|
| Feb. 1. |
Survey of all the Queen's ships, boats, barks, &c., with estimates of
repairs necessary, expenses in harbour, &c. [See Vol. xcvi., p. 294.] |
| Feb. 8 & 9. |
30. Resolution of the House for the commitment of Mr. Peter
Wentworth, burgess of the borough of Tregony, for unreverend and
undutiful words uttered by him in the House of Commons, with
proceedings thereon. |
| Feb 9. |
31. Request of Lord Norreis to the Court of Parliament. To be
restored in blood and honours. |
| Feb. 10. |
32. Articles agreed upon by the Committees touching a subsidy
and two fifteenths. |
| Feb. 11. |
33. Countess of Northumberland to Wm. Cotton. Is desirous to
know of his proceedings, and thanks him for his favor and affection
to some other person. More is expected of her than she is able to
perform. Will be glad to see him if he comes over into those parts.
[Partly in cypher]. |
| Feb. 19. |
34. Petition of Richard Maie, clothier of Worcester, "who gave
unto your Majestie the finest clothe in the worlde," to the Queen.
Desires restitution of 200 marks lent to the wife of the Bishop of
Hereford, on the promise of repayment out of a benefice, which he has
never received. |
Feb. 19.
Westminster. |
35. Grant of reprieve to John Ovare, found guilty and condemned
to death for robbery. |
Feb. 19.
Holborn. |
36. Bishop Cox to Burghley. Proposes the issuing of a commission
for the appeasing of the controversies yet remaining in St. John's
College, Cambridge. |
| Feb. 20. |
37. Articles by John Pryce, the Queen's attorney in the Marches of
Wales, of the imperfections in the service there, to the Queen's prejudice. |
| Feb. 24. |
38. Edmund Grindall, Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Queen.
Notifies the grant of a subsidy from the clergy. Lat. |
| Feb. 27. |
Preamble to the Bill of Subsidy, entitled "An Oration to the
Queen about the Subsidy." [See Vol. xlv., p. 12.] |
| Feb. |
39. Notes of the liberties of the town of Queenborough, extracted
from the charter. |
| Feb. ? |
40. Articles agreed upon by the whole clergy of the province of
Canterbury in the Convocation held at Westminster, in the year
1575, touching the admission of apt and fit persons for the ministry,
and the establishment of good order in the Church. |
| Feb.? |
41. Answer to objections for the restitution of a portion of the
temporalities of the See of Canterbury. [Indorsed by Grindall
"Answar of objections for my restitution."] |
| Feb. ? |
42. A paper headed "Reformatyons proponed in Parliament by
the Queene's Majestie in favour of justice and of hir welbeloved
subjectes"—viz., digest of the common law, choice of juries, tythes,
excommunications, Court of Almoners, &c. |
| Feb. |
43. An act for the more equal and speedy rating and collecting of
charges and contributions for services in the country. |
| Feb. ? |
44. Extracts from the Patent Rolls, in proof of the authority
possessed and exercised by the Bishops of Durham, in the County
Palatine of Chester, &c. |
| Feb. ? |
45. Heads of several bills in various stages in the Lower House. |
| Feb. ? |
46. Note of bills in the Upper House of Parliament. |
| Feb. ? |
47. Device for a bill for granting duties for maintenance of the
harbours at Rye and Winchelsea, and for repairing Dover haven. |
