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Jan. 15. |
1. Petition of William Gedeon, in right of his wife, a native of
Jersey, to the Council. On his appeal of 11th of June last,
petitioner's cause was referred to the King's advocate, who has
examined it and made report. But as, by the law and custom of
the Isle in cases of appeal, the party delinquent ought to pay costs
to the party wronged, he prays further order to the Advocate to
examine the charges of the suit. [½ p.] Underwritten, |
1. i. Reference to the Advocate-General, to certify the laws and
customs of the Isle. Court at Hampton Court, Jan. 15th,
1636–7. |
1. ii. Certificate by Dr. Rives that petitioner should be allowed
reasonable charges. [The order on this certificate is
calendared Vol. CCCXLIV., No. 94.] |
Jan. [15 ?] |
2. Note that William Stroud, of Barrington, co. Somerset,
having been sent for by warrant from the Council, has this day
entered his appearance, and is to give attendance until discharged.
Endorsed, "January. Mr. Stroud's appearance." [Five lines. See
Vol. CCCXLIII., No. 17.] |
Jan. |
3. List of petitions not dispatched, left at the Council
Chamber:—Captain Henry Keyes; Jacob Vandebrouck; Lawrence
Butler; Hugh May; Robert Foard; Edward Kellie; Jane Lee;
Lord Mayor to his Majesty about coaches; prisoners of the
Marshalsea. |
Letters and certificates left at the Council Chamber:—Mr.
Stroud's answer; Sir David Kirke, description of Newfoundland;
letters from the High Sheriff of Somerset about the town of
Taunton; Lord Falkland about the allowance to his mother;
Deputy Lieutenants of co. Wilts to the Lord Chamberlain; Mr.
Butten and Mr. Brumfield in a difference about Hulsey Marsh;
the Mayor of Colchester about one that counterfeited His Grace
of Canterbury's hand; Justices of the Peace of Surrey about the
poor there; the Earl of Suffolk; report of the Attorney and
Solicitor-General concerning the christening of strangers' children;
letter from Sir Thomas Leigh and Sir Thomas Lucy about a
difference between the Earl of Leicester and the children of
Sir Robert Dudley; letter from the High Sheriff of Huntingdon
about W. Shelley; certificates from the Bishop of Lincoln about
Shelley; letter from Lord Derby to Lord Cottington; papers
concerning Mr. Justice Heywood; account of Nicholas Pye's
service. |
Petitions dispatched January 1637:—Otho Stapp, Mayor of
Bodmin in Cornwall; John de la Barr, merchant; Mary Burrell;
wholesale tradesmen of London; the answer of John Apsley,
executor to Sir Allen Apsley; Thomas Coo, Anne Lee; Dame
Mary Wandesford; greater number of the 40 messengers; churchwardens and seavengers of the parishes of St. Clement Danes and
St. Mary Savoy; Nicholas Wykes, deputy bailiff of Westminster;
24 cursiters of the Chancery; John Ash, clothier; Captain John
Milward of London; Sir William Russell, Bart.; Philip, Earl
of Chesterfield; Peter Egerton, Esq.; William Godeon [Gedeon]
of Jersey; Francis Lippencot and Richard Mayne of Exeter; High
Constables of the hundreds of Elthorne, Spelthorne, and Isleworth,
co. Middlesex; John Watkins, Lieutenant in the Low Countries;
Jo. Burls and Robert Spicer; Leonard Holmes of Yarmouth;
Will. Emott, solicitor to the Earl of Leicester; inhabitants of
New Windsor; Sir John Shelley, of Michelgrove in Sussex;
Henry Rason of Windsor, maltster; William Shelley, with
examinations taken before the Bishop of Lincoln; wholesale
tradesmen of London that go to Bristol; William Reynolds and
Jo. Foster; Sir Richard Levison's wife, the daughter of Sir
Robert Dudley; Hugh Lewis, searcher of Bristol; Mayor, &c., of
Barnstaple in Devonshire; Dame Elizabeth Dorrell [Darell],
executrix of Sir Sampson Dorrell, her late husband; clothiers of
Coggeshall in Essex, in Mr. de la Barr; inhabitants of the
precinct of St. Martin's; papermakers; bailiffs of Yarmouth.
[2½ pp.] |
[Jan. ?] |
4. Petition of the greater number of the 40 Messengers of his
Majesty's Chamber to the Privy Council. Beg the payment of
arrears of wages and also allowances for the extraordinary services
in which they have been employed, viz., the business of knighthood, the letters for the repair of St. Paul's, the business of
malting, letters concerning alehouses, the commissions of sheriffs,
and principally the several writs and letters concerning shipping.
[1 p. Probably the petition mentioned in the list above.] |
[Jan. ?] |
5. [Secretary Windebank] to Lord Scudamore. I sent a letter
to the Earl of Leicester by the servant who went from hence with
his Majesty's letters for your revocation, wherein I represented to
him the intelligence with which you have honoured me since your
employment in those parts, and that now I should have little
knowledge of the state of affairs there, considering my colleague's
reservedness, unless he would take me into his consideration. He
showed great willingness to give me satisfaction, and as your
Lordship without question has established divers intelligencers,
I should be glad if you would assist him to such instruments as
you have found useful. The French ambassador has complained
to his Majesty of the treaty at Brussels, the Venetian ambassador, who solicits for the King of Hungary's passports in
Germany for the general treaty of peace, having published that the
King of Hungary has remitted the treaty for restitution of the
Palatinate, and therefore has refused to grant any pass for
the Prince Elector Palatine. The King has commanded Secretary
Coke and myself to repair to the French ambassador and satisfy
him that there is no such treaty on foot, and therefore they must not
make the report of the Venetian ambassador a ground to perplex
the present treaty with them. But we are likewise to let him
know that some overtures have lately been made to his Majesty
from the Austrian party concerning the business of the Palatinate,
and that if his Majesty find anything really offered that may tend
to the peace of Christendom and the restitution of his nephew, he
will hearken to it. And to this purpose there is a despatch made
to the Earl of Leicester, and he in an audience is to represent this
to that King [of France] or to some of his ministers. I wish your
Lordship this and many more returns of happy and prosperous new
years. [Draft. 2¼ pp.] |
[Jan ?] |
6. [Secretary Windebank] to the Earl of Leicester. The
expressions of your Lordship in your letters of the 21/31 of December,
honouring me with the acceptation of a particular intelligence, are
so full of generosity and nobleness, that I find myself no less
obliged to you for the manner than for the favour itself. Through
the retentive faculty of my colleague, I cannot expect that more
shall pass to my knowledge than what he cannot keep from me,
and from him I seldom come to the understanding of anything of
moment but at the foreign Committee, which his Majesty has
commanded to meet every week, and he husbands that so thriftily
that unless the King call us upon some special occasion, once in a
month or six weeks, we never otherwise come together. Yet I
must not give your Lordship the trouble of a weekly communi
cation of what passes at your audiences with that king (of France)
or in conferences with his ministers. All I desire is that you
would cause a copy of such occurrences as are weekly gathered
for Secretary Coke, together with the printed gazetteers, to be
sent to me; and for what passes at audiences or conferences, and
are fit to be sent me by the hand of one of your servants (for I
have not so little manners to expect you should descend to this
yourself) I shall be likewise glad to receive them, that so I may
not be altogether a stranger to your negotiation. I shall not fail
to give you from time to time a diligent account of what passes
here. I have written to Lord Scudamore, as of myself, in conformity to what your Lordship proposed, and asked him to give
you address to such instruments as he has made use of. I forbear
to acquaint you with what has lately passed here, between His
Majesty and the French ambassador, concerning the imaginary
treaty at Brussels, Secretary Coke having special order to acquaint
you particularly with it, and to instruct you with what the King
will have done in it. [Draft. 2¾ pp.] |