Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 27: June 1582

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda 1580-1625. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1872.

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'Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 27: June 1582', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda 1580-1625, (London, 1872) pp. 61-65. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1580-1625/pp61-65 [accessed 28 March 2024]

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June 1582

June 14. 86. William Holt to Clavitius Maltherve, a Jesuit at Paris. I understand that you have had a special care for those sent to travel in this isle, according to the charge given to you, as well for the affection borne towards us, as for the order taken therein by the chief of our society. I would stir you up the more to help me, considering my necessity; having remained a year in the English college at Rome with Father Gaspar Heywood, I was sent from thence to England, and afterwards arrived here in Scotland. I need not write you touching the estate of this Church, you are so often advised thereof; pray consider my poor estate, and if any occasion offer remember me for some supply. Your letters would greatly comfort me, and if you hear anything of Sursary, remember me, seeing he knows not what has become of me.
Archdeacon Movet has safe means to send to me, but nothing can well be written without cypher; if you will furnish me, I will write largely and plainly. The bearer hereof returns with the Duke of Guise's servants, who having brought presents to the King, go not empty away. The chief is St. Paolo, an Italian, who has so carried himself that he has purchased great love and credit to his master from hence, but not without envy of those of this nation, especially the ministers, who railed vehemently against him, his master, and others of the chief nobility here; thereupon the King forbid one of them to preach, and expelled him out of Edinburgh. There is great danger of some tumult. Salute Mr. Claude Ag.; if he is removed, let me know who is in his place. [1¾ pages.]
June 17.
Guernsey.
87. Sir Thomas Leighton to Sec. Walsingham. We were enjoined by Council to make an abstract of our laws and customs, and of the Queen's revenues within the Channel islands; this we have finished as well as the shortness of the time and our skill will serve, and have sent them over by a jurat, and also by Louis de Vic, procurer of this island. Pray credit him in other matters; he well understands the state of the country, and has been three voyages to Court, to defend Her Majesty's right, but has not had his charges allowed, as the jurats and popular procurers had, by a letter from Council to the country here. Pray consider him.
As to the revenues, there were some of Her Majesty's lands here that lay vacant, and others where the house was decayed and likely to be given up; yet I have let all to the inhabitants, who will increase the rents, on condition of her ratifying the grants to them and their heirs; but without this, none will build or plant them. No governor here can make a further estate than for life.
Phil. Carteret has sent to Council a supplication full of false allegations, to cause them to dismember Sark from the authority of Guernsey, under which it has always been.
Our free ministers are much offended with the placing of the Bishop's court in the island, though the Bishop's official does not interfere with them, but only judges civil causes. I bear the blame, though you did it without my knowledge, at instance of the late popular procurer. I am condemned as a backslider, because I will not oppose your orders. I am indifferent whether the ministers are equal, or a Bishop superintends; it is a thing which touches not salvation. [2½ pages.]
June ? 88. Petition of Louis de Vic, procurer of the Queen in Guernsey, to Council, to direct their letters to the bailiff and jurats, to administer justice to him in his suits for any custom, service, or rents due to the Queen, according to the Book of Extents. Also that neither Thos. Blondel, Hilary Bonamy, nor any of St. Peter's Port who have unjustly complained against governor, bailiff, and jurats, be allowed to supply the place of a jurat. Also that petitioner be allowed his expenses in attending Council in England, and travelling to and fro for 14 months, to be raised upon those of St. Peter's Port who have unjustly complained against the governor. [½ page.]
June ? 89. Petition of Louis de Vic, the Queen's attorney in Guernsey, to Council, for the re-establishment of the survey, formerly taken every three years, of the manner of administration of justice in the island, for prevention of abuses by the jurats, who are led by no prescribed law. Annexing,
89. i. Regulations suggested to be observed:—That the bailiff and jurats may not imprison persons for appealing to Queen and Council. That justices be appointed to hear appeals, on the appellant putting in surety to follow his appeal. That plaintiffs for tresspass always put in sureties to follow the cause. That none be imprisoned in the castle, except for criminal causes, provided he put in such surety. That none imprisoned be released, unless the Queen's attorney or comptroller be present. That no inquiry for trespass be granted, unless they are present, in order that the Queen be not defrauded of her right. That all fines appear in the records of the Court. That no bargain or sale in fee-simple be of force unless under seal of the bailiff, or signed by two or three jurats. That the parties shall have relation of proceedings, if it is required. That the bailiff and jurats keep inviolably the laws and customs of Normandy, except in points specified in the Extent and Book of Precepts. [1 page.]
90. Similar request of Louis de Vic. Prefixing,
90. i. Interrogatories on which the jurats of the island of Guernsey should be examined, as to their imprisoning Her Majesty's officers or others without consent of the officers; their granting Court fines belonging to the Queen to the poor; their forbearing execution of sentence against certain prisoners, &c. [1 page.]
June 18.
The Court.
91. Robert Earl of Leicester to Mr. Sackford and Drs. Dale and Lewis, Masters of Requests. Pray give lawful favour in a cause to be heard before you this day, in which the bearer, Henry Fenton, servant to my brother of Warwick, is a party; otherwise his adversary will deal very straightly with him. If you will grant an injunction for the stay of the common law, until the matter has received full trial before you, it will be an occasion to have the matter ended this vacation, by the friends on both parts. [½ page.]
June 22.
The Court.
92. Sec. Walsingham to Lord Burghley. Mr. Rich. Lee, before his departure over sea, being here before Council, about the cause in the Court of Wards between him and young Mr. Coker, promised that, notwithstanding his absence, the said cause should proceed and receive an end by his attornies and Council. As the Lord Chancellor was then also present, you can learn the same from him. [½ page.]
June ? 93. Articles against John Hamerton, of Hellifield Pele, co. York, for certain traitorous words against Her Majesty, viz., that they were all heretics that are of the religion now preached; that they were so proved by most learned clerks, viz., Feckenham, Bonner, Story, Cole, and such others as condemned them to be burnt, and that they all died desperate knaves; that he was Bonner's man, and helped to set fire to the faggots in Smithfield, and rejoices to think how they fried in the flame, and what service he had done God in furthering their death; that some day he might come to the burning of all the rest of this religion, and his friends would be glad to kneel down to him to save their lives; that Felton, Story, and those hanged for treason were wrongfully put to death; that the Queen could make no law to put men to death for their religion; that those died like apostles and martyrs, and that the Pope is head of the Church, next under God.
He is also suspected of traitorous speeches in Wm. Ardington's house, in Craven, as that Campion, and those that suffered with him, were wrongfully condemned; this can be proved by examination of the vicar of Gargrave, and Hen. Ardington, a most faithful Protestant. He maintained divers persons who fled from their houses for religion, and it is thought that books, beads, or papistical libels will be found in his house. [1 page.]
[June.] Interrogatories whereon Drs. John Hamond and Mat. Carew, appointed by the Lord Chancellor, are to examine George Carleton and John Hastings, on behalf of William Lord Montjoy:
1. Were there not lands in Yorkshire mortgaged to John Browen for a debt of James Lord Montjoy, and did you not induce Lord Montjoy to discharge those lands, and to mortgage Canford in lieu thereof?
2. Did you not sell the said lands in Yorkshire for 1,210l., and therewith redeem Puddleton manor from Sir Mat. Arundel, and have it passed into your own name and upon trust?
3. Did not Lord Montjoy get a bill to exchange Canford and Puddleton for 200l. of the Queen's lands, and did you not meanwhile get Canford and Puddleton passed to the Earl of Huntingdon, thus hindering the exchange, and procuring Lord Montjoy's creditors to do the same?
Also 10 more questions relating to the share taken by the said persons, as commissioners in trust for Lord Montjoy, in the sale of the said lands to the Earl of Huntingdon, below their worth; to their selling to the Earl, for a consideration, the profits of Ockman's mines at Canford, which were settled in trust for Lady Catherine Montjoy and her children, though knowing that the Earl pretended a little to the inheritance; and to their suffering Lord Montjoy to sell Spettsbury and other lands, at a sixth of their value. With examination of Carleton and Hastings thereon, 15 and 17 May 1582. [Membranes, 1—5 of a parchment roll.] Also,
Interrogatories on the same subject, to be ministered on behalf of Lord Montjoy, to Fras. Blount, and to John Pavy, and Edw. Price, servants to Lord Montjoy, 13 in number, and their examinations thereon, 22 and 24 May 1582. [Membranes 6—8.] Also,
Interrogatories for examination of John Kipping of Poole, Thos. Bennet of Canford, and Chris. Williams, as to their being arrested when going to Ockman's mine, near Poole, Dorsetshire, and bribed and threatened to induce them to serve under the Earl of Huntingdon, and imprisoned until the assizes were over, and as to like threats, &c. being used to other workmen. With examinations of the two former, 31 May—1 June, confirming the same. [Membranes, 9—11.] Also,
Interrogatories for Chas. Browen, of the Inner Temple, respecting the purchase of part of Canford manor from his father by the Earl of Huntingdon, and his examination thereon, June 10. [Membrane 11.] Also,
Interrogatories for John Dolling, of Salisbury, servant to Edw. Lane, dwelling in Blackfriars, London, relative to his imprisonment by the Earl of Huntingdon's orders, and his examination thereon, 31 May. [Membranes, 12 and 13. Domestic Addenda, Case H., No. 20.]
Interrogatories to be ministered on behalf of the Earl of Huntingdon in the said case:—
1. Was Sir Jas. Blount, late Lord Montjoy, persuaded by the Earl, to make John Hastings and George Carleton commissioners of his living and payment of his debts?
2. Did the Earl agree with them to procure Canford and Puddleton manors to be mortgaged, and after forfeiture conveyed to the Earl?
3. Did the Earl hinder the redemption of the manors? With 23 other queries relative to these lands, the seizure of workhouses for alum and copperas, built at Canford by the late Lord Montjoy, for the Earl, &c.
With examinations thereon, before Drs. John Hamond and Mat. Carew, of John Hastings, William Constantine of Merle, John Hilliard of Bucklands, John Huntley of Milborne, and Edward Mead of Poole, all of Dorsetshire, George Dickinson of Wiltshire, Charles Browen of the Inner Temple, Rich. Wotton of London, George Carleton of Overston, co. Northampton, John Hopkins, Wm. Willis, George Michell, and Thomas Constantine, John Mansfield, and Wm. Bird, all of London, Charles Blount, brother to Lord Montjoy, aged 19, Thos. Pike, servant to Edw. Lane, John Pavy to Lord Montjoy, Thos. Jenyn to the Earl of Huntingdon; dated May 17, 21, 24, and 31, and June 1, 1582. [Parchment roll, Membranes 1—9.] Also,
Interrogatories on behalf of the Earl, exhibited 14 June 1582, upon his conduct in reference to the workmen of the mines, and examinations thereon of Chris. Southouse, John Mansfield of London, and Thos. Jenyn, servant to the Earl, 14 and 15 June 1582. [Membranes 10—12. Domestic Addenda, Case H., No. 21.]