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1567 Sept. 13. London. |
101. John [Jewell] Bishop of Salisbury, to Edm. Matthew, bailiff
of Salisbury. Thanks for looking into my house, and surveying the
works. It will prove the better; my men must have lookers-on;
I know them of old. If Mr. Mayor did not read or suffer to be
read such things at his table, it is very well, and I believe indeed he
never did it, yet I remember my author well enough. Commend
me to him, and tell him that I have written both to Mr. Dean and
Mr. Parry, to consider of his suit touching the school. Thank him
for the venison he sent me. I love him well, and can trust him in
anything but in choosing captains. If the matter had gone forward,
his election would not have pleased all parties, but I know it was
not his doing. The Queen's affairs may not serve to wreak men'sanger. |
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Read this to Mr. Mayor. Tell Thos. Boston that I am not going;
I will abide by him till he be weary. The tales of York be Salisbury news; they to whom it pertaineth never meant it. Touching
Mr. Snelgare, you may now do your commission. |
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Commend me to all my neighbours, and tell them I will return
to Salisbury as soon as I may; for indeed I am as weary as a dog
of being here. If they make any report of the entertainment I make
them, they do me wrong, for I neither see nor hear of them; if
they would come to me at dinner or supper, they should be heartily
welcome. As for other times, I have no leisure but when the
Queen comes. Mr. Power will pay you 50l. at Michaelmas. Commend me to Mr. Bryan, Thos. Boston, Thos. Paulet, and Thos.
Neweman. [1 page.] |
Sept. 22. |
Grant of privileges by Ivan Basilovich, Emperor of Russia, to
the English merchants of [the Muscovy] Company, obtained by
Mr. Anthony Jenkinson. [Dom. Eliz., Vol. CXCVI., ff. 103–107.
Printed in Hakluyt's Voyages. Vol. I., pp. 418–420.] |
1567 ? Sept. 29 ? |
102. The Council to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Lady St.
Loo, widow, having retained as schoolmaster Henry Jackson, late a
scholar of Merton College, Oxford, is disturbed by scandalous reports
raised against her family by him; you are to examine the matter
thoroughly and speedily, with assistance of the Solicitor-General,
Mr. Oseley, and Mr. Peter Osborn, or other Ecclesiastical Commissioners, that the lady's good name may be preserved; if he has
unjustly defamed her, he is to be severely punished. [1 page,
draft, much corrected by Sir Wm. Cecil.] |
Sept. 29 ? |
103. The Queen to the Archbishop of Canterbury and Ecclesiastical
Commissioners. We understand you have examined the pretended
contract devised by Hen. Jackson against Lady St. Loo, who has
long served with credit in our Court. As such a slanderous device
should be severely punished, we require you, with the aid of some
of the Commissioners for ecclesiastical causes, to proceed to extreme
punishment, by corporal or otherwise, openly or privately, and that
speedily, that our servant may be restored to her good fame. [1 page,
draft, damaged.] |
Sept. 30 ? |
104. Thos. Bean to— Of the 100l. received on your
warrant five months since, part was paid for the freight of armour
from Portsmouth to London, and the rest among poor men of the
town, who had not been paid for three or four months, and are now
five months unpaid, in the Tower, Hampton Court, and Greenwich.
There are 400 corselets which took salt water six or seven years
ago, and 100 which were sent to the Tower, being Sir Maurice
Denis's armour, which have to be blacked at 5s. each; 900 more
have been returned rusty, that were used for ships, therefore no less
money was wanted. [¾ page.] |
Sept. 30? |
105. Note [by Thos. Bean] of the five months' wages due to the
armourers in the Tower, Hampton Court, and Greenwich, at 10d. a
day; also of the remains of armour necessary to be cleaned and
repaired. [½ page, similar to the preceding.] |
1567. [Sept.] |
106. Account by John Evelegh, the Queen's feodary for co.
Devon and the city of Exeter, of his costs and expenses in connexion with his office, for one year ending Michaelmas 1567; total,
13l. Signed by Sir Wm. Cecil [master of the Court of Wards. 2½ pages.] |
Sept. |
107. Account of the fees received [in the Signet Office] for Kingswarrant, Tirrell's lease, and a warrant to beg for mariners in
prison with the Turks, and seven other documents; total, 5l. 6s. 11d.;
also of money paid in or expended, 4l. 13s. 7d. [¾ page.] |