Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 33: May 1595

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda 1580-1625. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1872.

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'Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 33: May 1595', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda 1580-1625, (London, 1872) pp. 372. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1580-1625/p372 [accessed 23 April 2024]

May 1595

May 2.
Basingstoke.		 42. Na. Steward and Geo. Rythe to the Masters of Requests. We received Her Majesty's commission to us, Edw. Moore and Geo Powlett, or any three of us, for examining witnesses in a cause depending before you, between William West, complainant, and Mich. Harris and Geo. Silver, defendants, and went to the George at Basingstoke, Wednesday last. We had witnesses on behalf of West, and expected the other commissioners, but as none appeared, nor either of the defendants, we lost our travail, and the complainant his charge of assembling his witnesses, besides the charge of his commission. [2/3 page.]
May 3.
General Sessions, Truro, Cornwall.		 43. Sir Francis Godolphin, Thos. Chiverton, Charles Trevanion, Thos. St. Aubin, and Ha. Vyvyan, to John Herbert, Master of Requests. William Wear, with other inhabitants of Tregony, complain that, being charged by us to restrain divers infected houses within the borough during the infection, they are molested in executing our commands by the widow of Richard Thomas, who of late, upon surmise of great injuries sustained thereby, has disquieted you and the inhabitants. It is only a device of hers to countenance herself in a roguish trade, as appears by her former complaint, of small value and no truth, upon which Wear and others were dismissed, by order of the Court of Requests. Let not like malefactors be animated by her evil example, nor Her Majesty's subjects discomforted in well doing. [1 page.]
May. 44. The Queen to the [Lord Keeper Puckering?]. We have received the petition of the Wardens and Fellows of All Soul's College, Oxford, complaining of great wrong sustained by the delay of a suit long since commenced by them against the late Lord Cromwell, and yet continuing, for the forcible detention of certain lands in Whadborough, co. Leicester, a great parcel of their yearly revenue. They inform us that they have had a verdict in the Court of Common Pleas against Lord Cromwell or his tenants, which was averred in our bench, but no execution has been granted to them; and Lord Cromwell still seeking to prolong the suit, the great charge will impoverish their house. We send their petition, which consists of many other particulars; and though, in a matter otherwise unknown to us, we do not command any process other than the course of our justice may afford, yet as it is the cause of a college which deserves our favour, and as the honour we bear to the princely actions of our progenitors requires at our hands to favour such, we require that they may have in our said Court either a final end, or such favour and expedition as our laws may afford. [½ page, copy, signed T. Lake.]
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