MR HENRY CAESAR RELEASED ^TH JAN,
cause but that he may be set at liberty to be at the disposition of
his brother, Dr Julius Caesar, who means to place him at the
University for his better instruction and fuitherance in learning
<)tb January A PROTEST ON BEHALF OF THE PURITANS
Sir Francis Knollys hath written to the Lord Treasurer
on behalf of the Puritans still in prison that he marvels how
the Queen can be persuaded that she is in as much danger of the
Puritans as of the Papists , for she cannot be ignorant that the
Puritans are not able to change the government of the clergy but
by petition , and even then the Queen could not do it but she
must call a parliament for it, and no act could pass unless she
give her royal assent thereto As for their seditious conduct, if
the bishops or the Lord Chancellor or any of them could have
proved de facto that Cartwnght and his fellow prisoners had
gone about any such matter seditiously, then they had been
hanged before this But the Queen must keep a form of justice
as well against Puritans as any other subjects, and they tried m
convenient time, whether suspected for sedition or treason or
Puritanism or by whatever name it is called
AN ATTORNEY'S UNSEEMLY APPAREL
One King, an attorney in the Court of Common Pleas, that
was committed to prison for his misdemeanour in raising and
laying the street for the assisting of an arrest with lewd words
which were likely to have bred some tumult, was brought before
the Council. And because he appears before their Lordships in
apparel unfit for his calling, with a gilt rapier, extreme great
ruffs, and like unseemly apparel, they certify the Lord Chief
Justice of the Common Pleas of his behaviour that he shall be
dismissed of his office and place in that Court
i6tb January A CASE OF CONTRABAND GOODS
This day the Privy Council heard a cause between the Earl of
Cumberland and one Harman Langerman, factor for certain
merchants of the Stoad Towns, of whom some ships and goods
appertaining were taken on the seas by the Earl He claimed
them as good prize going into Spain by the North Seas, being
laden with prohibited goods of divers sorts for the use of the
enemy Amongst these was canvas of six sundry sorts which
was claimed as prize being fit for use as sails for ships of war, for
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