Addenda, Edward VI - Volume 3: June 1550

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3 With Addenda 1547-65. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1870.

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'Addenda, Edward VI - Volume 3: June 1550', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3 With Addenda 1547-65, (London, 1870) pp. 404-405. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1547-65/pp404-405 [accessed 27 March 2024]

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June 1550

June 19. 65. The Council to the Earl of Rutland. We marvel at the continual call for men and money, with no reckoning how it is spent. We pray you to cause a return to be made of the monthly charges of all the garrisons and forts in the North, and we will send monthly what is required. We have written severally to you and Mr. Brende, because the reckonings only come to 8,000l. a month, and between October and May you have received 12,000l. a month, so that it is marvel you should lack. Perhaps the captains dismiss men lightly, and then new coat and conduct money have to be paid, and yet the pay is reckoned for a month. No captain is henceforth to dismiss soldiers save for sickness. Also you shall take the names of all captains who have sent home prisoners without licence.
No captain or soldier on pain of death is to take a farm in Scotland, except by allotment from the King or the Council there, the garrisons being thus lessened, and so Hume was taken when not a sixth part of the garrison was in it; nor to take any mail of the Scots without a signed receipt.
We hear that in Marsh and Teviotdale many of the commonalty, but few gentlemen come in to receive assurance. We have left much to your discretion, but now we wish you to keep the order first prescribed, viz., none to be assured but for himself, and to wear a red cross sewed to his coat, and to run as well as Englishmen upon those not of the King's party. Those who will do so are to be assured, if they pay to the King their rents and mails which were due to the gentlemen who keep them from obedience. The gentlemen are to be received if they come in. [2¾ pages.]