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1. Paper, in the handwriting of Attorney General Heath, entitled
"Remembrances for the King's service at my going to Court." It
relates to modes of increasing the revenue by 150,000l. per annum,
"as much as two subsidies," by letting the lands of recusants,
laying a tax on foreign fisheries, making new arrangements respecting
madder, Virginia tobacco, the manufacture of soap, draining the
fens, and disafforesting distant forests. |
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2. Suggestions for improvement of the revenue of the Court of
Wards, principally by securing faithful certificates from feodaries. |
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3. Henry Clifford to Buckingham. To hope any longer for remedy
for the King's necessities from Parliament is to expect a physician
after death. The writer suggests, that the King's wants should
be supplied, by taking into his hands the property of those who
profess readiness to supply the King but dissemble as to their means. |
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4. Names of Commissioners for the Loan for the County of York. |
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5. Names of Commissioners for the Loan who attended meetings
in the several divisions of co. Gloucester. |
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6. Metcalf Alington to Sir Robert Killigrew. Reports the result
of his collection of the loan in the Tower Division, co. Middlesex. |
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7. Names of those who refused to pay the loan in cos. Essex and
Cambridge. |
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8. List, certified by Wm. Jermyn, collector, of persons dwelling
within the liberty of Havering-atte-Bower, co. Essex, who had not
paid their loan money. |
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9. Names of collectors [for the loan] in the Counties of Worcester,
Salop, Hereford, Radnor, Flint, Denbigh, Cardigan, Brecon, Merioneth,
Carnarvon, Carmarthen, and Gloucester. |
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10. Certificate of the Commissioners of co. Kent for the Loan, that
John Orwell, James Cripps, and John Childe, who had been sent
for by Council warrant, were conformable, and had given assurance
to pay their money. |
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11. Names of persons who refused to pay the loan in co. Leicester. |
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12. Similar list for the hundred of Goodlaxton, co. Leicester, with
the amounts. |
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13. List of persons in London who refused to contribute to the
Loan, with the sums assessed, and their excuses. |
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14. Wm. Humphrey, Collector of the Loan for St. Albans, to the
Council. Had applied thrice to every person assessed, but not finding
a penny to come from any of them he returned their names, amounts
demanded, and answers; total sum demanded 168l. 13s. 4d. |
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15. Statement of the circumstances under which the widow of
Daniel Spalding, of Brodish, co. Norfolk, brought an action against
Reginald Shuckforth, collector of the loan, for dragging her out of
her house to compel her to pay the loan of 10l. assessed upon her
late husband; for bringing which action her attorney was ordered to
attend the Council. |
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16. Copy of the preceding. |
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17. Note that John, Edward, and Samuel Symons had subscribed
and paid the loan in co. Essex. |
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18. John Wooddeson, one of his Majesty's servants in his chapel,
to the Council. Desires that the 40s. to which he was assessed to the
loan in New Windsor may be deducted out of his wages at Court. |
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19. General heads of a Commission for Trade; with list of Commissioners, including Sir Thos. Savage and seventeen others, and underwritten direction to the Attorney General to draw up the Commission. |
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20. Instructions explaining more particularly the design and
objects of an intended Commission for Trade. |
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21. Precedents of beer-brewers indicted at Norwich for selling
beer at prices above those set within that city. |
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22. Proposal for securing the manufacture of cloth to be all of a
goodness, by the establishment of a hall where every man should
bring his wares to be viewed and sealed. |
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23. Anonymous petition to the King:—The petitioner prays that
he may be authorized to appoint persons to search and try whether
cloth and stuffs are truly dyed. |
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24. Considerations on the balance of commerce and the mode of
maintaining the same, with a proposal for equalising the values of
gold and silver, by making contracts and payments by weight, and
not by number. |
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25. Commissioners of Trade to —. The King having appointed them, with four of the Council, to examine into a charge
against the Farmers of the Customs of taking excessive duties on perpetuanoes and serges, and commanded Walter Morrell to attend them
for their better information, they certify those who have benefited
by his labours that it is reasonable they should reward his services. |
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26. The Farmers of his Majesty's Customs and Subsidies to all
Mayors and other Officers. To give assistance to Humanitus Mayo,
one of the Messengers of the Chamber and Deputy Searcher for
London and all other ports. [Unsigned.] |
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27. Minute, by Sec. Coke, of a proposal for erection of a corporation
for exercising the trade of eel-fishing, then altogether in the hands
of the Hollanders, who sell yearly in England eels of the value of
20,000l., and employ in the said trade 300 persons here and in the
waters of Denmark. |
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28. Anonymous petition to the Council:—The petitioner prays
attention to a statement of the abuses sought to be reformed by the
proposed incorporation of the Thames fishermen. Annexed, |
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28. i. Statement of various abuses before mentioned. |
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29. Proposition of — More for the better ordering of tradesmen, artificers, journeymen, and apprentices, by issuing a commission
to sue forth pardons for such as will compound for the offence of
not enrolling their indentures of apprenticeship, and erecting an
office for enrolling the same for the future. |
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30. Special advertisement of the advantages which accrue to
England from the trade with France, and the peculiar disadvantages
to our trade likely to arise from a war with that country. |
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31. Note of goods, the production of France, prohibited to be
brought into England. |
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32. Petition of the Muscovia Company trading in Greenland to
the King:— In 1618 the petitioners, fishing in their harbours in
Greenland, were surprised by the Hollanders and their whole voyage
overthrown, to their loss of 50,000l.; the late King, in 1619,
declared his pleasure that the Hollanders should within three months
pay 22,000l., the remainder being respited for three years; this
sum not having been paid the petitioners solicit redress. |
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33. Deduction of the right of the King of England to Greenland;
a brief narrative of the discovery of that country, and of the acts
done by the late King to vindicate the English right thereto against
the claim of the Dutch. |
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34. Prices of packets sent by express messengers, and also rates
of postage of single letters for his Majesty's service, to and from the
principal cities of Europe; certified by Matthew de Quester. The
charge for the packets runs from 7l., being the charge to the Hague,
to 10l., the charge to Brussels or Paris, and 60l., the charge to Vienna.
For a single packet or letter to any of the above-mentioned places
the charge was 30s., except to or from any part of Germany, for
which it was 6s. |
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35. Statement, by Matthew de Quester, of the charge of postage of
single letters from Venice, formerly 16d., then 9d., and packets
2s. 8d., and from Leghorn and Florence, 3s. per ounce, and 1s. for
a single letter. |
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36. Note, by the same, of the several grants to himself and his
sons, constituting them Postmasters General for all parts beyond seas. |
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37. Names of woolowners and persons in Hertfordshire, Berkshire, and Cambridgeshire to be sent for "about contribution." |
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38. Proposal for preventing the exportation of wool and money,
by establishing a register of all wool grown, and of what becomes
thereof, and also of all payments of money. |
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39. Petition of George Read to the Council:—Having been stayed
from proceeding with a building in Baldwin's Gardens, on the supposition that it was upon a new foundation, he sends a certificate
to the contrary, and prays that he may be allowed to finish his
building. Annexed, |
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39. i. Certificate of William Atkinson and sixteen others to the
effect above stated. |
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40. Names of the Lord Lieut., Deputy Lieuts., and various Knights
of co. Berks; a list prepared after 18th August 1626, with a view to
the issuing of some Commission. |
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41. Extracts from the episcopal and archidiaconal registers of
Norwich of institutions and inductions into the churches of Castle
Rising, Ridon or Roydon, North Wotton and South Wotton, in co.
Norfolk. |
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42. Similar extracts from the registers of Archbishops Grindal,
Whitgift, Bancroft, and Abbot. |
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43. Extract from a book bearing date A.D. 1368, remaining in the
register of the Archdeacon of Norwich, respecting the value of the
four livings above mentioned. |
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44. Minute of petition to the King, to move the Dean and Chapter
of Canterbury that if none of the prebends are fit for St. Dionys
Back Church, in Fenchurch Street, they will nominate John Jones,
Bachelor of Divinity. |
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45. Petition of inhabitants of the Forest of Dean, co. Gloucester, to
the same:— Set forth great abuses practised in the Forest which have
recently led to a sudden commotion of the meaner sort; pray for a
commission to gentlemen of the county to examine the offenders;
they petitioned to the same effect about Midsummer last, and this
is the fourth time since. |
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46.— Lamplugh to Sec. Conway, Lord Lieut. of Hants. Having
a grant made by the late King for collection of 1d. per ton on every
ship that passes Dungeness light, he begs Lord Conway to order
the Captain of Cowes Castle to collect the same from ships belonging
to the Isle of Wight, as was done by Capt. Keeling in the late Lord
Southampton's time. |
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47. Certificate of names, descriptions, and residences of all foreign
strangers residing within the county of Middlesex. In Grub Street
occurs Lucius Frerra, an Italian preacher; in Whitecross Street,
Daniel Alman, a painter; in St. John Street, Matthias Lee, a Dutchman, a poet; in the Duchy Liberty in the Strand, Monsieur Duche,
a picture drawer; in the district of Drury Lane, Queen Street, and
Prince's Street, Hubert Laseur, a picture drawer. The whole number
is 291. |
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48. Extracts from the Pipe Rolls relating to the forest of Morff, co.
Salop. |
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49. Minute of the desire of Mr. Comptroller [Sir John Suckling]
that the business of the patent lately obtained by the Dean of Norwich respecting his deanery may be referred to the Lord President,
Lord Conway, and the Bishops of London and St. Davids, the grant
having been privately obtained. |
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50. List of victuallers at Rye from whom bonds had been taken. |
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51. Petition of inhabitants of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields to the
King:— Since the beginning of King James's reign the inhabitants of their parish have trebled, and that number is much
increased by the attendants upon the Court; the church has been
enlarged but cannot contain one half of those who would come to it;
there is a hall in Durham House now used as a passage which might
be converted into a church, which the petitioners are ready to do, as
well as to pay the minister; they pray that as the late King bestowed
on them a burying-place, his Majesty would aid them in procuring
a church in the way suggested. |
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52. Petition of Thos. Jarvis to the same:—Licence had been given
to him to treat with the country concerning the inclosing of King's
Sedgmoor, co. Somerset, prays that, when necessary, he may have
access to the King or to Sec. Coke on the subject of his undertaking. |
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53. Proposal by Sir Richard Strode, for draining and inclosing
Sedgmoor, co. Somerset, upon a plan applicable to other commons
in England, and likely to produce 20,000l per annum. |
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54. Minute of petition of Sir Richard Fleetwood, that to put an
end to all doubts as to the title to Wigan parsonage, the King would
make another grant thereof in the name of a person to whom Sir
Richard had sold the same. |
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55. Petition of the Bailiffs, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Great
Yarmouth to the Council:— Have proceeded with the fortification
of their town, but are forced to a stand for want of the money which
was to have been brought in by the County of Norfolk and City of
Norwich, whose assessment is behind 200l.; being already out of
purse 200l. more, the petitioners pray the Council to give order for
payment of the amount due from the County and from Norwich. |
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56. Petition of George Annis, to the same, for order for payment
of his wages for watching the beacon at Yaxley, co. Suffolk. |
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57. Copy of a statute imposing fines on absent members, proposed
to be enacted for Wadham College, Oxford, by Bishop Laud, Visitor,
and Wm. Smyth, Warden of the same College; with an underwritten
opinion of Arthur Duck and Edmund Pope, that the same statute
was in accordance with the power of the Bishop and Warden. |
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58. [Sec. Conway] to the Council. Describes a mode in which the
Isle of Wight may be divided into three separate defensible portions.
Solicits that some men, if it be but 200, may be distributed into the
several castles, and that Sandham Castle may be repaired. In the
time of Henry VIII. the castles in that island had competent garrisons; now they are reduced to 4 persons in each, a Captain at 8d.
a day, and 3 gunners at 6d. a day. |
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59. Minute of motion to be made in the Council by Sec. Conway,
that the loan money from the Isle of Wight, which will amount to
about 800l., may be applied to the repair of Sandham Castle, and the
other fortifications in that island. |
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60. Christopher Earl of Anglesey to his nephew Endymion Porter.
This morning the Earl left with his brother L'isle a letter which he
entreats Porter, out of the love he owes to the Earl's brother William,
to procure the King to allow of, being for the good of L'isle's wife,
the ward, and the rest of their children. It is founded on the advice
of Sir Harry Holdcraft. |
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61. Wm. Belou to Sec. Conway. He has been worse used than a
natural fool, witness Tom Duri; than a counterfeit, witness Archie
Armstrong, who has shown Belou that the King has given such
special direction for his payment that he is better off than he was in
the late King's time, whilst the writer cannot receive a penny. He
has been worse used than a Turk or a dog, for, having moved a
humble petition to the King at Hampton Court, his Majesty went
away silently without speaking one word. The writer is sure his
Majesty will speak to his dogs. Sends copies of two petitions already
delivered, and entreats that he may have a pass to go abroad.
Incloses, |
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61. i. Petition of the same to the King:—Relating his long
course of service under Queen Anne of Denmark, and her
brother the Duke of Holstein; desires that he may be taken
into the service of King Charles, or that an order of the late
King may stand in full force, and that he may have 1,000l.
paid to him on account. |
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61. ii. Another petition from the same to the same:—Praying
that his Majesty will take back his pension, giving the
petitioner what he thinks fit, or will license him to dispose
of it. |
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62. Petition of Benjamin Blaxton to the Council:— Complains of
the malicious conduct of Robert Harwell, through whom the petitioner
had been imprisoned ten several times, and was then confined in the
Fleet; prays that his cause may be heard at the Board. |
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63. Petition of Thos. Blount, prisoner in the New Prison, to Sec.
Conway:— Being affected with divers diseases, prays liberty to walk
abroad sometimes in the open air. Annexed, |
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63. i. Certificate of "Gulielmus Harriseus" and other doctors, in
support of the above petition. |
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64. Minute of a petition that the question of the validity of a
grant of the exclusive printing of briefs and other papers printed on
one side of the paper, made by the late King to the Sieur de Boisloree, but contested by the Stationers' Company, might be left to
determination by law. |
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65. Minute of request of the Sieur de Boisloreé for a passport,
and free conveyance for himself and family into France. |
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66. Buckingham to Sec. Conway. Thanks for a letter; the bearer
will make an answer to it. |
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67. Request to Lord — by a poor kinsman, to move the
Duke of Buckingham not to oppose the proceedings of the writer
in the Court of Wards, concerning the estate of an idiot. |
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68. Memorandum of Mary Countess of Buckingham, that by
direction of her son the Duke of Buckingham, she commanded
George Fielding to give her niece Compton 50l. which he not
having at Huntingdon, borrowed of Sir Thos. Compton. |
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69. Memorandum that one year and a half is due on Mrs. Cary's
pension of 500l. per ann., and that it is the King's pleasure that the
same should be presently paid. |
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70. Petition of Michael Crake, the King's Footman, to the King:—
Thos. Coulton, of Grimsby, co. Lincoln, entered into bond for 30l.
on 8th Sept., 9th James I., conditioned to answer for 1,000 deal
boards forfeited for nonpayment of customs, the bond being forfeited, petitioner prays the King to bestow the forfeiture upon him. |
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71. Petition of William Crosse to Buckingham and the Council of
War:— Was preacher to Sir Edward Horwood's regiment in the
expedition to Cadiz; on the next payment to the officers of that
regiment, hopes he may receive some fitting means to relieve the
wants of his present necessity. |
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72. Petition of Jeffery Cuckowe to the Council:—Having lived
heretofore in Germany, he lately returned to England on a report
of the death of some of his kindred; prays for a pass back to Germany to his wife and children. |
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73. Lettice Countess of Leicester, widow of Robert Dudley Earl
of Leicester, to her "honourable dear son" Henry Earl of Holland.
Recommends her special good friend Mr. Chamberlayne, who
desired to become known to the Earl, and was in such place as
that he might sometimes do the Earl a service. Subscribes herself
the Earl's "grandmother," dearly loving him. |
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74. "Godly Verses" by James Orrell. Five short poems of which
the following are the first lines, "Sweet Saviour of the world, and
Judge of all:" "When I consider what I am by nature:" "The
years of man are ten seven times o'ertold:" "A sinner's habit is a
mournful sprite:" "What is the only end of man's creation?" With
an epilogue from which it appears that the writer, who describes
himself as being in poverty, addressed these compositions to a lady
whom he styles "Madame" and "Your Grace." |
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75. Case respecting the debt due from the Crown and the City of
London to the representatives of Sir Horatio Pallavicino; and also
respecting an arrangement, stated to have been founded on deceitful
pretences, whereby lands of the value of 500l. per annum were
granted to Sir Oliver Cromwell, who married Dame Anne, widow
and executrix of Sir Horatio; with opinion of some legal person
thereon. [Copy. See Vol. xxxviii. No. 21.] |
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76. Note of Capt. Preston's expenses for two post horses from
Exeter to Dover, and thence back to Plymouth: 10l. 1s. 9d. |
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77. Petition of Thos. Reeve, clerk, to the Council:—For marrying
Lord Maltravers to Lady Elizabeth Stewart, petitioner was, by the
King's express command, committed close prisoner, but has since,
out of his Majesty's clemency, been ordered to be set at liberty; he is,
notwithstanding, constrained to remain prisoner for his charges, which
he is unable to pay; prays that he may be freed from such payment.
[Underwritten are the following words in the King's handwriting:
"Thire llopps will give noe order upon this Petic[i]on.] |
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78. Petition of John Reynolds, prisoner in the Fleet, to the
same:—Was forced from France by order of the late King, and on
his arrival in England was committed to prison for being the author
of a book termed "Votiva Angliæ," in which he deplored the loss of
the Palatinate, and desired its restitution, which "every true-hearted
Englishman ought to wish and pray for;" has been imprisoned full
two years, during which time he has incurred a debt of 300l. for his
maintenance; also owes sixty and odd pounds for which he is
surety, and is threatened to be arrested for the same as soon as he is
at liberty; prays for protection against arrest for one year. |
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79. — to [Sec. Conway]. The writer's son Worsley having
missed seeing his Lordship, the writer informs him that Sir John
Savile is a man liable to be violently transported with passion.
Examples are cited of his abusing his fellow Justices on the bench,
offering blows, and, on one occasion, causing a man to be shot when
taking a possession. His Lordship is requested to let the Lord
Keeper understand these things. |
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80. John Sictor, a Bohemian exile, to Dr. Thos. Ryves. Sir Henry
Marten, Judge of the Court of Arches, having money frequently
committed to him for pious uses, had on a former occasion bestowed
30s. on the writer on the recommendation of Dr. Westfield; prays
Dr. Ryves's intercession to procure him a further gift. He brought
letters from the Queen of Bohemia to the Corporation of London, but
on account of the badness of the times, and the heavy payments
arising out of the war, he has not been able to obtain any relief. |
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81. William Sheldon to Sec. Conway. In behalf of his younger
brother, Baldwin Sheldon, of Grafton. Case Shurley, one of the
late King's footmen, "begged" Robert Throgmorton and Baldwin
Sheldon, and had grants of their lands, paying to the King
120l. 10s. per ann. for a certain term; that rent has been paid, but
nevertheless Edwd. Smythe has sued Baldwin Sheldon for the
penalty of 20l. a month for 6 months. Sir Thos. Coventry, the late
Attorney General, caused him to surcease that suit; but now William
Avery has begun a like suit, against which the petitioner prays relief. |
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82. Informations filed by Attorney General Heath against Sir
Simon Steward for misconduct in his offices of Compounder or
Assessor of the composition anciently paid by the Isle of Ely to the
Officers of the Green Cloth, and also of Dep. Lieut. [Copy.] |
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83. Petition of John Tendring to Sec. Conway:—Prays for some
reward for services done to his Prince and country in the discovery
of priests under his Lordship's warrant. [See Vols. xxii., No. 112,
and xxvi., No. 89.] |
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84. Petition of the priests and laity of Scotland to Pope Urban
VIII.:—They again represent to his Holiness that they find the
hearts of the people of that kingdom well affected towards the Catholic faith; beseech him to grant them a Bishop, namely, Mr. John
Trumbull [Tromble] to be their Primate and Bishop of St. Andrews. |
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85. Faculties granted by Pope Urban VIII. to the priests of the
kingdom of Scotland, for the propagation of the faith in that
country and the neighbouring dominions of the King of Great
Britain. Lat. |
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86. Translation of the same into English. |
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87. List by Lord Keeper Coventry of "the last Committee for
Foreign Services;" with suggestions for the appointment of a fresh
committee to treat with the States. |
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88. The King to —. By agreement with the United Provinces, the 6,000 men sent for their assistance were to be maintained complete. Several officers having been recalled to be employed in the Cadiz expedition, their entertainment during their
absence had been retained from them; the King's pleasure is, that
out of money in the hands of Philip Burlamachi, or of Julian Calandrini, the commissary of the said troops, the person addressed is to
cause these officers to be satisfied. [Draft.] |
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89. John Harrison to the King. Defends his late mission to Barbary against objections urged by Sir Henry Marten. Prays that his
expenses on that occasion may be paid. Accuses Barrett of intending
to sell into slavery the Turks he proposes to exchange. [See Vol.
xxxvi., No. 76.] Entreats the King to give the Ambassadors from
Morocco a fair and honourable despatch. |
