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| May 10. |
6. The King to Attorney General Coke. We have restored to
the widow and children of John Littleton, lately attainted of high
treason, all lands, goods, &c. by his attainder escheated to the
late Queen; Littleton, in his lifetime, assured part of his lands to
Sir Charles Davers [Danvers] and others attainted, until he and
other sureties were discharged of some debts for which they stood
bound for Littleton, which lands escheated to the late Queen by the
attainder of Danvers and not of Littleton; yet as they were conveyed but for a security to Sir Charles Danvers and others, for discharge of debts which Littleton's wife has now a mind to pay,
we require you to contain all those lands in the grant to the wife
and children of the said John Littleton. [1 page, damaged, draft.] |
May 10.
The Court. |
7. The King to Hen. Savill, provost of Eaton. A lease was
granted by Wm. Day, your predecessor, of the parsonage of Stermister Marshal. As a servant of ours, of good desert, wishes a
further estate from you in the parsonage, we require you to grant
us a lease in reversion thereof, for the usual rent. [¾ page, draft.] |
| May 15. |
8. The King to the Lord Treasurer. The customs on silks, the
farm of which was granted by the late Queen to Sir Robert, now Lord,
Cecil, are no longer payable in strict law, being granted by her only
for life; but not doubting their renewal next Parliament, you are
to order their payment as usual in the meantime. [1½ pages, draft.] |
| May 16. |
9. The King to the Lord Admiral [chief justice in Eyre, south of
the Trent]. Her late Majesty granted to John Lidcott the custody
of Bagshot Park; he sold his interest to one Furst, who conveyed it
to Sir Hen. Guilford, and afterwards sold it again to another, by
which double sale great disturbance has grown, and meantime our
deer and woods are neglected. As we hold Sir Henry Guilford
meetest to have the keeping, and as he has the best right from
Lidcott, we require you to order that he be put into quiet possession. [¾ page, draft.] |
| May 16. |
10. Grant to Simeon Furner of the office of merchant and agent in
the East parts for buying pitch, tar, hemp, flax, oakum, sailcloth,
cables, ropes, masts, iron, firs, deals, &c. for the Navy; fee, 33l. 6s. 8d.
yearly. [3 sheets, draft. Altered from a like grant for Thos. Allen,
20 June 1561.] |
| May 19. |
11. The King to the Lord Treasurer. Wm. Lewes, of Bristol, has
had for several years the collection of the impost of sweet wines in
the port of Bristol, &c., and behaved honestly therein; and having
besought continuance in the same under you, to whom we have
committed the general collection of the impost, as under Alderman Wood, late Collector General, we have signified our pleasure
to Sir Wm. Ryder, whom we have made Collector General of our
customs inwards; but it has not taken effect, from your pretending
that the right of appointing officers for our collection appertains to
you and our butler of England. Wherefore we require you, on his
putting in good security for such moneys as come to his hands, to
continue him in the said place. [1 page, draft.] |
| May 20. |
12. Note of the reversion of a grant to Hen. Guevara, one of the
captains of Berwick, of the office of master of tents and pavilions;
fee, 30l. a year. Endorsed on a grant by Queen Elizabeth, 20 Jan.
1560, to Hen. Seckford, of the reversion of the said office after
Sir Thos. Baldwarden. [1 sheet, Latin, damaged.] |
| May 21. |
13. Note of a grant to Roland White, in reversion after John
Harrington, of the office of constable of Carnarvon Castle, North
Wales; fee, 60l. a year. Endorsed on a grant by Queen Elizabeth,
11 May 1579, to John Harrington of the like reversion, after his
father, John Harrington. [2½ sheets, Latin.] |
| May 21. |
14. The King to the Officers of Exchequer. Being informed that
Sir Francis Knollys, Geo. Blande, Edw. Duffeild, Ellice and Toby
Gaylor, &c., without commission, on 16 July 1599, took out of the
house of Francis Parkins, at Uston, co. Berks, of the goods and
treasure of Thos. Vachell, 1,484l. in gold, 8l. in silver, plate value
200l., and two gold chains worth 100l. and 100 marks, on pretence
that Vachell was convicted of recusancy, and that the late Queen
seized all his goods and chattels, and two parts of his lands and tenements;—Question now being made whether the said gold, silver, and
plate yet remaining in our Exchequer as in deposito appertains to
us or to Vachell, and to whom the rest of the said treasure not yet
brought into our Court belongs;— We, not allowing such taking
without commission, and pitying the case of the said Vachell, whereof
he has made petition to us, grant to Sir Thos. Vachell, his cousin and
next heir, all the said gold, money, jewels, and plate, &c., as our free
gift. [3 sheets, draft.] |
| May 21. |
15. The King to the Lord Treasurer. Lord Sandys was fined
5,000l. for joining in the attempts of the late Earl of Essex, and has
paid 1,000l. thereof. Being pleased to pardon him the remaining
4,000l., we wish a plan to be devised for so doing. [½ page draft.] |
| May 22. |
16. Instructions to the Commissioners appointed to sit upon suits,
to be careful what suits they listen to, lest the King should have to
give offence by denying what they grant, and not to grant any reversions of places of consequence, as those are the rewards to be looked
forward to by faithful servants. In requests for peerage of for the
garter, to examine into the rank, &c. of the claimants, and not to
add to the present number of 24 privy councillors. [6 pages, draft.] |
| May 25. |
17. Grant to Oliver Cromwell, gentleman of the Privy Chamber,
of the keepership of the game in the forests of Weybridge and
Sapley, and in Gaynes and Ramsey Parks, and elsewhere in cos.
Huntingdon and Cambridge, as also within five miles of Babraham
co. Cambridge; with authority to search and find out all persons
unlawfully keeping or using guns, nets, &c. for taking or destroying
game, and to seize and take away the same, and to prevent any
hunting or hawking, without consent of the owners of the land.
[1 sheet, draft. Endorsed, Sir Oliver Cromwell.] |
May 25.
Greenwich. |
18. The King to [Sir Thos. Knyvet], warden of the Mint. We
are determined to proceed with the moneys wrought by warrant
of the late Queen; viz., angels, half angels, and quarter angels,
of fine gold; crowns and half-crowns, shillings and sixpences, of
silver. Also pieces of two pence, pence, and half-pence. Minute
directions for the engraving and legends of the said coins. |
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You are to order Charles Anthony, graver of our Mint, to cause
to be graven irons needful for the striking of our said moneys, and
we authorise you to take up skilful gravers for the said works,
within our Tower of London. [1½ sheets, draft.] |
| May 27. |
19. Grant to Dr. Chris. Perkins of an annuity of 100l. Altered
from a similar grant by the late Queen of 100 marks. [1page, Latin.] |
| May 28. |
20. Grant to Rich. Blunden and Thos. Adams of the office of
receiver of the revenues of Clun, co. Salop, late of the possessions
of the Duke of Norfolk, attainted of high treason; fee, 100s. Also
of the office of woodward there; fee, 40s. Also bailiff and collector
of the revenue called Le Ringald, in Tempseter; fee, 30s. Also
bailiff and collector of the castle and manor of Wallingford, &c., co.
Berks, part of the possessions of Ewelme; fee, 10l. [5 sheets,
Latin.] |
May 28.
Greenwich. |
21. The King to the Mayor of Gloucester. Being informed that
Wm. Oldisworth, late recorder of Gloucester, has departed this
life, and that Jasper Selwyn, of Lincoln's Inn, an ancient utter
barrister, dwelling within the liberties of the said city, is a very fit
man for the place, we command you to elect him thereto. [½ page.] |
| May. |
22. Grant to Wm. Sterrell of the custody of the house or mansion
called the priory of St. John's of Jerusalem, co. Middlesex, for life.
[¾ sheet, Latin, draft.] |
| May ? |
23. The King to Lord Admiral Nottingham. We send you instructions to be given to the Navy officers, relative to the form in
which our arms are to be borne in flags at sea. [Damaged, draft,
signed by the King.] |
