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| Dec. 4. |
Certificate by Robert Magors of the fitness of the Tangier
Merchant for employment, being hired to carry goods to Tangier.
[Ibid. No. 67.] |
| Dec. 4. |
Report by Mr. Cooper on Sir W. Warren's timber at Guildford.
[Ibid. No. 68.] |
Dec. 10.
Sherwood Forest. |
Thomas Corbin to the Navy Commissioners. In obedience to
the Lord Treasurer's order I have been with Mr. John Russell.
purveyor of the Navy, who has marked 5,150 trees and 400 more
which he has taken notice of to be converted into treenails, and
we conceive there may be many more useful trees found out in
another survey. [Ibid. No. 69.] |
| Dec. 10. |
John Russell to the Navy Commissioners. Giving an account
of his survey as in the last letter. [Ibid. No. 70.] Enclosed, |
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Estimate of the charge of felling, squaring and sawing the
timber and transporting it to London. [Ibid. No. 70 i.] |
| Dec. 17. |
Robert Smyth to Samuel Pepys. Certifying the sufficiency
of the sureties proposed by William Short, purser of the James.
[Ibid. No. 71.] |
Dec. 27.
The Dunkirk. |
Certificate by Edmund Seaman and four other commanders of
ships in the road of Swally in the East Indies of the convenience
of the contrivance made in the Dunkirk for the reception of
goods and of the quantity of goods it would contain. Noted,
as given by the East India Company. [Ibid. No. 72.] |
Dec. 29.
Castle Elizabeth, Jersey. |
Thomas Jermyn, Lieut.-Governor, to the Officers of the
Customs at Southampton. Informing them that George Pinson
has unladen from the Hopewell of Hampton by virtue of a cockett
from their office the goods therein mentioned. [S.P. Channel
Islands 1, No. 142.] |
| Dec. 31. |
Survey by John Tippetts and two others of the defects of the
Princess. [S.P. Supplementary 136, No. 73.] |
| [1662 ?] |
Edward Leigh to his Honour. Reminding him of him because
there are so many expectations on that employment to which
he was recommended to him by his cousin Bowerman. (See
Cal. S.P. Dom., 1663—64, p. 282.) [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 440, No.
70.] |
| [1662 ?] |
James Hubbard and others to the House of Commons. Petition
stating that by statute the Goldsmiths' Company should not
make or sell any gold or silver plate below the fineness of crown
and sterling and that an assay master was appointed to assay and
mark all plate and jewels, but that notwithstanding they make
and sell much adulterated plate and set in gold artificial stones
and presume to stamp the lion, the King's mark, on them and
for want of an assay master the Company are left to be judges
in assaying their own work, and therefore praying the appointment of an assay master to be paid by setting 1d. per oz. on all
silver and the like on all gold assayed. (See Cal. S.P. Dom.,
1661—62, p. 278.) [Printed paper. Ibid. No. 71.] |
| [1662 ?] |
Request by Richard Tomes of St. Mary Hill, Billingsgate,
lawful patron of Upminster, Essex, for a caveat to be entered against
John Newton (presented in 1662), John Halks or any other, who
may entitle his Majesty to any pretended lapse to the said living
and also for a warrant to the Signet Office that no grant thereof
pass. [Ibid. No. 72.] |
| [1662 ?] |
[Sir Heneage Finch ?] to Lord [Conway]. I have received
from my brother, Sir John Finch, such assurances of your
favour that I cannot let him depart without carrying with him
my deep sense of the obligation. I am now in a country retirement, which renders me incapable of serving you. However, it
suits well and gives me the advantage of making bare but sincere
professions that, whenever I have any opportunity, I shall be
zealous in your concerns and interests. In the meantime I wish
you all increase of honour and happiness. What my brother,
Sir John Finch, engaged for me I shall to my power make good,
and I could wish my own desires might prompt my understanding with some thing that might outdo that. I have no
intention in all this to move you to increase your favours, for
nothing could be more uneasy to me than to make you the first
person to whom I made an unequal return. [Conway papers.
Ibid. No. 73.] |
| [1662 ?] |
An exact account of the moneys in the hands of Edward Picks
due to his Majesty for several parcels of prohibited goods seized
and compounded for, amounting to 72l. 18s. (See Cal. S.P.
Dom., 1661—62, p. 131.) [Ibid. No. 74.] |
| [1662 ?] |
Note of Edward Picks' address, Vere Street, Covent Garden.
[Ibid. No. 75.] |
| [1662 ?] |
John Dawes, the younger (born 1643–4, created a baronet
1 June, 1663), son and heir of Sir Thomas Dawes, deceased, to the
King. Petition stating that the said Sir Thomas, eldest son of
Sir Abraham, was totally ruined for his loyalty, that the petitioner
lately married Christian, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth
Hawkins, both deceased, who has neither brother, sister, nor
guardian of her father's choosing, and who intended to choose
John Dawes, the elder, the petitioner's uncle, for her guardian
in order to her marriage, and that, because the said Robert
Hawkins was a freeman of London, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen threaten the petitioner for marrying his wife without their
consent, and therefore praying a recommendation of the petitioner
and his cause to the said Lord Mayor and Aldermen as being a
means in some measure to repair his ruined fortune. [Ibid.
No. 76.] |
| [1662 ?] |
Statement that Teesdale Forest, co. Durham, belonging to the
King has in it very considerable lead mines lately discovered
and that the lease with the Earl of Elgin (ob. 1663) has expired
within twelve months. Endorsed. "Teasdale Pybrug (?)" [Ibid.
No. 77.] |
| [1662 ?] |
Cover of a letter from Sir G. Lane to Col. Robert Manley, commander of a foot company at Bantry fort. [S.P. Ireland, Car. II.
349, No. 9.] |
| [1662 ?] |
Account of the quantities of provisions and moneys charged on
the pursers of each ship as delivered the last expedition under
the command of the Earl of Sandwich by John Creed, which must
be completed to a full charge on the pursers by the addition of
what the Purser General and Mr. Cock have delivered. The
last has given in an account amounting to about 35,000l., most
for provisions, but not perfect enough to ground a charge for the
pursers. [20 pages. S.P. Supplementary 136, No. 74.] |
