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| Dec. 1. |
Order by the Committee of the House of Commons in the
Speaker's chamber that the clerks of the Exchequer be required
to search the several ship rates and bring in the particular charges
on every county of the said rates and also an account of the last
subsidy rolls and attend the Committee at 2 on Saturday.
[S.P. Supplementary 134, No. 342.] |
| Dec. 1. |
Certificate by the Commissioners in Westminster for the subsidy
that Tristram Farthing of St. Martin's in the Fields was rated
at 5l., never having any notice thereof till it was demanded by
the collector, which assessment was grounded on a clear mistake
touching his substance, and that he is to be set at 1l. in subsidy
books and pay accordingly. [Ibid. No. 343.] |
| Dec. 3. |
Note of a shipload of masts of Sir W. Warren's arrived at
London on his Majesty's account. [S.P. Supplementary 136,
No. 235.] |
| Dec. 6. |
Thomas Corbyn, surveyor general of the woods North of Trent,
to the Earl of Southampton, Lord Treasurer. Proposing that
the adjoining woods of Birkland and Billah in Sherwood Forest
containing about 2,000 acres, on which were growing in 1662 about
42,000 oaks, be felled in the winter, the roots of which are very
sound and will put forth very strong shoots, if preserved from
sheep and cattle, and will not only be trees but keep up the glory
of the forest, in one great hag there being trees a foot square
and thriving that grow on old roots, which, had they been
preserved from browsing and but one stem left on a root, had
now been of the biggest sort of timber, and that good trees may be
so grown appears in Welbeck Park, which is in the Forest and of
ground of the same nature; and proposing that the woods may be
fenced as soon as possible to preserve them from sheep and beasts
and that the neighbouring towns and keepers may not let any
swine come in that the acorns be not eaten up, by which a great
store of young oaks would come up; that out of the remainder
from what the purveyor has taken an allowance may be made
for making stumps and rails for fencing; and offering, if the wood
be allowed, to ditch and double rail the ground for 1s. 8d. per rod
of 7 yards, and craving an allowance for his trouble and the
expense of his servants in attending the purveyor and taking care
of the woods and for his journeys to London. [1½ pages. Ibid.
No. 236.] |
Dec. 7.
Bawtry. |
Thomas Lister to Thomas Corbin at the Red Bull near Fleet
Bridge. I dispatched the boats according to your desire. Mr.
Russell sent some men here to pile up the timber, who were soon
tired and gave it up before they had finished a quarter. All that
lies at any reasonable distance from the river side shall be shipped
next week. (Complaints that the timber lies scattered all over
his wharf and obstructs access to his warehouses.)—Hoping he
will move the Navy Commissioners that he may be considered for
what is past and have a better allowance for the future. At the foot, |
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Philip Warwick to Samuel Pepys. Mr. Lister is my brotherin-law, a man of as great worth as I know. I dare say he
propounds nothing but with an eye to the King's service.
I beg of you and the rest of the Commissioners that respect
to him in all that affair as I would sue for myself. Dec. 17.
[2 pages. Ibid. No. 237.] |
| [Dec. ?] |
Edward Halsted to the Navy Commissioners. Petition stating
that William Mill, one of the late company of the Elias, is indebted
6l. 8s. to the petitioner for moneys and clothes before his going
to sea and by his will left him all he had and, Mill having been
lost with the ship and his wages amounting to but a small sum,
praying payment thereof to himself without an administration or,
if he must prove a will for so small a sum, that it may be
stopped so that no other may take it. At the foot, |
| Dec. 10. |
Note by Sir J. Mennes and S. Pepys that this Mill appearing
to have been the captain's servant for several years at his
death his wages ought to be paid to his master. [Ibid.
No. 238.] |
| [Dec.] |
List of seamen on board the Elias with against each name the
amount issued to him out of the slopseller's goods, amounting to
90l. 14s. 11d. With note by William Hill, captain, and two other
officers that they believe this was the least issued. At the foot, |
| Dec. 10. |
Memorandum by S. Pepys that on inquiry not one of the men
saved acknowledges to have received any clothes nor is herein
charged with any nor do the officers pretend to any rule by
which they charge the dead men thus particularly and differently nor own any memory of having been employed in drawing
up the same. The whole number 119 men, whereof saved 21,
none charged with clothes; discharged 12, whereof none
charged; drowned 86, whereof 56 charged. [3 pages. Ibid.
No. 239.] |
| Dec. 13. |
Deposition on oath by Thomas Childe of Deptford that William
French, ropemaker, declared at his house, the 6th instant, that he
saw the boat of Axell, a waterman and a pensioner to the chest,
lying aboard the Rosebush and that Axell had from her 4 or 5
cwt. of junk, which he brought to Deptford and which was fetched
away by Blackman, a ropemaker there, and that Blackburne,
that had seized goods formerly, had taken a bribe from Axell
on his persuasions that, had the matter been discovered, he would
lose his pension. [Ibid. No. 240.] |
Dec. 19.
Harwich. |
William Baker to Mr. Sheldon. We arrived at Harwich the
15th and, having no order for discharging our people and they
being very desirous to come home, I discharged them the 19th.
Endorsed, "Boatswain's certificate of the discharge of the
watermen that sailed the Rosebush." [Ibid. No. 241.] |
| Dec. 24. |
Warrant for a commission to John, Lord Belasyse, to be captain
general and commander in chief of Tangier. Minute. [Foreign
Entry Book 174B, p. 44.] |
| Dec. 24. |
Warrant for a commission to the Dukes of Buckingham,
Albemarle and Ormonde, the Earls of St. Albans, Sandwich,
Anglesey and Lauderdale, Lords Berkeley, Holles and Ashley,
Sir George Carteret, Sir William Morrice, Sir Henry Bennet and
Sir Edward Nicholas to be Principal Commissioners for Prizes.
[Over 2 pages. Ibid. p. 45.] |
| Dec. 30. |
Certificate that William Gilford was a captain in the King of
Sweden's service against the Hollander and master of several
merchantmen for eight years. [S.P. Supplementary 136, No. 242.] |
Dec. 31.
Victualling Office. |
Denis Gauden to the Navy Commissioners. Sending an account
of the victuals in store except beer on this year's declaration and
the distribution thereof made the 15th instant, viz., at London
for 10,000 men, at Harwich 3,000, at Dover 1,500, at Portsmouth
4,000 and at Plymouth 2,000, total 20,500, for six months. [Ibid.
No. 243.] |
| Dec. 31. |
Sir John Mennes to Col. Middleton. Enclosed is an account
given us by Mr. Gauden for victualling soldiers, the receipts for
which, he says, are in the hands of his agent, Mr. Garbet. I
desire you to send for him and by his vouchers trace this account
and then send for the parties that signed the receipts, first consulting the commanders and taking a list of the soldiers on each
ship with the days of their entry and discharge, by which you
may state the expense and find out what is or ought to be on board.
Possibly the land commanders may be useful to you and Mr.
Salesbury with some knowing purser to cast up the accounts.
This done, pray issue your warrants to the parties that gave the
receipts to see what remains delivered to the Victualler's agent
for his Majesty's use, taking his receipts, by which I shall be in a
capacity to do his Majesty right in case of embezzlement. If,
being on the place, you find anything more expedient, it will be an
acceptable service. [Draft. Ibid. No. 244.] |
| Dec. |
Prices of prize goods sold by inch of candle at Dover. [Ibid.
No. 245.] |
| [Dec.] |
Note that thirteen men therein named entered 15 Nov. and
discharged 12 Dec. were ten days on the Charles and nine on
the Dunkirk and eight on the Mary and are borne in victuals
and wages on board the Charles for all the time they were out
and therefore are not to be allowed victuals on the Dunkirk and
Mary. [Ibid. No. 246.] |
| [Dec.] |
List of men impressed within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty
of Plymouth from 8 Oct. to 19 Dec., 1664. [Ibid. No. 247.] |
| [Dec. ?] |
Account by John Drake of his charges impressing men at
Topsham and its members by virtue of a warrant from the Duke
of York dated 1 Oct., and of another from Sir Hugh Pollard, ViceAdmiral of Devon, dated 8 Oct., 1664. [Ibid. No. 248.] |
| [Dec. ?] |
List and account of charges of men pressed by Thomas Newman, Mayor of Dartmouth, between 7 Oct. and 1 Dec., 1664.
[Ibid. No. 249.] |
| 1664. |
Minutes of a contract for the Hopeful Margaret. [Ibid.
No. 250.] |
| 1664. |
List by St. John Steventon of men pressed at London and sent
to Portsmouth. [Ibid. No. 251.] |
| 1664. |
Mr. Lee's rates for a variety of carpenter's and joiner's stores.
[2 pages. Ibid. No. 252.] |
| [1664 ?] |
—to Sir Thomas Osborne. According to your letter I
searched in the records in my office and found a privy seal
enrolled of 30 June, 1663, granting to Sir Charles Berkeley
(became Viscount FitzHardinge in June, 1665), Robert Spencer
and Sir William Berkeley one moiety of all moneys, goods and
chattels, plate, jewels, etc., payable by debtors named in a list
thereto annexed and not pardoned by the Act of Oblivion and all
moneys due on any securities to any of them which were excepted
and vested in his Majesty, with full power to sue the said debtors
for any moneys, plate, jewels, etc., which any of them had
levied or received since 30 Jan., 1642[–3], by any the late pretended
authorities, which are excepted by the said Act, with power to
the Lord Treasurer to pay out of the Exchequer to the said
grantees a moiety of all moneys which since 24 April, 1662, have
been or shall be paid into the Exchequer on compositions or
otherwise. Robert Smith and William Turner are named in
the said annexed list, and a moiety of the sums paid by them into
the Exchequer amounting to 594l. 14s. 3d. with other sums
amounting to 1,453l. 6s. 7½d. were paid to the said grantees, but
what was paid them out of the privy purse or elsewhere does not
appear. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 440, No. 96.] |
| [1664 ?] |
Monsieur Chambron to the King. Lord Arlington having
assured the writer of his Majesty's desire to satisfy the Ducs de
Vendôme (died Oct., 1665) and de Beaufort and that at present
he does not find any money to spare for the purpose, suggesting
as a very easy expedient an order to the Lord Treasurer on which
he would give the writer such an assignment for the principal and
interest at such a future time as his Majesty shall please, whereby
they will be saved the expense and trouble of sending over to
importune him. They do not demand interest upon interest on
the sum they have had to pay. [French. Ibid. No. 97.] |
| [1664 ?] |
George Pressick to the King. Petition stating that by virtue
of his Majesty's reference on his petition dated 25 Aug., 1660,
to the Bishops of Chichester and Worcester he was divorced from
his wife, who had denied to cohabit with him for six years, and
that, as she still continues in wilful disobedience, he has besought
the Lord Primate of all Ireland and the Archbishop of Dublin
that he may marry another wife, he having been divorced now
almost six years, but they answered they had a canon against
divorced persons though innocent, to which he replied that it is
against the law of God and law of nature that the innocent should
suffer for the nocent (arguments in support of the petitioner's
contention from "the 122 canon of Affrick in Henry Spilman's
book in the exceptions of Egbart", from Bishop Robert Grossetete
and from Archbishop Ussher's answer to Hobbes) and the Lord
Primate Ussher and the Bishop of Meath before the wars in
Ireland separated Richard Lingart, Archdeacon of Meath, from
his wife, who soon afterwards married another, the first still
living, and therefore praying his Majesty's consent to his lawful
marriage. [Printed. Ibid. No. 98.] |
| [1664 ?] |
Walter Butler to the King. Petition showing that he lost an
estate of 700l. a year in Ireland, as is well known to the Duke of
Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant, though the petitioner was but twelve
months old when the rebellion first broke out, and, the petitioner
having waited in England three years without any redress and
being willing to serve in the new levies, praying the command of
a foot company in the first new regiment or to be lieutenant of
horse. [Ibid. No. 99.] |
| [1664 ?] |
Account of the salary of the clerk of the ropeyard at Woolwich
and of his two men's wages with some necessary disbursements
for Christmas quarter, 1663, and Lady quarter, 1663. [S.P.
Supplementary 136, No. 253.] |
| [1664 ?] |
Account of the disbursements of Henry Pike, Deputy ViceAdmiral of Plymouth, for pressing 124 seamen. [Ibid. No. 254.] |
| [1664 ?] |
Bill of Henry Croom against James Smith, commander of the
fleet in the Mediterranean, for bass ropes and for procuring
pratique for the Warwick. [Ibid. No. 255.] |
| [1664 ?] |
Account of the quantity of cloth required for the sails of the
Colchester ketch (built in that year). [Ibid. No. 256.] |
| [1664 ?] |
Edward Bond to the Navy Commissioners. Requesting a
boat in lieu of a Flemish boat for the Dutch Galliott, the present
boat being too heavy for the vessel. Mr. Rayner has a very
convenient boat and they have occasion for the use of the yard for
the present boat. [Ibid. No. 257.] |
| [1664 ?] |
Account of the distribution of 200 landsmen and victuals in
the Guinea ships. [Ibid. No. 258.] |
| [1664 ?] |
A bundle of papers beginning with the appointment dated
6 Nov., 1648, by Thomas Sandes, treasurer for the whole county of
Westmorland, of Thomas Yaire to receive all moneys within the
bottom of Westmorland arising from sequestrations or otherwise
which he is chargeable to receive, endorsed as produced 9 May,
1664, to Andrew Huddleston at his examination, and followed
by numerous receipts to Yaire for various payments by him.
These are endorsed as shown to the givers of the receipts at
the times of their examinations at Orton, Westmorland, 6 April,
1664, or at Shap, Westmorland, 22 April, 1664. [S.P. Supplementary 134, No. 344.] |
| [1664 ?] |
List of arrears in the account of Sir Thomas Wilbraham, late
Sheriff of Cheshire, for hearth money due from various persons for
the half year ended Lady Day, 1664, and also of arrears of the same
for the same period due from several persons who have no goods
or chattels on which the same can be levied. [4 pages. Ibid.
No. 345.] |
| [1664 ?] |
List apparently of fees in various suits in Trinity and Michaelmas terms, 1664. [Ibid. No. 346.] |
