Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 14: August 1569

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda, 1566-79. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1871.

'Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 14: August 1569', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda, 1566-79, (London, 1871) pp. 81. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1566-79/p81 [accessed 19 April 2024]

August 1569



Aug. 4. Oatlands.	84. Proclamation against pirates. Notwithstanding former orders against piracy, ships are equipped by disorderly persons, who haunt the Narrow Seas, and pretend leave to come into small rivers to be victualled, and thus avoid apprehension. For remedy thereof, all officers of port towns or landing places are ordered not to give victuals or munition to any who are not known to be merchants, passengers, or fishers. Also that none buy goods brought by sea, unless they be publicly landed in the accustomed places, and have paid the dues, on pain of imprisonment without bail, until they are tried as pirates; the informer to be duly rewarded. The port officers are ordered to enquire after all persons on the Narrow Seas, and arrest all but merchants, passengers, and fishers, and to allow no armed vessels, except those known to belong to Her Majesty; and if any one flying from justice be in the said ships, rigorous proceedings will be taken. [1¼pages. French translation. Printed from the proclamation by Rich. Jugge and John Cahul, printers to the Queen, in St. Paul's Churchyard, London. On the same paper with other documents on the same subject, which are calendared under their proper dates; all translated by Roger Sanadon, an English resident in Rouen, 8 Oct. 1575, as evidence in a law suit of Pierre d'Archery of Rouen.]
Aug. 21. York Castle.	85. Oswald Wilkinson to the Earl of Northumberland. I hear of nothing contrary to my last letter to you, but divers confirmations of it, which I believe, as our great masters are so quiet, and brag not at all, and some likelihood of truth therein I have received from the enclosed letter, from a plain foolish fellow I have at London, wherein you will find the Spanish ambassador made a great bonfire, and set forth wine and beer plentifully for all comers, which he would not have done but upon some more matter than upon the overthrow of 7,000 poor wretched Protestants. It is also reported that the King of Spain has caused all the books of our ambassador there to be burnt in the open market before his face, and has given him warning for his dispatch thence with speed: if it be true, God knows what will follow. [1 page.]