Queen Elizabeth - Volume 147: February 1581

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1581-90. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1865.

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'Queen Elizabeth - Volume 147: February 1581', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1581-90, (London, 1865) pp. 4-9. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/1581-90/pp4-9 [accessed 26 March 2024]

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February 1581

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."
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.