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Dispute between Penzance and Marazion over markets. |
1604, June 8. |
Decree of Court. Refers to the intransigence
of the inhabitants of Penzance in ignoring former injunctions not
to keep markets to the prejudice of Marazion. The Court, willing
to favour Penzance in view of the losses it sustained by the late
occupation and spoliation of the town by Spaniards, referred the
matter to the Attorney and Solicitor General. The latter had
listened to the arguments advanced by both parties, and had
concluded that the former verdicts should not be rescinded. But
with the consent of both towns they have recommended that any
butcher of Penzance may sell flesh victuals to be spent within the
said town and not otherwise, and that the inhabitants are not to
keep a market on Saturdays. This is now made a decree of the
Court.—Veneris octavo die Junii, 2 Jac.
6 pp. (Legal 39/8.) |
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Thomas clarke to Lord Cecil. |
1604, June 9. |
The wardship of the heir of Clement Weare
alias Browne, of Marlborough, co. Wilts., has been concealed for
many years, and the King's title rejected. He asks for a grant of
the wardship, undertaking to produce incontrovertible evidence
that the property was held of the King.—9 June, 1604. |
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Note at bottom signed by Cecil: "Let him resort to any two of
the Counsayle of the Court whereof Mr Surveyor or Mr Atturny
to be one; and if he can shewe pregnant matter and procure an
order, I will have consideration of him in the composition."
1 p. (P. 1619.) |
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John Lisley to Lord Cecil. |
[1604, June 13]. |
He is of Moxhull, co. Warwick, and is brother
and heir of Francis Lisley, whose wardship was granted by the
Court of Wards to Anthony Dyott, with an exhibition of £4
annually during his minority, and so from heir to heir. But
Francis Lisley died before the grant passed the Great Seal, and
petitioner became ward and compounded with Dyott for his
wardship. He paid a fine to the late Queen Elizabeth for this
but has been allowed none of the exhibition formerly given to
Dyott, although he has submitted a claim to it. It has been
denied him on the grounds that his brother died before the grant
of the wardship to Dyott had been procured under the Great Seal.
He now requests that Cecil consider his case favourably and issue
a warrant that he be granted the exhibition.—Undated.
On reverse: Another and more legal version of the petition.
Endorsed: "13 June, 1604. The humble petition of John
Lisley, gent." ½ p. (P. 1608.) |
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Osbaldo Nonhaufer to Guillermo Sluderpach. |
1604, June 14. |
He begs him to remember a girl whom he
baptised. She has been seriously ill and can only walk with great
difficulty. She is now five years of age, and he requests that she
be given a dress.—Valladolid, June 14, 1604.
Spanish. 1 p. (105. 90.) |
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Anthony Forrest to Richard Perceval. |
1604, June 15. |
He requests his favour in a personal matter,
the marriage of a near relation of his to the son of Sir Edward
Denny, who is ward of his mother, Lady Denny. "This yonge
gentellman cominge to my house in my absence, my selfe beinge a
widdower and haveinge my sister my poore houskeeper, he fell in
love with my sister and is maryed unto hir, I protest before God,
contrarye to my knowledge, I beinge, as I sayde, with Sir Oliver
Cromwell by the space of 3 weekes. Hir portion is £300. What
is [sic] livinge is I knowe nott, butt his mother, I heare, is discontented and meaneth to draw hym into the Court of Wards."
If Perceval hears anything of the matter, Forrest entreats him to
inform Lord Cecil that she is his sister. Forrest fears that Lady
Denny "wilbe trobelsome to my Lord in this matter". From
my house Morbom this 15 of Ju. 1604.
Holograph. 1 p. (P. 2172.) |
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Elizabeth Woodrove to Lord Cecil. |
[Before June 19, 1604]. |
She has been a suitor to the King
since he came to Hampton Court, for some relief to maintain
herself and her children who are destitute, and has submitted a
number of petitions to him and the Privy Council. She has
received no answer, and her lack of means preclude her further
attendance. She asks him to subscribe to the enclosed petition
which she is sending to the King. If he does, she is assured that
the King will grant her request. "If the Court should remove, I
have no means to followe."—Undated.
Holograph. Seal. Endorsed: "1604. Elizabeth Woodrove
to my lord to subscribe a petition." ¼ p. (P. 2480) |
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Elizabeth Woodrove to Lord Cecil. |
[Before June 19, 1604]. |
She apologises for troubling him so
often, but she is apprehensive that because of the King's departure
her suit will fail, since she is unable to follow the Court. Cecil has
promised to intervene on her behalf, but she is aware of two
difficulties. "The one that his Majesty doth hold no land of our
house, the other is he hath beene so bountifull to divers as I feare
I come to late." She begs Cecil to assist her, and if she receives
word that he is willing to do so, "it will do me more good then if I
were dead to restore my life. Why I make choyce thus espetially
to rely upon your Lordships favor is the great reliefe I have
received from your house."—Undated.
Holograph. Seal. Endorsed: "Mrs Eliz. Woodrove to my
Lord." 1 p. (P. 2479.)
[See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603–10, p. 121.] |
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Philip Stanhope to Lord Cecil. |
[1604, June 19]. |
He is the son and heir of Sir John Stanhope,
and one of the co-heirs of Jane Allington, deceased. In her lifetime, the latter conveyed her lands to certain feoffees until her
will and that of Sir William Cordell were carried into effect; and
then to Sir George Carey, Lord Deputy of Ireland, till he had
levied 2000 marks. Thereafter the feoffees should stand seised
of one half of her lands during the lifetime of Sir John Savage
and Dame Mary, his wife, one of the daughters and co-heirs of
Jane Allington, and afterwards to the use of Sir Thomas Savage,
son and heir of Sir John Savage, with remainders to the other
children. In the absence of such issue, the lands were to descend
to petitioner. The feoffees should also stand seised of the other
half of Jane Allington's lands to the use of petitioner until he was
21 years of age, and should account to him for all issues and
profits, when he inherited the property. Jane Allington died last
Christmas, petitioner being then under age, but had appointed
Sir George Carey, now absent in Ireland, and Sir Thomas Savage
her executors, both to occupy her lands until all debts were paid
and her will performed. In Carey's absence, Sir Thomas Savage
had entered upon the manor of Melford and other lands in Suffolk,
to the value of £1000 a year, as executor, but was now claiming the
inheritance of the whole property from his mother and petitioner.
Petitioner's counsel had taken the matter up in the Court of
Wards, whereupon Sir Thomas had suggested a friendly conference
between the legal advisers of both parties. At this meeting it
had been agreed that, failing some compromise, they should
select some judges to determine the case, and that in the meantime
nothing should be done to prejudice the interests of the two
parties. But Sir Thomas Savage has violated this agreement;
he has held a court, forced tenants to acknowledge him as the new
landlord, and given lands to strangers, in order to disinherit
petitioner and defraud his own parents of their estate for life.
Sir Thomas is now trying to obtain legal possession of the manor,
and is likely to succeed if not prevented. Petitioner asks that
Cecil write to Lord Anderson and the other justices of the Common
Pleas to stop Sir Thomas's proceedings until further order be
taken by the Court of Wards.—Undated.
Endorsed: "19 June, 1604. The humble petition of Phillipp
Stanhope, his Mats ward." ¾ p. (P. 1607.) |
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Elizabeth Woodrove to Lord Cecil. |
[After June 19, 1604]. |
She expresses her gratitude to the
Privy Council, but to Cecil in particular as being "the chiefe
foundation of my well being".—Undated.
Holograph. Seal. Endorsed: "1604. Lady Woodroove to
my Lord." ½ p. (P. 2478.) |
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John Lister to [Lord Cecil]. |
1604, June 20. |
He is one of Cecil's servants, and asks for the
wardship of the heir of—Palmer, London.—June 20, 1604.
⅓ p. (P. 1603.) |
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Philippa Browne to Lord Cecil. |
1604, June 20. |
About three years ago her husband was granted
a lease by Cecil of a tenement situated in Carlby, co. Lincs., for
21 years. Since then her husband has died, and she has been
harassed by her son-in-law, Thomas Browne, who has got the
lease into his possession and refuses to permit her to remain in
the tenement longer than next Michaelmas. He threatens to
demolish the house over the heads of petitioner and her four
children. They have no other means to live but in that place
"unlesse she be releaved by the towne which is scarse able to
mayntayn that number of poore which is allredy in it". She
begs that Cecil summon Browne before him or take some other
measure to ensure that she gets justice in this matter. Petitioner
adds a request that "this petition may be referred to Mr John
Wingfeild, your Lordships officer, whoe I knowe will do me
justice".—20 June, 1604.
Note at bottom: "A letter written to Sir Robert Wingfield and
Mr John Wingfield."
1 p. (P. 1620.) |
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Robert Wilson to [? Lord Cecil]. |
[1604, June 22]. |
He is submitting the petition on behalf of
himself and other Queen's tenants of the Honour of Clare in
Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire. Richard Foulkes, the
Bailiff, has a manor of his own in the town of Bottisham, and for
this reason he so confuses the rents and services of the Queen's
tenants with those of his own tenants that there have ensued
many law suits and disputes. Foulkes also claims the royalties
of the Queen's revenues as belonging to his manor, and appropriates rents due to the Queen. They ask that the office of bailiff
be not granted to Foulkes, so that both the Queen's rents and
the peace of mind of her tenants be secured.—Undated.
Note by Sir Roger Wilbraham: "Both these parties are to come
before me at Graies Inn this afternoone or to morrowe, wher I
with some other of the Queens Councell will understand more
particularlie of this complaint, and so certifie to my lo. Cecill;
and if it be his Lordships pleasure, it is not amisse to staie the
grannt in the meantime."—Fridaie, the 22 of June, 1604.
1 p. (P. 1649.) |
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Ostend. |
[Before June 24, 1604]. |
A plan of Ostend under siege by
Spanish forces. The list of the names of fortified works includes
the "poulder Raveling" and the "West Raveling" described as
having been captured by the enemy, a success mentioned in a
letter dated June 24, 1604 from Sir John Ogle to Lord Cecil.—
Undated.
2 pp. (142. 186.)
[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVI, p. 150.] |
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William Wortham to Lord Cecil. |
1604, June 27. |
He is in Cecil's service, and requests the grant
of the wardship of the heir of William Green, co. Yorks, deceased.
—June 27, 1604.
Note by Cecil: "Let a commission be granted."
½ p. (P. 1561). |
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John Lister to Lord Cecil. |
1604, June 27. |
He is employed in Cecil's service, and requests
the grant of the wardship of the heir of William Pycke, of Binley,
co. Warwick.—June 27, 1604.
½ p. (P. 1543.) |
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John Marshall to Lord Cecil. |
1604, June 27. |
He is in the service of Elizabeth, Countess of
Derby, and asks for the grant of the wardship of the heir of
Ambrose Gilbert, deceased, of Dover Court co. Essex. June 27,
1604.
Note by Cecil: "Let a stey be made for him."
½ p. (P. 1540.) |
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Abraham Hardrett to the King. |
[After June 28, 1604]. |
In lieu of the £1075 owed him by the
late Queen Elizabeth, and for his other services, the King
bestowed upon him the place of one of his jewellers with a fee of
£50 annually. He has as yet received little material benefit from
this award, unlike other King's jewellers, and asks that £20 in fee
farm be granted him for the maintenance of his family.—Undated.
½ p. (P. 33.)
[See H.M.C. Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVI, p. 253, and Cal. S.P.
Dom., 1603–10, p. 125.] |
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Sybil West to [? Lord Cecil]. |
[1604, June]. |
Her late husband. Arthur West, deceased,
held a customary messuage and one half land within the manor of
Bisley for the term of his life. After his death she was admitted
tenant during her widowhood and still holds the messuage. The
custom of the manor directs that customary tenements be granted
to the children of customary tenants for the usual fines, but Mr
Neale, late steward of the manor, granted a reversion of her
tenement, contrary to the custom of the manor, to Pigion or
Brushe, two of his servants, thereby threatening her children
with the loss of what is theirs by due custom, and of being left
"to the almes of the parish" after her death. She asks that the
messuage be granted to her and her children, and that the said
Pigion and Brushe be ordered to surrender their interest in
it.—Undated.
½ p. (P. 1530.)
See P. 1527 infra p. 177. |
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Halstead. |
[1604, June]. |
An inquiry has established that the King is
entitled to the wardship of the youngest daughter and to the
livery of the other two daughters. The estate of inheritance to all
three is in reversion to Lady Wharton, but there is provision for
each of the daughters to levy £500. Bridget, the eldest, was
exercising her right in this respect at the death of Colby
Tamworth. She lives at a distance from the property and is to
receive the money annually from the tenants. Some of the latter,
however, have chosen to repudiate her and to declare themselves
tenants to Christopher Tamworth "an intruder against the
King". The hope is expressed that the Court of Wards will
support (? the commissioners) on behalf of the King and the three
daughters against "the intruder" and all who claim anything
under him.—Undated.
Endorsed: "June, 1604. Mr C. Tamworth." ½ p. (P. 2246.) |