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March 1. Dorset House. |
23. Lord Treasurer Dorset to Sir Thos. Lake, clerk of the Signet.
Since I received the late petition of Jeffery Duppa, about buying
500 trees only fit for firing, to be taken out of Kings Langley Park,
I find by the certificate of Mr. Tavernor, surveyor of woods on this
side Trent, that in the park there is good store of beeches, whereof
many are only fit for firewood, and that 500 of them may well be
sold to the petitioner. [½ page.] |
March. 12. Newmarket. |
24. Warrant to Lord Treasurer Dorset to allow Jeffery Duppa,
the King's brewer, to buy out of the woods in the park of KingsLangley as many beeches, fit only for firing, as may be spared,
without defacing the ground or hindrance of browse or sheltering
for the deer; taking of him caution that under colour of this warrant, no timber trees be felled. Signed by the King. [¾ page.] |
March. 12. Cranborne House. |
25. Viscount Cranborne to Sir Thos. Lake. The enclosed letters
bring you the news of the apprehension of that runagate Douglas,
now shadowing under the name of Grey, by which he has got many
a chain of the gentle Germans. I again send you the letter now
sealed, and think it a happiness that my private caution to you
was not ill taken, considering that it was not a matter whereof I
had any cause to speak, but the cause which I shall ever have, which
is to omit no earthly opportunity to witness my love and duty.
Mr. Lindsay is not likely to bring any news from Rome, as the Pope
died about the 16th of February last. [1 page, damaged, holograph.] |
March 12. London. |
26. George Hay to —. Thanks for your help; the Lord
Treasurer will move my cause in Council, where its justice will
further it, but I want the interest of others, especially Lord
Cranborne. [¾ page.] |
March 14. Hampstead. |
27. Sir Rob. Drury to Sir Thos. Lake. I send a draft of a privy
seal, and beg you to engross it, if suitable, hoping for the King's
signature at his coming to London. I expect my journey to Spain
will be soon. Pray despatch the enclosed letter. [1 page.] |
March 15. London. |
28. Stephen Le Sieur to Sir Thos. Lake. Thanks for favour in
my suit. If Mr. Acton of Ribbesford, Worcestershire, committed for
coining, be convicted, his property will be forfeit; he had a fair
estate, but has been unthrifty. I beg a lease of his lands and a
grant of his goods. I think the King may grant this, seeing he
gives nothing out of his coffers or revenues. [1 page.] |
March 25. |
29. Lease from Sir Nath. and Dorothy Bacon to Hen. Gyle, of
Burghcastle, Suffolk, of a tenement, land, &c. at Burghcastle, for
seven years; rental, 12l. [1 sheet, damaged.] |
March ? |
30. Petition of Henry Gifford to the King, for the reversion of
the rangership of Westbeare Forest, co. Hants, and for an order to
the justice in Eyre to sequester the office for the present, and establish petitioner, who is an inhabitant, in it, to preserve the game,
&c. In the time of the late Queen, the office was granted to one
Nelson; he sold it to William Waller, who has made spoil of the
game, wasted much timber, &c., oppressed the forest with conies,—surcharged it with beasts, sheep, and swine, which consume the
pasture and coppices, the only shelter for deer, and routed up the
soil, by means whereof many fawns are killed, and many other
deer destroyed, lately upwards of 40, besides what are stolen.
All these abuses are proved by the oaths of sufficient witnesses, by
virtue of a commission from the Justice in Eyre. Waller is now
a prisoner for other causes in the Fleet, where he is likely to remain,
and his servants in his absence continue the same disorders. |
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With reference thereon to the Lord Admiral, and his report that
the matters above alleged have been proved; that Waller, deserves
to be sequestered, and that the petitioner is a meet man to have the
place. [1½ pages. See Calendar James I., 3 April 1605.] |