Charles I - volume 378: January 1-17, 1638

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1637-8. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1869.

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'Charles I - volume 378: January 1-17, 1638', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1637-8, (London, 1869) pp. 138-168. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/chas1/1637-8/pp138-168 [accessed 27 March 2024]

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January 1–17, 1638

Jan. 1.
Boston.
1. Sir Anthony Irby to the Council. In reply to letter of the Council of the 19th December, enclosing petition of Sir Anthony Thomas and the other adventurers in the drained lands beyond Boston, complaining of the assessment made upon those lands towards the ship-money. Sir Anthony explains at length the grounds of the assessment complained of, and refers for further explanation to a return enclosed. [Seal with arms. 1½ p.] Enclosed,
1. i. Return by Sir Anthony Irby, Sheriff of co. Lincoln, of the quantity and value of the lands drained in that county by Sir Anthony Thomas and others, with the names of the owners and tenants. The number of acres drained was 6,049, valued at from 8s. to 12s. per acre, and assessed to the ship-money at 52l. 10s. 1637, December 5. [= 2 pp.]
Jan. 1. 2. Copy of a portion of the above letter. [2 pp.]
Jan. 1. 3. Statement concerning certain dealings between [Gerance ?] James and [Peter] Fawtrart, in relation to the rectory of Paulerspury, co. Northampton; endorsed by William Dell as received this day from Dr. Beale. [1½ p.]
Jan. 2. 4. Warwick Mohun, Robert Powlett, and Charles Foxe, commissioners under commission dated the 30th November 1637, for inquiry into illegal duties on exports and imports taken at Bristol, to the King. Report the opposition they had met with in the execution of their commission, especially from Richard Long, master of the merchants of Bristol, James Dyer, the town clerk of that city, and — Bowcher, collector of the impositions laid upon merchandize. The particulars of the acts complained of are minutely stated. The commissioners had been completely baffled in their inquiries. Having committed the town clerk for his contempt of their authority and persons, he had forcibly escaped from the messenger. [See upon this subject Vol. ccclxxiii., No. 84. 2 pp.]
Jan. 2.
Whitehall.
Lords of the Admiralty to Lord Keeper Coventry. Certify that Sir Robert Mansell, Lieutenant of the Admiralty, had daily travelled about the affairs of the said office from 1st January 1636–7 to 31st December following. Pray order for 10s. per diem, amounting to 182l. 10s. [Copy. See Vol. cccliii., fol. 77. ½ p.]
Jan. 2.
Whitehall.
The same to the same. Similar certificate for Sir William Russell for the same period. Pray order for 6s. 8d. per diem, amounting to 121l. 13s. 4d. [Ibid., fol. 77 a. ½ p.]
Jan. 2. 5. David Stevenson to Leonard Pinckney, at Mr. Smith's in Salisbury Court. I have sent two set of tubs into the country, and they are aided there, but in Huntingdon they will neither let me have carts to carry tubs out of the town, nor into it. The mayor and Robert Bernard, the recorder, bade the constable charge no carts for me. I lie here and my men at great charges, and if such men as these, that should be the chief aiders of me in performance of the King's service, give such a light [slight ?], the country will soon hear of it, and we shall have no service performed. [¾ p.]
Jan. 2.
Whitehall.
The Lords of the Admiralty to the Mayor and Recorder of Huntingdon. Complaint is made by David Stevenson, deputy for saltpetre in co. Huntingdon, that you will not let him have carts for carriage of his vessels, but that you have required the constable to charge no carts for the said service. We are not willing to send for you by a messenger until we have given you notice of the complaint; yet we require you to give assistance to our deputy, and reasonable satisfaction for the charges you have put him to by refusing to give him assistance, or else that you attend us within ten days after the receipt hereof. [Copy. See Vol. cccliii., fol. 78. ¾ p.]
Jan. 2. 6. Sir William Russell to Nicholas. This week I shall have the officers at Deptford to sign my account for 1637, so as I cannot be ready for the shipping of next year until after Sunday next. Great number of ships will be in the river from the Straits, out of which good election may be made. If the Lords will appoint Monday next, or any time after, we shall attend them. In the meantime, I pray procure warrant to auditor Bingley to take my accounts of '36 and '37, and I shall be ready this month to bring the state of those years' accounts for the ship-moneys from the shires. [1 p.]
Jan. 2. 7. Information of Philip Thomas and William Griffith, taken before Peter Heywood and George Hulbert, Justices of Peace for Middlesex. Being at the Castle tavern in St. Clement's, presently after the execution done upon Prynne, Bastwick, and Burton, there was in company one Joseph Huchens [Hutchinson]. Thomas asking Hutchinson if he had been to see Prynne and the rest suffer at Westminster, answered "No." Thomas replied, "The punishment they had was not more than they deserved." Hutchinson answered, "Thou art a most wicked fellow, that thou durst say so of them, for in my conscience they are as honest men and as good subjects as any the King has." [¾ p.] Annexed,
7. i. Information of Edward Everard, taken as above. Examinant was present during the above conversation. Hutchinson said that Prynne was as good a subject as any the King had, besides many other speeches which examinant cannot now remember. [½ p.]
Jan. 2.
Ipswich.
8. Henry Dade, Bailiff of Ipswich, to Sec. Coke. I have been entreated to certify my opinion of the petition enclosed. I suppose the same to be true, which also former examinations will verify. In case much weight be given to accusations of beggarly and angry women, few scolding differences shall be between them in the country but the Council will be troubled with a complaint of some abuses offered to King or state, by one side or other. [1 p.] Enclosed,
8. i. Petition of John Dixon, of Ipswich, labourer, to Sec. Coke. Petitioner, out of charity, in August last entertained a poor woman in his house who was cast out in the streets. She continued in his house five or six weeks, in which time she got a key to open his cupboard door where his money was, which being discovered by Ann Dixon, petitioner's daughter, aged fourteen, and the woman questioned, she threatened to procure petitioner's daughter much trouble, and went to the bailiffs of Ipswich, informing them that the child had spoken words against the King, and that a neighbour had heard the words. The neighbour, being examined, denied the same; notwithstanding, because the complaint imported matter concerning his Majesty, the bailiffs committed petitioner's daughter to prison. The accuser soon after fled the town, and petitioner's daughter has continued fourteen weeks and is there like to continue, until you signify your pleasure. Beseeches directions for liberation of his daughter. [1 p.] Annexed.
8. ii. Certificate of Edmund Humfrey and seven others. That the woman who accused the daughter of John Dixon, immediately after the accusation, forsook Ipswich, and has not been seen there since. [¾ p.]
Jan. 2.
Boston.
9. Sir Anthony Irby to Sir Dudley Carleton. I lately received a letter from the Council, to which I am commanded to give answer, which I have done by these letters (see the present Volume, No. 1), which I request you with speed to present at their next sitting. P.S.—There are two petitions enclosed. [Seal with arms. 1 p.]
Jan. 3. 10. Petition of Robert and Margaret Buckley, children of Sir Richard Buckley, late of Beaumaris, deceased, to the King. Petitioners, son and daughter of Sir Richard and Dame Ann his wife, which Ann has since intermarried with Thomas Cheadle, late servant unto Sir Richard, have been by Cheadle reported to be none of the children of Sir Richard, and working on the weakness of Dame Ann he had gained her to deny petitioners. To colour the practice, Cheadle bound petitioners, being then infants, to mechanic trades by contrary names, and threatened to punish them if they challenged their right names. Petitioner Robert, about two years since, repaired to Beaumaris to his mother's house to tender his duty and entreat means of livelihood, of which Cheadle having notice, gave command that no entertainment should be given him, and prosecuting his former threats imprisoned him, vowing to detain him until he should disclaim his name and birthright. Petitioners' elder brother has 2,000l. a year, and is childless; Dame Ann, his mother, 1,000l. per annum, and has no other son but petitioner and his elder brother. As petitioners can prove themselves legitimate, pray his Majesty to give power to Archbishop Laud, Lord Keeper Coventry, the Lord Privy Seal, and Sec. Windebank, to call before them Cheadle and Dame Ann, and certify the same, that order may be directed for petitioners' relief. [Copy. ¾ p.] Underwritten,
10. i. Reference as desired. Whitehall, 3rd January 1637–8. [Copy. ¼ p.]
10. ii. Memorandum by the above referees, appointing the 13th April next for hearing the business at the Council board. 23rd January 1637–8. [Copy. ¼ p.]
Jan. 3. 11. Petition of William Carne to the King. His Majesty granted petitioner and Edward Carne his brother, for their lives, the office of receiver of the revenue of tobacco licences and portage thereof, with 200l. per annum fee, which his Majesty has sinced farmed to Lord Goring, but has allowed petitioner the 200l. per annum fee. Petitioner, being deprived of portage and other perquisites, prays his Majesty to recommend the consideration of his loss to Lord Goring, and to accept a surrender of the said patent, and grant the like to two such persons as Lord Goring shall nominate. [½ p.] Underwritten,
11. i. His Majesty accepts petitioner's surrender, and the AttorneyGeneral is to prepare a new grant to Timothy Butts and Pierce Deare with the said fee of 200l. per annum and 20s. per cent. for portage. Whitehall, 3rd January 1637–8. [½ p.]
Jan. 3. 12. Petition of Richard Corles to the King. By statute every escheator ought to return every inquisition taken by him into the Court of Chancery within one month after its date, under a penalty of 40l.; yet divers escheators by undue practice with the parties conceal the same. Prays for a commission to examine and compound with such offenders. [½ p.] Underwritten,
12. i. Reference to the Lord Treasurer and Lord Cottington to certify the conveniency of this request. Whitehall, 3rd January 1637–8. [¼ p.]
12. ii. Lord Treasurer Juxon and Lord Cottington to the King. Escheators serve but one year, every county having one. The Lord Treasurer is careful in nominating of the sufficientest and honestest sort recommended by the justices of assize. If petitioner can inform of any particular misdemeanour, that party may be proceeded against; but to grant a commission of inquiry against so many hundreds of persons will intimidate others to serve in that place, and is very "unseasonable." [2/3 p.]
12. iii. Minute of the King's pleasure that this business be proceeded in no otherwise than according to the preceding report. Windsor, 15th August 1638. [⅓ p.]
Jan. 3. 13. Entry of the appearance of Abraham Thorne, of London, merchant tailor, before the Council. He was to remain in custody of the messenger until discharged. [Draft. ⅓ p.]
Jan. 3.
Dursley.
14. Dr. Hugh Robinson, Archdeacon of Gloucester, to William Dell, Secretary to Archbishop Laud. States his proceedings in reference to an accusation brought before him against John Oldham, a parson in that neighbourhood, of having preached some erroneous doctrine. Mr. Hodges, an old gentleman in Mr. Oldham's parish, and patron of the parsonage, was referred to in proof, but pending inquiry Mr. Hodges died. Mr. Oldham is described as a little touched perhaps with preciseness by the neighbourhood of others, but of himself a weak-brained man, and thought to be crazy, certainly quickly overtaken with a little wine or beer. Mr. Hodges had before put him in the High Commission, but had withdrawn the suit as not being a competent witness, being patron of the living. The writer submits to the archbishop what he would have done with Oldham, whether he should preach contradictory to what had been articled against him, or that the business (wanting just proof) should die in silence. An unknown person who first stirred in this business the writer believes to be a younger son of Mr. Hodges, then a scholar at Oxford. [Seal with arms. 3 pp.]
Jan. 4. 15. Examination of Joseph Hutchinson, taken before Peter Heywood and George Hulbert, Justices of Peace for Middlesex. Examinant, one of the beadles of the New Corporation, had been at the tavern in St. Clement's churchyard, but the time when he could not tell. Some of his fellows were with him, but their discourse, or whether there was any speech about Mr. Prynne, he could not tell. [½ p.]
Jan. 5. Demise to Sir Popham Southcott and to Periam Pole, for seven years from Candlemas next, of the duty of 6d., payable by the makers of hard soap in Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, and Exeter, for every dozen soap made and vended in those counties, rendering the yearly rent of 1,800l. The making or vending of any other hard soap in those counties is restrained, excepting Sir Richard Weston's Castile soap, and the hard soap made by them of Bristol and Bridgwater. [Docquet.]
Jan. 5.
Whitehall.
Lords of the Admiralty to Lord Keeper Coventry. Certificate that John Crane, Surveyor of Marine Victuals, has been daily employed in the said office, from 1st January 1636–7 to 31st December following. Order is prayed for payment of 5s. 4d. per diem, amounting to 97l. 6s. 8d. [Copy. Vol. cccliii., fol. 78. ⅓ p.]
Jan. 5. 16. Note-book by Nicholas of proceedings upon various special references, and especially of a committee for revising the regulations for government of the royal household; for businesses of the moneyers and the clothiers; the exportation of lampreys; the complaint that the city ships fitted out for the King's service were insufficiently supplied with men; the maintenance of ministers in Norwich; Sir John Tyrrell and Sir Henry Browne (see 7th November 1637); complaint of the merchants of Norwich against Witherings; and of various places against the assessments for ship-money; petition of Sir Lawrence Washington for settlement of his fees as registrar of the Court of Chancery (see Vol. ccclxxii., No. 26), and various others. These notes extend from this day to the 30th inst. [112 pp., of which 91 contain writing.]
Jan. 5.
Whitehall.
17. Order of the Lord Privy Seal, the Earl Marshal, the Earl of Dorset, and Sec. Windebank, referees of a petition to the King of Nowell Warner, master of his Majesty's barges, respecting the exportation of lampreys, already calendared under date of 21st November 1637. After full hearing of all parties this day it was ordered by the referees that Warner should thenceforth take off from the fishermen 400,000 lampreys at 52s. per thousand, and no more, unless, finding the vent beyond sea to require a greater quantity, he shall think fit to take more at that rate. And if the fishermen take a greater quantity than 400,000, they are to sell them at home for the use of the company of the great fishing of Great Britain or otherwise in the markets, but not to transport any until after the 20th January, and then not in foreign bottoms, but according to the orders of the 14th March 1635–6 and the 22nd July 1636. It was also ordered that no person should be allowed to fish for lampreys but those that were of the corporation of fishermen, and such only of them as were fishermen. [Draft, with alterations made by Nicholas. 1¼ p.]
Jan. 5. 18. Copy of the preceding order, without the alterations made by Nicholas. [2¼ pp.]
Jan. 5.
Whitehall.
19. The Council to Attorney-General Bankes. We send you a paper signed by Edward Woodfine and Richard Johnson, silkweavers, wherein they charge Thomas Sandiford, a silkweaver, with having uttered dangerous speeches. We pray you to send for the parties and examine them both in private and apart to discover the truth, and having so done to commit Sandiford, and certify us of your proceedings. [Draft. 1 p.]
Jan. 5. 20. Minutes of resolutions of the Committee of Council appointed to revise the regulations of the royal household. These resolutions principally relate to the opinions of the committee on some previous orders which were reconsidered at this time. Endorsed are brief notes by Nicholas of other points considered by the committee. [= 2¼ pp.]
Jan. 6. 21. John Toppe and George Howe to Lord Treasurer Juxon. According to directions, they had called to them able workmen and taken a view of the pigeon-house of the Dean of Windsor at Knoyle Episcopi, Wilts (see Vol. ccclxi., No. 8). They describe it as a very strong-built house of stone, the walls three foot nine inches in thickness. The servants of Mr. Thornhill dug for saltpetre in the house after Christmas 1635, and in the following January or February. The part of the house which is fallen down is the whole inner lining of one side, about 2½ foot in thickness. The ruin happened about Easter, after the digging, and did not take place by casualty of wind or tempest. Austin Golsbery, Mr. Thornhill's servant, told the workmen that they had dug too near the north side. The ground was dug beneath the foundation above a foot. Mr. William Willoughby concurs in this report, but does not sign it because his name was mistaken, Henry for William, in the Lord Treasurer's letter. [Seal with arms. 2 pp.]
Jan. 6. 22. Account by Sir William Russell of ship-money levied and in arrear under writs of August 1636. Received, 185,015l. 5s. 9½d.; unpaid, 11,599l. 1s. 10½d. [1 p.]
Jan. 7. Petition of Christopher Beresford, Feodary for co. Lincoln, to the King. Petitioner served King James in the said office eleven years, and has since served his Majesty, to the advancement of the King's revenues, for which service petitioner may have incurred the displeasure of some persons who may bring causeless suits against him, and so draw scandal to the service, and put him to great expenses. Also for that petitioner has had other employments in the Court of Wards and Liveries, for which he desires to rest secure, therefore he prays a pardon of all errors and offences by him done in the Court of Wards and Liveries, and to refer the consideration thereof to Lord Cottington, master of the said court. [Copy. See Vol. cccxxiii., p. 239. ½ p.] Underwritten,
i. Reference to Lord Cottington, to certify his opinion. Whitehall, 7th January 1637–8. [Copy. Ibid. 1/6 p.]
ii. Francis Lord Cottington to the King. Petitioner is a person of good reputation and diligent in his office. There is no information or complaint against him. If your Majesty please to admit him to a composition, I know no inconvenience in it. [Copy. Ibid. 1/6 p.]
iii. Reference to Lord Cottington to compound with petitioner and give order to the Attorney-General to prepare a pardon as desired. Whitehall, 6th February 1637–8. [Copy. Ibid., p. 240. 1/6 p.]
Jan. 7. 23. Foulke Reed to Edward Viscount Conway and Killultagh. Mr. Kite holds possession of Ragley house, his sister and some of her children being there. He is not forward to examine the inventory of the goods left with Lord Brooke which afterwards came to him. Some walls in the house and outhouses, which were down, the writer has caused to be made up, that wandering people escaped out of infected places might not get in and lodge there. The park pales require to be repaired, having been much neglected from the beginning of Lord Brooke's lease. A large liberty some thereabouts have taken in using their guns in this time of Lord Brooke's lease. Some are to be indicted at the next quarter sessions. A fowling piece of Mr. Ems, one of Lord Conway's tenants, had been taken from another that shot with it at pigeons and has been detained upon the excuse of consulting Lord Conway before it were delivered. The two pigeon-houses at Ragley are both destroyed and the hernery. The sickness is in Inkberrow parish in two or three houses. [1½ p.]
Jan. 8. 24. Petition of John Leaver to Archbishop Laud. Petitioner about six months ago brought over 1,000 books, called the Practice of Piety, printed at Amsterdam, 800 whereof were delivered into the custody of Mr. Knight, registrar of the High Commission, and the other 200 to the Company of Stationers, by information of Philip Chetwind, unto whom of right the copy belongs. Beseeches that the said books may be delivered to Chetwind, who thereupon is content to surcease his suit against petitioner in the High Commission. [2/3 p.] Underwritten,
24. i. Reference to Sir John Lambe to give an account of this petition at his next coming [to Lambeth]. 8th January 1637–8. [1/6 p.]
Jan. 8. 25. John Ashburnham to Nicholas. The writer explains, in reference to some estate for which he had been in treaty on behalf of Nicholas, why it had been declined, and urges him to prosecute his enquiries respecting Broadlands. One Godfrey used it a long time, and paid about 280l. or 300l. per annum rent for it, but he got infinitely by it. He left it the last Michaelmas, and Mr. Symbarbe [St. Barbe, described previously in this letter as living in the New Forest, and said to be an honest man,] has it now in his own hands, and by what I hear it may be worth about 400l. per annum. It is the best land in all our county, and my fingers itch to be dealing with it. The Dr. [Matthew Nicholas] had paid the writer a visit, and brought with him Edward Nicholas's son John, who is spoken of as a youth of very great promise. His other son Ned had lighted on a very ill schoolmaster. [Seal with arms. 1¾ p.]
Jan. 8. 26. Account by Sir William Russell of ship-money received and paid in his office during the years 1635, 1636, and 1637. Sir William had paid 17,125l. 12s. 4d., more than he had received, and was to pay 6,300l. more, making in all 23,425l. 12s. 4d., against which there were arrears during the three years mentioned, amounting to 20,870l. 19s. 3d. [1 p.]
Jan. 8. 27. Bond of William Frizell of London, gentleman, to Endymion Porter of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, esquire, in 300l., conditioned for payment by Frizell of 104l. to John Hall of Milk Street in the parish of St. Lawrence in the Old Jury, which sum was secured by the joint bond of Frizell and Porter. [1 p.]
Jan. 8. 28. Certificate of Roger Kirkby, sheriff of co. Lancaster, of his assessment of 4,000l. upon the said county. The borough of Liverpool was set down at 25l., that of Lancaster at 30l., and the parish of Manchester at 132l. 14s. 7d. The return states the names of all the clergy, with the amounts assessed upon them. [8 pp.]
Jan. 8. 29. Estimate of the charge of such a fleet of ships as was employed in 1637, for the like time, with the surcharge in arrear for that year; total, 197,905l. 12s. 4d. [1 p.]
Jan. 9.
Whitehall.
30. The Council to the Bailiffs of Ipswich. Ann Dixon was accused to have spoken words against his Majesty, for which she was committed to prison (see this Vol., No. 8). The accuser having fled, and a neighbour alleged to have heard the words having denied the same, Ann Dixon is to be set at liberty. [Draft. ¾ p.]
Jan. 9/19.
The Hague.
31. Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia to Sir Thomas Roe. I send Honywood into England about my own particular business. My son takes this occasion again to acquaint the King what has passed lately betwixt him and Milandre, which Honywood will inform you of; he can also clear your doubt why my son did not presently take that army to himself. You may freely speak to him of all things. The frost is such as we can hear from no place, so I can tell you nothing of Bannier. I think the treaty is so frozen at Hamburgh as it will die of cold. My fingers have at this present the same disease. [Seals with arms. 1 p.]
Jan. 9. 32. Officers of the Navy to the Lords of the Admiralty. We have according to direction examined the charge in the building and launching the Sovereign of the Seas, and enclose a brief extract thereof. [¾ p.] Enclosed,
32. i. Certificate of the charge above mentioned. Total, 33,846l. 5s. 4d. [2 pp.]
Jan. 9. 33. The same to the same. According to warrant of 2nd December last, we have considered of pursers, boatswains, gunners, and carpenters fit to be removed into greater ships, as also of able men to be preferred in their room, all whose names we present. [1 p.]
Jan. 9.
Whitehall.
[Commissioners for Gunpowder] to Master of the Ordnance. Warrant to deliver one last of powder at 18d. per lb. to Edmund Beane, of London, skinner. [Minute. See Vol. ccclv., No. 61, p. 5. ¼ p.]
Jan. 9. Minute of similar warant for Robert Russell, of London, chandler, to receive 12 barrels of powder. [Ibid. 2 lines.]
About Jan. 9.
Danbury.
34. Sir Humphry Mildmay, Sheriff of Essex, to Sir Dudley Carleton. I received yours the 6th inst. My man being at Walden with Banson, the bailiff of the hundred, this — Hanchett, did this wrong to his Majesty's service, and for the mistake of his christian name that rascal the bailiff is to be blamed, and no man else. I have complained of them all in general for a nest of rascals; they have much of his Majesty's money in their hands. I have written to my brother Henry Mildmay, about Thomas Lathum. At the Council board, I hope to charge him with that he cannot answer, and yet I know his face is brass enough. On Friday next I go for London, and from thence to attend this his Majesty's service. P.S.—John Dinely on his way towards [the] Hague dined here the day before, and this day, waiting for a ship and wind, is ready at Gravesend. [¾ p.]
Jan. 9.
London.
35. Nicholas Murford to Endymion Porter, one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber. I should have been glad of your presence at some assemblies holden for the corporation of saltmakers of Great Yarmouth at Arundel House, where you were desired and expected by Lord Maltravers, our governor, and the assembly, that you might have taken the oath of an assistant, and have been possessed of such important matters as concern his Majesty's service in our salt design. It was concluded that for this year a proportion of work should be erected near the Thames, for the vent of the city of London, and every assistant to give his answer, whether "yea or no" he will undertake therein, and to what proportion. My extreme want of [health permits me not to attend you, therefore I appoint a time for taking the oath. [Seal with arms. 1 p.]
Jan. 9. 36. Certificate of Robert Pope, Constable of the eastern part of the hundred of Bempstone, Somerset, that he had received 160l. shipmoney, and had made payment accordingly, and that Thomas Cake, his partner for the western part, had received 80l., out of which he had only paid 26l. [¾ p.] Underwritten,
36. i. Note by William Bassett, late sheriff of Somerset. I have often sent to Thomas Cake to pay his money, and give me an acknowledgment of arrears alleged to be in his hands, but cannot hear of him, and therefore desire your Lordships to take course with him. [¼ p.]
Jan. 9.
Whitehall.
37. Notes by Nicholas of various resolutions come to at the Committee for the regulation of the Royal Household. [Draft. 2 pp.]
Jan. 10. Warrant to Thomas Killigrew and Robert Read, of the real and personal estate of Francis Lockwood, accruing to his Majesty by reason he died a Romish priest. [Docquet.]
Jan. 10. Grant to Edward Manning of the manors of Bradbury and Hilton, co. Durham, for 979 years, at the rent of 550l., and the covenants contained in a grant by King James in the 14th year of his reign to Thomas Emerson for 1,000 years. The interest of which lease being come to Edward Manning, he had surrendered the same to his Majesty, to the end his Majesty would grant the same to him in his own name. [Docquet.]
Jan. 10. Warrant for enstalling the first fruits of the bishopric of Bangor at the rate of 118l. 12s. 9d., and of the archdeaconry of Anglesea, which the Bishop of Bangor holds in commendam, at the rate of 53l. 14s. (the tenths of both being deducted). The first payment to be made on the feast of St. Michael next, and the whole sums be paid within 4 years. [Docquet.]
Jan. 10. Grant of the office of one of the Auditors of the Exchequer to John Phelips, son of Francis Phelips, one of the present Auditors, when the same shall become void by death of the present seven officers and of William Hill the younger, who is first in reversion after them, [Docquet.]
Jan. 10. Warrant for payment of 265l. 7s. to William Boreman, his Majesty's locksmith, in full satisfaction for his making anew and altering all the locks of his Majesty's lodging and garden at Whitehall and of St. James's park, and making keys thereto. [Docquet.]
Jan. 10. Warrant of the Chief Justices of the King's Bench and Common Plea, the Lord Chief Baron, and the rest of the Judges and Barons, for rating such reasonable sum as they shall think fit to serve for a fine upon plaintiffs and demandants, defendants and tenants, after judgment, in all his Majesty's courts of record, to be paid to his Majesty. [Docquet.]
Jan. 10. Petition of Henry Birkenhead to the King. Your Majesty, in January in the third year of your reign, granted petitioner and Henry Birkenhead his son, and Thomas the petitioner's brother, the offices of prothonotary and clerk of the crown for cos. Chester and Flint. For establishing all fees belonging to the said offices in March 1636, your Majesty referred the examination of the same to the Justices of Chester and Flint, which they have accordingly done. Petitioner's suit is, that your Majesty would refer the consideration of the said judges' certificate to the commissioners for fees, who, upon due examination, may give warrant to the AttorneyGeneral for preparing your Majesty's confirmation of such fees, that petitioner may enjoy the same without question hereafter. [Copy. See Vol. cccxxiii., p. 221. ¾ p.] Underwritten,
i. Reference as prayed. Whitehall, 10th January 1637–8. [Copy. Ibid. ¼ p.]
Jan. 10. 38. Book of names of all members of the Council present at their meetings on January 10th, 12th, 17th, 19th, 21st, 23rd, 24th, 26th, 28th, and 31st. The King was present at the meetings of the 21st and 28th. [32 pages, of which 19 are blank.]
Jan. 10.
Whitehall.
39. Order of Council. Recites petition of the merchants of Exeter and inhabitants of Barnstaple, complaining that by a privy seal issued in March last, a former privy seal, to exempt petitioners from paying the import of 1s. 4d. upon a Barnstaple single baize was restrained to the port of Barnstaple and the members thereof. Recites also a reference to the Lord Treasurer and Lord Cottington, their report dated the 9th January inst., and a certificate of Sir John Wolstenholme and Sir Abraham Dawes, farmers of the customs, dated 16th December last, upon consideration whereof the Lords held that the exemption in question should extend to Exeter and Dartmouth as well as Barnstaple, and directed a privy seal to be prepared accordingly. [Draft. 22/3 pp.]
Jan. 10. 40. Order of Council. It appearing under the hand of Capt. Nathaniel Darell, lieutenant to the Earl of Danby, governor of Guernsey, that Henry Burton, clerk, according to directions from this board, was delivered the 16th December last a prisoner into Castle Cornet, in which service several sums of money had been disbursed by Roger Kirkby, sheriff of co. Lancaster, the Lords ordered that Kirkby be allowed the same in the Exchequer. [Draft. ¾ p.]
Jan. 10.
Whitehall.
41. Similar order. The Governor, Assistants, and Fellowship of the Eastland Merchants by petition represented that divers of that company were questioned in the Star Chamber for exporting dollars which they took for payment of their foreign customs in places where they either trade not at all, or where their commodities vend slowly; the Lords, upon examination of their charter and the nature of such foreign customs, not only freed those particular merchants, but granted liberty for a future exportation of a limited proportion of dollars; whereupon they sought licence that each of their ships might carry out a dollar and a half per ton. The Lords recommend the examination of this proposal to the Lord Treasurer and Lord Cottington. [Draft. 1¼ p.]
Jan. 10. 42. The like. The Company of Coopers by petition showed that having time out of mind been accustomed to buy and sell wines in gross, the Company of Vintners now endeavour to suppress them, to their utter undoing, and therefore, according to his Majesty's reference, desired to be heard at the Board. The Lords appointed to hear them on the 19th inst., and ordered that the vintners should have a copy of the said petition and notice to attend. [Draft. 1½ p.]
Jan. 10. 43. Minute of a warrant to George Carter, messenger, to fetch before the Lords Robert Jason. [½ p.]
Jan. 10. Similar minute of a warrant to the Warden of the Fleet to take into his custody Simon Corbet. [Written on the same paper as the preceding. ½ p.]
Jan. 10. 44. Petition of Law[rence] Squibb, Ja[mes] Proger, and Ro[bert] Squibb, his Majesty's Officers for Cards, to the Council. Since the proclamation touching cards and dice, there have been divers abuses committed by some ill-disposed cardmakers of London, by selling cards unsealed, making bad cards, and putting the marks of French cardmakers both on their cards and binders. For reforming which abuses petitioners conceive it necessary that all the moulds for printing their "teats and varlets" be brought into his Majesty's office, and be there printed, it being the black of the "coat" cards, whereof enough may be done in three hours as will serve for a month's work for one man, the same course being held by the whole company when they were united, according to orders confirmed by the Lord Keeper and the two chief justices. Pray warrant for bringing in their moulds accordingly. [Copy. ¾ p.] Endorsed,
44. i. Reference to the Attorney-General to send for some of the chiefest cardmakers, and to certify his opinion thereupon. Whitehall, 10th January 1637–8. [Copy. ¼ p.]
44. ii. Attorney-General Bankes to the Council. I have conferred with the Company of Cardmakers, who are contented for a trial to bring in their moulds for one quarter of a year for printing their teats and varlets at the office, and according as they shall like thereof to continue longer. It is alleged by the cardmakers that there are some that by law ought not to make cards, who have instruments whereby they make the same deceitfully, and sell the same concealed; and therefore petitioners desire a warrant to search for such instruments, and to take all such as shall be found, which I conceive may tend to his Majesty's service. 25th January 1637. [Copy. ¾ p.]
Jan. 10. 45. Robert Sumpter, mayor, and seventeen others, of Norwich, to the Council. The merchants and buyers of Norwich stuffs came lately before us, and made known their grievances in respect of the weekly carriage of letters from the city to and from London, and that they intended to manifest the same to the Board, and desired our letters therein. We inform you that their said grievances are conceived upon good grounds, and that the feared consequence likely to follow by the alteration of the ancient use of carriage of letters to and fro may be very dangerous, not only to the merchants and tradesmen in this city who have commerce with London, but in a more especial manner to the makers of stuffs, and to many thousands of poor who by them are employed, besides the great detriment which will thereby befall the common carriers. [1 p.]
Jan. 10.
Bristol.
46. William Jones, mayor of Bristol, to Lords of the Admiralty. Upon receipt of your letters of the 19th December, touching gunpowder mills, I made search, and could find but two, both which I have caused to be suppressed, by taking into custody the implements, in such sort as they are wholly disabled to work any more. [¾ p.]
Jan. 10.
Whitehall.
Commissioners for Saltpetre to all Mayors, Sheriffs, and other officers. There is much occasion for carriage of gunpowder from the powder mills at Chilworth to London, and likewise of saltpetre from London to the mills. We require you to assist Samuel Cordewell, his Majesty's gunpowder-maker, in taking up such carriages as he shall desire to use, he paying for the same after the rate of 6d. per mile, the price allowed by the saltpetremen for carriage of saltpetre. [Copy. See Vol. ccxcii., p. 73. ¾ p.]
Jan. 10.
London.
47. Sir James Bagg to Nicholas. I was this morning to have delivered you the enclosed, but you were not stirring. Be informed by this relation from Sir Ed[ward] Seamour [Seymour] and Dr. Marten our judge, of the misdemeanours of Hawkins and the other, and have it amongst your remembrances for this day. In the afternoon, when I attend my Lords, I will inform of the business, and petition their aid. [Seal with arms. ¾ p.]
Jan. 10. 48. Estimate of Officers of the Ordnance of the charge of making a new foundry at Brenchley, Kent, for John Browne to cast ordnance for the Sovereign of the Seas; 1,000l. [¾ p.]
Jan. [10 ?]. 49. Statement of the shares in which 12,000l. was to be raised during the present year by the adventurers in the drainage of the Eight Hundred Fen, for carrying on works of drainage from Bourn to Kyme, and from Kyme to Lincoln. The statement is signed by the Earl of Lindsey, Sir William Killigrew, and Robert Long. The two former, with the addition of the Earl of Dorset, Lord Willoughby, Peregrine Bertie, Sir Edward Heron, Sir Thomas Stafford, Sir Francis Godolphin, Sir John Brooke, Sir Dudley North, and Mr. Langton, were the adventurers assessed. [2 pp.]
Jan. [10 ?]. 50. Copy of the same, unsigned. [2¾ pp.]
Jan 11. 51. The Council to Sir Henry Marten. We send you a petition of Jacob Braems, customer of Dover, wherein he shows that for his loss of fishing busses taken by Dunkirkers, upon our directions to Sir John Pennington, the 22nd October last, to make stay of any Dunkirk shipping he could meet with, Sir John has caused a Dunkirk ship to be stayed at Plymouth, two-thirds laden with salt, and in regard petitioner has had no reparations from the Dunkirkers, and his Majesty's agent at Brussels is in small hopes of obtaining any satisfaction, he prays that the said salt and ship may be delivered to him, in part satisfaction. We pray you to give such direction therein as may be agreeable to equity and justice and the proceedings in that court. [Draft. 1 p.]
Jan. 11. 52. Minute of appearance of Robert Jason at the Council board this day; he is to remain in the custody of the messenger. [¼ p.]
Jan. 11.
Wells.
53. Bishop Pierce, of Bath and Wells, John Malet, and William Bassett, late sheriffs of Somerset, to the Council. We certified on 1st August last, in a difference between Henry Hodges, late sheriff of Somerset, and the inhabitants of the hundred of Wellow, concerning 40l. due for the shipping, that we had ordered that Hodges should pay the said sum, and be relieved by the hundred when he should make proof of the delivery of his warrant imposing the same during his shrievalty. We have since received your letters of the 19th November last, with Hodges's petition and certain affidavits, and find that Hodges has now made proof of the delivery of the said warrant. We have therefore ordered that the said sum shall be paid by the hundred of Wellow and liberty of Norton St. Philip, and Hodges be discharged thereof. [1 p.]
Jan 11.
London.
54. Nicholas Murford to Nicholas. Similar in purport to his letter to Endymion Porter of the 9th inst. (No. 35). He solicits a determination on the part of Nicholas whether his more important business will permit him to take the oath and office of an assistant of the Corporation of Saltmakers of Great Yarmouth, and states generally what was concluded at the late meeting at Arundel House. [Seal with arms. 1 p.]
Jan. 12. Warrant to the Exchequer for striking a tally, purporting a discharge to Michael Holman and Richard Holman, of 700l. paid by them to the Earl of Morton, receiver of moneys arising by the late commission for scriveners and brokers, in full of a composition made by them for offences committed in their trade, for which his Majesty has granted them his pardon. [Docquet.]
Jan. 12. Similar warrant to give order to the Farmers of the Greenwax for payment of 1,200l. per annum to Sir Richard Wynn, treasurer and receiver-general to the Queen, for her use during her life, in lieu of so much of her greenwax as his Majesty has taken for prevention of disputes with sundry sheriffs and bailiffs about the collection of the said greenwax, which said 1,200l. per annum is to be paid in manner following; viz., by the Earl of Berkshire, particular farmer of the post-fines, 800l. thereof; by the said Earl and his brother Lord Howard for their joint farm, 300l.; and by Sir William Brouncker out of the issues of jurors, 100l., residue thereof. [Docquet.]
Jan. 12. The like to discharge the Queen and her Officers of all moneys paid to her use for nonpayment of respite of homage, commonly called Exitus et Amerciamenta coram Baronibus, notwithstanding the same is not comprised amongst the titles of the Greenwax granted to her by his Majesty. [Docquet.]
Jan. 12. Petition of Sir Henry Willoughby to the King. Upon divers acts touching the Great Level in cos. Northampton, Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincoln, Cambridge, Huntingdon, and the Isle of Ely, acted by the Commissioners of Sewers, there was "accosted" [allotted] to the undertakers of that level 76 acres of petitioner's several enclosures in Medney and Southery in Norfolk. Petitioner dwelling in Derbyshire, near 100 miles from the said place, could not at the time attend the commissioners to give them satisfaction why no part of the said enclosures should be set out for draining, but doubts not to give them such satisfaction if your Majesty will refer the same to their further hearing. Petitioner can make it appear that Sir John Willoughby, his father, about 40 years since, drained the ground of Medney and Southery, and laid the same absolutely dry, after whose decease petitioner had the same decreed to him in the 1st James I., he undertaking to keep the same drained, so as now the same grounds cannot any ways be bettered by the acts of the undertakers. Prays reference to such of the commissioners as were not parties to the said allotments, calling unto them the Surveyor-General to do therein as justice shall require. [Copy. See Vol. cccxxiii., p. 223. ¾ p.] Underwritten,
i. Reference to the Earl of Bedford, Sir Charles Herbert, and the Surveyor-General as prayed. [Copy. Ibid. ¼ p.]
Jan. 12.
Whitehall.
55. Order of Council upon a petition of the Governor, Assistants, and Fellowship of the Eastland Merchants. Petitioners showed that at the last parliament in Poland an edict was made prohibiting the importation into that country of cloth except of certain sizes, which the statute of 4th James I. does not allow to be made in this country. Petitioners have cause to fear confiscation will be made upon such as transgress, and therefore humbly pray a toleration for making cloth for the Eastland vent in Suffolk, Essex, and Norfolk, and also in North-country clothing and perpetuanoes. The Lords conceiving this business to be a matter of great importance, referred the same to the Lord Treasurer and Lord Cottington, who, calling to them the Attorney-General and some of the most able merchants, are to consult of the petitioners' request, and to consider what has been heretofore done by the Council Board or otherwise upon any important occasion for altering the size of cloths from what is required by the statutes, and with all conveniency, in regard the time of shipping approaches, to return a certificate to the Board. [Draft. 2½ pp.]
Jan. 12.
Whitehall.
56. Similar order. The Attorney-General having, by relation of Thomas Violet, exhibited an information in the Star Chamber against John Massingberd, of London, merchant, for transporting great quantities of gold and silver without licence, the Lords, at the suit of Massingberd, referred the examination thereof to the Attorney-General, and after he had certified the Lords how he found the case to stand, the Lords caused Violet and Massingberd to be called before the Board. Violet was not able to prove that Massingberd had transported any gold or silver other than for the East India Company, who have licences for transporting certain proportions yearly, and were found to have shipped many thousand pounds less than they might have done, Massingberd being their agent. The Lords thereupon ordered the Attorney-General that Massingberd be no further proceeded against in the Star Chamber upon that information. [Draft, corrected in many particulars by the Lord Privy Seal. 1 p.]
Jan. 12. 57. Another previous draft of the same order. [1¼ p.]
Jan. 12.
Whitehall.
58. Order of Council upon the complaint of the Company of Glaziers against Sir Robert Mansell and his contractors, in reference to the dearness, badness, and scarcity of glass, and the want of full size. Sir Robert Mansell answered that the dearness was the result of the rise in the price of all the materials; that the scarcity was occasioned by the mortality that fell amongst the workmen at Newcastle during the late visitation, and since for want of shipping; and that as to the badness, he agreed that whatever proved nought in the making should be broken at the furnace, and when the cases came here the glaziers should have the disposal thereof, paying the contractor for so much as they take. These answers seemed reasonable, but the Lords having found by their own experience that glass was not so fair, so clear, nor so strong as the same was wont to be, ordered that Sir Robert should take effectual care in those particulars. It was further objected that Sir Robert had contracted for all his glass with Lancelot Hobson, so that the glaziers could have none but such as he thought fit, and that he cut the glass into quarries, and made a reservation at Newcastle of the best glass. It was thought fit that the contract with Hobson should be dissolved, and that the cutters should be recalled from Newcastle, and no more be cut there, with a variety of other regulations to ensure the glaziers a proper supply, and at reasonable price. [Draft, with alterations by Nicholas. 2½ pp.]
Jan. 12.
Whitehall.
59. First draft of the preceding, with a variety of alterations made by the Lord Privy Seal, who has written upon it a note to Nicholas in reference to the changes he had made. [2¼ pp.]
Jan. 12. 60. Order of Council on the complaint of Ralph Moore and other hour-glass makers against Sir Robert Mansell, on account of the badness and dearness of their glasses (see Vol. ccclxxiii., No. 82). Sir Robert having entirely refuted the pretences of these petitioners, the Lords held their complaints to be merely clamorous and causeless, and ordered that if they thereafter troubled the Board they should be committed to prison. [Draft. 1 p.]
Jan. 12. 61. The like on the petition of William Price, groom of the chamber, who showed that by order of 29th September last a former order was confirmed for reducing six new houses which petitioner had built in Holborn into one house, and also that the houses which Nicholas Hudson, shoemaker, had begun to build, should be reduced to stables for the use of the said house; and the governors of the hospital of St. Bartholomew were required to take such course that the said order should be accomplished, which the governors have endeavoured to do, but Hudson remains refractory. The Lords ordered that some of the governors of the hospital and Hudson attend the Lords on the 19th instant. [Draft. 1 p.]
Jan. 12.
Whitehall.
62. The like on the petition of John Tanner, merchant, who showed that about 18 months since the patentees for logwood contracted with the petitioner to bring in logwood for his use. Thereupon petitioner gave order in the Canary Islands to buy a parcel of that sort of wood, and about 12 tons is sent him in the Anne and Elizabeth, now in London. Entry is made in the Custom House, yet the said wood is seized at the Custom House, upon pretence of some contentions between the Earl of Ancram and the patentees, who now leave petitioner in this trouble. Petitioner has also received advice of eight ton more of the same wood now arrived in the Downs, which was sent for upon the same directions, and petitioner fears the like trouble may arise upon the same. He therefore desires leave to transport both the said parcels into foreign parts. It was ordered that copies of the petition be delivered to the Earl of Ancram and the patentees, and the Lords appointed to hear the business on the 19th instant. [Draft. 1¼ p.]
Jan 12. 63. Order of Council that the Attorney-General should consider a complaint by Edmund Conquest against Robert Jason, and examine the parties and the witnesses adduced by Conquest, and certify the Board what he finds to be the truth. [Draft. 1 p.]
Jan. 12. 64. The Council to Attorney-General Bankes. A petition having been presented to his Majesty in the name of the bailiffs and burgesses of Derby, praying a confirmation of their ancient franchises, with certain alterations expressed in a schedule annexed to the petition; according to his Majesty's pleasure, the Lords have considered the same, and think fit that the charter be renewed, with the alteration of a mayor instead of the bailiffs, and certain enlargements of jurisdiction here stated. The Attorney-General is to prepare a new charter accordingly. [2 pp.]
Jan. 12. 65. The same to the Lord Mayor of London. By several letters and orders of this Board, and particularly those of the 24th May and 7th July last, we took notice how negligently the then Lord Mayor and aldermen had performed his Majesty's commands and the directions of this Board concerning the shutting up of all such shops in Cheapside and Lombard Street as were not goldsmiths, and ordered that if the aldermen of the said wards or their deputies should not forthwith cause to be shut up every such shop they should be committed to prison. Nevertheless, we are informed there are at the least 24 houses and shops that are not inhabited by goldsmiths, but in some of them there are one Grove and widow Hill [Gill ?], stationers; one Sanders, a drugster; Medcalfe, a cook; Renatus Edwards, a girdler; John Dover, a milliner; and Brown, a bandseller, do still inhabit. We pray your Lordship to acquaint the said aldermen and their deputies therewith, and that if they do not presently put our former directions in execution we shall give such further orders as shall teach them to know that the commands of this Board ought not to be slighted. [Draft. 1 p.]
Jan. 12. 66. The same to Sir Henry Marten. Frequent directions have been given by this Board for preserving the beds and broods of oysters, and for remedying the excessive exportation of them, whereby they are now grown so exceeding scarce as they are not to be had but at extraordinary rates. To the end some expedient may be found out to meet with and prevent this decay, we require you to advise with Sir Dudley Digges, Master of the Rolls, and some other of the chief gentlemen of Kent and Essex, and to find out what is the true cause of this great scarcity, and to consider what may be a fit remedy. [Draft. 1 p.]
Jan 12. 67. The Council to Sir John Bridgeman and the rest of the Council of the Marches of Wales. We send a petition of Thomas Bushell, employed by his Majesty for discovering silver mines in Wales, who, by reason corn is scarce in those parts where his Majesty's miners work, to prevent the clamour of the country, has contracted for 1,000 quarters of corn to be delivered out of Pembrokeshire for the benefit of the said miners, but without licence he cannot be permitted to bring the same away. We recommend the same to you, requiring you to grant him licence for the same, as you shall think fit, and so from time to time either from that county or any thereabouts, if he desire it. [Draft. 1 p.]
Jan. 12. 68. The same to Bishop Pierce, of Bath and Wells, and the sheriff of Somerset. We send you a petition of the inhabitants of the hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, in Somerset, showing that in all payments they are generally charged after the proportion of 3l. in money for every 100l., or 3 men for every 100 men, according to which proportion they ought to pay 240l. towards the 8,000l. charged upon that county for shipping. According to this ancient rate, petitioners, in September last, made their collection for shipping after the proportion of 240l., but the sheriff has charged them with 280l., thereby to ease the hundred of Milverton, where the under-sheriff's estate lies. We pray you to take this complaint into consideration, and, if you find cause, to relieve petitioners, but with this proviso, that what abatement is made upon the petitioners may be charged elsewhere in that county, that so the whole sum may be fully paid. [Draft. 1¼ p.]
Jan. 12. 69. The same to all Mayors, Justices of Peace, and others. Whereas John Oved, of Tewkesbury, and John Saxby and Edward Hoggate, of Evesham, co. Worcester, by petition represented that in the said towns and other places in cos. Gloucester, Worcester, and Warwick, all manner of corn is very scarce, and the poor people without some present relief, not able to subsist. There being great plenty of corn in Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset, which may very well be spared, we require you to permit Oved, Saxby, and Hoggate to transport from the said counties for supply of the country and poor aforesaid all manner of corn, provided they enter into bond not to transport it into foreign parts. [Draft. 1 p.]
Jan. 12. 70. Minute of warrant to the Warden of the Fleet to receive into his custody Sir Thomas Fernefold. [½ p.]
Jan. 12.
Whitehall.
71. Sec. Windebank to Attorney-General Bankes. His Majesty gives licence to Lady Elizabeth Hatton to remain in and about the city of London with her family for six months from the 1st December last. You are to forbear to prosecute her or any of her family in the Star Chamber or elsewhere. [1 p.]
Jan. 12. 72. Certificate of John Pitman, late constable of the hundred of Pitney, and John Boyce and Thomas Hannam, late constables of Langport, Somerset, that the tithing of Muchelney (being within Pitney), together with Langport, by order of William Bassett, late sheriff, were ordered to pay 20l. towards ship-money, viz., for Muchelney and Midney, 12l. 7s. 8d., and for Langport, 7l. 12s. 4d.; which sum of 7l. 12s. 4d. the constables of Langport have paid to Bassett, and the residue the constables of Muchelney and Midney, viz., Roger Waggett and Richard Banbury, refuse to assess, whereby the service cannot be discharged as required. [¾ p.] Underwritten,
72. i. Note by William Bassett. Having no power to compel the said refusers to obey my warrants, I pray your Lordships to take such course with them as shall be thought fit. [¼ p.]
Jan. 12.
Ipswich.
73. Edm[und] Poley and three others, to Archbishop Laud. We have received letters from your Grace and others of the Council, concerning a further collection to be made within Suffolk towards repairing St. Paul's. There have been divers great charges imposed upon that country, as, namely, the shipping and three rates for relief of those infected with the plague in Hadleigh, Kersey, and St. Edmund's Bury, besides ordinary charges, we thought it therefore an unseasonable time to put in execution your letters, and refer it to some other time, when we may perform it with more hope of success. We desire you to accept our excuse for the hundreds of Hartismere, Samford, Bosmere and Claydon and Stow. We promise to perform the service hereafter. [1 p.]
Jan. 12. 74. Minutes of proceedings of Dr. Samuel Clarke and Dr. Robert Sibthorpe, substitutes of the chancellor and commissaries of the Bishop of Peterborough for the visitation of his diocese. These minutes relate to the acts of the visitors in relation to Peter Farren and Francis Rishworth, churchwardens of All Saints, Northampton. On the 26th October 1637, Rishworth appeared before the visitors, and was admonished to rail in the communion-table, and affix a kneeling bench to the same; also to remove certain seats extending 13 feet downward from the east end of the chancel, and place the communion-table altarwise, close to the said east end; and also to observe diligently the gestures of the ministers and parishioners, as to whether they bowed at the name of Jesus, and whether the ministers bade holy days, and turned their afternoon sermons into a catechetical way of questions and answers, or preached according to their own fancies; and also whether the parishioners received the communion kneeling. On the 16th December 1637 both the guardians appeared before the visitors, and not having performed these directions, they were warned to execute the same, for the second and third time, urgently, more urgently, and most urgently. This day they appeared again, and the mandate not having been obeyed, they were both excommunicated. [3⅓ pp.]
Jan. 12. 75. Commissioners of Sewers to the Council. Certificate made at a general sessions of sewers, held at Glanford Brigg, in reply to a petition of John Bellasis and Sir Michael Wharton, complaining of the proceedings of the commissioners in drawing a new river, called Ancholme, through the lordships of Worlaby and Saxby, belonging to petitioners, and which stood not in need of draining. The commissioners show that they proceeded upon the verdict of a jury, that the lands in question were surrounded grounds, that Sir John Monson, with the consent of the inhabitants, undertook the draining of a tract of fens of which Worlaby and Saxby are a part, and that 5,827 acres were agreed to be granted to him in compensation. They further certify that the work is in good forwardness, and that the lands alluded to are "the most sunken and wettest" in the whole level. [Signed by 12 commissioners. 50 lines on parchment.]
June 12. 76. Legal case respecting a difference between the dean of a cathedral not named and the treasurer of the same cathedral. The dean gave notice to the treasurer not to pay over a certain share in the balance of his account to a particular prebend. The treasurer disregarded the notice, and paid over the money. The question was, whether the dean might proceed against him in the chapter, and compel him to bring in the money, or in default thereof suspend, and, if necessary, deprive him. [1 p.] Underwritten,
76. i. Opinion of Dr. Arthur Duck in support of the power of the dean. 12th January 1637–8, [½ p.] Annexed,
76. ii. Opinion of Dr. Basil Woodd upon the same case. Doctors' Commons, 12th January 1637–8. [1 p.]
Jan. 13. Petition of Thomas Jermyn, his Majesty's servant, to the King. The manor and park of Killfoord, co. Denbigh, were leased by Sir John Walter, Sir Thomas Trevor, and others, lessors for your Majesty's lands as Prince of Wales, for 99 years, reserving the old rent of 20l. per annum, and a new increase of rent of 20l. to be paid from Michaelmas 1626, in which grant there is a nomine pœnœ of 8l. for every month in which the rent shall be unpaid, and also another nomine pœnœ for enrolling the grant before the auditors of the county. The new rent of 20l. per annum is unpaid ever since the same was reserved, and the lease is not enrolled, whereby there are due both the said forfeitures, of the benefit whereof petitioner beseeches a grant. [Copy. See Vol. cccxxiii., p. 224. ½ p.] Underwritten,
i. Reference to the Attorney-General to prepare a bill accordingly. Whitehall, 13th January 1637–8. [Copy. Ibid. ¼ p.]
Jan. 13.
Chester.
77. Thomas Throppe, Mayor, and 11 others, of Chester, to the Council. Answer to the letter of the justices of peace and gentry of co. Chester, complaining of the conduct of the citizens of Chester in assessing the inhabitants of Gloverstone with the city, and also in their assessments upon Sir Thomas Aston and the Bishop of Chester (see Vol. ccclxx., No. 67). In the present letter the citizens reply upon every point, but state that the Council had already referred these differences to the Earl of Derby and the judges of Chester, who had appointed to hear the same at the next assizes, until which time they conceive that they of the county needed not to have troubled the Council. [Seal of the city. 2 pp.]
Jan. 13. 78. Sir Francis Thornhagh, Sheriff of co. Nottingham, to the Council. Replies to complaints made by the southern division of the county against his assessment for ship-money, upon the ground that whereas heretofore the south and north divisions paid such taxations in equal moieties, the sheriff had unequally assessed the two divisions, to the advantage of the northern division in which he resided. In the present letter the sheriff denies that the alleged equal division applied to such payments as the ship-money, and shows by a statement of his proceedings, and the grounds of them, that he had endeavoured to make the assessment altogether fair and equal, which he asserts it to be. He offers proof of the facts stated by him, and contends that if, as the complainants asserted, the King's service would suffer in this matter, it would be by their unjust interruption, and not by his assessment. [1½ p.]
Jan. 13.
Doctors' Commons.
79. A further case, entitled "The Commoners Defence," in the matter in dispute between the dean and treasurer of a cathedral not named (see this present Vol., No. 76), with two further legal opinions thereon of Dr. Basil Woodd, both dated this day. [2 pp.]
Jan. 13.
Edinburgh.
80. W. Elphinstoun to Sec. Windebank. A letter of compliments and thanks. The writer was once an unworthy secretary to a good but unfortunate great princess. Thanks to the secretary for giving life to Mr. Croft's and the writer's Lancashire business, If obstacles occur prays him to have recourse to the fountain of piety and justice, whose graciousness will not permit the writer to suffer to extremity. [Seal with arms. 1 p.]
Jan. 13. 81. Notes by Nicholas of business to be transacted by the Lords of the Admiralty. Order to the Lord Deputy for setting forth ships for guard of the Irish seas this next spring. Fleet to be set forth for guard of the seas next spring. Peruse letters from the Officers of the Navy. Appoint deputy-boatswain in the Nonsuch. Consider Mr. Brown's answer to Delabarre's petition. Despatch three or four petitions of poor men. Sir James Bagg appointed to attend about his accounts. [Margin by Lord Treasurer Juxon: "Respectuatur." Saturday fortnight peremptory.] Consider two complaints by saltpetremen. Petition of a Dutchman recommended by the States ambassador touching 20 tons of saltpetre. The Attorney-General is to give account of the business touching Capt. Tokeley against Mr. Hooper. [1 p.]
Jan. 13.
Whitehall.
Lords of the Admiralty to Montjoy Earl of Newport. To supply the John, of London, of 260 tons, with ordnance; Jeremy Drury and others owners, Thomas Flute master. [Copy. See Vol. cccliii., fol. 78 b. 2/3 p.]
Jan. 13.
Whitehall.
The same to the same. We are informed that the powder and other provisions formerly put aboard the Henrietta and the Maria are near spent. As it is his Majesty's pleasure that these pinnaces shall be continued for this year, viz., the Henrietta for guard of the Thames and Medway, and the Maria for guard of Portsmouth, we pray you to give order for a survey of remains, and to cause them to be supplied, the master-gunners indenting for what they shall receive. [Copy. See Vol. cccliii., fol. 78 b. 2/3 p.]
Jan. 13. Lords of the Admiralty to [Henry] Kyme. To repair to the dwelling house of John Sedcole, of Exping [Epping], Essex, and bring him before the Lords to answer matters to be objected against him. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 79. ⅓ p.]
Jan. 13.
Whitehall.
Order of the same Lords upon the petition of David Eliot, John Thompson, and five other sailors. Petitioners showed that they were last summer employed by Capt. Trenchfield, Mr. Clements, Mr. Willoughby, and other merchants of London, in the Discovery, under Capt. Man, and were promised their wages and the sixth part of goods taken in any prizes. The ship took four prizes of a very great value, but the merchants have not performed their agreement. Petitioners besought the Lords to call the merchants to show cause why they detain petitioners' right. The Lords ordered Sir Henry Marten to examine the truth of the complaint, and take order for petitioners' satisfaction. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 79 b. ½ p.]
Jan. 13.
Whitehall.
The same Lords to the Officers of the Navy. By reason of the infirmity of Mr. Fleming, Clerk of the Navy, divers persons have made suit to his Majesty, and some of them have procured a reference to us, to succeed in that office. We are desirous, when the place shall be void, to have it supplied with an able man. We pray you to certify to us the names of such persons as you conceive to be of most sufficiency to discharge the same. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 77 b. ½ p.]
Jan. 13. 82. John Crane to the Lords of the Admiralty. I have made provision for such a number of men for six months service at sea for 1638 as was employed for the last year. My suit is, that you will give order to Sir William Russell to make me payment of 10,000l., upon the first moneys [that] shall come to his hands from the counties. [1 p.]
Jan. 13. 83. Account of gunpowder spent in 13 of the ships of the Fleet employed at sea in 1637. [1 p.]
Jan. 13. 84. See "Papers relating to Appointments in the Navy."
Jan. 14. 85. Receipt of W. Fotherby for 165 barrels of gunpowder containing 16,558 lbs., from Mr. Cordewell, from the powder mills at Chilworth, being the return of 175 barrels sent out of the East India Company's storehouse at Blackwall to be refined. [½ p.]
Jan 15. Grant to Lawrence Squibb of the office of one of the two clerks of the Court of Wards and Liveries in reversion after Richard Chamberlain, Hugh Audley, and James Maxwell, upon surrender made by Francis Jenoure, who had the same office granted to him on 15th August 1630. [Docquet.]
Jan. 15. Petition of the Warden and Officers of the Mint to the King. Your royal predecessors above 300 years since incorporated the warden, workmasters, moneyers, and other ministers of the Mint, and their charter has been confirmed and enlarged by succeeding kings. Of late years divers privileges have been broken and some lost, namely, the keeping a court where all actions concerning the several members of that corporation ought to be tried and their disorders regulated. For want of that court many great disorders have crept in. Pray that such court be renewed. [Copy. See Vol. cccxxiii., p. 224. ¾ p.] Underwritten,
i. Minute of the King's pleasure that the court above mentioned be revived, and Mr. Attorney-General is to take especial care in drawing up a confirmation or further grant of the charter. Whitehall, 15th January 1637–8. [Copy. Ibid. ¼ p.]
Jan. 15. 86. Alderman Henry Andrews to Richard Fenn, Lord Mayor of London. In obedience to the late Lord Mayor's precept touching the shutting up tradesmen's shops in Goldsmiths Row in Cheapside, I and my deputy caused the said shops several times to be shut up, and the then Lord Mayor in person did the like; yet finding some to continue the opening in part, the then Lord Mayor committed to prison John Bartlett, bookseller, and Roger Stoughton, haberdasher of small wares. Since, upon receipt of your precept, according to the Lords' command of the 12th inst., I went with my deputy and a constable and read unto them your precept, and shut up the shops of John Dover, haberdasher of small wares or perfumer of gloves, Renatus Edwards, girdler, and Roger Stoughton, and gave warning to the constable if he found any of their shops open, or they or their servants using their trades, that they should bring them before you. The inhabitants complain that they have sustained great loss by shutting up their houses, so that they are disabled to pay duties to the King, the city, or parish, except some goldsmiths do take their houses of them. [1¼ p.]
Jan. 15. 87. Alderman Sir George Whitmore to the same. Similar letter, differing in the names of those whose shops had been shut up. "The poor widow Gill [Hill], Grove, Sanders, and Medcalfe" are the persons here mentioned. [1¾ p.]
Jan. 16. 88. The Council to all Mayors and other Officers. In the Ann Mary, whereof John Butler is master, there is laden a good quantity of Castile or hard soap, which ship being now in the Thames, it is believed that the said soap will be landed here, contrary to proclamation. You are required to be aiding to Richard Charnock, who is appointed to make search for such soap laden in the said ship, and to seize the same for the use of his Majesty. [Draft. ¾ p.]
Jan. 16. 89. Copy of the same. [1 p.]
Jan. 16. 90. Minute of a warrant to the Keeper of Bridewell to set at liberty James Leveret, a gardener. [¼ p.]
Jan. 16. 91. Philip Burlamachi to Sec. Windebank. Having intelligence from his friends in Paris of certain exceptions taken by the ambassadors to Burlamachi's account of sums received there on account of the Queen's marriage portion, he enters into a long explanation of the state of the account, with the sums received by him and the losses and deductions to which he had been subjected by the state of the exchanges and in other ways. If any one could prove that he had received a single liard more than he had accounted for, he is willing to be considered the most infamous man in the world. The aldermen and others to whom his account was referred by the Lords of the Treasury bore testimony that he had acted honestly and justly. Their report is in the hands of the auditors. Wishes that by direction of the King the secretary should write to the ambassadors, that, instead of throwing obstacles in Burlamachi's way, they should help his friends to procure payment of what has been declared due to him. [French. 4½ pp.]
Jan. 16.
Whitehall.
92. Minutes by Nicholas of resolutions agreed to at the Committee for the regulation of the Household. Amongst other things it was resolved that an oath should be taken by the clerks and sergeants according to a regulation of 31 Henry VIII., and that the hall should be kept at the King's three standing houses, namely, at Whitehall, Hampton Court, and Greenwich, but before this last order was established the King was to be moved that if he intended to restore other ancient orders of household, then the Lords conceived this for the hall fit to be revived. [2 pp.]
Jan. 16. 93. Kenrick Edisbury to Nicholas. Sends the draft of a letter proposed to be written by the Lords of the Admiralty to the Officers of the Navy, which Edisbury thinks may enable them to do his Majesty good service in examination of the boatswains' accounts. When Nicholas makes a list for the ships in the next fleet Edisbury would willingly advise with him before it be signed. He meant to be with him this day, but being sermon day at Court, and the ways tedious, he put it off till to-morrow. [¼ p.] Written over the preceding,
93. i. Draft of the proposed letter above mentioned, and which was written on the 17th inst. [¾ p.]
Jan. 16. 94. Return by John Herne and George Long, Justices of Peace for Middlesex, of the names of such persons of honour as have continued in various places in the outskirts of the city of London since the 12th December last. Amongst the persons mentioned were the Earl of Elgin, Lady Magdalen Bruce, Lady Penelope Gage, and Lady Judith May, the ladies being all widows; these lived in Clerkenwell. In St. Andrew's, Holborn, were the Earls of Warwick and Southampton, the Viscountess Cramond, and John Pimme, Esq. In Islington was Edward Lord Herbert. In Essex House in the Strand were Lord Digby and Viscount Mandeville. In Clerkenwell was William Fairfax, who has his Majesty's warrant for stay. Many alleged by way of excuse that they had no country houses. [12/3 p.]
Jan. 16. 95. Information of William Blythe, taken before Attorney-General Bankes. John Evelyn, of Godstone, Surrey, and John Pigott, late of London, grocer, in December 1636 conveyed into a storehouse of Pigott's, in Dunning's Alley, Without Bishopgate, 110 barrels of gunpowder, made of English saltpetre, which properly belonged to his Majesty, and there secretly kept the same from December [1636] to April [1637], and then Evelyn and Pigott sold the same in the presence of Thomas Steventon and Barcock, a chandler. [The Attorney-General has added that Blythe received this information from Robert Davis and did not know it of his own knowledge. 2/3 p.]
Jan. 16. 96. Similar information of Robert Davis. He states that the gunpowder was brought into Pigott's storehouse by one Knightley and his servants, and that it was sold to one Jasper Selwyn, now searcher at Rye, with various other particulars more minute than those mentioned by Blythe. [The Attorney-General has added that Davis received the gunpowder into Pigott's storehouse, and was employed therein by the appointment of one Brush, Mr. Evelyn's man. ¾ p.]
Jan. 17.
Whitehall.
Proclamation declaring the seasonable times when warrants for venison in the King's forests, chases, or parks are to be served. Male deer are not to be killed before the 7th July, being about the end of the fence month, or after Holy-rood Day; nor female deer before Holy-rood Day nor after the feast of Epiphany, commonly called Twelfth Day. [Printed. See Coll. Procs., Car. I., No. 218. 1 p.]
Jan. 17. Petition of William Clerk, gold-wire drawer, to the King. Your suppliant has been petitioner these four years for the copper manufacture, which through his great pains and expense of 1,000l. (to his utter undoing) he brought to perfection, since which time petitioner has endeavoured to save your Majesty's bullion in the manufacture of gold and silver thread; for which cause petitioner can neither be admitted to work in the office (as was proffered him before), nor yet have any silver for his money, but his doors and chests are broken open, his goods taken away in the house and street, and his servant imprisoned. By means whereof, for relief of his wife and family, he was forced to do some work, for which he craves a pardon, and prays "his barr" to work in the office as others have, and that his silver and goods may be restored to him. [Copy. See Vol. cccxxiii., p. 226. ½ p.] Underwritten,
i. His Majesty remits petitioner's offence, and directs the commissioners for manufacture of gold and silver thread to restore his goods, and take order that he shall have "a barr" in the office, he giving security to work no more underhand, and to pay his Majesty's custom. Whitehall, 17th January 1637–8. [Copy. Ibid. 1 p.]
Jan. 17. Petition of William Newton to the same. There is a field near Lincoln's Inn called Pursefield with the pightels, being his Majesty's inheritance and in jointure to the Queen, for which there is answered to the Crown but 5l. 6s. 8d. yearly rent, and the same are in lease at the same rent for 47 years to come. Petitioner being interested in part of the premises, prays licence for building on the same 32 houses, to ascend with steps unto them, with necessary coach-houses and stables, with back and outhouses, and for making sewers and altering footways. [Copy. See Vol. cccxxiii., p. 227. ⅓ p.] Underwritten,
i. Reference to the Attorney-General to prepare licence as prayed. Whitehall, 17th January 1637–8. [Copy. Ibid. ¼ p.]
Jan. 17. Petition of Robert Terwhitt, Thomas Lewis, and Cyprian Day to the King. Divers cities and towns in England and Wales, especially London and Westminster, stand in need of greater quantities of water, and in particular to prevent fires, and to keep the houses sweet and free from noisome smells, the causes many times of great infection. Also divers parts of London and Westminster stand in need of Thames water for such like uses. Pray licence to build water-works throughout England and Wales, paying to his Majesty the yearly rent of 50l., to commence from Lady Day 1640, by which time petitioners may have finished one or more of their works. [Copy. Ibid., p. 227. ¾ p.] Underwritten,
i. Reference to the Lord Privy Seal, the Earl Marshal, and Sec. Windebank, who are to certify their opinions. Whitehall, 17th January 1637–8. [Copy. Ibid., p. 228. ¼ p.]
Jan. 17.
Whitehall.
97. Order of Council. The Lords having heard the deputy and divers of the company of merchant adventurers of England, and likewise some of the chief merchants of Exeter and their counsel, touching a remonstrance presented by the merchant adventurers, that Spanish cloths made in the west country ought to be shipped from London only, and being not willing to shut up the trade of the outports altogether, commanded that the deputy and two others of the merchant adventurers and Mr. Ball, the Queen's solicitor (who is of counsel with the Exeter merchants), and two of the western merchants should meet together and consider how the trade of Spanish cloth may be best accommodated, and to accord amongst themselves all differences between this and this day sevennight, when they are again to attend this Board, and the Lords will take order for a final end of this business. [Draft. 1⅓ p.]
Jan. 17.
Whitehall.
98. Order of Council upon a petition of Calcot Chambre to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, and by him remitted hither. The question in the matter related to the best mode of administering the estate of Calcot Chambre, deceased, father of the petitioner, which estate was in the hands of James Fiennes and John Crewe as trustees for payment of the debts and legacies of the deceased. An offer had been made by Mr. Samford, brother-in-law to the petitioner, to pay all the debts and legacies in three years, with an allowance in the meantime of 300l. per annum to the petitioner, if the trustees would make over the estate to him for that time. Before the Lords a counter offer was made by Samuel Weale on behalf of Sir Philip Percivall. The Lords conceived Mr. Samford to be an unfit man to have to do with the estate of the deceased, and directed the trustees to meet Weale, and having set down his proposal in writing, to present the same to the Lord Deputy, to whom the Lords remitted the final decision of the business. [Draft. 2½ pp.]
Jan. 17.
Whitehall.
99. Order of Council. The Lords having heard the Attorney-General and the Recorder of London, with Sir Maurice Abbot and others, the committee of the city for setting forth city ships in 1636, touching an information exhibited in the Exchequer by the AttorneyGeneral against Sir Christopher Clitherow, Sir Maurice Abbot, and others, being the said committee, and one William Bushell, thereby charging the committee and Bushell with setting forth three ships in 1636, furnished with less men, victuals, and ammunition, and which stayed less time at sea, than was required by the ship-money writ, to the private profit to themselves of 1,000l. and more. It appearing that Sir Christopher was then Lord Mayor, and that the other aldermen named were committees (amongst others) chosen for that service, without any benefit to themselves, and they offering to make it appear that they had paid in full for the said ships and had no money remaining in their hands, it was ordered that the committee should put into the Exchequer their answer, and that afterwards producing the charter-parties made with Bushell and the other persons who contracted for performance of the service, and showing full payment of the money for that service, the Attorney-General is not to proceed further against them, but he is to proceed roundly against Bushell and all other persons that contracted for any of the said three ships, who have any of the said moneys unduly remaining in their hands, or have failed in performance of his Majesty's service or of the said charter-parties. The Lords declared that the Attorney-General did very well to exhibit his information, as well against the committees as the contractors, for the Lords conceived that the committees had been too remiss in not taking more care to see better performance of their contract. [Draft. 2½ pp.]
Jan. 17. 100. The like. Divers examinations having been taken by the Attorney-General of misdemeanours charged upon Robert Jason, it was ordered that the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench receive from the Attorney-General such proofs as concern criminal offences, and proceed legally against Jason as he shall think fit. [Draft. ½ p.]
Jan. 17. 101. Similar Order. Sir Richard Ducie, late sheriff of co. Gloucester, being charged with levying the arrears of ship-money for the time of his sheriffalty, and required to pay in the same or attend the Board the first Sunday in next term, represented by petition that a good part of the arrears being levied, he hoped by the end of the next term to give a good account for the rest, and therefore desired to be spared his attendance until a week after Candlemas. The Lords granted Sir Richard time till the 11th February next. [Draft. 1 p.]
Jan. 17. 102. Order of Council. John Button, late sheriff of Hants, being required to pay in the arrears of ship-money charged upon that county in the time of his sheriffalty, in regard he has but lately received warrant from the now sheriff to collect the same, and the sums being small and lying scattered through the county, desired that he might be spared till a further day. The Lords ordered that the moneys now in his hands be forthwith paid to Sir William Russell, and that if he pay not in all the arrears by the 11th February next, then to attend the Board. [Draft. 1 p.]
Jan. 17. 103. The Council to Attorney-General Bankes. Upon the 5th inst. we directed you to examine Thomas Sandiford, accused by Edward Woodfine and Richard Johnson to have uttered dangerous speeches (see this present Vol., No. 19). Upon consideration of your certificate we require you to cause Sandiford to be indicted at the King's Bench bar some time next term. [Draft. 1 p.]
Jan. 17. 104. Minute of a warrant to the Warden of the Fleet, to take into his custody Robert Jason and keep him close prisoner until further order. [½ p.]
Jan. 17.
Whitehall.
Lords of the Admiralty to Officers of the Navy. There are now kept aboard the Sovereign of the Seas, at Erith, 100 men, notwithstanding his Majesty, when he was last aboard her, commanded there should be but 60 during her being at Erith. You are to take order that, as soon as the weather breaks and the danger of the ice is passed, there be no more kept but only 60. [Copy. See Vol. cccliii., fol. 79. ⅓ p.]
Jan. 17.
Whitehall.
The same to the same. We have received certificate from you, touching the account of boatswains' stores in the ships employed last summer at sea, which you conceive to be very exorbitant from some boatswains, and therefore have suspended them, wherein you did well, but we are of opinion that the wastes in the rest of the ships are much more than ought to be, and that the boatswains embezzle the stores committed to their charge. We pray you to place some honest and able men in room of those boatswains suspended, and to send for the rest of the boatswains to examine their waste; also calling unto you about six of the prime men of the Trinity House, to return us a certificate whether the particular boatswains' accounts be allowable, or they fit to be punished for deceit or ill husbandry. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 79 b. 2/3 p.]
Jan. 17. 105. Petition of Giles Creech, cutler, to Archbishop Laud. Being for many years a reader of the Holy Scriptures, he did for the exposition of them unfortunately light on the acquaintance of Familists, Antinomians, Anabaptists, and the like, and was a disciple of Dr. Everard, sometimes lecturer at St. Martin's-in-the Fields, whereby he became infected with those pernicious doctrines, till a few years since, hearing a sermon preached on Palm Sunday before his Majesty at Whitehall he was moved to discern and soon after to detest all those damnable opinions, and thereupon abandoned the company of those sectaries. They, conceiving a mortal hatred against him for the said revolt, have caused Isabel Brodenton to accuse him in the High Commission Court of those very errors which they themselves taught him. Prays his discharge, being poor and in debt, and that he may avoid further molestation and follow his trade. Underwritten,
i. Reference to Sir John Lambe. If he finds the suggestions in the petition true, he is to give an account to the archbishop that further order may be taken. 17th January 1637–8. [1 p.]
Jan. 17. 106. Paper endorsed by Archbishop Laud "The state of the 34 parishes in Norwich, and the maintenance for the ministers there; as it was then [i.e., this day] presented before his Majesty." This paper was in connexion with a proposal that the King should allot the ministers 2s. 9d. in the pound as in London and in one parish of Canterbury, or 2s. 6d. as in the rest of Canterbury, or 2s. according to the course of the Canon Law and the practice in St. Clement's at Temple Bar and elsewhere in London. The pecuniary results of these various assessments as applied to the case of Norwich are here stated. [1 p.]
Jan. 17.
Farlsthrope.
107. Answer of John Hales, vicar of Farlsthorpe, co. Lincoln, to articles of Archbishop Laud respecting the value of his vicarage and the way in which it might be increased. Its then value was 20l. per annum. Certain sums of 15s. 6d., 13s. 4d., and 5s., were said to be detained from the vicar by James Carrington, the impropriator, Francis Hanson, and John Gartsyde, rector of Willoughby-in-the Marsh, respectively. The yearly value of the impropriation was 8l. The vicarage might be augmented by payment of the tithes in kind. [1½ p.]
Jan. 17.
Mumby Vicarage.
108. Answer of Humphrey Garrard, vicar of Mumby, co. Lincoln, to similar articles of Archbishop Laud. The vicarage was worth 15l. per annum. The tithe of a windmill in Mumby, worth 6s. 8d. per annum, was paid to the rectory of Hogsthorpe. There was no vicarage house. The vicar lived in the rectory, but had to keep it in repair. The impropriation was worth 80l. per annum; 60l. clear was paid to the owner, Margaret Litchfield, of Cambridge, widow, by Robert Paul, farmer. The vicarage could only be augmented out of the impropriation. [¾ p.]
Jan. 17. 109. Similar answer of Thomas Rockley, vicar of Huttoft, co. Lincoln. The vicarage was reputed worth 20 marks per annum. The benefit of tithe milk is detained from the vicarage, worth 10l. per annum. The impropriate rectory is worth 100l. per annum. It is in the hands of the Duchess of Buckingham. The best means to augment the vicarage is out of the impropriation. [1½ p.]
Jan. 17. 110. Statement of Philip Burlamachi in further illustration of his account of money received in Paris in part of the Queen's marriage portion, as explained in his letter to Sec. Windebank, calendared in this Vol. under date of the 16th inst., No. 91. [1 p.]
Jan. 17. 111. See "Papers relating to Appointments in the Navy."