Charles I - volume 537: January 1637

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1625-49 Addenda. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1897.

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'Charles I - volume 537: January 1637', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1625-49 Addenda, (London, 1897) pp. 548-551. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/chas1/addenda/1625-49/pp548-551 [accessed 24 March 2024]

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January 1637

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.]