Queen Elizabeth - Volume 150: August 1581

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1581-90. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1865.

'Queen Elizabeth - Volume 150: August 1581', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1581-90, (London, 1865) pp. 24-25. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/1581-90/pp24-25 [accessed 24 April 2024]

August 1581



Aug. 2. Ruthin.	1. J[enkin ?] Lloyd to the Earl of Leicester. Has received his letter by the bearer Henry Ball, and sent his man to the hills within Yale, where he found certain workmen appointed by Elice Wynne and Tho. Powell, who refused to quit their wrok.
Aug. 7. Hastings.	2. Return of the Bailiff and Jurats of Hastings to Lord Cobham. That John Jeffery, cited to answer for certain contempts, was not to be found in that town.
Aug. 7.	3. Commissioners of Musters for the county of Chester to the Earl of Liecester. Have excused Ellen Wynnyngton, widow, from furnishing a light horse, on account of her inability, having settled 20l. upon her son Wm. Carington.
Aug. 10. Chester.	4. Wm. Byrd, Mayor, and Wm. Glaseor to Lord Burghley. Are not able to procure so much as six fodders of lead for service in Ireland. Request a grant of the lead of the chancel of St. John's Church, which they would sell to re-edify that church, and could then furnish Her Majesty with the lead required.
Aug. 15. Croydon.	5. Edmund Grindal, Archbp. of Canterbury, to Leicester. Death of (Tho. Willoughby) Dean of Rochester. Recommends Dr. John Coldwell may be appointed to succeed him. State of his own health: his appetite very weak and his eyesight so dim and dull that he can scarcely read or write.
Aug. 18. Bosworth.	6. Francis Hastings to same. Himself and Mr. Stokes have searched the house of Mrs. Beamont. Their authority hardly large enough to put the parties on oath. Names of other papists whose houses ought to be searched; as Mr. Smith of Ashby, whose wife is most obstinately settled in popery. Urges his suit for the reversion of Newarke Grange.
Aug. 20. Mile End.	7. Lord Wentworth to Burghley. Returns the articles mutually agreed upon relative to the marriage, and approves of the additional articles touching the saving of dower to Burghley's daughter.
Aug. 21. Woburn.	8. Earl of Bedford to Walsyngham. Recommends the suit of the inhabitants of Bedford for uniting the two parishes into one.
Aug. 25.	9. Note of what gold remaineth in Her Majesty's receipt of the Exchequer, as well in bullion as in foreign coins, amounting to 37,432l. 0s. 6¾d.
Aug. 25.	10. Similar statement of gold bullion, with addition of the current money of the realm, amounting in the whole to 197,062l. 7s. 3¼d.
Aug. ?	11. Abstracts of the certificates relating to the breed and increase of horses furnished by several shires: showing the differences between their first and second certificates.
Aug. ?	12. Petition of Robert Witter, of Liverpool, to Walsyngham. States his losses at sea by the French, and seizure of his ship in Scotland. Prays for letters to the King of Scots for restitution. and recompense for his losses.