturday, and died
Monday last in this town. Sir John Millicent, the serjeant-porter,
died a fortnight since, and Sir Henry Mervin shall, as it is thought,
have his place. [Copy. 1½ pp.] |
| July 2. |
6. Certificate of Sir Selwyn Parker, J.P., that Miles Woodshawe,
of, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, has taken the oath of allegiance.
[Paper seal with arms and crest. ½ p.] |
July 2/12,
Paris. |
7. Robert Reade to Thos. Windebank. My uncle is not at all
ambitious of employment here, but wishes he were quiet at home.
In my letters of the 28th June I informed you that my uncle did not
think fit to write to the Queen in the particular you desired, but
had written to her in general in your favour, and that Mr. Montague
had likewise given you a special remembrance to her Majesty, and
written to some other friends in your behalf. Mrs. Civet, also, at the
same time, desired her mother and Mademoiselle Coignet to befriend
you to her Majesty on all occasions. In my letter of the 5th July
(this stile) you were to receive a letter from Mr. Secretary to Sir John
Innes, together with a copy of one written by him to my uncle,
charging him to have been the cause of his imprisonment, for
the clearing of which I desired you to speak with Mr. Nicholas.
Repeats substance of his letter of the 25 June. [See Vol. 481, No. 63.]
Another particular there was concerning my Lady [Windebank],
she desiring very much to come hither to my uncle, since she saw
no likelihood of his returning yet. He was very willing she
should come, but fearing to fall into want here, the place being
so dear to live in with a family, he desired that all the plate,
brocatellies, and other things at London of value might be
turned into money and made over hither, and that you would
endeavour to get in all or a part of that little money which
is abroad, and make it over likewise, that himself and his
family, if they should come, might not be exposed to necessity in
a strange country. I then signified to you my uncle's desire that
you would speak with Mr. Treasurer (to whom he wrote himself
with those letters) to favour him in the payment of those monies
that were due to him in the House and Exchequer, and to take some
course for securing the monies due upon the Privy Seal for the Post
business. |
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The Princes of the League at Sedan have very lately given a
great blow to the army of this [the French] king sent thither
under the Comte de Chatillon; but withal those princes have lost in
the battle the Comte de Soissons, which makes the blow to be on
their side, since he was the head of that party, and the only
person considerable in it, the rest being far inferior to him both in
power and in the affections of the people, so that they make account
that business is ended by his death, which otherwise would have
gone so near them as to have forced them to raise the siege of Aire,
and to have served themselves with that army for the quenching
of that fire. I pray God settle the business of England so as we
may enjoy peace, and in the next place I hope I may pray for our
happy meeting and deliverance from this servitude. [Seal with
arms. 2 pp.] |
July 2,
Whitehall. |
8. Secretary Vane to Sir Thos. Roe. I have received your
despatch of the 19/29 ultimo, being heartily glad to understand of your
safe arrival so far on your way, although it has been with some
incommodity, which a good success in your negociations would soon
make you forget. I have acquainted both his Majesty and the
Prince Elector with the contents of your despatch, who commend very
much your diligence, and the solid judgments you give on the
present state of affairs there, as you find them disposed hitherto.
I hope at your arrival at Ratisbon they will answer more fully your
expectation and the invitations inducing his Majesty to this
embassage, which we hope will be the subject of your next despatch. |
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In the meantime, to give you some light of our affairs here, I
shall only tell you that we are still about the Church business,
which, if it were once accommodated, no doubt but all things else
would be happily and quickly settled. The treaty with the Scotch
is concluded so far that it only depends upon a ratification from
Edinburgh, for which the Lords Loudoun and Dunfermline are gone
thither, and are expected back very shortly. The earl of Holland
is gone to the army with order to disband five regiments, and the
rest to follow as monies come in, so that we hope to have all the
armies disbanded against his Majesty's going for Scotland, which is
put off until 10th August. |
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The Queen Mother is still with us, the Infante Cardinal having
refused her passage through Flanders, and so expects the return of
Mr. Murray, whom his Majesty sent to ask the like favour from the
States and Prince of Orange. |
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Sir Balthazar Gerbier being on his departure for Brussels was
examined by the Lords of the Upper House concerning his employment in those parts, on which occasion he has made a long relation
of divers particulars concerning the discontent of those States some
years past, wherein my Lord Cottington (if it can be proved) will
be highly concerned, whereof I shall hereafter further advertise
you. In the meanwhile he still remains here. |
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We are now almost come to a conclusion with the Portugal
ambassadors, but an advertisement, come this last week from
Holland, has cast in a rub, bearing that they should have articled
with the West India Company in Holland that no ships should be
freighted or employed to the Brazil but Hollanders, to the utter
exclusion of the English, whereby our merchants are much alarmed,
but the ambassadors here disclaim any such agreement. |
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Count Rosetti is gone for Flanders, and certainly the Queen
Mother, though she had her passage to Cullein [Cologne] refused by
the Cardinal, I am of opinion she will not be refused by the States
and Prince of Orange. [2 pp.] |
July 3,
York. |
9. Warrant of Henry Earl of Holland to Henry Wilmott,
Commissary-General of the Horse, or, in his absence, to the officer
commanding the regiment to execute martial law. Whereas I have
cause to apprehend that the troopers in his Majesty's army, believing
themselves to be free from the rule of martial law, have taken the
greater liberty to disobey their commanders, and officers and to
oppress the inhabitants of the country. These are to require you,
for the prevention of any such insolencies for the future, to give to
them public notice, that I am resolved, according to the powers
given to me for governing the said army, to punish all and every
of them offending against the rule and discipline of war, in such
manner as by the law martial their several offences shall deserve ;
and therefore that you advise and exhort them so to demean themselves as they may not provoke the just severity of that law, which
I desire may be a rule for their direction rather than for their
punishment. [Endorsed: Received this warrant the 6th July 1641,
about four in the afternoon. Seal with arms and coronet. 1 p.] |
| July 3. |
10. Order of the House of Commons that the Earl of Warwick shall
have power to pay the Scots' Commissioners a month's pay out of
those monies that shall come to his hands, and that the clerk shall
deliver to Mr. Pym copies of all the orders upon which the Earl of
Warwick has formerly paid monies to the Scots to be delivered to
the Committee appointed to draw discharges for such monies.
[Printed in Commons' Journal, ii., 197. ½ p.] |
| July 3. |
11. [Edward Nicholas to Lady Mary, wife of Sir Robert Carr.]
Good Madam, I am greatly weary of the Court and of my attendance
here as I am now, and though I am but at the entrance into my month's
waiting yet I am already tired with having nothing to do. I see
nothing hereabout that may give a rational and moderate man any
measure of content or hope for good. I am told for certain that
your uncle, Sir John Davis, shall marry the rich Lady Thynne.
Sir B[althazar] Gerbier, who accused the Lord Cottington, is not
like to make his complaint good, two of his principal witnesses
having already declared to the Parliament that they knew nothing
of the business. Here is a French ambassador come over lately,
who is very busy at Court, but can do no good, notwithstanding he
is a soldier. There is no speech now of the King or Queen stirring
from hence, but the day of the King's journey to Scotland is agreed
by Parliament to be the 10th of August. There were many to be
made Peers, as Sir James Thynne, Sir Arthur Ingram, and others,
who were all of them to pay for it, but their market is marred by
the Parliament, who intend to pass an Act or Order that no honours
or dignities shall be sold, and so they will hinder not only the
making of these lords but also any baronets, and there is an Act
passing to take away totally all baronetcies of Nova Scotia, and to
enact that no baronets shall have that dignity or title but for life.
[Draft in Nicholas's shorthand. ½ p.] |
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The same to the same. Good Madam, I know so little reason
why you and my noble Lord should win any gloves of me and see
so small appearance of it, as I am resolved, when I shall have the
honour to see you again, to leave with your Ladyship the size of my
hand that you may do me the favour in payment of your last
wager to fit the gloves the better. My Lord even now told me he
would double the wager if I liked it, which I took to be but a brag
to move me to a composition, finding his hopes of gaining so slight.
The King has declared in Council he holds his resolution to set forth
for Scotland Monday next come se'nnight, by which time I shall be
barehanded if you pay not your losses, and therefore, I pray, be
pleased to take care of me. Since I saw you I have seriously
considered that business you spake of, and find the objections and
doubts by you expressed to be nothing in balance of the advantages
that may accrue to your Ladyship. [Draft in Nicholas's shorthand,
written on the same paper as the preceding. ½ p.] |
| July 5. |
12. William Viscount Save and Sele to Sir John Lambe, Dean of
the Arches Court at Doctors' Commons. Thanks him for his care
in the business of George Blunt, and begs him, in case judgment
shall be given for his kinsman the said George Blunt, to award him
costs. In regard Dr. Zouch dismissed the cause out of his Court
without costs, I shall recommend it to you that such fellows may
receive punishment for their practice to inveigle men's children who
have been heretofore punished for notorious misdemeanours by myself
and other justices in Oxfordshire where they dwell. [Seal with
impression of a coin. ½ p.] |
July 5,
York House. |
13. Algernon Earl of Northumberland to Sir John Pennington.
Concerning the insolencies and misdemeanours of your seamen, both
in Spain and at home, mentioned in your letter of the 2nd inst.,
I am very sensible, but, as things stand, know not how to give a
remedy thereunto; nevertheless, when I shall see a proper season,
I shall take care to make the Parliament acquainted therewith, and
know their pleasure. |
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As for the pay of the Greyhound's couplement, this day Capt.
Batten is by my order to receive 200l., which he shall bring
you about the middle of this week to be distributed as far as it will
go, and as soon as we can get more (for money is very hard with us
as yet) I shall give order for more to be sent to you. |
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I am this day going to Tunbridge to see what benefit I may receive
from those waters. The time of my stay there is uncertain, but
I would have you continue the sending your letters to London, and
direct them as formerly to myself at York House, from whence you
shall have answer as occasion shall require. [1 p.] |
| July 5. |
14. A pass for Miles Woodshaw, of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, to
travel into foreign parts for three years, with a proviso that he go
not to Rome. [Minute. ¼ p.] |
| July 5. |
15. Brief of a cause in the Queen's Court [at Denmark House].
Sir Thos. Cheeke and others, on behalf of themselves and the rest of
the tenants and inhabitants of the manor of Havering-at-Bower,
Rumford, Essex, plaintiffs, against Wm. Morley and George Glanvill
and others, defendants. Plaintiffs by their Bill set forth that the
manor of Havering has ever been part of the demesne lands of the
Crown of England. Time out of mind there have been fairs and
markets held at Hornechurch and Rumford, both parcels of the said
manor, at which the free tenants of the manor have been exempted
from paying toll. The defendants, pretending themselves to be
owners of the pens and stalls, have exacted toll from the free tenants
against their privilege. |
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Mr. Morley having died pendente lite, George Glanvill, to whom
he sold the tolls before his death, makes answer and defence. That
King James granted the said manor, appurtenances, fairs, markets,
pens, &c., to Sir James Fullerton for a term of 99 years, and since
that time the remainder of the term of 99 years descended by
several mean assignments for a valuable consideration to the
defendant. Whether the said tenants are exempted from paying
toll or not, is a matter of record, but he hopes to prove that they
have been used to pay toll, &c. But if the privilege shall be
extended against the King and his farmers, he conceives it ought to
be allowed to the plaintiffs only for such particular goods as arise
and are reared in and upon the demesne lands, or which the tenants
shall only buy for their use in their families or to be spent in their
houses. [Noted in margin by Dr. Lambe. Sheet = 2 pp.] |
July 5,
London |
16. Henry De Vic to Sir John Pennington, Admiral of the Fleet,
aboard the "St. Andrew" in the Downs. The King begins his
journey for Scotland on Monday next. The Queen Mother should
have gone this day, but her indisposition has not only hindered it,
but rendered the time of her departure uncertain. The Scots
demand, as a condition necessarily to precede the disbanding or
retreat of their army, the payment of 200,000l., i.e. 120,000l. for
arrears, and 80,000l. as part of the brotherly benevolence. This
being performed, they promise to depart with their whole army
within 48 hours, otherwise they must still continue where they are.
Only this favour they can and will do to comply with the Parliament's occasions:—that whereas they are indebted to those of Newcastle and the country thereabout some 28,000l., they are content
that sum shall be deducted from the 200,000l. on condition the
Parliament will undertake the payment thereof to their creditors.
Yesterday 13 Bishops were impeached of high misdemeanour,
amounting to a prœmunire, by the House of Commons. The
term set down in the last Bill for tonnage and poundage being to
expire upon Tuesday next, it is doubted the other for the continuing
of it for a longer time will hardly pass before the King's journey, and
what may follow thereupon you will easily imagine. The great
haste I am in, and the hope I have to be shortly with you in my
way for Brussels, for which place I am now despatched to succeed
to Mr. Gerbier, makes me to be shorter with you than I expected.
I hope I shall find the same willingness in you for accommodating
me with a ship for my transportation. P.S.—Sir Henry Mervin is
sworn in his place of Sergeant-porter. [Seal broken. 1½ pp.] |
| July 5. |
17. The King's speech in the House of Lords this day, when
he passed the Bills for taking away the Star Chamber and regulating
the Council Board, and for taking away the High Commission Court. |
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I come to perform that which I did promise on Saturday last,
which was speedily to give my determinate answer to these two
Bills. But before I do it, I must tell you that I cannot but be very
sensible of those demonstrations of discontent that I hear some have
made for my not giving my assent on Saturday last. Methinks 'tis
strange that anybody should think I could pass two Bills of that
importance as these are without taking some fit time to consider of
them. For it is no less than to alter in a great measure those fundamental laws ecclesiastical and civil which many of my best-governing
predecessors have established. Nay, though I had refused them, I
had therein but concurred with the wisdom of our ancestors, lest
in offering to confute their judgments, I should show less myself.
And if you consider what I have done this Parliament, discontent
will not sit in your hearts, for I hope you remember that I have
granted that the Judges hereafter shall hold their places "Quam diu
bene se gesserint." I have bounded the Forests, not according to my
right, but according to late customs. I have established the property
of the subject, as witness the free-giving way to the taking away
the ship-money. |
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I have determined by Act in Parliament the right of imposing by
the Bill of Tonnage of Poundage, which never was done in any my
predecessors' time. I have granted a law for a Triennial Parliament, and have assented to the Continuance of this Parliament for
the better securing of money advances for the disbanding of the
armies. I have given free course to justice against Delinquents. I
have put the law in execution against Papists. In a word, I have
given way to everything that hath been asked of me by the whole
Parliament. And therefore methinks you should not wonder if in
something I should now begin to refuse. But I hope you will not
ask what I shall deny, for I promise you that I shall not stick at
trivial matters to give you content, hoping you are so sensible of
those beneficial favours bestowed upon you at this time, that you
will rather think of retribution for them than repining. |
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To conclude, you know that by your consent there is a prefixed time
set for my going for Scotland, there being an absolute necessity for
it, and I do not know but that things may so fall out there that it
may be shortened; therefore I hope you will hasten the despatch of
those great businesses which are now necessary to be done, and
leave the trivial and less important matters to another meeting. |
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For my part I shall omit nothing that may give you just contentment, and study nothing more than your happiness. And of this I
am certain you shall see a very good testimony by the passing of
these two Bills, Le roy le veult. |
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This done, his Majesty said as followeth:—I have one word more
to speak unto you, now taking occasion to present to both Houses,
that whereby I hope all the world shall see that there is a good
understanding between me and my people. It is concerning my
nephew, the Prince Elector Palatine, who having desired me by the
advice of the King of Denmark to assist him in a treaty for his
restoration at the diet now held at Ratisbon by the Emperor, I
could not but send my ambassador for that purpose, though I am
afraid I shall not have so good an issue of it as I wish; the which
my nephew foreseeing, has desired me, for the better countenancing
of his just demands, to make a manifesto in my name, which is a
thing of that consequence that if I should do it alone without the
advice of my Parliament, it would be of much less force. Therefore
I do here propose it to you that by your advice I may do it, for that
way I think it most fit to be published in my name. [Printed in
Rushworth, iv., 307, but with many variations. 2 pp.] |
| July 6. |
18. Edward Hyde's speech at a conference between both Houses
of Parliament this day, at the transmission of the several impeachments against the Lord Chief Baron Davenport, Mr. Baron Trevor,
and Mr. Baron Weston. [Pamphlet, printed in Rushworth, iv., 333,
and continued in 342-344. Printed at London for Abel Roper, at
the Black Spread-Eagle, against St. Dunstan's Church, 1641. 12 pp.] |
| July 6. |
19. Sir William Uvedale to Matthew Bradley. I am glad of your
going to Hull, for then I am sure I am safe there. I pray let me
know how much money has been issued for the disbanding that
regiment, and what is defalked for the King's victuals, which you
know is the King's money, and must be reserved for his use. I desire
also to hear from you how the officer is contented with his half-pay,
and to what day you have paid him. We are here (now the Polltax Bill is passed) gathering in of monies as fast as we can, and I
hope the next week to send some more money towards you, and to
follow immediately after myself. I hope by this time you may
make some conjecture how far this 50,000l. will go towards
the disbanding of the foot after their manner, but it must be only
betwixt you and me. There is a great desire here to disband the
Horse in the next place after these five regiments. How that will
agree with the rules of soldiers I know not, but I have written to
Sir Jacob Ashley of it. [1 p.] |
July 7/17,
Paris. |
20. Robert Read to Thos. Windebank. My uncle is resolved to go
into the country for a few days to breathe a little sweet air, of which
there is but little in this town. I cannot but be glad when my
uncle gives himself any diversion from his melancholy contemplations, into which he is late more fallen than formerly, and makes
more frequent expressions of the sense he has of his misfortunes.
Money steals away insensibly here, so that I shall not be able to
spare my brother at Oxford anything out of my poor revenue so
long as I am here. Pray obtain 35l. of mine which Dr. Beard has,
and send it here. |
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Since the defeat given by Lamboy and the Princes of the League,
wherein the Count of Soissons was killed, those Princes have
besieged a little town by Sedan, and, as report here goes, have
taken it. |
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The Spaniards are so strong at Aire that the French yet receive
little satisfaction in that business. Divers skirmishes there have
been, in which the Spaniards are said to have the better, and the
report is this day come hither that the Marshal de Meilleure is
wounded there. All this troubles me not much, since I am not concerned in the gains or losses of either party, but some there are here
who take a pleasure in raising reports of the businesses in England,
so base and so dishonourable to the King and nation that I have
horror to hear them, and there want not those who are so apt to
believe every idle rumour that, though no letters nor other authority
confirm it, they think themselves injured if any man shall suspect
the truth of it. P.S.—Herewith is a copy of verses made on the
death of the Comte de Soissons. I would be glad to know whether
my letter that was intercepted was read in open Parliament or at
some committee. [Seal with arms. 3 pp.] |
July 7,
Bromsgrove. |
21. Certificate of John Hall, vicar of Bromsgrove, co. Worcester,
that Wm. Reynolds, of Bromsgrove aforesaid, formerly reputed to be
a recusant, has, according to the orders of the Church of England,
received the Sacrament, and does constantly come to his parish
church to hear divine service. Underwritten: Note of Henry
Townshend to the collector of the hundred of Halfshire. Mr. Reynolds having conformed, I conceive he ought not to pay the two
last subsidies by the poll. Elmley Lovett, 9 July 1641. [2/3 p.] |
July 8,
Whitehall. |
22. Council warrant to [the Lord High Admiral]. The King is
pleased that his new pinnace the "Swan," now in Ireland, shall be
employed this year for the guard of the Irish Seas; we therefore
pray you to give order that it be forthwith prepared, victualed, and
furnished for so long as you shall think requisite for guard of those
seas. [Draft. ⅓ p.] |
| July 8. |
23. Sidney Bere to Sir John Penington. I hear not of anything
yet that is done or intended in Parliament against the Marquis
Hamilton, though some will needs have him and the Earl of Bristol
to come into the number of those that should be removed from
about the King; and for the Earl of Northumberland he comes but
seldom to Court, which men impute to his indisposition of body
more than other ways, but with the Houses he stands very well, and
I believe it is his little appearance only in Court that causes those
various reports you speak of. When I shall learn anything certain,
you shall be sure to have it, for I find no difficulty at all in writing
what is public and obvious to every man's ear in Westminster Hall.
Indeed the liberty is so great that it is more than time to repress it.
For that scandalous supposed letter of Father [Robert] Phillips has
also been printed, but there is search made about it, and, can the
author be found, no doubt they will make him an example. |
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I thank you for the careful sense you seem to have of Sir Balthazar Gerbier's proceedings in my regard. I must confess he might
have prevented all, and not have embarked himself in the business,
especially without the knowledge of the King or Secretary of State,
but being in, what I had to say was a truth so manifest and material
to him that he could hardly balk me, and I find not but that it was
generally well taken what I said therein. If the business should go
forwards, I must needs come often into play; for, being then secretary to him, it cannot be imagined but those papers should have
passed my hand, as indeed they have almost all of them. I told
Mr. Treasurer [Vane] as much, and the fear I had it might prejudice
me; but he was of the contrary opinion, since it could not any ways
concern me, being then his servant; and I doubt not but Sir Balthazar
will come off well enough, for I believe he has not overshot himself
in anything so much as that he has done this of his own head or
upon the requiry of the House only, without further acquainting the
King. He tells me even now he hopes yet to return for Brussels,
at least to make a fair retreat, and, if so, you will hear shortly of
him. |
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The King was pleased on Monday to pass the Bills for putting
down the Star Chamber and High Commission Courts, which has
given great satisfaction. He likewise recommended to the Houses
the Palatine affairs, desiring their concurrence, and representing how
fruitless all former endeavours had been, to the dishonour and scorn
of this nation. Whereupon the Houses entered into consultation
about it, and seemed to take the business to heart, as you will see by
the enclosed copy. The manifesto you shall likewise have so soon
as it comes forth. |
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We have now since two days a new journey resolved upon of the
Queen's going to Spa, which is spoken with great assurance and
undoubted belief, for that her health so requires, and she intends to
set forth 10 days before the King goes for Scotland, and this is now
all the discourse on the Queen's side. |
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You will have heard of the disastrous misfortune of Mrs. Kirke,
who, shooting the bridge, was drowned, the barge overtossing. The
Queen has taken very heavily the news, and, they say, shed tears
for her. |
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The defeat of Piccolomini is confirmed here by letters from all
parts, with many particularities of moment, which I hope, together
with the Parliament's declaration, will give life to Sir Thos. Roe's
negotiations, who otherways had small appearance of success. |
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Lord Holland has begun to disband, and writes that he finds the
officers very obedient, but the soldiers are somewhat refractory,
which, no doubt, will be suppressed upon the first exemplary punishment. The collection of the poll money will now shortly be set on
foot, and so it is hoped that money will come in apace for to finish
that work. |
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The treaty with the Portugal ambassadors is at a stand, for they
have given so many advantages to the Hollanders that our
merchants find little left in their power for them, which they
having represented to the Lords Commissioners has begot such a
coldness, that the business lies as it were neglected. The
ambassadors here complain much of their ambassador in Holland
for having been so liberal, and that he cannot expect less than a
disgrace for his pains; but that helps not our condition, so that
as yet I cannot tell you what end we shall make with them. |
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Leslie begins to withdraw his troops from the bishopric nearer
to Newcastle. The Parliament-houses have begun the example, and
have paid most of their poll money, which so busies the Exchequer
that they have not hands enough to receive it, being to come in
in so short a time. London and 15 miles round are to pay within
four days of the proclamation's being published. The cessation
[of hostilities] is this day renewed until the 26th of this month.
[3 pp.] |
July 8,
London. |
24. Thos. Wiseman to Sir John Pennington. The King holds
his resolution for [going to] Scotland as soon as the armies are
disbanded, which now, upon receipt of this poll money, will be
effected. The Scottish Commissioners are already gone towards
Newcastle, and all things fairly agreed between the Parliament
and them. On Saturday last there was great discontent in the
House of Commons, who by the Lords had exhibited three Bills
to be past, with their consent, to the King; the one, the passing
of the poll money, which he presently signed; the second, the
putting down of the Courts of Star Chamber and High Commission;
the third, the regulating of the Council Table. The two latter,
he answered, he would take time to consider of; whereupon the
Commons instantly adjourned till Monday, when it pleased the
King upon better thoughts to come to the House again, and sign
them both, and so all was well. |
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The Queen 10 days hence is said constantly to resolve to go to
the Spa in the territory of the Infante Cardinal with the Queen
Mother. The Earl of Dorset and other officers are already
appointed to attend her in the journey. The Court is very sad
by reason of a great mishap happened to a barge coming through
London Bridge, wherein were divers ladies, and amongst the rest
Mrs. Kirke, drowned. The barge fell upon a piece of timber
across the lock, and so was cast away. Lady Cornwallis, it is
thought, will not live. [Seal with arms and crest. 1 p.] |
| July 8. |
Indenture between James Walmesley, leather-seller of London,
and Wm. Bacon, of King St., Westminster, grocer; whereby, in
consideration of 8l. paid by Bacon, Walmesley leases to him for
10 years a shop or shed with six shelves near the upper end of
Westminster Hall, for which he is to pay a yearly rent of 4l.
[See case F., No. 7. ½ skin of parchment.] |
| July 8. |
25. Note book of Nicholas of the Council Board proceedings from
July 8 to July 31. The days on which the Council sat, and to
which these notes refer, were the 8th, 13th, 26th, 27th, 30th, and
31st, on all of which days the King was present. [12 pp.] |
July 8,
Whitehall. |
26. Order of Council, the King present, for the transportation of
120,000 chauldrons of wet fuller's-earth annually from Rochester to
Hull, for the use of the clothiers of York county, upon bond of 1,000l.
to the King's use, to be executed by the Mayor of Hull and the
deputies of the Company of Merchant Adventurers there residing,
guaranteeing that no part of the fuller's-earth brought into that
county shall be transported beyond the seas. The undertakers
are to perform this service at their own expense; the charge of the
fuller's-earth to be only so much as will reimburse them for their
expenses of carriage, &c., without any profit. [2⅓ pp.] |
July 9,
Whitehall. |
27. Sir Henry Vane to Sir Thos. Roe. By the enclosed papers
you will see that at last we have agreed on an expedient for the
present raising of monies, which now is put in execution, and brings
in very considerable sums, as you may easily judge by the rates
expressed in the Act, whereby our army may be discharged,
and the other pressing occasions of his Majesty and the State
supplied. My Lord General has already begun to disband, and the
Scots to retire nearer Newcastle, and so, I hope, will continue to do
till we be wholly freed of them. At the passing of those Bills
the King recommended to the Houses the affairs of the Elector
Palatine, and required their advice concerning the publishing of
the Manifesto. The House of Commons have made thereupon
answer, enclosed, which is transmitted to the Upper House, who
are now in consultation about the same. And I can assure you
the business is so taken to heart by them all, that, your negociation
not succeeding, they will leave no course unattempted whereby
his Majesty's honour may be vindicated and his nephew's rights,
which declaration, with the late good success near Wolfenbuttel
against Piccolomini, I hope, will so dispose the counsels there as
that you may meet with more moderation and reason in the treaty,
and so return with the wished-for satisfaction. His Majesty's
journey for Scotland holds still for the 10 August, and the Queen
has also resolved to go for Spa about the same time. Our Portugal
treaty remains at a stand, their truce with the Hollanders being
in many particulars very disadvantageous to our merchants, and
no less dishonourable to them, which the ambassadors here cry
out of extremely, and yet it may very well be a made work between
them. P.S.—This day the Commons have been upon the Bill of
Bishops, and have voted all the Church lands to the King, reserving
only a competency during their lives. [12/3 pp.] |
July 9,
Whitehall. |
28. Copy of the above. [12/3 p.] |
July 9,
Burdrop. |
29. Wm. Calley to Richard Harvey. Acknowledges receipt of
legacy rings. [Seal with arms. 2/3 p.] |
July 9,
Aston. |
30. Richard Bee to the same. Mr. Wells is willing to become
my master's tenant, but he will enter quietly, or not at all.
Therefore I think it best to give Mr. Caning the satisfaction he
demands, and get possession quietly; besides, he has not 5l. worth
of goods in the house to distrain upon. Will you ask my master
to let me know his mind by a letter under his own hand. [Seal
with device. 1 p.] |
| July 9. |
31. Acquittance for 10l. received of Edward Nicholas, upon the
Act for poll money paid towards the disbanding of the armies.
[⅓ pp.] |
| July 9. |
32. A pass for Lady Juliana Walmesley, widow, and her daughter
Ann, to go to Spa, taking with them four servants; with the usual
clauses. [Minute. ⅓ p.] |
July 10,
York. |
33. Pass by Henry Earl of Holland, Captain General of his
Majesty's army, for Captain John Mennes to travel into Northumberland and Durham with his two servants. [Seal, with arms,
coronet, and motto. ½ p.] |
July 10,
Denmark House. |
34. Note by Sir John Lambe, relative to the conditions of the
lease [of the Queen's manor] of Hampton-in-Arden. [4 lines.] |
| July 10. |
35. Information of Edward and Hannibal Hassell concerning
Wm. Shawe. Edward Hassell asked Wm. Shawe when he went
to the trial in the Exchequer with Mr. Squibb. The latter replied
that he would go that term if he could, and further said that
Mr. Squibb had dealt basely with him, for he had stolen the records
out of the court, but it was no matter, he was already provided, for
he had copies of them before. [⅓ p.] |
| July 12. |
36. Petition of Wm. Murray, one of the grooms of the Bedchamber,
to the King. The manors of Petersham and Ham, co. Surrey,
and lands thereunto belonging, late parcel of the Queen's jointure
lands now in lease to petitioner for the term of 25 years yet to
come and unexpired, under the yearly rent of 16l. 9s. In regard
your Majesty has enclosed the greatest part of the commons, lands
and woods thereof within your new park at Richmond, whereby
they are much impaired in value; it has pleased the Queen and
her leassees to grant and surrender the same to you, and to accept
of other manors and lands in recompense thereof. |
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Your petitioner's suit is that you would grant to him and his heirs
for ever the said manors of Petersham and Ham, and the lands,
woods, commons, and waste grounds belonging to the same, together
with the Court Leets and View of Frank-pledge thereof in fee-farm, to
be holden of you in free and common socage of your manor of East
Greenwich, Kent, and he will not only reserve unto you the yearly
rent of 16l. 9s., but give also such valuable consideration as the
same (his estate therein duly considered) are worth. Underwritten, |
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His Majesty's pleasure is that the Commissioners of
the Treasury shall compound with petitioner for such
valuable consideration for these manors and lands over
and above the rent as they shall find fit, and then to give
order to the Attorney-General that when the surrender
is passed from the Queen to his Majesty, he forthwith
prepare a grant to petitioner according to his desire.
Whitehall, 12 July 1641. |
July 12,
Dover. |
37. Hugh Morrel to Endymion Porter. Complains of Sir Ralph
Freeman thrusting back for his own ends his petition after 14 years'
soliciting. Begs him, after reading the enclosed letter, to seal it,
and let Mr. Harvey deliver it. Haply thereupon he will shape you
a way to procure the reference, otherwise I will intimate his
proceeding to the House of Commons, which will show in what
ways we live in. Pray, if Sir Ralph refuse my petition, give it
back to Lord Dunmore. [Seal with arms. 1 p.] |
July 12/22,
The Hague. |
38. Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia to Sir Thos. Roe. By a letter
which I had before yesterday from Dr. Spina, I hear you were
to be the next day at Ratisbon, where I hope this will find you.
I hope too you have received all my letters, and the good news of
the defeat of Piccolomini by the Swedes, who have given him a
second blow with the loss of 2,000 men, 18 colours, and eight pieces
of ordnance. This may work some good for you, and some good
resolution in our Parliament, but I still fear the worst. My brother
[King Charles] goes not for Scotland till the 10th of next month.
[The Earls of] Holland and Newport are gone down to cashier
five regiments, and some of the Scottish [are] to do the like;
but I need not write this, because I am sure you have all the news
from England written to you. Gennep will not hold out this
week. Count William, the Marshal of the Field, has had a shot;
it only grazed his fat belly, and the bullet fell into his hose, but he
has a fever, which is worse than his hurt. The Queen Mother has
leave to pass this way towards Cologne. William Murray passes
his time at Goree, being wind-bound. As to you, so the Prince
[of Orange] made to him, many protestations of his affection to us,
confirming it in a letter to me by Murray. The French ambassador,
who is arrived in England, has order to speak very high words,
but I believe [Marshal] Chatillon's defeat by the discontented
Princes will cool him a little. [Two seals with crown and
monogram. 1½ p.] |
| July 13. |
39. Certificate of Robt. Dixon, J.P., that Ralph Shelton, of
Thurston, co. Worcester, has taken the oath of allegiance. [½ p.] |
| July 13. |
40. Certificate of Matthew Francis, J.P., that Sir Henry Audley,
having obtained a pass, has taken the customary oaths. [2/3 p.] |
| July 13. |
41. Certificate of Peter Heywood, J.P., that Thos. Raymond, of
Westminster, has taken the oath of allegiance. [⅓ p.] |
July 13,
Covent Garden. |
42. Sir William Uvedale to Matthew Bradley. I fear I
shall have something to do with the Paymaster of Carlisle about
the 500l. which my Lord [General] has given to Captain Byron, for
he agrees not with the Governor there, and I do not know whether
he will take it upon his account or no, as I have not yet spoken
with him. Sends Mr. Pinckney's letter with the bill of the charge
for the King's victuals. Truly I cannot much blame the officers to
be a little discontented in respect that, being but half-paid now, they
neither have any for their fasting fortnight nor their waggon
money. I believe it was the intention of the Parliament that they
should have their half-pay for their waggons also. The pay of the
waggons begins from the 10th February, but now you have begun
thus you must continue it, and if I can remedy it when I come
down I will endeavour to do it. Mr. Gouldsbury will be first with
you. I think to despatch him hence on Thursday or Friday. |
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I am much afraid that if it should be known what money we
have of the King's there, it might turn us to some inconvenience,
and perhaps be importuned or forced from us upon some occasion or
other; and therefore, if you think fit, and if you can employ four or
five thousand pounds of it upon the Parliament account, I will stay so
much in safe custody, and give you a discharge of it from the King's
account. I shall give you my reasons for this when I come, which,
I am assured, you will allow of. Notwithstanding, I leave all to
your discretion, who know best what is to be done, being there upon
the place. [3 pp.] |
| July 13. |
43. A pass for Thos. Raymond, of Westminster, to travel for three
years, with a proviso not to go to Rome, and usual clauses. [Minute.
¼ p.] |
July 13,
Whitehall. |
44. Order of the King in Council, by which former orders of
2nd and 18th June 1637, declaring the cathedral and close of
Winchester to be exempt from the jurisdiction of the Mayor and
Aldermen of Winchester, are annulled. [1 p.] |
July 13,
Whitehall. |
45. The like with regard to the cathedral of York. [1 p.] |
| July 14. |
46. Note of Sir John Lambe of fees payable on the passing of the
following:—A commission of rebellion against Sir Thos. Gasgoigne
at the suit of Hy. Goodrick; subpoena against Rd. Skelton at the
suit of Rd. Pearson; subpoena against Rd. Vevers and Barber.
[1 p.] |
| July 14. |
47. Note of Sir John Lambe, that the hearing of Mr. Ward's
cause before the Lords was put of till July 20th. [½ p.] |
| July 14. |
48. Mr. Cousin's signification of Mr. Treasurer Vane's pleasure for
a pass to be prepared for Philip Froud to travel into foreign parts.
[5 lines.] |
| July 15. |
49. A pass for Ralph Shelton, of Thurston, to travel for three
years. [Minute. ¼ p.] |
July 15,
Westminster. |
50. Edward Nicholas to Sir John Pennington, aboard the "St.
Andrew" in the Downs. I am now here by reason of my attendance, but idle, there being nothing of business acted at the Council
Board worth the tediousness of waiting. The Queen resolved to
have set forth from hence towards Utrecht on Monday sevennight
next, and to have taken the Princess Mary with her; but this day
the Parliament Houses have had a conference about her Majesty's
journey, and are preparing reasons to be presented to his Majesty to
move the Queen to alter her resolution to go for Utrecht or the Spa,
for her Majesty intended to have remained at Utrecht, and to have
had the waters of the Spa brought her there. |
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My Lord Admiral [the Earl of Northumberland], finding that the
waters of Tunbridge did not agree with him, returned on Monday
hither again. He is reasonably well in health, but I hear he intends
go for Bath very shortly. |
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I am sure you have heard by what a sad accident Mrs. Kirke,
who was of the Queen's bedchamber, was the last week drowned. |
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Lord Digby's speech, in which he gave the reasons why he could
not give his vote for passing the Bill of Attainder against the Earl
of Strafford, is by the House of Commons declared to have been a
scandal to the Parliament and to this State, and is therefore by them
held fit to be burnt by the hangman in three places in this city, and
his Lordship is also by them declared to be unfit to hold any place
or to have any employment under his Majesty. The Parliament
will shortly give the names of some persons who are of the King's
Privy Council, whom they hold to be unfaithful counsellors. I wish
that the poll money may rise to so great a sum as is imagined, but
I much doubt it will not, and I pray it may be all quietly paid.
The Earl of Holland is disbanding five regiments, but it is doubted
that the Scots will not disband or retire home so easily as some
believe. Marquis Hamilton is (for aught I can understand) in great
esteem both in the House of Commons and with the Lords of the
Upper House. He is doubtless a wise and an able man, and
exceeding gracious and powerful with the King. Sir John Finett
is lately dead, and Sir Balthazar Gerbier is invested in his place. I
am told that M. de Vic shall be sent agent into Flanders in Sir
Balthazar's room. I thank you very kindly for your foreign news,
which is very welcome to me. |
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There are great store of baronets made, the price whereof has
come to 350l., as I am told. There are no new barons made as yet,
but there is great expectation that there shall be four made before
it be long. P.S.—Lord Digby was by his Majesty designed to have
gone ambassador into France as soon as the Earl of Leicester should
return thence, but it is thought the Parliament will disable him for
any such employment. The speech is that Mr. Hollis or Mr. John
Hampden shall be Secretary of State, but Lord Mandeville does
now again put hard for that place. [Seal with arms and crest.
2 pp.] |
July 16,
Whitehall. |
51. A pass for Viscount Pomiers, one gentleman and three other
servants, to go into Holland. [Draft. ½ p.] |
| July 16. |
52. A pass for Philip Froud, of Westminster, to travel for
three years. [Minute. ¼ p.] |
| July 16. |
53. Order of the House of Commons, prepared by Henry Elsinge,
the clerk, that out of the monies that shall be paid in the South
by directions of the Act of Parliament for provision of money for
the disbanding of the army, &c., 50,000l. shall be paid to Sir Wm.
Uvedale for the disbanding of the army, and 120,000l. to the Earl of
Warwick for the relief of the Northern parts, and that acquittances
under their hands shall be a sufficient discharge to the Treasurer.
Subjoined, |
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Acquittance of Sir Wm. Uvedale for 14,000l. received of Sir
Edmund Wright, Lord Mayor of London, Sir James
Campbell, Sir Geo. Whitmore, Sir Nicholas Rainton, and
Sir Christopher Clitherow, Aldermen of London, and
Robert Bateman, Chamberlain of London, this 21st of July
[1½ pp.] |
| July 17. |
54. Certificate of Henry Earl of Monmouth, J.P., that Philip
Froud has taken the oath of allegiance. [Seal with arms and
coronet. ¼ p.] |
| July 17. |
55. Memorandum of agreement between Edmund Ludlow, of
Maiden Bradley, Wilts, of the one part, and Anthony Etherington,
of London, and Francis Bukley, of Studley, of the other part, that if
the latter shall procure him a wife worth at the time of his marriage with her 4,000l., he will pay them each 50l. And in case his
wife so procured shall prove more worth than 4,000l. at the time of
his marriage, out of every 1,000l. he promises to pay 100l. to the
said Anthony Etherington and Francis Bukley. [Signed, sealed,
and delivered. 1 p.] |
July 19,
Burdrop. |
56. Wm. Calley to Rd. Harvey. Business matters. What has
drawn Lord Cottington at this time into Wiltshire ? What has he
done with the Earl of Castlehaven ? Sir John Evelyn, it seems,
begins to be a man of note in Parliament. [Seal with arms and
crest. ¾ p.] |
| July 19. |
57. Acquittance of Rd. Ligon for 30l. received of Thos. Windebank in part of his proportion of 5s. per acre to be expended in
defence of the suit and repairing the drains of the Earl of Lindsey's
Level in Lincolnshire. [¼ p.] |
July 19,
Queen's Oxford. |
58. Thos. Smith to Edward Nicholas. Has received the 15l. sent
by Nicholas. I now send you inclosed a particular bill of all I
have either received, laid out, or have in hand for your son John
from Lady Day to Midsummer. Commends his pupil's diligence.
Enclosed: The Bill for John Nicholas for the Easter quarter ending
at Midsummer 1641, 13l. 18s. 2d., remaining in hand 5l. 17s. 4d.
July 7, 1641. |
| July 19. |
59. Notes by Sir John Lambe of fees payable on the commissions
and subpoenas herein designated. [11/6 pp.] |
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Dorso: Note of business transacted at Denmark House this
19th July. [1/8 p.] |
July 19/29,
The Hague. |
60. Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia to Sir Thomas Roe. I am extremely glad to know, by yours of the 6/16 July, of your safe arrival
at Ratisbon, and that mine are come safe to your hands. I hope
you have also received a third from me, wherein you will see what
has passed in the business betwixt my son and the Prince of Orange
at William Murray's being there. All is now very well. |
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I am glad you take so well what I do for Sayer. Honywood has
not yet delivered the letter because there is some doubt how he
stands with the Parliament, they having taken exceptions against
his being Lord Lieutenant and not Deputy, and for a packet of his
out of France, which he would not suffer to be opened, so, as I
believe, he is a little ticklishly set on his charge. |
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I am glad the Bishop of Wurtzburg is so well affected to us. He
is held everywhere to be an honest man, and I am confident those
deputies you name will not fail you as you hope ; but I have very
little trust in the King of Denmark's ambassador, and what you
write confirms me in it. |
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By Sir William Boswell's letter you will see how well the Parliament have resolved upon the King's motion to them for my son.
The manifesto you will have sent you by the next; it is under the
press, the Parliament having approved of it, and monished the King
that if your negociation fail they will do their utmost to restore
my son, and both the Houses have registered it, and the luck was
such as the news of Piccolomini's defeat came into the House as
they were deliberating upon this. The King told my son he
would give Lieutenant-General King a good answer by Sir Harry
Vane. |
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But I believe you will not a little wonder that my sister the
Queen [of England] is to come over very speedily hither to drink
the Spa waters for her health. Her mother and she come over
together; none with her but the Duchess of Lennox, Lady Denbigh,
and Lady Savage; no maid-of-honour, nor any lord but the Earl of
Dorset. She goes not to you, but stays at Utrecht or Amiens to
have the waters brought to her. If this hold she will be here the
next week, for the King goes for certain into Scotland at the
furthest the 10/20 of next month. There is no more Star Chamber nor
High Commission Courts. The Bishops do totter extremely, but
that is not done yet. The Archbishop of Canterbury has given up
his Chancellorship of Oxford, but none yet is in it. |
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Gennep is [sur]rendered. The Prince [of Orange] has lost but
two officers of note before it. |
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I fear poor Rupert will not be set so soon at liberty. They only
made show of it to drag on time. The Queen would have her
daughter Mary with her, but I hear that the Parliament do their
best against it. Sir Wm. Boswell has gone this day to Amsterdam
to speak with the Portugal ambassador. William Murray brought him
commission for it, not to conclude anything but hear, and all in my
son's name. I will say no more at this time, only I hope that there
will be no necessity of that which you know sticks so in my throat,
I cannot well swallow; you know my meaning. [Two black seals
with arms and crown. 2½ pp.] |
| July 20. |
61. Council warrant for the safe guarding and conveying of his
Majesty's treasure for the army in the North, according to the usual
form. [Minute. ⅓ p.] |
| July 20. |
62. Depositions of witnesses relative to Wm. Shaw, junr., committed to the Fleet, 24th March 1637–8, for words spoken against
Lawrence Squibb. [=2 pp.] |
July 20,
Covent Garden. |
63. Sir Wm. Uvedale to Matthew Bradley. Is perplexed to get
leave to send monies. All the order I can obtain is but from a
Committee of our House. There is nothing resolved either by the
Lords or Commons. Parliament is resolved to disband eight troops
of horse, the five regiments of Lord Carnarvon, and Sir Thomas
Lucas, and Henry Perey's troop, on Thursday or Friday. I will
despatch some monies, and follow myself upon Monday or Tuesday
next. I pray accept no more bills of exchange. [1 p.] |
July 20,
Grafton. |
64. Marie Crane to Endymion Porter. Thanks him for the
favour he was pleased to show her about our untoward parson, who
has been a most malicious man with all his neighbours; sends him
a buck. [Seal with arms broken. 2/3 p.] |
| July 20. |
65. Warrant of the Lord Admiral to John Goodwin, one of the
four master attendants at Portsmouth, to permit strangers' men-ofwar to come into Portsmouth harbour, with the proviso that they
come no higher than the old dock, and ride not near his Majesty's
yard or storehouses. [1⅓ pp.] |
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Dorso: Minutes of the above warrant; of an order desired from
the King to the Lord Admiral by Privy Seal; of a warrant for
M. de Vie to have a ship to carry him over to Dunkirk and to stay
his return; and memorandum that Mr. Treasurer Vane be pleased
not to permit anything to pass prejudicial to the Admiralty in the
renewing of the Charter of Dublin. [⅓ p.] |
| [July 21.] |
66. The Vintners' pretences to evade the making of the restitution
[as ordered by the Commons, July 21, 1641], and the answers
thereto. 1. Some are not ashamed to affirm they sustained great
loss by the payment of the 40s. a tun duty, albeit they confess
that they took from the subject the penny a quart. Can it be a
loss to receive 4l. odd from the subject, and pay 40s. out of it ?
Nay, on sherries and malagas the Vintners received 8l. a tun; and
they have received these great advancements of price almost four
years, and have not paid the 40s. a year and a half. Whatsoever
they said in their defence has as little colour of truth as this,
for they deny they contrived this project at their hall, although
their own orders prove it clearly. 2. Others say they are not
adventurers in the farm; yet the records in the Exchequer
[proving] their money brought into Vintners' Hall as adventurers,
their weekly meetings for ordering the farm at the house of the
alderman, their treasurer chosen by themselves, and their riding
circuit into the counties, searching the cellars of country vintners
and ordering them to give bond for payment of the 40s. a tun,
all witness against them. 3. They pretend they have not offended
against the laws, for they have sold their wines at the retailing
price set by the Lords appointed by the statutes in that behalf.
This is not true, for in December 1637, when this contract was
concluded with his Majesty on the Vintners' petition, the Lords did
set the price of wines thus: French wines at 6d. a quart, sherries
and malagas at 11d., and canaries at 13d. And in pursuance of
this contract, and in consideration of the 40s. a tun, his Majesty
by proclamation added the penny a quart, and allowed the Vintners
to sell French wines 7d., sherries and malaga 12d., canary 14d.;
this was proved at the Committee the 16th of February [1640–1],
Mr. Pym being in the chair, by five witnesses—three merchants
and two vintners. And it was so covenanted by the very contract
itself, being the quadrupartite indenture upon the Vintners' petition.
And these prices were continued only until November 1640, when
the contract was voted illegal; but, that vote notwithstanding, the
vintners exacted it till January last. So that this penny a quart
being illegal is to be restored to the Commonwealth according
to the vote of July 21 [1641]. The Vintners by colour of this
illegal contract have taken from the subject 4l. a tun on all wines,
and 8l. on sherry and malaga, for almost four years; and if they
restore but 40s. a tun for all that time, is not this a very great
favour ? 4. They pretend also that the merchants have for these
latter years sold their wines in gross above the prices set by the
Lords, and thereby have gained the greatest part of the profit of
1d. a quart. This is untrue. For, on the contrary, the Vintners
generally have beaten down the merchants' prices above 40,000l.
in three years, almost to the undoing of the native merchants,
as by the testimony of divers merchants of worth it was clearly
proved to the Committee in June 1641, in the Chequer Chamber,
Mr. Glyn then in the chair. [2 pp.] |
| July 21. |
67. Account by Robert Long, receiver of Recusants' revenues
in the southern counties of England. Total remaining unpaid,
346l. 18s. 10½d. Audited 21st July 1641. [Latin. 1 p.] |
| July 21. |
68. List of the Queen's parks, with the names of the noblemen
and gentlemen who are keepers thereof, delivered to Sir John
Lambe by Auditor Povey. [1 p.] |
July 22,
Nottingham. |
69. Roger Cooper, Robert Sutton, and John Wood to the Council.
Submit to the Council a letter they have received from one
Gervase Clifton importing a treason of a high nature. He is here
in the common prison, but desires to be removed to some prison
in London. How far that may occasion these discoveries we dare
not assert. The contradictions and uncertainties in his letters and
information, both of the matter and the persons, we submit to
your considerations. Desire further directions in this business, he
having yet proved nothing but only reports and heresays. [1 p.]
Enclosed, |
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Reasons given by Gervase Clifton why he concealed the treason
so long, formerly informed by him upon the 5th instant
before Sir Roger Cooper and the others. [2/3 p.] |
| July 22. |
70. Receipt given by Robert Weales for 12l. being the price of
10 chauldrons of coals laid in by Edward Nicholas in 1641.
[=½ p.] |
| July 23. |
71. Affidavit of Thomas Webb as to the cause of Wm. Shaw's
being committed to the Fleet Prison. Sworn 23 July 1641. [1 p.] |
| July 23. |
72. Duplicate of the above. [1 p.] |
July 23,/August 2,
Paris. |
73. Sir Francis Windebank to his son Thomas. Thanks him
for sending the news of his mother's health, and of the continuance
of her purpose of coming hither. I now send you a petition which
I have framed to be presented to the Lower House in my name,
if his Majesty shall think fit, to whose wisdom I do most humbly
submit it, either to be suppressed, altered or disposed of as his
Majesty shall please. That which has moved me to fall upon this
way is the apprehension that the House will adjourn without
coming to any resolution concerning me, which would be a greater
punishment than otherwise in reason I can expect, considering
my sufferings already. Howsoever, by this I may perhaps make
a discovery of the inclinations of the House, and what ply my
business is likely to take. I wish you could communicate this
to some discreet, trusty, and secret friend, before his Majesty be
acquainted with it, and take deliberate advice upon it. In case
the King shall approve this course, you shall then beseech him
to deliver the petition to Mr. Treasurer Vane and Mr. Comptroller,
and to give them order to recommend it to the House from him,
with further intimation that his Majesty will take it well if the
House shall grant it. You are likewise to beseech the Queen to
second his Majesty herein, and to recommend it to Mr. Treasurer
and Mr. Comptroller, and any other in the House in whom her
Majesty has interest. I do not conceive that such a petition can
do harm, and perhaps the House expects some such submission,
and will be mollified or quickened by it. Nevertheless, I submit
it to better judgment, and the life or death of it are indifferent to
me, and therefore I leave it entirely to your ordering. |
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I fear my arrears in the Exchequer and in the Household will
be slowly paid, having heard that the House of Commons have
ordered that his Majesty shall be moved for the stopping of pensions
due to Mr. Jermyn, Sir John Suckling, and myself. |
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For your mother's coming hither, I am of opinion that a coach
of her own, with English horses, will be the most convenient and
useful, and of the least charge. The charge will be less, and the
living better, if we retire to some country town remote from Paris,
and reside there privately as other ladies of our nation have done.
I wish you could bring over two or three handsome nags for the
saddle, which, if I use not myself, will be well sold. |
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P.S.—If his Majesty shall like the petition, you must acquaint
the Lord Chamberlain with it before it be presented to the House. |
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I have forborne to petition all this while because they were upon
great businesses, and besides I hold it more proper now toward
the end of the session. [3 pp.] |
July 23,
Whitehall. |
74. Secretary Vane to [Sir Thos. Roe]. Your letters from
Ratisbon came to hand the 21st inst., and your proceedings therein
mentioned are well liked. I am to let you understand that the
merchants, trading in the Sound, both of Scotland and England
having made their complaints as well to the Parliament as to
his Majesty, the King is now despatching the Danish gentleman
that was sent to him with the ratification of the treaty made by
you and the Danish commissioners concerning the trade there,
but with letters of excuse only for not ratifying the same, it being
not fit for his Majesty to approve that his subjects of both nations
be worse used or higher taxed than other nations, as our merchants
have made appear both before our Parliament here and those of
Scotland there. |
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The Queen, condescending to the Parliament's remonstrance
touching her intended journey to Holland, hath by a gracious
answer sent to the House assured them that she rather will
postpone her health to their content, and so remain here, which
causes great joy. |
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Some harsh words happening on Saturday last at a Committee
in the Parliament betwixt the Earl of Pembroke and Lord
Maltravers, their heat increased so far that this one giving the
lie to the other, received a blow from him. For which fault
their Lordships were both committed to the Tower on Monday. |
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This afternoon his Majesty has honoured the Earl of Essex with
the Lord Chamberlain's staff. [11/6 pp.] |
July 23,/August 2,
Paris. |
75. Robert Reade to Thomas Windebank. Domestic and private
matters. You say nothing of the motion made in the House of
Commons that the King should be moved to withhold the moneys
he is pleased to allow Mr. Secretary. I would willingly know the
issue of it. You will receive from Sir Francis Windebank a petition,
which I cannot but hope will produce some good effect, if it be
accompanied with a hearty recommendation from the King, which
must be done one of the four ways here mentioned. I understand
M. De Vic is to go to Brussels in Sir Balthazar Gerbier's place.
The silver sword I desire may be brought hither when you come,
if it may be done without trouble; they wear no other here, and
I am loath to buy one, having one already. [Seal with crest. 3 pp.] |
July 23,
Whitehall. |
76. Edward Viscount Conway and Killultagh to Edward Nicholas.
This is to give you testimony on the behalf of Captain Hexham,
that I have known him ever since I can remember, and that he is
a very good Protestant, and I am assured will take the oaths of
Allegiance and Supremacy. [⅓ p.] |
| July 24. |
77. Note of Edward Nicholas. The King is pleased, for the
reasons expressed in this petition, to release the petitioners of their
restraint, and to give them full liberty to grant such estates in the
leases of Banwell and Peterson as they might have done before
his Majesty's said restraint; to the end that by the fines of the said
leases the petitioners may be the better enabled to undergo the
extraordinary charge of the reparations which the King expects
shall be made up accordingly. [1 p.] |
| July 24. |
78. Acquittance of Sir Wm. Uvedale for 3,000l. received of the
City Treasurers in accordance with the Act for disbanding the
armies, and settling the peace of the two kingdoms. Underwritten, |
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Received by J. Payer and John Lloyd the sum abovesaid, by
the appointment of Sir Wm. Uvedale, to the use and
purpose above mentioned. [½ p.] |
July 25,
Westminster. |
79. The King to the Auditor of Imprests for the time being,
signifying that by Letters Patent dated 28th June 1641, he had
granted to Francis Wetherie the office of Comptroller of the Works
for life, vice Thos. Baldwin deceased. [Seal broken, parchment,
¼ skin.] |
July 26,
Whitehall. |
80. Order of Council, the King present. A petition having been
presented in the name of Edmund Adams of Boston, and the fullers
of co. Lincoln, desiring license that 50 or 60 chauldrons of fuller'searth may be yearly transported by sea out of Kent to the said
county, upon bond being given that it be not conveyed to any
other place;—it was this day ordered that petitioners should be
permitted for this year to transport by sea 60 chauldrons of wet
fuller's-earth from the port of Rochester to Boston upon similar
conditions as the like was granted to the clothiers of Yorkshire,
by order of 14 June 1640. The Merchants Adventurers are hereby
required to see the same punctually performed. [Draft. 1 p.] |
July 26,
Covent Garden. |
81. Sir Wm. Uvedale to Matthew Bradley. I purpose to be at
York before you can receive this letter. You shall receive by
Harrison 18,000l. [Seal with crest. ⅓ p.] |
July 27,
All Souls College, Oxford. |
82. Sir Thomas Gorges to Sir Thomas Smythe, at Sir John
Miller's house in Covent Garden, in Bedford Street, near the Piazza
over against the Fox. My Cousin Frank Smythe is sick of the
small-pox. I was this day going for Somersetshire, but am resolved
to see the violence of his disease past before I start. [Seal with
arms. 1 p.] |
| July 27. |
83. Certificate of Peter Heywood, J.P., that Henry Hexham, of
St. Clement Danes, has taken the oath of allegiance. [⅓ p.] |
July 27,
Northampton. |
84. Acquittance for 20l. poll money received of Sir John Lambe.
[½ p.] |
| July 27. |
85. Certificate of Thos. Sheppard, J.P., that Fredk. Windwood,
of Diton Park, Bucks, Richard Dewes, of Levingham [Lavenham],
Suffolk, and Samuel Tuke, of Gray's Inn, Middlesex, have taken
the oath of allegiance. [Seal with arms. ½ p.] |
| July 27. |
Lease to Thos. Saunderson, the Queen's coachman, of a cottage
and several parcels of land and pasture in Skirbeck and Alderkirk,
co. Lincoln, for 21 years, at the ancient yearly rent of 45s. 4d. and
fine of 60l. [Docquet.] |
| July 27. |
86. Order of the House of Commons, that the Earl of Warwick,
out of the money that he has or shall receive by order of this
House, shall forthwith pay for the relief of the Northern Counties
50,000l. [¼ p.] |
July 28,
Winchester. |
87. Edward Stanley, [S.T.P. one of the Prebendaries of Winchester,] to Edward Nicholas. In case the Bill against pluralities
pass, pray engage one of the Lords to move in my behalf that in
regard of the service I do the Commonwealth in this place, I may
have the same favour which I hear is to be indulged to the Heads
of Colleges, to hold one living with my schoolmaster's place. [Seal
with arms. 2/3 p.] |
July 28,
York House. |
88. Thomas Smith to [Sir John Pennington]. The Lord Admiral
prays you to keep ready six ships to convey the Queen Mother,
as you shall think fittest, against her arrival. On Tuesday next
she sets forth from hence, and because she is crazy and cannot sit
above two or three hours together, she goes but to Dartford the
first night, the next to Cobham, whither the King and Queen
accompany her, the next to Sittingbourne, and the next to
Canterbury, where she lies eight nights; her landing place will be
Helford Sluice, from thence to Cologne. One ship is taken up here
in the Thames for the transportation of her baggage. [1 p.] |
| July 28. |
89. Account by Richard Hollings, receiver of Recusants' revenues,
of the money due to his Majesty to be paid into the Exchequer
at Michaelmas 1640, with a particular of the sums received and
issued since that date; so there remains in Hollings' hands, this
28th July 1641, 15l. 9s. 6½d. [1 p.] |
July 28,
Denmark House. |
90. Order made at the Queen's Council Board, that Edmund
Patrick's lease of a parcel of ground called Hampton Horne, within
the manor of Hampton-in-Arden, co. Warwick, which was stopped
by Doctor Cadiman and others, now take effect, the said Dr. Cadiman
not having shown any cause to the contrary. Endorsed by Lambe:
Order for Patrick's lease, 28 July 1641. [2/3 p.] |
| July 28. |
91. Order of Sir Chas. Harbord, the King's Surveyor-General,
and Auditor of the Prince's revenue, that the Chancellor, Secretary,
Treasurer, Surveyor, Attorney, and Clerk of the Council [at Denmark
House] are to have, each of them every term, half ream of fine
cut paper, half ream of ordinary copy-paper, one bottle of ink, and
a bundle of quills and sand, and every year a green bag in
Michaelmas term, and the stationer not to exceed this proportion.
Endorsed by Lambe: "which will be 23l. 4s. 0d. per annum for the
six men." [¼ p.] |
July 28,
Burdrop. |
92. Wm. Calley to Richard Harvey. Domestic and money
matters. Order for wine. Lady Wardour's visit to him. His
legacy rings. Lord Cottington, I see, has blown away the little Earl
of Castlehaven's pretences. The Spaniards may rather fear the
French than the Emperor the Swedes, seeing that Piccolomini had
but a bare bloody nose. I pray God send them peace who have been
so long without it, and continue it to us, that, notwithstanding all
those garboils round about us, have hitherto happily enjoyed it.
[Seal with arms and crest. 1½ pp.] |
| July 28. |
93. Acquittance of Ralph Goodwin for 10l. received of Robert
Long for the use of the said Robert's sister, Mrs. Olive Long.
[⅓ p.] |
July 29,
Whitehall. |
94. Sidney Bere to Sir John Pennington. Private affairs. The
Queen Mother's journey is appointed for the 2nd of August, when
their Majesties are to accompany her to Cobham. Now even the
Scotch journey is doubted of, at least that it will be deferred, for
that the army cannot yet be disbanded by reason that monies are
not come in. In this case, it is said, the Parliament intends to
move the King to stay 10 days longer, but as yet nothing is settled.
The Earl of Pembroke plays the philosopher, and commends highly
the retired country life, to which he will betake himself. Here was
great expectation of a division amongst the Lords upon that change,
but it is hoped now that it will pass quietly. The [Earl of Essex],
Lord Chamberlain [of the Household], besides his staff [of office], has
been honoured with the command of all the King's forces on this
side of Trent as General of the same; and there is great speech that
other great offices will within a few days be disposed of, as Lord
Treasurer, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Secretary of State.
For this last Mr. Hollis [Denzil Hollis, M.P. for Dorchester, and
Edward Viscount] Mandeville are the men most spoken of; besides
there will be many removes; amongst all which I hope we may
stand firm only, for to remove with advantage there is little hope. |
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The House of Commons are upon proceeding against Mr. [Henry]
Percy and others. It is said their censure will be only for treason
in intention, not de facto, which puts their friends in hope of a
milder sentence. The Bishops' Bill is near upon being ready to be
voted, in which Deans and Chapters will be comprehended. |
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There goes down daily money to the army. The Scots are to
receive a certain sum in hand, the rest in security and then to
disband together without delay; to which end the last cessation
was agreed on, that the money might come in in the meantime.
This day London pays 40,000l. [2 pp.] |
July 29,
London. |
95. Thomas Wiseman to the same. I did not think you could
have heard so speedily of the displacing of the Earl of Pembroke,
but yet it is very true, and his staff given to the Earl of Essex,
who ushered him into the Parliament House, when he came to make
his submission, which was done upon his knees, and the like by my
Lord Maltravers. The Earl of Pembroke did not lose his place for
this fault, but for countenancing of those tumultuous people that
came out of London to Westminster crying for justice when time
was against the Earl of Strafford. He seems not to be much discontented, but he cannot choose but think 44 years' service ill requited
to be thus disgracefully dismissed. But such are the times that,
for my part, I esteem him a happy man that hath a plentiful fortune
to retire himself from Court. |
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The Scots are now put to a push, for the City within these two
days, besides the poll money, have advanced 40,000l. to send them
away and to disband both armies; who being left without excuse of
longer stay, if they do not get them gone, there will be some other
speedy order taken with them. As for the poll money, I verily
believe it will not all come in this six months, and therefore will
not take upon me to guess what it will amount to; but certainly it
must needs be so much as will pay all scores, and leave a great sum
to the King. The Act directs it to be paid within four days, but it
must first be demanded; and how to set it suddenly into a form is
the thing that hinders the receiving of it. I make account you have
heard that the Marquis of Hertford has the tuition of the Prince,
and the Earl of Newcastle is retiring into the country, from whence
it had been better for him by 40,000l. that he had never come to
Court; for it is believed he has run himself in debt so much since
he came thither. The Parliament will take order likewise to send
the Queen Mother away, having given her 10,000l. to clear her debts.
She will have but little comfort in staying here, now the Papists
begin to be persecuted: there was one English priest hanged, drawn,
and quartered on Monday last. The King holds still his resolution
for Scotland the 10th of August, but if the Parliament may persuade
with him, I believe he will not go. The Earl of Northumberland is
now at Bath. [2¾ pp.] |
July 29,
Westminster. |
96. Edward Nicholas to the same. On Friday last I received your
welcome present of four Guinea birds for my wife, whereby you
have made her a proud woman. She desired me to present to you
her affectionate thanks for that great rarity. On Tuesday last the
Earl of Essex, now Lord Chamberlain [of the Household], was by
his Majesty declared at the Council Board to be General of all the
Forces on this side Trent. Lords Pembroke and Maltravers are
reconciled by the Parliament, and both of them have sat there ever
since Monday last. The Earl of Pembroke bears the loss of his
office with much patience and discretion. The Queen Mother goes on
Monday next to Cobham to remain there until the wind shall serve
for her transportation into Holland; the King and Queen will
accompany her, but return the next day. The Marquis of Hertford,
Governor to the Prince, has procured Richard Harding, who married
Mrs. Clare, an acquaintance of the last Lord Warden, to be sworn a
groom of his Highness's bedchamber. The Act against Bishops,
Deans, and Chapters is not as yet passed the Commons, and I hope
never will; for if it shall, my father and myself shall by the change
of our landlords lose 1,500l. in the value of our estates; but I hope
the Parliament will not hold it just to punish the tenants for the
landlords' faults. The Commons are much troubled that the King
will go on Monday come se'night, as he has declared openly,
towards Scotland. They have had a conference with the Lords
about presenting to his Majesty some reasons against his going
until the armies are disbanded, which, if there were money ready,
could not be this fortnight. It is here said that we shall shortly
before the King's departure have a great change and addition of
officers at Court, as that Lord Saye shall be made Lord Treasurer;
Lord Newbury, Master of the Wards; John Hampden, Chancellor of
the Duchy; Mr. Pym, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Denzil Hollis,
Principal Secretary of State; and that the Earl of Bath and Lord
Brook shall be sworn of his Majesty's Privy Council. |
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The business against Mr. [Henry] Percy and [Henry] Jermyn will
not be made appear to be so high a crime as treason, as I am told;
and Colonel [Henry] Wilmott and Capt. W. Ashburnham will, as it
is hoped, be freed from any further fault than concealing a business
which they were sworn to keep secret. |
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We are here still in as much confusion as ever. I purpose, Saturday next, which is the last of my month's attendance, to retire to
my house in the country to live quietly there if I can. [Seal with
arms and crest. 2 pp.] |
| July 29. |
97. Grant of arms by Sir John Borough, Garter, to Thomas
Bright, son of Robert Bright, of Netherhall, Suffolk, being the same
arms and crest as were granted to Robert and his brother Thomas
Bright, of St. Edmundsbury, the 10th May 1617. [Copy. 1½ p.] |
| [July 29.] |
The like to George Toulnson, of Lancaster, J.P., and Quorum for
county Lancaster. [Copy. 2/3 p. On the same paper as the preceding.] |
| July 29. |
98. Council warrant to all customers, comptrollers, and searchers
of the ports to permit Robert Inglish to transport for Dunbar in
Scotland, 30,000 billots which are laden in the ship called the
James of Borrowstonness, John Gibb, master. [Draft. ½ p.] |
| July 29. |
99. The like to his Majesty's searcher and others. [Copy.
½ p.] |
| July 29. |
100. Order of the House of Commons, that the Lord Mayor
shall pay the Earl of Warwick, for the relief of the Northern
counties, 40,000l. lately advanced by an order of this House by way
of loan, and to be repaid out of the poll money with the interest.
[½ p.] |
| July 30. |
101. Acquittance of Robert Earl of Warwick for the sum of
40,000l., received of the Commissioners appointed by the Parliament to receive the poll money in the city of London. Endorsed:
The Earl of Warwick on several receipts. In toto, 85,951l. 17s. 8d.
[½ p.] |
July 30,
York. |
102. Sir John Conyers to [Edward Viscount Conway]. I thank
you for your letter of the 17th, as also that you have been pleased
to solicit my business there. I lately received a letter from the
Earl of Essex, and before that a courteous message upon the receipt
of a letter of mine, whereby he assures me of his favour and
assistance, and that he had spoken to the King once of me, who he
found inclined to do me good; but the recommending my petition
being so long deferred makes me fear the event of it. The Lord
General three days since wrote again to the King in my behalf, and
some few days before did the like to the Earl of Essex, entreating
him to desire the Lords Saye and Mandeville to join with him to
speak to the King to recommend my petition by them. What will
now come of it I hope I shall hear by the Lord General's next letters. |
|
Passage in cipher. I had forgotten to say that one writes
to me that the Parliament adjourns the 10th of this month. If my
business be not done before, I shall get nothing. I am very much
obliged to the Lord General for his favour to me. He has once or
twice spoken to me of you, and protests how much he has ever been
your servant; he says you quit your command before he had his
commission, and intended lately to have given away your troop,
but now, I think, will take the regiment to himself, which his
Excellency says will be more respectful to you, and more for the
reputation of Sir Fulke Huncks, to whom he could not have given
the regiment. I would I might be an instrument to bring the discourtesies 'twixt your Lordship and his Excellency to an accommodation. I pray let Capt. [Christopher] Burgh be careful in his
carriage touching the troop, and that he lessen not the troop too
much; for though there might be some profit found by it, yet it
may bring much clamour and dispute, and great dishonour to you,
if the troop be found very weak. In those troops the Earl of
Northumberland gave away he ordained all the horses that were
found to have mustered in the troop to belong to the new captain.
I beseech you hasten him hither, for I would not that his absence
were known. I perceive that his Excellency's letters to the Lords
have prevailed so far that we shall disband no more of our army till
the Scots be gone, which, without doubt, is most safe and fit. Sir
Fulke Huncks has been this morning with the Lord General, who
told him that he has taken that regiment to himself, and will give
him orders to declare to the regiment that his Excellency is now
their colonel. He was of opinion to have given your troop to
another, as I have said, but it is better that he take it for himself.
At sight I shall inform you more at large of this. I send you what
news I have received from Sir Michael Ernle even now. [3 pp.] |
| July 30. |
103. Order of Council to the Earl of Newport, Master of the
Ordnance. To cause to be delivered out of the stores certain provisions for His Majesty's service to the Earl of Danby, the Governor,
or Sir Peter Osborn, Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey. [Draft.
1 p.] |
July 30,
Whitehall. |
104. Sidney Bere [to Sir John Pennington]. The noise of removal
of officers increases, and some think we shall not escape with less
than the loss of the Secretary; but we prepare still for the Scotch
journey. The King will start on the 9th August. The Parliament,
it is said, will move for a longer stay, but the King is resolved.
A whisper goes the Houses will stand for a Lord Lieutenant in his
absence, with power to pass bills. What that proposition will
produce in his resolution to grant or deny, go or stay, we shall
shortly see, but every one is full of expectation what every grand
council should produce in the change of officers. The Earl of
Arundel and his lady intend to wait on the Queen Mother over
the seas by the King's command. P.S.—I am now framing De
Vic's instructions unknown to Sir Balthazar Gerbier, who, poor
man, can get neither countenance nor money. [2 pp.] |
July 30/Aug 9,
Paris. |
105. Robert Read to Thomas Windebank. If the King's going
to the North be so sudden, I know you will think fit to make the
more expedition in the business wherein you have, ere this, received
order by the last week's letters. I persuade myself the conjuncture is
not improper for it, since the late occasion has begotten so good an
intelligence between the Queen and both Houses; and, besides, it is
said they are upon counsels in favour of the Roman Catholics. I
understand from some in the House of Commons that there is a
resolution taken of delivering up the charge very suddenly. If there
be any such intention this will come very seasonably; however, I
am sure it can do no harm. There is no question but some answer
or other will be given in it before his Majesty's departure, and,
except there be great hopes of good success, I believe you will not
think fit to defer your coming over. [Seal with crest. 1½ pp.] |
| July 30. |
106. Certificate of George Long, J.P., that Robert Littlebury, of
Hatfield, Herts, has taken the oath of allegiance. [½ p.] |
July 30,
Westminster. |
107. Letters Patent ordaining Charles Cotterell to assist Sir
Balthazar Gerbier in the receipt and entertainment of ambassadors
and strangers coming into the realm, at a fee of 6s. 8d. per diem,
payable in four quarterly payments, during pleasure. [Copy.
5 pp.] |
July 31,
Office of Ordnance. |
108. Observations of the Officers of the Ordnance upon the heads
of the Bill preferred to the House of Commons and submitted to
their consideration from the Lords of the Upper House, concerning
the making of saltpetre and gunpowder. [2½ pp.] |
| July 31 |
109. Copy of the above. [2½ pp.] |
July 31,
Chester. |
110. Thos. Moreton to Sir Thomas Smyth. The plague which
broke out at Shotwick, and lodged at the Red Lion in Chester,
spreads no further. The City is now busy about the poll money,
and are most troubled, as I hear, about the sheriffs' reeves, who
have no inclusion in the Act, how to rate them. The country pays
cheerfully; only many reputed esquires shrink up their title to
be called gentleman and save 5l. It were worth any wise man's
laughter to see how these apple esquires that gloried in the title do
now assume humility and a lower style. Mr. Chancellor declined
his journey to the Bath, and has, by advice of his physicians, made
an issue in his arm. [Seal with arms. 3 pp.] |
| July 31. |
111. Order of the House of Commons. That if any member of
the House shall have occasion to make any motion or question to
the House concerning anything that has had dependence in the
Star Chamber, they shall first acquaint the Committee, or any eight
of them, that they may consider of it, and report it to the House if
they shall think it worthy ; and they are to meet every Saturday in
the Star Chamber. [½ p.] |
| July 31. |
The like. That this Committee shall have power also to receive
any petitions that shall be offered to them from any the late officers
of the Star Chamber, and to consider what is fit for the justice of this
House to do in way of reparation to be made to those officers. [On
the same paper. ½ p.] |
| July 31. |
112. The like. That the 3,000l. lent by the City upon the public
faith of this House for the furnishing of the Queen Mother of
France in her journey out of the kingdom shall be forthwith paid by
the City to any such persons as shall be nominated in a warrant
under his Majesty's hand, for the use and service aforesaid, and
that an acquittance under that person's hand shall be a sufficient
discharge. [½ p.] |
July 31,
Whitehall. |
113. Secretary Vane to Sir John Pennington. Signifying the
King's pleasure that Baron Dona, whom both their Majesties have
despatched into Holland upon express occasions of their service,
be transported in one of his Majesty's ships to Flushing. P.S.—
This Baron was sent hither with despatches from the Prince of
Orange and now returns with the answers. [Seal with arms and
crest. 2/3 p.] |
July 31,
Aylesbury. |
114. Matthew Leake to Sir John Lambe concerning the choice of
the churchwardens of Marlow. Dispute between Brown and Shirley
as to which shall execute that office. [Seal with arms. 2/3 p.] |
| July 31. |
115. Council Warrant to all sheriffs and others, requiring them to
assist Charles Tenant in watching his Majesty's two close waggons
sent to Scotland. [Draft. ½ p.] |
| July 31. |
116. Pass for Mary Carry, late wife of Captain John Carry, and
Eleanor Devereux, both of Ireland, to go into the Low Countries.
[Minute. ½ p.] |
| July 31. |
117. Pass for Robert Littlebury, of Hatfield, to travel for three
years, with proviso not to go to Rome. [Minute. ¼ p.] |
[July,]
Whitehall. |
118. Pass, signed by the Council, for Thomas Lucyn, Esq., of co.
Stafford, to travel for three years, with proviso not to go to Rome.
[2/3 p.] |
| [July ?] |
119. A calculation of what is due to the Army-Surgeons (names
annexed) for waggon-money at the rate of 4s. 8d. per diem, from
10 Feb. 1640 to the day of their several discharges. Total, 742l.
[1½ pp.] |
| [July ?] |
120. Accounts of pay for the regiments of Colonel Wm. Vavasour
and Colonel Wentworth. [6 pp.] |
| [July ?] |
121. The King to the Commissioners of the Treasury. Amongst
the many great straits I am in for want of money, none so much
afflicteth me as the consideration of my late farmers [of the Customs],
who, for my service, lie under the pressure of so great a debt. I
desire that you make use of the first opportunity either by money
or any other means by which you may shorten their great debt. In
respect of the great consequence of the East India trade to this
kingdom, there being so great a debt owing to them by us, it is our
pleasure that the first [money] you can procure either out of the Forest
of Dean, concerning which we understand you are in treaty with Sir
Bainham Throgmorton and others, or any other way be paid in for
the satisfaction of the East India Company's debt. [Draft. 1 p.] |
| [July ?] |
The King to the Farmers of the Customs. We take notice by
your letters of the great danger of ruin you are in by the debt of
the East India Company, of which we are very sensible, resolving
to make use of the first opportunity, either by the Customs being
settled, or any other way, for your discharge. [Draft, written on
the same paper as the preceding. ½ p.] |
| [July ?] |
122. Petition of Christopher Blease, of Chester, alderman, to the
Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. About June 1639 petitioner
received of John Eaton, then sheriff of co. Flint, 60l. ship-money
collected by him, and delivered only to petitioner to be returned up
to London to Sir William Russell, then Treasurer of the Navy;
which money, with 40l. 10s. of his own, petitioner delivered to
John Evanson, common carrier, to bring to London, as appears
by affidavit in the Exchequer. But so it is, that the carrier ran away
with these moneys; and petitioner, notwithstanding, is compelled
to enter bond for the payment of the 60l. at a year's end, which
bond Sir William has now put in suit, and expects payment or a
discharge for the same. Petitioner's suit is, that he, being only intreated to return up the moneys, may not be compelled to pay the
same, but that his bond may be delivered to him, and the carrier
made the debtor for the ship-money. [2/3 p.] |
| [July ?] |
123. Petition of John Cockshutt to the House of Commons.
Whereas it was ordered in the House of Peers, 24 July 1641, that
divers grants in reversion made by the King of several offices in
the Court of Common Pleas were illegal, and that the Chief Justice
of the said Court should dispose of the said places as in former
times he has done: That upon the death of Mr. Page, who had
in the Court of Common Pleas the office of Exigenter, the Lord
Chief Justice Bankes admitted the petitioner, John Cockshutt;
to the said place. Seeing that petitioner holds this place not by
grant of the King, but by appointment of the Lord Chief Justice,
he prays that he may be continued in the same. [1 p.] |
| July. |
124. Survey by Thomas Bankes of Freisley [Freazley in Warwickshire] Common Fields, showing how many acres each person
named has taken in. Total, 241 acres 1 rood 4 poles. [1 p.] |
| [July ?] |
125. Petition of Richard March to the King. By letters patent
of 19 June 1627, the office of Keeper-General of his Majesty's
Stores of the Ordnance, with the fee of 3s. per diem and other
benefits, was granted for life to Thomas Powell and petitioner,
which Powell being dead petitioner has executed the office six years.
Prays that upon surrender of his former patents the said office
may be conferred anew upon him and Thos. Withins, or the longest
liver of them. [2/3 p.] |
| July. |
126. Bill of small sums expended for repairs of carriages, &c.
Total, 7l. 13s. 8d. [1 p.] |
| [July.] |
127. Petition of Henry Henn, sergeant of the carriages, to the
King, for a second reversion to his son of the place bailiff itinerate
of Chester, of which he holds the first reversion, granted 25 years
before, after John Sparkes, and also of the reversion of the place
of messenger of the Exchequer at Chester after John Manley.
[½ p.] |
