Queen Elizabeth - Volume 109: October 1576

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth, 1547-80. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1856.

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'Queen Elizabeth - Volume 109: October 1576', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth, 1547-80, (London, 1856) pp. 529. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/1547-80/p529 [accessed 18 April 2024]

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October 1576

Oct. (2.) 15. Report made by order of the Lord Treasurer, on the difference between cloths for length, breadth, and goodness before and after they are dressed.
Oct. 2. 16. W[illiam?] D[avison ?] to T. C. In behalf of his cousin, the bearer, repairing to Court about his special affairs.
(Oct. 2.) 17. Same to Lord B. [Burghley ?]. In favour of A.B. a gentleman of York, his cousin.
Oct. 5.
London.
18. Sir Wm. Wynter and Wm. Holstok to the Council. Employment of the Bark of Boulogne to convey a boat to Harwich. Her desertion, by the instigation of merchants of Ipswich, to convoy two of their ships to Dunkirk, and capture of the whole by the Flushingers.
Oct. 20. 19. Orders and decrees made by Sir Rowland Haywarde, and others, Commissioners of Sewers. Concerning the navigation of the river Lea from Enfield to Lea-mouth.
Oct. 21 ?
Newcastle.
20. The Mayor, Aldermen, &c., of Newcastle-on-Tyne, to the Council. Complaining of their charter being infringed by the arrest of John Baxter, a burgess of their town, by a process issued out of the Admiralty, in London.
Oct. 26.
Peterborough.
21. Injunctions given by Bishop Scambler to be observed in the Cathedral Church of Peterborough.
Oct. 22. Ground plan of improvements and alterations to be made in Windsor Castle. [By Henry Hawthorn ?]
Oct. ? 23. Estimate of the expense of a wall 10 feet long, 20 feet high, and 6 feet thick, for the terrace at Windsor Castle.
Oct. ? 24. Petition of John Doughtye to the Earl of Leicester. Prays him to intercede with the Council for his release from prison. Has been six months in the common gaol, "a very noysom place, replenished with misery."