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Aug. 1.
Wells. |
1. Bishop Pierce, of Bath and Wells, William Bassett, sheriff of
Somerset, and John Malet, the late sheriff, to the Council Report
under order of the 20th May last, on complaint of the inhabitants of
the hundred of Wellow, Somerset, concerning an over-rate of 40l.,
alleged to have been imposed upon them by William Coxe, undersheriff of John Malet, more than was laid upon them by Henry
Hodges, the preceding sheriff. We find that the 40l. was not imposed upon them by Coxe, but was left in arrear by Hodges, and
only demanded by Coxe. Hodges alleged that he imposed the 40l.
more by warrant; but Brooker, the complainant, denies it, and it
has not appeared that any such warrant was received. Therefore
we have ordered Hodges to pay the 40l., and be relieved hereafter,
when he shall make proof of the delivery of the warrant. Further,
we find that by the ancient Henton rate, the hundred of Wellow is to
pay for this service after a man and a half, 120l.; and the liberty of
Norton St. Philip, which is within the said hundred, half a man,
which comes to 40l.; therefore the hundred and liberty are to find
two men, which comes to 160l., and so we have ordered for this
year; but whether the liberty shall be joined to the hundred in time
to come, we leave to your direction. [1½ p.] |
Aug. 1.
Wells. |
2. The same to the same. Similar report under order of 21st
May last (see Vol. ccclvii., No. 7), on the complaint of the inhabitants of the hundred of Chewton. By the ancient Henton rate,
Chewton is to pay but for two men, viz., 160l.; but by the usual
practice of a later rate made by the justices of peace many years
ago, the said hundred has found three men, which comes to 240l.,
and the present sheriff has made the assessment accordingly.
Mr. Hodges assessed the hundred at 240l., but altered his account
with Mr. Malet after he was out of office, wherein he showed his
great weakness, and gave occasion to this complaint. We have
ordered 240l. to be paid for last year and the present year. Whether
it shall be reduced for the time to come, we leave to your direction.
[1 p.] |
Aug. 1.
Wells. |
3. The same to the same. Similar report under order of the
same day (see Ibid., No. 6), on complaint of the hundred of Milverton.
By Henton rate, Milverton was to find two men, viz., in money,
160l.; but by a later rate made by the justices of peace it was
abated one man, viz., 80l.; but on what hundred that one man
should be laid the complainants have not showed, therefore we have
ordered them to pay 160l., and that that assessment shall continue.
[1 p.] |
Aug. 1.
Wells. |
4. The same to the same. Similar report under order of the
same date (see Ibid., No. 5), on complaint of the hundreds of Bruton
and Norton Ferris. By Henton rate, those hundreds are to pay for
four men 320l.; but we find a constant practice for many years that
those hundreds have paid but a third part of the two hundreds of
Horethorne and Catsash, and thereupon they should be eased in the
sums complained of. We have ordered for the present despatch of
this service that they shall pay the ancient rate of 320l. for the last
year, whereof much is in arrear, and also the same for this year;
but we conceive they are overcharged, and should be eased according
to their complaint. [1 p.] |
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5. Sec. Windebank to Algernon Earl of Northumberland. Your
despatch of the 29th July, finding me at Oatlands, gave me occasion
to acquaint his Majesty with it, who commanded me to signify to
you, that with such part of the fleet as you shall think fit, you are
to stand to the west, and to visit all those coasts, leaving a competent number of ships in the Downs. In your passage you are to
give frequent advice of all occurrences, and upon your return to give
speedy notice of it. If, in your passage, you understand that any of the
fleet may be of use to Capt. Rainsborough at Sallee, you are to send
two or three ships thither. And because it appears by your despatch
that the Dunkirkers have of late done much mischief to the French
and Hollanders, you shall give relief to the subjects and vessels of
either of those nations as you shall find them in distress. His
Majesty is very well pleased with the rescue of the two Hollanders
that came from Fernambuck [Pernambuco]. Nevertheless, if any of
the fishers of Holland which have refused his Majesty's licences shall
be assaulted by the Dunkirkers, his Majesty will in nowise that
you protect them. To this purpose I signified his Majesty's pleasure
to you on the 28th July, from Windsor, and then I sent you a letter
from his Majesty and a despatch received from Capt. Fielding. His
Majesty understands that those of Calais are willing to make restitution of the Irish ship lately taken by them, upon condition that
they may have 200l. for the charge of the arrest and the remaining
of the ship there all this while. His Majesty expects that entire
restitution be made of the ship and goods without any such allowance, which is held most unreasonable. The two enclosed are from
the Earl of Holland and Mr. Percy, your brother. P.S.—You will
give conveyance to the enclosed, written by his Majesty's command
to Capt. Rainsborough. [Draft. Endorsed, "Answer to the Earl
of Northumberland; at Bagshot." 3 pp.] |
Aug. 1.
Lon[don]. |
6. Sir William Killigrew to Sec. Windebank. If you knew how
nearly I am concerned in these 600 acres you would excuse my
boldness, which makes me complain of yourself to yourself, for I
plainly see that you are cold for me and warm for Sir William
Becher, and to put you in mind that my hopes were built on the
favour I expected from you, who delivered my first petition, and
procured me a favourable reference, and at that time thought me the
first speaker. I thought it better manners in a word to Mr. Reade
to express how grateful I would be than to yourself, and the sooner
because I had shown that I could be so, in the Earl of Lindsey's
compliment to you, which I allowed of merely out of my respects
to yourself, for my interest therein is more than the Earl's, or any
man's. I shall be as sorry to be justly thought ungrateful as to
lose my suit. At the rate Sir William Becher desires it, it will not
bear the name of a courtesy; he offers a valuable consideration.
I beseech you to take notice that I will help his Majesty to 400l. a
year for the 600 acres, at which rate you do him a small courtesy
and me a great prejudice, for my 50l. is much more than his 400l.
[1 p.] |
Aug. 1.
York. |
7. Justices of Peace for the North Riding of co. York to the
Council of the North. According to your letters of the 10th June
last, we cannot find that ever this part of the county has contributed with the bishopric of Durham in any charge; and when the
North Riding has had a far greater charge, namely, in leading
timber and other materials to his Majesty's house at York, it had
no help from that county, and we do not conceive but that that
county may as well bear that charge without our help, as we have
done a greater without help from them. [1 p.] |
Aug. 1.
Barrington. |
8. William Strode to Nicholas. I received your letter with the
order. Thanks for your good advice, wherewith I have complied,
and given the bishop full satisfaction, which he acknowledged in the
presence of the sheriff, but would give me no letter of it to the
Lords. He told me he must certify that himself. The charge I
have also paid, but to pay for my own goods twice, and the rates
besides, I cannot, neither indeed is it demanded of me nor complained on to the bishop, for the money was never out of the
constable's hand. That clause and the word "shifts" were not very
pleasing to me. For the business, it is worse out of order than
ever, the bishop's certificate having so animated the raters (who are
the constables) that our tithing from its ancient hundred rate of
11l. 4s. 0d. was first raised to 15l. 10s. 0d. (which was that I complained on and was commanded to pay), and now they have raised
it to 20l., and my particular from 18s. came to 24s., and now is
made 3l. 10s. 0d., and we are threatened to be raised higher, so that,
if this be paid also, we shall have no end of alterations. We
conceive the ground of rates to be either law or custom, which
alterations will utterly destroy, and those that endeavour them will
find it will disorder and hinder his Majesty's service. For the
equity of rates, if we are raised where we are thought too little, let
our neighbours go with us, and let us be pulled down where we are
known to be too much, and such new rates shall very well content
me; but to make one pay much and another little, for the like, that
can never continue, which is my case. I have hitherto paid more
than some of my neighbours that have five times my estates. [Seal
with arms. 1 p.] |
Aug. 1.
Dover Castle. |
9. Theophilus, Earl of Suffolk, Constable of Dover Castle, and
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, to the Mayors of Hastings and
Rye; the bailiff of Lydd; the bailiffs of Pevensey and Seaford;
and also to John Barley, John Crump, and William Lovell, jurats
of Hastings; Mark Thomas, John Nowdell, and Joseph Benbrigge,
jurats of Rye; Thomas Stronghill, the elder, William Godfrey, and
John Couchman, jurats of Lydd; Abraham Kenchley, George
Carleton, and Thomas Weller, jurats of Pevensey; Sackville Porter,
Thomas Elphick, the elder, and John Tayler, jurats of Seaford;
and John Jacob, sergeant of the Admiralty of the Cinque Ports.
Recites that a wrecked ship, laden with oils and other goods, and
furnished with ordnance, has lately been driven on ground near
Seaford, within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of the Cinque
Ports, and many of the said goods and other things had been driven
on shore and been taken up. The persons addressed are to return
an inventory and valuation of the same. [1 p.] Annexed, |
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9. i. Inventory and appraisement taken at Seaford, 3rd August
1637. Total, 1,968l. 13s. 4d. [1 p.] |
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9. ii. The like, taken at Pevensey, 4th August 1637. Total, 66l.
[1 p.] |
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9. iii. The like, taken at Hastings, 4th August 1637. Total, 132l.
[1 p.] |
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9. iv. The like, taken at Lydd, 5th August 1637. Total, 22l.
[1 p.] |
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10. Separate copies of the four inventories and appraisements
annexed to the preceding article. [= 3¼ pp.] |
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11. W. B. to Dr. Turner, at his chamber in Merton College
[Oxford]. By the college statutes the writer is bound to denounce the warden to the visitor, if, on account of dilapidation
or any other reasonable cause, he ought to be put out. Desires
the opinion of Dr. Turner whether it be incongruous to petition
the visitor to consider whether the following actions of the warden [Sir Nathaniel Brent] fall within the compass of this statute,
as constituting dilapidation or no. The statement comprises seven
items of charge, principally arising out of pecuniary transactions
between the warden and the college. He had borrowed 120l. to
repair a mill demised to him, and after 14 years had not repaid the
same. He had put the college to 300l. expense in furnishing a
house for him in London, which he quitted in a short time, and the
expense was lost. His rendering irrecoverable certain arrears of
rents due to the college to the amount of 123l. 4s. 4d. His engaging
the college in law suits to the loss of 223l. His omitting to get in
57l. out of 130l. due to the college from some of the company. His
suffering the college rents to remain unpaid. Excessive charge to
which he has put the college in fuel, the amount last year being
54l. 14s. 6d. more than the college spent in hall and kitchen by 3l.
or 4l. [1½ p.] |
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12–13. See "Returns made by Justices of Peace." |
Aug. 2.
London. |
14. Officers of the Navy to Nicholas. Having sent our warrants
for George Sheires, for refusing the carriage of ship-timber according to the Council order, the enclosed certificate from the sheriff
of Surrey and the messengers' affidavit herein sent will acquaint you
with his behaviour, wherewith we entreat you to acquaint the
Lords. [¾ p.] Enclosed, |
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14. i. Certificate of Sir Anthony Vincent Edmund Barker,
one of the messengers, coming on 13th July to George
Sheires, of Great Bookham, Surrey, charged him to obey
a warrant of the Officers of the Navy, and to go with him
to the said officers. Sheires refused, saying he had no
horse that he could ride, and also refused to use Barker's
horse, but in conclusion it was agreed that Barker should
go that night to Leatherhead, and that Sheires would call
upon him the morning following by seven of the clock,
and so both ride together to Chatham. Sheires threatened
to question Barker for the execution of this service. Stoke,
14th July 1637. [1 p.] |
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14. ii. Affidavit of Edmund Barker. States the above facts
more minutely, and with various additional particulars.
Sheires in the first place refused to obey the warrant
because he was the King's servant. Instead of performing
his promise to ride with Barker from Leatherhead, Sheires
left home that morning an hour earlier, and rode to
Chatham another way without giving the officer any
notice. On Barker's return to Chatham he found Sheires
had been there, but was gone away to London, and Barker
has been since unable to meet with him. Sworn 17th
July 1637. [1½ p.] |
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15. Minute of the petition of the Bookbinders of London, presented [to Archbishop Laud] at Croydon. They prayed that no
books might be sent into the country in quires to be bound; that
it should be ordered what books are to be bound in sheep, and that
there may be a certain price set down by the company in a table
and fixed in Stationers' Hall; that there may be a restraint of
binding apprentices; and that bookbinders free of other companies
than the Stationers may be conformable to the orders of the
Stationers' Company. [2/3 p.] |
Aug. 3.
Peterborough. |
16. Bishop Dee, of Peterborough, to the Council. Report in
conformity with order of the Board of the 30th April last, on
petitions of inhabitants of the hundreds of Rothwell and Guilsborough, co. Northampton. The referees for the hundreds and Sir
Robert Banastre, the sheriff, meeting on 18th July, and somewhat
dissenting in opinion, made their addresses to the bishop and
tendered the letter of the Lords, and a representation of the
business, wherein Lord Brudenell and Sir Robert Hatton, the
referees for the hundreds, had taken great pains. On 26th July
certificate was sent to the bishop by Thomas Tyrrell and Richard
Sherte, clerk, referees for the sheriff. The bishop states his own
subsequent proceedings, and that he should this week have settled
the proceedings for the sheriff, had not he the last evening presented
the bishop with the copy of a later order given by the Lords the
last Sunday. [Seal with arms. 1 p.] |
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17. Officers of Navy to Lords of the Admiralty. According to
your warrant, we required the master shipwrights to certify which
of them repaired the Fifth Whelp before she went last to sea, who
returned answer that Mr. Apslin had charge of her (whose skill
and fidelity we esteem to equal any of the masters), but the pinnace
at first being built by great for a particular service of mean sappy
timber, we conceive in that great storm by her working in the sea
that unhappy disaster happened, for we have had sufficient experience of the weakness of all the Whelps, which occasioned extraordinary charge to maintain them this long. For the Lords' better
satisfaction, we enclose the masters' certificate, who have likewise
estimated the charge in repairing the Nicodemus frigate at
130l. 10s. 0d., the Earl of Northumberland having for her weakness
and leakiness sent her into Chatham, desiring that if she could
have been repaired in a few days to return her to the fleet, otherwise to discharge her men, who were paid off the beginning of last
week. [1 p.] Enclosed, |
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17. i. Edward Boate, Nathaniel Apslin, and Augustine Boate,
master shipwrights, to Officers of the Navy. Certify as
above stated respecting the last repairs of the Fifth
Whelp and the cause of her disaster. 2nd August 1637.
[Endorsed as being the request of Robert Whetnall, on
behalf of Sir William Russell, for Mr. Surveyor [Kenrick
Edisbury] to draw a letter to the Lords in conformity
with the certificate of the master shipwrights. 1 p.] |
Aug. 4.
The Triumph, in the Downs. |
18. Algernon Earl of Northumberland to Sec. Windebank. I am
preparing to obey his Majesty's directions received by your letter
of 1st inst., and resolve to lose no time in plying towards the west.
Upon Monday next, at the farthest, I intend with the greatest part
of the fleet to set sail if the wind will suffer us. For guard of
these parts I leave six or seven ships under Capt. Fogg, unto whom
you may direct your despatches. We will be able to make but a
short stay in those seas, except the winds afford us a speedy passage
thither. The victuals in some of our greatest ships (out of which the
Mary Rose and Roebuck were furnished) end 27th Sept.; other ships
are provided for a week longer. If no command be sent me to the
contrary, I will so order my return that the ships may not want
provisions to carry them to the places where they are to be laid up
for the winter. It is conceived that the sending more ships to
Sallee would be to little purpose, for we judge that the work there
is already done, and that Capt. Rainsborough will be come away
before they can get to him. That those of the town would more
willingly have put themselves and their castle into the King's hand
than have rendered it to the Saint is very probable, but Capt. Rainsborough is neither provided with men nor munition to hold it, nor
can the going of two or three ships now from the fleet supply him.
There will be want of landsmen and other necessaries for holding it.
Unless some of these ships go expressly thither, I cannot think of
any means for the conveyance of Windebank's letter, for in this
time there is no trading thither. If it be the King's pleasure that
some of these ships be despatched away, I will take the best care I
can for supplying them out of the other ships. Now that I have
told my opinion concerning this proposition, I leave it to his
Majesty's resolution, and desire to know it as soon as may be; till
then I will keep your letter. Two sloops of Calais were by one of the
King's ships brought in here the other day. I will give order to
Capt. Fogg to prosecute his Majesty's former commands in continuing
to look after those of Calais, until I receive directions to the contrary. [Endorsed by Windebank, "Rec[eived] 6th, at 8 in the
morning; answered 10th, from Westminster." 2½ pp.] |
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19. See "Returns made by Justices of Peace." |
Aug. 5.
Oatlands. |
20. Notes by Nicholas of business to be transacted by the Lords
of the Admiralty. Consider what shall be done with Capt. Buller,
who is in the prison of the Marshalsea, where the plague is. The
gunner of the Merhonour is lately dead, and divers gunners are
suitors to be removed into that ship out of lesser; settle this place
to prevent danger of infection which such persons may bring to
Court. Consider Sir Henry Marten's report touching the moiety of
the silver claimed by the Earl of Portland, as taken up in his viceadmiralty. There claim to be rewarded out of this, Newland, as a
salvor, Richard Wyan, the King's Proctor, Dr. Mason, Judge of that
vice-admiralty, and Thomas Wyan, the registrar. Sir William
Russell's answer to reference on Stevens's petition about masts.
Peruse Sir Henry Marten's report on the shipwrights' petition and
others referred to him by the Lords. [1½ p.] |
Aug. 5.
Oatlands. |
Lords of Admiralty to Sir Henry Marten. Upon consideration of
your certificate concerning the loss sustained by Nicholas Polhill and
his partners from the inhabitants of Rotterdam, finding the same to
be only under your hand, we pray you to certify the same under
your hand and seal of office, that according to his Majesty's pleasure
we may give order to issue letters of reprisal. [Copy. See
Vol. cccliii., fol. 44. ½ p.] |
Aug. 5.
Oatlands. |
Order of the Lords of the Admiralty. That Capt. Richard
Buller put in 500l. bail in the Admiralty Court, to answer his fault
in suffering a frigate of Calais to take from under his convoy an
Irish vessel which he had command to waft to Dunkirk; and
upon certificate that such bail is given, he is to be set at liberty.
[Copy. Ibid., fol. 44 b. ½ p.] |
Aug. 5.
Oatlands. |
Lords of the Admiralty to the Keeper of the Marshalsea. To set
at liberty Capt. Richard Buller, he paying all fees. [Copy. Ibid.,
fol. 44 b. ¼ p.] |
Aug. 5.
Oatlands. |
The same to [Montjoy Earl of Newport]. To permit James
Pickering, Capt. John Hyde, Arnold Brames, and William Ledgant,
owners of the Dover Merchant, of 350 tons, to supply the same with
32 pieces of iron ordnance from the founder's store. [Copy. Ibid.,
fol. 44 b. ½ p.] |
Aug. 5.
Oatlands. |
The same to Robert Smith, messenger. To arrest Thomas
Mayden and William Hooke, of St. Mary Magdalen, in or near
Redriffe [Rotherhithe], and carry them to the Keeper of the Marshalsea, to be kept in safe custody until further order. [Copy.
Ibid., fol. 45. ½ p.] |
Aug. 5.
Oatlands. |
Lords of the Admiralty to Keeper of the Marshalsea. To take
into his custody Thomas Mayden and William Hooke. [Copy.
See Vol. cccliii., fol. 45 b. ⅓ p.] |
Aug. 5.
Oatlands. |
The same to Algernon Earl of Northumberland. The Earl of
Newport, Master of the Ordnance, is to repair to Jersey and
Guernsey for his Majesty's service, and is to be transported thither.
You are to give order to the captain of one of the ships of your fleet
to repair to Portsmouth to receive him aboard on the 25th inst., and
to transport him to such places in the said isles as he shall direct,
and attend there to bring him back to Portsmouth or the Downs, as
he shall think convenient. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 45 b. ¾ p.] |
Aug. 5.
Oatlands. |
The same to the same. We have convented before us Capt.
Richard Buller, and heard what he could say. He confesses that
the French frigate was no bigger nor had no more ordnance than
the Nicodemus, whereof he was captain, and that the Irish vessel
was to leeward of the Nicodemus when the French frigate boarded
her. He does not give any satisfactory reason why he did not
pursue the French frigate after he had first encountered her, which if
he had done, she could not have had time to have boarded a vessel
which was under his lee. And therefore, finding he has drawn a
great disgrace on the King's service, we have committed him to the
Marshalsea, and intend to have him further prosecuted. We understand that the ship that transported the Prince Elector was much
distressed in that employment, and more through the neglect of the
master and some other of the officers than by the storm, insomuch
as she was in danger to have been cast away. We are to desire you
to certify by whose fault the said ship ran so great a hazard. Concerning the loss of the Fifth Whelp, we hold it very requisite that
it should not be passed over without inquiry, which we pray you
also to certify us, that thereupon we may take order for prevention
of the like neglect for the future. [Copy. Ibid., fol. 45 b. 11/6 p.] |
Aug. 5.
Oatlands. |
The same to Thomas Thornhill. We have deputed Richard
Bagnall to make saltpetre in Hants. The deputation formerly
granted to you to work that county expired the 31st July
last, from which time Bagnall's deputation is to begin. We require
you not only to desist making saltpetre in counties for which your
deputation is expired, but to deliver into his Majesty's store all such
saltpetre as by virtue of the said deputation you have made.
[Draft by Nicholas. See Vol. ccclxiv., No. 46. 1 p.] |
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Copy of the same. [See Vol. cccliii., fol. 46 b. ½ p.] |
| Aug. 5. |
Another copy of the same. [See Vol. ccxcii., fol. 68. ½ p.] |
Aug. 5.
Oatlands. |
Lords of the Admiralty to Montjoy Earl of Newport. We have
appointed Robert Bacon to be master gunner of the Merhonour.
You are to order a survey of all gunner's stores aboard the same,
and cause the same to be delivered to the said Robert Bacon. [Copy.
See Vol. cccliii., fol. 47. ⅓ p.] |
| Aug. 5. |
Minute of a similar letter to deliver the gunner's stores of the
Dieu Repulse to Gerard Dalby, appointed master gunner in place of
Robert Bacon. [See Vol. cccliii., fol. 47. 1/6 p.] |
| Aug. 5. |
The like of a similar letter to deliver the gunner's stores of the
Adventure to Nicholas Oliver, appointed master gunner in place of
Gerard Dalby. [Ibid. 1/6 p.] |
| Aug. 5. |
The like to deliver the stores of the Second Whelp to William
Copple, appointed master gunner in place of Nicholas Oliver. [Ibid.
1/6 p.] |
Aug. 5.
Putney Park. |
21. William Lake to Sec. Windebank. I enclose copy of my
former petition, which the Duke of Lennox presented to his Majesty.
I hope you will find my demands such as his Majesty may approve
of. He may be possessed that I acquired some very great estate
under my master, the late Lord Treasurer, but it was far otherwise.
I was always more careful of my honour and my own honesty than
of increasing my fortune. My main hope was that by my Lord's
means I might have obtained some grant from his Majesty, which
might have eased me of the trouble of being a suitor now. I know
that his Lordship meant me some good in that place which Witherings
now enjoys, whereof I give a little touch in my petition. How I
missed it, nescio quid, nec quare. I entreat that when you move
his Majesty on my behalf you would affirm that all the fortune I
got does not amount to above 5,000l., which is but a small thing
to maintain myself, my wife, and six children. Neither will I be so
immoderate in my suit as to desire more than what the late King
once thought me worthy of; I mean the place for the Latin tongue.
[Seal with arms. 1 p.] |
| Aug. 5. |
22. Edward Fenn to Nicholas. 150l. from the sheriff of co.
Warwick is all that has been paid since the last certificate of 21st
July. [⅓ p.] |
| Aug. 5. |
23. Petition of Sir Thomas Evelyn, of Long Ditton, Surrey, to
Archbishop Laud. Recites petition of Richard Hinde, B.D. (See
Vol. ccclxiv., No. 101.) Petitioner has endeavoured to encourage
Hinde and his ministry at Ditton, not only himself, his wife, and
family being constant hearers of him, both at morning and evening
prayers, but petitioner has also used his authority to others to invite
them to the like duty, and whensoever Hinde had occasion to use
petitioner he was always ready to supply his wants. Notwithstanding all which, Hinde has of late gone about to disgrace petitioner and his wife, and gave her ill language in the church of
Ditton, and has neglected his duty. Petitioner is loath to convent
him by suit in law, in respect that he is curate of petitioner's
parish, and may be much impoverished thereby. Beseeches your
Grace that Sir John Lambe may determine all business between
them, and if petitioner's wife have done Hinde wrong she shall
make satisfaction, and if on the other side Hinde has misbehaved
himself, petitioner doubts not but, upon the admonition of Sir John,
he will be reformed. Underwritten, |
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23. i. "I think the prayer of this petition modest and reasonable, and therefore I desire Sir John Lambe to take
it into consideration, together with Mr. Hinde's petition, and sometime in Michaelmas term to appoint a
time to hear all differences privately and make a peaceable end if he can, or give me an account what he finds,
that some further course may be taken according to
justice. W. CANT. August 5, 1637." [1 p.] |
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24. Bishop Juxon, Lord Treasurer, to the Mayor and others of
Bristol. Your complaint of your Searcher's patent, and his Majesty's
reference to me, most of you know. My endeavour was that the
King's officer might receive fit maintenance, and the merchants
receive no pressure. This made myself and Baron Denham (whom
I called unto me to hear that business) to resolve to moderate the
fees of the former patent to 200l. a year. His Majesty approving
the same, I made my reference to the farmers how it might best be
settled, which reference and their report thereupon the sergeant
will now acquaint you with, and I wish it a fair accommodation
among yourselves. [Copy. Endorsed as dated 6th inst. 1 p.]
Enclosed, |
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24. i. Lord Treasurer Juxon to the Farmers of the Customs.
Recites reference from the King to the Lord Treasurer,
a hearing of both parties by him and Baron Denham, and
their opinion that the fees under the patent should be
reduced to 200l. a year, which his Majesty approved.
Desires the farmers to moderate the schedule of fees
accordingly. Fulham, 17th July 1637. [Copy. ¾ p.] |
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24. ii. Sir John Wolstenholme, Sir Abraham Dawes, and Richard
Carmarden to the Lord Treasurer. To moderate the fees so
that they may arise to 200l. certain is very difficult. The
best course is that the merchants pay the searcher 200l. per
annum and make a reasonable table of fees among themselves, laying no greater fees upon Irish merchants and
others not free of the city than upon themselves. Custom
House, London, 4th August 1637. [Copy. 1 p.] |
| Aug. 5. |
25. Extract from a news-letter. On Thursday, 3rd August, the
Duke of Lennox was married at Lambeth by the Archbishop of
Canterbury to the Lady Mary Villiers. His Majesty gave the Lady
to the Duke. The Duchess of Buckingham conducted her daughter
to the bishop's palace, and expected there till the marriage were
celebrated in the chapel, and then with the bride and bridegroom
attended his Majesty to York House, where the Queen was. The
Duchess feasted their Majesties in that house of hers with their
court. At night their Majesties put the bride and bridegroom to
bed, and visited them the next morning, in their way from Somerset
House to Oatlands. The court and company which attended was
not very great, because that time and place had not been pitched
upon till very shortly before. There were of Lords, the Marquis
Hamilton, the Earl Marshal, Dorset, Holland, Portland, Russell,
Lord Goring, and some others. Of Ladies, Carlisle, Denbigh, Holland, Portland, Russell, Lady Blanch Arundel, Madame Vantelet, and
divers others of French, besides the maids of honour. The house was
very gloriously furnished; but there was neither dancing nor any
other entertainment than a comedy, wherein the Queen was better
content to venture for an ill one than to choose any other which
she had already seen. Has not heard that any presents were made,
but only by the Duchess of Richmond, who sent 5,000l. worth of
jewels to the bride and 5,000l. in pieces to the Duke. This day the
Duke carries his Duchess to Court, where she is to be sworn of the
Queen's bedchamber. [¾ p.] |
| Aug. 5. |
See "Papers relating to Appointments in the Navy." |
| Aug. 6. |
The King to Thomas Viscount Wentworth, Lord Deputy of
Ireland. To signify to Jerome Alexander, residing in that kingdom,
that with all convenient speed he repair hither, the Earl of Arundel
and Surrey having special occasion for his service. [Docquet.] |
| Aug. 6. |
Grant of a disafforestation of the manor of Dagenham, Essex, and
a grant to Lawrence Wright, M.D., of free warren in the same, and
a pardon to him for all offences committed within the same manor
contrary to the forest laws. [Docquet.] |
| Aug. 6. |
Warrant to Nicholas Kemeys, of Kevenmalby [Cefn Mably],
co. Glamorgan, for preserving his Majesty's game in the parish of
Michaelstone-yvedw, and other parishes in cos. Glamorgan and
Monmouth. [Docquet.] |
| Aug. 6. |
Warrant to William Earl of Denbigh, Master of the Wardrobe, to
pay to Lydia Lupo, widow of Thomas Lupo, composer of music,
deceased, 48l. due to her late husband; and also 32l. due to Theophilus
Lupo, one of his Majesty's violins, for arrears of liveries. [Docquet.] |
| Aug. 6. |
Warrant to pay to Richard Kilvert 1,500l. out of the first moneys
coming into the Exchequer of 10,000l. set upon the Bishop of Lincoln in the Star Chamber, in consideration of his pains and expenses
in the prosecution of that cause. [Docquet.] |
| Aug. 6. |
Docquet of warrant to pay 105l. to Sir Roger Palmer, calendared
under date of 7th inst. |
Aug. 6.
Oatlands. |
26. The King to the Commissioners of Sewers for a level not named.
By letters of 15th March 1636, the King signified his pleasure to the
then commissioners concerning the 2,000 acres intended for the poor,
and the 1,500 acres to be tied for the maintenance of the works.
He expects from the present commissioners a discreet proceeding
for the accomplishment of what was directed by those former
letters. Directs them also to examine a petition of the inhabitants
of the soke and hundred of Bolingbroke, and settle an order for relief
of petitioners. [Seal attached. 1 p.] |
| Aug. 6. |
Docquet of the same. |
Aug. 6.
Oatlands. |
Notes by Nicholas of proceedings of the Council. Respecting shipmoney; order to be given to the Attorney-General that there be
but 30 days allowed to assess the ship-money, as in the first writs;
this the King commanded this day. The King ordered that Westminster be set at 1,000l., and the county the rest. Opinions stated
by the officers of the Trinity House respecting the lights at Wintertonness and Orfordness, and respecting certain statements of
Sir John Meldrum. The officers of the Trinity House thought the
lights very necessary, but desired that the 2d. per ton may be
imposed, 1d. on the ship and 1d. on the goods, which the King will
take order for. The patent is to go on as drawn. Other subjects
treated of in the Council related to the convoy of Nicolaldi and the
charge of the King's ships, which was to be examined. Six ships
were to be continued till December, and four afterwards. [See
Vol. ccci., No. 96. 1⅓ p.] |
Aug. 6.
Oatlands. |
Order of the King in Council with the Lords of the Admiralty.
Having considered a grant ready to pass the Great Seal to Jerrard
Gore, to maintain lights at Wintertonness and Orfordness, and
having heard Capt. Thomas Best and others of the Trinity House
concerning the same, it was ordered that the grant should proceed,
and that the Lord Keeper should be prayed to cause the same to
pass the Great Seal. [Copy. See Vol. cccliii., fol. 47 b. 5/6 p.] |
Aug. 6.
Oatlands. |
Lords of the Admiralty to Sir Henry Marten. Upon consideration of your certificate of the 25th July last, concerning the moiety
of a wreck found within the vice-admiralty of the Earl of Portland
(see Vol. ccclxiv., No. 55), we pray you to give order to those in
whose custody the same is remaining, to deliver a just moiety
thereof to the Earl; and as concerning such as claim any part of the
said wreck as salvors, we are assured he will deal so nobly as they
shall think their labour therein well rewarded. As for the other
moiety of the said wreck, it is to be reserved entirely for his Majesty's use. [Ibid., fol. 47 b. ½ p.] |
| Aug. 6. |
27. Petition of Philip White, blacksmith, to the Lords of the
Admiralty. Petitioner has these 20 years past bought of the East
India Company and others broken iron ordnance, and at his great
charges makes them useful again, and some of them to do better
service than when they were first cast. Mr. Browne, his Majesty's
gunfounder, threatens to arrest the said ordnance, although the
greatest part of them, which were sold by Browne to the East India
Company, were so defective that they lost about 1,500l. Prays the
Lords to consider the reasons annexed, and to grant petitioner their
warrant that Brown shall not molest petitioner. [¾ p.] Annexed, |
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27. i. Reasons above referred to. Petitioner contends that he
has not entrenched upon Browne's patent, and that
persons who have bought ordnance of Browne may
transfer the same to another within the kingdom. [¾ p.] |
Aug. 6.
The Triumph, in the Downs. |
28. Algernon Earl of Northumberland to [Sir Thomas Roe].
The advertisements I receive from my friends speak distrustfully of
our foreign affairs. By what I can gather, you have made a very
right judgment of what is likely to be the success of those negotiations. The West India business is, doubtless, the most hopeful and
feasible design we can fall upon, if it could be followed, as it ought
to be. It must be pursued at a great expense for some years, without a present profit; and I doubt whether we want not industry
and patience, as well as money, to perfect a work of that nature.
The little encouragement that is given to trade in England makes
men ready to withdraw their stocks from all parts. Out of that
consideration I fear men will be very hardly drawn to engage in
new adventures, and it is too great an undertaking for a few wellaffected men to go through with it. For our treaties, I look for no
great matter from them, for whatsoever shall be concluded at these
meetings will never bind our confederates longer than they find it
for their own advantages. That we shall by this means either
eclipse the house of Austria's greatness, or restore the Prince Elector
to his country, I little hope for. Although his Majesty's licences
have been offered to the Holland busses, and by them refused, yet I
think our going that way will be declined this year, and it might
much better have been absolutely forborne than demanded in this
manner. For want of other employment, I am commanded to
make a turn to the west with most of the fleet, and after some days
spent there we shall end our summer's voyage. No man was ever
more desirous of a charge than I am to be quit of mine, being in a
condition where I see I can neither do service nor gain credit; but
to you only I say this. [2 pp.] |
Aug. 6.
From the Downs. |
29. The same to Eliza Countess of Banbury. I received the
other day a command from you for a ship to attend you at Rye on
the 2nd inst., wherein I shall be very glad to serve you. I am tomorrow going away with most of the fleet, but if you get two or
three lines from one of the Secretaries (which is the usual course)
and send that letter to the captain I shall leave here, he shall be
ready to serve you. [1 p.] |
| Aug. 6. |
30. Certificate of the Minister and Churchwardens of Newtimber,
Sussex, of the performance by Sir Edward Bellingham of a penance
enjoined by Sir John Lambe, as official principal of the Court of
Arches. Prefixed to this certificate is a copy of the sentence of
Sir John, which prescribed that on some Sunday between the
15th July and the 15th August in this year, in the time of morning
prayer, Sir Edward should come into the church of Newtimber,
and being arrayed in a white linen sheet, over his clothes, and a
long white wand in his hand, should stand in a place near the
minister's reading desk or pew, and immediately after reading the
gospel should repeat a prescribed form of expression of contrition
for his incontinency with Anne, the wife of Cosemo Mounchy, of
the parish of St. Andrew's, Holborn. [1 ½ p.] |
Aug. 7.
Oatlands. |
The King to Thomas Viscount Wentworth, Lord Deputy of Ireland. We understand that not only are the profits of the Admiralty
in that kingdom diminished by encroachments of corporations and
lords of manors, but the jurisdiction thereof is much prejudiced by
granting prohibitions by the courts of law. We hold it most
necessary to continue the powers of the Admiralty on that side subordinate to the Admiralty of England, yet we are resolved to preserve the rights thereof in those parts with an equal care, as we have
provided for the droits of the Admiralty here. Therefore our will
is that you give command to our Attorney-General in that kingdom
to question, by quo warranto, such corporations or lords of manors
as claim jurisdiction or profits of Admiralty; and as concerning
prohibitions, we send you a copy of what, with the advice of our
judges of this kingdom, we have established for a rule in such cases,
which is to be communicated to our judges on that side, and to be
in like manner ordered and settled there. [By a memorandum in
the margin of the Admiralty Register, it appears that the order
concerning prohibitions, of which a copy was sent in the above letter,
was that of the 18th February 1632. Copy. See Vol. cccliii.,
fol. 48. 11/6 p.] |
| Aug. 7. |
Grant to Sir Thomas Jermyn, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, of one moiety of the arrearages of tenths due by the clergy
from 1603, until February 1625–6, until 5,000l. shall be raised.
[Docquet.] |
| Aug. 7. |
Licence to travel for Kenelm and John Digby, sons of Sir Kenelm
Digby, with three servants and 50l. in money, for three years.
[Docquet.] |
| Aug. 7. |
Pardon to Knightley Duffeild for the manslaughter of William
Tibbet, with a grant of such of his goods and chattels as have
accrued to his Majesty by the said fact; and his Majesty frees him
from giving security for good behaviour according to the statute,
and discharges him from being burnt in the hand. [Docquet.] |
| Aug. 7. |
Pardon to Michael Holman and Richard Holman, scriveners, for
all offences against his Majesty's laws for prevention of unlawful
usury, who have submitted to composition with his Majesty's commissioners for the same. [Docquet.] |
| Aug. 7. |
Licence to travel for John Arundell, with two servants and 50l.
in money, for three years. [Docquet.] |
| Aug. 7. |
Safe conduct for Don John de Nicolaldi, late resident in England
for the King of Spain. [Docquet.] |
Aug. 7.
Westminster. |
31. Warrant to pay Sir Roger Palmer, Cofferer of the Household,
105l., to be by him paid to divers ferrymen at several ferries for
arrears due by the King to them. [Strip of parchment. 7 lines.] |
| Aug. 7. |
32. Petition of Robert Curtese, Matthew Reynoldson, and John
Fitzwilliam, in behalf of themselves and others, to the King. They
lately exhibited a petition to the King, declaring that for being
recusants there are writs out of the Exchequer to seize their goods
to his Majesty's use, albeit they have been always ready to compound, being poor tradesmen, which, by reason of the contagious
time and weighty affairs of the commissioners, they have not yet
done, and so stand in danger to perish, unless his Majesty give order
that the said writs may be stayed; since which time there are
other writs come forth to arrest their persons. Beseech his Majesty
that the writs may be stayed, and that they may not be molested
whilst they are upon composition, which they will endeavour to
hasten. [Copy. ¾ p.] Underwritten, |
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32. i. Minute of his Majesty's pleasure that the writs be stayed
till the first sitting of the Commissioners for Recusants,
at which time petitioners are to appear and submit to a
composition. Oatlands, 7th August 1637. [Copy. ¼ p.] |
| Aug. 7. |
Petition of the Artisan Pinners, Wiremakers, and Girdlers of
London to the King. In the 9th of Queen Elizabeth the said three
arts were incorporated and so continued, till of late years many
merchants and others, not being artisans, are become governors of
the corporation, and have not only neglected to put in execution the
ordinances made for the well governing the said arts, but by their
greatness, assuming the whole power over the artisans, have converted their revenues to other uses. On complaint of the artisan
pinners the King granted them a corporation by themselves. Since
that grant the governors of the girdlers and wireworkers, being no
artisans, have obtained to themselves a grant for the sole government of the said two arts, and for disposing of the stock and
revenue of all the three arts. Pray that the grant may be stayed,
and that the examination of the premises may be referred to whom
your Majesty shall think fit. [Copy. See Vol. cccxxiii., p. 161.
1½ p.] Underwritten, |
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i. Reference (the grant having been stayed by former directions)
to the Lord Privy Seal, the Earl of Dorset, and Sec.
Windebank. [Copy. Ibid., p. 163. ⅓ p.] |
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ii. Report of the said three referees. The grant lately made to
the pinmakers does not dissever them sufficiently from the
company of girdlers, they remaining still of that body.
Submit to the King the propriety of severing them
entirely, and that a fit proportion of the real and personal estate of the Company of Girdlers be allowed the
pinmakers. Recommend that directions be given to the
King's counsel to accomplish these ends. [Copy. See
Vol. cccxxiii., p. 163. 1⅓ p.] |
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iii. Reference to the Attorney-General to prepare bills for the
King's signature accordingly. Oatlands, 7th August
1637. [Copy. Ibid., p. 165. ½ p.] |
Aug. 7.
Oatlands. |
33. Copy of the second reference, dated this day, calendared above.
[½ p.] |
Aug. 7.
Croydon. |
34. Archbishop Laud to Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia. Receive
my thanks for your acceptance of my endeavours to serve the
Princes your sons. It was little I was able to do, but I was always
ready to do my best. Capt. Cave has been with me a second time,
and has freely acquainted me with that which was entrusted to him.
Before the receipt of your letters it was known here that the Prince
of Orange was set down before Breda, and it was voiced withal that
the storms had beaten him off from his first design, just as your
Majesty writes; and yet, considering how strongly he is entrenched
at Breda, some will not believe but that it was his first design.
For any ill offices done in England to that Prince, as if he were not
well affectioned to the King, I know them not. This I know, his Majesty has deserved very well of that State, and I hope both the Prince
and they will understand it as it is. I am glad to hear that both
his Excellency and the States will be so hearty in their conjunction
with the French. [Copy, partly endorsed by the Archbishop. 1 p.] |
Aug. 7.
Oatlands. |
35. George Lord Goring to Edward Viscount Conway and Killultagh. My excuse shall, I hope, persuade with you, or else never
expect the landing of so much as a bottle of Smyrna water without
custom, for a customer I am; not for any virtue of mine own, but
by the folly of others, which gave me the opportunity to try my
gracious master's favour, who gave it me beyond my hopes—I am
sure above my merit—and so much I cannot but tell you, who wish
not mine ill. There is a new book of rates gone into Ireland that
will very much pare my Lord Deputy's profit there. All things here
move the same pace in the same place you left them, only my Lord
Duke [is married to] my Lady Mary. The attorney of the Court of
Wards is dead, and none nominated as yet. The young Lord Stafford is also dead suddenly, and so good night until you see my Lady
Katherine, which is the main design you shall have this year, or
trust your servant Goring no more. [Seal with arms. 1 p.] |
Aug. 7.
Christ Church, Canterbury. |
36. Dr. Isaac Bargrave, Dean of Canterbury, to Archbishop Laud.
At the assizes, all the recusants and schismatics were indicted, and
the judges have promised to be careful in the prosecution of them.
Secondly, the petty-canon's place in our Church is still void, an
account whereof has been presented to you by myself and five
of the prebends, who gave our voices for [John] Baylie; and I
doubt not Dr. Casaubon and Dr. Peake have given likewise an
account of their opposition. It seemed strange that your so moderate
and just directions could not gain the opposers to consent with us.
The truth is, that so long as they pretend their power with you, and
their knowledge of your will, labouring by private canvasses, uncharitable inquisitions, revilings in chapter, and their frequent
negatives, to make their own way of opposition, I shall ever despair
of that Christian charity and peace amongst us which I have before
their coming enjoyed, and for which my soul longs. As for their pretended fear of my engrossing all elections, I promise ever to give my
voice with the most and gravest part of the company; and in such
cases I cannot but hope for your gracious interpretation, which if
you will afford in this case to Baylie, it will much confer to our
future peace. I am earnestly studying to prevent your further
trouble about the reparations of my house by some moderate way, to
which many of our company incline. But for my vault, Dr. Peake,
though kindly entreated by me, yet, as in most other things, stands
at defiance with me, refusing that friendly way which you were
pleased to propound. Your wisdom now regulating these petty
differences will from henceforth conduce to your ease and the honour
of our chapter. [Endorsed by Archbishop Laud. Seal with arms.
1 p.] |
Aug. 7.
Chatham. |
37. Kenrick Edisbury to Nicholas. The bearer, Hugh Hennys,
tells me he has a grant for the boatswain's place of the Nicodemus,
but wanting his warrant I could not admit him, there being none
to take charge of her, nor order for her repair. We have written
long since about the boatswain of the Great Ship, to send for him to
prepare her against the launching in September. It is high time to
make use of him. I am newly recovered of an ague. [⅓ p.] |
Aug. 7.
White Horse, Fetter Lane. |
38. Henry Cuffe to his cousin, the same, at Tharpp [Thorpe]. It
was Mr. Shuter's opinion that yourself, Mr. Audeley, and I should
join in the petition to the Lord Keeper for reversing the decree,
which is done, and the petition delivered, with your letter to
Mr. Alured, his Lordship's secretary. I am promised an answer
within some few days. What shall be done I will acquaint you in
the country. I hope to meet you at Winterbourne, the 16th inst.
[Seal with arms. ⅓ p.] |
Aug. 7.
Oatlands. |
Lords of the Admiralty to Algernon Earl of Northumberland.
Don John de Nicolaldi is to return for Spain. The ship wherein he
embarks is to be convoyed as far as the Sleeve. We pray you order
the Dreadnought or some other ship to repair to Plymouth and waft
the said Signor Nicolaldi accordingly. [Copy. See Vol. cccliii.,
fol. 48. ⅓ p.] |
| Aug. 7. |
39. Foulke Reed to Edward Viscount Conway and Killultagh.
I have sent Mr. Shallmer 80l., which made up 300l. By my Lady's
direction, Francis Egiock wrote for 20l. out of Ragley rents. I have
sent her 20l. to be set down off those moneys that she is to receive
at Hill Hall at Michaelmas. I have spoken with Mr. Bellers for
the catalogue of books he promised to send you. He tells me that
there is none drawn as yet. Mr. Burgis, who owns them, is little
time where his books are; and Mr. Roberts, upon whose judgment in
drawing a catalogue Mr. Burgis relies, is now residing near Birmingham that is much infected with the sickness, and therefore does not
stir from thence; but the first catalogue that is delivered shall be
to you. [Damaged by damp. 1 p.] |
Aug. 7.
Canbury. |
40. Lord Keeper Coventry to Nicholas. I received a letter dated
the 19th September 1635 from the Lords of the Admiralty, to the
same effect as yours now delivered to me by Sir James Bagge,
whereupon I sent for the clerks of the office whence commissions for
piracies issue, who averred that they had been constantly paid for,
but the greatest inducement was that the fees for those commissions
are charged by presentment in 40th year of Queen Elizabeth, wherewith I acquainted the Lords, who wished that the old course might
be continued, which how I shall now alter, and put an unusual
charge upon the King, I cannot resolve, and I hope will be taken
into consideration for the future as well as for the present. [Seal
with crest. ¾ p.] |
| Aug. 7. |
41. Copy of the same. [¾ p.] |
| Aug. 7. |
42. Form of receipt, probably intended to be signed by the keeper
of the castle of Lancaster, for the body of Henry Burton, delivered
to him by the Warden of the Fleet, pursuant to decree of the Court
of Star Chamber. It is endorsed upon a copy of the warrant of the
Lord Keeper, as to the nature of Burton's custody, already calendared,
Vol. ccclxiv., No. 106. Below the receipt is written, "Received from
Miles Atkinson." [Copy warrant and receipt. = 1 p.] |
| Aug. 7. |
43. Receipt of Thomas Covell, keeper of the gaol of the castle of
Lancaster, for the body of Henry Burton, received from the hands
of Thomas Davies, Robert Phillips, and George Murfin, servants of
the Warden of the Fleet. [Seal with arms. ¾ p.] |
Aug. 8.
Thorpe. |
Nicholas to the Sheriffs of cos. Hertford, Middlesex, Berks, Kent,
Essex, Cambridge, Buckingham, Sussex, Surrey, Bedford, Hants,
Wilts, and Oxford. I am commanded by his Majesty and the Lords
to desire you this week, or at farthest by this day sennight, to pay
to the Treasurer of the Navy all money collected by you for the
shipping business. As his Majesty and the Lords require you not
to fail herein, so they expect that you omit not to perform their
order of July last, and that you either collect and pay in the full
sum payable by your county by the time therein prefixed, or otherwise attend his Majesty and the Board. [Copy. See Nicholas's
Letter Book, Dom. James I., Vol. ccxix., p. 154. 1 p.] |
Aug. 8.
The Leopard, in Sallee Road. |
44. Capt. William Rainsborough to Capt. George Carteret, ViceAdmiral in the Antelope. You are with the Antelope and the
Hercules, the Expedition and the Providence, to sail for the coast of
Spain, and there to lie in the places most convenient to take the
pirates of Algiers and their prizes, and to secure his Majesty's subjects, who in great numbers trade that way in the vintage time; and
if you have occasion to put into any port of the King of Spain, you
are as much as may be to keep out of command, and venture but
one ship at a time; and because the pinnaces are foul, you may
order them to haul ashore one at a time and tallow. And when you
have tarried as long as your victuals will last, you are to sail to the
Downs, or the Isle of Wight, and advise the Lords of the Admiralty
of your arrival. [1 p.] |
| Aug. 8. |
45. Certificate by Thomas Wyan, that Capt. Buller had put in
bail according to the Lords' warrant of the 5th August inst.
[3 lines.] |
Aug. 9.
Brandon. |
46. Commissioners for making navigable a river from Worlington to Bury [St. Edmunds], Suffolk, to the King. In obedience
to our commission, we met the 8th inst. at Brandon, where was
delivered unto us your Majesty's letter commanding our diligence in
that service which we have performed, and certified our proceedings
to the Court of Chancery. We have not found any that oppose the
intended work; the demands made for securing the inheritances of
such as appeared we have composed and inserted them in our
certificate. [1 p.] |
Aug. 9.
Brandon. |
47. The same to [the Lord Keeper]. The works to be performed
by Mr. Lambe upon the river betwixt Mildenhall and Bury may be
prejudicial to the mills upon the said river. We therefore think it
fit that a proviso be contained in the patent, that if damage be done
to any mill, the party damaged shall by two witnesses make oath of
the damage, and at a certain place demand payment; and if the same
be not paid within 40 days, he may bring his action at the Common Law; and if he shall recover against the patentee, then, if within
14 days he pay not to the plaintiff treble damages, the patent
to be void, and the owners of mills may stop up the locks and debar
the passage of boats for ever. We also think fit (which is consented
to by Mr. Lambe) that he shall forthwith pay after the rate of 40l.
per acre for every acre of meadow cut by his intended work, and
12s. the load for firing which he shall cut, and likewise pay yearly
40s. the acre for such lands as he shall use for his passage of haling
or going by horse or foot. Lambe ought also to maintain all bridges
he shall have occasion to make or alter. Lastly, the water carriages
from the Ouse to Mildenhall Mill should be left free to all persons
as formerly, and in particular for Sir Henry Croft's passage to his
meadows in West Stowe in Suffolk, or if hindered, that Lambe
make a sufficient bridge. [Office copy. 4 pp.] |
Aug. 9.
Dover Road. |
48. Algernon Earl of Northumberland to Sec. Windebank. If
you go this progress, I shall often give you importunity by my
letters. At this time, the only occasion is to entreat you to let his
Majesty know that our stay here has been for want of winds to
carry us westward. Upon Monday morning we were ready to
weigh, and have since been every hour watching for a wind, but
they have been so directly contrary, and have blown so hard, that
till this morning we could not stir; thus far we are now gotten on
our way, and I hope, if either the wind hold good, or the weather
fair, we shall within a few days get to the western coast. If you
send any commands to me, they may be directed to Plymouth, for
there I purpose to inquire after letters. I received last night order
for a ship to transport Lord Newport from Portsmouth to Jersey,
and for another to waft Signor Nicolaldi as far as the Sleeve.
[Endorsed by Windebank, "Rec[eived] the same night at 11;
answered 10°.] |
| Aug. 9. |
49. Recognizance entered into before Lawrence Whitaker by
Thomas Corneford, of Nottingham, gentleman, in 200l., and by Thomas
Cademan, of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, M.D., and Philip Roper, of
St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, gentleman, in 100l. each, conditioned for
the appearance of Corneford before the Council upon 20 days'
warning. [9 lines on strip of parchment.] |
| Aug. 9. |
50. Paymaster's account of moneys received and paid for the Earl
of Lindsey, on account of his undertaking in the Great Level of the
Fens in Lincolnshire, from the 13th June last to this day. The
receipts were, from Sir John Brooke and Simon Hill 200l., from
William Langton and John Liens, director of the said work, 300l.,
and from Sir Edward Heron and Simon Hill 500l.; total, 1,000l.
The disbursements, principally payments for labour, amount to
670l. 17s. 4d. [4 pp.] Annexed, |
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50. i. Copy agreement, entitled "A former Agreement," between
the Earl of Lindsey and John Liens, whereby Liens
agrees to do the work of draining and making winter
or arable land of that part of the Great Level which lies
between the River Glenn and Kyme Eau, containing
14,000 acres, upon certain terms which are here set forth,
with other stipulations respecting similar works of
drainage to be done in other parts of the Fens. [1 p.] |
[Aug. ?] 10.
Westminster. |
51. Sec. Windebank to Capt. [Richard] Fogg. The Earl of
Northumberland having given advice of his purpose to ply towards
the west, and that he intends to set sail from the Downs with the
greatest part of the fleet, as upon Monday last, and having
directed that despatches should be addressed in his absence to
you, under whose command he was to leave six or seven ships,
according to the Earl's instructions you are to receive his Majesty's pleasure in these particulars following. First, the Earl has
given advertisement that the Mayflower has brought in two sloops
of Calais, which she had found pilfering about Dunkirk. As soon
as entire restitution shall be made by those of Calais of the Irish
ship which they took not long since under the conduct of Capt.
Buller, their two sloops shall be rendered unto them, of which you
are to give knowledge to those of Calais. It appears by the Earl's
letters that part of the lading of the hoy of Hamburgh taken by
one of those sloops and sent into Dover was powder and shot.
You are to inform yourself whether that were really consigned to
merchants of Dover or Dunkirk, in either of which cases the goods
ought to be stayed as unlawfully consigned. For the other sloop
of Calais, that within sight of his Majesty's ship had rifled an
English bark laden from London, and, being pursued by his Majesty's ship, did fly for sanctuary to the Holland fleet, and the Holland Vice-Admiral refused to deliver her up on demand, his Majesty
resents highly this insolency, and commands that notice be taken
of it when any of his Majesty's ships shall meet that Vice-Admiral,
and demand reparation of him only (not meddling with any other
Hollander) for that affront. In the meantime there is order given
to Sir William Boswell, his Majesty's agent in Holland, to make
a complaint of it to that state. There has been a report raised
that the Hollanders have refused his Majesty's licences to fish,
offered them by Capt. Fielding. But it is utterly mistaken.
Capt. Fielding was sent to the busses to offer them protection,
his Majesty having understood that the Dunkirkers had prepared
a great strength to intercept them in their return, which his Majesty, in love to them, sent Capt. Fielding to give them notice of,
and to offer them safe conduct. This you are publicly to avow
whensoever there shall be occasion, and to cry down the other discourse as derogatory to his Majesty's honour. You will do well to
send a copy of this letter to the Earl of Northumberland. This
of the Holland Vice-Admiral is to be carried with a great deal of
caution, and with special care that nothing be done in prejudice of
his Majesty's friendship with the Hollanders, especially in this
present conjuncture. [Copy, in the handwriting of Read, Windebank's secretary, save the last paragraph, which was added by
Windebank himself. Dated 10th July, instead of August, by mistake. 2 pp.] |
| [Aug. ?] 10. |
52. Extracts from the above. [1 p.] |
Aug. 10.
Westminster. |
53. Sec. Windebank to Algernon Earl of Northumberland
Being in London, your despatch of the 9th inst. came to my hands
the same evening. Before receipt of it, I had written the enclosed
to Capt. Fogg, which, if this find you still in those parts, I beseech
you to open and give order according to the directions. His Majesty
is very well satisfied with the reasons for not sending more ships to
Sallee. For my letters to Capt. Rainsborough, they are of little
consideration, and therefore you may dispose of them at your pleasure. Besides the direction I have given to Capt. Fogg, to suppress
the report of the Holland fishers refusing his Majesty's licences
offered them, whereof his Majesty is very sensible, I had special
commandment to give the same in charge to you, and that you
should do it in the same way, namely, that his being sent to the
busses was to give them notice of the forces prepared by the Dunkirkers to intercept them in their return, and to offer them his
Majesty's protection, but no licences; that of the licences being to
be cried down, and the other to be avowed and reported through
the whole fleet. To which purpose you are to instruct Capt. Fielding, whom his Majesty understands to have been too free in
spreading the former report, to be more reserved hereafter, and in
the meantime to make reparation by divulging this and suppressing
the former. I delivered all your letters that came with yours of
the 4th with my own hand, especially that to Lady Carlisle, and I
hold it a great honour vouchsafed me by your giving me that occasion to kiss her hands, and to make profession of my devotions to
your most noble house. Those which came with this last despatch I
will send to the Court, being now to return to my country house,
where I shall be ready to receive your commands, my younger
brother following the progress, and I having leave to enjoy my poor
home till his Majesty's return to Oatlands, which will be upon
Saturday next come fortnight. Nevertheless, there are stages and
posts laid to my house in the country, and such letters as are
addressed to me come thither in very good diligence, and from
thence I send them daily to his Majesty, likewise by post. When
you shall be in the west, you will be nearer the Court, and so your
address to my brother will be much more convenient than to me.
P.S.—You may in time think upon such ships as are to winter at
sea, and give notice to the Lords of the Admiralty. His Majesty
intends the same number that were abroad last year. If you be
not gone from Dover Road, you will give me notice of the receipt of
these before your departure. [Copy in the handwriting of Windebank. 1¾ p.] |
| Aug. 10. |
54. Sec. Windebank to Sir Henry Vane, Comptroller of the
Household. Being at London, the enclosed from the Earl of Northumberland directed to yourself and the other to me came to my
hands. That to me I desire may find way to his Majesty. I do
not perceive by the Earl's that he had received any instructions
from Sec. Coke by way of answer to his of the 31st July, the
duplicate whereof you left with me at Oatlands that morning his
Majesty went from thence, and therefore I have signified his Majesty's pleasure to his Lordship, having before the receipt of these
last written to the same purpose to Capt. Fogg. I am returning to
my house in the country, where I shall be glad to receive back the
Earl's letter. [Draft. ¾ p.] |
| Aug. 10. |
55. Officers of Navy to Lords of the Admiralty. Upon signing
Mr. Crane's account for victualling for 1636, we find Thomas Barton,
purser of the Victory, employed to Spain, to come short of the ship's
victualling for 10 days for 260 men, amounting to 92l. 1s. 8d., for
which he produces a warrant from the captain of the ship, Capt.
Walter Stewart, commanding him to feed the extraordinary company of Spaniards that came over in the ship with the ambassador,
the Condé d'Oniate, which occasioned the extra expense. It being
contrary to the course of our office to allow in that nature, and yet
commanded by the captain as tending to his Majesty's honour, we
desire to know whether we shall return it in super on the captain
or how otherwise discharge the purser, being a poor man. [1 p.] |
Aug. 10.
Thorpe. |
Nicholas to the Officers of the Navy. The Lords of the Admiralty, upon reading their letter of the 28th of July, desired them
to send an inventory of all the stores so decayed and fit to be sold,
and thereupon they will move the King for order for disposing
thereof. They are also to send an inventory of the quality and
weight of the shivers of brass, and other stores of brass or copper,
there being occasion at present to use such decayed brass and copper.
[Copy. Nicholas's Letter Book, Dom. James I., Vol. ccxix., p. 155.
¾ p.] |
Aug. 10.
Thorpe. |
The same to Kenrick Edisbury. For perfecting the account that
Nicholas is to keep, he finds it requisite to have from Edisbury an
inventory of all the remains of boatswains' and carpenters' stores
returned at the end of their services by the fleets furnished in 1634–5
by the maritime parts, and in 1635–6 by the counties, as also of the
fleet now abroad when it returns. Sends a list of the ships employed in the two years last past, and prays Edisbury not to fail
to send the inventory as soon as may be. [Copy. Ibid. 5/6 p.] |
| Aug. 10. |
56. Sir Henry Wotton and Dr. Samuel Collins to Archbishop
Laud. There is fallen out a difficulty in our annual election in the
case of a boy, by name Dudley Avery, otherwise of good hope and
desert, which arrests our proceeding till we shall receive from your
Grace an interpretation of our power, which we beg by the bearer,
father of the said child, whose brother is the King's agent at Hamburgh, and he himself of singular use to the Queen of Bohemia in
her domestic affairs, for which respects we are the more desirous to
gratify him. The case itself will best appear by the enclosed draft
of a counsellor at law. [Seal with arms. ¾ p.] Enclosed, |
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56. i. Paper above mentioned, signed "Humfrey Newbery." The
point in the case was that the power of election was, by the
local statute, confined to boys of the several counties of
England; but the boy above mentioned was born abroad,
although of English parents. Mr. Newbery contended
that the design of the statute was merely to exclude perfect
aliens. [2¼ pp.] |
Aug. 10.
Croydon. |
57. Archbishop Laud, of Canterbury, to [Sir Henry Wotton and
Dr. Samuel Collins]. I should be loath to do anything without
good advice in a business that must be binding to posterity; therefore, if you can suspend this election till Michaelmas term, I shall
then take some time to hear what may be said pro or con, and
thereupon set down a final order. I would have the assistance of
some civilians, who are now all out of town. If you shall do any
act (necessity so requiring), I shall not be offended with your
proceedings. [Copy. ¾ p.] |
| Aug. 10. |
58. Recognizance in 200l. entered into by John Broad, late one
of the constables of the hundred of Wellow, in Somerset, before
William Bassett, sheriff of the same county, with condition that
Broad would appear before the Council on the 3rd September next.
[6 lines on a strip of parchment.] Annexed, |
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58. i.Similar recognizances of Richard Addams and Hercules
Coomer, constables of the hundred of Winterstoke, in the
same county. Dated 17th August 1637. [Six lines as
above.] |
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58. ii. Similar recognizance of Richard Willmot, one of the
constables of the hundred of Wells Forum, in the same
county. Dated 23rd August 1637. [Six lines as above.] |
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58. iii. Similar recognizance of Henry Hayward, the other constable of the same hundred. Dated 14th August 1637.
[Seven lines as above.] |
Aug. 11.
The Convertive, in the Downs. |
59. Capt. Richard Fogg to Sec. Windebank. Since the Earl of
Northumberland's going from the Downs, on Wednesday last, I have
received your letter, and therein his Majesty's pleasure. I will stay
the two French sloops under arrest, until restitution be made by
the men of Calais for the Irish vessel taken by them. For the hoy
of Hamburgh, I shall inquire whether the powder and shot were
really consigned either to Dover or Dunkirk, and will give you
notice. If any of the ships under my charge shall meet with the
Holland Vice-Admiral, reparation shall be demanded for protecting
the French sloop that rifled the English bark, and yet with that
caution as you require. Touching the false report that the Hollanders refused his Majesty's licences, I shall avow according to
your directions. I intend to send a copy of your directions to the
Earl of Northumberland by the captain of the Vanguard, who is to
go after him, and withal the enclosed letter you sent to his lordship.
[Seals with crest. 1 p.] Underwritten, |
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59. i. List of ships under Capt. Fogg's charge, and of those of
them sent away by the Earl of Northumberland, and not
yet returned. The former were the Richard and Mary,
the William, the Royal Defence, the Prudence, the Mayflower, and the First Whelp. The latter were the William,
sent to the Brill with Mr. Harby; the Prudence, to Dieppe;
the Mayflower, to Dunkirk; the First Whelp, to Ostend.
[½ p.] |
| Aug. 12. |
60. Eliza Countess of Banbury to the same. I have received
a letter from the Earl of Northumberland, which I send you, to
excuse the trouble necessity at this time puts you to, and to thank
you for being so ready to get my pass, as from my Lord Marshal
I understand you were. I see a court has made no change in
you. You retain the same readiness to do your friends a courtesy
as when I was your neighbour at Causem [Caversham]. Two lines
the Earl of Northumberland desires from one of the Secretaries; I
from you, which I beseech you let the bearer receive. [Seal with
arms. 1 p.] |
| Aug 13. |
Protection to Philip Burlamachi and Pompeio Calandrini, of
London, merchants, for three months from the expiration of a former
grant. [Docquet.] |
Aug. 13.
The Triumph, in Torbay. |
61. Algernon Earl of Northumberland to Sec. Windebank. Being
forced in here by foul weather, I give you notice that, notwithstanding contrary winds, we have made a shift to ply it up as far as
Torbay. One tide will carry us to Plymouth, where I intend to
inquire if there be any commands for me; if I find none, I purpose
to keep on our course as far as the Land's End and Scilly, which
will cost us seven or eight days. By that time it will be requisite
that we look homewards, or expect some supply of victuals. In our
passage hither, we have met with only three small Hollanders,
homeward bound from Pernambuco, who confirm the taking of
Todos os Santos in Brazil. [1 p.] |
Aug. 13.
The Leopard, in Sallee Road. |
62. Capt. William Rainsborough to Capt. George Carteret in the
Antelope. Since your departure, there has gone so much sea that
we could not get ashore, neither could any boat come off, so that as
yet I am not despatched, yet I hope in two or three days to be
gone, the renegades being ready to come aboard the first smooth sea.
Yesterday arrived here the Mary Rose and the Roebuck, which were
sent me for fear the business should not have been effected before
our victual had been done. They brought money to have victualled
us for two months longer, which I think, if Mr. Blake had not come
in that time, we had effected. Capt. Trenchfield is captain of the
Mary Rose. We, and indeed all the land, are much indebted to the
Earl of Northumberland for his love to us, and his care for the
business. I pray God bless you, and cause some Algier men-of-war,
or their prizes, to come foul of you. Remember me to Captains
Harrison, White, and Seaman, and Mr. Powell, and the rest of our
friends. [1 p.] |
Aug. 14.
Downton. |
63. Sec. Coke to Edward Viscount Conway and Killultagh. I
send a packet, which was sent back from the Downs by Capt. Fogg.
The progress affords no occurrence fit to be sent to sea. His Majesty
and all his followers are in health, and, notwithstanding the foul
weather, forbear not to go abroad. From foreign parts we hear
that the Pope recovers health, but yet gives no audience; that the
King of Hungary remits nothing of his rigour in denying safe conducts to the Protestant Princes and States, and also to the Swedes.
The French have excused themselves to the Pope's Nuncio at Cologne for the protraction of that assembly, casting all the blame upon
the House of Austria; so the treaty for general peace is in no near
expectation. At Breda, my last letters related that there there had
not been a cannon shot off on either side; but by this, I suppose,
they speak louder, the Prince's purpose being to assault it in three
places, which he hopes their small garrison will not be able to defend.
The French continue to make incursions, and ravage the country
without resistance. [1 p.] |
Aug. 14.
The Convertive, the Downs. |
64. Capt. Richard Fogg to Sec. Windebank. This day I sent for
the merchant of the Irish vessel whereof you wrote, that if he had
received satisfaction from the men of Calais, I should discharge the
two French sloops under arrest. He informs me he has been at
300l. charge, and that those that took away his vessel had then from
him by violence 40l. worth of goods. I have let them of Calais
understand that they must give him full content before I can release
their men and the sloops. He tells me he has small hope to have
any further satisfaction from the French; and for the Frenchmen
with us, they are very poor, and the two French sloops of very small
value. The Irish vessel that was taken by the French was brought
into the Downs yesterday. I desire to know what order you will
give me concerning the two sloops and their men. These ships are
come into the Downs: Capt. Smith, from Dieppe, and Capt. Burley,
from Dunkirk; and I have given order to Sir Elias Hickes to stand
away with his ship for Rouen, to convoy some ships from Dover. I
intend to send Capt. Slingsby and the First Whelp for Dunkirk.
[Seals with arms. 1 p.] |
Aug. 14.
Chatham. |
65. Kenrick Edisbury to Nicholas. Comments on two letters of
the 10th inst.; one concerning decayed provisions, and the other
about remains of provisions in the ships. States what great labour
and how unprofitable it would be to make out such an inventory as
is required of decayed provisions. Also what was done in that
respect on former occasions. Sends an estimate instead of an inventory. The account of remains is a work of labour to write out, but
that he intends to perfect as soon as he can. Reminds him of
applications from the officers for the Lords to send for the boatswain
of the great ship, who is now commander of the Greyhound. They
have no warrant to deliver stores to any other. Capt. Pett calls
upon them with threats to prepare for the launch on the 25th
September, and it is high time to do so, if his Majesty will have the
ship launched before winter. They are also directed to bring about
the Prince, which Sir William Russell says his Majesty has deferred,
yet the warrant stands in force. Wishes to know the pleasure of
the Lords. [Seal with arms. 1 p.] Enclosed, |
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65. i. Note of decayed and unserviceable provisions remaining
in his Majesty's stores, but fit to be sold. Total of the
estimated value, 1,093l. 9s. 2d. [1 p.] |
| Aug. 14. |
66. Copy certificate of six merchants of Dover respecting the
Fortune, of Hamburgh, the original of which is calendared under the
date of the 18th inst. as enclosed in a letter of Capt. Richard Fogg.
[See Vol. ccclxvi., No. 1, i. 1½ p.] |
Aug. 14.
Downton. |
67. [G. R.] Weckherlin to Edward Viscount Conway and Killultagh. These packets, having been sent to the Downs, are come back
hither. Since I wrote the enclosed, I received no great news from
beyond seas. Mons. le Due de Longueville was victorious in the
Franche Comté, Mons. de Chastillon in Luxemburgh, where (having
been refused by Piccolomini when he offered to fight) he now besieges
Yvoy. The Cardinal de la Vallette was taking in all the places
along the river Sambre, to make clear all that tract to Liege, and
had already taken Maubeuge. The Spaniards gave [up Bre]da for
lost, though many hope it will hold out long, and so entertain the
Prince of Orange. The Swedes were retired into Pomerania;
thither the French have sent to them, to encourage them, and assist
them with money. Whether the Imperialists will be able to bring
them to fight and hold out themselves without disbanding, the
countries not affording any victual, is much doubted. P.S.—To-morrow we go to Lyndhurst for eleven nights, and so to Oatlands again.
[Damaged by damp. 1 p.] |
Aug. 15.
Haines Hill. |
68. Sec. Windebank to the King. The Countess of Banbury
being to repair into foreign parts for her health by your special
licence, lately wrote to the Earl of Northumberland for one of your
ships for her transportation. But he being then ready to stand for
the west, directed her to send to one of the Secretaries, and she has
thereupon made her addresses to me. I beseech your Majesty to
vouchsafe me your pleasure herein, that so, if you think fit, I may,
by your Majesty's commandment, give order to Capt. Fogg to assign
her Ladyship some such of your Majesty's ships for her safe conducting as may be best spared. [The King has underscored the
passage printed in italics, and has written in the margin, "Ye
may." 1 p.] |
| Aug. 15. |
Lords of the Admiralty to Montjoy Earl of Newport. We understand from the Officers of the Navy that gunners of late make very
large demands of old cordage for wads for ordnance, beyond the
precedents of former times. We pray you to cause the Officers of
the Ordnance to consider what quantity of old cordage is requisite
to be delivered for wadding of the ships of each rank for six months'
service at sea, and to send us certificate thereof. [Copy. Vol. cccliii.,
fol. 49. ½ p.] |
| Aug. 15. |
The same to [the same]. We pray you to order that William
Ewin, of Greenwich, mariner, John Bennett and Richard Bodylow, of
Limehouse, mariners, and others, owners of the Advance, of London,
a new ship of 250 tons, lying in the Thames, may be permitted to
furnish their ship with ordnance out of the founder's store. [Copy.
Ibid. ½ p.] |
Aug. 15.
[Westminster.] |
69. William Bell to Nicholas, at Thorpe. I have enclosed a list
of the poor people to whom I distributed your 10l.; they accepted
it very thankfully. This morning there are dead 18, whereof of
the plague 12. St. Martin's parish was clear last night, and has
very few sick. Thanks for venison. Your house is well and safe, but
Mr. Gritten's house upon Saturday night was broken open, and, as
he says, he lost 300l., but is in hope to find out the thieves. On
Sunday night there were thieves found untiling a house in Duffield's
Alley, but got nothing, yet escaped. For your house I have begun
to burn a candle for half an hour in your uppermost dining-room
every night at 10 o'clock, and the like in one of the chambers
towards the street, and give out that one of your men and one of
your maids are in town, otherwhiles that my two men lie there, and
in the day-time I keep, as formerly I did, the door open. I have
been to Mr. Allured, who will do what he may to keep me out of
commission; and Sir Robert Pye going out of town before I expected,
I have been with Mr. Falconbridge, desiring him to let Sir Robert
know that I will serve him in what I may, but into the commission
I desire not to come. [1 p.] Enclosed, |
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69. i. Names and places of residence of poor people in Westminster among whom a donation by Nicholas of 10l. was
distributed. [1 p.] |
| Aug. 15. |
70. Account of William Coleman, one of the chief constables of
the hundred of Stretford, co. Hereford, of arrears of ship-money in
his division. Lady Croft, 2s., and no distress to be found; John
Kinnersley, of Eardissland, 6s. 6d., "a dark man and no distress to
be had;" Francis Hill, 6d., a poor man, no distress for it; Thomas
Chelmick, 12s., has lived in prison in the Castle of Ludlow a long
time for debt, and no stock on his land, and is not able to pay; with
others. [1 p.] |
| [Aug. 15.] |
71. The like of Richard Omuell, the other chief constable of the
same hundred, for his division. [½ p.] |
| Aug. 15. |
72. The like of James Mun, one of the chief constables of the
hundred of Wolphey, in that county, for his division; total 4l. 7s. 7d.
[1¾ p.] |
| [Aug. 15.] |
73. The like of Thomas Wall, for his division of the same hundred;
total, 2l. 15s. 6d. [½ p.] |
| [Aug. 15.] |
74. The like of Simon Wyer, for his division of the hundred of
Broxash, in same county; total, 3l. 4s. 10d. [1½ p.] |
| [Aug. 15.] |
75. The like of Philip Baker, for his division of the same hundred; total, 2l. 6s. 4d. [1 p.] |
| [Aug. 15.] |
76. The like of Thomas Watkins, for his division of the hundred
of Ewyas-Lacy, in same county; total, 5s. 10d. [⅓ p.] |
| [Aug 15.] |
77. The like of Henry Sampson, for his division of the hundred of
Webtree, in same county; total, 1l. 15s. 5d. [1 p.] |
| [Aug. 15.] |
78. The like of Robert Alway, for his division of the hundred of
Greytree, in same county; total, 1l. 18s. 2d. [2/3 p.] |
| [Aug. 15.] |
79. The like of John Furney, for his division of the same
hundred; the town of Ross is behind 2l., but the money is not to
be received, the plague being so grievously dispersed in that town
and none of the inhabitants know themselves to be free from the
infection; Linton, 8s. 6d., is in the same plight; total, 2l. 19s. 10d.
[1 p.] |
| [Aug. 15.] |
80. Account for the township of Tupsley, in the parish of Hampton
[-Bishop], within the liberties of Hereford; total, 10l. 4s. 11d. [1 p.] |
| [Aug. 15.] |
81. The like for the parish of Holmer, within the same liberties;
total, 3l. 0s. 2d. [¾ p.] |
| [Aug. 15.] |
82. The like of John Price, for his division of the hundred of
Wigmore, in the same county; total, 1l. 7s. 1d. [1 p.] |
| [Aug. 15.] |
83. The like of John Cooke, for his division of the same hundred;
total, 2l. 18s. 3d. [1 p.] |
| [Aug. 15.] |
84. The like of Walter Cowarne, for his division of the hundred
of Wormelow, in same county; total, 1l. 2s. 1d. [¾ p.] |
| [Aug. 15.] |
85. The like of Tobie Payne, for his division of the same hundred;
total, 5l. 10s. [½ p.] |
Aug. 16.
The Triumph, in Plymouth Sound. |
86. Algernon Earl of Northumberland to Sec. Windebank. Till
the 15th we could not stir from Torbay. This forenoon, with very
ill weather, we came in here. The last night some of our ships were
in danger of being foul of one another, but I do not hear of any
harm, only the Rainbow lost her sprit-sail yard and top-mast, and
broke a piece of[f] her head. The sea is void both of news and
ships. Between this and the Downs we have seen none but the three
Hollanders from Pernambuco. Whether here be any letters for me or
no, I yet know not, for it blows so hard that though we send boats to
the town, yet none can come from thence. The next fair day I
purpose to hold on our course towards the Land's End, and then to
return hither again. [1 p.] |
Aug. 16.
Lyndhurst. |
87. Sec. Coke to the same. His Majesty took notice by a
letter received this day from the Lord Deputy of Ireland, that a
privy seal passed by you for payment of 1,500l. to the now Earl of
St. Albans, against which the Deputy had written his reasons to be
showed to his Majesty. These reasons his Majesty remembers not
to have seen, and therefore commands me to write to you to send
that letter hither, and to specify the motive upon which the privy
seal was granted. This morning, his Majesty and all that hunted
with him in the forest were soundly wet, and the weather has continued so extreme that since his return to Lyndhurst scarce a
room in his house has held out the rain. His Majesty and all
his train are in good health. [Endorsed by Windebank as received
on the 20th from Mr. Railton from Fulham. He has added that
he answered it on the 21st, and then sent the letter of the Lord
Deputy and Council of Ireland of 23rd May. 1 p.] |
Aug. 16.
Thorpe. |
Nicholas to Viscount Wentworth, Lord Deputy of Ireland. By
command of the Lords of the Admiralty sends his Majesty's letter
[of the 7th inst.], with a copy of an order of Council concerning
the jurisdiction and profits of the Admiralty in Ireland. The
King and the Lords had bestowed on the writer the office of
ferriage in Ireland, to which he had deputed the bearer, Robert
Smyth. This was the only place in the Admiralty that ever he
obtained, yet if the Lord Deputy had any intention to bestow it
otherwise, or held him unsuited for the place, he would readily
dispose of his interest to whomsoever the Lord Deputy might
desire. [Copy. Nicholas's Letter Book, Dom. James I., Vol. ccxix.,
p. 156. 1 p.] |
Aug. 16.
Thorpe. |
Nicholas to Adam Viscount Ely, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
The bearer will acquaint him with the care taken by his Majesty
and the Lords of the Admiralty for preservation of the jurisdiction
and right of the Admiralty in Ireland. Prays him to afford the
bearer, Robert Smyth, assistance in the execution of the office of
ferriage in Ireland, which his Majesty and the Lords have conferred
on Nicholas. [Copy. Ibid., p. 157. ¾ p.] |
| Aug. 16. |
88. Receipt of Sir William Russell for 422l. 12s. 8d. paid by Sir
Edward Bishop, sheriff of Sussex, ship-money collected under writ
of 12th August last. [¾ p.] |
| Aug. 16. |
89. Account by Sir William Russell of ship-money received
and in arrear under writ of 12th August 1636. Total receipts,
144,774l. 13s. 3d.; in arrear, 51,825l. 6s. 9d. [1 p.] |
| Aug. 17. |
90. The Council to the Lord Lieutenants of each of the counties
of England and Wales, and to the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
His Majesty, calling to mind how necessary it is that there should
be a fit proportion of gunpowder remaining in store in every county
to be ready upon all occasions, did this day command that order
should be given accordingly. These are to require you to take order
that the magazine of that county be replenished, and that the
trained bands exercise their arms in parts where the infection of the
plague is not. We pray you by the 1st November next, to send an
account what proportion of powder and shot then remains in store.
[Copy. 1 p.] |
Aug. 17.
Clonmel. |
91. Thomas Viscount Wentworth to Sir Thomas Roe. You may
think me a strange barbarous beast, that for the many letters you
have favoured me with, I have not hitherto answered one, and yet I
trust to be absolved, for I was so much cast behind in these affairs
through my stay in England, and of that busy time so much of it
in a weakness and indisposition of sight, as I resolved to put
myself upon your noble interpretation, and to take the liberty thus to
answer many of these letters by a few lines. And the rather did
I hope to obtain, in regard seriously I found I loved and honoured
you in my heart, and that if there were any occasion for me to do you
real service, I would write five letters for one, before I would
lose any advantage or the shortest minute wherein I might express
myself your very affectionate faithful friend and servant. [1 p.] |
Aug. 17.
Thorpe. |
92. Robert Smyth to Nicholas. I have received from your
servant, Francis Andrewes, your letters to the Lord Deputy, the
Lord Chancellor, and Stephen Smyth, which I will deliver, as also
your patent for ferriage, with your deputation to me, of which I
will give you an account so soon as I come to Ireland and have
received my Lord Deputy's pleasure therein. I have sealed the
counterpart of your deputation, and left it with your servant. Mr.
Thomas Wyan wishes me to tell you that he hears that a Bastable
[Barnstaple] man, being bound for Biscay, was met by a French
man-of-war, who endeavoured to take them, pretending they had
prohibited goods on board. The Bastable man stood out until they
had lost all their men but six. The French, being masters of them,
carried them into Byon [Bayonne], where in cold blood they were
stoned to death by divers women and others who fell upon them.
It is conceived there were French killed in the fight, as well as
English. According to your desire I would have paid for passing your
patent, but no money to be received. I had much ado to persuade
the clerks to take the ten shillings you gave me for them. You
shall receive another certificate by your return from Thorpe, which
I hear will be about the end of next week. [1 p.] |
| Aug. 17. |
93. Information of William Stratford, one of the Attorneys of the
Court of Admiralty of the Cinque Ports, exhibited in the said Court
on behalf of the Earl of Suffolk, Lord Warden and Admiral of the
Cinque Ports. States that on the 12th July last a wrecked ship was
driven on ground near Seaford, and that certain enumerated quantities
of oil and yards of silk and grogram, and certain pieces of ordnance,
anchors and cables, had been saved thereout at Seaford, Pevensey, and
Hastings, all within the jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports, all which
articles belonged to the Lord Warden. [1 p.] |
| Aug. 17. |
94. Minute of order of Dr Thomas Rives, Judge of the Court of
Admiralty of the Cinque Ports, made upon reading the preceding
information, that the said saved goods shall be sold by the Commissioners appointed by the Lord Warden for that purpose, they giving
notice of the said sale to the chief magistrate of the town where the
goods were saved, who may join in the sale if any of the savers
desire the same. It is further ordered that the savers shall have
one-fourth of the value of the said goods paid to them. [1½ p.] |
| Aug. 17. |
95. Copy of the said Minute. [1½ p.] |
| Aug. 17. |
96. Copy of the Order in conformity with the said Minute.
[1¾ p.] |
