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9 February 1641 -- Petition of Arthur O'Keife; has been a captain beyond seas, and done His Majesty good service in the wars; has long been in prison, and now merely for fees amounting to £4 10s; his wife and children are in great distress; prays for a comfortable gift towards his releasement.

9 February 1641 -- Petition of inhabitants of Great Walldingfield, Suffolk; for consideration of articles of grievance against their minister, Andrew Sandiland, a Scotchman.

Annexed:

1 Articles of grievance.

9 February 1641 -- Copy of petition of Nicholas Bloxam, clerk, for restoration to the living of Great Walldingfield, Suffolk, from which he has been expelled on a charge of simony by Andrew Sandiland.

9 February 1641 -- Petition of John Swaddell, and other inhabitants of Wootton, in the county of Somerset; Wootton is a hamlet, with a chapel-of-ease, about a mile from the parish church of Pilton, and by a very ancient composition of one mark, the vicar of Pilton is bound to perform service there on Sundays; about eight years ago the present vicar, Mr Nathaniel Abbott, procured a sentence " in the court of the now Chauntor," and on appeal in the Arches Court denying the service, except on payment of certain rates; pray for redress.

9 February 1641 -- Petition of Tobie Pallavicine against Sir Francis Clarke, Knight, and others, touching a mortgage of two leases of the manor of Foxton, in the county of Cambridge.

Annexed:

1 Petition of Rose Meade and others; that certain alterations may be made in an order of the 30th of January last, in the cause above-mentioned.

2 Copy of preceding.

9 February 1641 -- Petition of Robert Cooke, of Painswick, in the county of Gloucester, clothier, and William Hanman, mariner, on behalf of themselves and others, in the county of Gloucester.

Annexed:

1 Articles against Sir Ralph Dutton.

9 February 1641 -- Petition of John James, of Olney, in the county of Bucks.

Annexed:

1 Warrant of the High Commission Court for the attachment of John James.

9 February 1641 -- Copy of the Petition of Mary Wheeler, widow; in 1635, petitioner's late husband, churchwarden of St Botolph's, Colchester, was ordered by Dr Aylet to rail in the communion table, for refusing to do which, he was excommunicated and obliged to fly the country: prays for redress.

9 February 1641 -- Draft order referring the petition of Thomas Wiseman to the Lord Privy Seal for hearing.

9 February 1641 -- Another draft.

9 February 1641 -- Draft order referring the petition of Alexander Shapley and others to Sir William Russell to give them satisfaction of their debts within ten days.

9 February 1641 -- Petition of John Sedgwick, clerk, and the parishioners of Bisley, in the county of Gloucester.

9 February 1641 -- Draft order for Sedgwick to be restored, so long as Layford continues a prisoner.

9 February 1641 -- Order for Sir Henry Marten and William Langhorne to answer the petition of Robert Harris.

9 February 1641 -- Draft order for Edmond Fisher and Symon Baker to answer the petition of Lady Cope.

9 February 1641 -- Draft order upon a petition of Lady Lee, that she shall have the benefit of a bond securing her an allowance from Sir John Lee.

9 February 1641 -- Petition of Henry Beaufou against Thomas Chamberlaine and Richard Chamberlaine, clerk of the Court of Wards, his father-in-law: claims right of redemption of the manors of Salford and Barford, and the advowson of the church of Salford mortgaged by petitioner's father in 1622 to Sir Thomas Chamberlaine (now in HL/PO/JO/10/4).

Annexed:

1 Copy of order in Chancery in the cause. 24 June 1639.

9 February 1641 -- Petition of William Palmer: for reversal of a decree in Chancery in a suit brought against him by Martha Gray (now in HL/PO/JO/10/4).

Annexed:

1 Petition of same; has been arrested and imprisoned in the Fleet: prays that his petition may be read, and that he may have the protection of the House whilst prosecuting his suit.

9 February 1641 -- Petition of John Watkins, B.D.: Henry Morgan, clerk, was lately presented to the rectory of St Fagan's; but a charge of simony was brought against him, and petitioner obtained presentation from the King. Morgan is dead; but the Bishop of Llandaff will not institute petitioner upon the King's title: prays for relief.

9 February 1641 -- Petition of Richard Weoley, parish clerk of St Botolph, Without Bishopsgate, London: his wife Mary by petition to the House has obtained the reference of her case to Dr Duck, who, besides £14 per annum and a house, formerly settled for her maintenance by Sir John Lambe, has urged petitioner to give her £6 per annum more, and £5 toward payment of her debts; petitioner is quite unable to do this, and it is through his wife's unbridled carriage, that he is in debt himself: prays that she may be ordered to return to his house, or to be satisfied with £14 per annum and a lodging.

Annexed:

1 Affidavit that petitioner has not more than £127 per annum to support himself, his wife, six children, and an aged aunt of his wife. 23 January 1641.

9 February 1641 -- Sir Filibert Vernatti's charge against Mr Latch: touching certain bond debts and annuities.

Annexed:

1 Answer of John Latch to Vernatti's petition.

2 Statement of the case by Latch.

3 Heads of the charge against Vernatti.

9 February 1641 -- Petition of Margaret Frith, relict of James Frith, deceased, and of Richard Weston, guardian to Humphrey and Ann Alcock, orphan children of Richard Alcock. Frith, a surgeon in the East India Company's service, was killed by the Moors at the factory at Iambe. Alcock, also a surgeon in the Company's service died at the River Armagan: petitioners pray for payment of certain sums, which they allege to be due from the company to the estates of Frith and Alcock respectively.

Annexed:

1 Certificate that the company is not indebted to the petitioners. Signed by the governor, Christopher Clitherow, and the deputy, William Cokayne.

2 Accounts of James Frith and Richard Alcock with the East India Company.

9 February 1641 -- Draft order referring the preceding petition to the governor of the East India Company for satisfaction.

9 February 1641 -- Another draft.

9 February 1641 -- Petition of Andrew Badger, a poor prisoner in the Fleet. Thomas Sallowes surreptitiously obtained a verdict against him in the court of King's Bench, upon which he was taken in execution and cast into prison: prays for his discharge. Noted, with order for the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench to certify how the cause stands in that court.

Annexed:

1 Certificate of Justice Brampston in compliance with preceding order.

9 February 1641 -- Petition of Mathew Brownrigg of Clopton, in the county of Suffolk, clerk. Robert Brownrigg was possessed of estates in Suffolk, and at his death the wardship of his only child Elizabeth, was committed to her mother, who afterwards married Mathew Wren, now Bishop of Ely, the bishop obtained license from the King on false grounds for the ward Elizabeth to suffer a common recovery for raising money, and has thereby sold away much of her estate and settled the rest failing issue of her body on his own children, to the disinheritance of petitioner, the heir-at-law: prays that the recovery may be vacated.

9 February 1641 -- Petition of inhabitants of Chipping Campden, in the county of Gloucester: about 154 years ago, one John Darbie gave to the free school and poor of the parish the manor of Fines Court, in the county of Oxford, the profits of which were received by the churchwardens of Chipping Campden for many years, until by the fraudulent conduct of Sir James Mervin, Sir John Walter, and others, the inhabitants have been almost entirely deprived of the profits of the said lands: pray for redress.

10 February 1641 -- Petition of Richard Wright, for relief against his father, who has married his daughter's maid, and cheated petitioner out of certain property due to him in reversion.

10 February 1641 -- Petition of Dame Elizabeth Slingsby. Petitioner and her late husband Sir William Slingsby had one daughter Elizabeth, who was without their knowledge married to Chichester, son of Sir Faithful Fortescue: the marriage was kept secret until after Sir William's death who left his daughter £2,000 Sir Faithful entered into an agreement to settle a jointure on his daughter-in-law, but has made secret conveyances by which he avoids carrying out the agreement: he and his son, who has left his wife and child with petitioner, are in Ireland, and therefore cannot be reached by legal proceedings in England: prays that Sir Faithful Fortescue may be ordered to show how his estate stands, and to execute his agreement, or at least that the £2,000 may be secured.

Annexed:

1 Agreement by Sir Faithful Fortescue referred to in preceding. 14 May 1638.

10 February 1641 -- Petition of Marcus Brand, that one Nevill may be ordered to discover the residence of his brother-in-law Hamfreville, for whose apprehension a warrant has been issued by the House, on a charge of counterfeiting a protection from the Earl of Castlehaven [Lord Audley].

10 February 1641 -- Copy of preceding.

10 February 1641 -- Report from committee for petitions in the cause between Richard Lee, clerk, and Thomas Leveson, touching the prebend of Willenhall.

Annexed:

1 Four drafts of the order of the committee for petitions on which the report is founded.

2 Petition of Richard Lee, that his title to the prebend may be declared, and that Thomas Leveson may be ordered to pay costs.

3 Copy of a decree in Chancery referred to in preceding.

4 Petition of Thomas Leveson, that Richard Lee, who holds the prebend of Willenhall, and Caesar Calandrine, who holds the prebend of Hatherton, may be left to a remedy in law, and have no benefit of the decree in equity made in the cause.

5 Petition of Caesar Calandrine, clerk and prebendary of the prebend of Hatherton, in the parish church collegiate of Wolverhampton, to be restored to the possession of the profits of the said prebend, and for satisfaction for the expense he has incurred.

10 February 1641 -- Order referring the Earl of Nottingham's cause to the committee for petition.

10 February 1641 -- Petition of Gilbert Wells against Thomas Westropp, who has already been, convicted in the Star Chamber of cheating petitioner with false dice, and is now attempting, by petitioning: the House, to avoid trial at Winchester assizes: prays that Westropp may be ordered to give security to appear.

10 February 1641 -- Answers of Sir John Brampston, Lord Chief-Justice of the King's Bench, to the interrogatories put to him in the case of the Lord Keeper Finch.

Annexed:

1 Copy of case referred to in preceding. Verbatim.

10 February 1641 -- Petition of Antony Sterling and Margaret Borrett, complain of a sentence in the Star Chamber in a suit long abated but revived by one Folks, clerk, who has thereby paused Sterling to be imprisoned, and has expelled his wife and children from their home with great violence.

10 February 1640-1941 -- Petition Of John Gell for hearing of his case against the Lord Chaworth, touching a lease of the manors of Werton [Warton] and Tythby.

10 February 1641 -- Petition of James Crichton, a native of Scotland; came to England in 1633 hoping to obtain recovery of certain lands from his uncle, James Steward; in 1638 was committed prisoner by the Lords of the Council upon the information of the Attorney-General, though no charge was specified, and again, in 1640, was imprisoned in Newgate as a traitor, his papers being seized and searched, but no charge brought against him, except that he was a Scotchman: prays for redress.

10 February 1641 -- Draft order appointing the hearing of the cause of John Hassell against William Nevill, Mary Reynolds, and John Page.

10 February 1641 -- Petition of Richard Reynolds, clerk, prays to be restored to the parsonage of Oddington, Oxon. In 1635 the late Bishop of Oxford declined to institute petitioner in consequence of a letter received from the late Lord Keeper. Coventry, and litigation has been going on ever since.

11 February 1641 -- Petition of Sir John Lambe, Knight, and Arthur Ducke, Doctor of Laws, are sentenced to pay damages to Mary Wheeler for setting their hands to a warrant or attachment of the High Commission Court; they have never been heard, and therefore pray that the sentence may be respited.

11 February 1641 -- Copy of proposition of the Scots about their seventh demand, viz., that the declaration made against them as traitors might be recalled.

11 February 1641 -- The Lords Commissioners, answer to preceding.

11 February 1641 -- Draft order, that Mary Clarke, Francis Brooke, and Catherine Brooke, may amend their Bill in-Chancery against the Lord Mowbray.

11 February 1641 -- Another draft.

11 February 1641 -- Draft order, etc. for attachment of Mr. Salsterstall and Mr. Browne.

11 February 1641 -- Order that the claims of Latham and others, the creditors of the late Earl of Carlisle, be tried in Chancery, notwithstanding a decree in the Court of Wards, and that Ellis Wynne and the rest of the servants of the Earl may join in the suit.

11 February 1641 -- Draft of preceding.

Annexed:

1 Petition of Sir James Hay and Archibald Hay. The late Earl of Carlisle being seized in fee by grant from His Majesty of the Caribbee Islands and of the government thereof, conveyed the same to petitioners in trust for payment of his debts; they are molested in the management of the islands by the present Earl, who denies their right to the government, without which the trust would be useless: pray for a decision on this point.

2 Petition of William Latham and others, creditors of the late Earl of Carlisle: are checked from proceeding at law for recovery of their debts, by an order, of the Court of Wards at the suit of the present Earl of Carlisle, who also interferes in the government of the Caribee Islands. Pray for redress.

12 February 1641 -- Petition of John Weld, servant to the Earl of Nottingham, complains of his arrest at the suit of one Forest, contrary to privilege.

12 February 1641 -- Petition of Elizabeth Clarke, widow. Petitioner's husband, Captain Peter Clarke, was murdered by Lewis Kirke, Henry Lord Morley, and one Johnson; but the grand jury, who found Kirke guilty, found an ignoramus against Lord Morley, who really gave Clarke his death wound. Prays for consideration of the charge against his Lordship.

Annexed:

1 Petition of same that the hearing of her case may be deferred on account of the difficulty of finding her witnesses.

2 Francis Littleton to Lord Morley. Has heard of a plot against his life and honour, the prosecutor of which is Mrs Clarke; will meet his Lordship, if he please, this afternoon in Gray's Inn Walks, to acquaint him therewith.

12 February 1641 -- Draft order for production of the bond for 100,000 marks, mentioned in the case between Sir Filibert Vernatti and Mr Latch.

12 February 1641 -- Draft order for attendance of Fisher, Salisbury, and Davidge, with the vestry books, on the trial of the case between them and George Whipp.

12 February 1641 -- Draft order for Henry Twentyman, and others, to give security for their appearance at the suit of John Batty.

13 February 1641 -- Petition of the Earl of Strafford, for a longer time to put in his answer.

13 February 1641 -- The examination of Sir Foulke Hounckes in the Earl of Strafford's case.

15 February 1641 -- Petition of the Honourable Wm. Arundell and the Eight Hon. Mary Lady St. John, his wife; are indicted for recusancy in the county of Wilts; pray for removal of the trial to the Court of King's Bench by certiorari, on account of the infirmity of Wm. Arundell, and because they have important suits pending in London.

15 February 1641 -- List those who have visited Sir George Radcliffe from the 6th to the 13th instant.

15 February 1641 -- Draft order that Geo. Fisher, Edwd. Salisbury, and John Davidge, churchwardens of St. Ethelborough, shall remain in custody till they have performed their Lordships former order.

15 February 1641 -- Petition of William Latham and others, creditors of the late Earl of Carlisle. It has recently been discovered that certain lands in Ireland, which should have been available for payment of the Earl's debts, have been sold to the Earl of Stratford for £15,000; they pray that the said lands may be made chargeable for payment of their claims.

16 February 1641 -- Petition of William Speringe. Petitioner gave 40s. to one Benbrigg for a protection, stated to be under the hand and seal of Lord Fauconbridge; and 40s. more for a renewal of the same. Benbrigg is now in the Fleet for forging the said protections. Prays that before his discharge he may be ordered to repay the £4 paid by petitioner.

16 February 1641 -- Petition of the Earl of Strafford for fourteen days further time to put in his answer.

16 February 1641 -- Draft order for Sir Richard Skeffington, Knight, and others, to answer the petition of Symon Rugeley.

17 February 1641 -- Petition of Edward Bagshaw and others, children of Thomas Bagshaw, deceased. Edward Bagshaw was brought up as a Romish recusant for twenty-eight years, but being sick desired to go to the Church; he was, however, kept close prisoner by his father and afterwards by his younger brother Thomas, to whom, in hope of obtaining his liberty, he made a conveyance of his estate; he finally managed to escape, but was arrested for debt by the under-sheriff of Derbyshire, and again forced to enter into agreement with his brother Thomas, who keeps him and his brothers and sisters out of their portions. Prays for redress.

17 February 1641 -- Petition of Thomas Williams [to the House of Commons], prays for relief against John Vaughan, a solicitor, who, having arrested petitioner for £13, caused him to be again arrested for the same money after payment made.

17 February 1641 -- Petition of Humphrey Leigh, sergeant-at-arms. Has ever attended the Lord Keeper to the House and been employed to bring delinquents to the bar, carry them to prison, etc.; but Mr. Maxwell, Gentleman usher of the Black Rod, has lately upon some pretence obtained an order that he and his deputies only shall perform these duties. Prays to be heard by counsel in favour of his claim.

17 February 1641 -- Petition of Robert Sharpe [to the House of Commons]. A commission was appointed some years ago to enquire into the question of fees in the ecclesiastical and temporal courts; great benefit was derived from this commission until one John Dibley, clerk to the Commissioners, by taking bribes from the persons questioned, brought the commission into disrepute; many delinquents have since obtained letters patent authorising their exactions. Prays for consideration of the matter.

Annexed:

1 List of offices of which letters patent were granted.

17 February 1641 -- Memoranda taken out of the journal book of various proceedings in the House, on this and subsequent days.

17 February 1641 -- Petition of John Archer, of South-wark, haberdasher; against Robert Keene, of Kingston, clerk, and his daughter Elizabeth, against whom petitioner has proceeded in the Arches and High Commission Courts for breach of promise of marriage; has obtained a sentence in his favour, for not performing which the said Robert and Elizabeth Keene are excommunicated. Prays for further redress.

Some documents may have been removed from this file to the Parchment Collection, the Large Parchments or the Parchment Main Papers. Where this has occurred it is noted in brackets in the descriptions above. Please see relevant entries in the Parchment Collection (HL/PO/JO/10/2), Large Parchments (HL/PO/JO/10/3) or Parchment Main Papers (HL/PO/JO/10/4) for further details.

See Journals of the House of Lords for the same date for entries relating to the laying of these papers.

Calendared in HMC 4th Report, pp 49-52