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911. William Payne to the Queen. |
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1589, Aug. 13. |
Petition for a lease in reversion of 20l., in reward for services as a yeoman of the Chamber. |
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[Note by Lord Chancellor Hatton and Dr. Valentine Dale that the Queen grants the petition.] |
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Endorsed :—13 August 1589. |
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1 p.
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912. The Judge of the Admiralty to Sir Francis Walsingham. |
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1589, Aug. 16. |
According to his commandment has considered the petition of George Harryson to the Privy Council, and examined William Inglyshe, one of the parties therein mentioned, upon the same petition, the substance of which he finds is confessed. Albert Inglyshe thinks he ought not to make Harryson any satisfaction for his loss, yet both are contented to stand to such order as he and the rest of the Lords shall set down.—From the Arches, 16 August 1589. |
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Endorsed :—“A true copy of the Judge of the Admiralty's letters to Mr Secretary Walsingham.” |
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913. Martin Noell. |
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1589, Aug. 16. |
Warrant to allow Martin Noell, a French merchant, to transport beyond seas 2,000 hides, paying only such customs as English merchants do, on condition of his furnishing the Queen's navy with a certain quantity of Olerons. He is to be permitted to transport 1,000 hides only at first, and upon certificate that he has brought over the requisite quantity of Olerons, the remainder.—Oatlands Manor, 16 August 1589. |
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Sign Manual. Signet. |
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1 p.
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914. Richard Douglas to Archibald Douglas. |
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1589, Aug. 16. |
In favour of the bearer, repairing to London for his particular affairs. “I forgot in my last to tell you that His Majesty liked well of my Lord of Warwick's dogs, but that he found them slower nor his own, and therefore he desires to have a couple that are fleeter.”—From Edinburgh, 16 August 1589. |
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915. Sir Robert Sidney to Lord Burghley. |
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1589, Aug. 20. |
“May it please your Lordship to consider of the copy of the Commission, certified under the hand of the Clerk of the Crown, granted by her Highness to my brother, Sir Thomas Cecil, Sir William Russell, and others; and to ordain that either I may have the like, or the herewith presented letter, to be signed by your Lordship and others of her Majesty's Privy Council, with your favourable liking and allowance of the quarterly proportion of the victuals and fuel herewith also presented, without which I shall be greatly hindered in my housekeeping at Flushing, unless by shortening the same I should very much
discredit myself, for that muttons and beeves and all sorts of victuals and fuel be there so extreme dear. The correcting and alteration of the said commission, letter, and bill of proportion, I refer to your good Lordship, with desire of the speedy ending thereof : for that the best time of the year for providing and transporting the same passeth so fast away as the lack will be great hindrance unto me. Which aforesaid bill of proportion, after your Lordship's allowance thereof, I will sign, and so every three months the like, with good and strict order that all the said causes shall be ordered and dealt in to your good liking.—20 August 1589.” |
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[Lord Burghley] to Sir Henry Leyes. |
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Whereas her Highness hath appointed Sir Robert Sydney, Knt., Lord Governor of Flushing, and he having great want of such housing, yards, and places, as may serve for the stoic age and lading of his provisions, which for the furtherance of her Majesty's service he is from time to time to have sent and passed from hence thither : And being informed that there are upon the wharf and hill of the Tower sundry houses, yards, garden plots, and places, appertaining to her Highness, now out of lease, which by virtue of your office of her Majesty's Armoury are by you to be granted : And considering that the same may tend greatly to the furtherance of her Majesty said service, and much pleasure the said Sir Robert Sydney, I heartily pray you, the rather at this my desire, for such consideration or yearly rent as others will give, to write your letters, and thereby to give direct and speedy order to your rent-gatherer and such other your officers as you think meet, in your name and as from yourself, to grant a lease of such of the same to Sir Robert Sydney as he shall think most meet for his purpose, &c.—From the Court, this 21 of August 1589. |
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916. Roger, Lord North, to [Lord Burghley]. |
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[1589], Aug. 29. |
Thanks him for his honourable handling of Mr. Colvile's cause, who shall find him free from remembrance of any unkindness past. You lately wrote me of the widow's complaint against my servants for killing a dog, entering her tenant's house by force, and using despiteful speech against her. The place was, and is, an open ale house, where divers were drinking; my servant rose from the company, and finding in the yard as he went a greyhound he knew to be Mistress Elrington's, cut off one of his legs with his sword, and went his way without speaking with any man. This, my good lord, was the very truth; no force used, no dog killed, nor ill word spoken of her. I confess my servant dealt lewdly, and do as ill like him therefor as I did her, who with despiteful words sent away my dog into Northamptonshire. Answers her other complaints, and relates her injuries to his servant's father. For my seizing her household servants, how truly she carrieth her complaint you shall perceive by this my answer. She dwelleth in Suffolk; my dealing was for Cambridgeshire, so could I touch none but such as were in the county. She had not one household servant dealt withal; her retainers, men of great livelihood and wealth, were in better sort now remembered, as all others were at this time, than they have
been heretofore. I have made an end of the assessment for the half-shire where I dwell, and have well advanced the subsidy, with reasonable contentment of all men. I fear you will adjudge me over liberal to the subject, seeing the law is the best and most value of lands and goods. There is no man assessed before me but is known to be worth at the least in goods 10 times as much as he is set at, and 6 times more in lands than his assessment; and many be 20 times, some 30, and some much more worth than they be set at, which the commissioner cannot without oath help. If your lordship blame me not for the Queen, the country will bear this well. Has no quarrel with the gentlewoman, and, in accordance with his lordship's request, sought to show her goodwill, which she rejected, as he relates. If his lordship thinks of marrying his ward to any of his house, advises the ward should tarry little at his mother's house; for surely God is not served in that house, and His name continually blasphemed, even by herself and her friend, in that violent sort as it is fearful to hear. She told Mr. Holms she had written to pray you to rid her of the parks, being too dear a pennyworth. If she continue in that mind, I beseech your good lordship prefer me to them at any reasonable price, with commandment of the game. I will answer the rent truly, and honestly preserve the woods, timber and deer. Indisposition holds him from Mr. Cecil's marriage.—Kirtling, 29 August [1589]. |
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917. Edward Garret to Captain Weynman. |
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1589, Aug. 31. |
Thanks him for his kindness to his brother, whom he excuses for leaving for England without letters from him, which was owing to his hasty departure, “News we have none, but that that you have heard of my master's liberty and good health. Sir William Hat ton was married the 18th of July at Hombie in Northamptonshire, whereat my Lord Chancellor with many more were.”—From London, the last of August 1589. |
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918. Captain Yorke. |
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1589, Aug. |
The particulars of charges Captain Yorke hath disbursed about a pinnace of Odyne in France, viz. :—Paid the master, Rowland Robinson, hired from East Calais to Plymouth, 4l.; paid four mariners from East Calais, 4l.; for victuals put aboard at East Calais for 18 persons for three weeks, 13l. 6s. 8d.; for washing her at Plymouth, 6s. 8d.; for graving and trimming her there, 1l. 11s.; for mending the sails and poldaires, 1l. 6s. 8d.; for five men's victuals and a boy, for five weeks at Plymouth, 7l 11s.; for the master's board wages, five weeks at Plymouth, 2l.; for victualling her from Plymouth hither to London for twelve persons, three weeks to the 21st day of this present August, 7l. 4s.; to the master, Samuel Dobson, from Plymouth to London, 4l.; to Jarman Morehouse, carpenter, 4l. 10l.; to John Davyson for his wages, Richard Power, William Bullock and Oswal Yonge, 1l. 6s. 8d. each; to Roche the boy, 5s. Sum Total, 52l. 5s. 8d.—London, August, [1589]. |
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