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| Jan. 30 [?] |
1. Minutes of business to be submitted to the King; amongst
other things, are the petition of John Roche for a pardon; application of the Queen for enlargement of 10 prisoners in Newgateconfined for matters of religion; of Sir Dodmore Cotton for favours
to be granted to Mr. Gooch, Bachelor of Divinity, who was
about to accompany Sir Dodmore into Persia; of Lady Villiers,
widow of Sir Edward, that his pension of 500l. out of the Court of
Wards might be granted to his eldest son, W. Villiers, and that
his other pension of 500l. out of the Mint, and 2d. on the pound
weight of silver moneys, might be granted to Lady Villiers. |
| [Jan. 30 ?] |
2. Minutes of the King's answers to several of the businesses
mentioned in the last paper. |
Jan. 30.
Norwich. |
3. Mayor and others of Norwich to the Council. Explain the
distressed condition of their city, which rendered them unable to
contribute towards the setting forth shipping for the King's
service; they had suffered great damage from inundations, and
from the plague; "many hundreds of houses" in the city stood
empty. |
| Jan. 30. |
4. Solomon Smith and John Tyson to Buckingham. In obedience
to his warrant, they have stayed the Mary, but do not find in her
any prohibited goods, except ordnance and ammunition for the
ship's defence. |
Jan. 30.
Whitehall. |
Sec. Conway to the Turkey Merchants. Giving them notice that
his Majesty has made choice of Sir Peter Wyche to be Ambassador
at Constantinople, and will haste his despatch thither. [Minute,
Conway's Letter Book, p. 260.] |
| Jan. 30. |
5. Thomas Asteley to Sec. Conway. Recommends Dru Deane,
son and heir of Sir John Deane, lately dead, a man of 1,200l. a year,
for the commission of the peace. |
Jan. 30.
On board the Maria, a Dover Pier. |
6. Capt. Mervin Burley to Nicholas. Is driven into Dover Pier
for want of provisions. Knows not what course to take with his
men, if speedy order be not taken for them. His purser is but a
deputy, and a very poor man, unable to bear his own charges. Begs
that the right purser may come himself. |
| Jan. 30. |
7. Sir William Russell to the same. Had determined to pay
Capt. Driver's ship, that came lately from Hamburgh, next after
the Entrance. The Duke's command to pay the Lion shall be
obeyed, but he begs Nicholas to put the Duke in mind of those
poor men who have been eighteen months in the service, so that no
other ship may come before them. |
Jan. 30.
Rye. |
8. Mayor, Jurats, and Commonalty of Rye to the same. Had
applied to the Duke to procure them a patent for a general collection towards the repair of damage done to their town by the
encroachments of the sea. Request his assistance therein. His pains
shall be recompensed to his good content. |
Jan. 30.
Star Chamber. |
9. Order of the Special Commissioners for inquiring into the
state of the Navy. That the Commissioners who took the survey at
Chatham should procure from the Masters of the Trinity House, and
shipwrights, who assisted them, an opinion upon every ship, containing certain specified particulars. |
| Jan. 30. |
10. Copy of the preceding. |
Jan. 31.
Whitehall. |
11. Order of Council, permitting the town of Dover to stay some
person of Calais till the Dover man, who had been stayed at Calais,
should be released. |
Jan. 31.
Whitehall. |
12. Order of Council, that the [Red] Lion and nine merchant
ships, with one of the King's ketches, ordered on the 28th instant to
be set forth and victualled for four months, should be victualled for
six months. |
Jan 31.
Harwich. |
13. Mayor and others of Harwich to the Council. As Commissioners for the loan, they had subscribed and would use the best
inducements they could, according to the instructions, but they represent the poverty of their town, and their inability to contribute to
the charge for shipping. |
Jan. 31.
London. |
14. Commissioners of the Navy to Buckingham. Recommend
an increase of payment to Mr. Brookes, Clerk of the Cheque at
Portsmouth, whose salary is 20l. per annum. |
Jan. 31.
Whitehall. |
Sec. Conway to Mr. Burlamachi. To pay Sir James Ramsey
what is due to him, upon his employment under Count Mansfeldt,
out of the first moneys that shall come to his hands. [Minute,
Conway's Letter Book, p. 260.] |
Jan. 31.
Whitehall. |
The same to Attorney General Heath. To prepare a pardon for
Roche. [Minute, ibid.] |
| Jan. 31. |
15. Commissioners of the Navy to Nicholas. The St. George has
been repaired and trimmed. Desire to know whether they are to
deal with Capt. Marbury, who was intended to go to sea with her,
under a letter of marque, as they had done with Capt. Quaile for the
St. Mary. The Earl of Totness should be directed to supply her
with ordnance. |
Jan. 31.
Star Chamber. |
16. Special Commissioners for inquiring into the state of the
Navy to Joshua Downing and others. Warrant to return a perfect survey of the cordage in store at Chatham, the former survey
being confusedly mixed together. [Copy.] |
Jan. 31.
London. |
17. The same to Capt. Phineas Pett. Desire him, as a Commissioner, to see that a perfect survey be made of the cordage at
Chatham, and also that the proportions for rigging of each rank of
ship be made out, and perfected by exact trials on ship board.
[Copy.] |
| Jan. 31. |
18. Abstract of the survey of the Merhonour, Red Lion, Constant
Reformation, Nonsuch, and Due Repulse. Total cost of repair,
1,898l 10s. 9d. |
| Jan. 31. |
19. The like of the Prince, Warspite, Adventure, Mary Rose, and
Assurance. Total cost of repair, 1,164l. 15s. 10d. |
| Jan. 31. |
20. Copies of the two preceding abstracts of surveys, and of
another abstract comprising the Defiance, Dreadnought, and Moon.
Total cost of repair of the three ships last mentioned, 1,532l. 5s. |
| Jan. 31. |
21. Draft of the last-mentioned abstract, comprising the Defiance,
and the two others. |
Jan. 31.
Chatham. |
22. Joshua Downing to the Commissioners of the Navy. The
shipwrights allege that the repairs ordered to be done to the Red
Lion cannot be performed without docking her, and that the
estimate is so low that they will not undertake the work at those
rates. |
Jan. 31.
Chatham. |
23. Master Shipwrights at Chatham to Sir William Heydon,
one of the Commissioners of the Navy. Report the state of the
works. If expedition be desired, 30 or 40 axe-men must be sent
down. The Vanguard and the Victory need more repair than was
supposed. Inclose, |
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23. i. Account of materials unsurveyed in the outstores at
Chatham. 1627, Jan. 29. |
| Jan. 31. |
24. Estimate for setting forth 4 Newcastle ships, with 120
men, for 14 days, and 240 men thence to September 2, 1627,
4,346l. 6s. |
| Jan. 31. |
25. Estimate for setting forth the Red Lion, the Desire, and 9
merchant ships, with 570 men, for 28 days, and 1,141 men,
from thence to July 24, 17,085l. 16s. Appended is an estimate that 5,000l. was due to the discharged sailors of the
last fleet, and 1,187l. 8s. for freight of merchant ships on that
occasion. |
| [Jan. ?] |
26. Minutes of petitions to be submitted to the King from the
Yeomen and Grooms of the Robes, the Cellar, and Buttery, for the
like fees on creations as were lately granted to the Pages of the Bedchamber; from Heriot, the jeweller, for a Privy Seal, for 160l. 14s.,
for pearls for reparation of the King's pearl foot-cloth and saddle;
also from John Knox, Michael Crake, and Richard Williams. |
| [Jan.] |
27. Minutes of requests to be submitted to the King. They
comprise applications for timber towards re-edifying the church at
Clerkenwell; for Robert Dawson [miswritten Down], Dean of
Down, to be Bishop of Clonfert and Killmacoe; for Mr. Pawlett to
have a grant of the keepership of the forest of Roche, in reversion
after Sir Richard Giffard; and other applications for Dr. James's
son, Robert Godfrey, William Ingoldsby, Mr. Annesley, Dr. Hunt,
and Jeffrey Neeve. |
| [Jan. ?] |
28. Warrant to Edward Lord Herbert, of Castle Island, authorizing him to discharge divers sums of money, amounting to 2,600l.,
taken up by him from certain French merchants, for the service of
the late King during the time of his embassy into France.
[Mutilated.] |
| Jan. |
29. Petition of Henry Johnson, master, and twelve men and
three boys, being the crew of the Fortune, of Calais, to the King.
Having been captured on a voyage from Dunkirk to Calais, they
were thrown into the Marshalsea, where they are most unmercifully
treated, "ready to starve for want of bread, and wanting clothes to
cover their nakedness," as if they were thieves, vagabonds, or
pirates. Pray to be set at liberty. |
| Jan. |
30. Form of certificate to be returned to the Council by Commissioners for the Loan, founded upon the precedent of that returned
for the hundreds of Barstable and Chafford in co. Essex. |
| [Jan. ?] |
31. Petition of the Mayor and Burgesses of Boston to the Council.
Set forth the decay and misery of the town, and pray that they
may be relieved from the provision of shipping. |
| [Jan. ?] |
32. Petition of Philip Burlamachi and John Delabarre, on
behalf on the owners of the Love, to the same. This ship, on her
voyage from Spain to Havre de Grace, was driven into Plymouth
by stress of weather, where her damaged cargo was obliged to be
unladen. Pray for liberty to dispose of the same. |
| [Jan. ?] |
33. Petition of Colonels, Lieutenant Colonels, Serjeant Majors,
and other officers of regiments employed in the King's service, to
the same. For 20 months they have forborne to importune for
their entertainments, but are now no longer able to subsist. Pray
for payment. |
| [Jan. ?] |
34. Petition of the owners of the Don de Dieu, of St. Malo, to
the same. Their ship was ordered to be brought about to London,
with others, from Portsmouth and St. Ives, but she has since become
so leaky that the order cannot be executed. Pray that the cargo
of wines may be unladen into English vessels, and so be brought
about. |
| [Jan. ?] |
35. Petition of English merchants trading in French wines to the
same. On a former petition the Council allowed French wines
imported in English or Scottish bottoms to be landed and sold. In
consideration of their losses they pray for the same permission for
wines laden in strangers' bottoms. |
| [Jan.] |
36. William Humfrey to the same. Certificate concerning the
loans for St. Albans, setting forth the sum received (186l.), with the
names and excuses of those who did not pay. |
| [Jan. ?] |
37. Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of Lynn
Regis to the same. Set forth proceedings between themselves and
the county respecting the supply of a ship. Not having received
any money from the county, and being themselves unable, by reason
of their great losses from Dunkirkers, and extraordinary charges in
the fortification of their town, they pray to be freed from setting
forth any ship at this time. |
| [Jan. ?] |
38. Petition of the Shoemakers of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the
Council. Not having good hides in those parts, petitioners have
supplied themselves with tanned leather from London and the
coast towns; pray that they may be permitted to continue so to do,
notwithstanding the proclamation of December 14, 1626. |
| Jan. |
39. Commissioners for the Loan in co. Rutland to the same.
Report the proceedings of a meeting in which all that appeared
either presently laid down their moneys or subscribed their
consents. |
| [Jan.] |
40. Petition of John Sasse, Anthony Morett, Isaac Van Paine,
and others, merchant strangers, to the same. Having imported
French wines before the order to the contrary, the Council permitted
the wines to be landed, and afterwards allowed them to be sold,
provided the money produced were paid into the hands of the
Farmers of the Customs. The petitioners now pray that they may
keep the produce of their own wines, "as others do." |
| Jan. |
41. Petition of Andrew Stone to the same. Prays to be allowed
to land and sell French goods shipped in Holland aboard the Jacob
Henrickson, before notice of the restraint. |
| [Jan.] |
42. Petition of the Merchants of York and the Mayor and
Burgesses of Kingston-upon-Hull to the same. Pray for various
alterations in the order of the referees who had decided the
differences between them and the Muscovia Company. |
| [Jan.] |
43. Certificate by the Lord Admiral and the Commissioners of the
Navy, of the charge of the Navy, ordinary and extraordinary, for
the year 1627. Total, 40,580l. 10s. 11d. |
| [Jan.] |
44. Bishop White, of Carlisle, to Buckingham. Intreats his
mediation with the King, to grant him the profits of his see from
the death of his predecessor. |
| [Jan. ?] |
45. Petition of Cornelis Pietersen to the same. His ship having
been cast away near Swansea, his only effects are the goods saved
from the wreck. On reaching London he is told that goods saved
from ships wrecked are forfeited to the Crown. Prays that at any
rate he may be paid his freight. |
| [Jan.?] |
46. Minute by Nicholas, for the Duke of Buckingham to move
the Council for an order to unlade and inventory the Golden Herring,
the ground being for reasons of state not fit to be published. |
| [Jan. ?] |
47. Another similar paper of minutes. They relate to the
punishment of five of the mutineers at Portsmouth, the supply of
provisions for defence of Dover Castle, and the wages of shipwrights
in ordinary at Chatham. |
| Jan. |
48. Katherine Duchess of Lennox to Sec. Conway. When she
came home she thought that he had looked sadly on her, wherefore
she assures him that, with her will, she will never transgress in anything that may offend him. Begs him to speak two words for her
to "that most truly noble and worthy lord." |
| [Jan. ?] |
49. Petition of 26 Inhabitants of Odiham to Sec. Conway, as
Lord Lieutenant of Hants. Pray that they may be relieved from a
company of 67 soldiers, under Sir Sheffield Clapham, quartered upon
them, at a charge of 13l. 8s. per week; they have 200 constant
residents "miserably distressed with poverty." |
| [Jan. ?] |
50. The Commissioners for Prize Goods to [Sec. Conway ?].
Request permission to appoint a treasurer to discharge all petty
charges, and also to sell the Mutton, of Newhaven, for 320l., which
Mr. Burlamachi is ready to pay on behalf of the owners. |
| [Jan. ?] |
51. — to Nicholas. In Francis Bassett's accounts, ending
March 6, 1626, mention is made of a barque of 12 tons, cast off at
sea by Trosse and Gunter, pirates, and brought into St. Ives, which
has not been subsequently answered for. |
| [Jan. ?] |
52. Defects in the 10 new ships built by Mr. Burrell, derived
from the recent survey by the Commissioners for inquiring into the
state of the Navy. |
| [Jan. ?] |
53. Copy, with some variations. |
| [Jan. ?] |
54. Draft of the above. |
| [Jan.] |
55. Note of what preferments Dr. Balcanquall would part with if
appointed Bishop of Carlisle, and what if appointed to St. David's
or Exeter. |
| Jan. |
56. Copy of the preceding. |
| [Jan. ?] |
57. Interrogatories for examination of Thomas Brediman, founded
on the disclosures made in the examinations of Henry Manners and
Dorothy his wife [see Vol. xxxix., Nos. 40 and 41]. Brediman is
asked whether he did not say, if the King were slain in the tumults
which he anticipated, it might be that the country should be a free
state, or perhaps the King and Queen of Bohemia should have it. |
| [Jan. ?] |
58. Names of defaulters in payment of loan for several hundreds
in co. Cambridge Total, 193. |
| [Jan. ?] |
59. Draft of the preceding article. |
| [Jan. ?] |
60. Estimate of proper sea stores for carpenters on a voyage for
six months. |
| [Jan. ?] |
61. List of officers of the Chancery, Common Pleas, Exchequer,
and Court of Wards, who might well lend the King 1,000l. a piece,
both in respect of their great estates, and the benefit they receive
from his late pardon, which freed them from the danger of the law
for exacting unwarrantable fees. |
| [Jan. ?] |
62. Return of Commissioners for Loan for the half hundred of
Beacontree, in co. Essex, with list of those who made default.
Amount paid, 589l. 6s. 8d.; promised, and not paid, 284l.; never
appeared, 644l. 6s. 8d. |
| [Jan. ?] |
63. Return of names of defaulters, and produce of the loan, for
the half hundreds of Harlow and Waltham, co. Essex. Amount
demanded, 567l. 6s. 8d.; money unpaid, 274l. 6s. 8d. |
| [Jan ? |
64. Return of produce of the loan for the liberty of Haveringat-Bower, co. Essex. Amount received, 275l. 6s. 8d.; promised, but
unpaid, 98l.; defaulters 111l. |
| [Jan.?] |
65. Names of 115 persons who have not paid to the loan in the
hundred of Ongar, co. Essex, their total assessment being 320l. 13s.;
and of 17 who did not attend, total 71l. With similar list for the
half hundred of Beacontree; 37 persons did not pay; 57, chiefly
residents in London, did not attend. |
| [Jan. ?] |
66. Return of defaulters to the loan in the hundred of Ongar,
co. Essex. The total money to be raised was 556l. 13s. 4d.; 104l.
had been paid, and there remained unpaid 452l. 13s. 4d. |
| [Jan. ?] |
67. Return of such persons as were refractory and would not
appear before the Commissioners for the Loan for the division of
Kingsclere, co. Hants. |
| [Jan. ?] |
68. Similar return for the same division of persons certified to be
unable to lend. |
| [Jan. ?] |
69. Note of persons in Hants, who, being present at a meeting
for the loan, did neither pay nor subscribe. |
| [Jan. ?] |
70. List of defaulters to the loan in Hertfordshire. |
| [Jan. ?] |
71. Return of Commissioners for the Loan for the hundred of
Cayshoe, co. Hertford, of persons who made default in appearance
or payment. |
| [Jan. ?] |
72. Names of 36 persons living in Ratcliffe, and other parishes
on the eastern side of London, detained in hands of messengers
for refusing to contribute to the loan; total to which they were
assessed, 135l. 3s. 4d. The like of 25 persons who did not attend
the Commissioners; total, 64l. Also of 23 persons who are poor;
total, 45l. 6s. 8d. |
| [Jan. ?] |
Particulars of sums wherewith Lionel Earl of Middlesex stands
charged in the Exchequer as having been issued to him during the
time he held the office of Master of the Great Wardrobe. [See
Vol. xv., No. 15.] |
| [Jan. ?] |
73. Return of Collector for Loan for South Mims and Hadley, in
co. Middlesex, of persons who subscribed but have not paid.
[Copy.] |
| [Jan. ?] |
74. List of those who refuse to lend the King money within the
hundreds of Banbury and Bloxham, in co. Oxford. |
| [Jan.] |
75. Reasons in favour of the loan, explaining its necessity, and
answering objections commonly urged against it. |
| [Jan. ?] |
76. Proposed articles for regulation of the right of search for
prohibited goods, as exercised towards ships of France and Holland.
[Draft.] |
| [Jan. ?] |
77. List of French ships stayed in various ports of England. |
| [Jan. ?] |
78. Petition of William Jolyff and Richard Roper, woollen
drapers, to the Council. In May 1625 they advanced 70l. for
conduct money, and provided coats at the cost of 50l. for 250
soldiers impressed in co. Dorset. Pray that they may be repaid by
the collectors of the loans. |
