Addenda, Elizabeth - Volume 11: May 1563

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3 With Addenda 1547-65. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1870.

'Addenda, Elizabeth - Volume 11: May 1563', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3 With Addenda 1547-65, (London, 1870) pp. 538-539. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1547-65/pp538-539 [accessed 19 April 2024]

May 1563



May 18.	98. Lord Admiral [Clinton and Sec. Sir Wm. Cecil] to Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Paulet, captains of Guernsey and Jersey. The Queen commands us to write to you to procure intelligence of the French preparations in Brittany and Normandy, especially at Brest, St. Malo, and Cherburg; and you shall be repaid all reasonable expenses. With note of a similar letter to the Mayor of Rye, to get information from Dieppe and the adjoining places. [1 page. Draft by Sir Wm. Cecil.]
May ?	99. Petition of Jacobo Aconty to the Queen. The Thamas has so overflowed its banks as to inundate the lands near Erith. Understands the means of preventing so serious a damage; but when the land has many owners, they will rarely combine to bear the expense, unless some one will take the risk; cannot do it alone, but has friends who will help. Henry VIII, when the land near the Tower was flooded, offered half the land to be recovered to those who should recover it. Requests a similar arrangement. [1 page. Latin, much damaged. On 24 June 1563, Aconty, or Acontius, had a licence to take up workmen to amend Plumstead Marshes.]