Charles I - volume 526: June 1627

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1625-49 Addenda. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1897.

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'Charles I - volume 526: June 1627', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1625-49 Addenda, (London, 1897) pp. 214-218. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/chas1/addenda/1625-49/pp214-218 [accessed 24 March 2024]

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June 1627

June 1.
Westminster.
The King to Buckingham. Commission for executing martial law for preservation of order in the fleet and army now prepared [for the Rhé expedition]. [Domestic, Elizabeth, 1590, Vol. CCXXXVII., Admiralty Collections, fol. 39.]
June 5. Patent creating Montjoy-Blount, Lord Montjoy, into the dignity of Baron Montjoy de Thurveston, co. Derby, heirs males. [Docquet, see 29th March 1626.]
June 6. Commission to Sir George Goring, Sir Ralph Freeman, and others, [being the New] Commissioners for French [prize] goods, to examine any persons touching the embezzling of any goods taken at sea from the French King's subjects, and for Sir John Wolstenholme to be Treasurer for prize goods. [Docquet, see 29th March 1626.]
June 7. Commission by the Duke of Buckingham appointing persons to assist him in the execution of martial law [in the Rhé expedition], but the names not filled in. [Draft. Domestic, Elizabeth, 1590, Vol. CCXXXVII., Admiralty Collections, fol. 39b.]
June 7. Instructions for the execution of martial law. [Ibid., fol. 36.]
June 9.
Guernsey.
71. Attestations respecting Cornelius Cruelii, a Jesuit, prisoner at Guernsey, as taken there before the Lieutenant-Governor, Nathaniel Darrell. [French. 1 p.]
[June 9.] 72. Suit of Sir Richard Catchmay to Secretary Conway. Prays him to use his influence with the Judges of Assize in behalf of his son, Robert Catchmay, indicted at the [Monmouth] Assizes for the manslaughter of his brother-in-law, John Ayleway. Particulars of the way in which the catastrophe happened. [2/3 p.]
June 11. 73. Warrant of the King to Buckingham. Authorising him to transfer ordnance. [Draft of Vol. LXVI., No. 64.]
June 13.
Castle Elizabeth.
74. Sir P. Carteret to Lord Conway. His happiness consists chiefly in his Lordship's favour; understands that his reputation is suffering greatly by Mrs. Rossel's calumnious assertions. Hears she has obtained a judgment against him from the Council Board on Mr. [Dr. Thos.] Ryves' report. Begs that the case may be examined. Cannot leave the Island at this time of danger to answer for himself. He is now busied in fortifying Elizabeth Castle and the Island of Sark. [Seal with arms. 2 pp.]
June 13.
Buckden.
75. Bishop Williams of Lincoln to Dr. Clarke, Vicar of Sutton, in Holland, co. Lincoln. There is in your neighbourhood of Tydd St. Mary, one [Robert] Adams, who, out of some [mental] distemper hath outrageously abused his poor wife and children, and kept some of them from baptism. I desire you to repair unto him and read this letter, requiring him from me to deliver such of his children as are yet unbaptised to Mr. Swann, parson of that parish, and to give you some satisfaction for his more temperate and Christian carriage, or else upon his refusal and a word from you I will write to the Lords of the Council to have his children and estate sequestered into the hands of some neighbouring gentleman, which I have forborne to do until Mr. Adams might have this warning. [1½ pp.]
June 14.
London.
76. Sir Henry Palmer to [Nicholas]. I was twice at York House in the short time I was in London, hoping to have spoken with you. I desire you will get my instructions signed by my Lord [Admiral Buckingham] before his departure, and with as much favour for the advancement of my entertainment as may be, for unless I be appointed therein as Admiral of those forces employed to the westward, I expect nothing but strictness from the Commissioners. I am sure I shall find my Lord willing, his Grace having promised me under his hand I should lose nothing either in honour or profit. I shall not neglect to be thankful for that and the rest of your courtesies, assuring myself that if you had not really urged it my ship had lain yet [idle]. I would have waited on my Lord to Portsmouth, but have here a sister to marry to Sir John Finch. I will repair to my ship so soon as I hear she is near ready. Postscript.—I have been much importuned by the Dean of Canterbury for Captain Bargrave to go in one of the ships appointed with me, whom I entreat you to be mindful of. [1 p.]
June 14.
Castle Cornet.
77. Nathaniel Darell to Lord Conway. He had seized an Irish priest returning from France, and had sent him to be disposed of by his Lordship. [Seal with arms and crest. 1 p.]
June 15. Commission to the Lord Chancellor and others to consider, treat, and conclude what manors, lands, and rents in co. Palatine of Durham are fittest to be assured to Henry Gibb in lieu of the manor of Walton Lee, co. Surrey. [Docquet, cancelled, 29th March 1626.]
June 15. 78. Henry De Vic to Edward Nicholas. Prays him to obtain licenses for the release of certain vessels named, detained at Southampton under the general arrest, with goods belonging to the [Channel] Islands. I entreat you also to continue the guard of ships already sent for those islands, which, after our fleet is gone, will be exposed to more danger than ever. [1 p.]
June 17.
St. James.
79. Henry, Earl of Danby, [Governor of Guernsey, to Edward Nicholas]. What success the Duke of Buckingham's directions have had concerning those French prizes appointed for the guard of Guernsey and Jersey the bearer is well able to inform you. But, to give some present encouragement to these dismayed islanders, I conceive it most requisite immediately to send thither one of His Majesty's ships particularly appointed by the Lord Admiral for that service. The ship named, as I remember, was Sir Henry Mervin's, although by inquiry Sir Henry Palmer's seems the better fitted for those seas. Howsoever, I beseech you that Mr. Crowe [Sackville Crow] may bring back with him my Lord's warrant for whichever ship shall lie there, and likewise notice where I may be sure to find her, with power to require the assistance of such ships in apparent danger as are left to defend our coast. Those Norman islands are the most likely place to feel the first blast of the French fury in all men's judgments. Lastly, although the King's service is sufficient to excuse this importunity of mine, yet any respect of yours will not be thrown away upon me. [½ p.]
[June 17 ?] Minutes by Edmund Nicholas of a commission to some Lord to take the command of a troop of horse belonging to His Majesty's army. You are to see the officers and horsemen daily exercise their horses and arms. Commission to a Colonel-General of the army. Instructions for Captains employed for His Majesty's service to Newfoundland, the Western Islands [Azores], and elsewhere. [Written on back of the above.]
June 18. 80. Sir John Wolstenholme and Captain Joshua Downyng to Secretary Coke. Rendering an account of the three French vessels appointed by the Lord Admiral for the guard of the Channel Islands, as totally unfit for that purpose. No such ship as the "Hope," of Calais, in the river. [1 p.]
June 20.
Dartmouth.
81. Andrew Voysey, Mayor of Dartmouth, to the Council. That most men of ability in body and purse have left that town for fear of the plague, though as yet not above ten houses are infected. Many others being at sea or in the King's service, the town is left to be a prey for the enemy, and the poor cannot be relieved by reason of the absence of bailiffs and constables. The castle and fort not a sufficient defence against an enemy. Desires that order may be given either for the return of the officers and inhabitants to their abodes in the town, or that the men of the adjoining parishes be required on all occasions to be ready to impeach the landing of an enemy, which they may do without fear of the infection, the town being far distant from the fittest landing places. [Seal with ship. 1 p.]
June 21. Warrant [of the Duke of Buckingham to Sir James Bagg ?]. Empowering him to receive such moneys as were made by French goods sold before the stay of them in the King's behalf, the merchants who bought the goods refusing to pay without sight of a warrant from the Lord Admiral. [Draft by Nicholas, written on the same paper as June 11th.]
June 21.
Portsmouth.
82. Sir George Blundell to George, Duke of Buckingham, Lord General of His Majesty's Army. As you commanded, I have sent the names of the Reformado Captains, although some of them are absent, and I think mean not to go at all [in this expedition], and others are thought to be ill Captains against whose names I have put a cross, so that you may put other men in their places. So hoping your Grace will put me down as Colonel for a regiment to be brought after me, and remember my baronetcy, I remain your faithful servant till death. [Seal with crest and arms. 1 p.] Encloses,
82. i. List of Reformado officers, comprising two Colonels and 20 Captains distinguishing those absent or non-effective. [1 p.]
June 27.
Whitehall.
83. Order of Council made upon a petition of the inhabitants of the Island of Guernsey, confirming a former Order made 9th June 1605, directing that no appeals should be preferred hither concerning matters of inheritance under 40s. of annual rent, nor for moveables under 40l. value. Further, in order to avoid all unnecessary suits it is directed that no appeals, whether of doleans or otherwise, shall be hereafter made without a caution of 10l. first given by complainants, to be forfeited to the poor of that island in case of failure in such appeal or doleans, nor are any warrants to be served upon the inhabitants, but only such as come immediately from the Council. [Draft. 1½ pp.]
[June.] 84. Petition of Simon Wilmot, a Messenger of His Majesty's Chamber, to the Council. In May last he was employed by your warrant into Cornwall for apprehending Sir John Eliot and [William] Coryton, who have ever since lain prisoners in the Fleet and Gatehouse, where by your direction he set fees on them, yet Mr. Coryton, being lately taken out of the Fleet, utterly refuses to give petitioner any satisfaction at all for his fees. Prays in respect that he rode a tedious journey of 500 miles, and was at great charge and pains to perform this service, he may receive some allowance, or else that Coryton be required to pay his fees or be still detained in the Fleet, [½ p.]