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Feb. 1.
Newark. |
33. Wm. Herreson, Alderman, and others, of Newark-on-Trent,
to Cecill. Refusal of messengers on special service, to the payment of
twopence per mile to persons supplying them with post-horses. |
| Feb. 1. |
34. Account of the supply, for present service of the navy, of brass
and iron ordnance and other stores; with the prices of the same. |
| Feb. 5. |
35. The Queen to Winchester. Concerning sundry irregularities
committed against the farmers of the imposts on wines, contrary to
their letters patent. |
| Feb. 13. |
36. Estimates of certain proportions of victuals to be placed in
staple for service by sea or land, at the ports specified. |
Feb. 15.
The Tower. |
37. True note of the journey of Thomas Blackwell, lately made by
him into the North, and so back again to London, describing the
occurrences which took place. |
| Feb. 15. |
38. The Queen to the Lieutenants of Shires. To hold general
musters of all persons chargeable with providing horses and geldings,
to see them properly armed and furnished, and to make certificate of
the same. |
| Feb. 6. |
Lease in reversion from the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's to
John Incent, Gentleman, Proctor of the Arches and Chapter Clerk, of
certain tenements called St. Erhenwald's tenements, in Knight Rither
Street, abutting upon the capital messuage sometime called Montjoye
Place, and now being the Doctors' Commons of the Arches. [Case B.
Eliz. No. 5.] |
| Feb. 18. |
39. The Queen to the Earl of Derby. Desires that his daughter-in-law,
Lady Margaret Strange, should continue in attendance on her. Is
sorry to perceive how much she is grieved by the death of her father
the Earl of Cumberland, and has licensed her to dispose of certain
lands for payment of her debts. |
| Feb. 18. |
40. Same to Henry Stanley Lord Strange. Wishes Lady Margaret
Strange to continue her attendance on her. Has granted license to
him and to Lady Strange to make sale of some convenient portion of
certain lands in the tenure of the Duchess of Suffolk. |
| Feb. 18. |
41. Memorandum of a letter to the Surveyor of Woods in Middlesex, concerning the enclosure of certain lands at Knightsbridge,
for preservation of the game, according to the information of Francis
Neville, Esq., of Hyde Park. |
| Feb. 20. |
42. Memorandum in Cecill's hand, touching various transactions
and affairs relating to provision of arms, military stores, Parliament,
and other points of public business. |
| Feb. 21. |
43. Thomas Marshe to the Council. Has taken the examinations of
Putenham and Hodges. Incloses, |
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43. i. Interrogatories to be administered to John Hodges on behalf
of George Putenham, as to the design of killing Mr.
Secretary, &c. 19 Feb. 1570. |
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43. ii. Answers of John Hodges, of Olton, in the County of Norfolk, to the above, touching certain felonious purposes of
killing Mr. Secretary Cecill. 19 Feb. 1570. |
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43. iii. Interrogatories by John Hodges to be administered to
George Putenham, Esq. 20 Feb. 1570. |
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43. iv. Deposition of George Putenham, of co. of Southampton,
Esq., upon certain interrogatories administered to him
relative to the conduct of John Hodges. Opinions of
various parties. Influence of the Earl of Leicester, who is
described as "the chick that sytteth next the henne." Design
to kill Sec. Cecill. 20 Feb. 1570. |
| Feb. 20. |
44. Note of the whole delivery, by Sir Tho. Gresham, of 62 bags of
Spanish rials into the hands of Mr. Tho. Stanley, Treasurer of the
Mint; with the redelivery of the same from the Mint in money. |
| Feb. |
45. Note in Sir Wm. Cecill's hand, of the order in which the rebels,
being taken, may be indicted and tried, and disposal of their lands. |
| Feb. |
46. Declaration of abuses in the practice of the Canon Law. |
| Feb. |
47. Statement of the case of the Earl of Oxford as to his claim to
certain lands, not devised by the late Earl to the Countess his wife,
since dead. |
| Feb. |
48. Copy of part of the above. |
| Feb. |
49. Rental of divers manors, &c., in the Counties of Essex, Cambridge, Chester, Northampton, and Warwick, the jointure of the late
Countess of Oxford. |
| Feb. |
50. Suit of Capt. Thomas Leighton to the Council, for allowance of
conduct money and other charges for the officers and 500 common
soldiers on a march from Wetherby to London. |
| Feb. |
51. Note of the most necessary munitions to be provided at this
present in the Office of Ordnance. |
| Feb. |
52. Account of artillery, carriages, armour, and other Ordnance
stores. |
| Feb. ? |
53. Articles disproving the suit of Ric. Putenham to the Queen, for
restitution of 900l. paid into the Exchequer by Francis Morris, to
the prejudice of George Putenham. |
| Feb. prob. |
54. Declaration by Queen Elizabeth to all her loving subjects on
the suppression of the rebellion in the North; setting forth the
malicious libels, both from abroad and at home, which led to that
rebellion; the principles on which her government had hitherto been
conducted; the unexampled prosperity enjoyed by England since her
accession; her determination to continue in support of the true
Christian religion; to administer the laws with moderation, but at
the same time with severity, against the disturbers of public tranquillity; and exhorting all classes to continue in loyalty and obedience
to the Throne and the laws of the realm. |
| February. |
55. An elaborate paper in Cecill's hand, headed, "Copy of a Letter
from a Gentillman in England, to his Coosyn, a Student, in Paris,"
being in answer to a false and scandalous book lately published in
France, under the title, "A Discourse of Trobles newly happened in
England in Octobre, with a Declaration made by y° Erle of Northumberland and other Great Lordes of England." [The publication of
this scandalous book is noticed in the dispatches of the Ambassador
in France. 25 and 27 February, 1570.] |
