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Sept. 1.
Bagshot. |
96. [Sec. Winwood] to John Herault. Your letters make no
mention of the receipt of any from Council dated 3 Aug. last, and
sent by Sir John Peyton, to say that upon a remonstrance presented
to His Majesty by Sir John Peyton against you, the matter was
referred to Council, who sent you a letter to appear before them
the beginning of November next, with Sir John Peyton's remonstrance, signed by himself, therein enclosed; also another letter
to substitute Philip Carteret, Seigneur de Hault Vinchelles, in your
place, during your abode in England. Their third letter was to
Aaron Messervy, Jehan le Hardy, and Edw. Messervy, also to appear
to answer questions; copies of all these, as likewise of the accusations,
you shall receive herewith. If those letters shall not come to your
hands in good time, I would advise you notwithstanding to come to
London against the time, to clear yourself before their Lordships.
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96. i. Complaint by Sir John Peyton to the King, against John
Herault, bailiff of Jersey. He declared at the seat of
justice that Your Majesty had given him his land to keep,
and that he acknowledged no person as his superior;
publicly affirmed himself to be the governor, and Your
Majesty's lieutenant, and that I was but captain of the
castles, and muster master of the country; and thereupon willed the ministers to alter the form of their
prayer, naming the bailiffs before the governor of the
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He professed that he sought the office of bailiff to deliver
the people from the tyranny of governors, and that the
master porter of the castle ought to be sworn first to him,
and after to me, the governor, and caused his oath to be
enrolled otherwise than it was taken in Court, and contrary to all precedents. |
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He pretends power in himself or his lieutenant to
punish the governors, whom he terms captains, personally and capitally, and menaces the ruin of such as
uphold the governor's authority. He assumed a power of
assembling the States without direction of the governor,
which was never before attempted. He has displaced
Your Majesty's procurer, whom, by virtue of your patent,
I appointed five years since, as all former governors have
done, and has sworn one into the place quite unfit for it. |
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These and other usurpations are most dangerous in a
frontier place, so remote from the eye of the State, and so
near the duchy of Normandy, whereof it was sometime
a member, especially considering his presumptuous and
daring spirit. These articles of complaint were certified
to me by Aaron Messervy, lieutenant governor there, and
John le Hardy, Your Majesty's advocate, whose letters I
can produce. [1⅓ pages, copy.] |
| Sept. 8. |
97. Note of the stages of [the King's] progress, July 20, from
Theobalds to St. Albans, co. Herts; 21, Wrest; 25, Bletsoe; 27,
Ashby; 30, Kirby: Aug. 3, Apthorpe; 7, Rockingham; 10, Buckham; 11, Bever Castle; 13, Newark; 14, Rufford; 19, Rested; 22,
Nottingham; 24, Loughborough; 26, Leicester; 27, Dingley; 28,
Holmby; 29, Grafton: Sept. 1, Hanwell; 2, Woodstock; 7, Rycott; 8, Bisham, co. Berks, giving the number of nights spent at
each place named. Endorsed with a portion of a speech wherein the
writer says that he and other soldiers must, for the sake of provender
do "aliquid carcere dignum," having sought all the honest means
they could to live, but in vain, &c. [Probably a fragment of some
device played before the King on this progress, 1¼ pages.] |
