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Aug 2.
Sarum. |
92. E. Reynoldes to his brother Owen Reynoldes, Westminister.
Private affairs. My tenant Longstone, at whose slackness in giving
order for the rent I marvel, dwells in a little lane hard by St.
Alban's church in Wood Street. Inquire after him, and require the
rent. I will make your allowance 6l. at Michaelmas, which you
shall pay yourself out of my rent to be received of my Lady, together with the money which you have laid out for the house at
Islington; total, 8l. 17s. 6d., besides 33s. 6d. which you are to receive
of Longstone. |
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I gave you instructions for providing me a house, but not until
my coming to London next April. I shall be glad if my letter to
Mr. Francis serve you; you should send it with expedition, as
benefices are commonly taken up in post, and few stay till the
incumbents are dead, if they be once in the way to heaven. I
will write to my Lord Harry; his last letter was full of affection.
[1 page.] |
Aug. 4.
The Court, Burnham. |
93. Warrant by Vice-Chamberlain Sir J. Stanhope to [a pursuivant] to repair to Edm. Leader, residing in London, and summon
him before Mr. Edmondes, clerk of the Council, and Thos. Mills,
to answer matters objected against him. [½ page.] |
Aug. 4.
Ditton. |
94. Thos. Yngler to Mr. Scott, Camberwell. It was late before
I came to Mr. Castleton's, and the governors had done before my
coming. I send you the marks of the swans of Mr. Heneage,
Mr. Godyer, Mr. Castleton, and Mr. Horne. Details of disputes in
reference to the possession of several of the swans. The truth will
appear if you lay the bills of the swans and the marks together.
[1 page, damaged; with the marks of the swans.] |
Aug. 5.
Bristol. |
95. Col. John Semple to Thos. Honeyman, merchant of London.
I hear that there is great preparation making in Spain. I left
Lisbon 22 July, when there were 14 ships, two of them of 1,000 tons
each, and 12 of 200, with their victuals aboard, and waiting only
mariners, of whom 400 had arrived from Biscay, with 800 soldiers
that went from Ireland. At the Groyne are 11 ships, with 500 or
600 soldiers, which are to join the others, and they say that there
are 1,000 soldiers to come to the Groyne from the country, with
O'Donell, the Irishman. This I know to be true. I heard of great
preparations at St. Lucar and Maryport, and went to see, but
found no army at all, only 10 galleys. The only army there is is
bound for Beer haven in Ireland, and they have Scottish pilots, who
have been examined as to their knowledge of the place. |
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The ships at Lisbon were victualled in the night, that none might
know when they were ready; they embarked no field pieces for
landing. Three days before I left, they heard Beer haven was taken.
They may alter their resolution, but the King of Spain has promised
assistance to O'Donell. Their army is but small, but they have
some further pretence, which I will declare when I know it.
[2 pages.] |
Aug. 6.
My old lodging. |
96. Capt. Rich. Hawkins to Edm. Palmer, St. Jean de Luz. I pray
you to send the enclosed to the Lord Admiral, or Mr. Secretary, or my
wife. Eight days ago there were 60 galleys in Carthagena, full of
Italian and Spanish soldiers who go for Lisbon, whence an armada,
stronger than the former, is to sail for Ireland. If they go thither,
I think the coast will devour them; if to any part of England, they
will pay their foolishness. [½ page.] |
Aug. 6.
The Court. |
97. Earl of Northumberland to Lord Cobham, London. The
state of our Court here bears this face at present. We are and shall
be till Monday at Sir Wm. Clerk's who neither gives meat nor
money to any of the progressors. The house Her Majesty has at
commandment, and his grass the guards' horses eat, and this is all.
To-morrow we go to Sir Hen. Guildford's to dinner and back again.
Wednesday night the Queen was not well, but would not be known
of it, for the next day she walked abroad in the park, lest any
should take notice of it. The Lord Admiral came to Court this
morning. The Lord of Toumolt [Thomond] took his leave yesterday
and is gone. The French ambassador lies at Windsor, and has
not been here since the Queen came. The Earl of Clinrikard
[Clanricard] stands aloof and looks upon her, but his inventions are
not great. My Lord Henry is his preceptor, and very grossly
prompts him, but it will come to nothing. The day of the remove,
Her Majesty rode on horseback all the way, which was 10 miles,
and also hunted, and whether she was weary or not I leave to your
censure. Oatlands must now be our rendezvous. [1 page.] |
Aug. 10/20.
St. Malo. |
98. Julin Crosnier to La Motte Colin, at Rennes. You say you
think me fit to be sent on the Queen of England's service into
Spain, as a vender of merchandize, as cloth, &c., which I have been
20 years. I am willing to do her all the service I can, saving my
allegiance to the King of France, my sovereign, and will go to St.
Lucar or Seville, or if needs be, to Madrid, where I hope there would
be no embarkation, either for the East or West Indies, England,
Flanders, Ireland, or France, but I should know it, and could send
word of the number of men, time of their starting, &c. I propose
to enter on my service 1 Jan. 1603. I will be faithful and do
my utmost. [1 page, French.] Annexed is, |
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98. i. —— to —— I beg your favour for the bearer
touching the mishap befallen M. Monbarete, in which he
will tell you the truth; he has been always ready to tell
any news against our nation. [Small scrap found attached to the preceding, but the connexion is doubtful.] |
Aug. 10.
Dover Castle. |
99. Mark Packnam, clerk of Dover Castle, to the Droit Gatherers
in the Cinque Ports. At the last brotherhood at Romney, I was
asked,—order having been made in his Lordship's office, to arrest
divers poor people prosecuted at the last Admiralty Court for things
of small value found by them, and of which his Lordship had
not been satisfied his part,—whether these persons who dwell far off,
by paying the duties due to his Lordship to the droit gatherers,
might not be freed of coming hither to the Court on the 17th inst.,
as their charges in coming would cost them much more than what
they have to pay. I wrote his Lordship about it, and he replied
that if they paid the duties as suggested to his droit gatherers, and
a memorial was kept thereof for Mr. Waad, he would not trouble
them further, save such as were to be punished by imprisonment.
I therefore signify his pleasure therein, and leave it to you to judge
of them. But if any poor men have taken up anything, be it never
so small a value, whereunto there is title or property pretended by
himself or in right of any other, such persons must not be spared
from personal appearance, to show by what warrant they detain the
same. Those who are eased should consider the boder for his pains;
a small matter will please him. [1 page.] |
Aug. 10.
Dover Castle. |
100. Deposition of John Coppyn, of Ramsgate, before Go. Newman, D.C.L., judge of the Admiralty Courts of the Cinque Ports,
under Lord Cobham. Has known the Hope at Cliff's End in
Thanet 40 years. A wreck of canvas happened there 30 years since,
when the Lord Warden's officers and men took away and enjoyed
the goods; 18 or 20 years since, another ship grounded, laden with
deals, wax, &c. Deponent and divers others went on board, and
the master of the ship desired them to stay, to save the goods from
the spoil of the people of the country, which they did until the tide
came, when they went on shore until it ebbed; going aboard again
at low water, they met one Paramore by the ship's side, with a
waggon, and 18 or 20 persons, who got on board before deponent
and his company, saying that they would keep possession
of the ship and goods, but not claiming any wreck, nor saying for
whom they would keep possession. Deponent and his company
getting on board, the others went away, the ship perished, and the
Lord Warden and his officers had the disposing of the ship and
goods. Within his remembrance, they have always had the
disposing of wrecks in the Isle of Thanet. [12/3 sheets.] |
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Also like examination of John Bussher, of Margate. Has known
the Hope 33 years; 20 years since a ship came on ground there;
was then dwelling at Minster in Thanet, and Thos. Paramore, then of
Minster, and servant to Sir Edw. Wotton, or to Mr. Thos. Wotton,
requested him to go on board and seize her to the use of his master,
but he refused. On Paramore's return, he said that the men of
Ramsgate then aboard had beaten and tumbled him overboard, and
had broken three or four of his men's heads, whereupon he wrote for
directions to his master, who bade him demand soilage or groundage
of the ship, but not any wrecks, as he had no right therewith. Does
not know that any has anything to do with the disposition of
wrecks but the Lord Warden's officers. [¾ sheet.] Also, |
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Like examination of Geo. Bennett, of Ramsgate. fisherman. Has
known divers wrecks in the Hope, and my Lord Warden's officers
have always had the ordering thereof. [¼ sheet.] Also, |
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Like examination of Rich. Saunders, of Ramsgate, fisherman. Has
known the Hope 30 years; 25 years since, a ship laden with cloth,
&c. was cast away there, the men drowned, and the goods saved by
the inhabitants of Ramsgate were disposed of by the Lord Warden's
officers; 20 years since, another ship came aground there, laden with
deal boards, wax, and copper, when Thos. Paramore of Minster went
aboard with others, in right of Mr. Wotton, and when John Coppyn
of Ramsgate and others came to go aboard, Paramore willed them
to keep off, but when they got on board, Paramore and his company
went. All the goods saved and carried to Ramsgate out of that
ship were disposed of by my Lord Warden's officers. Never knew
any wreck goods saved or found by any inhabitants of Ramsgate,
Broadstaris, or elsewhere, but they were disposed of by the Lord
Warden's officers. [1 sheet.] |
Aug. 12.
Lyons. |
101. Fras. Segar to Thos. Wilson, Venice. Your letter was sent
after me from Frankfort to Geneva. Yours to the Prince are thankfully received, and had long since been answered but I have not
had means, having been up and down with His Highness, visiting
certain Princes, as the Duke of Saxony, Marquis of Baden, Duke of
Wirtenburg, &c. I am now to depart to France about some business of my Lord's. I have not yet received your books of Mons.
Burgh; he abides with the Earl of Hainault, by Frankfort. On
my return within six weeks, I hope to pass that way, or if not, will
write him, that the books may be delivered to me, to send them for
England. If I should write you that Marshal Biron is executed,
how desperate he died, how the new Marshal de la Verdun continues with his forces in Savoy, or that Her Majesty's ships have
taken a carrack of great value, it would be but a repetition of what
you know, being in Venice. [1 page.] |
Aug. 15.
Oatlands. |
102. Sec. Cecil to Thos. Windebank. I am sorry you are so ill.
The Queen is well content you stay 15 days. I think no business
will be hearkened to yet, and therefore you may keep your bills so
long. [½ page.] |
| Aug. 17. |
103. Depositions of Wm. Jenkins, John Chapman, John Miller,
Christ. Pising, and Robt. Holiday, of Folkstone, Kent. Have
always dwelt in Folkstone, and never knew any to demand wrecks
there, other than the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, until
Mr. Herdson of London of late years has challenged, taken, and
withheld wrecks there, viz., one boat and certain barrels of tar.
[1 page, copy.] |
Aug. 20.
Sackville House. |
104. Lord Treas. Buckhurst to Mr. Fanshaw. I have directed
John Daniell, prisoner in the Fleet, to receive from the Attorney
General bonds value 200l., for relief of himself and family; but
without aid from the Court of Exchequer in attaching the persons
indebted, the money cannot be recovered in time for his present
wants. You are to accept the bonds, and issue process thereon, that
Daniell may be the sooner relieved, and the Queen recover something towards her fine due from him. Also to issue a commission,
as petitioned for by Daniell, to Serjeant Daniell and four others, to
inquire after divers small parcels of goods wrongfully detained
from him, and to recover other debts due to him, and then to issue
process to recover the same if required. [1 page, copy, attested,
by John Suckling.] |
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105. "Peslowe's note of money due from 60 persons unto him for
alnage and subsidy" in Norwich, Yarmouth, Lynn, and from 75
country weavers, for lace, cloths, stuffs, &c., giving the names of
the debtors, and dates, and amounts of the debts, varying from 4s.
to 10l. [2 sheets.] |
| Aug. 21. |
Grant to Highgate Love, of Bottesham, co. Cambridge, of pardon
for robbery. [Docquet.] |
| Aug. 21. |
106. Thos. Phelippes to Sec. Cecil. Thanks for your respect to my
suit touching the wardership. I think now they will be advised ere
they bring it to that point, but if it should be, I will not abuse
your favour therein. The enclosed relation of the execution of
Marshal Biron coming to my hands from the other side of Brussels,
I send it because it has new particulars, and a report of such letters
as came by the last post. [½ page.] Encloses, |
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106. i. Notes [by Thos. Phelippes] of the proceedings at Rome.
The appellant priests, seeking to talk with the scholars of
the College at churches, &c. were checked by the Cardinal
Protector, to which they answered it was contra jus naturale; the Cardinal replied that their answer was contra
jus civile, which made them see themselves esteemed as
seditious companions and corrupters of youth, and fear a
decree not to their liking. July24/Aug. 3 1602. Also, |
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A copy of a decree has been sent out by the Holy Office,
touching the course of the appellants, who have obtained
none of their demands: 1st, the Archpriest is to continue
his office as before, without any other associated to
him; 2nd, the Fathers of the Society are not to be called
out of England for any of their pretences; 3rd, all the
seminaries are to be governed as before; 4th, all their
books are condemned; 5th, they must not deal any more
with the Council or others in authority, to the prejudice of
their companions. |
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They have however obtained restitution of their faculties, with admonitions to the Archpriest to deal with them
more respectively for the time to come, and I know not
what else about his not conferring so much with the
Fathers, and this at the Fathers' special instance; yet this
point is likely to be qualified before it is engrossed on
parchment. [½ page.] July 31/Aug. 10 |
Aug. 22.
Bristol. |
107. Wm. Vawer, Mayor of Bristol, to Sec. Cecil. I send news
from a ship just returned from St. Tovalles. I beseech you to let
me have a Spanish captain now at Plymouth under Mr. Trever, with
whom to redeem my son who is in the [Spanish] galleys. [1 page.] |
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Endorsed, "Mayor of Bristol to my master, with some advertisements delivered by one Birte, lately come out of Spayne." |
1602 ?
Aug. 23.
Witham. |
108. Sir E. Norris to his cousin [Dud. Carleton]. I send you
Winwood's letter and Mr. Gilpin's, with my reply to him. I hope
Dankerd will continue to write to me and attend to my business.
I am glad to hear my Lord [of Northumberland] does us both
right. I honour him more than any man in England. I send you
your papers; I thank you for French and English news. |
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P.S.—Mr. Englefield expects great favour from my Lord of
Northumberland; hearken what course he takes, though I think I
cannot be hurt thereby. [2 pages.] |
1602.
Aug. 27. |
109. Account by a person not named, of fees received of Rich. Jones
and five others for writs of appraisement, discharge of presentment,
&c., also of five fees received by the writer's brother Ward, for him,
and of payments due from seven persons mentioned. [1 page.] |
Aug. 30.
Venice. |
110. Sir Ant. Sherley to the Lord Chief Justice. I refer to the
bearer for this my defence against vile and slanderous reports;
also for information from those parts, his place requiring universal
knowledge. I commend him also as worthy of all favour. [¾ page.] |
Aug. 31.
Venice. |
111. Wm. Sidley to his cousin Lord Treas. Buckhurst. I send,
though at some danger to myself, information given me by an
Italian gentleman, from a letter written to him by Wm. Ratcler, a
wicked rebel in Ireland. I pray for the speedy reduction of these
unnatural Irish, and the preservation of Her Majesty's government
to the end of all monarchies. I have been stayed by illness six
months longer than I intended, but hope to return soon. [1 page.]
Encloses, |
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111. i. Effect of the letter of Ratcler mentioned above. He
promises to give advertisements of the state of Ireland,
since the departure of the Spaniard. He has long served
the Queen in France and the Low Countries, and been a
major-general in Ireland; but being absolved from his
loyalty in 1600, by Archer the Jesuit, he revolted in 1600
to the archtraitor Tyrone, whom he calls the Prince. The
rebels succeeded well in war, for 3,000 of the Queen's forces
were put to the sword in one night, the Lord Deputy commanding, who thereupon imprisoned Lord Delvin and
others held suspicious. Tyrone fortified two castles, and has
Beer haven and other places assured to him. If the Pope's
declaration, which is ambiguous, were in absolute terms,
and published by a nuncio, a general revolt of the Irish
would follow; and if it were seconded by an army of
12,000 from Spain, the war would be ended in six months.
They depend upon their Jesuits in Rome and elsewhere.
[¾ page.] |
