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Feb. 1. Dublin. |
43. Lawrence Hollingshed to Sir Francis Walsingham. Prays to
be excused from attendance in Parliament as member for the town
of Buckingham, by reason of ill health. |
Feb. 1. |
Copy of the above. [Imperfect MS., James I.] |
Feb. 1. |
44. Petition of Thos. Denman, of London, to Lord Burghley and
others. Prays to be paid the sum of 235l. remaining due to him by
Mr. Henry Howard. |
Feb. 3. St. John's College. |
45. Dr. Richard Howlande to Burghley. Sends back again the
articles concerning his honourable gift to their college. Offers a
suggestion as to the election of his scholars. |
Feb. 6. Prob. |
46. Articles contained in the Bill for coming to the service of
the Church; with marginal annotations by Burghley. |
Feb. 7. |
47. Names of the Lords Committee on the Bill touching leases
made by corporations. |
Feb. 8. |
48. Petition of William Underne, of Starthorpe, Notts, to Lord
Burghley; to hear and determine a cause, between himself and the
Master, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, as to
a lease of the Manor of Starthorpe. |
Feb. 10. London. |
49. Horatio Pallavicino to Walsyngham. Detail of foreign
news. Events in Flanders. The Prince of Parma's stay in
Tournay. The English College of Jesuits at Rome. Italian. |
Feb. 11. |
50. Note of powder received from Christopher Hudson and others,
into the office of Ordnance. |
Feb. 13. Bourges. |
51. Anthony Bacon to Burghley. It is three weeks since he
wrote about his right to Pinner Park. Sends letters of advice and
direction to his brother Francis, Mr. Alderman Martin, and others.
Money transactions. Commends the bearer, Mr. Blanshard, for
his well-grounded knowledge in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. |
Feb. 14. |
52. Note of words uttered in Parliament by Mr. Arthur Hall
respecting the Queen of Scots and execution of the Duke of Norfolk.
Charge against him of publishing proceedings in the House, and
untruly reporting the same. |
Feb. 16. Bennet College. |
53. Dr. Robert Norgate, Master of Bennet College, (Corpus Christi,
Cambridge,) to Burghley. Requests that the two senior Doctors
in divinity may be joined with the doctors appointed by Burghley
for ordering the controversies in that house. |
Feb. 17. Shrewsbury. |
54. Sir Richard Shuttleworth to Walsyngham. Has forborne
to prosecute the bonds for certain cattle entered into by Mr.
Barton, but Barton has begun a suit against him in the Chancery. Desires his further directions for the full ending of their
causes. |
Feb. 18. |
55. Note of the charge for four pinnaces, to be employed in
bringing intelligence to and from Ireland. |
Feb. 18. |
56. "Answer to Mr. William Underne's supplication, exhibited
to the Right Hon. the Lord Treasurer, against the Master and
Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, touching the Manor of Starthorpe, in the county of Notts." |
Feb. 18. |
57. Report of the speech delivered by William Underne in the
Chancery, touching the omission of Dr. Still's name, in a bill
exhibited in that court. |
Feb. 20. |
58. Supplication to the Queen by the Earl of Shrewsbury's
Tenants of the Manor of Glossopdale, complaining of exactions and
oppressions, in raising their rents, being deprived of their leases
before their expiration, subject to new services, &c., with the Earl's
answer in detail to the same. |
Feb. 20. |
59. Duplicate of the above: with some slight variations. |
Feb. 20 ? |
60. Submission of certain Tenants of the Earl of Shrewsbury's
Manor of Glossopdale, acknowledging that they had unlawfully combined to resist giving up their holdings, the leases of which had
expired: and praying to be restored to their tenements as heretofore. |
Feb. 20. |
61. Wm.(?) Wright to Lord Burghley, Requests payment of the
remaining moiety of a sum due to him by Mr. Henry Howard; and
that the release and survey of the Manor of Kingsey, parcel of the
lands of Lord Viscount Howard, of Bindon, in the hands of Mr.
Scynner [Skynner ?], may be given up to him. |
Feb. 22. |
62. Anthony Cooke to same. That he may receive the same
allowance for keeping Havering Park and two walks in the Forest
of Waltham, as his father, Sir Anth. Cooke, formerly enjoyed; and
solicits a grant of the keeping of that park for life, &c. |
Feb. 22. |
63. Answer to a Bill presented to Parliament by the Wardens of
the Goldsmiths for confirmation of light Troy weights, "by an
inquest lately sised." |
Feb. 23. |
64. Commissioners of Musters for Worcestershire to the Earl of
Leicester. Have received their commission and instructions, and
desire a longer time for taking the musters. Request that certain
persons named in the letter may be excused on account of their
inability. |
Feb. 25. |
65. Deposition of Richard Frenche, mariner, taken before Dr.
Lewes, Judge of the Admiralty, touching the spoil of his ship, the
"Elizabeth of London," by John Coates and others, off Flamborough
Head. |
Feb. 22. |
66. An Act to take away future uses creating perpetuities of
lands, in special cases. |
Feb. 26. |
67. Receipt by Wm. Archer for the sum of 4l. from Sir. Wm.
Catesby, in full discharge of the debt of Richard Catesby, Esq. |
Feb. |
68. Sir Henry Lee and others, Commissioners of Musters for
Buckinghamshire, to the Earls of Warwick and Leicester and
Sir Chr. Hatton. Have taken the first muster of horsemen, but
desire longer time for making their certificate. |
Feb. |
69. Offers of Michael Lok for working the ore at Dartford,
brought from the North-west voyage by Capt. Furbisher. |
Feb. |
70. Earls of Warwick and Leicester and Sir Chr. Hatton to the
several shires in their circuit; sending new books of rates for the
muster and keeping of horses within their respective counties. |
Feb. |
71. Memoranda of corrections in the instructions and letters
relating to the musters. |
Eeb. |
72. Articles for a grant of certain Liberties to the Inhabitants of
the isles of Sheppey, Harty, and Emlett; slightly altered from those
of Jan. 13th. |
Feb. |
73. Articles given by Sir Richard Norton against Wm. Pitts,
late of Alton, in the county of Southampton, and Benjamin
Tychebourne, for seditious speeches concerning religion and government. |
Feb. |
74. Articles containing matter of offence against the State,
nttered by one William Pitts, late of Alton, favoured and countenanced by Benj. Tychebourne, Esq.; showing, also, certain misdemeanors of the said Tychebourne. The saying of Pitts, who
was a disperser of the challenge of Edmond Campion the jesuit;
escape of Pitts from Bath gaol; arrest of Elizabeth, sister of
Dr. Saunders and wife of Henry Pitts, the father of William Pitts.
Favour shown to Benj. Tychebourne by the Lord Chief Baron. [On
the 1st of Dec. 1580,the Bishop of Winchester and others were
directed to examine Elizabeth Saunders, a professed nun, and
Richard Hourde, "a server abroad of a seditious challenge." Co.
Reg.] |
Feb. |
75. Duplicate of the above. |
Feb. |
76. Memorandum of charges against Tychebourne; his favour
shewn to William Pitts and Henry his father, a great favourer of
Papists, and himself suspected. |
Feb. |
77. Copy of the usual preamble to the grant of subsidy by the
Clergy in Convocation; probably to be used for the subsidy of
23 Eliz. |
Feb. ? |
78. Another copy of the above. |
Feb.? |
79. An Act for the maintenance of the forts, bulwarks, and places
of defence in and near the town of Southampton. |
Feb.? |
80. Proposition by the Coastmen, for a Bill for increase of the
navigation by exporting herrings and other fish bought by aliens in
England, and by restraining the importation of fish bought by
English subjects abroad. |
Feb. |
81. Suit of the Master, Wardens, and Assistants of the Trinity House
to the Queen, for the better keeping of Wednesday as a fish day
only, for the increase of fishing and better maintenance of the navy;
and also for the better observance of a branch of the Act for licensing
mariners and seafaring men to work wherries on the Thames. |
Feb. |
82. Rate for the diet of a man for the fish days, and the difference in price for flesh. |
Feb. |
83. Proviso proposed to be inserted in the Bill for increase of
navigation. [Probably for the Act 23 Eliz., cap. 7, but no such
proviso occurs in that nor any subsequent Act relating to
navigation.] |
Feb. ? |
84. Answers to the pretended Bill for maintenance of the navy;
the restraint of importation of foreign herrings and other fish would
be injurious. |
Feb. ? |
85. "Draft of an Act that Her Majesty shall appoint collectors
for the Bishoppes Tenths." |
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86. Bill for maintaining a light on Winterton Steeple for the more
safety of such ships as pass by that coast. |
Feb. |
87. Bill for relief of prisoners confined for debt in the Bench and
Fleet prisons, for making composition with their creditors. |
Feb. |
88. Commission to the Lord Mayor, Recorder, and Sheriffs of
London, the Bishop of London, and many others, upwards of sixty
in number, to compound with the creditors of poor debtors, prisoners
in Newgate and Ludgate, and the two Compters in the city of
London. |
Feb. ? |
89. Petition of William Overton, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, to the Council. Prays to be relieved from the injurious effects of
certain leases of the manors of Bishops Itchington, Tachebrooke, &c.,
co. Warwick, granted by former bishops; the rents being factiously
withheld by Edward Fisher now in possession. |
Feb.? |
90. Particulars of leases of the manors of Tachebrooke, Bishops
Itchington, and others, granted to Thomas Fisher, and detained by
Edward his son. |
Feb. ? |
91. Petition of the Gunmakers to the Council; praying for a
charter of incorporation for the true making and repairing of
callivers, muskets, dags, and other small guns and pieces; the Earl
of Warwick, or the Master of the Ordnance for the time being, to
be governor of the said company. |
Feb.? |
92. Duplicate of the above. |
Feb.? |
93. Petition of the same to Sir Fr. Walsyngham; soliciting his
furtherance of their petition to the Council, which the Earl of
Warwick has read and approved of. |
Feb. ? |
94. Petition of the Gunners of the Tower and of the Navy to the
Queen; praying for an Act of Parliament for the training up skilful
gunners, and to prohibit every one from exercising the office of
gunner in any ship or vessel, but such as shall receive certificates of
their skill and proficiency in the same art. |
Feb. ? |
95. Articles for the examination of the Gunners of the Tower
and for practising them, four times a year at least in the Artillery
Garden, given for that purpose by King Henry VIII. to the office of
the Ordnance. |
Feb. ? |
96. Commission to Sir Henry Radeclyff for taking musters within
the town and liberties of Portsmouth. |
Feb. ? |
97. Articles to be administered to Thos. Cottam, Luke Kirby, and
others, priests, of late committed to the Tower; of their coming
into England; of persons reconciled by them to the Church of
Rome; of any conference with Campion or knowledge where he
is, &c. |
Feb. ? |
98. Answer in justification and furtherance of the project of
Mr. Ferrys for the better regulation of the trade of the Merchant
Strangers, and reforming of the abuses of strangers made denizens. |