Cecil Papers: 1630-1668

Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 24, Addenda, 1605-1668. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1976.

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'Cecil Papers: 1630-1668', in Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 24, Addenda, 1605-1668, (London, 1976) pp. 271-291. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-cecil-papers/vol24/pp271-291 [accessed 19 April 2024]

1630-1668

The Earl of Salisbury to the Deputy Leiutenants
1630, March 29. With this from mee you shall receive a letter from the Lords to mee whereby I am required of twoe things. In omitting the first which containes matter of reprooffe, I shall hope to find there Lordshipps pardon. Ffor the second, according to what I am required, I doe order and desire you to cause the last allowance for the Muster Master being 41l 10s p ann to bee forthwith equally assessed upon the county. The rest of the same letter hath an immediate aspect upon yourselves and therefore I shall not need to add further then to desire that your meeteing and answeare may bee suddaine." Salisbury House, March 29, 1630.
Upon those letters there was [sic] twoe severall meeteings, the first att Hattfeild, the second att Hartford, att which meeteings there was nothing donne but a generall agreement amongst the Deputy Leiutenants to wayte all in person upon our Lord Leiutenant att London the 29th of Aprill following, and then to give his Lordshipp a personall and absolute satisfaction. In the interim a Head of a Warrant (with as much saffety to themselves as might bee) was thought upon to bee presented if all the rest of the other sayd Deputy Leiutenants should thereunto condiscend, which although ytt was nott thought fitt to bee presented nor att all thought necessary to bee sent forth, yett I have hereunto related ytt which is in this manner:
1630, Aprill 27. Whereas wee have received letters from the Lords of his Mats most honorable Privy Councell beareing date the 18th day of March, 1629, directed to the right honorable the Earle of Salisbury, Lord Leiutenante of this county, by which they pray and require his Lordshipp to give express order and directions to cause the last allowance of the Muster Master of 41l 10s which they order and commaund to bee equally assessed upon the county, and that the names of all the refusers without spareing any person bee returned to the honorable Board; and in persuance of those letters one other letter from our Lord Leiutenante beareing date the 29th March following to us his Deputy Leiutenants directed, by which his Lordshipp doth order and desire the sayd allowance of the Muster Master to bee forthwith equally assessed and collected by the High Constables of this county. These are therefore to acquainte you with there Lordshipps pleasure and commaund for the execution of the aforesayd service att your owne perills. The 27th Aprill, 1630.
Although this warrant was thus drawne yett ytt never went forth, for uppon the meeteing of the Deputy Leiutenants with our Lord Leiutenante att London the 29th of the same month of Aprill, there was little or nothing donne butt they had further liberty to advise till the day following, being Ffryday the 30th of Aprill, and ytt was then thought fitt that this warrant should lye in deposito and a petitionary letter should bee presented to our Lord Leiutenant for his Lordship to certify to the Councell for a voluntary and free contribution from the country to the Muster Master, the copy of which letter ffolloweth:
1630, Aprill 30. To the Right Honorable our very good Lord, the Earle of Salisbury, etc.
May ytt please your Lordshipp to receive in account of your Lordshipps commaund by a letter to us directed of the 29th of March, in persuance of letters from the Lords of his Mats most honorable Privy Councell dated the 18th of March, by which wee, your Lordshipps Deputy Leiutenants were ordered and commaunded to assess and by warrant to cause the High Constables severally in our divisions to leavye the intertainement for the Muster Master of this county: that wee have often mett for the execution of the sayd commaunds, conceive that wee cannott with saffety to our selves and effect to the service by way of assessment and warrant for leavy execute the sayd directions. Butt if your Lordshipp shall please to present (with your favoure) our humble suite to the Lords of his Mats most honorable Privy Councell that wee may endavour to mainetaine ytt by a voluntary contribution, wee hope to give you and there Lordshipps full and ample satisfaction in the account of that way. 1630, 30th Aprill. Signed: R. Lucy, Thomas Pope Blount, Thomas Dacres, John Boteler.
This letter was presented to our Lord Leiutenant the sayd day, vizt, the 30th of Aprill, being Ffryday, who showed himselfe very honorable in the [? matter], and as is sayd promised his best assistance in the furthering of there petition.
Butt the matter being moved by the Justices of Assize att the Generall Gaole Delivery att Hartford, the Grand Jury then there ympannelled, ytt was then putt to the most voyces for a free gratuity or contribution to the Muster Master, att which time most of the Grand Jury gave there voyces against ytt.
Att the trayning then following, notwithstanding the gratuity specifyed in the warrant to the High Constables for the warning of the musters 1630, all the divisions were in some measure against ytt espetially Broadwater and Hitchin. Whether ytt was because they thought ytt a tye upon them in the future or because the Grand Jury for the most parte had before excepted against ytt, is unknowne. Butt in the end, by the perswasion of the Deputy Leiutenants, Hartford and Braughin, Edwinstrey and Odsey, Caishoe and Dacorum, all these 4 divisions payd in there mony except 4 particuler men.
Butt Sir Richard Lucy and Sir John Gerrard setting upon the musters att Wellwin the 31th of August, 1630, ffor the divisions of Broadwater and Hitchin, there were none payd butt absolutely refused payment thereof save the towne of Hattfeild and some 2 or 3 small townes more, whoe by earnest entreaties paid in there monyes.
Itt was alsoe moved att the sessions to the Greate Inquest by the Bench whoe understanding that there was a denyall of ytt before from the Grand Jury att the Assizes before, utterly refused to give any contribution to the Muster Master, notwithstanding the earnest intreaty and desire of the Bench then being.
And upon the musters holden for the sayd 5 divisions this yeare anno 1631, the country understanding better then they did before that the money allowed to the Muster Master is nott in a compulsive manner but onely a free gratuity, a thing to bee discon tinued at there o[w]ne wills and pleasures, did generally give way to ytt, except some few in the division of Broadwater and Hitchin and so itt continues.
9 pp. (276. 4.)
Britain's Burse.
1633, May 1 to 1639, December 19. Names of shops, and the professions and trades of the tenants of Britain's Burse.
The Glove
The Cheyre
The Harrow
The Bible
The Percullys
Princes Armes
The Girdle and Hangers
The Bird in Hand
The Queens Head
The Golden Hert and Garland
My Lord Salisburys Armes
The Shipp
The Cork
The Bell
The Halfe Moone and 7 Stars
The Griffin
The Holy Lambe
The Anchor
The Popes Head
The Signs of Jacobs Well
The White Lion
The Crowne
The Falcon
The Golden Dragon
The Grasshopper
The Acorne (for French wares)
The Blackbird
The Blue Boar
The Mermaid
(CP. Estate Papers, Box R/5.)
stationer
milliner
tyremaker
sempstress
haberdasher
perfumer to the Queen
barber-surgeon
painter, stainer
draper
turner
fishmonger
girdler
clothworker
joiner
hosier
mercer
watchmaker
Water supply at St Martin's.
1633, September 9. Receipt for £100 "beinge in parte towardes erectinge or newe buildinge of one warehouse neare unto the Militarie Garden in co. Middlesex, and makeinge a seasterne there and layinge of water pipes and other workes concerninge the same".
Signed: Edward Wardour. Endorsed: "Delivered to Sir Ed. Warder by way of impresse towardes erectinge or newe buildinge of one waterhouse." ½ p. (Bills 210/14.)
Water supply at St. Martin's.
1633, October 7. Grant by the King to Francis, Earl of Bedford, William, Earl of Salisbury, Sir Edward Wardour and Sir Oliver Nicholas of a licence to build an aqueduct from the spring at Colman Hedge alias Soe Hoe in the parish of St. Martin's-in-theFields, to St. Martin's Lane and Covent Garden. Details given of properties and streets through which the projected aqueduct would pass.—Westminster, 7 October, 1 Car. 9.
Copy. Latin. 6 pp. (Legal 71/8.)
The King's Loan.
[October 26, 1633]. Printed form of a letter under the privy seal requiring from the person intended to be addressed a loan to the King for the purpose of meeting the expenses entailed by the provision of munition for Ireland, the navy and the Crown's forts, for which greater sums of money have been expended than during the past twenty years. A promise is made for the repayment of the sum lent before a day to be named.—Undated.
1 p. (223. 20.)
[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1633–34, p. 259.]
Brigstock.
1633. Map of the parks at Brigstock surveyed by John Hynds for William Cecil, Earl of Salisbury.
1 sheet. (CPM supplementary 41.)
Title Deeds.
1634–35. "An Abstracte of all and singular evidences remaininge in the Evidence house of the right honourable William, Earl of Salisburie, whereby his Lordshipps estate is either derived by descent, purchase or guifte or otherwise confirmed, setled and secured, which evidences were thus digested, collected and written in the yeares of our Lord God 1634 and 1635."
Signed: William Collins, auditor. 210 pp. (363.)
Bermondsey.
[1635 or after]. Survey of the lands of William Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, co. Surrey. According to notes written in Latin within a legend, the acreage of the property was 18 acres and 151 perches in 1616 and 18 acres and 147 perches in 1635.—Undated.
1 sheet. (CPM supplementary 51.)
Christopher Keighley to Robert Crichton.
1637–38, February 20. Before his departure to Newmarket the Earl of Salisbury told him to deal with the matter of the pension of £5 per annum payable to the cathedral of Wells, as to whether it was payable out of the tithe or glebe; and also to discuss the question of the pension due to the Earl from the Dean and Chapter, which had not been paid since the death of Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury. He informs Crichton that Dowthwaite is to contact the Chapter in person about it.
1 p. (General 72/5.)
Peter Theobald to William, Earl of Salisbury.
[? 1638]. He is tenant to Salisbury of eleven acres of pasture land in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, at the rent of £50 per annum, and with free entry to it over an old wall. But by virtue of a former grant from Salisbury to Robert Nicholls, (fn. 1) this entry has been blocked up for the past two years, so that petitioner cannot reach the plot and is likely to be handicapped in the payment of the rent. The wall leased to Nicholls brings in some £3 annually, but the controversy over it has cost in legal charges over £300 to petitioner and other tenants. Until the matter is settled there is likely to be little investment in the improvement of the property. Petitioner has laid out money in this respect, but his former appeals to Salisbury for relief have been ignored. He again requests that he be given the right of free way over the wall to his plot, or, alternatively, that such money be deducted from his rent as will be necessary to reach a solution by composition or legal proceedings.—Undated.
½ p. (P. 646.)
Salisbury Property.
[After August 26, 1639]. Papers relating to the property of the Earl of Salisbury. They consist of a survey of the manor of South Mimms, 1599; lease and subletting of the site of the manor of Hoddesdonbury; valuation of the rectory of Cranborne; a note, in the hand of Robert, Earl of Salisbury, on the proposal of King James I to exchange Crown estates for Theobalds; pricing by arbitration of lands at Enfield and Cheshunt to be enclosed within Theobalds Park, 1607; tithes issuing from lands at Hatfield, 1611; and an inventory of household stuff at Cranborne and the Priory there, dated August 26, 1639.
40 pp. (General 136/2.)
William, Earl of Salisbury to Roger Kirkham.
[Before November 3, 1640]. "The King hath this day resolved of a Parlement (fn. 2) to begin the 3rd of November. I am very desirous to have my sonnes of it which makes me thus timely to give you notise of it to the ende that you may acquaint Mr Keeling and such others of the better sort of Hartford of my desire of theire continuance of theire respects to me and my sonne, which I shall acknowledge with all thankefulnes. I woulde have you presently goe to St Albones and speake with Mr Pemberton and such others as you conceave to be most affectionat to me, and lett them know that I shoulde take it as an expression of theire respects to me if they woulde chose my younger sonne to be one of theire burgeses. If you finde any difficulty in it, give it over and lett there be as little notise of it as may be. I am by the Kings commandement to be a commissioner with 15 other soules, wherof none of the counsell but my Lord of Holland, my Lord of Berkshire and selfe, to treate of an accomodation of this greave busines betwixt us and the Scottes. This will take up so much time as if I should have deferred sending to thease townes till my returne, it may be they mought have an excuse in saying they were ingaged before I sent to them, which now they cannot doe. Lett me heare from you what theire answeare is assoone as conveniently you maie, which is all I have to say to you at this time."—Undated.
Holograph. Endorsed: "To my servant Roger Kirkham."
1 p. (114. 118.)
"The Protestants Protestation."
[September 9, 1641]. "Wheras the Erl of Essex, Bedford, Suffolke, Clare, Warwick, Bullingbrooke and Nuport, the Lord Munaway, Wharton, Paget, Rochefort, St. Johns, Mandeville, Brooke, a packe of half witted Lords having no capacity of being remarkable for any thing in the state but betraying the honour and priviledges of the nobillity under the tutoring of the Lord Say the Anababtiste; together with Pimm, Hambden, Holles, Clatworthy, Haselricke, Martin, Vane the younger, Pennington and Venn, two bankerout citizens, Perd and White, two principall pettifoggers, Vane the secretary and St. Johns the sollissitor, both Judasses, all promiscuously have conspired together against the King, the crowne and posterity, and have subjected our religion to be meerely arbitrary, have prostituted the honour of Ingland, have beggered the nation to inriche the Scottes, have protected the ignorant and the licentious sectaryes and sismatikes to stirr up sedition, to bringe in Athisme, and discountenanced all reverent ministers, and have endeavoured to take away the common prayer booke: Know all the worlde that wee the gentrye, souldiers and all the true protestants doe protest against the foresayde persons as ennemyes to God, traytors to the King, churche and state, and desire this our protestation to be recorded in Parlement, and demand justice against thease incendiaryes of the disaffection betwixt the King and his people, and that they may be forthwith banished the kingedome or to be delivered up to be torne in peeces by the loyall subjects of a religious King whom God preserve from suche conspiratours.
Dated the day of the nine (sic) Lords protestation against the common prayer booke." (fn. 3) —Undated.
In William, Earl of Salisbury's hand. 1¼ pp. (140. 241.)
Arthur Strangeways to the King and the House of Lords.
[Before 1642]. William, Earl of Salisbury, has owed petitioner £223 for the last four years for beer supplied to him. Despite many requests for the money, he has only been paid £60. Since he cannot bring an action against the Earl, the latter being a peer of the realm, he asks that the House summon Salisbury before it and take some measure for the debt to be discharged.—Undated.
Endorsed in Keighley's hand: "Mr Strangewayes petition to the House of Parliament." (fn. 4) ½ p. (P. 1819.)
Accounts.
1643, November 20 to 1644, Michaelmas. Accounts compiled by Christopher Budden for Damerham coppices, etc. Inter alia:
Contribution to Sir Vaughan at 8s 3d the wicke for 7 wickes. 2 17 9
Paid a rate that was made for a troope horse and for taking off cartes that was to goe to Winchester. 0 9 0
Ffor billettinge 6 men for 2 meales put upon mee for the copices. 0 6 0
Ffor 2 horses put upon me for the copices, being forth in service at Weymouth for 5 daies. 0 12 0
Ffor quartering 4 men and 4 horses of Colonell Graves companie. 3 0 0
Paid a quarter rate for provision to Shaston. 0 2 3
Paid a whole rate for provision sent for to Burford. 0 9 0
Ffor quartering 16 men and 16 horse of Lord Wintworths companie. 1 6 8
For 2 horse and a man being forth in service for 14 daies at Newbery. 1 1 0
Paid a quarter rate to Colonell Sturges for oats. 0 2 3
For a bushell of peese that was caried to Compton. 0 2 6
For a bushell of oates to Whitsbery. 0 1 6
Paid to Colonell Johnson towards the raising of 151 in Damerham. 0 12 0
Paid to Comissarie Jey whilest his Maties fforces laie in Sarum for contribution. 3 8 3
For quartering 10 men and 10 horse of Lord Goorings companie. 2 0 0
Paid halfe a rate to Sir Waller in oats to Sarum. 0 4 6
Paid a quarter rate to Harnam in oates. 0 2 3
I was caried awaie prisoner by Lord Goorings companie by Capitaine Padden for rent for the copices; it cost mee before I could be released. 0 13 0
Ffor quartering 5 men and 5 horse of Lt. Generall Crummells companie. 1 5 0
Ffor 2 horse and a man being forth in service for 5 daies to helpe drawe the guns to Weymouth. 0 15 0
For quartering 2 men and 2 horse of Colonell Ludlowes companie. 0 10 0
Ffor a man and horse being forth for 8 daies for the copices in service as far as Bridgwater. 0 8 0
Paid to Langford for the copices contribution. 1 6 6
Paid to Halson for the copices contribution. 2 14 6
Endorsed: "Christopher Budden his accompt for Damerham copices" and "These rates and contributions are affirmed to be assessed on the woods and coppice by the parish." 2 pp. (Bills 254/8.)
Lawrence Maydwell, John Negus, Robert Howe, William Sturges, Andrew Humphreys, Nicholas Brigstock, Thomas Taylor, John Clithero, Matthew Desborough, senior and junior, Thomas Watkinson, Thomas Julian, Thomas Batts, William Fetch, Simon Shaw, widow Stanyan, William Cooper, Henry Edes, William Palmer and Thomas Browne to William, Earl of Salisbury.
[?1644–45]. They are the tenants of several grounds in Brigstock Park, which they formerly leased at high rates "out of hopes of better tymes". But their rents have become so burdensome that they can no longer pay them. They have attempted to implement their covenants with Salisbury but some of them, because of their failure to discharge their obligations, have had their cattle distrained by his bailiffs. They ask that their rents be abated by 3s 4d per acre, or that Salisbury release them from their leases and take the grounds into his hands again.—Undated.
½ p. (P. 2071.) Endorsed: Jackson, 1642, 1643.
[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XXII, p. 384.]
Mathias Barry to William Collins.
1645, April 22. He discusses estate matters, in particular the difficulties of the tenants in meeting their rents and arrears. "The tenants are yet able to pay a good proportion if any had autoritye to receive it before their losses be greater, which may bee by the enemie if they prevayle any thing with us. If you please to appointe Mr Haddon, who is with us at the garrison, or any other to be a little sharper in their demands, money may be got. I shalbee ready to serve you or assist any other for the gayning of what may be gotten for my lord and to procure what abaitment may be for the encouragement of the tenants to continue, for I heare others are ready to leave their farmes and slip away." He refers to the sheriff's commission which is in his brother's hands. "Mr Haddon tells me in the writing of this that the enemie are sequestring the estate, therefore it behoves you to bee speedy in what you do."—Burleigh.
Holograph. Seal. Endorsed: "Capt. Barry for Essendine."
Addressed: "To my worthy freind Mr William Collins, one of the Comittee for accompts." 1 p. (General 26/16.)
Christopher Keighley to Mr Haddon.
[?c. 1645]. He is sorry to hear of complaints against him as to Milne Green which it was thought he would have allowed to be open every third year, since next to it there is a common into which the Earl of Salisbury's tenants cannot drive or carry anything without causing Haddon damage. He advises him again not to act so inconsiderately towards his neighbours, but to allow Milne Green to lie open every third year without further trouble or molestation, in case the Earl takes it up as a serious matter, to his (Haddon's) prejudice.—Undated.
Draft in Keighley's hand. ½ p. (General 75/32.)
Nicholas Jackson to —.
1645, August 4. He has been to Essendine and distrained some more cattle which he has brought to Brigstock. Those tenants at Essendine who have agreed for leases, are to receive an abatement of one-third of their rents for the past two years, and are to pay full rent for the third year, according to Collins's directions. "Those tennants that are gon out of the towne I have agreed with other tennants to take theare lands, haveing the third parte abated, they paying all the taxes for the lands. Bewer (fn. 5) fforces doe rage greatly. They have fetched in to theare garrison 150 men of the best abeellity in the country for tax. They have charged uppon all the townes tenn or twelve milles aboute them, and charged them att great soms of money." Brigstock.
Holograph. 1 p. (General 90/18.)
Robert Morgan to William Collins.
1645, August 20. He discusses Somerset estate problems, and refers to certain difficulties with the tenants who are "a company of atheisticall clownes and all malignants or neuters". They allege that they had paid 2 years' rent to Ben Harrington, Sir Ralph Hopton's bailiff, and their cattle have been distrained for it. They refuse to pay their tithes "unlesse I would first undertake with them that in case the Kings partie should in the interim compell them to pay for the tithes, then they should not pay yt agayne to my Lord, and this I was enforced to undertake under my hand." It has taken him a month to arrive at this agreement, which was advantageous to the Earl of Salisbury, "for yf I should have hired men to have gathered yt, the poore which had all the last yeare would have had halfe at least now, and horses are not to bee had (the Cavaliers havinge lately taken all away), so that the charge would have eaten upp the profit. Besides the plague is very hote in the parishes therefore dangerous to come amongst them, and the fields are very much spoyled by Gorings army which lay there 3 or 4 dayes in May last." He has demanded money long due from the farmers and they complain that they have been improverished by the King's forces, who have taken away their corn and subjected them to contributions and free quarters. One of the farmers, John Jeanes, was imprisoned by Harrington and forced to give bonds for £100. "My Lords tennants of Martocke tell mee that the rent hath beene demaunded of them by a gent in Sir Tho. Fairfax his army for my Lord. Pray lett mee know whither you or any else have gyven order to any to demaunde yt." Any directions to him should be conveyed in a letter which would be forwarded by "my landlord Henry Jenkins at the 3 Ffoxes above New Inne". He hopes to be able to give an account shortly of Pensford, "for our army is now going ag[ainst] Bristoll and wee have great hopes of gayninge that place in short tyme". He also hopes to be in Bath next week where he will meet Mr Ruddock.—Bridgwater.
Holograph. 1¼ pp. (General 90/17.)
Cranborne House.
[1646–47]. Plans of Cranborne House, co. Dorset, connected with the rebuilding and restoration of the mansion after the Civil War. These are:
(1) A plan of the house and grounds by Thomas Forte, surveyor, who was paid on April 3, 1646 for surveying "the ruines and decay of the mannor house." (See Bills 254/3).
(2) Five plans of the house with descriptions of the various rooms and notes in the hand of Thomas Hooper. (See Bills and Accounts for 1647 for references to payments relating to the renovation of the old, and erection of the new, parts of the house.)
(3) A plan with a marginal note, possibly in the hand of Samuel Stillingfleet, bailiff of Cranborne. (See his letters— General 3/4 and 72/19.)—Undated.
6 sheets. (CPM supplementary 70 a, b, c.)
Anne Segar to William, Earl of Salisbury.
[Before May 10, 1647]. She is the wife of Thomas Segar, and has been Salisbury's tenant in Britain's Burse for 18 years, ten of them in a house above stairs, for which she paid a fine of £20 and obtained a lease for 21 years. She also spent £30 in making the place habitable. Salisbury, however, pulled the house down and petitioner was refunded only half her fine. Despite this she leased a quarter of the ground on which the house had stood, and built a shop at her own expense in order to provide herself with a means of livelihood. But for the past four years the shop has remained empty owing to the present civil troubles and want of trade, so that she is in arrears with her rent. She has been offered a fine of £10 for the shop by a reputable tenant, and begs Salisbury to take it in satisfaction of her arrears and to accept the tenant also; or alternatively to take the shop back into his hands.—Undated.
At bottom: "Mr Hamond will take the shop at vil the old rent and xl fine." (fn. 6)
1 p. (P. 710.)
Thomas Cornig to Robert Lord.
1647, October 19. He explains that his reason for not answering Lord's letter was that he could not find anything in which to invest the latter's money. "In theis parts there is not any thinge to bee sold other then the Nuns farme which Mr Rosse intends to parte withall (as he tells me), and the price wilbee about 10001, nor would I advise you to medle therewith seeinge there is noe hopes of a future terme from the howse of Exeter." He advises Lord not to abate the rent of his tenant at Bayton, "corne bearinge soe great a rate". He and his wife send their best wishes to Mrs Lord who is expecting a child. "My wife sayes she retaynes some of deepinge fertilitie."—Deep.
Holograph. ¾ p. (General 90/23.)
Maidstone College.
1647. A description and valuation of the buildings and lands which are to be leased from Michaelmas, 1648, on certain conditions which are tabulated.
1 p. (145. 155.)
Accounts.
[January 15, 1648–9]. A bill for books, mostly Diurnal, Moderate Intelligence, etc, but also including the following:
Bookers Almanacke 0 0 3
Wings Predictions 0 0 4
The Agrement of the People 0 0 2
Lyllys Almanacke 0 0 6
Ashursts Answer to the People's Agrement 0 0 3
Smetius 0 2 4
Greeke Testament 0 2 6
Lucius Florus 0 0 10
For Mr Edward (Cecil) Greeke Grammar 0 1 4
Posselius Dialogue 0 0 9
Quarles Emblems 0 4 6
Virgill 0 1 6
Farnabys Phrases 0 0 10
Prynnes Protestation 0 0 1
Pragmaticus 0 0 2
Primus memento 0 0 2
List of them that try the King 0 0 1
Proclamation against malignants 0 0 2
Endorsed: "15 January 1648. Mrs Perryes bill." 1 p. (Bills 254.)
At bottom: Receipt signed by Katherine Perry.
Accounts.
1648, October to 1649, October. Expenses incurred by William Cecil during his sojourn in France, where he was attended on by Freher who discharged the bills. Many people were entertained by Cecil, amongst them Forbenius, Dupuis, le Syndicq Godefroy, Rosencrantz and Creutsmar.
French. 18 pp. (Bills 254/12.)
King's College, Cambridge.
[temp. Charles I]. A list of revenues accruing to the College, with notes on reverse.—Undated.
In Christopher Keighley's hand. Endorsed: "Monies of Kings Colledge." 1 p. (200. 173.)
Verses.
[temp. Charles I].—Eighteen verses on political subject, beginning:
"But will yow now to peace encline
And languish in the maine designe,
And leave us in the lurch;
I would not Monarchy distroy
But onely as the way t'enjoy
The ruines of the Church."
and ending:
"Then let us stay and fight and vote,
Till London bee not worth a groate,
Oh, tis a patient beast.
When we have gall'd and tir'd that mule,
And can noe longer have the rule,
Wee'le have the spoyle at least."
3 pp. (140. 128.)
Duchy of Lancaster.
[temp. Charles I].—Details of the deceit practised upon the late King James I in the matter of a grant of manors belonging to the Duchy of Lancaster, whereby the Chancellor of the Duchy was able to derive considerable financial benefit for himself.—Undated.
Endorsed: "For his Maties service." 1 p. (197. 96.)
Henry Percy to William, Earl of Salisbury.
[temp. Charles I] August 30.—"Hearing this day by Henry Jermyn that your Lordship was gonne to Hatfeild, I could not but trouble your Lordship with these fewe lines, which can tell you nothing but that I am your most faithfull servant. When you know this it can be of litle advantage to you, but I comfort my selfe when I consider that there is not any man so miserable but att some tyme or other he may be servicable." Sion.
P.S. "My brother remembers his service to your Lordship."
Holograph. Seal. 1 p. (200. 40.)
Verses.
[? temp. Charles I].—
Begin: "Shall I, my worthy friend, despair or think A man in youth given o'er to lust and drink."
End: "What should I say? To lie it were a folly, They drank for sport, I to drown melancholy."
"Duke Tirwhytt"; "Uncle Robert"; "Will. Sanderson"; "learned Sheldon"; "honest Balchin"; "my fellow Forrest"; "the Rose in Hitchin"; "young Spenser"; "Frank Rogers"; chaplain Marshall"; (fn. 7) "my fellow Whitaker" mentioned in these verses.—Undated.
2½ pp. (233. 11.)
Edward Pillesworthe to—.
1650, September 5. He will carry out the instructions which he has received from him. He discusses certain rents and describes his method of dealing with one Smith. "I doubt not but I shall deale well enough with him, nowe his wife and maide are both gone. I have caused Davy and Rallphe to lodge in the lowe roome next the yarde dore under his chamber, which I perceive is not very pleasing unto him. So that nowe hee cannot stirre out but they must knowe it. As for the day time wee feare him not. I have allso nailed upp some of Maries out ladgings and locked them besides, and keepe all keyes every night in my chamber, which is next to your honors lodginge over the pantry. All places about the howse are as secure as I canne possibly device to make them, and wee are reasonable well provided with weapons of defence." He refers to the illness of Mr Watts which almost proved fatal, but who has now recovered and "is in a faire possibility to see Westmynster hall once againe the next tearme. His disease (as some report) was a deepe surfett at the first, which turned to a pestilential ffeaver.
"I had a coppy of a warrant shewed mee on Tuesday night last by the high constable of Godliminge hundred in this county from the Commissioners of the Militia for Surrey, wherein my Lord is charged with two light horses to appeare on Munday morninge next at Ripley by nine of the clocke with two able riders uppon them, eache armed with brest plate and backe, a case of pistolls and a good sworde." In view of "my Lord's" absence and the shortness of the summons, he has tried to delay matters by appeals to Mr Purser, one of the Commissioners, and Mr Justice Westbrooke, of Godalming, "whoe is the Captaine under whom they are to serve".—Guillford.
Holograph. Endorsed: "Lady Cranborns paper." 1½ pp. (General 27/31.)
The Royal Pardon.
1660, July 18. The Royal Pardon granted to William, Earl of Salisbury, which also restores to him all lands forfeited for offences mentioned and freedom from suits, fines, etc. Exception is made of offences committed against the Act of November 3, 1640, for reducing the rebels in Ireland, and the Act of Elizabeth 27 against Jesuits, seminary priests and other disobedient persons, as well as certain other offences.
1 p. (Deeds 26/2.)
Grant.
1660, November 30. Henry Cotton, then Bishop of Salisbury, granted the office known as Bishop's Clerk's Office within the city of Salisbury, to Robert, Earl of Salisbury, and William, his son, on December 8, 1611, together with all the issues and profits pertaining to it, as well as an annuity of £4:13:4. William, Earl of Salisbury, now grants this same office with its emoluments to Francis Sambrooke, of Salisbury.
Latin. 1½ pp. (132. 2.)
Grant.
1661, August 1. Grant by Humphrey Henchman, Bishop of Salisbury, to William, Earl of Salisbury, and James Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, of the office known as Bishop's Clerk's office within the city of Salisbury, with the fees, profits and emoluments pertaining to it, together with an annuity of £4: 13: 4 and the right to recover any arrears of the same.—Salisbury.
Latin. 1½ pp. (132. 1.)
Bermondsey.
[? 1667]. Three plans of the property of William, Earl of Salisbury, in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, co. Surrey.
(1) Map of buildings, warehouses and wharfs along the banks of the River Thames. The names of the occupiers are given, and they include Banister, Gibbs, Carter, Knight, Gascoigne and Goldsmith. —Undated. (General 136/4.)
(2) Map of the same without names, drawn by Christopher Keighley, Receiver-General to the Earl of Salisbury.—Undated. Endorsed: "The plott. Redereth." (General 62/7.)
(3) Map with detailed drawing of Lady Croft and Cherry Garden properties. It is almost identical with the map attached to Legal 109/6.—Undated. (Legal 116/11.)
The names of the owners in Map 1 appear in a legal document (Legal 109/6) which contains papers relating to the legal proceedings between John Gibbs and Charles Kirby as to lands in St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, in 1667.
3 sheets. (CPM supplementary 51a.)
The Earl of Rutland to William, Earl of Salisbury.
[1668 or before] June 27. "Your sonne telling mee you please to sende mee the faunes, I make boulde to sende for them, and I hope you will doe mee the honneur heerafter to eate of their yssue in Darbysheir."—Beauvoir.
Holograph. Seal. ½ p. (200. 137.)
Viscount Cranborne to Viscountess Cranborne.
[1668 or before] June 28. "My troublesome bussinesse wich drove mee from you gives mee one common beginning to all my letters, that I wasse impatient even from that minute I leffte you to have the happinesse to see you againe. And as it is the oneley satisfaction I can immagine to my selfe at this distance to writte to you, soe I shall finde more contentement in one letter from you then I can possible finde trouble if I lost all in this counterey, for that sorrow cannot bee unhappy wich heath you for a comforter." He sends his respects to the Earl and Countess of Salisbury and to Lady Betty.
Holograph. 1 p. (200. 149.)
Viscount Cranborne to Viscountess Cranborne.
[1668 or before] September 12. "The sad newes of the childs death I hard before I receved your letter by one from my Lord Devenshire to his wife. Yours came to my hands tow or three dayes after the post. I shall not tell you what a trouble it wasse to me. It will be but to increase yours wich I beelive wasse suffitient anought." Wishes her a safe journey when she comes to him shortly.
Holograph. 1 p. (200. 143.)
Viscount Cranborne to Viscountess Cranborne.
[Before December 4, 1668]. "According to my promisse, I write to you though I have nothing to say but what I have often, and what you seeme still to doubt off, that I love you above all things in this world, wich is a very great truth, and you will disoblige me if you question it any more." (fn. 8) —Undated.
Holograph. 1 p. (200. 147.)
Viscount Cranborne to Viscountess Cranborne.
[Before December 4, 1668]. "It is unpossible to expresse that wich I teake the greatest delight in the world, wich is to love you above all things, and certanley I am obliged to doe it; you doe expresse soe great kindnesse to mee everey day that I am uneable to requite it, oneley must admier you for your verteu and love you for that sweetnesse that nobodey is capable off but your selfe." He has written to the Earl of Salisbury about his affairs.—Undated.
Holograph. 1 p. (200. 151.)
The Countess of Rutland to William, Earl of Salisbury.
[Before December 4, 1668]. "How shall I aquitt my selfe to you for these transcendent oblidging expressions in simpathie with me, compassion to my childe. Accept, I humbly beseech your Lordshipe, of the deepest thankes a gratefull soule is capable, and beleeve I impatiently attend some worthey action to evidence it higher. Ever praises to God, I can now say my hopes are greater then feares and, my lord, this subject of your care and good graces is bound (and will I doubt not) with her life [to] honour and perfectly obey you as shall affectionately serve your noble selfe, excellent lady and relations."—Undated.
Holograph. Seal. 2 pp. (200. 60.)
The Countess of Rutland to William, Earl of Salisbury.
[Before December 4, 1668]. "So vast are mine and daughters obligations for your repeated favours that by this most noble hand I presume to offer one mite thus towards my just debt, waiting some higher demonstration. The condission of her your Lordships goodnes hath made your creatur, I leave to him who like you hath infinitly oblidged both me and her."—Undated.
Holograph. 1½ pp. (200. 63.)
The Earl of Rutland to William, Earl of Salisbury.
[Before December 4, 1668]. "Wee are all bounde even beyonde obligation therfore, certainely beyonde expression of thanckes. My future actions whyles I live shall doe nothing but expresse my desirs of beeing serviceable. Therfore, you can laye noe command on me which chearfully and readdely I embrasse not."—Undated.
Holograph. Seal. ½ p. (200. 70.)
The Earl of Rutland to William, Earl of Salisbury.
[Before December 4, 1668]. "I am the worse in the worlde at wordes, and I hadd rather doe you service then saye my desirs to itt. The hart setts the hande on worke, therfore must needs bee the more prompt and readdye. When ever you honore mee with your commands, you will then see thear is noe greater truth."— Undated.
Holograph. Seal. ½ p. (200. 73.)
John Grandorge, Thomas Southorne, William Gibbons, Thomas Constable and Josias Ffendall to William, Earl of Salisbury.
[Before December 4, 1668]. They are all tenants in Britain's Burse. Salisbury has seen fit to allow certain orders to be made for the improvement of the Burse. Petitioners inform him that a number of individuals have privately monopolised the orders without the consent of the other tenants. If they are permitted to exercise the necessary authority to implement the orders, there is a danger that they may exploit them for their own private ends and to the prejudice of other tenants, "for that they goe abowte to debarr your petitioners from selling those commodities which rightly do belong and appertayne to their severall trades and are likewise used by the shop keepers of the exchange in London, whoe have libertie to trade in anie commodities". Petitioners ask that the orders be entrusted to more impartial people chosen by the general assent of the Burse.—Undated.
½ p. (P. 1763.)
Edward Payne and Michael Vincent to [? William, Earl of Salisbury].
[Before December 4, 1668]. They request that he accept certain sums of money for the remainder of their rent because of the losses they have sustained.—Undated.
Note in Keighley's hand: Regarding a lease.
1 p. (P. 1760.)
John Carter to William, Earl of Salisbury.
[Before December 4, 1668]. He has been bailiff of Hatfield market for thirty years or so. Recently, being in arrears with his rent, he was evicted from that office by Salisbury's servants without any warning. He wishes to point out that he has never had any allowance for strays which he has impounded for Salisbury's use, although the proclamation of such strays in three markets as well as their valuation has cost him money. He has now paid all arrears except four pounds "which if your Honor require at his hands he is no way able to pay, he being 70 and his wife 80 yeares of age, and she for the most parte lies bedridd, and have little to maintaine themselves in their age." He begs that in the light of this explanation Salisbury will remit the debt.—Undated.
1 p. (P. 645.)
John Rowe to William, Earl of Salisbury.
[Before December 4, 1668]. He is a prisoner in Ludgate. His son took a shop in Britain's Burse and incurred a debt of £13:2: 6 for arrears of rent. Petitioner engaged himself for the payment of the debt, of which almost half has been discharged. He is no longer able to pay the residue because of his reduced circumstances, and Mr Ketley [Keighley], Salisbury's "rentgatherer" has attached all the goods in his shop. He asks that he be given some reasonable time to liquidate the debt, the more so as it has been incurred by his son who is guilty of ruining him.—Undated.
½ p. (P. 1742.)
Benjamin Copley to William, Earl of Salisbury.
[Before December 4, 1668]. Eight years ago he leased a shop in the New Exchange at £6 per annum, paid a fine for the lease, and spent £20 in fitting out the shop. The shop has remained unprofitable and tenantless, but he has regularly paid the rent until recently. Since the beginning of the recent troubles in the kingdom, he has not been able to do so because of the decay of trade, heavy taxes and other reasons. Salisbury was considerate enough to refrain from pressing for payment of arrears at first, but now he has sued petitioner who is faced with ruin. Inasmuch as he has had no profit from the shop and is a victim of the hard times consequent upon civil strife, he asks Salisbury either to reduce the sum due for arrears of rent or to take the lease of the shop back into his hands.—Undated.
¾ p. (P. 572.)
George Franklyn to William, Earl of Salisbury.
[Before December 4, 1668]. A year ago Salisbury commenced a suit against him for arrears of rent, and petitioner addressed him a petition in which he explained that he had disbursed money on fitting up the shop, of which he was tenant, and paying a fine for the lease. He had received no benefit from the shop and was hard pressed to maintain his wife and five children. Salisbury had taken these circumstances into consideration, and the matter had been allowed to drop. He now understands from Mr Pomeroy that Salisbury intends to proceed in the suit, which is bound to lead to his utter ruin since his arrears have increased and his means become more tenuous in the interval. He requests Salisbury not to prosecute the suit, but rather to remit all debts and receive the shop into his hands once again.—Undated.
½ p. (P. 569.)
George Franklin to William, Earl of Salisbury.
[Before December 4, 1668]. He is a tenant of one of the shops at the New Exchange. Two years ago, in Easter term, Salisbury instituted proceedings against him for arrears of rent. He had informed Salisbury of the money he had disbursed to fit up the shop and to pay a fine for the lease. Salisbury had taken all these facts into consideration, and had not pursued the matter any further. Petitioner had wished to surrender the shop and is still desirous of doing so. Now he has been given to understand by Mr Pomeroy that Salisbury intends to proceed with the action. He has been seriously ill, and has had to sell his goods to meet medical charges, besides being unable to attend on Salisbury to beg him to discontinue the suit.—Undated.
1 p. (P. 493.)
George Franklin to William, Earl of Salisbury.
[Before December 4, 1668]. He is tenant of a shop in the New Exchange. When he took over the lease of the building, he paid a fine of £50. Later, owing to a recession in trade, he refrained from taking up the shop and failed to find someone else to replace him, whereby he found himself in arrears with his rent. Salisbury has since sued him and obtained judgment against him. Petitioner has informed Salisbury on many occasions of his straitened circumstances, and that he has had to absent himself from his work because of the threat to put the judgment into execution. He asks that all arrears of rent be remitted, the suit withdrawn, and the shop taken back into Salisbury's possession.—Undated.
½ p. (P. 377.)
John Drapps to William, Earl of Salisbury
[Before December 4, 1668]. He is of Newport Pagnell, and declares that Anne Barnes, deceased, also of that place, was in her lifetime seised of a shop or stall in the town of Hoddesdon according to the customs of the manor of that name. When she died unmarried, she verbally and in the presence of witnesses bequeathed the shop to petitioner who is her natural brother by her mother. But the shop has escheated to the Earl of Salisbury according to manorial custom. Petitioner adds that he has defrayed the expenses of the said Anne during her illness, and those which she incurred when she was admitted as tenant of the shop, and has spent much money in repairing the premises. He requests that he be admitted tenant by Salisbury.—Undated.
¾ p. (P. 1728.)
Bermondsey.
[Before December 4, 1668]. "A particular of damages sustayned by the right honnorable William, Earle of Salisburie, out of his Lordshipps lands att Bermondsey in the countie of Surrey, by reason of the ffort and brestworks and by cuttinge the bancks which overflowed the grounds and made them divers monethes togeather uselesse, as ffolloweth:
Allowance given Mr Sewell his Lordshipps tennants out of there rents att the request of the Comittee of ffortifycations as appeares by cirtifficate under 7 of their hands. 306 1 6
Damages sustayned by his Lordshipp for the losse of seaven acres whereon the ffort and brestworks were built, beinge formerly lett at 2–13–4 the acre for 6 yeares. 96 0 0
Damages sustayned by his Lordshipp by ffellinge downe about 200 great elmes. 30 0 0
Ffor cuttinge downe the willowes and spoylinge the ffences of about 200 acres of ground. 30 0 0
The leavylinge the ground whereon the ffort and brestworks were built and makeing the ffences with out which the ground is uselesse will not be undertaken under 66 13 4
Totall 528 14 10
Signed: John Pomeray. Endorsed: "A particuler of the damages susteyned by the ffortification at Bermondsey." 1 p. (Accounts 118/4.)
The House of Lords.
[temp. Charles II]. Rules affecting such matters as: the order of sitting in the House; the conduct of the Lord Chancellor and the Judges, the procedures to be observed as regards the debating of bills, the appointment of committees, and meetings with the House of Commons; the strict adherence to the dignities and privileges of the House, etc.—Undated.
5 pp. (140. 259.)

Footnotes

  • 1. Salisbury's grant to Nicholls was dated September 10, 1636. [See CP. Deeds 218/7.]
  • 2. The Long Parliament was summoned to meet on November 3, 1640.
  • 3. For the protestation and the names of the six Lords who supported it, see Journals of the House of Lords, Vol. IV, 1628–1642, p. 395.
  • 4. Charles I left London to organize military opposition to Parliament on January 10, 1642.
  • 5. Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire.
  • 6. A contract for the leasing of the shop was signed between the Earl of Salisbury and Thomas Hammond on May 10, 1647. [See Deeds 75/16a.]
  • 7. Possibly a reference to George Marshall, formerly of St. John's College, Cambridge, who was chaplain to the Parliamentary garrison in Oxford.
  • 8. William, Earl of Salisbury, died on December 4, 1668, and was succeeded by his grandson James Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, as 3rd Earl of Salisbury.
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