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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 19, 1607. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1965.
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September 1607, 16-30
| The Earl of Dunbar to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| [1607. Before Sept. 16.] |
I have received your letter and the
two melons. His Majesty gives you thanks for them. He was
very glad to have these melons and thinks them exceeding good.
I would not for anything but that you had sent them. If you
can have more of them they will be very welcome. He is much
troubled with the sickness of the sweet Lady Mary, (fn. 1) and has
commanded me to write to Lord Carew that Dr. Martten may be
sent unto her, and that with all speed he may be advertised of
her estate. He is informed that the Scots Ministers who are
banished from Scotland are become preachers in the Low
Countries to the English and Scots companies that are there.
He desires to know by your means whether it be credible.—
Undated. Holograph. 1 p. (195. 72.) |
| The Earl of Worcester to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| [1607], Sept. 16. |
Doubting lest my warrant will not be
sufficient to the Wardrobe for necessaries for the wrapping up of
the deceased lady, (fn. 1) I thought good to entreat your assistance to
see this bearer provided thereof, the rather in regard neither my
Lord Chamberlain nor Sir Roger Aston are present here. My
Lord Lyle and my Lord Carew and myself were to attend the
Queen this morning, but she presupposed what our news would
be, therefore desired that the King might be made acquainted
withal, and that we would go to Stanwell to see the lady opened,
being extremely desirous to know the certain cause of her death.
I sent her word that I had already written to you of her departure,
and doubted not but that you would have it imparted to the
King, and to know his pleasure touching the funeral; whereof
her Majesty is desirous that some charge may be bestowed.—
Sept. 16. Holograph. 1 p. (122. 71.) |
| [Printed in extenso in Lodge, Illustrations of British History, Vol. III (ed. 1791), pp. 323, 324.] | |
| The Earl of Dorset, Lord Treasurer, to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| 1607, Sept. 17. | Your letter touching our meeting on Saturday at 8 in the morning is doubtful touching the place, whether at Hampton Court, at your house or at my house: I pray you explain it by the messenger. I will not part from the City till I see you and have your consent.—17 Sept., 1607. |
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PS.—I will write to Mr. Chancellor to be ready with me at that
hour. Holograph. ½ p. (122. 72.) |
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| The Earl of Shrewsbury to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| 1607, Sept. 17. | Your letter from Basing, at your return from Salisbury, I received lying on a couch, plagued in my left foot and my right hand, so as I am neither fit for football nor tennis, nor aught else that is good; yet I trust to be on foot again within this sevennight. Send the enclosed to Mr. Chancellor: I send them open chiefly that I suppose it will make him not the less forward in the business when he knows you are acquainted with it. My wife desires to be in her wonted hearty manner remembered to you.—Sheaffeld Lodge, 17 Sept., 1607. |
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PS.—The other day I received the enclosed: I writ not to that
gentleman these 20 years past, nor mean to do of 20 more to
come. Holograph. 1 p. (122. 73.) |
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| Sir Charles Yelverton to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| 1607, Sept. 18. |
He prays no favour for covering offences, but
respect amidst his miseries, which, in regard of the dreadfulness
of the Tower imprisonment, have made him a blemish to his
race and a bye word to the world. He beseeches to be restored
to his attendance in Court, whereby the mouths of malicious
detractors shall be stopped, his house and family unblemished,
and himself greatly comforted.—18 Sept., 1607. Holograph. 1 p. (122. 90.) |
| Sir William Stone, (fn. 2) Thomas Henshaw, Francis Snellinge, Richard Lumley, John Child and Francis Middleton to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| [1607. Before Sept. 19] |
Monsieur Beaumont, late Ambassador to the French King, (fn. 3) at his being in England became
indebted to the petitioners for commodities to the value of 300l.
Not being furnished with money he delivered a bill of exchange
in the name of Sir William Stone payable in France upon sight,
but he has not as yet made any satisfaction. They pray for
directions to the English Ambassador in France for their relief.—
Undated. Petition. 1 p. (197. 92 (2).) Copy of the above. 1 p. (197. 98 (2).) |
| John Finet to [Thomas] Wilson "at my Lord of Salisbury's." | |
| 1607, Sept. 19/29. | I wrote you from Antwerp of the 29 of August, stilo novo, by Henry Ballam, servant to Mr. Questor, Postmaster, as I take him. I have since employed my time at Antwerp and Brussels, where the negotiations of peace hold all men so in expectation and out of action as every day's news are but so many new conjectures and judgments of men interested. The Archduke, they say there, grows in years and out of hope of issue, so is desirous to go to his grave in peace, though upon hard conditions. The soldier cries nothing but war and money, for of this they are most necessitous: no pay, no pensions have been long since delivered them. Those of our soldiers that came thither for conscience make no conscience to return for England, most repining and almost pining for hunger. Of 2,000 there are not 200 remaining. Such as came hither for religion and professed themselves Catholics, look with that uncharitable eye upon us Protestants as I cannot but wonder at the difference between those and them in Italy, with whom you may remember we held at the least a friendly society usque ad aras. These distempers drove me sooner thence than I intended, and brought me about the 24 of August to Paris. Here I find a new face of a country, people and humours; pleasant, changeable in colours and matters, tired with rest, designing enterprises which like Embrions are never like to come to life. They inquire much after the proceedings of the Archdukes and Hollanders, but seem themselves like some lookers on at gaming, not desirous of square play, but wrangling. |
| The King is still at Paris, and for a heat in his reins takes the waters of Pougues every morning abundantly. The Queen, with her great belly of six months' growth, has been of late dangerously sick, but is now recovered. Madame de la Haye, the King's new and our late French Ambassador's old mistress, is like shortly to put the Parliament to the legitimation of a new bastard. Her late master (that was in England her servant) lives in the meantime disgraced, retired from his wife, and writes verses in the praises of solitariness. They say he was too exacting a broker of de la Haye's merchandise, which made the thrifty King by a third take a directer course, and save 20,000 crowns in the bargain. She now rails at her benefactor. He, to disgrace her, discovers truths formerly concealed: but too late: her cunning, and the King's loving credulity, prove him the only unfortunate. | |
| Here are dead within a short space three Councillors of Estate, Monsieur de Calignon, Chancellor of Navar; Monsieur de Messe, that of the religion: this most affectionate: and both much renowned; and Mr. de Bellievre, Chancellor of France, well known in England. His successor is Monsieur de Sillery, late Ambassador at Rome, now of the Privy Council, and a great manager of the chief affairs of this country. Why may not the deaths of so many notable men near about an instant be a presage of some storm agrowing, wherein the direction of so skilful pilots would be most necessary? | |
| Mons. de Rhony, or as he is now styled, Duc de Sully, has clearly passed the pikes of his enemies' envy and jealousy. The singular charge he had of the most important and secret affairs of France, and his constant support of those of the religion, drave sundry of the greatest of this land to endeavour to supplant him. You have heard I imagine how the financiers (whereof he is chief) were put to the "limbecq" [alembic], and (upon composition) 400,000 for the King, and 100,000 francs for the Queen, distilled from them. The principal of this aim was at Monsieur de Sully (for it was like the head would not prove sound if the members should be found infected); but he showed himself so confident and clear from any just imputation, as the King rests better satisfied of him than ever, and honours and employs before all others. In the meantime the Count of Soyssons his arch-enemy is retired from the Court highly discontented. | |
| The Jesuits seem to be here in more credit than ever. Those which the Venetians banished have here their retreat, and allowed them by the King 9,000 crowns pension. This alteration in him of former resolution is admirable, and held not to be without some great design of advantage; but to say the truth he is in these times the only worker of miracles, and if he hold out proportion I see no reason but he may be canonised before a hundred saints in the calendar. He is said to have bestowed 100,000 on the Hollanders in time of peace to help to entertain their garrisons and the two French regiments there, and will have them set forth 20 ships of war with 6,000 men to serve him whenever he shall request them. In the meantime he endeavours to join them to him in one alliance with the Swyzzers. | |
| The brother of the Prince of Espinoy who was Seneschal of Haynault, had a quarrel lately with a gentleman of good years by name Rambure, Governor of Dorlans, and notwithstanding the King's earnest endeavour to hinder their encounter, met with his enemy in the field, and was there untimely but valiantly slain. He was not past 18 years of age, of great hope, and is much lamented, especially by the ladies, he being held one of the goodliest and amiablest personages of Europe. | |
| I send you herewith a short libel cast out against Father Cotton the famous Jesuit. It is neither of great worth nor wit, yet passable for so distasted a subject. | |
|
I long to hear from you, neither would some particulars of our
country be unwelcome. I have means here to exchange them to
profit, and it will be this month before I go to Orleans. I have
presented myself and service to our Ambassador here, and
entered my acquaintance with your friend Mr. Beecher. Your
letters directed to him will find me where I lodge, "en la rue
Zacharias, aupres de St. Severin, chez Mr. le Fort, Musitien."—
Paris, 29 Sept., 1607. PS.—This bearer Mr. Simon Fox of Stradbrook in high Suffolk, may need your assistance to bring him to my Lord of Salisbury. Holograph. 3 pp. (122. 94.) |
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| Merchants at Stade. | |
| 1607, Sept. 19/29. |
Confirmation by the Emperor, at the request
of James I by his letters dated 8 March 1607, and of Reiner
Langius, delegate of the English merchants of Stade, of the
"Recess" published in Stade 20 February 1602 by the Imperial
Commissary Ernfrid von Minkowitz Freiherr Zu Minkowitzburgk
and confirmed at the request of the English Ambassador 13
October 1603. The English merchants in Stade are to enjoy
their present privileges and to be at liberty to make new agreements when needful with the town of Stade, subject to the
approval of the Emperor.—Prague, 29 Sept., 1607. Copy. Latin. 1½ pp. (122. 96.) |
| Lord Gerard to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| 1607, Sept. 20. |
I received a letter from you and Lord
Northampton, the copy I enclose, the date is long since, and the
copy of your commission not enclosed or delivered. I will lose
no time in sending over to the Isle [of Man], and have all things
ready to present to you. I am glad the Isle shall return to the
heirs male, of which you cannot have that comfort which your
friends have, except you had beheld your goodly nephews.
Favour me that I may deliver my books of account to you and
Lord Northampton, and you may appoint what commissioners
you please after; for the Countess of Derby the older, before I
had authority from my late Sovereign, received the profits and
revenue of the Isle for 4 or 5 years, which I am not answerable
for. In what concerns myself, either for revenue, munition or
anything I can be charged with, if I deliver not a just account
let me lose my credit. What is to be accounted for remains in
the Isle, and not with me.—From my house Gerards Bromley,
20 Sept., 1607. Holograph. 1 p. (122. 75.) |
| Sir Thomas Lake to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| 1607, Sept. 21. |
The Prince of Moldavia had his audience
yesterday in the afternoon and delivered to his Majesty these
letters and the other paper which goes with them, containing an
offer to hold his principality of his Highness and to pay a tribute.
The King commanded me to send them to your lordship, and
because I hear he is gone to London of purpose to speak with
you, I thought it fit to send the papers as soon as I could. All
the difficulty his Majesty finds is that he would have the merchants
there furnish ten thousand crowns in hand for furtherance of his
business.—From the Court at Theobalds, 21 Sept., 1607. Holograph. ½ p. (194. 1.) |
| Sir William Waad to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| 1607, Sept. 22. |
I find it will be to no purpose to search any
of the papers of Sir Thomas Shurley, for himself making that
request, I conceive he has been so advised as, if he have any
memorials or other letters concerning that practice, they are
either laid aside or made away. The other instructions that
concern the "orphants" money remain with the informer, for
which I will take order they may be brought hither. The sight
of the copy of his letter to Signor Bassedona has troubled him
greatly, and I find no other way he takes to reconcile the repugnant
contradictions between his examination and that letter, but by
protestation, as by that he now sends to you will appear.—
22 Sept., 1607. Holograph. 1 p. (122. 76.) |
| Sir Thomas Sherley the younger to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| 1607, Sept. 22. |
Touching the cause of "orphantes" goods, I
offered nothing but what the parties grieved will justify, or their
heirs (for some of them must be dead, within 30 years); and the
greatest number of them will most desirously undergo that offer
which I made you. The thing has a strange face at the first
appearance, and so it seemed to me, that such hideous wrongs
should so generally be offered so near the Court, and not be
discerned. But after I perused the notes and considered the
customs of the City I was soon altered in my judgment; and
you will apprehend this matter better when I shall have showed
you those records, and when you have spoken with the man and
his wife that declared these things to me.—The Tower, 22 Sept.,
1607. Holograph. 1 p. (122. 77.) |
| Sir Thomas Sherley the younger to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| 1607, Sept. 22. |
I thank you and their lordships for granting
me the use of the air; but it is an exceeding grief to me that
you will not believe my protest. Pray consider how small reason
I have to lie, and "confer" this unfortunate letter of mine with
that which Bashadony wrote to me, and my last confession, and
you will find better satisfaction. I stand more to be found true
in my words and actions than faultless. It is plain by Bashadony's
letter that he informed, and I expected a more particular information from him, which if it had come to my hands I had brought
it to you. So much I thirsted to have these abuses made known.
I guessed by Bashadony's letter that his uncle willed him to
write to me what he did. His uncle no doubt held me a fit
instrument to declare these things, as a man hating the Turks,
and misliking to see them furnished from hence with munition.
I know from Mr. Lello and divers of the English merchants that
the Venetians wished nothing more than that the Turkey trade
here were converted to Venice, for which the Venetians made a
good offer to his Majesty. I assured myself that my violent
letters would spur on Bashadony and his uncle to search out all
munition and powder sent hence into Turkey. I had no reason
to imagine that Bashadony or any Italian cared so much for the
honour of this nation as to spend the writing of one line for it,
except they had some end of their own. I never had speech of
this matter with him before that cursed letter of his came to me,
and upon that I have wrought ever since; and if there had been
any former plot between us, I should have had small need to
persuade a man already framed to my mind and courses. The
violent form of my letter I must confess gives cause of further
suspicion at first; but I have no reason to lie in this matter,
especially to you, upon whom I have ever depended. I could
do his Majesty better service abroad than in the Tower, though
but little anywhere. If my death and damnation lay upon it,
I can say no more of this matter than I have done. I am in
worse case of any man in the Tower. I have nothing of my
own to relieve me, and my father has sent me nothing. I am
in a fair way to be utterly undone except his Majesty release me,
which pray procure for me.—The Tower, 22 Sept., 1607. Holograph. 3 pp. (122. 78.) |
| The Earl of Suffolk and the Earl of Salisbury to the Earl of Dorset. | |
| 1607, Sept. 22. |
The warrant of 17 July last authorised Dorset
to pay to such officers of his Majesty's works, or others, as they
and the Earl of Worcester, or any two of them, shall nominate
for buildings at Theobalds. They require him to pay 250l. to
Mr. Simon Basill, surveyor of his Majesty's works, for that
purpose.—Charterhouse, 22 Sept., 1607. Signed. |
|
Note at foot by the Earl of Dorset: the paymaster for the King's
houses by patent ought to receive these moneys, and to account
for these and all other in one account, and not to divide that
account to the exclusion of the proper officer. The warrant is
therefore to be amended.—10 Oct., 1607. 1 p. (122. 80.) |
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| The Earl of Cumberland and the Earl of Dunbar to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| 1607, Sept. 22. |
Since our coming into these northern parts
we two have met together and conferred with others in the
country of the estate of the Middle Shires. We find that many
breaches have been made of late and frequent stealing from
England to Scotland and likewise from thence into England,
tending to the disquiet and oppression of the countries on both
sides. We fully perceive that if the course of confining those
gentlemen that are warded had not been taken, stealing and
harbouring by all likelihood had been at such a height this
ensuing winter as your lordship and the Council would have held
it marvellous in a country of any government. To second that
confining we are now resolving on a course to terrify those that
would offend and to punish those that have offended, which we
will put in execution as cause may require with expedition. At
our meeting here in the country suit is made in the name of
Mr. Carr of Ford being confined to Westchester, whose wife is
lately deceased, that as his estate remains unsettled by reason
of her death so as he is like to receive great prejudice, he may be
licensed for some small time to repair home to dispose of his
affairs and thereafter to return where he now is. We are to be
suitors to your lordship in his behalf, that he may have a month's
time for ordering of his business at home, whereby he may not
allege his so strict warding to be a cause of great prejudice to
his estate. We would entreat you in the same warrant of a
month's licence to require him thereafter to return to Westchester,
because he is one of the worst of all them that are confined. To
give him full releasement of his ward would both be a hindrance
to the quieting of the country and give occasion to the others
confined to petition his Majesty and the Lords for their
discharge.—22 Sept., 1607. Signed. 1¼ pp. (194. 2.) |
| The Earl of Shrewsbury to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| 1607, Sept. 23. |
My last pitifully complained of the gout's
pinching me, and now you write of Tirone and the rest their
flying into Spain. But what is it to me, who am neither fit for
counsel nor execution, but rather to live in a coalpit or a cell.
I think every day more than other no life so happy as to live
quietly at home. My wife has gone to see her mother; when
she returns I will show her what you write of those that are so
resolute against crosses, and wish she could in part follow their
rare and excellent example. The enclosed letters are short but
sharp, reproving those two idle boys, from whom I never heard
word since I saw London. I am very sorry for the loss of their
Majesties' sweet child, but God that has taken her will I trust
preserve the rest of that royal race in safety.—Sheffeld Lodge,
23 Sept., 1607. Holograph. 1 p. (122. 81.) |
| The Bishop of Carlisle and Sir Wilfrid Lawson to the Council. | |
| 1607, Sept. 23. |
On September 14th Hutchin Grame, Jock of
the Lake and George Grame of the Milhill, the time limited for
their abode here being expired, returned for Ireland. With them
were sent divers men and women, as appears by the enclosed
copy of letter and list sent to the Lord Deputy. They detail the
proceedings taken for the trial of John Musgrave. The country
is in good peace. They trust his Majesty shall shortly see this
peace settled.—Carlisle, 23 Sept., 1607. Signed. 1 p. (122. 82.) |
| Lord Danvers to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| [1607], Sept. 23. |
Your letter was delivered unto me this
present Wednesday about noon, being some few miles from
home, hawking partridge and little expecting so present occasion
to hunt that old fox. Seeing there is no remedy, I will, with the
soonest I can possibly, give my attendance, not more invited by
the authority of your place than my love to your person.—
Summerforde, 23 Sept. Holograph. Endorsed: "23 Sept. 1607." 1 p. (194. 4.) |
| Sir Thomas Edmondes to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| [1607], Sept. 23. |
Magdalena a Spanish woman, by profession
a Beata, gone into Spain as she makes many walks betwixt those
places, which is therefore called her gallery; a great negotiatrix;
furnished with memorials to answer d'Ibarra's disfavourable
informations. In her passage through France treats of a match
betwixt the Dolphin and the Infanta of Spain. The Spanish
Ambassador in England has his entertainment increased 2000
crowns a year, and an ayuda de costa granted him of 10,000
crowns.—23 Sept. Abstract. (227. 337.) |
| Thomas Morgan to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| 1607, Sept. 23/Oct. 3. |
The bearer hereof, Mr. Sadler, is here newly
arrived out of Italy and returns towards his country. It appeared
unto me by many means "in the life" of Mr. Cave that your
lordship held him in special consideration. I thought good to
address this gentleman unto you because he was with Mr. Cave at
his death and can make relation of the manner and cause thereof
for your better satisfaction. The Queen of Spain was brought
to bed of a boy the 16th of the last month. The fleet from the
Indias was seen upon the seas, but the same was not arrived.—
Paris, 3 Oct., 1607. Holograph. 1 p. (194. 6.) |
| "The state of Sir Clement Spelman, of Narboro, in Norfolk, knight, deceased 24 Sept., 1607." | |
| [1607, after Sept. 24.] |
Particulars of his possessions. The
wardship is desired for the mother, because of the infant unborn,
together with the portions de futuro, being in jointure; so that
the creditors may be satisfied, and the reputation of the dead
knight preserved, who lived in good fame, a great housekeeper,
and did great service to his country. 1 p. (P. 2408.) |
| Count Febrizio Serbelloni to Girolamo Merli at Constantinople. | |
| 1607, Sept. 24/Oct. 4 |
I have your letters of the 4th and 20th of August.
Cardinal Arigone is every day about to start for his bishopric.
Sig. Quintiliano has been sick unto death, but is better, though
not well. The Pope went the day before yesterday to Frascati
with Cardinal Borghese and will remain all this month. Monsig.
Pino (?) has also been ill, but the fever has left him.—Rome,
4 Oct., 1607. Holograph. Italian. Endorsed: "Recd. 27 Febr. 1608." 1 p. (193. 149.) |
| Sir Fulke Grevyll to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| [1607], Sept. 25. |
In this business of mine there has fallen out
some question, since you referred it to Sir Francis Bacon. The
particulars I deliver in another man's hand, more legible. I
acknowledge the whole to your favour, and have proceeded in
my offers with the equalest sense that either Mr. Salter or I
could gather out of your words or letters. In the rest, vouchsafe
to signify your final pleasure to Sir Francis, that I, whose service
can be of no use to you, may cease to be troublesome.—Harrold's
Park, 25 Sept. Holograph. Endorsed: "1607." 1 p. (122. 87.) |
| The Enclosure: | |
|
Differences fallen out to be reconciled, upon conference between
Mr. Harris, of counsel with Sir David Murray, and Sir Foulk
Grevill's solicitor, touching the book to pass between them for
the impost of Rhenish wines. 1 p. (122. 86.) |
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| The King to [Sir Arthur Chichester]. | |
| [1607, Sept. 26.] |
Direction, in recompense of the allowance
made to George Wood for the entertainment of the twenty
warders, who have since been discharged, in the grant to him of
the reversion of the constableship of the Palace of Knockfergus
in the Province of Ulster, of a lease to be made to him under the
great seal of Ireland of the said palace or house for thirty-one
years from the determination of the several estates of John
Dalwaie and Wood therein, reserving to the King the sole use of
the palace upon every occasion of his service.—Undated. Copy. Endorsed: "1607." 1 p. (194. 41.) |
| [The original letter is calendared in Cal. S.P. Ireland, 1606– 1608, p. 282.] | |
| Lady Mary Bulkeley to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| [1607], Sept. 26. |
I am the woeful advertiser of a grievous
mischance that yesternight has befallen at Greenwich, by occasion
of my son Richard Bulkeley, without any grievous fault of his
other than the rashness of youth may in part excuse. Being
drawn by cosenage into debts, he was yesternight arrested by
the under sheriff of Kent and his followers, who were not contented to bereave him of his weapons, as was fit, but violently
threw him down, set their knees upon his breast and threatened
him, holding a dagger toward his heart, that if he struggled or
called for help they would make him sure. He promised to
yield himself quietly their prisoner, and they letting him rise, he
very faultily brake from them and made speed away. After
that, out come his men, and some of them most wickedly let fly
at the under sheriff, and gave him that mischievous blow on the
head whereof the unfortunate man soon after died: my son
greatly crying out of his man for that wicked blow, though
nothing distrusting his own innocency not to be touched therein,
yet for fear of being laid up for his debts, which in his father's
absence he has no means to pay, is gone out of these parts; but
whither, our Lord knoweth. I am a most woeful suitor to you,
not to protect my son in any fault (whereof his young years are
too full), but that he may bear only his own burden, and that
the act of his servant may not be pressed to taint him.—Sepnam,
26 Sept. Holograph. Endorsed: "1607. The Lady Marie Bulkeley." 1 p. (122. 88.) |
| The Earl of Montgomery. | |
| 1607, Sept. 26. |
The effect of the Earl of Montgomery's suit.
He desires nothing but that the King shall have a moiety thereof.
He desires nothing out of the King's coffers, not anything that
is either paid, answered or compounded for, nor anything that
has grown due since the late Queen's death; nothing against the
law, nor anything that shall hereafter appear to be inconvenient
to his Majesty when the success of his grant is seen.—26 Sept.,
1607. In the Earl of Dorset's hand. ½ p. (122. 89.) |
| Henry Hobarte, Attorney General, to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| 1607, Sept. 28. | I have sent this proclamation for the proroguing of Parliament to be signed by his Majesty. For the buildings, it will ask time, yet no time shall be lost.—Hackney, 28 Sept., 1607. |
|
PS.—I conceive your meaning to be, touching the seizing of
the lands of these Irish fled, not to have the commission awarded
from hence, but only to give direction by the letters of the Lords
from hence, and then to have the proceedings and the execution
of it there, for that will be fittest; and therefore in that I do
nothing, except you command otherwise. Holograph. 1 p. (122. 91.) |
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| Sir James Crowmer to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| 1607, Sept. 29. |
Being advertised that some suspected persons
for coining of false money dwelt in Miltone, I searched there and
found a chest almost filled with copper, brass, "alcumye," tin,
lead and other metals; also some marks upon an old chest, some
upon the hearth, some of them being of the breadth and fashion
of a shilling, some of other breadths and fashions, burned with
melted metal: also crucibles, moulds of divers fashions, quicksilver, and other such like trash. I have caused all to be locked
up safe till I receive your directions. I present to you the
examinations of the parties.—Tunstall, 29 Sept., 1607. Holograph. Endorsed: "Sir James Crowmer, concerning one Edmund Dundie, for coining." 1 p. (122. 92.) |
| Sir William Waad to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| 1607, Sept. 29. | I wrote yesterday to the Council upon that occasion that greatly concerns myself and the other officers and servants here; and beseech your assistance for reform of so great an abuse as will endanger greatly this place. |
|
Last night there is [born] a fine young male lion whelp of the
former lions, Henry and Anne. Mr. Gill the keeper, in regard of
the infection round about him, is in the country. I have directed
care to be used to preserve the little one, as is fit, if the whelping
of it so late in the year, and the cold coming on, do not hurt it
before it get strength. Both the lions keep together with the
little whelp with that care as is very tender and full of love.—
The Tower, 29 Sept., 1607. Holograph. 1 p. (122. 93.) |
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| Lord Scrope to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| 1607, Sept. 29. |
He complains of the Lord Treasurer's conduct
in giving in charge to the sheriff of Yorkshire certain old seizures,
for debts due by Scrope's father, for surplus of money received
for payment of soldiers. Refers to his father's services, who
kept Nawarth, being the Dacres' strength, on the West Border,
with armed foot and horsemen, his uncle Scroope being principal
almost half a year together: besides a great army of horse and
footmen through whom he rode in the Wardenry, taking prisoners
and chasing the rebels, having placed the Earl of Cumberland as
his deputy. His father spent therein more than double the
amount of these seizures, for which he had not one penny. The
Lord Treasurer deals strangely with him in sending them down
to beggar his tenants. Begs Salisbury to stay the seizures, and
to take order with "that hot Lord Treasurer" in the matter.—
Sanger, 29 Sept., 1607. Holograph. 1 p. (122. 97.) |
| Sir Thomas Edmondes to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| 1607, Sept. 30. |
Biraque returned; gone to Bines to the
Court where the Princes were. Spinola, Richardot and the
Audiencer sent for to consult about the dispatch brought by him
and the affairs of the treaty. "I have newly received your
lordship's letter sent by Mr. Devioke, and do most humbly thank
you both for the public satisfaction and the private comfort
which it has pleased you to give me therein."—Sept. 30. Abstract. (227. 337.) |
| The Lord Treasurer to Sir Thomas Edmondes. | |
| 1607, Sept. 30. |
Touching Tyrone's flight; assurance that no
foreign prince will assist him. If it should so fall out, that then
the King would be as forward as Queen Elizabeth to find out a
whole summer place in their countries than they could find in
Ireland (sic).—Sept. 30. Abstract. (227. 338.) |
| The Archbishop of Cashel to the Earl of Salisbury. | |
| 1607, Sept. 30. |
He begs for answer to the petition which he
delivered on Monday, when Salisbury willed him to make haste
to Ireland. Its request is necessary for his safety and the King's
service. The cities and towns there are more suspected than
ever by reason of Romish bishops and seminaries among them.
At the last revolt in Munster, no bishop was kept out of his seat
and house but himself, by the inhabitants of Cashel; nor any
bishop taken prisoner, wounded, tortured and ransomed for
money but himself. Refers to his 37 years' services. He was
of great help in putting back part of the wars in Munster; and
he delivered his two sons to Derby O'Conor for the taking prisoner
of James Fitz Thomas, titular Earl of Desmond. Begs Salisbury
to show him favour, and not "let" him to the rigour of law.
The letter given him by the Council to the Lord Deputy and
Council is rather incensing them against him than otherwise; he
encloses copy of a letter which might be sent instead. Begs
that direction be sent concerning that Romish archbishop who
is there still, perverting the people, none finding fault with it.—
From the Strand, last of September, 1607. Holograph. 1 p. (122. 98.) |
| The Enclosure: | |
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[The Council] to the [Lord Deputy and Council of Ireland].
They have perused the articles of disorder and abuses preferred
against the Archbishop of Cashel. He denies a great part, and
for the rest offers to show reasons for excuse. In the general
want of reformation, as well in those churches as in all churches
for the most part of that land, the Archbishop concurs with the
informations; and declares himself ready to reform those under
his charge. They remit him and his cause to their favourable
censures, not doubting that he shall have such indifferent proceeding that the churches shall be reformed, his old age and former
services respected, and by his example others be induced to
reform. They wish special care to be taken whereby the Romish
Archbishop David O'Kearney, who, as the Archbishop affirms,
is lurking between the counties of Tipperary and Kilkenny these
three years, seducing the people from their loyalty, may be
apprehended or banished; and that none of his favourers be
permitted to enjoy church livings there, or be admitted as accuser,
witness or juror in any matter concerning this Archbishop. A
re-examination is to be made of that which was exhibited against
him in his absence.—Hampton Court, — Sept., 1607. Draft. 1 p. (122. 99.) |
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| Frances, Duchess of Suffolk. | |
| 1607, Sept. 30. |
Survey of certain lands late of the Lady
Frances, Duchess of Suffolk, with the reasonable improvements
thereof. 1 p. (141. 362.) |
| [Sir George Carew] to the [Earl of Salisbury]. | |
| [1607, — Sept.] | At this audience the King told me he had understood a certain report, and it seemed, he said, that it came from the house of Guise, that the Earl of Tyrone with his wife, family and followers of his kindred, was out of Ireland departed into Spain, without the knowledge or leave of his Majesty; and that there they were entertained willingly, a thing that he would not suffer with patience in any of his nobility: as for example, saith he, if any of the house of Guise upon a discontentment should sell their goods in France (though they be not very great), and retire themselves into some neighbour prince's country, it would be a thing that would give me great occasion of offence. To his example I thought not fit to answer, being unexpectedly propounded; but to the former matter of Tyrone, I told him that I had neither presently received advertisement of this accident [in margin: the post that carried my dispatch of 21 September arrived at Paris the day of this dispatch] nor could conjecture that any such thing would have happened, either by former advertisements of the state of things in Ireland, or by seeing what passed between his Majesty and Tyrone when he was in England, he having received much gracious entertainment at his Majesty's hands, beyond his merit, as we Englishmen thought: but that Tyrone's habitation being in the farthest part of Ireland, the news I supposed had much increased itself in passing so many seas and high mountains before it could come hither; and so passed it over. |
| Concerning those of the house of Guise, I see things falling to such a strain here between the King and them as I cannot tell what will be the end thereof. First the Prince Jainville is still kept aloof, and instead of restoring to the King's favour, which has been long spoken of, there is a great squaring of late fallen out between the King and the Duke of Guise, and that publicly before many standers by, upon two points; the one that he which is Abbot of Clugny (a spiritual living which has been long amongst these of the house of Guise) was content to have received the Bishop of Reims, brother to the Duke of Guise, for coadjutor unto him presently, that so by survivorship he might afterward hold the Abbey. This the King stopped, intending that living shall fall to his son de Vernueil. The other was that the King is to recommend at this present to the Pope the names of certain prelates to be made cardinals, among the which the Duke required to have his brother de Reims's name inserted, which the King refused, both for the disorderly carriage of the Bishop in his actions, and for that his number was full before. The Queen as he said had spoken to him for her Almoner, the Bishop of Besieres. De Guise answered that princes of such houses were usually admitted to such dignities without over curious examination of the licentiousness of their youth, and he doubted not that if he made that request of himself to the Pope, he neither would nor durst refuse him in it. But in the meantime it showed little "acception" of his services at his Majesty's hands that would refuse him such a request; and as for the Queen, if she would prefer the Almoner in such a matter before his brother, he would protest unto her that he would nevermore be at her service; and indeed, as I hear, followed the matter so far with the Queen as she confessed she had never spoken in it to the King. Whereupon there followed some words of contention between the King and her. Upon this the Duke of Guise uses the demonstration of a malcontent. I saw him at my last Audience at the Twilleries à l'escart, with very few followers. But I hear that these things arise from a deeper root, from the pretence of a marriage between him and the Marquise of Verneuil, she being rich in ready money, and he potent in followers, upon the relics of the old faction of the League, a thing that crosses the King both in his present desires, and which might happen to make a troublesome piece of work in the Succession hereafter, if God should shortly call the King. I have seen Monsieur de Guise three or four times since his coming hither from Marseilles, at which time he told me that he had asked leave of the King to visit me, and that the King in granting it willed him to tell me that he had accorded that leave, being otherwise not content that his noblemen should receive letters, or talk with Ambassadors, without his privity and licence. In all those conferences I found in him a readiness to certain hardy resolutions, wonderful to my conceit; namely, that notwithstanding, as I hear, his debt is more than the profits of his patrimony can discharge, and that his only maintenance is out of his government, and the pensions he has of this King, yet he said that he was very willing to surrender to the King both his government and pensions at any time, whensoever the King would receive them; and that for that end he had them toutes musquées dans un coffre: that was his phrase. Now if this should happen to be accepted, what he would do afterwards makes me to wonder. The King's speech to me of retiring himself to some neighbour prince, makes me imagine that he has some jealousy that he would retire into England, albeit for my own opinion I suppose Monsieur de Guise has no such meaning. In all my answers to him I exhorted him to safe and peaceable courses. These things the King then told me of him, notwithstanding the day before he had walked an hour with the King in the Tuilleries, whereupon a report was given out that all things were accorded betwixt them. | |
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But to quit the King's demand to me touching Tyrone, I put
him another question touching Grenoble, for surprising whereof
there has been of late some practice, and a certain Lieutenant
and others are apprehended about it. Of it I had heard two
several reports, the one by a Minister of the religion of those
parts, who told me that it was a design of Savoy and Spain to
surprise it, and to seize the person of Esdiguieres, by means of
certain papistical soldiers of the garrison, which the King would
needs have to be entertained there, though Grenoble be one of
the towns of security that the Protestants hold, and against the
being of whom there those of the religion had often protested,
saying they could not yield the King a good account of his town
if such soldiers were set to guard it, but the King said he would
not have them to prescribe to him what he had to do therein;
the other [report] by some affected to Spain, who report that it
was a private quarrel against Crequy, l'Esdiguieres's son-in-law,
for the death of the Duke of Savoy's bastard brother, whom
Crequy had slain in combat. The King told me that the same
would prove no matter of consequence. I told him that I heard
indeed it was a particular quarrel against Crequy. He answered
Nay, he thought it was neither quarrel against Crequy nor
Esdiguieres; but great matter it could not be, because Esdiguieres
had not yet written to him of it; and so we passed it over. But
since talking with de Sillery the Chancellor, I purposely fell
upon this matter, and he confessed to me that Esdiguieres had
written of it; as likewise where the King told me in the morning
that the matter of Tyrone came out by those of the house of
Guise the same day.—Undated. Unsigned. Endorsed: "Minute 1607, Sept. Concerning the house of Guise and the departure of Tyrone." 4 pp. (122. 100.) |
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| Great Britain and France. | |
| Memoir of [Sir George Carew], Ambassador of Great Britain, to the French King. | |
| [1607, ? c. Sept.] | The treaty of February 1606 was executed more than seven months ago, and the French enjoy the benefit thereof; but it has not yet been communicated to the Parliaments and various local authorities of France. He begs that this may be done promptly. He also requests the confirmation of various documents cited. |
| Other requests are that the Sieur de Lusan should be compelled to restore a sum of money unjustly taken from merchants of Great Britain: for the abolition of the impost of a crown per ton established by the Comte de Soissons: for payment of the sum due to the late Queen of Scots for her dowry: for reply to the complaints of the Chevalier Watts, Mayor of London, and others, for depredations upon the sea: that the cause of Alain Linch, a poor Irishman, despoiled at sea by the servants of the Comte de Grammont, should be definitively judged: and that Patrick Morice, Scottish merchant, may have execution of the decree he obtained against the Sieur de Bellenglise for a ship taken. | |
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Reply to the above memoir, detailing the steps taken for the
publication of the treaty, and the execution of the other documents. No assignment can be made for the payment which the
Ambassador pretends to be due to the late Queen of Scots,
either for arrears of pension, dowry, or money advanced for the
payment of troops sent to Scotland for the help of that country:
his Majesty not being liable for the debts of his predecessors.
Replies also given as to the above complaints.—Undated. Contemporary copy. French. Endorsed by Salisbury: "Answers from the Council of France to the Ambassador in France." 3½ pp. (124. 57.) |
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| The late Princess Mary. | |
| [1607, Sept.] |
The six rockers to her Majesty's late daughter
the Lady Marie's grace, seeing they are deprived of their service
upon which their whole hope of preferment depended, pray the
Queen that in regard of their great charge and pains taken,
continually waiting and watching, they may have the entertainment of 30l. a year confirmed to them during their lives; and if
God send her Majesty any more children they will be ready to
attend them with their best care.—Undated. Petition. 1 p. (197. 51.) |
| The Earl of Montgomery's Suit. | |
| [1607, Sept.] |
To have the moiety of all such money due in
law to the late Q[ueen] at her death, which ought to have been
paid either by virtue of the rents of recusants' lands or their
goods found and in charge upon record.—Undated. ½ p. [Cp. Cal. of S.P. Dom. 1603–1610, p. 372.] (197. 31.) |
| Jersey. | |
| 1607 [After Sept.]. |
Rents and revenues due to the King in
Jersey, contained in a rental made by the Commissioners sent
there in August and September last, 1607. Total 1,683l. 10s. 3¼d. 2 pp. (124. 83.) |