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THE LIBRARY
OF

THE UNIVERSITY

OF CALIFORNIA

LOS ANGELES

Historical Manuscripts Commission

CALENDAR OF THE MANUSCRIPTS
OF THE MOST HONOURABLE

THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY

PRESERVED AT

HATFIELD HOUSE

HERTFORDSHIRE

Part XXIV
Addenda 1605-1668

Edited by G. Dyfnallt Owen, ph.d.

LONDON
HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE

First published 1976

ISBN 0 11 440062 8*

PREFACE

The Third Marquess of Salisbury first opened his great collection
of family papers at Hatfield to the Commission's inspection in 1871.
A preliminary report was published in the Appendix to the Com-
missioners' Third Report in 1872. Eleven years later, in 1883, the
first volume appeared of the more detailed Calendar, of which the
present volume is the twenty-fourth and last.

The successful completion of this great series of Salisbury (Cecil)
MSS is one of the Commission's proudest achievements. The
special thanks of the Commissioners are due to successive Mar-
quesses of Sahsbury who have most generously allowed the work to
continue, and to their librarians at Hatfield for unfailing help and
assistance. Their thanks are also due to the many distinguished
scholars and editors who have, in the course of a century, contri-
buted to the preparation of the individual volumes in which their
names are recorded, and to the creation of what has proved to be a
major working tool for all historians of the sixteenth and seven-
teenth centuries.

DENNING, M. R.

Chairman of the Commission

CONTENTS

Page
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Calendar . . . . . . . . . , . . . . 1

Index 295

INTRODUCTION

This second and final volume of Addenda comprises documentary-
material covering the years from the creation of Robert Cecil as
1st Earl of Salisbury in 1605 to the death of his son WilUam, the
second Earl, in 1668. It also brings to an end the Calendar of
Salisbury MSS at Hatfield House, of which the first volume appeared
in 1883/

Petitions form the main body of the material pubhshed in this,
as in the preceding, volume. It has already been observed that
their value as primary documentary sources is strictly Hmited.
Nevertheless, they do provide a certain amount of circumstantial
evidence concerning domestic events during this period.

(1) The Problem of the Recusants

The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 had drawn the more mihtant and
desperate elements within the CathoUc community into the open,
and its failure had enabled the Government to eradicate them as a
potential threat to internal security. By the execution of Henry
Garnett, the Jesuit superior of the EngUsh province, on a charge of
conniving at the conspiracy, it had also conveniently removed the
one man whose character and scholarship had not only fortified
the resistance of his co-rehgionists, but had inclined many people
to become converts to the Catholic faith. Physical ehmination
had been followed by legislative retribution. The penal laws
against recusants were enforced with greater vigour and enlarged
so as to bring their women folk within the range of their penalties.
A new oath of allegiance was imposed which, while permitting the
Cathohcs to acknowledge the Pope as their spiritual father, denied
him the right to release them from their obedience to James 1
as their temporal king. With pubhc opinion applauding this
pohcy of repression, and with the threat of treason and its obscene
punishments hanging over its head, the Catholic minority, it was
assumed, would soon become cowed and submissive, and cease to
be a problem to the authorities.

This, however, was far from being the case. On the contrary,
the years following the Gunpowder Plot showed that the recusants
had lost none of their resoluteness, and that their adherence to
their faith was as unyielding as ever. But they were cautious
enough not to lay themselves open to a charge of treasonable

activities against the state. Their contumacy and provocation
rarely went beyond the violation of laws which tried to force them
into an outward compliance with the ecclesiastical order. It was
also true that it was only in those parts of the kingdom where they
enjoyed considerable local influence— Yorkshire and the Midlands,
Monmouthshire and the Welsh border, and London, that they
exhibited their defiance and paraded their opposition. Elsewhere,
they had no choice but to endure their persecution in silence and
pay their recusancy fines without complaint or redress.

It must have seemed inconceivable to the Government that
Newgate prison, selected as the safest place to incarcerate priests
in London, should be in danger of becoming a centre of Catholic
worship, but the situation was not exaggerated. With the tacit
sanction of the Keeper, masses were sung in a chamber within the
prison and Catholics from outside admitted to the services. What
was more alarming was that the freedom given to the King's
subjects to attend the masses had resulted in the conversion of a
number of them to Cathohcism.^ Counter-measures taken by the
Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London in the form
of arresting and prosecuting those who frequented the prison for
this purpose had little effect, and even led to retahation on a minor
scale. What happened to Francis Harris, who had testified against
recusants at the Old Bailey, proved that there could be unpleasant
surprises in store for Protestants even in the most Protestant city
of Europe.

Meetmg with a fellow citizen, William Chapman, he was invited
by him to dinner in a city tavern. On their way they passed by
St. Bartholomew's Church where the congregation was singing
psalms in the approved Anglican manner, whereupon Chapman
remarked: " Hark, what a company of yelping whelpes here bee! ",
an observation which plainly indicated where his religious sym-
pathies lay. At the table he pHed his guest with food, drink and
tobacco, which he was later accused of having doped, until Harris
relapsed into a drunken sleep. Chapman then proceeded to cut
pieces out of Harris's doublet, but dissatisfied with this mild
operation, " he did then and there also cutt of aU the hayre from
the crowne of the head of the said Ffrancis Harris close to the skull
the breadth of a mans handes, so as the said Harris was enforced
to weare a night capp on his head most comonly for a whole moneth
untill his said haire was somewhat growne out agayne."^

In the provinces, where it was easier to play fast and loose with
Parhamentary legislation and Government directives, the recusants,
in particular the Catholic gentry, bound themselves to little more
than a perfunctory compliance with the law, enough, in fact, to
allow them to hold their own with their conformist neighbours.
In the privacy of their homes they dropped all pretence. There
they provided secret accommodation for priests who sang masses

1 PRO. Star Chamber, James I, 16/17.

2 PRO. Star Chamber, James I, 16/15.

for the household, baptised their children and taught them the
articles of their faith.

The Yorkshire recusants occasionally thre\A' discretion to the
wind. At Egton, for instance, they organized themselves into a
group of itinerant stage players, and travelled throughout the
North Riding performing interludes which were certainly not calcu-
lated to inspire their audiences with respect for the law of the land
and the tenets of the estabhshed church. Two of their most notable
patrons were Sir Richard Cholmondeley, of Roxby, and Sir John
York, of Gouthwaite. What gave the latter particular pleasure
was a play in which a Protestant minister and a Catholic priest
met head-on in a theological confrontation. The issue of the
debate, and the eventual destination of the disputants and those
who shared their respective beliefs, were never in doubt, the
minister being dragged away by devils and the priest escorted from
the scene by exultant angels.^

In the county of Huntingdon, where a number of gentlemen met
in friendly conversation at the house of Sir Robert Payne at
Midloe, it did not seem temerarious that they should fall to dis-
cussing Robert Parson's book, in which he criticized the new oath
of allegiance, and the scholarly reply to it by John Williams,
Bishop of Lincoln. But the arguments became heated because of
intemperate remarks, and there was a lively exchange of buffets
and sword-thrusts. 2 Tempers were, not unexpectedly, more
excitable in Monmouthshire, that notorious haven of Welsh recu-
sants, where another exchange of views almost ended in the murder
of a Protestant preacher at Abergavenny.^

The reaction of the Government to provocations of this kind was
to make life harder for recusants, and to counter Catholic pro-
selytism through priests and the printing press by all the religious
channels at its disposal. The first was perhaps easier done than
the second, for the law authorized the Crown to seize two -thirds
of the property of any person indicted and found guilty of recu-
sancy. To an impecunious king hke James, this was a most
welcome supplementary source of revenue, and a way of rewarding
meritorious services without harassing an already exhausted
Exchequer. But it also led to an intensive hunt of recusants who
had hitherto succeeded in escaping the vigilance of the law, and
to the inevitable proliferation of informers and spies. Not that
these were always to be trusted. They were as susceptible to
bribes as the very pursuivants of the Ecclesiastical Commission,
who were known to arrest priests and then release them, together
with their books and propaganda material, for money. In the
course of time the limited number of recusants available for this
kind of exploitation made itself felt. " They are so hardly found,
casuall by prevention being found," wrote one aggrieved petitioner
to the Earl of Sahsbury in 1608, " and will sodainely conforme

^Ihid., 12/11 and 19/10.

^ Ibid., 11/23.

' See infra, p. 242.

themselves, that there is scant any hope of good in pursueing them.
Ffurther, Mr Spiller (Henry Spiller, an official of the Exchequer)
telleth me, since I was with your Lordship, that he cannot nor
knoweth not where or when to furnish me with any, so as I am
hopeles that way."^ He suggested that instead oJF recusants he
should be granted enough wood in Leicestershire to pay his debts.

Since the observance of Catholic rites and the regularity of the
devotions of the faithful depended much upon the ministrations
of the priests, to curtail the number and reduce the influence of the
latter became one of the principal objectives of the Government.
A serious effort was made, for instance, to prevent the entry of
priests and seminarists who had been educated abroad, notably at
the college in Douai, and those caught were imprisoned or banished.^
But regular supervision of the movements of priests was not always
practicable, and there were loopholes in the existing system of
Customs and passenger control which enabled them to travel to
and fro across the Channel with relative impunity.

A more constructive approach to the recusant problem was to
meet the Cathohc priests and polemicists on the field of theological
disputation, and win exegetical victories which would demonstrate
the intellectual superiority, and confirm the supremacy, of the
established church and throw the recusants on the defensive. This
was the kind of policy which commended itself to James, who
enjoyed nothing more — except hunting — than a good argument on
doctrinal matters. It was for this reason that he had refounded
the collegiate church at Ripon and endowed it with a hberal gift
of land, so that its Dean and prebendaries could concentrate on the
work of combating Catholic influence in Yorkshire. Such inter-
vention was certainly needed in that county, and its effects were
encouraging to the King and his ministers. " The cuntrye is
ignorant and full of papists, and have beene longe untaught, the
parishe great of 10,000 pubhcke, the act honorable to God, the
Kinge, oui' rehgion and state, the notice of it pubhcke and pub-
hshed over all that cuntrye to the dauntmg of papists."^ It was
likewise to produce a team of competent theologians capable of
refuting Cathohc theses, that the King had previously supported
the erection of a college at Chelsea and appealed for subscriptions
for its maintenance from the Enghsh dioceses.^ Neither did
James minimize the importance of education as a means of counter-
acting the instruction of young noblemen in the Cathohc faith. In
the case of the 11 year old John Mordaunt, heir of Henry Mordaunt,
Lord Mordaunt, who had been suspected of comphcity in the Gun-
powder Plot and imprisoned in the Tower, the King did not hesitate
to separate him from his mother and entrust him and his education
to the Bishop of London. "It is no smale parte of our care," he
wrote to the Bishop, " that the nobihtie of this realme be bred both

^ See infra, p. 144.

2 See infra, pp. 85, 86, 90,

^ See infra, p. 40.

* H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XXII, pp. 57-8.

in such sort as becometh their ranck and in so good instruction of
the rehgion estabhshed in our kingdome, as that by receiveing the
corruption of superstitious and daungerous opinions they be not
made unservicable."^ Mordaunt eventually renounced his CathoH-
cism and conformed, but James would not have believed that he
would one day take up arms for Parhament against his son.

(2) The Freedom of the Press

Sir Robert Cecil had inherited an excellent hbrary from his father,
Lord Burghley, and spared no expense in enlarging it with the best
available selection of works on history, divinity, law and kindred
subjects. His son WiUiam emulated him in this respect, and the
titles of the volumes purchased or acquired by him show a pre-
dilection for contemporary literature and poUtical affairs.

That it was possible to accumulate so many books, published
in England and on the continent, was due to the increasing activity
and efficiency of the printing presses in Western Europe. Much
of what they printed was academic or scholarly, and therefore
relatively innocuous in the eyes of authority, so that the liberty of
the press was rarely interfered with. This was particularly true of
France, where Henry IV was partial towards the press and tolerant
enough to be able to enjoy the lampoons directed against him and
his ministers. But there were occasions when no monarch or
government could suffer the dehberate flouting of the accepted
or decreed canons of rehgious and social conduct, and careless or
reckless printers were made to smart for their transgressions.

In England censorship was a half-hearted affair, and often left
to the investigations of clerical subordinates and lay officials whose
zeal sometimes outran their remuneration. ^ They were not helped
by the uncontrolled distribution of paper, imported for the most
part from France, which the London merchants sold to anyone who
asked for it without caring whether it was required for printing or
not. What is more, it was thought, with every justification, that
the quires of paper which streamed into the kingdom from abroad
often concealed " seditious and traitorous books, Hbells and letters
of and for inteUigence".^

No interested party was more perturbed about the inadequacy
of the measures to deal with this situation than the Company of
Stationers, which already had its hands fuU in detecting those of
its members who broke the Company's own regulations. What
alarmed and exasperated the Stationers, as it did the Government,
was the growth in unhcensed printing and in the dissemination of
unauthorized books. " Consideringe what great abuse there is in
the arte of printinge for want of some officer to looke to the same,
the which abuses, as the Stationers say, are cheefly comitted by
thos that print in secret,"^ it was considered that the best solution

^ See infra, p. 189.

2 H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XIX, p. 281.

^ See infra, p. 24.

* See infra, p. 108.

would be the appointment of one person by the Government, with
full power to examine every printed book and to stamp it officially
if he approved of its contents and typographical quahties. There
is Httle doubt that the proposal originated with the Stationers who
may have regarded it as the only possible expedient for attaining
two objectives : a monopoly of the printing trade, which they wished
to enjoy; and the means of promoting some person sympathetic
to their interests and amenable to their advice, to a post which
could help to reduce the number of books issued by their hidden
competitors, the unhcensed printers. The proposal failed in its
purpose, but it may well have suggested to the authorities that if
they were looking for a quahfied and vigilant agent to exercise
some sort of press control, they could do no better than delegate it
to the Company of Stationers itself. It was, however, a quarter of
a century after the death of Cecil that the decree " Concerning
Printing ", agreed upon by the Privy Council, permitted the Com-
pany to tighten up control over the publication and distribution
of books. ^

In the meantime there was little to prevent the circulation of
prohibited or unauthorized works except the fortuitous discovery
of the responsible press and the arrest of the printers. Some places
in England became notorious for illegal printing — London and
Warwickshire, for example, and the apprehension of a German
printer m the latter county is also further evidence of the movement
of craftsmen between countries at that time.^

One amusing sidehght on the question of press control was that
it could sometimes rebound to the disadvantage of the person most
interested in enforcing it when he thought it advisable — the King
himself. James was incensed by a book that appeared in France
late in 1610 and which, in his view, contained slanderous statements
about him. He came to the conclusion that the author was none
other than Pierre Matthieu, the renowned French historian, and
immediately devised a scheme to have him arrested and punished.
Knowing that Henry IV would be reluctant to push matters to
such extremes, and that Matthieu was in Lyons, James directed
CecU to write to Villeroy, the French Secretary of State, and
request him to communicate his desire for Matthieu's arrest to his
son who was then Governor of Lyons. Even this secretive pro-
cedure was not enough for the King of England. The Duke of
Guise, Governor of Provence, was also to be asked to seize Matthieu
if he should stray within his jurisdiction, and James had no doubt
that the Duke would be most willing to do so, "in regard of the
neerenes of blood between his Ma^y and him."^

The freedom of the press in France was therefore to be tampered
with, in this roundabout fashion, because it had issued a book which
was not to the taste of the King of England. James must have
been equally annoyed when he discovered that same year that the

^ Cyprian Blagden. The Stationers' Company, pp. 118-25.

^ See infra, p. 26.

» Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, Vol. 55, pp. 263-4.

XUl

French press could retaliate and for a similar reason. He had
reissued his Apology — the work in which he categorically denied
the claims of the Papacy to exercise any authority over secular
princes, and wished it to be pubhshed in its French version. For
this purpose he commissioned a Monsieur de Tourval to engage a
press in France which would be prepared to do so, and directed him
to act in the matter with the greatest discretion and secrecy. De
Tourval travelled from town to town in France, and took every
precaution to hide his traces. To his astonishment, perhaps, he
found that no printer would accept such a book " pour or ou pour
argent ", even if it were written by the King of England. The
subject matter may have been too inflammatory for their taste or
too controversial to be worth the risk of printing. After hawking
the book around the country, de Tourval returned to Paris by
night, and concealed himself. He had every good reason to He
low in that city, for the Jesuits had got wind of his mission and
were hunting for him everywhere. Eventually he managed to find
an accommodating secret press, and remained in Paris for three
months to supervise the printing of the book.^

(3) CeciVs Good Worl's

No sooner was the 1st Earl of Sahsbury dead than a crowd of
detractors fell on his reputation and tried to tear it apart. It was
inevitable that his unchallenged authority and alleged affluence
should have generated envy and hostility in many quarters.
Amongst other things he was accused of financial misdemeanours
and of exploiting his offices of Lord Treasurer and Master of the
Wards to amass a private fortune. What is demonstrably true is
that Cecil lived beyond his means and left an enormous debt to be
discharged by his heir. That he profited from the privileges and
perquisites of his offices is, of course, indisputable, and there were
other sources of income at his disposal as well.^ But if he had
depended upon his official salary for the upkeep of his family and
himself and the maintenance of his position and dignity as principal
officer of state, he would have cut a ridiculous figure indeed.^ And
although he collected a number of small offices and sinecures for
himself, his motive in doing so was to exercise influence and patron-
age to his own advantage, and not to derive financial benefits
which were, in any case, minimal and sometimes non-existent.*
There was no credible evidence produced, in Cecil's lifetime or after-
wards, that he was guilty of those fraudulent appropriations of
public monies which led to the scandal of 1618 and the dismissal
and imprisonment of Lord Treasurer Howard, Earl of Suffollc.
Whatever the defects his enemies and calumniators claimed to
discern in him, self-indulgence in fiscal irregularities was not one

1 Ibid., Vol. 57, p. 7.

^ Menna Prestwich. Cranfield — Politics and Profits under the Early Stuarts,
pp. 24-48.

^ See infra, p. 201.
* See infra, p. 134.

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of them, however persistent the charges and rumours. Neither
was parsimony, for debts amounting to £38,000 or thereabouts are
usually incurred by a man who finds pleasure in spending money
irrespective of whether he has money to spend. And there was no
lack of opportunities for Cecil to build up a solid cohort of creditors
around him.

It was during the last four years of his Ufe that Hatfield House
was erected and the final architectural and decorative touches given
to the residence. At the same time, he was engaged in finishing
Sahsbury House in the Strand, which he had begun in the previous
reign, and in building Britain's Burse or New Exchange, also in
the Strand. Cecil obviously intended that the latter should be a
commercial rival to the Old Exchange or Royal Exchange in the
city of London, and hopefully anticipated a steady income from
the leasing of its shops. Despite the blaze of pubhcity at its
official opening, which was attended by the King, and although it
was placed advantageously to serve the citizens of Westminster,
it made httle impact on the powerful trading and financial interests
entrenched around Cornhill. Cecil was prepared to seek far and
wide for suitable materials to erect and embeUish these buildings.
Choice stone was brought from Caen in Normandy and marble from
Carrara in Italy, ^ while building stone of good quality was con-
veyed by sea and land from Berwick, Canterbury and a quarry
in Sussex. The cost of materials, the wages of labom-ers, crafts-
men and artists, and transport charges particularly from abroad,
were colossal. It is estimated that Cecil's building operations
between 1607 and 1612 cost him about £63,000, of which two-thirds
were spent on Hatfield House alone. ^

At Hatfield, and to a lesser extent at Sahsbury House, Cecil also
entered into expensive schemes for beautifjdng the immediate
vicinity of the residencies with trees and gardens, the latter con-
taining varieties of fiowers and fruits of both domestic and foreign
provenance, and objects to please the eye. John Tradescant, the
naturahst and one of the best known gardeners of the time, was
employed by Cecil at Hatfield, and sent expressly to the Low
Countries to purchase trees. ^ Sycamore and cherry trees were
amongst those planted, and two French gardeners were hired to
demonstrate their horticultural talents in a practical manner. A
sundial was bought, and a notable French engineer and architect,
Salomon de Caux, commissioned to construct an ornamental foun-
tain in the East Garden.* AU this cost money, but it was expen-
diture on artistic and other laudable projects ; later the second Earl
of Sahsbury was to show the same reluctance as his father to curtail
expenses in this field. This was very much to his credit, for in his
case the family residence at Cranborne was so badly damaged and
thoroughly pillaged by Cavahers and Roundheads during the Civil

1 See infra, pp. 90, 179, 190.

* Prestwich op cit., p. 20.
' See infra, p. 210.

* See infra, p. 212.

War, that it had to be partly rebuilt, a necessity which strained the
Earl's finances considerably.

Patronage of the arts had an irresistible appeal to a man of taste
and learning hke Cecil. He was Hving at a time when Ehzabethan
and early Jacobean culture had reached its most briUiant and
productive period, and hke many of his class he welcomed the
opportunity of being associated with the works of the leading poets
and artists of the day, and of having part of their success attributed
to his active promotion of their creative talents. In May, 1608,
he entertained the King on a magnificent scale at SaHsbury House.
The library was converted into a temporary theatre with all the
paraphernaha of a stage, and a play, written by Ben Jonson and
staged by Inigo Jones, was performed by some of London's well
known players. Knowing the King's taste for something more
exciting than Jonson's verse, Cecil also hired a juggler or
" magician " to titillate James's curiosity. A year or so later, the
presence of the King at the opening ceremony in Britain's Burse
was celebrated with another work by Jonson, and again Inigo
Jones assisted in its presentation.

In the world of painting and music Cecil was the patron of
foreign and Enghsh artists alike. John de Critz, the Flemish
painter, Maximihan Colt or Poultrain, the French sculptor, and
Rowland Buckett, the English painter, were amongst those who
found employment in his service and were handsomely rewarded,
although Cecil's secretary did not always share his indulgence to-
wards artists.^ But it was, perhaps, in music that Cecil took the
greatest interest. Speaking of his own partiahty for it, his secre-
tary Michael Hicks acknowledged in a letter that, " it is true that
to your own noble disposition to music I added my best endeavour
to draw you on to erect a consert [? orchestra]." The letter is a
plea for the reinstatement in Cecil's service of a young musician
who had forfeited his patron's confidence and a pension because of
what may have been a hasty marriage without Cecil's approval. ^
Further on in his letter Hicks writes: "You have always been
honorably affected to the house of Oxford, show some favour for
the name of Oxford." This would suggest that the misguided
young man was probably Henry Oxford, a player of stringed
instruments. Hicks's appeal — or Cecil's disincHnation to lose a
promising young musician — won the day, and Oxford was taken
back into his household.

There he shared his duties with Nicholas Lanier, one of the
numerous family of that name who were prominent members of
the group of King's instrumentahsts ; his son John also received an
annuity from Cecil. Another recipient of the latter's bounty was
John Coprario, reputedly an Enghshman who had been trained
in Italy for many years, and who was eventually to win recognition
as a fine composer. Not all Cecil's proteges achieved their ambition
of making their way in the musical world. There was the case of

1 See infra, p. 185.

2 H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XX, pp. 149-50.

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the boy singer for whom Cecil arranged board and tuition with
Innocent Lanier, another of that family. Unfortunately all
Lanier's efforts to train him proved abortive, and Cecil was forced
to dispense with the youth. But his chagrin could not have been
as great as that of the disappointed teacher. " I am sorie for the
boy with whome I have taken such paynes, but it lay not in my
power to keepe his voyce," he confessed to Cecil's steward.^

For a person who rarely moved outside Court and government
circles, Cecil showed a marked sympathy for a class of people with
whom he could only have had a hmited contact and known Httle
of their conditions of hving — the poor and depressed citizens of
England. For the old, the maimed and the impotent he built a
hospital at Theobalds and an almshouse at Waltham, besides dis-
tributing money at Hatfield and elsewhere. A more practical plan
was to provide work for the unemployed at Hatfield, and this Cecil
did by advancing money to the two Morrells, who undertook to
train a number of local people in the art of weaving cloth. ^ Sub-
scriptions towards enlarging the parish church at St. Martin's-in-
the-Fields to accommodate the increasing population there, and
towards maintaining the preacher in the Itahan church in London
were other examples of his benevolence in good causes.

There was, perhaps, no more striking expression of his generosity
and sympathy — and none that was more appreciated and put
to better purpose, than the annual sum of money which he distri-
buted throughout the prisons of London at Christmas. He was
not ignorant of the dreadful conditions which prevailed in them ;
he had learned of some of them from the petitions of persons whom
he himself had committed to detention.^ His attendance in the
Star Chamber had also made him conversant with the callous treat-
ment of prisoners who were powerless to defend themselves or find
others to do so. Prison reform was weU-nigh impossible at a time
when gaols were leased as rentable property, and keepers were not
called to account for the way they dealt with the ordinary felon or
dehnquent.* But Cecil had the satisfaction, at least, of knowing
that he had contributed towards the alleviation of human suffering.

^ See infra, p. 152.

2 See infra, p. 164 and H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XX, p. 286.
^ See infra, pp. 7 and 101.

* In Presteign, Radnorshire, the keeper actually armed his prisoners and led
them in an assault on a neighbour.

CALENDAR OF THE

CECIL MANUSCRIPTS

PRESERVED AT
HATFIELD HOUSE, HERTFORDSHIRE

Mary Phelips to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — She is the wife of Thomas Phelips, a
prisoner in the Gatehouse.* She complains that lack of privacy
has made it impossible for her to confer with her husband on the
best means of supporting herself and her family during his in-
carceration. She requests that she be allowed free access to him.
She protests that although she cannot exonerate him from his
offence and faults, she is convinced that her husband is not guilty
of any conspiracy against the King. — Undated.

ip. (P. 327.)

John Packer to the Earl or Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He began a suit to the King for a pension
in consideration of his father's long service, but discontinued it
when SaHsbury allowed him to fill Sir Thomas Edmondes's post
during the latter's absence abroad. f He has now found a way
to benefit himself without harming the King's interests, if he can
obtain Sahsbury's approval. He proposes to convert his suit into
a request that the office of the remembrancer of the first fruits be
granted to one of Sir Henry Nevill's sons who, in return, will
compensate petitioner in sufficient manner so as to enable him to
continue in his present office or any other for which SaHsbury may
consider him to be suitable. — Undated.

ip. (P. 1170.)

* Sir Robert Cecil was created Earl of Salisbury on May 4, 1605, some three
months after Phelips was committed to the Gatehouse on suspicion of corre-
sponding with Catholic conspirators abroad.

t Sir Thomas Edmondes left England to become ambassador to the
Archdukes in Brussels on April 19, 1605.
S.C.-2

John Chippindale to [the Earl of Salisbury].

[After May 4, 1605]. — ^The Mayor and Corporation of Leicester
procured a lease in reversion from the late Queen Elizabeth of a
farm called Newark near the town. Petitioner possesses half of it
at a rent of £16 a year, and he has already spent £100 more than the
worth of the property in trying to get them to renew his lease. In
this he has been seconded by Lord Harrington* and Sir JuUus
Caesar, to whom the town authorities have promised to deal
favourably with petitioner. However, they have granted some
parcels of his land which will bring them a substantial rent when
his lease expires, and refuse to come to reasonable terms about the
rest of the property. They have no right to be so exacting or
discriminating at the expense of the King's tenants, since the late
Queen awarded Leicester £100 jper annum to reheve the inhabitants
and poor people of the town. Most of this sum has been aUenated
and the remainder not used for its intended object. Petitioner
says that, " the sayd towne of Leycester is scytuate in the myddest
of the countye and thearefore most fyt for his habitation and servyce
to his Mati^ and very easefuU and convenyent to the countrye".
But unless he can obtain a renewal of his lease, he will be forced to
find a home elsewhere, which would prejudice the Bang's service
and the interests of the county. He asks that letters be directed
to the Mayor and Corporation requiring them to deal justly with
him. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1864.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVI, pp. 359 and 409.]

Robert Cbllam to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605.] — In consideration of his long service in
Ireland, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland and Sir Henry WaUop,
then Lord Justice, granted him a dally pension of 4/-. He saw
service at Kinsale and at the siege of Dunboy during Tyrone's
rebellion, where he was discharged of his company of foot. Sir
George Carew, Lord President, continued his pension until March,
1605, when it was stopped on the grounds that not enough money
was available from the " checques and difficients " of horse and
foot companies to pay it as hitherto. He has been forced to peti-
tion the King for rehef smce the Lord Deputy and Council of Ire-
land are not authorized to provide any. Durmg the Irish wars his
personal losses in goods amounted to £1000, and the recent Act of
Obhvion has precluded any remedy by law for indemnification.
He asks Sahsbury to further his suit when it comes up for dis-
cussion at the Council table. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1149.)

Henry Carew to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He is a prisoner in the Fleet, and con-
fesses that he is very sensible of his rude and obstinate behaviour,

* Sir John Stanhope was created Baron Stanhope of Harrington on May 4,
1605.

in particular to Salisbury from whom and from whose father he
had received many favours in the past. He asks for Sahsbury's
pardon " most humblie on his knees and with teares in his eyes ". —
Undated.
ip. (P. 955.)

Katherine Green to the Privy Council.

[After May 4, 1605.] — Both she and her husband are in prison.
She expresses regret for her offence and requests that Lord
Stanhope be directed to see to the restitution of " our owne ", that
she be allowed money for her expenses which amount to £100, and
that she be given her Uberty without pajdng any fees. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1369.)

Giles Brooke to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He is a burgess of the town of Liverpool.
WiUiam Stanley, Earl of Derby, was Mayor of Liverpool in 1604
and obtained from the King the renewal of the Charters of the town
in March, 1604. But the grant under the privy seal was March 31,
anno 4 of England and France and 39 of Scotland, when it should
have been March 31, anno 2 of England and France and 37 of
Scotland. He requests that the date may be amended, and that
the renewal pass the Great Seal, and also the seals of the Duchy of
Lancaster and the county palatine of Lancaster. — Undated.

I p. (P. 1744.)

Randall Walley to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He is a merchant of London, and refers
to a previous suit which was discussed by the Privy Council. In
consideration of his service in reheving the army at Kinsale and as
a mark of sympathy with his present distress, the Council directed
letters to Thomas Watson to examine his bill of exchange and report
on the money still due to petitioner. The report is now ready to
be presented, and petitioner requests SaUsbury to favour the
petition accompanying it that he be granted a licence to import kid
skins from overseas. This would indemnify him for his losses and
anxieties which have already caused the death of his wife. —
Undated.

I p. (P. 1175.)

Randall Walley to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He was instrumental in reheving the army
at the siege of Kinsale with victuals, but now his destitution is
such that, " he is with his poore children ready to be tourned into
the streets ". The lease of his house is in pawn, and has now been
forfeited to John Warren, a scrivener. Four of his creditors,
Thomas Jones, Nicholas Fermage, Richard Talboys and Leonard
Knight, have now sued him. Unless he receives assistance he will

have to leave his native country or spend the rest of his hfe in
prison. His miserable condition has aheady caused the death of his
wife. He asks that Sahsbury order his creditors to refrain from
arresting him until he may obtain help from the Privy Council. —
Undated.

p. (197. 100.)

SrPv Rowland Stanley to the Earl of Salisbtiey.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He entered into recognisance to the late
Queen Elizabeth that none of the children of Sir Wilham Stanley
should go abroad without special leave. Jane Garrett, Sir
Wilham's daughter, and now wdfe of John Garrett, wishes to go to
Ireland where her husband is employed. He requests that she be
granted hcence by the King to remove to that country, and thus
secure petitioner against any breach of the terms of the recognisance
which are still enforceable by the Crown.* — Undated.

\ p. (P. 18.)

The Earl of Salisbury to Christl^st IV of Denmark.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He can but inadequately express his
thanks in words for the favour shown to him by the King of Den-
mark in his letters, and welcomes any opportunity to be of service
to him by virtue of his office. Regarding the matter entrusted to
Christian's envoy, he will further it as expeditiously as possible
and with every consideration for the honour and interests of both
King James and the Danish King. — Undated.

Draft. Latin. U pp. (197. 55.)

John Osgood to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He is resident at Andover, Hampshire.
By an order issued by the Privy Council the victuallers and pubH-
cans of all towns are obhged to buy their drink from the common
brewer. Petitioner has estabhshed a common brewhouse in
Andover with the approval of the local magistrates, but the vic-
tuallers and pubhcans there refuse to purchase their drink from him,
contrary to the above order. He asks that Salisbury order the
baihff and magistrates of Andover to implement the order, and
compel the offenders to buy their drink from him or show good
cause for their refusal. — Undated.

ip. (P. 957.)

John Bluet to the Earl of Salisbury and the
Privy Council.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He is a prisoner in the Marshalsea where
he was committed for debt. He had engaged himself on behalf of
Lady Catesby and had come up to London to answer a summons

* This petition may have followed upon the bitter dispute between Jane
Garrett and her husband and her grandfather Sir Rowland Stanley concerning
money matters. [See PRO Chancery 2 James I, F 2/84.]

for an action over it, and to request repayment of money owed
him by Sir William Herbert, when he was arrested and imprisoned.
He asks to be granted his liberty or to be allowed to answer the
charge . — Undated .
\ p. (P. 354.)

John Fletcher to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — His wife's grandfather, father and uncle
have been, for the last 47 years, baihffs successively of the late
Queen Elizabeth's manor of St. Neots, Huntingdonshire. The
bailiwick was assigned to him as part of his wife's portion of £40.
When the manor became parcel of the jointure of Queen Anne, and
before petitioner was able to ask for the continuance of the baih-
wick in his hands, SaHsbury had bestowed it upon a gentleman in
the service of the Earl of Northampton. But petitioner was able
to compound for the bailiwick, and its conveyance was recognized
by Salisbury by a patent under his hand and seal. Recently,
upon some information that petitioner was guilty of misdemeanour,
SaHsbury had granted the bailiwick to Sir Thomas Lake. He
requests that the matter be examined by the Justices of Assize of
that county. Sir Roger Wilbraham, Sir Robert Hitcham or Sir
Thomas Lake. If he is found guilty by any of these parties, he
wiU submit to punishment and replacement. In the meantime he
asks to be continued in his place. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 48.)

Robert Lang to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — A httle while before SaHsbury 's journey
to York to meet the King he promised petitioner, who is in his
service, some form of promotion. Lately petitioner has been in
bad health and has other personal troubles. He asks that he be
made one of the Grooms of the Great Chamber, or if that is not to
Salisbury's liking, that he be helped financiaUy to extricate himself
from his difficulties. — Undated.

fp. (P. 1131.)

Gerard Lowther and Anne Lowther, his wife,
to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — Anthony Welbury married the said Anne,
daughter of Sir Ralph Bulmer, and by her secured lands worth
£400 a year. But he caused her to seU £300 worth of the property
and afterwards died in great debt, leaving her with seven children
and little to maintain them except £70 from the living of Castle
Eden. Her eldest son, John Welbury, covenanted with petitioner
before his marriage with Anne Welbury that he should enjoy the
£70 for the use of his wife during the term of her Hfe. Now
Welbury, with the connivance of Orde and others, is trying to
defraud petitioner of the money, by stating that in the rebeUion

of 1569 against the late Queen Elizabeth, the lands of Anthony
Welbury were forfeited but concealed. Petitioner asks that
Welbinry's suit be stayed, and that he be allowed to receive the £70
during the hfe of his wife. — Undated.
f p. (P. 1461.)

John Beauchamp to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He is of Powick, co. Worcester. Some
time past, when he was prosperous, he lent various sums of money
to Christopher Whitton and Simon Mawnd, repayable upon request.
Whitton is now dead, but his widow has married a wealthy man,
and his heir possesses land to the value of £60 annually. His
debtors have taken advantage of his age and weak estate not to
repay the money due to him, although he has often requested them
to do so. He cannot compel them by law to discharge their debts,
and so he intends to submit a petition to the Privy Council for
rehef. He asks Sahsbury to favour it when it comes up for
consideration . — Undated .

ip. (P. 812.)

William Hobson to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605].— Recently he imported £100 worth of
tobacco which represented all his fortune and estate. Being in
debt, however, his creditors seized the tobacco to satisfy their
claims against him. But instead of utilizing the tobacco for that
purpose, they allowed it to he in the Custom house with the result
that it has deteriorated in quaUty and lost its value. Petitioner
requests that the tobacco be restored to him so that he may dis-
charge his debts, and that because of his poverty he be exempted
from paying customs duties. — Undated.

Note signed by Salisbury: " It seems this petitioner is some simple
man that comes to me abowt Custom cawses that have nothing to
do with them : and for his swte that I wold forgive him the custome
of tobacco, some cosening knave hathe told him that I have it
who never had to do with it."

1 p. (P. 1010.)

Symon Persian to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He has been long away from his native
country and is desirous of returning to it. He left France some six
days ago, and hearing that a ship was ready to sail to Russia he
asked the merchant, Mr Greenway, for permission to travel in her,
paying his passage. His request was refused, much to his distress,
for being poor and friendless his future prospects are bleak. With-
out special recommendation he cannot pass overseas, and he there-
fore begs Salisbury " who is honorabhe reported of abroad for
favoring the cause of poore strangers " to intervene with Greenway
that he may allow him a passage to Russia. — Undated.

ip. (P. 47.)

Arthur Jackson to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — His factor in Danzig, Anthony Hungerford,
shipped on board the Swattrutter of Ameland, Holland, six rolls
of wax valued at £260. He also paid the Master of the vessel,
Onno Henricks, money to meet the King of Denmark's toll, in
the presence of Danzig officials. Henricks, however, kept the
money for liimself, and did not pay the toll as he was commissioned
to do. Dm:'ing the passage through the Sound the ship was wrecked
off " Lizaulte " ( ? Laso), and the cargo of wax was salvaged and
confiscated by the King of Denmark's officials on the grounds that
the toll had not been paid. In the meantime Henricks has returned
to his own country, but is so impoverished that petitioner despairs
of ever being able to recover his money from him. He asks Sahsbury
to write in his favour to the King of Denmark or to his Chancellor
for the restitution of the commodity upon the payment of the toll. —
Undated.

I p. (P. 899.)

Fynes Moryson to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — ^The late Queen Elizabeth granted his
brother a lease of the third part of Tetney Grange (the other two
parts were his proper inheritance), parcel of the possessions of
Charles [Brandon], Duke of Suffolk, for 21 years beginning on
November 20, 1593. To discharge a debt his brother conveyed
the lease to him. He asks that he be granted the unexpired years
of the lease, and that it be altered to his name. — Undated.

Note by Salisbury: " I am comanded by the Kings privy seale
to meddle no more with those lands in any sort during the sute."

1 p. (P. 271.)

James Hammond to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He has been detained in the Gatehouse
since Salisbury and the Privy Council committed him to that
prison, on the 11th of last February. He finds himself utterly
destitute and in great misery and want, for he has no money and
" the keeper denyeth both meat and lodginge without redy money ".
He prays that he be called before Salisbury or any other chosen by
him, so that his case and possible release be determined. — Undated.

i p. (P. 1582.)

James Hammond to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He is a prisoner in the Gatehouse, where he
has been living in extreme poverty and want for six months. He
asks to be summoned before Sahsbury to decide whether he should
be released or not, and to be allowed to go outside the prison in
the charge of a keeper to beg for rehef. — Undated.

I p. (P. 678.)

John Lemyng to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He is a prisoner in Newgate suspected of
recusancy, but has not been indicted nor convicted of that offence.
He requests that a warrant be directed to Sir Henry Montagu,
Recorder of London, to release him upon such bail as he can
afford. — Undated.

ip. (P. 816.)

Teig Regaeste to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605].— He killed Dermot Moyle M'Carthy, one
of the most notable rebels in Munster, and performed other services
to the late Queen Elizabeth during the wars in Ireland. In revenge,
the rebels ravaged his goods and those of his family and friends,
and he was forced for reasons of safety to flee to France and
Flanders with his wife and children, of whom three died during the
journey. His loyalty to the Crown is vouched for by the certi-
ficate of Lord Carew, who was then Lord President of Munster, and
by many Irish nobles and officers. He asks for a yearly pension
as a reward for his services, and to reUeve his present wants. —
Undated.

ip. (P. 433.)

Teig Regaine to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He is a prisoner in the Marshalsea, and for
the past eight days the Deputy-Marshal has allowed him no meat.
Rather than famish there, he prefers to be admonished for asking a
reward for the killing of Dermot Moyle M'Carthy, and asks to be
brought before Sahsbury without delay. — Undated.

ip. (P. 528.)

Teig Regaine to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He is being denied meat and drink by the
Deputy-Marshal of the Marshalsea unless he pays immediately for
them or enters into surety for payment. He is not able to do this,
and, moreover, is very sick. He prays that, in respect of his loyalty
and killing of Dermot Moyle M'Carthy — for which a reward of
£200 and a pension were offered — the loss of three of his children,
and his banishment from Ireland, he be allowed to appear before
Sahsbury with a keeper, and that he be given permission to leave
England if it be not thought fit to reward him for his services. —
Undated.

1 p. (P. 531.)

Luke Searle to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He is a prisoner in the Wood Street
Counter, and has been detained there for 14 weeks by order of
Sahsbury directed to the Recorder of London. He begs for letters
to the Recorder authorizing his release on bail or his discharge. —
Undated.

At the bottom in another hand: "My right honorable Lord, I
thought good to lett you understand that Mr Dell should reporte
that his sonns should loose such a bowe."

i p. (P. 1745.)

Thomas Simpson to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He is a prisoner in the Gatehouse, where
he has been committed for contempt " in that he did not presently
send an asse which was sent for by commaund from the Right
Honorable Lords of his Ma^i^s Privy Counsell ". He states that
the ass was hired out before the Council's order was delivered, and
that he himself was out of town at the time, but comphed with it
as soon as he returned. His wife is seriously ill, he is a poor man
and cannot afford to pay the expenses of his detention, and there-
fore requests that he be released and be admitted upon " the
King Matins pay for his dyet, lodging and prison fees ". — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1587.)

John Tyler to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605].— He fooKshly killed a buck in Enfield Chase
as he passed that way recently on business. He was committed
by Sir Ralph Coningsby to Newgate, where he has been detained
ten days. He asks Salisbury to issue a warrant for his release and
promises that " he will henceforth be more carefull of his be-
havior ". — Undated.

ip. (P. 1135.)

John Gardner to the Earl of Salisbury,

[After May 4, 1605]. — He is a Scotch merchant, and complains
that Humphrey Rece, a London vintner, has owed him £40 for
wines during the past two years, and refuses to pay the bill. Peti-
tioner has caused him to be placed in the custody of one Smith,
a baihff residing in the Strand. But " your suppHant beinge not
acquainted with the lawes of this reelme ", he fears that Rece may
engineer his release and defraud him of his just debt. He requests
that a warrant be directed to the bailiff to detain Rece until such
time as he shall have discharged his debt to petitioner. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1576.)

Randall Twedy and Edward Crane to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — ^They served in the Mary Rose of London
in the late Queen EHzabeth's time, and transported men and victuals
to Berehaven in Munster. They deposited the freight money in
the " bancke " at Cork and took a bill of exchange for the same
payable by Mr Watson in London, the sum being £61 : 4 : 0.
The refusal of the bill has ruined Twedy who has sjDent four years
in pursuing the matter in the courts of law. He has got into such

debt that he cannot lodge in one place more than a week because
of his creditors, who are constantly at his heels. He requests
assistance. — Undated.
I p. (P. 129.)

John Mayo to the Eabl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He has submitted two petitions on behalf
of Agnes Mayo, widow, his mother, to the Privy Council against
Henry Carew, now prisoner in the Fleet. He requests that Carew
be brought before the CouncU and made to dehver the deed of
annuity of £15 detained by him, or offer some other reasonable
satisfaction to his mother. The annuity is the sole means of support
bequeathed to her by her late husband. — Undated.

ip. (P. 275.)

Robert Lange to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He was induced to become bound with
WiUiam Crag to Henry Edmondes, Crag's creditor. Eventually he
was arrested for Crag's debts and committed to the King's Bench
prison. Owing to his impoverishment he is obhged to return to
his native land, where he hopes to be reheved by his friends and
kinsmen. He begs for some financial help to meet the expenses
of the long journey to Scotland, in which he will be accompanied by
his wife and children. — Undated.

ip. (P. 452.)

Mary Girdland to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — She is the wife of John Girdland, free
mason, of Hardington, co. Somerset. In regard of her marriage
with him, her father, John Taylor, late of Crewkerne, co. Somerset,
demised to them and their son John a cottage and two closes called
Greenballs, containing nine acres of land, for the term of 80 years.
But John Slade, who claims the inheritance of the property, has
detained the profits issuing from it for the past six years. Peti-
tioner appealed to the King, and later, by means of a certificate
from a J.P. to Sir Roger Wilbraham, was allowed to sue in forma
pauperis. Slade has refused to answer the suit she brought
against him. Since the property adjoins Salisbury's estate, she
requests to be given a cottage and some money by him, in return
for which favour she will surrender her interests and rights in
GreenbaUs to Salisbury. — Undated.

Note by Salisbury: " It seems this woman is some fohsh creature
that offers me her land to buy. Let her troble me no more therfore
with yt. But if she be denied justice and will complaine, I think
fitt to let her sue in forma paujjeris, of which let Mr Surveior
consyder and give her answer."

11 pp. (P. 1139.)

Richard Wengfield to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — The Privy Council is to consider the case
between Sir Peter Manwood and Dudley Boy land, whose sister is
petitioner's wife. He asks Salisbury to favour Boy land as far as
the equity of the case permits.* — Undated.

ip. (P. 299.)

Dudley Boyland to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He has been threatened with a summons
to appear before SaUsbury and the Privy Council, and begs that
he may be allowed to answer for himself. — Undated.

ip. (P. 747.)

John Mountford to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He obtained leave from Sahsbury the day
before to prosecute his suit against Charles TopcUfFe concerning the
repayment of a bond for £30 due in February, 1600. He asks that
Sahsbury subscribe his petition in his own handwriting, authorizing
the hearing of his case and the arrest of Topchffe. — Undated.

ip. (P. 1277.)

William Durant to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He complains that one Coel, of Shore-
ditch, " an informer, a lewd evill disposed person " has claimed
that he has been authorized by Sahsbury to trouble and harass the
inhabitants of Enfield. Coel has informed against many of them
for allegedly violating penal statutes, and petitioner has thought
fit, " out of the love and duty I owe unto your honors house ", to
advertise SaUsbury of these proceedings. — Undated.

At bottom, : " The wordes which this Coel used were these : I
have no we greater autority then ever I had, for I am appointed
and commaunded by my lord of Sahsbury to touch the town of
Enfield, and I will plague them worse then ever I did. Witnesses
hereof are: John Hunsdon, John Wyn, John Basset."

1 p. (P. 1584.)

Sir Robert Chester to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — George Leicester, a prisoner in the Fleet,
has declared openly that he proposes to petition Sahsbury for per-
mission to convey to the King the fee farm of the granges of Water-
den and Throndon in order to harass petitioner with law suits con-
cerning them. But the locahty, even the existence, of these
alleged granges are not known to any persons. For eighteen years
Leicester has challenged the greater part of petitioner's property

* Wingfield's mother was Elizabeth Cecil, sister of William Cecil, Lord
Biirghley, and wife of Sir Robert Wingfield, of Upton, co. Northants. Wingfield
married Elizabeth Boyland or Bowland in 1603, and was Esquire of the Body to
James I.

in Royston on the grounds that it belongs to the above mentioned
granges. Leicester has never been able to substantiate this claim ;
on the contrary, it has been proved that petitioner's lands are his
rightful property and not part of the alleged granges. Petitioner
requests that SaUsbury assure himself of the true title of Leicester's
lands before the King purchases them. — Undated.
1 p. (P. 1696.)

William Barcocke to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — Jordan Chadwick, who is reported to be
Salisbury's chaplain, has owed WiUiam Barcocke, yeoman, ten
pounds for the last four years, and has never fulfilled his agreement
to pay them. He has had a capias Utlagat issued against him, but
he has taken up residence in the Strand, and makes it obvious that
he rehes on Sahsbury's protection to defend him from the rigours
of the law. Petitioner asks that he be allowed to proceed by law
against Chadwick for the repayment of the money. — Undated.

\ p. (P. 1245.)

William Barcocke to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — SaUsbury permitted him to take legal
proceedings against Jordan Chadwick, who was presumed to be
Sahsbury's chaplain, but the sheriff of Middlesex has refused to
issue a warrant, alleging that although SaUsbury has disavowed
Chadwick as his chaplain, more jDositive proof is imperative before
a warrant is granted. Petitioner requests SaUsbury to provide
sufficient evidence of his permission for Barcocke to proceed agamst
Chadwick to satisfy the sheriff. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 941.)

Robert Brake to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He is a goldsmith of London, and is at
present a prisoner in the King's Bench. Eleven years ago he lent
Charles TopcUffe certain sums of money, and took a bond from
him for their repayment. Because of TopcUffe's increasing penury
he did not press him for the discharge of the debt, and for this and
similar restraint in other cases he has been detained in prison for a
long time. However, TopcUffe is now in a position to pay the £150
which he owes petitioner, but shows no disposition to do so,
despite the consideration shown to him by petitioner. He requests
that SaUsbury direct his letters to TopcUffe, ordering him to dis-
charge the debt without delay. — Undated.

i p. (P. 1623.)

Geoffrey Burpote to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605].— He is a husbandman of the county of
Gloucester, and is married to Alice Cecil, daughter of Thomas
CecU, of Garway, co. Hereford, and sister of Thomas Cecil, of

Bristol. He has a suit in the Court of Chancery and has travelled
to London to prosecute it. He asks Sahsbury, for the sake of his
wife, Sahsbury's kinswoman, to extend his favour to him and his
suit, " as the equitie of his cause shall require ". — Undated.
1 p. (P. 1460.)

Roger Sutton to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — As, a soldier he served during the late
Queen Elizabeth's reign in the expedition to Portugal, in France,
Flanders and at Berwick. During the King's reign he has been
stationed at Berwick and Carhsle. Because of his many wounds
he has become lame and can no longer perform his duties. He is
destitute of means to support his wife and family, and has already
petitioned Sahsbury and the Privy Council for rehef. At that
time he was commanded to attend the Council, but fell sick and
was prevented by his lameness from presenting himself. He now
asks that letters be directed to Sir WiUiam Bowyer, Captain of
Berwick, to admit petitioner into his company and allow him 8d a
day; or, alternatively, that Salisbury procure for him a pension
or allowance elsewhere. — Undated.

I p. (P. 890.)

John Whitby to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — ^The King granted him the office of
Steward of the Tower of London. But inasmuch as he obtained
no benefit from that grant, Salisbury and the Privy Council
promised to favour any suit of his of the like value. He begs that
Sahsbury intervene with the King to grant him the lands and goods
of WiUiam Everard, of Linstead, co. Suffolk, whom he undertakes
to convict of recusancy at his own charge. — Undated.

ip. (P. 127.)

John Hawes to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — Petitioner hves in Grimley, co. Worcester,
and is a pensioner of that shire. There are due to him arrears
amounting to £40, and a bond ensuring the payment of the money
has been in the hands of Walter Savage for the past four years. He,
however, has taken no steps to pay the arrears. Petitioner re-
quests that letters be directed to Sir Samuel Sandys, Mr Wile of
Wick, and Thomas Symons, to call before them the constables who
are obhged by the bond to discharge the arrears, or that he be given
the bond to obtain remedy in a court of law. — Undated.

I p. (P. 328.)

The Mayor and Burgesses of Wycombe to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — Richard Bradshaw, a schoolmaster,
recently informed Sahsbury in a petition that the late Queen
EUzabeth gave 100 marks' worth of lands for the maintenance of a

free school in Wycombe, but that the revenue was being misspent
and he himself left with only £10 a year to hve on. Petitioners
declare that the lands in question were not awarded solely for that
purpose, but also for the rehef of certain poor people in the borough.
£40 is received from the property annually, of which Bradshaw is
allowed £10 in money and £7 :5 :0 in the form of a house and wood
"which hath beene thought a competent stipend by the Maior and
capitall Burgesses, who by her late Ma^^ letters patents were to
fownde the said grammar schoole and appoint and rate the schoole-
meister his wages and salarie, and the overplus is bestowed to-
wards the maintejninge of divers poore people, the repayringe of
the schoole howse and certaine aimes howses." Petitioners ask
that they be no longer vexed by charges of this kind. — Undated.
I p. (P. 2037.)

The tenants of Hitchin to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — Petitioners are tenants and copyholders
on the Queen's manor of Hitchin. In the days of Salisbury's
father, there was a complaint that the profits of the court there did
not cover the costs of holding it because of the smallness of the
fines. The steward of the manor, Thomas Docwra, was ordered
to stop the admittance of tenants untU the fines had been examined
and confirmed, which was done in the light of the evidence and
records supphed by the tenants themselves. Recently a similar
complaint has been made to Sir Robert Hitcham, the Queen's
Attorney-General, who is entertaining certain doubts about the
property of the tenants and the certainty of the fines. Docwra
still detains the records which were formerly deposited with him,
and this enhances the difficulties of the tenants. Petitioners hope
that they have been examined, and the fines certified to be the same
as they were in the reigns of the past four or five kings and queens ;
and that, as a consequence, Sir Robert Hitcham will refrain from
vexing them. They request that Sahsbury summon DocwTa before
him and compel him to show such records and surveys as were de-
Hvered to him by the tenants in the days of Lord Biu-ghley, and
which will help to dispel any doubts in Sahsbury 's mind. " For
that the said towne of Hitchin is a very poore towne and the
greatest parte of the estate of the inhabitants there resteth in the
copyholds of the said mannor, which yf they shalbe so much im-
pajrred will make them utterly unable to Hve to maynteyne the poore
there and pay and beare the charges of taxes and subsidies to his
M^a^^^:'— Undated.

p. (P. 2001.)

The tenants of Hitchin to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — They refer to their previous petition and
Salisbury's direction to Thomas Docwra to permit petitioners to
consult the court rolls and surveys of the manor of Hitchin, in order

to ascertain the fines of copyholds which have long obtained there.
These records have served to confirm that the fines have always
amounted to half a year's rent to the Lord of the Manor. By
SaHsbury's order, Docwra has delivered the same records to Sir
Robert Hitcham, so that he too may satisfy himself on that score,
but has in the meantime stopped the admittance of tenants to
copyholds. Petitioners request that Sir Robert be invited to
express his considered opinion on the documents, so that tenants
may be freely admitted to theii- lands for the ancient fine, and some
record kept in the Queen's Court to prevent any future vexation
or disturbance. — Undated.
f p. (P. 2010.)

Thomas Worsley to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605].— Sn- Robert Worsley of the Boothes,
Lancashire, died in 1586 seised of the Boothes and held the land
in capite. It descended to his son, Robert Worsley, who, to satisfy
a debt due to Robert Charnock of Astley, mortgaged the property
to him. At the same time petitioner entered into a bond of £2000
to discharge the same debt to Charnock, who thereby secured a
double guarantee for its payment. By force of this bond Charnock
has had the benefit of the property and the rest of petitioner's lands
in the right of his wife for the space of fifteen years, and extracted
between £4000 and £5000 from them. He insists, however, on
keeping the lands in his hands, and petitioner asks that he should
be heard by the Privy Council and restored to his rightful in-
heritance . — Undated .

1 p. (P. 597.)

Stephen White to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — He is of Winchester, and has a niece who
is defective in speech and hearing and mentally retarded. Her
mother, his sister, entrusted her to his care and that of his brother,
Gabriel White, and upon the death of the latter he assumed com-
plete responsibility for her. He placed her with a Mrs Anne White
at Charford, co. Hants., but she growing old and infirm, and settling
in the house of Sir John Webb at Charford, requested petitioner
to take his niece back. At the personal solicitation of the latter,
whose name is Frances Carell, he sent a coach and servants to
escort her to Winchester, but Webb, a convicted recusant, forcibly
detains her. Petitioner fears that his niece may be married off to a
recusant, and so lose her small estate. He asks that Sahsbury
direct a warrant to some J. P. s in Hampshire that they take measures
for the dehvery of Frances Carell into his custody and care. —
Undated.

1 p. (P. 1754.)

William Horne and Henry Clark to the Earl of
Salisbury.

[After May 4, 1605]. — They are merchants of Dover, Horne being
also a Scotsman. Last March their ship laden with wheat was
captured by Dutchmen, but upon complaint made to the Privy
Council, letters were sent to the Enghsh Ambassador with the
States General for restitution. The request was granted and
petitioners proceeded to Amsterdam, where the ship had been
brought in and the cargo sold. They have been compelled to meet
substantial charges which have exceeded the price at which their
goods were sold, besides suffering other losses and expenses while
recovering their ship. They beg for some form of rehef. — Undated.

I p. (P. 419.)

Sir William Smith to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 11, 1605]. — He gives details of a dispute in the Court
of Wards concerning debts and the valuation of the land of WiUiam
Essex, in which petitioner. Lady Hunsdon, Essex, George, late
Lord Hunsdon, Thomas Spencer, Thomas Fettiplace and WiUiam
Kington are involved. Petitioner states that Sahsbury's favour-
able attitude towards recent petitions submitted by Essex are
likely to invaUdate previous proceedings leading up to a com-
promise solution. In view of the fact that "it is extraordinary
upon a petition onlye, out of the terme and without any bill ex-
hibited, to alter and overthrow the proceedings in open Court after
3 yeares suit and dyvers orders made and a lease granted under
your honors hand and the scale of the Court, especiallye Master
Essex being outlawed after judgement, against whom also a Pro-
clamation of Rebelhon is gon forth of the Star Chamber, whoe also
standeth uppon warrant of his good behaviour, and oweth 20,000
marks to severall men and will pay nothing." Petitioner requests
that Sahsbury listen to what his counsel has to say, as well as the
arguments of Essex's counsel. — Undated.

H pp. (P. 1605.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSB, Vol. XVII, p. 199.]

Hendrick de Younge to the Privy Council.

[After May 11, 1605]. — By virtue of a commission from the States
General he seized a caravel of Lisbon on the coast of Portugal. On
the way home to Zeeland a storm forced him to anchor in the
narrow seas outside English territorial waters. Nevertheless Sir
William Monson surprised him in the night-time and laid hands on
the Portuguese ship. The Spanish Ambassador claimed the caravel
and her cargo, but the matter has been debated and witnesses
examined, and there is incontrovertible proof that the caravel was
not within English territorial waters when Monson seized her.
Petitioner therefore asks that the ship, with her cargo and prisoners,
be conducted back to the place where she was taken, and that the

Judge of the Admiralty be commanded to order the same without
further delay. — Undated.

f p. (P. 650.)

[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 216.]

Sir James Croft to the King.

[1605, May 23]. — The manufacture of Unen cloth and sackcloth
of various breadths in England has always abided by the customary
breadth of one yard or more for white and brown linen, and half a
yard and half quarter for sackcloth. Recently, however, because
of the deceitfulness of manufacturers and others who engross the
yarn in private men's houses at all markets, " causinge the cloathes
to be slyghthe made to there owne private gaine, as also to want in
breadth three nailes ", Enghsh cloth has become discredited in the
opinion of home and foreign consumers, and this has resulted in
much unemployment. Petitioner asks for letters patent authoriz-
ing him to ehminate such abuses by the sealing of cloths which are
lawfully manufactured. He proposes to charge l|d a piece for
every cloth under twenty yards, and 3d for all above that measure,
to cover his expenses and services. Out of the proceeds, he
intends to pay annually into the Exchequer the sum of one hundred
marks and half the value of all cloths forfeited for déficiences. He
wishes his proposal to be examined by the Privy Council. —
Undated.

Note by Sir Roger Wilhraham: " His Ma^i^ beinge informed that
the grantinge of this suite male be to the benefitt of the common-
welth and a satisfaction to the petitioner for his longe service, is
gratiously pleased that the Lord Chauncellor, Lord Treserer, Lord
Chamberlin, Therle Northampton, Therle Salisbury and the Lord
Cheife Justice of England or any three of them shall consider
hereof and certify theire opinions of the conveniencie of the suite
and the petitioners service, that therupon his Highnes further
pleasure male be knowen for the petitioners satisfaction. 23 May,
1605."

1 p. (P. 722.)

Sir Clipsey Gawdy to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 23, 1605]. — SaHsbury has already granted to him the
wardship of John Brews and a lease of his lands. By the death of
one of his uncles*, Brews has inherited a manor in Mendham,
which is not contained in the lease and is worth 40/- a year. He
asks for a lease of the said manor. — Undated.

I p. (P. 490.)

Roger Booth to the Earl of Salisbury.

1605, May 24. — ^Upon his former petition SaHsbury asked him
to provide details of his case against Sir Wilham Read, which he

* Robert Brews who died without heirs on May 23, 1605. [See B.M. Add
MSS 19120, pp. 135. 141b.]
S.C.-3

encloses in the form of his petition to the King. Petitioner re-
quests his consideration and furtherance of the suit, and that SaUs-
bury hear what he has to say on the matter and how he has dealt
with the Attorney-General, Sir Edward Coke, who has been in-
clined to answer for Read upon insufficient evidence. " Yf Mr
Atturney know any thinge of his owne knowledge or from any
trew grounde or testimony in the behalf of ]VIr Reede, let Mr
Atturney use his pleasure in the name of God." May 24, 1605.
Ip.

Annexed

1605, May 18.—" To the Kynge his moste excellent Mat^e. A
service of good ymportance for the benefite of your highnes."

Sir Thomas Gresham granted a right and interest in certain lands
to John Markham, the elder, and John ]\Iarkham, the younger, or
one of them in the time of the late Queen Elizabeth. In 1593 or
1594 a conspiracy was set on foot to invahdate the deeds by which
the land had been conveyed to the Markhams. And since that
time, there are other deeds, not yet examined, which are supposed
to have been granted by Gresham to John Markham, the younger.
By the death of the Markhams the King has certain rights and
titles which should be investigated since they import benefits to
the Crown. Petitioner (Roger Booth) undertakes to discharge his
duties as a loyal subject in this matter, and asks that the examina-
tion and trial of the case and of all relevant evidence be entrusted
to the lords whose names are appended by him below. Also that
a book drawn up between the King and the heirs of the Markhams
for the conveyance of all rights, titles and interests to the Crown,
be perfected by the King's learned counsel and enrolled in due form
of law so that such rights, etc., may be tried and proved by common
law. Petitioner likewise requests that Sir WiUiam Read be sum-
moned personally before the lords named below to show why the
case should not be proceeded with.

Petitioner declares that he is 55 years of age, and had lived a
dutiful and blameless life before he was victimised by his opponents,
who brought untrue allegations and charges against him and
imprisoned him for nine years. May 18, 1605.

The lords named are : Lord Chancellor, the Earls of Northumber-
land, Cumberland, Northampton, and Sahsbury, Lord Kinloss
and Sir John Popham, Lord Chief Justice.

Endorsed: "Having presented four severall petitions to your
Matie which were moste gratiouslye referred, and in some of them
your Mats pleasure signified to ende the cawse that your Ma^ie
may no further be moved or ymportuned therein, yet concealed
and delayed by a frend or kynsman of Sir WiUiam Read, knight,
who yt hathe pleased for many yeres to informe very lardge and
farr in parte of the matters within mentioned in the behalf of Mr
Read and his mother upon a bare grounde and weake testimony for
his warrant and proceedinge in so waightie a cawse."

21 pp. (P. 1869.)

John Killigrew to the Earl of Salisbury.

1605, May 27. — Concerning the dispute between him and his
sister, Mary Killigrew and her husband. Sir Henry Billtngsley, who
has consistently refused to comply with Salisbury's order of two
years ago for the financial reUef of petitioner's wife and children.
Petitioner criticizes the Attorney-General for not having obliged
Sir Henry to observe it, and for " using kinde perswasions to him
in so milde sorte as if he were his deare ffreinde ". Sir Henry has
now condescended to pay out of charity as much as he thinks fit,
but only during his fife time. Petitioner considers this to be
unsatisfactory for "though he [Sir Henry] be younge, his fatness is
suche as there will not be fower yeares purchase geven for his fife ".
From the Fleet, this 27th of May, 1605.

1 p. (P. 1959.)

Captain William Aucher to the King.

[1605] May 28. He refers to a previous grant by the King of a
life pension of two shillings a day in consideration of his service
and the disbandment of his company at Berwick. Since he cannot
live on the pension he is contemplating offering his further services
to the King in some capacity abroad. Besides, " to traveU to
Barwick each halfe yeare for the same is both cumbersome and
chargeable to him ".

He requests that letters be directed to Mr Scudamore, the
Receiver of York, to pay him the pension in that city.

Below: "At Court at Grenewich, 7 Junii, 1605. The Kings
Matie hath referred this petition to the Erie of Salisbury and his
Lp. is to take such order therein as he shall think fitt." Signed:
JuHus Caesar.

1 p. (P. 504.)

Sir Henry Goodyear to the King.

[Before May 30, 1605]. — By the attainder of John Somerville,
certain lands were forfeited to the Crown which originally had
been set aside to provide portions for SomerviUe's daughters.
Since then his two daughters have petitioned the King for the
restitution of the lands or else for a copy of the indictment against
their father, since they hope to be able to reverse the judgment of
treason. They have been denied both suits and, being kinswomen
to Goodyear, have approached him to request the King to grant
him the fee simple of the lands, and such lands, goods and profits
belonging to their father's estate which have been concealed from
the Crown since his death, but which they are confident of being
able to locate and identify. If Goodyear obtains this favour from
the King, the two daughters wlU be content to receive compensa-
tion from him. Petitioner asks that his own loyal and lengthy

service to the Crown be taken into consideration and that he be
granted his suit. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 2349.)

[See Cat. 8.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 221.]

Attached

A list of reasons to demonstrate the justice of this suit on behalf
of John Somerville's daughters, who are convinced, as are many
lawyers, that the judgment against their father could be reversed.
These reasons concern the circumstances attending Somerville's
arrest for alleged compUcity in a plot to murder the late Queen
Ehzabeth, in which he was said to be involved with his father-in-
law Arden at Edstone, Warwickshire. It is stated that he was
mentally deranged at the time, but that, nevertheless, he and Arden
were put on trial and condemned by a picked jury of the Earl of
Leicester's men, Leicester himself being prejudiced against Arden
because of his supposed legitimate claims to the earldom of War-
wick. It is alleged that every attempt was made to conceal the
fact of Somerville's lunacy from the pubhc, and that he was
strangled in his prison cell on the morning when he was due to be
executed. It was his lunacy also that had prevented him from
completing the arrangements whereby the lands in question were
allocated for the provision of portions for his daughters.

These reasons are followed by two more to show why the King
should favour Goodyear's suit. The first is the long and faithful
service rendered to the Crown, not only by himself but by his uncle,
Sir Henry Goodyear, who suffered imprisonment and incurred
debts in the service of the late Queen Elizabeth, and left peti-
tioner, his heir, to liquidate them. The second is the stark fact
that petitioner is forced by sheer necessity to remind the King of
his promise to reward him, and to do so adequately so that he may
be reheved of his financial embarrassments.

3 T-.

Sir William Fitz William's Breviate.

[June 3, 1605.]. — " I came to the howse which is my inheritance
with a peaceable mynde free from any riotous intent, to doe my
dutye to my mother if shee were lyvinge, whom I understood to
be in great extremity. If shee were dead [as she was] then to
provide safely for my evidence and goods that were there, which I
suspected would be imbeaseled, as indeed they were.

I knocked at the gate to be lett in but was kept out most un-
cively, and woords unseemly offred me by my brother that called for
his sworde and the men with holberds to withstand me, saying
that I should come in uppon my owne perrill. Whereuppon I
drewe my sworde at my entrance for my owne safe tie, supposing
that no man but rather would stand to the mercy of the la we then
of a furious threattning man with his sworde in his hand.

To enter as I did, I was moved by my brothers mallice whereof
I had too much proofe, who onely uppon notice given him of my
mothers extremitie did com to the howse the day before she dyed,
of purpose as it seemeth to keepe me owt, having absented himsehf
from her most strangely twoe yeares and three quarters before, and
who according to my doubt found meanes afterwards, contrary to
the promise of thexecutors, to ransack my evidence, my self nor
any for mee beinge there present, and by all apparence did deface
som of them.

And beinge so entred no bio we was stricken, no violence offred
to any, but such as had occasion to goe owt about any busines had
passage in and owt at their wills.

The goods in the howse I safely kept untill thexecutors came
with whome I joyned in seahng upp the chests and certeine doores
as they desired ; of which goods I might have disposed as I hsted,
had I carried a mynde to spoyle.

Sithence all this, with what mallice he hath prosecuted me may
appeare :

By his exclayming agaynst me at the counsell table by a by 11
and by a sleight getting it awaye that I should not annswere it,
wherein he used the help of Sir Henry Mountague, one of his
counsell and brother to Sir Edward Mountague, who in my owne
heareing advised my brother to folio we that course.

By his earnest working to have me bownde to the good be-
haviour, wherein he had prevayled had not my Lord Cheefe Justice
prevented it.

By refusinge to have Mr Justice Gawdye and Sergeant Heale,
Judges of Assize in the countie of Essex, to heare and determine
these matters nowe in question uppon the Lordships order from the
Starr Chamber, whereunto I most willingly, as my dutie was,
yeelded.

By refusing to have the Lord Cheefe Justice of England and the
rest of the Judges of that courte to heare and determine the question
for the tytle of the land betwene us privatly though judicially
according to right, notwithstanding his Ma^i^, in his princely com-
passion tendring the creditt of our howse, had by his letter so
comannded it.

And lastly, by refusing to have all matters compounded betwene
us by an man of judgement whom himself would appointe, whether
Judge, Sergeant at Lawe or gentleman : thus offrid by Sir Edward
Cooke, his Mamies Attourney gennerall in the Court of Exchequer,
and by him hkewise referred at that tyme to Mr Barron Cleark
onely, and by my self yeelded unto though my brother most
depended uppon him.

His meaning by all this course Albeit my purpose was by

was to work my trouble and yeelding to any thinge tending

expence, he knowing the to peace to save both oure

respect I had of my creditts .
reputation.

The consideration of this and other his unnatural courses whom
no perswasion can mittigate I leave to your Honors good censures,
wholy desjnring peace and concord of us brethren if it may be." —
Undated.
Endorsed: " Sir Wilham FitzWiUiam." 1 p. (114. 13.)
[See H.M.C. Salisbury M8S, Vol. XVII, p. 240. For the other
side of the case, see his brother's letter to Cecil in H.M.C. Salisbury
MSS, Vol. XVI, pp. 159-62.]

Roger Booth to the King.

1605, June 7. — A further petition relating to the cause between
him and Sir Wilham Read, in which petitioner refers to the wrongs
and oppressions committed at the expense of many people. He
asks that the examination of the case be confided to the Earl of
Sahsbury, Lord Kinloss and the Lord Chief Justice. June 7 in
the third year of his Majesty's reign.

1 p. (P. 1870.)

Roger Booth to the Earl of Salisbury.

1605, June 10. — -The King has signified his pleasure on the
petition submitted by him and since referred to the Lord Chief
Justice and Sir Edward Coke, the Attorney-General, who has been
ordered to terminate the dispute in which petitioner and other
families have been involved with Sir WiUiam Read. He asks that
Sahsbury urge Coke to act immediately, so that he may be heard
and relieved according to the King's wishes and the demands of
equity, the more so as he has been a petitioner to the Attorney-
General for ten years. " Sir WiUiam Reed may thanck God that
he hathe suche a frend, otherwise he ys not any waye hable to
answer his highnes therein." States that, by the sudden death of
Sir Thomas Gresham, Sir WiUiam Read enjoys goods and lands
to the value of £100,000. June 10, 1605.

1 p. (P. 1365.)

Piers ap [ ? John] and Margaret his wife to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[After June 18, 1605]. — They have a lawful estate during his
wife's hfe in certain lands in Edeirnion, co. Merioneth, the re-
mainder descending to Jane and Gwen, her daughters by a former
husband. Robert Lloyd, J.P., who through some security he holds
is interested in the property, has obtained a commission directed
to himself,* his solicitor leuan Lloyd, Richard Nanney and the
feodary of the shire, to inquire into the lands, with intent to estab-
Ush that they are held in capite, which petitioners deny. They
also complain that the members of the commission are disquahfied
by law on the grounds of insufficiency of free hold to execute the
commission, and that they impaneUed a jury of strangers and

* Dated June 18, 1605. [See PRO. Wards 9, Vol. 170, fol. 24b.]

partisans who only accepted the evidence of a parson deprived of
his hving for insobriety, and of another person later charged with
felony. Petitioners engaged a counsellor at law to testify to the
commission that there was no cause for a wardship, but his request
to be heard was refused and he himself treated with indignity.
They ask that a supersedeas be issued and a new commission directed
to impartial gentlemen of quality in Merionethshire to hear evi-
dence produced on behalf of petitioners. — Undated.
ip. (P. 1142.)

Gaspar Gratiani to the Earl of Salisbury,

[Before June 26, 1605]. — It is as natural for one, who has fallen
into a miserable state through misfortune, to seek to escape from
it as it is for a person of a generous disposition, not only to have
compassion on another's distress, but to do all he can to alleviate
it. He therefore recalls what has happened to his master, the
Prmce of Moldavia, who v/as expressly favoured by the late Queen
Elizabeth and specially recommended to her ambassador in Con-
stantinople. The latter afforded him protection in his house from
which the Prmce was removed to the danger and prejudice of his
Crown and to his personal damage. Since Sahsbury was his first
protector, Gratiani begs him to write to the ambassador, com-
manding him to do all within his power that the Prince may be
restored in health and hberty as he was before. — Undated.
Holograph. Italian. 1 p. (196. 138.)
[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, pp. 277-8.]

Sir Thomas Holcroft to the King.

[Before June 27, 1605]. — In and outside England every ream of
paper amounting to 20 quires ought to contain 500 sheets of paper,
and every quire should have 25 sheets. Because of the dupUcity of
paper makers most sorts of paper contain only 24 sheets in the
quire, and some quires have 23, 22 and even 21 sheets, particularly
those imported from La Rochelle. Until recently these were care-
fully examined and sealed, but the wars in France have interfered
with this procedure and resulted in such abuses as torn paper,
mixture of inferior with better quahty paper and so on. Much
loss has been caused to the class who use this paper — clerks,
printers, booksellers and scriveners. Petitioner asks that he and
his deputies be authorized for 21 years to search paper sold in
England in order to ehminate abuses, and to levy one penny for the
official sealing of every ream upon each merchant or seller of paper.
In return he will pay £50 per annum into the Exchequer.

On reverse: " Reasons why every reame of paper should be
searched over, perfected and sealed are these:

The benefitt that growe by the saide abuses is only to the craftie
Ffrench and other strangers which doth greatly inritch them and
impoverish us, as is most apparant yf it may be well considered

what quantety of paper is spent in this lande. Besides a tho'W'sand
reames of paper wanteinge but one sheete in a quire, yt amounteth
to ffortye reames. Moreover such persons eyther strangers or
Enghshmen as beare noe due affection and dutie to your Majesties
most gratious and peaceable goverment, yt may worke greate
prejudice to this lande by packeinge upp seditious and traiterons
bookes, hbells and letters of and for intelUgences as heretofore have
bene in the reames of paper; and direct them as such kinde of
marchandise to be conveyed to their comphces and freindes, which
beinge opened, toulde over and searched wolde easehe be espied
and founde out.

In lyke manner the deceiptfull practises wrought by the Ffrench
in defraudeinge your Ma^^^ of greate somes of mony, which they
ordenarely and eselye effect by scealeinge their on shore (beinge
excedinge ritche forraigne wrought wares) by their secrett and
covert packeinge them upp in the saide reames of paper, theis wares
beinge lyttle and small in boulke, in respect they are ritche : as aU
sortes of gyrdles and hangers wTOught with Paris worke and
imbroydered with sylver, golde and pearle ; and ritche Paris worke
glasses and purses, garters, table bookes and wettwayes, imbroy-
dered, covered and wrought all over with goulde and sylver; and
all sortes of skarfes, hatbands and faire gloves imbroydered with
goulde and sylver. Alsoe all sortes of ffrench sylver unwrought
putt upon quilles and otherwise made upp to be made and wTOught
in sylver lace and imbroydered, gyrdles and hangers, ponyard
stringes, skarfes, hatbands, garters, gloves and purses, and all
sortes of ritche nedle workes, wrought in lynnen and sylke by
hand and nedleworke; this unwrought ffrench silver beinge the
ritchest and in value the greatest comodetie in use in generall and
particuler for settinge on worke all handicrafts as well strangers as
others. Soe that thereby your Ma**^ is defrauded of greate sommes
of mony due to your Ma^i^ for Custome, which by conveyance of
this ffrench sylver in secrett and covert manner in the said reames
of paper, being stollen on shore especially by the sybtyll Ffrench
with all other ritche wares which Ffraunce may or can possibhe
afforde, the which wolde be otherwise and greate sommes of mony
redownde to your Ma^^^ for Custome yf the said reames of paper
were orderly opened and perfected and justhe searched and tolde
over, yt wold easelye be discovered and founde out as aforesaide.

Alsoe all the reames of paper beinge opened your Ma^^^^ subjects,
after such searchinge, perfectinge and openinge, cannot be deceyved
by the false number of paper under color of a perfect and true
number, ffor the leaste losse that can be in every tenn thowsand
reames of paper, by wanteinge one, two and some three sheetes of
paper, can amount to noe lesse than ffy ve hundred reames of paper,
besides the great prejudice and inconvenyances Ughtinge upon your
jVlaties pore subjects by bad, tome and naughtie paper mingled with
the good, as aU clarkes, printers and scryveners doe dayUe fjTide in
their own experience."

I p. (P. 649.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, pp. 280-1.]

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Elizabeth Brooke to the Eaul of Salisbtxry.

[? c. June, 1605]. — By his last will and testament William, Lord
Cobham, gave to petitioner's late husband an annuity of 100 marks
during his hfe, to be paid by Henry, late Lord Cobham. Of this
annuity there is one half year's instalment in arrears, which was
due last IVIichaelmas, 1603. Moreover, Henry, Lord Cobham,
owed to the late Lady Jane FitzJames, deceased, the sum of £20,
petitioner's late husband being executor to Lady Jane. As a
result of Sir John Hele's sequestration of her late husband's lands,
petitioner has received nothing towards the maintenance of her
family during the past year, contrary to the intention of the King.
She understands that Sir John Leveson is authorized to pay some
of the debts of Henry, late Lord Cobham, and asks that he be
instructed to dehver to her the half year's unpaid instalment of the
annuity which amounts to £33:8:0, and the debt of £20. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1734.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, p. 260.]

Peter de Smith to Baron Hobocque.

[After July 1, 1605]. — He is a German, and by virtue of a warrant
from the Earl of Sahsbury and other members of the Privy CouncU
to Sir Clement Fisher and Wilham Combe, Justices of the Peace
in Warwickshire, to arrest William Spencer and his printing press,
petitioner, Roger Philhps and John Gardiner were committed
to Warwick gaol on July 1, 1605. They have remained there ever
since, despite the fact that Wilham Spencer has been imprisoned
and answered in London for all the prohibited books, which he
directed them to print, and has long been released. He requests
Hobocque to intercede with Sahsbury for his release. — Undated.

i p. (P. 533.)

Richard Adams to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After July 5, 1605]. — ^The late Queen Elizabeth granted a com-
mission for the rehef of prisoners in the Fleet and King's Bench,
with a proviso that the commissioners should appoint a registrar
for that purpose. The Lord Treasurer at that time, Lord Burghley,
the Queen's Chief Secretary, and other members of her Privy
Council requested the Chief Commissioner, the Archbishop of
Canterbury, to appoint petitioner as registrar, whereby he might
indemnify himself for some of the debts owed hhn by certain
prisoners. The Archbishop, however, bestowed the post on another
person, and since then it has been sold to various people and
petitioner ignored and his debts unpaid. Now that a new com-
mission is to be granted by the King and a new registrar needed,
petitioner asks that he be given the post or some other appomted
who will see that he obtams some benefit from it. In return, he
is ready to surrender the almsroom at EweU which he received in
reversion from the Kmg, but which he is not likely to enjoy because
of previous grants. — Undated.

On reverse : A copy of the recommendation from Burghley and
others that Adams be appomted registrar, dated April 10, 1586,
and addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

ip. (P. 1292.)

[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1611-18, p. 87.]

Joachim Vegeth to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? After July 8, 1605]. — He is the agent for Danish causes. A
fortnight ago he conveyed to SaHsbury a communication from the
late Danish Ambassador concerning two cases which the King of
Denmark is desirous of seeing settled. Both the Danish King and
Duke Ulrich have particularly recommended one of these cases to
the King of England and Salisbury. SaUsbury agreed that the
matter should be dealt with expeditiously and appointed com-
missioners to determine it. Petitioner now asks that the ambas-
sador's letter be dehvered to two of the commissioners. Lord
Kinloss and Sir John Herbert, who are urged to settle the case
without delay. The other case has been judged, and the Privy
Council have imposed a fine on the oiïenders. Petitioner asks that
the Privy Council issue a warrant to J.P.s and other officers that
they assist him to enforce the fine. If any of the guilty party be
dead, then their executors are to ansAver for the fine, and those
involved as abettors of the piracy are also to be dealt with if they
can be discovered. — Undated.

p. (P. 1982.

[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 228.]

The Dyers of London to the Privy Council.

[1605, July 21]. — They complain of being harassed by certain
gentlemen, who are patentees of logwood, in the Star Chamber and
the sessions at Newgate. Their adversaries have suborned a
number of " lewde persons " to testify against them and to dis-
credit them, for the reason that petitioners will not pay the high
prices demanded by the patentees for their compounded stuffs, nor
conceal the impurity of the latter, all of which are " soe unprofitable
to the comon welthe as most of the dyers and clothiers of this lande
complayne of it ". The Privy Council ordered that trial should be
made of the patentees' product, but the latter not only managed to
delay the same but found means to stop it altogether. " At which
tyme theie being comannded by the Lords commissioners for the
said triall, to dye certeyne cloathes in the presens of some of your
honors said supphants, sought means secretly to conveye into their
dying vessell a certejni quantitie of stuffe, having before wayed
out in the presence of some of your said supphants the proportion
of stuffe which they pretended to dye the said cloathes withaU, and
by theis means abused your honors comannde and good mtente
therein of purpose to make their stuffe shewe better then in truthe
it is." Petitioners declare that the patentees have failed to per-
form what they have undertaken to do, and that their patent should
therefore be revoked. — Undated.

Note by the Earl of Dorset: "This is the petition which theis
petitioners intended to have deljrvered on Sonday the xxith of
July, 1605, at Tebolds, if the Lords had then sett in counsell, unto
the Lords of the Counsell."

1 p. (P. 2090.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, pp. 334-5.]

Christopher Frederick to the King.

[After July, 1605]. — ^For many years he served the late Queen
Ehzabeth in the place of one of her surgeons without receiving any
remuneration. He was also appointed Surgeon-General to her
forces at Cadiz and elsewhere, as the Earl of Nottingham can
testify. During the King's reign he was required to attend upon
the Earl of Nottingham when he went on embassy to Spain,* and
this again he undertook at his own expense. He asks that £1000
or whatever gift shall seem fit to the King be bestowed upon him
out of forfeitures, so that he may meet the onerous charges of
maintaining an exceptionally big family. He has had 24 children,
of whom 12 are still hving. — Undated.

ip. (P. 902.)

Roger Booth to the King.

1605, August 17. — He is of the parish of Watford, Hertfordshire.
His former petition was referred to the Earl of Sahsbury at Green-
wich on June 22 last, and by the Earl's direction he has written
down all relevant information concerning the legahty of a claim
which the King is entitled to make to the possessions of the late
Sir Thomas Gresham, and which are now held by Sir WUham Read
and detained from the Crown. He requests that Sir WiUiam be
summoned and interrogated on the matter; or, alternatively, that
it be examined by the Earls of Sahsbury and Cumberland, Lord
Kinloss and the Lord Chief Justice, and a report drawn up by such
of the King's counsels as the two Earls would recommend, for the
further prosecution of the matter. Petitioner is ready to discharge
his duty loyally and impartially. He also asks that Richard
Bilborough the forger and others chosen by the abovementioned
Lords be arrested and placed in the custody of certain aldermen or
merchants of London until they are questioned and the genuine
and forged deeds compared. Finally, he requests to be given
protection for one year from molestation by Sir WiUiam Read, who
has already been the means of detaining him in prison for almost
nine years without just cause. August xviith in the thirde yere
of your Mats reigne.

PS. Petitioner protests that now, at the age of 56, he has always
led a lawabiding life and has never been charged with such offences
as forgery or perjury, nor suffered imprisonment for debts. He has
spent more than £4000 during the last ten years to defend his
good reputation.

* Nottingham returned from his embassy to Spain in July, 1605.

Endorsed: " In the behalfe of your Highnes, humble besechinge
your Ma^'^ to vowchesaufe the readinge of this petition. And
that upon the parsonall caUinge of Sir Read, knight, this your Ma*»
sarvice (beinge of good ymportannce) maye be opened before your
Ma^is or referred to the Erie of Comberlande, Erie of Sallesburie
and others as ys within appoynted concerneinge a former petition
dehvered by your Ma^i^ to the said Erie of Sallesburre at Grenewich
22 of June last, 1605." 1 p. (P. 1130.)

Captain George Kingsmill and Captain Edward
DoDDiNGTON to the Earl of Salisbury.

[c. August, 1605].— They refer to a previous suit submitted
to him and the Privy Council for the incorporation of the carmen
of London, when they were advised to wait until the present
Parhament met; they were also given to understand that their
request would be granted if found convenient. However, the King
has been informed during his progress at Woodstock* that the
woodmongers and carmen are already incorporated into one com-
pany. In this he has been deceived, and many carmen are prepared
to testify to that effect on oath, and to declare that they have
opposed unification with the woodmongers. Petitioners fear that
all their labour and charges will have been in vain, and therefore
request that either the woodmongers and carmen's company be
dissolved by the consent of the carmen on the grounds that the
patent was fraudulently obtained, or that the said corporation
agree on a sum to indemnify petitioners. — Undated.

ip. (P. 463.)

The Mayor and Burgesses of Hertford to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[After August, 1605]. — ^The plague is raging in the cities of
London and Westminster, and it is doubtful whether the
Michaelmas law term can be held there. Should it be decided not
to do so, petitioners request Sahsbury, who is High Steward of the
Corporation of Hertford,t to persuade the King to agree that the
term be held in Hertford instead, since that town, as well as Ware,
is free from the plague. The courts have often been held at
Hertford, particularly in the time of the late Lord Burghley, " and
the courts as yett do stande readye buylte in the casteU there for
the same purpose ". — Undated.

\ p. (P. 2050.)

Household Book.

1605, September 5 to 1606, May 7. — Household expenses at
Theobalds, with references to guests who include : Sir John Spilman,
Mr Serjeant Goodridge, Doctor Elvin, the Earl of Essex, the French

* He was at Woodstock from August 21 to 24, 1605. See Nichols The
Progresses of James I, Vol. 1, p. 529.

t Salisbury became High Steward of Hertford on August 8, 1605.

Ambassador, King James I (April 28-29), Mr Amyce, Mr Darby,
the preacher of St. Johns and others.

(Accounts 160/2.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury M 88, Vol. XXII, p. 1.]

Religious commentaries.

[After September, 1605]. — ^A compendium of commentaries on,
and answers to, a number of matters affecting the behefs and con-
duct of Catholic clergy and laity in England. They are written
in different hands, and one dissertation entitled " De Emptione et
renditione " is accompanied by the date " A^ 1605 mese septr.".

It is possible that the book may have been one of those seized
by the authorities during their search for the authors of the Gun-
powder Plot later in 1605. The title of the book is " Responsio
ad casus conscientiae ".

Latin, pp. 385. (319.)

Bridget Hungerford to the King.

[Before October 10, 1605]. — At the last Assizes held for Wiltshire
she was indicted for recusancy, and she has heard that Lord Saye
has been granted the benefit of her forfeiture. She is 70 years of
age, and so feeble that for the past ten years she has not gone out-
side the garden adjoining her house. She has always led a quiet
and peaceful Hfe and never meddled in matters of reUgion — " a
thinge well knowne to the late Queene ". She has bestowed part
of her property upon her children, and is not in a position to satisfy
the expectation of Lord Saye. Smce the late Queen allowed her
to Kve according to her conscience, she requests that her way of
life and worship shall not be interfered with. — Undated.

I p. (P. 49.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury M88. Vol. XVII, p. 451.]

Henry Smith to the Earl of Salisbury.

1605, October 13. — He asks for the wardship of Frances Smith,
daughter and heiress of Esdras Smith, yeoman, of Norfolk, who
died ten months ago. The estate is a poor one, and the deceased
man's children depend for their maintenance on the small property
which he had mortgaged, and which will have to be redeemed.
Petitioner undertakes at his own cost to establish the King's claim
to the wardship, to redeem the land and reheve the children. —
October 13, 1605.

Note signed by Salisbury : " Let him resort to any two of the
Counsaile of the Court whereof Mi- Siu-veyor or Mr Atturney to be
one, and if he can shew sufficient matter and procure an order, I
win have consideration of him in the composition."

1 p. (P. 1041.)

Thomas Barham to the Privy Council.

[After October 19, 1605]. — Formerly he kept two daughters, his
heiresses, at school in London. William Dennis, late in the service

of the defunct Countess of Warwick, tried to trap tlie elder into
marrying him by persuading her to write her name on a blank sheet
of paper, and then harassing her even to the point of having her
imprisoned. As a result she became mentally distracted, fled from
petitioner and concealed herself under disguise. Petitioner was
called to answer for her, fined for her absence and forced to sign a
bond for £1000 that she would not contract a marriage with any
other person but Dennis. She returned to her home and recovered
from her illness, until Dennis suddenly forced his attentions upon
her once again. This caused a relapse in her condition from which
she died. Recently, WUham Stuart, who attends the Duke,
claimed that the bond had been forfeited to the late Queen
Ehzabeth on the grounds that his daughter had married contrary
to its stipulations — a fact completely unknown to petitioner — and
the bond had been presented to him by the King. Petitioner
appeals to the Privy Council, on various grounds, to reheve him
from having to discharge the bond. — Undated.

ip. (P. 1194.)

[See Col. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 236. There are references to
this case in Col. S.P. Dom., 1585-97, p. 337 and H.M.C. Salisbury
MSS, Vol. XIV, p. 109.]

Mustapha Bey to [? Maurice, Prince of Orange].

1605, October 24. — ^The letter which the two merchants brought
with them in the ship commanded by Captain Thomas afforded
him much pleasure, which was further enhanced by the news of the
Prince's success in his war of hberation against the King of Spain.
The ship brought 38 Turkish subjects of the Sultan who had been
freed by the Prince, and he would like to requite this act of friend-
ship and in the same manner. He has therefore ordered that all
subjects of the Sultan who detain Dutchmen should free them
immediately, and a letter to that effect has been sent to Tunis,
Tripoli and Barbary in general. He also gives an undertaking
that in those parts subject to the Sultan, every assistance will be
given to Dutch merchants visiting them and to Dutch warships
engaged in the war against the Spanish King. The port authorities
have been invited to render all possible help in the way of pro-
visions and so on, and to see that justice is exercised whenever the
need arises. — ^Arjel, October 24, 1605.

Spanish. 1 p. (206. 21.)

Thomas Yarnold to the Earl of Salisbury.

1605, October 29. — ^Thomas Guyse, of Oddingley, Worcestershire,
married petitioner's sister and had two children by her. He was
seised of a messuage and forty acres of land worth £6 annually,
which he held of the King in capite. Both husband and wife are
dead, and the children are young and have httle means for their
maintenance. He requests that he be given the wardship of the
children.— October 29, 1605.

Note by Salisbury: " If there may be a warrant for finding an
office and when it is returned, I will consyder further of it."
f p. (P. 1329.)

George Southwicke to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? After October 29, 1605]. — He requests a pass for France, with-
out which he is liable to be arrested upon his return from that
country. He also asks for financial assistance in his journey. —
Undated.

1 p. (P. 939.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, pp. 469-70.]

The Tenants of Sir Everard Digby to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[Before November, 1605]. — ^They are resident at Tylton " mayn-
teyninge to the number of 33 householders that Uved only by
tillage ". The father and father-in-law of Sir Everard Digby
extracted substantial sums of money from petitioners for leases
which Sir Everard took from them after his father's death. He also
took money from them in return for a promise of granting them
leases. These, however, he did not issue but instead " forced them
to inclose the towne aUowinge to some not any thinge but theire
bare howses (that held two yard land before), to some healf they
had, to some scarce a third part ". The result of these forced
payments and enclosures is that they are impoverished and their
livelihood threatened. Petitioners appeal that they be allowed to
enjoy what they have paid for, and that the King instruct J.P.s of
that county " that the towne of Tylton be brought into the same
state as it was before Sir Everards cruell usage therof ". — Undated.

1 p. (P. 2022.)

John Walker to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before November, 1605]. — For ten years he served as secretary
to Robert Bowes, late ambassador to Scotland, and after his death
he served Sir Wilham Bowes. The faithfulness with which he
carried out his duties, sometimes exposing himself to physical
dangers, can be attested to by Sir WiUiam Bowes, Mr Nicholson
and others. After the death of Queen Elizabeth and before the
arrival of the King in England, he was clerk to the troops at Carhsle
who had been sent there from Berwick to suppress incursions by
the western borderers. When the garrison at Berwick was dis-
banded, his annuity of £30 was taken away from him, his arrears of
pay amounting to £20 were passed over and his horse seized by out-
laws. Since then he has been employed by Thomas Percy* to
collect the rents of the Earl of Northumberland. He asks to be
granted rehef and release. — Undated.

Note by Salisbury: " I have no awthority to release men."

1 p. (P. 1469.)

* One of the principal conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot in November, 1605.

Theology.

[November 15, 1605]. — A theological work entitled " De
Monachis " dealing with various doctrinal matters and compiled in
different hands. Some of the writings are dated, the earhest being
November 15, 1605. There are a number of blank pages in the
book. This may be another book of CathoHc provenance seized
after the Gunpowder Plot.

Latin. 4:4:4 pp. (316.)

John St. Léger to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After November 20, 1605]. — He has sent a letter to SaUsbury
begging him to obtain letters from the King to those who purchased
lands from petitioner's father in Devon and Somerset. The Earl
of Dorset proposes to discuss the purpose of those letters with
SaUsbury. He requests that, in view of his destitution, such letters
be procured and dispatched as soon as possible. — Undated.

I p. (P. 1291.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, pp. 499-500.]

Edmund Lascelles to the King.

[1605 November 28]. — He has granted petitioner the escheat of
John Harmon, yeoman, of Middleton Stoney, co. Oxford, recently
committed for sheep-stealing. Petitioner requests the King to
signify his pleasure in this matter to the officials of the Exchequer
and to his legal officers. — Undated.

Note by Sir Thomas Lake: " The King Ma^i^ is pleased that the
Lord Treasurer and his learned counsel! shall take knowledge of
this his Highnes grant, and take care that nothinge passe thereof
to any other mans use. 28 No : 1605."

Note by the Earl of Dorset: " Mr Attorney to consider what may
lawfully be don for the seazure and preservation of his goods
untiU his triaU. 1 Dec: 1605."

Note by Sir Edward Coke: " There may be an inventory taken of
his goods, but no seazure can be made nor any of his goods removed
or taken out of his possession untill he be convicted."

1 p. (P. 1183.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVIII, p. 17.]

Anthony Elcock to the Earl of Salisbury.

[c November, 1605].— He is a mercer of London, and declares
that Ambrose Rookwood, one of the conspirators of the late
Gunpowder Plot, purchased black and crimson velvets worth
£30:15 from petitioner a few days before his arrest, promising to
pay for them within thirteen days. Immediately upon the report
of Rookwood's arrest, petitioner tried to locate some of his goods,
and found that articles of clothing made up with the above-
mentioned velvets had been left at the house of Lady Maredith.
He had proceeded without delay to the Tower to ask Salisbury's
permission to indemnify himself from these articles, a request which
SaUsbury and the Privy Council had granted. He now asks that

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a warrant be directed to Lady Maredith, ordering her to surrender
the articles to h.im..--Undated.

I p. (P. 1263.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, pp. 511-12.]

John Street to the Earl of Salisbury.

[c November, 1605]. — He is of the city of Worcester. Having
heard of the late traitors and their activities, he with others pursued
them to the place of their last refuge. There he bore himself with
exemplary courage and skill, and it was his good fortune " at two
shootes to slay 3 of the principall of them, viz, Pearcy, Catesby
and Wright, and to hurt Ruckwood sore beside ". He spent much
money in having the injuries of those who survived attended to by
surgeons in order to preserve theu' hves. Inasmuch as the King
promised a reward of £1000 for whoever should bring in Percy
ahve, as weU as the traitor's estate, petitioner requests Sahsbury
to intervene that the reward be bestowed upon him, or else a
pension, as the King thinks most suitable, " which wilbe an in-
couragement to others (that expect him to be highly rewarded) to
hazard their lives in the like action if occasion shalbe offered ". —
Undated.

ip. (P. 1491.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, p. 531 for duplicate of
this petition.]

John Daniel to the King.

[November, 1605]. — ^Nineteen years ago the Kmg accepted him
as his servant and Lord Chancellor Maitland and Sir Lewis
Balantyne took his oath to that effect. He now requests that the
Lord Chamberlain take his oath in England as the King's servant.
By the intervention of the Earl of Sahsbury, the late Queen
EHzabeth granted him an annuity of £40 which he was forced to
assign to Francis Smallman for the discharge of certain debts,
upon assurance that it would be returned to him when they had
been paid. Smallman has since recovered more than was due to
him, and petitioner asks that the King direct the Lord Chancellor
and Salisbury to summon SmaUman and order him to redeliver the
annuity. — Undated .

Note: " We are well pleased to graunte unto our foresaide ser-
vaunt the some of his requests, and that the Lord Chamberlyn
and the Earl of Salusberrv shall see the same effected."

1 p. (P. 223.)

[See PRO, Privy Seal Office, Ind. 6744, November 1605, No. 13.]

Thomas Bbamedge to the King.

[c November, 1605]. — He is a sadler by trade, and delivered to
Sir Everard Digby some £60 worth of wares, none of which has been
paid for. Now that Digby has been arrested as a participator in

the late conspiracy, petitioner is in danger of being ruined. He
asks that some compensation be awarded him out of the escheated
goods and chattels of Digby. — Undated.
1 p. (P. 1771.)

William Shawe to the Earl of Salisbury.

[c November, 1605]. — He is an innkeeper and Uves in Drury Lane.
One of the traitors in the late conspiracy, Robert Catesby, had
certain goods in petitioner's house which were seized and conveyed
away by Dobbinson, one of the bailiffs of Westminster, who also
took some of petitioner's own goods with him. Catesby owed
petitioner £100, and he asks that the debt should be paid out of the
traitor's property, and that his own goods should be restored at the
same time. — Undated.

At bottom: " Catesbyes goodes. A silver cupp or challice, a
riche cope, certaine peeces of lynnen and certaine vestments of silke.

The poore petitioners goods. A carkenett sett with dyamonds
for a gentlewoman, a gylt thymble and two litle peeces of plate
which cost him xxx^."

p. (P. 1465.)

William Hilliard to

[c November, 1605]. — He was employed for 8 days as harbinger
for arranging post horses, waggon horses, accommodation and diet,
as well as the provision of escorts, for the safe conveyance of the
23 prisoners from Worcester. He has never been paid for this
service, and asks that he be granted some allowance for his expenses.
— Undated.

ip. (P. 464.)

William Hilliard to .

[c November, 1605]. — He was employed for 8 days in the King's
service by [ ? Sahsbury's] command and that of the Lords of the
Privy Council, in connection with the 23 prisoners who came from
Worcestershire. He had arranged post horses, accommodation,
food and waggons for thek transport, and escorts for their super-
vision and transit during the various stages of their journey. He
has not received any remuneration for his labours, and now prays
to be allowed some financial recompense. — Undated.

^ p. (P. 353.) P. 1 180 is another cojiy with slight variation.

John Price to the Earl of Salisbury.

[c November, 1605]. — ^Mr Barrett was informed by one of the
" rebells " whom he conducted to London, of certain quantities of
gold and treasure concealed by them. He, in turn, passed the
information on to petitioner, who considered it his duty to acquaint
SaHsbury with it. The prisoner's name is John Vizard, now
committed to the Marshalsea. — Undated.

I p. (P. 350.)

Matthew Batty to the Earl of Salisbuby.

[After November, 1605]. — ^After being dismissed from the service
of Lord Monteagle, petitioner was obhged last November to travel
towards his own country. On the way he was arrested, brought
to London and committed by Sahsbury to the Gatehouse, where he
has been detained ever since. He is destitute of all means and only
the King's allowance has enabled hhn to survive. He would have
been released before Lent, as many others were, if his Christian
name had not been mistaken. He asks that he be now released by
Sahsbury's warrant. — Undated.

p. (P. 683.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, p. 529.]

John Cusack to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After December 2, 1605]. — He is a merchant of DubUn, and
complains that he has been unjustly treated by two merchants of
Coventry. In a case involving the sum of £161, which petitioner
declared he had discharged and produced two receipts to prove it,
the Mayor of Coventry gave judgment against him on the grounds
that the receipts were not sealed. This was done despite an order
from the Court of Chancery that proceedings should be stopped.
Petitioner has come from Ireland to attend the Court of Chancery
and seek redress for the wrong committed at Coventry. He re-
quests that letters be written to the Lord Chancellor on his behalf,
that his counsellor at law be heard in the matter. — Undated.

ip. (P. 1167.)

[See PRO, Chancery 2, James I, C 18/39.]

The Burgesses, Churchwardens, Constables and

other OFFICIALS of the Liberty of the Duchy of

Lancaster in the Strand to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before December 3, 1605]. — On Sunday last Sir John Fortescue,
Chancellor of the Duchy, issued a warrant for the demohtion of a
house recently erected for the use of the Liberty. Petitioners
attended on him before they proceeded to execute the warrant,
and learnt that Sahsbury regarded the building as being offensive
to Somerset and Arundel gardens. Petitioners, who know and
appreciate the generosity and charitable activities of Sahsbury,
invite him to read the attached letter and, when he has the leisure,
to summon before him both them and the persons who have com-
plained to Sahsbury about the inconveniency of the building, or to
refer it to some other person of his choice. If Sahsbury remains
convinced of the undesirabUity of the house and wishes it to be
demohshed, petitioners " will not onUe with theire owne handes pull
down the same ", but execute any further orders he issues to them.
" Maye it also please your good honor to understand that theis
petitioners have fulhe satisfied thearle of Arrundell." — Undated.

1 p. (P. 2081a.)

Attached

Sir Walter Cope to Sir John Fortescue.

1605, December 3. — " Accordiiige to your honors pleasure wee
have taken viewe of the newe erected house in Strand lane intended
for a prison to punishe vagrant persons. And wee finde the same
as it is now built in our opinions noe waye offensive ether to Somer-
set or Arundell gardens. Nether is the same anie waye prejudiciall
to Holmeade, the taylor, except it be in his prospect which is verye
litle hindered thereby, ffor notwithstandinge the said house he hath
full prospecte over the Thames and over some parte of Somersett
garden, which wee thincke to be sufficient prospecte for a man of
his qualitie. Ffor the hurte of the workeman wee have moved the
partyes, whome the same concerneth, to a neighbourly agreement,
wherein wee hope our directions wilbe followed." Given this iii
of December, 1605.

Signed: Walter Cope, Phihp Gerard. | p. (P. 2081b.)

Enclosed

A map of the prison erected for the Liberty of the Duchy of
Lancaster in the Strand, London.

Richard Holmead to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? After December 3, 1605]. — At the request of some neighbours,
Salisbury has undertaken to issue a warrant for the erection of a
prison for the Liberty of the Duchy of Lancaster in a place called
Strand Lane. In the opinion of many members this will prove
offensive to the Earl of Nottingham and other residents, but most of
all to petitioner who has bought a house there for his old age. He
asks for letters to the officers of the Duchy that they proceed no
further with the proposed building, but look for a more convenient
place for such a prison. — Undated.

ip. (P. 1128.)

John Turpin and James Johnson to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After December 3, 1605]. — They have been examined and their
innocence estabhshed by the commissioners before whom they
appeared. They ask that Sahsbury be provided with the examina-
tions, so that he may be satisfied and order given for them to be
released . * — Undated .

I p. (P. 460.)

Dorothy Huddleston to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? After December 7, 1605].— She is the wife of Henry
Huddleston, now close prisoner in the Marshalsea. She under-
stands that an order has been issued that the goods of those

* Johnson was arrested at Leicester on November 21, 1605 and sent to
London on December 3 by order of the Privy Council. [See Helen Stocks
JRecords of the Borough of Leicester, 1603-88, pp. 40, 41.]

arrested for high treason, following upon the recent conspiracy,
should be redehvered for the rehef of their wives and children.
The sheriff of Worcestershire has seized four horses and other
property belonging to her husband, but has not comphed with this
order. She prays that Sahsbury direct that the horses and other
goods be returned to her by the sheriff. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 461.)

[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 268.]

Lai^celot Browne to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before December 11, 1605]. — He is dangerously ill, and asks
Sahsbury to be a true friend to his family, should he die,* and to
procure the continuation of the King's pension for the rehef of his
wife and education of his children. — Undated.

\ p. (P. 1586.)

James Gakvey to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After December 11, 1605]. — He is a prisoner in the Marshalsea,
and was formerly page to Lady Mary Digby. In that capacity he
was sent by her to guide IVIr Sheldon and a groom with horses
to the house of Mr Winter at Huddington. A mile or so away he
met his master. Sir Everard Digby, who ordered him to remain
there in attendance. Seeing an assembly of people with Digby,
petitioner feared that there was something sinister on foot and tried
to escape, but was restrained and threatened with death by
shooting. He succeeded eventually in breaking away from the
company, but being a stranger in those parts he lost his way in
the darkness of the night. He found himself at the house of Sir
Robert Digby, and Lady Digby immediately sent for Sir Clement
Fisher who examined petitioner and then committed him to the
custody of the sheriff of Warwickshire. Later the sheriff brought
him to London where he has been detained in the Marshalsea ever
since. He pleads his ignorance of the conspiracy, his youth and
the unscrupulous manner in which he was used by his master and
mistress, and asks that, for these reasons, the King's clemency
be extended to him. — -Undated.

1 p. (P. 1459.)

[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 270, and H.M.C. Salisbury
MSS Vol. XVII, P. 523.]

Horsepoolestone Pillory.

1605, December 13. — " An asseasment made the thirtenth daye
of December anno dni 1605 by the persons whose names are under-
written for a cadge and a pillorye to be made and sett uppe within
the parishe of Endfeild in the county of Middlesex. And for v^
which was levied upon Mr Jason for an amerciament that was sett
upon the said parishe for the want of the same."

1 p. (Legal 39/13.)

* Died before December 11, 1605. [See D.N.B., Vol. Ill, p. 52.]

Anne Tresham to the Earl of Salisbury.

[December, 1605]. — Salisbury has akeady been informed by
Dr Gwyn of the grave ilkiess of her husband, Francis Tresham.*
She requests that she be allowed to visit and nurse him. — Undated.

ip. (P. 348.)

Sir Melchior Le van to the King.

[1605]. — ^As a result of the intervention of the King of Denmark
and the Duke of Holstem on his behalf, and in consideration of
his war service in Portugal, Ireland and the Low Countries and at
Cadiz during the late Queen EUzabeth's reign, he was granted a
hcence to import steel into this country upon condition that it did
not constitute a monopoly. Upon due examination of the licence,
both the Privy Council and the Judges have declared that it con-
travenes the laws of the realm as being of the nature of a monopoly.
Since the grant has been thus invahdated, petitioner asks that he
be given the benefit of forfeitures or penalties due to the Exchequer
up to an amount judged fair and reasonable in view of his past
services . — Undated .

i p. (197. 18.)

[See Cal. S. P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 220, and H.M.C. Salisbury M8S.,
Vol. XVII, p. 610.]

Thomas Heaton to the Earl of Salisbx7r,y.

[1605]. — Lawrence Asmall (? Aspinall)t and James Picopp of
Nether Darwen, co. Lanes., yeomen, deceased, left property of
small value to their heirs at the time of their death two years ago.
Petitioner suggests that an inquiry would probably reveal that these
lands are held in capite. He asks that the custody of their heirs
and their estate be bestowed upon him, in return for which he will
endeavour to estabhsh the King's title to the wardship. — Undated.

Note at bottom: " Let him resort to any two of the Counsayll
of the Court, and if he can shewe sufficient matter to prove a tenure
and procure an order, I will have consideration of him in the com-
position."

Faded in part I p. (P. 2344.)

Robert Acton to [The Earl of Salisbury].

[1605]. — He refers to a survey made of his lands. He inherited
from his father, Henry Acton, the manor of Doyver ( ? Dolwar)
in Montgomeryshire, later sold to Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord
Chancellor; and the manors of Rock, Holhn, Ribbesford and Stildon,
in Worcestershire, all of which except Ribbesford were sold to
Churchill. Ribbesford is held in trust for the indemnification of
Churchill as a surety for the money lent to Acton. There follow

* Tresham died of a serious illness in the Tower of London on December 21,
1605.

t Probate of will of Lawrence Aspinall, of Nether Darwen, granted in 1603.
[See Wills At Chester, Record Society, Vol. II, 1546-1620, p. 7.]

a description and valuation of the manor, the latter being put at
£4660. Acton " humbly beeseecheth your Lordshipps comisera-
tion for himselfe, his wieffe and five children growen to men and
womens estate ".

Note at bottom by H. [? Guneshed ]: " My very good Lord, this
I certefy for a truth."

Endorsed: " IQ05. Note of Mr Actons lands." 1 p. (P. 2220.)
[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, pp. 90, 126, 511 and 582.]

Thomas Chamberlain versus Richard Green.

[1605]. — Details of the case between Chamberlain and Green
concerning certain lands at Wollaxton, co. Oxford, and the rightful
ownership of a quantity of woad. The case has been submitted
to the Star Chamber.* — Undated.

Endorsed: " 1605. Cause between Chamberlin and Green."
3 p /p 2153.)
* [See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, pp. 557 and 647.]

William Crashaw and William Beau to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[1605]. — Crashaw is a preacher of the Templef and, like Beau,
a prebendary of Ripon, and they are both submitting the petition
on behalf of the Dean and prebendaries there. At the request of
the neighbouring countryside and at the mediation of the Lord
President, the King refounded the Collegiate Church of Ripon with
a Dean, six prebendaries and a choir for the services held there, and
endowed it with the fee farm of such of the church lands as were
yet unsold at £100 per annum. This grant passed the Great Seal
over a year and a half ago, but the letters patent have been held
back on the ground either of the greatness of the grant or of alleged
indirect methods in the procuring of it. Petitioners are ready to
answer both allegations to the satisfaction of the Privy Council to
whom they understand the King has referred the matter. Peti-
tioners declare that, " the cuntrye is ignorant and full of papists
and have beene longe untaught, the parishe great of 10,000 pub-
Ucke, the act honorable to God, the Kinge, our reUgion and state,
the notice of it pubhcke and pubhshed over all that cuntrye to the
dauntinge of papists ". They ask that Salisbury obtain for them
a speedy hearing before the Privy Council, and afford them his
assistance and favour, " as beinge the piller of learninge and
protector of our universities, and one who hath alreadye done the
hke good worke in Lancashire ". — Undated.

1 p. (P. 2004.)

[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 135.]

* See PRO, Star Chamber, James I, 6/1 and 107/10, 11 and 12.
t Crashaw was appointed preacher of the Inner Temple on February 10, 1605.
See Calendar of Inner Temple Records, Vol. II, 1603-60, p. 9.

Peter Proby to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1605]. — He details the background to the dispute which has
arisen over certain lands within the manor of Brampton, co.
Huntingdon, formerly leased by his brother, now deceased, and at
present in the possession of his widow. After her death, the lands
are to descend to petitioner. In the meantime " divers busye
fellows of small worthe ", who have never been tenants under his
brother or sister-in-law and who have no claim to these lands,
declare themselves to be tenants of the Queen and are attempting
to procure a lease in reversion. Petitioner is the rightful tenant
in reversion (after the decease of his brother's widow). Moreover,
there is one further consideration. " By my brothers wyll wherto
I am an executor, my second sonne (whom it pleasd my honorable
good Lords the Erie of Sowthampton and the Lo. Stanhopp with
the La. Maynerd for to name Henry and personally to be at his
baptizinge) he is to have that which my brother held by lese and
otherwyse in Brampton." Petitioner requests that his interest
and that of his son be taken into consideration by Sahsbury and
the Privy Council in the granting of the lease. — Undated.

Endorsed: " 1605 ". Followed by a note by Salisbury: " I pray
you Mr Chancelour, let this be considered of." 1 p. (P. 1969.)

Richard Glanville to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1605]. — Mr Richard Staper, Mr Sandy and petitioner brought
home last January in the Marigold of London a cargo of currants,
of which petitioner's share was twenty tons. The currants are of
bad quaUty, and for that reason Staper undertook for himself,
Sandy and petitioner to request Sahsbury that there should be
abatement in the tax recently imposed on that fruit. Petitioner
allowed Staper his part of the expenses of riding to the Court, etc.,
which amounted to £60. Eventually Staper, by Sahsbury's favour,
obtained a reduction of one half or more for his own currants, but
none for petitioner's. In view of the fact that these are as bad if
not worse than Staper's, and that they are detained by Wright
and Hamersley until the tax is paid, and so hkely to become totally
spoiled, petitioner asks that the same reduction be awarded to him.
He adds that he has now paid the imposition to Wright and
Hamersley . — Undated .

i p. (P. 1882.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, p. 208.]

Sir Thomas Burgh to the Privy Council.

[1605]. — ^He is of BaUinasloe, co, Galway, Ireland. In the
summer of 1603 he was a suitor to the King for a debt which he
claimed in the right of Anthony Brabason, deceased, whose widow
he had married. The King referred the suit to the Privy Council,
directing its members to write to Sir George Carey, then Lord
Deputy, that until the matter of the debt was settled, petitioner

should retain the rents due to the King for the rectory of MuUingar
and the monastery of St. John's of Atherdee which he held in the
right of his wife. Petitioner caused the letter to be enrolled
immediately in the Exchequer upon his arrival in Ireland. How-
ever, the reversioner of these rents has attempted to deprive him
of these rents on the grounds of their non-payment to the King.
He therefore requests that the Council renews its former letters to
the present Lord Deputy,* acquainting him with the original order
of the King's, prohibiting any further proceedings by the re-
versioner, and permitting him to enjoy the rents until the matter
of the King's debt to him has been finally settled. — Undated.
1 p. (P. 1468.)

William Kyddall to the Eaul of Salisbury.

[ ? 1605]. — He has always been a dutiful and loyal subject to the
Kjng, and considers that the worst dangers which threaten the
Crown and State emanate from " a damnable crew of homebred
foes, the viperous brood of papists and popish seminaries " as
exempHfied in the late conspiracy. He requests a commission for
one year to search for seminarists and popish priests within the
counties of York, Lincoln, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland,
Westmorland and Lancashire, and to bring those whom he dis-
covers before Sahsbury and the Privy Council " together with all
such vestments, books and other popishe rehques as may be
found ". — Undated.

I p. (P. 1467.)

William Cardinal to the Earl of Salisbuby.

[1605]. — His petition and answer to the charges brought against
him by Thomas La Broch.

( 1 ) Upon the complaint of the father of Thomas La Broch con-
cerning a debt owed to him by Robert Cardinal, brother to William
Cardinal, petitioner's late father, the Privy Council referred the
matter to the Lord Mayor and two Aldermen of London. It was
discovered that Robert Cardinal was dead and that a certain
Huntinge had taken over the administration of his property, who
compelled petitioner's father to pay £500 to him, which four
merchants of Ipswich declared to be due from him to Robert his
brother.

(2) Upon being informed of this, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen
referred the case to the Masters of the Requests who decreed that
petitioner's father should pay La Broch £500 in five years, and that
La Broch should dehver him the said Robert's estate to maintain
himself.

(3) La Broch refused to observe the terms of the decree and
returned to France, claiming that he could obtain more profit out
of Robert Cardinal's estate, which he did for seven years. After
his death his widow cunningly took out letters of administration

* Sir Arthur Chichester was appointed Lord Deputy on February 1, 1605.

of his estate in England, and gave power of attorney to her son,
Thomas [? John] La Broch. The latter brought a suit against
petitioner's father in the Court of Requests, and it was decreed
that La Broch should be paid £500, because petitioner's father had
failed to abide by the terms of the previous decree although it was
La Broch senior who had not fulfilled the conditions by not
surrendering Robert Cardinal's estate. Petitioner's father was
subsequently imprisoned and died.

(4) La Broch has commenced another suit against petitioner and
his mother, and they have both been summoned to appear before
the Privy Council. They have been waiting to be called for a
considerable time at their own expense, and they now request that
either the case be heard and determined without further delay, or
that it be dismissed to the ordinary course of law " which is free
for all his Mats good subjects ". — Undated.

1 p. (P. 139L)

John La Broche to the King.

[1605]. — He is the son of Ehzabeth La Broche, widow of Thomas
La Broche, late merchant of Bordeaux, deceased. In January
160-^5, he submitted a petition to the Privy Council, together with
letters from the French Ambassador. These declared that in 1584
Thomas La Broche engaged himself to certain merchants in France
in the sum of £1800 for goods bought in France by Robert Cardinal
for the use of his brother WiUiam Carchnal of Suffolk, merchant.
Through the default of the brothers La Broche was obhged to
satisfy the French merchants himself, and came to England in
1586 to seek redress from the Privy Council. The French King
wrote letters on his behalf, and the Privy Council referred the
matter to the consideration of certain London aldermen. The
evasiveness of the brothers Cardinal served to protract the business,
until in 1593 it was decided to ask Sir John Herbert, Sir Juhus
Caesar, Dr Aubrey and Dr Rookby to examine and conclude it.
They decreed that £500 should be paid to La Broche by WiUiam
Cardinal, and a bond for £1000 surrendered by him to the same.
But Cardinal fulfilled neither of these terms, and La Broche
returned empty-handed to France where he died. His widow sent
petitioner over to England and he, in tm-n, presented his petition
to the Privy Council on the same matter. They referred him to
the Court of Requests, from whom he procured a new decree
against William Cardinal to the effect that he should pay Elizabeth
La Broche the £500 which he should h?vve paid twelve years ago.
Cardinal, however, has ignored the decree and contemptuously
disregarded the proclamation of rebeUion issued against him.
Petitioner asks that Cardinal's property should be distrained to
indemnify his mother who has faUed to obtain redress and com-
pensation for twenty-one years. — Undated.

fp. (P. 1141.)

Edward Forrest and James Spencer to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[1605]. — ^They are prisoners in the Marshalsea, as being imph-
cated in a matter of fraudulent accounts in Ireland, concerning
which a petition by Sir John Ramsay has been referred by the
King to Sahsbury and the Privy Council. Petitioners have been
detained for 18 weeks, and ask to be brought before Sahsbury and
the Council. If their intentions, as explained in Ramsey's petition,
are commendable, they ask to be released with an allowance
for their expenses since they are too poor to pay them. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 933.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, p. 625.]

David Allen to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1605]. — He is a prisoner in the Marshalsea and an embroiderer
by profession. Because of the scarcity of work in London, he
decided to go to Paris to seek both employment and greater skill
in his trade. He landed at Calais where Wyles, a merchant who
had committed some offence in England and dared not return home,
brought certain charges against petitioner, in the hope of gaining
favour in London, and caused him to be sent back to England. He
was committed to prison by Sahsbury seven weeks ago, and since
that time has petitioned the Lord Chief Justice who knows of no
official charge against him. He therefore asks to be released or
afforded an opportunity to answer any matter alleged against
him . — Undated .

fp. (P. 1184.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, p. 647.]

Sir Francis Vincent and Sir Edward Hext to the
Privy Council.

[1605]. — Sir Anthony Paulet, deceased,* late Governor of Jersey,
had money owing to him by the inhabitants of that island to the
amount of 1000 marks or more. A part of them was payable out
of the revenues of Jersey, and a part by private contract between
Paulet and his debtors. Petitioners, who are his executors, have
tried for five years to obtain payment by the ordinary course of
law m Jersey. But smce they five at some distance from the
island, and some of the jurats and judges are themselves debtors
to Sir Anthony, delays and evasions have been inevitable and
proved prejudicial to the heir who is a King's ward. They ask for
letters of commission to be directed to the present Governor of
Jersey, George Paulet, Lieutenant of Jersey, Phiïip Cartaret,
Seigneur of St. Ouen, Thomas Ohver, clerk, and Heiu-y Pike,
authorizing them to summon aU the debtors and, upon examination
and verification of their debts, to take measures for their payment ;
and to report the names of any refractory debtors who refuse to
comply with their directives. — Undated.

* Died in 1600.

Endorsed: "The humble petition of Francis Vyncent and
Edward Hext, knights, and others the executors in truste of Sir
Anthony Poulet, knight, deceased, to the use of his children. They
shewe that whereas the inhabitaunts of the Isle of Jersey were
indebted to the said Sir Anthony by pry^at contracts, as allso by
rents due out of the revenews of the said Isle, to the some of 1000^^
and upward which they have endevored these fyve yeres to recover
by course of justice in that island. But for that some of the said
debtors are jurats and judges there, and other some of kindred to
them, they have not had that expedition for the recovery of there
debts as was fitt, but have bene putt of from time to time with
extraordinary shifts and délaies to there great charge, travaile and
expences.

They desire your Lordships letters of commission to be directed
to the Governor ther, George Poulet, esquire, his leftenant, Phillip
Cartarett, Seingor of St. Owen, Thomas Ohver, clarke, and Henry
Pyke, authorizing them, three or two of them, to call before them
the said debtors, and upon due proof e had and made of the said
debts, to take such order with them for the payment thereof as the
said comissioners in right and equitie shall thinke fitt. And if in
case the debtors refuse to performe there order and award herein,
then the comissioners to certifie your Lordships of there refusall,
that further order may thereuppon be taken by your Honors.

p. (P. 1066.

Henry Hammond to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1605]. — He is M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge and curate of
the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. The vicarage of Rainham,
CO. Essex is SaHsbury's gift by the wardship of Lady Southwell's
child. Petitioner asks to be granted the incumbency,* upon the
death of the present vicar. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 684.)

Maurice Peter and Peregrine Cony to the King.

[1605].— They request a confirmation of a grant made by the
late Queen Ehzabeth to Margaret Hodges, widow, in recompence
of the loss suffered by her late husband, Christopher Hodges,
maimed in the late wars. The grant was made to petitioners who
were Hodges's sureties and had been imprisoned for his debts, and
was " an office of survey to searche, finde out and reforme the great
decetefull dyinge and coloringe of all manner of silkes within your
Mats realme of England decetefully dyed which liathe bin of longe
tyme heretofore and as yett still is used amongst the silkemen to
the utter impoverishinge of aU your Ma^s subjectes that use and
weare the same ". They ask for a lease for 21 years of this grant,

* He was vicar of Rainham 1605-8. [See Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part 1,
Vol. II, p. 294.]

becoming farmers of the same to the Queen and rendering an
account for half the profits. — Undated.

I p. (P. 485.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XIV, p. 168 and Cal. S. P.
Dom., 1603-10, p. 277.]

John Norden to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1605]. — In return for past services, the King was pleased, at
the instance of the Earl of Nottingham and Sahsbury himself, to
grant petitioner a patent of the surveyorship of the Duchy of
Cornwall with a fee of 20 marks annually. Out of necessity he has
been forced to convey the grant to Robert Drake who, because of a
new patent, has been denied the allowance by the Lord Treasurer.
Inasmuch as petitioner is bound to assure the post and fee to Drake,
he begs Sahsbury to intervene with the Lord Treasm-er to the
effect that the patent and fee had been the King's gift to him, and
that the fee should henceforth be paid by the Receiver of the Duchy
of Cornwall. — Undated.

\ p. (P. 324.) P. 929 is a duplicate of this petition.

[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 191.]

Alexander Cotes to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1605]. — He has fiUed the office of Deputy-Baron of the
Exchequer of the County Palatine of Chester for 46 years under
the several grants of the late Queen EHzabeth's patentees of the
same office. William Tatton, the first, appointed petitioner his
deputy, and for 20 years he enjoyed the profits of that office.
Tatton surrendered his patent for the use of Sir Thomas Egerton,
deceased, son of the Lord Chancellor of England, who allowed
petitioner to retain his place and the fee of £100 per annum. Sir
John Egerton, son and heir of the Lord Chancellor, then obtained
the same office by grant from the late Queen, and he also permitted
petitioner to continue in the office and draw his fee. Sir John
resigned the office to Edward Dodd,* who had procured a patent of
it for hfe from the King. However, Wilham Powell, whom peti-
tioner had trained and trusted as his chief clerk for 16 years, and
Henry Crosby, petitioner's servant in livery and clerk for 20 years,
have conspired with Dodd to supplant him in the office. Despite
petitioner's offer to execute the duties of the position upon reason-
able conditions as before, he has been removed without just cause.
His reputation is unimpaired, his integrity never questioned by
the public or legal officials, and he beheves that he "is the most
auntient Chauncerie man in England, being allowed a cursitor of
the High Court of Chauncerie almost 50 yeares synce ". He is
now more than 66 years old and has no other caUing. He has
complained to the Earl of Derby, who has promised to intervene

* Edward Dodd was granted the office of Clerk or Baron of the Exchequer
of the County Palatine of Chester on February 21, 160.5. [See Cal. S.P. Dom.,
1603-10, p. 198.]

on his behalf. He asks Salisbury and the Lord Chancellor (to
whom he has submitted a similar petition) to move the King that
he be allowed to hold his former office, even without fee or profits,
or be allotted another post in Chancery which, in the Lord Chan-
cellor's opinion, he is competent to fill. — Undated.
1 p. (P. 930.)

William Fells to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1605]. — In return for his services in denouncing counterfeiters
of coin, Sahsbury had promised him a reward. He asks for letters
to be directed to Sir Richard Molyneux that he authorize petitioner
to enclose one hundred acres of waste within the Lordship of Derby
in return for a reasonable rent. — Undated.

ip. (P. 323.)

[See Gal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 208, and H.M.C. Salisbury
MSS, Vol. XVII, p. 127.]

New College, Oxford.

[1605].— Two letters:

(1) [The Earl of Sahsbury] to the Wardens of New College.

" I have been moved to intreate your favoures for the electinge
of one John Heath,* a child of your CoUege of Winchester, into
Newcollege in Oxford, and am informed he is for tyme, learninge
and manours as ehgible as any other. I doe the rather request
your best furtherance for hym bycause I understand he stands
upon his last possibilytie, and yf by this your election he doth not
speed he is in danger to be turned out of his course, wherin he hath
spent all his youth. For which causes, and for that I wish well
to the forwardnes to that schoUer in particular, I doe earnestly
intreate you to nominate hym in a speedinge place." — Undated.

Draft in another hand. Copies to be sent to the Wardens of the
New College, Winchester CoUege, and to the rest of the electors to those
colleges. 1 p.

(2) [The Earl of Sahsbury] to the Bishop of Winchester.

" The Lady Marquesse of Northampton hath intreated me to
be a meanes to preferre one John Heath, a child of Winchester
College, into NewcoUege in Oxford. I am informed that he is fitt
both for tyme, learninge and manners, and that my Lady Marquesse
doth much affect to bring hym to the perfection of that course
wherin she was his first meanes to place hym. And that yf he
speed not now, there will be no hope of that purpose by reason of
the Statuts of those Colleges.

I understand your Lordships interest in those elections is such
as that yf he hath your speciall favour he cannot miscarry. There-
fore I earnesthe intreate your Lordship to effect that for me, as
farre as you may, which my good Lady Marquesse intreateth at my
hands . — Undated .

Draft in another hayid. 1 p. (General lé/l.)

* John Heath, scholar of Winchester, matriculated at New College on
October 11, 1605.

The Complaints of the Spanish Ambassador and

of the States General.

[1605]. — " That many officers of Companies are come to take up
soldiers for supplies of their bandes in Holland.

That the course held in the same is so pubUcq both in the levjdng
them and the transporting with troupes and ships full, as it can
not but be construed that it is done by adress of the Eongs Ma^v
and the State.

That Mons'" Caron hath order, when this supplying of Companies
is done, to erect some 10 or 12 new Companies either here at London
or in the countrey elswhere . [Marginal note in the Earl of Salisbury's
hand: There shalbe no levys in pubhck.]

That many EngUsh ships under cullor of merchandise goe into
HoUand where they become men of warr and receave some few
Dutch mariners amongst them, and soe goe with commission of
reprisall from Count Maiu-ice to the coasts of Spaine, where they
take and spoile many of the King of Spaines subjects, which is
directly against the Treatye that wee shall not assist each others
ennemys with any warlyke provision either of ships or other
materials.

That the States send divers of their owne ships aU manned with
Enghsh under some Dutch capten or officers on the coast of Spaine,
who under cullor of being Enghsh committ more spoiles uppon the
Spaniards then heretofore was done in tyme of warre.

That the States men of warr are not onely suffred to take and
spoUe such Enghsh merchants ships as goe from England to the
Archdukes portes, whereby they cutt of all the benefytt which by
the peace is to come to the Archdukes; but also that the States
are suffred, yf any ship of Dunkerke be in any of the portes of
England, to come and besiedg the same even in the Enghsh portes.
So as the Archdukes ships have no meanes to returne homewards
but must starve in the portes or els be taken at the goeing out,
which is against the article whereby is granted free access and
recesse into each others portes.

That the States men of warr having taken any prises or prisonners
on the coaste of Spaine are permitted and receaved in the harbours
of England without seasure made on such prises or restitution of
prisonners.

The States complaints

That the Archdukes men of warr are suffered to hnger in the
portes of England without any necessary occasion, of purpose to
spie any shipping of the States coming or goeing forth, to intercepte
the same ; and that it is an usuall practise of these smaU men of
warr of Dunkerke, when they come into one porte of England and
find no pray there, they shppe into an other and so range from porte
to porte onely of purpose to intercept the merchants ships of the
United Provinces.

That divers Enghsh and Scottish ships and barkes resorting to
the Archdukes portes, these take in lading for Spame and so claime

to be free from being searched or intercepted by the Hollanders,
which is directly against the poinct of neutrality.

That the Count of Arenberg geveth as well comission to English
ships to serve against the Hollanders as Count Maurice doth
against Spaine or the Archdukes.

That the Archdukes hath captains and officers here to make
leavys of soldiers in London as well as the States have their officers.

That the States men of warr having taken some prises from the
coasts of Spaine or the Indies and bringing them along the narrow
seas towards Holland, yf peradventure by tempest or for provision
of necessaries they are constrained to putt into the roades or
havens of England, ought not de jure to be arrested or staled, much
less their prises to be taken from them.

That the Archdukes men of warr have taken and dayly doe take
within his Ma^ys havens and roades, divers of the States shipping
and goodes, even to the value of 10,000^ sterhn and upwards; for
which as yet no restitution hath ben made, notwithstanding any
interposition from his Ma^v." — Undated.

Endorsed: " Complaints of the Spanish Ambassador and of the
States." 3| pp. (124. 155.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, pp. 197 and 253.]

Verses.

[1605]. — A poem in Latin dedicated to James I, accompanied by
a verse in EngHsh composed in honour of Anne of Denmark and
Prince Henry. It runs as follows:

"And you, renowned queene and prince

Take part in schoUers toyes ;
The mother of our futiu-e hopes,

Hope of our future joyes.
The goodly vine, faire oUve branch

To highest Britaine Cedar,
Next collateral!, ffi:st subordinate,

In honor of the sceptre.
To you I chandge my muse and tongue

Our duetyes to present.
But Muses, tongues and heartes accord

In welcomes full consent." — Undated.

Endorsed: " 1Q05. Oxford. To be digested." 1 p. (140.97.)

The Dean and Chapter of Chester to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[1605]. — ^They complain that Hugh Glasier, a gentleman of
Chester, and one of their principal tenants, has refused to pay his
due rent for some years. This action has so impoverished them
that " neither our Societie or Officers can receive their stipends in
due tyme nor our church gett oute of debt ". They first sued him
in the Exchequer Court at Chester where a decree was awarded
against him, but which he chose to ignore. He then promised

S.C.-5

verbally to discharge his rents but violated his jDromises. When
further legal proceedings were taken, no lawyer would appear on
their behalf " because he sitteth in the Vice-Chamberlaines place
daily as judge ". Glasier then proposed to seal bonds for the pay-
ment of the monies, but promptly forgot about them. " So that
unlesse we wold see our Companie dissolved and our church ruined
before our faces, the debt is so accrued that we have none other
remédie but the highest authoritie, that is by humble petition to
his Ex^^t Mati6 to request a redresse of this unkind wrong."
Hearing that Glasier is in some manner dependent upon Sahsbury,
petitioners have decided, upon the advice of the Dean, before
submitting their petition to the King, to ask Sahsbury either to
order Glasier to pay his debts or to authorize them to proceed with
their petition. — Undated.

Endorsed: " 1604 \sic\. Deane and Chapter of Chester to my
Lord." \ p. (90. 53.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, p. 628.]

Cranborne.

1605. — Terrier of Cranborne manor undertaken by John Norden
in 1605 for Robert Cecil, Earl of Sahsbury. On the first page there
is a plan and elevation of the manor house, and the terrier provides
fuU details of the tenants, their holdings and tenures, together with
21 maps. Twenty of the latter appear to be more detailed sections
of the large scale survey map inscribed by Norden and dated 1605.

(CPM supplementary 18.)

Cranborne.

1605. — Plan of the manor of Cranborne, with a list of tenants,
the acreage of their holdings and the nature of their tenures. —
1605.

1 sheet. (CPM supplementary 71.)

Roger Howe to the Earl of Salisbury.

[c. 1605]. — ^Wilham Watson, his servant, has been imprisoned in
the Inquisition House in Portugal, and upon a recent petition
Sahsbury was pleased to convey the information to the Spanish
Ambassador, and persuade him to write to Spain and Portugal for
his release. This has not been done, and the Spanish Ambassador
has advised petitioner to obtain letters from Sahsbury to the
Enghsh Ambassador in Spam to press for his release. He therefore
asks Sahsbury to provide him with such letters. — Undated.

ip. (P. 757.)

[See PRO, State Papers Spain (S.P. 94), Vol. 12, fol. 202b.]

Francis Honyng to the Earl of Salisbury.

[ ? 1605]. — He is the Deputy-Porter for the Council of the Marches
of Wales, and is held responsible for the safe keeping of those
committed to his custody. John Farley of Hereford and Walter

Witherley of Gloucester were two such persons put in his charge,
but a year ago they commenced an action against him in the Court
of King's Bench for alleged false imprisonment. He has answered
their charges, but the case is to be debated in the court on the 25th
of the present month. Since the King's prerogative is involved,
he asks Sahsbury to take the necessary measures to preserve it
from any prejudice. — Undated.
ip. (P. 546.)

Frai^cis Honyng to the Kestg.

[? 1605]. — He is the Deputy-Porter for the Council of the
Marches of Wales, and is under an obHgation to detain in custody
all persons committed to his charge by the Lord President and
Council until they are officially released. He complains about
John Farley of co. Hereford and Walter Witherley of co.
Gloucester, who were placed in his charge. About a year ago,
taking advantage of the dispute between the Court of King's
Bench and the CouncU, they began suits against him for alleged
wrongful imprisonment, basing them on the Statute of Magna
Carta and commencing them in the King's name as well as their
own. Petitioner answered their charge, but the case has now been
brought to a demurrer, in which the royal prerogative and the
jurisdiction of the Council of the Marches in Herefordshire and
Gloucestershire are involved. The matter has often been discussed
by the Privy Council and Parhament, but despite this Farley and
Witherley have persuaded their counsel to request and obtain a
day on which to argue the case. Since the King's counsel cannot
speak in defence of the royal prerogative, inasmuch as the cases
were begun in the King's name, petitioner asks that the situation
be dealt with in such a way that the King's prerogative be not
prejudiced nor himself molested. — Undated.

f p. (P. 1074.)

[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 181.]

Richard Haydock to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? 1605]. — He asks to be protected by Sahsbury against the
King's displeasure " concerning such shpps as have improvidently
escaped his pen in that treatise which he commended unto your
Honors hands, by your commandement, never presuming that any
thing therm should stand save what was by your wisdome ratified ;
whoe attende th (as a longe time he hath) to add, diminish or alter
what shalbe judged most requisite for plenary satisfaction to the
world, it being the thing he most desireth." — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1264.)

[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, pp. 212-13.]

John Crane to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? 1605]. — He refers to a former petition for permission to
convey his pension to another person, and to SaHsbury's answer

that, " it was unreasonable to convert olde mens pentions to
younge men ". Petitioner has now chosen Wilham Vernon, who
is as old as he is, and has served for 30 years at Berwick. He
prays that SaHsbm"y will extend his favour to Vernon, otherwise
petitioner cannot escape imprisonment. — Undated.

ip. (P. 352.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, p. 574.]

John Pahker to the Eabl of Salisbtjey,

[? 1605]. — On February 12, 1605, the King granted petitioner
the reversion of an almsroom within the collegiate church of St.
Peter's Westminster. There is now an almsroom which has been
unoccupied for three quarters of a year, for the reason that the
persons who had the next grant of it have been carefully examined
by the Dean of Westminster and rejected since they were not in
need of charitable maintenance. Petitioner has submitted a plea
to the King for his admittance to the place, and begs Sahsbury to
support it. He has no means of livehhood except as a water
carrier, Avhich he has carried on for the past eight years with the
assistance of his dog, but is now too old, infirm and blind to continue
with it. — Undated.

ip. (P. 592.)

[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 197.]

The Preachers of Rlpon Church to the Earl of
Salisbury.

[? 1605]. — ^They request that a date be determined for the final
hearing of the case which has been referred to him amongst others.
They have been ordered to attend the business by the Lord
Treasurer, but in the meantime a great number of people have been
deprived of their ministry. They appeal to him to have the matter
settled expeditiously. — Undated.

Signed: Moses Fouler, Christopher Lyndall, William Barker,
William Beau. 1 p. (P. 2018.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, p. 343.]

The Merchants of the North to the Privy Council.

[? 1605]. — They provide details of the Customs duties which
have been imposed upon coarse cloths exported from York, Hull
and Newcastle upon Tyne, and adduce reasons why they should
be granted certain concessions. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 2099.)

The Merchants of York, Hull and Newcastle
UPON Tyne to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? 1605]. — They request him that, if their bill is not accepted in
Parliament, he intervene on their behalf with the King for a privy
seal similar to that which they had in the time of the late Queen
Elizabeth. They solicit this favour in view of the long and ex-
pensive suit which they have prosecuted, and of the interests of

the large number of people who depend on the cloth industry for
then- liveHhood in the North. There is nothing to be hoped for
or expected from the farmers of the Customs " who neither respect
the honor of his Ma^^^ nor the good of the common wealth, but only
theire owne lucre and gaine for the tyme of theire lease." — Undated.

I p. (P. 2070.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, p. 586.]

to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? 1605]. — Petitioner asks Salisbury to write to the Lord
Chancellor that he issue an extraregnum against Gabriel Fernandez
and Gomez d'Avila, Portuguese merchants resident in London,
and appoint commissioners to examine them and obhge them to
give an account of the goods of Matthew de Renzi. They have
hitherto refused to do so, thereby prejudicing the interests of
Renzi's creditors to whom he wishes to give satisfaction but can-
not do so except in this manner. — Undated.

Endorsed: " Mattheo Rienzi." | p. (P. 1193.)

The Creditors of Matthew de Renzi to the
Earl op Salisbury.

[ ? 1605]. — Sahsbury wrote to the Lord Mayor of London to look
for certain wares sent to Matthew de Renzi from abroad, and to
sequestrate them until such time as their lawful ownership was
estabUshed. Certain merchandise have been seized which bear the
mark of Martin de la Faile, a baron Hving under the government
of the Archduke, on the grounds that they belong to some of his
subjects. Petitioners have gone beyond the original intentions of
Sahsbury's order, for they have transported these goods from the
place where they were taken. They have also begun a suit for
them in the name of John de Walle, a merchant of Amsterdam and
no subject of the Archduke's. It is apparent that the name of
Martin de la FaUe, he being a baron, was used to add to the security
of the goods in transit. Petitioners, who are EngHshmen, request
that they be allowed to deal by ordinary course of law with John
de Walle. — Undated.

- T> (P 1138 )

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, p. 594.]

Anne Somerville to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? 1605]. — ^The King has referred her suit, concerning a pension
of £50 annually for hfe, to SaHsbury and the Privy Council. The
prosecution of the suit has reduced her to great poverty, but in
view of the fact that her sister has been given a similar pension,*
she asks SaHsbury to support her petition. — Undated.

i p. (P. 1059.)

* Elizabeth Somerville was granted a pension of £50 for life on May 14,
1605. [See Cal. S.P. Dom.. 1603-10, p. 217 and Cal. S.P. Dom., Addenda 1580-
1625, p. 461. See also H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, p. 161.]

Edwaud Lylle to the Earl of Salisbuby.

[ ? 1605]. — Salisbury had been pleased to speak to the Venetian
Ambassadors then in England about a case affecting Hugh
Whitbrooke, and to discuss it in letters to the Enghsh Ambassador
in Venice. These letters were conveyed by a messenger to Venice
last July, and he has since returned with the information that if the
King sent a word to the Signory of Venice, the matter would be
effected. He requests Sahsbury to procure the requisite letters
from the King. — Undated.

ip. (P. 316.)

[See Cal. S.P. Venetian, 1603-7, pp. 272 and 352-3.]

Allen Maingard, Servan and Lewes Grave of St. Malo
to the Privy Council.

[? 1605]. — Their ship was seized at sea in 1601, when it was
saihng from Spain with a cargo valued at £4000, by the Pearl of
Weymouth, owned by WOham Walton and Thomas Geere, and
captained by Edward Veale. Petitioners commenced suit in the
Court of Admiralty for the restitution of ship and cargo, and after
two and a half years, judgment was given in their favour. Walton
and Geere appealed against it, despite the protest made by the
French Ambassador based on a Royal proclamation against such
appeals, and the matter was referred to a special commission whose
members were Lord Kinloss, Sir John Fortescue and others. The
commission upheld the vahdity of the original judgment, and
ordered Sir Juhus Caesar, who had been the judge in the case,
to grant execution for the recovery of money and legal charges.
Caesar had only allowed £13 for the expenses, although petitioners
had disbursed £300 in prosecuting their suit over four years.
Walton and Geere have obtained a further prohibition of the
execution of this latest order. Petitioners request that the Council
authorize them to proceed immediately with the execution of the
commission's directive. — Undated.

ip. (P. 305.)

Matthew Clayton, Elizabeth his wife, and
Margaret Bowman, widow, to the Earl of Salisbury.

[c. 1605]. — Edward Taylor, father of the said Elizabeth and
Margaret who are his co-heirs, was seised of the half of a tenement
in Westminster called the Brewhouse. Because of his debts he
was forced to mortgage his interest in the property to WiUiam
Strachey for £187, the land itself being worth over £1000 at that
time. When Taylor failed to discharge his debt on the day stipu-
lated, Strachey occupied the premises and evicted him and his
daughters. Since then Strachey has died, but petitioners can
obtain no relief from his heirs. They ask that Sahsbury hear their
case or refer it to some whose integrity can be rehed upon to deal

justly with them, since they themselves have not the means to
take legal proceedings.* — Undated.
I p. (P. 455.)

Jean Jacques Flechamer to .

[1605 or before]. — Some three months ago the late Treasurer
to the Archdukes sent various items of furniture to Dunkirk to be
shipped jfrom there to Spain for the use of Don Juan Carillo,
resident secretary to the Archdukes at the Court of Spain. These
were inadvertently transported to London, where they are now
being detained in the Customs House and a duty demanded for
them. Flechamer, who has succeeded as Treasurer, requests that
a letter of explanation be sent to the Earl of Sahsbury, so that he
may order the Customs officials to dehver the furniture to Matthew
Renzi,t merchant stranger, resident in London, and that the latter
may forward them to their proper destination without payment
of duty. — Undated.

French. Endorsed ."A request of the Treasurer of the Archduks
household." i p. (129. 5.)

Oliver Lloyd to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1605 or after]. — He is a servant to Thomas Graves, Keeper of
the Council Chamber, and has spent a long time in that Chamber,
a part of it in the service of Humphrey Rogers before entering
Graves's employment. He has never sought preferment, but hear-
ing that Thomas Mathew, Salisbury's servant, has recently died,
he asks to be appointed to his place. — Undated.

\ p. (P. 1585.)

[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 215.]

Deborah Mer\'yn to the Earl of Salisbury.

[ ? 1605 or after]. — She is writing on behalf of her son, a King's
ward. J She entreated her brother Dunch to sohcit from Sahsbury
a lease of a manor in Somerset, inherited by her son from his
grandmother, recently deceased. She asked him to pay £150 to
any persons recommended by Sahsbury, and to recoup himself out
of the profits of that manor. Dunch was directed by Perceval to
procure a survey of the manor. He produced the required docu-
ment, but has been told that Sahsbury will give his answer next
term. Her son has only £6:13:4 a year, and petitioner hopes that
Sahsbury will augment it in this laanner.— Undated.

Endorsed : " Lady Mer^'yn to my Lord." Seal.

1 p. (P. 1974.)

* Matthew and Elizabeth Clayton and Margaret Bowman exhibited a bill
of complaint against William Strachey in the Coiu-t of Chancery in 1605. [See
PRO, Chancery 2 James I, C 21/83.]

t Renzi was declared a bankrupt in 1605 and fled to Ireland. [See H.M.C.
Salisbury MSS, Vol. X\T:I, pp. 593, 594 and Vol. XVIII, p. pp. 10, 24 and 239.]

+ He was still a ward in November, 1605. [See PEO, Wards 9, Vol. 348,
under Dunche.]

Wardship.

[Before 1606]. — ^Thomas Snelling declares that John Snelling, a
ward, has an estate of £40 a year, and that after his grandmother's
death he will inherit property worth £50. He has nine younger
brothers and sisters who are to be provided for. There can be
little profit from his land, since he is within three months of attain-
ing his majority.* He is Thomas SneUing's next neighbour, " and
one to whome I would be very desirous to plesure without seldng
any profit to my selfe ". — Undated.

Endorsed: "Sir Wilham Strowde. June. Snellmg." | p. (P.
2217.)

Medical Prescription.

[? Before 1606]. — Prescription signed by Richard Smythe and
Thomas Langton.f — Undated.

Endorsed : " Mr Dr Smyth and Mr Dr Langhtons opinion." 1 p.
(200. 134.)

John, Bishop of Oxford, to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before January, 1605-6]. — ^The late Queen Ehzabeth, in com-
pensation for certain lands appropriated by her from the Bishopric
of Oxford, granted by letters patent in 1590 the rectory of Burford
and the chapel of Fulbrook, formerly demised to Mary Haman and
WiUiam Johnson for the term of their Uves. This lease came into
the possession of WUham Moseley, who is now trjdng to persuade
the King's Commissioners for Leases to award a new grant of the
rectory to Clement Paman and John Mallos,J rather than procure
one from petitioner with whom he should have compounded. To
prevent any loss of the premises to petitioner and successors, he
requests that order be given for the stay of that grant at the signet
and privy seal, until petitioner produces proof of his lawful title to
the premises in the next legal term. — Undated.

p. (P. 1589.

Thomas Higginson to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before January 9, 1605-6]. — During the time of his recent
employment with Proclamations in the King's special service, he
was credibly informed that certain prominent Cathohcs in Shrop-
shire and Flintshire met together on the first day of Parhament.
Their names were Richard Banister of Wenne, Francis Manering
of Welshampton, Richard Morgan of Betfield, who was regarded
as the priest who sang mass for them, and one Kinaston, of Braydon
Heath. They assembled at Manering's house, and newly-shod

* He would appear to have reached his majority before 1606 since he was
old enough to be a party to an agreement on the conveyance of land to him dated
February 13, 1605-6. [See PRO, Chancery Patent Bolls, C 66/1779.]

t Died in 1606.

Î It was granted to them by letters patent dated January 8, 1605-6. [See
PRO, Chancery Patent Rolls, C 66/1664.]

horses were sent to them at that rendezvous. It was also reported
to him that Thomas Higginson, who had converted all his means
into money, joined them there, and that it was believed Robert
Winter* and Stephen Littleton were being hidden and protected by
them. Petitioner considered it his duty to acquaint Salisbury with
these reported items of information. — Undated.
ip. (P. 347.)

John Harries to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After January 9, 1605-6]. — He is one of the Clerks of the King's
Customs. Ten years ago he lent £200 to Robert Winter of Hud-
dington upon his bond, with the expectation of receiving from him
the inheritance of a farm called Evelenche, in which petitioner had
estate for the term of his wife's life, paying the yearly rent of £20
bequeathed to Thomas Winter during his hfe. Three years ago
petitioner discovered that the payment was not regular, and that
there was no likelihood of the bargain being performed as anti-
cipated. He therefore sued Robert Winter for the debt, but now
Winter, with other traitors, has been arrested for high treason,
with the consequent forfeiture of all his lands and goods. Peti-
tioner requests that he be repaid the debt, and that Sahsbury
intervene with the King for the money to be paid out of the
confiscated lands. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1588.)

William Bradley to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After January 9, 1605-6]. — He took great trouble and pains in
the apprehension of the traitors Robert Winter and Stephen
Littleton, and gives a detailed account of the part he played in
their detection and arrest at the house of Mrs Meriall (Muriel)
Littleton at Hagley, co. Worcester. He was assisted by John
Finwood and Thomas Haselwood, and with their help he was able
to raise the town and villages in the vicinity and seize the traitors,
before taking the road to London to convey the news of their
capture to Sahsbury. He requests that he be rewarded for his
services and expenses. He is in the service of Sir Henry Bromley.
— Undated.

ip. (P. 342.)

William Poynter to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After January 9, 1605-6]. — He is of Hartlebury, co. Worcester,
and was the means of revealing the whereabouts of Littleton and
Winter to the authorities, after being forcibly detained by the two
who were hiding in a barn belonging to one Perks, of Hagley, in
the same shire. Eventually the two fugitives had been arrested
in the house of Mrs Littleton. He had also denounced Margaret
Perks, daughter of the above, and Thomas Burford for providing

* Winter was arrested on January 9, 1606. [See Ross Williamson The
Gunpowder Flot, note on p. 188.]

the traitors with provisions. He asks that he be rewarded by the
King for this service. — Undated.
1 p. (P. 331.)

John Ferrer and Gilbert Littleton to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[After January 9, 1605-6]. — They beg Sahsbury to have com-
passion on Stephen Littleton who is charged with conspiracy, and
to exercise his influence to procure him a pardon. They request
that, as brothers, they be allowed access to him whose iimocence,
if proved, will save him from sentence of death. — Undated.

fp. (P. 330.)

William Poynter to the Earl of Salisbury,
[After January 13, 1605-6]. — He was injured by John, brother
of Thomas Burford, and later invited to Stourbridge to come to an
agreement on the matter. He returned with Perks with the
intention of lodging at his house, but Perks, alleging some alter-
cation between himself and his father, advised petitioner to find
accommodation in an alehouse. Instead petitioner went to a
barn belonging to Perks, and there came across Winter and Little-
ton. They seized and kept him prisoner for many days, and during
that time they were provided with food by Burford. By a trick
he succeeded in escaping from them and immediately made for the
house of Sir Richard Walsh, High Sheriff of Worcestershire, where
he revealed the hiding-place of Winter and Littleton. Eventually
the two were arrested in IVIrs Littleton's house. Later, Perks, his
sister and Burford were examined by IVIr Jones, Mr Fleet and IVIr
Ingram, J.P.s and denied their offence until openly confronted
and accused by petitioner. Inasmuch as he was instrumental, at
the risk of his hfe, in having Winter and Littleton caught, and has
attended in London for five weeks at his own expense, he asks that
he be granted the King's reward for his loyal services. — Undated.
Ip. (P. 1185.)
[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVIII, p. 17.]

The Wherrymen and Watermen of London to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[After January 24, 1605-6].— In the Parhament held in the first
year of the King's reign, a statute was passed prohibiting wherry-
men and watermen from keeping apprentices or servants to row, the
only exceptions being those who had been apprenticed to the trade
for five years. A bill has now been presented to Parhament for the
repeal of this prohibition by the company, since it threatens to des-
troy the hvelihood of its members, " who were free before anie law
was hmitinge how longe a waterman should serve ". The opposi-
tion is being organized by a minority of contentious members of the
company, who have no credit and who are incapable of holding
positions of trust and responsibility, " such as havinge bene servants

now seeke the utter undoinge of their aged masters that brought
them upp ". These have found means to get the bill altered in
the House of Commons to the effect that none shall keep servants
or apprentices but such as have rowed on the Thames, and were
free and kept servants for a period of 15 years before the making
of the act. If the biU should pass in this form, it would prejudice
the interests of the company, and petitioners ask that the bill be
not made retrospective further than the beginning of the King's
reign . — Undated .

1 p. (P. 2097.)

[See The Journals of the House of Commons, Vol. I, p. 259.]

Thomas Landale to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before January 30, 1605-6]. — He is of Tilton, Leicestershire,
and is a tenant to Sir Everard Digby.* He occupied a tenement
and two yardlands in Tilton, which had been leased to him by Mr
Erdeswick, deceased, who married Sir Everard Digby's mother,
and whose son is now a Kmg's ward. For this lease petitioner paid
£80, and of the term of 21 years there are still 16 to run. Sir
Everard, however, compounded with Erdeswick and enclosed the
property, but refused to allow petitioner any allowance or com-
pensation for the land which he forcibly took from him, despite the
fact that petitioner's wife was his old nurse. Petitioner has
pressed his suit for rehef in the Court of Chancery, where the Lord
Chancellor is now trying it, but Sir Everard's participation in the
late conspiracy and his arrest signify that there is httle hope for
petitioner to obtain any. He therefore requests that his case be
examined by Sahsbury and that his former land be restored to
him. — Undated.

i p. (P. 1458.)

John Winch to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before January 30, 1605-6]. — Sir Everard Digby, one of the
conspirators in the late plot, owes him £400 for which he can
obtain Httle remedy. In the circumstances and in view of the fact
that he lent the late Queen EUzabeth £100 in 1598 upon the warrant
of the then Lord Mayor, Sir Stephen Soames, which was never
repaid, besides later loans to the King, he asks that Digby's debt
to him be repaid out of his forfeited goods and estates. — Undated.

ip. (P. 349.)

Arthur Mainwaring to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? January, 1605-6]. — ^The King has recommended Hugh
Mainwaring, counseUor-at-law, to be Recorder of Chester, but some
of the Aldermen have objected on the grounds that he is not a free-
man of that city and is therefore, according to its charter, not
eUgible for the post. A petition to that effect has been forwarded
to Sahsbury, and petitioner requests that the whole matter be

* Executed on January 30, 1606.

determined by fit persons of Salisbury's choice. He mentions
Justice Warburton as being an Alderman of Chester and well
acquainted with the candidates for the office and with the privileges
of the city. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 334.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVIII, p. 22.]

The Earl of Salisbury to the Society of the
Middle Temple.

[Before February, 1605-6]. — He is writing on behalf of Lord
Windsor, the King's ward, who has been deprived of the chamber
in the Middle Temple which his ancestors have possessed for almost
150 years. In his capacity as Master of the Wards, it is incumbent
upon him to protect the interests and rights of all wards. He
therefore advises the Society to reconsider their decision and allow
Lord Windsor his chamber, at least during his minority, so that
none of his friends may complain of injustice done to him. He
requests to be informed of their compHance with his proposal, or
else of the reasons which impel them to withhold the chamber.* —
Undated.

Endorsed: "Minute to the Bench and Society of the Middle
Temple in the behalf of the Lord Wyndsor." Draft. 2 pp.
(P. 1955.)

John Morgan to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before February, 1605-6]. — ^There recently happened a riot in
Cardiff in which Thomas Lewis was killed, by whom it is not
definitely known. Nevertheless, Edward Kemys, High Sheriff
of Glamorganshire,t arrested petitioner for murder out of sheer
malice, and placed him in irons although he had been grievously
wounded in the affray. The Sheriff is a kinsman of the dead man
and intends to bring petitioner to trial in the next Glamorganshire
Assizes. He proposes to return his own jury, and petitioner feels
his life to be in danger. He denies the charge or that any quarrel
existed between him and the murdered man. He asks that a
letter be sent by Sahsbury and the Privy Council to Sir John Croke
and Mr Tate, the Justices of Assize, to stay the trial at the next
sessions and to examine the case before petitioner be committed
for trial. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 656.)

* At a Parliament held by the Society on February 7, 1606, Thomas, Lord
Windsor, was admitted to "le owld Parliament chamber " lately the chamber
of his father, deceased, to hold it until he was 21 years of age, without any for-
feiture and then according to the orders and statutes; fine, £5. [See Middle
Temple Records, Vol. II, 1603-49, p. 462.]

t Edward Kemys was Sheriff from November 24, 1604 to February 2,
1605-6.

The Mayor and Aldermen of Hull to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[February 4, 1605-6]. — They understand that the King is pleased
to grant means of reUef to their neighbours who have suffered
grievous losses because of Danish action, and which they have had
to endure for the past seven years. Petitioners again, as they have
done before, request Sahsbury's assistance in bringing the pro-
tracted suit prosecuted by these unfortunate people to a close in a
satisfactory manner. — 1605.

Signed: seven signatures. Imperfect. Endorsed: "4Februarie,
1605. Mayor and Aldermen of Hull to my lord." | p. (P. 1989.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVIII, p. 253.]

Sir Richard Walsh to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After February, 1605-6]. — He was lately Sheriff of Worcester-
shire,* and the reward for his services in arresting the recent
traitors in that shire was referred to SaHsbury. He feels that he
ought not to urge him to formulate a suit on his behalf, and his
friends have advised him to sohcit the King for the farm of some
assart lands. He asks Salisbury to favour the suit, and to exercise
his influence in the determination of the annual value of the assart
lands to be awarded him. — Undated.

I p. (P. 892.)

Ralph Cox to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After March 3, 1605-6]. — He requests to be given the benefit
of the wardship and marriage of the heir of Laurence Haddock, late
of Horton, co. Yorks., deceased. — Undated.

ip. (P. 432.)

[Commission for Inq. P.M. issued on March 3, 1605-6. See
PRO, Wards 9, Vol. 170, fo. 59b.]

The foreign curriers to the Privy Council.

[Before March 14, 1605-6].— They refer to the action of the
freemen curriers in procuring an act in the late Parliament which
curtailed the trade and livehhood of the foreign curriers. In
response to a petition from the latter, the Privy Council referred
the matter to the Lord Mayor of London with the object of either
affiliating the foreign to the freemen curriers, or achieving some
modus Vivendi between them. The Lord Mayor failed in his
mediation and matters have been allowed to drift, with the result
that petitioners and their famihes face ruin and starvation. Since
it appears that the freemen curriers " are of an ungodlye dis-
position " petitioners beg the Council to issue an order that they
be not interfered with, nor the shoemakers who employ them
molested, until their case be raised again in ParHament. — Undated.

p. (196. 114.

[See The Journals of the House of Commons, Vol. I, p. 352.]

* He relinquished this office on February 2, 1606.

The same to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before March 14, 1605-6]. — In the late ParUament an act was
passed which declared that, " noe artifecers usinge, workinge or
cuttinge of leather dweUing withm the saide Citty [of London]
and three miles compas of the same shoulde putt anye leather to
be corried to anye person but onlie to suche as were fremen of the
saide Companie of Corriors of London ". This prohibition has
threatened all curriers Uving within that radius with complete
ruin and the consequent starvation of their famihes. They beg
Sahsbury to take the necessary measures in the Parhament, which
has now assembled, to rescind the act, so that they may be allowed
to earn their living at their old trade which they and their pre-
decessors have practised since time immemorial. They appeal for
his assistance in respect that they are too poor to prefer a bill in
Parhament themselves, so much so " that they can scarce gett
breade to feede themselves withall nor att the weeks end to paie
the debts they owe for their victualls ". — Undated.

Endorsed: "The humble petition of the forreine corriors in-
habyting neare unto the Cittye of London." \ p. (196. 115.)

[See Statutes at Large, Vol. II, Cap. XXII (1602), pp. 975-983.]

The Royal Household.
[Before March 18, 1605-6].—

The King's Servants

Lord Haddington 200^

Francis Stewart 100^

Sir John Shaw 100^

Sir Mich. Balfoure lOOi

Sh- Henry Balfoure 100^

Thomas Lamsden 100^

John Levingston 100^

Sir James FfuUerton 100^

Bernard Lyndsey 100^

John Gibbe 100^

John Murray 100^

John Auchmutie 100^

Archibald Napper 100^

Sir John Gryme 50^

Isaac Casaubon 75^

Sir Peter Younge 75^

Sir Roger Aston 50^

Sir James Atherlony 50^

Robert Amstruther 40^

Sir Edw. Bushell 331:68:8^

Sir WiUiam Constable 40^

James Hudson 30^

Alex. Levingston 25^

John Howme 25^

James Hetley

251

Sir Alex. Hay

58i:68:8d

— WeUes

Sir James Himlton

251

Sir Patricke Murray

751

Geo. Murray

501

William Rider

371:10s

Sir Peeter Saltonstall

501

Sir Geo. Reynell

251

Marmaduke Wyvell

251

Thomas Ffootes

401:128:6^

Patricke Maule

651

William Belon

251

Sir William Woodhouse

251

Sir John Brooke

251

More to him

501

William Bellendon

251

Sir Charles Howard

501

Sir Geo. Keere

501

William Ramsey

651

James Marroth

121:108

WilUam Grimsditch

501

Robert Gordon

501

John Barkeley

501

Humfrey May

731

More to him

33i:6s:8d

Sir Geo. Carew

501

Sir Henry Wotton

501

Geo. Wood

451:123

Sir Robert Maxwell

1001

Geo. Marshall

661:138:41

Sir Richard Coningsby

661:1 3s :4d

James Maxwell

661:1 3s :4d

Sir Edw. Zouche

lli:13s:4d

Robert Browne

201

Bevis TheloaU

131:68:81

Walter Toddericke

131:68:81

John Carse

131:68:81

EUis RothweU

131:68:81

James Bowey

251

Rafe Holland

201

Patricke Young

251

Robert Hay

501

Archibald Armstrong

91:28:61

James Buchannon

201

The Prince's Servants

Sir David Murray

401

Adam Newton

501

Lo. of St Anthony

90'

Walter Alexander 25^

Anthoine Abington 1 6^ : 1 3^ : 4^

Alphonso Fferabosco 12^ : 10^

Sir David Ffowles 29^ : IS^ A^

Rich. Connocke 25^

John Harrison 33i:6S:8d

Thomas Giles 161:138:4^

John Garrett 61:13^ :4a

Thomas Birchmore 1 2^ : 1 0^

Eustace Norton 1 2i : 1 5^

Lewes Rogers 22^:10^

Alex. Wilson & Blake 13i : 13^ :9^

Rowland Wynne 121:108

Wilham TaUard 4i : 1 P :3<i

Peeter de la Costa 121:108
Tho. Parker 100^

Rob. Jameson 100^

Tho. Younge 100^

Attendants upon Ambassadors

Sir Lewis Lewkenor 50i

Sir Wilham Button 30i : 8^ :4d

Sir Edw. Prynne 121:108

Sir Steven Leizure 1 2i : 1 08

Riders of the King's Horses

Andrew Zinzan 1 6i : 1 38 :4d

Henry Zinzan 25i

Andrew Zinzan 1 2i : 1 08

Phisitions

Do'* Craigg

251

Do^ Atkins

251

Dor Poe

121:108

Do'" Hamond

251

Do'" Mayerne

Surgeons

1001

Gilbert Primrose

251

Jo. Nesmith

201

151

Sergeant Gudderous

16i:138:4<i

Geo. Baker

101

James Harvey

101

Abraham Allen

Apothecaries

121:108

Jo. Wolf Rumler

201

Geo. Sheires

281:68:8^

Rafe Cleyton

1008

Gedeon de Lawne

lOOs

Queenes Servants

John Elphinston

501

Peeter Ffranke

501

Jo. Chalke

251

Jo. Seringius

401

William Murkey, cooke

121:108

Jaques Bochan

151

Jane Dromond

2501

William Hay

30i:88:4<i

Eliz. Shawe

1001

Wm. Edgeley

4i:118:3<i

Musicians

Dor Bull

101

Arthur Bassano

141:138:61^

Andrew Bassano

lli:128:8|d

Edw. Bassano

111:128:811

Jerome Bassano

lli:12S:8|d

Scipio Bassano

lli:128:8id

Robert Baker

16i:108:7i<i

Jerome Lanier

lli:12s:8i<i

Alphonso Lanier

111:128:8^

Peeter Edney

15i:0:7^d

Peeter Guy

10i:28:3^d

Tho. Mason

lli:12s:8id

Samuel Garshe

lli:12s:8|d

Henry Troches

lli:128:8id

Cormocke M'Dermott

lli:128:8^d

Jo. Phelpes

17i:138:4|d

Wm. Gosson

8i:118:10|d

Jeffrey Crewse

8i:118:10|i

Jo. Lanier

121:108

Tho. CardaU

351

Nath. Giles

101

Peeter PuUiard

8i:118:10i<i

Rich. Thorne

41 :118:3a

Sergeants at Arms

Tho. Bradshaw

41:118:31

Geo. Burrell

41:118:31

Wm. Goodfellow

41:118:31

Mich. Cobbe

41:118:31

Jo. Cotton

41:118:31

Tho. Dixon

41:118:31

Hen. Batten

41:118:31

S.C.-6

Jo. Bennet

41; IP :3d

Wm. Ffountaine

41; 118:31

Rich. Hale

lli:8s:lid

Jo. Rolles

4i:118:3<i

Jo. Neve

41: IP :3d

Hen. Snelgar

41:1 P :3d

Edw. Grimeston

9i:2S:6d

Jo. Freed

4i:lP:3d

Lancaster Gibbons

4i:lP:3d

Rich. Wydmer

4i:lP:3d

Heralds

Wm. Cambden

101

Rich. St George

101

Rafe Brooke

61: 138 :4a

Samuel Tomson

6i:138:4d

Jo. Raven

6i:138:4d

Wm. Penson

6i:138:4d

Rob. Treswell

6i:13s:4d

Thomas Knight

IOCS

Wm. Smith

lOOs

PhilUp HoUand

1008

Mercm-y Patten

1008

Rich. Charles

6i:138:4<i

The Duke's Servants

Sir Robert Gary

501

La. Gary

501

More to her

2001

Tho. Mm-ray

33i:6s:8d

JuHan Ffoster

1008

Anne Ffortune

1008

Geo. Kirke

1008

Jo. Lysle

James Yomig & his brother

301

James EUiott

121:108

Wm. Clowes

101

Norman Lisle

1008

Sir James Ffullerton

33i:68:8d

Tho. Trevor

101

Jane Swarlen

9i:28:6d

Ladie Elizabeths Servants

Eliz. Piggott

1008

Blanche Swanstead

9i:28:6d

Eliz. Hay

151

Ladie Maries Servants

Marie Tomson

251

Eliz. Townsend

668 :8d

Mabell Lynley

708

Anne Bartie

758

Katherine Paddee

758

Margaret George

758

Anne Progers

758

Anth. Knyvett

508

Arthur Bodren

258

Mary London

258

Late Queenes ffootemen

John London

121:108

George Stone

121:108

Anthoine Bennett

121:108

Ambrose Jenney

121:108

Hugh Miller

121:108

Rich. Miller

121:108

Rich. Stringer

121:108

John Thorne

121:108

Geo. Symonds

121:108

The Queenes Matie

32001

La. Arbella

4001

Countesse of Nottingham

1501

Countesse of Kildare

501

Countesse of Oxon.

501

La. Burgh

1001

La. Lumley

751

La. Woodroe

121:108

La. Adelm

121:108

La. Edmondes

251

La. Hill

121:108

La. Southwell

501

La. Vavasor

16i:138:4d

Mrs Bridges

101

2 daughters of the Erie of Westm'landes

661:1 38 :4<i

Mrs Ratchff

501

Mrs Stapleton

501

Mrs Kirton

501

Mrs Higgins

101

Mrs Somervile

101

La. Bartlett

201

La. Dorothie

501

La. Borlas

83i:68:8<i

Mistris Ffortescu

121:108

Anne Barkeley

151

Huntsmen and F falconers

Sir Patricke Howme

551

4 yeomen prickers

361

Rich. Lazonby

101

Alex. Mongreife

901

Geo. Mongreife

22i:16s:3d

Tho. Mongreife

91:28:6^

Jo. Waters

41:118:3d

Wm. Gatacre

16i:138:4d

Geo. Colmer

501

Lawrence Weekes

458 :7H

Wm. Risbrooke

20i:1087|<i

Tho. Pott

711:168:3d

Hen. Halfheid

12i:38:lid

Rich. G Wynne

1038:10

Jo. Wood

lli:88:l|<i

Tho. Cockeyn

Rob. Rayne

121:108

John St Léger

101

Sir Rich. Perry

45i:128:6d

Knights of Windsor

591:68:3d

Sir Hen. Ffowkes

251

Sir Wm. Dethicke

501

Geo. Kirkham

19i:6s:10id

Reignold Bye

101

Discoverers of y^ Trcdtors

Th. Banister

41:118:31

BoUes

Jo. Ffynwood

6i:138:4d

Jo. Streete

9i:2s:6d

Jo. Stone

41:118:3d

Rich. Rice

41:118:3d

Servants to the late Queene of Scotts
Tho:Baldwyn 16i:138:4d

Rob. Tmistead 25i

Anth. Rolston 25i

Sir Charles Yelverton 1 2i : 1 08

Lord Ffivie 100^

Lord Erskyn* 50i

Lord Gordomie 50^

Lord of Kinlosse 50i

Wm. Stafford 25i

Wm. Stafford jun. 27i:78:6d

* Thomas Erskine, Lord Erskine of Dirleto^\Tie, was created Viscount
Fentoun on March 18, 1605-6.

Wm. Stallenge

151.48.2(1

Wm. Inglebert

16i:13s:4d

Réveils

Armory

1901

Clerks of y^ Counsell

951

Keepers of y^ Counsell Chamber

351:158

Readers of phisick & Law lectures

401

Jewellers

3871

Grooms of y^ stable

441

Posts

681

Harbingers

471:108

Keepers of houses

1061

Gamme keepers

2081

Wardrobe keepers

621

Gonners and others in y^

Towere

3801

Total 134701

Undated.
Endorsed: " Pentioners." 4 pp. (211. 3^.)

Lewis Eynon to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before March 18, 1605-6]. — He is a Yeoman of the Guard.
A debt of £614:14 has been long due to him by the King, and it is
the only means he possesses to support a wife and ten children,
except his pay as a Yeoman. He has petitioned the Lord
Treasurer for its payment, but lack of money has prevented it.
Petitioner has consequently been in danger of finding himself taken
and imprisoned by his own creditors, who have asked permission
to do so from the Lord Chamberlain and Lord Dirleton, the Captain
of the Guard. The debt represents money disbursed by him for
the Treasurer of Ireland. He requests Sahsbury to further the
suit which he proposes to submit to the Privy Council. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1057.)

George Grimes to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After March 18, 1605-6]. — He is in the service of Viscount
Fentoun, and informs Sahsbury that hearing a certain Laurence
Woodward of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields making defamatory state-
ments about Mr Brian, one of Viscount Cranborne's servants, he
" in friendly manner reproved him ". For his pains he was
insulted, attacked and beaten up by Woodward and one of his
confederates, who also maltreated his wife. As a result he is con-
fined to his bed, and cannot follow his master's business on the
occasion of the progress. He is indignant that he has been so
abused by " a base fellow that keepes a tiphnge howse and that
very disorderhe ", and asks that Salisbury summon Woodward

before him and punish him in an exemplary manner. — Undated.

^ p. (P. 1091.)

Steel.

[After March 18, 1605-6]. — "My Lord Treasurer was made
acquainted with the matter of steel by one Ball.

Afterwards, my Lord Fenton was acquainted with it and im-
braced it by means of one Kendal.

His wyf lyeth at the house of one Brabant, an atturney in Milford
Lane.

Barkesdal is a merchant in London. He knowes not where he
dwels, but his wyf doth.

Sir James Crighton is the party that deales with my Lord Fenton.
He hath a knyfe of this new kind of Steele.

He hath acquainted one Mathew a cutler by Fleet Brige with
this secret." — Undated.

Endorsed: " Concerning a new invention of Steele." \ p. (130.
178.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XIX, pp. 393, 394 and 397.]

Steel.

[? After March 18, 1605-6].— Notes on the different kinds of
steel, the uses to which they are put, the variety of tools, instru-
ments and domestic goods manufactured from them, and the
expediency of converting certain iron products into steel. — Undated.

Endorsed: " Concerning the differences of steeles." 1 p. (130.
177.)

John Roper to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After March 31, 1606]. — Concerning the misdemeanours of John
Anderton, Justice of the Peace. When 30 persons committed a
burglary in petitioner's house at night time, wounding him and
two of his sons, he asked Anderton to assist him in arresting some
of the guilty party and disclosed their names and addresses.
Anderton refused, and so allowed the criminals to escape. More-
over, when the late Queen Elizabeth died, Anderton and four
others " tooke the Bible and service booke out of LeUand church
and bestowed them in an alehowse, and thereby hindred the
pubhque service and prayers to God for his Ma^i®, by which recu-
sants taking encouragement twoe masses were said the next
Sunday in that towne or parrishe ". When a sermon was arranged
for St. James Day, in honour of the King's coronation, one hundred
people armed with guns entered the church and disturbed the
preacher. A complaint was made to Anderton, who dechned to
punish the offenders. Petitioner adds that all these charges were
proved by deposition under the hand of Sir Urien Leigh and other
commissioners in the Court of the Star Chamber. He himself is
80 years old, and the prosecution of the case in that court has
impoverished him. Besides, Anderton has been able, by means
of his influence and wealth, to prevent any date being fixed for the
hearing of the case. He requests Sahsbury to intervene with the

Lord Chancellor that a day be appointed for the exammation of
the matter in Michaelmas term next. — Undated.

1 p. (197. 52.)

[See PRO, Star Chamber Proceedings, James I, 252/2.]

Sir Edward Clere to the King.

[? March, 1605-6]. — He requests him to accept satisfaction from
Sir Thomas Parry as to his conduct towards the ambassadors, since
he was present at the meeting. The honour which petitioner
received in the presence of the French King was bestowed without
the shghtest reflection on or discredit to the allegiance he owed to
his own sovereign. It was a recognition of Clere's relationship to
the late Queen EUzabeth, revealed by Count Beaumont, of King
James's favours to the French Ambassador, and of Clere's lineal
descent from the Earls of Clermont. He asks to be released from
prison, where he has been detained for three weeks and hindered
from attending to his duties in ParHament. — Undated.

Endorsed: " The humble petition of Sir Edward Clere, knight,
prisoner in y^ Marshalsea". 1 p. (P. 210.)

[See Cal. 8.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 307.]

Michael Borstade to the King.

[Before April, 1606]. — He is a native of Odislo (Oslo) and a
subject of the King of Denmark. For a long time he has been a
suitor to the King of England concerning his ship, the Spreadeagle,
which was seized on the high seas with her cargo of masts in the
reign of the late Queen Ehzabeth. He produced letters written
on his behalf by the King of Denmark, and was granted his suit on
the condition that he produced irrefutable evidence that the ship
was his. He has produced vaHd certificates to that effect for Sir
Juhus Caesar,* Master of Requests, and also proved that neither
the ship nor the cargo was the property of a Spaniard and, therefore,
not subject to confiscation. He requests to have his ship restored
to him in accordance with the King's promise to the Duke of
Holstein . — Undated .

ip. (P. 1061.)

Captain Francis Clayton to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before April 3, 1606]. — He has been forced to spend much
money on surgical treatment for the wounds which he received on
active service during the late Queen Ehzabeth's reign, and has
been driven to the extremity of having to pawn the patent of the
small pension bestowed on him through the kind intervention of
Sahsbury. In regard of the service performed by his deceased
father, (Captain WiUiam Clayton, and his eighteen sons in the Irish
wars, of whom 13 lost their hves, and of the 28 years' service
completed by petitioner himself in Ireland, " I am an humble
suitor in this ParHament for a small allowance of two shillings out

* Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer on April 7, 1606.

of every Stage play that shalbe acted, and twelve pence out of
every showe of strange beasts as Bavians [baboons] and such like
withm the citty and suburbs of London, to be paid unto mee or
my assignes during my Ufe by the owners and actors of those
plaies and showes." He requests Sahsbury's support according
to the latter's advice " in your garden at Theobalds upon the
motion I then made to your Lordship concerning this suite in the
presence of the Earl of Devonshire".* — Undated.
I p. (P. 1580.)

John Francton to the Privy Council.

[After AprU 3, 1606]. — ^He is the King's printer in Ireland. If
he is to put up with the damage done to him by the stationers of
London, of whose Company he is a freeman, he asks the CouncU to
ratify the letters patent which granted him his office, and send
letters to the Lord Deputy and Council of Ireland that he be given
a commission to provide such churches in Ireland as need them
with books in Enghsh for divine service. These, he says, " the
inhabitants are unwilling to receave unies it be by such course ".
His predecessor was awarded the same commission by the late Earl
of Devonshire. Petitioner also requests that the Council call in a
bond in which the London stationers " have compelled me to
become bound unto his Ma^i^ before I could be released out of
prison, not to bringe anie booke out of Ireland into this realme ". —
Undated.

ip. (P. 1810.)

Sib, Randall Macdonell to the Queen.

[After April 3, 1606]. — He has written to her to intervene with
the Earl of Sahsbury on behalf of his suit, but the death of the Earl
of Devonshire has suspended all operations concerning it. Peti-
tioner renews his appeal that through her Vice-Chamberlain, Lord
Carew, the Queen communicate to Sahsbury her support for him,
and her wish that the matter be despatched in his favour with
expedition . — Undated .

ip. (P. 1513.)

Henry Baker to .

[After April 3, 1606.]—" Objections against the byll of Mr Throck-
mortont for the assurance of the mannor of Rye against the heires
of the late Earle of Devonshire."

A hst of reasons is given as to why the House of Lords should
reject a bill brought by Throckmorton against Baker who is a
King's ward. — Undated.

f p. (P. 2147.)

* Died on April 3, 1606.

f In the third year of James I, a private act " for the settling of the manor
of Rye in the counties of Gloucester and Worcester on William Throckmorton
and his heirs, according to a feoffment made of them by Charles, Earl of Devon-
shire " was presented to Parliament. [See Statutes at Large, Vol. XV, 1553-1640,
P. xxxi, No. 16.]

John Bucke to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After April 4, 1606]. — He is a prisoner in the Gatehouse at
Westminster, and begs to be released. He informs SaUsbury that
as soon as he landed at Dover he notified Sir Thomas Fane that
he had come to Calais in the company of a number of priests making
their way to England, whose names he had revealed. He men-
tioned in particular one Butler, who had taken post horse and
crossed the Channel three days before him. The priests had,
however, suspected petitioner and had refused to cross in the same
boat.*

Petitioner assures SaHsbury that if he had not been in debt and
thereby obhged to conceal himself, he would have conveyed all
this information to the Privy Council in person. He refers to two
other visitors, of whom he had also given a detailed description to
Sir Thomas Fane, and who were " to come over the next tyde,
that sayd thay weare scollers at Dowaye, that wente by the name
of Yardley and Okee ". As soon as he had arrived in Calais,
" fynding one Askue of Dover, the booteman, I tould him as muche
and carried him to the house where those preasts weare and did
will him to have regard therof. And also declared as muche to one
Captain Turner who sayd he had your warrand to loke after such
men and did lend him mony ". He protests that he was never a
Cathohc, but has always been a loyal and obedient Protestant. —
Undated.

1 p. (P. 1453.)

Robert Morgan to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After April 7, 1606]. — He is the Keeper of the gaol at Worcester.
Last March certain prisoners were sent down from London by the
Privy Council to stand their trial at Worcester, and he was charged
with their security. Later they were executed for high treason. f
He incurred certain expenses for their diet and detention, since he
had to hire watchmen " the prison of it selfe being very weake ".
He has since petitioned the Privy Council for the repayment of the
money he disbursed, but has received no satisfaction. He now
begs SaUsbury to further his suit in this respect. — Undated.

ip. (P. 536.)

Agnes Walworth to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After April 7, 1606]. — She was formerly employed in SaUsbury 's
household, and is now a poor widow. Her natural brother, Thomas
Love, a Protestant, was servant to John Winter, lately executed
at Worcester for his part in the Gunpowder conspiracy, and was
imprisoned in London and Stafford for his master's offence. During

* They left Douai College for England on April 4, 1606. [See Catholic Record
Society, Douay Diaries, 1598-1654, Vol. 1, p. 71, and also Gal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10,
pp. 308-10.]

f Father Edward Oldcorne and other Gunpowder conspirators were executed
at Worcester on April 7, 1606.

his detention in Stafford prison, petitioner went to visit him and
found him loaded with irons and in a miserable condition, although
Mr Stephen Littleton had compounded with the gaoler for his diet
and lodging, and those of two others with him, until the following
Assizes. " Notwithstanding which composition the jeyler exacted
uppon the poor people and in particuler threatned the sayd Thomas
that he should bagg in the chaîne." To prevent such cruel treat-
ment petitioner was forced to enter into a bond of £4 for the pay-
ment of 40/- , and is now being tlireatened with arrest for the debt.
She has been forced to flee from her own house to escape the
attention of creditors and complains that, " sergeants lye in wayt
for her ". She asks for some rehef in her extremity, so that she
may not be arrested or her goods confiscated. — Undated.
1 p. (P. 1514.)

Agnes Walworth to the Eaul of Salisbury.

[After April 7, 1606]. — " A medicine cometh to late when the
diseased is past cure." She informed him in a recent petition that
her natural brother, a Protestant, was servant to John Winter who
was executed at Worcester.* Because of Winter's attainder and
death for treason, her brother forfeited his horse, money and
apparel, and was imprisoned at Stafford, being eventually cleared
of treason. Stephen Littleton committed himself to the gaoler
of Stafford to pay £14 for the diet and lodging of her brother and
two other prisoners until the Assizes there. Nevertheless, the
gaoler obliged her to sign a bond for £4 for the payment of 40/-,
and she is now being threatened with arrest if she does not pay it.
As in the previous petition, she begs Sahsbury to prevent her being
arrested, and to prohibit any distraining of her goods. She re-
minds him that she was the " first woman servant that ever your
Honour enterteyned, being your landres preferred by your worship-
ful Aunte Mrs White ".—Undated.

ip. (P. 567.)

The Merchants and Sergemakers of Southampton
to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before April 9, 1606]. — They have communicated their griev-
ances to the Lower House, which has incorporated them in the
general grievance of tonnage and poundage. Sergemakers in
Southampton and elsewhere, who employ a great many people in
their manufactures and in the coarse canvas trade with Brittany,
have been overcharged by the new rates lately imposed (whereby
serges have increased from 12d the piece to 5/-, and Breton coarse
canvas from 15d the fardel to 10/-). If these charges be not
moderated, petitioners will be obliged to abandon their trade, as
some have already done, and a multitude of people will become

* Executed on April 7, 1606.

unemployed. They ask Salisbury to consider their case with

sympathy . — Undated .
\ p. (P. 2083.)
[See The Journals of the House of Commons, Vol. I, p. 295.]

George Rocliffe to Duke Brooke

[1606 or before] April 16. — " Mr Ffoster will praie your worship
that he maye see that draughte of your answere to Mr Gilberts bill,
which bothe he and I must also answere, as Mr Ffoyle will enforme
your worship." He has sent Brooke* the copy of Gilbert's lease
and the draft of the indenture, " that dothe expresse the use of the
ffjnie levied to Mr Ffoster. In Hillarie terme last Mr Ffords man
was with me as he was rydinge towards London, and was verie
earnest to have me receive the fyftie pound he paied your worship,
which I perceive nowe was but only a devise to strengthen this
assignement of Sir Walter RawHghes, wherein I see he hath not-
ablelie [sic] abused your worships kynde dealinge with him, which
I hope in thend will appeare to his shame. The assigneinge over
of this deed of Sir Walters could have bene noe good to him nor
hurt to anie other. . . . By reason of some jarrs betwene Sir
Walter and Mr Gilbert now at the assises at Exeter, yt was dis-
covered how that Mr Gilbert had assigned over that lease to Sir
Walter long since, and thereof hath Mr Fford notice so that the
whole interest was in Sir Walter." — ^Templecomb, this xvith of
Aprill.

Holograph. 1 p. (General 103/5.)

William Okey to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before April 18, 1606]. — In view of his faithful service, he begs
Sahsbury to extend his patronage to his wife and son, and permit
them to reside in the house as they have done hitherto, and under-
take the duties which he has performed. f — Undated.

I p. (P. 321.)

Viscount Lisle to the King.

[April 20, 1606]. — He requests to be nominated general examiner
" for the examinatione of all deponents uppon all commissions to
be directed out of all and everie your Highnes Enghshe courts
into all and everie your Highnes counties in England and Wales ".
He also asks to be authorized to appoint deputies who will not
charge higher fees than those customarily received by the examiners
in all courts which issue commissions. Petitioner claims that such
a grant would not prejudice the place or profit of existing officials
in any court. On the contrary, " yt wilbe a wonderfuU ease to
your subjects in generall, both in their traveU and charge. And

* Died on May 27, 1606.

t Okey was dead before April 18, 1606, when his son-in-law was recom-
mended as Keeper of the Gatehouse by the Bishop of Gloucester to the Earl of
Salisbury. [See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVIII, p. 114.]

the business more indifferentlie and justlie performed and neither
partie outcountenanced ".

At bottom: " His Mamies pleasure is that the Lord Chancellor, the
Lord Treasurer, the Earl of Sahsbury, the Lord Cheefe Justice of
Engla,nde and liis Ma^i^s Atturney generall or any 3 of them shall
consider of this petition and report unto his Ma^^^ howe it maye be
convenyent for his Ma^^^ to graunt it unto the Lord Viscount Lysle
without anie prejudice to the Common Wealthe." — Undated.

Endorsed: "The swte of the L. Lisle." Copy. 1 p. (197.
19.)

[SeeH.3I.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVIII, p. 116.]

John Danson and Edwaud Thomasin to the
Earl of Salisbfry.

[After April 24, 1606]. — They refer to the recent election of
Sahsbury as Knight of the Garter,* and to the fact that there is an
allowance due to him out of the Wardrobe for his robes. The
making of these robes has been conveyed to them by patent, and
they regard it as incumbent upon them to impart this information
to him. They now offer their services and their experience, which
in the case of one of them covers a period of forty years of robe-
making. — Undated .

ip. (P. 297.)

William Boothowse to the Earl of Salisbury.

[AprU, 1606]. — Thomas Alabaster, merchant, has procured a
protection for himself under cover of which he detains money
which he owes to petitioner amongst many other creditors. The
sum involved is £105, and petitioner requests that Alabaster be
compelled to repay it. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 335.)

[See PBO, Privy Seal Office, Ind. 6744, April, 1606, No. 56.]

[After AprU, 1606]. — Private letters from Venice say that the
Signory has incarcerated certain prelates for having visited a convent
of Béguines and persuaded them to beheve that they could not be
saved because of the excommunication by the Popef, and that
consequently it was necessary to wall up all the gates of the convent,
leaving only one open over which they should maintain special
guard. Brother Paola Servita preached a lengthy sermon on this
subject in order to pubhcize the erroneous opmions of the im-
prisoned prelates, adding that those who called themselves Roman
Catholics were sectaries if they did not declare themselves so in

* The Earl of Salisbury was nominated K.G. on April 24, 1606 and installed
on May 20, 1606.

t The edict of excommunication was proclaimed on April 17, 1606 and re-
mained in force for a year.

conformity with the articles of our Christian faith : I beheve in one
universal Christian church. Cologne. — Undated.
Flemish. \ p. (205. 62.)

The Clothiers to [the Privy Council].

[? Before May 7, 1606]. — The Council has hstened to the case
debated between the counsels representing the clothiers, aulnagers
and searchers. The matter is of great importance to the kingdom
at large, smce the future of the clothiers and their employees is
deeply affected and " the lawe inforceth such greate penalties
uppon impossibihtyes which cannott be avoyded ". Petitioners
ask that a conference be arranged with certain members of the
House of Commons on the matter. — Undated.

\ p. (P. 2096.)

[See The Journals of the House of Commoris, Vol. I, p. 306.]

Sir Thomas Southwell to Lord Ellesmere.

1606, May 8. — Sir Charles CornwaUis and Sir Wilham CornwaUis
were bound, under pain of forfeiture of the bonds, to pay certain
moneys to the petitioner. They have failed to do so, and he is
faced with ruin because he has no other means of discharging his
own debts and those which he has undertaken on their behalf.
He prays that the bond under which they are committed to the
payment of £5000, in case of default in meeting their obligation,
be now enforced. — May 8, 1606.

ip. (P. 41.)

Sir Thomas Southwell to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? After May 8, 1606]. — Petitioner was imprisoned by order of
the Privy Council for arresting a surety of Sir Charles CornwaUis,
now Ambassador in Spain. He asks to be pardoned for that offence.
Since the surety, Sir Wilham CornwaUis, proposes to answer
petitioner by process of law, he requests to be discharged from
prison or sureties taken on his behalf for his appearance and himself
set at hberty, — Undated.

ip. (P. 308.)

Richard Richardson to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 12, 1606]. — ^He is a poor and maimed soldier, who a
year ago obtained Salisbury's letters to the Deputy-Lieutenants
of Hertfordshire for the payment of £10, namely the arrears of his
annual pension of £6:13 :4. Some of it was paid immediately, and
the remainder arranged to be discharged by Sir Walter MUdmay.
Soon after. Sir Walter died* and the arrears have not been paid.

* He was buried at Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, on May 12, 1606. [See
The Visitations of Hertfordshire, 1572 and 1634, p. 153.]

He asks for a further letter from Salisbury for the payment of the
sum still due to him. — Undated.
ip. (P. 896.)

Richard Richabdson to the Privy Council.

[After May 12, 1606]. — In regard of his service under the late
Earl of Essex and the wounds he received in the wars, petitioner
was granted a yearly pension of £6:13:4 in Hertfordshire, where he
was pressed as a soldier. There is due to him as arrears the sum
of £5, and he requests that letters be directed to the Deputy-
Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace of the shire for the payment
of the money. — Undated.

ip. (P. 956.)

Richard Foulsham to the Earl of Salisbury.

1606, May 16. — About six months previously Thomas Sothaby
died seised of a small quantity of land in Yorkshire, leaving an
heir who is still a minor. The tenure of the land has been con-
cealed, and petitioner asks that the wardship be bestowed upon
him, he undertaking to prove the King's title to it. — May 16, 1606.

1 p. (P. 1330.)

Philip Cotton to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 17, 1606]. — He asks to be given the wardship of the
heir of Sir Bassingborne Gawdy, lately deceased.* — Undated.
ip. (P. 932.)

Nicholas Ward to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 20, 1606]. — He is one of the King's trumpeters,
and begs the favour of being allowed to attend on Sahsbury with
his trumpet at his installation.! — Undated.

1 p. (P. 763.)

Jasper Strich to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 31, 1606].— He is Master-Gunner in five of the
parishes of the Island of Guernsey, and for the last two years he
has been trying to persuade their inhabitants to pay him arrears of
pay amounting to £38 : 10. Owing to the obstinacy of some people,
he has failed to do so, partly because they are on better terms with
Sir Thomas Smith than he is. His only hope of redress lies in
obtaining an order from the King to the five parishes for his pay-
ment, and he prays Salisbury to move Sir Daniel Donne to procure
such an order for him. — Undated.

p. (P. 1174a.)

* Died on May 17, 1606. [See PRO, Inq. P.M., 293/9.]

t The Earl of Salisbury was installed as Knight of the Garter on May 20,
1606.

Attached

1606, May 31.— The Privy Council to the Governor of the Island
of Guernsey. They refer to the appointment of Jasper Strich as
gunner in five parishes, the diligence with which he has performed
his duties, and the mahce of those inhabitants who have detained
his wages. They authorize and command him to deal severely
with them so that Strich may receive the money due to him and a
Uttle more to cover the expenses of his suit. If the inhabitants
prove refractory, he is to summon two of the ringleaders and take
a bond from them for their appearance before the Council. —
Greenwich, 21 May, 1606.

Signed by: Lord Chancellor; Lord Treasurer; Lord Chamber-
lain; Earl of Sahsbury; Lord Stanhope; Master of the Rolls;
Sir John Fortescue ; Lord Chief Justice ; Mr Secretary Herbert.

fp. (P. 1174b.)

Leonard Worall to the Kestg.

[? May, 1606]. — He resides at Fleet Bridge, and complains that
he has on four occasions attached a person guilty of treason and
slander, but the latter has been allowed to escape trial every time.
This has convinced him that there are many in authority who are
equally guilty of treason to the King. The person against whom
he has preferred charges recently declared his intention of passing
over to the Pope. — Undated.

ip. (P. 743.)

[See Cal. S. P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 319.]

Order of the Garter.

[c. May, 1606]. — " The Statutes and Ordenances of the most
noble Order of Sainct George named the Garter, reformed, ex-
planed, declared and renewed by the most high, most excellent
and moste puissant Prince Henry theight, by the grace of God
King of England, Ffrance and Ireland, defendor of the faith, etc."

54 pp. Vellum. (356.)

[This copy of the Statutes was presented to Robert, Earl of
Sahsbury, when he was created Knight of the Garter on May 20,
1606. His arms are emblazoned on the first leaf of the MS.]

John St. Léger to the Privy Council.

[After May, 1606]. — He asks them to consider the case between
him and Lord Darcy, Lord Rich and others who have purchased
lands, formerly in the possession of his ancestor the Earl of Ormond,
from Henry, late Lord Hunsdon. Last May the Council ordered
them to arrive at a reasonable settlement for petitioner's rehef,
which they could easily have done inasmuch as they had bought
the lands for considerably less than their value. They have pre-
ferred to ignore the Council's letter, and to challenge petitioner to
go to law against them, which he cannot do because of his poverty.
He requests that either the differences between him and the above-

mentioned parties be examined by the Council, or be heard by the
Lord Chief Justices of England or other impartial legal experts
selected by the Council. — Undated.

\ p. (P. 624.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, pp. 499-500.]

Sm Richard Walsh to the King.

[June 10, 1606]. — He served as sheriff of Worcestershire during
the past year, and when he was admitted to the Royal presence,
the King commended his service. This has encouraged him to ask
a favour, which is that his daughters Anne and Joyce should be
awarded a yearly pension. — Undated.

Note signed by Sir Julius Caesar: " At Court at Grenewich, the
xth of June, 1606. The Kings Ma^^^ ^iU graunt noe pention, but
hath referred the supphant to the consideration of the Lord High
Treasurer of England and to the Earl of Sahsbury, and they are
to advise of some thing to gratifie the supphant withall."

1 p. (P. 520.)

William Shaw to the King.

[June 10, 1606]. — He is a merchant of York, and refers to a
previous petition in which he explained how, by the duplicity of
WiUiam Watson, Master of the Ood's Grace of Hull, his goods were
seized at the port of Elsinore in Denmark and declared forfeited to
the King of Denmark, although these goods were not by Danish
law subject to forfeiture as the magistrates of Elsinore themselves
agreed. The King had written in his favour to Denmark, but so
far petitioner had received nothing but fair words, with the excep-
tion of a gift of £11 from the King for showing so much patience.
He again requests similar letters recommending his case to the
King of Denmark. — Undated.

Note by Sir Julius Caesar. " At Court at Grenewyche the xth
of June, 1606. The Kings Ma"e hath referred this petition to the
consideration of the Earle of Sahsbury, and his Lordship is to take
such order therin as he shall think fitt."

1 p. (P. 738.)

[See H.M.S. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XIV, p. 517.]

Thomas Steere to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After June 11, 1606]. — He is by profession a wire-drawer, but
he has been driven from his workshop by the patentees of the
Mineral and Battery Works. He has offered his workshop, and
himself as their employee, to the farmers of the patentees, but they
delay negotiating with him. Since Sahsbury and the Earl of
Pembroke have been elected governors of the corporation estab-
hshed by the patentees, petitioner requests that either his work-
shop be used by the corporation or he himself permitted to continue
his profession without further molestation. — Undated.

ip. (P. 605.)

[See State Papers Domestic, Supplementary {PRO. S.P. 46),
Vol. 68, No. 41.]

Edward Ball and Edward Horwood to the Earl
OF Salisbury.

[After June 19, 1606]. — They ask for the wardship of the heir
of Roger Barber, deceased,* of Bury St. Edmund's, co. Suffolk.
They signify their wilhngness to prove the King's title to the
wardship at their own expense. — Undated.

\ p. (P. 579.)

Robert Barnaby to the King.

[After June 30, 1606]. — He is a prisoner in the King's Bench
prison, where he was committed " because I have re veiled great
matters for your Majestie, the which I dare not speke where I am.
I have bene soe threatened for spekeinge for your Majestie as much
as my life is worth." No man is allowed to approach him to convey
any petitions of his, and he complains that on June 30, 1606 a
messenger bearing such a petition was beaten up on the King's
highway by one of the keepers. He asks that he himself and
Thomas Bowling who lives " without Bishippes gate in Sent
Buttelles parishe " may be brought before the Privy Council, to
whom petitioner will disclose " a most wicked matter ". — Undated.

I p. (P. 534.)

to the King.

[? June, 1606]. — The Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
has certain offices and places called prothonotaries which he can
bestow and distribute as he pleases. Petitioner requests that when
a new Chief Justice has been appointed to fill the office that is now
vacant,t the Bang will require him to bestow the next vacant
prothonotary's office on a person recommended by petitioner to
him. — Undated.

i p. (P. 1063.)

John Ferrer to the King.

[After June, 1606]. — He has long entertained hopes of the King's
special favour, ever since he was " a prime messenger of gladd
tidinges to your Ma^i^ about the decease of Quene Elizabeth ".
Hitherto he has occupied an inferior post without any fee, and his
slender means no longer permit him to keep it. Since he is an
utter barrister by profession he can only undertake legal work,
but is unable to advance far in that career without the recognition
of the Judges. He requests letters on his behalf to the Lord
Chancellor and the Judges " that they may heare and respect mee
as a regarded servant to your Ma^ie, ffor legall places of imployment
under your Highnes I dare not sue for till full tryall of my suffi-
ciencye may warrant my adventure in that kind ". — Undated.

* Died on June 19, 1606. [See PRO, Wards 1, 30/9.]

t Sir Edward Coke was made Chief Justice on the death of Sir Francis Gawdy
in June, 1606.

S.C.-7

On reverse: " To our trusty and welbeloved Councellors, Tho.
Lo. Ellesmere, our Lord Channcelor of England, Sir John Popham,
knight, our Chiefe Justice of England, Lo. Kinlosse, our Master of
our Rolls, and to Sir Edward Cooke, knight, Lo. Chefe Justice of
our Court of Common Please, and to Sir. T. Fleminge, knight, our
Lo. Cheife Baron of our Court of Exchequer, and to the rest of the
judges of both benches and our Barons of Exchequer, to our
Masters of Requests and to our Atturney of our Duchy of
Lancaster."

At bottom: " I knowe not whether my Lo. of Kinlosse ought to
have precedence before the Lo. Chefe Justice, neyther knowe I the
Christian name of the Lo. of Kinlosse, and therfore I must crave
your ayd therin together with your minde dispatch ; and so I rest
reddy to doe you any service." Signed: John Fferrour.

1 p. (P. 1490.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVI, p. 433.]

Walter Watkests to the Earl of Northampton.

[After July 1, 1606]. — He is a maimed soldier who lost both his
legs in 1588 in the late Queen Elizabeth's service. The Queen
granted him an almsman's room at Durham, but owing to his
extreme need of money he was forced to pawn the grant for 30/-
to John Sethernwood, a servant in the Earl's service. Because of
his inabUity to repay the money in its entirety, Sethernwood
arrested him on July 1, 1606 and committed him to the Marshalsea.
He has entered into bond to pay the latter 26/8 by a certain day
but cannot get his grant back from him. He is therefore likely to
lose the almsroom, which is now void, because he cannot show the
grant. He begs Northampton to ask Sethernwood to redehver it
to him. — Undated.

ip. (P. 526.)

DoNELL M'Carthy Called M'Carthy Riough to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[Before July 2, 1606]. — He prays to be allowed to sxu-render to
the King all his estates in Carbery in the province of Munster, and
that he be regranted the same under the Great Seal of England
for a yearly rent, together with the right to hold fairs and
keep courts and other privileges accompanying similar grants.
He prays also that the Lord Deputy allow him time for the
discharge of the composition rent due annually out of the said
estates, in view of the devastation caused by the late war. The
Earls of Desmond have hitherto imposed a rent of beeves or
6/8 in Ueu of each beeve in the district of Carbery, which imposition
fell to the Crown after the attainder of the late Earl of Desmond.
It was granted by the late Queen Ehzabeth to Florence M'Carthy,
who mortgaged it to Sir Thomas Norris, deceased, whose widow
now exacts 20/- for each beeve instead of 6/8. Petitioner makes
other requests; that he be granted the lands supposed to have

escheated to the Crown by the attainder of Desmond M'Carthy
and Fynen M'Owen, now in the possession of Lord Barry; the
lands of Kenalmeakey, Rostorne and Cloghane supposed to have
escheated Kkewise by the attainder of Conoghor Omahoney,
Donell M'Conoghor Omahoney and Donell M'Cormick M'Donell
Carthy ; that the title to the town and castle of Cloneralla, now in
Lord Barry's hands, may be determined by the Lord Chief Justice,
the Lord Chief Baron and Sir Anthony St. Léger; that the Lord
Deputy be directed to arrange compensation for him for the loss of
£1000 worth of livestock caused by Lord Barry and his brother
John Barry ; that Donell O'Donevan, for whose loyalty petitioner's
son was made surety and suffered four and a half years of imprison-
ment, should pay damages to him ; and that, finally, he be granted
possession of the castle of Killgoban in Carbery, which was leased
by Captain Francis SHngsby to Donough M'Carthy, a former rebel
pardoned but now in Spain. — Undated.

Endorsed: "The humble petition of Donell MacCartie called
M'Cartie Riough of Carbrie in the province of Mounster in Ireland.
He humbhe beseecheth your Lordship to further that his Ma^^^
maye be graciouslie pleased, in consideration of his unspotted
loyaltie and faithfull service done in the tyme of the late warres
in that realme, to graunt unto him his within requests for the
increase of his Ma^^ revenewes and the better enablement of him
and his heires to doe his Ma^i^ service." 1 p. (P. 326.)

[See Cal. 8.P. Ireland, 1603-7, p. 507.]

Robert Sharpeigh to the Earl of Salisbury,

[After July 2, 1606]. — ^Richard Sproxton has submitted a petition
to Salisbury, in which he complains of the Earl of Dunbar and
criticizes him for conferring the understewardship of the diet for
the Lords at the Star Chamber upon petitioner who is in his service.
Sproxton held the post for three years, and was dismissed for
sundry misdemeanours by the Earl of Dunbar. The warrant for
his dismissal contains an order for the repayment to Sproxton of
such moneys as he disbursed to a servant of the Earl's for procuring
the post on his behalf. Petitioner requests that Sproxton be
suitably punished for his malicious and defamatory criticism of the
Earl. — Undated.

I p. (P. 1266.)

[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 323.]

Magdalen Bowes to the Earl of Salisbury.

1606, July 3. — George Bowes, her late husband, occupied the
posts of Constable of Raby Castle and Steward of the lands of
Charles, late Earl of Westmorland, within the county of Durham,
by assignment from his brother. Sir William Bowes, in the late
Queen Elizabeth's time. These offices were granted to WiUiam
Davenport and Edward Morley, and by them assigned to John

Richardson while George Bowes was engaged in the King's service
at Crawford Moor. Later George Bowes apphed for the said offices
to the King (as Sir Roger Wilbraham knows), who was pleased to
grant them to him for life. However he was constrained to com-
pound with Richardson; he paid him £30, and Sir Heniy Lindley
entered into bond that another £105 should be paid withm a certain
time. But Bowes is now dead and his wife, the petitioner, with
many children on her hands and in straitened ck-cumstances, has
received no benefit from the two offices. Moreover, she is in no
position to pay the abovementioned £105. Her late husband served
Queen Elizabeth in the Royal mines at Keswick and Knowsley,
and the present King at Crawford Moor, during which he lost a
great deal of money and received no compensation. In the Kght
of this information, the Earl of Dorset has granted the offices to the
use of George Bowes, eldest son of her deceased husband. Peti-
tioner understands, however, that Sir George Frevile and John
Richardson are trjdng to hinder the grant from receiving the
Exchequer seal and the Great Seal. She begs Sahsbury to stop
such attempts until she has informed the King of the circum-
stances as detailed by her in this petition. — 3 July, 1606.
ip. (P. 519.)

Arthur Hyde to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before July 14, 1606]. — He has been summoned from Ireland
by an order from Sahsbury and the Privy Council on the suggestion
of David Condon, son of Patrick Condon, who was twice attainted
for high treason in Ireland, and he has been waiting on Sahsbury's
pleasm-e for the past month. Previously, when Condon procured
letters to the Lord Deputy to have the matter at variance between
him and Condon examined by the Council of Ireland, Patrick
Condon's attainder was verffied and petitioner's title to the lands
forfeited by him was conffi:'med. The decision was conveyed to
Sahsbury by the Lord Deputy. Nevertheless, Condon, by mis-
informing Sahsbury that nothing had been done in the matter,
has succeeded in having petitioner summoned to London. He asks
that Sahsbury peruse the letters sent to him by the Lord Deputy
and the Irish Council, and release him from further attendance in
London . — Undated .

I p. (P. 539.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury M88, Vol. XVIII, p. 203, and Cal. 8.P.
Ireland, 1606-8, p. 7.]

Arthur Hyde to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After July 14, 1606]. — He was summoned from Ireland by
Sahsbury and the Privy Council upon the suggestion of David
Condon, and has been awaiting their pleasure in London for three
months. The examination of the dispute between him and Condon
was referred to the Lord Carew, the Lord Chief Justice, Sir John

Herbert and Sir Roger Wilbraham, who have reported on it to
Sahsbury. During the late wars in Ireland he was despoiled of his
goods, and his house and those of his tenants were burnt down by
Patrick Condon, father of David Condon. He suffered damage to
the extent of £3000, but is prevented by the Act of Oblivion lately
promulgated in Ireland from obtaining any remedy against them.
He is now engaged in replanting his wasted lands with EngHshmen
and others, but because of his long absence there is a danger that
they will abandon him. His private affairs are likewise jeopardised
by his long stay in London, and he may find himself unable to
pay rent to the King. For all these reasons, petitioner requests
permission to return to Ireland. — Undated.
f p. (P. 1051.)

Sir Ellis Jones to the Lord Commissioners
FOR Ireland.

[Before July 19, 1606]. — He obtained the reversion of the
Provost-Marshalship of Munster, lately in the hands of Sir George
Thornton, deceased, and was discharged of his company which he
had hoped to keep. The fees of the Marshalship are inadequate,
being only 2/- a day compared with those of the Marshal of Con-
naught which amount to 5/9 a day, although the province is re-
garded as inferior to Munster. He requests that the Commissioners
grant him a small pension out of the Exchequer, so that he may be
better able to perform his duties. — Undated.

Ip. (P. 1151.)

[See Cal. S. P. Ireland, 1603-6, p. 527, and H.M.C. Salisbury
MSS, Vol. XVIII, p. 413.]

Robert Rothe to the King.

[Before July 20, 1606]. — He served the late Queen Ehzabeth
many years as unpaid Justice of Gaol Delivery in the counties of
Kilkenny, Carlow and the Queen's County. In revenge for his
activities, Irish rebels destroyed his and his tenants's property and
goods to the value of one thousand marks. He asks for a lease
in reversion of the rectories of Modeshill and Kilvanan in county
Tipperary, which he holds of the Kmg for 18 years yet to come,
paying the rent of 20 Irish marks yearly. — Undated.

ip. (P. 543.)

[See Gal. S.P. Ireland, 1603-6, p. 527.]

Francis Foster to the Earl of Salisbury.
[Before July 24, 1606]. — ^He is one of the appellant priests de-
tained by Salisbury m Newgate. Twenty weeks ago he was brought
before him upon suspicion of being a dangerous man to the State.
But it was found during his examhiation that he rejected violence,
and his attitude earned him Sahsbury's sympathy. He asks to
be released on the grounds of iU-health, and also to prepare himself

for his banishment from England, He promises to be ready for
transportation whenever and wherever Sahsbury decides.* —
Undated.
ip. (P. 537.)

Thomas Passe to the Privy Council.

[July, 1606]. — He possesses letters patent of his office, and the
house which goes with it, in reversion after the death of Martin
Hopkins. Despite the latter 's decease, he has been refused admit-
tance to both forge and house by the King's officers of the Mint,
who claim that they belong to the smith of the Mint. He therefore
gives details of the history and background of the post.

" Certayne considerable poynts humbhe submitted to your
Honors consideration, viz.

(1) That manie yeres past the Master Smithe of the office
of the Ordinance had his howse and forge in those buildinges
that stande nighe adjoininge to the Leiftennants howse, untill
upon the grave consideration of the late right honorable the
Lord Treasurer, Sir Walter Mildmaie and other commissioners
for her late Ma^i^, it was thought good (in avoidance of greate
annoyance to the Leiftennants howse and the extreeme
daungers that otherwise they feared) to provide for those
workes in the place now in question.

(2) One William Hopkins beinge smithe for the mynte
obtejmed also a patent of the Master Smithe for the office of
the ordinance and had the place now in question builded and
fitted for the service of the office of the ordinance by chardges
defrayed out of the ordinarie of that office, and did discontinew
workmge for the mynt. So their worke was done wheire it
pleazed the contractors with her late Ma^i^ to provide for
their most profit, and the howse only imployed to the service
of the office of the ordinance.

(3) Anno 9° of her late Ma^i^ a patent was granted to the
said WiUiam Hopkins and Martyn his sonne of the office and
howse. WiUiam enjoyed both during his leif and after him
Martjm his sonne, without anie controversie during his leif
(notwithstanding that the said Martin was never smith for
the M5nit nor wrought for the service of the Mjnit ; but still the
same howse and forge imployed and maintejmed by the office
of the Ordinance.

(4) Anno 48» her late Ma^ie graunted the office and howse
by letters patents to your Honors petitioner m reversion after
the death of Martin Hopkins late deceased, imediatly after
whose death the officers of the mynt did enter and withstand
your Honors petitioner, whereby his Ma^s service is letted and
your Honors humble suppHant apparanthe wronged.

* Foster was banished with a number of Jesuits and priests and arrived at
Douai on July 24, 1606. [See Catholic Record Society: Douay Diaries, Vol. 1,
p. 74.]

(5) That your Honors will vouchsafe to consider that the
point in question doth most concerne his Mat*^, jEfor if your
Honors do thinke it fit that a new chardge shalbe undertaken
to provide for the petitioner, whereby he male be enhabled to
perform the service, he will humbhe obaie your Honors
pleazure therein, not doubting but your Honors in the doeing
thereof will gravely consider of the nearest place for the
avoidinge of his Ma^^ greater chardges in the caryinge and
retorninge of those works."

Petitioner asks that the Privy Council direct their letters to the
Lieutenant of the Tower and others to examine the truth of his
statement " as well by testimonie of auncient men as by perusall
of the letters patents ", upon whose report the Council may arrive
at a decision. — Undated.

Endorsed: "Thomas Passe, Master Smith his petition." \ p.
(197. 45/1.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MS8, Vol. XVIII, pp. 249, 268.]

Thomas Man to the Earl of Salisbury.

[c July, 1606]. — As he was conveying Sir Edward Darcy and Sir
Francis Darcy aboard the King of Denmark's ships at Gravesend
on Monday last, he was severely wounded and had his boat smashed
by a shot discharged from the King's own ship.* He begs that he
be given financial assistance for his medical treatment and losses. —
Undated.

ip. (P. 451.)

Florence M'Carthy to the Earl of Salisbury,

[ ? c. July, 1606]. — He thanks SaHsbury for sending him M'Carthy
Riough's petition which he will answer. The latter mortgaged,
before he came over, the greater part of the demesne land of the
county and a great deal more since then, besides leasing some
within the last four or five days to one Dykes for £100 with intent
to hinder petitioner. He requests that the Privy Council prohibit
the sale or leasing of any more land until the dispute between him
and M'Carthy Riough be settled. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 846.)

[See Gal. S.P. Ireland, 1603-6, p. 507.]

Lady Blanche Bagnall to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before August 14, 1606]. — Her husband now deceased. Sir
Samuel Bagnall, had the charge of a castle called Narrow Water in
northern Ireland for eight years, which was bestowed upon him by
the late Earl of Devonshire. He spent much money on it, and
held it during the late wars in Ireland. After his death, petitioner

* The King of Denmark's visit to England took place from July 17 to August
11, 1606, and was celebrated with much gunfire from the escorting Danish men
of war. See Nichols Progresses of King James the First, Vol. 1, pp. 54-95.

came to England to seek relief from the King, and fears that her
children will be ordered to leave the castle by the Lord Deputy
before she can return to them. She requests that an order be sent
to the Lord Deputy to allow her children to remain in the castle
until she can provide for them elsewhere, and that when she is
required to leave she be compensated for the money disbursed by
her late husband on repairing the fortifications. She has discharged
as many of her husband's debts as she can, and pleads to be excused
from paying those which were incurred before her marriage with
Sir Samuel Bagnall. — Undated.

I p. (P. 1392.)

[See Col. S.P. Ireland, 1603-6, pp. 539 and 540.]

Richard Hopper to the Earl of Salisbury.

[ ? August, 1606]. — The King by his letters patent dated July 13,
1603, granted to him the reversion of the office of Chief Remem-
brancer in Ireland, and sent them to Sir George Carey, Lord Deputy,
for implementation. The letters arrived in Dublin on August 11,
1603, but before they were dehvered to him two days later, the Lord
Deputy, aware of the King's grant, dehberately signed a warrant
for a new patent of that office to be granted to Richard Colman
and John Bingley, upon pretext that Colman had surrendered a
former patent of the same. The warrant was presented to the
Chancery on August 12, but was antedated July 10 " purposelie to
defeate his Ma*^ saide graunte ". To accelerate the grant before
the dehvery of the King's letters, the Lord Deputy sent a
communication to the late Lord Chancellor, now deceased, dated
August 12, 1603, in which he requested that the Great Seal might
be affixed to the grant, assuring the Lord Chancellor that it would
not be delivered to Colman until the old patent had been surren-
dered for cancellation. The new patent was sealed, but the old
one has still not been handed over. Since the King's patent is
being detained by the Lord Deputy, petitioner cannot resort to
legal action, and he therefore requests Sahsbury to investigate the
matter personally or refer it to some other competent person for
examination . — Undated .

1 p. (P. 1855.)

[See Cal. S.P. Ireland, 1603-6, pp. 76-77, 97 and 537, and
1608-9, pp. 174-5.]

The Merchants of the Intercourse to the King.

[? September, 1606]. — The Kings and Queens of England have
hitherto exempted them by privy seal from paying subsidies. They
ask for a similar privy seal and discharge from the subsidies granted
by Parhament. — Undated.

^ p. (P. 2095.)

[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 332.]

Daniel O'Doelan to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After September, 1606]. — He is in the service of WilHam Cecil,
Viscount Cranborne. His father, Teig O'Doelan, was seised by-
right of descent from his father, Daniel O'Doelan, of the land called
Gamma I Dowllan at Moyfyean in the county of Roscommon,
Connaught. In the reign of the late Queen EHzabeth he con-
veyed the property to certain feoffees for the use of petitioner and
his heirs. But during the late rebellion in Ireland, and because of
his extreme poverty and want, Teig O'Doelan sold the land for an
insignificant sum to Thomas DiUon, deceased,* late Chief Justice
of Connaught, whereby petitioner has been disinherited and cannot
regain the property by ordinary course of justice unless favoured
by Salisbury. He asks that Salisbury move the King to direct
the Lord Deputy and Council of Ireland to summon before them
Alice, widow of Thomas Dillon, and Robert his son, as well as
petitioner; to order the restitution of the land to petitioner in
return for the repayment of the sum for which it was sold ; and to
accept a surrender by petitioner of the property and to grant him
letters patent for the same upon payment of composition rent to
the King, petitioner to hold it in future from the King by tenure of
socage as of the King's castle of Athlone. — Undated.

p. (P. 1026.)

JoHisr Chambers to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After September, 1606]. — He is submitting the petition on
behalf of his sister Mary Chambers, wife of Edward Piers alias
Hughes. At the time of the marriage between his sister and Piers,
it was covenanted that the latter should assure all his lands
discharged of encumbrances upon the children of the marriage.
But Piers, an unstable character, was inveigled by WiUiam
Hughes and Harry ap Edward into pursuing harmful courses.
First, he acknowledged a fine of aU his lands to Roger SaHsbury,
esquire, without any reason or justification. Upon petitioner's
suit, Sahsbury had directed Sir Richard Lewkenor, Justice of
Chester, to stay that course. Secondly, he had been persuaded
to acknowledge two bonds of £2000 each, one to WiUiam Hughes
and Maurice Wyn alias Gethin, and the other to Harry ap
Edward and Piers ap Hugh. Thirdly, he had been led to acknow-
ledge a fine of all his lands to the use of William Hughes and his
heirs for ever without even reserving any rights for himself.
Fourthly, WiUiam Hughes and Harry ap Edward had persuaded
Piers to mortgage a tenement, and then seU it for £100 when it was
actuaUy worth £290 ; enticed him to abandon his wife who was with
child at the time; join them in taking away all his cattle by night,
to the value of £60, and sell them at a much lower price ; and caused
him to proclaim publicly at the high cross on market day in the
neighbouring market town that no man should reUeve his wife or

* Died on September 24, 1606. [See Lodge Peerage of Ireland, Vol. IV,
p. 138, note.]

make any bargain with her. When the matter was taken to court
at the Great Sessions held in Fhntshire in June, 1606, Sir Richard
Lewkenor ordered that Piers should restore aU the cattle which
had been carried away, and remain with his wife. Later, Sir
Richard Lewkenor was informed that Piers intended to leave the
country to avoid implementing the decree ; he immediately ordered
him to be bound over to appear at the Great Sessions in September,
1 606. There it was further decreed by Sir Richard and by the other
Justice of Assize, Sir Henry Townshend, that all money bonds
should be cancelled, arrangements made for the maintenance of
the wife and her children, and conditions laid down regarding the
inheritance of the property.

Petitioner now informs Sahsbury that Piers has fled from Fhnt-
shire to London, and proposes to go abroad. At the instigation of
WiUiam Hughes and Harry ap Edward, he has mortgaged his lands
to Roger Rogers of London. Petitioner requests that Hughes and
Edward be arrested in London and bound over to appear at the
next sessions in Fhntshire, or that measures be taken for the rehef
of Piers's family and the preservation of his lands for his heirs. —
UTidated.

Endorsed: "The humble petition of John Chambers, gent, on
the behaulfe of a pore distressed wief and her three small children
oppressed by their owne father." f p. (P. 541.)

[See Edwards Star Chamber Proceedings relating to Wales, James I,
FUntsliire, 18/16; 134/4 and 210/8.]

Timothy Haies to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? Before October, 1606]. — ^As he travelled from London to
Staffordshire last December, he was arrested, sent up to London
and committed by Sahsbury to the Gatehouse, where he would
have starved if Sahsbury had not intervened with the King to
succour him. He has neither family nor friends, and begs Salisbury
to have pity on him and to grant him his Uberty. — Undated.

ip. (R37.)

Stone from Caen.

1606, October 10 to 1609, January 8. — Robert Bell's account for
Caen stone transported from France for the works at Sahsbury
House, Hatfield and the new buildings at Durham House (Britain's
Burse). Total quantity amounted to 804 tons, which with freight
and other charges came to £640. The lading of each ship is speci-
fied, and " aU the ston was bought some part redy hewed, som part
wholle in the quarry, for which was hired workemen to digg and
hewe yt and carts to carry yt beinge tow my lies to the water syde ".

Moreover, " yt is to be noted that thes stones wold have benn
better cheape but that to make expedition to provyde ston for your
honners several buyldings, wee were forsed to buy a quarry and
hier workemen to digg out the ston, which was very chargable;

and allso ther was lost and spoyle[d] at Caen the last great frost
about fowerscore ton."

Endorsed: " Mr Bell the merchant his accommpt for Caine stone
dehvered for your honors works at Salysbury house, Hatfield and
at the new buildings at Durhame house from the 10th of Octob.
1606 to the 14th Januarye, 1608." Receipt for outstanding sum
of £180 dated April 20, 1609, and signed on behalf of Robert Bell
by George Tooker, his employee. 1 p. (Accounts 8/3.)

Anne Graham (Graeme) to the King.

[Before October 26, 1606]. — She has been a suitor to him for
the release of her husband, George Graham, but has failed to
obtain it. She is making this second appeal because she has been
left with twelve children, not one of whom is able to provide for
himself. She has no means of maintaining them unless the King
allows her to continue to occupy the house and lands which she and
her husband formerly rented from her brother, George Storey,
Keeper of the King's park at Wandles. She begs for his permission
to do so upon payment of the yearly rent. — Undated.

Signed at the bottom: Sir Roger Wilbraham.

1 p. (P. 845.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVIII, p. 332.]

Timothy Haies to the Earl of Salisbury.

[October, 1606]. — He is a prisoner in the Gatehouse and has none
to intercede for him. He and Matthew Batty submitted petitions
for their release on Saturday, the 4th of October, being the present
month, and since then Batty has been given his hberty. He begs
for a similar favour, and for the remission of aU fees and dues to
the keepers which he is too poor to pay. — Undated.

Ip. (P. 1.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVIII, p. 323 and Cal. S.P.
Dom., 1603-10, pp. 248, 256 and 268.]

Bearand Tege to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before November 17, 1606]. — He is a foreign merchant of
Kinsbrowe. Theodore Tomlinson, a London merchant, is in debt
to petitioner and others and, with intent to defrauding them, has
fled from his house and concealed himself in the country. He
requests that letters should be directed to Sir Thomas Beaufort,
Sheriff of Warwickshire,* enjoining him to give his assistance in
pursuing and arresting Tomlinson. — Undated.

I p. (P. 1235.)

George Hill, James Mootham, John Mootham and
John Doves to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before November 25, 1606]. — They are mariners from London,
and complain of the treatment to which they were subjected at

* From 2 February, 1606 to 17 November, 1606.

Lisbon. There the Conde de Aguilar, who is in command of the
troops in Portugal and is called " CastUaanes " by his officers,
placed soldiers aboard their ships who abused the crews and forcibly
removed victuals with drawn rapiers. When the Enghsh protested
they were told that it " greived them [the soldiers] to see that wee
had victuals and they had none ". As for the cargoes, they were
taken away to the Confiscation House, where those in authority
stole them or charged excessive prices for their restitution. In
addition, the Customs officials confiscated personal property from
the mariners and forced them to surrender one half in return for
the other. Apart from exacting onerous duties for merchandise,
"yf they want any comoditie for the King as ropes, tarr, piche or
leade, they will take it from us, and if the owners will not sell it
them at their owne price, they will not suffer them to see the waight
of their owne goods, but must stand to their accompt ". The
Conde, by the Duke of Lerma's means, takes two thirds of all goods
which are considered to be from Holland and so confiscated.
There are also complaints about Don Luis Fajardo, who seizes
ships' boats at his pleasure, conscripts Enghsh mariners to work
in Spanish gaUeys, and is guilty of other misdemeanours. On
one occasion, when he had forcibly commandeered the services of
a number of Enghshmen, the Master of the ship accused him of
violating the articles of peace. Don Luis retorted: "What, dost
thou tell me of articles, you have broken the peace alredie in
goeing to the West Indies, and I have hanged 100 of your men and
hope to hang 100 more." Petitioners relate also that when the
same Master asked him to release a mariner who was ill and likely
to die if he were not freed from his hard labour, Don Luis repHed,
" that unless he gave him another in his steade, he should not have
him, and for his hfe he did so Utle esteeme of it as the life of a
sheepe ". Petitioners ask that these abuses and ill treatment of
mariners be discussed by the Privy Council and measures taken
accordingly. — Undated.

On reverse: A shorter version of the petition.

Signed: by petitioners. 1 p. (P. 1980.)

Maeinees of the Constance of London to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[? Before November 25, 1606]. — They have submitted a petition
to the Privy CouncU in which they describe their distressed con-
dition as crew of the ship whose late owner was Sir John Watts.
They beg him to further the same when it is discussed by the
Council. — Undated.

i p. (P. 2054.)

English complaints against Spain.

1606, November 25. — From the Conde de Aguilar. As requested
by the King of Spain he sends his comments on the complaints of
Enghsh merchants and marmers, which were forwarded by Don

Pedro de Cuniga, the Spanish Ambassador in London. The
grievances and their authors are Hsted as follows :

Daniel Breames complains that he has transported English
kerseys to Lisbon for sale on many occasions, and that £500 worth
of them has been seized by the officials of the King of Spain on
the grounds that they were originally the product of Holland,
despite evidence from the Customs House in London that the goods
had been shipped there and customs duties paid for them.

John Watts, " one of the 24 of London ", complains that during
the reign of the late Queen Ehzabeth he put to sea in a vessel called
the Centaur with letters of reprisal. Off the coast of Portugal he
took a ship as prize with cargoes of grain belonging to Spaniards,
and worth £500 as witnessed by depositions made and sealed before
the Court of Admiralty. But being sent to Lisbon the ship has
been summarily sequestrated on the pretext that it was taken after
the present King of England had come to the throne.

George Hill and other mariners complain that having arrived in
Lisbon in a ship with merchandise, the cargo was ordered by the
Conde de Aguilar, commander of the forces in Portugal, to be
deposited as suspect goods in the Casa de Confiscacion, despite the
certificate of the London Customs House declaring it to be of Enghsh
provenance. Soldiers were put on board the bark and the mariners
closely questioned, and finally the goods were carried away. Later
the servants of the Conde made their choice of the cargo and paid
what they Uked, insisting that the goods were contraband and had
come from Holland.

There follow papers relating to the case, including affidavits and
depositions and other documents, of which one carries the endorse-
ment: " Lisboa. El Conde de Aguilar a 25 de Novem. 1606.
Answer to the complaint of Sir John Watts, Daniel Brames and
George Hyll. Sentence passed against Watts, [Hyll] and Brames,
they appeale at Madril, suertys are demanded, but they refuse to
putt in any."

Spanish and Portuguese. 12 pp. (206. 29.)

T. DE Franciseky to .

[? November, 1606]. — He has been in prison for almost four
months, and denies that he has ever done any harm to the kingdom
or the monarch of England in word or deed. He begs for com-
miseration, being a poor foreigner, and expresses his fears that his
detention in prison may prejudice the few means he possesses in
his own country. — Undated.

French, i p. (P. 562.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVIII, p. 219.]

Prince Charles to the King.

[c November, 1606]. — The petition is presented in the name of

the Prince by Richard Connok. It states that Sir John Hele,

Serjeant-at-Law holds, by grant from the late Queen Elizabeth,

three manors in Cornwall belonging to the Prince as parcel of his

possessions in Cornwall. A sciri facias to repeal and call in the
grant and letters patent was awarded against Sir John Hele on
behalf of the Prince, but Sir John has caused delays by means of
petitions to the King. It is requested that the Prince be permitted
the ordinary course of law and that, in case any suit be made to the
King by Sir John touching the premises, the Prince by his counsel
be heard and the matter examined by such persons as the King
may choose before the case be determined. " Ffor if anie considera-
tion or other course be taken for rehefe of the said Sir John Hele
before he have defended the same by law, and justified his title to
the uttermost of his power and a fynall judgment given thereuppon,
it is conceyved that the presidens thereof will tend greathe to the
prejudice of the Prince and to your Majestie alsoe." — Undated.

I p. (P. 1192.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVIII, pp. 337-8.]

Robert Hocknell and William Earle to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[After December 3, 1606]. — They submit this petition on behalf
of themselves and the other tenants on the Queen's manor of
Hanslope, co. Bucks. Two or three years ago, they were notified
by the Queen's Council that it was intended to grant leases in
reversion of their tenements, and that they should come to London
to obtain them. This they did either in person or by means of
their solicitors, and spent £50 in the business; but the Council
finally decided to reconsider the matter. On December 3 last
however, when the Council met, Lancelot Lowther, the Queen's
SoUcitor, obtained a grant of a lease in reversion of their tenements.
If this grant be allowed to pass, at least 500 persons on that manor
run the risk of losing aU they have. Petitioners request that
Sahsbury stay the grant, and that they be allowed to have leases in
reversion, paying in return what Lowther undertook to give for
his. — Undated.

I p. (P. 1991.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVIII, pp. 358-9.]

Sir Edward Phelips to the King.

[Before December 19, 1606]. — In consideration of his services,
he requests that he be granted the manor of Drayton. He appends
full details of the constituent tenements and lands with their
rents and profits. — Undated.

Endorsed: " Mr Speaker of the parlement." 1 p. (193. 37.)
[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVIII, p. 361 and Vol. XIX,
p. 59.]

Jane Boteler to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before December 21, 1606]. — Two years ago, Salisbury advised
her to submit a petition to the King for a longer estate in the

manor of Sunbury than she then held by lease of 13 years. Sir
Thomas Lake, however, prevented her from doing so by obtaining
the fee farm of the manor from the King. Sir Thomas is now
endeavom-ing to deprive her of the lease of the parsonage, which
she holds from the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's and which has
still 12 years to run. Her late husband, Mr Yetsweirt, built her
a house which will be all she has to live on, should she outlive Sir
Phihp Boteler. Although the Dean and most of the Chapter
beHeve themselves m conscience bound to renew the lease for a
reasonable fine, they are reluctant to do so for fear of incurring
Sir Thomas Lake's displeasure. She requests his help and advice,
and will gladly submit another petition to the King if Salisbury
approves. Undated.

Endorsed: " The humble petytion of Dame Jane, wyff of Sir
Phillip Boteler, knight."* | p. (P. 269.)

Thomas CiniRCHMAJsr to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before December 23, 1606]. — He is submitting the petition on
behalf of himself and the other clerks of the King's Chapel of St.
George's at Windsor Castle. In the reign of the late Queen
Elizabeth, the Dean and Canons were granted the profits of certain
lands to maintain themselves and 13 poor knights as well as, " 13
petticanons or ministers skilfull in song, and 13 clerks, singers also,
and 13 choresters, being singing children ". At present they
number only 27, since six petty canons and six choristers are
wanting, much to the hindrance of the daily services. He adds
that during the reign of the late Queen the Earl of SaHsbury's
father, Baron BurghJey, was instrumental in augmenting the wage
of the clerks. However, the Dean and Canons have until of late
detained from them money which rightly belonged to them by
virtue of the original grant. Protestations and letters have been
unavailing, even the letters and decisions of the Lord Chancellor
of January, 1603; of the Lord Chief Justice of January, 1605; of
Sir Julius Caesar commanding the Lord Chief Justice by the King's
injunctions to give his absolute opinion in the case to the Earls of
Northumberland and Worcester, which he did in April, 1605. The
Dean and Canons have ignored all correspondence and appeals,
and petitioner asks that Salisbury intervene to obtain justice for
the clerks, and to enforce the observance of all the conditions of
the origmal grant.f — Undated.

1 p. (197. 103.)

* He was biiried on December 21, 1606. [See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10,
p. 339.]

t See Shelagh Bond The Chapter Acts of the Dean and Canons of Windsor,
pp. 57, 60—61. Churchman seems to have acted obstinately m this matter,
since a further complaint was submitted by him to the Lord Chancellor some time
later. [See Dalton The Manuscripts of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
p. 505.]

Parliament.

[December, 1606 or after]. — " A register of Parliaments busines ",
a list of subjects of legislative interest to ParKament, and covering
such matters as the union of England and Scotland, commerce,
religion and recusancy, the Gunpowder Treason, etc. Chrono-
logically the latest entry is the " memoriall of the conference of
the Committee of boath howses, 17th of December, 1606 ". —
Undated.

15 pp. (243. 4.)

The request of the Bishop of Worcester and the
Dean and Chapter there.

[1606]. — The Bishop, Dean and Chapter are opposed to the
claims of the citizens which, " impeacheth the law and discretion
of the Judges of the Cù"cuit and Justices of the whole county in the
administration of justice." They do so for six main reasons:

(1) That the citizens profess such ambitions at the present time,
when their ancestors never thought of doing so, is an affront to the
Bishop, Dean and Chapter.

(2) It is likely to generate hostUity between the two parties
whose relations have hitherto been most amicable.

(3) If the citizens succeed in their claims, the Bishop, Dean and
Chapter are likely to lose all their profits from deods, waifs, strays,
felons, amercements, fines, etc., which they have hitherto enjoyed
as lords of the leet court.

(4) The citizens claim that they intend to improve city govern-
ment by becoming Justices of the Peace, " so farr as the Foryat
Street and Sanctuary side extend ". But that is not likely to help
matters, " if ther were so bad government as they pretend, for
ther is much more housing adjoyning to the said Uberty of Foryat
Street, parcell of the manor of Clanes, and to the Sanctuary and
suburbes, parcell of Whittington, wher (if anye) they shall finde
the same inconvenience they doe now ".

(5) Reciprocal assistance would be more effective in overcoming
problems, for it would permit the punishment of offenders who try
to avoid it by passing from one hberty to another. The status quo
of each Hberty should therefore not be altered.

(6) The Bishop, for his part, appeals that the ancient pri\àlege
enjoyed by him, his servants and tenants and their predecessors,
should be observed; namely, immunity from arrest by the baihffs
of the city within their own liberty ; and that it should be confirmed
in a new grant. — Undated.

Endorsed: " The Bailie fes of Worcester in the renewing of ther
Charter going about to gett them selfes to be made Justices of the
Peace within the fee and Hberty of the Bishoprick and Church,
wher heretofore they nor ther forfathers ever had anything to doe.
The said Buishop and Dean and Chapter humbly pray ther said
graunt (for the reasons withm specified) may not passe the Signett
tiU they reforme this wrong or untill his Ma^i^^ pleasure uppon
contrarie to be had, which the said Buishop and Dean and Chapter

be further knowen. To which purpose the said Buishop and Dean
and Chapter intend with all convenient speed to become suitors
to his Maty." I p. (197. i04.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVIII, p. 460.]

Henry Saunder to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1606]. — ^Upon SaHsbury's report on him the King referred his
suit to Sir John Fortescue, who has, however, for reasons best
known to him, refused to give his consent, despite the King's
favourable response to petitioner's request. Petitioner again begs
Sahsbury to support his suit, and to endorse his petition to the King
in the manner which he thinks most apposite, " which I do the
rather propound in this land, for that I find by experience all other
suites to be troublesome and uncertaine ". He appeals to Salisbury
to " have a feehng for my wantes and distresses ", and to extricate
him from them. But if his suit fails to elicit any sympathy or
approval from Sahsbury, then " I will give over and cease to strive
with fortune any longer ". — Undated.

Endorsed: " 1606. Mr Saunder to my Lord." \ p. (P. 1920.)

Henry Saunder to the King.

[1606]. — ^The King referred the consideration of his services and
of his recent suit to the Earl of Salisbury, but despite the latter's
certificate he has not succeeded in his suit. He submits it for the
second time, and asks for a pension towards his rehef. — Undated.

I p. (P. 1892.)

]\Iary Barnavall to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1606]. — Her husband, Sir Patrick Barnwall, agreed m August
or September, 1602, with Gerrard Weslye of the Dingam, Ireland,
deceased, for the wardship of his grandchild, Valerian Weslye, pay-
ing him £300. In May, 1603, Weslye, being seriously ill, conveyed
certain lands to Barnwall as security for his part of the bargain.
Upon Weslye's death, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer found
that the articles of agreement and conveyance were vahd in law.
Nevertheless, Sir Thomas Ashe, to whom the late Lord Deputy had
awarded the wardship, made every effort to dispute the agreement,
and brought an English bill into the Court of Exchequer allegmg
that the conveyance of the land had been fraudulently made with
intent to deceive the King, and that Barnwall had suppressed
evidence which would have shown that Weslye had no good right
to make it. In the absence of the Lord Chief Baron, the other
Barons announced that if Barnwall did not produce whatever deeds
and writings he had been given by Weslye, they would deprive
hhn of the possession of the lands. At the time Barnwall was a
prisoner in a house at Dublin, and bound in the sum of £1000 not
to leave it or see anyone without the permission of the Lord Deputy,
He informed the court that Weslye's deeds and evidences were at
the Dingam, some twenty miles away, but that, being detained, he

was unable to execute their commands. Upon complaining of the
situation to the Lord Deputy, the latter ordered the stay of all
proceedings. Since then, Barnwall has dehvered the deeds to his
attorney to be conveyed by him to the court, but the Barons with
the advice of the Lord Chief Justice have deprived him of posses-
sion on the grounds that the conveyance was fraudulently made,
and that he had not surrendered the deeds to them in person and
on oath. Inasmuch as he was restrained, because of his detention,
from dehvering the deeds except through his attorney, and that he
emphatically denies that the conveyance was intended to defraud
the King, petitioner requests letters to be sent to the Lord Deputy
that her husband be permitted to enjoy possession of the lands
until he has been duly evicted by process of law, and that " the
sayde warde maye be brought into the Coledge of Dublyn whereby
he maye bee bettered in his education and learninge ", — Undated.

f p. (P. 1896.)

[See Col. S.P. Ireland, 1603-6, p. 542.]

The Bishop of Man to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1606]. — His answer to the petition exhibited to the Privy Council
by John Garret, Wilham Lucas and John Tubman.

As regards the party concerned, Lucas and Tubman are not privy
to the said petition, nor have they any cause to complain. Lucas
still detains the profits from petitioner who has obtained a judg-
ment against him. Tubman, a son of one of his tenants, was given
" meate, drmke and learninge " in the Bishop's house last winter,
when he was in his minority. It is John Garret who initiated the
petition to the Privy Council. He is a Londoner who obtained
more than three quarters of the Bishopric by leases in reversion,
some of which he assigned to Tubman's father. The latter having
died, and the leases being judged void in law, Garret (who had
been summoned by Tubman's executors to repay the money)
combmed with them to defend their challenged titles. Petitioner
criticizes the motives behind the case of the Abbey lands in the
Isle of Man, and berates Lucas who seeks rehef of the Privy Council
in London but holds its authority in contempt in the Isle, and
" whoe seeth not what an unjust course theis Manishe men doe hold
that make all this stirr clamor and such collections of money from
poore men to come to petition here (as they sale) to keepe their
ancient lawes a foote and in force, and yet themselves are the first
that seeke to infringe the same and to bringe them under foote,
as is manifest in this their petition against the Bishop, and that to
overthrowe the prerogative belonginge to the right heires of the
Isle."

Petitioner enumerates examples of the illegaUty of some of his
opponents' clamis, and of the spuriousness of some of their charges
against him. As for the invahdation by law of their leases, he
experienced much difficulty in having the law pronounced on this
point. " For the Deemesters there, by reason of aUyance and
kindred, denyed to adjudge this cause untill they had a com-

mission from the Lord Gerrard. Wherefore the Bishop was forced
to adventure his Hfe in the great storme the 15 of March to come
to know the Lord Gerrards pleasure, who uppon appeale made to
him very honorablehe commanded justice to be done and thereupon
this judgment past". The Lord Gerard and his witness can
testify to all these points, and petitioner therefore requests the
Privy Council to censure his adversaries' petition. — Undated.

Endorsed: "The answere of the Bishop of Man disprooving
perticulerly the untrew suggestions of some few Mannish men in
their petition lately exhibited to the Rt. Ho. the Lords and others of
his Mats most honorable Privy Counsell." 1 p. (P. 1672.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury M88, Vol. XVIII, pp. 220 and 353.]

John Thornton to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1606]. — He is one of the clerks in the office of Sir Wilham Fleet-
wood, Receiver-General of the Court of Wards. Three years ago,
Richard Orde was granted the wardship of Isabel Manners, daughter
of Nicholas Manners, of co. Northumberland, together with a lease
of the ward's lands, as is shown by a schedule signed on February
18, 1603. Orde, however, has not paid any of the fines which were
made a condition of the grant, and the Court of Ward's revenues
have suffered as a consequence of his neghgence. Petitioner
requests that in view of this non-comphance with the express
stipulations laid down by Salisbury, the wardship and lease be
transferred to him. — Undated.

\ p. (P. 1449.)

Bartholomew Mathewson to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1606]. — ^In 1597 he was owner of a ship called the Sun, of
250 tons, and had prepared her for a voyage to the Baltic and had
paid all customs dues. But by means of Lord KnoUys and Lady
Layton, the late Queen Elizabeth ordered that Sir Thomas Knollys
should have command of the vessel and join the expedition of the
late Earl of Essex to the Islands, Lord Knollys undertaking to
compensate petitioner for the use of the ship and aU victuals and
provisions stored in her. For nine years petitioner has been a
suitor to Lord Knollys for payment, but cannot obtain it, and this,
together with other losses inflicted by the enemy at sea, has ruined
him. He asks that Sahsbury bring pressure on Lord Knollys to
indemnify him. — Undated.

ip. (P. 1381.)

Frances Cecil to the Earl op Salisbury,

[1606]. — " Your displeasure hathe bene very greevous unto me,
whearfore please you but forgive and forget what is past. My
care shall be sutch as I will never heerafter offend you, but whear
as it pleased your lordship to graunt my cosin the in joying of my
company untill Michelmas, I hope of further favoue [sic] at your
handes, assuring you then to part from her nothing can be more

100

troblesom unto me, your lordships displeasure accepted. Whear
fore I humbly desire you not to seperat those who do love as deerly
I think as any can." — Undated.

Holograph. Seal on silk. Endorsed: " 1606. The Lady Francis
Cecill." 1 p. (200. 123.)

Robert Belman to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1606]. — He was directed by Sahsbury and the Privy Council in
the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth to provide a barque at Padstow
for the transport of such letters as were sent by them to Munster,
and a promise was made that all his expenses would be met. He
has appHed for payment during the past two years, but his illness
has prevented him from pressing the matter further. He spent
£120 more than he received in the business, besides having to suffer
the loss of a ship at sea, as Sahsbury has already been informed by
Lord Stanhope. He asks that some suitable indemnification be
granted him for his services and losses. — Undated.

\ p. (P. 869.) P. 1254. is a duplicate of this petition.

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVII, pp. 263, 264.]

John Haraneder to the Privy Council.

[1606]. — ^Three or four years ago, the King gave permission, at
the instance of the French Ambassador, the Count of Beaumont,
for the goods of Sir Robert Bassett — who had left the realm without
leave and so forfeited them — to be sold to pay £1500 due to peti-
tioner in conformity with a legal verdict in his favour. Sir Robert's
wife, however, has succeeded in delaying the execution of the
decree on the grounds that her husband has not been recalled to
England to deal with it. Petitioner asks that Sir Robert be

o ...

summoned to appear before the Privy Council within a certain time,
or to forfeit by default all his personal estate to the Crown. —
Undated.

French. Endorsed: " 1606. A petition to the Lords by
Haraneder, a French merchant." | p. (P. 777.)

Roger Marshall to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1606]. — ^He refers to his disclosure of the affair concerning
Studder and the Blounts to Lord Arundel abroad, and to his arrest
of the traitor at Antwerp at great risk to his. Hfe, which Sahsbury
has already learned from the Enghsh Ambassador there. These
services have proved costly to him financially as weU, and he asks
for some reward to offset his losses and reheve his wants ; and also
a warrant to arrest and bring before Salisbury such people as have
been associating with Hugh Owen, Sir Thomas Studder and the
Blounts . — Undated .

ip. (P. 771.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVIII, p. 232.]

101

Sir Robert Carey to the King.

[1606]. — ^The King has copyhold lands in the Duchy of Lan-
caster, the tenants of which have a right of inheritance for ever.
These lands, however, yield no other profit than those issuing from
fee farm tenements, with the exception of a small fine upon the
death or ahenation of a tenant. He requests in fee farm as much
of these copyhold lands as will amount to £300 or £400 a year,
reserving the rent now being paid, and himself paying a reasonable
rent for the present fines and profits, the sum to be assessed by
the Chancellor of the Duchy or any other members of the Privy
Council nominated by the King. — Undated.

Endorsed: " Sir Robert Cary. 1606." i p. (P. 685.)

Arthur Gregory to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1606]. — He submits this petition in the name of his brother-
in-law William Waltham and one Thomas Geary. In the reign
of the late Queen Elizabeth, they let their ship to Edward Veale
who had been given permission to take prizes at sea. He captured
a French vessel and carried her to Barbary, where he sold the goods
as well as the ship belonging to Waltham and Geary. The latter
protested to the Court of the Admiralty, and when Veale returned
to this country they arrested him and dehvered him into the custody
of that Court. He was prosecuted by the owner of the French ship,
who was awarded the value of his commodities seized and sold by
Veale. At the same time Geary and Waltham were condemned
to pay the money for which Veale had sold their ship, in spite of
the fact that they had neither victualled nor manned her, " but
let her foorth as one that shold have let his horse or lent an emptie
scabbord ". Petitioner requests that Waltham and Geary should
enjoy the benefit of the same law which others have lately had in
similar cases. He asks Salisbury to recommend it to the Lord
Chief Justice, since the fact that the contract was made in England
is sufficient reason for the matter to be decided by Common Law. —
Undated.

1 p. (P. 448.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVIII, p. 403.]

Richard Barrett to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1606]. — He is a prisoner in the Gatehouse where he was com-
mitted by SaHsbury nineteen weeks ago. Seven of these he spent
in close confinement, " xx^i dayes of the same, in the extremetye of
winter, in a dungeon without anie bread, fyer, candle or else to
releeve him, with harde allowance of dyett dureing that tyme ".
He prays that he be given his Hberty or allowed to answer the
charges preferred against him. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 368.)

[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, pp. 278, 279 and 287.]

102

Thomas Phelippes to the Privy Council.

[1606]. — He regrets his indiscretions and errors, but denies that
he is wanting in loyalty and devotion to the King. He has been
imprisoned for more than six months, and hopes that the Council
will consider his sufferings, and the misery endured by his family,
a sufficient punishment. He prays to be allowed his Uberty, and
freedom to retire into obscurity. — Undated.

Endorsed: "The humble petition of Thomas Phehps, prisoner
in the Tower." i p. (P. 248.)

[See Gal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 314, and H.M.C. Salisbury
MSS, Vol. XVIII, p. 268.]

Gabriel Horne to the Earl of Salisbury, Chancellor
OF THE University of Cambridge.

[1606]. — He requests his letters to the Master and Seniors of
St. John's College, Cambridge, recommending him for a fellowship
which has just become vacant. The fellowship is reserved for
scholars from the school at Sedbergh in Yorkshire, where he was
educated before proceeding to Cambridge. He fears that the
statutes of the school regulating the bestowal of the fellowship may
be overridden unless Sahsbury intervenes. — Undated.

Endorsed: '' 1606". i p. (P. 15.)

Condemned Spaniards.

1606. Francisco Garrido is a prisoner in Newgate and con-
demned to death, the execution to take place on the morrow. He
continues to affii'm that he is not guUty.

Pedro de Vargas is in the same prison and is likewise condemned
to death, the execution being fixed for the morrow. — 1606.

Spanish. Endorsed: " Spaniards Cutpur ses." | p. (206. 32.)

Wales.

[1606]. — " Register of the papers of Wales ", a Ust of references
to notes, instructions and documentary materials concerning the
authority and jurisdiction of the President and Court of the Marches
of Wales. The latest item in the list is " the coppie of the instruc-
tions for Wales in anno 1606." — Undated.

2 pp. (243. 5.)

The Hanse Merchants to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1606]. — ^They are German merchants, late resident in the
Steelyard. A year ago they submitted a petition to the King that
they be readmitted to their " ancient howse called the StiUiard
which their ancestors purchased with their moneyes, and hath bine
inhabited by them and their successors many hundred yeares ".
Eight years have elapsed since they were displaced with the
exception of two of their number, who have maintained possession
of the house for petitioners' use. The house itself is occupied by
all kinds of people — upon what authority petitioners do not know —

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who pay neither rent nor any other charge. The result is that the
building is in a bad state of repair, and is lil^ely to fall into ruins
within a few years. Petitioners complain that despite the fact
that they have received no rent nor been allowed to reside in the
house, they have been forced to pay rent and charges for the build-
ing to the city of London, which amount to £50 annually at least.
The King has referred their petition to the Privy Council, from
whom no answer has been received as yet. Petitioners propose
therefore to renew their suit to the Council, and ask Salisbury to
support it when it comes up for discussion. — Undated.

p. (P. 2044.

[See Cal. 8.P. Dom., 1598-1601, pp. 5-6, 12, and Acts of the
Privy Council, 1597-98. p. 614.]

Accounts.

1606. — Bill of John de Greets, serjeant painter, for work under-
taken by him at Sahsbury House in 1606. Total £107:16:4.

Countersigned: Simon Basyll and John Shaw. Note by Basyll:
" There was a former byll signed for this woorke which the sarjent
paynter sayeth was lost, which, if it bee found, lett it be counseled."
2 pp. (General 12/20.)

William Gomeldon to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1606]. — David Lloyd ap John ap levan of Montgomeryshire,*
died 26 years ago seised of various lands in that shire. Petitioner
is confident that he can prove that some part of the property was
held in capite of the late Queen Elizabeth, which is now likewise
held of the King, by Owen Lloyd, his heir. He asks to be allowed
to substantiate the King's title to the lands which have been so
long concealed, and that he be awarded the benefit of all profits
which may be due to the Crown as the result of the inquiry. —
Undated.

p. (P. 1559.)

James Faweather to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? 1606]. — ^He served for seven years in the Irish wars, and was
captured and forced to pay £50 for his ransom before being released.
He came to England in the hope of obtaining some pension towards
his maintenance, but failed in his object. He has remained in
London a considerable time, and now has no money to defray his
travelling expenses to Ireland. He asks Sahsbury to help him to
return to his family. — Undated.

*p. (P. 1214.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury 3ISS, Vol. XVIII, p. 399.]

Gregory Champante to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? 1606]. — He has been summoned by the Privy Council for not
compljàng with SaHsbury's order to pay £20 towards the fine of a

* Probably David Lloyd of Trefnant, co. Montgomery, whose will was
proved in 1580. [See Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, Vol. Ill, p. 196.]

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lease made by Hare to Conradus. Three years ago, he had offered
to pay the money, but no agreement had been reached as regards
the covenants of the lease. Smce then the matter had been in
abeyance until the widow of Conradus had taken it up again. He
informs Sahsbury that he has been impoverished by the suit to the
amount of £800, and has been forced to sell his interest in the lease.
He is ahnost 80 years of age, has little means at his disposal, many
children, and is unable to pay the money demanded. He has
entrusted his son, who is employed by Mr Mills of Southampton,
to certify to Sahsbury his poor state of health and finance, and to
request consideration at his hands. — Undated.
1 p. (P. 303.)

William Coîtoadus to the Eaul of Salisbuhy.

[? 1606]. — Sahsbury ordered his case to be brought up to date
by Sir Francis Bacon who " penned the booke and caused the same
to be engrossed by his clarke ". But Hare, despite Sir Francis's
request, has refused to seal it on the grounds that Champante has
not paid him the £20 which Sahsbury had ordered him to pay, and
for the discharge of which Hare had accepted Champante' s word.
Hare has behaved evasively as regards the £40 which petitioner, in
accordance with Sahsbury's directions, has offered him, and now
Champante has sold his lease and all the rents of his tenements to
one of his tenants called Champion, Since neither Champante nor
Hare have made over any estate to him, petitioner is in danger of
losing all, which would utterly rmn him. He requests that Sahsbury
take further measures in the matter so that he may be saved
further legal suits. — Undated.

On reverse: " The effecte of JVIr Secretaries order taken the 29th
of June, 1601, betweene Conradus, Champant and Hare hereafter
foUoweth " with details of the order.

Copy. 11 pp. (P. 1137.)

Osmund Btjshnell to

[? 1606]. — Last August the Earl of Hertford issued warrants to
levy a tax for two years' arrears on the Queen's tenants which
were alleged to be due to Josias Kirton, secretary to the Earl, for
his fees as Muster-master.* He protests that Kirton had never
held a muster during these two years. The tenants refused to pay
for this reason, and also because they thought themselves free from
all impositions by charter. The Earl, by virtue of his Lieutenancy,
committed one of the tenants to prison for 8 days, and charged him
with the obligation to provide new armour. On behalf of himself
and the rest of the tenants on the Queen's manor of Corsham,
petitioner prays to be discharged of that expense, and to be free
from imprisonment and provision of armour which they fear the

* Kirton was appointed Muster-master of Wiltshire and Somerset in June,
1604.[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 126.]

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Earl of Hertford will impose upon them. The Earl has already-
made out several warrants against petitioner, and threatens to
commit him to prison. — Undated.
I p. (P. 351.)

Wives of the Spanish prisoners to the Earl of
Salisbury.

[? 1606]. — Their husbands are sailors who are now captives in
the galleys of the King of Spain. They were captured some five
months previously. Some of them were thrown overboard by the
Spaniards and the rest placed in Spanish galleys, where they are
being treated like slaves. Since the outrage took place before the
last proclamation prohibiting voyages to the West Indies, peti-
tioners pray for measures to be taken for the liberation of their
husbands . — Uîiduted .

\ p. (P. 425.)

[See Gal. S.P. Doni., 1603-10, p. 334.]

John Birkett to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? c. 1606]. — He is the King's Attorney for Munster. The Lord
Deputy has granted him a concordatum of 5/- per diem while
keeping the General and Quarter Sessions. This has interfered
with his own legal practice, and he has submitted a petition to the
King for a permanent pension of 5/- daily, to be paid to him out of
the revenues or out of such fines and amercements as he shall bring
into the Exchequer in Ireland. He also asks that he be given
those perquisites and fees which his predecessors in that office
enjoyed. He requests Salisbury to support his petition when it
comes up for discussion at the Council table. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 542.)

[See Cal. S.P. Ireland, 1603-6, p. 432.]

Humphrey Covert to the Earl op Salisbury.

[? 1606]. — ^When Salisbury with others found him employment
at Lough Foyle, he was so harassed by his subordinates " whoe
by poyson, buUetts and quarels sought to destroye me ", that he
begged to be relieved of his post. The request was granted, and
he was permitted to draw his pay while another post was being
found for him. But since the death of the late Queen his pay has
been stopped by the Lord Treasurer, and he asks Salisbury to
favour his suit to the King that he be paid the money due to him
or allocated a pension for life. He repeats the words spoken to him
by the Lord Treasurer at the time of Elizabeth's death: " Captain
Covert, I will geve no farther allowance of your entertaynment as
yet for I am now but in bene esse, but when the King doth com
and restores me my staffe, wee (meaning your Lordship with liym-
selfe) would recommend my service to his Ma^i."

Enclosed: A copy of the letter dated May 22, 1602, in which
members of the Privy Council, including Cecil, agree to reheve

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Covert of his duties at Lough Foyle, and to continue his pay while
he instructs his successor in his duties and another post is being
found for him.

1 p. (P. 727.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVIII, p. 389.]

Eleanor Palmer to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? 1606]. — She is a poor widow aged 70, and her father was the
son of the sister of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. She has
a legitimate title to £50 of yearly rent in London bequeathed to her
by her uncle, the late Christopher Mortimer,* but wrongfully detained
from her for 17 years by Valentine Saunders. He is one of the
Clerks of the Petty Bag, a man of wealth and a papist. She has
no means either to bring a lawsuit against him or to maintain
herself, and asks Sahsbury for some financial help to supply her
wants, and for assistance to prosecute a suit in forma pauperis
which she has begun to estabhsh her claim. — Undated.

ip. (P. 804.)

Thomas C arrow to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? 1606]. — He is a merchant of Lynn, Norfolk. In October,
1605, he had a number of ships laden with wheat in the port of
St Mary, in Spain, which were seized by the purveyor of the King
of Spain's galleys for that King's provisions, the money for the
same to be paid within 30 days. It has not been paid more than
a year later. — Undated.

? Imperfect. | p. (P. 1478.)

Adam Tanner to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? 1606]. — ^This petition is submitted on behalf of himself and
other mariners taken prisoner in the West Indies by Don Luis de
Fajardo, Spanish naval commander. He complains that though
the voyage to the West Indies was a purely commercial venture,
their ship was seized, the cargo confiscated, and the crew ill treated
and reviled. They managed to escape from the gaUeys to which
they had been committed, and have since been informed that
Sahsbury had intervened for their release. They express their
gratitude and beg him to act for the release of the rest of their
company, who are stiU detained in the galleys, and to obtain for
them some indemnification for their suffering and losses. — Undated.

fp. (P. 1171.)

John Haraneder to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1606]. — Some two months ago Sahsbury promised the French
Ambassador, the Count of Beaumont, to transmit to the Attorney-
General certain letters written by Sir Robert Bassett to the Privy
Council. On the basis of these letters the Attorney-General would

* He died in 1589. [See Index of Wills proved in the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury, Vol. IV, p. 296.]

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decide whether Sir Robert's goods were subject to confiscation for
the King's use or not. Petitioner reminds Salisbury that he has
been prosecutmg his suit for the past four years and incurred great
expenses in doing so. He asks that the letters be conveyed to the
Attorney-General . — Undated.
1 p. (P. 1058.)

Peter Bales to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? 1606]. — He is "writing schoolemaster " to Prince Henry,
and has taught the Prince to write for a year and three quarters
without receiving any pension or allowance. Upon his suit to the
King he was referred to the Lord Chamberlain, but met with no
success. A second petition to the King was commended to the
Earl of Northampton, with similar negative results. From time
to time the matter has been placed before the Lords of the Privy
Council, when they have discussed the household affairs of the
Prince, but petitioner has not been able to attend the meetings very
often. He appeals to Salisbury to intervene in his favour. —
Undated.

At bottom:

" Ut precor inspiret Dominus cor nobile Vestrum,
Et mihi nunc inopi tempore fertis opem."

1 p. (P. 1984.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVI, p. 402.]

Mr Throckmorton to .

[? 1606]. — " The answere of Mr Throckmorton to the objections
of the heires of the late Earle of Devonshire."

His answer is directed against the objections raised by Henry
Baker, the reputed heir of Charles Blount, Earl of Devonshire,
to his bill submitted to ParHament, and is concerned with the sale
of certain lands to Throckmorton but which are now claimed on
behalf of Baker. Throckmorton answers, inter alia, that he was
forced to purchase the lands because of a lease by which he pre-
viously held them, and had to borrow the money to do so. To
lose the property would prevent him from discharging his debts. —
Undated.

1 p. (P. 2146.)

Francis Nicholson to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? c. 1606]. — He is the orphan son of WilUam Nicholson, who
was a suitor to SaUsbury when he was Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster,* for remedy against Reddish, his landlord, about the
lease of a farm in which petitioner's father and grandfather had
been born. Petitioner's parents and some of their children died

* Salisbury, then Sir Robert Cecil, was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
from 1597 to 1599.

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during the last visitation of the plague in London, where they were
prosecuting their suit, and left five orphans behind them. After
seven years' service petitioner has obtained the freedom of the city,
but because of the death of friends and the undetermined suit of
his father's, he is too poor to be able to follow his profession,
although he is quahfied to do so. He asks for one of two favours :
either that SaUsbury find him employment in his service, or inter-
vene to procure for him the small satisfaction which Reddish agreed
to give his deceased father, which has since been confirmed by
Mr Brograve and Mr Bacon of Gray's Inn, who were appointed
by Salisbury to hear the case. — Undated.
ip. (P. 435.)

Jane Adams to the Earl of Salisbtjiiy.

[? c. 1606]. — She is a widow* and this petition is submitted not
only by her but also by the inhabitants of Hoddesdon on her
behalf. Petitioner became mentally affected by the many tribu-
lations which she and her husband suffered during his life time,
and after his suicide " she is fallen into a most miserable and
desperate estate ". His manner of death has resulted in the for-
feiture to Sahsbury as Lord of the manor of her goods and the
money she brought her husband upon their marriage. The
inhabitants of Hoddesdon appeal to Sahsbury that she be allowed
her goods, assessed at less than £10, to reheve her needs. — Undated.

I p. (P. 1752.)

Katherine Thomson to [the Earl of Salisbury].

[ ? c. 1606]. — Sahsbury has formerly spoken kindly to her and her
late husband of her son Robert,! Sahsbury's godson, who has
served him for seventeen years but without much material benefit.
Recently she has been urged by some of the Company of Stationers
and others, " consideringe what great abuse there is in the arte of
prmtinge for want of some officer appointed to looke to the same,
the which abuses, as the Stationers say, are cheefly comitted by
thos that printe in secret ", to soKcit Sahsbury for letters patent
from the King appointing her son to some such supervisory post.
Her son would also hke Sahsbury to buy off him certain acres of
pasture and wood with a cottage which he holds by copyhold in
the manor of Baas. — Ujidated.

I p. (P. 770.)

[Katherine Thomson] to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? c. 1606]. — ^Many abuses are being committed by authorized
and unauthorized printers alilce. The former are guilty of using
unsuitable paper, of typing errors and of defective pagination.
The unhcensed printers flout the law, produce Catholic books or

* Possibly the wife of John Adams whose death is mentioned by the baiUff
of the hundred of Hertford, in which Hoddesdon hes. [See C. P. Accounts 75.]

t Robert Thomson was a tenant of the manor of Baas in September, 1606.
[See C.P. Accounts 133/14.]

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arrange for them to be printed abroad and sold in England : they
also compete with authorized printers in the publication and sale
of books. Petitioner asks that SaHsbury procure for her son letters
patent which would entitle him, for twenty years, to (1) examine
and approve the paj)er used in each printed work ; (2) confiscate or
pass books with an official stamp, receiving a fee proportionable to
the number of sheets m every approved book, " provided that
he take nothinge for the booke called the httle abc nor hornebooke " ;
and (3) to search stationers' shops and houses, and all ships within
English territorial waters, for unlawful books, and to seize all
those not bearing the official stamp. — Undated.
1 p. (197. 47.)

David Tannett to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? c. 1606]. — By Sahsbury's favour he was granted the post of
Keeper of the King's game. He has spent more than £200 in
maintaining the necessary staff and meeting other requirements,
but has extracted little benefit for himself. In addition, he has
discovered that the game suffers daily from the depredations of
persons of wealth and quahty , whom he cannot denounce or censure
without incurring their displeasure and hatred. He has therefore
decided to resign the post rather than continue to work in such
adverse conditions. Having found a person who is not only desirous
of taking it over but is influential enough to redress matters, he asks
Sahsbury's permission to dispose of the post by sale. — Undated.

f p. (P. 1064.)

[Tannett was falconer to the Earl of Sahsbury in 1606. See
Bills 10.]

Richard Shakerley to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1606 or before]. — He complains that bargemen damage Sahs-
bury's property by landing on it as they pass through. When he
resisted them, they maltreated him and now threaten to kill him.
Lord Burghley, in his hfe time, authorized his tenants at Cheshunt
and Hoddesdon to keep the bargemen off his land. Since Sir
Robert Wroth* and Su- Vincent Skinner have granted a warrant
for preventing them from landing, he asks for a similar warrant for
Sahsbury's tenants at Cheshunt, Hoddesdon and Amwell. —
Undated.

ip. (P. 255.)

Christian and Thomas Weech to the Earl of
Salisbury.

[1606 or before]. — Sir Henry Gawdy, Sir Edward Cleer,t Sir
Wilham Paston, Sir Miles Corbett, Sir Phihp Woodhouse, Sh?
Thomas Barney, Dr Redmayne, William Yelverton, Richard

* Probate of his will granted in 1606. [See Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Wills, 1605-19, p. 498.]
t Died in 1606.

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Jenkinson, John Burm, Thomas Richardson, Bartholomew Cotton,
Justices of the Peace in Norfolk, have written on behalf of Christian,
wife of Thomas Weech, who is in prison under sentence of death for
witchcraft. The King accordingly granted his letters of pardon
to her,* but although these have passed the privy seal, they have
been stayed from passing the Great Seal by the sinister means of
her enemies, and she is still in prison to the great grief of her hus-
band. The Justices of the Peace have again sent a letter to the
Lord Chancellor in her favour, to effect her pardon according to the
King's intent, and petitioners ask SaUsbury and others of the Privy
Council to lend their support to this appeal for her release. —
Undated.

1 p. (P. 1067.)

On reverse: " The true coppie of the honorable sute of diverse
worshippfuU knights and Justices of his Ma^s peace for the county
of Norfolk made on the behalfe of Christian Weeche, unto the right
honorable Thomas, Lorde EUismere, Lorde Chauncellor of England.
Yt maye please your Lordshippe to be advertized at the requests
and in the behalfe of a poore distressed gent, Thomas Weeche,
whose wife and onely staye and guide. Christian Weeche, beings
in prison condempned to die for witchcrafte, the poore gent, by
meanes of foremer advertisements geven by us under our handes
became an humble suter unto the Kings Ma^i^ for her pardon, who
of his speciall grace graunted the same, and it passed under his
pre vie scale, but before it coulde passe the great Scale his and her
adversaries understandinge therof used means, as we are inforemed,
to stay the same alledginge amongest many other allegations that
the woman and her facte was utterly unknowne unto us; which
is not soe. For her facte, we weare at her triall and harde suche
testimonie and proofes as were then alledged against her, beeinge
in our judgments to weake to have condempned her. And for
our knowledge of the woeman, we knowe her to be a gentlewoman
verie aunciently decended, and for the greatest parte of her Hfe to
have lived without any maner of note or suspition of exercizinge
of the devihshe and detestable practize of witchcrafte untill some
small time before her triall. And howsoever yt pleased God in
his secret wisedome to sufer her to be founde guiltie and receive
judgement for the facte, yet we are fully perswaded that she is
cleare of that wherof she no we remaine condempned. All which
we have thought fittinge to advertize your Lordshippe of in respect
of her owne modest rehgious and discreet cariage ever since her
condempnation, and also to become humble suters to your Lord-
shippe that, seeinge it hathe pleased his moste excellent Ma**^ of
his infinite goodnes and mercie to graunt her his pardon, which
hathe passed the privie scale and stales onelye for the greate scale,
that yt would please your Lordshippe, in whose power it onely rest,
to yeelde your honorable favour soe farre to the said Thomas
Weeche and his sayd wife as to suffer her said pardon to passe the

* She was granted a pardon on April 16, 1604. [See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10,
p. 96.]

Ill

great seale wherbye she may be delivered of her longe imprison-
ment which now by the space of three yeares she hathe induered to
her housebonds and her great hinderaunce, yf not thier utter un-
doeinge. And so leave the same unto your honores grave con-
sideration to doe therin as the poore gentlemans distressed estate
and his wifEes may moove."

Robert Pricket to the Privy Council.

[1606 or before]. — Because of his mihtary service to King and
country, he has become so destitute that he can no longer maintain
his wife and family, and is forced to seek a livehhood abroad.*
He proposes to enter the service of the States General, and he
requests permission to embark at Yarmouth with 200 volunteers if
he can recruit as many in Norfolk and Suffolk from amongst those
" whose idell and disordered manner of lyvinge makes them for
the Common Weale unproffitable and therefore maie well be
spared ". If the request is granted, petitioner " hopeth in this
next summers service, from the boasomes of Englands outside
frends and inward enimyes, to fetche sufficient maintenance for
him and his ". — Undated.

\ p. (P. 445.)

John Wynyard and Thomas Bond to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[1606 or before]. — By letters patent granted to him by the late
Queen EUzabeth on July 17, 1573, John Wynyard, the elder,
petitioner's father, was seised for life of \ acre of ground outside
the wall of the old palace of Westminster " sometymes called the
Osyer plotte being then very noysome for her Ma^i^ and the Lords
comeinge to the Parhament house, was afterwards by great coste
and charges reduced to a firme and sweet plotte of ground by John
Dore, tenant to the said John Wynyard ". Leases of the plot
were granted in reversion over the years to Wilham Synfold, John
Wells and John Drewer, until finally it came into the possession
of Thomas Bond, who erected a house on it. The vahdity of their
title to the plot is now being questioned, and petitioners request
that the matter should be referred to Mr Typper for examination,
and that the plot should be granted to them in fee farm in return
for an annual rent. — Undated.

Endorsed: " The humble petition of John Wynyard, Keeper of
his Matins privy lodgings and standing wardroppe att Hampton
Court,t and Thomas Bond, his Matins servaunt in ordinarie in the
wardroppe." 1 p. (P. 1269.)

* He took holy orders in the spring of 1606. [See D.N.B., Vol. XLVI,
p. 348.]

t Died in 1606. [See Wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury,
Vol. V, p. 500.]

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Jasper Strich to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1606 or after]. — Refers to his previous petition in which he
sohcited Sahsbury's assistance to recover arrears of pay due to
him in the Island of Guernsey. Sahsbury directed him to attend
the Master of Requests for rehef, which he did, but is still unable to
obtain an order signed by the King, without which there is no
possibihty of obtaining redress. Hitherto letters from the Master
of the Requests and the Privy Council signifying the King's pleasure
in this matter have carried little weight, since the Captain of the
Island's authority to punish the guilty party has been curtailed.
He requests that Sahsbury procure for him an order for the payment
of his arrears signed by the King himself. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1232.)

John La^^celot to Lord Zouch.

[ ? Before 1607]. — He is of Wrexham, co. Denbigh, and in 1599 was
involved as defendant in a case brought against him in the Court
of the Welsh Marches by David ap John David Lloyd and his wife
Janet. Justice Shuttleworth, who presided, showed signs of mental
instability "for when evydence was then delyvered he used ymperty-
nent and idle speeches to ye no litle admiration of ye auditorie ".
There was also present Mr Broughton of the Council, a person
" mightely wrought to appresse your orator ". Petitioner alleges
that through the influence of Broughton, Justice Shuttleworth was
guilty of partiahty in his verdict, for although he dismissed the
charges of misdemeanours brought against him, he nevertheless
made an order for the restitution of certain goods, an order v/hich
was so confused that it could not be executed. Since then peti-
tioner has travelled to London for medical treatment, and is now
apprehensive lest the plaintiff's wife should brmg another action
against him on the strength of the order of 1599, and even have him
arrested. He requests that no process of attachment should be
issued against him, only a summons to present himself, and that
Lord Zouch* himself should determine the case. — Undated.

I p. (P. 1635.)

[The Kestg] to [the Chapter of Wells].

[Before 1607]. — He refers to previous letters directed to the
Chapter on behalf of Paul Methuen,t " a zelus preacher of long
continuance with you and prebendary of your churche, by honorable
personages commended to us ", to be made canon of Wells. In
a full meeting of the Chapter, it was decreed that no other single
residentiaries should be admitted before him. Despite this decision,
however, another residentiary had been admitted, and Methuen
had been defrauded of his place and discredited by the reprehensible

* Replaced by Lord Eure as President of the Council of Wales in 1607.

t [Died in 1607. See H.M.C. Dean and Chapter of Wells MSS, Vol. 2, p. 353.]

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action of the Chapter. The Chapter is therefore commanded,
notwithstanding any acts, ordinances or statutes of the church
which are hereby dispensed with by Royal privilege, to convene
and to admit Paul Methuen to be residentiary without delay. He
is also to receive retrospectively all such allowances and benefits
as other canons have been accustomed to enjoy. Undated.
Unsigned. Unaddressed.
f p. (P. 2319.)

Regestald Nicholas to the Kestg.

[Before January, 1606-7]. — Petitioner's lands were seized in the
time of the late Queen Ehzabeth for payment of debts to the Crown,
and they are still being distrained for that purpose. Sir John
Chamberlain, an influential knight of Gloucestershire, took advant-
age of the situation to enter into some of these lands and withhold
certain rents due to petitioner. He brought an action against
Chamberlain in the Court of Exchequer Chamber, and it was there
decided that while the rents should go towards the hquidation of
the debts, the property occupied by Chamberlain should be restored
to petitioner's ownership . Chamberlain contemptuously ignored the
Court's verdict, and the matter was again taken up by the Attorney-
General in a court of Common law in Gloucestershire. Despite the
former decree and the advice of the judges, the jury there returned
a verdict against petitioner, which he attributes either to their
fear of Sir John Chamberlain or to their partiahty for him. Since
then Chamberlain has entered into other properties belonging to
petitioner. He has withheld rents, seized crops and converted an
ancient deer park into a warren. Petitioner and his family are
constantly subjected to outrages at the hands of his servants. He
asks that all matters at variance between him and Chamberlain be
referred to the two Chief Justices, the Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
Justice Walmsley, Baron Gierke* and Baron Saville, and their
verdict to be decisive, — Undated.

1 p. (P. 522.)

Sm William Constable and Sir Edward Bushell
to the King.

[Before January 8, 1606-7]. — The confidence they have in the
King of Denmark's favour towards them impels them to submit a
petition to him, that he bestow upon them jointly £300 for the
services they have wilhngly rendered in the past ; or so much as the
King thinks fit of Chantry lands or impropriations of parsonages in
fee farms. They desire that the Earl of Sahsbury be ordered to
see that the gift is conferred and confirmed. — Uîidated.

^ p. (P. 458.) P. 1665 and P. 1770 are copies of this petition.

[See PRO, State Papers Denmark (S.P. 75), Vol. IV, pt. 1, fol. 45.]

* Sir Robert Clerk, Baron of the Exchequer died on January 1, 1606-7.
S.C.-9

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Sm Randolph JNIainwaring to the Eabl of Salisbury

IN ANSWER TO THE PETITION OF SlR JoHN SaVAGE.

[Before January 13, 1606-7]. — Regarding the common or waste
called Ravensmere, the advowson of Baddiley, and the parcels of
waste land knowTi as Basilden, Clough and Gunn Carr. He claims
that all these properties and the advowson have passed by purchase
into the hands of his uncle, Captain Edmond Mainwaring. The
latter has surrendered them to the King, who has regranted the
same to him, the petitioner, with Uberty to dig coal within the
above-mentioned three parcels of waste land, reser\'ing only the
woods growing there for the Crown. He requests that the said
grant, which has already passed the privy seal, be forwarded to
the Lord Chancellor to receive the Great Seal, or that his counsel
be allowed to present his case. — Undated.

p. (P. 38.

Sm John Savage to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before January 13, 1606-7]. — Sir Randal Mainwaring the
younger has obtained a grant from the King of a common or waste
called Ravensmere and certain coal mines in the Forest of Maccles-
field. The King has been misinformed as to the extent, the renta-
bihty and the ownership of this property. The common belongs
to petitioner, certain other gentry and hundreds of tenants,
borderers and commoners in the shire. The soil of the Forest is
the inheritance of the Earl of Derby, although he is not aware of
it, so that the grant is prejudicial to his interests also. There is
every likehhood that the grant will breed much htigation, and a
great deal of money has already been spent on legal proceedings
concerning the Forest. On behalf of himself and others whose
interests are involved, petitioner requests that Sahsbury revoke
the privy seal or direct the Lord Chancellor to prevent it passing
the Great Seal, until petitioner has summoned the interested parties
and given them an opportunity to express their views of the grant
and the inconveniences which could arise from it. — Undated.

- p. (P. 934.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XIX, p. 7.]

Sm John Savage to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before January 13, 1606-7]. — Sir John Savage's petition is
answered by Sir Randal Mainwaring.

Concerning the common called Ravensmere, of 400 acres, his
ancestors have been accounted chief lords of it from time im-
memorial, and have received rents from enclosed parcels of the
waste. Some 25 or 26 years ago, Francis Whitney procured a lease
of the premises from the late Queen Elizabeth for 21 years. Main-
waring's father failed to persuade the local gentry to protect their
interests in the common, and eventually he was forced to buy it
from Whitney for the rest of the term of years. Later John

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Farnham, a gentleman pensioner of the late Queen, procured a fee
farm of the premises and the advowson of Baddiley, which was
also purchased by Mamwaring's father and conveyed in trust to
Captain Edmond Mainwaring, his uncle.

Concerning the parcels of waste called Basilden, Clough and
Gunn Carr, the late Queen granted the same with other parcels of
waste to John Herbert and Andrew Palmer at the suit of Sir John
Perrot in 1575. This property has since then come into the hands
of Captain Mainwaring. In the new grant drawn up by the
Attorney-General, the latter has surrendered to the King not only
Ravensmere, but also the advowson of Baddiley and the three
above-mentioned pieces of waste. In Ueu whereof, the King re-
granted the premises to Sir Randal Mainwaring with liberty to dig
for coal on the parcels of waste land and none other, the King to
have the soil (since it belongs to him and not to the Earl of Derby)
with all the woods. Sir Randal requests that the grant, having
passed the privy seal, be sent to the Lord Chancellor to pass the
Great Seal ; or that a day be appointed to hear his counsel. He and
his father have already disbursed £500 in this matter. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 426.)

Richard Sproxton to the Earl of Salisbxjry.

[Before February 2, 1606-7]. — ^When the King ascended the
throne of England, he granted the Chancellorship and the Under-
Treasurership of the Exchequer to the Earl of Dunbar, who
appointed petitioner Steward for the Star Chamber, with a promise
that he should have it for Hfe. However, he has now heard that
Dunbar, before leaving for Scotland, secretly persuaded the King
to sign a bill conveying the post to one Sharpy, thereby breaking
his promise and depriving Sproxton of a means of Hvehhood in his
old age; and this despite the support he received from his brothers-
in-law. Baron SaviU* and Sir Henry Savill. During the reign of
the late Queen Elizabeth petitioner had served her faithfuUy in the
Exchequer, particularly in the honest handling of substantial sums
of money amounting annually to £200,000. He requests Sahsbury
to intervene with the King that he be not deprived of his office. —
Undated.

ip. (P. 298.)

Richard Sproxton to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before February 2, 1606-7]. — This is a duphcate of the preceding
petition, with minor differences: e.g., petitioner adds at the end
that after obtaining the post of Steward for the Star Chamber, he
gave up a receivership which he enjoyed in the country, and that
he has leased his house and property there for many years to come.
— Undated.

|p. (P. 940.)

* Sir John Saville, Baron of the Exchequer, died on February 2, 1607.

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The Synod of La Rochelle.

1606-7, March 1. — " Extraict des actes du Synode tenu a la
Rochelle le premier jour de Mars, 1607.
Sur la lecture de la confession :

Article second

Sur ce que le synode de Gap avoit charge les provinces de peser
en quels termes l'article 25 de la confession de foy doit estre couche
pour en venir prests au present synode et juger si on doit faire
mention de l'Eghse universelle de laquelle il est parte au symbole
des Apostres. Comme aussy s'U est expedient d'adj ouster a
l'article 29 le mot de " pure " a celuy de vraie Eghse. Et en general
que toutes s'apprestassent sur ce qui concerne la question de
l'Eghse. Les provuices ouies sur cela par leurs députez a este résolu
d'un commun consentement de ne rien adjouster ni diminuer
ausdicts articles et ne toucher de nouveau a la matière de l'Eglise.

Article IV

Sur les lettres escrittes par le Docteur Piscator, professeur en
l'académie de Herborn responsives a celles qui luy avoyent este
escrittes par le synode de Gap, esqueUes il rend raison de sa doctrine
touchant la justification par la seulle obéissance de Christ en sa
mort et passion imputée a justice aux croyants, non par l'obéissance
de sa vie, la Compagnie n'approuvant la division de causes si con-
joinctes en ce grand effect de la grace de Dieu, et ne trouvant pas
que les raisons et allegations exprimées esdites lettres soyent con-
cluantes pour ce qu'il pretend prouver, a ordonne que tous les
pasteurs des eghses de ce royaume se tiendront a la forme de
doctrine des eghses jusques icy enseignée purement et conformé-
ment a l'Escritture esdittes eghses, asscavoir que toute l'obéissance
de Christ en sa vie, en sa mort, nous est imputée pour l'entière
remission de nos péchez et l'acceptation a vie eterneUe, et en somme
nostre entière et parfaicte justification, comme n'estant qu'une
mesme et seule obéissance, et a résolu qu'il seroit respondu a la
lettre dudict Piscator en luy proposant cette simple doctrine avec
ses principaux fondements, sans contestation toutefifois et avec telle
douceur qu'eUe responde a la modestie recogneue es lettres dudict
Piscator sans aigreur.

Article IX

L'article touchant l'antechrist msere au synode de Gap pour
estre le 31 de la confession de foy ayant este leu en son rang, pesé
et examine, a este approuve et loue d'un commun consentement
en sa forme et substance comme très veritable conforme a ce qui a
este predict en l'Escritture, et que nous voyons en nos jours claire-
ment accompli, et partant a este résolu qu'il demeurera en son heu
et que doresnavant il sera imprime es exemplaires qui seront mis
de nouveau sur la presse.

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Faicts Généraux. Article 42

Sur ce que Sa Ma*^, depuis la resolution prise cy dessus touchant
l'antechrist et impression de l'article de la confession qui s'en est
ensuivie, nous a faict entendre par les députez qui luy avoyent este
envoyez et depuis par Mons^ de Montmartin, que la publication
dudict article luy seroit désagréable, la Compagnie a ordonne que
l'impression sera sursise, sinon au cas que quelques uns fussent
molestez et tirez en justice pour la confession de cette doctrine
preschee, ditte ou escritte, et sera Sa M. supplie d'empescher qu'-
aucun soit inquiette pour l'impression desia faicte ou pour se trouver
saisi de quelques uns des exemplaires qui en sont sortis.

Extraict de ce qui s'est passe touchant la nomination
des Députez

Messieurs de la Noue et de Gros, députez par l'assemblée de
Ghastellerault pour résider près de Sa M. s'estans présentez en cette
assemblée ont apporte le brevet de Sa M. dont la teneur ensuit :

Aujourdhuy 29 de Décembre, 1606. Le Roy estant a St Germaui
en laye, Sa M^e a accorde et permis que au synode nationnal qui
doit estre tenu au mois de mars prochain en la ville de la Rochelle
par ses subjects de la religion prétendue reformée, il y puisse estre
traicte de la nomination de leurs députez qu'elle leur a permis de
tenir et résider près d'elle a condition que ladicte nomination sera
faicte de six d'entre eux desquels Sa M. choisira deux qui auront
a tenir ladicte charge laquelle sera pour trois ans entiers, et a la
charge aussy qu'au synode nationnal il ny sera traicte par les
députez d'iceluy d'aucune autre affaire hors ladicte nomination et
de la poUice et disciphne ecclésiastique selon qu'il est porte par les
Edicts et concessions de Sa M. Et ce a peine de déchoir d'icelles,
m'ayant sa dicte M. commande en expédier le present brevet
qu'elle a voulu signer de sa main et faict contresigner par moy,
Conceiller en son Conseil d'Estat, et secretaire de ses commande-
ments. Signe Henry, et plus bas, Forget.

Apres lecture faicte dudict brevet, la Compagnie considérant les
conditions y apposées n'a point juge qu'elle peust procedder a
l'élection de nouveaux députez généraux, ne se trouvant auc-
thorisee par ledict brevet a les instruire et descharger ceux qui se
sont icy présentez. Voila pour quoy pour estre esclarcie sur toutes
difficultez elle a trouve bon d'envoier vers Sa M. quelques députez
du corps d'icelle pour luy représenter en toute humihte les deffec-
tuositez dudict brevet et luy demander plus ample liberté pour
traicter de tous affaires qui concernent l'exécution de ses Edicts
pour la conservation des eghses, particuherement de la nomination
des Députez et de tout ce qui en deppend, comme du nombre
d'iceux et du temps de leur demeure. Et pour cet effect ont este
nommez et envoyez les Sieurs Gigor, pasteur, et de Cargroy, ancien,
avec lettres a Sa M. et a Messieurs de Bouillon, de Sully, de Sillery
et du Plessis.

Lesdicts Sieurs Gigor et de Cargroy estans de retour ont apporte
lettres de Sa M. desquelles la teneur ensuit :

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De par Le Roy. Chers et bien amez, nous avons eu bien agréable
la deputation que vous avez faicte vers nous des Sieurs Gigor et de
Cargroy, presens porteurs, lesquels nous avons bien volontiers
entendus sur ce qu'ils avoyent a nous représenter de vostre part,
et receu pareillement grand contentement de ce que nous avons
veu par leur propos que vous avez bien recogneu la faveur et grace
particuKere que nous vous avons nouvellement faicte de vous avoir
non seulement accorde la permission de vous assembler en nostre
ville de la Rochelle pour vostre synode national, mais aussy de
vous avoir par mesme moyen permis de faire la nomination des
députez qui doivuent succedder a ceux qui ont demeure près de
nous cette année dernière; et les raisons que nous avons eues de
ce faire, qui ne tendent toutes qu'au soulagement de nos subjects
de la rehgion prétendue reformée et les relever de la peine et des-
pence extraordinaire qu'il leur eust fallu faire si cette nomination
eust eu a ce faire par autre forme. Pour le regard de la difficulté
que nosdicts députez nous ont diet que vous avez trouvée sur
l'interprétation du brevet que nous vous avons faict expédier pour
ladicte permission et l'esclarcissement que vous en desiriez pour
vous garder dy contrevenir. Si vous eussiez sur ce ouy les depputez
qui sont partis d'icy pour vous aller trouver, ils vous pouvoient et
devuoient délivrer de cette incertitude. Car nous leur avons de-
clare a leur département que nous aurions agréable qu'ils vous
fassent entendre ce qui s'estoit passe sur les affaires qui ont este icy
traictees pendant le temps de leur residence près de nous. Ce que
nous vous confirmons en cor icy et davantage ; que si après les avoir
ouis vous avez a nous faire représenter quelque chose sur ce qui
depend de l'observation de nostre Edict qui est la loy par laquelle
nous voulons estre règle tout ce qui pourroit survenir pour ce
regard et qu'elle soit si exactement observée qu'il ne puisse estre rien
ad j ouste ou diminue, que nous trouvons bon que vous le leur com-
methez, et qu'eux aussy acceptent la charge de ce faire. Pour ce
qui est de la forme de ladicte nomination tant pour la quantité des
députez que pour le temps de leur residence qu'ils auront a faire
près de nous, estant chose que nous avons bien exactement con-
sidérée et juge estre utile et nécessaire, nous n'entendons qu'il y
soit rien change de ce qui est porte par ledict brevet. Et cas
advenant que lun des deux députez que nous aurons retenus vint
a manquer durant [blank] de son service, nous prendrons pour luy
succedder pour ce qui restera du temps de sa charge lun de ceux
qui auront este comprins en vostre nomination, et ayant remis en
créance a nosdicts députez de vous faire plus amplement entendre
les raisons principales de nos susdictes intentions et volontez, nous
ne vous en dirons pas icy davantage que pour vous asseurer que
vous nous trouverez tous jours favorables et propices en vos justes
requestes et demandes comme nous attendons aussy de vous la
continuation de vostre fidélité et prompte obéissance et tous jours
nouvelles occasions de mériter celle de nostre ancienne et bonne
affection envers vous. — Donne a Paris le 25 jour de mars 1 [607].

En la superscription est escrit : a nos chers et bien amez les deputes
du synode nationnal qui se tient par nostre permission en nostre

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ville de la Rochelle par nos subjects de la religion prétendue
reformée.

Sur la question du nombre des députez qui doivuent estre en-
volez a Sa Ma*^ et la charge qui leur doit estre ordonnée, la Com-
pagnie a advise attendu que les pouvoirs de la plus part ne sont
chargez que du nombre de deux, ne pouvans excéder la charge
qu'ils ont receue de leurs provinces, il n'en sera nomme que deux
qui seront chargez de représenter a Sa Ma^^ qu'il est nécessaire
d'avoir une assemblée generalle pollitique précédée des provinciales
de mesme nature afin d'adviser a la condition du nombre de six
et du temps de trois ans. Et en attendant, qu'il plaise a Sa Ma*®
l'octroier a leur suppHcation.

Elle sera très humblement suppHee de recevoir lesdicts deux
députez pour negotier toutes affaires comme les precedents, lesquels
dans un mois après leur arrivée en Cour advertiront les provinces
de la volonté de Sa Ma*®, et seront lesdicts deux députez nommez
de ceux qui ont este envoyez par les provinces en cette assemblée.

Pour aller en Cour ont este eslues en cette Compagnie les Sieurs
de Villernou et de Mirande, lesquels représenteront a Sa M. les
causes sus mentionnées pour lesquelles cette assemblée n'a peu se
tenir aux termes du brevet. Et au cas qu'il plaise a Sa M. les
accepter en attendant une assemblée generalle demeureront près
d'elle en qualité de députez généraux des églises. Et s'il ne plaist
a sadicte Ma*® accorder si tost une assemblée generalle, ils auront
charge pour un an durant lequel ils poursuivront conjoinctement
au nom general de toutes les eghses tout ce qui concerne le bien
d'icelles universellement et le particuher d'une chacune province
et église, présenteront les cahiers qu'ils dresseront fidellement sur
les mémoires qui leur seront deUvrez en cette Compagnie, en solli-
citeront la responce, et se gouverneront en tout suivant et conformé-
ment au règlement dresse en l'assemblée de St Foy par lesdicts
députez et les instructions qui leur seront baillées, et les provinces
adverties de s 'addresser a eux pour tout ce qui concerne leurs eghses
tant en general qu'en particuher sans en faire poursuite particu-
here par autres que par lesdicts députez, et ont lesdicts députez
preste serment et commenceront leur charge le 16 d'apvril.

6 pp. (144. 198.)

Teig O'Kelly to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? Before March 17, 1606-7]. — He has been a suitor to the Bang
and to the Privy Council for redress of wrongs committed against
him in Ireland, and has received no answer to the three petitions
he has submitted. He asks Salisbury to intervene that his petition
may be read. — Undated.

i p. (P. 1522.)

[See Cal. S.P. Ireland, 1606-8, pp. 465-66.]

120

Henry Dillon to the Earl of Salisbury.

[c. March, 1606-7]. — He is the King's Attorney in Ulster.
During the first year of the King's reign and upon the recom-
mendation of the Lord Deputy, Sir George Carey, and the Council
of Ireland, petitioner was appointed to that post by Sahsbury and
the late Earl of Devonshire, and has served ever since in that
capacity for a small fee. Upon the recent death of Mr Dillon, late
Chief Justice of Connaught, the present Lord Deputy, in considera-
tion of petitioner's service, granted the office to him on the con-
dition that his appointment would meet with the approval of the
Earl of Clanricarde. Now the grant has been revoked by the
Lord Deputy and the office bestowed on Mr Osbaldeston, Third
Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland, who has been recommended
by the Earl of Clanricarde. In the meantime, petitioner's own
office has been granted to Mr Sibthorpe. He therefore asks that
Sahsbury and the Privy Council move the King to grant him the
post of Chief Justice of Munster, now vacant because of the recent
elevation of Sir Dominic Sarsfield as Second Justice of the King's
Bench in Ireland. — Undated.

Note by George Carew: "The acquayntance which I had with
Mr Lucas DiUon, father of this petitioner, and the sufficiencie of
himselfe to discharge the place which he suethe for, moves me
humbhe to beseeche your Lordship to extend your favour unto him,
in doinge whereof you shall finde him to pray for you and do the
Kinge good service."

1 p. (P. 1707.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XIX, p. 78.]

Edward Miles to the Earl of Salisbury,

[c. March, 1606-7]. — He is a clothier of Needham, co. Suffolk.
Robert Bramston, a prisoner in the Kang's Bench against whom
petitioner had proceeded for debt, was able to persuade the com-
missioners for the rehef of poor prisoners to summon petitioner
before them on three occasions. He obeyed the summons, but the
commissioners were informed that he had not done so, and he was
imprisoned by them until he had sealed a bond to comply with
their decisions. They then released Bramston without taking
security that he would repay his debt to petitioner. Petitioner
has brought an action against the commissioners, and as a result
of their complamt he has been ordered to present himself before
the Privy Council. In view of the fact that he can prove that he
comphed with the commissioners' summons, that he paid his own
expenses in doing so, that the debt demanded is just and due to
him, that Bramston has land worth £40 a year and is capable of
repajring the debt, that he has been discharged without any obUga-
tion to pay the debt, and that some of the commissioners have been
bribed by Bramston, petitioner asks to be released on bail and to
receive prompt payment of the money owing to him. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1575.)

121

[See PRO, Privy Seal Office, Ind. 6744, March 1606-7, No. 42,
for pardon granted to Miles.]

The Turkey Merchaistts (the Levant Company)
to the Privy Council.

[? March, 1606-7]. — ^They have received letters from Messina
that morning referring to the arrival there of a London ship called
the Angel* with a consignment of silk, indigo, etc., from Aleppo
worth £50,000. The vessel was obhged to put into Messina be-
cause of a leak. Upon knowledge of her valuable cargo, the
authorities declared her to be a man of war, seized her sails and
imprisoned her master and the merchants on board, with the
intention of unloading the goods and placing their own value on
them. They ask that the Council summon the Spanish Ambassador
and take such measures as they think appropriate. — Undated.

1 p. (197. 98/6.)

William Damport to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After March, 1606-7]. — He is one of the King's footmen. There
is a debt of £240 due upon judgment to the King from John Gas-
coigne of Yorkshire for his recusancy and that of his wife, which
petitioner discovered and prosecuted on behalf of the Crown. The
sheriff of Yorkshire has seized some goods and also taken bonds for
the payment of the money. Petitioner understands that there may
be an attempt to suppress the debt by privy seal. He asks that
no such privy seal be passed until Sahsbury be further acquainted
with the case. — Undated.

Faded. 1 p. (P. 1874.)

[See PRO, Privy Seal Office, Ind. 6774, March 1606-7, No. 41,
for grant to Damport of goods of recusants discovered and prose-
cuted by him.]

The Earl of Cumberland,

[Before May 25, 1607]. — The Earl has petitioned the King to be
allowed to compound on reasonable terms for such manors, castles,
etc, to which the King has a claim on the grounds of certain imper-
fections in the grants made to the Earl's ancestors, or of which
he has the remainder. In conformity with the King's desire to
confirm such lands to those already in possession of them on con-
ditions considered reasonable by commissioners appointed for that
purpose, particularly where noble families are concerned, the
Attorney-General is requested to estabUsh all relevant facts and
to draw up the necessary document for the royal signature, whereby
the Earl of Cumberland may have a grant and confirmation of all
pertinent rights and titles. — Undated.

Draft. Endorsed: "A warrant for Master Atturney." Ij pp.
(197. 65.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XIX, p. 138.]

* It is possible that this is the ship mentioned as having been arrested at
Messina [See Col. S.P. Venetian, 1603-7, p. 482] and not the Trial mentioned in
the footnote on the same page.

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JoHisr CoPRABio to Thomas Bellott.

[June 1, 1607]. — " With much adoe I have gotten these strmges.
My lords instruments are unstrung, and aU this towne cannot affoord
so many Romane stringes. Besides, this halfe yeare none will com
over. Wherefore I praie dehver this bearer 5^ 10 shillinges or else
my lords instruments must be unfurnished. When you pay him for
the stringes, I praie receave this sealed up box Mr Harwood will
dehver you, and keepe it untill I com or send unto you for it,
for now I am going agayne to Hackney." — Undated.

Holograph. Endorsed: " Coperaries note for stringes for the
instruments. The first day of June, 1607." 1 p. (Box U/60.)

George Willoughby to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After June 10, 1 607]. — He is a kinsman of the late Earl of Devon,
for whom Sahsbury entertained much affection. He complains of
a wrong done to him by Thomas Wansborough who, having been
robbed in his house, accused him of the theft. Petitioner was
forced to seU £100 worth of property to defray the legal charges of
his defence. Eventually the confession of the real criminals proved
his complete innocence, and he had immediately brought an action
against Wansborough for false accusation. Through the media-
tion of the latter's friends, the matter had been referred five years
ago to the Lord Chief Justice. Nothing was done by him, and
since then both the Lord Chief Justice* and Wansborough have
died, and he has remained without relief. He has submitted
petitions to the King for some assistance in the form of an annual
pension or money from forfeited estates, and begs Sahsbury to
further his suit. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 281.)

George Eastland to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After June 30, 1607]. — He complains about Thomas Swainsland,
to whom he lent money and helped in other ways, and who
promised to repay his debt and requite his many kindnesses.
Instead Swainsland has refused to discharge his debt for eight
years, and has brought a number of legal suits against petitioner.
At the same time Swainsland has been guilty of certain felonies
which he has confessed before Sir Francis Cheyney, and is likely
to be convicted for them. What, however, has impelled petitioner
to seek rehef from Sahsbury is the fact that he has been continually
harassed by Henry Fenn, Swainsland's sohcitor. Recently he was
sent by Sir Edmund Bowyer and Sir Thomas Grymes to summon
Fenn to appear before them before proceedings were begun in
Chancery. He dehvered the message, but Fenn reviled and finally
assaulted him with a view to bUnding him in his one good eye, " for
he had lost his other in attending the Earle of Sussex to the
christening of the prince ". In defending himself petitioner had

* Lord Chief Justice Sir John Popham died on June 10, 1607.

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hurt Fenn superficially, who had then caused him to be imprisoned
and tried for the offence. A verdict had been returned against
petitioner and a fine of £50 imposed on him. He and his family-
are faced with ruin, and he fears to end his days in prison unless
reheved by Sahsbury. He appends a list of gentlemen living in
Blackfriars where the assault took place, who could comment on it
and the circumstances which led to it. They are: Sir Edward
Hoby, Sir Thomas Shurley, Sir John Leveson, Sir Thomas Vavasor,
Edward Jones, Esq, and Robert Sharpey. — Undated.

Endorsed: " The humble petition of your honors most distressed
orator George Eastland, beseeching your good Lordship out of your
generall bounty to give him hearing of his most lamentable storry
at your best leasure or else to unfould this paper by which your
Lordshipp shall understand the greivous state that he and his are
brought unto by the cruell and unjust dealing of his malicious
adversaries, having good hope, yf your honor wilbe pleased to
heare him, your Lordshipp will not faile to helpe him, in which hope
he resteth at your Lordshipps good devotion, ever praying all
happines to attend your honor." 1^ pp. (P. 1667.)

[See PRO, Star Chamber Proceedings, James I, 181/20.]

Sir Stephen Proctor to .

[c. June, 1607]. — At the end of HUary term last, he was given
leave to proceed by ordinary course of law for his defence against
Sir William Ingilby, Thomas Day and others, but he has heard that
efforts are being made to obstruct this course. He refers to the
vexations he has endured during the past seven years, and requests
that he be given a hearing or left to pursue the vindication of his
reputation in the pubhc courts of law. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 263.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XIX, p. 165.]

John Lawson to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After June, 1607]. — He refers to a previous petition to the King
for a lease of concealed lands discovered by him, which he was
directed to submit to Sahsbury. This he did at Brickhill, and was
told to present what evidences he had for the King's title to a legal
expert. He showed them to Sir Francis Bacon,* the Sohcitor-
General, who opined that petitioner had good grounds for pursuing
the matter further. He therefore sued forth a commission and
procured commissioners from Wiltshire and London to meet at
Alford, a place in Hampshire, where the land in question was
situated. Despite the issuing of a warrant from the commissioners
neither the sheriff nor a jury presented themselves on the day fixed
for the inquiry. A new date was chosen and Sir Francis Palmer,
who was in possession of the disputed lands, notified of it. At the
inquiry held at Andover, Sir Francis Palmer made the best defence
he could, but there was enough evidence to vahdate the King's title

* Appointed Solicitor-General on June 25, 1607.

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to the lands. The jury, however, either through fear or favour,
decUned to return any verdict, but requested a postponement
which was granted by the commissioners. Since then, further
delays, procrastination and postponements have convinced peti-
tioner that neither Sir Francis Palmer nor the jury are wiUing to
arrive at a decision in the matter. And in the meantime. Sir
Francis has been cutting down much wood on the property and
converting it into charcoal for sale. Petitioner therefore asks that
Sahsbury direct the sheriff of Hampshire to prohibit any further
spoliation of the woods, and to warn the jury upon pain of £100 a
man to dehver their verdict at their next meeting with the com-
missioners.— Undated .

Endorsed: " The humble petition of John Lawson." | p. (P.
511.)

Sib, Charles Wilmot to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? Before August 22, 1607]. — He and three of his men have been
in England since Michaelmas last to attend to urgent business, and
he fears that they may lose their pay during their absence. He
asks for a letter to the Lord Deputy that he and the others be not
deprived of their pay. — Undated.

ip. (P. 512.)

[See Cal. 8. P. Ireland, 1606-8, p. 252.]

John Cole to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before October 24, 1607]. — He is 64 years old, and in regard of
his service, age and poverty, he was able by means of his friend
George Murray to present a petition to the King asking for an
almsman's room at Westminster. It was granted, but when he
brought it duly signed by the King to Sk' Thomas Windebank,
the latter lost it and the room has been withheld from him.

Petitioner requests that Windebank be summoned before Sahs-
bury and ordered to redeliver the original petition so that it may
pass the King's seals. — Undated.

ip. (P. 1195.)

[Sir Thomas Windebank, Clerk of the Signet, died on October
24, 1607. See DNB Vol. LXII under Sir Francis Windebank,
pp. 162-3.]

Sir Robert Carey to the King.

[c. October 25, 1607]. — He prays that the granting of latitats
and bills of Middlesex out of the Court of King's Bench be erected
into an office and bestowed upon him, he undertaldng to pay twenty
marks annually for it into the Exchequer. He refers to the erection
of the granting of subpoena out of the Court of Chancery into an
office and its bestowal upon Sir Thomas Gorges by the late Queen
Ehzabeth. In view of this precedent, he requests that his suit be
referred to the Privy Council for its consideration. — Undated.

i p. (P. 35.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XIX, p. 298.]

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Thomas Billingsley to the Earl of Salisbury.

[c. October, 1607]. — John Quarles is a suitor to the King for his
protection, he being heavily in debt to many persons including
petitioner to whom he owes £2300. Petitioner is also a surety for
Quarles in the sum of £7000. Hitherto Quarles has not paid a
penny towards the hquidation of these debts, but has been lavish
with verbal promises. It was decreed by the Lord Chancellor that
certain leases in petitioner's hands should be assigned by Quarles
and himself to two impartial persons, and be sold to pay off the
creditors. Quarles initially agreed to this arrangement, but has
now retreated from it in the expectation of obtaining the King's
protection. Petitioner is unable to meet the sums for which he is
surety, and has consequently been forced to stay at home for the
last five months. He asks Salisbury to stay the protection until
Quarles satisfies him in the matter of the above-mentioned debt
of £1000.— Undated.

p. (P. 965.)

[BilMngsley exhibited a bUl against Quarles in the Court of
Chancery on October 7, 1607. See PRO, Chancery 2, James I,
B39/64.]

Thomas Billingsley to the Earl of Salisbury.

[c. October, 1607]. — He refers to a previous petition in which he
had complained of the wrongs suffered by him at the hands of his
brother-in-law, John Quarles. He has heard that Quarles may seek
the King's protection, and begs Sahsbury to stay it until Quarles
satisfies him in the matter of debts and bonds. — Undated.

ip. (P. 20.)

Sir Oliver Lambert to the King.

[Before November 14, 1607]. — The late Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland was directed by the King to bestow upon petitioner the
next vacant place for which he had the requisite qualifications.
Since then there have been vacancies which petitioner beUeves he
could have fiUed competently, but they have been disposed of
otherwise. He now asks that his daily pension of 14/- be increased
to 20/-, to be paid out of the Irish revenues during his life, and that
he be granted a lease in reversion for 50 years of such parts of the
Abbey of the Navan as have been leased to one Wakeley, and of
the parsonage of Selsker with the hospital or termon lands to the
value of £20 held on lease by him for 20 years yet to come. —
Undated.

f p. (P. 1674.)

[See Cal. S.P. Ireland, 1606-8, pp. 330 and 443.]

Grant.

1607, November 26. — Grant by the King to the Earl of Sahsbury
of the custody of Hyde Park, co. Middlesex. — ^Westminster, 26
November, 1 Jac.5.

1 m. (Deeds 149/6.)

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The Burgesses of the Liberty of the Duchy of
Lancaster est the Strand to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before December 23, 1607], — The prison of the Liberty com-
monly called the Roundhouse was demohshed to facihtate the
King's passage through London. Sir John Fortescue* accordhigly
ordered the steward, bailiff and burgesses of the Liberty to decide
upon a convenient place for the erection of a new prison. They
notified Sahsbury's steward, Mr Houghton, that they were of the
opinion that it should be built away from the street called Strand
Lane, and requested him to seek Salisbury's views on this proposal.
Houghton intimated to them that they could proceed with their
plan, which they did. They were authorized by Sir John Fortescue
to levy money for the purpose, and have already disbursed £40 on
the building. In the meantime, however, Sahsbury has declared
his opposition to the proceedings, and Sir John has issued a directive
for the demolition of the new building. Petitioners request that,
" stoppmge upp all the hghts of the saide house which give anie
offence and puUinge downe such parte thereof as to your honour
shall seeme fitt, the rest of the saide buildinge male stande ",
inasmuch as so much money has been already spent on it, and there
is no other convenient place available. — Undated.

ip. (P. 2003.)

James Anderton to .

[1607, December]. — He refers to the bill of complaint exhibited
by him before " your Honour " in the Duchy Chamber last Easter
term against WiUiam Orwell, of Tm-ton, Lancashire. Orwell had
concluded an agreement to sell petitioner the fourth part of the
manor of Clayton. Petitioner paid part of the money demanded,
and took bonds and sureties for the payment of the rest. Never-
theless, Orwell deceitfully tried to defraud him of both lands and
money by arranging that he had only a fife interest in the property,
and was therefore not in a position to convey it to petitioner. He
requests that, since the office of Chancellor of the Duchy is now
vacant,! " your Honour " will compel Orwell either to convey the
property to him and his heirs or indemnify him. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 158.)

Thomas Atkinson to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1607 or before]. — He is in the King's service, and in the late
Earl of Warwick's time had the charge of the Middle Park at Hat-
field. After Warwick's death he was deprived of that office by
Sir Thomas Heneage, and made to accept one hundred marks and
six loads of wood annually for his fuel out of Hatfield firom Sir

* Sir John Fortescue, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, died on December
23rd, 1607.

t The Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster was vacant between the
death of Sir John Fortescue on December 23, 1607, and the appointment of Sir
Thomas Parry on the 30th of that month. [See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10,
p. .391.]

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John Fortescue. Now this has been stopped, as Sir WilHam
Fortescue* can inform Sahsbury if he be sent for. Petitioner
requests that the six loads of wood be restored to him. — Undated.
i p. (P. 1688.)

Christopher Aubrey and James Hawkins to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[1607]. — ^They are deputies to Sir Henry Brouncker for the
issues of jurors. Several grants of these issues were made to Sir
Henry by the late Queen Elizabeth, which have been renewed by
the King. These have now been presented as grievances by the
House of Commons. Petitioners advance arguments in defence of
the patent. It has been approved by many of the Privy Council
by the advice of the King's legal experts ; it has provisions for the
promotion of justice, including that for its reform should its execu-
tion lead to disorder or complaint; Sir Henry pays a farm of £1000
into the Exchequer annually, which is £500 more than has ever
been paid in any one year previously ; it has resulted in the return
of better jurors. Petitioners ask that Sahsbury extend his pro-
tection to the patent and to Sir Henry Brouncker, and obtain the
King's favour in the matter. — Undated.

i p. (P. 924.)

[See Cal. S.P. Ireland, 1606-8, pp. 104-5.]

Frances Cecil to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1607]. — She prays him to continue to bestow upon her his
paternal affection and blessings. — Undated.

P.S. " My lady of Derby commend [sic\ her kindly to your lord
shipe."

Holograph. Seal on green silk. Endorsed: " 1607. Lady
Francis Cecyll to my lord." 1 p. (200. 122.)

The Privy Council to the Council of Scotland.

[1607]. — " Having found by these honest merchants that they
have taken a journey hether uppon report of some information
given against them for some partiall carriadge in the execution of
that commission which was given to them and a couple more for
collecting the true state of those priviledges which are enjoyed by
the Scottish Nation in theire trade with France, wee thought it
bothe just and necessary for us to accompany them with these our
letters for these two purposes. Ffirst, to do them this right, to
you with whome wee know they esteeme theire creditt at no small
rate, as to declare unto you that as we have them in their generall
carriadge, whensoever they have come before us, to be persons of
civil and honest behaviour, so uppon exact examination of those
perticular circumstances whereuppon those reports were grownded,
we have not onely found them free from any ill carriadge but from

* Sir William Fortescue predeceased his father Sir John Fortescue who died
on December 23, 1607.

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the least suspition. Secondly, to doe our selfs this right, as to
profes hereby, if wee could have found any proofe that any of theire
feDowes had layd any suche mahcious aspersion uppon them, wee
would not have thought it sufficient to returne them to you with a
testimony e of theire aquitall, but with that further adition of
punnishement uppon those, of which we shall alwayes howld them
as worthy, that shall go about to cast any blott uppon his Ma^^
subjects of that kingdome as if it did hght uppon those which are
borne amongst us, to which not onely justice and honour bynde us,
but the bonds of our infinite dutyes to the King our maister and
our good affection to the whole kingdome." — Undated.

Draft with corrections in the Earl of Salisbury's hand. Endorsed:
" Mynute 1607. To the Councell of Scotland from the Lords in
the behalf of certain merchants." 2| pp. (124. 127.)

[See Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, Vol. VII, 1604-7,
pp. 377-8.]

The Drapers and Hosiers of Coventry to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[1607]. — " The humble petition of the company of drapers and
hosiers in Coventrie anciently called so, against whome a few
mercers there have not onelie made an unjust complainte beinge
them selves the doers of wronge, but also by ingrosinge your
orators trade into their hands, have bene and are likely to be more
and more the utter undoinge of them ; beinge a company of 66
householders, who have not onelye heretofore Uved well by their
said trade but also by the same bene the mainteyners of 3000
persons at the least, as clothiers, weavers, dyers, spinsters, cloth-
workers, fullers, etc." — Undated.

On reverse : Details of the grievances of petitioners against the
mercers, whose encroachment on their trade has resulted in the
closing of shops and redundancies amongst the working people
employed. Upon submission of a petition to the King, a grant of
corporation was made to the drapers and hosiers, accompanied by
an order prohibiting any one in Coventry from selling commodities
which belonged to them as part of their trade. Petitioners request
Sahsbury that the prohibition be allowed to stand and the King's
grant not called into question. They adduce other reasons why
the mercers should be restricted in their trade practices.

1 p. (P. 2105.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XIX, pp. 435, 438-9.]

The Merchants trading in the Levant to the King.

[1607]. — Trade with the Levant has always been commended for
the benefits it has brought to the realm and for its maintenance of
shipping and mariners. It has also provided a market for the sale
of cloth from which the King's Customs have profited. One of the
principal commodities exported to the Levant is tin, which accounts
for a quarter of the export trade that employs forty ships between

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100 and 300 tons burthen. Petitioners pay in freightage and
mariners' wages about £40,000 annually " besides the entertain-
ment of ambassadors and consuls ". Petitioners have been in-
formed that there is a danger of this commodity coming into the
hands of a few private people, and state that such a monopoly
would have a damaging effect upon the Levant trade. They
request that the King grant to them the preemption of tin upon
the same terms and conditions as those now being offered by the
private people referred to above. — Undated.

f p. (P. 2098.)

[See Cal. S.P. Dom., Addenda, 1580-1625, p. 498.]

to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1607]. — He is requested to stay the examination of the com-
plaint made to the Privy Council by Phihppe de Cartaret, so-
called King's Attorney of Jersey, against the Baihff and Jurats of
that island, until the deputies whom they propose to send very
shortly arrive in London. Sahsbury is also asked not to bring it
to the notice of the Privy Council, since the matter does not raise
a legal point or question of custom, but is concerned with the dis-
respect shown by a particular person, on the grounds that he is the
King's Attorney, to a judicial body. — Undated.

French. Endorsed: "Placet a Monseigneur le Conte de Salis-
bury." \ p. (P. 2015.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury M88, Vol. XIX, pp. 493-4.]

Christopher Lever to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1607]. — He expresses his thanks and gratification that Sahsbury
should have accepted the dedication of Queen Elizabeths Teares*
and begs him to make use of his services in any capacity he wishes.
He has many friends who will testify to his aptitude for such honour-
able employment. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 938.)

Christopher Lever to [the Earl of Salisbury].

[1607]. — He lately presented his Queene Elizabeths Teares to him,
and now thanks him for his reception of the work. " I freely give
my selfe to any degree of service wherein your Honor may please
to commaunde me." — Undated.

I p. (P. 1983.)

Thomas Atkinson to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1607]. — He is porter to Sahsbury, and asks to be given the
wardship of John Jemsen alias Morrit, son of John Jemsen alias
Morrit, late of West Haddlesey, co. Yorks, he himself undertaking
to prove the King's title to the same.f — Undated.

ip. (P. 1341.)

* Lever's Queene Elizabeths Teares, or her resolute bearing the Christian crosse
inflicted on her by the persecuting haruis of Steven Gardner, Bishop of Winchester, in
the bloodie time of Queene Marie, was published in London in 1607.

t Probate of the will of John Jameson alias Morrit, of West Haddlesey, was
granted on March 22, 1607. [See Wills in the York Registry, 1603-6, p. 186.]

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Peter Becoxsaw to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1607]. — He is a prisoner iii the Fleet. Some six years ago, he
had a sum of money amounting to over £750 deposited in the house
of Richard Parkins, of Uston, Berkshire. Sir Francis Knollys,
with a number of men, forced the door of the house in the middle
of the night, when Parkins was absent, and took the money away.
Legal action followed, and petitioner gives details of the lengthy
proceedings in courts of law between him and Knollys over the
years, until his committal to the Fleet by the Barons of the Ex-
chequer. He asks that he may be released and indemnified for
the many wrongs done to him. — Undated.

f p. (P. 568.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury M8S, Vol. XIV, p. 172 and Acts of the
Privy Council, 1600-1, pp. 171 and 173.]

Richard Semons to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1607]. — Peter Simons, his uncle, had held the manors of Ingleby
and Trinity Marsh by knight's service, and was also seised of a
farm called Simons Water. He had promised that petitioner should
be his heir and have the lands in fee, but had eventually declared
by deed that they should be entrusted to the Lord Chief Baron, at
that time Recorder of Winchester, and others for the purpose of
erecting a hospital in Winchester. Since his uncle did not execute
this deed in law, the property descended to petitioner who sold the
lands to Higgons and Cooke. The Lord Chief Baron brought a
suit against them in Chancery, but the matter was settled leaving
petitioner in debt to the amount of £300 o^^àng to legal expenses.
He prays SaUsbury to persuade the Lord Chief Baron* to allow him
some money towards the discharge of this debt, and to reconvey to
him the lands held in capite.'f — Undated.

I p. (P. 128.)

Katherine FitzGerald to the Privy Council.

[1607]. — ^During the imprisonment of her brother, lately dead,J
in the Tower of London, she petitioned several times for a pension
to maintain herself which never materialized. While attending on
him she contracted heavy debts which she cannot discharge. She
requests the Council to intercede with the King for a pension or
annuity, which would enable her to pay her creditors and maintain
herself for the rest of her hfe. — Undated.

ip. (P. 22.)

* Lord Chief Baron Fleming was made Lord Chief Justice of the King's
Bench on June 25, 1607.

t The background to this case is described in Tom Atkinson, Elizabethan
Winchester, pp. 122—4.

I James FitzGerald, " the Sugan ", son of Sir Thomas FitzGerald, joined
Tyrone in his rebellion, was taken prisoner in 1601 and sent to England. He
died in the Tower of London and was buried there on April 28, 1607.

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Katherine FitzGerald to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1607]. — She is the sister of James Desmond who died in the
Tower. The lands of her father, Sir Thomas FitzGerald, now
deceased, are in the hands of the King, but not because of any mis-
demeanour, for her father was a loyal subject in the reign of the
late Queen Elizabeth. Petitioner has never married nor received
any portion, and she has been a suitor to the King and Sahsbury
during the past four years for some form of maintenance which
she has not been able to obtain. She is now in great debt and
want, and begs Sahsbury to "be a meanes that she may have a
peece of money what your Honour shall thinke good, to pay hir
debts and to reUeve hir wants, and she will withdrawe hir selfe and
never trouble his Ma*i® or your Lordship hereafter ". — Undated.

p. (P. 736.)

Pierce Morgan to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1607]. — He has already informed Sahsbury that some five years
ago, when he was an apprentice to Sir Baptist Hicks, he dehvered
to the late Earl of Desmond without his master's consent certain
stuffs upon credit to the value of £63. Captain John Power en-
gaged himself to pay this money, and signed and sealed a bond to
that effect. Petitioner was forced to pay the debt out of his own
means, with the result that, although he has completed his appren-
ticeship, he is still in the position of a servant. In his ignorance
he has taken legal proceedings to recover the money from Captain
Power, not knowmg that the latter enjoyed Sahsbury's protection.
He prays that Salisbury will persuade Power to discharge his debt
to petitioner. — Undated.

I p. (P. 179.)

Margaret, Dowager Countess of Cumberland,
to the House of Lords.

[1607]. — At the end of last Hilary term, information was sub-
mitted to the Court of Wards on behalf of the King and Lady
Chfford against Francis, Earl of Cumberland, entithng the Lady
Clifford to the possession, and the King to the reversion, of certain
lordships. The Earl has refused to reply to this information, and
does so on the grounds of Parhamentary privilege. His servants
have followed suit, and petitioner sohcits the opinion of the House
whether in fact Parhamentary privilege covers those of the Earl's
servants residing in the North and not in attendance on the Earl. —
Undated.

1 p. (P. 306.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XIX, pp. 74-5.]

Sir John Skinner to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1607]. — " Through the fall of Markhams howse into which I
matched ", petitioner has suffered many losses due to legal suits
and money bonds for the repayment of the family's debts. His

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attachment has cost him much in the way of lost opportunities to
improve his fortunes. He is now proceeding to Ireland and offers
his services to Sahsbury. His son, whom he is leaving behind, is a
page to the Lady (Princess) EUzabeth. Petitioner would like to
settle his Berwick fee on him, which is £94 a year, but has great
need of his arrears to settle his own debts. He begs that the arrears,
which are four and a half years behind, be paid to him. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1439.)

[See Cal S. P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 574, and H.M.C. Salisbury
MS8, Vol. XIX, p. 80.]

Edward Baggan to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1607]. — He is a footman in Sahsbury 's service, and has been
informed that Mr Dolman of Newbury,* Steward of the Queen's
Hospital of St. Bartholomew in that town, is unlikely to recover
from a grave illness. He asks that the post be bestowed upon him.
— Undated.

Note by Salisbury : " DanieU. Powell, Gierke of the Queens Council,
is the man whome I knowe every way sufficient to descharge the
said place."

1 p. (P. 1622.)

Sir Robert Johnson to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1607 or later]. — There is in the parish of Chipping Wycombe,
CO. Bucks, a common wood called St. John's Wood containing
some 100 acres by Mr Hercey's estimate, but 401 acres by his own
measurements. The wood was formerly leased at an improved
rent of £25 per annum. The lessee allowed it to be spoiled, was
indicted for his neghgence, fined £600 which he paid, and later
surrendered his lease. Since that time, some 12 or 14 years ago,
it has remained unleased and open to be wasted or damaged, with
the result that the soil has become barren, with beech, bushes and
thorns growing on it. Petitioner is willing to undertake the
replanting of the wood, paying a reasonable rent for the first 21
years, doubhng it for the second 21 years, and trebhng the rent for
the third 21 years. If upon a second survey the wood is found to
be bigger than his estimate, he will double the rateable rent for the
extra acreage ; if it contains less, he expects the rent to be pro-
portionately abated. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1054.)

[See PRO, Special Commissions of the Exchequer, 455.]

John Bassett to the Earl of Salisbury.

[c. 1607]. — He is a merchant of Boston, Lincolnshire. Seven or
eight years ago, he was requested by the Earl of Lincoln to under-
take some work on behalf of the Privy Council. This was the con-
veyance by sea of certain red deer for the stocking of Salisbury's
park at Theobalds. Petitioner carried out the work with care, but

* Probate of his will granted in 1607. [See Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Wills, 1605-19, p. 143.]

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owing to contrary winds it took him sixteen weeks to do so at the
cost of 20/- a week. He has not been paid, neither will the Earl
of Lincoln pay him nor notify Salisbury that petitioner has received
no payment, as SaHsbury requested when a similar petition was
submitted by him some time previously. Because of debts and
losses, including that of his ship, petitioner is in need of money and
asks that his case be considered sympathetically. — Undated.

Note by Salisbury: " I mervaiie this Petitioner is so simple as to
come to me for allowance that never bargained with him, and so
have answered him; with which if he be not contented he shall
have no better of me."

1 p. (P. 525.)

[See Cal. 8.P. Dom., 1598-1601, p. 376.]

Richard Babker to the Earl of Salisbury.

[c. 1607]. — He is a Yeoman of the Guard. During his childhood
he was brought up by Sir William Cobham deceased, whom he
served for seven years before being recommended to his nephew
Sir John Brooke. He became ensign-bearer to Sir John when he
went to France, and served him in that capacity and as heutenant
for three years in France and the Low Countries.* He was seriously
wounded during this time, being once shot through the head, and
as a token of recognition and reward the late Queen Elizabeth
bestowed on him a place as extraordinary Yeoman of the Guard,
into which he was sworne by Sir Walter Ralegh. For nine years
he has been trying to obtain admittance as ordinary Yeoman, but
has failed to get anything more than fair words. Because of his
reduced means he was forced to take service with the King of
Sweden for four years and with the Duke of Brunswick for six
months. Now that these wars are ended petitioner is unemployed
and has no alternative but to approach his old friend, the Lord
Deputy of Ireland, in the hope of finding some post or other. He
asks Salisbury to provide him with a Httle money to pay his travel-
ling expenses to Ireland, since he has spent his means in prosecuting
his suit and in attendance at Court. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 954.)

Joan Seymour to the Earl of Salisbury.

[c. 1607]. — In his last will and testament eight years ago John
Seymour,! a former servant to the late Queen Elizabeth, bequeathed
to petitioner, now the wife of John Seed, the sum of £400 in con-
sideration of the marriage between them. The money was to be
paid to her on condition that her husband provided her with a join-
ture equal in value. Sir Thomas Seymour, son and heir, was
appointed executor, but hitherto he has refused to pay the legacy
and retains all the goods of his deceased father. Her husband is

* Sir John Brooke commanded a company in France and Ostend from 1596
to 1598.

t Probate of his will granted in 1599. [See Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Wills, Vol. IV, 1584-1604, p. 373.]

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prepared to make the stipulated jointure, and petitioner asks that
order be given to Sir Thomas Seymour to pay the £400, so that in
the event of her husband's death she and her daughter may have
adequate means to maintain themselves. — Undated.
1 p. (P. 188.)

The Pestmakers of London to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? 1607]. — The craft of pinmaking is an ancient trade which has
been allowed to decay, although it provides a Uvehhood for many
thousands. The laws of the realm prohibit the import of foreign
pins, and the King himself, to encourage the industry, has granted
letters patent of corporation to petitioners authorizing them to
confiscate all foreign pins brought into England. As a result
petitioners, " notwithstanding our great povertie have byn en-
couraged to take divers hundreds of poore and fatherles children
for smale or no reward but for Gods sake, and doe bring them up in
our said trade, which before did wander in the streets a begging to
the dishonor of God and scandall of this nation, which is not suffered
in other parts for that mannuall tradesmen are there much cherished
and succoured ". By virtue of the letters patent, petitioners
seized a small quantity of foreign pins, but inasmuch as they are
forbidden to prosecute by law, foreign merchants have contemp-
tuously brought in more pins in a few months than they have done
in years " of purpose to glut this kingdome ". Moreover, " to
collour their fraudulent and deceiptfuU ware [they] doe stick their
pyns after the Enghsh fashion and counterfeit our names and
markes which maketh their pins vendable ". Petitioners have
attempted to reach a reasonable agreement with these foreigners,
but find that they are merely procrastinating while continuing to
import their pins. If this is permitted any longer, petitioners will
be forced to abandon their trade, turn the apprentice children on
the streets once again, and thus ruin not only themselves but also
those who, out of charity, have contributed towards their rehabili-
tation. They ask to be allowed to petition ParUament or to be
granted leave by the Privy Council to prosecute according to the
statute . — Undated .

\ p. (P. 2091.) C.P. 197/43 is a duplicate of this petition.

[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 346.]

The Burgesses of Hertford to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1607 or before]. — Sahsbury has intimated that he wishes to stay
the suit prosecuted by the town on the grounds that he is not
acquainted with the legal proceedings. Petitioners remind him
that at the beginning of the suit they approached him at Theobalds
with a request that he become the High Steward of Hertford. He
accepted the invitation, informing them at the same time that he
would recommend their suit to Sir John Fortescue* to whom it
had been referred. Since then they have kept him in touch with
their proceedings, except those matters which might prove dis-

* Died on December 23, 1607.

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agréable to him, and have used his name, to which he was not averse.
Petitioners ask for the continuance of his favour " upon which
we have alwaies relyed as our cheefest protectour ". — Undated.
\ p. (P. 2008.)

William Phillips to .

[1607 or before]. — His solicitor Hall was committed by " your
Honor " for his disrespectful speeches against Sir John Fortescue.
Hall is sincerely contrite, and since petitioner has no other sohcitor
to plead his case, he asks that Hall be released on bail. — Undated.

ip. (P. 1158.)

Sir James Perrot and Thomas Perrot to the
Earl of Salisbltiy.

[1607]. — ^The Countess of Northumberland is making suit to them
for £500 annually out of the lands of Sir John Perrot— whereas
she is not entitled to more than £300 — with authority to lease
lands for 21 years. Petitioners state that if she were granted
these concessions the King's interests would be prejudiced :

First, the leasing of Crown lands is usually reserved for the
King's officials. The King would stand to lose a substantial
revenue from fines.

Secondly, the Earl of Northumberland also claims £300 worth of
land or more. He would be given possession of them by this grant,
and the King's title to them so much the more weakened. [Mar-
ginal note by the Earl of Dorset: I did meself move my lord to geve
bond for redelivery of possession before this suite unto which his
lo. wiUingly yelded.]

Thirdly, all the King's tenants of these lands, about six or seven
hundred in number, will suffer as a result of the grant. They are
poor and already pay high rents. Now they will be hable to a
heavy fine in addition. Moreover, all the present stewards and
officials are in danger of being deprived of their offices.

Finally, the two castles of Laugharne and Carew, which are two
of the best of the King's seats in that part of Wales, are likely to be
ruined, and those who hold them by leases liable to be questioned
about them.

Petitioners therefore ask that the Lord Treasurer, Lord Home,
Lord Kinloss and Sir John Fortescue be appointed to examine the
matter, and to decide upon the best way of deahng with the lands
of Sir John Perrot. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 477.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XIX, p. 449.]

to the King.

[? 1607]. — Certain patentees have been authorized to dig for
saltpetre within the kingdom, and an obhgation placed on them to
deposit it in the Tower of London to be converted into gunpowder.
The patentees, with a view to self-enrichment, have allowed un-
skilled persons, some forty or more, to do that work for them, and
have retained a great deal of saltpetre for their private gain.

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Consequently the store at the Tower of London has received inade-
quate supplies and the King forced to purchase saltpetre from
abroad. This represents a danger to the country and prejudices
its security and financial resources, of which foreign states will
take advantage unless the situation is rectified. Petitioners re-
quest that aU former commissions for the exploitation of saltpetre
be revoked, and an end put to the harmful activities of people like
the forty referred to above. It is suggested that their number be
reduced to eight, that they be experienced workers, that they be
distributed throughout various counties to carry on their search
for saltpetre, that their annual output be restricted to 80 lasts of
saltpetre, and that it be conveyed to the King's store in the Tower
of London as ordered by the Privy Council. Petitioners are con-
vinced that only by these means can the corruption of the patentees
be circumscribed and a regular provision of saltpetre be ensured.
They are likewise persuaded that the King can economize to the
extent of £2000 or more annually in the conversion of saltpetre into
gunpowder, and produce figures to confirm their statement. —
Undated.
Mutilated. \ p. (P. 2082.)

Attached

A list of privileges, powers and authority granted by the old
and the new patents for the exploitation of saltpetre.
Ip.
[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XIX, p. 412.]

Simon Read and Robert Jackson to the Privy Council.

[? 1607]. — They understand that the CouncU is considering ways
and means of stimulating the production of gunpowder and salt-
petre. They profess themselves competent to deal with the
reparation and restoration of abandoned and derehct saltpetre
mines and, what is more important, to " enhable, make servisable
and reare saltpeeter owt of earthes and groundes which in appar-
ancye and judgment of men of that facultye have in them no salt-
peeter nor substance of that nature ". Petitioners request that
witnesses be assigned to assist at their trials " in the acting of the
same though not to the privuty of thej^re secret therein ", and to
report on them. If these trials meet with the approval of the
Council, they ask that they and their associates be given the mono-
poly of such exploitation for 21 years. — Undated.

f p. (P. 1769.)

Christopher Dane y to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? 1607]. — He is steward to Christopher Danby, esquire. On
January 21 last, he was served with a warrant to accompany the
messenger who dehvered it and appear before Sahsbury and the
Privy Council. But his master had a case to be heard at York
before the King's council there, concerning a part of his inheritance

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and involving Sir Stephen Proctor. Since petitioner was the only-
person competent to produce evidences and witnesses for the hear-
ing, a respite of 20 days was requested so that he could perform this
necessary task. He has now completed it and is ready to appear
in London. But in the meantime, certain judgments and execu-
tions have been secretly issued against him, and he is reluctant to
come up in case he is arrested. Petitioner requests that Sahsbury
order that he be not molested or interfered with when he makes
his appearance in comphance with the first order. — Undated.

ip. (P. 1781.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XIX, pp. 420-1.]

Accounts.

[? 1607]. — Charges for entertainment, probably at Theobalds.
Inter alia :

Delivered to Dover two ells of white tafyta sasnet for

Mercuric.
More 3 quarters of white tyncell for the said boaye Jobson.
Delivered to Mr Kendall 5 yards of yewlowe tyncell for Januse

(? Genius).
Mr [Inigo] Jones hath all the waxe Hghtes, torches and candle-
sticks.
More to Mr Kendall, 2 ells and | of beaser cullered ell broad

riche tafyta for Latchesey (Lachesis).
More to Thomas Hunt, an ell of purple ell broad riche tafyta
for the jenyous girdle.

Undated.
Endorsed: "Singletons hm." li pp. (Bills 386/1.)
[See Scott McMilhn's " Jonson's Early Entertainments — new
information from Hatfield House ", pubHshed in Renaissance
Drama, New Series 1, 1968, p. 155.]

John Anstey, Richard Montaigne, Elizabeth his

WIFE and Philip Anstey her sister, to the

Earl of Salisbury.

[Before 1608]. — ^They refer to a previous petition concerning
land in the Forest of Shipnam and Pewsey, formerly the property
of Andrew Baynton,* and which is now being described as assart
land. Sahsbury had directed that Mr Nicholson should not permit
any patent to be drawn up until he had been satisfied in the matter.
However, Nicholson has acted contrary to that decision. They
request that Sahsbury stay the patent until such time as he is
satisfied with the true state of affairs as regards the property upon
which their estate depends. — Undated.

ip. (P. 410.)

* Probate of his will revoked and granted to his grand-daughter, Elizabeth
Montaigne alias Anstie in January, 1608. [See Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Administrations, 1596-1608, p. 11.]

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Verses.

[Before 1608]. — A poem in Latin composed in honour of James I
by Thomas Craig.* — Undated.

Endorsed: " Mr Craigs verses." 1 p. (140. 95.)

Accounts.

1607-8. — BaUiffs' accounts of " my Lady's " property in Notting-
hamshire, viz: Watnalls (Wadnal), Kemberley (Kimberley),
Bulwell, Bronesbresley ( ? Brinsley), Bevall (Beauvale), Notting-
ham, Grasley Morgren (Greasley Moor Green), Gresley rectory
(Greasley rectory) and Quidnall. These include detailed accounts
of payments for coalmining at Basset pit, middle pit and deep pit.

(Box U/49.)

Hatfield.

[1607-8]. — Plan of Hatfield town with project for park waU.
The entrance gate to the Old Palace is shown, and the palace itself
represented by a space within a wall coloured red. This map was
drawn before the construction of Hatfield House, and is probably
contemporary with that calendared in H.M.C. Salisbury MSS,
Vol. XIV, p. 304.— Undated.

1 sheet. (CPM supplementary 23.)

John Thackweay to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before January 27, 1607-8]. — He was committed by Sahsbury
and the Privy Council to the house of the Baihff of Westminster,
where he has been detained for ten weeks. He is a young man
and has httle means to provide against poverty in his old age, except
what he can gain by hard work and constant employment in his
youth. He therefore asks that in view of the time he has already
lost, he be given his liberty. — Undated.

Seal, i p. (P. 1502.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XX, p. 76.]

Ralph Dobbinson to the Privy Council.

[After January 27, 1607-8]. — On November 13 last the Council
committed John Thackwray to his custody, to be kept close
prisoner until his discharge. He was released on the 27th of the
present month of January, but has neither means nor friends to
pay his expenses in prison, which amount to £25:6:8 for 76 days'
detention. He prays that these charges or part of them be de-
frayed by the Treasurer of his Majesty's Chamber. " Over and
above there was spent in fire by reason of the coldnes of the wether
II-."— Undated.

1 p. (P. 184.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XX, p. 76.]

* Died on February 26, 1608.

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The Earl of Shrewsbury to the Earl of Salisbury.

1607-8, February 2. — He encloses answers to the letters which
he has received from the Countess of Arundel and his daughter,
and informs SaUsbury that he wrote to him the day before. " My
Lord of Pembroke is now heere, havynge made a postyng jorney
hither on no other errand then only to visite us. He retornes
back to morrow unies he will be intreated to stay one day longer."
—At Sheffield Lodge, 2 of February 1607.

Holograph. Seal. Endorsed: "1607. Feb. 2. Erie of Shrew-
burye to my Lord." | p. (85. 7.)

Robert Chamberlayne to .

[1607-8] February 14. — Business has prevented him from paying
his respects. He has received through Captain Willis's brother
three letters and two books, viz. La Magica Rustica and another on
the same subject, for which he thanks profusely. His business in
the Corte de pupilli [Court of Wards?] is not yet finished, but he
has not pressed it for reasons which he will explain viva voce. "And
to reUeve you of any doubt in which my writing may have left you,
these reasons concern not me (for I have no intention of attending
to such studies) but my mother who has some knowledge of that
language and enjoys such things. For my part, if it turns out in
my favour, I remain firm in my resolution." The only news from
London is festivities, weddings and masks. Lord Haddington
(who saved the King's life) has married the Earl of Sussex's
daughter.* The King has borrowed large sums from his citizens
to spend (it is said) on his favourites. He will give his regards to
Signor Amerigo, but not to his uncle who is now dead. Signor
Tobias is out of prison but confined in the house of one Edward
Jones.t He has spoken with the Lords of the Council. His
confidential news [segrete] have given great satisfaction. — London,
the 14 of February.

Holograph. Italian. 1 p. (194. 118.)

John Van Erpe to the Earl op Salisbury.

[c. February 19, 1607-8]. — He is a foreign merchant resident in
London. Last April, William Cannon who had loaded a ship of
Lynn with corn sailed in her for St. Mary in Spain. Upon his
arrival, he conspired with Michael de Oviedo, the Providor there,
to falsely accuse petitioner and his brother, Rodrigo van Erpe,
resident in Seville, of being Zeelanders and importing and exporting
goods from Holland and Zeeland into Spain via England. To
justify his accusations Cannon attempted to suborne John Geraldo
to swear to their truth, but he refused. Rodrigo van Erpe, how-
ever, felt it necessary to absent himself from Seville until he had

* Lord Haddington married Elizabeth, daughter of the Earl of Sussex, on
February 8, 1607-8.

t Tobie Matthew was released from the Fleet on February 7, 1607-8. [See
D.N.B., Vol. XXXVII, p. 64.]

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obtained an order from the King of Spain directing the Provider
to submit the charges to a court, which he avoided doing and would
have subjected Rodrigo to the rack if he had been able to lay his
hands on him. Neither petitioner nor his brother have traded in
Holland or Zeeland, a fact testified by the oaths of six men who have
perused his account books, as well as by the farmers of the King's
Customs. But these slanders by Cannon have cost them money,
not least by the interruption of their trade. Cannon himself has
since fled from Spain and returned to England, and petitioner asks
that Sahsbury issue a warrant for his arrest and appearance before
him . — Undated.

I p. (P. 1689.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MS8, Vol. XX, p. 76.]

Garrald Nugent to the Earl op Salisbury.

[Before February 26, 1607-8]. — " I perceave an unwiUinge
disposition in the Lords of the Counsaile conserninge my departure
into Ireland, My selfe ame a strainger in this countrie, and before
now never knew what want ment. Yf I offer to goe I shall incurre
their displeasure ; yf I stale, for want of frends and meanes I am
certaine to endure misery." He requests Sahsbury 's advice how
to act in this dilemma. — Undated.

Holograph. Seal. Endorsed: "1607. Mr Nugent to my Lord."
(124. 103.)

[See Cal. S.P. Ireland, 1606-8, pp. 404, 427.]

The Earl of Hertford versus Lord Monteagle.

[? Before February 28, 1607-8]. — Reasons adduced by the
counsel for Lord Monteagle against granting an appeal on the argu-
ments submitted by the Earl of Hertford's counsel, and counter-
reasons advanced by him for the rejection of such an appeal. —
Undated.

Endorsed: ''L.MownteglesAhstTact." U pp. (197. 30.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XX, p. 86.]

The Earl of Hertford.

[? Before February 28, 1607-8]. — Matters concerning the dispute
between Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, and WiUiam Parker,
4th Baron Monteagle. — Undated.

Endorsed: "Touching the L. of Hertfords appeals. Ed. Stan-
hope, Dr; Ed. Stanhope, Esq," and in another hand: " The
businesses of the Erie of Hertford and L. Monteagle." 3 pp.
(130. 136.)

Thomas Cecil to the Earl of Salisbury.

[February, 1607-8]. — He has wished for nothing more than to
do the Earl of Sahsbury some service, and Lord Cranborne has
provided him with the opportunity. " The course Mr Dean of
Westminster commended unto us wee doe take, and 'tis the best

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(I thinke) wee can take. His Lordship of himselfe is ready to
heare, willinge to learne, forward to conferr with my selfe and
other younge gentlemen which learne with him. Soe that wee shall
(I dought not) gett some learninge. But it commes to a man as
deseases leave him, by little and Httle, hke a deawe not Uke a tem-
pest. Mounetajnties of promises often tymes bringe foorthe but
mole hills of perfourmaunces." He undertakes to bring love, duty
and dihgence to the service he has taken in hand. — Undated.

Holograph. Seal. Endorsed: " Feb. 1607. Mr Tho. Cecill to
my Lord from Cambridge." 1 p. (200. 121.)

William Edlett to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before April 15, 1608]. — Petitioner spent four years at Kensing-
ton working for Sir Walter Cope, who recommended him to
Salisbury's undertakers in Hatfield to do the iron work there. He
was accepted by them, and spent much money in setting up a
forge, buying iron and charcoal, and providing other necessary
things for himself and four men. Having completed work to the
value of £50, a Mr Bickford is now trying to supplant him, and
SaUsbury's officials at Hatfield have decided to divide the work
between petitioner and Bickford. Bickford has refused and de-
mands to be allowed to take over all the iron work. The officials
are now requesting security from petitioner for the performance of
work, and he is prepared to give it. He asks Sahsbury to order
them to accept a bond from him as security. — Undated.

I p. (P. 449.)

[Edlett signed the bond on April 15, 1608. (See C.P. Bills 25.)]

John Rutlinger and John Duher to the Earl

OF Salisbury.

[Before April 19, 1608]. — ^They have long requested to be under-
gravers in the Mint. With the consent of the Lord Treasurer* and
all the officers of the Mint, they have recently been granted their
request by the Kmg. They understand, however, that the grant
has not passed the Signet and the Privy Seal by order of Salisbury.
They request that he show them favour in this matter. — Undated.

ip. (P. 443.)

Frances, Lady Burgh, to the King.

[Before April 19, 1608]. — She refers to previous petitions from
which she has obtained no relief for her present distressed con-
dition, " neither by the suite of ffreedenizens or Recusants ". She
asks for £2000 or £3000 to be recovered by her out of recusants'
lands at her own charge. — Undated.

Note by Sir Thomas Lake: " The Kings Maty jg pleased that out
of the penalties and forfeitures of Recusants not yet in charge to
his Maty, but to be convicted by hir meanes and at hir charge, the

* Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset and Lord High Treasurer, died on April
19, 1608.

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Lord Treasurer, Lord Chamberlain, Earles of Northampton and
Sahsbm'y may consider what somme of money shalbe meet to be
allowed hir and thereof certefie his Ma^y."

1 p. (P. 262.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XX, p. 293.]

Richard Grajstwall to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before April 19, 1608]. — He has served for almost forty years as
one of the Gentlemen of the King's Chapel. The late Queen
Elizabeth granted him the forfeitures of recusants, and the present
King is willing to confirm the grant. The Lord Treasurer too is
prepared to pass the grant, but not without first hearing the
opinions of the other members of the Privy Council. Petitioner
begs Sahsbury to expedite the passing of the grant by sending a
letter to the Lord Treasurer which would have the effect of waiving
this condition. — Undated.

ip. (P. 523.)

Richard Grajstwall to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before April 19, 1608]. — Repeats the details given in a previous
petition regarding the benefit of the recusancy of Arden Waferer,
which was granted him by the late Queen Ehzabeth and confirmed
by the present King. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 535.)

Thomas Chambers to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before April 19, 1608]. — He is submitting the petition on behalf
of himself and the copyhold tenants of the King's manor of Holme
Cultram, Cumberland " aborderinge againste Scotland ". The
farmers to the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of Oxford Uni-
versity for tithe corn have subjected petitioners to vexatious suits
concerning the tithe, and overcharged their lands contrary to
manorial custom. They have also demohshed the chancel of the
parish church of Holme Cultram " a bewtifull churche ", and sold
the lead and timber, so that the parishioners have no church in
which to worship. At the hearing of the case in the Exchequer,
the Lord Treasurer dismissed it and referred it to the ordinary
course of law. But, at the same time, he ordered that the tenants
should pay four years' arrears of tithe at the Temple Church,
London, to Lady Atye, the farmer, at a certain date. Faihng the
presentation of adequate sureties for such payment to Baron
Saville at the next Assizes in Carlisle, process of attachment was
to be awarded against any tenant who defaulted in this respect.
Petitioners request that the process of attachment should be stayed
since many tenants are prepared to pay as directed, and that the
poorer tenants should be given reasonable time to pay at a certain
place in the country. They also ask that there should be an
impartial hearing of the whole dispute between them and Lady

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Atye but outside a court of law, so that all parties " maye be
righted accordinge to equitie." — Undated.

p. (P. 1463.)

[For the background to this petition, see Register and Documents
of Holme Cultram, ed. Grainger and Cullingwood, pp. 197-201.]

Lord Roxburgh and Sir Robert Carey to the King.

[Before April 19, 1608]. — In various ParHaments during the reign
of the late Queen EHzabeth and the present reign, the Crown has
been granted tenths and fifteenths, out of which there has always
been deducted £6000 towards the relief and discharge of the poor
cities and towns of the realm. In the 18th year of Henry VI
commissioners were directed to each shire for the distribution of
the £6000 according to the need of each town, as shown by the
records of the Court of the Exchequer. From that time onwards,
however, the deduction of the £6000 has not been effected, neither
has it been given in charge to the collectors. Nevertheless, certain
officers have collected part of the deduction and converted it to
their own use, under colour of the above-mentioned tenths and
fifteenths. Petitioners request that they be granted so much of
the deduction as has been unlawfully collected and detained by
these officers since the 34th year of the late Queen's reign to the
present time. With part of it they propose to reheve the poor
town of Cullompton in Devon whose inhabitants have petitioned
for assistance. Petitioners request also that their suit be referred
to the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Dorset, Lord Treasm-er, and the
Earls of Suffolk, Nottingham, Sahsbury and Dunbar, as well as the
Chancellor of the Exchequer. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1519.)

Henry Jernegan to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before April 19, 1608]. — He is cupbearer to the King, who
referred his petition concerning concealments and encroachments
on the King's waste to the Attorney-General. By the latter's
direction, petitioner exhibited various information to that effect,
and the tenants involved have committed themselves to paying
composition to the King. All this was done at petitioner's expense,
and the Attorney-General has commended his suit to the Lord
Treasurer who, however, will not act without the approbation of
Salisbury and the Privy Council. Petitioner asks that Salisbury
further his suit, since it benefits the King and will reheve the tenants
of the uncertainty of their tenure. — Undated.

i p. (P. 1867.)

William Blake to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After x4.pril 19, 1608]. — He refers to a previous petition for a
reward for his services in surveying certain of the King's manors.
He spent four years as a commissioner in this work, and received
only twenty marks towards the expenses of keeping a horse. The
late Lord Treasurer intended to remunerate him, as can be proved

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by Mr Hercey's certificate, but this did not materialize. He asks
Salisbury either to grant him the rent of a lease which has 19 years
to run and is in the possession of Anthony Sands, or to find some
other means to indemnify him. — Undated.
ip. (P. 453.)

Lisle Cave to the King.

[After April 19, 1608]. — For the past two years he has been a
suitor for some reward for his services during 28 years, and recently
received the grant of a recusant before the death of the late Lord
Treasurer. Despite the fact that he had allowed himself to be
advised and directed in the matter by the Lord Treasurer, he had
been twice prevented from benefiting by the King's favour owing
to a prior interest in the same recusant by the Queen. He now
requests that order be given by the new Lord Treasurer that
petitioner may enjoy the fee issuing from the office of one of the
surveyors of the outports, as formerly he did, and as two of his
associates, AUington and Dawes, still do. Or, alternatively, that
he be given a warrant to the farmers of the Customs for the imme-
diate payment of enough money to discharge his debts. Whereas
he has to maintain a wife, 8 children and other dependants on £100
a year, he owes £600 in debts to Christopher Blackall, Elizabeth
Burnham, Hugh Hare, Edward Devereux and Richard Waldron. —
Undated.

1 p. (P. 1033.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XX, p. 191.]

Lisle Cave to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After April 19, 1608]. — His prosecution of recusants, as directed
by the late Lord Treasurer, has been very unsuccessful. He had
the King's bill to seize one after two years of legal proceedings, but
the Queen took the recusant for herself. Besides recusants " are
so hardly found, casuaU by prevention being found, and will
sodainely conforme themselves, that there is scant any hope of
good in pursueing them. Ffurther, Mr Spiller telleth me, since I
was with your Lordship, that he cannot nor knoweth not where or
when to furnish me with any, so as I am hopeles that way." He
requests that he be granted by the King so much wood in Leicester-
shire as would give him £600 to pay his debts. — Undated.

Endorsed: "Lisle Cave. This most humble petition." | p.
(P. 492.)

The Lord Marquis's Petition.

[After April 19, 1608]. — He complains of the harm done to his
family by the disloyalty of Ughtred, executor to John, the late
Marquis, which has aggravated the problem of discharging debts
and legacies. The late Lord Treasurer and the Exchequer were
instrumental in postponing the money instalment due to the Queen.
Petitioner is hampered by the ahenation of lands by his father and

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by the withdrawal of his mother's dower, besides her own inheri-
tance; so that he has Uttle more than £1400 to support his estate
and face debts and legacies to the amount of £8000, in addition to
the Queen's debt which is as much. Since the Queen is obhged
to sell her own lands to meet expenses, petitioner will be ready to
dispose of his own property in three years to satisfy her claim on
him unless she decrees otherwise. — Undated.
f p. (P. 494.)

Robert Robinson to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After April 19, 1608]. — He asks to be allowed to be bearer to the
Commissioners for Leases of all particulars and transcripts to be
signed by them, according as he enjoyed the same under Lord
Burghley and the Earl of Dorset. — Undated.

ip. (P. 454.)

Sir William Waad to .

[After April 19, 1608]. — " There was a wrytt dyrected to the
Sherife of Middlesex out of the Court of Exchequer, as he affirmed,
to deliver the possession of certeyne bowses on the dytch syde by
the posterne to the gentleman porter* in a suite depending betweene
him and one Hemynge.

When the Sherife dyd acquaint me with the sayd wrytt and
desyred leave of me that he might execute the same, I sent the
steward of the Tower and certeyne of the warders to assist the
executyon, and to see there might be no disorder comitted, but when
they came there the Sherife could produce no wrytt. Neverthe-
less there was that dysorder, tumult and hurt done as grew to very
greate inconvenyence, ffor the posterne being a narrow passage,
there is greate concourse of people, and so unusuall a matter made
them flock thither in greate numbers.

The Sherife comming agayne another tyme to attempt the hke,
I desired him to forbeare the same, and by order from the late Lord
Treasurer, out of his owne judgment, and from Mr Chauncellor
of the Exchequer, to whome I gave a note of the matter in writing,
the executyon of the wrytt was stayed un till the terme, which his
Lordship dyd the rather injoyne knowing (as he told me) the
vaynesse of the suite of the Gentleman Porter, and willed me to
move it when he was in court, and he would take order it should
proceede no further. Ffor his Lordship formerly in open court
had caused both the leases of the gentleman porter and Hemyng
to be taken from them, and an order to be set downe that informa-
tion of intrusyon should be brought against them both.

I doe conceave the wrytt ought not to be directed to the Sheryfe
(this being his Ma^^ principall house and castle royall), but to the
Leiuetenant and the Steward, as in the pallace of Westmynster is
used to the garden of the sayd pallace, etc.

* Letters of administration granted to his widow in 1609. [See Prerogative
Court of Canterbury Administrations, Vol. V, 1609-19, p. 143.]

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I finde in cases of like nature here in the records, the Kinges
wrytt directed to the Leiuetenant to deUver the possession of a
house to such a partye, etc., within the Liberty. But I presume
there can no presydent be shewed that ever any wrytt was directed
in former tyme within the hberty of the Tower to any sherife to
such purpose.

It is a difficult questyon whether the Towar be in the countye of
Middlesex or of London, or in neither. Though of late tyme, for
indightments of ffellony, the common opinyon hath gone that it is
in London, and so overruled at sessyons.

After this the undersheryfe of Middlesex tooke possessyon of the
posterne house in my absence and dehvered it to a captayne who
kept the same with half a dozen men, and sent me messages of
defyance which was not with the dutie of my place to suffer.
Neither shall any (with favor of his Maty i speake it) under the
degree of a councellor remayne within that hberty that shall refuse
to come to me when I send for him, as this captayne dyd and sent
me worde he was there by better authority then I had any, and was
there expressely to see if I would fetch him forth.

The posterne is parte of the ffortificatyon of the Tower under my
charge and disposing, as much as any part of the Towar. And if
Hemyng say truly, the same never was in questyon in the Ex-
chequer nor mentyoned in the wrytt, for which I hope, with favor
of that honorable court, to call the Sheryfe to accompte.

The bowses on the dytch syde are buylt by meere intrusyon to
the defacing of the fortificatyon of that place of strength. The
dytch is also both under my charge, and by charter that benefytt
which is convenyent to be taken apperteyneth to the Leieutenant,
which in duty of my place I may not suffer to be defaced.

By othe I am expressly tyed to mayntayne the Ubertyes of the
Tower, and by the charters from divers kynges they use these
wordes: Nos omnia et singula jura et libertates Turr. nostre ne
deperiant seu illicite subtrahuntur manutenere volentes Mandamus,
etc.

Therfore my humble suite is that there may be a stay of these
proceedings untill those differences may be consydered of by the
Lordes, the Judges of the Realme, or his Ma^s counsell learned, as
shall seeme most convenyent by his sacred Ma^ie and the right
honorable the Lordes of his Ma^^ privy counsell, to whose good
pleasure I humbly appeale in this case. — Undated.

Signed: W. Waad, locumten. Turris." Endorsed: "The
Lieutenant of the Towre." 2 pp. (129. 23.)

Simon Willis.

[ ? AprU, 1608]. — He appends a Ust of Enghsh knights and gentle-
men who were in Italy at the time that he was there, and who also,
to his knowledge, paid a visit to Rome.

Sir Charles Moryson. Theise were in the company of Sir

Mr Storay. Charles Morrysson.

Mr Askeworthe, with two or
three servants.

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Sir William Dormer.
Mr Anthonye Tracy e.
Three servants of Sir William
Dormer.

Sir Georg Peter.

Sir Robert Chamberlaine.
Sir Edmund Hampden.
Sir Thomas Crompton.
Mr Baskervyll.
Mr Boughton.

Mr D. Moore, and a servant of
Sir Robert Chamberlaynes.

Theise were in the company of Sir
William Dormer.

Allone.

With theis I kept company at Rome and
at Naples, never being out of their com-
pany night nor day.

Mr Gyfforde, a servant of my
lord of Shrewsbury es.

Mr Barrett.

Mr Leveson and Mr Ffytz-
wylliams, with three ser-
vants.

This man was allone and in his retume
from Rome mett me at Padoa, presently
after my first aryvall in Italy.

Theis were Mr Barretts company.

Mr Cholmley.
Mr Hopkyns.

Mr Ffroome.

Mr Partherydg.

Mr Ffynch, son to Sir Moyle

Ffynch.
Mr Doncombe.

Mr Toby Mathewe.
Mr Eston.

Mr Rooke.

Mr Hiuit, an organyst.

Two sonnes of Sir Edward
Moore of Odiam in Hamp-
shire with their tutor.

Mr Ffryer, sonne to Doctor
Ffryer, the phisician.

Mr Mychele, secretary to my
lo. grace that dead is.

Mr Purfrey.

Mr Rhenells, nephew to my L.
Chamberlayns secretary.

Theis were an other company.

Allone. He is a vyntners sonne about
Newgat markett, and hath lyved long
abroade, specyally at Rome.

A Kentysher gent, allyed to Sir Ha:
Wotton, his Ma*^ Ambassadeur at Venice.

Theis two travayled togeither and Mr
Ffynch wrytt to Persons to have leave to
come to Rome, having shewed his letter
to dy verse and Persons answere.

Theise travayled togeither.

A servant of Sir Henry Wootons.
Servant to my 1. grace of Canturbury.

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Mr Gorg, sonne to Mr William
Gorg nere Plymmoth.

Mr Gage and Mr Wenman. Theis were an other company.

Mr Chalcrofte. This is a servant of his Ma*y^.

Of the Scottishe nation

Mr 1. of Marres sonne. Theis were an other company.

Mr James Colvyll.

Mr L. of Murray. Theis three kept togeather.

Mr Mongo Murry, and an other

Scottyshe gent whom I knew

not.

Endorsed : " The names of sondry knights and gent., that in their
travay Us into Italy have ben at Rome." 2^ pp. (129. 110.)
[^eeH.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XX, p. 126.]

George Thompson to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May, 1608]. — He is a brother of Richard Thompson who
was formerly in Salisbury's service. He has been engaged in com-
mercial activities in Barbary for 13 years, but after the death of
Muley Hammet, during the wars of his three sons, he was robbed
of his goods and forced to flee for his life to a French vessel which
happened to be in the port. His only hope of recovering some of
his estate is by obtaining money due to him by merchants in Lon-
don, They, however, have taken advantage of his situation and
penury to refuse payment. Petitioner has not the means to prose-
cute them in a court of law, but is willing to come to an agreement
through the mediation of disinterested persons. This too his
debtors have rejected, and he asks Salisbury to extend his favour to
him in the matter. Petitioner has received letters from Barbary
which he proposes to answer. If Sahsbury desires to have some
service performed there, he will attend on him to learn what it is. —
Undated.

fp. (P. 1881.)

[See PEO, High Court of Admiralty, 13, Vol. 41, fol. 2.]

Robert Westcott to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May, 1608]. — He is in the employment of Lord Carew,
and asks that Salisbury accept his services as trumpeter on the
occasion of the next installation at Windsor.* — Undated.

ip. (P. 1155.)

Accounts.

[May 5, 1608]. — " An account of the 20^ which I receyved of
Mr Stuard the 2 of May, 1608, towerds setting forth the showe and

* The next installation of Knights of the Garter, after that of the Earl of
Salisbury and others in 1606, took place at Windsor on May 18, 1608.

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adorning the lybrary against the Kings cominge thether." Items
include inter alia :

For 6 dosen of velum skinns to cover bookes. xxx^
To Thomas Herbert, bookbynder, for 7 dayes work

in bynding, coveringe and stringing of bookes. xii^ viii<*
Spent uppon Allen, Jones and Johnson before they

came to diett in my Lords howse. vi^
Geven to the Jugler the first day my Lord badd me

bring him home and geve him money. iii^ vi^

For 2 dosen more skinnes to make the circle. x^

For 2 glasses for the conjurers use. ii^

To the 2 boyes that played Fancy and Barahon. xx^
Payd to the tyrewoman for her paynes and lending

the head tyres of 8 speritts. xxii^ vi^
For ryall paper, pastbord and stringe for a great

book of mapps. v^

For a great booke of fortifications. iii^ vm!^

For newe coloring 22 genelogyes of princes. iii^

For newe coloringe 10 tables of arts. xxx»
For a mapp of Vennice with the pictures of all the

dukes. viis

For vi pictures. iii^ vi^
For a mapp of Ireland my Lord willed me to buy

and bring to Greenwich on Sunday, 27 May. ii^ vi^

Endorsed: "Mr Wilsons bill for the library against the Kings
cominge thether. May 5, 1608. Summa xvii^ viii^ v^i paid and
dyscharged the last of Maye, 1608." Below in another hand: " To
Mr Lister all y^ bills of y^ feast, 6th May, 1608 with y^ abstract."
1 p. (Bills 22.)

Accounts.
[May 6, 1608]. — Bill for materials suppHed by Robert Singleton
to Robert, Earl of Sahsbury. Items include inter alia :

10 yards of Watchet Chyny TafEaty for a roabe and two hats

for a boye.
4 yards of the same for a skinne coate.

1 quarter of the same for cloven feete.

4 yards of White Chyny Taffaty for a skyn coate.

2 yards and di for a girdle for Mr Allen.

5 ells of ell broad crimson rich Tafïaty for a roabe for Mr Allen.
2 ells and 3 quarters of blew rich Taîïaty for the jugler.

1 ell of White Sasnet for Mr Aliens oupen sleeves.

1 of the same for Jobsons necke.

6 ells in 2 long scarffes for the Fflying Boye.

2 pairs of gloves for Mr Allen and Jobson.
1^ of sweate fflaming powder.

7 yards of green say for curtaines for the hbrary.
26 waxe hghtes.

Green rug to lyne the rayle.

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On reverse: Receipt for £31 :11 dated May 31, 1608 and signed by-
Nicholas Parkinson.

Endorsed: " Mr Singleton his bill of chardges laid out by him
about the shewe in the hbrarie mad the 6th of Maye, 1608." \\ pp.
(BiUs 22.)

Accounts.

[May 6, 1608]. — " The bill of what my Lord appointed to be geven
for rewards to the actors and devisors of the showe in the lybrary,
besydes the bills of severaU workes and workemen, 6 May, 1608."
(in Robert, Earl of Salisbury's hand) :
Johnson xx^
Alyn xxty pownds

Jones xx^y pownds

I pray you pay this money to these 3 men
Juggler ten pownds

Below: " Receyved of Mr Stuard of the somes abovementioned
threescore and three pounds vi^ vui*^ for of the 20^ which was appointed
to be paid to Mr Allen I payd him only twenty marks, the rest I
paid to ech man as is abovementioned, the 8 of May, 1608."
Signed : Thomas Wilson.

Endorsed: "May 6, 1608. My Lords reward given to the
play ors for the shewe in the hbrarie." f p. (BiUs 22.)

Accounts.

[May 11, 1608]. — Account presented by Inigo Jones, with receipt
dated May 11, 1608, and signed by Thomas Stephans.

Endorsed: " Inigo Johnes his bill for money paid to the smyth,
the taillor and others for worcke donne about the shewe, Summa
viiii viiis paid this 11th of Maye, 1608. 1 p. (Bills 22.)

Accounts.

[May 18, 1608]. — " The chardges of divers provisions made against
the 18th of Maye 1608, for dynner providyd for the K[ing], the
Q[ueen] and prince, with other honorable personages at Salysbury
house, beinge on that day when my Lo : of Dunbar and my Lo : of
Mongumery went to Windsor to bee installed Knights of the
Gartter." The expenses came to £119:5:7.

Damaged. Endorsed: " An abstract of the chardges of a dynner
made the 18th of Maye, 1608." ^ p. (General 11/10.)

Henry Lee to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 19, 1608]. — At the time of his father's death his
goods and chattels came into the possession of other people, and
neither petitioner nor the King has had any benefit from them.
The King has expressed his pleasure that these goods be restored
to petitioner, and he therefore requests Sahsbury to send letters to
the Lord Deputy of Ireland to that effect. — Undated.

I p. (P. 858.^)

[See Cal. S.P. Ireland, 1606-8, p. 527. Also ibid., 1603-6, p. 77.]

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Accounts.

[May 25, 1608]. — Money given in reward to certain musicians:

To my Lord Cumberlands man xl^

To my Lord Chamberlaines man xl^

To Sir Thomas Munsons boye xl^

Receipt signed by John Coprario and dated May 25, 1608.

Endorsed: " Rewards given to musitions by your Honors
appointment." \ p. (Bills 22.)

George Robinson to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before June, 1608]. — For the past nine or ten years he has served
as groom and coachman, and enjoyed a reputation for dihgence
and honesty. But recently, upon some charge made against him
by Salisbury's Gentleman of the Horse, he was dismissed.* He
asks that he be given some other post in Sahsbury's household. —
Undated.

ip. (P. 1161.)

Accounts.

[June 10, 1608]. — ^The stationer's bill for books purchased for the

Earl of Sahsbury's hbrary. They are :

Mundus alter et idem.

0-1-6

Passe-par -tout, le Jesuit.

0-2-6

Kings speech.

0-0-6

Arraignment.

0-1-8

Apologie.

0-8-0

Polieraticus.

0-2-6

Impresse di Luca Contile.

0-12-0

De Simeone.

0-2-0

Recherches de la France.

0-1-4

Histoire des Histoires.

0-4-6

Gallobelg. tomi 7^1.

0-1-6

Idea del secretario.

1-5-0

Giardino Historiale del mondo.

0-18-0

Jurisprudence Francois

0-7-6

L' Inconstance.

0-6-8

Histoire de Pierre Matthew.

0-13-4

Ouvertures des Parlemanes

0-7-6

Bodini Method eu aliis.

0-5-0

Redemption del tiempo.

Conversion del Buen Ladron.

0-2-6

Termenier Different de Religion.

0-3-0

Excellent discours de la France.

0-3-4

Discours de Portugal.

0-1-10

Discours ancien et present de France.

0-2-4

Floresta Espagnola.

0-1-3

Consulta Parisi.

Opinions.

0-1-4

* His name is not included in the list of coachmen who received wages in
Midsummer, 1608, and later. [See CP. Accounts 8/25.]

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Chevalier de Savoye. 0-1-6

Courtesan reforme. 0-0-10

Miscellanea ex histor. Angl. 0-0-6

Narratio succincta. 0-0-6

Raccalta di Venetrana. 0-5-0

Saggia pazzia. 0-3-6
Springerus de Pace.

Excommunicatio injusta. 0-2-4

Pancirolli Memorabilia. 0-2-6

Nonii Hispania. 0-2-0

Seghetti Carmina. 0-0-3

Hegendorfii Dialecta legatis. 0-0-6

Comedies Ital. 0-5-0

Paciani Arte délia Ouerra. 0-2-6

Farnasius De Antiq. Princip. 0-6-6

Bruure Del spavanti. 0-5-0

Lipsiï Epta Cent. 0-0-2

Note at bottom: " James, I pray redeliver the bill to my man
wherof this is the copy, and take this in stead of it, for the other
was miscast xx^ to litle as may apeer by conferring this." Signed:
Thomas Wilson.

Endorsed: "The stationers bill for bookes bought of him by
Mr Wilson for the library e. Summa viii^ xvii^ vi^. Received this
10th of June, 1608, by me." Signed: Thomas Stephans.

(Bms22/1.)

Innocent Lanier to Roger Houghton.

[June 12, 1608]. — " I doe heere by Mr Coprario that my lorde
hath put the boy away which wass with mee, and hath given you
order to pay me for his boorde, which is five pounde. I have lay de
owt thertie five shiUings besides, twentie for healing his sore leggs
and fifteen for strings and shues. I am sorie for the boy with
whome I have taken much pa5mes, but it lay not in my power to
keepe his voyce. All I gayne by hime is the labor I have taken
with hime ; for his boorde, it cost mee as much as my lord gave mee.
If you pay this mony to the bearer heerof, my brother, I shalbe
beholding to you. For my selfe I am not well and cannot come." —
Undated.

Holograph. Endorsed: "Mr Innocent Lainer for teachinge
George Mason and for his table." \ p. (Box U/54.)

Below: Receipt dated June 12, 1608.

BuxTED Quarry.

1608, June 13 to July 23. — " The booke of monye disbursed at
Buckested for the right honorable the Earle of Salisburye, Lord
Highe Tresorer of Englande, for six weekes worke done there.

The chardge of monye weekelye expended at Buckested for the
uncoveringe the quarry e, digginge, breakinge, hewinge and schef-
fehnge of pyllers and asheler, and for caryinge of those pyllers and

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asheler, begone the 13 of June and contynewed untill the 23 of
Julye, 1608."

The main expenses incurred were those of hiring labourers to
uncover the quarry, carriers and oxen teams to convey away earth
and rubble, stone diggers, quarry men and masons, a smith and
carpenter to supply iron tools, nails, wheelbarrows, etc, and the
transportation of " asheler " to Lewes and of " pyllers " to God-
stone. The sum spent was £55 :17 :8|.

Signed: Sy. Basyll, Thomas Wilson. 16 pp. (Accounts 8/13.)

Richard Whistler to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After June 21, 1608]. — Within these last five years petitioner
has spent £500 in buying a lease of the King's mills at Sutton
Courtney in Berkshire, and in repairing them. Previously the
mills had yielded neither rent nor profits because of their ruinous
condition. However, as a consequence of the recent severe frost
considerable damage has been caused to the miUhouse, one mill,
a bridge attached to it for the convenience of the country around,
and one of the main banks. The requisite repairs will necessitate
more than 85 loads of timber and 300 loads of freestone. The
King is under an obHgation by covenant to allow timber for repairs,
but there is none available on the property demised to petitioner.
He hopes that he will be granted reUef, despite the recent sale of
the mills, and it is with this expectation that he has taken out a
commission to survey the damage, and already spent £200 on
repairs. He asks that the necessary loads of timber may be granted
him out of the King's woods at Stow and Shotover in Oxfordshire ;
also, in regard of his expenses, that he may be authorised to carry
timber, stone, Hme and clay at reasonable rates from those districts
which benefit from the above-mentioned bridge and roadway, and
that the yearly rent of £11 paid by him may be remitted for eight
years . — Undated .

ip. (P. 847.)

The commission was dated June 13 and the survey completed
on June 21, 1608. [See PRO Special Commissions of the Exchequer
3549.]

Attached

(1) A commission of survey to inspect the damage caused to the
mills at Sutton Courtney.

A detailed description is given of the property, which consists of
an old miUhouse, in which there are two corn mills, and to which
is connected a bridge " over which was a common high waye for
the people of the cuntrie to passe to Abingdon market." The
commission's survey gives an estimate of the loads of timber
needed, and recommends that they be allocated from the Crown
woods of Stow and Shotover. Finally, " the fermor of the said
milles is contented to lay a greate parte of the fundation with free
stone requiring 300 loads by estimation, which otherwise wowlde
requier a farr greater propertion of tymber, and therfor humblely

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prayeth allsoe a warrant or commission to have the ayde of the
cuntry to helpe him carie the stone and tymber to the water syde
either at his Ma^i^^ prise or at such rates as the Justices of the peace
ther next adjoyning shal sett downe." — Undated.

IP-

(2) A copy of a previous petition to Sahsbury which recites the

main points of the above petition, but adds that the damage was

occasioned by a sudden thaw and that, " if the ne we buildinge

therof be not begunne in tyme this summer and finished before

winter, the same will be unrecoverable for ever, soe that your

suppliant shal be utterly undon, his Ma^i^ lose his rent of xi^ p

annum, and the barges that were woont to take on their loadeinge

ther not able to cum neare it by tenne mills (mUes), and the way or

passage over at the said mills stopped, whereby the cuntrie will be

much dampnified and impoverished." Petitioner requests that,

as in former years on similar occasions, the mills be rebuilt at the

King's expense, or that he be granted timber out of the King's

woods for repairs, his rent remitted for eight years, and himself

allowed reasonable rates as regards the carriage of necessary

materials . — Undated .

Note by Salisbury: " The petitioner is to she we his lease to Mr
Attorney, and if the Kinge be tyed by any covenant to reparation
of his mills, I will consider of some course for his releife."

Note by Henry Hobart: " His Ma^i^ is not tyed by any covenant
to repayre, but on the contrarie the lessee is by covenant tyed.
And though the Kinge hath licenced the lessee to take tymber
uppon the thinge demised to repayer, which yet it doeth the tenant
noe good, for ther is noe tymber ther groweinge ; therfor, except it
please your Lordship to allow the poore man some tymber els where,
it seemeth he is utterly unable to sett up the house and mill againe."

Note by Salisbury: " Sir Henrie Fanshaw, make forth a com-
mission to the surveyor of the county to inquier what tymber will
be necessarye for reparation of theis mills and wher it may be best
spared."

Copy. 1 p.

John Gardner, Richard Backhouse and Walter Cowper
to the Commissioners for Leases.

[After June, 1608]. — They submit this petition in the name of
26 persons, who have come to London to present 200 tenants
of the King's manor of Michelland in Lancashire. In the reign of
Henry VIII the Lord of the Manor, the Marquess of Dorset and
Duke of Suffolk, doubled the rents of those parcels of the demesne
held by tenants and granted leases for the same " giveinge allow-
ance unto his said tenants for the defence of the sea and the repare-
inge of the freshe water dytches and rivers that ronne thorough
the same to the sea." After the attainder of the Duke the manor
came into the hands of the Crown, and twice in the reign of the late
Queen Ehzabeth the tenants took new leases of the demesne for
21 years and were granted the same allowance. Last October

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there happened a serious inundation of the demesne by the sea,
and the walls and fences were breached in many places. Some of
these have been repaired, but scarcity of timber has made it impos-
sible to restore others. Since the expenses incurred are very
heavy and the tenants poor, and particularly on account of the
lack of suitable timber, petitioners desire to take new leases and
pay a reasonable fine in view of the circumstances related above. —
Undated.

Note: " This petition is to be examyned by his Mats commis-
sioners for leases."

1 p. (P. 2029.)

[See PRO Special Commissions of the Exchequer, Lancaster, No.
3992, 8 June, 6 James 1.]

John Powell to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before July 16, 1608]. — He is the Deputy-Searcher of the port
of Faversham, co. Kent. Last Saturday, at one o'clock in the
morning, two waggons filled with rough salted hides were brought to
a place called Heme. There were some 64 of them besides five
dozen tanned calf -skins, and were the goods of Wilham Sares
and John Newman of Canterbury. The waggons were driven
into the sea up to their axle-tree, and 6 or 7 hides were put into a
boat belonging to one Smithe, but without his knowledge, ready to
be conveyed to the Charity of Whitstable which was anchored near
the shore, and was bound for France under her owner and master,
John Brede. The hides were intercepted, seized and deposited in
a barn near-by by one Maddock. As soon as petitioner was in-
formed of this, he took possession of the hides in the King's name.
The above-mentioned Sares last March transported 66 hides to
St. Vallery in France, a fact revealed to him by the captain of the
ship that conveyed them. Petitioner has brought an action against
Sares for that offence in the Court of the Exchequer. He requests
further directions from SaHsbury. — Undated.

Note signed by the Earl of Salisbury: "Lett the officers and
ffarmers of his Ma^^ Customes enquire of this busines and thereof
returne me their certificate."

1 p. (P. 682.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury M8S, Vol. XX, p. 217.]

The Earl of Salisbury to the Earl of Lincoln.

[1608, July]. — " That your Lordship sent me my last payment
I am very glad, because you are not much beholding to your
neighbours for commendation of your keeping your credytt. But
where you say you undertooke the bargain by my persuasion, I
will make you no more answer to that then this: that whosoever
will bring me the man that had ever power to persuade you to doe
any thing but for your owne lucre, I will geve him a better reward
than ever was geven in Chelsea since you were owner of it. In
the meane tyme forbeare, yf it please you, to tell more of those
stories." He advises the Earl of Lincoln to exercise more restraint

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in his speech, and not to claim to have done good service to him,
since, in fact, he has been guilty of ingratitude both in the past and
in the present King's reign. " To conclude, my Lord, as neere as
I can in your owne stile, pray resorte lyke a noble man to the
exercise of trueth and modesty, and for any your dribhng contro-
versies, advise with your counsell of what kind soever what course
to take with me that feare you not because we hve in a just time,
nor love you not because you pretend to have knowen so much
perUl to our deare soverane, you saye, and were so slow to reveale
it." — Undated.

Draft ivith corrections in Salisbury's hands. Daynaged. En-
dorsed: " Mynute from my Lord to my Lo. of Lyncolne." 1 p.
(197. 82.)

[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, pp. 447, 448]

Roger Lynsford to the Earl of Salisbury.

[c. August 26, 1608]. — He is a labouring man with a wife and
three small children. " Being hired to labour in your Lordshipps
works in the digging downe of stones for your Honor at the late
dissolved monastery of St Augustines neere Canterburie, was by
the great faU of a piUer (falling on the sodayne) most grevoushe
bruised, and thereby through this hurt growen into extreeme want,
and so hath continued for the space of these 8 weeks, so that he is
not able to help himself, whereby his wife and poore children
through the want of his labour are grown to extreeme povertie."
He begs Sahsbury to alleviate his distress. — Undated.

Below: The petition is signed by Thomas Paramour, Mayor of
Canterbury, and another who testify to the integrity of the peti-
tioner, and to his inability to maintain himself and his family owing
to his injuries.

Endorsed: "My lords gift to him was ui^ vi^ vm^ whereof
xxvi^ viii'i was paid to him before. And now the woman his
wyffe xls. And xl^ to bee paid to hime yearhe if hee continue lame
stiU."

Below: August 28, 1608. Red xl^ by mee. Signed: Mari
Linfrod. 1 p. (200. 186.)

John Austen to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? After October 9, 1608]. — Letters were brought from the Lord
President of Munster to the Mayor of Bristol to be conveyed
immediately to Sahsbury. Petitioner was asked by the Mayor to
carry them to London. He did so, and upon his return to Bristol
he requested the Mayor to compensate him for the journey which
had cost him £5. The Mayor refused on the grounds that the
expenses should be defrayed by the Government. He asks that
they should be met. — Undated.

ip. (P. 430.)

[See Cal. S.P. Ireland, 1608-10, p. 49.]

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Francis Cottrell, Robert Cottrell and Martin Cottrell
to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before December, 1608]. — There is at present a bill in Parlia-
ment* preferred by William Le Grise against Robert Cottrell, their
father. Le Grise is pressing for the passing of an act authorizing
the sale of all Cottrell's lands, goods and chattels, to implement a
decree of the Court of Chancery. The decree, upon the evidence
of a certificate signed by Christopher Grimston and Edward Slegg,
states that Cottrell is short by as much as £807:7:4 in a certain
account in connection with Le Grise. For their part petitioners
declare that Grimston and Slegg are " men decayed in ther estatts
and of bad note, who for ther owne gayne did not alowe the deff.
[Cottrell] in his accompt dyvers somes of money of great valew ".
Upon a complaint to the Lord Chancellor, the account was subjected
to a further scrutiny, but Grimston and Slegg repeated that it was
deficient to the amount stated, and added certain other demands
made by Le Grise against Cottrell, none of which had been included
before. They also offered to indemnify Cottrell out of their own
estate if they were proved guilty of wronging him in any manner.
Impressed by this, the Lord Chancellor had ordered Cottrell to
repay the money and satisfy the other demands put forward by
Le Grise.

Petitioners protest that the making of an act is not justifiable,
and adduce reasons, legal and otherwise, against such a step. They
also state that Le Grise had attempted to prejudice the House of
Commons against Cottrell by distorting the truth in his bill of com-
plaint. They give particulars of the proceedings in the House, and
allude to the fact that the case had been referred to Sir Maurice
Bartlett and Mr Fuller, whose verdict and award the defendant
Robert Cottrell is prepared to accept and give sureties for per-
formance thereof. — Undated.

Endorsed: "The humble petition of Ffrances Cottrell, Robert
Cotrell and Marten Cottrell, cetisonnes of London, humbUe besech
your good lord, to give this lammentable petition the reading and
your honorable favor", f p. (P. 1107.)

SeeV. 1188.

[Letters of administration were given to the widow of Martin
Cottrell in December, 1608. [Acts of Administration of the Pre-
rogative Court of Canterbury, Vol. IV, 1596-1608, p. 34.]

Francis Cottrell, Robert Cottrell and Martin Cottrell

to the King.

[Before December, 1608]. — The Court of Chancery decreed that
petitioners' father (Robert Cottrell) should pay WiUiam Legrise the
sum of £807 :7 :4, a decision based on the certificate of Christopher
Grimston and Edward Slegg, who were not masters of the chancery
but men of dubious repute. Theii- father obtained from the King

* See Statutes at Large, Vol. 1, P. XXXI, No. 29.

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a commission for the re-examination of the account upon which
the plaintiff Legrise had based his charge, and the commissioners
reported that Legrise owed him £100:15. Since Cottrell has not
been able to implement the decree nor give sureties for doing so,
an act has been made authorizing the sale of his lands, which, how-
ever, he has already sold to petitioners. They ask that the act
should be suspended until their interests have been examined,
otherwise they are faced with ruin. — Undated.

Endorsed: " The humble pettition of Ffranncis Cottrell, Robert
Cottrell and Marten Cottrell, cettisonnes of London, beseching
your Maigistyes regard to there estattes, who are utterlie overe
throwne for ever except your Maigistys carfullnes help them in
stayinge the acte untill the pettitioners entrest be fuUy examined."
1 p. (P. 1188.)

Receipt.

[December 5, 1608]. — " I have receyved of Mr Nicholas Lanier a
base violl with the case for my Lord of Cranborns use in his travayll,
and upon agreement he is to have for yt fyve pounds." — Undated.

Signed: John Finet. Endorsed: Nycholas Lanier for a vyoll
bought for my Lo. Cranborne unto Ffrance. Suma v^. Rd this
5th of December, 1608, by mee. Signed: Nicholas Lanier. 1 p.
(Bills 31.)

The Inhabitants of the Parish of St. Martin's-
Esr-THE-FiELDS to the Earl of Salisbury.

[c. December 24, 1608]. — " That whereas it is a place of the Kings
Mats most frequent residence and of late greatly inhabited by di-
verse lords, their followers and servants, many knights and gentle-
men, and great number of people, whereby the churche being smaU
was not sufficient to receive halfe the inhabitants and most com-
monly was so pestered as many were in daunger of styfeling and
infection.

And the said parishioners having lately made contribution
accordingly to their abilhties to inlardge the said church to give it
more roome and aire, as also for the inclosing of a new churchy arde
with a brick wall, are not able to compassé it unlesse it shall please
the lords and principall man of the parish to contribute towards the
performance thereof."

They ask Sahsbury to contribute as much as " Almighty God
shall inclyne your harte unto." — Undated.

1 p. (200. 180.)

Attached: Receipt by the churchwardens of St. Martin's-in-the-
Fields, dated December 24, 1608, for £20, " beinge his Lordships
guifte towards the chargs of enlargine the parish church of St
Martins in the fifeilds ". (200. 181.)

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Sm Pexall Brocas to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? December, 1608]. — Sylvester Dodsworth, Sergeant of the
King's Buckhounds, draws an annual fee of £37:7:7 out of the
Treasury of the Chamber. He has succeeded, however, in obtain-
ing £40 more ^^er annum by the King's warrant to the Keeper of the
King's Privy Purse for fulfilhng the duties of his office. He is now
endeavouring to extract a further 100 marks a year for keeping a
second kennel of buckhounds, and so to have two kennels in one
office which is unprecedented. Petitioner receives 20 marks a
year for attending to the ordinary hounds of that office and adds
that, to prevent any such abuse. Queen Mary granted the post of
Master and Keeper to Sir Richard PexaU and his heirs. Dods-
worth is now engaged in a plan to disinherit petitioner of his office,
claiming that all fees should go to him. Petitioner asks that any
such grant under the privy seal should be stayed until Sahsbury
be advertised by the legal officers whether it be not already
granted. — Undated.

At bottom: " In Fullers lane neere Greyes Inn."

1 p. (P. 1466.)

[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 473.]

John Walley to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1608]. — He has served almost twenty years in Ireland, eleven
of them in Munster, under Sir Thomas Norris, Lord Carew and Sir
Henry Brouncker, as Clerk to the Council of Munster, and deputy
of Sir Richard Boyle in that office. He was promised that he should
receive it as absolute for a reasonable composition. But since he
came to London to answer slanderous charges about his proceed-
ings in matters of conformity, preferred against him by agents of
the towns of Munster, Sir Richard Boyle has obtained a new patent
of the office and joined Francis Ansley with him in its reversion.
The latter is in the Lord Deputy's service, and has undertaken to
pay Boyle a sum of money agreed between them. Petitioner
refers to his own long service, experience and knowledge, and to
the fact that Lord Danvers (who has been informed of his quaU-
fications by Lord Carew, Sir Charles Wilmot and others) wishes to
retain him in that office. Petitioner asks for letters from Sahsbury
and the Privy Council to the Lord Deputy that, upon payment of
the composition, he be established in the office and Ansley be
joined with him in its reversion. The Lord Deputy is favourable
to the idea. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1856.)

[See Cal. S.P. Ireland, 1606-8, p. 423.]

Patrick Strange to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1608]. — He was rewarded by Sahsbury 's father. Baron Burghley,
for bringing him news from abroad. He has since then been the first
to furnish Sahsbury with information in times of invasion and
rebellion. He was sent from Ireland in 1599 by the Lord President

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and Sir Nicholas Walsh, the Lord Justice, to be employed by
Sahsbury in foreign countries, " your Lordship conferring with Sir
Jeffrey Ffenton dismissed that service ". He returned to Ireland,
where he was able to warn Sahsbury of the impending landing of
the Spaniards at Kinsale ten months before it actually took place.
He revealed that Florence and his henchman, George Roch of
Kinsale, were behind the scheme a httle before they were arrested.
They tried to sue him for £1000 for defamation, and out of friend-
ship Lord Carew released Roch on bail. Subsequently Roch joined
Don Juan. For all these services and to combat his poverty, he
asks for a pension and a farm from the Crown, and the King has
referred his suit to " the right honorable lorde appointed for Irish
causes . " — Undated .

p. (P. 1073.

[See Cal. S.P. Ireland, 1608-10, p. 79, and ditto, 1601-3, pp.
119 and 199.]

Dame Alice Fortescue to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1608]. — Sahsbury has been informed of the spohation of the
King's trees in the Forest of Barnwood allegedly committed by her
during the past year, that is, in 1607. She denies that she ever
intended that any timber should be felled. As further evidence
of her concern in this matter, she directed her officers not to meddle
with the cutting of any trees until Sir John Dormer with certain
verderers had decided what trees were fit for felhng and warrantable
by her lease. Sahsbury will also see from the woodwards' accounts
of the profits of the trees sold by them, that such trees could not be
regarded as timber because of the low prices they had fetched.
Nevertheless, petitioner is prepared to submit to censure by
Sahsbury. But she requests that she be permitted to cut the under-
wood this present year, which otherwise runs the risk of being
damaged by the borderers. It would assist her also to discharge
her rent to the King. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1053.)

Joan Baker to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1608]. — Her husband Nicholas Baker, of Thornbury, Glouces-
tershire, is gravely ill and not expected to live.* Should she
become a widow, she will be left with five small children to support.
She requests that she be given the wardship of their son, John
Baker, which would assist her to give a good upbringing and
education to the children. — Undated.

p. (P. 1023.

Simon Wells to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1608]. — His patron and master, Lord Stanhope, has presented
him to the living of Terrington, Norfolk, but the Bishop of Norwich

* Administration of his estate was given to his wife in 1608. [Acts of
Administration in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury , Vol. IV, 1596-1608, p. 8.]

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has delayed his admittance because of a caveat put in by the Vice-
Chan cellor of Cambridge University. SaUsbury has written to the
Bishop that the person presented to the rectory of Terrington
should present himself and show by what right and title Lord
Stanhope claims to bestow the living. Petitioner* is ready to
produce Lord Stanhope's authority, and requests Sahsbury's favour
for his admittance to the benefice. — Undated.
f p. (P. 855.)

Altyrynys.
1608. — ^Map of the demesne land of " Haltarines ", drawn by
Paul Delahay.— 1608.
1 p. (General 40/6.)

The Earl of Salisbury to Viscount Cranborne.

[1608]. — " I heare so well of your disposition to follow study
whilst yow are to tarry in England (which shalbe no longer then
Alholautyde)f and have heard by the gentlemen abowt the King
that yow dyd use your self so dwtyfully to him and so civilly to all
others, as I think good to take notice to yow that my favour shall
dayly increase towards yow if it continew, as I must confess it dyd
coole towards yow (thogh I made no owtward shew of it) when I
saw your hart so sett uppon all other things and so alienated from
lerning, a riches which yow will sell for no gold when yow have it,
thogh now yow preferr dross before it ; and if yow gett it not now,
it will never come hereafter. Proceed therfore and use your self to
study but for the short time yow tarry, and let me but once heare
that yow have passed thexercises which may make yow worthy of
your degrees given yow, and then I shall leave the rest of your lyfe
to be spent as yow think good in all other exercises worthy of a
gentleman, towards which yow shall want nothing. I like your
letters well but your hand is not good, for thogh it be romane yet
it doth not leane in your letters as gentlemens hands do, but rather
like a woman or a schoUer. God bless yow with his grace to serve
him . " — Undated .

Holograph. 1 p. (228. 23.)

John Cotterell to the King.

[? 1608].— Five years ago petitioner and many others with their
ship and cargoes were seized at Milo in the Straits by Frenchmen. J
He himself lost goods to the value of £60. They were set ashore in
the " Arches of Pehgo " and there captured by the Turks and sent
to the galleys of Schio. He is still held in slavery, " to the great
daunger not onehe of his Hfe but allso of his soule by the crueU
enforcements of the Turks in theire blasphemeous religion ". They

* Rector of Terrington 1608-9.

t Cranborne went abroad in December, 1605. [See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS,
Vol. XXII, p. 280.]

I This is possibly a reference to the seizure of an English ship by Frenchmen
as described in Cal. S. P. Venetian, 1603-7, pp. 88, 115, 126.
S.C.-12

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have fixed his ransom at £40, which he is totally unable to pay.
He asks the Eang to issue his warrant to the Lord Mayor of London
to allow the bearer of the petition to gather charitable contributions
towards the ransom from the citizens of London. — Undated.

I p. (P. 895.)

Proclamations .

[1608]. — " A Register of all the Proclamations in the studdye as
they weare printed from tyme to tyme unto this yeare 1608."

These are 19 in number, but a further Hst of " proclamations
brought from IVIr Barker " includes another 105.

II pp. (243. 6.)

G. Sharpe to Lord [? Salisbury].

[1608, or before]. — By the sickness of Mr Lilye, brother of the
Savoy, three places yet in his hand are likely to fall void, the place
in the Savoy, a prebend in St Paul's, and a prebend in Salisbury.
Prays his Lordship's favourable letters for any one of them, either
to Dr Neile,* ]VIr Dean of Paul's, or the Bishop of Sarum. — Undated.

ip. (P. 11.)

Alexander Mayne to the Earl of Salisbltry.

[1608 or before]. — He is a merchant of Plymouth. John Peacher,
of the same town, owned goods in IMiddelburg to the value of £500,
which goods were the subject of legal proceedings. A verdict was
returned in Peacher's favour and he travelled from Plymouth to
Middelbiu-g to receive them. Soon after his arrival he died,t and
there is every likeUhood that this will result in further legal action
concerning the disposal of the goods. He asks that Sahsbury
provide him with letters to the Burgomaster of Middelburg and
to the council of the town requesting them to certify to petitioner
under seal whether Peacher died intestate or not, what goods or
money he had made out for England, and what papers, merchandise
or goods he had in Middelburg at the time of his death. — Undated.

ip. (P. 1431.)

Thomas Kedby to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1608 or before]. — He is a clothier and formerly employed many
hundreds of people in his trade. Owing to losses amounting to
£4000, he has incurred substantial debts, in particular to Gerrard
Gore,J a London citizen. Unlike other creditors who have charit-
ably allowed him respite to discharge his debts, Gore has imprisoned
him and is harassing him with legal proceedings. — Undated.

Partly illegible. 1 p. (P. 1262.)

* Dr Richard Neile, Dean of Westminster, became Bishop of Rochester in
1608.

t Probate of his will granted in 1608. [See Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Wills, 1605-19, p. 344.]

X Probate of his will granted in 1608. [See Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Wills, 1605-19, p. 194.]

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Damerham and Rockbourne.

[After 1608]. — Map of woodland and fields in the neighbourhood
of Damerham House, Damerham Church and Rockbourne, prob-
ably the work of Thomas Forte. Sir John Cooper's residence at
Rockbourne is shown on the map. — Undated.

1 sheet. (CPM supplementary 80.)

[The manor of Rockbourne was sold to Sir John Cooper in 1608.
See Victoria History of Hampshire, Vol. IV, p. 583.]

William Ockold and Herbert Shepherd to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[? c. 1608]. — They are both in Salisbury's service and request
the grant of the wardship of Evan Jones of Montgomeryshire, which
is worth about 20 nobles a year. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1293.)

[Their names appear in Accounts 8/25.]

Hatfield and Enfield Chase.

[c. 1608]. — ^Map of Hatfield and Enfield Chase with adjacent
portions of Hertfordshire and Middlesex. Probably contemporary
with map of Hatfield (CPM supplementary 23). — Undated.

1 sheet (CPM supplementary 22.)

Southam.

[Before 1609]. — Map of the manor of Southam, Gloucestershire,
showing the house and the fields comprising the property. The
manor was sold by the Earl of Sahsbury to R. Delabere in 1609.
[See Deeds 132 1 29). —Undated.

1 sheet. (CPM supplementary 42.)

Elizabeth Lupo to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? Before 1609]. — Her husband, Francis Lupo,* an instrument
maker by profession, has removed hhnself to Amsterdam where he
is following his trade. He has sent for her and their daughter,
Sibil Lupo, to join him there. She requests a warrant to leave
England with her child who is a year old, and proceed to Amster-
dam.— Undated .

hV- (P. 182.)

Richard Orrell to the Earl of Salisbury.

[c. January, 1608-9]. — Peter Roos, father of Gilbert Roos, the
King's ward, entered into several bonds for the performance of

* Possibly the father of Pieter Lupo, the violin maker, who was born in
Amsterdam in 1609. [See Nieuw Nedsrlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek, II,
p. 851.]

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certain covenants between Thomas Markham and Sir Griffin
Markham regarding the jointure of Lady Anne, wife of Sir Griffin
and daughter of Peter Roos. Sir Griffin and his father failed to
implement the covenants, and when Sir Griffin was attainted of
high treason his lands and goods were forfeited and granted to
Sir John Harrington. Since that time petitioner, who is father-
in-law to Gilbert Roos, has procured for his ward's use the forfeited
debts of the above-mentioned bonds from the King in the name of
his nephew, Edward Wrightington. He asks SaHsbury to further
the interests of his ward in this matter, since at the desire of Lord
Bruce he has allowed £100 towards his maintenance, and he has
heard that Lady Markham is endeavouring to have the grant
rescinded. The King has referred the matter to the Lord
Chancellor and Lord Bruce, but petitioner has not yet been in-
formed of their decision. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 337.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XXI, pp. 7-8.]

Eleanor Taverner to the Earl of Salisbury.

[February, 1608-9]. — Her husband, Richard Taverner, now
prisoner in the King's Bench prison, made over to her as jointure
his lands in Kingston to the value of £100 annually. Later, at
his request, she surrendered the property for a lease which he made
to her brother of the manor of Woodeaton, co. Oxford. After-
wards her husband mortgaged the manor, but acquainted the
mortgagee with the existence of the lease. Finally the mortgagee's
estate was purchased by Henry Fleetwood, who, with intent to
expel her husband and herself from the manor, has exhibited a bill
in the Court of Requests against her brother. She mentions that
the Countess of Hertford is a near kinswoman of hers and that she
is in her service. She requests Salisbury to direct Sir Roger
Wilbraham and the other Masters of Requests by letter to show her
favour in this matter. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 214.)

[See Col. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 692 and John Chamberlain
Letters, Vol. 1, pp. 285 and 626.]

Articles of Agreement.

1608-9, March 18. — Agreement between the Earl of Salisbury
and Walter Morrell, merchant of London, and Hugh Morrell
" haberdasher of hattes " of Exeter. By the terms specified the
Morrells undertake, for a period of ten years and at their own
charges, to instruct fifty persons from the parish of Hatfield in the
craft of " weavinge, or spyninge and cardinge, or djdnge or makinge
of ffustians or other stuffes and wares " for the purpose of earning
their livehhood. They are, at their own expense, to support 20 out
of the 50 who are boys or youths of 12 and upwards as their appren-
tices for seven years. The residue of the 50 who are not appren-
tices are to receive reasonable wages for their work. But they are
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of this craft until they have completed three years of work. The
Earl of Salisbury, for his part, is to select the 50 persons, and to
find a suitable house for the employment of the 20 apprentices and
the installation of 10 looms by the Morrells. He is also to pay the
latter £100 annually for maintaining and supervising the operations,
but with the proviso that 40 shillings is to be deducted for every
person out of the 50 who shall be absent for a year.

Attached: two bonds for £250 for the due performance of the
agreement by the Morrells one being signed by WiUiam Massam,
armourer, of the parish of St. Bartholomew near the Exchange,
and John Vigors, merchant tailor, of Water Lane near the Custom
House.

1 m. 2 Seals. (Deeds 244/17.)

BOISBELLE.

[c. March 24, 1608-9]. — " Privileges, franchises et hbertes de la
ville capitale de la soverainete de Boisbelie.

Pour convier tous financiers, jacquets, bouffons, maquereaux,
forgeurs et courtiers (?) d'advis, partisans, demandeurs de dom-
magements, et aultres telles gens d'affaires d'y bastir, est accordé :

Que Dieu sera servi en la dite ville a la fantasie du prince d'icelle,
non obstant le Conseile de Trente auquel quant au present il est
desrogé.

Que la foy et les ceremonies de la primitive esglise en seront
bannyes comme surannées, ne servant qu'a tenir les peuples en
humilité et obeyssance, vices contraires a la reformation du temps
qui court.

Que l'escriture saincte aussi mal interprétée que mal entendue
sera la seule reigle de salut sans prejudice des sermons du père
portugais et des doulceurs du père Cotton. [Marginal note:
pourvuque il y va qualques fois.]

Que le livre sacrosainct de du Plessis Morney y sera tenu pour
oracle, attendant celuy du Cardinall Perron, sans qu'il puisse plus
estre mis sur le tappis a Fontaynebleau.*

Qu'aucun jour de l'année n'y sera solennisé que celuy auquel le
Sieur de Sancy fut desmis de sa charge du surintendant des finances,
auquel jour il sera fait feux de joye et le canon tiré comme au jour
St Jehan a Paris.

Que tous Juyfs, Muselmans, Hussistes, Anabaptistes, Martinistes,
Zuinghans, Calvinistes et aultres tels gens de bien seront admis
avec la liberté de conscience tant nécessaire pour maintenir au
monde l'indevotion et l'irreHgion.

Que tous Capucins, Fueillans, Carmelins et mandians n'y seront
receus sinon en jetant le froc aux orties pour travailler non a la
vigne du Seigneur mais a la multiplication du genre humain.

Que tous ecclésiastiques, apostats, fayneants, paillards et des-
baucheurs y auront seure retraicte fors Mon^ l'evesque de Beauvais

* A reference to the famous debate between Perron and Duplessis-Morny
at Fontainebleau on May 4, 1600 in which Perron outclassed the Huguenot
theologian and was awarded the cardinal's hat by Pope Clement VIII later in
the year.

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lequel a cause de son privilege sera renvoyé au parKment.
[Marginal note : qui est des plus desbauches de toute la France.]

Que nuUe assemblée du Clergé de France ne s'y pourra faire s'il
n'est question de la revision des comptes de Castille, et que l'evesque
de Prieux et de Dame Saincte y assistent.

Que l'Inquisition, enemye jurée de l'esglise Gallicane, ne pourra
approcher de la dite ville sans permission de l'advocat Servin.
[Marginal note: qui s'oppose ordinairement a tout ce qui vient
d'Espagne et d'Italie.]

Que tous pèlerinages et voyages de devotion seront défendues
aux habitants de la dite ville si ce n'est celuy de Saint Mathurin.
[Marginal note: la ou l'on meine les fols.]

Que tous mariages se feront et desferont en la dite ville a dis-
cretion, mesme se pourront consommer par procureur sans pro-
curation. [Marginal note: chose ordinaire presque en tous les
enfants.]

Que l'histoire fantasque du President de Thou corrigée par
Causabon y sera authorisée, et si autrement il en est dit a Rome il
en sera appelle comme d'abus.

Que le bonhomme Desdommagement, fondateur de la dite ville,
sera a perpétuité honoré en icelle, et ses loys gardées tant que l'on
pourra comme SaUques et fondamontales de cest estât.

Que les biens acquis a son service seront tenus en semblable
respect que les choses sacrées dont la cognoissance est interdicte
au vulgaire.

Que la disgrace d'Arnaud y sera escripte en lettres rouges pour
que la postérité sache qu'il a volu controoUer sans controolle les
actions de son bienfacteur.

Qu'il sera loysible a tenir conseillers d'estat Intendans, Presidents
et Conseillers de courts souveraines, Maistres de Requestes et
Trésoriers de France d'estre de tous partis sans qu'il leur soit beso-
ing de dispence pourveu qu'il y ayt a gaigner et qu'ils en confèrent
avec Dur et. [Marginal note: un qui le gouverne en tout.]

Qu'en la dite ville sera estably un huyctiesme parlement sans
procès: toutesfois si aulcuns différents surviennent, seront evoqez
au conseil et remis a la suffisance de Meaupeau et ViUemonté pour
les decider. [Marginal note: deux de ses creatures.]

Seront advertis les Sieurs Faulcon, ChevaHer, Royssy, Boynville,
BeUievre, le Jay, Malon et aultres tels suffisants sénateurs du temps
que tous les grands offices de judicature du royaulme sont a vendre
au plus offrant en dernier enchérisseur si la présidente de Verdun
ne l'empesche. [Marginal note: la femme du premier president
de Thoulouse qui faict faire a son mary ce qu'elle veult.]

Qu'il ne sera jamais mention en la dite ville de la chambre de
Justice. [Marginal note: chambre faicte pour la recherche des
financiers.]

Que l'on pourra parler hbrement en la dite ville de toutes
personnes mesmes des princes du sang si ce n'est que la Marquise
de Vernueil y soyt présente a la quelle il est défendu de s'y trouver
d'oresnavant.

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Que l'on pourra aussi y gourmander tout le monde sans respect
d'aulcun.

Que tous financiers quoy qu'issus de simples paysans ou pauvres
artisans pourront donner en mariage a leurs filles cent mille livres
bien que c'ait este autresfoys le dot ordinaire des filles de nos roys,
pourveu qu'ils ayent excerce leurs charges troys ans et au dessus.

Que le Compte de Schamberg sera gouverneur de la dite ville,
Duret et Moysset gardes des portes a la charge d'y adj ouster Paulet
pour Triennal s'il en est besoing.

Qu'aucun prince du sang ne pourra passer par la dicte ville sans
le passeport du père Gontier.

Que d'Escures ne pourra loger de gens de guerre es environs de
la dite ville a cause du party par luy faict des imposts et billotts de
Brettaigne.

Que la ville de Montauban sera tous jours en ahance et bonne
intelHgence avec la dite ville en payans les droicts accoustumez
sauf a augmenter s'il y eschet.

Qu'en la dite ville il y aura une Bastille en laquelle sera transféré
le Cabinet qui est en celle de Paris.

Que la dite ville servira de passage aux pacquets qui iront de
Geneve a la Rochelle pour la tranquilité du royaulme.

Qu'en la dite ville sera establi un magazin des pieces de reforma-
tion comme factions, monopoles, menées, entreprises et aultres tels
outils propres a renverser le royaulme, pour en fournir a qui en
vouldra quelque empeschment qui vueille donner le Mareschal de
Bouillon.

Que les Almanaqs de mauvais presages portés par la Varenne
qui font esvanouir le monde ne seront débitez en la dite ville sans
permission signée en queue et seellée du grand seau. [Marginal
note: qui luy porta le premier message du Roy touchant sa dis-
grace dernière sur lequel il s'évanouit.]

Que le defifence d'y manger du rosty a disner n'y durera que six
moys pour ceux qui entreront aux affaires, et quant a l'inventaire
de leurs biens il seront {sic) mis en la chambre de comptes mais
retu'ez {sic) pour le supprimer. [Marginal note: ceux qui a present
entrent au maniement des finances mettent au greffe un inventaire
de leurs biens a ce que le Roy puisse voir au bout de quelque temps
quel profit desreglé ils peuvent avoir fait au maniement de ses
deniers.]

Et pourcequ'il importe grandement a la santé des habitants de
la dite ville qu'elle soit tenue nette des boues, il en sera fait party a
la charge de fournir aux avances.

Et pour mémoire éternelle de l'heiu-euse edification de la dite
ville il sera gravé au frontispice des principales entrées d'icelle ceste
honorable inscription:

Par l'audace d'un Escossois

Enflé d'un insolent mérite,

Ceste ville a este construicte
Du sang le plus pur des Francois.

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[Marginal note: on le tient pour descendu d'Escosse quoy qu'il
tasche a tirer sa geneologie des Comptes de Flandres.]* — Undated,
3 pp. (140. 117.)

Accounts.

[April 14, 1609]. — BiU of expenses for entertainment at Britain's
Burse when the King was present. Inter alia :

To John Taillor upon a bill for divers Indyan toyes

bought of him. 15:13:6

To Henry Elmes for the like upon a bill. 9 :13 :0

To Inygoe Johnes upon a bill. 9 :12 :0

To Johnson the poyett. 13: 6:8

To Ostler the player. 5: 0:0

Tohisboye. 2: 0:0

To Feild the key keeper. 4 : 0 :0

Endorsed: " April 14, 1609. Chardges of preparations made at
the new buildings in Durhame Howse for the King." | p. (Bills

35/7.)

Accounts.

[April 15, 1609]. — Receipts signed by Giles Gary for money
received by himself and his master WUham Ostler ; by Inigo Jones
for money given him by Robert, Earl of Sahsbury ; and two other
receipts, of which only the signature to the second is legible, which
is that of Wilham Good.— AprU 15, 1609.

I p. (BiUs35/l.)

Accounts.

[April 16, 1 609] . — List of persons receiving payment . It includes
Mr Johnson, Mr [Inigo] Jones, Ostler " the shoppkeeper ", the
boy " in the shopp ", Field " the key keeper " and " the tyreman
for hyring all thir furniture ".

A note by Thomas Wilson about payment is dated April 16,
1609, followed by another note to the effect that money was due
to "Mr Johnsons man and [? another] Feld that satt up all night
wry ting the speeches, songes and inscriptions."

1 p. Daînaged and illegible in parts. (Bills 35/la.)

* This pasquil is mentioned in the Registre-Journal de Pierre de Lestoile.
p. 502, published in Nouvelle Collection des Mémoires pour servir a l'Histoire de
France, éd. Michaud et Poujoulat (Deuxième Série) " Ce jour [le mardi 24 (Mars)]
on m'a fait voir un sanglant pasquin qui couroit contre M. de SuUi, intitulé
Privilèges et Franchises de la ville capitale de la souveraineté de Bosbelle, qu'on
avoit fait voir au Roy en guise d'un pacquet de la poste adressé à sa Majesté et
envoie aussi tost à M. de Villeroy, qui le lui auroit porté ne sachant que c'estoit.
Et aiant eu commendement de l'ouvrir. Sa Majesté aiant pris plaisir à se le faire
lire, l'auroit après après envoiié à M. le comte de Soissons, dont on disoit ledit de
Sulli avoir este plus indigné que du pasquil mesme, duquel toutefois il s'est mis
bien en peine de descouvrir l'aucteur, qu'aucuns ont opinion estre Chastillon, et
les autres le donnent à un Escossois, mais sans indice d'aucune preuve valable."

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Accounts.

1609, April 26. — " James, it is my Lords pleasure you paye to
this bearer temi pounds as his Lordshipps ffree gyft to hime and
his companie for the funabelyes at Kensington thys 26th of Aprill,
1609. Signed: " W Cope."

Below: " Received accordinge to the content above written the
said some of x^." Signed: WilUam Pedell.

Endorsed: " Aprill the 26th, 1609. x^ paid to the funabilies as
your Honors gifte to them." | p. (BiUs 35/4.)

Receipt.

1609, May 2. — Receipt for 40/-, " my Lord Treasurers free gifte
to mee for makeinge of a speech before Brittains Burss on May day
in the morninge ".

Signed: Francis Berrey. Endorsed: " xl^ given to one Berry
for makeinge of a speech before Brittains Bursse on May daye."
ip. (BoxU/2.)

KmGSwooD Forest.

[After May 6, 1609]. — " Observations towching the cause in
question between his Ma^y and others concerning the foreste of
Kingeswood.

The common people of the countrye use noe other appellation of
Kingswood but the Foreste of Kingswood, which hath continued
amonge them manie generations by tradition. [Marginal note:
That Kingeswood is a Foreste.]

The adversaryes woulde have it onHe a chace. Everye forest
contayneth in it a chace, but not contrarye. But a justice seate
hath bene kepte for this place (as is sayde) and therefore a foreste.
And consequenthe it can not be denyed but the soyle with all the
profits were ab origine the Kinges. So that neyther the whole nor
any part of theis forest groundes coulde passe from the Kinge but
by speciaU graunte, and whosoever hath used the same without
such lawfull graunt, he is a meere intruder upon the Kinge.
[Marginal note : It hath officers and lawes which a chace hath not.]

Some suche grauntes maye peradventure be produced by some
of the defendants, and the same maye carry e wordes to seeminge
good purpose to confirme their pretended righte. But if theis
grauntes be duhe examined, ther wilbe found a great defecte, for if
there be wordes of lande and wood lyinge within Kingeswood and
yet the quantifie how muche nor the place where it lyes, noe butts,
boundes, meeres or lymited markes, to expresse the meaninge of
the grauntor, it is a question what passeth in the graunt. But
they to confirme their claymes will produce a companie of silHe
countrye partially affected inhabitantes, stryvinge by them to j)rove
the use, who can not speak of above 60 or 70 yeares, a weake prooffe,
to depryve the Kinge of soyle, timber, wood, bushes, mineralls and
whatsoever profits. They havinge noe recorde will force the Kinge

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to show recorde for his owne most auntient righte. But noe dowbt
the lawe will adjudge it playne that prescription avayleth nothinge
agajHQst the Kinge without recorde in such a case. [Marginal note:
Some may show graunts for lande and wood in Kingeswood, yet
short to carry e what they clay me.]

Of this nature I take the claymes of the Lorde Barkeley and La.
Newton whoe pretend their case (being ahke) verye clere, for that
they can showe grauntes and confirmations de Rege in Regeni for
longe time of lande and woode in Kingswood, not mentioninge
wher it should lye nor how muche it shoulde be. And yet under
couler of this, they carrye awaye above 1300 acres of soyle, wood,
coale and all other profits. Wheras it is unknown whether their
pretended portion be affected out of the forest (as it is verye like)
or the moste of it, for where the forest is for the most part ells
where invironed with a wall, about the place of their clay me there
appeareth none. [Marginal note: Lo. Barkley and La. Newton.
If the graunte be good, it must be for a quantifie expressed, and
no confirmation can increase the portion.]

Withm the divisition [sic] of the Lorde Barkeley and Ladie
Newton ther are certayne subdivisions, as the La. Staffordes, Mr
Westons, Sir Rowland Lacies, one Mr Evenses and one Mr Prizes.
Theis are distinguished by boundes of composition betweene them
and the Lorde Barkeley and La. Newtons clayme, and because
their graunde division hath noe boundes by the wordes of the
graunt, they adventure to take in the supposed boundes of the
parish of Bitton Hanham. But I take it thowgh a foreste may lye
invironed with manie parishes, it is a question whether the forest
it selffe be parcell of the parishes or not. But the poynte materiall
is they are to prove the extent of their clayme by autentique recorde.
[Marginal note: Lo. Barkeley and La. Newton for want of a
limited proportion in their graunt have made the supposed boundes
of the parish the boundes of their portion.]

Sir Henry e Bilhngesley claymeth two partes. The firste con-
fineth his owne manor of Sison not divided from the mayne foreste,
and that he holdeth (as is sayd) by the name of Purheu, which
can not be unlesse it be a forest, and that part some time to have
bene deaforested, which he must prove. [Marginal note: Sir Hen.
Bilhngesley hath 2 shares, his firste Purheu.]

The seconde parcell claymed by him lyeth above haulfe a mile
from any part of his manor above 600 acres. By what couler he
claymeth it, it is to me unknown, but as it appeareth onhe by use,
the auntient enymie to the Kinges right. [Marginal note: 2,
forest by consequens.]

One ]VIr Barkley hath a division adjoyninge the former above
500 acres by the like title. [Marginal note : Mr Barkeley.]

Mr Chester, owner no we of the Barton in fee, hath all the reste
1380 acres, pretendinge it to be parcell of the manor of Barton,
wher it appeareth that the castle was the head seate of all the manor
and the Barton was in nature as in name a meere graunge of pro-
visition [sic] for the castle. And therfore not Hkehe without
suffitient wordes to passe the foreste in his graunte that his clayme

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can be good. [Marginal note: Mr Chester. The Barton, sup-
posed to bee a manor, was but a graunge for provision to the
castle.]

And Hke unto his I holde Mr Barkleyes and Sir Henrye Billings-
leyes to be, for that they are all parcell of the Barton hundred as
Mi Chesters is. And if Mr Chesters belonge to the Barton so doe
theires. But there is but one small tenement of all the supposed
manor of Barton borders anie thinge nere the forest. But another
manor lyes betwene the forest and it. [Marginal note: Sir Henr.
Bilhngsleys, Mr Barkeleys, Mr Chesters partes ly all within the
hundred of Barton.]

To speake of the Kinges part, he hath neyther quantitie nor
qualitie but quite exempted the foreste. The Kinge was not so
fortunate to be at the sharinge. But they say the Kinge hath a
riche portion, herbage, for his deere. It is some no thinge, for
no we are there noe deere lefte for the herbage. [Marginal note:
The Kinge hath a foreste but other men share all the lands and
profits.]

In two dayes travayle everye waye throwgh the principaU lawnes
and CO vertes of the foreste, there will hardhe be seene 2 brace of
deere in a herde. But in two howres travayle a man may finde
4 herde of goates nere 40 in a herde. His Ma^y beinge at contynuall
charge with officers of his game whoe suffer the royall game to fall
and the moste abandonable foes to forest game to flourish.
[Marginal note: In steede of the Kinges deere the country have
fiUed the foreste with goates.]

Suche abuses, as in this, are in the moste of his Ma^^ forestes,
chaces and wastes, whose originall increase and force have bene
begotten, cherished and confirmed by time, neghgence and corrup-
tion of some originall and succeeding officers; as also by the too
much greatnes of some forest comaunders whose proper territories
confined the forestes, chaces, etc. And to put more life into theis
abuses, the neglect of kinges in takinge the benefite of their owne
lawfuU revenew, as of their timber, wood, bushes, mineralls and
such like profites, hath bene a great furtherance. For kinges
sparinge for love of posterities, subjectes spoyHnge for present
lucre, officers connivencie for affection or gayne, hath bredd use,
use custome, custome habite, of whence growes that prescription
which all offenders holde and mayntayne to be stronge enowgh
(as it were) to curbe or coosen the Kinge of the meere revenewes
of his crowne. [Marginal note: How suche gross abuses have
growne upon his Ma*» forestes and chaces.]

It may be observed into what degrees of discontentment the
rude vulgar begin to run upon the shadowe of his Ma^s takinge
benefit of his own woodes. Some stick not to résiste with rebellious
force his Ma^^ officers that come not to sell but to see, as in the
Forest of Deane. What is it probable they would have attempted
if such lawfull sale had bene made, as his Ma^y maye. Some others,
and it may be observed in generall, where his Maty hath made the
smalest sales in aboundinge woodes, the hartes of the inhabitantes
are so sett on fire as (though they seeme to hurle at the instruments)

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they kick agaynst his Ma^^ prerogative. [Marginal note: The
degrees of the peoples discovery of their discontentmentes at his
Mats taking some small profit of his owne woodes.]

I doe verilie beleve that his Ma^y hath lost more by precedinge
neghgence and corruption of officers in profits accruable by forestes,
chaces and wastes then now his Ma^y quiethe reduces unto his
crowne. [Marginal note: His Ma^y hath lost nere as many forest
profites as he now receyveth.]

Many perticulars are needfuU to be remembred upon this occa-
sion, but my ignorance and present weaknes can not nor dutie will
not suffer me to bee more (being too) tedious." — Undated.

Endorsed: " Forrest of Kingeswood." 2i pp. (132. 169.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XXI, p. 50.]

John Witham and Roger Tocketts to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[After May 31, 1609]. — Thomas Johnson, by virtue of the King's
commission dated March 29, issued a proclamation at Darnton, co.
Durham, informing the mhabitants of the neighbourhood of Gain-
ford that he would appear on a certain day to seU some of the
King's trees in Gainford Wood. He remained there two days, but
few people came to buy trees, and even those who wished to pur-
chase timber refused 200 of the best trees at eight shilhngs a tree.
Johnson with Henry Tonge, a Justice of the Peace, sold to peti-
tioners and certain others 1200 trees at 6/8 a tree, and took a bond
from them for the payment of £400 to the Bishop of Durham to
the King's use upon the last day of June. Petitioners and others
feUed, sold and carried away many trees and disposed of the bark
to tanners in the vicinity. Lately, however, upon information
made by Mr Haggat, Salisbury and Sir Julius Caesar have pro-
hibited any further feUing or transportation of trees at Gainford,
and sent letters to that effect to the Bishop of Durham and Haggat.

Petitioners inform Sahsbury that, notwithstanding the contract
of sale, they have not felled more than 760 trees, and of that number
have not sold more than 220, nor carried away more than 70. All
these trees, in the opinion of the Bishop of Durham, Haggat and others,
are unfit to be used in the Duke's building, since they are small.
However, the bark of the said 1200 trees has been sold to tanners,
who have spent much money in peeling the trees and are now
prevented from taking the bark away.

In view of these circumstances, petitioners ask that the contract
be allowed to stand. If it is found unfitting that so many trees
should be sold, they propose that those already felled should be
carried away by the buyers, since they are tenants of the King
who have bought the timber for their own use. As for the trees
that Salisbury thinks should not be sold, there should be abated
6/8 for every such tree. They request finally, that the Bishop of
Durham should receive the money due for the felled trees, and upon
payment redeliver the above-mentioned bond to them. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 472.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XXI, p. 60.]

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Elizabeth Laurence to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After June 2, 1609]. — She served Ehzabeth Russell, Salisbury's
kinswoman, for several years, and after her death* she was per-
suaded by the Countess of Kildare to enter her service. Hitherto
she has received no wages, despite the fact that she accompanied
her on a journey to Scotland which proved very expensive. The
Countess promised to pay her £50 a year as wages, but has delayed
to do so. Petitioner has heard that Salisbury is to pay the Coun-
tess a considerable sum of money in midsummer, and requests him
either to write to her or send a gentleman to remind her to dis-
charge the £50 due to petitioner. — Undated.

I p. (P. 265.)

Thomas Dymocke and George Lloyd to the Earl of
Salisbury.

[Before June 20, 1609]. — They are the lessees of the lands of
John Davison, a King's ward. When the lease was granted by
Sahsbury last December, the tenants were ordered by the Court of
Wards to pay their rents to petitioners. However one Elme, uncle
to the ward, has taken him from school, and married him off
although he is only 14 years of age. Moreover, he has exploited
his estate and claims a traverse whereby petitioners are prevented
from obtaining possession of the lands. They have already paid
a substantial part of the King's fine and are under an obhgation to
pay the residue shortly. Besides, a process has been issued against
them for the payment of the King's rent reserved in the lease.
They therefore request to be given immediate possession of the
estate, and authorized to receive the rents from the tenants.
They undertake that, if Elme can disprove the King's title by way
of traverse, they will refund all rents and profits. — Undated.

f p. (P. 1880.)

[See PRO, Wards 9, Vol. 348, under John Davison.]

Henry Cross to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before July 1, 1609]. — In 1602 petitioner owned a ship called
the Bonaventure of Barnstaple of 200 tons, laden with goods to
the value of £1000, and made ready for a voyage to the Canaries.
The ship was pressed into the service of the late Queen Elizabeth,
and sent to the siege of Kinsale with 400 soldiers on board under
the command of Sir Anthony Cooke. The soldiers were safely
landed, but the ship was wrecked in a tempest and lost to the west
of Kinsale. Petitioner's losses amount to £2000, and his case has
been recommended by the Lord Deputy of Ireland. He asks
Salisbury to support it when it comes before the Privy Council for
discussion. — Undated.

ip. (P. 819.)

[See Gal. 8.P. Ireland, 1608-10, p. 232.]

* She was buried on June 2, 1609.

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Babtholomew Haggat to the Earl of Salisbury.

1609, July 1. — He has received Sahsbury's letters for the stay
of the sale of the woods at Gainford, and has notified the buyers
of that decision. The Bishop of Durham himself announced the
news in Gainford church. He Hsts the number of trees already
feUed and those which have been carried away. He asks for
directions how to dispose of the timber which is now available to
the King, particularly for the repairs needed at Raby or Barnard's
Castle. Those who have bought and sold trees are to account for
the money they received for them, and deserve Httle commiseration.

Some of the lands which he has been authorized to survey within
the Bishopric of Durham are in the hands of the Bishop, and mclude
Allerton and Allertonshire and Creak in Yorkshire; Esington,
Sedburgh, Cotton, MonviUe, Middleham and Gateshead in co.
Durham, and lands at Howden and Howdenshire in Yorkshire.
These estates are of considerable value and account for a great
proportion of the revenues of the Bishopric. To Haggat's know-
ledge, they have never been surveyed before on behalf of the Crown,
and the Bishops of Durham have long regarded them as part and
parcel of the Bishopric. " I thinke it necessary modesty to be
well advized and better instructed ere I passe by or make entrance
into a matter that concerneth his Ma^ie and the reputation of the
Bishop and the Bishoprick soe deeply." He begs that Calvert
be requested to write to him privately, to direct him how to proceed
in so delicate a matter. The real title to such extensive estates is
obviously of immense importance to the King and the Bishop,
since it affects the disposal of £880 a year, now paid to the Berwick
garrison, arising from these lands. — From Aukland, the first of
July, 1609.

Holograph. Endorsed: " 1609, first July. Mr Barthol. Haggat
to my Lord." 2 pp. (132. 97.)

Mary Gate to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before August, 1609]. — She has long been a suitor to the King
for the benefit of the false purchase of Hunmanby, which he once
granted her before giving it to the Earl of Suffolk.* Since then
Sir Daniel Donne has informed her that six other suits of hers have
been rejected by the King. She reminds Salisbury of his father's
esteem for her father. Sir Henry Gate, and requests that he intervene
with the King to procure for her a 30 years' lease of so much land
as will provide her with £50 annually. Otherwise, she appeals for
assistance in some form or other in accordance with the King's
wishes . — Undated .

p. (P. 427.)

John Littleton.

[Before August 28, 1609]. — A clause in a covenant to the effect
that if John Littleton consider that Thomas Littleton, his son and

* She was in possession of Hunmanby in August, 1608. [See Star Chamber
Proceedings, James I, 134/20.]

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heir, or any other son of his, or any other beneficiary of his will, be
disobedient, undutiful, dissolute or ungrateful, then he shall be
entitled, upon the performance of certain formalities, to alter or
revoke any disposition of lands made by him to them. Undated.

Signed by the following witnesses : Thomas Paget, James Paget,
Humphrey Perrott, John Mayor, Richard Mayor, Anthony Tincock,
Wilham Harwood, Nicholas Mariot, John Hall.*

1 p. (P. 2306.)

John Skelton to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before September, 1609]. — In December, 1602, before the King's
entrance into England, about 80 rebellious borderers attacked and
robbed twenty of the King's tenants at Nether Hesket in Cumber-
land, and stole goods to the value of £400. Petitioner and others
pursued the gang, and he himself was taken prisoner, his eye
knocked out by a sword thrust and carried a prisoner into Scotland.
All these and other facts have been communicated to Lord Scropef
and the Bishop of Carhsle. Many of the King's tenants have been
ruined as a result of the raid, and petitioner's horse is still in the
possession of George Erwyn of the Bonshawe. Since the King's
commissioners do not appear to have sufficient authority to exact
reparations, petitioner requests that his complaints be laid before
the Privy Council, so that some remedy may be provided by legal
proceedings against the borderers known to have participated in
the raid, or some other form of rehef provided. — Undated.

i p. (P. 1464.)

David Spbnce and Thomas Leman to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[Before September, 1609]. — They complain of the losses they
have sustained because of Don Martin de la Serda, a Spaniard, who
has seized their goods valued at 3000 ducats. This was proved
in England, Ireland and Spain, and the Ejng accordingly recom-
mended to the King of Spain the suit preferred by petitioners, with
special directions to Sir Charles CornwalUs to see to the restitution
of their goods. Order was given for full repayment of their losses,
but after 22 months their agent has returned empty-handed. Peti-
tioners ask that some step be taken to rectify the situation and to
prevent their utter ruin. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 989.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XXI, p. 125.]

Thomas Leman, David Spence and John Angell
to the Privy Council.
[Before September, 1609]. — In 1603, their ships and goods were
seized by the King of Spain's warships under the command of Don

* Buried on August 28, 1609. [See The Registers of Mary Le Boive. Cheap-
side. PtI, p. 182. Probate of his will granted in the same year. See Prerogative
Court of Canterbury Wills, 1605-19, p. 206.]

t Died on September 2, 1609.

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Martin de la Serda, when they were off the coast of Ireland. Their
losses amounted to 5000 ducats, and the matter had been twice
conclusively proved before the Council of Spain. Restitution of
the whole amount was promised, but o\^dng to delays nothing has
been paid. They ask for letters to the Council of Spain urging pay-
ment, since they are no longer able to prosecute their suit. —
Undated.
1 p. (P. 1100.)

Viscount Cranborne to Prince Hekry.

[1609] September 9. — " When I durst not presume, out of the
knowlege of myne owne unworthines, to expect so much as a
gracious message from your Highnes, I was so happie as to be
honored with your most gracious letters, a favor so farr beyond my
desert as your greatnes is above my humble ÊEortunes, and which
doth make me more proud, more happie then all the caresses this
King doth or can afforde me, which I esteeme as nothing in respect
of the onely assurance I have you vouchsafe to reserve me some
place in your princely memorie. All I behold here is so farr under
your most rare perfections as methinks my prospect is still down-
wards till it shall please God it may happily againe be raysed to the
sight of your Highnes. Till when the greatest joye and content
I can fynde in this my absence is the constant consent of all, where-
soever the course of my tra varies lead me, in your Highnes prayses.
Your person is better knowne at home, but the rare perfections
both of your minde and bodie (dayly increased by your studies
and exercises) doe most gloriously shine abroade. The fame
whereof (being infinitly spread by a number of most wort hie and
noblest gentlemen of this nation, whoe have frequented his Ma^s
Court and had the honor to be eie-witnesses of your vertues) over-
comes the envie that is wont to be in so neere bordering neighbors.
I doe abstaine from being troublesome to your Highnes in writing
ordinary newes, seing I have not the meanes to come by that is
worthie your Highnes which I knowe (if there be any) you have
from better penns then mjnie, and I ashamed to present this second
time my humblest dutie and service in this old Enghsh garment.
And yet I dare not venture in a newe French habit, kno"«dng how
able your Highnes is to discover errors. Hereafter I hope my
better abilitie will give me courage to change my toonge, but never
my hart which humbleth itself at your princely feet." — Bourdeaux,
9 of Sept.

Endorsed: " Copie of my Lord Cranborns letter to his Highnes
from Bourdeaux." U pp. (195. 112.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XXI, p. 107.]

Robert Bell to Thomas Wilson.

1609, September 26. — Thanks him and his wife for their kind-
ness. Since his return to London he has spoken to Bartholomew
the gardener, but cannot persuade him to take up permanent resi-
dence at Hatfield. He and his wife are old and are reluctant to

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leave their present home. " But yf ytt weare to kepe my lords
garden at London or nowe and then to spend a monthe or twoe at
Hatfelde till my lords garden bee fenished or to helpe my lord with
all the best fruts the lowe contryes can aforde, in all this hee humbly
sybmyttethe his service unto my lord." They have both conferred
with the Earl of Salisbury's gardener in London, and have decided
to draw up a plan to submit to his Lordship. " At my retorne
from Hatfeilde I founde that the Dragon, a shipp of 600 tones laden
with spices out of the Est Indies, and beinge put in to Plemothe
distressed with a leake, I have bin ernestly in treated to goe downe
thether as well for the preservinge my owne intrest as that of the
conpaney becaus the shippe must bee theare discharged. In the
meane tyme I desyre to bee still entertayned in your love and
fartherance in my lords favor. And what services I have under-
taken for his honoor I have geven over to be performed by my
brother and Mr Potter in this my absence." Since expenses may
have to be met during his absence, he requests the payment of £200
which he has spent on the provision of stone. " From LeadenhaU,
this 26 of Septemb. 1609."

Holograph. Endorsed: " Octoh. \Q, im^. CC^ paid to Mr Bell,
the merchannt, upon his further accommpt for Caine stone delivered
for the worcks at Hatfeild." And on another page: Receipt for
£200 received on October 16, 1609, from Roger Houghton, steward
to the Earl of Salisbury, by Thomas Preene on behalf of Robert
Bell and his partner John Potter, merchants of London. 1^ pp.
(Box U/72.)

Bonds.

(1) 1609, October 4. — Bond signed by Charles Brooke, of Temple-
combe, CO. Somerset, in which he undertakes to discharge a debt of
£30 to Thomas Finet, of London, " within ffortie dales next after
the first and next retorne of the saide Thomas Ffinett out of or
from the cytty of Constantinople in the country or region now or
heretofore called Thrace in Grecia in the parts beyond the seas
into this realme of England ". The bond is witnessed by Edmond
Forrest and Herbert Cadman, and is endorsed to the effect that the
debt was repaid on May 4, 1613.

(2) 1609, November 10. — A similar bond witnessed by Robert
Woodcroste, and by Thomas Franckland and Robert Holland,
scriveners.

2 pp. (Bills 654.)

Thomas Marchant to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? c. October, 1609]. — He is of the Island of Guernsey, and has
been detained in the Gatehouse, where he was committed by
SaUsbury, for the past eight weeks without being examined. He
requests that he be brought before Salisbury or the Privy Council. —
Undated.

ip. (P. 854.)

S.C.-13

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[A certain Marchant appears in the list of prisoners at the Gate-
house in October, 1609. See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 555.]

Thomas Marchant, the elder, to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? c. October, 1609]. — About Christmas after the capture of
Cadiz, when he was trading at St. Jean de Luz, there arrived at his
lodging three seminary priests who had fled from England with a
packet of letters. He employed all means possible to have them
arrested and examined by the Governor of Bayonne, and to that
end he communicated his intention to Thomas Ohver who was on
famihar terms with Henry Palmer, then newly come from England
on the late Queen Elizabeth's affairs. Ohver, under semblance of
assisting petitioner, abused his confidence and treacherously con-
veyed the priests into Spain. Moreover, knowing of Marchant's
purpose to visit Spain, he passed the information on to the King
and Council of Spain, so that when petitioner arrived in that country
he was seized and imprisoned as a spy, and shared the same gaol
as Captain Gifford, Captain Boord, Roger Middleton, Wilham
Frye, John Stanley and Anthony Monday.

Petitioner's factor, a Frenchman named Nicholas Blanche, then
proceeded to devise means for defrauding him, and secured the
cooperation of John Stanley and Anthony Monday, who swore
that he was a spy. He was only saved from execution by the
intervention of " many noble frends " and the expenditure of much
money which ruhied his estate. He also had to promise to disclose
the names of those who organised trade from Spain to England.
He tried to minimise the importance of such intelligence by reveal-
ing only the names of a few Dutchmen, but he was detected and
condemned to the galleys in which he spent five years. During
this time he was often solicited by the Admiral of Spain to engineer
the betrayal of Guernsey Castle and to act against the security of
England, but he adamantly refused to do so. He wrote several
letters which he planned to send to Salisbury by a fellow prisoner,
John Bedford, now of Limehouse. " And having provided fyles
for Bedfords cheines that hee might escape by swymminge, but
Bedford not claringe to stand to his first resolution, they weare
driven to burne the letters and to cast the fyles over boorde, for
had they beene found or perceaved, yt had bene present death."
Later petitioner was conveyed from Seville to Madrid in chains,
while Stanley and Monday left for England to discuss the possi-
bihty of an expedition against their own country. In view of the
information which he has sent to Salisbury concerning his tribula-
tions, the King's service, and the younger brother of Sir Thomas
Leighton, he begs to be discharged from further attendance upon
Sahsbury so that he may deal with his own pressing affairs. —
Undated.

fp. (197. 21.)

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John Woodgreen to the Earl of Salisbury.

[ ? After October, 1609]. — Petitioner lives in Frendsbury, co. Kent,
and is the guardian of EHzabeth Girdler, daughter of John Girdler,
of Cobham, deceased. The Girdler family have been tenants of a
small piece of land in Cobham called Betts and Bettings at 10/-
a year, which land is now in SaUsbury's possession.* Since it is the
best part of the legacy left by the father for the child's maintenance,
petitioner asks that Sahsbury allow the child to continue in pos-
session of the property at the same rent. — Undated.

ip. (P. 479.)

Thomas Wilson to the Steward (Roger Houghton).

1609, November 1. — " This bearer Mr Colt, having this morning
browght my Lord a modle of his tombe and demanded fifty pounds
in imprest towerds his workmanshipp of the 3 chimney peeces att
Hattfield, his Lordship comanded that you shold delyver him so
much mony." — ^Whithale, first November, 1609.

Endorsed: " Sharpe his bill." 1 p. (Bills 35/2.)

Marble from Italy.

[November 10, 1609]. — Description of 30 marble stones quarried
at Carrera in Italy and shipped from Leghorn to England in the
Kingfisher. — Undated .

Below: Receipt signed by WiUiam Kellet, dated November 10,
1609, for £304:10 for marble stones, given by order of the Earl of
Salisbury.

1 p. Damaged. (Bills 38.)

Thomas Watson, Andrew Osborne, John Longley,

Alexander Ashurst, and others, creditors of

John Churchman, to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before December, 1609]. — John Churchman has been declared
a bankrupt and owes petitioners £4000. On the other hand, his
estate in land, goods and moneys owed to him, amounts to £5500.
However, he has fraudulently conveyed all or most part of his
estate to his son, Robert Churchman, so that his creditors cannot
get their debts paid. Moreover, Robert Churchman has managed
to obtain one year's protection for himself and the estate, and has
taken advantage of his position to offer only £1000 for £3000 of
debts. Theyt ask that he and they be summoned before Sahsbury,
to whom they will submit a comprehensive account of the whole
matter. — Undated.

ip. (P. 577.)

* It is very possible that this plot was part of the land at Cobham granted
by Charles Brooke to the Earl of Salisbury by lease dated October 13, 1609.
[See CP. Legal 231/20.]

t Andrew Osborne died in London and was buried at Hartslip, co. Kent, in
December, 1609. [See Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol. V, p. 228.]

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Edward Woodey to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1609]. — Three years ago petitioner informed Sahsbury about a
certain Carpenter, a Jesuit, and by reason of his dihgence and
perseverence was able to arrest and bring before Sahsbury a person
" that was appoynted to receive xx^i paide by exchange for the
sayd Carpenter ". In reward for this service, Sahsbury ahowed
petitioner to keep the £20, out of which he gave £5 to one Pordage
who had assisted him. Now Sir Anthony Ashley informs him
that he has been directed by Sahsbury to demand the restitution
of the £20. Petitioner asks that Sahsbury take into consideration
aU the trouble and expense he went to in this affair, as well as the
£5 which he aUowed Pordage. — Undated.

i p. (P. 824.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVIII, p. 385.]

Ulster.

[1609]. — ^Map of the six escheated counties of Ulster which fell
into the hands of the Crown after the flight of the Earls of Tyrone
and TyrconneU. The survey was carried out with a view to
expediting the plantation of Ulster by Enghsh and Scottish under-
takers, and thus ensuring the pacification of the native Irish popu-
lation . — Undated .

Endorsed: "A generall mapp of the six escheated Counties in
Ulster, wherein is particularhe sett forth the situation and ad-
jacence of cache precinct entended to be planted . . . consort in
each of the said Counties which may serve to leade to the particular
maps of each barony contayned in the booke." 1 sheet. (CPM
supplementary 2.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XXII, pp. 117-118, 121.]

William Ellynet to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? 1609]. — He was formerly a clothier who employed many
workmen, but his business was ruined by the bankruptcy of Ipswich
merchants, which cost him £380. He was consequently forced to
abandon his profession, and a short while before the death of the
late Queen Elizabeth, he paid £20 for a soldier's place at Berwick.
Later he was amongst those commanded by the King to suppress
the borderers " that were up at his highnes first happie cominge
in ". He was wounded by a buUet in the shoulder, which necessi-
tated treatment for a long time, and, in the end, he returned to
recuperate in his own house in Essex. The surgeon's fees have
practicaUy left him unable to provide for himself and his family.
Besides, during his enforced absence in Essex, the King's com-
missioners charged with disbanduig the garrison at Berwick, re-
fused to aUow him a pension or any other means to support himself
in his old age, a privilege which was granted to others, on the
grounds that he was not present in person to defend his claim. He
informs Sahsbury that his neighbours have, out of charity, given
him some clothes and money to travel to London to appeal to the

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King. He begs him to intervene on his behalf and persuade the
King either to give him as a pension the 8d a day which was hLs
pay at Berwick, or the £20 which he paid for his post there. With
this money he proposes to set up again in his old trade. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 457.)

[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 562.]

William Earners to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? 1609]. — Recently he solicited the King's permission to take
legal proceedings against Sir Henri de Gunterodt for a £1000 which
he has owed him for a considerable time. Sir Henry promised that
Salisbury would arrange some better security, and asked petitioner
to come to Sahsbury for that purpose. He had done so, but has
not gained anything by it. He asks that he be given firmer
security or permitted to recover his money by process of law. —
Undated.

ip. (P. 1018.)

[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 565.]

Sir James FitzPiers FitzGerald to the Earl of
Salisbury.

[ ? 1609].^He refers to a former suit concerning financial matters
arising from the maintenance, and eventual disbanding, of his foot
company of 150 men at the time when Sir George Carew was
Treasurer at Wars in Ireland. Auditor Gofton, IVIr Watson and
John Bingley, authorized to investigate the matter, have since
disclaimed that he is owed money. He prays that letters be
directed by the Privy CouncU to the Lord Deputy and Council of
Ireland, that they examine such evidences as petitioner will produce
in his own cause. — Undated.

ip. (P. 31.)

[See Cal. S.P. Ireland, 1608-10, p. 198.]

John Atwood to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before 1610]. — Sahsbury and the Earl of Northampton were
feoffees in trust for Sir John and Lady Kennedy of a tenement at
Stoke Orchard, in Gloucestershire. At their request, they con-
veyed the property to WiUiam Beale* on condition that if Beale
did not pay £460, part of the price of the property, on certain
days, the agreement would become null and void. Beale was
unable to pay the money, and being indebted to petitioner in the
sum of £463 entreated the latter to take over the arrangement.
It was agreed between Sir John Kennedy, Beale and petitioner
that Sahsbury, Sir John Kennedy and Beale, upon payment of the
£460 to Sir John and the discharge of the debt due by Beale to
petitioner besides the payment of a further sum to Beale which
petitioner is ready to make, should join in assuring the property

* Probate of his will was granted in 1610. (See Prerogative Court of Canter-
bury Wills, 1605-19, Vol. V, p. 48. (British Record Society.]

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to petitioner. This agreement was put in writing which was examined
and approved of by Dackombe, and is ready to be sealed. Now
Sir John Kennedy in collusion with Beale refuses to seal the said
assurance, and has persuaded Beale to make him a deed of gift of
all in his possession. He is also harbouring Beale in his house at
Barn Elm so that petitioner is unable to arrest him. Petitioner is
in danger of losing his bargain, as well as the debts due to him by
Beale. Moreover, Sir John Kennedy intends to persuade Salisbury
and Northampton to sell the property to others unless petitioner
purchases other lands in Stoke Orchard for £50 more than they are
worth. Petitioner asks Sahsbury to summon Sir John Kennedy,
and order that either the land or the money owed by Beale be
surrendered to him, the petitioner. In the meantime he requests
that the property be not passed to any other person until he has
been satisfied in land or money. — Undated.
1 p. (P. 988.)

The manor of Sonnestg.

[Before 1610]. — A survey of the manor of Sonning, Berkshire.
It was formerly in the possession of the Bishops of Sahsbury, but
came into the hands of the Crown at the time of the forfeiture of his
estates by Sir Francis Englefield, who held it by a lease. It became
Crown property by an exchange of lands in the reign of Queen
EKzabeth. Petitioner, a lady, who desires a lease of the manor,*
states that although large in extent it is not a profitable property,
since the demesne land is let out or occupied by local and neigh-
bouring tenants as common. The farms are likewise let out in
reversion or possession, the manor house is in ruins, and the revenue
derived from the surrender of copyhold tenements held for term of
lives. If her offer of rent is considered too small by the King, she
is prepared to pay as rent the sum paid by Sir Francis Englefield
or any other lessee subsequently, together with as much money as
was realized from the profits of fines received by the King m any
one year since the beginmng of his reign. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 2381.)

George Marshall to the King.

[Before 1610]. — He requests a grant of so much of the King's
hereditaments and castles in Ireland in fee farm as will amount to
the annual value of one hundred marks, with reservation of due
rents to the Crown. — Undated.

ip. (P. 1016.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XXI, p. 190.]

The estate of Gregory Price.

[Before 1610]. — Details of an alleged conspiracy to deprive of her
estate the daughter of Gregory Price, deceased, and former ward
of the late Queen Elizabeth. It is stated that Lord Cobham first

* The manor was granted by the King to Prince Henry in 1610. [See
Victoria County History of Berkshire, Vol. Ill, p. 212.]

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procured the wardship of the child and her land at the request of
Sir David Williams, but promised to surrender them to the mother
of the child for a sum of money. When pressed to do so, Cobham
repHed that he had undertaken to convey it to Sir David WilUams,
but it was eventually discovered that the wardship was bought
off Sir David in the name of Sir Herbert Croft by Mr Rudhall,*
Croft's uncle. Since that time Rudhall has received the entire
profits of the wardship and estate, and has married one of his
daughters to Thomas Price, son and heir of John Price, who is
brother and heir male to the late Gregory Price. Rudhall has also
procured all evidences relating to the ward's estate. Thomas
Price has now brought an action against the ward for most of her
property, and claims certain lands belonging to her as having been
bequeathed to him by Gregory Price. The only person who can
defend her is Rudhall himself, but it is doubtful whether he would
prejudice the interests of his daughter and son-in-law to protect
those of his ward.

The main factors in the plot are described as follows:

(1) Sir David Williams is uncle to Thomas Price, the nephew
of the deceased Gregory Price. Price has married the daughter of
Rudhall, nephew of Sir Herbert Croft, in whose name the wardship
was taken, " being best able to satisfie the Mr of the Wards ".

(2) Sir David Williams refused to meddle with the wardship
until John Price, father of Thomas Price, had entered into bond to
compensate him for any expenses or losses incurred if the ward
should die or be taken from him before he had conveyed her ward-
ship to Croft. This bond has been assigned to Croft and Rudhall
to indemnify them should the ward die before they have been able
to recoup their expenses from the wardship. The sole risk is borne
by John Price, but he stands to inherit the whole estate, as brother
and heir male, should the ward die.

(3) Mr Pye, a counsellor at law, who married another of Rudhall's
daughters, is counsel to Thomas Price, and it is he who is respon-
sible for initiating the suit against the ward. But he has now been
retained as counsel by Rudhall for the defence of the ward, which
has enabled him to consult all documents and evidences concerning
her estate. " Nowe whether the childs or his brothers [brother-
in-law's] title he would be willingest to help is noe way to be
doubted, for that Price and Pie married two sisters, and the ward
to Pie but a stranger."

It is added that all these facts could be substantiated by wit-
nesses if a commission were set up to examine the case. If, after
such an examination and verification of the facts, the ward's mother
were awarded the wardship, she would offer as much as Sir David
Williams disbursed in the first instance, which was £600. This is
considered a reasonable enough sum in view of the exploitation of
the estate during the past five years. — Undated.

2 pp. (P. 2166.)

* Probate of his will was granted in 1610. [See Prerogative Court of Canter-
bury Wills, Vol. V, 1605-19, p. 386.]

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The ]VIanors of Spaldwick and Kennington.

[Before 1610]. — A survey of the manor of Spaldwick in Hunting-
donshire. The tenants are all either freeholders or copyholders,
whose lands are not heriotable and whose fines do not exceed 3d
an acre. The Crown has no land within the manor since, as was
proved during an inquiry two years previously, all the demesne
was awarded by the late Queen Elizabeth to the Earl of Leicester.
Its profits are derived solely from rents, fines and amercements,
estimated to be little more than £54 annually, out of which are paid
the fees of the steward and baihff. The Crown has also in the parish
of Lambeth a manor called Kennington in which there is only
copyhold land. The tenants pay no heriots but their fines are
discretionary, at the pleasure of the King. Petitioner is ready to
lease Spaldwick manor at a higher rent than is being paid at present,
and to pay more for the farm of the revenues of Kennington manor,
whose demesne he already holds by lease.* In addition he requests
permission to, " erecte a ferrye in some place convenient within
the sayd demaines to conveye passingers into London ", and to
be leased the same for 60 years. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 2205.)

Elizabeth Tuthill to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before 1610].— She is the widow of Hugh Tuthfil, of Cheshunt,
late porter to SaHsbury.* She appeals for assistance for, " not-
withstandinge your Lordships bountie to us in his lyves tyme, by
reason of longe tyme of sicknes, there was nothinge leafte when he
was dead, no not a peny worth to my use ". — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1694.)

Robert Henlake to the King.

[Before 1610]. — During the life of GuiUiam Schets, and as his
deputy, he attended to the tuning of the late Queen Elizabeth's
musical instruments for sixteen years, to the satisfaction of her
Majesty who promised that he should succeed Schets in his post.
The latter is now dead, and petitioner requests that he should be
given the post, particularly as his petition has been signed by a
number of prominent people who can testify to his competence
and conduct. — Undated.

On reverse: " We are well pleased that Robert Henlak,* instru-
ment maker to our late dearest sister the Queene, that he shall
continewe in his place according to his humble suite within ex-
pressed, and that his oathe be taken as is accustomed, and this

* Kennington manor was bestowed by James I on Henry, Prince of Wales,
in 1610.

* He had died before 1610 and been replaced by one Thompson. [See
CP. Bills 46.]

* Died in 1610.

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our hand shalbe a sufficient warrant to commande the seales to
pass the same for him."

Signed: J. Stanhope; D. Drury; T. Knyvett; W. Kyllygrewe;
Edw. Darcy; Henry Sekeforde; Mich. Stanliope; F. Heyborn.

ip. (197. 6.)

Thomas Cooper to [the Earl of Salisbury] .

[Before January, 1609-10]. — For more than three years peti-
tioner has been dehvermg a sermon for which he was promised
remuneration by the magistrates of the city of Coventry. Nothing
has been done in the matter, and he requests a letter on his behalf
to the Mayor and Aldermen to the effect that he be paid for his
labours, as his predecessors had been.* — Undated'

ip. (P. 897.)

Thomas Wilson to the Steward.

[1609-10, January 9]. — " This bearer, Mr Benton, hath by my
lords apointment made 3 pictures in coUers for the glass of the
chappeU att Hattfeld, for which he demandes 40^ apeece. But
I thinke if you geve him three pounds for them aU, and 6» 8^ for
cost and paynes in making a case of tynn to send them into France
and for pasting the pictures upon cloth, he shall be paid
sufficiently. ' ' — Undated.

Holograph. Endorsed: "Martin Benton, painter, his bill for
makeinge pictures for the glass windowes in the chappeU at Hatfield.
Suma iii^ vi^ vm^. Receaved this 9th of January, 1609. Signed
Martin van Benthem." i p. (General 12/21.)

Devonshire.

[January 25, 1609-10]. — Reference to certain lands in Devon-
shire which descended after the death of WiUiam Furst to his
heir. — Undated.

Endorsed: " 25 Jan. 1609. Ellis Rothwell." I p. (P. 2288.)

Act of Parliament.

[Before February, 1609-10]. — " An Act to authorise the Lord
ChaunceUor or Lord Keeper of the Greate Scale of England to
award commissions for the survey of his Mats dominions of England
and Wales."! — Undated.

181pp. (214. 71.)

* Cooper resigned as vicar of Holy Trinity, Coventry in January, 1610. [See
jD.iy^.B.Vol.XII.p. 151.]

Î This projected act was the outcome of the negotiations between King and
Parliament over the so-called Great Contract, which envisaged an annual financial
grant of £200,000 to the Crown in exchange for the surrender of wardships and
various onerous tenures, and the suppression of purveyance. Parliament, how-
ever, was dissolved on February 9, 1610, and the scheme allowed to lapse.

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Hanslop Mills.

[Before February, 1609-10]. — A request to the King's auditor of
Buckinghamshire, and to the Queen's Auditor-General, to send
particulars of Hanslop Mills and a malt mill* which have been
leased to Thomas Matthew of Hanslop, and of a tenement leased
to Thomas Bankes of Hanslop, which are ail parcel of the manor
of Hanslop. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 2299.)

Thomas Wilson to Roger Houghton.

1609-10, February 25.— " This bearer, Sh" Edw. Cecills man,
hath ben att Hattfeld, sent downe by his master to see 400 sicamor
trees safly caried thether and disposed of as they requyre to be
used. He brought them out of the Lowe Contryes, and hath taken
care to bringe them harmeless. He hath ben 2 or 3 dayes att
Hattfeld to looke to that which doth belong to planting them, and
both Lyming and Jennings wrytes to me that they are the best
and carefullyest brought that ever they saw." Advises him to
use his discretion in deciding what remuneration to award the
bearer. — February 25, 1609.

At bottom: Received this 28th of Ffebr. as my Lord Treasurers
gifte to mee by his servant Rog. Houghton m^. Signed: Thomas
Hill.

Holograph. Endorsed: "Ffebr. 28, 1609. iii^ given in reward
to Coronell Cecills man for bringeing of lyme trees out of the Low
Countries." 1 p. (Box U/71.)

Lady Sidle y to the Eajrl of Salisbury.

[Before February 28, 1609-10]. — SaUsbury has shown much
favour to petitioner, as he did to her late husband, Henry Malby,
who died in the service of the late Queen Ehzabeth. She asks for
a similar demonstration of good will towards their children, who
have httle means at their disposal for thek maintenance and
education. She suggests that the King bestow upon them an old
debt due to their grandfather. Sir Nicholas Malby, and to their
father, Henry Malby; its repayment has often been sohcited in
previous petitions to the Privy Council. Petitioner has heard
that Sir Thomas Burke has put forward a claim to the debt, and
has been promised satisfaction following his offer to discharge the
King of it. She now requests that this arrangement be stayed
until Burke, in petitioner's presence, has expounded his reasons for
his claim. — Undated.

i p. (P. 1049.)

[See Gal. S.P. Ireland, 1608-10, p. 395, and H.M.C. Salisbury
MSS, Vol. XXI, p. 162.]

William Fawconer to the Earl of Saijsbury.
[Before March, 1609-10]. — Towards the end of the late Queen
EUzabeth's reign, in 1598-9, Thomas Felton obtained a lease of
two parts of the land of WiUiam Fawconer,t petitioner's uncle, in

* These mills were leased to another party in February, 161U. [See Victoria
County History of Buckinghamshire, Vol. IV, p. 352.]

f Died March 6, 1610. [See Wiltshire Visitation Pedigrees, 1623, p. 63.]

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Wiltshire because of the latter's recusancy. He offered a higher
rent than it was worth in order to gain possession of the property,
but was resolved not to pay any rent after his entry. Felton
improved the land to a far higher value out of malice to petitioner
and his uncle, and to the oppression of many tenants there, but
withheld money for the rent despite the fact that he was £380 in
arrears. During the past 4 or 5 years, the mansion house has been
ransacked and spoiled by Felton' s wife and children who have
resided there, the ceiling has been torn down, and even the locks
off the doors have been sold. Moreover, at Felton's entry all the
recusant's goods were removed by the sheriff who has rendered no
account for them. Petitioner requests that either his uncle or he
(who still remains a Protestant) may be admitted tenant at the
first rent which shall be paid regularly (unlike Felton who has paid
none at all), and the goods valued and surrendered to pay the debt.
— Undated.

1 p. (P. 1866.)

Accounts.

1609-10, March to September. — ^Two receipts and a bill.

(1) 1609-10, March 12.— Receipt by Nicholas Lanier of his half
year's annuity of £10.

Endorsed : x^ paid to Nycholas Lanier for his half yeares anutie
due at Our La. day, 1610." i p. (Bills 26/9a.)

(2) 1610, June 9. — Receipt by Nicholas Lanier of his half year's
annuity of £10 due at Michaelmas 1610.

Endorsed: " x^ paid to Nicholas Lanier for his quarters [sic]
anutie due at Mych, 1610. I p. (Bills 46/9b.)

(3) [1610, August 6]. — " NichHs Lanier and Henry Oxford their

bm.

For bringing the viols and the leeroe. 3^

For horsse hir to Kengington. 3^

For our lodging. 3»

For cariing bake the instruments. 3^

For horses bake againe to Londone. 5^

Receipt signed by: Nich. Lanyer, Henry Oxford. Endorsed:
Lanere & Oxfords bUl of the 6th of August 1610." f p. (Bills

46/9C.)

Sir John Cooper to the Earl of Salisbury.

1609-10, March 13. — He is desirous of obtaining some employment
in Sahsbury's service, and for that reason requests him to bestow
upon him the overseership of Cranborne Chase, should the present
overseer. Sir Thomas Georges, die. " By your ho. dealing with mee
in the state of Rockborne (which I shall ever acknowledge unto
you) I shalbe next adioyning uppon it, and what in dewty shall
appertayne for servyce unto you therin ther shall not be anny that
with greater desier may perfoerme. The pleaseurs of deere, in
hunting and hawking I confes mee much deUghted in them, but

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all theese be nothing as to be on of yours." — Rockborne, the
xiiith of March, 1609.

Holograph. \ p. (General 26/1.)

Pabliament.

[c. June 11, 1610]. — ^Notes for a speech made to the House of
Commons by the Earl of Sahsbury as spokesman for a committee
of the House of Lords requested by the King to convey to the Lower
House his " princely thoughts and cogitations ". The notes are
principally concerned with two topics : the financial rehef of the
King burdened with debts and the supplementary expenses result-
ing from the creation of Prince Henry as Prince of Wales ; and the
personal safety of the King following upon the assassination of
Henry IV, King of France. Another subject of comment is the
possible reorientation of French foreign and mihtary pohcy in the
matter of the Jiihch-Cleves succession. — Undated.
Notes corrected by Salisbury. 10 pp. (140. 217.)
[See Journals of the House of Commons, Vol. I, p. 437.]

Matthew Smith to John Dackombe.

1610, June 13. — He desires to enter the service of the Earl of
Sahsbury, and to wear his hvery. This would redound greatly to
his (Smith's) credit in the shire. He undertakes to provide more
evidence and knowledge concerning Elmsett than Dackombe has
been able to collect. — Hadleigh in Suffolk, this 13 of June, 1610.

Holograph. Addressed: "Mr Dakecombe, secretary to the
right, hon. the Lo. Treasurer, at the Savoye." ^ p. (General
71/9.)

Accounts.

[July 26, 1610]. — " A not of such mony as I have layde out for
my selfe and Nicolas Laneare.

For keepmg of the learroe in répare one yeare. xl^
For keepeinge of one vyole in répare three

quarters of a yeare. xx^

For keeping of one other in répare one whole

yeare. xxx^

For taking out the belly and mending of one

voyile. vi^ viii<*

som as iiiii xvi^ viii<i

Signed: Henry Oxford. Endorsed: "Henry Oxfords bUl for
the instruments of the 26 of Julye 1610. Repairmg of instruments,
iiiii xvi^ viii^^ ".

i p. (Bills 57/6.)

KnsTG James I to the Eabl of Salisbury.

1610, July 30. — " For that it is no smale parte of our care that
the nobUitie of this realme be bred both in such sort as becometh
their ranck and in so good instruction of the religion estabhshed in
our kingdome, as that by receiveing the corruption of superstitious

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and daungerous opinions they be not made unservicable ; wee have
thought good to require you to whose charge it properly belongeth,
to take out of the handes of the Ladie his mother the young Lord
Mordant, and to dehver him into the handes of the Bushopp of
London, whome wee have dealt with by certaine of our Councell to
take care of the education of him, which he hath agreed to doe.
And for such charge as shalbe belonging to the education of the
young nobleman, wee will from time to time take order it shalbe
defrayed." — Palace of Westminster, 30 of July, James I anno 8.

Endorsed: " 30 July, 1610. His Mats warrant to my Lord for
delivery of the young Lord Mordant into the Bushop of Londons
handes to be educated." \ p. (214. 66.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MS8, Vol. XXI, pp. 36 and 231.]

Anthony Patrickson to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before September, 1610]. — He is of Woodgreen, Hertfordshire,
and wishes to serve SaHsbury. He has been resident at Woodgreen
for five years, although he is a native of Cumberland. He is well
known to Mr Ames, Mr Houghton and Mr Flint,* and to other
persons in Salisbury's employment. — Undated.

ip. (P. 811.)

John Southworth to John Dackombe.

[1610] September 9. — " My Lord [Cranborne] when his Lord-
shipp was att London forgott to take order for the 200^ you pro-
cured him, and his desjrre is that you would take order for itt till
his retorne which his Lordshipp thmkes wilbe about 6 or 7 moneths
after this present."! Callis, the 9 of September.

Holograph. \ p. (General 74/35.)

Accounts.

[September 23, 1610]. — " Thomas Dallom, organmaker, his bill.
For my owne worke on the portative to days, x^
For my man. v^

For making one wodden pipe. ii^ yi^

the some of all 17^ & vi^

At bottom: " receyved by me Willi. Ffrost to the use of Thomas
Dallom the some of 17^ vi^."

Endorsed: " DaUams bill for [? tuninge] instruments of the 23
of Sept. 1610." 1 p. (Bills 46.)

Ralph Low, Thomas Dickenson and Thomas Warye
to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After November 2, 1610]. — They are tanners working near
Hesketh Bank adjoining Ripple Creek in the county of Lancaster.
In November last they brought certain calf-skins and two dickers

* Humphrey Flint died before September 3, 1610. [See Cal. S.P. Dom..
1603-10, p. 631.]

t Lord Cranborne left England on his tour of France, Italy, Germanj^ and
other countries in September, 1610.

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of cow-leather to Hesketh to be sold to William Garstang, who
intended to convey them to Bristol or, if he could obtain a licence
and pay the usual dues, to transport them overseas to La Rochelle.
However Robert Hesketh, Justice of the Peace and Lord of Hesketh,
acting upon information given him and before the leather was
viewed or sold, confiscated it and still refuses to release it despite the
offer of bonds not to transport the leather out of the country
contrary to law. There is a danger that the leather will deteriorate
in quahty if detained too long, and petitioners request that Salisbury
order the leather to be redehvered to them, or to refer the exanuna-
tion of the matter to Thomas Tyldesley, the King's Attorney for
the county of Lancaster, Robert Hesketh and Hugh Hesketh, his
brother. Justices of the Peace. — Undated.

I p. (P. 921.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XXI, p. 257.)

Accounts.
1610-11. — Moneys disbursed by Robert Bell, merchant,
include the following items of interest.
1610, November 6.

They

1611, February 12.

For 20^ remayning dew uppon the
accompt of Cane [Caen] stone.
More for a by 11 of exchange of 100^
delyvered Mr Doctor Lyster and Mr
Finyt in Venys the 7 February.

More for 100^ for a bill of exchange
delivered Sir Thomas Somerset in
Fravmce.

1 s d
20—00—00

100—00—00

100—00-00

March 18. More for 100^ pd Mr Bowdler uppon

my Lord Cranborne his byll of
exchange from Middelborough. 100 — 00 — 00

April 1. More for 100^ payd Mr Beacher in

Fraimce. 100 — 00—00

More for 20 1^ payd jVIr Freeman

uppon my Lord Cranborne his bill of

exchange from Anterpe. 201^ — 00 — 00

More for " frontynack wyne ". 031 — 09 — 06

More for fryght of 3 chests of glasses

from Venys. 004—08—02

Receipts at foot for full payment of £945:15:0 to Bell on June 1,
1611 and July 4:, 1611.

1 m. Endorsed: " Mr Bell the merchant his accompt of divers
moneys disburssed by him according to your Honours direction,
viz, for my Lord Cranborn and uppon other occasions." (Accounts
9/20.)

Vestry of St. Martin's-est-the-Fields.

1610, November 25. — " Whereas the Ladie Susan Maynard, late
wyfe of Sir Henry Maynard, deceased, dothe intend to obteyne
leave of his Ma^i^ to use and convert fyve acres of pasture ground
her fee simple lands and inheritance lying on the backside of the

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house within the parishe of St Martyns in the feilds in the Cittie
of Westminster, which may be lyable to Lammas Commons, to a
private use for the buildinge and makinge for a convenyent dwell-
inge for herselfe and some other persons of good qualhtie by whose
neighborhood some benyfitt and releife may hereafter growe to
this parishe : in which petition the nowe Lord Bishoppe of Rochester
and Deane of Westminster meaneth to joy ne with the said Ladie
Maynard intendinge hereafter by Gods grace to build himselfe a
dweUinge house uppon part of the said fyve acres of ground, and
yett is desirous to doe the same with all due regard had to the
inhabitants of the Cittie and hberties of Westminster, to whome an
interest of the said Lammas Commons out of the said fyve acres
of ground should apperteyne; ffor which cause the said Lady
Maynard is verie willing to yeild yearhe towards the releife of the
poore of the said Cittie the somme of twentie shillings yearhe to be
paid, tenn shillings to the Collectors for the poore of the parishe of
St Margaretts in Westminster and tenn shillings to the Collectors
for the poore of St Martins, to be paid yearhe at Midsommer. It
is now by us the inhabitants of the said Parishe of St Martins in the
fields, assembled in a vestrie, agreed unto and as farre forth as in
us may be ordered and concluded, that for and in consideration of
the somme of tenn shilhngs yearhe to be paid by the said Ladie
Maynard, her heires, executors or assignes at Mydsommer to the
Collectors for the poore of this parishe for the use of the poore, the
said Ladie Maynard, her heires, executors and assignes shaU and
may quiethe inclose, have, use and enjoy the said fyve acres of land
in severall without any interruption of any of us or others the
inhabitants of this parishe of St Martyns aforesaid. And for the
better contynuannce thereof in perfecte memory and record after
to our posteritie, wee have agreed, ordered and appoynted this to
be entred and written in our register booke of our Churche and
vestrie. 25 November, 1610."

Endorsed in eighteenth century hand: "25 Nov^* 8 Jac. The
consent of the Vestry of St Martins to the Lady Maynard for mclos-
ing and building 5 acres near St Martins Lane payinge 10^ p ann
to ye poor there." \ p. (Box U/89.)

Will.

1610, December 21.- — Thomas Piggott of Teweinge, co. Herts.,
bequeathes all his stalls in the market place of Hitchin to the use
of the poor inhabitants of Tewin, and stipulates that the profits of
the staUs should be annually distributed amongst the said poor
persons by the advice of the parson and churchwardens of Tewin.

1 m. Seal. (Deeds 109/15.)

[After December, 1610].— Despite the exact instructions sent by
the Lord Treasurer, the King's surveyors have shown much negh-

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gence and incompetence in their work. This has been confirmed
by Francis Thekeston at York Assizes who declared that " ther
service was not worth 6d ". He appends the following details:

" That yt is affirmed that Raythborne at Kirkbyinoreside made
a sm'vey uppon the affirmation of the tenants what lands and of
what quahtie, without going uppon the land to vewe and judg of
the quantitie and qualhtie, and being asked what money the
tenants gave him for so favorable dealing, it was answered xx
nobles.

The like survey was made of the manor of Sutton in Galtres by
John Johnson and John Goodman, both deceased, without any
jurie impanelled. Yet he (Thekeston) named a jurie to the number
of 12 who do disclaime yt at this day, and wold gladhe take course
to have the deale punished if it were possible. Yet Johnson,
surveyor for woods, affirmed his father or he had made survey
there, and theruppon Raythborne was inhibited to survey that
manor and Nafferton.

That Raythborne made a survey of the manor of Ay ton, com,
Ebor., but he did yt in Stokesley two myle distant, where he took
yt by the delivery of the tenants themselves without coming
uppon the land as the tenants affirme.

That John Johnson sold the best part of the manor of Kirkby-
moreside to Sir John Gibson, knight, for xx^ which was by estima-
tion better than cc^. Question : whether he or his sonne have paid
the xx^.

That Thomas Johnson sold Sir John Gibson xx trees in the woods
of Kirkbymoreside and by coullor of them there was 80 felled and
caryed away.

That Hughe Carr the woodward, as it is affirmed, sold Sir John
Gibson certaine trees, by what warrant yt was not knowe[n] to
the countrie. Question: and what money he paid the King for
the same ?

That some ffermors in the manor of Cottingham, com. Ebor.,
have converted woodland to pasture, affirming they had warrant
so to doe, which woodland was most apt for wood.

That it is reported Thomas Johnson, surveyor of the woods, hath
sold good quantyties of woods in diverse places, the particular
names I cannot sett downe saveing as aforesaid, and at Wheldrake
and Rokall as is affirmed.

11 September, 1602. That Henry Ferryby and George Hall
of Barton uppon Humber affirmed they paid John Johnson xl^ for
wood that was sold them for repaire of ther towne. Question:
whether the xl^ were paid, for I have made serch in the Checker
by Mr Wardours man but can find none paid.

If commission were granted men zealous in relygion and the Kings
service, as namehe Sir Thomas Hobbye, Sir Stephen Procter, Sir
Tymothy Whitingham and such others, these affirmations wold be
made cleare and manifest. — Undated.

Unsigned. 2 pp. (132. 30.)

[See Cal. S. P. Dom. 1603-10, p. 652.]

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Mes Shelley to

[1610 or before]. — A Kst of her requests:

"To go out of the ly mitts of v my les from whence she is con-

fynde.
To pass bey onde the seas with iii^^, two geldings and other

necessaries for ten yeares or during her lieff.
To returne at the ende of ten yeares or at any time before or at

any tyme during her heff.
To pass and repass during the saide ten yeares upon occasion or

at any time during her heff.
To be free from the election of 2 partes of her lands, she paying

xxi every moneth according to the lawes, etc.
To be freed from all sûtes, troubles and damages for all matters

concernyng or by reason of her recusancy, both during her

abode in Englande and beyond the seas.
That she be freed from judgments, indictments, convictions,

excommunications now in force or hereafter to be made.
That she shalbe enabled to sue and implead any of his Ma^^

subjects in any of his Ma^s Courtes of Recorde, and to take the

benefitt of his Ma^s lawes accordingly.
The judges and all other his Mats officers to allow of these points.
With a non obstante:

Notwithstanding the Statuts of Ric 2, H 4, 5, 6, 7, the Statuts
of Queene Elizabeth or of his Ma^^ to the contrary. And further
as by her councell learned she shalbe advised."
Endorsed: " Mrs Shelley her requests."* f p. (P. 942.)

William Coulricke to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1610 or before]. — He is the King's tenant of Burrington Mills,
Herefordshire, by lease from the late Queen Elizabeth. The mills
stand on the River Teme, and the flood waters of the river have
damaged them and their weirs and cost petitioner much in repairs.
Recently Richard Adams and John Lowke, of Burrington, and
Thomas Gibbs, of Elton, and others have erected malt mills in those
townships. Moreover, Richard Costin, of Bringwood, and John
Taylor, of Richards Castle, each possessing a water mill, have been
violating old customs by intruding with pack horses into Burring-
ton, Elton and Aston, and transporting corn and malt to their mills.
Adams, Lowke, Gibbs and the other inhabitants of the three above-
mentioned townships have hitherto ground their corn and malt at
petitioner's mills, and by default are causing much loss to him and
the King. He asks that Sahsbury direct letters to Thomas Harley
and John Blount, Justices of the Peace, or to Anthony Pembridge,t
Under-Steward of the Lordship, that they summon the parties
before them and take measiu-es for the suppression of their mills
and the prevention of unauthorized transport of corn. — Undated.

ip. (P. 828.)

* Probate of her will granted in 1610. [See Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Wills, 1605-19, p. 401.]

t Probate of his will granted in 1610. [See Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Wills, 1605-19, p. 347.]
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Sm Thomas Penruddock to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? c. 1610]. — The coppice called Godshill Coppice or the New
Coppice, in the baihwick of Godshill in the New Forest, which is
fit to be cut this year, is being damaged by being allowed to stand,
a fact well known to the King's officers of that Forest. As keeper
of the walk,* and to prevent unauthorized entry to the safest
retreat of the deer, petitioner asks to be appointed farmer of the
coppice upon payment of such profits to the King as an examination
and an estimate of the coppice will justify. — Undated.

ip. (P. 928.)

George Blaxton, Robert Blaxton and Humphrey
Blaxton to the King.

[ ? 1610]. — ^They submit the petition on behalf of themselves and
their other brothers. Two parts of the lands of their eldest brother,
Sir Wilham Blaxton, have been sequestered because of his recusancy
and are in the King's hands, and only one part left to him to main-
tain his wife and ten children. Petitioners state that they too are
maintained by Sir William Blaxton, who is no longer able to provide
for them, " by reason whereof your subjects, being gentlemen and
so educated, are destitute of lyvehehoode and driven to a verie
harde extreame ". They are loyal to the King and his laws, and
request that either his lands be restored to Sir Wilham or they
be allowed maintenance out of the tw^o parts which have been se-
questered. — Unda ted .

ip. (P. 1368.)

[See Cal. S. P. Dom., 1603-10, p. 643.]

Daniel Doelan to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? 1610]. — Prior to his present illness he had served Lord Cran-
bornef faithfully for the past four or five years. Upon his recovery

he had wished to resume his duties, but Mr Lister had forbidden
him to do so. He had submitted to this prohibition because of the
sickness in Sahsbury's house. He begs to be allowed to return to
his former, or to any other, employment. — Undated.
ip. (P. 10.)

Edward Sttlcragg to the Earl of Salisbury and
the Commissioners for the King's revenue.

[Before 1611]. — He has been forced to exploit all means of credit
in order to carry out his services as stirrupmaker to the King. He
now finds himself owing £200 because he has not received any of
the £318:4, due to him during the past two years, as can be proved

* He was Chief Keeper of the walk in 1610. [See PRO, Special Commissions
of the Exchequer, 3097.]

+ William Cecil (later 2nd Earl of Salisbury) became Lord Cranborne in
1605.

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by the wardrobe accounts of the Earl of Dunbar.* He asks that
he be given money to discharge his debt and provide for his family,
— Undated.

1 p. (P. 1397.)

John Baxter to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before 1611]. — After the death of WiUiam Bassett, he was
brought to Whitehall to Salisbury's lodging by Hugh Beeston, now
knight, and nominated commissioner with Mr Bagott, of Blyfield,
and Mr Gilbert Wakering, now knight, and informed Sahsbury of
what he knew concerning Bassett's lands. At the time he knew of
no tenure in capite but was advised by Sahsbury to pay particular
attention to that point, and eventually confirmed it, " thoughe I
have bene hardly thought of by some others for the same ". Sir
John Mannersf and Roger Manners, his brother, persuaded him to
do what he could for Sahsbury in this matter. Since then he has
submitted a petition to Sahsbury drawing his attention to the fact
that petitioner had served Bassett for 19 years, first as his sohcitor
and then as his counsel, but had received httle advancement by
this long service. He had asked for a farm which he had failed to
obtain because it had been awarded to Mrs Bassett. He had then
sohcited Salisbury for a wardship, which was promised him, but
nothing has come of it. He now requests Sahsbury not to forget
his many years of service to Bassett, and to bear his name in mind
whenever the occasion arises, to bestow something on him. —
Undated.

ip. (P. 806.)

Simon Pickman to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before January, 1610-11]. — He is a member of the Company
of the Eastland (Baltic) merchants, and recently returned from
Poland with a number of letters, some from the Pohsh monarch to
the King, some to Prince Henry, others to Sahsbury and to Lord
Kinloss,J and some to people of note in England. Petitioner was
specially instructed to follow Lord Kinloss's directions for their
dehvery. But he has been wrongfully arrested for a debt of 20
years' standing, which had been liquidated long ago in the form of
goods, and is now prevented from appearing before Sahsbury with
the letters. If he is compelled to pay the same debt twice over he
will be utterly ruined. Because of his prolonged absence from
England he has neither means nor friends in the country. He
asks to be brought before Sahsbury so that he may convey the
letters to him ; and also that Sahsbury direct the judges to take any
reasonable bail from him in any suit in which he may be involved. —
Undated.

1 p. (P. 1050.)

* Died January 20, 1610-11.
t He died in 1611.

* Died on January 14, 1611.

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Agreement.

1610-11, January 23. — Agreement between Sir William Slingsby.
Andrew Palmer, Edmund Wolferston and Robert Clayton, and
Nicholas Salter, of London. The former have been granted
letters patent by the King dated July 28, 1610, authorizing them
to erect in England and Wales " furnaces, stoves, ovens and other
structures and buildings of ne we inventions for the boylinge,
meltinge, heatinge, nealinge and bakinge of glasse, ordynaunce,
bell metall, lattin, copper, brasse, tynne, lead and all materiaUs
whereuppon great expence of fewell is required ". They now
agree wdth Salter to submit to him an annual account of their
profits, and to pay him a specified share of the profits left after
payment of rent to the King and Prince Henry, besides other
undertakings. — 23 January, 1610-11.

On the reverse: " Sealed and dehvered in the presence of Dud.
Norton and Jo. Dackombe."

1 m. (Deeds 243/21.)

[See H.M.C. Salishiirij MSS, Vol. XXI, p. 292.]

Lewis Philip, Philip Rice, Roger David, Watkest

Thomas, Ieuan" Prosser and William Jenkest to the

Earl of Salisbury.

[? c. January 1610-11]. — ^They submit this petition on behalf of
themselves and 120 other inhabitants residing on the waste of the
forest of Y Ffynant, Grwynefawr and Grwynefechan in the Lord-
ship of Dinas, Brecknockshire. They and their ancestors from
time immemorial have hved in small cottages on the said waste
and have enclosed 140 acres of it. Tiiey have long possessed them
without interruption, and have been able to maintain their famihes
as well as succour and protect people travelling through the waste
from being robbed. In consideration of this ser%dce and of their
poverty, they ask to be given a fee farm of the 140 acres for their
owTi use, for as small a rate as they are capable of paying. —
Undated.

i p. (P. 2051.)

[See PRO, Depositions of the Exchequer, 8 James I, Hilary 26.]

William Tooke to the King.
[Before February, 1610-11]. — The manors of Blounts and Horn-
beamgate, co. Herts., were formerly part of the manor of Essendon,
which was granted by Edward VI to the Marquess of Winchester
and since then has come into petitioner's possession. The two
manors ought therefore (as parcel of Essendon) to have come into
his hands, but their names were omitted in the Marquess's patent
and so petitioner* has not possessed them. However, WiUiam
Potter, by virtue of letters patent made by the late Queen Elizabeth
of the manors of BedweU, Berkhamstead and Lowthes, also holds
the two above mentioned manors, claiming that they were parcel

* Died on February 12, IGIL [See Visitation of Hertfordshire, 1572 and
1634, p. 167.]

197

of the manor of Bedwell Lowthes. But there is no reference to
them in these letters patent, and petitioner declares that they are
concealed lands. On the grounds that he holds Essendon, to which
the two manors formerly belonged, and ^^-as the first to discover
that they had been concealed, petitioner asks that they be granted to
him in return for payment of an agreed sum. — Undated.
1 p. (P. 1849.)

Certain Inhabitants of Bridgnorth to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[Before February, 1610-11]. — Petitioners are tenants of certain
chantry lands of St. Leonard's, and appealed to SaHsbury's father,
Lord Burghley, when he was Lord Treasurer, for protection against
the oppression of Capper and Jones, the lessees of those lands.
Burghley intervened with the late Queen Elizabeth on their behalf
and secured them in the possession of their tenements. How^ever,
they are being harassed again by the assignees of the former
lessees, and evicted from their property. To obtain security of
tenure they have submitted a petition to the King that they may
purchase the fee farm of their tenements. They beg Sahsbury to
follow the example of his father, and show favour to them in their
prosecution of this suit. — Undated.

Note by petitioners at bottom: "Wee have by commission and
consent of the said towne of Bridgnorth recommended this suit to
Sir Lewis Lewkenor serving as burgess for the said towne in the
High Court of Parlyament,* of whose honest and just dealing with
us by former experience wee rest very confident."

ip. (P. 2040.)

RossE O'Ferrall alias O'Ferrall Bane and
Brian O'Ferrall to the Earl of Salisbury.

[After February 15, 1610-11]. — ^They are of the county of
Longford, Ireland, and are submitting this petition on behalf of
themselves and the majority of their kinsmen. A year ago, they
presented a petition to Sahsbury and the Privy Council, in which
they declared that they and their ancestors had been loyal subjects
to the Crown until, at the time of the late Irish revolt, they were
forced to adhere to the rebels. When the late Lord Deputy visited
the region, Sir Francis Shane mediated on their behalf, and they
were received into the late Queen EUzabeth's favour with the
promise that they should preserve their hves, lands and goods.
However, the late Lord Delvin, having obtained a grant of £100
worth of lands in Ireland, caused the petitioners and their kinsmen
to be summoned before him and other commissioners, who indicted
them for treason before their submission to the Lord Deputy.
After their submission, the Lady Dowager and the present Lord
Delvin obtained a grant of lands from the King in heu of the former

* The first Parliament of James I, in which Lewkenor sat for Bridgnorth,
was dissolved on February 9, 161 L

198

grant to the late Lord Delvin, and by letters patent was awarded
petitioners' lands and those of their kinsmen amounting to almost
half the county of Longford. As a result of their petition, however,
it was agreed, by the favour of the King, that their patrimony
should be restored to petitioners and their Idnspeople, and that the
Delvins should receive compensation in the form of £21 worth of
land elsewhere in Ireland. Petitioners inform Salisbury that Lord
Delvin had surrendered the letters patent awarded to him and his
mother, but that they themselves have not yet received the benefit
of the King's favour on their behalf. They ask that letters should
be sent to the Lord Deputy directing him to implement the King's
decision by issuing individual grants by letters patent to them and
the other O'Farrells. — Undated.

I p. (P. 1256.)

[See Cal. S. P. Ireland, 1611-14, pp. 10 and 49-50. See also
ibid., 1603-6 and 1606-8 under titles of O'Ferrall and Delvin.]

Vestry of St. Martest's-zn-the-Fields.

1610-11, March 10. — Consent of the Vestry to enlarging the
ancient and common footway leading into the fields of the parish
of St. Martin's, so to be enlarged with part of the parish's ground
" as that it may alwayes hearafter as well serve for his Mats passage
and nobihtie and others into and from the Mewes as to Covent
Garden ". With a rough plan. — March 10, 1610.

Signed: 15 signatures. 1 p. (Legal 44/7.)

James Langton to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 9, 1611]. — Petitioner married the widow of Nicholas
Hobbes, of Bristol, and received into his hands the portions of her
three sons. With a view to promoting their fortunes he consulted
with Robert Webb, a clothier,* about the possibfiity of procuring
a grant from the late Queen Ehzabeth. Webb informed him that he
would seU him the manor of Woolverton, and obtained £600 from
petitioner, most of that sum being the children's portions. Webb
had no right to make this sale, since he had neither possession nor
reversion of the manor. He now refuses to repay the £600, and,
moreover, has secretly conveyed all his estate in trust to persons
unknown to petitioner. He also obtained from the late Queen
the wardship of his grandson, the heir of his eldest son Thomas
Webb, in the name of Tobias Walkwood, parson of Beckington,
where Webb resides, and receives aU the profits. Owing to his
fraudulent proceedings his creditors cannot obKge him by law to
discharge his debts. On the contrary he has em-iched himself to
such an extent that his lands are worth £600 or £700 a year.
Petitioner requests that he be given the wardship of the grandson
Robert Webb on reasonable terms, he paying Walkwood his charges
for obtaining the wardship. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1017.)

* Died on May 9, 161L [See PRO, Wards 7, 46/59.]

199

Bond.

1611, May 10. — A bond signed by Viscount Cranborne that he is
indebted to William Owen, gentleman, of London, to the sum of
£50, the money to be repaid " after the said Wilham Owen shall
have made his personall retorne from the famous Citty of Con-
stantinople in the parties beyonde the seas into this Realme of
England ". Sealed and dehvered in the presence of John South-
worth.

In reverse: Receipt of £50 on October 23, 1612 from the Earl of
SaHsbury by the hands of Roger Houghton. Signed: WilUam
Owen.

1 m. (General 11/14.)

Bond.

1611, June 11. — Bond signed by Robert, Earl of SaHsbury, and
made over to Lady Ehzabeth Hunsdon for the payment of £375,
and dated 11 June, Jac. 9. Witnessed by J. Dackombe and
Richard Harbyne.

On reverse: " 375^ paid to my Lady Hunsdon upon this bond
which was for 512 ells of fine hangings of the storye of Hercules
Labours at 15^ the ell."

1 m. (Legal 46/6.)

Accounts.

[June 15, 1611].— Receipt signed by John Fmet for £39:3:3
" being due to mee and Mr Doctor Lister upon our accompts of
moneys disburssed in my Lo. Cranbornes last journey beyond the
seas."

Endorsed: "June 15, 1611. xxxix^ iii^ iii^ paid to Mr Doctor
Lister and Mr Ffynnett upon their accompt for my Lord Cranbornes
expenses." 1 p. (Bills 61.)

Viscount Cranborne's Journey.

1611, June 15. — "The Generall account of all my Lord of
Crambornes receypts and expenses in his last jorney.

Receipts Imp :

In Ingland at our parting y^
1610.

of August,

0300"

-00-00

At Millan.

0156

-08-04

At Venis y^ 4 of November.

0500

-00-00

Ther the 26 of November.

0500

-00-00

At Venis ye 7 of Feb.

0643

-04-07

At Noremberg.
At Mildebour.

0126
0100

-00-10
-00-00

At Ant warp.

Since of Mr Stuard. {Marginal yiote:

0201

-00-00

this was paid to them this 15th of Jime,

0039

-03-03

1611.]

2565

-17-00

200

Expences Layd out as follows:

Imp: For shipping of my Lords horses and
charge in the way and at Callis till hee
came, 20^*; for diet of horse and man
and all other necessaries fourniture, etc,
from London to Venis. 0385 -15-01

Geven by my Lord abord y^ kings shipp,
2111; allso in y^ Duke of Savois Court to
the officers of his house, sewers, buttlers,
cookes, waiters, coachemen, etc, 71";
allso at Paris geven away and for things
bought there, 23"; in all. 0115 -05-00

The charge of my Lords Jomey from
Abevile to Paris post and diet, 27";
allso for y^ charge of a barbary horse
was left at Paris with M' Belleville,
14" 88. 0041 -15-00

Siun total 0542 -15-01

Expenses at Venis and Paris during my Lords aboade in
Italy:

Imp: Towards y^ charge of one whole month
my Lord lodged in Sir Harry Wottons
house at his first coming to Venis. 0125 -00-00

In appareil for his Lordshipp bought at
Venis, and all other necessaries about
his person. 0172 -06-00

In pictures, tables, glasses and other
things bought by his Lo. at Venis. 0147 -00-00

Guifts at Venis for all presents to the
officers in the Arsenall when my Lord
sawe it and was feasted there; the like
upon the Gallies ; allso to y® servants and
officers in bothe the Ambassadors houses
and in all other places. 0185 -00-00

Mony to my Lord at play. 0031 -05-00

For a silver basen and ewer to bestow
on y^ gentleman of the house where my
Lord lay at Padoa during his sicknes, 36"-
13-4; allso for an other my Lord gave
Sign Biondy, 17"-11. 0054 -04-00

The charge of phisition, poticarys, biUs
and surgeons during his Lo. sicknes at
Padoa. 0087 -00-00

For all other charges of my Lords house
during oxu* beeing at Padoa as diet, wine,
fier, fvimiture of his house; allso for the
charge of his stable during the whole
time of his stay in Italye, 0606 -16-00

Sum total 1408 -11-04

Laid out in our retiune from Venis homeward:

Imp: For diet horse and man, hyre of boates
and horses from Francfort to Callais, and
all other expenses from Venis to London. 0294 -13-07
Guifts and rewards in the Archduks
Court, Germany, the States Ciuitry and
Flanders. 0127 -07-00

For appareil made at the Haghe and
other necessaries for my Lord. 0069 -10-00

Y« even abord the Kings ship at our
retourne. 0023 -00-00

201

To Mr Gervaise, my Lords Frenche reader
for his whole intertainment this Jomey. 0075 -00-00
For servants wages. 0025 -00-00

The stun of all theis pages. 2565 -17-00
Which is the just sum of our receypts as
above, our account being perfitted with
Mr Stward.

Signed: Mathew Lister
John Finet

Endorsed: "The general account of my Lord of Cranborns
expence in his last journy." 3 pp. (Accounts 9/13.)

Accounts.

1611, September to 1612, March. — Accounts in the hands of
Christopher Keighley. They are divided into: various receipts,
borrowed moneys, official fees, rents from property and shops in
Britain's Burse, London, payments, gifts, rewards, annuities,
church duties, gifts to the poor, etc. The following items have
been selected under various headings :

Fees

1611, November 12.

November 23.

December 24.

Reed, out of the Exchequor for
your Honors half years fee for
beinge principall Secri tarie.
Reed, of Sir Myles Ffleetewood,
knight, for your Honors quarters
ffee forth of the Corte of Wards.
Reed, out of Thexchequor for
your Honors quarters allowavuice
for private and inward services.

Iviii^ vi^ viii^

Gifts and Rewards
1611, October 12.

November 16.

November 21.

December 24.

December 31.

To John de Greet, the painter,
for painteinge and gildeinge a
frame for a pickture for my lord
to give to Sir Walter Cope to be
at Kensington.

To Sir John Tustons man as
your Honors gifte for bringinge
453 Chérie trees from his M' to
your Honor and for planteinge
them at Hat[field].
To Robert Hazton as your
Honors free gifte bestowed
uppon him for bringeinge a caste
of hawkes from Denmarke for
your Honor.

To Mr Shawe the imbrotherer in
full pajanent of 10941 10^ for
imbrothering a sute of grene
velvett hangings which your
Honor gave to the Queue.
Given to the brewers, bakers,
smiths, scavengers and beedles
to there boxes against Christen -
mas, the sume of.

xls

xliiiii x^

xiiii^

202

1611-12

February 3.

February 5.

March 7,

To one Rockinge, a jeweller, for a
ringe with a rubie and a diamond
in it, and the late Kinge of
Ffravuice liis pickture wliich your
Honor gave to niy Lord Cran-
borne at Newyearestyde
To Hoope, my Lord Cranbomes
taylor uppon his byll for a coate
and a sute of apparrell laced
with silke to give to Arche, the
Kings fovile (fool).
To Mr Kirkeham for a geldinge
bought of him by your Honor to
give to Dr Maherne, the Ffrench
phisition.

X xi
iiii

xxviiii iii^ x<*

Boardwages paid to servants

1611, December 23. To the two Ffrench gardeners at
Hatfeild for their boardwages for
2 weekes ended 20 October 1611,
at vii^ the weeke.

Fees and Annuities
1611, October 11.

October 25.

December 12.

To Henrie Locke for his quarters
allowaunce towardes mainetaine-
ing of him at Oxford.
To Hughe Morrell for his half
yeares allowaunce towards
mainetaineinge of his trade at
Hat[field].

To Mr Dallam for his wages or
allowance for a yeare for tuninge
and settinge the winde instru-
ments.

xxviii^

Xls

Xl3

Gifts to the Poor
1611, December 23.

Given to all the prisons aboute
London as your Honors charit-
able benevolence against Christ-
mas.

Emptions and Tradesmen

1611, October 16. Paid uppon a bill for makeinge a
new barge for your Honor, viz,
for makeinge the barge xviii^
for joyners worke done aboute
the barge x^ and for owers and
other necessaries for the same
iii ii^

1611-12, March 9. To Roland Buckett uppon
another bill for painteinge 2
pickttires uppon cloth, the one is
the Angells salutation to the
Virgin Marie, and thother is the
Angell ap[pearing] to the ship-
pards, for the Chappell at Hat-
feild and done by my lords
appointment.
April 24. To William Howard upon his bill
for a pare of billiard sticks for
Salisburie House.

203

Other payments

1612, June 19. Given to Connacke the K[ing'8]

musicon for his paines for attend-
ing his Lordship to Bath x^
June 20. To Henrie Oxford upon his bill
for strings for the instruments
for a yeare. iiii^

87 pp. (Box G/13.)

Viscount Rochester to the Earl of Salisbury.

[? September, 1611]. — The importance of last night's business
made him forget to tell Sahsbury what the King wished him to
know, and he begs him not to disclose to the King that he had
forgotten to convey the message sooner. " The King having talkt
with my Lord of Sussex, he (Sussex) tells him concerning Whyt-
lockes death that thay all thoght him then poysoned by reasone
of his swelling and the loosnes of his belly and other signes which
the surgeon of my Lord of Sussex judgd to proceid from poyson.
Besydes, he cam thither sick, lay the nyt befoir at Doctor Savills,
came to Newhall sick, and at the sam tyme my Lord of Northumber-
lands phisitione cam thither unusually and being asked concerning
his helth sayd he was a dead man. Whytlockes boy is yett about
this towne, who seemed very glad at his m^^ deathe and befoir he
was dead gott on his clothes." — Undated.

Holograph. 1 p. (129. 114.)

[Captain Whitelock was dead before September 28, 1611. See
Cal. S.P. Dam., 1611-1618, P. 77.]

Accounts.

1611, November 7. — Receipt for £3 to be paid to the Itahan
reader by order of Viscount Cranborne.

Endorsed: " iii^ delivered to John Southworth which hee paid to
the Itahan reader by my Lo. Cranborne's appointment." ^ p.
(Bills 61.)

The Earl of Salisbury to Thomas Wilson.

[1611 or before] October 9. — He has heard that the Earl of
Southampton proposes to visit Hatfield, and requests Wilson to
speak to the Steward or to Shaw about his accommodation, and to
procure pallets for his retinue. The Earl does not know the way
through Hatfield Wood, and therefore the keeper should be asked
to meet him at about four o'clock, and conduct the party through
the Middle Park, " the way that I have last chosen to come to my
howse ".■ — ^Audley End this 9th of October being Munday.

Signed only. | p. (200. 162.)

Accounts.

1611, October 11. — Receipt for 40/-, the quarterly annuity
allowed to Henry Lock, signed by Christopher Collard.

Endorsed: " xl^ paid to Mr CoUard for Hemy Locks quarteridge,
who is at Oxford." f p. (Bills 67b.)

204

Accounts.

[October 12, 1611]. — "For painting, gilding and rebesking all
over a greate frame beeing 8 foote long and 6 foote brode for a
pictur of the Right Honorable the Lord of Cranburn, whiche is
sette up at Kingslinton, 2^ :0 :0.

Signed: Walter Cope. Endorsed: " John de Creete his bill for
painteinge and giltinge a greate frame for a pickture for my Lo:
Cranb: which is set upp at Kensington." Receipt for 40/- dated
12 October, 1611, signed by James Manucy. 1 p. (Box U/75.)

ACCOTINTS,

1611, October 24. — Receipt signed by Hugh Morrell for £50 as
" one half yeares allowance for maintenance of our trade at
Hatfeld ".

Endorsed: " L^ paid to i\Ir Morrell of Hatfeld for his half yeares
anutiedueMych'as 1611." ^ p. (Bills 61.)

William Forth to the King.

[After November 8, 1611]. — He is a prisoner in the Fleet, following
upon his condemnation by the Star Chamber. He proclaims his
complete submission and contrition, and prays for a general
pardon . — Undated .

On reverse: a plea by his wife that Forth is unable to pay the
fine of one thousand shiUings, and that she and her eight children
are faced mth starvation unless he is granted a free pardon.

ip. (P. 13.)

[See PRO, Star Chamber Proceedings, James I, 124/6.]

Accounts.

1611, November 16. — " Rowland Buckitt the pajmter, his biU for
paintinge and gilding work done at Hatfielde from the 10th of Decem-
ber, 1610, till the 16th of November, 1611." Amongst other
items are the following:

1 s d

For gildinge the organs in the greate chamber. 26 13 4

For the payntinge of the picture of Christ and

his Appostles, guildinge and payntinge one

peece with his Lordshipps armes, and for

guildinge and workeinge the arches on both

sydes which looketh into the lower chappeU. 45 0 0

For guildinge the greate pendant that is in the

roofe in the greate stayre case wrought with

white and goulde. iii xvi 0

For the payntmge of the timber worke of the

greate stayres and for guildinge and worke -

ing of the naked boyes and lyones standinge

uppon those stajrres, houldinge of instru-
ments and his Lordshipps armes. xxv

205

For the payntinge of the skreene in the hall

with armes, gildinge and personages, and

one peece at the upper ende of the hall under

the passadg wrought like wainscott. xxvi xiii iiii

For coulloringe the rocks in the greate

sesterne in the East garden and coulloringe

the picture of Neptune. xx

On the third page there are four receipts of payment signed by
Rowland Buckett.

Signed: John Shawe, Robert Lamyon, Samuel StiUingfleet.
Endorsed: " Rowland Buckett the paynter his bill for worke done
at Hatfield from the 10th of December 1610 to the 16th of November
1611." 2 pp. (Biïls 58/1.)

Accounts.

1611, November 19. — Bill for books.

" Delivered to Mr Boule for my Lord Treasurer:

1611, July 29. 1 Communion Booke fo plaine. 0- 7-0

1 Bible in 4» velum gilt. 0-14-0

1 Napier on the Revelation. 0- 3-6

August 22. 12 Communion Bookes in 4° claspt. 2-14-0

1 Communion Booke 4» gilt edges. 0- 6-0

1 Communion Booke gilt edges,
corners. 0- 6-8

2 Communion bookes gilt with

fillets. 0-10-0

1 Communion Book fo gilt fillets. 0- 8-6

Magiri Ethica 0- 4-0

November 3. 1 Bible in 4» ruled gilt. 0-18-0

Sume vi^ xii^ ii^

for William Barrett.

These bookes I received for my Lords use and delivered them
to John Glass, all but the Bibles and Napier and Magirus which I
delivered to my Lord and Lord Cranborne." Signed: John Bowie.

Endorsed: " WiUiam Barrett his bill for bookes by him deUvered
to Mr Boules for my Lords use, from the 29 Julie until! the 3rd of
November, 1611." Receipt for vi^ xii^ ii'^ dated November 19 and
signed by William Barrett. 1 p. (Bills 57/7.)

Agreement.

1611, November 23. — Agreement between Robert, Earl of
Salisbury, and Lady Ehzabeth Hunsdon for the purchase by him
of nine pieces of " hangings of Arras of the workes of Hercules
labours " for the sum of £375, Sealed and deUvered in the presence
of Edmund Randolph, George Bland and John Barrington.

Signed: " Elyza. Hunsdon." Seal. 1 m. (Deeds 188/12.)

206

Henry Goldfinch to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before December, 1611]. — He informs him that dm:ing the late
Queen Ehzabeth's reign he used his estate in England to plant
himself and his family on her Majesty's lands in Ireland. The
troubles there, and the expenses incurred by him in that plantation,
have cost him £2000. In addition he owes Thomas Yoimg £200
and is being hard pressed for payment. He begs Sahsbury to
favour a petition which he has submitted to the Privy Council,
and which is designed to reUeve Young, but which is being detained
by Corbett.* — Undated.

ip. (P. 300.)

Accounts.

1611, December 12. — Receipt signed by Thomas DaUam, for
40/- as one year's wages.

Endorsed: " xl^ for tuninge and settinge your Honours [the
Earl of Sahsbury's] winde instruments." ^ p. (BiUs 67b.)

Accounts.

1611, December 20. — " Receaved of Mr Steward at several! times
the somme of 45^ to be given to the phisicions and surgeons as
foUoweth :

Imprimis to Mr Docter Atkins

To Mr Docter Poe

To Mr Docter Lister

To IVIr Sergeant Gooderige

To Mr Mapes

To Mr Richard Watson

Payd to Mr Sherborne which he

layd out at

my Lords

appointment

Summe 45

I say receaved by me and laied out accordingUe as it is sett downe
by my Lords comanndement." Signed: Wi. Ashton.

Endorsed: "xlv^ dehvered to Mr Ashton to pay to the phisicions
and surgeons by my Lo. appointment when he was sicke." | p.
(Bills 57/8a.)

The prisons of London.

1611, December 25. Receipts for the money distributed on
behalf of the Earl of Sahsbury. They give the number of prisoners
held in the respective prisons, the names of the Keepers and the
sums allotted to each prison, as follows :

The Gatehouse in Westminster. 30 Thomas Hynelly 20^

Ludgate. 110 Edward Smith 25^

The Fleet. 30 Wilham Hodgkinson 25^

*He was dead before December 31, 16n. [See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1611-18,
p. 104.]

207

Newgate. 98 John Slyfeilde 45s

Wood Street Counter. 50 Lewis Jenkyns 20^

The Counter in the Poultry. 45 Thomas Burgess 15^

Bedlam. 30 Richard Lansdale 45^

The Marshallsea 60 Thomas Sedgwick 20^

Roger Vaughan

The King's Bench. 87 Henry Aynesworth 20^

Thomas Grennett

The White Lion, Southwark. 2 WilHam Stodard 25^

Endorsed: " To be given to the prisoners in London this Xssimas,
1611, 131." 1 p. (Bills 67b.)

Hugh Fairclough to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1611 or before] He sued an attachment out of the Court of
Star Chamber against Anthony Cur wen, who was arrested by the
baihff of Westminster and obhged to enter into a bond for his
appearance before the Court. He did not appear and consequently
forfeited his bond. Petitioner* requests that he be granted the
benefit to the bond, and that it be delivered to him so that he may
sue Cur wen at law. Undated.

I p. (P. 1806.)

Sir Robert Cross to the King.

[1611 or before]. — Five years ago he lent Richard Cole, of Bucks,
CO. Devon, £335 and Cole became bound in the sum of £650 for its
repayment. However he defaulted, and petitionerf has sought
remedy by common law. Two judgments have been given in his
favour, and Cole has been outlawed. Writs have been directed
to the sheriff of Devon for his arrest, but Cole, who owns land worth
£400 a year, has resisted by force all efforts to take him in his own
house, and has fraudulently conveyed his property to others to
deprive petitioner of his due debt and satisfaction. He requests
that the King issue his special warrant for Cole's apprehension. —
Undated.

i p. (P. 1521.)

Henry Boldbroe to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1611 or before]. — He has special business reasons for travelling
to Constantinople, but is restrained from doing so by the Statute
governing the movements of people of his class. He requests an
official licence to travel overseas. J — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1312.)

* Probate of his will granted in 1611. [See Wills proved in the Prerogative
Court of Canterbury, 1605-19, p. 167.]

t Probate of Sir Robert Cross's will was granted in 1611. [See Prerogative
Court of Canterbury Wills, Vol. V, 1605-19, p. 127.]

+ Bolderoe died overseas. Probate of his will granted in 1611. [See Acts of
Administration in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Vol. V, 1609-13, p. 15.]

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Gregory Strowde to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1611 or before]. — He is one of the Queen's Gentlemen Waiters.
Recently, when he was in Wiltshire, he heard of the death of Mr
Smith, and immediately rode post haste to London so that one of
Salisbury's officials could have the benefit of the wardship of the
heir. He notified Mr Billett,* and they both came to an agreement
over the wardship. But Sahsbury bestowed it on another person,
and petitioner declares that he will " loose such benefitt as he
thought to reape by that journey, wherin he killed a horse that
cost him xx^ besides his charges for post horses afterwards". He
requests that he be compensated for his pains and losses since he
incurred them out of zeal, " for the preferment of your Lordships
servant' ' . — Undated .

I p. (P. 1755.)

Edward Smyth to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1611 or before]. — He is a yeoman usher of the King's Chamber,
and also holds a tenement in Newgate market belonging to the
Bridgehead lands, upon which he and his predecessor have spent
some money. The latter left the tenement for the benefit of his
children, and petitionerf has paid them £200 in the hope of gaining
the favour of the committee responsible for leasing the Bridgehead
lands. He asks Sahsbury to direct the committee that they
renew his lease at a reasonable rate, otherwise he has httle hope of
recovering his money. — Undated.

ip. (P. 441.)

Thomas Bartlett to the Earl of Salisbury.

[1611 or before] November 2. — He requests his intervention on
behalf of his suit to the King, the purpose of which has already
been disclosed to Sahsbury by Lord Morley. — November 2.

Seal. I p. (P. 1908.)

Edmund Bag an to [the Earl of Salisbury].

[1611]. — Sahsbury was pleased to grant him the benefit of the
concealed wardship of the heir of Richard Powellf who died 35
years ago. He entrusted the commission of inquiry to David Jones
and others, who had given him the information. But they proved
so inefficient that the Court of Wards suppressed their commission.
Now Sir Alexander Temple has undertaken to deal impartially in
the matter, and to estabhsh the King's title to the wardship, if it
can be proved. Petitioner asks that a new commission be directed
to the feodary and escheator of Herefordshire, that commissioners

* Probate of his will granted in 1611. [See Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Wills, 1606-19, p. 52.]

t Probate of his will granted in 1611. [See Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Wills, 160-5-19, p. 411.]

X Probate granted of the will of Richard Powell, of Brilley, co. Hereford, in
1576. [See Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, Vol. Ill, p. 250.]

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be nominated by the Court of Wards, and that Sh* Alexander
Temple be authorized to preside over the inquiry. — Undated.

Note: "Let a commission be granted and when the office is
found, I will consider further."

èp. (P. 521.)

The Mayor and Burgess of Portsmouth
to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before 1612]. — The haven of Portsmouth is the best harbour
in the south-west for the security and anchorage of any ship of any
burthen whatsoever, especially in bad weather. For that reason
distressed vessels normally make for Portsmouth where their
owners, out of necessity or desire, try to sell their cargoes, which
could be productive of economic benefits to the King's Customs and
the inhabitants of the town. That these benefits have not material-
ized is due to the fact that there is no place in the county for the
discharge of merchandise and the recording of Customs entries
except the West Quay and the Watergate, both of which are in the
town of Southampton and at a distance from the harbour of
Portsmouth. To remedy this state of afPairs petitioners propose
to submit a bill to Parhament for the erection of a Customs house
in Portsmouth and the appointment of a customer, searcher, comp-
troller and surveyor there with a common seal to seal the usual
warrants, certificates and dockets.* They ask Sahsbury to favour
the bill " whereby his Ma^^ custome and subsidies shalbee greately
augmented, the said towne of Portesmouth much releeved, all
sorts of merchaunts and seamen eased and freed from further
travell " with many other benefits. — Undated.

f p. (P. 2047.)

Elizabeth Bostock to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before 1612]. — Her husband WilHam Bostock, who is in the
Duchess of Feria'st service, has been committed by Sahsbury to
the Gatehouse, where he has remained a close prisoner for two
months on the grounds of his recusancy. She prays that he may
be allowed the hberty of the Gatehouse, so that his friends may have
access to him for his rehef, he being an old man and subject to
illness. — Undated.

ip. (P. 338.)

William Stanley to the King.

[Before 1612]. — Thirty years ago Sir Roland Stanley and his son,
Sir William Stanley, petitioner's father, agreed by covenant and
indenture that certain lands in Cheshire and Staffordshire should be
enjoyed by them during their lifetime and descend to petitioner î

* The first port book registering Customs entries at Portsmouth dates from
Christmas, 1612. [See PRO, Admiralty, Port Books, E.190 819/13.]

t Died on January 23, 1612. [See Henry CHfford The Life of Jane Dormer,
ed. Stevenson, p. 200.]

Î Died on January 4, 1612.
S.C.-15

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and his heirs. Later Sir William Stanley went overseas and has
remained abroad ever since in the Low Countries where, dm"ing
the time of the late Queen Elizabeth he served the King of Spain
against the United Provinces. Petitioner fears that this may
have roused the King's displeasure, which might turn to his dis-
advantage should his father survive Sir Roland Stanley. He
requests that he be granted the possibihty of such interest in the
above-mentioned lands as Sir Wilham Stanley enjoys during the
term of his hfe, and which might come into the hands of the King
by reason of the said conveyance, should Sir Wilham survive Sir
Roland Stanley. — Undated.
1 p. (P. 1430.)

Accounts.
[1611-12, January 5]. — "A bill of charges from Brussells to London."

For rydyng from Brussell to Parys by coache eyght

dayes and a halfe.
For dyet eyght dayes and a halfe.
For my Lord Imbassettors gardner to goe withe me

two and from in Parrys to by my things — given

him in Crowns.
From Parrys to Roane, coache hire.
For expences in Parrys for dyet and loging.
For porters hire in Parrys to carye trees abord the

boat.
For portters h3n:'e in Roane and carrag by watter.
Given to the boye in the house to laye my trees m the

grond.
Spent in Roan for aleven dayes and a halfe for dyet
For horse hire from Roan to Deepe
Also given in earnest to the boatemaster from Parrys

to Roane.
In Deepe spent for foure dayes dyet.
For passag over to Ingland given to the shipmaster.
Spent in Dover for on dinner.
For horse hire to Canterberye.
For supper at Cantterberye.
For horse hire from Cantterberye to Gravesend.
For on dinner in Gravesend.
For passag from Gravesend to London by watter.
Given to the boy es of the ship to be carefuU of the trees.
Also spent on the Ffrenchemen, the Kings gardners in

onladyng the trees abord the shipe. 3 0

Given to two wherryes to bring the trees to the

gardin. 3 0

Also payd to Sir Edward Conawayes manne for

[?frught]. 8 0

258

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The summe is seaven pounds, ten shillings.

Undated

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Endorsed: " 5 Januarii, 1611. John Tradescante his bill for
his chardges from Brussells to London in his returne from beyonde
seas beinge sent over by my lo. for trees." 1 p. (General 11/25.)

Receipt: " Reed, of Mr Steward this 10th of Januarii 1611 in full
payment of this bill the some of ixi v^ by me." Signed: John
Tradescant.

[March 3,

1611-12]. — Medical expenses.
Dr Mayerne
Dr Atkins

1001
401

Dr Lyster
Dr Poe

401

Dr Hammon

301

Serg. Gooderous

151

Mr Watson

251

Mr Mapes

Summe

151
3051

" This money I receaved of Mr Steward and payd it as aforesayd
by my Lords appointment." Signed: Roger Townshend.
" More by my Lo: appointment, March 28th, 1612."

To Mr Ffenton xxi

To Mr Allen xxi

Signed: Wi. Ashton.

Endorsed: March 3, 1611. cccxlvi ii^ paid to the phisitions by
your Honors appointment." | p. (Bills 57/8b.)

Accounts.

1611-12, March 24. — Receipt by Nicholas Lanier for £10, the
half year's annuity due to his son, John Lanier.

Endorsed: " Mr Laniers receipt for his sonnes half yeares anutie
due at the Annunciation 1612." 1 p. (Bills 60/47.)

George Low to Richard Bennet.

1612, May 2. — Discusses merchandise to be sent from each to
the other, which comprises cloths, velvets, satins, napkins, etc.
At home, there is no " apparance of better doinges notwith-
standynge that divers embassadors are here, as the Duke of
Bullyon from France and the [Land] grave of Hanno from the
Palsgrave, and another expected out of Spayne besydes the lydgers
[Uegers] here from all parts; and one from the Duke of Savoy;
yet wares are plentifull and sould basely". Congratulates Bennet
on his choice of a wife, and informs him that he too has a mind to
seek a second wife since the death of his first has left him with the
care of a large family, " and by cause without the assistance of such
a helper I am not able to discharge my duty to children or famyly
as I would and ought to doe. But I protest unto you that hetherto
I have not spoken to any woman or mayden Hvinge about any such
matter." — London, 2 Maye, 1612.

Holograph. 2 pp. (General 76/10.)

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Accounts.

1612, May 10. — Receipt signed by Salomon de Cans for £30 in
full payment for £110, the sum agreed upon in return for the
construction by him of a fountain in the East garden at Hatfield.
De Caus is referred to as " the princes Inginer".

(Bills 69.)

Two Attorneys of the Queen's Court to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]*. — One of the petitioners had gone to
much trouble in searching for precedents touching the course of
processes to be made in that court. As a result, Daniel Powell,
Clerk to her Majesty's Council, complained to SaHsbury that he
was being wronged in certain matters pertaining to his office.
Powell had asked that the matter be referred for examination to the
Lord Chancellor who, assisted by five others of the Council, met at
Gray's Inn to hear the case. It was agreed by both parties that
petitioners should make the processes and copies of pleadings, and
should surrender half the fees to Powell and retain half for them-
selves. This order had been complied with, but recently Powell
had violated it and, moreover, had drawn his dagger on one of the
petitioners in open court. Petitioners declare that Powell has
quarrelled with most of the Council (except with the Lords, the
King's Attorney-General and Sir Walter Cope who joined it
recently) and now positively refuses to abide by the order. They
request that the matter be heard by Cope and the Attorney-General,
and if they find the first order still vahd, that then Powell be
suitably punished for his misdemeanours. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1778.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XXI, p. 372.]

Thyman Luwerte, Jacques van Steenholen and Georges
Trompetter to his Excellency (Archduke Albert).

[Before May 24, 1612]. — They inform him that Trompetter
sailed from Amsterdam to Emden in the ship De Hope, captained
by Pierre François van Medenblick, and, afterwards, from Emden
to Lisbon, finally making his way to Pernambuco in Brazil, jv^here
the ship's cargo was discharged, and the vessel reloaded wdth
4 chests of sugar, 30 cwts of Pernambuco wood and 1200 reals of
8 in seven sacks placed in a special trunk. On the return journey
from Brazil the vessel was hailed by Enghsh warships off Lisbon
and conducted to Bristol. Despite the letters written by the
authorities in Amsterdam, Trompetter has been unable to recover
his goods. Petitioners therefore appeal to his Excellency to
intervene on his behalf by writing to the King of England and his
Council.— Undated.

Flemish, f p. (206. 112.)

* Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, died on May 24, 1612.

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Robert Stileman to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612].— He is Deputy-Bailiff under Salisbury
of the Liberty of Clare, which is parcel of the Queen's jointure, of
the annual value of only £10. But the Liberty is so extensive that
it requires several under-baihffs to attend to its affairs. He has,
however, no authority to nommate them. He requests a lease
of the bailiwick for a yearly rent which should be the seventh part
of the profits of the last seven years as certified by the auditor. —
Undated.

ip. (P. 322.)

Robert Stileman to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — Duplicate of petition concerning the
Liberty of Clare. — Undated.

Note by Sir Robert Hitcham: "This petition hathe oftentimes
cum to me by reference from your Lordship. I do thinke it verie
fitte that not onelie that butt aU others of that nature should be
leased, so as a sufficient rent maye bee resyved, for as no we it is,
litle or nothinge is made of them."

1 p. (P. 925.)

CuTHBERT Stillingfleet to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He refers to his indisposition after
many years of service to the late Queen Ehzabeth and the present
King, and the fourteen years he has attended on Sahsbury. He
asks for some relief for himself and his family. — Undated.

ip. (P. 325.)

Richard Threele and Henry Barttelot to the Earl of
Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — ^The King has a manor called Loxwood
in the county of Sussex, which has only a waste or common bringing
in £3:11:0 of rent from free tenants. The manor has neither
demesne nor copyhold land. The waste has some trees growing on
it, and petitioners request permission to purchase the trees for
their own use and that of the other tenants. They are prepared to
pay £200 for the same. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 412.)

Hugh Tylstone to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612].— He is Deputy-Keeper of the Old Park of
Enfield. For some two hundred years his ancestors have been copy-
holders on the manor of Tattenhall, Cheshire, paying one half
year's rent for the renewal of their copies according to the custom
of the manor. Tattenhall was in the possession of the Crown until
the reign of Edward VI, when it was granted to Sir Richard Cotton.
Recently Ralph Egerton of Ridley, Cheshire, purchased the manor

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and has tried to force the tenants to pay whatever fines he cares to
impose. Petitioner's brother, a copyholder there, is now old and
childless and is ready to surrender his tenement to him. Petitioner
requests that a letter be directed to Egerton to admit him to the
tenement on the payment of such reasonable fine as that paid by
other tenants of the manor. Petitioner adds that he would prefer
to do this rather than go out of his way to stand by the ancient
custom of the manor. — Undated.
1 p. (P. 1154.)

William Wilton to the Eakl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612].— He is of Dishforth, Yorkshire. In the
time of the late Queen Elizabeth, he defended her right and title
against twenty freeholders in a protracted law suit which cost him
£700. In recompense the Queen promised that his expenses would
be defrayed, but he has received no allowance or compensation.
He finds himself indebted to many people who are now pressing for
repayment of loans, and faces the possibihty of imprisonment.
He asks that he may be protected against arrest and allowed time
to find the means to discharge his debts. — Undated.

\ p. (P. 1808.)

Sir Edward York to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He served the late Queen Elizabeth in
the Low Countries, France, Spain, Portugal and Ireland for forty
years, on land and sea. Through lack of employment, petitioner
is now in reduced circumstances. He asks SaHsbury to favour
a suit of his presented to the King for the grant of the woods
growing upon a piece of waste ground called Derby Hills, parcel of
the Duchy of Lancaster, " a matter of no great value, without
tymber and neare none of his Ma^^^s Royall howses, ffor that your
petitioner hath never a peny rent or revenue more then one pore
howse to shrowde him in." — Undated.

\ p. (P. 1888.)

to the Earl of Salisbury,

[Before May 24, 1612]. — Petitioner requests him to take note of
the Hterary work undertaken by him and outlined in the petition
which he hopes to present to the King. Alternatively, he is ready
to provide SaHsbury with " breife notes collected out of the
anncientest recordes of the realme into bookes for the better service
of the Kinge and good of the commonwelth". Petitioner hopes
that SaHsbury wiU assist him to obtain a supplementary grant
from the King for his maintenance, to enable him to proceed
with his studies. — Undated.

ip. (P. 1173.)

Barnard Buck to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — A year ago his wife, Katherma BJocke,
formerly of the Queen's Bedchamber, and two others in the same

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service, submitted a petition to the King which was referred to
Salisbury and the Privy Council. There it was decided to award
them £150 out of the first fines issuing from the Court of the Star
Chamber, or so they were informed by Lady Walsingham. Since
then his wife has returned to Denmark, her native country, where
she will remain permanently. Petitioner, who is in England on
business, wishes to be informed whether he is to be given the £50
apportioned out of the £150 to his wife. He has wound up his
affairs in England and is due to rejoin his wife in Denmark. —
Utidated.

ip. (P. 524.)

Robert Dolbery to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He was formerly in the service of Sir
Walter Ralegh and solicitor in his law suits. Certain financial
accounts between them have not been settled because of petitioner's
indisposition during the past two years. He requests permission
to visit Sir Walter in order to discuss these matters. — Undated.

\ p. (P. 1666.)

Thomas Moffet to the Earl of Salisbury,

[Before May 24, 1612]. — "I hav not complaynid of the cruell
revenge to mye undoinge and disgrace before I had thanks for
doinge mye dutye, which your Lordship maye best judge to be
donne without hope of reward, for that I never sought to your
Lordship tyll animatid therunto 7 dayes after bye your honorable
good words at Charinge Crosse. Mye great want in the extremist
degre dothe nowe force me most humblye to beseeche your Lordship
for Gods sake to obtaine of my Lord Chamberlen to swar one Grame
of the Chamber extraordinary e." — Undated.

ip. (P. 2378.)

Christopher Fernley to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He informs him that there is a small,
unoccupied gravelly hill, about half an acre in size, adjoining the
waterside and belonging to the common of Greenwich. It yields
no profit to the inhabitants of that town, but, in his opinion, it
could be useful for the ballasting of ships. As many vessels resort
to Greenwich, and work could be found for the poor there, a proper
exploitation of the property would be profitable and beneficial.
If he succeeds in being appointed by Trinity House to the office of
" ballastage " at Greenwdch and in obtaining the consent of the
townspeople, he asks that he be granted the property together with
an unused quay lying to the east of the parsonage of Greenwich and
belonging to the Queen, which could be converted into a convenient
place for ballasting ships. In return, petitioner would pay the
Queen a reasonable yearly rent. — Undated.

ip. (P. 1136.)

216

Christopher Fernley to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He has been given to understand by the
townsmen of Greenwich that it is Sahsbury's pleasure that he
should proceed with his suit for the erection of a bahze quay at
Greenwich. He has accordingly drawn up certain covenants after
due consultation with them. He asks SaHsbury to peruse the
covenants or cause them to be read by competent persons, and to
nominate certain people to receive the rent given by Sahsbury to be
duly distributed between the poor of Greenwich. — Undated.

I p. (P. 532.)

Nicholas Frissell to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — Jeremy Eayre, shoemaker, has been
tenant at will for many years to John Scott of London, and has
occupied the house called the Cock in St. Martin's, the property of
the Bishop of London, for the yearly rent of £10. Since he is no
longer able to pay the rent, he has sold his good will and conveyed
the house to petitioner, who is prepared to pay £10 a year to Scott.
The latter, however, will not accept him as his tenant, but prefers
that Eayre continues to occupy the tenement for the same rent as
long as he lives. He requests that SaHsbury order Scott to allow
him to occupy the house as long as he pays the rent regularly. —
Undated.

ip. (P. 260.)

Thomas Hume to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He is a Scotsman, and recently visited
the counties of Gloucester, Warwick and Hampshire on business.
There he met a number of Jesuits, seminarists and Papists, whose
names he cannot remember, but whom he is sure he could point
out to the King's officers in these shires. He asks that letters be
directed to the J.P.s there, authorizing them to arrest all those
whom petitioner shall bring to their notice, and requests that he
himself be granted some financial reward for his labour and
expenses. — Undated.

I p. (P. 1231.)

Samuel Jekniver to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He asks that SaHsbury recommend him
for the reversion of the post of wainscot- joiner at the King's works,
now held by Clement Chapman. — Undated.

ip. (P. 465.)

Walter Kirby to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — Before petitioner took the house adjoin-
ing the tennis court in Somerset Yard, it was offered to be let as an
eating-house. He had assumed that it would be lawful for him to
set up such an estabhshment, and he has spent much money on
converting the house to that purpose. He understands that

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Salisbury has been informed that he maintains " light women " in
his house, which he denies and asks to be told the name of the
informer. His eating-house is patronized by noblemen, knights and
gentlemen of the better sort. He himself enjoys a good reputation,
and was formerly a lieutenant who served on land and sea, and was
maimed during the wars. He requests that he be allowed to
continue his establishment. — Undated.
f p. (P. 1097.)

NiCHOLL Crosart and Daniell Twilier
to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — They are now ready to proceed to the
Court of France, and request that they may be entrusted with the
conveyance of the King's packet of letters. — Undated.

Mutilated. \ p. (P. 251.)

Richard Coventry to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. He refers to a previous petition, in
which he asked Salisbury to direct letters to the Earl of Derby for
petitioner's relief in a matter in which he had been wronged. To
this request he has received no answer, and therefore he repeats it
and prays for a reply with the minimum of delay. — Undated.

ip. (P. 437.)

The Countess of Derby to Viscount Cranborne.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — She expects to have news of him by a
messenger, and of his well-being after " a new change of ayer.
I pray against his return, take moer payns to sitt for a better
picter, for that you sent was nothing lyek." — Undated.

Holograph. Two seals on pink silk. | p. (200. 93.)

Thomas Crompton to the Earl of Salisbury.

Before May 24, 1612. — He served the late Queen Ehzabeth
faithfully without any reward, and has rendered the Uke service
to the present King as an extraordinary pensioner. He asks
Sahsbury to further a petition which he has submitted to the King,
either for a Ufe pension or a lease in reversion, or a forfeiture. —
Undated.

fp. (P. 333.)

Richard Cecil to the Earl of Salisbury,

[Before May 24, 1612]. — John Rowley, cook in the King's ship
Triumph, was maimed during the building of the vessel, and is
much handicapped in following his profession because of the
injuries he sustained. He has consented to surrender his place to
petitioner on condition that he receives ordinary pay out of the
ship towards his maintenance. Petitioner requests that Sahsbury
move Sir John Trevor to arrange that ordinary pay be allocated to
Rowley, and that the latter be replaced in his office by petitioner. —
Undated.

ip. (P. 495.)

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Walter Carey to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He has spent 46 years as minister and
now, in his 86th year, he finds it necessary, owing to his physical
disabihties, to ask Sahsbury for financial assistance, " fforasmuch
as yourself is a principaU piUer in comforting such of my coat as are
distressed' ' . — Undated.

Endorsed: " The most humble petition of Walter Carye, Minister
of the Word of God", i p. (P. 124.)

Jenkest Conway to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He has long been a suitor for a pension
in England, in reward for his services during the wars in Ireland,
and in regard that his father spent 24 years as a commander in
that country and was killed by a shot through the body. He asks
that his suit be given a hearing at the next meeting of the Privy
Council, and an order given for his rehef. — Undated.

fp. (P. 1132.)

Jenkin Conway to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — For the past two years he has been a
suitor to him and the Privy Council for a pension in England, in
return for his services in the Irish wars, which suit was rejected.
But it was decided that he should have his arrears paid and a
pension in Ireland. Petitioner had forborne this concession in the
hope that the Council would reconsider his case more favourably.
He has been impoverished by his sojourn in London, and requests
Sahsbury to issue a directive in accordance with the decision of the
Council. — Undated.

ip. (P. 1196.)

Peter Catrall to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He was formerly a cook in the service
of Lady Dacres. His wife obtained a hcence from Sahsbury and
the Privy Council to travel to Cologne in Germany to dispose of
some property which belonged to her there. But because her
husband had not accompanied her, she effected nothing and
returned to England. Now, he intends to travel with his wife and
children to Cologne on the same business, and asks Sahsbury to
write on their behalf to John Boland, chief Burgomaster of Cologne,
and request him to extend them every possible help in their tran-
sactions.— Undated.

ip. (P. 891.)

Robert Cecil to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He is resident at Sahsbury (New
Sarum) and was formerly employed by the late Earl of Pembroke.
He is now in the service of his son, the present Earl of Pembroke.
Petitioner describes himself as a poor man to whom, in his youth,
Sahsbury's father, Lord Burghley, showed much generosity. He
asks for some relief in his old age and poverty. — Undated.

ip. (P. 1105.)

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Thomas Cheswise to the Eakl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He mortgaged his interest in certain
lands in the county of Chester for £14, they being worth £7 per
annum, to his brother, John Cheswise, on the condition that they
could be redeemed on a specified date. Before that day, however,
petitioner was pressed to serve in the Low Countries under Captain
Pettvin, so that he was prevented from returning to England by the
day fixed for the redemption of his property. He has offered the
money many times since, but the land is still being detained by his
brother agamst whom he cannot proceed by law. Petitioner asks
for SaHsbury's help, since he has been badly wounded on active
service, either by ordering his brother to agree to a composition
or in some other way. — Undated.

p. (P. 1670.

Sara de Callaway to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — For twenty years petitioner provided
the late Queen Elizabeth with white starch, but obtained Httle
benefit from it. The present Queen has now selected her again to
undertake that service, and has requested Lord Carew to swear
her to the office. He has hitherto refrained from doing so, and
petitioner begs Sahsbury to further her interests in the matter, and
secure for her whatever benefits are derivable from it. — Undated.

ip. (P. 336.)

William Byrd to the Earl op Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He requests his favour to obtain from
the Privy CouncU a letter to the Attorney-General concerning his
recusancy, similar to that granted to him by the late Queen
Elizabeth and her Council. — Undated.

ip. (P. 52.)

John Browne to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — Officers are appointed in many ports of
England to examine passengers. None, however, have been
appointed for Gravesend where all kinds of lawbreakers come and
go as they please. He requests to be made an officer in that place
to keep a register of aU passengers, and he is ready to provide
sureties for his loyalty and meticulous performance of his duties.
He adduces certain reasons to justify the appointment of such an
officer at Gravesend. " Ffrom thence any offender once in 12
howers shalbe suer to fynd passage eyther in stranger or Enghshe
to one place or other wheresoever the winde sytts. Wher in other
ports they shall not so soon fynde passage, and allso ar carryed
before the officers to be examynd and from them have ther passport
before they canne be suffered to goe a shippboard; by the which
manye offenders and unlawefull parsons ar stayd. At other ports as
Dover and Rye, the maior and some others ar appoynted comys-
sy oners to examyn the passengers. And when they have graunted

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them passports, when the shipp is reddy to goe, the sercher goes
abourd with them and taks ther passports and receives his ffee.
And allso no other bote may carry any abom-d but the bote belonge-
ing to the towne for which every passenger payes vi^.

Now ate Gravesend the serchers of London nor their deputies
ther nor the towne hath any order or comyssyon ffrom the Councell
to examyn any passenger. And all bots hath lyberty to carry any
abourd. Ffor the serchers both for the King and the ffermers
sercheth for goods, and when they have serched and cleered the
shipp the passengers may and do go abourd at ther pleasuer, for
after the serchers have once clered they never go abord agayne.
So that yf any malefactor take his tyme when the shipp is cleerd,
he goes safely without controwle, unless by great fortune some
hughon crye be mad after Mm. Wheras at other ports they ar
fforced to stay for pasports and passege." — Undated.

2 pp. (P. 544.)

John Caesar to the J.P.s or Hertfordshire.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — Richard Edwards, the bearer of the
letter, of Rushden, co. Herts., a labourer by profession, and Jane
Russell alias Edwards, widow, his mother, lived together in an old
cottage which, because of its isolation from other houses, was
often robbed and its inmates terrorized. To prevent this the
cottage has been taken down and removed to a place called Oldfield
Green in Rushden. It stands upon a piece of waste land and does
not harm the mterests of anyone. The J.P.s are requested to allow
of this removal. — Undated.

i p. (P. 1723.)

John Belson to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He has spent most of his life in the wars
in France and the Low Countries, and at the time of the death of
the late Queen Ehzabeth he should have had a company out of his
native shire. His petitions to that effect have been delayed by
the Masters of Requests, and he himself impoverished by the
expenses entailed by them. Last Monday his wife dehvered a
petition to the King, who read it and dehvered it to the Lord
Admiral with the remark that petitioner should receive some
reward. He begs to be given rehef by SaUsbury, " as your woonted
favour is toward other of desert in the hke kind". — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1189.)

Isaac Bahere to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — Being Post for France, he sohcited the
King that he should be made a Messenger of the King's Chamber
for extraordinary packets. The King referred liis suit to Sahsbury
and Lord Stanhope and, upon Sir Thomas Parry's intervention,
he was sent to Lord Stanhope who swore him into that office. He
has been waitmg for some employment since then, and asks Salis-

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bury to use his services and dispatch him to any country he wishes —
Undated.
ip. (P. 1125.)

Walter Gunter to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612].— He is the son of WiUiam Gunter, of
Laun Perred [Llwyn Perrot], co. Brecknock. He declares that
Sahsbury's father was a descendant of the ancient house of Tyleglas
in that county. Petitioner's father was also of that same family, as
was his grandfather's wife on the mother's side. He is therefore
Sahsbury's kinsman, and having had schooling and being of age
to seek employment, he desires to serve Sahsbury in some capacity.
He is impelled the more to make this request because "he is here
in a strange place and destitute of money and friends". — Undated.

ip. (P. 809.)

The Grooms of the King's Hobby Stable to the
Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — They are 24 in number, most of them
Uving on their allowance of 8d a day, which does not permit them
to eat adequately or to serve the King except at their own expense.
They are now so impoverished that they cannot continue to do so
without some rehef. They have recently become suitors to the
King for an increase in their wages which he has granted them,
and referred the consideration and determination of the actual sum
to Salisbury and the Privy Council. They propose to exhibit their
petition to the Council, and remind Sahsbury that he and the
Master of the Horse were present when they submitted their
request to the King. They therefore ask him to support their case
when it comes up for discussion at the Council table. — Undated.

i p. (196. 140.)

Anne and George White to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — ^They were granted a licence by letters
patent to sell wines in Plymouth by the late Queen Elizabeth, but
recently they have been prohibited from doing so. Petitioners
have tried to resolve the difficulty by means of a composition, but
this has been rejected. In view of the money they disbursed in
purchasing the Ucence, and the large stock of wines in their hands
which they cannot dispose of, they are faced with ruin. They ask
that they be allowed to enjoy the benefit of their licence. — Undated.

\ p. (P. 1904.)

John Wallis to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He recommends the bearer of the letter,
who served the late Queen Elizabeth in the Crown Office for 16
years, and afterwards in the wars. He asks that he be admitted
to Salisbury's almshouse at Waltham as a beadsman. — Undated.

\ p. (P. 1738.)

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William Smith to the Eakl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He is the Queen's farmer withm the
manor of Southstoke, co. Somerset. For many years he and his
ancestors have had the farm of Southstoke, which is a parcel of the
manor. His interest in the lease is now on the point of expiring,
and he asks that it be renewed for a reasonable and fair rate, and
that he also be given the first refusal should the farm be put up for
sale, the auditors of Somersetshire to be advised accordingly. —
Undated.

p. (P. 1393.)

JoHisr Seal to the Eakl of Salisbury,

[Before May 24, 1612]. — His aunt, dweUing in Dublin, has de-
tained from him a certain house in that city bequeathed to him
by his late father. Because of his poverty he is unable to proceed
against her by law. He asks that letters be sent to the Lord
Deputy or to the judges on his behalf, so that he may obtain justice
when next he visits Ireland. — Undated.

ip. (P. 758.)

John Rone to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He is the Sergeant of the King's Scullery.
He informs Sahsbury that there is a piece of arable ground, about
eight acres in size, bounded to the south by the Armoury Mill,
to the north by Chapman's land, to the east by the highway to
Lewisham, and to the west by a small river. It is Crown land but
it has not been leased for a term of years to anyone. Petitioner
has always enjoyed a right of way through it to his own meadow
land, there being no other entry to it. But of late this ground
has been ploughed up by its occupiers, with the consequent loss to
him of the benefit of the grass and hay growing on his property.
Petitioner has never been tenant of any of the King's lands in the
neighbourhood of Greenwich, and requests that he be given a lease
of the ground in question for 21 years at the yearly rent of 6/8 an
acre. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 900.)

Thomas Prowde to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — ^An allowance of wood has hitherto
been granted to his predecessors out of the King's chase of Enfield.
He requests a reasonable proportion to be assigned for his house-
keeping, and a licence to demand his tithes due for the coppice of
Babstock . — Undated .

ip. (P. 46.)

Thomas Parry to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He has provided the patterns of the
armour, coats, doublets and hose desired by Sahsbury, and under-
takes that the soldiers will be better dressed and equipped than

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any who have been sent hitherto to Ireland. He requests that he
be granted the transportation of all troops embarked at Bristol. —
Undated.
\ p. (P. la.)

Henby Plunket to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — During the late rebeUion in Ireland he
served under Sir Ohver St. John and other commanders, and
suffered the personal loss of brothers and kinsmen by whom he was
maintained as a younger son. He was forced to leave for the Low
Countries, where he was able to obtain a pension of 2/6 per diem.
He would have received more had he stayed there, but having
come by some information which he thought it his duty to com-
municate to Salisbury, not suspecting that the latter would receive
it through another channel, he had crossed to England without
permission and, as a consequence, forfeited his pension. He
requests Sahsbury to intervene with the King to grant him a suit
which he proposes to submit. — Undated.

ip. (P. 931.)

The Flanders Cabinet.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — " This cheste concerneth not the Eanges
service but some other privât thinges which I desier may onely be
perused by the Earle of Suffolk, takinge to him Sir Walter Cope
for the better ease of his lordship, which beinge perused I leave to
be cancelled or otherwise to be desposed by him." — Undated.

Endorsed: " My lordes note for the Slanders cabinet." \ p.
(206. 92.)

Joan Ny Kiff to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — She is the widow of the late Callaghan
McDermot, and has been put to great expense in England and
Ireland for the recovery of the living which belongs to her and her
children. Crossing by sea from Ireland, she had the misfortune
to lose not only her money but all the evidences and papers con-
cerning her lands and jointure in Ireland. She asks Sahsbury to
favour her suit to the Privy Council. — Undated.

\ p. (P. 939.)

Walter Mayne to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He is an extraordinary page of the
King's Privy Chamber. Recently his wife joined him in England,
but not being possessed of a house, they lodged in the house of one
Robert Hales at the sign of the Talbot in King's Street in West-
minster. Despite the fact that both he and Hales behaved with
circumspection and propriety, petitioner and his family have been
threatened with imprisonment by the steward and burgesses of
Westminster. Hales was actually detained, and before bemg
released was forced to enter into a bond for £40 that petitioner and
his family should leave his house before next Sunday, although they
had no place to go to. He asks that Salisbury direct his warrant
to the steward and burgesses of Westminster to permit him and his

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family to remain in Hales's house until they can find a house of
their own. — Undated.
I p. (P. 1080.)

John Spencer to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He is submitting the petition on behalf
of himself and his kinsman, Andrew White. The latter has resided
a long time in the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, but recently
his house was taken from him, and he himself forced to take another
to his great cost. Moreover, he is obliged to add to the height of an
existing shed for his own convenience, and although he is doing so
without contravening any regulation, he has been hindered in the
work by the Justices of the Peace in the vicinity of Charing Cross.
He requests that letters be sent to them to allow White to finish the
reconstruction of the shed which will afford him a better passage
to the house, and requires only two or three days to be completed. —
Undated.

ip. (P. 1150.)

Henry Gibb to the King.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He has discovered that there exist a
lease and a will whereby some 18 years ago the annual revenue of
£120 issuing from certain lands was reserved to pay towards poor
women's marriages. The lease has still 26 years to run, but not a
penny has been employed for this charitable purpose for many
years past. Petitioner asks that he be granted the arrears and the
remaining term of years for the stricter enforcement of the con-
ditions of the lease, and in conformity with any proposals that the
Earl of Salisbury may put forward after considering the petition. —
Undated.

i p. (P. 1374.)

Anthony Felton to [ ? the Earl of Salisbury]

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He was convicted on November 16 last
for his error in yielding to the suing forth of a dedimus potestatem
at his own charge for one Smyth, being a defendant at the
petitioner's own suit, and was fined £40. Since he committed the
error by the mediation of Dr Perkins, Dean of Carhsle, out of com-
miseration for Smyth's poverty and not with any corrupt intent,
he asks that the fine be vemitted.— Undated.

I p. (P. 292.)

John Bridge to [ ? the Earl of Salisbury]

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He is a servant to Mr Pykarell, one of
the Attorneys of the Court of Wards. Robert Devys, of co.
Norfolk, deceased, was seised of certain lands held by knight's
service. He asks to be granted the wardship of the heir, and
undertakes to prove the King's title to it at his own expense. —
Undated.

i p. (P. 1060.)

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William Borswell and Thomas Wilson to the King.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — During a recent voyage from St. Lucar
in Spain they arrived in Dover, where the ship in which they sailed
was sold by the owner. They were forced to freight another vessel
of Dover and transfer to her the goods they had purchased in Spain.
On February 3, they were driven by a contrary wind to the French
coast, and near Gravehnes they were intercepted by two Dutch
warships and subjected to broadcasts of great and small shot.
The ship's crew numbering only six men, they were impotent in the
face of such an attack, and were driven aground some two miles
from Dunkirk. Here they were boarded by Dutch sailors who
seized their cargoes of ohves, wine, etc. As they were plundering
the ship, a number of Dunkirkers salHed out in their direction, and
fearing a pursuit the Dutchmen burned the Dover ship. The loss
of petitioners' goods amounted to £200, and in addition they were
robbed of their clothes and forced to beg for assistance in Calais.
They request that the King send letters to the States in Flanders
for the redress of their losses and damage. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1577.)

William Wake to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — It has been customary at Lent for
butchers to kill animals and provide meat for sick and weak
persons, as well as for those lawfully permitted to eat meat. He
has suffered many losses and incurred serious debts, and therefore
requests that he be granted Sahsbury's licence during next Lent to
provide meat, which he undertakes to sell only to those permitted
by law to buy it. — Undated.

Ip. (P. 54.)

Attached: A certificate signed by Westminster burgesses to the
effect that Wake has long been resident in Westminster, enjoys
the reputation of being an honest man, and is now burdened with
debts. Signed: Six names.

Edmund Cecil to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He has practised as an attorney in the
court of the Bishop of Salisbury for the past twenty years, and
enjoys a good reputation as Mr Henry Hooper, clerk of the court,
can testify. Because of plague in Salisbury he followed legal
business in other courts until the sickness had abated. Upon his
return he found his office occupied by another, and himself debarred
upon suspicion that he had left it to defend recusants. In this
respect he has only done what the law permits, and the loss of his
post threatens to ruin him completely. He is related to Sir
WiUiam Cecil, of Trewin in Wales, who obtained for him Lord
Burghley's letter for his present post. He requests Sahsbury's
letter to the Bishop of Sahsbury requiring him to readmit petitioner
to his former office and practice, particularly as the person now in
possession of it was hitherto judge of that court, for which there
exists no precedent. — Undated.

fp. (P. 501.)

S.C.-16

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Valentine Harris to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He is an ordinary messenger of the
King's Chamber, and was sent with a letter from the Privy Comicil,
by the suit of Sir Thomas Monson on behalf of his cousin Robert
Monson, to Sir Peter Eure* and Sir Thomas DaUison, for the dis-
patching of Martin Lawne and WiUiam Patten from Lincoln gaol
to the court at Whitehall. He performed this commission and
defrayed aU the travelling expenses for the party from Lincoln to
London, where eventually he received a warrant from the Council
to commit them to the Bridewell. He has, however, received no
allowance for these expenses, and asks Sahsbury that he be in-
demnified for his services and charges. — Undated.

\ p. (P. 1382.)

John Carter to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — Sahsbury has granted to John Broadhead
the Grange Field or Fort Field in Southwark for 21 years, rent free
for the first three years on the condition that he dismantles the fort
there. Broadhead has occupied the property for two years, but has
not fulfilled this condition. Petitioner is now tenant, and he
intends to level the ground, convert it into a garden and erect a
house on it " if hee may have any reasonable encouragement
thereunto". Since the leveUing of the fort will cost £140 and the
building and fencing a sum not appreciably less, he asks to be
allowed to occupy the property for four years, in addition to the
remainder of Broadhead's three years, without paying rent. —
Undated.

Endorsed: "John Carters petition for the fortfeild in Ber-
mondsey." i p. (P. 687.)

Thomas Walton to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — Thomas Mewtys is indebted to petitioner
to the amount of £17 for accommodation, diet and horsemeat.
Mewtys has refused to discharge the debt, although he gave a bond
for it, and threatens violence if petitioner seeks remedy by law.
Petitioner had Mewtys arrested but he was rescued by force. Now
petitioner finds that he should have sought Sahsbury's permission
before taking this action, since Mewtys, unknown to him, was
employed in Sahsbury's service. He asks that Sahsbury summon
Mewtys before him, and either persuade him to pay his debt or give
petitioner leave to proceed by due course of law. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 332.)

Peter Nightgale to the Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He was employed to build a causeway
for Sahsbury, and it was agreed that he should be paid £5 for his

* Probate for his will was granted in 1612. [See Lincoln Wills ed, Foster,
1601-52, p. 60.]

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work. Upon completion of the causeway, he was informed that it
was too short and instructed to extend it by 20 feet, which he did.
The extra cost was £5, but out of the total bill of £10 he has hitherto
only received £5. He begs that his additional charges be con-
sidered and allowed by Salisbury. — Undated.
ip. (P. 1731.)

Thomas Foster to the Earl of Salisbury.
[Before May 24, 1612]. — For many years he was a workman in
the service of Lord Burghley, and is now employed by Sahsbury.
He has reached an advanced age and cannot work for his Hvelihood
any longer. He requests Salisbury's assistance to become one of
the King's " mawndye men " for his relief. — Undated.

\ p. (P. 1462.)

Pedigree.

[Before May 24, 1612]. — " Veritable origine, tige et source
commune de Messieurs Cécile, tant des Seigneurs Cécile estabhs
en Angleterre des 140 ans que des Cécile restes en la Bourgougne,
leur patrie, et des Sieurs Cécile s'establissants pntemt en Espagne."
— Undated.

Endorsed: " Papier et Généalogie a devoir estre présente et mis
en mains de Monsieur le Comte de Salisbury, Chef de la Maison
des Seigneurs Cécile en Engleterre, lequel Seigneur Cécile est
suppHe de vouloir s'en faire faire la lecture." 30 pp. (141. 10.)

John Wright to the Earl of Salisbury

[Before May 24, 1612]. — He is a poor gentleman of a company in
Flanders, and was lately accused by a certain Bird — out of malice
or hope of reward — of conspiring to bring about the death of the
King or the Prince of Wales. The charge was wicked and false,
and petitioner's innocence is known to Salisbury. However, he
was committed to prison and was " xvii weeks in fetters, locks and
manacles ", and because of this rigorous treatment and the cold
weather, he has lost the use of his left arm.

He has petitioned the Privy Council for some contribution to-
wards the alleviation of his miserable condition, and asks Sahsbury
to show compassion and further his cause when it comes up for
discussion at the Council table. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1885.)

The manor of Mildenhall.

[After May 24, 1612].— On July 12, 1604, the manor was leased
to Henry Fleetwood, who, on the following day, made it over to the
late Earl of Sahsbury. A number of tenants, includmg Thomas
Saffold, Henry Batchelor, Martin Stamner, and Jasper Shepherd,
claimed to possess leases of parcels of the demesne granted by the
Abbot of St. John the Baptist near Colchester, but realizing that the

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leases were on the point of expiring, " did not onely suffer the sea
walles and bancks to decaye, but did comitt greate wast and spoyle
in woods, and did and doe threaten to plough the marsh and
meadowe grownde ". The late Earl of Sahsbury refrained from
terminating the leases in 1611, and the tenants were prohibited
by injunction from committing the above-mentioned offences.
Nevertheless, despite the injunction and the mediation of Sir
WiUiam Ayloff and others in the matter, the tenants proceeded
with their ploughing of marsh ground and spohation of woods. In
consideration of these facts and " for that the marsh and meadowe
ground, being claye, once broken and turned upp will not come to
his goodnes agayne in an age, soe that the kinge and his ffermors
wUbe greately prejudiced by the ploughing of it, and that the con-
sideration therof did cause the Parhament not to extend the
statute of tilladge to the county of Essex", petitioner requests that a
further injunction be issued prohibiting any more ploughing. —
Undated. Unsigned.
1 p. (P. 2164.)

Accounts.

1612, June 26. — A hst of the recipients of money gifts from the
Earl of Sahsbury, distributed by his steward. They number 29,
and the sum given is £105:6:8.

4 pp. (Accounts 12/26.)

COBHAM.

[After July 25, 1612]. — A case of trespass alleged to have been
committed by Miles Thomas on a piece of land called Ellesolle at
Cobham, co. Kent. Thomas, who is the plaintiff, claims that it is a
parcel of the manor of Cobham which was granted to him by the
King by letters patent dated July 25, 1612. This is contested on
the grounds that the land did not belong to Cobham manor but to
Cobham College, which came into the hands of the Crown through
the attainder of Henry, Lord Cobham, in 1603. It was eventually
conveyed to Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Sahsbury, after whose death
it descended to his son, William, 2nd Earl of Sahsbury. The
remainder of the document consists of notes to prove this counter-
claim, based on former inquisitions and grants. — Undated.

5 pp. (145. 157.)

Accounts.

1615, September 30 to December 5. — Receipts and payments
arising from rents of various properties of WUham, Earl of Sahs-
bury, in London, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Essex and other
counties.

2 pp. (200. 178.)

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David Murray to the King.

[Before November, 1612]. — He is a Gentleman of the Prince's
Bedchamber,* and asks for a lease in reversion for 31 years without
fine of £500 worth of lands. — Undated.

ip. (P. 1215.)

William Goodowrus and George Baker to the
Privy Council.

[1612 or before]. — ^They hold their offices as Sergeant-Surgeons
to the King by letters patent granted by the late Queen EHzabeth, by
virtue of which they ought to have accommodation in the King's
house and " allowance of Budge of Courte". These privileges
they have enjoyed until recently when they were deprived of their
lodging and their " Budge of Courte ". They ask that their privileges
be restored to them in full, or that they be granted a reasonable
payment in exchange for themf. — Undated.

ip. (P. 1383.)

Accounts.
[March 28, 1613]. — Account rendered for books, which include:

Sayrus de Casihus conscientia. 0-15-0

Labarintho. 0- 4^0

Mercurius Gallohelgicus. 0- 2-0

Thesaurus politicus. 0- 2-0

Donnes Pseudomartyr. 0- 8-0

Doctor Cowells Interpreter. 0- 5-0

Quexiota de la Mancha. 0- 3-0

Harangnes de la Court. 0- 5-6

Dictionarie. 0-12-0

Below: " Mr Stuard, I have receyved of thes bookes for my lord
and my Lord of Cranborne within thes 2 yeares as many as come to
31 16S 10^, which I pray pay this bearer Mr Norton, Signed:
Thomas Wilson.

At bottom: 1611, Feb. 15:

3-16-4
Lucius Floras. 0- 2-0

De libertate ecclesiastica. 0- 1-0

Casauboni Responsio. 0- 1-0

4- 1-4

Endorsed: "Mr Billot, stationer, his bill for bookes by him
delivered for my Lords use.

* Prince Henry died on November 8, 1612.

t Probate of Baker's will was granted in 1612. [See Wills proved in the
Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1605-19, Vol. V, p. 31.]

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Summa iiiii i^ iiii^. Received of Mr Brett this 28th of March,
1613, the some of fowre pounds sixteen pence, I say received the
some above by me. Joseph Baysell, for Mr Jhon Billot," 1 p.
(Bills 82/1.)

AccomsTTS.

1613, April 9. — Receipt for £10 signed by John Coprario, be-
stowed on him as a gift by the Earl of Sahsbury.
1 p. (Bills. 82/4.)

Accounts.

[April 10, 1613]. — Receipt for £5 from WilHam, Earl of Sahsbm-y,
which is paid annually to the Itahan church. Signed: Ascanio
BaUano, " ministro deUa chiesa itahana".

Endorsed: " 10 Apriehs, 1613. v^ dehvered to Ascaniors, an
Italian preacher." 1 p. (BUls 82/5.)

Accounts.

[April 12, 1613]. — Receipt for £40 towards the expenses of
Wilham, Earl of Sahsbury's journey. Signed: Thomas Roupe.

Endorsed: "10 Apriehs, 1613. xl^ to Mr Roope towards de-
fraying of my Lords chardge to Rochester at the Palesgrave goeing
awaye." i p. (Bills 82/3.)

Accounts.

1613, April 22.— Receipt for £100 signed by Matthew Lister. It
is " for a clocke I soulde unto him [Viscount Cranborne] in France
to be paid at the birth of his first chUde ".

1 p. (Bills 82/8.)

Accounts.
1613, April 27. — ^Accounts compiled by John Speere. Inter alia:

" For my lords goinge to a playe. vi^ vi^
To the man that sheaweth the
monuments in Westminster." x^

1 p. (Bills 81.)

Accounts.

1613, April 28. — Receipt signed by Thomas Langley, bursar,
for £5:18:2 paid by the farmer of Ruishp, " to the Kings College
in Cambridge, being parte of the sume collected from the tenants
for ayde money payed to the Kings Ma^y^ for the mariage of the
Ladye Elizabeth, his Ma^yes eldest daughter ".

1 p. (Bills 82/7.)

Leases.

1613, August 10. — Leases of holdings in Kent. A list of leases
for July, 1610 is also included.

2 pp. (145. 136.)

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Accounts.

1613, December 26. — Receipt signed by John Ellis, messenger,
for £10, " paid by his Lordship (Wilham, Earl of Salisbury) to
Doctor Campion for apparrell by him provided to be imployed in
there maske ".

1 p. (BiUs 82/10.)

Accounts.

[December 27, 1613]. — Receipt for £5 " for a heade peece for his
Lordship for the maske ". Signed: William Eyton.

Endorsed : "27 December, 1613. vHo Wilham Eaton for a heade
peece for my Lord for the maske." ^ p. (Bills 82/ 10a.)

Verses.
[1613].—

" Ladye changed to Venus dove
Gently guide your Carr* of love.
Lett your sporte from night to daye
Be to make your Carre a waye.
Let beknowne y' have founde at laste
A Christmas Carr — all that surpaste.
Plants ynough thene may ensue
For Som — arsett where none ere grewe.
Som — arsett and Som are lay de,
If none stands well, god morrow mayde." Undated.

Endorsed: " Carr, E Somerset & y^ C[ountess] Suffolk
[? Essex]." 1 p. (140.123.)

Licences.

1615. — A register book containing the names, professions and
place of residence of persons hcensed at the Quarter Sessions held
at Hertford from 1604 to 1615 to be, " comon drovers of cattle,
badgers, loaders, kidders, carry ers, buyers and sellers of corne,
gray ne, butter, eggs, cheese, fish and other dead victualls ".

52 pp. (211. 5.)

Catalogue of Books.

c. 1615. — The first 72 pages of this volume include a fist of books
in the library of Wilham, Earl of Salisbury. They are divided
into (1) Biblical and theological works, (2) History, (3) Law,
(4) Philology and (5) Orders and Offices. Other pages are used
for sundry accounts in different hands (one being Keighley's)
and all of 1615. Amongst names of interest, either as recipients
of rents and annuities or payers of rents are : Lord Bedford, Dean
and Chapter of Christ Church, Canterbury, Dean and Chapter of

* Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, and Frances, divorced wife of Robert
Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex were married on December 26, 1613.

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Rochester, Bishop of Durham, Sir John Davies, King's College,
Cambridge, Sir Thomas and Lady Walsingham, Lord Eure, Sir
W. Bulstrode, Sir W. Hewett, Sir W. Fortescue, Lord and Ladv
Chfford, Sh- T. Cheke, Sir A. Ashley, John Tradescant, Sir f.
Gardiner, Sir T. Pope Blount, Dr Aubrey, Sir W. Gardner, Countess
of Sussex, Sir W. Gerrard, Lord Wotton, Lady Burroughs, Roland
Bucket, Sir W. Garraway, Earl of Montgomery, Sir Edward
Blount, Sir John Gill, John Finet, Sir Henry Guildford.
Catalogue of Books 1.

Sir Thomas Egerton.

1616, November 18. — Speech dehvered by Sir Thomas Egerton,
Lord Chancellor, when he installed Sir Henry Montagu as Chief
Justice of the King's Bench in Westminster Hall on November 18,
1616, followed by the reply of the new Chief Justice to the Lord
Chancellor's speech.

Copy. fols. 17b-22b. (242. 6-7.)

Christopher Keighley to .

[Before March, 1616-17] — " I received a letter from Mr Steward
wherein he willed me to send unto yowe twoe grantes of twoe
pentions of ix^ per annum made by the Deane and Chapter of Bath
and Wells to my late Lord of SaKsbury and my Lord that nowe
is for their hfes, and which I have accordingly sent by this bearer
inclosed in a box. My Lord hath present use of all counterparts of
leases of all such shoppes in the burse as were letten by lease, which
jVIr [Nicholas] Salter* saith yowe did heretofore showe unto him
in youre studdie. The farmers doe desire the counterparts of leases
of diverse shoppes in the burse which were letten by lease, which
IVIr Salter saith yowe did once showe him there, for they denie to
pay the last half years rent due at Midd [summer] last past untill
they have them. And therefore my Lord would intreate yowe
that he may receive them soe soone as possible yowe may, for he
hath great occasion to use the money which they will not pay
untill they have them." — Undated.

Draft in Keighley s hand. 1 p. (General 102/28.)

The Royal Prerogative.

[Before March 15, 1616-17]. — A short treatise on the subject of
" Prerogative Roy all ", in which Sir Thomas Egerton, f Lord
Chancellor, discusses the nature of the absolute prerogative
enjoyed by the King as the " Substitute of God " ; to what extent
it can be delegated to, and exercised by, judges, commissioners and
other officials subordinate to the King's wishes ; and the supreme
importance of appointing men who are not only thoroughly con-
versant with the laws but act strictly in conformity with them. —
Undated.

Copy. fols. 10-12. (242. 3.)

* Nicholas Salter, a farmer of Customs, was created knight in March, 1616—17.
t Died on March 15, 1616-17.

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Sm Walter Ralegh.

1616-17, March 21.— Letter written by Sir Walter Ralegh to
Sir Ralph Winwood, in which he describes the failure of his expedi-
tion to Guiana.

Copy. fols. 12-17b. (242. 4.)

[Printed in Edwards Life of Sir Walter Ralegh, Vol. II,
pp. 350-358.]

Thomas Rashleigh to Robert Forrest.

1617, May 21. — " This bearer, John Pattison, was this tyme 2
yeares questioned by Mr Cooper our Stewarde touching the poynt
of beinge sunne to one (of the Howse of Alterrennys) called Allice
Cecyll. Wheruppon he repaired to one Mr Delay haye beinge
then in towne, who wrote his letter and avowed it that he was so.
My Lord and Master had for a good while before that given fortie
shillings p ann to his said mother, and that time beinge neere
when she died or very Uttle after, his Lordship confirmed that
annewitie to be paid quarterly to him, which he hath to she we
under his Lordships hand." — Wymbleton.

Holograph. 1 p. (Bills 89.)

Margaret Thurlo.

[Before September 15, 1617]. — A certain Thetford claimed a
contract of marriage with Margaret Thurlo, widow, " wherof
maldng braggs in the countrye, and by that means keeping the said
Margaret from others whoe were men of good sort that intended to
be sutors unto hir for mariage ". She sued Thetford before Sir
Daniel Donne* for jactitation of marriage. In an effort to justify
his action Thetford confessed to the charge, but alleged that he and
Thurlo had contracted to be man and wife. He was given a
commission to gather evidence and interrogate witnesses, and to
summon Thurlo to depose on oath. But he merely procrastinated,
and when called to account for the delay pleaded that business
commitments in Devonshire had hindered him from proceeding
with the work of the commission. Thetford has requested a new
commission, but it is argued that there is no reason why sentence
should not be delivered and the case ended without further delay.
Not only could Thetford have delegated the work to a proctor or a
proctor's deputy, but he was actually near the place where the
original commission was to have met, and could have produced
his witnesses if he had not dehberately delayed the holding of the
inquiry. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 2257.)

Patrick Comyng to the King.

[Before September 15, 1617]. — He recently conveyed to him a
letter from the Earl of Lincoln requesting the release of a fine
imposed on petitioner in the Star Chamber. He begs that the fine

* Died on September 15, 1617.

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be removed or that the matter be referred to the Lord Chancellor
and Lord High Treasurer. He refers to his faithful service in
foreign countries, and gives three reasons for the bestowal of the
King's clemency in his case. First, the fine is one which the King
has never been accustomed to take for such a reason as the
demohtion of an old house standing in the Earl of Lincoln's chase,
and which only served for the steaUng of deer and the spoiling of
the game there. Secondly, in removing the fine, the King will be
the gainer, as he will find when he grants petitioner an audience.
Thirdly, the Earl of Lincoln has promised him some rehef.

Note by Sir Daniel Donne: "His Ma^is gratious pleasure is
that this petition be referred to the consideration of the right
honorable Lord High ChaunceUor and Lorde High Thresorer of
England, and to be certified of theire opinions therein."

Note: "This is the coppie of the principall (referred by his
Ma*i6 as heare appeareth) and presented to the Lorde ChaunceUors
hande by Mr Mauld and Mr Shawe his Mamies servaunts in the gallerie
when as his Lordship did take leave of his Ma^i^ last. ''—Undated.

Copy. 1 p. (P. 290.)

Thomas Hooper to William Dowthwaite.

1617-18, January 29. — He has persuaded William Mander that
he will come to no harm if he testifies on behalf of the Earl of
Sahsbury, and has obtained certain details from him concerning
those who hunt m the Chase. But, " for that I was fearefuU in
respect of his povertie he might be overswayed by money and
perswasions of his confederates and theire ffreinds to flye the
cuntrie and never to awnswer, and therebie his confession to have
bene turned upon me as made by my selfïe and so bene discredited,
I thought ffyt to have him examined by a justice of the peace ".
Hooper arranged to have him questioned by Mr Hastings, and to
avoid the suspicions of his former associates. Mander was accom-
panied by an officer, " and the statute ffor hunting primo H :7 reade
and daunger layd open and my selffe ther to charge him with everie
perticular tyme of hunting and his companies, which I knew from
him before, who to save him selffe ffrom daunger (as yt is pretended)
confessed the trewth, which I set downe my selffe at lardge because
I would not have Mr Hastings clerke acquaynted with the pro-
cedings ". He encloses a copy of Mander's confession, together
with the examinations of Charles Schovell and WiUiam Boden,
and has sent the originals to the Earl of Sahsbury. Most of the
subpoenas have been served. The names of Edward Lovell and
John Boyte can be inserted into the biU, since they are guilty of
hunting, but that of David LyUye can be omitted " for yt was
Edward Gardiner, his servaunt, that mended the netts and did
hunt, who is no we upon goinge into Virginia, but I am promised
by his freind that he shall make his confession to Mr Hastmgs er he
goe ". So far, " the officers can not, or will not, apprehend him.
Thomas Lovell can not be taken, and George his sonne is in London,

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who maie be had there ". Discusses further aspects of the business
and the best way to proceed in it.

Holograph. Endorsed: "Maunders confession about Chitered."
2 pp. (General 86/24.)

Maidstone College.

[After April, 1618]. — A particular of the leases of Maidstone
College and of a tenement at Tovil, co. Kent. The former is demised
to Sir John Dackombe, the lease to commence after the death of
the Countess of Kildare, should Dackombe outlive her with his
daughters Alice and Dorothy, of whom Dorothy is now dead.*
The tenement at Tovil is demised to Thomas Peene and the lease is
to commence at Michaelmas, 1628. — Undated.

2 pp. (145. 149.)

Giles Pene to William, Earl of Salisbury.

[c. June, 1618]. — He is a merchant of Bristol, and has long been
a suitor to Sahsbirry and the Privy Council for the King's protection
in regard of the heavy losses which he has suffered on the sea, and
particularly from the " Banck " of Ireland, to which the Mayor
and Aldermen of Bristol have testified by certificate. He requests
that since he cannot get any of the money due to him from the
" Banck ", the Privy Council will recommend him for the King's
protection from his creditors. Some of the latter are determined
to harass him, while others are prepared to accord him a respite
of seven and ten years. — Undated.

i p. (P. 254.)

[See Gal. S.P. Dam., 1611-18, p. 543, and Acts of the Privy
Council, 1617-19, p. 184.]

Verses.

[? 1618].-

' As I went to Walsinghame,

To that olde baudes shrine,
Mett I Marquiss Buccinghame

And a friende of mine.
Met Lo. beggar Hamleton

And Hartfordes Scottish Duke,
Fitz Howarde and close Walden,

Sacrificing to St Luke.

As I went to Bedforde Howse,

To that puritan shrine,
Mett twise begger Hamleton

And a freinde of mine.
Mett I weake Lorde Chamberlaine,

Doncaster there was he,
Mett I proude Lorde Arundell,

Foohsh Montgomery.

* She died three months after her father in April, 1618. [See Notes and
Queries for Somerset and Dorset, Vol. V, p. 133.]

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In counsell thease undertakers breake

The Spanish matche and the truce.
The puritans offer golde and pearle

With Sacrifices to St Luce.
As I went to Buccingham,

To the queene mothers shrine,
Mett I false Vicechamberlaine

And a freinde of mine.

There mett that cowarde St Neot,

Prélats to him did I see
Paying golde for bishopricke,

The cheefe was Dr Fotherby.
Mett I Lorde Tresilhan Cooke,

The greate scale in his hande.
He made there a waxen nose.

Farewell bothe hfe and lande.

Comme, offer up your daughters and faire wifes,

No trentall nor no durge
Will open goode Kinge Jeames his eyes.

But sacrifice to St George." Undated

In William, Earl of Salisbury's hand Ij pp. (140. 125.)

Hatfield.

[? c. 1618]. — Robert, Earl of Salisbury, authorized Walter and
Hugh Morrell to estabhsh a trade at Hatfield to employ 50 persons
from that parish, and if necessary from the parishes of Hoddesdon
and South Mimms, to be instructed in the craft of weaving and
making fustians. For the supervision of the industry he had
appointed WilHam Curll, John Hare,* Roger Houghton,* Thomas
Wilson, Robert Abbott, clerk, one of his chaplains, Nicholas Salter,
John Dackombe,* Edward Darby and Robert Carter to be his
officers, overseers or deputies, to select the 50 persons and attend
to matters concerning the enterprise. Since his Lordship is now
dead, and some of the overseers have also died or are living at a
considerable distance from Hatfield, Wilham, Earl of Sahsbury,
hereby announces his decision to nominate others to take the place
of these officers. They are Sir John Butler, Wilham Curll, Edward
Curll, Thomas Brett, Henry Raynford, clerk, Thomas Shotbolt,
Robert Carter, Robert Abbott, clerk, and George Clerk. Any 8, 7,
6, 5, 4 or 3 of them (of whom Butler, William Curll, Brett, Raynford
or Shotbolt to be one of the quorum) are to select and bring up the
full number of persons to Mty.— Undated.

Draft. Endorsed: "For Mr Morrells trade." 2 pp. (Legal
243/10.)

* Hare, Houghton and Dackombe had all died by 1618.

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Walter Morrell to William, Earl of Salisbury.

[c. November, 1619]. — " The cause of my not attending your
Honnour of layte tymes was to free the suspition that might be
conceived of the countrie that your Lordship should be an inducer
of me to proceed in the former propotition of newe manufacture
to be established.

Those that are against that publique service are soe darkened in
knowledge that they cannot décerne the good thereof. But nowe
within fewe yeares I hope it will make the benefitt appeare aswell
unto others of wisdome as to your Honnour.

Ffor the complainte of the river, I humbly entreat your Honour
to peruse the enclosed [missing] wherein is layd downe the cause
of the annoyance and howe the same may be nowe and hereafter
removed.

Ffor Mr Royston, whoe hath longe made a showe of pulling
downe my little my 11, doth nowe manyfest what he alwaies aymed
att, but I perceived longe since what dyet he was of, and I hope yet,
by your Honnors favour, to prevent his longinge. And I hope ere
longe it shall be imployed in that service to which she [sic] was first
intended by your honourable father. He [Royston] receiveth noe
hurt by the said mylne, or if he doe himself is the cawser therof,
for he hath beene offered more rente for his mylne by reason of
myne then otherwise he could have if myne were away. And his
rent paid him before hand which would content any reasonable
men." Since he, Morrell, has spent so much in working for the
general good, he hopes that the Earl of Salisbury will not allow
anyone to injure his interests, but protect him against the designs
of others. — Undated.

Endorsed: " Manufacture att Hatfeild. Walt, Morrell." 1 p.
(General 102/6.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XXII, pp. 105, 114.]

Sir Edward Cecil to William, Earl of Salisbury.

[1620] July 8. — I have never been more aware of your affection
than now, when I have heard by many of my friends that I am
indebted to your Lordship for being sensible of malicious offices
done to me in my absence. For Baron Dona, you will find by the
enclosed that I had more respect of an ambassador than he of his
integrity, and could justly have been the complainant myself.
We hope to rest with our army on the 17th if the enemy keep his
promise. They would have marched before now, but some
differences arose between Spinola and the Spaniards, who are
disquieted that an Itahan should command their army which is
flying the King of Spain's standard, never done before in these
parts. It is conjectured that Spinola's plan is to take possession
of all the great towns adjoining the Palatinate, although they
are free towns hke Frankfort, Ulm, and Speier. If he gets them,
he win not want for money, and his army will be able to feed off
the Palatinate. — H age.

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Holograph. Endorsed: " S^ Ed. Cecyll to me." 1^ pp. (128.
72.)

[This letter has been printed in Dalton, Life and Times of General
Sir Edward Cecil, Vol. I, pp. 327-328.]

The Dtjke of Buckingham to the Count of Gondomar.

[ ? October, 1620]. — " J'ay monstray une lettre a sa Ma*^ laquelle
a trouve vostre requeste dans icelle fort vraisonable. Il m'a donque
commandé de vous dire que la declaration qu'il fit durant son
conseil consistoit en deux points. Le premier, publier son inocence
sur ce que le monde en avoit parlé si diversement, ascavoir, de
n'avoir jamais donné conseil ou advis a son gendre pour accepter le
Royaume de Bohême, mais au contraire, l'en dissuada a toutes
occasions. Pour le particulher de tout ce que sa Ma*^ en a discouru
la dessus, il remet Vostre Excellence au Baron de Digby qui ayant
esté un des auditeurs vous le peult plus particuHerement racconter.
En somme, sa Mate déclara qu'il estoit encores résolu de persister
constamment en ceste neutraUté pour 3 raisons. La premiere,
pour le respect de sa conscience ; le 2, pour respect de son honneur;
et la 3™^, pour lexample. Pour le respect de conscience parce
qu'il s'assuroit que la rehgion dont il fait profession ne permetoit
point aucune translation de couronnes pour prétexte de rehgion;
que c'estoit une juste querelle que nostre église portoit contre les
Jésuites qui vouloint enthronner et desthronner les Roys et
Supérieurs temporels quoy quilz fussent Turcs ou Infidelles, et que
le monde estoit incline de faire ceste guerre une guerre de religion,
aquoy sa Ma^e estoit de tout contraire. Pour le point de son
honneur, que sa Ma^^ ayant esté sollicité par le Roy d'Espagne de
faire tous les bons offices ou il pourroit pour moyenner un bon
accord entre l'Empereur et les Bohemois, et cest accident de
l'assumption de la couronne de Bohême par son gendre entrevenant
durant le temps que son Ambassadeur estoit en Allemagne pour
moyenner ceste paix, sa Ma^^ fut constainte {sic: contrainte) pour
le respect de son honneur de pubHer son innocence en ceste besogne,
que si a cest heure sa Ma^^ vouloit assister son gendre en ce fait, sa
protestation se trouveroit directement contraire a ses actions, ce
qui seroit bien deshonorable a sa Ma^^. Quant a la 3™^ raison,
touchant l'example. sa Mat^ déclara qu'il estoit dangereux en
example de tous le Rois Christiens d'avouer ceste soudaine transla-
tion de couronnes par l'authorité du peuple et qu'encores que luy
mesme est monarque héréditaire, neantmoins on ne pourroit
imaginer combien ce mal une fois enraciné pourroit prendre pied.
Et qu'il s'assuroit que cest example pourroit toucher au vif son
beaufrere le Roy de Dannemarc qui est Roy électif luy mesme.
Pour ce qui touche la legitime authorité que le peuple de Bohême
pouroit avoir en ce cas selon leurs ancienes et fondamontales loix,
il laissoit ceste question en son entier, en estant du tout ignorant.
Car il faudroit bien feuilleter leurs histoires et privileges devant
que d'estre résolu sur ce point, de quoy sa Ma*® n'avoit que faire,
nestant point juge en ce cas. Mais le second point sur lequel sa
Ma*^ se déclara, estoit sur l'affaire du Palatinat, sur lequel point il

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informa premièrement son conseil qui[l] n'avoit obmis aucun
labeur en traictant avec le Roy d'Espagne tant par ses ministres
qui sont auprès de sa personne qu'en parlant de sa bouche propre
avec Vostre Excellence sur ce point ; et aussi envoyant un ambas-
sadeur exprès a tous les princes d'Allemagne qui ont leur interest
sur ce subject, pour leur remonstrer que puis que sa Ma^e avoit
avec si grand candeur et sincérité continué sa neutralité en laffaire
de Bohême, il avoit bien raison de la représenter combien vivement
l'invasion du Pallatinat touchoit son interest, puis qu'il avoit
donné sa fille a son gendre qui en estoit héritier bona fide, et long
temps devant qu'on pouvoit songer de ces misérables troubles;
qu'a cest heure les petits fils de sa Ma^^ en estoient héritiers legitimes,
et que ce n'est nullement justice ny raisonable de déposséder ses
enfans de leur heritage nestants de rien culpables, principalement
considérant la sincérité dont sa Ma^^ leur grand père a toujours usé
en cest endroit ; qu'U ne scauroit nier que hors d'Espagne il a esté
toujours adverty que l'Empereur seroit contraint de faire c'este
diversion pour s'affranchir de loppression qu'il soustenoit en
Bohême et Austriche; et que Vostre Excellence luy fit la pareille
responce, et aussy que ses ambassadeurs par delà ne luy donnoient
jamais autre espérance; quoy considéré, et que l'invasion a esté
realement faite dans le Palatinat, la nature l'obHgeoit a y pourvoir
par tous moyens legitimes et possibles; qu'il estoit bien vray que
l'hyver asprochant il ne luy estoit possible de faire autrement pour
le present que de faire deux diverses sortes de preparations entrecy
at le printemps. L'une de s'évertuer tant qu'il pourroit de procurer
une bonne paix entrecy et l'esté prochin, en quoy faisant si son
gendre se soubmettra a son conseil, ce qu'il espère qu'il fera, et que
le parti de l'Empereur voudra escouter ses ouvertures comme il
espère qu'Uz voudront, alors il se peut bien promettre une heureuse
paix, et les misères dont la Christienté est menacée tant par dedans
par guerres intestines que par l'invasion du Turc par dehors, seront
alors par la grace de Dieu prévenues. Mais s'il advient que son
beau fils se soumette a son conseil, et que le party de l'Empereur ne
veuille escouter son advis (que Dieu ne veuille), en ce cas il ne
voudroit perdre l'adventage de c'est hyver pour faire preparations
pour la deffence du Palatinat. Mais si son gendre ne vouloit
suivre son advis (ce que Dieu ne veuille) il seroit alors contraint de
le laisser a ses propres conseils. Alors furent mis en avant les
particuliers moyens pour la deffence du Pallatinat comme le Baron
Digby peut aussy bien faire entendre a Vostre Excellence. Et
pour faire fin de ceste longue lettre, il m'a commandé de vous
assurer en l'honneur d'un Roy Christien que cecy est la pure
vérité qui a jamais passé ou en public ou en privé sur cest affaire,
se persuadant que non seulement Vostre Excellence mais aussy le
Roy vostre Maistre y ad joutera plus de foy quaucune faulce
information qui vous pourra estre donnée ou par malice ou par
ignorance . ' ' — Undated .

Copy. Endorsed: " Coppie of a letter from my lord of Bucking-
ham to the Spa: Amb^r." 2ipp. (130. 28.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XXII, p. 130.]

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QUICKSWOOD.

[1620]. — Plan by Robert Lyming of the proposed division of the
gallery at Quickswood into rooms, endorsed by Christopher
Keighley. On the reverse side of the plan is an estimate of the
costs of conversion, \Adth an additional item in Keighley's hand,
and at the bottom is written: " Only rem[aining] de we uppon this
bill, £2:18:0. Ex M, 1620. (Signed) Thomas Heath."— t/ntZafe^Z.

1 sheet. (CPM supplementary 83. General 43/6a.)

The Vice-Chancellor and others of the University of
Cambridge to William, Earl of Salisbury.

[? 1620-21] February 9. — They protest against the indignities
offered to the University, and cite the case of Thomas Bonham,
who ten years previously obtained his Medical Doctorate at Cam-
bridge. He was not only fined and imprisoned by the Censors of the
College (of Physicians) of London, but prohibited from practising
medicine within the City of London. The College refuses to allow any
one to do so within seven miles of the city unless he has been
properly Hcensed by them. The Vice-Chancellor appreciates that
it may be needful for the CoUege authorities to examine the ability
and qualifications of itinerant apothecaries and foreign doctors,
but feels that their attitude towards medical graduates from
Cambridge is an impediment to the progress of science, an offence
to the dignity and status of the graduates and an interference with
their liberties. They refer to the judgment in Bonham' s case
given by Sir Edward Coke, from whom Sahsbury can learn all the
relevant facts. — 9° Calendas Februarias.

Latin. 1^ pp. (136. 144.)

[For this case see A History of the Worshipful Society of Apothe-
caries of London (ed. E. A. Underwood), p. 41 note, and Cal. S.P.
Dom., 1611-18, p. 510.]

Estimates.

[c. February 11, 1620-21]. — Estimates of costs of arming and
maintaining 25,000 foot and 5000 horse, and transporting them
across the Channel. Also estimated expenses of jDro visions and
transport of ordnance and munition. — Undated.

f p. (206. 64.)

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XXII, p. 142.]

Verses.
[c. March, 1620-21]

" Great Verulam is very lame, the goute of goe out feelinge,
He humbly e leggs the crouch of state, with fallinge sicknes

reelinge ;
Diseasd, displeasd he greiveth that state by ffate should perishe,
Unhappye hath no hope should cure, nor high protection cherishe,
Yet can I not but marvayle at this so common reason
That Bacon should neglected be when it is most in season.

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Perhaps the game of Bucke hath viHfied the Boare,
Or els his Cressaunts are in vaine that he can hunt no more.
Be it what it will, the relatyves your antecedents moveinge
Declyne the case accusa tyve, the datyve to much loveinge.
Yonge this greife will make the old, for care with youth ill

matches.
And sorrowe maketh Mewtas muse that Hatchers under hatches.
Bushell wants by halfe a pecke the measure of such teares,
Because his lords Posteriors makes the Buttons that he weares.
Though Edney be cassered, greife moves him to compassion
To thinck that fate should bringe soe lowe the wheele of humili-
ation.
Butler is sore vexed and greives so soone to see
The Hogshead that so late was broacht to runne so neere the Lea.
Fletcher maye goe feather Bolts for such as quickly shoote them,
Now Cockaynes combe is newely Cutt, any man may confute him.
The Redcrosse house lamenteth that this soe fatall daye
Should bringe the fall of Leafe in March before the Springe in May.
Albons, condole the losse of thy great viscounts charter,
Who sufferinge for his conscience sake is turnd Ffranciscan
martir."

Undated.

1 p. (144. 275.)

Salisbury House.

1621, April 28. — Lists and prices of provisions and necessaries
bought for Salisbiiry House from 21st to 28th of April, 1621.
Total expenses amounted to £32:2:8 and the money disbursed was
£26:13:10.

2 pp. (143. 155, 156.)

Sir Edward Cecil to William, Earl of Salisbury

[1621] September 13. — " Though wee are in the feild, wee have
Httell to wryt of notwithstanding the great preparations of the
enemie. Three armies they have on fote, one of them our neigh-
bours, a second in the land of JuUers, and the third in Flanders
where it hath had a repuled \sic\. What the enemie might have
done had hee beene sooner in action, wee dispute not; but the
wonderfull deale of raine that fell is supposed his excuse for march-
ing so late, and the same weather is not yet ceased. So that water
is the thing the States have continua.llie beene beholding to." — By
Embriche.

P.S. " I can not forgitt my humble service to your noble lady,
and my service to Sir Arter Capell, whoe I can never forgitt when
I looke upon his hansome and vahant brother heare, whoe hath
hade as bitter a marche as ever I have scene this 20 yeare with out
Skrinkine."

Holograph. Two seals on pink silk. Endorsed: " Sir Ed.
CecyU to me." 1 p. (129. 73.)

[See Dalton Life and Times of General Sir Edward Cecil, Vol. 1,
p. 364.]

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Eleazer Jackson to the House of Commons.

[Before December 19, 1621]. — He was appointed a public preacher
in Abergavenny, and enjoyed the popularity and approbation of
the inhabitants of that town. But he also inciured the hostUity
of the numerous recusants in the neighbourhood, and two of them
assaulted him at night time in his own chamber, inflicting serious
injuries on him from which he has not yet fully recovered. Because
of the sympathy of the local magistrates with the recusants, and
further threats to his life, he was constrained to leave the town.
He requests that the House of Commons consider the outrages of
which he was the victim, and adopt summary measures in the form
of statutes " for the saftie of ministers that preach the word of
God, as allsoe for the surpressing of those and such like notorious
malefactors being enemies both to the state and true rehgion".
He appends details of the assaults upon him and of the perpetrators :

" Ffirst, they sought to déterre and drive mee from my place by
scandalous aspersions, hereby labouringe to perswade the common
sorte of people to entertaine a dishke of my doctrine. [Marginal
note: viz, WiUiam Prichard and John Meredith; testes: David
Lewis, gent, and Edward Lyney.]

Secondhe, they dayhe breathed forth threatnings against mee
that they would stocke mee and banishe mee out of the town,
and that my doctrine was meere blasphemie. [Marginal note: viz,
William Prichard and Walter Wilhams; testes: Wilham Baker,
esquire and Robert Hewes, clerk.]

Thirdhe, when they sawe their menacing would nott prevaUe,
two noted recusants (one of them suspected to be a seminarie
priest) came upon mee in myne own chamber, intending to murther
mee, which if they had effected they had a horse of one John
Meridith redie sadled att a recusants doore neare unto my lodginge,
where hee the said John Meridith stood at a windowe in an upper
chamber to see the event, butt by Gods providence att that tyme
I escaped from them. [Marginal note: viz Roger Howell and
Roger Powell; testes: Thomas Molf, Fflorence Day and Sibbill
Gunter.]

FourthHe, upon the 14 day of October last, about 8 of the clock
att night, two convicted recusants intruded themselves into my
chamber, first seeking a quarrell by way of disputation, viz con-
cerning Purgatorie and the blessed virgm Marie. Afterwards
they reprehended mee for handhng matters of controversie in the
pulpitt, and further charged mee with the procuring of a warrant
of the peace against one Roger Howell, one of the recusants which
first attempted to murther mee. Whereuppon they laid violent
hands uppon mee, beating and sore wounding mee in the head
with a dagger and a candlesticke, besides a dangerous stabb in the
forehead whereof by the judgment of all men I was nott lil^ely to
recover. And if the dagger had not fallen out of the hilt, they had
murthered mee att that instance. And further forced mee to vowe
uppon my salvation never to preach more in that place, but to
leave the contrie forthwith, otherwise they threatned to kill mee.

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[Marginal note: viz John and Edward Meridith; testes: Lewis
Roberts.]

Ffiftly, since my departing out of the contry (which was secreteley)
one of them which assaulted mee did vowe that if he had knowne
of my departure he would have murthered mee. And (as I am
informed) one of them lyeth lurking att this instant about the cittie
seekeing to take away my hfe. [Marginal note: viz, Edward
Meridith; testes: John Binean of BristolL]

Sixtly, they give out speeches that if they had a king which
would favoure theire rehgion, they would putt us aU to the fire
and faggott, styling us obstinate and damnable hérétiques. [3ïar-

ginal note: viz, Walter Williams; testes: Walter Harvert and
Lewis James.]

Seventhly, even att this tyme all of them walke armed att the
least with sword and dagger, and manie with pistolls, soe that the
Kings loyall subjects dare scarcely walke in the streets. And their
insolence is the greater because their number is greate, and they
have manie (and that nott of the meanest ranck) in those parts to
support them. Besides, they have a scholemaster suspected to
bee a papist, which trayneth upp most of the recusants children
from all quarters of this kingdome." [Marginal note: viz,
Morgan Lewis.] Undated.

2 pp. (197. 15.)

[See Cal. S. P. Dom., 1619-23, p. 323.]

Nathaistiel Davies to William, Earl of Salisbury.

[ ? c. 1622]. — He is a carrier who has been transporting household
stuff and provisions for SaHsbury, at the orders of the Clerk of the
Kitchen, for two years and more from London to Hatfield and else-
where. The bill for this service is £30, and he is forced by necessity
to ask for it to be settled. Previous requests by him have been
ignored and " he can have no money nor direct answere when or
where to have yt ". He begs SaHsbury " in christian pittie " to
send an order for the payment of the sum. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1722.)

[In April, 1622, Nathaniel Davies, carrier, signed a receipt for
payment for bringing wine to Hatfield from London. See Bills 106.]

J. DE Clere to the Duke of Lennox.

[1622 or earher] June 20. — I take this opportunity to assure you
of my constant desire to do you service. The bearer hereof, who
by the wish of his uncle Monsieur de Rosse, is anxious to serve
you, has asked me to pray for him a favourable reception at your
hands. — Clere.

Holograph. French. Addressed: "A Monsieur le Duc de
Lenox mon neveu."* 1^ pp. (197. 18.)

QUICKSWOOD.

1623, December to 1624, May. — Plans for the construction of a
new kitchen and other building operations at Quickswood, endorsed

* Lennox was created Duke of Richmond in 1623.

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by Christopher Keighley, who was Receiver-General to William
Cecil, 2nd Earl of SaUsbury. The plans were drawn up by Robert
Lyming who built Hatfield House and BHckling HaU, co. Norfolk,

4 sheets. (CPM supplementary 82. General 3/2 and 43/6b,
c and d.)

JVIaylards.

[1623]. — ^Map of the manor of Maylards in Havering, co. Essex,
drawn by Samuel Walker.

Endorsed: " 21° Jacob. Mapp of Maylards, 1623." 1 sheet.
(CPM supplementary 85.)

Parliament,

[? April 7, 1624]. — ^The constant presence of petitioners resorting
daily to the Court represents both an inconvenience and a danger
to the King, his household and his officials, since the suitors are
generally of the poorer classes and come from all parts of the realm,
and so are potential carriers of plague. Moreover, they benefit
httle from the procedure because, " being poore and aged [they]
ar with the longe travell out of their contre and longe attendance
wearied and worne out before suche their sûtes can be by due
course of justice understode and ended ". To remedy this state
of affairs, it has been enacted by Parhament that all persons
admitted in forma paujoeris to begin suits at law (except real action
at common law) are to be permitted by the Justices of the Peace
of those shires where the plaintiffs are resident, to commence legal
proceedings in their general sessions, to which the defendants and
their witnesses are to be summoned. The Justices of the Peace are
authorized to hear and determine the cases or refer them to the
Judges of the Assize. Imprisonment is to be the penalty for all
who ignore such summonses or who refuse to comply with the
verdicts and decisions of the Justices of the Peace and the Judges
of Assize. — Undated.

Endorsed: " To the Right honourable the Earle of SaUesbm-ye."
1 p. (197. 46.)

[See Journals of the House of Commons, Vol. I, 1547-1628,
p. 757.]

Robert Clifton to William, Earl of Salisbury,

[After March 25, 1624^25], — He holds a tenement on the manor
of Cranborne for the term of his life by copy of Court Roll. He
compounded with Henry Sherfield, the Steward, for a new lease
of fives, but his brother, Richard Sherfield, the Deputy-Steward,
refused to allow the contract, and substituted another for an agreed
fine. He also promised petitioner that a com^t would be held on
March 25, 1624, to record the surrender of the old, and the grantmg
of the new, lease, but he has failed to keep to his word. Petitioner
requests that Salisbury accept the fine, and order a court to be
convened and the lease granted to him. — Undated.

1 p, (P. 1759,)

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Trevarthen.

[ ? temp. James I]. — A survey of the manor of Trevarthen, with
particulars of rents and details of tenements, tenures and tenants. —
Undated.

21 pp. (P. 2167.)

Walter King to the Privy Council.

[ ? temp. James I]. — He submits the petition on behalf of himself
and others who have been workers and apprentices of the farmers
of the Battery works. Inasmuch as they have been employed for
twenty years by the farmers of the works at Tintern and cannot be
freed, they have requested the Justices of the Peace of Monmouth-
shire on many occasions that they order the farmers to guarantee
their wages, and refrain from dismissing them at their pleasure.
This the J.P.s have refused to do without the warrant of the Privy
Council. Petitioner has been dismissed without just cause, and
has a wife and children dependent on him. This kind of arbitrary
treatment happens to other workers and their famihes every month.
He begs for letters to be directed to three or four J.P.s to regulate
wages and conditions of work at Tintern, or to have the grievances
of the workers investigated; or, alternatively, to give him and
others permission to set up as independent wire-drawers without
molestation from the farmers. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 205.)

to the King.

\tem,p James I]. — In consideration of the many services rendered
by A.B. to the late Queen Elizabeth and to him, the Lord Admiral
granted him a patent to be the measurer of all the coal, salt and
other grain transported in or out of the ports, rivers and creeks of
England and Ireland within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty,
with the usual fees attached to that office. Since the patent is
only for life and the fees not specified, petitioner requests that,
upon a surrender of the patent, the King regrant it for a term of 41
years with specified fees such as are taken in London, for a rent of
£200 to be paid to the Exchequer. — Undated.

ip. (P. 450.)

William Andre wes to the King.

[temp. James I]. — He refers to his many years of service with the
late Queen Elizabeth and with him. He cannot persuade the
officers of the Green Cloth to pay him the pension of 12d the day
which he had requested. He begs for a bill signed by the King for
that purpose. — Undated.

ip. (P. 438.)

John Roderigo to the King.

\temp. James I). — He left his country some time ago to search
for his brother, and having travelled extensively in the Low

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Countries, he was informed that his brother was in England.
Petitioner arrived in London to find that he was in prison for an
alleged crime, which he denies to have committed. He begs that
he and his brother may be allowed to return to Spain. — Undated.

Endorsed: " The humble petition of John Roderigo, a Spaniard,
on the beehalfe of his poore imprisoned brother Frauncis Roderigo,
Spaniard." ^ p. (P. 578.)

to .

[temp. James I]. — Certain recusants once convicted and after-
wards conforming to the law by attending church, are bound
thereby to receive the Sacrament upon forfeiture for default.
Petitioner requests that he be granted all forfeitures which have
been incurred by defaulting recusants in the past and those which
may occur in the future. — Undated.

ip. (P. 759.)

Thomas Cheswise to the Kestg.

[temp. James I]. — He has lost his health in the wars in the Low
Countries in the time of the late Queen Elizabeth, and has no
means of livehhood. He has an aged wife to support, and begs
the King to bestow on him an almsroom or some other means of
subsistence within the realm. — Undated.

I p. (P. 679.)

Agnes Adams to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

[temp. James I]. — She is the wife of Richard Adams, a brick-
layer. After the death of Balchester Ingram, she and her sister
Margery, now wife of Henry Findon, inherited a number of houses
and some land at Ealing in the manor of Fulham, as coheirs and
cousins of the said Ingram. Petitioner married WiUiam Lyne,
deceased, and had a daughter by him. Later she married Richard
Adams, and bore him a son and a daughter. Some 22 years ago
her husband sold off the goods and abandoned her, but last
Christmas he returned home with another wife and three children.
He has now confederated with Findon, and enticed her own
children away from her, and she has been under much physical
pressure to sell her inheritance, even to the extent of being denied
food by them. She asks that Adams, Findon and her children be
summoned before the Archbishop, and that she should be given both
justice and relief in her tribulations. — Undated.

f p. (P. 565.)

James, Lord Colville, to the King.

[temp. James I]. — Many merchants trading with France are
obUged to bring back commodities produced in that country.
Prunes, for instance, are transported from France, and merchants
are forced to take them because of the lack of other kinds of goods.
The French take advantage of this to pack and load fruit which is

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rotten and to increase the price arbitrarily, so that English mer-
chants and consumers are losers by the transaction. Petitioner
requests the necessary authority to be the sole importer of prunes
for 14 years upon payment of the usual duties for this commodity,
and to sell them at the accustomed price. — Undated.
èp. (P. 792.)

James Guthrie to the King.

[temp. James I]. — He is the son of the Laird of Guthrie, now-
dead, and reminds the King that he has submitted many petitions
concerning " the cruell and vyolente slaughter of his deceased
father " without receiving any satisfaction. In addition to other
losses, he has been robbed at sea by English pirates, and on one
occasion lost a number of his crew and £800 worth of goods to an
attack by a ship called the Valentine of Blakeney at the Isle of
Wight, besides being himself injured. Later, on a voyage from
Spain to Ireland, he was driven by a storm into Plymouth, where
Sir Walter Ralegh happened to be. Upon information that
petitioner had come from Spain and was carrying an Irish merchant
who owed him £400, Ralegh summarily laid hands on the merchant,
and confiscated Guthrie's ship and cargo of salt worth £500. He
complained to the King, then of Scotland, and obtained letters
from him to the late Queen Elizabeth asking for redress, which was
never granted him. In consideration of these losses, the King
referred him to the Lord High Admiral of England with a view to
his being appointed to the first master's or purser's post that should
become vacant on a King's ship, but this was ignored. The King
also granted him some recusants, but they submitted to the dis-
cipline of the church, and so he was deprived of benefit from that
source. Not only has petitioner gained nothing from his many
petitions and couple of grants, but he has now been almost a year in
prison and, at the age of 63, is Hkely to end his days there unless
he is relieved. He asks that he be given the benefit of 45 deniza-
tions to help him pay his debts, attend to his immediate wants and
defray travelling expenses to Scotland. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1084.)

Ireland.

[temp. James I]. — ^Money expended on pay and apparel in
Ireland. — Undated.

Endorsed: "A Collection of issues and charges in Ireland."
1 p. ((197. 109.)

Loans.

[temp. James I]. — A hst of counties in England and Wales with
the number of people w4io have lent sums varying between £10
and £200 to the Crown. The total figure for the money lent is
£111,890, contributed by 3443 persons, but excluding London. —
Undated.

Endorsed: " Loane of 3 and 4. The severaU rates and numbers
of the somme lent." 2 pp. (197. 110.)

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Thomas Johnson to the King.

[temp. James I]. — He is a constable of the city of London, and
submits this petition " touchinge the apprehension of a semynarie
walkinge with a darke lanterne which is treason ". On Monday,
the 13th of this present month of July, he received information
about " two perillous enemies obscurelye lurkinge in or about
London, and intendinge by aU hkehhood some mischief to your
Mats person and state ". He was able, at some personal risk, to
arrest the two suspects who turned out to be seminary priests
armed with pistols, and place them in safe custody. As a reward
for this service and its dangerous nature, he requests to be allowed
to keep the £2:09:0 which he seized from them at the time of the
arrest, together with certain relics and apparel belonging to the
suspects . — Undated .

1 p. (P. 1019.)

Offices.

[temp. James I]. — A brief outhne of the action taken by Edward

III, Henry VII and Henry VIII to resume offices and fees granted

n England, Wales and Ireland. Details are given of those which

were included in a general Act of Resumption by Henry VIII at

the request of the House of Commons. — Undated.

Endorsed: " A Resumption by H.7 and H.8 of perticular offices
in reversion." | p. (197. 111.)

The Tower of London.

[temp. James I]. — Details of the amount of meat, bread, beer,
wine, condiments and fuel allowed for the meals of an Earl in-
carcerated in the Tower, with supplementary allowances for the
gaolers and the Lieutenant's servants in attendance on him. The
total expenses are estimated at £12: 15: 0 a week. — Undated.

Endorsed: "DyetioT an ^a^rle." -| p. (197. 112.)

to .

[temp. James I]. — He has been informed that a request by Mr
Brooks to kiU a buck in his park with the King's hart hounds was
refused, although many bucks have been disposed of to other
people. He prefers to leave it to the other's discretion how to
bestow bucks on the gentry who reside in the neighbourhood,
" knowinge that those courtesyes make mens grounds less subject to
hunting ". Nevertheless, he would Uke a note of all the deer
killed by the King's order or otherwise. The King is incensed
by the number that have been killed, particularly as he only gave
orders for two to be disposed of. He has now made it a rule that
no attention should be paid to any man's request unless he has
personally authorized it. The writer has asked the King to be as
liberal in this matter as if he were deahng with his own deer, but
has received the reply that his Majesty, " knowes well enough what
difference to make where he maye command out of right and where
only out of knowledge of the owners duty and affection to yeild

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him any contentment of that which belongeth to them as private
men ". — Undated.

Marginal note: " Mynute to some keeper of a park." 2 pp.
(197. 64.)

Thomas Hughes to the King's Commissioners for Leases.

{temp. James I]. — He requests the renewal of a lease of land and
underwood in Somersetshire, which he has long occupied and com-
pounded with former tenants and grantees for his possession of the
same . — Undated .

1 p. (P. 27.)

to .

[temp. James I]. — The writer understands that by a lease
made by the Dean and Chapter of York of the parsonage of Brough-
ton, the patronage hes in the hands of the recipient of this letter.
He would like this to be confirmed and asks him to come to Court
where they can discuss the matter. — Undated. Unsigned. Un-
addressed.

? Holograph, f p. (P. 2265.)

Francis Swinburne to the King.

[temp. James I]. — His grandfather Swinburne, seised of the
manor of Chop well, was attainted for high treason because of his
attachment to the cause of Mary, Queen of Scots. As a consequence
of his attainder, the late Queen EUzabeth granted the manor to
Sir Robert Constable, reserving for the Crown the woods on the
estate which are, " the onely principall tymber woods fitt for
shipping which your Highnes hath in those north partes of England
and are of great value ". By the attainder of his grandfather
he was disinherited of a patrimony which has belonged to the
Swinburne family from time immemorial. Inasmuch as his grand-
father suffered for his loyalty to the King's mother during her
imprisonment in England, and since petitioner has not the means to
maintain himself like a gentleman and has been left destitute
through the late death of an uncle who served the late Queen
Elizabeth for 42 years, he asks to be appointed to the post of
Sergeant of the Chandlery in the King's Household, " which he
wold accept most thanckfuUie and thincke the same a sufficient
recompence and exchange given in liewe of his patrimony ". —
Undated.

1 p. (P. 1129.)

Journey to Denmark.

[temp. James I]. — Petitioner's journey to Denmark has been
more expensive than he had anticipated. He put to sea at the
end of January, and was so hindered that he did not arrive in
Hamburg until March 12, "at which tyme the frost dissolving in
that country, the wayes were so broken that my passage by lande

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proved extreame chargeable ". After completing his mission in
Denmark, he retm-ned to England in a ship from Amsterdam.
But near the Enghsh coast, not far from Southwold in Suffolk,
a vessel from Danzig attacked the ship on May 3. Petitioner and
other passengers made off in the ship's boat to save themselves,
and the Dutch ship was captured and rifled. Petitioner himself
lost £7 in goods which were taken from his trunk. With some
other EngUshmen he went out to parley with the Danzigers, but
they were repulsed. He asks that this explanation of the length
of his jom-ney be accepted, and the circumstances be taken into
consideration. — Undated and imsigned.

I p.

(P. 1889.

Duchy of Lancaster.
temp. James I]. — A hst of the Duchy's manors situated

within the southern and eastern counties of England and in Mon-
mouthshire, with their respective revenues. They are:

Norfolli.

Suffolk.

Cambridge.

Dorset.

Wiltshire.

Berkshire.

Hampshire.

Buckinghamshire .

Middlesex.

Essex.

Hertford.

Monmouth.

Northampton.

Huntingdon.
Hereford.

Damaged. 2 pp

Gymingeham, Tunsted, Wighton, Methwolde,

Ffakenham.
Mildenhall, Stoke.
Bassingeborne.
Shapwicke.

Alborne, Alborne Chace, Wokesey, Uphaven.
Estgarston, Hinton.
Khiges Sombrone.
Ohiey, Ohiey Park.
Endfield, Endfield Chace.
Highester, Wikes, Mondenhall, Loughton,

Langham.
Hartford and castle, Hertingefordburie, Hert-

ingfordbury Park, Kings Langley.
Monmouth, Skenfrith, Whitecastle, Grosmont,

Hadnock, Ebbothe alias Greenfield.
Highamferrers, Raundes, Rushden, Irchester,

Buckebie, Daventry.
Glatton and Holme.
Aspton Stratton.

Undated.

(146/136.)

Jews.

\temp. James I]. — Copy of statistics relating to the Jewish
inhabitants of towns and locahties in Asia, and some cities in
Europe, as compiled in the 13th century by the Jewish traveller,
Benjamin of Tudela. — Undated.

Endorsed: " ludeorum numerus A» 1175 ex Beniamini peragra-
tione cognitus." 2 pp. (140. 245.)

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Edmonton.

[? temp. James I]. — A plan of property situated in Edmonton. — •
Undated.

Endorsed : " A platt of Roldesbees howse and grounds in Edmon-
ton. Py mes Greene." 1 p. (143. 11.)

[? temp. James I].
Undated.

I p. (141. 66.)

Sally Wall.
-Sketch of SaUy WaU, Rotherhithe.—

Verses.
[? temp. James I]. — ^Two Latin lines:

" Ex deHberatione duorum consilii
Ut nemo tangat unctum domini."

followed by 18 verses in English beginning:

" Domine fac totum is bounde to ryde,

I wait not yf his meir be shode,
He is right loth to lose a tyde,

Bot never to keip the just rode.
If not he doe, I sweir be God

His meir may skipt and so him cast,
I wise no meir he play the tode,

Ffor ipso facto may make him gasp."

and ending :

31 pp.

" But yet at last this counsaU is myne.

To Domini fac totum whear ever he be,
That he would keip good squair and lyne

And so to follow equitie.
I am assurd this will not be,

Becaus he is a renigauld,
Bot yet fac totum of courtasie

Gif thanks to him that this the tauld."

(144. 264.)

Undated.

Verses.
[? temp. James I]. — Latin verses beginning:

" Si nisi musa foret silvestri rauca sonore
Suberassosq sua funderet ore sonos."

and ending :

" Votum scire tamen si nis hoc scihcet op to,
Ut te conservit tempus in omne deus."

Signed: " Cognatus tuus salutis tuae cupientissimus Richardus
Swame." 1 p. (206. 111.)

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ÏV-

Verses.
[? temp. James I]. —

" At the retorn of the brit moring [sic] son
The Hon hee into a lamb did torn,
That savig Kke and cruell wos before
Is nou so meeke theres nothing can be more,
And coninly admiers those he scorned before.
He is a man of sences ahnost alone,
Bot prid ruled then and prudence goferns nou."

(206. 70.)

Verses.

[temp. James I]. —

" Seeinge. From such a face whose excellence
May captivate my Sov'raignes sence.
And make him (Phoebus hke) his throane
Resigne to some young Phaeton,
Whose skilllesse and unsteadye hand
May prove the ruin of the land,
Unlesse great Jove downe from the skye,
Beholdinge earths calamitye,
Strike with a hand that cannot erre
That proud usurpinge character,
And cure (though Phoebus grieve) our woe.
From such a face as can doe soe
Whensoere it hath a beeinge
Blesse my Sov'raigne and his seeinge.

Hearinge. From jests prophane and flatterers tounges,
From bawdy e tales and beastly songs,
From after-supper suites that feare
A parlament or councells eare ;
From Spannish treaties that may wound
The countries peace or Gospells sound.
From Jobs false friends that would entice
My Sov'raigne from heavens paradise.
From prophetts such as Ahabs are
That flatteringe would abuse his eare,
His frowne more then his makers fearino'e.
Blesse my Soveraigne and his hearinge.

Tastinge. From everye fruité that is forbidden,
Such for which olde Eve was chidden,
From breade of laborers sweate and toy le,
From the poore widdowes meate and oyle,
From bloud of innocents oft wrangled
From theire estates and for that strangled.
From the candied poysoned baltes
Of Jésuites and then deceites,
Itahan salletts, Romish drugges.
The milke of Babells proud whores dugges.

Undated.

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Feelinge.

Smellinge.

Seeinge.

Hearinge.

Tastinge.

Feelinge.
Smellinge.

From wine that can destroy e the braine,
And from the dangerous figgs of Spaine,
Att all banquetts, at all feastinge,
Blesse my Sov'raigne and his tastinge.

From pricke of conscience such a stinge
As slay es the soule, heavens blesse my kinge.
From such a bribe as may withdrawe
His thoughts from equity e or lawe,
From such a smooth and beardlesse chinn
As may provoke or tempte to sinn ;
From such a hand whose moyste palm may
My Sov'raigne leade out of the way;
From thinges polluted and uncleane,
From all thats beastlye or obsceane,
From what may set his soule a reehnge,
Blesse my Sov'raigne and his feelinge.

Where myrhe and franckinsence is throwne
On altars built to Gods unknowne,
Oh, let my Sov'raigne never smell
Such damned perfumes are fitt for hell.
Let no such sent his nostrells staine,
From smells that poyson can the braine
Heaven still preserve him. Next I crave
Thou willt be pleased, greate God, to save
My Soveraigne from a Ganimede,
Whose whorish breath hath power to leade
His excellence which way he list.
Oh, let such hpps bee never kist.
From a breath so farr excellinge.
Blesse my Soveraigne and his smellinge.

And nowe, greate God, I humblye pray
That thou willt take that fillme away,
That keepes my Soveraignes eyes from viewinge
That thinge that willbee his undoinge.

Then let him heare, good God, the sounds
And cryes of men as well as hounds.

Give him a tast and timelye too
Of what his subjects undergoe.

Give him a feelinge of their woes,
And then no doubt his royall nose
Will quickly smell these rascalls forth
Whose blacke deedes have echpsd his worth.
They found and scourged for their offences.
Heavens blesse my Sov'raigne and his sen ces.'

Undated.

1 p. (206. 100.)

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The Court of Wards.

[temp. James I]. — ^A survey of the main sources of revenue of the
Court of Wards and the possibihty of augmenting them, discussed
under the following headings : arrears of debts and instalments, fines
for marriages of wards, rents from the lands of wards, fines for
leases, rates at full age, fines for widows' Ucence to remarry, and
fines imposed on sheriffs. — Undated.

4 pp. (206. 85 and 86.)

to .

[? temp James I]. — " . . . Ministery wherein surely men (other-
wyse honest) are both syngularly and factiously opposite, even to the
prejudice and danger of all Monarchy, which your Honor knowes
is contrary to parity: so was it also my fortune to observe how
justly and respectfully his Ma^y interpreted your recommendation,
by which your Honor may assure yourself that yow have so good
place in his Mats heart as yow should wrong yourself, and I should
shewe my self an idiot, yf yow should eyther concejrv^e that yow
had any neede of such an advocate or I should offer to yow so
vajme an office, assuring your Honor (and that I speake of know-
ledge) that yow are to the King my M'" multis nominibus charissimus.
Be pleased therefore to valewe aU things rightly, and then may
yow conclude that his Maty -^voU no sooner have use of a freind but
he wiU say Adam, ubi esl " — Undated.

Unsigned. Imperfect. | p. (197. 61.)

MiDDELBURG.

[? temp. James I]. — A printed advertisement of a sale at Middel-
burg of goods from the East Indies. These include precious stones,
drugs, paternosters, carpets, pepper, etc. — Undated.

1 p. (223. 18.)

The blind and lame inmates of the hospitals of IVIiddlesex
to the King and Parliament.

[temp. James I]. — In former times lands were set aside to found
hospitals for the rehef of diseased people and to segregate them
from the healthy in the city of London and Middlesex. Assistance
was also provided in the form of tow, hemp, flax, linen and wooUen
cloth, besides fuel, bedding and other domestic necessities. But
these have long disappeared and no relief is now forthcoming from
London. Since the houses have been deprived of their lands,
Hcences under the Great Seal have been granted to the poor to
collect benevolences from charitable people in as many shires as
the Lord ChanceUor (upon certificate from two J.P.s in Middlesex)
thought desirable, and the annual benefit to each hospital amounted
to £30 or thereabouts. But these hcences were repealed in 1597-8,
and it was then ordered that every shire should be taxed and one
yearly sum levied for the maintenance of poor houses in each
county. This was beneficial and advantageous to such houses,

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except in Middlesex, which is a small shire, where there are as
many poor houses as in any two other shires and the incidence of
diseased persons is considerably higher because of the proximity
of London. Moreover, whereas in other counties the chief cities
join with the rest of the county in contributing, in Middlesex
London is exempted. The stipends are small, varying from a maxi-
mum of £6 to £3, and are not regularly paid to the hospitals. There
are more distressed people than ever before, and all have to rely
upon well-disposed persons " whose charitie likewise waxeth more
coldlie ". In the old days too the weak and impotent remained
in hospitals for the remainder of their lives ; but now the Governors
are surgeons who can cure 20, 30 or 40 persons, and enable them to
work for their living if they so wish. Finally, the roads near
hospitals are infested with beggars, particularly Irish mendicants,
men, women and children; and, as a result, less charity and gifts
are contributed by the nobihty who pass by, not least because
many beggars masquerade as soldiers and are too importunate.
Petitioners beg for sympathy and assistance, and ask that the old
system of hcences may be revived, or some other means adopted
for their maintenance. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 1898.)

A duplicate of the above can be found in (197. 98/4.)

James Cotford to the Kitstg.

[temp. James I]. — The King has many iron miUs within a radius
of ten miles of Cranbrook, which have proved most harmful to the
trade of the clothiers in that part of Kent who employ 20,000 men,
women and children. The consumption of wood by the miUs is
so great that timber has become an expensive commodity, and has
contributed to the dechne of the cloth trade with consequent harm
to shipping and the King's Customs. Petitioner asks that all iron
mills within ten miles of Cranbrook be closed down, except those
which the King considers indispensable for the manufacture of guns.
" Besides your wood is neare gon that except your highnes put them
downe with speede, your countrey will go to ruin and so you shall
decay one of the fruitefuUest countries you have within your
realme." Petitioner was clothier to the late Queen Ehzabeth and,
although 90 years of age, ventures to present this petition on
behalf of the clothiers of Kent. — Undated.

\ p. (P. 2086.)

The Company of the Plumbers of London to the
Privy Council.

[temp. James I]. — ^The Master, Wardens and Assistants of the
Company complain that certain engrossers of lead are selling it at an
arbitrary price and to such " as transport it beyond the seas from
divers ports before it come to the Cittie of London ". This has
resulted in a scarcity of lead, much to the Company's loss, and has
also reduced the quantity available for the King's buildings,

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affected public demand and enhanced the price of the commodity.
They request that restrictions be imposed on the transport of lead
overseas . — Undated .
I p. (197. 45/2.)

Francois Chenell to .

[temp. James I]. — He is in the service of Sir WOham Tresham,
and was entrusted by " vre illust™ seig'i " with a packet of letters
and their distribution amongst the persons to whom they were
addressed. He has attempted by every means to carry out this
commission, but has failed to do so because of the absence of some
people and the refusal of others to receive them for fear of incurring
the displeasure of the King and Council by doing so. Petitioner is
at a loss to know how to proceed in his mission unless " vre illust.
seig" " helps him by making known his favourable opinions in this
place for the safety of the relations and friends of his master, who
are prepared to do all in their power to advance the King's in-
terests . — Undated .

French. Endorsed: " A Tills seig^ secref. Francoys Chenell
povre suphant." 1 p. (P. 1148.)

John Satjnders to the Privy Council.

[temp. James I]. — As a cloth merchant he employed many
hundreds of people in spinning wool for fustian and other clothing
materials at Kirton in Devonshire, and defrayed the expenses of
instructing the unskilled in this craft. After seven years' residence
and activity at Kirton, he was persuaded by the Mayor and com-
monalty of Plymouth to remove himself and his trade to that town,
and to employ the poor there in spinning. An agreement was
concluded, which contained conditions touching allowances for
stock and the provision of a house. Petitioner has implemented
all his undertakings and imparted considerable knowledge of his
craft. Nevertheless, there is a movement on foot to supplant him
and force him to leave Plymouth. With this end in view, his
opponents are exploiting the bond into which he entered to harass
him in all ways. He asks that the matter be examined and judged
by local persons selected by the CouncU for their " worth and
quaUtye ". — Undated.

p. (197. 86.)

Francis Herring to the King.

[temp. James I]. — During the late Queen Elizabeth's reign, his
services were used by the King's agents to affirm his just claims
to the Crown of England, not without the risk of personal danger
to petitioner, as is well known to Sir James Temple, Sir James
FuUerton and Mr James Hamilton. He received many promises of
reward, including a direct royal message from the King conveyed
to him from Scotland by Sir James Temple's brother. He requests
that he be now granted the benefit of two or three recusants,

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" such as shalbe thought proportionable and answerable to the said
services ". — Undated.

At bottom: Resjpublica continetur praemio et paena.

ip. (197. 7.)

to the Keeper of Newgate.

[? temp. James I]. — An order to release Mary Hanley, and to
take security for her return to Newgate within a week. — Undated.
I p. (P. 2143.)

Finance.

[temp. James I]. — Papers concerning state financial matters,
grouped under various headings :

(1) Documents dealing with Crown revenues, Customs, King's
debts. Exchequer payments, remuneration of the King's personal
attendants, with their names and salaries, private loans to the
Crown, pensions, expenses of ambassadors, maintenance of Crown
property, mihtary disbursements, Parhamentary subsidies, etc. —
Mostly undated.

28 pp. (211. 3.)

(2) " Loane money received, how expended." 21 March, 1611-
12.

H pp. (211. 3a.)

The Manor of Poole.

[temp. James I]. — As a reward for his services Chilmett, a servant
to the late Queen Elizabeth, obtained a lease of the site and demesne
of the manor for 21 years. Robert Chambers, who was in the
service of Sir Thomas Heneage, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-
caster, attempted to hinder the passage of the lease, ostensibly on
behalf of the actual tenant of the demesne. He persuaded Chilmett
to assign the lease over to him on the grounds that he (Chambers)
was that tenant. Chambers, in fact, had never been tenant of the
demesne, and this was a trick to undermine the interests of
petitioner who is in actual possession of the demesne. Chilmett
surrendered the lease to Chambers for 100 marks. Petitioner now
requests that he may have a lease in reversion, and is prepared to
pay some compensation to Chambers. Undated.

Endorsed : ' ' Mr Poole . Prayeth to have a lease in reversion of the
mannor of Poole." i p. (P. 1913.)

Silk.

[temp. James I]. — " Certen reasons to move the Kinges Ma*i^ and
his honorable counsel! to graunte unto her Ma^i^ by lease for
xxi yeres the reformation and abuses dayhe used in the trade
and misterie of dyinge of silke and other stuffes mixed with thride
and silke throughout Engelonde.

S.C.-18

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Blacke Silke.

Colored silke.

StufFes mixed,
silke and thridde,
wantinge due
length and
breadth.

Ffyrst. Whereas m dyinge of blacke silke
there is an increase made of every pounde of
silke two pounde and more by unlawfull
mixtures therein used by some of the dyers,
which maketh the saide silke soe massie,
heavie and rotten, to the great deceate of all
men and exceedinghe inrichinge the silke men
and dyars thereof that sellethe the saide sUke
and stuffes that is made of silke or hath any
kinde of silke in them, the reason whereof is
that the saide silke is not whited before itt
bee dyed.

Secondelye. The abuse in couUored silke after
itt is dyed groeth by reason that the silkemen
or some other for them doe geeve an increase
therein with a mixture of certen gryles and
other thinges they use decetefullye to make itt
waye foure ounces in everye pounde above the
ordinarie waighte itt [wjoulde butt otherwise
have.

And whereas there is divers sortes of silke
stuffes made withm this realme of Engelonde,
some of cleane silice and other some whereof
the grounde thereof is thridde and the rest is
silke, which to the vewe and syght of moste
byars thereof is thought and taken to be all
silke; and moste of theise stuffes ase affore-
saide doe differ in breadeth and length which
heretofore they have usualy helde; and for
wante of skilfuU vewers and searchers to
desearne asweU the difference of breadeth and
lengthe of the abuse and deceate in the saide
silke and stuff e, wherin much abuse and a
moste greate and grevions deceite therin
day lie used and offered.

For reformation whereof itt is her Mats requeste that the K^nges
Mati^ woulde bee pleased, by the advise of his honorable counsell,
to graunte unto her Ma**^ uppon every pound of silke died within
England ase aforesaide 4^; and for every peece of syLke stuffe
made of siïke or mixed with thridde and sUke within Engelonde
for the vewe, searche and scale to bee putt there unto by her Ma*^
saide officers and ministers, wherin greate paines, travell and labore
is by them required, 4<i; wherby the saide silkemen and dyars
therof may bee reduced to an upright corse in the dyinge and
selhnge of silke ase aforesaide, which will growe a thinge verye
beneficiall for his Ma^^ Common Welth in generall and hurtfull
to no man whatsoever, for in other forrein cuntries the saide
deceites in dyinge beinge there used is made fellonie by their lawe." —
Undated.

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Endorsed: " Heare within written are certene reasons to move
the Kinge and Counsell to Uke of this her Ma^s sute." f p. (130.

172.)

Bendysh Hall and Radwinter.

[temp. James I]. — A survey of the oak trees growing on the
manors of Bendysh Hall and Radwinter, co. Essex. Their number
is given as 500 and their value at £1 each. 172 ash trees, valued at
6/8 apiece, are included in the survey. Undated.

1 p. (P. 2493.)

ROYDON.

[? temp. James I]. — Particulars of rents from various plots and
holdings at Roydon. — Undated.

In Christopher Keighley's hand. 1^ pp. (P. 2484.)

Hatfield.

[temp. James I]. — Plan of the parsonage of Hatfield by John
Shaw, surveyor. — Undated.

Endorsed: " The plotes of the parsonedg. John Shaw." 1 sheet.
(General 57/23.)

Rates of Pay.

[temp. James I]. — " Cleavers of lathe and pale, Colewood hewers.
Baven makers and workers of Talewood by great :

Cleaving of lathe by the hundered not above iii*^'.

Cleaving of pale by the hundered not above vi^.

Ffellinge and hewinge of colewood by the dosin not above xii^.

FfeUing, makinge and buyndinge of baven by the hundered,
accomptinge sixe score to the hundered and ever}^ baven being fower
foote in lenghte not above xiiii^. And for every lode of talwood

Making and buindinge of brushe baven by the hundered after
sixe score to the hundered made of ramell left of colewood not
above viii^i.

Men servants of husbandrye :

A man servant of the best sort shall not have more by the yeare
then with a levery xl^ and withowt Ivi^ viii^.

The same of the second sort shall not have more by the yeare
then with a levery xxxiii^ iiii*^ and without xl^.

The same of the third sort shall not have more by the yeare then
with a levery xxvi^ viii^^ and withowt xxxiii^ uii^.

A sheppard shall not take more by the yeare then with a levery
xxxiii^ iiii*!.

Women servants :

The best sort of women servants shall not have more by the yeare
then with a levery xxi^ and withowt xxvi^ viii^.

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The same of the second sort shall not have more by the yeare
then with a leverye xviii^ and withowt xxiiii*^.

Butchers servants:

A servant to a butcher of the best sort that taketh the charge of
his master his ware, having a clocke and a payre of bootes of his
master, shall not take more by the yeare then xlvii^.

The same of the second sort that hath not the charge of his master
his ware shall not have more by the yeare then L^ and a payre of
bootes.

Taylors and Shomakers servants :

A taylor servant of the best sort with meate and drynke and
withowt a le very shall not take more by the yeare then liii^.

A taylor of the second sort as aforesayd not more by the yeare
then xh^.

A taylor of the third sort as aforesayd not more by the yeare
then xxx^.

A shomaker servant of the best sorte, beinge married, to have by
the yeare with meate and drynke and withowt a le very liii^ iiii^.

The same of the best sorte, being married, to have for every
dosin of shooes withowt meate and drynke xxii^.

The same of the second sort, beinge unmarried, to have by the
yeare with meate and drynke and withowt le very xlvi^ viii^.

The same of the third sort as before not more by the yeare then
xhs.

The rates for the last yere ar to be continued for this yere
followinge.

Signed: the names of 13 Hertfordshire J.P.s. 1 p. (200. 105.)

Astrology.

[? tem'p. James I]. — " A rule to knowe which signes be good and
which are evell to take anye jornye by land or by water.

(1) If you find the monne in Ayres then take this waye or jorney
towards the east and thow shalt speed full well, for hit is his rule
and course.

(2) If youe find the monne in Tarues then I counsaill you not to
take any jorney, for if you do you maye have harme, and he is best
towards the south parties, for it is his rule and corse.

(3) If you finde the monne in Gemyney then you maye well take
a jorney, for youe shall have no harme but you shall speed best
towards the west parties, for hit is his rule and corse.

(4) If you find the monne in Cansire then doubt you not to goe
wherse you will in helpinge of your frends, but you shall sped best
towards the north parties, for hit is his rule and course.

(5) If you finde the monne in Leo, if you begyne to take any
jornye you shall neyther be full glad nor yet full sad, but you shall
speed best towards the east parties, for hit is his rule and corse.

(6) If you find the monne in Virgol then begyne you no jornye
for you maye repent hit. But if you will needs goe, you shall speed
beest towards the south parties, for hit is his rule and corse.

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(7) If you finde the monne in Libra then doubt you not to goe
wher you will, for you shall sped full well and find all men your
frends, and he is best towards the west parties, for hit is his corse.

(8) If you finde the monne in Skorpio I counsaill you not to take
any jorny, for if you do you maie forethincke hit and repent hit
that ever you went forth ; and he is best towards the north parties,
for hit is his corse.

(9) If you finde the monne in Sagitaryes you shall begyne your
jorney, for why hit shalbe to you full well in all things that you
goe aboute, so hit be in goodnes, and he is best towards the east
parties, for hit is his course.

(10) If you finde the monne in Capricorne, for thy owne profite goe
not from home nor begyne you no jornye nor no other thinge by thy
will, for hit will stand against the (thee) and his course is towards
the south parties.

(11) If you finde the monne in Aquarius be you full glad to begyne
your jornye, for the cause of thinge that you goe for, you shall finde
full redye eyther by sea or by land, and his corse is towards the
west parties.

(12) If you finde the monne in Peises hyt is good to begyne a
jorny or viage for godes sacke, for if thowe goest poorly out poorely
thow shalt retorne agayne, for as you goe out so shall you come
home agayne; you shall not gretly be amendid nor yet spared." —
Undated.

Eîidorsed: " A rule to knowe good day es and badd to undertake
jorneys." Signed: W.C. 1 p. (General 139/13.)

Thomas Hooper to Christopher Keighley.

1625, April 17. — " I have beene much importuned by my brother
Hooper of Boveridge to give bothe my voyces for the election of
twoe such burgesses for Old Sarum as my Lord of Sahsbury for that
purpose should nominate. He hath lykewise desyred me to doe
my uttermost endeavour to procure other freeholders to joy ne
with me in that election, and to let you knowe what I am able to
doe therein. You shall therefore understand that if I knowe of the
tyme of the election I wilbe ready to give one of my voyces to any
one that it shall please my Lord of Salisbury to name, but for my
other voyce I desyre his Lordshippes pardone if I dispose of it
otherwise in regard I have made a promise thereof heretofore.
There is but one freeholder in whom I have any interest, who by
reason of sicknes is not lykely to be present at the election. All the
rest that I know (except me) are wholy at Mr Sherfieldes comaunde,
who hath hither unto of late made choyce of whomesoever it
pleased him. His power is such in this busines that I think he
maye make whome he will, and I doe think he will name none but
such as my Lord of Salisbury shall desyre it for." — Sarum.

Holograph. 1 p. (General 84/9.)

Bridget Lucas to William, Earl of Salisbury.

[ ? After April, 1625]. — She is the wife of Francis Lucas, and they
were until recently tenants of Salisbury's farm at Elmset, co.

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Suffolk. Upon the expiration of their old lease, they were granted
a new one. Her husband is heavily engaged in sureties and has
been forced to leave, but before doing so he took the precaution of
conveying all his goods to the baihff and discharging all his debts to
Sahsbury. But his debts to other creditors cannot be paid and
there is Httle prospect of his being able to do so. Petitioner asks
for some yearly maintenance for herself and her children during
the term of their lease, which was granted for 21 years. " otherwise
they must com to the parishe charge in this their aged estate and
their poore children be utterhe cast away." — Undated.

fp. (P. 1739.)

[See General 84/2, which is a letter dated April 25, 1625, in
which Lucas announces his intention to resign the farm.]

George Fyler to Christopher Keighley.

1625, December 1. — " I have received sad but serious newes from
Cambridge of Mr Buckly his dangerous sicknesse. Relation makes
his case desperate and his recovery not to be expected without a
miracle. Let me fay le of my best desires if I sorrow not truely and
praye unfaynedly for his dehverance. There are some in that
Universitye who are working powerftdl meanes (as I am certeinly
informed) for his hveing at Damerham to my Lord." Mr Stilling-
fleet has been prevented from coming to London because of his
children " who are sick of the meazles." He requests Keighley to
help him to obtain the Kving of Damerham from the Earl of
Salisbury. — Cranborne.

Holograph | p. (General 87/27.)

[William, Earl of Salisbury] to .

[Before January 13, 1625-26]. — He refers to the King's resolution
to hold a Parhament. " Therefore I must intreat you to take some
present course that I may have the nominatinge of the burgesses
for Old Sarum. I understand that Mr Hoper of Sahsburie is a
freeholder there, and therefore to prefent anie danger by him, I have
written unto him to let me have his assistance which I perswade
my selfe he will doe ; and then I make no doubte that by your
meanes I shalbe sure to have them both, which wilbe more unto
me at this tyme, in regard I ame importuned for them by some
freinds, then a thinge of better valewe." — Undated.
Draft in Keighley' s hand. \ p. (General 103/39.)
On reverse : Draft of a letter in Keighley's hand from the Earl
of Sahsbury to Hooper, " I understand that your brother at
Sahsburie is a freeholder within Old Sarum, and hath some tenants
there which have there voices in the electinge of the burgesses.
The last tyme I had the nominatinge of them both and nowe I
make noe doubte if I can gett your brother to consente, but to have
them againe. I would therefore have yowe to goe over to him and
to deale as effectuaUie with him as yowe can, that I may have them.
I shall upon occasion be redie to deserve anie favour he shall doe
me herein." Undated. \ p.

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Christopher Keighley to Henry Sherfield.

[Before January 13, 1625-26]. — " To saye that yowe can be sure
of both places before hand I will not, but I cannot but remember
that I have more then once heard yowe saye that yowe had soe set-
led your lands within the borowe of Old Sarum that yowe had halfe
the voyces (at least) at your owne comaund for that elecen. Soe
that none (as no we it stands) without your consent is hkehe to have
either of those places. But no we I perceave by your letter that
yowe make it doubtfull (in regard of some other voyces) that if
yowe should insist upon both for mee, yowe may be in danger to
loos both, and to incurr the displeasure of some greate ones whoe
have sent unto yowe aboute them, and that if yowe should incurr
there displeasure by giveinge me satisfaction in that which nowe I
desire, yowe are not sure of my favor, alledgeings [? diverse]
particulars by your letter.

I thought I had given yowe such testimonie and full satisfaction
of my favor by former letters that yowe should not nowe have
needed to make scruple of it, and that none (much less your self)
shall suffer, in any thinge wherein I maye sollycit, for doeinge me
service, and presumeinge onehe upon yowe, have sent to noe
other aboute it ". If Sherfield will give him satisfaction in this
matter, he will regard it as a favour. " If otherwise yowe have
anie other or better freinds to pleasure with it rather then me, I
must (althoughe I make noe doubte of it) leave it unto your con-
sideration . " — Undated .

Draft. 11 pp. (General 101/19.)

Thomas Hooper to Christopher Keighley.

1625-26, January 13. — He did not receive his letter dated
January 2 until the 8th. " His Lordship could not have imployed
a man more unfit then myself for this service, to treate with men
whome I have no interest or hope to prevayle (my brother excepted).
Those that have voyces for the election are ffower of my Lord
Chamberlayns officers, Mr Servington his Lordships tenant, ffower
of Mr Henry Sherfeilds brothers and kinsmen that stand seysed of
land to Mr Sherfeilds use; and my brother who I thincke hath
as mutch land as all the rest. But those have bene lately made
freeholders purposely to make burgesses at theire pleasures, that
now my brother can least prevayle, whose ancestors had the whole
burro we and under whose tytle the rest must all clay me. My
brother upon complaynt in the Parhament Howse may have
remedy, or may make as mayny freeholders as they have done.
My brother was sent unto by my Lord Chamberlayns officers,
before I received your letter, for his two voyces. One he promised
and the other reserved for my Lord without asking as allwayes he
hath done. I understand of thentention by my brother, and if I
showld stand for my Lord against my Lord Chamberlayne and not
prevayle, I shall but dishonor his Lordship, knowing he hath sixe
voyces to five, albeit IVIr Sherfeilds freeholders shaU stand for my
Lord, and then no hope. And for me to sohcit Mr Sherfeild in his

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Lordships behalf without his Lordships letter unto him, he will
thincke himself sleighted. . . . Besydes, yow have not named a
man, if to be had, and which wUl nowe be to late, for I perceive
by my brother ther wUbe present election. If his Lordship had
written unto Mr Sherfeild, I thincke it had bene all in vayne, as
yow may perceive it was at the last election. But yf his Lordship
had sent unto my Lord Chamberlayne, doubtlesse his Lordship
would have assented to anythinge our Lord showld have desyerd,
and then upon the least notice thereof to his officers heer they
might both have bene [? sent]), although Mr Sherfeild showld have
opposed it. But if this had bene thought on at my last being heer,
we might have used some better meanes, now to late to speak off.
I have intreated my brother to see what he can do, who is more
powei fuU then myself, who by reason of my sicknes am not able to
travell, but he hath no hope to do good, neyther wiïl he now unlesse
he may have hope to prevayle. The election wilbe so speedy that
I can not send unto yow to name a burgess." — Boveridge.
Holograph. Seal. 2 pp. (General 84/13.)

Britain's Burse.

[c. 1627]. — Eight plans of various parts of Britain's Burse in the
Strand, London. One of them, according to a note in the hand of
Christopher Keighley, was " StUes plott of the burse and the
chardge ". On August 15, 1627, articles of agreement were drawn
up between Keighley and Thomas Styles, a freemason, whereby
the latter undertook to build eleven tenements in the second and
upper story of the Burse. [See Legal 5/64]. — Undated.

S sheets. {CPM. supplementary 84. General 57/72.)

Francis Godolphin to Christopher Keighley.

[Before March 17, 1627-8]. — " I was hopefull to have seen you at
Godolphin before you left the country, and am much mistaken if
you did not promise me that favour. However, if I had had notice
of your going, I would have seen you. My expectation of your
coming mad me respite the sending you this inclosed which I
promised you, and which is a business I conceive might easUy be
brought about if my Lord be pleased to stirr in it. It will be more
for his Lordships honor then his profitt, it will be for both. I need
not tell you this who understand it better. I am sure it would be
for my proffitt too, who receiving this prejudice being under age,
have very just pretence and reason to seek my right now, for
obtaining whereof I would be noe niggard of my purse if your
councell shall incourage us therein. I beheve we shall shortly meet
at Parhament;* if not, I shall be glad to receive from you your
further opinion of this business." — Undated.

Holograph. I p. (197. 139.)

* In the Parliament which met on the above date, Keighley was M.P. for Old
Sarum and Godolphin one of the two M.P.s who represented St. Ives Borough.

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Hatfield.

[1628]. — Plans for the conversion of the Old Palace at Hatfield
into stables. On the back of one of them there are specifications
and requirements relating to bricklayers' and carpenters' work.
In 1628 an agreement was concluded with Thomas Avis and Harrow
for this purpose. [See Deeds 65/2.] — Undated.

4 sheets. (CPM supplementary 81. General 135/3 and 57/9.)

The Allies of Engla^std.

[After 1628]. — A treatise on the principles that should guide the
conclusion of treaties — " the sacred Hgaments of peace ", between
England and foreign governments in the interests of her territorial
security, maritime supremacy and commercial prosperity. The
author assesses the relative strength of those European states
which he regards as potential allies, and their usefulness in con-
taining the aggrandisement of Spain, supported by Austria, and in
neutrahzing the influence of France under Richeheu to whose
capture of La Rochelle he refers.* — Undated.

141 pp. (140. 151.)

Warrant for payment of fees to the Heralds and
Pursuivants of Arms.

[After May, 1630]. — For their fees at the installation of the King
of Sweden into the fellowship of the Order of the Garter, thirty
pounds, and to Garter King of Arms for composition for the upper
garment of the said King, twenty pounds; for their fees at the
installation of the Prince of Orange into the said Order, twenty
pounds, and to Garter King of Arms for composition for the said
Prince's upper garment, twenty pounds. For their fees at the
christening of our dearly beloved son Prince Charles, one hundred
marks; for their fees at the purification of our dearly beloved
consort Queen Marie after the birth of our first begotten son
Prince Charles, forty pounds. And for their hke fees at the
purification of the same our most dearly beloved Consort the Queen
after the birth of our second son the now Prince Charles, f forty
pounds. For the funeral of our said first begotten son Prince
Charles at Westminster, thirty pounds. For the allowances for
their diets and rewards being appointed to summon the great
Estates and Nobility to attend at the said christening, being
employed in that service six days by command signified to the
Earl Marshal of England, as heretofore allowed, that is to say to
the three Kings of Arms, to each of them twenty shillings by the
day; to each of six heralds thirteen shillings and fourpence per
diem ; to each of four pursuivants ten shillings per diem for the six
days, and to Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms for their travail
in delivering letters to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord
Mayor of London and the Dean of Westminster signifying the birth

* La Rochelle capitulated on Octnhp" 28, 1628.
t Born on May 29, 1630.

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of the said Prince Charles, for two days at 20s per diem to each of
them, forty shiUings; amounting in all to fifty eight pounds.
Further to the Kings, Heralds and pm^suivants for largess as hereto-
fore accustomed, that is to say for the creation of eight Earls, viz,
of Kingston-upon-Hull, Carnarvon, Newport, Chesterfield, Thanet,
St. Albans, Carbery and Downe, for each of them five pounds;
for the creation of nine Viscounts, viz, Ascott, Dorchester, Went-
worth, Waineman, Monson, Galloway, Molyneux, Fairfax and
FitzWiUiams, for each of them five pounds ; and for the creation
of eleven Barons, viz., Lords Savile, Wentworth, Butler, Dunsmore,
Powys, Cherbury, Kilmainham, Bellingard, Elmany, Beltarbert
and Thorncastle, for each of them five pounds, amounting for the
said largesses to the sum of one hundred and forty pounds, which
fees and largesses do amount to the sum of four hundred, three
score and four pounds, thirteen shillings and four pence, which our
pleasure is shall be paid unto our said servants without account,
imprest or other charge on them for the same or any part thereof.
Given under our privy seal at our palace of . . . [sic\.

Much corrected. Endorsed: "Draught of the Privy Seal for
4641 13s 4d." 4ipp. (131. 191.)

Musters nsr Hertfordshire.

1631. — " Here foUoweth a discourse of the Muster Master, Mr
George Tooke, of all the passages for his fifees by intercourse of
letters ffrom our Lord Lieutenant and the rest of his Ma^^ privy
councell and the country, with the aunsweares and certificates
from the country to the Lords of his Ma^^ privy councell, and other
occurrences compiled together in order, and how the same now
standeth betweene the country and the Muster M^". Desired by a
spetiall frind.

1629, December 21. To our very good Lord, the Earle of Salis-
bury, his Mats Leiutenant of the county of Hartford.

Whereas his Ma^i*^ and this board have beene enformed that in
many counties of this kingdome both the armes are defective and
the trayned bands nott well exercized in the use of there armes as
were necessary for the defence and security of the Realme, partly
in regard that the Muster Masters have nott in there places per-
formed there dutyes as were requisite, and partly because in some
counties the Muster Masters have nott beene payd and recom-
penced as they have beene in former times and as were fitt ytt
should bee.

Wee haveing taken the same into consideration by his Ma^s
spetiall direction and commandement, have thought fitt to pray
and require your Lordshipp in hke manner as wee doe all his Ma^s
other Leiutenants to take spetiall care and order either by your
selfe or your deputy Leiutenants that your Muster Master doe
hereby dihgently performe his duty according to the directions
following :

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Ffirst, hee is to see that the persons appointed for the trayned
bands bee of able bodyes, fitt quahty and serviceable or else to
acquainte the Deputy Leiutenants that better choice may bee
made if they find cause.

Secondly, to see that there armes bee good and fitt for service,
and that they bee there owne and nott borrowed.

Thirdly, that hee doe assist the captaines and other officers att
convenient places besides the ordinary times of musters, to teach
the trajmed souldyers there duties and postures and the right use
of there armes.

Ffouthly, hee is to have his ordinary habitation in the country
where he serveth, to the end hee may bee in a readiness when the
Lord Leiutenant or Deputy Leiutenants shall thinke fitt to employ
him, and whensoever there shall bee use of him to teach the souldiers
there postures, duties and right use of there armes.

Itt is alsoe thought fitt that in the choice of the Muster Masters
hereafter the Lord Leiutenants doe nott onely find a man that
understandeth and performeth these duties by experience att home,
butt one that hath beene a practique souldier and experte in the
warre abroad, and shall have a good and sufficient testimony of
his good service abroad to bee such as may enable him to the place ;
and if any person doe hold the place of Muster M'* and is nott able
to performe the duty required here to bee donne, the Lord Leiu-
tenant is to displace him and to make choice of an able man such as
is aforesayd in his roome.

And in regard the Muster M^" is expected to bee a person of such
experience and abilities as is aforesayd, and that the paines,
diligence and care required from him is greate, therefore to the end
hee may receive the better encouragement in the service and
ymployment, wee have thought good hereby to pray your Lord-
shipp to give spetiall direction to your Deputy Leiutenants to
meete together and to make certificate to the boarde by the 20th
of Ffebruary next what hath beene the best pay and intertainement
that hath beene most usually heretofore given within the county to
the Muster M^, and by whome and in what proportion the same
hath beene assessed and how leavyed and collected. Whitehall,
the 21th of December, 1629. Signed: Thos. Coventry, Exceter,
Rich. Weston, Manchester, Dorsett, Sa. Eborum, Conway, Holland,
Humphry May, Arundell and Surrey, SaHsbury, Robt Naunton,
Pembrooke, Dorchester, J. Cooke, Theoph. Suffolke.

A letter from the Earl of Sahsbury to the Deputy Leiutenants in
persuance of the former letter of directions from the Lords.

1629-30, January 4. With this you shall receive a letter from
the Lords of the Councell drawne by his Ma^^ speciall commaund
concerning Muster Masters whose generall abiJhties and duties

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therein described and injoyned in the particular of him that holds
the charge amongst us I conceive to have there full satisfaction, hee
being neither wanting in partes or hitherto in practice or care.
Soe that there remaines onely the last pointe concerning the
certificate wherein I must desire your carefuU dispatch according
to all the considerations m the letter specifyed. As likewise that
you would anticipate the prefixed time by sending ytt to mee
somewhat before, that I may have ytt ready to present att the day.
Sahsbury House, this 4th of January, 1629.

1629, February 16. To the Lords of the Privy Council.

By vertue of a letter directed from your Lordshipps to our Lord
Leiutenant, beareing date the 21th of December last, wee make
bolde to certify your Lordshipps as followeth :

Ffirst, wee find that Capt. Henry Swayne about the yeare 1584
and 1585 came downe by the late Queenes spetiall commaund and
appointement with instructions from the Lords of her Ma^^ most
honorable Privy Councell for the mustering and trayneing of the
souldyers of the county. Butt whether hee received any pay from
this county, or how long hee continued that service, ytt doth nott
appeare unto us.

Alsoe wee find that in the yeare 1599 by a letter from the Lords
of her Mats most honorable privy Councell, Capt. Gill, being our
countryman, was recommended by there Lordshipps to the High
Sheriffe and Commissioners for the musters of the sayd county to
undertake the charge of mustering and trayneing of the bands heere,
whoe was accordingly entertayned and received for that service
30^, and more wee know nott.

Ffurthermore, wee find that in the yeare 1607 Capt. Henry
Boteler, another of our countrymen, by the mediation of his
frinds and allyances was elected Muster Master, and his allowance
from the country ffor ffoote and horse was 41^ 10^ which was paid
him or the greatest parte halfe yearely. And afterward succeeded
Capt. Tooke, a gentleman hkewise of this country, whose most
usuall allowance from the country was yearely the same proportion
of 41^ 10^, which summe for the greatest parte thereof was collected
by the High Constables within the severall divisions, and soe payd
over to the Muster M^", butt by whome assessed wee know nott.

And moreover the severall captaines being 5 in nomber upon the
traineing dayes outt of there owne courtesyes have sometimes
given the twoe last Muster Masters forty shiUings for there paines.
Hartford, 16th Ffebruary, 1629. Signed: Jo. Gerrad, Jo. Boteler,
Tho. Pope Blount, Tho. Dacres, Wm Litton.

This certificate being fayrely written and signed by the said
Deputy Leiu tenants, ytt was committed to the care and charge of
Sir John Gerrard to present to the Earle of Salisbury, and by his

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Lordshipp to the Councell Table. Butt his Lordshipp nott likeing
the certificate returned this letter following with the certificate.

1629, February 18. To my very loveing ffrinds, my Deputy
Leiutenants in the county of Hartford.

Haveing perused your letters to the Lords of the Councell in
answeare of theres of the 21th December, I could nott conceive
the cause why the first parte of there letter and that which per-
sonally respects the Muster Master is altogether untouched,
espetially remembring that I shewed Sir Wilham Litton the letter
they of Stafïordsheire had written in the behalfe of theres, which I
purposely shewed in hope that your respects unto mee would have
ledd you to have followed soe faire a president, butt I finde the
contrary. Ffor the Muster M^", if his sufficiency bee nott such as
may merritt a conformable testimony to the parts required and
specifyed in the letter, I am bound by an express clause thereof to
putt an other in his place, and yett to mee you ever seemed to have
a good opinion of him. I observe likewise that throughout the
letter you take occasion to shew the way and manner of election of
Muster Masters: Capt. Henry Swayne by the Queenes speciall
appointement ; Capt. Gill recommended by the Lords of the High
Sherriffe and Commissioners for the musters ; Capt. Henry Boteler
by the miediation of frinds and allyances. This being in the letter
noe enquiry made after the manner and power to elect, soe precise
a satisfaction in the pointe seemes unnecessary and the reason to
mee unconceavable. Besides in the last instance of Boteler, my
ffather being then Leiutenant, I should thinke his election his sole
acte and nott procured by the mediation of frinds and allyes.
Butt as you mention nott my ffathers in Botelers, soe you forgett
mee in Capt. Tookes.

Upon these scruples I have returned you your letter intreateing
you to meete with such speed as may comply with the exigence
of the prefixed time or att farthest I may receive your answeare on
Monday next, desiring you hkewise soe to frame your letter as may
nott give the Lords any umbrag of disfavor in you to this busines,
and thereby you shall respect your selves though you forgett mee.

PS. If ytt chance all of you cannott meete soe sodainely, then
lett ytt bee donn by as many as can conveniently. Sahsbury
House, Ffebr. 18, 1629.

This last letter from the Earl of Sahsbury was by his Lordshipps
footeman brought first to Sir Thomas Dacres on Thursday, the
18th Ffebruary, and was by Sir Thomas Dacres inclosed in a letter
and sent to Sir Richard Lucy and presently from him sent to Sir
John Boteler, and soe handed about to all the rest for a meeteing
at Hartford upon the same busines upon the Saterday ffollowing,
being the 20th of February, which letter from Sir Thomas Dacres
to Sir Richard Lucy was in manner verbatim :

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1629, February 18. I even now received this letter from the
Lord of Sahsbury and although you were nott att Hartford, yett I
suppose that your servant Mr Hurst will give you an account why
that wee mentioned nothing of Capt. Tooke, which was for that in
my Lord of Sahsburyes letter to us hee sayes that hee conceives
that Capt. Tooke was quaUifyed in all things as in the letter of
instructions from the Lords is required, with a touch likewise that
there remayneth nothing for us butt to bee carefuU in the last pointe
concerning the Certificate. Now you see our Lord Leiutenant
writes againe to us and with what expedition hee requires a returne
agame of an account. I understand by Sir Edmund Lucy that
you doe nott stirre abroad as yett, nevertheless I thought fitt to
write to you of ytt that you may please to send to Sir John Boteler ;
and by my Lords letter ytt appeeres that att the farthest wee
give an account on Monday whereby I find ytt very necessary wee
meete againe on Saterday att Hartford att the same place where
formerly wee mett last, which I shall nott fayle to doe if from you I
heere not the contrary, and soe I must bee inforced to putt off my
journey into Northamptonsheire till Monday next. Cheshunt,
18 Ffebr. 1629.

Att Hartford they all mett accordingly (Sir Richard Lucy
excepted whoe was not well) the Saterday following being the
20th Ffebruary, where after long debateing they framed this
letter to our Lord Leiutenante.

1629, February 20. According to your Lordshipps letter wee
mett att Hartford on Saterday, and haveing perused the contents
wee received from Sir WUham Litton that hee conceived that your
Lordshipp shewed him the Certificate of Staffordsheire to satisfy
him that there was a Muster Master there, hee haveing formerly
heard that there was none; and for any further use that your
Lordship intended the shewing of ytt to him, hee understood ytt
nott. As for nott incerting the sufficiency of Capt. Tooke in his
place of Muster Master, wee conceived both by the Lords of Coun-
cells letter as also by your Lordshipps owne accompanying them
that ytt belonged nott any way for us to meddle with; wherein
your Lordshipp declares that for his conformity to the instructions
they were fuUy satisfied and that the latter pointe onely belonged
to us to bee carefull of. And for the other parte of the Certificate as
in the particulars of each Muster Master how hee came to be
commended to the country or att what times, wee humbl}^ crave
pardon if that by writing wee cannott soe well satisfy your Lord-
shipp till we have some opportunity to way te on you. Att which
time wee make noe question of giveing your Lordshipp a full
content. Hartford, 20 Ffebr. 1629. Signed: John Gerrard,
Thomas Pope Blount, John Boteler, Thomas Dacres, Wilham
Litton.

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This letter was by the care of Sir Thomas Dacres sent upp to our
Lord Leiutenant the Sonday following, being the 21 of Ffebruary,
of which letter there was noe returne till the 4th of Aprill following,
at which time the Deputy Leiutenants received a letter from his
Lordshipp in persuance of another from the Lords of his Ma^^ most
hon. Privy Councell, the Councells letter beareing date the 18th of
March, 1629, and our Lord Leiutenants the 29th of the same month.
The coppy of both letters here follow, and first the Councells letter
as they came in order.

1629, March 18. To our very good Lord, the Earl of Sahsbury,
Lord Leiutenant of the county of Hartford.

Wee have received a letter of the 16th of the last month from the
Deputy Leiutenants of the county of Hartford, in which your
Lordshipp is his Mats Leiutenante, wherewith wee are nott fully
satisfyed, for as they advertise what intertainement hath beene
allowed to the Muster Master and how the same was collected, soe
they acknowledg that all hath not beene payd, yett never certify
the names of any refusers and know not by whome the intertaine-
ment was assessed. Wherefore wee thought itt fitt to give your
Lordshipp notice, praying and requiring you both to lett them
know that wee expect more particular answeares hereafter and
withall to give them order and directions to cause the last allowance
being 41 ^ 10^ p anji to bee forthwith assessed upon the county.
And wee doe hereby commaund the said Deputy Leiutenants to obay
and execute the said order and directions with all care and dilligence,
and accordingly to send outt there warrants to the High Constables
for the sayd allowance in there severall divisions respectively,
and Hkewise to returne to this board the names of the refusers
withoutt spareing of any person. Touching the mony given in the
country to the Muster Master for his paynes by the severall captaines
upon there trayning day es, wee conceive ytt to bee very fitt and
reasonable that if any now Muster Master shall deserve well the
same courtesy should bee allowed and continued unto him. White-
hall, the 18th of March, 1629. Signed: Thomas Coventry, Theo.
Suffolke, Grandison, Rich. Weston, Ed. Dorsett, Tho. Edmunds,
Conway, R. Winton, J. Cooke, H. Manchester, E. Newburgh,
H. May.

The Earl of Sahsbury to the Deputy Leiutenants

1630, March 29. With this from mee you shall receive a letter
from the Lords to mee whereby I am required of twoe things. In
omitting the first which containes matter of reprooffe, I shall hope
to find there Lordshipps pardon. Ffor the second, according to
what I am required, I doe order and desire you to cause the last
allowance for the Muster Master being 41^ IQ^pann to bee forthwith
equally assessed upon the county. The rest of the same letter
hath an immediate aspect upon yourselves and therefore I shall not

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need to add further then to desire that your meeteing and answeare
may bee suddaine." Sahsbury House, March 29, 1630.

Upon those letters there was [sic] twoe severall meetemgs, the first
att Hattfeild, the second att Hartford, att which meeteings there was
nothing donne but a general! agreement amongst the Deputy
Leiutenants to way te all in person upon our Lord Leiutenant att
London the 29th of Aprill foUo\^àng, and then to give his Lordshipp
a personall and absolute satisfaction. In the interim a Head of a
Warrant (with as much saflfety to themselves as might bee) was
thought upon to bee presented if all the rest of the other sayd
Deputy Leiutenants should thereunto condiscend, which although
ytt was nott thought fitt to bee presented nor att all thought
necessary to bee sent forth, yett I have hereunto related ytt which
is in this manner :

1630, Aprill 27. Whereas wee have received letters from the
Lords of his Ma^s most honorable Privy Councell beareing date the
18th day of March, 1629, directed to the right honorable the Earle
of Sahsbury, Lord Leiutenante of this county, by which they pray
and require his Lordshipp to give express order and directions to
cause the last allowance of the Muster Master of 41^ 10^ which they
order and commaund to bee equally assessed upon the county, and
that the names of all the refusers without spareing any person bee
returned to the honorable Board ; and in persuance of those letters
one other letter from our Lord Leiutenante beareing date the
29th March following to us his Deputy Leiutenants directed, by
which his Lordshipp doth order and desire the sayd allowance of
the Muster Master to bee forthwith equally assessed and collected
by the High Constables of this county. These are therefore to
acquainte you with there Lordshipps pleasure and commaund for
the execution of the aforesayd service att your owne perills. The
27th Aprill, 1630.

Although this warrant was thus drawne yett ytt never went
forth, for uppon the meeteing of the Deputy Leiutenants with our
Lord Leiutenante att London the 29th of the same month of Aprill,
there was httle or nothing donne butt they had further hberty to
advise till the day following, being Ffryday the 30th of Aprill,
and ytt was then thought fitt that this warrant should lye in
deposito and a petitionary letter should bee presented to our Lord
Leiutenant for his Lordship to certify to the Councell for a volun-
tary and free contribution from the country to the Muster Master,
the copy of which letter ffolloweth :

1630, Aprill 30. To the Right Honorable our very good Lord, the
Earle of Sahsbury, etc.

May ytt please your Lordshipp to receive in account of your
Lordshipps commaund by a letter to us directed of the 29th of

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March, in persuance of letters from the Lords of his Ma^^ most
honorable Privy Councell dated the 18th of March, by which wee,
your Lordshipps Deputy Leiutenants were ordered and com-
maunded to assess and by warrant to cause the High Constables
severally m our divisions to leavye the intertainement for the
Muster Master of this county: that wee have often mett for the
execution of the sayd commaunds, conceive that wee cannott with
saffety to our selves and effect to the service by way of assessment
and warrant for leavy execute the sayd directions. Butt if your
Lordshipp shall please to present (with your favoure) our humble
suite to the Lords of his Ma^s most honorable Privy Councell that
wee may endavour to mainetaine ytt by a voluntary contribution,
wee hope to give you and there Lordshipps full and ample satisfac-
tion in the account of that way. 1630, 30th AprUl. Signed:
R. Lucy, Thomas Pope Blount, Thomas Dacres, John Boteler.

This letter was presented to our Lord Leiutenant the sayd day,
vizt, the 30th of Aprill, being Ffryday, who showed himselfe very
honorable in the [? matter], and as is sayd promised his best
assistance m the furthering of there petition.

Butt the matter being moved by the Justices of Assize att the
Generall Gaole DeHvery att Hartford, the Grand Jury then there
ympannelled, ytt was then putt to the most voyces for a free
gratuity or contribution to the Muster Master, att which time most
of the Grand Jury gave there voyces against ytt.

Att the trayning then following, notwithstanding the gratuity
specifyed in the warrant to the High Constables for the warning
of the musters 1630, all the divisions were in some measure against
ytt espetially Broadwater and Hitchin. Whether ytt was because
they thought ytt a tye upon them in the future or because the
Grand Jury for the most parte had before excepted against ytt,
is unknowne. Butt in the end, by the perswasion of the Deputy
Leiutenants, Hartford and Braughin, Edwinstrey and Odsey,
Caishoe and Dacorum, all these 4 divisions payd in there mony
except 4 particuler men.

Butt Sir Richard Lucy and Sir John Gerrard setting upon the
musters att Wellwin the 31th of August, 1630, ffor the divisions of
Broadwater and Hitchin, there were none payd butt absolutely
refused payment thereof save the towne of Hattfeild and some
2 or 3 small townes more, whoe by earnest entreaties paid in there
monyes.

Itt was alsoe moved att the sessions to the Create Inquest by
the Bench whoe understanding that there was a denyall of ytt
before from the Grand Jury att the Assizes before, utterly refused
to give any contribution to the Muster Master, notwithstanding
the earnest intreaty and desire of the Bench then being.

And upon the musters holden for the sayd 5 divisions this yeare
anno 1631, the country understanding better then they did before
that the money allowed to the Muster Master is nott in a com-
pulsive manner but onely a free gratuity, a thing to bee discon-

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tinued at there o[w]ne wills and pleasures, did generally give way
to ytt, except some few in the division of Broadwater and Hitchin
and so itt continues.
9 pp. (276. 4.)

Britain's Burse.

1633, May 1 to 1639, December 19. — Names of shops, and the
professions and trades of the tenants of Britain's Burse.

The Glove

stationer

The Cheyre

miUiner

The Harrow

tyremaker

The Bible

sempstress

The PercuUys

haberdasher

Princes Armes

perfumer to the Queen

The Girdle and Hangers

The Bird in Hand

The Queens Head

barber-surgeon

The Golden Hert and Garland

painter, stainer

My Lord Salisburys Armes

draper

The Shipp

turner

The Cork

fishmonger

The Bell

girdler

The Halfe Moone and 7 Stars

clothworker

The Griffin

joiner

The Holy Lambe

hosier

The Anchor

mercer

The Popes Head

watchmaker

The Signs of Jacobs Well

The White Lion

The Crowne

The Falcon

The Golden Dragon

The Grasshopper

The Acorne (for French wares)

The Blackbird

The Blue Boar

The Mermaid

(CP. Estate Papers, Box R/5.)

Water supply at St Martin's.

1633, September 9. — Receipt for £100 " beinge in parte towardes
erectinge or newe buildinge of one warehouse neare unto the
Militarie Garden in co. Middlesex, and makeinge a seasterne there
and layinge of water pipes and other workes concerninge the same ".

Signed: Edward Wardour. Endorsed: " Dehvered to Sir Ed.
Warder by way of impresse towardes erectinge or newe buildinge of
one waterhouse." i p. (Bills 210/14.)

Water supply at St. Martin's.

1633, October 7. — Grant by the Kuig to Francis, Earl of Bedford,
William, Earl of Sahsbury, Sir Edward Wardour and Sir OUver

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Nicholas of a licence to build an aqueduct from the spring at
Colman Hedge alias Soe Hoe in the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-
Fields, to St. Martin's Lane and Covent Garden. Details given of
properties and streets through which the projected aqueduct would
pass. — Westminster, 7 October, 1 Car. 9.
Copy. Latin. 6 pp. (Legal 71/8.)

The King's Loan.

[October 26, 1633]. — Printed form of a letter under the privy
seal requiring from the person intended to be addressed a loan to
the King for the purpose of meeting the expenses entailed by the
provision of munition for Ireland, the navy and the Crown's forts,
for which greater sums of money have been expended than during
the past twenty years. A promise is made for the repayment of
the sum lent before a day to be named. — Undated.

1 p. (223. 20.)

[See Cal. S. P. Dom., 1633-34, p. 259.]

Brigstock.

1633. — Map of the parks at Brigstock surveyed by John Hynds
for Wilham Cecil, Earl of Sahsbury.
1 sheet. (CPM supplementary 41.)

Title Deeds.

1634-35. — " An Abstracte of all and singular evidences
remaininge in the Evidence house of the right honourable Wilham,
Earl of Sahsburie, whereby his Lordshipps estate is either derived
by descent, purchase or guifte or otherwise confirmed, setled and
secured, which evidences were thus digested, collected and written
in the yeares of our Lord God 1634 and 1635."

Signed: WHlisbraCoWins, SbuditoT. 210 pp. (363.)

Bermondsey.

[1635 or after]. — Survey of the lands of Wilham Cecil, Earl
of Sahsbury, in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, co.
Surrey. According to notes written in Latin within a legend, the
acreage of the property was 18 acres and 151 perches in 1616 and
18 acres and 147 perches in 1635. — Undated.

1 sheet. (CPM supplementary 51.)

Christopher Keighley to Robert Crichton.

1637-38, February 20. — Before his departure to Newmarket the
Earl of Sahsbury told him to deal with the matter of the pension of
£5 per annum payable to the cathedral of Wells, as to whether it
was payable out of the tithe or glebe; and also to discuss the
question of the pension due to the Earl from the Dean and Chapter,
which had not been paid since the death of Robert Cecil, Earl of
Sahsbury. He informs Crichton that Dowthwaite is to contact the
Chapter in person about it.

1 p. (General 72/5.)

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Peter Theobald to William, Earl of Salisbury.

[ ?1638]. — He is tenant to Salisbury of eleven acres of pasture land
in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, at the rent of £50
per annum, and with free entry to it over an old wall. But by
virtue of a former grant from Sahsbury to Robert Nicholls,* this
entry has been blocked up for the past two years, so that petitioner
cannot reach the plot and is lilvely to be handicapped in the j)ay-
ment of the rent. The wall leased to Nicholls brings in some £3
annually, but the controversy over it has cost in legal charges
over £300 to petitioner and other tenants. Until the matter is
settled there is likely to be httle investment in the improvement
of the property. Petitioner has laid out money in this respect,
but his former appeals to Sahsbury for rehef have been ignored.
He again requests that he be given the right of free way over the
wall to his plot, or, alternatively, that such money be deducted
from his rent as will be necessary to reach a solution by composition
or legal proceedings. — Undated.

ip. (P. 646.)

Salisbury Property.

[After August 26, 1639]. — Papers relating to the property of the
Earl of Sahsbury. They consist of a survey of the manor of South
Mimms, 1599; lease and subletting of the site of the manor of
Hoddesdonbury ; valuation of the rectory of Cranborne ; a note, in
the hand of Robert, Earl of Sahsbury, on the proposal of King
James I to exchange Crown estates for Theobalds; pricmg by
arbitration of lands at Enfield and Cheshunt to be enclosed within
Theobalds Park, 1607; tithes issuing from lands at Hatfield, 1611 ;
and an inventory of household stuff at Cranborne and the Priory
there, dated August 26, 1639.

40 pp. (General 136/2.)

William, Earl of Salisbury to Roger Kirkham.

[Before November 3, 1640].—" The King hath this day resolved
of a Parlement t to begin the 3rd of November. I am very desirous
to have my sonnes of it which makes me thus timely to give you
notise of it to the ende that you may acquaint Mr Keehng and
such others of the better sort of Hartford of my desire of theire
continuance of theire respects to me and my sonne, which I shall
acknowledge with all thankefulnes. I woulde have you presently
goe to St Albones and speake with Mr Pemberton and such others as
you conceave to be most affectionat to me, and lett them know that
I shoulde take it as an expression of theii-e respects to me if they
woulde chose my younger sonne to be one of theire burgeses. If

* Salisbury's grant to Nicholls was dated September 10, 1636. [See CP.
Deeds 218/7.]

t The Long Parliament was summoned to meet on November 3, 1640.

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you finde any difficulty in it, give it over and lett there be as little
notise of it as may be. I am by the Kings commandement to be a
commissioner with 15 other soûles, wherof none of the counsell
but my Lord of Holland, my Lord of Berkshire and selfe, to treate
of an accomodation of this greave busines betwixt us and the
Scottes. This will take up so much time as if I should have
deferred sending to thease townes till my returne, it may be they
mought have an excuse in saying they were ingaged before I sent
to them, which now they cannot doe. Lett me heare from you
what theire answeare is assoone as conveniently you male, which
is all I have to say to you at this time." — Undated.

Holograph. Endorsed: "To my servant Roger Kirkham."
1 p. (114. 118.)

"The Protestants Protestation."

[September 9, 1641].— " Wheras the Erl of Essex, Bedford,
Sufïolke, Clare, Warwick, Bullingbrooke and Nuport, the Lord
Munaway, Wharton, Paget, Rochefort, St. Johns, Mandeville,
Brooke, a packe of half witted Lords having no capacity of being
remarkable for any thing in the state but betraying the honour
and priviledges of the nobilHty under the tutoring of the Lord Say
the Anababtiste; together with Pimm, Hambden, Holies, Clat-
worthy, Haselricke, Martin, Vane the younger, Pennington and
Venn, two bankerout citizens. Perd and White, two principall
pettifoggers. Vane the secretary and St. Johns the sollissitor, both
Judasses, all promiscuously have conspired together against the
King, the crowne and posterity, and have subjected our rehgion to
be meerely arbitrary, have prostituted the honour of Ingland, have
beggered the nation to inriche the Scottes, have protected the ignorant
and the Hcentious sectaryes and sismatikes to stirr up sedition,
to bringe in Athisme, and discountenanced all reverent ministers,
and have endeavoured to take away the common prayer booke:
Know all the worlde that wee the gentrye, souldiers and all the
true protestants doe protest against the foresayde persons as
ennemyes to God, traytors to the King, churche and state, and
desire this our protestation to be recorded in Parlement, and
demand justice against thease incendiaryes of the disaffection
betwixt the King and his people, and that they may be forthwith
banished the kingedome or to be dehvered up to be torne in peeces
by the loyall subjects of a reHgious King whom God preserve from
suche conspiratours.

Dated the day of the nine (sic) Lords protestation against the
common prayer booke."* — Undated.

In William, Earl of Salisbury's hand. Ij pp. (140. 241.)

* For the protestation and the names of the six Lords who supported it, see
Journals of the House of Lords, Vol. IV, 1628-1642, p. 395.

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Abthtjr Strange ways to the King and the House of Lords.

[Before 1642]. — William, Earl of SaKsbury, has owed petitioner
£223 for the last four years for beer supphed to him. Despite
many requests for the money, he has only been paid £60. Since
he cannot bring an action against the Earl, the latter being a peer
of the realm, he asks that the House summon Sahsbury before it
and take some measure for the debt to be discharged. — Undated.

Endorsed in Keighley's hand: " Mr Strangewayes petition to the
House of ParUament."* i p. (P. 1819.)

Accounts.

1643, November 20 to 1644, Michaelmas. — Accounts compiled by
Christopher Budden for Damerham coppices, etc. Inter alia:

Contribution to Sir Vaughan at 8^ 3^ the wicke for 7 wickes. 2-17-9
Paid a rate that was made for a troope horse and for taking

off cartes that was to goe to Wmchester. 0- 9-0

Ffor billettinge 6 men for 2 meales put upon mee for the

copiées. 0- 6-0

Ffor 2 horses put upon me for the copiées, being forth in

service at Weymouth for 5 dales. 0-12-0

Ffor quartering 4 men and 4 horses of Colonell Graves

companie. 3- 0-0

Paid a quarter rate for provision to Shaston. 0- 2-3

Paid a whole rate for provision sent for to Burford. 0- 9-0

Ffor quartering 16 men and 16 horse of Lord Wintworths

companie. 1- 6-8

For 2 horse and a man being forth in service for 14 dales at

Newbery. 1- 1-0

Paid a quarter rate to Colonell Sturges for oats. 0- 2-3

For a bushell of peese that was caried to Compton. 0- 2-6

For a bushell of oates to Whitsbery. 0- 1-6

Paid to Colonell Johnson towards the raising of 15^ in

Damerham. 0-12-0

Paid to Comissarie Jey whilest his Mamies fforces laie in

Sarum for contribution. 3- 8-3

For quartering 10 men and 10 horse of Lord Goorings

companie. 2- 0-0

Paid halfe a rate to Sir Waller in oats to Sarum. 0- 4-6

Paid a quarter rate to Harnam in oates. 0- 2-3

I was caried awaie prisoner by Lord Goorings companie by

Capitaine Padden for rent for the copiées; it cost mee

before I could be released. 0-13-0

Ffor quartering 5 men and 5 horse of Lt. Generall Crum-

mells companie. 1- 5-0

Ffor 2 horse and a man being forth in service for 5 dales to

helpe drawe the guns to Weymouth. 0-15-0

For quartering 2 men and 2 horse of Colonell Ludlowes

companie. 0-10-0

* Charles I left London to organize military opposition to Parliament on
January 10, 1642.

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Ffor a man and horse being forth for 8 daies for the copiées

in service as far as Bridgwater. 0- 8-0

Paid to Langford for the copiées contribution. 1- 6-6

Paid to Halson for the copiées contribution. 2-14—6

Endorsed: "Christopher Budden his accompt for Damerham
copiées " and " These rates and contributions are affirmed to be
assessed on the woods and coppice by the parish." 2 pp. (Bills
254/8.)

Lawrence Maydwell, Johist Negus, Robert Howe, William
Sturges, Andrew Humphreys, Nicholas Brigstock, Thomas
Taylor, John Clithero, Matthew Desborough, senior and
junior, Thomas Watkinson, Thomas Julian, Thomas Batts,
William Fetch, Simon Shaw, widow Stanyan, William Cooper,
Henry Edes, William Palmer and Thomas Browne to William,
Earl of Salisbury.

[? 1644— 45]. — They are the tenants of several grounds in
Brigstock Park, which they formerly leased at high rates " out of
hopes of better tymes ". But their rents have become so burden-
some that they can no longer pay them. They have attempted to
implement their covenants with SaHsbury but some of them,
because of their failure to discharge their obligations, have had
their cattle distrained by his baihffs. They ask that their rents
be abated by 3^ 4^ per acre, or that SaHsbury release them from their
leases and take the grounds into his hands again. — Undated.

ip. (P. 2071.) Endorsed: Jackson, 1642, 1643.

[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XXII, p. 384.]

Mathias Barry to William Collins.

1645, April 22. — He discusses estate matters, in particular the
difficulties of the tenants in meeting their rents and arrears. " The
tenants are yet able to pay a good proportion if any had autoritye
to receive it before their losses be greater, which may bee by the
enemie if they prevayle any thing with us. If you please to
appointe ]\Ir Haddon, who is with us at the garrison, or any other
to be a little sharper in their demands, money may be got. I
shalbee ready to serve you or assist any other for the gayning of
what may be gotten for my lord and to procure what abaitment may
be for the encouragement of the tenants to continue, for I heare
others are ready to leave their far mes and sHp away." He refers
to the sheriff's commission which is in his brother's hands. " Mr
Haddon tells me in the writing of this that the enemie are sequest-
ring the estate, therefore it behoves you to bee speedy in what you
do." — Burleigh.

Holograph. Seal. Endorsed: " Capt. Barry for Essendine."
Addressed: " To my worthy freind Mr WilHam Collins, one of the
Comittee for accompts." 1 p. (General 26/16.)

Christopher Keighley to Mr Haddon.

[?c. 1645]. — He is sorry to hear of complaints against him as to
Milne Green which it was thought he would have allowed to be

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open every third year, since next to it there is a common into which
the Earl of Sahsbury's tenants cannot drive or carry anything
without causing Haddon damage. He advises him again not to
act so inconsiderately towards his neighbours, but to allow Milne
Green to he open every third year without further trouble or
molestation, in case the Earl takes it up as a serious matter, to his
(Haddon's) prejudice. — Undated.
Draft in Keighley's hand. | p. (General 75/32.)

Nicholas Jackson to .

1645, August 4. — He has been to Essendine and distrained some
more cattle which he has brought to Brigstock. Those tenants at
Essendine who have agreed for leases, are to receive an abatement
of one-third of their rents for the past two years, and are to pay
full rent for the third year, according to CoUins's directions. " Those
tennants that are gon out of the towne I have agreed with other
tennants to take theare lands, haveing the third parte abated, they
pajdng all the taxes for the lands. Bewer* fforces doe rage greatly.
They have fetched in to theare garrison 150 men of the best abeelhty
in the country for tax. They have charged uppon aU the townes
tenn or twelve milles aboute them, and charged them att great
soms of money." Brigstock.

Holograph. 1 p. (General 90/18.)

Robert Morgajst to William Collins.
1645, August 20. — He discusses Somerset estate problems, and
refers to certain difficulties with the tenants who are " a company
of atheisticall clownes and all mahgnants or neuters ". They
allege that they had paid 2 years' rent to Ben Harrington, Sir
Ralph Hopton's baihff, and their cattle have been distrained for it.
They refuse to pay their tithes " unlesse I would first undertake
with them that in case the Kings partie should in the interim
compell them to pay for the tithes, then they should not pay yt
agayne to my Lord, and this I was enforced to undertake under
my hand." It has taken him a month to arrive at this agreement,
which v/as advantageous to the Earl of Sahsbury, " for yf I should
have hired men to have gathered yt, the poore which had all the
last yeare would have had halfe at least now, and horses are not to
bee had (the Cavahers havinge lately taken aU away), so that the
charge would have eaten upp the profit. Besides the plague is
very hote in the parishes therefore dangerous to come amongst them,
and the fields are very much spoyled by Gorings army which lay
there 3 or 4 dayes in May last." He has demanded money long
due from the farmers and they complain that they have been
improverished by the King's forces, who have taken away their corn
and subjected them to contributions and free quarters. One of
the farmers, John Jeanes, was imprisoned by Harrington and
forced to give bonds for £100. " My Lords tennants of Martocke
tell mee that the rent hath beene demaunded of them by a gent in
Sir Tho. Fairfax his army for my Lord. Pray lett mee know

* Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire.

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whither you or any else have gyven order to any to demaunde yt."
Any directions to him should be conveyed in a letter which would
be forwarded by " my landlord Henry Jenkins at the 3 Ffoxes
above New Inne ". He hopes to be able to give an account
shortly of Pensford, " for our army is now going ag[ainst] Bristoll
and wee have great hopes of gayninge that place in short tyme ".
He also hopes to be in Bath next week where he will meet ]Mr
Ruddock . — Bridgwater.
Holograph. \\ pp. (General 90/17.)

Cranborne House.
[1646-47]. — Plans of Cranborne House, co. Dorset, connected
with the rebuilding and restoration of the mansion after the Civil
War. These are :

(1) A plan of the house and grounds by Thomas Forte, sur-
veyor, who was paid on April 3, 1646 for surveying " the
ruines and decay of the mannor house." {See Bills
254/3).

(2) Five plans of the house with descriptions of the various
rooms and notes in the hand of Thomas Hooper. (See
Bills and Accounts for 1647 for references to payments
relating to the renovation of the old, and erection of the
new, parts of the house.)

(3) A plan with a marginal note, possibly in the hand of Samuel
Stillingfleet, baihff of Cranborne. (See his letters —
General 3/4 and 12119.)— Undated.

6 sheets. (CPM supplementary 70 a, b, c.)

Anne Segar to William, Earl of Salisbury.

[Before May 10, 1647]. — She is the wife of Thomas Segar, and
has been SaHsbury's tenant in Britain's Burse for 18 years, ten of
them in a house above stairs, for which she paid a fine of £20 and
obtained a lease for 21 years. She also spent £30 in making the
place habitable. SaUsbury, however, pulled the house down and
petitioner was refunded only half her fine. Despite this she leased
a quarter of the ground on which the house had stood, and built a
shop at her own expense in order to provide herself with a means of
livelihood. But for the past four years the shop has remained
empty owing to the present civil troubles and want of trade, so
that she is in arrears with her rent. She has been offered a fine of
£10 for the shop by a reputable tenant, and begs SaHsbury to take
it in satisfaction of her arrears and to accept the tenant also ; or
alternatively to take the shop back into his hands. — Undated.

At bottom: " Mr Hamond will take the shop at vi^ the old rent
and xi fine."*

1 p. (P. 710.)

Thomas Cornig to Robert Lord.
1647, October 19. — He explains that his reason for not answering
Lord's letter was that he could not find anything in which to invest

* A contract for the leasing of the shop was signed between the Earl of
Salisbury and Thomas Hammond on May 10, 1647. [See Deeds 75/16a.]

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the latter's money. " In theis parts there is not any thinge to bee
sold other then the Nuns farme which Mr Rosse intends to parte
withall (as he tells me), and the price wilbee about 1000^, nor
would I advise you to medle therewith seeinge there is noe hopes
of a future terme from the howse of Exeter." He advises Lord
not to abate the rent of his tenant at Bay ton, " corne bearinge soe
great a rate ". He and his wife send their best wishes to Mrs
Lord who is expecting a child. " My wife say es she retaynes some
of deepinge fertilitie." — Deep.

Holograph. | p. (General 90/23.)

Maidstone College.

1647. — A description and valuation of the buildings and lands
which are to be leased from Michaelmas, 1648, on certain conditions
which are tabulated.

1 p. (145. 155.)

Accounts.
[January 15, 1648-9]. — ^A bill for books, mostly Diurnal, Moderate
Intelligence, etc, but also including the following :

Bookers Almanacke 0-0- 3

Wings Predictions 0-0- 4

The Agrément of the

People 0-0- 2

Lyllys Almanacke 0-0- 6

Ashursts Answer to

the People's Agrément 0-0- 3

Smetius 0-2- 4

Greeke Testament 0-2- 6

Lucius Florus 0-0-10

For Mr Greeke Grammar 0-1-4

Edward (Cecil) Possehus Dialogue 0-0- 9

Quarles Emblems 0-4— 6

Virgin 0-1- 6

Farnabys Phrases 0-0-10

Pryimes Protestation 0-0- 1

Pragmaticus 0-0- 2

Primus memento 0-0- 2

List of them that try

the King 0-0- 1

Proclamation against

mahgnants 0-0- 2

Endorsed: " 15 January 1648. Mrs Perryes bill." 1 p. (Bills
254.)

At bottom: Receipt signed by Katherine Perry.

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Accounts.

1648, October to 1649, October. — Expenses incurred by William
Cecil during his sojourn in France, where he was attended on by
Freher who discharged the bills. Many people were entertained
by Cecil, amongst them Forbenius, Dupuis, le Syndicq Godefroy,
Rosencrantz and Creutsmar.

French. 18 pp. (Bills 254/12.)

King's College, Cambridge.

[temp. Charles I]. — A list of revenues accruing to the College,
with notes on reverse. — Undated.

In Christopher Keighley's hand. Endorse: "Monies of Kings
CoUedge." 1 p. (200. 173.)

Verses.

[temp. Charles I]. — Eighteen verses on political subject, be-
ginning:

" But will yow now to peace encline
And languish in the maine désigne,

And leave us in the lurch ;
I would not Monarchy distroy
But onely as the way t' enjoy

The mines of the Church."

and ending :

" Then let us stay and fight and vote.
Till London bee not worth a groate.

Oh, tis a patient beast.
When we have gall'd and tir'd that mule.
And can noe longer have the rule,

Wee'le have the spoyle at least."

3 pp. (140. 128.)

Duchy of Lancaster.

\temp. Charles I]. — Details of the deceit practised upon the late
King James I in the matter of a grant of manors belonging to the
Duchy of Lancaster, whereby the Chancellor of the Duchy was
able to derive considerable financial benefit for himself. — Undated.

Endorsed: " For his Mamies service." 1 p. (197. 96.)

Henry Percy to William, Earl of Salisbury.

\temp. Charles I] August 30. — " Hearing this day by Henry
Jermyn that your Lordship was gonne to Hatfeild, I could not but
trouble your Lordship with these fewe lines, which can tell you
nothing but that I am your most faithfull servant. When you
know this it can be of litle advantage to you, but I comfort my

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selfe when I consider that there is not any man so miserable but att
some tyme or other he may be servicable." Sion.

P.S. " My brother remembers his service to your Lordship."

Holograph. Seal. 1 p. (200. 40.)

Verses.

[? temp. Charles I]. —

Begin: " ShaU I, my worthy friend, despair or think

A man in youth given o'er to lust and drink."

End : " What should I say ? To he it were a foUy,

They drank for sport, I to drown melancholy."

'Duke Tirwhytt"; "Uncle Robert"; " WiU. Sanderson"
" learned Sheldon "; " honest Balchin "; "my fellow Forrest "
" the Rose in Hitchin "; " young Spenser "; " Frank Rogers "
chaplain Marshall ";* " my fellow Whitaker " mentioned in these
verses. — Undated.

21pp. (233. 11.)

Edwaed Pillesworthe to .

1650, September 5. — He will carry out the instructions which he
has received from him. He discusses certain rents and describes
his method of dealing with one Smith. " I doubt not but I shall
deale well enough with him, no we his wife and maide are both gone.
I have caused Davy and Rallphe to lodge in the lowe roome next
the yarde dore under his chamber, which I perceive is not very
pleasing unto him. So that no we hee cannot stirre out but they
must knowe it. As for the day time wee feare him not. I have
allso nailed upp some of Maries out ladgings and locked them
besides, and keepe aU keyes every night in my chamber, which is
next to your honors lodginge over the pantry. AU places about
the howse are as secure as I canne possibly device to make them,
and wee are reasonable well provided with weapons of defence."
He refers to the illness of Mr Watts which almost proved fatal,
but who has now recovered and " is in a faire possibility to see West-
mynster hall once againe the next tearme. His disease (as some
report) was a deepe surfett at the first, which turned to a pestilential
ffeaver.

" I had a coppy of a warrant shewed mee on Tuesday night last
by the high constable of Godliminge hundred in this county from
the Commissioners of the Mihtia for Surrey, wherem my Lord is
charged with two hght horses to appeare on Munday morninge
next at Ripley by nine of the clocke with two able riders uppon
them, eache armed with brest plate and backe, a case of pistolls
and a good sworde." In view of " my Lord's " absence and the
shortness of the summons, he has tried to delay matters by appeals
to Mr Purser, one of the Commissioners, and Mr Justice Westbrooke,

* Possibly a reference to George Marshall, formerly of St. John's College,
Cambridge, who was chaplain to the Parliamentary garrison in Oxford.

285

of Godalming, " whoe is the Captaine under whom they are to
serve ". — Guillford.

Holograph. Endorsed: "Lady Cranborns paper." 1| pp.
(General 27/31.)

The Royal Pakdon.

1660, July 18.— The Royal Pardon granted to William, Earl of
SaHsbury, which also restores to him all lands forfeited for offences
mentioned and freedom from suits, fines, etc. Exception is made
of offences committed against the Act of November 3, 1640, for
reducing the rebels in Ireland, and the Act of Elizabeth 27 against
Jesuits, seminary priests and other disobedient persons, as well as
certain other offences.

1 p. (Deeds 26/2.)

Grant.

1660, November 30. — Henry Cotton, then Bishop of Salisbury,
granted the office known as Bishop's Clerk's Office within the city
of Salisbury, to Robert, Earl of SaKsbury, and William, his son, on
December 8, 1611, together with all the issues and profits pertaining
to it, as well as an annuity of £4 : 13 : 4. WiUiam, Earl of Salisbury,
now grants this same office with its emoluments to Francis Sam-
brooke, of SaHsbury.

Latin. 1| pp. (132. 2.)

Grant.

1661, August 1. — Grant by Humphrey Henchman, Bishop of
Salisbury, to WiUiam, Earl of SaHsbury, and James Cecil, Viscount
Cranborne, of the office known as Bishop's Clerk's office within the
city of SaHsbury, with the fees, profits and emoluments pertaining
to it, together with an annuity of £4 : 13:4 and the right to recover
any arrears of the same. — SaHsbury.

Latin. H pp. (132. 1.)

Bermondsey.

[? 1667]. — Three plans of the property of WilHam, Earl of
SaHsbury, in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, co.
Surrey.

(1) Map of buildings, warehouses and wharfs along the banks of
the River Thames. The names of the occupiers are given, and they
include Banister, Gibbs, Carter, Knight, Gascoigne and Goldsmith.
— Undated. (General 136/4.)

(2) Map of the same without names, drawn by Christopher
Keighley, Receiver-General to the Earl of Salisbury. — Undated.
Endorsed: " The plott. Redereth." (General 62/7.)

(3) Map with detailed drawing of Lady Croft and Cherry Garden
properties. It is almost identical with the map attached to
Legal IQ^l^.— Undated. (Legal 116/11.)

286

The names of the owners in Map 1 appear in a legal document
(Legal 109/6) which contains papers relating to the legal
proceedings between John Gibbs and Charles Kirby as to lands in
St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, in 1667.

3 sheets. (CPM supplementary 51a.)

The Earl of Rutland to William, Earl of Salisbury.

[1668 or before] June 27. — " Your sonne telling mee you please
to sende mee the faunes, I make boulde to sende for them, and I
hope you will doe mee the honneur heerafter to eate of their yssue
in Darbysheir." — Beauvoir.

Holograph. Seal, i p. (200. 137.)

Viscount Cranborne to Viscountess Cranborne.

[1668 or before] June 28. — " My troublesome bussinesse wich
drove mee from you gives mee one common beginning to all my
letters, that I wasse impatient even from that minute I leffte you
to have the happinesse to see you againe. And as it is the oneley
satisfaction I can immagine to my selfe at this distance to writte
to you, soe I shall finde more contentement in one letter from you
then I can possible finde trouble if I lost all in this counterey, for
that sorrow cannot bee unhappy wich heath you for a comforter."
He sends his respects to the Earl and Countess of Salisbury and to
Lady Betty.

Holograph. 1 p. (200. 149.)

Viscount Cranborne to Viscountess Cranborne.

[1668 or before] September 12. — " The sad newes of the childs
death I hard before I receved your letter by one from my Lord
Devenshire to his wife. Yours came to my hands tow or three
dayes after the post. I shall not tell you what a trouble it Muasse
to me. It will be but to increase yours wich I beehve wasse
suffitient anought." Wishes her a safe journey when she comes to
him shortly.

Holograph. 1 p. (200. 143.)

Viscount Cranborne to Viscountess Cranborne.

[Before December 4, 1668]. — " According to my promisse, I
write to you though I have nothing to say but what I have often,
and what you seeme still to doubt off, that I love you above all
things in this world, wich is a very great truth, and you will dis-
obhge me if you question it any more."* — Undated.

Holograph. 1 p. (200. 147.)

* William, Earl of Salisbury, died on December 4, 1668, and was succeeded
by his grandson James Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, as 3rd Earl of Salisbury.

287

Viscount Cranborne to Viscountess Cranborne.

[Before December 4, 1668]. — " It is unpossible to expresse that
wich I teake the greatest dehght in the world, wich is to love you
above all things, and certanley I am obliged to doe it; you doe
expresse soe great kindnesse to mee everey day that I am uneable
to requite it, oneley must admier you for your verteu and love
you for that sweetnesse that nobodey is capable off but your selfe."
He has written to the Earl of Sahsbury about his affairs. — Undated.

Holograph. 1 p. (200. 151.)

The Countess of Rutland to William, Earl of Salisbury,

[Before December 4, 1668].—" How shall I aquitt my selfe to
you for these transcendent oblidging expressions in simpathie with
me, compassion to my chUde. Accept, I humbly beseech your
Lordshipe, of the deepest thankes a gratefull soule is capable, and
beleeve I impatiently attend some worthey action to evidence it
higher. Ever praises to God, I can now say my hopes are greater
then feares and, my lord, this subject of your care and good graces
is bound (and will I doubt not) with her Ufe [to] honour and per-
fectly obey you as shall affectionately serve your noble selfe,
excellent lady and relations." — Undated.

Holograph. Seal. 2 pp. (200. 60.)

The Countess of Rutland to William, Earl of Salisbury.

[Before December 4, 1668]. — " So vast are mine and daughters
obUgations for your repeated favours that by this most noble hand
I presume to offer one mite thus towards my just debt, waiting
some higher demonstration. The condission of her your Lordships
goodnes hath made your creatur, I leave to him who hke you hath
infinitly oblidged both me and her." — Undated.

Holograph. 1^ pp. (200. 63.)

The Earl of Rutland to William, Earl of Salisbury.

[Before December 4, 1668]. — " Wee are all bounde even beyonde
obligation therfore, certainely beyonde expression of thanckes.
My future actions whyles I live shall doe nothing but expresse my
désirs of beeing serviceable. Therfore, you can laye noe command
on me which chearfully and readdely I embrasse not." — Undated.

Holograph. Seal. \ p. (200. 70.)

The Earl of Rutland to William, Earl of Salisbury.

[Before December 4, 1668]. — " I am the worse in the worlde at
wordes, and I hadd rather doe you service then saye my désirs to
itt. The hart setts the hande on worke, therfore must needs bee
the more prompt and readdye. When ever you honore mee with
your commands, you will then see thear is noe greater truth." —
Undated.

Holograph. Seal. \ p. (200. 73.)

288

John Grandorge, Thomas Southorne, William Gibbons,
Thomas Constable and Josias Ffendall to William, Earl of

Salisbury.

[Before December 4, 1668]. — They are all tenants in Britain's
Burse. Salisbury has seen fit to allow certain orders to be made
for the improvement of the Burse. Petitioners inform him that a
number of individuals have privately monopohsed the orders
without the consent of the other tenants. If they are permitted to
exercise the necessary authority to implement the orders, there is a
danger that they may exploit them for their own private ends and
to the prejudice of other tenants, " for that they goe abowte to
debarr your petitioners from seUing those commodities which rightly
do belong and appertayne to their severall trades and are likewise
used by the shop keepers of the exchange in London, whoe have
libertie to trade in anie commodities ". Petitioners ask that the
orders be entrusted to more impartial people chosen by the general
assent of the Burse. — Undated.

ip. (P. 1763.)

Edward Payne and Michael Vincent to [? William, Earl op

Salisbury].

[Before December 4, 1668]. — They request that he accept certain
sums of money for the remainder of their rent because of the losses
they have sustained. — Undated.

Note in Keighley's hand: Regarding a lease.

1 p. (P. 1760.)

John Carter to William, Earl of Salisbury.

[Before December 4, 1668]. — He has been baiHfiP of Hatfield
market for thirty years or so. Recently, being in arrears with his
rent, he was evicted from that office by Sahsbury's servants
without any warning. He wishes to point out that he has never
had any allowance for strays which he has impounded for Sahsbury's
use, although the proclamation of such strays in three markets as
well as their valuation has cost him money. He has now paid all
arrears except four pounds " which if your Honor require at his
hands he is no way able to pay, he being 70 and his wife 80 yeares of
age, and she for the most parte lies bedridd, and have httle to
maintaine themselves in their age." He begs that in the light of
this explanation Sahsbury will remit the debt. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 645.)

John Rowe to William, Earl of Salisbury.

[Before December 4, 1668]. — He is a prisoner in Ludgate. His
son took a shop in Britain's Burse and incurred a debt of £13 : 2 : 6
for arrears of rent. Petitioner engaged himself for the paj^ment
of the debt, of which almost half has been discharged. He is no
longer able to pay the residue because of his reduced circumstances,
and Mr Ketley [Keighley], Sahsbury's " rentgatherer " has attached

289

all the goods in his shop. He asks that he be given some reasonable
time to Hquidate the debt, the more so as it has been incurred by
his son who is guilty of ruining him. — Undated.
\ p. (P. 1742.)

Benjamin Copley to William, Earl of Salisbury.

[Before December 4, 1668]. — Eight years ago he leased a shop in
the New Exchange at £6 'per annum, paid a fine for the lease, and
spent £20 in fitting out the shop. The shop has remained un-
profitable and tenantless, but he has regularly paid the rent until
recently. Since the beginning of the recent troubles in the king-
dom, he has not been able to do so because of the decay of trade,
heavy taxes and other reasons. Sahsbury was considerate enough
to refrain from pressing for payment of arrears at first, but now he
has sued petitioner who is faced with ruin. Inasmuch as he has
had no profit from the shop and is a victim of the hard times con-
sequent upon civil strife, he asks Salisbury either to reduce the sum
due for arrears of rent or to take the lease of the shop back into his
hands. — Undated.

p. (P. 572.)

George Franklyn to William, Earl of Salisbury.

[Before December 4, 1668]. — A year ago Sahsbury commenced a
suit against him for arrears of rent, and petitioner addressed him a
petition in which he explained that he had disbursed money on
fitting up the shop, of which he was tenant, and paying a fine for
the lease. He had received no benefit from the shop and was hard
pressed to maintain his wife and five children. Sahsbury had taken
these circumstances into consideration, and the matter had been
allowed to drop. He now understands from Mr Pomeroy that
Salisbury intends to proceed in the suit, which is boiuid to lead to
his utter ruin since his arrears have increased and his means
become more tenuous in the interval. He requests Sahsbury not to
prosecute the suit, but rather to remit all debts and receive the
shop into his hands once again. — Undated.

ip. (P. 569.)

George Franklin to William, Earl of Salisbury.

[Before December 4, 1668]. — He is a tenant of one of the shops at
the New Exchange. Two years ago, in Easter term, Sahsbury
instituted proceedings against him for arrears of rent. He had
informed Sahsbury of the money he had disbursed to fit up the
shop and to pay a fine for the lease. Sahsbury had taken all these
facts into consideration, and had not pursued the matter any
further. Petitioner had wished to surrender the shop and is still
desirous of doing so. Now he has been given to understand by Mr
Pomeroy that Sahsbury intends to proceed with the action. He
has been seriously ill, and has had to sell his goods to meet medical
charges, besides being unable to attend on Sahsbury to beg him to
discontinue the suit. — Undated.

1 p. (P. 493.)

S.C.-20

290

George Franklin to William, Earl of Salisbury.

[Before December 4, 1668]. — He is tenant of a shop in the New
Exchange. When he took over the lease of the building, he paid a
fine of £50. Later, owing to a recession in trade, he refrained from
taking up the shop and failed to find someone else to replace him,
whereby he found himself in arrears with his rent. SaHsbury has
since sued him and obtained judgment against him. Petitioner
has informed SaHsbury on many occasions of his straitened circum-
stances, and that he has had to absent himself from his work
because of the threat to put the judgment into execution. He asks
that all arrears of rent be remitted, the suit withdrawn, and the
shop taken back into Sahsbury's possession. — Undated.

ip. (P. 377.)

John Drapps to William, Earl of Salisbury

[Before December 4, 1668]. — He is of Newport Pagnell, and
declares that Anne Barnes, deceased, also of that place, was in her
lifetime seised of a shop or stall in the town of Hoddesdon according
to the customs of the manor of that name. When she died un-
married, she verbally and in the presence of witnesses bequeathed
the shop to petitioner who is her natural brother by her mother.
But the shop has escheated to the Earl of Salisbury according to
manorial custom. Petitioner adds that he has defrayed the
expenses of the said Anne during her illness, and those which she
incurred when she was admitted as tenant of the shop, and has
spent much money in repairing the premises. He requests that he be
admitted tenant by Salisbury. — Undated.

f p. (P. 1728.)

Bermondsey.

[Before December 4, 1668]. — " A particular of damages sustayned
by the right honnorable WiUiam, Earle of Sahsburie, out of his
Lordshipps lands att Bermondsey in the countie of Surrey, by
reason of the ffort and brestworks and by cuttinge the bancks
which overflowed the grounds and made them divers monethes
togeather uselesse, as ffolloweth :

Allowance given Mr Sewell his Lordshipps tennants
out of there rents att the request of the Comittee of
ffortifycations as appeares by cirtiificate under 7
of their hands. 306- 1- 6

Damages sustayned by his Lordshipp for the losse of
seaven acres whereon the ffort and brestworks were
built, beinge formerly lett at 2-13-4 the acre for
6 yeares. 96- 0— 0

Damages sustayned by his Lordshipp by ffellinge

downe about 200 great elmes. 30- 0- 0

Ffor cuttinge downe the willowes and spoylinge the

ffences of about 200 acres of ground. 30- 0- 0

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The leavylinge the ground whereon the ffort and brest-
works were built and makeing the ffences with out
which the ground is uselesse will not be undertaken
under 66-13- 4

Totall 528-14-10
Signed: John Pomeray. Endorsed: "A particuler of the

damages susteyned by the ffortification at Bermondsey." 1 p.

(Accounts 118/4.)

The House of Lords.

[temp. Charles II]. — Rules affecting such matters as: the order
of sitting in the House ; the conduct of the Lord Chancellor and
the Judges, the procedures to be observed as regards the debating
of bills, the appointment of committees, and meetings with the
House of Commons; the strict adherence to the dignities and
privileges of the House, etc. — Undated.

5 pp. (140. 259.)

Copper.

[? 17th century]. — " A particular charge ffor the reducinge of a
copper mynerale into a perfect mettall of copper." Description of
the method by which a ton of pure metal is extracted from three
tons of crude ore, and an estimate of the expenses involved in
labourers' wages, purification and processing of the ore, and
transport of the finished product from Leith, Scotland, to London. —
JJTidated.

1 p. (98. 70.)

Notes.

[? 17th century]. — Observations and advice in an epigrammatic
style on a religious (or possibly political) subject. — Undated.
French. Unsigned and unaddressed. | p. (98. 36.)

Provisions.

[? 17th century]. — A Hst of provisions, including poultry,
woodfowl and groceries. — Undated.

At bottom: " Receyved of your lordshipp xxxv^, the ffifteenth
of this moneth."

1 p. (98. 112.)

Ireland.

[? 17th century]. — "The note of sheiche stones as was sente
asheipe borde." The Hst which follows gives the number and
measurements of the stones. — Undated.

Endorsed: "Note of stones brought out of Ireland." 2 pp.

(98. 134.)

292

Music.

[? mid- 17th century]. — Manuscript marked " Tenor ", and con-
taining a part to a French part song of shght consequence with
repetitive French text—" En voulez -vous, madame ". — Undated.

Signed: Carles Tessier.* H pp. (200. 84.)

* Charles Tessier was born at Pézénas, Hérault, France, c. 1550 and became
" musitien de la Chambre du Roy " to Henry IV, King of France.

Verses.

[17th century]. — An ode to the martyrdom of Saint Catherine,
the patroness of orators and scholars. — Undated.

Latin. Copy in 11th century hand. 2 pp. (242. 35.)

Verses.

[17th century]. — An ode on the maidenhood of the same saint. —
Undated.
Latin. Copy in nth century hand. 1^ pp. (242. 36.)

Verses.

[17th century]. — ^An ode to Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury,
on the miseries of England. — Undated.

Latin. Copy in nth century hand. 6^ pp. (242. 32.)

Thomas Becket.

[17th century]. — ^The speech dehvered by Thomas Becket,
Archbishop of Canterbury, to Pope Alexander III regarding
complaints brought against him by certain bishops of England. —
Undated.

Latin. Copy in nth century hand. 17 pp. (242. 24.)

The House or Commons.

[17th century]. — Proceeduigs of the House of Commons from
July 4, 1653, to March 16, 1659, with index of subjects.

627 pp. (262.)

The House of Commons.

[17th century]. — ^The proceedings of the House of Commons from
April 25, 1660, to December 29, 1660, with index of subjects.
720 pp. (263.)

The House of Commons.

[17th century]. — The proceedings of the House of Commons
from May, 1661, to October 10, 1667, with index of subjects.
684 pp. (254.)

The House of Commons.

[17th century]. — The proceedings of the House of Commons
from October 14, 1667, to October 20, 1673, with index of subjects.
676 pp. (255.)

293

The House of Commons.

[17th century]. — The proceedings of the House of Commons
from October 27, 1673, to May 4, 1678, with index of subjects.
620 pp. (256.)

The House of Commons.

[17th century]. — The proceedings of the House of Commons
from May 6, 1678, to December 30, 1678, wdth index of subjects.
485 pp. (257.)

The House of Commons.

[17th century]. — ^The proceedings of the House of Commons
from March 6, 1679, to May 27, 1679, with index of subjects.
382 pp. (258.)

The House of Commons.

[17th century]. — The proceedings of the House of Commons
from October 21, 1680, to March 28, 1681, with index of subjects.
335 pp. (259.)

The House of Commons.

[17th century]. — The proceedings of the House of Commons
from May 19, 1685, to November 20, 1685, with index of subjects.
220 pp. (260.)

The House of Commons.

[17th century]. — Precedents for the House of Commons —
Edward VI to Charles II, with table of contents.

428 pp. (261.)

The Baronage of England.

[17th century]. — ^The privileges and special rights of the Baronage
of England, with table of contents.

132 pp. On one of the leaves is WTitten in an 18th century hand :
Treatise ofy^ Baronage of England write as supposed by John Selden.
(274.)

Treatise.

[17th century]. — A treatise entitled " De Sacramentis ", by Dr.
Arrowsmith, with index of subjects.
Latin. 174 pp. (283.)

Brownsea Island,

[17th century]. — ^Map of Brownsea Island near Poole, co. Dorset.
It includes a legend within a panel which runs as follows : " Browne -
sea is a httle island lyinge by the channell or going forth betwene
Poole and the Isle of Purbeck ; the length thereof by his extreames
is 411 pertches and at the brodest place is over 206 perches. Yt
conteyneth of undrowned lande wheron somthinge greweth

294

354 acres and 4 rods. The nature of the grownd is drie, sandie and
bringeth forth only heath and in some few plases furses. But that
there is at the east end of the land about a howse theare about six
acres that is greene ground and naturale to bringe forth corne.
The lande lyeth very high for the most parte, and into the east parte
thereof betwene two hills a creek of the sea doth ebb and flow, and
at the hed therof is a percell of marris or moore ground. Upon
the southwest parte therof also have ben coperis mynes now
decayed. The land doth yeald cunnies and will feede rother
cattell, horses and sheep, and the better by the woore cast ashore
by the sea," — Undated.
I sheet. (CPM ll/28a.)

King James I's book.

[17th centiu"yj. — ^The Basilikon Dor on, translated from English
into French, with the accompanying introductory note : " Praesent
royal de Jacques Sixiesme, Roy d'Escosse et maintenant aussi
d'Angleterre, premier de ce nom, contenant les Instructions de Sa
Majesté au Prince Henry son trescher filz, traduit de l'Anglois."

French 140 pp. (284.)

Altybynys.

[early 17th century]. — Map of the property called Altyrjniys,
Walterstone, co. Hereford. At the bottom is written: " The Mylle
of Mr Delahay is scituate att the upper end of the Clapper full west
from the bridg and the old myll ". In an undated document Mrs
Helen Delahay, widow of Paul Delahay, rephes to interrogatories
about the mill at Altyrynys, and the reasons that prompted her late
husband to change its site. (See Legal 213/30.)

Endorsed: "A Mappe of Alterennys. 1 sheet. (CPM supple-
mentary 9.)

295

INDEX

Abbeville (Abevile) [Somme,
France]
200
Abbot, George, Archbishop of
Canterbury
246, 265
Abbott, Robert, chaplain to Sir
Robert Cecil
appointed to supervise weaving
industry at Hatfield, 236
Abergavenny, co. Monmouth

activities of recusants at, 242
Abingdon, co. Oxford

153
Abington, Anthoine, in the service
of Prince Henry
his allowance, 64
Acorne, The

shop in Britain's Burse called,
274
Act of Oblivion

in Ireland, 2
Act of Resumption

reference to Henry VIII's, 248
Acton, Henry, deceased, father of
Robert Acton
mentioned, 39
Acton, Robert, of Ribbesford, co.
Worcester, coiner
petition to Cecil, 39
Actors. See also under Alleyn,
Dover, Field, Gary, Hunt,
Kendall, Ostler
boys, 149, 150 (2), 168 (2). See
also Jobson
Adams, Agnes, wife of Richard
Adams
petition to Archbishop of
Canterbiiry, 246
Adams, Jane, of Hoddesdon, co.
Herts,
petition to Cecil, 108 and n
Adams, Richard, of Btirrington, co.
Hereford
193
Adams, Richard, a bricklayer

complaint against, 246
Adams, Richard

petition to Cecil, 26

Adehn, Lady [? Alice Caesar, wife of
Sir Julius Caesar (Adelmare),
Chancellor of the Exchequer]
her allowance, 67
Admiralty, The

245
Admiralty, Court of
judge of, 17
54, 93, 101

Judge of. See Caesar, Sir Julius
Aguila, Don Juan, Spanish com-
mander
in charge of Spanish troops at
Kinsale, 160
Aguilar (Aquilar), Conde de.
Captain -General of Portugal
complaints by English mariners
of their maltreatment by, 92,
93
his answer to complaints by
English merchants and
mariners, 93
Ahmed I, Sultan of Turkey

31
Alabaster, Thomas, of London,
merchant
procures King's protection, 76
Albert, Archduke of Austria,
Cardinal, Regent of the
Spanish Netherlands. See
also The Archdukes
Viscount Cranbome at Court

of, 200
letter of appeal to, 212
Alborne. See Aldboume
Aldboume (Alborne), co. Wilts.

manor of, 250
Aldboume (Alborne) Chase, co.
Wilts.
250
Aleppo [Syria]

121
Alexander III, Pope (d 1181)

copy of Thomas Becket's
speech to, 292
Alexander, Walter, Gentleman
Usher to Prince Henry
his allowance, 64
Alford [ ? Alresford], co. Hants.

123
Algiers (Arjel) [N. Africa]
letter dated from, 31
Bey of. See Mustapha

296

INDEX

Allen,, Mr. See Allen, George
Allen, Mr. See AUeyn, Edward
Allen, Abraham, surgeon to the
King
his allowance, 64
Allen, David, of London, em-
broiderer, prisoner in the
Marshalsea
petition to CecU, 44
Allen, George, of Hertford,
physician
paid medical expenses, 211
Allerton, co. Yorks.

174
AUertonshire, co. Yorks.

174
Alleyn (Allen, Alyn), Edward, actor
takes part in play staged in
library of Salisbury House,
149 (2)
receives payment, 150
Allington. See Allington, John
Allington, John, a surveyor of the
outports
144
Alterennys. See Altyrynys
Altyrynys (Haltarines, Alterennys),
Walterstone, co. Hereford
maps of, 161, 294
233
Alyn. See Alleyn, Edward
Ambassadors, Envoys, etc.
Archdukes to:

England. See Hobocque
Spain. See Carillo
Bohemia to :

England. See Dohna
England to:

France. See Edmondes, Sir
Thomas; Parry, Sir Thomas
Turkey. See Lello, Henry
States General. See Win-
wood, Sir Ralph
Spain. See Comwallis, Sir
Charles

Venice. See Wotton, Sir
Henry
France to:

England. See Bouillon ;
Beaumont
Palatinate to:

England. See Han au
Spain to :

England. See Cuniga; Villa
Mediana; Gondomar
States General to:
England. See Caron
Ameland [Holland]

7
Amerigo, Signer

139
Ames, Mr. See Amyce, Israel

Amsterdam [Holland]
16, 53, 212, 250

English instrument-maker re-
moves from London to, 163
Amstruther, Robert. See Anstru-

ther, Robert
Amwell, CO. Herts.

109
Amyce, Mr. See Amyce, Israel
Amyce (Ames), Israel, surveyor and
agent for Sir Robert Cecil at
Theobalds
entertained at Theobalds, 30
189
Anchor, The

shop in Britain's Burse called,
274
Anderton, James, son of John
Anderton
his petition, 126
Anderton, John, of Clayton, co.
Lanes., J.P.
charged with misdemeano«urs,
70
An do ver, co. Hants.

4, 123
Andrewes, Lancelot, Dean of West-
minster
52
Andrewes, William, in the service
of the King
petition to King, 245
Angel, The, of London

seized by authorities at
Messina, 121 and n
Angell, John, a merchant

petition to Privy Cotuicil, 175
Anne of Denmark, Queen of James I
reference to her lands, 5, 14, 15,

41, 104, 213, 215, 222
Court of, 15
46, 144 (3), 145, 219
verse composed in honour of,

49
names and allowances of

persons in service of, 65
her allowance, 67
petition to, 72
petition from her tenants at

Hanslope, 94
her Coimcil, 94, 212
grievances of her tenants at

Corsham, 104
attends banquet at Salisbury

House, 150
reqtiest to Auditor-General of,

186
Cecil's gift to, 201
petition from two attorneys of

court of, 212
her suit for grant of lease of
silk dyeing, 257

INDEX

297

Anne of Denmark continued

Attorney to. See Hitcham, Sir

Robert
Attorney-General for South

Wales to. See Williams, Sir

David
Apothecary to. See Rixmler
Chancellor to. See Wilbraham,

Sir Roger
Chaplain to. See Seringius
Clerk of the Council to. See

Powell, Daniel
Comptroller to. See Croft, Sir

James
Gentleman Harbinger to. See

Proctor, John
Gentleman Waiter to. See

Strode, Gregory
Gentleman Usher to. See

Elphinston, John
Keeper of Robes to. See Wal-

singham, Lady Audrey and

Sir Thomas
Lady of the Bedchamber to.

See Drummond, Jane
Maid of the Bedchamber to.

See Blocke, Katherina
Solicitor to. See Lowther,

Lancelot
Starchmaker to. See Calloway,

Sara de
Vice-Chamberlain to. See

Carew, Sir George
Annesley (Ansley), Francis, of

Newport Pagnell, co. Bucks,
made joint Clerk of the Council

of Munster, 159
Ansley, Francis. See Annesley,

Francis
Anstey, John, of co. Wilts.

petition to Cecil, 137
Anstey, Philip(pa), sister-in-law to

Richard Montaigne
petition to Cecil, 1 37
Anstruther (Amstruther), Robert,

of the Royal Household
his allowance, 62
Antwerp [Belgiiim]
100
Viscount Cranborne at, 190,

199
Apprentices

58, 131, 164, 245
Aquilar, Conde de. See Agxxilar
Arbella, Lady. See Stuart, Arbella
Archdukes, The (Archduke Albert

and Isabella, Lifanta of

Spain, his wife, joint

Governors of the Spanish

Netherlands)
49, 53, 55

Archdukes continued

Viscount Cranborne at Court

of, 200
Resident Secretary in Spain to.

See Carillo
Treasurer to. See Flechamer
Arche. See Armstrong, Archibald
Arches of Peligo. See Archipelago
Archipelago [Greece]

161
Arden. See Arden, Edward
Arden, Edward, of Parkhall, co.
Warwick, father-in-law of
John Somerville
reference to his alleged treason,
20
Aremberg (Arenberg), Charles de
Ligne, Prince, Admiral of the
Low Countries
accused of commissioning
English ships for Spanish
service, 49
Arjel. See Algiers
Armoury

allowance given to officials of,
69
Armoury Hill, co. Kent
property called, 222
Arms, Pursuivants of

payment of fees to, 265
Armstrong, Archibald (Arche), the
King's Fool
his allowance, 63
given suit of clothing, 202
Arnaud. See Arnauld
Amauld (Arnaud), Antoine, French
lawyer
166
Arras (tapestry)

purchase by Cecil of, 199, 205
Arrowsmith, Dr. See Arrowsmith,

John
Arrowsmith, John, Regius Professor
of Divinity at Cambridge
University
his treatise entitled De Sacra-
mentis, 293
Arimdel, Dowager Countess of.

See Howard, Anne
Arundel, Countess of. See Howard,

Alethea
Arundel, Earl of. See Howard,

Thomas
Arundel, Lord. See Arimdell,

Thomas
Arundel Gardens, Strand, London

36, 37
Arundell, Thomas, Lord Arundell
of Wardour
100

298

INDEX

Arundell and Surrey. See Howard,

Thomas
Ascott, Viscount. See Dormer,

Robert
Ashe, Sir Thomas, Keeper of the
King's House in Dublin
97
Ashley, Sir Anthony, of Wimbome
St. Giles, CO. Dorset, Clerk
to the Privy Council
180, 232
Ashperton Stretton (Aspton
Stratton), co. Hereford
manor of, 250
Ashton, Mr. See Ashton, William
Ashton, William, in the service of
Sir Robert Cecil
206, 211
Ashurst, Alexander [ ? of London,
merchant]
petition to Cecil, 179
Ashvirst, William, pamphleteer

his Answer to the People's
Agreement purchased, 282

Askew (Askue), , of Dover, a

boatman
73
Askeworthe, Mr.

in the company of Sir Charles
Morrison in Italy, 146
Asmall, Lawrence. See Aspinall,

Lawrence
Aspinall (Asmall), Lawrence, of
Nether Darwen, co. Lanes.,
yeoman, deceased
39 and n
Aspton Stratton. See Ashperton

Stretton
Assart Lands

61, 137
Astley, CO. Lanes.

15
Aston, CO. Hereford

193
Aston or Ashton, Sir Roger, Master
of the King's Wardrobe
his allowance, 62
Astrology

rules for travelling, 260
Atherlony, Sir James. See Auchter-

lony. Sir James
Athlon e, Ireland
castle of, 89
Atkins, Dr. See Atkins, Henry-
Atkins, Henry, physician to the
King
his allowance, 64
attends Cecil, 206
paid medical expenses, 211

Atkinson, Thomas, in the service of
the King
petition to Cecil, 126
Atkinson, Thomas, porter in the
service of Sir Robert Cecil
petition to Cecil, 129
Attorney -General. See Coke, Sir
Edward ; Hobart, Sir Henry
Atwood, John [ ? of Teddington, co.
Worcester]
petition to Cecil, 181
Atye, Lady. See Atye, Judith
Atye, Judith, Lady, of Kilbum, co.
Middlesex, widow of Sir
Arthur Atye {d 1604-5)
142, 143
Aubrey, Dr. See Aubrey, William
Aubrey, Christopher, deputy to Sir
Henry Brouncker
petition to Cecil, 127
Aubrey, William, a Master of
Requests
43, 232
Aucher, William, Captain
petition to King, 19
Auchmutie, John, Groom of the
Bedchamber to the King
his allowance, 62
Auchterlony (Atherlony), Sir
James, of the Royal House-
hold
his allowance, 62
Audley End, co. Essex, seat of the
Earl of Suffolk
letter dated from, 203
Aukland. See Bishop Aukland
Aulnagers

77
Austen, John, of Bristol

petition to Cecil, 156
Austria
239

Spain's aggrandisement sup-
ported by, 265
d'Avila, Gomez, Portuguese mer-
chant resident in London
53
Avis, Thomas, surveyor and builder
agreement concerning Old
Palace at Hatfield with, 265
Ayloff, Sir William, of Braxted, co.
Essex
228
Aynesworth, Henry, Keeper of the
King's Bench prison
207
Ay ton, CO. Yorks.
manor of, 192
Azores, Islands of

reference to Earl of Essex's
expedition to, 99

INDEX

299

Baas, CO. Herts.

manor of, 108
Babington, Gervase, Bishop of
Worcester
request from, 96
Baboons (Bavians)

exhibition of, 72
Babstock Coppice, Enfield Chase,
CO. Middlesex
222
Backhouse, Richard, tenant of the
manor of Muchland, co.
Lanes,
petition to Commissioners for
Leases, 154
Bacon, Mr. See Bacon, Sir Francis
Bacon (Sir) Francis, later Solicitor-
General, Lord Chancellor and
1st Baron Verulam
104, 108, 123 and n
lampooned in verses, 240
Baddiley, Cheshire

advowson of, 114, 115
Bagan, Edward (Edmund), footman
in the service of Sir Robert
Cecil
petitions to Cecil, 132, 208
Bagnall, Blanche, Lady, widow of
Sir Samuel Bagnall
petition to Cecil, 87
Bagnall, Sir Samuel, of Narrow
Water, co. Down, Ireland {d
1606)
mentioned, 87
Bagott, Mr., of Blyfield, Cheshire

195
Bahere, Isaac, messenger of the
King's Chamber
petition to Cecil, 220
Baker, George, siu"geon to the King
his allowance 64
petition to Privy Council, 229
and n
Baker, Henry, grandnephew of
William Blount, 4th Lord
Mount joy
his petition, 72
107
Baker, Joan, wife of Nicholas
Baker
petition to Cecil, 160
Baker, John, son of Nicholas Baker

his wardship, 160
Baker, Nicholas, of Thombury, co.
Gloucester {d 1608)
gravely ill, 160 and n
Baker, Robert, musician to the
King
his allowance, 65

Baker, William, of Abergavenny,
testifies against recusants,
242
Balantyne, Sir Lewis, of Auchnowle,
Justice-Clerk of Scotland (d
1591)
mentioned, 34

Balchtn,

referred to as "honest Balchin"
in verses, 284
Baldwin (Baldwyn), William, in the
service of the late Mary,
Queen of Scots
his allowance, 68
Bales, Peter, of London, scrivener,
teacher of writing to Prince
Henry'
petition to Cecil, 107
Balfour (Balfoure), Sir Henry, of the
Royal Household
his allowance, 62
Balfour (Balfoure), Sir Michael, of
the Royal Household
his allowance, 62
Baliano, Ascanio, preacher of the
Italian Church in London
signs receipt, 230
Ball. See Ball, John
Ball, Edward [ ? Groom of the Privy
Chamber to the King]
petition to Cecil, 81
Ball, John, a King's prisoner
70

office of, 215
Ballinasloe, co. Gal way, Ireland

41
Baltic or Eastland Company, of
London
195
Baltic Sea

99
Bancroft, Richard, Archbishop of
Canterbury
147
Banister. See Banister, John
Banister, Jolin, of Bermondsey, co.
Surrey
occupies shop and wharf, 285
Banister, Richard, of Warn, Shrop-
shire, recusant
alleged subversive activities of,
56
Banister, Thomas, in the service of
Thomas Lawley, of Brest -
wood, CO. Stafford
his allowance for action against
Gunpowder Plot conspira-
tors, 68
Bankes, Thomas, of Hanslope, co.
Bucks.
186

300

Barbary

Dutch to be freed and aided

throughout, 31
101, 148
Barber, Roger, of Bury St.
Edmunds, co. Suffolk,
deceased
wardship of his heir, 81 and n
Barcocke, Wilham, curate of Great
Linstead, co. Suffolk, later
Rector of Stuckbury, co.
Norfolk
petitions to Cecil, 12 (2)
Barcocke, WilHam, yeoman, father
of William Barcocke
12
Barham, Thomas, of Teston, co.
Kent
petition to Privy Council, 30
Barkeley, Lord. See Berkeley,

Henry
Barkeley, Anne. See Berkeley,

Anne
Barker, Richard, Yeoman of the
King's Guard
petition to Cecil, 133
Barker, Wilham, prebendary of
Ripon
signs petition to Cecil, 52
Barkesdale. See Barkesdale, Ralph
Barkesdale, Ralph, of London,
merchant
70
Barlow, William, Dean of Chester

petition to Cecil, 49
Barnaby, Robert, prisoner in the
King's Bench prison
petition to King, 81
Barnard's Castle, co. Durham

174
Barn Elm, Kensington, London,
residence of Sir John
Kennedy
182
Barners, William, of London, mer-
chant
petition to Cecil, 181
Barnes, Anne, of Newport Pagnell,
CO. Bucks., deceased
mentioned, 290
Barney, Sir Thomas, of Redham, co.
Norfolk, J.P.
intervenes on behalf of
Christian Weech, 109
Barnstaple, co. Devon

173
Barnwall, Mary, wife of Sir Patrick
Barnwall
petition to Cecil, 97
Barnwall, Sir Patrick, of Cricks-
tcwn, CO. Meath, Ireland
97, 98

Barn wood, co. Buclcs.

Forest of, 160
Barrett, Edward, Lord Barrett of
Newburgh
signs directive from Privy
Council, 271
Barrett, Richard, prisoner in the
Gatehouse
petition to Cecil, 101
Barrett, William, of London,
member of the Company of
Stationers
bill for books delivered by, 205
Barrett, Mr.

informed by Gunpowder Plot
conspirators of concealment
of treasure, 35
Barrett, Mr.

visits Italy and Rome, 147
Barrington, John

witnesses agreement between
Cecil and Lady Hixnsdon,
205
Barry, Lord. See Barry, David
Barry, David, 3rd Viscount Barry,
of Barry Court, co. Cork,
Ireland
83
Barry, John, brother of David
Barry, Lord Barry
83
Barry, Mathias, Captain
letter to Collins, 279

Bartholomew, , a gardener

refuses to go to Hatfield, 176
Bartie, Anne, in the service of
Princess Mary
her allowance, 67
Bartlett, Lady

her allowance, 67
Bartlett, Sir Maurice. See Berkeley,

Sir Maurice
Bartlett, Thomas

petition to Cecil, 208
Barton, co. Gloucester
manor of, 170, 171
Barton -uj^on -Humber, co. Lincoln

192
Barttelot, Henry, of Stopham, co.
Sussex
petition to Cecil, 213
Barwicke, Lord of. See Home,

George
Barwyck. See Berwick
Basilden, Cheshire

waste called, 114, 115
Basilikon Doron, The, by James I,
King of England
translated into French, 294

301

Basill (Basyll), Simon, Surveyor of
the King's works
countersigns de Critz's bill, 103
signs accounts, 153
Baskerville (Baskervyll), Mr.

visits Italy and Rome, 147
Bassano, Andrew, musician to the
King
his allowance, 65
Bassano, Arthur, musician to the
King
his allowance, 65
Bassano, Edward, musician to the
King
his allowance, 65
Bassano, Jerome, musician to the
King
his allowance, 65
Bassano, Scipio, musician to the
King
his allowance, 65
Bassett, Mrs. See Bassett, Judith
Bassett, Elizabeth, Lady, wife of
Sir Robert Bassett
complaint against, 100
Bassett, John, of Boston, co.
Lincoln, merchant
petition to Cecil, 132
Bassett, John, of Enfield, co.
Middlesex
11
Bassett, Judith, widow of William
Bassett
195
Bassett, Sir Robert, of Heanton
Punchardon, co. Devon
100, 106

his wife. See Bassett, Elizabeth
Bassett, William, of Langley, co.
Derby (d 1601)
mentioned, 195
Bassett Pit, co. Notts.

coalmining accounts for, 138
Bassingbourne (Bassingeborne), co.
Cambridge
manor of, 250
Basyll, Simon. See Basill, Simon
Batchelor, Henry, tenant of the
manor of Mildenhall
complaints against, 227
Bath, CO. Somerset
Cecil goes to, 203
281
Bath and Wells, co. Somerset
Dean and Chapter of, 232
Dean of. See Meredith, Richard
Batten, Henry, Sergeant-at-ArzTis

his allowance, 65
Batts, Thomas, tenant in Brigstock
Park
petition to William, Earl of
Salisbury, 279

Batty, Matthew, formerly in the
service of Lord Monteagle,
now prisoner in the Gate-
house
petition to Cecil, 36
reference to his release, 91
Bavians. See Baboons
Baxter, John, of Derby

petition to Cecil, 195
Baynton, Andrew, of Bromham, co.
Wilts.
137 and n
Bayonne [Basses-Pyrénées, France]

Governor of, 178
Baysell, Joseph, in the service of
John Billot
signs receipt, 230
Bay ton, co. Worcester

282
Beacher, Mr. See Beecher, William
Beale, William, of Stoke Orchard,
CO. Gloucester
181 and n
Beau, William, prebendary of Ripon
petition to Cecil, 40
signs petition to Cecil, 52
Beauchamp, John, of Powick, co.
Worcester
petition to Cecil, 6
Beaufort, Sir Thomas, of Edmonds-
cote, CO. Warwick, Sheriff of
Warwickshire
91 and n
Beaumont, Christophe de Harlay,
Comte de, French Ambassa-
dor to England
entertained at Theobalds, 30
43, 54, 71, 100, 106
Beauvais, Bishop of. See

Blancménil
Beauvale (Bevall), co. Notts.

138
Beauvoir. See Belvoir Castle
Becket, Thomas, Archbishop of
Canterbury (d 1170)
ode in Latin to, 292
copy of his speech to Pope
Alexander, 292
Beckington, co. Somerset
198

parson of. See Walkwood,
Tobias
Beconsaw, Peter, prisoner in the
Fleet
petition to Cecil, 130
Bedford, Earl of. See Russell,
Edward ; Russell, Francis ;
Russell, William
Bedford, John, cf Limehouse,
London
reference to his imprisonment
in Spanish galleys, 178

302

Bedford House, Bloomsbxirs^ Lon-
don
235
Bedlam, prison, London

Cecil's gift of money to

prisoners in, 207
Keeper of. See Lansdale,
Richard
Bedwell, co. Herts,
manor of, 196
Beecher (Beacher), William, secre-
tary to the English
Ambassador in France
190
Beeston, Sir Hugh, of Beeston,
Cheshire
195
Béguines

religious order of, 76
Bell, Robert, of London, merchant
his account for transporting
stone from Caen, 90, 91, 177,
190
letter to Wilson, 176
Bell, The

shop in Britain's Bxu"se called,
274
Bellenden, William, of the Royal
Household
his allowance, 63
Belleville, Monsieur, of Paris

200
Bellievre, Sie\ir. See Belliévre,

Nicolas de
Belliévre, Nicolas de. Counsellor of
the Parlement of Paris
166
Bellingard, Baron. See Monson,

William
Bell Metal

agreement concerning produc-
tion of, 196
Bellott (Billett), Thomas, Gentle-
man Usher to Sir Robert
Cecil
letter to, 122
208 and n
Belman, Robert, of Padstow, co.
Cornwall
petition to Cecil, 100
Belon, William, of the Royal
Household
his allowance, 63
Belson, John, soldier

petition to Cecil, 220
Beltarbert, Baron. See Pope,

William
Belvoir (Beauvoir, Bewer) Castle,
CO. Leicester
activities of Royalist garrison

of, 280
letter dated from, 286

Bendysh Hall, co. Essex

sale of trees on manor of, 259
Benjamin of Tudela, Jewish
traveller [fl 12th century)
his statistics about Jews, 250
Bennett, Anthoine, footman to the
late Queen Elizabeth
his allowance, 67
Bennett, Jolin, Sergeant -at -Arms

his allowance, 66
Bennett, Richard, of London, later
mercer
letter to, 211
Bentheim (Benthem, Benton )
Martin van, painter
makes pictures for glass win-
dows of chapel at Hatfield,
185
Benton, Mr. See Bentheim, Martin

van
Berehaven, co. Cork, Ireland

9
Berkeley, Mr. See Berkeley,

Richard
Berkeley (Barkeley), Anne

her allowance, 67
Berkeley (Barkeley), Henry, 7th
Lord Berkeley
inv'olved in dispute over Kings -
wood Forest, 170, 171
Berkeley, John, the King's Falconer

his allowance, 63
Berkeley (Bartlett), Sir Maurice, of
Bruton, co. Somerset, M.P.
for Minehead
157
Berkele3% Richard [ ? of Stoke, co.
Gloucester]
involved in dispute over Kings -
wood Forest, 170, 171
Berkhamstead, co. Herts.

manor of, 196
Berkshire

Duchy of Lancaster's manors
in, 250
Berkshire, Lord of. See Howard,
Thomas

Bennondsey, Southwark, co. Surrey
226, 276

survey and maps of the pro-
perty of William, Earl of
Salisbury in, 275, 285
fortifications at, 290
Berry (Berrey), Francis

paid for making speech at
Britain's Burse, 169
Berwick (Berwicke), co. Essex

manor of, 250
Berwick (Barwyck), co. Northum-
berland
13, 19, 32, 52, 132, 174, 180

303

Berwick (Barwyck) continued

Commander of garrison at. See

Bowyer, Sir William
Comptroller of garrison at. See

Crane, John
Treasurer at. See Bowes, Sir
William
Betfield. See Bettisfield
Bettings, Cobham, co. Kent

land called, 179 and n
Bettisfield (Betfield), co. Flint

56
Betts, Cobham, co. Kent

land called, 179 and n
Betty, Lady [ ? Lady Elizabeth
Manners, daughter of John
Manners, 8th Earl of Rut-
land, and sister of Margaret
Cecil, Viscovmtess Cranborne,
wife of James Cecil, Viscount
Cranborne]
286
Bewer. See Belvoir Castle
Bible, The

shop in Britain's Burse called,
274
Bickford, Mr. See Bickford, Thomas
Bickford, Thomas, a locksmith

141
Bilborough, Richard, a forger

28
Billett, Mr. See Bellot, Thomas
Billiards

reference to, 202
Billingsley, Sir Henry, Alderman of
London
his dispute with John

Killigrew, 19
involved in case concerning
Kingswood Forest, 170, 171
Billingsley, Dame Mary, daughter
of Sir John Killigrew, and
wife of Sir Henry Billingslej'
her dispute with her brother,
19
Billingsley, Thomas, of London,
merchant
petitions to Cecil, 125 (2)
Billot, John, stationer

his bill for books, 229
Bilson, Thomas, Bishop of Win-
chester
Cecil's letter to, 47
162
Binean, John, of Bristol

testifies against recusants, 243
Bingley, John, in the service of Sir
George Carew
88, 181
Biondi (Biondy), Giovanni Fran-
cesco, in the service of Sir
Henry Wotton

Biondi (Biondy) contimted

receives gift of money from
Viscount Cranborne, 200
Biondy, Sign . See Biondi, Giovanni

Francesco
Birchmore, Thomas, Groom of the
Bedchamber to Prince Henry
his allowance, 64

Bird,

accuses Wright of conspiring
against King and Prince of
Wales, 227
Bird in Hand, The

shop in Britain's Burse called,
274
Birkett, John, King's Attorney in
Mimster, Ireland
petition to Cecil, 105
Bishop Auckland, co. Durham

letter dated from, 174
Bishopsgate (Bishippes Gate) Lon-
don
81
Bitton (Bitton Hanham), co.
Gloucester
170
Blackall, Christopher, of Totnes, co.
Devon
144
Blackbird, The

shop in Britain's Burse called,
274
Blackfriars, London

names of gentlemen residing
in, 123
Blague, Thomas, Dean of Rochester

232
Blake, William, of London, a
surveyor
petition to Cecil, 143

Blake, , in the service of Prince

Henry
his allowance, 64
Blakeney, co. Norfolk

Guthrie's ship plundered by
the Valentine of, 247
Blancke, Nicholas, factor to Thomas
Marchant in Spain
178
Blancménil, René Potier de. Bishop
of Beauvais
165
Bland, George, of Chancery Lane,
London
witnesses agreement between
Cecil and Lady Hunsdon,
205
Blaxton or Blakiston, George,
brother of Sir William
Blaxton
petition to King, 194

304

Blaxton or Blakiston, Humphrey,
brother of Sir WiUiam
Blaxton
petition to King, 194
Blaxton or Blakiston, Robert,
brother of Sir William Blax-
ton
petition to King, 194
Blaxton or Blakiston, Sir William,
of Blakiston, eo. Durham,
recusant
194
Blickling Hall, co. Norfolk

244
Blocke, Katherina, formerly Maid
of the Bedchamber to the
Queen
returns to Denmark, 215
Blount, Charles, 8th Baron Mount-
joy and Earl of Devonshire,
former Lord Deputy of
Ireland {d 1606)
72 and n

mentioned, 72 (3), 87, 107, 120,
122, 197
Blount, Sir Edward, cousin of
Charles Blount, Earl of
Devonshire
232
Blount, James, Captain, in the
service of the Archdukes
100
Blount, John, Captain, in the
service of the Archdukes
100
Blount, John, of Eye, co. Hereford,
J.P.
193
Blount, Motmtjoy, 1st Earl of
Newport
creation of his title, 266
polemical attack on, 277
Blount, Sir Thomas Pope, of
Tyttenhanger, co. Herts.,
Deputy-Lieutenant of Hert-
fordshire
232

signs joint letters to William,
Earl of Salisbury, 268, 270,
273
Blounts, CO. Herts,
manor of, 196
Blue, Boar, The

shop in Britain's Burse called,
274
Bluet, John, prisoner in the
Marshalsea
petition to Cecil and Privy
Council, 4
Blyfield, Cheshire
195

Bochan ( ? Buchan), Jacques, in
the service of the Queen
his allowance, 65
Boden, William [ ? of co. Dorset]
charged with illegal hunting,
234
Bodin, Jean, French political writer
and jurist {d 1596)
copy of his Methodus ad facilem
historiarum cognitionem,

bought for Cecil's library,
151
Bodren, Arthur, in the service of
Princess Mary
his allowance, 67
Bogdan, Stefan, Prince of Moldavia

plea to Cecil on behalf of, 23
Bohemia

King denies having advised
Elector Palatine to become
King of, 238
King's opinion on monarchical
institution in, 238
Boisbelle. See Bosbelle
Boland, John, Burgomaster of
Cologne
Cecil requested to write to, 218
Boldero, Henry [ ? of Bury St.
Edmunds, co. Suffolk]
petition to Cecil, 207 and n
requests licence to travel to
Constantinople, 207

Bolles,

his allowance for action against
Gunpowder Plot conspira-
tors, 68
Bonaventure, The, of Barnstaple
pressed into late Queen Eliza-
beth's service, 173
Bond, Thomas, an official of the
King's Wardrobe
petition to Cecil, 111
Bonham, Thomas, of London,
physician
University of Cambridge's pro-
test over case of, 240
Bonshawe, The, Dumfriesshire, Scot-
land
175
Booker, Jolin, of London, astrologer

his Almanack purchased, 282
Books

printers arrested for publishing

prohibited, 26
109
in library of Salisbury House,

149
bills for, 151, 152, 205, 229, 282
in library of William, Earl of
Salisbury, 231

305

Boord, Captain [ ? Captain George
Borde, English pirate]
reference to his imprisonment
in Spain, 178
Booth, Roger, of Watford, co.
Herts,
petitions to Cecil, 17, 22
petitions to King, 22, 28
Boothes, The, co. Lanes.

15
Boothowse, William, of London,
brewer
petition to Cecil, 76
Bordeaux (Bourdeaux, [Gironde,
France])
43

letter dated from, 176
Borlas, Lady [ ? Alice, Lady Borlase,
wife of Sir Jolin Borlase, of
Medmenham, co. Bucks.]
her allowance, 67
Borstade, Michael, of Oslo, Norway

petition to King, 71
Borswell, William, of Kirkwall,
Orkney

petition to King, 225
Bosbelle (Boisbelle)

French lampoon entitled
Privileges Franchises et
libertés de la ville capitale de
la souveraineté de, 165
168n
Bostock, Elizabeth, wife of W^illiam
Bostock
petition to Cecil, 209
Bostock, William, in the service of
the Duchess of Feria
committed to Gatehouse, 209
Boston, CO. Lines.

132
Boteler, Henry, Captain, former
Muster-Master of Hertford-
shire
268
Boteler or Butler, Jane, wife of Sir
Philip Boteler
petition to Cecil, 94
Boteler (Butler), John, Baron
Boteler
creation of his title, 266
Boteler or Butler, Sir John, of
Woodhall in Watton, co.
Herts., Deputy-Lieutenant
of Hertfordsliire
appointed to supervise weaving

industry at Hatfield, 236
signs joint letters to William,
Earl of Sahsbury, 268, 270,
273

S.C.-21

Boteler or Butler, Sir Philip, of
Woodhall in Watton, co.
Herts.
95 and n
Boucher, John, Mayor of Bristol

156
Boughton, Mr.

visits Italy and Rome, 147
Bouillon (Bullyon), Henri de la
Tour d'Auvergne, Duc de.
Marshal of France
letters sent by Synod of La

Rochelle to, 117
167

in London, 211
Boule, Mr. See Bowie, John
Bourdeaux. See Bordeaux
Boveridge, co. Devon
261

letter dated from, 264
Bowdler, Mr. See Bowdler, Richard
Bowdler, Richard, of London, mer-
chant
190
Bowes, George, of Streatlam, co.
Durham, deceased, former
Constable of Raby Castle
mentioned, 83, 84
Bowes, George, of Biddick, co.
Durham, son of George
Bowes
84
Bowes, Magdalen, widow of George
Bowes, of Streatlam, co.
Durham
petition to Cecil, 83
Bowes, Sir Robert, former English
Ambassador to Scotland {d
1597)
mentioned, 32
Bowes, Sir William, of Streatlam,
CO. Diu-ham, Treasurer at
Berwick
32, 83
Bowey or Bovy, James, Sergeant of
the Cellar to the King
his allowance, 63
Bowie (Boule), John, in the service
of Sir Robert Cecil
205
Bowling, Thomas, of St. Botolph's,
London
81
Bowman, Margaret, sister-in-law to
Matthew Clayton
petition to Cecil, 54
55n
Bowyer, Sir Edratmd, of Camber-
well, CO. Surrey, J.P.
122

306

Bowj'er, Sir William, Captain, later
Commander of the garrison
at Berwick
13
Boyland or Bowland, Dudley,

brother-in-law to Richard
Wingfield
11

petition to Cecil, 11
Boyle, Sir Richard, Clerk to the
CoLincil of Munster
159
Boyn ville, Sieiir

166
Boys

take part in entertainment at

Theobalds, 137
perform in library at Salisbury

House, 149
168 (2)
Boyte, John [ ? of co. Dorset]

charged with illegal hiinting,
234

Brabant, , of Milford Lane,

London, attorney
70
Brabazon, Anthony, of Esker,
Offally, King's County, Ire-
land, deceased
mentioned, 41
Bradley, William, in the service of
Sir Henry Bromley
petition to Cecil, 57
Bradon Heath (Braydon Heath)
Shropshire
56
Bradshaw, Richard, of Wycombe,
CO. Bucks., schoolmaster
complaints against, 13, 14
Bradshaw, Thomas, Sergeant -at -
Arms
his allowance, 65
Brake, Robert, of London, gold-
smith, prisoner in the King's
Bench prison
petition to Cecil, 12
Bramedge, Thomas, of London,
saddler
petition to King, 34
Brames, Daniel. See Breames,

Daniel
Brampton, co. Hunts.

manor of, 41
Bramston, Robert, prisoner in the
King's Bench prison
120
Brandon, Charles, Duke of Sviffolk
{d 1545)
mentioned, 7, 106
Branksea or Brownsea Island, co.
Dorset
map and description of, 293

Brass

agreement concerning produc-
tion of, 196
Braughing (Braughin), co. Herts.

hundred of, 273
Braydon Heath. See Bradon Heath
Brazil [South America]

212
Breames (Brames), Daniel, of
London, merchant
his complaints against Spanish
Customs officials, 93
Brecknockshire

196, 221
Brede, John, Master of the Charity

155
Brett, Thomas [ ? of Chiddington,
CO. Kent], in the service of
William, Earl of Salisbury
230

appointed to supervise weaving
industry at Hatfield, 236
Brewhouse, The, Westminster,
London
tenement called, 54
Brews, Jolin, of co. Suffolk
his wardship, 17 and n
Brian, Mr. See Lynch, Brian
Brickhill, co. Bucks.

123
Bridewell, The, prison, London

226
Bridge, John, in the service of Mr.
Pykarell
his petition, 224
Bridgehead Lands, [ ? London]

208
Bridges, John, Bishop of Oxford

petition to Cecil, 56
Bridges, Mrs.

her allowance, 67
Bridgnorth, Shropshire

petition to Cecil from in-
habitants of, 197
Bridgwater, co. Somerset
279

letter dated from, 281
Brigstock (Bristocke), co.
Northants.
map of parks at, 275
petition to W^illiam, Earl of
Salisbtu-y, from tenants at,
279
distrained cattle brought to,

280
letter dated from, 280
Bailiff of. See Jackson,
Nicholas
Brigstock, Nicholas, tenant in Brig-
stock Park
petition to William, Earl of
Salisbury, 279

INDEX

307

Bringwood, co. Hereford

193
Bristocke. See Brigstock
Bristol, CO. Gloucester

13, 156, 190, 198, 212, 223, 235,

243
Mayor and Aldennen of, 235
Parliamentary^ forces preparing

to attack, 281
Mayor of. See Boucher, Jolin
Britain's Burse or The New
Exchange, Durham House,
Strand, London
stone brought from Caen for

building works at, 90
King attends play at, 168
Berry paid for making speech

at, 169
201, 232, 281, 288
plans of, 264
names of shops and trades of

tenants of, 274
effects of Civil War on, 281, 289
petitions to William, Earl of
Salisbury from tenants of,
288, 289(3), 290
referred to luider name of New
Exchange, 289(2), 290
Brittany

canvas trade with, 74
167
Broadhead, John, of Southwark, co.
Surrey
226
Broadwater, co. Herts.

hundred of, 273
Brocas, Sir Pexall, of Beaurepaire,
CO. Hants,
petition to Cecil, 159
Brograve, Mr. See Brograve, Sir

John
Brograve, (Sir) John, of Braughing,
CO. Herts., later Attorney of
the Duchy of Lancaster
82, 108
Bromley, Sir Henry, of Holt Castle,
CO. Worcester
57
Bromley, Sir Thomas, former Lord
Chancellor (d 1587)
mentioned, 39

Bronesbresley [ ?Brinsley], co. Notts,

138
Brooke, Lord. See Greville, Robert
Brooke, Charles, of Temple Combe,
CO. Somerset
his bonds, 177
Brooke, Duke, of Temple Combe,
CO. Somerset {d 1606)
Roclifïe's letter to, 75 and n

Brooke, Elizabeth, widow of George
Brooke and daughter of
Thomas Burgh, 5th Lord
Burgh
petition to Cecil, 26
referred to as Lady Burroughs,
232
Brooke, George, of Cooling, co.
Kent, conspirator (executed
1603), brother of Henry
Brooke, 11th Lord Cobham
mentioned, 26
Brooke, Giles, of Liverpool, mer-
chant and shipowner
petition to Cecil, 3
Brooke, Henry, 11th Lord Cobham
{attainted 1603)
26, 182

reference to his attainder, 228
Brooke, Sir John, nephew of Sir
William Cobham, military
commander
133 and n
Brooke, Sir John, of the Royal
Household
his allowance, 63
Brooke, Ralph (Rafe), herald

his allowance, 66
Brooke, William, 10th Lord
Cobham {d 1597)
mentioned, 26
Brooks, Mr.

King refuses request of, 248
Brovighton, co. Yorks.
parsonage of, 249
Broughton, Mr. See Broughton,

Richard
Broughton, Richard, member of the
Coiincil of the Marches of
Wales
complaint against, 112
Brouncker, Sir Henry, Lord
President of Munster
127, 156, 159

Deputies to. See Aubrey,
Christopher; Hawkins,

James
Browne, John

petition to Cecil, 219
Browne, Lancelot, physician to the
King
petition to Cecil, 38 and n
Browne, Robert, Yeoman of the
Cellar to the King
his allowance, 63
Browne, Thomas, tenant in Brig-
stock Park
petition to William, Earl of
Salisbury, 279
Brownsea Island. See Branksea
Island

308

Bruce, Edward, Lord Kin loss,
Master of the Rolls
18, 22, 27, 28, 54, 79, 82, 135,

164
his allowance, 68
receives letter from King of
Poland, 195 and n
Brunswick, Duke of. See Henry

Julius
Brussels [Belgium]

210
Buccinghame, Marquiss. See

Villiers, George
Buchanan (Buchannon), James, of
the Royal Household
his allowance, 63
Buck, Barnard, husband of
Katherina Blocke
petition to Cecil, 214
Buckby, Long (Buckebie longa), co.
Northants.
manor of, 250
Bucke, John, suspected Jesuit agent

petition to Cecil, 73
Buckeridge, John, Bishop of
Rochester
191
Buckested. See Buxted
Buckett (Buckitt), Roland, painter
paints pictiu-es for chapel at

Hatfield, 202
his bill for work done at

Hatfield House, 204
232
Buckhurst, Lord. See Sackville,

Thomas
Buckingham (Buccingham) co.
Bucks.
236
Buckinghamshire
auditors of, 186
Duchv of Lancaster's manors
in, 250
Buckley (Buckty), Thomas, Rector
of Damerham, co. Hants,
reported to be gravely ill, 262
Buckly, Mr. See Buckley, Thomas
Bucks, CO. Devon

207
Budden, Christopher [ ? of
Damerham, co. Hants.]
his accounts, 278
" Budge of Court "

Gooderus and Baker deprived
of their privilege of, 229
Bull, Dr. See Bull, Jolin
Bull, John, composer, musician to
the Kiag
his allowance, 65
Bullingbrooke, Earl of. See St.
John, Oliver

Bullyon, Duke of. See Bouillon,

Due de
Bulmer, Sir Ralph, of Sutton in
Holderness, co. Yorks.
5
Bulstrode, Sir Willimn, of Coventry,
CO. Warwick
232
Bulwell, CO. Notts.

138
Burford, co. Oxford
rectory of, 56
278
Burford, John, brother of Thomas
Burford
injures Pointer in dispute, 58
Burford, Thomas, in the service of
Perks
charged with aiding Gun-
powder Plot conspirators, 57,
58
Burgess, Thomas, Keeper of the
Counter in the Poultry,
London
207
Burgh, Lady. See Burgh, Frances
Burgh, Frances, Lady, widow of
Thomas Burgh, 5th Lord
Burgh {d 1597)
her allowance, 67
petition to King, 141
Burgh, Richard de, 4th Earl of
Clanricarde
120

creation of his titles of Viscount
Galway, Baron of Immaney
(Ehnany) and Earl of St.
Albans, 266
Burgh or Boiurke (B\u*ke), Sir
Thomas, of Ballinasloe,
brother of Richard Burgh,
4th Earl of Clanricarde
petition to Privy Council, 41
186
Burghley, Lord. See Cecil, William
Burgundy

pedigree of Cecil family in, 227
Burke, Sir Thomas. See Burgh, Sir

Thomas
Biu-leigh. See Burley
Bur ley (Burleigh), co. Rutland

letter dated from, 279
Burm, John, of co. Norfolk, J. P.
intervenes on behalf of
Christian Weech, 110
Burnham, Elizabeth, of London

144
Burpote, Geoffrey, of co. Gloucester

petition to Cecil, 12
Burrell, George, Sergeant-at-Arms
his allowance, 65

309

Burrington, co. Hereford
King's mills at, 193
Burroughs, Lady. See Brooke,

Elizabeth
Bury St. Edmunds, co. Suffolk

'81
Bushell, Sir Edward, of Cleeve
Prior, CO. Worcester, and of
the Royal Household
his allowance, 62
petition to King, 113
Bushnell, Osmund, tenant of the
manor of Corsham, co. Wilts,
his petition, 104
Butler, Baron. See Boteler, John
Butler, Sir John. See Boteler, Sir

John
Butler. See Butler, Thomas
Butler, Thomas, 10th Earl of
Ormond, Treasurer of Ire-
land
69
Butler, Thomas, English Jesuit

crosses from Calais to England,
73
Button, Sir William, of Alton Priors,
CO. Wilts.
his allowance for attendance on
ambassadors, 64
Buxted (Buckested), co. Sussex

expenses of digging and re-
moving stone for Cecil's use
from quarry at, 152, 153
Bye, Reignold, in the service of
George Clifford, 3rd Earl of
Cumberland
his allowance, 68
Byrd, William, composer and
musician. Gentleman of the
King's Chapel
petition to Cecil, 219

Cadiz (Cales) [Spain]
28, 39

reference to capture of, 178
Cadman, Herbert [ ? of Northfleet,
CO. Kent]
witnesses Brooke's bond, 177
Caen (Caine, Cane) [Calvados,
France]
stone transported for building
works at Salisbury House,
Hatfield, and Britain's Burse
from, 90, 190
Caesar, Jolm, of Reed, co. Herts,
his request to J. P. s of Hert-
fordshire, 220

Caesar, Sir Julius, Master of
Requests, Judge of the Co\irt
of Admiralty, later Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer
2, 19, 43, 54, 71 and n, 95, 143,

145, 172
his notes on petitions, 80 (2)
Caine. See Caen
Caishoe. See Cashio
Calais (Callis) [Pas-de-Calais,
France]
44, 200, 225
English Catholic priests cross

to Dover from, 73
letter dated from, 189
Cales. See Cadiz

Callaway, Sara de, wife of Peter de
Callaway, of Southwark, co.
Surrey
petition to Cecil, 219
Callis. See Calais
Calvert. See Calvert, George
Calvert, George, secretary to Sir
Robert Cecil
174
Cambden, William. See Camden,

William
Cambell, Sir James, Lord Mayor of
London
265
Cambridge, co. Cambridge

262
Cambridge, University of
141, 240, 262

King's College 230, 232, 283
St. John's College, 30, 102
Trinity College, 45
Chancellor of. See Cecil, Sir

Robert
Vice -Chancellor of. See Goade,
Roger; Ward Samuel
Cambridgesliire

Duchy of Lancaster's manor in,
250
Camden (Cambden), William,
Clarenceux King-of-Anns
his allowance, 66
Camma I DowUan, Moyfyean, co.
Roscommon, Ireland
land called, 89
Campion, Dr. See Campion,

Thomas
Campion, Thomas, physician, poet
and musician
expenses of masque by, 231
Canary Islands

173
Cane. See Caen

Cannon, William, of London, mer-
chant
accused of perjury and slander,
139, 140

310

Canterbury, co. Kent
155, 210

petition to Archbishop of, 246
Mayor of. See Paramour,
Thomas
Canterbury, Archbishop of. See
Whitgift, Jolin ; Bancroft,
Richard; Abbot, George
Canvas

Breton trade in, 74
Capell, Sir Arthur, of Little Had-
ham, CO. Herts.
241

Capper,

197
Carbery (Carbrie), co. Cork, Ireland

82, 83
Carbery, Earl of. See Vaughan,

John
Cardall, Thomas, musician to the
King
his allowance, 65
Cardiff, co. Glamorgan

riot in, 60
Cardinal, Robert, brother of
William Cardinal, senior,
deceased
42, 43
Cardinal, William, senior, of East
Bergholt, co. Suffolk,
deceased
mentioned, 42, 43
Cardinal, William, junior, son of
William Cardinal
petition to Cecil, 42
La Broch's charges against,
42, 43
Carell, Frances, niece of Stephen
White
15
Carew, co. Pembroke

castle of, 135
Carew (Carey), Sir George, later
Lord Carew of Clopton,
Master -General of the
Ordnance and Governor of
Guernsey, Lord Deputy of
Ireland, Vice -Chamberlain to
the Queen
2, 8, 41, 72, 84, 88, 97, 120, 125,

148, 159 (2), 160, 181, 219
complaint against, 88
his note on petition, 120
Carew, Sir George, of the Royal
Household
his allowance, 63
Carew, Henry, prisoner in the Fleet
petition to Cecil, 2
10

Carey, Elizabeth, Lady, of the
Household of Prince Charles,
Duke of York, wife of Sir
Robert Carey
her allowance, 66
Carey, Elizabeth, Lady Hunsdon,
widow of George Carey, 2nd
Baron Hiuisdon
16
receives payment for sale of

tapestry, 199
agreement between Cecil and,
205
Carey, George, 2nd Baron Hunsdon
{d 1603)
mentioned, 16
Carey, Sir George. See Carew, Sir

George
Carey, Henry, 1st Baron Hunsdon,
Lord Chamberlain {d 1596)
mentioned, 79
Carey, John, Viscount Rochford
(Rochefort)
polemical attack on, 277
Carey, Sir Robert, Governor of the
Household of Prince Charles,
Duke of York
his allowance, 66
petitions to King, 101, 124,
143
Carey, Walter, a minister
petition to Cecil, 218
Cargroy, Sieur de, Huguenot elder
appointed to communicate
views of Synod of La
Rochelle to Henry IV, 117,
118
Carillo, Don Juan, secretary and
agent of the Archdukes at
the Spanish Co\irt
55
Carleton, Dudley, Viscount Dor-
chester
creation of his title, 266
signs directive from Privy
Coimcil, 267
Carlisle, co. Cumberland
13, 32

Assizes in, 142

Dean of. See Perkins,
Christopher
Carlisle, Bishop of. See Robinson,

Henry
Carlow, county of, Ireland

85
Carmen, Company of, London

suit concerning incorporation
of, 29
Carnarvon, Earl of. See Dormer,
Robert

INDEX

311

Caron, Sir Noel de, Ambassador of
the States General in Lcndon
accused by Spanish Ambas-
sador of recruiting soldiers
in England, 48

Carpenter, , English Jesuit

180
Carr, Hugh, woodward at Kirkby
Moorside, co. Yorks.
192
Carr, Robert, Viscount Rochester,
later Earl of Somerset
letter to Cecil, 203
verses written on occasion
of marriage of Frances
Devereux to, 213 and n
Carrara [Italy]

marble stones quarried for
Cecil at, 179
Carrow, Thomas, of King's Lynn,
CO. Norfolk
petition to Cecil, 106
Carse, John, Page of the Bed-
chamber to the King
his allowance, 63
Cartaret, Philippe de. Seigneur of
St. Ouen, King's Attorney in
Jersey
44, 45, 129
Carter. See Carter, Nicholas
Carter, John, of Southwark, co.
Surrey
petition to Cecil, 226
Carter, John, Bailiff of Hatfield
Market
petition to William, Earl of
Salisbury, 288
Carter, Nicholas, of Bermondsey,
CO. Surrey
occupies shop, 285
Carter, Robert, of Hatfield, co.
Herts,
appointed to supervise weaving
industry at Hatfield, 236
Carty. See Maccarty
Cary, Lady. See Carey, Elizabeth
Casa de Confiscacion (Confiscation
House), Lisbon
English goods taken to, 92, 93
Casaubon, Isaac, French Calvinist
theologian and scholar
receives pension from King, 62
166

purchase of his Responsio ad
epistolam Cardinalis Per-
ronii, 229
Cashio (Caishoe), co. Herts.

hundred of, 273
Casson, James, Mayor of Hull
signs petition to Cecil, 61
Castle Eden, co. Durham
5

Catesby, Lady. See Catesby, Anne
Catesby, Anne, of Ashby St. Légers,
CO. Northants.
4
Catesby, Robert, of Ashby St.
Légers, co. Northants., Gun-
powder Plot conspirator
Street claims to have killed, 34
his goods seized, 35
Catholics, English. See also
Recusants
42

subversive activities of, 56
priests from Douai College cross

from Calais to Dover, 73
imprisonment of priests and

scholars, 85, 90, 91
banishment of priests, 86
reference to sale and production
of Catholic books, 108
Catholics, Welsh

subversive activities of, 56
Catrall, Peter, formerly a cook in
Lady Dacre's hovisehold
petition to Cecil, 218
Caus, Salomon de. See Caux,

Salamon de
Caux (Caus), Salamon de, engineer
to Prince Henry
paid for constructing fountain
in garden at Hatfield House,
212
Cave, liisle, of Horsepoole, Thorn-
ton, CO. Leicester
petition to King, 144
petition to Cecil, 144
Cavendish, William, 3rd Earl of
Devonshire
286
Cecil {alias Burpote), Alice, wife of
Geoffrey Burpote
12, 233
Cecil, Catherine, Countess of Salis-
bury, wife of William Cecil,
Earl of Salisbury
286
Cecil, Diana, Lady Cranbome, wife
of Charles Cecil, Viscount
Cranbome
285
Cecil, Edmund [ ? of Bristol, co.
Glovicester]
petition to Cecil, 225
Cecil, Sir Edward, later Viscount
Wimbledon
sends sycamore trees to Hat-
field House, 186
letters to William, Earl of
Salisbury, 237, 241
Cecil, Edward, son of William Cecil,
Earl of Salisbviry
books bought for, 282

312

Cecil, Frances, daughter of Sir

Robert Cecil. See also

Clifford, Frances
letters to Cecil, 99, 127
Cecil, James, Viscount Cranbome,

later 3rd Earl of Salisbury
grant by Bishop of Salisbury

to, 285
letters to Viscountess Cran-

borne, 286 (3), 287
Cecil, Margaret, Viscountess Cran-
bome, wife of James Cecil,

Viscount Cranbome
Viscoiuit Cranborne's letters

to, 286 (3), 287
Cecil, Richard

petition to Cecil, 217
Cecil, Robert, 1st Earl of Salisbury,

Principal Secretary of State,

later. Lord Treasurer
petitions to, 1-17, 19-27, 29-

42, 44-47, 49-62, 69-71,

73-79, 80-85, 87-92, 94-95,

97-109, 111-112, 114-115,

119-145, 148, 150-151, 153,

155-160, 162-164, 172-175,

177-181, 184-189, 193-198,

203, 206-209, 212-227
letter to the King of Denmark,

4
reference to his meeting with

King at York, 5
his notes on petitions, 6, 7, 10,

30, 32 (2), 39, 41, 48, 132,

133, 154, 155
asked to write to King of

Denmark, 7
17, 18, 19, 22, 26, 28, 55, 72,

76, 79, 80 (2), 97, 113, 142,

143, 177, 186, 188, 191
High Steward of Hertford, 29

and n, 134
described as " the pillar of

learning ",40
letter to Warden of New

College, 47
letter to Bishop of Winchester,

47
Norden surveys Cranbome

manor for, 50
letter to Society of Middle

Temple, 60
refers to his office of Master of

the Wards, 60
made Kjiight of the Garter, 76

and n
installed as Knight of the

Garter, 78 and n
Governor of the Company of

Mineral and Battery Works,

Cecil, Robert continued

letters from his daughter to,

99, 127
Chancellor of University of

Cambridge, 102
formerly Chancellor of the

Duchj' of Lancaster, 107 and

n
granted custody of Hyde Park,

125
letter from Earl of Shrewsbury

to, 139
letter from Nugent to, 140
Lord Treasurer, 144
entertains King at Salisbury

House, 149, 150
his money gifts to musicians,

151
books bought for his library,

151, 205
his quarry at Buxted, 152
letter to Earl of Lincoln, 155
obtains stone from dissolved

monastery of St. Augustine,

156
his gift to injured labourer, 156
letter from inhabitants of St.

Martiia's-in-the-Fields to, 158
contributes towards extension

of church of St. Martin's-in-

the-Fields, 158
letter to Viscovmt Cranbome,

161
agreement between Morrell

and, 164
entertains King at Britain's

Burse, 168
his gift to troupe of rope-
walkers, 169
his gift to Berry, 169
Haggat's letter to, 174
model of tomb made by Colt

for, 179
marble stones sent from Italy

to, 179
reference to his office of Master

of the Wards, 183
paintings for glass windows of

chapel at Hatfield ordered

by, 185
his speech to House of

Commons, 188
King's letter to, 188
receives letter from King of

Poland, 195
199, 205, 224, 227, 228, 232,

236, 237, 269, 275, 276
buys tapestry from Lady

Hunsdon, 199, 205
his fee as Secretary of State,

201

313

Cecil, Robert continued

his fee from Coxirt of Wards,

201
his gift of picture to Cope, 201
hawks brought from Denmark

to, 201
his gift to Queen, 201
his special gift to Viscount

Cranbonie of Henry IV' s

picture, 202
his gift of gelding to Mayerne,

202
his Christmas gift to prisons in

London, 202, 206
reference to his visit to Bath,

203
Viscount Rochester's letter to,

203
letter to Wilson, 203
reference to his illness, 206
sends Tradescant abroad to

buy trees, 210
his almshouse at Waltham, 221
his note about the " Flanders

Cabinet ", 223
presented with pedigree, 227
his gift to poor, 228
grant of office in Winchester to,

228
Chaplain to. See Abbott,

Robert
Footman to. See Bagan,

Edmund
Gardener to. See Tradescant,

John
Housekeeper to. See Lister,

John
Messenger of the Chamber to.

See Harris, Valentine
Musician to. See Coprario,

John ; Lanier, Nicholas ;

Oxford, Henry
Porter to. See Atkinson,

Thomas
Secretary to. See Calvert,

George ; Dackombe, John ;

Kirkham, Robert; Norton,

Dudley; Sherburn, Edward
Receiver -General to. See

Southworth, John
Cecil, Robert, of Salisbury, co.

Wilts,
petition to Cecil, 218
Cecil, Thomas, of Bristol

12
Cecil, Thomas, tutor of St. John's

College, Cambridge
letter to Cecil, 140
his comments on attitude of

Viscount Cranbome towards

academic work, 141

Cecil, Thomas, of Garway, co.

Hereford
12
Cecil, William, Viscount Cranbome,

later 2nd Earl of Salisbury
defamatory statements about

his servant, 69
89, 140, 194 and n, 205, 228,

229, 230, 233, 234
college tutor's comments on

work of, 140
buys bass viol from Lanier to

take to France, 158
letter from Cecil to, 161 and n
letter to Prince Henry, 176
expenses of his tours on the

continent, 189 and n, 190,

199 (2)
bond signed by, 199
reference to his return across

Channel in King's ship, 200
payment to French reader of,

201
receives special gift from Cecil

of Henry IV's picttu-e, 202
payment to Italian reader of,

203
his portrait sent to Kensington,

204
books bought for, 205, 229
letter from Countess of Derby

to, 217
his gift to Coprario, 230
annual gift to Italian Church

in London, 230
goes to a play, 230
accompanies Palsgrave to

Rochester, 231
pays for costumes used in a

masque by Campion, 231
supplied with head-piece for

masque, 231
inventory of his library, 231
granted pension by Dean and

Chapter of Wells, 232
petitions to, 235, 240, 243, 244,

261, 276, 279, 281, 288 (4),

289 (3), 290 (2)
verses in hand of, 235
appoints overseers to supervise

weaving industry at Hatfield,

236
Morrell's letter to, 237
Sir Edward Cecil's letters to,

237, 241
letter from, 262
letter to Hooper, 262
claims nomination of M.P.s for

Old Sarmn, 262
Lord Lieutenant of Hertford-
shire, 266

314

INDEX

Cecil, William continued

letters from Privy Council to,

266, 271
correspondence about Muster-
Master of Hertfordshire

between Deputy-Lieutenants

and, 267-274
signs directive from Privy

Council, 267
letters to Deputy-Lieutenants

of Hertfordshire, 267, 269,

271
letters from Deputy-Lievi-

tenants of Hertfordshire to,

270, 272
receives grant from King

Charles, 274
his lands in Bermondsey, 275,

276, 285, 290
requests pajnnent of pension

due from Cathedral of Wells,

275
papers relating to property of,

276
letter to Kirkham, 276
desires his sons to be chosen

M.P.s, 276
chosen by King Charles to

negotiate with Scots, 277
complaint against, 278
letter from Percy to, 283
granted Royal pardon by King

Charles IÏ, 285
holds office of Clerk to Bishop

of Salisbury, 285 (2)
his grant to Sambrooke, 285
letters from Earl of Rutland to,

286, 287 (2)
letters from Countess of Rut-
land to, 287 (2)
damage caused to his property

in Bermondsey by fortifica-
tions, 290
Auditor to. See Collins,

William
French reader to. See Gervaise
Master of the Horse to. See

Forrest, Robert
Receiver-General to. See

Keighley, Christopher
Steward to. See Perceval,

Richard; Shotbolt, Thomas
Tailor to. See Hoope
Cecil, William, son of Charles Cecil,

Viscount Cranborne {d 1659)
his sojourn in France, 283
his tutor. See Freher, Philip
Cecil, William, 2nd Earl of Exeter
signs directive from Privy

Council, 267
282

Cecil, William, Baron Burghley (d
1598)
mentioned, 14, 26, 29, 86, 95,
109, 145, 159, 197, 218, 221,
225, 227
Cecil, Sir William, of Trewern, co.
Hereford
225
Cellam, Robert, Captain in the
Irish army
petition to Cecil, 2
Centaur, The

grievances concerning Spanish
prize taken by, 93
Cervantes, Miguel de, Spanish writer
purchase of his Don Quixote,
229
Chadwick, Jordan, Rector of Ash-
wicken, co. Norfolk
charges against, 12 (2)
Chalcrofte, Mr.

visits Italy and Rome, 148
Chalk (Chalke), John, in the service
of the Queen
his allowance, 65
Chamber, Treasurer of the. See also
Stanhope, Sir John
138
Chamber, Treasury of the

159
Chamberlain, Sir John, of Prest-
bury, CO. Gloucester
complaints against, 113
Chamberlain, Sir Robert, of Shir-
burn, CO. Oxford
visits Italy and Rome, 147
Chamberlain, Robert, brother of
John Chamberlain, the
letter -writer
letter from, 139
Chamberlain, Thomas [ ? of Gray's
Inn, London]
case between Green and, 40
Chambers, John, of Plas Chambers,
CO. Denbigh
petition to Cecil, 89
Chambers, Mary, sister of John
Chambers and wife of
Edward Piers alias Hughes
request on behalf of, 89
Chambers, Robert, formerly in the
service of Sir Robert
Heneage
257
Chambers, Thomas, of Raby Coat,
CO. Cumberland
petition to Cecil, 142
Champante, Gregory, of Fieldhouse,
CO. Hants,
petition to Cecil, 103
case between Conradus and,
104

INDEX

316

Champion, , tenant to William

Conradus
104
Chancery (English), The

130
Chancery (Irish), The

88
Chancery (English), Court of

12, 36, 46, 59, 122, 124, 157 (2)
Channel, The English

estimates of transport of troops
and munition across, 240
Chantry Lands

request for grant of, 113
Chapman, Clement, wainscot-joiner
to the King
216
Chapman's Land, co. Kent

property called, 222
Charcoal

wood converted into, 124
Charford, co. Hants.

15
Charing Cross, Strand, London

215, 224
Charity, The, of Whitstable, co.
Kent
bound for France, 155
Charles, Prince, Duke of York, son
of James I, later Charles I,
King of England
his petition to King, 93
94

resolves to call Parliament, 262
his directive concerning

Muster-Masters, 268
his grant to William, Earl of

Salisbury, 274
privy seal loans to, 275
simimons Long Parliament, 276

and n
petition to, 278
depredations of his soldiers in

Somersetshire, 280
purchase of list of triers of, 282
Musician to. See Lisle, Norman
Sempstress to. See Foster,

Julian
Surveyor -General to. See

Fullerton, Sir James
Tutor to. See Murray, Thomas ;
Yovmg, Sir Peter
Charles, Prince, first son of Charles I
and Queen Henrietta Maria
reference to his burial in
Westminster Abbey, 265
Charles, Prince, second son of
Charles I and Queen
Henrietta Maria, later
Charles II, King of England
reference to his christening,
265 and n

Charles, Prince continued

grants Royal pardon to
William, Earl of Salisbury,
285
Charles IX, King of Sweden

133
Charles Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy
Viscount Cranbome at Court

of, 200
envoy expected from, 211
Charles, Richard, herald

his allowance, 66
Chamock, Robert, of Astley, co.
Lanes.
15
Chase, The. See Cranbome Chase
Chastellerault. See Chatellerault

Châtellerault (Chastellerault)
[Vienne, France]
Huguenot representatives at
Court of Henry IV chosen by
assembly at, 117

Cheke, Sir Thomas, of Pirgo, co.
Essex, and St. Martin's-in-
the -Fields, London
232
Chelsea, London

155
Chenell, François, in the service of
Sir William Tresham
his petition, 256
Cherbury, Baron. See Herbert,

Edward
Cherry Garden, Bennondsey, co.
Surrey
property called, 285
Cherry Trees

planted at Hatfield, 201
Cheshire
209
Clerk of the Peace in. See

Jones, Henry
Deputy-Clerk of the Peace in.

See Worden, Richard
Custos Rotulorum of. See
Egerton, Sir John
Cheshunt, co. Herts.
109, 184, 276
letter dated from, 270
Chester, Cheshire

petition of Dean and Chapter

of, 49
dispute over appointment to

Recordership of, 59
Dean of. See Barlow, William
Justice of. See Lewkenor, Sir
Richard
Chester, Covirt of Exchequer of
46, 49

316

INDEX

Chester, Coiinty Palatine of
219

Barons of Exchequer of. See

Tatton, William ; Egerton,

Sir Thomas; Egerton, Sir

John; Dodd, Edward

Deputy -Baron of. See Cotes,

Alexander
Chamberlain of. See Stanley,
William
Chester, Mr. See Chester, Thomas
Chester, Sir Robert, of Royston, co.
Herts,
petition to Cecil, 11
Chester, Thomas [ ? of Almonds -
bury, CO. Gloucester]
involved in dispiite over Kings -
wood Forest, 170
Chesterfield, Earl of. See Stanhope,

Philip
Chester Herald. See Knight,

Thomas
Cheswise, John, of Wem, Salop

complaint against, 219
Cheswise, Thomas, of Wem, Salop
petition to Cecil, 219
petition to King, 246
Chetterwood (Chitered), near Cran-
bome, CO. Dorset
235
Chevalier, Sieur

166
Cheyney, Sir Francis, of Chesham
Bois, CO. Bucks.
122
Cheyre (Chair), The

shop in Britain's Burse called,
274
Chichester, Sir Arthur, Lord Deputy
of Ireland
2, 42 and n, 72, 82, 83, 84, 88,
89, 97, 98, 105, 120, 124,
133, 150, 159, 173, 181, 197,
222

Chilmett, , in the service of

the late Queen Elizabeth
257
Chippindale, Jolan, of Leicester
Castle, conxmissary and
justice of Leicestershire
petition to Cecil, 2
Chipping Wycombe, co. Bucks.

132
Chitered. See Chetterwood
Cholmley, Mr.

visits Italy and Rome, 147
Chop well, CO. Durham

manor of, 249
Clirist Church, Canterbxiry

Dean and Chapter of, 321
Dean of. See Nevil, Thomas

Christian IV, King of Denmark
Cecil's letter to, 4
7, 27, 39, 71, 80, 113, 238
accident during his visit to
England, 87 and n

Churchill, , [ ? John Churchill,

of Holborn, London]
39
Churchman, Jolin, of London,
Merchant Taylor
charged with fraudulent be-
haviour, 179
Churchman, Robert, son of John
Churchman
complaints against, 179
Churchman, Thomas, a clerk of the
King's Chapel at Windsor
Castle
petition to Cecil, 95 and n
Civil War, The

in Dorsetshire, 278
in Rutlandshire, 279, 280
in Somersetshire, 280
its effects on business in Lon-
don, 281, 289
Claines (Clanes), co. Worcester

manor of, 96
Clanes. See Claines
Clanricarde, Earl of. See Bvirgh,

Richard de
Clare, co. Suffolk

Honour of, 213 (2)
Deputy-Bailiff of. See Stile-
man, Robert
Clare, Earl of. See Holies, Jolin
Clarenceux King of Arms. See also
Camden, William
265
Clark, Henry, of Dover, merchant

petition to Cecil, 16
Clatworthy. See Clotworthy, Sir

John
Clayton, co. Lanes,
manor of, 126
Claj'-ton, Elizabeth, wife of Matthew
Clayton
petition to Cecil, 54
55w
Clayton, Francis, Captain

petition to Cecil, 71
Claj'ton, Matthew, of Westminster,
London
petition to Cecil, 54
55w

Clayton (Cleyton), Ralph, (Rafe),
apothecary to Prince Henry
his allowance, 65
Clayton, Richard, Master of St.
John's College, Cambridge
102

INDEX

317

Clayton, Robert

signs agreement concerning
erection of furnaces for in-
dustrial uses, 196
Clayton, William, Captain, de-
ceased, father of Francis
Clayton
mentioned, 71
Cleark, Mr. Baron. See Clerk, Sir

Robert
Cleer, Sir Edward. See Clere, Sir

Edward
Clere. See Clères

Clere (Cleer), Sir Edward, of Blick-
ling, CO. Norfolk, J.P.
petition to King, 71
intervenes on behalf of
Christian Weech, 109 and n
Clere, Jacques de, of Clères, France,
husband of Louise de Balsac,
sister of Catherine de Balsac,
wife of Esmé Stuart, 1st
Duke of Lennox and aunt of
Ludovic Stuart, 2nd Duke of
Lennox
letter to Lennox, 243
Clères [Seine-Inférieure, France]

letter dated from, 243
Clerk, George, of Walken, co. Herts,
appointed to supervise weaving
indtistry at Hatfield, 236
Clerk or Clarke (Cleark), Sir Robert,
Baron of the Exchequer
21, 113 and n
Clermont, Earls of

Sir Edward Clere's relationship
to, 71
Cleyton, Rafe. See Clayton, Ralph
Clifford, Lady. See Clifford, Anne;

Clifford, Frances
Clifford, Lord. See Clifford, Henry
Clifford, Lady Anne, daughter of
George Clifford, 3rd Earl of
Cumberland
131
Clifïord, Frances, daughter of Sir
Robert Cecil and wife of
Henry Clifford, Lord Clifford
232
Clifford, Francis, 4th Earl of
Cumberland
petition to King, 121
money paid to his musician,
151
Clifford, George, 3rd Earl of Ciun-
berland {d 1605)
18, 28
Clifford, Henry, Lord Clifford, later
5th Earl of Ciimberland
232

Clifford, Margaret, Dowager
Countess of Cumberland,
widow of George Clifford,
3rd Earl of Ciunberland
petition to House of Lords,
131
Clifton, Robert, tenant of Cran-
borne, co. Wilts.
petition to William, Earl of
Salisbury, 244
Clinton {alias Fiennes), Henry, 2nd
Earl of Lincoln
132, 133

Cecil's letter to, 155
writes to King on Comyng's
behalf, 233
Clithero, John, tenant in Brigstock
Park
petition to William, Earl of
Salisbury, 279
Cloghane, Ireland

83
Cloneralla, Ireland

83
Cloth

criticism of manufacture of, 17
Customs duties imposed on

export of, 52, 74
dependence of people in north

of England on trade in, 53
market in Levant for sale of,

128
its manufacture in Kent
jeopardized by iron industry,
255
cloth industry in Devon, 256
Clothiers

petition to Privy Council, 77
complaints of Kentish, 255
Clotworthy (Clatworthy), Sir John,
of Antrim, Ireland, M.P. for
Maldon
polemical attack on, 277
Clough, Cheshire

waste called, 114, 115
Clowes, William, in the service of
Prince Charles, Duke of York
his allowance, 66

Coal and Coalmining

in Cheshire, 114 (2), 115
in Nottinghamshire, 138

Cobbe, Michael, Sergeant-at-Arms
his allowance, 65

Cobham, co. Kent
179, 228
manor of, 228

Cobham, Lord. See Brooke, Henry

Cobham, Sir William, deceased, son
of George Brooke, 9th Lord
Cobham
mentioned, 133

318

INDEX

Cobham College, co. Kent

228
Cock, The, St. Martin's le Grand,
London
property owTied by Bishop of
London and called, 216
CockajTie (CockejTi), Thomas, Ser-
geant of the King's Buck-
hounds
his allowance, 68
Cockeyn, Thomas. See CockajTie,
Thomas

-, of Shoreditch, London

Coel,

complaints against, 11

Coins

reference to counterfeiters of,
47
Coke, Sir Edward, Attorney-
General, later Lord Chief
Justice of the Common Pleas
18, 19, 21, 22, 76, 81 and n, 82,

106, 107, 113, 240
his note on petition, 33
called " Lord Tresillian

Cooke ", 236
Coke (Cooke), Sir John, Secretary' of
State
signs directives from Privy
Council, 267, 271
Coke (Cooke), Thomas

130
Colchester, co. Essex
227

Cole, John

petition to Cecil, 124

Cole, Richard, of Bucks, co. Devon
complaints against, 207

Collard, Christopher, in the service
of Sir Robert Cecil
203

Collins, William, Auditor to
William, Earl of Salisbxiry
signs abstract of deeds, 275
letter from Barry to, 279
280
letter from Morgan to, 280

Colman, Richard, Chief Remem-
brancer of the Irish Ex-
chequer
88
Colman Hedge alias Soho, St.
Martin's-in-the-Fields, Lon-
don
water to be conveyed to St.
Martin's Lane and Covent
Garden from, 275
Colmer, George, Cock Master to the
King
his allowance, 68

Cologne [Germany]

letter dated from, 77
218

Burgomaster of. See Boland,
John
Colt, Mr. See Poultrain, Maxi-
milian
Col ville (Colvyll), James, of Easter
Wemyss, Fifeshire, later
Lord Colville of Culrosse
visits Italy and Rome, 148
petition to King, 246
Colvjdl, James. See Colville, James
Combe, William, of Old Stalford, co.
Warwick, J. P.
26
Commissioners for the King's
Revenue
petition to, 194
Commissioners for Leases
56, 145

petitions to, 154, 249
Commissioners for the Relief of
Poor Prisoners
120
Commissioners of the Militia

in Surrey, 284
Committee of Both Houses

reference to, 96
Committee of Fortifications

290
Conmion Law

101
Common Pleas

Lord Chief Justice of, 81
Conamon Prayer Book

Protestation against, 277
Commons, House of. See also
Parliament
59, 74, 77, 127, 157, 248, 291
Cecil's speech to, 188
Jackson's letter to, 242
proceedings of, 292 (4), 293 (5)
precedents for, 293
Speaker of. See Phelips, Sir
Edward
Compton, CO. Berks.

278
ComjTig, Patrick, of London

petition to King, 233
Condon, David, son of Patrick
Condon
84 (2), 85
Condon, Patrick, of Ballymac-
Patrick, co. Cork, Ireland
84, 85
Confiscation House, See Casa de

Confiscacion
Coningsby, Sir Ralph, of North
Minuns, co. Herts,
commits Tyler to Newgate, 9

INDEX

319

Coningsby, Sir Richard, of the
Royal Household
his allowance, 63
Conjurer

takes part in entertainment
staged in library of Salisbury
House, 149
Connavight, Ireland

fee of Provost-Marshal of, 85
Chief Justice of. See Dillon,
Thomas; Osbaldeston,
Geoffrey
Connock, Richard, Auditor of the
Duchy of Cornwall
his allowance, 64
petition to King in the name of
Prince Charles, 93
Conradus, William, of London,
schoolmaster
case between Champante and,

104
petition to Cecil, 104
Constable, Sir Robert, of Flam-
borough, CO. Yorks.
249
Constable, Thomas, tenant in
Britain's Burse
petition to William, Earl of
Salisbury, 288
Constable, Sir William, of the Royal
Household
his allowance, 62
petition to King, 113
Constance, The, of London

petition from mariners of, 92
Constantinople [Turkey]

23, 177, 199, 207
Contile, Luca, Italian poet and
scholar, commissary of Philip
II, King of Spain, at Pavia
copy of his Ragionamento ....
sopra la proprieta delle
imprese bought for Cecil's
library, 151
Conway (Conawaye), Sir Edward, of
Ragley, co. Warwick, later
Viscovint Conway, Lord
President of the Council
210

signs directives from Privy
Council, 267, 271
Conway, Jenkin, of Killorglin, co.
Kerry, Ireland
petitions to Cecil, 218 (2)
Cony, Peregrine, of Bassingthorp,
CO. Lincoln
petition to King, 45
Cooke, Sir Anthony, of Gidea Hall,
Romford, co. Essex
173
Cooke, J. See Coke, Sir John

Cooke, Lord Tresillian. See

Tresilian, Sir Robert
Cooke. See Coke, Thomas
Cooper, Sir John, of Rockboume,
CO. Hants,
his residence shown on map,

163
letter to Cecil, 187
Cooper, Thomas, vicar at Coventry

petition to Cecil, 185 and n
Cooper, William, tenant in Brig-
stock Park
petition to William, Earl of
Salisbury, 279
Cooper, Mr.

233
Cope, Sir Walter, politician, later
Chamberlain of the Ex-
chequer
letter to Fortescue, 37
recommends Edlett, 141
169, 212, 223

Cecil's gift of picture to, 201
Copley, Benjamin, tenant in
Britain's Burse
petition to William, Earl of
Salisbury, 289
Copper

agreement over manufacture

of, 196
particulars concerning produc-
tion of, 291
Coprario, John, musician in the
service of Sir Robert Cecil
letter to Bellott, 122
signs receipt, 151
152

receives gift of money from
William, Earl of Salisbury,
230
Corbett. See Corbett, John
Corbett, John, Clerk to the Privy
Council
206 and n
Corbett, Sir Miles, of Sprowston, co.
Norfolk, J.P.
intervenes on behalf of
Christian Weech, 109
Cork, CO. Cork, Ireland

money deposited in the
" bank " at, 9
Cork, The

shop in Britain's Burse called,
274

Cormacke. See M'Dermott, Cor-

mocke
Cornig, Thomas

letter to Lord, 281
Cornwall, Duchy of

46, 93

Receiver of, 46

320

INDEX

Cornwall, Duchy of continued

Auditor of. See Connock,

Richard
Surveyor of. See Norden, John ;
Drake, Robert
Comwallis, Sir Charles, of Brome
Hall, CO. Suffolk, English
Ambassador to Spain
50, 77 (2), 175
Comwallis, Sir William, son of Sir
Charles Comwallis
77 (2)
Corsham, co. Wilts.

manor of, 104
Costin, Richard, of Bringwood, co.
Hereford
193
Cotes, Alexander, of Chester,
Deputy -Baron of the Ex-
chequer of Chester
petition to Cecil, 46
Cotford, James, of Cranbrook, co.
Kent
petition to King, 255
Cotterell, John, merchant

petition to King, 161 and n
Cottingham, co. Yorks.

manor of, 192
Cotton ( ? Coatham), co. Durham

174
Cotton, Père. See Cotton, Pierre
Cotton, Bartholomew, of Starston,
CO. Norfolk, J. P.
intervenes on behalf of
Christian Weech, 110
Cotton, Henry, Bishop of Sarum
(Salisbvu-y)
162, 225

his grant to Earls of Salisbury,
285
Cotton, Jolin, Sergeant -at -Arms

his allowance, 65
Cotton, Philip [? of London, Mer-
chant Taylor]
petition to Cecil, 78
Cotton, Pierre, French Jesuit and
theologian
165
Cotton, Sir Richard, of Comber-
mere, Cheshire (d 1555)
mentioned, 213
Cottrell, Francis, son of Robert
Cottrell
petition to Cecil, 157
petition to King, 157
Cottrell, Martin, son of Robert
Cottrell
petition to Cecil, 157
petition to King, 157
Cottrell, Robert, of London
157 (2)

Cottrell, Robert, son of Robert
Cottrell
petition to Cecil, 157
petition to King, 157
Coulricke, William, lessee of Bur
rington Mills, co. Hereford
petition to Cecil, 193
Counterfeiters

reference to, 47
Court, The English
at W'hitehall, 226
244, 249
Court, The Spanish

55
Court of Delegates, King's

167
Covent Garden, London
198

to be supplied with water by
aqueduct from Soho, 275
Coventry, co. Warwick

complaint against merchants

and Mayor of, 36
petition from drapiers and

hosiers of, 128
complaint against mercers of,

128
complaint against magistrates
of, 185
Coventry, Richard [ ? of London,
mercer]
petition to Cecil, 217
Coventry, Thomas, Baron Coventry,
Lord Keeper
signs directives from Privy
Council, 267, 271
Covert, Humphrey, former captain
in Ireland stationed at Lough
Foyle
petition to Cecil, 105
Cowell, Dr. See Cowell, John
Cowell, John, Regius Professor of
Civil Law at Cambridge
University and Master of
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
purchase of his Interpreter, 229
Cowper, W^alter, tenant of the
manor of Muchland, co.
Lanes,
petition to Conunissioners for
Leases, 154
Cox, Ralph, in the serxnce of Sir
Robert Cecil
petition to Cecil, 61
Crag, William. See Craig, W^illiam
Craig (Craigg), John, physician to
the King
his allowance, 64
Craig, Sir Thomas, Scottish poet
and feudalist
composes Latin poem in honour
of King, 138

INDEX

321

Craig (Crag), William, a Scotsman

10
Craigg, Dr. See Craig, John
Cranbome, co. Dorset

maps and terrier of, 50 (2)

manor of, 244

letter dated from, 262

rectory of, 276

Bailiff of. See Stillingfleet,

Samviel
Steward of. See Sherfield,

Henry
Deputy -Steward of. See Sher-
field, Richard
Cranbome, Viscoiont. See Cecil,

William; Cecil, James
Cranbome, Viscountess. See Cecil,

Margaret; Cecil, Diana
Cranbome Chase, co. Dorset
187, 234

Overseer of. See Gorges, Sir
Thomas
Cranbome House, co. Dorset
maps of, 50, 281
276

damaged during Civil War, 281
Cranbome Priory, co. Dorset

276
Cranbrook, co. Kent

request for closure of iron mills
at, 255
Crane, Edward, of Rotherhithe,
mariner
petition to Cecil, 9
Crane, John, former Comptroller of
Berwick garrison
petition to Cecil, 51
Crashaw, William, Puritan divine
and poet, prebendary of
Ripon
petition to Cecil, 40 and n
Crawford Moor, Lanarkshire, Scot-
land
mines at, 84
Crayke (Creak), co. Yorks.

174
Creak. See Crayke
Creets, John de. See Critz, John de

Creutsmar,

entertained in Paris by William
Cecil, 283

Crewkeme, co. Somerset
10

Crewse, Jeffrey, musician to the
King
his allowance, 65

Crichton (Crighton), Sir James,
Collector of Petty Customs in
the port of London
70

S.C.-22

Crichton, Robert, Treasurer of the
Cathedral of Wells
Keighley's letter to, 275
Crighton, Sir James. See Crichton,

Sir James
Critz (Creets, Creete), John de,
painter
his bill for work at Salisbury

House, 103
payments to, 201, 204
Croft, Sir Herbert, of Croft Castle,
CO. Hereford
183
Croft, Sir James, Comptroller to the
Queen
petition to King, 17
Croke, Sir John, Jiidge of the
Common Pleas
Justice of Assize in Glamor-
ganshire, 60
Crompton, Sir Thomas, of Cherry
Burton, co. Yorks.
visits Italy and Rome, 147
Crompton, Thomas, extraordinary
pensioner to the King
petition to Cecil, 217
Cromwell (Crummell), Oliver,
Lieutenant-General
his troops quartered at Damer-
ham, 278
Cros, Monsieur de. Huguenot repre-
sentative at the Court of
Henry IV
his report to Synod of La
Rochelle, 117
Crosart, Nicholl

petition to Cecil, 217
Crosby, Henry, clerk to Alexander
Cotes
charged with conspiracy, 46
Cross, Henry, of Barnstaple, mer-
chant
petition to Cecil, 173
Cross, Sir Robert, of Chelmsford,
CO. Essex
petition to King, 207 and n
Crown, The

papers dealing with finances of,
257
Crown Office, The

221
Croivne, The

shop in Britain's Burse called,
274
Crummell, Lt. General. See Crom-
well, Oliver
CuUompton, co. Devon

143
Cumberland

priests and seminarists in, 42
189

322

INDEX

Cumberland, Countess of. See

Clifford, Margaret
Cumberland, Earl of. See Clifford,

George; Clifford, Francis
Cuniga, Don Pedro de, Spanish
Ambassador to England
forwards list of English

grievances, 93
121
Curll, Edward, of Hatfield, co.
Herts., and the Middle
Temple, London
appointed to supervise weaving
industry at Hatfield, 236
Curll, William, of Hatfield, co.
Herts,
appointed to supervise weaving
industry at Hatfield, 236
Currants

cargo of, 41
Curriers, Foreign

petition to Privy Council, 61
petition to Cecil, 62
Curwen, Anthony, of Seaton, co.
Cumberland
207
Cusack, John, of Dublin, merchant

petition to Cecil, 36
Customs

imposed on coarse cloth, 52
criticism of farmers of, 53
new rates on canvas and serges,

74
eiïect of Levant trade on, 128
farmers of, 140, 144, 155, 220
255

Clerk to. See Harries, John
Customs House

at London, 6, 55, 93, 165
request from Portsmouth for
establishment of, 209 and n

Dackombe, (Sir) John, of Mot-
combe, co. Devon and the
Middle Temple, London,
secretary to Sir Robert Cecil
and, later. Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster

182, 196, 199, 235

letters to, 188, 189

appointed to supervise weav-
ing industry at Hatfield,
236 and n
Dackombe, Alice, daughter of Sir
John Dackombe

235
Dackombe, Dorothy, daughter of
Sir John Dackombe

235 and n

Dacorum, co. Herts,
hundred of, 273
Dacres, Lady. See Dacres, Martha
Dacres, Martha, Lady, wife of Sir
Thomas Dacres, of Ches-
hunt, CO. Herts.
218
Dacres, Sir Thomas, of Cheshunt,
CO. Herts., Deputy-Lieu-
tenant of Hertfordshire
signs joint letters to William,
Earl of Salisbury, 268, 270,
273
letter to Lucy, 269
Dallam (Dallom), Thomas, organ-
builder
his bill for services, 189
payments to, 202, 206
Dallison, Sir Thomas, of Greetwell,
CO. Lincoln
226
Dallom, Thomas. See Dallam,

Thomas
Damerham (Damersham), co. Wilts.
262, 278

Rector of. See Buckley,
Thomas
Damerham Chiu-ch, Damerham, co.
Wilts.
163
Damerham Coppices, co. Wilts.

accounts for, 278
Damerham House, Damerham, co.
Wilts.
163
Damersham. See Damerham
Damport, William, a footman to
the King
petition to Cecil, 121
Danby, Christopher, of Masham,
CO. Yorks.
136
Danby, Christopher, Steward to
Christopher Danby, of Mas-
ham, CO. Yorks.
petition to Cecil, 136
Daniel, John, of Ireland, in the
service of the King
petition to King, 34
Danson, John, tailor to the King

petition to Cecil, 76
Dan vers. Lord. See Dan vers,

Henry
Danvers, Henry, Lord Danvers of
Dantsey, Lord President of
Munster
159
Danzig [Poland]
7

Dutch ship seized off English
coast by pirates from, 250
Darby, Mr. See Darby, Edward

323

Darby, Edward, auditor

entertained at Theobalds, 30
appointed to supervise weaving
industry at Hatfield, 236
Darcy, Lord. See Darcy, Thomas
Darcy, Sir Edward, of Dartford
Priory, co. Kent
87

signs Henlake's petition, 185
Darcy, Sir Francis, of Isleworth, co.
Middlesex
87
Darcy, Thomas, 3rd Baron Darcy of
Chiche
case between St. Léger and, 79
Damton, co. Durham

172
Davenport, William

83
Daventry, co. Northants.

manor of, 250
David, Evan Lloyd ap, Feodary of
Merionethshire
22
David, Roger, of Dinas, co. Breck-
nock
petition to Cecil, 196
Davies, Sir John, of Tisbtiry, co.
Wilts, and Middle Temple,
London
232
Davies, Nathan or Nathaniel [ ?
of South Mimms, co. Middle-
sex], a carrier
petition to William, Earl of
Salisbury, 243
Davison, Jolin, of Weston, co
Lincoln
his wardship, 173
Dawes. See Dawes, Abraham
Dawes, Abraham, of London, a
siirveyor of the outports
144
Day, Florence, of Abergavenny

testifies against recusants, 242
Day, Thomas, in the service of Sir
William Ingleby
123
Dean, Forest of, co. Gloucester

171
Deepe. See Dieppe
Deer

for Theobalds, 132

their decline in Kingswood

Forest, 171
poaching of, 234
De Hope, The

sails to Pernambuco, 212
Delabere, Richard, of Lincoln's
Inn, London
Cecil sells manor of Southam
to, 163

Delahay, Helen, widow of Paul
Delahay
replies to interrogatories, 294
Delahay, Paul, of Altyrynys, Wal-
terstone, co. Hereford
map of Altyrynys drawn by,

161
(?) 233, 294
Dell, Mr.

9
Delvin, Dowager Lady. See Nugent,

Mary
Delvin, Lord. See Nugent, Chris-
topher ; Nugent, Richard
De Monachis

theological work entitled, 33
Denmark

Chancellor of, 7

ambassador from, 27

61, 215, 249

English merchant's goods

seized in, 80
hawks brought to Cecil from,
201
Denmark, King of. See Christian

IV
Dennis, William, formerly in the
service of Anne Dudley,
Coimtess of Warwick {d
1604)
complaint against, 30, 31
Deputy Lieutenants

of Hertfordshire, 77, 78
Derby, Dowager Countess of. See

Stanley, Alice
Derby, Earl of. See Stanley,

William
Derby, Lordship of

47
Derby Hills, co. Derby

waste called, 214
Derbyshire

286
Desborough, Martin, senior, tenant
in Brigstock Park
petition to William, Earl of
Salisbury, 279
Desborough, Martin, junior, tenant
in Brigstock Park
petition to William, Earl of
Salisbury, 279
Desmond, Earl of. See Fitzgerald,

Gerald; Fitzgerald, James
Dethicke, Sir William, Garter King
of Arms
his allowance, 68
De Thou, President. See Thou,

Jacques Auguste de
Devereux, Edward, of Castle Brom-
wich, CO. Warwick
144

324

Devereux, Frances, (divorced) wife
of Robert Devereux, 3rd
Earl of Essex
verses written, on occasion of
her marriage to Earl of
Somerset, 231 and n
Deverevix, Robert, 2nd Earl of
Essex {executed 1601)
mentioned, 78

reference to his expedition to
Azores, 99
Devereux, Robert, 3rd Earl of
Essex
entertained at Theobalds, 29
78

polemical attack on, 277
Devonshire

33, 185, 233
sheriff of, 207
cloth industry in, 256
Devonshire, Lord. See Cavendish,

William
Devys, Robert, of co. Norfolk,
yeoman, deceased
mentioned, 224
Dickenson, Thomas, of Hesketh, co.
Lanes., tanner
petition to Cecil, 189
Dieppe (Deepe) [Seine-Inférieure,
Paris]
210
Digby, Lady. See Digby, Lettice
Digby, Sir Everard, of Stoke Dry,
CO. Rutland, recusant and
Gimpowder Plot conspirator
petitioia to Cecil from tenants

of, 32
reference to his arrest, 34, 59
38, 59 and n

his father. See Digby, Everard
his father-in-law. See Mulsho,

William
his mother. See Digby, Mary
Digby, Everard, of Stoke Dry, co.
Rutland, father of Sir
Edward Digby, {d 1592)
mentioned, 32
Digby, Sir John, Vice -Chamberlain,
diplomatist and statesman,
later 1st Earl of Bristol
mentioned unfavourably in

verses, 236
238
Digby, Lettice, wife of Sir Robert
Digby
38
Digby, Lady Mary, wife of Sir
Everard Digby
involved in Gunpowder Plot
activities, 38

Digby, Mary, mother of Sir Everard
Digby, and wife of Samson
Erdeswick
59
Digby, Sir Robert, of Coleshill, co.
Warwick
38
Dillon, Mr. See Dillon, Thomas
Dillon, Alice, widow of Thomas
Dillon
89
Dillon, Henry, King's Attorney in
Ulster
petition to Cecil, 120
Dillon, Lucas, father of Henry
Dillon
120
Dillon, Robert, son of Thomas
Dillon
89
Dillon, Thomas, former Chief Jus-
tice of Connaught {d 1606)
mentioned, 89 and n, 120
Dinas, co. Brecknock
Lordship of, 196
Dingan (Dingam), Offaly, co. Meath,
Ireland
97
Dirleton, Lord, See Erskine,

Thomas
Dishforth, co. Yorks.

214
Dixon, Thomas, Sergeant -at -Arms

his allowance, 65
Dobbinson. See Dobbinson, Ralph
Dobbinson, Ralph, Bailiff of West-
minster
seizes Catesby's goods, 35
138

petition to Privy Council, 138
arrests Curwen, 207
Dockwra (Docwra), Thomas, of
Putteridge, co. Herts.,
Steward of Hitchin
14 (2), 15
Dodd, Edward, of Edge, Cheshire,
former Baron of the Court of
Exchequer of the Cotmty
Palatine of Chester
46 and n
Doddington, Edward, Captain,
former officer of the army in
Ireland
petition to Cecil, 29
Dodsworth, Sylvester, Sergeant of
the King's Buckhounds
complaint against, 159
Doelan, Daniel. See O'Doelan,
Daniel

325

Dohna (Dona), Achatius, Baron de,
Ambassador of the King of
Bohemia in England
reference to quarrel between
Sir Edward Cecil and, 237
Dolbery, Robert, of Sherborne, co.
Dorset
petition to Cecil, 215
Dolma,n, Mr. See Dolman, Thomas
Dolman, Thomas, of Shaw, near
Newbury, co. Berks.,
Steward of the Queen's Hos-
pital of St. Bartholomew in
Newbury
gravely ill, 132 and n
Dona, Baron. See Dohna
Doncaster. See Hay, James
Doncombe, Mr. See Duncombe
Donne. See Donne, John
Donne, John, poet and divine

purchase of his Pseudo Martyr,
229
Donne, Sir Daniel, Master of
Requests
78, 174, 233 and n
his note on petition, 234
Don Quixote de la Mancha {Quexiota
de la Mancha)
purchase of, 229
Dorchester, Viscount. See Carleton,

Dudley
Dore, John, of London, tenant to
Jolin WjTiyard
111
Dormer, Jane, wife of Gomez
Suarez de Figueroa, Coimt
of Feria
209 and n
Dormer, Sir John, of Long Crendon,
CO. Bucks.
160
Dormer, Robert, Viscovuit Ascott
and 1st Earl of Carnarvon
creation of his titles, 266
Dormer, Sir William, of Wing, co.
Bucks.
visits Italy and Rome, 147
Dorothie, Lady [ ? Lady Dorothy
Hastings, wife of Sir James
Stuart]
her allowance, 67
Dorset, Earl of. See Sackville,
Thomas; Sackville, Edward
Dorset, Marquis of. See Grey,

Henry
Dorsetshire

Justices of the Peace in, 234
Duchy of Lancaster's manor
in, 250

Douai (Dowaye) [Nord, France]

English students at, 73 and n
Dover, co. Kent

16, 210, 219, 225

English Catholic priests cross

from Calais to, 73
duty of mayor of, 219
Lieutenant of Castle of. See
Fane, Sir Thomas

Dover, , [ ? Hickory Dover],

an actor
takes part in entertainment at
Theobalds, 137
Doves, John, of London, mariner

petition to Cecil, 91
Dowaye. See Douai
Downe, Earl of. See Pope, William
Dowthwaite, William, of Bridg-
water, CO. Somerset and
Lincoln's Inn, London,
Bailiff of Cranborne, later
solicitor to William, Earl of
Salisbury
Hooper's letter to, 234
to discuss question of pension
with Dean and Chapter of
Wells, 275
Doyver [ ? Dolwar], co. Mont-
gomery
manor of, 39
Dragon, The

laden with spices from East
Indies, 177
Drake, Robert, of Littleham, co.
Devon and Inner Temple,
London, barrister
patent of surveyorship of
Duchy of Cornwall conveyed
to, 46
Drapers

of Coventry, 128
Drapps, John, of Newport Pagnell,
CO. Bucks,
petition to William, Earl of
Salisbury, 290
Drayton [ ? co. Somerset]

manor of, 94
Drewer, Jolin, of London

111
Dromond, Jane. See Drimimond,

Jane
Drummond (Dromond) Jane, Lady
of the Bedchamber to the
Queen
her allowance, 65
Drury, Sir Drue, of Riddlesworth,
CO. Norfolk
signs Henlake's petition, 185
Drury Lane, London
35

326

INDEX

Dublin, Ireland

36, 88, 97, 222

Master or Keeper of the King's
House in. See Ashe, Sir
Thomas
Dudley, Anibrose, Earl of Warwick
[d 1590)
mentioned, 126
Dudley, Anne, 3rd wife (and widow)
of Ambrose Dudley, Earl of
Warwick, {d 1604)
mentioned, 31
Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester
{d 1588)
mentioned, 20, 184
Duher, John, of London, goldsmith

petition to Cecil, 141
Duke, The. See Stuart, Ludovic
Dunbar, Earl of. See Home,

George
Dunboy, co. Cork, Ireland
reference to siege of, 2
Dunch, William, of Avebury, co.
Wilts,
his wardship, 55 and n

Dunch, , brother-in-law to

Deborah Mervyn
55
Duncombe (Doncombe), Mr.

visits Italy and Rome, 147
Dunkirk [Nord, France]

complaints of English discrim-
ination against ships of, 48
55, 225
Dunsmore, Baron. See Leigh,

Francis
Duperron, Jacques Davy, Cardinal
165 and n

Dupuis,

entertained in Paris by William
Cecil, 283
Durant, William, of Enfield, co.
Middlesex
petition to Cecil, 11
Duret. See Duret, Jean
Duret, Jean, French physician and
politician
166, 167
Durham, co. Durham

82
Durham, Bishop of. See James,

William
Durham, Bishopric of

lands svirveyed within, 174
Durham, coimty of

priests and recusants in, 42
83
Durham House. See Britain's

Burse
Dyers, Company of, London
petition from, 28

Dykes,

87
Dymock, Thomas [ ? of Pinchbeck,
CO. Lincoln]

petition to Cecil, 173

See

Ealing, co. Middlesex

246
Earl Marshal of England.

Howard, Thomas
Ear le, William, of Hanslope, co.
Bucks,
petition to Cecil, 94
Easington (Esington), co. Durham

174
Easter, High (Highester) co. Essex

manor of, 250
East Garden, Hatfield House, co.
Herts,
embellishing of the " greate
sesterne ", in, 205
East Indies

Dragon returns with spices

from, 177
sale at Middelburg of goods
from, 254
Eastland, George, of London,
yeoman
petition to Cecil, 122
Eaton or Eyton, William

provides William, Earl of Salis-
bury, with head -piece for
masque, 231
Eayre, Jeremy, of St. Martin's
le Grand, London, shoe-
maker
216
Ebbothe [ ? Ebbw] alias Greenfield,
CO. Monmouth
manor of, 250
Edeirnion, co. Merioneth

22
Edes, Henry, tenant in Brigstock
Park
petition to William, Earl of
Salisbury, 279
Edgeley, William, in the service of
the Queen
his allowance, 65
Edlett, William, of Barn Elm, co.
Surrey, iron-smith
petition to Cecil, 141 and n
Edmondes, Lady. See Edmondes,

Magdalen
Edmondes, Henry, alebrewer to
the King
10

327

Edmondes, Magdalen, Lady, wife
of Sir Thomas Edmondes
her allowance, 67
Edmondes, Sir Thomas, English
Ambassador to the Low
Countries and France, later
Privy Councillor
1 and n, 100, 210
signs directive from Privy
Coimcil, 271
Edmonton, co. Middlesex

plan of property situated in,
251
Edney, Peeter, musician to the
King
his allowance, 65
Edstone, co. Warwick

20
Edward III, King of England
(d 1377)
mentioned, 248
Edward VI, King of England
(d 1553)
mentioned, 196, 213
Edward, Harry ap, of Llanasaph,
CO. Flint, uncle of William
Hughes
89, 90
Edwards, Richard, of Rushden,
CO. Herts., labourer
request on behalf of, 220
Edwinstree (Edwinstrey), co. Herts.

hundred of, 273
Egerton, Sir John, Custos
Rotulorum of Cheshire and
former Baron of the Court of
Exchequer of the County
Palatine of Chester, son of
Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord
Chancellor
46
Egerton, Ralph, of Ridley, Cheshire

complaint against, 213
Egerton, Thomas, Baron EUesmere,
Lord Chancellor
17, 18, 34, 36, 46, 47, 53, 59,
71, 76, 79, 81, 82, 95, 110,
114, 115, 125, 143, 157, 164,
185, 212, 234
petitions to, 47, 77
his speech at installation of
Sir Henry Montagu as Chief
Justice, 232
his treatise on Royal Preroga-
tive, 232 and n
Egerton, Sir Thomas, former Baron
of the Court of Exchequer
of the County Palatine of
Chester, son of Sir Thomas
Egerton, Lord Chancellor
46

Elcock, Anthony, of St. Leonard,
Shoreditch, London, mercer
petition to Cecil, 33
Elizabeth, Queen of England {d
1603)
mentioned, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
13 (2), 18, 20, 23, 26, 28, 30,
31, 32, 34, 39, 45, 46, 52, 56,
59, 70, 71 (3), 81, 82 (2),
83, 84, 85, 86, 89, 93 (2), 95,
99, 100, 101, 103, 105, 111,
113, 114, 115 (2), 143, 154,
173, 178, 180, 182(2), 184(2),
186 (2), 193 (2), 196, 197 (2),
198, 206, 210, 213
alleged plot to assassinate, 20
allowances given to her foot-
men by King, 67
mentioned, 214 (2), 217, 219 (2),
220, 221 (2), 229, 245 (2),
246, 247, 249, 255, 256, 257,
268
Elizabeth, Princess, daughter of
James I
names and allowances of those

in service of, 66
132

money collected as marriage
aid'^to, 230
Ellesolle, Cobham, co. Kent

property called, 228
Elliott, James, in the service of
Prince Charles, Duke of
York
his allowance, 66
Ellis, John, a messenger

signs receipt, 231
EUynet, William, clothier, later a
soldier, of Langham, co.
Essex
petition to Cecil, 180
Elmany, Viscount. See Burgh,

Richard de
Elme. See Elme, William
Elme, William, uncle of John
Davison, of Weston, co.
Lincoln
complaints against, 173
Elmes, Henry, of London, mer-
chant
provides " Indyan toy es ", for
entertainment at Britain's
Burse, 168
Elmsett, CO. Suffolk

188, 261
Elphinston, John, Gentleman Usher
to the Queen
his allowance, 65
Elsinore [Denmark]

English merchant's goods
seized at, 80

328

Elton, CO. Hereford

193
Elvin, Dr. See Elwin, Edward
Elwin (Elvin), Edward, physician

to the Royal Household
entertained at Theobalds, 29
Embriche. See Emmerich
Emden [Germany]

212
Emmerich (Embriche) [Germany]

letter dated from, 241
Emperor, The. See Ferdinand II
Enclosures

32, 47, 59, 190, 196
Endfield. See Enfield
Enfield (Endfield), co. Middlesex
complaints of inhabitants of, 1 1
pillory set up in parish of, 38
Old Park at, 213
manor of, 250
276
Deputy-Keeper of. See Tyl-

stone, Hugh
Vicar of. See Prowde, Thomas
Enfield Chase, co. Middlesex
9, 222, 250
plan of, 163
England

paper imported from France

into, 23
description of luxury wares

secretly conveyed from

France to, 24, 25
trade between France and, 43
complaints of Dutch recruit-
ment of soldiers in, 48
petition from merchants of

north of, 52
English Catholic priests cross

from Calais to, 73
priest banished from, 86
reference to Union of Scotland

and, 96
Catholic books printed abroad

to be sold in, 109
attempt to transport hides

illegally to France from,

155, 190
flight of seminary priests from,

177
English traitors leave Spain

for, 178
marble stones shipped from

Leghorn to, 179
Parliament authorizes official

survey of, 185
Jesuits m, 180, 216
agreement for erection of fur-
naces for industrial uses in,

196

England continued

reference to proposed marriage
alliance between Spain and,
236
complaint of abuses in trade

between France and, 246
loan to King from couiities in,

247, 248
treatise on principles conducive
to defence of cardinal in-
terests of, 265
privileges of baronage of, 293
England, King of. See James I;

Charles I; Charles II
England, Queen of. See Anne (of
Denmark): Henrietta Maria
Englefield, Sir Francis, of Engle-
field, CO. Berks, {d ? 1596)
mentioned, 182
Erdeswick, Mr. See Erdeswick,

Samson
Erdeswick, Richard, son of Samson
Erdeswick
a King's ward, 59
Erdeswick, Samson, of Sandon, co.
Stafford, deceased, late step-
father to Sir Everard Digby
mentioned, 59

his son. See Erdeswick,
Richard
Erpe, John van, of London, foreign
merchant
petition to Cecil, 139
Erpe, Rodrigo van, resident in
Seville, brother of John van
Erpe
139, 140
Erskine, John, 2nd Earl of Mar

148
Erskine, John, Lord Erskine, son
of John Erskine, 2nd Earl
of Mar
visits Italy and Rome, 148
Erskine (Erskyn), Thomas, Baron
Erskine of Dirletowne, Cap-
tain of the King's Giiard
his allowance, 68 and n
69 (2), 70
Erskyn, Lord. See Erskine,

Thomas
Erwyn, George, of the Bonshawe,
Dumfriesshire, Scotland
175
d'Escures [ ? Pierre Fougeu
d'Escures, later military
adviser to Henry IV, King
of France]
167
Esington. See Easington

INDEX

329

Essendine, co. Rutland

effects of Civil War on tenants

at, 279 (2)
cattle distrained at, 280
Essen don, co. Herts.

manor of, 196
Essex

Justices of Assize in, 21

180

Statute of Tillage not extended

by Parliament to, 228
rents of Cecil property in, 228
Duchy of Lancaster's manors
in, 250
Essex, Earl of. See Devereux,

Robert
Essex, William, of Lambourne, co.
Berks,
outlawed, 16
Estgarston. See Garston, East
Eston, Mr.

visits Italy and Rome, 147
Ethica. See Magirus
Eure, Lord. See Eure, Ralph
Eure, Sir Peter, of Belton, co.
Lincoln
226 and n
Eure, Ralph, 3rd Lord Eure

232
Evelench, co. Worcester

farm called, 57
Evense, Mr.

involved in dispute over Kings-
wood Forest, 170
Everard, William, of Linstead, co.
Suffolk, recusant
13
Ewell, CO. Surrey

26
Exchange, The, London

165, 288
Exchequer (English), The

17, 23, 33, 39, 115, 124, 142,

144, 146, 245, 257
Barons of, 82, 130
seal of, 84
Cecil's salary as Secretary of

State paid by, 201
Auditor of Prests in. See

Gofton, Francis
Baron of. See Saville, Sir

John
Chancellor of. See Home, Sir

George ; Caesar, Sir Julius
King's Remembrancer of. See

Fanshawe, Sir Henry
Teller of. ^ee Watson, Thomas
Exchequer (Irish), The
42, 85, 105, 127
Barons of, 97, 98
Chief Remembrancer of. See
Colman, Richard

Exchequer (English), Court of the

21, 113, 143, 145, 155

Baron of. See Clerk, Sir
Robert

Lord Chief Baron of. See
Fleming, Sir Thomas
Exchequer (Irish), Court of the

97
Exeter, co. Devon

Assizes at, 75

164
Exeter, Earl of. See Cecil, William
Eynon, Lewis, Yeoman of the
King's Guard

petition to Cecil, 69

Faire lough, Hugh, of London,
clothier
petition to Cecil, 207 and n
Fairfax, Viscount. See Fairfax,

Thomas
Fairfax, Thomas, Viscount Fairfax

creation of his title, 266
Fairfax, Sir Thomas, of Nun Apple-
ton, CO. Yorks., Parliamen-
tary commander
280
Fajardo, Don Luis, commander of
Spanish galleys
complaints against, 92, 106
Fakenham, co. Norfolk

manor of, 250
Falcon, The

shop in Britain's Burse called,
274
Fane, Sir Thomas, Lieutenant of
Dover Castle
73
Fanshawe, Sir Henry, of Ware Park,
CO. Herts., King's Remem-
brancer of the Exchequer
154
Farley, Jolin, of Bosbury, co.
Hereford
brings action against Honyng,
50, 51
Farnaby. See Famaby, Thomas
Farnaby, Thomas, schoolmaster
and classical scholar
his Phrases purchased, 282
Farnham, John, Gentleman Pen-
sioner to the late Queen
Elizabeth
115
Faulcon, Sieur
166

330

INDEX

Faversham, co. Kent
155

Deputy-Searcher at. See
Powell John
Fawconer, William, of Laverstock,
CO. Wilts,
petition to Cecil, 186 and n
Fawconer, William, of Westbury
CO. Wilts, uncle of William
Fawconer
186
Faweather, James, a soldier

petition to Cecil, 103
Feild. See Field, Nathan
Feld. See Field, Nathan
Fells, William, of Yarrow, near
Helbre, Wirral, Cheshire
petition to Cecil, 47
Felton, Anthony, of Jarrow, co.
Durham
his petition, 224
Felton, Thomas, a commissioner
for the discovery of
recusants' lands
186
Fendall (Ffendal), Josias, tenant in
Britain's Burse
petition to William, Earl of
Salisbury, 288
Fenn, Henry, of St. Bennett's,
London, a common solicitor
of cases
122
Fenton (Ffenton), Sir Geoffrey,
Secretary to the Council of
Ireland
160
Fenton (Ffenton), Joseph, of Lon-
don, surgeon
paid medical expenses, 211
Ferabosco, Alphonso, teacher of
music to Prince Henry
his allowance, 64
Ferdinand II, Emperor

King solicited to mediate be-
tween Bohemia and, 238
Feria, Duchess of. See Dormer,

Jane
Fermage, Nicholas

3
Fernandez, Gabriel, of Aldgate,
London, Portuguese mer-
chant
53
Femley, Christopher

petitions to Cecil, 215, 216
Ferrer, Jolin, an esquire in the
service of the King
petitions to King, 58, 81
Ferryby, Henry, of Barton-upon-
Hximber, co. Lincoln
192

Fetch, William, tenant in Brigstock

Park
petition to William, Earl of

Salisbury, 279
Fettiplace (Ffetiplace), Thomas, [?

of Pusey, CO. Berks.]
16
Ffendal, Josias. See Feudal, Josias
Ffenton, Mr. See Fenton, Joseph
Ffetiplace, Thomas. See Fettiplace,

Thomas
Ffivie, Lord. See Seaton, Alexander
Ffootes, Thomas. See Footes,

Thomas
Ffortescu, Mistress. See Fortescue,

Elizabeth
Ffortune, Anne. See Fortune, Anne
Ffoster, Julian. See Foster, Julian
Ffountaine, William. See Fountain,

William
Ffowkes, Sir Henry. See Fowkes,

Sir Henry
Ffowles, Sir David. See Foulis, Sir

David
Ffranke, Peter. See Frank, Peter
Ffroome, Mr. See Frome
Ffryer, Dr. See Fryer, Thomas
FfuUerton, Sir James. See Fuller-
ton, Sir James
Ffynch, Mr. See Finch, Thomas
Ffynwood, John. See Finwood,

John
Field (Feild, Feld), Nathan, actor,

member of the Queen's

Revels
paid for acting at Britain's

BLU-se, 168
receives payment, 168
Fiennes, Richard, 7th Lord Saye

and Sele
granted forfeiture of recvisant,

30
Fiennes, William, 1st Viscount Saye

and Sele
polemical attack on, 277
Finch (Fynch), Sir Moyle, of East-
well Place, Eastwell, co.

Kent
147
Finch (Ffynch), Thomas, son of Sir

Moyle Finch
visits Italy and Rome, 147
Findon, Henry

246
Findon, Margery, wife of Henry

Findon
246
Finet (Finyt), John, of Soulton,

CO. Kent, in attendance on

William Cecil, Viscount Cran-

borne

INDEX

331

Fin et (Finyt), John continued

receives bass viol from Lanier
for Viscount Cranborne's use,
158
accompanies Viscount Cran-
bome on the continent, 190,
199
signs travelling expenses, 201
232
Finet, Thomas, of London

goes to Constantinople, 177
Finwood (Ffynwood), John, cook in
the service of Meriall Little-
ton, of Hagley, co. Worcester
assists in arrest of Littleton,

57
his allowance for action against
Gunpowder Plot conspira-
tors, 68
Finyt, Mr. See Finet, John
Fisher, Sir Clement, of Packington,
CO. Warwick, J.P.
26, 38
Fitzgerald, Frances, widow of
Henry Fitzgerald, 12th Earl
of Kildare, and wife of
Henry Brooke, 11th Lord
Cobham
her allowance, 67
173, 235
Fitzgerald, Gerald, 14th Earl of
Desmond {d 1583)
reference to his attainder, 82
Fitzgerald, Katherine, sister of
James Desmond or Fitz-
gerald
petition to Privy Council, 130
petition to Cecil, 131
Fitzgerald, James, Earl of Des-
mond " the SvTgan " (d 1607)
reference to his death in
Tower of London, 130 and
n, 131 (2)
Fitzgerald, Sir James FitzPiers,
former commander of a foot
company in Ireland
petition to Cecil, 181

Fitzgerald, Sir Thomas, of Con-
naghe, co. Cork, Ireland
{d 1595)
mentioned, 131

Fitz Howarde. See Howard, Theo-
philus

FitzJames, Lady Jane, of East
Mailing, co. Kent, deceased,
late widow of Sir James
FitzJames, of co. Devon,
deceased
mentioned, 26

FitzWilliam, Viscount. See Fitz-

William. Thomas
FitzWilliam, Anne, widow of Sir
William FitzWilliam, late
Lord Deputy of Ireland
her death, 20
FitzWilliam, Sir John, of Gray's
Inn Lane, London, and
Gaynes Park, co. Essex,
brother of Sir William Fitz-
William
his armed opposition to his
brother, 20, 21
FitzWilliam, Thomas, Viscount
FitzWilliam and Baron Fitz-
William of Thorncastle
creation of his titles, 266
FitzWilliam, Sir William, of Milton,
CO. Northants., son of Sir
William FitzWilliam, late
Lord Deputy of Ireland
his statement on his dispute

with his brother, 20
his brother. See FitzWilliam,

Sir John
his mother. See FitzWilliam,
Anne
Fitz Williams (Ffytzwylliams), Mr.

visits Italy and Rome, 147
Flanders

8, 13, 227

Viscount Cranborne in, 200
Estates of, 225
Imperialist army in, 241
Flechamer, Jean Jacques, Treas-
urer, later Secretary, to the
Archdukes
his petition, 55
Fleet, Mr. See Fleet, John
Fleet, John, of Halton, co. Wor-
cester, J.P.
examines persons charged with
aiding Giuipowder Plot con-
spirators, 58
Fleet, The, prison, London
2, 10, 11, 130, 204
letter dated from, 19
relief of prisoners in, 26
Cecil's gift of money to pri-
soners in, 206
Keeper of. See Hodgldnson,
W^illiam
Fleet Bridge, London

70, 79
Fleetwood, Henry, of Gray's Inn,
London
164, 227
Fleetwood, Sir Miles, of Aldwinckle,
CO. Northants., Receiver of
the Court of Wards
201

332

INDEX

Fleetwood, Sir William, of Ald-
vviackle, CO. Northants., Re-
ceiver-General of the Court
of Wards
99
Fleming, Sir Thomas, Lord Chief
Baron of the Exchequer
82, 113

formerly Recorder of Win-
chester, 130 and n
Fletcher. John, Deputy -Bailiff of
St. Neots
petition to Cecil, 5
Flint, Humphrey, Keeper of
Cheshunt and Theobalds
189 and n
Flintshire

alleged subversive activities of

Catholics in, 56
Great Sessions in, 90
Florence. See Maccarty, Florence
Floreste Espagnole. See Santa Cruz

de Duenas
Florus, Lucius Annaeus, Roman
historian {ft 3rd century
A.D.)
his Eoman History purchased,
229, 282
Flying Boys

take part in entertainment
staged in library of Salisbury
House, 149
Fontainebleau [Seine-et-Marne,

France]
165 and n
Footes (Ffootes), Thomas, of the
Royal Household
his allowance, 63
Forbenius

entertained in Paris by William
Cecil, 283
Ford, Mr.

75
Forget. See Frêne
Forrest, Edmond

witnesses Brooke's bond, 177
Forrest, Edward, auditor, prisoner
in the Marshalsea
petition to Cecil, 44
Forrest, Robert, Master of the
Horse to William, Earl of
Salisbury
Rashleigh's letter to, 233

Forrest,

mentioned in verses, 284
Forte, Thomas, a surveyor

maps drawn by, 163, 281
Fortescue, Dame Alice, widow of
Sir John Fortescue
petition to Cecil, 160

Fortescue, (Ffortescu), Elizabeth,
Mother of the Maids in the
Royal Household
her allowance, 67
Fortescue, Sir John, of Salden, co.
Bucks., Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster {d 1607)
36, 54, 79, 97, 101, 126 and n
letter from Copley to, 37
mentioned, 126, 134 and n
135 (2)
Fortescue, Sir William, of Salden,
CO. Buclîs., son of Sir John
Fortescue
127 and n, 232
Forth, William, prisoner in the
Fleet
petition to King, 204
Fortifications

reference to existence in library
at Salisbury House of " great
booke of ", 149
Fortune (Ffortune), Anne, in the
service of Prince Charles,
Duke of York
her allowance, 66
Foryat Street, Worcester

96
Foster, Francis, of Salop, English
priest
petition to Cecil, 85
86n
Foster (Ffoster), Julian, sempstress
to Prince Charles, Duke of
York
her allowance, 66
Foster, Thomas, in the service of
Sir Robert Cecil
petition to Cecil, 227
Foster, Mr.

75
Fotherby, Dr. See Fotherby,

Martin
Fotherby, Martin, Bishop of Salis-
bury
mentioned unfavourably in
verses, 236
Fouler, Moses. See Fowler, Moses
Foulis (Ffowles), Sir David, Cofferer
to Prince Henry
his allowance, 64
Foulsham, Richard [ ? of Lincoln's
Inn, London]
petition to Cecil, 78
Fountain (Ffountaine), William,
Sergeant -at -Arms
his allowance, 66
Fowkes (Ffowkes), Sir Henry, of
Bulwick, CO. Northants.
his allowance, 68

INDEX

333

Fowler (Fouler), Moses, Dean of
Ripon
40

signs petition to Cecil, 52
Foyle, Loch, Ulster, Ireland

105, 106
Foyle, Mr.

75
France

6, 8, 13, 32, 42, 133, 185, 188,

190, 214, 217, 220 (2), 230
paper imported into England

from, 23
reference to effect of civil wars

in, 23
description of wares secretly
conveyed to England from,
24, 25
trade between England and,

43, 246
stone imported from, 90
capture of ship from, 101
S;ynod held in La Rochelle by

Huguenots of, 116
state of trade between Scotland

and, 127
attempted transport of hides

from England to, 155, 190
Viscovuat Cranborne buys bass

viol to take to, 158
English ship seized by mariners

from, 161 and n
complaint of abuses in trade
between England and, 246
English interests demand
neutralization of influence of,
265
William Cecil in, 283
Chancellor of. See Sillery
France, King of. See Henry IV
Francfort. See Frankfort
Francisco (Franciseky ) Tomasso,
brother of Jacques Francisco,
alleged plotter against the
King
his petition, 93
Franciseky, T. de. See Francisco,

Tomasso
Franckland, Thomas, of London,
scrivener
witnesses Brooke's bond, 177
Francton, John, printer to the King
in Ireland
petition to Privy Council, 72
Frank (Ffranke), Peter, in the
service of the Queen
his allowance, 65
Frankfort (Francfort) [Germany]
Viscount Cranborne at, 200
237

Franklyn, George, tenant in
Britain's Burse
petitions to William, Earl of
Salisbury, 289 (2), 290
Frederick V (The Palsgrave),
Elector Palatine
sends envoy to England, 211
at Rochester, 230
King's attitude towards
assumption of Bohemian
crown by, 238, 239
Frederick, Christopher, Sergeant
Surgeon to the King
petition to King, 28
Freed, John, Sergeant -at -Arms

his allowance, 66
Freeman, Mr. See Freeman,

Nicholas
Freeman, Nicholas, of London,
clothier
190
Freher, Philip, tvitor to William
Cecil
accompanies him to France,
283
Frendsbtiry. See Frindsbury
Frêne, Pierre Forget, Sieur du,
Secretary of State to Henry
IV, King of France
countersigns Royal command,
117
Freville, Sir George, of Hardwick,
CO. Durham
84
Frindsbury (Frendsbury), co. Kent

179
Frissell, Nicholas, of St. Martin's le
Grand, London, shoemaker
petition to Cecil, 216
Frome (Ffroome), Mr., of Newgate,
London
visits Italy and Rome, 147
" Frontynack " ( ? Frontignan)

French wine called, 190
Frost, William, in the service of
Thomas Dallom
signs receipt, 189
Fry (Frye), William [ ? of co. Devon
d 1611]
reference to his imprisonment
in Spain, 178
Fryer (Ffryer or Friar), Thomas, of
St. Botolph's, Aldersgate,
London, physician
147
Frjrer (Ffryer or Friar), Mr., son of
Thomas Fryer
visits Italy and Rome, 147
Fulbrook, co. Oxford

chapel of, 56
Fulham, co. Middlesex
246

334

Fuller, Mr. [ ? Nicholas Fuller, of
London, mercer, M.P. for
London]
157
Fuller's Lane, near Gray's Inn,
London
letter written from, 159

Fullerton (FfuUerton), Sir James,
Gentleman of the Bed-
chamber to the King, and
Surveyor -General of the
lands of Prince Charles, Duke
of York
his allowances, 62, 66
256
Furst, William, of co. Devon

185
Fustians

scheme to employ people of
Hatfield in making, 164, 236
manufacture in Devon of, 256
Fyler, George, of Cranborne, co.
Dorset
letter to Keighley, 262

Gage, Mr.

visits Italy and Rome, 148
Gainford, co. Durham

172, 174
Gainford Wood, co. Durham

sale of King's trees in, 172, 174
Gallobelg. See Mercurius Gallo-

helgicus
Galloway, Viscoiuit. See Burgh,

Richard de
G al way. Viscount. See Burgh,
Richard de

Gambling

200
Game, The King's

allowances given to Keeper of,
69
Gap [Hautes -Alpes, France]

reference to Synod of
Huguenots at, 116 (3)
Gardiner, Edward, in the service of
David Lyllye
charged with illegal hunting,

234
about to go to Virginia, 234
Gardiner, John, printer in the
service of William Spencer
arrested, 26
Gardiner, Sir Thomas, of Peckham,
CO. Surrey
232

Gardiner, Sir William, of Langham,
CO. Surrey
232
Gardner, John, of Scotland, mer-
chant
petition to Cecil, 9
Gardiier, John, tenant of the manor
of Muchland, co. Lanes,
petition to Commissioners for
Leases, 154
Garrett {alias Fitzmaurice), Jane,
daughter of Sir William
Stanley and wife of John
Garrett {alias FitzMaurice)
request on behalf of, 4 and n
Garrett {alias Fitzmavu-ice), John,
son-in-law of Sir William
Stanley
4
Garrett, John, of London

answer to petition of, 98
Garrett, John, in the service of
Prince Henry
his allowance, 64
Garrido, Francisco, Spanish
prisoner in Newgate
condemned to death, 102
Garroway, Sir William, of London,
farmer of the King's Customs
232
Garshe, Samuel, musician to the
King
his allowance, 65
Garstang, William, of Hesketh, co.
Lanes., merchant
190
Garston, East (Estgarston), co.
Berks,
manor of, 250
Garter, The

Cecil made Kjiight of, 76 and

n, 79 and n
Cecil installed as Knight of, 78

and n
Earls of Diuibar and Mont-
gomery made Knights of,
150
King of Sweden and Prince of
Orange made Knights of,
265
Garter King of Arms. See Dethicke,
Sir William; Segar, Sir
William
Garter, Order of the

Cecil presented with copy of
the Statutes of, 79
Garvcy, James, prisoner in the
INIarshalsea, formerly page
to Lady ]\lary Digby
petition to Cecil, 38
Garway, co. Hereford
12

335

Garv-, Giles, a boy actor, assistant to
William Ostler
paid for acting at Britain's

Burse, 168
signs receipt, 168
receives payment, 168
Gascoigne. See Gascoigne, Thomas
Gascoigne, John, of Bambow, co.
Yorks., recusant
fined for recusancy, 121
Gascoigne, Thomas, of Bermondsey,
CO. Surrey
occupies timber yard, 285
Gatacre, William. See Gateacre,

William
Gate, Sir Henry, of Seamer, co.
Yorks. {d 1589)
mentioned, 174
Gate, Mary, daughter of Sir Henry
Gate
petition to Cecil, 174 and n
Gateacre (Gatacre), William,
Keeper ot the King's game-
cocks
his allowance, 68
Gatehouse, The, prison, West-
minster, London
1, 7 (2), 9, 36, 73, 90, 91, 101,

177, 209
Cecil's gift of money to

prisoners in, 206
Keeper of. See Hynelly,
Thomas; Okey, William
Gateshead, co. Durham

174
Gawdy, Sir Bassingborne, of
Harling, co. Suffolk {d 1606)
wardship of his heir, 78 and n
Gawdy, Sir Clipsby, of Redenhall,
CO. Norfolk
petition to Cecil, 17
Gawdy, Sir Francis, Justice of the
Queen's Bench, later Chief
Justice of the Common Pleas
{d 1606)
Justice of Assize in Essex, 21
80

reference to his death, 81
Gawdy, Sir Henry, of Claxton, co.
Norfolk, J.P.
intervenes on behalf of
Christian Weech, 109
Geary (Geere), Thomas, of Wey-
mouth, shipowner
54, 101
Geere, Thomas. See Geary, Thomas
Gell (Gill), Sir John, of Hopton, co.
Derby
232

Genealogy

coloured genealogies of princes
in the library of Salisbury
House, 149
Geneva [Switzerland]

167
George, Margaret, in the service of
Princess Mary
her allowance, 67
Geraldo, John

refuses to testify falsely against
Van Erpe, 139
Gerard (Gerrad), Sir John, of
Wheathampstead, co. Herts.,
Deputy -Lieutenant of Hert-
fordshire
signs joint letters to William,
Earl of Salisbury, 268, 270
Gerard, Philip, of Gray's Inn, Lon-
don, barrister
signs statement on Strand
Lane prison, 37
Gerard, Thomas, Lord Gerard of
Bromley
99

Gerard, Sir William, of Dorney, co.
Bucks.
232
Germany

Viscount Cranborne in, 200
English ambassador sent to
Princes of, 239
Gerrard, Lord. See Gerard, Thomas
Gervaise, Mr., French reader to
Viscount Cranborne
201
Gibb, Henry, Groom of the Bed-
chamber to the King
petition to King, 224
Gibb (Gibbe), John, Groom of the
Bedchamber to the King
his allowance, 62
Gibbons, Lancaster, Sergeant -at
Arms
his allowance, 66
Gibbons, William, tenant in
Britain's Burse
petition to William, Earl of
Salisbiu-y, 288
Gibbs. See Gibbs, John
Gibbs, John, of Bermondsey, co.
Svirrey
occupies warehouses and wharf,

285
involved in legal proceedings
with Kirby, 286
Gibbs, Thomas, of Elton, co,
Hereford.
193

336

Gibson, Sir John, of Welburn Hall,
CO. Yorks., Master in Chan-
cery
192
Gifford, Captain. See Gifford,

Richard
Gifford, Richard, naval captain

reference to his imprisonment
in Spain, 178
Gifford (Gyfforde), John, in the
service of Gilbert Talbot, 7th
Earl of Shrewsbury-
visits Italy and Rome, 147
Gigor, Sieur, Huguenot pastor

appointed to communicate
views of Synod of La
Rochelle to Henry IV, 117,
118
Gilbert, Mr.

75
Giles, Nathaniel, Master of the
Children of the Chapel
his allowance, 65
Giles, Thomas, in the service of
Prince Henry
his allowance, 64
Gill, Sir John. See Cell, Sir John
Gill, Captain, former Muster-Master
of Hertfordshire
268
Gimingham (Gymingeham). co.
Norfolk
manor of, 250
Girdland, John, of Hardington, co.
Somerset, mason
10
Girdland, John, son of Jolm Gird-
land
10
Girdland, Mary, wife of John
Girdland
petition to Cecil, 10
Girdle and Hangers, The

shop in Britain's Burse called,
274
Girdler, Elizabeth, daughter of
John Girdler
179
Girdler, John, of Cobham, co. Kent,
deceased
mentioned, 179
Glamorganshire
Assizes of, 60

Sheriff of. See Kemys, Edward
Glanville, Richard, of London,
merchant
petition to Cecil, 41
Glasier, Hugh, of Lea, Cheshire
complaints against, 49, 50
Glass, John, housekeeper at Salis-
bury House
205

Glass

agreement concerning produc-
tion of, 196
Glatton and Holme, co. Htmts.

manor of, 250
Gloucestershire

case involving jurisdiction of
Court of Welsh Marches in,
51
113

recusants in, 216
Justices of the Peace of, 216
Olove, The

shop in Britain's Burse called,
274
Goade, Roger, Vice-Chancellor of
Cambridge University
161
Godalming (Godliminge), co. Surrey

hundred of, 284
Godefroy, le Syndicq

entertained in Paris by William
Cecil, 283
Godliminge. See Godalining
Godolphin, co. Cornwall

264
Godolphin, Francis, of Godolphin,
CO. Cornwall
letter to Keighley, 264 and n
God's Grace, The, of Hull
80

Master of. See Watson,
William
Godshill, CO. Hants.

bailiwick of, 194
Godshill Coppice or New Coppice,
Fordingbridge, co. Hants.
194
Godstone, co. Surrey

153
Gofton, Awdytor. See Gofton,

Francis
Gofton, Francis, Auditor of Prests
in the Exchequer
81
Golden Dragon, The

shop in Britain's Burse called,
274
Golden Hert and Garland, The

shop in Britain's Burse called,
274
Goldfinch, Henry, of Ireland

petition to Cecil, 206
Goldsmith. See Goldsmith, Ralph
Goldsmith, Ralph, of Bermondsey,
CO. Surrey
occupies wharf, 285
Gomeldon, William, Groom of the
Chamber to the King
petition to Cecil, 103

INDEX

337

Gondomar, Don Diego Sarmiento
d'Acunha, Conde de, Spanish
Ambassador to England
Buckingham's letter to, 238
Gontier, Père, French Jesuit
preacher and controversialist
167
Good, William

signs receipt, 168
Gooderige, Sergeant. See Gooderus,

William
Gooderous, Sergeant. See Gooderus,

William
Gooderus (Gooderige, Goodridge,
Goodowrus, Gudderous),

William, Sergeant-Surgeon
to the King
entertained at Theobalds, 29
paid medical expenses, 206, 211
petition to Privy Council, 229
Goodfellow, William, Sergeant-at-
Arms
his allowance, 65
Goodman, John, surveyor, deceased

criticism of, 192
Goodowrus, William. See Gooderus,

William
Goodridge, Mr. Sergeant. See

Gooderus, William
Goodyear, Sir Henry, of Poles -
worth, CO. Warwick
petition to King, 19
Goodyear, Sir Henry {d 1595), imcle
to Sir Henry Goodyear
mentioned, 20
Gooringe, Lord. See Goring, George
Gordon (Gordoune), George, Lord
Gordon, son of George Gor-
don, Marquess of Huntly
his allowance, 68
Gordon, Robert, of the Royal
Household
his allowance, 63
Gordoune, Lord. See Gordon,

George
Gore, Gerrard, of London, mer-
chant
complaints against, 162 and n
Gorg. See Gorge
Gorge (Gorg), William, of co. Devon

148
Gorge (Gorg), Mr., son of William
Gorge, of co. Devon
visits Italy and Rome, 148
Gorges, Sir Thomas, of Langford,
CO. Somerset, overseer of
Cranborne Chase
124, 187
Goring (Gooringe), George, Baron
Goring, Royalist General
Budden made prisoner by
troopers of, 278
S.C.-23

Goring (Gooringe), George continued
depredations in Somersetshire
by army of, 280
Gosson, William, musician to the
King
his allowance, 65
Graham or Graeme, Anne, wife of
George Graham
petition to King, 91
Graham or Graeme, George

request for his release from
prison, 91
Graham (Grjaiae), Sir John, of the
Royal Household
his allowance, 62

Grame [ ? Graham],

215
Grandison. See St. John, Oliver
Grandorge, John, tenant in
Britain's Burse
petition to William, Earl of
Salisbury, 288
Grange or Fort Field, Southwark,
CO. Surrey
property called, 226
Granwall, Richard, Gentleman of
the King's Chapel
petitions to Cecil, 142 (2)
Grasshopper, The

shop in Britain's Burse called,
274
Gratiani, Gaspar, in the service of
the Prince of Moldavia
petition to Cecil, 23
Grave, Lewis, of St. Malo, merchant

petition to Cecil, 54
Grave, Servan, of St. Malo, mer-
chant
petition to Cecil, 54
Gravelines [Nord, France]

225
Graves, Colonel. See Graves,

Richard
Graves, Richard, Colonel, Parlia-
mentary commander
278
Graves, Thomas, Keeper of the
Council Chamber
55
Gravesend, co. Kent

King of Denmark and his ships

at, 87 and n
210, 219
Gray's Inn, London

108, 159, 212
Greasley (Gresley), co. Notts.

rectory of, 138
Greasley Moor Green (Grasley Mor-
gren), co. Notts.
138
Great Chamber, The
Grooms of, 5

838

INDEX

Great Seal (English), The

3, 40, 82, 84, 110, 114 (2), 115,
254
Great Seal (Irish), The

88
Great Sessions, The

in Flintshire, 90
Greece (Grecia)

177
Green, Katherine, of the Great
Park, Windsor
petition to Privy Council, 3
Green, Richard, of Wilcote, co.
Oxford
case between Chamberlain and,
40
Greenballs, Crew kerne, co. Somerset

property called, 10
Green Cloth, The

officers of, 245
Greenway, Mr. [ ? William Green-
way, of London, merchant
and member of Baltic or
Eastland Company]
his ship ready to sail to Russia,
6
Greenwich (Grenewich, Grene-
wyche), co. Kent
the Court at, 19, 80 (2)
28, 149, 215, 216, 222
letter dated from, 79
the office of " ballastage " at,
215
Gregory, Arthur, of Poole, co.
Dorset
petition to Cecil, 101
Grennett, Thomas, Keeper of the
King's Bench prison
207
Gresham, Sir Thomas, founder of
the Royal Exchange (d 1579)
mentioned, 18, 22, 28
Greville, Robert, 2nd Baron Brooke

polemical attack on, 277
Grey, Henry, Duke of Sviffolk and
3rd Marquess of Dorset {exe-
cuted 1554)
mentioned, 154
Griffm, The

shop in Britain's Burse called,
274
Grimlev, co. Worcester

13
Grimes, George, in the service of
Viscount Fentoun
petition to Cecil, 69
Grimsditch, William, of the Royal
Household
his allowance, 63
Grimston, Christopher, of Gray's
Inn, London
157 (2)

Grimston (Grimeston), Edward,
Sergeant - at -Arms
his allowance, 66
Grosmont, co. Monmouth

manor of, 250
Grwynefawr, Dinas, co. Brecknock

Forest of, 196
Grwynefechan, Dinas, co. Breck-
nock
Forest of, 196
Gryme, Sir Jolin. See Graham, Sir

John
Grymes, Sir Thomas, of Peckham,
CO. Surrey, J. P.
122
Guard, The King's (Yeomen of the
Guard )
69, 133
Captain of. See Ersldne,

Thomas
Yeomen, of. See Barker,

Richard ; Eynon, Lewis ;
Whitby, John
Gudderous, Sergeant. See Gooderus,

William
Guernse3% Island of
78, 'll2, 177
Captain of, 112
castle of, 178

Governor of. See Leighton,
Sir Thomas
Gviiana [Central America]

reference to Ralegh's expedi-
tion to, 233
Guildford (Guillford), co. Surrey

letter dated from, 285
Guildford, Sir Henry, of Benenden,
CO. Kent
232
Guillford. See Guildford
[ ?] Gvmished, H.

note on petition by, 40
Gunn Car, Cheshire

waste called, 114, 115
Gunpowder

production of, 135, 136
Gunpowder Plot

conspirators of, 33, 34 (2), 35
(4), 38 (2), 57 (4), 58 (2), 59
(2), 61, 73 (2), 74
reference to, 42, 96
pensions of discoverers of, 68
Guns

production of, 255
Gunter, Sybil (Sibbill), of Aber-
gavenny
testifies against recusants, 242
Gunter, Walter, son of William
Gvinter
petition to Cecil, 221

339

Giinter, William, of Llwyn Perrott,
CO. Brecknock
221
Gunterodt, Sir Henry, Gentleman
of the Privy Chamber to the
King
181
Gustavus Adolphus, King of
Sweden
made Knight of the Garter,
265
Guthrie, James, son of the Laird of
Guthrie
petition to King, 247
Guthrie, Laird of

247
Guy, Peeter, flautist, musician to
the King
his allowance, 65
Guyse, Thomas, of Oddingley, co.
Worcester, deceased
mentioned, 31
Gwyn, Dr. See Gwynn, Matthew
Gwynn, Matthew, of London,
physician
attends Tresham in the Tower,
39
Gwynn, Richard, huntsman to the
King
his allowance, 68
Gyfforde, Mr. See Gifford, John
Gymingeham. See Gimingham

Hackney, co. Middlesex

122
Haddington, Lord. See Ramsay,

John
Haddlesey, West, co. Yorks.

129
Haddock, Laurence, of Horton, co.
Yorks., deceased

wardship of his heir, 61
Haddon, Mr. [ ? of co. Northants.]

279

Keighley's letter to, 279
Hadleigh, co. Suffolk

188
Hadnock, co. Monmouth

manor of, 250
Hage. See Hague, The
Haggat, Mr. See Haggat, Bartholo-
mew
Haggat, Bartholomew, of Mincing
Lane, London, surveyor

172

letter to Cecil, 174
Hagley, co. Worcester

Gimpowder Plot conspirators
arrested at, 57 (2)

Hague (Hage), The [Holland]
Viscount Cranborne at, 200
letter dated from, 237
Haies or Hayes, Timothy, scholar of
Douai College, prisoner in
the Gatehouse
petitions to Cecil, 90, 91
Hale, Richard, Sergeant -at -Arms

his allowance, 66
Hales, Robert, of King's Street,
Westminster
223
Halfe Moone dh 7 Stars, The

shop in Britain's Burse called,
274
Half head (Halfheid), Henry, King's
Hawker at Royston
his allowance, 68
Halfheid, Henry. See Halfhead,

Henry
Hall, George, of Barton-upon-
Humber, co. Yorks.
192
Hall, John, of London, public
notary
witnesses Littleton's covenant,
175 and n
Hall, — - — , a solicitor

committed to prison, 135

Halson,

279
Haltarines. See Altyrynys
Haman, Mary

56
Hambden. See Hampden, John
Hambvirg [Germany]

249
Hamersley, Mr. See Hamerslev,

Hugh
Hamersley, Hugh, of London,
haberdasher, later Sir Hugh
Hamersley, Alderman of
London
41
Hamilton (Hamleton), James, 2nd
Marquess of Hamilton
his petition, 144
called " beggar Hamleton " in
verses, 235
Hamilton (Himlton), Sir James, of
the Royal Household
his allowance, 63
Hamilton, James, former agent of
James I of Scotland in
London
256
Hamilton, Jolin, 1st Marquess of
Hamilton {d 1604)
mentioned, 144
Hamleton, Lord. See Hamilton,
James

340

INDEX

Hammon, Dr. See Hammond,

John
Hammond, Henry, curate of
St. Martin's-in-the-Fields,
London
petition to Cecil, 45 and n
Hammond, James, prisoner in the
Gatehouse
petitions to Cecil, 7 (2)
Hammond (Hammon), John, phy-
sician to the King
his allowance, 64
paid medical expenses, 211
Hammond (Hamond), Thomas, of
London
shop in Britain's Burse leased
to, 281 and n
Hamond, Mr. See Hammond,

Thomas
Hampden, Sir Edmund, of Hamp-
den and Wingrave, co.
Bucks.
visits Italy and Rome, 147
Hampden (Hambden), John, of
Great Hampden, co. Bucks.,
M.P. for Buckinghamshire
polemical attack on, 277
Hampshire

Justices of the Peace in, 15, 26,

216
sheriff of, 124
recusants in, 216
Duchv of Lancaster's manor in,
250
Hampton Court, co. Middlesex
111

Keeper of the King's Wardrobe
at. See WjTiyard, John
Hanau-Munzenberg (Hanno), Philip
Ludwig, CoLint of
sent as envoy to London by
Elector Palatine, 211
Hanley, Mary, prisoner in Newgate
to be temporarily released, 257
Hanno, Grave of. See Hanau-

Mimzenberg
Hanse Merchants

petition to Cecil from, 102
Hanslope, co. Bucks,
manor of, 94
mills at, 186 and n
Haraneder, Jolm, of St. Jean de Luz,
merchant
petition to Privy Council, 100
petition to Cecil, 106
Harangues de la Court

purchase of book entitled, 229
Harbingers, The King's
their allowance, 69
Harbvne, Richard, of London
199

Hardington, co. Somerset

10
Hare. See Hare, Samuel
Hare, Hugh, of the Inner Temple,
London
144
Hare, Jolin, of the Inner Temple,
London
appointed to supervise weaving
industry at Hatfield, 236
and n
Hare, Samuel, of I.,ondon

104 (2)
Harley, Thomas, of Brompton
Brvan, co. Hereford, J.P.
193
Harmon, John, of Middleton
Stoney, co. Oxford, yeoman
committed for sheep stealing,
33
Hamam. See Harnham
Hamham (Hamam), co. Wilts.

278
Harries, Jolm, clerk of the King's
Customs
petition to Cecil, 57
Harrington, Lord. See Stanhope,

Sir Jolxn
Harrington, Ben, Bailiff to Sir
Ralph Hopton
280

imprisons Jeans, 280
Harrington, Sir John, of Kelston,
CO. Somerset
reference to grant of Mark-
ham's land to, 164
Harris, Valentine, messenger of the
King's Chamber
petition to Cecil, 226

Harrison, John, Groom to Prince
Henry
his allowance, 64

Harrow, , a builder

agreement concerning Old
Palace at Hatfield with, 265
Harrow, The

shop in Britain's Biu-se called,
274
Harsnet, Samuel, Archbishop of
York
signs directive from Privy
Council, 267
Hartford. See Hertford
Hartlebury, co. Worcester

57
Harvard (Harvert), Walter, of Aber-
gavenny
testifies against recusants, 243
Harvert, Walter. See Harvard,
Walter

INDEX

341

Harvey, James, surgeon to the

King
his allowance, 64
Harwood, William, in the service of

John Littleton
witnesses Littleton's covenant,

175
Harwood, Mr.

122
Haselrig (Haselricke), Arthur, M.P.

for Leicestershire
polemical attack on, 277
Haselwood, Thomas, steward to

Meriall Littleton
assists in the arrest of Littleton,

57
Hastings, Mr. [ ? Ralph Hastings,

of Woodlands, co. Dorset,

and the Middle Temple,

London], of co. Dorset, J. P.
examines Mander, 234
Hatfield (Hatfeld), co. Herts.
Middle Park at, 126
plans of, 138, 163
scheme to provide work for

people of, 164, 202, 204, 236,

237
paintings made for glass win-
dows of chapel at, 185, 202
plan of parsonage of, 259
plan for conversion of Old

Palace at, 265
Deputy-Lieutenants of Hert-
fordshire meet at, 272
273

tithes from lands at, 276
Bailiff of market at. See

Carter, John
Hatfield House, Hatfield, co. Herts.
stone brought from Caen for

building works at, 90, 91, 177
138, 141, 176, 243, 244, 283
garden at, 177
chimney pieces made by Colt

for, 179
sycamore trees brought from

Low Countries to, 186
cherry trees planted at, 201
French gardeners at, 202
Earl of Southampton visits, 203
gilding and painting work at,

204
fountain constructed by Sala-

mon de Caux in East Garden

at, 212
Clerk of the Kitchen at, 243
Hatfield Wood, Hatfield, co. Herts.

203
Hawes, John, of Grimley, co.

Worcester
petition to Cecil, 13

Hawkins, James, deputy to Sir
Henry Brouncker
petition to Cecil, 127
Hawks

brovight from Denmark to
Cecil, 201
Hay, Sir Alexander, Secretary for
Scotland
his allowance, 63
Hay, Elizabeth, in the service of
Princess Elizabeth
her allowance, 66
Hay, James, Viscount Doncaster,
later 1st Earl of Carlisle
235
Hay, Robert, of the Royal House-
hold
his allowance, 63
Hay, William, an officer of the
Queen's Wardrobe
his allowance, 65
Haydock, Richard, of Salisbury,
CO. Wilts., physician
petition to Cecil, 51
Hazton, Robert

brings hawks from Denmark to
Cecil, 201
Heal, Sergeant. See Hele, Sir John
Heath, John, scholar of Winchester
School
recommended by Cecil for
place in New College, Ox-
ford, 47 and n
Heath, Thomas

240
Heaton, Thomas

petition to Cecil, 39
Hegendorff, Cliristoph, teacher of
law at Frankfort-on-Oder
(/? early 17th century)
his Dialectica Leqalis bought
for Cecil's library, 152
Hele (Heal), Sir John, Sergeant-at-
Law and Recorder of Ply-
mouth
Justice of Assize in Essex, 21
26. 93, 94
Hemyng. See Hemyng, Edward
Hemyng, Edward

his lawsuit with Gentleman
Porter of Tower of London,
145, 146
Hencliman, Humphrey, Bishop of
Salisbury
his grant to Earl of Salisbvu-y
and Viscount Cranborne, 285
Heneage, Sir Thomas, of Copthill,
CO. Essex, Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster (rf 1595)
mentioned, 126, 257

342

Henlake, Robert, instrument maker

petition to King, 184
Henricke, Onno, Master of the

Sivattrutter
complaints against, 7
Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles

I, King of England
reference to her purification

after births of her sons, 265
Master of the Horse to. See

Jermyn, Henry
Henry VI, King of England (d 1471)

mentioned, 143
Henry VII, King of England {d.

1509)
mentioned, 234, 248
Henry VIII, King of England

{d 1547)
his work on the Statutes of the

Order of the Garter, 79

and n
mentioned, 154, 248
Henry, Prince, son of James I

verses composed in honovir of,

49
names and allowances of

officials and servants of, 63
107, 182 and n, 184n, 196,

229n, 294
reference to his christening,

122
attends banquet at Salisbury

House, 150
William, Viscount Cranborne's

letter to, 176
reference to his creation as

Prince of Wales, 188
receives letter from King of

Poland, 195
Wright charged with con-
spiracy against, 227
Apothecary to. See Rumler
Cofferer to. See Foulis, Sir

David
Engineer to. See Caux, Sala-

mon de
Falconer to. See Norton,

Eustace
Footman to. See Jameson,

Robert
Gentleman of the Bedchamber

to. See Murray, David
Gentleman Usher to. See

Alexander, Walter
Groom of the Bedchamber to.

See Birchmore, Thomas
Groom to. See Harrison John
Keeper of the dogs to. See

Pott, Thomas
Secretary to. See St. Anthoine
Surveyor to. See Rogers,

Lewes

Henry, Prince continued

Teacher of music to. See

Ferabosco
Teacher of writing to. See

Bates, Peter
Tutor to. See Newton, Adam
Henrv IV, King of France
43, 71, 167, 176
sends representatives to the

Synod of La Rochelle, 117
his reply to request of Svnod,

118
reference to assassination of,

188
Viscoimt Cran borne receives

gift of picture of, 202
French part song composed by

his musician, 292 and n
Musician to. See Tessier
Secretary of State to. See
Frêne
Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick

133
Heralds and Pursuivants of Arms
names and allowances of, 66
payment of fees to, 265
Herbern (Herborn) [Germany]

116
Herbert, Edward, Baron Herbert of
Chirbury
creation of his title, 266
Herbert, Henrv, 2nd Earl of Pem-
broke (rf 1601)
mentioned, 218
Herbert, Sir John, Secretary of
State
27, 43, 79, 85
Herbert, Jolin

115
Herbert, Philip, Earl of Mont-
gomery, later 4th Earl of
Pembroke
made Knight of the Garter, 150
232
mentioned mifavourabh^ in

verses, 235
signs directive from Privy
Coiiuicil, 267
Herbert, Thomas, a bookbinder

binds books in library of Salis-
bury House, 149
Herbert, William, 3rd Earl of
Pembroke, Lord Chamber-
lain
a Governor of the Company of
Mineral and Batter v Works,
80
139, 218, 263

mentioned unfavourably in
verses, 235
Herbert, William, Baron Powis
creation of his title, 266

INDEX

343

Herbert, Sir William, of Redcastle,
CO. Montgomery
5
Herborn. See Herbern
Hercey, Mr. See Hercey, John
Hercey, John, surveyor, in the
service of Sir Robert Cecil
132, 144
Herefordshire

case involving jurisdiction of
Court of Welsh Marches in,
51
Justices of the Peace of, 193
Feodary and Escheator of, 208
Duchy of Lancaster's manor
in, 250
Heme, co. Kent

155
Herring, Francis, physician. Fellow
of the College of Physicians
in London
petition to King, 256

Hertford (Hartford), co. Herts.

petitions to Cecil from bur-
gesses of, 29, 134

licences issued at Quarter Ses-
sions in, 231

manor of, 250

castle of, 250

letters dated from, 268, 270

Deputy-Lieutenants of Hert-
fordshire meet in, 270, 272

Jiistices of Assize at, 273

hundred of, 273

request by William, Earl of
Salisbury, that his son be
chosen M.P. for, 276

High Steward of. See Cecil,
Sir Robert
Hertford, Countess of. See Sey-
mour, Frances
Hertford, Earl of. See Seymour,

Edward
Hertfordshire

fictitious granges in, 11

Deputy-Lieutenants of, 77, 78

Justices of the Peace of, 78,
220, 260,

163

rents from Cecil property in,
228

Diichy of Lancaster's manors
in, 250

rates of pay determined by
Justices of the Peace of, 260

correspondence concerning
Muster-Master of, 266-274

letters from William, Earl of
Salisbury, to Deputy-Lieu-
tenants of, 267, 269, 271

Hertfordshire continued

letters to William, Earl of
Salisbury, from Deputy -Lieu-
tenants of, 270, 272
letter to Privy Council from
Deputy-Lieutenants of, 268
Lord Lieutenant of. See Cecil

William
Deputy -Lieutenants of. See
Gerard, John ; Boteler, John ;
Blount, Thomas Pope;
Dacres, Thomas; Lytton,
William; Lucy, Richard
Muster-Master of. See Tooke,
George ; Swayne, Henry ;
Gill; Boteler, Henry
Hertingfordburj', co. Herts.

luanor of, 250
Hertingfordburv Park, co. Herts.

250
Hesketh, co. Lanes.

190
Hesketh, Hugh, J. P., brother of
Robert Hesketh
190
Hesketh, Robert, of Hesketh, co.
Lanes., J. P.
confiscates hides intended for
La Rochelle, 190
Hesketh, Sir Thomas, Attorney of
the Covirt of Wards
30
Hesketh Bank, co. Lanes.

189
Hetley, James, of the Royal House-
hold
his allowance, 63
Hewes, Robert. See Hughes,

Robert
Hewett, Sir William, of London

232
Hext, Sir Edward, of Netherham,
CO. Somerset
petition to Privy Council, 44,
45
Heyborn, Francis

signs Henlake's petition, 185
Hicks, Sir Baptist, of St. Lawrence
in the Old Jewry, London,
mercer and contractor for
Crown lands
131
Hides, Skins and Leather

interception of illegal transport
from England to France of,
155, 190
Higgins, Mrs.

her allowance, 67
Higgins (Higgons), Richard
130

344

INDEX

Higginson, Thomas, Groom of the
King's Chamber
petition to Cecil, 56
Higginson, Thomas, recusant

alleged subversive activities of,
57
Higgons. See Higgins, Richard
Higham Ferrers, co. Northants.

manor of, 250
Highester. See Easter, High
Hill (Hyll), George, of London,
merchant
petition to Cecil, 91
complains of maltreatment by
Aguilar at Lisbon, 93
Hill, Thomas, in the service of Sir
Edward Cecil
brings sycamore trees to Hat-
field House, 186
Hill, Lady

her allowance, 67
Hilliard, William, of co. Worcester

his petitions, 35 (2)
Himlton, Sir James. See Hamilton,

Sir James
Hinton, co. Berks,
manor of, 250
Hitcham, Sir Robert, Attorney to
the Queen
5, 14, 15

his note on petition, 213
Hitchin, co. Herts.

petitions to Cecil from tenants

of, 14 (2)
191

himdred of, 273
reference in verses to the Rose

in, 284
Steward of. See Dockwra,
Thomas
Hobart, Sir Henry, Attorney-
General
113, 115, 121, 143, 212, 219
his note on petition, 154
Hobbes, Nicholas, of Bristol,
vintner {d 1599)
mentioned, 198
Hobocque, Conrad Schetz de Grob-
bendonck. Baron de. Am-
bassador of the Archdukes
in England
petition to, 26
Hobson, William [? of London]

petition to Cecil, 6
Hoby, Sir Edward, of Minster, Isle
of Sheppev, co. Kent
123
Hoby, Sir Thomas (Posthumus),
of Hackness, co. Yorks.
192

Hocknell, Robert, of Hanslope, co.
Bucks,
petition to Cecil, 94
Hoddesdon, co. Herts.
108, 109, 236, 290
custom of manor of, 108, 290
Hoddesdonburs', co. Herts.

manor of, 276
Hodges, Christopher, former soldier,
deceased
mentioned, 45
Hodges, Margaret, widow of Chris-
topher Hodges
45
Hodgkinson, William, Keeper of the
Fleet prison
206
Holcroft, Sir Thomas, of Vale
Royal, Cheshire
petition to King, 23

Holland

Bey of Algiers orders release of,
and assistance to, merchants
and ships of, 31
Spanish Ambassador's com-
plaint of English aid to, 48
confiscation in Lisbon of Eng-
lish goods alleged to have
come from, 92, 93, 139
English ship plundered by
sailors from, 225
Holland. See Rich, Henry
Holland, Philip, herald

his allowance, 66
Holland, Ralph, official of the
Queen's Wardrobe
his allowance, 63
Holland, Robert, of London,
scrivener
witnesses Brooke's bond, 177
Holies, Denzil, M.P. for Dorchester,
son of John Holies, 2nd Earl
of Clare
poleinical attack on, 277

Holies, John, 2nd Earl of Clare
polemical attack on, 277

Hollin, CO. Worcester

manor of, 39
Holmead, Richard, of Strand Lane,
London, tailor
protests against new prison in

Strand Lane, 37
petition to Cecil, 37
Holme Cultram, co. Cumberland

manor of, 142
Holy Lamhe, The

shop in Britain's Burse called,
274

INDEX

345

Home, Sir George, later Baron
H\ame of Berwick and Earl
of Dunbar, Chancellor of the
Exchequer
83, 115, 135, 143, 195 and n
installed Knight of the Garter,
160
Home (Howme), John, of the Royal
Household
his allowance, 62
Home (Howme), Sir Patrick, Master
of the King's Harriers
his allowance, 67
Honyng, Francis, Deputy-Porter
to the Council of the Welsh
Marches
petition to Cecil, 50
petition to King, 51
Hoope, — — , tailor to Viscount
Cranborne
pa;yTnent to, 202
Hooper, Henr^", of Salisbury, Clerk
of the Bishop's Court
225
Hooper, Thomas, of Salisbury
letter to Dowthwaite, 234
letter to Keighley, 261
262

notes on Cranborne House by,
281
Hooper, Thomas, of Boveridge, co.
Dorset
234, 261
letter from William, Earl of

Salisbury, to, 262
letter to Keighley, 263
Hopkins, Martin, former Master-
Smith to the King's iron-
works in the Tower of Lon-
don
86
Hopkins, William, former Master-
Smith to the Crown iron-
works in the Tower of
London, deceased
mentioned, 86
Hopkyns, Mr.

visits Italy and Rome, 147
Hopper, Richard, of Ireland

petition to Cecil, 88
Hopton, Sir Ralph, of Witham,
near Bath, co. Somerset,
Royalist commander
280

his bailiff. See Harrington,
Ben
Hombeamgate, co. Herts.

manor of, 196
Horn Book

reference to, 109

Home, Gabriel, student of St.
John's College, Cambridge
petition to Cecil, 102
Home, William, of Dover, merchant

petition to Cecil, 16
Horsepoolstone, Enfield, co. Mid-
dlesex
pillory set up at, 38
Horton, co. Yorks.

61
Horwood, Edward

petition to Cecil, 81
Hosiers

of Coventry, 128
Houghton, Roger, Steward to Sir
Robert Cecil
126, 148, 150, 177, 189, 199,

203, 206, 211 (2), 229
Lanier's letter to, 152
Wilson's letters to, 179, 185,

186
appointed to supervise weaving
industry at Hatfield, 236
and n
Household, The
of King, 62
of Prince Henry, 107
Chamberlain of. See Stanhope,
Sir John
Household Book

at Theobalds, 29
Houses, The King's

allowances given to keepers of,
69
Howard, Alethea, wife of Thomas
Howard, 2nd Earl of Arun-
del and daughter of Gilbert
Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrews-
bury
139
Howard, Anne, Dowager Countess
of Arundel, widow of Philip
Howard, 1st Earl of Arundel
139
Howard, Charles, Earl of Notting-
ham, Lord Admiral
reference to his embassy to

Spain, 28 and n
37, 46, 143, 220, 245, 247
Howard, Sir Charles, of the Royal
Household, son of Charles
Howard, Earl of Notting-
ham
his allowance, 63
Howard, Henry, 1st Earl of North-
ampton
5, 17, 18, 107, 142, 181
petition to, 82
Howard, James, 3rd Earl of Suffolk
polemical attack on, 277

346

Howard, Margaret, Coiintess of
Nottingham, 2nd wife of
Charles Howard, Earl of
Nottingham
her allowance, 67
Howard, Theophihis, Lord Howard
de Walden, later 2nd Earl of
Suffolk
mentioned unfavourably in

verses, 235
signs directives from Privy
Coimcil, 267, 271
Howard, Thomas, 1st Earl of
Suffolk, Lord Chamberlain,
later Lord Treasurer
17, 34, 69, 79, 107, 142, 143,

147, 174, 215, 223, 231
money paid to his musician,
151
Howard, Thomas, 2nd Earl of
Arundel and Surrey, Earl
Marshal of England
36, 265
mentioned unfavourably in

verses, 235
signs directive from Privy
Council, 267
Howard, Thomas, 1st Earl of
Berkshire
chosen by Charles I to nego-
tiate with Scots, 277
Howard, William [ ? of London]
merchant
provides billiard cues for Salis-
bury House, 202
Howden, co. Yorks.

174
Howdenshire, co. Yorks.

174
Howe, Robert, tenant in Brigstock
Park
petition to William, Earl of
Salisbury, 279
Howe, Roger, of London, merchant

petition to Cecil, 50
Howell, Roger, of Abergavenny,
recusant
complaints against, 242
Howane, John. See Home, John
Hownie, Sir Patrick. See Home,

Sir Patrick
Huddington, co. Worcester

38, 57
Huddleston, Dorothy, wife of Henry
Huddleston
petition to Cecil, 37
Huddleston, Henry, prisoner in the
Marshalsea
37
Hudson, James, Groom of the
Privy Chamber to the King
his allowance, 62

Hugh, Piers ap, of Dyserth, co.
Flint, brother of William
Hughes
89
Hughes (Hewes), Robert, of Aber-
gavenny, clerk
testifies against recusants, 242
Hughes, Thomas [ ? of Wells, co.
Somerset]
petition to King's Commis-
sioners for Leases, 249
Hughes, William, of Llangewen,
CO. Denbigh, cousin to
Edward Piers
89, 90
Huguenots, French

Synod held at La Rochelle by,
116
Hull, CO. Yorks.

coarse cloth exported from, 52
petition from merchants of, 52
petition from Mayor and Alder-
men of, 61
Mayor of. See Casson, James
Hume, Thomas, a Scotsman

petition to Cecil, 216
Humphreys, Andrew, tenant in
Brigstock Park
petition to William, Earl of
Salisbury, 279
Himgerford, Anthony, factor to
Arthur Jackson in Danzig
7
Hungerford, Bridget, of Down Amp-
ney, co. Gloucester, recusant
petition to King, 30
Hunmanby, co. Yorlcs.

174
Hunsdon, Lady. See Carey, Eliza-
beth
Hunsdon, Lord. See Carey, Henry;

Carey, George
Hunsdon, John, of Enfield, co.
Middlesex
11
Hunt, Thomas, actor

performs in entertainment at
Theobalds, 137
Hunt, Mr., an organist in the
service of the Archbishop of
Canterbtiry
visits Italy and Rome, 147
Huntingdon shire

Dvichy of Lancaster's manor
in, 250

Huntinge,

42
Huntsmen

names and allowances of
King's, 67

347

Hurst, Mr., in the service of Sir
Richard Lucy
270
Hyde, Arthur, of Carrigneady, co.
Cork, Ireland
petitions to Cecil, 84 (2)
Hyde Park, London

grant to Cecil of custody of, 125
Hynds or Hinds, John, a surveyor
map of parlts at Brigstock by,
275
Hynelly, Thomas, Keeper of the
Gatehouse prison
206

levan, David Lloyd ap John ap,
of Trefnant, co. Montgomery
{d 1580)
mentioned, 103 and n
Industry

agreement for erection of fur-
naces for industrial uses, 196
dispute at Tintem, 245
harmful effects of iron mills in
Kent, 255
Inglebert, William [ ? of London]

his allowance, 69
Ingleby, Shadwell, co. Essex

manor of, 130
Ingleby (Ingilby), Sir William, of
Ripley, co. Yorks.
123
Ingilby, Sir William. See Ingleby,

Sir William
Ingram, Mr. See Ingram, William
Ingram, Balchester, deceased

mentioned, 246
Ingram, William, of Earl's Court,
St. John in Bredwardine, co.
Worcester, J. P.
examines persons charged with
aiding Gimpowder Plot con-
spirators, 160
Inquisition, The

166
Inquisition House, Portugal

Englishman imprisoned in, 50
Intercourse, The

petition to King from mer-
chants of, 88
Ipswich, CO. Suffolk

42, 180
Irchester, co. Northants.
manor of, 250

Ireland

2, 4, 8 (2), 36, 39, 42, 44, 71, 83,

84 (2), 97, 119, 132, 133, 140,
159 (2), 175, 180, 182, 197
(2), 206, 214, 218 (2), 222,
223 (2), 245, 247 (2), 248,
275, 285

Act of Oblivion in, 2, 85
printing of religious books in

English for people of, 72
reference to late wars in, 82, 83,

85 (2), 87, 89, 103, 197, 223
English settlers in, 85
petition to Lords Commis-
sioners for, 85

office of Chief Remembrancer

in, 88
King's Bench in, 120
reference to existence in library
at Salisbury House of map
of, 149
English ship seized by Spanish

warship off coast of, 176
reference to the " Banck" of,

235
money spent on pay and

apparel in, 247
roads in Middlesex infested

with beggars from, 255
stones sent from, 291
Ireland, Council of

2, 72, 84, 89, 120, 181
Secretary to. See Fenton, Sir
Geoffrey
Ireland, King's Printer in. See

Francton, John
Ireland, Lord Chancellor of. See

Loftus, Adam
Ireland, Lord Chief Baron of. See

Pelham, Sir Edmund
Ireland, Lord Chief Justice of. See

Ley, Sir James
Ireland, Lord Chief Justice (of the
Common Pleas) of. See
Walsh, Sir Nicholas
Ireland, Lord Deputy of. See
Bloimt, Sir Charles; Carew,
Sir George; Chichester, Sir
Arthur
Ireland, Treasvirer of. See Butler,

Thomas
Ireland, Treasurer at Wars in. See
Carew, Sir George; Ridge-
way, Sir Thomas
Iron

industry harmful to cloth
manufacture in Kent, 255
Islands, The. See Azores
Italian Language

Viscount Cranborne's reader in,
203

348

INDEX

Italy

list of English visitors to, 146,

147, 148
166
marble stones shipped to Cecil

from, 179
Viscoiint Cranborne's visit to,

200

Jackson, Arthur, of London, mer-
chant

petition to Cecil, 7
Jackson, Eleazar, of Abergavenny,
a preacher

letter to House of Commons,
242

hostility of recusants towards,
242
Jackson, Nicholas, of Brigstock,
CO. Northants., Bailiff of
Brigstock

279

letter from, 280

distrains cattle at Essendine,
280
Jackson, Robert, mrnerologist

petition to Privj^ Council, 136
James I, King of England

1, 2, 3, 4 (2), 5, 10, 11, 12, 13
(2), 17, 22, 26 (2), 27, 29 (2)
and n, 30, 31 (2), 32 (2), 33,
34, 38 (2), 40, 41, 42 (2), 44,
46(2),47, 51(2), 52(2), 53(2),
54, 57, 58, 59 (2), 61 (2)

reference to Cecil's meeting at
York with, 5

petitions to, 17, 18, 19 (2), 22,
23, 28 (2), 30, 33, 34 (2), 39,
43, 45, 50, 51, 71 (2), 75

his progress to Woodstock, 29
and n

entertained at Theobalds, 30

reference to refounding of Col-
legiate Church of Ripon by,
40

suspected in Spain of con-
niving at Dutch recruitment
of soldiers ha England, 48

poem dedicated to, 49

list and allowances of members
of household of, 62—69

69, 72, 78 (2), 81, 82, 83, 84, 85,
87, 88 (2), 89, 90, 93 (2), 94,
95 (2), 96, 97 (2), 100, 101,
102, 103 (2), 105

disturbances during celebration
of coronation of, 70

James I continued

petitions to, 79, 80 (2), 81 (3),
85, 88, 91, 93, 94 (3), 97, 101,
102, 105 (2), 107, 113 (2),
122, 123, 124 (2), 125, 128 (2)

reprieves Christian Weech from
execution for witchcraft, 110
and n

112, 114 (2), 115 (2), 119, 120,
121 (2), 125 (2), 127, 129 (2),
130, 131 (2), 134, 135, 136,
141 (2), 142(2), 143, 144, 146,
150, 153, 154, 156, 157, 159,
160 (2), 161, 164

letter to the Chapter of Wells,
112

grants custody of Hyde Park
to Cecil, 125

reference to his progress
through London, 126

petitions to, 135, 141, 143, 144,
157, 161, 182, 184, 194, 196,
197, 204, 207, 209, 214 (2),
215, 217, 220, 224, 225, 229

Latin poem composed in
honour of, 138

his liberality to favourites, 139

attends entertainment and ban-
quet at Salisbury House,
149, 150

copy of his speech bought for
Cecil's library, 151

attends play staged at Britain's
Burse, 168

involved in dispute over Kings-
wood Forest, 169

172, 173, 174 (2), 175 (2), 180,
181, 182, 184, 186, 190, 192,
193 (2), 194 (2), 195, 196,
197, 198, 203, 208 (2)

reference to his entry into
England, 175, 180

Cecil conveys to House of Com-
mons the " princely thoughts
and cogitations " of, 188

problem of debts and security
of, 188

letter to Cecil, 188

criticism of surveyors of, 191

receives letters froin King of
Poland, 195

grants licence for erection of
furnaces for industrial uses,
196

Viscovmt Cranbome conveyed
home across Channel by
ship of, 200

reference to French gardeners
of, 210

INDEX

349

James I continued

212, 213 (2), 214 (2), 217, 220

(2), 221, 223, 225, 228 (2),

229, 230, 235, 236, 238, 248,

254, 255, 256, 257, 276, 283
petition to Cecil from grooms

of hobby stables of, 221
Foster's request to become one

of the " mawndye men " of,

227
Egerton's treatise on preroga-
tive of, 232
petitions to, 233, 245 (3), 246

(2), 247, 248, 249, 254, 255,

256
denies having advised Elector

Palatine to become King of

Bohemia, 238
his opinion on monarchy and

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