Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 24: March 1576

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda, 1566-79. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1871.

'Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 24: March 1576', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda, 1566-79, (London, 1871) pp. 499. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1566-79/p499 [accessed 19 April 2024]

March 1576



March 5. Antwerp.	69. Thos. Copley to Lord Burghley. Thanks for imparting my letters to the Queen, and answering objections, and favouring my friends about my living. I write in haste, but I am clear of any Spanish devices against Prince or Court, and of conference with condemned English. I am sorry if I have spoken any rash word; but even Job was not clear of repining; though 40 years old, I am young enough to make amends for faults, but it is bootless to strive with a conscience settled in faith, for we daily see men on both sides sustain pains and death with courage. Pray let me have some certainty of my estate. I have just returned from Brussels, where I left his Excellency sick and in some danger. [1¾pages.]
March 11.	70. Statement addressed to Council. John Foxall and Barnard Field have often supplicated Her Majesty and Council on the wrong done them by the inquisitors of Spain, touching a great ship of theirs, and her lading. Her Majesty has dealt largely with King Philip, by letter, and by Sir Hen. Cobham her ambassador, and yet nothing proceeds towards recompensing them, neither is there anything to be looked for from the King or inquisitors, but vain words tending to long delays. Pray have compassion on them, that order may be taken for the stay of as much goods of the subjects of King Philip as Foxall and Field have lost by this most unjust dealing, or some other convenient order made for their relief. [1 page, copy.]
March 18 ?	71. Answer of Ludovic Greville to the bill of complaint of Margery Caning, wife of George Caning, and late wife of William Millar, one of the tenants of the manor of Wellford, denying any injury done to her or to any other of the tenants of that manor. [1 sheet. See Dom. Eliz., Vol. CVII., No. 89.]
March ?	72. "Note of the clear revenue that the Archbishop of Canterbury is to have, during the first three years in the which he is to pay his first fruits," if paid in three years. The total value of the archbishopric, deducting tenths, fees, and pensions, is 2,330l. 14s. 6¾d. The Court of Faculties being reformed, the fees formerly 60l. will be only 30l., making 2,360l. 14s. 6¾d. The third of the first fruits are charged at 2,784l, 10s. 10d. being an overcharge of 423l. 16s. 3¼d., so his income for the first year would be, deducting 928l. 3s. 7½d. first fruits, 1,432l. 10s. 11½d. The second and third years, when the payment of the subsidy 268l. 5s. 2½d. will be due, it will only be 1,164l. 5s. 9d. [1 page.]
March ?	73. Similar calculation, showing that if he pays his first fruits in two years, his clear income will only be 968l. 19s. 1¾d. the first year, and 700l. 3s. 11¼d. [1 page.]