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1. Brief in a cause of Thomas Duncombe versus Harward, tithe
gatherer, and Pewtrace, incumbent or vicar of the hamlet of Oldswick, in the parish of Monks Risborough, co. Buckingham, respecting
the tithes of Oldswick. |
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2. Copy of the same. |
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3. Notes of proceedings in a cause which turned upon the condition of mind of Peter Bland at the time when he executed a
conveyance of lands to Laurence Lownes. Among the witnesses
who deposed on one side or the other, and whose evidence is briefly
stated, are Bishop White, of Norwich, Edward Sherville [Sherfield],
of Lincoln's Inn, Henry Earl of Marlborough, with the Ladies Marg.
and Phoebe Ley, Sir Walter Long, Sir Richard Minshull, Sir Bevis
Thelwall, and Adrian Scrope. Sir John Finch, whose reply is
reported, was counsel for the plaintiff. (See Vol. cii., No. 73.) |
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4. Brief for the plaintiffs in a cause in Chancery of Sir Thomas
Darnell and Dame Sarah his wife, plaintiffs, and Benjamin Valentine,
Francis Tindall, John Selden, and Robert Mason, defendants. The
question in the cause was, whether certain gifts to the defendants,
contained in the will of Susan Fisher, deceased, the mother of the
plaintiff, Lady Darnell, were for their own benefit or in trust for
Lady Darnell. Valentine, who it is stated had been the solicitor of
the testatrix in her suits against Sir Edward Fisher, denied the
trust; Tindall admitted it; Selden admitted it; Mason denied it. |
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5. Notes of various charters and records in which are set forth
the peculiar jura regalia possessed by the Bishops of Durham.
Indorsed "The best breviat for the Lord Gray." |
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6. Certificate of all the honors, lordships, manors, lands, and
tenements in cos. Middlesex, Essex, Hertford, Suffolk, Cambridge,
Norfolk, and Huntingdon, granted to Queen Henrietta Maria as
parcel of her jointure, and being in the office of Justinian Povey,
auditor. [Imperfect.] |
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7. Brief of the proofs ex parte Lord Holland in a suit against
Anne widow of William Lord Sandys, the elder, respecting the
estate of her late husband. [Very much mutilated and imperfect.] |
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8. The Bailiff of Leominster to the Justices of Assize for co.
Hereford. Reports that according to the King's late directions, and
the laudable laws of the realm, he had seen punished seven enumerated wandering persons and ten drunkards. |
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9. Brief notes of documents, principally grants of offices and
custodies, entered on the Patent Roll, 1 Edward II., part 1. |
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10. Entry of a judgment in the Forest Court of Waltham Forest
in a cause of Attorney General Heath against Sir William Rowe,
for recovery of the manor of Higham Bempsted, otherwise
Higham Bemsted, otherwise Higham Hills, in Waltham Forest,
and the Court Leet and other privileges appertaining to the same.
The manor was adjudged to Sir William Rowe, the Court Leet and
privileges to the Crown. [Draft in the handwriting of Attorney
General Heath.] |
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11. Brief note, in the same handwriting, of a claim by the same
Attorney General of the manor of Woodgrange in the same Forest. |
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12. Claim, in the handwriting of Attorney General Heath, of the
right of fishing in the water called the Shearstream in Waltham
Forest. |
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13. Plea by the same Attorney General in admission of a claim
of John Trafford. |
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14. Instructions for preparing, on behalf of certain inhabitants
of Waltham Holy Cross, a claim of various common rights upon
the two marshes belonging to Waltham town. |
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15. Similar instructions on behalf of John Goulding. |
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16. The like on behalf of and signed by Richard Searle. |
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17. Edward Offley to his father-in-law John Kelyng, at Hertford.
Reports that he had attended the Attorney General, who had given
directions for amendment of certain forest claims. The writer's
cousin Jasper was entering the presentments. |
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18. Notes, in the handwriting of Sec. Coke, apparently derived
from a survey of the forts at Gravesend and Tilbury, with particulars of the cost of various repairs required in each of them. |
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19. Note of persons bound to serve as trained soldiers, or to find
substitutes, in the parish of St. Mary Bothaw, London. |
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20. Petition of Wm. Newman, clerk of the stores for the Coopers'
yard at Tower Hill, to the Lords of the Admiralty. Great quantities of pipe staves, clove boards, &c., are yearly brought from foreign
parts into the Thames, for the supply of his Majesty's stores for
cask for beer, beef, pork, and pease for the Navy, and for the Corporation of Coopers to furnish merchant ships, but such commodities
are exported again for Spain before his Majesty or the Corporation
are furnished. Prays authority to stay the same. |
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21. Petition of Thomas White and Company to Lord Treasurer
Weston and other the Judges Delegates for Appeals from the
Admiralty. Their ship the Renew having taken the Laneere laden
with prohibited commodities, Reynez lez Gillon being master, the ship
and part of the goods being claimed by Simon Lopez, Diego Fonseca
and Company, were adjudged against petitioners, who thereupon
appealed to the persons addressed. Pray citation for Lopez and
Fonseca to appear, and a monition to the Registrar of the Admiralty
to transmit the proceedings in that Court. [Indorsed by Nicholas
"This business upon a Commission of Appeal to special Delegates
was remitted, and therefore this is a great abuse."] |
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Petition of the Comptroller, Surveyor, and Clerk, three of the
principal Officers of the Navy, to the Lords of the Admiralty.
Pray them to take into consideration the underwritten reasons
moving the petitioners to crave an increase of their salaries, which
are the same as they were at the first erection of their offices in
the reign of Henry VIII., though a groat then was as valuable as
a shilling now. [See Dom. Elizabeth, 1590, Vol. of Admiralty
Collections, fo. 137 b.] Underwritten, |
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i. Reasons for increase of means to the Comptroller of the Navy.
It is shown that their profits were greatly reduced by recent
alterations; the change in the value of money is stated
thus:—a pound sterling in the reign of Henry VIII. was
but 20s., which is now 3l.; and there had been increase in
the payments to the Treasurer and all subordinate officers.
[See Ibid., p. 138.] |
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ii. Similar reasons for an increase of salary to the Surveyor of
the Navy. [See Ibid., p. 139.] |
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22. Rules for calculating the proper proportions between the sizes
of masts and yards of ships. [Indorsed in the handwriting of
Capt. Pennington.] |
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23. Copy of the same. |
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24. Account of sums paid by the Trinity House, upon account of
the ship Charles, employed for discovery of the north-west passage;
total, 1,320l. 11s. 3d. |
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25. Note of the certificates returned from several counties, concerning the Book of Orders sent down by the King, under which
the Justices of Peace were directed to take measures for relief of
the poor. |
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26. The occasion, and some reasons, why Sir John Heydon,
Lieutenant of the Ordnance, has so much opposed the other officers
and the government of that office. The disputes in question are
traced to Sir John's questioning various persons for sums, wherein
he supposed his brother had been wronged, his principal desire
being thereby to lessen the 8,000l. wherein his late brother, Sir
William Heydon, was found indebted to the King. |
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27. Statement of the present state of the Office of the Ordnance,
addressed to the Council [?] by some officer of that branch of the
service, whose name does not appear. |
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28. Comments on a proposal for placing debentures upon the
ordinary of the Ordnance for services, which were propounded to
be defrayed upon extraordinary Privy Seals, and concerning the
form of the quarter-books, and the prices of match and other
provisions, by the now Lieutenant questioned. |
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29. Heads of what Lord Vere, Master of the Ordnance, recommends to the Commissioners upon that office. He requests
them to define the duties of the several officers; doubts the necessity
of estimates, and suggests that the money issued for the Ordnance
should be kept, and be paid there. |
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30. Roger Fawkenor to the Commissioners for the Armouries.
Information as to the results of keeping armours and swords in the
Ordnance, instead of in the Armoury. |
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31. The same to the same. Information of abuses in the
Armoury. Proposes that the whole establishment shall be done
away with, the armourers being pensioned. He will undertake to
keep all the King's armours at the Tower, Greenwich, and at
Portsmouth in repair, for the sum now paid for that service, and
also to make a certain number of armours yearly. |
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32. Estimate of the weight and prices of 28 demi-culverins and
28 sakers of cast iron, total, 1,000l.; to be supplied to Sir James
Bailly, in consideration of his having disbursed 1,000l. in victualling
one of the King's ships, commanded by Capt. Herbert, forced into
harbour on the coast of Scotland by foul weather. |
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33. Petition of Thomas Lowther to the Council of War. Similar
to that in Vol. clxxxvii., No. 72, except that petitioner had now
been in prison "almost twelve months." When he presented his
previous petition, he stated that he had been in prison half a year. |
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34. Petition of Nicholas Delaval, tailor, to the same. Prays
order to Mr. Calandrini to stop 48l., due to him from Sir Charles
Vavasour, one of the Denmark commanders. |
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35. Division of the counties, with the proportions for making
saltpetre per week, conceived to be most for the advancement of his
Majesty's service. Annexed is a statement of the surplusage of
three of the saltpetremen, contracted to be supplied above the
proportions mentioned in this paper. |
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36. Value of the ordnance taken in the Notre Dame and St.
Peter, being for the most part Dutch ordnance; total, 236l. |
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37. Names of Commissioners for the Fishing in Scotland, with
appointment for their meeting. |
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38. Statement by Sir Thomas Roe, of what he had effected
towards freedom of trade in the Baltic, and of what remains to be
done, with advice as to the course which ought to be pursued, both
by the Eastland Merchants and the English Government. |
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39. Statement of the case as it then existed between the English
Company trading to Greenland and the Hollanders. [Imperfect.] |
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40. Memorandum of the "English Merchants;" what they understand their goods on board the Benediction sold for in France;
total, 6,929l. 13s. 11d. |
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41. Particular of the carriage of the sale of the goods of the
James, of London, at Dieppe. Order was obtained by the English
Ambassador suspending the sale, whereupon Capt. Bontemps took
post for Paris, and procured an order contradicting the former, and
on his return proceeded to sell the next morning. |
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42. Petition of Walter Coventry, Nicholas Crisp, and others,
Merchants Adventurers, and proprietors of the James, of London,
to the Council. Some of their goods being in the hands of Mr. Burlamachi, the petitioners pray a reference to Sir Henry Marten, to do
them justice, so far as such goods extend, and for the rest that they
may have letters of marque. |
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43. Proposition for the incorporation of a Company for exporting
fish in English bottoms. |
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44. — to the Council. Puts them in mind of their interference to prohibit all merchants from importing commodities from
countries within the charter of the Turkey Company, and argues
from it in favour of the incorporation mentioned in the preceding
article. |
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45. Account of proceedings in a Convention of Estates in Scotland, to whom the Lord Chancellor laid open the project for establishing an Association of the Two Kingdoms, for encouragement of
the Fishing trade. The Burghs answered that the privilege of
fishing in lochs or bays, or at sea, for the distance of "two kennings" from the shore, was theirs, and that they would admit no
partners, either natives or strangers. Being asked what part they
would take in the Buss-fishing, they answered that Buss-fishing is
to be beyond two kennings from the land, and that they would not
have those engaged in it to partake in the land fishing, or to land
at all, but to make their fish on shipboard as the Flemings do.
Certain noblemen, with John Hay and one Lanier, were appointed
to treat with a Committee of the English. |
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46. Considerations, in the handwriting of Sec. Coke, for the treaty
with the Commissioners of Scotland, for the establishment and
incorporation of a national Association or Company for exclusive
fishing in the British Seas. |
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47. Statement of what is required from the Lords and Gentry of
Scotland, towards the suggested fishing. It is desired that they
would build 40 busses, to be paid for at English rates, and undertake to provide the same with salt, victuals, nets, and cask. |
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48. Articles [suggested by the Scottish Commissioners] as the
basis of a treaty for the establishment of an Association for the promotion of fishing. |
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49. Extracts from Statutes of Scotland, whereby strangers are
forbidden to fish in Scottish waters, and Scottish fishermen are forbidden to sell their fish to strangers. Underwritten are observations by Capt. John Mason [addressed to Sec. Coke]. He suggests
that the King should dispense with these laws as applicable to
English persons, until the next Parliament held in Scotland, and in
the meantime, should purchase the Isle of Lewis, and proclaim free
liberty of fishing to all his subjects of Scotland, paying for the
ground leave to pack and peel what is usual to the Lord of the soil. |
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50. Answer of the English Committee for the Fishing Association, to objections made by the Commissioners from Scotland.
The King's intention to maintain existing rights is insisted upon.
A popular "agreation" of all the undertakers is not to be admitted.
All their liberties depend wholly upon the King's grace, and he has
expressed his purpose that his Council in both kingdoms shall advise them in anything that may require further consideration. It
is wished that his Majesty's clear intentions may prevail with the
Scottish Commissioners, as they have done with those of England,
not to question, but to advance and settle so important a work. |
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51. Passport for William Harris, of Bristol, free of the Society of
the Fishing of Great Britain and Ireland, and now employed for the
Adventurers in the fishing, to the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. |
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52. The Master and others of the Trinity House to the Council.
Present various calculations designed to exhibit the loss which
would arise to the kingdom from permitting strangers to export
fish caught by English fishermen. |
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53. Answer of some unnamed person, who desired to contract for
supply of powder, to a question put to him by [the Lord Treasurer?]
as to the rate at which he would convert into powder, saltpetre
provided for his Majesty's speedy service. The answer is, that if
covenants were entered into, he would take certain mills for which
he was in treaty, and would then execute what was desired at 8d.
per pound. |
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54. Information of an outrage committed by William Dutton and
William Fisher, constables, acting under a warrant from the Lord
Mayor, at Bartholomew Fair. Upon exception of the Drapers of
London against the Clothiers at the fair, endeavour was made to
arrest a clothier, who had a standing in the fair, in the liberty of the
Earl of Holland, and in that endeavour the alleged misconduct was
committed. |
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55. Hugh Perry, merchant, to the Council [?]. Apology against
aspersions upon him, about getting off the licences of English cloth
in Flanders, and indirect courses in trade. |
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56. Statement of [Anthony Wither], concerning the opposition he
received from Nathaniel Stephens, Justice of the Peace in co.
Gloucester, in the performance of his commission, to see to the true
execution of the statutes for clothing. |
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57. Another similar statement of [Anthony Wither], concerning
the similar opposition of Sir John Danvers. |
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58. Report of the Commissioners for the business of the Strangers,
on a petition of the English Bay and Say makers of Colchester, containing a complaint against the Dutch Bay and Say makers of the
same town. Having heard both the parties, the Commissioners
recommended twelve practical regulations for the government of the
bodies in question. [Draft in the handwriting of Attorney General
Heath.] |
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59. Statement, also in the handwriting of Attorney General
Heath, of the complaint of the English Bay and Say makers in
Colchester, above mentioned, and the answers of the Dutch. |
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60. Minutes, also in the handwriting of Attorney General Heath,
of the inconveniences occasioned to English merchants by the tare
of English cloth in Holland, and of a proposal to prevent the same
by appointing a taring officer in London, with the proposals made
by the intended officer. |
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61. Minutes of petitions of the fishermen of Yarmouth, and the
salters and fishmongers of London. They desire that no incorporation may be granted to the salt makers, and offer to pay what
imposition upon salt the King may please to lay. |
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Note of money collected by Edward Stringer from strangers, for
consulage, payable to the Levant Company from 1623 to 1629,
whilst Sir Thomas Roe was Ambassador at Constantinople, and
during the first three years of the embassy of Sir Peter Wyche.
[See Corresp. of Levant Company, Vol. i., No. 78.] |
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62. Petition of Philip Farrant, William Smith, William Pursell,
Nicholas May, William Slann, Thomas Milton, and Thomas Allins,
in behalf of the parishioners of Sunninghill, to the Officers of the
Green Cloth. Sunninghill is reported to be a sixth part of the
hundred of Cookham, and they have paid taxes, and served his
Majesty in his removes accordingly, when, indeed, they make not a
twelfth part; besides which, the inhabitants of Cookham and
Binfield, which make up the hundred, are men of great estate, and
their grounds free from deer, whilst petitioners are mean men, their
grounds barren, and the deer seldom out of them. Pray for inquiry
by the Justices of Peace. |
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63. William Hendrick to [Francis Windebank?]. Sets down,
on his desire, a course proper to be adopted in the application
of Kenrick's gift to the town of Reading, for setting the poor
to work. |
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64. Articles suggested for regulation of the dornix weaving and
draught works within the city of Norwich. |
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65. Project for the appointment of a General Surveyor of the
Markets. He was to make a deputy in every market in England
and Wales, who should enter duly what corn was brought to market,
by whom brought, and to whom sold. |
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66. Survey of a piece of pasture in Lilsworth, co. Northampton,
part of the possessions of William Taylour, of Brixworth. It
adjoins land of Sir John Lambe. |
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67. Survey of the bailiwicks of Surrey, Battles, and Finchamp
stead, in the Forest of Windsor, setting forth their boundaries, the
names of the officers, the several woods, and numbers of trees
therein, with the numbers of deer. William Milton is enumerated
among the "subvagatores" in Battles bailiwick. [Draft. Damaged
by damp.] |
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68. Inigo Jones and others, Commissioners for Buildings, to the
Council. Presentment of David Mallard, shoemaker to the King,
for erecting a dwelling-house on a piece of ground in St. James's
field, taken a year or two ago by John Bonnealle, a Frenchman,
now deceased, under pretence of making a Pall Mall. [Mallard,
or as he is called in the Council Register, Mallock, undertook
to demolish the obnoxious building by Candlemas Day, 1632.
Co. Reg. Car. I., Vol. vii., p. 215, 1631, Oct. 28.] |
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69. Richard Sandes to [Sec. Dorchester?]. Complains of the
inclosing of lands and decay of tillage, and that the King's Book of
Orders was not properly attended to. More tillage and husbandry
would make plenty, and employ thousands. |
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70. The same to the same. Urges the topics of his last letter
more vehemently. The summer [of 1631] has been the fruitfullest
in many years; but the farmers keep back their corn, and will sell
but little before the strength of May be past. |
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71. List of depopulators, who have been dealt with in Lincolnshire, with particulars of each case. The persons enumerated
comprise Sir Charles Hussey, Sir Henry Ayscough, Sir Hamond
Whichcote, Sir Edward Carr, Sir William Wray, Sir Edmund
Bussey, Richard Rossiter, Robert Tirwhitt, and John Tredway. |
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72. Certificate of Justices of Peace for co. Hertford, of their
proceedings in relief of the poor within the hundred of Dacorum. |
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73. Similar certificate for the hundred of Broadwater, and the
half hundred of Hitchin. |
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74. Indenture between Sir Edward Wardour, of Westminster,
and John Toppe, of Stockton, co. Wilts. Sir Edward conveys to
Mr. Toppe certain land at Stockton. [Prepared for execution, but
not executed; afterwards altered and converted into a draft.
Damaged by damp.] |
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75. Michael Osbaldston to George Roydun [Rawden]. Desires
his mediation with Lord Conway, as to where the writer's house
shall stand. The late Lord gave order that it should stand on the
common, hard by Richard Purser's house, which was burnt down;
but the opposite neighbours, "my Lord's enemies," say that if it
stands there, they will pluck it down. They durst not have so
threatened in the old Lord's time. Mr. Fortescue takes their part.
Wishes Lord Conway to write to him, and to threaten the intended
rioters with the Star Chamber. |
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76. Statement by Mr. Forster [Richard Forster?] of a dispute
between him and Mrs. Crofts, (on whose behalf Lord Goring and
Anthony Crofts were interested in the matter), respecting a grant
of old arrears, said to be due to his Majesty from coal mines
at Benwell, co. Northumberland. |
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77. — to his cousin, Robert Smith, one of the messengers of
the Chamber. Mr. Austin knows no such woman, but confesses he
was bound with Anthony Allen, of Rochester, to one widow Allen,
for 20l., which has been paid. |
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78. Account addressed in the indorsement to Burlamachi, showing
the profit upon a licence to import 10 tuns of wine. The person
rendering the account had had such licences in 1628, and "for this
year 1631." |
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79. Certificate of the manner of the falling out between George
Monger and Edward Raynes, in which the latter received a wound
of which he died. The transaction took place at Ash in Surrey. |
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80. Information of J. Barter against — Smith, postmaster at
Canterbury, for refusing to furnish him with horses on his arrival
in that city with the King's packet from Lord Scudamore. |
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81. Regulations [corrected by Sec. Coke] for the transmission of
"portmantles," probably containing letters, along the principal roads
in England. |
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82. Minute of a proposal for repeal of the laws of sewers recently
made at Huntingdon and Stilton, concerning works to be done in
the Isle of Ely. |
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83. Agreement respecting sluices and other drains to be made in
the fens near Wisbeach. |
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84. Form of oath taken by the Keeper of the Council Chest. |
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85. Account of money due to Sir James Young up to Lady-day
1631, upon pensions granted to him by the late and present King.
Total 1,230l. |
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86. Minutes of letters to be written by official persons indicated by
Sec. Dorchester in the margin. They are in connection with a recent
mission of Capt. Giles Penn to Tetuan, whence he had brought
hawks for the King's service, and was about to return thither for
a further supply of hawks and horses. |
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87. Note by John Lewgar of moneys paid by him for the purchase of two leases, one of his shop and the other of premises let by
him to John Cox, barber surgeon. The leases were obtained from
the Dean and Chapter and the petty canons of [St. Paul's]. The
paper is indorsed "John Barbor." |
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88. Concurrence of [Lord Treasurer Weston?] in an agreement
made by Simon Watson with William Gomeldon for a composition
to be paid by Watson, for money heretofore given him in charge to
collect in co. Cambridge, for the use of the Princess Palatine, and
defence of the Palatinate. [Draft.] |
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89. Names of the Posts employed in foreign service under the
Postmaster, Matthew de Quester. They are three for France, six
for the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy; four for Paris and France
extraordinary. |
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90. Lord Treasurer Weston [?] to Sir Thomas Fanshaw, King's
Remembrancer of the Exchequer. Warrant to issue an extent
against Walter Coventry, who has been found by inquisition
indebted to Nicholas Polhill 1,800l., which is seized into his Majesty's hands towards satisfaction of a debt owing to his Majesty
by Thomas Horth [Hoarth?] for salt rent. [Copy.] |
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91. Katherine Countess of Suffolk to Mr. Cendall. Thanks for his
good news, that the King has given Grinfield's [Sir Richard Grenville's?] fine to her son. It will free her son of a great deal of trouble.
Hears that Lady Grinfield [Grenville?] will be in London the week
before the term. Begs Cendall to speak with Mr. Courtney, to find
out such lands as are the fittest for her to tie upon Bess Howard.
Is sorry to hear the baron will be cut. Hoped Lady Shelley's water
would have brought down the gravel. Knows he has a great heart
and a brave spirit to undergo anything, and if the Frenchman be
skilful, hopes there will be no danger. |
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92. [William Belou?] to [Endymion Porter?]. Sends information
to satisfy the King, and apparently in support of the grant solicited
in Vol. clxxxii., Nos. 13 and 14. Explains the advisableness of the
solicited grant, and that the 15,000l. to be obtained by it is to be
applied, 5,000l. in payment of a debt due to the late Duke of Holstein, and the residue upon his Majesty's servants [the solicitors
and designed grantees?] |
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93. Poem in praise of the virtues of a religious life.
Begins:—
Hezekiah's comfort was, he God did love,
Uprightly had him serv'd, and like a dove
Was holy in his life;
Ends:—
He doth call
Our good deeds to mind, and He will give
Rich crowns to those that purely live. |
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94. Justices of Peace for co. York to the Sheriff. Certify the
measures taken for relief of the poor within the liberties of Beverley
Hallgarth, in the East riding of the same county. |
