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July 2.
Westminster. |
58. The King to Archbishop Abbot as one of the Governors of
Sutton's Hospital. To secure for Robert Norton, an orphan son
of the late Surveyor of Ways, the next scholar's room in Sutton's
Hospital. [Draft. 1 p.] |
July 3.
Westminster. |
59. The like, recommending Rowland Man, whose father perished
in one of the royal ships cast away on the coast of Holland, for a
scholar's place in the Charterhouse. [Draft. 1 p.] |
| [July 4.] |
60. Grant and confirmation of a Charter for Liverpool. [Already
calendared. See Vol. I., p. 367. 2½ pp.] |
July 9.
Whitehall. |
Warrant of Secretary Conway to all Mayors, Sheriffs, and others.
To furnish his servant, William Welde, with two nags for himself
and a guide at the accustomed rates, as he is to pass over into
Ireland, and after some stay there to return. [Written on the same
paper as 25th November 1626. Copy. ½ p.] |
| July 11. |
Order by the King constituting Sir William Russell to be Treasurer of the Navy and Receiver-General of all money paid upon
the sale [of stores]. [Docquet. See 29th March 1626.] |
| July 12. |
61. The true state of the cause of George Rooke. [Already
calendared. See Vol. I., p. 373.] |
| July 15. |
62. Petition of James Williams to Sir Robert Naunton, Master
of the Court of Wards. For leave to take out a writ of mandamus
and a melins inquirendo to find an office and so entitle the King to
certain lands in the Holmes, co. Lancaster, part of the inheritance
of the heir of Robert Hodgson, and afterwards petitioner to be
admitted to compound for the concealed wardship. Subjoined, |
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62. i. Order as desired. [= 1 p.] |
| July 15. |
63. Note of such manors and lands as I [John Digby, Earl
of Bristol] have sold towards the discharge of my debts since
my coming out of Spain in March 1625. Total of sum realised,
15,446l. Disbursed in payment of debts and uses since my coming
out of Spain, 14,966l. I remain still indebted this 15th July 1626,
13,028l. [Amongst the Conway Papers. 2/3 p.] |
July 17.
Walton. |
64. [Robert Maxwell] Earl of Nithsdale to George, Duke of
Buckingham. Requests him to procure that the Earl of Angus
may be added to the Council and Commissioners of the Exchequer
and Grievances, as it would tend to the furtherance of the King's
designs. I can assure you he is both stout and kind, and will be
found very serviceable. I durst not so much as entreat you to
witness that promise made to me by His Majesty's father, of worthy
but sad memory, while I was sick in Italy. If that intelligence
had been continued you might have had more certain knowledge
that way than from your ambassadors abroad, but give me leave
to say it is a little of the Puritan humour not to take what may be
for our advantage though from thence. My trust is that our master
[the King] will not suffer his servants to perish. [Modern copy
from original amongst the Conway Papers. 1 p.] |
| July 19. |
65. Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, to the same. I was an
humble suitor by your Lordship to the King before this last Parliament to have had the honour to kiss His Majesty's hands
wherein I hear you both moved him then and now again of late,
for which I am much bounden to you. But, howsoever, it pleased
not him at this time to do me so great a favour, yet I hear he
favours justice and right, which, since I am like to fail of other
helps, I must rely upon. You may remember that not long before
King [James's] decease I took occasion to remind him that of his
former gift some part remained untaken up by me. Besides that,
if my carriage had seemed strange herein, as well it might to
those who considered thereof by what they would have done
themselves in the like case, yet it would be found but to suit with
the rest of what I had done, for, until after that dangerous sickness
King [James] had at Royston, I had taken no part of my estate,
though I had order for it by the King's warrant for a year and a
half before that. Besides, I neglected even safety, and neither took
pardon nor liberty, but made myself my own prisoner for many
years after; hereupon it is that I am to ground my suit to King
[Charles] now, and wherein I shall do you no wrong to entreat
your assistance. Because if this were a matter only [of right] to
me by gift or by any title to which other men may claim, yet the
time being improper for such motions I might find it fit to press it
now as sparingly as I have done heretofore; but I conceive that
I shall deserve better of His Majesty to desire that an end may be
made of it than that it should rest as it hath done, for if princes
be bound by their words, and that when they have promised they
have given, their great seals being but as witnesses thereto and to
bind their successors, then that grant, which I hold by, hath a
surer seal affixed to it and will bind them more. Wherefore, and
that I may be understood herein the better, I have sent you a brief
relation of this business as it was proceeded in both of the King's
part and by myself, and with it another paper whereof Mr. Parker,
your servant, has still a copy which he had to give you in the late
King's time, in the latter end or close whereof you will find words
that agree with the same I write now to you. In this you will
find the substance of what I have to say touching this particular,
wherein I must truly confess that my own part hath spoken least
for me, for although it be by right that I claim that which I have
asked, yet I cannot complain that I have had wrong done me
by any but myself; and whereof I have much cause to be ashamed,
in that I am not only now to ask for my own, but that to
strengthen my right thereto I am enforced to make known my
weakness, and to what hazards I had exposed both myself and all
the little fortune I have. Of this I write the more freely to you,
because I conceive that you will have some sense of my oversights,
and find out rather reasons of excuse for me, such as may cover my
errors, than to lay them open by giving me cause to plead for
myself, for you know who must be a party thereto, and that it
concerns him unto whom we were both of us of all men most
bound, and who is bound herein by no ordinary engagements, nor
shall I need hereunto to add what I understand myself to be in
reference to you, and how much the bonds betwixt those that are
of one profession, or society, hold more firmly than those do that
are held the nearest, nor will I pretend any expectations I have
had of a better usage and confidence in King [Charles], his son,
and in yourself, to whom I confess I could not conceive that I
should ever need to make other suit, than only to make known
what I had to desire. But I will ever nakedly, and as it is
[plain], commend it to your Lordship, for it is nothing to the credit
of a cause good in itself to be insisted on and laboured with many
reasons. [Modern copy amongst the Conway Papers. 3 pp.] |
| July 20. |
66. Lord Conway to the Deputy-Lieutenants of Hants. How
careful and how tender His Majesty is of the safety and well-being
of his people, and how providently and wisely he provides for the
same, you shall find by the enclosed several copies of letters
directed to me by the Lords of the Council. I have full confidence
in your care and diligence in carrying out these instructions, so
that we may not fail in the certificates required. The Isle of
Wight is my particular care; in the rest I will rely upon you.
Upon receipt of the Council's letters I wrote to the Lords Lieutenants of the several counties which are to send assistance to that
county if it should be attempted, desiring them to inform both me
and you of the condition and arms of the men to be sent and of
the commanders, so that, upon firing of the beacons or by letter
when warned they may repair to such places as may be fittest for
the common defence. Touching the Provost Marshal, I leave it to
you to make choice of a sufficient man and to give him all necessary
instructions. [Copy. 1 p.] |
July 20.
Whitehall. |
67. The same to the Deputy-Lieutenants of the Isle of Wight.
His Majesty and the Council have been so careful to provide for
the safety of the subject that little remains to be done but follow
their directions, which you will understand by their letters
enclosed to me. I trust to your care in well ordering all things
conducive to the defence of that Island, of which you are to return
an account for the Lords' satisfaction. If you have any further
propositions for the defence of that isle, when I shall understand
them, I will recommend them either to the King or Council as may
be requisite. [Copy. 1 p.] |
| July 21. |
68. The same to the Deputy-Lieutenants of Hants. You are
not unacquainted with the general weakness and defects of the
horse troops of this kingdom, and the many inconveniences that
may thence arise to His Majesty's service and their safety for
want of exercising and disciplining, the well ordering of which
in these dangerous times is of the utmost importance, yet has been
most neglected, so that these troops are grown wonderous weak
and almost unserviceable. To assist you to a reformation in this
point I have sent for this gentleman, Mr. Morley, out of the Low
Countries, being of long experience and good abilities, to instruct
in all military points, that he may be employed for instructing the
officers and others as you shall think fit. You will by this means
furnish an example to others, and keep up the reputation of that
county for willingness and ability to do their King and country
service. [Copy. 1½ pp.] |
July 21.
Whitehall. |
69. The same to Attorney-General Heath. To examine Sir
Henry Bedingfield's requests. [Already calendared under date.
Copy. ½ p.] |
| July 21. |
70. Account showing the receipts and issues of the receipt of
Exchequer from 14th till 21st July:—Remaining on the 14th,
2,693l. 15s. 7d.; received since, 11,341l. 5s. 8d.; total, 14,035l. 1s. 3d.
Issued since, 9,414l. 2s. 8d.; and so remains this 21st July,
4,620l. 18s. 7d. [4 pp.] |
| July 23. |
71. Note of ships stayed by His Majesty's fleet, and of the judgments that have been passed upon them in the Admiralty Court.
These ships were the "St. George," "St. Mary," "Esperance,"
"St. Claud," "Paradise," "St. James," "St. Peter," "Seaventure,"
"St. Peter," "St. James" of Dover, "St. Andrew" of Amsterdam,
"St. Andrew" of Calais," "St. Peter" of Havre-de-Grace, "King
David" of Dover, "St. Nicholas" of Calais, "St. Luke," and "Red
Hart." [1⅓ pp.] |
July 24.
Montorgueil Castle. |
Sir John Peyton, junr., Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey, to Lord
Treasurer [Marlborough]. The addresses of the Governor, and
myself as his Lieutenant when absent, have ever been made by
suit to the Lord Treasurer, especially on occasion of restraint or
during the interim of the renewing of the Patent of Privileges.
Wherefore, whilst waiting for the renewal of our privileges, I, on
behalf of the generality of the isle and in particular of the castles,
in the absence of my father, am a humble suitor to you for letters
to the customers at London and the western ports that the inhabitants may be allowed to transport such quantities of wool,
leather, merceries, and other necessary provisions of victual and
coal as their patents allow, and without which neither the garrisons
nor the islanders can well subsist. [Copy. 1 p. See 27 th August
1626, No. 107.] |
| July 25. |
Grant to Thomas Ravenscroft of the office and place of Filer of
all bills, answers, processes, and all other pleadings in the Court
of Exchequer of Chester in the County Palatine of Cheshire.
[Docquet. See 29th March 1626.] |
| July 27. |
72. The Council to the Lord Treasurer, Lord President, and
Lord Chamberlain of the Household. To call before them the
Earls of Ormond and Desmond, and to hear and determine the
difference between them. By order of Lord Conway, and by him
procured. [Docquet. ¼ p.] |
| July 28. |
73. Account of moneys received and issued in the receipt of
Exchequer from 21st July until the 28th, viz.: Remaining on
the 21st, 4,620l. 18s. 7d.; received since, 11,513l. 8s.; total,
16,134l. 6s. 7d. Issued, 6,530l. 17s. 1d.; so remains, 9,603l. 9s. 6d.
[4 pp.] |
| [July 31.] |
74. Note of merchants' names who by virtue of a Privy Seal
granted by His Majesty are to withdraw their bonds given concerning [the payment of the extinct duty on foreign] hops. [½ p.] |
| [July.] |
75. Notes by [Captain Joshua] Downing, of boatswains and
gunners fit to be preferred when places become void in the Royal
Navy, of disabled boatswains now in place, and of some in
merchants' ships who are able men and willing to serve as boatswains in His Majesty's ships. Divers of the pursers are men very
sufficient and fitting for their places. [1½ pp.] |
| [July.] |
76. Order of Council touching the ship "St. Jacob" at Portsmouth.
In accordance with the recommendation of the Mayor and others
of Dartmouth, the Lords do hereby order that none of the prize
goods remaining in the "St. Jacob" shall be removed and those
landed be re-shipped in her and so brought to London, where the
Master should receive his freight. [Draft. 2 pp.] |
| [July.] |
77. Notes by Lord Conway, probably to be submitted to the
King and Council, respecting the order to be pursued in dismissing
the French attendants of Queen Henrietta Maria. In case there
should be more violent passion found than can be well conceived,
it were good that the Captain of the Guard gave order for an
officer and some men to be in attendance, to obey the directions of
someone to be named; barges to be provided to convey them to
Somerset House. Whether those remaining at St. James shall be
presently called to Denmark House? How long time shall be given
them for their preparation to depart? with several other queries.
[Holograph. 1½ pp.] |
| [July ?] |
78. Objections addressed to "His Lordship " [the Lord
Treasurer] against the pretended grievances of Hugh Hue,
Constable of St. Mary's Parish, Jersey, and John de Rues,
showing that they are turbulent, and the authors of all the
differences now in question between the Dean, their Minister, and
themselves. I. During the last sickness in the Island, under
pretext of their office, they made us the object of their malevolence,
and used all partiality with divers vexations, viz., in presuming,
on the morning of the second Sunday in July 1626, and without
any warrant or warning, to command him, in the King's name,
not to preach that day, expelling the clerks, and causing the
church to be shut up the whole day, to the great scandal of the
whole Isle, although it was known by all that the writer and his
family were enjoying perfect health. Their partiality and not the
fear of the contagion may appear by these instances: 1. That
without any scruple, they, with two other men, entered the writer's
house that very morning, and freely talked with him on divers
subjects. 2. That before and since they have all freely conversed
with the parishioners, and resorted to the writer's house. 3. That
John de Rues lodged in his own house Edmund Deane and a part
of his family, who had left the rest at St. Aubin the place then
most infected, and had liberty for the church, notwithstanding
Edmund Deane often went to the same place. 4. That in hatred
of the writer, we, the two advocates of the Ecclesiastical Court,
were shut up in their houses by their means, and only for having
spoken to the writer's son, their Minister, but all the rest of that
company left at liberty. 5. They forbade the miller to grind any
corn, notwithstanding the parishioners had liberty to grind theirs,
which they fetched from the writer's house, to their knowledge.
II. They have on a Sunday thrust the writer's wife out of the
church with a halberd, although she was resident in their parish, a
violence done in the face of her son, newly instituted in the said
parish, and a provocation able to move the patience of the most
temperate man. III. They have aggravated the words of some
part of a sermon of his, reporting at first that he should have said
that these times were worse than the times of Queen Mary, and
three months after adding maliciously that we were under a worse
reign, which word (under), implying more consequence for their
own ends, they have not been able to prove, and the word reign
or time, doubtfully reported, mutilating the period, and omitting the
said fact of expulsion of his wife and impeachment done to the
service of God, which their Minister then reprehended as a fact
rather beseeming the Papists of those days than to Protestants one
towards the other. IV. Hugh Hue presumes that all is lawful
unto him, because he is Constable, as lately the profaning of the
church or the communion table with the blood of a dog, which he
stabbed with a knife while the Minister was preaching, a fact
requiring exemplary satisfaction. V. John de Rues still continues his slanderous courses, having lately defamed the writer
before three men in the town, by calling him a liar and sower of
lies. As for their petition to the Lords, the grounds thereof are
erroneous and untrue, for when they allege that their Minister
convented them in the Ecclesiastical Court, to be revenged, as they
had informed the magistrate, of certain speeches of his, above rehearsed, their recrimination to the contrary appears by the acts of
both Courts, the Ecclesiastical hearing and their appearance being
11th December 1626, and their information to the Bailiffs and
Jurats the 23rd, where they allege that for not submitting themselves and the trial of the whole business of their information they
were excommunicated, it is answered that their frequent defamation, disrespect of their Minister, by distractions and railing
speeches against him in all company was the ground of this action
against them, for if they had informed the magistrate, as officers, to
cease thereupon, and not to stir up contentions and slanders about
their Minister in all companies, and thereby knowing themselves
guilty, they would not enter into contention, but refusing to
answer, with contumacious words, in lieu of some terms of satisfaction or reconciliation, for their stubbornness and contempt, they
have incurred the censure. All the premises duly weighed, viz.,
their palpable abuse of their office, their injurious carriage, and
violent provocations, with their old wrangling disposition with all
their pastors from time to time, your Lordship may be pleased to
consider and for their satisfaction, what your grave wisdom may
conceive to be most fitting for God's glory, the public edification,
and the good of all the parties thereunto, I submit to your determination. [1¾ pp.] |
| [July.] |
79. Certificate addressed to the King. Recommending the choice
of Sir Philip Carteret to discharge the place of Bailiff of Jersey,
now vacant by the death of M. de St. Sauveur. [Draft. 1 p.] |
| [July.] |
80. List showing the number of ships appointed by the Council
of War to be manned and victualed for three months by the several
port towns; the ships not to be less than 150 tons, with 10 or 12
pieces of ordnance. Ports which are to find and furnish their own
ships. Total, 21 ships. Ports to which the ships are to be sent
from London. Total, 16. [1 p.] |
| [July ?] |
81. A letter from some foreigner, who asserts that he has intelligence to communicate secretly to the Duke of Buckingham from
France of circumstances which will bring about his ruin as Lord
High Admiral of England. [Without date or signature, but a
notice that the writer may be found at the "Swan," opposite
Somerset House. Amongst the Conway Papers. ½ p.] |
| [July.] |
82. Petition of Nicholas Pratis, of Vitre, in France, merchant, to
G., Duke of Bucks. Represent that the "Hope," of Calais, departed with goods for Spain 24th April last, but being arrived
at St. Lucar the crew were not suffered to enter the port or land
their merchandise, the Duke of Medina asserting that the contagious sickness was in Calais, and if they should attempt to
harbour in any of the King of Spain's dominions both ship and
goods would be burned. They were in consequence constrained for
40 days to beat about outside the harbour, exposed to foul weather
and Turks' and pirates' men-of-war. On their return voyage to
Calais, having come as far as the Isle of Wight, on Saturday, 8th
July, they were met by the King's ships under Admiral Sir Francis
Steward, who commanded them to strike their sails, which obeying,
they were then boarded and the master and part of his men made
prisoners, though the crew were wholly French, and the ship
brought into Portsmouth. After being detained prisoners for eight
days they were released and the ship delivered over to the Deputy
Vice-Admiral at Portsmouth, who seized the letters and bills of
lading, by which it appears the goods belonged to the French
merchants. Petitioner prays his Grace to give order that the
ship and goods may be re-delivered up to him, the rather for that
the sickness is now very hot at Portsmouth and may endanger all
his men now in her there. [1½ pp.] |
