Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 18: May 1570

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

'Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 18: May 1570', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda, 1566-79, (London, 1871) pp. 291-300. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1566-79/pp291-300 [accessed 19 April 2024]

May 1570



May 5.	50. Inventory prized by Martin Sydley and five others, of the household furniture, plate, and jewels, linen, clothes, horses and harness, credits, debts, farm stock, and other personal estate and effects of Sir Thos. Knyvett, deceased; total value, 1,034l. 11s. 1d. [19½ pages and two blank leaves.]
May 7. York.	51. Sir Thos. Gargrave to Sir Wm. Cecil. Yesterday I received the Council's letter of 16 April, touching such as had privy seals sent for the loan, but the request that the money be paid by 10 May, or within three days, or else the parties repair to Council, cannot be accomplished, for they must have longer time; if they might have to Midsummer day, most of them will provide the money, and those who have any meantime will pay it.
	There is great scarcity of money, for those appointed by the late Commissioners for composition with offenders to pay their money to me were with me this day, but many lacked their money or most part thereof, so that it will not be had by the time appointed.
	My Lord Lieutenant and Valentine Browne having desired me to send them all the money I had received, I sent them 1,000l., all I had in hand, but more is daily coming in. I want a warrant to pay the money arising from the fines to the Treasurer of Berwick, and a similar one for Mr. Ingleby.
	My Lord Lieutenant has somewhat recovered from the cold he took at Hume castle and in his journey into Scotland. To-morrow I am to meet Sir Wm. Ingleby to confer as to the men charged with privy seals; I wish he might take less sums in cases where the whole is not to be had.
	My Lord Lieutenant has appointed me to see that all the men in the shire are furnished with horse and armour, according to Her Majesty's letter of last February, and although at the coming of his Lordship I caused 1,520l. to be levied, for furnishing 1,000 soldiers now set forth, yet I trust the gentlemen and people here will find money for their full equipment, when informed where to have it. It was stated in Her Majesty's said letter that a good mass of armour would be sent by her; if part might be brought to Hull, it would serve the country, and any that remained might be conveyed to Newcastle and Berwick; I wish to know where the inhabitants here may be furnished for their money with what is good and serviceable. I have appointed to-morrow that all who are or have been justices of the peace shall subscribe to the matters appointed for that purpose. [2 pages.]
May 7/17. Antwerp.	52. Sir Francis Englefield to the Duchess of Feria, Madrid. How great soever be my pain of the lack of your letters, it does not become me to complain, since it was only of favour that you pleased to write at all. Since those of 20 Jan., which mentioned the Duke's departure towards Cordova, I have had none from you or any of your family, whereof my good old lady here conceives great grief. To make the matter worse, letters from Lady Hungerford have arrived, to be sent to you, directed to Saffra, so we suspect that she understands your return thither, but we have not dreamed of any such thing. I hope it is but her mistaking the name of the place, from long custom in directing her letters thither; otherwise it were to all of us here one of the greatest plagues and calamities that, in our banishment, God could lay upon us.
	Since my last to you of 20/30 April, we have heard more news, as you will see by the paper enclosed; therefore I trust you will not spare labour to expedite what you see necessary, ever remembering that Spa[nish] consultations dwell so long in deliberation until all help be desperate, and make greater danger and charges by delay.
	In this Court there will be not one jot done more than is expressly commanded by the King and Court there. The ends be divers that sundry folks shoot at. In England the two factions shoot at two several marks; the one wholly for the Duke of Norfolk, and the other clean contrary, to abase both him and the Queen of Scotland, that neither of them should ever enjoy their own or any better; only the poor Catholics there seek the Queen's restitution to her own realm, but think it not meet for her to consent to Norfolk's marriage.
	In Scotland there are sundry practices; one sort tends to marry their Queen basely, that still they and their religion may reign, and of this mind be most of the Scottish nobility, though they be (against England and James's faction) of their Queen's party. Another company are of the faction of England, that would have her deposed for ever, but they are the weakest and fewest, and have little hope to prevail but by the puissance of England. There are only a few that thoroughly join with her in mind to marry neither in England nor Scotland, neither yet with any other so great as should have any nearness or likelihood to enjoy any greater crown or state than England is. Meantime she remains a prisoner, and in hourly peril of her life, and is like still so to be, unless her enemies by her death make an end of her misery, for it does not appear that any Christian Prince attempts her relief. Pray send me a cipher, by which you may write me what should not be mingled with other common matters, which must be answered by secretaries and servants; and by which I may write any like matter to you, which I would now use in some small points, if I had it.
	Lady Dormer has 300l. sent her out of England, but there is another 100l. due, and another in five or six weeks. In this delay she has been forced to borrow of your stock, which shall now be repaid. Lady Hungerford must also have part, for surely her friends at home have not that regard that they ought for her, and none other has she to call on but either my old Lady here or you, who have done very bountifully for her. She has not yet answered my motion touching her coming hither, and until she comes, my old Lady here must help yearly for payment of her debts; for the maintenance of her yearly charges for meat and drink is not all that such a one can live by, and now the care of her debts and the burden that she lays on your Grace is such a corrosive to her heart, that it is almost as heavy as a new suit in the Arches for defence of her honour.
	P.S.—After the death of James Earl of Murray, it seemed necessary to the Council of England to establish a new Governor of Scotland, of the same zeal and faction, by whom the Queen of Scots might always be kept from coming to her estate. For this purpose Wm. Randolph was sent ambassador, with much money, to corrupt the nobles; they not giving their assent to constitute Morton in James's place, were threatened with the forces of England. Another practice was that the Queen of England should first marry her of Scotland to some one of her own devotion, no matter how mean, and then restore her to her own realm. When the Queen of Scotland would not agree to this, an army of 9,000 or 10,000 was levied, pretending by proclamation to punish the English rebels who had fled into Scotland, and to appease the seditions moved there, by the slaughter of James.
	On 17 April, the army entered into the Scottish ground in three parts, viz., the Earl of Sussex, lieutenant, about Berwick, with 4,000 foot and 1,500 horse; Lord Scrope about Carlisle, and Sir John Forster in the Middle Marches, who had the rest of the army divided between them. On the 20th, the Scots encountered Lord Scrope, and overthrew 500 or 600 of his horsemen; whereupon the lieutenant, with the residue, returned on the 22nd to Berwick, until greater forces were gathered to enter again; they looked that the Earl Morton and some other of the nobles of Scotland would have come to them, but there came not one. Westmoreland and some of the English gentlemen were in the skirmish against Lord Scrope. Northumberland is a prisoner at Lochleven, and his wife at Hume castle, but at liberty to go where she likes. If they saw any hope that England might be stayed from oppressing them, they would deliver Northumberland. Hunsdon has offered Northumberland conditions of pardon, but he has refused them without liberty to the Catholics to live as such.
	France has an ambassador in Scotland. Randolph was privately conveyed out of Scotland, for fear of being murdered as James was. All the Scottish nobles accord not to admit the English army into their ground, and promise each other by all possible means to solicit their Queen's liberty and restitution; but England thinks that no policy for them to permit, for then were lost all their charges in setting up Murray, which has cost England a warm sum of money. [3 pages.]
May 7/17. Antwerp.	53. Sir Fras. Englefield to Dorothy Essex. Seven posts have arrived without one from you, which admits of no excuse; 300l. of Lady Dormer's money has now come, most of which she owes, and there is now as much again due to her, and still they use the matter so that my Lady here shall ever be behind one, two, or three payments, and yet dares not call for it for fear of hurting her son. Lady Hungerford sent the enclosed for you. I doubt to send it, because I can hear of none of mine that be come to your hands since November; but if they tarry here, she will be surely deceived, so I send them. Mr. Thurland has taken up 200l. in the Duchess' name, the interest whereof for one year will be 38l.,—a plague on those usurers,—and if it be not paid at Hallowtide next, the interest will still increase, Mr. Thurland's surety be in danger, and Lady Hungerford's credit be impaired, besides the great grief that it will be to her. Foresee therefore that payment be provided in time, for letters are long in going between Spain and London, and sometimes never come there. I cannot yet hear her answer to my advice for her coming over, nor of your son, wherewith I am angry. Such news as be here, I send her Grace in a packet by itself.
	I have not seen your brother Francis, but hear he is perfect in the Spanish tongue, and in some other of their qualities. Tell her Grace that another brother of the Barclays has passed this way towards Milan. I do not think he will come into Spain. Within these four or five months, 25 or 30 persons have come out of England on pretence of the Spa waters, and we daily look for more. The great talk that Mr. Marshe and his fellows have made here about restitution of the arrested goods is now laid in water, without final end. Some say this good news of the Moorish wars makes this Duke more stout than he at first showed himself. Commend me to my mother, to Pickering, and Judith, and bid my daughter get her a white garland and sing "well away," her love hath forsaken her. Though none of you will write, I hear that Mr. Parker's heart is at Madrid, though his body be at Cordova. [1 page.]
May 8.	54. Receipt by Edw. Williams for 2l. 5s. from Mr. Latimer, dean of Peterborough, due at Pentecost. [Scrap.]
May 10. York.	55. Sir Thos. Gargrave and four others of the Council in the North to the Queen. In the absence of the Earl of Sussex, Lord President, in your service on the frontiers, we have kept one sitting here at York, have heard and decided many causes between subjects, and kept one oyer and determiner and gaol delivery, whereat eight persons were arraigned, six of whom were found guilty, and two acquitted. Of those found guilty, one was for counterfeiting coin, and another for sundry felonies; four were executed, and the other two were committed to the Bishop's prison by their clergy. The country people remain in good obedience, and we hope they will so continue. [²/3 page.]
May 12. Hampton Court.	Warrant to the Sheriff of [Yorkshire?] to seize to the Queen's use, and deliver to Cotton Gargrave, all the lands, goods, and chattels within his sheriffwick belonging to Reginald Forster of Tadcaster, and Oswald Metcalf of Wildon, co. York, they having assisted the late rebels, refused the pardon offered, and spoiled faithful subjects. Any perishable goods to be sold to Gargrave by a priced inventory. [Warrant Book I., p. 10.]
May 15. York.	56. Sir Thomas Gargrave to Sir Wm. Cecil. Mr. Thorold, Her Majesty's attorney in these parts, has left his office and gone to his house in the country. He had no money nor fines of the Court in his hands, but yet there are some to be levied. I hear that my Lord Lieutenant has moved you for Mr. Reed to have the place; he is a very fit man for it, being well learned, but I would wish he should remain in the country, so that he might understand the matters there, and thereby be the more able both to try and prove them and levy the sums due. There is another man called John Plice, learned in the laws of God and the realm, but both are meet men; Mr. Reed however is better versed in the law.
	I wish the sums demanded by privy seals were diminished to some, and more put in to help to bear the burden; many put in at 50l. are unable thereto, but would shift for less sums. [1 page.]
May 20. Westminster.	The Queen to the Lord Mayor and Sheriff of London. We hear from Lord Admiral Clinton that you have taken upon you to decide causes, contracts, &c. happening upon or beyond seas, which properly belong to our Admiralty Court, feigning them to be in some parish or ward of London. We think it strange that the prerogative of his Court should be usurped, and he and his lieutenant defrauded of their dues. We command you to intermeddle in no such matters, or if begun, to desist on warning from our said admiral or his lieutenant. [Admiralty Collections, Dom. Charles I., No. 208, pp. 534, 535.]
May 20. Berwick.	57. Thomas Earl of Sussex to the Queen. Having had proof of the good service of the bearer, Sir George Bowes, I am bold at his repair to you to recommend his services. At the beginning of the rebellion, he entered into Barnard castle, gathered the gentlemen of those parts, and prepared to join the forces that should have come from the Borders; which failing, he was besieged within the castle, spoiled of his goods, and had his house defaced, and was forced, partly by the treason of the people within the castle, and partly by other lacks, to deliver it on composition.
	After this he was Marshal of your army under my charge, and discharged his office to your best service. At my coming to you, I left him with the charge of the bishopric and Richmondshire, which he kept in good order. Since my coming hither, I gave charge to Lord Eure and him to raise the power of the bishopric, according to the custom of the country, and repair therewith to the Borders, for their defence, when I entered Teviotdale. He came with 1,000 able men to the Borders, and so defended them that in my absence no Scot offered to look within English ground.
	At my return out of Teviotdale, Lord Eure returned with the men into the bishopric, and Sir Geo. Bowes remained with certain horsemen, at his own charge, to go to the siege of Hume, and continued with me until my return. As there is no further service to employ him here, he is desirous to make his repair to you.
	His truth to you is well proved, and his ability well known; his service has been equal with the best of this country's birth, and his losses have been very great. Pray consider him in all reasonable causes. I refer him further to the report of Sir Ralph Sadler, who knows him and his services in the late rebellion. [1½ pages.] Annexing,
	57. i. Petition of Sir Geo. Bowes to the Queen, for the feesimple of lands and tenements mentioned, being parcel of the possessions of Rich. Norton, Robt. Tempest, Leonard Metcalfe, Thos. Markenfeld, and John Trollope, convicted rebels, as also of the dissolved monastery of Fountains; total yearly value, 100l. 19s. 6d.; he paying after the rate of 20 years' purchase in four years. There are several estates for term of life and lives, of which only the reversion will pass to him. [¾ page, abstract.]
May 25. York.	58. Sir Thos. Gargrave to Sir Wm. Cecil. I enclose Sir Wm. Ingleby's letter as to procuring the money for the privy seals, which is not going on well; many of the best able to pay make excuses, many are not able to pay the sum demanded, but would willingly lend less, and many will have their money ready within a fortnight. I have sent 2,200l. of the money paid as fines to Berwick, and will send the rest as I get it, which I trust will be within 10 days; many make default for lack of money.
	I wish the enterprise in Scotland should be perfected as much as may be, as it is now thought to be in some good towardness, and if it should not, either for lack of money or otherwise, the trouble and cost will be of small effect, and the matter will have to be renewed. If the Scots would not be reformable, I would wish the frontier quarters to lick their corn and grass for the year, and the English frontier to be well guarded.
	I beseech your help in preferring the Bishop of Nottingham (fn. 1) to the see of Carlisle; he is a meet man both for sound doctrine, holiness, and liberality in housekeeping, and it will be hard to get his like into that place. [1 page.]
May 26. Berwick.	59. Henry Lord Hunsdon to Sir Wm. Cecil. I was a suitor to my Lord Lieutenant to stay Ascolph Cleasby, condemned at York, upon such considerations as I then wrote to you, which are presently to be put into execution, and cannot be done but by him; since Her Majesty stays him upon my suit, I beg that he may have his pardon, or that order may be given to the sheriff for his enlargement until his pardon be obtained. This stands me much in hand, and I have sent the bearer, his nephew, on purpose for it. [²/3 page.]
May 31.	60. John Walsh to Mr. Bosvile. Alan Bellingham, Rich. Salkeld, Hen. Crockenthorpe, and Thos. Blenkinshop, or two of them, whereof Bellingham being custos rotulorum in the same shire to be one, are the fittest that I can name to take the oath of the sheriff of Westmoreland, and sureties for executing his office, for they all dwell not far from Lancelot Pickering's house, who I hear say is now sheriff. Let Mr. Secretary understand what I have written to you. [¾ page.]
May ?	61. "The certificate of such money as remaineth in readiness, either in the hands of the parties, constables, or tything men, for provision of certain armour and weapons taxed and set upon sundry persons and tythings this last year by the commissioners appointed for the musters in the said county [Dorset] over and beside such armour and weapons as they had of their own (according to the statute in that case ordained) before the said musters, and also beside such armour and weapons as they have bought and provided since the said musters, by the taxation and order of the same commissioners, in the division of Sir Wm. Paulet, Knight, Wm. Huddy, and Rob. Foulkes, Esquires:"—
		£	s.	d.
	Bemister hundred	49	15	4
	Gotherthorne do.	14	2	8
	Frampton liberty	19	5	4
	Broadwindsor manor	4	15	4
	Lyme Regis borough	7	2	8
	Whitchurch hundred	39	10	4
	Bemister Forum and Redhoane hundred	9	3	4
	Bridport borough	5	12	0
	Poorestock manor	0	13	8
	Eyndon hundred	10	17	4
	Dorchester borough	13	18	0
	Total	£174	17	0
	Note of assessment in the same division towards furnishing 50 soldiers for Ireland, with the names of 23 persons, a town, and a borough, on whom or which it was assessed; total, 38l. 2s. 4d. [Book of 14 written and 2 blank pages.]
May ?	62. Like certificate for the division of Thos. Howard, Viscount Bindon, and Chris. Cheverell:—
		£	s.	d.
	George hundred	19	0	4
	Totcombe hundred	12	10	0
	Puddell Hinton liberty	4	16	0
	Week Regis liberty	3	4	0
	Medborough hundred	3	19	4
	Cooliford-stere hundred	9	18	0
	Uggescombe hundred	28	13	4
	Sutton Points liberty	0	18	8
	Tollerford hundred	18	14	0
	Pyddle Trenthide liberty	7	3	4
	Puddle town hundred	6	8	0
	Fordington manor	8	8	0
	Total	£123	9	0
	Also for 50 soldiers for Ireland raised from 19 p^ersons, 22l. 5s. 8d. [Book of 13 written and 3 blank pages.]
May ?	63. Like certificate for the division of Thomas Howard, Viscount Bindon, Thos. Moreton, and Edw. Lawrence:—
		£	s.	d.
	Pimperne hundred	29	15	8
	Beare Regis hundred	5	10	8
	Winfrith and Bindon hundred	15	12	8
	Hundred Sbarrough hundred	5	7	4
	Congesdiche hundred	8	18	8
	Wareham borough	2	2	8
	Rushemore hundred	9	2	8
	Hasilor hundred	16	7	4
	Roughborough hundred	12	18	0
	Develish manor	2	12	0
	Whiteway hundred	4	16	0
	Blandford borough	5	17	4
	Total	£118	1	0
	Also for soldiers for Ireland, raised from 20 persons and the town of Blandford, 31l. 9s. 4d. [Book of 11 written and 1 blank page.]
May ?	64. Like certificate for the division of Rob. Coker, John Lewiston, and Thos. Mulleyns:—
		£	s.	d.
	Sherborne hundred	48	18	0
	Brownshull hundred	13	8	8
	Buckland hundred	27	1	4
	Etmyster hundred	15	9	4
	Redlanc hundred	33	2	0
	Newton hundred	26	18	0
	Guillingham liberty	9	10	0
	Halstock liberty	3	4	0
	Alcester liberty	1	6	8
	Shaston borough	3	4	0
	Total	£182	2	0
	Also for 50 soldiers for Ireland, raised from 23 persons and 3 towns, 49l. 14s. 4d. [Book of 14 written and 2 blank pages.]
May?	65. Like certificate for the division of Sir Hen. Ashley and Hen. Uvedale:—
		£	s.	d.
	Upwimborne hundred	22	18	0
	Knolton hundred	4	16	0
	Wimborne St. Giles hundred	1	18	8
	Cocledeane hundred	3	10	8
	Badbury hundred	21	5	4
	Lowsebarrough hundred	4	12	8
	Seppenhanley hundred	4	16	0
	Total	£66	18	8
	Also for soldiers in Ireland from 22 persons named, 26l. 18s. 8d. [Book of 8 written and 4 blank pages.]
May ?	66. List of names sent in by the collector of Gloucestershire of persons able to contribute to the loan, viz., one to have letters for 100, one for 100 marks, and 40 for 50l.; with notes of such as are removed, dead, or have relatives able to contribute, &c. [1 sheet.]
May ?	67. List of six ladies noted [by Sir Wm. Cecil], "These ladies may have letters;" also of four knights and six gentlemen, noted, "As for these, I think the Lord Cobham himself may command them." [probably residents in Kent to whom letters were to be sent for loans.]
May ?	68. List of gentlemen of Dorsetshire to be assessed for the loan, viz., 25 for 100l., 30 for 50l. each, and 9 for 40l. each; total, 4,360l. [1 page.]