|
| March 2. |
36. Estimate of the charges for the furnishing of the Revenge,
the Swallow, and the Foresight, to serve at sea for three months. |
| March 4. |
37. Estimate of the charges for ordnance, munition, and other
things necessary for the furnishing of the above-named ships. |
March. 4.
Westminster. |
38. Commission by the Queen, appointing Special Commissioners
for enforcing the laws respecting the breed and furnishing of horses
and geldings for service. |
| March 4. |
39. Draft of the above. |
| March 4. |
40. Remembrance for the Commissioners, probably for the breed
of horses, &c.; days for meeting, dispatch of letters to Sheriffs, books
of names of freeholders, &c. to be prepared. |
| March [4 ?] |
41. Commission nominating Deputies in the several counties, to
inquire into the number and breed of horses, the keeping of horses
and geldings for service, &c., in virtue of the Commission of the
4th of March. |
| March [4.] |
42. Instructions given to the Deputies of the Commissioners for
the muster of horsemen, and increase and breed of horses. |
| March 4 ? |
43. List of certain shires, and the names of the Earls of Warwick
and Leicester, and Sir Christopher Hatton; probably as Commissioners for the breed of horses. |
| March 7. |
44. Petition of Mrs. Cheyney to the Council. Praying they would
have some consideration for the many public services of Wm. Cheyney, her husband, and that he may be recompensed for his house let
to Mrs. Weston. |
| March 11. |
45. Certificate by John Piers, Bishop of Salisbury, of the wood
sold since his coming to that Bishoprick. Desires that his bargain
with Wm. Coothe may be completed. |
| March 15. |
46. Notes of suits in the Court of Wards, and of the grants made
to the Earl of Leicester. |
| March 15. |
47. Account of the Loans lately made by the Queen out of the
Receipt of the Exchequer, as well to divers Noblemen of the realm
as to others; viz., to Sir John Smyth, the Earl of Leicester, Sir
Henry Lee, Sir James Croft, Lord Stafford, Sir Rowland Haywarde,
and Edw. Dyer. |
| March 15. |
48. Examination of William Sobar, as to bringing money to
Richard Creaghe from Kenrick, for whom also he had conveyed letters. |
| March 16. |
49. Warrant to the Lord Chancellor to make out commissions for
general musters throughout England; with form of the commission
annexed. |
| March 16. |
50. Copy of the above warrant and commission. |
| March 16. |
51. Copy of the above commission only. |
March 16.
Westminster. |
52. Commission for general musters, with the names of the Special
Commissioners in the shires throughout England, and for the cities,
boroughs, &c. Instructions for the Commissioners. Articles for the
furniture of horsemen, &c. |
March 16.
Westminster. |
53. Similar commission for the general musters in the county of
Durham. |
| March 16. |
54. Articles ministered to Richard Creaghe, prisoner in the Tower,
relative to his dealings with Papists, and correspondence abroad
with John Castell and others. |
| March 16. |
55. Answers of Richard Creaghe (titular Archbishop of Armagh)
to the above interrogatories. |
| March 16. |
56. Articles drawn out of the two letters sent by Dr. Watson
and Ric. Creaghe, one to the King of Portugal, the other to his
Confessor. |
| March 16. |
57. Articles for the examination of Dr. Watson, as to correspondence with John Castell in Portugal. |
| March 16. |
58. Examinations of Hugh Kenrick, Protonotary in the Sheriff's
Court of London, as to his knowledge of the doings of Ric. Creaghe
and Dr. Watson. Correspondence with parties in foreign parts. |
| March 17. |
59. Confession of Mrs. Elizabeth Kenrick, touching her knowledge
of the cause of her husband's apprehension. His dealings with
Watson and Creaghe. |
| March 17. |
60. Examination of John Cowledge relative to the proceedings of
Richard Creaghe while in his keeping three years. With postscript
by Sir Owyn Hopton, that Creaghe had been in custody five years
for papistry only. |
| March 17. |
61. Interrogatories ministered to William Whitine relative to his
knowledge of Antonio Fogaca, a Portuguese, and the Catholic
prisoners about London, particularly Dr. Watson. |
| March 17. |
62. Answer of Wm. Whitine, servant to Dr. Watson. His acquaintance with A. Fogaca, and delivery of two letters to Kenrick. |
| March 17. |
63. The sayings of Wm. Whitine concerning A. Fogaca, set down
under his own hand. Delivery of the two letters to him. |
| March 17. |
64. Extracts out of divers letters of Antonio Fogaca, to the Duke
of Alva, Secy. Sayas, the King of Portugal, the Duke of Guise,
Friar Chaves, and Ruy Gomez de Sylva, from 1572 to 1577. |
| March 17. |
65. Certificate by Bishop Whytgifte of such timber trees as he
had by any means caused to be felled upon the lands of any of his
houses of residence within the Bishoprick of Worcester. |
| March 17. |
Instructions by the Council to Sir Wm. Wynter, appointed to go
to the seas with three of the Queen's ships, and the two barks called
the Achates and the Handmaid, to cruize off the Irish coast, to
intercept any succours that might be sent by the King of Spain
to aid the rebels in Ireland. To arrest all pirates that he may fall
in with. [See Vol. cxxxiv, p. 628.] |
March 18.
Christ's Coll. |
66. Dr. Edw. Hawford to Lord Burghley. Attempts in Christ's
College to evade the Statutes of their Foundress. Mr. Broughton's
fellowship was of King Edward VIth's foundation; which, however,
is subject to the Statutes of the Foundress. |
| March 19. |
67. Testimonial under the hand of George Kevall, notary public,
that the Merchants of the Stillyard were not suffered by the officers
of the Customs to export cloths, unless they paid strangers' custom. |
| March 20. |
68. Answers of Antonio Fogaca to certain articles propounded.
The term of his residence in England. Never had any acquaintance
with Watson and Creaghe, nor sent any other letters than the two
to the King and his Confessor. |
| March 22. |
69. Articles to be ministered to Anthony Fogaca relative to his
letters to the Duke of Alva, about the Earl of Westmoreland, &c. |
| March 22. |
70. The same in Spanish. |
March 22.
Lambeth. |
71. Archbp. Grindall to the Queen. Certificate of the timber trees
felled on the lands belonging to the see of Canterbury, since his
first entry therein. |
| March [25 ?] |
72. Note of the armour and stores to be sent with the eleven
ships, with necessaries for the dressing and well keeping of the same
on shipboard during the voyage. |
March 25.
Queenborough. |
73. Ric. Byngham to Sir Fr. Walsyngham. Their proceedings at
sea. They had gone as far as the Nore, but returned to Queenborough. Delay occasioned for want of provisions. |
March 25.
Wilton. |
74. Philip Sidnei to Arthur Atey, [Principal of Alban Hall,
Oxford]. Thanks him as much as his love and his own gratefulness
require. No news, but that all be well. |
| March 25. |
75. Bishop Barnes to the Queen. Has felled no timber trees
during his incumbency either of Carlisle or Durham. |
March 28.
Christ's Church, Oxford. |
76. Dr. Tobie Matthew, Vice-Chancellor, to Arthur Atey. Missed
him in the morning, having lain overlong in bed. Begs him to
persuade Corranus to repair to Oxford as soon after the holidays as
he could. Has visited Atey's Hall. Desires news on certain points,
as briefly and as darkly as he can. |
| March 28. |
77. Answer to certain points moved by the Bp. of Worcester
upon Her Majesty's letters for restraint of the felling of timber. |
March 28.
Hampton. |
78. Tho. Clarke to John Talbot. Informs him that Robert Wotton
had escaped, although confined in a chamber in his father's house,
"having a horse locke on his lege," and all his clothes, to his shirt,
taken away. |
| March. |
79. Bishop Cowper to the Queen. His answer or certificate
touching the timber trees felled by him within his diocese of
Lincoln. Lat. |
| March. |
80. Note of horse and armour to be furnished by gentlemen,
according to the rate of their lands and goods. |
| March ? |
81. Note of the number of lances and light horse to be levied on
pluralists, distinguishing the pluralists by name in each diocese. |
| March. |
82. Note of persons (principally transgressors' of certain laws,
pluralists, &c.,) meet to contribute towards the training of soldiers,
without offence to the state and good liking of the people. |
| March ? |
83. Remembrances for works to be done in and about the Castle
of Windsor. "The Maides of Honour desire to have their chamber
ceiled, and the partition that is of boardes ther, to be made higher,
for that their servauntes looke over." |
| March ? |
84. Sir Henry Darcy, Sir Henry Cromwell, and Rob. Bevill, Commissioners of Musters for Huntingdonshire, to the Earl of Sussex.
Have equally rated the whole county for furnishing light horsemen;
but all show their disability for observance of the same. Names of
persons who are either dead or have left the county. Annexed, |
|
84. i. List sent from the Council, of gentlemen in Huntingdonshire thought meet to be charged with the keeping of demilances and light horse in that county. |
| March ? |
85. The Council to the Justices in every shire, to raise a fund for
repair of Dover Haven, by levying a fine of 2s. 6d. upon every new
licence for keeping alehouses; and all licences heretofore granted to
be void from the last of May next, except such as shall pay the
above fine. |
