Queen Elizabeth – Volume 250: September 1594

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1591-94. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1867.

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'Queen Elizabeth – Volume 250: September 1594', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1591-94, (London, 1867) pp. 554-559. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/1591-4/pp554-559 [accessed 24 March 2024]

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September 1594

Sept. 6. 1. Articles for examination of Ralph Sheldon, collected from the accusations of H. Young, R. Williams, Edmond Yorke, and others; as to his intercourse with English fugitives; what books and libels against the State he has in his hands; what he knows of his late servant, Edw. Williams, to whom he had said that he wished the Catholic religion restored, and given assurance of his remaining a Catholic, though he comes to church; touching mass in his house, and receiving of priests, &c.; and the same questions to be put to the knight, his brother-in-law. With marginal notes importing that his replies would show how far he would confess what is already known about him. [2 pages .]
[Sept. 6.] 2. Similar interrogatories, including inquiries about his intercourse with Throgmorton, Holt, the priest Whitell, Bishop, and White. [2 pages .]
Sept. 7. Grant to Theophilus Adams and Thos. Butler of London, assignees of Sir John Norris, of Hamsey, Littlebredy, and Middlemarsh manors, and other lands, cos. Sussex, Dorset, and Somerset, value 54 l . 3 s . 11½ d ., of which the Queen has a reversion expectant upon several estates in tail; paying yearly for Middlemarsh 14 s . 2 d ., and for Littlebredy 20 s . 0½ d . [ Docquet .]
Sept. 7. Pension to Capt. Nich. Meryman, for services against the rebels in Ireland, of 2 s . 6 d . a day for life. [ Docquet .]
Sept. 7. Pardon to Roger Orme of Whittington, co. Stafford, for killing Thos. Pudsey, of Langford, co. Derby. [ Docquet .]
Sept. 7. Pardon to Thos. Towley, yeoman of London, for burglary in taking apparel of Wm. Lane, the Queen's servant, out of a house at Hampton Court. [ Docquet .]
Sept. 10. Lease in reversion to Roger Mostyn and four other tenants, for 31 years, of the towns of Mostyn, Denham or Dynam, and other lands, tenements, and tenths, in cos. Flint, Anglesea, Carnarvon, Suffolk, and Somerset, in consideration of the services of Rob. Evans, yeoman of the chamber, and Lewis Owen, groom of the pantry; rent, 35 l . 16 s . 0¼ d .; fine, 40 l . [ Docquet .]
Sept. 10. Presentation of Thos. Dent, clerk and preacher, to the parsonage of Hartburne, diocese of Durham. [ Docquet .]
Sept. 10. Pardon to Rich. Brantingham, of St. Ellen Aukland, bishopric of Durham, for burglary. [ Docquet .]
Sept. 10. Lease in reversion to Rich. Wolfe, and four other tenants, for 21 years, of Abbots Langley or Lees Langley manor, and the demesnes of the manor of Kildesby, cos. Herts and Northampton; rent, 37 l . 5 s . 5 d .; fine, 74 l . 10 s . 10 d . [ Docquet .]
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Sept. 11.
3. The Queen to the Earl of Bath. Thanks for his diligence, which will be rewarded according to his deserts. [ Draft of a clause in a letter not extant .]
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Sept. 11.
4. Certificate from Sir Tho. Sherley of receipt, 7 Aug. 1594, of 300 l . towards the coat and conduct money for 2,000 soldiers and 50 miners lately sent into Brittany; also note of his payments on the said account of 449 l . 5 s ., and request for an order for the remainder.
Sept. 12. 5. Sir John Danvers, Sir Hen. Poole, Sir H. Winston, and George Master to Lord Burghley. Recommend Jasper Stone for the office of comptroller of the port of Gloucester, he having executed the office during the sickness of the late comptroller.
Sept. 12. 6. Examination of Richard Williams before Sir Mic. Blount, Edw Drewe, and W. Waad. Dyer told him that Constantine Throgmorton, Hen. Duffield, Harrison, and his brother, and a brother of Lord Grey's, were at the robbery of Winchester church, and all but Dyer at the attempt upon Whitehall; but were hindered by one of their number being drunk.
Sept. 12. 7. Further examination of Richard Williams, before Blount, Drew, and F. Bacon. Never heard Edw. Williams speak unkindly of Ralph Sheldon; he always used to keep a hawk; Clitheroe lives chiefly at Antwerp; he has some allowance from a church there, and from Paget.
Sept. 13. 8. Note of tin shipped out of the realm or spent in the realm, from Michaelmas 1592 to Michelmas 1593:
cwts. qrs.
Unwrought, came to London 9,545 0
" shipped from the ports 334 0
Wrought, shipped from the ports 21 1
Total 9,900 1
Unwrought, shipped from London 7,374 0
" " ports 334 0
Wrought, shipped from London 550 2
" " the ports 21 1
Total 8,279 3
Wrought probably in the realm for use therein 172 2
Wrought by Her Majetsy's subjects in all, only 2,192 1
Shipped out, unwrought 7,707 3
Also account of lead shipped the same time
Fothers.
From London 1,788
From other ports 1,112
Total 2,900
Noted [ by Burghley ] " Profits of coinage 2,465 l .; Mr. Carmarden." Endorsed with a note, that by the last offer, the Queen would gain only 1,000 l . more than by an impost of 50 s . per 1,000 lbs., and that she may impose what she pleases, since by statute none can be shipped except to Calais, or by the merchants of Lombardy.
Sept. 17. Licence to Michael Stanhope, groom of the privy chamber, on expiration of a like grant of 19 Eliz. to Dr. Hector, of the privilege for 20 years of bringing in Spanish wool for making Spanish felts, paying 4 s . 2 d . a cwt. custom. [ Docquet .]
Sept. 17. Warrant to strike a tally on the customer of London for 600 l ., for Wm. Aldridge, merchant of London, out of the customs on the Levant merchants' goods, in payment for 2,000 gold chequins, disbursed by him to Edw. Barton, for the Queen's special service in Constantinople. [ Docquet .]
Sept. 17. Lease in reversion, without proviso for tenants, to Rob. Smithyson, for 31 years, of tenths in Hanmer parish, co. Flint, St. Ambrose chapel, Thornham Magna, and other lands and tenements, co. Suffolk, without fine, in consideration of the service of the late Rob. Holmes, gentleman usher, and at suit of his widow, Marg. Holmes; rent, 28 l . 0 s . 4 d . [ Docquet .]
Sept. 17. Licence to the inhabitants of Kingston-on-Hull and others of the North parts, to bring in, only in English bottoms, herrings, staple fish, and ling, to serve the North only, dispensing with the statute prohibiting the same; to continue during pleasure. [ Docquet .]
Sept. 18. Warrant to pay to Sir George Carew, Lieutenant of Ordnance, 159 l . 16 s . 7 d ., for ordnance stores to be sent into Ireland. [ Docquet .]
Sept. 18. Warrant to pay to Sir Mich. Blount, Lieutenant of the Tower, 147 l . 6 s . 8 d ., for fees and wages for himself, the gentleman porter, and yeomen waiters for last quarter; and 313 l . for diet and other charges of prisoners in his custody; also to pay to Morice Pickering, keeper of the Gatehouse, Westminster, 53 l . 5 s ., for diet and charges of his prisoners. Total, 513 l . 11 s . 8 d . [ Docquet .]
Sept. 27. Warrant to pay to Sir Rob. Cecil 80 l ., to be employed according to Her Majesty's directions, without account. [ Docquet .]
Sept. 27. Warrant to pay to Thos. Bayly and Emery Molyneux, 200 l ., as the Queen's free gift. [ Docquet .]
Sept. 29. Warrant to pay to the two younger sons of Don Antonio, King of Portugal, 1,000 French crowns, as the Queen's free gift, to furnish them for joining their father, who is remaining in France. [ Docquet .]
Sept. 29. Warrant to pay to Hen. Seckford, groom of the privy chamber, and keeper of the privy purse, 2,000 l ., to be disbursed as Her Majesty shall appoint from time to time. [ Docquet .]
Sept. 29. Protection for one year to John Dixon of London. [ Docquet .]
Sept. 29. Pardon to Edw. Monday, of Alesham, Norfolk, husbandman, for stealing linen clothes from a hedge. [ Docquet .]
Sept. 29. Grant to Hen. Bellingham, for 15 years, of the office of viewing and sealing cordage imported or made in the realm, with allowance of 4 d . a cwt.; on recognizance in 200 l . for well using his office, and with proviso of revocation, if found prejudicial to the commonwealth; granted in satisfaction of a debt from the Queen of 422 l . 10 s . [ Docquet .]
Sept. 29. Lease in reversion to Thos. Read, groom of the chamber, for 21 years, of tithe corn in Pontefract, co. York, a tenement in Lambeth, Surrey, and ground in Stambridge Magna, co. Essex, which were granted him in reversion, 10 Eliz; rent, 10 l . 10 s .; no fine, in consideration of service. [ Docquet .]
Sept. 30. Lease in reversion to Wm. Elliot and John Thompson, for 40 years, of All Saints' parsonage, in Friskney, Ripham, and Tamerton Folliatt, and other lands and tenements, cos. Lincoln, Devon, and Denbigh, without fine, in consideration of the service of James Morgan, the Queen's servant; rent, 32 l . 16 s . 8 d . [ Docquet .]
Sept. 30. Lease to Rob. Freake, the tenant, of Shapwick parsonage, co. Dorset; rent, 15 l . 15 s . 3 d .; fine, 32 l . 6 s . 8 d .; also grant to John Townshend and Barnaby Holbach, tenants, for 31 years, of meadows in Warwick, parcel of the manor of Warwick; rent, 7 l . 5 s .; fine, 16 l . [ Docquet .]
Sept. 30.
Greenwich.
9. Declaration by the Queen, that whereas Clement Oldfield made a bequest, containing certain secrets of alchemy, to Rolloffe Peterson of Lubec, on condition of their being first offered on compto Her Majesty, the said bequest shall be delivered unopened to the deputy of the Merchant adventurers at Stade, for Peterson; or if she is pleased to keep it, he shall receive 500 l . for the same within six months. [ Copy .]
Sept. ? 10. " A discourse, showing the secret practices of the King of Spain against the person of Queen Elizabeth and her estate." There are diversities of judgments upon the actions of the Queen and the King of Spain during their enmity, and friends and enemies on either side feed the world with divers reports; but a great number, not carried away with inordinate affection to either, suspend their judgment. If these might, by manifest proofs mentioned, be fully informed and settled upon truth, they would, besides their own satisfaction, draw many of the others now partially affected to behold truth and judge more rightly.
Particulars of the secret and dishonourable attempt made by the King on the Queen's life, through the medium of Dr. Lopez, Estevan Ferrera de Gama, and Manuel Louis Tinoco; also observations on their respective confessions. Though it is known that these treacherous proceedings against her life have been often enterprised, and sometimes the offenders have been taken and executed, whilst divers others are living obscurely, and not yet taken; and though, by God's goodness, they have been frustrated, yet these two late conspiracies, the first by the Portuguese, procured thereto by the counsel of Spain, and in the name of the King of Spain; the other by Yorke and his company, provoked thereto by great reward proposed by Secretary Ibarra, make the matter manifest to the world how barbarously and inhumanly these foul actions do proceed from Spain, from whence also are maintained, by sundry pensions, a multitude of persons adjudged traitors to their native country and fugitives from the same, who yield no other service to the King but to be instruments of such kind of barbarous actions, or to be spies for the King of the actions of their country, &c. On the other hand, the Queen has never been privy to any practice against the King of Spain's life, nor have her ministers; neither has she received into her kingdom any rebel or person condemned by the King of Spain; so that a comparison must tend to the commendation of the one and condemnation of the other. [ Corby Lord Burghley . 15¼ pages .]
Sept. 11. " Catalogue of the rebels and fugitives in the Low Countries." 30 serving under Sir W. Stanley, 30 under Jaques, 16 under Bostock, 13 under Little Stanley, 16 under Long Stanley, and 9 under Capt. Foliambe; also of some others serving among Spaniards, many of whom receive pensions from Spain. Also names of 35 English fugitives residing in the Low Countries, and receiving pensions varying from 20 to 200 crowns a month, including the Earl of Westmoreland, Lord Dacres, Sir Wm. Stanley, Hugh Owen, Chas. Paget, and Michael Moody. Also list of 25 Jesuits and priests, and 9 lay women or nuns, and of 16 noblemen of the Court at Brussels. [7¼ pages .]
Sept. 12. Evidence collected out of the confessions of Edmond Yorke, Rich. Williams, and Hen. Young, concerning persons abroad connected with the conspiracy against Her Majesty: viz., Stephen Ibarra, Sir Wm. Stanley, Father Holt, Thos. Throgmorton, Hugh Owen, Dr. Gifford, Chas. Paget, Dr. Worthington, Tipping, Ensign Edw. Garret, Moody, a Walloon, and a Burgundian. [5 pages .]