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69. An entry book of forms of letters, warrants, grants, recommendations, &c. probably for the use of and belonging to Lord
Treasurer Burghley. The entries are without date, and the latest
assignable one (p. 27) appears to be a letter from Burghley to the
Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, recommending them
to elect Dr. C[apcotes] as their master in place of Robert N[orgate]
deceased. |
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70. Warrant by Queen Elizabeth to Lord Burghley. To suffer
a certain number of tons of iron ordnance to be exported for the use
of the States General. |
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71. Examination of James Tobyn, late servant to Sir William
Stanley, as to the keeping of Her Majesty's soldiers in Ireland, as
his domestic servants, they at the same time receiving the Queen's
pay. |
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72. The answer of the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer to the
complaint or petition of Sir Jerom Bowes, as to the sum of 55l.
claimed by him on the supposed testament of Dame Elizabeth Harte:
fraudulent dealing of Bowes in the said will. Desires that the
cause may be tried at law. |
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73. Notes in Lord Burghley's hand of the opinions of ancient
philosophers on the justice of defensive war. |
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74. Information of Priests and Recusants residing in London.
Robert Gage's lodging at a tailor's new house in Chancery Lane,
where are divers bad persons lodged; Swithen Wells in Southampton House; Vaudrey's lodging at the Mermaid in Fleet Street;
Doctor Johnson's house in Fleet Street, &c. |
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75. Another list of names, probably of Papists residing in London.
Robert Gage at the new tailor's house; Mr. Vaudrey at the Mermaid.
Search for Henry Donne, whose lodging is over against Sir Chr.
Hatton's. |
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76. Note of Priests confined in Wisbeach and the Tower of
London, with particulars of the charges against them. |
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77. Confession of Swithen Wells, a recusant, concerning the
places of his abode, and his dealings with the Recusants. Periods of
his being in prison. |
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78. Names of such English Captains as serve under the enemy in
the Low Countries, and are desirous to get passports to come over
into England; most dangerous papists, and thought to be bloody
men, not fit to have any liberty in England. Scudamore the priest
is gone to Mr. Seaborne's in Herefordshire. |
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79. Request of John Young, one of the messengers of Her Majesty's
chamber, for allowance for riding post to Plymouth, to arrest and
bring up in custody John Hampton, master of the Primrose. |
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80. Secret advertisements from the French correspondent. Proceedings of the English Recusants in France. Practices of the
Recusants and foreigners in England. "Dieu saulve la bonne Royne
"d' Angleterre avec son bon Conseil." |
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81. Abstract of subsidies and tenths to be paid by the Bishops,
estimated at the rates of 18d. and 12d. in the £. |
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82. Petition of Roger Norwodde, of Great Torrington, co. Devon
to the Council. Injuries sustained by his ship the Zeraphine, from
the French ship of war called the Grand Bryseck of Newhaven.
Requests letters to make stay of some Frenchmen's goods, or letters
of licence, to be revenged as he may. |
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83. Remarks upon the evidence and proceedings of the Grand
Jury upon the indictment of Recusants, particularly in the case of
Mr. Sheldon. |
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84. Petition of John Mockett in the name of the inhabitants of
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis to Sir Fr. Walsyngham. Solicits
a supply of 10 or 12 pieces of ordnance, with provision of powder
and munition for defence of their town. |
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85. Names of Justices of the Peace left out of commission in
several counties on account of their wives' recusancy. |
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86. Offer of Thomas Dawes to sell 300 quarters of Norfolk wheat
at 47s. the quarter; the wheat is in London ready to be laid into
the Bridge House. |
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87. Petition of Matthew Hart to Walsyngham. That having
been the first to come away from Sir Wm. Stanley, he had been
promised to be engaged in some profitable employment, on which he
has long depended. |
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88. Petition of Edward Fisher, a distressed prisoner in the Fleet,
to Sir Fr. Walsyngham. Complains of the hard dealing and insolences of Joachim Newton, deputy warden of the Fleet, by whom
he was kept close prisoner for not paying fees to him; he having
paid them to Mr. Tyrrell, the chief warden. |
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89. Note of the sums allowed for building the ships Rainbow and
Vanguard, and two pinnaces, by Peter Pett and Matthew Baker,
with amount expended. |
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90. Latin verses addressed to Daniel Rogers, commencing
" Exceptum festo, Rogeri facunde, paratu
Ecce beas numeris insuper innumeris." |
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91. Latin verses by Daniel Rogers—" Ad Pub. Virgilium
Maronem, Britaniam extra orbem ponentem." |
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92. Petition of Agnes Carter to Sir F. Walsyngham. Solicits the
restoration of the goods and books of William Carter, her son, now
remaining prisoner in the Tower. Prays he may be removed from
the Tower to the Gatehouse. |
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93. " Index sive Catalogus librorum quos ego Jacobus Strada
" partim ipsemet meo marte composui, partim meis sumptibus et im"pensis componi et scribi curavi, partim denique alio modo
" conquisivi et comparavi." Latin. [An elaborate explication of
Strada's works, indorsed by a foreign hand, " Index libroru Jacobi
Strada ad Sereniss. Regina." Strada died Sept. 1588.] |
