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| Dec. 2. |
45, 46. Articles exhibited to the Council against Edmond Plowden, Esq., of the Middle Temple, for matters of religion. [Two copies.] |
Dec. 3.
The Court. |
47. The Council to the Commissioners for Musters in Hampshire.
Thanks for their diligence in Her Majesty's service. |
| Dec. 12. |
48. Declaration of John Parker, of Hagworthingam, Lincoln.
How he was drawn from the service of God and became a Papist. |
Dec. 13.
London. |
49. William Herlle to Sir Edw. Horsey. Is glad of his recovery,
and will visit him shortly. Sends two papers of advertisements,
one of peace in France with the Protestants. Queen Elizabeth
is sharply set against the Papists. Success of the Spaniards in
Portugal. With a P.S., that the cause of Don Antonio was flourishing, although the King of Spain had caused his second son to be
crowned in Lisbon. |
| Dec. 14. |
50. Same to Edw. Cornwall, (indorsed on the preceding letter
"Baron of Burford.") Expresses his friendship towards him.
Intends to visit him and to talk with him of "Drake's circuityon
of the world." |
| Dec. 16. |
51. "Declaration made by the Merchants Adventurers, of the
continuance of them and their trade, with their petition for maintenance of their privileges according to their charters," &c. |
Dec. 19.
Cambridge. |
52. Roger Lord North, and others, to the Earl of Sussex. Imperfections in the instructions sent to them from the Council
as special Commissioners for Musters of horses in Cambridge.
Desire to know if they shall use their own discretions in the service.
Inclosing, |
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52. i. Certificate of the imperfections of their instructions from
the Council. |
Dec. 20.
Wytham. |
53. Henry Lord Norreys to the Council. Desires that deputies
may be appointed to assist him in the commission for the Muster
of horses in Oxfordshire, Sir Edw. Umpton [Unton], Sir Henry Lee,
and other Commissioners being unable to attend. |
| Dec. 20. |
54. Opinion of the Earl of Sussex, Lord Chamberlain, on the
reception to be given to the Ambassador from Savoy, to return the
Garter from the late Duke. Recommends the Queen to be at
the expense of his entertainment. |
| Dec. 20. |
55. Amount of daily wages of the stonemasons and labourers now
working at Folkstone, in preparing stone for the pier of Dover,
and of the money received to the 20th of December. |
| Dec. 20. |
56. Petition of Morris Pyckering [or Pickringe] to Lord Burghley.
Being in trouble for distributing the money given to him by Sir George
Peckham, for relief of poor prisoners confined in the Gatehouse for
religion. Has always prayed for the Queen who hath defended
us from the tyranny of the Devil, the Pope, and all his ravening
wolves. |
| Dec. 20. |
57. Certificate by Morris Pyckering of his interview with Sir
George Peckham on the 18th of December, being at dinner at my
Lord of Rochester's, in the close at Westminster, at a marriage. |
| Dec. 21. |
58. Examination of Morris Pyckering by the Lord Chancellor and
Lord Hunsdon, touching the money given to him by Sir George
Peckham for the poor prisoners in the Gatehouse for religion. |
Dec. 23.
York. |
59. Barnard Mawde to Sir Robert Stapleton. His mother and
children are well. Supposes that Wm. Beckwith can perform
nothing. W. S. and the Bishop have abused him about the 200l.
Private affairs. The Earl of Huntingdon is with the Earl of
Cumberland at Ripon. |
| Dec. 24. |
60. Detailed account by Alderman Richard Martyn, Francis
Drake, and Christopher Harris, of the amount of gold and silver
bullion in ingots, brought from Sion, and laid up in a vault under
the Jewel House; the silver bullion weighing 22, 8991bs. 5oz., the
coarse silver 512lbs. 6 oz., and the gold bullion 101lbs. 10 oz.
[Indorsed by Burghley,"The quantite of bullion brought into y
Tower by Fr. Drake."] |
| Dec. |
61. Nicolas Clarke to Sir Fr. Walsyngham. Desires that the
men serving in the bulwark of West Tilbury may receive their
wages quarterly, that their wages due from Lady-day last might
be paid this Christmas, and that he might have an annual allowance
himself. |
| Dec. 26. |
62. Examination of John Taylor, taken before George Carey,
relative to his conversation with Roger Yardley, servant of
Mr. Gilbert (?). |
Dec. 28.
(5 Kal. Jan.) Oxford. |
63. Albericus Gentilis, "Italus," to the Earl of Leicester. Has
sent letters to the illustrious Earl by Baptista Castellioni. His
hope of success in the University. Lat. |
| Dec. 31. |
64. Extract from the examination of John Hart relative to the
Bull of Pope Pius V. for the excommunication of Queen Elizabeth;
and the Faculties granted to Robert Persons and Edmund Campion
by Pope Gregory XIII. relative to the interpretation of that Bull. |
| Dec. 31. |
65. Copy of the above. |
| Dec. |
66. Answer of Sir Henry Lee to certain allegations of George
Whitton, relative to a transaction about some venison and deer
stealing sixteen years since. Prays to be protected from Whitton's
slanderous clamours, and to be released from imprisonment. |
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67. Answers by Lawrence Argoll to such objections as may be
urged against his suit for registration of wills, by the Proctors of the
Arches and others. |
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68. Statement of the number of wills proved in the Prerogative
Court, communibus annis, from January 1575, to the last of December 1580, in support of Argoll's suit. |
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69. A discourse delivered to Mr. Sheldon, to persuade him to
conform. Arguments to prove it lawful for a Roman Catholic to
attend the Protestant service. |
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70. A consideration of the advantages to be gained by opening
a direct trade with Turkey, by Sir Fr. Walsyngham. |
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71. A brief declaration of the profit, honor, and fame, that the
Queen's most excellent Majesty and the whole Commons of the
realm are to have by marts, to be kept in England; also an answer
to certain doubts touching the same: by John Johnson. |
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72. Grant to William Herlle of the office of the Queen's Constable Ragler or Kilghmargh, in the County of Cardigan, for life. |
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73. Account of the establishment of the Tower"Anno regni
Regis Ricardi Secundi quarto," stating the fees pertaining to the
Constable of the Tower and other officers, its jurisdiction, and
boundaries of the franchise on the water side from London Bridge
to the Abbot of Tower Hill's Mill. [Copy: made probably in the
year 1580.] |
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74. Grievances of the citizens of London who deal in soapmaking.
Patent for soapmaking granted by Her Majesty. Unfair dealings
of Lawrence Coxson and Lawrence Mellowe, in the sale of impure
oils to the soapmakers, at exorbitant prices. [An order was taken
with Lawrence Mellowe as to sale of his oils on the 8th Feb. 1580,
Co. Reg., to which this seems to be subsequent.] |
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Grant to Ralph Brookes of the office of Rougecroix, Pursuivant
at Arms, for life, in place of Tho. Dawes, lately defunct. Lat.
[Warrant Book, I., p. 17.] |
