1631. April 22. April 22. April 22. VOL. CLXXXIX. 9. Justices of Peace for Hants to the Council. Certificate of the corn remaining in the hundreds of Fawley, Bountisborough, and Mainsborough. 10. Dr. John Young, Dean of Winchester, and other Justices of Peace for the same county, to Thomas Coteel the younger, Sheriff. Certificate of the supply of corn, and its price; division not named. 11. The same to the same. Certificate of measures taken for relief of the poor in the hundreds of Mansbridge and Buddlesgate, and the liberty of the Soke. April 22. 12. Justices of Peace for co. Nottingham to the Council. Recite Nottingham. their past certificates respecting corn. Unless supplies be brought when carriages come down to the coal pits corn will be at a greater rate, for all men's barns are now empty. State the measures they have adopted. In this time of dearth they have little rest at home. or abroad, and find many difficulties to content poor people. April 22. 13. Justices of Peace for co. Hertford to the same. Report their Buntingford. proceedings for relief of the poor for the hundreds of Edwinstree and Odsey. April 22. April 23. Lewes. April 23. April 23. Melton Mowbray. 14. Petition of Robert South and Wm. Cave, for the Company of Cutlers of London, to Henry Earl of Danby, Edward Viscount Wimbledon, Henry Viscount Falkland, and Horatio Lord Vere, Committees for the Company of the Armourers and Gunmakers. Pray to be joined in the commission with the Armourers and Gunmakers for supplying swords. Underwritten, 14. 1. Minute of the answer of the Committee above mentioned. They hold it very fit that the petitioners and some others of the Company of Cutlers be joined in the Commission now to be engrossed by the Attorney General, whereof Sir John Heydon, Mr. Boswell, and all others are to take notice. 1631, April 22. 15. Justices of Peace for Sussex to the Council. Return as to the supply of corn within the rape of Lewes. There is sufficient to serve the people, and to help the wildish parts of the county. The poor buy chiefly barley for their bread, which is sold at 58., and wheat at 88. the bushel. 16. Other Justices of Peace for the same county to the same. Certify the measures for relief of the poor in the rape of Bramber. 17. Justices of Peace for co. Leicester to the same. They sent copy of their Lordships' letter for laying open inclosures to Mr. John St. John, but the inclosures by him newly made all continue as they were. Return quantity of corn in hand in the hundred of Framland, and their careful execution of the book of orders. 1631. April 23. VOL. CLXXXIX. 18. Commissioners for composition for Knighthood in co. Derby to the Council. With so many as came before them they made "gree" for their several fines, and the total, amounting to 2,421l. 69. 8d., was paid into the Exchequer in November last. They also returned a list of defaulters, whose compositions amounted to 8001. or thereabouts. April 23. 19. Lord Keeper Coventry to Sec. Dorchester. Mr. Sergeant Canbury. Powell, employed for summoning the Peers for trial of Lord Audley, brings word that the Earl of Hertford and Lords Hervey and Powis are not in town, and that the Earl of Suffolk is lame. There will remain but 23, and the King's pleasure is to have 25, if not 27. Begs him to take the King's pleasure for supplying the number, and adding their names to the Sergeant's schedule. Inclosed, April 23. 19. 1. Names of Peers between the King and Mervyn Lord Audley, with notes thereon by Sec. Dorchester, and the marginal addition of the Earl of Worcester, Viscount Conway, and Lords Petre and Howard, to supply the four above mentioned. 20. Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Lord ChamberWhitehall. lain, to the Lords of the Admiralty. Since the King has committed to him the Vice-Admiralty for South Wales, he is bound to let them know that the King's service suffers much in those parts for want of a Judge and Registrar. Sir Wm. Rives, the King's Advocate, has promised to go down thither this summer to redress abuses, if they will grant him commission, and Lewis Davies, of Haverfordwest, is willing to undergo the registership upon the like terms. One Lort, against whom there is a commission on foot for wreck, is labouring to procure a grant of wrecks all along his lands, which he hopes they will conceive may prove prejudicial. April 23. April 23. 21. Minutes by Nicholas of businesses to be transacted by the Lords of the Admiralty this day. Among them are, appointment of captains and masters for ships ordered for guard of the Narrow Seas; order to take the accounts of all the collectors of tenths; the cases of Bardwell against Sir William Withypoll and Lieut. Bonithon. 22. Governors of Christ's Hospital to the Council. Report of the means and revenues of the hospital, and how the same are laid out; being an account of the receipts and expenses for the last year. The annual income of the hospital, derived from rents of lands and tenements, was 2,090l. 68. 9d.; from annuities given to the hospital it was 2511. 7s. 9d.; from duties of hallage of cloth brought to market at Blackwell Hall it was 1,100l. 10s. 11fd.; from legacies, 6071. 68. 8d.; from the children's going to burials, 921.; and these uncertain receipts had been made up by fines of leases, benevolences, and collections in several parishes, to 2,2831. 88. 6d., which made a general total of receipts of 4,625l. 38. The payments for the same period were 5,0037. 138. 111d. Among 1631. April 24. Bristol. [April 24 ?] April 24. VOL. CLXX these were payments for quit rents and for annuities, charged by donors upon lands given to the hospital (of which last there is a particular account), 437l. 98. 7d.; for necessaries, viz., for buttermilk, oatmeal, physic, soap, ashes, washing-women's wages, schooling of children in the country, ink, paper, and repairs, 4541. 88.; matron and six nurses, board wages, 65l. 178. 4d.; nursing children in the city and country, 1,366l. 58. 7d.; officers' wages, 2441. 188. 4d.; St. Bartholomew's, out of the profits of Blackwell Hall, 233l. 68. 8d.; officers' wages at Blackwell Hall, 1921. 38. 11d.; John Fitzwilliam, late a child of Christ's Hospital, now a poor scholar at Cambridge, 17. 138. 14d.; baker for bread, 2961. 88. 8d.; butcher for beef and mutton, 245l. 148.; brewer for small beer at 4s. the barrel, 1177. 48.; linen cloth for sheets and shirts, 2001. 88.; white cottons for the children's petticoats, 123l. 128. 9d.; woollen yarn for stockings, 371. 2s. 6d.; shoes, 181l. 19s. 6d. ; Suffolk cheese, 60l. 18. 6d. ; candles, 20l. 15s.; seacoals, billets, and charcoal, 967. 13s.; books, Latin and English, 6. 28. 2d.; four northern kersies for girls' petticoats, 71. 128.; black, blue, green, and red caps, 217. 10s. 6d. ; New River water, 41.; blue cloth, 445l. 108.; the salaries to Thomas Walters, grammar school master, 201.; John Vicar, usher, 15l.; Humphrey Waynman, writing school master, 201.; Robert Neue, petty school master, 157. 168. 8d.; John Farrant, song school master, 231.; one of the nurses had an annual addition of 6l. per annum, for "healing "the children's sore heads and mouths;" the number of children was 707; the elder were trained up to learning in the several schools; the younger kept at nurse in London and several places in the country, and at the age of 15 were placed forth apprentices. 23. Sir Thomas Button to the Lords of the Admiralty. Not receiving order for satisfying the creditors for victuals unpaid by Mr. Alcock, and the wind being fair, has sent up his purser thereon. The sea in the mouth of Severn, and in the Irish channel generally, is so full of pirates that he beseeches them to avoid the hazard of dishonour, by allowing the ships their full numbers of men. If until Allhallow tide the Antelope were sent for that coast it would not be amiss. 24. Account by Thomas Morgan, purser, of victuals set on board the Ninth Lion's Whelp by Sir Thomas Button, for three months, from 27 Sept. 1630, total 100l.; with further account of victuals set on board in Ireland, 697. 118. 25. Mervyn Lord Audley and Earl of Castlehaven in Ireland to his brother Sir Ferdinando Audley. The writer leaves his daughter Frances Touchet to Sir Ferdinando's care. He has left her 2,000l.; Tite can tell him how to be paid. Prays him to comfort the writer's son Audley [James Lord Audley], although he has undone his house. He has recommended his son George to his son Butler's care. He is of a harsh nature, and must have no soft natured schoolmaster. [Copy unsigned, but apparently attested.] 1631. April 25. Bath. April 25. April 25. April 25. April 25. April 26. April 26. April 26. Whitehall. April 26. VOL. CLXXXIX. 26. Archbishop Harsnet of York to Sec. Dorchester. Is yet so much a prisoner, though he has used the hot baths, as he is not able to write his own name. For the honour of the church and his Majesty's service, prays him to vouchsafe a meeting of the referees touching the charter of Yarmouth, and make report whether after so many advices and messages it be fit to pass, that so the bearer, who suffers intolerably under the barbarous usage of his insolent adversaries, may see an end of his heavy affliction. Nicholas to Attorney General Heath. The Lords of the Admiralty wish him to prevent Mr. Lort, of co. Pembroke, from procuring a grant of wrecks all along his lands in that county; also that the disclaimer of Admiralty jurisdiction by the city of Rochester might be entered of record; and that he will not suffer grants of wreck or pirates goods or other thing touching Admiralty jurisdiction to pass without acquainting them. [Copy. Nicholas's Letter Book, p. 93.] 27. William Cater, Sheriff of co. Bedford, to the Council. Sends certificates from the Justices of Peace and from the town of Bedford. Inclosed, 27. 1. Justices of Peace for co. Bedford to the Sheriff. Certificate of the price of corn, and means taken to supply the markets and relieve the poor. 1631, April 19. 27. II. Mayor and others of Bedford to the same. Certificate upon the same subject. Bedford, 1631, April 24. 28. Record of proceedings in a qui tam information in the Exchequer by Michael Measey against Matthew Angell for importing playing cards, with the plea of the defendant and replication of the Attorney General. [Office copy.] 29. Similar record of proceedings in another information by Christopher Rotheram, against the same person for a similar cause of action. 30. Thomas Stanley, Sheriff of co. Chester, to the Council. States the contents of certificates received from the Justices of Peace. The prices of corn fall, and there is sufficient in the county to supply the wants thereof. 31. Sir Thomas Aylesbury to his son, Edward Nicholas. Entreats his favour for John Hills, recommended by Mr. Edgbury [Edisbury?]. His suit is touching the boatswain's place in the Ninth Whelp. 32. Lords of the Admiralty to the Officers of the Navy. Warrant to enter John Hills as boatswain in the Ninth Lion's Whelp, in the place of John Greene. [Unsigned.] 33. Dr. William Juxon to Bishop Laud, Chancellor of Oxford. Has received on Mr. Vanham's note 100l. of the bearer, Thomas Cowper, mayor of Oxford, who can remit further to Oxford to the value of 300l., a convenience not to be had at any time. 1631. April 26. Headon. April 26. April 26. April 26. April 26. April 27. April 27. April 27. VOL. CLXXXIX. 34. Justices of Peace for co. York to Sir John Gibson, Sheriff. Report their care for relief of the poor in the Middle and South bailiwicks of Holderness, in the East Riding. 35. Other Justices of Peace to the same. wapentake of Bulmer in the North Riding. Similar report for the 36. State of the account and difference between Stephen Alcock and Sir Thomas Button about victualling the Fifth and Ninth Whelps. 37. Another statement of the same matter, prepared before the preceding, and containing some additional details. [Draft.] 38. Stephen Alcock's statement of the account with Sir Thomas Button about the victualling of the Fifth and Ninth Whelps. 39. Justices of Peace for co. Warwick to the Council. Prices of corn have fallen. Fear that a new survey would cause them to rise, but are ready to obey their further direction. 40. Justices of Peace for Essex to the same. Have called before them the saymakers, spinsters, weavers, and combers of Sudbury, and have examined the cause of the saymakers abating the wages of the other workpeople before mentioned. The saymakers alleged that all of that trade did the like, but they were content to give such wages as the writers thought right, if the same order were taken throughout the kingdom by proclamation or otherwise. Inclosed, 40. 1. Order specifying what wages should be paid by the saymakers of Sudbury to the spinsters and weavers, until 15th May next, subject to further order of the Council. Halstead, 1631, April 8. 41. Capt John Mennes to Nicholas. Has received three months' victuals. Shall be able to keep the sea. The Peter, Cornelius King, captain, is daily expected in the Downs. Ships expected from Virginia. Six or seven days hence will send a boat on shore at Portsmouth for orders. April 27. 42. Francis Moundeford to Nicholas, miscalled John. Hopes Newport in the shortly to be of ability of body to travel. Will be in London Isle of Wight. 11 May. Sent him 108. by Mr. Keyme, and inclosed 108. more. Hopes he will be his friend. April 27. 43. Certificate of Bailiffs of Basingstoke to Thomas Coteel, Basingstoke. Sheriff of Hants. Return of their proceedings in execution of the Book of Orders for regulating the supply of corn and relief of the poor. April 27. April 27. 44. Certificate of Justices of Peace for Norfolk, of the like purport with the above, for the hundreds of Clackclose, Grimshoe, Wayland, and Southgreenhoe. 45. Names of ships supplied at Chatham with munition. |