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1. Observations by Secretary Coke on the Statutes or Articles of
Eltham, for the regulation of the King's household, and how far they
affected various suggested alterations proposed to be made at this
time. [4½ pp.] |
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2. Orders under the King's hand for the establishment of government in the Court, collected out of the ancient ordinances of the
King's House, and commanded to be duly observed. [Copy. 16½ pp.] |
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3. Observations of the Avenor upon the Articles of Eltham so far
as they relate to the management of the royal stables. [2 pp.] |
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4. Copy orders established for regulation of the Office of the
Robes, with suggestion of [Sir Bevis Thelwall], Clerk of the Robes,
that in conformity with the same orders all bills upon the office
should be checked by himself as clerk, as well as by Mr. Kirke, the
Gentleman of the Robes. [1 p.] |
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5. Another copy of the orders established for regulation of the
Office of the Robes, with comments of [Sir Bevis Thelwall] on the
results of the breach of the rule that his signature should be required to tradesmen's bills as well as that of the Gentleman of the
Robes. [Copy. 2 pp.] |
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6. Report of a Commission appointed to inquire concerning the
observance of the orders established for regulation of the Office
of the Wardrobes and Robes, stating the nature of the question
in dispute, as to the signature of the clerk, and the explanations
in reference to the same given by the clerk which had been satisfactory to Mr. Kirke. [3¼ pp.] |
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7. Information of Sir Bevis Thelwall, Clerk of the Great Wardrobe, in reference to certain breaches of his Majesty's orders for
regulation of that office, and the misconduct of two of the officers
named Thomas Ripplingham and [William ?] Ripplingham. [¾ p.] |
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8. Petition of Robert Tias to the King. His grandfather and
father lived in the office of clerk and under-clerk of the Great
Wardrobe, during the reigns of Queens Mary, Elizabeth, and 18
years of King James I., and petitioner has been educated therein.
Thomas Ripplingham being dead, who was in reversion after Sir
Bevis Thelwall, now Clerk of the Great Wardrobe, petitioner prays a
grant to succeed Sir Bevis. [½ p.] |
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9. The Avenor's reasons for not swearing to the parcel for the
expense of the stable. The compositions are received and issued
by the purveyors and garnitors, who are, therefore, the fittest men to
swear to the parcel. [½ p.] |
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10. List of carriages attending the King and Queen upon removals. [Endorsed, "Carts are now used." Among the persons
provided for on the Queen's side are her Majesty's dwarfs, her
monkeys and dogs, and "the billiard board." 3 pp.] |
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11. Number and description of servants appointed to attend on
Prince Charles and the Princess Mary below stairs, with their
wages and diet. [¾ p.] |
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12. Petition of four grooms of the Queen's Chamber to Sec.
Windebank. Were behind of their wages one half-year, due six
years since, amounting to 73l., for which her Majesty lately sent Sir
Thomas Stafford to the Commissioners of the Treasury. Petitioners
have no other allowance but this fee of 2s. a day; the gentlemen-ushers
and others having two or three fees apiece, were lately paid all due
to them. [2/3 p.] |
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13. Minute of warrant for Francis Phillips, Auditor for Northampton, Rutland, and other counties, to be received and lodged as
he travels up and down on his Majesty's service. [⅓ p.] |
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14. Account of fees paid for Lord Carnarvon on his creation as
Viscount and Earl. [¾ p.] |
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15. Petition of John Gaspar Wolffen, his Majesty's servant, to the
King. When Mr. Burlamachi made up his accounts, by an error
he took 270l. of petitioner's moneys, and gave it to his Majesty in
his accounts. On complaint to the Council, the business was referred
to four Aldermen, who found that the 270l. was to be allowed by
the King to Mr. Burlamachi or else paid to petitioner. Urgently
prays payment. [1 p.] |
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16. Declaration [by Philip Burlamachi ?] of the state of the business concerning the King's jewels pledged in Holland. Job Harby
having been met in his endeavour to settle the accounts and redeem
the jewels by unanticipated demands on the part of Philip Calandrini,
at variance with his accounts previously rendered, an appeal had been
made to the Courts of Law in Holland. Burlamachi insists that without litigation all the difficulties would be cleared up by the production
of the original contracts. [French. 3¼ pp.] |
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17. Information of some person whose name is not stated, probably addressed to Sec. Coke, respecting the abuse of transportation
of gold and coin by aliens from several ports, masters and owners of
ships called "skippers." These persons omit to account in the customer's books for goods brought in by them, and transport great
store of coin received from merchants, to be delivered to their factors
in foreign parts. Prays him to signify the same to his Majesty.
[½ p.] |
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18. Petition of Jacob de Leau, factor, to the King. Petitioner is
questioned for transporting money into France. He only, according to his commission, consigned the same to John Parrett of
Dover, merchant, who, without his privity, transported the same
to Michael Huse, factor, at Calais. Petitioner received no more
profit by the same money, but only his accustomed salary of 6s. 8d.
per cent. Prays that he may be clearly acquitted. [1 p.] |
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19. Petition of "the most distressed Charles Lord Stanhope" to
Archbishop Laud. His father left him estated in the office of Postmaster General of England, and gave him the less estate during his
mother's life. Having surrendered his patent, his means are so
small and his debts so great that he cannot live in quiet for the
outcry of his creditors, and his mother during her life keeps three
parts of his estate from him, and will part with nothing to relieve
him. Petitioning the King, he was appointed to apply to the Secretaries of State. Sec. Coke answers him that the King long since
said that his mother had money enough. Prays the archbishop to
speak to Secs. Coke and Windebank, to present his petition to his
Majesty, that he may receive the arrears of his fees, to enable him
to free himself from the clamours of his creditors. [½ p.] |
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20. Observations by Sec. Windebank for recalling the patent
formerly granted to Mr. Witherings to be Postmaster for foreign
parts. The principal grounds assigned are;—the inconvenience of
suffering such an office to remain in the hands of a person who is
no sworn officer. Suspicion that his patent was surreptitiously obtained. No signed bill was found. Persons who hold the office
of postmaster abroad are of so great quality that they disdain to
correspond with a man of his mean condition. Some satisfaction
may be given him, but he has very much enriched himself upon
the place. He is said to be worth 800l. a year in land. The office
of Postmaster General being now vested in the Secretaries, the
carrying of letters is a business of state. If Witherings shall insist
upon his patent, his Majesty may sequester the place into the hands
of the Secretaries. [2¼ pp.] |
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21. Petition of Thomas Cole to Secs. Coke and Windebank. John
Lord Stanhope, being Master and Comptroller General of the Posts,
appointed Thomas Clarke, and petitioner after his death, to be post
of London for the packet; viz., from London to Waltham northwards
and to Dartford southwards. In November last Clarke was suspended and has since died. Prays appointment according to the
grant of Lord Stanhope. [2/3 p.] |
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22. Duplicate of the same. [2/3 p.] |
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23. Printed bill, which announces that the Count de la Tour and
Tassis, General Hereditary of the Post of the Emperor and of the
King of Spain in his Low Countries, Burgundy, &c., undertakes not
only to perform the agreement made between the said Count and
Thomas Witherings and William Frizell in 1633, but to improve it
by expediting the mail in sundry particulars which involved a reduction in the time for conveying the letters to and from London
and Antwerp and Brussels from 4 or 5 days to 2 or 3, and to and
from Naples to 18 and 19 days instead of 23 and 24, with a proportionate reduction in all intermediate places. [2½ pp.] |
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24. Petition of John Wytton, Deputy Postmaster of the Court,
daily attending your Majesty, to the King. For his wages of 10s.
per diem there is due to him about 1,400l., neither has he allowance
of diet or horsemeat or any other perquisites, the nonpayment
whereof has brought him much into debt. Some of his creditors
have petitioned the Lord Chamberlain to have the benefit of the
law against him. He has granted the request unless petitioner give
satisfaction by the middle of Michaelmas term. Prays that the
Lord Treasurer may make present payment of what is due to petitioner, and meanwhile that he may have a protection, [1 p.] |
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25. Certificate of Richard Wakeman. There was a petition, subscribed the 19th June last, at the request of Mr. Witherings, Postmaster, desiring his Majesty to continue him in the execution of that
place. We were abused by his pretending that some great persons
intended to obtain the office of his Majesty, to the prejudice of
merchants and trade. Although we are not aggrieved by Mr.
Witherings in the dispatch of letters for foreign parts, or in their
postage, yet we believe the office of Postmaster being under the
supervision of the Secretaries of State the merchants shall have
no cause to complain, but rather receive favour by the speedy conveyance of their letters. [The paper runs in the plural number,
but has only one signature. 2/3 p.] |
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26. Petition of John Castlon, Postmaster, to Sec. Windebank.
John Bulwer has lately petitioned for leave to sue petitioner for
10l. 10s. which he pretends to be due. Petitioner can make it
appear by an acquittance under Bulwer's hand for 3l. 10s., and otherwise, that there cannot be above one quarter's rent due to Bulwer,
viz., Midsummer quarter 1637, and that petitioner ought not to pay
that in respect of agreements unfulfilled by Bulwer. [2/3 p.] |
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27. Petition of David Francis, late Post of Northop, to Secs.
Coke and Windebank. There is 90l. in arrear to petitioner for
execution of the said place, as appears by the last account of Lord
Stanhope to the auditors. Has been three months in town soliciting payment, and received fair promises from Mr. Witherings, but
now he absolutely says petitioner shall have none, so that he is
like to be imprisoned. Has spent near his whole estate in coming
to town to solicit for his father's arrears, who was Post of Chester
60 years. Prays order to receive part with the rest who are in
the privy seal, otherwise he is like to perish by the prosecution of
his greedy creditors. [2/3 p.] |
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28. Petition of Richard Scott, innkeeper of Stilton, co. Huntingdon, to Secs. Coke and Windebank. For some few years past the
place of Post of Stilton, being in the high north road, has been
executed by a deputy, who keeps an alehouse there, the Postmaster living twelve miles distant, and his deputy no ways able
to receive gentlemen and travellers, much less noblemen, whereby
the posts are forced to travel at unseasonable times and are not
fitted with able horses. Petitioner being an innkeeper in the town,
both able and willing to give noblemen and gentlemen entertainment, prays that he may serve his Majesty in that place. [1 p.] |
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29. Petition of Thomas Parks, Postmaster from London to Barnet,
to Sec. Windebank. Has executed that office about six years, which
has stood him in 180l., without any neglect, as Mr. Railton can
inform you, and has received but two years' pay at the rate of 20d.
per diem. Notwithstanding his diligence, Mr. Witherings endeavours
to bring in another, and has already taken from petitioner the
through posts' place of Charing Cross, which cost petitioner 63l. 6s.
Prays order to Witherings to deliver petitioner his orders and
confirm him in his place. [1 p.] |
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30. Petition of Anthony Penniston to the King. Francis Ewens
was indebted to petitioner 600l., and held a lease of Herriotts,
co. Radnor. Petitioner being indebted to your Majesty extended the
lease and had it assigned to him. Living in London, petitioner
appointed one Phillips to receive the profits and pay your Majesty's
rent, and afterwards assigned the lease to Mr. Joyner, but Phillips
having made some default, one Wynne procured a new lease. Prays
reference to the Commissioners of the King's revenue as Prince of
Wales to vacate the new lease. [¾ p.] |
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31. Petition of Sir Basil Brooke to the same. The 5,000l. which
his Majesty had accepted in satisfaction of damages done by petitioner in the Forest of Dean had been paid more than half a year.
Sir John Wintour, hoping to procure a like defalcation, had used
means to stay the pardon granted to petitioner, though it had
received the King's signature nine months since, and Mr. Mynne's
pardon had been long since sealed and delivered to him. Petitioner
has yielded up his patent, and delivered possession of the iron works.
Has been at great charge by his long attendance in these infectious
times. Prays that his pardon may be speedily sealed. [1 p.] |
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32. Petition of the same to the same. Petitioner paid 5,000l.
for the fine laid upon him jointly with Mr. Mynne. Mr. Mynne,
having paid 7,000l., presses petitioner, upon point of partnership,
to pay him 1,000l. and 332l. 16s. interest, and upon that pretence
has seized upon 2,000l. partible between them, by reason of the
wire works which they hold in partnership. As his Majesty
best knows upon what grounds their pardons were granted, petitioner prays him to declare his pleasure concerning the money paid
by them severally. [1 p.] |
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33. Proposition for taking a new farm of Dean Forest upon terms
more advantageous to the King. [It is the proposition (slightly
varied) of John Broughton, already calendared in Vol. ccclxi.,
No. 48 i. 1 p.] |
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34. Sir Baynham Throgmorton to Endymion Porter. I am bold
to present you an account what I did with my Lord Chamberlain.
When I had informed him of the abuse committed by the farmers of
the iron works in the Forest of Dean, he told me he would by no
means countenance them in any dishonest thing, but else, because
they chose him for their protector, and for his brother's sake that
made them the grant, he should be willing to do them all courtesy.
I perceive he is willing things may be examined, and as they prove
against them, which I am sure will be foul, he would not meddle
with it. My occasions hasten me into the country. I desire you
will be a friend to us in this business, which being neglected our
poor forest is ruined. The bearer, Mr. Bainbridge, is able to inform
you of all particulars. [1 p.] |
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35. Petition of John Williams, prisoner in Newgate, to the
Council. Has remained in prison for five years for being one at the
depopulation of the Forest of Dean. Prays enlargement, not having
wherewith to maintain himself in prison, with his wife and poor
children. [2/3 p.] |
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36. Petition of Henry Earl of Huntingdon to the King. Was
Lieutenant of your Majesty's late Forest of Leicester for life by gift
of King James, which forest, about ten years since, was disafforested.
Your Majesty thought petitioner worthy of recompense, whereupon
he was to have received 400 acres out of the forest, but before the
Earl of Marlborough, then Lord Treasurer, and the other referees,
made their certificate, the ground was disposed of. Subsequently, at
the suit of your subject's late wife, he was to have been recompensed
by the lands of Sir Miles Hobart, deceased, if the same should fall
to your Majesty, as they did, yet your Majesty was pleased to dispose
of the same otherwise. Sir William Faunt was sentenced in the Star
Chamber, on 19th October last, at petitioner's suit, for writing a
libellous letter, whereby your service was much prejudiced, for
which he was fined 5,000l. Prays a grant of the said fine in recompense for the said office. [2/3 p.] Annexed, |
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36. i. Statement of the profits of Lieutenant of the Forest of
Leicester. Total, per annum, 336l. 9s. 1d. Besides which
there were claims for compensation on a variety of other
grounds which are here fully stated. [¾ p.] |
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37. Petition of George Johnson, late woollen draper to his Majesty,
to the King. Your Majesty granted petitioner a privy seal for
4,853l. 17s. 1d. for cloth by him sold, and caused payment of
2,000l. in part of the same, so that there remains 2,853l. 17s. 1d.,
for want of which he was enforced to take up large sums on
interest, and since to give over his trade, and become keeper in
Brogborough Park in the honour of Ampthill. Having disbursed
more than the principal for interest, he shall by this means be
certainly ruined, and his friends who are his sureties. Prays
order for a tally upon the receiver of the iron-works of the
Forest of Dean due at Christmas 1638, or upon the new increase of
wines to be paid by Sir Abraham Dawes at Michaelmas 1638 for
the remainder of the said debt. [1 p.] |
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38. Petition of George Lord Chandos, your Majesty's ward, to the
same. Upon your Majesty's late inclosure of the Forest of Braydon
in Wilts, the lords of manors adjoining improved their waste
grounds. Petitioner having the manor of Minety, with 1,200 acres
of waste, his late guardian, Alice Countess Dowager of Derby, and
his present guardian, Henry Earl of Manchester, have endeavoured
to improve the same, but found the greatest obstacle, that the manor
being held in capite, petitioner's tenants refuse to consent unless
he can procure ground allotted to them to be holden in socage.
Prays order for alteration of the tenure of the said allotments, and
reference to Lord Cottington, Master of the Wards, and the Attorney-General. [1 p.] |
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39. Petition of Endymion Porter, your Majesty's servant, to the
King. The forest of Exmoor, in Devon and Somerset, is in lease
from your Majesty for divers years to come, under yearly rents
amounting to 48l. 13s. 4d. Prays a grant of the same in fee farm, in
consideration of his long service, with a tenure in socage, and the
liberty of disafforestation. [2/3 p.] |
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40. Petition of Thomas Jerves to Sec. Windebank. King's
Sedgmoor in Somerset has been proved to be the King's inheritance, wherefore King James resolved to make it a leading case,
but now of necessity it must be a redeeming case, and not be sold
from the crown, if there might be a million given for it. Petitioner's request is, that for the love that he bears to the general
good, he may have warrant to go down amongst the inhabitants
in 26 manors near adjoining, that they may give their advice which
way it may be advanced to his Majesty's profit and the general
good. Petitioner doubts not to bring such an answer as will be
very pleasing to his Majesty and all his subjects. [½ p.] |
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41. Offer made by Thomas Lord Arundel of Wardour to sell
Wardour to the King. Will accept for it some reversion or office
or annual pension, with the rangership for his life. His son Thomas
desires not to have it; it is too great a house for his son William, and
he must leave it for payment of debts and raising portions for
younger children. His Majesty has about Salisbury great command
of fallow deer in Clarington [Clarendon] Park, in Cranborne
Chase, and in Grovely, yet has he no park of red-deer, nor any house
of his own fit to entertain his Majesty or the Queen. [1 p.] |
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42. Petition of inhabitants of Bolingbroke, co. Lincoln, consisting
of 19 townships, being free commoners in that part of Wildmore
called the Earl's Fen, to the King. For approving their said common, petitioners have made and repaired two great drains, which
cost them 2,500l., whereby the fen for all the summer season is
laid usefully dry, but of late, by defects in the banks of the
Witham and Hildick, which ought to be repaired by others, and by
water coming from the East Fen, which is to be drained another
way, the waters of the said rivers and fen have overflown some
part of the said common, whereupon the undertakers for draining
in this extreme wet winter time have procured commissioners being
strangers to adjudge 600 acres of dry ground, and as many acres
that are not five months in a year at all wet, to be surrounded.
Pray that the noisome waters may be kept from surrounding
petitioners' common, and that in the meantime the King will withhold his assent from taking away petitioners' common until fully
informed of the truth. [¾ p.] Underwritten, |
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42. i. Minute of answer that the King's intention was only for
the improvement of wet grounds usually and hurtfully
surrounded, and the Earls of Lindsey and Dorset were
to certify. [Endorsed: "Earl of Stamford." ¼ p.] |
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43. The King to certain persons to be therein named and appointed Commissioners of Sewers for a level in co. Lincoln. Recites
letters of 15 March 1636-7, whereby directions were given to the
then Commissioners of Sewers for that level concerning 1,000 acres
intended for the poor, and 1,500 acres to be tied for the maintenance
of the works, as also for draining the level. The King, intending
that the directions in those letters should be pursued, appoints the
persons now addressed Commissioners of Sewers for that level, and
commands them to carry out the former letters in a way which is
here set forth; and that, with reference to a complaint of the
inhabitants of Bolingbroke, they were to certify the King, that he
might give direction therein as should be just. [Draft. 2½ pp.]
Underwritten, |
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43. i. Robert Long to Mr. Peacock. This is the letter which I
have drawn, and think fit to be presented by Mr. Kirke to
to Sec. Windebank, for his Majesty's signature. [½ p.] |
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44. The King to [persons to be named]. For a great sum of
money paid by Sir Peregrine Bertie and Sir Philip Landen, deceased,
we, in August 1636, granted them divers marshes in cos. Lincoln
and Cambridge, which they were to embank, and to answer a feefarm rent for the same. As yet, little benefit has been reaped from
our grant, by reason of the opposition of persons who pretend interest
in the said marshes. Desiring to avoid unnecessary suits, we require you to compose the said differences as you shall think fit.
And we give you leave to signify that, as we shall take it to be an
acceptable service from such as shall comply in performance of a work
tending so much to our honour and the good of the realm, so we
shall show our displeasure and use our power against such as shall
refuse to accept our grace and favour herein. [Draft or copy. 1 p.] |
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45. Certain citizens of London to the King. There are 10,000
or 12,000 acres of fen lying in the Great Level in the Isle of Ely
belonging to the King. Offer 16,000l. for the same. [⅓ p.] |
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46. Report of Joseph Butler and Jasper Heiley, messengers of the
Chamber, employed by warrant of Sec. Windebank into the Great
Level of the Fens, to apprehend persons found disturbing the works
of draining. Near Wicken, co. Cambridge, they met Peter Jarvis,
constable. He persuaded them not to adventure into Wicken, the
people being prepared to resist, and those of Soame [Soham?],
Burrack, and Sopham having agreed to help them. Ultimately, the
messengers, with the constable and the minister of the parish,
entered the town, the messengers being on horseback. The people
came out with pitchforks and poles, and gathered round a place
where great heaps of stones were laid. Amongst them, John Moreclack, a principal rioter, was charged to obey the Council's warrant.
When the messengers approached him, he pushed at them with his
pike. The people prepared to assist him, and the women got together
to the heaps of stones to throw at the messengers, who were scoffed
at and abused by the whole multitude. [1½ p.] |
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47. Paper endorsed "Answer to the Earl of Lincoln's petition."
The question in dispute between the Earl and the answerers was
the sufficiency of certain drainage of fens in Lincolnshire. The
petitioners state their case in reply to the Earl, and give the names
in the margin of persons who will prove their assertions. Much of
the damage complained of by the Earl was set down to the peculiar
wetness of the season, and other parts of it to the violent interruptions of the people, who threw down the banks and dammed up the
works. [6¾ pp.] |
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48. Petition of John Liens to the King. In 1635, petitioner,
being director of the work of draining Hatfield Chase, the adventurers made an agreement with the inhabitants of Sykehouse and
Fishlake for damages sustained before petitioner was director, for
payment of a great sum, which is all paid but 600l., and petitioner
was induced to set his hand to the said agreement. The inhabitants
now fall upon petitioner for the 600l. Petitioner is employed in
draining the Eight Hundred Fen for your Majesty's service, under
the Earl of Lindsey. Prays a protection for one year. [2/3 p.] |
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49. Petition of Henry Earl of Dover to the Council. States the
circumstances under which a decree had lately been made against
petitioner by the Commissioners of Sewers for some part of Yorkshire, for raising a mill-dam upon the river Don, about 20 years
before, in the lordship of Conisborough, to the prejudice of the town
of Mexborough. Petitioner prayed a reference to the judges, or the
determination of the case by the Council. [This petition was probably
presented in May 1637. Subsequent proceedings in reference to the
same subject are calendared in Vol. ccclv., No. 166; Vol. ccclvi.,
No. 158; and Vol. ccclvii., No. 61. 1 p.] |
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50. Minute of an information that the miller of the King's feefarm mills at Purfleet at every spring tide lets in so much water as
drowns the meadow ground adjoining; also that the owners of the
meadows, not keeping their ditches scoured, the water has not its
free return. An order of the Board is desired for stinting the
miller to the marks on two posts set up for that purpose, and
enjoining the owners of the meadows to see to the scouring of their
ditches. [2/3 p.] |
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51. Petition of Capt. Francis Wrenham to the King. Prays the
King, by himself or his Council, to be informed in the equity of
petitioner's cause, and in the interim to direct that no grant may
pass of petitioner's 500 acres in Sutton Marsh. [½ p.] Annexed, |
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51. i. Particulars of his case above alluded to. In 1630 he
purchased 500 acres of Sutton Marsh. For recovery
thereof, he was cast upon a suit which cost him 1,000l.
Obtaining a decree from the Lord Keeper in July 1634,
he was, for settling the land, ordered to pay 800l. above
the purchase money. Being thus in possession under a
royal grant, his first year's crop was swept away for an
arrear of rent for 18 years under a grant of the late
King; he had poor crops the two subsequent years; and
now a claim had been set up to the land itself, under
another grant from the Crown to the inhabitants of the
Marsh, said to have been surreptitiously obtained by the
contrivance of William Tipper, and by an arrangement
with Mr. Wimberley, [Imperfect. 1 p.] |
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52. The King to Attorney-General Bankes. Captain Thomas
Whitmore has repaired our decayed copper mines in Cumberland,
and Thomas Bushell has the sole working of our mines in co. Cardigan. They have found out a way to prepare ores holding silver
so as by water they can separate the silver without melting. You
are to prepare a grant to them of their invention for the term by
statute limited, reserving the tenth part of the silver to be gained,
and thereby also to constitute them Surveyors-General of all mines
royal within England and Wales during the said term, with the fee
of four nobles yearly, authorizing them to search for metals in any
grounds within England and Wales, to the end that the silver therein
may be separated according to their invention. [Draft, probably of
a suggested grant. 2/3 p.] |
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53. Offer to discover concealed lands in co. Warwick belonging to
the Prince, provided the proposer may have a lease of the same for
21 years. [Endorsed by Nicholas, "Mr. Ashbourneham for Sir
Charles Herbert." 2/3 p.] |
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54. Articles to be inquired of within the archdeaconry of
Buckingham, at the visitation of the archdeacon there this present
year 1637. The articles are 53 in number, and run into a variety of
minute particulars. Appended is the tenor of the oath to be
ministered to churchwardens and sworn men. [Printed at London,
by T.P., 1637, 4to. 8 pp.] |
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55. The King to the [Bailiffs and Burgesses of Shrewsbury]. The
parish church of [St.] Chad's, in Shrewsbury, being sometime a
college of priests, and devolved to the Crown, the cure thereof ought
to be served by two stipendiary curates, who receive their wages out
of our Exchequer; but you, having possessed yourselves of the
Easter book of that church, and some other things conveyed to you
in trust, have appointed your curate to be preacher; and the late
curate and preacher being preferred to a living, Richard Poole, clerk,
by colour of a popular election, has thrust himself into that place,
having already two benefices in another diocese. By the advice of
the Archbishop of Canterbury we have made choice of George
Lawson, clerk, late curate of Mainstone, in the diocese of Hereford,
to be curate and preacher of that church, and have directed the
Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry to remove Richard Poole, and
to admit and licence George Lawson; and we command you to yield
ready obedience thereto. [2¾ pp.] |
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56. Account of the revenues settled on the church of St. Chad's,
in Shrewsbury, the clear total being 65l. 16s. 8d.; also of the
vicarage of Chirbury, anciently endowed but with 9l. 6s. 8d. per
annum; but the rectory being vested in the bailiffs and burgesses of
Shrewsbury, in trust for the free-school there, it was agreed that
50l. per annum should be settled on the vicarage, whereupon the
said vicarage was endowed with the tithes of a township of that
amount. [¾ p.] |
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57. Award of Archbishop Laud in a dispute between the Bishop
of Hereford and the dean and chapter there, as to whether the
bishop, having a right to visit the cathedral of Hereford and the
peculiars of the said dean and chapter, the same right could be
exercised by his vicar-general, registrar, and other officers, and how
long the said visitation, when it should happen, should last. The
archbishop determined the right in favour of the vicar-general and
registrar, but limited the duration of such visitation to three months.
[Rough draft. Lat. 3 pp.] |
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58. Judgment of Bishop White, of Ely, and other judges delegates,
in a cause of appeal between Robert Viscount Kilmorey and Sir
John Corbet, patron of the parish church of Adderley in Salop, and
Edward Wolley, rector of the same church, respecting the rights of
the chapel of the Holy Trinity at Shavington. The judges quashed
the decision of the court below, and declared it lawful to perform
divine service and administer sacraments in the chapel in question,
the same being the private chapel or oratory of Viscount Kilmorey
and other inhabitants of the house of Shavington. [Latin. Not
fully signed. One skin of parchment.] |
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59. Opinion of Dr. Thomas Rives, the King's Advocate, concerning
his Majesty's title to the prebend of Wetwang, co. York, for so much
as concerns the union of it to the deanery of Christ's Church, in
Oxford. It had been contended that the union was not good, inasmuch as the deanery was not a separate body, but only part of the
aggregate body of dean and chapter. Dr. Rives was of opinion that
by the Canon Law it sufficed if the thing to which the union was
made was a benefice, which he contended the deanery was. [12/3 p.]
Annexed, |
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59. i. Statement of the case for the prebend of Wetwang, showing
by what acts the union above mentioned had been effected.
[1 p.] |
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60. The Dean and Chapter of Canterbury to Archbishop Laud.
Copy of a letter, the original of which is dated "April 1637," and is
already calendared in Vol. cccliv., No. 175. [2 pp.] |
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61. Case, and opinion thereon, of Sir Edward Littleton, SolicitorGeneral, on the title to the prebend of Sutton-cum-Buckiugham, [in
the cathedral of Lincoln,] which was stated to have been surrendered
to the Crown by the holder thereof in the time of Edward VI., and
to have been granted out to a person designated as A. The SolicitorGeneral was of opinion that, if the prebend were presentative, A had
no good title under his grant, and that the Crown might now
present. [Copy. 2 pp.] |
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62. Another copy of the same. [2 pp.] |
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63. Notes on the text, "per me reges regnant," perhaps compiled
with a view to a sermon. There are references to other texts of Scripture, to St. Augustine, Bellarmine, Bishops Andrewes, Buckeridge,
and others. [32/3 pp.] |
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64. Notes by Archbishop Laud, in the nature of a catalogue
of papers entitled the "Second Bundle of Papers," consisting of
12 articles. They consisted of documents relating to religious
matters in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and James I. Endorsed
by Sir Joseph Williamson, "King's power in the Church—new
Discipline." [1½ p.] |
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65. Note of an order of the King in Council, that orders of
29th March and 30th May 1637 should be vacated, and that all
rates made by the bailiffs and others of a town not named, by virtue
thereof should be void, and that the nomination of the stipendiary
ministers to certain parishes not named should remain as before the
said orders were made. [⅓ p.] |
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66. Information or remembrance to the King, touching his
Majesty's right to the impropriate rectory and right of presentation
to the vicarage of Croston, co. Lancaster. The vicarage had been
endowed above 200 years ago by the abbess of Sion. At the suppression it came to the Crown. A lease was granted for 99 years in
the 30th Henry VIII., which is now nearly out. [2/3 p.] |
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67. Statement entitled "the estate of the vicarage of Berwickupon-Tweed." The Dean and Chapter of Durham, being owners of
the impropriate rectory, have let the same to laymen, and paid the
vicar incumbent 20l. per annum. In the time of Elizabeth, the
garrison being strengthened, the inhabitants subscribed for maintaining two able ministers. On the accession of King James he
granted a pension of 20l. to each of the ministers, and of late both
these pensions are conferred on the vicar, and are all his maintenance,
except the payment from the dean and chapter; and the other
minister is lately provided by the charity of the Mercers of London
with 50l. yearly It is suggested that royal letters should be procured to the Bishop and Dean and Chapter of Durham, requiring
that the vicar be admitted tenant to the dean and chapter of the
impropriate rectory, in place of the now tenants, William Rosden
and John Saltonstall, paying the same yearly rent, and Rosden and
Saltonstall being recompensed by the Commissioners for disposing
of moneys given in pios uses. [2⅓ pp.] Underwritten, |
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67. i. [Some one unnamed to Sec. Windebank ?] Recommends
that the Archbishop of York should be advised with,
who would prove a great furtherer towards his Majesty
and the Archbishop of Canterbury, and also with the dean
and divers of the prebends of Durham. [¼ p.] |
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68. Sir James Douglas to [Robert] Reed. His Majesty has considered that whereas the lecturer of Berwick has 60l. per annum,
the vicar, Gilbert Durie, has only in stipend 20 marks, his other
helps being only benevolence, whereof his Majesty pays 40l., which
the vicar is willing to relinquish if the dean and chapter will
receive him as tenant in place of William Rosden and John Saltonstall, as also the vicar will repay William Rosden the 400l. he disbursed. As for Saltonstall, he came unjustly by his lease, and has
made yearly more profit by it than it cost him. [Incomplete. 2/3 p.] |
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69. Petition of Peter Walter, John Crispe, and Ralph [?] Masterman, styling themselves the four old vicars [of Lincoln], probably
addressed to the ecclesiastical visitors on the suspension of Bishop
Williams, setting forth various grievances and oppressions, chiefly in
money payments, at the hands of the residentiaries of the cathedral.
[1 p.] |
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70. Petition of Paul Hood, D.D., to the King. In the schedules
annexed are expressed the great wrongs which Bishop Williams of
Lincoln and Hamlet Marshall, D.D., have done to petitioner. Prays
a reference for examination and redress. [⅓ p.] Annexed, |
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70. i. Schedule of the injuries done to petitioner. Dr. Hood
having the prebend of Kilsby, in the cathedral of Lincoln,
and Hamlet Marshall, the chaunter [precentor], having
the prebend of South Scarle, Marshall claimed Kilsby as
annexed to his chauntership. The bishop arbitrated
between them, and awarded in favour of Marshall upon
certain terms, one of which was that he should resign the
prebend of South Scarle to Hood. Hood had given up
Kilsby, but could not obtain South Scarle. [= 2 pp.] |
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71. Minute of his Majesty's desire that Sec. Windebank should
put him in mind of recommending Sir John Monson to the Lords
and Judges, that in the Bishop of Lincoln's cause they may give
him a repair in reputation proportionable to the injuries he has
suffered through the bishop's means for doing his Majesty's service.
[⅓ p.] |
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72. Minute of an application to be made to his Majesty. William
Parkinson and others, having become very poor men through the
Bishop of Lincoln's molesting them with a suit in the Star Chamber,
because they would not forswear themselves against his Majesty,
his Majesty promised them 100l. out of the bishop's fine. Thomas
Lund, Cadwalader Powell, and George Walker, three others that
were fined together with the bishop, have since done very good
service to his Majesty in revealing several foul misdemeanours committed by the bishop, and discovering the conveyances of his estate,
and are to do further service therein, it is suggested that his Majesty
should remit to Lund, Powell, and Walker their fines, they paying
Parkinson and others the 100l. [1½ p.] |
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73. Petition of the Dean and Chapter of York to the King. The
King, for preservation of the solemnity of divine service in some of
his cathedral churches, and for the good of the inhabitants of those
cities, has required the mayors, aldermen, and their companies to
frequent those holy places on Sundays and holy days with all due
reverence, and that the mayors should not use the ensigns of their
authority within his Majesty's cathedral churches. Pray the King
to cast a similar gracious eye upon the cathedral church of York.
[Endorsed by Sec. Coke, "Doctor Stanhope;" and see Calendar
notice of Vol. ccclxiii., No. 9. 2/3 p.] |
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74. Theological treatise upon vows stated in the endorsement to
have been propounded by Mr. White, of Dorchester, and to have
been answered by Mr. Ironside, a minister. The only answer that
here appears consists of two notes on the first page. [6¼ pp.] |
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75. Comments upon a book termed "The Direction." The author
of it moves the writer's passion when he writes of Protestantism
waxing weary of itself, and of some of their chiefs who allow what
sometime they condemned, and especially in what he brings from "The
Coal from the Altar," and out of "Sunday no Sabbath." He helps
the Puritans to cavil against that which was so evidently spoken in
"Sunday no Sabbath" against the Centurists. The State should
look to this man, and Signor Coneo and Signor Gregorio [Panzani]
should be thoroughly informed of his exasperating vein. Perhaps
he thought to make the Archbishop of Canterbury take occasion to
complain of the Bishop of Lincoln upon it; yet he gives even the
Archbishop of Canterbury cause of exception to him, though he
seems to flatter him. [2/3 p.] |
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76. Articles objected by the Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical against Thomas Colebeach, parson of Ludlow; Matthew Clarke,
parson of Bitterley; Thomas Archley, curate of Hopton-in-the-Hole,
Salop. These persons were charged with omitting to wear the
surplice, omitting to bow at the name of Jesus, omitting to stand
up at the reading of the creed, and admitting persons to receive the
communion who did not kneel; also with various irregularities in
solemnizing matrimony. [13½ pp.] |
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77. Articles objected by the same Commissioners against Francis
Saunders, late of Shangton, co. Leicester, and then of Stamford,
co. Lincoln. He was charged that there having been in his house,
or that of William Stafford, of Blatherwick, at Christmas time, a
lord of misrule, he and others had appointed that the lord of misrule must have for a lady or Christmas wife, one Elizabeth Pitto,
daughter of the hog-heard of the town; whereupon, defendant putting on a gown, and a shirt or smock for a surplice, read the words
set down in the form of marriage in the Book of Common Prayer,
putting a ring upon the finger of the woman, and going through the
rest of the ceremony, and afterwards, at night, putting the parties
into a bed together. Defendant was also charged with being a
swearer and drunkard. [4¾ pp.] |
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78. Statement of Henry Page, Vicar of Ledbury, co. Hereford, in
reply to articles against him, before the same Commissioners. He altogether denies the inconformity with which he is charged, but admits
that in his catechising there slipped from him the following irreverent
words:— "Why might it not be as lawful to pull at a cart-rope as a
bell-rope on a Sunday?" He submits to make any acknowledgment
or submission, and charges the institution of the suit as an act of
malice upon Thomas Cox of his parish, whom he had presented for
living in open adultery. [¼ p.] |
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79. Instructions for articles to be preferred against Dr. Holmes
before the Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes. He is charged with
almost all variety of clerical misdoing then alleged against inconformable clergymen. Amongst other things, with speaking "unreverently"
in the pulpit, using these words, viz., "the drunken knave priest;" with
never reading the Book of Liberty; with speaking very unreverently
and rudely against the reverend bishops; with preaching for divers
Sundays together "in the pew and in the pulpit four sermons in a
day;" with baptising his own child without the sign of the cross;
with being passionate, and speaking angerly in the church, and in the
church in his anger calling the writer of the present paper "mutcha-vile;" with allowing strangers, after evening sermon on Sunday,
to resort to his house, so as we can see he does but "hover with all
the ceremonies;" and many other similar offences. [2¾ pp.] |
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80. Information that George Buncle, a recusant, baptised his own
child, using the ordinary words, and pulling a glass of water out of
his pocket. Mrs. Ferrabosco, grandmother to the child, desired that
it might be christened according to the rites of the Church of
England. [Endorsed, "Dr. Wood's note.—His Grace would have
Buncle called into the High Commission, and upon his answer it may
be seen what is further to be done." ⅓ p.] |
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81. Information of words spoken by Mr. Oldham, parson of
Shipton Moyne, co. Gloucester, in preaching on the 20th and 23rd
August. The words quoted are in derogation of the cathedral
service and of pictures of the Saviour. He also complained of the
want of able counsellors; that the people were contented with the
present ill-government; that pulpit-men upheld all, of whom as yet
there was a good number, though they were daily cut off for toys
and trifles. Speaking of the buying and selling of places, he said,
"all things are to be sold at Rome." [2/3 p.] |
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82. Information by [Mr. Flamsteed?] of words spoken by George
Catesby, living about Ecton, co. Northampton, or in Bloomsbury "towards the fields," with a view to the exhibition of articles
against him in the High Commission Court. He expressed dislike
to the surplice, derided bowing towards the altar, disparaged the
High Commission Court, expressed dislike of the sentence against
Prynne, approved Henry Burton's book, and disparaged Dr. Heylin's
answer, threatened to stone William Churchman, priest, for having,
as he said, committed idolatry in bowing towards the Holy Table,
with many other offences of the like kind. [2½ pp.] |
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83. Rate made at Chingford, Essex, for payment of the account of
John Burnett, churchwarden, for expenses about the church and
chancel, for bread and wine for the communion, for maimed soldiers,
for a new communion-table and rails. The total was 14l. 6s. 8d.,
but exceptions were taken to the charges for the table, rails, and
other things, as being excessive, and bought without advising with
the parish, wherefore the rate was made for 10l. 11s. 10d. [Signed
by twelve persons. 2 pp.] |
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84. Reasons assigned by the churchwardens of Beckington,
Somerset, for refusal to remove the communion table from the place
where it stands and has stood since the Reformation. [¾ p.] |
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85. Brief of money received by Sir Edmond Sawyer, and promised to be paid in the future in the forest division of Berks,
towards repairs of St. Paul's. Paid 119l. 18s. 7d. Promised
111l. 6s. 8d. [22/3 pp.] |
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86. Certificate of Inigo Jones, of the barks constantly employed
to bring stone from the Isle of Portland for repair of St. Paul's, with
the names of the masters and mariners, and application for their
freedom from impressment. [1¼ p.] |
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87. Copy of part of a letter from Bishop Curle, of Winchester [to
Archbishop Laud], on the cause of the waste of wood on the
lands of the bishopric of Winchester. All the copyhold tenants of
the bishopric pretend a custom that they may fell what timber they
will. Another cause is the covenant in the leases to find timber
out of the bishop's wood for repairing houses and mills. Sir Daniel
Norton, for such reparation, has demanded 83 tons, and because I
refused him he has cut down 40 oaks in my woods, the lease whereof
expires at Michaelmas next. In renewing leases I have taken care
to quit myself from that covenant. If his Majesty laid his command upon me that I should not renew any leases with that clause,
it would be an answer to the importunities of such tenants as press
me. [In the handwriting of William Dell. 1 p.] |
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88. Brief in a cause [in the Court of High Commission], wherein
James Finch was plaintiff, and Hugh Nordway alias Nordwell
defendant. The question in the cause was which of the said parties
was the father of an illegitimate child of Anna Wittam, a servant of
James Finch. [Imperfect. = 19 pp.] |
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89. Brief in a cause in the Court of Arches between Hugh Wynn
and Morgan Williams as to the right to a particular seat and burial
place in the church of Lanvuda [Llanvedw, co. Glamorgan ?]
[Last sheet imperfect. 22 pp.] |
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90. Description of the glebe lands of the rectory of Carlton
Curliew, co. Leicester, conveyed to the parson and his successors by
Sir John Bale and other freeholders. [1 p.] |
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91. Petition of William Dillon, clerk, and doctor of law, to
the King. Petitioner, having heard some speeches from Bishop
Williams of Lincoln, concerning matters of state, derogatory to his
Majesty's proceedings, and also being privy to some sinister actions
of the bishop, yet because he was a man of great place, your
subject his chaplain had been fearful and unwilling to disclose
the same; but remembering a subject's allegiance, petitioner could
no longer conceal the truth contained in articles stated to be annexed.
Prays order for examination of the premises, and protection against
the bishop's power, in the prosecution of this complaint. [2/3 p.] |
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92. List of witnesses in Dr. Dillon's cause against Bishop Williams
of Lincoln. [1 p.] |
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93. Petition of Edward Hastler, rector of Bignor, in diocese of
Chichester, to the Council. Upon the petition annexed, the Lords
gave direction to Mr. Nicholas to declare to Lord Chief Justice Finch
that no further proceedings should be taken in the said cause till his
Majesty and the Lords were further informed. In regard the cause
concerns the church in point of tithes withheld, and that his Majesty is
patron of the rectory, petitioner prays appointment for a hearing.
[2/3 p.] Annexed, |
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93. i. Petition of the same to the same. William Pellet stands
seised of 200 acres in Bignor, which heretofore was a park,
but for 40 years has been arable and coppice, and by that
means has become titheable. Petitioner being forced to sue
in the Ecclesiastical Court for the tithe, Pellet procured a
rule in the Common Pleas for a prohibition. Petitioner by
his counsel gave satisfaction, and it was ordered, in the
absence of the Lord Chief Justice, that no prohibition
should be granted, yet shortly after petitioner was again
warned to appear in the Common Pleas, and there being
persuaded by his Lordship consented to a trial at Common
Law, but upon better advice, finding the church (in his
Majesty's gift) like to suffer by going to such a trial,
petitioner prays the Lords to take a course for stay of the
trial and relief of petitioner. [1 p.] |
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94. Petition of Thomas Wheatley, Thomas Hill, and John Coggin
to the Council. Richard Massey, clerk, having exhibited a petition
against petitioners and other his parishioners, petitioners protest
that they so much reverence Mr. Massey, their minister, his coat and
function, that they are unwilling to publish his weaknesses, but
desire the Lords to cast their eyes on a certificate annexed.
Mr. Massey has vexed petitioners at the sessions for the county, at
the assizes, in the Ecclesiastical Court at Lincoln, by supplicavit in
the Chancery, in the High Commission Court and in the Star
Chamber, and now at this Board, for one and the same cause.
Touching his pretence that petitioners are actors of a division
betwixt him and his wife, he has himself occasioned that discontent
by questioning her in the Ecclesiastical Court for incontinency, at
the sessions for murder, and at the assizes for felony, yet could never
make anything appear against her, and keeps her without livelihood
for her and his three children. She having a suit now depending
for alimony, petitioners deposed therein, which has occasioned this
complaint. Pray reference to the justices of assize to certify the
truth. [1 p.] |
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95. Petition of John Bul, prisoner in Old Bridewell, to Archbishop
Laud. Has been committed by your Commissioners a year, where
he has endured many months' labour of beating hemp, to the
afflicting of his weak body, and the being companion of all manner
of rogues, to the vexation of his soul. Prays to appear before you to
answer for himself. If he be a false prophet, it is your duty to deal
with him as the word of God requires. It is his only desire to be
brought to trial. His suit is that you would consider the doom of
that man of sin which the prophet Isaiah denounces in his 14th
chapter and 17th verse, "for he opened not the house of his
prisoners." [1 p.] |
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96. Petition of Francis Whitaker, yeoman of the guard, to
the same. Four years since petitioner lodged in his house
for seven months James Rotherford, a Scot, parson of Covenham
Mary, co. Lincoln, with his wife, three children, and a maid.
Rotherford departed in petitioner's debt 20 marks, whereof 4l.
petitioner lent him out of purse. Having in like manner deceived
many others, Rotherford still skulks in obscure corners about London,
under the pretended name of Dr. Rotherford, and is defamed to be a
cheating and cozening companion, and of so lewd and incontinent a
life as is not fit to be specified. Prays a sequestration to be awarded
for recovery of the debt out of Rotherford's rectory. [2/3 p.] |
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97. Petition of Thomas Ridges, of Newport Pagnel, plumber,
to the same. Bishop Williams of Lincoln granted petitioner
letters of commendation to all parsons in the archdeaconries of
Huntingdon, Leicester, Buckingham, and Bedford, that petitioner
might be employed in repairing the roofs of the churches. By
suspension of the bishop the letters commendatory are not of any
effect. Petitioner, having provided lead and other materials, prays
the archbishop to grant him similar letters of commendation. [2/3 p.] |
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98. Philip Pregion, son of John Pregion, late registrar of the
diocese of Lincoln, to Archbishop Laud. Ever since his father's death,
petitioner has executed the office of registrar, but by reason of the
suspension of the bishop is now suspended from the same. Prays
the archbishop to restore him to the said office, being the only means
of livelihood of his mother and her eight children. [⅓ p.] |
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99. Petition of the parishioners of Allhallows Barking, near the
Tower of London, to the same. Of late years our parish church has
been repaired, and the communion table as before placed and railed
about according to the laws and customs of the Church of England.
Now there is a new font erected, over which certain carved images
and a cross are placed, and also our communion table is removed out
of its ancient accustomed place, and certain images placed over the
rail which stands about the table, all which, as we conceive, tends
much to the dishonour of God and is very offensive to us parishioners
and also perilous. We have desired our doctor to give way, that the
images might be taken down, yet he refuses so to do. Petitioners
pray the archbishop to command that the images may be taken
down, and the communion table be restored to its place. [1 p.] |
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100. Petition of Gabriel More, prebendary of St. Peter's, Westminster, to the Commissioners for that collegiate church. By our
local statutes every prebend has his peculiar stall, according to
which he is to have his precedence, which is denied to petitioner.
By the same statute, all materials for repair of prebendaries houses
are to be allowed by the college, which is likewise denied to petitioner. Prays to be righted in the premises. [2/3 p.] |
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101. Petition of Christopher Withins of Eltham to Sir John
Lambe. Petitioner's wife having preferred articles in the High
Commission, pretending cruelty and adultery committed by him,
gained an order for receiving the use of 200l. for maintenance of
herself and two children, and also that she should have half her
household goods. All which has been performed. Further she
demands 8l. costs, which she has received with interest. By reason of
compounding a bond which she secretly took from petitioner for
200l., and pretending that petitioner has not performed his order,
an attachment is granted against him, to his and his children's utter
undoing, if you do not intervene. Prays enquiry as to performance
of the order, and that the attachment may be dissolved. [¾ p.] |
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102. Petition of Thomas Webb, clothier, to the same. Petitioner
was censured in the Court of High Commission, the cause being
prosecuted ex officio, and costs and charges taxed at 80l. Upon
repair to Archbishop Laud, he conceived the costs to be
exceedingly over-taxed, and ordered the same to be moderated, the
crime of petitioner not being great. Prays Sir John to shew him
what lawful favour he can. [½ p.] |
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103. Petition of John Warren, shoemaker, of Olney, to Sir John
Lambe. Is brought up to London by attachment for absenting himself from his parish church, for which he is heartily sorry. Purposes
a full reformation and careful obedience to the canons of the church.
His offence being out of ignorance, and no faction, and himself very
poor, he prays stay of proceedings, and to appoint him to attend Sir
John in the country. [½ p.] |
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104. Petition of John Downame, parson, the churchwarden, and
others, of Allhallows-the-Great, in London, to the same, concerning
the suit of Revell against Bryan and his wife. It is three years
since Bryan's wife was first presented, which suit has cost the
parish above 20l. The offences are so odious, so apparent, and
against the church door, that it has brought much scandal to the
parish. If Bryan and his wife commute, pray that the poor in their
parish may be remembered, and that an end may be given to the
suit this term. Signed by the parson, churchwardens, and nine
others. [1 p.] |
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105. Petition of James Chadwick, clerk, rector of Stanley Regis,
co. Gloucester, to the same. A sequestration of the rectory of
Stanley Regis was referred to the Commissioners at Informations by
the Archbishop of Canterbury. Petitioner has served the cure there
three quarters of a year, and during that time has paid tenths, shipmoneys, procurations, and synodals, also eight groats monthly to the
poor, and has not received any of the profits by reason of a pretended
lease, there being due to him 40l. at least. Petitioner being unable
to prosecute the suit, having spent 20l. in the keep of himself and
horse nine weeks, besides paying 5l. to a curate during his absence,
prays relief. [½ p.] |
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106. Petition of Robert Edmonds, of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, to
the same. Petitioner is molested by Mary Sheppard, wife of
Richard Sheppard, for words confessed by him before Dr. Swalman,
late official to the Archdeacon of Middlessex, being before him convented for adultery with Mary Sheppard, for which crime he had
performed public penance, but she has not yet undergone any
ecclesiastical censure. Prays that she may be cited to answer for
her offence. [1 p.] |
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107. Petition of John Brewer and Richard Glover, churchwardens
of St Katherine Creechurch, London, to the same. The Council
appointed that a certificate should be made by the churchwardens of
every parish, whether there were any selected vestry or no, whereupon John Bill, who, notwithstanding he was inhibited, officiated as
churchwarden, made a return, which has occasioned a suit, long
depending before you, as to whether all the men of the said parish
or but some be a vestry. In respect of the unquietness that has
been and is likely to be, for the relieved in short time will, being
many, be assessors of the relievers, if all be a vestry, petitioners
pray a reference to the Council, whence the ground of the suit
arose. [2/3 p.] |
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108. Statement of changes in the tithes of Creeton and Castle
Bytham, co. Lincoln, resulting from inclosure. [½ p.] |
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109. Indictment found against Thomas Newcombe, or Newcomen, parson of St. Runwalds, in Colchester, under a statute of the
1st Elizabeth, for not reading prayers and administering the sacraments according to the Book of Common Prayer. [Copy. 1½. p.]
Annexed, |
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109. i. Opinion of Sir John Lambe that the indictment could
not be maintained. The charges against the defendant
related to the position of the communion table, the
minister's standing at the north end thereof, his causing
the communicants to come to the rail to receive the sacrament, his refusing to administer to those who came not to
the rail. [On the same paper is written what is apparently an extract from a letter of a sheriff, on the unwillingness with which a second payment of the ship-money
was paid in his county. 1½ p.] |
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110. List of benefices in the collation and presentation of the
Archbishop of Canterbury, with the values thereof, arranged
alphabetically, with several additions in the handwriting of William
Dell, secretary to Archbishop Laud. [A paper roll. 4 pp.] |
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111. Account of tenths payable from various livings in cos. Leicester, Huntingdon, Hertford, Bedford, Buckingham, and Lincoln,
probably those within the bishopric of Lincoln. They are arranged
in deaneries. From the marginal notes it would seem that the
account was originally prepared in 1616, but by subsequent additions
and corrections of Sir John Lambe, one of which is dated in this
year, it may be inferred it was used at this time, perhaps, by the
Commissioners appointed to exercise episcopal jurisdiction during
the suspension of the bishop. [79 pp.] |
