1606
504.A court of assistants held at Pewterers' Hall on Thursday2 January 1606
in the presence of Mr.Thomas Wilford, president, Mr. John Newton, deputy,
and the following:
505. Mr. Greene, treasurer, Mr. Newman, Mr. Lyng, Mr. Dorrington,
Mr. Bowyer, Mr. Towerson, Mr. Wyche, Mr. Cobb, Mr. Hanger, Mr.
How, Mr. Bond, Mr. Castlyn; the secretary.
506. [p. 148] At the request of Hugh Lea, recently elected consul for Lisbon,
it was agreed that the treasurer should deliver £50 to him 'the same to be
accompted as parte of his yerely fee of £100, paid unto him before hand,
the better to furnish himself, for his present dispatch, and going over into
Spaine to undertake the execution of the said office'.
507. It was also agreed that the treasurer should
make provision of a peece of plate of the value of £30 or thereabouts, to be presented and bestowed for a new yeeres guift, upon such person as the company
have in private accquainted Mr. President, Mr. Treasurer and the Secretary, they
meane to conferr and bestow the same upon. (fn. 1)
508. As the treasurer informed the company that he had disbursed in the
company's affairs more than he had received, it was agreed that he should
take upp at interest the some of £200 to be used and ymployed aswell for the
payment of the said £50 to Mr. Lea, and providing the said peece of plate of £30,
as also to pay officers fees, and otherwise to be expended in the affaires of the
company.
509. A petition, delivered by the company to the privy council, was read out
concerning diverse wrongs and iniuries offered us in Spaine, the same petition
being also by order from the Lords of his Majesty's Most honorable privie
Counsell, translated into Spanish, which their Lordshipps intend shalbe delivered
to the Spanish Ambassador, the same being carefully translated by Mr. Thomas
Honnyman, at the request of the Company. (fn. 2)