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| Jan. 1 ? |
1. Countess of Arundel to Carleton. Is among his ancient
acquaintances at Venice. Requests news from him, but will not be
able to return it, on account of the silence and secrecy of the
Venetian State, &c. |
Jan. 1.
Dover. |
2. Mayor, &c. of Dover to Lord Zouch. The town have chosen
Sir Hen. Mainwaring burgess, and also Sir Rich. Younge, commended
to them by his Lordship. Would gladly spare the latter the trouble
of a journey to Dover to take his oath as a freeman, but have no
precedent of an oath being taken by commission. |
Jan. 1.
Dover. |
3. Rich. Marsh to Nicholas. Rye has elected Emanuel Gifford
and John Angel, and Hythe, Sir Peter Heyman and Dr. Rich.
Zouch, as burgesses. Hesitancy about the mode of administering
the oath; advises that the towns do it by commission. Incloses, |
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3. i. Mayor, &c. of Hastings to Lord Zouch. Have thankfully
accepted Sam. Moore on his Lordship's recommendation,
though unknown to them. Wish him to become a freeman, if the other ports require the same. Have also
elected Capt. James Lasher, a freeman, and one who
deserves well of the town. Hastings, Dec. 26, 1621. |
Jan. 1.
Sandwich. |
4. Mayor, &c. of Sandwich to Lord Zouch. Have chosen as burgesses Sir Edw. Sandys, and also Sir Robt. Hatton, recommended by
his Lordship, whom they desire to come over to take his oath. |
Jan. 3.
Whitehall. |
5. Sir Geo. Calvert to Fras. Windebank. Lord Arundel acknowledges the favour of Lord Sandys' choice of him as proxy. The
King will grant the wardship of his [Lord Sandys'], heir as he
desires, provided, if it fall in, the party pays such fine as is thought
reasonable by the Court of Wards. |
Jan. 3.
Nurenberg. |
6. Chris. Loffelholt, of Kolberg, to Lord Zouch. Wishes to
thank him in person for favours to his late father, and, having
travelled on the continent, to see England; begs his favour and
assistance on his proposed visit. Latin. |
| Jan. 4. |
7. Notes [by Sec. Calvert] of a summons to the States' Commissioners to report their propositions to Council on Jan. 5, after which
the King will appoint commissioners to treat with them. |
| Jan. 4. |
8. Thos. Fulnetby to Nicholas. Encroachment on Lord Zouch's
rights as Warden, by my Lord Carey [Sir Hen. Carey Visct.
Falkland's] man; has at last got a warrant to commit him, if he
offend further. Gogar, of Sandwich, has unjustly claimed butlerage
of wines from a wreck, when the wines were not sold. |
| Jan. 7. |
9. Locke to [Carleton]. Entertainments given to the Great
Monsieur of France [Cadenat], at his first audience on New Year's
Eve; on the 4th instant, at the Parliament House; and on the 6th,
at a masque at Whitehall, where none were allowed below the rank
of a Baron. |
| Jan. 8. |
10. The Same to the Same. Lord Doncaster feasts the French
Ambassador, for whom 6,000 oz. of gilt plate are set out as a
present. Capt. North, who returned from the Amazon River well
fraught, is committed to the Tower. Sends certain dogs. |
Jan. 8.
Dover. |
11. Rich. Marsh to Nicholas. Account of a tumultuous election
at Sandwich, where Sir Edwin Sandys was first returned, being
thought to oppose the East India Company, which is injurious to
the ports and the whole kingdom. There was difficulty in obtaining the return of Sir Robt. Hatton, recommended by Lord Zouch.
The mayor, who forwarded him, was abused, as sacrificing the liberties of the town. Sir Thos. Finch, Bart., and he [Nicholas] are
returned for Winchelsea. |
Jan. 9.
Canterbury. |
12. Rich. Marsh to Nicholas. Transmits the returns of burgesses
for the Cinque Ports; one copy is to be kept in the petty bag,
another in Dover Castle. |
Jan. 9.
Norwich Castle. |
13. Justices of Norfolk to the Council. Certificate in favour of
Philip Gould, condemned for horse-stealing, but penitent, as fit to be
sent abroad. |
| Jan. 10. |
14. Account of contributions from noblemen and gentlemen
towards the defence of the Palatinate; total, 32,361l. 13s. 4d., of
which 31,500l. is already paid away. |
Jan. 11.
Haverford West. |
15. Mayor and Justices of Haverford West to the Council. Ann
Dennis, the daughter of English parents, lately married to Hayward,
of Pembrokeshire, and resident in their town, refuses to come to church,
and pleads exemption from the Oath of Allegiance, as born in the
country of the Archduke, whose subjects are by treaty to have
toleration in religion. Ask directions thereon. |
| Jan. 11 ? |
16. Jas. Perrot to Sir Clement Edmondes. Requests, in behalf of
the town of Haverford West, that if Ann Hayward's plea be allowed,
she may be ordered to quit the town, where no recusant has been
known since the Reformation, as her residence would encourage
Jesuits and seminaries to come. |
| Jan. 11. |
17. Locke to Carleton. The French Ambassador has taken his
leave; he is reported to have "received a round answer about the
Protestants." The Lord Chancellor created Visct. St. Albans. |
| Jan. 11. |
18. Thos. Murray to Sir Albert Morton. The great cause cannot
be helped, without a liberal contribution from Parliament. Harmony
cannot be preserved between the King and his subjects, unless
recusants are treated more strictly. Marshal Cadenat proposed a
match with France and a confederation against Spanish power, and
asked His Majesty to abandon the rebellious princes, but he refused,
unless they might have toleration. Sir Edw. Villiers gone over to
Germany with assurance of 20,000l. to be sent from Denmark,
whither Sir Robt. Anstruther is gone to borrow 30,000l. more.
Minute. |
Jan. 12.
New Romney. |
19. Mayor, &c. of New Romney to Lord Zouch. Have, at his nomination, elected Fras. Fetherston as one of their burgesses, and have
commissioned Sir Peter Manwood, elected as the other burgess, and
Mr. Thurbarne, to administer the oath of a freeman to him in London. |
Jan. 13.
Hague. |
20. Sir Dud. Carleton to Thos. Locke. Private matters. The
Prince of Orange sends two pieces of artillery as a present to Prince
Charles; has paid 25l. for Lord Danvers' pictures; will give 300l.
for Wraysbury, if it cannot be had for less. |
Jan. 13.
Whitehall. |
21—23. Orders in Council that the Earls of Oxford, Essex, and
Leicester, and others, be appointed to sit as a Council of War for the
affairs of the Palatinate, and to report on all matters submitted to
them, with power to advise with experienced persons. They are to
consider the provisions of arms, munitions, ships, money, &c. now
needed, the mode of supplying them, and the time when they should
be ready. Three copies. |
| Jan. 13. |
Another copy of the above. [Dom. Corresp., Feb. 11.] |
Jan. 13.
London. |
24. Chamberlain to Carleton. Entertainment of the French
Embassy at Hampton Court and Whitehall, where there were some
disputes for precedency; at a masque there, a puritan was flouted
and abused, which was thought unseemly, considering the state
of the French Protestants. Profusion of the feast at Lord Doncaster's
house, which cost 3,000l., besides 300l. worth of ambergris used in
cooking. The Ambassador had a long private interview with the
King; it is thought he proposed Madame Henriette for the Prince;
he left with a present of a rich jewel; he requested liberation of
all the imprisoned priests in the three kingdoms, but the answer is
not yet given. The King too weak in his feet to go to Theobalds;
he has settled a quarrel between Lord Digby and Sir Geo. Goring.
Lord Norris is to be Earl of Thame, on marrying his daughter and
assuring his land, to [Edw.] Wray of the Bedchamber. Other
creations proposed. Sir Thos. Coventry is made Attorney General.
Yelverton is still in the Tower, as is Capt. North, though he has
great partners in his adventures, and declares he has done nothing
to offend the Spaniards. A Holland ship cast away. With marginal note [by Carleton]: "God grant this be not the arrested ship
at Plymouth." |
| Jan. 14. |
25. Note of those persons in Northfleet and Ifield who neglected
to send horses and waggons for conveyance homeward of the French
Ambassador. |
| Jan. 14. |
26. Similar note of defaulters, for Meopham and Luddesdon. |
Jan. 15.
Pillingbeare. |
27. Sir Hen. Neville to Sir Edw. Conway. Has no news to requite
his tidings of the execution in Count Mansfeldt's army. Family
affairs. |
| Jan. 16. |
28. List of the Members returned from each county and borough of
England and Wales, for the Parliament summoned for Jan. 16, 1621,
but afterwards prorogued to Jan. 24 and 30. With a few blanks. |
| Jan. 16. |
29. Another list of the Members of Parliament, supplying several
names omitted in the above. |
| Jan. 16. |
30. Declaration by the Lord Chancellor, in the House of Lords,
of receipt of the King's Writ proroguing Parliament to Jan. 23, and
of His Majesty's intention further to prorogue it till the 30th, on
account of his great embassies, and the state of his health. |
Jan. 16.
Hastings. |
31. Nath. Lasher to Wm. Angell. Sends him some fish, and complains of the great scarcity occasioned by the French fishermen, of
whom thirty sail are now in the Sowe. |
| Jan. 17. |
32. Receipt, by Geo. Herriot and Nath. Gheraert, of 1,400l., from
Endymion Porter, for a diamond ring, with the King's arms cut in it.
Indorsed is a receipt by Sir Rich. Calverly from Endymion Porter,
for 666l. 13s. 4d., payable on demand, Jan. 16. |
Jan. 18.
Hastings. |
33. Nath. Lasher to Wm. Angell. Sends up more fish, but the
French make it so scarce that the fishermen cannot pay for their
bait. |
Jan. 18.
London. |
34. Sir John Danvers to —. Thanks for his favours, and begs
him to recommend his kinsman, Mr. Withypole, now gone over with
Marechal de Cadenat, to the Ambassador [in France], and others. |
| Jan. 19. |
Grant to Sir Marmaduke Darell of the imposition on coals, for
twenty one years. [Grant Bk., p. 315.] |
| Jan. 19. |
Grant to Sir Thos. Lake of the office of receiving the imposition
on coals, for twenty-one years. [Ibid., p. 329.] |
| Jan. 19. |
35. Locke to Carleton. Sec. Naunton is confined to his chamber,
and suspended. The Earl of Leicester and others are appointed Commissioners to consider about sending men, munition, &c. to the Palatinate; and the Lord Chamberlain and others are to inquire about
the disposal of the money collected for that cause. |
Jan. 20.
London. |
36. Chamberlain to the Same. The French Ambassador is gone;
he was followed to Rochester for the debts of some of his followers.
The King at Theobalds. Sec. Naunton is suspended, and Sec. Calvert ordered to search his papers for secret correspondence with
Baron Dona about the Bohemian affairs. The Spanish Ambassador
is blamed for his disgrace. |
| Jan. 20. |
37. Locke to the Same. Naunton is said to have given advertisements to the French Protestants. Wright has landed with the hog
and the horse. |
| Jan. 20. |
38. The Same to the Same. Lake labours hard to get a place,
and offers to marry his eldest son to Buckingham's kinswoman.
Has seen Carleton's present [of a hog and horse] to the Lord Chamberlain. Private affairs. |
| Jan. 22. |
Creation of Sir John Ramsay Visct. Haddington in Scotland,
to the rank of Baron of Kingston and Earl of Holderness. [Grant
Bk., pp. 304, 321.] |
| Jan. 22. |
Patent appointing Robt. Heath Solicitor General, for life. [Ibid.,
p. 323.] |
| Jan. 23. |
39. Petition of John Dawson to the Archbp. of Canterbury, for
his allowance, that he may be appointed master printer in the room
of Thos. Dawson, his late uncle, an ancient decree forbidding any
to be master printers, without allowance from the Archbp. of Canterbury or Bp. of London. With the Archbishop's note of consent. |
| Jan. 24. |
Warrant to Lord Verulam to make out divers commissions.
[Grant Bk., p. 306.] |
| Jan. 24. |
Grant to Geo. Lord Carew, Sir Lionel Cranfield, and others, of
licence to make gunpowder. [Ibid., p. 287.] |
| Jan. 26. |
40. Jas. Maxwell to the Council. Repeats his penitence and
submission for his pamphlet on Bohemia. [See Dec. 23, 1620.] |
Jan. 26.
Cartmel. |
41. Robt. Curwen, Feodary of Westmoreland, to Fras. Nicholls.
Little service can be done for the Prince, because the freeholders of
the barony of Kendal declare they hold their lands in soccage, not
by Knight's service, and oppose his claim to the wardship of their
heirs. The case will come to an issue, Walter Story having died
and left an heir under age. Asks directions thereon. |
| Jan. ? |
42. The Same to [the Same]. On the sitting of the commission
to inquire into the tenure of the lands of the barony of Kendal,
the jury were disposed to consider them as held in soccage; has
postponed the decision, and will attend the Prince's Council with the
records on the case. |
| Jan. 27. |
Creation of Fras. Lord Norris to the rank of Visct. Thame and
Earl of Berkshire. [Grant Bk., p. 331.] |
| Jan. 28. |
Writ of ease to Hen. Viscount Mandeville, from the office of Lord
Chief Justice. [Ibid., pp. 304, 331.] |
| Jan. 28. |
Grant to John Smith of the office of Shoemaker [to the King],
with the fee of 12d. per day, for life. [Ibid., p. 305.] |
| Jan. 28. |
Grant to Geo. Westbrook of the office of Ranger in the Forest of
Dean, co. Gloucester, for life. [Ibid., p. 307.] |
| Jan. 28. |
Grant to Sir Fulk Greville of all alienation fines in Chancery,
for seven years. [Ibid., p. 321.] |
| Jan. 28. |
43. Sir John Stradling to the Council. Did not receive their
notice of the grant of the Bailiwicks of Llantrissaint and Dinas-Powis
to Alex. Foster, till his office as Sheriff of Glamorganshire had
nearly expired, and could not accomplish it. Commends the certificate
from the Justices of the county, showing the inconvenience of the
grant. |
Jan. 28.
Margam. |
44. Justices of Glamorganshire to the Same. The patents for
the Bailiwicks of Llantrissaint and Dinas-Powis have long been found
injurious, and are repugnant to the oaths of the Sheriff, to make
efficient men of the county his Bailiffs. Pray that the recent grant
thereof to Alex. Foster may be recalled or examined. |
Jan. 28.
Astwell. |
45. Sir Geo. Shirley to Sir Thos. Edmondes. The saltpetre men,
under colour of letters of deputation from the Earl of Worcester,
have injured him and his tenants at Ragdale, Leicestershire, by
digging in their houses for saltpetre, contrary to the exception in
their patent against disturbing dwelling-houses. Begs his assistance
to obtain recompence for the loss, or the punishment of the offenders. |
Jan. 29.
Whitehall. |
46. Regulations drawn up by the Earl of Arundel, for the order
of the procession on the King's going to open Parliament, settling
the place and precedence of the different Officers of State, &c. [Copy
attested by Wm. Le Neve, Clarencieux, May 11, 1640.] |
| Jan. 29. |
Creation of Sir Fulk Greville to the rank of Baron Brooke, of
Beauchamp's Court, co. Warwick. [Grant Bk., p. 321.] |
| Jan. 29. |
Appointment of Sir Jas. Ley, Bart., to the office of Lord Chief
Justice of the Common Pleas. [Ibid., p. 301.] |
| Jan. [30]. |
47. The King's speech on the opening of Parliament. Will speak
briefly, finding that his former speeches have been turned against
him. Describes the constitution of Parliament, the cause of summoning them, and the business on which they are employed, viz.,
to make laws and reform abuses. As to religion, is of the same
faith with his subjects, and ready to defend it by pen and person,
but does not like martyrdoms; prefers persuasion. The proposed
Spanish match is not to lead to toleration of religion, nor encouragement of Popery. Another cause of calling them is his own necessities. No King has reigned so long and received so little, and yet
has spent much for the public good; has been accused of giving
away too much; but during two years past, has examined into and
reduced his expenditure, by assistance of his young Admiral, who
took the burden upon himself, and the revenue is now well husbanded. Another cause of their meeting is the miserable state of
Christendom. Has not abetted his son-in-law's claim to the Crown
of Bohemia, but has spent immense sums in defending the Palatinate,
and in embassies, and will spend his own and his son's blood in the
cause. Is willing to reform all real grievances, but not to have
them hunted after. This Parliament has been long looked for;
hopes it will prove a happy one. |
| [Jan. 30.] |
48. Reply of the Lord Chancellor to the King's speech. Admires
its profound wisdom, which leaves him nothing to say but to advise
the houses, by their modest carriage towards His Majesty, and
their cheerful dealings, to ensure great reputation to themselves and
advantage to the country. The House of Commons is to elect a
Speaker, who is to be presented to the King on Feb. 3. |
| Jan. 30. |
49—52. Draft of the King's speech, with considerable variations.
Four papers. |
| [Jan. 30.] |
53. Speech of [Sir Thos. Edmondes, Treasurer of the Household,]
in the House of Commons. The reasons for calling the Parliament are, the state of things abroad, and the necessity of
removing any misunderstanding between the King and his subjects.
Urges harmony and moderation on both sides. Recommends the
choice of Serjeant Richardson as Speaker. With his reply to
Serjeant Richardson's answer, hoping that the modesty with which
he endeavours to excuse himself from the office will be an additional
reason for urging it upon him. |
Jan. 30.
Winchelsea. |
54. Giles Waters to Sir Thos. Finch. The mayor has borne him
malice ever since Sir Thomas was chosen burgess, and has shot his
dog: remonstrated with him about it, and was sent to prison; is
starved with cold, and entreats the aid of himself or his fellow burgess, Mr. Nicholas, with the Lord Warden, for his liberation. Will
give no bail, as it would be taken advantage of against him. |
| Jan. ? |
55. Petition of the Same to [Lord Zouch] to take his cause into
his hearing, and meanwhile to order his enlargement. |
| Jan. 30. |
56. Estimate by the Commissioners for the Navy, of the charge
of the Navy for the year 1621. Total 29,688l. 15s. 4d. |
| Jan. 30. |
57. Assignations by the Treasurer and Chancellor of the Exchequer, of the above-named expenses of the Navy upon certain
branches of the revenue, with order to Robt. Pye to take special
care that the moneys thus assigned are appropriated to no other
purpose. |
| Jan. 31. |
58. Mayor and Justices of Norwich to the Council. Denis L'Ermite,
one of the Walloon Congregation, refuses payment of the rate of
1d. per shilling on his house rent, levied for the maintenance of Fulk
Roberts, the minister of his parish of St. Saviour's, according to the
agreement made on the first entry of the strangers, and since confirmed by Council; he also refuses to be bound to answer before
Council. Request directions thereon. |
| [Jan.] |
59. Estimate of the charge of materials for repair of the ship
Victory. With note of survey of the Dreadnought. |
| Jan. 31. |
Grant to Geo. Turnor and others of the office of Masters of Assize
of gold and silver in the Tower, for life. [Grant Bk., p. 305.] |
