Appendix I: March 1661

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March 1661

Date. Nature and Substance of the Entry. Reference.
Mar. 1. Treasurer Southampton's warrant to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands for a constat of Bowood Park with a view to a lease thereof to Sir Orlando Bridgman. Ibid, p. 5.
Same to Sir Geoffry Palmer, Attorney General, for a lease to Nicholas Armorer, esq., of the messuage called Halham's Court alias Long Bredy Farm, parcel of the manor of Ryme, co. Dorset, for 31 years at 80l. per an. rent. The fine of 800l. is to be omitted in accordance with the royal sign manual of Jan. 13 last. Ibid, pp. 5–6.
Prefixing: (a) particular of the premises. (b) Ratal thereof, dated 1660, Nov. 23, from Sir Charles Harbord, Surveyor General of Crown Lands. There is a small manor called Longbreddy, consisting of 3l. 17s. 8d. old rent of copyholders for lives and surveyed in 17 James I at 155l. 13s. 4d. This is to be excepted out of the new lease. The premises are worth 160l. per an.
Mar. 2. Treasurer Southampton's warrant to William Harbord or (in his absence) John Crosse, to take an account of the timber and firewood seized or embezzled in Sherwood Forest and to apply same to the purpose of the royal warrant of Feb. 18 last for supplying John, Lord Belasyse, Governor of the town of Hull, with timber felled in said forest for the repair of the fortifications of said town. The remainder of said timber is to be sold and the proceeds handed to Lord Belasyse and an account thereof made to the Lord Treasurer. Stowe MS. 498, p. 7.
Mar. 4. Same to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands for a constat of a waste parcel of ground of two acres called the Castle Garden or Castle Orchard without the Castle walls of Gloucester [and other premises, as below] with a view to a lease thereof to Capt. Godfrey Ellis. Ibid, p. 8.
Prefixing: report dated Feb. 8 last from Sir C. Harbord on said Ellis's petition for same. Petitioner purchased the premises under the late pretended Parliament, together with a little house called the Round House and Lime Kill and a house in the possession of Richard Baker, a nayler, and a piece of ground called the Barbican Hill and a rent of 20 marks per an. issuing out of the Castle meadow which has been paid to the Constable of the Castle and is claimed by the present Constable.
Mar. 2. Treasurer Southampton's reference to the same of the order from the Commissioners of sales of Crown and Church Lands in behalf of John Storer, clerk, concerning his purchase of the reversion of a farm called Stints or Sherrick Farm, near Highgate, co. Midd., formerly belonging to the Prebendary of Tottenham Court and now in the possession of the Crown for two lives; the said Storer alleging that the purchase money was mostly the estate of several poor orphan children of a servant of the late King: whereupon the said Commissioners recommended him Feb. 2 last to the Lord Treasurer for a lease [thereof]. Ibid, pp. 8–9.
Feb. 28. Same to same of the petition of William Jenkins of Carrog, co. Cardigan, praying a lease of several commotes in said county, "consisting of quit rents and casual profits." Ibid, p. 9.
Mar. 4. Treasurer Southampton's warrant dormant to Richard Kynnesman, Auditor of Crown Revenues, in co. Southampton, to allow to the Earl of Portland as Captain of the Isle of Wight and Carisbrooke Castle and other forts there "and steward, surveyor, receiver and other offices within the said isle," the fees and wages heretofore allowed him amounting in the whole to 509l. 9s. 7d. per an. "which were for himself and several officers under him." Said allowance is to be made out of the [Crown] rents and profits within said isle. Ibid.
Mar. 2. Treasurer Southampton's warrant dormant to Phillip Hutchins of Haddenham in the Isle of Ely to demand from the persons who have same in their hands the several sums of money amounting in all to 600l. odd which is concealed from the Crown, being part of the confiscated estate of—Say by his attainder. Stowe MS. 498, p. 10.
[?] Same to [the King's Remembrancer] to take security from the abovesaid Hutchins, Thomas Blyth of St. Giles in the Fields, brickmaker, and Thomas Howard of St. Martins in the Fields, grocer, for their due answering their receipt of the abovesaid moneys. Ibid.
Mar. 4. Same to Sir Jeffery Palmer, the Attorney General, for a lease to Sir Orlando Bridgman, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, of the King's park or late park called Bowood Park or King's Bowood, containing 963 acres in or near the parishes of Chippenham and Calne, co. Wilts: for three lives at 30l. per an. rent. "There was a former grant made to the said Sir Orlando Bridgman by his late Majesty at Oxford of this park for securing of a debt of 3,330l. owing him by his said late Majesty for satisfaction whereof this lease is now to pass." Ibid, pp. 11–12.
Prefixing: (a) particular of the premises. (b) Ratal dated 1660–1, Mar. 2, by Sir C. Harbord, Surveyor General of Crown Lands, of said particular. The custody, herbage and pannage of said park was granted by patent of 23 June, 17 James I, to Phillip, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, for life with an allowance of 40 loads of wood and a fee of 40l. per an. and 50l. per an. for hay for the deer, same to be payable by the Receiver of Crown Revenues for co. Wilts. In the Parliamentary Survey in 1653 the park was stated at 960 acres 1 rood 16 perches and valued at 457l. 11s. 0d. per an. and the growing timber at 4,512l. 10s. 2d. "I did know the land whilst it was forest before the imparking thereof in the time of King James and did not then conceive it to be near the value certified by the said late survey made in reference to the late way of selling upon bills and debentures etc. Upon several warrants in 1640 and 1641 I did make out constats for sale of the said park then surveyed at 968 acres and valued at 310l. per an. and 4,000l. for the wood and timber." On a late view by Mr. Green, the King's woodward of co. Wilts, the park is valued at 321l. 10s. 0d. per an. and the timber at 248l. only, most of the timber having been destroyed by purchasers under the late usurped powers.
Mar. 2. Same to Serjeant Charnock, Serjeant at Arms, and Joseph Garthwaite, gent., to take account of the iron works in Dean Forest as follows. Sir John Wintour, kt., is content to resign the contract and grant made to him by the late King of lands and woods in the said forest on condition of being reimbursed the moneys he advanced and paid to the late King for the same and the damages and charges incident thereto, submitting himself to the King's pleasure for consideration of loss of further benefit from said grant. The stock of iron, wood, and coal, and other necessaries for the service of the iron-works granted to said Winter was in April last received and seized into the King's use and have ever since been managed in behalf of the King. Winter has desired that said stock, together with the said iron works may be delivered over to be disposed of by him towards satisfaction of the moneys due to him as above and that he may be allowed the use of said iron works and such a further proportion of wood to be spent therein as shall satisfy such his claims. By contract made with the King in 1639, Sir Bainham Throckmorton was to enjoy with others the benefit of certain the King's iron works in said forest and a proportion of 13,500 cords of wood to be therein spent, they paying 10s. a cord for six years whereof four years were unexpired at the commencement of the late troubles. Said Throckmorton now prays to be admitted to the benefit of a fourth part of said 13,500 cords and of such of the said ironworks as are necessary to the expending thereof. The said Sir John Wintour has consented thereto "which upon debate before my Lord Chancellor and myself [Treasurer Southampton], the Attorney and Solicitor General being present, was thought reasonable." Therefore the said Charnock is hereby to take from John Wade, gent., William Carpenter and all others that have been employed in and about the said iron-works, an account of the stock of all such iron, wood, coals and other necessaries as were found in April last and of moneys or credits in their hands for any iron, wood or coals formerly sold and of the employment of all such wood and coals found in April last, and of the present remains thereof. And thereupon you are hereby to deliver to said Throckmorton in the presence of said Wintour 3,375 cords of wood or so much in coals as shall by the computation there usual make up that quantity for this present year to end in April next "together with his Majesty's said ironworks now left and employed in the said forest and the use of them, for the spending of the said quantity of wood and coals." If there be a defect in the quantity of wood or coals then its value is to be made good out of raw or bar iron or money due for sale thereof. The said Throckmorton is to pay to said Wintour 10s. per cord for the said 3,375 cords. All the rest of the said iron, wood, coals and necessaries and balance of money or debts due for iron is hereby to be delivered to said Wintour by inventory. In order that said Wintour's resignation of his grant as above may be forthwith made "that so his Majesty may re-afforest the said lands or dispose thereof as shall be thought best," he agrees to perfect his account within three months. The Attorney General is hereby to prepare the said surrender. Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, Sir Bainham Throckmorton, junr., and all those other gentlemen that have been lately employed by his Majesty's commission are to assist said Charnock herein. Ibid, pp. 12–14.
[? Mar. 2.] Treasurer Southampton to the Attorney General to put in an information in the King's name in the matter of the petition of George Duke, Robert Phillips, Jo. Duncomb, and Phillip Phroud, about the discovery of certain Crown Lands heretofore mortgaged by the late King for a debt of 20,000l. contracted by Sir Allen Apsley in his lifetime for victualling the Navy, which lands or the greatest part of them ought long since to have been restored to the Crown. The petitioners pray a portion of said lands as reward for the discovery and prosecution thereof. Hereupon Treasurer Southampton conceives that a fourth part may be allowed them. Stowe MS. 498, p. 14.
Mar. 6. Treasurer Southampton's warrant to Sir John Bowyer, kt. and bart., to demand from the copyholders within the manor of Newcastle under Lyne, co. Stafford, the several sums amounting to 686l. which upon the passing of a late pretended Act of Parliament for confirmation of their customs they did agree to pay to the late usurping powers, the payment whereof to same was prevented by the industry of said Bowyer whereby those moneys lie concealed in the hands of the said copyholders. Stowe MS. 498, p. 15.
Mar. 7 Treasurer Southampton's reference to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of William Arundell, gent., for fresh lives in two tenements, one called Trevithick in the manor of Tregameere, "and the other within the said manor [being the tenement] of Honnor Trekeanes," and in another tenement in possession of Jo. Carthew and Peter Carthew in said manor. Ibid.
[?] Same to same of the petition of Henry Wills for fresh lives in the royalty of the river Tamar and a passage commonly called Saltash Passage, parcel of the Duchy of Cornwall. Ibid.
Mar. 7. Same to same of the petition of Phillip Jolly of Spalding, co. Lincoln, for a lease of a small manor in Sutton, Holland, co. Lincoln, called Rye Fee or Feod do Roy. Ibid, p. 16.
Mar. 6. Treasurer Southampton's warrant to Sir Robt. Croke, Clerk of the Pipe, for a lease to Warwick Hele of the tenement containing 60 acres in Rescorleigh in the manor of Treverbyn Courtney, co. Cornwall, and late in the tenure of William Rosecere; and of the moiety of a tenement and mill and one acre of land in the said manor and late in the tenure of Nicholas Kendall; and of a tenement of nine acres in Menogumner in the said manor: all for 31 years at rents and fines stated. Ibid, pp. 16–17.
Prefixing: (a) particular of said three premises. (b) Ratal dated Feb. 18 last by the Surveyor General of said ratal. The premises were granted 4 Charles I to Sir John Walter et al. for 31 years.
Treasurer Southampton's reference to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of Edward Bull, praying to be admitted purchaser of some estates in reversion in two copyhold tenements in the manor of Bradninch, co. Devon, and Duchy of Cornwall now in the possession of Edith and Winefrid Saunders, and of four closes of barton lands called Parkland, in the possession of Thomas Mortimore. Ibid, p. 17.
Treasurer Southampton's warrant to James Robins, assaymaster of tin, co. Cornwall, to restore to the owners and merchants such tin as has been seized [for non-coinage] and that the tin may pass freely until there be a conveniency to reduce all to the former order; the Lord Treasurer having conferred with some well affected gentlemen of great experience in the tin business who acknowledge that there cannot yet be an observance of carrying the tin to the coinage halls at least till the halls be repaired and the season of the year for carriage [be more] advanced. Ibid, p. 18.
[? Mar. 6.] Treasurer Southampton's reference to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of Humphrey Rogers for a grant of part of a piece of waste ground called Charlewood alias Hudnall Common, belonging to the King's manor of Edlesborough, co. Bucks: as by a reference dated Jan. 19 last thereof from the King. Stowe MS. 498, p. 18.
Mar. 9. Treasurer Southampton's warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to Michaell Moyser of a cottage in Market Street in New Malton, co. Yorks, late in the tenure of John Fletcher, part of the lands of a chaplain in the church of St. Michael there; and likewise a tenement in New Malton, late in the tenure of Christopher Baland: all for 31 years and rent of 4l. per an. and fine of 5l. Ibid, pp. 18–19
Prefixing: (a) particular of the premises. (b) Ratal dated Feb. 21 last thereof by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands. In the Parliamentary Survey the houses were out of lease and worth 9l. per an. "to be sold for part money and part bills" so that I think them overvalued.
Mar. 11. Same to same for a certificate of the average net product over three years next before 1640 of the respite of homage to the office and offices of surveyorship and receivership of the Greenwax estreated into the Exchequer: for which offices John Brewster, as the nominee of Thomas, Earl of Berkshire, and Sir Robert Howard, kt., his son, has a royal warrant of Feb. 18 last for a grant with a defalcation out of the rent "formerly reserved for the same, for and in respect of the profits accruing by respite of homage then paid, but now taken away." Ibid, p. 19.
Mar. 12. Same to same for a lease to Roger Grosvenor of the lead mines alias lead ore mines and coal mines in the demesne or hundred of Prestatyn, co. Flint: all for 31 years at 40s. per an. rent and the tenth of the clear yearly profit. Ibid, p. 20.
Prefixing: (a) Auditor's particular of the premises. (b) Ratal dated Feb. 19 thereof by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands.
Mar. 6. Treasurer Southampton to the Attorney General to consider of the pretence and title of Symon Kirke and Wanton Throckmorton as heirs at law to the manor of Great Staughton, co. Huntingdon, late in the possession of Valentine Wanton, attainted of treason; as to which lands the Lord Treasurer has caused the Surveyor General of Crown Lands to value same and to put Visct. Mandeville in possession. Ibid, pp. 20–1.
Prefixing: petition from said Kirke and Throckmorton setting forth their title and shewing that on the King's warrant the Lord Treasurer granted said Viscount an order to enter into the Mansion House for his Majesty's use; and therefore desiring a trial at law: said petition being referred Feb. 19 last to the Lord Treasurer by Sir Ralph Freman.
Mar. 12 Treasurer Southampton's warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to George Abercrombie of a messuage in the tenure of William Borage, merchant, another in the tenure of Edward Proby, another in the tenure of Matthew Bly, another in the tenure of William Powle and another in the tenure of Ralph Lawe in the lane called Mayden Lane, in the parish of St. Michael Royal, London: all for 31 years at 25l. per an. rent, and with covenant for the lessee's recovery thereof to the Crown within three years. Ibid, p. 21.
Prefixing: (a) Auditor's particular of the premises. (b) Ratal dated Feb. 25 by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands thereof. The premises are claimed by several pretended owners, but Abercrombie is confident to recover them for his Majesty's use.
Mar. 12. Treasurer Southampton's reference to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of John Burchill for a further estate in a copyhold tenement called Healthhaies in the manor of Bradninch, co. Devon, parcel of the Duchy of Cornwall. Stowe MS. 498, p. 22
Same to same of John's Warren's petition for the like in two customary tenements called Capelhayne and another at Downehead in the abovesaid manor. Ibid.
Same to same of the petition of Katherine Lee, widow, for the like in the copyhold tenements called Quantshaies and Wheelings in said manor. Ibid.
Same to same of the petition of Samuel Sainthill, executor of Peter Sainthill, shewing that his father had a grant from the [present] King when Prince of Wales of certain tenements in said manor, but by intermission of courts in these times the grants could not be perfected or published in Court and the deputy steward now refuses to take the surrender and to make new grants without order from the Lord Treasurer: therefore praying such order to him to take surrenders and publish new estates at the next Court. Ibid.
Same to same of the petition of Lady Elizabeth Moore shewing that in 1624 the late King as Prince granted her husband 40 acres of land in the manor of Madencot, co. Berks, which lease was not renewed because of the [late] troubles: and therefore praying a lease thereof. Ibid, p. 22.
Treasurer Southampton's warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe to grant to John Walden, during pleasure, the office of bailiff and collector of the rents of the late Priory of St. Sepulchre in Warwick, the late Priory of Wroxhall, Studley, the Blessed Mary in Coventry, the Carthusian Priory near Coventry, the Blessed Mary in Warwick, the monastery of Chacomb, Wiston, Evesham and the Priory of Sheen in co. Warwick. Ibid, p. 23.
Mar. 14. Treasurer Southampton's reference to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of William Walker and the rest of the purchasers of Hide Park, proposing to pay a fine of 1,000l. and the fee farm rent of 300l. per an. so as they may enjoy their pretended interest and further proposing to secure James Hamilton, esq. (who has a grant from the King to be Ranger for life) 250l. per an. and 500l. fine "and the premises to be subject to any service or musters of his Majesty's armies." Ibid.
Mar. 12. Treasurer Southampton's warrant to Auditor Brinley for a particular of the office of bailiff of the liberty of the late monastery of St. Mary's near the walls of York and collector of the profits of Court there and bailiff of the liberties of the manor of White Guift [Whitgift] and Armin and collector of the profits of Court there. Ibid, p. 24.
[? Mar. 12.] Treasury reference to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of Capt. Roger Clarke for a lease of a small manor called Constable Manor in Horsham, Sussex, with the tenements thereto belonging. Stowe MS. 498, p. 24.
[?] Treasurer Southampton's appointment of Geo. Farrington to state a certificate of the arrears of tithe due out of the impropriations formerly vested in Sir John Thorowgood et al. as Trustees for Maintenance of Ministers which [arrears] being excepted out of the late Act of Indemnity do belong to the Crown. To expedite same you are to have recourse to John Rushworth "to whom all the books, papers and writings which concern these impropriations have been by my order delivered and with whom they now remain." You are also to consult Sir Edmond Sawyer and Auditor Phillipps. Ibid.
Mar. 13. Treasurer Southampton's warrant to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for enstalling the First Fruits of Edward, bishop of Norwich. Ibid, p. 25.
Same to Mr. Jessopp to deliver to John Rushworth all such books and papers in your hands relating to the impropriations formerly vested in the hands of the Trustees for Maintenance of Ministers. Ibid.
Treasurer Southampton to the Mayor of Norwich. Lord Richardson has communicated to me your letter concerning the Militia of Norwich, the ordering whereof I well approve in general. I thank you for the account of Mr. Bence, "whose vauntings shewed he determined somewhat that was ill affected if not mutinous." Let him pride himself in his contumacy. The consequents will be worse for him and for all others of his spirit than it shall be for yourself. You should tender him the oaths of allegiance or supremacy; and for your trial at next sessions send up your information against him and his plea and the King's Counsel will give those directions that if popularity and a common purse back him in this obstinacy yet he shall have no occasion to triumph nor you to repent for what you have done. Ibid, pp. 25–6.
Treasurer Southampton's warrant to the Attorney General for a lease to Lord Chancellor Hyde of the several woods, underwoods and woodlands of the coppice called Shakenhof, containing 22 acres, and Hawkes Coppice and Broad Quarter Coppice in Wychwood Forest for three lives at the rent of 140l. per an. Ibid, pp. 26–8.
Prefixing: (a) Auditor's particular and memoranda of the premises. The last lease expired 1648. The total area is 835 acres 3 roods. That lessee was allowed out of his rent 42l. 11s. 8d. per an. for the wages of the Ranger and keepers of said forest and 20l. per an. for the keepers' [allowance of estover] wood, and he was not to make more than two cuttings of wood during his lease, to properly protect same and to put therein no horses or cattle which may hurt the twigs during the time limited by the statute for the preservation of such kind of woods after such cutting: and further to permit the four keepers to cut sufficient quantity of browsing of the shreddings of the trees for the sustenance of the King's deer and 15 load of browsewood each for firewood. (b) Ratal dated Mar. 1 by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of said particular.
Mar. 13. Treasurer Southampton's warrant to the Attorney General for a lease to Thomas Hunt of a marl pit and a parcel of arable land adjoining in East Clandon, co. Surrey, between the land formerly of Thomas Welles and other bounds [and likewise of divers other lands to be discovered and recovered to the Crown in cos. Surrey, Sussex, Oxford, Berks, Beds, Bucks, and Lancaster part of the late lands of monasteries and chantries]: all for 31 years at 8l. 6s. 8d. per an. rent and a quarter of the improved value of such of the premises as shall be recovered [to the Crown]. Stowe MS. 498, p. 29.
Prefixing: (a) Auditor's particular of the premises. (b) Ratal dated Mar. 7 thereof by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands. The premises were granted to Woodford for 31 years as a discovery to try the King's title.
Treasurer Southampton's reference to the Board of Greencloth of the report of the Surveyor General of Crown Lands upon an order from the Commissioners of sales of Crown and Church lands in behalf of John Storer concerning his purchase of the reversion of a farm called Stints or Sherricke Farm, near Highgate, co. Midd. Ibid, p. 30.
Prefixing: said report. The lands belong to one of the Prebends of St. Pauls from whom the King has a lease for two lives yet in being for the service of the Household in charge with the Greencloth. Whether they have need of this particular parcel I do not know, but all the lands in the said lease were purchased by Harrison, who sold this parcel in 1655 to one Melling under whom petitioner claims and the abovesaid Commissioners for Sales do not admit of any petition upon a title or interest derived from any [late] High Court of Justice, sequestrator, etc. Petitioner's claim for consideration on the ground of the purchase money being orphan's money may be referred to the Greencloth.
Same to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of Sir Henry Hene (Henn) praying to be admitted tenant to a parcel of lands adjoining the manor of Bray and Cookham, co. Berks. Ibid.
Mar. 12. Treasurer Southampton's warrant [to the Clerk of the Pipe] for a lease to Ellis Hughes of a tenement in Manturog [Nantwrog] called Sighmante, late in the tenure of Thomas ap Evan Griffin in the commote of Ardudwy, co. Merioneth, and formerly parcel of the possessions of Evan ap Hoell ap Rees, attained and demised [formerly] to Griffin Wynn and lately in 1637 demised to John Jones of Moylever, co. Carnarvon. The present lease to be for 21 years under the rent of 13s. 4d. per an. Ibid, p. 31.
Prefixing: (a) Auditor's particular of the premises. (b) Ratal dated Mar. 5 thereof by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands.
Mar. 12. Treasurer Southampton's warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to John Lyne of a parcel of woodland or coppice called Potters Park, near Queenwood, in that part of the forest of Windsor called Chertsey Walk, co. Surrey, formerly demised to Arthur Mainwaring. The present lease to be for 31 years at a rent of 36s. per an. and fine of 10l. Stowe MS. 498, p. 31.
Prefixing: (a) Auditor's particular. (b) The Surveyor General's ratal dated Feb. 1. The premises were found by the late Parliamentary survey to be 36 acres 1 rood 6 perches and to be worth 44l. per an. above the rent of 36s. The petitioner is to relinquish all pretences as a purchaser under the late pretended Parliament.
Same to same for a same to Sir Ralph Verney of the piece of arable land in the common fields of Abingdon, co. Berks, called Twenty Acres, parcel of the manor of Shippon: all for 31 years at a rent of 4l. per an. and fine of 10l. payable to the Receiver of the Duchy of Cornwall. Ibid, p. 32.
Prefixing: (a) Auditor's particular. (b) Surveyor General's ratal dated Jan. 12 last. The last lease from the late King is expired and the premises have been sold by the late pretended Parliament to John Hemsdell, who demised same to Hartwell, neither of whom petition for a new grant.
Mar. 13. Same to Sir Edmund Sawyer, one of the Auditors of the Exchequer Court, to make a respite upon the accompts of all the Receivers General of Crown Revenues within your [audit] division until May 20 next on condition their said accounts be all cleared by that time: the said Receivers being required by the Act of 7 Edw. VI to accompt in the month of March yearly which they are now ready to do, but in regard of the late distractions the King's revenue is very much unsettled and not returned into its ancient course so that very little thereof is as yet come to the said Receivers' hands; "and by reason of his Majesty's gracious pardon of all rents and arrears due before the 24th day of June last past and an expectation of some persons of a further grace from his Majesty of having Michaelmas rents also there can be but a very broken and imperfect accompt made at present." (Like warrants to the other six Auditors of the Exchequer Court.) Ibid, pp. 32–3.
Feb. 28. Same to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to Thomas Major of the tithes of wool and lamb in the manor of Shippon, co. Berks, parcel of the Duchy of Cornwall; all for 31 years at the old rent of 19s. per an. and 30s. per an. de incremento and fine of 6l. 13s. 4d. Ibid, pp. 33–4.
Prefixing: (a) Auditor's particular of the premises. The said Thomas Major's last term in the premises expired in 1655.
Mar. 15. Treasurer Southampton's reference to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of Rebecca, relict of John Wiseman, Groom of the Privy Chamber to the late King, praying for a reversionary grant of such parcels of land as she shall discover up to 60l. per an. old rents. Ibid, p. 34.
Treasurer Southampton to same to value the premises as follows desired by the Countess of Guildford and to report on the petition of Mr. Hodges [as to same]. Ibid, pp. 34–5.
Prefixing: certificate by the Queen [Mother's] Council that the said Queen has given to the said Countess the place of Chief Housekeeper of Somerset House alias Denmark House, for life with the benefit of the rents and profits of the 24 tenements thereto belonging and that the Lord of Purbeck formerly being chief housekeeper there enjoyed the same; and that it imports the King's service to empower said Countess to let some further time than the Queen's life in those tenements by reason of their ruinous condition, which the tenants will not repair without a long lease.
Mar. 12. Treasurer Southampton's reference to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of Henry Adkins and Joyce his wife to be admitted to compound for their lives and the life of Robert Thornton in a tenement called Whistler's Farm, belonging to the manor of Potterspury, co. Northampton. Stowe MS. 498, p. 35.
Same to same of the petition of Richard Toomes for a lease of the farm called Morend, parcel of the Honor of Grafton. Ibid.
Mar. 15. Same to same of an order by the Commissioners for examination of the Pretended sales of Crown and Church lands. Ibid, p. 36.
Prefixing: said order dated Saturday Mar. 9, referring to Treasurer Southampton the petition of Griffith Bowen concerning his pretended purchase of a water mill in co. Pembroke, part of the Crown revenue.
Mar. 16. Treasurer Southampton to the Deputy Lieutenants of Norfolk (and the like for the Deputy Lieutenants of Southampton) transmitting an order of the Privy Council dated the 4th inst. concerning such persons as have been secured in the time of the late insurrection and since. You are to pursue the directions therein in discharging from imprisonment all such persons as have been secured only upon suspicion, except only the ringleaders of faction amongst them. Ibid.
Same to Sir Humfry Bennett. It is represented to the King in Council by Lord Baltimore and Mr. Wyld that instead of a composure (which was the end of the [Council] Board's order entrusted with you about Christchurch in Hants) you have pressed it too far and endeavoured to force their consent to introduce new burgesses "which in this conjuncture in respect of the approaching election of Parliament men may be very indecent." You are to make the use first intended thereof or to desist any further proceeding. Ibid, p. 37.
Same to Lord Gorges, Sir John Wolstenholme, and Mr. Howard, second son to the Earl of Berkshire. "My predecessors [Lord Treasurers] having found that respect in several places as to receive their several letters of recommendation for one person of quality and fitness to be chosen to serve in Parliament; and it being as well in my intention as place to be usefull and serviceable to your selfe with an aspect of publique good, I have thought fitt to recommend unto you my very good Lord the Lord Gorges, a person every way quallified for that service and one who as he will be of a publique use soe particularly a very faithfull and industrious servant for the place he represents. In which he shall have the assistance of myselfe who wilbe ever ready to doe you all good offices and acknowledge any respect this addresse finds with you." Ibid.
Mar. 16. Treasurer Southampton's warrant to John Weston, one of the Messengers of the Chamber, to give notice to the following persons to appear before Sir Edm. Sawyer, Auditor for co. Surrey etc. at his office in Haire Court in the Temple within ten days to give account of all the moneys received by them as high collectors for Surrey and Southwark for several Monthly Assessments for the maintenance of the armies in England and Wales in 1644 and since: it appearing upon examination of the accounts of the Treasurers of said assessments that a great part of the money taxed upon said county and borough is not paid to the said Treasurers, but remains in the said collectors' hands unaccounted for, for the respective divisions for which they have been collectors. Stowe MS. 498, p. 38.
Appending: list of said collectors' names: viz. Thomas Evans, Thomas Hethfeild, Will. Pitcher, Sackford Gunston, John Humphryes, James Parry, Rich. Wither, William Monger, Erasmus Snelling, James Gunter, Daniell Mercer, John Life, Robert Holly.
[Mar. 16.] The like for the following collectors [of same] for co. Middlesex and City of Westminster to appear before Auditor John Phillipps: viz. Rich. Graves, George Clayton, Andr. Nicholl, Robert Marsh, Henry Arrundell, Henry Holly, Edw. Rogers. Ibid.
Mar. 14. Treasurer Southampton's reference to the Attorney General and the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of William Satterthwayte, one of the sworne officers of the Exchequer Court; petitioner shewing that John Downes, now prisoner in the Tower and attained of high treason, had a mortgage of certain lands in Pulborough, co. Sussex, to secure a debt of 1,160l.; that Downes conveyed said lands to petitioner; that said debt was paid [by petitioner] before 11 Feb., 1659–60, and so could not be forfeited by the Act of Attainder; that there is an order to out the petitioner from said lands; and that there is much wood felled by petitioner which cannot presently be sold and is in danger of being stolen. Therefore prays examination of the case. Treasurer Southampton having previously referred this petition as above hereby refers it afresh "as it appeared to me both in relation to the King's right and Mr. Appesley's I had great reason to take care of it." Ibid, p. 39.
Mar. 8. Treasurer Southampton's order to Auditor Sir Joseph Seymour to state the debt of Sir David Cuningham and Sir James Onyon, the King's late Receiver, as follow. And similarly to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands to certify the value of the lands as follow. Ibid, pp. 39–40.
Prefixing: (a) note of the petition of Thomas Lisle, a Household servant to the King, shewing that five years since he purchased lands in Nether Itchington, co. Warwick, for 1,000l. and in the name of Horatio Moore as in trust for petitioner. The interest therein is now in possession of Ann Moore, executrix to said Horatio Moore. In 1657 Oliver Cromwell extended said lands for a debt owing by Sir David Cuningham and Sir James Onyon. Petitioner prays a grant of the premises. (b) Report dated Mar. 2 inst. thereon by Sir Jef. Palmer [the Attorney General]. In 1641 Sir David Cuningham was-seized of the said lands charged with the rent of 82l. 10s. 0d. to the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. In 1642 said Cuningham was indebted 25,530l. to the then King as a Receiver, as appeared from his account drawn up by Auditor William Collings. In 1646 Cuningham conveyed said lands to Trustees who in 1658, July 14, made the lease to said Horatio Moore after which said lands were extended by Cromwell and were then found worth 160l. 13s. 4d. per an. "out of which the said great debt will not of a long time be satisfied." Until same be satisfied they are to remain in the King's hands by extent: "but the same being a chattel and not in inheritance in his Majesty to dispose cannot be granted to petitioner" in fee farm but may be leased or granted determinable upon the securing said debt.
Mar. 18. Treasurer Southampton's warrant to Sir Thomas Fanshaw, King's Remembrancer, for a Commission to enquire of the estates in co. Carmarthen of Robert Titchborn, John Jones or any other persons attainted of treason who have lands there. The Commissioners to be Sir Hugh Owens, kt. and bart., William Williams, Reginald Howell, Arthur Owens, John Evans, Griffith Benion. Stowe MS. 498, p. 41.
Mar. 8. Treasurer Southampton to Sir C. Harbord, Surveyor General of Crown Lands, to examine the accounts of Mr. Bond, a late Receiver for Alienations under the usurped powers. Ibid.
Mar. 13. Sir Philip Warwick to the Attorney General. The King has granted to the Dean and Chapter of Christchurch all his interest in the parsonage of Maiden Bradly, co. Wilts, forfeited by the treason of Edmund Ludlow. The Dean and Chapter possess the inheritance thereof notwithstanding any former general order to the contrary. The Lord Treasurer is satisfied with your proceeding herein but thinks the Duke of York ought to be acquainted therewith. Ibid.
Mar. 18. Treasurer Southampton's warrant to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands to discharge William Spry et al. as follows of the fines as follows and to pass the grants to them notwithstanding the non-payment of the fine of 630l. 13s. 4d.: the King having in consideration fo said Spry's faithful services during the whole tract of the late disorders (and on his reconveyance of an estate in certain tenements called Trenarlet and a cottage in Penhale, co. Cornwall, purchased by him for 700l. of the late Trustees for Sale of Lands, except a copyhold estate for lives granted by the King as prince to said Spry's wife and son George) been pleased by the sign manual of the 4th inst. to remit all the fines to the above amount set upon the copyhold lands in the manor of Tinten which are to be passed to him, and the lands in the manor of Treverbyn Courtney which is to be taken [by him] in the name of Warwick Hele and the reversion of the manor of Portlooe taken in the name of Thomas Nicholson and two reversions in the manor of West Anthony taken in the name of William Smyth. Ibid. p. 42.
Mar. 18. Treasurer Southampton's warrant to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands for a particular of the manor and parks of Rudfen, co. Warwick, with a view to a renewal of the lease thereof to the Earl of Monmouth for 21 years "to commence from his death" under the rent of 200l. per an. and fine of 800l. (Royal warrant dated Feb. 28 to Treasurer Southampton for said fresh lease.) Stowe MS. 498, pp 42, 43.
Mar. 18. Same to the Attorney General for a privy seal for payment of 2,500l. to Anthony Cogan of Westminster, gent., for his interest in lands as follows: taking care the King be sufficiently secured against the ground landlord in case of payment of the reserved rent. Ibid, pp. 43–6.
Prefixing: draft of said privy seal (which was passed 1661, May 10). By assignment dated Feb. 2 last said Cogan has conveyed to the King his interest in all that great garden in St. Martins in the Fields, containing 20 acres enclosed with a brick wall heretofore in the tenure of Thomas Hoskins and all that pasture ground commonly called the Mulberry Garden Field, containing eight acres and lying in said parish and lately in the tenure of John Davis, the former for the remainder of a term of 20 years from 1649, Dec. 23, at 80l. per an. rent and 100 of apples called Pippins or Pearmains or in lieu thereof of 10s. in money and the latter for the remainder of a term of 19 years from 1656, Christmas, at 21l. per an. rent. Further, the said rents of 80l. 10s. 0d. for nine years and 21l. for 15 years from Christmas last are hereby to be paid to said Cogan, he recording in the office of the King's Remembrancer his vouchers for his payment of said rent to his ground landlord.
Mar. 20. Same to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands for a constat of the manor of Staughton Magna, co. Huntingdon, in order to a lease thereof to Visct. Mandeville. Ibid, p. 47.
Same to the Attorney General to prepare a lease of abovesaid manor to Visct. Mandeville, being of the lands of Valentine Wauton and worth 420l. per an. Ibid.
Prefixing: royal warrant to Treasurer Southampton for said lease for 31 years at 100l. per an. rent.
Same to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to William Raifes of a close or parcel of land called Blockhouse Feild, containing six acres two roods in the parish of Milton, near Gravesend, co. Kent, being in the tenure of said Raifes: all for 31 years at 5l. per an. rent and fine of 20l. Ibid, pp. 47–8.
Prefixing: (a) constat and ratal of the premises by Sir C. Harbord, Surveyor General of Crown Lands. The lease is made on the recommendation of Jan. 5 last from the Commissioners for the Sales [of Crown and Church Lands], Raifes having at his own charge made a wharf and defence of a good part of the premises against the sea, having spent 150l. thereon and 300l. in building thereon whereby it is now become worth 20l. per an. and he intends to wharf, imbank and secure the rest of said ground and to build more houses thereon, same having been of little value before and had been swallowed up of the sea if Raifes had not secured it.
Mar. 18. Treasurer Southampton's warrant to Auditor Wood to estimate the interest due on 500l. lent Oct. 6 last by Sir John Cutler, kt. and bart., for the King's service; the King having directed same to be repaid him with 6 per cent. interest. Stowe MS. 498, p. 48.
Same to [the Surveyor General of Crown Lands] for a particular of a tenement called Treloy, parcel of the Duchy of Cornwall with a view to a lease thereof to Walter Evans of St. Martin, co. Cornwall, in lieu of his father, who was slain at Exeter in the late King's service and in reversion of the lives of Joane and Margaret Evans. Ibid, p. 49.
Prefixing: (a) note of said Evans's petition as referred to the Treasury Lords Jan. 12 last: (b) said Surveyor General's report dated Feb. 28 thereon. The tenement contains 60 or 63 acres; the old rent is 26s. 8d. and the value is 26l. per an.
Same to same for a constat of certain freehold tenements with a view to a contract for same with Thomas Chudleigh of Bradninch, within the wall of Exeter city, and John Rooke of Exeter, merchant; said tenements having been built by them upon a waste parcel of ground belonging to the Castle of Exeter, they having a grant thereof from the late King when Prince, but being obliged during the late troubles to redeem same from the purchasers under the late usurped powers. Ibid, pp. 49–50.
Mar. 22. Treasurer Southampton's reference to same of the petition of Thomas Ceely, late one of the King's Life Guards on a reference dated Feb. 11 last from the King thereof: petitioner setting forth that he was brought up by his great uncle and expected to become his heir, but listing in the Life Guards at the Restoration, he incurred his uncle's displeasure, who left his estate in co. Suffolk to Henry, Hamond and William Ceely, all infants and aliens, born in Holland and so incapable of holding freehold: therefore praying a grant of so much thereof as shall be found to belong to the King. Ibid, pp. 50–1.
Mar. 23. Treasurer Southampton's warrant to John Farneworth to demand of Mr. Lancashire, Mr. Buxton of Manchester, and Richard Taylor of Tutchett Hole, near Middleton, such money as are in their hands of sequestrations which [moneys] are now due to the King, and to require them to pay same into the Exchequer which they delay to do. As they have given bonds to John Case, William Egleston and James Smith, late Agents to the Commissioners of Sequestrations, for their due payment of said moneys you are hereby to demand said bonds from said Case, Eccleston and Smith, and to deliver same to the King's Remembrancer. Ibid, p. 51.
Report to the King from Treasurer Southampton on the petition of Anna Blake as by the reference dated Feb. 22 last from the King; petitioner shewing that for a marriage portion her husband purchased a piece of land in Theobalds and built thereon, but same is now granted to the Duke of Marlborough; therefore praying a lease of the manor of Stoke under Hamdon, co. Somerset. Hereon Treasurer Southampton reports that petitioner has been very loyal and serviceable to the late King. As to the lands at Theobalds she can expect them at no other condition than the rates the Duke of Albemarle holds them by. Stoke under Hamdon is a manor without any demesnes and has formerly been pretended to by divers considerable persons, but I have refused them all, having advised your Majesty against putting the dependencies of tenants into the hands of private persons. Ibid, p. 52.
Mar. 23. Treasurer Southampton's reference to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of Henry Moughan, praying a lease of a mill called Milton Mill in Carew, co. Pembroke, at the usual rent of 11l. per an. Stowe MS. 498, p. 52.
Mar. 13. Treasurer Southampton's warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to Jane Franke, widow, of a close of pasture called le Windhill in Barton, co. Yorks, [and a piece of land] called le Northfield and other pasture lands [there]: all for 31 years at 5l. per an. rent and 5l. fine. Ibid, p. 53.
Prefixing: (a) particular of the premises. (b) Ratal dated Jan. 8 last thereof by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands. In the late Parliamentary survey the premises were valued at 11l. 2s. The King's title was asserted by the late tenant and must still be defended against the pretended purchaser from the Crown.
Order by Treasurer Southampton on the letter from Lord Berkeley complaining that the [assessment] Commissioners for co. Surrey imposed taxes upon Nonsuch House and Park. Until these last usurpations this was never done nor does it seem reasonable that the King should pay taxes to himself. It is therefore hereby ordered that these taxes be suspended "and that the precedent of these last ill times, when his Majesty's lands were in private men's hands, be not made use of." Ibid.
Mar. 23. Treasurer Southampton's warrant to Sir Edmond Sawyer and William Hill, two of the Auditors of Crown Revenues, to take the accounts of John Dethick as Treasurer for Delinquents' estates sold at Drury House: same being excepted in the late Act of Indemnity. Ibid, p. 54.
The like to Auditor Sir Edmond Sawyer and Auditor, Phillips to take the accounts of the late Treasurers for Prize goods. Ibid.
The like to Auditor Thomas Brinley (altered 1662, July 4, to Auditors Richard Aldworth in consequence of Brinley's death) and William Gwynn to take the accounts of Jo. Dethick et al. as late Treasurers at Worcester House for the sale of the late King's, Queen's and Prince's lands. Ibid.
The like to said Brinley (altered to Aldworth) and William Hill to take the accompts of the late Treasurers for sale of the fee farm rents of the King and Queen. Ibid.
The like to Sir Joseph Seymour and Richard Kinnesman to take the accounts of the late Treasurers for sale of the King's and Queen's goods. Ibid.
The like to Sir Edmond Sawyer and [Auditor John] Phillips to take the accounts of William Leman and Jo. Blackwell, late Treasurers at War, for contributions [assessments] in the year 1651–3. Ibid
Mar. 23. Treasurer Southampton to _. I lately sent a warrant to Mr. Sparrow, Mr. Blake and Mr. Blackwall, late collectors for the moneys arising by the sale of prize goods, to bring their accounts into the Exchequer. They alleged that the abstract of their accounts and a box of warrants and vouchers were delivered to a Committee of Parliament and now remain in your hands. You are hereby to deliver same to Auditors Sir Edmond Sawyer and John Phillips and all papers relating thereto. Stowe MS. 498, p. 55.
Mar. 19. Treasurer Southampton's order for Magdalen Gosley, widow, to attend the Commissioners concerning Forfeited Estates. Ibid.
Prefixing: note of said Gosley's petition for payment of 120l. due from William Heveningham of Heveningham, co. Suffolk.
Mar. 23. Same for the Customers of the Outports to pay the 5l. 12s. 0d. per an. formerly paid to the four ushers of the Exchequer at Easter as fee and reward upon the delivery of the first half year's books into the Exchequer, over and beside such fees as they received of the said customers. Ibid, p. 56.
Prefixing: Auditor Beale's certificate as to payment of said fee heretofore as appears by the account of the late Farmers of the Great Customs.
Treasurer Southampton's warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a grant to George Usher, gent., of the office of bailiff and collector of the perquisites and profits of Court of the late Monastery of the Blessed Mary near the walls of the city of York: with the fee of 6l. 5s. 0d. [per an.]. Ibid.
Mar. 12. Same to same for a certificate of such sheriffs, mayors and bailiffs of liberties as are in contempt for not passing their accounts in due time according to their days of prefixion in the Exchequer: and so likewise for a certificate in future from time to time of all such accomptants as shall neglect to pass and finish their accompts and are in contempt after the end of Hilary and Trinity terms. Ibid, p. 57.
1661.
Mar. 26.		 Same to the Attorney General for a lease to Sir Thomas Clarges, kt., of the scite of the late monastery and capital messuage of the manor of Reading and of the soil and buildings within the walls, formerly demised 21 Jan., 21 Eliz., to Richard Okeham: the present lease to be for 31 years at 40s. per an. rent. Ibid.
Prefixing: (a) Auditor's particular of the premises. (b) Ratal dated Mar. 12 inst. thereof by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands. Queen Elizabeth granted the premises to Sir Frances Knollis in custodiam, viz. the said scite, mansion house and buildings and the Court or yard called the Forbury, containing 2 ½ acres, the Grange, containing 1 ½ acres, the Inner Court, containing ½ acre, a little garden called the Timber Hails, containing 1 rood, the Court within the cloisters, containing ½ an acre, the great garden, containing 1½ acre with a pigeon house, an orchard called the Farmery Garden, containing 1 acre, and the woodyard, containing 1 rood: said Knollis held same free of rent but was obliged to remove as oft as the sovereign should lodge there. [At the present] the lead, glass, iron and other materials of the said scite are taken away and the great hall wherein the Courts of Justice have been kept is pulled down and ruined. The present grant is for the custody of the premises for 31 years. Before the present lease pass Clarges is to surrender up all his estate and interest in the house at the Mews [at Charing Cross] "which he hath by his Majesty's grant of the said custody."
Mar. 26. Treasurer Southampton's warrant to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands to continue the following persons in possession for three years longer and thenceforward till further order; "saving to his Majesty the liberty of restoring the park in the meantime." Stowe MS. 498, p. 58.
Prefixing: Sir C. Harbord's report dated Feb. 23 on the petition of John Blackmore, Edward Scotton, Robert Aldridge, William Powell, Richard Southwoold and John Scotten, purchasers of his Majesty's lands in the (Great) park near New Windsor, viz. respectively for 200 acres (10l. for a quarter's rent), 185 acres (20l. 6s. 8d. ditto), 67 acres (8l. 10s. 0d. ditto), 120 acres (15l. ditto), 115 acres (15l. ditto), 7 acres (17s. ditto). Blackmore was of the standing army in April last and so continued to his late disbanding and is esteemed a person well affected to his Majesty. "But none of the said parties were certified upon the list delivered unto me by some of the principal officers of the army by his Excellency's [the Lord General's] direction upon his Majesty's order and [the order] of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury in July last. So that I have not allowed them any of the rents or profits of the lands since the 24th June last." [Secretary Nicholas] claims all the herbage of the said park by grant from the late King and expects to have what rents shall be reserved on any leases which may be granted to these persons. Care is to be taken that in case the King be minded to restore said park he be not hindered therein by any lease to these petitioners.
Treasurer Southampton's reference to same of the petition of Michaell Crake for a reversionary lease of certain lands in Ireland forfeited by the treason of Roare Ockane. Ibid, p. 59.
1660–1.
Mar. 22.		 Same to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to Francis Butler (altered to John Lange) of a garden in Aish, co. Cornwall, late in the tenure of John Anthony at a rent of 2d. per an. and of a garden in Middle Street in Aish, late in the tenure of Ursula wife of Edmund Boys at a rent of 2d. per an., all parcel of the Duchy of Cornwall: the present lease to be for 31 years at rents of 2s. 5d. and 20s. per an. and fine of 10l. Ibid.
Prefixing: (a) Auditor's particular of the premises. (b) Ratal dated Mar. 22 by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of said particular. The premises are all out of lease and seem to contain seven small tenements or cottages in Saltash and one in Trematon. The old rents amount altogether to 2s. 5d. per an. and the improved yearly value is not 3l.
1661.
Mar. 26.		 Same to same for a lease to Henry Hill (Hills) of a tenement in Over Treveria, co. Cornwall, part of the manor of Bucklawren, and of the possessions of the late Priory of Launceston and now of the Duchy of Cornwall. The lease to be for 31 years at the old rent of 28s. 6d. and 7l. de incremento and fine of 80l. Ibid, p. 60.
Prefixing: (a) Auditor's particular of the premises. (b) Ratal dated Mar. 22 thereof by the Surveyor General. The premises are out of lease and were found by Norden's survey about 1615 to contain 30 acres 1 rood. The old rent was 26s. 8d., the improved rent 14l. 1s. 0d. but by the Parliamentary survey 17l. 1s. 0d. and a heriot.
Mar. 26. Treasurer Southampton to the Surveyor General to reserve only the old rent in the lease to Dr. Greaves, his Majesty's physician, of his interest in the forest of St. Leonards, co. Sussex, but especial care is to be taken concerning the reserving of the growth of the wood there. Stowe MS. 498, p. 60.
Mar. 27. Warrant from same to same for a particular of the King's proportion and interest (as distinguished from that of the commoners, who are to be left their proportion) in the forests of Shotover and Stowood to Sir Timothy Tirrell in consideration of his office there, "reserving to the Crown after the death of the said Sir Timothy Tirrell for his Majesty's proportion in Shotover the sum of 130l. 14s. 8d. and for that of Stowood 92l. 12s. 0d. [and] during his life the sum of 87l. 3s. 4d. for Shotover and 61l. 14s. 8d. for Stowood." Ibid, p. 61.
[?] Same to the King's Remembrancer for a Commission of Inquiry to be issued to Sir Robert Collingwood, Thomas Love, Richard Finsham (Fincham), William Armorraes (Armories), John Wrenham, Bertram Ordes, George Claverings, Marke Scott. Ibid, pp. 61–2.
Appending: articles of said inquiry: (1) to find out certain waste and sandy grounds lying in or near (the Holy Island in) the county of Durham, now or lately overflowed by the sea and for the most part sandy and bare and to set out the bounds thereof. (2) To find out the acreage and yearly value thereof; in what parish same lies and what the charge of embanking same against the sea and the improvement thereof will be worth per an.
Mar. 27. Treasurer Southampton's reference to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of Thomas Fry for a Commission for discovery of several encroachments and erections upon the King's waste and concealments of the King's land and revenue in cos. Suffolk, Huntingdon, Leicester and York. I [the Lord Treasurer] have deferred any proceedings herein in consideration of your late reply to me upon a petition of this nature from Mr. Progers, of the Bedchamber, as a thing that may prove clamorous. Also the counties here petitioned for are part of those in Mr. Progers' petition. Ibid, p. 63.
Same to same of the petition of Lieut.-Col. George Weldon for an order to call a court to summon all the inhabitants dwelling on his Majesty's waste grounds in London, having of late years been improved by several substantial buildings, the rents and profits whereof are clandestinely converted to some persons' private uses without benefit to the King: petitioner being recommended by the Duke of Albemarle. Ibid.
Mar. 29. Treasurer Southampton to the Attorney General to report his opinion on what has passed at the Committee of Sales [of Crown and Church Lands] upon the pretence and title of Dr. Graves, one of the King's physicians, concerning the forest of St. Leonards, Sussex, viz. whether by any grant from the late King the Queen Mother can pretend to the 250 loads of coal and the 30 cords of wood not mentioned in the grant. Stowe MS. 498, p. 64.
Mar. 27. Treasurer Southampton's warrant to same for a grant to William Chamberlain, Gentleman Usher Quarter Waiter to the King, of the office or place of water bailiff of the rivers of Humber and Trent and all the creeks and rivulets parcel of those rivers within the counties of Stafford, Derby, Notts, Lincoln and York, excepting the rights etc. within the manors of Epworth, Barton, Barrow and Gouxhill, co. Lincoln, and of Newark, co. Notts: all for 21 years and at the rent of 20l. per an.: and likewise a lease of all fines, amercements etc. imposed by the steward for conservation of those rivers for any offences therein. Ibid.
Mar. 30. Same to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to Dr. William Quatermain and Richard Alchorne of a parcel of marsh or waste and oosy ground, containing 2,200 acres, lying east of the port called Langstone Haven, co. Sussex: and of a piece of marsh or waste and oosy ground, containing 300 acres, near Gercombe, co. Southants, bounded west by Langstone Haven and north by lands called Master Bolles his last works, and east by part of the island of Portsea, co. Southants. The said lease to be for 31 years, reserving to the King a fourth part of the land which shall be embanked; and with covenant to enclose in five years. Ibid, pp. 64–5.
Prefixing: (a) constat of the premises. (b) Ratal dated Mar. 14 thereof by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands. The premises are overflowne with ordinary tides and chargeable to embank.
Same to same for a lease to Dorothy Bigilston, widow, of the herbage of the land enclosed within the Castle of Exeter, co. Devon, with the liberty of ingress to the said Castle, except all lands, tenements, rents and services in Crockernwell, Dorscombe and Bugbrooke, and all tithes, advowsons, fees of knighthood, wardships, reliefs and services pertaining to the said Castle and all minerals, trees etc. and excepting also the close called Castle Close or Bradninch, and all the ditches called the Castle Ditches pertaining to the said Castle: excepting also the use of the said Castle for the service of his Majesty in the times of the assizes and sessions and other public uses of the said county as hath been heretofore accustomed. The present lease to be for 31 years at a rent of 10l. per an. Ibid, pp. 66–7.
Prefixing: (a) Auditor's particular of the premises. (b) Ratal dated Mar. 19 thereof by the Surveyor General.
1660–1.
Mar. 18.		 Treasurer Southampton's reference to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the royal warrant dated Feb. 26 last to the Lord Treasurer for a lease to Sir Tho. Stucley of the land, soil or ground in the river of Dartmouth, co. Devon, usually or heretofore covered with water at tides from the mouth of said river to Totnes and of the houses, tenements, cellars and other edifices thereon, all which the King is given to understand do belong to the Crown: all in consideration of said Stucley's many services and sufferings. Ibid, p. 67.
Prefixing: said royal warrant.
Mar. 27. Treasurer Southampton's warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to Robert Wright of a salt house with six leads, parcel of the land and possessions called Church lands in Nantwich, co. Chester. The present lease to be for 31 years at 12l. per an. rent. Stowe MS. 498, p. 68.
Prefixing: (a) Auditor's particular of the premises. (b) Ratal dated Feb. 18 thereof by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands.
Mar. 30. Same to the King's Remembrancer for a particular of the lands of Christopher Northivalle in co. Cornwall, as found by inquisition upon an outlawry at the suit of John Mason. Ibid.
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