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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.] |