Collection of documents, 1620-1642 and undated
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘A brief collection taken out of the customers’ accompts remayning in the custody of the Clerke of the Pipe’: extracts relating to tonnage and poundage, beginning in the reign of King Edward III; (2) notes of a grant to be made about the year 1629, endorsed ‘Breddon Forrest for Mr Chauncellor’; (3) appointment by Sir John Michell, a master in chancery, of Robert Henley, one of the six clerks, to appear for him in the matter of Dame Thomasin Carew, 24 January 1620; (4) Warrant with the signature and seal of King Charles I for a grant of lands in Skenfryth, Monmouthshire, and of pasture on the wastes of Cowberne, Lancashire, addressed to ‘Edward lord Newburgh Chancellour of our dutchye of Lancaster’, Westminster, 10 Jan. 6 Car. I., endorsed ‘Jan. 1630 A warrant for the supply of a value of 4li 15s for my Lo. of Munmouth’; (5) oath (in English) titled ‘Juramentum examinatorum cancellar’; (6) depositions in a case between Lord Newburgh on the one part, and Mr James and Mr Robert Fenn on the other, by John Lawrence and Richard Broughton; (7) petition of Viscount Chaworth to Lord Keeper Coventry in a chancery suit, 5 August 1630; (8) copies of warrants for payment of pensions and wages; (9) a summary, or an index to some book, of ‘disbursements’; (10) 11 letters from George Henley to his brother Robert Henley, 1635-1642 and undated, with a letter from Robert Street to Gabriell Elliot, at Robert Henley’s, 20 July 1642; (11) report of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London to the Lord Keeper Littleton, concerning the customs of the city of London as to a child’s share of an estate, in the case of Lord Newburgh v. Fenn, 28 July 1641; (12) ‘Inquisitio capta apud Brecon, 2 Nov. 4 et 5 Phil. et Mar. coram commissionariis dictorum regis et reginæ ad dividendum et separandum omnia terras et tenementa ac possessiones spirituales dictorum dominorum regis et reginæ a terris ac possessionibus temporalibus existent. infra comitat. de Brecknock’, apparently a copy.
Dates
- Creation: 1620-1642 and undated
Creator
- Charles, I, 1600-1649 (King of England, Scotland, and Ireland) (Person)
- Chaworth, George, d 1639 (1st Viscount Chaworth) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Extent
1 volume(s)
Language of Materials
Latin
English
Custodial History
In the Library by the mid 1750s.
Physical Description
Paper.
Repository Details
Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository
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