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Sept. 3.
The Court, Greenwich. |
47. Sec. Cecil to the Earl of Southampton. I am grieved to
use the style of a councillor to you, to whom I have ever rather
wished to be the messenger of honour and favour, by laying Her
Majesty's command upon you; but I must now put this gall into
my ink, that she knows that you came over very lately, and returned
again very contemptuously; that you have also married one of
her maids of honour, without her privity, for which, with other
circumstances informed against you, I find her greivously offended;
and she commands me to charge you expressly (all excuses set
apart) to repair hither to London, and advertise your arrival,
without coming to the Court, until her pleasure be known. [½ page.] |
| Sept. 4. |
48. List of certain bonds, bulls, commissions, contracts, exemplifications, lists, ratifications, treaties, &c., put into the [late Lord
Treasurer's ?] Book Chest, with the date of each; principally relating
to money and other transactions of the Queen with the King of
France and the States, 1589—1596, but including also a list of the
Tower jewels, an exemplification of Henry VIII.'s will, and Pope
Clement's bill for his marriage on the divorce of Queen Katherine,
dated 1527. [2¼ pages.] |
| Sept. 4. |
Privilege to Arthur, Andrea, and Jeronimo Bassano, Queen's musicians, to export 6,000 dickers of calf-skins, paying 5s. a dicker
customs, within seven years after termination of a former privilege
for seven years, ending 27 Aug. 1600; with proviso not to transport
any from Liverpool or Chester; revocable at Her Majesty's pleasure,
signified by her letters or by six of the Privy Council. [Docquet,
Sept. 4 and 6.] |
| Sept. 4. |
Presentation to Rich. Sibson, B.D., to Bownes rectory, diocese of
Carlisle; subscribed by the Bishop of London. [Docquet, Sept.
4 and 6.] |
Sept. 5/15.
Brussels. |
News letter. * * * The Scots here get money apace, the
English none. I am told that the King of Scots has great correspondence with the Puritans in England, whom he accounts his best
party. He has some design on hand. An Englishman, thought to
be Constable, is going from the Pope into Scotland, with Tempest,
a priest. The King has sent to the Pope and Catholic princes, and
to the German and other princes, allies of his wife, for assistance in
his pretence for England. The Bishop of Glasgow has written to
tell the King that, having proceeded so far with the Pope and others
in making show that he will be a Catholic, he must now declare
himself plainly one way or the other, and take upon him at once to
revenge his mother's death. |
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There is a talk of a marriage between Cæsar [de Vendosme], the
French King's son by Madame Gabrielle, and the King of Scot's
daughter. The French King is then to help the King of Scot's pretence to England, and the latter is to resign any claims upon France
which he might have by enjoying England. [Extract, Flanders
corresp.] |
Sept. 5/15.
Lisbon. |
Giles Van Harwick [alias Wm. Resould] to Peter Artson [alias
Cecil]. A fly-boat from England, laden with coals, &c., which
should have gone for Venice, has arrived here, bringing news of the
death of the Lord Treasurer, and of the Queen's inclination to a peace,
of which the dead Treasurer was a great furtherer; also of the
States' large offer to the Queen, to prevent peace. * * * * |
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It is said that the Earl of Cumberland has taken Porto Rico, and
surprised the castle, and means to keep it. * * * * *
Brook has been hanged, and Burley beheaded, and Eaton the traitor is
dead at Ferrol. The continual traffic the Irish have with Spain and
Portugal brings daily intelligence to the Queen's open enemies. * *
Care should be taken about Emanuel Palacius, late spy in England for the King of Spain. Malynes has dealings with him, and
also Thos. Cottells and others, who have continual concurrence to
Spain and Portugal. There should be secret examination of their
servants, and some straight handling of them. |
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James de Vischer, a Fleming married in Lisbon, made a great
contract with the King of Spain's officers, for all manner of munition
and provision for war. If the custom books be searched, you will
see what stranger has lately been the greatest shipper out of and in
to Hamburgh, Stade, or the Low Countries; take him, for questionless, he is of that business; he continues about those parts to
this day. [Extract, Spanish Corresp. The italics are in cipher,
deciphered.] |
| Sept. 6. |
49. Thos. Myddleton to Sec. Cecil. I entreat your favour for my
brother's return, by which means a soul may be won to God, for
he is content to conference, and I will have the best means used for
his recovery, or will never speak for him. Being here, he may do
Her Majesty service. I also beg that something may be sent him,
for he has had nothing in two years. [¾ page.] |
| Sept. 7. |
50. [A servant of the Earl Essex, to Carleton ?]. I find by Edw.
Reynoldes, my Lord's secretary, that there were many letters drawn
by Mr. Crompton and Sir G. Merrick, and signed by my Lord, for
certain lawyers, attorneys, &c., to the same purpose with the directions to Mr. Lytton, but I cannot learn who procured the endorsement to Mr. Lytton. The letters I have delivered to Mrs. Ann
Gilbert, to whose care I recommend the conveyance of the enclosed. The best answer for the present I take to be silence. |
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Yesterday the Queen was informed of the new Lady of Southampton, and her adventures, whereat her patience was so much
moved that she came not to the chapel. She threatens them all to
the Tower, not only the parties, but all that are partakers of the
practice. It is confessed that the Earl was lately here, and solemnized the act himself, and Sir Thos. German accompanied him in his
return to Margate. |
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You left my Lord sick at Essex house. Yesterday afternoon
he took his litter towards Wanstead. I was with him there today, and found him in physic, and we hope that upon his recovery, he will be recalled to Court. The Queen has sent her
physicians to attend him, and this day he has been visited by
Mr. Killigrew, Mr. Greville, and Lord Henry [Howard] from her.
For the sixth time the remove is adjourned until next Friday.
I pity the poor doctor, but for his better comfort many of his good
friends purpose to visit him to-morrow night, where I think likewise
to be. I now understand that the Queen has commanded that there
shall be provided for the new Countess the sweetest and best appointed lodging in the Fleet; her Lord is by command to return upon
his allegiance, with all speed. These are but the beginning of evils;
well may he hope for that merry day [en Thanato], which I think he
did not find [en Thalamo]]. I am to-morrow certainly gone. My hearty
commendations to Mr. Lytton. [Part of this letter is printed in
Devereux's Essex, Vol. I., pp. 491-2, as from Chamberlain.] |
| Sept. 8? |
51. Extract from the confessions of prisoners taken in a bark
come out of Spain, and bound for Calais. |
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Barth. de Padilla, captain of the bark, said he was sent to learn how
the last fleet sent for Calais sped, and to return at once. He received
a letter from Don Diego Brochero, admiral of the fleet in the Groyne,
to the Cardinal, and a few private soldiers' letters, but he threw them
overboard; there was only money in the bark to bear their charges.
In the Groyne are 65 ships of war, the larger of from 500 to 250
tons; 15 or 20 of the smaller are appointed to fetch away the men
and munition from Bluett. At the Groyne are six or seven companies of soldiers, of 80 or 90 men each. He knows of no preparation of ships, but in Galicia are 1,000 Spanish, and 1,500 Italian
soldiers, said to be for conducting the Infanta into the Low
Countries. |
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Juan de Vilotte, the pilot, says that a month ago, they sailed
from the Groyne for Calais; that in the Groyne are 35 or 36 large,
and 15 or 16 smaller ships. |
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Diego Hermandes del Rio, mariner, reports 60 ships at the Groyne,
700 soldiers there in garrison, and 1,500 to supply the ships, but few
mariners, most of them being gone in the last fleet for Calais.
Similar testimony of other mariners, also of Cornelius Harmanson,
who was a pilot in 1588, in the Spanish Armada, and had a pension
five years after, having brought his vessel home in safety. He adds
that at the Groyne is great fear of the English Armada setting
their ships on fire; that there was no preparation, the ships having
little ordnance and being unfurnished, and that there is no arming
of ships in Spain or Portugal. [3¾ pages.] |
Sept. 8.
Court at Greenwich. |
52. List of 79 men, under Capt. Stonton, who served the Earl of
Essex six months in the ship Prosperous, against the Spaniards, and
request for payment of their wages; total, 312l. 5s.; with note
of 13 who require special relief, having been maimed in the service.
[2 pages.] Endorsed with report thereon by the Earl of Essex and
Sir John Fortescue in favour of payment, as the men are very
poor, and it was by their means that the prize of cochineal was
taken; and order for payment accordingly, signed by Dr. Julius
Cæsar. |
| Sept. 8. |
53. Warrant to pay to Wm. Shute and four other owners and
victuallers of the Prosperous of London, which was under the Earl of
Essex, lieutenant-general in the late war, 312l. 5s. for wages of the
mariners and soldiers. [Draft, ¾ page.] |
| Sept. |
Docquet of the above, dated Sept. 9. [Docquet, Sept. 9.] |
| Sept. 9. |
54. Proclamation against idle vagabonds, wandering about many
parts of the realm, especially about London and the Court, being
able men, and exacting money on pretence of service in the wars,
whereas many never did serve, and those who did are provided for
in their several counties; ordering all justices and officers to
appoint watches, to attach and imprison vagabonds, and send the
lame and maimed to their counties. As by neglect of officers
therein, there have been unlawful assemblies of vagabonds, pretending
to be soldiers, arming themselves, robbing and murdering the people,
and the constables who came to their rescue, Her Majesty will appoint
a provost marshal, to apprehend and hang by martial law those
who are not readily reformed. [Draft, 2 pages.] |
| Sept. 9. |
Grant in fee farm to Randall Crewe and Rich. Cartwright, of
Ryton manor, co. Warwick, and of other lands and tenements;
yearly value, 47l. 1s. 1d., at suit of Sir Edw. Wotton, in consideration
of a surrender of like value to John Welles and Hen. Best, at Sir
Edward's suit, and by virtue of a former warrant to him for 100l.
in fee farm. Also of the tithe corn and hay of Askam Bryan manor,
co. York; rent, 6l. 13s. 4d., heretofore passed to Edw. Downing
and Miles Dodding, at suit of the Earl of Essex, but passed
anew, from some defect in the former grant. [Docquet, Sept. 9
and 10.] |
| Sept. 9. |
Grant to Genevieve, wife of Rich. Dean, born in foreign parts,
of denization. [Docquet, Sept. 9 and 10.] |
| Sept. 9. |
Grant to Capt. Fras. Stafford of a pension of 5s. a day, to be
defalcated out of sums assigned for service in Ireland, and charged
on the account of the treasurer at war there. [Docquet, Sept. 9
and 10.] |
| Sept. 9. |
Pardon to Rob. North, of Lamborne, co. Berks, for killing Thos.
Newe. [Docquet.] |
| Sept. 9. |
Grant to John Lanier, Queen's musician, of 100l. due to John Arden,
attainted, by Peter Wentworth, and of the arrears of an annuity of
26l. 13s. 4d., forfeit by his attainder, and of all such goods and
chattels of Arden's as he shall find concealed. [Docquet, Sept. 9
and 11.] |
| Sept. 9. |
Grant to John Weaver, a maimed soldier, of an alms-room in
Worcester. [Docquet.] |
| Sept. 10. |
Schedule of seven counties whence 1,000 soldiers were levied to
send to Ireland, to fill up the decayed bands, when Sir Rich.
Bingham went Marshal. [Irish Corresp. 194, f. 88.] |
| Sept. 11. |
Grant to Wm. Rich, a poor scholar, born in the Low Countries,
of a free denizenship. [Docquet, bis.] |
| Sept. 11. |
Grant to Capt. Nich. Dawtrey of a pension of 5s. a day for life,
for service in the wars. [Docquet, bis.] |
| Sept. 11. |
Licence to Thos. Morley, gentleman of the chapel, for 21 years, to
print set song-books, in English, Latin, French, Italian, or other
language, to be sung or played in church or chamber, and to print
ruled paper for printing or pricking songs. With forfeiture of 10l.
to every person offending against this grant. [Docquet, Sept. 11
and 18.] |
Sept. 11.
Chester. |
55. Fa. Ware to Sec. Cecil. We have taken a further view of 44
of Sir Sam. Bagnall's horse, and have certified their Lordships how
we found them furnished. I have taken the bills from the captains
for the 15 days' provision by sea, provided by the Mayor of Chester
before my coming hither, and delivered them to Traves the victualler,
to he defalked upon their pay, and taken his receipt, which I have
sent, as also a note of his for 50 quarters of oats, which he received
here from Mr. Jolles. The freight of the horse to Dublin could not be
got under 13s. 4d., they finding plankage and water-cask. I thought
it dear and urged to see some precedents, whereupon the town
clerk showed me a letter from your father to Mr. Aldersey, Mayor
in 1595, allowing the same rate, as the barks were little, and could
carry but a few; for the 600 foot we compounded for 2s. a man as
usual. |
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Two barks, with 120 foot and 16 horse, went away on the
8th, the residue of the 600 foot and light horse on the 9th, and on
the 10th Sir Samuel himself, with the horses last viewed. He
promised, on landing at Dublin, to request the justices and commissary to review his horsemen, and certify their Lordships thereof. I
also send a schedule of the time when the footmen came to Chester,
the several days when the horsemen were mustered, and the time
when they all took shipping, which may be compared with the
Mayor of Chester's demands, when he makes his accounts. I crave
that the two shires of Huntingdon and Nottingham may be com
manded to satisfy to the townsmen here the 38l. odd, for which
Sir Samuel and the rest of the gentlemen enjoined me to give my
word. [1 page.] |
Sept. 15.
London. |
56. Tobie Matthew to Dudley Carleton, at Ostend. Your letters
left at Seton's shall henceforth be better able to find me; therefore
let not that doubt be a reason of your not sending news, whereof I
much desire to be particularly informed. Of my own particular,
till Allhallowtide I shall be able to say nothing, so unluckily am I
delayed by his departure into a far country upon whom the despatch
of my affairs depended. We have no general news later or better
than that my Lord [of Essex] is reinstated into the Queen's
favour; he was lately afflicted with a double disease, one in deed
and another upon design; but as if one had depended upon the
other, he is recovered of the former by the cure of the latter. It
is said that your sister Bridget is married, and that her lady is far
on foot that way. There is speech of a match between my Lord
of Pembroke's [son], Lord Herbert, and Lady Hatton. Mrs. Vernon
has spun a fair thread, so fair as I hold her a better spinner than a
painter. Fulke Greville is made Treasurer of the Navy, but whether
Sir Hen. Palmer or Sir Wm. Harvey be chosen comptroller, in
Borough's place, I know not. Private affairs. My Lord spoke
first with the Queen last Tuesday. [1 page.] |
Sept. 16.
Durham. |
57. Dr. W. James, Dean of Durham, to Sec. Cecil. The Mayor
of Newcastle and his brethren and the plaintiffs not agreeing on
any indifferent man for delivery of the return of the Commissioners,
(though the plaintiffs both cause and complain of the delay), I send
my servant for our discharge who were the Commissioners, that the
questions may be honourably heard and ended. In such a port as
Newcastle, faction should be buried, and the Queen's service and
good of the town and country sought. |
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Besides complaints of misgovernment and mis-spending of the
town's money, there is such malice that men who, with their wives
and families, frequent church, and receive the sacrament, are traduced
as dangerous and unfit for government, and are accused; whilst in
the country are hundreds of men, women, and children, who neither
go to church nor will hear any conference, whom yet we cannot
apprehend. |
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The bringing up of recusants' children in their parents' errors is
too general, and if not reformed, will grow very dangerous. My
Lord of Canterbury cannot reform it, and the suffering of it offends
God, weakens the kingdom, and encourages the devilish attempts
against Her Majesty's sacred person. God has advanced you to promote his glory, and I hope you will excuse my boldness. |
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We have many feuds about our northern borders. We understand
our neighbours of Scotland have lately composed all theirs among
themselves. You could not do a better piece of service than require
the three Lord Wardens to cause an end of the bloody and horrible
murders almost daily committed among us. Pardon my boldness
and rude writing. [1¾ pages.] |
| Sept. 17. |
Lease in reverson to Thos. Audley, for the use of the tenants,
for 40 years, of three tenements in the parish of St. Martin's-inthe-Fields, and of Hampton rectory, co. Middlesex, and of other
lands and tenements, cos. Anglesey, Carnarvon, Lincoln, York,
Kent, Surrey, Bedford, Cornwall, Devon, and Rutland; rent,
60l. 5s.; fine, 361l. 10s.; in consideration of the service of Rob.
Snapes, marshal farrier of the stables. [Docquet, Sept. 17 and 18.] |
Sept. 17.
Knebworth. |
58. John Chamberlain to Dud. Carleton, attendant on the
Governor of Ostend. I enclose a letter of news lately received. The
Earl of Essex is gone to Court; I do not know with what success.
The Queen is gone to ward Nonsuch, taking Dr. Cesar's in her way.
Sir John Brocket seems dying. Lytton is gone to Bletso to convoy
Lady Pelham. Thanks for the ballads, books, and papers sent,
especially Aldegonde's tedious discourse. Private matters. [1 page.
Printed in Chamberlain's letters, pp. 19, 20.] |
Sept. 18.
York. |
59. Matthew Archbishop of York, Lord President of the Council of the North, to Sec. Cecil. We condole with you the loss of
your father, "the father of his country, and a special patron" of the
Council of the North, to whom, both as public and private men, we
are bound. The Queen and kingdom are bereaved of their greatest
councillor, and his prolonged days would have been a great comfort
to us, and service to these north parts. By his long experience he
knew the service of this Council, both for the peace of the North, and
the subjects' ease, by deciding their causes at home with small charge
and countenance. As he was first acquainted with it when he was
secretary, and recommended it to his successor, Sec. Walsingham, so
we hope he has done the like to you, whom the world and we know
to be partaker of his virtues, and that we or our letters may have
favourable access to you, and have your countenance as they shall
deserve. We did not write sooner, lest we might unseasonably intrude
into your disconsolated affections, nor later, lest we should seem
unthankful towards your father, or forgetful towards you. |
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God has removed Mr. Purefoy, an honest gentlemen, the oldest
member of this council. We beg his place supplying with an honest,
learned, and religious lawyer, of estate meet to bear it. [1 page.] |
Sept. 19.
The Court. |
60. [Sec. Cecil] to Dr. Bennet, Dean of Windsor. The matter
for which you were moved concerning Sherborne is now like to be
granted, for the Queen resolving on Mr. Cotton, I conceive he will
not find the same scruple which you did, and therefore I hope
will yield it. But it is given out that you will scandalize him, if
he grants the act, although it in no way concerns you. Surely
as it was just and honest in you, when you were unsatisfied, to
refuse it, so I must freely tell you that if this suit shall speed the
worse by any course of yours, I shall think your refusal before was
not of zeal, but humour; and your now meddling in it rather opposition to him, and me that love him, than to the matter. I tell you
what I hear out of the account I make of you, and require such an
answer only to this letter as I may trust to, which shall be a defensative
to all such suggestions, whereby you shall make me not repent
my former goodwill towards you, but confirm my desire to do you
further pleasure. Return me my letter, but upon your answer, I will
send you one that shall satisfy you. [1 page. Signature torn off.] |
Sept. 20.
London. |
61. Tobie Matthew to Dudley Carleton. The violence of my
mother's displeasure is much abated, and there is hope that her
passions will turn into their contraries; neither is it likely to be
like faith without good works; since for a testimony she will begin
so well, that I believe she will speedily pay all my debts. My
father meantime, as a stranger to this accident (for he is a stranger
to that which he sees and will not see), threatens fire and sword,
but I doubt not but his storms are such as commonly bring much
fair weather after them. |
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The Lord of Ormond is hurt; and since the great overthrow,
there is 400 more throats cut in Ireland. Sir Fras. Vere is coming
towards the Low Countries, and Sir Alex. Ratcliffe and Sir Robt.
Drury with him. Honour pricks them on, and the world thinks
that honour will quickly prick them off again. Sir Thos. Sherley
has taken four hulks, Easterlings of Lubec, but it is hoped the
freight is Spanish. They are stayed, and a commission granted to
examine whether they are prize. Cumberland has taken St. Jean
de Porto Rico, left Sir John Berkeley, his general there, and gone
elsewhere. The Court is at Nonsuch, where on Sunday my Lord
Chief Justice's expectation of being councillor was deceived; God
be thanked. There was there a French gentleman, a master of
requests, and resident of Lyons, brother to Mons de Vicq, governor
of Calais, a man honourably entertained by my Lord of Essex, and
greatly commended by the Queen, for his speech and other carriage.
There were divers Almains with him, whereof one lost 300 crowns
at a new play called Every Man's humour. Our hostess, Mrs. Seton,
is dead. I pray you procure me a Delft sword and dagger,
hatched in that country; if you come shortly, bring it, otherwise
send it by the first fit means, and I will pay for it on receipt.
[1½ pages.] |
Sept. 20/30.
Lisbon. |
Giles Van Harwick [alias Wm. Resould] to Peter Artson
[alias Cecil]. * * * * On 1 Aug. three carracks arrived from
India, and one was burnt there, full laden. They bring news that
two English ships in India have taken two Portugal ships rich with
treasure, that were on their voyage from Goa to China. * *
* * * * * * A Jesuit told
me that in the time of the dead King of Spain, the Pope
determined to send out a bull to renew that of Pius Quintus
against the Queen, and one of excommunication against all Catholic
princes that will not assist the wars against Her Majesty. * * *
Capt. Hawkins, a month past, escaped out of the castle of Seville,
but was taken again, and is now thrust into a dungeon, and great
store of irons put upon him. The Irish, with the trade they are
suffered to have, daily bring in Jesuits; their passengers and
mariners should be looked to, before they come forth, and at their
return. Wise, the Jesuit, is gone by way of the Low Countries. If
Thos. Cottells were thoroughly looked into, he would be found a
great dealer with Spanish and Portuguese subjects, and a continual
writer to those places. Divers go over first to Hamburg or the
Low Countries, and steer for England. Any attempt on Lisbon
must be betimes, and with not less than fifteen thousand men.
[Extract, Spanish Corresp. The italics are in cipher, deciphered.] |
| Sept. 22. |
Grant to Rob. Lloyd, at suit of David Penry, groom of the
chamber, of the keepership of Montgomery gaol. [Docquet, Sept.
22 and 23.] |
| Sept. 22. |
Grant to Wm. Johnson, born in Lisbon, of free denizenship.
[Docquet, Sept. 22 and 23.] |
| Sept. 22. |
Presentation of John Foxe, B.D., Queen's chaplain, to Walpole
rectory, diocese of Norwich; subscribed by the Bishop of Chichester.
[Docquet, Sept. 22 and 23.] |
| Sept. 22. |
Presentation of Robt. Berde, clerk and preacher, to Borian
rectory, diocese of Exeter, void by lapse. [Docquet, Sept. 22 and
23.] |
| Sept. 22. |
Grant to Fras. Joye of the office of serjeant of the buckhounds;
fee 22l. 16s., to be paid by the treasurer of the chamber; subscribed by the Lord Admiral. [Docquet.] |
| Sept. 22. |
Licence to the Mayor and burgesses of Gloucester to receive in
mortmain from the two surviving feoffees, and in trust for a hospital
erected in Gloucester by Sir Thos. Bell, late mayor, certain houses,
value 33l. a year; with grant of the patronage of the Maudlin's
almshouse, in Gloucester, now in great decay, that they may repair
it. [Docquet, Sept. 22 and 23.] |
| Sept. 23. |
62. Examination of John Stanley before Sir John Peyton, Fras.
Bacon, and W. Waad. Father Walpole, an English Jesuit, and two
others came to him and the other English in prison, to persuade them
to become Catholics, but not to do any service against the Queen or
the realm; offered service to the King, simply to recover liberty.
Told Monday privately of his wish to recover liberty; Monday promised to be true, and thereupon they sent for Father Walpole, with
whom Monday first dealt; after that they wrote to Don John
Idiaques and to Don Christ. de Moro, offering to do the King service,
in general terms; and if they might come to Court, to prove themselves good Catholics, and honest servants. Having no answer, Walpole
told them they must state what service they would undertake; they
offered the taking of Flushing, and were sent for to the Court,
with irons upon them; before they went from Seville, they told
Walpole they would be honest men, and do what they ought. |
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After that they were sent to prison at Madrid, where Fitzherbert
told them he was sent to know what exploit they would undertake;
they replied that they desired to speak with the Council. Fitzherbert told them next day the King's pleasure was that they
should deliver to him the particulars of their offer, which he would
relate to the Council; they set down in writing the plot for the
taking of Flushing, which was thought too great to be executed; they
were willed to state what they could do for Ostend; did so and it
was very well liked, and they were then set at liberty upon bail, and
had access to some of the Council, that is to Don John Idiaques and
Don Martin de Idiaques, but were never before the Council in
general. |
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It was finally ordered that Monday should go, and this exami
nate stay, and that he should be well used; he was to write a
letter to the Earl of Essex that he was stayed for Don Juan
de Villa Vicenza, who they knew would not be exchanged; wrote
by direction of Fitzherbert, who said if Monday should leave without reason, he would be suspected. Monday received 50 ducats
of Don M. de Idiaques, and examinate the same, and as there were
many eyes upon them, and they had vowed to each other to be faithful and true to their Queen and country, they agreed to go to Father
Cresswell, to receive the sacrament, and promise to be honest and
do what they ought. After they had confessed, Cresswell bade
examinate look that what he did was for the glory of God, as well
as for the service of any King or Queen in the world. Cresswell
was informed by Fitzherbert of the service they both had undertaken, but neither Cresswell nor Fitzherbert were present when
they had any speech with the Council. Elliot and Fitzherbert
received the sacrament with them from an Irish bishop. No person
dealt with examinate, after his coming to Madrid, for any other service against this realm, or otherwise than as before declared, as they
were of opinion he was too ill thought of here to come home. Being
asked whether he had not heard, before coming out of Spain that
Rolls and Squier had done service to Her Majesty, he denied it;
but upon being told he had dealt untruly therein, and that Monday
should be confronted with him, he called to mind that he heard
Cresswell say that they had played the villain and broken their
vow, after having received 1,500 crowns. [5½ pages.] |
| Sept. 24. |
Warrant to pay to Sir Hen. Wallop 8,000l., to be disbursed by
direction of Privy Council for the charges of the army in Ireland, with
allowance for transportation; also sums certified as due by six of the
Council for the coat and conduct and transport thither of 1,000 men,
sent with Sir Rich. Bingham, marshal there; for their victualling at
sea, and imprests to captains. Also sums certified to be needful by
Lord Buckhurst, Sec. Cecil, and Sir John Fortescue, not to exceed
2,000l., for the said victuals and their transport. [Docquet, bis.] |
| Sept. 24. |
Warrant to strike tallies on the customers of the port of London
for 980 crowns, for Hen. Sackford, Edw. Stephens, John Wilde,
and John and Nich. Roope, as the Queen's reward towards their
building four ships, to be taken from the customs on goods in the
said ships. [Docquet, bis.] |
| Sept. 25. |
63. Notes by Hen. Reade, junior, concerning Mordals manor,
Hurst, when he kept a court baron there, containing the names of the
jurors and tenants, with other particulars. Endorsed by his father.
[2 pages.] |
Sept. 25.
Court. |
64. Thos Crompton to the Earl of Essex. Enclosed are the offers
made for the cast-iron ordnance, saltpetre, and gunpowder. It may
perhaps please you to authorize Sir Gelly Merrick, Mr. Lyndley,
and myself, to treat more fully with the parties, and then allow
what we and they shall conclude; promising your best help for
obtaining the grants, with reasonable covenants. Thereupon we
will set down such course for obtaining such grants as may best please
Her Majesty and be most profitable for your Lordship. [1 page.] |
| Sept. 28. |
65. List of 25 printed books, in English, French, Spanish, Latin
and Dutch [belonging to the late Lord Burghley ?], and of 28 written
books remaining at the Court. [¾ page.] |
| Sept. 30. |
Royal assent for Godfrey Goldborough, D.D., elected Bishop of
Gloucester by the dean and chapter. [Docquet, bis.] |
| Sept. 30. |
Like assent for Wm. Cotton, D.D., elected Bishop of Exeter.
[Docquet, bis.] |
| Sept. 30. |
Like assent for Hen. Roland, B.D., elected Bishop of Bangor.
[Docquet, bis.] |
| Sept. 30. |
Lease in reversion to Isaac Burges, gentleman of the chapel, for
use of the tenants, of lands and tenements, cos. Denbigh, Derby,
Hants, Somerset, Middlesex, and York; rent, 30l. 16s. 7d.; no fine,
in consideration of service. [Docquet, bis.] |
| Sept. ? |
Grant of protection by the Queen to John Hunt, Wm. Poynter,
and Wm. Nevill, merchants of London, for one whole year. [Warrant Book, I., p. 52.] |
| Sept. ? |
66. Memorial of payments on warrants bearing date from 1561
to July 1598, to the paymaster of the Admiralty, and to Mr. Quarles
and Mr. Darell, for fitting and victualling ships; to Sir H. Lee for
the armoury; to Sir Rob. Carew for the defence of Berwick and the
north; for the Queen's chamber and household; the justices of
Ireland; the ordnance, gentlemen pensioners, posts, Portsmouth,
Tower and Gatehouse, and the Queen's works. Also account of extraordinary payments to the Earl of Oxford, Lord Wm. Howard,
Lady Margaret Nevill, the four daughters of Francis Dacres, and the
two daughters of the Countess of Desmond. [3 pages.] |
| [Sept.] |
67. Earl of Southampton to Sec. Cecil. I have received a letter
by the post in your name, charging me, as from Her Majesty, to
repair to London, which being unable to perform, I entreat you to
satisfy her that no man lives who will with more duty receive her
commands, though now I am forced to break this for this reason:—I have stayed here some time, only to attend the receipt of some
money which was to be made over to me to carry me further; that
received will, if the Queen desires it, serve to bring me back to
England, but till then I have no means to stir from hence. This is
unfeignedly true. |
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I am infinitely grieved that Her Majesty is so greatly offended
with me, and submit to endure any punishment she will inflict,
though her displeasure oppresses my heart more than it would do
to visit all the prisons in London. Do not withdraw your love from
me, with the growing of my unhappy fortune. [1 page.] |
Sept.
London. |
68. Robt. Seale and three other burgesses, and Moses Chaplen and
three other constables of the duchy, St. Clement Danes, to Sec. Cecil.
According to the Council's warrant and your letter, on Friday night
last, between 11 and 2, we, by direction of the Lord Mayor, searched
all victualling houses and other houses of lodging in our precinct, but
found no people of misdemeanor in any of them. We took three
men in the street upon suspicion, Robt. Berstowe, Wm. Ashton, and
Wm. Savell, whom next morning, by order of the Lord Mayor, we
brought before him and other justices, at the sessions house, but
upon examination they dismissed them. Thomas Berry, a messenger
of the Court, abused us constables for searching his house that night,
although he lodges strangers, as others do, and partly lives by the
same; and in contempt of the Council's warrant, said that he knew
not by what warrant we might dare to search his house. On
Sunday night, the 10th instant, between 12 and 1, Matthew, son of
John Peirson, a scrivener, in the liberty of Westminster, a very
dissolute youth, and a common night-walker, opprobriously abused
Moses Chaplen, one of us constables in his watch; being a youth of
uncivil and lewd life, we beseech that he may be suppressed. [¾ page.] |
| Sept. |
69. "Relation of such things as Wm. Pitts had intelligence of,
being prisoner in the Groyne in Galicia." In August Rich. Burley,
accused of being a spy, was executed, and Thos. Wade, a merchant
of London's servant, was put in prison and there died of famine in
the hospital. Peter Langinge, a skipper, was sent to the galleys for
eight years. Sourly, a kinsman to Tyrone, came over in a Waterford
ship, to ask for men and munition, and rode post to the Court at
Madrid. |
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John Lambert of Chichester, who knows every port and creek of
England, Scotland, and Ireland, is pilot royal of the King's army;
he told me he could take Gibralter with 4,000 men, and wished
himself in England, if he might have his pardon and entertainment.
He has been in Spain 12 years, has had many ships made after the
English fashion, and a dock built at Lisbon. |
|
Andrew Facy, of Stonehouse, near Plymouth, taken by the Spaniards
last year on the coast of England, told me he intended to serve the
King of Spain by cutting his throat, if it lay in his power, and
would venture his life to serve his Queen, as by relating their secrets
to the Court of England; he gave me a letter to the Lord Admiral
or Earl of Essex, informing that he was to come into our channel,
by command of Don Diego Brochero, with a vessel of 100 tons, and
another. He said Lambert told him all were not the Queen's good
friends that dwell about Plymouth. He said if the Council would
employ him in the Court at Madrid, or in the army, he would obey,
as he only waited there to know their pleasure; only he charges me
to secrecy. |
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Thos. Griffin of Plymouth has served the King of Spain, but will
escape if he may have his pardon; also Wm. Wiles of Ratcliffe;
also Thos. Parfoot, the best gunner in the army, who has served the
King nine years, and others. Thos. Hoar of Waterford was taken by
Capt. Elliot, coming from the Canaries, and has served ever since.
He says if he were in England, he could reveal matters for which
he should be well rewarded; be said Plymouth castle was bought
and sold, as well as Falmouth. There are English soldiers, enemies
to our Queen, religion, and State. Edw. Picford of St. Germains,
Cornwall, who has been in Spain 15 years; Prater and Fitzjames,
gentlemen of Somersetshire, who came over with Elliot, and have
20 ducats a month; Thos. Parsons, nephew of Father Parsons, who
has been 20 years in Spain. Picford undertook, with 50 men, to
fetch Sir Wm. Bevell out of his house, but it took no effect. John
Uppom, taken in a Plymouth vessel, has been three years their
prisoner, and hardly used, because he boxed the ears of a priest who
railed against Her Majesty. [1½ pages.] |
