Addenda, James 1 - Volume 44: June 1624

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

'Addenda, James 1 - Volume 44: June 1624', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda 1580-1625, (London, 1872) pp. 666-667. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1580-1625/pp666-667 [accessed 19 April 2024]

June 1624



June 8. Whitehall.	63. Petition of Jas. Payn of Jersey to Council. His second wife, Frances Gowpill, having misused his goods and abused his children, got a separation from him at the King's Court, but the dean, when appealed to, tried to reconcile them, and ordered that they should live together, on pain of excommunication. Yet the lieutenant and bailiff have condemned petitioner to allow her a yearly maintenance set down by arbitrators of her own choosing, and imprisoned him. Begs confirmation of the dean's sentence, and freedom from the other. With reference thereon to Sir Wm. Bird and Sir Hen. Martin. [¾ page.]
June.	64. Report of Bird and Martin in favour of maintenance of the sentence of the dean, as the proper judge in matters between man and wife. [⅓ page.]
June 13. St. James's.	65. Henry Lord Danvers to Sec. Conway. Get me those 50 soldiers for Guernsey when the supplies for Ireland are set down, with order for their payment, that Castle Cornet, the key and guard of these Norman relics, may be secured from foreign enemies or pirates, who now swarm in those seas, and if once masters of that impregnable place, would be a worse nuisance than any Dunkirkers. I am busy preparing to return, but Sir Peter Osborne, my lieutenant, will attend Council on the business. [1 page.]
June 16. St. Giles.	66. John Earl of Bristol to Sec. Conway. By yours of the 7th, you signified His Majesty's command to end my business, and wished me to continue my patience a day or two. It is now nine or ten days since, and I have heard nothing. It seems very long to me to be so long debarred from his presence, and an example hardly to be parallelled in Christendom that a councillor should be imprisoned two months, and neither heard nor question asked him. Pray represent to His Majesty my request to be admitted to his presence. [¾ page.]
June 30.	67. Report by Sol.-Gen. Heath, on the petition of 10 poor mercers of Jersey. They have shown a patent of 15 June 1619, granting leave to the inhabitants to bring in certain leather, wool, and cloth, custom free; also an acquittance by Sir Phil. Carteret, 13 March 1621, for 80l. for charges in obtaining the patent. They are now urged to pay to Carteret, and other deputies employed for the island, 254l. more, which they say should be levied not on them only, but on the whole inhabitants.
	I think notice should be given of this petition to the justices and States of the Isle, and if it be true, petitioners should pay only their rateable proportions; otherwise the States must send a deputy to appear before Council. [1 page.]