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Jan. 12.
Windsor. |
1. Sir F. Walsingham to the Attorney and Solicitor General,
Mr. Recorder, Mr. Norton, and Mr. Hamond. Articles have been
exhibited to Council by Sir Thomas Leighton, and certain deputies
from the bailiff and jurats of Guernsey, impugning the claims made
by one Carteret, a gentleman of Jersey, on a patent which he has
for the island of Sark, which they pretend are not in the patent.
You are to examine the patents of both parties, and certify what
right is due to either of them, and mediate an accord. Since the
patent to Carteret's father, orders have been made for government
of the isle, without consent of Sir. T. Leighton and the bailiff, &c.
of Guernsey, at which they are aggrieved. You must advise some
form of government to content the parties. [1 page.] |
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2. Notes delivered by the Earl of Oxford that Lord Henry
[Howard] ought to be asked how he came to the intelligence that
ambassadors would come from France, Spain, and other places, to
assist the King of Scots' ambassador in the demand of his mother;
and that this was determined among them on the other side. Chas.
Arundel and Henry [Howard] have been great searchers into Her
Majesty's wealth, and have had intelligence of all her receipts from
courts of law, customs, subsidies, privy seals, and fifteenths, since
she came to the Crown; also the helps made by gatherings for
building Paul's steeple, the lotteries, and from the clergy, and by
forfeits, by attainders or otherwise; and also what pensions out of
bishops' livings and gifts she has bestowed, and what charges she
was at in her household; in reparations to her houses and castles;
in the charges of the wars of Leith and Newhaven, and in petty
journeys in Ireland and Scotland, and during the rebellion. |
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Charles should be asked why he sent Pike to La Motte, and who it
was that went into Spain, and whether Pike went there, although
he assuredly remained while the others carried letters from La Motte,
and brought others back, with a recompense from the King, whereupon Pike returned with an answer to Charles Arundel, who helps
him to a marriage; but whether the fellow brought his master some
assurance and reward from the King is not known. |
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He lives to himself, and gives no more attendance, to colour his
cause, as I guess, but carries on some notable practice, which he
has put into other hands. He has since borne a zealous mind more
than covertly to the mass. |
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They have often declared, the last four or five years, what increase
of souls have been made to their Church, in every shire throughout
the realm; who were theirs, and who not, which is all known
by certain secret gatherings for the relief of those beyond seas,
wherein there be notes of every household. [1½ pages.] |
Jan.
Carlisle. |
3. Christ. Dacre to Sec. Walsingham. You will receive letters
from the Lords here to the Council, touching some cause wherein,
for duty's sake and goodwill to my country, I have had some
dealing. I remember you only of their letters, with a commission
from the Lord Chancellor, which is required touching that matter;
great expedition is needful. [½ page.] |
