XLII. TO SIR ROBERT CECIL. From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. xxvi. fol. 25 (Hatfield). Holograph. SIR, LETTER THIS night, the 13th of Aprill, wee have taken a notabell Jesuite in the Lady STORTON'S house,-wife to old Sir JOHN ARUNDELL,—with his copes and bulles. Ther hath bynn keipt in this house, as I have formerly To Sir R. informed, you above thirty recusantts. Sir GEORG and Sir GEORGE TRENCHERD, Sir RAUFE HORSEY, and my self ar now ryding to take his examinacion, which, by the next, you shall receve att large. Sir RAUFE have used great dillegence in the fynding of this notable knave. Being in hast, I do for the present humblie take my leve. From Sherburne, this 14th of Aprill [1594]. Your's, ever to do yow service, I 594. April 14. Cecil. Sherborne. Capture of a Jesuit in the house of Lady Stourton. W. RALEGH. [POSTSCRIPT.]-Hee calls hyme sealf JOHN MOONEY, but hee is an Irishman and a notabell stout villayne; and I thinke can say miche. Addressed: To the right honorable my very good frinde, Sir ROBERT CECELL. 14 Apr. 1594. Sir Walter Rauleigh to my Master. John Moone, XLIII. LETTER 1594. May 2. To the Proposing the re moval of a cause, Denshire v. Stevens, from the Star Cham ber to the Stannary Court. TO THE LORD KEEPER, THOMAS EGERTON; (Afterwards Viscount Brackley.) From the Original. MS. Harl. 6696, fol. 132 (British Museum). In the hand of an amanuensis. Subscribed and signed. MY VERIE GOOD LORD, THERE hath been a subpena graunted out of the Star Chamber for the appearance of one THOMAS WHITFORD and WILLIAM DOBB before your Lordship and the rest of her Majesty's most honorable Privie Councell, for verefying their knowledg in a Stannery Court, as witnesses in an action uppon the case between one DENSHIRE and STEVENS. The triall and penaltie of the offence, if any shalbe proved, is to be censured in her Majesties absolute jurisdiction of the Stannery; and her Majesty hath been pleased of late, uppon complaint by me made unto her, to signifie to my honorable good Lord the Lord Treasurer, that the Stannery authoritie shall consist and continue, according to the auncient custome and prerogatives, and not to be contradicted by private censure; and that all abuses uppon my informacion shalbe presentlie reformed. I thinke your Lordship is not thoroughlie acquainted herewith, because a Stannery cause is suffred to be prosecuted in that Court; and therefore I am bold to putt you in mind thereof, and to praie you to dismisse the same out of the Starre Chamber, to be tried in the Stannuries, where it is determinable. And so I humblie take my leave. From my Castle at Sherborn, the second of May, 1594. Your Lordshipp's most humblie att cummandment, Addressed: W. RALEGH. To the right honorable my very good Lord, the Lord Keeper of the Endorsed: Sir Walter Rawley. For pleas1 in the Stannarye sued in the Star Chamber. LETTER 1594. May 2. XLIV. TO THE LORD ADMIRAL HOWARD. From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. xxvii. fol. 8 (Hatfield). Holograph. MY HONORABLE GOOD LORDE, LETTER 1594. YOUR Lordshippe may perceve, by the intelligence sent by my brother, bothe of the strenghte of the Spanishe fleet as also of their reddiness to sett sayle. June 21. The master hyme sealf, which was taken out of Dartmouth, is returned. The intelligence your Lordship had before was from too of his men which weare sett free; but this master, called MAKERELL, is a man of To the Lord High From Sherborne. the good judgment, and very honest. If your Lordship News of consider, too things especially 2... in this intelligence: first, that sume surprize is purposed by the hast,-for Fleet. This reading is doubtful, the word being nearly illegible. 2 So in MS., the verb being wanting. Probably, the word 'appear,' or some equivalent, was intended after 'especially.' Spanish LETTER 1594. June 21. D'esire to serve under the Admiral against Spain. the carpenters and all other about the fleet worke the Saboth dayes; next, the hugeness of the shipps, which must neads cary many soldiers, or else lesser vessells weare farr fitter for the coast of Bryton.1 Ther ar also many shipps taken of ours; sume of good burden, but all of good wealth; as may appeare by the report sent the Lords. How the Spaniards have proceeded about Brest, your Lordship may also understand by this report: First, havinge receved no impeachment, they have finished the fortifications at Old Croydun,-which your Lordship well knowes is within the port of Brest,-and the better to cumand the haven, they have also built a stronger peere at the very entraunce. Now, if it pleas your Lordship to pardon mee, I pray remember that their wilbe no entraunce for the Queen's fleet, what weather so ever happen; for Blewatt, and Brest, and Belsho ar theirs. The Spanishe shipps ar huge; wherof eyght ar betwen 800 and 1000 toones; 10 shipps more, of good burden; divers galles, and full filde with soldiers. hope also that your Lordship will remember it is the Queen's honor and saufty to assaile and not defende. And, for ought I here, your Lordship's fleet wilbe far to weake. I I hope your Lordship will take my remembrance in good part. And if your Lordship will vouchsaife [to ask] her Majesty for me to attend you privatly in her service, I hope I shall stand your Lordship in the place of a poore marriner or soldier. I have no other desire but to serve her Majestye. And seinge I deserve nor place, nor honor, nor rewarde, I hope it wilbe easely graunted,—if I be not condemned to the grave; no libertye nor hope left that ether tyme or the geving of my life may recover, or be a sacrifice for, my offences. I hope your Lordship will not forgett my desire, or that I am evermore Your most assured poore kynsman to serve you, Sherburne, the 21 of June [1594]. Addressed: W. RALEGH. To the right honorable my singuler good Lord, the Lord Admirall of Inglande, in haste. Endorsed [erroneously, being in the hand of a clerk to Sir Robert Cecil]: 21 Junii, 1594. Sir Walter Rauleighe to my Master. LETTER XLIV. 1594. June 21. XLV. TO SIR ROBERT CECIL. From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. xxvii. fol. 46 (Hatfield). Holograph. The address is in the hand of an amanuensis. SIR, It IT seemeth that the late advertisement of the Spanishe preparacions is now confirmed, and this last weeke ther weare three great Spanishe men of warr, that gave chace to an Inglishe shipp and her too prizes, and drave them yeven to the very mouth of Dartmouth. is likely that all our Newfounland men wilbe taken up by them if they be not speedely driven from the coast, for in the beginninge of August our Newland1 fleet ar expected, which ar above a hundred sayle. If thos should be lost, it would be the greatest blow that ever was geven to Ingland. I beseich you to remember my leve to go privatly expedition to Brittany. 1 So in MS. |