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Feb. 1.
London |
41. Certificate from Wm. Gylbert and Lancelot Browne to Sir
Fr. Walsyngham. In favour of Mr. Hungate, whose state of
health required him to travel abroad in a warm climate. |
| Feb. 1. |
Note of articles of furniture, &c., needful to be conveyed to
Tutbury for the use of the Queen of Scots:—hangings to her
chamber, three or four hundred weight of feathers to amend old and
thin beds and bolsters, certain pieces of plate, Turkey carpets,
window curtains, &c. With a note of commodities of Lord Paget's.
to be used for Tutbury, of lands and woods, &c., now out of leases.
[See Queen of Scots, Vol. xv., No.30a.]] |
| Feb. 2. |
42. Indenture between Edward de Vere Earl of Oxford and
Richard Samme, John Butcher, and others, copyholders and customary tenants of the Manor of Grayes in Hedingham Sible,
co. Essex, relative to rights and privileges of the said tenants. |
Feb. 6.
Hereford. |
43. Humfrey Baskervile, Sheriff of Herefordshire, and others, to
the Council. They had furnished and equipped the 50 men for
service in Ireland and delivered them to Mr. John Baynard to
conduct them to Chester. Inclosing, |
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43. I.Indenture containing the names of the50men sent
into Ireland, under the charge of John Baynard, alias
Niccles. |
Feb. 6.
Westminister. |
44. Grant by the Queen to John Walter, valet of the Chamber, of
the office of Keeper of the castle and gaol of Norwich, with the
house near to the said castle called the Shire House, for life. Latin.
With indorsement of grant of same office to Ric. Dyer after the
death of Walter, death 18 Jan. 1602. |
| Feb. 8. |
45. The copies of such writings and evidences as pertain to the suit
of Mr.George Puttenham; wherein, by order of Council, Mr. Secretary
is to move Her Majesty for compensation to the amount of one
thousand pounds, incurred in obeying Her Majesty's command; with
a brief of Mr. Puttenham's case. |
| Feb. 8. |
46. The examination and confession of Henry Cæsar, clerk, Vicar
of Lastyviell in the county of Cornwall, taken before Rauff Rokeby,
Esq., touching his going beyond the seas and his dealings with
Papists. Denies being either Jesuit or priest. His belief in spirits
and apparitions, and regrets having asserted that either Sir Walter
Mildmay or Mr. Secretary Willson had desired to see the spirit of
Cardinal Pole. |
| Feb. 9. |
47. Confession of Edmond Nevylle, Esq., touching the plot of
William Parry, alias Dr. Parry, for the assassination of Her Majesty,
by shooting at her with dags when she went abroad to take the air
in the fields. |
| Feb. 11. |
48. Deposition and true confession of Edmond Nevylle, Esq.,
detailing at length his dealings with Dr. Parry, relative to his
proposal for assassinating the Queen. |
| Feb. 11. |
49. Petition of the Corporation of Conway to the Lord Treasurer,
soliciting him to move the Queen to withhold her royal assent to
the Bill for transferring the sessions for the county from Conway to
Carnarvon [The Bill for holding the great sessions at Carnarvon
was, with others, returned from the Commons to the Lords on the
11th Feb. 1585. It is not in the list of Acts passed in that
Session.] |
Feb. 11.
Worcester. |
50. Gilbert Lyttleton, Sheriff of Worcester, to the Council. Has
mustered and furnished with weapons and armour the 50 men
required for service in Ireland, and sent them, under the command
of Robt. Acton, to Chester. Incloses, |
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50. I. Indenture containing the names of the soldiers raised in
Worcestershire and sent into Ireland. |
Feb. 12.
Standford. |
51. Roger Cave to Lord Burghley. Requests that the Act against
common informers may be renewed before the end of the Session.
Recommends the suits of his son, Mr. Bagot Cave, to his favorable
consideration. |
| Feb. 12. |
52. Points to be resolved by Edmond Nevylle, touching his transactions with Dr. Parry, in the design for liberating the Queen of
Scots, and assassinating the Queen. |
| Feb. 12. |
53. Examination of Mr. Scory. Denies having seen the book of
libels printed against the Earl of Leicester, but only heard talk
of it. His acquaintance with Peter Cubiar, Thomas Morgan, Thomas
Throckmorton, and the Spanish Ambassador. His introducing the
Earl of Leicester to the Spanish Ambassador, and all dining together
at Mr. Customer Smythe's. |
| Feb. 15. |
54. Deposition of William Creychtoun as to his knowledge of
Dr. Parry, against whom he had been cautioned as a spy for the
Queen of England. |
| Feb. 15. |
55. Proceedings in the House of Commons on certain petitions
against abuses in the ministry within the county of Leicester, in the
east part of the county of Sussex, and from the inhabitants of
Folkstone, in the county of Kent. |
| Feb. 19. |
56. An extract from all such entries as have been made in the
custom-house of the port of Gloucester, for transportation of grain
from that port since Michaelmas last. |
Feb. 19.
London. |
57. Sir Tho. Pullyson, Lord Mayor, and the Aldermen of London,
to the Council. For mitigation of the statutes of apparel in favor of
the city of London, desiring that the alterations proposed by them,
for the dress of the citizens, may be granted. |
Feb. 20.
Stowe. |
58. Sir Rie. Greynvile to Walsyngham. Denies the truth of the
reports raised against him, of having committed unlawful violence
in the parsonage house of Kilkhampton, co. Cornwall, to the terror
and danger of Mrs. Pagett, who kept possession of that house.
Incloses, |
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58. I. A true declaration of Sir Rich. Greynvile's dealings
with Mistress Pagett, in obtaining possession of the
parsonage house of Kilkhampton, of which benefice her
husband, Mr. Pagett, had been legally deprived. |
| Feb. 20. |
59. A note of the works next to be done at Dover Harbour, with
other instructions, delivered unto John Hill, director of the same
works. |
| Feb. 20. |
60. Another copy of the above, with some additions. |
| Feb. 22. |
61. Tho. Lewkenor to Walsyngham. Has sent up the persons
stayed at Chichester on their return from Rome. The post who
landed with them had brought many letters directed to merchants
besides those for the Court and Government. Desires to know if
they may open letters directed to merchants that may be suspected. |
| Feb. 22. |
62. Legal opinion of Mr. Recorder Fleetewoode, in the case of a
merchant, Italian, dying intestate, as to the right of the Crown to
the lease of his premises occupied by him as a merchant. |
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63. Opinion of William Danyell in the same case. |
Feb. 23.
Woodhay. |
64. Tho. Wylbram, Sheriff of the county of Chester, to the
Council. Certifies the levying of 50 men for service in Ireland, who
have been sent to the city of Chester, and placed under the command
of Sir Lucas Dillon. |
Feb. 24.
Tutbury. |
65. The sayings of Humfrey Bridges to Sir Rafe Sadleir upon the
points of a letter which he had caused to be written to Nicholas
Langford, Esq., of Langford, in the county of Derby. Correspondence of the Queen of Scots with Langford. Annexed, |
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65. I. Letter of Humfrey Bridges to Nicholas Langford. |
| Feb. 24. |
66. Ralph Lever to Lord Burghley. Requests him to forward
the Bill in Parliament for assurance of the corporation of the hospital
of Sherbourne House, granted at the suit of Thomas Lever. [The
Bill for better assurance of Sherbourne House was read the first
time in the Lords, Feb. 24, 1585.] |
| [Feb. 24.] |
67. Note of Ralph Lever's suit in behalf of himself and his
brethren of Christ's Hospital, of Sherbourne House, erected for the
number of 16 brethren only, and now sought to be increased by
Her Majesty's confirmation to the number of 30, the revenues being
able to maintain so many. |
| Feb. 27. |
68. A brief of the effect of Her Majesty's Speech unto the Bishops
and other of the Clergy offering unto her their subsidy, in her Privy
Chamber, at Somerset Place. The Queen's conversation with the
Archbishop; her desire to have learned ministers in every parish. |
| Feb. 27. |
69. Copy of the above. |
| Feb. |
70. Account of the pitiful state of the poor Inhabitants of the
Cinque Ports. Against the toleration granted by the Lords of the
Council to the states of Holland for the taking of all goods of Her
Majesty's subjects designed for Flanders, for the victualling or relief
of the adversaries of the States there. |
| Feb.? |
71. Secret advertisements given by one Paynter to Sir Fr.
Walsyngham(?). Inspection of letters at Rye from Papists in France;
contents of the letters of one Brown. Transactions with Jesuits in
Paris. Conversation with Copley at Rouen, who reported the
execution of seven Catholics in England. |
| Feb.? |
72. Petition presented to Parliament against abuses in the
government of the Church; that divers things were practised by the
Archbishops, Bishops, and other ecclesiastical officers, contrary to the
Act of Parliament, the laws of the realm, and their own canons. |
| Feb. ? |
73. Considerations on the proposed Bill for the government of
Wales. |
| Feb. ? |
74. A summary of the Act presented, intituled An Act for the
recovery and inning of drowned and surrounded grounds and the
draining dry of watery marshes, fens, bogs, moors, and other
grounds of like nature. |
| Feb. ? |
75. Substance of the petitions of the Puritans for a reformation in
causes ecclesiastical; with heads of the errors and untruths in the
Bill exhibited for a further reformation of the Church. |
| Feb.? |
76. Copy of the above. |
| Feb.? |
77. " Certain doubts conceived upon view of the memorial," probably for putting in readiness the forces of the realm. Appointment
of Lieutenants. Pay of the proposed muster masters, and time of year
for exercising the trained bands. View of places of descent in the
maritime counties. |
