To old Mr. Harden, et To the Kinges Musicions, 4 com . vjli vjli Summa tot. lxxxvijli WILLM. SEGAR, Garter. FEES AND EXPENSES OF CREATION. [The succeeding is the account of the mode in which Sir Arthur Mainwaring disbursed £99. 178. 9d. on the occasion of Lord Ellesmere's elevation to the rank of a Viscount.] Indorsed by the first Earl of Bridgewater "Fees at my father's being created Viscount Brackley." 9 November, 1616. Rec. of Mr. Tho. Whilbe to dis charge fees for my Lord's creation of Viscount Brackley, the somme of cli Unde: payd severall fees to the King's servants, ac CAMD. SOC. 12. 3Q cordinge to a noate sett downe and subscribed by Mr. Garter, the somme of More disbursed A reward to yonge Mr. St. George Reward to the Keepers of the Counsell Chamber 7o Decemb. 1616. 1616. 87li ¡li 28 lli 28 3li 13s 4d lli 6s 8d 31 Decemb. Delivered by me to my cosin Marburye to make up 33li 12s 4d the somme of 34li 8s 10d for your Lop.'s rewards the last Newyeres tyde in Court, I say added by me Soe the totall by me disbursed is 3li 15s 3d Oli 16s 6d .99li 178 gd 28 3d ARTH. MAYNWARINGE. Soe there remayneth due to your Lop. THE KING'S INTERFERENCE IN CHANCERY. [The following is the first and, as far as appears, the last Privy Seal addressed by James I. to Viscount Brackley, by that title. It relates to the speedy termination of a private suit, and authorizes the Lord Chancellor to call to his aid in deciding it the new Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Sir Henry Montagu, who had just succeeded Sir Edward Coke. For a somewhat similar interposition see p. 464.] To our right trusty and right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor, the Lord Vicomt Brackley, our Chancellor of England. JAMES R. RIGHT trustie and right welbeloved Counsellor, we greet you well. It is not unknowen unto you how often we have been importuned in the cause depending between Sir Richard Champernon and the heyres of the Earle of Devonshire deceased; wherof we were desirous that a finall end should have been long since made; which neverthelesse could not be so long as our late Chief Justice, who was one of the assessors, stood upon his removiall from that place. Wherefore, that hinderance being now taken away, we have thought fitt to signifie our pleasure unto you, that you take unto you our now Chief Justice of our Bench in the place of the other, together with the other assistantes that have hitherto been employed in that business, and use all your endeavours to make an end thereof this terme, according to the Justice and equitie of the cause, that so both the parties themselves may be eased of the great paines and charge they have been at in prosecuting the same, and we our self freed from their continuall importunitie. Given under our signet, at our Pallace of Westminster, the fower and twentith day of November, in the fowerteenth yeere of our raigne of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the fyftythe. MUSTER-MASTER OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. [The writer of the ensuing letter had been created Viscount Villiers, on the 27th August preceding its date. On the 5th January following (Camden's "Annals" in Kennett ii. 647) he was raised to the rank of Duke of Buckingham.] Indorsed," Rec. 19 Decembris, 1616. In behalfe of Mr. Cotterell to be Muster Mr in the Com. of Buck." To my very worthy frend, Sir John Egerton, knt. SIR, I have written joyntly to your self and the rest of my deputie Lieutenantes recommending Clement Cottrell, my servant, unto your favor to be made Mustermaster of Buckinghamshire. And though I doubt not but the notice you will take therein of my desire to doe him good will suffice, yet I could not so satisfie my self without writing singly to you, upon whose love toward me I most relye, and with whome I take more libertie then with the rest, assuring my self that you will give your best furtherance to any reasonable thing I affect. This therefore I recommend unto you as a businesse of myne own, being for one of whose honest and civill carriage I have had long tryall, and for whome I accompt that I cannot doe more then he hath deserved. I knowe it is needelesse to use more wordes, when the least touch of my desire you for using your best meanes to effect it, and is sufficient with Your very affectionate frend at command, niliers Newmarkett, Decemb. 1616. WADHAM COLLEGE, OXFORD. [Mrs. Dorothy Wadham writes to Lord Brackley respecting my college," as if her late husband had had no concern in the foundation of it. Vide Chalmers' Hist. of Un. Oxford, p. 405. To the right honorable my very good Lord, Thomas Lord Ellesmere, Vicount Brackley, Lord Chancelor of England, these. RIGHT HONORABLE, Having lately understood that your Lordshipp hath been pleased out of your honorable disposition to respect my College in Oxford, and to afford it your honorable countenance when it was enforced to troubles by such as should rather have laboured to better it then to undermine it, whereby (were it not for your honorable favour) it had receyved a great losse without recovery, I hold it my duty (both in respect of this and many other your Lordshipp's honorable favours towards me) to make this meane acknowledgment of my thankfullnes, beseechinge the continuance of your Lordshipp's honorable favour towards my College. And soe, with my prayers for the encrease of your Lordship's honor, health, and happines, and with the remembrance of my duty and service I rest Your Lordship's to be comaunded, From Edge, the 28th of January, 1616. সে |
