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Jan. 5.
London. |
1. Chamberlain to Carleton. No news at Court but dull plays.
Projects still discussed: one is to make fifty Barons at 6,000l. each,
but they could scarcely be found; another, by [Wm.] Hakewill, to
grant a general pardon for 5l. each, which they estimate at 400,000l.,
but it would not come to nearly so much. Oliver St. John, of Wiltshire, committed for dissuading a benevolence; and Peacham, of
Somersetshire, for seditious discourses. Sir Walter Raleigh's book,
which he hoped would please the King, is called in, for too free censuring of Princes. Sir Edw. Hoby has answered [Hen.] Fludd, the
Papist. Earl Arundel accused of misconduct at Rome. Clement
Edmondes going on merchants' business to Holland. Wotton lingers
there. Le Sieur and others intrigue for his place, but Winwood
wishes Carleton to have it. |
| Jan. 6. |
Commission to Wm. Keeling and Geo. Berkley to be Generals of
[vessels of] the East India Company, with a special commission to
use martial law during the voyage. [Grant Bk., p. 148.] |
| Jan. 7. |
Grant to Duncan Primrose of the office of one of the King's
Physicians, for life. [Ibid., p. 141.] |
| Jan. 10. |
Order in Council for restraint of killing and eating flesh during
Lent. Printed. [Proc. Coll., No. 36.] |
| Jan. 11. |
2. Sir Thos. Bartlett to the King. Demonstrates the manner of
carrying on the commerce in pins, according to hisproject. Annexes, |
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2. i. Project by Sir Thos. Bartlett to supply the kingdom with
pins, both of foreign and home manufacture. |
| [Jan.] |
3. Copy of the above project. |
Jan. 12.
London. |
4. Chamberlain to Carleton. The Masque at Court on Twelfth
Night. The Spanish Ambassador refused to be present, because
Sir Noel Caron, the States' Ambassador, was there. The Spaniards
have shown more bravado lately. The King going to Royston and
Newmarket, where he will remain till Shrovetide. |
| Jan. 14. |
5. Sir Thos. Bartlett to the King. Intreats that he may not be
deprived of the benefit of his project for the manufacture of pins, by
the journeymen pinners and others, who are trying to usurp the trade
for themselves. Will give the King the whole profits, except 3,000l.
per ann., reserved to compensate his losses, &c. for seven years,
through the deprivation of his former patent. |
| Jan. 16. |
Grant to Fras. Curle of an Auditorship in the Court of Wards
and Liveries, for life. [Grant Bk., p. 148.] |
| Jan. 17. |
Grant to John Wells, of the office of Clerk and Keeper of the
Stores and the Storehouses at Deptford and elsewhere, co. Kent, for
life. [Ibid., p. 142.] |
Jan. 18.
Whitehall. |
6. The Council to Sec. Winwood, the Master of the Rolls, Lieutenant
of the Tower, and others. Require them to examine Edm. Peacham,
prisoner in the Tower, respecting his authorship of a treasonable
book and if he should be obstinate in refusing to give needful
information, to use the manacles. |
| Jan. 19. |
Grant to the Company of Pewterers of London, of the preemption of 500,000 weight of tin yearly, for five years. [Grant Bk.,
p. 135.] |
| Jan. 20. |
Grant to Nathaniel Giles of a prebend of Windsor, for life. [Ibid.,
p. 133.] |
| Jan. 21. |
Commission to the Archbp. of Canterbury and others, to reprieve
from execution such persons as they shall think fit for foreign
employment. [Ibid., p. 138.] |
Jan. 21.
Whitehall. |
7. Sir Ralph Winwood to [Somerset]. Wesel is likely to be given
up, the King's heroical declaration having struck the blow. Thinks
that Sir Thos. Edmondes might encourage the Duke of Mayenne's
intention to assist the Duke of Savoy, without committing the King,
though His Majesty would think 15,000l. well spent, to establish
that Duke against the Governor of Milan. The King might claim
satisfaction for the disrespectful carriage of Cardinal du Peron
towards himself in the [French] States, as he punished Wentworth
for unseemly language against the late King of France. |
Jan. 24.
Bishop's Auckland. |
8. The Bishop of Durham to the King. Understands the Lord
Chamberlain has a Commission of Lieutenancy over that Bishopric;
begs that the country may be informed that it was for no neglect on
his own part, having discharged the service for six years, with great
pains. |
Jan. 25.
Eton. |
9. Sir Hen. Savile, jun., to Carleton. Thanks him for lending 20l.
to his brother, who failed to receive remittances sent to Geneva,
and requests him to have an eye to his conduct whilst he is
abroad, &c. |
Jan. 26.
London. |
10. Chamberlain to the Same. The English captains and others
in Holland much want Carleton there instead of Wotton, who
is not affable, always busy, but despatching little. Mr. Williams is
out of heart in running from one officer of state to another, to get
Carleton's money. Sir Thos. Edmondes threatens to return home
if not supplied, having neither money nor credit left. Even poor
De Quester, the Postmaster, who is daily employed, runs up and
down for 600l. due to him for postage. The King of Spain promises
to surrender Wesel, but meanwhile they fortify it, and make warlike
preparations. The Spanish Ambassador excepts against Caron,
[the States' Ambassador], which his predecessor never did. Thos.
Sackville, son to the old Lord Treasurer, is restrained to Padua for
some years; his practices deserved a sharper censure, but he was
spared for his father's sake. Report that Sir Rich. Cooke and his
family are cast away on their journey to Ireland. |
| Jan. 26. |
11. Exemplification of the excommunication of John Bodell, of
Breedon, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, for contumacy, Nov. 8,
1614. Latin. |
Jan. 31.
Clifton. |
12. Chas. Bussy to Mr. Carter, at Auditor Curle's. Asks the balance
due to his late brother on his last account, on behalf of his widow
and children. |
| Jan. ? |
13. Reasons by the Merchants of the Staple, founded on the state
of the wool growth and manufacture, in the several counties of
England, why it is impossible to dispense with wool chapmen, as
dealers between the wool growers and manufacturers. |
| Jan. ? |
14. Petition of the Broggers of Wool of Warwickshire to the
Council. They are hindered by the wool-staplers in buying from and
selling to poor persons small quantities of wool. Pray to be allowed
to exercise their trade without molestation. Numerously signed. |
| Jan. ? |
15. Observations on the dangers that may ensue by the intended
suppression of the broggers of wool, and statement of the great increase
of profit to the poor, and also to the customs, by manufacture of
wool into the new draperies, rather than into cloth. |
| Jan. ? |
16. Comparative statement of the price of workmanship, number
of persons employed, and amount of custom paid for three loads of
wool, as employed in the manufacture of cloth or of new drapery. |
