Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 34: August 1599

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 34: August 1599', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda 1580-1625, (London, 1872) pp. 397. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1580-1625/p397 [accessed 25 March 2024]

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August 1599

Aug. 21.
Jersey.
15. J. Carteret to Sec. Cecil. On 16 July last, the Council wrote to Geo. Paulet, bailiff, and other justices of Jersey, to surcease proceedings in the cause between John Dumaresq and me, upon information given by my adversary that I proceeded to have the cause determined contrary to your former letters to Sir Anth. Paulet, wherein he tries to render me odious. I know of no such letter until the cause was determined, by virtue of your former letters to the bailiff and others, who dealt with all indifferency, and gave their judgments after due examination of my proofs; and the sureties of my adverse party, perceiving the matter so clear on my side, willingly became bound to me, before the justice, for the payment of my charges.
Nevertheless Dumaresq,—knowing the law to be against him, thinking to stay other matters depending between us, and fearing that his doings should be examined before you,—trusts wholly his own kinsmen, who are bent against me, and therefore have chosen in my absence, to assist Sir Anth. Paulet in commission, Amias De Carteret, his own brother-in-law, who has hitherto sought my undoing, so that he is at my suit bound to Her Majesty's peace, and Giles and Hugh Lempriere, near of kin to Dumaresq, and his councillors in this cause, so that they would be both judges and parties against me. As my adverse party is of great authority in the isle, and as they who have dealt for me in this cause are daily injured and threatened, I crave that the controversy may be heard before you, at the Council Table or the Star Chamber. [1 page.]