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1. Commission by the Queen to Richard Greynevile, of Stow,
co. Cornwall, Piers Edgecombe, Arthur Bassett, John Fitz, Edmund
Tremayne, Wm. Hawkyns, Alexander Arundell, Thomas Digges,
Martin Dare, Dominick Chester, and others, authorizing them to fit
out and equip a fleet for the discovery of lands in the Antaactic seas
and especially to the dominions of the great "Cam of Cathaia." |
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2. The Queen to —. Two letters on the subject of friendship.
In the first, answers to his curious care to know what grief encumbered her breast, and the remedy that may cure the sore. In the
second, a question was asked her,—Must aught be denied a friend's
request. Indorsed "a coople of tres of the Q, endyted and written
"at one tyme." |
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3. Copies of the preceding. |
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4. A view of the true state of Derby Hundred, in the County
Palatine of Lancaster, both for religion and civil government. Particulars of the connexions and conduct of the principal families of
the nobility and gentry, Names of officers of the County Palatine.
Numbers of communicants in each parish. |
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5. Map of the County Palatine of Lancaster, showing the towns
and the seats of the principal nobility and gentry. Liverpool is
designated only as a chapel. |
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6. "Certayne speaches in the epistle of a booke intituled a
"Treatise that reformation, and those that sincerely favor the same,
"are unjustly charged to be enemies unto Her Majestie and the
"State." With the effect of the book. Indorsed "Church matters
"of the Puritans." |
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7. —to Lord Burghley (?) Has been eight years in employ
and yet received no profit of his service. Amount of cordage delivered by him into the storehouse at Deptford. Desires to understand if he is to have the office in his own hands according to his
patent. |
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8. Richard Topclyffe to —. His opinion of Jesuits and
seminary priests, who be men chosen out from among the most
traitorous and most bloody-minded wits among the fugitives that
have passed out of England. Influence of their actions among the
discontented in England. If banished out of England they prove
good intelligencers and spies for the King of Spain; and in case of
sudden invasion would serve as guides to the enemy. |
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9. A very elaborate account or collection of all the civil offices of
the kingdom, with the fees and perquisites pertaining to each office.
The principal heads are:—The Nobility of England according to
their authorities and degrees; the officers of the Royal Household;
the towns of war, citadels, fortresses, and their establishments; the
Borders; Guernsey, and Jersey; keepers of parks and royal houses,
County Palatine of Chester, great Officers of State; Admiralty,
Mint, Works, Artificers, Customers at various ports; receivers of
Crown revenues in the several counties; Courts of Law, &c. [This
curious paper is in a dilapidated condition and is without date;
but as the Earl of Essex is named as master of the horse it cannot
be prior to the year 1590.] |
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10. Fragment of conditions for sending out a fleet of merchant
ships from some foreign port for traffic to Spain and Portugal;
probably Merchant Adventurers. |
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11. Answer of the company of the Merchant Adventurers against
the proposition for admitting in to their trade a certain number of
the Merchant Staplers. |
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12. Suit of Richard Martyn for the loan of ten thousand pounds
weight of bullion, for five years, for the company trading to Turkey,
to maintain the old trade there. |
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13. Petition of Sebastian Bene to the Council. Praying for the
release of 3,000 clapboards detained in the port of London, belonging to Arnold Clevewelt of Dantzic. |
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14. Petition of Sebastian Bene and Andreas Barnes, Merchants
of the Stillyard, to the same. Complaining that Sir John Hawkyns
had not made restitution or given them satisfaction for the 3,000
clapboards and seven tons of iron bars, according to their Lordships'
order. |
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15. Interrogatories to be ministered to Richard Brookes as to
communications with Mr. Justice Southcott, and his knowledge of
Simon Warner, imprisoned in Newgate for horse stealing and
admitted to bail. |
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16. Examination of John Hall alias Hill alias Newcombe alias
Hake, servant to Mr. Simon Digbye, of Coleshill, Warwickshire.
That neither his master or himself ever went to church, while he
was in his service. Mr. Digbye is now servant to the Earl of Essex,
and lieth at Lady Digbye's house at Westminster. |
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17. Considerations showing that the office of Clerk of the
Hanaper might be granted in joint patentcy or in reversion, the
Queen having granted the same to Sir Ralph Sadleir and his son
Henry Sadleir in joint patentcy. |
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18. List or roll of names of gentlemen proposed for sheriffs in
Wales; with notes by Burghley on their qualifications or unfitness.
Many are chosen sheriffs in Wales having neither lands nor goods
and lie in alehouses and live on the spoils of the country. |
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19. Certain notes from the examinations of H. Walpoole and
others. A treatise in hand by Father Parsons of all the competitors to the Crown of England. Cecill, the priest, Moody, and
Mr. Burly are discovered abroad to be spies employed from England. Design for a match between the Earl of Northumberland
and the Lady Arbella. Francis Dacres is greatly beloved in the
north parts. Design to kill the Cardinal [Allen.] |
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20. List of the names of captains. |
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21. — to the Council. Relative of his knowledge of
William Marlevile, and his informations made nine or ten years
past, relative to the transactions of one Thomas Goldinge, servant
to Sir Thomas Kytson. Kytson and his lady presented at the
Sessions for recusancy. |
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22. Tho. Celey to Lord Burghley. There is a Spanish woman in
London who gives him news from Spain or Dunkirk. She has
informed him of certain treasonable words spoken by Mr. Martin
(Doctor to the Earl of Arundel) to Dr. Ector. |
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23. Notes from Tho. Celey to same. Devices for destroying the Spanish fleet and preserving Her Majesty's ships from
their fireworks. To intercept the Spanish fleet from the West
Indies; to victual 200 ships in one month. Plan for destruction of
the enemy's ships by raising intense smoke, and in the midst of it
to send in fire ships. Many other curious devices. Sir Francis
Drake is expert in these affairs; is sorry he is in disgrace. |
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24. List of the names of Recusants in various counties, with
their valuations; with the addition of several in Burghley's hand. |
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25. Account of the number of Recusants in the several dioceses
of the province of York. |
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26. Objections of the shoemakers and other inhabitants of Scarborough to the grant to Elizabeth Mathew for the only buying of
the livers of fish and of making train oil throughout England. |
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27. Petition of Geo. Harrison, mariner, to the Council. Is brought
into great poverty by his suits against Nich. Leate, Wm. English,
and John Somes, who had betrayed his ship and goods to the French
at Rouen. Prays for an order against them. |
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28. Petition of John Danyell to same. That order may be
taken with Mr. Topcliffe for a slanderous and untrue speech made
by him, calling the petitioner a Papist. |
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29. John Danyell to — His opinion of William Morgan,
whom he knew in Spain, and was conversant with one Owen
Ethon, a follower of Sir Wm. Stanley, and a pensioner among the
English and Irish pensioners in the Spanish fleet. |
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30. Memorandum of naval charges, in Lord Burghley's hand. |
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31. Petition of the Bailiff, Jurats, &c., of Hastings to [the
Council?] praying for a licence under the Great Seal to collect
contributions for repair of the pier of their harbour, destroyed by a
great tempest on the 29th of November. |
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32. State of the controversy between Trinity College and
St. John's College, Cambridge, about the inclosing of a piece of
common ground, usually called Trinity College Green containing
seven acres or thereabouts. |
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33. Declaration of the title and claim of St. John's College to the
piece of land inclosed by Trinity College. |
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34. The Lord Treasurer and Chancellor of the Exchequer to
Edmond Felton, lessee of Ongar Park in Essex, formerly belonging
to Humfrey Shelton, commanding him to leave Edward Shelton in
quiet possession of 20 acres of land at the original rent covenanted
between them. |
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35. Extract of the conditions of the licence granted to William
Carr and Bridget his wife for the brewing of ale and beer for
exportation. |
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36. State of the case of a Recusant going beyond sea without
licence, and grant of his lands and goods by the Crown to a
relation, who by his will devised the same to his son; return of the
fugitive. Query, whether the Queen's grant to the relative were
good; and legal opinion thereon. |
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37. Report on the state of the hoys and small craft belonging to
the Thames, Sandwich, Dover, Rye, and other ports in Kent and
Essex. |
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38. A brief note of the kinds of all such instruments as commonly do or have passed the office of Faculties and Dispensations
since the Queen's Majesty's reign that now is. |
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39. Brief state of the case of Richard Kelley against Thomas
Manstage and Robert Pope. Mercantile transactions with Richard
and Christopher Blackhall at Rouen. |
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40. Examination of Elizabeth Vernon, widow, of Drayton,
Shropshire. Her refusal to attend the church. Has heard no mass,
except repeating the Latin prayers herself. Knows not if her two
sons, Robert and Thomas Vernon, attend church; her daughter
Margery does not. Attested by Wm. Overton, Bishop of Coventry
and Lichfield. |
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41. Breviates for the ordering of the service in the farming of
the Customs, and to be comprehended in the lease as covenants and
agreements with the Queen. [Probably after the death of Walsyngham, who in Aug. 1585 farmed the Customs.] |
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42. Points set down to be considered in farming the Queen's
Customs; with answers to the same. Indorsed by Ro. Cecyll, "A
"note of an off in ye Customs." |
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43. Notes concerning Sir Walter Raleigh's discovery of Dorado,
translated out of the natural and moral History of the Indies,
written by Joseph Acosts, and printed in Seville, 1590: translated
out of the Spanish by Richard Hackluyt. |
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44. Advertisement, that Roger Rolphe or Richard Ireland had the
proofs that the Jesuits have shipped. |
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45. Petition of Phelippe Zouche, wife of Francis Zouche, esq., to
the Queen, complaining of the illegal endeavours of Sir Matthew
Arundell to possess himself of the Manor of Ansty, co. Wilts, formerly
surrendered to the Crown by Sir John Zouche, and reconveyed to
Francis Zouche, and the heirs males of his body. |
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46. Proposition for the increase of Her Majesty's revenue, by
granting composition for pardons in matters of outlawry. Outlawries now held in small regard, whereby the State receiveth some
dishonour. At the last Parliament (1589), it appeared that well
nigh one-fourth part of the Lower House were persons outlawed,
whereat Her Majesty took just offence. |
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47. General interrogatories to be ministered to witnesses on behalf
of Robert Shawe, John Hore, and Thomas Younge, in a cause
depending in variance before the Privy Council, between Robert
Hungate and Margaret his wife, complainants, and the said Shawe,
Hore, and Younge, defendants; various marriages of the said
Margaret; death of Robert Whitehand; murder of John Shawe;
committal of John Hore to Newgate, by Sir Owyn Hopton. [See
also Jan. 1583.] |
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48. Warrant to the Exchequer to pay to Sir John Hawkyns and
James Quarles the sum of 5,938l., for setting forth to sea six of the
Queen's ships, viz.: the Merehonor, the Lion, the Nonperely, the
Rainbow, the Dreadnought, and the Advantage, for six weeks. |
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49. Grant of the sum of 200l. to Lodowick Brisket, for past
services; to be paid out of the receipt of the forfeitures of the Port
of London. |
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50. Answer of the English merchants to the complaint of the
French merchants, showing that they had the same privileges that
the English merchants had in France. |
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51. The description of the rooms in some palace with one square
court and four towers, containing a withdrawing chamber in the
third story of the north tower, called Lord Leicester's chamber.
Dimensions of the various rooms, offices, galleries, &c. |
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52. Note of the number of acres of arable land in the parish of
Broxborne, Herts. |
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53. Coats of arms borne by noblemen and gentlemen of Hertfordshire; with names added by Lord Burghley. |
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54. Answer of the Aldermen of London to the proposal for
keeping a supply of corn in store, for the provision of the City;
they have taken order to furnish a proportion of 10,000 quarters. |
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55. List of the manors and lands mortgaged by Queen Elizabeth
to the city of London, for payment of the sum of 60,000l. |
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56. Account of money laid out for some person by his uncle. |
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57. An Exposition of a Universal Church, with elaborate detail
of the principles, offices, and uses of the same; a multitude of
scripture references in the margin. Indorsed, "Jherome Dudley,
"a prisoner in the Clinke." |
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58. Note of the charges for repairing the ship, the Elizabeth
Bonadventure, probably at Cowes in the Isle of Wight. |
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59. Note of the wages to be paid to the captains and mariners
for five months' service, every man rated according to his allowance;
apparently for three ships. |
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60. Names of the masters of the Mary Susan, the Mary Anne,
and the Greyhound, of Ipswich. |
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61. Private memoranda of expenses, by a servant, chiefly boathire
between Wandsworth, Cannon Row, and Blackfriars. |
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62. Note touching the tenure of certain lands in the Manor of
Fifield, co. Dorset, appertaining to the Bishop of Bristol, now held
by Thomas Newman and Ellen Newman, by grant from her son
Geffray Newman, deceased. |
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63. Account of the yearly value of lands surrounding Nonesuch
Park pale. |
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64. Reasons for which the Earl of Lincoln desires humbly to
speak to Her Majesty before he accept of any reconciliation or
submission offered by Sir Edward Dymocke, in satisfaction of the
wrong done to the Earl. |
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65. Note presented to the Lord Mayor of London of the debts
owing to divers Englishmen by the Aldermen of the Stillyard. |
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66. Note of the annual allowance to the Posts between London
and Plymouth, and the number of miles between each station. |
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67. Valuation of all spiritual promotions and livings in the
diocese of Peterborough; with a note of fees payable in the Consistory
Court thereof. |
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68. A summary information of the state of Lancashire, exhibited
by the Bishop's secretary. Great increase in the number of seminary
priests and recusants. Causes of the same. The Lord's day is
generally profaned with unlawful trades and markets, with
heathenish and popish pastimes. |
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69. Extracts in French and Latin, proving the supremacy of the
Pope, the power of synods, inviolability of ecclesiastical law, &c.,
headed, "Articles concernans l'autorit´ attribuee a n[ot]re St. Pere par
dessus les Conciles et Canons." |
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70. A question, decided according to the Civil Law, whether
prelates be usufruetuarij or usuarij. Latin. |
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71. Extract touching the precedency belonging to Doctors of the
Civil Law, entitled " In Catologo gloriae mundi, a D. Cassanaeo
"Burgundo olim composito, hæc questio de præ cedentia inter
"Militem et Doctorem sic disseritur; parte Nona, consideratione
"prima." Latin. |
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72. Note of the faculties conferred on priests going into England,
entitled "Facultates concedendæ Sacerdotibus in Angliam euntibus
"cum remissione ad Archipresbyterum." Latin. |
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73. Sir Anthony Standen to—. Thanks him for the spir tual
gifts given him by the Pope. Italian. |
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74. The Life of Edward Throckmorton, written in Latin, and
delivered to Sir Edward Stafford amongst Morgan's papers. |
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75. Charles Newcomen to Mr. Gowre. Certain letters had come
from Copley and others beyond the seas, and delivered to the maid at
Lady Guildford's house in Trinity Lane. He would do good service
if he could manage to get possession of them. |
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76. Note for Jo. Boul. To execute several requests for the writer
relating only to family affairs. |
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77. Memoranda from Tho. Nelson to Mr. Kyrby, to perform
several commissions for him when he should come to Paris or
Rouen. |
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78. John Ballard to Robert Bucher. Expresses great friendship
for him. Difficulties in the way of correspondence. Has had great
business tending to his own gain, the which will be 12 months
before it is finished. |
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79. Petition of Robert Batten to the Council. Complains that
Peter Bowery, leather dresser, for whom he had acted as agent, refused to keep to his engagements. Is likely to be condemned in
a false action for debt. |
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80. Edw. Brynham (?) to Father William Baldwin, a Jesuit, at
Brussels. In favor of the bearer, who desires to return, as the
country did not agree with him. The state of his soul is yet uncared
for, although he had been at the well-head. |
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81. Dissertation on the evils resulting from the circulation o
seditious writings and pamphlets, which are ignorantly thought to
be the flying sparks of truth, forcibly kept down and choked by
those in possession of the state. |
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82. Genealogical and other notes, in Lord Burghley's hand, relating
to remarkable persons in Scripture history. |
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83. Genealogical notes, by Burghley, relating to the Pygotts, of
Whaddon and Stratton. |
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84. Genealogical notices of the families of Le Hadd and Denn,
extracted from ancient charters; with copies of three charters of
Tho. Denn, John de Combe and Alured Denn. |
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85. Genealogical notes by same, relative to the marriages of the
family of the Greys with the Scotts. |
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86. Genealogical notices of the families of Witherington or
Wodryngton, Fenwyk of Wallington, and others. |
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87. Pedigrees, in Lord Burghley's hand, of families residing in the
Isle of Ely. |
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88. Pedigree of the family of the Fitzherberts, from the Judge's
father until the present time, divers being traitors beyond sea, and
most of those that be in England are dangerous persons. |
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89. Suit of John Spillman, Her Majesty's jeweller, for a grant of
the advowsons of several parsonages, to prefer fit clerks thereunto,
whensoever any of the same shall become vacant. |
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90. State of the case of Dr. Fabian Niffy, touching his marriage
with Anne De la Haye, whom he had purchased in marriage.
Opposition of her friends and relations. His arrest and imprisonment by Paul de la Haye. |
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91. Petition of Alice Nutshawe (wife of Wm. Nutshawe), to the
Council. Complains of the severity of her husband's creditors, and
prays that Robert Lee may be induced to receive payment of the
money owing to him, by periodical payments from Robert Wright. |
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92. Company of Cappers of the City of Coventry to the Council,
desiring that the Queen's letters patents for the making of hats and
caps might be renewed as the patent formerly granted to John
Baylie and Robert Blunte had been called in. Propose the names
of Richard Smythe, Ric. Barker, Thomas Wyghte, and Rafe Bowne,
four aldermen of the city, to be new patentees. |
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93. Reasons "against an opinion that it shall be inconvenient to
"permit no woollen cloths to be transported until they have received
"their whole workmanship and colour in this realm." |
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Grant in reversion to Richard Dungen of the place of Master
Plasterer to the Queen, after the death or surrender of John
Symonds; Tho. Kelley. the former partner, deceased. Latin. [See
Warrant Book, i., P. 177.] |
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Grant to Bartholomew Newsham of the office of Clockmaker to
the Queen, in place of Nicholas Urseau, deceased. [See Warrant
Book, i., P. 192.] |
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Grant to Rafe Bowes, Esq., of the office of Chief Master of the
Games, and the keeping of the bears, bulls, and mastiff dogs, for
Her Majesty's sport, in the same manner as Cuthbert Vaughan and
Sir Ric. Long, deceased, had. [See Warrant Book, i., P.181.] |
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Grant of W. L. of the office of Receiver of the Rents in the Duchy
of Lancaster of the late monastery of Furnes, co. Lancaster, vacant
by the death of R. W. Latin. [See Warrant Book, i., P. 145.] |
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The Queen to the head of a College, requesting a lease for 21
years of the manor of T., in the county of H., for J. F., to be made
in the Queen's own name. [See Warrant Book, i., P.84.] |
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Licence for the shipment of 400 cloths to be exported to Germany
for the Landgrave of Hesse, duty free. [See Warrant Book, i.,
P. 84.] |
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94. Letters patent constituting an office for the due and orderly
writing and engrossing of bills and warrants to be passed under the
Royal Sign Manual, and appointing J. D. and P. B. to the office
aforesaid. |
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95. List of names of persons in certain counties: for what object
does not appear. |
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96. Clause of the will of one Rowley, leaving the residue of his
estate to his children Martha, Maria, and Johan Rowley. |
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97. Particular note of the debts owing to [Henry] Killigrew by
his nephew John Killigrew. Mr. Killigrew's willingness, under
certain conditions, to abate a good part of the principal debt and
release all forfeitures. |
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98. Reasons delivered by the aulnagers in several counties and
cities, proving that the aulnage and collection of subsidy for certain
new draperies ought to appertain to their several offices. Decrease
in Her Majesty's customs by the introduction of the new draperies. |
