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Aug. 1.
Huntingdon. |
65. Sir Allan Percy to Dudley Carleton. I never wrote a letter
with a worse will than this, partly because Sir John Ramsay has
had a fall, which cannot but breed much grief; and I am weary and
had a fall this afternoon; and to conclude, supper is upon the table,
and I a great mind to be at it. Nothing has happened since I parted
from you but misfortunes of hunting. [1 page.] |
1606.
Aug. 12. |
66. Grant to Edw. Gage, of Bentley, co. Sussex, and Anthony
Skinner, of Rowington, co. Warwick, and to their families to be
named in a schedule annexed, of licence with two geldings and 100l.
apiece in money, and with apparel, &c. to go into any parts beyond
the seas, and there remain for— years, and to return without
molestation. Likewise on urgent occasions, to come back and go
over again during the time of the licence, so that upon every arrival,
they present themselves to the Principal Secretary or Lord Warden
of the Cinque Ports; allowing them meanwhile quietly to enjoy all
their lands, tenements, &c. free from indictment or conviction for
not repairing to church, &c., by virtue of any statute against
recusancy. |
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Also if any such be moved against them during their licence and
absence, upon showing these presents, they shall be freed and restored
to all their losses in such case sustained. [2½ pages.] |
| Aug. 17. |
67. The King to the Officers of the Exchequer. By our patent
of 14 Nov. 1604, we granted to our servant, William Belon, an
annuity of 100l. We now at his suit grant him two years' benefit
beforehand of the said annuity, which you are to pay him forthwith.
[2/3 sheet, draft.] |
| Aug. 18. |
68. J. C. to Sir Thos. Lake. I make bold to remind you of
what I gave you a little information of at Greenwich. Howsoever
some of the prebendaries seem, by their own statutes, to assume the
right of sub-dean, yet you will find that none of them will farm
the revenue, &c. of the deanery, unless they may have it half for
nothing. The reason you may soon conceive after you understand
what power they take in disposing and concealing the said revenue,
by reserving or including that office among themselves. It is unreasonable that a member of the body should be the head, and continue a member also. It is well known that the full moiety of the
dean's revenue arises from the exchequer of that church, whereof
some one prebendary is always the treasurer for the year, out of
which all deductions are first made, before any dividend can be
made; by which deductions (as officers' wages and fees, law expenses,
reparations of their houses and church, &c.) they will leave a small
portion to the dean, if they have the carrying it among themselves, although he ought to have full two parts out of three of
all the remainder. Neither can they dispose of any part of the
revenue in their exchequer to any uses without the privity of himself
or his substitute. |
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The full rent of all his domains and tithes at the uttermost value
does not come to above 400l. odd a year, out of which he is also to
pay unto the said Exchequer 130l. Now if little or nothing should
be allowed him from their exchequer, for that he is neither resident
to keep hospitality (being one of the many reasons of having any
portion of the dividend), nor can be privy to their ordinary disbursements, either by himself or any other than one of them, how
soon will the greatest part of his living be withdrawn ? Wherefore
it were very fit for Mr. Dean to have a clause in his dispensation to
appoint a substitute, unless one of the prebendaries will yield him
an honest rent for the same, which I think they will never do,
standing upon their further advantage of gain the other way. |
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I will undertake to assure him clearly 1,000 marks a year out of
it, and give you near the same sum to make the bargain, so as I
may be his substitute during his life, and be enabled with his authority in the country to countenance the place as beseemeth. |
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P.S.—It will be fit for Mr. Dean to hasten, unless he will lose
these harvest fruits and the Michaelmas rent. [2 pages.] |
| Aug. 19. |
69. Tobias Archbishop of York to Sir Thos. Lake. Pray direct
me how order may be taken for so many years' respite for payment
of my first fruits as His Majesty may be pleased to grant me, considering the waste and spoil made of my temporalities sede vacante,
in all kind of provision of all sorts of corn, hay, grass, fish, &c.,
besides the loss of 500l. a year, I might say 1,000 marks in the
difference of the rents between this I have and that so left; wherewith let me entreat you to acquaint the Earl of Salisbury, but no
other unless it be His Majesty. Prefixing, |
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69. i. Notes of privileges granted to Bishops, in restitution of
temporalities from the time of the vacancy of the see, and
in release from first fruits, &c. [1page.] |
Aug.
Oatlands. |
70. The King to the Warden and Fellows of St. Mary's College,
Winchester. We understand, by the petition of Richard Venables,
that he and his progenitors have been tenants of the parsonage of
Andover 40 years, and have been three several times hindered, redeeming at great price leases in reversion granted by you. Where
colleges and corporations are not restrained, the ancient tenants
should ever be preferred. We therefore require you to renew to
your said tenant his lease of ten years, wherein about 1½ years has
expired, with covenants and agreements for further renewal, as in
former leases. [½ page, copy.] |
