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Nov. [7 ?]. |
38. Petition of Lewis Butcher, Roger Robinson, and Richard
Worley, tobacco-pipe makers, to the Council. On sight of a former
petition against the Company of Tobacco-pipe Makers, their
Lordships ordered that the said Company should forthwith restore
to petitioners certain tools formerly taken from them, but this the
Company refuses to do, whereby petitioners have been forced to
neglect their work, to their almost undoing, as by the order and
affidavit annexed may appear. Pray that the said Company may
be called to answer their contempt, and that the tools may be
restored. [¾ p.] Annexed, |
38. i. Declaration by Roger Robinson, that the Council having
given order for the restoration of their tools, he and the
other complainants, on the 2nd of this instant November,
repaired to the Common Hall of the Company of
Tobacco-pipe Makers, and showed the Master, Wardens,
and others the said order, which was openly read by their
clerk, but they utterly refused to restore the tools. Sworn
on 7th November. [½ p.] |
38. ii. Copy of the above-mentioned Order of Council of 19th
August. [1¾ pp.] |
[Nov. 9.] |
39. Letter of instructions sent with the writ of ship-money to
the sheriff of co. Rutland, being similar to those already calendared
under date. A rough draft by Nicholas of the clauses specially
adapted to cos. Rutland, Lincoln, and Leicester is calendared
Vol. CCCCI., No. 41. [Draft. 9 pp.] |
[Nov. 9 ?] |
40. List of the distribution of ships to the several counties of
England and Wales (arranged in groups), with tonnage, number of
men, and charge, for the year 1638. [2½ pp. See Vol. CCCCI.,
No. 36.] |
[Nov. 9 ?] |
41. Another copy of the same. |
Nov. 22. |
42. Receipt by Richard Elmhirst, Deputy Receiver for co.
Lancaster, on behalf of Thomas Viscount Wentworth, Lord Deputy
of Ireland, receiver of recusants' rents, for the sum of 10l. paid by
Richard Sherburne of Stonyhurst in the said county, the same
being for the recusancy of Elizabeth his wife. [Printed form
filled in.] |
Nov. 23. |
43. Declaration by Daniel Coteele of London, that whereas
Henry Knight of Tarling, co. Essex, was bound to him in the
sum of 200l. for payment of 100l. on a day yet to come, with
interest up to the said date, but the obligation is lost and cannot
be found, the said Daniel Coteele, for good consideration, gives up
all claim concerning the said obligation. Witnessed by Robert
Blackbourne. [Copy attested by Thomas Dutton. 1 p.] |
Nov. 24. |
44. Petition of Robert Davison, junior, of Southwark, to the
Commissioners for Inquiry of Exacted Fees. Petitioner was
arrested upon divers actions, and cast into the Marshalsea, but
at the end of six days, having procured sufficient security and
delivered the same to Mr. Hall, keeper of the prison, should have
been released, on paying such fees as were due, which he offered
to do. Hall, however, refused to take the just fees, or to free
petitioner unless he paid all that was then demanded, which he
was forced to do. Prays that Hall may be summoned to give
account what authority he had to exact such large fees, and that,
if he cannot justify them, he may be enjoined to make restitution
to petitioner. [1 p. Damaged.] |
Nov. 25. |
45. Minute of a resolution of the Council of War, desiring the
Earl of Essex, Earl of Newport, and Sir Jacob Astley, to consider
of a state of war now delivered to the Earl of Essex, and to perfect
and settle the same. Endorsed by Nicholas. [½ p. Entry in
Order Book already calendared under date.] |
Nov. 26. |
46. William, Bishop of Bath and Wells, to Lord Keeper Coventry.
He and his predecessors have, time out of mind, been seized of the
rectory and parsonage of Compton Dando, co. Somerset, and have
received the profits of the same; but now one Richard Harvey, of
St. Martin's, co. Middlesex, has got possession of the said rectory,
and doth collect the tithes and receive the profits, which are worth
100l. a year [see Vol. CCCC., No. 40]. He gives out that he has
an interest therein as executor of Jeremy Harvey, of Compton
Dando, deceased, to whom a lease was granted, as he pretends, by
a former bishop of the see; whereas in truth there never was any
such grant, and if there were, it would be void both in law and
equity. Complainant has often asked the said Harvey for a sight
of the lease, but he refuses to show it. Prays a writ of subpœna,
commanding Harvey to appear before his Lordship in the Court of
Chancery and to discover when, to whom, and on what considerations the said pretended lease was executed, and when it was
settled on himself. [Copy. 8 sheets.] |
[Nov.] |
47. The King to Lord William Howard, commending his care of
the bordering parts in these stirring times. [¾ p. Rough draft,
Copy already calendared, Vol. CCCCII., No. 80.] |
[Nov. ?] |
48. Complaint of the poor messengers [to the Council]. Their
service is painful, dangerous, and chargeable, with long and tedious
journeys, oftentimes to the furthest part of the kingdom, as is
shown by the book of the clerk of the cheque, and as appears by
the margin [of this paper]. They have also extraordinary charges,
for which they receive warrants of allowance to the Treasury
Chamber, and there they stay four or five years or more before
they can get the money. Twenty months since they petitioned
his Majesty, and order was given to the Lord Treasurer to satisfy
them, yet they have neither received the money nor order for it;
and moreover their wages have now been unpaid for three-quarters
of a year. Pray consideration of their necessities. Margin.
Statement of the number of miles travelled in each month from
March to October inclusive, the total amounting to 41,336 miles.
[1 p.] |