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 CONTENTS. 
 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 J INTRODUCTION - v 
 
 h 
 
 EEPOET 1 
 
 INDEX - - - 435 
 
 212738
 
 The whole of the text of this volume, including the 
 introduction, was prepared, on behalf of the Historical 
 Manuscripts Commissioners, by Mr. J. H. WYLIE, M.A., D.Litt., 
 who only lived, however, to pass the first 160 pages finally 
 through the press. The remainder has been passed by his 
 son, Mr. JAMES WYLIE, Barrister-at-Law, who has followed 
 his father's manuscript exactly except for some minor verbal 
 alterations. 
 
 The index has been compiled by Miss Ethel George.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 In Tudor days the City of Exeter was fortunate in having 
 as custodian of its records a learned and travelled man who, 
 besides taking an active part in the events of his own time, 
 had a keen perception of the value of original documentary 
 evidence as a guide to an accurate knowledge of the historic 
 past. John Vowell alias Hooker,* as he usually calls himself, 
 was born at Exeter about the year 1526, and on Sept. 21, 
 1555,f was appointed the first chamberlain of his native city. 
 On May 20, 1568 (Book 51, f. 3556) he went to Ireland at the 
 request of Sir Peter Carew "for the recovery of certain land 
 appertant to the inheritance " of his patron, and while there 
 he sat in the Irish Parliament of that year as a representative 
 of Athenry. In the following yearj he received official per- 
 mission to print the Statutes and Acts of Parliaments of 
 Ireland, but as this was to be "at his own charges," it is 
 not surprising that the proposal seems to have come to nothing. 
 After a three years' stay he returned to England and sat 
 as one of the two burgesses who represented the City of Exeter 
 in the Parliament that met at Westminster on April 2nd, 
 1571, and his diary of attendance at that Parliament, together 
 with his claim for wages, is still preserved among the City 
 archives (see Book 60A). After this he was employed in a 
 re-issue of Holinshed's Chronicle, to which he contributed 
 the section on Ireland]) and the account of the " commotion " 
 at Exeter in 1549,^| during which he had himself been present. 
 In addition to his office as Chamberlain, he held at various 
 times the offices of Coroner of the City, Bailiff of the Manor of 
 Exiland, Collector of the Small Custom, and Judge of the 
 Admiralty in the County of Devon**, in all of which 
 capacities we have abundant evidence of his activity still 
 preserved in the City records. 
 
 In 1561 Queen Elizabeth granted a Charter for the estab- 
 lishment of a Court of Orphans, the members of which were 
 charged as trustees with the administration of the estates 
 of deceased citizens. As Chamberlain Hooker was the 
 
 * He often calls himself John Vowell alias Hooker, or John Hooker alias 
 Vowell, owing to his descent from the family of Vowell of Pembroke. See 
 Transactions of Devonshire Association, July, 1882, p. 636. 
 
 f Act Book II, /. 1426, has an entry on that date : " John Hoker to be 
 Chamberleyn of the said Citee." See also Oliver, 242. 
 
 J i.e. March 20, 1569, Cal. of Carew MSS., i, 387. 
 
 Holinsh., ii, 121 ; Oliver, 246. He also represented Exeter in the 
 Parliament that met at Westminster, Oct. 15, 1586. Return of Members, I, 
 417. 
 
 j| i.e. Vol. II in the edition of 1586. 
 
 II Holinsh., iii, p. 1007. 
 ** To this office he was appointed on April 5, 1566. See Book 57.
 
 VI 
 
 president of this Court, and details in connexion with its 
 proceedings occur frequently among the records, while under 
 the social stress occasioned by the dissolution of the religious 
 houses he interested himself keenly in the pressing questions 
 of providing work for the poor and free schooling for their 
 children, both of which topics also are fully illustrated in 
 the collection. 
 
 In 1575 he published " Orders enacted for Orphans &c." 
 (see Book 51, /. 1336), preceded by an Epistle Dedicatory 
 addressed to " the Mayor and Senators," in which he spoke of 
 himself as " beeing many times privy of your dooings and 
 present hi your councyls " (p. 56), adding that : " it is lamentable 
 to see what troupes and clusters of children boyes and elder 
 persons lye loytering and floistering in every corner of the 
 citie " and that " great shewes have been made and attempts 
 pretended for erecting of the Hospitall and for employing of 
 such idle children in some honest artes, but of these great 
 blothes cometh small frutes " (p. 9) ; that " these swarm in 
 clusters in every corner of your citie and for want of good 
 education and nurturing doo growe to be thornes and thistles," 
 and that "it is your juste and bounden dutie to provide for 
 the education, instruction and whatsoever is necessary for 
 suche," and " as you have been and yet are careful and studious 
 to doo what in you lieth for the erection of an hospitall, a 
 thing in respect of the poore destitute and helpless children 
 necessary and expedient to be done, so am I in good hope 
 of your like affection, zeale and good will for and in the erecting 
 and establishing of a free gramer school within this citie, 
 a thing no more needful then most necessary for the general 
 education of children of all sorts and degrees in learning " 
 (p. 22), and "although your beginnings be hard and have 
 many sisemies [sic] which doe what they may to hinder the 
 same, yet you know that of hard beginnings come good endings 
 and good attempts have good success " (p. 226). 
 
 Hooker died at Exeter in 1601, and the last entry in the 
 Act Book of that year (Act Book V, /. 276) records that on 
 Sept. 15, 1601, the chamber " have elected in the steade of 
 John Hooker, Chamberlyn, deceased, William Tickell to be 
 Chamberlyn of the said Cittie." 
 
 As chamberlain, Hooker had official charge of the City 
 Records, but before his appointment we have some earlier 
 evidence as to their custody. Thus in Book 56, /. 566 (temp. 
 Ed. IV), in the oath of the Common Attorney, occur these 
 words : " Also all suche evydences, charters, escrypts, and 
 munyments as heirafter shall come to yowr hands ye schall 
 se them safely and secretly kept and to redelyver them 
 agayn;" t and in Book 52, /. 5056, Dec. 11, 1510, under the 
 heading " Recordes and Recorder " is the following note : 
 " Everye Mayor at the ende of his yere and before the newe 
 Mayor do take his othe shall cause the Recordes of the yere 
 past to be brought yn to the Counsell Chamber and there to
 
 Vll 
 
 remayne in the place apoynted for the safekeepinge of the 
 sayde Recordes." 
 
 Towards the end of his life, when he found himself " unweldye 
 and imperfecte," and when, as he says : " My sight waxeth 
 Dymme, my hyringe very thycke, my speche imperfecte and 
 my memory very feeble," John Hooker summed up his work 
 in connexion with the Exeter Records in a letter* which he 
 wrote to the Mayor, Senators and Commonalty, in which 
 the following interesting passage occurs : 
 
 Of his duties when first appointed Chamberlain he writes : 
 
 " I was loyned to suche persons of that house (i.e. the 
 Chamber of Exeter) as were appointed to veiwe, peruse and 
 examyne all the Recordes, writinges and evidences which 
 were then out of order and by mann's Remembraunce not 
 before Donne by any. And what was then Donne was layed 
 up in the places of your thresury as was meete. But after- 
 wards by Meanes and Casualties and by reason of my absentes 
 in other affayres all was Confused and out of order. And then 
 I was once againe fayne to Reforme and reviewe the same, 
 but yet it was not so well Donne as I wyshed and ought to be. 
 Nowe therefore once more and the thirde tyme 1 have perused 
 and Reveiwed the same in the best order I cann and caused 
 places to be appointed and presses to be made with kayes 
 and lockes and with a booke wherein I have Registred every 
 writinge and Rolls of all such evidences as then Remayned 
 all which nowe I have Caused to be locked up in salfitie without 
 farther spoyle and the keyes to Remayne in your owne 
 Custodye." 
 
 These keys, presses and boxes have all now disappeared and 
 I cannot with any confidence identify the " book " to which 
 Hooker here refers ;f but a few months before his death, viz., 
 on Jan. 26, 1601, he handed in to the Chamber a document 
 which fortunately is still preserved. J 
 
 This he called: "A viewe and survey of all the Recordes, 
 Evidences, Charters and Writinges whatsoever appertaininge to 
 the Chambre and Citie of Excester," in which he refers to the 
 documents as placed in 43 boxes, which appear to have been 
 kept in presses which he refers to as the " great press," the 
 " new press " and the " Presse behynde the dore ; " and 
 though none of them have actually survived, I have found 
 a few occasional references to them here and there. 
 
 Thus in Act Book II, f. 191, Nov. 10, 1559, is a note that the 
 Indentures of " prenteshod " of an apprentice were brought 
 into "the Guyldhall and put into the presse in a box of 
 letters." 
 
 * See Prefatory Epistle in Book 52, published by Reynolds from MS. 3,530 
 (not 3,520) in the Chapter Muniments. Hist. MSS. Various Collections 
 IV, 33. Also in Harte, pp. 1-7. 
 
 t It may perhaps be Book 56 or 57. 
 j It is now filed 
 
 at the end of Mr. S. Moore's Calendar, though it may be 
 doubted if that is really the safest place if the Calendar is to be frequently 
 consulted. I have printed it verbatim at the end of this Introduction.
 
 Vlll 
 
 In Act Book VII, /. 1706 (Sept., 1619), a document is referred 
 to as "put into Sir John Acland's Chest amongst his other 
 wrytinges." 
 
 In 1624, when John Prouse proposed to send from London 
 a copy of James I's answer to the Houses of Parliament, he 
 suggested that it was " worthie the keping in the Cittie's 
 Chamber." L. 268. 
 
 In 1656 the early deeds belonging to Wynard's Charity 
 were kept "in a box for that purpose ordained with other 
 writings and records of the City," where they " had been 
 kept for many years before." Gidley, p. 14 ; Act Book X, 
 /. 78. 
 
 In Act Book X, /. 78, Oct. 14, 1656, deeds relating to Irish 
 lands were "putt into the boxe;" on Jan. 5, 1669, some 
 of the City Charters when returned from London were " putt 
 in one of ye boxes in ye Councell Chamber," Act Book XI, 
 /. 83; and when Dr. Oliver was examining the collection in 
 1821 he made the following entries in his calendar : 
 
 Aug. 28, 29, 1821. Mr. Jones and Mr. Campion employed 
 in arranging and putting away the old parchments 
 and Papers found in the Presses of the Receiver's Office. 
 Book 60m., p. 338. 
 
 Dec. 15, 1821. Arranging, dating, marking and putting 
 away in the Press opposite the Door of the Private Hafi 
 all the Books belonging to the Chamber. Ibid., p. 305. 
 
 Hooker's example bore excellent fruit, and in the hands of 
 Samuel Izacke, who was Town Clerk from 1624 to 1647, 
 the documents become much more abundant, and most 
 of them are carefully docketed hi the Town Clerk's own 
 hand. 
 
 On Oct. 25, 1653, his son Richard Izacke* was appointed 
 Chamberlain. He indexed the first ten volumes of the 
 Chamber's Act Books, and continued the docketing of the 
 detached documents, and his first-hand acquaintance with 
 the whole of the collection is evidenced by the frequent 
 occurrence of his handwriting on the margins and faces of the 
 originals, though his endorsements are not always quite accurate. 
 In 1677 he published his " Remarkable Antiquities of the City 
 of Exeter," in compiling which he is now generally credited 
 with " unacknowledged pilfering " from Hooker's materials,! 
 but in the copy of his Memorials of the City of Exeter " still 
 existing in MS. among the Records (Book 53), he refers to 
 " the indefatigable labours of my princifide predecessor in 
 this place and office, the learned Mr. John Hooker, whose 
 workes bespeake him famous within our gates." 
 
 Richard Izacke's work was re-edited and continued by 
 his son Samuel, who was the City Chamberlain from 1693 to 
 1729. 
 
 * For an account of him by the late Dr. T. N. Brushfield, see Transactions 
 of Devon Association (1893), vol. xxv, pp. 449-469. 
 f Freeman, 154.
 
 IX 
 
 On April 22, 1755,* the Town Clerk (Benjamin Heath) 
 and Surveyor were directed to put in order the Books, Deeds 
 and Evidences in the Council Chamber and get the said Books 
 properly titled. Mr. Heath's account for this business is 
 still extant,f and in the course of it he says : " I sorted out 
 and put in order the Charters, Records, Deeds and Evidences 
 in the Council Chamber &c. These, which were all confused 
 and mixed together, are separated and placed in distinct 
 compartiments. Records of the Mayor's Court &c. were 
 examined, sorted and distributed under their several heads 
 into the boxes according to their respective titles. The doing 
 this at two different periods took me up above 3 months." 
 
 In Nov., 1820, Dr. George Oliver, f the historian of Exeter, 
 assisted by Mr. Pitman Jones and Mr. Campion, was employed 
 by the Chamber to draw up a Calendar of many of the 
 documents, which were then referred to as being in Drawers 
 E.F.D. &c., and the result of their labours may still be con- 
 sulted in four small volumes (Books 6(H'-ra) in the Muniment 
 Room of the Guildhall. For his services he received a " kind 
 present " from the Mayor and Chamber, the receipt of which 
 he acknowledged on July 12, 1823 (L. 608), " on my return 
 from Tor Abbey yesterday." This search yielded abundant 
 material for his " Monasticon Dicecesis Exoniensis," published 
 in 1846, where many of the documents are referred to, several 
 being printed in extenso, though unfortunately with no more 
 detailed reference than : " Ex Archivis Civitatis Exonice." 
 
 When the Archaeological Association visited Exeter in 1862 
 a few of the records were examined by Mr. Thomas Wright, 
 who described the collection (p. 317) as forming " a very 
 valuable part of the materials of our national history." 
 
 In the following year Mr. Stuart A. Moore was commissioned 
 by the City Council to report upon the collection as a whole, 
 and in the course of his investigation he discovered "an 
 enormous bulk of records," hitherto unexamined. After 
 some years his labours resulted in the completion of a detailed 
 Calendar in three volumes, one of which contains an excellent 
 index. These three volumes are now available for students 
 in the Muniment Room of the Guildhall, and will always remain 
 of inestimable value to researchers on the spot. The Calendar 
 is still in large part in MS. only, but so much has it been 
 appreciated by antiquarians and others hi the County of 
 Devon that in 1890 a beginning was made with an attempt 
 to print it verbatim in Vol. Ill of a local publication known as 
 
 * Act Book xiv, /. 2196. 
 
 t LL. 528, 529, where the Town Clerk is supposed to be Henry Lee in 
 S. Moore's Calendar. But Lee was not appointed Town Clerk till June 1, 
 1775, L. 588. No name actually occurs in the original document, but the 
 handwriting is certainly that of Heath, as may be seen by comparing it with 
 a holograph letter of his (L. 534), Nov. 3, 1757, and with the facsimile of his 
 handwriting in Baron R. A. Heath's Heathiana, 1882. For Benjamin Heath's 
 appointment as Town Clerk, March 23, 1752, see D. 1840o. 
 
 I For a bibliography j of his works, see T. N. | Brushfield in Devonshire 
 Association (1885), Vol. xvii, pp. 266-276.
 
 " Notes and Gleanings" and continued month by month till 
 that periodical ceased to appear in 1893. 
 
 In this Report I have endeavoured to deal briefly with the 
 more important documents referred to in Vol. I of the Calendar 
 and the Section headed " Books " in Vol. II, co-ordinating 
 and regrouping them according to their subject-matter in 
 order the better to present a bird's eye view of their contents, 
 while retaining the numbers and headings of the Calendar 
 for purposes of reference and employing the following 
 abbreviations : viz., Bk. Books ; Ch. Charters ; Com. 
 Commissions &c. ; D. Deeds ; Inv. Inventories, and L. 
 Letters. 
 
 I have made frequent use of the following printed books : 
 (a) R. Izacke, Remarkable Antiquities of the City of Exeter, 
 
 London, 1757. 
 
 (6) Report of the Commissioners concerning Charities, 
 published at Exeter in 1825 and reproduced verbatim 
 in Endowed Charities County Borough of Exeter, 
 Feb. 23, 1909. 
 
 (c) G. Oliver, Monasticon Dicecesis Exoniensis, Exeter, 1864. 
 
 (d) G. Oliver, History of the City of Exeter, with Appendix 
 by E. Smirke. Exeter, 1861. 
 
 (e) T. Wright, The Municipal Archives of Exeter. In 
 Journal of the Archceological Association, vol. xviii, 1862. 
 
 (/) W. Cotton, An Elizabethan Guild of the City of Exeter. 
 
 Exeter, 1873. 
 
 (g) W. Cotton, Gleanings from the Municipal and Cathedral 
 Records relative to the History of the City of Exeter. 
 Exeter, 1877. 
 
 (h) J. Shittinford's Letters. Camden Society, 1871. 
 (t) E. A. Freeman, Exeter In Historic Towns. London, 
 
 1887. 
 
 (?) C. W. Boase, Register of Exeter College. Oxford, 1894. 
 (k) C. Worthy, History of the Suburbs of Exeter. Exeter, 
 
 1896. 
 
 (1) H. Lloyd Parry, The Exeter Civic Seals. Exeter, 1909. 
 (m) H. Lloyd Parry, The Founding of Exeter School. 
 
 Exeter, 1913. 
 
 The room in which the muniments are now kept consists 
 of the upper storey of " the house in the back court behynd 
 the Guyldball," the building of which was ordered on July 12, 
 1556, for "the imprysoning of such as shall be commended to 
 the warde " (Act Book I, /. 9), four cells of which were completed 
 in the following year. See Act Book I, /. 1536 (? date 1557). 
 In the Report of the Local Records Committee (App. Ill, 
 p. 35), published in 1902, the answer returned by the Exeter 
 Corporation described this accommodation as " not sufficient 
 for so large a collection of records," adding that " the Council 
 are contemplating the erection of better premises. The roof 
 of the present building is not fire-proof, but the building 
 is dry and the room well-lighted and the walls are fire-proof." 
 The question, however, of the safety of the muniments had
 
 XI 
 
 been under consideration since 1893, when a Report was 
 presented to the Council to the effect that " the real danger 
 to be apprehended was from fire arising in the two adjoining 
 premises, and that damage to the documents by water in 
 the extinguishing of a fire was even more to be guarded against 
 than damage by the fire itself," accompanied by a recom- 
 mendation that the more valuable of the documents should 
 be kept in iron safes. A recommendation to this effect was 
 at first adopted by the Council, but was finally rescinded in 
 June, 1896, and for 10 years the question appears to have 
 remained in abeyance. In June, 1906, however, a Sub- 
 Committee reported that " the building is lacking in all the 
 main requirements of a Muniment Room," that " the danger 
 from fire is a serious one," that the documents are "all stored 
 in wooden cupboards," with ill-fitting doors, and that " in 
 the event of a fire which might easily be communicated from 
 one of the adjoining buildings it is difficult to conceive that 
 any portion of the building or any substantial portion of the 
 documents could be saved." Six more years have elapsed 
 since that report was presented, and the descriptions and 
 apprehensions recorded in it are literally applicable to-day. 
 The City is justly proud of its records, the intentions of the 
 Council are good and are periodically recorded, but periods of 
 alarm are succeeded by periods of security. 
 
 Just prior to my visit in 1910 the City had been stirred 
 by the occurrence of a most destructive fire in broad daylight, 
 and the charred remains of the disaster formed a striking 
 object lesson to the crowds who daily passed the spot. Two 
 months later the Council passed a resolution which would 
 have provided a proper home for its records on a safer site, 
 but nothing appears to have yet been done, and 1 feel bound 
 here to record my conviction that this great collection, as at 
 present housed, is in serious danger of destruction. 
 
 Moreover, apart from the danger of possible fire, the present 
 room is dark, crowded and generally unsuitable for students, 
 though owing to the enthusiasm of the Town Clerk as the 
 custodian of the records, a far wider interest is being aroused in 
 the contents of the documents, and far greater opportunities 
 than ever before are now afforded to students who desire 
 to consult them. 
 
 For myself I have the very greatest pleasure in recording 
 here my warmest thanks to the City Council for the facilities 
 afforded me during my personal visit, and subsequently through 
 the Town Clerk, Mr. H. Lloyd Parry, and other members of 
 his department, amongst whom I should like specially to 
 acknowledge the great assistance that I received from Mr. W. 
 A. Gay, whose intimate 'acquaintance with the records was 
 most readily placed at my disposal during my very pleasant 
 and profitable visit. 
 
 J. H. WYLIE. 
 
 April, 1912.
 
 Xll 
 
 HOOKER'S LIST OF THE RECORDS. 
 [See Introduction, p. vi.] 
 
 The veiwe and survey of all the Recordes, Evidences, 
 Charters and writinges whatsoever appertaininge to the 
 Chambre and Citie of Excester collected by John Hooker, 
 Chamberlaine of the sayed Citie as followethe. 
 
 Januarij 1600. 
 
 The Recordes. 
 
 In the Raigne of Kinge Edwarde the first containeth xxxvth 
 
 Rolles wherof their lacketh iiij Rolles viz. the xv the 
 
 xvij the xx and the xxij yeres of his Raigne. 
 In the Raigne of Edward the Seconde contayneth xix Rolles 
 
 wherof lacketh iij Rolles viz. the xv the xvij and the 
 
 xviij yeres. 
 In the Raigne of Edward the thirde contayneth Ij Rolles 
 
 wherof their lacketh iij Rolles viz. xlix and 1 and Ij Rolle. 
 In the Raigne of Richard the Second contayneth xxiijth 
 
 Rolles whereof wanteth none. 
 In the Raigne of Henry the iiij contayneth xiiij Rolles wherof 
 
 lacketh viz. the v and vj Rolles. 
 In the Raigne of Henry the v. contayneth x Rolles wherof 
 
 lacketh the iij and the vj Rolles. 
 In the Raigne of Henry the vj contayneth xxxix Rolles 
 
 wherof wanteth ij Rolles viz. the xxij and xxxj yere. 
 In the Raigne of Henry the vij contayneth xxiij Rolles 
 
 wherof lacketh iij Rolles viz. the xxj the xxij and the 
 
 xxiij yeres. 
 In the Raigne of Edward the iiij contayneth xxiij Rolles 
 
 wherof wanteth one Rolle viz. the v. yere. 
 In the Raigne of Richard the iij containeth iij Rolles wherof 
 
 lacketh the last yere. 
 In the Raigne of Edward the vj contayneth vij Rolles 
 
 wherof lacketh the iij and iiij yere. 
 In the Raigne of Queene Mary contayneth vj Rolles wherof 
 
 lacketh one Rolle. 
 In the Raigne of Henry the viij contayneth xxxviij Rolles 
 
 wherof wanteth iij viz. the xviij the xxix and xxx. 
 In the Raigne of Queene Elizabeth containeth xlij Rolles 
 
 wherof lacketh iij viz. the ij the xxviij and the xxxvij. 
 
 Recordes and Writinges of the Evidences. 
 
 1. In the first box the evidences of Pratished. Item a Role 
 of St. SydwelTs 
 
 2. In the ij box the Charters of J3t. Peters churche and of 
 St. Sydwells. The Rentall booke of the Bishop. The 
 Robbinge of the Exchequer. Bishop Brentinghams 
 Inventory. The Survey of St. Sydwells. The orders 
 of the parliament. The Controversies betweene the Citie 
 and the Taylors. The Corporations of the Citie. The 
 quo warranto of the Citie of Exceter.
 
 Xlll 
 
 3. In the iij box the evidences of the Magdalen. 
 
 4. In the iiij box the evidences of St. Johns. 
 
 5. In the v box the evidences of St. Nicholas. 
 
 6. In the vj box the evidences of St. Johns Langbrooke 
 Streete and Parristreete. 
 
 7. In the vij box of the matters between the Bishopp, Deane 
 and Chapter and the Citie. 
 
 8. In the viij box St. Mary the Mores parishe. The Trinity 
 parishe for Chidleighs Land Mathewe Hulls Land lease of 
 Southenhaye m'res Tuckefeildes Land purchased of 
 Mr. Fulford and geven unto Exebridge. 
 
 9. In the ix box St. Mary Arches St. Johns Bowe for 
 Landes late in the tenure of Robert Chafe. The Landes 
 St. Mary Arches Churche. 
 
 10. In the x box St. Mary Stepps for the Landes aboute 
 Westgate St. Laurence for the Landes of the Pippes 
 without Eastgate. Sir Robert Denys his lease for the 
 Gaole for Wilford Land without Westgate. The tenements 
 within Westgate also Thomas Greenenowes Landes. 
 
 11. In the xj box St. Petrocks parishe for the house neere 
 to the greate coundicte St. Martyns Land St. Poles 
 Alhallowes in Goldsmith Street for Hubert Collwells Land. 
 
 12. In the xij box for Freerenhaye and the composition 
 for St. Nicholas. 
 
 13. In the xiij box Tenne Sells the evidences for Grindons 
 Almeshouse for Palmers Almeshouses for Newton Bushell 
 Betty es Annuitie for the Shroudes m'res Bucken- 
 hams will Alic Heathe for Grindons Almeshouses 
 Sir William Herne for Horsseys Land for Mr. Hursts 
 feofement for the Almeshouses John Davys Almeshouses 
 Mr. Haydons conveaunce. 
 
 14. In the xiiij box St. Georges for the Shambles for Gayles 
 house for the tenement one the one syde of St. Kirians 
 Churche. 
 
 15. In the xv box Exebridge Accompts Ric. the iij, H. the 
 vij, H. the viij, Edwarde the vj, Phillip and Marye, and 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 16. In the xvj box all the charters of Excester. 
 
 17. In the xvij box all the writinges for Exbridge. 
 
 i. In the box of Accompts of St. Nicholas Exiland Magdalen 
 the Poore and Awlscombe. 
 
 ij. In the box for the Haven the weare mills and the con- 
 veaunce of the water course. 
 
 iij. In the box of Attwills evidences and conveaunce of 
 the same to the Citie. 
 
 iiij. In the box the Duke of Somersetts Pattent for Exe 
 Mr, Carewes and Mr. Ameredeth obligacon for St. Johns. 
 
 v. In the box Exebridge Accompts Ed. iij, Ric. the ij, H. iiij, 
 Henry v, H. vj, Ed. the iiij, and Richard iij. 
 
 vj. In the box the controversies between the Bishop, Deane 
 and Chapter and the Citie. 
 
 vij. In the box of the purchase of St. Nicholas and Johns,
 
 XIV 
 
 viij. In the box of Duryherd Court Holies. 
 
 ix. In the box the Accompts of Duryherd for H. viij, Ed. vj, 
 
 Phillip and Mary, and Queene Elizabeth. 
 x. In the box the Evidences of the Manner of Duryherd. 
 xj. In the box the Accompts of Exon E. j, Ed. ij, H. 4, H. 5, 
 xij. In the box the Accompts of Duryherd E. iij, Ric. ij. 
 
 H. 4, H. 6, H. 6, Ed. 4, Ric. iij, H. 7. 
 xiij. In the box of Awlscombe. 
 xiiij. In the box of Pratished Toppesham Exmouth Exilond 
 
 and the Fishinge of the Haven. 
 
 xv. In the box the Accomptes of Exon H. 6 Ed. 4, Ric. iij, 
 H. 7. 
 
 xv j. In the box the Magdalen Landes. 
 
 xvij. In the box of Exon Accompte in H. viij, Ed. 6, Marye, 
 
 and Queene Elizabeth. In this lacketh x Holies of 
 
 Queene Elizabeths tyme. 
 
 In the newe Presse. 
 
 B. In the box bills and obligacions. 
 
 C. In the box Obligacions and Moone's Convenaunce. 
 
 E. In the box Widow Seldons conveaunce a commission for 
 Gaole Delyvery A Commission for lyvetenauncy Margery 
 Hams Lease for the Tookinge Mills The Plotte of 
 Duryherd Indentures for weights. 
 
 F. In the box Wonards will the deane and chapters lease 
 for newe Line and at the Broadegate. 
 
 G. In the box Indentures for Exebridge the Magdalen and 
 Awlscombe. 
 
 I. In the box voyed and olde writinge. 
 
 K. In the box Indentures for the Citie and all the Almes- 
 
 houses. 
 
 L. In the box Indentures for Duryherd and St. Nicholas. 
 The Presse byhinde the dore without lock and keye therin 
 
 all the Recordes of the Towne Custome and certaine 
 
 olde Indentures. All the Inventoryes and bookes of the 
 
 Orphanes. 
 
 A note of all suche munyments bookes escriptes and writings as 
 were brought in and delyvered into the Councell Chambre of 
 Excester by Jo. Hooker chamberlaine the xxvj daye of Januarij 
 1600. 
 
 1. The Charters of London and the Skavage their. 
 
 2. The Charters of Tottnes. 
 
 3. The Chartor of Tawnedowne. 
 
 4. The Chartor of Syon. [See p. 33.] 
 
 5. The Chartor of the Abbey of Battell and Fee of 
 St. Nicholas. 
 
 6. Seven Sondry Charters of the Citie of Excester. 
 
 7. The Chartor of Exilond and the Fishinge of the Ryver 
 of Exe. [See p. 5.] 
 
 8. The Charter of Kedwelly.
 
 XV 
 
 9. The Charter of Mellcome, and of Padestowe. 
 
 10. The Charter of the Duchie of Cornewall. 
 
 11. The Charter of the Orphanes. 
 
 12. The orders of the parliament. 
 
 13. The Charter of Domesedaye. 
 
 14. A clayme of the Citie for their liberties in Excester. 
 
 15. An Acte for pavinge of Streetes. 
 
 16. The names of all the Free holders in Exon. 
 
 17. The order of the Orphanes of Bristowe and of Worcester. 
 
 18. Recordes of the Citie. 
 
 19. The bookes of the Churche plat and utensyles. 
 
 20. A bundell of proclamations. 
 
 21. A bundell of Charters of the Corporations. 
 
 22. The ordynance of the Citie. 
 
 23. The Charter of St. Peters. 
 
 24. The Bobbinge of the Exchequer. 
 
 25. The limetting. of St. Sydwells Fee. 
 
 26. The Awdyte Role of the Bshops Revenewes. 
 
 27. Bishop Brentinghams Inventories. 
 
 28. The Survey of St. Sydwells Fee. 
 
 29. The Accompts of the Rye solde at St. Johns. 
 
 30. The Accomptes of the Salmons solde. [See Book 231.] 
 
 31. The Roles and bookes of the Erles of Devon concerninge 
 his first restitucion. The assurance of the Lady Kathren 
 his wifes Joynter. The ofice of his Landes and Rentes 
 the attenture of the Marckquis of Exceter. The 
 restitucion of his sonne Edwarde to the Erledome &c. 
 
 32. The Cronicles of St. Peters both in latine and Englishe. 
 
 33. The Accomptes of the Citie for Sondry yeres. 
 
 34. The bookes of Exilond. [See Book 186.] 
 
 35. The Towne Custome bookes. 
 
 36. The bookes of the orders of London. 
 
 37. The acquitance of the Subsidie the x and xv. 
 
 38. A presentment taken at Topesham and the Accomptes 
 of the same. 
 
 39. The examinacions between the Merchauntes and the 
 Citie. [See Book 185.] 
 
 40. The severall Accomptes of the Rye solde at St. Johns. 
 
 41. The Rentall of the Almeshouses. 
 
 42. The Inquisitions and Examinacions of the Coroner for 
 thedeathesof certainemen and other thinges appertaininge 
 to his office. [See p. 57.] 
 
 43. The question of the liberties of Excester with a paper 
 unto the same. 
 
 44. A Collection of all the Recordes of the Citie of Excester. 
 
 45. Certaine p'rented bookes for the Statuete of gavell kinde. 
 
 In the Second boxe in the greatt presse. 
 
 1. Inprimis the copies of auncyent charters granted to 
 the Bisshoppe of Exeter containing xxx 11 . leaffes of paper. 
 
 2. The copie of an acte of parlyament for boundyng of 
 St. Sydwells Fee.
 
 XVI 
 
 3. Itm. An Ancyent Accompte of the revenues of the 
 Bisshoppricke of Exon in Anno Dni. 1300. 
 
 4. Itm. A paper booke and thereyn divers examynacyons 
 and the manner of the robbyng of St. Peters Churche in 
 Anno ix no Dne. Elizabeth Rne. 
 
 5. Itm. viij leaffes of paper whereyn are wrytten the 
 sayenge of divers auncyent men touchyng the boundes 
 of St. Peters Churche yarde. 
 
 6. Itm. Sixe leafes of paper whereyn is wrytten the survey 
 of St. Sidwells Fee. 
 
 7. Itm. Accompte of the temporaries of the Bisshoppricke 
 of Exon made in aim xvij H. viij [1526]. 
 
 8. Itm. the copie of an acte of parliament for pavyng of 
 the Cittie of Exeter. 
 
 9. Itm. A paper cont. the Articles of the Charter of xxix 
 H. viij vl tochynge the Countie &c. [See Charter XXXIII, 
 p. 6.] 
 
 10. Itm. A paper booke cont. the names of all the free- 
 holders in Exeter. 
 
 11. Itm. A copie of a quo warranto in Anno quarto E. tercij. 
 [1330-31.] 
 
 12. Itm. A rolle of paper whereyn are written divers Acts 
 and Ordynnances made by the Maior and Comon Councell 
 of this Cittie for the better government thereof. 
 
 13. The copie of the Corporacyon of Merchaunts in Englyshe. 
 [See Book 185.] 
 
 14. The objections agaynst the Merchants Corporacyon. 
 
 15. The Supplicacyon of the Merchaunts. 
 
 16. A Byll of Articles against the Tayllors. 
 
 17. The Articles of the Merchaunts Charter. 
 
 18. Examynacyons taken before the Maior and Justice 
 consernynge the Tayllors. 
 
 19. The first inconporacyon of the Merchaunts. 
 
 20. Mr. Hookers accompte in a journey to London. 
 
 21. A note of offers made unto the Tayllors by the 
 Merchantes. 
 
 22. The Surmyses of the Tayllors agaynst the Merchaunts. 
 
 23. The oracyon of Mr. Hooker made to the Comons in 
 Anno 1569=1560. [See p. 40.] 
 
 24. Itm. A Supplicacyon an aunswer and a replicacyon 
 betwene the Merchaunts and Tayllors. 
 
 25. Itm. divers bookes papers and letters wrytten by 
 Mr. Hooker toochynge the order of the parlyament. 
 
 The copies of the corporacyons of Smythes Skynners Coopers 
 and Hellyers Butchers Bruers Tayllors Cappers and 
 Haberdasshers and of Weavers and Tuckers. [See p. 64.] 
 
 Itm. A copie of the Charter of Sion.* 
 
 * See p. 33. For the manor of Budley Sion, part of the royal manor of 
 East Budleigh, see Lysons, p. 86 ; Brushfield, East Budleigh, p. 19, in 
 Transactions of Devonshire Association, July 1890,
 
 REPORT 
 
 ON THE 
 
 KECORDS OF THE CITY OF EXETEE. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 1. ROYAL CHARTERS AND LETTERS PATENT. 
 
 Forty-eight documents (Nos. I-XLVIII). Copies of several 
 of them are also to be found in other sections of this collection. 
 e.g. Book 56. 
 
 The earlier among them are addressed to " The Burgesses 
 (or the Citizens) of Exeter." The " Mayor " first appears in 
 No. XII, Nov. 7, 1259, subsequent documents being usually 
 though not uniformly addressed to " The Mayor, Bailiffs 
 and Commonalty of Exeter." 
 
 These documents (all original) are kept in cardboard boxes 
 in the Muniment Room. They are unbound and in an excellent 
 state of preservation. Abstracts of all of them (except six) 
 will be found in Oliver's History of Exeter (edition 1861), 
 Appendix, pp. 278-304. These abstracts appear not to have 
 been taken from the originals, but from " a MS. volume of 
 Charters in the Office of the Town Clerk " (Oliver, p. 278). 
 The volume referred to is not noticed in Mr. Stuart Moore's 
 Calendar and seems to have been missing at the time of 
 his visit. It has recently, however, been discovered and 
 is now available for reference. It contains copies of most 
 of the Charters written in a late 16th century hand, together 
 with copies of some other documents, the originals of which 
 are not now to be found in the Muniment Room, e.g. No. 19 
 (/. 225), July 24, 1337, i.e., a writ to the Mayor &c., notifying 
 them to pay the fee farm rent of Exeter (201. p. a.) to Edward 
 Duke of Cornwall,* instead of to the King [see Oliver, p. 283, 
 No. 21, and Transcripts, ad finem]. 
 
 The document (No. I) in Oliver, p. 279, from Book of 
 Transcripts, cannot now be found. It is dated at London 
 [s.a.], and in it Henry II grants to the citizens of Exeter 
 " omnes rectas consuetudines quas habuerunt in tempore 
 
 * i.e. The Black Prince, to whom the grant had been made on March 17, 
 1337. See Transcripts, No. 2024, 2025; Charter Roll, 11 Edward III, 
 No. 60, in Report on the Dignity of a Peer, v. 36. For a writ to the Mayor 
 Ac., dated Oct. 10, 1337, showing that the payments began on Sept. 28, 
 1337, see Gal. Close Rolls, Edward III (1337-1339), p. 198. 
 
 Wt. 20757. Ex. 1
 
 Regis Henrici, avi mei, remotis omnibus pravis consuetu- 
 dinibus post avum meum ibi elevatis. Et sciatis eos habere 
 consuetudines London' ita libere, honorifice et juste sicut 
 unquam melius habuerunt tempore avi mei. Teste Am. Ep. 
 Lexov., Reg. Com. Cornub., et Toma Cancell," who are also 
 witnesses to the three writs that follow, i.e. Nos. I, II, III in 
 Stuart Moore's Calendar. 
 
 Several of these charters were sent to London under the 
 charge of Richard Izacke in 1666 and duly returned, see Act 
 Book, XI, /. 44, where the documents so forwarded and returned 
 are specified. Duplicates of several of them will be found 
 among the Transcripts. 
 
 The following is an epitome of the contents of the collection 
 in the order in which they appear in Stuart Moore's Calendar. 
 
 I, II, III. Three writs, temp. Henry II, declaring the 
 citizens of Exeter and their merchandize to be free from 
 toll, lastage, passage and all other custom. [Printed in Oliver, 
 p. 279, from Book of Transcripts, Nos. 38, 39, 40, ff. 273, 
 274, 275. See also Transcripts, 2004. Summarized in 
 Freeman, p. 56.] 
 
 IV, V, VI. Rouen, March 24, 1190. Richard I grants to 
 the Burgesses of Exeter that they shall be quit of toll, passage 
 and pontage on land and on water in fairs and markets and of 
 all secular service, citra et ultra mare. See also Transcript 2005 
 [with abstract in Oliver, p. 280], where it is wrongly dated 
 March 29. 
 
 VII. Sept. 18, s.a. Richard I declares that the citizens 
 of Exeter and their merchandize are free of toll, passage, 
 lastage and all other customs. See also Transcripts, 2005. 
 [Abstract in Oliver, p. 280.] 
 
 VIII. Craneburne, s.a. John Earl of Mortain (after- 
 wards King John) grants to the citizens of Exeter all right 
 customs which they had in the time of King Henry I, and 
 states that they have the customs of the men of London. 
 
 IX. Saumur, June 15, 1200. King John repeats previous 
 grant (No. VIII) and confirms grant of Richard I (No. VII). 
 [Abstract in Oliver, 280.] 
 
 X. Westminster, March 24, 1237. Henry III confirms 
 No. IX and the grants of Henry II, Richard I and John 
 mentioned therein. See Miscell. Rolls, 81 ; Transcripts, 
 No. 2005. [Abstract in Oliver, p. 280.] 
 
 XI. Mere, May 25, 1259. Richard King of the Romans,* 
 grants to the citizens that they and their heirs shall hold 
 
 * To whom the city and castle had been granted in
 
 the city of Exeter in fee-farm for ever, rendering the accustomed 
 fee-farm. [Abstract in Oliver, p. 280.] 
 
 XII. London, Nov. 7, 1259. Richard King of the Romans 
 grants to the Mayor, bailiffs and citizens as in No. XI, 
 specifying the fee-farm at 13Z. 9s. yearly. See Misc. Rolls, 81. 
 [Abstract in Oliver, p. 280.] 
 
 XIII. Westminster, Nov. 6, 1259. Henry III confirms 
 No. XII. [Abstract in Oliver, p. 281.] 
 
 XIV. Berkhampstead, June 18, 1286. Edmund son of 
 Richard King of Aleman', Earl of Cornwall, confirms No. XII. 
 [Oliver, p. 281.] 
 
 XV. Berkhamstead, June 17, 1286. Edmund Earl of 
 Cornwall remits rancorem animi et indignationem which he 
 had conceived against the Mayor and citizens for certain 
 trespasses committed before the Sunday next after the Octave 
 of Trinity last past and at the instance of the noble ladies 
 the daughters of King Edward I, respites 50 marks out of a 
 sum of 250 marks which the citizens owe to him by their 
 bond. [Abstract in Oliver, p. 282.] 
 
 XVI. Crake (i.e. Craike Yorks), Aug. 22, 1292. 
 Edward I commits to the Mayor the custody of Sigillum ad 
 recognitions debitorum mercatorum in the city of Exeter. 
 See also Transcripts, No. 2005. [See Oliver, p. 282 ; Col. 
 Pat. Rolls (1281-1292), p. 520; Lloyd Parry, Seals, 11.] 
 
 XVII. Easton, near Stamford, May 4, 1300. Edward I 
 confirms No. X and further grants that the citizens shall be 
 free of murage and pavage. See also Transcripts, 2015, 2016. 
 [See Oliver, p. 282 ; Cal. Pat. Rolls, 28 Edward I, p. 512.] 
 
 XVIII. Westminster, Nov. 12, 1320. Edward II confirms 
 No. XVII and further grants that all pleas concerning lands, 
 tenements, trespasses, contracts &c., arising in the city or its 
 suburbs shall be pleaded before the Mayor and Bailiffs ; that 
 the citizens shall not be put on juries, assizes &c. with foreigners, 
 nor foreigners with them, and that they shall be free from 
 murage, pavage, pickage, anchorage, strandage and segeage 
 (or groundage). [See Misc. Rolls, 9; Transcripts, No. 2019; 
 Oliver, p. 282.] 
 
 XIX. Eltham, March 1, 1329. Edward III confirms 
 Nos. XIII and XVIII. [See also Transcripts, No. 2022 ; 
 Oliver, p. 282. For text see Reichel, pp. 41-55.] 
 
 XX. Eltham, Feb. 6, 1332. Edward III recites No. XII 
 and regrants the city to the citizens and their heirs and
 
 successors for ever, rendering 20Z. yearly and bearing all 
 burdens hitherto incumbent on the said fee farm. [Oliver, 
 p. 282.] 
 
 XXI. Feb. 3, 1365. Exemplification of a certificate from 
 the Court of Exchequer of the entry in Domesday Book* 
 relating to Exeter. Also a certified extract from the Placita 
 CoroncB taken before Justices in Eyre at Exeter in 1281, finding 
 the fee farm to be 39Z. 185., whereof 121. 12s. 5d. was paid to 
 the Trinity Priory in London and the rest to the Earl of 
 Cornwall. Also in Transcripts, No. 2629. [See text in Izacke, 
 56 ; full abstract in Oliver, p. 284.] 
 
 XXII. Westminster, Dec. 5, 1378. Richard II confirms 
 No. XIX. [See Oliver, p. 284.] This confirmation was 
 granted because according to an order of Parliament the 
 citizens made a balinger for the King's navy, as witnessed 
 by Thomas [Brantingham] Bishop of Exeter before the 
 King's Council. See Gal. Pat. Richard II, i., 292 ; see also 
 the Register of St. John's Hospital, /. 636. 
 
 XXIII. Duplicate of No. XXII. 
 
 XXIV. Dec. 1, 1412. Letters Patent of Henry IV, exem- 
 plifying the record of a proceeding in the Exchequer of 
 21 Edward III (1347-8) touching the fairs of Exeter &c. 
 [Oliver, p. 284.] 
 
 XXV. Nov. 5, 1423. Exemplification of Letters Patent of 
 14 Dec., 1414, [see Cal. Pat. Henry V., i., 283], confirming 
 No. XXII. 
 
 XXVI. Exemplification of a certificate of the Court of 
 Exchequer stating that they find nothing in Domesday Book 
 relating to the manor and fee of St. Sidwell. 11 Dec., 1429, 
 i.e. 8 Henry VI [not 8 Henry IV (i.e. 1406) as Oliver, p. 284, 
 the entry from which it is copied being No. 13 in the MS. 
 Book, /. 200]. 
 
 XXVII. July 14, 1438. Inspeximus and confirmation by 
 Henry VI reciting Letters Patent of 14 Dec., 1414. [See No. 
 XXV.] [Oliver, p. 284.] 
 
 XXVIII. Edward IV grants to the Mayor &c. bona et 
 catalla vocat' manuopera, catalla felonum, fugitivorum 
 utlegatorum necnon qualitercunque damnatorum seu con- 
 victorum, &c., also to hold feriam sive nundinas for two 
 
 * In Book 61, /. 53b, the entry is given thus : In libro de Domesdaye inter 
 terras Regis in Com' Devon contint' (sic). In Civitate Exon habet Rex ccc. 
 domos xv minus reddentes &c. _ In hac civitate sunt vastate xlviij demus 
 pestquam Rex venit in Anglia. Hec civitas T.R.E. (i.e. tempore regis 
 Edwardi) non geldabit nisi quando Londonia et Eboracum et Wynton 
 geldabunt &c., as in Domesday Book, i, 100 ; do. Facsimile, Devonshire, p. 1 ; 
 Freeman, Norman Conquest, iv., 162,
 
 days on the Eve of St. Mary Magdalen. Westminster, July 1, 
 1463 ; not July 21st, as Izacke, 86. See Transcripts, No. 2042 ; 
 Oliver, p. 285 ; Col. Pat. 3 Ed. IV, p. 275. 
 
 XXIX. Westminster, Oct. 12, I486. Henry VII confirms 
 Nos. XXVII and XXVIII. [See Oliver, p. 285.] 
 
 XXX. Greenwich, July 10, 1509. Writ of Privy Seal 
 directing the mode of electing the Mayor, Bailiffs, Sergeants 
 and other officers of the city every year. [Attached to the 
 writ is a slip of parchment bearing the names of the Mayor 
 and 23 of the Common Council. Similarly in Book 51, /. Ill, 
 with the names of 22 of the Council, besides the Mayor, and 
 in Book 53, /. 82 (24 names in all), in both of which it is dated 
 July 10, 1509. The full text in English is printed in Izacke, 99, 
 where it is wrongly dated 1498 ; see also Oliver, p. 285.] 
 
 XXXI. Feb. 26, 1510. Henry VIII confirms No. XXIX. 
 [See Oliver, p. 285.] 
 
 ^XXXII. Westminster, Feb. 16, 1535. Henry VIII grants 
 that the Mayor, Recorder and Aldermen shall be Justices of the 
 Peace within the city and the liberties thereof. [See Oliver, 
 p. 285.] 
 
 XXXIII. Westminster, Aug. 23, 1537. Henry VIII 
 confirms all previous charters and makes the City of Exeter a 
 county per se, re et nomine. Also in Transcripts, No. 2045, 
 2046. [See Oliver, p. 286 ; for a draft proposal for this 
 dated 28 Henry VIII, see D. 1430 b .] 
 
 XXXIV. Westminster, Feb. 24, 1549. Edward VI 
 confirms Nos. XXXI and XXXIII. [Full text printed in 
 Reynolds, p. 3a ; also in Book 51, /. 114 ; Book 52, /. 143 ; see 
 also Oliver, p. 286.] 
 
 XXXV. March 18, 1540. Exemplification of a writ 
 of certiorari to John Mason, clerk of the Parliament, for a 
 copy of an Act of Parliament determining the bounds of the 
 county of the city of Exeter passed in the Parliament begun 
 Nov. 4, 1547, and continued by prorogation till March 14, 
 1548,* with rent roll (uncalendered), March 18, 1549. The 
 text appears also in Book 51, ff. 123-5, where the date of 
 the closing of the Parliament is wrongly given as March 24, 
 instead of 14th as in the original document. See also Book 
 52, /. 62 b ; Jenkins, pp. 441-444 ; Reynolds, p. 3 ; Transcripts, 
 No. 2053. 
 
 XXXVI. Westminster, Dec. 22, 1550. Edward VI grants 
 the manor of Exe Island in reward to the citizens for their loyalty 
 
 * The Bill passed the Commons Feb. 15, 1548 (Commons Journal, i, 18), 
 and was read in the House of Lords Feb. 16, 1548 (Lords Journal, i, 342).
 
 6 
 
 in defending the city against the rebels. Also in Transcripts, 
 Nos. 2054, 2055, 2056. [See Oliver, p. 286.] 
 
 XXXVII. Westminster, Feb. 21, 1561. Queen Elizabeth 
 grants that the city shall have the custody of the lands and 
 goods of orphans.* [See Oliver, p. 287.] 
 
 XXXVIII. Westminster, Nov. 8, 1562. Queen Elizabeth 
 grants to the Mayor &c. the appointment of the 12 poor men 
 in Bonevile's Almshouses in the Combe Rewe,f and of the 
 four poor men of the foundation of the late Prior and Convent 
 of the late Hospital of Saint John the Baptist within the 
 Eastgate. [Printed in Izacke, 130. See also Transcripts, 
 No. 2057 ; Oliver, p. 287.] In D 1527 a (Nov., 1562) is a 
 copy of a petition from the Mayor &c. praying for the issue 
 of the Letters Patent concerning Bonville's Almshouses, 
 with a copy of this Charter. There is another copy in Book 51, 
 /. 140b, where it is " for the apoyntinge and nomynatynge 
 of the poore yn the hospital in the Comeroye, called " in 
 Rocke Lane " in the Table of Contents. Also in Book 52, /. 
 276b, where " and of the pensioners of the Hospital of St. John " 
 has been added in a later hand. Both of these entries have also 
 a memorandum as to Bonville's Almshouses. There is also 
 a copy of the Charter in Book 56. 
 
 XXXIX. Exemplification of a writ of certiorari to Francis 
 Spelman, clerk of the Parliaments, and an Act of the Parliament 
 held Jan. 12, 1563, confirming No. XXXVII. Also a Rent 
 Roll, 3 May, 1563. [See Oliver, p. 287.] 
 
 XL. Aug. 6, 1564. Ratification by William Hervye, 
 Esquire, Clarencieux King-of-Arms, of the arms of the City of 
 Exeter, with the addition of a crest and supporters, but no 
 mention of any motto. 
 
 XLI. June 2, 1572. Confirmation by Queen Elizabeth 
 of the following documents : (a) Deed of purchase, July 16, 
 1547, of the manors of Plympton and Exminster and other 
 possessions between Edward VI and Edward [Seymour] 
 Duke of Somerset. J See also Transcripts, No. 2063. 
 (6) Extract from a writ of Privy Seal (July 22, 1547) granting 
 the manor of Topsham to the Duke of Somerset, (c) Exem- 
 plification (May 16, 1572) of an Act of the Parliament [that 
 
 * The full text of Charter XXXVII, known as the Charter of the Orphans 
 [Book 61, /. 129b; Book 52, /. 176b ; Book 56; Hooker's List, No. 11] 
 was printed by Hooker in 1575. See his " Orders Enacted for Orphans," 
 pp. 23-31, together with Inspeximus and Confirmation, May 3, 1563. Ibid, 
 p. 32. 
 
 t Called " Combe Stret " in D. 837a ; " Combe Strete" or " La Cumbe," 
 Coll. Top., i, 376. See St. Nicholas Priory. For "Com roye " in 
 Broad Clyst, see L. 379. 
 
 t From Pat. 1 Edward VI, pt. 6, mm. 20, 21 ; J. B. Rowe, Hint, of Plympton, 
 p. 23.
 
 met by prorogation] on Nov. 4, 1549, reciting the attainder, 
 submission and restitution of the Duke of Somerset* and 
 assuring all his lands and possessions to him and his heirs. 
 [See Transcripts, No. 2063.] 
 
 XLIL June 22, 1575. Exemplification of a record of a 
 proceeding in the Queen's Bench of Easter, 1575, in which 
 the Mayor &c. claim cognizance of the plea setting forth their 
 Charter No. XVIII, which is recited in full and allowed. 
 
 XLIII. June 27, 1610. Exemplification of a decree of the 
 Exchequer of Hillary Term, 1610, reciting No. XXIII. For 
 a draft proposal for this see Deeds, No. 1430b. 
 
 XLIV. Feb. 16, 1611. Exemplification of an Act passed 
 in the Parliament [that met by prorogation on Feb. 9, 1610, 
 Stat. iv., 1153] entitled : "An Acte for the contynuance and 
 reparacion of a newe builte weare upon the River of Exe " 
 [i.e. Stat. 7 Jac. I., printed in Stat. iv., 1173.] It refers to 
 the destruction of the old wear called Callibere Wearef " about 
 the feast of the birth of our Lord God last was 2 years," i.e. 
 Christmas, 1608. See also Transcripts, No. 2075. For a 
 memorandum concerning this event see L. 155, which shows 
 that it happened on Sunday, Jan. 17, 1607 (i.e. 1608) 
 " by reason of an extreame frost w ch . contynuued betwene 
 5 or 7 weekes," when " there came downe the river of Ex 
 such heugs stacks of Isse w**. had rested uppon our ware." 
 
 XLV. Westminster, Dec. 17, 1627. Charles I grants a 
 charter to the city. For abstract see Oliver, p. 287. For 
 extracts see Lloyd Parry, pp. 11-14, with full Latin text in 
 Oliver, pp. 289-304, and English translation in Jenkins, 
 pp. 137-155. 
 
 XL VI. Oct. 22, 1684. Charles II grants a charter of similar 
 import to No. XLV [which had been surrendered]. For an 
 abstract see Transcripts, Nos. 2045, 2046. 
 
 XL VII. June 28, 1721. Exemplification of verdict in a 
 suit for Town Customs, Exeter v. Bond. 
 
 XL VIII. April 25, 1770. George III grants a charter for 
 regulating the manner of holding the Session of the Peace in 
 the City. Recites Nos. XXXIII and XLV. [Abstract in 
 Oliver, p. 288.] 
 
 The three following sections, viz. (II) Commissions, Pardons 
 &c., (Ill) Royal Letters and Warrants, and (IV) Letters and 
 other Papers, appear to contain the most valuable material 
 
 * For his pardon, Feb. 16, 1550, see Bymer, VI, iii, 179. 
 f i.e. Calabeer Wear rebuilt in 1571, Act Book, iii, /. 3 ; Izacke, 133 ; 
 Jenkins, 124.
 
 8 
 
 of the whole collection from the point of view of the historical 
 student. They form a sort of running accompaniment to 
 the general history of the country from the middle of the 
 14th century onwards. The distinction between the three 
 sections, however, is somewhat arbitrary and several items 
 that are really closely connected together are thereby separated 
 and classified apart. In order to obtain a survey of the 
 contents of this portion of the collection the more rational 
 method would appear to be to disregard to some extent the 
 grouping of the Calendar, even at the cost of losing the 
 continuity of the running numbers, while preserving the main 
 stream of the chronology throughout. 
 
 2. COMMISSIONS, PARDONS &c. 74 Documents numbered 
 XLIX to CXIX. 
 
 XLIX. Aug. 20, 1344. Edward III commissions the 
 Mayor and Bailiffs of Exeter to enforce the Statutes of 
 Winchester and Northampton for the keeping of the peace, 
 reciting that there are many robberies and breaches of the peace 
 in the city and suburbs. See also Transcripts, No. 2027. 
 [For abstracts see Oliver, p. 283 ; Cal. Pat. Rolls, 18 Edward III, 
 p. 403.] 
 
 L. Reading, March 25, 1347. Writ of Edward III to the 
 Bailiffs, probi homines and Commonalty of the City of Exeter 
 and the towns of Topsham and Kenton, reciting an order of 
 the Council at Westminster that 120 large ships each manned 
 with 60 mariners and 20 archers were to accompany the 
 King to Calais, 60 of which were to be raised by John de 
 Mountgomery, Admiral of the West.* The ships are to be 
 at Sandwich by Easter Monday next, and three of them are to 
 be supplied by Exeter, Topsham and Kenton. [See Oliver, 
 p. 283; Rym. Ill, i., 112; Cal Rot. Pat., 21 Edward III, 
 p. 264.] 
 
 LI. Feb. 12, 1366. Writ of Edward III to John Montague, 
 William de Wychingham and others, commanding them not 
 to enquire into a sedition said to have arisen in Exeter, as the 
 King has been informed that the report is unfounded. [See 
 Izacke, p. 68.] 
 
 LII. June 23, 1381. A proclamation to repress possible 
 disorder consequent on the rising of Wat Tiler is similar to 
 those addressed to the Mayor of York and other towns. See 
 Rym., iii, 123; Cal. Pat. 5 Richard II, p. 69. See also 
 Transcripts, No. 2030. 
 
 LIII. Jan. 25, 1401. Pardon for all offences committed 
 prior to Dec. 8, 1400. 
 
 * Who was appointed on March 16, 1347. Cal. Close Rolls, 21 Edward III, 
 p. 245.
 
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 LIV. March 27, 1437. Pardon to Mayor, Bailiffs and Com- 
 monalty of Exeter for offences against the Statute of Liveries 
 and other offences committed prior to Sept. 2, 1431. See 
 also Transcripts, No. 2033. 
 
 LV. July 6, 1446. Do. for all trespasses to April 9, 1446. 
 Also in Transcripts, No. 2034. 
 
 LVL July 6, 1509. Do., do., prior to April 23, 1509 [i.e. the 
 date of the accession of Henry VIII]. 
 
 LVIL May 9, 1522. Writ to the Mayor of Exeter to let 
 no " Britons or other the Frenche King's subjettes " leave 
 the country with their goods or writings. 
 
 LVIII. Feb. 18, 1523. Commission of array in consequence 
 of declaration of war by Francis I against the Emperor 
 Charles V and the King of England. 
 
 LIX. Nov. 2, 1523. Commission to collect subsidy 
 [granted in Parliament, April 15 to July 31, 1523 ; Rot. Parl. vii, 
 pp. Ixxvi-xc ; Stat. iii, 230-241] reciting that the Duke of 
 Bourbon and many captains of France " taking our partie " 
 are pursuing the French King. [For similar commissions see 
 Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, iii (2), p. 1456.] 
 
 LX. Jan. 12, 1537. Order for proclamation regulating 
 the price of Gascon and French wines in accordance with 
 Stat. 23 Henry VIII, c. 7 [Stat. iii, 374, 422]. For a similar 
 order to the authorities at Colchester, Dec. 1, 1537, see 
 Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, xii (2), p. 411. 
 
 LXA. June 4, 1558. Commission to enquire as to mis- 
 demeanors of French denizens, reciting Stat. 4, 5 Philip and 
 Mary [Stat. iv, p. 326]. 
 
 LXI. Feb. 23, 1569. Appointment of Commissioners to 
 make search in Exeter for " such as use unlawful games " 
 and to see that all persons keep bows and arrows in their 
 houses for themselves and their servants in accordance with 
 Stat. 33 Henry VIII, c. 9 [Stat. iii, 833 ; see also Transcripts, 
 No. 2060 ; Act Book, No. 3, p. 39].* 
 
 In D. 1517 is a bond in 5 marks given to the Mayor by 
 John Souther of Exeter, glover on May 21, 1560, from hence- 
 forth " not to playe or use at any unlawfull game prohibited 
 by law." 
 
 * This subject was set down for the consideration of Justices of Assize 
 in Nov. 1566, and again for Commissioners for Musters on June 19, 1669. 
 Col. State Papers, Dom., Addenda, pp. 20, 80, and instructions were prepared 
 for enforcing it in Aug., 1571. Cal. Dom., 1547-1580, p. 421.
 
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 Subsidies. 
 
 LXII. July 4, 1571. Commission to levy a subsidy granted 
 in the Parliament that met April 2, 1571. [Stat. iv, 562-581 ; 
 13 Elizabeth, c. 26, 27.] See also Transcripts, No. 2062. For 
 similar commissions July 27, 1590, in regard to subsidy granted 
 in 1588-9, see No. LXV ; also No. LXXIII, July 30, 1607 
 [granted in Parliament which ended on July 4, 1607, Stat. iv, 
 1132] ; also Nos. LXXVIII, LXXXI, March 22, July 16, 1621 
 [granted in Parliament of March 22, 1621, Stat. iv, 1208] ; 
 Nos. LXXXVIII, LXXXIX, XC, June 1, Sept. 1, 1624, and 
 Jan. 17, 1625 [granted in the Parliament of Feb. 19 to May 29, 
 1624, on prospect of war with Spain after breach of the marriage 
 treaty; Stat. iv, 1247]; Nos. XCI, XCIII, Aug. 15, 1625, 
 Feb. 10, 1626 [on accession of Charles I ; Stat. v, 3-21]. For 
 an order in Council, March 30, 1629, to the Commissioners for 
 subsidies in Exeter, sending directions for payment of the sub- 
 sidy [granted June 16, 1628 ; Gardiner, vi, 315], see L. 320. 
 For undated note of charges for the subsidy account (temp. 
 James I), see L. 192. For a large bundle of subsidy returns, 
 assessments &c. (temp. Elizabeth, James I and Charles I), see 
 Misc. Papers. 
 
 William Earl of Bath. 
 
 LXIV. Jan. 21, 1587. Appointment of William 
 [Bourchier] Earl of Bath as Lord Lieutenant of Devon and 
 Exeter, with names of his deputies. Also in Transcripts, Nos. 
 2064, 2065, 2067, 2068, 2073 ; see also Nos. LXIVa (Nov. 14, 
 1587) ; LXVI (April 29, 1593); LXVIII (June 7, 1596) ; LXIX, 
 LXIXa (July 6, 1599) ; LXX (Dec. 3, 1600) ; LXXI (June 10, 
 1601); LXXII (April 13, 1603); LXXIV (Feb. 25, 1609); 
 LXXV, LXXVI (May 9, June 24, 1614); LXXVII (Sept. 8, 
 1616) ; LXXX (July 3, 1618). For letters to the Mayor from 
 the Earl of Bath as Lord Lieutenant, see L. 621. 
 
 Popish Recusants. 
 
 LXXIX. April 6, 1621. Recites a proclamation of July 1, 
 1607, forbidding all natural born subjects to leave the country, 
 and commissions the Mayor of Exeter and others to examine 
 all persons over 21 years of age who desire to pass over the 
 seas, as to their cause of departure, trade, destination &c., 
 and to administer to them at then 1 discretion the oath prescribed 
 by the Act of 1605* " for the better discovering and repressing 
 of popish recusants." 
 
 Francis Lord Russell, afterwards Earl of Bedford. 
 
 LXXXII. July 18, 1623 [i.e. 21, not 20 James I, see Pat. 
 Roll (2300), 21 James /, pt. 6, m. I5d]. Appointment of 
 
 * i.e. Stat. iv., p. 1074, 3 James I, c. 4. For an order issued by magistrates 
 in session (Easter, 1605) to the High Constable and petty constables of 
 Ottery St. Mary, to make privy search in the houses of recusant Papists 
 in accordance with divers directions from the Lords of the Council. See 
 Oliver, Collections illustrating the history of the Catholic Religion in Devon 
 <fcc., p. 9, from the Record Office in Exeter Castle.
 
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 Francis Lord Russell of Thornhaugh as Lieutenant of Devon 
 and Exeter. [He became Earl of Bedford on May 3, 1627.] 
 For names of his deputies see Nos. LXXXV (Aug. 1, 1623), 
 LXXXVI (Dec. 22, 1623), LXXXVII (Dec. 24, 1623) [also 
 Izacke, 150]. In L. 263, dated Chiswick, Dec. 24, 1623, he 
 writes to Mr. Pearse in reference to the charges made for 
 the patents of his deputy lieutenants, including 4?. at the 
 scale and 40s. promised to Mr. Secretaire's man, and explaining 
 that the increase was occasioned by "the Kinge reassuming 
 the dormant warrant from my Lord Keeper and commaunding 
 that nothing should passe but by his owne signature." The 
 charges alluded to will be found in an undated document 
 (L. 191) signed by John Pearse, who was a bailiff of Exeter in 
 1619. In L. 256 (Nov. 8, 1623) is a reference to Lord Russell's 
 claim for allowance from the Chamber of Exeter in regard to 
 his commission "to be forthwith disbursed accordinge to 
 the ordinary proportion heretofore dispended upon such 
 occasions." See also Nos. XCIV (June 17, 1626), XCVI 
 (June 16, 1627). For his appointment and that of his son 
 William Lord Russell [afterwards 1st Duke of Bedford] as 
 joint Lord Lieutenants of Devon and Exeter, with their 
 deputies, see No. XCIX, March 30, 1637, also Order in 
 Council to them jointly, L. 369 (Aug. 17, 1637) ; and a letter 
 from them to their deputies, see L. 382 (dated Bedford House, 
 July 2nd, 1639), referring to errors in their commission. 
 
 The forced Loan. 
 
 XCV. Oct. 11, 1626. Commission from Charles I to the 
 Mayor and Aldermen of Exeter to raise a loan to enable him 
 to continue the war in Germany and relieve his illustrious uncle 
 [Christian IV] the King of Denmark, then reduced to great 
 extremity.* For orders in Council, dated Feb. 21, May 12, June 
 30, Aug. 7, Oct, 31, 1627, urging quicker collection of the loan; 
 see L.L. 291, 293, 294, 295, 299. For a receipt dated May 26, 
 1628, for 692?. received as a loan from divers inhabitants of 
 Exeter, see D. 1745. For a list of persons in Exeter who 
 contributed, see Misc. Rolls 75. In L. 286 (dated March 27, 
 1627) the Earl of Marleburge [i.e. James Ley, Treasurer] 
 and Richard Weston [Chancellor and Under Treasurer of the 
 Exchequer] order the Collectors of the Loan Money in Exeter 
 to pay the money collected to Sir George Chudleigh. In L. 295 
 (Strachleigh, Aug. 17, 1627) Sir George Chudleigh writes to 
 the Commissioners for the loans in Exeter in answer to a letter 
 from them of Aug. 14. In this he says : It seemes their 
 lordships never heard from you in all this time of the state 
 of this busynes which hath occasioned these letters to be 
 written to you, being intended (if I guesse aright) to some 
 countyes (rather then a cittye) which have bene slacke in 
 
 * i.e. since the battle of Lutter, Aug. 27, 1626, news of which reached 
 England in Sept., 1626. Cal. Dom., 1625-6, p. 422.
 
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 this service to his majestye. He concludes : " Wherefore 
 if it shall please you to give order to your collectors to pay 
 over your second payment unto me as they have done the 
 first I shall make no scruple to receave it nether to disburse 
 it according to my directions. Only I shall pray you to certifye 
 their lordships with all speede what you have done that 
 they may not expect money from you which by themselves 
 is otherwise disposed of. In L. 366 (Sept. 16, 1634) [Captain] 
 William Jewell and John Unwoon, by virtue of Commissions 
 dated May 19 and Aug. 2 last, send a warrant to the Mayor 
 to bring before them " at the signe of the beare in this city " 
 at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning all officers belonging to His 
 Majesty's Customs, all merchants, masters of Shippes, Barkes 
 and other vessells belongeinge to sea affayers, all mercers 
 grocers, dyers, woolcombers, fellmongers, chandlers and such 
 as sell any grocerie ware or buy, sell, spend any dyinge stuffes 
 dwellinge wthin your Cittie and the liberties thereof to bee 
 examined on his Ma ties . behalfe, to the end it may be knowne 
 who they bee (if any such shall happen to bee) that contempne 
 or sleight the authoritie of his Ma tle8 . said Commissions." 
 
 St. Paul's Cathedral. 
 
 XCVIII. Dec. 20, 1633. Commission to the Mayor &c. to 
 collect money in aid of the reparation of St. Paul's Cathedral, 
 with a list giving the names of about 250 persons who 
 contributed 111. 18s. 3d. between them, besides 31. Us. 9d. 
 raised by collections in the several churches of the city, 
 Robert Vilvaine,* Doctor of Phisicke, promising to pay 6s. 
 yearly as long as the work shall last, if he lives. See also 
 Transcripts, No. 2089. 
 
 Lands for Charitable uses. 
 
 C. May 1, 1638. Commission to the Mayor, Bishop and 
 others to enquire concerning lands given to charitable uses under 
 Statute 43 Elizabeth [cap. 4 (1601), Stat. iv, 968]. For 
 similar commissions, see No. CVII (May 15, 1648), CVIII 
 (Dec. 13, 1653), [issued by " the Keepers of the Liberties of 
 England "], among the commissioners being John Desborow,f 
 Major General, and Edmund Prideaux, Attorney General to 
 the Commonwealth and Recorder of Exeter.J For another 
 commission, dated July 11, 1666, see No. CIV, where the 
 Bishop, to whom among others the commission is addressed, 
 is called " Seth " [i.e. Seth Ward]. For writ of Charles II 
 to the Mayor &c. to deliver the temporalities of the see to 
 him, dated Aug. 25, 1662 ; see No. CX. 
 
 * See L. 172. He was buried in Exeter Cathedral, Boase, Reg. 88. For 
 epigram written by him in 1640, see Izacke, 156. 
 
 t For his connection with Exeter Castle, April 14, Oct. 17, 1654, see 
 Col. Dom., 1654, pp. 100, 376. On March 12, May 28, 1655, he was Major- 
 General in charge of the Militia of Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wilts. 
 Thurloe, State Papers, iii, 221, 468. 
 
 I Appointed Recorder May 2, 1643. Oliver, p. 236.
 
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 Emissaries of mischief. 
 
 CIII. Feb. 7, 1642. Commission to the Mayor &c. to 
 administer the oath of supremacy and allegiance to suspected 
 persons passing through Exeter. [See Act Book vii (i.e. viii), 
 /. 199, quoted in Oliver, p. 114.] 
 
 Invasion of the Scots. 
 
 CVI. Oxford, March 30, 1644. Charles I commissions 
 Sir John Berkeley, knight, Governor of the City of Exeter, 
 the Mayor (Hugh Croker, esquire*) and others to raise Exeter's 
 share of 100,000?. granted by the Commons [i.e. at Oxford] 
 to resist the invasion of the Scots, t 
 
 General Monck. 
 
 CIX. July 4, 1662. Commission to George [Monck] Duke 
 of Albemarle as Lord Lieutenant of Devon and Exeter to 
 appoint his deputies ; see also Transcripts, No. 2097. 
 
 Nativi. 
 
 CXIII. Nov. 22, 1679. Charles II commissions the Mayor 
 and Aldermen of Exeter to administer the oath of supremacy.! 
 See also Transcripts, No. 2104. 
 
 Deputy Lieutenants. 
 
 CXIV. April 4, 1687. John [Grenville] Earl of Bath, Lord 
 Lieutenant of Devon and Exeter, appoints John Snell [see 
 L. 15] as Deputy Lieutenant for the City of Exeter. In 
 No. CXV (June 13, 1696) Thomas [Grey] Earl of Stamford &c., 
 as Lord Lieutenant of Devon and Exeter, appoints the Mayor 
 as his deputy for Exeter. In CXVII (May 13, 1708) John 
 [Poulett] Earl Poulett, as Lord Lieutenant, appoints his 
 deputies for Exeter ; also CXVIII (March 9, 1717) John 
 [Carteret] Baron Cartaret [of Hawnes], as Lord Lieutenant, 
 appoints his deputies. With signatures " Bathe," " Stamford " 
 (also his seal), " Poulett," and " Cartaret " (with seal) 
 respectively. 
 
 Sir Edward Seymour. 
 
 CXVI. Sir Edward Seymour, Baronet, resigns his office 
 of Recorder of Exeter, with signature " Edw. Seymour " 
 and seal. 
 
 3. ROYAL LETTERS AND OTHER PAPERS. 
 
 Seventeen documents (all originals) numbered 1 to 17, 
 many of which bear traces of previous neglect, though now 
 
 * He was knighted on July 27, 1644. Shaw, ii, 218. 
 
 t Who surrendered at Newark, March 22, 1644. 
 
 j i.e. To enable those who had been born abroad before the Restoration 
 to become naturalised. See Stat. v, 840 (i.e. 29 Car. II, c. 6, 1677). 
 
 Appointed Dec. 7, 1685. Pat. 1 James II, pt. 10, in. 1 ; Duckett, Penal 
 Lava, p. 20,
 
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 carefully mounted and bound, forming, with Sec. IV, seven 
 folio volumes lettered 60A, 60B, 60c, 60D, 60E, 60r, 60o. 
 
 In Dr. Oliver's Calendar (vol. iv, p. 292) the following entry 
 occurs : Nov. 5, 1821. N.B. Mr. Jones employed at home 
 Six Whole Days in sorting, marking, reading and indexing the 
 various letters from the Kings of England, Privy Council, 
 Burgesses and others, which have been bound for their better 
 preservation, and in transcribing Deeds and Charters respecting 
 the manor of Awliscombe by order of the Chamberlain. And 
 in vol. iv, p. 342, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 1825 : Seventy-Ninth 
 Day : Employed the whole of this day in arranging and 
 marking the Chamber Letters in order to their Being Bound &c. 
 Signed, P. Jones. 
 
 Many of the Royal Letters have recently been published 
 in Cotton, Gleanings. 
 
 L. 1. June 29, s.a. Delivered to the Mayor at Exeter on 
 the 19th July. Privy Signet from Henry VII to his trusty 
 and well beloved the " Mayor of our Citee and Port of Excestre," 
 setting forth that " diverse evill disposed persons our soubjiettes 
 born bee now lieing upon the see as comyn pyrates robbing 
 and dispoilling as well our soubgiettes as owre frendes being 
 in treux liege and amite with us and have their comon resorte 
 unto diverse havons as well of that our towne as of other 
 where they may be vitailed, favoured and comforted," and 
 commanding him to come bringing two or three persons of his 
 brethren to the King's presence, "to the ende that at youre 
 comyng we by thadvise of our counsaill may see such a 
 direccion to be taken for the reformation of thoos misbehavings 
 as shalbe thought for the wele of us and our said Royaulme 
 and soubgiettes," &c. 
 
 L. 2. At our manor of Grenewiche, June 23, 1508. 
 Henry VII informs the Mayor of Exeter and his brethren of the 
 treaty made at Calais [on Dec. 21, 1507] for the marriage of his 
 daughter Mary and the young Prince of Castile [afterwards 
 the Emperor Charles V], and requires them to sign and return 
 the bond " specified in the letters obligatories which this berer 
 shal shewe unto you."* For full text see Cotton, 188. 
 
 L. 3. Feb. 24, 1524. Henry VIII to the Mayor of Exeter, 
 Sir Thomas Denys, knight [Recorder of Exeter], Richard Duke 
 and other our Commissioners deputed for the subsidy in the 
 City of Exeter. Recites that a subsidy was granted to the 
 King by an Act of the last Parliament [in 1523, see No. LIX], 
 and that " by inadvertence and misexposition of the seide 
 Acte and partly percace by favour the same in divers parts 
 of this realme hath not been duely executed accordinge to 
 the verraye tenor and true mentionyng thereof," the particulars 
 
 * Exeter being one of the towns entered as sureties for the payment of 
 250,000 crowns as dower Bymer V, iv, 241.
 
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 of which oversights and defaults are set forth in a memorial 
 enclosed [now lost], and desiring them " by dulce amycable 
 and goodly meanes to make overture of the seide defaults 
 and misexpositions unto such and as many our subgiettes as 
 it shall appartaigne, shewing unto them howe ye not under- 
 standing the hooll of the seide Acte have in some things 
 mistaken the same, soe that by your policies and circum- 
 spections the oversights and things paste may be really, 
 effectually, lovingly and conformably reafourmed and amended 
 according to the purporte, juste meaning and entent of the 
 seide Acte," the return of their proceedings to be made before 
 Easter next. [For full text see Cotton, p. 189.]* 
 
 L. 4. Guildford, June 22, 1554. Queen Mary thanks the 
 Mayor &c. for the " courteous entreteynement and other 
 good offices shewed unto our cousen the Marqes of Las Navasf 
 at our request." For full text of the letter see Oliver, p. 102 ; 
 see also L. 34 infra. 
 
 L. 5. Westminster, June 7, 1557. Proclamation of war 
 against the French King [Henri II], with notice of 40 days' 
 grace to French merchants to depart the Kingdom. [Printed in 
 Cotton, 195, who wrongly dates it 1556. For a summary of 
 it see Lingard, v. 251, quoting Transcripts for Rymer, 359 ; 
 Froude, vi, 476.] 
 
 L. 6. Hampton Court, Nov. 4, 1562. Queen Elizabeth com- 
 mands the Mayor and Aldermen of Exeter to contribute towards 
 a levy of 500 men from Devonshire [i.e. to garrison Havre, 
 then called New Havne], the citizens having refused to con- 
 tribute because Exeter was not described as a separate county 
 in the writ. [Printed in Cotton, 190.]{ 
 
 L. 7. Richmond, Feb. 17, 1603. Queen Elizabeth to the 
 Mayor and Justices of the Peace : Having often bene advertised 
 from the maritime partes of our Kingdome our many losses which 
 our good subiects receave in their trade by such shipping as 
 the King of Spaine and the Archduke doo maintaine for no 
 other purpose but to spoile upon our coasts, wherein after 
 good deliberation we have determined that there must be 
 some certeine proportion of shipping wholly assigned to guarde 
 our marchants from what parte soever they sett forthe and 
 retourne, which being a matter no way convenient for our own 
 
 * For similar writ to Wilts, dated at Greenwich, Feb. 27, 1524, see Letters 
 and Papers, Henry VIII, pt. 4, i, 49. The " defaults " may have reference 
 to the amount possessed by those liable to pay, which is given as over 401. 
 in Pat. 15 Henry VIII, pt. 2, mm. 20d-22d; but 201. in Rot. Parl. vii, 
 p. Ixxvii ; Stat. iii, 231 ; and 101. in No. LIX supra. 
 
 f He is so called in Acts of Privy Council, v., 28, May 26, 1554, but Les Naves 
 in Gal. Dom., 1547-1580, p. 62. He is called " Las Naves " in Queen Mary's 
 will, March 13, 1558. J. M. Stone, 515. 
 
 J For a similar demand for 600 men from Essex, Nov. 3, 1562, see Col. 
 Pom., 1547-1580, p. 210.
 
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 shippes to attende the uncertaintie of their trade requiring 
 sodaino and changeable going to and fro. It shall be most 
 necessarie to appropriate some other shippes for that purpose, 
 and therein we make no question but all our loving subiects 
 will conclude that those important actions wherein our own 
 ffleets are still ingaged being well considered and the charge 
 thereof daily multiplying more and more this burthen of 
 expence (whatever that shall amounte unto) must be for the 
 most parte raised and maintained by the voluntary contributions 
 of our subiects. . . . We have thought good to commaunde 
 and authorise you to direet your 1'res to such effect as may 
 procure a speedy collection and disbursment of all things 
 necessary for the grounding and furnishing of tenne or twelve 
 shippes wholly and only to attende that service. Authorising 
 you also to promise that the charges of all maner of munition 
 for that service shall be borne by our selves that they shall be 
 free from paying any customes, tenthes or other duties for 
 all things which they shall take being lawfulle prise. 
 
 Footnote. This agreith with the original signed by her Ma tie . 
 Windebank.* 
 
 L. 8. Undated letter [probably 1603, though endorsed 
 Jas. 16, i.e. 1618-19], from James I to the Mayor &c., 
 commending the careful government of the city and promising 
 that he will be " als readye to yeald to any your reasonable 
 suites that may be for your good and somewhat the rather 
 yf they shalbe preferred unto us by our welbeloved servant 
 John Howell, one of your brethrene, of whose loyaltie and 
 good service wee have experience. Signed, " James R." 
 [Printed in Cotton, p. 197.] 
 
 John Howell was Mayor in 1599. For his offer to obtain 
 a mint for the city in 1603, see Act Book, 6, /. 626. 
 
 InD. 1725, Jan. 17, 1615. Alderman John Howell gives to 
 the city " one Booke of abridgement of Statutes until the 
 xxiiijth of King Henrie the Eight, one greate booke of 
 Statutes at large from Magna Charta untill the Parliament ended 
 the xxixth yeare of Queene Elizabeth, one other booke of the 
 abridgement of all the said Statutes contained in the said 
 booke and one other booke of Statutes att large, 35-39, 44 
 Elizabeth and 1 and 7 James I, with John Howell's seal and 
 signature. These volumes have not been preserved. 
 
 L. 9. A copy of L. 8, and on the same sheet a copy of a 
 letter from Mr. William Hunter [a friend of John Howell], 
 written from the Court on Nov. 15, 1603, desiring the citizens 
 of Exeter to keep secret the above letter, " for that yt ys 
 written by secrett secretary, a Scottish man.f and His Ma tle ., 
 
 * For a similar order to other places, dated Feb. 5, 1603, see Col. Dom., 
 1601-1603, p. 289. For a subsequent order, Feb. 22, 1603, fixing 200/. as 
 the contribution from Exeter, see L. 108, with enquiry from the Mayor of 
 Plymouth (L. 109), March 9, 1603, as to what Exeter proposes to do. 
 
 t i.e. Sir Thomas Areskyne or Erekine, who succeeded Sir Walter Raleigh 
 as Captain of the Guard on May 8, 1603, Acts of Privy Council, xxxii, 198 ; 
 Gal. Dom., 1603-1606, pp. 145, 166.
 
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 ys not desirous that the secret love which he beareth to his 
 secrett frendes should be publickly knowen." With the 
 city's reply to Mr. Hunter expressing their sense of the favour 
 shown to them, " for we must needes confes ourselves to be 
 weak and meane in regard to many other cittys in this 
 Kingdom, yet neverthelesse by the good blessinge of Almighty 
 God this Citty hath ever byn found to be confidently feathfull 
 and truly loyall to her Prince." [Hunter's letter is printed in 
 Cotton, p. 197, who misdates it 1604.] 
 
 Door through the City Wall, 
 
 L. 10. Westminster Palace, March 6, 1623. Order to the 
 Mayor and Alderman to allow the Bishop [Valentine Carey] 
 " to make a convenient doore through the Citty wall and to 
 have the use of it from tyme to tyme, he beinge readie when- 
 soever any publicq urgent necessity shall require for the good 
 and safety of the Citty to make it up againe." [Printed in 
 Cotton, p. 198. See also Cal Dom., 1622-1623, p. 513 ; 
 Freeman, 163.] For the Bishop's petition to the King on 
 the same subject, dated Jan. 27, 1623, see L. 240 ; Book 55, 
 /. 197b, in which he states that his request has been refused 
 by the Chamber, who are " more desirous of his roome then 
 of his company with and amonge them," with a footnote : At 
 the Courte at Whitehalle, Jan. 27, 1622-3, his Ma tle . is 
 gratiously pleased to grant this peticion, beinge in his princely 
 judgment very reasonable upon the condicion propounded and 
 willethe that Mr. Secretarie Calvert give order for a letter to be 
 written to the Maior of Exeter and his brethren to the effecte 
 desired. Jo. Cooke. For counterpetition of the Chamber 
 to the King giving eight reasons against allowing the Bishop's 
 request, see L. 247 ; Book 55, /. 198. For an order in Council 
 May 9, 1623), see L. 245, 246. 
 
 L. 11 is a duplicate of L. 10. 
 
 Isle de Eke. 
 
 L. 12. Hampton Court, Sept. 29, 1627. Copy of a letter 
 from Charles I to Francis Earl of Bedford, Lord Lieutenant of 
 Devon, requiring him to levy 200 able and serviceable men 
 in Devonshire and Exeter for the wars, according to the 
 directions sent to him by the Privy Council, as " there is now 
 a necessitie imposed on us for some speedye reinforcement 
 and supplye [i.e. to the Duke of Buckingham in Isle de Rhe], 
 to the end wee may pursue and finish (with God's favour) 
 those prosperous beginings which hee hath already given 
 us for y e defence of religion, and for the safety and honour 
 both of us and of our Kingdomes." This letter is enclosed 
 with L. 296, i.e. an order of the Council addressed to the 
 Earl of Bedford, dated Sept. 30, 1627, stating that "such 
 are the pressing occasions of his Majesty's affaires that further 
 
 Wt. 80757. Ex. 2
 
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 supplyes must bee had at his p'sent of the number of 200 foot," 
 and requiring that " there bee speciall care had in the choice 
 of the men that they bee of able bodies and yeres fit for service 
 and well clothed, but none of them taken out of the trained 
 bands which are still to bee kept intire." They are to be 
 " committed to ye care of some discreete and able conductor " ; 
 their march is to be at 15 miles per day ; " the charge of coate 
 and conduct money is for the present to be disbursed by 
 the countrye and to bee repaid according to former 
 presedents." The conductors are to receive the men from 
 the Deputy Lieutenants by roll indented tripartite showing 
 the number of the men, their names and the parishes from 
 whence they were impressed. To guard against former 
 " abuses of Constables, conductors and other officers imployed 
 in former levyes " orders are to be given " that there bee 
 noe connyving, selling, changing or sparing of the most able 
 men," &c. and these men are to be at Plymouth by Nov. 1st. 
 The document is endorsed : " The Duke of Buckingham 
 hereuppon verie shortlie retorned to Plymouth from Ree,* 
 and noe souldiers were sent by these letters eyther out of 
 Devon or Exeter." 
 
 In L. 297, 18 Justices of Devon to the Lords of the Council 
 acknowledge receipt of L. 12 and (L. 296) stating the difficulty 
 experienced by the county of Devon in levying 200 men 
 required on account of the number of Seamen which this 
 county ever yeeldes to his Mat s . service and of the later 
 Presses." They have " taken course for the levying of 150 
 men leaving the residue upon the City of Exeter, who have 
 been sometime spared though they are better able to furnish 
 soldiers from its Handicraftsmen than the county from its 
 Labourers." They hope that these troops will be "attended 
 with a good fund of ready money," having regard to the 
 " satisfaction of the late charge of the 2,000 men now shipt, 
 which comes to about 2,500?., and also for the weekly billet 
 of those to come." They are " continuously so molested 
 with the crye of the poore billetters for punt 8 , pay, as our 
 business is disturbed, our credit lost with our countrymen, and 
 ourselves utterlie wearied in the p'formance of this impossible 
 service," and they ask the Council to send " a goode sum of 
 money to hasten some sufficient captain, as you lately 
 did in the Lord Viscount Willmot, both to govern and billet 
 them," and to assign a certain proportion of the men to 
 Cornwall. 
 
 Thomas Jefford. 
 
 L. 15. Windsor, July 26, 1686. James II revokes royal 
 letters of " the 19th day of this instant " in which he had 
 recommended Thomas Jeffordf to be chosen an Alderman on 
 
 * i.e. He left Rh6 on Oct. 30, 16277and landed at Plymouth Nov. 8, 1627. 
 Gardiner, vi, 197. 
 
 f Thomas Jefford was recommended to the city as Mayor by James II 
 on Nov. 28, 1687. He surrendered the City Charter on Jan. 24, 1688. 
 Izacke, 183, 185 ; Oliver, 219.
 
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 the vacancy of Alderman [Isaac] Maudit or Alderman 
 Endymion Walker, " upon some recommendation made unto 
 us concerning this matter," and " leaving you at full liberty to 
 supply the said vacanceys as by your Charter is directed." 
 
 4. LETTERS AND OTHER PAPERS. 606 Documents 
 (Nos. 18-623). 
 
 L. 18. Undated, but after 1488. Petition of John Atwill 
 [Bailiff, 1472, 1474; Mayor, 1477, 1480, 1484, 1485, 1493, 
 1497] to the King [Henry VII]. The upper part is much 
 damaged, but the petition is rewritten on the dorse, with 
 slight alterations in the wording, from which it can be made 
 out that the messuage in question was " of olde tyme called 
 the Herte." 
 
 Humble shewyth and complayneth on to your highnes 
 your poor ' Oratur ' John Atwell, citezeyn of your cite 
 of Exet. that where as one Wm. Lywer, late of Topsham 
 . . . said cite now late dede was sesid of a messuage with 
 the .... demene as of fee and so thereof beyng sesid 
 exchanged with .... by long tyme yn to the fest of the 
 Nativite of Sent John the Baptist last passed. . . . Your 
 Oratour was in your service with the noble Knygth Sr. Richard 
 Eggecomb, comptroller of your honorable household and 
 commissioner send by thauctoritie of your highnes ynto 
 yo' land of Ireland' [i.e. June 23, Aug. 8, 1488], came to John 
 Bonefaunt [Bailiff, 1495, 1507] the most infamouse person 
 withyn your said cite that hath shewed hymself . . . poynted 
 with paper for f orgyng of false dedis and countraf etyng of sealles 
 associatte on ... mony dyverse and riotous persones with force 
 and armez that is to wete with swerdes and bokeleris, billis, 
 stafis, dagerris and long hangeris and broke and entered into 
 the said messuage and on that riottousely with the said force 
 did adowne your said Oratour his messuage and house to the 
 grounde both tymber and wallis and bare a way the same 
 tymber cofferys gryndyng stonys almeries and oder stuffe 
 there founde to the valew of xx. li. How be hit the said John 
 Bonefant was warned required and charged by one Robert 
 Newton [Mayor in 1488, 1504] for that time being maire of 
 your said Cite yn the behalf of your said Oratoure that he 
 sholde not draw downe your said Oratoure his house neyder 
 intermelle hym with all on til the tyme your said Oratoure came 
 home from your service. Neverthelesse that not with stondyng 
 the said John Bonefaunt of Riqueste trustyng your said 
 Oratoure men, to hafe cu' home ageyne kepte and occupied by 
 the said force the said messuage for that tyme neder on to 
 and yette doth and wyll not departe from hit neyder suffereth 
 your said Oratoure to occupy hit as in his Rigth and former 
 possession accordyng to your lawes or lesse then your said 
 Oratoure shold entre uppon hym by force and juparde the 
 breche of your peez the which withoute your comandement he
 
 will not attempt. Wherefor please it to your said highnes the 
 premissis tenderly considered to graunte to severall previ sealys 
 on to be directed on to the Maire and bayliffys of your said 
 Cite comaundyng tham to se the said forceble entre repaired 
 and your said 0. brogth yn suche formerre title and possession 
 as he was on' yn tyme of his departier on to your said service 
 and a noder prevy seale directed on to the said John Bonefaunt 
 to apere before your hignez and the lordys of your most noble 
 counsaile at a certeyn day by your said hignez to be limitted 
 under a certeyn peyne there to aunswere to the premisses and 
 to be corrected accordyng to his demerits and to fynde 
 sufficiaunt surete both to bere your peez agence your said O. 
 and all your trew liege people and of his gode aberyng and 
 over that to comaunde the said J.B. to be putte yn warde so 
 that he shall not departe til that he to all the premisses and oder 
 to be obiected ayenste hym hafe made dew and trew aunswere. 
 And your said Oratour shall pray to God all way for the 
 presevacion of your moste Royall estate. 
 
 Property of Religious Houses. 
 
 L. 19. Dated " frrom London the ijde ..." [the docu- 
 ment being torn at the edges and stained with ink] temp. 
 Edward VI. 
 
 After our hartye comendacions where John Haydon and 
 Thomas Gybbes,* gentilman, purchased and bought to 
 them and to their heyres for ever of the late Kyng of famouse 
 memory Henry theight late Kyng of Englande, all the landes, 
 tenements medowes leasues f edyngs pastures and heredy taments. 
 within the Citie of Excester and the suburbes of the same 
 which did latelie belong and apperteyne to the late monasteries 
 of Saynt John and Saynt Nicholas in Exceter in the countie 
 of the Citie of Exceter, Polsloo, Plympton, Pyllton, Fford 
 and Newenham in the county of Devon and to the late 
 monastery of Launceston in the County of Cornewall. We 
 therefore require you that ymmediatlye upon the . . . the 
 . . . presents by you exactelie perused and ... do deliver or 
 cause to be delivered to the saide . . . Haydon and Thomas 
 Gybbes or to the torny ... in their names all suche evydencs 
 wrytings . . . escripts and mynuments which do concerne 
 . . . lands and other the premisses. And if any . . . 
 evydencs, escripts, courte rolls, writings and ... do concerne 
 as well for other lands as for the said ... by the said John 
 Haydon and Thomas G . . . requyre you to make out a 
 true copye or ... same evydencs and to delyver the same 
 . . . hande to the said John Haydon and Thomas ... to 
 the brynger hereof in his or their names. Thus fare ye well. 
 Three signatures (blotted) : ? Boke . . . , Thomas May [? Moy], 
 Fra. Lindridge.t There is a fragment of a seal and the 
 document is written on paper with watermark a hand (with 
 
 i.e. of Clyst St. Gorge. See Worthy, Will*, 163. 
 
 f Called officers of the Court of Augmentations in S. Moore's Calendar.
 
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 index) and star (with five points). Endorsed : To Anthony 
 Harvy* and John Greynfeldef, Esquires, and [blank] Carewe 
 widow and to all suche person and persons as have the kepynge 
 and custody of any evidences of the possession of the late 
 Monasteries, Abbes, Priores and other possessions within 
 specified and to every of them. 
 
 In L. 58 is a receipt dated Dec. 12, 1561, from " Anthoni 
 Harvy " to the City of Exeter for 3Z. covering three years 
 for annuity of 20s. p.a. 
 
 In L. 84 is a receipt by John Haydon of Ottery St. Mary 
 for 13s. 4d. his fee from the City dated Oct. 24, 1582. 
 
 For grant of church lands in Exeter and suburbs to Haydon 
 and Gibbes for 899?. Is. lid. see D. 1449, April 2, 1545 ; Letters 
 and Papers, xx, i, 298. For their seals and signatures see 
 D. 1452, March 7, 1546. 
 
 The Commotion of 1549. 
 
 L. 20. Aug. [s.a. but 1549-50, John Tuckfield being Mayor]. 
 John Lord Russell the King's Lieutenant General in the West 
 parties, writes to the Mayor and others : " Whear for lacke 
 of good orders emongst suche as ought to rule the commons 
 as well in thes as in other parts of the realme ther have growen 
 of late such commotions and rebellions as the lyeke have not 
 ben harde of insomuche that the rudest of the people contemp- 
 ninge ther superiours have attaigned so unnaturall libertie 
 that at length their pryde and ignoraunce have provoked 
 ther natural! soveraigne lorde and kinge to use his sworde 
 of justice against them." He commands them " to peruse 
 what men within the precincte of your auctoritie are metest 
 . . . the staie of ... inconveniences appointing every man 
 to knowe whom he shall folowe &c." " And forasmuch as 
 upon the late trial of your faithfulness^ and good courage in 
 the valiaunt maintaigning of this citie to the Kinges Majesties 
 honour and your owne comon welthe (wherein you have 
 deserved singuler praise and highe thankes), you wer never- 
 theless brought to thuttermost pointe of miserie yf by his 
 highness power you had not ben the rather relived. Considering 
 the principal faulte thereof to have growen of the lacke of 
 suche aide and assistance as the gentelmen of the Countrey 
 shoulde have given you in tyme or ever the Comons had 
 been hable to straine you as they did." He therefore appoints 
 Sir Peter Carewe, Sir Roger Blewet, knights, and three 
 esquires, viz. Mr. Pierse Courtney, Mr. Richard Chidleigh and 
 Mr. Anthony Harvye (see L. 19) to assist and advise them 
 in case of need, and he orders the bells of the parish churches 
 
 * Of Hey wood, Devon, or Culm John, D. 1507, which has his seal and 
 signature. 
 
 f For appointment, April 18, 1543, of John Greynfelde [al. Graynfelde, 
 Grenfeld or Grenville] as surveyor of all lands of the suppressed religious 
 houses in Devon and Cornwall, see Letters and Papers, xvm, i, 546. 
 
 % i.e. the siege of Exeter by Cornish rebels from July 2 to Aug. 6, 1549.
 
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 to be taken down and the clappers taken away, the bells to 
 be left in charge of some honest men of the parish. [Printed 
 in Cotton, p. 190. The paper has the same watermark as 
 L. 19.] 
 
 In L. 21, Exeter, Aug. 16, 1549, John Lord Russell writes 
 to the Mayor, Sir Roger Bluett, Knight, Mr. John Hull, Esquire 
 [M.P. for Exeter in 1547, d. Oct. 29, 1549] and the rest of 
 their brethren : " Being credebly informed that the 
 defence of the Cytie hathe ben vary chargeable," and that 
 some of the citizens " for some synister affeccons they hadd 
 in this Cause " have refused to contribute to the charges, 
 he requests them to call such persons before them and compel 
 them to contribute. [Printed in Cotton, 192. The paper 
 has a man's head for the watermark.] 
 
 In L. 23, Oct. 9, 1649, William Drewrie and John Befyld, 
 gentilmen, servants to the right Hon'able Lord Russell, 
 Levetenaunt yn this West Parties, send to John Tuckfield, 
 Mayor of Exeter and his brethren a receipt " uppon the 
 request of the said Lord letenaunt ffor the Kynges necessarie 
 affaires " for " twoo dubble Bassys and iiij. Chambers beyng 
 parcel of the ordynaunces of the said Citie " to be redelivered 
 to the City before the next Easter, with signatures : John 
 Bithell, Wyllm. Drury. Endorsed: "the bell off ye lentt 
 off ij. peces off ordenaunce lentt to my lord resesell." 
 [Printed in Cotton, 193.] 
 
 In L. 27, Jan. 20, 1550, John Earl of Bedford writes from 
 Westminster Palace to " the righte worshipfulle and my 
 vearie lovinge frends Mr. John Tukfielde Maior of Excester 
 and his bretherne," informing them that he is going away 
 on the King's business,* and that he has requested his loving 
 friends the two burgesses for Exeter [i.e. Griffin Ameredith 
 and Thomas Prestwood], " who have behaved themselves 
 vearie thankfullie in the service of you all," not to remain 
 at Westminster during his absence but to repair thither on 
 his return,f and this for the more sure furthering of all the 
 city's suits, " which all my Lordes of the Councell favor the 
 more for that your faithfull constancie and defending of 
 the late rebelles in those parties from your Citie. J. bedford." 
 
 The Prebend of Hayes. 
 
 L. 22. April 8, 1550. Copies of four Deeds relating to 
 the Prebend of Hayes. 
 
 (1) The true Copie of An Indenture of bargayne and sale 
 from John Stephens late prebendarye of haves unto Robert 
 Kelwaye or Keilwaie ar'. 
 
 * He was appointed on Jan 21, 1550 to negotiate for peace with France. 
 The treaty was signed at Boulogne on March 20, 1550. 
 
 f They left Exeter riding to London on Jan. 22nd and 26th 1551, 
 respectively. See Act Book, 2, f.19.
 
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 In D. 1443, Oct. 10, 1543 (called Oct. 5, in D. 1507), John 
 Stephynes, clerk, prebendary of Heighes and Canon of 
 St. Peters, grants a 21 years lease of the manor and mansion 
 place of Heighes to Anthony Harvey (see L. 19) at a rental 
 of 37Z. 7s. lid. 
 
 In J). 1458, Sept. 22, 1548, John Stephyns sells the prebend 
 and manor to Robert Keylwey, Esquire, surveyor of the 
 Court of Wards and Liveries. 
 
 (2) The true copie of the confirmation of the same from 
 the patron E[dward] Duke of Somersett and ordynarye John 
 [Voysey] Bishop of Exeter unto the foresaide Robte. Kelwaye, 
 Nov. 30, 1548 [called Keyleway in D. 1460, Nov. 30, 1548], 
 Signed " E. Somersett " and " John Bishop of Excett r ," 
 with fragments of their seals, the former being described 
 as " the very and indubitate patron thereof " and the property 
 as " the manor of Heighes with all rights members and 
 appurtenances in Hayes Cowyke and Clyst moyes " [i.e. Cliston 
 Hayes in Broadclyst. Oliver, p. 194]. 
 
 (3) The true copie of Robte. Kelwaye Gifte of Hayes unto 
 the Kinge. April 1, 1550. 
 
 (4) The true copie of the gyfte of Hayes from the King by 
 1'res patents unto Nicholas Wadham, Greenwiche, April 8, 
 1550, with footnote : Nicholas Waolham* did suffre this 
 land to discend unto his only sister [Jane] and heyre whom 
 John Foster of Baddesley in Hampsher marryd. Foster his 
 wief and his sonne ioyned in sale thereof unto John Petre 
 Customer of Exon by fyne and recovery General warrant 
 and recognisance of M". for the quiett enioying of the same 
 and to be dischardged and saved harmeles from all incum- 
 brance vexacion and treble whatsoever. John Petre esquier 
 gave yt unto his nephew Willm. Petre gent., present possessor 
 of the same. 
 
 In D. 1471, June 8, 1551, Edward VI grants livery of these 
 lands to John Foster and Jane his wife, with great seal. 
 
 In D. 1507, Jan. 12, 1557, Anthony Harvey assigns the 
 prebend with the manor of Hayes &c. to John Foster. 
 
 In D. 1510, Jan. 15, 1557, John Foster and two others give 
 a bond for 500Z. to John Stephyns to perform the covenants of 
 previous indentures. 
 
 In D. 1529, Oct. 1, 1563, John Foster and his son Andrew 
 grant the prebend of Hayes &c. to John Petre, esquire. 
 Signed " By me John Foster." " By me Androwe Foster." 
 See also D. 1530, 1531, 1532, 1709, all referring to the same 
 transaction. 
 
 In D. 1564, Feb. 4, 1571, John Peter grants it to Nicholas 
 Wadham and others as trustees for his nephew John Peter 
 * He was grandfather of the founder of Wadham College at Oxford.
 
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 of Topsham, where it includes land in Hayes, Cowyke Strete, 
 St. Thomas' parish ' prope et ultra pontem Exonie ' [i.e. at the 
 west end of Exe Bridge. See Archceologia, xxviii, 12 ; Oliver, 
 pp. 194-196]. 
 
 A Tilt. 
 
 L. 24. Westminster Palace, June 2, 1550. John Earl of 
 Bedford [i.e. John Lord Russell (see L. 21), created Earl of 
 Bedford Jan. 9, 1550] requests the Mayor &c. not to ask 
 more than 205. or 40s. a year for a "tilte" proposed to be 
 erected on Southernhay " according to the request of the 
 gentlemen inhabiting thereabouts nighe to your citie for 
 honest recreation, pastyme and sporte and the good exercise 
 and other feats at armes, a thing not onely most necessary 
 to be frequented and used, but also many wayes commodious 
 to thole citie." Signed " J. Bedford," and endorsed : ' To 
 my veary loving f rends the Maior and his brethern of the 
 Citie of Excestor." [Printed in Cotton, p. 193.] 
 
 Sir Peter Carew. 
 
 L. 25. Mohuns Oterie [i.e. Mohams Ottery], June 4, 1550. 
 Sir Peter Carew [who had lately been appointed to assist the 
 Mayor, see L. 20] recommends Mr. Sture to the mayor &c. 
 " to serve them as a continuall counsaillor." Signed "P. 
 Careu." [Printed in Cotton, p. 192.] 
 
 For a letter from Sir Peter Carew dated Mohams Oterey 
 Nov. 3, 1563, see L. 68, in which he calls on the Bishop of 
 Exeter to inquire about the conduct of John Parker, of the 
 parish of Lupytte [i.e. Luppitt, near Honiton] for his " naughty 
 and frowarde dealinges towardes his wief." 
 
 L. 69 is a letter from W. Bishop of Exeter to the Mayor &c. 
 enclosing L. 68, and desiring them to imprison the said Parker, 
 who has fled to the city. " He hath almoste killed his wiff 
 diverse and sondrie tymes " and " hathe benne at no churche 
 almost these xij monthes and regardethe neither God nor 
 manne." 
 
 Exe Island. 
 
 L. 26. Westminster, Dec. 7, 1550. The Lords of the 
 Council declare the King's intention to grant to the city the 
 manor of Exe Island, " which with other commodities 
 extendeth nere the yerly value of 301., the same as they say 
 havyn theruppon certayne mylles and adionyng to the Towne- 
 walles." Words are to be inserted conveying the ancient 
 right of cutting timber in Cotley and Pirage Woods for the 
 repair of mills and " wares." " In the ende we pray you that 
 this booke may have and conteyne sufficient considerations 
 for their servyces done in the seid Rebellion [see L. 20], to 
 the intent the same may be a memorie to the posteritie of 
 that cetie to cause them retayne the awncient fayth and dutie 
 to ther soveraigne lord." Signed " Your lovyng ffrends,
 
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 E. Somset, T. Cant, J. Bedford, W. North, C. Clynton, T. Ely, 
 William Pagett, T. Cheyne and others." The paper has the 
 same watermark (i.e. a hand and star) as in L. 24. 
 
 For the actual grant, dated Dec. 22, 1550, see Charter 
 No. XXXVI ; Oliver, pp. 98, 286. 
 
 For timber out of Cotley Wood required by the Chamber 
 for repair of the wear in Exiland, see D. 1690(&), temp. 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 William Hurst. 
 
 L. 28 [s.a.]. Note of expenses of William Hurst,* 
 apparently for his expenses in obtaining a Charter [? Charter 
 No. XXXIV, Feb. 24, 1549]. 
 
 For hys days at ye p'lement for xxxvij days at 2s. the 
 day, 31 14s. 
 
 To Mr. Roberd Chydeley for hys consell and laboure, 7s. 6d. 
 
 Item to Mr. Hrauncke of ye Exchequer for coppyng owte 
 of one Chartter, 12s. 6d. 
 
 Item payd more to the Clarke and to the s'gant of ye 
 p'lement, 2s. 
 
 Item more I vas att London and upewards and downewards 
 44 days, Jan. 14th till March 1st. 
 
 I juge Irede owte of. ... 
 
 The Fishing of the Exe. 
 
 L. 29. London, July 10 [s.a.]. Giulio Borgaruceif to 
 Rooert Hunte and other his farmers of the water of Exe, 
 ordering them to pay to the Mayor the rent for the fishing of 
 the water of Exe, which has passed to the city by the 
 grant of Exe Island. See L. 26. [Printed in Cotton, p. 194.] 
 
 In D. 1387 is a lease (Oct. 18, 1518) from Harry Swete, 
 sergeant-at-arms, bailiff of the manor of Exilond and Richawde 
 his wife to John Thomas, of Exeter, fyssher, of a moiety of the 
 fishing of the water of Exe at a rental of 7Z. 10s. and 4 
 " samons," reserving to " the Countesse of Devonsher and 
 my Lord Harry Courteney, Erie of Devonsher " and their 
 heirs yearly " as many samons as to theym shall be nedefull att 
 all tymes when they shalbe askyd and requyred, paying for every 
 samon ijs. iiijd.," and for Harry Strete and his wife 3 salmons 
 in Lent and as many as they wish, paying 20o". for each. 
 
 In D. 1580, May 23, 1575, is a bond given by the farmers 
 of the water of Exon that they shall not fish in the water of 
 Exe with " anye trannell or trammelles, nett or nettes at the 
 mill taylls, brookes, willoes, spearts, kyddels or with anie 
 other nett or ingen whatsoever except from July 22nd to 
 Nov. 1st, and that onlye at the mill tayle with brooke or layer 
 nett for eles and for no other fysshe." 
 
 * He was M.P. for Exeter in 1539 and 1545, and Mayor in 1545, 1551. 
 For his Portrait, see Cotton, Guild, 37. 
 
 t He was appointed Court physician Feb. 21, 1573.
 
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 In D. 1647(a), Jan., 1588, are instructions for Mr. George 
 Smyth and Mr. Thomas Spicer to deal for the fishing of 
 Exe to be procured by copy from my Lord* and Lady 
 Countess of Warwick to the use of the Mayor &c., with 
 signature " Jo. Peryam " on each sheet. 
 
 In D. 1660, Feb. 16, 1592, is a lease of "the fyshinge for 
 salmons in the ryver or water of Exe (the New Haven excepted), 
 granted by the Chamber to Elizabeth Denys and John 
 Aulsoppe of St. David's for 5 years at a yearly rental of 44Z." 
 Seealso~D. 1683a(Sept. 20, 1598) ; D. 1685 (Sept. 20, 1599), where 
 eight salmon are reserved to the farmer of the Haven, Thomas 
 Pope, and eight for the Mayor, with a proviso not to fish 
 with nets or engines in the new work or Haven ; D. 1737, 
 (March 31, 1620), where it is called " the piscarie " ; D. 1758, 
 (Dec. 17, 1639), which refers to the fishing in the manor of 
 Exiland with permission to erect a mill and wear and make 
 a leat near the salmon-house at the end of the Bonhay ; 
 D. 1762 (Jan. 7, 1646), with liberty to dry nets and moor 
 boats on the Bonhay. 
 
 L. 337. July 19, 1630, Bishop Hall and others write to 
 the Chamber : 
 
 Mr. Mayor and the rest of your worthy Societie. 
 
 In obedience to the reference and that a period maie bee 
 sett unto the difference after soe many meetings, charge and 
 trouble, reason guiding our conscience both our affection to 
 present unto you these our opinions before wee make our 
 certificate. 
 
 That the Landresses have libertie without molestacion to 
 wassche and blanche their clothes on that parcell of ground 
 in difference as accustomed. 
 
 That the inheritance of the parcell of ground in difference 
 (as farr as the olde gate and barres stoode) is as wee conclude 
 by the evidence wee have heard and scene properlie 
 Mr. Livermores. 
 
 That in reguard hereof and that the Leate has its first current 
 through his land and maie happilie some tyme bee some 
 hindraunce unto him both by fretting awaie his land and by 
 hindringe his cattle from convenient wateringe it's not thought 
 amisse that the Cittie doe geeve unto Mr. Livermore some 
 reasonable consideration as twoe shillings sixe pence yeerlie 
 both for those yeares past since the settinge upp of this newe 
 weare and soe yearlie for ever. 
 
 That the Cittie doe cause a passable waye to be made for 
 Mr. Livermore's cattell unto his grounde adioyninge. This 
 stands in our account as reason if soe, or not soe in yours, 
 
 * i.e. Ambrose Dudley, who married Anne Russell, daughter of Francis 
 2nd Earl of Bedford.
 
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 a speedie answeare is expected by your ffreindes, Jos. Exon, 
 John Davie, J. Bamfylde, Jo. Northcot. 
 
 In L. 338 is a fragment of a letter on the same subject. 
 
 In L. 415, Dec. 3, 1657, is a receipt by John Copleston 
 from the Chamber for I2d. for fastening a wear on his land at 
 Upton Pyne. [See L. 106.] 
 
 For extent of the water of Exe from the ferry at Checkston 
 to Cowley Bridge, see Misc. Rolls 3 (xvii), 91. 
 
 The New Haven or Watercourse. 
 
 L. 30. Westminster, Nov. 12, 1551. [John] Earl of Bedford 
 writes to the Mayor, William Hurst, and seven others that 
 the citizens of Exeter " have disbursed by your own voluntary 
 wills good somes of money, the like whereof all the Realme 
 cannot compare withe your and the expenses of any one 
 corporation besides yourselves, albeit by reason of the late 
 bruite of forged monyes divers of the worshipfulls of thos 
 parts have withholden from you ther good wills." He is 
 " not a litel gladd to here that your havon goeth so well 
 forward as it dothe," and exhorts all persons to give aid to 
 the work " seeing the contributors shall have in short space 
 so much benefite me think it should greatly encourage and 
 move them to stick at nothing." 
 
 In Act Book, II, /. 54, March 28, 1543, the Chamber agree 
 for the performans of the Havyn of Ex and that ffoure members 
 schal be appoynted to take the charge of the settyng ffourthe 
 of the worke. 
 
 In Act Book, II, /. 1156, June 6, 1551. That Mr. Mayor 
 and Mr. Blakcaller shall have full powere to concluyd with 
 Mr. Hullond for his estate of his mylls and all the commoditie 
 and profite perteynyng to the same and such conclusion as 
 they shall take with the seid Mr. Hullond shall be performyd 
 by the hole body of the cetie and lykwise to take order with 
 the tenants of the grounde whither the Rever of Exe shall 
 have his course and for the sale of the Okes that do growe 
 uppon the course and all othyr thyngs concernyng the seid 
 water course. 
 
 In Act Book, IV, ff. 42, 45, Oct. 27, 1560, William Strode 
 [or Stroode, Archceologia, xxviii, 17] agrees to make a haven 
 to be completed in ten years at a cost not exceeding 1,000/. 
 
 In L. 61, Plympton, April 16, 1562, William Strode asks 
 the Chamber for an answer to his offer " to make a reasonabell 
 bargeyn for makyng of the haven," as he perceives that they 
 " have no corage towards the same, for it wylbe to great and 
 costlye a work for so olde a man and pore as I am to make 
 it alone. . . . and seying that I have byn a long talker of the
 
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 matter . . . and that knowen to many persons, therefore 
 thys now I offer to make it 301 X yeres so that I wyll 
 unlade a bote of iiij ton apon your owne lande by the water 
 gate." by your ffrynd, W. Strode. 
 
 In L. 62, April 18, 1562, the Chamber reply that "We 
 do most desire the furtherance of the worke and therefore 
 on our parts we dyd most gladlye condiscend and agree to 
 certeyn articles, betwene us agreed from which if you had varied 
 we wolde have taken the same for a full determination and 
 conclusion," but now if he will stand to his offer and the 
 conditions agreed on they will be content to accept it and 
 desire to know his determination that they may make 
 preparation for the work. 
 
 Endorsed : "To the Right Worshipfull Mr. Willm. Stroode 
 of Newnham, Esquier, geve this with speed." 
 
 In D. 1528a, Sept. 21, 1563, is an agreement whereby John 
 Trew of Cardiff covenants to make the river Exe navigable 
 from Exmouth to the water-gate for vessels " of a convenyent 
 and reasonable tyght of 8 or 10 tunes." The Mayor &c. are 
 to find 100 loads of timber and all necessary stone at a 
 convenient quarry, Trew paying the carriage to the works. 
 The Mayor &c. are to buy the necessary land and Trew is 
 to have a lease of the Haven for 99 years and an annual rent 
 of 131. 6s. 8d. and 200Z. in money. Signed " By me John 
 Trew." [See Archceologia, xxviii, 17 ; Oliver, 249.] 
 
 For covenants made with Trew, Sept. 21, 1563, and rates 
 for passing the work, see Act Book, IV, ff. 139, 141. For his 
 receipt for 251. for 100 loads of timber, see D. 1535, July 20, 
 1564. Also for 200Z., see D. 1536, Aug. 14, 1564. [For his 
 work begun in Feb., 1564, and completed in 1567, see 
 Oliver, 256.] 
 
 D. 1534, June 6, 1564, refers to the purchase of an acre of 
 land called Honiton Meads in the parish of Exminster for 
 the digging of the Haven. 
 
 In D. 1541, March 20, 1567, about nine acres of land in 
 the parish of Alphington "lately digged, bancked and cast 
 up for a watercourse " are leased to the Mayor &c. at the 
 request of William [Paulet] Marquis of Winchester, Lord 
 Treasurer of England. For land in the parishes of Exminster 
 and St. Thomas without the Westgate, " of late appoynted, 
 dygged, bancked, moyned, trenched, wrought, specially banded 
 and cast up or measured for the new watercourse," which 
 extends from St. Leonard's to a place beneath Bole Poole 
 (or Bolland D. 1547), called old Exe, see D. 1542, 1544, 
 (March 20, 28, 1567) ; D. 1549 (June 10, 1567) ; D. 1562, 
 (Jan. 30, 1571) ; D. 1557 (Oct. 23, 1568), which mentions 
 " the new wear made by John Trewe." [For a dispute with
 
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 Trew see Archceologia, xxviii, 24, with letter dated June 18, 
 1565, from the Council in London on the subject, see Acts 
 of Privy Council, vii, 222.] 
 
 In L. 74, London, May 31, 1566, Geoffrey Tothill, Recorder 
 of Exeter, writes to the Mayor respecting the proceedings 
 in Trew's matter. 
 
 In D. 298, June 1, 1566, the Chamber enter into a bond 
 with John Trewe for payment of 200Z. to him in two instalments 
 for 100?., of which he gives a receipt in L. 75 (dated Sept. 25, 
 1566). 
 
 In D. 1572, Sept. 11, 1573, "John Trewe of Alphington, 
 gentleman," receives an annuity of 30Z. for 30 years, also 229Z.* 
 in D. 1577 (Sept. 6, 1574), for all his interest in " the new 
 Haven or Watercourse." 
 
 In D. 1578, Sept. 24, 1574, is the final settlement with 
 " John Trewe of Alphington," who " did make the new Haven 
 from Topsham Key to Exeter," with his signature : "by me 
 John Trewe." 
 
 In D. 1614, Sept. 20, 1582, the " New Haven House " in the 
 parish of Alphington and all the pasture on the banks of the 
 New Haven lately occupied by John Trewe from a bridge at 
 the end of the old Exe to a " rayle " at the lower end of 
 Collyns Marsh are leased for 20 years to Richard Hussey, 
 carpenter, on condition that he shall do all the carpenter's 
 work and keep the Haven repaired and filled with water. 
 
 In D. 1622, Sept. 18, 1583, the " Porte or Haven of the 
 Citye of Exeter " includes Exmouth, Cockwood, Kenton, 
 " Colepole " [? Bole Poole], Powderham, Lymson (i.e. Lymp- 
 stone), Tyngmouth (i.e. Teignmouth), Dawlish, and all the 
 creeks reputed to be parcel of the said Port, called " the Port 
 of Exeter and Creeks of the same " in D. 1789, May 31, 1692. 
 
 In D. 1781, March 21, 1681, Rushmarsh, in the parish of 
 Exminster, forms part of the Haven, also land in the parish 
 of Alphington, D. 1807a (Dec. 16, 1704) ; also Round Marsh 
 in Exminster, Shilleys in Topsham, Exmouth meadows and 
 Northam meadow, D. 1823 (July 5, 1720) ; D. 1832 (June 7, 
 1729). 
 
 L. 81. Undated, but 1 588. f Petition of the Mayor &c. 
 addressed to Lord Burghley as follows : In moste humble wise 
 
 * Called 2241. in Oliver, p. 267. 
 
 t This letter is proved to belong to 1588 by an entry in Act Book, IV, 
 f. 281 b., showing that on May 2, 1588, it was agreed that Mr. John Sumpforde 
 shall be sent to London with letters to the Lords of Councell and the Lord 
 Treasurer,
 
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 besecheth your honour, the Mayor, Bayliffs and Commonaltie 
 of the citie of Exceter, That whereas, the matter in varyance 
 dependinge before your Lordshippe in the exchequer Chamber 
 betwene the Towne of Appisham alias Toppisham and the said 
 Cytie of Exeter was on thursdaie laste harde in your Lorde- 
 shippes absence and upon the hearinge of the same, the whole 
 matter rested upon the exposicion of the statute of Anno primo 
 of the Quenes majestic that nowe is, which was referred to 
 the L. cheif baron and other the Barons of the said Courte 
 to consider thereof, untill the nexte sittinge in the same Courte. 
 And thereupon the fynall order of the whole cause was referred 
 unto your honour's determynacion fforasmuche as your said 
 Orators have ben at greate costs and charges to bringe their 
 doings to passe, to the value of mmm". or more which daylie 
 increaseth upon them besides xlv 1 '. a yere which they stande 
 charged to paye to the workemaster of that worke and 
 the lords of the Soyle, and xx n . yerelie for ever to be 
 paid to her Majestic for ther free passage within the same 
 River, which they have contynually had, used, and enioyed, 
 by the space of twelve yeres now laste paste without inter- 
 rupcion, And for that the accomplishement of your orators 
 sute can be no hinderaunce to her Majesty, but contrarilie will 
 augmente her highenes customes verie muche as is duelie 
 to be proved, And allso for that they have allwayes soughte 
 to come to some reasonable agreamente with the Quenes 
 ffermo r of Tappisham, with whome they had ones fullye 
 concluded, but after by secreate meanes were supplanted 
 Your saide Orators doe therefore moste humblie beseche your 
 good L. to stand ther good Lorde concerninge the premisses 
 as farre forthe as your honour maye with equittye and justice. 
 And your said orators and all the inhabytauntes of the saide 
 Cytie shall daylie praye for the preservacion of your honorable 
 estate in healthe and prosperytie longe to contynue and 
 endure. 
 
 L. 155 has a memorandum relating to the breaking down 
 of Calabeer Wear and Trew's Wear by blocks of ice in 1608. 
 [See No. XLIV, page 7.] 
 
 In Act Book, IV, /. 288, July 3, 1588, the Chamber agree 
 that where there is presentlie to be used one hundred pounds 
 for the repayring of the Haven and the same cannot be paid 
 by the Recey ver of the Cytie as the same hath been used that 
 for the ease of the said Receyuer the cytie by there Common 
 Scale shall become bounde unto William Martyn in the sume 
 of Two Hundred poundes with condicion to paye unto hym 
 one Hundred and Tenne poundes at thende of one yere and 
 in consideracion thereof the said William Martyn agreeth to 
 procure one hundred poundes to be bestowed presentlie 
 upon the reparacion of the said Haven and to deliver his 
 Bande for the payement of the said hundred pounds to such 
 person or persons from whom he shall procure the same.
 
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 And it is agreed that yf the cytie do not paye unto the said 
 William Martyn the said one Hundred and Tenne poundes 
 at the daye then without any daunger he maie put the said 
 Bande in Suyte and take to hymself the advantage thereof.* 
 
 In L. 394, Oct. 18, 1647, Jasper Radcliffe notifies that the 
 Haven banks are exceedingly ruined. 
 
 In L. 445, dated Combe, Aug. 19, 1696, John Angerf writes 
 to Thomas Wheadon that he has heard that the citizens do 
 intend to have the river between Exeter and Topsham made 
 navigable and offers to undertake the work. 
 
 In Act Book, 13, /. 1016, on Jan. 12, 1697, " It is ye opinion 
 of this Chamber that it wilbe for ye citie's advantage to make 
 ye River of Exe navigable for shipps of one hundred Tunn 
 come to ye Key of the said city and for the speedy and better 
 effecting of this worke they have appointed a Committee 
 to receive such offers and proposals as are made by any 
 persons that are willing to undertake the same and to make 
 report thereof to the Chamber." 
 
 D. 1797a, Dec. 10, 1698, contains an agreement with William 
 Bayly of Winchester, gentleman, for the making of the Haven 
 and Canal. See Oliver, p. 257, who made many extracts on 
 this subject in his Calendar from Act Book, 13, which he called 
 Book, XI. These extracts refer chiefly to the years 1697- 
 1699, e.g. in /. 1246. (May 31, 1699), it is ordered that " the 
 poor workemen who worked upon the new workes and to 
 whom Mr. Bayly, the Engeneare, who is lately fled, was 
 indebted for their Labour be paid every of them 2s. as a free 
 guifte from the Chamber and that they bee imployed in 
 digging of the newe Cutt or worke two foot deeper. On 
 /. 132 (Nov. 23, 1699), it is ordered that noe more worke 
 bee done upon the newe workes except it bee about the securing 
 of the ware and Bay until further order from the Chamber. 
 On /. 1336 (Jan. 8, 1670) it is ordered that an Act of Parliament 
 to raise money for perfecting the worke and making the river 
 of Exe navigable from the high sea to this Citty bee endeavoured 
 to be procured as soon as possible it may bee done." 
 
 In L. 451, Nov. 11, 1699, the Chamber pray the Duke of 
 Ormonde [High Steward of Exeter, Izacke, 191] and 
 Sir Edward Seymour [Recorder and M.P. for Exeter in 1698, 
 1701] to present a petition to the King for assistance in making 
 the river navigable. This petition is contained in L. 452 
 (Nov. 12, 1699). 
 
 * For this transcript I am indebted to Misses A. M. Shorto and A. J. 
 Walker, 
 f or Auger.
 
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 In L. 454, Dec. 16, 1699, William Simon [or Symons, in 
 L. 465, where he asks Samuel Izacke, the Chamberlain, for 
 payment of his account] sends information that the Duke of 
 Ormond will present the petition to the King. 
 
 In L. 453 (undated) are two copies of a petition from the 
 Chamber to the House of Commons for leave to bring in a 
 bill to raise money to complete the Haven. [For contents see 
 Oliver, p. 258, showing that the city had already spent 21,OOOJ. 
 on the work and will require 10,000?. more and that if the said 
 works be not completed it will be the ruin of this city.] 
 
 D. 1811, March 25, 1706, shows that 10 acres of land in the 
 manor of Alphington have been acquired by the Mayor &c. 
 to enlarge the Haven. 
 
 D. 1816, March 24, 1709, has a settlement of certain 
 controversies regarding the soil of the Haven and Canal near 
 the Lower Sluice. 
 
 In L. 474, Aug. 25, 1715, James Rodd, Esquire, petitions 
 Sir Littleton Powys and Sir Robert Eyre, Justices of Assize 
 for the Western Circuit, praying for satisfaction from the 
 Chamber for destroying his land in Round Marsh by digging 
 of the Haven. 
 
 In D. 1824, Aug. 9, 1720, are agreements between the 
 Mayor &c. and two grocers of Exeter for bringing lime-stone 
 for burning into lime through the Haven free of rates and 
 duties. Also in D. 1830 (March 21, 1727), where the lime kiln 
 is on St. Leonard's Downe. 
 
 In D. 1858, Nov. 10, 1819, is a similar agreement for bringing 
 lime stone and culm through the canal. 
 
 In Act Book 13, Dec. 22, 1724, and Jan. 5, 1725,* 
 Lord Walpole, Chief Justice King and the Archbishop of York 
 are to be invited to the " opening of the Port." 
 
 L. 518, circ. 1750 ?, contains suggested alterations in the 
 rate of charges for the Haven as keyage, lighterage, &c. 
 
 Parliament of 7 Edward VI, 1553. 
 
 L. 31. March 1, 1553. Remembrances for the Parliament 
 [probably by Richard Prestwood]. 
 
 I. To make suyte for the geyft of the plate as well for that 
 is gevyn already to the havyn by the parishenners [see 
 Inventories 3], as also for the resudye of the hole plate of the 
 parisshes and Seynt Peter with all the belles withyn the countye 
 of the cetie of Exeter [see L. 20]. 
 
 * Called Pec. 27th and Jan. 3rd respectively in Oliver, p. 261.
 
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 Item to speke to Mr. Cicell* for the Blake roll which Griffyn 
 [i.e. Griffith Ameredith, see page 22, L. 27] leyft in his custody, 
 [Izacke, 95; Oliver, 87, 309]. 
 
 Item to have with me the recordes for the havyn whereof 
 was the cause first of the distruccion of the havyn [i.e. temp., 
 Edward I, Archceologia, xxviii, 7 ; Oliver, 249]. 
 
 Item to speke with Mr. Duke [? Duke of Somerset or 
 Northumberland] for his tenants of Syon.f 
 
 Item to delyver to my Lord Prevy Seall [i.e. John Earl of 
 Bedford from Aug. 21, 1547, to July 6, 1553] a Tonn of Gascon 
 wyne. 
 
 Item to make request for Cokes towards the havyn in 
 consideraunce that it shalbe best awerdes for the defens of the 
 Kyngs lands ayenst Exmyster marshes. 
 
 Item for to sue for the pencon of 505. for Exbridge to 
 purchas the same to the use of the citie if answer shall s've 
 att c with gersum. 
 
 Item to sett forth the Recognysance of Acton Burnell and 
 Statute Merchant and the Courte of pipowders. [Side note : 
 M for Chester, A iij, Edward VI.] 
 
 Item a Statute of Attaynt uppon false vdite as London 
 is with lyke, re Indenture by the Aldermen of Exeter, as 
 London is the Jure to worth in value in goods A above A 
 regis Henry VII, 11 and 16. 
 
 Item that if any bill be putt yn the parliament for bells, plate 
 or ornaments of the churches then to cause ffrends to be made 
 to have all the plate, bells and ornaments within the countie 
 of Exeter towards the reparacon and makyn the newe havyn 
 or at least to have a proviso for that is gevyn by the parishes 
 to the havyn. 
 
 Item to putt in remembrance the prisage wyne as London 
 hath if it be convenyent to be hadd for the cetie. 
 
 Item to speke with the Burgs (? burgesses) of Powle, 
 Hampton and Bristowe that they will not allow us free with 
 them ffor Custome. 
 
 Item to make a letter to my Lord privy scale in the favor 
 of the Citie anseryng his frendshipp to the havyn &c. [See 
 L. 30, page 27.] 
 
 Item more that ther be no forryner to seyll any clothe 
 withyn thys counte but only the vyssiters and awnagers of the 
 same counte of Exeter, and to knowe how they use ther f orf eyts 
 of the cloyth nott made according to the Statute. 
 
 Item more to have a perflyt knowlyge what the &c. 
 hath valew of the bells and platte of the counte of Exeter 
 whereby to know the sertynte therof. 
 
 * i.e. William Cecil, Secretary to Protector Somerset, Sept., 1548 ; made 
 a Secretary of State Oct. 5, 1550, knighted Oct. 15, 1551. 
 
 f Granted to Duke of Somerset, July 23, 1 547 ; Aungier, 92 ; also to John 
 Dudley Duke of Northumberland, June 26, 1553 ; ibid. 94. For documents 
 in Exeter relating to Syon, see Misc. Rolls, 80 ; Law Papers, 2,063. For the 
 Charter of Syon, see Hooker's List. 
 
 Wt. -20757. Ex 3
 
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 Item more to have in rememberance for a commen halle 
 wheras all fforryners maye ressortt with ther marchandes 
 to make stalles as it is in London in blackwyll hall and to 
 conclude with Mr. Speke for his huse for that intent and to 
 go therof for 87 yeres and 45s. att rent.* 
 
 Item to have the copie of the plate gevyn by the parishes 
 to the havyn. 
 
 Item to send upp the platt of the havyn. 
 
 Also payments att the parliament the ij Februarii an 
 R.E. VI Septimo. 
 
 Imprimis for the allowances of the writt, iiijs. 
 
 Item to the Sergent for my parte, ijs. 
 
 Item for the cariage of the pels, xs. 
 
 Item for Mr. Ridgwaies is serch in the Chan'cy, ijs. viiid. 
 
 Item for the cariage of my clothes and Buckes, xviijd. 
 
 Item for Mr. Bucknam is supere with the allowances of 
 ixs. u]d. 
 
 Item for John Huntes parte [unfinished]. 
 
 Martin Barbaunce. 
 
 L. 32. London, Aug. 20, 1553. The Earl of Bedford 
 intercedes with the Mayor &c. for one Martyn Barbaunce, who 
 had been put out of possession of a piece of ground called 
 Culver Park or Culver Haye by the Chamber, and prays 
 that he may be reinstated so that he may not be compelled 
 to seek relief elsewhere, which " wold not a littell sounde 
 unto your diswurships in using such extreame dealings." 
 
 The Prince of Piedmont. 
 
 L. 33. Grenewich, [May] 17, 1553. The Earl of Bedford 
 writes to the Mayor &c. : Whereas this gentilman the bearer 
 herof servant unto the Prince of Pyemount,tone of the King's 
 Majesties great friends hath bynne . . . about certeyn his 
 maisters especiall aff . . . And having his full dispatches 
 intendeth to ... presently into the parties of Spayne by pi' 
 [? Plymouth] . . . theis shalbe therefore moste hartely to 
 desire youe and everie of youe that at his arr ... at Exetter 
 he maye be genteley enter[tained] and frendly used in all 
 things whereof he shall have nede or any of his compan . . . 
 and that you will see hym well lod . . . wherein I praye 
 you use suche curteou . . . behaviour towards hym as your 
 doings may . . . sounde to the King's Majesties honour the 
 con . . . tion of the gentilman and the sat ... of me in 
 that good opynyon which I have conceaved of your freindships 
 
 * In Act Book, I, /. 137 (Feb. 21, 1553) the Chamber had resolved : That 
 there schalbe provyded and ordeyned at the common charge of the citie 
 a house convenyent to the whyche all merchant strangers and fforeners 
 comynge to the said citie with lynnynge cloth or wollyn cloyth here to be 
 byth and solde shall be bryth to the said house and their to be solde and 
 yn no nother place yn the said citie. 
 
 t T Emmanuel Philibert Count of Piedmont, a suitor for the hand of 
 Queen Mary. He invested Therouanne with Imperial troops, April 15, 1553.
 
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 to be extend ... in this behalfe the Rather at my desy . . d 
 me for your gentilnes to be shewed herin you shall fynde 
 me ready at all tymes to shewe you any pleaser I may . . . 
 so I byd you fare well ffrom . . . Court at Grenewich the 
 xvijth of ... Anno 1553. Your loving frend, J. Bedford. 
 
 Expected Arrival of Philip. 
 
 L. 34. Santiago di Compostella, June 26, 1554. [John] 
 Earl of Bedford desires the Mayor &c. to prepare to receive 
 the Prince of Spain, who was shortly to sail for England. 
 As the Prince* " can veary hardlye endure long travayle 
 uppon the Sea " he may land at Falmouth or Plymouth, and 
 they are to prepare to receive him " as maye be for the honor 
 of the Quenes Majestic and the Realme and that he maye 
 thinke hymself welcome into the countrey." The Bishop's 
 house is to be made ready for him "to lie there yf he shall 
 fortune to lande in the West parties " and " that you provyde 
 some good thinges to present the Prince withall at his comyng. 
 And that you provide all suche other thinges as lodginge, 
 vytayles, horses for carriages and horses to convey the Prince's 
 trayne, being about four or five hundreth besides two hundreth 
 that cometh with me as you shall be best hable to the utter- 
 most of your powers." [Printed in Cotton, Gleanings, 194 ; 
 see also L. 4, supra.] 
 
 Masters of Defence. 
 
 L. 35. Aug. 15, 1555. Printed copy of Letters Patent, 
 20 July, 32 Henry VIII [1540], granting to Peter Beste and 
 19 othersf licence to practise their said arts and to apprehend 
 all others who shall pretend to teach the same. The document, 
 which is torn at the edge, begins : " Forasmuche as diverse 
 . . . scolers of the sayde science nothinge or lytle regarding 
 their othes made and receyved of theyr ... at their first 
 entringe to lerne their sayde science ne the daunger and perilles 
 of dampnacion . . . oone soules for the wilfull breakinge 
 of the sayde othe. For their owne singular lucre and 
 ad . . . ge onely of their unsaciable covetouse mindes without 
 any sufficient lycence or lawfull auctoritie . . . pteously 
 contrary to their sayde othes made to the maisters or provostes 
 of the sayde science . . . not onely have resorted and devided 
 themselves into every contry and parties of this our Realme 
 of England from towne to towne and place to place, but also 
 have kepte open scoles and taken great sommes of money 
 for their labours &c. 
 
 Loss of Calais. 
 
 L. 36. Jan. 2, 1558. W[illiam Paulet, Marquis of] Win- 
 chester and W. [Lord] Howard [of Effingham, Lord Admiral] 
 
 * With whom the Earl had an audience at Santiago on June 24, 1554. 
 Eng. Hist. Rev., VII, 263. 
 
 t For their names, viz., nine of them " Masters of the Science of Defence," 
 and the rest " Provosts of the same Science," see Letters and Papers, XV, 477-
 
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 write to the Mayor of Exeter and the Customers, Con- 
 trollers and Searchers of the Port : " After righte hartey 
 commendacions the Quenes Majestic callinge to remembrance 
 the great victory and f . . . hand the King's highenes hathe 
 uppon his enemy the frenche Kinge mynding by the helpe 
 of God the continoance of the same and increse hath by 
 thadvice of the Lordes of her Councell commanded me to 
 write unto you and all other that make adventure upon her 
 Majesty's enemy the French King by the see that they shall 
 goo togethers in good strenghe hable to annoye thenemy and 
 defende themselves wherein consiste the great honour, welthe 
 and surety for the which we be all most bound to her grace. "- 
 Signed, "Winchester," " W. Howard." 
 
 [In bad condition. Endorsed : " Reed, of Mr. toker of 
 Colhmpton, the xiijth of January."] 
 
 L. 37. Jan. 7, 1558. The Marquis of Winchester to the 
 same. "After my righte herte commendacons you shall under- 
 stande that Risebanke and Newnam Bridge be taken* and 
 Callice seaged which was never seane syns the first wynnyng 
 and therefore may not be suffered for honour to the Prynce 
 and Realme nor yet for comodyty that thereby growethe 
 daly to the Realme for the Succors whereof there is appoynted 
 a great bande of men to be sent fourthe with all speade besyde 
 them that be allredy gon to defende the seage, prainge you 
 hartely in the Quene's behalf to make reddy as many shippes as 
 you can with speade doble manned and well appoynted and 
 victelled and sende to my 1' Admyral [i.e. Lord Howard of 
 Effingham] to the . . . w [? narrow] sees where you shall 
 fynde hym with appoe . . . kepynge the passage which 
 dilligent doinge shalbe more worthe to the Quenes Majestic 
 and the Realme than any treasure you coulde gyve thank 
 and the ... as lovyng subjects showe yourselves, as I doute 
 nott but you wold do for honor to the Kinge, Quene and Realme 
 and defence of the same which had never suche an iniury 
 offered unto them syns Edward the thirds tyme, thus fare 
 you wel, wryten this viith of January, 1557 let your venturers 
 be parte of your nomber. Your lovinge frende, Winchester." 
 
 L. 38 is a copy of L. 37, both being badly injured in the 
 latter portion. 
 
 L. 39. Jan. 8, 1558. The same to the same. I comende 
 me hertely to you and so advertise you that the Quenes 
 Majestys pleasure is that all the shippes within your porte 
 and commynge to your porte be stayed within the same 
 with there masters and marryners unto such tyme as 
 you shall know furder the Quene's pleasure whereof fayel 
 you not I pray you as you wil aunswere the Quenes Majesti 
 at your perilles thus fare you wel ; written the viijth of January, 
 
 * i.e. on Jan. 3, 1568 ; Hardwicke Papers, i, 112, 113 ; Cal. Venetian, VI, iii, 
 1124-6.
 
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 1557, and hast your shippes to dale as fast as you can possible 
 your lovinge frend Winchester. 
 
 {Endorsed : Re. of Mr. toker, Colmhmpton, the xiij of 
 Januarye, hast, hast, post hast.] 
 
 L. 40. Jan. 11, 1558. John Peter, Mayor of Exeter, and 
 John Petre, Customer, to " all maiors, Bayliffs, Constables 
 and other the Kynges and Quenes Maiesties officers and 
 mynysters to whome these shall appertayn." For as mych the 
 Kynge and Quenez Majesties letters of great ymportance 
 [L. 37, 38] are to be sent yn to the severall ports in this west 
 parts for spedy delyveryng of the same wee have sent this Berer 
 with all hast accordynge to the tenure therof Requyryng you 
 and eny of you to whome these present shall come to assiste 
 and ayde this seid berer therof as well with horses and other 
 necessaries as you wil awnswere to the contrarye to your 
 utmost perelle. Dated at Exet the xith day of January, 1557, 
 John Peter, Mayor of Exon', John Petre, Custom'. 
 
 [Endorsed : " Hast, hast, post hast, for thi lyff, and for thi 
 lyff post hast."] 
 
 L. 41. Jan. 13, 1558. Mayor of Exeter &c. reply " to the 
 Right honourable and our very good lord the Lord of Wynches- 
 ter." May hit please your honour that wee have recevydyour 
 letteres the xi of January dated the vijth of the same [L. 37, 38] 
 and understand therby the great myshappe to the Kings 
 and Quenes Majesties and to the hole Realme conserning 
 the takyng of ther graes peec beyond the sees by the 
 ffrenchemen, the which all good Englyshmen have good 
 cause to lament and to syke a restitucon therof to the utter- 
 most of their poure. Albehit yet every man and good subiect 
 must do as of right they may do and justifie. And therefore 
 wee have thought good to advertise your honour that wher 
 your letteres do require to be put in redynes and sent forthe 
 oute of hand as many shippes as wee can duble mannyd, 
 vitiled and well appoynted and to send them to the Lord 
 Admyrall beynge no we yn the narrowe seas, ffor awnswere 
 wherunto wee say that wee to oure possible pours be redy 
 to do as good and ffaithfull subiects should do albehit ther 
 is no man within this countie and cetie of Exeter that 
 hath any shippes of his owen nor have any comysion to mell 
 or take upp shipps, maryners, vyctuals, munycions or any 
 other thynges appertaynyng to the shipps for the warris oute 
 of oure owne countie and cetie, nor yet as wee thynke any 
 marynners or any other person that hath vyctuall to be sold 
 will give or delyver us any thing without speciall comyssion 
 or my lord admyralls comyssion to take upp maryn's whereat 
 wee have nothing to do within the countie of Devon. And 
 besides this if wee should make request to have sum money 
 lent to the ffurtherans of your hon'able requeste yet wee 
 veryly suppose hit wilbe denyed bycause of very late and 
 
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 nowe it is yn hand that a great number of men as well within 
 the Cetie of Exeter as yn the countie of Devon do disburse 
 to the Quene's Majestie by way of lone* a great masse of 
 tresure. By reason wherof every mans excuse wilbe that 
 ther is almost as ... leight amongst us. Wherfore wee 
 besech your honor and as your wisedome shall thynke meyt 
 to devise and write unto us what wee may and ought to do 
 yn this behalf and ther uppon wee will oute of hand God 
 willyng do as to oure duties and ffaithfulnys appertaynyth as 
 cure lord knoweth whome we desyre to kepe your lordshipp 
 in mych honor. Writen att' Exeter the xiijth of January, 1 557. 
 Your lordshipp to command, the Mayor and his brethern of 
 Exeter and the customer of the port of Exeter. 
 
 Disordered. Soldiers. 
 
 L. 42. Totnes, May 14 [s.a. ? 1558]. The Earl of Bedfordf 
 commands the Mayor etc. to search for and apprehend the 
 " dysorderyd sowders that returned home agayne from 
 Brystowe under my Levetenaunte " as they are commanded 
 to do by the Lords of the Council. Signed, Your lovynge 
 nrend, F. Bedford. 
 
 A Servant of Lord Howard of Effingham. 
 
 L. 43. Tawestock [i.e. Tavistock], June 25, 1558. Francis 
 Earl of Bedford requests the Mayor &c. to discharge the 
 bearer, Mr. Morris, " servant to my very good lord the 
 Lord William Howard," who " stands bound in a certaine 
 sum for his apparaunce " before them. 
 
 Endorsed : " To Mr. Peter, Maior " [i.e. John Peter, Mayor 
 1557-1558], and "give this." 
 
 / 
 The Marquis of Sara. 
 
 L. 44. Tawestok [i.e. Tavistock], Aug. 4, 1558. Francis 
 Earl of Bedford thanks the Mayor &c. for their diligence 
 in forwarding his letters and the Lord Admiral's^ to the 
 Lords of the Council ; adding : "I am let tunderstande 
 from my Lords of the coming unto Exceter of the Marques of 
 Sara, a nobleman of Spayne and in great favour both of the 
 King's and Quene's Majesties, whome I praye you visyt in 
 my name, having good respect both for the preparacion of 
 his lodging and allso to geve hym intertainement by your 
 oft visyting hym together with some of your bretherne." 
 
 Endorsed : " geve this " and " Mr. Peter, Maior." 
 
 * i.e. since Oct. 6, 1556, Acts of Privy Council, VI, p. 6 and passim. 
 
 t i.e. Frances Kussell, 2nd Earl, from March 14, 1655, to July 25, 1585, 
 Lord Lieutenant of Devon and Exeter (L. 50), and Dorset from March 14 to 
 Nov. 10, 1558, and May 15 to Oct. 15, 1559. 
 
 t Edward Lord Clinton appointed Lord Admiral on Feb. 13, 1558. 
 D. N. B., XI, 92. 
 
 sic in document, but possibly the Marquis of Feria, who afterwards 
 married Jane Dormer. He was in England on Feb. 2, 1558, Cal. Fen., VI, 
 iii, 1041, and at Arras on Sept. 26, 1558, Cal. For., pp. 393, 644, where he is 
 " agreeable to his Majesty [t.e. Philip] and in great favour with the Queen " 
 [Mary].
 
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 L. 45. Tawestock, Aug. 5, 1558. [Francis] Earl of Bedford 
 has sent his servant James More to the Mayor to know when 
 the Marquis of Sara [see L. 44] is coming to Exeter. 
 
 Endorsed : " geve this." 
 
 Non-Jurors. 
 
 L. 46. From the Court, May 28, 1559. [Francis] Earl of 
 Bedford writes to the Mayor and John Charles, Esquire 
 [Recorder of Exeter], informing them that the pardons for 
 the condemned persons in Exeter gaol* are ready and sealed 
 " and lacke nothing but money to dyscharge the ffees thereof." 
 The pardons are 13 in number and the fees 13s. 4d. each, 
 which are only half fees, he having made interest with " the 
 Keper of the Seale " to have the other half remitted. He 
 prays him therefore to send up 81. 13s. 4d. " with as moche 
 spede as may be that the poore men may enjoie therby ther 
 lyffe and libertie that so good a deed be not slacked and so 
 moche labour and travaille cast away as thereabout hath 
 by dyvers bene bestowed." 
 
 L. 47. Lyme, Oct. 15, 1559. John Juel [or Jewel] and 
 Henry Parryf inform Mr. Gibbes [L. 19] and the Mayor and 
 other the Commissioners that : " According to our order 
 taken concernyng the recantation of the vicar of Bodmane we 
 have hereinclosed sent the same commytting the due execution 
 by hym to be done by your wisedomes " and praying them 
 "to inform Sir John Chichester,J the Mayor of Bodmane 
 and other the Commissioners at that towne how he hath 
 behaved hymselfe in that behalfe requiringe them to see the 
 like don by hym both in the Parishe Churche of Bodmane 
 and other places." Signed : Your lovynge frends, Jo. Juel, 
 Henry Parry. 
 
 InD. 1602, Oct. 9, 1581, Wm. Colton, of Milverton (Somerset), 
 gentleman, Henry Sotheron, of Exeter, gentleman, and John 
 Bruyssheford, of Exeter, gentleman, give a bond in 200/. that 
 the said William Colton shall not depart this realm, but shall 
 remain at the dwelling house of the said Bruyssheford at 
 Exeter, unless he be licensed by the Lords of the Privy Council 
 to go to some other house " untyll he have conformed and 
 yelded hymselfe unto the orders of relygion and for comyng 
 and resortyng to dyvyne servyce established by Acte of 
 Parlyament," his conformity to be notified by the Ordinary 
 to the Council. He is not to admit or have access to any 
 Jesuyt, massynge priest or semenary priest," &c. 
 
 * Probably non-jurors, Bishop Turberville being at the time in prison 
 at Exeter. 
 
 t Both were appointed Commissioners for visitation of the Western 
 Counties on July 19, 1559. They were in Exeter in Sept. 1559 (Oliver, 121) 
 and back in London on Nov. 1, 1559 (Strype, Ann., i, 248). 
 
 t For a letter from him to the Earl of Bedford, dated at Yollyston 
 [? Yeovilton], Aug. 17, 1559, see Cat. Dom., 1547-1580, p. 136.
 
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 The Merchant Adventurers. 
 
 L. 48. Jan. 25, 1560. The Oracion or Declaration which 
 I, John Vowell alias Hoker, made by the apoyntement of 
 Mr. Robert Mydwynter, Maior, unto the Commons of the 
 Citie of Exon at the Guyldhall the xxvth of Januarie, 1559. 
 [4 folios, begins: "My Masters the cause" ends "unto us 
 all." Printed in Cotton, Guild, pp. 99-107. It refers to an 
 order received from the Lords of the Council " for the 
 appeasing of the late controversy " (see Izacke, 129) in con- 
 nection with the incorporation of the Society of Merchant 
 Adventurers. For petition of the Mayor (John Buller) and 
 others for its incorporation, Dec. 8, 1558, see Cal. Dom. (1547- 
 1580), p. 116. The grant of incorporation was withheld for 
 further consideration on May 12, 1559 Ibid, p. 128. The 
 Charter was finally granted on June 17, 1560, for text of it 
 see Cotton, Guild, pp. 1-10 ; also in Book 51, /. 64, and Hooker's 
 List, No. 13. For details of the dispute with the Tailors, see 
 Book 185 ; Merchant Adventurers' Papers, A.D. 1558 to 1559 ; 
 Hooker's List, Nos. 14-22.] 
 
 In Act Book, II, /. 1646, June 26, 1558, the Chamber resolve 
 that the Merchants of this City shall be incorporated and 
 made a several company by the name of the Master and 
 Wardens. 
 
 In D. 1600, June 22, 1581, they are styled "the Governor, 
 Consulls and Society of Merchant Adventurers of the City of 
 Exeter trafyquing to the realm of France and the domynion 
 of the French King." 
 
 In D. 1687, Aug. 5, 1600, they contribute 101. p.a. towards the 
 salary (501.) of Edmund Snape, D.D., appointed by the 
 Chamber to be a preacher in Exeter (with the seal and arms 
 of the Society). See also D. 1688 (Aug. 21, 1600), which 
 contains the appointment of Edmund Snape by the Chamber 
 and in which he is to preach twice on the Sabbath day, viz. at 
 6 a.m. and in the afternoon (with his seal and initials " E.S.") 
 Also D. 1688a (Aug. 31, 1600) with seals and signatures of 
 John Peryam and Thomas Walker, who enter into a bond 
 in 100Z. for payment of the salary. 
 
 In L. 126, Whitehall, April 7, 1609, the Earl of Salisbury 
 (Robert Cecil, High Steward of Exeter) informs the Mayor 
 that His Majesty's Grocer has complained that the merchants 
 of Exeter bringing fruits and other grocery wares into the 
 port and creeks therunto adjoining (see p. 29) do refuse to 
 pay for these commodities that composition which is due to 
 His Majesty for the provision and service of his household. 
 He therefore desires the Mayor to enquire into the matter 
 and report to him the names of those who persist in refusing.
 
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 In L. 129. Whitehall, April 28, 1609, the Earl of Salisbury 
 requests the Mayor to cause it to be known that the King 
 desires to establish a Company of Merchants trading with 
 France for the better governance of the trade and the keeping 
 of the treaty made respecting it.* 
 
 In D. 523, Oct. 20, 1616, John Peryam restricts his charity 
 to " Merchants adventurers trafficking beyond the seas not 
 being shopkeepers by Retail." 
 
 In L. 268, Westminster, April 24, 1624, John Prouse informs 
 the Mayor that he has attended to instructions both for the 
 City and the Company of Merchants and has " possessed 
 the House of Parliament with such thinges as most touch 
 the merchants in burthen of their trade." 
 
 In L. 373, Aug. 22, 1638, the Earl of Pembroke invites 
 them to engage in the plantation of Tobago. 
 
 In L. 14, Whitehall, Dec. 23, 1673, is a copy of a writ from 
 Charles II requiring the Mayor and Aldermen of Exeter to 
 cease from molesting Thomas Savery, a Merchant Adventurer 
 who had " received many Losses and particularly in the last 
 Dutch wars and being thus Impoverisht endeavoured to 
 relieve his f amilly by keepinge shopp but that haveinge thus 
 changed his way of trade hee is now molested and his goods 
 taken wrongly by order of the magistrates of that city." 
 
 In L. 439, 440, Jan. s.a, [1674], the Chamber write to the 
 Speaker [Sir Edward Seymour], the Earl of Bath [John 
 Grenville] and Mr. Secretary Coventry desiring to evade the 
 above order as being against their customs, usages and 
 privileges. [See Cotton, Guild, p. 7.] 
 
 In L. 438, Jan. 9, 1674, the Mayor &c. write to Sir James 
 Smithf acknowledging receipt of his letter of Dec. 8th last 
 and request him to deliver the above letters (L. 439, 440) to 
 the Earl of Bath, Mr. Speaker and Mr. Secretary Coventry. 
 
 John Huntingdon. 
 
 L. 49. London, Feb. 14, 1560. The Earl of Bedford 
 recommends to the Mayor " this bearer my Chaplaine 
 
 * i.e. the treaty with Louis XIII, signed in London, Aug. 19, 1610. Rymer, 
 VII, 2, 171. For refusals to join the new Company from Tiverton (May 31, 
 1609), Lyme Regis (Aug. 6, 1609) and Chard (Aug. 13, 1609), see Cal. Dom., 
 1603-1610, pp. 516, 534, 535. For petition (Aug. 19, 1609) from Thomas 
 Martin, who was Governor of the Merchant Adventurers' Guild of Exeter in 
 1577 (Cotton, Guild, 40, 42) praying that their Charter might not be impaired 
 by the proposed general charter for French trade see Cal. Dom., 1603- 
 1610, p. 537. 
 
 t He was one of the Sheriffs of London in 1672, in which year he was 
 knighted.
 
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 Mr. Huntingdon,"* who is coming " into your parties to preache 
 where he maye as I trust he shall do moche good with thes 
 fewe lynes to testifie unto you his honestie, lerning and 
 sufficiencie therunto. Trusting therefore that as the lacke 
 is great of suche good workmen in God's harveste so ye will 
 accordingly aide and assiste him in all things within your 
 libertie and charge for the better setting forthe of God's 
 truethe and the Quene's Majesties godly proceedings." 
 
 Instructions by Francis Earl of Bedford. 
 
 L. 50. 4, 1560 (the name of the month is lost, but it 
 
 must be between April and November inclusive). " Instructions 
 and orders Anno 2 Elyzabethe by me Fraunces Erie of Bedford, 
 her Majesties lieutenaunt generall of her counties of Devon, 
 Cornewall and her citie of Exeter and the countye of the 
 same and leafte with the Maior and other the Justices of Pease 
 of the said citie and countie to be exercised and used for the 
 more advauncement of her Majesties service and quiete governe- 
 ment of the said citie and countie accordingly." 
 
 They are to appoint "four, three or two honest and 
 discrete persons of every paryshe over and beside the Constable 
 to thende that they very diligently may enquire and most 
 truly certifie what defaulte they finde touching misdemeanours 
 of any persone within their paryshe," and report them to 
 the Mayor and Justices of the Peace, who are to meet for 
 this purpose every three weeks and " punyshe the offenders 
 (duely examined) by imprysonement or otherwyse according 
 to your discretion and wysdome." 
 
 Sixteen articles signed by the Earl ; the edges have been 
 eaten away. At foot : Exr. et concordat cum originali, W. 
 Page. Endorsed : Copia. Instructions given to the Citie of 
 Exeter. 
 
 Subsidies. 
 
 L. 51. March 28, 1560. Marquis of Winchester [see L. 36] 
 to the Mayor and Sheriff of Exeter : " After my hartie 
 comendacons ye shall understand that the Citie of Exeter 
 hath made no returne of their books of subsidy and therefore 
 I have sent you herewith the Quene's proces praieng you to 
 see the same dilligentlie served and the Commissions called 
 in for retorne and the Collectors for payment. Wherein your 
 service shalbe very acceptable for the Quene. ' ' Thus fare ye well, 
 your loving frind, Winchester. 
 
 [For further documents relating to subsidies see p. 10.] 
 
 Letters from the Earl of Bedford. 
 
 L. 52. Clyst, Sept. 14, 1560. Francis Earl of Bedford to 
 the Mayor &c. : After my very hartie comendacons unto you 
 
 * i.e. John Huntingdon, known as " The Preacher," Strype, Annals, i, 199. 
 For his preaching in London, Aug. 30, Sept. 24, 1559, see, Strype, Grindal, 39. 
 He was made a canon of Exeter on May 10, 1560.
 
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 forasmuche as I understand that at your next election of 
 Receivers for your Citie of Exceter you minde to appoynte 
 upon Bridgman* to furnishe one of those roumes who in my 
 opinion for his habilitie is not so mete as many within your 
 citie and being also somewhat trobeled about my affayres for 
 this yere can not so well attend abowte that charge as you 
 for the profite of your citie wolde wishe and is requisite for a 
 man placed in that office. I shall thefore for the presente make 
 my hartie request as well to you Mr. Maior as to the rest 
 of your bretherne that you will for this time spare him and 
 devise upon some other for the furniture of that place wherein 
 ye shall doe him a greate "good turne and pleasure me also 
 for the which I shall geve you my hartie thankes. Evenso I 
 take my leave of you flrom my house at Clyste the xiiijth of 
 this presente September, 1560. Your lovinge frende, 
 F. Bedford." 
 
 In L. 64, London, Nov. 30, 1562, the Earl of Bedford writes 
 to the Mayor &c. that he has received an answer to his letter 
 concerning the nomination of one of your burgesses, "and 
 I thought I had for my goodwill towards you somewhat better 
 deserved then in so triffeling a matter to have suche a repulse," 
 adding " If Mr. Mallett do desire and obteyne the place I shalbe 
 the better willing and so being lothe to trouble you I bid 
 you farewell." 
 
 In L. 71, Barwicke,f July 18, 1564, the Earl makes a similar 
 request on behalf of Edward Bridgman who thro' his gret 
 charge of children and familie is not able to susteyn " any 
 office without his utter undoing in consideracion whereof 
 and that he is my servaunt and hath also served my ffather." 
 
 In L. 72, Cheynys, June 14, 1565, the Earl thanks the 
 Mayor &c. for their compliance with his request and desires 
 them to release the fine imposed upon Bridgman. 
 
 [Endorsed : Reed. 1 July, 1565.] 
 
 Abuses of Apparel. 
 
 L. 53. May 7, 1562. Printed copy of a Proclamation { 
 against the " monstrous abuses of apparell almost in all 
 estates but principally in the meaner sort " and respecting the 
 breeding and exporting of horses. " Imprinted at London 
 in Powles Churchyarde by Rycharde Jugge and John Cawood, 
 Printers to the Quenes Majestic." 
 
 * Edward Bridgman, a bailiff in 1546, 1562. Izacke, 122, 130. 
 
 f i.e. Berwick-on- Tweed, the Earl having been appointed Warden of the 
 East March in Feb., 1564. 
 
 J See Gal. Dom. (1547-1580), p. 199, with directions to London tailors 
 and hosiers, May 9, 1562, ibid, p. 200.
 
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 The Guildhall. 
 
 L. 54. July 12, 1561. Sir Robert Denys* to the Mayor 
 and Aldermen : " After my verye hartie comendatons I ame 
 enformyd that Henrye Redynge is mynded to leave the 
 kepinge of your hall in Excetre wherein he now dwellethe yf 
 hyt be so these are hartelye to desyre you to be so good masters 
 to this berer, Rycharde Bartlett,f that he maye have his rome 
 therein, whose appro vid trowthe, honestye and knowledge is 
 suche as I doubt not but you shall fynde him a man meete 
 for the same and as I shall fynde your ffryndshippes herein 
 so shall I be more redye to gratefye you or any frende of yours 
 when occasyon shall serve for your courtysie allready receyved 
 whyche I maye not forgett and so do comytt you to God. 
 Your assured frend, Robert Denys." 
 
 In Act Book, X, /. 1746, March 10, 1663, it is agreed : "That 
 the Guildhall shalbe neue repaired and the sealing in and above 
 the same to be speedilie amended and whereas Mr. Isaac 
 Maudict,J the elder, hath of late provided a faire brasse 
 candlestick to be hung upp in the Guildhall, Mr. Receiver 
 shalbe allowed uppon his Accompte of that he hath laid out 
 about the said (sic)." [See Oliver, p. 208.] 
 
 In Book 51, f. 269, Hoker has entered : Md. that this yere 
 (i.e. 1330) the Guyldhall of the Citie of Excester was buylded. 
 
 For repairs to the Guildhall in 1377, see T. Wright, 313. 
 
 For una shopa juxta Praetorium Gialde in parte occidentali 
 in 1303, see Misc. Roll 2 (28). 
 
 The Chapel of St. George. 
 
 In his will dated Jan. 20, 1489, Thomas Calewodeley or 
 Calwoodley, who was* Mayor in 1467, 1480 and I486, required 
 his executors to find a suitable chaplain to celebrate Divine 
 Service every year in the Chapel of St. George the Martyr in 
 Exeter. (Report on Charities, 147.) 
 
 In Book 51, f. 3226 (anno 1484) this yere the fore parte of the 
 Guyldhall and the Councell Chambre was of newe buylded 
 by the citie. See Izacke, p. 93. 
 
 Ibid, /. 323, anno 1486. This Thomas Calwodley (Mayor) 
 was severe agaynst notoriouse and evell offenders and suche 
 as escapid corporall punyshed payed for there redemption, 
 which moneys he employed yn buylding of the fronte and 
 chaple of the Guyldhall. 
 
 This chapel is described as " newly built in front of the 
 Guildhall " in the will of John Kelly, Nov. 10, 1486 (recited 
 in D. 1340) ; or " next the Guildhall" (juxta Guihald) in the 
 will of William Doun, yeoman, May 5, 1510 (D. 1361) ; of 
 " withyn the Gyldhall " in the will of William Wilford, Esquire, 
 
 * Son of Sir Thomas Denys [see L. 3], who died Feb. 18, 1561. 
 f He was elected sword-bearer Sept. 30, 15G7. Oliver, 244. 
 J For Isaac Mawdit, who was Mayor in 1673, 1681, .see p. 19.
 
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 Dec. 31, 1571 (D. 1377, in which he leaves 135. 4d. " over and 
 above his olde wages " to " the pryste the which shall syng " 
 there) ; or "in the outer part of the Guildhall," March 2, 1512 
 (D. 1379a, where the chaplain receives four marks p.a. from 
 the Chamber and a robe of the city livery and takes his daily 
 meal in the house of the Mayor for the time being). It is said 
 to have been built " over the Guildhall," i.e. over the portico, 
 in Cotton, Gleanings, p. 23, or "under the Guildhall " in Stuart 
 Moore's Calendar, II, 1080, but for this there is no authority 
 in the document, which refers to an inventory of the 
 " ymplementys and ornamentis " received by William 
 Bucknam [who was Receiver in 1537 ; see Receivers' Accounts, 29, 
 30, H. viii] " off Master Luke then beyng ye Mayor ys chapelyn. " 
 The list, which was drawn up on Oct. 10, 1537, appears on a 
 fly leaf at the beginning of Act Book, II, and the items consist 
 of " candlestykks of latyn to sett upon ye awtre, a pax of silver 
 parsell gylt, crewetts off sylver ungyltyd, gilt or silver gilt 
 chalices, a senser of silver ungylt, a single vestment of black 
 velvet, ditto of whyt chamlet broderet with garters, ditto of bord 
 alexand', five corporas casys with ye corporas withyn four of 
 hem off the whiche one is the one syde charged off cloth off 
 gold and the other syde off crymsy velvet and another 
 ynbroderyd with the armys of Mast' Marten, and one withowt 
 a cloth in hem. Item a clothe to hang beffore Saynt George 
 awltr off satyn of brygg' party white and grene. Item ffor 
 Saynt bartholomee ys awltr, a hangyng off whyt chamblet 
 ybroderet with garters. Item, a cloth of yolow sylk to hang 
 above the same awltr. Item to hange one above another 
 benethe off reyme' [? Rheims] to the same awltr'. Item, three 
 awltr' clothys ffor Saynt George awltr' off holond." 
 
 In Act Book, I, f. 93, Nov. 4, 1521, "it is holy agreed that 
 William Aysshe the Cyte ys chapelayn shall have yerely 4Z. 
 sterlyng and he to syng in Seint George ys Chapell as he hath 
 usyd and no plase elswere except obits and trentalls and also 
 every day that the Meir goyth yn processyon at seint peter ys 
 churche to sey masse before hym and hys bretheryin in 
 Seynt Katherine yelde or else another for hym." 
 
 In Act Book, II, /. 30, Jan, 8, 1527, is a resolution of the 
 Chamber in regard to keeping the Feast of St. George withyn 
 the old Gild of the citie. 
 
 In Act Book, II, /. 32, Sept. 21, 1531, it is agreed " that ev'y 
 one of the xxiiij shalbe a brother unto the Frat'nyte of Saynt 
 George withyn the Chapell yn the eldhall and to pay ev'y 
 yere iiijd. upon the payne of 
 
 Alnage of Cloth. 
 
 In L. 55, Nov. 18, 1561, are orders taken betwixt the Farmer 
 of the subsidy and Aulnage of Clothes in the Counties of
 
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 Devon and Cornwall and the Countie of the Citie of Exeter 
 and the Clothiers of the saide counties with a note of sundry 
 statutes relating to the subject, showing inter alia that " Noe 
 man maie putt to sail nor carye out of the Countie whear 
 the Cloth is made anye manner of clothe before the same be 
 surveied and sealed by the Aulnager, who shall have a half- 
 pennye for the sealinge and meassuringe of a cloth and of 
 everye half clothe a farthinge." [For further extracts from 
 this document see Devonshire Association Transactions, xliv., 
 pp. 576, 594.] 
 
 L. 159. Exeter, Feb. 16, 1613-4. The Chamber complain 
 to the Lords of the Council that Thomas Bridgeman the 
 younger [possibly son of Thomas Bridgeman, who was a 
 bailiff in 1584], Deputy Alnager to Mr. Throgmorton for 
 this city and county of Devon, demands for the sealing of 
 every Devonshire kersey (besides the King's subsidy of a 
 penny) a new exaction of half a farthing, whereas nothing is 
 due to him by law. And they pray that Mr. Bridgeman may 
 be compelled to let a case be tried at law or argued before 
 all the Judges of the land. 
 
 In L. 162, undated but probably connected with L. 159, 
 is a memorandum concerning the Prisage of wine and Alnage 
 their origin and nature. It asserts that "the office of 
 Alnage is an auncient office, more auncient than the makinge of 
 cloathe for merchandize in this Realme," and specifying three 
 kinds of abuses of the office. 
 
 Disputes with Bishops. 
 
 L. 56. Honnyngton [i.e. Honiton], Nov. 23, 1561. William 
 [Alley] Bishop of Exeter to the Mayor &c. : " After my 
 hartie comendations unto you gentill Mr. Mayor and to the 
 rest of the worshipful of your brethren. These are to rendre 
 you all most entier and hartie thancks for your gret gentilnes 
 shewyd towarde me and my Chauncelor [William Leweson] ; 
 doynge you to understande that you shall and may cause 
 me to be yours in anything wherein I may pleasure or gratifie 
 you or any of you herafter trustyng that all olde matters 
 which heretofor hathe bredde coler and stomacke betwene us 
 shall be quite and clerelye suppressed and forgotten which 
 on my parte I do most ernestlye promise and assure you, 
 hopynge that you will do the like ; and thus I dout not but we 
 shall be faythfull lovers and frendes by God's grace, to whose 
 tuition I committe you. Your lovynge and assured frind, 
 W. Exon." 
 
 [Endorsed: " Geve these." This letter appears to refer, 
 to the Mayor's resistance to the Bishop's claim to be made a 
 Justice of the Peace for the city. Izacke, 129; Freeman, 119 ; 
 Devonshire Association Transactions, xliv., 214. For a similar 
 claim by Bishop Gary in 1622, see L. 217-223, 226, 227, 230- 
 233, page 115.]
 
 47 
 
 For a dispute with Bishop Cotton in 1599 as to the respective 
 liberties of the Church and City, see L. 103, containing two 
 letters in four folios, with Hooker's side-notes, the first 
 beginning : " Right honorable reverende and our very good 
 Lorde, we have receaved of your man Turpin as from your 
 selfe a byll of many Artycles and of certaine greeveaunces . . .," 
 ending : " obediently observe the same." The second, which 
 is much shorter than the first, begins as in the first : " Maye it 
 please the same, we have receaved your boke of Artycles by 
 the hande of your servant Turpyn . . .," ends : " and 
 obediently to observe the same." Endorsed : The Bishoppes 
 awnsweres, 1599. 
 
 In L. 138, 139, Dec. 10, 1610, the Chamber ask assistance 
 of the Masters of the Court of Requests and of the Attorney 
 General, Sir Henry Hubbard [or Hobart] against the suit 
 of the Dean and Chapter, who have petitioned the King for 
 two fairs in their Borough of St. Sidwells* as they wrongfully 
 have styled it. 
 
 In L. 148, Silverton, May 17, 1612, Bishop Cotton writes 
 to the Mayor and the Recorder of Exeter respecting a petition 
 the contents of which he cannot believe till he hears it 
 justified. 
 
 In L. 166, June 7, 1615, the Chamber write to Bishop Cotton 
 concerning their liberties, which they say are continually 
 infringed by the Bishop's bailiff, William Moore, and pray 
 that a conference of counsel may be held to settle the dispute. 
 
 In L. 326 (undated but endorsed 1629), Bishop Joseph Hall 
 writes to the Mayor : " Good Mr. Maior with my loving 
 remembrance. I heare that divers of my Tenants in 
 St. Stephens fee (and no freemen of the city) are called to 
 appear before you at your Court this day. I shall not need 
 to plead unto you my ancient rights which have bene thus 
 long kept inviolable ; so as I am informed never any of them 
 have been called in this kinde only one some twenty yeares 
 agoe was warned thither, and appeared not, without further 
 prosecution. I beseech you let us mutually have all fayre 
 termes without trenching upon ech others libertyes ; that 
 so neither part have any cause of greivance. It shalbe enough 
 to have moved you thus farre ; not doubting therfore of your 
 iust and loving respects to mee and the immunityes of this 
 Church wherwith I am entrusted, I take leave, and signe 
 myselfe, Your much devoted loving neighbour, Jos. Exon." 
 
 Endorsed : " Lo. Bp. Hall about his tenants in his ffee to 
 be returned of the Lawe Jury at the Guildhall." 
 
 * It was made part of the City of Exeter by Act of Parliament in 
 2 Edward VI (1548) ; Book 51, f. 1236 ; Charter XXXV ; Cal. Dom., 1603- 
 1604, p. 651. Not 4 Edward VI (1550), as Oliver, 269 ; Freeman, 118.
 
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 In L. 352 (undated but endorsed 1631), the same Bishop 
 writes to the Mayor : " Worthy Mr. Maior, I perceave Mr. 
 [Ignatius, see L 210, 290] Jordan will needs putt us to it in a 
 wilfull violacon of our priveledges ; in our last conference 
 with your worthy Brethren there was a fayre motion of a 
 peaceable accommodacon of these differences ; wherein we 
 are enough confident of our owne right ; and if I can under- 
 stand anything ; both our is herein plainly infringed and the 
 Cittyes bond forrfaited, if at least this action of his wilbe 
 owned and maintayned : I doubt not but ere long we shall 
 come to a full resolution of either accordance or suit ; 
 Onwards let me desyre you to take some course to restrayne 
 these violences, and to free this servant of the Church from 
 the hard measure which is now oSred to him. In full ex- 
 pectacon I take leave and am 
 
 your very loving neighbour and frend 
 
 Jos. Exon." 
 
 In L. 363, Sept. 4, 1634, the same Bishop writes to the 
 Mayor complaining that " one of your seriants hath wilfully 
 and presumptuously incroched upon the right of my fee in 
 taking one Ford out of his house violently and imprisoning 
 him, whom he knew to be within the precincts of my fee," 
 and suing for the speedy release of the prisoner. 
 
 In L. 605, Dec. 6, 1811, Bishop George Pelham writes to 
 the Town Clerk from Sidmouth respecting a building which 
 was being erected in St. Bartholomew's Churchyard without 
 his license. 
 
 For the Bishop's Fee, otherwise called St. Stephen's Fee 
 or Harold's Fee, including the Cathedral and the close or 
 churchyard in 1447, see Shillingford, pp. 9, 10, 137. 
 
 For compromise in regard to this dispute, Dec. 12, 1448, 
 see D. 1196 ; Book 51, /. 976 ; Misc. Roll 100, 101 ; Shillingford, 
 pp. xiv., 136 ; Izacke, 79 ; Freeman, 177. For further 
 arbitration after the installation of Bishop Hugh Oldham, 
 see D. 1353 (April 18, 1507), where the Bishop and the Dean 
 and Chapter give a bond in 100Z. that they will abide by the 
 arbitration of Lewis Pollard, Serjeant-at-Law, John More, 
 John Rowe and John Oreny with seals of the Bishop and 
 the Chapter. 
 
 In D. 1380, Aug. 23, 1513, is an agreement between the 
 Mayor and Bishop Oldham that the former shall not exercise 
 the office of Clerk of the Market in two houses in South Street 
 and one within the Southgate parcel of St. Stephen's Fee, 
 " nor in no nother howseys of the same fee," with the Bishop's 
 seal. 
 
 In Act Book, I, ff. 27, 28, Jan. 28, 1512, the second of these 
 houses is called the Bull, and the Mayor etc. agree that "they
 
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 shall not intromytte nother meddle in any thyng concernyng 
 the office of the clerke of the market " in these two houses, 
 " the whyche houses the said Bisshoppe claymyth." 
 
 In Book 51, f. 113, are the depositions of witnesses as to the 
 boundaries of the Cathedral Church taken in 1557, " by 
 reason of certyn arestments made by the sergeants of the 
 citie within the saide churchyard and close. Mr. John Peter 
 then Mayor and James Trobleffeld [i.e. Turberville] Bishop." 
 
 In L. 63, Nov. 13, 1562, Gregory Dodds, Dean of Exeter, 
 desires the Mayor to enquire concerning the molestation 
 of the wife of his servant Richard Haustyce, who dwells in 
 Saint Mary's Parish and is " moche dysquyetyd, in hys absence 
 by a neybour or twoo." 
 
 In Act Book, XIII, /. 1876, Oct. 17, 1704, it is ordered : 
 That the Serjeants for the time to come doe not arrest any 
 person within the Bishop's fee upon pain of being dismist. 
 
 Richard Argentyne. 
 
 L. 57. London, Dec. 4, 1561. Matthew [Parker] Arch- 
 bishop of Canterbury, Edmund [Grindal] Bishop of London, 
 Walter Hadd' [i.e. Hadden or Haddon] and Thomas Huyske 
 [or Huike]* to the Mayor of Exeter : " After our hartie comen- 
 dacyons whereas we perceyve by your letters that Richard 
 Argentyne,t clerke, hath of late spred abrode sondrie sedicious 
 lybells within the Citie of Exeter and for the same his lewde 
 demeanour is by you comyttyd to warde." He is therefore 
 to be sent to them. Signed your loving frends, Matthew 
 Cantuar., Edm. London, Walter Hadd and Thomas Huyske. 
 Endorsed : Rec. 15 Dec., 1651. 
 
 On the back is the city's answer in Hooker's handwriting, 
 dated Jan. 4, 1562, stating that the prisoner refuses to be 
 bound for his appearance, pleading poverty and sickness 
 accordingly they ask for further orders. 
 
 The Cloth Hall. 
 
 L. 59, 60. The Savoy, April 8, 1562. G[awen] Carewe 
 writes to the Mayor &c. recommending " my manne " (or 
 " the yongman ") William Greenwood as Keeper of the Cloth 
 Hall. Signed, " Your to comand. G. Carewe." 
 
 In L. 87, Oct. 15, 1582, Sir Gawen Carewe gives a receipt 
 for his fee 2Z.J 
 
 For the Clerk of the Cloth Hall or Merchants' Hall, see Book 
 51, /. 141 ; called the Merchants' Cloth Hall in Misc. Rolls 31 
 (A.D. 1602), which contains its Acts, Orders, Tables of rates &c. 
 
 * The three latter were Commissioners in 1561. Strype, Ann., i, 411. 
 t Or Argenton in reply endorse. He was also called Sexten. D.N.B., ii, 80. 
 j Granted to him for life in 1674. Freeman, 120. 
 
 Wt. 20757. Ex. 4
 
 50 
 
 In L. 409 (undated) is a largely signed petition to the 
 Chamber stating that " Whereas some yeares past the Cloth 
 Markett was ushualie kept in the High Streete, &c.," and 
 " that some private persons inhabitinge in the Southgate 
 Street of this Cittie by their wylie and subtill practises and 
 for theire oune private ends did secreitlie procure some order 
 for the removal of the said markett into ther streete," the 
 petitioners now pray that it may be brought back to its old 
 place " betweene the Guildhall and the little cunduitt in the 
 High Streete."* 
 
 In L. 420 the inhabitants of the south and west quarters 
 petition the Mayor, Christopher Lethbridge [1660], that the 
 serge market may be kept " either at the new corne markett 
 and the corne markett removed where it was formerly, or 
 else in the High St. between St. John's Bow and Mary Arches 
 Lane, or at any other place which may be good for the trade 
 of the whole city." 
 
 In L. 421 (? 1660) the inhabitants of the parish of 
 St. Laurence petition the Chamber that the serge market 
 may be held before St. John's Hospital in their parish. [See 
 Lloyd Parry, Exeter School, 68.] 
 
 In L. 422 (? 1660) the Weavers, Buyers and Sellers of 
 Perpetuanes petition the Chamber that the streets leading to 
 their market place in Southgate Street may be chained up from 
 8 o'clock till four on market days, as was formerly accustomed, 
 because they are disturbed by reason of the great concourse of 
 carriages and hackney horses. See Izacke, p. 168. 
 
 In L. 485, Feb. 8, 1730, is a letter from the Town Clerk 
 for Mr. Heath's opinion about moving the Cloth Fair, whose 
 reply, dated Inner Temple, Feb. 11, 1730, is in L. 486. 
 
 Rates of Wages. 
 
 L. 65. 1563. Two printed broadsides, beginning : 
 " Where in the Parliament holden at Westminster, Jan. 12, 
 5 Eliz. (i.e. 1563)," and fixing a maximum which is not to be 
 exceeded in " the severall Rates and Taxations for wages 
 made and set forth by the Justices of the Peace of the Citye of 
 Exeter." 
 
 In L. 73, April 24, 1566, and L. 93, July 20, 1588, the 
 Justices of the Peace retain the rates they first certified 
 on June 15, 1564, viz. for husbandrie : Labourers, 3d. p.d. 
 with meat and drink, or Qd. without, from Sept. 30th to 
 March 1st, rising to 4d. and 5d. respectively from March to 
 September. In the corn or hay harvest a " mowier " has 
 
 * For order (1634 ?) of Charles I that the cloth market shall in future be 
 settled in Southgate Street, see Col. Dom., 1634-5, p. 425.
 
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 5d. [lOdL], Reapers, Binbers (sic) and Loders 4d. [Sd.]. In 
 Hayharvest a man has 3d. [Qd.], a woman 2d. [4d.], also for 
 labourers in Hedging, Dyching, Paling, Rayling, Woode- 
 making, Beatemaking, fixed payments by the pearche, yarde, 
 lugge rope, dosen of woode and hundred respectively as task 
 work. No bailiffe of husbandry or Chiefe Hind is to take 
 over 40s. p.a. for his wages and livery, or serving man over 
 24 years old 30s. p.a., man servant from 20 to 24 years 
 (26s. Sd. p.a.), from 16 to 20 (20s. p.a.). Unmarried woman 
 servant, 16 to 24 years old (16s. p.a.), and 5s. for her vesture 
 and garment, rising to 20s. and 6s. 8d. at 24 years and upwards. 
 No woman servant under 10 years of age to have any wages, 
 but only meate, drinke and other necessaries. A maister 
 Mason, ditto Carpenter, ditto Joiner, Plasterer, Helier, Tyler, 
 Shingler, Thatcher, or Plumber, having servants and 
 apprentices is to allow them 6d. (or lOd.) p.d., a payre of 
 Sawiers Wd. (or ISd.) p.d. Masons &c. as in above list, not 
 being masters, to have 4d. (or Sd.) p.d. and apprentices 3d. 
 (or Qd.) p.d. 
 
 Letters of Geoffrey Tothill.* 
 
 L. 66. London, Jan. 31, 1563. Geoffrey Tothill writes 
 to Master John Hooker, chamberlain : " After my hartye 
 comendacon I have sent you herewith enclosed the copyes 
 of too bylls exhybyted unto the parlyament howse for the 
 Cittye, wherein I pray God send us good successe as I hope. 
 The one for the unytyng of churches ys first in the lords 
 howse, I and the other for orphans in the lower howse. 
 Trustying by that time we have thorolye consydered that byll 
 for orphans^ and redye to be sent offe to the lords, the lords 
 byll wylbe redye to come down. I suppose the bylls be 
 indyfferentlye handled. Yf we shuld have putte bothe in at 
 one place then peradventure the howse wold nott be best 
 contentyd with too bylles for our private Cyttye. Other 
 thyngs yn ye artycles shalbe remembred, as for prentyses 
 there ys a byll in the parlyament howse for servaunts which 
 ys corny tted to the Master of the Rolls and others. Y hope 
 yf the byll passe to gete a p'vyso, for all cyttyes in England 
 to take prentyses and so Exceter [nott named], there 
 your wolle or shuld have byn this afternoon yf my leisure 
 had served a byll drawne for the londyners yt shalbe in the 
 name of all the Cyttyes in the west partes and ells where and 
 
 * Recorder,1563-1576. M.P. for Exeter in Parliament, 6 Elizabeth, from 
 Jan. 11, 1563, to Jan. 2, 1567. He received an annuity of 20 marks from 
 the city in 1564. Izacke, 132. For his instructions dated Jan. 1503, see 
 Devon. Assoc. Transactions, xliv, 213. 
 
 j- It was introduced in the Lords on Feb. 22, 1563, passed second reading 
 March 4 and conclusa March 16, 1563. Lords Journals, i, 594, 603, 604. 
 It was read in the Commons, March 18, 20, 1563. Journals of Commons. 
 i, 69. 
 
 | See Charter XXXVII, confirmed by Act of Parliament, 5 Elizabeth, 
 see Letters Patent, May 3, 1563 ; Oliver, p. 287. 
 
 Added subsequently in a blank space.
 
 52 
 
 is not pryvately for us." He desires that 101. may be 
 " delyvered to my brother Walter to be sent me as I have 
 retayned divers in thes causes and must give money aboute 
 the same. There be alredye butt to bylls past, the one that 
 no horses shall passe beyond the seas and another is for the 
 levyng of ffynes in the north country. I suppose we shal agree 
 upon the subsyde this next wyke. Ther are divers and many 
 other bylls butt as yet not past our house. I praye you 
 make the masters of the Cytty partakers of this my letter 
 and trewth of the too bylls and wrytt and here you leve. from 
 london the last of January." 
 
 L. 67 (undated) is a note in the handwriting of Geoffrey 
 Tothill addressed to some person not named, accompanying 
 some extracts from the Records relating to the power of the 
 Mayor to appoint a lieutenant, as he is very sick. 
 
 In L. 70, Jan. 31, 1563, is a receipt by John Tothill for 
 Geoffrey Tothill from John Hoker (sic) for fees paid on passing 
 the Sheriffs accounts, including : " Ffyrst due for Mr. Secretorye 
 Cicells ffee, 51" [See LL. 82, 83, p. 55.] 
 
 In L. 74, London, May 31, 1566, Geoffrey Tothill writes 
 to the Mayor : " Right weorshypfull after my hertie comen- 
 dacons to you and the rest of the masters, this shalbe to 
 advertyse you pft'ly touching the travell hadd by me here 
 this last terme yn the Cytties causes and affaires, ffirst touchyng 
 the londoners causes they ons this last terme toke orders 
 with me to appoynt three for their parte to match Mr. Hay, 
 Mr. Solyceter and myself appoyntyd for the Citties parte and 
 I sendyng my man to the chamblayn of London for to have 
 a daie appoyntyd for the metyng upon the same they chaunged 
 their myndes and wold have three and three and wold have 
 me to assent to have Mr. Hert in for one of the three and to 
 leve out Mr. Hay or Mr. Solycyter, which to yeld unto I 
 doe nott thinke good nor wyll nott, they seme to be desyrous 
 of an ende, and yett they wyll not match your three. And 
 so as you shall wyll me to doo this next terme I shalbe gladd 
 fo fferder the same. And for my own opynyon I doo not 
 now thinke good any man more to be sent upp to the Citties 
 chardge for that the Cittie is now p'sently otherwyse chardged. 
 And also I thinke yf you shuld sende upp of purpose there 
 wold skarse be ende in the same at one terme, but yf there 
 be any of the masters of the cyttye that have any other 
 occasyon of their own this next terme I wold I might be thereof 
 advertysed, and so then I wold appoynt a daie of talke and 
 metyng accordynglie, otherwyse wee three that be here shall 
 stand styll or ells to precede in the sute where unto they be 
 loth to come as me semeth this ys my opynyon in this matter 
 respecting your aunswere herein by twen this and the 
 begynnyng of this next terme. As touching Trew's matter
 
 53 
 
 [see p. 28], I have a very good hope for the fyshing of Exe 
 in the parishes of St. Thomas, St. Edmond's and St. Mary 
 Steps, the matter hath byn twyse or thryce throughly harde 
 as well in the Chekers Chamber as at my Lord Treasurer's* 
 house. Your Geffrey Tothyll, Recorder." 
 
 In L. 78 (undated) is " the effecte of the matter yn questyon 
 for the Fishynge of the Ryver of Exe yn the behalffe of the 
 Mayor, Baylyffs and Commonaltie of the Citye of Exeter." 
 
 Exeter Guilds. 
 
 L. 76. From my Pallace, Sept. 28, 1567. W. [i.e. William 
 Alley L. 56] Bishop of Exeter requests the Mayor to 
 "be so much my frende who as yet hath not trobled youe 
 with manye sutes as to graunte unto the bearers hereof their 
 petition who have requested and sued to obtayne your favours 
 to be reduced into one socyetie, felowshipp and companye, 
 which request hath bene graunted by youe, but as yet not 
 confirmed accordinge unto your said graunte for they do 
 request the same as it is in the good cities of London, Yorke, 
 Bristowe and in all other goode Citties and Townes Corporate 
 within this realme of England." Endorsed : " Reed. Sept. 30, 
 1567." [No guilds are named in the document, but in 
 S. Moore's Calendar the petition is supposed to be that of 
 the Coopers (or Cowpers, i.e. Coverers) and Heliers, whose 
 ordinances are dated Feb. 3, 1567, see Book 51, /. 1586, (not 
 1566 as Izacke, Pr., p. 66). For the incorporation of the Hell- 
 yars and Plaisterers on Dec. 14, 1680, see Act Book, XII, /. 24.] 
 
 L. 110 (? 1602) contains the petition "of the Felowship 
 and Companye of the crafts of Weavers, Tokers [i.e. Tuckers] 
 and Sheremen [called Weavers, Fullers and Sheeremen in 
 D. 1739, 1739a, which contain exceptions against their 
 acts produced before the Justices of Assize in 1621] within 
 the Cyttye and countye of Exeter, setting forth their rules 
 and ordinances (13 in number) with the clause of allowance 
 and confirmation by the Chamber. For their Articles and 
 Ordinances dated 1490, see D. 1311. For their Charter 
 of Incorporation, A.D. 1490, see Book 51, /. 71 ; Izacke, Pr., 
 p. 64. For their Bye-laws, dated Aug. 13, 1602, see D. 1692. 
 For a tenement in Exeter belonging to the Warden of the 
 Fullers and Tinters, see D. 1498, Oct. 7, 1555. 
 
 In L. 520 (? about 1750) the Butchers petition the Chamber 
 to be re-incorporated. For their charter of incorporation 
 granted by the Chamber on March 20, 1685, see Act Book, XII, 
 /. 13, repealed Feb. 5, 1722, D. 1825, where they are called 
 the Fraternity of Victuallers and Butchers. For their 
 
 * i.e. William Paulet, Marquis of Winchester, since Jan. 21, 1669. See 
 L. 36, page 35.
 
 54 
 
 ordinances, dated Sept. 9, 1575, see Book 51, /. 1596 (called 
 their first incorporation in Izacke, Pr., p. 67). 
 
 In L. 522 [? circ. 1750] the Barber Surgeons petition the 
 Chamber for leave to prosecute a barber in the Chamberlain's 
 name. For their incorporation A.D. 1487, see Izacke, Pr., 
 p. 64. 
 
 In D. 1637, March 29, 1586 (not 1602, as Izacke, Pr., p. 68) 
 is the Deed of Incorporation of " the Arty fleers of the Com- 
 panye of Carpenters, Masons, Joyners, Glaciers and Paynters," 
 with their petition to the Chamber and the ordinances for 
 their government. 
 
 For separate charter of incorporation of the Joyners, 
 March 20, 1685, see Act Book, XII, /. 1, with their ordinances 
 of same date, /. 3 ; ditto of Freemasons, Masons, Bricklayers, 
 Glasiers and Painters, March 20, 1685, Act Book, XII, /. 7, 
 with their ordinances of same date (/. 9). 
 
 In D. 1786, July 28, 1691, is a Counterpart of the Deed of 
 Incorporation of the Company of White Tallow Chandlers 
 and White Soap Boilers, with their arms. For their acts 
 and ordinances, see Act Book, XII, /. 30. 
 
 Book 51 contains Charters of Incorporation of 
 (a) The Cappers and Haberdasshers (ff. 676, 68) [incor- 
 porated 1494, together with the Feltmakers, confirmed 1562. 
 Izacke, Pr., p. 65]. 
 
 (6) The Cordewayeners (/. 69), "in this yere 11 Richard II, 
 1387, the Cordewayners and Curryers of this Citie were first 
 incorporated." Ibid., /. 290 ; Izacke, Pr., p. 63. 
 
 (c) The Skinners and Gloviers, April 20, 1561 [i.e. a con- 
 firmation. They were first incorporated in 1462 Izacke, Pr., 
 p. 62]. In Act Book, II, /. 1456, March 21, 1556, it Is agreed : 
 " That the Glovyers shall have a corporacioun uppon a 
 resonable ffyne." For incorporation of the White Tawers, 
 Glovers, Skinners, Grey Tawers, Poynters and Parchment- 
 makers, Dec. 1, 1685. See Act Book, XII, /. 18. 
 
 Also Ordinances of 
 
 (d) The Bakers, April 1, 1554 (/. 156) [incorporated 1482, 
 Izacke, Pr., p. 63. See Devonshire Association Transactions, 
 xliv, 215]. 
 
 (e) The Tailors (/. 157) [incorporated 1466. Izacke, Pr., 
 p. 63. For their charters, bye-laws and two books of their 
 Acts, see Miscellaneous Papers]. 
 
 (/) Smiths and Cutlers, April 20, 1561 (/. 1576) [not 1560, as 
 Izacke, Pr., p. 66, where the Saddlers are joined with them]. 
 (g) Brewers, Sept. 20, 1579 (/. 161) [Izacke, Pr., p. 67]. 
 
 In D. 1821 (A.D., 1717), the Chambre appoint two searchers 
 and sealers of leather.
 
 55 
 
 Letters of Thomas Lord Howard. 
 
 L. 77. Bindon, Dec. 19, 1567. Thomas Howard [Viscount 
 Howard of Bindon*] prays the Mayor &c. to send to Honiton 
 and to give in charge of his servant a young man who had 
 stolen apparel of two gentlemen of his to the value of 111. or 
 181., and who had been apprehended in Exeter, intending 
 that he shall receive " condigne punyshement." Signed, 
 " Your frende, Thomas Howarde." 
 
 Note added : "I pray you also and the reste of all your 
 bretherne for that Lucas Caro hath done his diligence in 
 bringinge of this robbery to light, the rather at this my request 
 to shewe him your lawfull favor and frendeship and not to 
 graunte any warrant of good abearing against him. Thomas 
 Howarde." 
 
 In L. 80, Wareham, April 11, 1581, Thomas Howard writes 
 to the Mayor, Thomas Bruarton [or Bruerton], praying him 
 to examine a thief who had stolen goods from his house at 
 Wareham, and to send the thief to him at his house at Ware- 
 ham, " for that I mean to make an example of so lewde a part 
 in myn own house." Your loving frinde, Thomas Howarde. 
 
 Lord Burghley's Receipt. 
 
 L. 82. Nov. 10, 1581. Receyved the day and yere above 
 wryten of the maier, bayliffes and commonaltye of the Cyttie of 
 Exeter by the hands of John Peryam, gent., for my penconf 
 dew unto me for one whole yere ended at the ffest of Sainte 
 Mychael laste paste before the date hereof the full some of 
 tenne poundes of lawfull money of Englande. W. Burghley. 
 [See L. 70, p. 52 ; L. 81, p. 29.] 
 
 L. 83 has a similar receipt dated Nov. 20, 1581, per 
 J. Periam. 
 
 Recorders of Exeter. 
 
 L. 85, Oct. 4, 1582. Receipt from Sir Robert Denys, 
 Recorder, for his fee of 101. Signed, " Robert Denys." See 
 L. 54, p. 44. 
 
 D. 1701, Feb. 11, 1606, contains the grant of the office of 
 Recordership from the Mayor, Bailiffs and Commonalty to 
 William Martyn,J of Exeter, Esquire. 
 
 In D. 1722, May 24, 1613, Wyll. Martyn is "Receiver 
 [? Recorder] and a member of the Chamber." With his seal 
 and signature. 
 
 For Mr. Recorder [Nicholas] Duck, see L. 238, Nov. 9, 1622 
 (p. 77). For a covenant in his handwriting, see D. 1744,Aug. 1627. 
 
 * i.e. since 1559. Complete Peerage, iv, 261. 
 
 f Granted in 1564 in remuneratione servitii. Izacke, 132 ; Jenkins, 124 ; 
 Freeman, 120. 
 
 $ He was the author of Lives of the Kings of England, published at Exeter 
 in 1616.
 
 56 
 
 In L. 316, Oct. 10, 1628, John Walter [Chief Baron of the 
 Exchequer] and John Denham* write to "Mr. Mayor and 
 the rest of your Bretheren." " Understanding that by the 
 choyce of your late Recorder^ there is a place of one of your 
 City Counsel! at lawe at this present voyd Wee have thought 
 fytt out of our respect to the welfare of your City (which may 
 be much advanced by the assistaunce of a learned successor 
 in that place to recommend Mr. Peter Ball to your choise to 
 be of your City Councell, of whose sufficiency and ability to 
 doe you service therein wee have had ample testimony " &c. 
 
 In L. 317 (dated Middle Temple Garden, Nov. 1, 1628), 
 Peter Balle thanks the Mayor for " the choice of me to be 
 of the Cittie Counsell." 
 
 In L. 442, April 27, 1676, he writes to the Mayor resigning 
 the RecordershipJ on account of his age and infirmity. The 
 letter bears his seal. 
 
 In L. 549, Oct. 15, 1764, Y. [i.e. John] Cholwich writes 
 to the Chamber resigning the Recordership. 
 
 In L. 602, dated Heavitree, July 18, 1794, Stephen Hawtrey 
 writes to the Mayor his resignation of the Recordership. 
 
 In D. 1220, Aug. 20, 1456, John Radford as executor of the 
 will of Nicholas Radford, late Recorder of the City of Exeter, 
 gives an acknowledgment to the Mayor &c. for 100s., being 
 the annual pension granted to the said Nicholas Radford. 
 
 In Act Book, 1, /. 50, Oct. 2, 1514, it is agreed : " that Master 
 Pollard || shall have gyven unto hym agaynst Cristmas for 
 the good love and favor that he hath unto the Cite a hoggeshed 
 of Gascoyng wyne and 14 canon lofis agaynst Cristmas." 
 
 Ibid., /. 506, Nov. 14, 1514: "that Sir Thomas Denys, 
 knyght, [Recorder from 1514 to 1544] shall have lyke fee for 
 using of the office of the Recordership as Master Pollarde 
 hadde, that is to saye for the fee of the Recordership 4J. a 
 yere and all other casualties as Master Pollarde hadde. 
 
 Sir Robert Gary. 
 
 L. 86. Oct. 2, 1582. Receipt signed " Robt. Cary " for 
 his fee (4.). 
 
 In L. 89, Oct. 1, 1583, is a similar receipt from Sir Robert 
 Gary for the same amount. 
 
 * Called " J. Denham, kt. f one of the Barons of his Majesty's Courte of 
 Exchequer" in L. 362, May 31, 1634. 
 t i.e. Nicholas .Duck, died Aug. 28, 1628. 
 
 J He was appointed Recorder Aug. 21, 1632, and died in 1680. Oliver, 236. 
 i.e. from 1442 to 1454. Radford, p. 9 ; not 1453, as Oliver, 235. 
 || i.e. Lewis Pollard, Recorder. Oliver, 236.
 
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 Inquests. 
 
 L. 88. Aug. 27, 1583. The Examynacions taken of sundrye 
 witnesses upon the death of Lewes Glavell of the citie of Exon 
 Tayler. 
 
 The following is a summary of the depositions : 
 
 Thomas Predeox of Ashperton, gentleman, examined 
 before the Mayor (Michael Germyn) and Nicholas Martyn, 
 justices, deposed that about seven of the clock at 
 night on Aug. 27, 1583, he was at the Southgate of the 
 city when Lewes Glavell followed him and charged him 
 to have said certain days past that he (Glavell) did 
 smell of ale. P. said that he knew him not, and G. said 
 that P. was a very knave and did strike him with 
 his fist two or three blows and then drew his dagger 
 and again assaulted him. Wherewith P. gave ground, 
 backed and was driven back to the place of one Collyns 
 a cutler, without Southgate, and there was like to be 
 slain by the said G. Then P. took a rusty rapier upon 
 Collyns' stall to defend himself withal. He then gave 
 back again and received divers blows, and went from 
 P. again unto the wall of the late Graye ffreers there 
 by Southgate, and never gave blow to G., but G. did 
 run wilfully upon P.'s rapier, which he had taken 
 from the stall. 
 
 Edward Winditt, servant to Richard Collins, cutler, was 
 at work in his master's shop when G. quarrelled with 
 P. After receiving two blows, P., who was in the 
 Inne Syde would have avoided, but could not. P. then 
 told G. that he should be contented, for that was no 
 place to quarrel, but G. still pressed him. P. then 
 caught up the rapier at the stall and said: "No we I 
 myghte runne through thee if I wolde," and prayed 
 him to depart. Collins the Cutler then came to part 
 them, but G. still pressed upon P. with his dagger, and 
 therewith wrapped his cloak about his arm ran upon 
 P., and in running fell upon the point of the rapier, 
 which P. then had in his left hand, and so was hurted, 
 and P. took up his cloak and went to his Host's house, 
 which was thereby. 
 
 George Patrike, servant to George Scarell, baker, saw 
 the two quarrelling, and G. said to P. : " Thou arte an 
 arrant boye " and that he would make him a boy if 
 he had him in the field, gave him a blow with his fist, 
 and said that if it were not for shame he would draw 
 upon him. G. then drew out his dagger and strake 
 the said P., who stepped upon his cloak, which fell 
 from him, and therewith reached his left hand unto 
 the stall and took a rapier there and holding the same 
 before him said : " Now if I wolde I might strike of 
 thy headd or legges," or such like speeches. G. then 
 bid him to do it if he would. Then Collins (who was an
 
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 old man of 75) came to part them, and had P. by the 
 arm, but P. being in fear shaked himself from Collins. 
 Then G. ran upon P. to strike him with his dagger, and 
 G. therewith was hurted. P. lept away from him, but 
 G., " fyndinge him selfe to be hurted sayde he was 
 killed." 
 
 Charles Holl, cobler, deposed that G. overtook P. and 
 said : " You are a boye and you have geven evell wordes 
 by me, and I will make thee a boye." P. denied this. 
 Then G. pulled P.'s hat over his eyes and played with 
 his nose and gave two blows with his fist to the head. 
 P. then gave him ground towards the cutler's stall. 
 After getting the rapier, P. again gave ground " to- 
 wardes the ffreers wall," and G. thrusted at P. with 
 his dagger so violently that the witness " supposed 
 the said P. to have been hurted rather than the 
 said Lewes." 
 
 Richard Collyns, cutler, deposed to the " sharpe speeches " 
 and the " cople of blowes," &c. When P. got the 
 rapier, he said " This coulde I doe and I wolde," but 
 G. casting his cloak about his arm ran upon the point 
 of the rapier, P. never opposing nor giving any blow, 
 " and so running upon the rapier he was slayne." 
 
 John Helier, smith, was at work in his master's shop 
 when he saw the two coming together from Southgate. 
 " and were in greate speeches," heard P. say to G. 
 to get him away, for he had nothing to do with him. 
 Then G. " with his hande strooke the said P.'s nose 
 upwarde," and gave him a blow upon the face with 
 his fist. In the fight that followed G. pressed upon 
 P. and wrapped his cloak about his arm and aimed 
 to have taken the rapier from him. P. therewith 
 backed and forthwith G. oppressed upon him most 
 eagerly, thinking to have come within him, but he 
 was then and there hurted by P., " and yet in what 
 order or howe he cannot tell." 
 
 Then follow the names of the jurors (17 in number), 
 " coram Johi Vowell alias Hoker, generoso coronatore," 
 with their verdict, in which they find that P. acted 
 in self-defence, with the additional particulars that 
 the rapier was of the price of iijs. iiijd., that death 
 was caused by a wound of an inch broad and 6 inches 
 deep under the right breast, and that the fray took 
 place " neere unto a wall there called the freers wall 
 in the Queen's highe Streete next the Southgate of 
 the Citie." At the foot is a note : " Concordant cum 
 originali, Teste me Johanne Hoker, Coronatore." 
 
 In Misc. Rolls 2, 39, is a coroner's inquisition (1375) on 
 the death of Cecilia, daughter of Walter Sampford, who was 
 killed by a horse in High Street.
 
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 L. 90. May 3, 1584. Inquisition taken at Exilond before 
 John Vowell alias Hoker (sic), gent., coroner, and a jury 
 of 19, showing that : On Sunday, May 3, 1584, between 
 12 and 1 of the clock at afternone one John Bedecome of 
 Exylond, feltmaker, and Mathew Abbot of Exylond, felt- 
 maker, servants to John Deymon of Exilond, hatmaker, fell 
 at varyaunce and quarelled for and about the wasshinge and 
 sterchinge of certeyn bandes and ruffes and immedyat 
 apoynted to go yn to the feldes and that John Bedecome 
 forthe toke his rapier and went yn to the feldes thereby named 
 Bonnehay, and likewise M. Abbot toke a staff of 7 foote longe 
 and folowed after yn to the same felde, where they bothe 
 mett together, and the said John havinge his rapier yn his 
 hand drewe the same and ranne upon the said Abbot and 
 thrust him yn to the body under the right breste, and then 
 and there felonously gave him a deadlye wonde of vj. enches 
 deepe and one enche broade, of which wonde the sayde M.A. 
 immediately dyed. 
 
 Gilbert Sevell, weaver of Exilond, aged about 26 years, 
 sayeth that on that day as he was walking in the ilond by 
 the water side he over took one John Bedecome, having a 
 rapier with him, and his wife talking together, which said 
 wife was weeping, and requested her said husband to go back 
 again, thereupon G. Sevell perceiving some quarrell towards 
 did likewise request J.B. to returne back and to be quiet, but 
 he said that Abbott had called him knave and said that he 
 doorst not to meet him in the field, and as they were now 
 talking one Mathew Abbot came towards J.B. with a staff 
 Ijt. long, whereupon G. Sevell requested him to go back, but 
 he said that he would first come and talk with the said J.B. 
 J.B. then drew his rapier, and G.S. stood between them, but 
 J. B. said : By the Lord's wondes stand aside or ells I will runne 
 the through. So G.S. gave place. J.B. pierced Abbot in 
 the right side with the rapier, " and with which stroke the 
 rapier broke a too peces. And forthwith Abbott stroke him 
 with his staff, but being redy to fall he dyd request G.S. to 
 succor him, but he fell down and without any further speche 
 dyed." 
 
 Richard Denys of Exilond, tucker, aged 30, deposed that 
 at the time mentioned he was sitting in the street at the door 
 of William Haywode, when M. Abbot passed by him, and 
 not long after J.B. also, the latter having a rapier under his 
 arm. As he passed along he struck Abbot and said unto 
 him : Come on thy way. Witness asked Abbot what was 
 the matter, and he answered it was for washing and sterching 
 of 3 bondes of myn by bedecome's wyf unto whom he offerd 
 iijd., but J.B. would have iiijd., and as because he wold not 
 geve the grote he said bedecome shold call him scabb. Witness 
 willed that J.B. should not go out, but he sayd he wold go 
 and showe himself for as the other wold be so stubborn that 
 there shold be quiet with hym hereafter. Whereupon Abbot
 
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 sought a staff at his master's house and found one in the shop. 
 When they pressed, the witness parted them, but seeing the 
 blood to gushe out he told Abbot that he was dethe wonded, 
 and without speches after that tyme the said Abbot dyed. 
 
 In L. 96 (3 folios), June 5, 1589, is the Deposition of John 
 Fa well, of the city of Exon, victualler, made June 5, 1589, 
 before John Hooker (sic), gent., coroner, and the inquest upon 
 the view of the body of Robert Haymon, lately slain in a 
 street quarrel in Idle Lane. 
 
 In L. 98, 1593, in J. Hoker's handwriting, are the 
 depositions of three witnesses, two of whom sign their names 
 and the third is a marksman. They are bound over to give 
 evidence at the next gaol delivery against Nicholas Haynes, 
 who is charged with the murder of John Maunder, who was 
 found in a dying condition in Southgate Street. 
 
 John Jones, cordwainer (aged 66), deposed that on 
 Tuesday last in the afternoon he and one Henry Horabin 
 went unto the house of William Corbyn, dwelling in the 
 parish of St. Thomas beyond Exbridge, and there 
 found Nicholas Haynes alias Norden, John Maunder 
 and others, including the goodman of the house and 
 two weavers whom he knoweth not, and they being 
 and drinking together, Haynes and Maunder used 
 much horseplay between them sometimes in and some- 
 times out, but such was the same that the good man 
 of the house misliked it and willed them to depart 
 and to go out of his house, for he liked not their doing 
 and so they departed and came to the West gate of 
 the city and from thence they went into Ffryers Hayes 
 to the witness' house dwelling within the North gate, 
 being then about 5 of the clock in the afternoon. And 
 when they came into his house the said Maunder called 
 for two pots of ale, and then Haynes and Maunder 
 falling out in their former speeches, H. took up the 
 pot and did hurl it at M.'s head and called him by 
 certain foul names, such as the witness doth not now 
 remember. Then H. drawing out his dagger would 
 have stabbed M., but witness and Horabin took H,'s 
 dagger from him, and M. said : " If you take away his 
 dagger then here is mine also, for I owe him no more 
 ill will than to my own body," and thereto delivered 
 his dagger to the maid there standing in the chimney ; 
 and the witness desired them to depart out of the 
 house, and desired Horabin to carry H. away, for 
 said he : "I am bound in recognisance and you will 
 . seek my undoing." And so they two departed, but 
 M. stayed some quarter of one hour doubting lest 
 some warrant had been made for the arresting of him 
 at the suit of one Palmer, a shuttlemaker, dwelling in the 
 Northgate St. And more the witness cannot say.
 
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 William Southmead, of the parish of St. Thomas, tailor, 
 was at the house of William Corbyn on Tuesday, 
 Jan. 24th, when there came in Nicholas Haynis, hat- 
 maker, and John Maunder, sleamaker, and others. 
 H. pulled down M.'s hat from his head and did cast 
 it upon the ground and trod upon it, and then going 
 into the parlor they called for a fagot and for drink 
 and there sitting together about the space of two hours, 
 they fooled and cast drink one over another and used 
 many such drunken parts, wherewith the company 
 was aggrieved, and there also H. took M.'s hat from 
 his head and threw it into the fire. Then M. being 
 grieved therewith said unto him : "If thou have any 
 quarrel with me meet me at any time here to-morrow 
 for if we should happen to meet now men would think 
 that we were drunk," and with other such speeches. 
 Then from thence they departed, and when they came 
 to the Westgate they went to the house of one John 
 Jones without Northgate ; but witness leaving them 
 at Westgate went about his business. And afterwards 
 he came also to Jones' house a little before they came 
 away, where he heard H. call M. rogue and he called 
 him again : " Oxenhead." Then said H. : " These 
 words are enough, if I had thee in place where to stab 
 thee," whereupon H. Horabyn departed thence, but 
 M. stayed behind, and after requested witness, because 
 he said he stood in doubt of H. they would bring him 
 home, and so shortly after they departed from 
 Jones' house and went home to M.'s, and being come 
 thither they knocked to the door but could not come 
 in. Then M. said : " Come let us go over to my neigh- 
 bour Nicholas his house," for both their houses stand 
 one against the other. So he went over, but witness 
 stayed knocking at M.'s door, and then standing there 
 did hear M. call to H. and said : " Neighbour Nicholas, 
 a can of beer, boys," and so entered in within the fore- 
 door. Immediately he heard a sword flincke, where- 
 with M. would have returned, but the door fell close 
 after him and immediately he cried out : " O Lord, I 
 am killed," and then cried again " O Lord, I would my 
 wife were here that I might kiss her before I die." Then 
 the witness stood knocking at the door until M.'s wife 
 came out with a candle in her hand, and he willed her 
 to go over to her husband, " for (quoth he) I think he be 
 killed." So she went over and witness followed her, and as 
 soon as she was entered in the door she cried out : " Lord, 
 who hath hurt my husband ?' r With that he cried and 
 said unto his wife : " O Lord, wife come kiss before I 
 die." With that she kissed him, and he whispered unto 
 her, witness knoweth not what, and brought him home, 
 and as soon as he was within the door he fell down dead.
 
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 John Bawdon (or Bodon), about 8 o'clock on Tuesday 
 last, was coming from the house of my lord the Bishop 
 into Southgate Street, when he heard a great russhling 
 in the entrie of H.'s house, and that M. cried out : 
 " Lord, I am slain." Witness asked of him who 
 had slain him. He answered : " Nicholas Norden 
 For goodes sake let me speak with my wife before I 
 die." And forthwith his wife being called, came unto 
 him, and then M. said unto her : "0 Lord, wife, I am 
 slain." Quoth she: "Who did it?" "Nicholas 
 Norden," said he. " Lord," said she, " where he 
 dyd." Then said he : "0 Lord, wife, let me kiss 
 thee ere I die," which when he did they carried him 
 home, and there in his entry he fell down dead. And 
 further the witness saith that at his first coming into 
 Norden's entry he saw it full of blood, but he saw no 
 dagger, which M. had. 
 
 L. 101, April 9, 1599, contains the Examinations of Thomas 
 Griffene, wife of William Griffene (taylor) and others concerning 
 the death of Wilmotte Hooper, which took place on Jan. 25, 
 1599. According to this evidence, Richard Darte deposed 
 that on Monday last about the Sessions week after Christmas, 
 he went to see Wilmotte, who was sick in the house of Margaret 
 Alye. He asked Wilmotte how she did, and she said that 
 she was very ill. He said : Where with ? And she answered 
 that her master and mistress had beaten her, which was the 
 cause thereof. Then he said : Do you say not anything but 
 the truth ? And she answered : I will tell you the truth, and 
 whereupon it was. And she said : I was making of my master 
 and mistress' bedde, and my mistress was in the chamber by 
 trimmynge of herselfe, and her master came up on the steores 
 and sayed unto his wiffe : Whie maye not wee rewarde our 
 mayde as Griffyne rewarded his mayde ? And Wilmotte 
 sayed I thincke there is not any master or mistress that will 
 beate there servaunte without a cause, and herewith her 
 mistress dyd come rounde and with a waund dyd geve her 
 aboute Ix. strypes, and assone as she had done her master 
 gave her so many also. 
 
 L. 145, Jan. 26, 1612, contains deposicions and examyna- 
 cions of witnesses taken the 26th daie of Januaraie, being 
 Sondaie before William Martyn,* Esquyer, Recorder of the 
 Cyttye of Exon, and William Tyckell [or Tickhill, Chamberlain 
 from Sept. 15, 1601, to June 7, 1613], gentleman, Coroner of 
 the countye of the same cyttye, anno regis Jacobi 9, as to 
 the murder of Mr. William Peters [or Peter] of Whipton 
 House, by Edward Drew of Fullarton, in the parish of Broad 
 Clyst. For a summary of these proceedings, see Worthy, 
 Suburbs, pp. 12-14, where the papers are said to be " very 
 voluminous." They cover 11 ff. 
 
 * See page 55.
 
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 L. 225, June 26, 1622, contains depositions concerning a 
 dispute in Southernhay arising from a dispute of two rival 
 archers as to who hit the mark and took the prize. 
 
 L. 568, Sept. 17, 1707, has inquisition concerning Treasure 
 Trove found in the Dung Court in the parish of St. Sid wells, 
 viz. old gold and silver coins and plate to the value of 231. 
 
 Letter of Sir John Popham. 
 
 L. 92. July 27, 1587. Holograph letter of Sir John Popham 
 [Attorney General] to Thomas Chappell, the Mayor, respecting 
 the suit between Trosse and Levermore,* which appears to 
 have gone against Levermore through partiality of the jurors. 
 He intercedes for Mrs. Levermore, and suggests a compromise. 
 " Yf you shall see and suffer the jurors of your Cyty thus to 
 pass agaynst all treuth and agaynst your and their own 
 consciences and trwthes you can but kepe Godes wrath upon 
 your cyty. Your lovyng ffrend, J. Popham." 
 
 Joachim Porsel. 
 
 L. 94. Feb. 15, 1584 [received March 11, 1584]. The 
 Lords of the Council write to the Mayor respecting the robbery 
 of Joachim Porsel, master of the hulk called the Jonker of 
 Dansk, taken and brought into Plymouth on his journey from 
 London towards the said porte. In his lodging at the Inn called 
 the Sea Horse in that town there was imbeseled from the said 
 John by the hosteler of the said Inn 45Z. 5s. Od. in gould, of 
 which 231. had been recovered, and that the ostler hath 
 confessyd onely of thembeselinge of 231.. which is now in 
 your custodie, and that there is verie great presumption that 
 the rest came to his hands or knowledge. With signatures of 
 Christopher Hatton, Francis Walsingham, J. Hunsden, J. 
 Buckhurst, J. Fortescue, J. Wolley, T. Perrot, T. Heneage. 
 
 The Armada. 
 
 L. 95. The Court at Somerset House, Nov. 26, 1588. 
 Sir Francis Walsingham writes to the Mayor and Aldermen 
 of Exeter : " After my hertie comendacions whereas I am 
 geven to understand that at such time as ther was order 
 gevenf this last sommer for the settinge fourthe of certain 
 
 * i.e. The widow of Morris Levermore, who was Mayor in 1564, or possibly 
 John Levermore, who was Governor of the Merchant Adventurers Society 
 in 1582. 
 
 f For order (April 1, 1588) to Exeter and Topsham to furnish three ships 
 (or two Ibid, p. 112) and one pinnace to repaire to Sir Francis Drake at 
 Plimmouth by April 25, see Acts of Privy Council, XVI, 9, to which Exeter 
 pleaded " wante of sufficient habilytye to yeild such contribucions for the 
 provision and furniture of the said shippes and pinnaces," Ibid, XVI, 55 
 (May 9, 1588), though by April 11, 1588, they had furnished one ship and 
 one pinnace (Cat. Dom., 1581-1590, p. 475). ;;nd on July 1C, 1588, the 
 Mayor, John Periam, urged that the charge might be lessened (Ibid, p. 503). 
 For Exeter's contribution see fly-leaf in Act Book, V, with particulars 
 of the arming of the Bartholomew, the Rose and the Ouise, in Book 55, 
 /. 1796; also Devon. Assoc. Tran*., xliv, 218.
 
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 shippes out of your Citie yt appeirethe that emongst others 
 you tooke a man of warre, beinge a shippe appertayning unto 
 Mr. George Rawley,* making agreement with him for the 
 furnishing and setting of her fourthe for her Majesties service, 
 but now that the said Mr. Rawley demaundethe satisfaction 
 from you for the said composicion which you made with him 
 for the said shippe, you refuse to yeld him that contentment 
 which ys dew unto him in that behalfe ffor as much as the 
 matter ys so reasonable which he claymethe of you and that 
 I have staied him from acquaynting their Lordships with your 
 slacknes herein upon the perswation I have that this my 
 own letter shall sufficientlie prevaile with you without 
 occasioning him to use any furthur sute, which would be to your 
 molestacion. I shall therfore praie you to consult together 
 and take order emongst yourselfs that the seut maie (sic) 
 aunswered of so muche as you have promised to yeld unto 
 him without any more delaye. And so I bid you hartelie 
 farewell. Your loving frende, Fra. Walsingham." Endorsed : 
 Reed, this Letter by hands of John Dyer, the xviijth of 
 December, 1588. 
 
 In Act Book, IV., /. 2856, June 17, 1588, it is agreed that 
 Mr. Herte (see p. 78) shall deale with Mr. Secretarie Walsingham 
 concerninge a new supplie to be made of a new victualinge 
 required by the Lord Admyrall his letters. 
 
 In Act Book, IV, /. 288, July 3, 1588, the Chamber agree : 
 that where there was provyded at the charge of the cytie a 
 good Quantitie of Rye for the provysion of the Cytie for 
 sundrye causes as well for doubte of Invasion of the Enemyes 
 as also for to beate downe the pryse of corne and now the 
 same rye is to be despatched awaye and newe to be taken in 
 yf nede require and shalbe thought necessarie. That therefore 
 the order and disposition of the said corne and dyspatche 
 shalbe referred to the discrecion of Mr. Maior, Mr. Nicholas 
 Martyn, Mr. Prouze and Mr. Thomas. The same to be done 
 with as much convenient spede as may be. 
 
 Posts. 
 
 In Book 55, /. 181, London, June 6, 1589, Thomas Raindolls, 
 Controller and Master of her Majesty's Posts, writes to the 
 Chamber : 
 
 "After my very hartye comendations. The lordes of her 
 Maiestyes most honorabell privye Counsell being geven to 
 understande of the greate abuses dailey comitted by sondrye 
 rydinge in poste in the Countereys and places as they passe 
 betwene the courte and Plimouthe contrarey to her maiestyes 
 gracious pleasure that tendereth no thinge elsse then the 
 disquietinge and evell usinge of her lovinge subiectes, have 
 
 * He was the eldest brother of Sir Walter Raleigh. Brushfield, Raleghana, 
 14.
 
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 thoughte it good in their wisdomes to beethinke them of the 
 beste and rediest meanes and howe to meete with theis disorders 
 and there uppon directinge their letters unto mee the master of 
 her maiestyes postes have willed mee to signifie unto all the 
 magistrates and speciall officers of the Townes where hereto- 
 fore Postes have been layde westwarde, and the Justices of 
 the Peace next adioyninge. That wheras the postes or parties 
 rydinge in poste have usuallye payde unto after the rate of 
 one peny the myle, sometymes lesse and at the moste bute 
 three halfe pence, and wUfullye taken mens horses forther 
 then a due stage, charginge them with cariges and burdens 
 verey unreasonable : Nowe from hencefourthe after the 
 recepte of this letter it shalbe lawfull for the parties whose 
 horses shalbe taken to ryde in poste to demaunde and take 
 of the ryder after the rate of twoo pence the myle for everye 
 horse and the same to aske and receve at the firste delyvery 
 of his horse, who also shall bee rydden forther then the 
 next appointed stage, nor carey aney burden besydes 
 the Ryder that shall exced the waighte of fortie powndes 
 withoute the hyers (sic) or owners good lyckinge and consent, 
 any Orders or ordinaunces imprinted or sett downe by ther 
 lordshippes heretofore not with standinge. This being their 
 lordshippes pleasure and honorable meaninge for the relefe of 
 the countrie for the presente untill her Maiestye maye con- 
 venientlye bee movied for some allowaunce of wages by the 
 daye and so signified unto mee I have thoughte it expedient 
 to certefye the same unto youe and everye of youe whome 
 it shall concerne and with all in their lordshippes name to 
 requier youe that Order bee foorthwith taken in your severall 
 Townes or villages that some discreete and able personne bee 
 appointed to attend the service, assisted and releved by 
 youe and the voluntary contribution of the Counterey next youe 
 as to his travell and the necessetye of the service shalbe founde 
 expedient. And uppon aney disorder herin offered or arisinge 
 to take the advice and assistaunce of the Justices of the Peace 
 next adioyninge, by whom ther lordshippes pleasure is that 
 your endevors shalbe speciallye favored and fortheride as 
 need shall requier. London, this vith of June, 1589. Your 
 very lovinge ffrende, Thomas Raindolls, Controwler and Master 
 of her Maiestyes Postes." 
 
 Places heretofore allowed and nowe also appoynted for 
 ordinary Stages for Postes layde towardes Plimouthe, viz. : 
 London : 15, Stanes ; 16, Hartford bridge ; 8, Basingstocke ; 
 15, Andivor, 15, Sailsburye; 18, Shaftesburye ; 12, Shirborne; 
 12, Crookhorne ; 15, Honyton ; 13, Exeter ; 16, Ashburton ; 
 18, Plimouth. 
 
 L. 329. Whitehall, Nov. 21, 1629. The Lords of the 
 Council write to the Lord Mayor of London and the Mayors 
 of Salisbury, Exeter and Plymouth. Whereas his Maiesties 
 posts of the Westerne Stages from London to Plymouth have 
 propounded unto us [see Cal. Dom., 1629-1631, p. 199] that 
 
 Wt. 20757. Ex. 5
 
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 for the better dispatch both of his Maieeties service and the 
 common good of others they would undertake the speedye 
 dispatch of all privat letters weakly from London to Plymouth 
 and from Plymouth to London, besydes the faithfull delivery 
 of all Letters and Dispatches of other business upon the road 
 and 20 myles out of the road if neede shall requier ; And to 
 provide post horses for all that will ryde with the Letters for 
 single post paye from stage to stage (viz.) for twod. ob. the 
 myle without further charge except 4d. to the guide for returne 
 of his horse. Which course for the reasones aforesaid wee 
 doe very well approve of. And therefore for their better 
 encouragement and cheerfull p'ceedings in the operation 
 of their said undertakinge wee doe hartely intreat the Lord 
 Mayor of London and the Maiors of Salisburye, Exeter and 
 Plymouth and every of them and all others whom it may 
 concerne (and the rather for that by this course the said 
 posts shall be the better enabled to p'forme his Maiesties 
 service), not only to p'mitt and suffer the said posts and 
 their agents from hencefourth to Imploye and address them 
 selves to the p'formance and operation of the service afore- 
 said without any of your oppositions or contradictions, but 
 allso to countenance and encourage them therein and to 
 be assistinge unto them as occasion shall requier for the 
 furtherance of the said service, and so not doubting, &c. 
 
 Maimed Soldiers. 
 
 L. 99. Greenwich, Aug. 20, 1594. The Lords of the 
 Council command the Mayor to relieve the bearer, William 
 Prigs, a native of Exeter, who has done good service and 
 received " hurts and maimes " in the Queen's service in the 
 wars of France and the Low Countries and elsewhere, on 
 the certificate of Sir Roger Williams and others as to his 
 good service. With signatures of W. Burghley, the Earl of 
 Essex [Robert Devereux], Howard [i.e. Charles Lord Howard 
 of Effingham], Robert Cecyll [son of William Lord Burghley], 
 J. Wolley, J. Buckehurst, W. Cobham, and H. Fletcher [? as 
 secretary apart from the others], 
 
 In L. 121, Whitehall, May 31, 1607, the Lords of the Council 
 command the Mayor &c. to pay to Margaret Harrys, late 
 wife of John Harrys, deceased, the arrears of three years' 
 pension of four marks yearly due at the time of his death, 
 to the said Harrys (as a maimed soldier) out of the City of 
 Exeter, which had not been claimed by him because he was 
 sick in London. 
 
 In L. 122, Sept. 8, 1607, is a certificate of the death of the 
 said Harrys at Newington, Surrey, on Lady Day last past. 
 
 Dearth of Corn. 
 
 L. 100. Columb John, March 5, 1595. John Aclande 
 writes to the Mayor &c. : " After my harty commendacions &c.
 
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 Whereas you write unto me that there is not sufficyent care 
 taken accordinge to Her Majesties and her most honnorable 
 privie counceylls directions* for provision of convenient store 
 of corne for your marcketts of Exon by meanes whereof they 
 are lately risen v]d. or viijd. in a boshell, and yett not 
 sufficyent brought in to serve your tome and therefore doe 
 request me to see redresse thereof to be made with all convenient 
 speede. Trewly I am verry sorry that yt so falleth out and 
 muste excuse myselfe therein for that my occasyions have 
 lately beene suche at Londone as I have not at all by meanes 
 of my absence intermelled with those services, but am and 
 wilbe allwaies redy to yeald my beste and uttermost endevoure 
 to procure your marcketts to be throughly served as apper- 
 taineth and to doe your cyty any further good I cane, but you 
 knowe this matter lyeth not in me alone, which yf yt did 
 I woulde I ashewre you verry redily see yt reformed, and 
 will uppon Sunday next, God willinge, be at Exeter in the 
 morninge purposely to conferr with Sir Thomas Dennys 
 and some other justices of peace of these partes for some speedy 
 redresse to be taken therein. And soe with my verry harty 
 commendacions doe leave you to God : from Collom Jhon, &c. 
 Your frinde ashewred to use, John Aclande. 
 
 Good Mr. Maior, I cannot but yealde you verry harty 
 thannks for dealinge so well and consyonably with my neigh- 
 boures your tenants, for which noe doubte God will reward 
 you. 
 
 I learne by Bennett that in the note I sente you I sett 
 downe for his office but xxx/^., which I ashewre you was by 
 me mistaken, for I mente to have written xxxvfo'. as the trewth 
 was." 
 
 For " the severall accomptes of the Rye solde at St. John's," 
 see Hooker's List, No. 40. 
 
 In D. 1710, 1711, Nov. 4, 1608, the Chamber enters into 
 a contract with Simon Leach for the supply of 4,000 bushels 
 of " sweete, good, holsome and marchantable rye " at 5s. 3d. 
 a bushel, for the relief of the poor of the city. 
 
 In L. 133 (undated) (? 1609), is a notice from the Chamber 
 desiring subscriptions of French rye and corn for the relief 
 of the poor on account of the scarcity of corn. 
 
 L. 132, Jan. 31, 1610, contains a proclamation sent from 
 the Lords of the Council to the Mayor &c., to prevent 
 the making of " soe needles a commodite as starch " because 
 it increases the scarcity of corn. 
 
 In L. 284, Collumpton, Oct. 5, 1625, Dr. Bartholomew Goche 
 sends 20/. to the Mayor for the relief of the poor distressed 
 people of Exeter. " Receive yt I beseech you from him 
 
 * i.e. in 1694. See Acts of Privy Council, XXV, pp. 8, 26.
 
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 that will ever wish well to your town and Rest your loving 
 poore frend, Bar. Goche." 
 
 In L. 333, Whitehall, June 13, 1630, the Lords of the 
 Council, on account of the scarcity of corn, command 
 the Mayor, &c., to prohibit the exportation of it, to limit the 
 amount to be made into malt, to suppress the unnecessary 
 number of alehouses, to put in execution the laws against 
 brewing of strong ale in Alehouses, against Ingrossers and 
 Forestalls of corn, &c. [See Gal. Dom., 1629-1631, p. 281 ; 
 Rymer, VIII, iii., 106 ; Izacke, 153.] 
 
 In D. 1757, March 20, 1640, the Chamber agree to spend 
 200?. to provide " Seacole " for the poor of the city. 
 
 Poor Prisoners. 
 
 L. 102, Nov. 18, 1599, has a receipt for 20a. by the hands of 
 John Martyn for the Tresorers of the poor of the Cytie for 
 " one yeres exhybycon collected towards the releefe of the 
 poor prisoners in her Majesties benche and Marshalsey ended 
 at Michaelmas last. Signed, J. Popham." [See L. 92. p. 63.]* 
 
 Foreigners. 
 
 L. 104. Undated [? circ. 1599]. Petition of the inhabitants 
 and freemen of Exeter to the Chamber complaining that 
 foreigners inhabitants in Powderham, Dawlish, Exmouth, 
 Kenton, Toppisham and other places intrude upon them 
 bringing salt to the city by land from the said places and " selle 
 the same before our owne dores in greate vessells and 
 bagges, allurynge and callyng our customes from us, saying 
 they will selle better cheape then ourselves." The petitioners 
 pray that salt shall only be brought to the city by water, 
 and that if foreigners are allowed to " intrude upon us " they 
 may have a place set apart for them and be compelled to use 
 measures. 
 
 In L. 386 (undated, ? circ. 1640), the freemen of Exeter 
 petition the Chamber that foreigners may be prevented from 
 selling by retail in the city, and suggest (in L. 387), that "the 
 hygher roome of Sent Johns be ordenyd to be a store as a 
 roome annyxt unto the New In halle (see L. 147), to reseve 
 all wols brought unto thys Cyttaye by foreners." 
 
 In L. 385, Nov. 17, 1640, the apprentices of Exeter com- 
 plain to the Chamber that persons who serve no apprenticeship 
 
 * For Commissioners for poor prisoners, April 27, 1598, see Acts of Privy 
 Council, XXXVIII, 423. For letters from the Council on behalf of prisoners 
 for debt, April 9, June 10, 19, 1600, see Ibid, XXX, 240, 371, 392. For 
 gifts of Laurence Seldon under his will in 1698 to poor people in the prisons 
 of the city and castle of Exeter, see Report on Charities, p. 302.
 
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 are made free of the city and that they are much injured 
 by that custom. " Whereas an Apprentice is to serve 8 or 9 
 years, and some more, for the havinge of that liberty and 
 freedom, others are taken in for a small some of money or for 
 favor and made free and thereby bereave us of our Trades 
 and priviledges." 
 
 In L. 441 (undated, ? 1674), the Freemen, " many of them 
 by longe and harde Apprenticeshipps, others with their moneys, 
 have dearly purchased the freedom of this oure famous Citty," 
 petition against foreigners being allowed to keep shops in 
 the city. 
 
 For bye-laws (1686), respecting the punishment of foreigners 
 residing in the city, see Miscellaneous Papers. 
 
 In L. 519 (? circ. 1750), the incorporated Butchers of Exeter 
 petition the Chamber that foreign butchers shall be limited 
 to their accustomed hours. 
 
 In L. 543 (dated Bristol, July 21, 1701), Matthew Brickdat 
 forwards to Mr. William Williams a note as to the mode of 
 procedure at Bristol in foreign attachments. 
 
 In Misc. Bolls 2 (47) is a verdict that it is lawful for 
 foreigners, to sell " alea et cepe," in houses and outside. Also 
 an order [ibid. 2, (48)], that free butchers being partners with 
 foreign butchers are to pay custom. 
 
 Vagabonds, Carriers, &c. 
 
 L. 105 (temp. Elizabeth). Fragment (much torn) of a 
 printed order of the Lord Mayor of London requiring " all 
 vagabondes, sturdy beggars, idle persones, masteries men* 
 and roges of what kynde, age or sorte soever they be " to 
 departe the city within 8 days, also forbidding carriersf to 
 bring " any boyes, maydes, children, lame, poore in " and 
 leave them within the city being unprovided for, and that 
 sand of the river is at least as good for building as any sand 
 of the field or other sand. 
 
 D. 1655, April 27, 1590, contains a licence from the Mayor 
 and Justices of the Peace to all Justices, Mayors, Sheriffs &c. 
 for one Thomas Tyrrell of Exeter, " beinge a man of honest 
 conversacion and livinge and who dothe daylye furnishe the 
 marquettes here to be a common drover, badger, kydder, 
 carier and transporter of butter and cheese in such sheres, 
 counties and places where it hath been wonte yn tymes paste. 
 
 * This phrase does not occur in the Statutes of 1547, 1572 or 1598. 
 Stat., IV, 7, 693, 899. 
 t See Stat., TV, 149.
 
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 In L. 552, dated Hawker's Office, Sept. 9, 1765, A. Cracherod* 
 writes to Thomas Hayman, esquire, concerning Hawkers' 
 Licences. 
 
 City Mills. 
 
 L. 106. July 14, 1600. Anthony Coplestone writes to the 
 Mayor concerning a dispute respecting the water not being 
 permitted to pass Pyne's Mills in sufficient quantity to turn 
 Duryard Mills and attacking the millers of Pyne's Mills within 
 the City of Exeter. Signed, " Your neighbour Christian 
 Brother Anthony Copleston." 
 
 In L. 173, Feb. 3, 1616, John Martin [the Chamberlain] 
 informs William Martin [the Recorder] that " our cause against 
 Coplestone is not yet heard." 
 
 In L. 415, Dec. 3, 1657, is a receipt by John Copleston from 
 the Chamber for 45., the rent of a tenement called Glosseford 
 in Upton Pyne. 
 
 In D. 1702, 1703, 1704 is an award, March 30, 1606, in a dis- 
 pute between the Mayor &c. and certain tenants, farmers and 
 occupiers of the city's " Gryst, Tuckinge and fulling mills " 
 in the parishes of St. Mary Steps and St. Edmunds without 
 the Westgate, chiefly relating to tenants of the Bonhay [see 
 L. 90, p. 59], allowing sufficient water to pass their mill to turn 
 the other mills. 
 
 In D. 1585, Oct. 10, 1577, is a lease from the Mayor &c. 
 to Sir Robert Denys, Knight, for 21 years, of two grist mills 
 and one malt mill called the " Bonhaye my lies " and a moiety 
 of the pasture of the Bonhay provided that the lessee shall 
 not hinder persons from fishing or washing clothes or walking 
 or taking recreation on the Bonhay. 
 
 In D. 1794, Dec. 18, 1694, is a 99 years' lease of the Bonhay 
 Mills determinable on certain lives. 
 
 In D. 1843, March 5, 1758, is a surrender of the Bonhay 
 Mills to the Chamber by Lady Frances Chichester. 
 
 In D. 1752, is a lease Dec. 22, 1632, from the Mayor &c. of 
 four grist mills, a malt mill and [eight (see Report on Charities, 
 p. 42)] fulling mills called Duryurd Mills. For subsequent 
 leases of Duryurd Mills, see D. 1778 (Oct. 21, 1673) ; D. 1795 
 (April 16, 1695). 
 
 For yearly Accounts of the Bailiffs of the Manor of Duriurd 
 from A.D. 1368 to 1724, see Duriund Accounts. For a Book 
 of the Court Rolls of Duryurd Manor, A.D. 1620 to 1697, 
 see Book 182. 
 
 * i.e. Anthony Cracherode, Solicitor to the Commissioners of Hawkers 
 and Pedlars. Treasury Paper*, 1742-1746, p. 49.
 
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 In Misc. Rolls 2 (37), Sept. 29, 1276, are memoranda of a 
 lease of the manor of Duryurd, Cowley and Goseforde to 
 Alured le la Porte for 10 years at a rental of 201. 
 
 In D. 1374, April 13, 1511, is a composition between the 
 Mayor and the Wardens of the Exebridge and Robert ap 
 Howell, Rector of St. Mary Steps, " for the tithinge of the 
 Tucking Mills " [alias "a fulling mill next Crekelpyt mill"], 
 whereby the tenant of the mill is to pay 5d. p.a. in lieu of 
 tithe. For the token mylles new buylded without the west gate 
 without the Citie at the Crekepytt mylles, Dec. 12, 1559, see 
 Devon. Assoc. Trans., xliv, 217. 
 
 In L. 1772, June 24, 1659, is a lease of Crikellpitt Mills 
 granted by the Mayor, Bailiffs and Commonalty. Similarly 
 D. 1842 (June 28th, 1755) ; D. 1844 (Aug. 18, 1760). 
 
 In D. 1808, April 3, 1705, is a lease of six fulling or tucking 
 mills with three wheels and six stocks near the west gate 
 towards Crikel Pitt Mills. 
 
 In D. 1335, Sept. 10, 1500, the City's mill is called 
 " Crekilpytt Mille," and in the same document is a mention 
 of the fulling mill of Edward Earl of Devon. 
 
 In D. 1780, April 1, 1679, is a lease of fulling mills near 
 Crikellpitt Mills granted by the Mayor &c ; also similarly in 
 D. 1783 (May 22, 1683) ; D. 1810 (April 3, 1705). Also of 
 tucking mills below Crikelpit Mills in D. 1766 (Feb. 24, 1651). 
 Also of fulling mills adjoining Headwere Mills in D. 1829 
 (June 2, 1727). Also of the Cuckingstole* Mills in D. 1771 
 (May 12, 1659) ; D. 1836, 1837 to a fuller (Sept. 11, 1733) ; 
 D. 1841 (March 16, 1704) ; D. 1850 (Nov. 16, 1785) ; 
 D. 1852 (Jan. 23, 1798). For agreement for rebuilding the 
 Cuckingstool Mills, with plan, see D. 1849 (June 7, 1785). 
 
 In L. 411, Dec. 10, 1652, John Butler desires the Chamber 
 to repay him 201. lent to them in 1644, when he was a member 
 of the Chamberf and asks that it may be set off against the 
 high rent of New Mills due from him. For memoranda con- 
 cerning lease of a mill belonging to the Chamber, Jan. 11, 
 1551, see Act Book, II, /. 194. 
 
 In Act Book, IX, /. 876, Jan. 27, 1652, it is ordered that the 
 mills called Taylor's Mills be forthwith sold for the payment 
 and discharge of the extent laid upon the city's lands for the 
 debt due to Mr. Rowe and his partners. 
 
 * In Exeter the Cuckingstool (see Devon. Assoc. Trans., xliv, 222) was 
 a " Skelvingstool," see Wright, 315, who quotes from Receiver's Account, 
 1357, i.e. 20d. paid for making " one akylving stool " and 8d. for conveying 
 it to Crollediche. 
 
 t He was a bailiff in 1640. Izacke, 156.
 
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 Topsham. 
 
 L. 107. July 24, 1602. Stephen Ridlesden* requests 
 the Mayor &c. to shew cause before Mr. Doctor [Julius] Caesarf 
 why they deny to his " assignees for the measurage of seacoals, 
 come and salt within the porte of Topsam, the execution of that 
 place," adding : "I wilbe ready to attend and yf ye shall 
 finde that yt belongeth unto you I will surcease, and if it is 
 dewe to me by my graunt I hope you will suffer my deputies 
 to enioye it quietly, otherwise I must take that course which 
 the lawe will give me leave." 
 
 In D. 1254, Oct. 30, 1467, is a lease of " le Crane et le Key 
 alias le Warf et le Crane de Topsham," and a house called 
 " La Fyve Selers," granted by John Wode, Esquire, for one 
 year (at a rental of 10?.), together with the profits of the same, 
 except a fourth or third part of 8d. for every ton of wine, 
 parcel of the custom of the city of Exeter of old time due to 
 the Lord of Topsham. 
 
 In Act Book, IV, /. 152, April 14, 1567, is an agreement 
 for the Cranage and Wharfage granted to Mr. Geoffrey Tothill 
 (see page 51). 
 
 In D. 1623, Nov. 6, 1583, William Stubbes of Ratclyffe 
 (Middlesex) gives a bond of 400Z. to secure a conveyance to 
 the Mayor &c. of "all that crane or key and cranage and 
 sellers of the Porte of Topsham and the fyshinge in the water 
 of Clyste, together with all storehouses, sellers and sellers, 
 voyde ground and land, and also all fees, offyces, tolls, customes, 
 pryvyledges, prehemynences, lyberties, profytts and emolu- 
 ments whatsoever to the said crane, key and cranage, sellers 
 and fyshynge belonginge " granted to him by Letters Patent 
 of May 16, 1583. 
 
 In Act Book, IV, /. 285&, June 17, 1558, it is agreed con- 
 cerning the crane and the mills of Topsham that the same is 
 referred to be followed by Mr. Herte (see page 64), according 
 to the late Instructions given to Mr. George Smyth in this 
 behalf, which he has with him. 
 
 In L. 123 (dated from the Court at Greenwich, June 20, 1607) 
 the Earl of Bedford [i.e. Edward Russell, 3rd Earl] writes 
 to the Mayor &c. concerning a petition which is about to be 
 exhibited to him on behalf of the inhabitants of Topsham, in 
 which manor he is about to have an interest by a grant from 
 the King. 
 
 In L. 124, Nov. 1608, Abraham Sewens of London and 
 Hugh Morrell [Bailiff in 1601] of Exeter, merchants, complain 
 
 * Clerk of the Ordnance. Acts of Privy Council, XXXI, 16, Dec. 12, 1600. 
 
 f He was appointed Judge of the Admiralty Court, April 30, 1583, and 
 
 Master of Bequests, Feb. 24, 1597. Acts of Privy Council, XXX, 118, 320.
 
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 to the Lord High Treasurer, Robert [Cecil] Earl of Salisbury,* 
 that the Comptroller and other officers of the Port of Apsham 
 [i.e. Topsham] take excessive fees of merchants bringing corn 
 into the country and take three bushells of every ship, 
 alledging it to be his duty, &c. 
 
 In L. 128, Whitehall, April 27, 1609, the Earl of Salisbury 
 desires the Mayor, Sir John Acland,f Sir Christopher Harris J 
 and others to enquire into the matter of these " fee-bushels." 
 
 In Book 51, f. 54, are orders or customes to be observed at 
 the Key, Crane or Wharffe of Toppesham and rates for the 
 same, with the like for the Key at Exeter (/. 55). [See also 
 Misc. Papers, 1700.] 
 
 In D. 1707, Oct. 20, 1607, is a lease of wharf, crane, cranage 
 and cellars of Topsham granted by the Mayor &c. for four years 
 at a rental of 201. p.a. Also in D. 1785 (Jan. 29, 1691) is a 
 similar lease for seven years, together with the passage of 
 ships and lighters through the Haven at a rental of 800Z. 
 
 Death of Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 L. 111. March 25, 1603. The Lords of the Council inform 
 the Mayor &c. of the death of Queen Elizabeth, which took 
 place on the previous day [Oliver, 108], and command them 
 to proclaim King James I. Your very lovin frends, 
 Northumberland, Pembroke, Jo. Cant., Tho. Egerton, T. 
 Buckhurst and many others. 
 
 Bonvile's Almhouses. 
 
 L. 112. London, Oct. 1, 1604. Sir Julius Caesar)) desires 
 the Mayor and Aldermen to grant an almshouse in Saint 
 Rock's Lane,^[ to one John Moore, a poor man of Exeter, and 
 his wife, " being a lame and weake woman as it is alliadged, 
 who are said to bee of your owne citye and there to have beene 
 borne and bred up amongest yow," for whom suit had been 
 been made to the King. " I have thought good to forbear 
 the procuring of any such grant from his Majestie in respect 
 that I have bene formerlie advertised by yow or some of yow 
 that the right of disposing the said almeshouses is not in his 
 Majestie, but in yourselves, as deryved from a graunt thereof 
 made unto you by some of his Majesties predecessors, which 
 being so I would not willinglie impeach." He then asks them 
 " to bestowe one of the said places uppon the poore man 
 
 * He was then High Steward of Exeter. See L. 116. 
 t See L. 100 (p. 66). He was knighted on March 14, 1604. 
 j Of Launceston. Cod. Dom., 1603-1610, pp. 16, 17. 
 This was done on March 29, 1603. Izacke, 143. 
 || See page 72. 
 
 II i.e. in Sir William Bonvile's Almshouses, called the Maison Dieu, founded 
 in 1407. Oliver, Monast. 404.
 
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 if any bee now voyd, or otherwise the Reversion of the next 
 that shall fall. Your verie loving frende, Jul. Cesar." 
 
 In L. 131, Whitehall, Dec. 31, 1609, Roger Wilbraham* 
 and Daniel Dunf inform the Mayor and Mr. Copstone, 
 Paymaster of the Poor in Rocke Lane,f that the King's Majestie, 
 in consideration of his service, hathe graunted to Nicholas 
 Crompton, a poor soldier, "an Almes Rome ther in Exeter 
 which is absolutlie in his Majesties disposicion as is alledged." 
 They require the Mayor &c. to admit him, they having refused 
 to do so. 
 
 For the right of presentation, see Charter XXXVIII. 
 
 In L. 446, May 12, 1698, William Symon [or Symons, L. 457 
 (Feb. 25, 1690), where he represents the city's interests in 
 London, and L. 465 (Dec. 16, 1708), where he desires payment 
 of his bill], informs the Receiver [George Yard Receivers' 
 Accts. 9-10 William III; Izacke, 190] respecting the suit 
 made to the Council through the Duke of Ormond, for licence 
 to remove Bonville's Almshouses. || 
 
 In L. 447 is a copy of an order in Council for their removal, 
 issued from the Court at Kensington on July 15, 1698, 
 together with a report on the subject by the Attorney General 
 and some notes on the Almshouses. 
 
 Vintners and Taverners Licences. 
 
 L. 113. Dec. 29, 1604. The Lords of the Council write 
 to the Mayor &c. respecting the repeal of " that Braunche of 
 the Statute of 7 Edward VI ^f concerning the prizes of wines," 
 in consequence of which many vintners and taverners have 
 incurred sondrie greate penalties and commanding them to 
 cause it to be known that all vintners are to " make theire 
 repaire to the howse of Arthur Ingram, Esquire,** scituate in 
 Marke Lane, London, so soone as convenientlie they maye, 
 there to conclude and compound for pardons for times past 
 and licenses to sell wines in times to come." Signed, 
 T. Ellesmere, Cane. ; ft T. Dorset ; F. J. Worcester ; T. Nor- 
 thampton; Cranbourne; Thos. Burghley; W. Knollys; 
 E. Wotton; J. Balmerino; J. Popham; J. Fortescue. 
 
 * Chancellor to the Queen, Jan. 23, 1604. Gal. Dom., 1603-1610, p. 123. 
 
 t i.e. Dunne or Downe. Diet. Nat. Biog., XV, 222. He was Dean of the 
 Court of Arches and a Judge of the Admiralty Court. Cal. Dom., 1603- 
 1610, pp. 204, 323, 485. 
 
 J Or the Comb-rew. Set p. 6. 
 
 James Butler, High Steward of Exeter from Oct. 1697 till 1715. Izacke, 
 191, 199. 
 
 || The buildings fell into ruin in 1708. Oliver, Mon., 404, and "not the 
 least vestige of them now remains," Jenkins, 124. 
 
 If i.e. Slot. 1, Edward VI, c. 5 (1553), repealed 1 James I, c. 25, Stat., IV, 
 1052. 
 
 ** Controller of the Customs of London, Sept. 15, 1604. Cal. Dom., 1603- 
 1606, p. 149. 
 
 ft i.e. Thomas Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere, appointed Chancellor May 19, 
 1603.
 
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 In L. 114, Whitehall, Feb. 11, 1605, the Lords of the Council 
 write to the Mayor &c. referring to L. 113, and informing 
 them that at the suit of the Earl of Nottingham* they have 
 appointed Thomas Isack, gentleman, and George Leach, 
 clothier, to receive the compositions and grant licences to 
 vintners and taverners to sell wines in Exeter. 
 
 In L. 115, March 1, 1605, the Lords of the Council command 
 the Mayor &c. to call before them all such vintners and 
 taverners as have not compounded and taken new licences and 
 to compel them to do so. 
 
 In L. 117, July 7, 1605, the Lords of the Council reprove 
 the Mayor &c. for negligence in not enforcing the order in 
 L. 115. If any vintners &c. refuse to comply they are to be 
 treated according to the " auncient Lawe of Edward the first 
 sometime King of England, and you are in your owne person 
 to see their dores to be shutt up so to remaine untill they 
 reforme themselves." 
 
 In L. 118 (dated Exeter House in the Strand, July 15, 1606) 
 Theophilus Rayshleygh, Secretary to the Lord Steward 
 [Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham see L. 114], writes to 
 Mr. John Prouse [M.P. for Exeter 1604-1611] at Exeter 
 that he has delivered his letter with that from the Mayor and 
 his brethren to his Master, and that his Lordship has written 
 to the Earl of Bath [Lord Lieutenant of Devon see page 10]. 
 " I have herein sent you a coppief of what my Lo. was now 
 pleased to write" adding that he was unable to send the letter 
 to the Earl of Salisbury [Robert Cecil], and that " my Lo. and all 
 our Company toke horse at 8 of the clock at nyght (what time 
 the Counsell did rise) at my Lord of Salisbury's gate, and rid 
 7 miles to lie that night. We are to take our Journey into 
 Northamptonshire at Burghly, whence we shall scant returne 
 this ffortnight." 
 
 In L. 119 (dated at the Court, Feb. 22, 1606, i.e. 1607) the 
 Earl of Nottingham thanks the Mayor &c. for the good respect 
 they have all had to his graunt from his Majestic, which they 
 have manifested in suppressing the supposed authority of the 
 London Vintner. 
 
 In L. 428, London, Dec. 4, 1662, Sir John ColletonJ writes 
 to the Mayor respecting " my demand of Interest for my 
 monyes disburst about 16 yeares to ye Chambre of Exon." 
 
 In 434, Sept. 27, 1664, he releases the Mayor &c. of and 
 from all bills, bonds, accompts, debts, dewes, suites and demands 
 
 * i.e. Charles Lord Howard of Effingham (L. 99), Lord Lieutenant of 
 Devon and Cornwall since Dec. 31, 1585. 
 t This copy has not been preserved, 
 j Agent for granting wine licences. Col. Dom., 1661-62, pp. 132, 377.
 
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 whatsoever from ye beginning of ye world to ye day of ye 
 date hereof," where he is " of St. Martins in ye feilds in ye 
 County of Middx." 
 
 High Stewards of Exeter. 
 
 In L. 116, May 8, 1605, the Earl of Salisbury [Robert Cecil] 
 gives a receipt for his fee (10Z.) as High Steward of 
 Exeter. 
 
 In L. 160 (The Court, March 18, 1614) the Earl of 
 Northampton [Henry Howard] thanks the Chamber for having 
 elected him High Steward.* 
 
 In L. 167, July 15, 1615, Richard Martin reports to the Mayor 
 that on Monday last he has presented the letter and Patent of 
 Steward of the City to the Treasurer,! " to succeed his noble 
 Uncle for a patron and protector of your Cittie ; recom- 
 mending to his Lordship's good acceptance your loves and good 
 affection," adding that " you were not ignorant that the 
 Cathedrall Church (with which you had some time differences by 
 ther default) had a dependance also uppon his Lordship and had 
 interested themselves in his protection," and that he " accepted 
 ye message and your loves with as much gladness as kindness 
 promising to deserve it by any or all actions which might 
 demonstrate his thanckfullness and love to your cittie and 
 receaved withall the fee of 101. " for which I send you his 
 Lordship's acquittance " [not preserved]. 
 
 In L. 205, Nov. 24, 1621, John Prouse writes from London 
 to the Mayor : 
 
 " Sir, I must lykewise advertise you that I have followed 
 my former sollicitation to have up your pattent from my 
 Lord of Suffolke, but I find a strange alteration, for whereas 
 he sent me word by two severall knightes at the former 
 session that the Pattent J should be sought for and that I should 
 have it up, he dothe nowe awnsweare that he will kepe the 
 same and demandeth paymente for three years past and this 
 is his resolute awnsweare sent my (sic) yesterdaie. Sir, there 
 was a tyme when you might have had a better end of this 
 busynesse, but it would not be intertayned for his Lordship did 
 offer to wryte his letters to discharge the Pattent and to give 
 you lybertie to make a newe choyse, which was not thought 
 sufficiente, but I perswade myself that you shal not nowe 
 obteyne so muche. Here the old proverbe is true all covett and 
 
 * For patent of his election under the Common Seal, see Izacke, 146. 
 
 t Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk. For his signature, see L. 289 (Jan, 15, 
 1626), granting a discharge in connection with a loan to the King. 
 
 J i.e. of his appointment as High Steward under the Common Seal in 
 1621. Izacke, 149.
 
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 all loose. I wish that my pen could have gyven you more 
 pleasing matter which would have pleased me as well." 
 
 In L. 217, London, May 4, 1622, William Prous writes 
 to the Mayor &c. : I wishe in case of assistance you had 
 a nother Stewerd at the Councell bord, where the Lord of 
 Suffolke comes not. 
 
 In L. 220, May 25, 1622, William Prous writes to the 
 Chamber that "it is now hye tyme for your worshipps to 
 looke aboute you and speedilie to consulte and resolve to 
 strengthen your Chamber with an assistant Lord Steward 
 that maie in this tyme of neede stand by and backe you for yf 
 this suite of our Bishop take succes your state and govern- 
 ment will receive a shrewde blowe and disgrace which will 
 greive everie well affected member of your Gitie be pleased 
 larder to understand that Mr. Recorder hathe praied me to 
 advertise you that yf the Chamber shall deeme It expedient 
 he desires that a speedie letter be to that end framed from the 
 whole bodie of the Chamber and directed to the Lord Treasurar 
 [Lionel Lord Cranfield], whom he thinks meetest to be enter- 
 teyned as your assistant Lord Steward. I know his affections 
 inclynes to do kindnes to your Citie : This mocion I leave 
 to your grave and speedie consideracons : and the rather in 
 regard your adversarie is potent and hathe manie eminent 
 friendes to backe his enterprises ; wherein he hathe the advan- 
 tadge of you (your Chamber standinge upon bare feete and 
 is without a pillar to leane unto in this daie of neede). 
 
 In L. 238, Nov. 9, 1622, the Chamber inform the Earl of 
 Suffolk that they hear from Mr. Recorder Duck (see page 55) that 
 he (the Earl) claims his pension of 40Z. due upon his patent as 
 their High Steward (L. 205). They beg him to remember 
 that a year and a half ago they desired him to give up the 
 patent because he was seldom at the Council board to assist 
 them, and that he promised, if the patent could be found, 
 to do so and desired them to choose another Steward, which, 
 however, out of respect to him they have not done, and they 
 pray him to reconsider his demand. 
 
 In L. 282, Oct. 4, 1625, the Chamber inform the Earl of 
 Pembroke* that " att your late being in Devon wee were bolde 
 to present an humble suite to your honour that your honour 
 would be pleased to accepte of the office of Highe Stewardshipp 
 of this Cittie," and they now send him the Patent of his office 
 with the accustomed yearly pension of 101. 
 
 In L. 282a (same date) is a copy of the Patent. 
 
 In L. 283 (dated from the Court at Salisbury, Oct. 13, 1625), 
 the Earl of Pembroke writes to Mr. Ignatius Jordan 
 
 * i.e. William Herbert, who has been supposed to be the " onlie begetter " 
 of Shakespeare's Sonnets,
 
 78 
 
 (see L. 210, page 112), Lieutenant of Exeter, the Aldermen 
 and the rest of the Council, accepting the Stewardship. 
 
 In L. 332, Wallingford House, May 22, 1630, Lord Weston 
 [i.e. Richard or Baron Weston, Izacke 152] writes to the 
 Chamber thanking them for the Patent of the High Steward- 
 ship of Exeter presented to him by Mr. Balle [i.e. Peter Balle, 
 Recorder see L. 316, 317, page 56]. 
 
 In L. 367, Whitehall, April 18, 1635, the Earl of Pembroke 
 and Montgomery [i.e. Philip, brother to William Herbert, supra 
 Izacke, 152] thanks the Chamber for his election as High 
 Steward of Exeter. 
 
 For General Monk* [who was appointed High Steward 
 of Exeter in 1662 Izacke, 169], see Comm., CIX, page 13. 
 In Act Book, X, /. 1716, Dec. 2, 1662 : this day the Lord Duke 
 of Albemarle his grace was by free consent elected and chosen 
 to be High Steward of this Cittie, and it is ordered that a Patent 
 be prepared to be presented to his Grace as hath byn formerlie 
 to other honourable persons. [His son Christopher Duke of 
 Albemarle was elected High Steward Feb. 1, 1676 Oliver, 
 p. 216.] 
 
 In October, 1697, James Butler Duke of Ormond (L. 446, 
 page 31) was appointed High Steward. Izacke, 191. 
 
 In D. 1820, Oct. 29, 1715, the Chamber appoints the Prince 
 of Wales [i.e. George Augustus, Prince of Wales Sept. 24, 1714, 
 afterwards George II] High Steward of Exeter, and in L. 459 
 (undated) they petition him [as Duke of Cornwall] in regard 
 to a lease of houses in the Castle Ditch. 
 
 Weights and Measures. 
 
 L. 120, March 17, 1606-7. Mr. John Prouse [M.P. for Exeter, 
 see page 75] forwards a copy of an Act of Parliament [i.e. 
 8 Henry VI, cap. 6, 1429, Stat. ii, 242] respecting the charges 
 for the use of the public weights and measures. Endorsed : 
 From Mr. John Prowse, the 17th of March, 1606. 
 
 [The Bill recites and amends the Statute of 1429, but 
 it does not appear amongst the Statutes of James I in 
 Statute Book, Vol. IV. It was read in the House of Commons 
 on March 12, 1607. Journal H. C., I., 351.] 
 
 In Act Book, IV, /. 2856, June 17, 1588, it is agreed "that 
 Mr. Hertef shall according to a warrant under the seale of the 
 office of the mayoraltie receyve at the Exchequer the weights 
 
 * His portrait is in the Guildhall. Oliver, 216. 
 | Who was riding to London. See payea 64, 72,
 
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 appointed for this Citie according to the late proclamacon 
 for the same, and that Mr. Receyver shall delyver unto hym 
 viijs. Id. for the same weights and also shall give him 
 towardes his chardge to be also paid and aunswered 
 at his retourne for the residue of his chardge." 
 
 In D. 1691, May, 1602, is a fragment of a receipt from the 
 Mayor &c. to the Exchequer for a set of standard weights 
 and measures. 
 
 In D. 1790, Aug. 30, 1693, is a similar receipt from Samuel 
 Kerison, founder, of London, on behalf of the Chamber of 
 Exeter to the Court of Receipt of the Exchequer. 
 
 In D. 1800, May 13, 1700, John Lyford, Collector of Excise, 
 Exon Collection, gives a receipt to the Court of Exchequer 
 for standard quart spirit measures. 
 
 Aid for Knighting Prince Henry. 
 
 L. 125, Whitehall, March 19, 1608-9. The Lords of the 
 Council send instructions to the Mayor &c. as to the most 
 advisable manner of proceeding in levying the aid for knighting 
 Prince Henry, the King's eldest son.* 
 
 In L. 130, Whitehall, July 13, 1609, the Lords of the Council 
 inform the Mayor and the Commissioners of the Aid that, 
 doubts having arisen as to the liability of Deans and Chapters 
 and other spiritual persons to pay the Aid, a new commission 
 for collecting is issued and the present Commissioners are 
 requested to send in the money they have already collected 
 and to await further orders as to their proceedings. 
 
 In D. 1713, Nov. 28, 1609, is an order in the Exchequer 
 for levying the aid for the knighting of Prince Henry. 
 
 In Misc. Rolls 77 (2 membranes), April 20, 1609, is an 
 Assessment of the Aid for making Prince Henry a Knight, 
 with signatures and seals of the Commissioners, viz., John 
 Prouse (the Mayor), George Smith (see L. 237), Geoffrey 
 Waltham, William Martyn (Recorder), Thomas Walker and 
 Nicholas Ducke. 
 
 A Plot. 
 
 L. 127, Whitehall, April 26, 1609. The Lords of the Council 
 command the Mayor (John Prouse) and the Recorder (William 
 Martyn) to send up one Ellis Cullum, who had been appre- 
 hended in Exeter, and who says he can discover and reveal 
 certain practices concerning his Majesty and the State, as 
 he pretends, of a high nature and importance. 
 
 * i.e. on attaining 15 years of age. Rym., VII. 2, 164; Cal. Dom., 
 1603-1610, pp. 494, 600, 502, 611. He wag born Feb. 19, 1694.
 
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 The Unemployed. 
 
 L. 134, London, Feb. 25, 1609-10. Sir George Smythe 
 and John Prouse [M.P.'s for Exeter, 1604-1610] report to 
 the Mayor that some " Exeter men have sollicited us to 
 assiste them in presenting of a petition to the Kinge that 
 they might be sett on worke at home, from which course we 
 have disswaded them, knowinge this to be no tyme fitt for 
 suche complaints when corporations are noted out by great 
 men in publick speaches with disgrace." They have sent 
 " theise fellowes " back and request the Mayor that they 
 may be set to work as they are desirous. 
 
 In Act Book, VII, /. 2956, Dec. 9, 1624, Mr. Levermore and 
 seven others are desired to vewe St. John's house and to 
 consider what charge wilbe needfull to fitt the said house for 
 a workinge house and alsoe what stock wilbe requisite to 
 sett twentie poore people to worke there, and likewise what 
 yerelie charge wilbe required to continue that number still 
 there and what they or the most parte of them shall thinke 
 fitt touchinge the premisses and they are entreated by the 
 Chamber to certefie to them soe soone as they maye. 
 
 In L. 350, Whitehall, Jan. 31, 1630-31, the Lords of the 
 Council send to the Mayor a Commission with orders and 
 directions " put into books* in print that soe the same may 
 be the better published executed and obeyed concerning 
 the administration of the laws that tend to the relieving of 
 impotent poore people, setting to worke those that are able 
 and punishing such as are idle or vagrant," and desiring him 
 to send up a certificate of his proceedings in the matter.! 
 
 In L. 380, Whitehall, April 12, 1639, the Lords of the Council 
 command the Mayor and Justices of the Peace for Exeter 
 to confer with J.P.'s for the county of Devon concerning the 
 steps to be taken to set the poor to work as they understand 
 the trade of clothing is much decayed (see L. 199) and the 
 labouring poor want employment. [For the Mayor's reply, 
 April 27, 1639, see Gal. S.P. Dow., 1639, p. 85.] 
 
 In D. 1767, April 18, 1653, are Articles of Agreements 
 between the Chamber and Edward Pynce of Exeter, weaver, 
 for setting the poor to work. 
 
 In D. 1651, April 11, 1589, Thomas Spicer, merchant, in 
 performance of the will of Lawrence AtwillJ, conveys to the 
 Mayor &c. as trustees for Atwill's Charity certain tenements 
 and lands in the parish of St. Thomas the Apostle and a 
 
 * These " books " have not been preserved. 
 
 t For Commissioners appointed by the Crown on this subject, Jan. 5, 
 1631, see Col. Dom., 1629-1631, pp. 474, 496. 
 
 % i.e. Laurence Atwill of London, skinner, by his will dated Nov. 6, 1588, 
 in order that the poor people of Exeter might be from time to time set to 
 work. Report on Charities, 151,
 
 81 
 
 messuage called Foxhill in the parish of Uffculme, near 
 Tiverton. For a similar conveyance, see D. 1652, April 30, 
 1590. 
 
 In Act Book, V, /. 76 (1589), is a rental of lands given to the 
 city by Mr. Atwill for the keeping of the poor of this city at 
 work. 
 
 For leases of the property in Exweek, see D. 1605 (Jan. 20, 
 1582), D. 1658 (Sept. 20, 1591) ; D. 1661 (Oct. 20, 1592) ; 
 D. 1662 (Dec. 20, 1592) ; also of land at Uffculme, D. 1673 
 (Sept. 15, 1595). 
 
 In Act Book, X, /. 276, Aug. 4, 1653, whereas the sum of 
 610/. has been raised by the felling of trees and coppice at 
 Duryard, and it being conceived fit to discharge Mr. AtwilTs 
 account with the same, and further it being conceived right 
 to buy and set up with Mr. AtwilTs money a workhouse for 
 the keeping of the Poor of this city on work, a house was 
 accordingly purchased [see D. 503] for that purpose, which 
 belonged to the Treasurer of the Cathedral church [with 
 details of expenditure], and it was ordered that Mr. Gandye 
 doe bring hi the two scales of 450?. and a note of 100Z. into this 
 Chamber to bee taken upp and cancelled, the money being 
 paid in the manner as is above exprest. 
 
 In L. 575, July 3, 1771, Mr. W. Davy forwards a copy of a 
 decree in the case of the Attorney General v. Exeter upon the 
 scheme for the erection of Almshouses of Atwill's Charity. 
 For a subsequent order, dated Jan. 16, 1772, see Report on 
 Charities, p. 153 ; see also Cases for Opinions, 1773. For 
 suit re Atwill's Charity, see Law Papers, 1784. 
 
 Custody of Orphans. 
 
 L. 135 (1609) is a paper entitled "the age of the children 
 of Mr. Thomas Snow [a bailiff, A.D. 1600 Izacke, 142] of the 
 Cyttie of Exon, marchant, decessed, anno 1609." There are 
 seven children, viz., Grace, Ann, Prudence, Simon, Mary, 
 Thomas and Joseph the eldest born Sept. 21, 1590, and 
 the youngest April 24, 1607. 
 
 In D. 1697-1698, Nov. 13, 1604, the Chamber gives a receipt 
 for 50Z. to Elizabeth Spycer, widow, executrix of the will of 
 Christofer Spicer, part of the portion of William Spycer, 
 one of the sons of the said Christofer, an orphan in custody 
 of the Chamber under the Charter of 2 [i.e., 3] Elizabeth 
 [Charter XXXVII, p. 6], to be kept till June 24, 1608. For a 
 similar receipt for 100/. on account of George Spycer, 
 another son, see D. 1699 (Jan. 23, 1606). For Mrs. TickelTs 
 Buit, see L. 173 (Feb. 3, 1615-16), p. 102. 
 
 In L. 189, July 16, 1619, Isaack (sic) Bidwell, widow, 
 petitions the Justices of the Western district desiring them 
 
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 to call the officers of the Corporation before them to render 
 account of monies owing to her late husband, who was an 
 orphan in the custody of the Corporation with a note at 
 the end by [Sir] Richard Hutton* desiring the Chamber to 
 make her some satisfaction or "to make some certificate to 
 the Masters of Requests that his Majestie may no more be 
 trebled." 
 
 In L. 198 is an undated copy of her petition, in which 
 she is called Isott Bidwellf, with footnote : " Referred to the 
 Justices of Assize for the countie of Devon." It states that 
 her husband being left an orphan, "the Mayor and Aldermen 
 of Exeter tooke into their hands certaine goods and chatties 
 of his to the vallue of 150?. or thereabouts, of which she claims 
 231. IBs. Sd. as still due to her. It is there filed with a letter 
 to the Lords of the Council, dated Exeter, July 28, 1621, 
 written by [Sir] Laurence TanfieldJ and Sir Richard Hutton, 
 to whom it had been forwarded on June 22, 1621. They report 
 that they have heard the case and do not think " that shee 
 hath any just ground of complaint." 
 
 In L. 264, dated Worcester House, Jan. 7, 1623-4, E[dward 
 Somerset Earl of] Worcester writes to the Mayor : "After 
 my very hartie comendacons, whereas I lately received a 
 letter and this inclosed petition [L. 265], with direction from 
 his Majestie that I should write unto you in the behalf e of 
 the Petitioner that you should thinke of some satisfaction to 
 be forthwith given her or otherwise her cause to have a 
 rehearinge in the Court of Requests." He therefore advertises 
 the Mayor that " accordingly you would take such order 
 therein that this Petitioner maye have no further cause to 
 trouble his Majestie with her clamors and complaints," &c. 
 
 L. 265. The petition referred to in L. 264. In this she 
 is called " Isott Bidwell, widowe." See also Law Papers, 
 " Bidwell v. The Chamber," 1615. 
 
 In L. 268, Westminster, April 24, 1624, John Prouse writes 
 to the Mayor : As touching your busynesse with Ge. Spicer, 
 I leave the same to my brother's [i.e. William Prouse] pen, 
 who can Relate it fully to you, which I doubt not but he will 
 performe. 
 
 In Book 51, /. 1336, are " Statutes and Ordynaunces con- 
 cerninge the ordringe of Orphanes &c." 
 
 * He was knighted April 13, 1617, and appointed a Justice of Common 
 Pleas, May 3, 1617. 
 
 t Probably the same as Isolda, Ysolda (i.e. Isolt), which names occur 
 in D. 709 (May 19, 1293) and D. 940 (Jan. 10, 1367). 
 
 I He was knighted March 14, 1604, and appointed Chief Baron of the Ex- 
 chequer June 25, 1607. 
 
 He was Lord Privy Seal June 2, 1616, and a Judge of the Court of 
 Bequests Feb. 7. 1621. Cal. Dom. (1611-1618), p. 345,
 
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 For proceedings of the Orphans Court, A.D. 1562-1697, see 
 Mayors' Court Books, 141-145 ; Misc. Pp., A.D. 1562-1650. 
 
 Exeter Trainbands. 
 
 L. 136 (1609). A list of the names of such as are to serve 
 with Pike and Corslett [40 names], with musketts [50] and 
 with Collivers [10] [or "calyver," Cotton, Guild, 44], with the 
 names of the officers of the band of the East Ward, viz., Thomas 
 Martyne, Capttayne [Mayor in 1618], Christopher Spicer, 
 Lieutenaunte [Sheriff in 1595], John Blight, Auntient [Bailiff 
 in 1608], John Lynn, and Josias Eveleigh, surgents," also 
 the names of the Drummes of the East Bande, viz., Radford 
 Gill and John Morttymour. 
 
 In L. 257, Nov. 29, 1623, the Lords of the Council command 
 [Francis] Lord Russell, Lord Lieutenant of Devon and Exeter 
 [see Comm., LXXXII, page 10], to call the musters of the trained 
 bands in his counties and to send up certificates of the same 
 and what quantities of powder and match are in those counties, 
 with footnote : " This is a true copy. Fra. Russell." 
 
 In L. 258, Westminster, Dec. 2, 1623, the above "transcript " 
 is forwarded to William Prowse by Richard Meller, who desires 
 him to deliver it to the Mayor. 
 
 In Comm., XCVI, June 16, 1627, Francis Earl of Bedford, 
 Lord Lieutenant, appoints Robert Giver to be muster-master 
 in the city and county of Exeter. Signed, " Fra. Bedford."* 
 
 Swordbearers. 
 
 L. 137. Middleton, Nov. 24, 1610. G. Poulett, "upon 
 that small acquaintance that I have with you and the friende- 
 shippe you have always showed me," recommends his servant 
 the bearer to the Mayor for the office of swordbearer. 
 " Whereas there is a motion now in hande for the choice of a 
 fitt person to be swordebearer to the City, he is one that you 
 have known a good while and that hath dwelte in very civill 
 and good fashion and hath served in very good places." 
 
 In L. 146. Silferton, March 31, 1611, Bishop William 
 [Cotton, see L. 148, page 47] writes to the Mayor recommending 
 one Cranberrye for the same office, " being thereunto intreated 
 by some of good sort and fashion, who thinke him to be the 
 fittest man yett thought upon for that place." 
 
 In L. 149, Coullom John, Sept. 11, 1612, Sir John Aclande 
 writes to the Mayor and Recorder recommending Mr. Tobey 
 for the office. " Your Sowrd bearer beinge as I am enformed 
 displaced, "f 
 
 * For report of the muster-master of Devonshire forwarded to the Council 
 by Francis Earl of Bedford from Woburn on July 3, 1627, see Gal. Dom, 
 1627-28, p. 241. 
 
 ( i.e. Thomas Toker had been dismissed. Oliver, 244.
 
 84 
 
 In L. 150, Coullom John, Sept. 20, 1612, the same to the same. 
 " The undeserved love and kyndnesses which I have often 
 tymes receved from yourselves hathe occasyoned me to 
 be no we and then trobelsome unto you by my letters, as 
 latlye uppon the importunetye of onne Tobye of Coullompton 
 and his frynds, who as I ame enformed sursessethe to 
 prosecute his suit anye farder." He now recommends Lennerd 
 Cranburye* (see L. 146), as he remembers to have done before 
 (i.e. in L. 151). 
 
 In L. 151, March 30, 1612, Sir Amias Bamfyldef and Sir John 
 Acland write the Mayor and Recorder : " Wee are geven 
 to understande that your olde servant Mr. Northcote is very 
 willing to yelde upp his place which he holdeth under you, 
 and that you purposse to make Choyse of some other fittinge 
 (sic) to serve you in that place. Wee have thought good to 
 commende unto you this bearer Leonardo Crambury, whoe 
 is willinge to doe you the best service he maye. 
 
 In L. 152 (undated), the same to the Chamber. The fitnes 
 and desertes of this berer (unnamed) and the greate desier 
 we finde in him to doe you service makes us once againe 
 importune you, &c. 
 
 In L. 153 (written at Radford but undated), Mr. John 
 Doddridge [or Dodderidge, M.P. for Barnstaple hi 1588] 
 recommends Tobias Rocabacke for the office, being informed 
 by him " that for most iuste and reasonable causes best 
 knowne to yourselves you have suspended your swordbearer 
 from the execution of his office." 
 
 For the oath of the swordbearer, see Act Book, II, /. 1896. 
 
 In Act Book, VIII, /. 1916, Jan. 19, 1647, it is agreede that 
 Mr. Receiver shall provide and buy a faire newe Beaver for 
 the swordbearer of this Cittie to weare att such tymes as he 
 waites on Mr. Maior his Maistre in the publick service of this 
 Cittie, but not otherwise. 
 
 Loans. 
 
 In L. 140, London, Nov. 17, 1611, Christopher MaynwaringeJ 
 forwards to the Mayor (John Lante), an order from the Lords 
 of the Council (L. 141), dated Nov. 17, 1611, for the release 
 of John Dickinson, " a minister restrayned of his liberty 
 heretofore for some unadvised and undutifull speeches uttered 
 by him against his Majestie and the State," adding : "I have 
 no newes to write you but that yt is sayd how Pryve seales 
 shall come foorthe and that the firste sorte of men that shalle 
 
 * He was elected Swordbearer Nov. 23, 1613. Oliver, 244. 
 
 t Or Bamfeild. He was Sheriff of Devon in 1603. 
 
 j Or Maniaring. For grant to him of the advowson of Rewe near Exeter 
 Dec. 8, 161 1, see Cal. Dom. 161 1-1618, p. 98. Also of the manor of Bridgnorth 
 (T Bridgeford, near Chudleigh), Dec. 21, 1605: Cal. Dom. 1603-1610, p. 272. 
 In L. 163 his name appears among the list of Exeter citizens who are able tp 
 lend 201. to the King in 1613.
 
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 lend are the lawyers, in whose hands there is oone thirde 
 part of the coyne of the Kingedom, which I praye latt 
 Mr. Recorder [i.e. William Martyn] knowe, thowghe I would 
 nott have him oone of the lending lawyers (except) yt mighte 
 come out of Mr. Edmond Parkes rotten bagge." 
 
 In L. 142, Nov., 1611, the Deputy Lieutenants inform 
 the Earl of Bath, Lord Lieutenant [see Comm., LXIV, page 10] 
 that on Oct. 31 last they "did take (with Mr. Gyles Carpenter) 
 a general muster of all our serviceable men, armor and 
 munition," and " find them rather in better than in worse 
 condicion then in former tymes they have byn." They 
 send names* of " our trained soldiers being in number 400," 
 and forasmuch as no deputies (but the Maior, Recorder and 
 Mr. John Peryam, who ys an aged, weak and sickly gentleman) 
 are now living, they desire that some new Deputy Lieutenantsf 
 may be appointed and among them Sir George Smythe, " he 
 being none as he conceaveth yt because he ys entitled esquier 
 and not by his name of dynitye."J They further add : 
 " Many of the Inhabitants of this Cittie by divers letters 
 from London were certifyed that such loans would be demanded, 
 but the same newse was generally distastfull and unwel- 
 come," and pray for more time to be allowed them to arrange 
 the same. 
 
 In L. 163 (1613) is "a Certificate of the names of those 
 persons 1 1 which are hable to lend money to his Majesty upon 
 Privy Scales within the Citty and County of Exon," together 
 with the names of such as Lent last and yeat are newly Taxed."^[ 
 
 For the forced loan of 1627, see Comm., XCV, p. 11. 
 
 In D. 1759, July 5, 1642, George Langworthie and Ralph 
 Herman**, Collectors of money to be raised for the defence of 
 the kingdom ft &c., give a bond in 1,0511. 11s. Qd. to the King 
 to secure payment of the same sum to Sir Richard Gurney, 
 Knight, Lord Mayor of London. JJ 
 
 * The names are not preserved. 
 
 t For their appointment, Feb. 25, 1609, see Comm., LXXV. 
 
 j He was knighted June 12, 1604 (Shaw ii, 133), but is styled "George 
 Smyth" in Comm., LXXIV, p. 10, where he is among the Deputy Lieutenants 
 for Exeter appointed by the Earl of Bath on Feb. 25, 1609. 
 
 For a list of names of persons in Devonshire fit to lend this money sent 
 in by the Earl of Bath from Tavistock on Dec. 13, 1611, see Gal. Dom. 1611- 
 1618, p. 100; Hist. MSS. Report, Var. Coll., IV, 91. 
 
 || Twenty-one in number, beginning with Sir George Smyth, knight, 
 161. 13*. 4d. The rest of the amounts are 10Z. or 20Z. each. 
 
 T| i.e. John Davy and John Peryam (each 33?. 65. 8d.) and Thomas Walker, 
 " who informeth us of great losse by him very latly sustayned and therefore 
 prayeth humbly to be exempted out of this service." 
 
 ** He was Mayor in 1652. For his will dated July 25, 1661, see Report on 
 Charities, p. 35. 
 
 ft For Committee of Defence appointed Aug. 13, 1641, see Gardiner, X, 2 ; 
 Hist MSS. 5th Report, p. 40. 
 
 JJ He was impeached July 5, 1642. For order (March 24, 1643) to distrain 
 for payment of this money in Exeter, see Lords' Journals, V, 669, which is 
 called a "pretended promise" in Gal. S.P. Dom., 1641-1642, p. 364, July 30, 
 1642.
 
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 The Fishing Business. 
 
 L. 143, Exchequer Chamber, Dec. 27, 1611, Sir Julius 
 Caesar, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and others write to the 
 Chamber respecting the benefit reaped by the United Provinces 
 by fishing with "busses in his Majesties seas." "The Trade 
 of fishing (being the cheife piller and support of those States) 
 doth most properlie and rightlie belong to his Majestie if his 
 subiects were so industrious and would take the same course 
 that their neighbours do, if some course might be taken for 
 erecting of the like vessells in England." They enclose a 
 letter (L. 144) addressed to them by the King on the subject 
 and desire the Chamber so send up some one or two competent 
 persons to consult upon it at a meeting to be held on " the 
 second Monday after Twelf night next ensuing." 
 
 In L. 144, at the Palace at Westminster, Nov. 28, 1611, 
 the King writes to Sir Julius Caesar, Chancellor and Under 
 Treasurer of the Exchequer and others : "Having long desired 
 to stirr up the myndes of our people to seeke to recover the 
 Decaye of Trade in most of our Coast Townes by erecting of 
 Busses in all the Coasts and parts of our Kingdom in imytacon 
 of other States our neighbors, some conceaving it fitt to 
 procceed by a Joint Companie, some by a Trade disunited, everie 
 Towne building and fishing for itself." 
 
 In L. 360, April 16, 1634, the Lords of the Council write 
 to the Mayor and Aldermen : "Whereas upon former direccons 
 from the Board some of the Marchants of that Citty with 
 others of the Westerne Parts did come upp and attend us 
 touching the fnshing busines,* we at that tyme had conference 
 with them touching the Marchants affaires in France and of 
 the disturbance which was given to Trade there, and some 
 meetings and debates were held betwixt the said Marchants 
 and the Marchants of London concerning that busines and 
 some proposicons passed amongst them for the settling 
 thereof." They now desire them to send up again the same 
 merchants or others to proceed in concluding this so urgent 
 and so good a work.f 
 
 The New Inn. 
 
 L. 147, London, June 20, 1612. Mathew Springham and 
 18 other London merchants J write to the Chamber interceding 
 for " our ffreinde " Valentine Tooker, who had received notice 
 to quit his " newe dwellinge howse the Newe Inn," and praying 
 that in consideration of his years and services some stipend 
 may be given him. 
 
 10 
 
 * For the Society or Association for the Fishing April 22, May 2, Aug. 1. 
 
 , 24, 1633 ; Jan. 2, 1634, see Cal. S.P. Dom., 1633-34, pp. 25, 42, 167, 179, 
 191, 390. i.e. for developing the herring fishery and excluding the Dutch 
 from fishing in English waters. Gardiner, VII, 349. 
 
 t For Christopher Brodridge and Thomas Knott (bailiffs in 1634), sent up 
 on this business, May 29, 1634, see Cal. Dom. 1634-35, p. 42. 
 
 { Whose signatures are all appended.
 
 87 
 
 In L. 181, 1617, Thomas [a bailiff in 1620 and 1637 ; sheriff - 
 1638] and Samuel Tooker write to the Mayor stating that their 
 father Valentine Tooker has recovered 43?. 13s. 4rf. from the 
 Chamber by a decree in Chancery for being compelled to leave 
 the Newe Inn, of which he had been tenant for many years, 
 and desiring that this sum may be paid without putting him 
 to the charge of taking out the decree under the Great Seal. 
 Notes are added in favour of the petitioners by Richard and 
 Symon Baskervile.* 
 
 In L. 183, April 3, 1618, Valentine Tooker gives a receipt 
 to the Chamber for Ql. 16s. Qd. " in full satisfaction, recom- 
 pence and payment of and for the full and uttermoste value 
 of all those selynges, stayned or paynted clothes, shelfes and 
 other goods, chattells &c." left by him in the Newe Inn. 
 
 In an endorsement to D. 84, Sept. 29, 1456, the New Inn 
 is referred to as in the parish of St. Stephens. 
 
 In D. 1401, Nov. 29, 1527, it is identified in Moore's Calendar 
 with a tenement in the East part of " le Egle " ; see also D. 1286 
 April 4, 1481, and D. 1318 (Sept. 16, 1493) ; though on what 
 evidence does not appear. For "le Egle" see Devonshire 
 Association Transactions, XLIV, 490. 
 
 In D. 1447, June 12, 1545, the "newe ynne " is leased for 
 58 years by the Dean and Chapter to Master Thomas Sothern, 
 Treasurer of the Cathedral. 
 
 In D. 1488, Sept. 24, 1554, it was occupied by Edward 
 Close under Thomas Peytevyn, yeoman, as a tenant of the 
 Dean and Chapter. See also D. 1495-1496 (Feb. 12, 1555) ; 
 D. 1497 (July 7, 1555). 
 
 In D. 1638, June 25, 1586, it is leased to the Mayor &c. by 
 the Dean and Chapter for 40 years, when it is described as 
 " on the south side of High Street." [See Cotton, Guild, 73 ; 
 Ibid. Gleanings, 129.] 
 
 In D. 1639, March 9, 1587, is a receipt for the rent with 
 the Chapter Seal. 
 
 In D. 1714, Aug. 14, 1610, is a composition with William 
 Hellyar, Archdeacon of Barnstaple, as to a new lease of it. 
 
 InL. 154 (undated, probably 1613) John Howell [Governor of 
 the Merchants' Guild, 1591 ; Mayor, 1599] and others write to 
 the Mayor, Geoffrey Waltham [i.e. in 1613], and the members of 
 the Common Council concerning the rates for the Newe Inn Hall 
 and the duties to the same Hall belonging. They say inter 
 alia : "We have also procured from London such Rates and 
 Orders as were then established the llth day of July, 1612," &c. 
 
 * See L. 172. Simon Baskervill was physician to James I and Charles I. 
 Boase, Reg., 86.
 
 88 
 
 In Act Book, VIII, /. 1676, Aug. 30, 1645, the Chamber 
 agree that " aim estate of 21 yeres of the Newe Inn shalbe 
 made over to the Chamberlain, Mr. John Parr, and some others 
 for the repayment of 100Z. borrowed from the Orphans monie 
 at one yeres end with reasonable interest, vi.l. per cente." 
 
 In D. 1760, Oct. 25, 1645, the Mayor, Bailiffs and Com- 
 monalty assign to John Crewkerne [the Chamberlain] and 
 John Parr a lease of the New Inn for 12 years. 
 
 In D. 1784, Nov. 24, 1687, the Chamber mortgages the 
 Newe Inn for 300Z. 
 
 In L. 393, London, Oct. 12, 1647, and L. 395, Bradninch, 
 Nov. 18, 1647, are references to shops in the New Inn. [Both 
 these lettere are printed in Cotton, Gleanings, pp. 130, 131, 
 where the latter is wrongly dated Sept. 18, 1647.] For official 
 decuments dated from the New Inn, see L. 429, Aug. 2, 1663 ; 
 L. 527, Nov. 17, 1754. 
 
 In L. 475, Nethway, Oct. 25, 1715, J. Fownes writes (? to 
 the Town Clerk) : "In order to have the Interest of the 
 Debt due from the Citty to Mr. Drewe* and himself fully 
 answered. Wee have bin Amused with Sundry projects for 
 giving us Satisfaction on the Sales of New Inn &c., but all 
 those as certainly vanish into Smoak almost as soon as they 
 are proposed. This way of proceeding has indeed worne 
 out my patience, and itt Cannot bee thought amiss in mee 
 if I now press for redress of this Greivance since I have bin 
 kindly admonished by some of your owne body to take care 
 of myself in season ere this wound is grown too big for the 
 plaister &c. 
 
 Piracy. 
 
 In L. 156, Whitehall, March, 1612-13, is a fragment of a 
 letter from the Lords of the Council to the towns of Lyme, 
 Plymouth, Dartmouth, Totnes, Weymouth &c., concerning 
 pirates from Brittany. 
 
 In D. 1722, May 24, 1613, the Chamber of Exeter have 
 fitted out a ship called the Hopewell of Dartmouth (80 tons), 
 of which John Chafe of Exeter is captain, to pursue pirates 
 in accordance with a letter dated March 26, 1613 [see 
 Cal Dom. 1611-1618, p. 177] from Charles [Howard] Earl of 
 Nottingham, Lord High Admiral, under his commission 
 dated April 4, 1610.f 
 
 In D. 1723, 1724, July 2, Aug. 20, 1613 [with a copy among 
 the Transcripts] is a similar commission to John Chaffe to 
 fit the Amytie of Plymouth (100 tons), press men &c., and 
 pursue the said pirates. 
 
 * Probably Francis Drew, M.P. for Exeter, 1713, 1715. 
 t For his order to Barnstaple, March 20, 1610, see Cal. S.P. Dom., 1603- 
 1610,2?. 593.
 
 In L. 177, June 7, 1617, is a much damaged report by the 
 Attorney General [Sir Henry Yelverton] concerning the 
 London merchants trading with Spain and Portugal. 
 
 In L. 178 (? 1617) (much damaged) is the humble remon- 
 strance and information of the said merchants, stating their 
 grievances Endorsed : " The remonstrance of the Londoners 
 unto the counsel board," docketed in an earlier hand : 
 " Papers, letters, leases and other things belonging to the 
 Chamber of Exeter, 1626." 
 
 In L. 179, Star Chamber, Friday, Oct. 10, 1617 (much 
 damaged) is a copy of an order from the Lords of the Council 
 respecting a new Charter being about to be granted to the 
 London Merchants trading with Spain and Portugal. The Cities 
 of Bristol and Exeter having protested against it, the 
 Merchants of London are ordered to draw up in writing what 
 they desire to be contained in their Charter and to submit it 
 to such of the West Country merchants as are here attending. 
 
 In L. 180, Oct., 1617, is a copy of an Order of the Lords 
 of the Council refusing to grant the Charter desired by the 
 London Merchants.* 
 
 In D. 1750, Dec. 10, 1630, is a receipt from the Exchequer 
 for 500Z. out of 1,OOOZ. given by the Merchants of Exeter and 
 500?. from the City of Exeter towards the suppression of the 
 Algerine pirates. 
 
 In L. 357, Whitehall, May 21, 1633, the Lords of the Council 
 inform the Chamber that a petition having been received 
 from the Western parts [i.e. in April, 1631 : Gal. S.P. Dom., 
 1631-33, p. 28], praying for a Commission to fit out ships, all 
 merchants on the Coast from Southampton to Land's End to 
 contribute to cost, " complaining of divers spoyles and outrages 
 done unto them and on their goods by the Turkish pirates," 
 they are requested to send up one or more persons from the 
 several towns to appear before the board and that they may 
 not fayle to be here by the first of June to entreat and conclude 
 about the matter. 
 
 Observance of Lent. 
 
 L. 158, Whitehall, Dec. 10, 1613. The Lords of the Council 
 request the members of the chamber to set good examples 
 in their own families and persons in regard to the strict 
 observance of Lent, enclosing a copy of printed Rules and 
 Orders on the subject [not preserved] i.e. not to eat flesh in 
 Lent or on Fridays throughout the year. [For order in 
 
 * For 40.000J. contributed by London merchants for suppressing the 
 pirates of Algiers and Tunis, see Gardiner, III, 70, which sum Exeter thought 
 insufficient, though promising (July 12, 1617) a reasonable contribution 
 to the cost of the proposed expedition. See Col. S.P. Dom., 1616-1618, 
 pp. 475, 476.
 
 90 
 
 Council, Feb. 5, 1613, see Cal. S.P. Dom., 1611-1615, p. 169, 
 with similar orders to Cinque Ports, March 3, 7, 10, 1614, 
 Ibid, p. 226.] 
 
 In D. 1665 (1593-4) are 13 bonds restraining divers persons 
 in Exeter that they " do not from henceforth kill or cause 
 to be killed any flesh whatsoever in the tyme of restraynte 
 of killing of fleshe." 
 
 In Act Book, VII, /. 2036, May 26, 1621, it is agreed " that 
 warnynge shalbe geven by the Constables of every warde 
 unto all the cookes of the Cytye not to dresse any vytualls 
 in ther houses on any ffryday or Saturday." 
 
 Aid for the Marriage of Princess Elizabeth. 
 
 L. 161, undated (? 1612). The Lords of the Council send in- 
 structions to the Commissioners for the levyinge and collectinge 
 the Ayde due to his Majestie for the marriage of the Ladie 
 Elizabeth, his eldest daughter.* Signed, " G. Cant.," " T. 
 Ellesmere Cane.," " H. Northampton," and three others. 
 
 The Charter of 1627. 
 
 L. 164. June 3, 1614. The Chamber inform the Lord 
 Chancellor [Thomas Egerton Baron Ellesmere] and the Earl of 
 Northampton [Henry Howard, see page 76], Lord Privy Seal 
 that they are about to petition for a confirmation of their 
 Charters and the addition of some new powers [i.e. as pre- 
 liminary to Charter XLV], and pray him to give countenance 
 to their two burgesses, Mr John Prowse and Mr. Thomas 
 Martyn [M.P.'s for Exeter in Parliament of 12 James I from 
 April 15 to June 7, 1614], who are deputed to manage the 
 business. 
 
 In L. 219, London, May 18, 1622, William Prouz writes 
 to the Chamber : I have made searche in the Roles of the 
 confirmacon of your Charter in Queen Maries Rainge, but 
 can finde none neyther hathe the same ben confirmed since 
 his Majesties Reinge. Be pleased to take into your con- 
 sideracon the necessitie thereof and to redeeme tyme. I 
 learne of a graunte latelie made by his Majestie to the students 
 of a fellowship in Cambridge for the re-edifyinge of theire 
 hawle and other offices in theire howse, to passe certaine 
 marketts, faires and confirmacon of Charters which theie 
 by the meanes of certeine courtiers have procured under 
 the King's hand and thereupon a booke is drawen by the 
 .Kinge's Councell. Yf the Chamber shall thinke fit to undergoe 
 the burden of the charge which this waye will passe with 
 more secrescye, safetie and les charge then otherwise it will 
 yf purposelie It be attempted now is your tyme, for yf It be 
 
 * b. Aug. 1596 ; mar. Feb. 13, 1613, to Frederick son of the Elector 
 Palatine Gardiner, II, 161. For commission for levying the aid, Aug. 30, 
 1612, see Kym., VII, pt. 2, p. 184.
 
 91 
 
 hereafter endevoured as a particuler suite to his Majestic 
 
 1 know It cannot be obteyned under 1,000 markes, besides It 
 maie receive stronge opposicon by our Bishop and his 
 Collegiates when It shall be understood. My affections to 
 this mocion are guided with care and providence to the safetie 
 of your government and the ease of the charge which I do 
 presume shalbe so providently husbandred as yf you inclyne 
 to the mocion shall not cost the Chamber above 200?. I have 
 fullie acquainted Mr. Recorder with this proposicon, who 
 upon debate of my reasons and the readines of the present 
 oportunitie to obteine the same hathe advised me by my 
 pen to advertise this muche to your Chamber. Wee have 
 likewyse considered of some pointes by waie of addicon to 
 be added in the new Charter, yf It shalbe thought meete by 
 the wisdome of the Chamber to be prosecuted, which I leave 
 to your better consideracions. 
 
 In L. 311, [undated Nov. 8, 1627, Col. S.P. Dom., 1627-28, 
 p. 426,] is a rough draft of a petition from the Chamber to the 
 King for a renewal of the Charter. In this they desire that 
 the Mayor, Bailiffs and Sariants may in future be chosen 
 on the first Monday in September instead of the Monday 
 before Michaelmas. That the Mayor may be a Justice of the 
 Peace during his term of office and for a year afterwards, 
 and that whereas by former Charters they might purchase 
 lands and tenements to the yearly value of 1001. for the defray- 
 ing of all burdens and charges importing the city, that amount 
 might in future be extended. 
 
 In L. 312 (1627) is a bill of charges of Mr. Robert Tooker 
 for charges and rekenyng made at London incurred in 
 procuring the new Charter of the city, including : 
 
 Imprimis 11s. 2d. for a supper made at the Kyng's hedd 
 to Mr. Atturney and Mr. Hynde and to Mr. Chydlie, the 
 King's sergeants, as followeth : For a sholder of mutton 
 and a loyne (10d.), a fatt capon (2s.), a copell of robetts (8d.), 
 
 2 woodcocks (Bd.), a dosyne of larks (8d.} } for a man ys 
 labour to bere thys to King's hedd (Id.), for bredd (6d.), 
 ale (19d.), wyne (22d.), fyre (4d.), fruyte and bysketts (12d.), 
 for rostyng ye meat and butter (I2d.). 
 
 Item paide to Mr. Atturney for his labours taken upon 
 the book 20s., with 10s. and 6s. Sd. respectively to 
 the two King's Serjeants and 2s. for fechyng owt the 
 copie of the Charter out of the rolls and 4d. to the Keeper 
 of the rolls. 
 
 Item at a nother time I hadd them agayne at ye Kyngs 
 hedd and then I delyvered similar amounts in fees to 
 Mr. Atturney and the two King's Serjeants, and this 
 time he paid Id. for a pott of ale and Id. " for candell 
 lyght," making a gross total of 4J,. Os.
 
 92 
 
 Further items include 105. to Mr. Atturney for his labours 
 in overseyng the booke at the last time, 5s. to Thomas 
 Bonyfault for copyng out of the booke and for his 
 laboure at the Kyng's hedd with Mr. Atturney and the 
 others, also 12d. to Mr. Atturney ys servaunt, for to 
 putt his master yn remembraunce for our booke, 105. 
 for ye engrosyng upp ye booke yn parchmentt ; 4d. to ye 
 servaunts for the examination of it ; I2d. to Mr. Chydlie 
 ys servaunt. 
 
 Besides this Mr. Chydlie and Mr. Pollard each receive 
 a fee of 20s. and MJ. Secretary a fee of 41. 
 
 The Bodley Lectureship. 
 
 L. 165. May 7, 1615(?). J. Bodley* sends to Mr. John 
 Peryamf a copy of the willj of his late uncle, Mr. Lawrence 
 Bodley : 
 
 Right loving cousen, since the tyme I perused my uncle's 
 
 last will and testament I many times desired to give 
 
 you a coppie of the . . . given and bequeathed unto 
 
 the City of Exeter, but over ruling busines overmais- 
 
 tering my desires I was commaunded silence untill this 
 
 present day. At the length having gotten a breathing 
 
 houre I have sent you the sayd coppie taken out of 
 
 the will verbatim and word for word as they be there. 
 
 Then follows the extract in which Lawrence Bodley bequeaths 
 
 400/. to the Mayor, Bailiffs and Commonalty of Exeter to 
 
 purchase land which shall yield 201. p.a. for the yearly mayn- 
 
 tenance of a sufficient preacher within the Citye of Exeter 
 
 for ever, to be chosen by the sayd Maior and his Companie 
 
 of the Chamber of the sayd Citye of Exeter, and by them 
 
 to be allwayes appoynted to exercise and preach a sermon 
 
 weeklye on the Sabbath dayes for ever in such convenient 
 
 place or places within the sayd Citye of Exeter as shall be 
 
 by them procured and thought most fitt and most profitable 
 
 for edificacion," the said preacher to be " allowed for his 
 
 sufficiencie and conformitie according to the law of the realm 
 
 * i.e. John son of 'Miles Bodley (d. 1595), who was the youngest brother 
 of Sir Thomas Bodley (b. at Exeter, March 2, 1525, d. Jan. 28, 1613). For a 
 letter from Sir Thomas Bodley in Exeter Cathedral Records (dated London, 
 March 6, 1601 ?), see Hist. MSS. Comm. Var. Coll. iv, 91. He mentions 
 his nephew John in his will in 1613. See Pietas Oxon. p. 19 ; F. W. B. Troupe 
 Sir Thomas Bodices Father and Kindred, p. 62. In D. 380 (Feb. 12, 1582) 
 William Bodleigh, merchant, sells 2 acres of land called " Noseworthies 
 Mead " in the parish of St. David's, Exeter (with his seal and signature 
 " William Bodleigh "). In L. 414 (Dartmouth, July 3, 1656), John Bodley 
 writes to the Chamber in reference to a house of his in Exeter. 
 
 f He was a relative of Bodley's by marriage with one of the Hones of Ottery 
 St. Mary. Troupe, p. 4. 
 
 J Dated April 12, 1615, proved June 3, 1615. Troupe, 62. For the text, 
 gee Re.pt. on Char., 250. 
 
 A brother of Sir Thomas, 6. 1546 or 1548 ; d. April 19, 1615 Troupe, 
 pp. 2, 42, 43. He held the prebend of Warminster (Wells) in 1580, and was 
 afterwards a canon of Exeter (Le Neve,i., 179, 422). He was buried in Exeter 
 Cathedral. Pietas Oxon. 19.
 
 93 
 
 by the Bishop of the diocese or the Archbishop of Canterbury." 
 The writer adds : I found also written beneath these words 
 touching Mr. William Martin : 
 
 Good loving cousen, Mr. William Martin, I doe desire you 
 to be carefull amongst the Company of ye citye for the 
 performance of this my last will for the procuring of 
 a preacher for the citye. Thus, loving cousen, I have 
 sent you the true coppye of the said Legacye. What is 
 to be done herein I leave to your best judgmente, humbly 
 beseeching the eternal! God to direct all your actions 
 that soe they may turne to his glory and your own 
 comforte. Your poore kinsman to be commaunded 
 to his best power, J. Bodley. 
 
 In L. 168, Aug. 28, 1615, John Peryam informs the Mayor 
 that he has written to Mr. Orforde [though he signs himself 
 " William Forde " in L. 188] about the preacher, and told him 
 that although his cousin Bodley's will only allows 201. a year, 
 the Chamber will make it 40Z. by contribution among them- 
 selves and encloses his reply (L. 169). 
 
 In L. 169, Clysthidon,* Aug. 23, 1615, William Orforde 
 writes to John Peryam recommending the preacher who 
 brought Sir Valentine Knightley'sf letter to him, viz., one 
 Thomas Purselowe, for the Bodley preachership. 
 
 In Act Book,VII, /. 92&, Oct. 24, 1615, the Chamber agree 
 that Mr. Gupwell and Mr. Coleton shall ryde to Monke 
 Okehampton to vewe certeyne landes offered to this house to 
 be sold for the provision of 20Z. by the yeere to be given for 
 the maintenance of a precher according to the will of 
 Doctor Bodley. 
 
 In L. 171, Nov., 1615, John Periam, John Prouz and 14 
 others write to the Bishop [William Cotton] nominating 
 Mr. John Hazard as Bodley preacher, and desire to know if 
 any exception is taken against him by the Bishop. They add : 
 " The reason whie wee make choice of him is because he is 
 willinge to undertake the lecture for the yerlie stipende of 
 Twenty Poundes, he having other Livinges amonge us in the 
 righte of his wife, where he is desirous to live rather than 
 elsewhere." 
 
 In Act Book, VII, /. 104, Jan. 16, 1616, the Chamber agree 
 to nominate and appoynt Mr. John Hassard, minister, to be 
 lecturer accordynge to the will of Doctor Bodley, and for as 
 muche as this house hath offered or presented hym to the 
 Lord Byshop of this dioces, with requestynge his Lordship 
 to allow of hym according to the said will of whom the said 
 Lord Byshop hath refused to allowe without any juste cause 
 
 * i.e. Clyst Hydon, of which Orforde was parson. Boase, Reg., 81. 
 f i-e. of Fawsley (Northants). He was knighted May 11, 1603, and rf, 
 in 1618,
 
 94 
 
 to the knowledge of this house. Therefore it is agreed that a 
 letter shalbe wrytten by Mr. Mayor and the rest of the mem- 
 bers of the house unto the Arche Bishop of Caunterbury 
 [George Abbot] thereby shewynge the refusall of the Bishop 
 requestynge his grace's allowance of the said Mr. Hassard 
 to be lecturer as aforesaid. And toward his charges in 
 folowynge the same busynes this house is contented to geve 
 hym xli. to be payd by Mr. Recever and he to be allowed therof 
 upon his accompte. And it is also ordered that the said 
 Mr. Hasard yf he do obteyne his graces allowance herein 
 shall not have, nor may not expecte to have any more or 
 greater pension or allowance from the house than the xxfo'. 
 yerely appoynted by the said will of Mr. Doctor Bodley. 
 
 In L. 174, April 5, 1616, is "the summe and substance 
 of the conference between the Bishop of Exon and Jo. Ha : 
 att Silverton, April 5, 1616." The report is given in the form 
 of a dialogue between H. (i.e. Hazard) and B. (the 
 Bishop) : 
 
 H. : My Lorde, I doubte not but your Lordship hath 
 notice of my Lord of Canterbury's proceeding in the 
 establishinge of Dr. Bodleye's lecture uppon me 
 accordinge to the Cyttyes nomination. Yet I have 
 thought fitt to come unto you humbly requestinge your 
 Lordship's approbation also ... as also to free my 
 selfe from those imputations that are unjustly cast 
 uppon me. 
 B. : Why, have you my lord of Canterbury's license ? 
 
 H. : Yes. 
 
 B. : Lett me see ytt [and so he read ytt and sayde] What ! 
 Chosen two churches, yn one of which there are two 
 preachers allreadye ? H. : These churches are chosen 
 as being estimated the largest and consequently the 
 fittest to conteyne the auditorye, and besides there is 
 noeintention by this lecture to drowne any of those 
 exercises that are allready established, but to have 
 a divers tyme from them. 
 
 B. : Why ! is it entended that ytt shalbe on the Saboath 
 daye ? H. : What else ? How can the will of the 
 testator be otherwise fulfilled ? 
 B. : The will names no daye. H. : Yes, ytt expressly 
 
 nominates the Sabaoth. 
 
 B. : I am sure ytt doth not. H. : My lord, I know the 
 
 contrary, and to decide the controversy you shall 
 
 see ytt [and with that I shewed him the extracte of 
 
 that parte of the will which I had about me]. 
 
 B. : Why ! do you thinke that those lectures shalbe 
 
 abolished that are there allready ? H. : There is no 
 
 such intention (as I have said before), but the lecture 
 
 maybe att an other tyme of the daye. 
 
 B. : There is never of them but are as goode as yourself e, 
 
 and why shoulde their lecture give place to this ?
 
 95 
 
 H. : Your lordship mistakes me. I meane no such 
 matter. But to leave this, do your lordship deny 
 my lord of Canterbury's authorytye to license? 
 
 B. : I will not resist higher authorytye, but you shall 
 never have my approbation to ytt. H. : Will you 
 suffer me to enioye ytt by the authorytye of my lord of 
 Canterbury ? 
 
 B. : In fayth I dare not, and besides I must see that 
 assurance be given that the parisheners shall not be 
 molested and kept out of theire seates. H. : My lord, 
 I have nothinge to do with that. If any disorder be, 
 lett the partyes delinquent be presented and punished ; 
 but for myne owne parte I suppose that this course 
 is not agreeable to the testator's will for his desire 
 was that not only the people of the same parish, but 
 also such poore people of the Cyttye as could not come 
 to heare att St. Peter's might be present att this, ytt 
 beinge a publick lecture and not to be appropriated to 
 the inhabitants of any one particular parish. 
 
 B. : Oh, are you come hither to expound the will to me ? 
 I tell you 'tis no will. Will you take uppon you that 
 none of the higher sort come, but only the poore? 
 H. : My lord, I expound not the will, though the 
 words therein be (As is thought most fitt and most 
 profitable for edification). But I speake from those 
 who were well acquainted with Dr. Bodlye's entente 
 and meaninge in ytt. 
 
 B. : I tell you I will have order taken that the parisheners 
 may keepe theire owne places and seates, for they 
 may sitt after some and so gett infection from them. 
 H. : To this I replied not, but sayde : My lord, ac- 
 cordinge to the 37th Canon I tender subscription to 
 you. 
 
 B. : That needs not. I see you have done ytt before 
 the Bishop of Canterbury and before me when I made 
 you minister, and I much repent that I made you 
 minister. H. : But it repenteth me not a whit. I 
 pray you shew some cause of rejection of me now. 
 
 B. : You are not of my diocesse. I am not bounde to give 
 you my reasons, neither will I. H. : My lord, yff 
 you have any thinge to obiecte against my doctrine 
 formerly taught I am here ready to answer ytt to the 
 face of any man that shall accuse me. 
 
 B. : You have preached false doctrine [but would not 
 shew me wherein, because I know he could not]. And 
 beside (sayth he) you have been a companion with 
 Trasque. H. : My lord, ytt is not so, for I can bringe 
 good testimony that I have twise publickly in two 
 several! sermons att Lyme confuted the erroneous 
 fancyes of Trasque, beside my brief notes I have yett 
 to shew and I refere you to Mr. Knowles his testimony
 
 96 
 
 of the truth of this the whole towne of Lyme can wittnes 
 the same. 
 
 B. : Where are you letters demissory ? H. : My lord, 
 I brought you an ample certificate from Lyme, where 
 I have last made my aboade, and beside I have my 
 lord of Canterbury's approbation. 
 
 B. : My lorde of Canterbury knowes you not but by 
 reporte. H. : So nether doth your lordshipp. You 
 have no iuste exception against me. 
 
 B. : Yes, I know you too well ; did not I make you 
 minister, Sir? H. : Yes, but uppon small knowledge 
 both before and since. 
 
 B. : Therefore I desire letters demissory from your 
 ordinarye the Bishop of Bristol or Bath and Wells. 
 H. : He is not our ordinarye, for we are a peculiar 
 and I have been advised that I neede them not, seeinge 
 I was made minister by you, &c., but yet yf that 
 will give you satisfaction (yf ytt be thought fitt) I can 
 easyly procure ytt. 
 
 B. : Housoever you shall never come in by my consent. 
 H. : I cannot do withall. I hope I may by vertue of 
 this licence. 
 
 B. : If you offer to preach before I see your letters 
 demissory I will suspende you. And take this for an 
 absolute Answere : You shall never have my approbation 
 yf you will do ytt by virtue of my lord's licence alone, 
 which you have procured, use your owne discretion. 
 With that he tolde me he had donne, and so we toke 
 our leaves. 
 
 (flfinis.) John Hassarde. 
 
 Hugh Jermyn. 
 
 In Act Book, VII, /. 1076, May 2, 1616, the Chamber agree 
 that the Citty ys (by the last will and testament of Mr. Doctor 
 Bodley and by the reseat of the 400Z. and by our letters to 
 the Lord Archbishopp's Grace of Canterbury and by our seal to 
 the said Doctor Bodley's executors, and by our owne Act 
 dated the 16 of Aprill laste) Bounden to paye to Mr. Doctor 
 Bodley's lecturer the xxfo*. lymited to be paid to these (sic) 
 lecturer. 
 
 In Act Book, VII, /. 1316, May 21, 1617, it is agreed to have 
 a Divine from the Universitie to supplie the place of Mr. Hasard 
 in reading the Sabbathe Day's lecture founded by Mr. Doctor 
 Bodlighe, late deceased, and for that the pension allotted by 
 the said ffounder is so small, amounting but to xxli. per 
 annum, yt is farther agreed that every one of the fowr twentie 
 for augmentation thereof shall pay unto him that shalbe 
 elected ten shillings at the least p. ann. to continue untill 
 some other provision may be procured for the increase 
 thereof.
 
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 In L. 188, (King James' Hospital in Charter House,* 
 June 12, 1619), William Forde (see p. 93) writes to the Mayor, 
 Thomas Martin, respecting his resignation of the Bodley 
 Lectureship and desires to have a house to live in besides 
 his stipend. He excuses his delay in writing, because : 
 " We depende uppon the leasure of our Governours, who 
 may not neglecte their weightier affaires of the whole Common 
 Wealth for lesser matters of our private house." 
 
 In Act Book, VII, /. 1746, Oct. 31, 1619. This day an 
 acquytance was sealed with Mrs. Mogrydge for the receyte 
 of the 200Z. geven by her late husbandf unto the Cytye for 
 the better mayntenaunce of the lecture ordeyned by Doctor 
 Bodley. 
 
 In Act Book, VII, /. 1856, June 15, 1620. At this day 
 George Tyckell, clerke, is elected to perforate the exercise 
 of the lecture founded by Doctor Bodley to hold and contynue 
 the same for the space of ffyve or seven yeres accordynge as he 
 shall obteyne allowance and approbacion of the lord Bishoppe 
 of this dioces yf he lyve so long and do contynue the exercyse 
 of the same lecture for which he is to have yerely xxxli. 
 quarterly to be payde. 
 
 In Act Book, VII, /. 186, June 29, 1620. This day Mr. Amye 
 and Mr. Fflay are requested by the house to ryde to the 
 lord Byshoppe to treate with hym concernynge his allow- 
 ance of Mr. Tyckelle to be lecturer for the performance of 
 thexercysie of preachynge accordynge to the last will of 
 Doctor Bodley. 
 
 In L. 266, Exeter College, Jan. 20, 1623-4, Laurence Bodley % 
 (brother to John Bodley, L. 165) writes to the Chamber con- 
 senting to refer the matter in dispute between them concerning 
 his uncle's will to Mr. Nicholas Ducke [Recorder, see page 77] 
 and Mr. William Hakewill (sic}. 
 
 In L. 268, Westminster, April 24, 1624, John Prouse writes 
 to the Mayor : I knowe you do expect to heare what is done 
 concerning Mr. Bodleye's business, and my hope was before 
 this tyme to have sent you downe that Instrument which 
 was promised long since to be sealed by the two brethren, || 
 which they have refused to do upon some newe scruple 
 unknowen to me, and the businesse is at a stand untill there 
 aunsweare come up, which is expected dailye if they shall 
 hold their first promise ; then I make no doubt but to sende 
 
 * It was called also Button's Hospital, having been purchased on May 9, 
 1611, by Thomas Sutton, who died Dec. 12, 1611. 
 
 t i.e. Thomas Mogridge, of Exeter, by hia will dated July 14, 1617. 
 Kept, on Charities, p. 251. 
 
 j Rector of Clyst Hydon, (d. 1634). Boase, Reg. Exon., pp. cii, 97. 
 
 Or Hackwell (L. 229). He was brother to Doctor George Hakewell 
 (L. 172), and an executor of Sir Thomas Bodley 's will. Cotton, Guild, 38. 
 
 || i.e. John and Lawrence Bodley. 
 
 Wt. 20757. Ex 7
 
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 downe the deed, if not I will acquaint you with what Rubb 
 this passage is stopped. 
 
 In L. 287, Exeter Colledge, Dec. 27, 1626, Mr. Lawrence 
 Bodley writes to the Chamber : Hearing that they are " upon 
 a new choyce of Dr. Bodley 's lecturer," he wishes to call to 
 their remembrance that the testator's " desire was to have 
 such a preacher whose piety and zeale should hold pace with 
 his learninge and science." How farr your late Lecturer 
 followed him either in that practise or in ye intention of his 
 will I dare not say, but he heares ill abroad, and so doth your 
 election in him, when I enquire (as I doe oft) of travellers to 
 Oxford how it stands with my uncle's lecture, ye common 
 answare is : " Alas ! it is almost come to nothinge, for either 
 it is not performed at all or in much negligence and sometimes 
 with scandall too through ye Lecturers deboishtnes." He trusts 
 that the object of their next choice may be every way 
 sufficient. [See Troupe, p. 44.] 
 
 In Act Book, VIII, /. 1736, March 21, 1646, whereas Mr. 
 Mr. William Fuller, clerk, about two yeres since was elected* 
 to preach the lecture heretofore founded by Doctor Bodlie, 
 who hath nowe lefte this Cittie, it is this day agreede by 
 13 afirmative voices that the Grante made to him shall ceasse, 
 which is intimated by Sir John Berkley, our Governor, to be 
 the desire of the said Mr. William ffuller. Alsoe this dayf 
 Mr. Thomas ffuller, Bachelour of Divinitie, is by full consent 
 elected to perform the said lecture according to the direction 
 of the said Doctor Bodley, to have and exercise the same at 
 the will and pleasure of the Maior and Common Counsel! of 
 the Cittie and no longer. 
 
 In Act Boole, VIII, /. 178, June 17, 1646. This day 
 Mr. Thomas ffuller is dismissed from further performance 
 of the lecture founded by Doctor Bodley. [See Oliver, Hist., 
 p. 118.] 
 
 In L. 427, Aug. 8, 1662, Sir William Courtenay, Sir Robert 
 Gary and 16 other gentlemen of Devon (all of whose signatures 
 are appended) write to the Mayor and his Brethren recom- 
 mending Francis Moore, clerk and preacher in your Citty, 
 for Dr. Bodley's Lectureship, "having a greate opinion 
 of your forwardnes to advance the gospell of Christ by 
 orthodoxall and conforming ministers of the Church of 
 England." 
 
 In Act Book, X, /. 1666 (Aug. 19, 1662). This day Francis 
 Moore is elected to supplie the lecture heretofore founded by 
 
 * i.e. on Nov. 19, 1643. Oliver, 118. 
 
 f Galled just 10 days before the city surrendered to Fairfax on April 13, 
 1646. Cotton, Gleanings, p. 108.
 
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 Doctor Bodlye and others in the place of Mr. fferdinando 
 Nicholles,* who hath of late deserted the further performance 
 of the same. 
 
 In Act Book, XI, /. 626, June 13, 1667, it is this day ordered 
 that Mr. Moore doe preach Doctor Bodleye's lecture in 
 St. Laurence Church once every Lord's day for one moneth nowe 
 next ensuing. 
 
 For further documents referring to the same subject, see 
 D. 460, &c., s.v. The Rectory of Hennock, p. 275. 
 
 The Virginia Company. 
 
 L. 167. July 15, 1615. Richard Martynf writes to the 
 Mayor, stating that he has presented the Patent of High 
 Steward of Exeter to the Earl of Suffolk (see page 76), adding : 
 " I may not forgett to returne unto you the humble thancks 
 of our poore Councell and Company of Verginia for your 
 bouutifull returne of ther lottery booke,J which as it shewes 
 your charity and love to honourable and relligious actions, 
 so hath it done good in example and advantaged our purpose 
 in procuring more adventures. The coldness and back- 
 wardness of other places and persons in returning ther books 
 hath made us once more to deferr the drawing out till 
 November peremptorily by God's leave. Meanetime I reserve 
 your adventures amounting to 97Z. in my hands because 
 by a bill under my hand I have given to my brother assurance 
 to redeliver the money if by any unknowne (or unfeard) 
 mischance ye lottery should not be drawen, which I make 
 no doubt at ye time appointed shalbe done with right and 
 order to every one's satisfaction and to ye benefitt of your 
 adventurers, who best deserve the best prizes." 
 
 Exeter College, Oxford. 
 
 L. 172. Exeter College, Jan. 15, s.a. [but should be 1619, 
 as Mr. Martin is Mayor]. John Prideaux, Rector of Exeter 
 College, writes to the Mayor : " Wee understand by 
 Mr. Farington of your exceeding forwardnesse to your citizens 
 in the behalf of our colledge, for which howsoever it speed 
 wee must ever acknowledge ourselves bound unto you. Two 
 thynges wee heare are objected as hinderances our unwilling- 
 nesse to preferre any of your citty in our house and corruption 
 
 * He was elected in March, 1654 (Cotton, Gleanings, p. 164), and died 
 April 13, 1663. Oliver, p. 159. 
 
 f He was appointed Recorder of London Oct. 1, 1618, and died at the 
 end of the same month. Cal. Dom., 1611-1618, p. 589. 
 
 J lor order of Council, Feb. 16, 1615, to send letters to cities to join in 
 a lottery to assist in the plantation of Virginia, see Acts of Privy Council 
 (Colonial), i, 8. For such a letter sent to Canterbury, Feb. 22, 1615, see 
 Cal. (Colonial), 1574-1660, p. 17. For the 1st charter, April 10, 1606, 
 see Gardiner ii, 51 ; 2nd charter, May 28, 1609: O.P.C. Colonial, p. 515. 
 
 i.e. since April 4, 1612. He became Bishop of Worcester on Dec. 19, 
 1641.
 
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 in the admitting.* But we request those that urge the first 
 to take notice that Dr. BaskerviU.f Dr. Hakewell,J Dr. 
 Vilvayne and some others of good note were Exceter 
 men. If Exceter men succeeded them not it is not the averse- 
 nesse of our societye but the backwardnesse and negligence 
 of such as come short of their parts, or will not use the meanes. 
 Noe Exceter man (I am sure) hath just cause to complayne in 
 this kind, nor I trust ever shall." He denies the charge of 
 corruption, and will leave his place if it is proved. He hints 
 that the city might do something for the College, as 
 Mr. Peryam || and Sir John Aclande (see L. 100) have shewed 
 you the 
 
 L. 187 [undated, probably 1618]. John Prideaux, the Rector, 
 and other members of Exeter College, write to the Mayor, the 
 Aldermen and the Four and Twenty of the City of Exeter : 
 
 " Right Worthy, It may seeme strange unto you that 
 Exceter Colledge should now after 300 years sithens it was 
 built become a sutor to the City of Exceter to be at length 
 finished. Wee confesse this might have been thought of 
 sooner, but (as wee are persuaded) there was never heretofore 
 the like opportunity and assurance of speeding. Wee neede 
 not use as motives our Founders the Bishops of that Sea, our 
 Colledge bearing the name of your Citye, the multitude of 
 worthy men it hath bred received from you and returned 
 furnished to doe service in Church and Country. These 
 things (we are sure) you account and esteeme as somwhat. 
 But if it please you further to take notice that Exceter Colledge 
 besides the revenues it possesseth (meaner in regard of the 
 company then any other Colledge) is also the most unseemely 
 for buildings and scanted for lodgings, wee cannot thinke 
 but that out of your worthy and religious disposition you 
 would doe somewhat to bringe it to an uniformity which never 
 before this tyme could be hoped for, and now by your good 
 meanes may conveniently be accomplished. One vacant 
 place is already of late supplyed by the religious liberality 
 of our worthy Benefactor Mr. John Periam to the glory of 
 of God, the grace of our Colledge and . . . further is now 
 undertaken by another of our countrymen, whose work will 
 make him shortly knowne to be never here after forgotten. 
 A third space is (as it were) by divine providence left for 
 
 * For a letter written by him to Bishop Laud on the same subject on 
 Feb. 14, 1631, see Col. Dow., 1629-1631, p. 508. 
 
 t See L. 181, page 87. 
 
 j See L. 266, page 97. He became Archdeacon of Surrey Feb. 7, 1617 ; 
 was chaplain to Prince Charles (afterwards Charles I) on July 28, 1621. 
 Gal. Dom., 1619-1623, p. 279 ; and rector of Exeter College in 1642. Boase, 
 Reg., 87. 
 
 See Commissions <kc., XCVIII, page 12: Lloyd Parry, Exeter School, 64. 
 For his benefactions to Exeter College, see Freeman, p. 177. For John Vilvayn 
 of Exeter, Hellirre (i.e. Helier), see L. 79, Nov. 2, 1576. 
 
 || i.e. John Peryam, see D. 623, page 277. Oliver, 219. 
 
 f For their benefactions to Exeter College, see Boase, Reg., pp. cviii, 20, 
 269, 317, 318,
 
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 you, which if God so move your harts to continue to the rest 
 of the buildings we shall at length see Exceter Colledge in a 
 square as other colledges are, and pray for the Honoured 
 Corporation of the City of Exeter amongst the rest of our 
 worthy Benefactors, which we much desire. If God shall 
 put in your hearts that this earnest suite of ours find 
 acceptance amongst you, Mr. Isaiah Farrington,* a learned, 
 sincere and truly religious man, once a worthy member of 
 our Colledge, will be at hand to informe for the best effecting 
 of it. Ourselves upon any notice of your good inclinations 
 will bee ready to satisfie all doubts and give aU further content. 
 The thinge that wee desire cannot be more for us then for you and 
 your children, to whom it will be a comfort and creditt in future 
 ages that they lodge in those buildings which their Auncestors 
 have founded. Our successours will recount with thank- 
 fullness what the City of Exceter hath done for Exceter Colledge. 
 The portion so allotted will be a blessinge to the rest of your 
 store, it will come home againe into your bosoms when you 
 little thinke of it. The Lord that hath made us thus confident 
 and given so good occasions through other men's liberality to 
 sollicite you in this businesse will (wee trust) direct your 
 respects to such a publique good rather then to private excuses 
 and prosper that worthy Corporation for which we shall never 
 cease to pray. Your very lovinge ffreindes, 
 
 John Prideaux, Rector. 
 
 Richard Amye, Sub-rector. 
 
 and 12 others, including Laurence Bodley and John Vivian, 
 all of whose signatures are appended. 
 
 [The letter which bears the seal of the College is undated, 
 but endorsed 1618 by Isacke.] 
 
 In L. 184, Lympstone, Oct. 27, 1618, Isaiah Farrington 
 writes thanking the Mayor [Thomas Marten] for his " kinde 
 affection towards Exeter Collidge," and encloses a letter 
 (L. 185) to be delivered to the Chamber. 
 
 In L. 185, Lympstone, Oct. 27, 1618, Isaiah Farrington 
 asks the Chamber for assistance to increase the buildings of 
 Exeter College, " urging the meanness of their maintenance, 
 the want of Form of their buildings, their want of room, &c." 
 " It cannot be denied but that God hath blessed many of you 
 with a great increase of worldly estate. All is not yours (for 
 you are made but Stewards of it)." "All the good that we 
 can hope for from our earthly Treasures doth consist in the 
 good use of them ; and what better use can you respect 
 than the good of learning, the good of religion, the good of 
 the Church, the good of the common welth, yea, the good of 
 yourselfs also, some of whose posterity may, as it is not 
 
 * Isaiah Farrington, who matriculated at Exeter College Oct. 11, 1583, 
 appointed Rector of Lympstone May 21, 1613 ; d. 1630. Boase, Reg., 83.
 
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 improbable, repe the benefit of this." " Labored I have to 
 stirre you up unto this worke who ame by birth a citizen, by 
 affection a citizen, in hart a citizen, and doe desire the greatest 
 honor of your citie that yourself s can desire. With me in 
 this petition doe joyne Learning, Religion, the sound profession 
 of the gospel, which papists slander. The Church, the 
 Commonwealth, the angell protector of your citie, the publicke 
 good all these doe intreat you that in the performance of this 
 worke you would honour God, your countrie, your citie, your 
 posteritie, all which will be honored by it." 
 
 In L. 186 (undated), is a speech made by the Mayor to the 
 Chamber on the occasion of reading the foregoing letter 
 (L. 185), in which he refers to the letter of Dr. Prideaux, 
 the Rector of the College (L. 187), cites the examples of 
 Mr. Peryam and Sir John Acland, who had become liberal 
 benefactors of the College, and exhorts the citizens to give 
 to such a pious work some part of the wealth which God 
 has given them. " Yf we prove unfaithful yt is to be 
 doubted that the judgment of the unjust steward will light 
 on us, from which God shilde us." 
 
 In L. 497, Exeter College, May 13, 1734, the Rector, Joseph 
 Atwell,* the Sub-Rector and the Dean of Exeter College, 
 certify that Mr. John Warren was elected Hebrew Reader 
 in Exeter College for one year from Michaelmas, 1732,f with 
 an order from the said John Warren to Mr. Thomas Heath, J 
 Treasurer of St. John's Hospital, to pay the 121. due to him 
 to Mr. Laurence Homer. 
 
 Chamberlains. 
 
 L. 173. Feb. 3rd, 1615-16. John Martin [Chamberlain] 
 notifies William Martin [Recorder, page 55], " concerning 
 our busynes agaynst Mrs. Tyckell." || 
 
 " All this is delyvered to Mr. Rich. Martyn, who wold 
 have moved herein on tuseday yf my L. Chauncelor [Lord 
 Ellesmere] had bene well as he is not, for he hath kept his 
 Chamber synce ffryday the 26 of January." 
 
 " I have used my best meanes to Mr. Underwood, who is next 
 to my Lord Cheefe Baron [Laurence Tanfield], who willeth me 
 to brynge Mr. Ducke with me to his Lordship on Monday, and 
 in the meane tyme he will move his Lordship for our cause. 
 Our assyses at Exeter begyns on thursday the 7 of Marche, and 
 
 * Appointed Rector Feb. 23, 1733. 
 
 t i.e. Maynard Reader. Boase, Beg., 131 ; Notes and Gleanings, iii, 56. 
 
 j In L. 496, July 27, 1732, he writes to the Chamber desiring to be dis- 
 missed from the office of one of the twenty-four. 
 
 Who is called Tonsor of Exeter College, 1708-1710. In 1721 he gave 
 45J. to decorate the chapel. Boase, Reg., 270, 273. 
 
 || i.e. Martin v. Tickell re custody of orphans, see Law Papers, 1617. 
 William Tickell was Chamberlain from Sept. 15, 1601-June 1613, and as 
 such was the guardian of orphans. Freeman, 175.
 
 103 
 
 Mr. Underwood wylled to wryte to Mr. Mayor that the judges 
 will dyne with hym that daye, and bad me depend on yt 
 upon his word," and " by the next conveyent (sic) messenger 
 I will enforme you more at large." 
 
 In L. 197, Exeter, April 18, 1621, John Martin writes about 
 an order concerning Mrs. Tyckell. 
 
 L. 190, 1619, endorsed : " Mrs. Prouz, widow, her demands 
 from the Chamber for Chamberleyn Prouz, his office, 1619 [or 
 1629?]."* being a note of money due to him drawn up by his 
 nephew Richard Prouz [see L. 389], in which he says inter 
 alia : 
 
 " My ante desires your worship to geve her allowance of 
 the fees (162. 85. Od.) belonging to her husband's office for the 
 time he exersised the place which was a yeare and a halfe 
 unpayd to the time of his death." She claims also repayment 
 of disbursements made by him on the city's behalf : 
 
 I. s. d. 
 
 (a) In sutts of Lawe about ye citty business . . 20 
 (6) For reparations of Crooked bridgh, the 
 gutter at Westgate, ye pauiour there and 
 headghing at derioud [i.e. Duryurd] .. 15 ^5 6 
 
 (c) In a sutt with ye deane and Chaptre about 
 
 the poor of St. Sidwells . . . . about 300 
 
 (d) For ye fewel taken from him which was 
 
 inioyed by his predissessors at large . . 10 
 
 (e) That she may ether have the fees out of the 
 portions of the Orphants which fell in her 
 husband's time or some recompence for it 
 
 for which he tooke paynes . . . . . . 10 
 
 In L. 280 (undated but circ. 1624) is a presentment of the 
 names of the sureties for William Prowz, who desires to be 
 elected Chamberlain. The sureties (nine in number) offer to be 
 bound in various amounts, the total being 900?. in addition 
 " my particuler bond eyther in 500 or 1,OOOZ. at the 
 Chamber's pleasure." 
 
 In L. 389, Tower Hill, London, July 26, 1641, his son William 
 Prouze writes to the Mayor desiring the return of the bonds 
 given by his uncle Mr. John Prouze and his (John's) son 
 Richard [see L. 190], when William Prouze (the father) became 
 Chamberlain of Exeter, " which place he did not longe enioy," 
 adding: "My father hath bine dead some thirteene yeares 
 (I take it)," and " I would not have any blurr to lie upon my 
 father and upon his whose Ancestors have undergone aU offices 
 in your Ancient Corporation and have done good service in 
 your Citie and for the Contrie." 
 
 * William Prous, Chamberlain from June 26, 1624, to April, 1629 
 Oliver, 242.
 
 104 
 
 In L. 280 (undated) are the names of six sureties for Richard 
 Tickell [who was Chamberlain from April 21, 1629, till April, 
 1636]. " Too of those sixe to bee bounde in 250Z. a pece and 
 myselffe to be bounde in 1,500K. Richard Tickell." 
 
 In D. 1754, April 14, 1636, are Articles of Agreement 
 between the Chamber and John Crewkerne* concerning the 
 execution of the office of Chamberlain by the said John, with 
 his signature " John Crewkerne." 
 
 In D. 1788, Nov. 3, 1691, is a discharge from the Chamber 
 to Edward Mallett from the office of Chamberlain. f 
 
 In D. 1791, March 20, 1693, are Articles of Agreement 
 between the Chamber and Samuel Izacke [son of the historian 
 Richard] on his appointment to the Chamberlainship,J and 
 in D. 1792, D. 1793 (March 20, 1693) Richard and Samuel 
 Izacke each give a bond in 200Z. to the Chamber for the per- 
 formance of covenants of certain indentures of the same 
 date. 
 
 In L. 483, Oct. 18, 1724, Samuel Izacke, the Chamberlain, 
 writes to the Mayor respecting the payment of his salary 
 of Wl 
 
 In L. 526, 1752, are directions to Mr. Chamberlain [i.e. 
 Humphrey Leigh, L. 513] as Solicitor to the Chamber. 
 
 Maps and Plots. 
 
 L. 182 (undated, ? circ. 1630). Robert Sherwode writes to 
 the Chamber concerning maps and platts made by him " for 
 the better preservation of your Lande dyverslie and have 
 delyvered for your use to this worshippfull Place Againste 
 Rycharde Ewyas Brewer (2), Richard Payne Brewer in 
 Exilond, (1) the land of Copleston of Instowe and the Mylles 
 Leate of Newe Mylles, against John Levermore (2) hi defence 
 of his followed." 
 
 In L. 618, 619, 620 are 3 coloured maps of the City of Exeter 
 and the suburbs, one of them dated 1633 and the others 
 apparently of about the same date. [See Cotton Guild, p. ix. 
 For map (1587) see Ibid, at end.] 
 
 Book 58 is a volume of maps of the property of the 
 Chamber compiled in 1759 with index and notes down to 1820 
 in Book 59. 
 
 In L. 617 (undated) is a plan of a breakfast table set with 
 Green and Bohea tea equipages at either end, bunns in silver 
 
 * He was Chamberlain from April 14, 1636, to Dec. 1, 1646. 
 t He was appointed on April 3, 1683. Oliver, 242. 
 j i.e. on Feb. 26, 1693.
 
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 in the centre, coffee, chocolate and toast (silver), hot buttered 
 rolls, butter pattes, and bread and butter with China plates, 
 knives and knapkings at the side. 
 
 L. 618 (endorsed " A Mapp of ye Cittie ") roughly coloured 
 corresponds in extent with the map in Freeman Frontispiece 
 (i.e. circ. 1570, Bousfield hi Trans. Devon. Association, XXV 
 (1893), p. 11), which was engraved by Remigius Hogenberg 
 in 1587 See Lysons, vi, 178 ; H. E. Reynolds, p. 1. It differs 
 considerably from the map (circ. 1757) hi Izacke, frontispiece ; 
 Freeman, p. 97. 
 
 L. 619. A coloured map of the South Eastern section of the 
 City corresponding with Hooker's map of the Cathedral precincts 
 in Book 52, i.e. Hooker's Exeter, p. 61, with a note : "That the 
 Southeaste parte of the Cittyes walkes are defended with 4 
 Towres, because that part is weakest (and also, it is towards 
 the See port), which is but 3 myles distante one of the cheafest 
 of which Towers being next to the South gate hath Broken 
 yn." 
 
 L. 620. An unfinished map of the city showing the walls 
 and towers, endorsed : Apnll 29, 1633 : This Mappe was 
 shewed unto Robert Sherwoode, Marchant, at the time of his 
 Examinacion at the Execution of a Commission at the Cittie of 
 Exeter between the King's Majestie's Attorney Generall, 
 Complainant, and the Mayor, Bayliffes and Commonaltie of the 
 Cittie of Exeter, Defendants, before us, Rober (sic) 
 
 Northl ." 
 
 Alehouses. 
 
 L. 195, July 5, 1620. Robert Maxwell and other grantees 
 of forfeited recognizances of Alehouse keepers* write to the 
 Chamber and Mr. Henry Crewkerne concerning forfeited 
 recognizances, appointing four, three or two of the Chamber 
 and the said Mr. Crewkerne to be a committee to examine 
 alehouse keepers and to deal with them for the forfeitures 
 due on their recognizances. 
 
 In L. 333, Whitehall, June 13, 1630, the Lords of the Council 
 write to the Mayor &c., commanding them inter alia to sup- 
 press unnecessary alehouses. [See page 75.] 
 
 Loan for the King of Bohemia. 
 
 L. 196. March 13, 1621. Achatius Dohnef to the Mayor 
 &c. : " My very worthie freindes, I have receaved from you 
 by the handes of Mr. John Rouse J (sic), one of the Aldermen of 
 
 * For patent for Inns and Alehouses, 1618, see Archceologia, XLI, 
 pp. 227-237 ; Gardiner, iv, 442. For proclamation to seize forfeited recog- 
 nizances, Jan. 19, 1629, see Cal. Dom., 1619-1623, p. 6. For protests against 
 granting them away May 9, June 3, 1619, ibid., pp. 44, 50. 
 
 t See Cal. Dom., 1619-1623, p. 41. For his application to the Cinque Ports 
 Ac., Sept. 14 and Dec., 1620, see ibid., 177, 203. 
 
 J But " Prouse " in the acquittance.
 
 106 
 
 your Cittie that proportion which you have been pleased 
 to contribute to the affaires of the King and Queen of Bohemia, 
 wherein you have so farre shewed your affections for the 
 of your Soveraignes royall issue and the furtherance 
 of their iust occasions as all Religious and honest men will 
 approve and applaude yow for it, and I can assure yow of 
 their Majesties gratious and thankfull acceptance thereof 
 when by my letters I shall acquaint them with it. In the 
 meane time I pray yow receave in good part this my acknow- 
 ledgment and thankes for your favours and for your further 
 satisfaccion I have sent you an acquittance in the usuall 
 forme for the somme of three hundreth sixcty-seven poundes. 
 And so I committ yow to the protection of the Almightie and 
 rest, 
 
 Your very assured freind, 
 
 Achatius Burgrave et Baron de Dona. 
 
 [The document bears the seal of Dohne and is endorsed by 
 Izacke as May 13, 1621.] 
 
 The acquittance, which is dated March 12, 1620, is signed 
 by Achatius Dona as Ambassador Extraordinary, and Abraham 
 Williams as Agent for the King of Bohemia, acknowledges 
 the receipt of 367Z. " being mony contributed by way of loan 
 from the Citty of Exeter for the service of the King and Queen 
 of Bohemia [i.e. Princess Elizabeth, L. 161, page 90] in defence 
 of the Palatinat." 
 
 L. 213. Whitehall, March 31, 1622. The Lords of the 
 Council write the Mayor &c. : " After our verie heartie 
 commendations. What indeavors his Majestic hath used 
 by Treatie and by all faire and amicable waies to recover 
 the Patrimonie of his Children in Germanic now for the 
 most part withholden from them by force is not unknowne 
 to all his Loving subiects, since his Majestic was pleased 
 to communicate unto them in Parliament his whole pro- 
 ceeding in that business. Of which Treatie his hopes being 
 att Last frustrate he was inforced to take other resolucions 
 mainely to recover that by the sword which by other meanes 
 he saw noe Likelihood to compasse. And his Majestic was 
 confident that in a cause soe neerely concerning him and his 
 children's interest his people in Parliament would have yeeled 
 him a Liberall and speedie supplie. But the same unexpectedly 
 not succeeding his Majestic is constrained in a case of soe great 
 necessity to trie the dutifull and forward affections of his 
 Loving subiects in another waie as his Predecessors upon Like 
 occasions have done in former times by propounding a volun- 
 tarie contribution. And therefore as wee doubt not but 
 yourselves will herein readily follow the good liberall example 
 of such as have beene before us which wee assure you his 
 Majestic will take in verie gracious part, soe his pleasure 
 is and wee doe hereby authorise and require you to call before 
 you all the knights, gentlemen, subsidymen and all others
 
 107 
 
 of known ability in the City and move them to join cheerfully 
 in this contribution, ffor the better advancement of which 
 service you are not to call too many att one time, but to take 
 the answers and offers severally, calling in the persons unto 
 you one by one ; ffor the Collectors wee doubt not but yow 
 will conceive how requisite it wilbe to make choice of meete 
 and sufficient persons who are to call for the monies that 
 shalbe given, soe as the same may be all paid in by the 30th of 
 June next, praying you to returne unto us by the 10th of June 
 next a Schedule of the names of such as shall contribute 
 and the summes offered by them, that his Majestie may take 
 notice of the good inclination of his subiects to a cause of such 
 importance as likewise of such others (if anie bee) that out 
 of obstinacie or disaffection shall refuse to contribute herein, 
 wee bid you verie hartely farewell. Your verie loving friends. 
 (Here follow 15 original signatures.) 
 
 L. 214 is a copy of L. 213, with the signatures copied and 
 made more legible. 
 
 L. 228, 1622. The Chamber write to the Lords of the Coun- 
 cil : " Right honourable and our very good Lords : Our dutyes 
 humbly Remembered, we receyved your Lordshipps' Letters of 
 the last of March [L. 213, 214]. In performance of which 
 our dutye to his Majestie and your Lordshipps' comand we 
 have (with as much speed as wee might) called before us the 
 Subsidie men and other such Inhabitants of this City and 
 County and have done our best endeavors in movinge and 
 perswadinge them to to this contrybucion, and have by this 
 bearer, Mr. William Prouz (sic) sent unto your Lordshipps the 
 names of such as have cherefully joyned with us herein, 
 together with the particular sumes by them and our selves 
 given, amountynge to the some of ccxxviijZ. xvijs. iiijc?., which 
 money we have ordered the said Mr. Prouz presently to paye 
 where your Lordshipps shalbe pleased to assigne him. Our 
 harty desire was to have advanced this some hygher for his 
 Majestie, but wee could not, by reason of great losses which 
 our marchants have receaved by the Turkes, ffrench and 
 others at sea, by bankrupts, decaye of clothinge and declyna- 
 tion of trade [L. 199, p. 108], by meanes whereof there are fallen 
 upon us whole familyes which wee are enforced to releeve, which 
 just Reasons wee humbly desire your Lordshipps to take into 
 your honorable considerations." 
 
 " Also accordinge to your Lordshipps' comand wee have sent 
 your Lordshipps the names of such Subsidye men as have not 
 joyned with us in this contrybucion, and thus pray wee your 
 Lordshipps ffavorably to accept of theis our dewty full endevurs. 
 Wee doe with all humblenes leave your Lordshipps to the 
 happye proteccon of the Almighty." 
 
 [The letter is unsigned and undated, but endorsed 1622 
 The nearest date being June 22, 1622. See Cat. Dom. 1619- 
 1623, p. 411.]
 
 108 
 
 In L. 229, July 2, 1622, Wm. Prouz writes to the Mayor, 
 &c.: " I am ordered to-morrow to present your letters to the 
 Lords, with the Schedules of names, from whom I shall receive 
 order where to paie the same, which wilbe to Sir Robte. Pye, 
 which when I have received and paid, shall occasion me to 
 require talie. I will also deliver your letter to the Lord 
 President and attend his farder directions to the partes 
 thereof." 
 
 In L. 231, July 6, 1622, William Prouz reports to the Mayor : 
 " I delivered your letter and Schedule to the Lords upon 
 Wednesdaie, as theie began to sitt in Councell, who referred 
 me to paie the money to Sir Ro. Pye,* which accordingelie 
 yesterdaie I did, and have the tailie for the whole some, 
 viz., 228Z. 175. 4d." 
 
 Decay of Trade. 
 
 L. 199. London, Oct. 13, 1621. John Levermore [see page 
 104] writes to the Mayor, Walter Burroughf that " yesterday wee 
 had order from the Clerk of the Counsell to geve in (in wrytinge) 
 our reasons for decay of trade and want of money, which 
 wee have donne this daye, being commanded to attend the 
 Lords at there next sitting, J at what tyme wee shall know 
 their further pleasure." 
 
 In L. 200, Exon (sic), Oct. 27, 1621, John Levermore writes 
 to the Mayor : " On Thursday last wee had a full debatinge 
 of the matter for the decay of trade and want of money at the 
 Counsell Chamber at Whithall before my Lords the Lord 
 President, my Lord Carye, Sir Thomas Edmunds and Sir Ric. 
 Weston (beinge apoynted corny ttees || for this Bussines) and 
 after they had (particularly) conferred with us touchinge the 
 Reasons which wee had proponded, they commanded us to 
 joyne ourselves altogether and to consult of some remedyes, 
 and to bringe them the wrytinge against Wensday next under 
 our hande. The lords rednes and facylity to hire us doth 
 geve us great hope that this Bussines will produce much good 
 to the Commonwelth, which pray God grant one of them 
 the west parts did export great quantyties of money into 
 Bretteyne (as they arre informed), and I could wish our 
 merchants to take care how they trust some Londoners to 
 much about ther bussines in that kinde, for I suppose they are 
 complained of." 
 
 L. 201. (Endorsed Nov. 9, 1621.) John Levermore writes 
 to the Mayor: "The last week I certified you that one (sic) 
 
 * Auditor of the Exchequer, Gal. Dom., 1619-1623, p. 115. 
 
 t For his charity, see D. 326. 
 
 j For Order in Council, Sept. 11, 1621, to the principal ports to send 
 representatives to discuss reasons for decay of trade <fec., see Cal. Dom., 
 1619-1623, p. 288. 
 
 i.e. George Baron Carew. 
 
 || For Committee appointed Oct. 24, 1621, to consider these reports, 
 see Cal. Dom., 1619-1623, p. 301.
 
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 Wendesdaye wee were to bringe in our oppynyons (to the Concell 
 Borde) touchinge Remedyes for the decay of trade and want of 
 money : which wee dyd. And yet wee are demanded to attend 
 the Comytteys which are now busyed about other Busines. The 
 Kinge beinge at Whithall, last nyght sate in Consell with 
 the Lords, where my Lord Dygby* was also, and this morninge 
 wee had newes that the parliament wilbe the xxth of this 
 November."! 
 
 In L. 351 (undated) is a reference to " the dednes of trade 
 these thre last yeares, more espetially in the yeare of God's 
 visitation,| wherein was almost no trading." 
 
 Jesuits. 
 
 L. 202. Nov. 14, 1621. A note of such thinges as were 
 found in the pockett of John Dowes [or Douse, i.e. John 
 Sweet,|| "a Jesuit of eminence." Gal Dom. 1619-1623, 
 pp. 311, 320, Nov. 19, Dec. 11, 1621] the "xiiij. daye of 
 November, 1621," and also of things found in his chamber 
 in Alexander Snelgrove's house ; i.e. a missal, a red box with 
 wafer cakes, a MS. of questions and answers concerning the 
 Protestant religion, a chalice, 3 little boxes of oil, and some 
 bowk and pictures, one of them with a black forrel. [Printed 
 in H. Foley iv, 648.] 
 
 In L. 205, Nov. 24, 1621, John Prouse writes to the Mayor : 
 I did no sooner receyve your letters by Mr. Recorder's man 
 but I presently delyvered that which you sent to the Lords 
 of the Counsell to Mr. Secretary [i.e. Sir George Calvert], 
 understanding before by Sir Clement Edmonds that the Lordes 
 would not sitt tomorowe. His honor promised me to make 
 the Lords acquainted therewith, and I will attend hym for 
 their Resolution. Wishing that you had not omitted in 
 that letter the speeche of Risdon^j reported by his boye,** 
 which would have bene wondrous materiall, but as I shall 
 find oportunitie I will urge the same, and so will acquaint 
 you what successe your goode service shall receyve. [Printed 
 in Oliver, Coll. Hist., p. 6 ; Foley, iv, 650.] 
 
 * i.e. Robert Lord Digby of Glashill. 
 
 t i.e. James I's third Parliament, which met Jan. 30, 1620. For 
 proclamation, Nov. 3, 1621, calling this adjourned Parliament to meet 
 on Nov. 20, 1621, see Rymer vii, iii, 214 ; Gal. Dom., 1619-1623, Nov. 24, 1621. 
 
 J i.e. 1624, Isacke, 150. 
 
 See Commissions, LXXIX, p. 10. This note was forwarded to the Recorder 
 in London by the Mayor in a letter dated Exeter, Nov. 19, 1621, which is pre- 
 served in the P.R.O., Col. Dom., 1619-1623, p. 311. Printed in Oliver, 
 Collections towards Biography, p. 201 ; also in Oliver, Collections illustrating 
 History, p. 6. ; H. Foley, Records of the English Province of the Society of 
 Jesus, iv, 649. 
 
 || In 1622 he joined Father John Fisher (i.e. Percy) in the Controversy 
 with Laud at which James I was present. Gardiner, iv, 281. 
 
 ^[ He was " a taylor dwelling in one of Sir Amos Bampfeild's new houses." 
 H. Foley, iv, 649. 
 
 ** The boy reported " that hee hearde his Master saie (that he did wish or 
 hope) there should be a new Kinge and he should be a Catholicke and that 
 all the Catholickes in London sholde be delivered out of prison and that 
 the Puritans should seeke their rest ere it were longe." Ibid.
 
 110 
 
 In L. 206, dated " this last daie of the Terme," endorsed 
 " 1621," John Prouse writes to the Mayor : " I was this evening 
 with Mr. Secretary for aunsweare of your letter touching 
 Sweete, who told me that the lords did not sitt since I 
 delyvered the same, but to-morrow is their sitting appoynted, 
 after which he promisethe to make me partake of their 
 Resolution, with which I will spedely acquaint you." 
 
 In L. 207, Whitehall, Nov. 29, 1621, the Lords of the Council 
 issue a warrant to John Poulter and Leonard Joyner,* two 
 of the messengers of His Majesties Chamber to receive from 
 the Mayor of Exeter the person of John Sweete. [Printed in 
 Oliver, Coll. Biogr., 201 ; also Oliver, Coll. Hist., p. 1 ; 
 Foley iv, 650.] 
 
 In L. 208, Whitehall, Nov. 29, 1621, the Lords of the Council 
 inform the Chamber that they have received their letter of 
 the 19th and desire them to deliver up John Sweete, " sup- 
 posed to be a Jesuit," apprehended by them, as well as the 
 Examinations taken by them concerning him, and " the 
 many superstitious things found about him " (see L. 202). 
 [Printed in Oliver Coll Hist., p. 7 ; Foley iv, 651.] 
 
 In L. 209, Nov. 30, 1621, John Prouse informs the Mayor 
 that the Lords have sent pursuivants (see L. 207) for Sweete. 
 [Printed in Oliver Coll. Hist., p. 7 ; Foley iv, 650.] 
 
 In L. 210, London, Nov. 30, 1621, Ignatius Jurdain writes 
 to the Mayor : " After my hartie comendations &c., It may 
 please you to be advertised that Mr. Prowse showed me of 
 late a letter which he receaved from you touching a Jesuite 
 and certain papists who were taken at Exeter, as also he said 
 he had receaved a letter thearin directed to the Lords of 
 the Counsaile, which he told me he had delivered unto 
 Mr. Secretary Calvert. So that I doubt not but he will writ 
 you their answer." 
 
 In L. 211 (endorsed "1621 "), Richard Reynellf writes to 
 the Mayor and Justices of Exeter that he has received their 
 letter and thereby perceives the great care they have of the 
 safety of the State and of the city." He will do his best to 
 help them. " Whereupon you shall have speedy advertise- 
 ment thereof. I returne you young Baggot's letter agayn 
 as not fitt to be delivered by my servant." He adds as a 
 postscript : " There is one Peter Comins in Morchard Bishop, 
 a very rich man, whose sonne is one of the constables there, 
 and some others of that name, and your letter mencioneth 
 only Comins." [Partly printed in Oliver, Coll. Hist., p. 8 ; 
 Foley iv, 653.] 
 
 * For their receipt of this warrant, Dec. 11, 1621, see Oliver, Coll. Biogr. 
 p. 291 ; also Oliver, Coll. Hist., p. 8 ; Foley, iv, 651. 
 
 f Of Greedy Wiger, near Crediton, a J.P. for Devon and a member of 
 the Chamber since Sept. 16, 1617 ; Oliver, Coll. Hist., p. 8 ; Foley, iv, 652.
 
 Ill 
 
 In L. 212 (endorsed "about 1621 "), Richard Reynell writes 
 to the Mayor and Justices of Exeter that he has received 
 their second letter " of the 19th of this instant November," 
 and perceives that they have written to the Lords and that 
 they have examined another of Baggot's sons, adding : "I 
 wish I had sooner known which Comyns it had ben for that 
 I think the Constable had been at P. Comins house among 
 the rest. Dowes is there descrybed by a gould hat band 
 which as I remember he wearith." He has sent for old Baggot, 
 who has been seen riding to and fro from popish houses. 
 [Partly printed in Oliver, Coll. Hist., p. 8 ; Foley iv, 653.] 
 
 John Prouse's Letters. 
 
 In L. 205, Nov. 24, 1621, John Prouse* writes to the 
 Mayor : 
 
 " Lett me nowe tell you that before I came up the Lords 
 had ordered our Citizens having lyvinges in the Countrye to 
 contribute as the Lievetenants of Devonshire did desire, 
 drawing a president (sic) from the Citizens of London, who 
 do the lyke. This I am told for a truthe and ho we to stopp 
 I knowe not, but I wishe that my counsell had been followed 
 in wryting to the Counsell long since, which peradventure 
 would have staled their hands untill I had come up ; how- 
 soever I must suffer in this as others, and I find no hope to the 
 contrarie." Adding : "Of newes I shalbe able to wryte 
 more by the nexte. In the meane tyme I end and rest, 
 Your ever loving ffriend, 
 
 Jo. Prouse." 
 
 [For further extracts from this letter see p. 76.] 
 
 In L. 206 (" this last daie of the Terme," endorsed " 1621 "), 
 John Prouse writes to the Mayor : 
 
 " I cannot but remember my love unto you and withall 
 acquaint you what hathe passed the howse of Parliamente 
 this daie, when we sat untill 4 in the afternone, and at last 
 have gyven a whole subsidie to the King to be paid at thend 
 of Februarye next towards the recovering of the palatinate 
 out of the Jawesof the princelie palatine's invertirable enemye" 
 (see L. 196, page 105). 
 
 " What this gift will produce to the subjett from his Majestie 
 you shall know within a short tyme assone as myselfe if I 
 meete with a convenient messenger. 
 
 " There are aryved here some 3 of the Lowe Countrye 
 States with 5 others of whose propositions to the King I can 
 yet wryte nothing, for they came but yesterdaie, and the 
 King is 50 myles hence. 
 
 " Sir, It is very late and therefore I cannot enlarge my selfe 
 at this tyme. Only I remember my true love to you and my 
 
 * See L. 118, 120, 127, 134. He was M.P. for Exeter in 1614 and 1624. 
 There is no return of members for Exeter in the Parliament of 1621 in 
 fleturn of Members of Parliament, i, 451.
 
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 brethren, not forgetting Mrs. Mayris and Mr. Leache when 
 you see hym, and so do rest, your ever loving ffriend, 
 
 Jo. Prouse. 
 
 "I hope you will make Englishe of this unpointed letter 
 my eyes being almost closed up." 
 
 In L. 209, Nov. 30, 1621, he writes: "Of Parliamente 
 passinges I can wryte you nothingc but what I have alreadie 
 done, only wee labour heartilie to prepare our bills for the 
 King's royall assent, hoping that wee shall bring home some, 
 thogh not all such as wee desire, and so to make this a Session. 
 The King dothe yet contynue at New Markett,* and for ought 
 I heare wilnot be here untill Snt. Thomas' daie, which occa- 
 sionethe me to suspect that wee shalnot be at home at the 
 beginning of Christies. The next weke will produce more 
 certeintie. In the meane tyme I leave you to the protection 
 of the Almightie, and so do rest, 
 
 Your trulie affectionate ffriend, 
 
 Jo. Prouse." 
 
 In L. 210, London, Nov. 30, 1621, Ignatius Jurdainf writes 
 to the Mayor : " Our dissesse hear wilbe about 8 dayes before 
 Christies, as was delivered unto us from the King (who is 
 yet at New Market). The chefe cause of our meeting hear 
 now was for supply of the palatanat to keep that which 
 remayneth that the whole be not lost. So thear is on subsidy 
 given to be paid in February." It is now agreed by the 
 House to send a petition to the King that this may be mad 
 a Session (see L. 209) before we depart, that so these bills may 
 pas which are alredy engrosed and that such bills as ar not 
 engrosed that they may stand in being at our next meeting, 
 which said is to be the 8th February. Next that it would please 
 his Majestic to hav war with our comon enimy (who is said 
 to be the Spaniard), for that not only he hath 5 or 6 armyes 
 afoote about the palatinat, but also that his mony payeth 
 the soldiars that war against us thear and that thear armies 
 which ar thear doe but watch thear oportunities. And next 
 that our gracious prince may not be matched with any out 
 of our owne Religion. This is the summe and the maine pointes 
 of the peticion which is now agreed upon by the Committee 
 contayning an Introduction, a Narration and a Conclusion, 
 and withall Inserted the boldnes and great hopes which the 
 papists now have and pretend, which I hop will never com 
 to thear end. It is certainly advertised hear to the house 
 that in Cheshere divers wagons laden with munition have of 
 late ben brought into recusants' houses and thear words 
 
 * For James I at Newmarket on Nov. 17, Deo. 1, 1621, see Cal Dom., 
 1619-1623, pp. 310, 316. 
 
 f He is variously called Jurden, Jourden, Jourdain, Jordayne. Cal. Dom., 
 1628-29, p. 368. Not " Hurdans," as Foley, iv, 649. He was Mayor in 
 1617, and M.P. for Exeter in 1625, 1626, 1628. He was probably John 
 Pro use's colleague in this Parliament (1621).
 
 113 
 
 hav ben very high and daungerous* even against the King, 
 which I omitt to writ untill I se what the house will doe. 
 Hear cam newes very hot 3 dayes past that Sir Oratio Vear, 
 that worthy general, and Count Mansfild wear clene over- 
 throwne and thear armies, but thanks be to God the newes 
 is now reverted.f So not having at presente any other special 
 matter to enlarge doe take my leave and comend you to the 
 grace of God in Christ. 
 
 Your most loving frind, 
 
 Ignatius Jurdain. 
 
 In L. 203, Dec. 15, 1621, John Prouse writes to the Mayor : 
 
 It is my comfort that I understand our tyme of departing 
 hence to be no longer than this daie sennight, which wilbe 
 the Saterdaie before Christmas, and yet as the present 
 condicion is betwixt the Bang and the Lower howse I would 
 not willinglye goe hence but upon better termes then nowe 
 wee stand upon of eache side which difference I hope wilbe 
 fayrly Reconcild this next weke. Of all theise things I 
 shalbe able to enforme you at my Retorne (when God pleaseth) 
 more at Large. I was in hope to have kept my whole Christmas 
 at Exeter, but it wilnot be, yet I am not out of hope to begyn 
 my newe yeare with you there. 
 
 Sir, the weather is bitter cold and my Inke freesethe to fast 
 to contynewe a Long letter, therefore without anie further 
 Relation of newes I do with my best Love to your selfe, 
 Mrs. Mayris and your children, end and Rest, 
 Your ever loving nriend, 
 
 Jo. Prouse. 
 
 In L. 268, Westminster, April 24, 1624, John Prouse writes 
 to the Mayor; 
 
 " I have according to the Instructions sent up both for 
 the Cittie and Companie of Merchants (see page 41) employed 
 my best care to please you every waie and have possessed the 
 howse of parliament with suche things as do most touche 
 the Merchants in burthen of their trade, J as they have advised. 
 So as from the lower house the higher is made acquainted 
 therewith, and I hope ease wilbe gyven in some particulars 
 though not in all at their meting, for some things there are 
 which trenche into the King's profitt which I feare wilnot 
 in haste be determined as namelie the pretermitted custom 
 the Right whereof hath endured much Learned debate in 
 the howse bothe for the King and subjects by the Lawiers that 
 good newes I shall imparte to you if God send me home thend 
 of the Parliamente will tell me I meane of theise things. 
 
 * For increase of recusants, see Gal. Dom., 1619-1623, p. 316 (Dec. 1, 
 1621). 
 
 t For reports that the Lower Palatinate was saved only by Sir Horace 
 Vere and Count Ernest von Mansfeldt, see Gal. Dom., 1619-1623, p. 313. 
 Nov. 24, 1621. 
 
 t For complaint of the Drapers of England, May 1, 1622, see Gal. Dom., 
 1619-1623, p. 401. 
 
 This question was postponed by the King, May 29, 1624, see Gal. Dom., 
 1623-1625, p. 259. 
 
 Wt. 20757. Ex 8
 
 114 
 
 " Sir, it can be no newes to you that my Lord Treasurer 
 [i.e. Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex] hath been highly 
 questioned of Late for manie severall busynesses, and still 
 the Lords are upon a dailie examination of his courses, which 
 are Reported to be very foule* ; he hathe manie potent 
 adversaries against hym, and the King hathe left hym to 
 cleere hymselfe, not yelding hym anie countenance ; to saye 
 no more in the opinion of all his fall is at hand. 
 
 " Yesterdayf the Kinge was at Whythall, whyther the 
 house by order went to hym to receave his awnseare to a 
 Peticion which was delyvered unto hym from bothe howses 
 against Jesuits, Priests and Recusants, to which he hathe 
 gyven a most noble awnsweare to the comfort of all his true 
 hearted subiects, which I hope wilbe put in execution ere 
 long. The coppie of which I will assone as I can gett it 
 shalbe sent you, for it is worthie the keping in the Citties 
 Chamber for manie reasons. J I wishe you had all suche 
 passages, but you must then be at the charge and not put 
 me to the paynes to coppie them, for which paynes I am 
 to old, and so I leave that unprofitable argument for this 
 tyme. 
 
 " Sir, I have enlarged my selfe hi theise for your sake, 
 Mr. Walker and the rest of my brethren, and to save my 
 farther Labour in wryting, being tyred out dailie and full 
 wearye of this service, which I find to be to burthensome 
 for an old man bothe in purse and bodie, but no more of this 
 and so I end with my Love to all and Remain, 
 
 Your trulye affectionate ffriend, 
 
 Jo. Prouse. 
 
 " Sir, the death of our ffriend Mr. Martyn hathe left to 
 the Chamber the election of two officers, I hope you wilbe 
 cautious inyourchoise and not Leave my brother unrespected." 
 
 Aliens. 
 
 L. 215, 216, Whitehall, April 1, 1622. The Lords of the 
 Council order the Chamber to make a return of the number, 
 condition and trades of all strangers and children of strangers 
 within the kingdom. || 
 
 In L. 244, London, May 8, 1623, Peter Proby, Lord Mayor of 
 London, and seven others, including Heneage Finch, Alderman 
 
 * See Cal. Dom., 1623-1625, pp. 214, 216, 226 ; April 14, 18, 25, 1624 ; 
 Lords Journal, iii, 318. 
 
 t i.e. Saturday, April 23, 1624. Cal. Dom., 1623-1625, p. 221 ; Lords' 
 Journal, iii, 316. 
 
 J For text of the speech see Lords 1 Journal, iii, 317 ; Hist. MSS. Comm., 
 4th Report, p. 276 ; Gardiner, v, 225. 
 
 i.e. John Martyn, Chamberlain since June 7, 1613. He was succeeded 
 by William Prouse on June 26, 1624. 
 
 || For Commission as to aliens, July 30, 1621, see Cal. Dom., 1619-1623, 
 p. 280. For returns from London (March 11, 1622); Maidstone (April 19, 
 1622) ; Sandwich (April 29, 1622) ; Canterbury, Dover and Norwich (June 
 1622), see Ibid, pp. 357, 378, 381, 417,
 
 115 
 
 of London, inform the Mayor of Exeter that they have been 
 commanded by the Lords of the Council to procure a general 
 search to be made throughout England as to what strangers, 
 strangers' children or strangers' servants, whether English 
 or foreigners, there are, and they beg the assistance of the 
 Mayor of Exeter in procuring the return. 
 
 In L. 249, Plymouth, June 14, 1623, John Martyn, Mayor 
 of Plymouth, writes to the Mayor of Exeter. He has caused 
 a search to be made touching these strangers and foreigners 
 that are resident in the town of Plymouth, and encloses a 
 list of names [which is not preserved]. 
 
 In L. 250, Dartmouth, June 4, 1623, John Spurwaie, Mayor 
 of Dartmouth, reports to the Mayor of Exeter on the same 
 subject, that there is only one Fleminge, a poor tailor named 
 Jacob Jacobsonn, who hath a daughter named Katheren, 
 about a year old. 
 
 In L. 251, June 16, 1623, John Pearde, Mayor of Barnstaple, 
 informs the Mayor of Exeter that he has found no strangers 
 at all. 
 
 In D. 1708, Feb. 5, 1607, John Ellacott, of Exeter, merchant, 
 gives a bond in 251. for the appearance of one Fabricio 
 Jaquinto. 
 
 William Prous* Letters. 
 
 L. 217. London, May 4, 1622. William Prous* writes 
 to the Mayor, &c. : 
 
 "Rt. Worshipfull, 
 
 " I finde by Mr. Benbowes relacion that the suite attempted 
 by our Bishop [Valentine Gary] to be a Justice of peace within 
 the Countie and Citie of Exon, was first sett on foote by 
 Doctor Goche by wale of ernest solicitinge of the Lord Keeper 
 for the furtherance of his egar suite in your behalf e. He 
 presented unto the Clerke of the Crowne a copie of your 
 Charter to thende he might the rather a despatche of his 
 intended purpose. This suite hathe since his departure hence 
 ben ernestlie solicited, and the Lord Keeper hathe ordered 
 Mr. Benbow to drawe up a Commission readie for the scale, 
 which he hathe promised to forslow and protracte, untill 
 expres comaundement be laied upon him and that by warrant 
 under his Lordship's hand and the hand of some of the Kinges 
 Counsel!, which promise he hathe seriously professed this 
 daie unto me he will performe. Assuringe me that as occasion 
 requires he will not faile to acquainte me to thende I maie 
 gaine tyme to crosse the B.B. intended course, which as yet 
 resolved I purpose shalbe by peticion to his Majesty that he 
 wilbe gratiously pleased to referre thexamynacion of his 
 
 * Brother to John Prouse ; he was Chamberlain of Exeter from June 
 26, 1624, to April, 1629.
 
 116 
 
 suite to be measured by the judgment of his heighnes Judges 
 or unto the Justics of assize for the westerne partes, or 
 to the determynacion of the Lords of his Majesties Privie 
 Councell. Where upon the reasons of the inconveniencie 
 of suche an untymelie suite I doubt not but wee shall obteyne 
 an honorable audience, upon suche reasons as shalbe framed 
 and exhibited unto them, of the divers inconveniences that 
 will attend the suoces yf it be obteyned ; which suite in my 
 single and poore opinyon is neyther guided with evidens of 
 utilitie for anie publik good nor pricked on for anie urgent 
 necessitie in regard of anie insufficiencie of goverment 
 accordinge to positive rules : but yf I maie speake without 
 offence, endevoured out of displeasure and some spice of 
 contempt and disdaine to your person and dignitie. The Bishop 
 is not yet returned from Cambridge, but dailie expected. 
 I will have a vigilant eye to his cariage herein which yet 
 lyethe a sleepe ; which when he shall awaken shall stirre me 
 up with all dilligent duetie and circumspection to withstand 
 by the best meanes I maie with resolucion to establishe my 
 endevors by councell. I have made a relacion of Mr. Benbowes 
 conference with me unto my Cosen Mr. Hackwell,* whose 
 affections are bente with all cherefulhies to attend by waie 
 of opposition this unkindly suite he hathe taken in his serious 
 consideracion the legall poynts of your Charter and intendes 
 in pointe of Law to mainteyne the foundacion and intencon 
 of H.8. graunte your case beinge otherwise then the case of a 
 forreine countie your nounber of Justics being stinted and 
 to be made out of the 24, neyther can .the Lord Keeper yf 
 he maye do it, which is much doubted, as by good opinyon 
 I am informed, Graunte a Commission without damadge and 
 greate inconveniencie ; nor hathe he anie precedent to warrant 
 the same (the precedents of Berwick and Northampton beinge 
 but Boroughe Townes and no Counties). The burgesses 
 of Northampton do stronngely withstand, do. Lambes Com- 
 mission. I presume yf it maie stand with the Chambers likinge to 
 addres their letters to the Lord precedent of ye Councell, 
 who is a well affected friend to the Citie to my especiall know- 
 ledg for the favouringe of your suite, that It maie turne to 
 your good. I will deliver it yf you please commend It. As 
 occasion shalbe offred I will not spare my pen to advertise 
 your worshipps of the succes of my labours. 
 
 " I came into London upon Thursdaie at 3 of the clock, 
 and presentlie repaired into Aldersgate Streete to my Cosen 
 Hackwell. In whose true love and care your Chamber hathe 
 deepe interest he desires to be remembered hartily to your 
 worship and to the rest of the Chamber. 
 
 " My service Remember to your worshipp and to all the rest 
 of your Societie do remayne, 
 
 Yours and theires in dueti and sinceritie, 
 
 Wm. Prous." 
 \See also p. 77.] 
 
 * See letter 172, page 97.
 
 117 
 
 In L. 218, London, May 7, 1622, William Prous writes to 
 his brother John Prous : Sir. There are two of the Lord 
 Keeper's* gentlemen that have undertaken the sollicitinge of 
 theire Lord in the absence of our Bishop, who returnes not 
 from Cambridge untill thend of this weeke. It appears 
 theire Lord needes no Remembrancer for of him selfe he effects 
 the mocion and resolves to effecte it. To which end he hathe 
 ordered the Clerke of the Corone to draw in readines the 
 Comyssion which direction is now afreshe stifelie urged. My 
 endevors now are bent to peticion his Lordship, but not before 
 tyme and oportunitie necessarily shall occasion the exhibitinge 
 of a Peticion and yf the partes thereof please not his Lordship 
 after he hathe measured them with his judicial! eye, I am 
 purposte (yf the Lord will) to present his Majestie with a 
 peticion for a reference of the convenience of the Commission 
 endevoured to be gott by our bishop. The Lord Hubert, 
 Cheife Justice of the Commone pleas, hathe ben enformed 
 of our Bishop's practise and thereupon intreated a friend 
 to intreate the Lord Keeper to forbeare the grauntinge out 
 of such a Commission, for that the precedent will not onlie 
 be daungerous, but It will occasion muche hart burninge and 
 contention. I am purposed to let our Justices of assize 
 understand his Practise. I learne by some aboute the Lord 
 Keeper that he resolves that doctor Goche shalbe not one of 
 the Commission, but to joyne the deane and one other of 
 the Canons in Commission with the Bishop. I desire to be 
 informed to what ende our late Bishopf attempted to exhibite 
 his bill in Parliament, and what he did therein and what 
 succes he had and how he incroched upon the liberties of the 
 Citie for the inlardginge of his fee and what resistance he 
 and his baylie in his part made in cases of searchinge for 
 murderers, felons or other misdemeanors within his fee whereof 
 your selfe in particular can speake when you were Sheryfe 
 [i.e. in 1599]. Yf you please I praie speedily acquainte 
 Mr. Maior and the Chamber with the partes of this letter, 
 to whom in duetie I desire humblie to have my service com- 
 mended. I remayne your affectionate brother 
 
 true Love, 
 
 Wm. Prous. 
 
 He adds : " Sir Tho. Myddleton'sJ matche with Mistress 
 Harrison is cleane broken off." 
 
 In L. 219, London, May 18, 1622, William Prous writes to 
 the Mayor &c. : 
 
 " Rt. Worshipfull. I have accordinge to my duetie caried 
 a watchfull eye ever since my cominge hither to the waies 
 and pathes wherein our Bishop walkes and treades in the 
 prosecution of his suite. And I finde that in his absence he 
 
 * i.e. Dr. John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, 
 t i.e. William Cotton. See p. 47. 
 
 j He was Lord Mayor of London in 1613, and a brother of Hugh 
 Middleton.
 
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 left behind him two Remembrancers attendinge nere the 
 Lord Keeper, whose eger solicitation to theire Lord have 
 not ben failinge to further our Bishop's attempted suite, 
 which as yet lies unperfected (thoughe most ernestlie and 
 hartily asserted by theire Lord). This prosecution hathe 
 ben also vehemently followed by our Chancelor since his 
 cominge to London, to whom replie hathe ben made by 
 the Clerke of the Crowne, who is a true affected friend to 
 your Chambers suite and my intimate ancient acquaintance 
 that he deemes it a most unfittinge request of our Bishop, 
 and a president not paraliled in anie Citie beinge a Countie 
 within this Realme, which replie is unsavorie in his nostrells. 
 And therefore doth determyne to put on with might and 
 maine all his power to obteyne theire desire as a suite in 
 theire private opinyon verie respective and comodious 
 to the publique utilitie : for the goverment of their Citie. 
 But I hope theire hopes will shortly be frustrated. 
 
 " There hathe latelie directions ben given to the Clerk of 
 the Crowne by the Lord Keeper to make a Commission for 
 the Chancelor of Lytchfield to be a Justice of the quorum 
 within that Citie and also Gustos Rotulorum which Commission 
 is appointed this dale to pass under the greate seale of 
 England : the Citizens of Lytchfield faylinge of theire suite 
 to the Lord Keeper for the staie thereof entend speedily to 
 peticion the King, whose succes I will hear after and advertise 
 as tyme and occasion shall require. 
 
 " And to thend our suite maie receive some stop a peticion 
 is drawen and discretelie polished by the pennes of Mr. Recorder 
 and my Cosen Hakewill, a true copie whereof I here inclosed 
 present to Your worship and the rest of the Chamber, humblie 
 besechinge that after the branches thereof be duely measured 
 by your wisedomes, It maie be secreted for a while (my desire 
 beinge bounded with this reason), that I purpose not to deliver 
 it untill I have knowledge of his Lordship's warrant to the 
 Clerke of the Crowne to draw the said Commission, which he 
 will not hastily do, but with advantadge of competent tyme 
 before hand given unto me : for prevencion to obteyne a 
 supersedias if I maie upon the reasons exhibited trulie in 
 the parts of my peticion. Whereof yf I faile my last refuge 
 shalbe to peticion his Majestic for the reference of our just 
 suite eyther to the Lords the Judges or Justices of Assize, 
 which must be left to his hieghness arbitrarie denominacion 
 and appointment. 
 
 " Be pleased to consider of that branche of my last addressed 
 letters to your Worship and the Chamber towchinge your 
 letters to the Lord president for his assistance yf neede shall 
 require and particulerly towchinge his observacion of your 
 government. This also dothe Mr. Recorder and my 
 Cosen Hakewill deeme verie requisite, whose directions in 
 all pointes attending this service as is required : I will chere- 
 fullie and readily observe and prosecute with dilligence and
 
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 carefullnes. My duetie and service remembered to your 
 worship and to the rest of your brethren and socitie do remayne 
 yours readily and humbly to be commaunded. 
 
 " Wm. Prows. 
 
 " Our Bishop is here and intends to be with the Lord 
 Keeper this after noone ; the King comes hither this daie. 
 The report is that the Lord Keeper shall be made Lord 
 Chancelor* tomorrow at Courte. 
 
 In L. 220, May 25, 1622, William Prous writes to the 
 Mayor, &c. 
 
 " Rt. Worshipfull, My last addressed letters to you 
 presented a full declaracion of our bishop's progres in his 
 attempted suite ; by them also I lefte you informed how farre 
 my endevours did bend to oppose by faire meanes the current 
 of his intended desire, which in particuler was evidenced by 
 the copie of the peticion resolved to be exhibited to the Lord 
 Keeper. It is fitt accordinge to my duetie that I advertise 
 you what this weekes worke hathe begotten, thorought the 
 Bishop's solicitinge of the same who hathe bin here theis 
 ten daies and is this daie againe gone hence : I am crediblie 
 informed that he hathe bin ernest with the Lord Keeper for 
 the speedinge of his desire which onlie he affectes to obteyne 
 to himselfe alone without anie associacion of anie other 
 belonginge to the Churche or her dependents. The direction 
 given to the Clerke of the Crowne from my Lord's owne 
 mouthe is to draw a Commission for him to be a Commissioner 
 ioyntly with the Maior &c., bothe of the peace and gaole 
 deliverie within Citie and Countie, which yet Mr. Benbow 
 refusethe to do untill theie bringe him a true copie of the 
 Charter : which will be a hard task for them to do. I have 
 not yet presented the peticion to the Lord Keeper, which 
 by advise I have forborne for some especiall consideracions, 
 but am purposed (yf God will) to deliver the same to his 
 Lordship upon Mondaie nexte : and then humblie to beseche 
 him to cast his eye upon the partes thereof, and to measure 
 them with his favoure hi judgment. The Bishop's glosse to swaie 
 his Lordship's inclynacion is for the better goverment of 
 the Citizens, the ponishment of malefactors and the better 
 orderinge of the incorrigeable beggers and releyfe of the poore. 
 Theise are some of the principle heads which he inforcethe 
 upon his Lordship's consideration, whereupon the Lord Keeper 
 hathe ordered and commanded Mr. Benbow to make the 
 Commission readie for the greate seale : which I hope I shall 
 stopp for 10 daies. In the meane tyme yf my peticion gaine 
 no fruite from the Lord Keeper, I will expedite the presentinge 
 of a peticion to the King or to the Lords as occasion shall 
 require and as my course therein shalbe established by the 
 opinyon of your Councell (Mr. Recorder havinge directed me 
 to reteyne Mr. Noye of [blank], counsell for you, which I have 
 
 * i.e. in place of Francis Bacon, who was removed April 30, 1621.
 
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 accordingelie don. The Bishop understands that the Chamber 
 is in opposicion with him, which he estemes not as his solicitors 
 in this busines vaunte, professinge that he intendes to become 
 an ernest suitor to his Majestie for the obteyninge of his 
 Commission. 
 
 Loathe I am to acquainte you by my pen with eyche 
 particuler circumstantiall passage that hathe ben unworthily 
 put on by the prosecutors of this suite in pointe of untruthe 
 and indignitie. I referre the relacion of them untill my 
 returne admyringe how the Bishop, the Chancellor and some 
 other inferior persons come to the knowledge of some particuler 
 late passages in your assemblies. 
 
 When the benevolent money is sent up, let that partie that 
 hathe the charge of payment present bothe your letter 
 towchinge the same and the some to the Lord Treasurer which 
 maie advantadge your suite and which also he will and dothe 
 expecte. This I am told to advise out of my love and duetie 
 to the reputacion of your Chamber. 
 
 I take my humble leave, remayning at your disposicion in all 
 faithfullnes readily to be comaunded, Wm. Prowz. 
 
 In L. 222, May 29, 1622, William Prous writes to the 
 Mayor &c. : 
 
 " Right Worshipfull, I have presented the peticion to 
 the Lord Keeper this daie, which for some reasons I could 
 not with convenience performe soner. After I had presented 
 the same I humblie intreated his Lordship to cast his eyes 
 upon the parts thereof, which favour he votchafed unto me. 
 And after he had measured the branches thereof, he turnes 
 aboute unto me and asked me the reasons whie your Chamber 
 should refuse to have a Bishop to be joyned with them in the 
 Commission of peace, being your diocesan and as worthie a 
 prelate as is anie in the Kingdome. My answear was that 
 your antient Charter did lymitt the particuler nomber of 
 Justics, which besides the Maior and Recorder coulde not 
 be but eight, which eight were to be chosen out of that number 
 that had borne the office of maioraltie. For confirmacion of 
 the truthe thereof I humblie besought him to admytt our 
 Councell farder to informe him : to which he replied that 
 he had sene your Charter. I presumed to answeare him 
 that under favour his Lordship had onlie senne the severall 
 confirmacions thereof of E. the 6 and Queene Elizabeth, 
 but not the copie of the originale Charter [Charters XXXII, 
 XXXIII], and affirminge that It was the Kinges pleasure 
 to have our Bishop in Commission with you, adding for his 
 reason that in respecte of your froward caraige towards the 
 late Lord Bishop, for so he termed it, that the King required 
 him to graunte our Bishop the said Commission. His 
 Lordship was well pleased to receive an answere which I 
 framed accordinge to truthe and upon my certeine knowledge, 
 which was that in no place of this Land anie one Bishop had
 
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 received more respecte and observation than the Bishop of 
 Exon from the magistrats ; some other exceptions his 
 Lordship had : to everie of which I endevoured to give him 
 satisfaction, humblie concludinge with ernest peticion that 
 his Lordship would take into his serious consideracion the 
 indempnities that mighte ensue to the bodie of your Charter 
 whereunto with muche myldnes he replied that he would 
 send within a shorte tyme give me farder resolucion. This 
 Commission is alreadie drawen, and hathe bin perused by 
 his Lordship ; in the foote whereof with his owne hand he 
 hathe desired the King's Attorney to peruse the same and 
 yf by law and president It maye hold he desires him also 
 to order the Clerke of the Crowne to ingrosse it readie for 
 the seale ; but this direction was before I delivered the 
 peticion ; which I hope maie turne the bente of my Lord's 
 intention (my delaies beinge grounded upon sounde reasons), 
 which hereafter you shall understand. And when I shall 
 understand that Mr. Benbow shall repaire to Mr. Attornie 
 with the drawght of the said Commission, I shall informe 
 Mr. Recorder and Mr. Jo. Hakewill, who kit end to carry 
 Mr. Noye to Mr. Attorney and to informe him of the state 
 of the busines and to acquainte him with the Innovation 
 that will attend the succes of the suite yf It be obteyned. 
 
 " My Lord was pleased to prove that no other should be 
 ioyned in Commission with our Lord Bishop, and Sir, quothe 
 he : Let your maiestrats be displeased, for I assure you, quothe 
 he, this Bishop will not staie longe amonge you. I have used 
 some preparative meanes to Mr. Attorney besides that which 
 is resolved in by Mr. Recorder ; as yet wee are not resolved 
 what course wee shall take whither to peticion his Majestie 
 or the Lords (yf the Lord Keeper favour not our suite ; for 
 my owne particuler opinyon I am resolved upon whose 
 shoulders the burden of this suite in pointe of prosecutions 
 attendans and care is laied by your warrant, that I will follow 
 the initiall direction of your Counsell, bendhig my whole 
 endevors to informe myselfe and so to relate unto them 
 the speediest and safest waie and meanes of prevencion. 
 Lastlie I humblie desire that due consideracion maie be 
 speedily had of some partes of my former letters tendinge 
 muche to the furtherans of the suite in hand. 
 
 " My duetie and service remembered, do humblie take 
 leave, yours readily to be commaunded, 
 
 " Wm. Prous. 
 
 "This inclosed (L. 221) is from the Lords." 
 
 In L. 223, June 10, 1622, William Prous writes to the 
 Mayor, &c. : 
 
 " Rt. Worshipfull. As yet I cannot make you anie other 
 relation touchinge our Bishop's attempte for the obteyninge 
 of his Comyssion then my last letters informed you, since 
 which tyme Mr. Attorney hathe appointed me to attend
 
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 him with your Councell upon thursdaie nexte, at which 
 tyme he will informe him selfe of the partes of your Charter, 
 and so resolve the Lord Keeper of his opinyon towchinge 
 the conveniencie or inconveniencie thereof. And yf It shall 
 fall out that he certifie against you that It is in the Kinges 
 power to add more Comyssioners to that nomber prescribed 
 and lymited by your Charter, your Councell will advise what 
 course shalbe speedilie taken : eyther to peticion his Majestic 
 or the Lords. At whose borde this particuler cause will wante 
 a speciall assistant of eminence ; amonge which nomber yf 
 Mr. Secretarie have no touche on our Bishop's parte your 
 directions shalbe fourthwith prosecuted (yf your Councell 
 asserte it). I have ben an ernest solicitor to Mr. Attorney to 
 conferre with the Lord Huberte, the Lord Cheife Baron, and 
 Justice Hutton, towchinge their opinion in pointe of lawe 
 and their opinyons of your goverment : to which he inclynes 
 and votesafed to promise me that before he made his reporte 
 backe to the Lord Keeper that he would conferre with sume 
 of them. I have also acquainted him that Justice Doddridge 
 is a nere neighboure unto the Citie, who also can and will 
 testifie of your peaceable and good goverment. Let me be 
 bold humblie to intreate your societie to secreete the partes 
 of my advertisements towchnige this busines and that no 
 unseemelie wordes be given out of our Bishop or of his attempte 
 of suite. I have ben charged by Batt that my letters have 
 occasioned your extraordinarie meetings, which intelligence 
 I deeme to porecede from Mr. Mainwaringe. 
 
 " And forasmuche as the case stands thus betwene your 
 Chamber and some others ; I have contracted and concluded 
 the sute betwene Sir W. Pole and the poore for the somme of 
 70Z. to be paid unto me upon Mondaie nexte, the 17th of this 
 monethe, and taken Mr. Erles bond for payment thereof, 
 which is securitie verie sufficient. In this contracte I have 
 concluded Sir W. power of disposall, and to that end have 
 drawen a pole deede, which herewith I send, humblie besechinge 
 you that Mr. Salter maie carrie the same over unto him and 
 intreate him to seale it, for whose better satisfaction I have 
 procured Mr. Erie his nephew, who standes ingaidged for the 
 payment of the 70?. to write of Sir William that the release 
 herewith sent was perused and is allowed of under his hand. 
 I wishe Mr. Salter will take hi his waie Mr. Batt, who is privie 
 to Mr. Erles and my agrement. Mr. Recorder dothe second 
 my agrement. Yf I had gone to a hearinge before my Lord 
 before I had ended this sute, It would have cost me 10Z. or 
 121., and I doubte my Lord would have striken of a good 
 parte of the damages given by the Jurie and Comyssioners 
 so as It is thought by your Councell I have made a good end 
 safelie. 
 
 " I do humblie desire that I maie receive directions from 
 you and the Chamber how I shall send the money downe unto 
 you, for I hartily desire a present imployment thereof, but
 
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 of this some must be deducted suche expenses at thathe ben 
 disbursed aboute the prosecucion thereof, which in particuler 
 I cannot now advertise (my notes beinge at my howse), which 
 at my returne I will honestlie sett downe without eyther 
 the poore or impeychment to my conscience or outward 
 reputacion. 
 
 "My dutie and service humblie commended, do remayne, 
 Yours readilie to be comaunded, 
 
 " Wm. Prous." 
 
 In L. 226, June 28, 1622, William Prous reports to the 
 Mayor, &c : 
 
 " R.t. Worshipfull. By my last letters I advertised you 
 of the conference passed betwene your Councell and the 
 Kinges Attorney : for some spetiall reasons tendinge to better 
 hopes, as then so now since continued. I did forbeare to write 
 this last weeke by our carrier, be pleased therefore by these 
 to understand that upon Mondaie last bothe the Attorney 
 generall and the Clerke of the Crowne* informed the Lord 
 Keeper what strenght your Charter beares in pointe of 
 negative, that his Majestie by Law cannot make by waie of 
 associacion any more Justics then are warranted by the 
 same ; to which his Lordship replied with &c. that notwith- 
 standinge It was his Majesties expres pleasure to have our 
 Bishop a Justice with that and yf otherwise It mighte not be, 
 then his Majestie would graunte him a non obstante which 
 cannot impeyche the iurisdiction given you by your Charter. 
 So as yf no other thinge happen betweene I cannot be dis- 
 couraged but that our Lord Bishop maie mysse his marke. 
 Howbeit I knowe he dothe use all meanes to gaine his purpose 
 wherein he hathe the espetiall assistance of the Lord Keeper. 
 
 " I have propounded the desire of your howse to all your 
 Councell towchinge the speedie peticioninge of his Majestie 
 to the furtherans whereof I have penned a peticion and have 
 tendred the partes thereof to be measured by Mr. Recorder, 
 but for that as yet I cannot tracte out our Bishop 'spathe which 
 waie he bendes his course. Your Councell do not deeme it 
 expedient yet to prosecute this suite by waie of peticion 
 totheKinge. I have and do carefullie bend all my endevors 
 to game knowledge of our Bishop's pursuite, which when 
 I have obteyend shall occasion me accordinge to your 
 Councel's directions to follow suche course as shalbe by theire 
 better judgment propounded unto me the succes whereof as 
 It shall happen I will commend by my letters to your under- 
 standinge. 
 
 " I was latelie informed by Mr. Recorder upon a conference 
 betweene him and one Mr. Norden,f a survey our of landes 
 and a dependant upon the prince's service, that the tytle 
 of your manners of Exe Hand [Charter XXXVI, p. 5], and 
 
 * Sir Thomas Edmondes. Cal. Dom., 1619-1623, p. 129. 
 t i.e. John Norden. Cal. Dom., 1619-1623, p. 110.
 
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 all the houses and land belonging to the Castle of Exon 
 with northernehaie is likelie to be questioned by the 
 Prince upon Mr. Recorder's perswasion to conferre with 
 Mr. Norden (with whom I have some acquaintans). I 
 endevored to speake with him, but beinge gon from his 
 lodginge here into Kent I have myssed him, and yet not- 
 withstandinge have by other and better meanes intreated 
 a kynsman of my wyfes attendinge also the prince's service 
 in a speciall manner, to sound Mr. Norden towchinge the 
 tytle pretended by his hieghnes ; which he hathe promised 
 faithfullie to do At his returne out of Kent, which will not 
 be yet. 
 
 "I have now received 70Z. from Mr. Earle of Sir Wm. 
 Pole, his due upon the decree. By my former letter I 
 intreated directions from you how I might conveye it downe, 
 and finding none by the partes of your last do intreate to be 
 advertised by warrant to whom I shall paie it here, for I 
 dare not send it by the Carryer, neyther dothe Mr. Recorder 
 think it safe. 
 
 "It is saied that our Bishop wilbe with you aboute thend of 
 Julie, and intendethe to lodge with Mr. Chancelor. I wishe 
 he were gon hence that I might take my flight westwardes, 
 for I am verie wearie of my longe staie here. 
 
 " My duetie and service Remembered, do Remaine your 
 obligeed in duetie, 
 
 " Wm. Prous. 
 
 " Our assizes at Exon beginnes the 5th daie of August, 
 and our old Judges continue." 
 
 In L. 227, London, June 29, 1622, Wm. Prous writes to 
 the Mayor, &c. : 
 
 " Rt. Worshipfull. 
 
 " After I had penned and delivered my last letters sent 
 by my Cosen Mr. Era. Crossinge, I toke occasion ioyntlie 
 to conferre with Mr. Recorder, Mr. Noye, and my Cosen 
 Hackwell towchinge a farder progres to meete with our 
 Bishop's egar pursuite of his attempted suite : who is now 
 more vehement then heretofore he hathe ben with the Clerke 
 of the Crowne, to whom at my instance, but from his owne 
 invencion as I have desired him, he hathe returned him 
 answeare that the Lord Keeper hathe referred the due con- 
 sideracion of the partes of the new Commission drawen, unto 
 the Kinges Attorney in pointe of Law and president, 
 whose resolucion by waie of certificate under his 
 hand backe againe returned to the Lord Keeper, 
 yf by Law and president of like nature the Kinge maie do 
 it, wilbe his Lordship's incouragement to direct a fiat to the 
 Clerke to ingrosse the same readie for the great scale ; so 
 as hitherto no commaund is come to the Clerk to finish the 
 said Commission. And albeit this busines hathe ben closelie 
 followed by our Bishop and his solicitors, yet hitherto thei
 
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 have founde a hard taske thereof and yet are without know- 
 ledge who watchethe theire stepps ; albeit theie have used 
 manie meanes to dog the trade of my waie. 
 
 " Upon deliberacion of my proposicion your Councell have 
 ben pleased to consent to become your humble suitors to 
 Mr. Secretaire Calverte,* that his honor would be pleased 
 accordinge to the Chamber's desire to take upon him the 
 patronizinge of your cause as occasion hereafter shall require ; 
 eyther to his Majestie or at the Councell Bord (our busines 
 now standinge upon better and more safer termes I last wrote 
 unto you and in particuler sithe I maie not inlardge by my 
 pen ; howbeit my hopes are prouder now of a fairer yssue 
 then heretofore theie have ben. 
 
 " This morninge it was agreed that my Cosen hake will should 
 present your humble suite to Mr. Secretarie, in whose favoure 
 he hathe muche interest ; upon whom I was intreated to 
 attend to thend his honor might take knowledge of me to 
 be your Solicitor for this cause. At our cominge to Mr. 
 Secretaries house in St. Martin's Lane, we were informed 
 that he was at Grenewiche, where the Courte is ; but sone at 
 his returne or upon Mondaie morninge it hathe pleased my 
 Cosen hakewill to promyse me to go with me to the 
 Secretaries howse and to acquainte him with your suite and 
 the nature and conveniencie thereof, which yf his honour 
 when occasion shall require, shall obligee you with all thank- 
 fullnes to deserve his favoure, to which end I go provided 
 I neede not expres myselfe hi open termes farder to your 
 wisedomes in theis resolucion. 
 
 " Upon some late accident I presume the Lord Keeper will 
 stale his hand from subscribinge a fiat for this Commission. 
 Yf he do, there wilbe a remedie provided for maintenance of 
 your solide power and iurisdiction of which hereafter you 
 maie more particulerlie be informed. In the meane season 
 Mr. Recorder is carefull, my Cosen Hakewell foreward and 
 my honest endevours shall in no respecte be failinge to 
 do the duetie of a faithfull and dilligent solicitor, orderinge the 
 prosecution as in course of Law and discretion shalbe pro- 
 pounded unto me by your Councell. 
 
 " I am informed that a letter was latelie sent unto you, 
 Mr. Maior, aboute some busines to which an answeare is 
 expected : I know not the meaninge, but a follower of the 
 Lord President^ required of me whither I had not received 
 a letter from you to the Lords, to whom I replied that I had, 
 but I informed him that was towards the benevolence money. 
 That is not the busines he prayed me to put you in mynd 
 to returne with all speede an answeare. 
 
 " My service and duetie remembered to your worship and 
 the rest, do remayne, 
 
 " Yours readily to be comanded, 
 
 " Wm. Prous." 
 
 * Sir George Calvert. Gal. Dom., 1619- 1623,~pTl4. 
 | i.e. Henry Montague, Viscount Mandeville.
 
 126 
 
 In L. 229, July 2, 1622, William Prous writes to the 
 Mayor, &o. : 
 
 "Rt. Worshipfull. 
 
 " My laste letters informed you of an intencion to acquainte 
 Mr. Secretarie Calverte with the state of your busines for 
 the maintenance of priviledges against our Bishop's attempted 
 suite ; by theise you maie be pleased to take knowledge that 
 my Cosen Hakewell and my selfe had accesse unto his honor 
 verie privatelie. After his honor had ben fullie informed 
 by my Cosen Hakewell of the integritie of your Charter 
 and sufficiencie of well orderinge your selves in the dueties 
 of your places, to the generall applause of the Justices of 
 Assize, the gentrie of the Countie of Devon, and what readie 
 obedience the Inhabitants of Exon from tyme to tyme chere- 
 fullie and without anie opposicion have yealded thereunto, 
 His honor advised a course which before was performed in 
 parte, and that hitherto hath given bothe your Councell and 
 my selfe muche comforte and contentment, which hi particuler 
 your worship with the rest of your societie maie more Sithe 
 understand from Mr. Recorder's relacion, then by intelligence 
 from my pen : and therefore do spare to present you the 
 full descours onlie he hathe promised his readie assistance 
 when and as often as occasion shall require, requirmge my 
 attendance and access unto him upon everie occasion, 
 assuringe me of free cominge unto him and of his hartie 
 affection to further your ymployments eyther to his Majestie 
 or to the Councell borde. 
 
 " Mr. Secretarie [Calvert], with whom wee were this 
 daie, did informe my Cosen Hackwell that sone after the 
 conclusion of peace between the Turke and the polonians 
 the Turkes souldiers required of him some recompence 
 for theire service to which the Turke replied with bitter- 
 nes that theie should have none, threatninge them also 
 to put them to the sword, which so provoked them that 
 theie sett upon the Turke and slew him,* his brother and 
 four other of his nexte bloode and 3,000 gent, and have 
 sett up the Turkes Uncle, whom he put by [i.e. Mustapha I, 
 who had been deposed in 1618], esteiminge him to be a foole, 
 so that of that race there is no more lefte but he, and he is verie 
 old.f 
 
 " Thus cravinge pardon for this hastie scriblinge, this 
 bearer beinge hastie and my selfe not well, do take Leave with 
 Remembrans of my Duetie and service to you all and do 
 Remayne 
 
 " Yours readilie to be commanded, 
 
 " Wm. Prous." 
 
 * i.e. Othman II, strangled by Janissaries, May 10, 1622. Gal. Dom., 
 1619-1623, p. 425. 
 
 t These events are described in letters written to Secretary Calvert by 
 Sir Thomas Roe from Constantinople, dated May 10th, 16th, 1622. Roe, 
 Negotiations, pp, 42, 45,
 
 127 
 
 In L. 230 (undated), Wm. Prous writes to the Mayor, &c. : 
 
 "Rt. Worshipfull, 
 
 " I have had my seconde accesse unto the Lord Keeper 
 towchinge his returne of answeare unto the partes of the 
 peticion which I delivered unto him this weeke. He advised 
 me to forbeare anie farder pursuite of your busines, affirminge 
 verie confidentlie unto me that his Majesties expres pleasure is 
 commended unto him to graunte the said Comyssion to our 
 Lord Bishop, which by his warrant is drawen and delivered 
 unto the Kinges Attorney, whom I have attended with humble 
 request that he wilbe pleased not hastily to returne the same 
 unto the Crowne Office but to bounde a tyme when I maie 
 bringe the Cities Councell to conferre with him towchinge 
 the partes of your immunitie by Charter, which favoure he hathe 
 yealded unto me and for the better strengtheninge of our 
 endevors I have with the consent of our Recorder and my Cosen 
 Hakewill reteyned the Recorder of London and one Mr. Bridg- 
 man, a learned gent, towchinge the pleas of the Crowne, and verie 
 inwardlie interessed with the acquaintans of Mr. Attorney. 
 
 " This suite is heavily sett upon and pursued with force 
 and stronge meanes insomuche I feare the succes, and the 
 more in regard of the reason which by my laste letters to my 
 brother, I presented to the consideracion of your Societie 
 which I humblie desire maie be considered and taken to 
 harte amonge you for yf you forslow the oportunitie 
 and meanes now offered you maie preiudice the pillars of your 
 goverment. I dare not inlardge my reasons by pen, but 
 deeme it sufficient to give you a word in season, nothinge 
 doubtinge but that as the case now standes with you, you will 
 providentlie bend bothe your wills, wytts and purses, to 
 further the betteringe of that which in some points is founde 
 defective ; you know my meaninge. 
 
 " This weeke (the terme beinge ended) I intend to bringe 
 all your reteyned Councell with your owne togeather, pur- 
 poselie to consider of such material pointes as necessarilie 
 are to be drawen out of the bodie of your Charter for 
 Mr. Attorneyes better informacion, whereunto I will add 
 suche notes of mconveniencie and conveniencie as maie 
 perswade him of the daunger of suche a president, which 
 tendeth to the disturbance of the peace, of the entire gover- 
 ment and will also turne to irregularitie of state, which 
 pointe Mr. Recorder dothe ernestlie desire you to prevent 
 by some speedie provision and providence to right all imper- 
 fections of &c. which are menconed hi my letter to my brother. 
 This bearer beinge a footeman is hastie and occasionethe 
 this brevitie. My humble duetie remembered, do remayne, 
 Your obliged in duetie and love, 
 
 " Wm. Prouz. 
 
 " When I have gathered our Councell togeather I will 
 propoun unto them (yf so cause shall require) whither J shall 
 petition the King or the Lords,"
 
 128 
 
 In L. 231, July 6, 1622, William Prous writes to the 
 Mayor, &c. : 
 
 "Rt. Worshipfull. 
 
 "This inclosed (i.e. L. 230) which was penned purposelie 
 to be sent unto you by the footepost of Tavistocke who 
 departed and hathe left the same behind him, dothe par- 
 ticulerlie acquainte you with the state of your busines with 
 the Lord Keeper : and how farre your suite unto 
 Mr. Secretarie hathe ben prevalent. By theise be pleased 
 to be advertised that this daie the Lord Keeper hathe resolved 
 to have the Commission perfected, notwithstandinge the 
 Kinges Attorney hathe again confidentlie acquainted him 
 that your Charters are negative and that by Law nor precedent 
 his Majestie maie not safelie do It. Which resolucion his 
 Lordship dothe not relishe, but intendes as is thought, to 
 establishe his cause by warrant from his hieghnes, to meete 
 with him in that course, as yet your Counsell have not advised 
 but intend purposelie to conferr thereaboute to-morrow and 
 then to sett foreward theire determynacion for me to prosecute. 
 Which dilligentlie and carefullie I will pursue with an upright 
 harte and true affection : for the maintenance of your 
 priviledges and reputacons. Upon thursdaie nexte the Kinge 
 comes to Whitehaule, where he intendes to make a shorte 
 staie, goinge from thens to farname* in progres. Yf the 
 Lord Keeper or our Bishop's intendment be to compas theire 
 desire, It is presumed that theire suite to his Majestie wilbe 
 to have a non obstante to settle him against the power of 
 your Charter and consequentlie the Common Law of the 
 Realme : wherein everie good subiecte hathe an estate of 
 inheritans. Thus with the due remembrance of my duetie 
 and service to your worship, and to the rest of your societie., 
 do take leave remaininge at your comaundment most readie, 
 
 " Wm. Prowz." 
 
 In L. 232 (undated, but circ. July 8, 1622), William Prous 
 writes to the Mayor, &c. : 
 
 "Rt. Worshipfull. 
 
 " I am crediblie informed that our Bishop was yesterdaie 
 with my Lord Keeper, which the rather I do beleive in 
 respecte the Kinges Attorney told me this afternoone that 
 the Lord Keeper would go on with the Commission to associate 
 the Bishop in Commission with you, not withstandinge his 
 opinyon that the King could not do it in pointe of Law ; And 
 for my better satisfaction I presentlie repaired to the Clerke 
 of the Crowne who asserteined me that my Lord this 
 morninge ordered him to drawe a new Commission, 
 (the former drawght beinge erronious) and yf the King 
 maie not do it by Law ; yet his Majesties will is to have 
 it, and therefore It shalbe don, quoth my Lord. Hereof 
 I have informed your Councell, by whose advise I am ordered 
 
 * In a letter dated London, Aug. 10, 1622, the King has left Windsor for 
 Farnham. Cdl. Pom., 1619-23, p. 439,
 
 129 
 
 to conferre with Mr. Benbow for some directions, to some 
 pointes which I purpose to propounde unto which (sic) resolved. 
 Shall occasion the prosecution of a new intended course, 
 which I cannot by my letters advertise because it is not yet 
 fullie determyned. Neyther can be theise two Daies. Now 
 yf my Lord will observe what he deemes fitt, you must with 
 patience endevoure to maineteine your priviledges in a legall 
 course, which by opinyon is conceived to be verie prevalent. 
 Howbeit your Councell do presume that his Lordship will 
 better consider that there is neyther Law nor president to 
 warrant a Commission of that nature, tendinge to irregularitie 
 in pointe of presumption. Now as the wynde blowes good 
 or bad, towchinge your publick busines I will evermore 
 advertise duringe my abode here ; which yf the Lord will 
 shalbe no longer than the Satturdaie after thend of this terme, 
 for London hathe cleane tired me out. It is privatelie reported 
 here that the frenche Kinge is deade* and that he dyed of an 
 impostume in his head. This last Sabaothe the Kinge made 
 two new privie Counsellors, Sir Edward Connawaie and 
 Sir Oliver St. John, the late Deputie of Ireland. f 
 
 " My duetie and service remembered to your worship 
 and to your brethren and societie, do remayne, yours readily 
 to be comaunded. 
 
 " Wm. Prouz." 
 
 In L. 233, London, July 13, 1622, Win. Prous writes to 
 the Mayor, &c. : 
 
 "Rt. Worshipfull, 
 
 " I presume after some fewe daies I shall finde out the 
 Lord Keeper's determynacion towchinge the ordering of our 
 Bishop's Commission, which so ernestlie thoughe underhand 
 by his instruments he pursues. And albeit the stirringe 
 solicitor assigned by our Bishop hathe latelie informed the 
 Clerke of the Crowne, from whose mouth I received relacion 
 that the Solicitor tolde him that the Bishop was not desirous 
 to have a Commission of association to sitt with you, but that It 
 proceeded onlie from the affection of the Lord Keeper to 
 authorize him thereunto, yet nevertheles I knowe and have 
 found out his instruments that cease not to gaine his desire 
 and longinge disposicion thereon by some unfittinge practises, 
 which hitherto have ben cautiouslie yet secretlie prevented. 
 So as yf his Majesties commaund be not put to the furtherance 
 hereof, I hope his suite wilbe fruiteles. 
 
 " The Kinge came hither upon thursdaie, and wente hence 
 yesterdaie. It is conceived that the Lord Keeper will and 
 hathe moved the Kinge towchinge the conveniency of havinge 
 our Bishop a Commyssioner with you, pretendinge that It 
 wilbe muche for the furtherance of his Majesties service there, 
 
 * Louis XIII did not die till May 14, 1643. 
 
 | i.e. Viscount Grandison. Both he and Conway were admitted members 
 of the Privy Council on June 28th, 1622. Gal. Dom., 1619-1623, 
 pp. 415, 418. 
 
 Wt. 20757 Ex 9
 
 130 
 
 but his Majesties Attorney yf he be required to satisfie in 
 pointe of Law his hieghnes I hope will informe by that It maie 
 not be done eyther by law, president nor conveniencie. 
 
 " And for that It is supposed that my Lord will not hastily 
 give informacion of his Majesties pleasure to have the Com- 
 mission finished yf he shall obteyne it. It is thought fit by 
 your Councell and also otherwise that my staie here shalbe 
 lengthened to take notice what furder directions wilbe given 
 therein that accordingelie I maie you reporte thereof at my 
 returne, which otherwise I intended should have ben with 
 Mr. Recorder, who comes hence upon Mondaie nexte, to 
 whom I will make an accounte of those thinges that I shall 
 learne and finde out towchinge the passages of this in the 
 meane while yf anie happen to be. 
 
 "My love and duetie remembered to your worship and 
 to your brethren, and societie, do remayne, 
 
 " Your most obedient servant, 
 
 " Wm. Prouz." 
 
 L. 241. Hilary Term, 1622-3. For expenses and dis- 
 bursments from the 6th of January unto the xjth of February, 
 1622 (i.e. 1623) : 
 
 For a mans hors hire to accompany me onlie to London 
 whom I retained presently . . . . . . xxs. 
 
 For his wages and his and myne expenses up . . xls. 
 
 For his expenses onlie downwardes . . . . xs. 
 
 For cariage of my trunke . . . . . . vs. 
 
 For my owne dyet at London onlie for 5 weeks, two 
 daies, my chamber hier, fyer, washinge and hors- 
 meate . . . . . . . . . . . . vijJ. 
 
 In fees to Mr. Bridgeman, Mr. Noye, Mr. Hakewill, and 
 benevolences . . . . . . . . xxiijZ. xvs. 
 
 For a leather bage . . . . . . . . xiiijd. 
 
 To Mr. Lambe and Mr. Philipps for a copie of pre- 
 cedents . . . . . . . . . . . . xvijs. vie?. 
 
 Mr. Recorder in fees . . . . . . . . nil. 
 
 Suma . . . . . . xxxvJ. viijs. viijd. 
 
 Received, 501. 
 
 Resedue, xiiij/. xjs. iiijrf. 
 
 Which somme I am readie to paie where your worshipps 
 
 shall order the receite. 
 
 I was at London, and in my Journey homewardes three 
 weekes and two daies, which I caste not upon the Chamber's 
 charge, but charge my expenses for so longe tyme upon my 
 account to Mr. Maior of Tiverton. 
 
 [Endorsed : Mr. Wm. Prouse (sic) exhibited this accounte 
 the llth of Marche, 1622 (i.e. 1623).] The document is in his 
 own handwriting, but the name in the endorsement is added 
 in a later hand. 
 
 In D. 1742, April, 1623, the Chamber appoints John Prouse, 
 Alderman, and William Prouse, gentleman, as attornies for
 
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 us and in our names to become humble suitors as well to the 
 Kinges most excellent Majestie as to the Lordes of his 
 Majesties most honorable Privie Counsell for the maynten- 
 ance of all such liberties, rights and privileges as have hereto- 
 fore benne graunted unto us or any of our predecessors within 
 the said Cittye and Countie of Exeter." 
 
 In L. 242, London, April 17, 1623, John Prouse writes 
 to the Mayor : "I doubt not but you expect to heare 
 from me, and I wyshe that I could Imparte unto you suche 
 good newes towching your busynesse as you desire, but suche 
 as it is by theise you shall understand. Upon Thursdaie 
 last my brother [i.e. William Prous] ridd to Hampton Court,* 
 where he found a better oportunitie to delyver your peticion 
 to his Majestie then I could do the Wednesdaie before, although 
 I way ted long at Whythall to have performed so muche, the 
 Kong beinge no waie Inclinable at that tyme to receave anie 
 one peticion, nor did from anie. His Majestie accepted the 
 petition with muche perswasion, first understanding from 
 whome it came ; and when he was told from whome, he said 
 that he understood that the citizens were Puritans, to which 
 my brother made a modest awnsweare, which somewhat 
 pacified the King. At last he gave him this awnswere, that 
 he should attend at Windsore and there he should have his 
 awnsweare, according to which direction my brother is this 
 daie Ridden thither ; at whose Retornelhope to wryte you more 
 Largelye for as yet I knowe not what successe wee shall have. 
 Your letter I delyvered to my Lord Treasurer, f whohathe nobly 
 promised to stand for us and for our peticion, and to speak with 
 his Majestie hand to hand for the furtherance of our suit. The 
 next Labor wilbe to attend bothe his Lordship and some other 
 to worke our peace and to bring our honest ends to a fayrer 
 Issue, which God grant us, assuring you that no good meanes 
 shalbe neglected by us which maie effect the same, for I 
 knowe that wee shall have strong opposition by potent 
 personages in the behalf e of our byshopp, who hathe traduced 
 us exceedinglie to his Majestie as hereafter wilbe manifested, 
 for he hathe gyven out that his workmen and servant were 
 beaten by 500 people, which I knowe to be untrue [see L. 234, 
 page 134], and shalbe made plaine if the King put over this 
 busynesse with the hearing thereof to the Counsell bord, 
 untill when no more, onlie I doubt that your cause before 
 it Recey ve a consideracion will prove costlie to you and burden- 
 some to us by Long attendance, but God's will be done. I 
 praie you lett not this letter be made common, for I am assured 
 that all you do is presentlie here. Silence become the grave 
 magistrates. And so I leave your selfe and my brethren 
 to the grace of God and rest 
 
 your worship's ever loving ffriend, 
 Jo. Prouze." 
 
 * For documents dated at Hampton Court, April 17, 1623, and Windsor, 
 April 18, 1623, see Cat. Dom., 1619-1623, p. 559. 
 
 f i.e. Lionel Lord Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex, see L. 220, p. 77.
 
 132 
 
 In L. 252, Lincoln's Inn, June 28, 1623, Nicholas Ducke 
 [Recorder of Exeter, page 55] writes to John Martyn [Town 
 Clerk] : 
 
 "Untill I receyved your letter by George Salter, I did 
 little doubt but that the Commission for the money clippers 
 had bene Longe agoe dispatched. I shall have such important 
 busynes partlie concerning the City of Exon and partlie my 
 selfe in my particuler, and will lye so uppon me and require 
 my attendance here so longe, that I thinke I shall not be able 
 to reache home before your Sessions. I praie you therfor to 
 acquaynt Mr. Maior with it and hi my behalfe heartilie to 
 intreat Mr. Waltham and Mr. Reynell [see L. 21 1, page 1 10], for 
 the giving of the charge and to attend to the Sessions and busy- 
 nes ; and I shalbe ready to acknowledge yt. And I conceive the 
 busynes will neyther be longe or difficult. For the Sequestracon 
 I have moved the Barons, and it is yet yeelded that wages 
 shalbe allowed for a Cuarat to serve the Cure, such as the 
 ordinary shall think fitt. Bud (sic) Mr. Costard hath 
 petitioned his Majestic, who hath referred the consideracion 
 of that busynes of the sequestracion to my Lord Treasurer, 
 and by hym to Baron Denham ; so that wee knowe not yet 
 what the finall end wilbe. But the sending' in of the money 
 by Mr. Maior is well allowed. For the Eschetorship, we are 
 now in hand with yt and will doe our best, and yeeld an 
 account of our proceedings therin uppon our returne. 
 William Prowse is employed about the Escheatorship, and 
 followes it carefully and like himself. Wee feare much the 
 Commission of the peace, but wee shall do our best to with- 
 stand yt for so much as shall lie in our powers. Thus with 
 my hearty commendacons I leave the success of all busynes 
 to God, and rest your assured frend, 
 
 Nich. Ducke. 
 
 In L. 256, London, Nov. 8, 1623, William Prous writes to 
 the Mayor, John Gokewill, Esq., and the rest of the deputie 
 Lieutenants : 
 
 "Rt. Worshipfull. 
 
 " Our Lord Lieutenant for Devon and Exon hathe ben 
 pleased to acquaint me that he is dealinge with Mr. Secretary 
 Calvert for the passage of his Comyssion and dothe expecte 
 allowance from your Chamber to be fourthwith disbursed 
 according to the ordinary proporcon heretofore dispended 
 upon like occasion. And because his pleasure could not be 
 made knowen soner unto your worships (howbeit It is saied 
 that sume amounge you were acquainted with his Lordship's 
 resolucon bendinge that waie at his being at Exon), I have 
 thought it my duetie (being thereunto also by his Lordship 
 requested) to give you knowledge thereof, Leaving further 
 directions to be given for his Lordship's better satisfaction 
 and the accomplishment of this weightie affaire, to your deep 
 and better considerations and, wisedomes.
 
 133 
 
 " I finde his Lordship's inclynacon bendinge to the increase 
 of the number and to make the number full with addicon 
 of two more, to those that formerlie have ben deputed. He 
 hathe required my attendance aboute this service, for which 
 purposelie I intend to lengthen my tyme for 10 daies (my 
 determynacons beinge formerlie and resolutely setled to 
 have come heare upon thursdaie nexte beinge the 13 of this 
 instant monethe. I humblie therefore desire to be informed 
 (yf so It shall seeme good unto you) jwhat returne I shall 
 make unto his Lordship for payment of such somme as shalbe 
 required for the passage and dueties incident to the procuringe 
 thereof ; And the rather do beseche the expeditinge of your 
 answeare in regard of my desire to leave this care, which 
 is very noysome to my bodie. Untill the 23 your occasions 
 shall staie me here. 
 
 " The Catalogue of those names which are to be presented 
 unto his Lordship for increase of the number must be those 
 four Jus tics which are none of the number alreadie mencioned 
 in his deputacon, of which number I presume the lott will 
 fall into the Lappe of Mr. Waltham [Geoffrey Waltham, Mayor 
 1613] and Mr. Muddyford [John Modyford, Mayor 1622], 
 gentlemen well approved of. 
 
 " I have the warrant of his Lordship's comaund to comend 
 his hartiest affections to you, Mr. Maior, by name, with many 
 thankes for his liberall and cherefull enterteinement, which 
 words I received from his owne mouthe, and the like affections 
 to the rest of the lieutenants, with his love to the Common 
 Counsel!. 
 
 " There are certeine directions towchinge marshall affairs 
 which he ordereth to be delivered and sent or carried to your 
 worshipps, which with safetie yf God will shalbe performed 
 yf the charge is laied upon me. 
 
 " My service and duetie remembered to your worship 
 and the rest of the Justics, do humblie take leave and shall 
 remayne ever at your commaundment in alle sinceritie and 
 faithfullnes, 
 
 " Wm. Prouz. 
 
 " I crave pardon for this rude writinge, being somewhat 
 diseased with hedache." 
 
 Abraham Rutter. 
 
 L. 221. May 27, 1622. The Lords of the Council forward 
 to the Mayor a warrant for the arrest of Abraham Rutter, 
 a citizen of Exeter, as soon as he should return from the Low 
 Countries.* 
 
 Postscript. You are to carrie this busines verie secretly 
 least that Rutter having notice thereof doe forbeare to returne 
 thither and keepe out of the way. 
 
 * He was charged with exporting gold and silver out of the realm between 
 Aug. 27, 1619, and May, 1622, but was cleared of the charge on Nov. 30, 
 1622. Gal. Dom., 1619-1623, p. 465.
 
 134 
 
 In L. 224, June 15, 1622, Lord Mandeville [President of the 
 Council] writes to the Mayor, &c., that he has received their 
 letter of June llth and therewithall Abraham Rutter, whom 
 you had order from the Board to apprehend. He desires 
 them to search Rutter's house for his Books of Account and 
 letters of advice, and them to take and keepe in your custody 
 till you have further order from the Board. 
 
 In L. 232 (undated, but circ. July 8, 1622), William Prouse 
 writes to the Mayor : " I am commaunded to attend the Kinges 
 Attorney tow. [i.e. touching] your letter, Mr. Maior, to the 
 Lord president, which accordingelie I have don this evening. 
 From Mr. Attorney's owne mouthe, I am required to intreate 
 you to send up such bookes and other writinges as you have 
 taken into your custodie of Mr. Rutter's ; and to send them 
 up fast sealed under your hand and seale, that they maie 
 not faile to be here at the fardest by the 15th of this monethe, 
 that my selfe maie have them to deliver with my owne hand to 
 Mr. Attorney, from whom he expectes to receive them as a 
 person trusted by him for the expeditinge of his Majesties 
 service, which as is pretended is of greate importance ; hereof 
 I humblie beseche your worship have speciall care to send 
 them by a faithfull and speedie messenger, that I maie receive 
 them in due tyme, to present them as is spetiallie required, 
 which I leave to your wisedome and graver consideracon. 
 [With side note : " Reade this parte to Mr. Maior onlie."] 
 
 The Free Schools. 
 
 L. 234. July 15, 1622. The Lords of the Council write to 
 the Bishop of Exeter [i.e. Valentine Gary, see L. 10, p. 17] 
 enclosing a petition of William Perriman, " Schoolemaister 
 of the Haigh School in the Cittie of Exeter [called " the ancient 
 school of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter " in Gal. Dom., 
 1629-1631, p. 297, June, 1630], complaining of divers great 
 abuses and outrages offered unto him, his ushers and schollars 
 by Zacharie Wills, an apprentice and others [endorsed " The 
 Lords letter to the Lord Carye Bishopp about the riott at 
 Southernhay," see L. 242, p. 131 ; also Lloyd Parry, p. 19], 
 and desiring the Bishop to take full examinations concerning 
 the matter. 
 
 This letter, which is somewhat torn, has been the outside 
 of a bundle of papers relating to this business, and is thus 
 endorsed by Izaack : " These several papers doe expresse the 
 particuler vexations and complaynts of Wm. Ferryman, a 
 Schoolemaster, against the Cittie of Exeter, and charitable 
 worke &c., wherein though two Bishops [i.e. Gary and Hall] 
 and the Deane and Chapter of Exeter joyned with them, yet 
 were their reasons rejected and severall men's pious donations 
 ordered to be performed prout Pasch 7 Car. [i.e. Charles I 1631] 
 R. in May att the Counsell Board."* 
 
 * The particulars of this dispute have been recently published by the Town 
 Clerk, Mr. H. Lloyd Parry, The Founding of Exeter School, who quotes 
 many of the documents which are here printed in full. J. H. W. 29.6.13.
 
 136 
 
 In L. 271, Jan. 4, 1624-5 [also L. 235, undated, which is a 
 duplicate, wrongly endorsed 1622, with slight verbal 
 variations] William Perriman, Schoolemaister of the Highe 
 School in the Cittie of Exeter, petitions George [Abbot] Lord 
 Archbishop of Canterbury, stating that the magistracy of 
 Exeter out of a long suppressed malice against him for com- 
 plaining some three yeres since to the Lords of the Council 
 (L. 234) of the countenancing and bearing out certain riotous 
 persons who had highly violenced and wronged him, his ushers 
 and scholars, have of late besides divers false and scandalous 
 aspersions tendinge to his defaminge and disablinge in his 
 person and profession contrarie to the letter of the Lords, the 
 opinion of the Judges of Assize, and without anie former 
 president caused him to be taxed for the first payment of 
 the last Subsidie and since to the second payment. 
 
 That notwithstanding by his solicitation and private charge 
 of 300/. he hath byn the meanes of reedifying the said schoole, 
 wherein he hath ymployed his best tyme and endeavors theise 
 22 years, they have labored to erect a newe schoole in 
 prejudice if not overthrowe of his most auncient schole. 
 
 That lookinge herein redresse from the Reverend Lord 
 Bishop there (though verie willinge) was not able to releive 
 hym, havinge noe Temporall jurisdiction in that Cittie. 
 
 That lastlie in further execution of their still continuinge 
 spleene they have without any former usage assessed him 
 towards the erectinge of a magazine for powder and he humblie 
 suinge therein for the priviledge of his profession was by them 
 bound in this tyme of Chrismas and dead of winter to appear 
 before the right Honorable the Lord Russel, Lord Lieutenant 
 of that Countie here near London,* and could by noe meanes 
 begge a further and more seasonable journey. 
 
 With a note : I praie the Lord Russell to give the best 
 assistance that his Lordshipp can to this petitioner in his 
 honest cause. G. Cant. [See Lloyd Parry, pp. 28, 31.] 
 
 On the back is a copy of a writ dated Whitehall, Feb. 7 
 1624-5, summoning " such two of the Aldermen of the Cittie 
 of Exeter as you shall thinke fittest instructed and authorised 
 on your behalf es to make answare to the said complaintes " 
 of George (sic) Perriman : 
 
 In a further petition addressed to the Lords of the Privy 
 Council, a duplicate of which is in L. 272 (undated), 
 Mr. Perryman asserts : 
 
 They practize to erecte a newe schoole and bringe in another 
 schoolmaster your petitioner havinge served in that place 
 without just cause of exception 22 yeres, drawne thither by 
 themselves from a place of equall benefitt, the schole beinge 
 capable of receivinge manie more, and your petitioner havinge 
 at his owne charges of 300Z. reedified the same and provided 
 learned ushers at his greate cost to serve there. 
 
 * i.e. at Chiswick. See L. 263, 273, pp. 11, 138.
 
 136 
 
 That on his return from the interview with Lord Russell, 
 " residinge neare London," they first in approbrious termes 
 reviled your petitioner, saying he was a proude, sawsie, 
 insolent fellowe, and they would whipp hym worse then he 
 whipped anie. scholler, and within fewe daies after to the 
 further disgrace of your petitioner, called an unusuall assembly 
 to gether and pressed your petitioner there to make publique 
 confession and acknowledgment of the afore said supposed 
 error. Divers other causeless reproaches and Injuries tendinge 
 to the scandalizinge of his person and disablinge and dis- 
 couraginge hym in his profession are dailie offered to your 
 petitioner, whereof your Lordshipps may be likewise pleased 
 to be further informed by his Counsell. 
 
 The premisses considered the petitioner humblie praieth 
 your Lorshipps to take such course as in your wisdomes shall 
 seeme best as well for the petitioner's future exemption from 
 the like taxes and charges and for upholdinge the priviledges 
 of the Auncient Schoole, as also for the future quiet of your 
 petitioner and some reparation for the disgrace susteyned as 
 beforesaid. 
 
 L. 236 (undated). Wee have heard of a petition about 
 three yeares past exhibited by the schoolmaster of Exeter unto 
 the Lords of his Majesties privye Councell complayninge as now 
 against the Magistrates of Exeter which busenes when itt 
 came to hearinge before the Lord Byshopp, as wee are crediblie 
 informed by the Recorder of Exeter, beinge present, he onelie 
 called and accused one of the Aldermen, namely Mr. John 
 Prowze, which wee are the rather induced to beleeve because 
 none of us besides the said Alderman Prowze were either 
 publikelye called before the said Lord Byshopp at the tyme 
 of the examynacon of the busenes or privatlie dealt with 
 therein by the Lord Byshopp or any from hym. Butt as wee 
 have heard the said Schoolmaster finding his owne error that 
 he had peticioned against the whole Governors and att the 
 hearinge called and accused butt one by the advice (as itt 
 seemes) of some frend of his complayned att the laste in grosse 
 against all the Governors, but soe Coldlye as nott any one of 
 us (Mr. Prowse excepted) were ever called before my Lord 
 touchinge the busenes and the petition itt self which was 
 exhibited unto the lords of his Majesties Privy Counsell after 
 itt was once read before the said Lord Bishopp, as wee have 
 heard could not ever againe be scene, soe as wee could not 
 informe ourselves of the Injurye Slaunders he did us therein 
 Whereby wee might have proceeded to right our selves by a 
 Course of Lawe. 
 
 Now for justifieinge of our proceedings in this busenes, on 
 Complaint made on the parte of the ushers (though on 
 examynacion wee found both partyes faultye as itt will 
 [presentlye] appeare) yett wee bound over onelie the Townsmen 
 unto the next generall Sessions. At which Sessions there 
 beinge noe legal! proceedings against them by the adverse
 
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 parte they were discharged in open Sessions by the then 
 Maior and Justices, Richard Waltham, Counsellor at lawe 
 then sittinge in place of the Recorder." 
 
 [Endorsed: " The passages of the busines touching Perriman 
 in 1622 before ye Lord Bishop of Exon, et that not binding 
 the ushers as the townsmen were argues us [i.e. the magistracie] 
 to be farr from mallice." For abstract, see Lloyd Parry, p. 18.] 
 
 In L. 243, London, April 27 (s.a., but 1624, though endorsed 
 1623, as Lloyd Parry, p. 24), J. Chappell [possibly a son of 
 John Chappell, who was Mayor in 1595] writes to the Mayor, 
 John Gupwill : 
 
 "Right Worshipfull. 
 
 " My humbell and most Bounden dutie unto you and the 
 Rest of the Worshipps Remembered. Accordinge to your 
 derectiones I have Imparted unto Mr. Recorder [Nicholas 
 Ducke] and Mr. Prouze the substance of the buisnes which 
 your worship and the Rest willed me to dow, and in especiall, 
 touching the Treatie with our Lord Bushoppe for his favour 
 in permitinge of another skoolmaster to teach within the City. 
 
 " The weeke after my first Cominge to London the Lord 
 Bushope was moved by Mr. Recorder, Mr. Prouze and my 
 selfe beinge present, and his Awnsear was That as yet he was 
 not so fullye acquented with the maner of the skooll, but 
 would advise himsealfe with thoes which better knowe yet 
 and then would give his Awnsear ; and one Sundaye last 
 Mr. Recorder, Mr. Prouze and my sealfe In The afternone 
 went to his house, and ther after many Comunicationes, wher 
 his Chauncelor was present, his Awnsear was fullie and plenarily 
 thus : " That yf ye.t might appear of any particular Comodity 
 might Redound to the citizens by the havinge of another 
 skoolmaster, he would willinglie yeald to their request, &c., 
 and that at his next Cominge downe into the Cuntrie, which 
 he said by Godes grace should be present after this seccion 
 of parlement : he doupted not but to give them good satis- 
 faction, and withal said That yf any other course wear taken 
 for the admission of another skoollmaster yet should in 
 no maner discontent him. In the discourses of pro and con., The 
 Chauncelor touched that Mr. Perimanhad not in all one hundred 
 and ffortie skollers and that he did not macke clear of the skooll 
 above a hundred pound per annum, and said he would man- 
 tayne the poyntes to be True. 
 
 " This is far under the number and some which Mr. Recorder 
 and Mr. Prouze alleaged, and so upon thoes termes wee 
 parted ; nowe having Receaved this determinat Awnsear, 
 Mr. Recorder willed me to signifye unto your worshippis what 
 had passed, and withall said for present he saw no waye to Attayne 
 unto yet except some pregnant mattir could be proved against 
 Mr. Penman of any fact done by him : and for to move yet 
 in the parlement yet would bee but a hassard to expend mony 
 upon a douptfull event, for the parlement is possessed with
 
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 many petitions and billes, and yf everi daye wear a weeke, 
 yet would bee time littell yenoufe to determine them, and 
 many will come short of ther expectation. 
 
 " The Buisines of examinations about the Lord Tresearor [see 
 L. 268, p. 1 14] which hath binne dependinge near a moneth hath 
 binne the cause that many billes and petitiones of greavances lye 
 backe, and attend time. Diverse Merchantes of London and Brist- 
 towll and my selfe wear summoned to appear before the Lords of 
 the heier house and ther sworne by the Lord Keeper to awnsear 
 before the Lordes Committes touchinge greavances of which 
 Attendance wee are not yet freed, but this weeke we hoope the 
 Lord Tresearour's Buisines will be Censured, which I fear 
 will fall heavye ; and the oppininge of a pathe of some others 
 to fowlowe ; for our greavances of the pretermitted Custome, 
 the Grocerie, the prisage, the Alowance of repayment of 
 Impost upon sugares exported, the Allowance upon other 
 Perpetuances, and small Devon, Somersett and Dorset Dozns, 
 wee are in good hoope of some Redresse : for other particular 
 * * * hear, yet is the backe see ebbinge and flowinge, up and 
 downe ; so a man dare not be thauthoc (?) onlie his Majesties 
 graciouse speache [see p. 114], whereof I send you a coppie [not 
 preserved], and his generall pardon is said to be verie large. The 
 licke hath not binne since the first year of the late quenes Raigne. 
 In Mr. Recorder's Chamber ther was some speache of Mr. John 
 Martin's* death, and many Reported to be suttores for the 
 Town clarkShippe, and emongest many which were named, 
 Mr. Recorder said he could wyishe yf yett did so please the 
 Mr. of the 24 that Mr. Wm. Neald, which hath binne well 
 experimenced in the ofice to be a fit man and cappabell to 
 dow good ofices for the Citye upon any occasion. Thus I 
 humblie take my leave and dow Remayne at your Worshipped 
 comandement in all dutie to be comanded, 
 
 "J. Chappell." 
 
 In L. 268, Westminster, April 24, 1624, John Prowse writes 
 to the Mayor : " Concerning a newe scholemaster I feare 
 our bishop wilbe adverse to our desire, whose aunsweare 
 wee shall understand to-morrow, however Mr. Recorder and 
 my selfe joyne in opinion that you should by a letter subscribed 
 by yourselfe and all our magistrates, with some others of the 
 better citizens, wryte to my Lords Grace of Canterbury, 
 humbly Intreating his favor in this busynesse which being 
 sent in season wee will second you, in the meane tyme wee 
 purpose notwithstanding to be suters unto his Grace for the 
 efecting of your Request if possybly wee maie obteyne the same." 
 
 L. 273. Chiswick, Jan. 6, 1624-5. Francis Lord Russell 
 (see p. 11) writes to the Mayor and deputy Lieutenants of 
 Exeter : 
 
 " After my hartie commendacons I received from you latelie 
 a letter with a Recognizance wherein Mr. Willyam Perryman, 
 
 * Town Clerk since April 22, 1620. He was also Chamberlain, see p. 114. 
 He was buried April 20, 1624.
 
 139 
 
 Schoolemaister of Exeter, was bound to appear before me 
 together with your information against hym towchinge the 
 cause of his byndinge over ; Soe it is that he made his 
 apparance before me within the tyme prefixed by the recog- 
 nizance and before I had received your letter or information 
 against hym whereby I could not att the first charge hym 
 particularlie with anie offence ; but since then he hath come 
 to me againe; And nowe comparinge your information with 
 his aunsweares I find his refusall to pay the rate imposed 
 on hym towards your magazine of powder to be the onlie matter 
 of substance laide to his charge proper for me to consider and 
 judge of. And touchinge that point he laboures to excuse 
 or att least to extenuate the offence complayned of by 
 alleaginge your former passinge by of him for theis manie 
 yeres in rates of like nature, which thoughe it were not of 
 right seemeth to have byn done out of some favour which 
 yourselves in former tymes helde not inconvenient to afford 
 hym. And therefore albeit I approve and commend your 
 proceedings hitherto against hym, yet fyndinge hym now to 
 fall of from that spiritt of contradiction which you alleadge 
 to have formerlie byn in hym and willinge to submitt hymselfe 
 to my judgment and that he acknowledgeth his error of his 
 stiffe insistinge heretofore uppon his right of exemption and 
 in regard of his confident protestacions that he gott the most 
 part of that little meanes he hath without your Cittie by a 
 match, and that he hath alreadie laid out a good part of his 
 fortune in reedifyinge the schoole house of your Cittie, from 
 whence you may all reape a common benefitt. I am for these 
 reasons and in respecte of a speciall recommendation in his 
 behalfe from the Lord's Grace of Canterbury induced to give 
 waye that he be spared from contributinge to this rate att 
 this tyme with this causion neverthelesse that he confesse 
 his error before you and in such sorte as the other refractorie 
 persons formerlie did, and that it be not drawne into 
 precident for men of anie qualitie who may not take occasion 
 by the example of this one favor showed to a single scholler 
 to presume of the like indulgence. Thus I bidd you hartelie 
 farewell, restinge, 
 
 Your verie lovinge ffrend, 
 
 Ffra. Russell. 
 [For abstract see Lloyd Parry, p. 28.] 
 
 L. 274. Whitehall, Feb. 7, 1624(25). The Lords of the 
 Council write the Mayor and Aldermen of Exeter : 
 
 "After our hartie commendacons, Whereas George (sic) 
 Ferryman, Schoolmaster of the Cittie of Exeter, hath by 
 peticion humblie complained to this Board of sundrie causeless 
 and uniust vexations putt uppon hym by you the particulars 
 whereof appear more at large in his said peticion, a coppie where- 
 of we send you inclused [i.e. L. 271, p. 135], wee have thought 
 good hereby to will and require you to cause to appear before
 
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 us at Whitehall the 18th dale of this present month such two 
 of the Aldermen of the said Cittie as you shall thinke fittest 
 instructed and authorized on your behalfe to make aunsweare 
 to the said complaint, and soe wee bid you farewell. Your 
 lovinge ffriends, 
 
 H. Mandeville, G. Cant." [and 6 others]. 
 [This is copied verbatim, but without the signatures on the 
 back of L. 271.] 
 
 L. 275 (undated and somewhat damaged). " Aunsweares to 
 Mr. Willyam Ferryman's false and slanderous allegacons. 
 ffirst for the complaynt touchinge the supposed ryott. The 
 26th daie of June, 1622. Mr. Ferryman came unto the then 
 Maior and complayned of some abuses done unto hymself 
 and the ushers, and desired Mr. Maior to take the informacion 
 of one witnes that was then suddenlie to departe the Cittie, 
 which Mr. Maior and one of the Aldermen forthwith tooke. 
 And the 27th daie Mr. Maior and all the Aldermen of the Cittie 
 (Mr. Sheeres onlie excepted) spent the whole daie in further 
 examination of the buysnesses. The 28th daie was markett 
 daie, which Mr. Maior for manie servics is to attend. The 
 29th daie the s [? several] persons complayned of were bound 
 to the good behaviour and to appeare at the Sessions, which 
 they did, and noe one then prosecutinge anie legall course 
 against them, they were discharged. Richard Waltham, Esq., 
 Counsellor at Law, beinge then presente and in . . . , as by 
 the said severall examinacions and recognizances the coppies 
 whereof wee send herewith maie . . . Add hereunto that 
 the peticion unto the Lordes in anno 1622 was generall against 
 the Maior and Aldermen of the Cittie, yet att the severall 
 hearinges before the Lord Bishopp by refferance from the 
 boarde (Mr. Recorder beinge then presente) he complaynes 
 against Mr. John Prouse onlie ; so that not anie other of the 
 Aldermen were eyther called or questioned, nether hath 
 there anie hurt or damage ever since happened to anie one 
 by reason of the said difference. 
 
 ffor the Subsidie yt is Commissioners dutie to performe 
 what they be trusted with. And it was the opinion of divers 
 Learned Lawyers that he was not to be exempted as his case 
 stands. And therefore wee in discharge of our duties did 
 thinke fitt he should stande, as the raters had presented 
 hym to us, the same beinge before anie man had given his 
 opinion to the contrarie, yett we have heard that some of the 
 Commissioners did afterwards certefie for hym into the 
 Exchequer, whereuppon he was for that first Subsidie (with 
 much labour) discharged, but with this direction (as wee were 
 informed) that this favour was not againe to be expected for 
 hym. Whereuppon wee againe gave waie he should be rated 
 to the second Subsidie alsoe, and whither that be discharged 
 or noe wee knowe not. The reasone whie he was not formerlie 
 rated here to the Subsidie was in regarde the best parte of his
 
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 estate (as wee understande) was then in a Tenement he had 
 in the Countie of Devon. . . . was there rated by the Com- 
 missioners for that Countie, which Tenement beinge since 
 sold ... in his purse wee holde ourselves to rate hym here. 
 And to the ratinge of hym to the ffifteenethes wee fynde by 
 precedence ... as he is no we rated xijd. in the same, ffor our 
 purpose in erectinge a newe schoole, it is a strange complaynt, 
 since it hath byn ever understoode . . . worke of pietie, and 
 this was earnestlie sought by a peticion to the Chamber of 
 Exon under the ... of 60 of the sufficients of the Commons 
 att the leaste, which said peticion did importune the magis- 
 trates to solicite the Lord Bishopp to this purpose, without 
 anie thought (for ought wee knowe) to supplant the man, 
 but to add another schoole to this Cittie, and if wee proceede 
 therein the intente is it shalbe a ffree schoole indowed with 
 maintenance for the Ease of posteritie for the education of 
 their children, the payments nowe to the maister and ushers 
 by the parents and frinds of the schollors beinge verie 
 extraordinarie greate more than doble ever heretofore unto 
 anie of his predecessors, which is exceedinglie complayned 
 of, and the populousnes of this Cittie togeather with those 
 that are sent hither from the Countrie greatelie needinge 
 another teacher. And as for his comynge from his former 
 place of teaching to this Cittie, he hymselfe was an earnest 
 suitor for the same. And Archdeacon Hellier did earnestlie 
 solicite for hym alsoe unto the then Maior. This change 
 was well worthy his endeavours, for that wee conceive it to 
 be seaven tymes more in value then his former place, which 
 hath enabled hym to bestowe . . . the Schoole. What his 
 charge was wee knowe not, but he received . . . towards the 
 same by the benevolence of manie gent, and others both 
 in Countrie and Cittie. And some are of opinion that his 
 receipts did exceede his disbursements. 
 
 ffor the powder rate it was comaunded by Authoritie 
 and required by the right honorable the Lord Leivtenaunte 
 under his hand and scale that those that would not pay those 
 rates ymposed on them should be bound to appeare before 
 his Lordshipp within the lymitted tyme of Twentie daies. 
 The Schoolmaister was warned (as all others were) to paye 
 or to appeare att the Guyldhall 3 or 4 tymes in the last 
 summer. When as a Coppie of the said Commission was likewise 
 sent to be shewed unto hym and all others. Yet he never 
 gave his absolute aunsweare untill the 22th daie of December 
 last, and then obstinatlie refusinge to paye ; ana desiringe 
 to aunsweare the premisses before the said Lord Leivetenaunte, 
 was then bound by recognizance according to the tenour of 
 the said Commission. And he appearinge was by his Lordshipp 
 ordered to give publique acknowledgmente of his Error. 
 Agreeinge therewith, the Maior and deputie Leivtenaunts after 
 his retorne sent unto hym the Chamberlyn, and one of the 
 Bayliffs of the said Cittie (noe ordinarie messingers) to give
 
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 hym notice of the place and tyme that the (sic) had appointed 
 to sitt (as formerlie they had often done) for the receivinge 
 of the like rates of other persons, which (probabelie by his 
 example) were then unpaide, and expected his presence then 
 and there to performe what his Lordshipp had ordered, where 
 he came and made a bare acknowledgmente of his supposed 
 Error, as he termed it. Yet in peaceable manner of the deputie 
 leivtenaunts' parte it was accepted. 
 
 . . . and his Lordshipp's letter sent by Mr. Ferryman, 
 which . . . seaven daies by him after his retorne home. And 
 until! the verie daie after Mr. Recorder's departure for London 
 will likewise cleare this last Article verie fuUie, as well for the 
 lymitted tyme of his appearance before his Lordshipp as 
 likewise for the order of his Acknowledgment, which he soe 
 sleightlie performed. 
 
 All the complaynts are but for 16s. Qd. 
 
 Filed with this is a document (L. 275a), undated but endorsed 
 "Feb., 1624-5. Obiections and Answeares to perryman's 
 peticion," containing a few additional facts : E.q. (a) The 
 petition exhibited to the Mayor and Governors " about 
 Michaelmas last " was " from the Commons of Exon, being 
 60 in number and all Subsidie men and of the better ranke 
 of that Gitty." 
 
 (6) " The place from which he (Perriman) came being a 
 Countrey towne and a meane schoole noe way equall in benefitt 
 to Exon Schoole." 
 
 (c) " It shall be proved he received by way of benevolence 
 from the Justices and gent, of Devon and from the 
 Magistrates and Cittizens of Exon neere that somme (i.e. 3001.) 
 if not more." 
 
 (d) " They deny that he was reviled by any of them with 
 any such opprobrious words as are complayned of." 
 
 [For abstract see Lloyd Parry, p. 33.] 
 
 L. 276 (Feb. 23, 1624-5), with duplicate in L. 277 : 
 
 Your highnes devoted the Bishop of Exeter [Valentine Gary] 
 being hindered by sickness from making my personall appear- 
 ance before you this day : doth in all gentlenes present unto 
 you this narracion of the difference between the Citty of 
 Exeter and Mr. Perryman, the Schoolmaster there, soe farre 
 as I have had any hand or dealing therein between them. 
 
 It pleased your highnes to vouchsafe by your Letters to 
 reserv.e unto me at my first coming amongst them the hearing 
 and examining of a matter of which the Scholemaster had 
 exhibited a complaynt unto your highnes. 
 
 In obedience to your comaundment, I did convent the 
 parties before me in the presence of divers wise and discreete 
 gent., and having heard the matter at full on both partes 
 I founde (as I did apprehend it) that there had been great 
 abuse offered unto them of the schoole by some of the younger 
 sort of the Citty, and little or no satisfaction given for the
 
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 same by the better sort (the magistrates) when the Schoole- 
 master complained of that abuse unto them, but only this, 
 That when they understood of his refuge to your highnes 
 for redresse, They formally did binde some fewe of the 
 delinquents to the good behaviour unto the time of their 
 next Sessions, not binding any other to come in and lay any- 
 thing to their charge. 
 
 I should have made certificate thereof unto your highnes, 
 but choose rather to lett it sleepe by me for two reasons. 
 One because I was lothe at my first cominge to doe the Citty 
 any bad office in procuring them any check or blame. The 
 other because I sought to make peace amongst them and 
 thought that the suppressing of the certificate would be an 
 effectuall meanes thereof. And to that end I warned the 
 Schoolemaster to carry himselfe respectively towards them 
 and exhorted them to use him freindly. Wherein I finde 
 my laboure in vayne, and how my good purposes have bine 
 requited I will not now complaine. 
 
 Another matter betweene them happening since the former 
 is this : Whereof may it please your highnes to be thus 
 advertised. During the last Session of parliament there 
 came unto me three persons of qualitie (the Recorder of the 
 Citty and two others) [L. 243, see 'page 137], in the name of 
 the Maior and his brethren, with a request that I would allowe 
 them to have in their Citty another Grammer Schoole besides 
 Mr. Ferryman. I answeared that I would deferre it untill 
 my coming into the country, when I should heare both 
 their reasons for having another, and they should heare me 
 for the upholding of him (et melior sententia vincat). 
 
 Att my last being in the Country, the Maior with his brethren 
 and the Recorder came and renewed their mocion unto me. 
 
 I perceaving well that their mocion tended indirectly to 
 the hindrance of Peryman and his schoole, Demaunded of 
 them first whether they had any iust exception against him 
 either of insufficiency, or of negligence or of misdemeanor, or 
 of undue usage of his Schollers, and said that if they had any 
 such iust excepcion I would either reforme or remove him. 
 They answeared me, that they had nothing to say against 
 him. I secondly demaunded of them what cause they had 
 to desire another Schoolemaster with him, I sawe noe necessity 
 thereof, for the Schoolehouse (built lately) most at his owne 
 charge for perpetuity to the Citty, is soe spatious as it is able 
 to receive and conteyne a hundred more Schollers then he hath, 
 And he hath also the helpe of ushers under him sufficient to 
 teach many more. 
 
 I sawe noe good thereby could come to the Cittye, but 
 rather much inconvenyence of gentlemen [=" p'ents," in 
 L. 277] would upon every sleight occasion remove their children 
 from schoole to schoole, whereby the children would be 
 hindered in their learning. And therefore considering theis 
 reasons and withall the well deserving of the poore man for
 
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 his 20 yeares paines and upwards taken amongst them, and 
 also howe my predecessor [Bishop Cotton] had settled him 
 in his place, inhibiting any others to learne Gramer there, 
 save him alone, I desired them to rest contented, though I 
 could not yeeld to their desire. 
 
 They replyed that yf I would not graunt their desire they 
 could seeke unto a higher power, where they did not doubt 
 to obteyne it, and therein (as became me) I left them to their 
 liberty. 
 
 Thus with my humble dutye remembered, I testifye under 
 my hand, 
 
 Valen. Exon. 
 
 I cannot but second the latter parte of this Certificate of my 
 predecessor for the abilitye of the Teachers and capacitie of 
 the Schoole. The case still standeth as it did formerly without 
 any new cause of excepcion. 
 
 Jo. Exon [i.e. Bishop Hall]. 
 
 [Undated, but circ. June, 1630, see L. 334, p. 147; also 
 Gal Dam. 1629-31, p. 451.] 
 
 And wee the Deane and Chapter of the said Cathedrall 
 Church of St. Peeter in Exeter having oftentymes bene 
 acquainted with the premisses and knowing the opinion of 
 Bishopp Carey and our now Bishopp Hall to be founded 
 upon sufficient grounds doe most humbly desire that con- 
 sidering the Old Schoole is able to conteyne a great many 
 more schollers then now it hath, and finding both Schoolmaster 
 and Ushers very able men to supply their severall places in 
 this behalf e, noe new Schoole may be erected, it being very 
 preiudiciall to the priviledges of our Church and contrarie 
 to our locall statutes, the which we are sworne to observe 
 and keepe. 
 
 Wm. Peeterson, Deane 
 
 [Since July 18, 1629]. 
 Thos. Barrett, Arch. Exon. 
 
 [died Nov. 25, 1633]. 
 Laurence Barnell (sic), Chancellor 
 
 [since July 2, 1624]. 
 Robt. Hall, Treasurer 
 
 [since June 25, 1629]. 
 John Spratt (sic), Sub-deane 
 
 [since Feb. 18, 1603]. 
 
 [Both these documents are copies. For the originals see 
 State Papers Dora., vol. clxxxiv, /. 39; Gal. Dom., 1623-25, 
 p. 483 ; see also Lloyd Parry, p. 42.] 
 
 [For abstract see Lloyd Parry, pp. 25, 35.] 
 
 In L. 281 is a petition of the inhabitants of Exeter to 
 the Chamber [endorsed " In the yeare of Mr. John Gupwill," 
 who was Mayor 1623-4] setting forth that they sent their 
 cliildren to school to one Mr. Perriman, and that he and
 
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 his Ushers having too many schollers to teach they profited 
 nothing at all, for which cause and for the crewell and 
 tirannicall whippinge of divers of our said children being 
 apte to learne and of mild nature, some three, fower, five 
 and six tymes hi one day, whereby some of our children 
 pretendinge that they went to schoole went a meechinge half 
 a yeare or more togeather, others refusing ever to goe to 
 schoole to him, chusinge rather to hange themselves, drowne 
 themselves, cut theire owne throats or otherwise murder or 
 mischeife themselves ; whence divers were compelled to 
 put their Children to their greate charge att Country Scholes 
 and others to keepe them att home from schoole, divers of 
 your suppliants beinge hi this perplexitie did put theire 
 children to schoole to one Thomas Spicer, where for the most 
 part they profitted more in one quarter of a yeare then they 
 did in Two yeares at the said Perriman's Schoole. But soe itt 
 is yf itt may please your worshipps that of late the said 
 Perriman hath procured a letter from Mr. Doctor Goach to 
 prohibite the said Thomas Spicer from teachinge. By reason 
 whereof your Suppliants and theire children are likehe to be 
 utterlie undone and to be barred from Learninge, which is 
 most lamentable. And in Tender Consideracion whereof we 
 doe most humblie beseech your worshipps to take into your 
 Consideracion the consequence of this busines and to aide 
 and assist to your uttmost endevour to prevent further incon- 
 veniencye and mischefe that another schoole master may be 
 allowed and authorized to teach the worke and our request is 
 Good, Godly and Religious ; the reward wilbe yours. God 
 direct all, and wee will pray for your worshipps preservation. 
 Augustyn Drake, John Turner, Bartholomew Hore, Richard 
 Hart. In the behalf e of ourselves and our owne wronges 
 and of many hundreds more within the said Cittie and in the 
 Countrye. [Extract in Lloyd Parry, p. 23.] 
 
 In L. 278, Feb. 23, 1624 (i.e. 1625), is an order from 
 the Lords of the Council to the magistrates of Exeter 
 concerning Perryman's business, stating that : " present the 
 Archbishopp of Canterburye, the Lord President, the Lord 
 Bishopp of Winchester and six others. The Mayor and 
 Aldermen of the Cittye of Exon having sent us two of their 
 Corporation on that beehalfe were this day (as well by the 
 foresayd two persons as by their learned Counsell) heard 
 at the Board, the sayd Peryman and his Counsell beeinge 
 also present, whear after many alligations on both sydes 
 and much debate had, their Lordshipps found that somewhat 
 to hard a hand had been caryed agaynst the said Peryman 
 by the magistrates of the said Towne in som particulers which 
 put him unto unnecessary charge and vexacion. Yet for that it 
 was conceived to have som mixture of private endes of their 
 owne accompanyed with som indisposition to the person of the 
 Schoolmaster (of whose sufficiency and good demeanor the 
 
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 Board was satisfyed on very good testemony), Their Lordshipps 
 thought fitt and ordered that the magistrates of the sayd 
 Towne should bee heereby admonished to forbeare to put any 
 the like unnecessary charge or treble heereafter upon the 
 sayd Schoolemaster but give hym such respecte and counten- 
 ance as belonge to a person of his callinge and profession, 
 hee demeaninge hymselfe accordingly, with admonityon like- 
 wise geeven by their whole Lordshipps to the Schoolemaster 
 then present beefore them that he should by his respective 
 and good caryadge seeke and endevor on his parte to regayne 
 the love and good opynion of the Cittye. [See Lloyd Parry, 
 p. 36.] 
 
 In L. 306, Exeter, Nov. 21, 1627, John Acland (Mayor), 
 four Aldermen and two others write to Bishop [Joseph] Hall : 
 " Wee humblie gratulate your Lordships inauguration into 
 this dioces.* Whereas wee have bin solicited by the Commons 
 of this Cittie to become suitors to your Lordshipp yt you 
 wilbe pleased to allow two publique Scholes of Gramer for the 
 better education of their children and entreteinment of others 
 yt shalbe sent hither because by the multitude and ill usage 
 of schollers many are forced to keepe their sonnes abroade 
 to theire greate costes and greater discomforte. Wee are 
 bolde to desire your Lordshipps lawfull favoure in this behalfe 
 that wee partake the like libertie as other Cities of les extente 
 inioye ; wee do farther testifie that the hye schole here which 
 nowe usurpethe a monopolie of Grammer to the generall 
 greivance of all our Inhabitants and other gent in the Countrye 
 never had neyther it hathe (as farr as wee could ever learne) 
 anie legall priviledges by patent or otherwyse to barre others 
 from teachinge within certeine precincts of this place as is 
 pretended ; for wee have knowen two publique teachers of 
 grammer at once in this Cittie divers tymes even in our memory, 
 thoughe some have bin prohibited by your predecessors. 
 In all which respects wee flye to the sanctuary of your Lord- 
 shipps pietie to restore our ancient immunityes by which 
 publique benefitt tendinge to the good of all you shall make 
 many glad hartes and bynd us and our posteritie to praie 
 for your Lordshipp 's prosperitie and longe continuance among 
 us." [See Lloyd Parry, p. 38.] 
 
 In D. 1769a is a reference to 2001 left by Thomas Walkerf 
 towards the founding of a free grammar school in Exeter, 
 where the children of the freemen of the said city might be 
 taught and instructed in the learning of the Latin tongue 
 without any charge to their parents. [See Lloyd Parry, p. 39.] 
 
 In D. 326, Aug. 18, 1629, the trustees of Hugh Crossinge 
 [who died in 1621] direct that in case his bequest, originally 
 
 * He was elected Nov. 5, 1627, and consecrated Dec. 23, 1627. 
 
 f i.e in his will dated Nov. 20, 1628. Report on Charities, pp. 2, 
 231, where his daughter Elizabeth Dowrich, in her will dated Nov. 17, 1629, 
 gives 501. for the same purpose.
 
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 meant to endow an Hospital or workinge house, shall not 
 have been used for that purpose within the next three years 
 it shall be used towards the erecting of a Free Grammar School 
 under the direction of the Chamber. 
 
 L. 334. Undated, but endorsed June, 1630. Petition to 
 the Lords and others of the Privy Council from William 
 Perryman, Scholemaster of the High Schole in the Citty of 
 Exeter, humbly showing 
 
 That whereas upon a Petition heretofore exhibited to your 
 Lordshipps by your Petitioner compleyneing of the Mayor 
 and Aldermen of that Citty for assessing your Petitioner to 
 the subsidies and fifteends contrarie to the opinion of the 
 Judges of Assize in poynt of Lawe, the will of the Assessors 
 and theire owne constant usage for more than 20 yeares before, 
 It pleased your Lordshipps by an order of this honourable 
 Board to admonish the Magistrates of the said Citty to for- 
 beare to put any the lyke unnecessarie charges upon your 
 Petitioner. 
 
 Yet soe it is may it please your Lordshipps that the Magis- 
 trates of the said Citty in centempt of your Lordshipps' order 
 have since forced your Petitioner to pay new assesses by them 
 made which your Petitioner (unwilling to have any new 
 differences with the said Magistrates) was content to pay and 
 forbeare complaynte there to your Lordshipps. 
 
 Since which the said Magistrates (conceiveing causeles spleene 
 against your Petitioner, who hath according to your Lord- 
 shipps' admonicion endeavoured by all respective and good 
 carriage to regaine theire love and good opinion) have resolved 
 and prepared Materialls for erecting of a newe free Schoole 
 in the said Citty and bringing in a Schoolemaster of theire 
 owne on purpose by that meanes to impoverish your Petitioner, 
 who was almost 30 yeares since drawne thither by them from 
 a place of equall benefitt to your Petitioner, and hath since 
 at his owne charge of 300K. and upwards reedified the same 
 Schoole and made it capable of receiving many more Schollers 
 then that Citty can afford and alsoe provided learned Ushers 
 to his great cost to serve there. 
 
 And all this contrarie to the will of the right reverend Bishopp 
 of that Diocese and of the Deane and Chapter there [see L. 276, 
 p. 144], by both whom they have beene denyed any appro- 
 bacion thereof and alsoe without any just cause of excepcion 
 to your Petitioner for his sufficiencie or diligence. 
 
 Your LLordshipps humble Petitioner being thus still molested 
 by them is enforced to renew his humble Complainte to your 
 LLordshipps, humbly beseeching your LLordshipps to vouch- 
 safe to take some such course with the Magistrates of the said 
 Citty as in your honourable wisedomes shalbe thought fitt 
 for stay of the erecting of any such new schoole there and for 
 quietting your Petitioner from any farther trouble in the 
 premises. [See Lloyd Parry, p. 42. J
 
 148 
 
 L. 335. June 25, 1630 [with duplicate in L. 336]. The 
 Lords of the Council have received a petition from William 
 Ferryman [L. 334], the contents of which are recited. Theire 
 Lordshipps upon consideration had thereof being satisfied 
 as well of the abillities and well deservings of the petitioner 
 and the sufficiencie of his Ushers and those under him as of the 
 Capacitie and Comodiousnes of the said Schoole to receave 
 many more Schollers that hetherto that Citty and the partea 
 adioyning hath used to afforde, by Certificate from the late 
 Bishopp, seconded and confirmed by the now Bishopp and 
 the Deane and Chapter there signifieing likewise all their 
 desires for the reasons contained in the said Certificate) that 
 noe newe Schoole thould be there erected. And their Lord- 
 shipps alsoe callinge to minde that uppon a former hearinge 
 before this Board amongst some differences of like nature 
 betweene the said Schoolemaster and the Cittie their intencion 
 to erect a new Schoole (beinge then complained of) the Board 
 did then declare to those who were there present as Agents 
 for the said Citty that noe newe schoole should bee there 
 erected without first acquaintinge the Board therewithall 
 and Licence accordingly obteyned on that behalfe, doe therefore 
 and in consideration of the premisses finde iust cause to reprove 
 the disrespective carriage and proceedinge of the Mayor and 
 Magistrates herein and doe nowe againe order and declare that 
 they shall foorthwith uppon notice hereof desiste and forbeare 
 to erecte any newe schoole within the said Cittie without 
 the privitie and licence of the Board as they will answeare 
 the contrarie. And whereas notwithstandinge the aforesaid 
 Order of the 23rd of ffebruarie 1624 the Petitioner (who being 
 a Schoolemaster is exempted by lawe from payinge of sub- 
 sidies ffifteenes and other like charges) hath since byn charged 
 with payment of the same. It is further thought fitt and 
 ordered that the said Maior and Magistrates shall Cause repay- 
 ment to be foorthwith made to the Petitioner of all such 
 somes as have byn taken from him in that kinde since the 
 date of the aforesaid order by such persons as in Contempt 
 of the said order have enforced him to pay the same. And 
 in case of their refusall that the said Maior and Magistrates 
 be hereby authorized and required to binde everie such person 
 over to appeare and answeare the same before this Board. [See 
 Lloyd Parry, p. 43.] 
 
 L. 345 endorsed " My instructions," Mich. 6 Cha., [Sept. 29, 
 1630]. Instructions for drawing a petition to the Lords of the 
 Privy Council or to the King (if occasion shall be) " as well 
 in answeare of divers untrue informacions made against the 
 Maior, Aldermen and Magistrates of the Cittie of Exeter by 
 William Ferryman, the late Schoolemaister there, as for the 
 obteyninge of a confirmacion of the ffree Gramer Schoole 
 latelie founded within the said Cittie. 
 
 Ffirst the Magistrates of Exeter doe in all humilitie answear 
 and saye that they have not done anythinge of their knowledges
 
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 in erectinge a schoole within the said Cittie contrarie to 
 any order of the Lords of his Majesty's privie Counsell, neither 
 did they ever heare of any declaracion or restriccion made 
 by their Honnours for erectinge any schoole within the said 
 Cittie before the order of the xxvth daye of June last 
 (LL. 335, 336) before which time there was a ffree Schoole 
 founded within the said Cittie by the charitable and liberall 
 bequests and contribucions of divers worthie persons deceased 
 and livinge amountinge to the some of 1,000ft. or thereabout 
 and materialls are provided for the perfectinge of the same 
 wherein if they shall be restrayned most parte of those guifts 
 wilbee lost. 
 
 Mr. Ferryman was not in truth Schoolmaister of the High 
 Schoole in Exeter at the time of exhibitinge this last Petition, 
 neither doth he intermedle with the Schollers there, but hath 
 farmed out the same att a yerelie Rent. 
 
 And whereas he informeth that he hath byn mforced by 
 the Magistrates of the said Cittie to paye divers newe assess- 
 ments in contempte of an order of the Boarde and contrarie 
 to the opinion of the Judges &c., they confidently affirm that 
 Ferryman " hath not been assessed to any rate whatever " 
 except for the poor, which he had always readily paid. When 
 asked what assessments he referred to in his last petition, 
 he said that he had paid 8s. for a subsidy. " That of the 
 pour he wayed not, but expected his 8s. againe." 
 
 The Assent of the Lord Bishopp hath byn often desired to 
 confirme this pious worke though not obteyned by the opposi- 
 tion of the Deane and Chapter of Exeter as is supposed and as 
 some of them have openlie manifested, which is for their 
 owne ends. 
 
 1. Because they have a speciall interest in Perriman's 
 Schoole it being built on their lands or apperteyninge 
 to the Archdeacon of Exon one of their companie and 
 have vli. rent yerelie out of the same. 
 
 2. The Deane and Chapter have used heretofore to con- 
 tribute xx&. or xlK. per annum to the Schoolemaister, 
 but Mr. Perriman trusteth rather to the benevolences 
 of the Schollers, that pencion is saved to them. 
 
 Reasons to prove that the erectinge of another Schoole 
 within the Cittie of Exeter is of great Consequence and necessitie 
 to the Cittie and Cittizens. 
 
 1. That the Cittie and Countie of Exeter is spacious and 
 populous, consistinge of 19 severall parishes besides 
 the Cathedrall Church with the precincts thereof, and 
 that there are 200 schollers and more in the present 
 schoole, which one Schoolmaister and two Ushers 
 cannot attend without neglect to manie of them. 
 
 2. The payments and exactions of this Schoole (besides 
 other great abuses) are of late growne great and charge- 
 able, and whereas in times past a scholler paid onlie 
 ijs. a quarter and never above xs. a yere before
 
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 Ferryman's time, Ferryman hath used to take xx5. a 
 yere and more for one scholler and his ushers 85., 105. 
 or 12s. and more for the same person. 
 
 3. That for the causes aforesaid divers Gent and others 
 residinge neare the said Cittie (who in times past have 
 sent their children to schoole to this Cittie to the greate 
 benefitt of divers of the inhabitants here) and verie 
 manic of the Cittizens alsoe, doe send their children 
 to forraine places to their greate coste and greater 
 discomfort. 
 
 4. It hath byn often and earnestlie desired by most of 
 the cheifest Cittizens and inhabitants to have another 
 schoole there, att whose instances and importunities 
 all freindlie meanes have byn used to the two last 
 Bishopps to give waye to the same, but it could not 
 bee gotten of them. 
 
 5. It is no newe thinge to have two Schoolemaisters in 
 this Cittie to teach the lattyn tounge (as there are 
 in divers places of lesse emenencye). And there have 
 byn often two severall Teachers of the lattyn tounge 
 in the Cittie of Exeter att one and the same tyme. 
 [the names of 4 pair are given, as also in the endorse- 
 ment to L. 346]. 
 
 6. As it is a thinge memorable soe it was conceived lawfull 
 for any man to erecte a ffree schoole, and there beinge 
 not any ffree schoole in the Cittie of Exeter, it mooved 
 the hearts of divers worthie members of that place 
 to initiate soe necessarie and pious a worke, which 
 is with most heartie affeccions desired to be confirmed 
 and established without the least thought to preiudice 
 thother Schoole, . . . ffree Schoole hav[inge] soe 
 liberall a foundation ; It is not doubted but it will 
 verie shortelie have a more bountifull endowment. 
 Thos. Flaye, Maoir ; Ri. Waltham, Recorder ; Adam 
 Bennett, Sheriff, and 11 others, including Ignatius 
 Jurdain, Thomas Crossinge, Walter Borough and John 
 Acland (Aldermen). [For summary of this and the 
 following documents, see Lloyd Parry, pp. 44-54.] 
 
 L. 346 (undated). Reasons for the conveniencie and 
 necessitie of Two severall Schooles in the Cittie of Exon. 
 
 1. That the present Schoole doth not Contayne all the 
 Schollers that come thither (yet divers others are 
 sent to forraine places) and howe one maister and Two 
 ushers can expedite soe manye Schollers as they doe 
 enterteyne, is worthie of due consideration. And for 
 soe many to meete togeather in one litle roome cannot 
 but bee dangerous for infeccions &c. 
 
 2. That the Cittie of Exon is the cheife place of these 
 westerne partes where many Gent doe often meete 
 and therefore would rather send their Children thither
 
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 than to other places, if there were another Schoole 
 fitt to enterteyne them, which would bee beneficiall 
 for Cittie and Countrie. 
 
 3. That there is not the like precident, that in a Cittie 
 and Countie (of good esteeme in time past) there should 
 not bee one free Schoole in it, though in other places 
 of lesse extent, not farr distant, there are two ffree 
 Schooles, besides other teachers. And that such a 
 multitude of people should bee tyed to the humours 
 of one Teacher (bee of good or evill condicion) would 
 bee displeasinge to any man, whose Childe should 
 suffer iniurie. 
 
 4. There have often heretofore byn Two severall publicke 
 teachers or more, of the lattyn toungue in the said 
 Cittie at one and the same time and that manie yeres 
 since, when as one Schoole was more competent for 
 the Schollers then Two are nowe, and Two Schooles 
 would breed a profitable emulacion in maisters to 
 deserve best &c., Whereas Nowe a Scholler cannot bee 
 prepared for the Universitie within Tenne or Twelve 
 yeres. 
 
 6. That there is no ffree Schoole within the said Cittie 
 and Countie though fitt for Two consistinge of 19 
 severall parishes besides the Cathedrall Church and 
 the precincts thereof and divers other greate parishes 
 neare adioyninge. And this intended Schoole is to 
 bee a free Schoole with liberall indowment for a maister 
 and usher, besides it is appointed as parte of an Hospitall 
 latelie founded within that Cittie, and wilbee a speciall 
 lymbe and ornament to the same. 
 
 6. That the present schoole is erected on the lands of 
 the Deane and Chapter of Exon, who have heretofore 
 paid an Annual pencion to the Schoolmaister of the 
 ' high schoole, and then the Cittizens paid litle for 
 teachinge of their children, but of late there are such 
 greate payments and exaccions demaunded and suffered 
 (Three times more then hath byn in the memorie of 
 man) that the pencion is saved and the Schoole is 
 farmed out att an annuall rent. Thos. Maye, Maior ; 
 Ri. Waltham, Recorder ; Ig. Jurdain, Thos. Crossinge, 
 Jno. Acland and Walter Borough, Aldermen, and 2 
 others, only one of whom (viz. Gilbert Sweete) is among 
 the signatories in L. 345. 
 
 L. 347 (undated). Headed " The Aunsweares to the 
 Opponents reasons against the free Schoole," [in Izacke's 
 handwriting]. 
 
 1. To the ffirst no such priviledge is acknowledged, And 
 as for the instrument specified in this Article it is not 
 knowne what warrant it hath neither is it materiall 
 to the matter nowe in question. And as for the
 
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 licence given by Bishop Oldon [i.e. Hugh Oldham, as 
 there is a side-note " 1503-1519 "] to Mr. Davids, if 
 such power might bee given to one man (which may 
 bee allowed att pleasure) he must bee inabled to teach 
 1,000 schollars and more within that Circuit att this 
 time, for ffower schooles att this time are not more 
 competent for the schollers then one Schoole was in 
 those dayes. And that inhibicion therein mencioned 
 was intended for licensed Schooles in his owne time 
 onlie, and not to any free Schoole. 
 
 2. It wilbee proved by persons of worth and creditt 
 nowe livinge, that for 50 yeres since and more there 
 have byn severall publicke teachers of the lattyn 
 tounge within the Cittie of Exon at one and the same 
 time and soe there hath byn verie often since, all 
 licensed as its conceived, for Otherwise they should 
 have byn inhibited or suppressed. 
 
 3. ffor the capacitie of the present Schoole the contestacion 
 is not about the fairnes of the fabrike but the Con- 
 veniencie or Comodiousnes for the education of children, 
 and it is manifest that the same doth not conteyne 
 all the Schollers that come thither, for divers of them 
 are taughte in another roome, neither is the same 
 inlarged by the newe buildinge thereof from what it 
 was formerlie but rather lessened, for it is cast in the 
 same mould, and whereas before it was a ground roome, 
 and nowe an upper, the staires and Portall doth take 
 away much of the largenes thereof. And for the 
 maisters charges in reedifyinge thereof, its thought 
 that his receipts did exceed his disbursements, by 
 liberal! contribucions &c. And the maister of the 
 Schoole (in whose name the Peticion is exhibited) never 
 tooke any degree in any Universitie. 
 
 4. This is a matter casuall, which to Schooles of such 
 greate resorte may bee common, and most of this 
 Cittie doe repaire to Exeter Colledge, and yet there 
 are not halfe soe manie more of this Schoole that are 
 fellowes of all the Colledges of both the universities, 
 neither can the opponents vouch another such president 
 as either of these in all their memories. 
 
 5. When Two Schooles shalbee licensed in one Cittie 
 there wilbee the better disciplyne in either, for the 
 Maisters will strive to deserve best and civill emulacion 
 betweene Schollers is accompted a readie waye for 
 increase in learninge, nor can there bee any mutinous 
 or rebellious faction amonge men by having Two 
 Schooles in a well governed Cittie, manie Citties and 
 Townes have Two publi ke Gramar Schooles besides others 
 allowed to teach there alsoe, and yet finde no such incon- 
 veniences neither can parentes bee so scard by the oppo- 
 nents over vigilancie which is for their owne ends onlie.
 
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 6. The intended ffree Schoole is parte of an Hospitall 
 latelie founded within the said Cittie, a place most 
 fitt for such a purpose and for aire, scituacion and 
 spaciousnes, it farr exceedeth the present Schoole 
 and is a good space distant. 
 
 7. The Guifts to the Schoole amount to 1,000?. and 
 upwards, and for the donors legacies mencioned in 
 this Article (which is not the 4th part thereof) the 
 will and the deede will put an end to that particular, 
 which cannot be altered, and if it could, yet all the rest 
 of the guifts wilbee absolutelie lost, as wilbee mani- 
 fested. 
 
 8. In excuse of uniust exaccions the maister would 
 iustefie himself in that he is charged withall, that 
 Schollars pay at least Twentie shillings a yere to the 
 maister and some much more, besides vis., viiid. (sic), 
 xs. or more to the ushers, for one boyes schoolinge, 
 wilbee proved and xxs. (sic) is the ordinarie salarie to 
 the Maister besides ushers and gratuities &c. 
 
 9. The Chapter Clarke came to the Maior of the Cittie 
 in (sic) the Deane and Chapter onlie to have a meetinge, 
 which message beinge brought but the Munday in 
 the afternoone, the Tuesday morninge the Maior 
 treated with soe manie of the brethren as he could 
 then gett togeather, and presentlie gave order to 
 returne a milde and freindlie answeare by Two of the 
 officers of the said Cittie, which hath not received a 
 righte interpretacion. 
 
 10. Lastlie for the proposicion of electinge a maister 
 of the Schoole &c., or endowinge of theirs (sic) is alto- 
 geather unreasonable that persons should have voices 
 that are not contributors (or that have withdrawne 
 xxZ. a yere from their owne,) neither can it bee con- 
 discended unto, beinge directlie against the will of the 
 donors, for their desires were, and are, that there should 
 bee Two Schooles in that Cittie, as there have byn 
 often heretofore, there being a competent number of 
 Schollers for both : And this, a ffree Schoole, with 
 liberall endowment which must bee erected on ffee 
 simple land, and not on the Deane and Chapters, 
 which can have but shorte limitacions and therefore 
 a verie needlesse article. Thomas Flaye, Maior ; 
 R. Waltham, Recorder, and 5 Aldermen (as hi L. 
 346, but the additional name, Gilbert Sweete, is 
 erased). 
 
 L. 348 (undated). An Answeare to the foregoinge Allegations 
 and proposicions. 
 
 1. The ffirst reason is graunted that the maister of the 
 Deane and Chapters Schoole is called Magister Scholarum, 
 nay more, Magister altarum Scholarum, and that Bishopp
 
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 Olden to gratifie the said Chapter and Thomas Davids, 
 the maister, inhibited all others besides him to teach 
 Gramer publicklie in Exeter or in 7 myles compas 
 which Injunction (for Pattent it cannot bee called) 
 was iniurious to all the cittizens and onlie temporarie 
 duringe the said Bishop's life, for he was but dominus 
 et diocesanus p. tempore, nor could any acte of his 
 binde his successors, but it was arbitrary for them 
 to alter it at their pleasures, as divers did in their 
 generations, which if it were fitt att that time in such 
 paucitie of Inhabitants, is in these dayes most unfitt 
 when the multitude of Cittizens is doubled or trebled. 
 
 2. The seconde is utterlie untrue, for sundrie others 
 (besides the maister of the high schoole) have byn 
 licensed or permitted to teach Gramar in Exeter in 
 men's memorie, which were not inhibited by the Bishop 
 or his Chauncellor, as Mr. Holmes Pasemore and manie 
 moe, and Mr. Spicer, taught publicklie by Bishop 
 Cotton's approbation and authoritie both within the 
 Cittie and afterwards in the suburbs, nor did Bishop 
 Carie att his cominge inhibit him, but when he died 
 the said Bishop would not att the instance of the Maior, 
 Magistrates and Commons permitt any other to teach 
 there. 
 
 3. The thirde is partelie false, for the schoole no we reedified 
 is not longer or larger then it was before, but cast in 
 the selfe same mould," and more as in L. 347, 3, 
 ending : " Nor is the sufficiencie or Industrie of the 
 present maister or ushers questioned, but the im- 
 possibilitie of soe fewe to educate soe manie as well 
 as they should bee. 
 
 4. The fourth is comon to all Schooles, both publicke and 
 private in this Kingdome and all other Countries, for 
 divers famous schollars spring upp in all places, but 
 they have onlie the grounds of Gramar from such 
 Schooles and improve their learninge in severall sciences 
 and professions by their future industrie in universities 
 or elsewhere. 
 
 5. As in L. 347, 5, adding : " Bristowe, Salisbury, 
 Gloucester, Plymouth and divers other places have 
 Two publicke ffree Gramer Schooles besides others alsoe 
 allowed to teach, yet finde no such inconveniences as 
 are pretended but great benefitt to [blank] and their 
 children, nor can the parents here bee scard with 
 panic terrors of wronginge their children, who finde it 
 so behovfull as in other places. The Legacies given 
 to this worke are primarilie and principallie devoted 
 and destinated to a ffree Schoole (though perhaps 
 secondarilie to other uses). To the excuse of extorted 
 ffees, it is not said that no schollers are enterteyned 
 under xls. yerelie, but that they pay at least xxs. to
 
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 the maister, and some much more, besides vj$., viiis., 
 xs. or more to the Two ushers, or else they shalbee 
 sleighted : touchinge the motion of endowinge the 
 deane and Chapter's Schoole it is most unreasonable 
 and unfeasible for sith they have withdrawne the 
 stipend or pencion of xxli. yerelie ancientlie due or 
 given to the maister for teachinge the poorer sorte 
 gratis what reason have the Cittizens to conferr their 
 revenues on their Schoole when they intend to erect 
 a new (sic) of their owne, and their cheife ends and 
 desires tendinge to have Two Schools, because one is 
 not enough for that place in this populous Age. Nor 
 can these possiblie condiscend to it, if they were so 
 simple to doe it, because a nree Schoole must be founded 
 uppon firee fee simple land and not on others Tenants, 
 but the deane and Chapter cannot graunt the fee of 
 their Schoole : for the overture of a conference Virgil's 
 Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes might well deterr the 
 Maior and magistrates from acceptinge it, and they 
 did wiselie to refuse it, for the deane and Chapter 
 preferred it for their owne advantage either to gaine 
 time by pretendinge to the Lords that they were uppon 
 Termes of Treatie, or to entrap them otherwise, but 
 sithence the Lords had taken the cause into their 
 consideracion, the Cittizens had no reason to prevent 
 their determinacion. 
 
 Lastlie, for the proposicion of electing the maister for 
 the Chimserian free Schoole to be erected on the 
 Chapter's land and endowed with the Cittizens largesses 
 by the Deane and Eight Cannons on the one parte and 
 the Maior and 8 Aldermen on the other, constitutinge 
 the Bishop for the time beinge for Umpier in case of 
 equalitie of suffrages, it is a meer moustrap for the 
 Chapter will alwayes agree in their voices hi one, so 
 that if the Cittizens dislike or dissent, the Bishop to 
 please his brethren will adhere to the Canons and 
 sticke to their choice, so that the Maior and Magistrates 
 wilbee but Cyphers or Stales in the eleccion. But 
 admitt the pretended priviledge that none besides 
 the maister of their Schoole shalbee licensed to teche 
 within 7 myles circuit of this Cittie to be ratified by 
 royall patent or Acte of Parliament, which yet is 
 nothinge soe nor so, but onlie by Episcopall Iniunction 
 longe since out of date att Bishop Olden's death. Yet 
 could it onlie bar the Bishop from licensinge men 
 arbitrarilie to teach there, but cannot stopp benefactors 
 from buildinge a ffree schoole especiallie in an Hospitall 
 as a [blank] which is warranted and allowed by the 
 Statute of pious uses, so that the Cittie might have 
 proceeded by vertue thereof in their worke notwith- 
 standinge the [unfinished and unsigned. It is
 
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 probably a draft by Dr. Vilvain, out of which L. 347 
 is constructed]. 
 
 L. 349. Notes taken about Peryman petition and order, 
 1630. 
 
 That Peryman was not Schoolemaster att the time of 
 exhibitinge this petition, but hath farmed out the 
 same. 
 
 The Schollers. Perryman lefte the Schoole to Haytor, 
 and declares the same openlie to the Schollers in the 
 Schoole, and Haytor told the Schollers he had taken 
 uppon him the charge of the Schoole. 
 
 Mr. Robte. Walker. Haytor hath confessed he hath 
 taken the Schoole for a Rente during the life of 
 Perryman and beinge advised he should be wane what 
 he did, for that the freeschoole would goe on, the said 
 Haytor replied that if the nreeschoole went on he 
 should be abated of the Rente, or words to that effecte. 
 
 Mr. Penny. Haytor at another time confessed he had 
 taken the Schoole, and there beinge Speech made that 
 there was a newe Schoole to be erected, the said Haytor 
 answeared it was all one to him whither there were 
 or not. 
 
 2. Perryman hath not byn assessed to subsidies or 
 ffifteenthes since notice of the order of 1624, or to 
 any charge whatsoever, by the Magistrates, but onlye 
 to the poore in regard of his personall estate, which 
 is greate and hath noe charge. 
 
 3. That there was a ffree schoole founded within the 
 Cittie before notice of this last order by the charitable 
 bequestes of divers persons deceased and livinge, the 
 greatest parte whereof wilbe loste if this shoud not 
 goe on. And the Maior and Aldermen never under- 
 stood of any restrainte made of such a pious worke &c. 
 This is to be proved by the deede, the willes and the 
 notes subscribed. 
 
 4. That there have byn often heretofore 2 severall Schooles 
 within the said Cittie attone and the same time, which 
 wilbe proved by divers in the tymes of those who used 
 the same. [8 names of Schoolmasters follow, as in 
 L. 345, 346.] 
 
 5. Ferryman's exactions and other ill carriage to be 
 particularlie remembered. 
 
 Mr. Recorder paid but 4s. a yere, xijrf. a quarter, after- 
 wards viijs., and never above xs. before Perryman 
 and he taketh xxs. of a Scholler besides his ushers 
 iiijs. v. or vis. of the same person. 
 
 That the newe buildinge of the Schoole would have byn 
 rather advantageous to hym then chargeable by the 
 liberall contribucions of divers Gent of this Cittie 
 and the Countie of Devon had he taken that care which 
 he ought, and it is conceived that there are monies
 
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 remaininge yet in his hands out of those benevolenges 
 if a true Accompte were given of the same, and if any 
 losse be it is by his owne neglecte. 
 
 That the Deane and Chapter doe clayme a particular 
 interest in Ferryman's Schoole as beinge builte on 
 their land or as belonginge to the Archdeacon of Exeter, 
 and that they have used to contribute 201. or 40Z. a 
 yere to the Schoole maister. Ferryman confessed 
 soe much to Mr. Aclande and Mr. Hakewell. Cannon 
 Helliar, reported that Ferryman had rather trust to 
 the benevolence of his Schollers then to his pencion. 
 
 Ferryman sought the place and was not drawne hither 
 by anie one, neither is it likelie that any other place 
 he had byn formerlie in (though in divers) was of equall 
 profitt to this, where he hath gotten a verie great 
 estate, beinge but meane att his coming hither. 
 
 That he hath here 200 Schollers and more ; by the multi- 
 tude of them, not onlye the Gent neere the said Cittie 
 doe forebeare to send their Children hither, but divers 
 of the Cittie are enforced to send their Children into 
 other places. 
 
 That in regarde thereof there have byn often suites made 
 by the Comons of this Cittie for another Schoole, which 
 could not be obteyned, which caused this foundation 
 to be made according to the order of lawe. 
 
 The document, which is unsigned, is addressed " To his 
 lovinge neighbour Mr. Samuel Isacke,* deliver these." " I 
 pray peruse these and retorne them from Sidbury seald upp." 
 They appear to be notes by Dr. Vilvain, on which L. 345 is based. 
 
 L. 340. Exeter, Oct. 25, 1630. I, Robert Vilvain, Doctor 
 in Phisick [see L. 172, page 100], born in the City of Exeter, 
 doo testify upon my knowledg that the Grammar School here 
 commonly cald the High Schoolf (where I had my first Literary 
 education) hath no Lands nor Revenues to maintain a Master 
 or Usher but am credibly informed, that the Dean and 
 Chapter of the Cathedral Church here, by a public Injunction 
 of K. Edward 6th, did allow an annual Pension of 2Qli. to 
 the School master, and afterwards withdrew it, leaving him 
 free (without a Free School) to take what fees he could procure 
 from al the Scholars ; and imposed 5li. yearly Rent on him 
 and his successors to be paid to the said Chapter for ever, 
 becaus that School (with the house and Gardens appending) 
 is founded on their Land, and the Nomination of the School- 
 master appropriated to the Archdeacon of Exeter. 
 
 That in the time of my training up there, Mr. Drayton, the 
 Schoolmaster, required and received of the meaner sort only 
 65. 8d. yeerly, of most part 8s., and of the ablest 10s. at most, 
 but since his decease Mr. Peryman, the late master (who 
 
 * He was Town Clerk from May 4, 1624, till his deprivation in 1647. 
 
 t For " the High School near the little conduit in the High Street built 
 cieled and seated 1561, by a common contribution at the request of 
 Mr. Williams the Schoolmaster " see Izacke, 129.
 
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 hath lift of teaching, and farmed the execution of his office 
 to Mr. Haytor, sometime Usher, joined with him in Patent), 
 hath excessively inhansed the stipends, exacting and taking 
 of every one 20s. yerely at least, beside what they give 
 (som 65., som 8s., som 10s., som 12s.) to the two Ushers for 
 their better diligence and attendance ; which is more then was 
 paid among al in my time of Schooling. 
 
 That one Grammar School is not sufficient in this Populous 
 place, being the Center of our whole County, but another 
 Teacher was alwais permitted by the Bishop from time to 
 time til one Mr. Spicer's death, who kept School (in the Suburbs) 
 about 5 or 6 yeres ago (see L. 281, page 145) ; since which 
 time the Maior, Magistrats and Commons of this City have 
 bin ernest suitors to the two last Bishops, for licencing another 
 to teach Grammar here, but could not obtain it, though 
 Plimouth, a sea-town of much less extent and resort, hath 
 two public Grammar Schooles in it, and divers others in this 
 shire and elsewhere one Free School at least. 
 
 That there are in the said High School above 200 Schollars 
 &c. [as in L. 349, ad finem], adding ; but if a Free School 
 were once erected, besides the general good, which would 
 redound to Poor men's Children and others, it wil breed a 
 great emulation betwene the schoolmasters to deserve best, 
 and tend greatly to the speedier education of the Scholars, 
 in which respects I laboured long, and stirred up som pious 
 Benefactors to further so necessary a work, which was in a 
 fair forwardnes, had it not bin retarded by the cross-opposition 
 of som malevolent Planets, who for their owne privat ends 
 seek by misinformations to blast the good intentions of others, 
 and to support their own unjust Monopoly, whereof this 
 Kingdom cannot afford the like precedent. 
 
 Al which I am and wilbe ready to justify, still submitting 
 my judgment in al things to our Superiors. Ita tester ego, 
 Rob. Vilvain, M.D. 
 
 Among the Collection of Letters are two documents unnum- 
 bered and not included in S. Moore's Calendar. The second 
 is a duplicate of the first, and both contain a summary of 
 the case. 
 
 (1) is headed: " Att the Councell Board, William Perryman, 
 late Schoolmaister of the High Schoole, in Exeter, 
 against The Maior and Magistrates of the said Cittie 
 for erectinge a ffree Schoole there." It is endorsed : 
 
 " A Memoriall for Mr. Attorney for Exeter Schoole." [See 
 Lloyd Parry, p. 43.] 
 
 (2) has the same heading and contents, but is endorsed : 
 " Breviat for Exeter Schoole ffor Mr. Noy." 
 
 Also Memorandum att the hearinge of this cause att the 
 Board before the Lords about the Schooles a licence 
 shewed under scale (which was there readd by Mr. Noy) 
 whereby John Archbishop of Cant, (sede vacant'} did 
 grant a licence to Mr. Thomas Passemore Arbium Bacc
 
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 to teach the lattyn tongue infra Civit' Exon &c. And a 
 restraynt for all others (quodam Drayton adtunc Pedi. 
 vet. Schole except.) being dated 1594, but the saidliceince 
 was lost there in the Counsell Chamber and could not 
 be found again or gotten though I used all possible 
 meanes &c. Teste me S. Izacke ex cVico civit. Exon 
 et adtunc cause pde. ibm. 
 
 In L. 341, Nov. 6, 1630, the Mayor, Bailiffs and Common- 
 altie of the City of Exeter petition the Lords of the Privy 
 Council against Mr. Ferryman denying his allegations and 
 setting forward the various statements in L. 340 and L. 345. 
 
 L. 342 (undated) is a rough draft for L. 341. 
 
 In L. 343 (undated) is a draft for a petition from the Mayor, 
 Bailiffs and Commonaltie to the Lords of the Privy Council 
 to be heard on the same matter. 
 
 In L. 344, Nov. 26, 1630, is an Order in Council appointing 
 ye second Wednesday in ye next Terme (being Hilarie Terme) 
 " for the hearing of the Free School business." [For a testi- 
 monial (Jan. 3, 1631) from the Rector of Exeter College at 
 Oxford in favour of Mr. Peryman and Mr. Hayter as teachers 
 of the High School, see Col. Dom., 1629-1631, p. 473.] 
 
 In Book 53, ff. 176-179, are statutes and ordinances made 
 by the Mayor and ffower and Twenty of the Comon Counsell 
 of the City of Exeter, governors of the Free Gramar Schoole 
 within the said City, founded by the Citizens of the said City, 
 August, 1633. [For text see Lloyd Parry, pp. 104-112. It is 
 called " The Free School within the East Gate " in Izacke, 
 p. 153, where the Schoolmaster is allowed a dwelling-house 
 adjoining the School with a yearly pension of 301. and 101. 
 more for an usher.] 
 
 In D. 1743, Aug. 1627, is a reference to a 99 years' lease 
 granted by Humphrey Carew and his son Peter to the Chamber 
 on Nov. 24, 1592, of " all that greate house and the lofte and 
 higher house and rome over the same which sometime was 
 the bodie or lower parte of the church comonlie called or 
 knowne by the name of St. John's Church, untill the wall 
 where the tower of the same church sometimes was ; and also 
 the higher roome and lofte over the lower parte of the same 
 tower scituatt lying and being within the East gate of the 
 said Cittie and also all that house and roome that sometimes 
 was the Chauncell of the said Church." The deed assigns 
 this lease in Aug., 1627, to Thomas Crossinge and others, but 
 it is supposed not to have been executed. 
 
 In L. 368, April 30, 1635, the Lords of the Council write 
 to the Overseers and Feoffees of the legacies left by George 
 Jordayne and Elizabeth his wife in answer to a petition 
 concerning two sums of 40J. and 5002. left by them to be
 
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 applied to pious uses. Taking knowledge of an hospitall 
 begunne to be founded there for the Releefe and Edu- 
 cation of poore Children, Orphans and others untill they 
 bee of age fitt to be bound Apprentices, which good and 
 pious work for want of sufficient meanes is not yet perfected, 
 They recommend that these legacies shall be applyed to the 
 perfecting and maintenance of the said Hospitall. [See Report 
 on Char., 54 ; Lloyd Parry, p. 67.] 
 
 In D. 1754a, Jan. 10, 1637, is an agreement between the 
 Trustees of Elizabeth Jurdaine and the Mayor &c. in con- 
 sideration of 500Z. left by the will of the said Elizabeth toward 
 the founding of a Free English School in Exeter, to found 
 and erect a School and receive not less than 50 children, the 
 particulars of which are specified. [See Lloyd Parry, p. 70.] 
 
 In 1637 Peter Hellyar was elected Schoolmaster of the 
 English Free School within St. John's Hospital. [Izacke, 155; 
 Lloyd Parry, p. 73.] 
 
 In Transcripts, 2090, June 2, 1637, a decent School house 
 has been made and re-edified in a part of St. John's Hospital 
 which was anciently the body or lower part of the said hospital 
 church and a free Grammar School therein already settled, 
 and that 500Z. given by Elizabeth Jourdaine, widow (see D. 
 1754a), has been hereby applied for the maintenance of a 
 free English School in the higher part or decayed chancel 
 of the said Church for the better preparing the children of the 
 said hospital and others for the Grammar School and other 
 fit professions. [Report on Charities, p. 6 ; Lloyd Parry, pp. 
 70, 115-126.] 
 
 In D. 1753 (? June 20, 1637), Dr. Robert Vilvain (p. 157) 
 grants two tenements in Paris Street, St. Sidwells, in 
 trust for the new Free School of Exeter, dated 1632 (?) in 
 Stuart Moore's Calendar, but probably the same as the 
 document dated June 20, 1637, in Report on Charities, p. 14, 
 which however refers to 4 tenements in Paris Street. 
 
 In L. 270, Exeter, June 15, 1624,* Dr. Robert Vilvain writes 
 to the Mayor : Right Worshipfull, You convented me hereto- 
 fore about a Rate to the Poor of St. John's, and I rendered 
 reasons of refusal, because our Parish being oppressed with multi- 
 tudes wee conjoined two Rates together (our own and St. Sidwils) 
 at Mr. Recorder's request, upon promise wee should be freed 
 elswhere. For my particular tis wel known I pay to two other 
 places in the Country where most of my poor estate lyes, 
 and am set to Armour, Powder, fees for martial officers, 
 
 * In 18C8 the Commissioner who visited the Grammar School reported 
 that " the School-room forms part of the nave of the Church belonging to 
 the old dissolved Hospital of St. John, the east end of which is still used for 
 service. It runs parallel with and against the High Street." Report of the 
 Schools Enquiry Commission, vol. xiv.,p. 299. The buildings have since been 
 demolished,
 
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 Poor, Churches and sundry other taxes and am endebted in 
 this City above 500Z. upon Interest ; yet doo freely give 
 I2d. weekly to two poor families here, which els would fall 
 into penury. Al which considered there is little cause to hoist 
 mee so high to all payments, who (besides my house) have 
 litle here. I wil not allege redarguent reasons, that a Rate 
 to the Poor is no competent Rule for Powder, both because 
 it is uncertain, for that rate may far transcend the Provision 
 (as tis conceived) and also unequal, becaus some are set up 
 too high, and others too low, by fear or favour. Enimies to 
 Equity : therefore in most men's Judgments it were fitter 
 that the charge should be first cast up, and every man taxed 
 proportionably according to his ability (for so it is in al other 
 places), upon a just Accompt publickly rendered and registred, 
 for the general satisfaction of the Commons, which defect make 
 many murmur at this day about the Collection for Holoway, 
 upon supposal that the Overseers did not disburse above 
 half the Contribution, wherein I had som share, yet doe profes 
 myself in this but an Eccho of the Multitude, which are much 
 aggrieved. The matter which sticketh most in my stomack 
 is that Dr. Goche,* who hath no charge of children and gaineth 
 excessively both by his Places here, and practise above (a 
 man mighty in Authority, high in dignity, rich in Revennue), 
 should bee so long excepted from al payments whatsoever, 
 confronting the City and daring you to doo your worst, with 
 haughty menaces. That he wil try the power of your Charter 
 and privilege of his person, who can claim none but only for 
 his Headship in Cambridg, not for his Office, Lands, Lordships, 
 Leases, or other estate in the Common Wilth. Mr. Gary like- 
 wise payeth nothing to Poor or els, pretending, perhaps, 
 that he is rated in the Country, which is rightly my case and 
 may serve for a just Apology (who pay 12d. weekly by rate, 
 and I2d. voluntarily besides al imposition to Arms, Powder 
 &c. in the Country), yet if those men being far my Betters in 
 estate may be made Patterns or Precedents to these payments, 
 I wil follow their stepps with alacrity, els it wilbee an insuffer- 
 able scandal or eysore to mee and others, who are every way 
 as free both in birth, body, mind and spirit as they or any 
 other of higher quality : therefore my humble request is, that 
 you wil deale indifferently and impartialy with mee and the 
 shewing no harder measure to mee then to them, and so doo 
 take leave. Your worships to bee commanded, 
 
 Robert Vilvane. 
 (See L. 281, p. 144.) 
 
 In D. 1770, Oct. 5, 1658, the Church of St. Mary Steps is to 
 be used for a public free school after the union of the Churches 
 of St. Mary Steps and St. Edmunds on the Bridge, under the 
 Act of Sept. 17, 1656. [See Freeman, p. 207.] 
 
 * Or Goach ; aee L. 281, p. 145. 
 Wt. 20757. Ex 11
 
 162 
 
 In L. 416, Oct. 26, 1658, is a copy of the will of John 
 Moungwell, the elder, of Exeter, stationer, and son of the Minister 
 of Dunchideock, where he is buried [Report on Charities, 
 p. 23], by which he bequeaths a rentcharge of 51. p. a. to find 
 Bibles for the poor scholars of St. John's Hospital in Exeter. 
 By a codicil dated May 20, 1661, the said Bibles are to be 
 bought at the shop of Abisha Brocas in Exeter, who is one 
 of the witnesses of the original will. The will was proved 
 July 25, 1662. A note at the end states that the testator's 
 great grandchild, Mrs. Martha Bond, finding that no mention 
 is made of the donation in the " The Memoirs of Exeter " 
 [? Izack's Catalogue of Benefactions, Book ], desires to see 
 it punctually performed. 
 
 In D. 509, Nov. 17, 1669, Christopher Lethbridge leaves 
 money for the maintenance of one or more poor Boy or Boyes 
 in St. John's Hospitall, and in D. 370, Oct. 20, 1671, his son- 
 in-law, William Trevill, arranges to carry out this provision 
 of Lethbridge's will [see Report on Charities, 41, 196]. 
 
 In D. 1784a, Jan. 10, 1691, John Bidgood, Doctor of Physic, 
 leaves 600Z. for the maintenance of 3 poor boys as above. 
 [See also D. 1803a, and Report on Charities, p. 42.] For 100Z. 
 left for a similar purpose by John Tucker, merchant, in 1695, 
 see Izacke, p. 190 ; also 505. p.a. left by John Lethbridge, 
 Merchant, Feb. 3, 1702, see Izacke, 192 ; Report on Charities, 
 pp. 83, 203. 
 
 Customs as to Land Tenure. 
 
 L. 237. Poderidge,* Aug. 5, 1622. Sir Thomas Monck 
 [father of General Monck, see Comm. CIX, page 13], writes 
 to the Mayor: "Mr. Maior, There is a sute depending in 
 Chancery betweene mee, my wife and Sir Nicholas Smith, 
 and I thinke it is not unknowne unto you and many other 
 of Excetter, that Sir George Smith in his lief tyme marryed 
 all his children, and did by severall speciall covenands from 
 them all (except myself and my weif) barr them, that they 
 should not Clayme and Challenge any parte of his personall 
 estate after his death ; but should take their severall porcions in 
 marriage for a full advancement and satisfaccion of the parte 
 of his said personall estate which might otherwise accrewe 
 unto them by the Custome of your Cittie, had not hee soe barred 
 them, by which meanes they weare all utterlye excluded from 
 any title there unto (excepting myself and my wief) which 
 ware both left free, not beeing barred as the rest weare, and the 
 better to inable mee to take the benifitt of the said Custome, 
 Sir George procured mee to be a ffreeman of your Cittie, 
 wherby I hope the rather to have my marriage porcion of 
 goods to bee made upp a full parte of the personall estate of 
 my ffather in la we due to mee by the Custome of Excetter." 
 
 * t.e. Potheridge, near Torrington,
 
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 He adds : "I have entreated the Right Honourable the Lord 
 Keeper to desire you, and the rest, to inspect your Charters 
 and records and explanacions of them, which I have heard 
 you have receaved from the Cittye of London, by especiall 
 appoyntement of your predecessors and to shew the same 
 att the tyme when the Commissioners shall sitt, to the end 
 that the manifest truth maye appere of this pointe of the 
 Custome concerning the disposing of the personall estate of a 
 ffreeman, which I ame informed is conceived and ought to bee 
 according to the Custome of London, in all points." Beseech- 
 ing the Almightie to guide you in all your Counsells, and 
 endeavours, that your Cittie maye ever prosper, of which 
 myself being (through your flavours) a member, shall accompt 
 it great Contentement that you would ye pleased to continew 
 mee in your good opynions and deeme mee, 
 
 Your obliged ffreind to Commande, 
 
 Tho. Monck. 
 
 In D. 1738, July 10, 1620, is a writ from the Court of Chancery 
 to produce the Custome Bookes and Recordes of and remayninge 
 within the City of Exeter in a suit. . . . (female) v. Nicholas 
 Smyth, knight, to show the usage and custom of the City 
 respecting the descent of land. 
 
 In D. 1629, Aug. 20, 1585, is a reversionary lease from the 
 Mayor &c. of the Manor house of Aulscomb [i.e. Awliscombe, 
 see page 14] to George Smith, Citizen and Merchant of Exeter 
 [he was Mayor in 1586, 1597, 1607], terminable on the lives 
 of (blank) sons the said George and Elizabeth his daughter. 
 
 In D. 384, June 20, 1587, George Smith, of Exeter, gentle- 
 man, purchases a house in St. Paul's Street and a close of 
 meadow containing 3 acres in St. David's Downe next 
 Northinghaie. 
 
 In D. 1644, Sept. 6, 1587, is a lease from the Mayor &c. to 
 George Smyth, of Exeter, gentleman, of a close near Tadiford 
 Bridge, terminable in the lives of Thomas, Nicholas and 
 Elizabeth, children of the said George, signed " per me, George 
 Smythe." 
 
 In D. 123a, Sept. 18, 1587, is a lease from the Magdalen 
 Hospital to George Smythe, gentleman, of a tenement and 
 garden in Magdalen Street and an " orcharde and hoppeyarde " 
 adjoining thereto. Signed " per me, George Smythe." 
 
 In D. 387, March 26, 1596, he grants a lease of the pasture 
 and " shire of the grass " of the above meadow [D. 384], 
 where he is called " George Smyth of Exeter, Esquire." 
 
 In D. 1695, Sept. 20, 1604, is a lease from the Chamber to 
 Sir George Smythe of Madford, knight [he was knighted at 
 Greenwich, June 12, 1604], of the herbage and pasture of a
 
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 parcel of ground called Northinghay, together with two 
 gardens there of late enclosed adjoining to the almshouses, 
 except a parcel of ground where the vawte of the gaole [or 
 cesspool, D. 1527] now is, and also excepting the stone 
 quarry there. The lease is terminable with the lives of Sir 
 Nicholas Smythe, Lady Elizabeth, wife of Sir Thomas Muncke, 
 knight, Jane Smythe and Grace Smythe, son and daughters 
 of Sir George Smythe. 
 
 Endorsed : " Md. that this Deed was shewn in a cause 
 Attorney General v. The Mayor &c. of Exeter." 
 
 For the seal and signature of George Smythe, see D. 1722 
 [May 24, 1613, p. 88.] 
 
 In D. 403, April 1, 1624, Dorothy Smythe, of Larkebeare, 
 widow of Sir Nicholas Smyth, knight, deceased, grants a lease 
 of the above close. (D. 387.) 
 
 In Misc. Rolls 33 (1755) is a rental of the lands of Nicholas 
 Smythe, esquire. 
 
 In D. 198, Oct. 23, 1296, the Prior and Convent of 
 St. Nicholas recover a piece of ground for default of payment 
 according to the Custom of the City of Exeter "in Gyhalda 
 per Gavelak* et Scherford." 
 
 In D. 802, April 3, 1327, is a reference to a place in South 
 Street, which Peter Soth, as chief lord, recovered from a 
 tenant by reason of non-payment of rent by name of 
 " Gavelack " and " Shortford " in the City Court. 
 
 In D. 848, March 26, 1343, John de Sutton, citizen of Exeter, 
 recovers a tenement in North Street as chief lord by the 
 Custom of " Gavelac " and " Shortford " in the City Court, 
 the rent having remained unpaid for two years before Michael- 
 mas, 1338. The said John took his " glebes " for 7 con- 
 secutive terms, and had the final judgment called " Shortford" 
 given for him on March 26, 1343. 
 
 In Misc. Boll 4, ra. 5, is a draft of proceedings taken by the 
 Master of St. John's Hospital in the Mayor's Court by the 
 Custom of Gavelak and Shortford to recover a house " in 
 vico fratrum prsedicatorum." 
 
 In Misc. Roll 65, April, 1351, are extracts from the City 
 Court Rolls showing the steps taken by the Prior of the 
 Hospital of St. John, to recover pieces of land in the High Street 
 near the East gate and in Pacie Street by the Custom of 
 "Gavelak and Shortford." 
 
 In Misc. Roll 96, 1368-1373, is a Copy of entries on the 
 Mayor's Court Roll of the custom of " Gavelak and Shortford " 
 for the recovery of a house and piece of land near the Castle of 
 
 * For " Statutum de Gavelette," see Liber Albua, i., 455 ; Stat., i., 272, 
 where it is supposed to have been enacted, circ. 1316. For proceeding in 
 the Court of Hustings in London, i.e. Placita de Gaveleto, brief de Gaverleto, 
 or de GaveJotte, see Lib. Alb., i., 62, 64, 172, 184, 186, 469,
 
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 Exeter by the Master of St. John's Hospital from Isabella de 
 Hugheton. At the end there is a full recitation of the nature 
 of the Custom. 
 
 In Misc. Rolls 104, May 19, 1320, is an extract from the 
 City Court Rolls setting forth the customs of " Gavelak" 
 and " Shortford," from which it appears that if any Lord 
 has a tenant who ought to pay rent to the Chief Lord for 
 his tenement and does not do so and has nothing in the said 
 tenement which can be distrained, the Lord shall carry away 
 a stone or any other distress nullius quasi manenti existentis for 
 the arrears of Rent, and so shall continue to do for seven terms 
 following and shall carry away seven stones as is aforesaid, 
 which seven are called " Glebe." [See D. 848, p. 164 ; " per gle- 
 bam. ' ' Oliver, 309. ] In which seventh term by the consideration 
 of the Court he shall have the said tenement for a year and a 
 day by delivery of the Bailiffs of the City, which is commonly 
 called " Gavelak." This is publicly proclaimed, so that any 
 claimant of the tenement may put in his claim or answer 
 for the rent and arrears within the year. And if no one comes 
 or will not or cannot satisfy for the rent &c. within that time 
 the Lord goes to the Court and claims according to the custom 
 of the City to be adjudged in fee and demesne. And this 
 custom is commonly called in our mother tongue " Shortford " 
 [or " Sortfort " Oliver, 309], which in French is called 
 '* Forclot " [i.e. forshut, foreclosed Bateson, i, 304, who 
 gives the original Latin text with a fuller translation of the 
 passage [et tune vocantur tenementa ilia " forshot " Liber Albus, 
 i, 469. Et tune appellatur terra ilia forshard Lib. Alb. 62 ; 
 Bateson, i, 298.] 
 
 By this custom the Prior of St. Nicholas recovers a tene- 
 ment, without Northgate which formerly belonged to 
 Mr. William le Mol, glover. 
 
 Draperies. 
 
 L. 239. Jan. 8, 1622-3. The Lords of the Council write 
 to the Mayor &c. : Whereas in the execution of his Majesty's 
 Commission for trade directed to us and others, wee finde it 
 verie probable that if the stuffs called the new Draperies 
 were well and substanciallie made, died and dressed, they 
 would soone regaine their wonted estymation and it would 
 bee a good meanes to vent profittably great quantities of 
 our woolle and sett multituds of people on worke in the 
 manufacture thereof : Because without rules and orders pre- 
 scribed it is hard to have those stuffs well made, and there 
 is noe certen lawe alreadie made for regulating the making 
 thereof : They accordingly desire advice as to " What rules 
 you think fitt to propound &c.," and to consider what length, 
 breadth, and weight everie piece of everie sort is fitt to 
 conteyne and by what meanes you conceave those rules once 
 made may be best contynued and observed. [For suggested 
 regulations, May, 1622, see Cal. Dom. 1619-1623, p. 401 ; 
 also Dec. 5, 1623, ibid, 1623-1625, p. 124.]
 
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 In L. 268, Westminster, April 24, 1624, John Prowse writes 
 to the Mayor : Touching the bill of Perpetuanes [i.e., 
 lastings or everlastings] I have gotten the same to be twice 
 Read, and it now standeth under the Committees hand, but 
 I doubt that our staie wilnot be so longe as to make it a lawe 
 this session, but it must sleepe with manie other good bills 
 until a newe meting. 
 
 In L. 243, London, April 27, 1624, J. Chappell writes to 
 the Mayor : The bill for the true makinge of Sarges hath 
 been twise Reade and is nowe this daye to be heard by the 
 Committes apoynted and so upon Report read unto the 
 house the next stept is Ingrossinge and so to be presented to 
 the Lordes of the heigher house, which I fear will hardlie 
 passe this seccion of parlement. 
 
 In Book 53, /. 247 (1646), a schedule of rates payable as 
 tallage includes \\d. for every elbroade perpetuana and Id. 
 for every narrow do. [For serges and perpetuanies see Cat. 
 Dom. 1623-1625, p. 259, May 29, 1624; or perpetuanos, 
 Devon. Assoc. Transactions, xliv., 594.] 
 
 In L. 422 (? 1660) is a petition to the Chamber from the 
 Weavers, Buyers and Sellers of Perpetuanes (sic). See page 50. 
 
 In D. 1732, Nov. 7, 1615, is a certificate from the Mayor 
 and two others that they according to the King's writ 
 appraised 4 dozen pairs of wool cards at I2d. the pair. 
 
 In D. 1812, Nov. 26, 1706, the Chamber deputes Benjamin 
 Johnson and John Kingston to ask demand and receive of 
 every person which shall bring any drapery or woollen manu- 
 factures to the City to be bought and sold such sums of 
 money and other duties as are due to the Chamber. 
 
 Plantation of New England. 
 
 L. 260. Chiswicke, Dec. 16, 1623. Francis [Lord] Russell 
 (see L. 257, page 11) writes to the Deputy Lieutenants of 
 Exeter : After my heartie comendacons. Whereas his 
 Majestic hath been pleased, as by his gratious letter [L. 262] 
 you may perceive, which will shortlie bee brought you, to 
 expresse with his owne care and consideracion to the life, 
 the importance of so great a good and honor to him and his 
 Kingdomes in the adventuring and furthering the plantacion 
 in New England, as the advancing of Religion and enlarging of 
 Territorie, and to that which is not usuall to actions of this 
 nature, as being likely so farre to inrich this Kingdome as to 
 bee one of the meanes to quicken trade in general, and especially 
 to the western parts : His Majesty's further pleasure importing 
 a gratious acceptacion in such as shall shew themselves in 
 their ioyning to venture with an account of the same. Theis 
 are therefore to pray you, that according to his Majesty's
 
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 pleasure directed in his Letters in that behalfe, you use your 
 best indeavors and judgements in causing meetings within 
 your severall divisions, and inviting such as in your wisedomes 
 you think fittest and ablest to bee Adventurers in this designe. 
 In which I shall so farre wish the good of the accion, 
 that my adventure in it, shalbee sized according to my affection, 
 and not to the meannesse of my fortune. Thus I bid you 
 heartily farewell. Resting your assured loving freinds as 
 long as I am : 
 
 Fra. Russell. 
 
 L. 261. (Endorsed : " Reasons shewinge the benefitt of 
 Plantinge in Newe England, 1623.)* [See L. 262.] Reasons 
 showinge the benefitt that maie ensue to these his Majesties 
 Realmes by setlinge of the Plantacion in Newe England and 
 especially to the westerne partes of this Kingdome : 
 
 1. ffirste itt enlargeth the bounds of his Majesty's 
 dominions, and annexeth unto his Crowne one of the 
 goodliest Territoryes for Soyle, Havens, Harbours, and 
 habitable Islands that ever hath been discovered by 
 our Nation. 
 
 2. Secondly, itt will afford a world of imployment to many 
 thousands of our nation, of all sorts of people, who are 
 (wee knowe) att this present ready to starve for want 
 of itt. 
 
 3. Thirdly, itt will thereby disburthen the Comonwealth 
 of a multitude of poore that are likely dayly to increase, 
 to the infinite trouble and preiudice of the publique 
 state. 
 
 4. ffowerth, itt wilbe a marvelous increase to our 
 navigacion and a most excellent opertunitye for the 
 breedinge of marryners for that the vessels, that are 
 to trade thither, and so from thence to their severall 
 Marketts, are to be shippes of good burthen, to goe 
 well mande, and thoroughly fortified for defence of 
 themselves and their Consorts. 
 
 5. ffyftly, the Clyme, beinge so temperate and healthfull 
 as itt is, it will doubtlesse afford in short tyme a notable 
 vente for our Clothes, and other stuffes of that kinde, 
 which now lyes dead uppon our Merchants hands. 
 
 6. Syxthly, wee shalbe able to furnish our selves, out 
 of our owne Territoryes, with many of those comodityes 
 that nowe wee are beholdinge to our neighbours for, 
 as namely : Pitche, Tarre, Rosen, fnaxe, Hempe, 
 Masts, Dales (sic), Spruce and other Tymber of all 
 sorts, Salte and wyne, which two comodityes alone 
 costs this Kingdome many thousands by the yere, 
 besides Madder, Oade and many other dyeinge Roots, 
 Stuffes and Graynes, as also severall riche ffurrs, 
 
 * For the Council for the Plantation of New England, see Cal. Dom., 1619- 
 1623, pp. 90, 188, Nov. 3, 1619, 1620.
 
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 Togeather with one of the best fyshings in the knowne 
 parts of the world, and sundry sorts of Apothecary 
 Druggs not yet spoken of. 
 
 7. Seaventhly, for the difficultie of the enterprise (thanks 
 be to God) itt is in a manner already past for that 
 the whole Coast (within the lymitts graunted by his 
 Majestic to the Councell for those affayres) is not onely 
 discovered by their navies, but many the principall 
 Ports and Islands actually possessed by some of the 
 present undertakers, And whither this yeere hath 
 been sent besides those that are nowe in preparacion 
 to goe with the Governor* neere aboute 400 men, 
 women and children. As also 60 sayles of the best shipps 
 of the westerne parts, that are onely gone to fische 
 and trade for ffurres. 
 
 8. Eightly. The soyle beinge so fertile, and the Clyme 
 so healthfull, with what Content shall the particuler 
 person Ymploye himselfe there, when he shall finde 
 that for 121. 10s. Adventure, hee shalbe made lord of 
 200 acres of land, to him and his heirs for ever, And 
 for the charge of transportacion of hymselfe, his 
 f amilye and Tenants he shalbe allotted for every person 
 hee carryes 100 acres more, at the rate of 5s. for every 
 100 acres cheife rent to the lord of the soyle in whose 
 land he shall happen to sitt downe in. And what 
 laborer soever shall transporte himselfe thither att 
 his owne charge to have the like proporcion of land 
 uppon the foresaid Condicions and be sure of imploy- 
 ment, to his good content, for his present maintenance. 
 
 9. Nynthly. If hee bee a gentleman, or person of more 
 eminency who hath noe great stocke to continue his 
 reputacion heare att home, howe happie shall hee bee 
 if he can make but a matter of 100 or 200 li. providently 
 imployed in the course of his transportacion, who 
 shalbe therewith able to transporte himselfe, his famyly 
 and necessary provisions and soe have allotted unto 
 him a quantity of lands, wherewith he shall not only 
 be able to live without scorne of his malignors but in a 
 plentifull and worthy manner, with assurance to leave 
 good fortunes to his posteritye if he but industriously 
 be carefull to make the best of his meanes. 
 
 10. Tenthly, seeinge that the Counsell for these affayres 
 have ever had, and still have, a speciall desire in this 
 their courses truly and without vanity or ostentacion, 
 to endeavour the good of the Country for the better 
 declaracion and manifestacion whereof, they are freely 
 content and doe hartyly wishe, that every Countie 
 within this Realme would be pleased to take a Certen 
 proporcion of land within their lymitts, which they 
 shall have att 5s. rent the 100 acres, with allowance of 
 
 * See Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series, i, 68 (Oct. 8, 1623).
 
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 some 1,000 acres, without Rent, to be ymployed for 
 pious uses, whither the (sic) might send from yeare 
 to yeare, such of their people as might be convenyently 
 spared, and that are otherwise like to bee burthensome 
 unto the state of the Commonwealth which maye 
 be incorporated into one bodye, and governed under 
 such officers and magistratts as please them that send 
 such as they imploye, who shalbe strengthened with 
 such libertyes and immunityes, as shalbe thought 
 fitt for the better advancement of that service. Soe 
 may the Countye not only frame themselves to 
 releeve the state of their poorer sorte of people butt 
 finde worthy imployment for many younger brothers 
 and brave gentlemen, that nowe are ruined for want 
 thereof. 
 
 Lastly and above all the rest, by this oportunitye, there 
 is noe Countye within this Realme, butt by this Course 
 hath a speciall occasion and meanes presented unto 
 them to dedicate theire best service to the God of 
 Heaven and earth, by endeavoringe to advance his 
 glorye, in seekinge how to settle the Xtian ffayth 
 in those Heathenishe and desert parts of the world, 
 which who shall refuse to further, lett him undergoe 
 the blame thereof himself e. 
 
 L. 262. Dec. [8], 1623. A coppye of the Kinges letter 
 to the Lords Leiftenaunts of the Countyes of Somersett, 
 Devon and Cornwall. 
 
 [For an abstract of this, dated Dec. 8, 1623, see Cal. Dom. 
 (Colonial) 1574-1660, p. 54, with endorsement : " Three letters 
 of the like tenor were directed to the Counties of Cornwall, 
 Somerset and Devon and the Cities of Bristol and Exeter."] 
 
 Right trustie and welbeloved &c. Wee greete you well. 
 Wee have formerly graunted our Royall Charter for the 
 plantinge of a Collanie in the parts of Newe England, which 
 was not passed without due Examinacion of the proposicions 
 then made and apparent assurance of good and worthie 
 successe by that plantation, for the advancement of Christian 
 Religion and agood addicion both of honor and proffitt to 
 our Kingdomes and people. And because upon the tryall 
 that hath ben made of some persons of qualitie, that have 
 ben content for the publique good to adventure* their private 
 estates, and fortunes, the benefitts and Comodities found in 
 those parts, and the good retornes that have ben made from 
 thence, doe approve the undertakinge to bee of such publick 
 hopes and consequence as wee thinke itt verye worthie of 
 our Care and assistance in anye thinge that maye give a reall 
 furtherance thereunto. And that accordingly wee have taken 
 
 * For list of names of those who will adventure for necessary provisions 
 for the Colony of Virginia, see Cal. Dom., (Colonial) 1574-1660, p. 49, July 4, 
 1623.
 
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 into our Consideracion that soe greate aworke cannot well 
 bee managed to the best advantage, without the helpe of 
 more hands and strengthe, then are nowe imployed in it. 
 Wee have first thought uppon these Westerne Countries in 
 respect of the Scituacion and Conveniencie both for receavinge 
 Commodityes from the Plantacion, sendinge such provisions, 
 and supplies thither as shalbe requisite, and takinge an 
 accompt of both to bee most proper, and fitt to have a share 
 and intrest hi that busines. Not doubtinge, but that beinge 
 poursued with an assistance from thence, the successe and 
 retornes wilbe soe beneficiall, as will not only answere the 
 charge in agood measure of profitt, but drawe in other 
 Countreis voluntarily to offerr themselves partners therein. 
 The experience wee have had of your good affeccions to publick 
 workes doth likewise move us the rather to invite you both 
 by your owne adventures, and indeavourance to move other 
 gentelmen and persons of qualitie and meanes in that Countrie, 
 to joyne with you in the advancement of this Plantacion, 
 which wee doe not onlye propound unto you as aworke, wherein 
 the publicke hath a great intrest, But wherein your adventures 
 are in all appearance like to bringe you good retornes of proffitt, 
 which the Patentees will more particularly make appeare 
 unto you ministers of theirs appointed to attend you for that 
 purpose [see L. 261], Wee hope wee shall not neede to use 
 more persuasion in this particular, when both publicke and 
 private considerations have soe much force, and your good 
 affeccions so readie to further good workes. Nevertheles, 
 wee doe expect to receave from you an accompt of your 
 proceedings and an intimacion thereby, whome you finde 
 readie and willinge and whome not, that wee may take such 
 notice of both as there shalbe Cause. Given &c. 
 
 In L. 361 (undated) is the following unsigned memorandum : 
 Yt is conceaved that the principall places for fishing uppon 
 the seacoast is already graunted unto certen pattentees,* 
 so that yf the cyttisens of Exeter should purchase a quantity 
 of Land which is not commodious for fishing then it will fall 
 out that we shall bare the burden of a plantation and not 
 partack of the benefytt which shall helpe to further the same. 
 Therefore we hold yt a buissyness worthy the entertaynement 
 of the house of parliament and yf his Majestie shalbe pleased 
 to recall the pattents already granted, then we think it meet 
 to purchase ^th parte of the hoole to be held of his Majestie 
 and not of anye other and according to the portion of land 
 to send yerely for the plantation so many as other places 
 that have the licke quantity shall be chargeable withall- 
 provided nevertheles that yf the place where our Land shalbe 
 doe not prove fytte for fishing that then yt shalbe Lawfull for 
 us to fishe in any other place uppon the coast and to have 
 
 * See Acts of Privy Council, Colonial, 1. 41, 56, June 18, 1621, Oct. 23, 1622; 
 Cal. Dom. 1619-1623, p. 460, Nov. 6, 1622.
 
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 convenient stages and places uppon the shoar to mack and 
 drye the ffishe we tack in as quyett a manner without lett or 
 deniall of any that shall pretend interest in the same as yf 
 yt were in the place wheir our Land lyeth paying a small 
 somme to the owners of the Land where we fish and make 
 the same as I2d. for a ship or such licke somme and no more 
 and lickewise to have free liberty of trade upon the whole 
 coast. Upon these conditions we maye adventure to purchase, 
 otherwise if we may not freely fish without paying as of late 
 many have done yt were better to leave the plantation to 
 others then to enter uppon any other conditions then herein 
 is expressed. 
 
 [For answers to propositions of merchants of Barnstaple, see 
 Cal. Colonial, 1574 to 1660, p. 47, June 21, 1623.] 
 
 Companies of Players. 
 
 L. 267. April 9, 1624. The Master of the Revels [Sir Henry 
 Herbert] to all Mayors, Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, 
 Bayleiffs, Constables, Head Bouroughes, and all other his 
 Majesty's officers, true legmen and Subiects and to every 
 of them greetinge. Knowe yee that whereas the King's most 
 excellent Majestic hath granted to the Master of the Re veils a 
 Commission giving him full power and authoritye for the 
 Orderinge, Reforminge, Authorisinge and Puttinge downe 
 of all and everye Playes, Players and Playemakers as of all 
 other shewes whatsoever in all Places within his Majesties 
 Realme of England, and the Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of 
 Pembroke,* by letter dated 31 October, 15 James I [1617],f 
 having granted license to William PerryJ and the rest of his 
 associates " to provide and keepe and bring up a convenient 
 number of youthes and children and them to practize and 
 exercize in the qualetye of playinge by the name of the 
 Children of the Revells to the late Queen Anna . I have allowed 
 and confirmed the aforesaid grant to bee and Continew unto 
 the said William Perrie and his as sociates, viztt., George 
 Bosegrave, Richard Backster, Thomas Band, James Jones, 
 Walter Barrett, James Kneller, and Edward Tobye and the 
 rest of there Companie not exceedinge the number of twentye 
 for a year from the date of these presents, and what 
 Companie soever shall Repaire Unto any of your Townes, 
 Corporatt Cittyes or Bouroughes not having their Authorities 
 Confirmed by me and sealed with the Seale of the office of 
 the Revells that forthwith you seize any such graunt or Com- 
 mission and send it to me accordinge to those Warrants 
 directed to you heretofor by the Right Honerable the Lord 
 Chamberlaine . " 
 
 * i.e. William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, 1601-1630. 
 
 f See J. T. Murray, English Dramatic Companies, i, 361, 362 ; ii, 345, 347. 
 j For commission to him, Sept. 18, 1629, to make up a Company of Players 
 for York, see Cal. Dom., 1629-1631, p. 59. 
 
 d. March 2, 1619 ; J. T. Murray, i, 361, 365.
 
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 Given att hys Majesties office of the Re veils under my 
 hand and The scale of the said office the nynth daie of Aprill 
 in the yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord James 
 by the grace of God Kinge of England, ffrance and Ireland, 
 King defender of the ffaith &c., the Two and Twentieth, and 
 of Scotland the Seven and ffifteth. Anno Domini, 1624 
 
 H. Herbert. 
 James Tucker. 
 Tristram Michell. 
 
 Exd. et concord., 31 Mail, 1624, p. me Sam. Izeacke, cler.* 
 Wm. Finkle. 
 
 [An abstract of this taken from Stuart Moore's Calendar is 
 printed in J. T. Murray, i, 362 ; ii, 272, altering the date to 
 1623.] 
 
 In Act Book VII, /. 2076, Nov. 13, 1621. This day 
 Mr. Receyver is ordered to give unto certeyne players [no 
 names given] which are lycenced under the Kynge's pryvye syg- 
 nett the sum of xls. as a gratuyty and not to be suffered to play.f 
 
 In L. 514. Exeter, Feb. 14, 1748. The Town Clerk 
 [unsigned but probably Henry Gandy] writes to Mr. Zachary 
 Hamlyn enclosing a letter (L. 515) : Sir, I have by this post 
 wrote to our Members a Letter, of which a Copy is on t'other 
 side, whereto and to the Bill Inclosed in their Letter I referr 
 you. The Bill is intended intirely to suppress Players of 
 Interludes which debauches all Youth and particularly those 
 of this Town. We having a parcell of Fellows here that 
 will play in Spite of the Magistrates' Teeth, pretending they 
 dont play for Hire. And the Intention of our Magistrates 
 is as much as in them lyes to prevent it, and in Order thereto, 
 You are desired to go to the Gentlemen and Consult with 
 them in what manner to Conduct it. We cant think that 
 this Short Bill, which is intended only for the publick Good 
 of Mankind, can meet with any Opposition or much Expence, 
 But if you'd give me a hint what you think it may Cost 
 He be Obliged to you, and take Care to send you the Mony 
 assoon as demanded But Pray wait upon Mr. Sydenham 
 for the bill &c. I am, your most Humble Servant. 
 
 L. 515. Exeter, Feb. 14, 1748. The Town Clerk [Henry 
 Gandy] writes to Mr. Humfrey Sydenham, Esquire, and John 
 Tuckfield, Esquire J : 
 
 Gentlemen : In a Chamber this day held at the Guildhall, 
 I am directed by the Body, with their Service, to acquaint 
 
 * Samuel Izacke appointed Town Clerk May 4, 1624 ; Oliver, 241. He 
 was the father of Richard Izacke the historian of Exeter. 
 
 f For a similar case in June, 1618, when the Mayor, Ignatius Jourdain, 
 gave a gratuity of 4 angels to the " Children of Bristoll," to compensate them 
 for refusal of permission to play in Exeter, see Cal. Dom., 1611-1618, 
 p. 549 ; J. T. Murray, ii, 6, quoting Collier, i, 369. 
 
 J M.P.'s for Exeter in the Parliament from Aug. 13, 1747, to April 8, 
 1754.
 
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 you that notwithstanding the Several Acts of Parliament 
 made to prevent Players of Interludes &c., yet a Company 
 of players which they call Kenneday's Company are come 
 to this City and there play in spite of the Magistrates' 
 Teeth pretending they dont play for Hire and thereby think 
 to avoid the penalty of the Law. And the method they 
 take is this : They give notice by printed papers that some 
 gent, for their diversion and improvement intend such 
 a day to perform a Consort of Musick as it is performed in 
 the Rehearsall of the Play called "Love for Love,"* without 
 any Hire or reward. And the persons having. a Mind to go 
 to that Play first goe to the Printer of these papers and buy 
 a Small paper of Teeth Powder (as he calls it) and by him 
 are recommended to be admitted as Worthy partakers of this 
 diversion and they are admitted accordingly as is pretended 
 gratis. By these and such like Evasions, they avoid the 
 Law and play on, nor do the Magistrates know, how to come 
 at them, or punish them for what is passed. But they are 
 willing to have a more Extensive Bill in parliament to prevent 
 the Debauching and even the Destruction of the Youth of 
 this Towne for the future, and to that end they have Drawn 
 a Bill which is Inclosed [not now preserved], and which we 
 apprehend will meet with little or no Opposition, it being 
 only for the publick good. I have wrote to Mr. Hamlyn 
 to Sollicite it, and to wait upon you for that purpose. And 
 when you have read it you'l please to give it him, and after- 
 wards Endeavour to get it passed. In which we are Informed 
 Sir John Bernard will be glad to assist you, it being by way 
 of amendment only to a Law he himself brought in about 
 Ten years ago, and now Evaded. 
 I am, Gentt., 
 
 Your most obedient and Humble 
 Servant. 
 
 Maintenance of the Blind. 
 
 L. 269. Hayne, June 7, 1624. John Northcot f writes to 
 the Mayor : 
 
 Good Mr. Maior, 
 
 I have ben ernestlie entreated by divers of the Parishioners 
 of Uppen Pine to write unto you on their behalfe That whereas 
 one Agnes Taylor, late of Uppen Pyne, widowe (being a blinde 
 woman), is now abiding with the widowe Tailor of St. David's 
 within your Cittie of Exeter, and hath there remained with 
 her about halfe a yeare, the said Agnes having v\ili. xs. now 
 remaining in the handes of some of the parishioners of Uppen 
 Pyne, who have alwaies heretofore paide her the use thereof, 
 untill of late she hath arrested the said parties for the said 
 money, which theie are willing to repaie unto her, if she might 
 
 * ? Written by Wm. Congreve in 1695. 
 
 t Of Yewton, near Crediton. His son Pollard Northcote died at Hayne 
 in Newton in 1041. Boose, Reg., 105,
 
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 be freed from the chardge of theire said parish of Uppen Pyne, 
 but theie doubt that when the said money is gotten out of 
 their handes, it wilbe consumed and spent awaie, and then 
 she returned back againe on the chardge of their said parish : 
 I shall therefore praie you, either to take such order that 
 the said money (which theie are readie to paie) maie be putt 
 into some sufficient men's handse for her maintenaunce here- 
 after, whereby it maie be a dischardg for either of the said 
 parishes where she shall remaine, or that theie which sue to 
 recover the said money maie undertake that she maie not be 
 sent back againe to Uppen Pine parish, which I hope you 
 will think to be reasonable, and wilbe pleased to take some 
 paines to settle some good Order herein, for the better dis- 
 chardg of both the said parishes, for which I shall rest thank- 
 full, and wilbe readie to requite you in the like curtesie and 
 occasion offered. Thus with my loving Salutations do rest, 
 Your assured Loving freind, 
 
 Jo. Northcot. 
 
 The Cadiz Expedition. 
 
 L. 285 (undated 1626) is " A note of monies (521 10s.) 
 disbursed for his Majesties speciall service by the Chamber 
 of the Cittie of Exon ; as well about the ympressings and 
 settings foorth of thirtie souldiers* in the yere of our Lord 
 1625 from Exon to Plymouthf and their chardge there as in 
 the passinge of the Captaynes and their companies and 
 carriages from the Westerne parts eastward." 
 
 L s. d. 
 Imprimis paid for ympresse money for the 
 
 saide Souldiers 01 10 
 
 It. paid for Coats for the said Souldiers Cloth 
 
 and Makinge 18 18 
 
 Item paid for Conducte Monie and Charge of 
 
 the Conductor 06 08 
 
 Item paid for their ordinarie paye in Plymouth 
 
 before they had pay from his Majestic . . 0911 
 Item paid for Captayne Cook's Chardges and 
 his Companye lyinge here one whole daye 
 beinge Sunday the 21st of Dec., 1626 . . 4 16 
 Item paid in divers other particular somes for 
 horse hire and other charges about the 
 passinge of the severall Companyes through 
 this Cittie to their next Stages and for 
 Saddells and other things loste . . . . 1 1 07 
 
 Summ' . 52 10 
 
 * For names of 370 men from East Devon, including 30 from Exeter, 
 see Cal. Dom., 1625-1626, p. 28 ; May 25, 1625. 
 
 t For the army at Plymouth, July 17, 29, 30, Aug. 15, Sept. 18, 1625, 
 see ibid, 61, 70, 77, 84, 107. The fleet sailed from Plymouth Oct. 8, 1625, 
 and returned in December, 1625 ; Gardiner, vi, 14, 21.
 
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 L. 291. At Whitehall, the 21st of February, 1626 (i.e. 
 1627). Whereas by a former order of this Bord made the 
 22nd day of August last, 1626 and our letters in pursuite 
 of the said order of the 24th of the same moneth there was 
 30,000^'. assigned out of his Majestie's ffarme of the pre- 
 emption of Tynne to be paid at severall termes to the 
 Contractors for the apparellinge of Souldiers in the Counties 
 of Devon and Cornewall, And to the billettors of souldiors 
 and officers there upon due accompts, viz. [torn] at Christmas, 
 1626, and 9,000fo'. 1627, towards the discharge of the Contractors 
 for Cloathes. And 10,000^., 1628. And 10,000^. in the 
 yeare 1629 for the discharge of the billettors aforesaid with 
 this proviso that if the aforesaid somes shall be paid out of 
 anie other his Majestie's Tresures within the tyme before 
 lymitted or that the said some should be fully paid out of the 
 aforesaid ffarme within the said terme, that then the said 
 Assignement should cease. And alsoe that if the said somes 
 due accordinge to the accompts shall not be fully discharged 
 by the assignement aforesaid, that then the residue of the 
 said somes remayninge unpaid should be paid and discharged 
 out of the ffarme Rente to come or some other of his Majestie's 
 Tresure. And whereas by the foresaid letters there is power 
 given to the deputy Leevetenants of the said Countyes to pay 
 the Creditors of the Captaynes and other officers as alsoe 
 the Conduct money for the Companies to carye with them 
 when they did remove at 4s. 8d. the weeke, a man and the 
 thinges that shoulde growe for horses and other [torn], 
 to convey the same Armes and any Municion belonginge 
 to the said Companies and put the same to the forenamed 
 accompt as by the said order and letters more at large and 
 parti cularlye doth appeare. Now forasmuch as the Countie 
 of Devon hath showen itself e very forwarde in his Majesties 
 presente and former services his Majestic is graciouslye pleased 
 and theire Lordshippes did alsoe thinke fitt and ordered that 
 the afore named Assignements upon the Tynne ffarme shall 
 cease and be cancelled and that for the more speedie satis - 
 faccion of the Countrey the moneyes which shall arise out 
 of the Loanes unto his Majestic of the said County of Devon 
 and Cittye of Exeter, other then those alredy assigned to 
 Sir. ffardinando Gorge for the payment of the garrison of the 
 Porte of Plymmouth shall be assigned for the payment of the 
 apparellinge, billeting and other charges of the souldiors 
 and theire officers as is expressed in the foremencioned order 
 and letters. And to that ende and purpose it is further ordered 
 that all the said Loanes bee by the Collectors alredye nominated 
 by the Commissioners for the said Loanes, or by the heigh 
 Constables of the hundreds where there are noe Collectors 
 paid over unto Sir George Chudleigh, Baronett, appointed 
 Tresuror by the Deputie Leevetenants of the saide Counties 
 by authoritye received from the Bord, whoe is to yssue and 
 pay the said money, for the satisfaccion of the saide Contractors,
 
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 billetors, Credittors, Conducte money and other foremencioned 
 charges accordinge to the direccions in the aforesaid order 
 and letters. Heereof the Lord Treasurer and the Chancellor 
 of the Exchequer are earnestly prayed and required to take 
 speciall notice and to give order accordingely And withall 
 to directe and require as well the said Sir George Chudleigh 
 as the Deputye Leevetenants of the Countye to cause the 
 Holies by which the said Loanes shall be paid to be dulye 
 returned into the Exchequer and that the said Treasurer 
 therewith deliver in particuler and perfecte accompts of his 
 receipts and payments that thereuppon hee may have his 
 due discharge. 
 
 Contributions for Relief of Distress in other Towns. 
 
 L. 288. Jan. 8, 1626-27. Thomas Sherwill, Mayor of 
 Plymouth, thanks the Chamber for 921. Us. 5d., collected at 
 Exeter " towards the releife of the visited sicke of our Towne 
 of Plymouth." He would have sent his thanks long since 
 " but that the contagion (till of late contynuinge) and many 
 other great and serious occasions thoroughe that cause and 
 others have soe overlaide us as that till now wee could hardly 
 fynde tyme to expresst our thankefuUnes." [For sickness at 
 Plymouth, July 26, Aug. 2, Deo. 15, 22, 29, 1625, see Cal. Dom. 
 1625-26, pp. 74, 79, 177, 184, 191. For reference to "the 
 siknes tyme," see T. Wright, p. 319, from Exeter Receiver's 
 Account, 1632.] 
 
 In L. 310, Salisbury, Feb. 26, 1627-28, the Mayor of Sali- 
 bury (James Abbott), the Ex-Mayor (John Ivy*) and the 
 Rector of St. Edmunds, Salisbury (Peter Thacher) thank the 
 Chamber for two sums sent by the Inhabitants of Exeter 
 to them in this our late visitacion for the releiffe of our poore 
 people, with which supplyes in all likelyhood many must 
 have perished, there haveinge beene for the greatest parte 
 of this tyme to aboute the number of Three Thousand persons 
 upon releife amongst us, viz., 25Z. 8s. 0%d. and 40J., which 
 figures they quote upon a reserve of our booke wherein 
 we have recorded the gifts that have beene sente us, togeather 
 with the persons and places from whence." Adding : " The 
 Lord whoe at length hath removed his hand from us givinge 
 us good hope of the suddayne staye of it altogether, sanctifye 
 it unto us, and turne away this and all other his fearefull 
 judgements, both from us and you." 
 
 [For sickness at Salisbury, see Izacke, 151 ; Cal. Dom. 
 1627-8. p. 368 (Oct. 2, 1627). For 84Z. contributed from 
 Bristol, Nov. 17, 1627, see Hoare's History of Wiltshire 
 (Salisbury), p. 363.] 
 
 In L. 339, Cambridge, Aug. 24, 1630, Henry Butts [Master 
 of C.C.C.], Vice-Chancellor, and John Badcocke, Mayor of 
 
 *W. lyie, Mayor of Salisbury, 1626-1627. For his narration see Hoare 
 (Saliabiuy), p. 36Q.
 
 177 
 
 Cambridge, send thanks to the Mayor of Exeter for a Collection 
 of 4:51. 10s. sent to Cambridge [i.e. in 1629, Izacke, 152], 
 " towards the releiff of our poor people here in Cambridge." 
 He adds : "It is, sure, God's great mercy toward us in ye 
 midst of our misery that ye bo wells of so many in places remote 
 are stirred with compassion toward us, for our abillityes are 
 small, our necessityes many and great, not an 100 able to give, 
 above 4,000 receyvers, besydes ye great expence we are att 
 for keeping of them in order, for saving ye sound from ye 
 danger of ye sick ; and for securing of ye country adioyning, 
 our weekly charge rising to 200?. We hartily pray you to 
 make remembrance of this our humble and thanckfull acknow- 
 ledgment to those mercifull men of your Citty, who have so 
 charitably contributed to our necessityes hereby yee have 
 made thousands your debtors, who dayly bless God for you, 
 and pray that a thousand fold blessing may be rendred unto 
 you from ye God of heven and earth. To his most holy 
 protection we humbly recommend you all with ourselves. 
 Your servants, 
 
 Henry Butts*, p. con. 
 
 John Badcock, Maior. 
 
 In L. 384, Taunton, Aug. 16, 1640, the Mayor of Taunton 
 thanks the Chamber for a collection of 191?. 175. 4d. " for 
 our distressed poore infected with the plague." [The docu- 
 ment is much damaged, but the amount is recorded in the 
 endorsement and on a receipt at the foot as including 61. 
 worth of corn and 185?. 17s. Id. in money. See Izacke, 155.] 
 
 In L. 407, Northam, Dec. 3, 1650, William Leighe and 
 Anthony Downe thank the Chamber for a collection of 
 43?. 8s. Od. made in Exeter for the sick poor of Appledore 
 [near Bideford], " for the releife of poore Appledore visited 
 with the pestilence. We need say no more but to entreate 
 your prayers for health in our habitations and to acquaint 
 you with god's mercy in Northam's preservation, Appledore's 
 hopefull restitution to a healthfull condition and especially the 
 singular mitigation of god's anger all the time of his heavy 
 visitation." 
 
 A Plot. 
 
 L. 290. Feb. 6, 1626-7. Mr. Giles Carpenter, sometyme 
 Muster Master of this Cittie, informs Mr. Ignatius 
 Jurdain (see L. 210, page 112) : Mr. Jordayne : My 
 welwishing to you and other of your Citye in regarde 
 of your and there former kindness towards mee in- 
 forceth me to be willing to discover unto you and so 
 to them by you frome mee a daungerous plot intended 
 
 * For a letter (undated) from Dr. Butts to Lord Coventry, in which he 
 says "There are 5,000 poor and not above 100 who can assist in relieT ing 
 them." See C. H. Cooper, Annals of Cambridge, iii, 227 ; from Master's 
 Hist, of C.C.C., App., p. 70. 
 
 Wt. 20757. Ex 12
 
 178 
 
 agaynste the city in gennerall by some particuler persons 
 seeking thereby ther own ends and is daungerous in regard 
 of future damages that may and is likely to follow as I conceve 
 it in so much as I dare not comit it to writing or come myself 
 to you to make relation off my knowledg in it lest thereby 
 I shoulde hinder a timely prevention as I conceve it. Ybut 
 that you please to creditt my gennerall relation off a straung 
 proiect I will apoynt a meeting at honiton one day this next 
 weeke. I will not faile, god willing, to meete you there 
 and will reveile as much as is causually come to my knowledge ; 
 in the mean time I wishe you would conceale my Letter or at 
 least aquent few with it, Mr. Walker or one or two more 
 whom you thincke good or none at all yf you thincke beste 
 till you have spoken with mee. So wishing to you and the 
 rest all hapines in this unhapy age of ours, do rest your and 
 ther welwishing ffrind to my power, 
 
 Giles Carpenter. 
 
 the writing that I saw conserning the fortyffing off the 
 Castell and the use there of as neare as I now remember. . . . 
 . the undertakers, Londoners, and decayed courtiers : all 
 the old buildings to be reedyfied together with the wals and 
 gates, tow draybridges, one into Northern haye the other 
 into the City, and a Church in former time there caled 
 St. Maryes to be reedified, a garrison, of a 100 soldiers at the 
 King's charge for 3 yeares, afterward at the charge of the 
 undertakers, tow faires to be granted ech of them to indure 
 tow dayes, no sellers there but the Londoners and the 
 inhabitants of the same parish (?) and Castell, and the said 
 Undertakers to sell at all times of the yeare and the same 
 Castell to be as a Mart for the western parts of the land, the 
 impost of wines and prisages geven the firste 3 yeeres, . . . and 
 the wines to be sold accordingly. The said Castell to be as a 
 storehouse for the whole shire to keepe the munnision in. 
 Certayn gentlemen of the cheere to be joyned in comission 
 with the Captayne of the Castell, tow others with the Maior 
 and 3 capitall burges, they all to ayde and asiste the Captayne 
 upon reasonable warning, by vertu of that commission they 
 are to have the power of Marshall law, the Captayn to be Judg 
 and Chiefe, the Shreife to bring the Judges no farder then 
 the Castell gate and there agayne to receve them, the Captayn 
 to gard them in and out, divers plotformes for ordinance 
 
 to be provided there 
 
 . . the waye to prevent all is to bye the ffee farme of such as 
 now stand seised of it. Bigolston some time had it. 
 
 The City of Anwarpe was sacked by such a meanes of a 
 Castell within ye walls [of] it within the memory of man.* 
 
 Relief of La Rochelle. 
 
 L. 292. Whitehall, March 24, 1626-27. The Lords of 
 the Council write to the Mayor &c. : 
 "After our harty comendacons. It is well knowne unto 
 
 * i,e. on Nov. 3, 1676. Froude, xi, 58 ; Motley, 637,
 
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 you upon what weightie grounds and occacions importing 
 noe lesse than the defence and safetie of the Kingdome daylie 
 threatned with preparacions and approach of an Enemye 
 you were formerly required to furnish out from that Porte 
 two shipps of warr for his Majestie's service, the doeing 
 whereof was afterwards in your favour as nowe upon humble 
 and instant suite by you made (as especially out of his Majestie's 
 accustomed princely grace and care for the ease of his Subiects 
 all that possiblye may bee) respited untill you should receave 
 therein further order from this Board. And whereas it is 
 manifest that the affaires off Christendum doe still continewe 
 uponsuch daungerous tearmes as give his Majestie cause 
 not to omitte any provident care for the strength and safetie 
 of his owne Dominions, and the support and ayde of his 
 Allies and Confederats, And in asmuch as the tyme of the yeare 
 which usually openeth the waye to Accions of Warre now 
 appeareth, And further his Majestie hath at this present 
 on foote some important designe and expedicion by sea ; 
 whereby after the departure of the ffleete prepared on that 
 behalfe there wilbe neede of the said shipps for the defence 
 of the Coasts and keeping the narrowe Seas ; wee therefore 
 in his Majestie's name, and by his expresse comaund doe 
 now againe straightly hereby require and charge you not- 
 withstanding any former allegacions or pretences by you 
 made and without all further delayes or excuses whatsoever 
 to cause two shipps of the burthen of 200 Tunnes apeece every 
 way ffurnished as men of Warre to bee soe in readines as not 
 to faile to come to a Rendezvous at Portsmouth by the 20th of 
 May next, the said shipps to bee victualled with full 4 moneths 
 provision to bee accounted from the said 20th of May. As 
 for such parte of the charge thereof as by our former letter was 
 to bee supplied unto you by the Countrey we have now againe 
 written expresse letters unto them on that behalfe inioyneing 
 them to assist you there withall. And have therein likewise 
 given direccions to the Deputie Lieutenants for the importing 
 of such number of marriners, or in the want of them of such 
 other serviceable Landmen as shalbe by you desired and 
 found needefull for the makeing upp of the full Complement 
 of the said two shipps, and for such parte of the whole charge 
 of this service as is to fall to your Share, wee doe hereby 
 authorise and require you to cause the same to bee assessed 
 and leavied upon the Inhabitants of the said Cittie and Porte 
 and members of the same in such indifferent and equall manner 
 as is accustomed upon the occacion of Publique service. And 
 in case any person shall refuse to pay such somes as shalbe 
 by you indifferently assessed upon him that then you cause 
 him to give good Bond forthwith to appearr and answeare 
 his contempt before the Board. And soe requireing you not 
 to faile hereof as you tender his Majestie's high displeasure 
 and the defence and safetie of the Realme. Wee bid you 
 hartilie farewell."
 
 180 
 
 For reply to this letter by the Mayor and Aldermen of 
 Exeter, dated April 19, 1627, see Cat. Doc. 1627-28, p. 141, 
 in which they state reasons why their city ought not to be called 
 upon to supply these ships. 
 
 Billeting of Soldiers. 
 
 L. 300. Nov. 4, 1627. Copy of a letter from the Lords 
 of the Council to the Commissioners for well-ordering and 
 billetting of soldiers at Plymouth : " After our hartie 
 commendacions. Whereas there are 2,000 Recreutz to 
 be sent to ye Isle of Retz,* who were appointed to be 
 at their Rendezvous at Plymouth by the first of this 
 moneth ye governing and well ordering of which soldyers 
 during their stay there is principally committed to 
 Captain Henry Woodhouse,f who is despatched hence with 
 Commission in that behalfe : These are therefore to authorize 
 and require you or any three or more of you to be ayding 
 and assisting from tyme to tyme to ye sayde Captaine Wood- 
 house as well in the well ordering, Billetting and gouverning 
 of the sayd soldyors as in the execucion of such other direccions 
 as you shall receive from him, for the furtherance of this 
 service. And whereas wee have by late letters from some 
 of you beene given to understande in generall of the disburse- 
 ments made by the Country for the billetting and pay of 
 these 2,000 men lately sent away with the Erie of Hollande ; 
 wee having acquainted his Majestic there withall, (wee tak 
 that service very graciously at your hands), have according 
 to his expresse pleasure and commande given order to our very 
 good Lord the Lord Treasurer and Mr. Chancellor of the 
 Exchequer, to deliver here within ten dayes the summe of 
 twentie five hundred pounds mentioned in your Letters to 
 be transmitted unto you, with all speede, for ye satisfying 
 and engagement of the aforesayd charges and disbursments. 
 And for these other 2,000 men who are now to be there, wee 
 are by his Majestie's commande to let you know that as he 
 expects the lyke forwardnesse and good affeccion in the 
 Country as formerly in the charge of providing for them 
 during their stay there, which is intended to be but for a 
 very short tyme, so you may be well assured that upon a iust 
 account thereof made and returned hither repayment shalbe 
 forthwith made out of his Majesties Exchequer here. In the 
 billetting of the Soldyors it is Majestie's pleasure that you 
 place in the Cittie of Exeter such a number of them as you 
 shall finde to be proportionally convenient, who are to be 
 received and entertained there in the same maner as they 
 are in other Townes of that County. And for ye better easing 
 of the sayde County, It is lykewise his Majestie's pleasure 
 and commande that ye County of Cornwall shall receive 
 and lodge so many of these 2,000 soldyors as may answeare 
 
 * i.e. Bh6, see page 17. 
 
 f For his Commission, Nov. 6, 1627, see Cal. Dom. 1627-28, pp. 424, 425.
 
 181 
 
 the proportion that was lodged there in the expedition to 
 Gales *, to which purpose wee doe now write to the Deputie 
 Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace in the same Countie, 
 signifying his Majestie's pleasure in that behalfe. And so 
 not doubting of your accustomed care and endeavors in 
 the execution of this service. 
 
 [See Cal. Dom. 1627-28, pp. 420, 428, Nov. 2, 10, 1627. 
 For 12,000 men to be sent to the Isle de Rhe, see Ibid, p. 425, 
 Nov. 6, 1627.] 
 
 L. 303. Whitehall, Nov. 17, 1627. Letter from the 
 Lords of the Council to the Mayor &c. : " After our 
 verie heartie commendations. Whereas wee gave direction 
 by our letters of the fourth of this moneth [L. 300] 
 to the Commissioners for Soldiers at Plymouth to billet 
 so manie of the twoo thousand soldiers lately leavyed, 
 and appointed to have their Rendezvous at the said Towne of 
 Plymouth as they shall thinke convenient to be billetted 
 in that Cittie, wee have now thought fit to free the Cittie of 
 the soldiers, but that you shall fournish such a summe 
 of money weekely as will serve to satisfie for the billetting of 
 one hundreth Soldiors, allowing each man three shillings 
 six pence a weeke, during their stay in those parts, which wee 
 require you to performe accordingly, ffor the payment 
 whereof, out of his Majestie's Exchequer upon a iust account 
 according to the precedents fo former tymes, wee have given 
 order to our verie good Lords, the Lorde Treasurer and Master 
 Chancellor of the Exchecqr. And for your better effecting 
 of this service, wee doe hereby authorise and require you to 
 Lea vie the monies for the same, in as equall a maner as possible 
 you can, according to the severall abilities of the Cittizens, 
 to the ende there may be no iust cause of complaint. And 
 so wee bid you heartely farewell. 
 
 L. 304. Whitehall, Nov. 17, 1627. Copy of a letter from 
 the Lords of the Council to the Commissioners for soldiers at 
 Plymouth: "Whereas by our Letters of the fourth of this moneth 
 there was direccions given to have some of the Soldyors that were 
 last sent to Plymouth to be billetted in the Cittie of Exeter, 
 which Order and coursse there is now occasion to change, 
 and for that ye Cittie of Exeter have alleaged unto us by 
 their Peticion many inconveniences that may thereby growe 
 unto the Cittie, Besides that it hath not beene a thing required 
 heretofore, and doe show a readinesse to contribute with 
 those Countyes of Devon and Cornwall, a proportion reason- 
 able towards ye said charge respectively, so long as the twoo 
 thousand soldyors shall remayne there, we thinke fit for 
 diverse respects to have that Cittie kept free, and if anie 
 soldyors be alreadie placed there these are now to be forthwith 
 billeted els where in the Countie of Devon, and the Cittie to 
 
 * i.e. Cadiz, see page 174.
 
 182 
 
 allow after the proporcion for the dyet of one hundreth men, 
 vizt., to each man three shillings 6d. by the weeke : And so 
 expecting your carefull performance of these our direccions, 
 wee bid you heartily farewell." 
 
 A note on the back says that the solicitors for Exeter yielded 
 " because the souldiers were then on that Cittie and could 
 not otherwise be removed," and " insteede of 100 ordered by 
 the Lords the Commissoners placed 160." 
 
 L. 305. Whitehall, Nov. 21, 1627. Copy of an order 
 from the Lords of the Council : " Whereas the Erie 
 of Bedford, his Majestie's Lieutenant in ye Countie 
 of Devon, did this day move the Boarde for the 
 Easing of that Countie, from the great burthen which it 
 hath and doth sustaine, by the billetting of Soldiers in regarde 
 that the Towne of Plymouth, hath beene the place of 
 Rendez-vous for those supplies and Recruts that were leavyed 
 for the renforcing of his Majestie's Army while it was in the 
 Isle of Rets, and lykewise the greater parte of the said Army 
 being retourned did arrive there. It was declared and so 
 ordered by their Lordshipps, that a present coursse shalbee 
 taken for the easing of the said Countie and lykewise City of 
 Exceter by removing the said Army, excepting those who 
 are not for the present able to remove by reason of their 
 sicknesse, and that when they shalbe able to march, they 
 shall then repaire to their Colors, and in the meane tyme be 
 allowed weekely, after the rate of three shillings six pence 
 a man." 
 
 L. 307. Nov. 29, 1627. Copy of a letter from the Lords 
 of the Council to the Commissioners for Soldiers at 
 Plymouth : 
 
 " Whereas it is his Majestie's pleasure that the forces which 
 are nowe there shalbe removed thence with all expedicion 
 to be disposed and lodged in such manner as may be most con- 
 venient for his Majestie's service, wee doe therefore hereby will 
 and require you to take present and effectual order for the sending 
 of them to the several! Counties mencioned in the liste which 
 you shall receive herewith and to noe other to be equallie 
 billitted there. And to the end that this may be done with 
 the most convenience for the Souldiers and ease of the 
 Countries (sic) to prevent the over burtheninge of anie one 
 place att one tyme you are to cause the said forces to march 
 by severall wayes. But before they sett forward on their 
 March wee require you to take an exact veue of the strength 
 of everie Companie and thereuppon to ffill upp the broken 
 Companies out of the Recreuts to the Commissioners at 
 Portsmouth, to be disposed of by them in like manner for 
 the re-enforcing of the broken Companies which landed there. 
 And thus expecting your carefull and exacte performance 
 of these our direccions wee, &c.
 
 183 
 
 The list of the Counties : Berks, Kent, Somerset, Wiltes, 
 Dorset, Surrie, Ginq Ports.* 
 
 In L. 308, Dec. 12, 1627, is an Order in Council to the 
 Chamber: " fforeasmuch as his Majestic hath byn informed 
 that diverse outrages and disorders have byn latelie com- 
 mitted in the Cittie and Countie of Exeter by the Souldiers 
 that are billetted in those parts, and that the said Cittie is 
 the Comon throughfare and passage for the souldiers to and 
 from Plymouth and other the western parts, ffor the punishing 
 of those and prevencion of the like mischiefs and inconveniences 
 hereafter, It is his Majestie's pleasure that Mr. Attornie Generall 
 shall make readie a Commission for Marshall Law within the 
 said Cittie and Countie of Exeter fitt for his Majestie's signa- 
 ture to be directed unto such persons as the Earle of Bedford, 
 Lord Leivtenant of the Cittie and Countie shall nominate (?)or 
 send unto hym." Endorsed in Samuel Izack's handwriting : 
 "A Coppie of the order for Marshall Law which I found in 
 Mr. Attornie 's Chamber." 
 
 In L. 309, Whitehall, Dec. 17, 1627, the Lords of the Council 
 write to the Commissioners for Souldiers at Plymouth : 
 "Whereas you were directed by our letters of the 17th of 
 November last [L. 304] that if anie Soldiers were then Billitted 
 in the Cittie of Exon. you should forthwith remove them 
 from thence, and place them in the Countie of Devon, which 
 nevertheless you have hetherto neglected to doe, to the great 
 preiudice of the said Cittie, as by the iterate complaints 
 thereof, wee are given to understand. And whereas by our 
 later letters of the 29th of the moneth aforesaid [L. 307], 
 wee gave order for the removeing of all the fforces in the 
 Countie of Devon and Cornwall (amongst which those of 
 Exon. were intended to be included) into some other Counties. 
 And his Majestie hath ben gratiously pleased to allow 1,OOOZ*. 
 for the furnishing of the said Soldiers, with hose, shooes and 
 conduct money to carry them to the Countries (sic) where 
 they are to be quartered. These shall be therefore to will 
 and require you forthwith to take alike Course, with the 
 Soldiers billetted in the said Cittie, as you are to doe with 
 the rest of the fforces, according to our former direccions given 
 unto you in that behalfe to the end the said Cittie may have 
 no further cause to Complaine. And so, &c. 
 
 In L. 301 (undated) is a note of "The charge of the billetting 
 of 160 souldiers in the Cittie of Exon who came thither the 
 Sixth day of Nov., 1627." The cost amounts to 1021. 2s. 3d., 
 viz. : 
 
 I s. d. 
 i.e. 6 days at 8d. per day for everie man . . 32 00 00 
 
 * See Gal. Dom. 1627-28, p. 451, where the total number of the soldiers 
 is given as 6,000. For protest from Surrey, Dec. 7, 1627, see Ibid, p. 460.
 
 184 
 
 I. s. d. 
 
 For Cloth lyninge and making of 15 Coates 
 
 for souldiers newlie imprest in the Gttie . . 09 11 03 
 
 For the Charges of divers sicke souldiers 
 which retourned sick to this Cittie and were 
 here cured or buried p'ut.. .. .. 05 11 00 
 
 23rd Dec., 1627. For conduct monie, hose 
 and shooes uppon the removall of the said 
 160 Souldiers out of the Cittie 55 00 00 
 
 102 02 03 
 
 The account is incomplete, and a footnote gives 
 52?. 10s. Qd., 174Z. 18s. 3d., 102?. 2s. 3d., totalled as 
 328?. 105. 6c?., which should be 329?. 105. 6d. 
 
 L. 302 (undated). A noat of such moneys as hath bene 
 paied out by James White for the billitinge of the Souldiers : 
 
 L s. d. 
 
 Nov., 1627. (1) paied the Captaines and 
 ther Sargents for tow weeks, begininge 
 this daye and endinge the 25th of this 
 mouneth 071 09 00 
 
 (2) Mo r paied the Constabells of the 
 seavrall quarters of the Citie for 4 weeks 
 from this daye which ended the 23rd of 
 December at noune . . . . .. 101 00 03 
 
 (3) Mo r paied for the diet of Sicke 
 Souldyers by thapointment of the Right 
 Worship Mr. John Ackland, Mayor, which 
 Remained in the Citie after the Rest wear 
 
 gone away 002 09 00 
 
 174 18 3 
 
 The Petition of Right. 
 
 L. 313. A written copy hi English of the Petition of Right 
 [presented May 10, 1628, in the Parliament 3 Charles L, 
 (March 17, 1628, to March 10, 1629), in which the Members 
 for Exeter were Ignatius Jurdaine, Esquire, and John Lynne, 
 gent.]. 
 
 The text corresponds with that given in Rymer, vni, ii, 254 
 (from the Close Roll) ; Parliamentary History, ii., 374 ; and 
 Hume viii, 381, with a few slight alterations and some 
 omissions. E.g. " An oath not warrantable by the Lawes or 
 Statuts of this Realme," hi Rymer, line 28 becomes "an un- 
 lawful oath"; "without beinge charged with any Thinge to 
 which they might make Answeare accordinge to the Law " 
 (Rymer, I. 58)=" without beinge charged to answere by dew 
 process of law " ; "in Annes," Rymer, I. 86=" in armyes."
 
 185 
 
 The following passages in Rymer are omitted altogether : 
 " either by the Customes of the said Realme or by Acts of 
 Parliament. And whereas noe offender of what kind soever 
 is exempted from the Proceedings to be used and Punishments 
 to be inflicted by the Lawesand Statutes of this your Realme " 
 (Rymer, 1. 73) ; " or deteynd " (Rymer, I. 109) ; " and that 
 your People may not be soe burthened in the tyme to come " 
 (Rymer, Z. Ill); "to any Person or Persons whatsoever, to 
 be executed " (Rymer, I. 114). 
 
 The following passage occurs at the end, which is not found 
 in Rymer 's text : " Wee humbly present this peticion to 
 your Majestie not only with a care of preserving our owne 
 liberties, buth (sic) with due regard to leave intire your 
 soveraigne power wherewith your Majestie is intrusted for 
 the protecion safty and happines of your people." 
 
 To this clause there is a side note : " The lords Addition. 
 The which is now left out of the Petition as it is signed by 
 the King's Majestie. This 7th of June, 1628." [See Gardiner, 
 vi., 309; for charge that 1,500 copies of the Petition had been 
 printed " with an Addition," see Parl. Hist, ii, 436 ; 
 Hallam, Constitutional History, i, 391.] 
 
 L. 315. A Copy of the Remonstrance presented to the 
 King on June 17, 1628,* to the King beginning : " Most dread 
 Soveraigne, As with humble thankfulness," &c. 
 
 It occupies 24 pages and corresponds with the text given in 
 Parl. Hist, ii, 420-427, with the following differences : 
 p. 420. The Exeter copy reads : " Weakened, ympoverished, 
 dishonoured and deserted " v. " impoverished and 
 dishonored " ; inserts " and with Joyfulnes " after 
 "all sincerity." 
 
 p. 421. inserts " as much honor to your Majestie and acknow- 
 ledgment of dutie " after " as much honour." 
 inserts " altogether " before " unknown to you." 
 inserts " and ministers " before " do behave them- 
 selves." 
 
 inserts " readie and " before " gracious acceptation." 
 p. 422. omits "lately" before "conferred upon them." 
 
 reads " great " for " extreme " before " scandal and 
 
 grief." 
 omits " their numbers, power, and insolency daily 
 
 increasing in all parts of your Kingdom." 
 inserts " unhappie " before "opportunities." 
 p. 423. reads " impression " for " imprinting." 
 
 reads " disp'age " (i.e. disparage) for "depress." 
 p. 424. reads " strange " for " strong " before " co- 
 operating." 
 
 adds " round " after " compass." 
 adds " pyously" before " to remember." 
 
 * Gal. Dom. 1628-29, p. 166; Commons Journal i, 911 ; Parl. Hist, ii, 
 420-427.
 
 186 
 
 omits " fear of " before " innovation." 
 inserts " the number " before " of those soldiers." 
 inserts " ymployed or " before " dismissed." 
 omits " other " before " foreign employment." 
 p. 425. adds " for this place " after " to be levied." 
 
 reads " had been made over for that purpose that " v. 
 
 " to be fined for that purpose gave us just cause of 
 
 fear and." 
 reads " al waves pernicious to any state " v. " pernicious 
 
 to most States." 
 
 inserts " the mischief of such " before " courses." 
 inserts " concerninge the under myninge of Religion " 
 
 before " tending." 
 reads " for generall at land " v. "to be general of 
 
 the army in the land." 
 reads " approchinge "for " apparent " before " change 
 
 of government." 
 adds " and fallinge downe at your feate to beseech 
 
 you to hearken to the voyce of all your people " 
 
 before " who if you could have." 
 reads " Cales " for " Cadiz." [Cf. page 181.] 
 omits "extremely" before "wasted." 
 p. 426. reads " some thousand " for " 6 or 7,000." 
 reads " your fortes " for " the forts." 
 reads " that proportion " for " the proportion." 
 reads " xxxvi last " for " 6 lasts." 
 reads "fourth" for "14th." 
 inserts " in Parliament " after " contract made." 
 reads " Burlamacke " v. " Burlemachi."* 
 inserts " of your owne " before " by one third." 
 reads " strange " for " fearful." 
 omits " by any other means " before " have been 
 
 here." 
 
 omits " amongst many " after " one reason." 
 p. 427. omits " narrow " before " seas." 
 
 adds " hi haveinge the absolute commande of the 
 
 seas " after " consisted." 
 inserts " beat " before " rob." 
 reads " perceave " for " conceive." 
 omits " and as it is not safe " before " so sure we are." 
 reads " maynteyne " for " manage." 
 omits "your most princely" before "consideration." 
 It contains also the " kalendar of particulars " presented 
 to the King for his perusal with the Remonstrance [see Parl. 
 Hist, ii, 426], which is headed : - 
 
 " A Kalender or Schedule of the Shippinge of this King- 
 dome which have beene taken by the enemie or loste 
 
 by Shipwracke within 3 yeares laste paste," and 
 
 gives the following particulars : 
 
 * t.e. Philip Burlamachi, Victualler of the Navy for the relief of 
 La Rochelle. Cal. Pat. 1628-29, pp. 67, 97, 127, 149, 156.
 
 187 
 
 Taken by the 77 Shipps of 100 These Ships and 
 Enemie . . Tunns Burthen there furniture 
 
 and upward. 
 Caste away.. 133 do. do. 
 
 Taken and 
 
 caste away. 60 
 
 do. do. 
 260 summa. 
 
 valued at 
 do. do. 
 
 do. do. 
 
 620,000ft. 
 100,000ft. 
 
 350,000ft. 
 
 Taken by the Shippinge under Noe value certifyed. 
 
 Enemie . . 130 100 Tunns. 
 
 together with the names of the Townes and parts to 
 which they belonged, Exeter appearing in both groups. 
 
 A note of the Shipps of the Burthen of 100 Tuns and 
 upwards which appertayned to the severall ports after 
 mencioned in Anno 1628, Together with the Numbers of 
 what have been taken and loste.* 
 
 Seamen imployed Taken and 
 in them. cast awaye. 
 
 London 
 
 190 
 
 5800 
 
 94 
 
 Ipswich and 
 
 
 
 
 Harewich . . 
 
 110 
 
 1320 
 
 52 
 
 Woodbridge . . 
 
 19 
 
 228 
 
 08 
 
 Albrough 
 
 22 
 
 264 
 
 12 
 
 Yarmouth 
 
 44 
 
 528 
 
 21 
 
 Hull .. 
 
 60 
 
 600 
 
 18 
 
 Newcastle 
 
 40 
 
 48 (sic) 
 
 21 
 
 Dover and 
 
 
 
 
 Sandwich . . 
 
 27 
 
 432 
 
 2 
 
 of 42 
 
 of 
 
 of 10 
 of 11 
 
 Tunnage 
 Tuna. 
 
 7020 
 
 1370 
 620 
 2980 
 1270 
 1630 
 
 512 
 
 2 (sic) of 19 2770 
 17,660 
 
 L. 314. A written copy of the King's Speech, beginning : 
 " It may seem strange &c." [delivered June 26, 1628, but 
 endorsed " June 16, 1628," in reply to the Remonstrance of 
 the Commons [L. 315]. It is printed in Lords Journ. iii, 879 ; 
 Commons Journ. i., 919 ; Parl. Hist, ii, 434 ; Gardiner vi, 
 324.] 
 
 The following verbal differences occur in the text as com- 
 pared with that in the Lords Journal, iii, 879. 
 
 Par. i. " It is known to every man " v. " everyone." 
 
 Par. iii. omits " that even " before " the House of 
 Commons" ; reads " false construction " v. " constructions " ; 
 omits " might " before " be worse " ; reads " handlinge" v. 
 " hammering " ; " trench " v. " entrench " ; omits " saying " 
 
 * For a list from Poole, May 6, 1628, see Cal. Dom. 1628-29, p. 103.
 
 188 
 
 before " they had neither " ; reads " intent " v. " intention "; 
 " liberty " v. " liberties " ; omits " and " before " in the 
 time to come." 
 
 Par. iv. reads " neither meant by me I am sure " v. " never 
 meant I am sure by me." 
 
 Par. v. reads " the petition " v. " your petition " ; " of 
 the laws " v. "of laws " ; " House of Parliament " v. " House 
 of Commons." 
 
 In the same document is given " Dr. Mannering's Sub- 
 mission, the 21 June, 1628," beginning : " May it please this 
 house." The text corresponds with that given in Commons 
 Journal i, 916 ; Parl. Hist, ii, 430, with the following 
 differences : Omits " the Church " after " this house " and 
 " adjudged to be " before " reflected." 
 
 John Lynne. 
 
 L. 318. From my house in Chancery Lane, Feb. 2, 1628-9. 
 John Finch, Speaker [of the House of Commons] writes to 
 the Mayor, John Lynn, Esquire, [called gent, in Return ParL, 
 i, 475, where he is one of the M.P.'s for Exeter in 1628-9] : 
 
 "After my heartie comendacions. Whereas severall 
 mocions have been made in the House of Commons for sparing 
 your attendance and service there in regarde you are sithens 
 the last Session of Parliament elected Maior of the Cittie of 
 Exeter, whereby your presence there wilbe of greate use 
 for the governement of that Cittie, the House hath resolved 
 that your particuler service there must give place to the 
 generall service of the Comon Wealth in the said House of 
 Commons whereof before you are soe elected Maior you 
 were and still continue a member. And therefore I am directed 
 by the said House to give you knowledge of such the resolucion 
 thereof and to require you forthwith to come upp and attend 
 the service there. Wherein having observed the direccion 
 of the house and not doubting of your conformity thereunto, 
 I rest, your loving freind, 
 
 Jo. Finch, Speaker."* 
 
 Payment of Members. 
 
 L. 319. " Jovis, 5 ffebr. 4 Carol R [1629]. The Commons 
 house of Parliament was this daye informed that the Committee 
 for eleccions, returns and privilege uppon the referrence unto 
 them from the house to consider of the deteyneing of the wages 
 of Mr. Jorden, one of the Cittizens of the Cittie of Exeter, 
 have resolved to send for twoe Aldermen of the said Cittie 
 to appeare before the said Committee. Whereas there are 
 some other Aldermen of the said Cittye and the Towne Clark 
 thereof now here. Whereuppon it is ordered by the said 
 House of Comons that such of the said Aldermen as be now 
 here together with the Towne Clark shall attend the said 
 
 * The signature ia an original autograph.
 
 189 
 
 Committee and that the sending for the said twoe other 
 Aldermen shalbe stayed. 
 
 Jo. Brighte." 
 
 On the fly-sheet are the following notes in the hand-writing 
 of the Town Clerk, Samuel Izacke : 
 
 "Mr. Ignatius Jurdain, con. Maior Ballivos et civitatem 
 Civit (Exon.) Three obiections p'ut per ordinem. 
 
 1. For discontentment the magistrates refuse to allow 
 
 Mr. Jurdain his wage. 
 
 2. That lands be given for that purpose. 
 
 3. That his fellow Cittizen is allowed his wage. 
 They must be all aunsweared negativllie. 
 
 To the first : 
 
 It is to be proved that longe before the begyning of this 
 Parliamente* it was agreed by the Maior and Common 
 Counsell of the said Cittie (who have the orderinge 
 of the Revenue there) that the wage of Parliament 
 shoulde be paid by the Comons accordinge to lawe, 
 which was made noe more against Mr. Jurdaine than 
 anie other. 
 
 That this agreemente was made uppon consideracion 
 of the decaying of the Cittie 's Revenue, by there Haven 
 rents and Pettie Customes and their beinge in debte. 
 That there hath byn noe treatie of wage due but some- 
 tymes more sometyme (sic) less and sometyme little 
 or nothing. 
 The second : 
 
 That a little mannor of viZ. rent and onlie x tenements 
 about 100 years since was given for paymente of the 
 ffee farme rent (50?. p. Ann.) and other uses which 
 being superstitious, were forfeyted and that mannor 
 afterwards purchased againe for a valuable considera- 
 cion. 
 The third : 
 
 That Mr. Lynne (now Maior) being Mr. Jurdaine's fellow 
 Cittizen, is neither paid, promised nor allowed of anie 
 wage, but is answeared as Mr. Jurdaine. 
 That the Common Counsell of the Cittie have offered to 
 pay Mr. Jurdaine 20, 30 and 40s. apeece towards his wage 
 out of their loves unto hym and that its desired the wage 
 may be paid by lawe &c." 
 
 The document contains also an extract from Stat. 23, H. VI, 
 11., cap. 10. See Stat. ii, 336. 
 
 For 18/. 5s. Qd. paid to Mr. Ignatius Jurdaine on July 26, 
 1625, for his fees and expenses in Parliament (i.e. at West- 
 minster from May 17, 1625) and 51. 16s. Qd. paid Oct. 4, 1625, 
 for the adjourned meeting at Oxford, Aug. 1. to Aug. 12, 
 1625 (Col. Dom. 1625-26, p. 59; Gardiner v, 397-432) see 
 Oliver, 246, from Receiver's Accounts. 
 
 * From March 17, 1628, to March 10, 1629, in which T. Jurdayne and Joh 
 Lynne were M.P.'s for Exeter.
 
 190 
 
 A Proclamation. 
 
 In L. 321, March 31, 1629, the Lords of the Council com- 
 mand the Mayor and the rest of his Majesty's officers in 
 Exeter to be aiding and assisting to the officers of the 
 Customs in the Port of Exeter, "in all things wherein they 
 shall require your helpe in case of any opposition that may be 
 made by anie refractorie Persons in regard to a proclamation 
 recently sent to them." 
 
 George Blackall. 
 
 L. 322. Whitehall, Feb. 12, 1629-30. A certificate from 
 the Earl of Montgomery [i.e. Philip Herbert, Lord Chamber- 
 lain] that Mr. George Blackall is a servant of the King and 
 a sworn esquire of his Majesty's Body.* 
 
 The Peace of Susa. 
 
 L. 323. July 11, 1629. J. Okehampton [i.e. John Mohun 
 of Boconnoc, Cornwall, created Baron Mohun of Okehampton, 
 April 15, 1628. Comp. Peer, v 322], Sir Bernard Grenville 
 [of Tresmore, near Launceston, Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall]! 
 and Sir William Corey [of Trebigh, Cornwall] inform the 
 Mayor of Plymouth that they have received letters from the 
 Council that ambassadors J " now goeing over into ffraunce " 
 have orders to "deale effectually for the restitution of any 
 the ships or goods taken by the French and for the reparacion 
 of the dammage by them donne . " And all who have complaints 
 are to inform the said ambassadors of them through their 
 Factors or Agents. The Mayor of Plymouth is to signify 
 this to the Mayor of Bristol (sic) and to the town of Dartmouth 
 and other ports in Devon. 
 
 In L. 324, Plymouth, July 17, 1629, the Mayor of Plymouth, 
 Nicholas Sherwill forwards L. 323 to the Mayor of Exeter 
 desiring him to make it known to the merchants of his parts. 
 
 Nicholas Spicer's Letters. 
 
 L. 327. London, Sept. 5, 1629. Nicholas Spicer|| writes 
 to the Mayor. The letter is headed " Emanuelle " and 
 endorsed : " Mr. R. Spicer from London aboute the obteyninge 
 of shippes to gaurde the Westerne Coasts." 
 
 * For letters of marque issued to him, Jan. 26, 1629, as part owner of 
 the ship Hopewell of Topsham, see Cal. Dom. 1629-31, p. 151. For a letter 
 from him referring to English merchants at Bordeaux in 1629, see Ibid, 
 p. 148. 
 
 t Cal. Dom. 1629-31, pp. 15, 20, 80, July 19, 27, 1629. 
 
 j i.e. Sir Thomas Edmondes, Cal. Dom. 1628-29, pp. 570, 571, 677, 584, 
 June 8, 9, 14, 20, 1629. 
 
 i.e. After the treaty signed at Susa, April 14, 1629 Rymer. vra, iii, 39, 
 62 ; Gardiner vii, 100. 
 
 || A bailiff in 1611, 1623. For his letters, dated Exeter, Aug. 29, Oct. 19, 
 1629, to Edward Nicholas, Secretary to the Admiralty, see Cal. Dom. 1629-31, 
 pp. 44, 80. For portrait of his father, Nicholas Spicer, see Oliver, 221. 
 Also his gift to the city, March 3, 1609 see Report on Charities, 243.
 
 191 
 
 " Worshipful, 
 
 Maye yt please you to take notice of ye receipt of yours 
 of ye 29 ultimo,* since which tyme I have hade conference 
 with my friends and also with ye Secratorye of State, whoe is 
 alsoe Secratorye to ye Commissioners for ye Admirall unto 
 whome I made knowen our grievance and withall what I 
 Intended as to petishi[oning his] Majestie and ye Lords, but 
 they weare of A Contrarye Judgment, but rather advised 
 me . . . your Letter to ye Lord High Steward,! whoe is 
 one of ye Commissioners, Intreating direction therein, for 
 if ye Kinge should bee pitissioned befor they weare acquainted] 
 with our geievances, consideringe yt doth concerne them, 
 offence might .... Ye Kinge is att Winsore with all 
 ye Lords and tomorrow ther is great feast [ ] taketh 
 
 his oth for conferminge the peace with france. A Mundaye 
 th[ ] for London, wher I will attend God willinge ye 
 
 deliveringe of ye Letter [ ] the Commissioners sitts 
 
 aboute the navye, whom I purpose to petission [ ] the 
 
 Kinge and Queene Commeth to Whitehall A Tusdaye alsoe 
 but f or 3 [ ] my Indevors shall not wante for ye accom 
 
 plishment of all our desires. [ ] in the River of teames 
 
 tow of ye King's shipps reddye and one of ye whealps [ ] 
 the Lyon and ye adventure ther marriners being Abord 
 for newes. The Dreadnett,% a shipp of ye King's, burden 
 800 tuns with 46 pah* of ordnaunce, is reddye to depart for 
 Spayne in whom goeth Sir ffrances Cockkington, Chancellor 
 of the Exchequer, with divers others, and yt is reported yt 
 heer commeth Don Christofore Cullombo, || ye governor of 
 Cambree. A speedye peace is expected.^ Doctor Ma we,** 
 ye bisshop of bath and wells, is deade. Doctor Laude, bisshop 
 of London [i.e. since July 11, 1629] verri sicke and smale 
 hopes of his recoverri. This daye I red a Commission [ ] 
 
 by his Majestie to Richard Lord Weston, Lord Treasurer of 
 Ingland, Robart [ ], sieft Lord Great Chamberlynne 
 
 of Ingland, with the Earell of penbrooke, Lord high Stuarde, 
 Edward [i.e. Sackville], Earell of dorsett, Lord Chamberlyne 
 to ye Queene, Lord Vicunt dor Chester, secratory of Estate, 
 Sir John Cooke, Another Secratorie, which Commission tendeth 
 
 * See Gal. Dom. 1629-31, p. 44. 
 
 f i.e. the Earl of Pembroke. See p. 77. 
 
 j The Dreadnought was at Flushing on Sept. 12, 1629, at Dover Sept. 17, 
 in the Downs Sept. 20, and at Portsmouth Sept. 30, whence she sailed with 
 Sir Francis Cottington on board on Nov. 4, 1629. Gal. Dom. 1629-31, pp. 57, 
 59, 61, 68, 88. 
 
 i.e. Cottington, see L. 328. For his expenses as Ambassador to Spain 
 from July 1, 1629, (commission prepared Oct. 1, 1629), see Gal. Dom. 1629-31, 
 pp. 67, 99. 
 
 || (?) Don Carlos de Coloma, who arrived in the Downs from Dunkirk 
 Dec. 27, 1629, Ibid, p. 126, and had audience at Whitehall, Jan. 6, 1630, 
 Ibid, p. 133. 
 
 If i.e. with Spain. A treaty was signed at Madrid, Nov. 5, 1630 Gardiner, 
 vii, 175. 
 
 ** i.e. Leonard Mawe, d. Sept. 2, 1629. 
 
 t| i.e, Robert Bertie, Earl of Lindsey.
 
 192 
 
 for the suppressinge of piratts as alsoe to graunte by vertue 
 of the same other Commissions by all, or other three of them. 
 Letters from Amsterdame signify that the Flemand hath 
 taken the outer courses of the burse * and supposed [ ] 
 
 the towne will be rendered. Not else att present, prayinge 
 God to give a gr[acious] end to my proseedings, desiringe mi 
 commendations to bee remembrede to Sir [John] Ackland, I 
 commyte you both with your affarres to ye protextion of ye 
 Almightie, in whom I ende and reste, yours to be com- 
 maunded, 
 
 Nicholas Spicer. 
 
 L. 328. London, Sept. 8, 1629. Nicholas Spicer writes 
 to the Mayor : 
 
 "Worshipfull, 
 
 Maye it please you to take notice of a former (sic) written 
 per our carrier of ye 5th of this present, to which I reffer you. 
 Since which tyme I have deliver (sic) ye Lord Stuard ye 
 Letter whome I found willinge to doe ye Cittie any service, 
 but my Lord Tresurer was some thinge quicke att firste, but 
 after more milder. I have obtained one shippe of ye king's 
 [i.e. the Convertive'f] and twoo whealpes [i.e. whelps] for our 
 parts tomorrowe I will hand the Letters and warrant to 
 keepe about the Starte and torbaye because of our St. Mallos 
 [S. Malo] and Morlis [i.e. Morlaix] barks. For the passage 
 of the bussies I reffer to my verball relation (God sending 
 me well home). For newes [i.e. newsletter, Col. Dom., 
 1629-31, p. 98 see p. 220] yt is credblely reported ye Burse 
 (see L. 327) is renderrd upon Composission of departure with 
 bagge and baggas for upon intretie the Prince of Orrange 
 gave them quarter. There was a fleete of ffrench in ye River 
 of Rone [the Seine] and at Deep [Dieppe] since ye peace 
 [April 14, 1629, see L. 323, page 190] was proclamed, and went 
 for St. Christopher's Island [i.e. St. Kitts, Leeward Islands], 
 and hath taken all the Inglish shipps ther, some saye but 
 5 shipps, and hath slayen all the men abord ye said ships. 
 Wher they have taken ye Island yt is not certayne.J The 
 Kinge much moved att yt, as I shall relate unto you. The 
 Spanish Imbassador [i.e. Coloma, see L. 327] is att Brissells, 
 as I understand by good advise and as soone as Sir Frances 
 Cottington [see L. 327] is gone hee is expected ; soe as I hope 
 
 * i.e. the Bosche or O'Bosch i.e. Herzogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), which was 
 captured by Frederic Henry, Prince of Orange, the news of the surrender 
 reaching England via Flushing before Sep. 12, 1629, Col. Dom. 1629-31, 
 p. 57 ; Gardiner vii, 170. 
 
 t Her captain, Sir Thomas Button, captured the St. John of Dunkirk 
 before Sept. 17, 1629, Gal. Dom. 1629-31, p. 69. On Oct. 10, 1629, she 
 was at Bristol, and on Nov. 19th and 23rd at Kinsale. Ibid, pp. 75, 101, 
 104. 
 
 J It was really captured by the Spaniards, circ. Sept. 15, 1629. Gal. Dom. 
 1629-31, pp. 88, 93, 98. 
 
 He was still at Brussels Nov. 4, 1 629. Ibid, p. 89.
 
 193 
 
 henceforth wee shall not need to feare the Dunckartts.* 
 I knowe not what else to Inlarge, untill I see you ; in the 
 meane tyme I shall Indevor the effectinge of my Commenc- 
 ment doe end and reste yours to bee commanded, 
 
 Nicholas Spicer." 
 
 The Crossings, 
 
 L. 330. Whitehall, November, 1629. The Lords of the 
 Council write to the Mayor: "After our hearty com- 
 mendations. Wee have received information that certaine 
 reprisall goods of greate value belonging to his Maj- 
 estie have lately bene landed out of twoo reprisall ships 
 in Guernsey or elsewhere, and conveyed from ye knowledge 
 of his Majestie's Officers and that [blank] Crassin being a 
 passenger in one of the ships yt were taken, can give light 
 or notice of the quantitie and qualitie of the saide goods ; wee 
 have therefore thought fit to will and require to call the saide 
 Crassin before you, and to examine him according to such 
 Interrogatories as the bearer hereof, Charles Childe, gentleman, 
 shall present unto you, for that purpose. Now if upon his 
 answere he shall give you satisfaccion to ye saide Interrogatories 
 you are then to retourne them unto us, by the saide bearer ; 
 but if he shall refuse to make answere, or if you shall not 
 finde that hee answereth according to ye full truth of his know- 
 ledge, in that case you are to take bonde of him to appeare 
 before us on the 25th of Januarie next. And so not douting " 
 &c. Endorsed : " A letter from the Lords about the 
 examinacion of Philliph Crossinge touchinge reprisall goods." 
 
 [For letters of marque issued to Thomas Crossing and 
 others in the " Resolution " of Exeter, July 25, 1628, see 
 Cal Dom. 1628-29, p. 308.] 
 
 In L. 331, Whitehall, April 28, 1630, the Lords of the 
 Council write to the Mayor : " After our heartie 
 comendacions. Whereas we are given to understand 
 that divers persons of the Company of Marchants [i.e. 
 Adventurers] of that Citty, as namely Tho. Crossing 
 [Mayor, 1624, 1637], Francis Crossing [Mayor, 1634 
 see Cotton, Gleanings, 79] and John Taylor [Mayor, 1626], 
 with other members of the said Company, doe to the 
 great priudice of that Societie refuse to pay such small 
 taxes as have by authoritie and by mutuall consent beene 
 laid upon Marchandize that hath passed betwixt ffrance and 
 that Citty, for defraying of the necessarie charges of the 
 said Company, which taxes of late have beene more occacioned 
 by reason of the ffrench Arreasts and especially by those 
 vexacions of Matthieu and du Lawnie. We have therefore 
 thought good hereby to authorize and require you as well 
 to call the persons above named before you as all such others 
 
 * i.e. The Dunkirkers, who were still thick about Torbay and the Channel, 
 Oct. 19, Xov. 12, 1629 ; April 10, 1630. Cal. Dom. 1629-31, pp. 80, 93, 232. 
 
 Wt. 20757- Ex 13
 
 194 
 
 whom the Governor of the said Company shall complayne of 
 unto you to have refused to pay the said Taxes and to cause 
 them to make payment thereof and in case of theire refusall 
 to give good Bond to appeare and answer the same before 
 this Board. And soe we bid you hartely farewell." 
 
 [This warrant is in response to a petition sent up by the 
 Chamber on April 10, 1630, Cal. Dom. 1629-31, p. 232. For 
 further trouble on this question, Jan. 18, 1634, see Cal. Dom. 
 1633-34, p. 420.] 
 
 In D. 428, March 1, 1642, is a lease to Thomas Crossinge, 
 Alderman of Exeter, from Elizabeth Flaye, of a plot of ground 
 next St. Paul's Street on the south, with his signature 
 " Thomas Crossinge." 
 
 Vintners of Exeter. 
 
 L. 354. Star Chamber, Nov. 16, 1632. An Order in 
 Council upon a petition dated the 20th of Oct., last [Cal. Dom. 
 1631-33, p. 428], from the Chamber that "the vintners of that 
 Cittie doe take excessive prices for their wines, more than 
 is taken in any other part of ye Kingdome, although the saide 
 Cittie is scituate near unto ye sea and fournished with wines 
 at as reasonable rates as anie other place." They now order 
 that wines shall be sold at Exeter by the same rates as in 
 the City of London. 
 
 In L. 355, Whitehall, Dec. 28, 1632, is an Order in Council 
 setting the prices of wines for the year, viz., "Canary wines, 
 Muscadells and Alligant in grosse at 16Z. the pipe and I2d. 
 the quart by Retayle, Sacks and Mallegoes at 131. the butt 
 and Qd. the quart. The best Gascoigne and French wines at 
 18/. the Tonne, and ye Rochells and other small and thin 
 wines at 151. the Tonne and 6d. the quart." [See also Comm. LX, 
 page 9. For a proclamation (Feb. 18, 1633) to the same 
 effect see Cal. Dom. 1631-33, p. 539.] 
 
 In L. 97, Dec. 1, 1590, is a printed proclamation for the 
 sale of wines, reciting Statute of June 8, 1536 (28 Henry VIII), 
 the price not to exceed 151. per tun for best Gascoign and 
 French wines and 131. for every "tunne of Rochel and other 
 small and thinne wines." [There is also a bundle of Proclama- 
 tions " in Press " the contents of which are not described 
 in S. Moore's Calendar.] 
 
 In L. 356, Jan. 18, 1632-33, is a provisional Order in Council 
 on a petition of the vintners of Exeter, "his Majesty's tenants," 
 against the Chamber respecting a new measure for wines, 
 which the Chamber endeavoured to make the vintners use. 
 Their Lordships " having received as well the Standard 
 measure of the Exchequer as that kept in the Guildhall of 
 London, and finding this difference could not bee presentlie 
 reconciled," order that in the meantime the vintners of Exeter,
 
 195 
 
 who are his Majesty's Tenants and duelie pay his Majesties 
 Rents and deserve rather to be cherished, are to sell by the 
 sealed measures used in the City of London. 
 
 Sale of Tobacco. 
 
 L. 358. Whitehall, Aug. 31, 1633. The Lords of the 
 Council write to the Mayor : " Whereas his Majestic to 
 prevent the excesse of the use of tobacco and to set an order 
 to those that regrate and sell or utter it by Retayle who 
 observe noe reasonable rates or prizes nor take care that 
 it be wholesome for men's bodyes that shall use it, hath of 
 late caused us to direct letters to the Justices of peace of the 
 severall Counties of the Realme and to the Cheife Officers of 
 Cittyes and some of the Townes within the same, requiring 
 them to certify in what places it might be fitt to suffer ye 
 Retayling of Tobacco and how many to be licenced hi each 
 of those places to use that trade." and the City of Exeter 
 having made a return, the Lords send a schedule of the names 
 of those who are to be licensed and order that no others be 
 permitted to sell after the feast of Candlemas next. The list 
 is missing. [For proclamations hi a similar sense, Oct. 13, 
 1633, March 13, 1634, see Gal Dom. 1633-34, pp. 244, 500.] 
 
 In D. 454, May 15, 1672, is a lease of a house adjoining 
 St. Paul's Church from Elizabeth Flaye to George Payne, 
 Tobaccocutter, of Exeter. 
 
 Religious Destitution in the North. 
 
 L. 359. Rose Castle, Oct. 10, 1633. The Bishop of Carlisle 
 [i.e. Barnaby Potter] writes to the Mayor &c. : 
 
 Right Worshipfull, 
 
 My loving Salutations with all due respect remembered. 
 The condition of the most of the people in these parts for 
 want of the preaching of the Word of God is so wofull, their 
 ignorance so grosse and palpable, that I am perswaded there 
 is not a more necessarye Worke of Charity then to have a 
 hand or to move a finger hi setting forewards such courses as 
 may helpe to remove this heavye Judgment. Such as onely 
 by Heare Say have taken notice of the calamitye of this Countrey 
 in this kind have beene touched in conscience to contribute 
 towardes the maintenance of some able minister to imploy 
 his paynes here. In Northumberland (my neighbour Shiere) 
 the Company of Mercers in London have not long since placed 
 two Lecturers, one at Barwicke, and another at Hexam, and 
 have settled upon eyther of them 80li. yearely out of Tythes 
 thereabouts, which they have purchased for that purpose. 
 In my diocese I found when I came one Lecturer onely maine- 
 tayned by a private man (Mr. Packer), who allowes SOU. a 
 yeare for his paynes. Since my coming there have two more 
 beene sent, both of them very grave and godly men, maine- 
 tayned partly by a Londoner, who allowes 50li, out of an
 
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 Impropriation he holds here, and partly by the benevolence 
 of Dorchester and Lyme. Now my humble Suite and hearty 
 Intreatye to you all and every one, is this that you wilbe 
 pleased to turne your eyes of compassion towards this poore 
 Countrey, and some way, as in your wisedomes you shall 
 thinke fitt, contribute to their meanes of comfort for the 
 salvation of their soules. All that are well minded amongst 
 you I hope will according to their abilitye bring their freewill 
 offering to so blessed a worke, and if out of your generall 
 stock, eyther of the City, or any private Company, you wilbe 
 pleased to impart somethinge to this purpose, many poore 
 ignorant soules will have cause to blesse God for you, and 
 God, I doubt not, will even for this Act of mercy, blesse 
 and increase your store. I pray you pardon my boldnes, and 
 to take this humble Suite of myne into your grave considera- 
 tions, and so I will committ it to the prospering hand of him 
 who is honoured by such workes of pietye. To his gracious 
 protection I commend you all, and will ever rest, yours to 
 be commaunded in the like Christian office, 
 
 Bar : Carlile. 
 
 Northernhay and Souiherrihay. 
 
 L. 362. Exeter, May 31, 1634. Draft of a letter from 
 the Chamber to Sir Humphrey Davenport, knight, Lord Chief 
 Baron of the Exchequer, and Sir J. Denham, knight, a 
 Baron of the Exchequer. 
 
 "After our duties remembred. There hath byn a suite 
 depending in his Majestic 's Court of Exchequer these 3 or 4 
 yeres betweene his Majestie's Attorney Generall and this Cittie 
 about the title of some waste lands adioyning to the walles 
 of the same, which our predecessors have peaceablie enioyed 
 these 300 or 400 yeres. This suite is prosecuted as wee are 
 crediblie informed by some that hope to mak a purchase of 
 it to themselves, and the better to accomplish their intend- 
 ments doe presse a hearing this next Trinity terme. Wee 
 doe not declyne the ordinary course of Justice, and this cause 
 might have byn brought to hearing longe er this if they had 
 soe pleased, but to be putt on noue soe suddenly as not to 
 have x dayes notice thereof by our owne asents (wee beinge 
 so remote our evidences in this Cittie, our Second Counsell 
 or Solicitor not here in the Countrie), cannot be without 
 greate preiudice to our cause and us alsoe. Wherefore wee 
 earnestlie desire your Lordships' lawfull favour that wee 
 may have such convenient notice of our adversaries's pro- 
 ceedings as may be reasonable and agreeable to the wonted 
 proceedings of that honourable Courte, for which courtesie 
 wee shall rest, your Lordships' worshipps to be commanded. 
 
 In Act Book VII, /. 1346, Aug. 12, 1617: That whereas 
 Mr. Recorder did enforme the house this day that one 
 Mr. Norden, an offycer to prynce Charles came unto hym 
 and did make shewe of pretence to^ clayme to some ryghts
 
 or pryvyledges which the Cytye hath enioyed tyme out of 
 mynd it is now agreed that Mr. Recorder shall confer with 
 Mr. Norden* [see L. 226] and geve hym answere to hys 
 demande or the next terme and to have such charters 
 and other wrytyngs as may suffycyently furnyshe hym to 
 answer the pretence. 
 
 In Act Book VII, f. 1536, Aug. 11, 1618. Whereas one 
 Mr. Norden, one of the prynce's surveyors, hath enformed 
 Mr. Recorder of a clayme or interest which is pretended by 
 the prynce unto parte of Northyghey, it is ordered that 
 Mr. Recorder, Mr. Prouze and Mr. Martyn shall conferr with 
 the said Mr. Norden concernynge the said clayme and to 
 acquaynt themselves with the certeynty therof as neere as 
 they may and to envyte hym to a dynner or sopper at the 
 cost of the Cytye, and that Mr. ffley shall go to Sir George 
 Smythe, who hath an estate in Northynghey in revercon 
 of John Rowe to acquaynt hym with the said clayme. 
 
 In Act Book VIII, f. 92, Oct. 20, 1639, is an entry. Whereas 
 Mr. Maior hath latelie received a letter from the Prince his 
 highnes commissioners touching the Ditch or waste in 
 Northinghay against the Castle. It is this day agreed that 
 Mr. Recorder and Mr. Thomas Roy, the Citties Solicitor, 
 shalbe ymployed therein and to compound for that parte if 
 Mr. Recorder may uppon reasonable termes rather then 
 adventure to a sute in law for it. To which end the Town 
 Clerk is ordered to draw a letter to Mr. Recorder to be sent 
 away with all speede. 
 
 . In Act Book VIII, f. 92a, Oct. 23, 1639. Whereas on 
 Tuesday last, 15th instantis, uppon the reading of a letter 
 from the Prince's Co unsell it was conceived best for the makeing 
 of a composicon for the ditches of the Castle towards 
 Northenghey in regard they affirmed in the said letter that 
 the Cittie had disclaymed theer right to the said ditches, 
 but uppon perusall of the bookes touching that buisnes it is 
 founde otherwise and that it may be verie prejudiciall to the 
 Cittie to make any such newe agreement. It is therefore 
 thought fitt that a letter be written to Mr. Recorder to appeare 
 for the Cittie before the said Counsell att the day and place 
 appointed in the said letter to make defence for the Cittie 's 
 right &c., whiche letter being drawne to that purpose and 
 readd hi the presence of those nowe present, was well approved 
 of. And it is likewise agreed that a letter be written to 
 Mr. Thomas Roy, the Cittie 's Solicitor, nowe alsoe in London, 
 to attend Mr. Recorder therein, and that the Cittie 's answere 
 to the suite of his Majestie's Attorney in the Exchequer Chamber 
 be sent to them, and one of the Breviatts of the Cause for their 
 better instruccons in that buisnes which is done accordingly 
 by Peter Morris, the carrier, 21 e instantis. 
 
 For plan made by Norden in 1617, see Oliver, Frontispiece.
 
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 In Act Book XI, /. 29, May 9, 1665. That the trees newlie 
 sett in Northinghay be watered and stakte at the charges 
 of the Cittie ; also three members appointed and desired to 
 viewe the bounds in Northinghay and by themselves and such 
 others as they shall call to their assistance to asserten the 
 Boundes and lymittes thereof with the landes of other men. 
 
 In Act Book XI, f. 376, Oct. 24, 1665. That Mr. Receiver 
 shall provide some more Elmes to be planted in Northinghay 
 where any are decayed and in such other places there that 
 may be thought fitting and necessarie for the good of the 
 Cittie. 
 
 Ibid, /. 376, Oct. 31, 1665. Mr. Alderman Gandye and 
 two others are appointed to view the place in Northinghay 
 desired by Mr. Receiver to build a house uppon and to certefye 
 their opinions therein. 
 
 Ibid, /. 69, Oct. 22, 1667. Mr. Receiver is ordered foorth- 
 with to procure some young Elmes and cause them to be 
 planted in Southenhay and likewise to supply the defects of 
 those trees that be decayed in Northenhay with others, and 
 he is further desired to fitt and repayre ye seats in St. Peter's 
 Church which are appointed for ye use of this howse. 
 
 In Act Book XIII, /. 1076, March 8. 1698, it is ordered 
 that the Ditch at the lower end of Northinghay bee filled upp 
 with Rubbish. [See Oliver, p. 189.] 
 
 In L. 459 (undated, circa 1715), is a Petition of the Mayor &c. 
 to the Prince of Wales [afterwards George II.]. That there 
 are in the Castle Ditch two dwelling houses and gardens 
 parcell of the Dutchy of Cornwall [see Oliver, 188] held of 
 his Royall Highess, which are within the City or County of 
 the City of Exon, as the houses and gardens adjoining called 
 Bradninch are, and the said Mayor &c. have constantly 
 annually in then* going the bounds of ye said City passd 
 through those gardens home to ye wall of ye Citie of Exeter. 
 The owners of these two Tenements and gardens to avoid 
 payment of poor rates and Taxes, which other houses in 
 Bradninch have constantly paid, pretend that these houses 
 and gardens do lye hi the County of Devon and are parcell of 
 the parish of Bradninch there, though they are really within 
 the City or County of the City of Exeter, which hath occa- 
 sioned severall disputes and controversies, as an expedient 
 for the avoiding of which tis humbly proposed that the Mayor 
 &c. shall become his Highness's Tenants and take an Estate 
 and Term in each Tenement in reversion of the present 
 Estates and Terms, and they desire that they may be admitted 
 and become Crowne Tenants to his Royall Highess as is 
 before exprest. 
 
 Endorsed : Petition to the Prince about the houses in 
 Castle Ditch. The document is undated, but must be later 
 than Sept. 24, 1714, the date of the creation of the Prince of 
 Wales. >
 
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 In D. 1828, Jan. 8, 1725, is a reference to "Lady Drake's 
 Tree " in Northernhay Ditch. 
 
 In L. 612 (undated) is a resolution of the Chamber in reply 
 to a proposal submitted by Dean Lyttleton (1748-1763), in 
 which "for the conuenience of the Devon and Exeter 
 Hospital " they agreed to permitt a way to be opened through 
 the City Wall at the bottom of the Street leading from 
 St. Martin's Gate into Southernhay near the mansion of the 
 Archdeacon of Cornwall, but they cannot consent that any 
 new Door be erected as they are apprehensive such a com- 
 pliance would be laying a Foundation for frequent Differences 
 and Disputes between the two Bodies " (i.e. the Chapter 
 and the Chamber). 
 
 In L. 577, April 10, 1773, William Spicer Dix writes 
 to Gregory Jackson, Esquire, desiring to be permitted to 
 make an opening before his gateway upon Southernhay. 
 
 In L. 578, Northernhay, April 15, 1773, Matthew Whitwell 
 asks permission of the Mayor to turn his carriage upon the 
 Northehay. 
 
 In D. 1527, Oct. 10, 1562, is an indenture between the 
 Mayor &c. of the one part and Sir Robert Denys, knight 
 [see L. 54], and Richard Denys, gent., as farmers of the 
 gayle or mansion house of Exeter Castle, of the other 
 part, reciting that " there hath byn varyaunces, debates and 
 stryfes movyd betweene the saide parties of for and upon a 
 certayne muraly waye or walke uppon the walls of the saide 
 cittie called the Barbycan with a weye through the mayn 
 court and lytell inner court of the gayle of the Castell of 
 Exeter or mansion house there to the same appertayning 
 whiche the sayde Mayor, bailiffs and communaltie tyme oute 
 of mynde have had exercised and used, that is to say as well 
 to goo through the courte and curtillages pertayninge to 
 the saide gayle or mansion house to the citie's walles lying 
 betweene the Castell dyche of the saide citie on the north 
 side and the gardens adjoynyng to the saide mansyon house 
 and the saide mansion house on the west side and the dyche 
 called Northynghay diche on the East side and the garden 
 and barbygan of the citie leadyng towards Estgate on the 
 South side for the mendyng, sustaynyng, repairyng and 
 walkyng up and uppon the saide citie's walls when and as 
 often as nede schall requyer for the overseith and surveying 
 of the same walls or defence of the same citie. And also 
 a gate or dore lawful and sufficyent to be had as it hath 
 byn before this tyme used to goo into and by and passe 
 through to and from the said gayle towards the Estgate 
 uppon the walls called the barbygan of the said citie, and 
 moreover for a certayn depe pytt lately made betweene the 
 saide gaile and the said citie's walls wherein the fylth and
 
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 garbage of the prisoners of the said gayle hath of late tyme 
 byn used to be caste, which is no we very dangerouse and 
 hurtfull, as it is supposed to the subvertyng and decayinge 
 of the citie's walles thereunto adjoynyng and also an odyouse 
 smell and contagyouse ayer to the grevouse anoyaunce of 
 the Quenes Majesties subjects of the saide citie passyng or 
 dwellyng there aboutes, for the pacifying, agreement, full 
 conclusion and fynall ende thereof the parties aforesaid do 
 covenant and agree in the forme following : 
 
 First as to the muraly walk the Denises permit the old 
 way to be opened and used by the Mayor &c. as here- 
 tofore, the Denises to keep in repair the wall of the 
 city adjoining the said mansion house and garden. 
 They will also keep a door upon the said barbycan 
 on the south side of the said mansion house through 
 which the Mayor &c. and other the inhabitants of 
 the city may go at all times and will make a vault 
 [see p. 17 la] or cesspool hi Northernhay ditch for the 
 sewerage of the prison. "By me Rychard Denys." 
 with two seals 1, Sir Richard Denys ; 2, " N.F." 
 
 In D. 1755, Aug. 30, 1636, is a lease from the Mayor &c. 
 to Edward Hilliar alias Blackmore, of Exeter, of the Cruldiche 
 or Southernhay. 
 
 In D. 1847, July 6, 1778, is a contract from the Chamber 
 about the common sewer on Southernhay. 
 
 For the Northernhay Minute Book from 1844, see Book 50. 
 
 A Musician. 
 
 L. 365. Sept. 12, 1634. Certificate from the Mayor [Henry 
 Foster], the Recorder [John Baber] and Bartholomew Cox, 
 J.P., of the City of Wells, as to the respectability of Henry 
 Loxton of Wells, who desires to use his profession of a 
 musician* in the City of Exeter. 
 
 Supply of Gunpowder. 
 
 L. 369. Aug. 17, 1637. The Lords of the Council command 
 the Earl of Bedford and Lord William Russell [as Lord 
 Lieutenants, see page 11] to cause a sufficient store of gun- 
 powder to be kept in the County of Devon and to exercise the 
 trained bands in those parts where the infection of the plague 
 is not. [For a condensed copy of this order addressed by 
 the Commissioners for Saltpetre and Gunpowder to the Lords 
 Lieutenant of several counties, see Cal. Dom. 1637, p. 257, 
 where the date is supposed to be June, 1637.] 
 
 In L. 370. Woeborne, Aug. 24, 1637. The Earl of Bedford 
 and Lord W. Russell forward L. 369 to the Chamber desiring 
 
 * For the restoration of the musical waits in 1660, after many years of 
 sequestration, see Izacke, 169 ; Cotton Gleanings, 75.
 
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 that its orders may be carried out, "to meete with the suddaine 
 accidents that may happen in these stirring times abroade." 
 
 In L. 371 (undated), the Chamber inform the Earl of Bedford 
 and Lord W. Russell that they have received L. 370 and they 
 have taken veiw of their common store of powder which about 
 Two yeres since by your Lordships' assistance was fullie 
 supplied, but since there hath byn some small quantitie 
 of the worst of the said powder used in our ordin musters 
 and otherwise, but that they " have taken speciall order 
 for the speedie supplye of the same againe." 
 
 In L. 377. Nov. 18, 1638. Copy of an order from the 
 Lords of the Council to the Earl of Bedford and Lord W. 
 Russell : 
 
 After our heartie commendacions to your Lordships. The 
 expresse and usuall direcions of the board heretofore given 
 and especially of late yeares, concerning the Trayned 
 Bands of this Kingdome, have bene so full and exact as might 
 make his Majestic and this board Confident both of the 
 sufficiencye of the Armes and of the skill and readines of the 
 men that are to use them ; nevertheles least those direcions 
 and Comands should not have bene so effectually pursued as 
 was required and expected His Majestie in his watchfulmes 
 for the defence of his Kingdome and for the safetie of his people 
 in these tymes of Action, hath signified his expresse will and 
 pleasure to be : That instantly upon receipt heereof you cause 
 an exact viewe and Muster to be taken and made of all the 
 Armes and trayned fforces both horse and foote within the 
 Countye of Devon under your Lieutenancye And to see 
 that the sayd Armes be serviceable and compleate, and that 
 by the muster masters and other fitt and experienced officers 
 you cause all the trayned souldiours to be forthwith trayned, 
 and perfectly instructed in their Armes, and the lyke course 
 to be continued from tyme to tyme : And that the Comaunders 
 and Officers apply themselves also to knowe and performe the 
 duties of their severall Charges ; and that you take especiall 
 care that both Comaunders and Officers and Souldiers be 
 very able and sufficient men ; That you take order that all 
 the trayned bandes be so in readines as to be fitt to repayre 
 to their Coulors, or place of Rendezvous which shalbe assigned 
 them upon any Occasion with their Armes and provisions upon 
 a day's warning, And that all the able men within that Countye 
 (besydes those of the trayned Bands) from the age of Sixteene 
 to Threescore be also lysted and enrolled, that upon anye 
 suddayne occasion, suche levies may be made likewise of them 
 as shalbe required, and the Coppie of the sayd Lyst or enroll- 
 ment to be forthwith retourned to this Board. That you deale 
 seriously and effectually with the better sorte of men to provide 
 themselves with Armes for their particular use, to the ende 
 that with the helpe of these and suche other Armes and weapons 
 as shalbe found within the Countye, as many of the untrayned
 
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 men as is possible, may (as there shalbe occasion and direccon 
 from his Majestie or the Boarde) be also furnished and exercised 
 and reduced into Bands under Captains and Officers. That 
 your Lordships take especiall Care, that the proporcions 
 of Powder, Mache and lead appointed for that Countye be 
 forthwith provided and putt in Magazine to be in readines 
 upon all occasions of servyce ; That you cause the Beacons 
 to be forthwith made up and repayred with provision of wood 
 and other materiall requisite to be in readines to give fyer 
 unto them, and to Cause them to be dilligently Wached by 
 discreete and sufficient men ; That you appointe some meete 
 and able person to be Provost Marshall within that Countye 
 for the apprehending and punishing of suche vagrant and Idle 
 persons as live not in anye lawfull vocation and in tymes of 
 suspition or trouble, may by Tales and false Rumors distracte 
 the peoples mindes, or otherwise in fact committ insolencies 
 and Outrages ; And to the ende wee may be earlye and 
 speedilie informed of all thinges Concerning this servyce, and 
 which are necessarye for us to understand for the advancement 
 thereof, and for the applijng of fitt remedies where anye defects 
 shalbe found, wee do praye and require your Lordships to 
 give us an exact accompt of the state of the fforces of that 
 Countye, and of the performance of theise our direccions 
 with all possible dilligence and expedicion ; And so wee bidd 
 your lordships heartilie farewell. 
 
 Where your Lordships shall find it inconvenient eyther in 
 respect of the unstablenes of the wether or any other Con- 
 siderable Circumstance to drawe together from remote places 
 and to exercise your Trayned Bands in Compleate bodies, 
 wee leave it to your discretion (provided that the worke be 
 effectually donne) to take viewe of the Armes upon the place 
 or places, and to exercise the men apart in smaller bodies 
 within their severall divisions. 
 
 L. 378. Bedford House, Nov. 27, 1638. The Earl of 
 Bedford and Lord William Russell forward L. 377 to the May or 
 and Deputy Lieutenants desiring them to carry out its com- 
 mands in the City of Exeter. " And forasmuch as it hath 
 pleased his Majestie, and their llordships at this time to give 
 more than ordinarie direccions in this servyce so it behoveth 
 us and you to bestow an extraordinarie dilligence, Care and 
 Circumspeccion to see every particular title of their llordships 
 commaunds, really, punctually and speedilye performed and 
 acted." 
 
 Rebels in Exeter. 
 
 L. 372. May 19, 1638. John Newnam [not "Newman," 
 as Cotton Gleanings, p. 79] writes to the Mayor : " I cannot 
 Come home to my house nott to repayre my house, neither 
 to receave my rents nor to releeve my wyfe and family for the 
 Cruelty of these Rebells whoe are proclaimed soe to bee in
 
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 your Citty and in other places against his Majestie's lawes 
 Soe desireing your worships assistance with the rest otherwise 
 I shall be Constrayned to question it heere in a higher nature 
 for my money and bondes beeinge Cryed in your Citty in 
 due tyme is as a hue and Crye that is sent in the Countrey, 
 therefore I doe expect satisfaccon for my money." 
 
 Tobago. 
 
 L. 373. The Court at Woodstock, Aug. 22, 1638. The 
 Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery [High Steward of Exeter 
 L. 367] writes to the Mayor &c. and the Merchant 
 Adventurers of Exeter, that the King has granted him 
 the Island of Tobago and other Islands between the line 
 and ten degrees of Northern latitude,* that he intends to 
 settle a speedy plantation there and has appointed Sergeant 
 Major Borthwick his Deputy, " a Gent as I am very well advised 
 beyond all Exception and every way fitt for such an Employ- 
 ment, who being resolved by God's grace to sett forward from 
 the port of Bristoll about Michaelmas next," and asking them 
 to assist his said Deputy and to engage in the plantation. 
 
 In L. 374, Bristol, Oct. 16, 1638, J. Borthwick writes to 
 the Mayor &c. : 
 
 I did writt some few dayes ago to you presuming too much 
 to have accompanyed a letter of the Eight honble. the Earle of 
 Pembroke (i.e. L. 373). My action hath bene interpreted 
 too presumptuous by reason I have resaved no answer neither 
 for my Lord nor to my owne. Every letter requyres it's 
 answer and though I may Justly complaine of neglect, yett 
 because I will rather do the office of peace then of warre I 
 intreat you to lett mee heare from you betwixt (sic) and 
 Sunday night that I may give a true account to his Lordship 
 of my Stewardship, imputing the errour rather to a mistake 
 then any disrespect either to his Lordship or my self. 
 
 L. 375 (undated). " A Remonstrance and propositions made 
 by Sarieant Maior James Borthwicke to the Burgesses and 
 Commonaltye of the Cittie of Exeter." 
 
 The region or Countrey is called " Trinidado, Tobago and 
 ffonceca, also St. Bernards Margarita and all this Islands or 
 Iseletts or Tracte of Land Lyinge within the extent of Tenn 
 degrees from the Equatorial! Line Towardes the trophiche of 
 Cancer in Northerne Latitude and from the river of Arinocth 
 (? Orinoco) westwardes tenne degrees of Longitude or 
 Meridian distance, all which are incorporated by the name 
 of the Province of Pembroke and Montgomery." 
 
 His propositions are either that the Mayor &c. of Exeter 
 should join with the Cities of Bristol and Cardiff or else of 
 
 * Oliver, 113. For a previous grant to him of "Trinidado, Tabago, 
 Barbudos, and Fonseca, &c.," Feb. 20, 1628, see Cal. Dom., 1627-1628, 
 p. 573, which was successfully disputed since 1629 in favour of Lord Carlisle. 
 See C. P. Lucas, West Indies, pp. 174, 207.
 
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 themselves at their own cost " to sett forth under their own 
 agent 100 men of trades as Carpenters, Shippwrights, and 
 Wheelewrights, Brickemakers, Bricklayers, Potters, some to 
 cleane lath and Pate and make Pipestanes, Joyners, Coopers, 
 Sawyers, Smithes, Guttlers, Millers, Leatherdressers, ffisher- 
 men and Gardeners etc., soe many as you please, the rest 
 able labouringe men. 
 
 Item, twentie woemen as Spinsters and Knitters, all which 
 are necessariely Required for A Plantation that for there 
 Subsistance there the adventurers shall have Graunted unto 
 them by the Earl such a proportion of Land as shalbee reason- 
 ably demaunded Accorduige to the Number of People. 
 
 As for the comodities of the Place and there Returnes they 
 shall bee discovered upon Conferringe had on Both Sides. 
 
 L. 376 (undated). A Particuler of such necessary provisions 
 as every adventurer must carry, According the number of 
 people, together with an estimacion of there prices (given in 
 minute detail). 
 
 In victualls for tenn men six month : 
 
 2 hoggesheads of beefe, 7 cwt. Bisquitte, 10 bushels of 
 meale well packed, 4 hoggesheads of pease, 3 do. of 
 great oatmeale, 2 ffirkins of butter, 10 gall, of aqua vitse, 
 
 4 galls, of Cordiall waters, 4 do. of sweete oyle, 2 cwt. of 
 good old Suffolke Cheese. Item, in sugar, spice and 
 fruite. Total cost = [blank], 
 
 In Apparell for 10 men : 
 
 10 slight stuffe suites, 60 paire of shooes, 40 shirts, 10 finer 
 shirts, 40 neckclothes, 60 paire of linine stockings, 
 40 paire of canvas drawyers, 20 cotton wastcotes, 
 20 menmoth caps or hats, 30 ffallemye bands. Item, 
 mkle for garters and 10 dozen of poyntes. 
 
 In Bedding for 10 men : 
 
 10 paire of Canvas sheetes, 35 elles of canvas to make 
 
 5 beds and boulsters for beds filled in the Countrey 
 with 7 ells in a bed. 5 Ruggs, 25 ells of Cowche Canvas 
 to make beds at sea to bee filled with strawe, 5 courser 
 ruggs at sea. 
 
 In Armes for 10 men : 
 
 10 musketts and bandoleers, 10 swords and belts, 2 barrell 
 of good powder, 2 cwt. of Pistoll shott, 1 cwt. of muskett 
 shott, 1 cwt. of good match, 10 pistolls. 
 
 In Tooles for 10 men : 
 
 3 Broade axes, 20 fellinge axes, 2 hamers, 10 broade hoes, 
 40 lesser hoes, 14 hatchetts, 20 bills, 4 pickaxes, 2 good 
 two-handed sawes, 1 box of Carpenters tooles, 2 firkins 
 of good spikes and nayles, 6 shovells, 6 spades, 1 grind- 
 stone. Item, fishinge lines and hookes of all sorts. 
 Item, Turtleinge Irons and Manatee Irons. 
 
 In Household Implements : 
 
 4 Iron potts, 2 large fryeingepans, 2gredirons, 3 skellitts, 
 2 spitts, 1 cwt. of Castle sope, 6 gallons of larnpe oyle,
 
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 12 wooden dishes and spoones, 6 pewter do., and some 
 table Linine. 
 
 Summa totalis= 194:1. 17s. Qd. 
 
 Item for the further charge of ordinance and amunition 
 for a fort which will require five peeces of ordinance with 
 powder and shott. The best proportioning of the number 
 of men wilbe by devideinge them by famillies wherein one 
 tradesman with a prentice and 3 Labourers will bee an equall 
 devission unles they bee twoe tradesmen masters of one trade 
 and then the double proportion of servants and labourers in 
 the feild may make but one household or familie. 
 
 A Compotacion of one Servants Laboure and the profitt 
 that may arise by it yearelye. One man may plante and 
 gather in one yeare 100 buschells of pease amounting to I5li. 
 The same man the same yeare may plant, tend and gather 
 betweene 8 and 10 cwt. of Tobaccoe or Cotton besides other 
 labours in buildinge, fenceinge, Cleansinge of grounde, 
 Rayseinge of Cattell, gardeninge &c. 
 
 There are many other commodities as Ginger, Indigo, Sugar, 
 Roccowes and severall woodes for dyeinge, all which com- 
 modityes with tyme and Industry e this plantacion will 
 plentifully and in abundance produce and Increase. 
 
 Legacies for the Poor. 
 
 L. 379. Coomroye [see page 5] in Broadclyst, Feb. 22, 
 1638-39. Hugh Jermyn [or German bailiff in 1615] writes 
 to the Mayor stating his inability to contribute towards the 
 erecting of the hospital under his father's will, the bequest 
 having been conditional and he himself being now poor. He 
 pleads : ' ' My great chardge of Children ha vin g sea ven daught ers 
 living and some whose education is very chardgable upon my 
 small estaett, which I am to consider of, and myself greeved 
 with a most paynfull chardgable and languishing Disease, 
 also charity begiimeth at hoem, for hee is worse then an 
 Infidell, that respecteth not his owne." 
 
 In L. 402, June 8, 1648, is a draft resolution of the Chamber 
 to accept 75Z. from Mr. George [see D. 569] Potter, one of the 
 executors of Thomas Bridgman, gentleman, and his bond 
 for the payment within 5 years of the residue of 500Z. left 
 by the said Bridgman by his will dated April 3, 1641 [see Rept. 
 on Charities, p. 304 ; Endowed Charities, p. 396], for the poor 
 of Exeter. With a note at the foot by E. Davyes. 
 
 In D. 1715a, April 4, 1611, is an indenture reciting a deed 
 of March 6, 1588 [not 1587, as Report on Charities, p. 134], 
 according to which 24s. p.a. is left under the will of David 
 Hentsley [or Hensley] to be spent in the purchase of 24 dozen 
 of " Temes breade " to be divided amongst the poor of 
 Exeter. 
 
 For description of the Charities of Exeter (1600-1622), 
 see Book 149,
 
 206 
 
 Contempt by Mayor. 
 
 L. 381. Whitehall, April 26, 1639. An order in Council 
 concerning the excuses of James Tucker, the Mayor, Thomas 
 Crossing and Ignatius Jordan, Aldermen of Exeter, for 
 not attending the Board as they were commanded. " The 
 occasion of their sending for being their irreverent carriage 
 with their hatts on in the Cathedrall Church of Exeter 
 at such tymes as his Majesties Proclamation touching 
 the seditious practizes of some in Scotland was read, the 
 rest of the congregation being uncovered." [See Cotton, 
 Gleanings, p. 76.] The Mayor has pleaded his many employ- 
 ments in the King's service, the others their great age and 
 Infirmities. They are now commanded through the 
 Chamberlain, Mr. [John] Crowkhorne who attended on their 
 behalf to give in their submissions in writing in person to the 
 Bishop. [For explanations accepted May 12, 1639, see Gal. 
 Dom., 1639, p. 160.] 
 
 In D. 1764, 1765, Feb. 12, 1650, is a decree in the Exchequer 
 from the Keepers of the Liberties of England to James Goold, 
 late Mayor of Exeter [i.e. in 1648], remitting a fine of 200J. 
 imposed upon him by Judge Wilde [i.e. John Wilde, Chief Baron 
 of the Exchequer], for contempt in not attending the Judge 
 at the Assizes.* 
 
 Horse Meat. 
 
 L. 383. July 27, 1640. " The rates and prizes of horse 
 meate " fixed at the General Sessions of the Peace held in the 
 Guildhall at Exeter on July 27, 1640. Oats, pease and beans 
 are to be sold by Winchester measure by Innkeepers and Hostlers. 
 They are not to charge more than Qd. per day for each horse 
 standing at livery, finding also good litter. Oats are to be 
 sold no higher than Qd. the peck. No more than 3d. is to be 
 charged for a horse standing in the stable unbridled at hay. 
 Nor more than Id!, for every horse standing in his stable if 
 he be not unbridled. 
 
 Siege of Exeter (1643). 
 
 L. 391 includes a lengthy document (45 pages). A booke of 
 accounts of the payment of Captaine Thomas fforde's Company 
 raised May 23, 1643, viz., 100, 2 sariants, 1 Drummer, 1 Ensigne 
 and the Clarke of the bande, also " to a Drummer er I had on 
 of my owne," "to my drum to the 1st of June," "for dozen of 
 vests and sixe belts," " mending, carrying and recarriing 
 of Armes." 
 
 Payments to the Company to the 23rd June for duty to 
 that day, also from June 25 to July 22, giving names of 97 men 
 3 corporals, 1 drum and 2 sergeants with amounts paid to each, 
 the total amounting to 151. 11s. Qd., with an additional 
 
 * See Isacke, 160. For Chief Baron Wilde's report from Exeter, aee 
 Gal. J)om. 1649-50, p. 45, March 21, 1649,
 
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 28?. 16s. Qd. from July 20 to Aug. 5, 1643, including 61. for 
 curinge two hurt souldiers ; 121. Os. Qd. p. 16?6. powder and 
 14?6. bullets caste away in the fight and brought in by a 
 souldier ; 21. 12s. Sd. for 8 muskets to suplie the Company ; 
 91. for breade and beere when the Company fought at Mount 
 Radford. 
 
 On April 11, 1643, the Mayor and Deputy Lieutenants 
 order that 150 muskets without any other furniture shall be 
 spared to the Deputy Lieutenants of Devon to supply their 
 present occasions, with these condicions : 
 
 1. That we shall be paid 200?*. and odde monies within 
 [blank] daies next coming for carriages and other munition 
 delivered them and monies lent them ; and for this 
 we expect a note under 3 of your Commissioners' hands. 
 
 2. For these 150 muskets we demand either to be repaid 
 with' ye like quantity within [blank] daies or in monie 
 after the rate of [blank] p.'pt. 
 
 For details of account, July 31, 1643, for 103?. 3s. 4d. paid 
 by the Chamber for 1,077 men, with the names of the captains 
 of the companies. 
 
 Also the names of 42 soldiers of various companies remaining 
 unpaid. 
 
 Details of money received from the Deputy Lieutenants 
 for various bands under dates June 22, 27, July 10, 14, 1643. 
 
 Also payments made July 29, Aug. 5, 1643, with the names 
 of soldiers to whom payments were made. 
 
 Also payments made under the following heads : 
 
 (a) Souldiers paie, 9,442?. 2s. 9c?., from Jan. 9 Aug. 29, 
 1643 (much damaged), includes many Gunners, 1 
 Engineer ; charges about the burial of 4 soldiers slayne 
 in fight ; 31. bestowed uppon the widdowes of 3 soldiers 
 slayne in service for Defence of the Citty (3?.); for 
 ringing of the Great Bell for settinge of the watches 
 (9d.) ; for the pay of the soldiers of the County of 
 Devon (250?.) ; for service on the bridge ; for Assistinge 
 the Gunners ; to a wounded Souldier (II.) ; Rewards 
 given the Soldiers for their Extraordinary service upon 
 a Sally at St. Thomas parish (61.) ; to Pyoneers for 
 their service to fill the Enemyes Trench (8s.) ; for 
 work at Larkbeare (10s.) ; to the master of the ship 
 Dilligence mann'd and designed for the securing of the 
 harbor of Topsham (100?.) ; for the use of the Deputy 
 Liuetenants of Devon to pay their Soldiers (501.) ; for 
 996 Soldiers of the County of Devon for Eleavan Weekes 
 at 4s. Sd. each per weeke (2,465?. 2s. Qd.) ; lent to the 
 Deputy Lieutenaunts for pay of their Souldiers 
 (300?.). 
 
 (b) Scouts and Messengers (total illegible, but=136?. 13s. 6c?., 
 Cotton, Gleanings, p. 90). Jan. 29 Aug. 31-E. g. 
 Messenger with a from Taunton(5s.) ; a 
 guide that came with Col. Ruthen (5s.) ; horse hire ;
 
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 for horses, a stout nagg ; Scouts sent severall 
 
 Tymes in the service of the Parliament ; do. for ridinge 
 to Discover the Enemye ; for Mr. Walter Deeble's 
 expences in his journey to London (SI.) ; to a messenger 
 sent to Exon by the Parliament about publique 
 Affaires (10?.). 
 
 (c) Fortifications (from Nov., 1642-Aug. 31, 1643), total 
 =4,374?. 11s. 3%d. E.g. for carriage of Turf , lime, sand, 
 stones, earth, clay, straw, slate, mortar and helingstones, 
 sawing of planks and timber, felling of trees, Maundes, 
 Basketts, Dealboards, tools, shovels, wheelbarrows, 
 spukes and other iron-work, work done at the Bunney, 
 on the Exebridge, about the Turnpikes, about the 
 Marshalsey, at the Castle, on the Key gate, about the 
 Drawbridges, about Newgate, works in Northernhay, 
 at Southernhay, at Northgate, at the Ea"st Gate, at 
 Northgate, at Westgate, at the turnpike at Southgate, 
 at St. David's, at the fryers and the Maudlyn, at Strip- 
 cott (sic) Hill, at Sidwell's Tower, at Mount Radford, at 
 fabians mills, at Mr. Buttler's mills, at the Battery 
 at Horsepool, at the battery at the Palace, at Bradninch 
 Battery ; for Pyoneers work over the water, for a roape 
 for ye Castle well, work on the Castle walls, Lead for 
 the Marshalsey, for Clensing of ye well in ye Castle, 
 for seame stones for the fortifications at Exbridge ; to 
 Divers women for carriage of stones to the Citty walls 
 (65. 8d.) ; willowes to bynde faggotts for fortification 
 of the Barbican, for demolishing howses, making and 
 grindinge of Tooles, Deale Boardes for platforms, for 
 Laughts and Nailes, for service for fireinge on of the 
 Enemies works (51., July 8, 1643), for drawing downe 
 of Theight howses that endangered ye Citty (9s. and 4s., 
 July 15, 22, 1643), for filling and Lea veiling the Trench 
 at Maudlyn (21. 14s. Od., July 29), for carriage of water, 
 for making of Salt Peter, for repairing of Boates, for 
 making Handmills at the Bridewell, for slightinge 
 the hedges at St. David's, carrying of wooll to make 
 Batteryes, for seaventeene packs of Woolls belonging 
 to Mr. Robert Robins taken forth of his Cellars and 
 used for the Baracadoes and fences uppon the bridge 
 and other places for defence of the Citty (300?., Nov. 4, 
 1642), for tymber to make Carriages for the greate 
 Gunns, Turnepipes, platforms, drawbridges, Caske 
 and other works (300?.). 
 
 For a document as to the Fortifications, dated Jan. 23, 
 1642-3, see Cotton, Gleanings, 86, which I have not 
 found among the Letters. 
 
 (d) Balance sheet showing total expenditure, 18,479?. 12s. 
 0%d., printed in Cotton Gleanings, p. 90. 
 
 In Misc. Papers (1688-1706), included with accounts for 
 soldiers of William of Orange is " The accompt of Henry Gandy.
 
 209 
 
 His Souldiers began uppon the 26 of May and hath watcht 
 since to this July 26 as followeth : 
 It includes : 
 
 (a) Charges for 44 men having wives and children, 21 
 journeymen and 35 apprentices and men's sons for 
 watching and warding at Sd. a time. 
 (6) Disbursements unto officers from May 26 to July 26, 
 1643, viz., 1 Ensign for 8 weeks duty at 21s. a week, 
 1 Sergeant at 10s. 6d. per week, 2 drums at 7s., and the 
 Clarke at 5s." 
 
 Other disbursements are for 18 pairs of Bandaleeres, 18 
 swords and 17 belts, the total claim being 981. 11s. lOd. 
 
 L. 13. The Court at Oxford,* Jan. 1, 1643(4). The King 
 directs Sir Edward Harbert (i.e. Herbert), the Attorney General, 
 and Sir Thomas Gardiner, Solicitor General, to prepare a 
 pardon to the Corporation of the City of Exeter " for all 
 forfeitures, seizures, penalties and punishments in misgovern- 
 ment of the city or any other matter which may have happened 
 since the beginning of this present parliament, together with 
 a confirmation of all franchises &c. which the City had on the 
 first day of this parliament." 
 
 Comm. CV. (March 6, 1644). Eoyal Pardon to the Mayor, 
 Bailiffs and Citizens for all offences committed between Nov. 2, 
 1640, and Sept. 9, 1643.f 
 
 L. 397. Clapan (sic), March 20, 1647-48. John Bonvile 
 writes to the Mayor : Sir, Havinge a Comande from the 
 Cometie about to send you an order Conserninge ffrancies 
 Lippencott and my selfe : I did also send you a Surtificate 
 under Sir John Bartly's (i.e. Berkeley) hand to testifie I was 
 a Commander under him duringe his govermentj in your 
 Cettie. Nowe, Sir, my desier is unto you that you wilbe 
 plesed to vosaufe me that favor as to send me Sr. John 
 Bartly's Surtificate nowe by my sarvante ordir or direccions 
 wheare I shall finde him tlmse not dobtinge of your fabrable 
 Curtisie hearin. 
 
 I shall Remayne, 
 
 Your Assured ffreende while I ame, 
 
 John Bonvile. 
 
 The Chamber's Church Patronage. 
 
 L. 392. Modbury, Sept., 1647. Christopher Savery and 
 William Fowell, by vertue of an Ordenance of Parliament 
 lately published, desire the Chamber to pay to Mr. John Way, 
 who has been Curate of Kingsbridge for the last year and a 
 quarter, a sum of 61. due to him by virtue of an ancient com- 
 position made between the Abbot of Buckfast and the town 
 of Kingsbridge. 
 
 * The King's parliament opened at Oxford on Jan. 22, 1644. 
 
 t Tho City surrendered to the Royalists on Sept. 4th or 5th, 1G43. 
 
 $ i.e. from Sept. 4, 1643, to April 13, 1646. See Freeman, pp. 123-126. 
 
 Wt. 20757. Ex 14
 
 210 
 
 In L. 417, West Alvington, March 24, 1659-60, Mr. John 
 Quicke having been presented by the Chamber to the Vicarage 
 of Churchstow and Kingsbridge, makes application for the 
 yearly pension of 61. due to him. 
 
 In L. 551, Kingsbridge, June 25, 1765, George Prideaux 
 writes to Benjamin Heath, Esq. [Town Clerk] that he has 
 received from the widow Hawkins a year's rent of the Rectory 
 of Churstow (sic), which shall be sent on by the Collector of 
 Excise, " who will not be here till almost this weeke hence, or 
 by a good London Bill, which I can easily procure." 
 
 In D. 954 1380, the Mayor and Commonalty grant the 
 Chantry of the Blessed Virgin Mary upon Exbridge for life 
 to Robert Danwe, Chaplain, with a pension of 4?. per annum. 
 
 In D. 1032, Feb. 5, 1403, the Chamber appoint Thomas 
 Losquyt, chaplain to the same chantry which is in their 
 gift, he being bound to pray for the souls of Walter Gerveys 
 [for his will see Book 52, ff. 274-276] and Alice his wife, founders 
 of the same chantry. 
 
 InD. 1344, March 16, 1502, the Chamber and the Wardens 
 of Exbridge present John Frost to the Free Chapel on 
 Exbridge. 
 
 In D. 1346, Jan. 10, 1504, the Chamber as patrons of the 
 parish Church of St. Edmund on Exbridge, grant to Edward 
 Courtenay, Earl of Devon, the next advowson of the said 
 Church and that he may present Matthew Lewys, son of 
 Geoffrey Lewys, merchant of Exeter, to the said Church after 
 the death or resignation of the present incumbent. 
 
 In D. 1379a, March 2, 1512, the Mayor, Bailiffs and Com- 
 monalty grant to William Aysshe, chaplain of the chapel 
 of St. George the Martyr and St. John the Baptist situate in 
 the outer part of the Guildhall, an annuity of 4 marks and the 
 reversion of the Chapel or Chantry of St. Mary on Exbridge 
 after the death or resignation of Robert Frost, clerk. 
 
 In D. 351, March 2, 1612, William Tickell, Chamberlain of 
 Exeter, is appointed to take over the rectory of Marleghe [i.e. 
 Mariansleigh, near South Molton], under provisions of the will 
 of John Da vie, dated Feb. 10, 1600. 
 
 Assessments per mensem. 
 
 L. 399, 400 (1647). Two Copies of printed "Instructions 
 for the members of the House that are in their respective 
 Counties or are now appointed to repair thither for the speedy 
 bringing in of six moneths Assessement of the Arrears upon 
 the ordinance of the 60,000/i. per mensem for preventing 
 of free quarter by paying the army and disbanding the
 
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 supernumeraries." A Generall Receiver or Treasurer is to be 
 appointed for collecting the assessment of the county who 
 will be allowed Id. in the for collecting. After paying 
 of the souldiers to be then disbanded, he shall pay what 
 shall then remaine unto the Treasurers at Warre at Guild 
 Hall, London.* 
 
 The papers are signed " H. Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com." 
 At the foot is : " London, printed for John Wright at the 
 King's Head in the old Bayley, 1647." 
 
 In L. 418, March 14, 1660 (i.e. 1661), the Duke of Albe- 
 marle [i.e. George Monk, created Duke of Albemarle July 7, 
 1660] writes to the Commissioners of the present Six 
 Months Assessment in Exeter : Gentlemen, Whereas in 
 January last by letters from his Majestic and Councill 
 for the reasons therein expressed you were desired to 
 hasten the speedy Levying of the Six Months Assessment 
 soe that the last three months thereof should by your care 
 and endeavors be paid unto the Treasurers att Guildhall, 
 London, by the ffirst of this moneth which would have beene 
 a service of a very greate advantage to the Publique, the 
 same being to be employed towards paying off and dischargeing 
 of the Navy, which is a daily growing charge to the Nation, 
 and would be prevented if possible. Uppon consideracion 
 whereof and forasmuch as noe part of the said Six Months 
 Assessment within your Cittie is as yet paid att Guild Hall, 
 where by the Actf the same ought to have been, we have 
 thought it our Duty by this our Letter once more to recom- 
 mend the accomplishment of that service to your Care as a 
 matter worthy your utmost endeavors. And soe We rest, 
 Your verie loving friends and servants, 
 
 Albemarle. 
 
 Robert Sea wen. J 
 
 In L. 423, Whitehall, Aug. 28, 1661, the Lords of the 
 Council write to the Mayor : Whereas wee are informed 
 by the Comissioners appointed by Parliament for dis- 
 charging of the Navy that his Majestie's service is very 
 much retarded and prejudiced by the slow coming in 
 of the Moneys appointed for that service and in particular 
 that severall Sumes of Money do yet remayne in Arrears 
 on the respective County es, Townes and Places in England 
 and Wales upon the severall Acts for Poll money by 
 reason of the neglects of the Sherrifs of each County, who 
 
 * This assessment was voted in the House of Commons for one year, 
 from March 1, 1647, for the maintenance of the Army, sae Commons Journal, 
 v, 114, 298, 308, 314, March 16, Sept. 9, 18, 1647 "; Lords' Journal, ix, 466. 
 See also Cal. Dom., 1649-50, p. 150. 
 
 f For money bill presented, Aug. 10, 1660 (Diet. Nat. Biog., ii, 2), received 
 royal assent Sept. 13, 1660, see Cal. Dom. 1660-1661, p. 266. For 
 proclamation to collect, Sept. 26, 1660, see ibid p. 276. 
 
 | M.P. for Grampound (Cornwall) ill Parliament of 1659.
 
 212 
 
 notwithstanding the frequent Solicitations of the said Com- 
 missioners and our Letters of the 25th of January, 1660 
 (i.e. 1661) to that effect, have not rendered the Accompt 
 expected. They therefore order the Mayor speedily to 
 collect what remaynes in Arreare upon the Citty and pay 
 it in to the Exchequer by the beginning of Michaelmas Terme 
 next.* 
 
 In L. 431, Aug. 21, 1663, the Deputy Lieutenants by vertue 
 of an Act of Parliament for the raisinge of the 4th parte of 
 one moneths Assessment att the rate of 70,OOOJ. per mensem, 
 require the Mayor to cause the Assessment to be made and 
 brought to them on the 28th Instant att the New Inne in 
 Exeter by 10 of the clock. [For assessment of 70,OOOZ. per 
 month for 18 months, see Cal. Dom. 1661-1662, March 20, 
 1662.] 
 
 L. 436. April 3, 1667. The Mayor &c. write to the Earl of 
 Southampton [Thomas Wriottesley], Lord High Treasurer 
 [i.e. since Sept. 8, 1660], that they are collecting the moneys 
 ordered by Act of Parliament for the raisinge of monye by a 
 poll, but they know not of any Receiver Generall appointed 
 for the city to whom they should pay it, and desire instructions. 
 The Earl sends back the letter with his answer at the bottom 
 of it : "I returne you your owne Letters with this Answer 
 (and thanks to you for your care). That I intended 
 Mr. Norcott Commission both unto the County and the City 
 and County of your jurisdiction, whom I hereby appoint 
 thereunto. And if need be He shall have a further Commission 
 and Writ. Your very Loving Freind, T. Southampton. 
 April 6, 1667. 
 
 Quartering of Soldiers. 
 
 L. 401. May 9, 1648. A resolution of the Chamber. 
 " Ordered that Mr. Mayor doe not consent to or give order for 
 the quartering and billeting of the Souldiers yesterday come into 
 the Citty ; there being Tavernes, Innes and Alehouses sufficient 
 for their entertainment according to the orders and ordinances 
 of Parliament. 
 
 Ordered also this day that a Petition and Letters be forthe 
 with drawed and dispacht by an expresse for London for the 
 remooving of the souldiers and that Mr. Receiver doe disburse 
 fifty Shillings for the Charge of itt, which shall be allowed 
 to him on Accompt." 
 
 In L. 403, Pendennis, Sept. 25, 1649, Colonel Harry Walker 
 writes to the Mayor &c. : Mr. Mayor and Gent., Since 
 my returne into these Westerne parts I have Indeavoured 
 to put the service of the Common Wealth into the best 
 posture I may with these fforces under my Comand, and 
 
 * For Commissioners for disbanding the Navy,' Jan. 20, Feb. 6, 1661, see 
 Cal. Dom., 1660-1661, pp. 480, 504,
 
 213 
 
 presuming you will hold it your Duties to doe the Like, 
 I doe by these advertise you, that I have sent my Leiut. 
 Colonell with three Companyes of my owne Regiment to 
 Quarter for some tyme within your Citty of Exceter ; I sup- 
 pose I neede not mind you how regardfull I have beene of 
 that Place, forbearinge soe longe tyme Quarteringe any men 
 there, and whilst it was a Burthen either in respect of their 
 Quarter or Billett I made hard shift to dispose otherwise 
 of them, keepinge them abroad in order to ffeild service, 
 until with the winter now cominge on, tis high tyme to send 
 them where they may have fitt accomodation for that season ; 
 neither do I beleave you would Expect so small a number 
 by reason of the Capacity of your Citty, and consideringe 
 how longe the small Townes abroad have undergone the 
 Entertayninge of them, and that which may yet further 
 prevent any Inconvenience is, that they will bee but as 
 ffreinds and Guests for Defence and Benefitt to your Citty ; 
 I must therefore desire and expect from you that you would 
 afford that Complyance and assistance which the Parliament 
 have ordered on that behalfe and that there may bee such 
 a Mutuall Correspondence behind (sic) the Officers and your- 
 selves, that the Publique may bee the better Carryed on, I 
 havinge given Order to my Leiut. Colonell (whom I send to 
 Comand these men) to bee very vigilant over the Carrage of 
 the Souldiers, and to punnish when any Injury shall bee offered 
 to any Townesman, that soe with the more Justice I may 
 Expect the Like when any Townsman shall Iniure a Souldier, 
 and thus desiringe there may be reciprocall Indeavours to 
 advance the Publique Intrest. 
 
 I rest, Gent., your serviceable ffreind, 
 
 Har. Walker. 
 
 The " late " Dean and Chapter. 
 
 L. 405. Nov. 10, 1652. Order of the Trustees for the 
 maintenance of ministers to continue to pay to the Warden 
 of the Poor of Exeter,* out of the revenues, rents and 
 possessions of the late Dean and Chapter due to the poore 
 people in the Almshouses, viz., Saint Catherine's (17s. 4d.) and 
 St. Maudlins (21. 12s.), and in Saint Sidwells parish (20Z. 16s.), 
 together with arrears thereof since Oct. 16, 1650. f 
 
 L. 406. Nov. 10, 1652. Similar to L. 405, with notes of 
 similar payments, Oct. 25, 1653, and Oct. 20, 1654, to the 
 " Warden of the poore " of Exeter, Mr. Henry Gandy and 
 Mr. William Brown respectively. 
 
 In Act Book, VIII, /. 184, Oct. 20, 1646, it is agreed " that 
 one other letter be written from this house to Mr. Prideaux, 
 
 * For accounts of the Wardens of the Poor, see Receiver's Accounts, Ten Cells, 
 in S. Moore, Col. ii, 177. For the Paymaster of the Poor, see L. 131, p. 74. 
 
 t For sale of the "late Bishoppe's Palace," Jan. 28, 1651, see Cotton, 
 Gleanings, p. 154.
 
 214 
 
 Recorder of this Gttie, desiring his laufull favor and best 
 Assistance in the obtayning of some competent meanes for 
 the mynisters here out of lands of the deane and Chapter " &c. 
 
 Act Book, VIII, /. 2056, Aug. 10, 1647. This day Mr. Aid. 
 Bennett made knowne that he hath of late compounded with the 
 Committee of Parliament of Bishopps lands &c. for the Pallace 
 and fee of the late Bishopprick of Exon for the ffyne of 450?., 
 and that this Chamber may take the same if they soe please, 
 which being mooved to the house it is agreede that the purchase 
 shalbe proceeded in for the benefitt of the Cittie. 
 
 In Act Book, IX, f. 706. Jan. 28, 1651. A deed or writing 
 purporting a bargain and sale dated 25 March last of the late 
 Bishop's Palace and other appurtenances thereunto belonging 
 was this day sealed with the Common Seal of this house and 
 by the Corporation made over to the Governors of the Hospital 
 of St. John's within this city for the sum of 400?. by the said 
 Governors paid. 
 
 In D. 503, June 1, 1652, Henry Gandy of Exeter, Brewer 
 [Mayor in 1661, 1672], sells* to the Chamber for 140Z. a 
 messuage called the Treasurer's House in the Cathedral Close 
 (bounds set out), late parcel of the possessions of the late 
 Cathedral Church of Exeter purchased by Gandy of Henry 
 Starkie, cook, of London, who purchased it of the Trustees 
 for the sale of lands of Bishops Deans and Chapters by 
 Indenture, Sept. 24, 1651, signed " Hen. Gandy " with Seal. 
 [Dated June 6, 1652, in Cotton, Gleanings, p. 156, when '* the 
 said house is to bee Converted for a Workhouse for the poore 
 of this Cittye and also a house of Correction for the vagrant 
 and disorderly people within this Cittye."] 
 
 In D. 1773(a) (undated) is the account of monies paid out 
 by order of the Chamber upon St. Peter's Church [the 
 Cathedral]. The total of money expended was 2,003?. Is. Qd. 
 [See Freeman, pp. 207, 208.] 
 
 In D. 1773(6), Oct. 20th, 1658-1660 is a similar account 
 of 690?. 14s. 4d. spent by the Chamber upon the cloisters. 
 
 Parish of St. David's. 
 
 L. 413 (undated, possibly 1655). The Inhabitants of the 
 Parish of St. David's petition the Mayor &c. stating " that 
 the said parish was antiently parte of or belonging to the 
 parish of Heavitree, but about the end of ye Raigne of King 
 Henry ye Eight ye Cittizens procured it to bee made part of 
 the City of Exeter, that the highwayes within the parish 
 are fallen into soe greate decay that by estimation it will 
 cost att least I50li., which the Inhabitants of themselves (being 
 in ye times of the late troubles greatly ympoverished by fire 
 and otherwise) nott able to repaire ; And this being occasioned 
 
 * Called : for Hire of 140/., June 6, 1652, in Cotton, Gleanings, p. 156.
 
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 much through the encroachments of many Cottages and 
 inclosures of ye antient high wayes and that by the Chamber 
 of ye said Cittie graunting out estates for fines, contrary to ye 
 Statute lawes of this land and a late Ordinance of ye Lord 
 Protector and his Councell alsoe ; that through the narrow- 
 nes and badness of ye wayes of late yeares there hath happened 
 many broyles and quarrells betwixt travellers of quallity 
 there passing, and wilbee more in case that that Cottage be 
 suffered to bee finished which is began close to ye highway 
 comming upp David's hill ; besides the increase of ye poore 
 thereby occasioned to theire greate charge ; they having Alsoe a 
 Church that cannott bee yett finisht* without more charges 
 on the parishioners, whoe are as sheepe without a shepheard, 
 which of all is most Lamentable. Your petitioners being 
 utterly unable to undergoe the same without some helpe. 
 They therefore desire that according to an Ordinance of the 
 Lord Protector in that behalfe made that some publique 
 rate bee speedily made for ye Collecting on ye Inhabitants 
 of ye City for the perfecting of soe necessarie and publique 
 a worke for ye good of ye whole Cuntry, the Citty and County 
 being now (as is alleadged by the Chamber) in some cases 
 to bee accompted butt one parish." 
 
 The Militia Acts. 
 
 L. 419. Whitehall, March 29, 1660. Arthur Annesley, 
 President of the Council of State [since Feb. 16, 1660], 
 writes to the Commissioners of Militia for Exeter : Gentlemen, 
 The Councell having received some addresses with lists of Officers 
 to be approved and Commissionated according to the Act of 
 Militia passed the 12th March, 1659 [i.e. 1660, printed 
 in Acts, Ordinances efcc.], wherein the Commissioners have 
 not made faithfull and Clere Certificates concerning the 
 Qualifications of the Officers by them presented to us As 
 the Act requires, by which our approval of them is necessarily 
 suspended, and the service of the Militia retarded. Wee have 
 therefore thought fit hereby to acquaint you That wee doe 
 expect togeather with the transmitting of ye Names of the 
 Officers to be approved for your Citty that you take care to 
 Certifie us perticularly of the Declaration of the Commissioners 
 of the Justice of the Parliament's Cause and alsoe that all the 
 persons you shall present to us for Officers in the Militia be 
 such as have assisted and adhered to the Parliament in their 
 cause or the sonnes of such, and have nott att any tyme made 
 defeccion or shewed their dissatisfaccion or opposition there- 
 unto, without which wee cannott give them our approbation, 
 and commission, which being first necessary to be done we 
 desire you to use all due Care therein, and in the meane tyme, 
 you are to proceed to make your Assessment and distribucions 
 of ye Militia forces within your Citty with all expedition 
 
 * It had been rebuilt in 1541. Worthy, Suburbs, 52.
 
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 but not to Arme, Embody or Traine any forces as your Militia 
 by Colour of the said Act. Takeing Care withall through 
 your whole management of this service, that neither before 
 nor after our approbation of your Officers any persons be 
 Armed within your Citty (other then the standing forces of the 
 Army or Garrisons), but such as are listed by yourselves or 
 by your order. And because you may happily finde within ye 
 Citty some Drums, Colours and other Trophies as also Armes 
 provided by former Commissioners of the Militia there, which 
 will not onely be fit for the present service of the forces which 
 you shall raise, but will alsoe take of a part of the Chardge 
 which the providing of such matters will necessarily occasion, 
 Wee desire that you will Carefully informe yourselves, whether 
 any and what provision in that kinde hath been made and 
 to call in such as you shall finde hi being, and that in putting 
 forth the power intrusted to you for raising the Militia and 
 levying of Monyes to buy such Trophies, you proceed with 
 all possible tendernes and extend the same noe farther then 
 the Exigence of that Affaire will necessarily require. And 
 you are alsoe to examine what monyes have been raised within 
 your Citty by vertue of the former Act [i.e. July 26, 1659 ; Cal. 
 Dom. 1659-1660, p. 42], and how the same hath been disposed 
 off, and in Case any money shalbe found to remaine in ye 
 hands of the former Commissioners there or their Treasurers, 
 you are to demand and receive the same and dispose thereof 
 for the present service. 
 
 Signed in ye name and by order of the Councell of State 
 appointed by Authority of Parliament, 
 
 Arthur Annesley, President. 
 
 ffinding that in some retournes ye officers presented to us 
 ffeild officers onely are named, wee thinke it necessary for 
 preventing delay in this Service to let you know That wee 
 expect all other Commission officers as well as ffeild officers 
 be Certified to us for our approbation. 
 
 Arms and Ammunition. 
 
 L. 424. Exeter, Oct. 29, 1661. Edward Sherburne [Clerk 
 of the Ordnance, June, 1660, Dec. 14, 1661 ; Cal. Dom. 1660, 
 p. 101 ; do., 1661-62, pp. 180, 229] sends an order to the 
 Mayor &c. to deliver up " to Mr. Thomas Townsend my 
 Clerke " all arms and ammunition remaining in their custody, 
 by order of Sir William Compton, Master General of his 
 Majesty's Ordnance. 
 
 In L. 425, Oct. 30, 1661, is a receipt given by Edward 
 Sherburne for the same arms, viz., 937 old muskett barrels 
 which were lodged in the Guildhall. 
 
 In L. 432, Exeter, Sept. 4, 1663, the Deputy Lieutenants 
 write to the Mayor &c. requiring the arms and ammunition 
 now in the Chappie of Saint John and Hospitall to be
 
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 removed to the magazine in the Castle and a proper place 
 to be erected there to receive them." [See Oliver, p. 188.] 
 
 The Curfew. 
 
 L. 426. Undated, but addressed to Henry Gandy, Esq., 
 Mayor [i.e. 1661-62]. John Pare, the Ringer of the bell at 
 Eight of the Clock in every Evening at the Cathedral of 
 St. Peter, petitions the Chamber for his pension due to him 
 for ringing the said bell, " which is cheifely runge for the 
 intelligence of the tyme to the whole citty and county." He 
 also states that his " Cheifest benefitt belonging to his said 
 office doth consist in the burialls which is taken away in the 
 new Churchyard, and the same in your Worshipps disposall. 
 And for that your petitioner hath officiated in his said place 
 the space of ii yeare and halfe and upward and hath not 
 received any stipend from your worshipps as formerly 
 accustomed and being ordered by the reverend Dean of the 
 said Cathedrall to mynd your Worshipps of the p 'misses. 
 Hee humbly prayeth your Worshipps to contynue his Stipend 
 in some considerable manner or to grante him the burialls in 
 the New Church Yard for his proper benefitt, that soe his said 
 office may afford him a livelihood."* 
 
 Guards at Exeter. 
 
 L. 429. New Inn, Aug. 21, 1663. In pursuance of the 
 Additional Act of Parliament for the better ordering 
 the forces in the severall Counties of this Kingdome. The 
 Deputy Lieutenants require the Chamber to erect within your 
 Citty ffoure convenient howses for Court of Guards [due to 
 serve in Exeter at certain times from Sept. 3, 1663, to June 23, 
 1664 ; Cal. Dora., 1663-64, p. 263], and the like number of 
 Centure (i.e. sentry) houses one at each gatte, that soe the 
 soldiers beinge ordered to keepe a Constant Guard within 
 your said Citty may bee the better accomidated for the dis- 
 discharge of their duty. 
 
 In L. 430, New Inn, Aug. 21, 1663, the Deputy Lieutenants 
 undertake to reimburse the Chamber of a proportionable 
 part of the charge of the said houses, including the " Cen- 
 tery howses." 
 
 L. 433. (Undated). Peter Prideauxf writes to the Mayor, 
 John Buttler [Mayor in 1663-4] and John Martin, Esq. : 
 Gentlemen, I very well remember the transactions of ye busines 
 you sende me by this bearer, Mr. Mawditte. It is most true that 
 at the Instance of ye Deputie Liftenants and urgencie thereby, 
 to further his Majestie's service, your Cittie was thereupon 
 
 * For the new churchyard of St. Bartholomew's uear All Hallo ws-on-the 
 Walls, consecrated Aug. 24, 1637, see Izacke, 155. 
 
 f Probably a relative of Edmund Prideaux, ex-Recorder, who died 
 Aug. 19, 1659. Oliver, 236.
 
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 pleased to promise and hath since performed, the worke, you 
 write of : It is as true that the Deputie Liftenants are bounde 
 in Honour to see you Reimbursed. 
 
 I allso remember that at Michallmas Sessions, 1663, there 
 was an accounte brought in, of this disbursement, but it 
 beinge then ffryday, when myself e was going out of town, 
 and some others casually presente, yet there was answere 
 returned to the partie that brought the Account by the 
 Deputie Liftenants then present that they would take care 
 the principall should be repayd, with Interest, for the time 
 till payd. 
 
 If it please God to give me strength, I purpose to be at Exon 
 next Sessions, where I hope to meete the rest of ye Deputie 
 Liftenants : for without them it is not to be donne, when you 
 shall finde me as ready if timely invoked (?) of it, to labor 
 the Reimbursement, as you are ready to lay the engagement 
 upon me, by your sayinge I was not the leaste motive to your 
 undertakinge of the worke. 
 
 I remaine, your affectionate ffrend and servante, 
 
 Pet. Prideaux. 
 
 L. 435, London, Feb. 11, 1664-5, [Sir] James 
 Smyth [M.P. for Exeter in the Pensionary Parliament, 
 May 8, 1661 Jan. 24, 1679. He was knighted July 20, 
 1644] writes to the Mayor : Mr. Mayor, Yours I receved 
 and ye enclosed to my Lord Duke of Albemarle* was 
 this day presented him, by my Cosen Walker and selfe. 
 Wee bouth desired his Grace not to entertayne an 111 
 opinion of ye Citty of Exeter, uppon a missenformacon, and 
 If aney complaint were proper, it ware of ye Cittyes side 
 having beene delayed for many moneihs of their mony, which was 
 disburst at ye instance of ye deputye liuetenants of Devon, 
 whoe in their severall orders and letters promist reimbursement 
 of ye same, which wee shewde my Lord, whom wee found 
 soe very well satisfied with it, that his Grace will spedily 
 signifie his sence therein to some of ye deputy liuetenants of 
 Devon now in Towne that you might receve satisfaction, 
 which I suppose is as much as you can expect. I may not 
 omitt likewise to acquaint you, that If you intimate to 
 Mr. Coventrye what wilbe ye fittest post for your Convoye, 
 he will accordingly take order in it this being all at present 
 from your very real freinde and servant, 
 
 James Smyth. 
 
 In L. 438, Exeter, Jan. 9, 1674-5, the Chamber write 
 to Sir James Smyth : Sir, Yours of the 8 of December 
 last Mr. Maior hath communicated to us. Wee have 
 observed your directions in testifying our acknowledg- 
 ments to the Earle of Bathe [John Grenville] for the 
 favorable representation his Lordship was pleasd to give 
 
 * i.e. General Monk. Page 13.
 
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 his Maiestie concerning the government and affaires of this 
 Citty. And wee desire you to doe us this farther favor 
 to [ ] acknowledgments to his Lordship for the par- 
 
 ticular [ ] and kindness he is pleased to express for 
 
 the advantage of this Citty. And as you are pleased to 
 give us intimation [ ] impending oportunities, wee 
 
 can not omit an [ ] offers whereby wee may be at 
 
 ease in A matter which concernes the liberties of the ffreemen 
 of this Citty. Wee shall not trouble you with enumerating 
 particulars which you will easily perceive by the inclosed 
 Copies : Wee desire you to deliver the letters to the Earle of 
 Bathe, Mr. Speaker* and Mr. Secretary Coventryf and to 
 improve yours and our interest with them as well as your other 
 ffreinds, whereby wee may not only be at liberty to vindicate our 
 rights by a due proceeding at law, but may be ffree from any 
 misunderstanding for the time to come that may be occasioned 
 by letters of this nature, which is so prejuditiall to the common 
 good of this Citty, for doeing of which you will very much 
 oblige your most humble servants. 
 
 Brodridge, Mayor (and 10 others). 
 
 Surrender of the Charter. 
 
 L. 443. Whitehall, Nov. 1, 1688. Order in Council can- 
 celling the deed of Surrender of the Charter of Charles II 
 [i.e. Charter, XL VI, Oct. 22, 1684, page 7], it having been 
 shown that the deed had not been enrolled, and removing from 
 their offices the present Mayor [Sir Thomas Jefford, see L. 15, 
 page 18], Sheriff, Recorder, Town Clerk, Aldermen, Common 
 Councilmen and every other magistrate, officer and minister 
 of or in the said City, and restoring those who held those 
 offices at the time of the sealing of the Deed of Surrender 
 [Jan. 24, 1688 ; Izacke, 185]. For full text of the above 
 cancellation order, see Act Book, XIII, /. 52 ; Izacke, 186. 
 No meeting of the Chamber is entered in Act Book, XIII, 
 between Nov. 1, 1688 (/. 51), and Nov. 22, 1688 (/. 53), two 
 leaves being left blank, on one of which is entered a copy of 
 L. 443. 
 
 Soldiers of William of Orange. 
 
 L. 444. (Undated, but later than Oct. 1692) Christofer Bale, 
 M.P. [i.e. from June 4, 1689, to Oct. 11, 1695. He was 
 appointed Mayor Dec. 8, 1688, also in 1696] presents a petition 
 to the Lords Commissioners of their Majesties' Treasury : 
 Sheweth that your Petitioner having in the beginning of 
 their Majesties' Reign presented a Petition to the King from 
 the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Councell of the Citty of 
 Exeter, which humbly prayed the payment of 345/. Is. 
 
 * i.e. Sir Edward Seymour, since Feb. 18, 1673. He was Recorder of 
 Exeter 1681, 1689. M.P. for Exeter 1685, 1688, 1701, 1702, and 
 Governor of Exeter 1688. 
 
 t i.e. Henry Coventry, retired in 1679.
 
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 disburst by his Majestie's perticular direction* upon his sick 
 and wounded Souldiers, which Petition with the Account 
 was per his Majesty in Councell Befer'd to their Lordshipps, 
 who directed Mr. Auditor Humphreys to Examine the same, 
 and was per him reported to be truely stated, but that in such 
 cases it was usuall for the Creditors to vouch their Bills upon 
 Oath, which was done, and ye Truth of them upon a farther 
 Reference by them attested by Sir Hugh Ackland, Baronet, 
 Edward Seaward, then Mayor of the said Citty [i.e. 1691-1 692], 
 Henry Northleigh and Richard Carew, John Etwill (sic) and 
 Edward Leigh, Esq., notwithstanding which the money not 
 being ordered to be paid by your Lordships and the severall 
 Creditors (who are poor Tradesmen) being in great want 
 thereof and very importunate for the same. 
 
 Your Petitioner humbly prays your Lordships to order ye 
 speedy payment of the same, and your Petitioner as in duty 
 bound &c. 
 
 In Misc. Papers (1688 to 1706) is a bundle of 13 accounts, 
 letters and petitions relating to this matter, together with 
 one relating to 1643. 
 
 (a) Exeter, Feb. 11, 1705-6. Thomas Baron, Mayor, 
 writes to John Snell, Esq., M.P., enclosing a petition 
 (see m) to Queen Anne for a debt due from the late 
 King to the Chamber. He will be introduced to the 
 Queen's person either by my Lord Bishop or our Lord 
 Lieutenant, adding : "wee have reason to believe that 
 wee shall have a favourable audience." 
 
 (b) The Report of Sir Walter Yonge, Baronet, Richard 
 Lee and John Elwill, Esq., May 28, 1691. By order 
 of the Treasurer they met in Exeter in March last 
 " to examine the accounts of some Chyrurgeons, 
 Apothecaries, Brewers &c. of the City of Exeter for 
 Physick, Attendance, Bedding and Provisions furnisht 
 some sick Soldiers belonging to his Majesty's Army 
 that came from Holland in the late happy revolucion." 
 They report that they " could not make a due scrutiny 
 of the accounts, for that severall of the parties therein 
 concerned were dead, and for want of other evidence then 
 the assertions of the other parties that are living." 
 
 (c) (Undated but 1688-9.) A Petition from the Mayor &c. 
 to the King that upon application to them made by His 
 Majesty's Physicians or Chirurgians at your happy 
 Arrival there did take care and provide all necessaryes 
 for an Hospitall for such of the Soldiers as were diseased 
 at their Arrival or fell sick there afterwards. That on 
 Nov. 19 last [i.e. 1688] 156 diseased men were putt 
 into the said Hospitall, and afterwards such others as 
 needed the same, at a total cost of 345/. Is. 3 \d., as 
 appears by the accounts. The Petitioners have done 
 
 * For hia stay in Exeter from Nov. 9-21, 1688, see Macaulay ii, 489- 
 514.
 
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 their utmost for the care and preservation of these sick 
 soldiers, " and still contynue to doe the same for severall 
 of the Regiment late under the Command of Robert 
 Peyton," and they pray for payment, " the Chamber 
 of the said Citty being att present very poore." 
 
 (d) London, June 6, 1691. Mr. Hugh Chudleigh writes 
 to Christopher Bale, Esq., M.P. He has been to the 
 Treasury to enquire whether Mr. Elwell, and the rest 
 had delivered in their Report (6), of which he encloses 
 a Copy. He proceeds : "In short tis no Report, nor 
 can I comprehend what they meane, and soe says 
 all the Clarkes of the Treasury being of the same 
 opinnion ; and in my opinnion in there report thy 
 (sic) have endeavored to make you, and all the Chamber, 
 very great Knafes to demand that which was not 
 just, and the moneys to the severall persons were not 
 due to them." At present he cannot tell what to 
 advise, but will consult with Mr. Squill, who is one 
 of the Clerks of the Treasury, and suggests that the 
 City should petition " whenever the Parliament sitts." 
 
 (e) Draft of Petition (c) with copy of reply of the Privy 
 Council dated Whitehall, July 11, 1689, ordering the 
 Commissioners of the Treasury to examine the 
 Allegations, together with a notification (dated White- 
 hall, July 20, 1689) that the question has been referred 
 to Mr, Auditor Humphreys. 
 
 (/) Account of the Charges for the Soldiers from their 
 first coming into the Maids Hospital to Jan. 18, 1688-9. 
 The total claim=284Z. 12s. 6^., including 2 supple- 
 mentary items to Feb. 19, 1688-9. The details consist 
 of claims by apothecaries, surgeons, an upholster and 
 others for beds, bedsteads, beer, diet and other things. 
 
 (g) A list of 21 persons discharged from the hospital in 
 Exon and quartered without Eastgate, Dec. 28, 1688, 
 at which time the Lt. Governor Gibson, by the hands 
 of Major White, gave each man Is. Qd. for 3 dayes sub- 
 stance. The list gives the regiments to which these 
 men belonged (viz., Lord Levaines, Count Carelfont, 
 Count Hakendorne, Graf Van Nassau, Weinbergh, Van 
 Hagell, Balforde), with the names of the captains of 
 their companies. 
 
 (h) A similar list of 18 soldiers discharged Jan. 4th, 1688-9. 
 The regiments showing the names Pr. (i.e. Prince's) 
 Guard, Weinberg, Talmash, Carleford, Babington, 
 Brandenburgh. 
 
 (i) A similar list of 40 soldiers remaining in the Hospital 
 at Exeter, Dec. 29, 1688. The regiments in addition 
 to those already named=M.G. Sydney, Pr. Courland, 
 M.Gen. Mackay, Berkenvelt, Sir Robert Peyton, The 
 Ship Wagen de Burg, The Pr. of 0. The " distempers " 
 specified are " feaver, scurvie, rupture, Imposthum'd
 
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 foote, or thigh or knee, bruised breast, cough, lamed 
 hip or leg, ulcer'd leg, Ague, fflux of ye belly, amputated 
 hand " ; also Alexander Lyall of the Prince of O's 
 regiment left behind to attend the men. 
 
 (;') Mr. Waters' "Accompt of the disbursements of the 
 sik shoulgers in the horspatall, Nov. 19, 1688." There 
 were sent in 156. The total amount=110Z. 4s. 6%d., 
 and the items include befe and mutton, bread, milke, 
 brandy to wash thar wons (? wounds) and Drink, 
 butter, Turnup and Cabbidg, gerts, 1 Bar' of all, 
 3 qt. watter (2s. Qd.) sic, straw, suger and spice, 3 seams 
 of wood, Quarter of Coale, | doz. Candells and " all 
 sorts of provisions " day by day till Jan. 10, 1689. 
 The total claim being 951. 2s. Qd. 
 
 Supplementary charges include : Goods ye Nappr, 
 Goods ye Reeve(?), Sander ye Shoulger (i.e. soldier) 
 for 1 Shirte, also 13 Coffings (at 85. each), 13 buring 
 suts (burying suits), 13 shirts for ye por prisoners, 
 bram' to fill 12 coffins (9<s.), making 12 graves (18s.), 
 eath-thenware (sic) and spoones, and Sticks, Candell 
 sticks 6 in number, bringing up the total to HQl. 4s. 6%d. 
 [Endorsed: "10?. more paid by Mr. Gandy."] 
 
 (k) An Accompt of the Diseased Souldiers belonging 
 to the Illustrious and Mighty prince of Orange. In 
 the Hospitall of Exon under the care and Dayly 
 Attendance of Mr. John Case and his two Servants 
 with each Souldier's Disease and thear Collonel and 
 Captain's name as in ye Margint. 68 names (mostly 
 Dutchmen) suffering from a violent paine in his head, 
 do. of his breast, do. his side and knee, of his shoulder, 
 shortness of breath, a swollen belly, great pains of all 
 his limbs, violent cough, a great prickinge paine and 
 convulsions of all his Body, stupid, fettid, cadavarous 
 ulcers in his leggs, very sick to his heart, a paine of 
 his Limbes, do. of his head and body, do. of his heart 
 and stomach, oppression of his heart, do. of his 
 back, do. of all his body, do. of his stomach, a 
 putrid feavor, exceeding swelling leggs, a plurisye, 
 a sordid foul ulcer, fretten ulcers with a larg 
 Impostumacon in his thigh, very sick in ye small 
 Pockes, contraction of Knees, Hemorhodes, Erispilas 
 with face with a continuall spitting blood, a Crewel 
 Cough, an obstruction of his Stomach, concussion of his 
 back, contused Legg by a fall from a horse, deafness, 
 mightily tormented with vomiting, an Impostume in 
 his hand, in addition to the ailments named in (i). 
 
 Also 16 men of the Prince's Guard and 1 seaman 
 brought on board with a toren hand by a Granade, 
 which was Amputated. 
 
 The claim is for 34/. 10s. Qd., i.e. at 10s. per day 
 from Nov. 22 to Dec, 15 [s.a.].
 
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 (I) July 30, 1689. Certificate of Robt. Humphrey, D. 
 Auditor. My Lords, I have examined the Severall 
 Accompts and notes referred to by the annext Petition, 
 and find the disbursements and alowances for ye Cure 
 of severall and buriell of other sick Souldiers to the 
 number of 156 and upwards in 1688 and 89 in this 
 Citty of Exon are as follows : The totals are for meat 
 and other necessaries, upholsters and joiners work, 
 brewers bills, doctors, Chirurgeons and Apothecarys, 
 the whole amounting to 345?. 4s. 2%d. (sic). 
 
 (m) The Petition (undated) to Queen Ann, referred to 
 in (a). Whereas your Majesty's Predecessor, King 
 William of ever blessed memory (when Prince of Orange) 
 did a little after his landing at Torbay desire the 
 Chamber of Exeter to take care of part of his Army 
 (which there lay sick and disabled in and near this 
 City) and to furnish them with necessaries, At the 
 same time promising to reimburse the Chamber such 
 sums as (by them) should be, on this Account, 
 expended. The expenditure is stated at 345Z. 45. 2%d. 
 [as in Oliver, 145]. 
 In a separate envelope are 9 additional papers : 
 
 (o) An Accounte of the disbursements upon his highnesses 
 ye Prince of Orange's Souldiers from the ire Coming 
 into the Mayden Hospitall unto the 18th day of 
 January, 1688 (i.e. 1689), i.e. a summary of some 
 of the above accounts amounting to 266Z. 14s. Qd., one 
 of which refers to the death of Mr. Case ye Chirurgeon, 
 and Mr. Hethcot ye Apothecary. 
 
 (p) Memorandum (June 10, 1689) headed : " There were 
 remaineing in the hospital at Exon on the 26th of lOber 
 laste paste 61, sent in since 4, in all 65." Then follow 
 65 names, mostly Dutch, with side notes : " Whereof 
 are dead (8), discharged into Sir R. Peyton's Regiment 
 at Exon (2), sent for Plymouth to my Lord Leivan's 
 Regiment (10), sent for Holland (4), sent for London (41). 
 At foot : The whole charge of medicines and attend- 
 ance on the above mentioned persons from lOber 28, 
 1688, is 57Z. 7s. 5d. 
 
 (q) Mr. Mustian, Apothecary. The Souldiers at ye 
 Hospitall, Jan. 18, 1688 (i.e. 1689). His charges amount 
 to 31. 5s. 8d., including large lambatives, Pectorall 
 Drinks, oximel scillit (i.e. of Squills), elixir prop &c., 
 and " the large Electuary again." 
 
 (r) A list of Souldiers remaining at the Maiden's Hospital 
 in Exon on the 26th of December, 1688. Being some 
 of his Highnesse the Prince of Orange his Armie who 
 were sent thither for Cure. 
 
 It shows the names of 65 men, together with their 
 regiments, the captains of their companies, their age, 
 country, malady, time of entry, and time of death,
 
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 discharge, or removal by friends. The regiments show 
 the Prince's Artillery, Berkenvelt and Babington, 
 in addition to those previously noted ; the men are 
 from Holland (33), Gelderland (5), Flanders (3), France 
 (3), Germany (2), and 1 each from Zealand, Poland, 
 Greece, Prussia, Brandenburg, Switzerland, Sweden, 
 Shetland, England, Berwick, Berkshire and Modbury. 
 The maladies are chiefly fever, ague or Scurvey, with 
 an occasional Asthma, Rheumatism, or Consumption. 
 
 (s) June 10, 1689. Charge of Medicines to the Hospital 
 since the 26 of Dec., 1688, 57J. Is. 5d., including (q) 
 and (u), also 351. 6s. 8d. fees for 166 days' attendance. 
 
 (t) Jan. 7, 1688-9. For 27 bed stools Att 75. per pece. 
 
 (u) James Jenkinson's account of ye charge of medicines 
 to ye Souldiers at ye Hospitall in 1688, including 
 clister plaisters, laxative Boles, purging Boles, Cerotes, 
 Cordialls, pots of pultis, of antiscorbots, Electuvary, 
 potions, purges, ptisans, emetics, draughts, julops, 
 purgatives, embrocations, lotions, plaisters, syrops, 
 sudorifics, boxes of pills, papers of Powder &c., &c. 
 
 (v) Feb. 20, 1688-9. There are now remaining : In 
 private quarters (6). In the Hospitall (11). Eight are 
 certified as lame, 1 as fit to march, 1 is " of Lord Leivan's 
 regiment at Plymouth," and another " of the Artillerie." 
 Signed, James Jenkinson. 
 
 (w) Dec. 26, 1688. James Jenkinson's account for 
 medicines from Dec. 26 to January 15, 1688-9. Similar 
 to (u). 
 
 St. Anne's Chapel. 
 
 L. 448. Aug. 18, 1698. The Dean and Chapter as owners 
 of the Chapel of St. Anns hi the parish of St. Sidwells, state 
 that William Cudmore of St. SidwelTs, weaver, on Aug. 18, 
 1698, broke into the Chappie or Hospitall of St. Annes* over 
 ye orchard wall and got upon ye Top of one of ye Houses 
 there, and from thear went to ye Chappie Bell and by force 
 and violence threw down ye same from ye Place or Tower 
 where it hung to ye ground, notwithstanding oftentimes 
 call'd to him and bid him forbeare doing any violence, the 
 fall of ye bell was like to have Injured some of ye Poor. 
 
 Workhouse. 
 
 L. 450 (1698). The Chamber petition the House of Commons 
 for the insertion in the bill for erecting Hospitalls and Work- 
 houses within the City of Exeter [i.e. 9-10 William III, c. 33 ; 
 Oliver, 270 ; Stat. vii, 450, 1698, called 1699, Report on Charities, 
 305 ; or 1697, Izacke, 191 ; Lloyd Parry, 30] a clause specifying 
 that the Corporation of the Poor [for their seal, see Lloyd 
 Parry, 29] may be elected every two years instead of or 
 life. 
 
 * Built circ. 1418. Worthy, Suburbs, p. 51.
 
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 In L. 458 (undated, ? 1699) the Chamber send to Sir Edward 
 Seymour and Sir Bartholomew Shower, M.P.'s [for Exeter in 
 1698 and 1701], a letter respecting difficulties in assessing 
 the poor rate under the Corporation of the Poor's Act of the 
 previous year. [For an extract from this letter, beginning : 
 " This new Corporation King's Bench," see Lloyd Parry, 
 p. 30.] Endorsed : Abraham North, one of the Constables 
 of this Citty, deposeth that this day hi Execution of his office 
 in pressing a Cart for the King's service he was assaulted 
 and beaten by Samuel Weare, Waggoner, and was threatened 
 to be beaten by Jacob Ware (sic), Waggoner, and highly 
 abused by them both in uncivil languidge. 
 
 In D. 570 are extracts from the will of Mr. [John] King, 
 dated June 1, 1672 [see Report on Charities, p. 305], in which 
 he leaves a house, field and garden (with a close of land called 
 Quarry Close under Northernhay D. 569) to the new Hospital 
 at the lower end of Paris Street [erected in 1671-72. Izacke, 
 176; Oliver, 151]. 
 
 In D. 572 are accounts of the Workhouse at the bottom of 
 Paris Street from 1673 to 1675. 
 
 In D. 571, April 4, 1675, Mr. William Bruen by his will 
 gives 100Z. to the Mayor &c. to be by them bestowed in and 
 about the new erected Workhouse of the City and to set the 
 poor there on work. 
 
 In Misc. Papers, 1698-1699 are extracts from the Act Books 
 relating to the setting of the poor to work in the Workhouse. 
 
 In L. 513, Exeter, Feb. 27, 1747-48, Humphrey Leigh 
 [Chamberlain] instructs M.P.'s for Exeter [i.e. Humphrey 
 Sydenham and John Tuckfield] concerning a Bill relating to 
 Poor Rates. " You are desired to apply and gett an adjourn- 
 ment of the Committee of the House for a fortnight, by which 
 time 'tis hoped matters may be putt on such a ffooting as 
 that you may be able to proceed on, and then if it be necessary 
 the Books, Papers &c., shall be sent up by my Brother. As 
 we are very sensible that the Session will not be of long con- 
 tinuance everything will be dispatched with all imaginable 
 Expedition." 
 
 In L. 613 (undated) is a draft resolution of the Chamber to 
 present the freedom of the City to James White, Esq., a 
 Barrister-at-Law, and Arthur Piggott, Esq., one of His 
 Majesty's Counsel [i.e. Arthur Leary Piggott, Solicitor to the 
 Prince of Wales ; H. Walpole, Letters, xi, 21 ; made Attorney 
 General on Feb. 12, 1806], "for their support of the present 
 Establishment of the Corporation of the Poor in their late 
 application to Parliament during a long and vexatious con- 
 test." Also a vote of thanks to Mr. Alderman Coffin and the 
 Town Clerk for their attendance in London whilst the Bill 
 
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 brought into Parliament in the present Session was 
 depending. 
 
 The City's Valuation. 
 
 L. 455. Feb. 19, 1699-1700. Order of the House of 
 Commons to the Chamber to furnish upon Saturday, March 2nd, 
 at 8 a.m., an account of what value the Estate is the said 
 City now stands seized or possessed of. And also what incum- 
 brances are thereupon, and that they doe then likewise produce 
 their books of survey and coppys or counterparts of the mort- 
 gages and securityes that are upon the said estate, and also 
 the Receiver's accounts for the three last years of the revenues 
 of the said City. 
 
 L. 456. (Undated) the Chamber writes concerning the 
 return to the foregoing order : Sir, We have herewith 
 sent you the same (i.e. the return called for in L. 455) 
 and the Old Book of Survey of the old Town Clark's 
 own handwriteing and written by him after he had been 
 above ffourty years in that office and also the three last 
 Receivers accountts that are audited and past but as 
 for the accountts of those thre last Gentlemen that past 
 the said office of Receiver, neither of them have yet 
 passed their accountts, And the reasons why are these : 
 ffirst, noe Receiver can well pass his accountt untill he 
 has received the respective Rents, which are seldom all 
 received under a Twelvemonth after his yeare expires, and 
 before that time expired the Water-works were taken in 
 hand, and everyone was soe much busied thereabout that 
 nothing could be done, and untill the ffirst be passed those 
 that succeed can not pass theres. We have likewise sent you 
 the Minor accountts, the severall ballances of which are men- 
 tioned to be received hi the Generall accountts of every 
 Receiver. You have likewise several Surveys of the respective 
 Mannors, Lands and Tenements which the Citty are seized and 
 possessed of, and as to all other Lands and Tenements which 
 people generally take to be the Citty's they belong to the 
 Hospitalls and the poore of the Citty and other Charitable 
 gifts and are for the moste parte of them inffeoffed in several 
 ffeoffees in trust for their severall charityes, and are not in 
 the power of the M., B. and C. to dispose of. You will see 
 by the state of the Case in what Condition the Citty is to goe 
 on with these Water Workes, for what they have power to 
 dispose of except the Waterworkes are worth by 28, 83 1/, 
 and the debts which they owe are [blank]. Major Bale and 
 Mr. [Edward] Dally, the Sheriffe, goe hence in the Coach 
 next ffriday, they well know the whole matter, and can 
 answere all objections that can be made. They will be with 
 you on Tuesday night. If possible you can prevent our 
 Adversaries from having Coppys of what wee send. Besides
 
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 the debts which the Citty owe the necessary Support of the 
 Government will amount to 735/. 8s. Qd. yearly, and there 
 are other outgoeings which usually are 2 or 3 hundred pounds 
 a yeare more which cannot bee foreseen. 
 
 The letter is a draft Copy undated and without endorse- 
 ment, but the person to whom it is addressed is to present 
 himself without fail before the Committee [i.e. of the House 
 of Commons] on Saturday morning next by Eight of the 
 clock. 
 
 L. 457. Exeter, Feb. 28, 1699-1700. Rt. Honorable Sir, 'Tis 
 a difficult task that the Committee hath putt upon the Chamber 
 to send up a Survey of their Severall Estates and Debts oweing by 
 them to bee laid before the Committee next Saturday morning, 
 which hath been a great Exercise of our Patience and Diligence 
 night and day ever since to perfect it in the Condition that 
 it is this day sent byexpresse to Mr. Symons (see p. 32), and 
 because the Chamber is apprehensive of the malice and industry 
 of our Enemyes, they will needs have me and the Sheriffe 
 goe to Westminster to use our poore endeavours to prevent 
 the 111 Consequences of that opposition which is made against 
 the Bill, and (God willing) wee shall bee in Towne next Tuesday 
 night, and the morning after wait on your Honor, for whome 
 noe person hath a greater respect and service then, Sir, your 
 most humble Servant. 
 
 Wee are very loath to lett the world see our nakednes, 
 which wee humbly perceive may bee prevented by an order 
 of the house, that the Clarkes give noe Copyes of our Papers 
 to any person whatsoever. 
 
 The document is unaddressed and unsigned, but the writer 
 appears to be Major Bale (see L. 456). 
 
 In Books 186-205 are rentals or Surveys of the City's estates 
 in 1585, 1650, 1652, 1671, 1675, 1688, 1700, 1725, 1730, 1755, 
 and 1760. 
 
 Lammas Fair. 
 
 L. 460 (undated ? about 1700). The proclamation for Lammas 
 Fair [held in the Croll Ditch or Southernhay. Izacke, 19, 20 ; 
 Oliver, Mon., 113 ; and on St. David's Down D. 1449, 1498.] 
 to last for two half -days and two whole days, during which 
 no goods were to be sold except in the Fair, and no persons 
 were to put any goods in their shops within the length and 
 reach of any man's arm, and all grievances were to be settled 
 at the Tollbooth before the Stewards of the fair, the Mayor 
 and Bailiffs being inhibited from taking Cognizance of any 
 pleas or suits in their Courts while the fair lasted. On the 
 dorse is the oath of the Searchers and Sealers of Leather. 
 
 In Book 51, /. 57, is an account of "the Varyaunce and 
 Controversie of the Erie of Devon and the Prior of St. Nicholas 
 agaynst the Mayor and Commonaltie of the Citie of Exeter for 
 Croldyche or Lammas Fair." AD. 1323, where it is called 
 " the fayre called Croldyche fayre kept yerely ad Gulas August i
 
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 [Aug. 1st] yn Southynghay. [Apud Cruldych in Southynhay. 
 Oliver, Mon., 127.] 
 In Book 52, /. 166-172, is a copy of the verdict in the above 
 
 suit. 
 
 In Misc. Roll 78 (Aug. 19, 1336), is a copy of Plea concerning 
 the disturbance of Crulledych Fair and the rescue of certain 
 thieves at Ayschpertone. 
 
 In Misc. Bolls 83-90, 98, are copies of enrolments concerning 
 lastage and stallage of the Fair at Exeter, 1394, 1410. [Printed 
 in Madox, Firma Burgi, pp. 263-269.] 
 
 In Misc. Boll 55 is a roll of nine membranes relating to the 
 Lammas Fair. 
 
 In Misc. Boll 40 (1415-61) is a Court Roll of the Cruldych 
 Fair. 
 
 In Misc. Boll 3 (xvii) is a petition by the Mayor &c. in 
 1422-23 (I Henry VI) against Hugh Courtenay, Earl of Devon- 
 shire that inter alia "he took from your suppliants a fair 
 called Crulditch Fair." 
 
 In Book 51, /. 227, is the order for making proclamations 
 for Lammas or Crulditch Fair. 
 
 In D. 1449, April 2nd, 1545, the fair called "Lammas 
 Feyr " held on St. David's Downe and Curlediche is granted 
 to John Haydon and Thomas Gibbes [see p. 20]. 
 
 In D. 1498, Oct. 7, 1555, the Mayor &c. acquire Curreldyche 
 Fayre alias Lammas Fayer, where it is held yearly on 
 St. Davy's Downe and Cruldyche, near Exeter, for 3 days, 
 viz., the Eve, Day and Morrow of St. Peter ad Vincula (July 31, 
 Aug. 1st and 2nd), together with the stallage, picage, toll and 
 customs of the fair and the Court of Pie Powder within the 
 same, the assize and assay of bread, wine and other victuals 
 in the same fair in as full and ample manner as the last 
 Prior of St. Nicholas or any of his predecessors ever held the 
 same. 
 
 In L. 253, London, Oct. 20, 1623, John Dunster and 
 3 others write to the Mayor : Right Worshipfull and 
 welbeloved in the Lord, all hapines wished you &c. Wee 
 expected long ere nowe some loving answere of our 
 request made the last fayre and more especially in August 
 last, mooved agayne to the right worshipful then Maior, 
 by Mr. Dunster, unto whome an order was made, that 
 forthwith we should understand the resolution of the Court, 
 which we have since expected, but noe comfort have wee 
 receaved. Now in that the time groweth short, And as tender 
 Children once burnt are ever affrayd of the same fire, soe wee 
 can no less but endeavour to avoyd the like danger : And 
 in that wee have been your antient Tennants doe tender our 
 selves to bee soe still, paying our usuall rent (without fine), 
 which we have longe time continued to your great proffit in
 
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 publique. As for any fine it hath been at large answered, 
 and therefore nedes litle nowe to bee hard ; for times and 
 trading will not afford it, knowing it a trueth in generall that 
 Landlords doe well esteeme of those Tenants, that pay their 
 rents without fine where noe improovements are. And whereas 
 upon like request formerly made there was only a graunt of 
 one yeere, and that not without a fine of xli. upon large per- 
 suasions much against our willes beinge most young men was 
 graunted : you expecting that Trade would have been bettered 
 which was the ground of our great fine and litle came. To 
 which was then answered litle hope was thereof, and now 
 to our greeife confirmed that since it is much deminished : 
 That in truth wee are rather Considering howe to leave of 
 your affayres then to continue them, but in that wee are 
 accustomed to such Course of trading are contented though 
 litle to our proffit yet to goe one regarding the good publique, 
 as much as our privat. And to that end and soe at this time 
 wee are desirous to understand from your worship the resolu- 
 tion of the Court if wee shall inioye our shoppes as formerly wee 
 have done or not, and upon the Conditions before mentioned 
 and hartlier if wee shall soe inioye them, for the usuall terme 
 of yeares, and not to be troublesome to the Court and soe 
 to our selves every yeare, or in a few yeares, which graunt 
 wee make litle question of knowing that the Court will soone 
 conceive what is the publique good, as alsoe that they wilbee 
 farr from requiring that which is now une quail, though 
 times and trading heretofore made it seeme unto them 
 reasonable ; or at least if a graunt hereof will not bee freely 
 made for that terme, without a farther Conferrence with us, 
 wee then desire that a graunt maybee made of this faire only ; 
 paying our alone rent, and at the next fayre, wee will, if it 
 bee your pleasures further conferr thereof, but wee thinke 
 much, and as much, as is needfull hath been spoken one both 
 sides, and therefore to avoyde further Trouble to either, or both, 
 wee desire that a graunt may bee made for tenne yeares, 
 but if not that, then the latter, which is this fayre only. And 
 whether you shall in your promised love, determine of, wee 
 desire to have it under warrant from your worship or the 
 Court for the free inioying of our shoppes that soe wee may 
 consigne our goods to the usuall place without trespass or 
 disturbance, and this alsoe wee desire may bee donne with 
 the soonest that may bee, with any convenience, Considering 
 that the time of sending our goods is at hand, hoping your 
 worshipp will favour us soe farre as to returne us answere 
 hereof by the conveyance of this our ffreinds, Mr. Sandes, or 
 by the next returne of the usuall Carrier, and you shall find 
 us thankfull for any kindnes herein shewed unto us, soe 
 wee leave you and your grave Consultations to the wise 
 disposing of the Almightye and doe rest yours for the 
 Gennerall att Command in our particuler, 
 
 John Dunster, Robert Graye, John Gooding, John Ven.
 
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 In D. 1838, July 23, 1734, the Chamber appoint the Town 
 Clerk, Henry Gandy as steward of their court of Pie-Powder 
 in Lammas Fair. 
 
 In Misc. Papers 1619-1681, 1624-1629, 1707-1759, 1761- 
 1792, 1789-1797 are Lammas Fair Books relating to proceed- 
 ings in and profits of Lammas Fair. 
 
 In Misc. Papers 1631-1731 are papers relating to the court 
 of Pie-Powder (Lammas Fair). 
 
 In D. 1848, May 19, 1781, is a conveyance from the heirs- 
 at-law of John Essington and others to Samuel Moore and 
 others of one moiety of the tolls and profits of Lammas Fair. 
 
 In L. 601, June 1793, is a draft notice of the removal of 
 Lammas Fair. 
 
 Church at Rotterdam. 
 
 L. 462. Rotterdam, N.S. May 2, 1705. Nicholas Taverner 
 and three others write to " the Worshipfull Mr. Gilbert 
 Yard "* : Wee presume that you have already been acquainted 
 with the Erecting of a Publick Episcopal Church f here with the 
 Encouragement of her Sacred Majesty, which work being 
 now in great forwardness (as our Friend Capt. John Ewins 
 will particularize), and some Corporations as that of Great 
 Yarmouth and New Castle being sensible of the great Benefitt 
 which Sea-faring men and others of the Communion of the 
 Church of England may receive from such an Establishment, 
 have already Contributed towards the support of so Pious a 
 Design, which Obliges us most humbly to Beg your Concur- 
 rence, and Hope That The Same Zeal wiU move your Honourable 
 Corporation to Encourage the Undertaking for the Encrease 
 of Piety and The Honour of the English Nation and Liturgy. 
 The Bearer assures Us That You will Pardon this Freedome 
 and give Us leave to Subscribe Ourselves, Honourable Sir, 
 (as Trustees), your obedient Humble Servants, 
 
 Nich. Taverner. 
 
 Christopher Bernard. 
 
 Richard Davyes. 
 
 Richard Davis. 
 
 Parliamentary Candidates. 
 
 L. 463. London, May 22, 1705. Christopher Coke [Mayor 
 in 1692] writes to the Mayor, Gilbert Yard : Sir, This 
 is to accompany the enclosed (L. 464) from a Relation 
 whose Ancestors are recorded amongst our worthy Bene- 
 factors, a person as well esteemed as knowne on this 
 Exchange to be loyal to the Government, liberal on emergent 
 occasions, large in trade, laborious and active in affairs for 
 publique good, as his worke demonstrates in a booke lately 
 
 * Not Gilbert Wood as Izacke 195 ; Oliver 233. 
 t i.e. St. Mary's Church, demolished in 1913.
 
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 set forth by him, which will be presented you by Mr. Jeffery 
 or some other hand, it aimes cheifely at the encouredgement 
 of our Woollen manufacture : by which (you well know) our 
 Citty and parts adjacent are Soly Soported. 
 
 His paper points at his desire of Serving you as a Repre- 
 sentative, and if his request bee too late now (as I beleive it 
 is), I thinke it may be worth your remembrance of it upon a 
 Vacancy, therefore when you have a Chamber, I intreat 
 that his paper may be there communicated ; for I have it not 
 from himselfe but from others that out of his abundance he 
 inclyn's to be a Benefactor to the place where he received 
 his first breath, which I believe may be worth your considera- 
 tion of a civil answere, whereby you will allso obleidge the 
 Chamber's well-wisher and yours att Command, 
 
 Christopher Coke. 
 
 In L. 464, London, May 22, 1705, Edward Gould writes to 
 the Mayor &c. : Gentlemen, Though my affairs have 
 not hitherto permitted me according to my desire to live 
 amongst you, yet in Love to my Natural Country I 
 have waited for an opportunity to show my affection 
 to your City, which now offers ; If my fellow Citizens 
 think me qualified (as a man at this time ought to be) to be 
 one of their Representatives in the ensuing Parliament. Indeed, 
 Gentlemen, 'tis neither vanity or ambition that are the motives 
 to my Request ; but an earnest desire to be in such a capacity 
 that I may in a proper Station promote the Weal and flourishing 
 of Exeter, and think of some Cordial that may revive and 
 encrease our Trade, that long has languished under the 
 manage of Ignorance, or neglect, and lately has been in danger 
 of looseing one of its chief est limbs. It's commerce with 
 Leghorn, as you may see by a Book I have lay'd before you 
 by Mr. Thomas Bury, wherein 'tis visible I have had a Reguard 
 to the Publick Welfare, and have been very serviceable to 
 the nation at a great expence in detecting the evil practices 
 of those that endeavoured to cause a misunderstanding between 
 England and the Great Duke of Tuscany to the hazzard of 
 loosing the Tuscan Trade. 
 
 [The document is much damaged. Mr. Gould was not 
 elected.] 
 
 In L. 582. Valentine House, July 23, 1776. Charles 
 Raymond writes to the Mayor offering himself to represent 
 the City in Parliament " in case of a vacancy which I appre- 
 hend will soon happen by the Election of MJ. Walter for the 
 County." [Mr. Raymond was not elected.] 
 
 In L. 583, Exeter, July 29, 1776, Mr. John Rolle* [of Tidwell] 
 writes to the Mayor : " I take this opportunity on the Death 
 of Sir Richard Bamfylde to offer my services to represent the 
 City to succeed my uncle, Mr. Walter." 
 
 * He was returned M.P. for Exeter Jan. 4, 1780.
 
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 In L. 684, Bicton, July 29, 1776, J. [i.e. John Rollc] Walter, 
 [M.P. for Exeter 1764, 1761, 1768, 1774 ; Oliver, p. 216] writes 
 to the Chamber retiring from the representation of the City, 
 " as I have reason to think my Friends will nominate me at 
 the County meeting (which is to be held on the 2nd of next 
 month) to fill the vacancy occasion 'd by the death of Sir R. 
 Bamfyld," and suggesting his nephew, Mr. John Rolle, to 
 take his place. [He succeeded his uncle, John Rolle Walter, 
 deceased, as M.P. for Co. Devon on Jan. 4, 1780. Return 
 Parl., ii, 161.] 
 
 Sir Thomas White's Money. 
 
 L. 468. Feb. 14, 1712(13). John Risebrow,* Alderman 
 of Norwich, writes to the Mayor concerning an enquiry he 
 made into the settlement of Sir Thomas White's! money : 
 
 After reciting the deed of gift, $ consisting of " some Houses 
 with Orchards and Gardens and some pasture Landes and 
 Grounds " in Bristol, he refers to " another estate in 
 Lands in or nigh the City of Coventry," which had greatly 
 increased in value, a share of which increase had been success- 
 fully claimed by the Corporations of Leicester, Nottingham 
 and Northampton, who were beneficiaries under the will of 
 Sir Thomas White (dated Nov. 24, 1566. Clode, ii, 179). He 
 continues : " Whereas credible Information hath been given me 
 by diverse persons that the said estate at Bristow, given by 
 Sir Thomas White hath been also greatly improved of late 
 years by new buildings upon the said pasture grounds and 
 orchards, and makeing one or more of the best streets in that 
 City, and the same estate is improved now to eight times 
 the old value, namely to the yearly value of 1,000?. or there- 
 abouts, which great advantage the said City of Bristow take 
 to themselves and is farr beyond what was assigned them 
 by our said Benefactor as wee are advised. 
 
 And whereas since I received this Information I have 
 further inquired into this affair and have seen at London 
 the original! Deed made by Sir Thomas White, and am informed 
 at Merchant Taylors' Hall and beleive that the Words in 
 this our Deed are more insignificant (sic) and Stronger for 
 us the 23 Corporations to have an Equitable proportionable 
 Share of the said Improvement, and that the increase of the 
 said estate for the said Charity should be equitably distributed 
 and paid to us the 23 Corporations in an equall manner with 
 Bristow then the words which were in the Settlement for 
 Coventry (sic) and the other Corporations with them. 
 
 * Rixborough Le Straunge, Norfolk Lists, 116 : or Ricebrow, Sheriff of 
 Norfolk 1704. 
 
 t i.e. the founder of St. John's College, Oxford ; Lord Mayor of London, 
 1553 ; whose portrait is in the Guildhall at Exeter, Oliver, p. 218. 
 
 J Dated July 1, 1566, by which Sir Thomas White gave money to be used 
 for loans of 251. to honest young men of 24 trading towns, including Exeter 
 and Norwich. See C. M. Clode, History of the Merchant Tailors' Company, 
 ii, 177, where the list of towns corresponds exactly, except that " Hertford " 
 in this document is given as " Hereford east."
 
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 He has been ordered by the Mayor and Aldermen of Norwich 
 to give this account to some of the nighest (sic) Corporations 
 concerned in this charitable gift and to desire them to come 
 into proper measures with us for the recovering of our pro- 
 portionable shares suggesting that they " may in a friendly 
 and confederate manner make a Common purse of 4 or 51. 
 from each Corporation for the present " and take advice 
 upon the matter. 
 
 He adds a postscript : "I am now in London this 14 ffeb., 
 1712, and have bespoke Coppies of the Deed and am drawing 
 up the case for Counsell to peruse now I am here, and if 
 your corporation meet and can give me answer in 2 or 3 posts 
 then direct for me here, but if not then direct to Norwich. 
 Many of the corporations have sent me Complying answers 
 and come into our measures. 
 
 In Book 53, /. 124 ; Book 54, /. 10, is a list of the towns 
 entitled to participate. [See also Hist. MSS. Commission 
 Reports, Reading, 206 ; Lincoln, 88 ; Shrewsbury and Coventry, 
 57 ; Report on Charities, 243 ; Endowed Charities, 262, 341, 
 360.] 
 
 Gazetteer. 
 
 L. 470. London, Feb. 6, 1713(14). William Jackson 
 writes to the Mayor : I Request you will do me the favour 
 to give an Account in a Post, or two at farthest, of the 
 Government of your City with the Fairs and Markets and 
 days when kept, and your number Churchs, and you will 
 very much oblige, Sir, your humble servant, 
 
 Wm. Jackson. 
 
 I have printed a Coppy of an Account of one Town [i.e. East 
 Grinstead] to show the method wee take. Her Majestic has 
 been Graciously pleased to Grant me A Pattent for the Sole 
 Printing and Publishing the Accounts above mentioned, 
 to which above 2,000 of the Nobility and Members of 
 Parliament and others have subscribed, which will be at 
 your service, Sir, when finished. Please to direct to me 
 at the Sun in Russel Court in correspondence. 
 
 L. 471. Aug. 21, 1714. A letter [see L. 328] addressed 
 to Sir William Pendarves, M.P. [i.e. for St. Ives in Cornwall 
 from Nov. 12, 1713, to Jan. 5, 1715] to be left at the 
 Half Moon in Exeter, showing that the Queen's funeral 
 [i.e. Queen Anne, d. Aug. 1, 1714, buried at Westminster 
 Aug. 24, 1714] was put off " till next Tuesday night by reason 
 ye Ladies' Cloaths could not be ready before." Also news 
 from Ipswich, Aug. 14: " Altho' we are deeply concern'd 
 for ye Loss of ye Queen, we can't forbear giving some account 
 of ye indecent and disrespectful Behaviour of our Wh gs 
 upon ye News of ye death of ye Queen," i.e. that they ordered 
 the bells to be rung and " when the Sheriff came to proclaim 
 the King few of the W T gs appeard, though a great many
 
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 of ye Loyal Gent, of ye town did, the first standing 
 with their Hats on all the time the proclamation was reading 
 by which we may guess if they are like to be no better subjects 
 to ye King that they were to the Queen. [For similar 
 extract from a newsletter, see Hist, MSS. Report, Portland 
 Papers, vol. v, p. 489.] This day ye Lords Justices have given 
 ye Royal Assent to ye following bills : That for rectifying 
 mistakes in ye Names of ye Commissioners for putting in 
 Execution ye Land Tax and for raising so much as is wanting 
 to make up 1,400,000?. intended to be raised by a Lottery that 
 for the better support of his Majestie's household and of the 
 honour and dignity of the Crown of Great Britain, that to 
 enable persons now residing hi Great Britain to take ye oaths 
 to qualifie themselves to continue their places in Ireland. [See 
 Lords' Journals xx, 13 ; Journals of House of Commons xviii, 
 p. 11.] [For extract from the Flying Post, 1708-1717, see 
 Historical MSS. Report, Portland Papers, iv, 485 ; also vol. v 
 passim.] The Lords Justices in ye name of his Majesty 
 thanked both houses for their zeal and affection to his Majesty 
 and ye Commissioners particularly for ye Aids granted for 
 his support and assured them that a faithful Representation 
 should be made his Majesty thereof. Then both houses 
 adjourned till Wensday. Orders will be given to take up 
 ye publisher of ye Flying Post for some scandal lately put 
 there in [i.e. abusing the memory of Queen Anne, for which 
 Daniel Defoe was arrested Ibid, v, 491]. 
 
 Court of Conscience. 
 
 L. 472 (1713). Petition from the Chamber to the House of 
 Commons for leave to bring in a bill to establish a Court of 
 Conscience [or Requests Murray, Diet. s.v. Court] for the 
 recovery of small debts under 40s. in Exeter, " which doo 
 very much abound with poore Tradesmen and other Indigent 
 persons," after the manner of such Courts in London, Bristol, 
 Gloucester, Newcastle and Norwich. [For Stat. 13, George III, 
 c. 27, 1772-3, see Oliver, p. 272.] 
 
 Coming of George I. 
 
 L. 473. In Newcastle Street, Strand, Sept. 9, 1714. 
 W. Simon [p. 74] writes to the Town Clerk, Mr. John 
 Carwithen : Mr. Towne Gerke, You have wanted an 
 answere to yours through my absence from Lyons Inne 
 for a weeke last till Yesterday, but assoon as I had 
 it I lost noe time to observe your orders (and its still 
 time enough for the King is not come, nor expected 
 while this Wynd blowes), fifor I putt both your Letterr and 
 the addresse into the Duke of Ormond's owne hand this 
 morning. His Grace was pleased to say That hee would 
 take care to Deliver it as soon as the King came,* and Desired 
 
 * George I. arrived in London Sept. 20, 1714.
 
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 mee to give his humble service to Mr. Mayor and the Chamber, 
 whome hee should be very gladd to serve upon any occasion. 
 
 You knowe I never Speak of my bill but when I have some- 
 what else to say, but now pray doe mee to favour to lett the 
 Chamber knowe, That I cannot but thinke it hard That after 
 above Thirty Yeares ready and Cordiall service to the Citty att 
 and upon all times and occasions, I should not have the Justice 
 of being paid a bill, above two thirds whereof is money layed 
 out of my pockett now above 13 yeares agoe. This seasonable 
 Memorand togeither with my very humble service I hope 
 may bee of use to, Sir, your humble Servant, 
 
 W. Simon. 
 
 Letters of Marque. 
 
 L. 476. Jan. 10, 1718(19). The Commissioners for executing 
 the office of Lord High Admiral order the Mayor to administer 
 the Oaths and Test to all persons whose commissions, warrants 
 or Letters of Mart shall be sent to him. 
 
 Relief of Dissenters. 
 
 L. 477. Barnstaple, Oct. 30, 1719. Richard Hooper writes 
 to John Carwithen, the Town Clerk, that he has received 
 his letters as to the disability of dissenters to be elected to 
 offices [under the Relief Act, Dec. 1718 ; Statutes at Large, viii, 
 145 ; Mahon, i, 327 ; Lecky, i, 322], and as to whether they 
 can be punished and fined for not receiving the sacrament 
 and will take time to consider and give his opinion. 
 
 Manor of Duntish. 
 
 L. 479 (undated). A Report concerning the commons 
 and common rights in the Manor of Duntish in the parish 
 of Buckland Newton [near Cerne Abbas in Dorsetshire], 
 referring to a map which does not exist. 
 
 In L. 535, Oct. 31, 1725, is a decree in Chancery respecting 
 the Commons of the Manor of Duntish in a case " Hullett 
 and others v. Fitzwater Foy, Esquire " [whose father, Walter 
 Foy, bought the manor from John Churchill in 1713 ; Hutchins, 
 Dorsetshire, iii, 707], preceded by an abstract of the Case from 
 an office Copy in the possession of Mr. Kington, an Attorney 
 at Dorchester, April 7, 1759. 
 
 Rye Harbour. 
 
 L. 482. Rye, Jan. 10, 1722. The Mayor of Rye (John 
 Slade) and 5 others write to the Chamber enclosing a copy 
 of a petition presented by the Mayor, Jurats, frreemen and 
 Inhabitants of Rye to the House of Commons for the restoration 
 of Rye Harbour, and ask their assistance and interest to 
 forward their desires. The petition states that : 
 
 (a) The Port of Rye is the only harbour remaining on 
 the coast of Sussex and Kent from Portsmouth to 
 Dover.
 
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 (6) The said harbour lies very convenient for the ships 
 that Pass up and down the Channel to save themselves 
 in stress of weather and from the enemy in time of 
 war. 
 
 (c) It is opposite Diep and other considerable Ports of 
 France and has been of great use and service to the 
 Navigation of this Kingdom, &c., hi proof of which 
 they refer to a report sent to the House of Commons 
 on Jan. 28, 1720(21), but that the ffloodgates and Cross 
 Walls of late years erected have so much hindered 
 the Slowing and Reflowing of the Sea that there is not 
 sufficient Backwater to Drive out again ye Slub, which 
 by fforce of ye Tide is constantly brought into ye 
 Harbour, and so daily Swerves up ye same, that unless 
 some immediate Care be taken it will be Totally 
 Destroyed. 
 [For the condition of Rye hi 1724, see Horsfield, i, 493.] 
 
 Bad Language. 
 
 L. 484. Oct. 24, 1726. A note of the complaints of one 
 Jenkins, a constable, of the bad language and threats used 
 towards him : 
 
 Going up ye forstreet above ye New Inn at ye sign of ye 
 Black Dogg, one or some from that house Cried out ye 
 Constable, Halloe ! within and without, ye Constable, Halloe ! 
 coming down ye street again. Soon after ye Landlord, as I 
 supposed he was, said I only askt you to drink a Mugg of Ale, 
 Mr. Constable. Don't you bee angry ; and with ye same he 
 said how upright ye Dogg goeth. 
 
 On Oct. 24, 1726, I was at Mr. Buxton's at ye Oxford Inn 
 to collect ye Land Tax, and gave him not one HI word, and 
 he said I was a perjured Villain, perjured Rogue. I told 
 him that I saw Company drinking in his house ye 10th of Aprill, 
 only with this Difference prayers was not begun at St. David's 
 and did not begin for some time after I was there. One of 
 ye Company Did Confess that Mr Symons Read prayers and 
 preached at St. Mary Arches before Came he at St. David's, 
 which was Quarter of an hour after three before it begun at 
 St. David's. 
 
 In ye midst of this Discourse, one Aish, a master Shoemaker 
 Living in Southgate Street, Being in ye Barr, said you Jenkins 
 you are a rascally Roge, you Dogg, you are no Constable, 
 no, Sirrah, you are not, you Rogue, and ye like Expressions 
 he used towards me. 
 
 The Monday following, being 31st of October, came along 
 Goldsmiths Lane one Whitburow, a Bayliff, said : You, 
 Jenkins, wheres ye seven and fourpence you Extorted from 
 Dilbings, Sirrah, you Rogue. I'll make thee pay ye money 
 again. Ye Cheif Magistrates of ye Town Did well to turn 
 thee out for ye City is a Thousand pounds ye worse for thee. 
 thou Base fellow. Wheres ye Loin of Veal, Sirrah. Thus and
 
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 Like Language I had from him. By this time ye Street was 
 alarmed. 
 
 Lighthouse and other Dues. 
 
 L. 487. Topsham, Jan. 20, 1731(32). Receipt from the 
 Collector of the Earl of Thanet [Sackville Tufton] for 8s. 2d. 
 duty at Id. per ton due by the Master of the good Ship Thomas 
 William, bound for London, for the maintenance of Dungeness 
 Lighthouse*, with a curious print of the Lighthouse. 
 
 LL. 488-495, June 11, 23, 1732, and other dates, contain 
 similar receipts for the use of Greenwich Hospital, Is. 9d. at 
 the rate of 6d. per month for 6 persons belonging to the ship, 
 for the maintenance of 3 lighthouses at the North and South 
 Forelands, 8s. 2d. ; and to the Trinity House for ballast and 
 five bills of lading in other vessels in the Thames bound for 
 Topsham and Hamburgh. 
 
 Criminals. 
 
 L. 498. Aug. 11, 1738. The several confessions of Zacharias 
 Sutton and John Taylor, executed on Heavitree Gallows 
 [i.e. at Ringswell ; Worthy, 55], Aug. 11, 1738, for burglary 
 and Sheep-stealing respectively. A broadside printed at Exon 
 by Andrew Brice. 
 
 In D. 1831, May 2, 1729, is an agreement for transporting 
 Thomas Price, of Stafford, labourer, convicted of burglary, 
 to South Carolina. 
 
 In L. 502, Whitehall, Nov. 20, 1740, is a commutation 
 of sentence of death on John Kennick, convicted of burglary 
 and felony, to transportation to America for 7 years. 
 
 In L. 503, the Court at St. James's, March 10, 1740(1), is a 
 pardon to John Harrup and Uriel Hanson, sentenced to 
 transportation for stealing mutton. 
 
 In D. 1838(6), Sept. 15, 1746, is an order for the Execution 
 of Susannah Smith, convicted of burglary. 
 
 In L. 16, St. James's, April 30, 1759, is a royal pardon to 
 Abraham Derham, sentenced to death for killing one sheep 
 with the intent to steal the carcase thereof. The sentence 
 is commuted to transportation for 7 years to " one of our 
 Colonies or Plantations in America," and is signed " George R " 
 (i.e. George II) and " W. Pitt " [i.e. William Pitt, who was 
 then Secretary of State for the Southern Department]. 
 
 In L. 547, St. James's, Feb. 3, 1764, is a commutaion of 
 death sentence on James Scott, convicted of assault and 
 stealing 12s., to 7 years transportation. 
 
 * Granted to Richard Tufton, Earl of Thanet, by Charles II. See Report 
 of Select Committee on Lighthouses (1834), p. xxxv.
 
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 In L. 17, St. James', Sept. 19, 1764, a royal pardon is 
 granted to Thomasine Hall, who had been sentenced to death 
 for " burglariously breaking and entering a dwelling-house 
 in Exeter," and commuting the punishment to fourteen years 
 transportation to one of our Colonies or Plantations in 
 America. Signed, " Sandwich " [i.e. John Montagu, Earl of 
 Sandwich, Secretary of State for the Southern Department]. 
 At the head is an original signature of George III 
 (" George R."), and a subsequent signature " Louise Lome, 
 May 21, 1873." 
 
 In D. 1734a is a decree in Chancery dated Sept. 13, 1618 
 [quoted as Sept. 10th in Rept. on Charities, p. 267], respecting 
 Griffith Amerideth's Charity for providing shrouds for 
 criminals hanged at Exeter [i.e. at Eingswell near Heavitree 
 Worthy, 55]. See also Law Papers, Exeter v. [Robert] Waller, 
 1607.* 
 
 In D. 1446, Aug. 8, 1544, is a sale to Griffin Amerideth of 
 messuages, lands &c. in Torrington, Tawstock, &c. (? Tavi- 
 stock). 
 
 In D. 1466, Oct. 28, 1549, he grants a lease of an Inn called 
 " le Line at Beare " in South Street, Exeter, between 
 Bulhylstrete and a lane leading to the house of the precentor 
 of the Cathedral. 
 
 In D. 1504, July 18, 1556, he grants a lease of a piece of land 
 called " Brysshford " lying in Lydford in the parish of 
 Salcombe. 
 
 In D. 1627, Sept. 29, 1584, is a lease of this land to Robert 
 Tooker of Sidford, " husbandman." 
 
 Royal African Company. 
 
 L. 603. Comendaf Fort in Guinea, Feb. 10, 1737(8). 
 Robert Parker writes to the Chamber : Gentlemen, itts 
 not a Common thing to be addrest to from a Stranger, 
 at this distant part of the Worlde, though the Motive will I 
 hope Justifie it, as to myself e at Lynn Regis in Norfolke, 
 I did for many years as much Business as most Merchants 
 with a good Deale of Success, but the Seane Changed, the 
 Inexorable Sea had no Compassion, I have seen divers 
 parts of the Worlde, and made my Severell Observations 
 in the Different Branches of Trade. 
 
 I no sooner was in this parte of the Worlde, but founde 
 according to the Present Situation of things, how sore we 
 are loosers, in the Sale of a Hundred or Two Thousande Pounds' 
 Worth, of our British manufactures yearly, perhaps much 
 more. I hope the fine Citty of Exeter, by the means I shall 
 
 * For Amerideth "b will, Jan. 3, 1567, see Rept. on Charities, 119 ; Endowed 
 Charities, 397. 
 
 t It was built to the west of Elmina after the treaty of Breda (1667). 
 C. P. Lucas, 100, 106,
 
 239 
 
 propose, (if persued,) will be Sharers in the bond of a great many 
 Thousands per annum of her manufacture, upon this Coast, 
 more than ever yet was sent. I am not prompted on by any- 
 body, nor does any know of what I am about, while my dis- 
 patches reach Norwich, Manchester and some other places, 
 which I have wrote to, as my Leisure would permitt, But as 
 an Englishman, should think my selfe Inexcusable, was not 
 I to do everything in my Power, to advance the Manufactures 
 of my Country, especially when I see the Dutch and French 
 make such large advances, to disposses her of it. 
 
 (1) The Royal African Company's Stock is at present 
 very Low, Occasioned by the Vast Charge and Expence 
 they are at, in maintaining upon this Coast, Eight 
 large Castles* well Fortified, a Plan of one of which 
 I heare enclose f for your Inspection, by that you 
 may in some measure forme a Charge of the Whole, 
 though Cape Coast Castle, the Principal!, would make 
 Six of this, and in Europe be Esteemed a fine large 
 Pallace, furnisht with a number of Good Artillery and 
 capable of making not onely Stout resistance, but a 
 Safe Protection for our Ships, in the Roade, incompast 
 with three other Forts at proper distances, besides the 
 Immence Cherges of all these, the have severell upon 
 the Great River of Gambia % and a verey Strong one 
 upon James Island, in the midle of the River, well 
 furnished with Artillery and everything propper. 
 
 (2) Itt's True the Goverment has been so Good, to 
 allow them for some years past Ten Thousand Pound 
 per annum, towards the Charge or as an Equivolent, of 
 Ten per annum the Private Traders formerly used to pay 
 them towards the Fortifications, but that comes farr 
 short of an Equivolent or the Charge of Keeping such 
 Prodigious Workes in Repaire. 
 
 (3) The Danes has one Fort at Accaran well supplied 
 as to goods, but the Dutch are vastly Strong upon 
 this Coast ; they will be sure to have Forts near the 
 
 * i.e. Cape Coast Castle, Dixcove, Secondee, Commendah, Tantumquerry, 
 Winnebah, Accra, Whydah, and James Fort, also 8 factories on the Gambia. 
 Treasury Books, 1742-45, p. 5. Feb. 2, 1742. 
 
 f No plan is preserved, but an " Explanation of the Fort " as follows : 
 
 1. The Parade, which Buns down to the Beat of the Sea. 
 
 2. Fish Shambles for the Garison, 50 or 60 boats gose out Dayly- 
 
 Excellent good Fish. 
 
 3. The Entrance into the Fort. 
 
 4. Boomes for the Garison, the Slaves and to lay up Provision. 
 
 6. A Tank or Well to hould a Twelve Months Water for ye Garison. 
 
 6. The Inward Fort for the Chiefe Agents, Warehouses under. 
 
 7. A Gallery Leeding from the Chambers to the Battlements. 
 
 8. Cook roome and the Stairs up the Battlements. 
 
 9. A Gallery overlooking the Garden and Country Bounde. 
 
 10. The Bastions from Angle to Angle One Hundred and Ninety Foott. 
 
 11. The Home or Kitchen Garden. 
 
 12. The Walke to the Great Garden, 300 Foott by 90. It has lately 
 
 been planted rounde with Beautifull Hedges, as you see in the 
 Draft. 
 | For their names, see Treasury Books, 1742-45, p, 451,
 
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 English to intercept your Commerce and under our verey 
 noses, in all I think they have Ten Forts besides out 
 Settlements, but not so strong as Us, but the Wise 
 States, to give Incourrigement and Life to them, has 
 settled upon the Company Annual! Assignments to 
 the value of Twenty Five Thousand Pound Stirling, 
 which makes them in some measure Contemn and 
 Slight Us Poore English. 
 
 (4) The Dutch sends most East Indey Goods, and Liquors, 
 but The French in thier trade in my Opinion are most 
 to be dreaded in thier Woollen Manufactures, as well 
 as Silke. One Peice of Goods well dissposed on upon 
 this Coast gives them Incourigement to make two, 
 and what may be the Inconvenience of that you may 
 Easiley Comprehende, Esspessially if you consider the 
 Cheepness of Labour and Provisions in that Country, 
 and with what Parsimony they live, itts not long that 
 a Company's Ship was fitted out at Cape Coast, with 
 fifty or sixty Hands to drive of the Coast, three French 
 vessells full of Goods, which they did, but now they 
 are come on in Such Large Ships and so many the 
 defie the Agents and tell them they will trade so long 
 as their Guns and Amunition will protekt them. The are 
 thought altogether so Sivill as Us upon the Gum Coast, 
 to which they make pretensions, though they have 
 onely on Trifling Fort upon a Prodigious Trakt of 
 Land. Nevertheless when they can overpower our 
 Ships the Ship and Cargo is gone without redemption 
 and our Poore Sailers verey ill-used. 
 
 (5) This Coast takes besides Woollen Goods &c., verey 
 great Quantiteys of Brandey from the French, as well 
 as Geneva and Spiritts from the Dutch ; it would tend 
 vastly to the Landed Interest, to fix such a proportionete 
 Drawback or Debenture upon the Englishe Spiritts 
 from our own Come, which sells for full as much as 
 either of the other, and often preferred, and we in 
 England know full as well how to prepare it, it would 
 not onely be an Incourigement to ye Land, but it 
 would helpe the Distillers, Copper Smiths, Coopers, 
 and set at Worke and give Bread to abundance of 
 Poor people. There is at least exspended in the whole 
 two or three Thousand Tun ; it would put a Stop to 
 our Neybours, and product from what proceeded from 
 our own Growth. 
 
 (6) The Private Traders caryes on a Greate deale of 
 Business upon the Coast from London, Leverpole, and 
 Bristol, and are at no Exspence towards Forts and 
 Garisons, but itts a Jest to say or imagine they could 
 do without the Company's Settlements. They have 
 places of Security where to retreat to upon any 
 Emergency, where they Supply themselves with Wood,
 
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 Water and other necessareys, and are kindly received, 
 and often beholden to them for their Laves (sic) and 
 Fredoms, when they have been attact by the Natives 
 or ill used by other European Ships. 
 (7) The Goverment has been so Good to sende upon 
 Coast this Yeare Three men of Warr, the Dimond, 
 Grenwich and Spence Sloope at an Exspence of Two 
 Thousand Six Hundred Pound p. munth, the Compli- 
 ment of the three being Six Hundred and Fifty Men, 
 at 4Z. p. munth p. man, as given by the Parlament, 
 computing the Voyage and Stay upon the Coast onely 
 at Eight Munths, amounts to Twenty Thousand 
 Eight Hundred Pound, if computed at 13 munths 
 itt so much the more. 
 
 If as an Englishman I may give my Free thoughts, and 
 as I have the Hapiness of being in that Number, shall main- 
 tain that Invaluable Privilege. 
 
 I most humbly think that that Sum of money or Exspence 
 might be much better layd out, from the following Reasons : 
 
 As it neyther conduces to the advantage of the Company, 
 nor to the Private Traders, but on the Contrary, to the vast 
 Damage and Loss of Boath, not but itts absolutely necessary 
 to be Coun . . . with one Man of War a yeare, to be always 
 stationed, but under Strikt and proper Regulations. My 
 Resons in Respekt to the Company, the Stopidge of Trade, 
 while they are upon the Coast in Common with the private 
 Traders, the Vast Charge and Exspence they are put to, in 
 Presents, Sallutes and Entertainments, to all the Gentlemen 
 at the Out Forts, but more Esspessially at Cape Coast Castle, 
 where they Generally Rendezvous, put on there their Sick &c., 
 it must be a verey Great Exspence where Bad Mutton and 
 Goats Flesh is never under Twelve Pence p. pound, and hapey 
 are those that can purchase it, at 13d. or 146?. p. pound ; a 
 Coople of Sixpeney Fowles in your Market would reach three 
 or four Shillings, and every thing ells in proportion. My 
 Second, the Damages they do the Private Traders as well as 
 the Company, that instead of being a Protection and 
 Incouridgment for the trade, thier Business is to finde out 
 every little Creake and Corner, to se what Gould, Teeth, or 
 Slaves they can purchase and what Goods they can Vende. 
 Itts Imagined they have amonst them Twenty Five Thousand 
 Pound worth of goods, though some says a great deale more, 
 by this means they soon turne his Majesty's Men of Warr 
 into Floating Warehouses, forgetting not to bring men with 
 them to manage your Trade, People that has been Servants 
 to the Company. No company or private Trade can 
 pretende to vie with those whose Exspences are bore out 
 by the Goverment ; they undersell and beat down the prises, 
 and consequently while hear get all the Trade into their own 
 Hands, and itts known to all Traders, when once the Prices 
 of Goods are lowered how difficult it is to raise them again 
 
 Wt. 20757. Ex 16
 
 242 
 
 to their former Standard. The Royal Company are from 
 these and divers other Considerations but in a Languid 
 Condittion (and well they may), if all things be considered, 
 labouring under so many Disscouridgments. 
 
 But if they be lookt on in another Light, are a very Rich 
 Company, and may yet be made with a little Indulgence 
 one of the most flourishing in England, in respekt of taking 
 of our manufactures. The -Dutch or French would Skip to 
 purchase these Eight Forts, at 200,0002. , though was they 
 to dooble it, it would be no deere Bargain (doubtless the 
 Charge of Building must have been immence in this distant 
 part of the Worlde where materials are so Deare), but should 
 they be oblidged to part with them, to raise a Funde to carey 
 on thier Trade upon the River of Gambia 300 es. would turne 
 to exceeding Good Account well managed and imploy all 
 that Stock, but what would be the Consequence ? They in 
 Effeckt in such a Sale would convey over Jamaica, Barbadoes, 
 Neviss, St. Christopher's and indeed all the Suger Islands, 
 as well as the whole Continent, from which our Nation reaps 
 yearly such fine advantages. 
 
 The Purchasers would soone refunde themselves of the 
 advanct money at our Cost, in the Prises they would put upon 
 the Slaves, which they onely in a Short time would supply, 
 and then Shortly would not suffer an English Ship or English 
 effects to appear upon the Coast, or humble us to Intolerable 
 Contributions, as now the Dutch practices towards the 
 Portages [? Portuguese], from whom they purchast most of 
 thier Forts. 
 
 Upon these Considerations the Company's Forts are of as 
 much value to Our Settlements in America, as Gibralter and 
 Port Mahoon are to the Trade of the Mediteranian (though 
 of not that Cost to the Nation), and therefore must not upon 
 any account bee parted with. 
 
 But should the Goverment be indust to take them into 
 thier own hands, instead of 10,OOOZ. per annum now given, in 
 a little time it would run them to an Exspence of ten times 
 as much, and itts two obvious that Trade Seldom Florishes 
 under a Milletary Goverment. 
 
 Upon the whole itts my Humble Opinion that if the 
 Parliment please to take this Affaire under thier serious 
 Consideration, and bestow the two thirds of the Exspence 
 they was at, in sending the Men or Warr, added to the Ten 
 Thousand Pound annually given, or Fix upon them a Standing 
 Funde, which would be a more Incouraging Seurity, as they 
 hi thier Wisdoms should think fit, that would set them upon 
 the levell of, Mijn Heer the Dutch, or any other nation, and 
 raise the drooping Heads of the Brave English, and not suffer 
 us to loose the Sale of Two or Three Hundred Thousand 
 Pounds worth of our British manufacure (sic) pureserwant 
 of a suitable Incourigement, to Carey the business on, the 
 Charges would not be felt to the Nation, But London, Bristol,
 
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 Exeter, Norweech, Taunton, Coventree, Leeds, Manchester, 
 Coulchester, Birmingham, Lynn, &c., would soone reape 
 the Happy Effects, by having a great many People set to 
 Worke in a Flourishing Business, which is the onely thing 
 desirable, the African Company must receive a great Benefit 
 by it, but the great Consequence is to the Trade of England. 
 
 Worthy Gentlemen, if what I have wrote receives your 
 Approbation, shall think myselfe Hapey. I then beg youll 
 please to represent it to your Worthy members, that the 
 next Sitting of Parliament, they will make an Interest with 
 the Best of the Manuacturing Cittys and Corporations and 
 Friends, that a Bill may be brought in accordingly to the 
 Purpose desired, and if your Members please to recomende 
 me to the Right Honble. Sir Robert Walpole* or to the 
 Governors and Directors of the Royall African Company it 
 may be of great service. I shall be anxtious of knowing the 
 reseption this may have. Youll do me a particuler Honour 
 if youll be so kinde to wright to me, directed to Mrs. Elizabeth 
 Parker in Lynn Bp. Norfolke. I wish you all Prosperity 
 and Success, and am though a Stranger to your Greet Body, 
 Gentlemen, Your most obedient Humble Servant, Robt. Parker. 
 
 All the use the natives has for the many Thousand pound 
 worth of Cloaths of all Soarts that they buy up yearly, is onely 
 to Weare Round their Wasts, having no other Close or uses 
 for it except for Perpetts and Long Ells vast quantities of 
 which gose up the Country a Thousand or fifteen Hundred 
 Milde (sic), and thare taken to peices and Workt up again 
 into Cloaths of a very great Price. 
 
 Irish Cloth. 
 
 L. 499. Exeter, March 31, 1739. Mr. Thomas Heath 
 writes to Mr. John Score : At a meeting of the Chamber, 
 Citizens, Principall Inhabitants, Makers and buyers of 
 Woollen Goods at the Guildhall on Tuesday Last to 
 consider how the Trade of this Town and the adjacent 
 Counties may be affected by the Resolutions lately 
 formed in the House of Commons in the Woollen Com- 
 mittee, it was by every one thought highly proper to petition 
 the Parliament that the Duty of 4d. per Stone now payable 
 on the Exportation of Wool out of Ireland might be taken off, 
 and that the liberty of Importing Wool and Woollen Yarn 
 in registered Ships from Ireland might be extended to the 
 Southern and Eastern portions of this Kingdom and par- 
 ticularly to the port of Exeter. A petition in this sense 
 has been prepared, which he forwards to Mr. John Score for 
 presentation to the House. He is to consult with our two 
 members [Sir Henry Northcote and John King of Ockham], 
 who are now both in town, one or other of whom should 
 
 * He was First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer 
 from June, 1727, to Feb. 11, 1742,
 
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 present it, or if they think it advisable it should be presented 
 by Sir William Yonge [of Escott, M.P. for Honiton], who 
 is the Chairman of the Committee. By the next post several 
 other petitions will be sent up, from Manufacturing towns 
 such as Crediton, Newton, Oakhampton, Totnes, Moreton 
 and Ottery, Plymouth and Lyme, and it is hoped that the 
 movement will extend to Yarmouth, Norwich and Hull. [For 
 Act of 26 George II, c. 8 (1752), see Oliver, 271.] 
 
 In L. 500, London, April 10, 1739, John Score writes to the 
 Mayor : Sir, My last was of the 7th inst., since which I am not 
 favoured with any from you. I was this morning at Sir H. 
 [i.e. Sir Henry Northcote's], who was goeing to Mr. Balles 
 [of Mamhead, late M.P. for Exeter] in order to present the 
 Three Petitions from Crediton, Moreton and Ottery, and to 
 talk with the Lyme, Totnes and Okehampton Members. 
 You will See by the Inclosed Notes of the 6th [Commons 
 Journals, xxiii, 320] that a Bill was Read a Second Time to 
 encourage the Linnen Manufacture of Scotland, to allow the 
 full Drawback on all Soap, Ashes. Starch &c., and in their 
 Printed Case they Sett forth that England hath the full Draw- 
 back on Soap used in the Woollen Manufactories, which not 
 being true, I have given the State of that affaire to be 
 Printed, if Sir Harry and Mr. Balle think fitt, and praying 
 the same favoure to us as Scotland ; they intend with 
 Mr. Carrew [? Thomas Carew of Crowcombe, M.P. for Mine- 
 head] &c., to wait upon the Speaker this morning, as the 
 Bill is Committed for to-morrow, therefore no time is to be 
 lost, but I think a Petition should be sent by next Post to 
 desire a Change in the Scots Act. 
 
 1st Duty, Id. p. pound was (sic) to Queen Ann, one Third 
 part is drawn back. 
 
 2nd Duty, \d. p. pound to Queen Ann, the whole Drawn 
 back, 8d. p. doz. still remaining a Burthen, which on 800 Dozen 
 hi a year is 261. 13s. 4d. You'l be pleased communicate this 
 with my service at all Commands, the City's and your most 
 humble servant, John Score. 
 
 I send the Votes to the Mayor of Tiverton and Taunton 
 this Post, please to write them and if you think fitt send 
 Copy of this Letter. 
 
 In L. 501, London, April 17, 1739, John Score writes to 
 the Mayor : Sir, I am favoured with yours of ye 16th inst. 
 Sir Henry and Mr. Balle have really Acted their utmost you'l 
 See in the Votes Petition from Southampton and Poole ordered 
 to lay on the Table. 
 
 The Wooll Bill will be brought in to-day. 
 
 The Scots Bill is put off for 5 Weakes, so I have Stopt the 
 Presenting our Petition about Soap, as I have no answere 
 from Plymouth, Taunton or Tiverton. Sir Harry desired 
 me to Send you the Inclosed [not preserved]. I was with
 
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 Mr. Scroope [M.P. for Lyme] last Tuesday near an hour about 
 ye Soap affair. He told me the drawbacks doe not exceed 
 11,000?. a year. 
 
 Fall of Walpole. 
 
 L. 504. Nov. 25, 1742. The Chamber send instructions 
 to Sir Henry Northcote, Baronet, and Humphrey Sydenham, 
 Esquire, M.P.'s for Exeter [i.e. in Parliament of Jan. 25, 1741, 
 to Jan. 18, 1747] : We saw with the utmost pleasure in the Last 
 Session, the Wisdom, Vertue and Steadiness of this House of 
 Commons baffle all the Acts of Corruption and procure the 
 removal at least from publick Employment of those Persons 
 who had been the principal Instruments of bringing both our 
 fforeign and Domestic affairs into their present unhappy 
 Situation. We most earnestly recommend to you the 
 promoting with your utmost Vigour a Law for restoring 
 Triennial Parliaments, a law the necessity of which is every 
 day increased by the Growing Influence of Corruption, as it 
 was obtained [i.e. in 1694] from our great Deliverer King 
 William hi the Heat of a most expencive and Dangerous 
 French War, and we flatter our selves that you will not Suffer 
 your selves to be misled by the Amusement of Annual Parlia- 
 ments thrown out without the Least intention of being carried 
 on to Effect. 
 
 We further recommend to it you that you use your utmost 
 Endeavours by an Effectual and not a Nominal Place Bill 
 to reduce the number of Placemen in your House to a Safe 
 and Moderate Proportion, and we most earnestly recommend 
 it to you to Deferr your Consent to the supplies for the Ensuing 
 year, till Satisfaction hath been given the nation in those 
 Constitutional Points, which we have already pointed out to 
 you, even though " we are convinced of the Justice of the 
 present Warr with Spain in Vindication of the Rights of our 
 Navigation and Commerce and of the Necessity of Supporting 
 the Queen of Hungary [i.e. Maria Theresa] against the 
 Exorbitant Power of France, which threatens all Europe 
 with Slavery," and " are Desirous of Contributing our utmost 
 Efforts to enable his Majesty to carry on the Warre he is 
 engaged hi with Vigour, to Discharge the Publick Faith 
 Engaged to Our Allies and to take every Step which Shall be 
 requisite to maintain the Ballance of Power and preserve 
 the Liberty s of Europe." 
 
 In L. 505, Nov. 27, 1742, Sir Henry Northcote writes 
 to Mr. Gandy, Attorney at Law in Exeter [i.e. Henry 
 Gandy, Town Clerk] that he has received the instructions 
 and will not scruple to obey them. By the next Post 
 (according to Custom) they shall be printed, but Mr. 
 Sydenham " seems extremely nettled at several passages 
 in the Instructions, and declares if they are printed he will 
 Complain to the House of a breach of privilidge against the
 
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 Printer. However that shall not deter me from Communi- 
 cateing them to the Publick, which I take to be the Desire 
 and also the Intention of the Chamber." 
 
 In L. 506, London, Nov. 30, 1742, Sir Henry Northcote 
 writes to Mr. Gandy : I beg leave to Acquaint you that I am 
 advised by a great number of my Friends not to print the Exeter 
 Instructions till we see the fate of Mr. Farley ; who I find Mr. 
 Sydenham is determined to complain off to the House of 
 Commons. His Friend Mr. Davy (haveing little else to doe) hath 
 been with every Printer in Towne, to threaten them with the 
 consequences so loudly talk'd off by my Worthy Colleague, 
 in case they shall presume to print those representations ; 
 so that in fact, no person, will undertake it without an 
 Indemnification from me in writeing, which Mr. Fazakerley 
 says will be a most Improper Instrument for me to sign. 
 
 I must desire you to Communicate the Contents of this 
 Letter to the Mayor and Chamber, that they may not think 
 me guilty of any neglect in this affair. 
 
 P.8. I should be glad to know the Sentiments of the 
 Chamber about printing these Instructions by the return 
 of the Post. 
 
 The Young Pretender. 
 
 L. 507. Whitehall, Feb. 24, 1743(44). Two Copies of a 
 printed letter from the Lords of the Council to Robert, Lord 
 Walpole, Gustos Rotulorum for Devon [since May 9, 1733. 
 Doyle, ii, 709, where this is wrongly supposed to be Robert 
 Walpole 's son], informing him that : " Whereas his Majesty 
 hath received undoubted Intelligence of the Arrival of the 
 Pretender's Eldest Son in France, and that Preparations are 
 making at Dunkirk* for an Invasion of this Kingdom, in 
 Concert with disaffected Persons here, which Invasion is 
 to be supported by the French Squadron that has been for 
 some time cruizing in the Channel." He is therefore com- 
 manded to see that the laws against Papists are put in 
 execution with the utmost diligence, specifying Stat. 35, 
 Eliz., cap. 2 ; 3 James I, cap. 415 ; 30 Charles II, cap. 1 ; 
 1 William and Mary, cap. 8. 9, 15 ; and to suppress all Riots 
 Tumults and unlawful Assemblies. 
 
 In L. 508, Whitehall, Aug. 1, 1745, is a printed proclamation 
 by the Lords Justices : Whereas we have received Information 
 that the Eldest Son of the said Pretender did lately embark 
 in France in order to land in some Part of his Majesty's 
 Kingdoms. They promise a reward of 30,OOOZ. to anyone 
 who shall seize and secure the said son of the said Pretender, 
 so as that he be brought to Justice. [See also Misc. Papers, 
 Proclamations, 1744-1776; Horace Walpole's Letters ii, 124; 
 Aug. 7, 1745.] 
 
 * See Horace Walpole, Letters, ii, pp. 4, 11, Feb. 9, March 1, 5, 1744.
 
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 In L. 509, Kensington, Sept. 5, 1745, is a printed letter 
 from the Lords of the Council to Lord Robert [Walpole], 
 Earl of Oxford, Gustos Rotulorum for the County of Devon : 
 Whereas the Eldest Son of the Pretender hath presumed 
 in open violation of the Laws to land in the North-West Part 
 of Scotland* and hath Assembled a considerable Number of 
 traiterous and rebellious Persons in Arms who have set up a 
 Standard in the Name of the Pretender and in an audacious 
 manner have resisted and attacked some of His Majesty's 
 Forces and are now advancing further in that part of His 
 Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain ; and there is the greatest 
 Reason to apprehend that these wicked Attempts have been 
 encouraged, and may be supported by a Foreign Force. 
 They therefore desire him to enforce the laws against Papists, 
 prevent tumults, assemblies, &c., &c., [as in L. 507]. 
 
 In L. 510, Sept., 1745, the Mayor writes to the Duke of Dorset 
 [i.e. Lionel Cranfield Sackville, President of the Council since 
 Jan. 3, 1745] that in obedience to his Grace's letter of the 
 5th instant [L. 509] he has made search for Papists, recusants, 
 arms, ammunition, &c., &c., and sends an account of the 
 results of his enquiries, viz., that 9 papists had been sum- 
 moned and 6 others who were suspected to be non-jurors 
 giving their names and occupations (i.e. fullers, upholsters 
 taylors, whitebakers, joiners, victuallers) ; such as refused 
 to take the oath were ordered not to remove more than 5 miles 
 from their houses, which were searched by the Constables, 
 but no arms, weapons, gunpowder, Ammunition or horses 
 were found. They all Expressed the Strictest regard to the 
 present Royal family upon the Throne, though their Religion 
 would not give them leave to Subscribe the Declaration of the 
 30th of King Charles. 
 
 In L. 511 (1745) is a draft address from the Chamber to the 
 King : We your dutifull and obedient Subjects, under whose 
 auspicious reign we have altogether enjoyed Blessings of the 
 first Magnitude and doubt not to see you shortly arbitrate 
 the Fate of the Western World," being "astonished at the 
 mad and rash proceedings of the audacious Pretender, though 
 no way apprehensive that Your Majesty's affairs will suffer 
 or be retarded by his inconsiderable diversion." They assure 
 His Majesty that " we are by duty and principle steadily 
 inclined to sacrifice all that is ours to promote yours and the 
 common cause and that no part of Your Majesty's Dominions 
 shall ever manifest a more forward zeal to discountenance 
 and oppose all your Adversarys than we of this your Loyall 
 Citty. 
 
 May Your Majesty speedily see the hand of God displayed 
 against all that would insult Your Coast or dare any way 
 
 * i.e. At Loughnamuagh on July 25 (O.S.), 1745, Mahon iii, 208 ; i.e. Aug. 2, 
 1745, D.N.B., x, 109.
 
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 countenance and assist Your cruell Invaders, that you may 
 successfully go on to make Your name more and more glorious 
 by humbling that haughty Tyrant who hath so long harrast 
 and injured his Innocent neighbours. 
 
 South Sea Annuities. 
 
 L. 512. June 12, 1745. Printed receipt to John Newcombe, 
 Thomas Heath [Treasurer of St. John's Hospital] and 
 Francis Brayne for transfer of 20 11. 145. 8d. in the Joint 
 Stock of South Sea Annuities, and a like receipt for 53J., 
 Sept. 3, 1754. [See Treasury Papers, 1742-1745, pp. 625, 
 635, 733, 817.] 
 
 In L. 536, London, May 6, 1760, Nathaniel Paice sends to 
 Mr. Benjamin Heath [Town Clerk] a note of interest received 
 on 431Z. 105. Qd. South Sea Annuities, i.e. 511. 5s. Qd. from 
 Oct. 10, 1755, to Oct. 10, 1758, less his commission at 2s. 6d.= 
 11 Os. 6d. 
 
 L. 537, 538. London, May 13, Dec. 30, 1760. The same 
 to the same in regard to the balance of the late Mr. Thomas, 
 Hauth's account.* 
 
 In L. 523 (undated) are Proceedings at ye General meetings 
 of the Exeter Second Annuitant Society. 
 
 Gaming Houses. 
 
 L. 517 (undated ? 1750). Draft of a Constable's Warrant 
 for searching any Common house, alley, or place of Bowling 
 Coyting, Cloysh, Cayle, half-Bowl, Tennis, Dicing Table or 
 Carding of any other manner of game prohibited by Stat. of 
 3 Henry VIII. 
 
 Streets of Exeter. 
 
 L. 527. New Inn, Exeter, Nov. 27, 1754. Minutes 
 of a meeting of the Citizens to consider an application to 
 Parliament for a Bill for cleansing and lighting the Streets, 
 of Exeter. [For Act of 1 George III, c. 28 (1760), see Oliver 
 271.] 
 
 In L. 571, Exeter, Jan. 2, 1769, is a handbill calling a 
 meeting of the citizens to petition Parliament that the Turnpike 
 Road be extended fiom the Bottom of St. David's Hill to the 
 End of Paul's Street, or Waterbeer Lane or the Conduit 
 as they shall think fit. 
 
 In Book 51, /. 226, is an Acte of Parliament for paving, 
 the Streetes yn the Citie of Excester [? 6 Edward IV, 1466-7. 
 Oliver, 269] ; also in Book 52, /. 2296 (undated), where it 
 begins : " Sheweth to your descrete wysdomes the Mayor, 
 
 * For the South Sea Company 1729, 1750, see Horace Walpole, 
 Letters, iii , 20.
 
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 bayliffes and Commonaltie "... ends : " The pavement 
 so by theym made or other wyse by agreement." 
 
 In D. 1813, Nov. 26, 1706, the Chamber authorises Samuel 
 Izaacke, Gent. [Chamberlain], to demand, receive and take 
 duties of wheelage of all wagons and carts coming into the 
 City with wheels bound with iron towards the reparation of the 
 streets of the City till Dec. 24, 1707. 
 
 In D. 1797, Oct. 10, 1698, the Chamber appoints Robert 
 Newcombe to collect wheelage in the City. 
 
 In D. 1827, Feb. 2, 1724, is a similar appointment to Otho 
 Channon of St. Sidwells, sergemaker. 
 
 For action (Ward v. Hunt) as to wheelage, see Law Papers, 
 1707. 
 
 For an Act for amending Roads and widening Exebridge, 
 see Law Papers, 1773 [i.e. 13 George III, c. 109 Oliver, 272]. 
 
 In D. 1826, Sept. 3, 1723, are agreements between the 
 Mayor &c. and Henry Furzman of Exeter, husbandman, to 
 carry away " the dirt and filth of the streets of Exeter as the 
 Common Scavenger." 
 
 For other agreements with the City Scavengers, see Misc. 
 Papers, 1730, 1731, 1758, 1800. 
 
 Book 206 (A.D. 1794) is a Book of the Committee for Paving, 
 Lighting and otherwise improving the streets of Exeter. 
 
 Book 207 contains proceedings of the same Committee 
 (1794). 
 
 Impressed Men. 
 
 L. 530. Jan. 27, 1757. Sworn Information of 4 constables 
 that on Tuesday, Jan. 25th last, they did apprehend and 
 impress 6 persons who were seamen and biought them before 
 the Mayor and Justices the next morning, who deemed that they 
 were proper persons to serve His Majesty as Sailors, and 
 ordered the Constables to conduct them to a Tender lying 
 off Exmouth and belonging to the Sunderland man-of-war. 
 This the Constables did and tendered them to William Grant, 
 a Lieutenant, who appeared to be the Commanding Officer 
 on board the Tender. Grant refused to take any of them 
 except two, and even for these he would not give a Receipt 
 except as landsmen. The Constables describe them as 
 " young and able " or " young and lusty Fellows," and they 
 complain that owing to Grant's refusal they have been deprived 
 of His Majesty's Bounty, which they claimed from the Collector 
 of Customs. 
 
 In L. 531, War Office, Feb. 22, 1757. Viscount Barrington 
 [Secretary at War, 1755-1760] writes to the Mayor : Owing 
 to a defect in the late Act for Recruiting His Majesty's Land
 
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 Forces, your City has as yet been deprived of an opportunity 
 of shewing their zeal for the King's service, but the new Act, 
 which has lately received the Royal Assent, has Remedied 
 the Defect. The Mayor is accordingly to summon the Justices 
 to meet not later than March 2nd next. Col. Duroune, whose 
 head quarters are at Exeter, will send a proper officer to attend 
 you at all your Meetings to receive such Volunteers as shall 
 present themselves and such Impressed Men as you shall deliver 
 to him within the Description of the Act. 
 
 Endorsed, " Letter about the Pressing Act," with note, 
 " Advertise for Volunteers. All Hallo wes on the Walls." 
 
 In L. 532, War Office, April 1, 1757, Thomas Tyrwhitt 
 writes to the Town Clerk, Benjamin Heath, Esq., acknow- 
 edging receipt of his letter March 30th, enclosing a return of 
 Volunteers and pressed men raised for his Majesty's service. 
 
 In L. 534, Nov. 3, 1757, Benjamin Heath, Town Clerk, writes 
 to Major Beck with, as being the Commanding Officer here, 
 informing him of the dates fixed between Nov. 22 and Jan. 19th 
 next for the meetings of the Commissioners for the Execution 
 of the Act for the more speedy Recruiting His Majesty's Land 
 Forces and marines, and asking the name of the Officer who 
 shall have been nominated to attend. 
 
 Li L. 553, War Office, Sept. 28, 1765, the Secretary at War 
 thanks the Mayor for Committing a deserter to gaol. For 
 similar letters of thanks from the War Office to the Mayor, 
 see L. 555 (Dec. 14, 1765) and L. 556 (Jan. 7, 1766) ; also 
 from the Admiralty in L. 567 (Aug. 20, 1766). 
 
 Freedom of the City. 
 
 L. 533. Bell Yard, April 28, 1757. W. Davy [see L. 575, 
 where he forwards a document to the Chamber on July 3, 
 1771] writes to the Town Clerk : Every one knows that it 
 has been the constant infamous Practice of those whose Hearts 
 are not English to recriminate the Charge of Disaffection 
 upon their Accusers, and these very Gentlemen, Mr. Pitt and 
 Mr. Legge, are upbraided for the Connections with those at the 
 Cocoa Tree. May not then their Enemies upon this occasion 
 frame the Complex Idea of Royal Oak, and so misinterpret 
 the poore Intention of this Compliment ? May not the 
 Gentlemen under the apprehension of such Misrepresentation 
 find themselves embarrassed ? And is it fit that so wise and 
 respectable a Body as the City of Exeter should do any Thing 
 which may possibly admit of the least Cavil or Misrepresenta- 
 tion ? 
 
 If I presume to present the Instruments [i.e. the freedom 
 of the City] without any Boxes at all, that would not only be 
 an express departing from my Orders, but would also be 
 below the City's character. Aiid as the City of Bath make
 
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 their Compliments in Gold Boxes, that also may be another 
 Reason for altering your Measures. 
 
 To present Gold Boxes will occasion no Loss of Time ; for 
 the method then would be (as was done in the City of London) 
 to draw up 2 Orders of Chamber that the Freedom of the 
 City be presented to Mr. Pitt* (and another to Mr. Leggef) as a 
 public Testimonial &c. (as worded in the present Instruments), 
 and that the same be presented in a Gold Box. These Orders 
 I should wait on them with immediately, so that paying the 
 Compliment would not be delayed a moment ; and when 
 the Boxes are prepared (perhaps a fortnight afterwards), 
 I should present the Act of Admission to their Freedom. For 
 instance, the Boxes from London will not be compleated this 
 month yet, because of the great variety of work in them, 
 but Mr. Pitt and Mr. Legge have been in full Possession of 
 the Honour ever since the Order of Common Council was 
 presented, though the Acts of Admission to their Freedom 
 of the City are to be delivered hereafter in the Boxes. 
 
 I have enquired what price such Boxes would bear, and 
 find that the Utmost (if made plain and only engraved with 
 the City's Arms) would be 251. each, and I suppose they may 
 be made for much less. 
 
 [For the Shower of Gold Boxes, see Horace Walpole's Letters, 
 iv, 71 ; Mahon, iv, 102.] 
 
 In L. 548, Lincoln's Inn Fields, March 1, 1764, C. Pratt 
 [i.e. Sir Charles Pratt, Chief Justice of Common Pleas, who 
 issued the warrant for the release of John Wilkes, May 6, 
 1763] sends to Mr. Benjamin Heath [Town Clerk] a letter 
 of thanks for the freedom of the City, which had been presented 
 to him. Adding : I feel an uncommon pleasure in this 
 Testimony of Good Will from the City of Exeter, as it is the 
 Capital of that County where my Father and All His Ancestors 
 took theii Birth, and where I myself heretofore received an 
 encouragement in my practice far beyond my merits. [For 
 freedom of the City of London granted to him, see Horace 
 Walford's Letters, vi, 21, Feb. 24, 1764. For his portrait in the 
 Guildhall at Exeter, see Oliver, 214.] 
 
 In L. 588, Castle Hill, Sept, 25, 1778, Lord Fortescue [i.e. 
 Matthew Lord Fortescue, Deputy Lieutenant for County 
 Devon] thanks the Town Clerk for his letter informing him 
 of the election of himself and his son to the freedom. 
 
 In L. 589 (same date), Mr. Hugh Fortescue [son of above] 
 writes to the Town Clerk to the same effect. 
 
 In L. 590, Buckland Downs, Sept. 27, 1778, is a letter to 
 the same effect from Sir William Lemon ; also in L. 591 
 
 * i.e. after his dismissal April 5, 1757. 
 
 f i.e. Henry Bilson Legge, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
 
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 (Bruton Street, March 19, 1782) from Sir Robert Palk [formerly 
 Governor of Madras] ; also in L. 593 (Walmer Castle, Oct. 6, 
 1782) from Lord North [i.e. Frederic Lord North, Prime 
 Minister, 1770-1782], in which he refers to " that important 
 Station, which I lately held hi the service of the Crown." 
 
 In L. 594 (undated) is a draft resolution of the Chamber 
 to present the freedom of the City to Lord Cornwallis. They 
 refer to him as one " whose unremitted Perseverance, good 
 Conduct and consummate Bravery during a long and active 
 service in America have sadly entitled him to every mark of 
 Distinction and Respect and the Lustre of whose Character 
 still remains undiminished although by the Events of War 
 his zealous Endeavors in the Service of his Country have 
 unfortunately proved ineffectual." [He capitulated at 
 Yorktown, Oct. 19, 1781, and arrived hi London, March 19, 
 1782. Cornwallis Correspondence,, i, 51, 52, 136.] 
 
 On the dorse : 
 
 Resolved that the Freedom of the City be presented to 
 Lieut. Col. Simcoe for his very able and spirited Behaviour in 
 America, and this Body have a peculiar Satisfaction in paying 
 this Mark of their Respect to an Officer, who having spent 
 the earlier part of his Life in this City has since proved himself 
 an Ornament to his Profession. 
 
 L. 595 (undated) is a Copy of Lord Cornwallis' acceptance. 
 He adds : " The severe blow which the British Arms have 
 sustained in America, and which has so unfortunately fallen 
 on my head impresses me with the deepest concern, although 
 I am supported by a Consciousness of having exerted the 
 utmost of my abilities to prevent it." 
 
 In L. 596 (undated) is a pencilled draft of a resolution to 
 present the freedom of the City to Sir George Augustus Elliott, 
 K.B. [i.e. since April 23, 1783], Lieutenant General of his 
 Majesty's Forces, " who, with a Firmness, Perseverance and 
 Intrepidity unequalled in the History of this or any other 
 Country for many years successfully resisted and at last by 
 one great effort of Skill and Bravery totally defeated a great 
 and powerful force sent by the united powers of France and 
 Spain for the reduction of that important Fortress of 
 Gibraltar."* 
 
 In L. 597 (undated) is a pencilled draft of a speech on 
 presenting the freedom of the City to Lord Hood [i.e. Samuel 
 Baron Hood of Catherington, cr. May 28, 1782] : His Majesty 
 having been pleased to call your Lordship into the more active 
 line of your profession opened to you an occasion of displaying 
 to the world those consummate abilities and that intrepidity 
 of spirit to which the Companions of your service and the 
 
 * i.e. till Oct., 1782. He returned to England in 1787. Mohun vii., 196.
 
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 enemy to whom you have been opposed alike bear testimony. 
 But I should ill perform the Commission I have received 
 if I did not particularly and in ye most honourable terms on 
 this occasion mention the ever memorable Action of ye 
 12 April (sic), 1782, in which ye Glory of ye British Navy 
 shone forth with unexampled Lustre [i.e. the defeat of the 
 French fleet off Dominica]. 
 
 Also draft of a Resolution presenting the freedom to the 
 Honourable Henry Hood as "a further Testimony of their 
 gratitude to the noble Lord his father." 
 
 In L. 598, Mamhead, Wednesday morning, s.a., James 
 Lowther [i.e. Baron Lowther, cr. May 24, 1784] writes to the 
 Town Clerk : 
 
 He apologises for not having acknowledged receipt of his 
 letter earlier, adding : With regard to the subject of it I must 
 beg leave to observe that His Royal Higness* (sic) has never 
 upon similiar occasions been call'd upon for those Fees that are 
 necessarily and very properly exacted from a private Gentle- 
 man. 
 
 Considering myself as such, and highly sensible of the 
 Honor I received, which however at Exeter, as at all other 
 places was bestowed as an additional favour to that given 
 to H.R.H., I submit myself to your Judgment upon it and 
 beg to know what the Usual Fees are. I am, Sir, Your very 
 obedient humble Servant, 
 
 Ja. Lowther. 
 
 In L. 600 (undated), James Holman applies to "the 
 Sheriff Officer for the Citty and County of Exeter," for 
 payment of his account, 21. lls. Qd. for going to Exmouth 
 after the Recorder and three days' Express to Honiton 
 to meet the Duke of Gloucester. " Alderman Moore Ex- 
 cepted the bill and promised to pay mee, But waiting ever 
 since for my money, and at Last Refused to pay mee, 
 Saying hee has paid money anuff for the Chamber alreday, 
 tharefor should go to the man Iploid mee. I now Gentlemen 
 ably to you for payment, which hope you will grant, from 
 youre Humble Servant, 
 
 James Holman. 
 
 L. 599, June 9, 1784. James Holman's receipt for 21. Is. 
 
 In L. 614, Colyton, Monday morning, s.a., Sir John Pole 
 sends a letter of thanks to the Town Clerk [Henry Ley, 1775- 
 1814] " for the honour they have done him." 
 
 Election of 1761. 
 
 LL. 539-542a. Exeter, March 7-13, 1761. Five printed 
 election squibs, one of which recommends Mr. Praed as a 
 
 * i.e. William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, brother to George IJJ,
 
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 Proper Person to represent us in Parliament [i.e. for the 
 Parliament that sat from May 19, 1761, till March 11, 1768, 
 to which John Tuckfield (d 1766) and John Walter of Bicton 
 were re-elected on March 26, 1761. See. Freeman, 223.] 
 
 In L. 557, Pall Mall, Jan. 23, 1766, John Walter* sends 
 50/. to the Mayor to be distributed by him among the necessitous 
 poor of the City. 
 
 For action of the Chamber of Exeter v. Rioters in the 
 Election, see Law Papers, 1761. 
 
 The Provost Court. 
 
 L. 544, 1763. Directions for the Stewards respecting 
 proceedings in the Provost Court.f Inter alia they are to 
 take 3d. for the Town Clerk ior every plaint for a debt under 
 40s. and for every debt of 40s. or upwards they are to take 
 Is. for themselves and 2s. 3%d. for the Plaint, and Duty to be 
 paid to the Town Clerk when called for. The document con- 
 tains a list of 19 plaintiffs and defendants, with the amount 
 of their Claims and the names of their Attorneys. It is 
 endorsed "Mr. Receiver Collins Plaint Book." 
 
 For the Provost Court Books, A.D. 1507-1881, see Books 
 114-135. 
 
 For Provost Court Rolls, A.D. 1328-1702 (with gaps), see 
 Stuart Moore's Calendar, vol. ii. 
 
 For seal of the Court, " S' prepositorum civitatis Exonios " 
 or " Sigillum pretorii Exonios civitatis," see D. 717, Jan. 17, 
 1298. 
 
 The Land Tax. 
 
 L. 530 dors. April 21, 1757. The Commissioners of the 
 Land Tax for the City of Exeter summon Joseph Bass to 
 appear before them at the Guildhall on Wednesday, May 5th, 
 to account for the money collected by him as Collector of the 
 Reassessment of the Land Tax made in the year 1754 on the 
 Parish of St. Mary Steps, which he had not yet returned to 
 the Sheriff or the Receiver General, but had fraudulently 
 converted to his own use. 
 
 L. 550. Office for Taxes, May 25, 1765. John Trenchard 
 and others write to the Mayor desiring him to call a meeting 
 of the Commissioners of Land Tax in Exeter and enclosing 
 12 Acts of Parliament for appointing Commissioners under 
 the Land Tax Act passed in 17654 
 
 Li L. 561, Office for Taxes, March 27, 1766, C. Rigby and 
 others write to the Mayor concerning the Land Tax Com- 
 
 * see L. 582. 
 
 f i.e. Curia Praetorii or Curia Provostrice Domini Regis. Freeman, p. 153. 
 
 j For Sir George Greville's promise to reduce the Land Tax before his 
 fall on July 10, 1765, see Horace Walpole, Letters, vii. t 87 ; ibid., Memoirs, 
 ii., 297-
 
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 missioners, that a General Meeting may be held for putting 
 the same in Execution. 
 
 For Copies of Land Tax Rates, A.D. 1740-1751, see Books 
 161-167. 
 
 In D. 1853, June 7, 1799, is a certificate of redemption of 
 Land Tax on four dwelling houses in Langbroke Street, with 
 similar certificates with regard to land in Sowton belonging 
 to Seldon's Charity in D. 1854 (June 13, 1800), and a tenement 
 called " Haccombe Down " belonging to Lethbridge's Charity 
 in D. 1855 (June 13, 1800). 
 
 Steward. 
 
 L. 554. Dec. 6, 1765. Thomas Wilcocks writes to the 
 Mayor desiring that his patient Mr. Gattey [? a relative of 
 Edward Gattey, Chamberlain from Nov. 17, 1795, to Sept. 15, 
 1814 ; Town Clerk 1814 to Jan. 1, 1836] may not be fined 
 for not accepting the office of Steward on account of his Indis- 
 position. He is afflicted with so great dejection of Spirits as 
 even to deprive Him of Reason. [For list of Stewards till 1722, 
 see Izacke Tables.] 
 
 Bread Riots. 
 
 L. 558. Jan. 29, 1766. A printed Order in Council for a 
 return of the price of corn as the same stood in the month 
 of December last and in the present month of January.* 
 
 In L. 559, Honiton, Feb. 3, 1766, Richard Lewis writes 
 to Mr. Hayman at Benjamin Heath's, Esquire, desiring to 
 know " what particular Idea may be fixed to white, wheaten 
 and household bread ; what is denominated household being 
 a base mixture of fermented Bran ground down and bolted, 
 to which is added the worst kind of meal not rang'd." He 
 adds : " I am sorry to hear of Mr. Heath's Ilness, but hope 
 he is now better." 
 
 In L. 565, Escott [near Honiton], Aug. 2nd, 1766, Sir George 
 Yonge [M.P. for Honiton in 1754, 1768, 1774] writes to the 
 Mayor : I am sorry to acquaint you that the Effects of the fury 
 of the mob at Ottery have been as follows : viz., Several Farmers' 
 Corn forcibly seized and carried to market and sold at 5s. 
 per Bushell ; one Mill, a Flour Mill at Ottery, totally destroyed, 
 that is all the Tackling of It. At Tipton, another Mill, in 
 like Manner destroy'd. In Sidbury Parish, another Mill, 
 belonging to Mr. Westcott and Mr. Duke, in like manner 
 destroyed, and it seem'd (sic) the mob at Collumpton rose 
 again the Day before Yesterday and entirely destroy'd the 
 Mills belonging to Mr. Sainthill at Bradninch. On Thursday 
 according to our Resolution, I sent in a Paper to be published 
 and affixed in Ottery Market Place, as Mr. Drewe did at 
 
 * For embargo on the exportation of corn, Sept. 24, 1766, see Horace 
 Walpole, Letters, vii., 42 ; ibid., Memoirs, ii., 260.
 
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 Collumpton. The mob gather'd insulted my Servant and 
 intimidated the Cryer, so that he dared not do his duty ; how- 
 ever another was found, the Paper was cry'd and affixed. 
 On reading, They declared : It would not do, the Gentlemen 
 need not trouble themselves, for They would fix the Price 
 at 4s. 9d. next Market Day : Upon this I rode into the Town 
 yesterday, and told both the Common People and the better 
 Sort, that if things were not quiet the Military must be sent 
 for : I likewise directed the principal Inhabitants to call a 
 Parish Meeting Sunday Evening to communicate to the 
 Town the fatal Consequences of such Proceedings. I hope 
 this will have the Desired Effect, especially if Honiton Market 
 to-day should happily imitate the Peace and good order of 
 Exeter, and I shall do myself the Honour of acquainting you 
 with what happens to-day at Honiton if I learn it time enough 
 to send by the Post this Evening. But if things should go 
 111, I should be glad to know if there are any Troops at Exeter 
 or near It (I understand there are some at Tiverton), though 
 I hope in God there will be no need of such extreme measures. 
 Mr. Drewe has sent in Corn to Collumpton Market, and 
 Mr. Duke and myself have sent in some to Honiton Market. 
 I have order'd mine to be sold at 5s. 3d. and 5s. 6d. p. Bushell 
 to the Poorer Sort, as we have resolved to keep rather above 
 the Price dictated by the Mob. I shall send to the Millers to 
 know if they can part with any Flour, and I should be glad 
 to know if any more rice can be had from Exeter at the Price 
 you mention. [See Mahon, v, 166.] 
 
 In L. 566 (undated) the Mayor replies to Sir George Yonge (L. 
 565) : It is very disagreeable and alarming to us (i.e. the Magis- 
 trates) to hear of the outrages committeed by the Populace in 
 your part of the Country, their Behaviour here hath been attend- 
 ed with no ill consequences nor is it likely to be so. On Friday 
 night some few poor people showed some uneasiness at the 
 high price of wheat and went to the Corn Market telling the 
 Farmers that they expected to have it at a more reasonable 
 price, whereupon the Town was somewhat alarmed, but some 
 of (sic) magistrates appearing there everything was quiet 
 immediately the Farmers fell the price of their Corn, and 
 what the poor people bought they paid for immediately and 
 went off very contentedly without making any further riot 
 of disturbance. The next day I desired the Gentlemen of the 
 Town to meet me at the Guildhall to consider of some method 
 of relief for the poor in respect of the Exorbitant price of 
 wheat, when several Gentlemen declared that they had ordered 
 for large quantities of wheat from the Eastern Market, which 
 they expected in daily and which, when arrived, they would 
 sell at prime Cost, viz., about 5s. Qd. p. Bushell. This satisfied 
 the people greatly, and for their present Relief we prevailed 
 on the Bakers to part with some of their present Stock of 
 Flour. This the Chamber bought of them to the (sic) of
 
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 about 90 Sacks, which we are selling to them at l\d. p. lb., 
 besides this many Barren's of Rice have been sold out for 
 2d. p. lb. This, Sir, hath entirely stopped the progress of the 
 Flame, which first appeared to be kindled on this account, 
 and the people here by these means together with the Con- 
 sequences of any illegal or riotous proceeding having been 
 strongly impressed upon them have since behaved very peace- 
 ably, and we are not under the least apprehensions of any 
 future disturbances. 
 
 L. 576. April, 1772. Whereas a most daring Robbery was 
 committed on Tuesday last by a Multitude of Evil disposed 
 Persons who assembled themselves in the parish of St. Sidwell and 
 did stop a Waggon laden with Flour and with great Force 
 and Violence did put to Flight the Drivers of the said Waggon 
 and afterwards divided the Flour among themselves. The 
 Magistrates therefore offer a reward of 10 guineas for the 
 apprehension of either of the two men who first stopped the 
 Waggon, and assure the Farmers of their determination to 
 suppress all further disturbance by making a great number 
 of additional Constables. 
 
 Endorsed : Cry about ye Riot and Robbery. April, 1772. 
 
 In L. 562, War Office, April 22, 1766, Lord Harrington 
 [i.e. William Wildman, Secretary at War] writes to the Mayor 
 that he has received from Lieutenant-Colonel Maddison a 
 detail of some outrageous proceedings and acts of violence 
 lately committed by a riotous mob at Exeter. [See L. 566.] 
 He thanks the Mayor for his conduct in the matter and desires 
 to be informed whether William Smith, an out pensioner of 
 Chelsea Hospital, was a ringleader of the mob. If so, he will 
 be struck off the pension. 
 
 In L. 604, March 27, 1801, is a printed notice of a resolution 
 of certain Gentlemen and Housekeepers in Exeter pledging 
 themselves to abstain from the use of butter for one month, 
 which in the present very forward state of the grass must 
 tend greatly to reduce the price of that article of luxury ; 
 with 56 signatures. [See Freeman, p. 227.] 
 
 For papers relating to a supply of herrings obtained by 
 the Chamber for the relief of the distressed poor in 1801, see 
 Misc. Papers. 
 
 The Cider Tax. 
 
 L. 560. London, Feb. 27, 1766. J[ohn] Walter [M.P. 
 for Exeter] writes to the Mayor : Sir, Yesterday 
 by the appointment of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 
 the petitions from the Cyder Countyes were presented 
 to the House of Commons, and now lye upon the table 
 in order by the direction of Chancellor to be taken up 
 on next Wednesday to be Committed to the Committee of 
 
 Wt. 20757. Ex 17
 
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 Ways and Means, when a further progress will be done with 
 them, and there is a great reason to expect we shall meet 
 with that relief which will be agreable to the City.* 
 
 The Window Tax. 
 
 L. 563. Office for Taxes, June 26, 1766. Edward Younge 
 writes to the Mayor enclosing 12 copies of the Act for repealing 
 the several Duties upon Houses Windows and Lights, and 
 requiring him to summon a General Meeting of the Com- 
 missioners for putting the same into Execution.! 
 
 Blundell's Charity. 
 
 L. 564. Tiverton, July 2, 1766. George Davey writes 
 to Benjamin Heath, Esq., desiring him to attend a meeting 
 of the Trustees of Blundell's School on the 14th inst., to elect 
 two Scholars on the foundation. 
 
 In D. 1690a, May 24, 1601, is the counterpart of a receipt 
 for 900Z. from the Mayor &c. to the Executors of the will of 
 Peter Blundell J of Tiverton, bequeathed for charitable purposes 
 where his will is recited. 
 
 For the administration of Blundell's Charity, A.D. 1601 to 
 1697, see Books 146-148, including a copy of his will. 
 
 For an account of Blundell's Charity, see Book 53, /. 1376 ; 
 Book 54, /. 12. 
 
 Private Letters. 
 
 L. 574 has two letters (Sherborne, March 30, April 28, 1771) 
 from Mrs. E. Lacy to Mr. Hayman in Bedford, Exeter, asking 
 for small quantities of drugs to be sent from Exeter and to 
 ask Farmer Nix or his wife what the hogshead of Cider they 
 sent her comes to. 
 
 Volunteers. 
 
 L. 592 (undated, probably 1782). Draft of a letter from 
 the Mayor to Lord Shelburn [i.e. Win. Petty, Earl of 
 Shelburne, Secretary of State, March 27, 1782 ; Prime Minister 
 July 13, 1782], Acknowledges receipt of his Lordship's 
 letter of May 7 last, with a plan for raising Corps in the several 
 principal Towns in Great Britain, which has been considered 
 at several meetings of the Inhabitants of Exeter called for 
 that purpose. Some Difference of Opinion having arisen, 
 how far the people at large might be willing to adopt it, it 
 was proposed, as the surest method of Trial, that a Copy of it 
 should be left at the Guildhall to which such persons as were 
 inclined to offer themselves for this service, were requested 
 
 * For the Cider Tax passed April, 1763, repealed 1766, see Horace 
 Walpole, Letters, v., 450 ; ibid.. Memoirs, ii., 219 ; Mahon, v, 14, 146. 
 
 t Originated 1695, increased in 1747. Lecky v., 299. See Dowell, History 
 of Taxation, ii., 188. 
 
 J i.e. Peter Blundell of Tiverton, who died April 18, 1601. For his will 
 dated June 9, 1599, see Report on Charities, p. 170 ; Endowed Charities, 
 pp. 341, 360.
 
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 to subscribe their names. 1 am sorry to say that after waiting 
 many days, one name only was subscribed, and as Your Lordship 
 hinted in Your Letter that each Town to whom the Application 
 was made was at Liberty to suggest such Alterations in the 
 Plan proposed as might make it more suitable to the particular 
 Situation and Circumstances of the Place and the Disposition 
 of the People, a Committee was appointed in order to prepare 
 such a Plan to be laid before your Lordship as they think 
 practicable in this Gty and which may be carried into 
 Execution with Effect and without any great Expence to 
 Government. He therefore encloses a paper containing 
 observations on the Plan and also two separate proposals for 
 raising Companies of independent Volunteers upon different 
 Terms but neither of these documents has been preserved.* 
 
 Daughters of George III. 
 
 L. 610 (undated, but 1766). Address from the Chamber 
 to the King (George III) on the birth of a Princessf " also on 
 the marriage of the Princess your Royal SisterJ with the 
 King of Denmark," and " the Personal Care wherewith your 
 Majestic watched over the welfare of your People when by a 
 late reasonable Execution of the Prerogative your Majesty 
 rescued them from all the miseries of famine. In consequence 
 of the late Embargo the Fruits of the Earth are restored to 
 your People. " 
 
 L. 611 (undated). Draft of an address from the Mayor &c. 
 to the Princess Amelia [youngest child of George III, b. Aug. 7, 
 1783, d. Nov. 2, 1810]. 
 
 They beg leave to pay their most dutifull respects unto 
 your Royal Highness and to return the most Humble 
 Thanks for the Honor you have conferd upon us in 
 admitting us into your presence. Truly sensible of the many 
 Blessings we have so long enjoyed under the Government of 
 his Majestie's royal family whom God hath been pleased to 
 make the Instruments of his Goodness towards us his Majestie's 
 faithfull subjects retain the highest sense of Gratitude, and 
 as they reflect on times that are past and those that are no 
 more, so they rest upon a sure and certain Expectation that 
 his Majestie's royal ffamily ever will be what they have (sic) 
 ever have been the great supporters of the Throne and [blank] 
 Protectors of his People. 
 
 A Wild Beast Show. 
 
 L. 615 (undated). A handbill of a Grand Menagerie of Foreign 
 Beasts and Birds now Exhibiting in a magnificent Caravan in 
 
 * For Lord Selburne's letter (circ. April, 1782), to towns suggesting enrol- 
 ment of volunteers, see Diet. Nat. Biogr. xlv., 122. 
 
 t i.e. Charlotte Augusta Mathilda, 6. Sept. 29, 1766. 
 
 1 i.e. Caroline Mathilda, mar. Christian VII., King of Denmark, Nov. 8, 
 1766. 
 
 i.e. the embargo on the exportation of corn, Nov. 11, 17CC.
 
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 the Market place of this Town, printed at Portsmouth by J. 
 Breadhower. They include a Tyg er > Lion and Lioness, an 
 amazing animal called the Ethiopian Savage or wild man of 
 the woods, a Porcupine, a Coarta Munda from the River Nile, 
 2 Cockatoos, and 2 beautiful Maccaws, all described in good 
 showman fashion. 
 
 The New Market. 
 
 L. 616 (undated). A paper entitled : " Annual Subscrip- 
 tions, Dominicals and Surplice Fees of St. Petrock's likely to 
 be lost if ye scheme for a new Market takes place." The 
 total amount, 13Z. 6s. Wd., with detailed items, including 
 losses likely to be incurred by the Minister of St. Petrock and 
 St. Kerrian should ye Scheme for taking down the herein 
 mentioned Houses take place. 
 
 In L. 623 (undated) is a notice that no fish shall be sold in 
 the Fish Market in the Fore Street after 2 p.m. 
 
 Copies. 
 
 L. 621. A number of Copies of Royal Sign Manuals, Orders 
 in Council, Letters from the Earl of Bath, Lord Lieutenant of 
 Devon and Exeter [see Comm. LXIV, page 10 ; L. 142, p. 85], to 
 the Mayor &c. relating to supplies, loans, subsidies, musters 
 &c., from 1611 to 1628. They appear to have been copied from 
 originals in the possession of the Corporation in a hand of the 
 middle of the 18th century and are somewhat injured by damp. 
 
 Sec. V. INVENTORIES OF CHURCH GOODS. 
 
 Seventy-six documents (Nos. 1-75) in connection with 
 Commissions appointed in 1552 (6 Edward VI). The Com- 
 missioneis appointed for Exeter were the Bishop (Miles 
 Coverdale), the Mayor (William Hurst), Sir Thomas Dennys, 
 Sir Peter Carew, Richard Chidley (i.e. Chudleigh) and two 
 Aldermen (viz., Thomas Prestwood and John Midwinter) ; * 
 but the two Knights and Richard Chidley appear to have 
 taken no part in the Exeter enquiry except as regards 
 St. Sidwells, where they took the place of the Mayor and the 
 two Aldermen. (No. 66, Notes and Gleanings, iv, 177.) 
 
 The Commission is dated May 16, 1552, and instructionsf 
 to the Commissioners, dated June 10, 1552, will be found 
 in Book 55, /. 107& (printed in Surrey Archaeological Collections, 
 iv, 190). 
 
 For a letter dated Aug. 14, 1552, from the Council at 
 Titchfield to the Exeter Commissioners, see Acts of Privy 
 Council, iv, 112. 
 
 The returns were sent up to London to be controlled by a sub- 
 sequent Commission which was appointed on Jan. 16, 1553,f 
 
 * See Dep. Keep. 7th Rept. App. II., p. 311. 
 
 f For similar instructions in Northamptonshire see Fuller, Church History, 
 p. 417 (edition 1655) ; Alcuin Club, vii., pp. xii-xiv. 
 
 | Dep. Keep. 7th Report, App. II., p. 312 ; Surtte* Society, 97, p. xiv.
 
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 and nine of them still exist in the Public Record Office 
 (Exchequer KM. Church Goods, -g^). These have reference 
 to the goods found in the churches of All Hallows-on-the- 
 Walls ( T \), St. John's Bow ( T 2 j), St. Martin (fr), St. Mary 
 Arches (X), St. Olave (-&), St. Pancras (&), St. Paul (), 
 St. Petrock's (f ), Holy Trinity ( T 2 ? ). See Dep. Keep., 1th Kept., 
 App. II, p. 317. Each consists of one sheet only, and most 
 of them are quite legible. All are signed by four of the Com- 
 missioners, and each is endorsed with the names of the two 
 Churchwardens of the parish concerned. The goods are 
 inventoried under the heads of (a) Plate, (b) Vestments and 
 other things, with a schedule enumerating the articles "left 
 for the necessary ministrations," the latter being usually one 
 bell in the steeple (with its weight " by estimation "), a chalice 
 (either silver gilt or parcell-gilt), a pall for the corpse (either 
 of blue silk or black velvet or yellow velvet with a black cross), 
 a few linen table cloths, (varying from to 3 to 11 "good and 
 badd "), font cloths (usually 3), a surplice of two, and in the 
 case of St. Mary Arches a carpet of " bridges " [i.e. Bruges], 
 satin for the Communion table. In the case of the Cathedral 
 these articles are called " thinges reserved " (see Nos. 59, 60 ; 
 Notes and Gleanings, iii, 61). 
 
 The inventories still existing at Exeter are bound hi a 
 volume marked Book 60 H. (called 60 G. in Calendar, n, p. 1117), 
 containing 149/f., the documents being well mounted. The 
 entries refer to goods found in the Cathedral and all the (19) 
 parish churches in Exeter, i.e. in addition to those mentioned 
 above, St. Mary Michel or Muchel (i.e. the More), All Hallows, 
 Goldsmith Street, St. Sidwells, St. Kyrian (or Quyrine), 
 St. Mary Steps, St. David's Downe, St. Edmunds, St. George's, 
 St. Lawrence, and St. Stephen's. To each are attached the 
 answers made by the Churchwardens to the interrogatories 
 of the Commissioners, together with the inventories of the 
 goods (both rough drafts and fair copies). Some extracts will 
 be found in Notes and Gleanings, Vols. II, III, IV, V, but the 
 whole of the contents of the volume have been recently trans- 
 cribed for publication by Miss Beatrice Cresswell, to whom 
 I am greatly indebted for permission to read through her 
 transcript. Several of the entries make reference to previous 
 inventories made in 28 Henry VIII (1537) or 3 Edward VI 
 (1549) : e.g., " Commanded to make 3 years ago " (St. Paul's) ; 
 or April 9, 1549 (St. Sidwell's) ; Sept. 24, 1550 (St. Petrock's) ; 
 Dec. 7, 1550 (St. Mary Major). 
 
 At St. David's Down, " two pair of vestiments, surples &c. 
 have been stolen," also " at the Commossynge tyme (i.e. the 
 Commotion in 1549, page 21 ) our Churche was robyed and toke all 
 frome us and that ys now yn the churche whe bofft hit of 
 anewe." 
 
 At St. Edmund's the plate had been shifted from house to 
 house by the rebels " in the Comocyon tyme," a chalice being 
 afterwards found under a man's bed.
 
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 At St. George's a silver cross gilt was delivered to the city 
 of Exeter for the use of the haven. (See page 27.) 
 
 At St. John's Bow plate was " sold in ye Comocyon tyme 
 for the releif of the poor when the citie was beseiged and for 
 mendyng of ye clock," and the Churchwardens say that 
 " aboute foure years past 4 sidesmen appeared before Sir Roger 
 Blewett, Kt., Anthony Harvey, Esquire, and others of the 
 King's Commissioners, and showed one of their accounts of 
 which the Commissioners took a copy, telling them that the 
 jewels and plate should be safely kept and to be forth coming 
 at all time that the King required." 
 
 At St. Kyrian's plate had been sold "for the reparacion 
 of the church, releif of the poor in the Comocion tyme, or 
 given to the Mayor to be employed upon the haven of Exe." 
 
 At St. Mary Arches a candlestick was sold about 7 or 
 years ago for reparation of the church. 
 
 At St. Mary Major is a reference to "ye plate yt ye Citie 
 borowed to helpe towards ye bringing hi of ye haven." 
 
 At St. Tolaves or St. Tooles (i.e. St. Olave's), Mr. William 
 Paryam [father of John Periam], who had set a coffer with a 
 chalice and a pair of vestments of red velvet in the church 
 5 or 6 years ago, took it home again with its contents " and 
 will not render them." 
 
 At St. Pancras the Churchwardens had "delivered plate 
 into the City's hands to ye use of the haven, as appeareth by 
 the indenture made betwixte them." Also plate was " stolen 
 at the comocyon tyme being hyd in a garden," or " sold at 
 the late comocyon for the defence of the rebelles and ayde 
 for our solders at that time bestowed." 
 
 At St. Sidwell's "at ye comocion tyme ye church was 
 spoyled of all things movable in a manner save only a pyx 
 a paten and 2 cruetts." 
 
 In Act Book II, /. 117, Dec. 15, 1551, it is agreed "that 
 whereas the wardens with the assent of the parishes of 
 St. George, St. Mary Arches, St. Mary the More, St. Stephyn's, 
 St. Pancras, St. Tole's and St. Keryan's have gyvvyn to the 
 use of the bryngyn upp of the Byver of Exe such parcell of 
 plate as particlerly apperith by the Indent's thereof made 
 betwene the cetie and them amountyng yn the hole the sum 
 of 741 1 025., which plate wee ffully agree and by this presens 
 do clerely bargayne and sell unto John Bodlegh aftir the 
 rate of 5s. 2d. the unce, which amonteth to the sum of 
 191Z. 125. 4d. Also the wardens of St. Petrock have given 
 for the use of the city a crosse of sylver al gilted, weighing 
 102 02., and an Oylefate (or oilbox Book 60 H., /. 63) of silver 
 and a chales of sylver parcell gilt weighing 44 02., which was 
 sold (at 5s. per oz.) for 37Z." 
 
 In Inventories No. 3, June 15, 1553, the Mayor and his 
 brethren enter into a bond in 400 marks to make satisfaction 
 when required for " certeyn plate and juelles lately belonginge 
 to certeyne parishe churches of the said cittie of Exeter to the
 
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 nombre of 891 unces [called 900 oz. in Freeman, 101 ; or 
 about 1,000 oz. in Izacke, p. 126], takyn and imploide by the 
 maire of the said cittie and his brethren withoute the com- 
 maundement, commission or warrante of our seid sovreine 
 lord or of his honourable counsell." 
 
 In Act Book IV, /. 316, is a proclamation made to the 
 Commons being called together by the bellman, Sept. 25, 1560, 
 "agayn the pullinge downe and sellinge of belles or any 
 ledde of any churche, &c." 
 
 Sec. VI. DEEDS. 
 
 Nos. 1-589 relate to Corporation property, including that 
 of the religious houses that came into the possession of the 
 city after the Dissolution. For a Calendar of these in 4 volumes, 
 see Books 60 I, 60 K, 60 L, 60 M. They were examined by 
 Dr. Oliver in 1821 (see S. Moore, Introduction, p. 10), who pub- 
 lished many extracts from them in his Monasticon Dioecesis 
 Exoniensis (1847), but with no better references than that 
 they were taken " ex aichivis civitatis Exonios." 
 
 (a) The Magdalen Hospital. 
 
 This house was variously called Hospitalis Leprosorum 
 (Oliver, Mon., 302), or Fratrum Leprosorum (Coll. Top., i, 375), 
 or Infirmorum (on seal, Oliver, Mon., 401), La Magdeleyne 
 (D. 72), La Maudeleyn (D. 49), the Mawdlene (D. 115, 116), 
 Mawdelyn (D. 88, 101, 109, 124), or Maudlin (D. 523), The 
 Lazar-House (Izacke, 11), The Lepers Hospital (Oliver, 154). 
 It stood without the south gate in the Parish of Holy Trinity 
 (D. 15, 90), and the chapel of it still remains (Oliver, Mon., 
 401). For its seals, see Lloyd Perry, 26-29. For accounts of 
 Geoffrey Lewis, Warden of the hospital temp. Henry VIII, 
 showing the receipts and expenses of the hospital from 1520 
 to 1527, see Misc. Rolls 58, 59, 60. 
 
 In this collection there are 153 documents (.D.D 1-125), 
 besides many counterparts, and it is to be noted that in several 
 of the earlier ones where provosts (prcepositi) appear as wit- 
 nesses (e.g. D. 8, 10) their names do not correspond with 
 those given in Izacke. In D. 1 is the undated grant to the 
 Lepers of St. Mary Magdalene by Bishop Bartholomew (1161- 
 1184) of rents from his gavel of Morchard (i.e. Morchard Bishop, 
 near Crediton) and the bark of the wood of Chudleigh, with 
 the confirmation (D. 3) by Pope Celestine III, dated May 26, 
 1192, both documents being printed in Oliver, Mon., p. 402. 
 In D. 81 is an inspeximus of the above by Archbishop Chichele, 
 temp. Henry V or VI. There are extracts (D. II, v) from 
 the Statutes made in 1245 [i.e. in the mayoralty of Martin Pott, 
 30 Henry III, not Henry IV, as Oliver, Mon., 403], a year 
 after the Hospital had been transferred by Bishop Brewer 
 to the civic authorities (who are called the " founders " in 
 D. 112, May 4, 1530) in the mayoralty of Adam Rifford [see 
 Izacke, 10 ; Oliver, Mon., 301, 302, 402, where 27 Henry III
 
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 should be 29 Henry III]. An English copy of these Statutes 
 from Hooker's MS., /. 502, is printed in Oliver, Mon., 402, 
 where the Latin original is referred to as Ordo et Statute, Domus 
 B. Marie Magdalene (see D. II, a.a., where reference is made 
 to a Chartulary of the Magdalen). 
 
 The rest of the documents refer chiefly to leases, exchanges 
 or gifts to the Hospital, such as rent-charges on 2 selions of 
 land without the Southgate by Hugh son of Auger (or Fitz 
 Auger) Lillapita* in D. 4, 13 (with his son) ; in " Doddehestrete " 
 [or "Doddeheye" (D. 32), near the Castle Oliver, M on., 302]; 
 given by Richard de Biscipelega [or Bisscopesleie (D. 46), i.e. 
 Bishopsleigh] in D. 5 ; hi St. John's Street next the Hospital 
 (D. 6, 113, 114, 122) by John Borewine and Emma his wife ; 
 a house near the Hospital garden (D. 7) by Peter Wimand ; 
 a sexter (i.e. 25 gallons) of ale (D. 8) ; a tenement near 
 their house (D. 31, 32) by Denise, widow of Henry Clark ; 
 a garden in St. Magdalene's Street [or Maudeleynestrete, 
 D. 61 ; Mawdeleyn Street, D. 76] by John Fitzsimon (D. 48, 
 121a, 123) ; land adjoining the Courtyard of the Hospital 
 (D. 22 k) by Adam de Leverkebeare [i.e. Larkbeare (D. 403) in 
 the parish of St. Leonard's Endowed Charities, p. 275 ; or 
 Leuerkebeare Coll. Top., i, 377] ; land against the City 
 stank or fishpond [contra piscariam civitatis Exonie " Mawdlyn 
 Lake," D. 103] given by Jordan Bestelebise (D. 10, 13, 20 /.), 
 or Beslebyse (D. 20a) or Bestallyse (D. 20c) ; a rent charge 
 on a mill at Culm (D. 14, 2y, 15) ; land beyond St. David's 
 Mount by Bicheman le Fleming (D. 16) ; a ferling of land 
 at Southwood in Dawlish by Philip de Furnell (or Furneaux) 
 in D. 17, 18, 23 /., 93, 101, 106, 120, 1226, 1246 ; 4 acres of 
 land with saltmarsh at Chaldewell or Gholdeville (in the 
 manor of Clystwick or Clyst St. George Oliver, Mon., 401), 
 and a house in the High Street given by Robert Sukespiche or 
 Sukespic (D. 13, 20a, 206, 20c, 2Qd, 20e, 20/, 200, 24, 25, 58, 
 59) ; land hi the High Street for which the Hospital paid a 
 pair of gilt spurs or white gloves as an acknowledgment to 
 Aimar le Brut (D. 33) ; two selds in the High Street given by 
 Andrew Hemeric (D. 21) ; land and houses in South Street 
 given by Maud, widow of Walter de Tours (D. 29, 30) ; a 
 house in South Street by Walter Criket and his niece Gilda, 
 daughter of Baldwin Ruffus (D. 22) ; a tenement in South 
 Street by Walter Fitz Baldewin (D. 34) ; land in the demesne 
 of " Boleworthi " by Thomas de Witeri [or Viteri], D. 23 5 , 
 232 ; land and two tenements without the East Gate by Roger 
 Taverner (D. 23, 26) and the widow of Edward Smith, who 
 becomes a sister of the Hospital (D. 44) ; 4 " dayvas " (i.e. 
 dayworks or dargs) of land in " Sytebrokestrete " without 
 the East Gate by Walter Hemeri or Hemeric (D. 47, 6356) ; 
 tenements in Smythen Street by Henry Picot, Peter Herk, 
 chaplain (D. 26, 35) and Robert le Espicer (D. 30, 2p) ; rent 
 
 * Possibly Luppitt, which is called Loveputtu in Grandison, Reg. iii, 1710 ; 
 Lovepita in Oliver, Mon. 360 ; la Putte, ibid., 366.
 
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 charge on a tenement in Cartern Street by Geoffrey de Okestun 
 [or Oxton], D. 27 ; land in " Corvestret " (D. 28) ; rent and 
 land at Sprydon in the parish of Broad Clyst by William de 
 CUst (D. 36, 104, 115) and Roger de la Haye (D. 45) ; land 
 near the Castle at Exeter (D. 39) ; land at Tale by Robert 
 Beauchamp (D. 52, 63) ; land on the Schytebroke (D. 20fc) 
 [al. Shytebroke (D. 60) ; Shutebrok (D. 76) ; a lake called 
 Shitbrooke (D. 123)] given by Olive Colebrook (D. 67) and 
 Felicia widow of William de Criditon (D. 70) ; land in " la 
 hetvella [cf. Hetfell Heathfield : Oliver, Mon., 259] de 
 Holebrok " by William Gridgesham ("D. 23i) ; and a toft and 
 garden in Trinity Parish by Thomas Calwoodley in 1477 (D. 91). 
 The property also includes a house, toft, garden &c. in 
 South Street (D. 79) ; land near South Street (D. 186), where 
 " H. Glasserian, deceased " should be " H. Glasier jam 
 defuncto " ; two shops, tenement and garden or close or apple 
 orchard (D. 109) containing 7 acres called the Mawdlene 
 Ground (D. 116, 121c) without the East gate in the parish 
 of St. Sidwells (D. 71, 74, 85) at the end of Southbrook Lane 
 next Parys Street (D. 86) [or Parres Street (D. 124gr) or 
 Paryestrete next Liverydole (D. 89, 94, 95, 111, 1246] or in 
 St, SidweU's Fee (D. 96, 97, 98, 99, 105, 110) ; a toft or garden 
 and a close without the South gate (D. 72, 82, 83, 90, 92, 121) ; 
 a house and garden in Magdalene Street (D. 70, 73,) ; two 
 shops hi the High Street opposite to the New Inn (D. 84) ; 
 a garden next Holeway (D. 88) ; a meadow next their garden 
 in the parish of Heavitree (D. 102, 1216, 124d) ; a close at 
 Southinghay (D. 118); an "orcharde and hoppeyarde " in 
 Magdalen Street (D. 123a,) and a tenement adjoining the 
 Magdalen Gate (D. 124). 
 
 In D. 51 is a reference to a list [now lost] of decrepit persons 
 received into the hospital from 1382 to 1390. 
 
 Li D. 108, Nov. 12, 1512, Thomas Andrew, warden of the 
 Magdalen, gives an acquittance for 16s. 3d. received for the 
 use of the lepers. 
 
 For accounts of the Wardens of the Hospital from 1540 
 to 1689, with gaps for 9-10, 39-40 Elizabeth, 44 Elizabeth to 
 1 James I, 19-23 Charles I; 1649-51, 1652-53, 1654-55, 
 1657-58 to 15 Charles II ; 7-8 William and Mary, see Calendar, 
 Vol. II, p. 174 ; also 1656-1657 in Miscellaneous Papers. 
 
 For rental of the Hospital, 1419, see D.II a.a. ; Misc. Rolls, 
 56 ; also 1520-24, 1522, 1550, Misc. Rolls, 57, 58, 59. 
 
 For a Chartulary of the Magdalen (circ. 1428) in which are 
 copied several of the deeds and charters belonging to the 
 Hospital together with an English translation of the Order 
 and Statutes of the House, see D.II a.a. 
 
 For seals of the Hospital, 1334, 1342, see D. 58, 64 ; Lloyd 
 Parry, Seals, 28. 
 
 In Act Book X, /. 172, Dec. 16, 1662, " it is agreede that the 
 Chappell att the hospitall, the Maudlyn, without the South- 
 gate shalbe forthwith repaired."
 
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 (b) St. John's Hospital. 
 
 It was situated ad, or infra, or juxta, or prope portam 
 orientalem (D. 137 ; Oliver, Mon., 302, 303) ; withynne yest 
 gate (D. 1648 ; Oliver, Mon., 124) " at the Eastgate " in D. 127. 
 
 The collection contains 23 deeds (Nos. 126-147). In the 
 earliest of them (D. 126) the Brethren and Sisters of the 
 Hospital of St. John grant (in 1230) to Master William de 
 Calne [not "le Calm " as Oliver, Jforj., 300] a house next the 
 Chapel of St. Paul which had been given to them by S[erlo] 
 Dean of Exeter [i.e. from Dec. 14, 1225, to July 21, 1231]. 
 The documents, which extend to 1475, relate chiefly to rent- 
 charges and leases of the hospital property in Exeter. One 
 of them (D. 144) dated June 4, 1351, is given more at length 
 in Oliver, Mon., 301. The rest refer to tenements in St. Paul's 
 Street (D. 131) ; North Street (D. 132, 133, 136, 141) ; 
 Correstret [or Currestrete Coll. Top., i, 250 ; i.e. Correy 
 Street, now Gandy Street, Oliver, Mon., 114], (D. 134) ; within 
 the Northgate (D. 138, 140, 142) ; Smezenstrete [i.e. Smith 
 Street], (D. 139) ; High Street (D. 143) ; within the East gate 
 (D. 144) ; or land in a certain waste moor called Wygamore 
 [or Wigmore, (D. 883a)] without the East gate (D. 146, 147). 
 
 In 1540 the Hospital passed to Thomas Carew of Bickleigh, 
 whose son John Carew conveyed the church to the Mayor &c. 
 on Jan. 2nd, 1588 (D. 1648), and on Nov. 24, 1592, Hum- 
 phrey Carew and his son Peter made a further conveyance 
 of it to the Chamber (D. 1743). Some of the hospital 
 property in Exeter was granted to John Heydon and 
 Thomas Gibbes on April 2nd, 1545 (see L. 19, page 20) 
 and passed into the hands of the Chamber on Oct. 7, 1555 
 (D. 1498). The hospital buildings fell into decay, and on 
 Jan. 14, 1624, the church with the churchyard and other of 
 its belongings was purchased by the trustees of Hugh Crossinge 
 to be used as a hospital for setting the poor to work 
 (D. 1740 ; Report on Charities, p. 1 ; Lloyd Parry, Exeter 
 School, 61 ; see page 80). 
 
 In Aug. 1627 (D. 1743) the Chamber assigned the unexpired 
 portion of their lease of the church to Thomas Crossinge and 
 others, who at the same time (D. 1744) granted a 30 years' 
 lease of it to the Chamber under whom it became the home 
 of the Free Grammar and Free English Schools, which were 
 the outcome of the education controversy in Exeter in the 
 early portion of the 17th century. See Report on Charities, 
 pp. 3, 7, 59 ; Lloyd Parry, Exeter School, pp. 15-78. 
 
 In D. 1769, April 14, 1657, the Chamber enter into a bond 
 for 240Z. with the Governors of St. John's Hospital for securing 
 payment of 127Z. 4s. on April 15, 1658. 
 
 In L. 497, May 13, 1734, Mr. Thomas Heath (see p. 59) is 
 Treasurer of St. John's Hospital.
 
 267 
 
 In L. 572, Sept. 10, 1769, James Crossing desires Mr. Gregory 
 Jackson to summon the Trustees of St. John's Hospital to 
 elect a president. 
 
 For nominations of inmates to the Hospital in 1768, 1770 
 and 1773, see L.L. 569, 573, 579. 
 
 For 3 bundles of papers relating to St. John's Hospital 
 and the property of the Charity, see Law Papers, A.D. 1852. 
 
 For a dispute between the Hospital and the City in 1361 
 respecting the limits of Dodehay Street, which extends from 
 the High Street to the City wall on the South, see ~D. 904, 
 printed in Oliver, Mon., 308. 
 
 For memoranda out of the Records of St. John's Hospital 
 relating to an action in the Mayor's Court in " The Hospital 
 v. the Archdeacon of Totnes " in regard to a tenement in 
 St. Martin's Street in 1421, see Miscell. Rolls, 64 (1). 
 
 For seals of St. John's Hospital, see Oliver, Mon., 408 ; 
 R. M. Clay, Mediceval Hospitals, 102 ; Lloyd Parry, Seals, 3, 4. 
 
 In D. 1241a, Aug. 20, 1464, Mawte, widow of Hugh 
 Courtenay, Knight, leaves 13d. to be paid to the poore 
 chyldren of St. John's House next the East Gate, to pray for 
 her soul. 
 
 For Bishop Grandisson's foundation hi St. John's Hospital, 
 Nov. 18, 1332, to which he appropriated the church of 
 Ernescombe (i.e. Yarnscombe, near Barnstaple), pro susten- 
 tacione pauperum scolarium gramaticam addiscentium, see 
 Oliver, Mon., 306 ; John de Grandisson's Register, p. 666 ; 
 Lloyd Parry, Exeter School, 4. The scholars were to live in a 
 hospicium competens within the precincts, where they were to re- 
 ceive 5d. each per week, together with stramina pro lectis faciendis 
 et potagium sufficiens, focalia et vasa pro pane, carnibus et pisci- 
 bus. The document from which the above extract is taken was 
 copied by Oliver from " Registrum hospitalis S. Johannis inter 
 Archivas Civitatis Exonice," and was entered by Oliver in 
 his Calendar (Vol. II, 151), showing that it was amongst the 
 city archives in 1823. He made several extracts from it for his 
 Monasticon, but it had disappeared when Mr. Stuart Moore 
 drew up his Calendar some forty years later. Quite recently, 
 however, it has again come into the possession of the Cor- 
 poration, and though time did not allow of a full examina- 
 tion of it during my personal visit to Exeter, I was able to 
 make a few notes as to its contents. 
 
 It is a well preserved bound volume of 99 ff., written on 
 vellum with the modern title " Registrum Prior atus Sancti 
 Johannis " stamped on the cover. 
 
 It begins : In illo quat'no continent' possessiones terrar' 
 et tenementor' reddituum hospitalis Sti. Johis, Baptistse Exon., 
 ff. 1-46, 51-57. 
 
 /. 47 has a note of the visit of Edward I to Exeter in 1285 
 at the request of Bishop Peter Quivil in regard to the murder 
 of Walter de Lechlade. (Latin.) See Izacke, 22 ; Oliver, 
 Hist., 63.
 
 268 
 
 ff. 576, 58, Fundacio hospitalis Sti. Johis. Exon, with con- 
 firmation charter of Henry III, printed in Oliver, Mon., 302, 
 303. 
 
 ff. 58-60. Suit of the Prior in the City Court in the 
 Mayoralty of Adam Scut (i.e. 1410-11). 
 
 /. 616. Resoluciones. Anno 1370. 
 
 /. 63. Rentale Pontis de Exe factum ibidem, Feb. 2nd, 
 2 Henry IV (1401). 
 
 /. 636. Confirmacio privilegiorum civitatis Exon, Dec. 5, 
 2 Richard II (1378). See Charter XXII. (page 4). 
 
 /. 65. Pardonacio sup' omissis feodis militum et advo- 
 cationibus in comit. Devon, July 26; 20 R. II (1396). 
 
 ff. 65, 66. Geneologia (sic) comitum Devon, a conquestu. 
 
 ff. 67-76. Appropriacio Holne, Compositio Holne &c., 
 printed in Oliver, Mon., 304, 305. 
 
 /. 746. Instrumentum sup' submissione Decani et Capituli 
 de sepeliend' in hospit' Sti. Johis. 
 
 /. 746. Dedicacio ecclie hospitalis Sancti Johis. Exon. 
 Edmundus [Stafford] in manerio nostro de Clyst. July 29, 
 1418. 
 
 /. 75. Rentale civitatis Exon, anno 16 R. II (1392-93). 
 
 /. 75. Rentale de Dureyurde, de Pastura de Dureyurde, 
 de la ffleysfold, same year. John Pouton, Receiver. 
 
 ./. 77a. Dedication of Church of St. Martin. Edmundus 
 [Stafford] Episcopus. Crediton, July 13, 1409. 
 
 /. 786. Littera migrationis. May 14, 1513, &c. 
 
 /. 80. Privilegia Sti. Johis. Jerl'mtaii'. 
 
 /. 84. Will of John Talbot, citizen of Exeter, Sept. 21, 1420. 
 (Latin.) 
 
 f. 85. Rentale Beate Marie de Maresco. 
 
 /. 86. Hsec transcripta fuerunt inventa in quodam libro 
 deliberate Priori Rico. Hylle [1497-1524], by Roger Holande, 
 Esquire, anno 1498, which book formerly belonged to Henry 
 Lange, procurator sive collector redctitum terrarum sive 
 Tenementorum hospitalis Sti. Johannis, Exon. 
 
 /. 94. Nomina extraneorum sepultorum in hospitali 
 Sti. Johannis from 1482 to 1520. [The right of sepulture 
 was granted to the Hospital by Bishop Grandisson on March 31, 
 1354. Grandisson, Reg., p. 1125.] 
 
 (c) St. Nicholas' Priory. 
 
 Seventy-four documents (D. 148-221). 
 
 The Priory was a cell to Battle Abbey and was situated 
 within the city near the North Gate. The manor known as 
 St. Nicholas Fee (D. 213, 215), or Harold's Fee (D. 1595; 
 Oliver, Mon., Additional Supplement, p. 14) extended over 
 part of St. David's Hill and the Court Rolls from 1525 to 1608 
 (with gaps, see Calendar II, 184), together with an account of the 
 manor in 1712 are preserved in the Guildhall see also Miscel- 
 laneous Papers, 3 to 20 Elizabeth. The Priory was suppressed on
 
 269 
 
 Sept, 18, 1536 (Oliver, Mon., 115 ; called 1535 in Izacke, 19) 
 and as early as Oct. 20, 1538, the Chamber of Exeter sent a 
 representative to the Privy Council in London to negotiate 
 for the purchase of the whole of its lands and tenements 
 (Act Book I, f. 152), but the property, together with the 
 late Prior's rights of stallage &c. at the Lammas Fair, 
 was ultimately sold to John Haydon and Thomas Gibbes 
 (see page 21) on April 2, 1545 (D. 1449, 1452 ; Lysons, vi, 200), 
 though afterwards conveyed to the Corporation on Oct. 7, 
 1555 (D. 1498 ; Book 52, /. 1716), who had previously acquired 
 the monastic buildings in 1539, much of the stone of which 
 was used for repairing the Exe Bridge and the City Walls. 
 The site, together with the Hospital of St. Alexius in the 
 rear* of the Priory which had been granted to Sir Thomas 
 Dennis of Holcombe Burnell in 1541 (Dugdale, Mon., iii, 376) 
 extended from Mint [or MinsterJLane at the back of St. Olave's 
 Church to the street caUed " Britain " (D. 208, 209, 738, 858, 
 865, where it is a via regia), now Bartholomew Street (Oliver, 
 Mon., 330, 331). This site was purchased by the Chamber on 
 May 20, 1549 (D. 1464 ; Misc. Rolls, 28), but disposed of by 
 them in parcels before the end of the 17th century. 
 
 In D. 1233, March 25, 1460, Thomas Colewill, Warden of 
 the Grey Friars without the South Gate, leases to the Mayor 
 &c. for 99 years at a rental of 14s. p.a. a certain waste place 
 called Frerenhay lying between the city wall and the highway 
 called Britayne. See also D. 1260 ; Oliver, Mon., 331. 
 
 In D. 1354-1357, Nov. 20, 30, 1507, Christopher Wollecott, 
 Warden of the Grey Friars, conveys to the Mayor &c. the 
 area called Frerenhay situate at the back of the house and 
 church of St. Nicholas, " which land was formerly the dwelling 
 place of the said brethren (i.e. the Grey Friars)." These 
 deeds contain the seals of the Grey Friars which are described 
 and figured in Oliver, Mon., 332, 408. 
 
 In D. 221, Sept. 13, 1527, William collumpton, the last 
 Prior of St. Nicholas, releases the Mayor &c. from all actions, 
 suits, complaints, debts and demands arising before Aug. 10, 
 1527. 
 
 The earliest document in the collection (D. 148), a con- 
 firmation by Bishop Osbern (A.D. 1072-1107) of a grant of 
 the Church of Pochelle (i.e. Poughill, near Crediton) made 
 to the Priory by Baialandus Ladubed (not Ruelantius La 
 Dubed, as Coll. Top., i, 63) is printed in Oliver, Mon., 119, 
 who has also printed with many discrepancies the full text of 
 many of the others ; e.g. D. 150, relating to the 4 catch -polls 
 and the Guildhall (see Coll. Top., i, 189 ; Freeman, 166) ; 
 D. 151, 155, 156, 156a, 167, 172, 177, relating to the Irish 
 property of the Priory in Cork and Cloyne (see also Misc. 
 Rolls, 53) ; D. 164 the grant of the manor of Clifford near
 
 270 
 
 Tiverton, (Coll Top., i, 186) ; D. 168 do. of land in Exeter 
 where " Semar le Kat " (not " le Rat ") is the correct reading 
 (called " Le Cath " in D. 191) ; D. 174, 211 also of land in 
 Exeter, (see Coll Top., i, 378) ; D. 171 of land in Mathford, 
 (so called in D. 169 ; Coll. Top., i, 185, but Mateford in D. 178, 
 i.e. Matford in Alphington, Lysons, vi, 8 ; Worthy, 182). 
 D. 173 land in " Lyfthelehale," (variously called Lischelehale, 
 Lechelhale, Listehele, or Loftokshole in Holland Botreaux 
 near South Molton) ; D. 202 land in Thurfurton, (i.e. Thorverton) 
 and D. 203 land at Tadyford beyond the North Gate of 
 Exeter (see D. 179, 200, 207). 
 
 In D. 176 is a 40-days indulgence granted in May, 1247, to 
 contributors to the fabric of the Priory by Godofridus de 
 Prefectis, Bishop elect of Bethlehem (see Eubel, i, 138 ; Oliver, 
 Mon., 114) ; in D. 197 is the obit of Richard Newton, June 24, 
 1295 (Oliver, Mon., 114; Coll. Top., i, 386). 
 
 The rest of the documents (not printed in Oliver) include 
 an undated grant (D. 149) by Odo Abbot of Battle [A.D. 1175- 
 1199] to William Fitzralph of part of the land (or street 
 D. 738) called Irlesberi (i.e. Earlsbury, alias Friernhay or 
 Frerenhay, D. 217, 218), which he afterwards granted to the 
 Hospital of St. Nicholas, i.e. St. Alexius' Hospital, founded 
 in 1170 and situated at the back of St. Nicholas Priory 
 D. 185, 599a (see Oliver, Mon., 154 ; Dugdale, Mon., vii, 697). 
 For seal see Oliver, Mon., 408 ; Lloyd Parry, p. 3 ; Clay, 
 107, 259 ; Birch, Catalogue of Seals, i, 550. There are also 
 grants of land or houses in Exeter in " Prestestret " (D. 159 ; 
 Coll. Top., i, 259, called " prusten stret " in D. 198 ; Coll. Top, i, 
 189), or " Poulestrete " (D. 206 ; Coll. Top., i, 251) ; or 
 near the Priory wall (D. 161, 183, 189, 190 ; Coll. Top., i, 377) ; 
 or in the Great Place (magna placea) (D. 163 ; Coll. Top., i, 
 375) ; or near the North Gate (D. 165), or at the West Gate 
 (D. 180) ; or in the High Street (magno vico) (D. 170, 188, 
 191 ; Coll. Top., i, 251, 375) ; or without the North Gate 
 (D. 165 ; Coll. Top., i, 251) ; or on St. David's Mount (D. 181, 
 184 ; Coll. Top., i, 379) ; or in St. Nicholas' Fee (D. 186, 213 ; 
 Coll. Top., i, 376) ; or below the House of the Grey Friars 
 (D. 182, 187, 201 ; Coll. Top., i, 378), which was about to 
 be enlarged circ. 1262 (see Oliver, Mon., 331 ; Coll. Top., 
 i, 378). 
 
 D. 193, 194 refer to a dispute between the City and the 
 Priory which was to be decided by a jury of 12 in the Cathedral 
 on St. Catherine's Day, 1261. 
 
 In D. 220 is an award delivered on Aug. 22, 1527, in a dispute 
 between the Mayor and the Prior as to the boundaries of the 
 jurisdiction of their respective courts and a piece of ground 
 called " Launders plott " on the mill stream known as the 
 North
 
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 In Misc. Roll 50, is the reply of Prior John Lewis ( A.D. 1 499 
 1522) to the answer of Walter Yorke, late Mayor of Exeter 
 (1500-1501). 
 
 In Misc. Roll 51, dated June 20, 1442 (i.e. 20 Henry VI, 
 but called 20 Henry VII (1505) in Oliver, Mon., 117) is a copy 
 of the Inspeximus of earlier Charters and privileges, with a 
 small paper book containing 8 leaves. 
 
 For receipts of the Priory from June 11, 1476, to June 11, 
 1477, see Misc. Rolls 52. 
 
 For Letters Patent, July 28, 1359, to the Abbot of Battle, 
 confirming previous charters granted at the request of the 
 Prior of St. Nicholas, see D. 897a. 
 
 For a rental of the Priory, dated Jan. 1, 1415, see Misc. Roll 
 49, which has also an undated list of tenements belonging to 
 the Priory, probably temp. Henry VIII.* 
 
 The above references to Collectanea Topographica, Vol. I, 
 are transcripts made in 1834 from the Ledger Book of 
 St. Nicholas Priory, i.e. a transcript made in 1589, and probably 
 originally in the Guildhall at Exeter, which ultimately found 
 its way to the Phillipps Collection at Middle Hill (see Oliver, 
 Mon., 113). This may be same as a volume entitled Chronicon 
 Abbatice S. Nicholai de Exonia, Impensis Dni. T. Phillipps, 
 Bart., ex Lithographia Medio-Montana extending fiom Adam 
 to the year A.D. 1333, which was recently offered for sale 
 in Exeter. 
 
 For a 17th century collection of charters relating to 
 St. Nicholas Priory now among the records of the Bishop of 
 Exeter, see Hist. MSS., Rept. Var. Coll., iv,'p. 16. 
 
 For Seals of the Priory, see D. 161, 179, 201, 205, 206, 217, 
 221 ; Oliver, Mon., 115, 408 ; Lloyd Parry, 3. 
 
 For accounts of the Bailiff and Receiver of the manor of 
 St. David's Down [distinct from St. Nicholas Fee] and of the 
 lands, rents and profits of the City of Exeter lately belonging 
 to the late monasteries and Priories of St. John's, Exeter, 
 Polsloo, St. Nicholas, Exeter, Newenham, Launceston, and 
 Plympton &c. from 1549 to 1722, with gaps, see St. John's &c. 
 Bailiff's Accounts, in Calendar II, 175. The missing years being 
 6 Edward VI to 1 Mary ; 4,5 to 5,6 Philip and Mary ; 37-39 
 Elizabeth ; 18-22 James I ; 19-20 Charles I 1644-45 to 
 1649-50 ; 1658-59. 
 
 In Act Book IV, /. 80, Jan. 24, 1562, is " The order for the 
 relieving of the poor people in the monastery of St. Nicholas, 
 late dissolved," with account of the " Poore Mennes Parlour," 
 printed in Oliver, Mon., 116. 
 
 (d) Plympton Priory. 
 
 The Prior of Plympton owned houses in the High Street 
 [now the Black Lion Inn, Oliver, Mon., 131], and elsewhere 
 in Exeter (see D. 579, 647, 915, 929, 937), and rent charges on 
 
 * This should be compared with the rental of 1476 in Oliver, 125,
 
 272 
 
 his property in the city came into the hands of the Chamber 
 in 1555 (see D. 1498). On June 1, 1523, the Prior and Convent 
 of Plympton are " parsons and proprietarys of the church of 
 St. John ys Bowe " in Exeter (D. 1396a ; Oliver, Mon., 149), 
 and on Sept. 9th, 1546, a cell of Plympton (viz. St. Mary de 
 Marisco or Marsh Barton, close to the suburbs of Exeter was 
 granted to James Coffyn and Thomas Godwin, who sold the 
 timber to John Hooker on Dec. 10, 1562 (D. 1528 ; Oliver, 
 Mon., 134). For property in Exeter belonging to St. Mary de 
 Marisco, see Worthy, Suburbs, 185. 
 
 The documents in this collection, 13 in number (D. 222- 
 234) refer chiefly to grants made by Bishop Warelwast 
 [A.D. 1155 to 1161] and others to the Canons of the Collegiate 
 Church of Plympton [as it formerly was, i.e. from 1133 till 
 1352]. All of them are either printed in full or given in abstract 
 in Oliver, Mon., 129, 130, 131, 136, 138, 145. 
 
 (e) Awliscombe. 
 
 (Eighty documents D. 235-306.) 
 
 This manor situated near Honiton was bequeathed to the 
 Chamber under the will (dated Jan. 20, 1489, D. 267) of 
 Thomas Calewodeley or Calwoodley (see page 44) in aid and 
 relief of the poor inhabitants of Exeter who are burdened by 
 the payment of fee-farms, tallages &c. (See Izacke, Rights, p. 20 ; 
 Lysons, vi, 20.) 
 
 The earliest of the documents (D. 235, 237, 238, all undated) 
 show that " Ewelcumb " or " Welcumb," called also 
 " Haulscombe," "Aulescumb Giffard " (D. 242, 246, 247), 
 or " Awliscombe in Marlecomb " (D. 284, for " Marlecomb in 
 the parish of Awlescombe," see D. 293, 296, April 2nd, 1544, 
 July 14, 1545) was in the hands of Alice Coffyn (? circ. 1250), 
 who held it under Richard Tremenet (de Tribus Minetis). 
 Thomas Calwodley's name first occurs on Aug. 1, 1449 (D. 251, 
 with a seal of the Staple of Exeter ; see also D. 259 ; Lloyd 
 Parry, p. 9) ; also in D. 252, 253, 254, 256, showing that he 
 bought a moiety of the manor from Richard Crukern (or 
 Crokehorne) of Childehay in Dorsetshire on Jan. 15, 1452. 
 
 In D. 265, April 23, 1488, are the names of several closes 
 within the manor, such as " le Lynche," " le parke under the 
 wode," "le Forlond " " le Newparke," "le Lenecroft," "le 
 Northcroftys," "le Pyleshyld," with lands and meadows 
 called " Menymede," " Luggersthorn " and " Holcomb." 
 In D. 279, 281, two others are given as " Bowecourte " and 
 " Pylysham " [cf. " Pyle is lond " (D. 287) ; or " Pyleslondes " 
 (D. 292)]. 
 
 In D. 278, July 17, 1494, Richard Unde [or Undy, Izacke, 96] 
 the Receiver of Exeter (see Receiver's Accounts, 9, 10 Henry VII) 
 appears as Surveyor of the Lords of the Manor, i.e. Calwodeley's
 
 273 
 
 executors, who formally conveyed the manor to the Chamber 
 in accordance with the trust on April 4, 1496 (D. 282, Report on 
 Charities, p. 147), the transaction being confirmed by Letters 
 Patent on Oct. 25, 1496, D. 283 ; Book 52, /. 203 ; Report on 
 Charities, p. 146 ; Izacke, Rights, p. 20 ; Lysons, vi, 20. 
 
 In D. 284, Jan. 28, 1501, the Chamber are called Lords of 
 the Manor, and in all subsequent documents granting leases &c. 
 till 1623 (D. 302). The series closes with 4 documents 
 (D. 303-306), showing that the manor was twice mortgaged 
 by the Chamber temp. George 1, II. 
 
 In D. 1629, Aug. 20, 1585, is a reversionary lease of the 
 manor house then in the hands of John Tucker, granted to 
 George Smith, merchant, of Exeter. 
 
 In L. 581, Auliscombe, July 17, 1775, Thomas Prat writes 
 to the Town Clerk respecting the repairs of his tenement at 
 Awliscombe. 
 
 For Court Rolls of the manor at intervals from 1496 to 1586, 
 see Calendar II, 179. For Bailiffs Accounts of the Manor 
 from 1571 to 1722, see ibid. II, 173, with gaps for 6-7 James I ; 
 21 Charles I to 11 Charles II ; 6-7 William and Mary. 
 
 In Act Book VII, /. 215, May 19, 1621, it is agreed that the 
 parishioners of Auliscombe shall have an estate for 99 years 
 to begyn from the 4 of November last of the church-house of 
 Aulscombe, accordynge to a covenante menciouned in a graunte 
 made by the cytye unto their predecessors dated the 4th day 
 of November in the 13th yere of Kynge Henry the viiith 
 [1521], payinge 4d. rente yearly : See D. 289. 
 
 In Act Book XIII, /. 131, Oct. 17, 1699, it is ordered that a 
 Publick Survay bee called and held for the sale of the manor 
 of Auliscombe, and that the Committee named take care 
 that the same bee done. 
 
 (f) Borough's Charity. 
 
 Thirty-five documents D. 307-341. 
 
 Walter Borough or Burrough [Mayor in 1610, 1621] 
 or Borowe (Oliver, 232), by deeds dated Oct. 28, 1625 
 (D. 326, 332 ; Rept. on Charities, p. 12) and Dec. 20, 1626 
 (D. 328, 333) gave three houses in Northgate Street to provide 
 shirts and gowns for 8 poor men of Exeter, whom he wished 
 to be maintained in the working house or City's Hospital 
 then proposed to be started in the derelict buildings of 
 St. John's Hospital, but this scheme was never carried 
 out, though by a deed dated Aug. 18, 1629 (D. 326) 
 he granted a further extension of 3 years for its possible 
 fulfilment. By his will dated Aug. 18, 1632 (Report on 
 Charities, p. 237) he gave an additional 100Z. to be invested 
 in land, the proceeds to be distributed in gifts to the poor. 
 
 Wt. 20757. Ex is
 
 274 
 
 He died in August, 1632 (Oliver, 219) and his portrait is in 
 the Guildhall. See Cotton, Guild, p. 35. 
 
 All the documents in the series, which begins June 5, 1441, 
 and extends to Aug. 24, 1731, refer to the 3 houses in North- 
 gate Street, which were formally conveyed to the Chamber 
 on Jan. 8, 1667 (D. 333). 
 
 (g) Davie's Almshouses. 
 
 Eighteen documents. D. 342-356. 
 
 John Da vie [Mayor in 1584, 1594], by deed dated Feb. 10, 
 1600 (D. 35 la; Izacke, 212; Rept. on Charities, 174) gave 
 the reversion of two houses with adjoining gardens at the 
 corner of St. Mary Arches Lane and other property in the 
 same neighbourhood together with the rectory and tithes of 
 Marleghe [i.e. Mariansleigh near South Molton], to found the 
 almshouse fronting Parr Street (Endowed Chanties p. 373) 
 that still bears his name. See Cotton, Guild, 41. 
 
 The documents date from 1579 to 1687, and all refer to 
 these houses and the rectory of Mariansleigh, of which the 
 Chamber appear as the patrons in 1615, 1616 (L. 170 ; 
 D. 352). 
 
 D. 350a (dated Feb. 10, 1600) contains the "Ordinances, 
 Rules, and Constitutions " of the Almshouse with the signa- 
 ture of the founder " John Davye." 
 
 For Receivers' Books of Da vies' (sic) Charity, 1785, see 
 Book 154. 
 
 For a book containing a description of the various 
 charities in Exeter, 1600 to 1622, see Book 149. For a 
 catalogue of founders of charities, see Book 52, /. 450. 
 
 (h) Flaye's Almshouses. 
 
 One hundred and three documents (D. 357-459). 
 
 Thomas Flaye (see p. 97), apothecary [Mayor in 1630] by 
 will dated June 26, 1634 (D. 404, 427 ; Rept. on Chanties, 254 ; 
 Izacke, 212) left lands and tenements in St. Paul's and 
 St. Sidwell's parishes and a close in Northernhay in St. David's 
 Parish, to found an almshouse in Goldsmith Street (D. 450, 
 451). He died on July 2, 1634 (Oliver, Hist., 220). The 
 bequest was increased by his widow Elizabeth [d. Nov. 20, 
 1673], who conveyed the property to the Chamber as trustees 
 on May 21, 1663 (Rept. on CJiarities, p. 258 ; see also D. 450, 
 Feb. 20, 1667). For signatures and seals of Thomas and 
 Elizabeth Flaye, see D. 392, 395, 404, 409, 413, 450. 
 
 The documents refer chiefly to leases and titles relating to 
 this property and extend from Oct. 28, 1481 (D. 357) to 1721 
 (D. 459). They mention the following place names which are 
 of topographical interest, viz. the Langbroke (D. 357, 361) ; 
 Serlyslane (D. 358) ; Pit Lane (D. 257) ; le Ruggeway (i.e. 
 Ridgeway D. 368, 199) ; Grenestoneway (D. 358) ; 
 Noseworthie's Mead (D. 380) with the " shire of the grasse "
 
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 (D. 387) ; Rownd Pitts (D. 412, 424, 450) ; Fox Lane (D. 417) ; 
 Ex Lane (D. 430) ; North Exe Lane (D. 446). In one of the 
 gardens of the property the following fruit-trees are scheduled 
 in 1637 (D. 425) : viz. 1 Apricocke Tree, 1 Rennatt tree, 
 a Paire maine tree, 1 peppir tree, 1 Green heiming tree, 
 1 querindon tree, 1 stubbard tree and 2 cherrie trees. 
 
 The ordinances and rules of the almshouse drawn up by 
 Mrs. Flaye are contained in D. 427, 451 ; and in D. 360 there 
 is a copy of the will of William Soper of London, gentleman, 
 dated July 12, 1508, with a broken seal of William Warham, 
 Archbishop of Canterbury. 
 
 Other documents referring to Mrs. Flaye will be found hi 
 L. 396 (dated London, Dec. 7, 1647), hi which John Levermore 
 asks her to send him a bill of Exchange for 50?., and in L. 408 
 (Feb. 17, 1650), in which she authorises her agents to acknow- 
 ledge satisfaction of a judgment obtained by her against the 
 Chamber in the Court of Common Pleas. 
 
 For the almshouses erected in St. Sidwell's Street in 1834, 
 see Endowed Charities, Exeter, pp. 364, 373. 
 
 For a silver-gilt bason and ewer given by her to the Chamber, 
 see Oliver, 220. 
 
 (i) The Rectory of Hennock. 
 
 Twenty-six documents. D. 460-484.* 
 
 The Rectory of Hennock, near Chudleigh, formerly belonged 
 to the Abbey of Tor, but was leased to John Southcote of 
 Bovey Tracey on Jan, 4, 1539 (D. 461) by the last Abbot 
 Simon Rede, who surrendered the Abbey on Feb. 23, 1539. 
 For his will, dated Sept. 23, 1554, see Oliver, Mon., 171. 
 
 The Rectory was purchased by the Chamber of Exeter on 
 April 6, 1631 (D. 466 ; not 1651, as Rept. on Char., p. 252), from 
 Thomas Southcote's son (D. 464), Fitzwilliams Southcote of 
 Sowton, for 450?., the money being chiefly taken from Law- 
 rence Bodley's legacy [see page 99 ; Rept. on Char., p. 252 ; 
 Lysons, vi, 270]. 
 
 The documents relate to various transactions in connection 
 with the property from Southcote's lease in 1539 (D. 461 ; 
 Oliver, Mon., 172) down to March 4, 1699 (D. 484). For a 
 suit as to the advowson, see Law Papers, 1621 ; Calendar II, 
 p. 230. 
 
 The following extracts from the Chamber Act Books relate 
 to Hennock during the time that the rectory was hi the hands 
 of the Corporation. 
 
 In Act Book VII, /. 381, Aug. 5, 1630, it is agreed that 40Z. 
 shalbe paid to Mr. Recever for purchasing the patronage of 
 
 * Including an account (D. 460) rendered by John Penhale acting for 
 the rector of " Shenyok," i.e. Sheviock near St. Germans in Cornwall. This 
 document gives the receipts and outgoings of Sheviock for one year from 
 Michaelmas 1411, but there is nothing in it showing any connection with 
 Hennok. It may have found its way into the collection from the fact that 
 the Rector of Sheviock (Richard Dunscombe) afterwards held the prebend 
 of Cutton in St. Mary's, Exeter Castle, in 1411.
 
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 Hennick, togeather with the parsonage of the same, wherby 
 the Maier, Bailiffs and Commonaltie may be patrons thereof. 
 
 In Act Book VII, /. 389, March 1, 1631, on which day there were 
 delivered unto Mr. Walter White 6 severall obligacons for the 
 payment of 600Z. of the guifte of Dr. Bodlie and Mr. Moggridge 
 to be collected in for the satisfaccon of Sir Popham Southcott, 
 son of Thomas Southcote (D. 468, 469). 
 
 Ibid., /. 3596, Nov. 22, 1631 : Whereas the first day of 
 March last past there were 6 severall obligacons for 600J. of 
 Dr. Bodlie's and Mr. Moggridge monie given to charitable 
 uses as was then unpaid towarde the satisfying of the fryne 
 for the purchase of the Rectorie of Hennock for the foresaid 
 purposes this day Mr. White hath given an accompte of the 
 said monies and alsoe of 40Z. paid unto hym by Mr. [Adam] 
 Bennett, late receiver of the said Cittie [i.e. in 1630-31] for 
 the purchase of the patronage of Hennock beforesaid, which 
 is approved of by this house and the saide Mr. White dis- 
 charged of the foresaid obligacons and monies and of 311. 3s. 4d. 
 received of the obligacons for the interest of the said monies &c. 
 the account being in toto for 671 13s. 4d. 
 
 In Act Book X, /. 171, Nov. 25, 1662. This day it is agreede 
 that the tenants of Hennccke be required to pay in the rent 
 for the Tythes for this laste harveste into this Chamber to be 
 disposed of as shalbe thought fitt by this house. 
 
 Ibid., f. 1716, Dec. 2, 1662, that Mr. fferdinando Nichollas 
 Clark (p. 99), who hath for divers yeeres past performed the 
 lecture heretofore founded by Doctor Bodlie, deceased, 
 and others, and see hath done untill the last harvest, shall 
 receive the profitts of the Rectorie of Hennock given for that 
 purpos for this last harvest. 
 
 In Act Book XJ, /. la, July 21, 1663. This day the sheaf 
 of Hennock is sett unto Mr. George Gale for the rent of 65/. 
 for one year to be paid att Two dayes in the yere of equale 
 porcions and the lessee to be freede from all other rente, rates 
 and taxes. 
 
 Ibid., f. 6, Oct. 20, 1663. Mr. William Sanford is desired 
 to receive of Mr. Gale 311. 19s. 06d., being parte of the rent 
 of the sheafe of the Rectory of Hennock. 
 
 Do., f. 126, April 26, 1664. Whereas there is halfe a yeares 
 rent due from Mr. George- Gale for the Rectorie of Hennock, 
 being 321. 10s. at Our Ladye Day last past, Mr. Sanford is 
 desired to receive the same with the Account thereof and to 
 pay the same to Mr. ffrauncis Moore, the present lecturer 
 (page 98). 
 
 Ibid., /. 446, June 15, 1666, that Mr. ffrancis Moore, the 
 present lecturer of Doctor Bodlye's lecture, shall have power 
 to sett and lett the tithes of Hennock for one year from 
 Midsomer day next commynge for the best benifitt, he dis- 
 charging the duties enjoyned by the will and discharging the 
 Cittie from all high rents, taxes and other impositions charge- 
 able uppon the same during that tyme,
 
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 In Act Book XI, j. 636, June 25, 1667, it is ordered that Mr. 
 Francis Moore, the present lecturer of Doctor Bodleye's lecture, 
 shall have libertie to dispose of the Rectorie of Henock for the 
 present yere, he paying the high Rent and discharging all 
 rates, taxes and other imposicons whereunto the same is 
 lyable duringe the said tyme. 
 
 In Act Book XIII, /. 191, Feb. 6, 1704. That a grant of 
 the next avoidance of the Vicaridge of Hennock bee made 
 to Mr. Parr hi consideration of 60 guinneys. 
 
 (j) Lethbridge's Charity. 
 
 Thirty-seven documents. D. 485-522. 
 
 Christopher Lethbridge [Sheriff, 1655 ; Mayor, 1660], by will 
 dated Nov. 17, 1669 (D. 509, 510 ; Sept. on Charities, 196) 
 left money to the churchwardens of the church of St. Mary 
 Arches for loaves of " a midle sort of bread " to be given to 
 14 poor people "that goe to ye church and stay there every 
 lord's day during ye tyme of divine service and sermon (if any 
 bee) " ; also lands, tenements &c. in Exeter and Newton Abbot 
 to the Chamber as an endowment for the almshouses that he 
 had erected in the parish of Holy Trinity near the Southgate 
 [i.e. in James Street (Rept. on Char., p. 199,) adjoining Bon vile's 
 Almshouses in the Combe Row (see page 6).] [Lethbridge's 
 is now merged with Fkye's andDavie's Charity in Parr Street 
 Endowed Charities, p. 373,] and to the Governors of St. John's 
 Hospital for the maintenance of one or more poor boys in the 
 Hospital (page 252). 
 
 The documents, which range from 1576 to 1763, chiefly 
 refer to tenure and leases of the property which includes 
 " Haccombe Downs," a meadow called " Green way " or 
 " Green way head," and " Exweeke Grounds " in the parish 
 of St. Thomas' (Rept. on Char., p. 199), purchased by 
 Lethbridge in 1651 (D. 496, 510, 517). 
 
 (k) Peryam's Charity. 
 
 Three documents. D. 523-524a. 
 
 John Peryam [Sheriff, 1582 ; Mayor, 1587, 1598 ; a deputy 
 Lieutenant for Exeter in 1609, Comm. LXXIV (p. 10)], by inden- 
 ture dated Oct. 20, 1616 (Rept. on Char., p. 228), gave l,OOOZ.to 
 be used as loans in sums of 2001. each to 5 Merchant Adventurers 
 [he was Governor of the Merchants' Guild, in 1587 : Cotton, 
 Guild, 43, 114] trafficking beyond the seas not being shop- 
 keepers by Retail (see page 41) and especially unto such as are 
 of the meaner sort and of indifferent abilities " subject to a 
 bond for repayment in 3 years." Full details are given in 
 D. 523. 
 
 In L. 157, Sept. 20, 1613, he prays the Chamber that he 
 may not be elected Mayor at the ensuing election on account 
 of his great age (72 years) and many infirmities.
 
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 In L. 176 he makes a similar request on Aug. 17, 1616. 
 
 For account of him, showing that he had a house in London, 
 where he was living in 1585, see Cotton, Guild, 35, 114. For 
 his portrait in the Mayor's Parlour at Exeter, see Oliver, 219 ; 
 Cotton, Guild, p. 27. For his signature " Jo. Peryam," see 
 D. 1647a, Jan., 1588. 
 
 (1) Seldon's Charity. 
 
 Forty-six documents. D. 525-568a. 
 
 Laurence Seldon [a bailiff in 1586] by his will dated May 8, 
 1598 (D. 561, 562 ; Kept, on Char., p. 165) left property in 
 the parish of Sowton [formerly called Clist Formison, near 
 Exeter ; Oliver, Mon., 453, 456], the proceeds of which were 
 to be distributed in bread and money doles among the poor 
 of certain parishes and prisoners in the High Gaol, the Sheriff's 
 Ward and the Counter in Exeter. The deeds relate to this 
 property, which was known as the Moor of Rigdon in the 
 Lordship of Ringswell. They date from circ. 1250 till it came 
 into Lawrence Seldon's possession (in 1587, D. 525-540) and 
 thenceforward till his death in May, 1598 (D. 541-561). These 
 are followed by a group of documents relating to the admin- 
 istration of the estate till 1654 (D. 562-568a). 
 
 D. 564 (undated) shows that " Browcke the paynter " was 
 to have painted a portrait of Seldon for the Chamber, but 
 that in 1607 (circa.) "there is not any thinge donn therein 
 nor licke to be." 
 
 (m) Wynard's Almshouses. 
 
 Seventeen documents. D. 573-789. 
 
 William Wynard (al. Wonard or Wenard D. 578), Recorder 
 of Exeter 1404-1442 [Radford, p. 9 ; not 1453, as Oliver, 235, 
 quoting Hooker's M8. t /. 203] founded this " Godshouse " 
 (D. 574, 583) ; or " almeshous," Shillingford, 85) in Magdalen 
 Street for 12 infirm poor people on Jan. 20, 1436, which he 
 placed under the supervision of the Mayor and 12 citizens. 
 On Jan. 22, 1437, he purchased from the Chamber for 200/. the 
 customs of fish in Exeter with the " trestalls " and tables for 
 selling fish in the markets and fairs for 21 years (D. 1157). 
 
 Three of the earliest of the sedocuments (D. 573, 575, 679, 
 Dec. 31, 1435 ; Jan. 20, 1436 ; May 20, 1437) contain the 
 seal of John Shillingford, who was then one of the feoffees 
 of a tenement near the " Carfoix " and the land adjoining the 
 street called " Ydellond " and other property which formed 
 part of the endowment of the charity. He was also one of 
 the 12 citizens of Exeter to whom, together with the Mayor, 
 the oversight of the Hospital was committed (D. 580). 
 
 D. 574, Jan. 20, 1436 [i.e. the ordination for the foundation 
 of the Hospital] has been printed in full hi Oliver, Mon., 404 ; 
 J. Gidley, Statement relating to William Wynard's Charity, 
 pp. 5, 93, 107 ; with an abstract in English in Rept. on 
 Char., 284.
 
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 The founder's seal appears in D. 577, 578, (Jan. 31, 1436 ; 
 April 5, 1437). 
 
 InD. 584, Sept. 4, 1438, (of which the text, both in Latin 
 and English, appears in Gidley, 5, 107, 125, with abstracts 
 in Oliver, Mon., 404 ; and Rept. on Char., p. 283) the remainder 
 of the founder's property is granted after his death to John 
 Bluet and others, including John Fortescue, sergeant-at-law, 
 as trustees in the event of the failure of others (Gidley, 102, 
 134). 
 
 In this collection 12 early deeds (D. 573-584), dating from 
 1435 to 1438 are followed by 5 others (D. 585-589) ranging 
 from 1656 to 1664 relating to orders issued by the Court of 
 Chancery on Feb. 20, 1656 and April 9, 1657, requiring George 
 Speke of White Lackington, near Chard, to rebuild the hospital, 
 which had been pulled down and demolished during the late 
 troubles [Izacke, 163, 211 ; Gidley, 11, 16].* 
 
 In L. 570, Oct. 8, 1768, reference is made to an offer by 
 Lord North when Chancellor of the Exchequer, to whom the 
 property had come through his marriage with Ann Speke 
 (Gidley, p. 73 ; Endowed Charities, p. 383), to sell the Wynard 
 Estate to Mr. Thomas Coffyn, goldsmith, of Exeter, for 800 
 guineas. Lord North afterwards conveyed the property to 
 William Kennaway on Nov. 19, 1789. (Ibid.) 
 
 For the Winard Minute Book, see Book 49. 
 
 (n) Miscellaneous Deeds. 
 
 A vast collection of documents (D. 590-1860, with numerous 
 intercalations), of which Nos. 590-888, extending from temp. 
 William I to Sept. 29, 1355, appear in abstract in Notes and 
 Gleanings [i.e. from S. Moore's Calendar], the rest are still 
 only accessible through the Calendar itself which still remains 
 unpublished. They relate chiefly to property in the City and 
 suburbs, and comprise wills, leases, grants, quit-claims, convey- 
 ances, releases of debts, letters of attorney, covenants, licences 
 for structural alterations, indentures, bonds and deeds of various 
 kinds. Many of them bear the seal of the Mayoralty (e.g. 
 D. 923, 924, 925, 927a,6, 928, 940, 943, 946, 953, 965, 985 
 and passim), or the City seal (e.g. D. 929, 954, 955, 961, 970), 
 pointing to a connection of the documents as a whole with 
 the Mayor's Court, e.g. D. 786a (Jan. 15, 1322) is endorsed 
 " Inrotulatur in libro nigro " [i.e. the " Black Book," Oliver, 
 Hist., 309 ; or " Blacke Kolle " (Bk. 52, /. 223 ; see Misc. 
 Rolls No. 2), or " Black Leiger " (Book 51, /. 155, pages 85, 95)]. 
 
 * In 1656 these documents were stated to be "in the custody of the 
 Mayor &c. of Exeter, in a box there for that purpose ordained " ; 
 and it was believed that they were first brought thither by Mr. Wynard 
 himself or by his order," and that the Mayor &c. " had made search what 
 other writings of and belonging to the said almshouses or lands were in their 
 custody and could find 7 other small writings as letters of attorney and such like, 
 of little value in the same box, and that they knew of no others." Gidley, 
 p. 14.
 
 280 
 
 D. 800 (Dec. 11, 1326) is endorsed: " Ind. of inrolment on 
 City Court rolls." D. 805, Feb. 8, 1328, is an agreement made 
 before the Mayor and others in full Court in regard to the 
 will of Peter Soth, with the Mayoralty seal appended. 
 D. 812a (Oct. 23, 1329) and D. 971a (1349) are extracts from 
 the City Court RoUs. D. 904 (1361, printed in Oliver, Mem., 
 308) is an extract from the Mayor's Court Roll ; also D. 909 
 (1357-1367). 
 
 D. 1016, March 5, 1347, is endorsed : " Md. of the enrolment 
 on the Mayor's Court Roll." D. 1031 (May 22, 1402) is a 
 Final Concord made " in full court of the City of Exeter." 
 D. 1524 (May 11, 1562) is a copy from the Court Roll of the 
 Manor of Duryurd. 
 
 The earliest document in the collection is the undated 
 grant by William I of the church of St. Olave's at Exeter to 
 Battle Abbey (D. 590, printed hi Oliver, Mon., 116 ; Dugdale, 
 Hon., iii, 243), attested by Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, 
 Osbern Bishop of Exeter and others. This is followed by a 
 confirmation by Henry I (D. 591) of a grant to the Chapter 
 of the Cathedral at Exeter of the churches of St. Petrock, 
 St. Peran [? Perranzabuloe, Oliver, Mon., 71], St. Doquin [alias 
 Lannow or St. Kew Staff. Reg. 318, called " Tohov " in 
 confirmation by King Stephen, 1136 Hist. MSS. Var. Coll., 
 iv, 43], St. Probus and others (see Oliver, Mon., p. 59). 
 
 In D. 592 (1155) the land in St. Martin's Street is granted 
 by the Cathedral Chapter, subject to the payment of a gersom 
 of half a mark and 3s. yearly. In D. 599 (circ. 1200) is a 
 reference to land where Eswald the Leper dwells. In D. 614 
 (circ. 1225 ?) William de Mariscis refers to " my Isle of Lundi " 
 and a " court of the Island." In D. 619a (circ. 1224 ; or circ. 
 1220 in Oliver, Mon., 154) Henry Archdeacon of Exeter and 
 William Prior of Cowick are deputed by Randulph the Papal 
 Legate to arbitrate in a dispute between the Abbot of 
 Buckfestre [i.e. Buckfastleigh] and the Hospital of St. Alexius ; 
 and in D. 624 (circ. 1240) the " virgata " [i.e. rod or 
 pole] of land is defined as 18J/J. There are grants to the 
 Exe Bridge in 1247 (D. 632) and 1256 (D. 661) ; a grant 
 by the Abbot of Ford that Charmouth shall be a free borough 
 (D. 6636 printed in Oliver, Mon., 352), and a grant [? 1270] 
 of a house in Exeter by Avelina Prioress of Polslo (D. 682a, 
 with seal of the Priory see Oliver, Mon., 163, 408). 
 
 In D. 696 is an agreement between the City and Bishop 
 Quivil for enclosing the churchyard of the Cathedral in 1286 
 (see Misc. Rolls II, No. 30 ; printed in Izacke, pp. 23-25). 
 In D. 698 (see Oliver, Mon., 330) is the grant of Friernhay 
 to the Grey Friars by Edmund Earl of Cornwall on 
 Feb. 2, 1287, with confirmation by Edward I on March 2, 
 1288 (D. 701 ; Oliver, Mon., 330) and an injunction (D. 702 ;
 
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 Misc. Rolls 54, m. 3), dated March 3, 1288, at " Burgum 
 Regine " [i.e. Blanquefort, near Bordeaux Bemont iii, 33] 
 forbidding the Mayor &c. to molest them in their close or 
 place next the City wall. This was confirmed by Richard II 
 on March 8, 1399 (D. 1023 ; Misc. Rolls 54, m. 8 ; Oliver, 
 Mon., 331, where it is called March 28, 1399). In D. 707, 
 June 16, 1291 (see Oliver, Mon., 335) is an agreement between 
 the Mayor &c. and the Black Friars for quittance of a rent 
 charge on " Crykenepet " Mill (see p. 71). In D. 737 (1240 
 see Oliver, Mon., 224) is a quit-claim from the Prior of Leigh 
 [i.e. Canonsleigh in Burlescombe]. In D. 743a is an indenture 
 dated April 30, 1303, between the Mayor &c. and the four 
 owners of a ship called La Sauveye (sic) of Exemouth to be 
 used in the King's service for the Scottish wars, and similarly 
 in D. 956 (Sept. 29, 1310), where the St. Marie Cogde Exemuth 
 is engaged to serve for 40 days with a master (receiving 8d. 
 per day) a " burser et conestable " (at 8d.) and 28 mariners 
 (4d. each). In D. 786, Jan. 15, 1322 (printed in Brantyngham, 
 Reg., i, 272) is an agreement between the Bishop and the 
 Mayor &c. as to right of access to the City walls (see Oliver, 72). 
 In D. 791 (Feb. 23, 1324) the Mayor and others are about to 
 appear before the Barons of the Exchequer to show cause 
 why the King should not commit the custody of the City to 
 whomsoever he will, In D. 801 (1291 Oliver, Mon., 331) 
 is a seal of the Grey Friars. 
 
 In D. 1111, Aug. 5, 1421, is a letter from Archbishop Chichele 
 setting forth a complaint of the Grey Friars of Exeter con- 
 cerning a profanation of their house, with " Sigillum ad 
 Causas " of the Archbishop. (Printed in Oliver, Mon., 333.) 
 
 For a subsequent letter on the same subject from Bishop 
 Beaufort as Conservator of the Order of Friars Minors in 
 England, to the Dean and Chancellor of the Cathedral of 
 Exeter and others, seel>. 1112 (Oct. 30, 1421) with a fragment 
 of Bishop Beaufort's seal. 
 
 Early Witts. 
 
 The Miscellaneous Deeds include copies of several Wills 
 of an earlier date than those which form a separate class among 
 the records entered in the Calendar, vol. ii, which extend 
 from March 3, 1555 to June 4, 1765. Those included 
 in this collection are usually proved in the Mayor's Court, 
 sometimes in the Archdeacon's office also. 
 
 In D. 802 is a copy of the will (April 3, 1327) of Peter Soth 
 with the Mayoral seal, containing references to property 
 in " Waterber Strete," a tenement in the High Street called 
 " Marsheles Hous Bakere," " cum coffino quod vocatur 
 wylye," lands &c. in t<L Tyghertehaye," rent of a "falaisia"; 
 (cliff) without the Northgate next the bank of the Exe, a 
 garden called "la Medehaye," a tenement called "La Cage "
 
 282 
 
 opposite St. James* Church, and a place in South Street, 
 which he recovered as Chief Lord for non-payment of rent 
 by process of " Gavelack and Shorford " in the City 
 Court. In D. 809 (March 6, 1329) is the will of Ralph 
 Atte Lane or Atterlane, in which he names a garden in 
 " Chollefelde " and 2 " sullines " (i.e. selions) of land in 
 " Serlyshey " (or " Serlesheye " D. 159). D. 914, the will of 
 Nicholaa Woterford, dated June 2, 1369, in which he leaves 
 I2d. to the Rector of Trinity for forgotten tithes ; the will of 
 Nicholas de Alberton proved in the Mayor's Court in 1348 
 (D. 969) and recited in D. 971 (March 28, 1384) ; the will of 
 Joan Wilde (D. 994), dated Sept. 3, 1391, showing her furniture, 
 utensils &c. ; the will of John Nymet (D. 994a), dated Oct. 27, 
 1391, containing some curious bequests ; the will of Roger 
 Hethman (D. 998), May, 1393, with a note of probate in the 
 City Court. In D. 1002 (Feb. 16, 1395) is a reference to the 
 executors of the will of Thomas Smythesheghes. In D. 1007 
 is the will of William Row, dated Aug. 31, 1395, proved 
 Nov. 15, 1395, in which he leaves two " Sullones, Anglice 
 Rygges " of land without the East Gate on this side 
 " Maudelynhey," a close called " Averysland " and a " dayva " 
 of land next the lane towards Polslo. For a half 
 " dayva " of land lying byne the wey without the Eastgate, 
 see D. 862 (July 20, 1347). In D. 1014 (Oct. 3, 1396) is the 
 will of Andrew Poleworth, baker, in which he leaves his 
 house in " Corrystrete " with a garden next " Pacye- 
 strete." This will was proved both in the Archdeacon's Office 
 on Nov. 24, 1396, and in the City Court on Feb. 19, 1397. 
 In D. 1108a is the will of Philip Courtour, dated May 26, 1421. 
 In D. 1150 (July 20, 1432) is the will of John Hethman, in 
 which he leaves Is. 8d. to the Curate of St. Paul's on account 
 of forgotten tithes, also 16d. each to the monks of St. Nicholas, 
 the Friars Preachers and the Friars Minor if they shall be 
 present at his burying at St. Peter's. The will was proved 
 before the officer of the Archdeacon of Exeter on Sept. 24, 
 1432. In D. 1241a (Aug. 20, 1464) is the will (in English) of 
 Mawte, wife of Hugh Courtenay, knight, in which she 
 leaves houses in " Prestonstrete " and " Tygherstrete " to 
 pay 13d. to 13 poor men in Grendon's Almshouses [i.e. the 
 Ten Cells in Preston Street founded by Simon Grendon in 
 1406 Izacke, 207 ; Rept. on Char., 91 ; Endowed Charities, 
 331. Grendon, who was Mayor in 1395, 1398 and 1405, left 
 his charity to be administered by the Chamber]. She also 
 left 3s. to the Prior and 2s. to each of the monks of St. Nicholas' 
 Priory, who after " comply n sayd or songe " daily for ever- 
 more shall sing an anthem of Our Lady there and say the 
 psalme De profundis with Pater Noster and Ave Maria, " wyth 
 preces and orysons thereto belonging at my tumbe and buryell 
 there for evermore for my soul, &c." In D. 1264 (Oct . 6 
 1472) is the will of Edward Benet, smith, in which he leaves 
 his " toga de scarleto et mustardevylics," and " lytell
 
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 poyntyng anvyld." The tools &c. in his shop are left to his 
 wife if she chooses to carry on the business, and if not to his 
 two servants. The seal of the Archdeacon is appended, 
 and there is a memorandum of probate on March 16, 1474. 
 In D. 1266 (July 20, 1473) is the will (in English) of William 
 Duke, in which he directs his executors to find " mete, drynke 
 and honest housherber " for his daughter Elizabeth and 
 her issue if she have any according to their degree, " as they 
 will aunswere for byfore God at the dredfull day of judgement." 
 
 In D. 1279, March 8, 1479, is the will of Joan Benet with 
 the Archdeacon's seal, in which she leaves sundry articles 
 of dress to her daughter Eleanor. 
 
 In D. 1312, 1314, Aug. 18, 1491, Master Robert Rydon 
 as Executor of the Will of Richard Turner, enters into an 
 indenture whereby the Mayor is bound to pay 3d. a week 
 to a tailor for life and to keep an anniversary for the testator 
 and his wife Margery in the chapel of St. George. 
 
 In D. 1361, May 5, 1510, is the will of William Doun, 
 yeoman, in which he leaves his house in " Bochcrow," situate 
 next to the tenement of Nicholas Wadham, knight, and 
 land called " Chambernounsmershe," together with a tenement 
 and garden in Cowykstrete, arranging for 65. Sd. yearly to be 
 paid for the maintenance and continuation of a mass of the 
 name of Jesus to be celebrated every Friday in the church 
 of St. George next the Guildhall (see page 44). In D. 1377 
 (Dec. 31, 1511) is the will (in English) of William Wilford, 
 Esquire, in which he leaves his lands and tenements without 
 Westgate to pay 13s. 4d. to the " pryste the whiche shall 
 syng in Synt George ys Chapell withyn the Gyld Hall of the 
 cite aforseyd over and above his olde wages, wherefore I will 
 that the same priste dayly when he syngyth masse schalle 
 say in the same masse for the soulys of me the seyd Willyam, 
 and the seyd Annye [his wife] the colettes of Deus cui proprium 
 and Inclina Domine aurem tuam, and in the ende of everye 
 masse De profundis. Appended is the testator's seal " S. 
 Willelmi Wyllford." Also in D. 1376 (Dec. 31, 1511). 
 
 Water Supply. 
 
 Li D. 192 (undated ? 1260) the Prior and Convent of St. 
 Nicholas in Exeter grant leave to Martin Durling (called 
 Derling in Coll. Top. i, 376 ; or Dirling in Oliver, Mon., 116) 
 and his heirs to draw water "ab aqueductu que est in cemeterio 
 nostro ce Occidentali parte ecclesie nostre per gardinum 
 nostrum quod est in occidentali parte que ducit a magno vico 
 usque ad Fratres Minores." 
 
 In D. 718, Jan. 16, 1299, is an agreement on the part of 
 the Mayor and Commonalty of Exeter by consent of Edmund
 
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 Earl of Cornwall with Master Henry de Bolleg'*, Archdeacon 
 of Totnes, concerning the building of a tower next the said 
 Archdeacon's house per quam communis aqua civitatis 
 ingreditur. 
 
 In D. 864, Nov. 2, 1347, King Edward III grants to the 
 Warden and Convent of the Grey Friars of Exeter, quod ipsi 
 duos modicos (sic) atque ortus se jungentes in profunditate 
 fossati civitatis Exon inter orientalem et australem portas 
 ejusdem civitatis profundius fodere et muro lapideo basso 
 includere et aquam de ortibus illis sive fonte inde facto exinde 
 per fistulam subterraneam hi fossato predicto et ultra stratam 
 regiam usque ad domum sive habitacionem fratrum pre- 
 dictorum, qua in loco sicco situatur et ad quam aque cursus 
 non habetur, ponendam ducere ac caput fontis predict! 
 dictamque fistulam quotiens reparacione et emandacione 
 indigent reparare et emendare ac de novo construere et 
 facere prout magis expedire viderint &c. (printed in Oliver, 
 Mon. y 333, from Pat. 21 Edivard III, 24; see Gal Pat. 
 Edward III, vol. vii, p. 424). 
 
 In D. 859 (May 3, 1346) is the settlement of a dispute 
 between the Prior of St. Nicholas on the one side and the 
 Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral and the Mayor &c. on the 
 other, in regard to the making and repairing of the common 
 water " conduit," the water of which rises without the East 
 Gate in St. SidwelTs parish. The Dean and Chapter are to 
 bring the water from the spring to the churchyard of St. Peter's, 
 where the water is divided into three channels, of which the 
 Mayor and Citizens take one and the Prior and Convent of 
 St. Nicholas one each paying 8s. yearly to the Dean and 
 Chapter. 
 
 For references to the " Town will " (i.e. well, fons villce), 
 see D. 1024, D. 1066 (Oct. 24, 1413), D. 1124 (Sept. 21, 1425), 
 D. 1141 (March 21, 1430). For the Head-well in St. Sidwells, 
 see D. 1097 (May 3, 1420), where the Chamber acquire per- 
 mission to dig a trench from it through two closes to the high 
 road and bring the water in leaden pipes through the said 
 trench. 
 
 In D. 761, Sept. 24, 1312, is a reference to a lane called 
 " la Hevedwill " called the lane to " la Heavedwill " in D. 1028 
 (Dec. 15, 1400) or " Hedwille," D. 1105 (Sept. 8, 1420). In 
 D. 1188, 1189 (May 1, 1444), the Chamber obtain licence to 
 dig for water in a close of land without the East Gate in 
 St. Sidwell's Fee next a lane called " Cakelane," and to carry 
 away the water there found in leaden pipes to the new conduit. 
 
 In D. 1229, Sept. 8, 1458, is an agreement as to the abatement 
 of a nuisance caused by rain water and other waters issuing 
 
 * Bollegha. i.e. Bolhay, Bolegh, Bollet. Oliver, Mon., 49, 59, 60. Called 
 Bolleys in Le Neve, 1, 402
 
 285 
 
 from St. John's Hospital and the intermediate places to the 
 almshouse erected by John Steven, situated opposite 
 St. Stephen's Bow (i.e. St. Katherine's Almshouse extra 
 portam clausi versus fratres ordinis prcedicatorum Exon. Oliver, 
 Mon., 407, from the will of the founder, John Stevens, M.D., 
 Canon of the Cathedral, dated Feb. 3, 1457, proved Feb. 27, 
 1460), and descending to the head of the lane which leads 
 to the city walls between the area of the Dominican Convent 
 on the east and the houses of some of the Canons of the 
 Cathedral on the west. The head of the lane was sometimes so 
 obstructed by the waters as to form a great marsh and 
 became a receptacle for filth and putrid carcases, exposing 
 the inhabitants to the immediate danger of infection. It was 
 now agreed that the Mayor &c. should erect a new gate at the 
 head of the said lane of 8ft. wide, by which hay and fuel might 
 be brought to the houses of the Canons who had doors opening 
 into the lane, viz., the Archdeacon of Totnes, the Sub-Dean 
 and Canon Martin Dyer and a stone pillar was to be made 
 through the lane to convey the water into the Town Ditch. 
 
 In D. 1418 (A.D. 1534) is a small paper book of 14 leaves 
 containing a note of the expenses of making the Great Conduit. 
 " Mdm. that John Newtun and John Gebcons beganne to 
 make the grete condet of Exsetur the viij. day of Novembre, 
 and here folowyth the costes and charges." The expenses are 
 entered under weeks as " The Wyke of Saynte Marten." At 
 the end, " Thys ys the hole boke, the sum thereof trewly caste 
 as y can do xxviijfo*. xjs. viijrf." 
 
 In D. 1690, Sept. 27, 1600, John Moore, plumber, of Exeter, 
 contracts in consideration of 60Z. to lay new leaden pipes to 
 the two conduits from the Chamber's two chief cisterns in the 
 parish of St. Sidwell. 
 
 In D. 1763, Jan. 1, 1649, John Canne, plumber, of Exeter, 
 contracts for the repair of all lead pipes, cisterns &c. connected 
 with the water works of the city for seven years. For a similar 
 contract by Christopher Cann, plumber, see D. 1768 (Dec. 25, 
 1653). 
 
 In D. 1793a, Nov. 10, 1694, Jonathan Pyrke and Richard 
 Lowbridge contract with the Mayor &c. concerning the water- 
 works and the supplying of the City with water ; and in 
 D. 1794a, Feb. 12, 1695, the Mayor &c. make a grant to them 
 of the water works of the city and several parcels of land for 
 a term of 200 years. [See L. 456.] 
 
 John Shillingford. 
 
 In D. 1196, Aug. 8, 1447, is a bond in 500?. from the Bishop 
 and Chapter of Exeter to the Mayor and Commonalty of Exeter 
 to abide by the decision of Archbishop Stafford and other 
 arbitrators in the dispute between Bishop Lacy and the city,
 
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 and to appear before the said arbitrators on the quinzaine of 
 Michaelmas next (" whiche day we kepte," Shillingford, 
 p. 2 ; cf. " to kepe the day of apparence atte xv. of Synt Michell 
 as the city was bounde to as hit appereth by a bounde con- 
 diycionell " Ibid., p. 5). The document is printed in 
 Shillingford, p. 135 ; see also Book 51, f. 976. 
 
 In D. 1198, 1199, Dec. 12, 1448, is the final settlement 
 of the dispute with seals of Bishop Lacy and the Chapter. 
 Fruited in Shillingford, p. 136 ; see also Book 51, f. 986, 99 ; 
 Misc. Bolls 69. For Bishop Lacy's bond in 2,000?. (Dec. 12, 
 1448) to perform the covenants made, see D. 1200 printed in 
 Shillingford, p. 140. 
 
 John Shillingford's name occurs as an owner of property in 
 Exeter in D. 1179 (Sept. 28, 1441) ; D. 1210 (April 26, 1454) ; 
 also that of several of his colleagues in the conflict with 
 Bishop Lacy, e.g., Thomas Dowrish (D. 1105, 1107, 1138, 
 1158) ; William Speer (D. 1192) ; Kichard Druell (D. 1268) ; 
 John Coteler (D. 1164, 1177, 1181, 1184, 1203, 1225, 1226); 
 Hugh Germyn (D. 1179, 1203, 1259, 1332, 1364 for property 
 belonging to him hi " Archelane " in the parish of St. Mary 
 Arches as to which a dispute arose subsequently with the 
 Prior of Launceston, see D. 1332, Sept. 30, 1499) ; John Germyn 
 (D. 1114, 1210, 1222) ; Thomas Montagu (D. 1169, 1179, 1192, 
 1207) ; John Copleston (D. 1212) ; and Master Roger Kyes 
 (D. 1259, or Keys, Treasurer of the Cathedral 1467-1477). 
 
 Sundries. 
 
 In D. 1202 is a bundle of copies and memoranda of writs 
 (A.D. 1367 to 1449) with references to the Memoranda Rolls 
 of the Exchequer relating to the scrutiny of gold and silver, 
 the exportation of provisions &c., &c., contrary to statute and 
 proclamation. 
 
 In D. 1235, June 20, 1461, is a letter of protection from 
 Donald McKayard, Prince of Dece [? Decies, co. Waterford, 
 or Deece, co. Meath] (see Loch Ce, i, 57 ; ii, 553), and Dermitius 
 O'Sullfivan], capitaneus sue nacionis to Vulialm Neil, master 
 of a ship called Maria Otresmuth [i.e. Ottermouth] of protection 
 and defence on land and sea so long as the said ship remains 
 in their dominion (with seal much defaced). 
 
 City Gates. 
 
 In D. 918 (A.D. 1370) is a licence by the Chamber to John 
 Nymet, citizen of Exeter, to make two doors, one in the east 
 part of the tower over the North Gate and another in the east 
 part of his garden next the city wall, provided that the keys 
 of the said doors remain in the custody of the Chamber. 
 
 In D. 1248, Sept. 29, 1466, is a lease by the Mayor &c. for 
 87 years of a "chambour in cure towre over the Estgeate
 
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 with le house thereto adjoinante being and lyinge immediately 
 betwixte the said chamboure in the Est party and the chapel 
 of Seynt Bartholomewe in the West party," subject to the 
 condition that it shall not be sublet " to any Lord or Lady 
 by the whiche the said city shulde be troubled or vexed, but 
 only to priests beneficed above the sum of 201. or to wymmen or 
 dwellers within the city and suburbs." 
 
 In D. 1280, June 28, 1480, this chamber is described as 
 being " ultra " the East Gate, though endorsed : " the towre 
 over the yeate." 
 
 In D. 1315, Sept. 8, 1491, is a lease by the Mayor &c., to 
 Henry Grymston, clerk, of a tenement with chambers and 
 chapel annexed above the Eastgate. 
 
 In D. 1275, Sept. 25, 1477, is a grant from the Mayor and 
 Commonalty of Exeter to Robert Russell of " our Tower above 
 the Westgate." 
 
 Li D. 1293, March 1, 1486, the wardens of the church of 
 St. Mary Steps grant a licence to Robert Russell to fix a 
 chimney upon a house belonging to the church of St. Mary 
 Steps. 
 
 In D. 1334, Sept. 8, 1500, John Russell, son and heir of 
 Robert Russell, gives a receipt to Edward Carswell of 
 Plymouth for 64 dozen of white woollen cloths in full satis- 
 faction of a sum of money owing to him for five tenements in 
 Westgate with a small seal and signature " per me John 
 Russell." 
 
 In D. 1352 (April 21, 1506) is a grant from Edward Carsewell 
 and Alice his wife to John Orenge and others of all their 
 property in the parish of St. Mary's Steps as well as a Chamber 
 above the West gate. 
 
 Letters of Fraternity. 
 
 D. 1256c (A.D. 1468). Letters of fraternity issued by Friar 
 Robert Munst, of Thelisford*, Vicar General of the Trinitarians, 
 admitting Robert Yonge, Chaplain, and Ralph and his wife, 
 Anastasia, into the brotherhood and granting to them 
 participacionem omnium bonorum spiritualium quce fient et 
 erunt in toto ordine nostro predicto. 
 
 Endorsed : Ego absolve te ab omnibus peccatis tuis per 
 te contritus (sic) et michi vere confessus (sic) necnon et de 
 oblitis quorum non recordaris de quibus velles confiteri ac 
 plenariam absolucionem omnium peccatorum tuorum in 
 quantum claves ecclesise se extendunt tibi do et concedo. 
 Ita ut sis absolutus ante tribunal domini nostri Jhu Christi 
 habeasque vitam eternam in secula seculorum. Amen. 
 
 * i,e. the Priory of Thelesford near Charlcote in Warwickshire,
 
 288 
 
 Connection with London. 
 
 In D. 1288, Sept. 28, 1482, Thomas Percy,* Prior of the 
 Church of the Holy Trinity [in Aldgate], London, acknow- 
 ledges receipt of 121. 16s. 3d. paid to him by the Mayor out 
 of the farm of the City of Exeter due to the Priory by the 
 alms of the progenitors of the King [Edward IV i.e. since 
 the time of Queen Maud (wife of Henry I), who in 1108 granted 
 to the Priory duas partes redditus civitatis Exonie Dugd., 
 Mon., vi, 150, 153 ; or 25 limes blanches Ibid., 157 ; Stow, 
 London, i, 140]. 
 
 In D. 1345, May 26, 1502, is a memorandum that the 
 Lord Chancellor has decreed that the citizens of London 
 should return to the citizens of Exeter all such distress as 
 they have taken from hem in times past for scavage [or 
 " shewage," which was made illegal in the Parliament that 
 met at Westminster on Jan. 25, 1504 Sfat., ii, 653. For 
 this claim of the Mayor of London, see Book 51, /. 36 ; Book 52, 
 /. 280; Misc. Rolls, 82]. 
 
 In D. 14306 (28 Henry VIH, i.e. 1536-37) the Chamber 
 petition that in their new Charter [i.e. Charter XXXIII, 
 granted Aug. 23, 1537] the Mayor, Bailiffs and Commonalty 
 may hold a Gilda Mercatoria cum Hansa, as the Mayor and 
 citizens of London do, so that no one except those belonging 
 to the Guild shall traffic hi the city. 
 
 In D. 1623&, Jan. 29, 1584, are the London rates for woolles, 
 the charges and duties at the King's beame in Leden Hall 
 and the wages of the officers and ministers of the Staple at 
 Westminster made in 18 Edward IV (1478-9) and ratified 
 and confirmed in 1584. 
 
 Cowley Bridge. 
 
 In D. 1428, 1430a, Jan. 10, 1537, is a letter from Sir Thomas 
 Denys, Kt., and other Justices of the Peace for the County 
 of Devon to the Sheriff of Devon and all Mayors, Bailiffs, 
 Constables &c., praying for aid to rebuild Cowley Bridge 
 " and wheir by the greatt habundance and vyolence of the 
 water of Exe a greytt parte of the brygge comynly callyd 
 Cowlegh Brygge whiche of old tyme by the charytabyll actys 
 of well disposed people wasse of olde tyme buylded and make 
 over the Ryver of Exe betwene the citie of Exceter and other 
 parties necessarye to have recors to the said citie and other 
 parties abowte or ny the sayd citie there laboryng and 
 travayling ys nowe lattely fallyn downe brokyn and decayd 
 yn a greytt part theirof and nott lykely to be reedyfyed and 
 made ageyn without grett cheryte and the cherytabyll ayde 
 and helpe of the inhabitants of thys countie and for as moche 
 as the sayd brygge wasse the King's hygh waye and the comyn 
 
 * Appointed October 2, 1481. Dugd., Mon., vi., 161.
 
 289 
 
 passage of all the Kyng's subjects and people over the seid 
 ryver of Exe and that the lake theirof wul not be only a greyt 
 hurte and decay to the comyn welth but also many daungers 
 thereby also ensue and chauns to the Kyng's subjects laboryng 
 and travaylyng the countrey both by day and by nyght &c. 
 Therefore they pray for charytabyll helpe and socour for the 
 new buyldyng and amendyng of the seyd brygge after your 
 liabilities and good willes." " And thus ye schall deserve the 
 rewarde of God and to be yn goode and godly reporte of and 
 for the comyn welth." With four seals and the signatures of 
 the justices. 
 
 Attached to this is a letter (D. 1429, 1430), dated Dec. 25, 
 1536, from John [Voysey] Bishop of Exeter [1519-1551] to 
 all Abbots, Priors, Provosts &c., reciting the breaking of the 
 bridge and the peril and inconvenience therefrom arising, 
 requesting them to make aid to the rebuilding and offering 
 40 days of pardon to all who shall contribute. [For a voluntary 
 contribution made by the inhabitants of the County in 1536, 
 see Izacke, 118.] 
 
 In D. 215, Nov. 20, 1499, is a reference to the highway 
 from Exeter to Cowley Bridge, which is called " the great 
 bridge called Cowley Bridge in the manor of Duryurd " in 
 D. 1477 (April 24, 1553). 
 
 Exmouth Ferry. 
 
 In D. 1437, April 28, 1542, is a lease from the Chamber to 
 John Drake of Exmouth for 29 years at a rental of 265. 8d. of 
 " all that our Ferry and passage at Exmouth and our boat 
 called " le passage bote " with all gear pertaining to the 
 same, " together with a piece of land next the sea at Exmouth 
 called " Prattishedd," measuring 110ft. by SGft., with small 
 seal and signature " by me John Drake the eldear of 
 Exmouth." 
 
 In D. 1512, June 1, 1558, is a similar lease for 70 years to 
 Gilbert Drake of Lytelham, gent., who covenants to repair 
 and maintain the ferry. 
 
 For composition between the Abbot of Sherborne (Dorset) 
 and the Mayor and Commonalty of Exeter in regard to this 
 ferry in 1265-66, see Misc. Rolls II, 34. 
 
 Farming of Dues. 
 
 In D. 1442, Oct. 1, 1543, is a lease for 5 years at a rental 
 of III. granted by the Mayor &c. to John Jonys of Exeter, 
 capper, of " all that cure ferine of Baggavell [for " perticulers of 
 such duties as dothe appertaine to Bagavell," see Book 52, 
 /. 244], Chepgavell and Brythyngavell [called " brethyngavell " 
 in D. 1487 ; " brithingavel," Misc. Rolls II, 35 ; " bethu- 
 gavel," Izacke, Proem., 20 ; Oliver, 310], with the cu&tome 
 of apples, oyle and hony," also " all that oure ferme of weying 
 
 Wt. 20757. Ex 19
 
 290 
 
 of yerne [called weyng and wyghtyng of yarn and woll in 
 D. 1487], as well at the feer tymes as at every markett 
 tyme " the rates being set out in the document. For 
 similar leases see D. 1487 (April 13, 1554) for 21 years 
 at a rental of 121. ; D. 1626 (Sept. 28, 1584) where " there 
 ferme of wool " is leased to Henry Wynnam, weaver ; D. 1671 
 (Sept. 12, 1595), where the " ferme of waighynge of yarne " 
 is leased to Thomas Jurden, weaver ; D. 1689 (Sept. 20, 1600), 
 where their farm of weighing wool is leased to Richard Miller, 
 glover. 
 
 In D. 1480, Jan. 20, 1554, is a lease of " the custome of 
 wode and foyell called the wodhay " to John Hayward of 
 Exiland, " flaccher." 
 
 In D. 1622, Sept. 18, 1583, is a lease for 17 years at a rental 
 of 2QL p.a. to Nicholas Spicer, merchant, of " the Towne 
 Custome due to the Mayor &c. for the entrye of all manner of 
 shippes, barkes, boates and vessells whatsoever arryvynge 
 within the Porte or Haven of the citye of Exeter," and " of 
 all manner of wares and merchandizes laden and brought in 
 them," with all forfeitures and profits in terms of the yearly 
 farm paid by the city into the Exchequer. For similar leases, 
 see D. 1715 (Nov., 1610), for 20 years at 20Z. rental ; D. 1756 
 (Jan. 2, 1638), for 5 years at 32Z. rental. See also pp. 72, 73, 
 (Topsham). 
 
 In L. 351 (circa. 1630) is a reference to the Quay Lime Kilns 
 belonging to the Chamber. 
 
 For the town custom or duties mortgaged for 5001. on 
 June 11, 1700, see D. 1801, 1803, 1807, 1817, 1822, 1833, 
 1834, 1835, 1839 ; also for 1,OOOZ., see D. 1846 (Feb. 25, 1761). 
 
 The customs of Exeter (consuetudines, see Oliver, pp. 310- 
 312) were collected " from all persons bringing goods into 
 the markets to be sold " (D. 1818, Jan. 20, 1712 ; Misc. Roll II, 
 35). For Accounts of the Collectors of the Town Custom, 
 Town Duties and Cellarage, 1701 to 1827 (with gaps), see 
 Books 169-181. Also Books of the Rates of the Towne Custom 
 from the reign of James I onwards, see Books 234-244, of 
 which Book 239 contains : " A Table to know what goods 
 or merchandize there is allowed to the ton and what every 
 man is to pay for that which is not compted by tonnage," 
 made in 1598. 
 
 For law-suits in connection with the Town Customs from 
 temp. Elizabeth onwards see Law Papers in Calendar II, 
 pp. 231-234. 
 
 For Customs Rolls, i.e. accounts of the .Collectors of the 
 Town Custom, Petty Custom or Town Duty levied in the 
 Port of Exeter from temp. Edward I to 1610, with occasional 
 gaps, see Calendar II, pp. 186-192. 
 
 In D. 1731, Sept. 29, 1615, is a lease from the Mayor &c. of 
 the farm or custom commonly called ''Barelbearing." For
 
 291 
 
 similar leases see D. 17386 (Sept. 29, 1621), D. 1746 (Oct. 6, 
 1628), with schedules of rates attached. In D. 1632 (Sept. 16, 
 1585) is a reference to Edward Wagband, of Exeter, " barel- 
 berer." 
 
 Property of Religious Houses. 
 
 In D. 1465a is a paper book showing rents arising from 
 the property in Exeter and the suburbs lately belonging to 
 the religious houses, viz., St. John's Hospital, St. Nicholas 
 Priory, the Nunnery of Polslo, the Abbeys of Ford, Dunkeswell, 
 and Newenham, the Priories of Pilton, Plympton and 
 Launceston and St. John's Hospital at Bridgwater. All 
 this property was purchased for 899Z. Is. lid. on April 2, 1545, 
 by John Haydon and Thomas Gibbes (see L. 19, page 20), by 
 whom they were surrendered on March 7, 1546, to Sir John 
 Williams, knight, Treasurer of Augmentations, and Henry 
 Norryce (or Norres), Esquire (D. 1452, with seals and initials 
 of Harvey and Gibbes), of whom they were purchased by 
 John Blackaller, John Mydwinter, William Hurst, William 
 Buckenham, Thomas Prestwood and John Peryam for 
 1,460 2s. 3d. on May 20, 1549 (D. 1464, 1465 ; Misc. Roll 28), 
 from whom they finally passed into the hands of the 
 Corporation on Oct. 7, 1555, see D. 1498, (in which the details 
 are again enumerated) ; D. 1499 (i.e. a letter-of-attorney 
 from the Chamber to Edmund Wytcumbe and Humphrey 
 Jewne to take over the property from John Blackaller and 
 others) ; D. 1499a, 14996 (showing the rental) ; Book 52, 
 /. 1716. Attached to D. 1449 is a slip of parchment showing 
 " the charges of John Wyllams, Wyllam Huste, John 
 Blackaller, Thomas Prestwood, John Mydwynter, Wyllam 
 Bucknam and John Peryham for a write of dedimus postestatem 
 for theyr fealties." 
 
 Some Leases. 
 
 In D. 1468, May 26, 1550, Alice Heth of Exeter, widow, 
 grants a reversionary lease of a tenement at West Teignmouth 
 near the sea-shore to the south to John Mugge and Joan his 
 wife, with the following note : Item if the said Alice be 
 disposed to come to the said John Mugge's house iiij. tymes 
 in the yere the said John is contentyd to his cost and charges 
 to fend hur mete, drynk and beddyng and as God schall send 
 hym at every tyme a wyke." 
 
 In D. 1477, April 24, 1553, is the lease of a meadow called 
 " Cowemarshe " for 90 years or terminable with 3 lives, the 
 survivers paying a heriot or " ffarleve " at each decease with 
 sundry other covenants. 
 
 In D. 1523, May 20, 1562, is the lease of a house in Racke 
 Lane in the Parish of St. Mary Major, together with a 
 " braying mantell " and a well.
 
 292 
 
 The Gaol. 
 
 In D. 1500, March 10, 1566, Elizabeth Ho well, widow, 
 gives a bond for 501. to the Chamber for the proper discharge 
 of her duties as keeper of the gaol, which office she has by 
 lease dated Sept. 24, 1547. In D. 1501, 1502, 1503 (same 
 date) three other sureties (male) give bonds for her, each for 50 J. 
 
 In D. 1721, April 4, 1613, are orders for the establishing, 
 continuance and governance of a house of correction in the 
 city of Exeter ; also in D. 1776, July 10, 1665. 
 
 In D. 1761, March 23, 1646, the keepership of the gaol is 
 granted to Gabriel Thomas of Rewe, yeoman. 
 
 In L. 480, April 2, 1722, is an order for appointing the 
 Town Clerk Treasurer of the Gaol and Hospital money for 
 1722. 
 
 In 1833a, Aug. 4, 1729, is a table of fees to be taken by 
 the gaolers of Insolvent Debtors at Exeter. 
 
 In D. 1838a, Dec. 21, 1741, the Governors of St. John's 
 Hospital grant to the Mayor &c. a lease of two tenements hi 
 Paris Street to erect a Bridewell. 
 
 For a reference to the French prison, see D. 1840 (Feb. 9, 
 1750). 
 
 The Ten Cells. 
 
 In D. 1533, April 22, 1554, William Hurst [see Cotton, 
 Guild, 36], as surviving feoffee of John Fulforde, clerk, under 
 a deed dated Oct. 20, 1517, grants to the Mayor &c. the Ten 
 Cells, with 10 gardens adjacent in Prestestrete [i.e. Simon 
 Grendon's almshouses, with seal and signature "by me William 
 Hurst." For Maud Courtenay's gift to these Almshouses, 
 see D. 1241. For Alice Heyth's (see D. 1468, p. 291) 
 gift to them by deed dated May 8, 1556, see Kept, on 
 Char., p. 91. 
 
 Duryurd Wood. 
 
 In D. 1556, Oct. 2, 1568, is a lease from the Mayor &c. of 
 " a certeine rawde " in their wood of Duryurd for the taking 
 of woodcockes and other byrdes in the same and also the 
 mastage and pannage of the said wood. 
 
 In D. 1796, Aug. 11, 1698, the . Chamber lets "all mynes 
 of Led, Tyn, Copper or Iron and all my^ies of Coale " in 
 Duryard Wood for three lives, the Chamber to have the 
 5th part of all ores or coal found. 
 
 Felon's Goods. 
 
 In D. 1595a is the sale to Anthony Floyer [d. Nov. 28, 1608 
 Worthy, Suburbs, 162] of lands formerly belonging to
 
 293 
 
 Charles Floyer, gentleman, which came into the possession of 
 the Mayor &c. " by reason of a felonye by the said Charrelles 
 commytted and done in killinge of one Walter Harris, and 
 whereof he is outlawed and attainted " (see Charter XXVIII). 
 For Floyer Hayes near the Snayl Tower, see Worthy, Suburbs, 
 161. 
 
 The Bonyfield Family. 
 
 In D. 1645, Sept. 6, 1587, is a lease of a tenement in 
 Southgate Street now in the tenure of Lawrence Bonyfield, 
 endorsed with a memorandum showing the history of the 
 Bonyfield family. 
 
 In D. 1727, May 20, 1615, is a note concerning some 
 furniture in a tenement at Southgate. 
 
 Licence to beg. 
 
 In D. 1733, Nov. 25, 1615, is a licence from the Admiralty 
 to Mary, widow of Thomas Parker, mariner, late of West- 
 minster, who was shipwrecked and lost over 5001. , to pass 
 through the country unmolested to receive alms and benevo- 
 lence of kindly disposed persons, with seal and signature of 
 " Chas. Nottiggam " [Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham, 
 Lord High Admiral]. 
 
 In D. 1734, May 1, 1616, is a similar licence signed " Charles 
 Nottingham," the latter word having been previously written 
 " Howarde " but altered. 
 
 Hele's Hospital. 
 
 D. 1777 (Oct. 21, 1669 Rept. on Char., 77). Deed of 
 settlement between the executors of Robert Snowe, clerk, 
 of Exeter, who was executor of Dr. Robert Vilvayne (see 
 page 12) and the Mayor and others of the brewhouse and 
 malthouse in Exilond as Trustees for pious uses, chiefly for 
 Hele's [i.e. the Blue Maids] Hospital (see Izacke, 176 ; Rept. 
 on Char., pp. 77, 85, 86). 
 
 In D. 1779, April 22, 1674, is a feoffment from Richard 
 Crossinge and Christofer Clarke, surviving trustees of Hele's 
 Charity, to John Butler, Nicholas Izacke and others, of the 
 property belonging to Hele's Hospital. 
 
 In D. 1851, Sept. 22, 1789, is a lease from the Mayor &c. of 
 a piece of ground adjoining the brewhouse with liberty to 
 lay trees in the river for bringing water to the brewhouse &c. 
 
 Exeter and Crediton Navigation. 
 
 In D. 1856, 1857, April 21, 1819, are surrenders from the 
 Company of Proprietors of the Exeter and Crediton Navi- 
 gation to the Mayor &c. and to the Governors of St. John's 
 Hospital.
 
 294 
 
 Proper Names. 
 
 The Miscellaneous Deeds contain a large number of references 
 to place names in Exeter and the suburbs, of which the 
 following specimens may prove of service as a guide to local 
 topography, as in many cases the original documents supply 
 details as to boundaries &c. by means of which the localities 
 may be exactly defined and identified. 
 
 (a) Streets, Lanes &c. 
 Archelane, D. 957, 1332. 
 Le Baly, 869, 975, 1091. 
 The Barbican (at East Gate), 769a, 787c ; the Barbigans, 
 
 1592, 1594 ; a piece of land called the Barbycan with- 
 out Southgate, 1479, 1589, 1681. 
 Barbicane Lane (in St. Paul's parish), 1560, 1634. 
 The Bishop's Gate, 1094, 1128. 
 The Bocherow, 1361 ; see Smythenstrete. 
 The Bolehull, 790, 932 ; i.e. the site of Wynard's Hospital, 
 
 see plan in Izacke. 
 Bolemlle stret, Bulhilstrete, Bulhylstrete (in St. Mary 
 
 Major's parish), 900, 1080, 1372, 1369, 1373, 1444, 
 
 1466, 1640. 
 Britayne, the street or via regia opposite the wall of 
 
 St. Nicholas Priory, 858, 865, 875, 876, 1059. 
 La Broadgate, 836, 870, 1403. 
 Busselane, 760, 1208. 
 Cakelane, KaMane, 761, 844, 981 ; without Eastgate, 
 
 1190a ; in St. Mary Major's parish, 1349. 
 Carfoix, 879, 908, 1186, 1361. 
 Carternstrete, Carterystrete, 706, 749, 1136. 
 La Comba, 667. 
 Combestret, 837a, 961. 
 The Cookerewe, 1571, 1729. 
 Correstrete, 794, 850a, 860 ; in the Parish of St. Stephen, 
 
 D. 134 ; Oliver, Mon., 303. 
 The Cornmarket (in St. Olave's Parish), 1774. 
 Covelegh Bridge, 697, 715, 750. 
 Cowleybridge Road, 1667. 
 Cowykstret, 703, 714, 780. 
 CroUedych, 811. 
 Culverlond Lane, 1067. 
 Doddeheghstrete, 613a, 682a, 904 now Bedford Mews ; 
 
 Oliver, Mon., 334. 
 Few Lane, 1276. 
 Le Fleshfold, la Fleyscheffolde, near Smithenstreet, 834, 
 
 840, 895 ; see Shambles. For making pentises for the 
 
 fleisfolde adjoining the Guildhall, see Wright, 315, from 
 
 Receivers' Accounts, 1387. 
 
 Frerenstrete, 786 in vico fratrum minorum, 682a. 738. 
 Le Fysshefoldegate, 864, 893. 
 The Gaol, 1045, 1147; gaolo domini regis, 1193, 1256.
 
 295 
 
 Garstonyswey (al. Voxlane), 1099 ; Garstoneweye, 7070. 
 
 Gennestrete, 767, 1035, 1155. 
 
 Goldsmithstrete, 1222. 
 
 High Street, 607, 620, 634c. 
 
 Idle Lane, L. 96. 
 
 Langbrokestrete (without Eastgate), 913, 1270 ; Lange- 
 
 brok, 634a, 795. 
 The Littel Stile, 1598. 
 Lyverdole, Luverdole, Leweredole (without Southgate), 
 
 685, 710a, 774, 1007. 
 Maudeleyn Street, 681, 807, 920. 
 Northstreet, Northyetstret, 665, 666, 6696, 726, 802. 
 Pacystrete, Pastrete (next St. John's Hospital), 685, 717a, 
 
 850c, 888, 1012. 
 Pancras Lane, 774a. 
 Parrysstrete, 1553. 
 Paulestrete, 624, 747. 
 Prestonestrete, Prieststreet, Prustestret, Prustonstrete, 
 
 159, 668, 763, 971, 1049, 1174, 1514. 
 La Eigweye, or Ruggewaye, 766a, 883a, 990, 1007. 
 St. Mary Lane (near Westgate), 719, 1808. 
 St. Martin Street, 625. 
 St. Nicholas Ditch, 680. 
 Serells Lane, 1553. 
 The Shambles (with entrance in St. Mary Arches), 1261, 
 
 1440 ; Old Shambells, 1615 ; the Shamells Wright, 319, 
 
 from Receivers' Accts., 1594. 
 Shetebrokstrete, Shitbroke Street, 765a, 776a, Seytebroc- 
 
 etrete, Sitabrokstrete, 683, 690 ; Scheotebrokstrete, 
 
 748 ; Schitebrokestrete, 707a, 788. 
 Shitebroke, Sytebrok, Schytebrok, 630, 66 la, 765, 785, 
 
 812 ; Shetbroke, 1498 ; Schutebrok, 689. 
 Le Smalle lane, 802. 
 Smythenstrete (alias le Bocherew), 604, 618, 668, 685, 
 
 1422, 1423 ; at the back of the Shambles, 1770. 
 Snayletour, 865, 1166. 
 South Street, Southyetstret, 603, 634a, 657, 66 le, 687, 
 
 897, 955. 
 Stonylane, 1028. 
 Styppecotehyll, 675. 
 Tythestrete, Tygherstrete, 806, 1241a. 
 Le Vyntery, 1272. 
 
 Waterberestret, 648, 697, 774a, 802. 
 Wethypytlane, 1467. 
 Wyggamoreslane, 1099. 
 The Yarmmarket (or Wool and Yarnmarket, 1683), a 
 
 house in Cookerewe adjoining the house of the Vicars 
 
 Choral, 1571, 1729. 
 
 Houses, Tenements &c. 
 Barrowhill (a tenement), 1669.
 
 296 
 
 Le Barton of Polleslowe, 1720. 
 
 Le Bertynhouse, le Bertynplace, or the Halle House of 
 
 Duryurd, 1378. 
 The Bulle (a hospice), 1525. 
 
 La Cage (a house), 634, 760, 782, 798 ; la Coghe, 683. 
 The Choristers' House (in South Street), 771, 1080, 1139, 
 
 Misc. Bolls, 63. 
 
 Communes latrinas (A.D. 1467), 1251. 
 The Cornishe Choughe (a place), 1590. 
 La Crofte, 707a, 951a. 
 La Dupeseler, 932. 
 
 Le Egle (in High Street), 1286, 1318, 1401. 
 La Five Selers, 1254. 
 The George (a tenement), 1436. 
 HeghhaUe, 951. 
 HeUe, 687, 710. 
 Holehere, 733, 753. 
 Holmes (a messuage), 1670. 
 The Inne at Beare (in South Street), 1466. 
 The King's Arms (inn) in High Street, 1804. 
 Turlox (a tenement), 1513. 
 The White Horse (a tenement), in St. Paul's, 1579, 1583. 
 
 Wells, Springs <kc. 
 
 Cakewylle, 981, 308. 
 
 Crockernswylle, 1034. 
 
 Duryurd well, 1604. 
 
 Felwill, 1119; Fellewill (next Tadyforde), 845, 852; 
 
 Velhwille, 850 ; in parco de Fellwell, 880. 
 La Hevedwill, 761, 1028. 
 Orwelle, 1092. 
 Pacyeswill, 851. 
 
 Le Town Will (ions villce), 1124. 
 Wellewylle (without Northgte), 759, 795. 
 Ywyll (beyond Eastgate), 1058. 
 
 Closes, Gardens, Hayes, Lands, Parks, <fec. 
 
 Asschelande, 710o. 
 
 Averaislond, Avereyslond (a cultura without the East 
 
 Gate), 776a, 804a, 927a, 928. 
 Beldamehey, 748. 
 Boghaye, 1010. 
 
 Broadparks (in Exweek), 1656. 
 Chaldefeldehay (a park), 947c. 
 Chaldewellehay (land and garden), 748. 
 Challefelde, Chaldefeld (without Eastgate), 789a, 806a. 
 Chambernonsmershe, 1361. 
 Clapermersshe, 1241. 
 Cockworthy (a close), 1552, 1641. 
 Colehay, 1278. 
 Colemanneshei, 634a.
 
 297 
 
 Colleywood (in Exiland), 1690&. 
 
 Collynsmarsh, 1614. 
 
 Cowemarshe (in Duryurd, near Cowley Bridge), 1477, 
 
 1628. 
 
 Crykelepythaye, 860. 
 Culverhay (a close), 1467. 
 Culverpark (without Eastgate), 1135, 1242. 
 Duryard, Duryerde, 680, 707. 
 Le Estarcumbe, Starecumbe, Starcombe (a meadow in 
 
 Duryurd), 759, 797, 1242, 1386, 1417. 
 Foghaye, 1388 ; or Voggeheyes (a meadow in Duryurd), 
 
 847, 1388. 
 Frerynhay (in the parish of All Saints), 1427 ; (next the 
 
 Snayle Tower), 1511, 1518. 
 Furzepark, 1433. 
 Gooseford (a close), 1450, 1456. 
 Garlikparke, 1242. 
 Heghys atter Esche, or att Esche in the manor of Heghys, 
 
 1092, 1109. 
 Holmismede, 1242. 
 La Langacre, 749, 757. 
 La Langeland (a cullura, without Eastgate), 676, 766a, 
 
 773a, 779a, 788a, 796a. 
 Langeparke and Marsh (in Duryurd), 1388. 
 Marepolhed, 1574. 
 Maudeleynhaye, 787, 1007. 
 Milislond, 776a. 
 La More, 776a. 
 
 Morkeshillyshaye (without Eastgate), 769. 
 The Mylhay, 1432, 1457. 
 North Duryurd Downe, 1390. 
 Northynghay, 1068. 
 Paradys (a garden), 1084, 1119c, 1127. 
 Pastellys Downe, 1475. 
 Pitacre (a close), 1213. 
 La Rededowne, 683. 
 St. Leonard's Down, 1830. 
 Le Schortelond (without Eastgate), 776a,6. 
 Serlesheye, 683. 
 
 Southynghaie, 678, 784, 843, 963. 
 Stouteshills (in Exweek), 1658. 
 Tadieford, 686, 697, 796. 
 
 Weare mead (a close next Calabear Wear), 1586. 
 Wiggamore, Wigmore, 883a, 1069. 
 Withybedd Medowe (in St. Sidwells), 1476, 1574. 
 La Woodehaye, 872, 950, 1056, 1175. 
 Wylpark (a close in Exwick), 1603, 1677. 
 Wysdomshay, 704, 753c. 
 
 Women's Names. 
 
 The Miscellaneous Deeds contain a large number of women's 
 names, of which the following are specimens :
 
 298 
 
 Acelina, Ascelin, 150, 612. 
 
 Agatha, 684, 747. 
 
 Amice, 663, 706, 816. 
 
 Aumeye, Misc. Bolls, 56. 
 
 Aveline, 682. 
 
 Avice, 686. 
 
 Blandeva, 1050. 
 
 Cecilia, 669&. 
 
 Clarice, 712, 759, 836. 
 
 Cristyan, 1495. 
 
 Dewnys, 1450 ; Dionysia, 658, 670, 682e,/, 730. 
 
 Edevia, 66 la. 
 
 Elisoba, 1097, 1152a. 
 
 Emmoba, 728, 1038. 
 
 Felicia, 663, 958. 
 
 Gesiana, 1047. 
 
 Gilda, 625, 789. 
 
 Giliana, 621. 
 
 Gonilcla, 797. 
 
 Hawisia, 729. 
 
 Helewisa, 744, 925. 
 
 Heleynora, 736. 
 
 Lyvena, 618a. 
 
 Mariata, 670, 67 la. 
 
 Martyne, 1435. 
 
 Mawyte, Mawde, 1450, 1451. 
 
 Maysanda, Maisanta, 724, 1071, 1190a. 
 
 Miralda, 908, 912, 997. 
 
 Nicolaa, Nycoll, 915, 1480. 
 
 Parva Rosa, 819a. 
 
 Paschasia, 1406. 
 
 Pauline, 658. 
 
 Philpota, 1593. 
 
 Rawlyn, 1627. 
 
 Ricarda, Richawde, 930, 1387, 1520. 
 
 Sabina, 8066. 
 
 Savra, 726. 
 
 Sibylla, 621. 
 
 Sonotta, 726, 784. 
 
 Thomasia, Thomasyn, 937a, 1474. 
 
 Urith, 1595, 1631. 
 
 Willa, WiUelma, 1033, 1068c, 1327. 
 
 Yllaria, 783. 
 
 Ysolda, 709, 940. 
 
 Trades and Occupations. 
 
 The following trades and occupations are mentioned in the 
 Miscellaneous Deeds : 
 Barboure, 1207, 1008. 
 Barelbearer, 1632, 1731. 
 Basketmaker, 1659.
 
 299 
 
 Bellmaker, 1215. 
 
 Berebruer, 1378. 
 
 Bocher, 941, 1154. 
 
 Brasyer, 1669. 
 
 Bruer, 1483. 
 
 Candeler, 892. 
 
 Capper, 1349, 1452. 
 
 Carpenter, 721. 
 
 Caryer, 1417. 
 
 Clerk, 668. 
 
 Clothworker, 1167. 
 
 Cobbler, 734 ; Soutere, 822. 
 
 Comber, L. 325. 
 
 Copiner, 747. 
 
 Cordwainer, Cordoner, 739, 788, 1264. 
 
 Cotiler, Cutler, 663a, 828, 1432a. 
 
 Deyher, 1085 ; Tinctor, 762, 660. 
 
 Dowere, 793. 
 
 Espycer, 754, 763, 800. 
 
 Felterer, Felter, 668, 1709. 
 
 Feltmaker, 1668. 
 
 Ferour, 911, 938; Verour, 700, 775. 
 
 Fisherman, 1232 ; Vyssher, 762, 831. 
 
 Flaccher, 1480. 
 
 Fourbour, 804a, 857a. 
 
 Glasyer, 1325. 
 
 Glover, 836. 
 
 Goldsmith, 1403. 
 
 Gurdeler, 834. 
 
 Gyngerer, 1216. 
 
 Haberdasher, 1683. 
 
 Hatmaker, 1400. 
 
 Harpour, 623. 
 
 Helyere, 683, 713, 734 ; Coopertor, 640, 732. 
 
 Heyr, 708. 
 
 Hopere, 664, 670, 658. 
 
 Hosier, 743, 1444. 
 
 Husbandman, 1515, 1617. 
 
 Kalende Fratres, 655. 
 
 Ledyntere, 762. 
 
 Marchal, 842, 907. 
 
 Masyhoun, 771, 832. 
 
 Molendinarius, 624. 
 
 Panter, 1046. 
 
 Parcheminer, 910 ; Parcaminator, 752, 789. 
 
 Pavyer, 1515. 
 
 Perour, 722, 741, 756, 
 
 Pistor, 665. 
 
 Plumbur, 692, 705, 1677. 
 
 Potecary, 1270 ; Apothecarius, 768. 
 
 Poynnur, 682.
 
 300 
 
 Roper, 794. 
 
 Saddler, 1057. 
 
 Saugere, 634, 680. 
 
 Scherer, 753d, 887. 
 
 Sergemaker, 1827. 
 
 Sewer, 791. 
 
 Skinner, 836a, 1120. 
 
 Smith, 1156, 1219. 
 
 Soper, 1106. 
 
 TaUlour, 705. 
 
 Tanour, 632, 719, 787a. 
 
 Taverner, 663, 895. 
 
 Teler, 666. 
 
 Towker, Tooker, Tucker, 1106, 1519, 1685, 1712. 
 
 Tynner, 1347. 
 
 Vychelere, 623; Vytler, 1615. 
 
 Wayte, 743a, 7436. 
 
 Webbe, 806 ; Webster, 1222. 
 
 Seals. 
 
 There is also a valuable collection of seals, of which the 
 following may be taken as samples : 
 Edward I, 137. 
 Edward VI, 1471. 
 Protector Somerset, 1460. 
 Elizabeth, 1649. 
 Commonwealth, 501. 
 Edmund Earl of Cornwall, 698. 
 The Exchequer (A.D. 1495), 234. 
 The Staple of Westminster (A.D. 1437), 1161. 
 Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, 226. 
 Wareham (do. do.), 1413. 
 Battle Abbey, 590. 
 Canonsleigh Priory, 718. 
 Cowick Priory, 847. 
 
 Exeter. 
 
 Archdeacon of, 1273. 
 
 Bishop Bartholomew (1161-1184), 226. 
 
 Bishop John (1185-1191), 229. 
 
 Bishop Grandison, 233. 
 
 Bishop Oldham, 1353, 1380. 
 
 Bishop Osbern (A.D. 1073), 148. 
 
 Bishop Quivil, 696. 
 
 Bishop William Warelwast, 222. 
 
 Chapter of, 223, 591, 598, 695, 696, 1353, 1397. 
 
 Exeter City, 349, 719, 722, 753, 829, 848, 872, 885, 904, 
 
 929, 961, 1116, 1129, 1189, 1233, 1234, 1237, 1255 
 
 [see Oliver, p. 224]. 
 Exebridge, 671, 675, 705, 779. 
 Grey Friars, 801, 968.
 
 301 
 
 Mayoralty, 142, 261, 349, 762, 802, 805, 871, 912. 
 
 Merchant Adventurers, 1687. 
 
 Polslo Priory, 682&. 
 
 St. James' Priory, 771. 
 
 St. John's Hospital, 139, 141. 
 
 St. Nicholas Priory, 161, 179, 206, 217, 221. 
 
 Staple of, 251, 259. 
 
 Vicars Choral, 1782. 
 
 Bonvile, William, 979. 
 
 Shillingford, John, 573, 575, 579. 
 
 Wynard, William, 577, 578.
 
 ( 302 ) 
 
 PART II. 
 BOOKS. 
 
 The Act Books of the Chamber. 
 
 These Books contain entries of the meetings of the Council 
 and the Orders and Minutes of that body. The descriptive 
 headings are in each case taken from Mr. S. Moore's Calendar, 
 which however gives little detailed information as to their 
 contents. 
 
 Books 3 to 10 are indexed by Richard Izacke. 
 
 No. 1 Act Book of the Chamber from 20 December, 1508, 
 to 20 October, 1538. A paper volume in quarto loosely bound 
 in a single skin of vellum now a good deal eaten by vermin. 
 It contains 194 folios, the last folio and the index being half 
 destroyed. On /. 1406 occurs an entry of a meeting of the 
 Council on 26 October, 1542. The volume contains a record 
 of the meetings and proceedings of the Council of the City 
 and appears to have been the Town Clerk's Minute Book. It 
 contains these entries down to /. 1526, and is contemporary 
 with Book 2. This volume has been marked on the cover, 
 " Duplicate of No. 1 (now called No. 2). It is, however, 
 not a duplicate : a comparison of the two will be found in the 
 next article under the description of No. 2. The following 
 are a few samples of its contents : 
 
 /. 176 (Dec. 11, 1510). It is aggreed that the resseyver 
 shall paye unto John Clyff Townclarke for his riding 
 to London by the commaundement of the xxiiij 205. 
 /. 18 (Dec. 18, 1510). That Estgate shalbe taken downe 
 
 and to be newe bildyd again. 
 
 /. 19 (March 8, 1511). That Robert Poke of Thorverton 
 
 shall bild and make Estgate of the Cite to finde all maner 
 
 of stuffe and he to have for his labor 128?. and to bild 
 
 6 votores. 
 
 /. 296 (March 20, 1512). That the Ressever shall sell 
 
 6 acres of Duryurde wode for the bildyng of Estgate. 
 ff. 35-40. A list of soldiers equipped by the city, their 
 weapons and the contributions of the citizens towards 
 their equipment, i.e. in 4 Henry VIII (1512-13), the 
 Mayor being John Symons (not Richard as in Oliver, 
 231), where John is not Mayor till 1523). The soldiers 
 are either Billmen or Bowmen. The weapons include
 
 303 
 
 swords (25. each), daggers (3d., id., or 6^.), pollax 
 (3s. 4d.) and halberds (IQd.). The contributions are 
 either in money or in kind, e.g., a pere of bregyders or 
 Bregyndelles, a standard, a pere of splynts, a bowe and 
 a shefe of arowys, the settyng of a pere of brigadyers, 
 a salet, a pere of gussetts, the makyng of 6 cotys, a 
 sawder, a shuld, a dagger, a gerdyll &c. The con- 
 tributors include a pochemaker, a mason, a scolemayster 
 (John Calwodeley, who contributes a pere of allemeyn- 
 revetts), a curtholder, a schomaker and a tailor. 
 
 /. 42. A note of the monies (118Z. 14s. 6d.) paid by the 
 various parishes of the city with the names of the 
 collectors in each case, towards the King's subsidy, 
 5 Henry VIII [i.e. Jan. 23 to March 4, 1514. Statutes iii, 
 117]. 
 
 /. 676. That the dorre in Estgate goyng into Seynt 
 Bartholomewe is chapell shalbe opened this daye, 
 whiche dorre John Speke, esquire, willed by his owne 
 wille and none other and the dorre to be hongid uppe 
 agayn as it was before. 
 
 /. 846 (26 Feb., 1520). Whereas William Cruygge [or 
 Crugge Mayor in 1515, 1518] hath gevyn unto the 
 Citie as sone as he is departed oute of this transitory 
 lif his cloke of scarlet, 2 paier of brygandyns, 2 saletts, 
 and 2 bills for which is graunted unto Anne the wife 
 of the seid William Gruygge during her wydohode canon 
 brede as olde maiers is wonte to have 8 canon lovys 
 at Ester and 20d. in money and as moche at Cristmas . 
 
 /. 86 (30 July, 1520). That Mr. Geoffraye Lewys nowe 
 beyng Maire shall have the cloke of scarlet lyned with 
 sarsenet which late Mr. John Bucknam [Mayor, 1509, 
 1516] gave unto the Cite for 40s. 
 
 /. 93 (4 Nov., 1521). That Maister Mair schall have for 
 hys pensyoun 40 marks and every Mair to have as moche 
 heirafter. 
 
 /. 936 (16 Dec., 1521). That my lady Crugg schal have 
 suche brede at Crystmas and Ester as maistress ffroste 
 hath [widow of William Frost, Mayor 1498, 1504]. 
 
 /. 95 (2 June, 1522). That Mary Mawdelyn feir schalbe 
 kypte every yere heirafter and that the feir to begyne 
 at Mary Mawdelyn Chapell and so to continue towardys 
 the Southgayte and also this same ffeir to be a free 
 ffeir for every mane that comyth to that feir for all 
 maner of marchande gooddes cattells quycke or dede 
 that they bryng. 
 
 /. 135 (19 Sept., 1532). That William Burgeyn [town 
 clerk] shall goo onto the president of the Chapter and 
 certifye hym in name of the hole Chapter (sic) that the 
 xxiiij be holy agreyd that the payll lately seytt upp 
 withyn the closse betwene Seynt Martyn churche and 
 the subdeyns housse schalbe drawyn downe agayn
 
 304 
 
 and requiryng them to cause hit to be so done before 
 one of the cloke of this present daye accordinge to 
 their appoyntement gave to the Maire and bretheryn 
 estday at Seynt Peters. 
 
 /. 152 (20 October, 1538). That William Burgeyn schalle 
 ryde to London and cause the new Charter concernyng 
 the Citie to be asshured and alowyd within the Exchesser 
 and also in the Kyngs huche, also that he be a suter 
 to mylord Privy seell and to the counsell for the pur- 
 chasse of all the lands and tenements concernyng the 
 Prior of Seynt Nycolas lying as well withyn the Citie 
 as the parish of Seynt David without Northgaytt 
 of the Citie of Exeter and also that the said William 
 Burgeyn shall have dayly whyll he ys out to his costs 
 2s. 4d. to ffend him and his servant. 
 
 ff. 154 to 157. Entries rekting to the equipment of 
 soldiers to be at Hampton on 22 April (5 Henry VIII), 
 1513, their harness &c. 
 
 /. 158. A list of sureties for ale sellers and tipplers for 
 their good behaviour. 
 
 ff. 159, 160. Fines of non-freemen, 5 Henry VIII [1513- 
 14], temp. John Symonds, Mayor. 
 
 /. 161 (Oct 22, 1513). Harnyse delivered to Thomas, 
 Provost to make clene &c., including pairs of splynts 
 saletts, a Baver, aprons of mayle, pairs of gussetts of 
 mayle, standards of mayle, 3 peces of mayle broken, 
 13 pairs of brigandyns, 7 shef of arowes, 11 bowes, 
 3 bills, a bukler, and 2 pairs of almayn revetts. 
 
 /. 1616, 6 Henry VIII [1514-15]. The confessions of sundry 
 persons concerning an attempt to " sawdre and gild an 
 olde noble which had no goolde." 
 
 /. 162 (Oct. 1, 1516). Assessment of a subsidy. 
 
 ff. 164-1946. Fines of non-freemen, 4 to 19 Henry VIII. 
 
 Book 2. The Act Book of the Chamber from 25 June, 1509 
 to 1 June, 1560 (/. 187). A paper volume in qto. bound in 
 leather which is now somewhat decayed. The leaves appear 
 to have been misplaced by the binder. /. 16 should be /. 1, 
 ff. 1 to 4 should follow /. 24, ff. 5 to 15 are blank. On /. 46 is 
 an entry belonging to the 24th year of Henry 8. The first 
 28 folios of this volume appear to contain the Acts or Perpetual 
 Orders of the Council respecting things permanent. They 
 appear to have been copied from Book No. 1 ; the Orders in 
 tnat Book which relate merely to things present and tem- 
 porary as the dismissal of officers, payments of money to the 
 Mayor, orders for payments for receiving the freedom of 
 the city, &c., &c., being omitted. Many more meetings of the 
 Council are mentioned in No. 1 than in this volume, because 
 unless some special important or permanent order was made 
 no notice was taken in No. 2 of the meeting : for this reason 
 there is often no entry for one or two consecutive years in this
 
 305 
 
 volume [No. 2], whereas in No. 1 the succession of meetings 
 is tolerably regular. No. 1, therefore, may be looked upon 
 as the original and the more important Book of the two. 
 On page 18 of No. 2, however, occurs an entry of a meeting 
 and an Act which is not in No. 1. The same thing occurs 
 on /. 186 and also on the same folio is an entry in No. 2 of a 
 meeting which is noticed in No. 1, but in No. 2 there occurs an 
 order not in No. 1. The entry under 5 October, 9 Henry Sin 
 No. 2 is much fuller than in No. 1, but there appear to be some 
 leaves missing in the latter volume. From the examination 
 of these two volumes it appears that No. 1 contains by far 
 the greater number of entries ; that No. 2 has many entries 
 of orders copied from No. 1, but that it also has a few entries 
 which do not occur in No. 1. Both the Books were no doubt 
 kept at the same time and are contemporary with the pro- 
 ceedings they record. No. 1 may be looked upon as the 
 Minute Book of the Council. No. 2 as the Act Boole. This 
 state of affairs however only continues down to the meeting 
 of 16 March, 1520, which is the same in both books. After- 
 this, [i.e. from /. 29 onwards in Book 2], the entries are distinct 
 in each book both as regards the dates and the proceedings 
 of the meetings. On the fly leaf at the beginning is an 
 inventory of the " ymplementys and ornamentis off Saynt 
 Georges Chapell " made on October 10, 1537 [see page 45], 
 At the end on ff. 188-192 are accounts of the payment of the 
 subsidies of the Xth and XVth by the various parishes of 
 the city from 7 Edward VI to 25 Elizabeth. Oliver in his 
 Calendar, p. 353, notes that the volume contains no reference 
 to the siege of Exeter in 1549. 
 
 The following are samples of the entries in Book 2 : 
 
 /. 28 (16 March, 1520). The Chamber agree that John 
 More and Bartholomew Fortescue, Esquires, shall 
 build 3 almshouses at the end of Exe Bridge in the 
 east partie of the Chapell stondyng upon the seid bridge 
 where as the two almyshouses is nowe stondyng for 
 whiche buyldyng they shall put in iij. power in the 
 seid housis at all tymes duryng there lyves at there 
 pleasure with the advice of the Maier and his brethern 
 and after the death of the founders the 3 houses to be at 
 the gift of the Mayer, Bailliffs and Cominaltie as they 
 were in times past. A similar entry appears in Act 
 Book I, /. 85. 
 
 /. 30 (4 Sept., 1528). Order that "The recever schall 
 pay no more mony for the obytt of Quene Molde * to the 
 parsons and curates of the Citie for as moche as they 
 have nott keptte the same obytt in tymes past as the 
 schuld have done." 
 
 /. 396 (28 Feb., 1537). That ther schalbe geyyn unto 
 Richard Pollard scheryff of Devon for his greytt 
 
 * i.e. Maud, foundress of the Trinity Priory in London. See page 4. 
 Wt. 20757. Ex 20
 
 306 
 
 payn taken for the Citie and yn especiall because he 
 had getyn a charter ffor William Hundaller a toune 
 of Gaysconewyne. 
 
 /. 40 (same date). That there schalle no Bruer send 
 owte any ale of there howses withyn xxiiij. cures after 
 that hit ys tunnyd upon payment of every Borell 12d. 
 
 /. 42 ( 1 8 November, 1539). That the Mayor and 4 members 
 of the Chamber shall go thorought with Mr. Thomas 
 Carewe for the fee symplee of the churche of 
 Seynt John to the use of the Citie of Exeter for 
 40 marks. 
 
 /. 49 (26 May, 1541). That the Maire schall make pro- 
 clamation the next market day that all Rawe cloth 
 and yerne which hereafter schall come to the citie the 
 markett days that is to wite the Wenysdays and the 
 ffrydays schall bryng it to the place thereto appoyntyd 
 that is to wite at the newe byldyng in the Cokery 
 (? Cookrew) over agenst Seynt George is church. 
 
 /. 556 (19 September, 1542). That whereas variance and 
 strivis is nowe movyd by the wyfs of certayne of the 
 members of the xxiiij. to the unquyetnys as well of 
 ther husbands as of the resudue of the seid company 
 of the seid xxiiij. that every wif of the members of the 
 xxxiiij. shall take such order and folow the order 
 and goyng one after other yn all places within the Cetie 
 accordyng to the order and awnsientie of there husbands 
 and none of them to presume to go before other to 
 the contrary of there husbands awncientie uppon 
 payne that there (sic) husbonds of them that shall 
 make defaute to the contrary for every tyme I2d. 
 
 /. 76 (27 September, 1546). Proclamation at the election 
 of the Mayor. 
 
 /. 916 (17 March, 1548). That Mr. John Drake beyng 
 Recever of the Cetie is bounde to have a gowne of 
 Crymsyn and Grayne before the fest of Cristmas next 
 after that he nowe was sworne yn his office and he 
 not havyn the seid gowne accordyng to the olde order 
 of the Cetie that he shall paye for every tyme and 
 day that he hath nott hadd nor wered his gowne 
 accordyng to an acte thereof before made 35. 4d. 
 
 /. 92 (17 May, 1548). That the Mayor shaU sett forth 
 the ffenyshyng of Cowleyh bridge and get masons and 
 other workmen for the same this Somer and that 
 Mr. Resever shall ley forth all ye mony that the chardge 
 of ye brydge shall come to. 
 
 /. 95 (17 May, 1548). That whereas on Seynt Peter 
 nyght accordyng to a olde ordynance theron gevyn yn 
 bredd to a comyng dole at the Yldhall dore 205. 2d., 
 whereuppon there is yerly by reson of greit presse of 
 people greit and ynsewen. Therefor it is thought 
 most convenyent that the seid 205. 2d, distribed to the
 
 307 
 
 poure by the dischression of iiij. persons yely (sic) 
 appynted by the Meyr for the tyme beyng. 
 
 /. 121 (20 October, 1553). That for consyderacioun them 
 movyng the Chamber have gyven unto the Right 
 Honorable Lord Edward Courtenay Erie of Devonshere 
 ane annuytie or annuall rent of 41. by the yere for 
 terme of hys lyefif [which was refused by the said 
 Erie of Devon added in a different hand]. 
 
 /. 136 (11 October, 1554). That flrome hensforth the 
 Sworde shalbe borne before the Mayor every markett 
 day as it hath byn accostemyd. 
 
 /. 139 (9 March, 1555). That Exbridge shalbe pavyd 
 this yer and one of the peers plankyd. 
 
 /. 1456 (21 March, 1556). That the sale of Rawe cloath 
 hereafter shalbe kypte in the Northgate Street from 
 Watbury Street downewards towards Northgate and 
 nott elswere. 
 
 /. 147 [side note] (19 April, 1558). The Erie of Bedford 
 bestowed some armes and weapons on the Citty. See 
 also /. 162 for the ammunition ye Erie of Bedford 
 bestowed on the Citty, April 18 (sic), 1558. 
 
 /. 150 (25 January, 1556). Order for the almshouse of 
 Newton Bushell. 
 
 /. 1536 (12 July, 1556). That there shal be buylded 
 in the back courte behinde the Guyldhall a house for 
 the salf kipinge and emprysonyng of such as shall at 
 any tyme be commended to the warde by the Mayor 
 for the tyme beinge or otherwise by any other who 
 hath lawffull authorite therein. [See Introduction.] 
 
 /. 160 (3 February, 1557). That whereas the Citie walle 
 near to Northgate and the seid Gayte of Northgate are 
 myche in Ruyng and Decay it is Sully agreed by the 
 hole assent of the xxiiij. that the Recevers with alle 
 spede convenyent shall as well appoynt convenyent 
 workmen for the repair of the seid walls and also to 
 make and byld on the seid gate such defensible byldyng 
 as shalbe thoght resonable. 
 
 /. 1636 (6 Oct., 1557). John Hurst having left 200 marks 
 to the poor of Exeter the Chamber orders that 25. weekly 
 shall be given to the poor for the next 40 years. 
 
 /. 1736 (14 November, 1558). Contains a memorandum 
 that Queen Mary died on Nov. 17th, 1558, about 5 of 
 the clock in the morning on Thursday, and the same daie 
 about 9 of the clock at the forenone the La die Elysabeth 
 was proclaimed Quene of England. [For the whole 
 extract, see Oliver, p. 105.] 
 
 /. 1746 (12 Dec., 1558). That the markett for the pultry, 
 eggs, piggs, butter, chese, capons, ducks, hennys and 
 other victual! of olde tyme accustomyd to be sold 
 at the Greyt Conduit and uppwarde accordyng as it 
 hath byn usyd and that all other standyngs as Glovyers,
 
 308 
 
 Smythes, Tanners and others shall stond above the 
 Yldhall upwards from Alhallows churche uppwarde 
 alonge the Streyt boyth sides the side of the Streyt. 
 
 /. 175 (28 Dec., 1558). Whereas Rychard Gyfforde and 
 John Ho well of this Cittie of Exon cytezens have un- 
 decently and after an umcomely (sic) manner behaved 
 thymselfes in their parish church of St. John's bowe 
 on St. Stephyns day last being the 26th of this moneth 
 as namely that they both quareled, broyled and chydd 
 in the same church as also the said Rychard Gyfforde 
 contrary to all good order and la we gave a blow to the 
 foresaide John Howell it is ordered that Gyfforde 
 shall pay 105. and Howell 3s. d. 
 
 /. 1826 (26 March, 1560). Forasmuch as Peter Lake one 
 one of the members of the xxiiij. hath by unsemely and 
 undecent words mysused Richard Prestwode Shereffe 
 of this Citie and one of the members of the xxiiij. 
 callyng him by the names of a dissembler and knave 
 and a beast he is ordered to pay 40s. He is also to 
 be imprisoned for 40 days and 40 nights for calling 
 the Mayor a knave and other undecent words. 
 
 ff. 192, 193 contain the confession of William Berryman 
 made before the Mayor on the 12th February, 1538 
 (29 Henry VIII) concerning a disturbance in the 
 streets. 
 
 /. 194. Memoranda concerning the lease of the mille 
 let to Tokett on 11 January, 1551, who pays 5s. for 
 one week. Also that Master Prestewode [M.P. for 
 Exeter, Oct. 27, 1549] and Grefyn [i.e. Griffin Ameredith, 
 M.P. for Exeter, 1549] rode to London on the 26th and 
 22nd of January, 1551 (sic) respectively. See L. 27, 
 page 22, footnote. 
 
 ff. 194 6, 195, 196. The names of the keepers of the keys 
 of the Common Coffer. 
 
 /. 195&. The ryatt (rate) of Barelberers, i.e. for seleryng 
 wyne, oyle or every such lyke Id. per hogshead, 
 2d. per but or pype ; for every hoggyshed of wyne 
 fett frome one seller to another 3d., with similar rates 
 for barrels of ale and other wares of little weight, also 
 Id. for hewing a dosyn of wode or for bearing of eny 
 fardell boren bytwene two. 
 
 The volume has a fair Index Rerum made by Richard 
 Izacke, Chamberlain of the City. 
 
 Book 3. Act Book of the Chamber from 8 June, 1560, to 
 26 October, 1581. A paper volume in small folio containing 
 471 ff. besides the Index, bound in tooled leather; the clasps 
 are lost. The order of the leaves has been disturbed by the 
 binder. In the binding is a mutilated slip (containing portions 
 of Psalm Ivi) cut from a grail noted, possibly from the Cathedral, 
 See Hist. MSS. fieport, Var. Coll iv, 35,
 
 309 
 
 The earliest entry in point of date is on /. 42 (8 June, 1560), 
 from which the entries continue in chronological order to 
 /. 469 (24 Nov., 1581). They then go back to /. 9 (24 Nov. 
 1580), and are continued to /. 37 (26 Dec., 1580). A great part 
 of this volume is in the handwriting of John Vowell alias Hoker. 
 
 ff. 1, 2. Contain some memoranda respecting the racks 
 in Frerenhay, also without Westgate under the walls 
 and the Millars Show. 
 
 /. 3 (22 Nov., 1570). Payments towards the edifying of 
 Calabar Weare. 
 
 /. 5. Account of money received of the goods of the 
 late Arnold Renolle of Exon given in white money, 
 corante, angells, crownes, 3 doble ducats and 4 crusados 
 (=31. 155. Od.), 3 pistoletas (=425.), halfe soveraignes, 
 29 olde Rialles (=211. 155. Qd.) and 3 Spanishe Rialles 
 (=131. 65. Sd.). 
 
 f. 7 (30 Dec., 1579). A view of all the racks in Frerenhay 
 including one racke conteyning ij. doss and one rack of 
 one dosson. 
 
 /. 8 (25 Sept., 1781). A note of vestments &c. belonging 
 to the Chamber, including 2 cusshings of scarlett or 
 silk, a table carpett, one silk cloth of whit and grene 
 to cover the seate, a ryche comunyon clothe, a surplus 
 and a comunyon Booke with a keye for the Desk, a 
 certon organe, pipes and things therein. 
 
 /. 32. Rates for the Barelberers including 2d. for evere 
 barell of ale. 
 
 /. 39. A copy of a commission of 5 May, 1585, for the 
 enforcing of the Statute of 33 Henry VIII for the 
 maintenance of Artillery and debarring of unlawful 
 games (see Charter LXI). The Commission is addressed 
 to our dere cosen and Chancellor Fraunces Earle of 
 Bedford, William Earle of Bathe, John Bishop of 
 Exeter, the Lord Edward Seymour, Sir Roger Manwoode, 
 knight, Lord Treasurer, Baron of our Exchequer, 
 William Peryam, one of the Justices of the Common 
 Pleas, Sir William Courtneye, knight, Sir John St. Leger, 
 knight, Sir Robert Dennys, knight, and others. 
 
 /. 68 (Nov., ). The Chamber do agree that Richard 
 
 Swete for dyverse consyderacons which moveth them 
 shalbe released of the punyshment of the Corte which 
 he by order of this sholde susteyn for begeatyng of 
 Amy Bates, servant to Richard Prestwode, with childe, 
 and for his punyshement he shalbe kept in straight 
 pry son in the pytt of the Guildhall from this day 
 forwarde untyll the ende of 40 dayes and ther to be fede 
 every Wenesday and fryday with breade and water 
 onely, except that Mr. Maior do yn the meane tyme 
 perceive soo much repentence and amendement in 
 hym as whereby he shall thinke good to abbrevyat 
 any of the said punyshment.
 
 310 
 
 /. 129 (30 Nov., 1663). Forasmuch as the infection and 
 desease of the pestylens dothe at this present tyme 
 as well contynewe and remayne yn the Gtie of London 
 as also is entirely yn to other parts of the realme to 
 the greate perell and daunger of the Quenes Majesty 
 subietts and by bycause by the comon repaire and 
 access of dyverse sortes of people to the comon and 
 usuall faires in these so contagios and perylloss tymes 
 the same sycknes may thereby rather be augmented 
 and increased than dymyneshed and so by that means 
 both the whole people and places now free and salfe 
 from the said desease may be put in daunger to incur 
 the perell thereof. Wherefor the Maior of this Citie of 
 Excester, the Justices and Alderman of the same, with 
 the assent, advise and consent of the Comon Counsel 
 of this Citie of Exon do for the foresaide and other 
 good consideracions thinke it good and expedyent 
 to dysapoynt the faire usually kept in this Citie comonly 
 called the S. Nycholas faire for this present tyme and 
 therfor the said Maior, Justices and Aldermen do by 
 this there present proclamation publysh and notyfy 
 that the foresaide faire so usually kept within this Citie 
 of Exon at S. Nycholas day for this tyme onely shalbe 
 dyfferred and no faire at all for this tyme shalbe kepte. 
 
 /. 469 (4 June, 1581). Note of the Collection (33Z. 7s. 2d.) 
 for the first payment of a tenth and fifteenth. 
 
 Book 4. Act Boole of the Chamber from 7 Dec., 1581, to 
 6 July, 1588. A paper volume in small folio containing 
 291 folios besides the Index, bound in tooled leather. The 
 volume consists of two books bound together. The first book 
 (ff. 1 194) is a Memorandum Book. The second Book 
 contains the Proceedings, Acts and Orders of the Council 
 as in No. 3. The order of the leaves has been disturbed by 
 the binder. The first entry is on ff. 290-291, upside down, 
 the continuation being from ff. 195 to 289. 
 
 /. 2076 shows rates for the Merchants Hall. The goods 
 scheduled include broadcloths, kerseys, tavistocks, 
 dunsters, bridgwaters, totness, plain mosters, pole- 
 davys, hollands, all reckoned by the dozen or the pece, 
 wood cardes (Id. the doz.), bags of wool, maundes of 
 curps (rushes), packs of iron or hardy ware, cases of 
 glass, hatts (by the dozen), pytch, tarre and rasinn 
 (by the barrel), cloves, maces, currans, dates, nuttmegs 
 (by the hundred), Annis seed, lycoress (the bale), 
 pepper, grains, gyngre, prunes (the hundred), paper 
 (the reame), hoppes (by the bale), mather (the bale), 
 fardels of dowlas and lockrams, dickers of hides, dozens 
 of calves and spruse-skynnes, whyte leather (the 
 hundred), with fixed charges for stowing of every fardel 
 and pyling of every tunne.
 
 311 
 
 /. 2356. A copy of an order dated Greenwich, 13 June, 
 1585, from the Lords of the Council to the Bishop and 
 the Mayor desiring them to keep Mr. John Arundel* 
 of Gwarnacke, Esquire, who attempted to escape out 
 of the kingdom " with a good masse of money founde 
 aboute hyme." The document has the imitated 
 signatures of F. Bedford and Fra. Walsingham, and 
 states that the Lords of the Council " have wylled us 
 to give you ryght harty thanke for your paynes and 
 care taken theryn and for as much as there Lordships 
 are at this present occupied with other affaires ther 
 pleasure is that you should cause him to be kept in 
 due and safe custody untill you shall heare farther 
 from them without suffrynge any others in the meane 
 tyme to have accesse or conference with hym and 
 likewise to cause the money to be sequestered into the 
 custody of such honest and suffycyent persons as you 
 shall thynke meete where it may be always upon any 
 warnynge forth comynge." 
 
 /. 2366 (14 July, 1585). Copy of a similar order for 
 Mr. Arundel's release directed to the Sheryfe of Exeter. 
 " After my harty comendacions my L.L. of the Councell 
 havyng perused the examynacon of Mr. Arundell of 
 Gwarnock (sic) do fynde no cause of any further deten- 
 con, other of hym-selfe or of his money and therefore 
 have delyvered unto hym his Bonde here as likewyse 
 ther pleasure is that you should restore to hym or 
 such as he shall appoynt to receyve yt the money that 
 was stayed at Excester. And so I Byd you hartely 
 from the Court at Grenewyche the xiiijth of July, 1585. 
 
 Your lovyng frynde, Fra. Walsingham." 
 Accompanied by a receipt for 3,800Z. to William Martyn, 
 Sheryfe of the Cytie of Exeter, July 28th. By me, 
 Jo. Arundell of Gwarnacke. 
 
 /. 2446 (29 March, 1586). Copy of the City's receipt for 
 the 200Z. left by John Haydon,f late Sheriff and 
 Alderman of London, to be lent to young men of 
 Exeter. 
 
 /. 2816 (19 April, 1588). It was ordered that in con- 
 sideracon of a Pynnas to be sett fourth by the Citie 
 called the Gyfte of God for her Majesty's servyce 
 the some of Two hundred marks shalbe paid unto 
 the owners of the said Pynnas. And where the said 
 owners do demaunde vili. xiiis. iiiid. over and above 
 the said Two hundred marks They do also agree to 
 paie the same or so much thereof unto the said owners 
 as the same shalbe thought mete and reasonable. 
 
 "Called" Thomas in Acts, Privy Council XIV, 323, Feb. 10, 1586. 
 
 t John Haydon, mercer, was elected Alderman of Aldgate ward, Sept. 27, 
 1582, and died Nov. 24, following, Beaven, Aldermen of the City of London, 
 p. \\; but his name does not occur among the sheriffs of London and Middle- 
 sex in List of Sheriffs, P.R.O., p. 205.
 
 312 
 
 And also they agree where a conclusion was made 
 with the owners of a Shipp named the Rose of Exeter 
 for the setting fourth of the same for her Majesty's 
 service under Sir Fraunces Drake for cclli. and now 
 the said owners demaund a more some over and above 
 the said cclli. It is also agreed that the said cell. 
 shalbe paid unto the said owners and the said demaunde 
 of a more some shalbe examyned in particulers and 
 shalbe reasonablie agreed for with the said owners. 
 And it is concluded that the said Shippe and barke 
 shall departe from the Porte of Exon pleasing God 
 this next mornings Tyde to Plymouth for the said 
 servyce. 
 
 /. 2816 (2 May, 1588). Att which daye it was agreed 
 by Mr. Maior and the whole house assembled that 
 Mr. John Sampford shalbe sent to London with letters 
 to the Lordes of the Counsell for a suyte that the 
 countrey may be contributorie to the one moytie for 
 the charges for the settinge forth of the Shippinge. 
 Also with the like letters to the Lord Treasurer. Also 
 that Mr. Walker shall delyver unto Mr. Sampford 
 in money ffyve poundes. 
 
 Also he hath letters unto Mr. Smyth and Mr. Howell 
 for defrayinge of Tenne poundes unto Mr. Sampford 
 yf nede do require and to assiste hym in his suyte and 
 buisenes. 
 
 Also that Mr. Walker shall paye to the said 
 Mr. Sampford iuli. xvis. for two peeces of redd bestowed 
 in waste clothes for the Rose. 
 
 4 May, 1588. .... it is further agreed that Mr. Nicholas 
 Spycer and William Brailie shall receyve more towards 
 the victualinge and charge of the Rose of Exceter the 
 some of Thirtie poundes of Mr. Walker. 
 
 And also that Mr. Thomas Spycer and Abraham Combe 
 owners of the Gyfte of Exeter, shall receyue more towardes 
 the victualinge and charge of the said Barke called the 
 Oifte of Mr Thomas Walker the some of Sixtene 
 poundes. 
 
 Memorandum that yt was agreed that the maryners 
 of the Bartholomewe of Exmouth should enter into 
 waige the xxixth daye of Apryll laste and the maryners 
 of the Rose and Gifte the xxxth of the said Aprill. And 
 also that Mr. Walker shall paye Mr. William Martyn 
 for a hundred and ffyve poundes waights of powder 
 the some of ffyve poundes nine shillings and ffower 
 pence. 
 
 3 June, 1588. . . . Who do agree about making a door 
 between the College of Vicars and lands of the City . . . 
 And they agree that the xls. allowed to the Maior for 
 the Commissioners dynner about the contribucon for 
 the Shippes shalbe paid and allowed by Mr. Walker out
 
 313 
 
 of moneys remayninge in his handes collected for the 
 settinge fourth of the said Shippes. 
 
 10 June, 1588. Agreed that Mr. Maior and the Three 
 deputie Lieuetenants of this countie and citie or any 
 three of them, whereof Mr. Maior to be one, shall make 
 and sett do wne a Rate upon all and euerie thinhabitannts 
 of the same countie and citie what some and somes of 
 money everie of them shalbe charged with, and paye 
 towards the settinge fourth of the Two Shipps and 
 Pynnace to the Seas for her Majesty's Servyce. And 
 that they shall do the same with such spede conveni- 
 ently as they maye and take likewise for the collect- 
 inge and payement thereof. 
 
 17 June, 1588. It is agreed that there shalbe paid to 
 John [? Dier] towardes the payment of the waiges of 
 the men of the Bartholomewe xxiiifo'. Also to Mr. Nicholas 
 Spycer and William Brayley for the waiges of the men 
 in the Rose xvijfo'. xs., and to Mr. Thomas Spycer for the 
 waiges of the men of the Pynnes vijli. And further 
 it is ordered that Mr. Thomas Spycer and Mr. Swete 
 shall have the care and charge to provide for the new 
 victualinge of the Two Shippes and pynnes and with 
 them they have appointed Richard Dorchester to 
 wyne (sic). Also that a letter shalbe sent to the 
 lord Admyrall to the entention for new victualinge 
 of the Shipps according to his letter, and also to request 
 that by his meanes a Warrant may be procured from 
 the lordes of the Counsell for the same. Also it is 
 agreed that the foresaid severall somes amountinge 
 in the whole to xlvijfo'. shalbe laide out by Mr. Walker. 
 1 July, 1588. It is ordered that the money of late laid 
 out by Richard Dorchester at two severall tymes for 
 victualinge of the Shipps at Plymouth shalbe paid 
 unto hym. And also that the money due to Medland 
 the cutler for certaine swordes shallbe likewise paid 
 unto hym. 
 
 And it is further agreed that Mr. Recey ver, Mr. Swete 
 and Mr. Walker shalbe Auditors to take the accompt 
 of Mr. Sampford (see L. 81, page 29) and others concern- 
 ynge the settinge fourth of the shippinge and victualing 
 of the same. 
 
 The first portion of the Book (ff. 1-194) is a kind of 
 common-place book of occurrences in the City. It is 
 chronologically compiled and extends from 12 December, 1559, 
 to 28 February, 1576. It contains entries of all kinds, the 
 greater part of them in Hoker's handwriting. They are 
 partially indexed in Izack's Index Rerum at the end of the 
 volume. There are memoranda of persons whipped, im- 
 prisoned and banished the City for incontinency and divers 
 offences, notes of forfeitures of goods for divers reasons ; 
 memoranda of prisoners' examinations and depositions of
 
 314 
 
 witnesses &c. ; copy of a letter to the Justices of the Peace 
 for the County of Devon respecting a confession of felony, 
 and a note of a controversy about the repair of a wall. 
 
 /. 176 (3 Feb., 1556). The Confession of Nicholas Roughe, 
 brewer, " of the gaynes he hath cleere at every 
 brewing " 
 
 I. s. d. 
 
 i.e. at every brewing 6 quarters of olter 
 malt amounting to 48 bushels at 13d. 
 
 the bushel 1 16 
 
 Also 8 bushels of barley malt at 2s. the 
 
 bushel 16 
 
 Also 6 bushels of roast malt at 4s. the 
 
 bushel 140 
 
 3 16 
 
 Of this he brews 20 bushels of the best at 
 
 6s. Sd. per bushel 6 13 4 
 
 Also he brews 11 bushels of the middell at 
 
 3s. 4d. per bushel 1 16 8 
 
 Total 8 10 
 
 Whereof he must be alowed for the malt as 
 
 is aforesaid . . . . . . . . . . 3 16 
 
 Also for his wood . 14 
 
 4 10 
 
 And he declares the remainder at 31. over and above 
 his small ale and graynes. [It will be seen that the 
 above figures do not work out correctly, but the 
 important item is the declaration in the last sentence.] 
 
 /. 316 (25 September, 1560). Note of a proclamation 
 made to the comons beynge called together by the 
 bellman agayne the defacinge of tholde auncient 
 monumentes in churches of the nobilitie, as also agayn 
 the pullinge downe and sellinge of belles or any ledde 
 of any churche &c. 
 
 /. 32 (28 September, 1560). An other proclamacyon was 
 made at the Guyldhall as concerning the decreeinge 
 of the base and current monye, that is to saye the Id. 
 to current for (., the 2d. for l%d., the teston for 4d., 
 except all counterfeyts and false testons which are 
 known by havyng graven in bothe sydes at the hedd 
 in the superscription, one of these iiij signes a lyon, a 
 floure delys, a harpe or a rose, for all such testons are 
 current but at 2d., at which proclamacion was present 
 therle of bedeforde then present, who pers waded the 
 people to a quietnes. 
 
 jfjf. 42, 45 (27 October, 1560). Articles of Agreement with 
 William Strode for the conductinge of the River of 
 Exe. [See page 27.]
 
 315 
 
 /. 536. Articles to be inquired by every Alderman in 
 his ward and circuit. Whereas there be any inhabitant 
 within his warde that lyveth suspiciously, any skolding, 
 brawling woman or drunkard hi his warde, any stranger 
 or suspecte person, and to know how longe he had 
 been there, from whence he came and whither he will, 
 any vagabonds, upright men, guyler byrdes, myghty 
 beggars, bawdes, whores or any myslyving people ; 
 how many journeymen every artificer keepeth, and 
 whether he or they be in convenant with ther master 
 for one whole quarter in one whole yere according 
 to the Statute or elles do work by task or tale work ; 
 how many apprentyces every artyficer hath and whether 
 they be bounde for vij yeres according to the custom, 
 whether every journeyman and apprentys do ly 
 every night in his master's house, whether they do 
 refrayne from onlawful games and do use shetinge 
 at tymes fitt and convenyent ; whether they be seemely 
 apparelled according to the Statute without any sylk 
 great hests, ruffed sherts, and whether they do on 
 the holy dayes go to there churches. [? Whether 
 such] as be hoxsters be of good name and fame 
 or do kepe any bawdery or evil rule, or do use night- 
 watching or unlawful games in their houses, do sell by 
 lawfull measures mark'd and sealed, have ale or beer 
 of sundry price as 1 for a Id. the quart or a nother 
 for a ob. the quart, or do sell contrary to thorder of 
 the Justices, do use any typlinge, comon eatyng and 
 drynkyng or lodging within there houses, shote and 
 make fast there dores at 10 of the cloke at night 
 in the somer and at 9 in the wynter. Whether any 
 huxstere be not admitted by the Justices and bounde 
 by recognyssance, do regrate, forstall or engrosse any 
 victuals, as namely any poultry or whyte meat, as 
 butter, eggs, chese or the lyke, and by that means 
 the prices are enhaunsed. Whether any buyer or 
 seller do use any false weights or measures ; whether 
 the streets and lanes be clensed, voyded of ordure, 
 donge, robb or any other fylthe which is or may be 
 annoyaunce to the common welthe of this Gtie ; 
 whether there be any ruynoss or decayed houses which 
 stand dangeross for those that shall passe that way 
 or which require to be pulled downe, and whether they 
 kepe any jakehouse of offyl or dongehill in fylthe or any 
 lyke thing to the annoyaunce of there neighbors or 
 any other. 
 
 /. 103. A remembrance of certayn Articles relating to 
 the Charter of Orphans for Mr. Thomas Williams and 
 Mr. Geffrey Tothill, burgesses for the Citie, at this 
 Parliament in January, 1562.* 
 
 * i.e., from January 11, 1563, to January 2, 1567. Seep. 50.
 
 316 
 
 /. 139 (21 September, 1563). The whole order and processe 
 of the covenants &c. had between the City and John 
 Trew for and concernyng the River of Exe,* and 
 conductyng the same with the rates (/. 141) for passing 
 the work. 
 
 /. 143 (12 November, 1565). The forfeiture of certain 
 leather by action of the serchers of lether apoynted 
 for the same within the Citie of Exeter according to the 
 Statute of November, 1 Elizabeth. 
 
 ff. 148 and 1616 (29 December, 1569). Order with the 
 Brewers which doo serve the Citty of Exeter and suburbes 
 with Ale and Beer. Brewers are to sell their beste doble 
 ale at 6s. the barrel or 35. the half barrel, and tapsters 
 at Id. the ale quart or \d. the gill ; also second or good 
 comon ale to be sold by Brewers at 3s. the barrel, 
 with a note that it was to be better than it was wonte 
 to be ; the tapsters are to sell it at %&. the ale quart or 
 %d. the gill. The Brewers are to sell their " Smallest 
 Dronke " at Id. the gallon. 
 
 Book 5. Act Book of the Chamber from 9 November, 
 (29 Elizabeth), 1587 (not 1588, as on cover and on /. 278) to 
 15 September, (43 Elizabeth), 1601. A paper Book in small 
 folio, containing 277 leaves, besides the Index. Bound in 
 plain vellum. 
 
 On three fly-leaves at the beginning of the volume there 
 occur : 
 
 A Copy of the prayer to be used at the meeting of the 
 
 Council. 
 
 A Copy of a letter dated Exon, the xijth of Marche (s.a., 
 probably 1588) from the Chamber to the Mayors of 
 Plymouth and Dartmouth undertaking to bear the 4th 
 part of the charge of setting forth four ships for Her 
 Majesty's service in Devonshire, as required in a letter 
 from the Privy Council dated February 5th last past. 
 A Memorandum, dated 24 April (30 Elizabeth), 1588 
 of sums of money as of Lonte (or Lente) by divers 
 persons in Exeter towards furnishing and setting out 
 of two ships and a pynnas by virtue of letters from 
 the Lordes of the Counsell for the defence of her Majestie 
 and the realme. The total amounts to 361Z.-J-18/. in 
 a supplementary note (31 July, 1588). There are 
 also further untotalled lists dated 13th and 15th June, 
 1588, totalled in a modern hand as 19Z. 75. 6d, with a 
 final note that " all the somes before specified are paid 
 to Mr. Walker." Against several of the names is a 
 side-note " paid back " or " back again paid." There 
 is another list of loans towards setting out these ships 
 on a flyleaf at the end of the volume. [See page 63. J 
 
 * See p. 28. Archceologio, XXV 111, 17; Oliver, 249, 257.
 
 317 
 
 /. 61 (8 April, 1589). That the Erles of Huntingdon and 
 Essex and Sir Ffrancys Knolles ar apoynted to come 
 shortely to this Citie, and it is ordered that the dyet 
 of the said Erles shalbe at Mr. Mayor's house and their 
 Lodginge to be at Mr. Recorder's house at the chardges 
 of the Citie, and further also that there shalbe certyn 
 persons apoynted to ryde agaynst theym and to receve 
 theym ynto the Citie, namely, Mr. Recever, Mr. Hooker 
 and Mr. Nicholas Spicer. 
 
 /. 67 (15 August, 1589). That Mr. Recever shalbe allowed 
 of vii]li. disbursed of gunnepowder spente at the 
 cominge of the erle of Essex, also Twenty Poundes 
 paid for the releave of the Souldiers retorned from 
 the fleete unto Portingall, also 435. paid by him for 
 fees of certaine Bucks geeven by the Erie of Essex, 
 also that any of the xxiiij shalbe paid of ther money 
 they disbursed to the settynge furthe of the shippynge 
 for her Majestie's service agaynste the Spannerds 
 shalbe repaid of 65. 8d. of every pounde which they 
 paid, and that fyfftye Poundes comyng to the Cittie 
 for powder and other charges of the Cittie in the said 
 Shippinge shalbe paid unto Mr. William Martyn for 
 and towards the debt which the Cittie doth owe him. 
 
 /. 90 (26 January, 1591). Ordered that the parishes of 
 St. Laurens shall ringe ther greate bell for a Curffeu 
 Bell in the morninge and eveninge, and that they 
 towarde the same shall have and receve yerly 105., viz., 
 of the said parisheners 25., of the parisheners of 
 St. Stephens' 25. Qd., do. of Alhallows in Goldsmyth 
 Streate 25. Qd., do. of St. John's Bowe 25., do. 
 St. Pancras I2d. The parishe of St. Petroke shall 
 ringe one other Bell as aforesaid, and for the same 
 shall receve as follows, viz. : Of the parisheners of 
 St. Petroke 65. 8d., do. of St. Paule 35. 4d., do. of 
 St. Martyn 25. 8d., do. of St. George 35. 4d., being in 
 the whole 165. Also an other bell shall be rung at 
 St. Mary Steppes at a cost of 205., to be paid by 
 parisheners of St. Mary Steps, St. Mary Arches, 
 St. Olaves, St. Edmunds and All Hallows [on the 
 Walls]. Also an other bell at Trinity, 105. for the 
 parishes of Trinity and St. Mary the More, and that 
 the Ringers of the said parishes shall have paymente 
 accordingly. 
 
 /. 108 (1 May, 1592). That Mr. Maier, Mr. Richard 
 Martyn, Mr. John Periam, Mr. Sherife and Mr. Hooker 
 shall ryde on Thursday next to Sir Robert Denys,* 
 knyghte, now Recorder of this Citie, and shall in ther 
 best manner intreat hym to resigne unto the Cittie his 
 office of Recordershipp, to thende they may chuse 
 suche a one in his place as may be able to execute 
 
 * See p. 55.
 
 318 
 
 the same place (sic). And that they shall in respect 
 these promise him suche consideration during his liefe 
 as they shall thinke good, and that they shall carry 
 with them as a gifte unto Sir Robert two suger lofes. 
 
 /. 109 (20 May, 1592). Whereas Sir Robert Denys, 
 knighte, late recorder of this cittie, hath willingly and 
 freely yelded and delivered over unto the Cittie his 
 office of Recordership and surrendered the same and 
 made his release therof under his scale. The Chamber 
 have elected and chosen Edward Drewe, Esquire, 
 sergeaunte at La we, to be Recorder of the saide Cittie 
 and Countie during his liefe [with a pension of 20 marks. 
 Oliver, CaL, p. 280]. 
 
 /. 110 (29 June, 1592). Whereas Mr. Sergente Drewe, 
 being of late chosen and sworn Recorder of Exeter, and 
 sithens that as yt ys informed the said Mr. Sergent 
 Drewe ys chosen and sworn Recorder of London, by 
 meanes wherof Mr. Drewe cannot conveniently remaine 
 Recorder of this Cittie, they chuse John Hill, esquire, 
 to be Recorder of this Cittie. 
 
 /. 114 (2 November, 1592). Whereas the foreparte of the 
 Guihall ys ruinous and in decaye and ys to be reedified 
 at the charge of the Cittie, 9 members of the Chamber, 
 including the Mayor, are appointed to consider in what 
 order and fashon the same shalbe edified and also 
 what the charge therof will amounte unto. 
 
 /. 1226 (27 March, 1593). That from hensfurthe there 
 shall not be licenced by the Maier for the tyme above 
 the nomber of two persons of the Company of Butchers 
 to sell or kill vitaille in the tyme of Lente, and he (sic) 
 to sell the same only to suche as have licens to eate 
 fleshe lawfully. [See D. 1665, page 90.] 
 
 /. 123 (19 March, 1583). The rates for the Haven and 
 Key of Exeter. Goods landed at the Key of Exon 
 either brought in the Cityes Boates from.Topsham or 
 from any place within the port below Topsham, such as 
 salt, whiteware and canvas, lead, Devonshire Tynne, 
 Cornyssb Tynne, small Boats with oysters, ffyshe, 
 shilling stones, helliage and coal, cardes of cloth, also 
 the rate of the carmen, e.g., for every tonne caryed 
 from the Kay to Combestreete and other places 
 adjoynante, for every fower punchens of wool cardes, 
 Wd. For caryage downe of every rake of wares con 
 teyninge a horseloade unto Topsham 4d. ; do, below 
 Topsham Qd. ; for every tonne of salte beyng caryed 
 from Exeter to Topsham to serve for Newfoundland or 
 otherwyse 16d. : boats to pay I2d. the tunne of wares 
 for ther passage in the worke. 
 
 /. 1266 (31 May, 1593). That Mr. Herte, the Towneclerk, 
 shall have the seller under the foreparte of the Guyld- 
 hall, which ys now buyldinge to hym and to his assignes
 
 319 
 
 for tearme of 87 yeares for the yerely rent of 20s., 
 with a proviso that no tenant or occupier of the said 
 seller shall keepe any fagotwoode or any dangerose 
 thinge whereby the same may be fyred. 
 
 /. 127& (21 June, 1593). That Mrs. HiU, deceased, did 
 bequeth unto the poore of the Cittie the sum of ffiftie 
 poundes to be paid by Mr. George Gary, her executor 
 longe sithens, and the same hitherto hathe not bene 
 performed, that therefore the Maier, Mr. Recorder and 
 Mr. Prowz shall conferr with Mr. Gary for the more 
 spedy recovery of the same, and that they shall make 
 and use the beste meanes they may for the recovery 
 thereof. On a flyleaf at the end of the volume is a 
 note of the will of Alice Hill, widow, of London, 
 12 July, 21 Elizabeth : in which she leaves 501. to 
 the poor of St. Albans and Exeter. 
 
 /. 128 (12 July, 21 Elizabeth, i.e. 1579). Extract from 
 the will of Alice Hill : " Item I will there shalbe geeven 
 and distributed to the poore people and moste nedy 
 householders within the Towne of St. Albans in the 
 Countie of Herts and the Cittie of Exon, where I was 
 borne, to either the said Towne of St. Albanes and the 
 said Cittie of Exon, the sum of ffiftie Poundes to be 
 imploied and bestowed to the releefe of the poore 
 people of the said towne and cittie by the discrecion 
 of my Executor and of certeine of the beste Cittizens 
 and Townesmen of every the said Cittie and Towne. 
 Repeated on /. 276&, where she is called vid. Civitatis 
 London, dated 12 July, 21 Elizabeth, and the Executors 
 are Sir William Cecill, knight, Master of the Rolls, and 
 George Gary of Beckington, in the County of Devon, 
 esquire. See also f. 1696, 4 October, 37 Elizabeth 
 [1595]. 
 
 /. 154 (29 March, 1595). That Mr. Recever [Babbington] 
 shall provide a Hoggyshed of good Sack or Canary 
 wines and bestowe the same upon the newe Byshopp 
 [Gervase Babington] as a gifte from the Cittie. 
 
 /. 216 (12 December, 1598). That Mr. Attwill's picture, 
 which coste 205., shall be paid for by Mr. Mayre 
 and he to be allowed therof oute of the dett he 
 owes the Cittie upon his accompte. [See Oliver, 
 p. 219.] 
 
 /. 217& (19 December, 1598). Whereas they agre and 
 thinke yt very acceptable to God Almightie and the 
 comon welthe of this Cittie and to the prayse of God 
 and the reforminge and abolishinge of divers disorders 
 in the same, a lerned person shalbe procured with the 
 consente of the Byshop to preche every Sabbathe daye 
 in the aftemone and to do other Godly exercises in 
 St. Peter's Churche and other parishe Churches, and 
 that oute of the rewenwes of the said Cittie shalbe
 
 320 
 
 yerly paid to the said precher by the Recever of this 
 
 Cittie yerly twenty Pounds.* 
 /. 2576 (27 September, 1600). That Mr. Serjant Hill, 
 
 our Recorder, shall have given unto hime yerly everye 
 
 yere duringe his life Eight Salmons of the river of Exe, 
 
 which is the like number that is allowed to the Maior 
 
 of the Cittie for the tyme beinge. 
 /. 2746 (25 June, 1601). That all the accompts of the 
 
 Cittie shalbe from henssefurthe made and sett fourthe 
 
 in Englische. 
 /. 2756 (15 September, 1601). The Chamber have elected 
 
 in the steade of John Hooker, Chamberlyn, decessed, 
 
 William Tickell to be Chamberlyn of the said Cittie. 
 
 [See Introduction.] 
 
 Book 6. Act Book of the Chamber from 15 October, 
 43 Elizabeth (1601) to 21 September, 9 James I (1611). 
 A Paper Volume in small folio containing 231 folios, besides 
 the Index and flyleaves. Bound in plain vellum. 
 
 /. 40 (1 February 1603). Whereas the Bridge called 
 Exebridge is in some parte in decaye, namely the 
 Wester Peere of the same bridge, that the same peere 
 shalbe this sommer in the beginning thereof repered 
 and amended, so as the same may be made firme and 
 stronge and continewe agaynst the ffiuddes and driftes 
 of the greate waters. 
 
 /. 626 (10 April, 1603). Whereas Mr. HoWellf hathe 
 advertized this house of a mynte to be obtened in this 
 Cittie by suite unto the King's Majestic that in respecte 
 they finde not howe the same may be beneficiell unto 
 the Chamber and are ignorant what the charge of the 
 upteininge therof will amounte unto, That the said 
 sute shall not be sett furthe at the charge of the 
 Chamber. 
 
 /. 86 (20 June, 1605). That Laurens Seldon's picture 
 and his wiefs shalbe made to be sett upp in the Counsell 
 Chamber at the costs of the Cittie. [See Oliver, 
 p. 218.] 
 
 /. 1066 (12 May, 1606). Whereas one Mr. Stephens was 
 late in the tyme of Mr. Richard Prouze his Maioraltye 
 [i.e. 1578 or 1589] putt from the place of a Curat or 
 Minister of the Mawdlyn, that the said Stephens shalbe 
 restored to his former place and thereto contynew 
 as a minister or Curat so long as he shall demeane 
 himself in good sort and shew himself conformable to 
 the lawes and ordinances of the Churche. 
 /. 127 (28 January, 1608). Whereas the Key of Topsham 
 by meanes of a tempest of late ys ruynated and the 
 same muste necessarily be repered againe, so as it may 
 be sufficient, That therefore the same Key shalbe 
 
 * Mr. Snape was appointed on June 23 following. Oliver, Cat., p. 282. 
 f See L. 8, p. 16.
 
 321 
 
 repaired as a Committee thall thynke necessary by 
 the discrecion of Mr. Recever and two others and the 
 charge thereof to be defraid by Mr. Recever. 
 
 /. 131 (16 April, 1608). Where Mr. John Prouz* hath 
 beene attendaunte at the parliament house a greate longe 
 tyme aboute the Citties busines to his greate labor 
 and hinderans, That in regarde therof and for his 
 good service therein Mr. Recever shall paye unto the 
 said Mr. Prouze the sum of xxfe'. more beside that which 
 is alredy paid, which ys xxfo*. more than the allowans 
 of iiijs. p. day in respecte he hathe served xiij monethes 
 at this parliament. 
 
 /. 185 (18 September, 1609). That ffor as muche as a 
 great inconveniens doth dayly falle oute to the comon 
 welth of this Cittie and comon state of the same by 
 meanes of the greate concourse and repere to this 
 Cittie of many Plaiers, Tumlers and people of the 
 leeke nature and disposition, who many tymes do 
 disorder themselfes and oftentymes doo oute of Season 
 and in the nyght tymes make their Showes and plaies 
 to the people to the hinderans of good Rule and order 
 and to the meantenans of all disorder and losenes to 
 the greate displeasure of God Almighte, That in 
 consideration thereof and for the avoidinge of the 
 said inconvenience any Company of suche persons 
 before mentioned shalbe permitted or allowed at any 
 tyme hereafter by any person having the place of the 
 Maier of this Cittie to make any shewes or plaies within 
 this Citty or County betwene the feastes of Thanuncia- 
 tion of Our Lady and of St. Michaell, and but to end 
 att the Hower of Sixe in the afternone nether betwene the 
 feasts of St. Michaell and of Thannunciacion of Our 
 Lady, but to ende att the Hower of ffyve in the afternone 
 of the same daye for any cause whatsoever. 
 
 /. 196 (23 January, 1610). That in the behalf e of this 
 Cittie the Burgesses of the parliament for this Cittie 
 shall presente to the Speker of the parliament in token 
 of their good will a hogshead of Malaga wynes or a 
 hogshead of claret wyne which they thynke beste in 
 ther discrecon together with one baked Salmon pye 
 and Mr. Recever to paye the charge therof. 
 
 /. 202& (22 May, 1610). That 2 sugar lofes shalbe geeven 
 unto Mr. Canon Bodly [see p. 92] and two unto Mr. Can- 
 non Leach in token of ther good will for ther paines in the 
 Lecture at St. Peter's at the morninge preinge by Mr. 
 Ignatius Jurden, the charge to be defraid oute of the reste 
 of the collection made for Mr. ffitz Geffry, and they 
 agree that a letter shalbe writen to my lord Tresurer and 
 one other unto my Lorde of Essex for ther favor towarde 
 the bill preferred in the parliament house for the Cittie. 
 
 * He was M.P. for Exeter in the Parliament that sat from March 19, 
 1C04 to Feb. 9, 1611. See p. 111. 
 
 Wt. 20767. Ex 21
 
 322 
 
 /. 227 (8 August, 1611). That Mr. Recover shall geeve 
 and bestowe upon Mr. Bodly and Mr. Leche, Canons of 
 this Churche, by this house in respecte of ther labor in 
 prechings to ether of them ij suger lofes. [There is a 
 similar entry in Act Book VII, f. 16, under date 28 July, 
 1612.] 
 
 /. 230 (9 September, 1611). Where the laste Comittees 
 have auctoritee to compounde with the ffermors of 
 Topsham for ther estate in the Crane, Key and Wharf e 
 of Topsham yf they myghte, and the said Comittees 
 doo nowe answere this house that they offred the said 
 ffermors for the said estate and to geeve them for the 
 same cccfo'., which Composition is now liked by this 
 house and therfor they doo agree that the saide 
 Comitties shall finishe with the said ffermors the same 
 offer. [See D. 1707, p. 73.] 
 
 Book 7. Act Book of the Chamber from 3 October, 1611, 
 to 1 April, 1634. A paper volume in small folio, containing 
 436 folios besides the Index. Bound in plain vellum. 
 
 /. 176. That Mr. Recorder and every person of the 
 nomber of the xxiiij". of the Comon Councell of this 
 Cittie and have borne thoffice of the Maieraltie of this 
 Cittie, shall have yerly two salmons of the ffermor 
 of the fishing, the same ffermor to be allowed for every 
 such salmon 3s. 4d., and the ffermor to deliver no suche 
 salmon either at the tymes of the assices or sessions 
 to be holden in the said Cittie. [Repealed.] 
 
 /. 20 (22 September, 1612). That every suche as shalbe 
 chosen to be of the nomber of the xxiiij 11 . of this Cittie 
 shall pay and geeve to this house 1 5s, to be bestowed 
 in a peece of plate and the some of xxfo*. to be lente for 
 one whole yere. And Mr. Acland did deliver to 
 Mr. Recorder the said 155. 
 
 /. 346 (4 February, 1613). That Mr. Recorder and three 
 others shall repere from this house unto my Lord Bishopp 
 and to informe his Lordshipp that this house will 
 willingly enterteine a precher for the lenctures of this 
 Cittie for ffyve yeres for the morninge service and the 
 afternoone lecture. Yf one man do performe bothe the 
 same lectures they will geeve him Threescore and Tenne 
 Poundes, and yf one man shall performe the aftnone 
 lecture and one other man to performe the fore- 
 none lecture then they will geeve and paye for the 
 forenone lecture 201., and for the aftnone lecture flfiftie 
 pounds yerly by equal partes. 
 
 /. 596 (14 April, 1614). Where Mr. Maier did invite to 
 his house at the laste assices in this Cittie holden the 
 Justices of the Assices at Dynner the Thursday in 
 their retorne from Launceston Assices for the credite 
 pf this Cittie to his great charge, that in respecte
 
 323 
 
 therof the Recever shall paye and deliver unto 
 Mr. Maier towards the discharge of the said Dynner the 
 some of ffyve Pounds. 
 
 /. 746 (15 November, 1614). Havyng vyewed the 
 reckonings and accompts of Mr. William Hurst's lands 
 geeven towards the maintenaunce of the poore in his 
 almeshouses without the East Gate of the said Citty 
 do finde that the Citty ys not to be burdened with 
 any payment towards the maintenaunce of the said 
 poore people, and because some poore people within 
 the same almeshouses do nede more relief than they 
 do now receive, therfor it is now ordered that the 
 parish of St. Davyds, towards the maintenaunce of 
 the said poore which do want relief e, shall pay weekly 
 xiijdf., and yf any thinge do then want the residue 
 of the said maintenaunce shalbe supplyde by other 
 several parishes of the said Cytty and County. 
 
 /. 756 (26 November, 1614). At which day there was 
 delivered into this house a certein acquitans for the 
 receyte of 133Z. 6s. 8d. for the free gefte of this Cittie 
 unto the King's Majestic as followeth : viz., copy of a 
 recept dated Nov. 17, 1614, by the hands of Richard 
 Martyn and Nicholas Ducke, Esquires. [See L. 163, 
 page 85.] 
 
 ff. 806, 81 (2 March, 1615). The Mayor and Council order 
 that no person shall sell in the oapen streate or any 
 oapen shoppe or at his stall uppon any Saboth day 
 any fflische, salt ffishe, fruits, roots or herbes whatso- 
 ever under penalty of 12d. for the first offence, rising 
 to 2s. and forfeiture of the stuff for the benefit of the 
 poor. That no barber shall pole, barbe or trim any 
 person upon the Saboth day betwist the hower of 
 one of the clock in the morning and one of the clock in 
 the night of the same day under penalty of 35. 4d. for 
 each person so poled, barbed and trymmed. Also 
 (/. 826) any merchant, mercer, grocer, draper, retayler 
 or haberdassher not to open any shop windows or sell 
 any wares or merchandize except it be for murning or 
 for shrouds on pain of forfeit of the goods. Also 
 (/. 82) any vintner admitting any inhabitant to eat 
 or drink in his house for money or selling any wine 
 between 8 and 11 in the forenoon or between 2 and 5 
 in the afternoon. Also (/. 826) any glover, shoomaker, 
 or cutler shall not work in his shop to sell swords, 
 dagers, gloves and shoes between 1 a.m. and 1 a.m. 
 following. 
 
 /. 1706 (17 September, 1619). Receyved from Sir John 
 Acland, knyght, by the handes of Henry Shepcott, one 
 wrytynge conteynynge a grant of an anuytye of 
 iiijfa*. xs. ysuenge out of certayne landes in Byckeley in 
 the countye of Devon graunted to 12 of the Comon
 
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 Counsel of the Cytie of Exon and ther heires for ever, 
 which wrytynge is also put into Sir John Acland's 
 chest amongst his other wrytynges. [See Introduc- 
 tion.] 
 
 /. 4116 (16 October, 1632). Whereas one John Quick 
 is now in his Majestie's prison within this Cittie for 
 suspicon of Treason, it is this day agreede that there 
 shalbe a commission forthwithe sued out for the 
 triall of the said Quick, the said commission to be 
 directed to the Maire, Recorder, Aldermen and unto 
 Ellize Hill, esquire, and William Bastard, esquire. 
 
 /. 4356 (1 April, 1634). A note of the parishioners names 
 of the parish of Marley, and what rate they pay for their 
 tythes for this yere begyninge the xj of January, 1633. 
 26 names, with total payment=3H. 2s. 2d. 
 
 Book 8. Act Book of the Chamber from 10 April, 1634, to 
 6 October, 1647. It has also (/. 213) two entries of 7-13 July, 
 1663. A paper volume in small folio, containing 214 folios 
 besides the Index. 
 
 /. 53 (7 February, 1636). This day Mr. Receiver and 
 three others bee appoynted and intreated to vewe the 
 place near the Key where Mr. John Colleton is desirous 
 to make a paire of staires into for which licence 
 is granted on 21 February, 1636 (/. 536). 
 /. 89 (2 July, 1639). Agreed that Mr. Receiver shall 
 repayre and amende the little bridge in the highway 
 lying over Duryurd Mille near Cowley Bridge, and 
 that the Justices of the Countie of Devon be acquainted 
 att the next sessions of the necessitie of the repairing 
 of that parte of Cowley Bridge that the Countie is to 
 repaire. 
 
 The latter portion of this volume (Act Book VIII) covers 
 the period of the Civil War, and many extracts of the highest 
 interest have been made from it and from Books ix and x in 
 Cotton, Gleanings, pp. 73-184. These include : 
 
 /. 1376 (31 July, 1642). The Chamber send petitions 
 both to the King and the Parliament supplicating for 
 a happie accommodacion. 
 /. 138 (4 August, 1642). The expected arrival of the 
 
 Earl of Bath. 
 
 /. 140 (8 September, 1642). The Chamber agree to engage 
 an ingeneer for the better defence of the City at a 
 yearly salary of 30Z. and expenses. 
 
 /. 1446 (10 January, 1643). They agree to pay 100Z. to 
 the Earl of Stamford, now lord general! appointed 
 by the parliament. 
 /. 147 (18 June, 1643). Also to borrow 2,OOOZ. after the 
 
 defeat at Stratton. 
 
 /. 1566 (14 March, 1644)." Decide to displace disloyal 
 members of the Chamber after receipt of a letter from 
 the King.
 
 325 
 
 /. 1576 (2 May, 1644). Decide to present 200?. to the 
 
 Queen "nowe in this Cittie." 
 /. 158 (30 July, 1644). To sell the City plate, which it 
 
 "is conceived wilbe hereafter of little use." 
 /. 1586 (31 July, 1644). To present 500Z. to the King, 
 who " is this day to make his accesse to this Cittie 
 and 100Z. more to the Prince his Highness, who comes 
 with him. [Printed also in Oliver, Hist., p. 116.] 
 /. 159 (30 July, 1644). Gifts to the King to pay for 3,000 
 
 pairs of shoes provided for his army in Bristol. 
 /. 165 (20 May, 1645). Vote 10Z. to pay for the dinner 
 to the Lord Caple, the Lord Culpeper, Master of the 
 Rolls, Sir Edward Hyde, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 
 and divers other persons of honor then hi this Cittie. 
 /. 166 (14 June, 1645). Pigs to be removed without the 
 walls because the sickness or the plague is nowe 
 raigning in manie partes and such infectious diseases 
 are much occasioned by nastie and beastlie smelles. 
 /. 1676 (30 August, 1645). That 100Z. shalbe presented 
 to Prince Charles his highnes, who came to this Cittie 
 the last night. The money to be taken from the 
 Orphans money. 
 
 /. 1696 (18 October, 1645). That 100Z. be presented to 
 Sir John Berkeley, kt., the present Governor of this 
 Cittie. 
 
 /. 175 (31 March, 1646). As to a letter from the Governor 
 " concerning the summons this day sent for the 
 rendering of this Cittie," and naming representatives 
 " in case a treatie shalbe concluded uppon." 
 /. 1756 (12 May, 1646). Revokes the last Election of 
 Sir Peter Ball as Recorder and puts Edmund Prideaux 
 in his place. 
 
 /. 176 (16 June, 1646). Presentation of an order of the 
 
 Parliament, dated June 8, 1646, reinstating Richard 
 
 Saunders and other displaced Aldermen and members 
 
 of the Common Councell and Chamber. 
 
 /. 1776 (16 June, 1646). Dismissal of Mr. John Colleton, 
 
 Receiver General of this Cittie. 
 
 ff. 178-180. Other dismissals, including Sir Hugh 
 Crooker, the Mayor (Sept. 1, 1646), an order having been 
 previously made (i.e. June 23, 1646, /. 178), and 
 Mr. Thomas ffuller from the Bodley lectureship (June 17, 
 1646). 
 /. 1796 (20 August, 1646). Regarding the lodging for the 
 
 judges at the Assizes shortlie to be helde in this Cittie. 
 /. 191 (14 January, 1647). Invitation to Mr. Hurste, 
 minister of God's Word at Plymouth, " That this Cittie 
 may have the benefitt of his ministrie uppon fitting 
 consideracoun." 
 
 /. 1936 (18 February, 1647). To use the Colledge hall of 
 the Vicarrs Corall of the Cathedrall Church, bein
 
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 adjoyning to the yarne markett as a comon wooll hall. 
 /. 196 (25 March, 1647). The valuation of the boats. 
 /. 1966 (6 April, 1647). Appointing April 13th next as a 
 
 day of thanksgiving for the last rendering of this Cittie. 
 /. 1976 (13 April, 1647). Grants 10Z. to Mr. John Bond, 
 
 minister of God's Worde for his greate paynes this 
 
 day. 
 /. 198 (15 April, 1647). Orders removal of the poor out of 
 
 Bedford House. 
 /. 2116 (6 October, 1647). To petition Parliament to 
 
 allow a rate not exceeding 2s. in the on several houses 
 
 towards the maintenance of the ministers here. 
 
 Book 9. Act Book of the Chamber from 6 October, 1647, 
 to 25 February, 1652. A paper volume containing 104 folios 
 besides the Index. It contains the Acts of the Council, and 
 at ff. 92-104 the proceedings of the Committee for the sale of 
 Estates (5 March, 1654, to 23 October, 1660). It requires 
 rebinding. Many interesting extracts from this volume 
 will be found in Cotton, Gleanings, pp. 122-147. 
 
 /. 26 (23 November, 1648). Order that the inscription 
 in the wall of the new churchyardf purporting the 
 consecration thereof to be defaced. 
 
 /. 27 (30 November, 1648). 10s. paid to Josias the Keeper 
 of the Great Clock at the Great Church, for cleansing 
 the gutters by the walks in the Great Churchyard. 
 /. 69 (21 January, 1651). That whereas in the years 1642 
 and 1643, when this City was held for the Parliament 
 against the King's army, and all other ways of raising 
 money to pay and fee the soldiers and make good 
 the fortification and defence of the city failed, this 
 Chamber was necessitated as the last and only remedy 
 to propose the giving of the common seal for the repay- 
 ment of such monies as should be lent thereon, and for 
 such provisions as should be furnished for maintenance 
 of the garrison, and where also this Chamber oweth 
 several sums of money unto orphans and to several 
 accounts of Trustees for the poor for which also their 
 Common Seal is given, all which this Corporation 
 stands engaged to pay, and for some of which first 
 mentioned debts there are judgments obtained and 
 extents already executed upon the Lands of this 
 Corporation, the Chamber order that one half of all the 
 money * * * And whereas the monies so taken up and 
 employed in the public service in the said siege of the 
 City may hereafter by the favour and justice of the 
 Parliament upon a right representation thereof made 
 be acknowledged a public debt and repaid, which is 
 
 t i.e., the Churchyard near All Hallows on the Walls, consecrated on 
 St. Bartholomew Day, August 24, 1637 For sermon preached by Bishop 
 Hall on the occasion, see G. Lewis, Life of Jos. Hall, p. 308.
 
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 really intended effectually to be endeavoured with 
 all convenient speed, that what shall be so recovered 
 shall be to and for the only use and benefit of this 
 Corporation until the said debts so discharged be 
 repaid. 
 
 /. 74 (18 March, 1651). This day a committee was 
 appointed by the Chamber to prepare certain heads 
 of the late grievances this Corporation and City have 
 suffered in relation to the late troubles whereby a 
 petition may be drawn up and presented to the States 
 for some redress therein, and Mr. Town Clarke is 
 desired to yield his best assistance thereunto, and 
 any three of the aforesaid committee to take the 
 assistance likewise of such persons of this Corporation as 
 they shall think fit for the better effecting of this 
 Business. 
 
 /. 85 (16 December, 1651). That a Committee of the 
 Chamber meet every Monday in the Council Chamber 
 at two of the clock in the afternoon to sett and fill 
 up estates in the City's lands not exceeding four lives or 
 [blank] years for the raising of monies for payment of the 
 Chamber's debts to the poor and otherwise, and it 
 was further ordered that if any member of the 
 Committee shall take or renew any estate that he shall 
 not have any vote therein nor be present at the debate 
 thereof in any other manner than those that are not 
 of the Chamber. 
 
 /. 856 (23 December, 1651). Mr. James Pearse, Sheriff, 
 was intreated to disburse the sum of 100?. towards 
 the present satisfying of the soldiers pay upon the 
 Chamber's engagement to pay him the same sum again 
 at the end of 14 days next ; also that 661. 13s. 4d. be 
 delivered to Mr. Maior out of the monies lying in the 
 chest lately made out of the Citties lands to be by him 
 disposed of and given to the poor of this citye that are 
 in greatest want in these miserable times. 
 
 Book 10. Act Book of the Chamber from 9 March, 1652, 
 to 30 June, 1663. A paper volume in small folio, containing 
 180 folios, besides the Index. It is bound in plain vellum. 
 Extracts from it will be found in Cotton, Gleanings, pp. 146- 
 184. 
 
 /. 1 (9 March, 1652). That there shalbe 500 timber trees 
 felled and cutt down in Duryurd wood, and that the 
 monies raised and made of the same shalbe employed 
 for the settling the accounts belonging to the poore, 
 and that whereas 91. was found to be in arrears in 
 Mr. Atwell's account due out of a tenement in 
 St. Thomas' parish, which in the late troubles was 
 demolished and burnt a deduction of 40s. is allowed 
 to the tenants in consideration of the injury sustained.
 
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 /. 8 (22 June, 1652). That the moiety of such sums of 
 money or satisfaction in any other way as the Parliament 
 shall be pleased to assign to the Chamber shall be for 
 the benefit of the poor of this place bona fide without 
 any sinister end or intention. 
 
 /. 286 (4 August, 1653). The same day these severall 
 certificates were sealed with the Common Seal. Then 
 follow the names of 19 persons for various amounts 
 advanced aboute the reducinge of Ireland. 
 
 /. 29 (13 August, 1653). Further long lists about monies 
 
 adventured for Irish lands or monies advanced about 
 
 the reducing of Ireland. Also on Aug. 16, 23, 31 ; 
 
 Sept. 6, 12 ; October 13, 18 ; Nov. 1, 1653 ; March 14, 
 
 1654. 
 
 /. 39 (3 December, 1653). Ordered that the following 
 writing purporting the claime of monies &c. shalbe 
 sealed with the Common Scale, viz., Wee the Maior, 
 Bayliffes and Comynaltie of the Cittie of Exeter doe 
 hereby clayme as a debt owing and due to us from the 
 Common Wealth the some of 14,020Z. 2s. \%d., being 
 lent by us uppon the publicke faith which was recieved 
 and issued out by the order and appointment of the 
 Deputye Liewtenants of the said Cittie att the several 
 dayes and times mentioned in the account hereunto 
 annexed and by them who were also impowered there- 
 unto by severall orders and ordinances of parliament. 
 [No account accompanies this.] 
 
 /. 496 (27 June, 1654). The same day a certificate of 
 monies received by Mr. Walter White for Irish sub- 
 scriptions was sealed with the Common Seal as 
 f olloweth : Guildhall, London, April 25, 1646. This 
 may certifie whom it may concerne that the Treasurer 
 appointed for the Irish subscriptions received of Walter 
 White of the Cittie of Exon, Esquire, by the hands of 
 several persons before the 29th of April, 1643 (sic), 
 for several subscriptions subscribed by several persons 
 in the Cittie of Exon, the somme of 15,728Z. 10s. Od. as 
 by the particular receipts in the hands of the said 
 Walter White more plainely appeareth. Signed, John 
 Warner, Thomas Andrewes. 
 
 /. 50 (4 July, 1654). Mr. Henry Prigge is intreated by 
 this house to write to a freind of his in London to gett 
 downe an able and fitt person for a chimney sweeper to 
 continue here ; and it is agreed that a pension of 31. 
 p. annum shalbe paid unto him quarterly for his honest 
 and carefull service within this Citty. 
 
 /. 65 (28 November, 1654). The Mayor and 4 others are 
 chosen and appointed a committee by this house to 
 consider of some fitt person to undertake the keeping 
 in worke and educating of 10 poore maides in the 
 foreroome belonging to the newe Workhouse in
 
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 St. Peter's Churchyarde, which is conceived to be 
 usefull for that purpose, and the roome to be with all 
 convenient speed fitted and prepared for that use. 
 
 /. 56 (19 December, 1654). Johan Hernaman appointed 
 Schoolemastris of the newe schoole and workhouse to 
 be fitted and ordained in parte of the late Tresurer's 
 house in Peter's Churchyard [see page 81], to the keep- 
 ing to worke and educating of poore girles therein, and 
 it is agreed that tenn poore maides shall for the present 
 be received in and the house to be fitted and prepared 
 for that purpose. She is to be paid 201. p.a. for herself 
 and a servant under her, the monies to bee disburst 
 out of Mr. Attwill's money. 
 
 /. 59 (5 March, 1655). To cause the two pitts of water 
 without Southgate neere the drawbridge to bee forth- 
 with filled upp with earth to prevent the future danger 
 to people cumming in that way. 
 
 /. 62. To pay the somme of 170?. out of Mr. Atwill's 
 money to pay for such as hath been laid out about 
 the newe hospitall building. 
 
 /. 70 (15 January, 1656). Agreed to purchase from 
 Mr. Embury the cloisters and such wast groundes and 
 other appurtenances as is incident thereunto adjoining 
 to Peter's Church for the most reasonable value it may 
 bee had, 1,600?. being borrowed for the purpose at 
 5 % interest, with the names of the subscribers 
 
 (/ 716). 
 
 /. 71 (11 March, 1656). The Mayor and 4 others are 
 appointed to treate and conclude with Mr. Valentyne 
 Greatrakes about the letting or selling of the Chamber's 
 lands in Ireland. On the same day (/. 726) the con- 
 veyance and purchase deeds of inheritance for the sale 
 of the Chamber's lands in Ireland to Sir Ames Ameredeth, 
 baronett, Colonell Hierom Sankey of Clonmell in 
 Ireland and Valentyne Greatrakes of Cornworthy, 
 co. Devon, Esquire, were sealed with the Common 
 Seal of the Corporation. The lands are described as 
 lying in the Barony of Middlethirds in the county of 
 Tipperary in the province of Munster. They consist 
 of 4,185 acres 29 poles of meadowe, arable land and 
 profitable pasture, English measure, which being 
 deducted into Irish measure is 2,583 acres 2 roods and 
 32 poles with all the woods &c., for the consideration 
 of 1,500?. [A footnote by Dr. Oliver in his Calendar 
 states that the Irish property was purchased by the 
 Chamber on March 24, 1655, for 15,728?. 105. 
 and sold on March 19, 1656, for 3,360?., referring to 
 p. 336, but I have not traced this entry.] 
 
 /. 72 (25 March, 1656). Whereas there lately fell to the 
 ground an olde Almeshouse appointed for the harboring 
 of Two poore people which stoode neere the Key gate,
 
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 which happened by the fall of some parte of the Towne 
 Walle and the Chamber thinking that place not soe 
 fitt for an Almeshouse did lease away that plott of 
 ground to Walter Stronge, hellier, and in Leive thereof 
 have erected in Trinity parish just within the Mawdlyn 
 Gate an Almeshouse for Lodging of fower people, 
 which is double the number the old house was to 
 harbour. And wee do order the pay which the Warden 
 of the poore was accustomed to pay weeklie and yerelie 
 unto the two poor people which lived in the house 
 whilst it stood by the Key gate shall be for ever weekly 
 . accordingly paid unto two of the most poorest of the 
 fower that shall from time to time happen to bee placed 
 by the Chamber and shall live in those 4 newe erected 
 houses aforesaid nowe standing within the said 
 Mawdlyn gate, the which what it is the Rental and 
 Booke which is yerely made and delivered by the 
 Towne Clarke unto the said Warden of the poore will 
 shewe and direct. 
 
 /. 78 (14 October, 1656). This day Mr. Maior brought 
 into the Chamber the counterparte of the deeds for sale 
 of Irish lands made by this Corporation to Sir Ames 
 Ameredith, Colonell Sankey and others sealed and 
 delivered by the said Colonell Sankey, the others having 
 formerly sealed and delivered it, togeather with fower 
 severall bonds for payment of the monies for the same 
 with the interest thereof, which were putt into the 
 boxes. Also a Receipt of Mr. Embrey's for 2,230Z. 
 for the purchase of the Cloysters ; the priviledges of 
 Peter's Churchyard and Archdeacon Cotton's house 
 was likewise brought into the Chamber by Mr. Maior 
 and putt into the boxe. [See Introduction.] 
 
 /. 796 (28 November, 1656). The same day Mr. Gandy 
 and Mr. Slade are desired by this house to be assisting 
 to Mr. Receiver in the disposing and sale of the organs 
 lying in the cloysters and to see the brasse halfe crownes 
 seized on in Mr. Snowe's year of Mayoralty [i.e. Simon 
 Snow, Mayor, 1653] to be melted. 
 
 /. 80 (2 December, 1656). Uppon reading of a letter lately 
 received from Mr. Towne Clarke, nowe in London, 
 touching the uniting of severall parish churches within 
 this City to the late Cathedral church of Peters to be 
 called Peters the East, and for an addition thereunto 
 to be made, viz., that his highnes the Lord Protector 
 may have the presentation thereof, It is this day fully 
 agreed and resolved on by this house that the agree- 
 ment first drawne upp and approved of by the Chamber 
 and Mr. Stukeley shall stand without any alteracon 
 or other addicon whatsoever. And soe to bee againe 
 recommended to Mr. Towne Clarke for the passing 
 thereof in Parliament if it may bee.
 
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 /. 896 (11 August, 1657). Ordered and (sic) the respective 
 Churwardens of the respective Churches of Trinitie, 
 Mary Stepps, Alhallows on the Walls, Johns Bow, 
 Kirrians, Pancras, Georges, Pauls, Alhallows in 
 Goldsmith Streete, Laurence, Stephens and Martin and 
 every of them be commaunded that within f ower dayes 
 after notice of this order to them to bee given they 
 bring in to the Right Worshipfull the Maior of this 
 Cittie a true particular in wrifcinge of all the Bells, 
 goods, utensills and implements whatsoever to the 
 said respective churches belonging and appertayning. 
 And alsoe to give upp unto the said Maior the pos- 
 sessions of the said respective churches by the delivery 
 of the generall keyes of all the dores of the same to 
 end order may bee farther had and taken in the premisses 
 according to and in performance of an Act of this 
 present Parliament, intituled an Act for the promoting 
 and more frequent preaching of the Gospell and main- 
 tenance of ministers in the Cittie of Exeter and uniting 
 of parishes and parish churches within the said Cittie 
 of Exeter,* whereof the said respective Churchwardens 
 may not faill att their perills, which order Mr. Towne 
 Clarke is appointed to signe with his owne name in 
 the name and by the order of the Common Councell, 
 which was done accordingly And the parties therein 
 concerned to be served therewith ; followed by the order 
 for partitioning the Cathedral with a brick wall on the 
 east part of the cross aisle. [Printed in Oliver, Hist., 
 119; Cotton, Gleanings, 172.] 
 
 /. 946 (30 October, 1657). Whereas the markett commonly 
 called the Searge Markett, held and kept weekely within 
 this Citty hath heretofore byn severall tymes to severall 
 places within the said Cittie for the better accomodacion 
 thereof removed And whereas the place where the same 
 is kept in Southgatestrete [see L. 409, p. 50] is found 
 both in regard to the people there useing and frequenting 
 the said Markett as alsoe in the stopping upp of the 
 passage of the said streete in respect the same Markett 
 place is overt and open to the Raine and Stormes, and 
 for sundrye other reasons to be inconvenient, for remedye 
 whereof and for that a convenient place is lately pre- 
 pared by great labor and expenses for the better 
 accomodacion of the said Markett to be held and kept 
 in the newe buildings yard and plott of ground neere 
 adjoyning to the late cathedral church there heretofore 
 known by the name of the Cloysters, where all fitt 
 accomodacion, as well for sale of the said serges and 
 perpetuanaes, as also for the safe preserving and 
 keeping of such of the said Merchandizes as shall not 
 at the said Markett for the present be disposed of. 
 
 * See D. 770, Sep. 17, 1656; Fouman, 207.
 
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 It is ordered that the said serge markett shall be 
 removed from Southgate Street into the said yarde and 
 newe buildings from the 6th day of November next, 
 and that the Markett for the sale of ffish nowe kept in 
 the High Streete bee removed thence into the said 
 Southgate Streete. [See Cotton, Gleanings, p. 175.] 
 /. 138 (28 August, 1660). It was this day ordered that 
 a bond should bee given to Mr. Simon Snowe by the 
 Chamber under their Common Scale for 609J. Is. 3d., 
 payable on demand for soe much hee disburst for a 
 present in plate to his Majestic by order of this Chamber. 
 And Mr. Snowe is desired by this house to treate with 
 the dean of the Cathedrall Church concerning the 
 late order made about St. Peter's Church &c. 
 
 /. 1386 (28 August, 1660). 25?. of Sir Thomas White's 
 money is agreed to be lent to John Rowse of 
 this Cittie, woollen draper, for term years uppon the 
 security of Mr. Nicholas Brendy and Mr. William 
 Penny. 
 
 /. 142 (17 November, 1660). The same day it was further 
 ordered that where the serge markett shalbe removed 
 from the late Cloyster of the Cathedral Church of 
 St. Peter, where for some tyme past it hath byn usually 
 kept, that the same bee removed into St. John's 
 Hospitall within the East gate of this Citty, in which 
 place Mr. Receiver Pym is desired to provide boards 
 to make upstandings for the said market in convenyent 
 tyme. This order was repealed on Dec. 11, 1660 
 (/. 1426), on which day it was agreed that the market 
 be kept in South street from Friday next the fourteenth, 
 on the petition of the inhabitants of South Street, 
 who desired the retourne of the said searge markett 
 into that streete. It is further ordered that those 
 stalls and standings which now are in the said Cloysters 
 bee removed thence and ymployed to and for the use 
 of the said markett to bee erected in the middle of the 
 said Southgatestrete from the conduitt there upwards, 
 and the benefitt and advantage thereof solely to accrue 
 unto the maydes hospital for their better mainteynce 
 and livelihood. 
 
 /. 144 (19 February, 1661). Ordered that the benefitt of 
 251. of Sir Thomas White's money formerly intended 
 and lent out for Walter Kerslake, bee divided betweene 
 him and Thomas Nash, who is to stand principall in 
 the bond and to have 41. thereof for his parte. 
 
 /. 1446 (19 February, 1661). That the summe of 50/. of 
 lawful money bee conferred on Mr. Samuel Izacke, 
 Town clarke of this Cittie, in lie we of his severall yeres 
 pencon behinde and unpaid. 
 
 /. 1446 (26 February, 1661). Mr. Snowe and four others 
 are appointed and desired to treate with the Dean
 
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 and Cannons about the affairs of the Hospitall, Chambre 
 and Cittie. Also (/. 1466) on May 7, 1661, totreate and 
 .conclude with them for those lands that the Cittie hath 
 purchased. Also that 20s. be paid to Class for keeping 
 the seats in St. Peter's Church. 
 
 /. 1496 (20 August, 1661). Whereas the Commissioners 
 for raysinge mony out of Mr. Ellis Hele's Lands by 
 appointment of Sir John Maynard, Baronett, and 
 Mr. Ellis Sterte have raised the summe of 500?. for the 
 stockinge and maintayning of a workehouse for and in 
 the Cittie of Exon to bee ordered by the Major and 
 Aldermen of the said Cittie, and are ready to paye in 
 the same as security shalbee given them for their 
 indempnity and for the discharge of the said truste 
 it is ordered that the said 500Z. bee paid in to the 
 Receiver. 
 
 /. 1526 (22 October, 1661). Mr. Alderman Snowe or 
 Mr. Deeble are desired by this Chamber to bringe in 
 the lowest price and value of an house in Alhalows in 
 Goldsmythstreet, who intend to purchase ye same for 
 a Bridewell or house of Correction, being the very use the 
 said house was designed unto formerly, 539Z. 10s. being 
 paid for it on Dec. 17, 1661 (/. 1546). It is caUed a 
 Bridewell or working-house for the keeping of the 
 poore att worke in /. 153 (6 November, 1661), where 
 it is proposed to purchase one out of money of the 
 gifte of Mr. Laurence Atwill, and if it shalbe found 
 not warrantable by Mr. Atwill's will that the monie 
 shalbe made good againe by the lands of this Cittie. 
 
 Boole 11. Act Book of the Chamber from 7 July, 1663, to 
 4 March, 1684. A paper volume in small folio containing 
 244 folios. It contains the Acts of the Council only and has 
 no Index. 
 
 /. 3 (1 September, 1663). Whereas heretofore an agree- 
 ment was made betweene Doctor Peterson, late deane 
 of the Cathedra 11 Church, and the Chapter of the said 
 Church, with divers members of this house touching 
 the yelding upp of such right as this Cittie had unto 
 or of their possessions and the payment of certaine 
 monies &c. from the said deane and Chapter, which 
 hath byn performed on the Cittie's parte, but not on 
 the deane and Chapters parte. Mr. Alderman Gandie 
 and 2 others are desired by this house to repaire on 
 Saturday next to the Chapter House to treate with the 
 said Chapter touching the premises. On Sept. 8th, 1663 
 (/. 36) they report that they had a friendlie treatie 
 with them about the particulars given therein, but 
 those of the Chapter then present being not a complete 
 number, and expecting the Bishop here verie shortlie, 
 desired respite given untill his return. Whereuppon it is
 
 334 
 
 further this day ordered that if answeare satisfactorie 
 be not given by the said Chapter within two weeks 
 that the Committee wait again upon the Chapter to 
 knowe their positive answeare therein. 
 
 /. 13 (25 April, 1664). This day it is fullie agreede and 
 resolved that a peticon shalbe forthwith presented 
 to his Ma tle representing the manie wrongs offered 
 to this Cittie by the Deane and Chapter of Exeter in 
 not performing the Agreement made betweene them. 
 
 /. 44 (28 May, 1666). The liberties and priveledges 
 of this Cittie beinge att present questioned, and 
 Mr. Recorder having written from London to send upp 
 some of the said Charters,* It is this day agreede that 
 severall Charters shalbe sent upp accordingly and that 
 the Chamberlaine of this Cittie shalbe intrusted with 
 the carrying of them to London in the speediest way he 
 may with safetie. Then follows : The particular of the 
 Charters and writings sent by the order above men- 
 tioned : 1. The Charter of 29 Henry VIII, 3 Edward 
 VI, 3 Elizabeth, the Acte of Parliament of 5 Elizabeth 
 (see Oliver, p. 268), the Charter of 3 Charles I, 
 28 Edward I, 2 olde Charters of King John, the Charter 
 of 16 Henry VI, A Certificate of 39 Edward III. The 
 Coppie of an Inquisition of Edward I. The Cittie's 
 Armes under the Kinge of Armes his hande and scale. 
 All of them putt into a little trunk lockt and delivered 
 to Richard Izacke, Chamberlain, at the day above- 
 menconed. On April 30, 1667 (/. 60), three Charters 
 were likewise sent to London by Mr. Tounclarke, 
 sci. 29 Henry VIII, Edward VI (sic) and 3 Caroli. 
 A side note records : " Brought back again into the 
 Chamber." 
 
 /. 466 (31 July, 1666). One acquittance for the receipt of 
 280Z. of Mr. Symon Snowe for soe much received by 
 hym of Mr. William Sanforde from Mr. Valentyne 
 Gratrix, being parte of the debt due by the said 
 Mr. Gratrix for the purchase of the Irish lands from 
 this Cittie. 
 
 /. 466 (same date). One other acquittance for the receipt 
 of 2QL of the said Mr. Snowe for a peece of plate hereto- 
 fore bought by this Cittie to be used in St. Peter Church 
 and since solde to the Deane and Chapter of that 
 Church to be still used there as at their request. 
 
 /. 47 (7 August, 1666). This day the Townclarke presented to 
 this house a note of particular summes given to charitable 
 uses by Mr. Perryam and others, which being in severall 
 hands is desired to be entered for the better continuance 
 of the accompte thereof hereafter, viz. : John Perryam, 
 1,000?.; Thomas Walker, 200Z.; Mrs. Elizabeth Dowrish, 
 501. ; Sir Richard Lawdye, 100J. ; Mr. James Tucker, 
 
 * See p. 2.
 
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 100Z. ; Mr. Thomas fford, 250?. ; Mr. Richard Evans, 
 500Z. ; Mr. Ralph Herman, 400Z. ; Total 2,600?., 
 which is thus disposed of. Here follow particulars. 
 
 /. 83 (5 January, 1669). I doe acknowledge to have 
 received these Charters followinge out of ye Councell 
 Chamber, vizt., 3 Edward VI, 29 Henry VIII, 
 3 Elizabeth, and 3 Caroli, and also ye exemplification 
 of an Actt of Parliament made 5 Elizabeth to be 
 conveighed to London for the present use and to bee 
 returned again by me, Ri. Izacke. All which were 
 accordingly retourned and putt in one of ye boxes in ye 
 Councell Chamber. [See Introduction.] 
 
 /. 88 (25 May, 1669). Mr. Maior is desired to proclayme 
 horse markett weekly on ffridayes to bee kept in 
 ffryernhay. 
 
 /. 1016 (8 November, 1670). Mr. William Sanford is 
 desired to receive from Mr. Snowe's executors ye 
 severall Bonds entered into by Sir Ames Amerideth and 
 Mr. Valentine Gratrix unto this Chamber, and uppon 
 the said Mr. Sanford's reporte thereof to this howse 
 to transmitt ye said bonds to Mr. Samuel Crockford 
 of Mynehead, and in the name of this Chamber to desire 
 ye said Crockford to use his best endeavour for ye 
 speedy recovery of ye said debte. 
 
 /. 1056. Whereas there is a greate somme of monie still 
 due from severall persons uppon the sale of the 
 Irishe lands of this Cittie and the bonds entered into 
 for the payment thereof being mislaid whereby it is 
 not certenlie known who were bound for the payment 
 thereof or that remayneth thereof yet unsatisfyed, 
 the members of this Societie are all desired to informe 
 themselves thereon the best that they may and likewise 
 to examyne who hath any of the said bonds or any 
 other writings touching the same soe soone as possblie 
 they may, and to give this house an accounte thereof 
 that course may be speedilie taken for the recovery 
 thereof. 
 
 /. 120 (27 August, 1672). A Letter of Attornye to be 
 written to Mr. Chamberlain to demand an account 
 and to receive the monie due from Mr. Gratrix in 
 Ireland and a release to the said Mr. Gratrix uppon 
 payment &c. 
 
 /. 1326 (3 May, 1673). Alderman Sanford havinge 
 received letters of late from the Cittie's agents in 
 Ireland for the recoverie of monies due from Mr. Gratrix 
 and others there for lands sold unto them expressinge 
 some mistake in the accounts of that affair, and that 
 one Mr. Osborne is now owner of the said lands, who 
 makes some proposalls herein for the determyning 
 of all differences touching the same, Mr. Sanford is 
 desired to write speedilie to the said with directouns
 
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 to conclude the [sic] in such manner as he thinke fitting, 
 and there being an offer made of the payment of 2001., 
 it is conceived by this house fitter to accepte of the 
 same then to contest in Law for the recovery of more 
 uppon uncertentie. 
 
 /. 134 (12 August, 1673). Whereas there are monies due 
 from Mr. Gratrix and others for the lands of the Cittie 
 in Ireland and noe certaine sommes can be agreede on 
 by reason of differences in the accounts of severall 
 persons touching the same for the avoyding of further 
 troubles and expence touching the same, Mr. Alderman 
 Sanford is desired by this house to use his best 
 indeavour therein againe and to give order to accepte 
 of one hundred pounds if more cannott be gotten. 
 
 /. 1386 (16 December, 1673). A letter latelie sent from 
 the Citties agent for the recording of monies due to the 
 Cittie for their lands in Ireland, and ther being an 
 offer of [blank] to be paid for the same uppon a release 
 to all the parties interested therein, It is this day 
 agreede that a release be prepared for the same 
 accordingly to avoide further trouble. 
 
 /. 139 (6 January, 1674). This day a release under the 
 Common Scale was sealed to Sir Ames Amerideth, 
 Colonell Jeremy Sankie and Valentyne Gratrix, Esq., 
 of all debts and monies due for the Citties lands in 
 Ireland upon the engagement to pay 105?. to the 
 Citties agent there uppon the receipt of their release. 
 
 /. 1416 (5 May, 1674). A letter, beinge this day reade 
 from the Citties agent in Ireland that the persons there 
 who are to paye monies for the lands there heretofore 
 purchased from this Cittie will not paye but 150?. att 
 present upon the delivery of the Citties release, and the 
 residue at some short tyme thereafter, It is this day 
 agreede that it shalbe soe accepted to avoide further 
 disputes therein. Aid. Sanford is desired by this 
 house to give order to the said agent in Ireland to effect 
 it accordingly, taking some causion for later payment 
 that an end may be of that long and trowblesome 
 business. 
 
 /. 1576 (31 August, 1675). Whereas there are 55?. paid of 
 late unto Aid. Sanford for the Citties lands solde in 
 Ireland, for which hee is accomptable to this house, 
 orders are given for the disposal of the money. 
 
 /. 161 (14 December, 1675). Ordered that all liquid 
 goods brought upp to the Key by water for lighterage 
 and cranage, shall pay 2s. 6d., and all other goods 
 2s. by the Tunne, also for lighterage of all goods down- 
 wards except pack goods 2s. Qd. p. tunn ; do. for every 
 packe of serges of 20 pieces 4d., and soe for other goods 
 according to ye bignes ; for a quarter of coale \2d. ; 
 for salt accounting 40 bushells to ye tunn 20d. per
 
 337 
 
 Tunne ; for every hoggeshead of tobacco Sd. All coasters 
 to pay as formerly. 
 
 /. 1966 (5 September, 1679). This day it is ordered that 
 ye Common Brewhouse in Exiland [see p. 104] and ye pest- 
 house in the parish of St. Syd wells be foorthwith by ye 
 comon cryer of this City proclaymed to bee sett and ye 
 day for ye disposal! of ye same is appointed to bee Tuesday 
 come sen'ight, 16th inst., here at ye Counsell Chamber, 
 where ye best Chapman is to bee preferred. Mr. Receiver 
 is likewise ordered to repaire that part of Cowley bridge 
 which fitly belongs to this Chamber to doe. 
 
 Book 12. Act Book of the Chamber from 22 April, 1684, 
 to 4 September, 1684. A folio volume bound in leather, 
 containing 7 leaves of Acts at one end and at the other the 
 following entries : 
 
 /. 1. The Charter of Incorporation of the Joyners of 
 
 Exeter, 20 March, 1685. [See Deed 1637.] 
 /. 3. Acts and Ordinances for the governance of the same 
 
 Company, 25 March, 1685. 
 /. 7. The Charter of Incorporation of the Freemasons, 
 
 Masons, Bricklayers, Glasiers and Painters of Exeter, 
 
 20 March, 1685. [See Deed 1637.] 
 /. 9. Acts and Ordinances for the governance for the same 
 
 Company, 1 James II (1685). 
 /. 13. The Charter of Incorporation of the Butchers of 
 
 Exeter, 20 March, 1685. [See Letter 520, page 53.] 
 /. 18. The Incorporation of the Whitetawers, glovers, 
 
 skinners (incorporated 1462 Izacke, 62), grey tawers, 
 
 poynters and parchment-makers, 1 December, 1685. 
 
 [See p. 54.] 
 /. 24. The Incorporation of the Hellyars and plaisterers 
 
 of Exeter, 14 December, 1686. [See Letter 76, page 53.] 
 /. 28. The Incorporation of the Bakers of Exeter, 
 
 1 March, 1687. [For previous incorporations, 1482, 
 
 1554, see Izacke, 63.] 
 /. 30. Acts and Ordinances of the Company of white 
 
 tallow chandlers and white soape boylers of Exeter. 
 
 [See Deed 1786.] 
 
 Book 13. Act Book of the Chamber from 10 November, 
 1684, to 20 September, 1731. A folio volume bound in leather 
 containing 333 written folios. Two leaves (ff. 51, 52) are 
 left blank, see L. 443. 
 
 /. 316 (26 April, 1687) has regulations for the duties of 
 Pilotts over the Barr of the Port of Exon, of whom 
 there are 12. All masters of ships or Barks drawing 
 above five foot water were to be obliged to take on a 
 pilot according to a fixed scale of charges varying with 
 the draught, and the rules were to be hung up in a 
 frame at Topsham. 
 
 Wt. 20757. Ex 22
 
 338 
 
 /. 996 (21 July, 1696). Mr. Receiver is to pay George 
 White ye painter 305. for drawing of a map of the 
 Castle ditches. 
 
 /. Ill (July 16, 1698). That the Statute Bookes whom 
 (sic) to this tyme for the publick use of the City and a 
 scale for sealing of all processe of the Court be provided 
 by the receiver att the Citty's charge.* 
 
 /. 1236 (9 May, 1699). A commission of three are desired 
 to view and measure out the plott of ground near 
 Mawdlyn Gallows in order that the same may be 
 graunted to Mr. Jennings for 3 Lives under the rent 
 of Is. and repairing of the Causeway before it. 
 
 /. 162 (23 June, 1702). That the manor of Exe Island 
 shall be exposed to Sale at a Publick Survey by parcells, 
 and that the Committee appointed for the sale of the 
 manor of Duryurd doe discourse Mr. Ffownes and 
 other Trustees of Mr. Kellend, deceased, to whom the 
 manor of Exe Island is mortgaged about it, and that 
 the survey be held. 
 
 /. 1836 (11 August, 1704). That upon Mr. Oliver's 
 producing the purchase deeds from Trosse and others 
 relating to the Barton of Exeweeke, parte of which 
 belongs to this house, and on a mappe being made 
 thereof for the use of this house, ordered to adjust 
 which parte of ye said Barton belongs to this house. 
 
 /. 216 (14 September, 1708). Be it remembered that 
 it is mutually agreed by and between the right reverend 
 ffather in God, Ofspring [Blackall] Lord Bishop of Exeter 
 and the Venerable the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedrall 
 Churche of St. Peter in Exeter and the right worshipfull 
 the Mayor, Bayliffs and Comynalty of the city of 
 Exeter, for the preventing all doubts and questions 
 which might hereafter arise touching the wearing the 
 Cap of maintainance and bearing the Sword before 
 the said Mayor and his successors into (sic) Choir of 
 the said Cathedrall Church that the said Mayor &c. 
 coming to the said Choir in time of divine service do 
 cause the sword to be drope and Cap of Maintainance 
 taken off at the entrance or door of the said Choir. 
 But at other times that the said sword be carried 
 erect and the Cap of Maintainance worn before the 
 said Mayor &c. into and coming out of the said choir, 
 as hath been used for some time past, and that there 
 bee convenient places appointed and made for placing 
 the said sword and Cap of Maintainance before the said 
 Mayor &c., or as near on his and their right hands 
 as may or can bee contrived, and it is likewise agreed 
 that nothing herein contained shall affect or influence 
 any liberty or authority which the said Parties may 
 
 * The existing common seals bear date 12th century, 1531 and 1672, 
 called City Seals in Lloyd Parry, pp. 1, 22.
 
 339 
 
 lawfully claim or in the Fee of St. Stephens within 
 the said City. The agreement to be entered in the 
 several Registries of the Lord Bishop and the Dean and 
 Chapter and in the Book of Acts and Ordinances of the 
 said Mayor, Bailiffs and Comonalty, this 16th day of 
 July, 1708. Signed, Ofsp., Exon. 
 
 /. 271 (14 June, 1720). A contract made with Mr. Emanuel 
 Hole and Mr. William Stabbock for the granting of 
 liberty to bring stone for the making of Lyme onely 
 in Boates or Vessells through the works at all times when 
 and as often as any ships or vessells shall pass through 
 the works. [See D. 1824, p. 32.] 
 
 /. 2716 (15 September, 1720). Ordered that the Key, 
 Custome house, Cellars and other buildings thereon, 
 together with the Canal Sluices and everything there- 
 unto belonging with all the Tolls and Duties arising 
 therefrom, except the Town dues be sold, a Committee 
 being appointed to consider the Terms of sale and 
 other things in order thereunto. 
 
 Book 14. Act Book of the Chamber from 4 October, 1731, 
 to 17 November, 1766. A folio volume containing 293 folios. 
 
 Book 15. A volume containing an Abridgement to the 
 Chamber Act Book from 28 June, 1752, for the more ready 
 finding any Act of Chamber from that time. It contains 
 only 8 pages of entries, which end with July 31, 1753. 
 
 Book 16, entitled " Copy of the Chamber Minute Books, 
 from 11 December, 1766, to 22 November, 1808." A folio 
 volume bound in leather without pagination or Index. 
 
 Book 17. " Copy of the Chamber Minute Book from 
 7 February, 1809, to 12 February, 1823." A folio volume 
 bound in leather without pagination or Index. Similar to 
 No. 16. 
 
 Minute Books. 
 
 These volumes contain the Minutes of the meetings, which 
 are afterwards copied into the Act Books. 
 
 Books 18 to 30. Chamber Minute Books from 5 February, 
 
 1688, to 23 April, 1831. (See Act Books 13 to 17.) 
 Book 18 is called on the cover " Act Book from February 5, 
 1688, unto Sept. 12, 1698," with a note, "of no use 
 being fair copied in No. XI," i.e. Act Book XIII. 
 Book 19. Chamber Act Book from 14 August, 1722, to 
 June 27, 1727. Copied in No. XI, i.e. Act Book XIII. 
 Book 20. Do, do, from July 18, 1727, to Oct. 4, 1731. 
 
 Copied in No. XI, i.e. Act Book XIII. 
 Book 21. No. XII. Minute Book of the Chamber from 
 Oct. 1731, to February, 1735. Adding (in later hand
 
 340 
 
 of Oliver's time) Nos. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. All copied 
 in No. XII., i.e. Act Book XIV. 
 Book 22. No. XIII. Minute Book of the Chamber, 1735 
 
 (i.e. from Feb. 21, 1735, to July 5, 1743). 
 Book 23. No. XIV. Do, do, 1743 (i.e. from Aug. 27, 
 
 1743, to Dec. 17, 1751). 
 Book 24. No. XV. Do, do, 1752 (i.e. from Jan. 28, 1752, 
 
 to May 28, 1763). 
 Book 25. No. XVI. Do, do, 1763 (i.e. from July 26, 
 
 1763, to April 16, 1776). 
 
 The remainder of these Minute Books are kept at the Town 
 Clerk's office in a separate building, and time did not allow 
 of my inspecting them, but I ascertained that a volume which 
 was missing, which Mr. Stuart Moore reported, has recently 
 been recovered (1909), and is now marked Book 30A. Other 
 volumes still missing are from Sept. 12, 1698, where No. 18 
 ends, and Aug. 14, 1722, where No. 19 begins. Also between 
 1831 and Dec. 31, 1835. 
 
 Books 31 to 37 contain Minutes of the Council from Dec. 31, 
 1835, to Sept. 10, 1873. Books 38 to 48 are blank. 
 
 Book\ 49. Wynard's Minute Book, 1864. See Deeds 573 
 &c. 
 Book 50. Northernhay Minute Book, 1844, to [blank]. 
 
 John Hooker's Books. 
 
 Book 51. The Common -place Book of John Vowell alias 
 Hoker, Chamberlain of the City of Exeter. A large folio 
 volume of paper neatly bound in brown morocco, but greatly 
 in need of rebinding. It was evidently rebound in its present 
 form before Izacke's time, for he notices the misplacing of the 
 pages in the middle portion. It appears to be the same as the 
 Black Ledger, to which Hooker makes frequent reference in 
 Book 52 (see page 89). Prefixed in Izacke's handwriting is : 
 " A Catalogue of the particulars menconed in this booke 
 written most by the industrious laboues (sic) of John Vowell 
 alias Hooker, the first Chamberlaine of this Cittie." This 
 table of contents ends with /. 194 : " The Rentalls of the 
 lands of and belonging to the Cittie." 
 
 /. 224 has a list of toll-free places drawn up by Hooker and 
 dated 1592. The Annals at the end stop abruptly at 
 32 Elizabeth (1590), which year contains nothing but the 
 names of William Martyn, mayer, John Chaple, vie', and 
 Richard Swete (recever), William Newcome, Walter 
 burroghe, Thomas Baskerville, bayliffs. On the same page 
 (/. 3646) is written : 
 
 I am content that thre copies of this boke be printed. 
 Jo. Cantuar [i.e. Archbishop Whitgift, 1583-1604]. 
 
 Also : Int. Mayor Bal et Civitat' Civit' Exon., Quer. 
 William Bond, Deft. 
 
 In Scacc. This Manuscript Booke was produced by
 
 341 
 
 Samuell Isaacke, Gent., at the time of his Examinacion 
 before us. 
 
 Robt. Walker, 
 
 Nlch. Webbe, 
 
 Robt. Wolcom (partly hidden in 
 
 binding), 
 Jno. Cholwick. 
 
 The xxvith daie of Aprill, 1658. 
 
 This booke was shewne to Edward Portbury, Gent., att 
 the tyme of his Examynacion before us. 
 
 Thos. Gibbon, 
 John Darke, 
 Han. Ratcliffe. 
 
 The following account of its contents is taken from 
 Mr. Stuart Moore's Calendar, corrected and expanded by 
 comparison with the original : 
 
 ff. 1-16 (30 January, 2 Henry VIII, 1511). Carta de 
 
 Winton. The Charter of the Byshopp of Winchester 
 
 and of the Prior of Monkes there. For an extract, see 
 
 Book 52, /. 208. 
 
 ff. 17, 18. The description of Dodneys (Totnes) and of 
 
 the Charters and lyberties of the same. 
 /. 19. The Composicion for the lyberties of the towne of 
 Dartmouth, A.D. 1304, between Nicholas of Teukesbury, 
 Lord of Hewes and William La Zouche, Lord of Totnes 
 and Dartmouth. 
 /. 20. Apud Turrim, London, 14 April, 15 Edward III 
 
 (1341). The Charter of Dartmouthe. 
 /. 216. Dated Totnes, 6 July, 32 Edward I (1304). The 
 Composition between William La Zouche, Lord of 
 Totness and the Burgesses of the same Towne. 
 /. 226. An Acte of Parliament for pavinge the streetes 
 yn the Citie of Excester. [Also in Book 52, /. 2296.] 
 /. 236. A copy of the Act of 23 Elizabeth [1580-81, i.e. 
 23 Eliz., c. 17, Statutes iv, 702], that Gavelkinde lands 
 within the Countie of the Citie of Exeter may be 
 inheritable as landes at the Common Law. This is a 
 printed broadside imprinted at London by Christopher 
 Barker, Printer to the Queenes most Excelent 
 Maiestie. 
 
 /. 246. "Certeyn olde and auncient orders and customes 
 of the Citie of Excester to be observed and kept." 
 They relate to the freedom of the City, the tenure of 
 land, &c., &c. 
 
 /. 27. " The first and Originall Chart or of the Boroughe 
 or Towne of Bradneys alias Bradnynch." It is a 
 Charter of Henry films Comitis Reginaldi, Earl of 
 Cornwall [i.e. 1217-1222]. 
 
 Ibid. " An Inquisition taken at Excester concerninge 
 the Freedome and lyberties of the boroughe of Bradneys 
 yn the time of Kinge Edward the first and the xviijth 
 yere of his reigne. Anno 1290."
 
 342 
 
 /. 276. 21 December, 1 Elizabeth (1558). Letters Patent 
 certifying that the inhabitants of our Towne of 
 " Limedrye "* (sic), as parcell of the saide Dukedome 
 of Lancaster, are free of toll and custom by the liberty 
 of the Duchy of Lancaster. 
 
 /. 28. The Letters Patent of the Duchie of Cornewall 
 and of the lyberties of the same, 22 June, 13 Elizabeth 
 (1571). 
 
 /. 306. The Charter of the Duchie of Lancaster, 
 
 29 January, 1 Elizabeth (1559).f Also in Book 52, 
 /. 1 29. At the end is a Last of places which are toll free by 
 the liberty of the Duchy. 
 
 /. 32 (23 July, 20 Elizabeth, 1578). The Charter of the 
 Cittie of London. J 
 
 /. 346. A note or an abstracte of certeyn and sundrie 
 Articles of pryveleges conteyned yn others the Charters of 
 London and not inserted nor mentioned yn the former 
 Charters. 
 
 /. 36. " Here folowethe the tytle and the grounde 
 wherebye the Mayor and Shiriffes of the Citie of London 
 do clayme to have the custome and Scavage alias 
 Savage of the Inhabitants of the Citie of Excester," 
 temp. Henry VII. See also Miscellaneous Rolls, No. 82. 
 It is preceded and succeeded by a short historical 
 notice of the matter by Hoker, who calls it : "a certayne 
 taxe, custome or imposition named Scavage (orSchavage, 
 /. 37) or Savage, which was that all maner of wares 
 and merchandises beinge brought to London by any 
 foryner, the same before any sale to be made sholde 
 be (sic) opened and shewed unto the Shiriffes of 
 London, and who upon the sight thereof dyd demaunde, 
 take and levie a certeyn custome accordynge to such 
 rates as they had sett downe and lymeted." 
 
 /. 396. 25 November, 13 Elizabeth (1570). Exemplifica- 
 tion of Queen's Bench Judgment Roll, Michaelmas, 
 7-8 Elizabeth, roll 1729, of a Suit about the Scavage 
 in a shop in the ward of Bredstreete in London, i.e. 
 
 30 pieces panni linei vocat' Hollande clothe, 20 pieces 
 de panno fustian, 1 virgat panni lanei vocat' redd 
 clothe, duos pannos vocat' kerseys, to the value of HO/. 
 William Hurste [Mayor, 1551, 1561] v. The City of 
 London, whose goods had been seized not that he 
 was Mayor at the time. 
 
 /. 416. Copy Queen's Bench Judgment Roll, Michaelmas, 
 10-11 Elizabeth. Similar Suit by John Peryam 
 [Mayor, 1563] (/. 416). 
 
 * ? Same as Lyney or Langbree, both of which are in the list of toll-free 
 places in Book 62, /. 134, where they are parts of the " auncient demeane," 
 or Lymbiry in the parish of Broad Clyst. W. Pole, Devonshire, p. 175. 
 
 t Not in W. Hardy, Charters of the Duchy of Lancaster. 
 
 j Not in Birch, Historical Charters of the City of London.
 
 343 
 
 ff. 43-45. A dissertation by Hoker upon the Haven 
 and Ryver Exe.* He gives copies of two Inquisitions 
 held at Exeter respecting it dated on the day of the 
 Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, 18 Edward I 
 (1290), translations of which are printed by Izacke, 
 p. 27. f also two petitions to Henry VI and Edward IV 
 (see infra). [See also Miscellaneous Rolls, No. 3, XVII, 
 ii, 90.] 
 
 /. 46. J " The Kinges write upon the foresaide petitions 
 made unto him, sent to the Shiriff of the Countie of 
 Devon for an Inquisition to be hade of the premises," 
 Apud Claryndone, 20 March, 10 (sic) Edward [II], 1317. 
 The Inquisition held at Exeter dated Tuesday in the 
 Feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross (3 May), 
 10 (sic) Edward [II], 1317.|| This Inquisition Hoker 
 says was "never certyfied to the Kinge, wherefor upon 
 a new petition the Kinge sent out his seconde wryt 
 and requireth an awnsweres (sic) as may by the same 
 appeare." He gives a copy of another writ, 12 June, 
 10 Edward [II], 1317, with the return dated Tuesday 
 after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 10 Edward II 
 (1317). 
 
 /. 47. Copy of an Inquisition dated Tuesday next 
 before Saint Matthew [blank] Richard II,jf con- 
 cerning the damage done by weirs in the Exe. 
 
 /. 486. " The sundry and many injuries and wronges 
 wherwith the Countysse and Erles of Devon have from 
 tyme to tyme injured and oppressed the Citie of 
 Excester " [see D. 770] a translation of Miscellaneous 
 Rolls, No. 3, membrane 5. Hoker carries his notice 
 down to the Composition respecting Topsham Quay in 
 22 Elizabeth, 1579-80. 
 
 /. 536. 3 February, 39 Edward III (1365). Copy of 
 Exemplification of Domesday &c. [See Charter No. 
 XXI, p. 4.] In a foot-note : Everye hyde of lande 
 conteynethe xvi ferlynges or ferthinges of grounde. 
 Everye ferlynge or ferthinge of grounde conteynethe 
 generally thirtie-two acres, but yn some perticular 
 places syxtene acres. 
 
 /. 54. The Orders or Customes to be observed at the 
 Key, Crane or Wharffe of Toppesham, and rates for the 
 same [see p. 73] with the like for the Key of Exeter (/. 55). 
 
 * See Archceologia, xxviii, p. 9. 
 
 f Coram Malcolmo (not " Malculino," as Izacke, p. 27) de Harleighe, 
 Escheat ore dornini Regis citra Trent am. 
 
 J For an Acte for the mendyng of the River of Exeter, 1539, see Stat. iii, 
 720, 31 Henry VIII, c. 4. 
 
 Not 18 Ed. I. i.e. 1290 as Izacke 27 who has inserted the year 1290 in 
 the margin, thereby causing much confusion. 
 
 || Coram Matheo de Cliveden vie' Devon who was Sheriff of Devon in 
 1317, see Misc. Roll 3 (I). 
 
 TJ The regnal year is blank in Hooker but given as 2 Richard II (i.e. 137S) 
 in Archaeologia xxviii. 10.
 
 344 
 
 /. 56 (4 Edward I). Extract from the Hundred Rolls 
 as to the liberties of the City. Begins : Memorandum 
 that the fayre called Ooldiche fayre kept yerely ad 
 Gulas Augusti yn Southynghay was before and after 
 the conquest perteyninge to the Commonaltie of the 
 Citie of Excestre, as dothe appere yn the booke of 
 Domesedaye remayninge yn the Exchequer at 
 Westminstre and Exemplified under the broade seale 
 yn the (sic) tyme of kynge Edwarde the third and 
 bearing date tertio februarii, anno Regni xxxix (see 
 Charter XXI, p. 4), &c. (1365). [See also Transcripts 
 Nos. 2010-12.] 
 
 ff. 57-59. " The varyaunce and controversie of the 
 Erie of Devon and the Prior of Saint Nicholas agaynst 
 the Mayor and Commonaltie of the Citie of Excester 
 for Croldyche or Lammas Faire " ; with a copy of the 
 Record, Common Pleas Roll, Easter, 16 Edward II, 
 Rolls 23 and 37. 
 
 /. 59. 5 July, 30 Edward II. Exemplification of a verdict 
 respecting the suburb without Westgate. Called in 
 Index : An Assize int' Comitem Devon et civitatem 
 for lands in Exiland. 
 
 /. 606. Apud Nov' Sarum 2 November, 2 Edward III 
 (1328). The Charter of Melcombe Regis. With a foot- 
 note : The seale appendant to this Charter is a broade 
 seale in olde greene wax, on the one syde three lyons, 
 beinge the armes of England, and on the other syde a 
 ship topped and two scogeons, every of theym quartered 
 the (1, 2) a lyon ramp., the 3, 4 a shipp. 
 
 /. 62. 29 August, 2-3 Philip and Mary (1555). The 
 Charter of the Tailors of Exeter. [See Izacke, 63.] 
 
 ff. 63, 64. The Decree and Order of King Edward IV 
 the xxij of Severer, the xvj yere of Ms rayne (i.e. 
 1477) in the controversy between the Tailors and 
 the City printed with other documents relating to 
 this Guild in Mr. Toulmin Smith's Book of Guilds for 
 the Early English Text Society, 1869. 
 
 ff. 64-67. A memorandum concerning the Corporation 
 of the Merchants and their Charter, 17 June, 2 Elizabeth, 
 1560 (full text). [Indexed as "The Charter ffrench 
 Marchants in Exeter and orders thereuppon," i.e. the 
 Merchant Adventurers, see p. 40.] 
 
 ff. 676, 68. The Corporation of the Cappers and Haber- 
 dashers. Indexed " The Charter of Cappers and 
 Haberdashers in Exon." [See page 54 ; also Izacke, 65.] 
 
 ff. 69, 70. The Corporation of the Cordewayeners. [In- 
 dexed as The Charter of c. Cordwyners and ordinances 
 thereuppon. See page 54.] 
 
 /. 71. The Corporation of the Tuckers and Weavers. 
 [Indexed as The Charter of Weavers and Tuckers, &c. ; 
 called Weavers and Fullers in Izacke, 54.]
 
 345 
 
 /. 716. The Corporation of the Skynners and Gloviers; 
 continued on /. 157, dated April 30, 3 Elizabeth, 1561. 
 
 ff. 156-161 have been misplaced and should follow here. 
 
 /. 72. The last leaf of a Charter, 9 May, 5 Elizabeth, 
 to the City of London. [See post f. 88.] 
 
 ff. 73-75. Three leaves of the Charter to the Bishop 
 and the Dean and Chapter misplaced by the binder. 
 [Called : "The Charter (parte) of the Bishopp of Exeter 
 Kirton to Exeter," begins : Ego Rogerus Coventrensis 
 Episcopus confirmo, &c., ends : Ego Radulphus dux. 
 Ego, continued on /. 95. At this point there is much 
 confusion in the paging, and several leaves have been 
 misplaced by the binder. The true order of the docu- 
 ments appears to be the following : folios 80, 73, 74, 75, 
 95, 96, 97, 98, 76, 77, 78, 79. The whole of these pages 
 refer to the Grande Charter of the Cathedral Church of 
 St. Peter's of Exeter, which is dated May 12, 
 2 Henry VIII (i.e. 1510), and the order of the documents 
 may be reconstructed by comparing them with Book 52, 
 ff. 41-61, where the documents occur again and in the 
 Cathedral MS., 3520. See Reynolds, p. 1.] 
 
 /. 76. The Composition for inclosinge of the Churcheyarde 
 and buyldinge up of gates in the same, 1286. Printed 
 in Izacke, p. 23. 
 
 /. 766. The Grant of the Mayor and Citizens to the 
 Dean and Chapter for inclosinge of the Churchyarde. 
 Printed in Izacke, p. 22. 
 
 /. 77. Articles of dispute between the City and the Church . 
 
 /. 78. Composition between the same parties concerning 
 certeyn walles and dores buylded upon the Cities 
 walles and for the Muralie Walke [indexed as : "touch- 
 ing the dores uppon the walles, 16 foote"], A.D. 1330, 
 but Friday next after the Feast of St. Hillary, anno 
 Regni Regis Edwardi filii regis Edwardi quinto decimo, 
 1320 (sic) in document ; but this would be 1322 if 
 15 Edward II ; or 1342, if 15 Edward III. 
 
 /. 786. 8 September, 37 Henry VI [i.e. 1458 but 1457 
 added by Izacke both in document and Index]. Com- 
 position for building of a gate yn a Lane yn Styckestreete 
 betwene St. Katherens Almeshouse and certeyn canons 
 howses yn the one syde and the soyle of the late dissolved 
 house of the freers preachers now the Erles of Beddff ord 
 on the other syde. 
 
 /. 796. Friday after Hilary, 1299 (i.e. 27 Edward I, 
 though called 1392 in the document). Agreement by 
 the Mayor and Commonalty with the Archdeacon of 
 Totness of a tower upon the walls of the City. 
 
 /. 80. The Charter of the liberties apperteyninge to the 
 Cathedral Church of the Citie of Exon. 
 
 /. 81. Hoker's Lives of the Bishops of Exeter. It begins 
 abruptly in the middle of the life of Bishop Bartholomew
 
 346 
 
 Iscanus (1159-1174), i.e. "for his contempte and 
 disobedience agaynst the Kinge " (p. Ill of Edition 
 1765). The leaves of the Manuscript have been mis- 
 placed : from /. 876 it goes to /. 103. It ends (/. 104) 
 in the beginning of the life of Bishop John Wolton. 
 " He was prefferred thereunto by the ernest suite and 
 mediation of ffraunceys Earle of Bedfford." A 
 subsequent addition being : He dyed the xiij of 
 Marche, 1593, the xxxvi yere of the Rayne of Quene 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 /. 88. The Charter of the City of London and of the 
 Lyberties of the same, and liberties and sutes in lawe 
 betweene Exeter and London (Contents Table), 9 May, 
 5 Elizabeth (1563). The last leaf has been bound as 
 /. 72, marked as "worth the reading " in Index. 
 
 /. 976. A memorandum concerning the settlement of 
 the dispute between the Church and City in 1448. 
 
 /. 986. 12 December, 27 Henry VI (1448). Copy of the 
 Bishop, Dean and Chapter's Bond to stand to the 
 Award. [See Shillingford's Letters and Deeds, 
 No. XXXVIII.] App., p. 136. 
 
 /. 99. 12 December. Copy of the Composition, 
 12 December, 27 Henry VI (1448). [See Deeds No. 
 1198 and Shillingford's Letters, where it is printed, 
 p. 136.] 
 
 /. 1006. The Copy of the Act of Parliament for Bounding 
 Saint Sidwell's Fee, May 4, 15 Henry VI, 1437 (Latin). 
 [See Oliver, p. 269, with English translation in Reynolds, 
 p. 2.] 
 
 /. 104 (undated). The Extentes of lands belonging to 
 the Bishopric of Exeter, the total amounting to 
 5,578Z. 7s. 7 |d. For rent roll in 1308, see Oliver, 
 Mon., 427. 
 
 /. 106. Simply headed : " Episcopi Bathon' et Wellens," 
 but " The Charter of the Cittie of Bathe &c.," in Table of 
 Contents. Inspeximus of Charters of Henry VI, V, 
 IV, III (Feb. 4, 11, 1224), Edward (?) and John [apud 
 Gaydunton (i.e. Geddington), March 3rd, 1207], also 
 Henry II, with confirmation by Richard I (Canterbury, 
 Nov. 26, 1189). 
 
 ff. 106-110. The Charter of the Bishop of Bath and 
 Wells, 22 April, 23 Elizabeth (1581), refers to ad vow- 
 sons of Aysbeare, [i.e. Aylesbeare,] Crystymelford, [i.e. 
 Christian Malford,] Kington, Bokeland and Camerlar- 
 ton, the manor of Cedder, Axebridge, the hundred 
 of Winterstoke and Cedder &c. 
 
 /. 111. Copy of Royal Charter [No. XXX, p. 5]. 
 Headed : To the King our Sovereigne Lorde. Please 
 yt your Hignes of your most noble and aboundant 
 grace to graunte unto your trewe subiectes and 
 inhabitaunts of your Citie of Excester your moste
 
 347 
 
 graciose letters hereafter ensueinge accordinge to 
 ordinaunce graunted by the most noble and mighty 
 prince your dere father, whose soul Jesu pardon. 
 Then follows the text : Henry by the grace of 
 God. . . . Geven under our privy seale at our manner 
 of Greenewiche the Xth daye of July, the first yere of 
 our reyne, 1 Henry 8, with the name of the Mayor John 
 Lympyn [called Lympany in Oliver, 231], and 22 of the 
 xxiiij. The text corresponds with the Document in 
 Izacke, 99-102, who dated it July 10, 13 Henry VII 
 (i.e. 1498), supposing it to be contained in " the twoo 
 Holies of the records of the Courte (Book 51, /. 329), 
 that are missing for the year 1497 (Izacke, p. 98). 
 With this may be compared a passage in Hooker, 
 Book 52, /. 398 [406], who after referring to the 
 gift of the sword and the cap of maintenance to the 
 city by Henry VII in 1497, adds : But he dyd not 
 sett downe this order in writinge. Wherefore the 
 Mayor and Magestrates thinkinge it necessarie for a 
 further quietnes the same shoulde be Regestred made 
 suet to King Henry the VIII, the first yere of his Raigne 
 that it maye please him to establishe the order before 
 appointed. And he lykenge well his father's doinges 
 dyd accordingly Ratefie and establish the same, whiche 
 is as followeth, worde by worde. Then follows the 
 text verbatim (dated July 10, 1 Henry VIII), including 
 the names of John Lympyn, Mayor, and 22 others. 
 
 ff. 112, 113. Examination of witnesses touching the 
 bounds of the Churchyard of the Cathedral taken in 
 the 4th year of the reign of Queen Mary ; and con- 
 cerning the liberties claimed there. 
 
 /. 114. 24 February, 3 Edward VI (1549). The Grand 
 Charter of the Cittie of Excester. A Copy of Charter 
 XXXIV [see p. 5]. 
 
 ff. 1236, 124, 125. The Act of Parliament for bounding 
 the Countie of the Citie of Exeter and for the con- 
 firmation of the lyberties of the same, 2 Edward VI. 
 [See Charter XXXV, p. 5.] 
 
 /. 126. " The Charter of Exilond," dated Dec. 2nd (sic), 
 1550, which should be Dec. 22nd, as in original. A 
 Copy of Charter No. XXXVI. At the end is a note of 
 " The pryveleges and fraunchises of the saide Manor." 
 
 ff. 1296-131. The Charter for Orphanes and a Chamber- 
 layne and other lyberties within the Citie of Excester. 
 21 February, 3 Elizabeth (1561). See Charter XXXVII. 
 
 /. 132. Act of Parliament for the confirmation of the 
 Charter for Orphanes and other the Cities lyberties, 
 dated May 3rd, 5 Elizabeth, 1563. Charter XXXIX. 
 
 /. 1336. " The Statutes, Orders and Ordynaunces made 
 arid decreed by the Mayor, Bailiffs and xxiiij of the 
 Common counsell of the Citie of Excester for and
 
 348 
 
 concerninge the ordringe of Orphanes and all suche 
 goodes, chattells and other thynges to theym apper- 
 teyninge within the Citie of Excester and the lyberties 
 of the same. Begins : " First it is ordred that what 
 so ever benefite dothe growe to the childe of any 
 ffreeman "... ends with charges for funerals. [See 
 pp. 6, 82.] It differs considerably in wording from 
 Book 52, /. 190. 
 
 /. 1406. Copy of Charter, Nov. 8, 1562, [No. XXXVIII, 
 pp. 6, 73] with a Memorandum at the end concerning 
 Bonville's Almshouses. 
 
 /. 141. An Abstracte of all the orders and ordynaunces 
 extante, made, enacted and ordeyned by the Mayres 
 and Common Counsell of the Citie of Excester for the 
 tyme beynge for the good goverment of the sayde 
 Citie and common welthe of the same, collected by 
 John Vowell alias Hoker [blank]* and Chamberleyn of 
 the same. They are arranged under the following 
 heads : 
 
 Accomptes and Accomptantes. Actes. Almeshowses and 
 Almesfolke. AppareUandSkarlettgownes. Apprentysses. 
 Attendaunce to the Mayer and Common Counsell. 
 Bakers. Banquettes, feastes and dynners. Banyshed 
 persones. Barelbearers or porters. Boochers. Boothes 
 and Standinges yn the fayres or marketts. Brewers. 
 Burgesses. Canon breade. Chamberleyn. Candle- 
 light and lanterne. Chaplayne. Clothe Hall. Clerke 
 of the Cloth or Merchants Hall. Conyes. Conduytes. 
 Counsells or Secrettes. Contempte. Corporations, 
 Coverage. Dyscoveringe of Secretes. Dyfraunchasynges, 
 Dynners, Dogges, Election, Exmouthe. Fyer. For- 
 feytures or penalties. Foryners. Free menne. Here 
 it breaks off abruptly. See post volume 52, /. 458. 
 
 /. 155 is misplaced ; it should precede/. 162. 
 
 ff. 156-161 should succeed /. 716. They contain the 
 ordinances &c. of the Corporation of Bakers. April 1, 
 1, 2 Philip and Mary, 1554. [See p. 54.] 
 
 /. 157. Continuation of Skinners and Gloviers (see f. 
 716), also Tailors. 
 
 /. 1576, Smiths and Cutlers. April 20, 3 Elizabeth, 
 1561. [See p. 54.] 
 
 /. 1586. Cowpers and helyers. Feb. 3, 9 Elizabeth, 1567. 
 
 /. 1596. Boochers. Sept. 9, 17 Elizabeth, 1575. 
 
 /. 161, Brewers. Sept, 20, 21 Elizabeth, 1579. [Seep. 54.] 
 
 ff. 155, 162-193. The order and manner of the Gover- 
 ment of the Citie of Excester and of the officers of the 
 same, i.e. Hoker's Pamphlet of the Offices and Duties 
 of everie particular sworne Officer of the Citie of Exeter. 
 [Printed in 1584.] 
 
 * The same blank space occurs in the duplicate copy in Book 52, /. 458.
 
 349 
 
 The Manuscript differs very greatly from the printed book. 
 The Introduction is altogether different and the text is much 
 fuller in the Manuscript indeed it supplies the deficiences 
 referred to in the printed book as " The residue is contained 
 in the Black Leiger " &c. It has also a description of the 
 manner of the election of the various officers and copies of 
 their respective oaths. 
 
 ff. 194-212. The pertyculer Rentalls of all the 
 Lordeshyppes, Manors, Landes, Rentes, Revenewes and 
 issues which do yeerly growe apperteyninge and 
 belonginge to the Citie of Excester. 
 
 /. 212. The description and rates of the Towne Custome. 
 A full list of articles in alphabetical order, with the 
 amount of rate, beginning with Allome the C at 
 33s. 4d. () ending Wolle curdes the ponchion 4e?., 
 with the ferme of the game market, the fishmarket, 
 Bagavell, Brethengavell and Chepengavell. Sept. 10, 
 24 Elizabeth. 
 
 /. 219&. The Ferme of barel bearinge. 
 
 /. 220. The Profits of the Merchants' Hall. 
 
 /. 221. Direceons touchinge the Corne Markett. 
 
 /. 222. The Receptes and profitts of the Haven Water- 
 course and Crane at the Citie of Exon. 
 
 /. 2226. The rates dew for toll and coverages at the 
 fayres kept within this Citie. 
 
 /. 223. " Citties, Townes and villages which ar custome 
 free within the Cittie of Excester accordinge as it is 
 recorded yn an olde anciente roll of the Cittie named 
 the Blacke Rolle." Ends : The tenantes inhabitantes 
 resyents within the Duchie of Lancastre ar ffree of 
 custome, pannage, panage, cartage, tollage, tallage, 
 caridge, pesage and coverage or terrage by act of 
 parliament. See Misc. Boll 2 (51), page 158. 
 
 ff. 224, 225. A Calendar of places which are custom free 
 in the fairs and markets of Exeter, collected by John 
 Hoker alias Vowell, Gent., 1592. 
 
 ff. 227-230. The Order for making proclamations for 
 the Queen, for the Mayor at his entry into office, for 
 fairs, for Lammas or Crulditch Fair. The liberties, 
 privileges and rates and profits of the same fair. 
 
 ff. 231, 232. The Office of Clerke of the Market. 
 
 ff. 236-364. Hoker's Annals of the City with Extracts 
 from the Mayor's Court Rolls showing the names of 
 the Mayors, Receivers and Bailiffs of the City in each 
 year, the deeds, wills &c. enrolled upon each roll ; 
 and " further, yn the ende of everye partyculer Mayers 
 yere, there is subnected and written a brieffe abstracte 
 of some such things as were donne yn that yere and 
 especially yn these west parties." These annals are 
 very remarkable and interesting ; the accounts of 
 Bishops and Mayors are very carefully compiled and a
 
 350 
 
 great number of them are taken from the writer's per- 
 sonal knowledge. His notices of Bishop Miles Coverdale 
 (/. 350, Anno 1553) and of Hugh Latimer's preaching 
 (/. 342, Anno 1533, nil in Izacke) in the City are 
 specially noticeable. There is, too, a great deal of 
 curious historical information in them. The whole 
 volume with slight exceptions is in Hoker's own hand- 
 writing. It commences with the first year of Henry III, 
 1216, and is continued to the year 1590. 
 /. 236. Anno 1216. The first yere of Kinge Henrye the 
 third. 
 
 Walter Turbert, Mayor. 
 
 In the beginynninge of this yere Kinge John dyed 
 at Newarke and was brought to Worcester and there 
 buried. Of the maner and kynde of his dethe there 
 ar sundry opinions, but the most common and receved 
 reporte that he was poysoned. 
 
 After the dethe of Kinge John his sonne Henry was 
 by the nobilitie of the realme brought to the Citie of 
 Gloucester and there proclaymed and crowned Kinge 
 by the name of Kinge Henry the iijth. 
 
 In this tyme the cheaff and next officers under the 
 mayor for the government of this Citie were accordinge 
 to thelde and usages in the tymes of the Saxones and 
 danes before the conquest and yn the reignes of the 
 normande Kinges after the Conquest, were named 
 Prepositi withyn the Saxon tounge, or the Portagreves, 
 named yn Englyshe portereves, who were officers yn 
 those dayes of greate credyte and authoritie, as may 
 appere by the common Lawes of the realme collected 
 and publyshed by Kinge Canutue, as also by the 
 Etymologic of the worde, which signifieth the Lordes or 
 auncientes of any Citie or Towne. 
 
 This opening may be compared with Izacke, pp. 1, 5, who 
 has added a few side notes and other indications opposite to 
 the portions that he extracted, and who based his memorials 
 on this portion of Book 51 ; but it will only be possible to 
 estimate the full extent of his indebtedness when the full text 
 of Book 51 has been published. He has been freely charged 
 with " plundering." 
 
 The book contains abundant extracts from the Mayors' 
 Court Rolls, which he calls " The Great Rolls " (/. 266, Izacke, 
 p. 45). I expect it will be found that the references to public 
 events are traceable to Holinshead and the Bout. 
 
 A very cursory examination proves that there are a vast 
 number of entries in this book that do not appear in Izacke, and 
 (at least in opening portion) many entries in Izacke that do 
 not appear in this Book, including the story of the 7 children 
 at a birth on p. 17, the particulars as to the Lammas Fair 
 (pp. 19, 20), and the twins on p. 42, the figures of the two 
 crusaders in the Cathedral (p. 44), This noble's daughter Helen
 
 351 
 
 (p. 51). The Latin document on p. 56, the note on Bishop 
 Grandison (p. 57), do. on the completion of the cathedral 
 (p. 58), do. Hugh Courtney's monument (p. 59), on the buildings 
 of the Vicars Choral (p. 64), the flying man of Budleigh (p. 66), 
 the election of James Gary as Bishop, Anno 1419 (/. 71), the 
 Clock bell and the Silke Chambers (p. 93), the Charter of 
 Nov. 7, 4 Elizabeth (p. 138), the notice of Gawen and Peter 
 Carew (p. 134). 
 
 /. 236. Here folowe the names of all and everie of the 
 Kinges of England from the tyme of Kynge John, who 
 died yn October, Anno 1216, untyll the tyme of the 
 reigne of Quene Elizabethe, and of her yeres and the 
 names of the Mayres and hedd officers in everie of 
 the sayde severall Kinges tymes, together with a copieof 
 all the Recordes of the Citie for and duringe those 
 Kinges Reynes as be extant and remayninge. And 
 here understande ye that from the tyme of the conqueste 
 untyll the (1285-6) xiiijth yere of Kinge Edward the 
 first there is extant one Roll of Recorde makinge a 
 short mencion of the three yeres yn the tyme of Kinge 
 Henry the third, viz., the (=1263, 1264, 1265) sclviijth, 
 xlixth and 1th yeres of his Rayne, that is to say for 
 (1066 -j- 217=1283) ccxvii yeres no Recordes remayninge 
 but onely one, which whether it by the iniquitye of the 
 tyme, the uncertentie of the goverment, cyvill warres 
 intestine, Rebellyons or neglygence of officers, I refferr 
 yt to others to thynke what they lyst. ffurther yn 
 the ende of everye partyculer mayers yere there is 
 subnected and wrytten a brieffe abstracte of some 
 suche things as were donne yn that yere and especially 
 yn these west parties. 
 
 The following taken from the reign of Henry V will show 
 the kind of interest taken by Hoker in the public events 
 of the past, and these usually come in as a Memorandum at 
 the end of the other entries for each year. None of which 
 appear in Izacke. 
 
 In Book 51, /. 2986, 1412-13, upon Trinite Sonday then 
 folowenge the Henry the fourth was buryed at 
 Canterbury. 
 
 /. 299. In this Mayers yere (Peter Shorte, 1413), yn the 
 yere 1413, the ii yeare of this Kinges reigne, yn Aprill 
 was called a highe courte of parliament at Lecester 
 Towne, there were iij billes putt yn. The first that 
 the Temporall Landes geven to the Church and by 
 the Churchemen and very disorderly - - might be 
 seased yn to the Kinges handes for the increasing of 
 nobilitie and meantinance of the Kinges honor and 
 common welthe. The seconde was the Kinge havinge 
 a just tytle to the Crowne of france shold make clayme 
 thereunto. The third was that the Kinge sholde 
 make an entrey yn to Scotlande and by conquest
 
 352 
 
 unyte the same to the Crowne of England. The 
 Duke of Excester takinge yn hande to speke unto the 
 seconde byll, did so pithylye and wyselye handle and 
 discourse the same that he prevayled and his judgement 
 was allowed, and not longe after wanes were pro- 
 claymed betwene England and ffraunce. The first 
 byU was thought to be put yn by Sir John Oldcastle, 
 then Lord Cobham, who was a folower of Wytcleff 
 and an ernest professor of the Gosple and altogether 
 enemye to the pope and all popishe Religion. For 
 which cause the bishops and clergie did so maligne 
 at him that they never cessed untyll they had gotten 
 the mastrey of hym and condemned hym both of 
 Treason and of heresyes, for the one he was hangued 
 and for the other burned yn St. Giles field the xuijth of 
 december, 1517 (sic). 
 
 f. 2996, 1414. In this Mayers yere (Thomas Eston) the 
 dolphyn of ffraunce sent an Embassade to the Kinge, 
 who presented unto him yn scoff a Tunne of Tenys 
 balls to play withall, which was taken yn greffe, and 
 whereof folowed the warres yn ffraunce. 
 
 /. 2996, 1415. This yere (Peter Strutt's) the Kinge passed 
 over yn to ffraunce and took harfleur Towne yn 
 normandie, where he apoynted the duke of Excester 
 to remayn and be capteyn, and unto him he dyd ioyn 
 and associate yn commyssion Thomas baron of Carew, 
 a gentleman for his gravitie, wysdome and valyantnes 
 myche commended. The foresaide Thomas Beauford, 
 Erie of Dorsett, at a parliament holden atWestmynstere 
 yn the iiijth (?) yere of the Kinges reign was made or 
 created Duke of Excestre, who had assigned unto 
 him yerely out of the Exchequer one thousandes 
 poundes and xl. of the ferme of the Citie. 
 
 /. 300, 1416. Md. that one John Roke, a greye ffrear, 
 was accused for the carienge away of the wyff of one 
 John parett and his gooddes and for his unchast lyff 
 with her. Quoted from Rot., xxiii. 
 
 /. 300, 1417. Md. that this yere upon the xiiijth yere 
 (sic) of december, Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham 
 was by the tyranye of the Pope and his clergie hangued 
 and burned in St. Giles ffeldes at London. 
 
 /. 301, 1420. The duke of Excester yn the ende of this 
 Mayers yere (John Batyn) layed siege to the greate 
 Towne of Meaux yn ffraunce. 
 
 For an extract, ff. 240, 241, relating to the transfer of the 
 Magdalen Hospital to the city authorities by Bishop Brewer 
 in 1244, see Lloyd Parry, p. 27. 
 
 Book 52. A large folio volume bound in tooled leather 
 with brass bosses and one clasp, the second being missing. 
 The book has a double pagination, but the older one, which
 
 353 
 
 numbers by folios, being near the margin of each leaf has been 
 in many places cut away in the process of binding, the result 
 being that the references to the pages given in S. Moore's 
 Calendar are not always consistent, some being based on the 
 earlier and some on the later numbering. 
 
 Portions of the contents have been long since published. Eg. 
 
 ff. 1-36. "The Description of the City of Exeter" 
 was published in Hooker's lifetime, circ. 1583, and 
 again by A. Brice in 1765. 
 
 ff. 37-39. " The Antiquitie, foundacion and building of 
 the Cathedral Churche of St. Peter in Excester " is in 
 A. Brice, pp. 99-113, though not identical with it. 
 
 ff. 41-55. The Grande Charter of the Cathedral Churche 
 of St. Peter's in Exon, May 12, 2 Henry VIII (1510). 
 Harte, pp. 102-153. 
 
 ff. 89-96. " Lives of the Bishops of Exeter," printed in 
 
 . The printed copy ends with John Wolton, 
 
 "now living," who was Bishop from July 2nd, 1579, 
 to March 13, 1594, but the copy in this volume includes 
 Gervase Babington (Feb. 4, 1595, to Sept. 15, 1597), 
 and Bishop William Coton, who " came to the Citie 
 the 16th of May, 1599 " (/. 96). 
 
 ff. 234-235. " The formes and manner of the parliaments 
 of England." A short notice. Ending : " The order 
 manner and form of the true keeping of the High 
 Courte of Parliament is already sett forth by the author 
 hereof in his Irishe Cronycles, Anno 1571," i.e. in 
 Holinshead, ii, 121-129. It had been previously 
 issued separately in 1572 ; and was republished 
 in Turner's Tracts, i, 175-183. It is a translation of 
 the " Modus Tenendi Parh" amentum," the Latin text 
 of which was published by Sir Thos. D. Hardy in 1846 
 and there is another English translation in Somers' 
 Tracts, i, pp. 7-15. An altogether different version occurs 
 in Book 60h ff. 12-19. Copies of both versions, i.e. from 
 Book 52 and Book 60h in Hooker's handwriting, will 
 be found also in a MS. in the College of Heralds (classed 
 H.D.N., No. 41), described by Mr. C. Worthy in the 
 Transactions of the Devon Association, July, 1882. 
 
 ff. 4066 to 422. " The order and manner of the goverment 
 of the Citie of Excester and of the officers of the same " 
 is substantially on the same lines as the " Pamphlet of 
 the Offices and Duties of every particular sworn officer 
 of the Citie of .Excester," originally printed in 1584, 
 forming pp. 159 to 192 in Part III of the "Antique 
 Description and Account of the City of Exeter," 
 published by A. Brice in 1765, in which Hooker 
 frequently refers to the " Great Lieger Book " (p. 163), 
 "the Black Lieger" (p. 165), "the Black Book or 
 Lieger " (p. 168), " the Black Book " (pp. 176, 179, 181, 
 183). See Book 51, ff. 155-193. 
 
 Wt. 20757. Ex 23
 
 354 
 
 Other extracts have been recently published by Rev. H. 
 E. Reynolds, including the remarkable " Prefatory Epistle " 
 addressed to "the right worshipfull grave and prudent the 
 Mayor, Senators and Cominaltie of the auncient and honorable 
 Citie of Excester," to whom " John Vowell alias Hooker, 
 gentleman Chamberlain of the same Citie, wisheth a pros- 
 perous goverment and happye successe in all felicitie." He 
 wrote the volume, or as he says " reduced all into this lyeger 
 booke " in his extreme old age, when " my sight waxeth 
 Dymme, my hyringe very thycke, my speache imperfecte 
 and my memory very feeble " (Harte, p. 4). This Preface 
 with the Table of Contents is evidently prefixed to the body 
 of the book as an addendum, and is not included in the 
 pagination ; neither is it in the edition of 1765. In it he 
 miscalculates a little in saying that he was " first Chosen 
 to be your Chamberlaine about xlviij yeres past, Mr. John 
 Mydwinter then beinge Mayor " (i.e. 1554-5), for we know 
 that he was appointed Chamberlain on Sept. 21, 1555 (Oliver, 
 242), 48 years from which date would bring him to A.D. 1603, 
 whereas he was certainly dead by Sept. 15, 1601, on which 
 day he was spoken of as "deceased." (Introduction, p. 1.) 
 
 On the front page is a picture of Queen Elizabeth, " Eliza 
 Triumphans," with the royal arms, those of Exeter City and 
 diocese and of Vowel alias Hoker, with his motto " Postmortem 
 vita."* On the reverse side of this frontispiece is an engraving 
 of Queen Elizabeth, " Eliza Triumphans," signed Gulielmus 
 Rogerus, sculp., Anno 1592(?). 
 
 On /. 40 is a coloured picture of the arms of the Cathedral 
 dignitaries, i.e. the Bishop, Dean, Chancellor, Chaunter and 
 Treasurer, the quartering of the Bishop being left blank, but 
 filled in the Cathedral MS. 3,530 (printed by Reynolds), with 
 the arms of Gervase Babington, who was Bishop from Feb. 4, 
 1595, to Sept. 15, 1597. 
 
 The contents of the volume are indicated in S. Moore's 
 Calendar with unusual fulness, but these headings need not 
 now be reproduced, as the full text of the volume is now 
 being printed in extenso. The first instalment (ff. 1-89) was 
 published by Professor W. J. Harte in 1911, and the work 
 is being continued by the Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 
 Parts VI XI, &c. 
 
 Book 53. Izacke's Memorials of the City of Exeter. A 
 large folio volume of paper bound in morocco, the binding 
 being similar to that of Book 51. This is the MS. of the 
 volume printed in 1677, described by T. N. Brushfield, 
 Richard Izacke and his Antiquities of Exeter, p. 100 in 
 Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1893. It is entitled : 
 A Memoryall of sundry of the Chiefest Officers within the 
 
 * This motto occurs in Holinshead, ii, 108, 183, also as that of William 
 Bradbridge, who was Bishop of Exeter from March 1, 1571, to June 27, 1578, 
 in Izacke Catalogue,
 
 355 
 
 Cittie of Exeter in a continued series or succession of tyme 
 from the 2nd yeare of the Raigne of Kinge John, Anno Dom. 
 1200, to the 17th yeare of the Raigne of Kinge Charles the 2nd, 
 Anno Dom. 1665. It has same emblazonments of the arms 
 of the City as hi Frontispiece to the printed edition, with 
 description of the details, also arms of the Bishops and 
 Charitable Benefactors of the City. It begins with a quotation 
 from Cicero : Historia est lux veritatis, testis temporis, vitce 
 magistra aut memoria ac nuncia vetustatis. The Dedication, 
 dated January 23rd, 1665, is addressed to the right worshipful! 
 Nicholas Izacke, Esquire (his brother, who died in 1678), 
 Maior of the Auncyent and famous Citty of Exeter, the 
 Aldermen his brethren and the rest of the Comon Councell 
 of the said Cittie, and is signed : Yo most humble servant 
 and Chamberlayne, Richard Izacke. In this Dedication he 
 says : " Well consideringe with myself e of those fayre 
 precedentes that still lye before me, chiefly the indefatigable 
 labours of my primifide [? primited] predecessor in this place 
 and office, the learned Mr. John Hooker, whose workes bespeake 
 him famous within our Gates." On the front page is an 
 incomplete list of the names of the several streets and lanes 
 within the said City, arranged under East, West, North and 
 South. 
 
 The Introduction (3 ff.} begins : "This Citty is pleasantly 
 seated," and ends : " And ye God of peace bee evermore 
 with us and blesse us," differing very considerably from the 
 Prooemium in the edition of 1724. 
 
 ff. 1-60. Memorials of the said City from A.D. 1200 
 (Henry Rifford, Mayor) to A.D. 1676 (William Glyde, 
 Mayor), ending with the consecration of Bishop Thomas 
 Lamplugh, Oct. 3, 1676, "by Gilbert, Lord Archbishop 
 of Canterbury, consecrated thereunto." 
 /. 71. Extracts from Inquisitions 4 Edward VI. 
 ff. 716-75. Composition betweene the Byschoppe, Dean 
 and Chapter and the Citty for inclosinge of the church- 
 yard and buildinge upp of gates in the same, A.D. 1286, 
 with the grant of the Mayor, the composition of 
 14 Edward III (1340), the Letters Patent of Nov. 7th 
 (sic) 4 Elizabeth (^Charter XXXVIII). The com- 
 position with John Abbot of Sherburne de passagio 
 aquce de Cheekston, 52 Henry III, 1267. 
 ff. 71-80. A Catalogue of the Sheriffs of the Countie of 
 Devon, " with their severall Coates of Armory described," 
 from 1 Henry II to 2 William and Mary. 
 /. 82. The Petition of the City, dated 10 July, 
 1 Henry VIII, with the names of the Mayor, John 
 Lympeny (sic) and 23 (sic) of the Council. (See 
 Charter XXX.) 
 
 ff. 84-107. Lists of Recorders, Shereeves, Receivers, 
 Chamberlayns, Swordbearers and Byschoppes of 
 Exeter,
 
 356 
 
 ff. 110, 111. The Tytles of the severall Corporations 
 within the said Citty [as hi Edition 1724, pp. 64-68]. 
 
 ff. 114-119. A perfect Catalogue of all the Byshopps of 
 this church .... respective buryalls [as in Edition 
 1724], preceded by arms of the see of Exeter impaled 
 with those of Bishop Anthony Sparrow, with whom 
 the Catalogue closes though the names of Thomas 
 Lamplugh and Jonathan Trelawny are added without 
 any dates or further particulars. 
 
 ff. 122-157. A perfect Catalogue of the names and 
 guiftes of all such worthy benefactors as by their 
 last Willes and Testaments or otherwise have given 
 lands, rents, annuities or monies for and towardes 
 the reliefe of the poor within the Citty and County of 
 Exeter [very full 113 names with an account of 
 each]. Begins : " William Fitzralph, an Inhabitant 
 and . a good member of this Citty." Ends with 
 Stephen Olivean (will dated 2nd May, 20 Charles II, 
 1668). 
 
 ff. 176-179. Certayne orders for the reforminge of divers 
 abuses in reference to the Term Celles, the AJmeshouses 
 without the East Gate founded by Mr. William Hurst. 
 Ends with : "A Table or Index of the most remarkable 
 thinges contayned in this booke," both of subjects and 
 persons (with their arms), adding : " Jucunda est 
 prceteritorum Idborum memoria. An Index is a necessary 
 implement and not inexpedient of a Booke except in 
 the same sence wherein ye carriages of an Army are 
 termed impedimenta. Without this a large Author 
 is but a Labarynth without a clue to direct ye Reader 
 therein, ffuller's Worthies of England, fol. 256." 
 
 ff. 245, 246. Ordinance for the King's Beam used for 
 the true and just weighinge of wares and merchandizes 
 in Exeter. 12 Charles I (1636) 
 
 ff. 2466-249. Orders for the regulatinge of the Common 
 Hall, commonly called the Merchants Hall, and for 
 the goods to be brought to the same to bee bought or 
 solde, 22 Charles I, 1646, with a table of rates for 
 tallage. See page 84 [30]. 
 
 The last note=Ao^a /novw TO> Oea>. 
 
 Book 54. Richard Crossing's History of Exeter, A.D. 1681. 
 A long folio volume bound in calf. Mr. Stuart Moore adds 
 that " it contains principally the History of Charitable 
 Benefactions to the City and appears to be an abbreviation 
 of Izacke's History. Whether it contains any information 
 not to be found in Hoker or Izacke has not been ascertained." 
 It is entitled : A Catalogue or particular of .the Antiquities &c. 
 Special Remarkes of the Cittie and Chamber of the Cittie of 
 Exon by Richard Crossing, sometime a member of the sayd 
 Chamber, 1681. [He was a bailiff in 1632, Receiver in 1646,
 
 357 
 
 Sheriff in 1647, and was elected Mayor in 1649.] The book 
 has never been published. It contains : 
 
 ff. 1-26. A Catalogue of Benefactors similar to Book 53, 
 ff. 122-157, but not so full. 
 
 ff. 31-45. A Table or Catalogue of all the Mayors from 
 1216. Similar to Izacke's Annals, f. 83, but much 
 condensed, and to some extent independent. Under 
 1648-9 (/. 44) 'he enters: "A most sadd time. The 
 King was cruelly putt to death." Under 1649 (/. 44) : 
 "In regard that Richard Crossinge, who was elected 
 Maior, refused to serve in the sayd office because the 
 Kingly Government was then by armed violence 
 obstructed." 
 
 ff. 53-61. The names of the worthy Benefactors also 
 ff. 71, 72. 
 
 ff. 87-126. Observations and Collections taken out of a 
 booke att first written by John Vowell, gent., alias 
 Hoker, and since transcribed and now kept in the 
 Chamber of the Cittie of Exon. Hereunto are added 
 certain other observations and Collections from other 
 Authors and Manuscripts by Richard Crossinge, a 
 member of the said Chamber. It includes (/. 96) 
 Ordinances under the Charter of Orphants (sic), for 
 1 February 3 Elizabeth, the revenues of the Bishop of 
 Exeter =638Z. 16s. Ifd. (sic) [which seems to indicate 
 a reference to Book 52, /. 98, where the figures are 
 2,638Z. 16s. IJd.], and the rents of the Cathedral = 
 1,887?. 16s. 8d. 
 
 f. 45, s.a. [1666]. The 2nd Septemb., 1666, neere the 
 expiration of Nicholas Isaac's maioralty, 5 partes of 
 the Cittie of London within the Walles were destroyed 
 by a most dreadfull fire and more was burned without the 
 walls of London then was left standing within. Of 97 
 churches, only 11 stood unburnt, the fire did eate 
 into stones and devoured Iron barrs. The ashes were 
 blowen above 20 miles. Never was the hand of God 
 more visible. The losse was inestimable and incom- 
 prehensible. 
 
 Anno 1667, Thomas Walker, Mayor. He was knighted 
 by the King uppon the presentinge an Addresse. 
 
 Anno 1670, Benjamin Oliver, Mayor. Do. do. by the 
 King, who came to this Cittie the 23rd of July from 
 Dartmouth, and parted very early the next morning. 
 
 Anno 1676 (sic), John Parre, Mayor. In his yeare att 
 least 600 houses were burned in London and Southwark, 
 the suburbes of London, and the new Channel was cutt 
 to bring up vessels neerer to Exon. 
 
 Book 54 (a). Risdon's Devon (pencilled). This volume 
 is not entered in the Calendar. It is entitled " The Ciro- 
 graphicall discription or decines of the County of Devon
 
 358 
 
 with the Citty and County of Exeter, contayninge matter of 
 History, Antiquitie, Cronologie, The Nature of the County, 
 Comodities and Goverment thereof, with sundry other 
 things worthy observation collected by the Travell of 
 T.R. of Winscott, gent., for the love of his country and 
 countrymen hi that Province." A paper volume of 194 pp., 
 vellum covers, with flap. 
 
 Book 55. The Freeman's Book. A large folio book of 
 238 leaves of paper finely bound hi pigskin, with brass bosses. 
 It contains (ff. 1-37) a repertory of deeds enrolled in the 
 Mayor's Court Rolls, from 50 Henry III (1265) to 11 Richard II 
 (1387). The rest of the volume is filled with Miscellaneous 
 Memoranda in various hands and of various dates from 
 Edward IV to Charles I. There are copies of documents, 
 enrolments of orders of the Council, Freemen's lists &c., 
 Copies of Royal Letters, deeds, compositions, with many 
 notes of passing events by Hooker. This volume might be 
 named " The Freeman's Book." It contains chiefly lists of 
 persons admitted to the freedom of the City from 5 Henry V 
 (12 names) running on with broken intervals throughout the 
 volume till 1696 or to 13 Elizabeth (/. 131), ending with a long 
 list of apprentices (ff. 220-222) in a later hand. 
 
 In D. 9476, Feb. 7, 1379, is a notification that the Mayor, 
 Bailiffs and Commonalty of Exeter have admitted John 
 Bonde to the freedom of the said City, that he may enjoy 
 and use the liberties granted to them in these words, reciting 
 Letters Patent of Dec. 5, 1378 [i.e. Charter No. XXII]. 
 
 The following are some samples of the contents of this 
 volume : 
 
 ff. 1-37. Repertorium testamentorum, finium et omn' 
 Aliorum memorandor' in Rotulis Civitatis Exon. 
 inventor' In a 15th century hand, begins : DC. Anno 
 Regis Henrici t'cii 1 [not 5, as in Calendar]. Et md. 
 quod ab isto anno quinquagesimo regis Henrici t'cii 
 usq' Annu. quinto decimu. Regis E fil' Regis Henrici 
 nichil invent' ad effectum neg' in dco. anno quinto decimo. 
 D anno XV Regis E fil Regis h. (1321 added in a 16th 
 
 century hand.) 
 R. xiiii . Testamentum Walti de Padeslo in quo 
 
 continet' &c. 
 R. xxii. Testamentum Rici atte Stapele in quo 
 
 continet' &c. 
 R. xxx. final' Ooncordia Int. Walt'um Godwyne, 
 
 quer et Ricum le Spicer et Elenam ux' ejus deforc'. 
 R. xxxvi . final' Concordia Int.' Mariotam que fuit ux' 
 Johis de Bristowe quer et Robertum de Galmetm. et 
 Mariota. ux' ejus deforc'. 
 
 R. xxxvi . final' Concordia Int' Willm. de Venella et Juliam 
 ux' ejus quer' et Willm. Crodel et xpiam ux' ejus deforc'. 
 In isto Rotulo Anuali continent' xlix. Rotuli.
 
 359 
 
 Similar entries succeed each other, recording similar extracts 
 in the same hand till 11 Richard II, when it finishes abruptly 
 with the usual entry : In isto Rotulo anuali continentur Ivi. 
 rotuli ; thus forming a valuable though very inadequate 
 key to some of the contents of the Mayors' Court Rolls from 
 1321 to 1387, all of which with a few exceptions are still 
 preserved in full in the Guildhall. 
 
 /. 1. Anno 17 Ed. I. M d . qd. in cur' tent die lune 
 px. post fm. sci. Gregorii p'pe a. supradicto Wills' de 
 Harecomb Balls, dni Epi. Exon' de feodo Sci. Stephi 
 et Magr. Werman lib homo ejus Epi. de feodo p'dcto. 
 cur' p'dcti. Epi. de Rico de lenne tanquam de libo. 
 tenente eiusdem Epi. de feodo p'dcto sp'ere deb'. 
 Et fuit ad sectam &c. 
 
 /. 39. A description of Henry VI's coming to the City 
 [i.e. in 1452], in Hooker's handwriting. It begins : 
 Henry the syxthe, the sone of Harry the fyvethe and 
 quene Katheren his wyffe, daughter to the ffrenshe 
 kynge, and borne at Wyndsore aboute the feaste of 
 Saynt Nycholas, succeeded his father in this Realme, 
 dyinge in Normandy the last day of August, and after 
 in the feaste of S. Leonardo the yere of our Lord 1429 
 and the viijth yere of his Raynge and the viij yere 
 and one moneth of his age, was crowned at Westmynster. 
 And after about the feaste of the Conception of our 
 Ladye in the yere of God 1431, and the 10th yere of his 
 raynge, he was crowned Kinge of fraunce at parys. 
 And in the moneth of february folowinge he returned 
 into engelande and further in the 24th yere of his raynge 
 he maried Lady Margaret, daughter of the Duke of 
 Andioye, who by tytle was called Kynge of Cicilie 
 and Jherusalem, but not in possessyon for the (?) 
 in the (?). After the feaste of S. Trinitie, Anno 1445, 
 was crowned quene of England at Westmynster After 
 that tyme the saide Kynge Henry the Vlth, perusing 
 and searching diverse parts of the Realme, came into 
 Devon and lay the fyrst nighte at the Abbey of fforde, 
 and from thenst came to S. Mary Otrey, and lay there 
 ij nights, and from thence to this Cittie of Exester. 
 The passage then follows generally the account in 
 Book 52, /. 308&, corresponding with Izacke, p. 81, 
 and ends : This was fownde wryten in the Latyn 
 tonge on a olde parchement book and translated and 
 wryten into this booke by John Vowel alias Hoker, 
 Chamberlyne of this Citie, mense Octobris, Anno 
 1558. 
 
 ff. 44, 45. The copie of the blacke rolle by which the 
 Bysshop claymith his ffee to be in the Citie of Exon 
 and the suburbes of the same called St. Stephens fee, 
 and made in the 13tn yere of Henry the 4th or rather 
 Edward the 4th.
 
 360 
 
 ff. 49-55. The names of the freemen of Exeter drawn 
 up 13 Edward IV (1472). Richard Clark mayor= 
 Noia liber' horn' civitat' Exon p'squentia (=in presentia, 
 see f. 526). Rici Clerk, maiore, facta, Anno, regis E. 
 iiij". xiij., mostly with side note " mort' " continued 
 with subsequent additions to 3 Richard III, nuper regis 
 Angliae. 
 /. 556. Bond for 2,000?. by the Bishop and Chapter, 
 
 Dec. 12, 27 Henry VI. 
 
 /. 566. Acta hit', et fact', tepe. Hugd. Germa'. hie maior, 
 anno R. E. iiij fci . xiiij (1473), i.e. Oath of the Comyn 
 Clerke. Begins : Ye shell suer thath (sic) ye shalbe 
 trew to the Kyng E. (with Henry written above), 
 Kyng of England, &c. Ends : Item al olde poynts 
 and articles tochyng the office of the comyn clerke 
 of thes (sic) said Cite after the olde custumes of this 
 said Cite ye shall kepe and fullfyll yn your behalfe, so 
 God you helpe and your holidame and by thath (sic) 
 boke. 
 
 Also the oath of the common attorny, includes : 
 Also all suche evydences, charters, escrypts and muny- 
 ments as heirafter schall come to yowr hands ye schall 
 see them savely and secretly kepte and to redelyu' 
 (=redeliver) them agayn &c. So gode yow helpe and 
 the holy contents of this boke. 
 /. 57. The oath of the sward berer. 
 ff. 576-70. Acta habita tempore J. Attwyll, tune majoris, 
 Anno. 1, R. Ill (1479), i.e. names of 13 admiss' in 
 libertate, with payments varying from 20<s. to 26s. 8d. 
 Also 1 Henry VII, when Robert Russell is mayor, 
 2 Henry VII (Robert Newton), 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Henry VII 
 (including three final Concords and the will of Thomas 
 Calwodley), 9, 10 Henry VII (with one final concord 
 and the will of John Bonvyle de - armig'), with 
 corrections in Hooker's handwriting pointing to the 
 beginning of his method of keeping his Annals. 
 
 Also 11-20 Henry VII (with here folowith the titill 
 and the ground whereby the Mayor and Sherevys of 
 London clayme to have the custum and Scavage, al. 
 Savagage, of the Inhabitants of Exceter (/. 68), see 
 Book 51, /. 36. 
 
 ff. 716, 72. Indenture 12 December, 27 Henry VI, 
 betwene Edmund Lucy, Bishop of Excet' and the 
 Mayor &c. Witnesseth that whereas debates contra 
 &c. . . . and discordes &c. ... by meane and 
 mediacion of Thomas Courtenay, Erie of Devonshir, 
 and of William Bonvile &c. [Printed in Shillingford, 
 pp. 136-140.] 
 
 /. 73. Here folowith the Copy of the fee of Seynt Sidwyll, 
 with note (sic) Est yeate of the Citie of Excester sepaU 
 from the Citie forsaid, and also from the manor of
 
 361 
 
 Dureyurd. Copia parliament de Concordia int. 
 decanu . et capitulum et maiorem et conbatem. Exon. 
 Begins : Also prayn the Gives, that forasmoche as of 
 long time past &c. 4 May, 14 Henry [? VI]. 
 
 /. 75. Omnibus Xti. fidelibus Peter [Quivill], Bishop of 
 Exeter and the Dean and Chapter. Whereas the Citizens 
 of Exeter, with assent of Edward [I], King of England, 
 Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, have granted to us &c. 
 Monday next after Feast of Annunciation, 1286. 
 
 /. 756. Walter [Stapleton], Bishop of Exeter. Friday 
 after Feast of St. Hilary, 15 Edw. fil. regis Edwardi 
 [i.e. 15 Edward II, 1322]. 
 
 f. 78. The copy of the Quo Waranto. 3 February, 
 39 Edward [III], i.e. 1366. 
 
 /. 79. Transcriptio carte de ffontibus fact' fratribus 
 p'dicatoribus Exon, by Peter Warner and Isabella his 
 wife (super donacione trium foncium). Witnesseth 
 by a notary, 1303. 
 
 /. 796. Carta fact' petro Sturto et Johanni Lake et 
 civibus c its . Exon' de octo seldis jac' in vico voc' 
 pruststret. 1 December, 6 Henry V (1418). 
 
 /. 80. Cart' int' Civitatem et monachos de Cowyk. 
 
 /. 81 (24 September, 22 Henry VII (1506)). Seventeen 
 names of freemen, including Richard Huet, maior, 
 John Lympynd, hoc anno Receptor. 
 
 /. 82. 14 August, 22 Henry VII (1507). Names of 
 soldiers nominat' p'. John Carewe, knight=20 bowes 
 and 15 Billes, also 6 Bowes and 23 Billes. 
 
 ff. 83-92. Names of freemen. 21 Henry VII ; 2, 3 
 Henry VEII to 31 Henry VIII; 5, 6 Edward VI; 
 1 Mary. 
 
 /. 89. Md. that this present yere (23 Henry VIII, 1 531-32) 
 a lytell before Cristmasse their wasse one Thomas 
 Benet y* dwellyd yn the bocherow wasse arestyd by 
 Mr. Mayor for herysey, and he wasse boren at 
 Cambryge and he wasse condemnyd by the Clargey to be 
 burnyd for his oppynyons the xv day of December, 
 the yere abow writtyn [i.e. 1531], and so he remanyd 
 yn the byschopp prison untyll the 10th day of January 
 [1532], that he wasse delyv'yd by Chaunsell of the 
 Churche to S. Thomas Denys, knyth, then sheryff of 
 Deuonscher, and he wold have burnyd the same 
 herytycke yn Southynghay, and they had brogth wode 
 and put uppe a poste, but he wasse compellyd by 
 Mr. Maior and others to remove away the post and 
 wode and so burnyd the herytycke at Lyv'doll, where 
 the place of execucion for the seryff is accustumyd to be 
 hade. [See Izacke, p. 116.] 
 
 /. 89. The will of Robert Hoker, father of John Hooker 
 the Chamberlain. The will is hi English and is dated 
 August, 1534. Extracted from Eot. v, 30 Henry VIII
 
 362 
 
 (1538-9). The paper, which is very stout, shows a 
 unicorn's head as a watermark. 
 
 /. 101. A Copy of the Rate of Blackwyll Hall [i.e., 
 Blackwellhall in London] uppon lynnyng cloyth and 
 wollen cloyth. 
 
 /. 102. The Copy of the Will and testment of John 
 Hurst, Citizen and Merchaunt of Exeter. In English, 
 dated 16 November, 1552. 
 
 /. 104. A Copie of the entries made in the Councell 
 booke touchyng the Mayor and Comynaltie of Exet'. 
 Att Hampton Courte, 16 May, 1555. 
 /. 105. This yere (1552-53) died King Edward the syxthe, 
 being the yere of our Lorde 1553, about the xxth of 
 July, and forthwith was one Lady Jane, wyffe to the 
 Lorde Guylforde Dudley and daughter to the Duke of 
 Suffolk, proclaimed Quene of Englande, but being 
 verie shortlye after deposed the trewe and right 
 inheritor, Lady Mary, daughter to King Henrye the 
 VIII, was proclaimed quene of Englande. [Izacke, 
 p. 126.] 
 
 /. 106. M d . that hi this yere one the xxiij of July, 1554, 
 Kyng Philip, prynce of Spayne, and sone to the most 
 famose Emperor Charell the Vth, he landed at Hampton, 
 and being there honorablie receved by the Erie of 
 penbroke, who then presented unto him the golden 
 garter and conveighed him from thenst to Wynchester, 
 where the Quenes Majestic dyd abyde his comynge 
 and one the morow being the xxiiijth of July the (sic) 
 were bothe openly and solemply maried in S. Swythens 
 Church of Wynchester. 
 /. 106. A Copie of the purchase of the Chauntery upon 
 
 Exbridge. 1 June, 7 Edward VI [1553]. 
 /. 1066. William Staplehill and Griffyn Ameredith's 
 charges upon the suite of Church plate. Also two 
 letters, proclamation of Queen Mary, &c. : 
 
 Chargis payd yn London and att the Courte before 
 the Kyng and Quenes Majesties Councell ffor the 
 Ceties affayrs by Walter Staplehill and Griffyn 
 Ameredyth att Ester Terme uppon the suyte of 
 churche plate, A no . regnor Philip et Marie, Regis 
 and Regine, p'mo. and scdo. 
 
 In p'mis. payd to my lord Tresorers secretory to p'ferr 
 the suyte . . . . . . . . . . xxs. 
 
 Itm. to his porter for lettyng us yn and other his 
 paynys . . . . . . . . . . ii$. 
 
 Itm. to Sir John Pollerd, knyght, for the optaynyng 
 of oure Request wrought by my lord of 
 Penbroke . . . . . . . . . . xx/t. 
 
 Itm. to my lord of Penbroke's servaunts nyest aboute 
 hym to by every of them a gyldyng by Sir John 
 Pollards assigment . . . . . . . . viuli.
 
 363 
 
 Itm. to the iii Clerks of the Councell att the begynnyng 
 of our sute to have us yn Remembrance, And to 
 helpe us yn the same . . . . . . vili. 
 
 Itm. to my lord Chauncellours secretorye to be a 
 meene to his M. ffor the optaynyng his good will 
 yn our sute . . . . . . . . . . wili. 
 
 Itm. to Mr. Secretory Peters, clerke for Remembryng 
 ther M., and p'ferryng our suyte . . . . xxs. 
 
 Itm. to my lord AdmyrelPs Secretorie for the lyke 
 to his M. . . . . . . . . . . xxs. 
 
 Itm. to one of M. Bassetts servaints for the optayn- 
 yng of his master's good wille yn oure suyte . . xs. 
 
 Itm. to a man for hemself and his horse to Ride to 
 M. Cotton beside hampton for our obligacion iiiis. 
 
 Itm. to the keps. of the Councel Chamber dore vs. 
 
 Itm. to M. Peckam is clerks for searchynge his 
 office for oure obligacion . . . . . . xxs. 
 
 Itm. to the Clerks of th excheker and ther servaints 
 to searche ther office for oure obligacion xliis. 
 
 Itm. to M. Marde for his paynes to come to london 
 and to searche his office yn the Tower for oure 
 obligacion . . . . . . . . . . xxs. 
 
 Itm. to M. Wye of the Temple for drawynge oure 
 supplycacion and twyse engrossynge the same 
 to the Councell and also to my lord of 
 penbroke . . . . . . . . . . xxs. 
 
 Itm. to the 111 Clerks of the Councell att the 
 det'mynacion of our suyt for the entryng our 
 decree and for a copie of the same . . xls. 
 
 *Itm. for oure owne chargs and expencs. for xxxiii 
 days, that is to say ffrome the xxvith day of 
 Aprell unto the xxixth of May last past att 
 vis. viiic?. the day for oure selffs, our s'vnts and 
 oure horses durynge that tyme . . . . xxiifo'. 
 
 Itm. yn mony gevyn us for our paynes yn the 
 p'mysses by M. Mayor and his Brethern . . iiiiK. 
 
 Marginal note (a). Nota this xxvifo'. is alloyd to 
 the seid Griifyn upon his buoke of Chargs and 
 expensis uppon his accompt for the Cetie. 
 
 Sm a . To*, expens. =xlixK. iiis. The Accompt 
 
 apperith in the next side. 
 
 /. 1076, 16 May, 6 Edward VI (1552). The Commission 
 for the survey of the Church goods within the Countie 
 of the Cetie of Exeter, with Instructions dated 10 June, 
 6 Edward VI (1552). Printed hi Surrey Archaeological 
 Collections, vol. iv, p. 190 (1869). 
 
 /. 109. Copy of a letter frome the Counsell to the Byshops 
 Gustos Rotulorum and the under officers for the 
 delyv'e of suche ynvitories as they have of Churche 
 
 * This and the following paragraph are struck through with the pen and 
 marginal note (a) inserted.
 
 364 
 
 goods to be delyv'ed to the Corny ssioners before- 
 named : 
 
 After oure hartye comendacion. Where as the 
 Kyng's Maiestie uppon dyvers complaynts made 
 of the greate waste, imbesylyngs and aUenatyngs 
 of the belles, plate, Jeweles and ornaments belongyng 
 to the parishe churches and chapells of all parts of 
 the realme hath for stay and remedy therof 
 addressed ffourth hys Majesties commissions unto 
 all parts of thys Realme . . . for as myche as the 
 Invitories heretofore made by order frome hys 
 Maiestie of all the said plate, jeweles, bells and 
 ornaments within that hys heignes Cetie of Exeter 
 wear appoynted to Remayn with you, the syght 
 of whyche Invitories shalbe very necessarie for 
 the Execution of suche order as ys nowe appoynted 
 to be taken for a more sewer stay of the said goods. 
 Hys Maiesties said pleasure ys that Immedyately 
 uppon the sight of these oure letters you shall 
 delyver or cause to be delyvered to hys maiesties 
 said commyssioners presently appoynted for thys 
 mater in the said countie all such Invitories touchyng 
 the p'mysses as remayne in your custodye or that 
 you may by any goode meanes combe by. And 
 beside that hys maiesties ffurther pleasure ys that 
 in case any of the said Invitories hertofore 
 remaynyng with you or in the custody of any 
 others before you in that office have ben by 
 any meanes delyvered ffrome you or them or any 
 others that in that case you shall sygnyfie to the 
 said Comyssioners to whome or for what cause 
 your said Invitories have ben so delyvered, and 
 besyde geve suche further Instruccon as you 
 knowe and may p've to the knowlege of the 
 trouth. And the good ffurtherance of thys hys 
 maiesties Commyssion in all thyngs to be Requyred 
 of you whereof wee requyre you not to fayle. From 
 Westminster, the laste of Aprell. 
 
 Your lovyng ffrendes, 
 
 (Blank). 
 Wynchyster. 
 Bedford. 
 
 T. Desdy (? Darcsey). 
 John Bat. 
 
 William Peter. 
 
 The names of the ) William Dessell. 
 Counsell Robert Downs. 
 
 \ Richard Cotton.
 
 365 
 
 A letter frome the Counsell to the Comyssioners before 
 named as well sertyfiyng the Cathedrall Churche 
 to be within the countie of the Cetie of Exeter, as 
 any other churche within the same Cetie and other 
 maters twechyng one person as therin apperith. 
 After oure very hartye comendacions, We have 
 Receved your letter addressed unto me, Secretarye 
 Cecill, whereby we do perceive as well your stay 
 frome procydyng to the survey of the Cathedrall 
 Churche ther of Exeter, because the same ys not 
 expressely named yn your commyssion, as also the 
 lewde behavyour of Water Hele, vycar of Erpylpyn 
 (? Epplepyn), whos unquyet sorte of p'echyng wee 
 have at good length sene by the artycles sent 
 within your letters. And for as myche as the said 
 helys doing tendith not only to the dyturbence 
 of trewe Relegion, but twecchith also as we take yt 
 the Kyng's maiesties estate and policie of hys 
 Realm wee pray you the bysshopp of Exeter 
 for the furste poynt to cause thys vycar to be 
 throughly examyned, and when ye shall finde 
 hym to have swerved in matters of Religion from 
 the Kyng's Maiestie p'cidyngs in that behalf e 
 establysed, ye shall cause hym either openly to 
 Recante the same in the places where he hath 
 before so preched or taught or ells yf he Refuse so 
 to do then take order for his ponyshement in suche 
 ordynarie sorte as in leke cases by the ecclesiastycall 
 lawes is ordered and provided. As for that parte 
 of hys lewde dealyngs that twecchith the Kyng's 
 Maiesties estate and pollice of hys Realme, We 
 pray you calleng to you suche other gentylmen 
 therabouts beyng Justics of peace as ye shall 
 thynke moste metest for thys purpose to consider 
 and way the mater substancially and singnyfie 
 unto us your oppinyons therin what waight and 
 Importaunce ye shall thynke the same to be of, to 
 thende we maye geve suche order for the pun- 
 nysshement of the defaulte as to justice shall 
 apptayne Twacchyng the estate of your survey 
 of the Cathedrall Churche the leke as we knowe 
 that the [blank] of your Comyssion doyth 
 sufficiently beer you to procide with the same 
 Churche as ye have don with other within your 
 circuyt. So do we pray you withoute any longer 
 staye to goo throughly with the survey of the 
 said Cathedrall Churche as appartayneth where- 
 unto (sic) albeit the Kyng's maieste taketh hys 
 comyssion to be sufficient enowgh and so ment of 
 his maiestie yet hath hys maiestie wylled us to 
 syngnyfie unto you that hys pleasure ys notwith-
 
 366 
 
 standyng any scruple moved in your Commyssion 
 that you shall procide therin as in all other churches 
 ye be p'sscribed. And so we pray you to do and 
 bed you hartely fayerwell, frome tichefild, the 
 xiiij th of Auguste. 
 
 Your loving f rends (blank). 
 The names of the Counsell 
 
 Wynchester. Bedford. Suffolk. 
 T. Darsey. Chayne. W. Cecill. 
 
 Side note. Directed our very good lords and ffrendes 
 the Bishopp of Exeter and the rest of the Com- 
 yssioners for the Survey of Churche goods withyn 
 that Cetie. This lettre was received by me, 
 Myles, byshop, 27 Aug., Anno. 6 Ed. 6 [1553]. 
 A copy of a letter directed to the Mayore of Exeter 
 and Aldermen and all other the Quenes Majesties 
 subiects of her Cetie of Exeter : 
 After oure harty comendacons. Whereas thoppor- 
 tunytie of so good a tyme as nowe is offerid unto 
 us by Reson of certayne dificulties and letts where- 
 with all we were forcyd to bere for a season was no 
 Rather mynystred unto us to proclayme oure 
 Souvrayne lady and maystres Quene Mary Quene 
 of this Realme of France and Ireland &c., you shall 
 understond that by the helpe of god the worker 
 and brynger forth of all good purposes in ther due 
 tyme, We dyd yesterday here yn london with 
 thyncredible joye of all her majesties subiects 
 here proclayme her hyghnes Quene of England 
 and Irelond in such forme as by the proclamacion 
 sent to you herewith maye appeare unto you the 
 which proclamacion lyke as wee have dispeched 
 with oure letters to be proclamed in all thother 
 partes of the Realme so have wee also sent the 
 same to you, praying and chargyng you in her 
 majesties name nott only to cause the same 
 ymmediately after the receypt herof to be pro- 
 clamed in all the accustomyd places withyn that 
 Countie, but also to see her majesties peace, good 
 order and quyet to be observyd in those parts and 
 her highnes subiects ther to be conteynyd hi office 
 in ther due obedience to her majestic. And thus 
 fare you hartely well, ffrome the Quenes majesties 
 Cetie of London, the xxth of July, 1553, 1551, (q.v.). 
 Your assurid lovyng ff rends, 
 T. Cant., T. Ely. 
 
 J. Bedford, F. Shrewesbury, Penbroke. 
 Richard Cotton, W. Sevill, Jo. Bakere. 
 Edward North, Jo. Mason, Robt. Bayne. 
 /. 110. Mary the Quene. The Copy of the letter seynt 
 by the Quene majestic Mary to Sir Thomas Denys and
 
 367 
 
 Peter Carewe and Gawen Carewe and John of Sellynger, 
 Artor. Champnon Knyghts, Antony Harvy, John 
 Chechister, John Rydgeway, John P'diaeux, Esquers : 
 By the Quene. Trusty and Right Welbelovid, Wee 
 gryt you well and your letter addressid hether per- 
 ceve your delygens, your ffaythfulnys and true harts 
 Reddy to serve and to have defendid us ayenst our 
 Traytors and Rebells, who nowe God be thankid are 
 under ffete and the chiff therof as the Duke of 
 Northumblond and others admyttid to Warde yn 
 oure Toure of london and other prisons. Wherfore 
 as ye have well deservyd wee geve you and all our 
 good subiects yn your company oure Right thanks, 
 myndyng to consider the same to your comforte, 
 Requeryng and praying you all this troble now 
 beyng overlayde to desire oure seid subiects yn 
 God's peace and oure to repayre home to ther 
 dwellyng places and ther to remayne till We shall 
 nyde ther ffurther servys wth continyall prayer to 
 God for his grace to preserve us and the commyng 
 (sic) Welth to his glory. Yevyn under oure Synett 
 (sic) att oure Towne of Colchester, the fiyrst yer 
 of oure Reigne. 
 
 /. 112. The Copye of the graunte for the manor of 
 Topsham to Peter Smyth, gent., 8 December, 
 6 Edward VI. 
 
 /. 1136. s.a. 1557-8. John Peter, Mayor. Mem. that 
 one the xxviith of September, 1559, in the first yere of 
 the raynge of our sovereinge Quene Elysabethe, the 
 Citie of Exon was measured rownd about the walls 
 without syde and it conteineth in compasse xvi c passes, 
 everie passe conteininge fyve foote which in the whoale 
 after 1 M. passes at a myle conteyngneth a myle and 
 halfe and l c . passes. 
 
 /. 113. A Copye of the Quenes Majesties wryte and 
 proclamation [dated 21 September, 2 Elizabeth], 
 directed to the Mayor and Shrefe of the Citie of Exeter, 
 and received the 26 daye of September, Anno dni. 1560, 
 and proclamed the 28th day of the same moneth, being 
 Saterday, betwene (sic) the howers of ix and x of the 
 same day before nowne, for reform of the currency and 
 for the reformation of such abuses as be thowght 
 hurtfull to the common weall of this her Realm. Nothing 
 is so grevous as the sufferaunce of the Base Monyes 
 being of dyvers Standers and myxtures to be so 
 aboundantly currante within this Real me, which have 
 ben coyned in the same before her Majesties Raygne 
 and no parte synce. 
 
 ff. 1316-135. The description of the Citie of Exon made, 
 collected and done by John Vowell alias Hoker, Cham- 
 berlayn of the said Citie, 1 Elizabeth, 1559 f
 
 368 
 
 jins : Excester or Excetre is a famous Citie, 
 being the metropole or cheffe in the West partes of 
 Englande. Ends : Unfayned care of the comon welthe. 
 So be it. Per me, Johan Vowell alias Hoker, 
 camerarium civitatis Exon. 
 
 These verses folowinge ar appoynted to be imprinted 
 in the plate and historic of this Citie above saide : 
 Of my fyrst ground the certeyntie 
 Is worn out through antyquytie. 
 Caerrn the brytones called me, 
 Monketon, Saxons dyd me name. 
 But last of the ryver Esse, 
 Esseter to name was given me. 
 Syxe tymes beseged mightily, 
 Myn enemyes estes I put to shame. 
 /. 1356. Exylond. A note of the reparacyons done 
 uppon Calluberr and propere weaves and the mylle 
 leatte. Anno 5 Edward VI ; 13 Elizabeth. 
 /. 137. An Acte of parlament for the pavinge of the 
 streetes within the Citie of Excester yn the tyme of 
 Kyng Edward the iiij. 
 
 jfjf. 142-155. The Othe of xxiiij for the election of the 
 Mayor. Aso Oath of Mayor, Sheriff, Common 
 Counceller, Warden of the Magdallyn &c. 
 /. 146. Testamentum Walteri filii Nichi Gervas. (Latin.) 
 
 1257. 
 
 ff. 156-159. A note of all the articlis conteyned in all 
 
 the Charters of this Citie of Exon from the tyme of 
 
 Kynge Henrye the First (sic) untill the tyme of 
 
 Kyng Edward the Vlth. 
 
 /. 173. Grata Decani et Comon' de Wynchester. 
 
 10 April, 7 H . 
 
 /. 1796. Coastes Shippes servinge for the Cittie of Excester 
 in Anno 1588, viz : i j 
 
 For the waiges of 70 men seruinge hi the 
 Bartholomew of Apsam bye the space 
 of ii moneths begune the xvith of Julie, 
 1588, and ended the ixth of September 
 folowinge, after the rate of xiiiis. every 
 mann p. mensem dietts share and 
 rewardes in the same accompted . . 98 
 For the sea victualls of the same men 
 by licke tyme after the same rate of 
 xiiiis. per mensem. Summa . . . . 98 
 For the Tonnage of the same Shippe bye 
 licke tyme being cxxx. ton after the 
 rate of iis. every tonne p. mensem, the 
 some of 26 
 
 Summa . 222
 
 369 
 
 For the wages of 50 men seruinge in the 
 Rose of Apsham by licke tyme of 2 
 monthes begune and ended as afore- 
 sayde after the same rate. Summa . . 70 
 
 For the sea victualls of the same men 
 bye the licke tyme after the same rate, 
 the some of 70 
 
 For the Tonnage of the same Shippe, 
 beinge 110 ton after the licke rate as 
 aforsaide 22 
 
 Summa . . . 162 
 
 For the waiges of 21 men seruinge in the 
 Quyfte of Apha bye licke tyme, begune 
 and ended as aforesaide after the rate 
 aboue sayde, the some of . . 29 8 
 
 For the sea victualls of the same men 
 bye licke tyme after the same rate as 
 aboue sayde. Summa . . . . 29 8 
 
 For the Tonnage of the same shippe, being 
 25 tonne for licke tyme after the licke 
 rate 500 
 
 Summa . . . 63 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 222 
 
 162 
 
 63 
 
 Totalis 447 16 
 
 Receved by us the Mayor, Bailiffs and Comynaltye 
 of the Cittie of Excester the xxvith daye of Maye, 
 1589, of Sir John Hawkins, knighte, Treasorer of 
 her Maiestyes Maryne causes the some of Fower 
 hundred Fourtie seaven poundes sixtene shillinges 
 of lawfull money of England in full payment and 
 satisfaccon for so muche receved from her Maiestye 
 for the service of the iii shippes within written, 
 viz., the Bartholomew, the Rose and the Guyfte of 
 Apsam, seruinge her highnes againste the 
 Spanayardes as Coste Shippes for the Cittie of 
 Excester by the space of twoo monethes in 
 Anno 1588, begune the 16 of Julie, 1588, and 
 ended the ixth of September followinge, whereof 
 and of every parte and parcell thereof wee the 
 Maior, Bailiffes and Cominaltye aforesayde doe 
 covenaunte herebye for us and our Successors to 
 discharge and saue harmles bothe her Majestic 
 
 Wt. 20757 Ex 24
 
 370 
 
 and the saide Sir John Haukins (sic), Knighte, 
 
 his heires, executores and assignes agaynste bothe 
 
 the Owners, victulers and maryners or Company 
 
 of the saide Shipps for that tyme of there seruyce 
 
 for euer. In witnes whereof wee haue to theis 
 
 presentes sett the Seale of the Office of the 
 
 Maioraltie of the Cittie of Excester the daye and 
 
 yere firste aboue written . . ccccxlviifo'. xvis. 
 
 /. 180. Petition of the town of Staynes (Middlesex) 
 
 with replies from the Council at Whitehall, 26 May, 
 
 1589, for post towards Plymouth. 
 
 /. 187. The Copye of the Queen's Majesties letters for 
 the deliverye of Phillipp Harte, a condempned prisoner 
 remayninge in the Gayle of the City of Exon. 
 
 By the Queene. 
 Elizabethe Regina. 
 
 Trusty and welbeloued, We greete you well. Whereas 
 
 there ys remeninge in the Gaole of that our Cittye 
 
 of Exceter, Prysoner under your charge and 
 
 custody one Phillipp Harte, a condempned person 
 
 and so restinge at our mercye Whome in respecte 
 
 that the parties greeved desyer to be recommended 
 
 to our grace for the Releefe of the poore Women 
 
 whose husbandes were slayne as also for that 
 
 there ys good Assurans geeven us of his sufficiencye 
 
 to do us good Service in our Warres Wee arre 
 
 pleased to extende our clemencye thus fair unto 
 
 him as to staye him from execucon by our Lawes, 
 
 And to imploye him in our warres, And therefore 
 
 wee will and comande youe upon the Receipte of 
 
 theis our Letters to deliver the bodye of the said 
 
 Phillipp Harte to the berer herof, George Carye, 
 
 esquyer, to be by him conveied to Capteyne John 
 
 Dowdall, unto whome wee have comitted a Bande 
 
 of footemen to serve us in our Realme of Irland, 
 
 under whome our pleasure ys to make triall of the 
 
 said Hert's Service and good behavior and farther 
 
 our expresse pleasure and comandemente ys that 
 
 the said Harte shall not at any tyme hereafter 
 
 retorne unto our Realme of England, but remayne 
 
 still in our said Service in Irland withoute our 
 
 expresse Licence under our owne Hande obteined 
 
 upon payne of the extremytie of our Lawes to be 
 
 layed upon him. And theis our Letters shalbe to 
 
 youe and every of youe to whome yt dothe or 
 
 maye apperteyne sufficiente warrante and discharge 
 
 in this behalfe. Geeven under our signet at our 
 
 Mann, of Greenewyche the Syxte of Maye, 1590, 
 
 in the xxxiith yere of our reigne. 
 
 Wyndebanck. 
 
 To our trusty and welbeloved the 
 Maier, Recorder and Sheryffs of
 
 371 
 
 Exceter and to all other our 
 
 Officers and Mynysters to 
 
 whome yt dothe or shall apper- 
 
 teyne. 
 
 /. 196. Refers to Queen Elizabeth's proclamation that 
 certayne wayghtes as well the Troy waightes as of 
 Avoirs de Poyz newly made and corrected shoulde 
 bee dispersed and sente unto all and everye of the 
 good Citties of England, there to remayne, wherebye 
 all other waightes of these natures shalbe fined, cor- 
 rected and amended. This Bille Indented made 
 21 June, 30 Elizabeth (1588). The Town Clerk acknow- 
 ledges to have received from the Court of Exchequer of 
 avoir de Poyz, the halfe hundrede weights containing 
 56?., 28Z., 14:1, 11, 21, and ll ; also 1 Pille of Troy 
 waightes containing 14 pieces and 1 paper with penny- 
 weightes and 5 parcells graynes containing 14 peeces, 
 paying for them 91. 8s. lid. 
 /. 203. The note of the number of all the Charters of 
 
 this cittie of Exon. Collected 23 October, 1560. 
 /. 207. Anno xxij, Henry VII (1506-7). Deliberaco. 
 clavum ciste cvis. existent' in domo cvis. consil' 
 p'tn., showing 7 Keys, 1 in the hands of the Mayor, 
 Richard Huet, and 6 more with the names of the 
 holders. 
 
 Md. est quedam vacua claws p. sexta sera reman in 
 
 data repoc. 
 
 Book 55a. A list of Freemen, 1621 to 1818 (not paged) 
 entitled " A Catalogue or Register of the names of all the 
 persons that have been made free in or since the year 1621." 
 This book is not noticed in the Calendar. It consists of an 
 alphabetical list of names and forms a very serviceable guide 
 to personal names, trades &c., since 1621. Appended to each 
 name is a note " p. appr' " (i.e. by apprenticeship), " p. her' ' 
 (by heirship), " p. red ' ' (by redemption), " by priviledge," 
 or " p. ord' " (i.e. admitted by order). It includes such names 
 as Christopher, Lord Duke of Albemarle, Frederick Kepple, 
 Lord Bishop of Exeter, to the Tripemakers, Hot-pressmen, 
 Velmongers, Combemakers. 
 
 Book 56. A vellum book, foolscap folio, the cover of which 
 has been torn off. It contains copies of documents in a hand 
 of the time of Elizabeth, and appears to have belonged to 
 Hooker. (It might be called " Hooker's Charter Book ".) 
 Eg., an extract from Carta Monasterii de Syon, Henricus [? VII], 
 recites privileges and exemptions granted January 26th last 
 past to Elizabeth the Abbess, infra manerium de Istalworthe. 
 The description of Exeter by Hooker as hi Book 55, /. 131&. 
 It begins : " Excester or Exeter ys a famouse Cytie." 
 Ends ; " The Lord kepe and preserve them alwaies."
 
 372 
 
 Five opening paragraphs of " The Antiquitie and foundacioun 
 of the Cathedrall. Churche of Saint Peters, Exon." 
 Begins : "Of the fundacion," &c. 
 
 Breaks off with ; " the which he ys a baron or lorde of the 
 parliament " (in paragraph beginning : " And in this tyme of 
 Kinge Henry the fyrst"). 
 
 The Charter of Exilond, 22 December, 4 Edward VI (1550) 
 
 (full text). See Charters No. XXXVI. 
 The Charter of the Bishop of Winchester, 30 January, 
 
 2 Henry VIII (1511) (full text). 
 The Charter of the Bishop and Church of Exeter, 12 May, 
 
 2 Henry VI (1424) (full text). 
 
 The Charter of Kenton, 14 May, 16 Edward [? III. See 
 page 122, i.e. 1342.] It recites Charter of Stephen, and 
 refers to homines mei de lystona et Chentona (i.e. Kenton 
 ferry near Star Cross). 
 
 The Charter of Bonville's Almshouses, 8 November, 
 4 Elizabeth (1562) (full text). See Charters, No. 
 XXXVIII. 
 
 Charter of 21 February, 3 Elizabeth (1561). Cart' p. 
 orphan etaV libt' Concess'. See Charters, No. XXXVII. 
 
 The Act for the Limits of the City. A Confirmacion of 
 the Cete libt' and Charters by Acte of parliament for the 
 bonds (sic) and limytts how fferr the Countie of 
 the Cetie shall extend. 18 March, 3 Edward VI (1549) 
 (full text). See Charters, No. XXXV. 
 
 The Charter of 24 February, 3 Edward VI (1549) (full 
 text). Latin, with footnote : Veram copiam Carte 
 Civitatis Exon et concord 1 cum Iris 1 patent' Regis Ed. vi li . 
 supiar specificaf et exam. p. Waltherm Stapelhill, Johem. 
 Peter, Richm. p'twod, Richm. Hert et Johem Hoker. 
 See Charters, No. XXXIV. 
 
 The Act of Parliament for confirmation of Charters, 
 
 3 May, 5 Elizabeth (1563). See Charters, No. XXXIX. 
 The Charter for the Election of the Mayor, 10 July, 
 
 1 Henry VIII (1509), headed " The Copye of the Charter 
 for the Eleccion of the Mayor and officers made by 
 Henry the vijth (sic), after the Comosion he then in 
 ppr' person cum. to Exon." See Charters, No. XXX. 
 
 A Commission for a Gaile deliverie for the Admiraltie, 
 17 October, 6 Elizabeth (1564). 
 
 Two folios of extracts from Domesday Book with note : 
 The which all Churches, houses, londis and Tentis 
 being of or holdinge as well as righte many moo other 
 and divers w th all passeth the nomber of Ix. and moo 
 beinge rente or yeilding custome as all appeareth of 
 recorde in the said Booke, none which said except the 
 xlvij. houses (i.e. in the holding of the Bishop of Exeter) 
 above said, now late the which the Maier and Com- 
 monaltie seyn that all beith parcel! of the said Cetye 
 in and of and annexed to the same. And they seyn
 
 373 
 
 that all the rentis aforesaid ben parcell of the fee fferme 
 of the said Citey. And that rentis and customes 
 p'veth (proveth) a fee fferme by prescripcion at that 
 tyme. And the Cittie not in the Kinges handes as it 
 
 is in there seconde Article of prys (? proofs) supposed. 
 
 Part of a Rental of the City. (7 folios.) 
 
 Book 56a. A paper volume, not paged. Some of the sheets 
 have been folded down to fit the size of the ordinary pages. 
 The binding consists of an indenture on vellum, dated 
 30 January, 29 Elizabeth (1587). The headings are partly 
 cut away in binding. 
 
 This book, which is not noticed in the Calendar, may be 
 regarded as a supplement to Book 56, being a collection of 
 Charters and other similar documents mostly repeated else- 
 where. 
 
 The earliest page (i.e. an extract) begins : And albeit from 
 the tyme of Kinge Athelstane the first founder, A.D. 932. 
 
 Ends : And this muche concernynge the antiquitie, 
 fundation and buildinge of this Cathedrall Churche 
 (see Book 56). 
 
 This extract occupies half a page only. It is followed by : 
 The ancient Rentes and Revenewes belonginge and apperteyn- 
 inge to the cathedral! churche of S. Peter of Exon, and the 
 extent thereof ; total 1,9417. 165. Qd. 
 
 Copy of the Grand Charter of the Citie of Exeter [see 
 
 Charters, No. XXXIV], the last sheet bearing the date 
 
 24 February, 3 Edward VI (1549), has been misplaced 
 
 and bound towards the end of the volume. 
 
 A Charter beginning Henricus, dated 4 May, anno regni 
 
 nostri quinto decimo. 
 
 A Charter beginning Henricus, dated 11 December, 
 anno regni nostri [blank], probably Henry V or Henry 
 VI, as the Clerk is " Wymbysshe." 
 
 The Composition betwene the Bisshop &c. and the Citie 
 for enclosinge of the churcheyarde and buyldinge up 
 of gates in the same, 1286. 
 The Graunte of the Mayer &c. to the Bishop &c. for 
 
 enclosinge the Churcheyarde. 
 The Composition between the Mayor &c. and the Bishop 
 
 &c., concerning certeyn walles and dores &c., 1320. 
 The Composition for the building of a gate in a lane in 
 
 Stykestreete, 8 September, 37 Henry VI (1459). 
 A Grant from the Mayor &c. to the Archdeacon of Totnes 
 
 of a tower upon the walls of the Citie, 1392. 
 A Catologe of all the Bisshops &c. (16 folios.) 
 
 Begins : Havinge heretofore sett downe the Antiquities. 
 Ends with : John Wolton the mediation ffraunceys 
 
 Erie of Bedfforde. 
 
 Carta Episcopi Bathon et Wellens. Ten lines only ; 
 incomplete.
 
 374 
 
 Carta, 29 January, 1 Elizabeth (1559). Note at end 
 
 Concordat cum original! p' me Robtm. Denys. 
 " Wyndsore " Charter of Henricus ... 10 April, anno 7, 
 
 Folded down to fit size of book. 
 Charter of Elizabeth. Headed : This ys indeed . . . 
 
 incomplete. (2 folios.) 
 Statutes for the ordering of Orphans &c. Ends : To be 
 
 fullie satisfied and paied. (6 folios.) 
 The manner and forme of a recognysaunce to be taken 
 
 for the assuraunce of an Orphanes parte or portion. 
 
 (4 folios.) 
 The Charter for the appointinge and nomynatinge of the 
 
 poore in the hospitall of the Comeroye. 13 November, 
 
 4 Elizabeth (1562). See Charter XXXVIII. 
 An Acte of Parlyement for the bounding and lymetinge 
 
 of the Countie of the Citie of Excester, 18 March, 
 
 3 Edward VI (1549). Full text : English. See 
 
 Charter XXXV. 
 The Charter of Exilonde, 2 (sic) December, 4 Edward VI 
 
 (1550). See Charter XXXVI. 
 The Charter for Orphanes and a Chamberlayne, 
 
 21 February, 3 Elizabeth (1561). See Charter XXXVII. 
 An Acte of Parlament for the Confirmation of the Charter 
 
 of Orphanes, 3 May, 5 Elizabeth (1563). (English.) 
 
 See Charter XXXIX. 
 Misplaced leaf ends : Soma of the whole Rents of the 
 
 parcells aforesayd as above is specified, xs. m]d. (=part 
 
 of Bishops Rents). 
 The last page is blank, but headed : A second clayme 
 
 which the Bishop maketh for his fee. 
 
 Book 67. A paper book without cover, foolscap folio. It 
 is a memorandum or Waste Book of John Hoker, and contains 
 miscellaneous memoranda relating to the various offices he 
 held. 
 
 The front page shows the perticulers of f'me (i.e. ferme) 
 dewties as doth apperteyne to the ferme of BagavelT and 
 brethingavell. Begins : First the farmoure thereof ought 
 to have of every person dwellinge within the liberties of the 
 Cittie beinge no free that selleth breade alle and other things 
 by the yere 2s. Qd. The writing is not very legible, but the 
 whole would be well worth transcribing in full. 
 
 Note that the Charter of Kenton was first graunted by 
 Ring Stephen and goothe in these words : i.e. short extracts 
 from the Charter of Stephen, with additions by Edward III 
 (May 14, 1342). 
 
 The Inventory of all the goodds and Chattells of John 
 Geffrey, of Exilond, bootcher, attached by me, John 
 Hoker, bailiff there, upon severall playnts entred yn 
 the Court there against the said J.G. immediatly after 
 his fleeinge and avoydinge, 1564. The following is the
 
 375 
 
 list of goods which are arranged under headings : The 
 
 forechamber, the Servants Chamber, the Tallow 
 
 Chamber, the forechamber next to the street and the 
 
 Hall: 
 
 The Inventory of all the goods and chattells of John 
 
 Geffrey, &c. 
 
 The forechamber. A ioyned beddsteed, a trokle bed- 
 stead, a flocke bedd with a bolster of f ethers, 
 a trokle [blank], toe paier of sheets, a pylose, three 
 blancketts, a mantell, a stityned tester and other 
 hangyns paynted, a bowe ( ? boroe), too chayres. 
 The s'unts (=servants) chamber. A beddsteed, a 
 mattresse, a flocke bolster, a payer of sheets, 
 iii coverletts of shaydes. 
 The talow chamber. A strydinge borde, Talow, by 
 
 estymacon vc. (=cwt.). 
 
 The forechamber next to the street on the south syde. 
 A bedsteed, a great chest, a padd of yarne by 
 estimacon imlb., a trokle bedsteed, too tubbes, yn 
 the galerey. 
 
 The hall. A ioyned table bord, a ioyned forme, the 
 stelyngs with a clost bench, a cubberd, a ioyned 
 seate before the fyre, a cobberd, a greate caldron, 
 a ketell, too caldrons, a lytle panne, too croks, 
 a skyllett, vii platters, too potengers, too sawcers, 
 a tynney salteseller, too treadells. 
 
 The disposicion and guyftess of my pamphelettes of the 
 Citie and Catologue of the Bishopp imprented and 
 geven for New Yeres Guyftes, 1583, with names of 
 72 recipients, including the Bishop, Mr. William Martyn, 
 the Wardens of the Shamells, and the Constable, with 
 3 copies to the bookbinders. 
 
 The entreys of the towne custome for the porte of Exon 
 from Michaelmas, 1556, to 1564-5 i.e. Hoker's account 
 (57 folios) as " Collector Minutar' Gust' portus civitatis " 
 or " Collector Minute seu parve Custume." The vessels 
 scheduled hail from Exmouth, Kenton, Rye, Dart- 
 mouth, Salcomb, Gurnesay, Harlame, Plymouth, 
 Lympton, Poole, Falmouth, Morbgan, Longesands, 
 Kynswere, Colchester, Torrebay, St. Malow, Mylbroke, 
 Dawlish, Topsham, London, Penmarcke, Morlaise and 
 Stonehurst. 
 
 The ordynance and artyllerye of the Lord Fraunces, 
 Erie of Bedford, delyvered to the custody of the Cittie 
 of Exeter by Mr. Giles Gefry, surveyor to the saide 
 Lorde, 22 Sept., 1556. 
 
 Do. apperteininge to the Citie of Exon and lying within 
 Seynt Johns at the East Gate of the Citie and delyvered 
 by me, John Hoker, to thandes or custodie of William 
 Knolle Guttler the younger, 24 February, 1559. 
 The mony which Roger Hoker owethe to me.
 
 376 
 
 The accompte of the xth and xvth receved and gathered 
 by me, John Vowell, alias Hoker, collector, 1 Elizabeth, 
 October, November, 1559. Four folios from October, 
 1559, to 1576. The amounts are entered under 
 parishes. 
 
 Memorandum that April 5th, 1566, I, John Vowell, alias 
 Hoker, dyd enter ynto thoffice to be judge of 
 Admyraltie yn the Countie of Devon at the request 
 of Sir Arthur Champnowne, vyce-admirall, who by 
 his letters offred the same unto me with all the 
 comodities and proffytts thereto belonginge. Opposite 
 is a copy of " The Certyfficate for the buylding of a 
 ship of one hundrethe and upwardes " : 
 
 To the right honorable the Lord Clynton, Lord Highe 
 
 Admyrall of England. 
 
 Right honorable, forasmiche as it hathe playsed the 
 Quenes Majesty of her abundante munyfycence for 
 the better mayntenance of the navy of this her 
 hyghnes realme to enlarge to all those which 
 buylde any ship of one hundrethe tonnes and 
 upwardes so many crownes : Therfor I, Arthur 
 Champernowne, knight, viceadmyrall of the countie 
 of Devon, do by these presents geve notice to your 
 honorable Lordeship and to all others whom the 
 same yn any respecte toochethe that one J.W. of 
 the citie of Exceter, merchaunte, hathe at these 
 presents buylded and fynished within the Haven of 
 Bidefford yn the countie of Devon, one ship of 
 the portage and bourden of two hundrethe fyftye 
 tonnes. And for the more treuthe hereof I have 
 sett the seale of th'offyc of my viceadmyraltie to 
 these presents geven. 
 
 Then follows Hooker's record of the Admiralty Court 
 of Devon summoned to meet at Sidmouth on August 12th 
 1566, and other places, headed : " Thorder of the 
 Circuite which I kept this yere and thapparaunce and 
 place of the Courte " (18 folios). 
 
 Book 58. A large volume of Maps of the property of the 
 Chamber, on vellum, compiled in the year 1759. It is a most 
 elaborate work, and is kept at the Town Clerk's office. 
 
 Book 59. The Index or Reference Book to the Maps, with 
 Notes respecting the properties in a later hand down to 1820 ; 
 kept at the Town Clerk's office. 
 
 Books 60 to 60/. Seven volumes of Letters and Papers. 
 See Part I. 
 
 Book 60gr. Inventories of Church goods. See Part I.
 
 377 
 
 Boole 60^. A small folio paper volume of 46 folios, very 
 much injured, but well mounted in a bound book. 
 
 ff. 1-9. A Journal of the Parliament of 1571 by John 
 Vowell, alias Hoker, then M.P. for Exeter (autograph). 
 Ends : This parlament beganne on Monedaye being 
 the ijth of Aprell, 1572 (sic),* and ended the Wenesday, 
 beinge the xxxth of May folowinge, which ar yn thwhole 
 lix.ty daies. Also there is to be allowed unto me for 
 my tra veils towards and from the parlament viiij.t daies, 
 so this yn thwhole amounts to Ixvij. daies, which at 
 iiijs. the daye amounts to xiijZ. viijs. 
 
 The following specimen is taken from fol. 7 : On Saterday 
 the xix of May, a byll for bringnyng of foreyn wares 
 prohibited, a byll for tryall of felonyes yn Wales, a 
 byll for vagabonds (past) the lords have overthrowen it. 
 Also xi. bylls from the lords whereof v. were such as 
 were before sent unto theyme and by them yn certeyn 
 poynts amended. An Act for Rodney in Somers' 
 shere past. 
 
 At the end is a list of Acts of this parliament, finishing 
 with An Act of the Quenes pardon. See Stat. iv, 582 
 13 Elizabeth, cap. 28. 
 
 ff. 12-19. The order of kepinge of a Parlament in theese 
 dayes," by John Vowell, alias Hoker. (Autograph.) 
 For a transcript of this treatise I am indebted to 
 Prof. W. Harte, of Exeter, who has compared his 
 transcript with MS. (HJD.N., No. 41) at the Heralds' 
 College. Some of the headings correspond with those 
 in Book 52, ff. 234-235, but the general treatment 
 and subject matter are altogether different. There 
 is duplicate of it in Hooker's handwriting in MS. 
 (H.D.N., No. 41) in the Heralds' CoUege in London. 
 
 ff. 21-46. A History of the manor of Exilond with 
 copies and translations of Records relating thereto, 
 and a discourse upon the jurisdiction of the Bailiff of 
 the Manor and the customs of the same also by 
 John Hoker, alias Vowell. 
 
 Books 60* to 60m. The old Calendar of the Archives in 
 4 small folio paper books, compiled by Dr. Oliver and his 
 colleagues in the year 1821. See S.M. Introduction, p. 10. 
 
 On the cover is a rough note {blank} 19, 1821, G.O. (i.e. 
 George Oliver) and P.J. (i.e. Pitman Jones) to the Chamber, 
 stating they have arranged ye records in pursuance of Order 
 of Nov., 1820, and recommend that these volumes be 
 transcribed. See File of General Purposes Committee, 1821. 
 This recommendation appears not to have been carried out, 
 as these 4 volumes are in various original hands, one of them 
 being apparently a woman's. The Summary shows that 
 
 * Should be 1571, i.e. 13 Elizabeth. See Return of Members I, App. 
 p. xxxv.
 
 378 
 
 111 days were occupied over the work, which began on [blank] 
 and ended on December 18, 1821. 
 
 Vol. I. (60i) relates to Awliscombe, River Exe, Davy's 
 Almshouses, Magdalen Hospital and St. John's Hospital. 
 
 Vol. II (60&) to Attwell's and Lethbridge's Charities, 
 St. Nicholas, Disputes with Bishops and the Parish of 
 Hennock. 
 
 Vol. Ill (60Z). Other Charities, also Charters, Com- 
 missions and Pardons, and Miscellaneous Deeds. 
 
 Vol. IV (60m). Act Books &c., with a note (p. 362) : We 
 were directed to interrupt the order of the Act Books in 
 order to make out the History of the Irish Party. The 
 progress of the work was periodically checked by a 
 member of the Council, whose signature appears with 
 those of the Dr. Oliver and his colleague at frequent 
 intervals. 
 
 [From this point onwards I have relied almost entirely upon 
 Mr. S. Moore's Calendar for the material of this report, it 
 having been impossible to consult all the original documents 
 referred to in it within the time at my disposal during my 
 personal visit to Exeter. Such additions or corrections as 
 I have made will be found included in square brackets.] 
 
 Books 61 to 79. Minute Books of the Sessions of the Peace 
 from 16 James I to 1826, with detailed dates in the Calendar, 
 to which is added a pencil note that large quantities of sessions 
 papers are in a cupboard in the centre of the room. 
 
 Books 80 to 99. Mayors' Court Books, from 1533 to 1861, 
 the dates of each separate volume appear in the Calendar. 
 
 These volumes contain the pleadings in the Mayor's Court, 
 and are in fact the Minute Books from which the Rolls were 
 made up. 
 
 Books 100-102. Presentments of Nuisances &c. at the 
 Sessions of the Peace, A.D. 1550 to 1668, with details of dates 
 of each volume in the Calendar. 
 
 Books 103 to 112. Memorandum Books of the Mayor's 
 Court (A.D. 1716 to 1794) containing the entries of freemen, 
 notes of Fines, of oaths of allegiance taken, and the price of 
 wheat week by week. At one end they have the notes of the 
 Mayor's Court, at the other those of the Provost Court. 
 
 Book 113. A volume of the prices of wheat, A.D. 1759 to 
 1796. 
 
 Books 114-140. Provost Court Books, A.D. 1507 to 1881, 
 with separate dates supplied in Calendar. These volumes, of 
 which the last five are blank, are of a simikr nature to the 
 Mayors' Court Books.
 
 379 
 
 141-145. Book-proceedings of the Orphans' Court, 1561- 
 1697. 
 
 146. A large folio volume relating to the administration 
 of Blundell's Charity. It begins with a copy of his will, 1601 
 to 1681. 
 
 147. Smaller volume, small folio, 1681 to 1697. 
 
 148. A Book containing entries of the application of 
 Blundell's and other Charity monies in 1669. 
 
 149. A Book containing a description of the various 
 Charities in Exeter, 1600 to 1622. 
 
 150. Copies of Curators Accounts of Charity monies, 1792 
 to 1823. 
 
 151. The Account of Timber on Halberton tenement, 
 belonging to Spicer's Charity, 1769. 
 
 152. Accounts of Lethbridge's Charity, 1754 to 1806. See 
 Report on Charities, p. 195. 
 
 153. Account of Atwill's Charity, 1780-1. See Report on 
 Charities, p. 151. 
 
 154. Receivers' Books of Da vies' Charity, 1785. 
 
 155. Accounts of AtwilTs Charity, 1754 to 1786. 
 
 166. A Folio containing two torn Books of Musters in 
 the City in the time of Henry VIII. 
 
 157. A Book of the Accounts of the poor, 1563 to 
 14 Eliz. (1572). 
 
 158. A folio containing fragments of Assessments of 
 Subsidies and Books of Musters, temp. Eliz. and James I. 
 
 159. A Book containing the assessment of Royal Aid in 
 1689, and Assessments of Poor's Rates in the City, 1706-1732. 
 
 160. Assessments of Poor's Rates, 1752-1755. 
 
 161-167. Copies of the Land Tax rates, 1740-1751. 
 
 168. Particulars of Land Tax redeemed in the City of 
 Exeter, October, 1798. 
 
 169-171. The Cash Book, Exon Key, being the Accounts 
 of the Collectors of the Town Duty. 1701-1724. 
 
 172. The Account of the Key, 1715 to 1724. 
 
 173. An Account of Town Duty, 1716 to 1724. 
 
 174. Entry Book of Town Duty and Cellarage, 1715 to 1739. 
 
 175. Ditto, 1746. 
 
 176. Book of Entries of Town Custom, 1715 to 1725. 
 
 177. Book of Entries and Waste Book, 1750 to 1751. 
 
 178 to 180. Journals of Town Custom, 1816 to 1821. 
 
 181. Account of Town Duty, Exon Key, 1825 to 1827. 
 
 182. Book of Court Rolls of Duryurd Manor, 1620 to 1697. 
 
 183. John Hooker's Book of Accounts as Bailiff of Exilond, 
 Saint John's and Saint Nicholas, 1556, to 1585. 
 
 184. Court RoU of Exilond, 1620 to 1647. 
 
 185. Merchant Adventurers' Papers, A.D. 1558 to 1559. 
 1-5. 28 Jan., 1 Eliz., 1558. Copies of the Charter of the 
 Merchant Adventurers, with translations. See Letter 48. 
 6. The Corporation of Tailors v. the Merchant Adventurers. 
 Bill of the Tailors.
 
 380 
 
 7. Tailors v. Merchant Adventurers. Draft Answer of 
 the Merchants. 
 
 8. Ditto. Replication of the Tailors. 
 
 9. Ditto. Another Copy of the same. 
 
 10. 14, 16 April, 7 Elizabeth, 1565. Examination of 
 
 Witnesses. 
 11 to 15. 28 February, 2 Elizabeth, 1560. Ditto. 
 
 16. Draft Petitions of the Merchant Adventurers to the 
 Council (3 copies). 
 
 17. Another Petition of the Merchant Adventurers to 
 the Council. 
 
 18. 28 February, 2 Elizabeth, 1560. Copy Bond of Robert 
 Hellier to appear before the Council. 
 
 19. " The offers made unto the Taylors and other Artifycers 
 of the Cetie by the Merchants of the same Citie." 
 
 20. " Remembrances and notes that the Company of the 
 Taylores or cheffely some of theyme have procured 
 all the treble betwene the Citizens aboute the Cor- 
 poracions and that they ar sedyciouse." 
 
 21. "A note of an Article of the Quenes Majesties graunt 
 to the Merchants of the Citie of Exon, sklaunderouslye 
 and untrewlie interpreted of the taylores and other 
 theire complyces with an answeare unto the same." 
 
 22. " The articles of the untrew surmises conteigned in 
 the byll of Complaynt made by the Taylores against 
 the Merchants." 
 
 23. " The cheffe article of the Corporation of the Merchants 
 of the Cetie of Exon which Taylores and others by false 
 suggestions have reported to be the breache of the 
 liberties of the Citie." 
 
 24. The Accompte of me, John Hoker, for money receved 
 and paid at London in the suete of the Corporacion, 
 1559. 
 
 N.B. Nearly all these documents are in Hooker's hand- 
 writing. They contain some curious matter. 
 
 186. A Rental or Survey of the City's Estates, temp. 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 187. Ditto, A.D. 1585. 
 
 188. A Rental or Survey of the City's Estates made by 
 Samuel Izacke, Town Clerk, circa. 1650. 
 
 189-205. Similar Surveys made by Samuel Izacke, 1652, 
 1671 and circ. 1675. Also by Richard Izacke in 1688, with 
 others in 1700, 1725, (?) 1730, circ. 1760. 
 
 205a. Book of Estreats of the Sessions, 7-17 James I. 
 
 206, 207. Committee Book of the Committee for Paving, 
 Lighting and otherwise improving the streets of this City, 
 A.D. 1794. 
 
 208. Account of letting the Butchers' Stalls, 1828 to 1833. 
 
 209. Copy of the Bill of the late Adam Pierce, Solicitor, 
 for the charges in conducting the City's legal business, 1761 to 
 1799.
 
 381 
 
 210. An Account of the Sale of Estates and a Rental, 1812. 
 
 211. A Particular of all the property belonging to the 
 City of Exeter, A.D. 1839. 
 
 212. A bundle of six copies of a Schedule of certain property 
 belonging to the Town Council of the City of Exeter, A.D. 1848. 
 
 213. A.D. 1833. Report of the Committee appointed to 
 examine into the state of the City property and its debts (in 
 Mr. Gidley's handwriting). 
 
 214. City of Exeter. Register of Charitable Donations 
 a vellum book of entries of Charities with the Clerk of the 
 Peace, A.D. 1815-17. 
 
 215. Lists of Constables, A.D. 1760-1831. 
 
 216. Council Letter Book, A.D. 1836 to 1839. 
 
 217. Common Seal Book. 
 
 218. A List of the land owners and occupiers on the pro- 
 posed public Devonshire Canal, A.D. 1793. Paper 4to. 
 
 219. A Book of the form of Oaths, deputations &c. of 
 various officers of the City. Paper 4to. 
 
 220 to 226. A Bundle of seven Books Wharfinger's 
 Journal or Collection Books of the Town Duty, 1750 to 1751. 
 They are his private Memorandum Books of the entries of 
 vessels, their cargo and the amounts paid. Paper, small 8vo. 
 
 227. Book of the names of Apprentices rejected as freemen 
 for misbehaviour and other causes. Paper 4to. 
 
 228. Book of Convictions for selling Bread by short weight, 
 1807 to 1816. 
 
 229. John Hooker's account of " the monye receved and 
 paid for the grayne bought at Plymouth the xxvjth of 
 December, 1562. Paper 8vo. 
 
 230. Rules, Orders, Bye Laws, and Regulations for the 
 good government of the Exeter Canal. Printed Book, 8vo. 
 1850. 
 
 231. John Hooker's Account of the Salmons taken yn the 
 ryver of Exe within the Manor of Exylonde, A.D. 1580 to 1582. 
 Paper, small 8vo. 
 
 232. Similar Account, 1582-3. Paper, small 8vo. 
 Both these are in Hooker's handwriting. 
 
 233. Memorials of Merchants and Traders about the making 
 a double Lock at the bottom of the Canal, A.D. 1820. 
 
 234-243. Books of the rates of the Towne Custom. Small 
 4to. paper. Temp. James I, Charles I, and circ. 1700, 1750 
 and 1786. 
 
 239. Book of Rates of Town Custom. No date, ? circa 1750. 
 It has the rates for Town Duty and for passage of the Haven. 
 At the end of the Book is "a Table to know what goods or 
 merchandize there is allowed to the ton, and what every man 
 is to pay for that which is not compted by tonnage " ; made 
 in 1598, paper 4to. 
 
 244. A Table of the Petty Customs or Town Dues payable 
 to the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the City of Exeter, 
 &c. Printed Book, Exeter, 1844, Paper small 12mo,
 
 382 
 
 251 to 295. Forty-five volumes of Books belonging to the 
 late Gaol of Exeter. 
 
 296 to 309. Fourteen Calendars of the Mayors Court Books 
 from 1652 to 1754. They are Indexes of names occurring on 
 the books. 
 
 310 to 313. Four large Ledgers of the City Accounts from 
 1722 to 1724. 
 
 314. Index to the Ledgers. 
 
 315. Lower Market Agreements. Book of printed forms 
 of conditions for letting stalls &c. 
 
 316. Higher Market Agreements (not used). 
 
 317-318. Ledgers of the City Accounts, 1830 to 1836. 
 
 319-322. Cash Books, 1836, 1841, 1846. 
 
 323-324. Exeter Markets Cash Accounts, 1834 to 1856. 
 
 325, 326. Declaration Book of Mayors, Sheriffs &c., 1828 
 to 1852. 
 
 330-342. Declaration Books of Town Councillors, Aldermen 
 &c., &c., 1835-1875. 
 
 351-400. Lists of Voters, 1843 to 1889 [50 volumes]. 
 
 380 to 400. Lists of Voters, 1869 to 1889. 
 
 These lists are continued on Shelves Q.Q. (over fireplace). 
 
 401 to 432. Ward Lists, 1836 to 1868. 
 
 437-460. Poll Books commencing in 1835.
 
 ( 383) 
 
 PART III. 
 MISCELLANEOUS INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Miscellaneous Rolls, 
 
 [These Rolls are not arranged in a chronological order.] 
 
 1. The Account of the Executors of Thomas Bitton, Bishop 
 of Exeter, d. Sept. 21, 1307, (Ellacombe, pp. 4, 25). This 
 curious document has been printed in Camden Society, vol. x, 
 N.S. 1874. 
 
 2. A parchment roll consisting of three membranes. *It 
 contains entries of divers matters written in hands of various 
 dates between the times of Henry III and Henry VI. The 
 Roll is endorsed by Hooker, " An Auncient Court roll of E. 
 primi of dy verse good Costoms and Usages worth the weying." 
 The following is a description of its contents ; each article 
 is numbered in the margin of the roll in pencil. 
 
 The first membrane is entitled : " Rotulus Recogniciorum 
 factorum in Curia Civititas Exonie de placitis terre tempore 
 Regis Edwardi filii Regis Henrici annis et subsequentibus." 
 
 Nos. 1 to 21. Entries of Agreements and final concords 
 between party and party as to houses, lands &c. in 
 Exeter. 
 
 Nos. 22 to 26 (on a rider in hand of the time of (?) 
 Henry IV). 
 
 Four orders of the Mayor and Council. 
 
 (22) Whereas divers late Receivers of the City have 
 taken pledges and sureties for the payment of the 
 Customs due from divers ships coming to Topsham, 
 " ubi portus salutis Civitatis predicte existit," and the 
 said pledges have refused to pay the said Customs 
 whereby the City is at great loss ; it is ordered by the 
 Mayor and Commonalty that in future the Receivers 
 shall take no one for surety except those for whom they 
 themselves will answer, and that they shall not be 
 allowed for any customs lost in their account. 
 
 (23) Also whereas divers late Mayors and Bailiffs have 
 been negligent in Auditing the accounts of the Receivers 
 
 * This is believed to be the "Black Roll" which was supposed to have 
 disappeared since temp. Edward VI. See Izacke, 95 ; Oliver, Hist., 309 ; 
 Introduction, p. 11 ; Shillingford, pp. 8, 17 (q.v.). It is quoted as " An olde 
 anciente Roll of the Cittie " round the Black Roll in Book 51, /. 223 ; see 
 pp. 86, 137. The supposed identification appears to be based on the presence 
 of Sec. 32 on Membrane 2. The Roll itself is not black in colour.
 
 384 
 
 and the Wardens of Exbridge ; it is agreed that the 
 Mayor and Bailiffs shall audit the accounts on the day 
 of the election of the new Mayor on pain of losing their 
 pensions. 
 
 (24) Also whereas the late Serjeants of the Court of 
 the City have been negligent in levying the amercements 
 of the Estreats of the said Court and the Receivers 
 have not audited their accounts of the same ; it is 
 agreed that the Receiver shall take account of the 
 said Amercements at the end of every quarter. 
 
 (25) Also whereas the servants of men of divers arts 
 dwelling in Exeter " de eorum arte alterum sprevissent," 
 whereby many envyings, riots, contentions and debates 
 have arisen between them and their masters to the 
 great disturbance of the peace ; it is ordered that 
 offenders in this behalf shall be imprisoned for 40 days, 
 in no wise to be liberated, "nee prece nee pretio," 
 without the King's special mandate, and that if any 
 master of any art shall presume to maintain such 
 servant against the orders and statutes aforesaid, he 
 shall be fined 100s. and hi default 40 days imprisonment. 
 
 (26) Also whereas divers fishermen frequenting the 
 market sell many loads of their best fish in gross before 
 the hour due and accustomed to divers fishermen (who 
 are strangers) [i.e. dwelling out of ye City], contrary 
 to the custom of the City, and expose the residue of 
 the said fish for sale and sell it at a great price, " to 
 the no small shame of the said Mayor and Bailiffs, who 
 are bound to govern and oversee the said market ; 
 it is ordered that the Bailiffs shall in future arrest all 
 such offenders, and put them and their fish in the 
 Gildhall [in Gihuldam Civitatis predicte ponent], there 
 to remain until they shall be delivered by the Mayor 
 and the Common Council. 
 
 No. 27. Copy of a Decree in favour of a Citizen of Exeter, 
 who had been charged toll and passage on the River 
 Tamer, and who claims to be free by virtue of his free- 
 dom of the City of Exeter. 
 
 No. 28. Rental of the City of Exeter made in Michaelmas 
 Term, 31 Edward I (1303). One item is : "De una 
 shopa juxta pretorium, Gialde, xiiis. (i.e. the Provosts 
 Court held in the Guildhall Freeman, 153), in parte 
 occidentali, xijs." 
 
 Nos. 29 to 31. Copy and Transcript of the Titles and 
 Compositions between Peter (Peter Quivil, 1280-1291), 
 formerly Bishop of Exeter and the Chapter on the one 
 part and the Mayor and Commonalty concerning the 
 enclosure of the Cemetery. 
 
 (29) No date. The Commonalty to the Bishop &c. 
 Licence to enclose the Cemetery and to erect gates to 
 be closed at Curfew &c. See p. 575.
 
 385 
 
 (30) Monday after Annunciation, A.D. 1286. The 
 Bishop to the City. Agreement respecting the gates 
 and posterns of the Close. (?) Printed by Izaacke, 
 p. 23. See Deeds, No. 696, p. 282. 
 
 (31) Friday after Saint Hillary, 15 Edward II, A.D. 1322. 
 Further Agreement respecting the said gates and 
 posterns. 
 
 No. 32 Divers Ordinances relating to the City made 
 on Monday after Saint Denis (=0ct. 9th), 19 Edward III, 
 1346, which seem to show the origin and first institution 
 of the Common Council and the curtailing of the Mayor's 
 authority. 
 
 (I) On the day of the election of the Mayor, Twelve 
 Citizens, " de melioribus et discretioribus," shall 
 be elected without whose consent no fines or amerce- 
 ments shall be pardoned. 
 
 (II) Whereas divers late Mayors and " Senescalli " 
 have admitted persons to the liberty of the City 
 "pro vili pretio," it is ordered that no one be 
 admitted to the said liberty without the consent 
 of the majority of the said Twelve men, and that 
 no obligations, letters of pensions, acquittances 
 &c. touching the City be sealed, nor any " ardua 
 negotia" settled, without their assent and consent. 
 
 (III) The Mayor to stay in office only one year, and 
 not to be re-elected " ut eo celerius ejusdem 
 civitatis incolis justitia fiet " ; and on the day of 
 election the electors shall be charged on oath to 
 return the more fit man (" idioneorem hominem ") 
 of the said City to be Mayor. 
 
 (IV) The Mayor's pension to be 60s. The Chief 
 Bailiff 60s., the Receiver 20s., and the three other 
 " senescalli " each a mark. 
 
 (V) In Inquisitions, pleas of land &c., thirty-six 
 jurors to be returned on the panel. 
 
 (VI) The increment of rent of Duryurd above 
 251. 12s. Qd., together with the arrears of the 
 account of Exbridge and of other ministers to be 
 put in a box under the care of four citizens, each 
 of whom is to have a key : the money to be dis- 
 posed of according to the will of the Commonalty. 
 
 (VII) The Wardens of Exbridge and the Receiver 
 to render their final accounts within three months 
 after the day of the election of the Mayor. 
 
 (VIII) All purprestures made in the City and suburbs 
 to be removed especially those made within the 
 last twelve years. 
 
 (IX) Whosoever does anything against these ordin- 
 ances shall be accounted a rebel and an enemy of 
 the City shall be expelled the liberty and shall 
 never hold office in the said City again. 
 
 Wt. 20757. Ex 25
 
 386 
 
 At the foot occur the names of the twelve men of 
 the Common Council by whom these orders were 
 made. 
 
 No. 33. Easter, 33 Henry III (1249). Copy of a 
 Composition between the Dean and Chapter and the 
 Mayor and Citizens of Exeter concerning the taxing 
 of the tenants of the church's fees and tenements. 
 
 No. 34. 50 Henry III (1265-66). Composition between 
 John (=John de Saunde, Oct. 28, 1261-1281 Dugd. 
 Mon., i, 334) the Abbot and the Convent of Sherborne 
 and the Mayor and Commonalty of Exeter concerning 
 the passage of the Water of Checkston (? Chickstowe 
 Lysons, vi, 820) and the selling of sea-fish there. The 
 Abbot releases all claim in the said Passage ; and the 
 Mayor grants that the said Abbot and his successors, 
 the monks of Sherborne and all men of their " familia " 
 with their horses and harness loads, carriages, goods 
 and things shall pass free. The said Abbot and Convent 
 and their successors and their men may sell and buy 
 fish at the shore of the Manor of Littleham (? Exmouth), 
 and may fish and take fish as well within the port of 
 Checston as without and sell or give it at the shore 
 of the said Manor. And the said Mayor and Com- 
 monalty claim nothing in the said Manor except the 
 said passage. And the said Abbot and Convent give 
 up their part of a cirograph of a fine levied in 
 47 Henry III (1262-63) concerning the said passage 
 and the selling of sea -fish and also the toll which the 
 same Mayor and Commonalty levy on goods and 
 merchandize coming into the Manor of Litelham, and 
 agree that the said fine shall be annulled. 
 
 No. 35. Directions as to the order of making up the 
 Receivers Accounts. The Accountant is to render 
 account of I. Rent of Assize. II. Sale of pasture in 
 the City and Suburbs. III. Of Baggabel and 
 Brithingavel. IV. Of Custom of fish. V. Custom of 
 flesh. VI. Customs of cloth and other small customs. 
 VII. Issues of the box. VIII. Customs arising from 
 the toll of ships (Town duties). IX. Perquisites of 
 Courts. X. Issues of murage, when murage is granted. 
 
 XI. Fines for entering the liberty of the City. 
 
 XII. " Custuma Ollarum." XIII. Custom of measuring 
 corn and flour. XIV. Chattells of felons and fugitives. 
 XV. Rent of the common well. XVI. Increment of rents. 
 
 No. 37. Michaelmas, 4 Edward I (1276). Memoranda 
 of a lease of the Manor of Duryurd, Couelegh (Cowley) 
 and Goseford to Alured de la Porte for 10 years. 
 Rent 201 
 
 No. 38. Memoranda of payment of 100s. by Edward le 
 Mercer to Walter de Balkheye for the purchase money 
 of a house in Paul Street,
 
 387 
 
 No. 39 (on a rider). 49 Edward III (1375). Coroner's 
 Inquisition on the death of Cecilia Sampford. (See 
 I. 87.) 
 
 No. 40. Memoranda of admissions of three persons to 
 the liberty of the City. 
 
 No. 41. Monday after Michaelmas, 24 Edward I (1296). 
 Claricia daughter of John de Fenton, who was the 
 wife of William le Engleys, to Stephen de London, 
 Citizen of Exeter. Grant of a tenement in High Street 
 next the entrance to the Church of Saint Nicholas on 
 the east. 
 
 No. 42. Monday after Saint Luke, 8 Edward II (1314). 
 Robert de Bodman, son and heir of Stephen de Bodman 
 to Thomas Soor and Alice, mother of said Robert. 
 Grant of a cellar in High Street opposite the Pillory. 
 
 No. 43. 14 April, 15 Edward III (1341). Copy of 
 Charter of Liberties to the men of Dartmouth. 
 
 No. 44. 10 Edward I (1381-82). Extract from the 
 Iter of Salomon de Roffa concerning the fee-farm. 
 
 No. 45. Fragment of a table of rates of Customs levied 
 in the Fair (?). It is written in a hand of the time of 
 Henry III. 
 
 No. 46. Names of towns which are custom free. [See 
 Book 51, /. 223, page 86.] 
 
 No. 47. Verdict that it is lawful for foreigners to sell 
 " alea (sic) et cepe " in houses and outside. 
 
 No. 48. Order that free butchers being partners with 
 foreign butchers are to pay custom. 
 
 No. 49. Memoranda of divers rents due from divers houses. 
 
 No. 50. 10 Edward I (1282). Memoranda of a recovery 
 by the Wardens of Exbridge of three houses in North - 
 gate Street. 
 
 No. 51. Laws and Customs of the City written in Norman 
 French in a hand of the time of Henry III. The first 
 is that no stranger shall make cloth in the Town. Inter 
 alia occurs : 
 
 " Cheskune Chapele ou paroche ad deit aver de la 
 provoste un dener a la Saint Martin e un autre 
 a la Hoke-day." 
 
 N.B. Called an Early French Custumal for Exeter (M. 
 Bateson, Borough Customs I, xxvi), when it is said that 
 " its interest as a record of borough customs appears 
 to have been overlooked." Miss Bateson gives a 
 note (p. xxvii) of the contents under 47 paragraphs, 
 together with several extracts in the original French. 
 
 No. 52. " Compositio articulorum quorundam inter 
 
 priorem beat! Nicholai Exonie et Majorem et com- 
 
 munitatem ejusdem, libertatem civitatis tangentium." 
 
 It consists of a number of Articles of complaints and 
 
 the answers thereto. 
 
 It appears to be of the time of Edward I.
 
 388 
 
 No. 53. Monday after the Assumption, 13 Edward I 
 
 (1285). John le Ken and Sarra his wife to William de 
 
 Cridyton, Citizen of Exeter. 
 
 Grant of a house in Smythen Street in exchange 
 
 for a tenement and curtilage in the prebend of Hayes. 
 No. 54. Orders of the Mayor made on Monday after 
 
 Michaelmas, 14 Edward III (1340). 
 
 I. Order of the Mayor that no one is to be admitted 
 to the freedom of the City on the day of the election 
 of the Mayor, because on that day in the absence 
 of the 36 " per impetuosum clamorem plurimorum 
 hominum utilitatem et honorem dicte civitatis 
 minime considerantes," a " multitude hominum 
 onerosa " had been admitted and sworn. 
 
 II. Also the Mayor and his " locum tenens " are not 
 to meddle with the administration of the goods of 
 the City but the Receiver only. 
 
 III. Also whereas divers liberties have been granted 
 to the City by King Edward III and his pre- 
 decessors that the Citizens may the better pursue 
 their business and sustain the burdens incumbent 
 on the City and as the Merchants and Workmen 
 of the Gty do sustain the said burdens ; it is but 
 reasonable that the said City should be governed 
 by them and not by others, as is the custom in 
 London and other Cities ; it is therefore ordered 
 by the Mayor and Commonalty of the said City 
 that no Clerk of the Consistory (nullus clericus de 
 Consistorio) shall in future be elected Mayor or 
 Seneschal of the said City nor shall in anywise 
 meddle with the election of the Mayor and 
 Bailiffs " quia no (sic) officmm eorum minime 
 pertinet," nor shall any other person who is not 
 continually resident in the said Gty be elected 
 Mayor. 
 
 IV. Also it is ordered that no one shall be elected 
 Mayor unless he shall previously have served the 
 office of Seneschal for one year, " et gradatim ad 
 officium Majoratus attingerit," as was formerly 
 accustomed ; and no person who shall have served 
 the said office of Seneschal for a year, and who 
 have been continually resident in the City, and 
 have a 100s. worth of lands, tenements and rents 
 there, and are fit persons, shall in anywise be 
 excluded from the said office except the Clerks 
 of the Consistory aforesaid. 
 
 V. Also the Receiver is bound to render account 
 immediately after his year is ended. 
 
 N.B. All these Orders are noted as affirmed in 
 the morrow of the Election of the Mayor, 
 3 Richard II (1379).
 
 389 
 
 No. 56. Saint John Ante portam Latinam, 14 Edward T 
 (May 6th, 1286). Ralph Slegh to William Meylclonde 
 and Aumeye his wife. 
 
 Grant of a piece of land within the Northgate adjoining 
 the said gate. To hold of the Chief Lords of the fee 
 by the service of finding a brass horn and blowing it 
 yearly on Monday after the feast of Saint Michael at 
 the election of the Mayor, Seneschal and Bailiffs of the 
 City and whenever their election happens. 
 3. A Roll of thirteen membranes containing documents of 
 various dates relating to disputes between the City and the 
 Earls of Devon respecting the River Exe &c. 
 
 I. Tuesday (not Thursday, as hi Cal., p. 1158 ; die martis 
 in festo Inventionis Sancte concis Book 51, f. 46) after 
 the Invention, 10 Edward II (?), 5 May, 1317. Inquisi- 
 tion taken at Exeter before Matthew de Clivedon, Sheriff 
 of Devon, concerning the rights of the King infringed &c. 
 The Jurors say that the City of Exeter from time out 
 of mind was wholly seized of all pleas and gelds [guldis] 
 which arise in the City of Exeter beyond the Westgate 
 as in bloodshed, hue and cry, amends of ale and bread, 
 and other pleas whatsoever, in aid of paying the King 
 his fee-farm, and ought to assess the tallage on that 
 suburb by the Mayor and Bailiffs, and not otherwise, 
 as appears by records of the Exchequer. Now of late 
 Lord Hugh de Courtenay interferes with these rights by 
 force and usurps them to himself as part of his Barony 
 of Oakhampton. And they say also that " whereas 
 the Water of Exe was and ought to be common to any 
 fishing or wishing to fish the said Hugh puts it in defense 
 and rents it on hard terms to the hurt of the King and 
 the City. And they say that the Island of Exe was 
 common and served the City, and the sand there 
 deposited by overflowing of the water was and ought 
 to be common to any of the Citizens and others of the 
 City for the repair of their houses and other buildings. 
 The said Lord Hugh has now newly put it in defense, 
 reserving and appropriating to himself the Lordship 
 thereof." 
 
 II. 20 March, 10 Edward II (1317). Contemporary copy 
 of the Writ to the Sheriff of Devon commanding the 
 foregoing Inquisition to be taken and returned into 
 the Chancery in Trinity Term. 
 
 III. Rough Draft of part of an Inquisition relating to 
 the weir raised by the Countess de Aumerle called 
 Countess Wear in which there was a lock of 30 feet 
 for the passage of Ships to Exeter, which same lock 
 was stopped up by Hugh Courtenay, Earl of Devon, 
 temp. Henry III, maintained by his son Hugh, and 
 by his heir, Edward de Courtenay, now Earl of Devon, 
 and that by the stopping of the said wear the sea
 
 390 
 
 comes not to Exeter as it used and the lands are over- 
 flowed by the freshwater and the salmon cannot come 
 up the river &c., &c. 
 
 IV. A fair copy of No. 3 in a hand of (say) 1550. 
 
 V. No date, handwriting temp. Edward II(?) " Hec 
 sunt gravamina et injurie que et quas Dominus Hugo 
 de Courtenay et bafiivi sui Majori et Communitati 
 Civitatis Exonie continue faciunt et facere non 
 desistunt." 
 
 Fifteen Articles setting out injuries done to the 
 City by the Earl of Devon. They are copied by 
 Hooker in his MS. (p. 1096). They relate to the 
 same subjects as are spoken of by the Inquisition last 
 mentioned. 
 
 VI. Henry VI. Petition of John Shillingford, Mayor of 
 Exeter, to John Kemp, Archbishop of York, (from April 
 8, 1426 to April 10, 1451) Executor of Cardinal Beaufort, 
 (d. April 11, 1447) praying for assistance towards the 
 rebuilding of Exbridge, which had fallen down. 
 
 VII. (?) 1-2 Edward IV, A.D. 1461-2. Petition of the 
 Mayor, Bailiffs and Commonalty of Exeter to the King 
 praying for restitution of their rights and jurisdiction 
 in the suburb without the Westgate which had been 
 withheld from them by the Earls of Devon, " And 
 whereas the Water of the Exe from Exmouth to Cowley 
 Bridge ought to be common to the inhabitants of the 
 said City to fish in and to have course and recourse 
 with their boates, vessells, shyppes and marchandisez," 
 the said Earls have raised wears and impediments in 
 the said river and compel all ships to unlade their 
 goods at Topsham and have put the fishing of the river 
 in defence. " Wherefore, most dred Soveraigne lord, 
 inasmuch as all the Erledome of Devonshire is now 
 comyn to and in your hands and your supplyants 
 have pleyn mater evidens and dyvers records to prove 
 their right and petition in the premisses, please it 
 your highness to cause your discreet counsel tenderly 
 and diligently to examen and overse the evidences, 
 writynges and records towching and provyng the ryght 
 and title of your supliants in the premisses, and 
 therupon to order and direct thaym accordyng to 
 thair ryght and your lawez with good conscience." 
 
 VIII. (?) 10 Edward II (1316-17). Contemporary Draft 
 of an Inquisition concerning the encroachments of 
 Hugh de Courtenay upon the liberties of the City 
 without Westgate of his preventing the Citizens 
 from taking sand in Exe 'Island and raising a market 
 in the suburb without Westgate. 
 
 IX. 12 June, 10 Edward II (1317). Contemporary Copy 
 of a Writ close addressed to the Sheriff of Devon, 
 reminding him of his Oath, which binds him to make
 
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 inquisition concerning injuries to the rights of the 
 Crown &c., and stating that he had not made any 
 return to the King's writ addressed to him thereupon : 
 that on behalf of the Mayor and Commonalty of Exeter 
 it is shewn that although the inquisitions were taken 
 in pursuance of the writ they have not been returned, 
 and commanding him to return them forthwith. 
 Witnessed by the King Westminster, 12 June, 
 10 Edward II. 
 
 X. A Copy of No. V, in a hand of the time of Richard II. 
 
 XI, XII, XIII. Temp. Richard II. Copies of proceedings 
 in a Case Exeter v. Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon, 
 concerning the raising of wears and stopping of the 
 Water-course of Exe. They are written in a hand 
 of the time of Richard II(?), and are much torn. 
 
 XIV. 20 March, 10 Edward II (1317). A Copy (temp. 
 Elizabeth) of the Writ of inquiry referred to in No. IX 
 above. 
 
 XV. A similar copy of the Inquisition of 10 Edward II 
 referred to as No. VIII above. 
 
 XVI. A similar copy of No. IX. 
 
 XVII. (?) 1 Henry VI, A.D. 1422. Copy of a Petition of 
 the Mayor, Bailiffs and Commonalty of Exeter to the 
 King setting forth that Whereas the Mayor, Bailiffs 
 and Commonalty hold and have held time out of mind 
 the City and suburbs of Exeter and the Water of Exe 
 in fee farm by a fee farm rent of 45?. 12s. 6d. and " over 
 that sustaine, repaire and maintaine a brigge called 
 Exbrigge a commune way for all your liege pepell 
 without Westgate containyng xij arches, which cost 
 to your suppliants yerely xxli. and more, and your 
 suppliants have no aiede ne succour towardes the 
 reparacion of the same which in tymes past the revenuz 
 of the Water of Exe and of Westgate hulpe towardes 
 And so the predecessors of your suppliants were seased 
 in to tyme a Maire of your said Citie offendid in kyllyng 
 of a percevaunt for the which the liberteez of Citie were 
 seasid in the Kynges hondes, and so continued into 
 that tyme on quene Maute, on whos saule God take 
 mercy, instantly labored the Kynge's grace and gate 
 the libertez of your citie to the Maire, balifs and Com- 
 munaltie agayne : for that goode dede your suppliants 
 kepe a obbite yerely for the said quene. In the meane 
 tyme, or the libertez were graunted agayne, on Hugh 
 Courtenay, then Earl of Devonscher, entred into 
 Westgate and the Water of Exe and take hit to his 
 owne use by reason of iij or iiij tenements and certaine 
 rentes sek that he had without the said gate and so 
 kept hit with force for the which hath ben grete 
 variance by twext," the said Mayor &c. and the said 
 Hugh, as appears by records remaining at Westminster
 
 392 
 
 and elsewhere. And the said Earl turned the Water 
 of Exe out of its course and made wears and put grete 
 tymber into the water of Exe of his malicious mynd 
 that no barges or boats should come to a gate called 
 Boatgate " Which Water your said suppliants and 
 their predecessors had used and injoied fro a ston 
 called Orcheston now named Chikston anon to Cowley 
 Brigg." And also he took from your suppliants a fair 
 called Cruldich fair and made a wharf at Topsham 
 "into the myddes of the streme, where by he stopped 
 the water from your cite, and caused all schippes, 
 barges and botes there to abide, to the gret hurt of 
 your cite and derogation of your Duchie." And he 
 caused merchants to put their dry goods in cellars at 
 Topsham instead of Exeter. And your father the 
 late King, " the last year save one," made proclamation 
 that merchants were not to put their goods in cellars 
 at Topsham, but this is disregarded. Your suppliants 
 pray you to appoint counsel to examine their records 
 and writings shewing their title to the premisses. 
 4. A roll of eight membranes, two of which are paper, 
 containing : 
 
 M. 1. Easter, 26 Henry VI (1448). Copy in a proceeding 
 for a malicious prosecution for rape. 
 
 M. 2. Easter, 25 Henry VI (1447). William Bustard of 
 Netherex v. William Summayster : Copy of pro- 
 ceedings in a suit as to the title of a house in Netherex. 
 
 M. 3. Hillary, 14 Henry IV (1413). Copy of Common 
 Pleas Roll : Proceedings in a case Edward Courtenay, 
 Knight, son and heir of Edward Courtenay, Earl of 
 Devon, against William Bray, Vicar of the Church of 
 Saint Kieran, Exeter, on a plea of debt. 
 
 M. 3. Michaelmas, 1433. A curious list of the goods, 
 ornaments and relicts of the Church of Saint Giles of 
 Sidmouth and of the rents of old pertaining to the 
 same Church. 
 
 M. 4. 47 (?) Henry VI (1468). Copy of part of the 
 pleadings in the suit about the Bishop's fee. 
 
 M. 5. The Master of Saint John's Hospital v. John 
 Whityng and others : Draft proceedings in the 
 Mayor's Court by the custom of Gavelak and 
 Shortford to recover a house " in vico fratrum 
 praedicatorum . ' ' 
 
 M. 6. 8 Henry V (1420-21). John Prior of Plimton v. 
 John Hull. Similar proceeding as to a toft next 
 Saint Mary Arches Church. 
 
 M. 7. Robert Prior of Plymton v. John Bloyon. Assize 
 of novel disseizin. 
 
 M. 8. Hillary, 14 Richard II (1391). Proceedings upon 
 a writ of right respecting a piece of land in the 
 City.
 
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 5. A Parchment Roll of 68 membranes, slightly torn on 
 the left-hand edges, containing : 
 
 " Placita de Juratis et Assisis apud Exoniam in Comitatu 
 
 Devonie coram Salomone de Roffa et sociis suis 
 
 Justiciariis ibidem Itinerantibus in Octabis Sancti 
 
 Martini, anno regni Regis Edwardi nono, incipiente 
 
 decimo (1281). Rotulus Regis. Rex, Rex." 
 
 It contains the Pleas of " Quo Warranto," printed by the 
 
 Record Commission, folio 18. There seems to be more in this 
 
 Roll than in the printed text. The Roll is an original Public 
 
 Record. How it came into the possession of the City does 
 
 not appear, but a label on it shows that it has been among the 
 
 Archives for at least two Centuries. 
 
 6. A Roll of 34 membranes containing divers accounts of 
 expenses of the City as follows : 
 
 M. 1, 2, 3. The account of the making of a weir. 
 
 1 Richard II (1377-78). 
 
 M. 4, 5. Expenses of building the Northgate. 
 M. 6. The Account of a boat for the Manor of Duryurd. 
 M. 7. Account of the repairs of Cowley Bridge. 
 M. 9, 10, 12. The Account for turning a water course 
 
 at Duryurd. 
 M. 11. Account of the rebuilding of Duryurd Mill. 
 
 1 Richard II (1377-78). 
 M. 13, 14, 15, 16, 20. Accounts of the Murage of the 
 
 City, 15-34, 41-44 and 46 Edward III. 
 M. 17. Account of the City barge, 49 Edward III 
 
 (1375-76). 
 M. 18. Expenses of the Justices of Assizes, 39 Edward III 
 
 (1365-66). 
 
 M. 19, 20, 21. The Mayor's Expenses to and from London. 
 M. 23, 24. Account of the repair of roads. 
 M. 25, 26, 27, 28. Account of the new wall next the 
 
 Westgate, 11-12 Richard II (1387-89). 
 M. 32, 33. Expenses of rebuilding Exbridge, " de novo, 
 
 de maeremio fact in occidentali parte ejusdem pontis," 
 
 12 Richard II (1388-89). 
 M. 34. Expenses of the ditches and gates of the City, 
 
 8 Richard II (1384-5). 
 
 7. 19-20 Henry VI. The Account of the making of the 
 new Water Conduit. 
 
 8. 30 Henry VIII (1538-39). A Bundle of papers relating 
 to a dispute between the City and one John Norbroke,* "a 
 lawyer and a crafty man," concerning his dishonest and evil 
 dealings. See also Hooker's MS., folio 344&. 
 
 9. 12 November, 14 Edward II (1320). Copy of the Royal 
 Charter of this date. See Charters No. XVIII. 
 
 * See Deeds 1419-1420 September 24, 1535, where John Norbrooke, wax- 
 chandler, is adjudged to pay 40s. for costs, and to meddle no more in the 
 Courts, where he had been very troublesome, accusing tho Mayor, the 
 Recorder and other the King's officers of malpractices.
 
 394 
 
 It is rolled in a wooden roller with a piece of silk, and has 
 a fragment of the great seal attached to it. Inside it a Copy 
 of the Disga veiling Act of the City of Exeter has been stitched. 
 
 10. Henry VI. Fragment of a Provost Court Roll much 
 decayed by damp. 
 
 11. 16-19 Henry VI (1437-1441). A roll of 7 small 
 membranes containing proceedings headed : " Exon. Curia 
 Legalis ibidem tenta," &c. 
 
 12. 1-7 Henry V (1413-1420). A similar roll. 
 
 13. 28-31 Henry VI (1449-1453). " Rotulus Curiae Stapuli 
 Civitatis Exonie." 
 
 14. 34 Henry VI (1455) to 2 Edward IV (1462). Similar 
 roll. 
 
 15. 12 Henry VIII to 11 Elizabeth. A decayed paper book 
 of entries of Recognizances of the staple. (Incomplete in 
 regard to the later years.) 
 
 16. 12-20 Henry VIII. A roll of similar entries. 
 
 17. 5 Charles I 27 Charles II. A roll of entries of Recog- 
 nizances taken under the Statute Merchants. 
 
 18. 3 Charles I. A coll of Recognizances of Ale Sellers. 
 
 19. Elizabeth and James I. Miscellaneous Rolls of Recog- 
 nizances taken at the Sessions &c. 
 
 20. 3-44 Elizabeth. Rolls of the Sessions of the Peace and 
 Gaol Delivery proceedings at full. 
 
 21. 1-15 James I. Similar roll. 
 
 22. 28 Henry VIII to 3 Edward VI. Large roll of Inrol- 
 ments of Deeds of Bargain and Sale. 
 
 23. 30 Elizabeth 21 James I. Similar roll. 
 
 24. 1 Charles 133 Charles II. Similar roU. 
 
 25. 31-32 Henry VIII, 3 James I, 34 Charles II, 36 Charles II, 
 1 James II, 11 William III. Roll of Estreats and forfeited 
 Recognizances. 
 
 26. 2-4 Anne. Similar roll. 
 
 27. George I. Similar roll. 
 
 28. 20 May, 3 Edward VI (1549). Paper Roll containing 
 a copy of the Indenture described in Deeds No. 1464. 
 
 29. 35 Henry VIII, 1544, to 25 Nov., 1 Mary, 1553. Papers 
 in a suit in the Court of Requests between Richard Wainell, 
 Clerk, parson of St. Keran's, and the Chamber. Concerning 
 the possession of a house next Saint Keran's Church com- 
 monly called the Parsonage or Parson's house. 
 
 a. Petition of Richard Wannel, Plaintiff. 
 
 b. Replication of same. 
 
 c. 1 October, 35 Henry VIII (1543). Depositions of 
 witnesses on behalf of Plaintiff. 
 
 d. 21 January, 35 Henry VIII (1544). Depositions on 
 behalf of Defendant. 
 
 e. f. Two papers relating to the Depositions. 
 
 g, h. 14 February, 36 Henry VIII (1545). Two Copies of 
 
 Decree. 
 i, k. Articles between the parties.
 
 395 
 
 1. 25 November, 1 Mary (1553). Michaelmas Term. 
 
 Copy Order of the Court for the Mayor to bring in 
 
 evidence in discharge of said Decree : the parson 
 
 meanwhile quietly to enjoy the house. 
 m. 15 November, 1 Mary (1553). Privy Seal. Confirming 
 
 the Decree in favour of the parson. 
 
 30. 19 October, 26 Elizabeth, 1584. The Articles of an 
 Association for the preservation of her Majesty's person. 
 A very interesting document. Appended to it are the 
 signatures and seals of 160 Exeter men. This document sadly 
 needs repair.* 
 
 31. 1602. Acts, Orders, tables of rates &c., &c., respecting 
 the Merchants' Cloth Hall. 
 
 32. May, 1724. Papers relating to a murder committed 
 on the Honiton Road. 
 
 33. 1755. Rental of the Lands of Nicholas Smyth, Esquire. 
 
 34. 37 Elizabeth (1594-5). A large sheet of vellum, on 
 which is written a full statement of the table relating to 
 Assize of bread specifying what the weight of the penny 
 loaf ought to be according to the current price of wheat. 
 Rolled up with it is a mutilated printed copy of a similar 
 table. 
 
 35. 19 December, 3 Charles I (1627). Commission for the 
 Execution of Martial Law in his Majesty's Army ; with 
 printed Instructions. This is contained in a round box, and 
 has the great seal attached to it. 
 
 36. A.D. 1433. A Paper Roll containing a copy of a curious 
 History of Totness and a collection of papers relating to it 
 and the Water of Dartmouth. It is rolled up in two leaves 
 of a fine 14th Century copy of Higden's " Poh'chronicon." 
 
 37. 11-14 Edward III (1337-41). Court Roll of Saint 
 Sid well's Fee. 
 
 38. 15 Edward III (1341-42). Similar Roll. 
 
 39. 10-11 Anne (1711-13). Saint Nicholas, Account of the 
 Manor. 
 
 40. 3 Henry V (1415-16). Cruldych Court Roll of the Fair. 
 
 41. Henry VIII(?). Rough copy of a receiver's Account, 
 entitled " A rental of the City of Exeter." 
 
 42. Henry VIII(?). A Draft rental of the Manor of Duryurd. 
 Paper. 
 
 43. 12-13 Edward IV (1472-74). Court Roll of the Manor 
 of "Ferdell." 
 
 44. 10 James I. Court Roll of the Manor of Clyst Saint 
 Lawrence. 
 
 45. 12-13 Elizabeth. Court Roll of the Hundred of Staryge. 
 
 * The full text with modernised spelling is printed in State Trials, 1, pp. 
 1161-1163, whence it was abbreviated by Froude, xii, 43-45. For a short 
 abstract see Gal. Dom., 1581-90, pp. 210-212, from Vol. CLXXIV in Public 
 Record Office, which contains 18 copies with signatures from various counties 
 and cities in England and 5 counties in Wales, together with a modern tran- 
 script made in 1825. I understand that the full text of the copy at Exeter 
 is being transcribed by Miss B. F. Cresswell for publication.
 
 396 
 
 46. 32 Henry VIII, 3-4 Edward VI, 31-32 Elizabeth. 
 Court Rolls of the Manor of Kenne. 
 
 47. 10 Henry VII (1494-5). Chalvelegh, Westbudlegh, 
 Vyelston, and Newton Popilford Ministers Accounts. 
 
 48. A roll of one membrane containing : 
 
 I. 9-10 Henry VII (1493-4). The Account of Lawrence 
 Drewe, Reeve of the Manor of Sampford Courtenay, 
 from Michaelmas, 9 Henry VII, to the Michaelmas 
 following. 
 
 II. Same date. Account of John Bearde, Bailiff of the 
 Manor of Exilond. 
 
 III. Same date. Account of John Cole, Bailiff of the 
 Hundred of Est Budlegh. 
 
 49. 1 January, 2 Henry V (1415). Rental of the Priory of 
 Saint Nicholas. Rolled up with it is a paper List of tenements 
 belonging to the Priory, without date, but which appear to 
 be of the time of Henry VIII. 
 
 50. 22-30 Henry VIII (1530-39). Long paper roll con- 
 taining : 
 
 I. Extract of Fines and amercements of the tenants of 
 Saint Nicholas before the Mayor of Exeter, 22-30 
 Henry VIII. 
 
 II. The replication of John Lewys, (1499-1522: Oliver, 
 Mon., 115), Priour of Saint Nicholas, to the answer of 
 Wat. Yorke, late Mayor of Exeter (1501 : Oliver, 231) ; 
 with two papers containing memoranda relating 
 thereto. 
 
 51. 20 June, 20 Henry VI (1442). The King Henry VI to 
 Saint Nicholas Priory. 
 
 A Copy of the " Inspeximus " Charter of earlier Charters 
 
 and privileges. 
 A small paper book, eight leaves, 4to. 
 
 52. Saint Barnabas, 16 Edward IV, 11 June, 1476. Book 
 of receipts of John Underdon, Receiver of the House or Priory 
 of Saint Nicholas, Exeter, from Saint Barnabas, 16 Edward IV, 
 to the same day next following. 
 
 53. Mutilated Roll containing copies of Charters and Grants 
 to the Church of Saint Nicholas, principally relating to their 
 property in Ireland. The Grantors are King Henry II, 
 Prince John, Robert fitz Stephen, Milo de Cogan, Richard de 
 Cogan, Philip de Barry, Walter de Barry, William Not, Geoffrey 
 de Argenton, Stephen fitz Robert, Thomas Landry, Roger de 
 Caunceton, Walter fitz Robert, John fitz William, John fitz 
 Roger, Roger fitz Christopher, Robert Smyth, Robert fitz 
 Richard, Adam de Rupe. The handwriting is of the time of 
 Edward I. 
 
 54. Roll containing copies of ordinations by various Bishops. 
 
 19 December, 1349. John Bishop of Exeter Ordination 
 of Henry de Lodeswill Sub-Deacon. 
 
 20 February, 1349. John Bishop of Exeter Ordination 
 of Henry de Lodeswill Deacon.
 
 397 
 
 13 March, 1349. John Bishop of Exeter Ordination 
 of Henry de Lodes will Priest. 
 
 9 March, 1380. John Bishop of Bath and Wells- 
 Ordination of John Gryndell Sub -Deacon. 
 
 30 March, 1381. Thomas Bishop of Exeter Ordination 
 of John Gryndell Deacon. 
 
 8 June, 1381. The same Ordination of John Gryndel, 
 Priest. 
 M. 2 contains Copies of Deeds relating to Frerenhay. 
 
 3 March, 16 Edward I (1288). Copy of a Writ of Edward I 
 for the Friars Minors. See Deeds No. 702 (p. 361). 
 
 2 March, 16 Edward I (1288). Copy of another writ 
 for the same. See Deeds No. 701 (p. 161). 
 
 8 March, 22 Richard II (1399). Copy of Richard II's 
 writ for the same. See Deeds No. 1023 (p. 107). 
 
 Saint Luke (October 18), 1336. Prior &c. of Saint Nicholas 
 to Warden of the Friars Minors. Copy of Deed relating 
 to Frerenhay. See Deeds No. 201 (p. 99). 
 55. Paper Roll of nine membranes, containing copies of 
 documents relating to the Lammas Fair and the liberties of 
 the Priory of Saint Nicholas. 
 
 I. Temp. Henry V (?). Articles and Answers between 
 the Prior and the Mayor &c. concerning infractions 
 of the liberties of Saint Nicholas Fee. 
 
 II. Translation of the agreement to stand to an Award, 
 46 Henry III (1261-62). 
 
 III. (Top of roll.) Copy of Record, Common Pleas Roll, 
 York, before William de Bereford, Easter, 16 Edward II 
 (1322-23), concerning Lammas Fair. Hugh de 
 Courtenay and the Prior of Saint Nicholas v. Robert 
 de Wotton, Mayor of Exeter. . (1323-24, Oliver, 229.) 
 
 IV. Same case, Easter, 16 Edward II, roll 23. 
 
 V. Decollation of Saint John, 45 Henry III (Aug. 29th, 
 1261). "Here folowyth the Grement be twext the 
 Mayre, Bayleffys and Commons and the Pryour off 
 Seynt Nycholas." 
 
 VI. Composition of certain articles between the Prior 
 of Saint Nicholas, Exeter, and the Mayor &c. of the 
 same City. 
 
 Injuries done to the Prior of Saint Nicholas. 
 Twenty-one articles and answers. 
 On the back 
 
 VII. 10 May, 32 Edward I (1304). Charter of King 
 Edward I granting to the Citizens of Exeter similar 
 liberties to those of London. (Copy.) 
 
 VIII. A.D. 1189. Copy of Composition between the 
 Prior of Saint Nicholas and the City. 
 
 IX. "Here folowyth the Charters off the Pryour of 
 Seynt Nicholas." 
 
 8 May, 18 Edward I (1290). Copy of Inspeximus 
 Charter to the Priory.
 
 398 
 
 X. Tuesday after Holy Trinity, 26 Edward III, June 5 
 (1352). " Here folowyth the later composicion betwyne 
 the Priour of Seynt Nicholas of Exeter and the Maier 
 baillyves and Comynalte of the same." 
 
 56. Tuesday before Exaltation, 7 Henry V, 12 September, 
 1419. Rough paper draft of a rental of the Magdalen, drawn 
 up by Peter Sturte, Warden. In very bad condition. (Not 
 mentioned in Oliver, Mon., 197.) 
 
 57. Saint Michael, 4 Edward VI, 29 September, 1550. " The 
 Rentall of Mary Mawdelyn withowte the Southgate of the 
 Cetye of Exeter, made by Mr. John Blackaller, Warden and 
 generall Recever of the Hospitall of Mary Mawdelen aforesaid " ; 
 begun hi the feast of Saint Michael, 4 Edward VI. 
 
 A roll of parchment : inclosed in it is a sheet of paper 
 containing rough notes of former receivers' Accounts. 
 
 58. 14 Henry VIII, 1522. A roll of one membrane, con- 
 taining : 
 
 "The Rentall of Synt Marye Maudelyn made by 
 Master Geffere Lewys (not in Oliver, Mon., 197), Wardyn 
 of the same place, the reigne of Kyng Henry the VHIth, 
 the xiiij yere " (1522). 
 
 59. 18-19 Henry VIII (1526-7). Small paper book of 
 9 leaves, 8, containing : 
 
 The Account of Geoffrey Lewis, Warden of the Magdalene, 
 
 18-19 Henry VIII (1526, 1527). 
 
 It has been bound up in a leaf from a copy of an old English 
 life of Saint Edmund the King of East Anglia (? Lydgate's). 
 It contains the end of Book I, and commencement of Book II, 
 which is " sometyme hi Denmark there was a paynym Kyng." 
 " As I fynd Lothebrotus was his name." 
 
 60. A paper book containing a rental of the Magdalen 
 Hospital, dated 12-15 Henry VIII (1520-1524). It contains 
 also entries of expenses of the Hospital, and belonged to 
 Mr. Geffere Lewys. 
 
 61. A Roll of seven membranes containing Collectors' 
 Accounts of the Magdalen Hospital, viz., the Accounts of : 
 
 I. Richard Moulis, 1370-1371. 
 
 II. John Durrant, 39-40 Edward III (1365-6). 
 
 III. John Durrant, 1378-1379. 
 
 IV. Richard Moulis, 1371-2. 
 
 V. John Durrant, 37-38 Edward III, 1363-4. 
 
 VI. Richard Moulis, 1370-1371. 
 
 VII. John Durrant, 30-31 Edward III, 1356-7. 
 
 62. ? circa 1500. Paper Roll containing : 
 
 "The answer of Geffrey Lewys, Wardyn of the Mawdeleyn, 
 to the complaynte layde ageyn him to Master Mayre 
 of the Citie of Exeter and his brederne of the poure 
 people broder and systers of the same." 
 It relates to alledged misappropriation of the revenue. 
 Attached to it are : 
 
 I. Memoranda of the rents withdrawn from the Hospital.
 
 399 
 
 II. " The Costes payde for the sute of Sir John Bele " ; 
 to which bill other items are added as below. 
 
 In primis payd to Mr. Faux for seynge of the 
 
 Evydens of Saynt Mary Mawdelyn . . v]d. 
 
 Item payd to Antony Peynter for payntyng of 
 
 Seynt Mary Mowdlyn and the hey auter . . viijs. 
 Item payd the same Antony for mendyng of 
 
 Synt Kateryn . . . . . . . . xvjd. 
 
 Item payd the same Antony for payntyng of 
 
 Synt Luke yn our lady chappyll . . iiijs. v]d. 
 
 III. A remembrance of the wrong done to the poor 
 people of Saint Mary Magdalene by the Warden, etc. 
 
 IV. A rental of the Magdalen, ? circa. 1500. 
 
 V. A slip of parchment and two pieces of paper con- 
 taining rough notes of deeds &c. relating to the Hospital 
 property. 
 
 63. Small roll of the time of Henry VI, containing copies 
 of deeds relating to tenements in South Street. 
 
 I. No date. John de Gery, Prior of Saint James to 
 Alexander de Wydecumb and his heirs. Grant of a 
 house and garden in South Street (bounds set out). 
 Adam de Rifford, Mayor. 
 
 II. Thursday after Saint Nicholas (December 12, 1258). 
 Convention between William de Syden and the Prior of 
 Saint James That said William will pay said Prior 
 305. in three following years for the house in South 
 Street, which Alexander, who was " Serviens de 
 Durerde " held of the said Prior. Nicholas de Ivelchestre 
 Mayor [i.e. 1259]. 
 
 III. No date. Thomas de Sanda to Henry Smith (Faber). 
 Grant in free marriage with Matilda his wife of the 
 house in South Street in which Maugerus Agnus dwelt. 
 Hillary, Mayor [? Hilary Blund (Mayor, 1227, 1233) or 
 White (1261)]. 
 
 IV. Memorandum, that it is contained in the " Charta 
 puerorum " (Charter of the chorister boys ?) that 
 William Baghel, son of Walter Baghel, gave (to the 
 Hospital ? ) two cellars (duas celdas cum solario super- 
 edificato) in South Street, next the tenement of Alexander 
 de Durerde. 
 
 V. Memorandum that it is contained in the Charter of the 
 Dean and Chapter, that they released to the Hospital 
 of Saint Mary Magdalene a yearly rent of 2d. which 
 they received from the house belonging to the choir 
 boys, which Nicholas Blakeenave formerly held in 
 South Street. 
 
 64. Monday after Circumcision, 8 Henry V (1421). A roll 
 of six membranes put together in 1869 by Mr. Moore. 
 
 M. 1 contains Memoranda out of the Records of Saint 
 John's Hospital relating to an action in the Mayor's 
 Court " The Hospital versus the Archdeacon of
 
 400 
 
 Totness " to recover a tenement which the said 
 Archdeacon holds of the Hospital in Saint Martin's 
 Street, the rent of 40s. reserved thereon being in arrear. 
 The tenement is described as being in Saint Martin's 
 Street between the tenement of the Archdeacon of 
 Barnstaple and the tenement of the Abbot of Bucfast 
 and the garden of the Archdeacon of Cornwall on the 
 East, the tenement of the Dean and Chapter on the 
 West ; and it extends in length from the said street 
 on the South to the lane lying between the dwellings of 
 the Canons and the Friars Preachers on the North. 
 The result of the trial does not appear. 
 M . 2 contains Copies of deeds relating to the house of the 
 Archdeacon of Barnstaple in Saint Martin's Street, 
 which was held of Saint John's Hospital. 
 
 I. No date. Ralph Archdeacon of Barnstaple to The 
 Brethren of the Hospital of Saint John. Bond to pay 
 them a yearly rent of 16s. for the tenement he holds of 
 them in Saint Martin's Street. Witnesses : Hillary 
 Blund or White (Albus), " Prepositus Exonie," and others. 
 
 II. No date. William Produm to The Hospital of 
 Saint John. Grant in frank almoign of the houses in 
 which he lived hi Saint Martin's Street. 
 
 III. 24 May, 1357. Inspeximus by John Bishop of 
 Exeter of three deeds brought to him to be perpetuated 
 by his inspeximus by John de Bolehulle (1349-1384, 
 Oliver, Mon., 301), Prior or Master of the Hospital of 
 Saint John, viz. : 
 
 (a) Grant by the Bijethren and Sisters of Saint John's 
 by assent of W. Bishop of Exeter and B. Arch- 
 deacon of Exeter, their Warden, and the Dean 
 and Chapter, and the Mayor and Commonalty, 
 to John Archdeacon of Cornwall, of their house 
 in Saint Martin's Street, in which Lord Roger de 
 Lymesy, Canon of Exeter, formerly dwelt. To 
 hold to the said Archdeacon for his fife or as long 
 as he shall remain Archdeacon, and to his successors 
 Archdeacons of Cornwall for ever, at a yearly rent 
 of 40s., and a relief to the said Hospital at the 
 death or resignation of each Archdeacon. 
 
 (6) Saint Margaret, 1284. Composition between 
 Master Henry de Bolleg, Archdeacon of Cornwall, 
 and Master Thomas de Bodeham, Archdeacon of 
 Totnes. The said Henry grants to said Thomas 
 his house in Saint Martin's Street, appropriated 
 to the Archdeaconry of Cornwall to hold so long 
 as he pleases personally to dwell therein, paying 
 rent of 40s. to Saint John's Hospital and giving 
 up the same to said Henry when he wishes to 
 return. 
 
 (c) Copy of Deed No, 1 on this roll.
 
 401 
 
 IV. 16 April, 12 Henry VI (1434). Award of William 
 Wonard in a dispute between John Master of Saint John's 
 Hospital and Master John Waryn, Archdeacon of 
 Barnstaple, concerning the title to a yearly rent of 
 16s. arising from the tenement in Saint Martin's Street, 
 now within the close of the cemetery of Saint Peter's, 
 of which the said Archdeacon is seized by reason of his 
 Archdeaconry. The said William Wonard states that 
 the said house was formerly two houses and is held 
 of the said Hospital by the yearly rent of 16s. ; and 
 awards that the said Archdeacon is to pay the same, 
 and reliefs when they shall happen. 
 
 On the back of the roll is a memorandum in later 
 hands of the payments by several Archdeacons . 
 Master Robert Barforth, who died 8 October, 1485, 
 William Elyott, John Voysy, Richard Norton, John 
 Yonge (Master of the Rolls), John Tyack, Richard 
 Toilette, 14 May, 1518, and Thomas Brerewod. 
 
 The other membranes contain copies of deeds, all 
 relating to the Hospital. 
 
 65. Monday after Saint George, 25 Edward III. Extracts 
 from the City Court Rolls, showing the steps taken by the 
 Prior of the Hospital of Saint John to recover, by the custom 
 of " Gavelak and Shortford," a piece of land which Henry de 
 la Pomeray, Senior, held of him in High Street near the East- 
 gate, and another piece of land held by Philip Durneford in 
 Pacie Stret. 
 
 66. Small roll containing copies of deeds relating to the 
 Friars Preachers as follows : 
 
 I. Monday after Corpus Christi, 36 Edward III. The 
 Mayor and Commonalty of Exeter to The Prior and 
 Convent of Friars Preachers. Licence to make a gate 
 in the north part of the lane opposite the lane called 
 Saint Stephen's Bow ; which same lane lies on the 
 west part of the close of the said Brethren. 
 
 II. Monday after Saint Peter ad Vincula, 25 Edward I. 
 4 August, 1297. Edmund Earl of Cornwall to The 
 Friars Preachers of Exeter. Inspeximus and Con- 
 firmation of an agreement between Robert de Ottery, 
 Prior of the Friars Preachers and William Tauntefer, 
 Mayor of Exeter, concerning a gate in " Stykestret." 
 
 III. No date. The Mayor &c. to The Friars Preachers. 
 Licence to make a drain through the City wall to carry 
 away the rain water from their buildings. 
 
 67. 29-30 Edward I. A Roll containing Articles of a 
 controversy between the Dean and Chapter of Exeter and the 
 Friars Preachers of Exeter respecting the right of burial in 
 the Church of the Friars, and the contention with respect 
 to the bodies of Sir Henry de Ralegh and Henry de la 
 Pomeray. See also Mayor's Court Roll, 29-30 Edward I, 
 roll I. ' 
 
 Wt, 20757. Ex 26
 
 402 
 
 68. 4 May, 15 Henry VI (?) 1437. Roll containing 2 Copies 
 of Act of Parliament settling the disputes concerning the 
 bounds of Saint Sidwell's fee, which are set out very fully, 
 and sundry liberties of the Dean and Chapter. 
 
 69. 12 December, 27 Henry VI (1448). Copy of the Com- 
 position between the Bishop, Dean and Chapter and the City 
 respecting their liberties. See Deeds No. 1198. This is rolled 
 on a piece of wood. 
 
 70. 1599. A large paper roll containing Copies of Charters, 
 Compositions and other documents relating to disputes between 
 the City and the Bishop, Dean and Chapter, collected together 
 and noted in the margins in Hooker's handwriting. 
 
 There is also a large quantity of papers of this description 
 among the Law papers on Shelf C.6. See page 1401 of the 
 Calendar. 
 
 71. A mutilated paper roll containing Extracts from the 
 Mayor's Court Rolls. 
 
 72. (?) Edward III. Roll containing the Returns of the 
 Collectors of the first Taxation for the Murage of the City : 
 " Taxatio prima levata pro reparatione portarum, murorum 
 et fossatorum." It contains the names of all the citizens 
 in each quarter who were taxed, with the amount of their 
 taxing. 
 
 The East Quarter, paid 4Z. 17s. Id. 
 The South Quarter, 11. 12s. Qd. 
 The West Quarter, 31 18s. 2d. 
 The North Quarter, 6/. 2s. Od. 
 
 73. A Roll of 2 membranes containing : 
 
 M. 1. 1569. A roll of presentments of men and their 
 
 weapons in the City of Exeter. 
 M. 2. 30 Elizabeth (1587-88). A roll of the names of 
 
 120 men furnished to her Majesty by the City. 
 
 74. 1673-4. Three Lists of Hearths and Stoves in the 
 City of Exeter. Two are in paper books and the third on a 
 parchment roll. 
 
 75. 1626-7. " A liste of the several persons and sums of 
 money within the Cittie and Countie of Exon that have 
 advanced monies to his Majestic by way of Loan," &c. 
 
 76. 5 September, 28 Elizabeth, 1586. Subsidy Roll. 
 Particulars of the subsidy granted in the 27 Elizabeth. 
 Signed : " John Exon, Nycholas Martyn, Maior, Thomas 
 Brereton." Three membranes. 
 
 77. 20 April, 7 James I, 1609. Subsidy Roll : Assessment 
 of aid towards making Prince Henry a Knight. 
 
 Two membranes. 
 
 Signatures and seals with crests of the Commissioners : 
 .John Prouse, Mayor, George Smyth, Geoffrey Waltham, 
 William Martyn, Recorder, Thomas Walker, and Nicholas 
 Ducke. 
 
 78. Monday after Assumption, 10 Edward III, 19 August, 
 1336. Roll containing Copy of Plea concerning the
 
 403 
 
 disturbance of Crulledych Fair and the rescue of certain 
 thieves at Ayschpertone. 
 
 79. Easter, 16 Edward II, 1323. Hugh Courtenay v. The 
 Mayor, Bailiffs and Commonalty of Exeter. 
 
 Copy of Plea concerning Crulledych Fair. 
 
 80. Henry VII. A large sheet of vellum intitled : " Syon. 
 Here below follow the Articles of the liberties and privileges 
 specified in the Letters Patent granted and confirmed by 
 King Henry VII to the Monastery of Syon." The articles 
 set out are as follows : 
 
 I. Discharge of all Tenths, fifteenths and other Subsidies. 
 
 II. Discharge of all manner Tolls and Customs. 
 
 III. Discharge of all manner Aids &c. 
 
 IV. Grant of View .of Frankpledge, Assize of bread and 
 ale, wreck of the sea &c. 
 
 V. Fines, issues and forfeitures of their tenants. 
 
 VI. Free Warren. 
 
 VII. To hold court in all places from three weeks to 
 three weeks, by plaint of all manner actions to what 
 sums soever they attain. 
 
 VIII. Conizance of all pleas. 
 
 IX. Ward and Custody of all lands held by Knight's 
 service. 
 
 X. Correction of all trespasses except " Mayhem." 
 
 XI. Return of writs &c. 
 
 XII. No Sheriff or other Officer to arrest any tenants of 
 said Monastery. 
 
 XIII. The King's purveyors to take no cattle of the 
 Abbess or her tenants. 
 
 XIV. No Escheator, Sheriff &c. to enter the Lordship &c. 
 
 XV. Power to collect fines, amercements &c. " per se 
 vel per ballivos." 
 
 XVI. Licence to resist Bang's Officers acting contrary 
 to this Charter. 
 
 XVII. Power to hold all their lands &c. freely and in peace. 
 The Clauses of the Charter are copied in each Article. 
 
 81. Temp. Henry VI. Copy of an Exemplification of 
 Domesday Book for the City of Exeter the Charter of Richard 
 King of the Romans, 7 November, 1259, (Charter XII) and 
 that of 21 Henry III (Charter X) &c. 
 
 82. 18 Henry VII (1502-3). A Roll entitled: "Here 
 folowyth the title and grounde whereby the Mayor and 
 Sherovys of London clayme to have the custome and scavage 
 alias sanevage of the Inhabitants of Exeter." French. 
 
 83. Easter, 21 Edward III (1347). A Copy of the enrolment 
 on the Memoranda Roll of the Exchequer, Easter, 
 21 Edward III, roll 9, respecting the Lastage and Stallage of 
 the Fair of Exeter. 
 
 Printed in Madox's Firma Burgi. 
 
 84. Michaelmas, 18 Richard II (1394). Copy of a further 
 proceeding in the same matter. Memoranda Roll Exchequer,
 
 404 
 
 Michaelmas, 18 Richard II, rot. 35, Madox's Firma Burgi, 
 pp. 263-269. 
 
 85. Another Copy. 
 
 86. Michaelmas, 12 Henry IV (1410). Copy of a further 
 proceeding in the same case. Memoranda Roll Exchequer. 
 Michaelmas, 12 Henry IV. 
 
 87. Another Copy. Imperfect. 
 
 88. A Roll of paper, fragments of copies and drafts of the 
 same proceedings. 
 
 89. 20 Henry III to 14 Edward III. Extracts from the 
 Pipe Rolls relating to the same. 
 
 90. A curious Memorandum in French respecting the 
 same suit, with a copy on paper attached to it. 
 
 91. A Roll of paper containing : 
 
 4 November, 24 Henry 6 (1445). Copy Grant of the 
 Conservancy of the River Exe to Thomas, Earl of 
 Devon : with a note at the end setting forth the 
 attainders of the Courtenays, and showing the grant 
 to be void. 
 
 18 December, 6 Edward VI, 1552. Copy Grant to Peter 
 Smyth of an Annuity out of the Manor of Topsham. 
 
 I May, Petition of Edward Courtenay, Knight, for 
 restoration in blood. 
 
 3 February, 3 Henry VIII (1512). Grant to Katharine 
 wife of William Courtenay, Earl of Devon (inter alia) 
 of a free fishery " in aqua et rivulo de Exe " and three 
 mills in Exilond. 
 
 II October, 3 Henry VIII (1511). Inquisition after the 
 death of the Earl of Devon. He had a Water Court 
 from Exmouth to Exbridge. 
 
 92. A somewhat decayed paper book written hi a hand of 
 Henry VIII's time, entitled : 
 
 A Remembrance of certayne maters consernyng the 
 Porte of Exeter, the stoppyn of the Rever of Exe that 
 shipps and vessells coyd not resort to the Cetie. 
 
 93. 23 July, 20 Elizabeth (1578). A paper roll containing 
 a contemporary copy of the Charter of the City of London 
 of this date. 
 
 94. Another similar paper roll containing a copy of the 
 same Charter. 
 
 95. A Bundle of odd leaves of ancient books, illuminated 
 missals &c. These were originally covers of some of the 
 Rolls. They shew the terrible destruction that was made 
 of old MSS. in the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and 
 Elizabeth. There are fragments of six or seven very fine 
 missals, a leaf of a copy of the Gospels of the early part of the 
 XHIth Century a leaf from an early copy of Higden's 
 Polichronicon, &c. 
 
 96. 42-46 Edward III (1368-1373). Copy of the entries 
 on the Mayor's Court Roll of the custom of " Gavelak and 
 Shortford " for the recovery of a house and a piece of land
 
 405 
 
 near the Castle of Exeter by the Master of Saint John's 
 Hospital from Isabella de Hugheton at the end there is a 
 full recitation of the nature of the custom. 
 
 ,97. 16-17 Henry VI (1437-39). Copy of similar entries 
 respecting a tenement "in Vico Fratrum Praedicatorum " 
 recovered by the Master of Saint John's Hospital from John 
 Whityng and others. 
 
 98. Parchment Roll of five membranes, containing copies 
 of portions of the proceedings relating to the Lastage and 
 Stallage of the Fair of Exeter, above described under Nos. 83 
 to 89 (pp. 1196-7) ; and also an early copy of the document 
 No. 90 above. 
 
 99. Imperfect drafts of some of the City's Charters of no 
 use ; with a small fragment of a Mayor's Court Roll. 
 
 100 and 101. Two card -board boxes containing the originals 
 of the Shillingford Letters and Papers printed for the Camden 
 Society. The letters proper are in a bundle by themselves ; 
 the paper in the suit to which the letters refer are the residue. 
 Some of the papers are confused and are drafts and portions 
 of drafts of the documents printed. The whole have been 
 carefully examined and all the matter which could be 
 recovered from the MSS. will be found in the printed volume. 
 
 102. A roll of five membranes containing the Articles of 
 disputes between the Dean and Chapter and the City in 
 33 Henry III (1248-49), and later concerning their respective 
 jurisdictions, with copies of Charters &c. 
 
 103. A bundle of papers formerly rolls relating to disputes 
 between the City and the Bishop, Dean and Chapter from 
 1599 to 1709. 
 
 104. Monday after S. Dunstan, 13 Edward II, 19 May, 1320. 
 Extract from the City Court Roll setting forth the Customs 
 of " Gavelak " and " Shortford." 
 
 It appears that if any Lord has a free tenant who ought 
 to pay Rent to the Chief Lord for his tenement and does not 
 do so and has nothing in the said tenement which can be 
 distrained, the Lord shall carry away a stone or any other 
 distress, "nullius quasi manentis existentis," for the arrears 
 of Rent, and so shall continue to do for seven terms following, 
 and shall carry away seven stones as is aforesaid, which seven 
 are called " Glebe." In which seventh term by the con- 
 sideration of the Court he shall have the said Tenement for 
 a year and a day by delivery of the Bailiff of the City, which 
 is commonly called " Gavelak." This is publicly proclaimed, 
 so that any claimant of the tenement may put in his claim 
 or answer for the rent and arrears within the year. And 
 if no one comes or will not or cannot satisfy for the Rent &c. 
 within that time the Lord goes to the Court and claims 
 according to the Custom of the City to be adjudged in fee 
 and demesne. And this custom is commonly called in our 
 mother tongue " Shortford," which in French is called 
 " Forclot." By this Custom the Prior of S. Nicholas recovers
 
 406 
 
 a Tenement without Northgate which formerly belonged to 
 William le Mol, Glover. 
 
 Fragment of the Mayoralty Seal attached. 
 
 The Mayors' Court Rolls. 
 
 These Rolls are the records of the Court called the Guildhall, 
 the Mayor's or the City Court, which was a Court of Record, 
 wherein real and personal actions were tried, fines passed, 
 wills proved, deeds inrolled, and almost anything done that 
 is now done in the Courts at Westminster. There is one of 
 these rolls to each year, and each roll contains usually 52 
 membranes, one membrane containing the record of one week. 
 On the first membrane of each roll is entered the election of 
 the Mayor, Receiver, and other officers of the City. 
 
 The " intus " or front face of the membranes contain the 
 entries of all the suits and proceedings in the Court itself. 
 When a suit was commenced it was entered every week with 
 a note of what was done in it until it was abandoned or 
 adjudicated on. Some of these suits are very remarkable, 
 and will be found to be of great interest to the student of the 
 history of the people hi ancient times. 
 
 The title of the earliest roU (48 Henry III, 1263-64) is as 
 follows : " Rotulus placitorum Curie et Pretorii Exonie ab 
 incrastino Sancti Michaelis anno regni Regis Henrici Anglie, 
 xl. octavo usque " (sic). In the roll of 1 Edward I the title 
 is simply " Exonie Curia Civitatis," with the date, and this 
 heading is continued in all the subsequent rolls. 
 
 Besides the usual business of the Mayor's or City Court, 
 these rolls, down to the reign of Edward III, contain the 
 following matters : 
 
 The records of the Provost Court, or " Curia Pretorii 
 Civitatis," which are fully described at page 1228. 
 Records of the Mayor's tourn described at page 1235; 
 the entries of the Assize of Bread ; entries of fines 
 paid by persons entering the liberty of the City ; fines 
 for trespasses against the customs of the City &c., 
 entries of chattels waived ; felon's goods ; fines paid 
 by Masters of Ships for permission to discharge their 
 cargoes before the ships came up to Topsham ; monies 
 collected at Fairs and all the casual receipts of the 
 City. There are also enrolments of deeds between 
 party and party relating to property both in the City 
 and elsewhere ; a great many wills ; full memoranda 
 of occurrences affecting the City's jurisdiction and 
 liberties. Orders and bye-laws made by the Council 
 for the government of the City. Rules and regulations 
 of the various crafts or companies. The entries of the 
 Assize of Bread are the monthly or weekly orders 
 fixing the price to be paid for the various kinds of 
 bread in the City according to the price of wheat : 
 from them the variations in the price of wheat
 
 407 
 
 from the reign of Edward I downwards might be 
 ascertained. 
 
 These rolls are very fully and carefully kept down to 
 6-6 Edward IV (1465-67), after which they become very 
 much smaller in size, and the entries on them are confined 
 almost exclusively to the business of the Court and the entry 
 of fines and the profits of fairs. The handwriting and style 
 of making up the rolls also is very bad. Fewer deeds and 
 wills are enrolled ; and after the end of Edward IVs reign 
 the custom of enrolling Orders of the Council &c. appears 
 to be discontinued. Probably about this time Act Books were 
 commenced the earliest we now have begins in 9 Henry VIII. 
 [See II, 1, page 1077.] 
 
 In the reign of Henry VIII these rolls become very meagre. 
 Books of the Courts having been instituted, the rolls were 
 merely filled up in a formal manner from the books, and so 
 they continue to the end. Few if any deeds appear to be 
 enrolled after the reign of Henry VII. In the reign of 
 Henry VIII, Elizabeth and James, special rolls were kept for 
 the enrolling of deeds pursuant to the Statute of 27 Henry VIII 
 (1535-36). [Miscellaneous Rolls, Nos. 22-24.] 
 
 48 Henry III to 2 Edward I. [2 Rolls.] 
 
 14 Edward I to 13 William and Mary [399 Rolls]. 
 
 [Missing 20 to 23 Edward I, 14 to 15 Edward II, 
 24 Henry VII to 1 Henry VIII, 27 Henry VIII to 
 30 Henry VIII, 2 to 3 Elizabeth, 37 to 38 Elizabeth, 
 4 to 5 James I, 10 to 11 James I, 14 to 16 James I, 
 24 Charles I to 1 Charles II, and not counted in the 
 above.] 
 
 The above is Mr. S. Moore's account as given in his Calendar. 
 
 The Rolls were largely used by Hooker in compiling his 
 Annals (II., 32) in Book 51, ff. 236-364, in which he gives 
 abundant extracts, as : Testamentum, Finalis Concordia, 
 breve de recto, breve de Corpus (sic), assisa Capta, irrotulat 
 carta ; all of purely local and personal interest. These, how- 
 ever, form but a very small proportion indeed of the immense 
 number of entries on the original rolls. Besides these, Hooker 
 has copied a considerable number of Extracts beginning with 
 the words Consuetudo est, a few of which have found their 
 way into Izacke. In his view and survey written in January, 
 1601, Hooker makes no mention of the Roll 48-50, Henry III 
 (1263-1266), and in Book 51, /. 247, he says that the first 
 recordes begin in 13 Edward I (1284-5). 
 
 In /. 343 (1535, 27 Henry VIII), he says "the Recordes of 
 this yere cannot be founde." Also/. 3436 (1536, 28 Henry VIII, 
 "the whole recordes of this yere ar lost"; ibid. (1537, 
 29 Henry VIII), " the roll of the recordes of this yere are 
 lacking." Izacke, p. 118 (s.a. 1535), says : "The Court Rolls 
 of this year are all wanting." 
 
 For a short abstract of the contents of these rolls from 15 
 Edward I (1321) to 11 Richard II (1387), see Book 55, ff. 1-38.
 
 408 
 
 For Extracts from 30 Edward I (1302), see T. Wright, 307, 
 who was " not aware if there are any earlier rolls of the same 
 class," though he thought it probable (p. 310). For abstract 
 of 26, 27 Edward III (135-54), see Oliver, pp. 312-319. 
 
 Miss M. Bateson (Borough Customs, I, 132) thought that 
 these rolls " treat largely of suits arising out of partible 
 inheritance," and suggested (Ibid, I, xxvii) that "a systematic 
 search through this splendid series would doubtless yield 
 many further points " in regard to Borough Customs ; but 
 such a task is quite beyond the limitations of the present 
 report. 
 
 For Mayors' Court Books, see II, 50. 
 
 For Extracts, Edward I, Henry VII, see II, 264. 
 
 Provost Court Rolls. 
 
 The Provost Court was held in a room in the front [? at 
 the side] of the Guildhall, now part of the Police Station. 
 [See Miscellaneous Rolls, No. 2.] It is sometimes called 
 " Curia Pretorii," but usually " Curia Provostrie Domini Regis." 
 These rolls contain the record of the proceedings of the Provost 
 Court the pleadings do not occur at length as in the Mayors' 
 Court Rolls. The fines imposed are set in the margin and 
 the total at the end of each membrane : these are numerous, 
 and must have furnished a considerable revenue to the City. 
 The Court was held sometimes as often as four and five days 
 in the week. The cases tried appear to be pleas of debt, assault 
 and trespass, actions for detention of goods, ejectments, &c. 
 In the reigns of Henry V and VI the rolls are fuller and the 
 pleadings of the cases sometimes occur. After 3-4 Edward IV 
 (1464-66), the handwriting changes, and, like the Mayor's 
 Court Rolls, these rolls are less carefully kept. 
 
 In the time of Elizabeth and James I the pleadings are 
 again entered at full. Previous to the reign of Edward in 
 the proceedings of the Provost Court were entered on the 
 Mayor's Court Roll. There was a Seal of the Provost, an 
 impression of which is attached to Deed No. 717, p. 163, the 
 legend is " Sigillum Pretorii Civitatis Exon." 
 2 Edward III (1328-9) to 3 Richard III. 
 2 to 5 Henry VII. 
 11 22 Henry VII. 
 4 14 Elizabeth. 
 35 37 Elizabeth. 
 4 ,, 8 James I. 
 10 James I to 13 William and Mary. 
 
 [121 Rolls. Missing 2 and 3, 7 and 8 Edward IV.] 
 
 The Rolls of the Mayor's Tourn. 
 
 These Rolls contain the proceedings of the Mayor's Tourn. 
 Before 11 Edward III (1337-8) (like the Provost Court) these 
 proceedings appear to have been recorded on the Mayor's
 
 409 
 
 Court Roll. They consist of presentments made by the juries 
 in each quarter of the City, of nuisances, offences against 
 the Customs of the City, such as selling by bad measure, out 
 of due season, forestalling the markets &c. 
 
 Much interesting matter may be gleaned from them. 
 
 11 to 50 Edward III. 
 2 12 Richard II. 
 
 21 22 Ditto. 
 
 1 9 Henry V. 
 
 2 Henry VI. 
 
 5 Ditto (one membrane only, which was formerly 
 
 part of a roll). 
 7 Ditto. 
 
 9 Henry VI. 
 
 10 11 Ditto. 
 
 12 13 Ditto. 
 15 Ditto. 
 19 20 Ditto. 
 25 27 Ditto. 
 
 Receivers' Accounts. 
 
 These are the yearly accounts of the Receivers-General 
 of the City, and contain particular entries of all receipts and 
 payments made by the Receiver. Independently of their 
 great importance in a legal point of view, they will be found 
 to contain a vast amount of most valuable and interesting 
 information for the historian and archaeologist. 
 
 These small rolls are tied in bundles. They are written 
 on both sides and run from Michaelmas to Michaelmas. The 
 amount of the expenditure is totalled at the foot. The earliest 
 is dated 34 Edward I (1305-6), after which there is a gap. 
 The next in order being 5, 6 Edward III (1331-32), after which 
 they follow with almost unbroken regularity to 7-8 George I 
 (1721-22). 
 
 The series abounds in details of first-hand personal interest 
 and would form a highly interesting volume if printed in full. 
 
 Specimen extracts will be found printed in T. Wright, e.g. 
 38, 39 Edward III (1364-5), which he considered to be the 
 earliest of the series (p. 311) ; 42, 43 Edward III (1368-69), 
 p. 312 ; also Oliver, 319 ; 1, 2 Richard II (1378-79), Wright, 
 p. 313 ; 11, 12 Richard II, 1388-89 (p. 314) ; 19, 20 Richard II, 
 1396-97 (p. 319) ; 35, 36 Elizabeth, 1593-94 (p. 319) ; 
 8, 9 Charles I, 1633-34 (p. 319). 
 
 Large extracts from 22-28 Henry VI (1444-1450) are printed 
 also in Shillingford, pp. 143-152. 
 
 The few gaps in the series are indicated in S. Moore's Calendar, 
 which gives also a valuable list of the Receivers' names under 
 their respective years of office. 
 
 For Books of Receivers' Accounts, see page 291. 
 
 N.B. The Receivers' Accounts of later date were kept in 
 books, and will be found described under the head of Books 
 of the Receivers' Accounts at p. 1385.
 
 410 
 
 Ministers' Accounts. 
 The Accounts of the Wardens of Exbridge. 
 
 These are the yearly Accounts of the Wardens of Exbridge 
 of all their receipts and payments. 
 
 17 Edward III (1343-44) to 10 Anne (1711-12). 
 
 [Missing 20-21 Edward III, 21-22 Richard II, 12-16 
 Henry VI, 2-3 Edward IV, 15-16 Edward IV, 
 20-21 Edward IV, 2-3 Henry VII, 20-21 Henry VII 
 7-8 Henry VIII, 35-36 Henry VIII, 4-5 Elizabeth, 
 20-24 Charles I, Commonwealth, 1649-52, 1653-58, 
 4-5 Anne.] 
 
 Three undated Accounts, temp. Anne. One roll. 
 
 1. Comp. Expens. pontis [French], 24 Edward III 
 (1350-51). 
 
 2. Comp. Receptoris denariorum ad opus pontis, 26, 
 27 Edward III (1352-54). 
 
 3. Comp. Collector. Taxationis factae ad opus pontis, 
 44 Edward III. (1370-71). 
 
 N.B. There are rentals and surveys of Exebridge lands 
 amongst the Miscellaneous Papers in Press C. 2. See page 1416. 
 
 The Accounts of the Manor of Exe Island. 
 
 These are the yearly Accounts of the Bailiffs of the Manor 
 rendered to the Receiver of the City year by year of the 
 profits and outgoings of the Manor. 
 
 N.B. For the Court Rolls of Exe Island look under 
 Division "Court Rolls." 
 
 5 Edward VI to 2-3 Philip and Mary. [Paper Transcript.] 
 4 Elizabeth to 10 George I. 
 
 [Missing 20-22 James I, 19-24 Charles I, 1649-50, 
 1657-58, Commonwealth, 21-22 Charles II, 6-7 
 George I.] 
 
 N.B. Papers relating to Exiland see also Miscellaneous 
 Papers on Press C. 2. See page 1416. 
 
 The Accounts of the Manor of Duriurd. 
 
 These are the yearly Accounts of the Bailiffs of the profits 
 and outgoings of the Manor rendered to the Receiver of the City. 
 N.B. For the Court Rolls of Duriurd, look under Division 
 " Court Rolls." 
 
 42 Edward III (1368) to 10 George I (1723-4). 
 [Missing 6-7 Richard II, 8-9 Henry V, 13-17 Henry VI, 
 22-23 Henry VI, 30-32 Henry VI, 4-5 Edward IV, 
 7-8 Edward IV, 9-10 Edward IV, 15-16 Edward IV, 
 20-21 Edward IV, 18-19 Henry VII, 20-23 Henry VII, 
 1-6 Henry VIII, 7-9 Henry VIII, 10-13 Henry VIII, 
 23-24 Henry VIII, 26-27 Henry VIII, 35-36 Henry VIII, 
 4-5 to 5-6 Philip and Mary, 4-5 Elizabeth, 21-22 
 Elizabeth, 34-35 Elizabeth, 3-4 James I, 4-5 Charles I, 
 20 Charles I to 11 Charles II.]
 
 411 
 
 The Accounts of the Manor of Awliscombe. 
 
 These are the yearly Accounts of the Bailiffs of the profits 
 and outgoings of the Manor rendered to the Receiver of the 
 City. 
 
 N.B. For Awliscombe Court Rolls, look under Division 
 " Court Rolls." 
 
 14 Elizabeth to 9 George I. 
 
 [Missing 6-7 James I, 21 Charles I to 11 Charles II, 
 6-7 William and Mary.] 
 
 The Magdalen Hospital. 
 The Wardens' Accounts. 
 
 These are the yearly Accounts of the Wardens of the income 
 and expenditure of the Hospital, rendered to the Receiver 
 of the City. 
 
 32 Henry VIII (1540-41) to 10(?) William and Mary 
 
 (1698-9). 
 
 [Missing 9-10, 39-40 Elizabeth, 44 Elizabeth to 
 1 James I, 19-23 Charles I, 1649-50, 1650-51, 1652-53, 
 1654-55, 1657-58 to 15 Charles II, 7-8 William and 
 Mary.] 
 
 N.B. Some Accounts between 1656 (? 1650) and 1657 are 
 among the Miscellaneous Papers in Press C. 2. See page 240. 
 
 Saint John's <bc. Bailiffs' Accounts. 
 
 The titles of the Accounts are in the form following : 
 " The Account of A.B. Bailiff and Receiver of all and singular 
 the Manor of Saint David's Down and of the lands, rents and 
 profits of the City of Exeter lately belonging to the late 
 Monasteries and Priories of Saint John's, Exeter, Polsloo, 
 Saint Nicholas, Exeter, Newenham, Launceston, and 
 Pympton &c. They are the Accounts of the Bailiffs of the 
 Monastic possessions which the City purchased in the reign of 
 King Edward VI. See Deeds &c., p. 892. 
 
 The Rolls are sometimes headed St. Nicholas, but have 
 all been arranged under one head to distinguish them from 
 the Fee of Saint Nicholas or Harold's Fee. 
 3 Edward VI to 9 George I. 
 
 [Missing 6 Edward VI to 1 Mary, 4-5 to 5-6 Philip and 
 Mary, 37-38, 38-9 Elizabeth, 18-19, 20-21, 21-22 
 James I, 19-20 Charles I to 1649-50, 1658-59.] 
 
 The Ten Cells &c. Receiver's Accounts. 
 The title of these Rolls is in the following form : 
 
 " The Account of A. B. Receiver of the rents and profits 
 of the Poor of the Ten Cells and also of the poor main- 
 tained by the gifts of William Hurst, John Hurste, 
 John Pahner, John Buckenham, Elizabeth Buckenham, 
 William Heron, or Herne (Report on Charities, p. 91), 
 John Gilbert, Griffin Ameridith, and Joan Tuckfield, &c."
 
 412 
 
 They contain the account of the receipts and payments 
 of all the Charity properties of the City. Sometimes the 
 Rolls are entitled " The Account of the Wardens of the 
 Poor." 
 
 [Comp. Guardian Pauperum,] &c. 
 16 Elizabeth (1573-74) to 12 Anne. 
 
 [Missing 17-18, 25-26, 30-31, 33-34, 40-41, 41-42 
 Elizabeth, 6-7, 12-13, 13-14, 16-17, 17-18, 19-20, 
 20-21, 21-22 James I, 1-2, 10-11, 11-12, 16-17 to 19-20 
 Charles I, 21-22 Charles I to Commonwealth, 1659, 
 4-5, 5-6 William and Mary.] 
 Three Accounts without names or dates. 
 There are seven bundles of rolls of Account of Periam's 
 Charity, Walker's Charity, and other properties left to 
 charitable uses. The rolls are 129 in number, and extend 
 from James I to 1700. They are not separately labelled, but 
 each bundle is ticketted " Charity Monies." 
 
 Court Rolls of the Manor of Awliscombe. 
 
 12 Richard III, with Extracts of the time of Edward IV. 
 One roll. 
 
 8 to 17 Henry VII. 
 
 9 12 Edward IV. One roll. 
 
 13 19 Henry VII. One roll. 
 24 25 Ditto. One roU. 
 
 12 13 Ditto. 
 
 13 14 Elizabeth. 
 16 18 Ditto. 
 
 19 20 Ditto. 
 23 26 Ditto. 
 27 28 Ditto. 
 
 Court Rolls of the Manor of Duriurd. 
 
 From 1368 to 1606, 40 Rolls, with many gaps. For dates 
 of existing rolls, see S. Moore's Calendar. 
 
 For a book of Court Rolls of the Manor from 1620-1697, 
 see Book 182, p. 131. 
 
 Court Rolls of the Manor of Exiland. 
 
 Twenty-seven Rolls from 1472 to 1608 with gaps. The 
 dates of each roll are given in S. Moore's Calendar. 
 
 N.B.Some Court Rolls of Exiland, 30 to 34 Elizabeth and 
 6 to 10 James I, are among the Miscellaneous Papers on 
 Press C. 2. 
 
 Court Rolls of the Manor of Saint Nicholas or Harold's Fee. 
 Eighteen Rolls, 1526-1609, with gaps, the first two being 
 Bailiff's Accounts. For dates see S. Moore's Calendar of the 
 series.
 
 413 
 
 10 to 11 Anne. An Account of the Manor. 
 N.B. Some Court Rolls of Harold's Fee, 3-20 Elizabeth, 
 are among the Miscellaneous Papers in Press C. 2. 
 
 Customs Rolls. 
 
 These are the Accounts of the Collectors of the Town 
 Custom, Petty Custom, or Town Duty levied in the Port of 
 the City of Exeter. 
 
 One hundred and seventeen Rolls, the earliest, temp. 
 Edward I, II, containing 31 membranes confusedly arranged, 
 the rest from 1327-1603, also two paper books, 1608-1610. 
 For dates of the series see S. Moore's Calendar. 
 
 Sessions Papers. 
 1557 to 1720. 
 
 [Gaps 6, 8, 11, 13, 14, 18, 30, 31, 33, 39 Elizabeth, 1 James I, 
 1701, 1702, 1710, 1711, 1712, 1714-1719.] 
 
 Miscellaneous, William III and George II. One bundle. 
 Convictions, 26-7 George II. One bundle. 
 Presentments of the Grand Jury, 10 George I, 11 George I, 
 1-2 George II. Three bundles. 
 
 Pleadings. 
 
 Files of parchment containing the declarations, pleadings 
 &c. in cases in the Mayor's Court and Provost Court. Returns 
 of the Bailiffs, and other papers connected with the business 
 of the Court. 
 
 Eighty-five files from 1595-1825; for dates see S. Moore's 
 Calendar. 
 
 Mayor's Court Papers. 
 
 These are files of writs of venire facias &c. addressed to the 
 Sergeants at Mace with the panels of juries &c. 
 
 Six files (1638-1699) and one roll (A.D. 1711). For dates 
 of the series see S. Moore's Calendar. 
 
 N.B. Many of these papers are to be found in the two 
 sacks of fragments on the top of the presses. 
 
 Provost Court Papers. 
 
 These are files of slips of parchment containing writs of 
 venire facias addressed by the Bailiffs to the Serjeant at Mace 
 with the panels of the juries &c. 
 
 Ten files (1639-1696) with gaps. Also a bundle with old 
 Bills of Costs. For dates see S. Moore's Calendar. 
 
 Inventories. 
 
 These are Inventories of the goods and chattels, leases and 
 effects of citizens who died leaving orphans whose custody 
 was granted to the Chamber by the Charter of Elizabeth. 
 Some of them are remarkable, and show the status of the
 
 414 
 
 different people in an interesting manner. Many of them 
 are in the handwriting of John Hooker ; and rolled up with 
 them there are often memoranda relating to the disposition 
 of the property &c. 
 
 Two hundred and sixteen Inventories. A full list, with 
 names and dates running from April 7, 1560 October 7, 1721, 
 appears in S. Moore's Calendar. 
 
 Wills. 
 
 A bundle of 75 wills ranging from March 3, 1555, to June 4, 
 1765. Each will is numbered. The following full list is taken 
 from S. Moore's Calendar. 
 
 1. 3 March, 1555 
 
 2. 29 March, 1558 
 
 3. 19 August, 1559 
 
 4. 20 October, 1559 . . 
 
 5. 19 April, 1560 
 
 6. 23 March, 1561 
 
 7. 20 November, 1561 .. 
 
 8. 1 June, 1562 
 
 9. 30 October, 1563 
 
 10. 28 March, 1564 
 
 11. 27 July, 1564 
 
 12. 21 October, 1566 . . 
 
 13. 13 December, 1566.. 
 
 14. 30 October, 1569 
 
 15 8 August, 1570 
 
 and 
 
 16. 
 
 17 20 December, 1575. . 
 
 and 
 
 18. 
 
 19 17 June, 1577 
 
 and 
 
 20. 
 
 21. 15 June, 1578 
 
 22. 22 June, 1582 
 
 23. 13 December, 1582.. 
 
 24. 17 January, 1583 
 
 Thomas Lambert of Exeter. 
 
 (Original.) 
 Thomas Grege of the parish of 
 
 Saint Kieran's, Baker. (Copy.) 
 Henry Harrys of Exeter. 
 John Parret of Lyme Regis. 
 Thomas Lambartt of Exeter. 
 Nicholas Reve of Exeter, Brewer. 
 
 (Extracts.) 
 Stephen Vilvayne of Exeter, 
 
 Baker. 
 
 John Thomas, Senior, of Exeter. 
 Ellerye Westcott. 
 Robert Mathewe. 
 Edmund Whetecombe of Exeter, 
 
 Merchant. 
 
 John Bedecombe of Exeter. 
 Thomas Prestwode of Exeter. 
 Elizabeth Brickenall of Exeter, 
 
 Widow. 
 
 Arnold Reynold of Exeter, Shoe- 
 maker. (Two Copies.) 
 
 Richard Mogrige of Exeter, Cutler. 
 (Two Copies.) 
 
 Thomas Byrde of Exeter, Tailor. 
 (Two Copies.) 
 
 Julean Gunstone of the parish of 
 Saint Paul's, Exeter, Widow. 
 
 John Hutchins of Exeter, Mer- 
 chant. 
 
 Roger Courtise of the parish of 
 the Holy Trinity. 
 
 Nicholas Grenowe of Exeter, 
 Barber.
 
 415 
 
 25. 25 June, 1583 
 
 26. 3 January, 1587 
 
 27. 18 May, 1587 
 
 28. 12 July, 1588 
 
 29. 11 December, 1590. . 
 
 30. 9 April, 1597 
 
 31. 15 August, 1601 .. 
 
 32. 7 February, 1603 
 
 33. 15 April, 1603 
 
 34. 19 February, 1604 .. 
 
 35. 4 June, 1604 
 
 36. 15 January, 1606 
 
 37. 10 April, 1606 
 
 38. 22 September, 1607 . 
 
 39. 2 March, 1611 
 
 40. 23 March, 1612 
 
 41. 8 November, 1612.. 
 
 42. 1 September, 1613 . 
 
 43. 19 November, 1614.. 
 
 44. 26 March, 1616 
 
 45. 12 April, 1616 
 
 46. 2 January, 1617 
 
 47. 22 July, 1617 
 
 48. 12 December, 1618.. 
 
 49. 3 January, 1620 
 
 50. 23 November, 1620. . 
 
 51. 17 August, 1621 . . 
 
 52 12 October, 1623 
 
 and 
 
 53. 
 
 54. 17 February, 1624 
 
 55. 16 April, 1624 
 
 56. 17 July, 1624 
 
 57. 7 September, 1624 . 
 
 Nicholas Glandfilde of the parish 
 
 of the Holy Trinity, Baker. 
 John Fallett of Exeter. 
 Joane Redwoode of Exeter, Widow. 
 John Younge of the parish of 
 
 Saint Stephen's, Exeter. 
 Luce Hussey of the parish of 
 
 Saint Lawrence, Exeter, Widow. 
 Thomas Martyn of Exeter, fuller. 
 Thomas Withecombe of Exeter, 
 
 Merchant. 
 John Hill of the Parish of Saint 
 
 Lawrence, Exeter. 
 Joan Heyfilde of Exeter, Widow. 
 Peter Taylder of the Parish of 
 
 All Hallow's, blacksmith. 
 Alice Peeter of Exeter, Widow. 
 Nicholas Moore. 
 Edmund Clarke, of the Parish of 
 
 Holy Trinity. 
 Robert Prowse. 
 
 Katherine Paule of Exeter, Widow. 
 John Saunders of the Parish of 
 
 Holy Trinity, Innholder. 
 Nicholas Bevys of Exeter, Mer- 
 chant. 
 William Horwoode of Exeter, 
 
 Goldsmith (torn). 
 Alexander Mawrey. 
 James Time of the Parish of 
 
 Saint John, Exeter, heliar. 
 John Bond of Exeter, fuller. 
 William Broke, of the Parish of 
 
 Saint Mary Major. 
 Thomas Paule of Exeter, " vitler." 
 Nicholas Evens of Exiland and 
 
 Saint Mary Steps, Brewer. 
 James Marche of Exeter, tucker. 
 William Jesse of Exeter, fuller. 
 John Bennett of Saint Olave's, 
 
 Exeter, tailor. 
 William Yeo of Exeter, Cord- 
 
 wainer. (Original and Copy.) 
 
 Thomas Meade of the Parish of 
 Saint David's, Innholder. 
 
 Agnes Rice of Exeter, Widow. 
 
 William Andrew of the Parish of 
 the Holy Trinity, Yeoman. 
 
 William Mungwell of the Parish 
 of Saint Mary Major, feltmaker.
 
 416 
 
 68. 10 December, 1624. 
 
 69. 16 March, 1625 . 
 
 60. 21 September, 1626 
 
 61. 18 November, 1625. 
 
 62. 26 July, 1627 
 
 63. 9 August, 1627 . 
 
 64. 24 March, 1628 . 
 
 65. 29 August, 1628 . 
 
 66. 27 May, 1630 
 
 67. 17 January, 1631 . 
 
 68. 4 February, 1633 . 
 
 69. 10 July, 1635 
 
 69(a). 24 July, 1635 
 
 70. 25 July, 1636 
 
 71. 24 January, 1638 . 
 
 72. 4 April, 1640 
 
 73. 26 December, 1640. 
 
 74. 3 March, 1642 
 
 75. 22 June, 1642 
 
 76. 
 
 1772 
 
 77. 4 June, 1765 
 
 78. 24 October (? circa) 
 
 1600 
 
 John Snellinge of Exeter, Mer- 
 chant. 
 
 Administration granted to Thomas 
 Wyatt, son of Matthew Wyett, 
 late of Exeter. 
 
 Pryam Hellier of Exeter, Mercer. 
 
 John Gupwill of Exeter, Mer- 
 chant. 
 
 John Jordaine of Exeter, Mer- 
 chant. 
 
 John Savidge of Exeter, Clock- 
 maker. 
 
 John Baker, of the Parish of 
 Saint George's, Baker. 
 
 Thomas Wade, Senior, of Exeter, 
 Brewer. 
 
 Andrew Stabeck of Exeter, fuller. 
 
 Mrs. Ann Amye, Widow. (Ex- 
 tract.) 
 
 Richard Jarman, of the Parish of 
 Holy Trinity, Exeter, Yeo- 
 man. 
 
 Roger Jewell, of the Parish of 
 All Hallows on the Walls, Cord- 
 wainer. 
 
 John Grout, Minister of Saint 
 SidweU's. 
 
 Nicholas Grigory of Exeter, fuller. 
 
 George Harris of Exeter, Mer- 
 chant. 
 
 Henry Dabbenot of Exeter, 
 Baker. 
 
 Richard Cater of Exeter, fuller. 
 (Inventory of his goods in- 
 closed.) 
 
 Edward Dight, of the Parish of 
 Saint Martin, Stationer. 
 
 William Lapp, of the Parish of 
 Saint George, butcher (de- 
 cayed). 
 
 Instructions for making Mary 
 Mortimer's will. 
 
 Clement Stooke of Exeter, Grocer. 
 
 Memorand. of Will of Nicholas 
 Trippe. 
 
 Books of the Receivers' Accounts of the City of Exeter. 
 
 1. 32-3 Henry VIII to 18 Elizabeth. Books of Receivers' 
 Accounts. One volume and a draft Account of 
 16-16 Henry VIII,
 
 417 
 
 2. 20 Elizabeth to 21 James I 
 
 3. Various dates between 
 
 1556-1716. 
 
 4. 1721 to 1744 
 
 5. 1745 1754 
 
 6. 1754 1770 
 
 7. 1771 1790 
 
 8. 1790 1810 
 
 9. 1810 ,, 1835 
 
 These Books are the con- 
 tinuation of the Re- 
 ceivers' Accounts, See 
 page 224. 
 
 Books of Mentals of City Property accompanying the 
 
 Receivers' Accounts. 
 
 They show the yearly income of the City, 1700 to 1833. 
 [Six Bundles.] 
 
 Books of Butcher Stalls Rents. 
 1781 to 1834 [4 Bundles]. 
 
 Receivers' Cash Books. 
 1795 to 1835-6 [5 Bundles]. 
 1 Bundle. 1818 to 1833. Receivers' Petty and Private 
 
 Ledgers (13 Volumes). 
 
 1 ,, 1771 to 1823. Instructions to Receivers. 
 1 1825 to 1830. Memorandum Books. Receiver's 
 
 Office. 
 
 1 Various dates. Receivers' Accounts ; 7 odd Books 
 relating thereto. 
 
 Receivers' Vouchers. 
 
 These are bundles of the Vouchers produced by the 
 Receivers on passing their Accounts. 
 1604 to 1834 [174 Bundles.] 
 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 Vilvane's Charity. 
 Various dates, 1 Ditto of Miscellaneous. 
 [Gaps 1606-1607, 1609-1674, 1678-1683, 1687-1689, 1692, 
 1704, 1707, 1737, 1771.] 
 
 City Treasurers' Vouchers. 
 
 These are similar documents to the Receivers' Vouchers. 
 1836 to 1857. [22 Bundles.] 
 
 Counterparts, &c. 
 
 These are Bundles of Counterparts of Leases, Deeds, 
 Agreements, &c., &c., relating to the City Estates. They are 
 
 Wt. 20757. Ex 27 
 
 1746 
 
 1758, 
 
 1 Bundle ^ 
 
 1777 
 
 1800, 
 
 1 Ditto 
 
 1754 
 1821 
 
 17591 
 
 1824] 
 
 1 Ditto 
 
 1647 
 
 1688, 
 
 1 Ditto 
 
 1580 
 
 1813, 
 
 1 Ditto 
 
 1751 
 
 
 1 Bundle. ^
 
 418 
 
 roughly arranged in reigns, but are not sorted into strictly 
 chronological order each document has the date endorsed 
 on it in pencil. No Calendar has been made of them at 
 present, as they were not considered to be of sufficient 
 importance. All documents relating to matters upon which 
 questions appear likely yet to arise [so far as can be judged] 
 have been selected from them, and are described in the 
 Calendar of Deeds, &c. 
 
 James I to 1820 downwards. [46 Bundles.] 
 1660 to 1700. Counterpart Leases of New Inn. Two 
 Bundles. 
 
 Town Customs. Collectors' Accounts. 
 
 These are the quarterly, half-yearly and yearly Accounts 
 rendered by the Collectors of the Town Custom to the Receiver 
 of the City. They have been taken from the bundles of 
 Receivers' Vouchers described on p. 1388 et seq. They contain 
 the particulars of the Receipt of the Town Custom as it was 
 collected. 
 
 1723 to 1750, 1 Bundle. 
 
 1750 1762, 1 Ditto. 
 
 1762 1791, 1 Ditto. 
 
 1791 1810, 1 Ditto. 
 
 1810 1821, 1 Ditto. 
 
 1825 1846, 1 Ditto. 
 
 1846 1856, 1 Ditto. 
 
 1706 1780, 1 Ditto. Accounts of Topsham Quay. 
 
 1790 1830. Wharfingers' Certificates of money paid to 
 the Receiver Town Clerks' Accounts &c. taken from 
 the bundles of Receivers' Vouchers. 
 
 1699 to 1700. Two Accounts of Town Duty. 
 
 1821. A like Account. 
 
 Law Papers. 
 
 These are bundles of papers in suits in which the City has 
 been at various times engaged. They are arranged in bundles, 
 and each bundle has its title written on it. 
 
 1563. Exeter Canal. Copy of old Deeds of Conveyance. 
 
 1567. Exeter v. Crowne. Respecting the Fishery of the 
 River Exe. 
 
 1574. Regina v. Wm. Moham, John Arundell and Margaret 
 Butter. Copy of a " Nolle Prosequi " against the 
 repesentatives of Henry Courtnay, Marquis of 
 Exeter, deceased, for certain debts and in " amoveas 
 manus " for the Manor of Crewkerne (Somerset) in 
 favour of Defendants. 
 
 1594. Martyn v. Worth. Fishing in the Exe from Exmouth 
 to the head of the River except in the Manor of 
 Exiland. 
 
 1599. Exeter v. Bishop, Dean and Chapter. About their 
 privileges,
 
 419 
 
 1558-1603. Ratcliffe v. Leveryng. Pulling down of Exwick 
 
 Weir. 
 
 1605. Anthony v. Sheere and others. About Topsham Quay. 
 1607. Exeter v. Waller. Ameridith's Charity. 
 1610. Sir Wm. Peter v. Exeter. Suit for damages to a house 
 
 by the erection of a new Weir. Depositions as to 
 
 floods in the Exe &c. 
 1615. Bidwell v. The Chamber. Suit relating to her children 
 
 (orphans) in the Orphan's Court of Exeter. 
 1617. Martin v. TickelL Custody of Orphans. 
 1624. Stubbs v. Martyn. Copy Decree about Topsham 
 
 Quay. 
 
 1624. Mainwaring v. Courtnay. Fishing in the River Exe. 
 1633. Attorney General v. Exeter. Suit about Northernhay 
 
 and Southernhay. 
 
 1636. Kirkham v. Knightley. About a Deed. 
 1647. Chamber v. Callyton. Concerning the Office of 
 
 Receiver. 
 
 1669. Mayor of Exeter's Claim to a fine of 301. imposed 
 on the Kong's Bench. 
 
 1670. Exeter v. Browning. Concerning the erection of a 
 
 Weir in the River Exe and a new leat made between 
 
 the mouth of the Haven and Trew's Weir. Also 
 
 a modern copy of the proceedings. 
 1678. Long v. Savage. Suit about a house in High Street 
 
 belonging to the Dean and Chapter of Exeter. 
 1685. Attorney General v. Row and Spicer. About Ballastage 
 
 at Kenton. 
 
 1693. Glyde v. Sandford. Glyde v. Northmore. About 
 Topsham Quay. 
 
 1694. Isaake v. Coffin. Wear Mills, Topsham. 
 
 1707. Ward v. Hunt. Action as to Wheelage in the City of 
 
 Exeter. 
 
 *20 Elizabeth. Exeter v. Frye. Land near the Barbicans. 
 1700. Exeter v. Starr. The Steward's Office. 
 1727. Hicks v. Exeter. Crikelpitt Mills. 
 1756. The King v. St. SidwelVs. Nuisance.* 
 
 1761. Chamber of Exeter v. Rioters in the Election. 
 
 1762. Mayor &c. of Exeter v. Dame Ann Dyke and others. 
 Ann Dyke's Answer. Dr. Stephen's Will (of which 
 there is a copy). 
 
 1743. Act for recruiting his Majesty's Forces. 
 1770. Paving and Lighting Act for Plymouth. 
 1768. The King v. Stokes. Forgery of Indentures of 
 
 Apprenticeship. 
 
 1773. Act for amending Roads and widening Exe Bridge. 
 1776. Glass v. Haine. As to a Nuisance arising from a 
 
 Manufactory. 
 1778. Insolvent Debtors'' Act. 
 
 * One Bundle.
 
 420 
 
 1784. Attorney General v. Exeter. Suit as to AtwilTs 
 Charity. 
 
 1787. King v. Hy. Lee, Town Clerk. Forfeited Recog- 
 nizances &c. Papers relating to them, allowances 
 in the Exchequer &c., various dates ; also Case. 
 
 1788. Exeter v. Jones and others. Case as to goods of a 
 bastard dying intestate and without heir belonging 
 to the City. 
 
 1788. The King v. Christie, Surgeon of Dragoons. Indict- 
 ment for murder. 
 
 1788. Act for the Workhouse. 
 
 1784 to 1788. Cases as to Hawkers, Pedlars, &c. 
 
 1792. Helems v. Wreyford-'Bovej Mills. 
 
 1794. Paving Act Papers. 
 
 1796-1800. Taunton Canal Papers. 
 
 1810. Papers relating to the Paving Act. 
 
 1810-1811. The King v. City of Exeter. Case and papers 
 concerning the reparation of Cowley Bridge. 
 
 1815. Davy ats Goldsworthy. The Engine Bridge Copy 
 Case. 
 
 1826. Ellis v. Phillips. Felons' goods. 
 
 1827. Attorney General and Mayor of Exeter v. Davy. 
 
 Obstruction of River Exe. Affidavit in opposition 
 to motion, &c. 
 
 1828. King v. Exeter. Canal : Mandamus. 
 
 1829. King v. Mayor &c. Copy. Affidavits to oppose 
 Rule for Mandamus. Case relating to the Canal 
 and Haven. Full Extracts from Act Books, 
 &c. 
 
 1829. Regina v. Macgowan. Case as to the Office of 
 
 Alderman. 
 1837. Coffin v. Mayor of Exon. Injury to premises. 
 
 1839. Eales v. Mayor of Exeter. Markets. 
 
 1840. Fowler and the Council. Architects of the Markets. 
 1840. Mayor of Exeter v. Tucker, and others. Injuries to 
 
 Trew's Weir by a vessel adrift. 
 
 1840. Queen v. Exeter. Poor rate. 
 
 1841. Carter v. The Chamber. The Judge's Lodgings. 
 1843-1844. The King v. Exeter. Mandamus to hold a Court 
 
 to elect an Assessor for Trinity Ward. 
 
 1844. In the Court for relief of Insolvent Debtors. Mayor v. 
 Passmore. In re John Passmore, an Insolvent 
 Debtor, a prisoner in the Gaol of the City of Exeter. 
 Papers. 
 
 1846. Mayor of Exeter v. Trood. Trood v. Mayor. Cases 
 relating to the right of the Canal Banks. 
 
 1849. Williams v. Mayor die. Case respecting the Claims 
 made by Mr. Williams, the late Wharfinger at 
 Topsham, and Mr. Pope, the late Harbour Master and 
 Assistant Wharfinger there, for compensation under 
 5 and 6 William III, c. 76, s. 66.
 
 421 
 
 1831-1852. Attorney General v. Corporation of Exeter. Suit 
 respecting Saint John's Hospital and the Charity 
 property. (Three bundles.) 
 
 1853. Teignmouth Harbour Bill. 
 
 1854. Markets. Papers relating to the Leases and Tolls. 
 
 1854. Exeter and Exmouth. Papers (3 Bundles). 
 
 1855. Exeter and Yeovil Railways. Ditto, ditto. 
 
 1855. Trevillian v. Exeter. The Canal Suit. (Six large 
 bundles.) 
 
 1856. Port Dues Act and Local dues on Shipping Commission. 
 
 1857. Re Jutsum. Felons' goods : Papers. 
 1860. Case relating to the rating of Exeter Ferry. 
 
 Bundle of Cases for Opinions. 
 
 1706. 1. Respecting obligation of Lessee of Fulling Mills 
 to repair the Banks of the River. 
 
 1765. 2. Respecting a house called " The Green Dragon." 
 
 1773. 3. Atwill's Charity. 
 
 1783. 4. Amoval of a Mayor for poverty. 
 
 1783. 5. Selling goods out of the Market. 
 
 1783. 6. Removal of Markets. 
 
 1787. 7. Rate to Limit the wages of Journeymen Wool- 
 sorters in Exeter. 
 
 1791. 8. Markets. 
 
 1795. 9. Duties of Constables. 
 
 1795. 10. Respecting the Mayor's not having a casting 
 vote. 
 
 1821. 11. Respecting Advowson of the Rectory of Hennock. 
 
 1822. 12. In re refusal of Harris to execute office of 
 Constable. 
 
 1824. 13. Respecting the rating of the Canal to the parishes 
 of Alphington and Topsham. 
 
 1825. 14. Mr. Wharfinger Upham's Accounts &c. 
 
 No date. 15. In the Queen's Bench. The King v. Mayor 
 of Exeter. Notes of a Conference with Mr. Coleridge 
 about pilotage in the River Exe. 
 
 1825. 16. Hawkers and Pedlars. 
 
 1826. 17. Bishop of Exeter v. Exeter Claim to a for- 
 feiture. 
 
 1833. 18. Campell v. Follet Exeter Market. 
 
 1837. 19. Southernhay Green. 
 
 1839. 20. Southernhay houses. 
 
 1847. 21. Respecting thatched houses in Exeter. 
 
 1859. 22. Sale of Gas. 
 
 1859. 23. In the matter of the election of the forty 
 Guardians in Exeter. 
 
 1860. 24. As to Aldermen being bound to serve or pay a 
 fine. 
 
 No date. Hicks v. Exeter. Suit respecting the Bonhay 
 
 Mills and the Water Course there. 
 No date. Miscellaneous Law Papers, Bills of Costs &c.
 
 Town Customs Law Papers. 
 
 These are the papers in Suits relating to the Town Customs. 
 
 Elizabeth. Exeter v. Bowerman. Defendant claimed exemp- 
 tion as a freeman of Taunton. 
 
 1658. Exeter v. Izaacke. Office Copy of Interrogatories and 
 Depositions. See the Transcripts. 
 
 1625. Town of Weymouth v. Crossing. Petty Customs at 
 Weymouth. Copies of Ancient Records relating to 
 Weymouth. 
 
 1660. Exeter v. Wade. Decrees. 
 
 1731. Exeter v. Upcott. Brief. Customs for Goods landed 
 at Topsham. 
 
 1732. Exeter v. Baker. Town Customs at Topsham. 
 1760. Coleman v. Exeter. Papers. 
 
 1760. Mayor v. Coleman. Mayor v. Davis. Mayor v. 
 
 Jackson. Mayor v. Passevant. Customs on Goods 
 
 landed at Topsham. 
 1777. Exeter v. Annies. Defendant claimed exemption as 
 
 freeman of London. 
 
 1788. Exeter v. Tozer. Defendant claimed exemption as a 
 freeman of London. 
 
 1789. Corporation of Lynn v. Corporation of London. Trial 
 about Petty Customs. 
 
 1815. Exeter v. Boyd. Brief. Customs at Teignmouth. 
 1827. Case for opinion of Mr. Coleridge Customs at 
 
 Topsham Quay. 
 
 1842. Exeter v. Warren. Briefs &c. 
 1842. Exeter v. Warren. Miscellaneous Papers, Proofs &c. 
 
 relating to the Suit. 
 1845. Exeter v. Harvey. Papers. 
 1858. Exeter v. Lawrence. Customs on Goods landed at 
 
 Budleigh Salterton. 
 
 Town Customs. Cases for Opinions. 
 
 1760. 1. Copy of a note of Mr. Drewe's for Mr. Justice 
 
 Wilmot's charge to the Jury on the Trial of the 
 
 Exeter Cause for Petty Customs. 
 1772. 2. Draft Case as to the Variation of the Rates for 
 
 Town Customs. 
 
 1798. 3. As to taking distress for Dues. 
 1801. 4. As to dues on coals landed at Countess Weir. 
 1814. 5. As to Town Dues on Newfoundland Fish landed 
 
 at Teignmouth. 
 1821. 6. As to Tolls, Town Dues &c. taken at Exeter 
 
 Quay and the power of the Wharfinger to detain 
 
 goods for payment of Dues. 
 No date. 7. Proofs and evidences for the Title of the 
 
 Chamber of Exeter to the Town Duties. (Imperfect.) 
 The first two leaves of an elaborate dissertation 
 
 on ye evidence.
 
 423 
 
 1771. 8. Draft case as to exemption of non-resident 
 
 freemen of London from Town Duties. 
 1705. 9. Case for opinion about the Mayor's Dues. 
 
 Draft Leases, Grants, Mortgages, &c. 
 
 These are draft Leases of City property they are tied up 
 in bundles, described as below. 
 Various dates : 
 About 
 
 1734. Draft Leases. 
 
 1719 to 1757. Draft Leases, Mortgages &c. 
 
 1772 1781. Bovey Mills, New Inn, St. David's, Custom 
 House &c. 
 
 1694. Copy Lease of Waterworks. 1 Bundle. 
 
 1783. Abstract of title to premises in Goldsmith Street. ,, 
 
 1698. Mortgage of Exiland &c. 
 
 1780 to 1805. Saint John's Hospital. 
 
 1770 1819. Draft Leases, Grants &c. 
 
 1789 1821. Ditto. 
 
 1780 1821. Ditto. 
 
 1811 1822. Two Bundles. 
 
 1791 1822. Draft Leases &c. 
 
 1765 1843. Ditto. 
 
 Miscellaneous Papers. 
 
 These are tied up in parcels, and described on the outside 
 as appears below : 
 
 1620 to 1639. Quietuses from the Exchequer for the 
 Escheator in the City of Exeter. 
 
 1654. Papers relating to the purchase and sale of Irish 
 Estates. 
 
 A bundle of 13 letters and papers relating to the 
 lands purchased by the Corporation in Ireland in 
 1654. The Corporation bought 4,185 acres 29 poles 
 of meadow and arable land and profitable pasture in 
 the Barony of Middlethird, County Tipperary, for 
 9,890?. 105. Od. 
 
 N.B. It was afterwards sold for a few hundreds. 
 See Act Books. 
 
 1698. TheChamberand William Baity of Winchester. Articles, 
 Covenants and Agreements for making the River Exe 
 Navigable. They contain a full specification of the 
 work to be done. (17 Sheets of Brief.) 
 
 1688 to 1706. Papers relating to the visit of King William III 
 to Exeter. 
 
 19 James I to 3 Charles I. Bonds of Sealers of Leather. 
 
 1600 to 1700 (various dates). Petitions of poor, sick and 
 needy persons for relief, admission to Almshouses &c. 
 
 1660 to 1750. A bundle of similar Petitions for offices, 
 benefits, reliefs &c.
 
 424 
 
 1700 to 1750 ? Petitions for freedom of the City and Acts 
 
 thereon. One bundle. 
 
 Temp. Elizabeth. Royal Proclamations (much decayed). 
 1625 to 1699. Ditto. 
 
 1727 1743. Royal Proclamations. 
 
 1744 1776. Ditto. 
 
 N.B. Between 1733 and 1751 the series appears 
 to be perfect. 
 
 24 Elizabeth, 6 James I, 9 Charles I, 22 Ditto, 1680 to 1710. 
 Receipts for Fee Farm, Cranage of Topsham &c. 
 From bundles of Receivers' Vouchers. 
 
 1624 to 1629. Lammas Fair, Saint Nicholas Ditto, Shrove- 
 tide ditto, Whitsuntide Ditto. Collectors' Papers 
 relating to the profits of these Fairs. 
 
 1631 to 1731. Lammas Fair. Court of Pie-powder Papers. 
 
 1.1619 to 1681 ; 2. 1709 to 1759 ; 3. 1761 to 1792 ; 4. 1789 
 to 1797. Lammas Fair. Books relating to the 
 proceedings in and profits of the Fair. Some odd 
 papers in this last volume. 
 
 1745 to 1761. Cattle Plague. Orders in Council and papers 
 
 relating thereto. 
 1731 to 1761. Assize of Bread. The weekly setting of the 
 
 price of bread not a perfect series. 
 Various dates (1645 to 1766). Accounts of the Wardens of 
 
 the poor. 
 
 1758 to 1767. Corporation of the Poor's Certificates. 
 1751 to 1795. Contracts for letting the Chamber's property. 
 1791 to 1795. Affidavits of Soldiers enlisted in the East 
 
 India Company's Service. 
 1698 to 1699. Extracts from the Act Books relating to the 
 
 setting of the poor to work in the Workhouse. 
 1730, 1731, 1758, 1800. The City Scavenger's Agree- 
 ments. 
 
 Various dates between 1550 and 1813. Old Bonds for per- 
 formance of Covenants for money for good 
 
 behaviour for annuities &c. 
 
 1813. Petitions and Papers against Roman Catholics. 
 No date. Papers relating to the Settlement of Mr. Town 
 
 Clerk Gandy's Bills. [Henry Gandy, 1733-1752. 
 
 Oliver, 242.] 
 
 Various dates. Extracts from Parish Registers. 
 Circa. 1700. Miscellaneous Rentals. 
 Circa. 1700. Portion of a Survey. 
 1688. Survey of City property by Richard Izaacke. 
 1700. Portions of a Survey. 
 3 to 20 Elizabeth, 30 to 34 Ditto, 5 to 10 James I. Court 
 
 Rolls of Harold's Fee. Court Rolls of Exiland. 
 
 (Much torn.) 
 
 1650 to 1657. Accounts of the Warden of the Magdalen. 
 1626 to 1655. A rental and three Accounts of the Wardens 
 
 of Exbridge.
 
 425 
 
 *1699. Awliscombe (2) Surveys. 
 
 *1660 to 1764. Awliscombe and a rental. Exbridge Lands. 
 
 Exiland (3). Harold's Fee. City property. 
 *1700. Duryard. 
 
 1740 to 1760. Rentals of Lawrence Clist. 
 1826 to 1828. Particulars and valuation of Southernhay 
 
 property. 
 1771 to 1780. Papers relating to Manor of Topsham and a 
 
 moiety of Lammas Pair, the Estate of John 
 
 Essington, with a copy of his Will, and an Act of 
 
 Parliament relating thereto. 
 1616 to 1645. Bonds for Charity money lent. 
 1680 to 1689. Accounts of Lant's Charity. 
 14 November, 1745. Papers relating to trust money 
 
 bequeathed by Dr. Lewis Stephens by his Will of 
 
 the date above mentioned. Also a Case and 
 
 Opinion. 
 1745 to 1754. Vouchers for Lethbridge's Charity. 
 
 1758. Accounts of Seldon's Charity. 
 
 1759. Papers relating to Bonevile's Charity. 
 1761. Papers relating to Acland's Charity. 
 
 1802. Saint John's Hospital. Correspondence relating 
 
 thereto. 
 1811 to 1815. Letters and papers relating to the Magdalen 
 
 and other Charities. 
 
 1837 to 1859. Papers relating to the Charities. 
 Various dates. Miscellaneous Accounts of Charities. 
 1780 to 1794. Bond for maintenance of Bastards. (On a 
 
 file.) 
 
 1855. Militia Act Papers. 
 No date. Conservators of Fishing. 
 Various dates. Title Deeds of Pidgley's Mill. 
 Various dates. Title Deeds of premises at the upper end of 
 
 Southernhay purchased from Mr. Drewe. 
 1857 to 1858. Jeffery and Cobley. Papers relating to 
 
 premises in Saint David's parish. And Draft Lease 
 
 for a term of 1,000 years from Corporations. 
 1838. Papers relating to the Coronation of her Majesty 
 
 Queen Victoria. 
 
 1854. Parliamentary Registration. 
 1758, 1799. Victuallers' Recognizances and Licences. 
 Various dates between 1674 to 1794. Surveyors' Reports, and 
 1811 to 1818. Surveys for letting property. 
 
 Oaths of Custom House Officers appointed for the 
 
 Port of Exeter. Two bundles. 
 
 The Gild of Tailors of Exeter. A bundle containing 
 
 their Charters and Bye Laws, and two Books of their 
 
 Acts. N.B. These were given to Mr. Gidley, the 
 
 Town Clerk, when the Corporation of Tailors was 
 
 dissolved. 
 
 * Miscellaneous Surveys &o.
 
 426 
 
 1688 to 1822. Books and Papers of Assessments of Poor 
 
 rates. One bundle. 
 1700 to 1800. Apprentices' Indentures. 
 Elizabeth to 1779. Prison Keepers' Bonds. 
 1779 to 1823. Ditto. 
 
 1744 to 1803. Internal Defence. Proceedings under the 
 
 Defence Act. 
 1801. Papers relating to a supply of herrings from the 
 
 Frith of Forth obtained by the Chamber for the 
 
 relief of the distressed poor in the neighbourhood of 
 
 Exeter. 
 
 1727 to 1823. Mayors' Deputations. 
 1735, 1736, 1738, 1740, 1760, 1768. Polls for Election of 
 
 Mayor. 
 1684 to 1765. Extracts from the Chamber Act Books 
 
 relating to the Canal. 
 
 1840. Papers relating to the leasing of the Coal Quay &c. 
 1847 to 1848, 1849. Mayors' Accounts of Fines. 
 Various dates between 1825 to 1842. Letters. 
 1838. Government Letters. 
 
 1814 to 1830. The City Council's Letters and Papers. 
 1836 to 1841. The City Council's Letters. 
 
 No date. Miscellaneous Council Papers. 
 1812 to 1827. Letters and Papers of the General Purposes 
 and Financial Committee. 
 
 1815 to 1829. Letters and Papers of the Navigation Com- 
 
 mittee. In these there is much matter relating to 
 
 the Conservancy of the River. 
 1832 to 1860. Reports of Committees. 
 1856 to 1858. Reports of Surveyors. 
 1581. Rates for the Barrel bearers. 
 1633. Statutes for the Free Grammar School. 
 ? 1640. Orders for keeping the Counter. 
 1771. Bye- Law relating to the Slaughtering of Cattle. 
 1677. Copy Bye- Laws of the Bakers' Company. 
 1686. Bye- Laws respecting the punishment of Foreigners 
 
 residing in the City. 
 1699. Rates for landing goods at the Quay at Bristol. 
 
 (Printed.) 
 ? 1700. Orders for the Key or Wharf of Topsham. 
 
 1731. Bye- Laws for establishing a nightly watch. 
 
 1732. Rates for the carriage of goods brought to Exeter 
 from London. 
 
 1800. Bye- Laws for the removal of dirt &c. from the streets. 
 
 (Printed copies and the draft.) 
 1807. Bye-Law for the regulation of the Streets. (Printed 
 
 copies.) 
 
 1809. Bye- Laws respecting Weavers' wayers. 
 1827. Market Bye- Laws. (Printed.) 
 
 1829. Exeter Canal Bye- Laws. (Drafts and printed copies.) 
 No date. Topsham Quay Bye- Laws.
 
 427 
 
 1837. Lower Market Bye- Laws. (Printed.) 
 
 1837. Hackney Coach Bye- Laws. (Draft.) 
 
 1838. Hackney Coach Bye- Laws. (Ditto.) 
 
 1839. Ditto. (Ditto.) 
 
 1839. Bye-Laws of Bonhay Cattle Market. (Ditto.) 
 1839. Bye- Law for imposing fines for not accepting the 
 
 Offices of Mayor, Alderman, Councillor, Auditor 
 
 or Assessor. (Original and draft.) 
 1841. Similar Bye- Law. 
 1845. Market Bye- Laws (not executed). 
 1849. Bye- Law for abolishing the Fly Stand in front of 
 
 the New London Inn adjoining the public footway. 
 
 (Draft.) 
 
 1849. Hackney Coach Bye- Law. (Draft and printed copy.) 
 1626 to 1627. Free Loan Papers. Papers relating to the 
 
 celebrated free loan raised by Charles I. 
 No date (? 1780). Papers relating to the removal of the 
 
 Markets. 
 
 1812. Affidavits concerning Bribery at Election. 
 1793 to 1813. Corn Returns showing the price of wheat &c. 
 1640 to 1660. Cancelled Bonds for Money. 
 Charles II, James II. Orders for fining persons assembling 
 
 hi Conventicles. 
 1700 to 1830. Sundry old Bonds for Charity money &c. 
 
 Exeter and Crediton Canal Share Certificates. One 
 
 bundle. 
 1662. Orders for removal of Members of the Council for 
 
 refusing to subscribe the Oaths at the Restoration. 
 1756. Papers relating to the Collection of the Royal Aid. 
 Charles I and II. Writs of Habeas Corpus, Certiorari, error 
 
 &c. addressed to the Mayor and Bailiffs of the Provost 
 
 Court. 
 1562 to 1650. Orphan's Court Papers, relating to Execution 
 
 of Wills and Custody of Orphans, Accounts of 
 
 Funerals, Recognizances, Receipts &c. 
 
 Subsidies. 
 
 Elizabeth, James and Charles I. A large bundle of Subsidies, 
 Returns, Assessments, Precepts to levy quietuses 
 and other documents relating thereto ; in bad 
 condition. 
 
 28 Oct., 1771. Papers relating to Fees payable to the Clerk 
 of the Peace and Town Clerk of Exeter List of 
 Fees and a List for the County of Somerset. 
 
 1611 to 1789. Copies of divers Orders of the Council of 
 Exeter. 
 
 1558 to 1713. Sundry Accounts and portions of Accounts. 
 Some in Hooker's handwriting. 
 
 1836 to 1856. Orders of Council for payment of monies &c. 
 One bundle. 
 Sundry Plans and old Drawings.
 
 428 
 
 Unassorted Papers of the 18th and 19th Centuries. 
 
 This large mass of papers has been only very roughly 
 arranged, as they do not appear to be of sufficient value to 
 justify the expenditure of time necessary to reduce them 
 into order. 
 
 A.D. 1700 to 1800. A quantity of Rolls containing the 
 
 entries of the admission of persons to the Liberty of the 
 
 City. 
 
 Bundles of sworn informations at the Sessions of the Peace. 
 Miscellaneous Sessions Papers. Presentments of Juries, 
 
 Precepts &c. 
 Oath Rolls, viz. : Lists of persons subscribing to the Oath 
 
 of Allegiance, Oath of Supremacy &c. 
 A.D. 1800-1848. Indictments &c. at the Sessions of the 
 
 Peace. 
 Sessions Papers, Recognizances &c. A.D. 1700-1800. 
 
 Transcripts. 
 
 N.B. These documents are not arranged in strictly 
 chronological order, as many were found after the first portion 
 was arranged. 
 
 2001. Henry I. Grant to the Priory of the Holy Trinity 
 of the Fee Farm rent of Exeter. Office Copy. Cartse 
 Antiquae. No. 15. 
 
 2002. Henry I. Confirmation of Queen Maud's Grant to 
 the Priory of the Holy Trinity. Office Copy. Cartae 
 Antiquae. No. 16. 
 
 2003. Henry II. Confirmation of the same. Office Copy. 
 Cartae Antiquae. No. 17. 
 
 2004. Henry II. Charter of Freedom from ToU. Old 
 copy, XVTIth Century. [Original Charters Nos. I, 
 
 II, III.] 
 
 2005. Richard I. 24 March, 1190. Similar Charter. Old 
 copy. [Charters No. IV, V, VI.] Also a like Charter 
 without date [Original Charters No. VII]. Charter 
 24 March, 1237 [Original Charters No. X], and 
 22 August, 1292, grant of custody of the Seal for 
 recognizances [Charter No. XVI]. 
 
 2006. 2007. 6 John. Pipe Roll 6 John. Two Extracts. 
 
 Office copies. 
 
 2008. 14 Henry III. Pipe Roll 14 Henry III. Extract. 
 Office copy. 
 
 2009. 2-3 Edward I. Common Pleas Roll, 2-3 Edward I. 
 Copy Decree in Countess of Devon v. City of Exeter, 
 respecting Tolls at Topsham. Old copy. 
 
 2010. 201 1, 2012. 4 Edward I. Hundred Rolls, 4 Edward I. 
 
 Two Extracts, two Office Copies and one in Izaacke's 
 hand. 
 
 2013. 23 Edward I. Grant of Murage. Office Copy. 
 
 2014. 4 May, 28 Edward I. Similar Grant. Office Copy.
 
 429 
 
 2015, 2016. 4 May, 28 Edward I. Confirmation Charter. 
 Two old copies. [Charter No. XVII.] 
 
 2017. ? 10 Edward II. Imperfect Copy of the Articles of 
 complaint by the City against the Earl of Devon 
 and the Inquisitions thereon. See Miscellaneous 
 Rolls No. 3. Old Copy. 
 
 2018. ? 10 Edward II. Another Copy of the Inquisition. 
 Old Copy. 
 
 2018A. ? 10 Edward II. Another Copy of the Inquisition. 
 Old Copy. 
 
 2019. 12 November, 14 Edward II. Confirmation Charter. 
 Old Copy. [Charter No. XVIII.] 
 
 2020. 18 November, 14 Edward II. Grant of Pavage. 
 Office Copy. 
 
 2021. 14 Edward II. Fine Roll, for the Confirmation. 
 Office Copy. 
 
 2022. 1 March, 3 Edward III. Confirmation Charter. Copy 
 in Hooker's hand. [Charter No. XIX.] 
 
 2023. 3 Edward III. Fine RoU for grant of pavage. 
 Office Copy. 
 
 2024. 17 March, 11 Edward III. Charter of the Duchy of 
 Cornwall. Office Copy. 
 
 2025. 17 March, 11 Edward III. A Translation of the 
 same. Not certified by anyone. 
 
 2026. 16 Edward III. Fine Roll, for a grant of murage. 
 Office Copy. 
 
 2027. 20 August, 18 Edward III. Commission to enforce 
 the Statutes of Northampton. [Commissions &c. 
 No. XLIX.] 
 
 2028. 3 November, 37 Edward III. Exemplification of 
 Placita Coronse 9-10 Edward I concerning the 
 liberties of Exeter. Office Copy. 
 
 2029. 3 February, 39 Edward III. Exemplification of 
 Domesday Book &c. Office Copy. [Original Charters 
 No. XXI.] 
 
 2030. 23 June, 5 Richard II. Commission for a Proclama- 
 tion. [Commissions &c. No. LIL] Old Copy. 
 
 2031. 14 December, 2 Henry V. Confirmation Charter. 
 Office Copy. N.B. The Original Charter is not 
 among the Archives. 
 
 2032. 11 December, 8 Henry VI. Exemplification of 
 Domesday about Saint Sid well's. Old Copy. 
 Imperfect. 
 
 2033. 27 March, 15 Henry VI. Letters Patent of Pardon. 
 Old Copy. [Commissions &c. No. LIV.] 
 
 2034. 6 July, 24 Henry VI. Similar Letters Patent. Old 
 Copy. [Commissions &c. No. LV.] 
 
 2035. 4 November, 24 Henry VI. Grant to Earl Devon 
 of the Conservatorship of the River Exe. Old Copy. 
 
 2036 and 2037. 4 November, 24 Henry VI. Two other 
 Copies.
 
 430 
 
 2038 and 2039. 28 Henry VI. Act of Resumption. Two 
 old Copies. 
 
 2040. 29 Henry VI. Act of Resumption. Copy examined 
 by Izaacke with the Original. 
 
 2041. Henry VI. Grant of the Conservatorship of the 
 River Exe to Sir William Boneville for life. 
 
 2042. 1 July, 3 Edward IV. Charter to Exeter. Old 
 Copy. [Charter No. XXVIII.] 
 
 2043 and 2044. 23 August, 29 Henry VIII. Charter to 
 
 Exeter. Two old Copies. 
 2045 and 2046. Modern copy of a portion of the Charter 
 
 relating to exemption from returning estreats, and 
 
 an extended copy in modern handwriting [Charter 
 
 No. XXXIII]. Also an Abstract in English of the 
 
 Charter of 22 October, 36 Charles II [Charter 
 
 No. XLVI]. 
 2047 and 2048. ? Henry VIII. A Proclamation for the 
 
 pulling down of weirs &c. Two old Copies. 
 2049. 3 Edward VI. Copy of Particular for the grant of 
 
 the Monastic property in Exeter. See Deeds, p. 892. 
 
 Old Copy. 
 2060. 4 Edward VI. Copy Minister's Account of the 
 
 Manor of Exiland. Old Copy. 
 
 2051. 4 Edward VI. Copy of another similar Account. 
 Old Copy. 
 
 2052. 4 Edward VI. Copy Particular for the grant of 
 Exiland. Old Copy. 
 
 2053. 18 March, 3 Edward VI. Exemplification of Act of 
 Parliament respecting the bounds of the City of 
 Exeter. Old Copy. [Charter &c. No. XXXV.] 
 
 2054. 2055, 2056. 22 December, 4 Edward VI. Charter 
 
 of Exiland. Old copy in a roll- old draft and 
 
 extract. [Charter No. XXXVI.] 
 2067. 8 November, 4 Elizabeth. Grant of Bone vile 's 
 
 Almshouses. Old Copy. [Charter &c. No. XXXVIII.] 
 2058 and 2059. Hillary, 7 Elizabeth. Exchequer Record 
 
 concerning the Limits of the Port of Exeter. Two 
 
 old copies. 
 
 2060. 25 February, 11 Elizabeth. Commission for sup- 
 pression of unlawful games. Old Copy. [Com- 
 missions &c. No. LXL] 
 
 2061. 26 June, 13 Elizabeth. Charter of the Duchy of 
 Cornwall. Translation in Hooker's handwriting. 
 
 2062. 4 July, 13 Elizabeth. Commission for a Subsidy. 
 Old Copy. [Commissions No. LXIL] 
 
 2063. 2 June, 14 Elizabeth. Exemplification of Deed of 
 Exchange and Act of Parliament relating to the 
 Duke of Somerset's possessions. Old Copy. [Charter 
 No. XLL] 
 
 2064 and 2065. 21 January, 29 Elizabeth. Appointment 
 of the Earl of Bath as Lord Lieutenant of Devon
 
 431 
 
 and Exeter and his appointment of his Deputies. Old 
 Copy- [Commissions &c. Nos. LXIV and LXIV(a).] 
 
 2066. 27 July, 32 Elizabeth. Commission for a subsidy. 
 Old Copy. [Commissions &c. No. LXV.] 
 
 2067. 6 July, 41 Elizabeth. Appointment of Earl of 
 Bath Lord Lieutenant. Old Copy. [Commissions 
 &c. No. LXIX.] 
 
 2068. 3 December, 43 Elizabeth. Similar appointment. 
 Old Copy. [See Commissions No. LXX.] 
 
 2069. 16 December, 43 Elizabeth. Deputation to Deputy 
 Lieutenants. Old Copy. [See Commissions &c. 
 No. LXXL] 
 
 2070 and 2071. 13 August, 44 Elizabeth. Ordinances of 
 the Weavers and Tuckers Company. Old Copy. 
 [See Deeds &c., No. 1692.] Also a Copy of the 
 Incorporation of the Society, without date. 
 
 2072. Elizabeth. Charter concerning the Brewers of 
 Exeter. Copy in English ; noted in the margin by 
 Hooker. 
 
 2073. 25 February, 6 James I. Appointment of Earl of 
 Bath, Lord Lieutenant. Old Copy. [See Com- 
 missions &c. No. LXXIV.] 
 
 2074. 27 June, 8 James I. Exemplification of Decree 
 concerning forfeited Recognizances. Old Copy. [See 
 Charters &c. No. XLIII.] 
 
 2075. 16 February, 8 James I. Exemplification of the 
 Act for rebuilding Calabeer Wear. Old Copy. [See 
 Charter &c. No. XLIV.] 
 
 2076. 2 July, 11 James I. Commission against Pirates. 
 Contemporary Copy. [See Deeds &c. No. 1723.] 
 
 2077. 28 November, 15 James I. Copy Decree concerning 
 the Cranage and Quay of Topsham. Old Copy, 
 torn. 
 
 2078. . Modern Copy. 
 
 2079. 1754. Abstract of title of Mr. William Sanford to 
 one-sixth of Topsham Quay. 
 
 2080. 12 February, 1729. Orders and Rates for the Quay 
 at Topsham. 
 
 2081. 14 June, 14 Charles I. Copy of the Charter granting 
 the manor of Topsham to Edward Ditchfield and 
 others. 
 
 2082. 26 May, 21 James I. Commission of oyer and 
 terminer. Old Copy. [See Commissions &c. No. 
 LXXXIIL] 
 
 2083. 23 June, 21 James I. Pardon to Edmund Halstaff. 
 Old Copy. [See Commissions &c. No. LXXXIV.] 
 
 2084. 17 January, 22 James I. Commission for a Subsidy. 
 Old Copy. [See Commissions &c. No. XC.] 
 
 2085. 15 August, 1 Charles I. Commission to levy a 
 Subsidy. Old Copy. [See Commissions &c. No, 
 XCI.j
 
 2086. 16 February, 1 Charles I. Commission for a Subsidy. 
 Old Copy. [See Commissions &c. No. XCIII.] 
 
 2087. 17 December, 3 Charles I. Extract from Charter 
 as to felons' goods &c. Translated by Mr. Gidley. 
 
 2088. 24 November, 8 Charles I. Commission of oyer and 
 terminer. Old Copy. [See Commissions &c. No. 
 XCVIL] 
 
 2089. 20 December, 9 Charles I. Commission, and return 
 of collection, for the restoration of Saint Paul's 
 Cathedral. Old Copy. [See Commissions, No. 
 XCVIIL] 
 
 2090. 2 June, 1637, 13 Charles I. Foundation Charter of 
 Saint John's Hospital. Contemporary Copy. 
 
 2091. 8 July, 17 Charles I. Commission of oyer 
 terminer. Old Copy. [See Commissions &c. No. 
 CIL] 
 
 2092. 4 December, 22 Charles I, 1646. Commission to 
 inquire concerning rebellions, misdemeanours &c., &c. 
 Old Copy. 
 
 2093. 2094, 2095. 23 December, 1651. Particular for the 
 
 sale of the fee farm rents of the City of Exeter. (Three 
 Office Copies.) 
 
 2096. 1658. Mayor of Exeter v. Izaacke. Interrogatories 
 and Depositions in a suit about Petty Customs. 
 Office Copy. 
 
 2097. 14 July, 14 Charles II. Commission of Lieutenancy 
 to the Duke of Albemarle. Old Copy. [See Com- 
 missions No. CIX.] 
 
 2098. 1 August, 16 Charles II. Commission of Inquiry. 
 Old Copy. 
 
 2099. 29 September, 26 Charles II. Commission of gaol 
 delivery. Old Copy. [See Commissions &c. No. 
 CXI.] 
 
 2100. 2101, 2102, 2103. 29 Charles II. Copy of Commission 
 
 and Survey touching the Limits of the Ports of 
 Exeter and Dartmouth. Three old copies and a 
 modern extract. 
 
 2104. 22 November, 31 Charles II. Commission to 
 administer the Oath of Supremacy. Old Copy. 
 [See Commissions &c. No. CXIII.] 
 
 2105. 20 June, 1 Anne. Pardon to Margaret Floyd and 
 several others. Old Copy. 
 
 2106 and 2107. 5 George III. Commission to appoint 
 Keys and Wharfs and settle the bounds of the Port 
 of Exeter. Old Copy, and Office Copy. 
 
 2108. Edward I, Henry VII. Extracts from the Mayor's 
 Court Rolls of Licences to discharge ships, and notes 
 of forfeitures for non-entry of Town Custom. 
 
 2109. 16 Henry VIII. Strangwaye v. Wilford. Recovery 
 of the Manor of Oxton and other property. Old 
 Copy.
 
 433 
 
 2110. 1596. A view for discovering the bounds of the 
 Fee of Saint SidwelTs. Copy in Hooker's hand- 
 writing. 
 
 2111 to 2119. 6-7 Edward III to 10-11 Charles I. Office 
 Copies of Extracts from Ministers' Accounts, showing 
 the payment of the fee farm rent. 
 
 2120. 1623. Assessment of a rate for providing a store 
 of Gunpowder. Old Copy. 
 
 2121. 1656. " The Gifte of Mr. George Keate of London 
 of 400Z. to the two Hospitals of Boys and Maydes. 
 AD. 1656." Torn. 
 
 2122. 44 Elizabeth to 1639. Extracts from the Chamber 
 Act Books relating to Northernhay. In Mr. Gidley's 
 handwriting. 
 
 2123. 14 April, 15 Edward III. Charter of liberties of 
 Dartmouth. In Hooker's handwriting. 
 
 2124. 30 Edward III. Charter of the Borough of 
 Kedwellye. Copy and Translation in Hooker's 
 handwriting. 
 
 2125. Elizabeth. Charter of the Town of Padstowe, 
 noted by Hooker, 24 June, 1663. Copy of the City of 
 London's Charters of Exemption from Toll &c. 
 Patent Roll, 15 Charles II, p. 13. Modern Copy. 
 
 2126. 12 February, 17 Elizabeth. Exemplification of 
 Charter of 17 August, 1486, which confirms the 
 Charter, 24 March, 1465, of liberties and exemptions 
 to Syon Abbey. Exchequer Memoranda, Easter, 
 5 Henry VII, roll 14. Noted by Hooker. A Roll. 
 
 2127. 15 February, 12 William III. Copy of a Petition of 
 the Chamber to the House of Lords for leave to 
 bring in a Bill to raise money for the Haven. Modern 
 Copy. 
 
 Vol. II. p. 151. Register or Chartulary of Saint John's 
 Hospital. (A book of 97 pages folio.) Not found. 
 
 Wt. 20757. Ex 28
 
 435 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Abbot : 
 
 George, Archbishop of Canter- 
 bury, signature of, 90, 140. 
 
 , the allowance of the 
 
 Bodley preacher referred to, 
 94, 95, 96. 
 
 , petition to, 135. 
 
 , note by, 135. 
 
 , to be appealed to, con- 
 cerning the new schoolmaster 
 for Exeter, 138. 
 
 , special recommendation 
 
 on behalf of William Pcrri- 
 man from, 139. 
 
 , present at a meeting of 
 the Privy Council, 145. 
 
 Matthew, feltmaker, inquiry 
 
 into the death of, 59-60. 
 Accaraii, Danish fort at, 239. 
 Aclarid, Ackland : 
 
 Sir Hugh, Baronet, attestation 
 by, 220. 
 
 John, Alderman of Exeter, 
 signature of, 150, 151. 
 
 , Ferryman's admission to, 
 
 157. 
 
 , makes contribution to- 
 wards the City plate, 322. 
 and see Exeter, Mayor of. 
 
 John or Sir John, knighted 1604, 
 
 letters of, 66, 83, 84. 
 
 , request to, 73. 
 , his liberality to Exeter 
 
 College cited, 100, 102. 
 
 , message to, 192. 
 
 grant from, 323, 324. 
 
 Acland's Charity, 425. 
 Acton Bumell [Shropshire], recog- 
 nisance of, to be set forth, 33. 
 Admiral : 
 
 Lord. See Howard and Clinton. 
 Lord High, order from the Com- 
 missioners (1719) for execut- 
 ing the office of, 235. 
 
 Admiralty, the, licence from, 293. 
 
 commission for a Gaile delivery 
 
 for, 372. 
 African Company, Royal, document 
 
 relating to, 238-243. 
 the Governors and Directors of, 
 
 recommendation to, desired, 
 
 243. 
 Agnus, Maugerus, house in which he 
 
 dwelt, 399. 
 Aid for the marriage of Princess 
 
 Elizabeth (? 1612), 90. 
 towards making Prince Henry 
 
 a knight (1609), 402. 
 
 , documents concerning, 79. 
 
 , Commissioners of the, in- 
 formation to, 79. 
 for the support of George I, 
 
 234. 
 
 Royal, in 1689, book of assess- 
 ment of, 379. 
 
 , collection of (1750), 427. 
 Aisli, a master shoemaker, abusive 
 
 language of, 236. 
 Albemarle, Duke of. /See Monk. 
 Alberton, Nicholas de, will of, 
 
 282. 
 Aldeburgh (Alborough) [Suffolk], 
 
 note of the ships of not less 
 
 than 100 tons burthen belong- 
 ing to, 187. 
 " Alea et cepe," lawful for foreigners 
 
 to sell, 387. 
 Algerine pirates, money contributed 
 
 towards the suppression of, 
 
 89. 
 Aliens, documents concerning, 114- 
 
 15. 
 Alley (Atleigh), William, Bishop of 
 
 Exeter, letters of, 24, 46, 53. 
 Alphington [Devon], manor of, land 
 
 acquired by the Mayor, etc. 
 
 in, 32. 
 
 parish of, 28, 29, 421. 
 Alvington. West [Devon], letter 
 
 dated at, 210. 
 
 Alye, Margaret, house of, 62. 
 America, convicts transported to, 
 
 237, 238. 
 the war in, defeat of the British, 
 
 252.
 
 436 
 
 America cont. 
 
 value of the Royal African Com- 
 pany's Forts to the Settle- 
 ments in, 242. 
 
 Ameredeth, Sir Ames, Baronet, con- 
 veyance for the sale of the 
 Chamber's lands in Ireland 
 to, 329, 330. 
 his bonds unto the Chamber of 
 
 Exeter, 335. 
 a release under the Common 
 
 Seal sealed to, 336. 
 Ameredith, Griffith or Griffin, bur- 
 gess for Exeter in 1549, re- 
 quest to, 22. 
 Blake roll left by, 33. 
 charity of, 238, 419. 
 sale to, 238. 
 return to London, 308. 
 his charges upon the suite of 
 
 church plate, 362-363. 
 gift of, 411. 
 
 Amsterdam, intelligence from, 192. 
 Amye : 
 
 Mrs. Ann, will of, 416. 
 
 Mr., request to, 97. 
 
 Richard, sub-rector of Exeter 
 
 College, letters of, 100-1. 
 Andover (Andivor) [Hants], stage 
 
 for Post, 65. 
 Andrew : 
 
 Thomas, warden of Magdalen 
 Hospital, acquittance from, 
 265. 
 
 William, of Holy Trinity, Exe- 
 ter, will of, 415. 
 Andrewes : 
 
 Lancelot, Bishop of Winchester, 
 present at a meeting of the 
 Privy Council, 145. 
 Thomas, signature of, 328. 
 Anger or Auger, John, letter of, 
 
 31. 
 Anjou : 
 
 Duke of, called King of Sicily 
 
 and Jerusalem, 359. 
 Margaret of, marries Henry VI, 
 359. 
 
 , crowned at Westminster, 
 
 359. 
 Anne: 
 
 Queen, petition to, 220, 223. 
 
 , reduction of duties paid 
 
 to, 244. 
 -, gives encouragement to 
 
 the erecting of an English 
 Church in Rotterdam, 230. 
 
 , funeral of, 233. 
 
 -, scandal published abusing 
 
 the memory of, 234. 
 Queen of James I, children of 
 the Revels to, 171, 
 
 Annesley, Arthur, President of the 
 
 Council of State, letter of, 
 
 215. 
 
 Anthony v. Sheere and others, 419. 
 Antwerp (Anwarpe), sack of, alluded 
 
 to, 178. 
 Apparel, abuses of, proclamation 
 
 against, 43. 
 Appisham alias Toppisham. S*e 
 
 Topsham. 
 Appledore, near Bideford [Devon], 
 
 distress and pestilence in, 
 
 177. 
 
 Apsham. See Topsham. 
 Argenton, Geoffrey de, grant by, 396. 
 Argentyne, Richard, clerk, accused 
 
 of spreading seditious libel, 
 
 49. 
 Armada, the Spanish, documents 
 
 concerning, 63-64. 
 Arms and ammunition, documents 
 
 concerning, 216. 
 Artillery, copy of commission for 
 
 enforcing the statute for the 
 
 maintenance of, 309. 
 Arundel, John, of Gwarnacke, to bo 
 
 kept in safe custody, 311. 
 order for release of, 311. 
 receipt of, 311. 
 
 Arundell, John. See under Queen. 
 Ashburton (Ayschpertone), Devon, 
 
 stage for Post, 65. 
 thieves at, 228, 403. 
 Ashes, bill to allow the full drawback 
 
 on all, 244. 
 Assessments per mensem, documents 
 
 concerning, 210-12. 
 Assize, Justices of. See Justices. 
 Assize of Bread. See under Exeter. 
 Association, an, for the preservation 
 
 of her Majesty's person, temp. 
 
 Eliz., 395. 
 Athelstan, King, the first founder of 
 
 Exeter cathedral, 373. 
 Atterlane or Atte Lane, Ralph, will 
 
 of, 282. 
 Attorney General. See Hubbard 
 
 and Yelverton. 
 Attorney General v. Exeter (1633), 
 
 419. 
 
 , (1771), 81. 
 
 , (1784), 420. 
 
 v. Corporation of Exeter, 421. 
 v. the Mayor, etc. of Exeter, 
 
 164. 
 
 v. Row and Spicer, 419. 
 and Mayor of Exeter v. Davy 
 
 (1827), 420. 
 Atwill (Atwell) : 
 
 John, sometime bailiff and 
 
 mayor of Exeter, petition of, 
 
 19,
 
 437 
 
 Atwill cent. 
 
 Joseph, Rector of Exeter Col- 
 lege, certificate of, 102. 
 
 Lawrence, skinner, of London, 
 charity of, 80, 81, 378, 421. 
 
 , , accounts of, 379. 
 
 , , suit as to, 420. 
 
 , picture of, 319. 
 
 , proposal to purchase a 
 
 Bridewell out of the money of, 
 333. 
 
 , payments to be disbursed 
 
 out of his money, 329. 
 
 Mr., account of, 327. 
 Aulsoppe, John, of St. David's, lease 
 
 to, 26. 
 
 Aumarle (Aumerle), Countess de, the 
 weir called Countess Wear 
 raised by, 389. 
 
 Austria, Archduke of [Albert, Gover- 
 nor of the Netherlands], 
 15. 
 
 Awliscombe, papers relating to, 378, 
 425. 
 
 letter dated at, 273. 
 
 manor of, deeds and charters 
 transcribed, 14. 
 
 , closes within (named), 
 
 272. 
 
 , documents relating to, 
 
 272-273. 
 
 , situated near Honiton, 
 
 272. 
 
 , bequeathed to the Cham- 
 ber of Exeter, 272, 273. 
 
 , twice mortgaged by the 
 
 Chamber, 273. 
 
 , Court Rolls of, 273, 412. 
 
 , Bailiffs' accounts of, 273, 
 
 411. 
 -, public survey for the sale 
 
 of, 273. 
 manor house of, reversionary 
 
 lease of, 163. 
 
 parishioners of, granted an 
 estate of the church-house, 
 273. 
 
 Axbridge [Somerset], charter referr- 
 ing to, 346. 
 Aylesbeare [Devon], charter referring 
 
 to advowson of, 346. 
 Aysshe, William, city chaplain, re- 
 muneration and duties of, 
 45. 
 annuity and reversion to, 210. 
 
 B 
 
 Babbington, , Receiver of Exeter, 
 to provide a gift from the city 
 to the new Bishop, 319. 
 Baber, John, Recorder of Wells, 
 
 certificate from, 200. 
 Babington : 
 
 Gervase, Bishop of Exeter, arms 
 of, 354. 
 
 , gift from the City to, 319. 
 
 , included in Hooker's Lives 
 
 of the Bishops of Exeter, 353. 
 Colonel Philip, regiment of, 221, 
 
 224. 
 Backster, Richard, member of a 
 
 Company of Players, 171. 
 Badcocke, John, mayor of Cam- 
 bridge, letter of, 176. 
 Baggot, , and his sons, suspected 
 and examined as Papists, 110, 
 111. 
 Baghel, William, son of Walter, gift 
 
 of, 399. 
 Baker : 
 
 John, signature of, 366. 
 
 John, of St. George's, Exeter, 
 
 will of, 416. 
 
 Baldewin, Walter Fitz, gift of tene- 
 ment by, 264. 
 Bale : 
 
 Christopher, M.P. for Exeter, 
 presents a petition to the Com - 
 missioners of the Treasury, 
 219. 
 
 , letters to, 221. 
 
 Major, going to London, 227. 
 , probable writer of a docu- 
 ment, 227. 
 Balfour (Balforde) [Col. Barthold], 
 
 regiment of, 221. 
 Balkheye, Walter de, payment to, 
 
 386. 
 Ball (Balle) : 
 
 Peter, afterwards knighted, 
 Recorder of Exeter, chosen to 
 be of the City Council, 56. 
 
 , resigns the Recordership, 
 
 56. 
 
 , presents the patent of 
 
 High Stewardship to Lord 
 Weston, 78. 
 
 , agreement concerning, 
 
 197. 
 
 , revocation of his election 
 
 as Recorder, 325. 
 
 writes from London for 
 
 the City Charters to be sent 
 up, 334.
 
 438 
 
 Ball cont. 
 
 Mr., of Mamhead, uses his in- 
 fluence to bring forward the 
 petitions from Devonshire, 
 244. 
 
 Balmerino, Lord. See Elphinstone. 
 Bamfylde or Bamfeild : 
 
 Sir Amias, letter of, 84. 
 J., letter of, 27. 
 Sir Richard, death of, 231, 232. 
 Band, Thomas, member of a Com- 
 pany of Players, 171. 
 Barbadoes, island of, trade with, 
 
 imperilled, 242. 
 Barbaunce, Martin, dispossessed of a 
 
 piece of land, 34. 
 Barker, Christopher, the Queen's 
 
 printer, 341. 
 Barnstaple [Devon], no aliens in, 
 
 115. 
 
 merchants of, 171. 
 letter dated at, 235. 
 Archdeacon of, Ralph, bond of, 
 400. 
 
 , John Waryn, dispute with 
 
 401. 
 
 . See Hellier. 
 
 -, documents relating to 
 
 the tenement of, 400, 401. 
 Mayor of, John Pearde, report 
 
 of, 115. 
 
 Baron, Lord Chief. See Tanfield. 
 Barrett : 
 
 Thomas, Archdeacon of Exeter, 
 
 signature of , 144. 
 Walter, member of a Company 
 
 of Players, 171. 
 
 Barrington, Lord. See Wildman. 
 Barry : 
 
 Philip de, grant by, 396. 
 Walter de, grant by, 396. 
 Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter, 
 
 grant by, 263. 
 
 Bartlett, Richard, recommended to 
 
 the Mayor and Aldermen, 44 . 
 
 Basingstoke [Hants], stage for Post, 
 
 65. 
 Baskervill : 
 
 Richard, note by, 87. 
 
 Dr. Simon, physician to James 
 
 I and Charles I, 87, 100. 
 Thomas, bailiff of Exeter, 340. 
 Bass, Joseph, Collector of the Land 
 Tax in Exeter, fraudulent 
 conduct of, 254. 
 Bassett, Mr., servant of, money paid 
 
 to, 363. 
 
 Bastard, William, esquire, commis- 
 sion to be directed to, 324. 
 Bat, John, signature of, 364. 
 Bates, Amy, a servant, misconduct 
 of, 309. 
 
 Bath, city of, charter of, 346. 
 Inspeximus of charters, 346. 
 freedom of, presented in gold 
 
 boxes, 250. 
 Earl of. See Bourchier and 
 
 Grenville. 
 
 Bath and Wells, Bishop of (n.d.) 
 charter of, 373. 
 . See Berkeley ; Harwell ; 
 Mawe ; Montagu. 
 Batt, Mr., information of, 122. 
 Battle [Sussex], Odo abbot of, grant 
 
 by, 270. 
 Abbot of (1359), letters patent 
 
 to, 271. 
 
 Abbey, St. Nicholas' Priory, 
 Exeter, a cell to, 268. 
 
 , St. Olave's, Exeter, 
 
 granted to, 280. 
 Bawdon or Bodon, John, deposition 
 
 of, 62. 
 
 Bayly, William, of Winchester, agree- 
 ment with, 31. 
 
 Bayne, Robert, signature of, 366. 
 Beacons to be made up and repaired, 
 
 202. 
 Bearde, John, Bailiff of the manor 
 
 of Exilond, 396. 
 Beauchamp, Robert, gift of land by, 
 
 265. 
 Beaufort : 
 
 Henry, Bishop of Winchester, 
 cardinal, letter of, 281. 
 
 , payment of seal of, 281. 
 
 , executor of. See Kemp. 
 
 Thomas, Earl of Dorset, created 
 Duke of Exeter, 352. 
 
 , speaks in Parliament, 352. 
 
 . appointed to remain in 
 
 Harfleur, 352. 
 -, lays siege to the town of 
 
 Meaux, 352. 
 [Becket], Thomas &, chancellor, 
 
 witness. 2. 
 Beckwith. Major, commanding office 
 
 in Exeter, letter to, 250. 
 Bedecome : 
 
 John, feltmaker, of Exiland, 
 commits murder in a fray, 
 59. 
 
 , wife of, 59. 
 
 John, of Exeter, will of, 414. 
 Bedford. Duke of. See Russell. 
 Earl of. See Russell. 
 
 , his hoxise in Exeter, 345. 
 
 Befyld, Bithell, John, receipt of, 22. 
 Beg, Licences to, 293. 
 Bele, Sir John, suit of, 399. 
 Bells, proclamation against the pull- 
 ing down and selling of, 314. 
 Bcnbow, Mr., information from, 
 order to, &c., 115-16.
 
 439 
 
 Benbow, Mr. cont. 
 
 to make a commission ready, 
 
 119. 
 to go to the King's Attorney 
 
 with the draft of the Commis- 
 sion, 121. 
 William Prous advised to 
 
 confer with, 129. 
 Benet : 
 
 Edward, smith, will of, 282. 
 Joan, will of, 283. 
 
 , Eleanor daughter of, 283. 
 
 Thomas, born at Cambridge, 
 
 361. 
 , account of his arrest and 
 
 execution for heresy, 361. 
 Bennett : 
 
 Adam, sheriff, signature of, 150. 
 , late Receiver of Exeter, 
 
 money paid by, 276. 
 John, of St. Olave's, Exeter, will 
 
 of, 415. 
 Mr. Alderman, compounds with 
 
 the Committee of Parliament 
 
 of Bishops' lands, 214. 
 person named, money for, 67. 
 Bereford, William de, case heard 
 
 before, 397. 
 Berkeley : 
 
 Gilbert, Bishop of Bath and 
 
 Wells, charter of, 346. 
 Sir John, knight, Governor of 
 
 Exeter, commission to, 13. 
 
 , intimation by, 98. 
 
 , certificate from, 209. 
 
 , gift to be presented to, 
 
 325. 
 -, note of letter from, 325. 
 
 Berkenvelt, regiment of. 221, 224. 
 Berkhampstead [Herts], documents 
 
 dated at, 3. 
 Berkshire, soldiers to be billeted in, 
 
 183. 
 
 a sick soldier from, 224. 
 Bernard : 
 
 Christopher, letter of, 230. 
 Sir John, 173. 
 Berryman, William, confession of, 
 
 308. 
 
 Bertie, Robert. Earl of Lindsey, Lord 
 Great Chamberlain of Eng- 
 land, commission read to, 191. 
 Berwick-on-Tweed, letter dated at, 
 
 43. 
 a borough town not a county, 
 
 116. 
 
 a sick soldier from, 224. 
 lecturer placed in, 195. 
 Beste, Peter, Master of Defence, 
 
 grant to, 35. 
 
 Bestelebise or Bestelyse, Jordan, 
 gift of land by, 264. 
 
 Bethlehem, Bishop elect of, Godo- 
 fridus de Prefectis, indulgence 
 granted by, 270. 
 
 Bevys, Nicholas, of Exeter, will of, 
 415. 
 
 Bickleigh, Devon, annuity issuing 
 from certain lands in, 323. 
 
 Bicton [Devon], letters dated at, 231. 
 
 Bideford, Devon, the haven of, ship 
 built in, 376. 
 
 Bidgood, John, Doctor of Physic, be- 
 quest of, 162. 
 
 Bidwell, Isott, Isaack (?), widow, 
 
 petition of, 81, 82. 
 v. the Chamber, 82, 419. 
 
 Bigolston, person of name of, 178. 
 
 Bindon, letter dated at, 55. 
 
 Birmingham, how it might profit by 
 trade with Guinea, 243. 
 
 Bishopsleigh (Biscipelega), Richard 
 de, land given by, 264. 
 
 Bitton, Thomas, Bishop of Exeter, 
 the account of the executors 
 of, 383. 
 
 Blackall : 
 
 George, servant and esquire of 
 Charles I, certificate to, 190. 
 Ofspring, Bishop of Exeter, and 
 the Dean and Chapter, agree- 
 ment between the Mayor, &c. 
 and, 338-39. 
 
 Blackaller (Blakcaller) : 
 
 John, Warden and Receiver of 
 the Magdalen, rental drawn 
 up by, 398. 
 
 , property purchased and 
 
 sold by, 291. 
 Mr., authority granted to, 27. 
 
 Blackburn, Lancelot, Archbishop of 
 York, to be invited to the 
 opening of the Port. 32. 
 
 Blake roll, the, left in William Cecil's 
 cxistody, 33. 
 
 Blakeenave, Nicholas, his house in 
 South Street, 399. 
 
 Blanquefort, near Bordeaux (" Bur- 
 gum Regine "), injunction 
 dated at, 281. 
 
 Blight, John, Ensign (Auntient) of 
 the band of the East Ward, 
 83. 
 
 Blind, maintenance of the, letter 
 concerning. 173. 
 
 Bluet (Bluett, Blewet) : 
 
 John, property granted to, 279. 
 Sir Roger, knisht, letter to, 
 
 22. 
 , appointment of. 21. 
 
 , one of the King's Com- 
 missioners. 262. 
 
 Blund or White, Hillary, witness, 
 400.
 
 440 
 
 Blundell, Peter, of Tiverton, will of, 
 
 258. 
 
 executors of, 258. 
 his Charity or School, docu- 
 ments concerning, 258, 379. 
 Bodley (Bodlegh) : 
 
 John, church plate sold to, 262. 
 John, letter of, 92. 
 
 , Canon, lecturer at St. 
 
 Peter's, gifts to, 321, 322. 
 Laurence, brother of John, rec- 
 tor of Clyst Hydon, letters of, 
 97, 98, 100. 
 
 , will of, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96. 
 
 , executors of, 96. 
 
 , legacy of, 275, 276. 
 
 , lectureship founded by, 276. 
 
 , , documents concern- 
 ing, 92-99. 
 
 Bodley Lecturers, ill report concern- 
 ing the, 98. 
 Bodman : 
 
 Bobert de, grant by, 387. 
 Stephen de, 387. 
 Bodmin (Bodmane) [Cornwall], 
 
 parish church of, 39. 
 Vicar of, recantation of, 39. 
 Mayor of (1559), information to 
 
 be given to, 39. 
 
 Bohemia, King of, Frederick, loan 
 for, documents concerning, 
 105-108. 
 
 , assistance to, 106. 
 
 , as Prince Palatine, 111. 
 
 Queen of. See Elizabeth, daugh- 
 ter of James I. 
 
 Bois - le - Due or Herzogenbosch 
 (Bosche, Burse), capture of, 
 192. 
 
 ? Boke . . ., signature of, 20. 
 Bokeland, charter referring to ad- 
 
 vowson of, 346. 
 Bole Poole or Bolland, near Exeter, 
 
 28. 
 " Boleworthi," demesne of, near 
 
 Exeter, 264. 
 
 Bolleg', Henry de, Archdeacon of 
 Totnes, afterwards of Corn- 
 wall, agreements with, 284, 
 400. 
 Bond: 
 
 John, of Exeter, will of, 415. 
 John, minister of God's Word in 
 
 Exeter, grant to, 326. 
 Mrs. Martha, 162. 
 William, signature of, 340. 
 Bonde, John, admitted to the free- 
 dom of Exeter, 358. 
 Bonefaunt, John, afterwards Bailiff 
 of Exeter, misdeeds of, 19, 20. 
 Bonvile (Bonvyle, &c.) : 
 John, letters of, 209. 
 
 Bonvile cont. 
 
 John, will of, 360. 
 William, the mediation of, 360. 
 Sir William, the conservatorship 
 of the Exe granted, to, 430. 
 
 , his Almshouses, papers 
 
 concerning, 73-74, 425. 
 
 -, or Charity, charter 
 
 of, 6, 372. 
 
 , , grant of, 430. 
 
 , , other mention 
 
 of, 
 277, 348. 
 
 Bonyfault, Thomas, fee paid to, 92. 
 Bonyfield : 
 
 Lawrence, 293. 
 
 family, the, document relating 
 
 to, 293. 
 Borewine, John, and Emma his wife, 
 
 gift of land by, 264. 
 Borgarucei Giulio, letter of, 25. 
 Borough, Borowe, &c., Walter, 
 Alderman and sometime 
 Mayor of Exeter, signature of, 
 150, 151. 
 bequest of, 273. 
 his Charity, documents relating 
 
 to, 273-274. 
 Borthwick, Serjeant Major James, to 
 
 sail for Tobago, 203. 
 letter of, 203. 
 remonstrance and propositions 
 
 made by, 203. 
 Bosegrave, George, member of a 
 
 Company of Players, 171. 
 Boulogne, treaty signed at (1556), 
 
 22n. 
 Bourbon, Duke of (1523), pursues 
 
 the French King, 9. 
 Bourchier : 
 
 Henry, 2nd Earl of Bath, ex- 
 pected at Exeter, 324. 
 William, 1st Earl of Bath, his 
 appointment as Lord Lieu- 
 tenant of Devon and Exeter, 
 10 430, 431. 
 
 his deputies, 10, 430. 
 letter to, 85. 
 
 copies of letters from, 260. 
 commission addressed to, 
 
 309. 
 Bout, the, Hooker probably borrows 
 
 from, 350. 
 Bradninch [Devon], letter dated at, 
 
 88. 
 
 bread riot at, 255. 
 first charter of the borough of, 
 
 341. 
 
 inquisition concerning the free- 
 dom and liberties of the 
 
 borough of, 341. 
 parish of, dispute concerning, 
 
 198.
 
 441 
 
 Brailie, or Brayley, William, money 
 
 to be received by, 312, 313. 
 Brandenburg, a soldier from, in the 
 Prince of Orange's army, 224. 
 Brandenburgh, regiment of, 221. 
 Brantingham, Thomas, Bishop of 
 
 Exeter, witness, 4. 
 Bray, William, Vicar of St. Kieran, 
 Exeter, v. Edward Courtenay, 
 knight, 392. 
 
 Brayne, Francis, receipt to, 248. 
 Bread Riots, documents concerning, 
 
 255-257. 
 Breadhower, J., handbill printed by, 
 
 260. 
 Breakfast, plan of a table set for, 
 
 104-5. 
 
 Brendy, Nicholas, security of, 332. 
 Brereton, Thomas, signature of, 402. 
 Brewer, William, Bishop of Exeter, 
 transfers Magdalen Hospital 
 to the civic authorities, 263, 
 352. 
 Brice, Andrew, printer, 237. 
 
 publishes the Description of the 
 
 City of Exeter, 353. 
 publishes Hooker's Antique 
 Description and Account of 
 the City of Exeter, 353. 
 Brickdat, Matthew, forwards a note, 
 
 69. 
 Brickenall, Elizabeth, of Exeter, will 
 
 of, 414. 
 Bridgman : 
 
 Edward, letters on behalf of, 
 
 43. 
 Thomas, his legacy for the poor 
 
 of Exeter, 205. 
 
 Thomas, the younger, Deputy 
 Alnager, complaint about, 46. 
 Mr., his interest solicited, 127. 
 Mr., fees to, 130. 
 
 Bridgwater, St. John's Hospital, 291. 
 Bright, John, signature of, 189. 
 Bristol (Bristowe), will not allow 
 Exeter free with them for 
 custom, 33. 
 
 soldiers home from, 38. 
 cited as example, 53. 
 procedure at, 69. 
 protest of, 89. 
 two public free grammar schools 
 
 in, 154. 
 
 letters directed to, 169. 
 proposition relating to, 203. 
 Serjeant-Major Borthwick to 
 
 sail from, 203. 
 letter dated at, 203. 
 Sir Thomas White's estate in, 
 
 232. 
 
 Court of Conscience in, 234. 
 traders from, 240. 
 
 Bristol cont. 
 
 how it might profit by trade with 
 
 Guinea, 242. 
 gifts from Exeter for the royalist 
 
 army in, 325. 
 the Quay at, 426. 
 merchants of, summoned to 
 appear before the House of 
 Lords, 138. 
 Mayor of (1629), information to 
 
 be sent to, 190. 
 
 Bishop of. See Thornborough. 
 Bristowe, John de, Mariota wife' of, 
 
 358. 
 Brittany, pirates from, 88. 
 
 export of money into ; 108. 
 Broad Clyst [Devon], Sprydon in tho 
 
 parish of, 265. 
 Brocas, Abisha, his shop in Exot<?r, 
 
 162. 
 
 Brodridge, Christopher, sent to 
 attend a conference in Lon- 
 don, 86n. 
 Broke, William, of St. Mary Major, 
 
 Exeter, will of, 415. 
 [Bronescombe ?], W[alter], Bishop 
 
 of Exeter, assent of, 400. 
 [Brooke], W[illiam], Lord Cobham, 
 Lord of the Council, signature 
 of, 66. 
 " Browcke the paynter," portrait to 
 
 have been painted by, 278. 
 Brown, William, Warden of the Poor^ 
 
 of Exeter, payments to, 213. 
 Bruen, William, bequest of, 225. 
 Brussels (Brissels), the Spanish am- 
 bassador at, 192. 
 
 Brut, Aimar le, gift of land by, 264. 
 Bruyssheford, John, of Exeter, bond 
 
 of, 39. 
 
 " Brysshford," piece of land called, 
 in Lydford in the parish of 
 Salcombe, 238. 
 Buckenham (Bucknam) : 
 Elizabeth, gift of, 411. 
 John, gift of, 411. 
 John, sometime Mayor o f Ejsetor, 
 
 bequest of, 303. 
 
 William, Receiver of ExuU r in- 
 ventory of, 45. 
 William, property purchased and 
 
 sold by, 291. 
 Mr., payment to, 34. 
 Buckhurst, Lord. See Sackville. 
 Buckfast or Buckfastleigh [Devon], 
 Abbot of, ancient agreement 
 between the town of Kings- 
 bridge and, 209. 
 
 (c. 1224), dispute with, 
 
 280. 
 
 his tenement in St. 
 
 Martin's Street, 400.
 
 442 
 
 Buckingham, Duke of. See Villiers. 
 
 Buckland Downs, letter dated at, 
 251. 
 
 Budleigh [Devon], the flying man of, 
 
 351. 
 
 East, Hundred of, 396. 
 West, 396. 
 
 Budleigh Salterton, Customs on 
 goods landed at, 422. 
 
 Buller, Margaret. See under Queen. 
 
 Burgeyn, William, Town Clerk of 
 Exeter, sent with a message 
 from the Chamber, 303. 
 to go to London on the City's 
 business connected with their 
 new Charter, &c., 304. 
 
 Burghley, Lord. See Cecil. 
 
 Burlamachi, Philip, victualler of the 
 Navy for the relief of La 
 Rochelle, 186. 
 
 Burley (Burghley), Rutlandshire, 
 75. 
 
 Burroghe, Walter, Bailiff of Exeter, 
 mention of, 340. 
 
 Bury, Thomas, 231. 
 
 Bustard, William, of Nethorex v. 
 William Summayster, 392. 
 
 Butler : 
 
 James, Duke of Ormond, High 
 Steward of Exeter, the Cham- 
 ber appeals to, 31. 
 , promises to present peti- 
 tion to the King, 32. 
 
 , suit to be made to the 
 
 Council through, 74. 
 -, his appointment as High 
 
 Steward of Exeter, 78. 
 -, letter delivered to, 234. 
 
 John, loan from, 71. 
 John, feoffment to, 293. 
 Butts, Henry, Vice-Chancellor of 
 
 Cambridge, letter of, 176. 
 Buxton, Mr., of Exeter, abusive 
 
 language of, 236. 
 
 Byrde, Thomas, of Exeter, two copies 
 of will of, 414. 
 
 Cadiz Expedition, the, documents 
 
 concerning, 174-176. 
 allusion to, 181. 
 
 Caesar, Dr. Julius, cause to be shown 
 before, 72. 
 
 Caesar, Dr. Julius cont. 
 
 as Sir Julius, letter of, 73. 
 , Chancellor of the Exche- 
 quer, letter to, 86. 
 
 -, letter of, 86. 
 
 Calabeer Wear, payments towards 
 
 the building (1570) of, 309. 
 broken down by ice (1608), 
 
 30. 
 exemplification of the Act for 
 
 rebuilding, 7, 431. 
 Calais [France], ships raised for the 
 
 expedition of Edward III to, 
 
 8. 
 marriage treaty made at (1507), 
 
 14. 
 
 siege of, 36. 
 loss of (1558), letters concerning, 
 
 35-38. 
 
 Calwodley (Calewodeley, &c.) : 
 John, schoolmaster, 303. 
 Thomas, sometime Mayor of 
 
 Exeter, will of, 44, 272, 360. 
 
 , gift of land by. 265. 
 
 , executors of, 273. 
 
 Came, William de, grant to, 266. 
 
 Calvelegh [Devon], 396. 
 
 Calvert, Sir George, Secretary of 
 
 State, receives instructions 
 
 from James I, 17. 
 letter delivered to, 109, 110. 
 interview with, 110, 126. 
 his attitude towards the Bp. of 
 
 Exeter's suit, 122. 
 suit from the Chamber of 
 
 Exeter to be presented to, 
 
 125. 
 progress of the suit from Exeter 
 
 with, 128. 
 the Lord Lieut, for Devon and 
 
 Exeter dealing with, 132. 
 Cambridge, fellowship in, 90. 
 
 the Bp. of Exeter stays at (1622), 
 
 116, 117. 
 
 Dr. Goach's headship in, 161. 
 distress and sickness in (1629), 
 
 177. 
 
 Thomas Benet born at, 361. 
 letter dated at, 1 76. 
 Camerlarton [Somerset], episcopal 
 
 charter referring to advowson 
 
 of, 346. 
 
 Campbell v. T/>llett, 421. 
 Canterbury, Henry IV buried at, 351. 
 charter confirmed at, 346. 
 Archbishop of. the preacher for 
 
 Exeter to be allowed by, 93. 
 Archbishops of. See Abbot ; 
 
 Chichele ; Cranmer ; Lan 
 
 franc ; Parker ; Sheldon ; 
 
 Stafford ; Warham ; Whit 
 
 gift ; Woolton.
 
 443 
 
 Cann (Canne) : 
 
 Christopher, plumber, contract 
 
 by, 285. 
 
 John, plumber, of Exeter, con- 
 tract by, 285. 
 
 Canonsleigh in Burlescombe [Devon], 
 Prior of (1240), qiiitclaiin 
 from, 281. 
 
 Canute, King, laws of the realm col- 
 lected and published by, 
 350. 
 
 Capel, Arthur, 1st Baron Capel, en- 
 tertained in Exeter, 325. 
 Cardiff, proposition relating to. 203. 
 Carelfont, Count, regiment of, 221. 
 Carew : 
 
 Gawen, letter of, 49. 
 
 , Hooker's notice of, 351. 
 
 Sir Caw en, receipt from, 49. 
 
 , letter to, 367. 
 
 (Carye), George, Baron, at 
 
 Council debate, 108. 
 Humphrey, lease granted by, 
 
 159, 266. 
 
 John, conveyance by, 266. 
 Sir John, knight, 361. 
 Peter, son of Humphrey, lease 
 
 granted by, 159, 266. 
 Sir Peter, knight, appointment 
 of (1549), 21. 
 
 , appointment of (1552), 
 
 260. 
 
 , letters of, 24. 
 
 , Hooker's notice of, 351 . 
 
 -, letter to, 367. 
 
 Richard, attestation of, 220. 
 Thomas, of Bickleigh, St. John's 
 
 Hospital passes to, 266. 
 Thomas, Baron (1415), appointed 
 
 to remain in Harfieur, 352. 
 widow named, letter to, 21. 
 
 Carey, J. [ ? Henry], Baron Hunsdon, 
 Lord of the Council, signature 
 of, 63. 
 
 Carleford [Colonel], regiment of. 221. 
 
 Carleton, Dudley, Viscount Dorches- 
 ter, Secretary of State, com- 
 mission read to, 191. 
 
 Carlisle, Bishop of. See Potter. 
 
 Caro, Lucas, commended to the kind- 
 ness of the Mayor, &c. of 
 Exeter, 55. 
 
 Carolina. South, convict transported 
 to, 237. 
 
 Carpenter, Giles, helps to take a 
 
 general muster, 85. 
 letter of, 177. 
 
 Carpenters, wages of. See Wages. 
 
 Carrew. Mr. [? Thomas Carew of 
 Crowcombe, M.P. for Mine- 
 head], to wait upon the 
 Speaker, 244. 
 
 Carswell, Edward, of Plymouth, 
 receipt to, 287. 
 
 grant from, 287. 
 
 Alice wife of, 287. 
 Carter v. the Chamber, 420. 
 Carteret, John, Baron Cartaret, of 
 Hawnes, Lord Lieutenant of 
 Devon and Exeter, appoints 
 his deputies, 13. 
 
 Carwitheii, John, Town Clerk of Exe- 
 ter, letter of, 50. 
 
 letters to, 88, 234, 235. 
 
 appointed Treasurer of the Gaol 
 
 and Hospital money, 292. 
 Gary (Carey, &c.) : 
 
 George, of Buckington, Devon, 
 executor of a will, 319. 
 , bearer of a letter from the 
 Queen, 370. 
 
 James, mention of his election as 
 Bishop (?), 351. 
 
 Sir Robert, receipts from, 56. 
 
 -, letter of, 98. 
 
 Valentine, Bishop of Exeter, his 
 petition to the King, 17. 
 , his claim to be made a 
 J.P. wit loin the County and 
 City of Exeter, 46. 
 , his suit for the same, 
 papers concerning, 115-31. 
 , allusion to his suit, 77. 
 
 , his possible opposition to 
 the Charter of 1627 to the 
 City, 91. 
 
 , leaves two remembrancers 
 to attend the Lord Keeper 
 during his absence, 118. 
 
 , returns to London, 119. 
 
 , not to remain long at 
 Exeter, 121. 
 
 , his proposed return to 
 Exeter, 124. 
 
 - - , intention of, 128. 
 
 - - , has an interview with the 
 Lord Keeper, 128. 
 
 , his attitude with regard 
 
 to Perryman and the free 
 School of Exeter, 134-44, 
 150, 154. 
 
 , indisposition of, 142. 
 
 - , his narration of the differ- 
 ence between Perryman and 
 the City of Exeter, 142-44. 
 
 -, letter to, 134. 
 
 -, has no temporal jurisdic- 
 
 tion in the City, 135. 
 Mr., excepted from paying taxes, 
 
 161. 
 Case, John, chirurgeon, sick soldiers 
 
 under the care of, 222. 
 death <.f, 223. 
 Castle Hill, letter dated at, 251.
 
 444 
 
 Cater, Richard, of Exeter, will of, 
 
 &c., 416. 
 Caunceston, Roger de, grant by, 
 
 396. 
 Cawood, John, printer to the Queen, 
 
 43. 
 Cecil: 
 
 Robert, son of William, Lord 
 
 Burghley, signature of, 66. 
 Robert, Viscount Cranbourne, 
 
 signature of, 74. 
 
 - , Earl of Salisbury, High 
 Steward of Exeter, Lord High 
 Treasurer, letters of, 40, 41. 
 
 - , - , receipt of, 75. 
 
 - , complaint to, 73. 
 
 - , letter not sent to, 75. 
 
 , letter to be written to, 
 
 321. 
 Thomas, 2nd Lord Burghley, 
 
 signature of, 74. 
 Sir William, and as Lord Burgh- 
 
 ley, Secretary of State and 
 
 Lord High Treasurer, petition 
 
 addressed to, 29. 
 
 - , Blake roll left in the cus- 
 tody of, 33. 
 
 - fee of, 52. 
 
 - receipt of, 55. 
 
 - signature of, 66, 366. 
 
 - letters to be sent to, 312. 
 
 - allusion to letter to, 365. 
 Master of the Rolls f? Sir 
 
 Wm. Cordell], executor of a 
 
 will, 319. 
 
 Cedder. See Cheddar. 
 Cells, the Ten. See Grendon's Alms- 
 
 houses. 
 Chafe, Chaffe, John, of Exeter, cap- 
 
 tain of a ship, 88. 
 Chamberlain, Lord. See Herbert. 
 Champernon, Champernowne, Sir 
 
 Arthur, letter to, 367. 
 Vice-Admiral of the County of 
 
 Devon, letter of, 376. 
 Chancellor, Lord. See Ellesmere. 
 
 - (1502), decree of, 288. 
 
 - (1553), Secretary of, money 
 paid to, 363. 
 
 Chancery, decrees in, 87, 235, 238. 
 suit in, 162. 
 Court of, writ from, 163. 
 
 - , orders issued by, 279. 
 Channel, the English, French squad- 
 
 ron cruising in (1744), 246. 
 Rye harbour a convenient 
 shelter for ships passing up 
 and down, 236. 
 Chaple, John, mention of, 340. 
 Chappell : 
 
 John, sometime Mayor of 
 Exeter, 137. 
 
 Chappell con/. 
 
 J., possibly a son of above, let- 
 ters of, 137, 166. 
 
 Chard [Somerset], refuses to join the 
 new Company of Merchants, 
 41n. 
 
 Charles I, as Prince, desire that he 
 may not marry out of the 
 national religion, 112. 
 
 , James Norden in the 
 
 service of, 123. 
 -, his claim to lands in Exe- 
 
 ter, 124. 
 enquiry 
 
 concerning Iiis 
 
 claim, 196, 197. 
 
 Charter granted by, 7. 
 
 , papers concerning, 90-92. 
 
 Charters of, copies of, 431, 432. 
 
 commission from, for the forced 
 loan, 11. 
 
 commission of, 13. 
 
 letter of, 17. 
 
 his posts of the western stages, 
 65-66. 
 
 bond to, 85. 
 
 petition to, 91. 
 
 his tin farm and other treasure, 
 assignments out of, 175. 
 
 his wishes concerning the sol- 
 diers billeted in Exeter, 183. 
 
 allows 1,000. for the soldiers of 
 Devon and Cornwall, 183. 
 
 copy of the Remonstrance pre- 
 sented to, with textual 
 differences noted, 185. 
 
 " Kalendar of particulars " pre- 
 sented with the Remon- 
 strance to, 186. 
 
 copy of his speech in reply to tho 
 Remonstrance with textual 
 differences noted, 187. 
 
 proposed petition to, 191. 
 
 at Windsor, 191. 
 
 coming to Whitehall with the 
 Queen, 191. 
 
 reprisal goods belonging to, 193. 
 
 has letters sent to Justices of the 
 Peace, 195. 
 
 his care for the safety of his 
 subjects and the defence of his 
 kingdom, 201. 
 
 grants Tobago and other islands 
 to the Earl of Pembroke and 
 Montgomery, 203. 
 
 his proclamation concerning 
 seditious practices in Scot- 
 land read in Exeter Cathe- 
 dral, 206. 
 
 command of, 209. 
 
 petition from the Chamber of 
 Exeter sent to, 324. 
 
 allusion to letter from, 324.
 
 445 
 
 Charles I cont. 
 
 gifts from the city of Exeter to, 
 
 325. 
 
 due at Exeter, 325. 
 " cruelly put to death," 357. 
 free loan raised by, 427. 
 Charles II, as Prince, visits Exeter, 
 325. 
 
 , gift from the City of 
 
 Exeter to, 325. 
 charter of, 7, 219, 430. 
 
 , surrendered, 219. 
 
 writ of, 12. 
 
 commission of , 13, 432. 
 copy of a writ from, 41. 
 allusion to the Declaration of, 
 
 247. 
 gift of plate presented by the 
 
 Chamber of Exeter to, 332. 
 petition from Exeter to be pre- 
 sented to, 334. 
 knights two Mayors of Exeter 
 
 (1667, 1670), 357. 
 visits Exeter from Dartmouth, 
 
 357. 
 Charles, John, Recorder of Exeter, 
 
 joint letter to, 39. 
 Charmouth [Dorset], to be a free 
 
 borough, 280. 
 
 Charter, Royal. See New England. 
 Charters, Royal, and Letters Patent, 
 
 1-7. 
 book containing a collection of, 
 
 373. 
 
 and Confirmations of Charters. 
 See under Henry II, Richard I, 
 John, Henry III, Edward I, 
 Edward II, Edward III, 
 Richard II, Henry IV, Henry 
 V, Henry VI, Edward IV, 
 Henry VII, Henry VIII, Ed- 
 ward VI, Elizabeth, Charles I, 
 Charles II, George III, 
 Richard, King of the Romans, 
 and Edmund, Earl of Corn- 
 wall. 
 
 Chechister, John, 'letter to, 367. 
 Checkston, Chikston, &c. [Devon], 
 
 the ferry at, 27. 
 
 composition concerning the 
 passage of the water from, 
 355, 386. 
 
 formerly called Orcheston, 392. 
 Cheddar (Cedder) [Somerset], manor 
 
 of, charter referring to, 346. 
 Cheshire, alleged dangerous recus- 
 ancy in, 112. 
 
 Cheskune Chapele or parish, 387. 
 Cheyne, [Sir] Tfhomas], Lord of the 
 Council, signature of, 25, 
 366. 
 Cheynys, letter dated at, 43, 
 
 Chichele, Henry, Archbishop of Can- 
 terbury, inspeximus by, 263. 
 letter of, 281. 
 
 " sigillum ad Causas " of, 281. 
 Chichester : 
 
 Lady Frances, surrender of lease 
 
 by, 70. 
 Sir John, information to be 
 
 given to, 39. 
 Chidleigh, Richard, appointment of, 
 
 21. 
 Childe, Charles, bearer of interroga- 
 
 taries, 193. 
 Chiswick, near London, Lord Russell 
 
 at, 135, 136. 
 
 letters dated at, 11, 138, 166. 
 Cholwich, Cholwick, John, Recorder 
 of Exeter, resigns his office, 
 56. 
 
 , signature of, 341. 
 
 Christian Malford [Wilts], charter 
 referring to advowson of, 
 346. 
 Christopher, Roger fitz, grant by, 
 
 396. 
 Chudleigh [Devon], grant of bark of 
 
 the wood of, 263. 
 Chudleigh : 
 
 Sir George, letter of, 11. 
 
 , to receive the Loan 
 
 money collected in Exeter, 11, 
 175, 176. 
 
 Hugh, letter of, 221. 
 Richard, appointed Commis- 
 sioner for Exeter, 260. 
 Churchill, John, sells the Manor of 
 
 Duntish, 235. 
 
 Churchstow (Churstow, sic), pay- 
 ment of a year's rent of the 
 rectory of, 210. 
 Chydlie, Mr., king's serjeant, fees to 
 
 &c., 91, 92. 
 
 Chydeley, Robert, payment to, 25. 
 Cicero, quotation from, 355. 
 Cider tax, the, document concerning, 
 
 257. 
 Cinque Ports, the, order to, 90. 
 
 county of, soldiers to be billeted 
 
 in, 183. 
 
 Civil War, the, extracts of interest 
 during the period of, 324-326. 
 Clapan (sic), letter dated at, 209. 
 Clark, Clarke : 
 
 Denise, widow of Henry, gift of 
 
 tenement by, 264. 
 Christofer, feoffment from, 293. 
 Edmund, of Holy Trinity, Exe- 
 ter, will of, 415. 
 
 Ferdinand Nicholas, Bodley 
 lecturer, to receive the profits 
 of the Rectory of Hennock. 
 276.
 
 446 
 
 Class, person of the name of, money 
 
 paid to, 333. 
 
 Clifford, near Tiverton, the manor of, 
 granted to St. Nicholas' 
 Priory, 269. 
 
 Clinton, Edward, Lord, Lord High 
 Admiral of England, his let- 
 ters forwarded, 38. 
 letter to, 376. 
 
 Clist, William de, gift of land by, 265. 
 Cliston Hayes in Broadclyst [Devon], 
 
 23. 
 
 Clivedon, Matthew de, Sheriff of 
 Devon, Inquisition taken be- 
 fore, 389. 
 contemporary copies of writs to, 
 
 389, 390. 
 
 Close, Edward, mention of, 87. 
 Cloth, alnage of, documents concern- 
 ing, 45-46. 
 
 , office of, 46. 
 
 Clothing, trade of, decay of, 80. 
 Cloyne, property of St. Nicholas' 
 
 Priory, Exeter, in, 269. 
 Clyft, John, Town Clerk of Exeter, 
 
 agreement to pay, 302. 
 Clynton, C., signature of, 25. 
 Clyst [Devon], letter dated at, 42. 
 
 fishing in the water of, 72. 
 Clyst- Hydon (Clysthidon) [Devon], 
 
 letter dated at, 93. 
 Clyst St. George or Clystwick 
 [Devon], Chaldewell in the 
 manor of, 264. 
 
 Clyst Saint Lawrence [Devon], 
 manor of, Court Roll of, 395. 
 
 , rentals of, 425. 
 
 Cobham, Lord. See Oldcastle and 
 
 Brooke. 
 Cockwood [Devon], included in the 
 
 Port of Exeter, 29. 
 Coffin, Mr. Alderman, vote of thanks 
 
 to, 225. 
 
 Coffin v. Mayor of Exeter, 420. 
 Coffyn: 
 
 Alice, holds the manor of Awlis- 
 
 combe, 272. 
 James, grant to, 272. 
 Thomas, goldsmith of Exeter, 
 
 offer to, 279. 
 Cogan : 
 
 Milo de, grant by, 396. 
 Richard de, grant by, 396. 
 Coke, Christopher, letter of, 230. 
 
 , Sir John, Secretary, com - 
 
 mission read to, 191. 
 signature of, 17. 
 Colchester [Essex], order to the 
 
 authorities at, 9. 
 how it might profit by trade 
 
 with Guinea, 243. 
 vessels from. 375. 
 
 Colchester cont. 
 
 Queen Mary dates letter at, 
 
 367. 
 Cole, John, Bailiff of the Hundred of 
 
 East Budleigh, 396. 
 Colebrook, Olive, gift of land by, 
 
 265. 
 
 Coleman v. Exeter, 422. 
 Colepeper or Culpeper, John, Lord, 
 Master of the Rolls, enter- 
 tained in Exeter, 325. 
 " Colepole," included in the Port of 
 
 Exeter, 29. 
 Coleridge, Mr., note of a conference 
 
 with, 421. 
 
 case for the opinion of, 422. 
 Coleton, Mr., to view certain lands, 
 
 93. 
 Colewill, Thomas, Warden of the 
 
 Grey Friars, lease by, 269. 
 Colleton : 
 
 Sir John, letter of, 75. 
 John, desires to make stairs 
 near the Quay of Exeter, 324. 
 , Receiver of Exeter, dis- 
 missal of, 325. 
 Collins : 
 
 , Receiver of Exeter, his 
 
 Plaint Book, 254. 
 Richard, cutler, quarrel in his 
 shop, 57. 
 
 , deposition by, 58. 
 
 Collumpton [Devon], letter dated at, 
 
 67. 
 
 bread riot at, 255. 
 paper published in the market 
 
 place, 256. 
 
 corn sent to market in, 256. 
 Collyns Marsh [Devon], 29. 
 Coloma, Don Carlos de, Spanish am- 
 bassador, expected in London, 
 191. 
 
 at Brussels, 192. 
 
 Colton, William, of Milverton, Somer- 
 set, bond of, 39. 
 Columb John [Devon], letter dated 
 
 at, 66, 83. 
 
 Colyton [Devon], letter dated at, 253. 
 Combe, letter dated at, 31. 
 Combe, Abraham, money to be 
 
 received by, 312. 
 Comins, Comyns, Peter, suspected 
 
 as Papist, 110, 111. 
 son of, constable in Morchard 
 Bishop, suspected as Papist, 
 110, 111. 
 Commission of Array (1523), 9. 
 
 - of the Peace is feared 
 (1623), 132. 
 
 of Oyer and Terminer, 
 
 431, 432. 
 Commissions, Pardons, &c., 8-13.
 
 447 
 
 Commissions appointed in 1552, 
 documents in connection with, 
 260. 
 
 for the sale of Estates, volume 
 containing the proceedings of, 
 326. 
 
 Common Pleas Roll, copy of, 392. 
 York, copy of record, 397. 
 (temp. Edw. I.), 428. 
 Commons, House of, copies of a peti- 
 tion from the Chamber of 
 Exeter to, 32. 
 bill read in, 78. 
 request of, 97. 
 instructions for the members of, 
 
 210. 
 petitions from the Chamber 
 
 of Exeter to, 224, 234. 
 Committee of, an adjournment 
 
 desired, 225. 
 order of, 226, 227. 
 Committee of, person to present 
 himself with the survey, &c., 
 of Exeter estates before, 227. 
 petition from Rye presented to, 
 
 235. 
 
 resolutions formed in the Wool- 
 len Committee, 243. 
 petitions from the Cider coun- 
 ties presented to, 257. 
 Speaker of, [Edward Philipps], 
 proposed gift from the City of 
 Exeter to, 321. 
 
 Compton, Sir William, Master 
 General of his Majesty's 
 Ordnance, order of, 216. 
 Conventicles, fines for assembling in, 
 
 427. 
 Conway, Sir Edward, Secretary of 
 
 State, his man, 11. 
 fee to, 92. 
 
 made a Privy Councillor, 129. 
 conference with, 191. 
 Cook, Captain, and his company, 
 
 charges of, 174. 
 Cooke. See Coke. 
 Coomroye, in Broadclyst [Devon], 
 
 letter dated at, 205. 
 Copies of various documents made 
 
 in the 18th century, 200. 
 Coplestone : 
 
 Anthony, letter of, 70. 
 John, receipts by, 27. 70. 
 John, engaged in the dispute 
 
 with Bishop Lacy, 286. i 
 
 Copstone, Mr., paymaster of the poor 
 
 in Rock Lane, letter to, 74. 
 Corbyn, William. 60. 61. 
 Cordell, Sir William, Master of the 
 Rolls, bill committed to, 51. 
 (wrongly printed Cecil), executor 
 of a will, 319. 
 
 Corey, Sir William, of Trebigh, Corn- 
 wall, letter of, 190. 
 Cork, property of St.Nicholas' Priory, 
 
 Exeter, in, 269. 
 
 Corn, dearth of, documents concern- 
 ing, 66-88. 
 
 prices of, 67, 256. 
 
 " fee -bushels " of, enquiry into, 
 73. 
 
 Order in Council for a return of 
 the price of, 255. 
 
 sent to Collumpton and Honiton 
 
 markets, 256. 
 
 Cornwall, request to transfer part of 
 the levy of men from Devon- 
 shire to, 18. 
 
 alnage of cloth in, 46. 
 
 Lord Lieutenants of, letter to, 
 169. 
 
 soldiers in, 175. 
 
 proportion of the soldiers bil- 
 leted at Plymouth to be 
 lodged at, 180. 
 
 Deputy Lieutenants and Jus- 
 tices of the Peace, instruc- 
 tions to, 175, 181. 
 
 forces to be removed from, and 
 billeted in other counties, 
 183. 
 
 Duchy of, charter of, 429, 430. 
 , "Letters Patent of, 342. 
 , property in Exeter per- 
 taining to, 198. 
 
 Archdeacon of, his house in St. 
 Martin's Street, 199, 400. 
 
 . John, grant to, 400. 
 
 , Henry de Bolleg. See 
 Bolleg. 
 
 Duke of. See Edward. 
 
 Earl of. See Edmund ; Regi- 
 nald. 
 
 Lieutenant of. See Russell. 
 Cornwallis, Charles, Lord, his service 
 in America, 252. 
 
 to l)e presented with the free- 
 dom of the City of Exeter, 
 252. 
 
 letter of acceptance, 252. 
 Costard, Mr., petitions James I, 
 
 132. 
 Coteler, John, engaged in the dispute 
 
 with Bishop Lacy, 286. 
 Cottington [C'ockkington], Sir Fran- 
 cis, going to Spain, 191. 
 
 departure of, 192. 
 Cotton : 
 
 Richard, signature of, 364, 366. 
 
 William, Bishop of Exeter, his 
 dispute with the Chamber, 
 47. 
 
 . letters to. 47, 93. 
 
 , letters of, 47, 83,
 
 448 
 
 Cotton, William cont. 
 
 , dialogue between John 
 Hassard and, 94-96. 
 
 , do ings of, 117. 
 
 , treated disrespectfully by 
 
 the magistrates of Exeter, 120. 
 -, settles Ferryman in his 
 
 school, 144. 
 
 approves 
 
 of having 
 
 another schoolmaster, 154. 
 , message from the Cham- 
 ber to, 322. 
 -, included in the Lives of 
 
 the Bishops of Exeter, 363. 
 Archdeacon, the privileges of 
 his house brought into the 
 Chamber, 330. 
 Mr., 363. 
 Council or Privy Council : 
 
 (1538), the Chamber of Exeter 
 
 sends a representative to, 269. 
 
 (1553), suit from Exeter to, re 
 
 Church Plate, 363. 
 Orders in : 
 
 (1627), re forced Loan, 11. 
 (1630), for hearing the Free 
 
 School business, 159. 
 (1637), to the Lords Lieu- 
 tenants of Devon and 
 Exeter, 11. 
 
 (1639), re the charge of 
 contempt against the 
 Mayor, &c., of Exeter, 
 206. 
 
 (1688), cancelling the sur- 
 render of the Charter, 
 219. 
 (1698), for the removal of 
 
 Bonevile'salmshouses,74. 
 (1766), for a return of the 
 
 price of corn, 255. 
 Lords of the, (1558), letters for- 
 warded to, 38. 
 
 , (1558), advice of, to Queen 
 
 Mary, 36. 
 
 , (1581), nonjurors to be 
 
 licensed by, 39. 
 -, (1588), letters to be sent to, 
 
 312. 
 , .warrant desired from, 
 
 313. 
 
 , (1614), complaint to, 46. 
 , (1621), letter to, 82. 
 , (1622), letter and schedule 
 
 of names presented to, 108. 
 , (1622), letter to, 107. 
 , , the Chamber of 
 
 Exeter's appeal against the 
 
 Bishop's suit, 116, 119, 121, 
 
 122, 126, 126, 127, 131. 
 , , Penyman's petition 
 
 to, 136, 136, 140, 147. 
 
 Council or Privy Council, Lords of 
 the cont. 
 
 , (1629), at Windsor with 
 
 the King, 191. 
 
 , (1630), petitions to, from 
 
 the Mayor, &c. of Exeter, 159. 
 -, letters, orders and com- 
 
 munications from : 
 
 (1660), re Exe Island, 24. 
 
 (1653), to the King's Com- 
 missioners, 365. 
 
 (1553), to the Bishops Cus- 
 tos Rotulorum, 363. 
 
 (1558), re disordered sol- 
 diers, 38. 
 
 (1659), re Merchant Adven- 
 turers, allusion to, 40. 
 
 (1565), re the New Haven, 
 cited, 29. 
 
 (1584), re Joachim Porsel, 
 63. 
 
 (1585), re John Arundel, 
 311. 
 
 (1588), re furnishing of 
 ships, 316. 
 
 (1689), in reply to the peti- 
 tion from Staines, 370. 
 
 (1594), re maimed soldiers, 
 66. 
 
 (1594), re providing a store 
 of corn for Exeter, 67. 
 
 (1603), re death of Eliza- 
 beth, 73. 
 
 (1604), re Vintners and 
 Taverners, 74. 
 
 (1605), re Vintners and 
 Taverners, 75. 
 
 (1607), re maimed soldiers, 
 66. 
 
 (1609), re Aid for knighting 
 Prince Henry, 79. 
 
 (1610), re dearth of corn, 
 67. 
 
 (1611), re Loans, 84. 
 
 (? 1612), re Aid for the mar- 
 riage of Princess Eliza- 
 beth, 90. 
 
 (1613), re observance of 
 Lent, 89. 
 
 (1613), re Piracy, 88. 
 
 (1617), re Piracy, 89. 
 
 (1621), to the citizens of 
 Exeter, 111. 
 
 (1621), re Jesuits, 109, 110, 
 111. 
 
 (1622), re loan for the King 
 of Bohemia, 106. 
 
 , re Aliens, 114, 116. 
 
 , warrant for an arrest, 
 
 133. 
 -, re the Free Schools, 
 
 134, 135.
 
 449 
 
 Council or Privy Council, Lords of 
 the : letters, orders and com- 
 munications from cont. 
 
 (1623), re Draperies, 165. 
 
 , re Exeter trainbands, 
 
 83. 
 
 (1625), re the Free Schools, 
 139, 145. 
 
 (1626), re the Cadiz Ex- 
 pedition, 175. 
 
 (1627), re the relief of La 
 Rochelle, 178. 
 
 , re billeting of soldiers, 
 
 180, 181, 182, 183. 
 
 , re levy for Isle de 
 
 Rhe", 17. 
 
 (1629), re the Peace of Susa, 
 190. 
 
 , re a Proclamation, 
 
 190. 
 
 , to the Mayor of Exe- 
 ter and other Mayors, 65. 
 
 , re the Crossings, 193. 
 
 (1630), re the Crossings, 
 193. 
 
 , re the Free Schools, 
 
 148, 155, 158. 
 
 , re Alehouses, 105. 
 
 -, re dearth of corn, 68. 
 
 (1631), re the unemployed, 
 
 80. 
 (1632), re the prices of 
 
 wines, 194. 
 
 (1633), re the sale of 
 tobacco, 195. 
 
 , re Piracy, 89. 
 
 (1634), re the fishing busi- 
 ness, 86. 
 (1635), recommendation of, 
 
 159. 
 (1637), re the supply of 
 
 gunpowder, 200. 
 (1638), re the supply of 
 
 gunpowder, 201. 
 (1661), re Assessments, 211. 
 (1689), re soldiers of Wm. 
 of Orange, 221. 
 (1744), re the Young 
 
 Pretender, 246, 247. 
 Clerk of the (1621), order from, 
 
 108. 
 Clerks of the, money paid to, 
 
 363 (2). 
 Countess Weir [Devon], 422. 
 
 Inquisition relating to, 389. 
 Courland, Prince, regiment of, 221. 
 Court, the, letters dated at, 39, 75. 
 Courtenay : 
 
 Edward de, 12th Earl of Devon, 
 continues the stoppage of the 
 lock in Countess Wear, 
 389. 
 
 Wt. 20757. 
 
 Courtenay cont. 
 
 Edward, knight, son and heir of 
 Edward Courtenay, Earl of 
 Devon, v. William Bray, Vicar 
 of St. Kieran, Exeter, 392. 
 
 Edward, 16th Earl of Devon 
 (1500), a fulling miU of, 71. 
 
 , grant to, 210. 
 
 , inquisition after the death 
 
 of, 404. 
 
 Edward, petition of, 404. 
 
 , as 18th Earl of Devon, 
 
 his refusal of an annuity 
 offered by the Chamber of 
 Exeter, 307. 
 
 Harry, 17th Earl of Devonshire, 
 salmon to be reserved for, 25. 
 
 Henry, Marquis of Exeter, de- 
 ceased, representatives of, 
 418. 
 
 Hugh, Earl of Devon (temp. 
 Hen. Ill), stops up the lock 
 in Countess Wear, 389. 
 
 , his son Hugh, 389. 
 
 Hugh, afterwards 9th Earl of 
 Devon, usurps certain rights 
 by force, 389, 390. 
 
 , and the Prior of St. 
 
 Nicholas v. Robert de Wotton, 
 Mayor of Exeter, 397. 
 -, v. the Mayor and Com- 
 
 monalty of Exeter, 227, 344, 
 403. 
 -, copy of the Articles of 
 
 complaint by the City 
 against, and the inquisitions 
 thereon, 429. 
 
 Hugh, 12th Earl of Devonshire, 
 petition against, 228. 
 
 , infringes on the rights of 
 
 the City of Exeter, 391, 392. 
 
 Hugh, knight, Mawte widow of, 
 bequest of, 267. 
 
 , , will of, 282. 
 
 , , her gift to Grendon's 
 
 Almhouses, 292. 
 
 Hugh, monument of, 351. 
 
 Katharine, wife of William, Earl 
 of Devon, grant to, 404. 
 
 Pierse, appointment of, 21. 
 
 Thomas, 13th Earl of Devon- 
 shire, the mediation of, 360. 
 
 , copy grant of the con- 
 servancy of the Exe to, 404, 
 429. 
 
 Sir William (1585), knight, com- 
 mission addressed to, 309. 
 
 Sir William (1662), letter of, 98. 
 Courtenays, the, attainders of, 404. 
 Courtise, Roger, of Holy Trinity, 
 
 Exeter, will of, 414. 
 Courtour, Philip, will of, 282. 
 
 Ex 29
 
 450 
 
 Coventry : 
 
 Henry, Secretary of State, 218. 
 
 , letter to, 41. 
 
 , letter for, 219. 
 
 [Sir Thomas], Attorney General, 
 
 order to, 121. 
 
 , , promise of, 122. 
 
 , , allusion to confer- 
 ence between the Council 
 
 for Exeter and, 123. 
 , commission referred to, 
 
 124. 
 , warrant from the King 
 
 drawn up and delivered to, 
 
 127. 
 , William Prous' interview 
 
 with, 127, 134. 
 , his opinion touching the 
 
 Exeter charter, 128. 
 -, his opinion probably to be 
 
 sought by the King, 130. 
 Coventry [Warwicks], Sir Thomas 
 White's estate in or near, 232. 
 how it might profit by trade with 
 
 Guinea, 243. 
 Bishop of, Roger (n.d.), charter 
 
 of, 345. 
 
 Coverdale, Miles, Bishop of Exeter, 
 appointed Commissioner 
 
 (1552), 260. 
 
 John Hooker's notices of, 350. 
 ordered to examine Walter Hele, 
 
 365. 
 
 letter received by, 366. 
 " Cowemarshe," in Duryurd near 
 Cowley Bridge, lease of a 
 meadow called, 291. 
 Cowley Bridge, on the River Exe, 27, 
 
 390, 392. 
 documents relating to the repair 
 
 &c. of, 288-289, 393, 420. 
 to be completed, 306. 
 Duryurd Mill near, 324. 
 repair of part of, 324, 337. 
 Cowley, manor of, lease of, 71, 386. 
 Cowyk, the monks of, charter be- 
 tween the City of Exeter and, 
 361. 
 Prior of, William, to arbitrate in 
 
 a dispute, 280. 
 
 Cox, Bartholomew, J.P. of the City 
 
 of Wells, certificate from, 200. 
 
 Cracherode, Anthony, Solicitor to the 
 
 Commissioners of Hawkers 
 
 and Pedlars, letter of, 70. 
 
 Craike (Crake), Yorks, document 
 
 dated at, 3. 
 
 Cranberrye, Cranbury, Leonard, re- 
 commended as sword bearer, 
 83, 84. 
 
 Cranbourne. See Cecil. 
 Craneburne, grant dated at, 2. 
 
 Cranfield, Lionel Lord, Earl of 
 Middlesex, Lord Treasurer, 
 letter to be directed to, 77. 
 enquiry into his conduct, 114. 
 money to be paid to, 120. 
 promises to further the suit of 
 the Chamber of Exeter, 131. 
 James I refers the business of 
 
 the sequestration to, 132. 
 business of examination about, 
 
 138. 
 
 [Cranmer], Tfhomas, Archbishop of] 
 Canterbury], signature of, 
 25, 366. 
 
 Crediton [Devon], petition from, 244 ; 
 and see Exeter and Crediton 
 Navigation. 
 
 Crewkerne, Somerset, Manor of, 418. 
 (Crookhorne), stage for Post, 65. 
 Crewkerne (Crowkhorne) : 
 Henry, letter to, 105. 
 John, Chamberlain of Exeter, 
 
 lease assigned to, 88. 
 , Articles of Agreement be- 
 tween the Chamber and, 104. 
 -, Order in Council sent by, 
 
 206. 
 
 And see Crukerne. 
 Criditon, William de, Felicia widow 
 
 of, gift of land by, 265. 
 Cridyton, William de, citizen of Exe- 
 ter, grant to, 388. 
 Criket, Walter, gift of house by, 264. 
 Criminals, documents relating to, 
 
 237. 
 
 Crockford, Samuel, of Minehead, 
 bonds to be transmitted to, 
 335. 
 
 desired by the Chamber to en- 
 deavour to recover the debt, 
 335. 
 
 Crompton, Nicholas, soldier, a place 
 in Bonvile's almshouses in 
 Exeter granted to, 74. 
 Cromwell : 
 
 Oliver, the Lord Protector, an 
 
 ordinance of, 215. 
 , proposal to give the pre- 
 sentation of " Peters the 
 East," Exeter, to, 330. 
 [Thomas, afterwards Earl of 
 Essex], Lord Privy Seal, the 
 Town Clerk of Exeter to be a 
 suitor to, 304. 
 Crooker, Sir Hugh, Mayor of Exeter, 
 
 dismissal of, 325. 
 Crossing : 
 
 Francis, letters sent by, 124. 
 
 , member of Company of 
 
 Merchant Adventurers, re- 
 fuses to pay taxes, 193. 
 Hugh, trustees of, 147, 266..
 
 451 
 
 Crossing cent. 
 
 James, letter of, 267. 
 (Crassin), Philip, letter about, 
 
 193. 
 Richard, feoffment from, 293. 
 
 , his History of Exeter, 356- 
 
 357. 
 
 , a member of the Chamber 
 
 of Exeter, 356. 
 , elected Mayor but refuses 
 to serve, 357. 
 
 adds to Hooker's and 
 
 other manuscripts, 357. 
 Thomas, Alderman of Exeter, 
 
 signature of , 150, 151. 
 , leases to, 159, 194, 266. 
 
 , letters of marque issued 
 
 to, 193. 
 -, member of Company of 
 
 Merchant Adventurers, re- 
 fuses to pay taxes, 193. 
 
 , charged with contempt, 
 
 206. 
 
 Grout, John, minister of St. Sidwell's, 
 Exeter, will of , 416. 
 
 Crugge or Cruygge : 
 
 William, his bequest to the City 
 of Exeter, 303. 
 
 , Anne, " my lady Crugg," 
 
 widow of, 303. 
 
 Crukern or Crokehorne, Richard, of 
 Childehay, Dorset, sells part 
 of the manor of Awliscombe, 
 272. 
 
 Cudmore, William, weaver, violence 
 of, 224. 
 
 Cullombo, Don Christofore (?), the 
 Governor of " Cambree," ex- 
 pected arrival of, 191. 
 See also Coloma. 
 
 Cullum, Ellis, apprehended in Exeter, 
 79. 
 
 Culm [near Exeter], gift of a rent- 
 charge on a mill at, 264. 
 
 Culver Park or Culver Haye [Devon], 
 piece of land called, 34. 
 
 Currency, Elizabeth's writ and pro- 
 clamation for reform of the, 
 367. 
 
 Custom free, names of towns which 
 are, 387. 
 
 Guttler, William Knolle, the younger, 
 the City of Exeter's ordnance 
 and artillery delivered to the 
 custody of, 375. 
 
 Dabbenot, Henry, of Exeter, will of, 
 
 416. 
 
 Dally, Edward, sheriff, going to Lon- 
 don, 226-227. 
 Danes, the, have a fort at Accaran, 
 
 239. 
 
 Danwe, Robert, receives the grant 
 of the Chantry of the B.V. 
 Mary upon Exbridge, 210. 
 Darcy, Darsey, Thomas, Baron 
 Darcy, Lord of the Council, 
 signature of, 364, 366. 
 Darke, John, signature of, 341. 
 Darte, Richard, deposition of, 62. 
 Dartmouth [Devon], fragment of a 
 letter written to the town of, 
 88. 
 
 letter dated at, 115. 
 only one alien in, 115. 
 instructions to be sent to, 190. 
 composition for the liberties of 
 
 (1304), 341. 
 Charter of Liberties to the men 
 
 of (1341), 341, 387, 433. 
 Charles II visits, 357. 
 vessels from, 375. 
 the water of, 395. 
 Port of, copy of Commission and 
 Survey touching the limits of, 
 432. 
 Mayor of, John Spurwaie, report 
 
 of, 115. 
 
 Davenport, Sir Humphrey, knight, 
 Lord Chief Baron of the Ex- 
 chequer, letter to, 196. 
 Davey, George, letter of, 258. 
 Davids, Thomas, master of Exeter 
 
 High School, 154. 
 licenced by the Bishop to teach, 
 
 152. 
 Davie, John, twice Mayor of Exeter, 
 
 letter of, 27. 
 
 provision of the will of, 210. 
 his Charity or Almshouse, gives 
 property to found. 274. 
 
 , " Ordinances, Rules and 
 
 Constitutions " of, with the 
 
 signature of the founder, 
 
 274. 
 
 , documents relating to, 
 
 274, 378. 
 
 Receivers' Books of, 274, 
 
 379. 
 
 , Lethbridge's Charity 
 merged in, 277. 
 Davis, Richard, letter of, 230.
 
 452 
 
 Davy : 
 
 W., letter of, 250. 
 
 , forwards copy of a decree, 
 
 81. 
 Mr., threatens the printers in 
 
 London, 246. 
 
 Davy ats Goldsworthy, 420. 
 Davyes : 
 
 E., footnote by, 205. 
 Richard, letter of, 230. 
 Dawlish [Devon], included in the 
 
 Port of Exeter, 29. 
 complaint about foreign in- 
 habitants in, 68. 
 Southwood in, 264. 
 vessels from, 375. 
 Deeble : 
 
 Walter, payment of the expenses 
 of his journey to London, 208. 
 Mr., requested by the Chamber 
 of Exeter to bring in the 
 lowest price or value of a 
 house, 333. 
 
 Deeds, Miscellaneous, 279-301. 
 Defence Act, the, 426. 
 Defoe, Daniel, arrest of, 234. 
 Denham, John and Sir John, knight, 
 Baron of the Exchequer, 
 letter of, 56. 
 letter to, 196. 
 
 business of the sequestration re- 
 ferred to, 132. 
 Denmark, " a paynym Kyng in," 
 
 398. 
 King of, Christian IV, extremity 
 
 of, 11. 
 
 , Christian VII, his mar- 
 riage with Princess Caroline 
 Mathilda, 259. 
 Dennis, Sir Thomas, of Holcombe 
 
 Burnell, grant to, 269. 
 Denys : 
 
 Elizabeth, lease to, 26. 
 Richard, tucker, of Exilond, 
 
 deposition of, 59. 
 Richard, farmer of the mansion 
 house of Exeter Castle, 199. 
 Robert, note by, 374. 
 Sir Robert, knight, son of Sir 
 Thomas, letter of, 44. 
 
 , farmer of the mansion 
 
 house of Exeter Castle, 199. 
 
 , lease to, 70. 
 
 -, commission addressed to, 
 
 309. 
 
 Sir Robert, Recorder of Exeter, 
 receipt from, 55. 
 
 , to be asked to resign, 317 
 
 , to provide lodging for the 
 
 Earls of Essex and Hunting- 
 don and Sir Francis Knolles, 
 317, 
 
 Denys, Sir Robert, Recorder of 
 Exeter cont. 
 
 , to receive a gift, 318. 
 
 , resigns the Recorderehip, 
 
 318. 
 
 Sir Thomas, knight, Recorder of 
 Exeter, letter to, 14. 
 
 , , fee for, 56. 
 
 , J.P. for Devon, letter of, 
 
 288. 
 -, appointed Commissioner 
 
 for Exeter, 260. 
 , Sheriff, burns 
 
 Thomas 
 
 Benet for heresy, 361. 
 , letter to, 366. 
 
 -, John Aclande hopes to 
 
 confer with, at Exeter, 67. 
 Derham, Abraham, his death sen- 
 tence commuted, 237. 
 Desborow, John, Major-General, 12. 
 Dessell [? Dansell], William, Lord of 
 the Council, signature of, 364. 
 Destitution, Religious, in the North, 
 
 letter concerning, 195. 
 Devereux, : 
 
 Robert, 2nd Earl of Essex, Lord 
 of the Council, signature of, 
 66. 
 
 , to come to Exeter, 317. 
 
 , bucks given by, 317. 
 
 Robert, 3rd Earl of Essex, letter 
 
 to be written to, 321. 
 Devon or Devonshire, Counts and 
 Earls of, injuries and wrongs 
 done to the City of Exeter by, 
 343. 
 
 Countess of, salmon to be re- 
 served for, 25. 
 
 , v. City of Exeter, 428. 
 
 Earls of. See Courtenay. 
 Devonshire, levy of 500 men from, 15. 
 
 levy of 200 men to be raised in, 
 for the Isle de Rhe, 17, 18. 
 
 men of, disburse treasure for 
 loan to Mary, 38. 
 
 alnage of cloth in, 46. 
 
 dozens, 138. 
 
 Perriman's estate in, 141. 
 
 soldiers in, 175. 
 
 loans to Charles I from, 175. 
 
 soldiers to be billeted in, 1 8 1 , 1 83. 
 
 billeted soldiers to be removed 
 from, 182, 183. 
 
 instructions to be sent to ports 
 in, 190. 
 
 gunpowder to be kept in, and 
 the trained bands exercised, 
 200-202. 
 
 an enrolment to be made of all 
 the men between the ages of 
 16 and 60 from whom levies 
 may be made in, 201,
 
 453 
 
 Devonshire cont. 
 
 a Provost Marshal to be ap- 
 pointed in, 202. 
 payment for the soldiers of, 
 
 207. 
 ships to be provided for her 
 
 Majesty's service by, 316. 
 list of the land owners and 
 
 occupiers on the proposed 
 
 public Canal, 381. 
 Justices of, letter of, to the 
 
 Council, 18. 
 , to be informed concerning 
 
 the repairs the County must 
 
 make, 324. 
 
 Justices of Assize. See Justices. 
 Justices of the Peace for, to be 
 
 conferred with, 80. 
 
 , letter from, 288. 
 
 -, four seals of, 289. 
 
 -, copy of letter to, 314. 
 
 Sheriffs of, writ for an Inquisi- 
 tion sent to (1317), 343. 
 
 Sheriff, Mayors, Bailiffs, &c. of, 
 letter to, 1537, 288. 
 
 Sheriffs of, catalogue of, 355. 
 Devon and Exeter, Lord Lieutenant 
 of (1705-6), to present peti- 
 tioner to Queen Anne, 220. 
 
 . See Bourchier ; Carteret; 
 
 Grenville ; Grey ; Monk ; 
 Poulett ; Russell. 
 
 (1621), request of, alluded 
 
 to, 111. 
 Deputy Lieutenants for, letters 
 
 of, 85, 216. 
 
 .letters to, 166, 202. 
 
 , additional number desired 
 
 (1623), 133. 
 
 , power given to, 175. 
 
 , request to, 176. 
 
 , directions to, 179. 
 
 , muskets to be supplied to, 
 
 207. 
 
 , orders of, 212, 217. 
 
 , promise of, 217, 218. 
 
 , in London, 218. 
 
 , money issued at different 
 
 times by Exeter by order and 
 
 appointment of, 328. 
 -, deputation to, 431. 
 
 Deymon, John, hatmaker, of Exi- 
 
 lond, his servants, 59. 
 Dickinson, John, order for the release 
 
 of, 84. 
 Dieppe (Diep), French fleet at, 192. 
 
 and other ports of France, 236. 
 [? Dier], John, money to be paid to, 
 
 313. 
 Digby (Dygby), Robert Lord, of 
 
 Glashill, present at Council 
 
 Meeting, 109. 
 
 Dight, Edward, of St. Martin, Exa- 
 ter, will of, 416. 
 
 Dilbings, person named, money ex- 
 torted from, 236. 
 
 Dissenters, relief of, letter concern- 
 ing, 235. 
 
 Distress, Relief of, contributions for, 
 documents concerning, 176- 
 177. 
 
 Ditchfield, Edward, grant of Tops- 
 ham Manor to, 431. 
 
 Dix, William Spicer, letter of, 199. 
 
 Doddridge : 
 
 John, sometime M.P. for Barn- 
 staple, recommendation by, 84. 
 J[ohn], Justice, can report 
 favourably of Chamber of 
 Exeter, 122. 
 
 Dodds, Gregory, Dean of Exeter, 
 letter of, 49. 
 
 Domesday Book, entries in, relating 
 
 to Exeter, 4, 344. 
 copy of Exemplification of, 343. 
 extracts from, with note, 372. 
 Exemplifications of, 429. 
 
 Dominica, defeat of the French fleet 
 off, allusion to, 253. 
 
 Dona, Dohne, Achatius, Ambassador 
 Extraordinary for the King of 
 Bohemia, letter of, 105-6. 
 
 Dorchester, Viscount. See Carleton. 
 
 Dorchester, benevolence of, 196. 
 
 Dorchester, Richard, to be respons- 
 ible for the victualling of the 
 ships, 313. 
 
 money for the same to be paid 
 to, 313. 
 
 Dorset, Earl of. See Beaufort and 
 
 Sackville. 
 
 county of, soldiers to be billeted 
 in, 183. 
 
 Dorset dozens, 138. 
 
 Dover, note of the ships of not less 
 than 100 tons belonging to, 
 187. 
 
 only one harbour between Ports- 
 mouth and, 235. 
 
 Dowdall, Captain John, in command 
 of a band of footmen to serve 
 in Ireland, 370. 
 
 [Dowdeswell, William], Chancellor 
 of the Exchequer, direction of, 
 257. 
 
 Dowes, John. See Sweet. 
 
 Down, William, yeoman, will of, 44, 
 283. 
 
 Downe, Anthony, letter of, 177. 
 
 Downs, Robert, member of the 
 Council, signature of, 364. 
 
 Dowrish : 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth, gives 501. for 
 I charitable uses, 334.
 
 454 
 
 Dow rish con*. 
 
 Thomas, engaged in the dispute 
 
 with Bishop Lacy, 286. 
 Drake : 
 
 Augustyn, signature of, 145. 
 Sir Francis, ships for, 63n. 
 
 , ships under the command 
 
 of, 312. 
 Gilbert, of Lytelham, lease to, 
 
 289. 
 
 John, of Exmouth, lease to, 289. 
 John, Receiver of Exeter, a 
 
 gown for, 306. 
 Draperies, New, documents relating 
 
 to regulations for the manu- 
 facture and sale of, 165-166. 
 Dray ton, Mr., schoolmaster of Exeter 
 
 Grammar School, 157, 159. 
 Drew : 
 
 Edward, of Fullarton, in the 
 
 parish of Broad Clyst, charged 
 
 with murder, 62. 
 Edward, Serjeant - at - Law, 
 
 elected Recorder of Exeter, 
 
 318. 
 
 , elected and sworn Re- 
 corder of London, 318. 
 Francis, M.P. for Exeter, debt 
 
 due to, 88. 
 Lawrence, Reeve of the Manor 
 
 of Sampford Courtenay, 396. 
 Mr., publishes a paper in Col- 
 
 lumpton market place, 255. 
 , sends corn to Collumpton 
 
 market, 256. 
 -, property purchased from, 
 
 425. 
 -, copy of note of, 422. 
 
 Druell, Richard, engaged in the dis- 
 pute with Bishop Lacy, 286. 
 Drury, Drewrie, William, receipt of, 
 
 22. 
 
 Ducke, Nicholas, Recorder of Exeter, 
 55. 
 
 death of, 56. 
 
 his attitude with regard to an 
 assistant Lord Steward, 77. 
 
 signature of, 79, 402. 
 
 information given to, 91. 
 
 dispute referred to, 97. 
 
 to go to the Lord Chief Baron, 
 102. 
 
 man of, 109. 
 
 attends in London to the busi- 
 ness of the Chamber against 
 the Bishop's claim, 118, 119, 
 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 
 127. 
 
 has conference with Mr. Norden 
 about the property in Exeter 
 claimed by Prince Charles, 
 124, 196, 197. 
 
 Ducke, Nicholas con/. 
 
 about to return to Exeter, 130. 
 letter of, 132. 
 
 present at the hearing of 
 Perriman's case before the 
 Bishop, 136, 140. 
 has an interview in London with 
 the Bishop of Exeter, 137, 
 143. 
 his wish concerning the new 
 
 Town Clerk, 138. 
 opinion of, 138. 
 departs frrom London, 142. 
 request of, 1 60. 
 receipt by the hand of, 323. 
 Dudley : 
 
 Ambrose, Earl of Warwick, fish- 
 ing of the Exe to be pro- 
 cured by copy from, 26. 
 Lord Guildford, husband of 
 
 Lady Jane Grey, 362. 
 John, Duke of Northumberland 
 (?), mention of, 33. 
 
 , committed to the Tower, 
 
 367. 
 Duke: 
 
 Richard, letter to, 14. 
 William, will of, 283. 
 
 , Elizabeth daughter of, 
 
 283. 
 Mr., his mill destroyed, 255. 
 
 , sends corn to Honiton 
 
 market, 256. 
 Dunchideock, minister of. See 
 
 Moungwell. 
 Dungeness Lighthouse, duty paid for 
 
 the maintenance of, 237. 
 Dunkeswell, Abbey of, 291. 
 Dunkirk, preparations for an inva- 
 sion of England at, 246. 
 Dunkirkers (Dunckaarts), the, 193. 
 Dunne (Dun), Daniel, letter of, 74. 
 Dunster, John, letter of, 228-9. 
 Duntish, manor of, in the parish of 
 Buckland Newton, near Cerne 
 Abbas in Dorsetshire, docu- 
 ments concerning, 235. 
 Durerde, Alexander de, his house in 
 
 South Street, 399. 
 Durling, Martin, permission granted 
 
 to, 283. 
 
 Durneford, Philip, land held by, 401. 
 Duroune, Colonel, his headquarters 
 
 at Exeter, 250. 
 Durrant, John, accounts drawn up 
 
 by, 398. 
 
 Duryurd, Duriurd [Devon], 393, 425. 
 ordinances respecting the rent 
 
 of, 385. 
 coppice at, 81. 
 
 payment for hedging at, 103. 
 Manor of, 361, 393.
 
 455 
 
 Duryurd, Manor of cont. 
 
 , lease of, 71, 386. 
 
 , Cowley Bridge in the, 289. 
 
 , Committee appointed for 
 
 the sale of, 338. 
 -, Accounts of, description 
 
 of, 410. 
 
 , book of Court Rolls of, 
 
 70, 379. 
 -, Court Bolls of the, 280, 
 
 412. 
 Mills, 393. 
 
 , leases of, 70. 
 
 , dispute concerning the 
 
 water for, 70. 
 Wood, documents relating to, 
 
 292. 
 
 , timber to be felled in, 327. 
 
 Duryurd Paper, Manor of, 395. 
 Dutch, the, very strong on the coast 
 
 of Guinea, 239. 
 their trade with Guinea, 240, 
 
 241. 
 would like to purchase the forts 
 
 on the coast of Guinea, 242. 
 manufactures and spirits sent 
 
 to Guinea, 239, 240. 
 wars, allusion to the, 41. 
 Dyer : 
 
 John, letter by the hands of, 64. 
 Martin, Subdean and Canon of 
 
 Exeter, 285. 
 
 Eales v. Mayor of Exeter, 420. 
 Earle, Erie, Mr., bond of, 122. 
 
 money received from. 124. 
 East India Company, affidavits of 
 soldiers enlisted in their ser- 
 vice, 424. 
 Easton, near Stamford, grant dated 
 
 at, 3. 
 
 Edgcumb (Eggecomb), Sir Richard, 
 knight, Comptroller of the 
 Royal Household, 19. 
 Edmondes, Edmunds : 
 Sir Clement, 109. 
 Sir Thomas, Clerk of the Crown, 
 present at Council debate, 
 108. 
 
 , copy of the Exeter Char- 
 ter presented to, 115. 
 -, orders to, 117, 118, 119, 
 
 Edmondes, Sir Thomas cont. 
 
 , his opinion concerning the 
 
 Bishop of Exeter's suit, 118. 
 -, opinion of, concerning the 
 
 Charter, 123. 
 
 , receives no definite in- 
 structions concerning the 
 Commission for the Bishop, 
 124. 
 
 , instructed to draw up a 
 
 new Commission for the 
 Bishop, 128. 
 
 , going as ambassador to 
 
 France, 190. 
 Edmund : 
 
 Earl of Cornwall, son of Richard 
 King of the Romans, con- 
 firmation of grant by, 3. 
 
 , remits part of the debt of 
 
 the citizens of Exeter, 3. 
 -, fee farm of Exeter paid to, 
 
 4. 
 
 -, grant by, 280. 
 
 -, consent of, 283. 
 
 -, assent of, 381. 
 
 -, confirmation by, 401. 
 
 121. 
 
 Saint, King of East Anglia, copy 
 
 of an old English life of, 
 
 398. 
 Edward I, confirmation of grant of, 
 
 3. 
 confirms and adds to the grant 
 
 of Henry III, 3, 429. 
 commission of, to the Mayor of 
 
 Exeter, 3. 
 his daughters obtain a favour for 
 
 the citizens of Exeter, 3. 
 an ancient law of, 75. 
 visits Exeter, 267. 
 confirmation of grant by, 280. 
 (the King), engaged in the 
 
 Scottish wars, 281. 
 assent of, 361. 
 copy of writs of, 397. 
 Charter of, to Exeter, 397. 
 grants by, 428. 
 Edward II, grant of. 3, 429. 
 
 confirmation charter of, 3, 429. 
 confirmation of grants of, 3. 
 Charter of, allowed (1575), 7. 
 (the King), should not commit 
 
 the custody of the City of 
 
 Exeter to whom ho will, 281. 
 his writ iipon petitions made to, 
 
 343. 
 
 allusion to writ of, 391. 
 Edward III. confirmation charter of, 
 
 3, 429. 
 
 confirmation of grant of. 4. 
 Letters Patent exemplifying the 
 
 record of a proceeding in the 
 
 Exchequer of, 4.
 
 456 
 
 Edward III cont. 
 writs of, 8. 
 Commission of, to enforce the 
 
 Statutes of Northampton, 8, 
 
 429. 
 fleet raised to accompany him 
 
 to Calais, 8. 
 his fortunes in France, allusion 
 
 to, 36. 
 
 grant by, 284. 
 makes additions to Stephen's 
 
 Charter to Kenton, 374. 
 allusion to liberties granted to 
 
 Exeter by, 388. 
 Charters of, 429, 433. 
 Edward IV, his Charter to Exeter, 
 
 4, 430. 
 
 confirmation of grants of, 5. 
 alms of the progenitors of, 288. 
 petition to, 343. 
 petition from the Mayor, Bailiffs 
 
 and Commonalty of Exeter 
 
 to, 390. 
 Edward VI, confirmation of grants 
 
 by, 5. 
 Charter granting manor of Exe 
 
 Island to the City of Exeter, 
 
 5, 24-25, 372, 430. 
 sale of manors by, 6. 
 his gifts of lands, 23. 
 repeal of statute of, 74. 
 injunction of, 157. 
 
 orders inventories of the Church 
 goods throughout Exeter to 
 be delivered to his Commis- 
 sioners, 364. 
 
 his estate and policy of his 
 realm, 365. 
 
 Charter of, with footnote, 372. 
 
 copy of Particulars for grant by, 
 430. 
 
 death, of, 362. 
 Edward (?), inspeximus of Charter of, 
 
 346. 
 Edward, Duke of Cornwall, the Black 
 
 Prince, grant to, 1. 
 Egerton, Thomas, signature of, 73. 
 
 Earl of Ellesmere, Lord Chan- 
 cellor, signature of, 74, 90. 
 
 letter to, 90. 
 
 indisposition of, 102. 
 Election of 1761 , documents concern- 
 ing, 253-254. 
 Elizabeth, Queen, grants of, 6, 430. 
 
 confirmation of grants by, 6. 
 
 letters of, 15, 370. 
 
 death of, 73. 
 
 allusion to a general pardon in 
 the first year of, 138. 
 
 proclaimed Queen, 307. 
 
 Charter of, Hooker's note on, 
 351. 
 
 Elizabeth, Queen cont. 
 
 " Eliza Triumphans," picture of, 
 on the front page of Hooker's 
 book, 354. 
 
 her writ and proclamation con- 
 cerning the currency, 367. 
 her proclamation for correcting 
 
 standard weights, 371. 
 Charters of, 374, 413, 430, 431, 
 433. 
 
 Elizabeth daughter of James I, aid 
 for the marriage of, 90. 
 
 Ellacott, John, merchant of Exeter, 
 bond of, 115. 
 
 Ellesmere, Earl of. See Egerton. 
 
 Elliott, Sir George Augustus, K.B., 
 Lieut. -General, to be pre- 
 sented with the freedom of 
 the City of Exeter, 252. 
 his successful service in Gibral- 
 tar, 252. 
 
 Ellis v. Phillips, 420. 
 
 [Elphinstone, James], Lord Bal- 
 merino, Lord of the Council, 
 signature of, 74. 
 
 Elsynge, H[enry], clerk of the House 
 of Commons, signature of, 
 211. 
 
 Eltham [Kent], documents dated at, 
 3. 
 
 Elwell, John, report of, 220, 221. 
 
 Ely, Bishop of. See Goodrich. 
 
 Embury, Mr., the Chamber of Exeter 
 agrees to purchase the clois- 
 ters &c. adjoining the Cathe- 
 dral from, 329. 
 receipt of, 330. 
 
 Emperor, the, Charles V, as Prince of 
 Castile, treaty for his mar- 
 riage with Mary daughter of 
 Henry VII, 14. 
 
 war declared against, by 
 Francis I, 9. 
 
 Engine Bridge, the, 420. 
 
 England, fishing vessels of, 86. 
 
 search for aliens to be made 
 
 throughout, 114, 115. 
 Poll Money in arrears in respec- 
 tive counties and places in, 
 211. 
 
 a soldier in the Prince of 
 Orange's army a native of, 
 224. 
 
 Engleys, Claricia, daughter of John 
 de Fenton, wife of William le, 
 grant by, 387. 
 
 Erskine or Areskyne, Sir Thomas, 
 16n. 
 
 Escott [near Honiton, Devon], letter 
 dated at, 255. 
 
 Espicer, Robert le, gift of tenement 
 by, 264.
 
 457 
 
 Essex, Earl of. See Devereux. 
 Essington, John, conveyance from 
 
 the heirs of, 230. 
 copy of his will &c., 425. 
 Eswald the Leper, 280. 
 Etwill (? Elwell), John, attestation 
 
 of, 220. 
 
 Evans, Richard, gives 5001. for charit- 
 able uses, 335. 
 
 Eveleigh, Josias, Serjeant, 83. 
 Evens, Nicholas, of Exilond and St. 
 
 Mary Steps, will of, 415. 
 Ewins, Captain John, 230. 
 Ewyas, Richard, brewer, 104. 
 Exbridge, Exe Bridge, 404. 
 
 hope to purchase, for the use of 
 
 the City, 33. 
 parish of St. Thomas beyond, 
 
 60, 61. 
 the bunney on the, work done 
 
 at, 208. 
 Chantry of the B.V. Mary upon, 
 
 210. 
 Parish Church of St. Edmund 
 
 on, 210. 
 
 Act for widening, 249, 419. 
 repair of, 269. 
 grants to, 280. 
 almshouses to be built at the end 
 
 of, 305. 
 
 to be paved, 307. 
 partly decayed and to be re- 
 paired (1603), 320. 
 the Chantry upon, copy of the 
 
 purchase of, 362. 
 the arrears of the account of, 
 
 ordinance respecting, 385. 
 petition for the rebuilding of 
 
 (15th cent.), 390. 
 kept and repaired by the Cor- 
 poration of Exeter, 391. 
 rebuilding of (1388), 393. 
 lands, 425. 
 
 wardens of (1511), composition 
 with, 71. 
 
 (1502), and the Chamber 
 
 of Exeter, appointment by, 
 210. 
 
 , accounts of, 384, 424. 
 
 -, to render their final ac- 
 
 counts within three months 
 
 of the election of the Mayor, 
 
 385. 
 , recovery of three houses 
 
 in Northgate Street by, 
 
 387. 
 , accounts of, description 
 
 of, 410. 
 Exchequer, the, exemplification of 
 
 a decree of, 7. 
 standard weights and measures 
 
 received from, 78, 79. 
 
 Exchequer, the cont, 
 order in, 79. 
 receipt from, 89. 
 Commissioners certify for 
 
 Perriman into, 140. 
 Rolls to be duly returned to, 
 
 176. 
 of Charles I, payment to be made 
 
 out of, 180, 181. 
 standard measure of, 194. 
 decree in (1650), 206. 
 Memoranda Rolls of, references 
 
 to, 286. 
 the new Charter to Exeter to be 
 
 assured in, 304. 
 allusion to records of, 389. 
 allowances in, 420. 
 quietuses from, 423. 
 Record, 430. 
 Memoranda, 433. 
 Exchequer Chamber, the, dispute 
 
 between Topsham and Exeter 
 
 in, 30. 
 Exchequer, Court of, exemplification 
 
 of certificates from, 4. 
 record of a proceeding in, 4. 
 receipt to, 79. 
 suit between the Attorney 
 
 General and the City of Exeter 
 
 in, 196, 197. 
 standard weights received from, 
 
 371. 
 Exchequer, Barons of the (1623), 
 
 appealed to for the sequestra- 
 tion, 132. 
 (1324), the Mayor of Exeter and 
 
 others to appear before, 281. 
 Chancellor of the. See Dow- 
 
 deswell. 
 
 Clerks of the, money paid to, 363. 
 Exe, the River, destruction of Cale- 
 
 bear wear on, 7. 
 farmers of the water of, bond 
 
 given by, 25. 
 
 fishing of, documents concern- 
 ing, 25, 26, 53, 418, 419. 
 
 , salmon, 320. 
 
 , farmer of, to deliver 
 
 salmon to the members of the 
 
 Corporation, 322. 
 
 , put in defence, 389, 390. 
 
 -, impeded, 390. 
 
 extent of, 27. 
 
 the conducting of, 314, 316. 
 
 inquisition concerning the 
 damage done by weirs in, 343. 
 
 records concerning, 378. 
 
 disputes between the City and 
 the Earls of Devon respecting, 
 389-392. 
 
 documents relating to the con- 
 servancy of, 404, 426.
 
 458 
 
 zens. See Fee -farm. 
 , entry in Domesday Book 
 relating to, 4. 
 -, Justices in Eyre at (1281), 
 
 4. 
 
 -, the citizens make a balin- 
 ger for the King's navy (1378), 
 4. 
 
 -, made a county (1537), 
 
 5. 
 
 , manor of Exe Island 
 granted to the citizens in re- 
 ward for their loyalty (1550), 
 5,24. 
 -, ratification of the arms 
 
 of the City, 6. 
 -, ship to be supplied by the 
 
 City (1347), 8. 
 , unfounded report of a 
 
 sedition in (1366), 8. 
 , search for persons using 
 
 " unlawful games " in, 9. 
 , Commission to collect sub- 
 sidy (1523), 9, 14. 
 , Order in Council to the 
 
 Commissioners for Subsidies 
 
 in (1629), 10. 
 , loan for Charles I raised 
 
 in (1626), 11. 
 , money for the repair of 
 
 St. Paul's Cathedral collected 
 
 in (1633), 12, 432. 
 , suspected persons passing 
 
 through, 13. 
 , money raised to resist the 
 
 invasion of the Scots (1644), 
 
 13. 
 
 Exe, the River cont. 
 
 law papers concerning, 419. 
 
 floods in, 419. 
 
 obstruction of, 420. 
 
 pilotage in, 421. 
 
 agreements for making it 
 
 navigable, 423. 
 grants of the conservatorship of, 
 
 429, 430. 
 and Haven, dissertation by 
 
 Hooker upon, 343. 
 and see Exeter, the new Haven. 
 Exe, North, mill stream known as 
 
 the, " Launders plott " on, 
 
 270. 
 
 Old, place called, 28. 
 Exeter, letters and documents dated 
 
 at, 22, 37, 38, 46, 82, 103, 
 
 108, 146, 157, 160, 172, 196, 
 
 216, 218, 220, 225, 227, 231, 
 
 243, 248, 316. 
 Exeter, City and County of : 
 
 , privileges granted to the 
 
 citizens. See Charters. 
 -, city granted to the citi- 
 
 Exeter, City and County of cont. 
 , one of the towns entered 
 
 as surety for the payment of 
 
 the dower of Mary, daughter 
 
 of Henry VII, 14n. 
 , the Marquis of Las Navas 
 
 entertained at, 15. 
 , citizens offended because 
 
 Exeter was not described as 
 
 a separate county, 15. 
 , books of Statutes given to 
 
 the City (1615), 16. 
 , door through the City 
 
 wall, documents relating to, 
 
 17. 
 , levy of men to be raised 
 
 for the Isle de Rhe, 17, 18, 
 
 181. 
 , property of religious 
 
 houses in. See Churches, &c. 
 -, order to remove the bells 
 
 of the parish churches, 21. 
 
 , part played in the rebel- 
 lion of 1549, 21, 22, 24. 
 
 , Bishop Hall's appeal on 
 behalf of the laundresses, 26. 
 
 , liberal disbursements by 
 
 the citizens for the New 
 Haven, 27. 
 -, the river to be made 
 
 navigable between Topsham 
 and the City, 31. 
 -, no foreigner to sell cloth 
 
 within the County, 33. 
 
 , the Prince of Piedmont to 
 
 be entertained at, 34. 
 -, to send ships for the siege 
 
 of Calais, 36, 37. 
 , the County of Exeter dis- 
 tinct from the County of 
 
 Devon, 37. 
 , the citizens disburse 
 
 treasure for loan to Queen 
 
 Mary, 38. 
 , the Marquis of Sara to 
 
 visit, 38, 39. 
 , instructions from the Lord 
 
 Lieutenant to the City (1560), 
 
 42. 
 , the City make no return 
 
 of their books of subsidy, 42. 
 -, papers relating to the 
 
 alnage of cloth in the County, 
 
 45-46. 
 , seditious libels spread 
 
 abroad in the City, 49. 
 , bill in the House of Lords 
 
 for the uniting of churches in 
 
 (1563), 51. 
 
 , thief apprehended in, 55. 
 
 , to provide a ship against 
 
 the Armada, 63, 64.
 
 459 
 
 Exeter, City and County of cont. 
 
 , one of the stages for Posts 
 
 between London and Ply- 
 mouth, 65. 
 
 , distress in, owing to scar- 
 city of corn, 67, 68. 
 
 , petitions concerning goods 
 
 sold by foreigners, 68, 69. 
 
 , making of malt to be 
 
 limited, 68 ; and see Ale. 
 
 , " Seacole " to be provided 
 
 for the poor (1640), 68. 
 -, custom of the City due 
 
 formerly to the Lord of Top- 
 sham, 72. 
 -, licences to sell wines in, 
 
 75. 
 
 , papers relating to the 
 
 unemployed, 80-81. 
 , contribution towards the 
 
 suppression of pirates, 89. 
 -, papers relating to the 
 
 observance of Lent, 89-90. 
 -, papers relating to the 
 
 Bodley Lectureship, 92-99. 
 , papers relating to Exeter 
 
 College. See under Oxford. 
 , maps of the City and City 
 
 property, 104105. 
 , money raised for the Loan 
 
 for the King of Bohemia, 
 
 papers relating to, 105-108. 
 , Committees consider rea- 
 sons for the decay of trade, 
 
 108, 109. 
 , papers relating to Papists, 
 
 109-111. 
 , John Prowse to return 
 
 from London, 113. 
 , letters relating to the 
 
 controversy with the Bishop 
 
 (1622), 115-125, 127-133. 
 , good character of the 
 
 inhabitants, 126. 
 , the citizens reported to be 
 
 Puritans, 131. 
 , controversy about the 
 
 Free Schools. See under 
 
 Schools. 
 , size and populousness of, 
 
 149, 154, 158. 
 , taxes for armour, powder, 
 
 &c., 160, 161. 
 , rates payable as tallage, 
 
 166. 
 , royal letter directed to the 
 
 City (1623), 169. 
 , papers relating to soldiers 
 
 sent for the Cadiz Expedition, 
 
 174-176. 
 , loans to Charles I by the 
 
 City, 175. 
 
 Exeter, City and County of cont, 
 
 , collections made for the 
 
 relief of distress in other 
 towns, 176-177. 
 
 , plot against the City, 
 
 (1627), 177. 
 
 , called upon to furnish 
 
 two ships for the expedition 
 to La Rochelle, 179. 
 , papers relating to soldiers 
 billeted in (1627), 180-184. 
 
 , ships belonging to, 187. 
 
 , decay of the City's re- 
 venue, 189. 
 
 , the " Resolution " of Exe- 
 ter (1629), 193. 
 
 , regulations concerning 
 
 the sale of tobacco in the City, 
 195. 
 
 , suit between the Attorney 
 
 General and the City about 
 the title of some waste lands 
 (1634), 196, 197. 
 
 , certificate for a musician 
 
 to perform in the City, 
 200. 
 
 , orders concerning a supply 
 
 of gunpowder, 200-202. 
 
 , letter of complaint con- 
 cerning rebels in the City, 
 202, 
 -, remonstrance and pro- 
 
 positions made to the Bur- 
 gesses and Commonalty of the 
 City, 203. 
 
 , documents relating to the 
 Siege of Exeter (1643), 206- 
 209, 326. 
 
 , expenses for fortifying 
 
 various places in the City, 
 208. 
 -, the Six Months' Assess- 
 
 ment in, 211. 
 , in arrears with Poll money 
 
 211, 212. 
 
 , soldiers to be quartered 
 and billeted in the City, (1648), 
 
 212, 213. 
 
 , order to make speedy as- 
 sessment and distribution of 
 the militia forces in the City 
 (1660), 215. 
 
 , the names of all the City 
 
 authorities to be submitted 
 for the approbation of the 
 Council of State, 215, 216. 
 
 , no persons other than the 
 
 standing forces to be armed 
 within the City, 216. 
 -, an examination to be 
 
 made as to the money raised 
 within the City, 216.
 
 460 
 
 Exeter, City and County of cont. 
 
 , all arms and ammunition 
 
 in the City to be delivered up, 
 216. 
 
 , a favourable account of 
 
 the City given to Charles II, 
 219. 
 -, accounts for the sick and 
 
 wounded soldiers of William 
 of Orange, 219-224. 
 
 , documents relating to the 
 City's valuation, 226-227. 
 
 , debts owing by the City, 
 227. 
 
 , grievances to be settled at 
 the Tollbooth during Lam- 
 mas Fair, 227. 
 
 , support of the City 
 
 solicited for the Church at 
 Rotterdam (1705), 230. 
 
 , its commerce with Leg- 
 horn, 231. 
 
 , an account of the City 
 
 desired for a gazateer, 233. 
 -, the establishment of a 
 
 Court of Conscience desired 
 (1713), 234. 
 
 , documents relating to 
 
 criminals, 237. 
 
 , broadside printed at, 237. 
 
 , burglary in, 238. 
 
 , hope that its manufac- 
 tures may be more exten- 
 sively sent to Guinea, 238. 
 
 , how it might profit by 
 trade with Guinea, 243. 
 
 , the import of Irish wool. 
 See under Wool. 
 
 , loyalty of Papists, &c. in 
 (1745), 247. 
 
 , the Second 
 
 Annuitant 
 Society, 248. 
 -, authorisations to collect 
 
 duties of wheelage, 249. 
 , documents relating to the 
 
 Freedom of the City, 250- 
 
 253. 
 , boxes for presenting the 
 
 Freedom of the City, 250, 
 
 251. 
 , election squibs printed at, 
 
 (1761), 253. 
 , peace and good order at, 
 
 256, 257. 
 , riot and robbery at (1772), 
 
 257. 
 , scarcity and high price of 
 
 butter in (1801), 257. 
 , meetings held to consider 
 
 plans for raising volunteers, 
 
 (c. 1782), 258. 
 , a wild beast show in, 259. 
 
 Exeter, City and County of cont. 
 
 , collection of copies of 
 
 Royal Sign Manuals and other 
 documents, 260. 
 
 r, documents relating to In- 
 ventories of Church Goods. 
 See Church Goods. 
 
 , proclamation made to the 
 
 commons of (1560), 263. 
 
 , statutes made in 1245, 
 
 extracts from, 263. 
 
 , , English copy of, 
 
 264. 
 
 , visit of Edward I to, 267. 
 
 , dispute between the City 
 
 and the Priory of St Nicho- 
 las, 270. 
 
 , lands, tenements, &c., left 
 
 to the Chamber, 277. 
 
 , documents relating to 
 
 property in the City and 
 suburbs, 279-281. 
 
 , Final Concord made " in 
 
 full court of the City," 280. 
 
 , the King should not com- 
 mit the custody of the City to 
 whomsoever he will, cause to 
 be shown why (1324), 281. 
 
 , properties in (named), 
 
 mentioned in wills, 281, 282, 
 283. 
 
 , monies left on account of 
 
 forgotten tithes, 282. 
 
 , places in (named), 283, 
 
 284, 286. 
 
 , the yearly farm paid into 
 
 the Exchequer by the City, 
 290. 
 
 , mention of place names 
 
 in the City and suburbs, 
 streets, lanes, &c., 294-295. 
 -, houses, tenements, 
 
 &c., 295-296. 
 
 -, wells, springs, &c., 
 
 296. 
 
 , , closes, gardens, 
 
 parks, &c., 296-97. 
 
 , trades and occupations 
 mentioned in the Miscel- 
 laneous Deeds, 298-300. 
 , collection of seals of 
 Bishops and others, 300-1. 
 
 , weapons of soldiers 
 equipped by the City (1513), 
 302. 
 
 , note of the collection for 
 the first payment of a tenth 
 and fifteenth (1581), 310. 
 
 , copy of the City's receipt 
 
 for money left to be lent to 
 the young men of the City, 
 311
 
 461 
 
 Exeter, City and County of cont. 
 
 , order for payment for 
 
 ships to be provided by the 
 City (1588), 311, 312. 
 
 , door to be made between 
 
 the College of Vicars and lands 
 of the City (1588), 312. 
 
 , a kind of common-place 
 
 book of occurrences in the 
 City (1559-76), 313. 
 -, money for providing two 
 
 ships lent by persons in the 
 
 City (1588), 316. 
 , all accounts of the city to 
 
 be henceforth (1601) made in 
 
 English, 320. 
 , gifts to be presented to 
 
 the Speaker in token of the 
 
 goodwill of the City (1610), 
 
 321. 
 , regulations for players and 
 
 shows in the City and County, 
 
 321. 
 , free gift of the City to 
 
 James I, 323. 
 , Sunday regulations for 
 
 shopkeepers, &c. (1615), 323. 
 -, engineer to be eng 
 
 for the better defence of the 
 
 City (1642), 324. 
 , the City plate to be sold 
 
 (1644), 325. 
 , precautions against the 
 
 plague (1645), 325. 
 , gift to Queen Henrietta 
 
 Maria while in the City, 325. 
 , gifts to Charles I and 
 
 Prince Charles on their visit 
 
 to the City, 325. 
 , dinner given to persons 
 
 of honour visiting the City, 
 
 325. 
 , a summons suit " for the 
 
 rendering of the City," (1646), 
 
 325. 
 , valuation of the boats, 
 
 326. 
 
 , day of thanksgiving ap- 
 pointed for the last rendering 
 
 of the City, 326. 
 , held for the Parliament 
 
 against the King's army, 326. 
 , want and misery in the 
 
 City (1651), 327. 
 -, chimney sweep from Lon- 
 
 don desired, 328. 
 
 , Act for uniting parishes 
 
 in the City (1657), 331. 
 
 , money raised for main- 
 taining a workhouse, 333. 
 
 , rentals of the lands of 
 
 and belonging to the City, 340. 
 
 Exeter, City and County of cont. 
 , ancient orders and customs 
 
 of the City to be observed and 
 
 kept, 341. 
 , injuries and oppressions 
 
 by the Counts and Earls of 
 
 Devon, 343. 
 
 , extracts from the Hun- 
 dred Rolls as to the liberties 
 
 of the City, 344. 
 , liberties and suits in law 
 
 between London and the City, 
 
 346. 
 , memorandum concerning 
 
 the settlement of the dispute 
 
 between the Church and City 
 
 (1448), 346. 
 , petition of the inhabitants 
 
 of the City (1509), 346, 
 
 355. 
 , the particular rentals of 
 
 all the lordships, manors, &c., 
 
 belonging to the City, 349. 
 , cities, towns and villages 
 
 which are custom free within 
 
 the City, 349. 
 , Calendar of places which 
 
 are custom free in the fairs 
 
 and markets of, 349. 
 , Order for making pro- 
 clamations, 349. 
 , Latimer preaches in the 
 
 City, 350. 
 , the Duke of Exeter is 
 
 assigned 40Z. of the farm of 
 
 the City, 352. 
 , " the Description of the 
 
 City of Exeter " published 
 
 1583 and again 1765, 353. 
 , " The order and manner of 
 
 the government of the City 
 
 and of the officers of the 
 
 same," 353. 
 , " Pamphlet of the offices 
 
 and duties of every particular 
 
 sworn officer of the City," 
 
 353. 
 , " Antique Description and 
 
 Account of the City," 353. 
 , Izacke's Memorials of the 
 
 City, 354-56. 
 -, Izacke's list of its streets 
 
 and lanes, 355. 
 , ordinance for the King's 
 
 Beam used for true and just 
 
 weights in the City (1636), 
 
 356. 
 
 , visit of Charles II to, 357. 
 
 , description of Henry VI's 
 
 coming to the City, 359. 
 -, names of the freemen 
 
 drawn up in 1472, 360.
 
 462 
 
 Exeter, City and County of cont. 
 
 , grant by the citizens to 
 
 the Bishop, Dean and Chap- 
 ter, 361. 
 
 , names of freemen drawn 
 
 up, temp. Hen. VII Mary, 361. 
 
 , order to proclaim Queen 
 
 Mary at the accustomed 
 places within the County, 366. 
 
 , description of the City 
 
 by Hooker, 367-68, 371. 
 
 , its area in the first year of 
 
 Elizabeth, 367. 
 
 , its importance and anti- 
 quity, 368. 
 
 , disbursements for coast 
 
 ships serving for the City 
 (1588), 368-69. 
 
 , list of freemen (1621-1818), 
 
 371. 
 
 , ordnance and artillery de- 
 livered to the custody of the 
 City, 375. 
 -, ordnance and artillery ap- 
 
 pertaining to, 375. 
 , old Calendar of 
 
 the 
 
 Archives, 377-78. 
 , prices of wheat, 378, 427. 
 -, surveys of the City's 
 
 estates, 380. 
 -, Account of letting the 
 
 Butchers' stalls, 380. 
 -, a particular of all the 
 
 property belonging to the 
 City, 381. 
 -, book of the names of 
 
 apprentices rejected as free- 
 men, 381. 
 
 , Miscellaneous Rolls, 383- 
 406. 
 
 , agreements and final con- 
 cords as to houses, lands, &c., 
 383. 
 
 , orders for preventing dis- 
 turbances by the servants of 
 master craftsmen, 384. 
 
 , orders regulating the sale 
 
 of fish, 384. 
 
 , rental of the City (1303), 
 
 384. 
 
 , ordinances relating to the 
 
 City (1346), 385-86. 
 -, no person to be admitted 
 
 to the freedom of the City 
 
 without the consent of the 
 
 majority of the Council of 
 
 Twelve, 385. 
 , fixed pension for the 
 
 " Seneschalli," 385. 
 , all purprestures made in 
 
 the City and suburbs to be 
 
 removed, 385. 
 
 Exeter, City and County of cont. 
 
 , breakers of the ordinances 
 
 of 1346 to be accounted 
 enemies of the City, 385. 
 , memoranda of the admis- 
 sions of three persons to the 
 liberty of the City, 387. 
 -, Laws and Customs of the 
 
 City (temp. Hen. Ill), 387. 
 -, no one to be admitted to 
 
 the freedom of the City on the 
 day of the Mayor's election, 
 388. 
 
 , interference with the 
 liberties of the City by the 
 Earls of Devon, 390, 392. 
 
 , the murage of the City, 
 
 393, 402. 
 
 , Account of the City barge, 
 
 393. 
 
 , Account of the repair of 
 
 roads, 393. 
 
 , Account of the making of 
 
 a weir (1378), 393. 
 
 , Rolls of the Court of the 
 
 Staple, 394. 
 
 , Roll of Estreats and for- 
 feited Recognizances, 394. 
 
 , a rental of the City (? Hen. 
 
 VIII), 395. 
 -, Roll of presentments of 
 
 men and their weapons in the 
 
 City, 402. 
 , Roll of the names of 120 
 
 men furnished to her Majesty 
 
 by the City (1588), 402. 
 , lists of hearths and stoves 
 
 in the City (1674), 402. 
 -, list of persons who lent 
 
 money to Charles I in the City 
 and County, 402. 
 -, copy of an exemplification 
 
 of Domesday Book for the 
 City, 403. 
 
 , papers relating to disputes 
 between the Dean and Chap- 
 ter and the City, 405. 
 
 , bundle of wills (1555- 
 
 1765), 414-16. 
 
 , description of counter- 
 parts of Deeds, &c., relating 
 to the City Estates, 417-18. 
 , bundles of Law Papers, 
 418-21. 
 
 , cases as to hawkers, ped- 
 lars, &c., 420, 421. 
 -, rate to limit the wages 
 
 of journeymen woolsorters, 
 
 421. 
 
 , thatched houses in, 421. 
 , the election of the forty 
 
 guardians in, 421.
 
 463 
 
 Exeter, City and County of cont. 
 
 , quietuses from the Exche- 
 quer for the Escheator in the 
 City, 423. 
 
 , draft leases, grants, mort- 
 gages, &c., of City property, 
 423. 
 
 , visit of WiUiam III to, 423. 
 
 , petitions for freedom of 
 
 the City, 424. 
 
 , Orders in Council and 
 
 papers relating to the Cattle 
 Plague, 424. 
 -, the City scavenger's agree- 
 
 ments, 424. 
 
 , City property, 425. 
 
 , bye-laws respecting for- 
 eigners residing in the City, 
 426. 
 
 , rates for the carriage of 
 
 goods brought to the City 
 from London, 426. 
 , transcripts, 428-33. 
 
 , grants of murage, 428, 
 
 429. 
 
 , Exemplification of Pleas of 
 the Crown concerning the 
 liberties of the City, 429. 
 
 , copy of Exemplification of 
 
 Domesday Book, 429. 
 -, assessment of a rate for 
 
 providing a store of gun- 
 powder, 433. 
 
 Acts of Parliament for. See 
 under Parliament. 
 
 Alderman of, articles to be in- 
 quired by every, 315. 
 
 Aldermen of (n.d.) indenture 
 by, 33. 
 
 , two, summoned to make 
 
 answer to the complaints 
 of Perriman (1625), 135, 
 140. 
 
 Ale, strong, laws against the 
 brewing of, 68. 
 
 , order with brewers serving 
 
 the City and suburbs (1569), 
 316. 
 
 Alehouse keepers, forfeited re- 
 cognizances of, 105. 
 
 Alehouses, number of, to be 
 reduced (1630), 68, 105. 
 
 Ale sellers, a roll of recogni- 
 zances of, 39-4. 
 
 Archdeacon of, Henry [de Mel- 
 vil], to arbitrate in a dispute, 
 280. 
 
 , B., assent of, 400. 
 
 , Perriman's school built on 
 
 the lands of, 149. 
 -, Perriman's school belongs 
 
 Exeter, Archdeacon of cont. 
 
 , has the right of nominat- 
 ing the master of the Gram- 
 mar School, 157. 
 -, office of, wills proved in, 
 
 to, 157, 
 
 281, 282. 
 -, seals of, 283. 
 
 Assizes at, 102. 
 , to be held at, date of, 124. 
 , same judges to continue 
 at the next, 124. 
 -, shortly to be held at, 325. 
 
 Bailiff, the chief, to receive a 
 
 fixed pension, 385. 
 Bailiffs, order to, 384. 
 Bailiffs and Commonalty (1347), 
 
 writ to, 8. 
 Bishop of, conformity to be 
 
 notified by the, 39. 
 
 , house of the, 62. 
 
 , the preacher for Exeter 
 
 to be allowed by the, 93. 
 , accustomed to permit 
 
 another schoolmaster to teach 
 
 in Exeter, 158. 
 
 , revenues of the, 357. 
 
 (? 1468), suit about his fee, 
 
 392. 
 
 , v. Exeter, 421. 
 
 , and see Alley ; Babing- 
 
 ton ; Bartholomew ; Bitton ; 
 
 Blackall ; Bran.tin.gham ; 
 
 Brewer ; Bronescombe ; Gary ; 
 
 Cotton ; Coverdale ; Grandi- 
 
 son ; Hall ; Iscanus ; Kepple ; 
 
 Lamplugh ; Lacy ; Osbern ; 
 
 Quivil ; Sparrow ; Stapeldon ; 
 
 Trelawny ; Voysey ; Ward ; 
 
 Warelwast ; Woolton. 
 Bishops of, disputes with, 46-49, 
 
 378. 
 
 , allusion to, as founders of 
 
 Exeter College, Oxford, 100. 
 
 , Lives of the, 353. 
 -. a catalogue of the, 356, 
 
 373. 
 
 , rents of the, 372, 374. 
 -, claim for the fee of, 374. 
 
 Bishop and Chapter of (1449), 
 bond by, 360. 
 
 Bishop, Dean and Chapter of, 
 their agreement with the 
 Mayor, &c., concerning the 
 sword and cap of maintenance 
 (1708), 338, 339. 
 
 , Charter to (1510), 345. 
 
 , their bond to stand to the 
 
 award, 346. 
 -, composition between the 
 
 City and, for enclosing the 
 churchyard, with the grant of 
 the Mayor, &c., 355,
 
 464 
 
 Exeter, Bishop, Dean and Chapter 
 of cont. 
 
 (1448), composition be- 
 tween the City and, 402. 
 -, copies of documents relat- 
 
 ing to disputes between the 
 City and, 402. 
 
 Bishops and Dean and Chapter 
 
 of, allusion to their wishes 
 
 concerning Perriman's school, 
 
 147. 
 
 Bishop's Court, the, letter to, 
 
 363. 
 
 Bishopric or See of, order to 
 deliver the temporalities of, 
 to Charles II, 12. 
 , the extent of lands belong- 
 ing to, 346. 
 
 , sale of the palace and fee 
 
 of the "late," 214. 
 Books, official, &c., of : 
 " Black Book," 353. 
 " Black Book or Lieger," 
 
 353. 
 " Black Lieger," 340, 349, 
 
 353. 
 "Black Roll," 349, 359, 
 
 383. 
 Books of Butcher Stalls 
 
 Rents, 417. 
 
 Chamber Act Books, 302- 
 339, 378. 
 -, an abridgement to, 
 
 339. 
 -, commencement 
 
 of, 
 
 407. 
 
 , extracts from, 420. 
 
 Chamber Minute Books, 
 
 339. 
 , afterwards copied 
 
 into the Act Books, 339- 
 
 40. 
 -, kept at the Town 
 
 Clerk's office, 340. 
 
 City, various books of mat- 
 ters connected with the, 
 381, 382. 
 
 , Books of Rentals of 
 
 Property of the, 417. 
 -, Treasurers' Vouchers, 
 
 417. 
 
 Freeman's Book, descrip- 
 tion of its contents, 358. 
 
 " Great Lieger Book," 353. 
 
 Mayor's Court Books, 378. 
 
 , calendars of, 382. 
 
 Mayor's Court, memoran- 
 dum books of, 378. 
 
 Minister's Accounts, 410, 
 433. 
 
 Minute Books of the Ses- 
 sions of the Peace, 378. 
 
 Exeter, Books, official, &c., of 
 cont. 
 
 Musters, Books of, 379. 
 
 Poll Books, 382. 
 
 Provost Court Books, 254, 
 
 378. 
 Survey of Exeter, Old Book 
 
 of, 226. 
 Bread, assize of, 395, 424. 
 
 , by short weight, book of 
 
 convictions for selling, 381. 
 Canal, the, agreement for mak- 
 ing, 31. 
 
 , a new channel cut to bring 
 
 vessels nearer to Exeter, 357. 
 
 , rules, orders, bye -laws and 
 
 regulations for the good 
 government of, 381. 
 -, memorial of merchants 
 
 and traders about making a 
 double lock at the bottom 
 of, 381. 
 
 , copy of old Deeds of Con- 
 veyance, 418. 
 
 , case relating to, 420. 
 
 , case relating to the right 
 of the banks, 420. 
 
 , suit, 421. 
 
 , case for opinion respecting 
 rating of, 421. 
 
 , extracts from the Chamber 
 Act Books touching, 426. 
 -, Byelaws, 426. 
 
 Cathedral Church of St. Peter's, 
 
 95, 282. 
 
 , plate and bells of, 32. 
 
 , mayoral attendances at, 
 
 45. 
 , included in the Bishop's 
 
 fee, 48. 
 
 , boundaries of (1557), 49. 
 
 , the Earl of Suffolk has 
 
 connection with, 76. 
 , map of its precincts, 
 
 105. 
 , order to fit and repair the 
 
 municipal seats in, 198. 
 , irreverent behaviour in, 
 
 during the reading of the 
 
 King's proclamation, 206. 
 , money expended upon, 
 
 214. 
 , curfew rung every evening 
 
 at, 217. 
 
 , goods in, 261. 
 , dispute to be decided in 
 
 (1261), 270. 
 , agreement given by the 
 
 Chapter to the Mayor, &c., in 
 
 (1532), 304. 
 
 , fragment of a grail pos- 
 sibly from, 308.
 
 465 
 
 Exeter, Cathedral Church of St. 
 Peter's cont. 
 
 , a preacher for Sunday 
 
 afternoons to be provided for, 
 (1598), 319. 
 
 , lecturers in, 321, 322. 
 
 , the College hall of the 
 
 Vicars Choral to be used as 
 a common wool hall, 325. 
 -, plan for uniting several 
 
 parish churches to, 330, 332. 
 , order for partitioning 
 
 (1657), 331. 
 , piece of plate bought by 
 
 the City for the use of, and 
 
 afterwards sold to the Dean 
 
 and Chapter, 334. 
 , the Grand Charter of 
 
 (1510), 345, 353. 
 , Charter of the liberties 
 
 appertaining to, 345. 
 -, Hooker's note on the com- 
 
 pletion of, 351. 
 , " the antiquity, founda- 
 tion and building of," 353, 
 
 372, 373. 
 
 , rents of, 357. 
 , situated within the County 
 
 of the City of Exeter, 365. 
 
 , survey of, 365, 366. 
 
 , King Athelstan the first 
 
 founder of, 373. 
 , ancient rents and revenues 
 
 belonging to, 373. 
 , house belonging to the 
 
 choir boys of, 399. 
 , Canons of, houses of, 345. 
 -, dwellings of, 400. 
 
 , Chapter of, grant by 
 (1115), 280. 
 
 -, grant of churches 
 
 to, 280. 
 
 , , seal of, 87. 
 
 , , clerk of, brings a 
 
 message to the Mayor, 153. 
 -, President of (1532), 
 
 message sent by the Chamber 
 
 to, 303. 
 , and see under Dean. 
 
 , churchyard of, 326. 
 
 -, composition between 
 
 the Bishop, &c., and the City 
 for enclosing (1286), 280, 345, 
 355, 373. 
 
 -, water to be brought 
 
 to (1346), 284. 
 
 -, school and work- 
 
 house to be fitted for ten poor 
 maids in, 328, 329. 
 
 the privileges of, 
 
 brought into the Chamber, 
 330 
 
 Exeter, Cathedral Church of St. 
 Peter's : churchyard of cont. 
 
 , , grant of the mayor 
 
 and citizens for enclosing, 
 345, 373. 
 
 -, examination touch- 
 
 ing the bounds of, and the 
 liberties claimed (temp. Mary), 
 347. 
 
 compositions, &c., 
 
 for enclosing, 384. 
 
 -, licence to enclose, 
 
 and to erect gates to be closed 
 at curfew, 384. 
 
 -, the close of, 401. 
 
 , cloisters of, money spent 
 upon, 214. 
 
 -, the Chamber agrees 
 
 to purchase (1656), 329, 
 330. 
 
 -, the serge market to 
 
 be held in (1657), 331, 332. 
 
 -, the serge market 
 
 to be removed from (1660), 
 332. 
 
 , the close, agreements re- 
 specting the gates and pos- 
 terns of (1286, 1322), 385. 
 
 , Precentor of, house of, 
 
 238. 
 
 , Treasurer of, Thomas Sot- 
 hern, lease to, 87. 
 
 -, house which for- 
 
 merly belonged to, bought by 
 
 the Chamber to be converted 
 
 into a workhouse, 81, 214, 
 
 329 
 Chamber of, Lord Russell's claim 
 
 for allowance from (1623), 11. 
 , their difference with the 
 
 Bishop and petition to the 
 
 King (1623), 17. 
 , grant of lease of the 
 
 salmon fishing by (1592), 26. 
 -, enter into a bond (1566), 
 
 29 
 
 -, opinion of (1697), 31. 
 , endeavour to present a 
 petition to the King (1699), 
 31 
 
 , resolutions of, 40, 45, 199, 
 205, 212, 225, 252. 
 -, their contribution to the 
 
 salary of the preacher ap- 
 pointed by (1600), 40. 
 -, ask assistance of the 
 
 Master of the Court of Re- 
 quests (1610), 47. 
 -, allowance and confirma- 
 
 Wt. 20757. 
 
 tion by (? 1602), 53. 
 
 , appoint two searchers and 
 
 sealers of leather (1717), 54. 
 
 Ex 30
 
 466 
 
 Exeter, Chamber of cont. 
 
 , enter into a contract 
 
 (1608), 67. 
 
 , receipt from (1657), 70. 
 
 -, lease surrendered to ( 1 758), 
 
 70. 
 
 , request to (1652), 71. 
 
 , claim for interest on 
 
 money disbursed to (1662), 
 
 75. 
 , appointments by, 78, 230, 
 
 249. 
 , receipt on behalf of (1693), 
 
 79. 
 
 , Articles of Agreement 
 with (1653), 80. 
 -, instructions from (1624), 
 
 80. 
 
 , payment into, 81. 
 
 , orphans in custody of, 
 
 documents concerning, 81-83, 
 
 and see Orphans. 
 
 , receipt from (1604), 81. 
 
 , request to (1619), 82. 
 
 , money recovered from 
 
 (1617), 87. 
 
 , receipt to (1618), 87. 
 
 , fit out a ship (1613), 88. 
 
 , papers, &c., belonging to 
 
 (1626), 89. 
 
 , request to (1613), 89. 
 , their petition to the King 
 
 (1628), 91. 
 , will increase the stipend 
 
 of the preacher for Exeter, 
 
 (1615), 93. 
 , appeals to, on behalf of 
 
 Exeter College, 101, 102. 
 , demand for payment due 
 
 from, 103. 
 
 , discharge the Chamber- 
 lain from office (1691), 104. 
 , articles of agreement with 
 
 (1636 and 1693), 104. 
 , property delivered to 
 
 (? 1630), 104. 
 , maps of the property of, 
 
 104. 
 , orders to, from the Privy 
 
 Council, 110, 114, 183, 200. 
 , vacancies in (1624), 114. 
 , letters .about their suit 
 
 against the claim of the 
 
 Bishop to be made a Justice 
 
 of the Peace (1622), 115-31. 
 
 , allowance expected from, 
 
 132, 133. 
 , lease granted to (1592), 
 
 159. 
 
 , lease from (1604), 163. 
 
 , note of monies disbursed 
 
 by (1626), 174, 
 
 Exeter, Chamber of cont. 
 
 , petition sent up by (1630), 
 
 194. 
 
 , petition from (1632), 194. 
 
 , contract from (1778), 200. 
 
 , account paid by (1643), 
 
 207. 
 -, church patronage of, docu- 
 
 ments concerning, 209-210. 
 , application for pension to, 
 
 210. 
 , agreement in, 214. 
 
 , Common Seal of, 214. 
 
 , buy a messuage formerly 
 
 belonging to the Cathedral 
 
 (1652), 214. 
 -, money paid out by order 
 
 of, 214. 
 
 , infringe the statute laws 
 of the land (? 1655), 215. 
 
 , order of the Deputy Lieu- 
 tenants to (1663), 217. 
 
 , debt due from William III 
 to, 220. 
 
 , their claim deemed un- 
 just, 221. 
 
 , promise of William III 
 to reimburse, 223. 
 -, petitions of, to the House 
 
 of Commons, 224, 234. 
 
 , order from the House of 
 
 Commons to, 226. 
 
 , instructions sent by, 245, 
 
 246. 
 
 , draft address to the King 
 
 from (1745), 247. 
 
 , authorisation from (1706), 
 
 249. 
 
 , v. rioters in the election, 
 
 254, 419. 
 
 , buy flour for selling to the 
 
 poor, 256. 
 
 , buy supply of herrings 
 
 for the relief of the poor, 257. 
 
 , address of, to George III, 
 
 259. 
 
 , bond with the Governors 
 
 of St. John's Hospital (1657), 
 266. 
 
 , assignment by, 266. 
 
 , St. John's Hospital pro- 
 perty passes into the hands of, 
 266. 
 
 , acquire the property of 
 
 St. Nicholas' Priory, 269. 
 , the property of the Prior 
 of Plympton comes into the 
 hands of (1555), 272. 
 
 , Manor of Awliscombe be- 
 queathed to (1489), 272, 273. 
 -, called Lords of the Manor 
 
 of Awliscombe, 273,
 
 467 
 
 Exeter, Chamber of cont. 
 
 , conveyance of property 
 
 to (1667), 274. 
 , property conveyed to, as 
 
 trustees (1673), 274. 
 , judgment against, in the 
 
 Court of Common Pleas (1650), 
 
 275. 
 
 , gift to, 275. 
 
 , bequests to (1669), 277. 
 
 , requests to (1613), 277, 
 
 278. 
 , sell the customs of fish 
 
 in Exeter (1437), 278. 
 , permission granted to 
 
 (1420), 284. 
 , licence obtained by (1444), 
 
 284. 
 
 , licence by (1370), 286. 
 
 , petition of (1537), 288. 
 
 , their new Charter (1537), 
 
 288. 
 
 , lease from (1542), 289. 
 
 , the Quay Limekilns be- 
 longing to (c. 1360), 290. 
 , property of religious 
 
 houses passes into the hands 
 
 of (1555), 291. 
 , letter of attorney from 
 
 (? 16th cent.), 291. 
 
 , bond to (1566), 292. 
 
 , lease by (1698), 292. 
 
 , Act Books of, containing 
 
 entries of meetings, &c., 302- 
 
 382. 
 -, desire to purchase the 
 
 property of the Prior of St. 
 
 Nicholas (1538), 304. 
 , volume containing Acts 
 
 or Perpetual Orders of the 
 
 Council, 304. 
 , " the twenty-four," rule 
 
 of precedure for the wives of, 
 
 306. 
 - , offer an annuity to the 
 
 Earl of Devonshire, (1553), 
 
 307. 
 , note of vestments, &c., 
 
 belonging to (1781), 309. 
 , prayer to be used at 
 
 the meeting of the Council, 
 
 316. 
 , " the twenty-four," to 
 
 receive partial payment for 
 
 their disbursements, 317. 
 , elect a new Recorder 
 
 (1592), 318. 
 , elect a new Chamberlain 
 
 (1601), 320. 
 - , will not bear the charge 
 
 of petitioning the King for a 
 
 mint (1603), 320. 
 
 Exeter, Chamber of cont. 
 
 , " the twenty-four," sal- 
 mon to be received annually 
 by the several members of, 
 322. 
 
 , " the twenty -four," mem- 
 bers to make fixed contribu- 
 tions to the City, 322. 
 
 , offer to pay the City 
 
 lecturer and preacher for five 
 years (1613), 322. 
 
 , send petitions to the King 
 
 and Parliament (1642), 324. 
 -, decide to displace dis- 
 
 loyal members (1644), 324. 
 
 , decide to petition Parlia- 
 ment (1647), 326. 
 
 , give the Common Seal for 
 repayment of money lent for 
 the defence of the City, 326. 
 
 , expect Parliament to re- 
 pay such debts, 326. 
 
 , appoint a committee to 
 
 consider and state their griev- 
 ances with a view to petition- 
 ing Parliament (1651), 327. 
 
 , Committee of, to meet 
 
 weekly to arrange for the dis- 
 charge of the City's debts 
 (1651), 327 
 
 , decision of, with regard 
 
 to the use of the money ex- 
 pected to be assigned by 
 Parliament (1652), 328 
 -, borrow money for the pur- 
 
 chase of the cloisters, &c., ad- 
 joining the Cathedral (1656), 
 329. 
 
 , sale of their lands in Ire- 
 land (1656), 329, 330. 
 , agreement drawn up and 
 approved by, to be brought 
 before Parliament (1656), 330. 
 
 , order of, under their Com- 
 mon Seal (1660), 332. 
 
 , business with the Dean 
 and Canons concerning the 
 Cathedral lands purchased 
 by (1663), 333. 
 
 , their complaint against 
 
 the Dean and Chapter for not 
 fulfilling their agreement, 333. 
 
 , decide to present a peti- 
 tion of their wrongs to the 
 King (1664), 334. 
 
 , desire to lecover the debt 
 due on the sale of their Irish 
 lands (1670), 335. 
 
 , payment for their Irish 
 
 lands (1673), 335, 336. 
 
 , their disposal of the 
 
 money, 336.
 
 468 
 
 Exeter, Chamber of cont. 
 
 , property appointed to be 
 
 disposed of in the Council, 
 337. 
 
 , samples of wills, &c., in one 
 
 of their volumes, 358. 
 
 , volume of maps, &c., be- 
 longing to, 376. 
 
 , note to (1821), 377. 
 
 , papers in a suit between 
 
 the parson of St. Koran's 
 Church and (1553), 394-395. 
 , v. Callyton, 419. 
 
 , case for opinion concern- 
 
 ing, 422. 
 , and William 
 
 Baily, of 
 Winchester, agreements be- 
 tween, 423. 
 -, contracts for letting pro- 
 
 perty of, 424. 
 -, papers relating to relief 
 
 of the poor by, 426. 
 , copy of a petition of (1701), 
 
 433. 
 , agreements of, 27, 30, 31, 
 
 64, 68, 88, 93, 96, 305, 309, 
 
 324. 
 , letters of or sent by 28, 
 
 41, 47, 77, 90, 107, 196, 201, 
 
 218, 225, 226, 316. 
 , letters to, 64, 76, 77, 84, 
 
 86, 90, 97, 98, 104, 105, 176, 
 
 177, 209, 232, 235, 238. 
 , petitions to, 50, 53, 54, 
 
 68, 69, 141, 142, 144, 166,217. 
 , Council for (1622), to 
 
 confer with the Lord Keeper, 
 
 127. 
 
 -, to hold a conference, 
 
 128. 
 
 , , advice of, 128, 130. 
 
 , , opinion of, 129. 
 
 Chamberlains of, documents 
 
 concerning, 102-4. 
 , and see Crewkerne ; 
 
 Izacke ; Leigh ; Martin ; 
 
 Pro use ; Tickell. 
 Chancellor of (1532), [John 
 
 Gibbons], delivers over a 
 
 heretic, 361. 
 
 (1561), William Leweson, 
 
 kindness shown to, 46. 
 (1622), prosecutes 
 
 the 
 
 Bishop's suit in London, 118, 
 120. 
 
 - (1622) the Bishop of Exe- 
 ter to lodge with, 124. 
 
 (1630), Laurence Barnell, 
 
 signature of, 144. 
 Charities in, 274, 379. 
 , catalogue of the founders 
 
 of, 274. 
 
 Exeter, Charities in cont. 
 
 , accounts of monies, 379. 
 
 , accounts of properties of, 
 
 412. 
 
 Charters, Royal, 1-7. 
 (1304), copy of Charter 
 
 granting the citizens similar 
 
 privileges to the citizens of 
 
 London, 397. 
 
 (1320), copy of, 393. 
 
 (1535), presented to the 
 
 Clerk of the Crown, 115. 
 
 , , legal points of, 116. 
 
 , , terms of, 120. 
 
 , , integrity of, 126. 
 
 , , privileges granted 
 
 in, 127. 
 , the King's Attorney's 
 
 opinion concerning, 128. 
 (1538), the new Charter to 
 
 be assured in London, 304. 
 (1549), copies of the Grand 
 
 Charter, 347, 373. 
 , fruitless search for a 
 confirmation of Charter in 
 the reign of Mary, 90. 
 
 (1561), Charter for a Cham- 
 berlain, 374. 
 
 (1562), copy of, 348. 
 (1627), documents relating 
 
 to Charter of, 90-91. 
 
 , Charter of Charles II, 
 
 document concerning the sur- 
 render of, 219. 
 
 , allusion to a Charter, 161. 
 
 , Charters (specified) sent 
 to London and duly returned, 
 334, 335. 
 
 , note of all the articles 
 
 contained in all the Charters 
 (Hen. I Ed. VI), 368. 
 
 , note of the number of all 
 
 the Charters (collected 1560), 
 371. 
 
 , volume containing Char- 
 ters and miscellaneous docu- 
 ments, 378. 
 -, drafts of some of the City's 
 
 Charters, 405. 
 Churches, Parishes and Religious 
 Houses in : 
 
 Allhallows, Goldsmith 
 
 Street, 308. 
 
 , inventory of goods 
 
 found in, 261. 
 
 , payment for a curfew 
 
 to be rung morning and 
 evening, 317. 
 
 , churchwardens of, 
 
 ordered to give particu- 
 lars of goods, &c., 
 331.
 
 Exeter, Churches, Parishes and Re- 
 ligious Houses in : Allhallows, 
 Goldsmith Street cont. 
 
 , house in parish of, 
 
 to be purchased for a 
 Bridewell, 333. 
 Allhallows - on - the - Walls, 
 250. 
 
 , return of goods found 
 
 in, (1552), 261. 
 
 , parishioners to pay 
 
 for bells to be rung, 317. 
 
 , the new churchyard 
 
 near, order to deface in- 
 scription, 326. 
 
 churchwardens of, 
 
 ordered to give particu- 
 lars of goods, &c., 331. 
 
 St. Ann, chapel or hospital 
 of, in the parish of St. 
 Sidwell's, document con- 
 cerning, 224. 
 
 Black Friars of Exeter, the, 
 agreement between the 
 mayor, &c., and, 281. 
 
 Dominican Convent, 285. 
 
 Friars Minor, money left to 
 the, 282. 
 
 Friars Preachers, the, 
 money left to, 282. 
 
 , the late dissolved 
 
 house of, 345. 
 
 , grant to, 361. 
 
 , dwellings of, 400. 
 
 , copies of deeds relat- 
 ing to, 401. 
 
 , controversy between 
 
 the Dean and Chapter of 
 Exeter and, 401. 
 
 , the church of, 401. 
 
 -, Prior of, Robert de 
 
 Ottery, agreement be- 
 tween the Mayor of 
 Exeter and, 401. 
 Grey Friars, the, wall of 
 " the late," 57, 58. 
 
 House of, 270. 
 
 grant to, 280, 281. 
 
 seals to, 269, 281. 
 
 complaint of, 281. 
 
 warden and convent 
 
 of, grant to, 284. 
 
 Holy Trinity, church of, 
 goods found in, 261. 
 
 , , curfew bell to 
 
 be rung, 317. 
 
 , churchwardens of, 
 
 order to give particulars 
 of all church goods and to 
 surrender the keys, 331. 
 
 , parish of, Magdalen 
 
 Hospital situated in, 263. 
 
 Exeter, Churches, Parishes and Re- 
 .ligious Houses in : Holy Trinity, 
 parish of cont. 
 
 , , land in, 265. 
 
 , , almshouses 
 
 erected in, 277, 330. 
 -, priory of, grants to, 
 
 428. 
 -, rector of, money left 
 
 to, 282. 
 St. Bartholomew's Chapel, 
 
 45, 303. 
 
 churchyard, 48, 326. 
 
 , burials removed 
 
 from the Cathedral to, 
 
 217. 
 
 St. David's Church, 236. 
 St. David's parish, 304. 
 , petition concerning, 
 
 214. 
 , separated from 
 
 Heavitree and made part 
 
 of the City of Exeter 
 
 (temp. Hen. VIII), 214. 
 , bad condition of, 
 
 214. 
 , bequest of a close 
 
 in Northernhay in, 274. 
 
 , premises in, 425. 
 
 -, parishioners of, to 
 
 help towards the main- 
 tenance of the poor in 
 William Hurst's alms- 
 houses, 323. 
 
 St. David's Down, next 
 Northernhay, meadow 
 in, 163. 
 
 , inventory of goods 
 
 found in, 261. 
 -, 'spoiled' in 1549,261. 
 
 St. Doquin, church of, 
 granted to the Cathedral 
 Chapter, 280. 
 
 St. Edmund's, inventory of 
 goods found in, 261. 
 
 , goods removed in 
 
 1549, 261. 
 
 , parishioners to pay 
 
 for curfew bell to be rung, 
 317. 
 
 , parish of, fishing in, 
 
 53. 
 
 , , dispute con- 
 cerning mills in, 70. 
 
 St. George the Martyr, 
 chapel of, 283. 
 
 , , documents con- 
 cerning, 44, 45. 
 
 , , vestments and 
 
 altar furniture for, 45. 
 
 remuneration 
 
 for chaplain, 45.
 
 470 
 
 Exeter, Churches, Parishes and Re- 
 ligious Houses in : St. George the 
 Martyr, chapel of cont. 
 
 , , inventory of the 
 
 ornaments of, 305. 
 St. George's, parish church 
 of, 306. 
 
 , , inventory of 
 
 goods found in, 261. 
 
 , plate belonging 
 
 to, given for the use of the 
 new haven, 262. 
 
 -, payment for cur- 
 
 few bell to be rung, 317. 
 churchwardens 
 
 of , ordered to giveparticu- 
 lars of all church goods 
 and to surrender the 
 church keys, 331. 
 
 St. James' Church, 282. 
 
 St. James, Prior of, John de 
 Gery, grant by, 399. 
 
 , (1258), conven- 
 tion between William de 
 Syden and, 399. 
 
 St. John's, rye sold at, 67. 
 
 , room in, suggested 
 
 as a store place, 68. 
 
 , rate for the poor of, 
 
 160. 
 
 , house, 80. 
 
 , church, 159. 
 
 , , and its belong- 
 ings, purchase of, 266. 
 
 , , fee simple of, 
 
 306. 
 
 St. John's at the East Gate, 
 375. 
 
 St. John's Bow, 60. 
 
 , church of, goods 
 
 found in, 261. 
 
 , , goods removed 
 
 in 1549, 262. 
 
 the Prior and 
 
 Convent of Plympton are 
 parsons and proprietaries 
 of, 272. 
 
 unseemly be- 
 
 haviour in, 308. 
 
 curfew bell to 
 
 be rung in, 317. 
 
 , , churchwardens 
 
 of, ordered to give par- 
 ticulars of all church 
 goods and to surrender 
 the church keys, 331. 
 
 St. John the Baptist, hos- 
 pital of, 277, 285, 423, 
 425. 
 
 , , grant for nom- 
 inating pensioners of 
 (1562), 6. 
 
 Exeter, Churches, Parishes and Re- 
 ligious Houses in: St. John the 
 Baptist, hospital of cont. 
 
 , , or monastery, 
 
 disposal of monastic pro- 
 perty lately belonging to, 
 20, 266, 271, 291. 
 
 petition that 
 
 the serge market may be 
 held before (? 1660), 50. 
 
 , , school founded 
 
 in, for the relief and 
 education of poor child- 
 ren (1637), 160. 
 
 , , bequests to the 
 
 school in, 162. 
 
 , , brethren and 
 
 sisters of, grant by (1230), 
 266. 
 
 , , , gift to 
 
 (1231), 266. 
 
 documents re- 
 
 lating to, 266-268. 
 , , situation 
 
 266. 
 
 of, 
 
 the trustees of 
 (1769), requested to elect 
 a president, 267. 
 
 -, dispute with the 
 
 City respecting the limits 
 of Dodehay Street, 267. 
 nominations of 
 
 inmates to, 267. 
 
 , , seals of, 267. 
 
 , , proposal to 
 
 start the City's hospital 
 in the derelict buildings 
 of (1626), 273. 
 
 , , the serge mar- 
 ket to be removed into 
 (1660), 332. 
 
 , , volume of 
 
 papers relating to, 378. 
 -, memoranda out 
 
 of the Records of, 399- 
 401. 
 
 , , monastic pro- 
 perty lately belonging to, 
 Bailiff's accounts, 411. 
 
 -, suit respecting, 
 
 421. 
 , , foundation 
 
 charter of (1627), 432. 
 , , register or 
 
 chartulary of, 433. 
 , , Governors of 
 
 (1651), the episcopal 
 
 palace &c. made over to, 
 
 214. 
 , , (1657), 
 
 their bond with the 
 
 Chamber of Exeter, 266.
 
 471 
 
 Exeter, Churches, Parishes and Re- 
 ligious Houses in : St. John the 
 Baptist, hospital of, Governors of 
 cont. 
 
 , , (1741), 
 
 lease granted by, 292. 
 
 , , (1819), 
 
 surrenders from the Com- 
 pany of Proprietors of 
 the Exeter and Crediton 
 Navigation to, 293. 
 
 -, Master of (n.d.), 
 
 v. John Whityng and 
 others, 164, 392. 
 
 (1368-73), 
 
 takes steps for the re- 
 covery of property, 165, 
 405. 
 
 , , (1434), 
 
 John, dispute between 
 the Archdeacon of Barn- 
 staple and, 401. 
 
 -, (1437-39), 
 
 tenement recovered by, 
 405. 
 
 -, Prior of (1351), 
 
 takes steps to recover a 
 house, 164. 
 
 -, or Master 
 
 ( 1 357 ), John de Bolehulle, 
 deeds brought to the 
 Bishop by, 400. 
 
 (1410-11), 
 
 his suit in the City Court, 
 
 268. 
 , , (1497- 
 
 1524), Richard Hyll, 
 
 documents tabulated by 
 
 order of, 268. 
 , , Treasurer of, 
 
 Mr. Thomas Heath, men- 
 tion of, 266. 
 -, chapel and hospital 
 
 of, arms and ammunition 
 to be removed from 
 (1663), 216. 
 
 St. Katherine's almshouse, 
 213, 345. 
 
 , church or chapel, 
 
 45. 
 
 St. Keran's or Kerrian's, 
 &c., church, inventory of 
 goods found in, 261. 
 
 , goods given for the 
 
 new haven, 262. 
 
 , house next, 394. 
 
 , churchwardens of, 
 
 ordered to give particu- 
 lars of all church goods 
 and to surrender the 
 keys, 331. 
 
 , minister of, 260. 
 
 Exeter, Churches, Parishes and Re- 
 ligious Houses in cont. 
 
 St. Lawrence, church of, 
 Bodley lecture preached 
 in, 99. 
 
 , , inventory of 
 
 goods found in, 261. 
 
 -, curfew bell to be 
 
 rung in, 317. 
 
 -, churchwardens 
 
 of, ordered to give par- 
 ticulars of all church 
 goods and to surrender 
 the keys, 331. 
 -, parish of, petition of 
 
 inhabitants of, 50. 
 St. Leonard's, 28. 
 
 , parish of, land in, 264. 
 
 St. Martin's church, 303. 
 
 , goods found in, 261. 
 
 , curfew bell to be 
 
 rung in, 317. 
 
 churchwardens of, 
 
 ordered to give particu- 
 lars of all church goods 
 and to surrender the keys, 
 331. 
 
 St. Mary's, church of, to be 
 reedified a garrison, 178. 
 
 , parish, 49. 
 
 St. Mary Arches, church of, 
 236, 392. 
 
 , , goods found in, 
 
 261. 
 
 candlestick 
 sold for the repair of the 
 church, 262. 
 
 -, goods given for 
 
 the new haven, 262. 
 
 curfew bell to 
 
 be rung in, 317. 
 
 -, bequest to the 
 
 churchwardens of, 277. 
 -, parish of, 286. 
 
 St. Mary Magdalen (Maud- 
 lin, &c.), hospital for 
 lepers, 425. 
 
 , , lease from, 163. 
 
 , , documents 
 
 relating to leases, grants, 
 &c., 263-65. 
 
 -, rentals of, 265, 
 
 398-99. 
 
 264, 265. 
 
 -, chartulary of, 
 
 -, seals of, 265. 
 
 , . chapel of, 263, 
 
 265, 303, 320. 
 
 -, transferred to 
 
 the civic authorities by 
 Bishop Brewer, 263, 
 352.
 
 472 
 
 Exeter, Churches, Parishes and Re- 
 ligious Houses in : St. Mary Mag- 
 dalen, hospital for Lepers cont. 
 -, volume relating 
 
 to, 378. 
 
 -, release to, 399. 
 wardens of, 
 
 accounts of, 265, 411, 
 424. 
 
 , parish, money to 
 
 be paid to the poor in 
 the almshouses in, 213. 
 
 St. Mary Major (Michel or 
 Muchel), church of, in- 
 ventory of goods found 
 in, 261. 
 
 , , plate delivered 
 
 to the Corporation for 
 the use of the new haven, 
 262. 
 
 -, curfew bell to be 
 
 rung in, 317. 
 St. Mary de Marisco or 
 
 Marsh Barton, church of, 
 
 near Exeter, 268. 
 , a cell of Plympton, 
 
 272. 
 St. Mary Steps, church of, 
 
 to be used for a public 
 
 free school, 161. 
 , , union of, with 
 
 St. Edmunds on the 
 
 Bridge, 161. 
 
 inventory of 
 
 goods found in, 261. 
 
 -, curfew bell to 
 
 be rung in, 317. 
 
 churchwardens 
 
 of, ordered to give par- 
 ticulars of all church 
 goods and to surrender 
 the keys, 331. 
 
 , parish of, 53, 254, 287. 
 
 -, dispute con- 
 
 cerning mills in, 70. 
 St. Nicholas, volume of 
 
 records concerning, 378. 
 
 , church of, 269, 387. 
 
 , fair in. See under 
 
 Fairs. 
 
 hospital of St. 
 Alexius or, 269. 
 
 lands granted 
 
 to, 270. 
 , , dispute between 
 
 the Abbot of Buckfast- 
 
 leigh and, 280. 
 , priory of, lands, &c., 
 
 belonging to the late, 20, 
 
 271, 291, 411. 
 
 -, documents re- 
 
 lating to, 268-271. 
 
 Exeter, Churches, Parishes and Re- 
 ligious Houses in: St. Nicholas, 
 priory of cont. 
 
 , , situation of, 
 
 268. 
 
 -, a cell to Battle 
 Abbey, 268. 
 
 -, suppression of, 
 
 268. 
 
 lands, 269. 
 
 sale of its 
 
 lands, &c., 
 granted to, 269. 
 
 -, Irish property 
 
 of, 269. 
 
 indulgence 
 granted to contributors 
 to the fabric of, 270. 
 
 , , copy of an In- 
 
 speximus Charter of 
 earlier charters and privi- 
 leges, 271, 396. 
 
 , , receipts of, 271. 
 
 , , rental of, 271. 
 
 -, Ledger Book of, 
 
 271. 
 
 , , 17th cent, col- 
 lection of charters relat- 
 ing to, 271. 
 
 , , seals of, 271. 
 
 , , order for re- 
 lieving the poor people in 
 the " late dissolved," 
 271. 
 
 , , bequests to the 
 
 prior and monks of, 282. 
 -, papers relating 
 
 to, 396. 
 
 , , roll containing 
 
 copies of charters and 
 grants to, 396. 
 
 -, copies of docu- 
 
 ments relating to the 
 liberties of the, 397. 
 -, Prior of (1189), com- 
 
 position between the 
 City and, 397. 
 
 -, (temp. Edw. I), 
 
 composition between the 
 Mayor and commonalty 
 and, 387. 
 
 , (? 1260), leave 
 
 granted by the convent 
 and, 283. 
 
 (1296), recovery 
 
 of property by the con- 
 vent and, 164. 
 
 (1323), Hughde 
 
 Courtenay and, v. the 
 Mayor of Exeter, 227,397. 
 (1336), deed of, 
 
 397.
 
 473 
 
 Exeter, Churches, Parishes and Re- 
 ligious Houses in : St. Nicholas, 
 Prior of cont. 
 
 , (1346), settle- 
 ment of a dispute be- 
 tween the Dean and 
 Chapter and Corporation 
 of Exeter and, 284. 
 , , (1352), com- 
 position between the 
 City and, 398. 
 
 (1527), William 
 
 Collumpton the last, re- 
 lease granted by, 269. 
 
 (1538), his pro- 
 
 perty in the City, 304. 
 (n.d.), recovers 
 
 a tenement, 165, 405. 
 
 -, confirmation of 
 
 charters granted at the 
 request of, 271. 
 
 -, charters of, 397. 
 
 , priors of, allusion to, 
 
 228. 
 St. Olave's Church, 269. 
 
 , goods found in, 261. 
 
 , goods removed from, 
 
 262. 
 , goods given for the 
 
 new haven, 262. 
 , granted to Battle 
 
 Abbey, 280. 
 
 curfew bell to be 
 
 rung in, 317. 
 St. Pancras Church, goods 
 
 found in, 261. 
 , goods removed for 
 
 various purposes, 262. 
 , goods given for the 
 
 new haven, 262. 
 -, curfew bell to be rung, 
 
 317. 
 
 churchwardens of, 
 ordered to give particu- 
 lars of all church goods 
 and to surrender the 
 church keys, 331. 
 
 St. Paul, chapel of, 266. 
 
 St. Paul's Church, 195 
 
 , goods found in, 261. 
 
 , curfew bell to be 
 
 rung, 317. 
 
 churchwardens of, 
 
 ordered to give particu- 
 lars of all church goods 
 and to surrender the 
 church keys, 331. 
 -, curate of, money left 
 
 to the, 282. 
 St. Paul's parish, bequest 
 of lands and tenements 
 in, 274. 
 
 Exeter, Churches, Parishes and Re- 
 ligious Houses in cont. 
 
 St. Peran, church of, 
 granted to the Cathedral 
 Chapter, 280. 
 
 St. Petrock's (St. Petrox), 
 Church, minister of, 260. 
 , dominicals and sur- 
 plice fees of, 260. 
 
 , goods found in, 261. 
 
 -, goods given for the 
 
 use of the City, 262. 
 -, granted to the Cathe- 
 
 dral chapter, 280. 
 , curfew bell to 
 
 be 
 rung, 317. 
 
 St. Probus, church of, 
 granted to the Cathedral 
 Chapter, 280. 
 
 St. Sidwell's, exemplifica- 
 tion of Domesday about, 
 429. 
 
 , church of, enquiry 
 
 concerning, 260. 
 
 inventory of 
 
 goods found in, 261. 
 
 spoiled " in 
 
 1549, 262. 
 , parish of, 160, 265. 
 -, treasure trove 
 
 found in, 63. 
 
 , , poor of, ex- 
 penses in connection with 
 a suit concerning, 103. 
 
 , , grant of tene- 
 ments in, 160. 
 
 -, the almshouses 
 
 in, 213. 
 , , riot and rob- 
 bery in, 257. 
 
 -, bequest of lands 
 
 and tenements in, 274. 
 -, the conduit in, 
 
 284. 
 
 -, the head well in, 
 
 284. 
 
 , , the Chamber's 
 
 cisterns in, 285. 
 
 the resthouse 
 
 in, 337. 
 St. Stephen's, church of, 
 
 inventory of goods found 
 
 in, 261. 
 , , goods given for 
 
 the new haven, 262. 
 , , curfew bell to 
 
 be rung, 317. 
 
 churchwardens 
 
 of, ordered to give par- 
 ticulars of all church 
 goods and to surrender 
 the church keys, 331.
 
 474 
 
 Exeter, Churches, Parishes and Re- 
 ligious Houses in : St. Stephen's 
 cont. 
 
 , parish of, 87. 
 
 St. Thomas, parish of, land 
 in, 24, 28. 
 
 , , fishing in, 53. 
 
 , , tenement and 
 
 lands in, 80. 
 
 Exweeke 
 Grounds " in, 277. 
 
 -, tenement in, de- 
 
 molished during the 
 Civil War, 327. 
 
 Church goods, Inventories of, 
 376. 
 
 , (1552), documents 
 
 concerning, 260-63, 363. 
 
 (1537), alluded to, 
 
 261. 
 
 261. 
 
 (1549), alluded to, 
 
 , , to be delivered to 
 
 the King's Commissioners, 
 364. 
 -, Commissioners for the 
 
 survey of, letters to, 260, 365. 
 
 Corporation of, monastic pro- 
 perty coming into the posses- 
 sion of, documents relating 
 to, 20, 21, 263, 271, 291, 411, 
 430. 
 
 , bailiffs' accounts of their 
 
 monastic property, descrip- 
 tion of, 411. 
 
 , documents relating to 
 
 their Irish lands, 334, 423. 
 
 , deeds relating to property 
 
 of, 263-301, 381. 
 
 , royal command to prepare 
 
 a pardon to (1643), 209. 
 -, Seal of, documents sealed 
 
 with, 328, 329. 
 Council of, grant of an annuity 
 to twelve members of, and 
 their heirs, 324. 
 
 , origin of the (1346), 385. 
 
 , letters, papers, &c., of, 
 
 426-27. 
 Customs and Duties : 
 
 Town Customs, exemplifica- 
 tion of verdict in a suit 
 for, 7. 
 
 , accounts of the col- 
 lectors of, 290, 418. 
 
 , books of the rates of, 
 
 290, 381. 
 
 , lawsuits in connection 
 
 with, 290. 
 
 , description and rates 
 
 of, 349. 
 , book of entries of, 379. 
 
 Exeter, Customs and Duties : Town 
 Customs cont. 
 
 , Journals of, 379. 
 
 , law papers, 422. 
 
 , cases for opinions, 
 
 422-23. 
 Dues, farming of, paper 
 
 relating to, 289-91. 
 Town Duty, accounts of, 
 379. 
 
 , and cellarage, account 
 
 of, 379. 
 -, Wharfinger's Journal 
 
 or collection books of, 
 381. 
 
 Customs Rolls, 290. 
 Customs and imposts, hope 
 for redress of grievances 
 concerning, 138. 
 Custom and scavage 
 claimed by the mayor 
 and sheriffs of London, 
 342, 360, 403. 
 
 , redress to be made by 
 
 the citizens of London 
 to Exeter for, 288. 
 Customs as to land tenure, 
 papers relating to, 162- 
 65. 
 
 , " Gavelack " and 
 
 " Shortford," 164, 165, 
 282, 392, 401, 404. 
 
 , , description of, 
 
 65, 405. 
 Customer of, John Petre, letters 
 
 of, with others, 37. 
 Dean of. See Dodds ; Peter- 
 son ; Serlo ; Sutcliffe ; Ward. 
 Dean and Chancellor of (1421), 
 
 letter to, 281. 
 
 Dean and Chapter of, suit of 
 (1610), 47. 
 
 , bond of, 48. 
 
 , their liability to pay the 
 
 Aid, 79. 
 
 , lease by, 87. 
 
 , expenses connected with a 
 
 suit about the poor of St. 
 Sidwells, 103. 
 
 , support Perriman against 
 
 the City, 134. 
 
 , desire no new school in 
 
 Exeter, 144. 
 
 , interested motives im- 
 puted to, 149. 
 -, Perriman's school erected 
 
 on lands of, 151, 157. 
 , new free school not to be 
 
 built on lands of, 153. 
 , to have a meeting to treat 
 
 of the matter of the new 
 
 school, 153, 155.
 
 475 
 
 Exeter, Dean and Chapter of cont. 
 
 , withdraw their pension to 
 
 the schoolmaster, 157 
 
 , impose a yearly rent on 
 
 the schoolmaster, 157. 
 
 , documents concerning the 
 
 " late," 213-14. 
 
 , statement of, 224. 
 
 , and the Corporation, 
 
 settlement of a dispute be- 
 tween the Prior of St. Nicho- 
 las and, 284. 
 
 , make an agreement with 
 
 the Chamber, 333. 
 
 , the nonfulfilment of their 
 
 agreement, 333-34. 
 
 , grant for enclosing the 
 
 churchyard to, 345. 
 
 , composition between the 
 
 mayor and citizens and (1249), 
 386. 
 
 , clause contained in the 
 
 charter of, 399. 
 
 , documents relating to 
 
 their tenement in St. Martin's 
 Street, 400. 
 
 , assent of, 400. 
 
 , controversy between the 
 
 Friars Preachers and, 401. 
 
 , liberties of, 402. 
 
 , papers relating to dis- 
 putes between the City and, 
 405. 
 
 Duke of. See Beaufort. 
 Fairs : 
 
 Exemplification of a record 
 of a proceeding in the 
 Exchequer touching the 
 fairs of the City, 4. 
 Rates due for toll and 
 coverages at fairs within 
 the City, 349. 
 Fair of Exeter, fragment of 
 a table of rates of cus- 
 toms levied in, 387. 
 
 , copies of proceedings 
 
 respecting the lastage and 
 stallage of, 403, 404, 405. 
 Lammas or Crulditch (Crol- 
 dich, &c.), Fair, docu- 
 ments relating to, 227- 
 30. 
 
 , held in Southernhay, 
 
 227, 228, 344. 
 
 , sale of the Prior of St. 
 
 Nicholas' rights of stal- 
 lage, &c., at, 269. 
 , controversy concern- 
 ing, 344. 
 -, order for, with the 
 
 liberties, privileges, &c., 
 of the same, 349. 
 
 Exeter, Fairs : Lammas or Crulditch 
 cont. 
 
 , particulars given by 
 
 Hooker as to, 350. 
 
 , the Earl of Devon 
 
 appropriates, 392. 
 
 , copies of documents 
 
 relating to, 397. 
 , copies of pleas con- 
 cerning, 403. 
 
 , books relating to, 
 
 424. 
 -, papers relating to a 
 
 moiety of, 425. 
 , Court of Pie Powder 
 in, 228, 230, 424. 
 -, Court Roll of, 228, 
 
 395. 
 
 Mary Magdalen Fair, re- 
 gulations for, 303. 
 Shrovetide Fair, 424. 
 St. Nicholas Fair, 424. 
 
 , deferred for fear of 
 
 spreading infection of the 
 pestilence (1563), 310. 
 Whitsuntide Fair, 424. 
 Farm of Bagavell and Brethin- 
 gavell, farm duties pertaining 
 to, 374. 
 
 Bagavell, Brethingavell 
 
 and Chapengavell, farm dues, 
 289, 349. 
 
 Barrel bearing, 290, 349. 
 
 Barrel bearers, rate for, 
 
 308, 309, 348, 426. 
 Fee farm of the City, value of, 
 
 1, 3, 4. 
 , granted to the citizens for 
 
 ever, 3. 
 
 , note on, 372-73. 
 
 , rent of, to be paid to the 
 
 Black Prince instead of to the 
 
 King, 1. 
 
 -, payment out of, 
 
 288. 
 
 -, and suburbs, held 
 by the Corporation, 391. 
 , , grant of, 428. 
 
 -, particular for the 
 
 sale of, 432. 
 Felons' goods, 420, 421. 
 , document relating to, 
 
 292. 
 -, extract from Charter as to, 
 
 432. 
 
 Ferry, the, case relating to the 
 rating of, 421. 
 
 Governor of. See Berkley. 
 
 Guards at, documents concern- 
 ing, 217-19. 
 
 Guards, Court of, convenient 
 houses required for, 217.
 
 476 
 
 Exeter cont. 
 
 Guilds and Companies : 
 
 documents relating to, 63- 
 64, 356. 
 
 Apprentices, 68, 69, 348, 
 426. 
 
 Bakers, Ordinances of, &c., 
 64, 348. 
 
 , Incorporation of, 337. 
 
 , copy byelaws of, 426. 
 
 Brewers, ordinances of, 54, 
 348. 
 
 , Charter concerning, 
 
 431. 
 
 Butchers, Charter of In- 
 corporation, 63, 337. 
 
 , petition of, 69. 
 
 , regulations for, 318, 
 
 348, 387. 
 
 Cappers, and Haberdashers, 
 Charter of, 54, 344. 
 
 Cordwainers, Charter of In- 
 corporation of, 54, 344. 
 
 Coverers (Coopers), 53, 348. 
 
 Freemasons, Masons, Brick- 
 layers, &c., Charter of 
 Incorporation, 54, 337. 
 
 , Acts and Ordinances 
 
 of the governance of, 
 337. 
 
 Fullers and Tinters, warden 
 of the, a tenement be- 
 longing to, 53. 
 
 Heliers, mention of, 53, 348. 
 
 Heliers and Plaisterers, the 
 Incorporation of, 53, 337. 
 
 Joiners, Charter of Incor- 
 poration, 54, 337 
 
 , Acts and Ordinances 
 
 for the governance of, 
 337. 
 
 Joiners, Masons, Carpen- 
 ters, &c., petition of, 54. 
 
 Merchant Adventurers, 
 documents relating to, 
 40-41. 
 
 , Charter of (1560), 40, 
 
 344. 
 
 , contribution towards 
 
 the suppression of piracy, 
 89. 
 
 , to give reasons for 
 
 the decay of trade, 108, 
 113. 
 
 , members refuse to 
 
 pay taxes, 193. 
 
 , letter to, 203. 
 
 , gift to, 277. 
 
 , papers of, 379. 
 
 , copies of their Char- 
 ter with translations, 
 379. 
 
 Exeter, Guilds and Companies : Mer- 
 chant Adventurers cont. 
 
 , the Corporation of 
 
 Tailors v., 379, 380. 
 -, draft petitions of, 
 
 380. 
 Skinners and Glovers, the 
 
 Incorporation of, 64, 345. 
 Smiths and Cutlers, 64, 
 
 348. 
 St. George, fraternity of, 
 
 45. 
 
 , keeping of feast of, 45. 
 
 Surgeons, Barber, petition 
 
 of, 54. 
 Tailors, their disputes with 
 
 the Merchants, 40, 379, 
 
 380. 
 
 , ordinances of , &c., 54. 
 
 , charter of, 344. 
 
 , controversy between 
 
 the City and, 344. 
 , dissolution of their 
 
 Corporation, 425. 
 -, two books of their 
 
 Acts, &c., 425. 
 Vintners, documents con- 
 cerning, 194. 
 
 Vintners and Taverners 
 licences, documents con- 
 cerning, 74-76. 
 Weavers, petition of, 50. 
 
 , byelaws, 426. 
 
 Weavers, Fullers and Shere- 
 
 men, petition of, 53. 
 , Charter of Incorpora- 
 tion, 53. 
 
 Weavers and Tuckers, char- 
 ter of, 344. 
 
 , Ordinances of, 431. 
 
 , copy of their In- 
 corporation, 431. 
 Whitetawers, Glovers and 
 Skinners, Incorporation 
 of, 53, 337. 
 
 White Tallow Chandlers 
 and White Soap-boilers, 
 Incorporation of, 54. 
 
 , Acts and Ordinances 
 
 of, 337 
 
 Haven, the New, not to fish with 
 nets in, 26 
 
 , to be made for 1,0002., 27. 
 
 , documents concerning 
 
 building and repair of, 27- 
 32. 
 
 , from Topsham Key to 
 
 Exeter, 29. 
 
 , agreements with Trew for, 
 
 28, 29. 
 -, agreement with Bayly for, 
 
 31
 
 477 
 
 Exeter, Haven, the New cont. 
 
 , large sum spent by the 
 
 City on, 32. 
 
 , opening of (1725), 32. 
 
 , church goods given for the 
 
 building of, 32-34, 261. 
 -, cause of the destruction of, 
 
 33. 
 
 , rates for, 318. 
 , receipts and profits of the 
 
 Haven watercourse and Crane, 
 
 349. 
 , rates for the passage of, 
 
 381. 
 -, a new leat made between 
 
 Trew's weir and the mouth of, 
 419. 
 -, copy of a petition for leave 
 
 to raise money for, 433. 
 
 , artd see Quay. 
 
 Inquisitions taken at Exeter : 
 (1290), concerning the free- 
 dom and liberties of the 
 borough of Bradninch, 
 341. 
 
 (1317), concerning the pre- 
 mises, 343. 
 (1378), concerning damage 
 
 done by the weirs, 343. 
 (1290), concerning the 
 
 Haven, 343. 
 
 (1317), concerning the rights 
 of the King infringed, &c., 
 389. 
 
 Justices of the Peace, rates and 
 taxations for wages set forth 
 by, 50, 61. 
 Justices of, summoned to meet, 
 
 250. 
 
 Magistrates of (1624), recom- 
 mended to appeal to the Arch- 
 bishop of Canterbury, 138. 
 
 , Perriman's complaint 
 
 against, 135, 136, 147. 
 
 , orders from the Lords of 
 
 the Council to, 145, 148. 
 -, admonished by the Lords 
 
 of the Council, 147. 
 , instructions to, for 
 drawing up a petition to the 
 Privy Council or the King, 
 148. 
 -, their answer to Perriman's 
 
 charges, 148-149. 
 Markets : 
 
 Bonhay cattle market, 427. 
 Cloth market, different 
 
 localities for, 50. 
 Corn market, 50, 256, 349. 
 Fish market, 260, 332, 349. 
 Higher market agreements, 
 382, 
 
 Exeter, Markets cont. 
 
 Lower market agreements, 
 
 382. 
 
 Market, scheme for a new, 
 260. 
 
 , clerk of the, office of, 
 
 48, 349. 
 
 Serge market, 50, 331, 332. 
 Markets, cash accounts, 
 
 382. 
 
 , law papers concern- 
 ing, 421. 
 
 Marquis of. See Courtenay. 
 Mayor of, first mention of a 
 (1259), 1. 
 
 , to receive the rent for the 
 
 fishing of the Exe, 25. 
 
 , and 12 citizens to have 
 
 supervision of Wynard's alms- 
 houses, 278. 
 
 , to be trustee of property 
 
 for Hele's hospital, 293. 
 
 , a fixed pension for, 303, 
 
 385. 
 
 , payments to, 304. 
 
 , the sword to be borne 
 
 every market day before, 307. 
 
 , not to licence in future 
 
 more than two butchers to 
 sell or kill during Lent, 318. 
 
 , to receive annually eight 
 
 salmon from the Exe, 320. 
 
 , and the officers under him, 
 
 of great importance and 
 authority under Saxon, Nor- 
 man and Plantagenet kings, 
 350. 
 
 , the oath for the election of, 
 
 368. 
 
 , and officers, charter for 
 
 the election of, 372. 
 
 , to remain in office one year 
 
 only, 385. 
 
 , Clerks of the Consistory 
 
 excluded from holding the 
 office of, 388. 
 -, to have served the office 
 
 of Seneschal for one year 
 previous to his election, 388. 
 
 , orders relating to the elec- 
 tion of, 388. 
 
 , not having a casting vote, 
 case for opinion, 421. 
 
 - , polls for election of, 426. 
 
 (1200) Henry Rifford, the 
 first in Izacke's Memo- 
 rials, 355. 
 
 (1216) Walter Turbert, 
 mention of, 350. 
 
 (1244) Adam Rifford, 263, 
 399,
 
 478 
 
 Exeter, Mayor of con*. 
 
 (1245) Martin Pott, statute 
 made during his mayor- 
 alty, 263. 
 
 (1259) Nicholas de Ivel- 
 chestre, 399. 
 
 (1292) John Soth, power 
 committed to, 3. 
 
 (1297) William Tauntefer, 
 agreement between the 
 Prior of the Friars 
 Preachers and, 401. 
 
 (1324) Robert Wotton, to 
 appear before the Barons 
 of the Exchequer, 281. 
 
 v. the Prior of St. 
 
 Nicholas and Hugh de 
 Courtenay, 397. 
 
 (1328) Richard le Seler, 
 agreement made before, 
 280. 
 
 (1340) Henry de Hugheton, 
 orders of, 388. 
 
 (1410) Adam Scut, 268. 
 
 (1413) Peter Short, events 
 during his mayoralty, 
 351. 
 
 (1414) Thomas Eston, war 
 with France declared 
 during his mayoralty, 
 352. 
 
 (1415) Peter Strutt, events 
 during his mayoralty, 
 352. 
 
 (1420) John Batyn, Meaux, 
 in France, besieged dur- 
 ing his mayoralty, 352. 
 
 (14) John Shillingford, 
 petition of, 390. 
 
 (1472) Richard Clark, the 
 names of the freemen of 
 Exeter drawn up during 
 his mayoralty, 360. 
 
 (? 1473) Hugh Germyn, 
 360. 
 
 (1479) John Attwyll, thir- 
 teen persons admitted 
 to the freedom of the 
 City during his mayoralty 
 360. 
 
 (1482) Thomas Calwodeley, 
 money paid by, 288. 
 
 , uses fines for building 
 
 the chapel in the Guild- 
 hall, 44. 
 
 (1485) Robert Russell, 360. 
 
 (1486) Robert Newton, 19, 
 360. 
 
 (1491) Ste. Ruyggeway, 
 
 283 
 (1506) Richard Huet, 361, 
 
 371, 
 
 Exeter, Mayor of cont. 
 
 (1508-9) John Lympany, 
 name of, 347, 355. 
 
 (1510-11) Thomas An- 
 drew, composition with, 
 71. 
 
 (1513-14) Richard or John 
 Symonds, 48, 302, 304. 
 
 (1519-20) Geoffrey Lewys, 
 303. 
 
 (1521-22) John Nose- 
 worthy, writ to, 9. 
 
 (1523-24) John Symonds, 
 letter to, 14. 
 
 (1526-27) Henry Hamlyn, 
 dispute between the Prior 
 of St. Nicholas and, 
 270. 
 
 (1531-32), Gilbert Kirk, 
 arrests Thomas Benet for 
 heresy, 361. 
 
 (1537-38) Thomas Hunt, 
 confession before, 308. 
 
 (1540-41) Thomas Spur- 
 way, to make a pro- 
 clamation, 306. 
 
 (1546) John Britnall, pro- 
 clamation at the election 
 of, 306. 
 
 (1547-48) John Midwinter, 
 306. 
 
 (1549-50) John Tuckfield, 
 letters to, 21, 22. 
 
 (1550-51) Thomas Prest- 
 wode, authority granted 
 to, 27. 
 
 (1551-52) William Hurst, 
 letter to, 27. 
 
 , Commissioner for 
 
 Exeter, 260. 
 
 (1554-65) John Midwinter, 
 mention of, 354. 
 
 (1557-58) John Peter, 49. 
 
 , letters to, 36, 38, 39. 
 
 , letters of, 37. 
 
 -, area of the City in the 
 
 time of his mayoralty, 
 367. 
 
 (1558-59) John Buller, 
 letter to, 39. 
 
 , petition of, 40. 
 
 (1559-60) Robert Mid- 
 winter, 40. 
 
 , bond to, 9. 
 
 , letters to, 39, 41. 
 
 , insult to, 308. 
 
 (1561-62) William Hurst, 
 letter to, 49. 
 
 (1562-63) John Peter, let- 
 ter to, 49. 
 
 (1565-66) John Wolcott, 
 letter to, 52.
 
 479 
 
 Exeter, Mayor of cont. 
 
 (1566-67) Thos. Richard- 
 son, letter to, 53. 
 (1580-81) Thos. Bruerton, 
 
 letter to, 55. 
 (1582-83) Michael Ger- 
 
 myn., examination before, 
 
 57 
 (1583-84) Geoffrey Thomas, 
 
 letter to, 63. 
 (1584-85) John Davy, 
 
 Council order to, 311. 
 (1585-86) Nicholas Mar- 
 
 tyn, signature of, 402. 
 (1587-88) John Periam, 
 
 order to be referred to, 
 
 64. 
 , money allowed to, 
 
 312. 
 -, to confer with the 
 
 Deputy Lieutenants, 313. 
 
 (1588-89) Thomas Chap- 
 pel, letter to, 63. 
 
 , to entertain worthies, 
 
 317. 
 
 (1590) William Martyn, 
 mention of, 340. 
 
 (1591-92) Michael Germyn, 
 to go to Sir Rob. Denys, 
 317. 
 
 (1592-93) Nicholas Spicer, 
 to make enquiry, 319. 
 
 (1593-94) Thos. Spicer, 
 order to, 66. 
 
 (1598-99) John Periam, 
 salmon reserved for, 26. 
 
 , disbursement to be 
 
 made by, 319. 
 
 (1599-1600) John Howell, 
 letter to, 70. 
 
 (1600-1) William Martin, 
 receipt from, 258. 
 
 (1608-9) John Prows, let- 
 ters to, 40, 41, 73. 
 
 , Council orders to, 79. 
 
 , signature of, 402. 
 
 (1609-10) Hugh Crossing, 
 letters to, 74, 80. 
 
 (1610-11) Walter Borowe, 
 letters to, 83. 
 
 (1611-12) John Lant, let- 
 ters to, 47, 83, 84. 
 
 , Council orders to, 84. 
 
 , Deputy Lieutenant, 
 
 85. 
 
 (1613-14) Geoffrey Walt- 
 ham, letter to, 87. 
 
 , entertains the Jus- 
 tices from Launceston, 
 322. 
 -, refunded for ex- 
 
 Exeter, Mayor of cont. 
 
 (1614-15) Thos. Walker, 
 
 letters to, 76, 93, 99. 
 (1615-16) John Marshall, 
 
 certificate from, 166. 
 , judges to dine with, 
 
 103. 
 (1618-19) Thos. Martin, 
 
 letters to, 97, 99, 101. 
 (1620-21) Hugh Crossing, 
 
 commission to, 10. 
 (1621-22) Walter Borowe, 
 
 letters to, 76, 108, 109, 
 
 110, 111-13, 115-30, 134, 
 
 162. 
 , allusion to letters of, 
 
 109, 125. 
 , instructions to, 110, 
 
 133. 
 , to be acquainted with 
 
 letter, 117. 
 , examination before, 
 
 140-42. 
 -, wife of, messages to, 
 
 penses, 323. 
 
 112 113 
 (1622-23) John Modyford, 
 
 letters to, 114, 115, 131. 
 , his letter delivered to 
 
 the Lord Treasurer, 131. 
 -, money sent by, &c., 
 
 132 
 
 (1623^24) John Gupwill, 
 144. 
 
 , letters to, 41, 82, 97, 
 113, 132, 137, 138, 160, 
 166, 173, 228. 
 -, document to be de- 
 
 livered to, 83. 
 (1624-25) Thos. Crossing, 
 
 allusion to a letter and 
 
 recognizance of, 138. 
 (1625-26) Thos. Walker, 
 
 letter to, 67. 
 (1627-28) John Acland, 
 
 letter of, 146. 
 
 , money paid by, 184. 
 
 (1628-29) John Lynne, 
 
 letters to, 190, 192. 
 (1629-30) Nicholas Spicer, 
 
 letters to, 65, 193. 
 (1630-31) Thos. Flaye, 
 
 directions sent to, 80. 
 , signature of , 150, 151, 
 
 153. 
 (1632-33) John Hakewell, 
 
 letter to, 195. 
 (1633-34) Gilbert Sweet, 
 
 warrant to, 12. 
 
 , letter to, 48. 
 
 (1637-38) Thos. Crossing, 
 
 commission to, 12. 
 , letter to, 202,
 
 480 
 
 Exeter, Mayor of cont. 
 
 (1638-39) James Tucker, 
 letters to, 202, 205. 
 
 , charged with con- 
 tempt, 206. 
 
 (1639-40) Robt. Walker, 
 receives a letter, 197. 
 
 (1640-41) John Pennye, 
 letter to, 103. 
 
 (1643-44) Hugh Croker, 
 commission to, 13. 
 
 (1647-48) Adam Bennet, 
 letter to, 209. 
 
 (1651-52) Rich. Sweet, 
 money made out of the 
 City's lands to be given 
 to the poor by, 327. 
 
 (1653-54) Simon Snow, 330. 
 
 (1654-55) Rich. Crossing, 
 chosen to form a Com- 
 mittee with four others, 
 328 
 
 (1655^56) Nicholas Brook- 
 ing, appointed with others 
 to treat for the sale of 
 the Irish lands, 329. 
 
 (1656-57) Thos. Ford, 
 brings copy of deeds, &c., 
 into the Chamber, 330. 
 
 , particulars of the 
 
 goods and the keys of 
 several churches to be 
 delivered to, 331. 
 
 ( 1 660-6 1 ) Christopher 
 
 Lethbridge, petition to, 
 50. 
 
 .letter to, 211. 
 
 (1661-62) Henry Gandy, 
 petition addressed to, 
 217. 
 
 (1662-63) John Martyn, 
 letter to, 75. 
 
 , order to, 212. 
 
 (1663-64) John Butler, 
 letter to, 217. 
 
 (1664-65) Alan Penny, let- 
 ter to, 218. 
 
 (1665-66) Nicholas Izacke, 
 mentioned in dedication 
 of Izacke's Memorials, 
 355. 
 
 , the great fire of Lon- 
 don during his mayor- 
 alty, 357. 
 
 (1667-68) Thos. Walker, 
 knighted on presenting 
 an address to the King, 
 357. 
 
 (1668-69) George Tuthill, 
 requested to proclaim 
 horse market weekly on 
 Fridays, 335. 
 
 Exeter, Mayor of cont. 
 
 (1670-71) Benjamin Oliver, 
 knighted by Charles II, 
 357. 
 
 ( 1674-75) Christopher Brod- 
 ridge, signature of, 219. 
 
 (1675-76) John Parre, 
 events during his mayor- 
 alty, 357. 
 
 (1676-77), William Clyde, 
 the last in Izacke's 
 Memorials, 355. 
 
 (1688) Sir Thos. Jefford, 
 removed from office by 
 order in Council, 219. 
 
 (1691-92) Edward Sea- 
 ward, attestation of, 
 220. 
 
 (1695-96) Gilbert Yarde, 
 appointed Deputy Lieu- 
 tenant, 13. 
 
 (1704--5) Gilbert Yarde, 
 letters to, 230, 231. 
 
 (1705-6) Thos. Baron, let- 
 ter of, 221. 
 
 (1712-13) Jacob Rowe, let- 
 ter to, 232. 
 
 (1713-14) John Newcombe, 
 letter to, 233. 
 
 (1718-19) John Burell, 
 order to, 235 
 
 (1724-25) Humphrey Baw- 
 den, letter to, 104. 
 
 (1738-39) Thomas Heath, 
 letters to, 244. 
 
 (1744-45) John Hawker, 
 letter of, 247. 
 
 (1756-57) William Trosse, 
 letter to, 249. 
 
 (1764-65) Jacob Rowe, 
 letter to, 254. 
 
 (1765-66) John Bussell, 
 letters to, 250, 254, 255, 
 257, 258. 
 
 , letter of, 256. 
 
 , money for the poor 
 
 sent to, 254. 
 
 (1772-73) Gregory Jack- 
 son, request to, 199. 
 
 (1775-76) John Eyles 
 Pierce, letters to, 231. 
 
 (temp. Hen. VII), letter to, 
 
 14. 
 
 47. 
 
 (? 1603) letter to, 16. 
 -, letter to (endorsed 1629), 
 
 -, letter to (endorsed 1631), 
 
 48. 
 
 (1617), letter to, 87. 
 
 (? 1618), speech of, 102. 
 
 (? 1782), letter of, 258. 
 
 (n.d.), offence of, 391.
 
 481 
 
 Exeter, Mayor of cont. 
 
 (n.d.), his expenses to and 
 
 from London, 393. 
 
 , Hilary (? Blund or White), 
 
 399. 
 
 (? 1669), claim of, 419. 
 
 v. Passmore, 420. 
 
 v. Trood, 420. 
 
 v. Tucker and others, 420. 
 
 v. Coleman, 422. 
 
 v. Davis, 422. 
 
 v. Jackson, 422. 
 
 v. Passevant, 422. 
 
 v. Izaacke, 432. 
 
 Mayor, &c., of, writs to, 1, 12. 
 
 charters to, 4, 6. 
 
 claim of, 7. 
 
 commissions to, 12, 13. 
 
 letters to, 14, 15, 24, 26, 
 34, 35, 42, 43, 46, 49, 55, 56, 
 66, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 79, 98, 
 100, 105, 106, 165, 178, 181, 
 195, 203, 212, 216. 
 , fishing of the Exe pro- 
 cured to the use of (1588), 
 26. 
 
 , agreements with, 28, 32, 
 
 48, 249, 281, 285, 312. 
 , land leased to, 28. 
 , petitions of, 29, 198, 220, 
 
 228. 
 , acquire land for the en 
 
 largement of the Haven ( 1 706) 
 
 32. 
 - , instructed to 
 
 receive 
 
 Philip of Spain suitably, 35. 
 
 , letter of (1674), 41. 
 
 , acknowledgement to, 56. 
 
 , orders to, 66, 68, 105, 190, 
 
 216. 
 
 , proclamation sent to, 67. 
 
 , leases from, 70, 71, 73, 
 
 163, 200, 286, 287, 289, 290, 
 
 292, 293. 
 
 , dispute with, 70. 
 
 , bond to secure a convey- 
 ance to (1583), 72. 
 
 , request to, 72. 
 
 , releases to, 75, 269. 
 
 , fragment of a receipt from 
 
 (1602), 79. 
 
 , conveyance to (1589), 80. 
 
 , leases to, 87, 269, 290, 292. 
 
 , send the Recorder to ask 
 
 the Bishop's permission for 
 
 another school, 143. 
 , reversionary lease from 
 
 (1585), 163. 
 
 , indentures with, 199, 281. 
 , petition to, 214. 
 , acquire Lammas Fair 
 
 (1555), 228. 
 
 Exeter, Mayor, &c., of cont. 
 
 , address to Princess Amelia 
 
 from, 259. 
 
 , copies of orders, letters, 
 
 &c., addressed to (1611-1628), 
 260. 
 
 , bond entered into by 
 
 (1553), 262. 
 
 , injunction to (1288), 281. 
 
 , contract with (1694), 
 
 285. 
 
 , grants by, 285, 287. 
 
 , grant to, 292. 
 
 , sale of lands passed into 
 
 the possession of, 293. 
 
 , surrenders from the Exe- 
 ter and Crediton Navigation 
 Company to (1819), 293. 
 
 , appointment given to 
 
 (1532), 304. 
 
 , money received from, 363. 
 
 , composition with the 
 
 Bishop, &c. (1320), 373. 
 
 v. Dame Ann Dyke and 
 
 others, 419. 
 
 Mayor and Aldermen of, com- 
 missions to, 11, 13. 
 
 , letters to, 15, 17, 44, 63, 
 
 73, 86, 139, 366. 
 
 , writ to, 41. 
 
 , goods in the hands of, 82. 
 
 , send two of their cor- 
 poration to discuss Perry- 
 man's business before the 
 Privy Council, 145. 
 
 , do not think their City 
 
 should be called upon to 
 furnish a ship for the expedi- 
 tion to La Rochelle, 180. 
 -, to have control of the 
 
 Wt. 20757. 
 
 workhouse, 333. 
 Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses 
 
 of, table of the petty customs 
 
 or town dues payable to, 
 
 381. 
 Mayor, Aldermen and Council of 
 
 (1688 ?), petition of, presented 
 
 to William III, 219. 
 Mayor, Alderman, Councillor, 
 
 Auditor or Assessor, office of, 
 
 427. 
 Mayor and Bailiffs of, pleas to 
 
 be pleaded before, 3. 
 
 , Commission to (1344), 8. 
 
 , their power suspended 
 
 during Lammas Fair, 227. 
 , negligent in auditing the 
 
 accounts of the Receivers and 
 
 Wardens of Exbridge, 383. | 
 , agree to audit the accounts 
 
 on the day of the election of 
 
 the new Mayor, 384. 
 
 Ex 31
 
 482 
 
 Exeter cont. 
 
 Mayor, Bailiffs and Citizens of, 
 grant to (1259), 3. 
 
 , mention of (1629), 189. 
 
 , royal pardon to (1644), 
 
 209. 
 Mayor, Bailiffs and Commonalty 
 
 of, pardons to, 9. 
 , matter heard in the be- 
 half of, 53. 
 
 , receipt to, 55. 
 
 , grant from, 55. 
 
 -, leases granted by, 71, 
 
 88. 
 
 , bequest to, 92. 
 
 , allusion to commission 
 
 between the Attorney General 
 
 and, 104. 
 , petition the Privy 
 
 Council, 159. 
 
 , gift of alnashouses to re- 
 vert to, 305. 
 , claim a large debt owing 
 
 from the Commonwealth, 328. 
 , agreement between the 
 
 Bishop, Dean and Chapter 
 
 and (1708), 338-339. 
 , admit John Bonde to the 
 
 freedom of the City (1379), 
 
 358. 
 
 , their receipt for reimburse- 
 ments of cost for coast ships 
 
 (1589), 369. 
 , injuries done to, by Lord 
 
 Hugh de Courtenay, 389, 
 
 390. 
 , their petition to the King 
 
 (1462), 390. 
 , their petition to the King 
 
 (1422), 391. 
 
 v. Hugh Courtenay, 403. 
 
 Mayor, Bailiffs and Serjeants of, 
 
 direction concerning mode of 
 
 electing, 5. 
 
 , petition concerning elec- 
 tion of, 9. 
 Mayor, Bailiffs and 24 of the 
 
 Common Council of, statutes 
 
 and ordinances decreed by, 
 
 for the ordering of orphans, 
 
 347. 
 Mayor and Chamber of (1714), 
 
 greeting from the Duke of 
 
 Ormond to, 234. 
 Mayor and citizens of, pardon 
 
 and partial remission of their 
 
 debt granted to (1286), 3. 
 Mayor and Commonalty of, 
 
 grant by (1380), 210. 
 , suit of, against the Earl of 
 
 Devon and the Prior of St. 
 
 Nicholas (1323), 227, 344. 
 
 Exeter, Mayor and Commonalty of 
 cont. 
 
 , agreement with (1299), 
 
 283. 
 
 , composition between the 
 
 Abbot of Sherborne and 
 (1266), 289, 386. 
 -, agreement with the Arch- 
 
 deacon of Totnes (1299), 345. 
 -, copy of entries made in the 
 
 Council book touching (1555), 
 362. 
 -, compositions between the 
 
 Bishop and Chapter and, 384. 
 -, composition between the 
 
 Prior of St. Nicholas and, 387. 
 , inquisitions on behalf of 
 
 (1317), 391. 
 
 , assent of (1357), 400. 
 
 -, licence by (1363), 401. 
 
 ' - ^ ^ f, 
 
 Mayor and Common Council [of 
 
 (1509), 5. 
 
 , regulations by (1615), 323. 
 
 , abstract of all the orders 
 
 and ordinances for the good 
 
 government of the City made 
 
 by, 348. 
 , their order concerning 
 
 sureties for the payment of 
 
 the customs, 383. 
 . governors of the Free 
 
 School, ordinances made by 
 
 (1633), 159. 
 Mayor and Deputy Lieutenants 
 
 of, letter to (1625), 138. 
 
 , order of (1643), 207. 
 
 Mayor and Justices of the Peace, 
 
 letters to, 15, 80, 110, 111. 
 , their zeal for the safety of 
 
 their City and the State, 
 
 110. 
 
 , Perryman's charges dis- 
 missed by, 137. 
 -, seamen brought before 
 
 (1757), 249. 
 
 Mayor, Justices and Aldermen of 
 (1563), proclamation of, 310. 
 
 Mayor, Magistrates and Com- 
 mons of, appeal to Bishop 
 Carey for permission to have 
 another schoolmaster, 154. 
 
 , have petitioned two 
 
 Bishops of Exeter to licence 
 another schoolmaster, 158. 
 
 Mayor, Receiver, and other 
 officers, election of, 406. 
 
 Mayor, Recorder and Aldermen 
 of, made Justices of the Peace 
 within the City (temp. Hen. 
 VIII), 5. 
 
 , Commission to be directed 
 to (1632), 324,
 
 483 
 
 Exeter cont. 
 
 Mayor, Recorder and Sheriffs of 
 
 (1590), letter to, 370. 
 Mayor and Sheriff of, letter to 
 
 (1560), 42. 
 
 - , copy of the Queen's writ 
 and proclamation directed to 
 (1560), 367. 
 
 Mayor, Sheriff, &c., of, oath of, 
 
 368. 
 
 Mayoral seal, 279, 281, 370. 
 Mayors of, Crossing's catalogue 
 
 of all the, 357. 
 
 Mayor's accounts of fines, 426. 
 Mayor's Court or City Court, 
 
 279. 
 
 - , property recovered in, 
 164, 282. 
 
 - , wills usually proved in, 
 281. 
 
 - , wills proved in, 282. 
 
 - , note of probate in, 282. 
 
 , suits and proceedings in, 
 
 406, 413. 
 -, discontinuance of 
 
 the 
 
 custom of enrolling Orders 
 of the Council, &c., 407. 
 
 , Books of. See under Books. 
 
 -, Papers of, 413. 
 
 Mayor's Court or City Court 
 Rolls, 358, 359, 408, 409. 
 
 , enrolment on, 280. 
 
 , some missing, 347, 407. 
 
 , Hooker's book contains 
 
 extracts from, 350. 
 
 , copy of entries on, 404. 
 
 , fragment of, 405. 
 
 , description of, 406-408. 
 
 , used by Hooker in com- 
 piling his Annals, 407. 
 
 , extracts from, 164, 165, 
 
 280, 349, 401, 402, 405. 
 
 of licences, extracts from, 
 
 432. 
 
 Mayor's deputations (1727- 
 
 1823), 426. 
 Mayor's To urn, Rolls of the, 
 
 description of, 408-409. 
 Mills : 
 
 Bonhay Mills, leases of, &c., 
 70. 
 
 , suit respecting, 421. 
 Bovey Mills, suit respecting, 
 420. 
 
 , draft leases, 423. 
 
 Crikillpitt Mills, leases of, 
 71. 
 
 , tucking mills near, 
 
 71. 
 
 , quittance of a rent 
 charge on, 281. 
 , suit respecting, 419. 
 
 Exeter, Mills cont. 
 
 Cuckingstool Mills, lease of, 
 
 &c., 71. 
 Headwere Mills, fulling 
 
 mills adjoining, 71. 
 New Mills, high rent of, 71. 
 
 , mills leate of, 104. 
 
 Pidgley's Mill, title deeds 
 
 of, 425. 
 
 Pyne's Mills, dispute re- 
 specting the water, 70. 
 Taylor's Mills, ordered to be 
 
 sold, 71. 
 
 Orphans of, bill for, in the House 
 of Commons, 51. 
 
 , money of, 88. 
 
 , claim for payment of fees 
 
 out of the portions of, 103. 
 
 , statutes for the ordering 
 
 of, 347, 374. 
 
 , form of a recognizance to 
 
 be taken for the assurance of 
 the portion of, 374. 
 
 , Charter of the (1561), 6, 
 
 347, 372, 374, 413. 
 
 -, Act of Parliament 
 
 confirming, 6, 347, 374. 
 
 -, a remembrance of 
 
 articles relating to, 315. 
 
 ordinances under 
 
 the, 357. 
 
 , custody of, documents 
 concerning, 81-83. 
 
 granted to the 
 
 Chamber, inventories of pro- 
 perty of , 413-14. 
 
 -, law papers relating 
 
 to, 419. 
 
 Orphans' Court, 419. 
 
 , book-proceedings of, 379. 
 
 , Papers, 427. 
 
 Piepowder, Court of, 33. 
 
 , and see under Fairs. 
 
 Poor, the, relief of, papers relat- 
 ing to, 80-81, 426. 
 
 , legacies for, 205, 319. 
 
 , Izacke's catalogue of bene- 
 factors to, 356. 
 
 , Crossing's catalogue of 
 
 benefactors to, 357. 
 
 , extracts from the Act 
 
 Books relating to, 225. 
 
 , accounts of, 379. 
 
 -, Corporation of, petition 
 
 that they may be elected 
 
 every two years, 224. 
 
 , , Act of, 225. 
 
 , , establishment of ,225. 
 
 -, certificates of, 424. 
 
 -, Warden of, ,330. 
 
 -, money to be paid to, 
 
 213.
 
 484 
 
 Exeter, Poor, the, Warden of 
 cont. 
 
 , , accounts of, 424. 
 
 Poor Rates, assessments of, 379, 
 426 
 
 Port of, 312. 
 
 , extent of, 29. 
 
 , regulations for the duties 
 
 of Pilots over the bars of, 337. 
 
 , entries of the town cus- 
 tom for, 375. 
 
 , remembrance of matters 
 
 concerning, 404. 
 
 , Customs Rolls, descrip- 
 tion of, 413. 
 -, oaths of Custom House 
 
 Officers appointed for, 426. 
 
 , Exchequer Record con- 
 cerning the limits of, 430. 
 
 , copy of commission and 
 survey touching the limits of, 
 432. 
 
 Commission to appoint 
 
 Keys and Wharfs and settle 
 the bounds of, 432. 
 -, Customers, Controllers and 
 
 Searchers of, letters to, 36. 
 
 , proclamation sent to 
 
 officers of the customs in, 
 190. 
 
 Provost Court, directions for the 
 Stewards respecting pro- 
 ceedings in, 254. 
 
 , pleadings of cases in, 413. 
 
 , Bailiffs of the, writs ad- 
 dressed to the Mayor and, 
 427. 
 
 Provost Court Papers, 413. 
 
 Provost Court Rolls, 1328-1702, 
 254. 
 
 , fragment of, 394. 
 
 , description of, 408. 
 
 Quay, Key, the, orders and cus- 
 toms to be observed at, 73, 
 343. 
 
 , rates for, 318. 
 
 , stairs to be made near, 
 
 324. 
 
 , collapse of an old alms- 
 house near the gate, 329. 
 
 , lighterage and cranage on 
 
 goods brought to, 336. 
 
 , custom house, &c., with 
 
 the tolls and dues ordered 
 to be sold (1720), 339. 
 
 , accounts of, 379. 
 
 , case for opinion concern- 
 ing, 422. 
 
 , the Coal, leasing of, 426. 
 
 Receiver of, annual disburse- 
 ment for the City to be made 
 by, 320. 
 
 Exeter, Receiver of cont. 
 
 , the Statute Books and a 
 
 seal to be provided by, at the 
 City's charge, 338. 
 
 , to take account of the 
 
 amercements quarterly, 384. 
 
 , to receive a fixed pension, 
 
 385. 
 -, to render his final accounts 
 
 within three months of the 
 election of the Mayor, 385. 
 , directions as to the order 
 of making up the accounts, 
 386. 
 -, the only person allowed 
 
 to deal with the administra- 
 tion of the goods of the City, 
 388. 
 
 , ordered to render account 
 immediately after his year is 
 ended, 388. 
 -, yearly Accounts of the 
 
 Bailiffs of the Manor of Exe 
 Island rendered to, 410. 
 
 , yearly Accounts of the 
 
 Bailiffs of the Manor of 
 Duriurd rendered to, 410. 
 , yearly Accounts of the 
 Bailiffs of the Manor of Awlis- 
 combe rendered to, 411. 
 , yearly Accountsof the War- 
 dens of the Magdalen Hospital 
 rendered to, 411. 
 
 , accounts rendered to, 
 
 418. 
 
 , suit concerning the office 
 of, 419. 
 
 (1510), payment to be made 
 
 by, 302. 
 (1512), to sell part of Dur- 
 
 yurd Wood, 302. 
 (1548), to disburse the 
 money for Cowley Bridge, 
 306. 
 (1557), to see to the repair 
 
 of the City wall, 307. 
 (1588), payment cannot be 
 made by, 30. 
 
 , money to be paid by, 
 
 79. 
 
 , to be auditor of the 
 
 accounts for victualling 
 the ships, 313. 
 
 (1589), to be allowed for his 
 disbursements, 317. 
 
 , to receive into the 
 
 City the Earls of Essex 
 and Huntingdon and Sir 
 Francis Knolles, 317. 
 
 (1608), to pay the expenses 
 of repairing Topsham 
 Key, 321.
 
 485 
 
 Exeter, Receiver of cont. 
 
 (1610), to pay the charge of 
 
 a gift from the burgesses 
 
 of Exeter, 321. 
 (1611), gifts to be presented 
 
 by, 322. 
 (1614), to give money to the 
 
 Mayor towards the dis- 
 charge of his expenses, 
 
 322. 
 (1616), payment to be made 
 
 by, 94. 
 
 (1621), order to, 172. 
 (1630), payment to, 275. 
 (1636), appointed to view 
 
 the site of some new 
 
 stairs, 324. 
 (1639), to see to the repair 
 
 of a little bridge near 
 
 Cowley Bridge, 324. 
 ( 1 647 ), provision to be made 
 
 by, 84. 
 
 (1648), order to, 212. 
 (1656), to see to the sale of 
 
 the organs lying in the 
 
 cloisters, &c., 330. 
 (1661), money to be paid 
 
 in to, 333. 
 (1663), to make allowance, 
 
 44. 
 (1679), ordered by the 
 
 Chamber to see to the 
 
 repair of Cowley Bridge, 
 
 337. 
 (1696), payment to be made 
 
 by, 338. 
 (1757) (Sheriff or General 
 
 Receiver), money not 
 
 paid to, 254. 
 Receivers of, election of, 43. 
 
 , their difficulties in passing 
 
 their accounts, 226. 
 
 , order to, concerning 
 
 sureties for the payment of 
 the customs, 383. 
 -, their negligence in audit- 
 
 ing their accounts, 384. 
 
 Receivers' Accounts, descrip- 
 tion of, 409. 
 
 , books of, 416-17. 
 
 Receivers' cash books (1795- 
 1836), 417. 
 
 Receivers' vouchers, 417. 
 
 Recorder of, the 24 members of 
 the Council and all who have 
 held the office of Mayor, to 
 receive annually two salmon 
 from the farmer of the fishing, 
 322. 
 
 Recorders of, documents con- 
 cerning, 55-56 ; and see Ball ; 
 Charles ; Cholwich ; Denys ; 
 
 Exeter, Recorders of cont. 
 
 Ducke ; Hawtrey ; Martyn ; 
 Pollard ; Prideaux ; Rad- 
 ford ; Seymour ; Tothill ; 
 Waltham. 
 
 Recorders, Sheriffs, Receivers, 
 Chamberlains, Swordbearers 
 and Bishops of, lists of, 355. 
 
 Schools, the Free, controversy 
 concerning, documents re- 
 lating to, 134-62. 
 
 , mention of, 266, 426. 
 
 , controversy with Perri- 
 
 man concerning. See under 
 
 Perriman. 
 -, controversy 
 
 with the 
 
 Bishop concerning. See under 
 Carey, Valentine. 
 
 Serjeants at Mace, writs ad- 
 dressed to, 413. 
 
 Serjeants of the City Courts, 
 negligence of, 384. 
 
 Sessions, Perriman's case dis- 
 charged at Exeter in the, 137, 
 140. 
 
 , Estreats of the, book of, 
 
 380. 
 
 of the Peace, minute books 
 
 of, 378. 
 
 presentments of 
 nuisances, &c., at, 378. 
 
 and gaol delivery, 
 
 rolls of the, 394. 
 
 SessionsPapers(1557-1720),413. 
 
 Sheriff, Recorder, Town Clerk, 
 Aldermen, Common Council- 
 men, and every other magis- 
 trate and officer of, removed 
 from office (1688), 219. 
 
 Sheriff of (1592), to go to Sir 
 Robert Denys, 317. 
 
 (? 1784), letter to, 253. 
 
 Sheriffs of, fees paid on passing 
 the accounts of, 52. 
 
 Sheriffs' ward, the, 278. 
 
 Solicitor on behalf of, 52. 
 
 Solicitors on behalf of, their 
 reason for yielding, 182. 
 
 Steward, Lord, assistant, desir- 
 able, 77. 
 
 Stewards of, High, documents 
 concerning, 76-78. 
 
 Streets of, documents relating 
 to, 248-49. 
 
 , Act of Parliament for 
 
 paving, 248. 
 
 , Committee for paving, 
 
 lighting and otherwise im- 
 proving (1794), book of, 249, 
 380. 
 
 , byelaws for the regulation 
 
 of, 426.
 
 486 
 
 Exeter cent. 
 
 Streets, buildings, &c. in : 
 Barbican, the, right of way 
 
 through, 199, 200. 
 Barbicans, the, land near, 
 
 419. 
 
 Bartholomew Street (" Bri- 
 tain " or " Britayne "), 
 
 269. 
 Bedford House, letters 
 
 dated at, 11, 202. 
 , the poor ordered to 
 
 be removed out of, 326. 
 Bishop's Palace, letter 
 
 dated at, 53. 
 Bishop's prison, 361. 
 Black Dog, 236. 
 Bocherow, 294, 361. 
 Bonhay, 70. 
 , liberty to moor boats 
 
 on, &c., 26. 
 -, quarrels in the fields 
 
 named, 59. 
 , cattle market. See 
 under Markets. 
 -, mills. See under 
 
 Mills. 
 Bridewell to be erected, a, 
 
 292. 
 
 , purchase of a, 333. 
 
 Bulhylstrete, 238, 294. 
 Bull, house called the, 48, 
 
 296. 
 " Cakelane," lane called, 
 
 284, 294. 
 
 " Carfoix," 278, 294. 
 Cartern Street, 265, 294. 
 Castle, land near, 124, 165, 
 
 265, 405. 
 
 , fortifying of, 178. 
 
 , a proper place to be 
 
 prepared for the custody 
 
 of arms and ammunition 
 
 in, 217. 
 , the ditches of, 197, 
 
 338. 
 -, Ditch, houses in, 78, 
 
 198. 
 
 City Gates, the, documents 
 relating to, 286-87. 
 
 , gates and ditches, 
 
 393 
 
 City Walls, the, 267. 
 
 , repair of, 269. 
 
 , right of access to, 281. 
 
 , to be repaired, 307. 
 
 , collapse of part of, 
 
 330. 
 
 , composition concern- 
 ing doors upon, 345. 
 -, a tower upon, 345, 
 
 Exeter, Streets, buildings, &c. in 
 cont. 
 
 Cokery (? Cookrew), 294, 
 
 306. 
 Combe Street (Rewe), 6, 
 
 277, 294, 318. 
 Comeroye, Hospital of the, 
 
 Charter for nominating 
 
 the poor in the, 6, 374. 
 Correy Street (Correstret, 
 
 &c.), 266, 294. 
 " Corvestret," land in, 265. 
 Counter, the, 278, 426. 
 Cowyke Street, 24, 294. 
 Crooked Bridge, payment 
 
 for repair of, 103. 
 Custom House, 423. 
 Devon and Exeter Hospital, 
 
 199. 
 Dodehay Street, dispute 
 
 respecting its limits, 
 
 267. 
 " Doddehestrete," near the 
 
 Castle, 264, 294. 
 East Gate, the, 6, 164, 199, 
 
 264, 265, 266, 284, 286, 
 
 287, 332, 401. 
 , property situated 
 
 within, 159. 
 , soldiers quartered 
 
 without, 221. 
 
 , land without, 282. 
 
 , to be pulled down 
 
 and rebuilt, 302. 
 -, a door in, to be 
 
 opened, 303. 
 , almshouses without, 
 323. 
 -, orders for reforming 
 
 abuses in the almshouses 
 
 without, 356. 
 Ex Lane, 275. 
 Fore Street, New Inn, 236. 
 
 , fish market in, 260. 
 
 Fox Lane, 275. 
 French prison, the, 292. 
 Frerenhay, (Friernhay, 
 
 Earlsbury), lease of, 269, 
 
 270. 
 
 , conveyance of, 269. 
 
 , granted to the Grey 
 
 Friars, 280. 
 -, the racks in, memo- 
 
 randa respecting, 309. 
 , horse market to be 
 held weekly in, 335. 
 -, copies of deeds relat- 
 
 373. 
 
 ing to, 397. 
 Friars Hayes, 60. 
 Gaol, the, 294, 370, 420. 
 , pardons for prisoners 
 
 in, 39.
 
 487 
 
 Exeter, Streets, buildings, &c. in : 
 Gaol, the cont. 
 
 , documents relating 
 
 to, 292. 
 
 , the High, 278. 
 
 , his Majesty's prison, 
 
 324. 
 -, books belonging to 
 
 the late, 382. 
 Goldsmiths Lane, 236. 
 Goldsmith Street, 295. 
 , Flaye's Almshouse 
 
 founded in, 274. 
 
 , premises in, 423. 
 
 -, Allhallows. See under 
 
 Churches. 
 Great Place, 270. 
 " Green Dragon," house 
 
 called, 421. 
 Greenestoneway, 274. 
 Guildhall, the, 47, 141, 172, 
 
 254, 258, 268, 269, 271, 
 
 283, 308. 
 , declaration made at, 
 
 40. 
 
 , documents concern- 
 ing, 44. 
 
 , General Sessions of 
 the Peace held in, 206. 
 
 , chapel of St. George 
 the Martyr and St John 
 the Baptist situate in, 210. 
 
 , old arms stored in, 
 216. 
 
 , meetings at, 243, 256. 
 
 , portraits in, 251, 274. 
 
 , dole annually dis- 
 tributed at the door of, 
 306. 
 
 , a ward house to be 
 built behind, 307. 
 
 , the prison in, 309. 
 
 , proclamation made 
 at, 314. 
 
 , the forepart to be 
 rebuilt, 318. 
 
 , the Mayor's Court 
 
 Rolls preserved in, 359, 
 406. 
 -, fishermen to be ar- 
 
 rested and detained in, 
 
 384. 
 
 Half Moon, the, 233. 
 Harold's Fee, 425. 
 
 , Court Rolls of, 424. 
 
 , and see St. Stephen's 
 
 Fee. 
 Heavitree, letter dated at, 
 
 56. 
 
 , parish of, 214, 265. 
 
 , Gallows, Ringswell, 
 
 executions on, 237, 238. 
 
 Exeter, Streets, buildings, &c. in 
 cont. 
 
 Heles' or the Blue Maids' 
 Hospital, documents re- 
 lating to, 293. 
 
 High Street, 50, 58. 87, 164, 
 264, 265, 266, 267, 270. 
 
 , houses owned by the 
 
 Prior of Plymton in, 271. 
 
 , property in, 281. 
 
 , the fisn market to be 
 
 removed from, 332. 
 
 , grants of a cellar and 
 
 tenement in, 387. 
 
 , land in, 401. 
 
 -, house belonging to 
 
 the Dean and Chapter in, 
 419. 
 
 Holeway, Holoway, 265. 
 
 , collection for, 161. 
 
 Hospital, for sick soldiers, 
 220, 221, 222, 223, 224. 
 
 , the City's, or Work- 
 house, to be started in 
 the derelict buildings of 
 St. John's Hospital, 273. 
 
 Idle Lane, street quarrel in, 
 60. 
 
 ("Ydellond") street 
 
 called, 278, 295. 
 
 James Street, 277. 
 
 Langbroke, the, 274, 295. 
 
 Langbroke Street, redemp- 
 tion of Land Tax on four 
 dwelling houses in, 255. 
 
 " Le Egle," 87, 296. 
 
 Li very dole, Lyv'doll, &c. , 
 265, 295. 
 
 , Thomas Benet burned 
 
 for heresy at, 361. 
 
 Magdalen or Mawdlyn Gal- 
 lows, plot of ground near, 
 to be granted, 338. 
 
 Gate, 265, 330. 
 
 Lake, the City fish- 
 pond, 264. 
 
 Street, 163, 264, 265, 
 
 278, 295. 
 , and 
 
 see under 
 Churches. 
 
 Maids Hospital, charges for 
 soldiers in, 221, 223. 
 
 , advantage to accrue 
 
 to, 332. 
 
 (boys and maids), gift 
 
 to, 433. 
 market place, the, a wild 
 
 beast show in, 260. 
 Marshalsca, the, work done 
 
 at, 208. 
 Mary Arches Lane. See 
 
 St. Mary Arches Lane.
 
 488 
 
 Exeter, Streets, buildings, &c. in 
 cont. 
 
 Merchants Hall or Cloth 
 Hall, documents con- 
 cerning, 49-50. 
 
 , rates for, 310. 
 
 , profits of, 349. 
 
 , orders and rates for, 
 
 356 395 
 
 Middle Hill, Phillipps Col- 
 lection at, 271. 
 
 Mint (or Minster) Lane, 269. 
 
 Muralie Walk, the, 345. 
 
 New Inn, 265. 
 
 , documents concern- 
 ing, 86-88. 
 
 , assessment money to 
 
 be brought to, 212. 
 -, documents dated at, 
 
 217, 248. 
 
 New Inn Hall, 68, 87. 
 
 New London Inn, 427. 
 
 Northernhay, 124, 178, 297, 
 419. 
 
 , letter dated at, 199. 
 
 , lease of, 164. 
 
 , Minute Book, 340. 
 
 , extracts from the 
 
 Chamber Act Books re- 
 lating to, 433. 
 Ditch, 199, 200. 
 
 Northernhay and Southern- 
 t hay, documents relating 
 f to, 196-200. 
 , trees to be planted in, 
 
 198. 
 
 North Exe Lane, 275. 
 Northgate, the, 60, 61, 266, 
 
 268, 270, 286, 304, 307. 
 , a tenement without, 
 
 165, 406. 
 
 , property without, 281. 
 
 , grant of land within, 
 
 389. 
 
 , the building of, 393. 
 
 Northgate Street, 60, 273, 
 
 274, 387. 
 , raw cloth to be sold 
 
 only in, 307. 
 
 North Street, 164, 266, 295. 
 Noseworthie's Mead, 274. 
 Oxford Inn, 236. 
 Pacie Street, 295, 401. 
 Paris Street, Parres Street, 
 
 &c., 265, 292, 295. 
 , new Hospital or 
 
 Workhouse in, bequest 
 
 to, 225. 
 
 , , accounts of ,225. 
 
 , , extracts from 
 
 the Act Books concerning, 
 
 225. 
 
 Exeter, Streets, buildings, &c. in 
 cont. 
 
 Parr Street, 274, 277. 
 
 Pillory, the, 387. 
 
 Pit Lane, 274. 
 
 Preston Street, Prestestre, 
 
 fee., 282, 292, 295. 
 , grant of property in, 
 
 270. 
 
 Priory wall, 270. 
 Quarry Close under North- 
 ernhay, 225. 
 Ridge way (le Ruggeway), 
 
 274, 295. 
 Rack Lane in the parish of 
 
 St. Mary Major, 291. 
 Rock Lane, 6. 
 Round Marsh, near Exeter, 
 
 land in, 32. 
 Rownd Pitts, 275. 
 " Semar le Kat," land 
 
 called, 270. 
 Serlyslane, Serells Lane, 
 
 274, 295. 
 Shitbrooke, Shutebrok, 
 
 Schytebroke, lake called, 
 
 265, 295. 
 Shetebrokstrete, " Syte- 
 
 brokestrete," without the 
 
 East Gate, 264, 295. 
 Smythen Street, Smith 
 
 Street, &c., 264, 266, 295. 
 , grant of a house in, 
 
 388. 
 -, and see Bocherow. 
 
 Snayl Tower, the, 293, 295. 
 
 Southbrook Lane, 265. 
 
 Southernhay or Croll Ditch 
 (Cruldyche, &c.), 265, 
 297, 361, 419, 421. 
 
 , tilt to be erected on, 
 
 24. 
 
 , a dispute in, 63. 
 
 , " riot " at, 134, 140. 
 
 , way to be opened 
 
 into, 199. 
 , lease of, 200. 
 , contract about the 
 
 sewer on, 200. 
 , Lammas Fair held in, 
 
 227, 228. 
 -, property in, 425. 
 
 Southgate, 48, 57, 58, 264, 
 277, 293, 303, 398. 
 
 , Grey Friars without 
 
 the, 269. 
 -, order to fill up two 
 
 pits of water without, 
 329. 
 
 Southgate Street or [South 
 Street, 48, 60, 62, 164, 
 236, 264, 265, 282, 293.
 
 489 
 
 Exeter, Streets, buildings, &c. in : 
 Southgate Street or South Street 
 cant. 
 
 , the cloth market in, 
 
 50. 
 
 , the " Inne at Beare " 
 
 in, lease of, 238. 
 , the serge market in, 
 
 331, 332. 
 , the fish market to be 
 
 removed to, 332. 
 -, copies of deeds re- 
 
 lating to tenements in, 
 
 399. 
 
 St. David's, 423. 
 Down, Lammas Fair 
 
 held on, 227, 228. 
 -, manor of, accounts of 
 
 the bailiff of, 271, 411. 
 
 St. David's Hill or Mount, 
 215, 248, 264, 268, 270. 
 
 St. John's Street, 264. 
 
 St. Leonard's Downe, lime 
 kiln on, 32. 
 
 St. Martin's Gate, 199. 
 
 St. Martin's Street, tene- 
 ments in, 267, 400, 401. 
 
 , land in, 280. 
 
 St. Mary Arches Lane, 50, 
 274. 
 
 St. Nicholas Fee or Harold's 
 Fee, manor known as, 
 268, 395, 411. 
 
 , Court Bolls of, 268, 
 
 412. 
 
 St. Paul's Street, Paul's 
 Street, Poulestrete, &c., 
 163, 194, 248, 266, 270, 
 295. 
 
 , sale of a house in, 
 
 386. 
 
 St. Bock's Lane, an alms- 
 house in, i.e. Bonvile's 
 almshouses, q.v. 
 
 St. Sidwell's, borough of, 
 petition for two fairs in, 
 47. 
 
 St. Sidwell's Fee, copy of, 
 360. 
 
 , Act of Parliament for 
 
 bounding, 346. 
 
 , Court Bolls of, 395. 
 
 , disputes concerning 
 
 the bounds of, 402. 
 
 , a view for discovering 
 
 the bounds of, 433. 
 
 St. Sidwell, manor and fee 
 of, not mentioned in 
 Domesday Book, 4. 
 
 St. Sidwell's Street, alms- 
 houses erected in, 
 275. 
 
 Exeter, Streets, buildings, &c. in 
 cont. 
 
 St. Stephen's Fee or Bishops 
 Fee, the Bishop's tenants 
 in, 47. 
 
 , called also Harold's 
 
 Fee, 48. 
 -, privilege to persons 
 
 within, 48, 49. 
 , agreement concern- 
 ing liberties in, 339. 
 
 the Bishop of 
 
 Exeter's claim to, 359. 
 St. Stephen's Bow, lane 
 
 called, 401. 
 Stykestret, Styckestreet, 
 
 401. 
 
 , composition for build- 
 ing a gate in a lane in, 
 
 345, 373. 
 Tadiford, Tadyford, beyond 
 
 the North Gate, 297. 
 , granted to St. 
 
 Nicholas' Priory, 270. 
 Bridge, a close near, 
 
 163. 
 
 Tale, land at, 265. 
 
 Ten Cells, &c., Beceiver's 
 Accounts, description of, 
 411-12. 
 
 , and see Grendon's 
 
 Almshouses. 
 
 Trinity Ward, 420. 
 
 Watbury Street, 307. 
 
 Waterbeer Lane, 248. 
 
 Waterber Street, 281, 
 295. 
 
 Westgate, 60, 61, 70, 270, 
 283, 287, 309, 393. 
 
 , payment for the re- 
 pair of, 103. 
 
 , exemplification of a 
 
 verdict respecting a 
 suburb without, 344. 
 
 , disputes concerning 
 
 claims to certain rights in 
 the suburb beyond, 389, 
 390. 
 
 and the Water of Exe, 
 
 appropriated by the Earl 
 of Devonshire, 391. 
 
 Workhouse, the, and house 
 of correction for vagrants 
 214. 
 
 , documents concern- 
 ing, 224-26. 
 -, extracts from the Act 
 
 Books relating to, 424. 
 Wygamore, a waste moor 
 
 called, 266. 
 " Ydellond," See Idle 
 
 Lane.
 
 490 
 
 Exeter cont. 
 
 Sword and cap of maintenance 
 of, gift by Henry VII, 347. 
 
 , agreement concerning the 
 
 use of, between the Bishop, 
 Dean and Chapter of Exeter, 
 and the Mayor, &c., 338. 
 
 Swordbearers of, documents 
 concerning, 83-84. 
 
 , oath of, 84. 
 
 Town Clerk of, " Wymbysshe," 
 373. 
 
 , Minute Book of the, 302. 
 
 , and see Carwithen ; Clyff ; 
 
 Heath ; Hert ; Isacke ; Ley ; 
 Martin ; Westlake. 
 
 Trainbands of, documents con- 
 cerning, 83. 
 
 Waterworks taken in hand, 226. 
 
 Water supply, documents relat- 
 ing to, 283-85. 
 
 , the common conduit, 
 
 making and repairing of 
 (1346), 284. 
 
 , the Great Conduit, ex- 
 penses of making (1534), 285. 
 -, poultry, &c., to be 
 
 sold at, 307. 
 , two conduits, mention of, 
 
 285. 
 , the conduit, mention of, 
 
 248. 
 -, the new water conduit 
 
 (1441), 393. 
 Wine, prisage of, 33, 46, 74, 178. 
 , proclamations concerning 
 
 the sale of, 194. 
 , orders concerning the 
 
 prices of, 194. 
 Wool, petition concerning sale 
 
 of, 68. 
 , desire to procure free 
 
 import of, 243. 
 -, Bill, to be introduced, 
 
 244. 
 -, farm of, 290. 
 
 and Crediton Canal Share Certi- 
 ficates, 427. 
 
 and Crediton Navigation, docu- 
 ment relating to, 293. 
 
 and Exmouth, papers, 421. 
 
 and Yeovil Railways, 421. 
 
 v. Annies, 422. 
 
 v. Baker, 422. 
 
 v. Bishop, Dean and Chapter 
 (1599), 418. 
 
 v. Bowerman, 422. 
 
 v. Boyd, 422. 
 
 v. Browning, 419. 
 
 v. Courtenay, Edward, Earl of 
 Devon, 391. 
 
 v. the Crown (1567), 418. 
 
 Exeter cont. 
 v. Frye, 419. 
 v. Harvey, 422. 
 v. Izaacke, 422. 
 v. Jones and others, 420. 
 v. Lawrence, 422. 
 v. Starr, 419. 
 v. Tozer, 422. 
 v. Upcott, 422. 
 v. Wade, 422. 
 v. Waller, 419. 
 v. Warren, 422. 
 Exiland, Exilond, Exe Island, repair 
 
 of the wear in, 25, 368. 
 inquisition taken at, 59. 
 property in, left for pious uses, 
 
 293. 
 the common brewhouse to be 
 
 sold, 337. 
 lands in, 344. 
 Court Rolls of, 379, 424. 
 Lord Hugh de Courtenay appro- 
 priates the lordship of, 
 
 389. 
 the sand at, encroachment of 
 
 rights concerning, 390. 
 grant of three mills in, 404. 
 mortgage of, 423. 
 survey, 425. 
 copy particular for the grant of, 
 
 430. 
 manor of, granted to the citizens 
 
 of Exeter, 5, 347, 372, 374, 
 
 430. 
 , documents concerning, 
 
 24, 25. 
 
 , fishing in the, 26. 
 
 , Prince Charles likely to 
 
 claim right to, 122. 
 , to be exposed to sale at 
 
 a public survey by parcels, 
 
 338. 
 , note of the privileges and 
 
 franchises of, 347. 
 , history of, with discourse 
 
 on its customs, &c., by John 
 
 Hooker, 377. 
 , Hooker's account of the 
 
 salmon taken in the Exe 
 
 within the, 381. 
 , account of the bailiff of, 
 
 396. 
 -, accounts of, description of, 
 
 410. 
 
 . Court Rolls of, 412. 
 
 , fishing in, excepted, 418. 
 
 , copies minister's account 
 
 of, 430. 
 Cotley wood, right of cutting 
 
 timber in, 24, 25. 
 Pirage Wood, right of cutting 
 
 timber in, 24.
 
 491 
 
 Exminster, manor of, confirmation 
 
 of deed of purchase of, 6. 
 parish of, land in the, 33. 
 marshes, 33. 
 Round Marsh in, forms part of 
 
 the Port or Haven of Exeter, 
 
 29 
 Exmouth, 249, 390, 404, 418. 
 
 the Exe to be made navigable 
 
 from, 28. 
 included in the port of Exeter, 
 
 29. 
 
 complaint about foreign in- 
 habitants in, 68. 
 expenses for travelling to, 253. 
 vessels from, 375. 
 Ferry, documents relating to, 
 
 289. 
 meadows, included in the Port 
 
 of Exeter, 29. 
 Exweek, Exwick [Devon], leases in, 
 
 81. 
 the Barton of, purchase deeds 
 
 produced and a map made, 
 
 338. 
 
 Weir, lawsuit respecting, 419. 
 Eyre, Sir Robert, Justice of Assize, 
 
 petition to, 32. 
 
 Fallett, John, of Exeter, will of, 415. 
 
 Falmouth [Cornwall], Philip's ex- 
 pected arrival at, 35. 
 vessels from, 375. 
 
 Famine, the embargo on the exporta- 
 tion of corn relieves the 
 miseries of, 259. 
 
 Farington, Farrington, Isaiah, allu- 
 sion to report of, 99. 
 letters of, &c., 101. 
 
 Farley, Mr., the fate of, 246. 
 
 Farnham (farname) [Surrey], James 
 I to go in progress to, 128. 
 
 Faux, Mr., money paid to, 399. 
 
 Fawell, John, victuallers of Exeter, 
 deposition of, 60. 
 
 Fazakerley, Mr., opinion of, 246. 
 
 Fenton, Claricia, daughter of John 
 de. See Engleys. 
 
 " Ferdell," manor of, Court Roll of, 
 395. 
 
 Ffownes, Mr., a trustee of Mr. Kel- 
 lend, 338 
 
 Finch : 
 
 Heneage, Alderman of London, 
 
 letter of, 114. 
 Sir John, Speaker of the House 
 
 of Commons, letter of, 188. 
 Fine Rolls (1321), 429. 
 Fines, levying of, bill for, 52. 
 Finkle, William, signature of, 172. 
 Fishing business, the, letters con- 
 cerning, 86. 
 
 Fishing, salmon. See under Exe. 
 Fitz Geffrey, Mr., collection made 
 
 for, 321. 
 
 Fitzralph, William, grant to, 270. 
 benefactor to the poor of Exeter, 
 
 70, 356. 
 
 Fitzsimon, |John, gift of land by, 264. 
 
 [ For other names with Fitz, see 
 
 under the second part of the 
 
 name.'] 
 
 Flanders, sick soldiers in the Prince 
 
 of Orange's army from, 224. 
 Flaye : 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth, leases from, 194, 
 195. 
 
 , increases her husband's 
 
 bequest, 274. 
 
 , conveyance by, 274. 
 
 , signature and seal of, 274. 
 
 , ordinances and rules of the 
 
 almshouse drawn up by, 275. 
 
 , request to, 275. 
 
 , judgment obtained by, 
 
 275. 
 -, her gift to the Chamber of 
 
 Exeter, 275. 
 Thomas, request to, 97. 
 , to give information to Sir 
 
 G. Smythe, 197. 
 
 , signature and seal of, 274. 
 
 , almshouses founded by, 
 
 274, 277. 
 -, documents relating to his 
 
 almshouses, 274, 275. 
 Fleming, Richard le, gift of land by, 
 
 264. 
 
 Fletcher, H., signature of, 66. 
 Floyd, Margaret, pardon to, 432. 
 Floyer : 
 
 Anthony, sale of lands to, 292. 
 Charles, felony of, 293. 
 Flying Post, the, orders to be given to 
 take up the publisher of, 234. 
 Fonseca, granted to the Earl of Pem- 
 broke and Montgomery, 203. 
 Ford [Devon], abbey of, sale of 
 monastic property, 20, 291. 
 
 , Henry VI at, 359. 
 
 abbot of, grant by, 280. 
 Ford : 
 
 Thomas, gives 2501. for charit- 
 able uses, 335.
 
 492 
 
 Ford con*. 
 
 (fforde), Capt. Thomas, com- 
 pany of, 206. 
 
 person named, his release de- 
 manded, 48. 
 "Forde, William," 93. 
 Foreigners, documents concerning, 
 
 68-69. 
 
 Forelands, North and South, light- 
 houses at, 237. 
 Fortescue : 
 
 Bartholomew, to build alms- 
 houses, 305. 
 Hugh, granted the freedom of 
 
 the City, 251. 
 John, serjeant-at-law, property 
 
 granted to, 279. 
 Sir John, Lord of the Council, 
 
 signature of, 63, 74. 
 Matthew, Lord, Deputy-Lieut, 
 for Devon, granted the free- 
 dom of the City, 251. 
 Forth, Frith of, 426. 
 Foster : 
 
 Andrew, son of John, grant of 
 
 Hayes by, 23. 
 
 Henry, Mayor of Wells, certifi- 
 cate from, 200. 
 
 John, of Baddesley, Hants, his 
 acquisition and disposal of the 
 prebend and manor of Hayes, 
 23. 
 
 , his wife Jane, lands of, 
 
 23. 
 
 Fowell, William, letter of, 209. 
 Fowler and the Council, suit of, 
 
 420. 
 
 Fownes, J., letter of, 88. 
 Fox, Richard, Bishop of Winchester, 
 
 Charter of, 341, 372. 
 Foxhill [Devon], messuage called, 
 
 81. 
 Foy: 
 
 Walter, purchases the manor of 
 
 Duntish, 235. 
 Fitzwater, Esq., v. Hullett and 
 
 others, case of, 235. 
 France, trade with, 40, 41. 
 rye and corn from, 67. 
 taxes upon merchandise from, 
 
 193. 
 
 sick soldiers from, 224. 
 exorbitant power of, 245. 
 the Young Pretender in, 246. 
 sends a powerful force for the 
 
 reduction of Gibraltar, 262. 
 Henry V's claim to the crown of, 
 
 351. 
 war proclaimed with, (1414), 
 
 352. 
 
 war of (temp. Eliz.), Englishman 
 serving in, 66. 
 
 France cont. 
 
 war with (1694), allusion to, 
 
 245. 
 
 peace with (1629), 191. 
 King of, Francis I, declaration 
 of war by, 9. 
 
 , Henry II, proclamation of 
 
 war against, 15. 
 
 -, the enemy of Queen 
 
 Mary, 36. 
 -, Louis XIII, treaty with, 
 
 41n. 
 
 rumour of death of, 
 129. 
 
 Dauphin of [Louis, d. 1415], 
 sends an embassy to Henry 
 V, 352. 
 
 See also French, the. 
 Fraternity, letters of, 287. 
 Fraternity of Victuallers and 
 butchers, &c. See under 
 Exeter, Guilds. 
 Frederick, Prince Palatine. See 
 
 under Bohemia. 
 
 French denizens, enquiry as to mis- 
 demeanors of, 9. 
 subjects not allowed to leave 
 
 the country, 9. 
 wines, price of, regulated, 9. 
 merchants ordered to depart 
 
 the kingdom (1557), 15. 
 the, losses sustained by mer- 
 chants from, 107. 
 the, shipping, &c., damaged by 
 
 (1629), 190. 
 manufactures and spirits sent to 
 
 Guinea, 239, 240. 
 the, would like to purchase the 
 forts on the coast of Guinea, 
 242. 
 
 Friars Minors. See under Exeter. 
 Frost: 
 
 John, presented to the Free 
 
 Chapel on Exbridge, 210. 
 Robert, chaplain of the Chantry 
 of St. Mary on Exbridge, 210. 
 William, the widow of, 303. 
 Fulforde, John, clerk, 292. 
 Fuller (ffuller) : 
 
 Thomas, B.D., his election to 
 and dismissal from the Bod- 
 ley Lectureship, 98, 325. 
 William, clerk, ceases to be Bod- 
 ley lecturer, 98. 
 Furnell or Furneaux, Philip de, gift 
 
 of land by, 264. 
 
 Furzman, Henry, of Exeter, becomes 
 a City scavenger, 249.
 
 493 
 
 Gale, George, the sheaf of Hennock 
 
 sent to, 276. 
 payment by, 276. 
 rent due from, 276. 
 Gambia, River of, foreign trade on, 
 
 242. 
 
 forts on, 239. 
 James Island in the middle of, 
 
 239. 
 Games, unlawful, enquiry concerning, 
 
 9. 
 
 copy of commission for enforcing 
 the statute for debarring, 309. 
 copy of commission for suppres- 
 sion of, 430. 
 
 Gaming houses, a constable's war- 
 rant for searching, 248. 
 Gandy, Henry, brewer (twice Mayor 
 of Exeter), order to, 81, 330. 
 payment for sick soldiers by, 
 
 208, 222. 
 warden of the poor in Exeter, 
 
 payments to, 213. 
 buys and sells a messuage 
 formerly part of the Cathedral 
 property, 214. 
 
 Alderman, and two others to 
 treat with the Chapter touch- 
 ing their agreement with the 
 Chamber, 333. 
 Town Clerk of Exeter (1733-52), 
 
 letters of, 172. 
 letters to, 245, 246. 
 appointed steward of the Court 
 of Pie-Powder in Lammas 
 Fair, 230. 
 
 settlement of his bills, 424. 
 Gardiner, Sir Thomas, Solicitor 
 General, royal command to, 
 209. 
 
 Gascon wines, price of, regulated, 9. 
 Gattey, Mr., prevented by illness 
 from accepting the office of 
 Steward, 255. 
 
 Gazateer, a, letters relating to, 233. 
 Geboons, John, makes the Great 
 
 Conduit of Exeter, 285. 
 Geffrey, John, butcher of Exilond, 
 inventory of the goods of, 
 374-75. 
 complaints against, entered in 
 
 the Court, 374. 
 
 Gefry, Giles, surveyor to the Earl of 
 Bedford, 375, 
 
 Gelderland, sick soldiers in the 
 Prince of Orange's army from, 
 224. 
 George I, proclaimed King, 233. 
 
 both Houses of Parliament 
 thanked for their zeal and 
 affection to, 234. 
 letter relating to the coming of, 
 
 234. 
 
 George II, as Prince of Wales, peti- 
 tions to, 78, 198. 
 
 , appointed High Steward 
 
 of Exeter, 78. 
 -, his property in Northern- 
 
 hay, 198. 
 signature of, 237. 
 receives intelligence of the 
 
 movements of the Young 
 
 Pretender, 246. 
 loyal address from Exeter to, 
 
 247. - 
 
 George III, Charter of, 7. 
 signature of, 238. 
 address to, 259. 
 daughter of, Charlotte Augusta 
 
 Mathilda, birth of, 259. 
 youngest daughter of, Amelia, 
 
 address to, 259. 
 sister of, Caroline Mathilda, her 
 
 marriage with the King of 
 
 Denmark, 259. 
 Germany, war in (1626), 11. 
 
 lands of Frederick and Eliza- 
 beth of Bohemia in, 106. 
 sick soldiers from, 224. 
 Germyn (German, Jermyn) : 
 
 Hugh, sometime bailiff of 
 
 Exeter, signature of, 96. 
 
 , letter of, 205. 
 
 Hugh, sometime Mayor of 
 
 Exeter, q.v. 
 -, engaged in the dispute 
 
 with Bishop Lacy, 286. 
 John, engaged in the dispute 
 
 with Bishop Lacey, 286. 
 Gervas, Walter son of Nicholas, will 
 
 of, 368. 
 
 Gerveys, Walter, founder of the 
 chantry of the B.V. Mary 
 upon Exbridge, 210. 
 Alice wife of, 210. 
 Gibbes (Gybbes) : 
 
 Thomas, his purchase of monas- 
 tic lands, 20, 269, 291. 
 
 , monastic property granted 
 
 to, 266. 
 
 , letter to, 39. 
 
 , Lammas Fair granted to, 
 
 228. 
 -, surrenders monastic pro- 
 
 perty, 266, 291. 
 John, grant to, 21,
 
 494 
 
 Gibbon, Thomas, signature of, 341. 
 Gibraltar, its value to the trade of 
 
 the Mediterranean, 242. 
 powerful force sent from France 
 
 and Spain for the reduction 
 
 of, 252. 
 
 Gibson [Sir John], Lieutenant- 
 Go vernor of Portsmouth, 221. 
 Gidley, Mr., Town Clerk of Exeter, 
 
 books given to, 425. 
 translation by, 432. 
 handwriting of, 381, 433. 
 Gilbert, John, gift of, 411. 
 Gill, Radford, drummer, 83. 
 Giver, Robert, appointed muster- 
 master, 83. 
 Glandfilde, Nicholas, of Holy Trinity, 
 
 Exeter, will of, 415. 
 Glasier, H., gift of land by, 265. 
 Glass v. Haine, 419. 
 Glavell, Lewis, tailor, of Exeter, 
 
 examination upon the death 
 
 of, 57-58. 
 
 Gloucester, Duke of. See William. 
 Gloucester, two public free grammar 
 
 schools in, 154. 
 Court of Conscience in, 234. 
 Henry III proclaimed King at, 
 
 350. 
 
 Glyde v. Sandford, 419. 
 v. Northmore, 419. 
 Goche or Goach, Dr. Bartholomew, 
 
 gift of, 67. 
 sets on foot the suit of the 
 
 Bishop of Exeter, 115. 
 not to be one of the Commission, 
 
 117. 
 prohibits Thomas Spicer from 
 
 teaching, 145. 
 
 excepted from certain taxes, 161. 
 [Godolphin, Sidney Lord], Lord 
 
 Treasurer, order of, 220. 
 Godwin, Thomas, grant to, 272. 
 Godwyn, Walter, agreement between 
 
 Richard and Eleanor le Spicer 
 
 and, 358. 
 
 Gooding, John, letter of, 228-29. 
 [Goodrich], T[homas, Bishop of] 
 
 Ely, signature of, 25, 366. 
 Goold, James, formerly Mayor of 
 
 Exeter, remission of his fine, 
 
 206. 
 
 Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, money as- 
 signed to, 175. 
 Goseforde [Devon], manor of, lease 
 
 of, 71, 386. 
 Gould, Edward, letter of, 231. 
 
 his desire to represent Exeter in 
 
 Parliament, 230-31. 
 Grandisson, John de, Bishop of 
 
 Exeter, his foundation in St. 
 
 John's Hospital, 267, 
 
 Grandisson, John de cent. 
 
 grants right of sepulture to the 
 
 Hospital, 268. 
 Hooker's note on, 351. 
 ordinations by, 396-97. 
 inspeximua by, 400. 
 Grant, William, Lieutenant, R.N., 
 
 249. 
 
 Graye, Robert, letter of, 228-^29. 
 Greatrakes (Greatrix), Valentine, of 
 Cornworthy, Devon, convey- 
 ance for the sale of the Cham- 
 ber's lands in Ireland to, 329. 
 money received from, 334, 
 his bonds unto the Chamber, 
 
 &c., 335. 
 release under the Common Seal 
 
 sealed to, 336. 
 Greece, a sick soldier in the Prince of 
 
 Orange's army from, 224. 
 " Greenway " or " Greenwayhead," 
 near Exeter, meadow called, 
 277. 
 Greenwich, 163. 
 
 letters and documents dated at, 
 
 5, 14, 23, 34, 66, 311, 347. 
 the Court at, 125. 
 
 , letter dated from, 72. 
 
 Hospital, receipts paid for the 
 
 use of, 237. 
 manor of, Elizabeth dates letter 
 
 at, 370. 
 
 Greenwood, William, recommended 
 as Keeper of the Cloth Hall, 
 49. 
 Grege, Thomas, of St. Kieran's, 
 
 Exeter, copy of will of, 414. 
 Grendon, Simon, Almshouses of, 
 granted to the Mayor, &c., of 
 Exeter, 292. 
 
 , foundation of, &c., 282. 
 
 , money left to pay poor 
 
 men in, 282. 
 Grenowe, Nicholas, of Exeter, will of, 
 
 414. 
 Grenville : 
 
 Sir Bernard, of Tresmore, near 
 Launceston, Deputy-Lieuten- 
 ant of Cornwall, letter of, 190. 
 John, Earl of Bath, Lord Lieu- 
 tenant of Devon and Exeter, 
 appoints his deputy, 13. 
 
 , letter to, 41. 
 
 , gives a favourable report 
 
 of Exeter to Charles II, 218. 
 -, letter to be delivered to, 
 
 219. 
 Grey: 
 
 Henry, Earl of Stamford, Lord 
 General appointed by the 
 Parliament, agreement to 
 pay, 324,
 
 495 
 
 Grey cont. 
 
 Henry, Duke of Suffolk, father 
 of Lady Jane, 362. 
 
 , signature of, 366. 
 
 Lady Jane, proclaimed Queen, 
 
 362. 
 
 Thomas, Earl of Stamford, Lord 
 Lieutenant of Devon and 
 Exeter, appoints his deputy, 
 13. 
 Greynfelde or Grenville, John, letter 
 
 to, 21. 
 Gridgesham, William, gift of land by, 
 
 265. 
 Griffen, Thomas, wife of William, 
 
 examination of, 62. 
 Grigory, Nicholas, of Exeter, will of, 
 
 416. 
 Grindal, Edmund, Bishop of London, 
 
 letter of, 49. 
 
 Grinstead, East, an account of, 233. 
 Grymston, Henry, clerk, lease to, 
 
 287. 
 
 Gryndell, John, ordination of, 397. 
 Guernsey, reprisal goods landed in, 
 
 193. 
 
 vessels from, 375. 
 Guildford [Surrey], letter dated at, 
 
 15. 
 Guinea, fortified castles on the coast 
 
 of, 239, 242. 
 Dutch strong on the coast of, 
 
 239. 
 British and foreign trade with, 
 
 238-43. 
 Cape Coast Castle on the coast 
 
 of, 239, 240, 241. 
 Comenda Fort in, document 
 
 dated at, 238. 
 Gum Coast, 240. 
 Gunpowder, supply of, documents 
 
 concerning, 200-202. 
 Gunstone, Julean, of St. Paul's, 
 
 Exeter, will of, 414. 
 Gupwell, Mr., to view certain lands, 
 
 93. 
 
 Gupwill, John, of Exeter, will of, 416. 
 Gyfforde, Richard, unseemly be- 
 haviour of, 308. 
 
 Hackney Coaches, 427. 
 
 Hadden or Haddon (Hadd'), Walter, 
 
 letter of, 49. 
 Hakendorne, Count, regiment of, 
 
 221. 
 
 Hakewell or Hackwell : 
 Dr. George, 100. 
 
 John, kinsman of William 
 Prouse, his interest solicited, 
 116. 
 
 , petition drawn up by, 118. 
 
 , opinion of, 118. 
 
 , information to be given 
 
 to, 121. 
 
 , Prouse mentions a con- 
 ference with, 124. 
 
 , to present suit from the 
 
 Chamber of Exeter to the 
 Secretary, 125. 
 
 , his interview with Sir 
 
 George Calvert, 126. 
 
 , consent of, 127. 
 
 , fees to, 130. 
 
 -, Ferryman's admission to, 
 
 H 
 
 " Haccombe Down " [Devon], tene- 
 ment called, 255, 277, 
 
 157. 
 
 William, executor of Sir Thos. 
 Bodley's will, dispute referred 
 to, 97. 
 Halberton [Devon], tenement called, 
 
 379. 
 Hall: 
 
 Joseph, Bishop of Exeter, com- 
 mission to, 12. 
 
 , letters of, 26, 47, 48. 
 
 , supports Ferryman 
 against the City of Exeter, 
 134. 
 
 , certificate of, 144. 
 
 , his attitude with regard 
 
 to another school, 144, 150. 
 
 , letter to, 146. 
 
 , submissions to be pre- 
 sented to, 206. 
 
 Robert, Treasurer of the Cathe- 
 dral of Exeter, signature of, 
 144. 
 Thomasine, her death sentence 
 
 commuted, 238. 
 
 Halstaff, Edmund, pardon to, 431. 
 Hamburg, vessels bound for, 237. 
 Hamlyn, Zachary, letter to, 172. 
 
 allusion to letter to, 173. 
 Hampton. See Southampton. 
 Hampton Court, letters dated at, 15, 
 
 17. 
 
 James I at, 131. 
 copy of entries made at, 362. 
 Hanson, Uriel, pardoned, 237. 
 Harecomb, William de, Bailiff of the 
 
 Bishop of Exeter, 359. 
 Harewell, John, Bishop of Bath and 
 Wells, ordinations by, 397,
 
 496 
 
 Harfleur, in Normandy, taken by 
 
 Henry V, 352. 
 the Duke of Exeter appointed 
 
 to remain in, 352. 
 Harlame, vessels from, 375. 
 Harris : 
 
 Sir Christopher, of Launceston, 
 
 request of, 73. 
 
 George, of Exeter, will of, 416. 
 Walter, murder of, 293. 
 person named, refuses to execute 
 
 office of constable, 421. 
 Harrison, Mistress, her match broken 
 
 off, 117. 
 
 Harrup, John, pardoned, 237. 
 Harrys : 
 
 Henry, of Exeter, will of, 414. 
 John, soldier, of Exeter, 
 deceased, his arrears of pen- 
 sion, &c., 66. 
 
 , his wife Margaret, pay- 
 ment to be made to, 66. 
 Hart, Richard, signature of, 145. 
 Harte, Philip, pardoned by the 
 Queen and sent to serve in 
 Ireland, 370. 
 
 Hartford Bridge, s age for Post, 65. 
 Harvy, Harvey, &c., Anthony, 
 King's Commissioner, letters 
 to, 21, 367. 
 receipt from, 21. 
 appointment of, 21. 
 Hayes leased to, &c., 23. 
 sidesmen appear before, 262. 
 Harwich, note of the ships of not 
 less than 100 tons burthen 
 belonging to, 187. 
 
 Hassard, Hazard, John, nominated 
 by the Chamber for the Bodley 
 Preachership, 93, 94. 
 dialogue between the Bishop of 
 
 Exeter and, 94^6. 
 
 Hastings, Francis, Earl of Hunting- 
 don, to come to Exeter, 317. 
 Hatton, Christopher, signature of, 
 
 63. 
 
 Haustyce, Richard, wife of, 49. 
 Hauth, Thomas, the late, 248. 
 Havre de Grace or New Haven, to be 
 
 garrisoned, 15. 
 Hawkers and Pedlars, 421. 
 Hawkers' licences, letter concerning, 
 
 70. 
 Hawkins : 
 
 Sir John, knight, Treasurer of 
 her Majesty's Marine, reim- 
 bursement received from, 
 369, 370. 
 
 the widow, receipt from, 210. 
 Hawtrey, Stephen, Recorder of 
 
 Exeter, at Exmouth, 253. 
 resigns his office, 56. 
 
 Hay, Mr., appointed to act on be- 
 half of the City of Exeter, 
 52. 
 
 Hay don, John, his purchase of mon- 
 astery lands, 20, 21, 269, 
 291. 
 Lammas Fair granted to, 228, 
 
 269. 
 St. John's Hospital property 
 
 granted to, 266. 
 surrenders his monastery lands, 
 
 291. 
 
 late Sheriff and Alderman of 
 London, money left by, 311. 
 John, of Ottery St. Mary, re- 
 ceipt by, 21. 
 Haye, Roger de la, gift of land by, 
 
 265. 
 
 Hayes, Heighes [Devon], prebend of, 
 copies of deeds relating to, 
 22, 23. 
 
 tenement in, 388. 
 Hayman : 
 
 Thomas, letter to, 70. 
 
 Mr., letter to, 255. 
 
 Mr., in Bedford, Exeter, letters 
 
 to, 258. 
 Haymon, Robert, inquest upon, 
 
 60. 
 Hayne, in Newton, Devon, letter 
 
 dated at, 173. 
 
 Haynes alias Norden, Nicholas, hat- 
 maker, charged with murder, 
 60-62. 
 
 Haytor, Mr., has charge of Perry- 
 man's school, 156, 158. 
 testimonial from the Rector of 
 Exeter College, Oxford, in 
 favour of, 159. 
 Hayward, John, of Exiland, lease to, 
 
 290. 
 
 Haywode, William, 59. 
 Heath : 
 
 Benjamin, Town Clerk of Exeter, 
 letters to, 210, 250, 251, 258. 
 
 , note of interest sent to, 
 
 248. 
 
 , letter of, 250. 
 
 -, illness of, 255. 
 
 Sir Robert, Attorney-General, 
 
 fees to, &c., 91, 92. 
 , a memorial for, for Exeter 
 
 School, 158. 
 -, order to make ready a 
 
 commission for martial law, 
 
 183. 
 Thomas, Treasurer of St. John's 
 
 Hospital, 266. 
 
 , order to, 102. 
 
 , letter of, 243. 
 
 , receipt to, 248. 
 
 Mr., letter to, 50.
 
 497 
 
 Hele : 
 
 Ellis, money raised out of the 
 
 lands of, 333. 
 
 Walter, vicar of Erpylpyn 
 (? Ipplepyn), order to enquire 
 into the behaviour of, 365. 
 Heles' Hospital. See under Exeter. 
 Helems v. Wreyford, 420. 
 Helier, John, smith, deposition by, 
 
 58. 
 Hellier, Hellyar : 
 
 Peter, elected schoolmaster of 
 
 the Free School, 160. 
 Pryam, of Exeter, will of, 416. 
 Robert, bond of, 380. 
 William, Archdeacon of Barn- 
 staple, composition with, 87. 
 
 , solicits the Mayor for 
 
 Ferryman, 141. 
 Canon, his report concerning 
 
 Ferryman, 157. 
 Homeric or Hemeri, Walter, gift of 
 
 land by, 264. 
 Heneage, Sir Thomas, Lord of the 
 
 Council, signature of, 63. 
 Hennock, near Chudleigh [Devon], 
 parish of, disputes with, 378. 
 rectory of, documents relating 
 to, 275-77. 
 
 , belonged to the Abbey of 
 
 Tor, 275. 
 
 , leased to John Southcote, 
 
 275. 
 
 , purchased by the Chamber 
 
 of Exeter, 275. 
 
 , Mayor, &c., of Exeter, pa- 
 trons of, 276. 
 -, advowson of, 421. 
 
 tenants of, to pay the tithes 
 
 into the Chamber, 276. 
 the sheaf of, 276. 
 Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles 
 
 1, at Exeter, 325. 
 
 Henry I, confirmation of a grant by, 
 280, 428. 
 
 grant by, 428. 
 
 privileges of the citizens of 
 
 Exeter in the time of, 2. 
 Henry II, grants of, 1, 396. 
 
 confirmation of grants of, 2. 
 
 confirmation of grant by, 428. 
 
 Charters of, 2, 428. 
 
 inspeximus of Charter of, 346. 
 Henry III, confirmation of grants by, 
 
 2, 3, 403. 
 
 confirmation of grants of, 3. 
 confirmation Charter of, 268. 
 inspeximus of Charter of, 346. 
 proclaimed King at Gloucester, 
 
 350. 
 
 Hooker's Annals commence with 
 first year of, 350. 
 
 Wt, 20757. 
 
 Henry IV, letters patent of, 4. 
 pardon temp., 8. 
 inspeximus of Charter of, 346. 
 buried at Canterbury, 351. 
 Henry V, letters patent of, 4. 
 
 inspeximus of Charter of, 346. 
 Confirmation Charter, copy of, 
 
 429. 
 extract from Hooker relating to 
 
 events in the first year of, 351. 
 his claim to the Crown of France, 
 
 351. 
 proposal that he should invade 
 
 Scotland and gain the Crown, 
 
 351. 
 the Dauphin of France sends an 
 
 embassy to, 352. 
 goes to France and takes Har- 
 
 fleur, 352. 
 his queen Katherine, daughter of 
 
 Charles VI of France, 359. 
 his death in Normandy, 359. 
 Henry VI, inspeximus and confirma- 
 tion of letters patent of 
 
 Henry V by, 4. 
 confirmation of grants of, 5. 
 inspeximus of Charter of, 346, 
 
 396. 
 
 Letters Patent of, 429. 
 petition to, 343. 
 born at Windsor, 359. 
 crowned at Westminster, 359. 
 crowned King of France at 
 
 Paris, 359. 
 
 marries Margaret of Anjou, 359. 
 comes to Devonshire and visits 
 
 Exeter, &c., 359. 
 Henry VII, confirmation of grants of, 
 
 5. 
 
 confirmation of grants by, 5. 
 letters of, 14. 
 petition to, 19. 
 
 letters patent granted and con- 
 firmed by, 403. 
 Henry VIII, confirmations of grants 
 
 by, 5. 
 
 Charters of, 5, 372, 430. 
 , dispute concerning, 120 
 
 128. 
 copy of Royal Charter of, 346, 
 
 347. 
 
 confirmation of Charters of, 5. 
 war declared by Francis I 
 
 against, 9. 
 letter of, 14. 
 
 his sale of monastery lands, 20. 
 printed copy of letters patent 
 
 of, 35. 
 
 statute of, recited, 194. 
 subsidy of (1514), money con- 
 tributed by Exeter towards 
 
 the, 303. 
 
 Ex 32
 
 498 
 
 Henry VIII con*. 
 
 petition of the inhabitants of 
 Exeter to, 346, 347. 
 
 a proclamation of, 430. 
 Henry ?, Charters of, 373. 
 Henry, Prince, son of James I, aid for 
 knighting, documents con- 
 cerning, 79, 402. 
 
 Hentsley or Hensley, David, legacy 
 for the poor of Exeter left by, 
 205. 
 Herbert : 
 
 Sir Edward, Attorney-General, 
 command to, 209. 
 
 Sir Henry, Master of the Revels, 
 letter of, 171. 
 
 Philip, Earl of Pembroke and 
 Montgomery, High Steward 
 and Lord Chamberlain, elec- 
 tion of, 78. 
 
 , certificate from, 190. 
 
 , invitation of, 41. 
 
 , letter of, 203. 
 
 William, 1st Earl of Pembroke, 
 vises his influence, 362, 363. | 
 
 , servants of, 362. 
 
 , receives Philip of Spain at 
 
 Southampton, and escorts 
 him to Winchester, 362. 
 -, signature of, 366. 
 
 William, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, 
 High Steward of Exeter, 
 patent of his office sent to, 
 77. 
 
 , letter of, 77. 
 
 , licence granted by, 171. 
 
 , commission read to, &c., 
 
 191, 192. 
 
 Herk, Peter, chaplain, gift of tene- 
 ment by, 264. 
 Herman, Ralph, bond of, 85. 
 
 gives 400Z. for charitable uses, 
 
 335. 
 
 Hernaman, Johan, appointed school- 
 mistress of the new school 
 and workhouse in St. Peter's 
 Churchyard, 329. 
 
 Heron or Herne, William, gift of, 411. 
 Hert (Herte) : 
 
 [Edward], Town Clerk of Exeter, 
 to deal concerning a new 
 water supply, 64. 
 
 , to receive the standard 
 
 weights, 78. 
 
 , to rent the cellar under the 
 forepart of the Guildhall, 
 318. 
 
 , acknowledges the receipt 
 of the standard weights, 371. 
 Mr., mention of, 52. 
 Mr., instructions to be followed 
 by, 72. 
 
 Hert con*. 
 
 Richard, signature of, 372. 
 Herte, the, messuage called, 19. 
 Hervye, William, Clarencieux King- 
 
 of-Arms, ratification by, 6. 
 Heth, Alice, of Exeter, widow, re- 
 versionary lease granted by, 
 291. 
 
 her gift to Grendon's Alms- 
 houses, 292. 
 Hethcot, Mr., Apothecary, death of, 
 
 223. 
 Hethman ; 
 
 John, will of, 282. 
 Roger, will of, 282. 
 Hewes, Lord of. See Teukesbury. 
 Hexham, Northumberland, lecturer 
 
 placed in, 195. 
 Heyfilde, Joan, of Exeter, will of, 
 
 415. 
 
 Hicks v. Exeter, 419, 421. 
 Hidgen's Polichronicon, fragment of 
 
 a copy of, 395. 
 an early copy of, 404. 
 Hill: 
 
 Alice, widow, of London, will 
 
 of, 319. 
 Ellize, esquire, commission to be 
 
 directed to, 324. 
 
 John, elected Recorder of Exe- 
 ter, 318. 
 
 , to make enquiry concern- 
 ing a bequest to the poor, 
 319. 
 -, to receive eight salmon 
 
 from the Exe annually, 320. 
 John, of St. Lawrence, Exeter, 
 
 will of, 415. 
 Hilliar alias Blackmore, Edward, 
 
 lease to, 200. 
 Hobart (Hubert, Hubbard, &c.), Sir 
 
 Henry, Attorney General, 
 
 the Chamber of Exeter ask 
 
 assistance of, 47. 
 Chief Justice of Common Pleas, 
 
 co-operation of, 117. 
 his opinion desired, 122. 
 Hogenberg, Remigius, map engraved 
 
 by, 105. 
 Holande, Roger, a book of St. John's 
 
 Hospital transcripts found by, 
 
 268. 
 Hole, Emanuel, contract made with, 
 
 339. 
 " Holebrok, la hetvella de," land in, 
 
 265. 
 
 Holinshead, Hooker probably bor- 
 rows from, 350. 
 his Irish Chronicles, 353. 
 Holl, Charles, cobbler, deposition by, 
 
 68. 
 Holland, Earl of. See Rich.
 
 499 
 
 Holland, army that came with Wil- i 
 
 liam III from, '220. 
 sick soldiers discharged to, 223. 
 sick soldiers in the Prince of 
 
 Orange's army from, 224. 
 Holman, James, letter of, 253. 
 
 receipt of, 253. 
 Holne, 268. 
 
 Honiton [Devon], 55, 178. 
 letters dated at, 46, 255. 
 stage for Post, 65. 
 the Duke of Gloucester met at, 
 
 253. 
 
 unrest in, 256. 
 corn to be sent to the market in, 
 
 256. 
 road, murder committed on the, 
 
 395. 
 
 Honiton Meads, in the parish of Ex- 
 minster, 28. 
 Hood: 
 
 the Hon. Henry, the freedom of 
 the City of Exeter to be pre- 
 sented to, 253. 
 
 Samuel Baron, of Catherington, 
 speech on presenting the 
 freedom of Exeter to, 252. 
 Hooker or Hoker alias Vowell : 
 
 John, the first Chamberlain of 
 Exeter, declaration of, 40. 
 
 , letter to, 51. 
 
 , money received from, 52. 
 
 , coroner, inquisitions be- 
 fore, 58, 59, 60. 
 
 , timber sold to, 272. 
 
 -, to receive the Earls of 
 
 Essex and Huntingdon and 
 
 Sir Francis Knolles, 317. 
 , to go to Sir Robert Denys, 
 
 317. 
 
 , deceased, 320. 
 , Common-place Book of, 
 
 340. 
 
 , his Annals, 340. 
 
 , his dissertation upon the 
 
 Haven and River Exe, 343. 
 , his Lives of the Bishops of 
 
 Exeter, 345. 
 
 , passage in, quoted, 347. 
 
 , abstract of ordinances 
 
 collected by, 348. 
 , his pamphlet of the Offices 
 
 and Duties of every sworn 
 
 Officer of the City of Exeter, 
 
 348-49. 
 , calendar of custom free 
 
 places collected by, 349. 
 
 , his Annals of the City with 
 
 Extracts from the Mayor's 
 
 Court Rolls, 349-50. 
 , probably borrows from 
 
 Holinshead and the Bout, 350. 
 
 Hooker or Hoker alias Vowell, John 
 cont. 
 , his enumeration of 
 
 Sovereigns, and the Mayors 
 
 and civic officers of Exeter, 
 
 351. 
 , his interest in public 
 
 events, 351. 
 , his " Prefatory Epistle " 
 
 to the Mayor, Senators and 
 
 Commonalty of Exeter, 351. 
 , his appointment as Cham- 
 berlain of Exeter, 354. 
 
 , date of his death, 354. 
 
 , arms and motto of, 354. 
 
 , Izacke's reference to, 355. 
 
 , observations and collec 
 
 tions taken out of his book, 
 
 357. 
 , events in The Freeman's 
 
 Book copied from, 358. 
 , his account of Henry 
 
 VI's coming to Exeter, 
 
 359. 
 , his " Charter Book," 
 
 volume which might be called, 
 
 371. 
 , description of Exeter by, 
 
 371. 
 
 , signature of, 372. 
 
 , a memorandum or Waste 
 
 Book of, 374. 
 , Bailiff of Exilond, attaches 
 
 the inventory of Geffrey's 
 
 goods, 374. 
 
 , gives copies of his pam- 
 phlets for New Year gifts, 
 
 375. 
 , delivers over the custody 
 
 of the City's ordnance, 375. 
 
 , money owing to, 375. 
 
 , account of tenths and 
 
 fifteenths received by, 376. 
 , appointed Judge of the 
 
 Admiralty in the County of 
 
 Devon, 376. 
 
 , builds a ship, 376. 
 
 , his record of the Admiralty 
 
 Court, 376. 
 , M.P. for Exeter, his 
 
 Journal of the Parliament of 
 
 1571, 377. 
 -, his Order of keeping of a 
 
 Parliament, 377. 
 , his History of tfie Manor 
 
 of Exilond, 377. 
 , his book of accounts as 
 
 Bailiff of Exilond, St. John's 
 
 and St. Nicholas, 379. 
 , description of the City 
 
 made, collected and done by, 
 
 367-68.
 
 500 
 
 Hooker or Hoker alias Vbwell, John 
 con/. 
 
 his account for money 
 
 received and paid at London 
 in the suit of the Corporation, 
 380. 
 
 , his account of the salmon 
 
 taken in the Exe within the 
 manor of Exilond, 381. 
 
 , his account of the money 
 
 received and paid for grain 
 bought at Plymouth, 381. 
 
 , matters contained in his 
 
 MS., 390. 
 
 , uses the Mayor's Court 
 
 Rolls in compiling his Annals, 
 407. 
 
 , notes by, 431, 433. 
 
 , handwriting of, 49, 309, 
 
 313, 360, 402, 414, 427, 429, 
 430, 433. 
 Robert, father of John Hoker 
 
 the Chamberlain, will of, 361. 
 Roger, money owed to John 
 
 Hoker by, 375. 
 Hooper, Wilmotte, enquiry into the 
 
 death of, 62. 
 Horabin, Henry, witness of a quarrel, 
 
 60. 
 Horauncke, Mr., of the Exchequer, 
 
 payment to, 25. 
 Hore, Bartholomew, signature of, 
 
 145. 
 Homer, Lawrence, Tonsor of Exeter 
 
 College, 102. 
 Horse meat, regulation of rates and 
 
 prices of, 206. 
 Horses, breeding and exporting of, 
 
 43. 
 
 bill concerning, 52. 
 Horwoode, William, of Exeter, will 
 
 of, 415. 
 Howard : 
 
 Charles Lord, of Effingham, Earl 
 of Nottingham, Lord High 
 Admiral, &c. request of, 75. 
 
 , letters of, 75, 88. 
 
 , licences to beg signed by, 
 
 293. 
 
 , letter to be sent to, 313. 
 -, victualling required by, 
 
 64. 
 
 , signature of, 66. 
 
 Henry, Earl of Northampton, 
 High Steward of Exeter, Lord 
 Privy Seal, signature of, 74, 
 90. 
 
 , letter of, 76. 
 
 -, letter to, 90. 
 
 Thomas, Earl of Suffolk, Trea- 
 surer, made High Steward of 
 Exeter, 76, 99. 
 
 Howard, Thomas, Earl of Suffolk 
 cont. 
 
 , letter to, 77. 
 
 , his non-attendance at the 
 
 Council Board, 77. 
 Thomas, Viscount Howard of 
 
 Bindon, letters of, 55. 
 William, Lord, of Effingham, 
 Lord Admiral, letter of, 35. 
 -, help to be sent to, 36, 
 
 37. 
 
 -, secretary of, money paid 
 
 to, 363. 
 Howell : 
 
 Elizabeth, widow, keeper of 
 
 Exeter Gaol, bond of, 292. 
 John, sometime Alderman and 
 
 Mayor of Exeter, his offer and 
 
 gift to the City, 16. 
 , desires to procure a mint 
 
 for the City, 16, 320. 
 -, letter of, 87. 
 
 John, unseemly behaviour of, 
 
 308. 
 Robert ap, Rector of St. Mary's 
 
 Steps, 71. 
 
 Mr., letters for, 312. 
 Hubert, Lord Chief Justice. See 
 
 Hobart. 
 Hugheton, Isabella de, 165. 
 
 claim to recover property from, 
 
 405. 
 
 Hull [Yorks], note of the ships of not 
 less than 100 tons burthen be- 
 longing to, 187. 
 petition to be sent from, 244. 
 Hull, John, letter to, 22. 
 Hullett and others v. Fitzwater Foy, 
 
 Esq., case of, 235. 
 Hullond, Mr., property of, 27. 
 Humphrey, Robert, Deputy Auditor, 
 
 certificate of, 223. 
 directed to examine the account 
 
 from Exeter, 220, 221. 
 Hundaller, William, a charter ob- 
 tained for, 306. 
 Hundred Rolls (temp. Edw. I), 
 
 428. 
 extracts from, as to the liberties 
 
 of Exeter, 344. 
 Hungary, Queen of, Maria Theresa, 
 
 necessity of supporting, 245. 
 Hunsden. See Carey. 
 Hunte : 
 
 John, payment to, 34. 
 Robert, letter to, 25. 
 Hunter, William, letter of, 16. 
 
 letter to, 17. 
 
 Huntingdon, Earl of. See Hastings. 
 Huntingdon, John, chaplain to the 
 Earl of Bedford, recom- 
 mended, 42.
 
 50 1 
 
 Hurste : 
 
 John, bequest for the poor of 
 
 Exeter, 307, 411. 
 
 , copy of the will of, 362. 
 
 William, sometime Mayor arid 
 
 M.P. for Exeter, note of the 
 
 expenses of, 25. 
 , property purchased and 
 
 sold by, 291. 
 
 , grant by, 292. 
 
 , almshouses founded by, 
 
 323, 356. 
 
 , gift of, 411. 
 
 v. the City of London, 342. 
 
 Mr., minister of God's Word at 
 
 Plymouth, 325. 
 Hussey : 
 
 Luce, of St. Lawrence, Exeter, 
 
 will of, 415. 
 
 Richard, carpenter, lease to, 29. 
 Hutch, the King's, 304. 
 Hutehins, John, of Exeter, will of, 
 
 414. 
 
 Hutton, Sir Richard, Justice of Com- 
 mon Pleas, note by, 82. 
 letter of, 82. 
 his opinion desired, 122. 
 Huyske or Huike, Thomas, letter of, 
 
 49. 
 
 Hyde, Sir Edward, Chancellor of the 
 Exchequer, dinner in Exeter 
 to, 325. 
 Hylle, Richard, Prior of St. John's 
 
 Hospital, 268. 
 
 Hynde, Mr., King's Serjeant, fees to, 
 &c., 91. 
 
 Impressed men, documents concern- 
 ing, 249-50. 
 
 Ingram, Arthur, Controller of the 
 Customs of London, business 
 to be transacted at the house 
 of, 74. 
 
 Inquests, 57-62. 
 
 Inquisitions, 343, 355, 385. 
 
 Insolvent Debtors' Act, 419. 
 Court for relief of, 420. 
 
 Instowe [Devon], land of Copleston 
 of, 104. 
 
 Interludes, players of, proposed Bill 
 
 to suppress, 172, 173. 
 Acts of Parliament made to pre- 
 vent, 173. 
 
 Ipswich [Suffolk], news from, 233. 
 
 note of ships of not less than 100 
 tons burthen belonging to, 
 187. 
 Ireland, John Atwill sent to, 19. 
 
 oaths to qualify residents in 
 Great Britain to continue 
 their places in, 234. 
 
 woollen trade with, 243. 
 
 wars in (1590), 370. 
 
 monies advanced for the reduc- 
 ing of (1653), 328. 
 
 the Chamber of Exeter's lands 
 in, 329, 330, 334, 335, 336, 
 423. 
 
 Irish cloth, letters relating to, 243- 
 45. 
 
 lands, monies adventured for, 
 328. 
 
 Party, History of the, order to 
 make out, 378. 
 
 estates, purchase and sale of the, 
 
 423. 
 
 Isaake v. Coffin, 419. 
 Isacke, Izacke, &c. : 
 
 Nicholas, feoffment to, 293. 
 
 Richard, Chamberlain of Exe- 
 ter, takes charters to London, 
 2, 334, 335. 
 
 , bond of, 104. 
 
 , Act Books of the Chamber 
 
 indexed by, 302. 
 
 , Index Rerum made by, 
 
 308, 313. 
 
 , his receipt for the Charters 
 
 (specified) to be conveyed to 
 and returned from London 
 by him, 335. 
 
 , Letter of Attorney to be 
 
 written to, 335. 
 
 , comparisons of his me- 
 morials with Hooker's, 350. 
 -, his Memorials of the City 
 
 of Exeter, 354-56. 
 
 , , extracts found in, 407. 
 
 -, dedication to, and 
 
 description of its frontispiece, 
 355. 
 
 , allusion to his account of 
 Henry VI's visit to Exeter, 
 359. 
 -, surveys of the City's 
 
 Estates made by, 380, 424. 
 
 Samuel, father of the historian. 
 Town Clerk of Exeter, docu- 
 ment addressed to, 157. 
 
 , testimony by, 159. 
 
 , signature of, 172. 
 
 , endorsement by, 183. 
 
 , and some Aldermen sum- 
 moned to appear before the 
 Committee, 188.
 
 502 
 
 Isacke, Samuel, Town Clerk of 
 Exeter cont. 
 
 notes in the handwriting 
 
 of 
 
 189, 340. 
 instruction to, 197. 
 in office for more 
 
 than 
 
 fo ty years, 226. 
 
 money conferred on, 332. 
 Hooker's Manuscript 
 Book produced by, 341. 
 
 -, surveys of the City's 
 
 Estates made by, 380. 
 Samuel, Chamberlain of Exeter, 
 son of the historian Richard, 
 32. 
 
 , bond of, &c., 104. 
 
 , authorisation to, 249. 
 
 ? Richard or Samuel, transla- 
 tions printed by, 343. 
 
 , handwriting of, 428. 
 
 , copy examined by, 430. 
 
 Thomas, appointment of, 75. 
 Iscanus, Bartholomew, Bishop of 
 Exeter, his " contempt and 
 disobedience against the 
 King," 346. 
 
 Istalworth [Middlesex], 371. 
 lyie (Ivy), John, ex-mayor of Salis- 
 bury, letter of, 176. 
 
 Jackson : 
 
 Gregory, letters to, 199, 267. 
 
 William, letter of, 233. 
 Jacobsonn, Jacob, a Flemish tailor, 
 and his little daughter, sole 
 aliens in Dartmouth, 116. 
 Jamaica, trade with, imperilled, 242. 
 James I, letters of, 16, 86, 169. 
 
 allusion to letter of, 166. 
 
 re-assumes dormant warrant, 11. 
 
 private wishes of, 17. 
 
 grants petition of the Bishop of 
 Exeter, 17. 
 
 complaint of the Grocer of, 40. 
 
 petitioned by the Dean and 
 Chapter of Exeter, 47. 
 
 proclamation of, at Exeter, 73. 
 
 suit to, 73. 
 
 grants from, 74, 75, 90. 
 
 petitions to, 80, 114, 132. 
 
 speeches uttered against, 84. 
 
 money to be lent to, 85. 
 
 James I cont. 
 
 aid for the marriage of his 
 daughter Elizabeth, 90. 
 
 allusion to Treaty of, &c., 106-7. 
 
 present at Council meeting, 109. 
 
 subsidy given by Parliament to, 
 111, 112. 
 
 at Newmarket, 111,112. 
 
 proposed petition from Exeter 
 to, 112, 115, 117, 118, 121, 
 122, 123, 125. 
 
 dangerous words against, 113. 
 
 relations between Parliament 
 and, 113. 
 
 copy of his answer to the peti- 
 tion from Parliament to be 
 sent to Exeter, 114. 
 
 at Whitehall, 114. 
 
 proposed petition from the 
 citizens of Lichfield to, 118. 
 
 to return to London, 119. 
 
 proposed petition from the 
 Bishop of Exeter to, 119, 120. 
 
 in favour of the Bishop's suit, 
 120, 123. 
 
 his power limited by the Charter, 
 123. 
 
 his favour to be solicited for the 
 petition from Exeter, 126. 
 
 petition from Exeter to be pre- 
 sented to the Council or, 127. 
 
 orders warrant for the Commis- 
 sion to the Bishop of Exeter, 
 127. 
 
 his will to grant the Commission 
 to the Bishop of Exeter, 128. 
 
 to return to Whitehall, 128. 
 
 to go in progress to Farnham, 
 128. 
 
 makes two new Privy Council- 
 lors, 129. 
 
 his arrival and departure from 
 London, 129. 
 
 petition from Exeter presented 
 to, 131. 
 
 at Hampton Court, 131. 
 
 at Whitehall, 131. 
 
 at Windsor, 131. 
 
 allusion to his gracious speech 
 and general pardon, 138. 
 
 letter to, 142. 
 
 commission of, to the Master of 
 the Revels, alluded to, 171. 
 
 receipt of a gift from Exeter to, 
 323. 
 
 pardon by, 431. 
 James II, revokes his royal letters, 
 
 18. 
 
 Jaquinto, Fabricio, bond for appear- 
 ance of, 115. 
 
 Jarman, Richard, of Holy Trinity, 
 Exeter, will of, 416.
 
 03 
 
 Jetfery, Mr., 231. 
 Jeffery and Cobley, 425. 
 Jefford, James, recommended for the 
 vacancy of alderman by 
 James II, 18. 
 Jenkins, a constable, note of the 
 
 complaints of, 236. 
 Jenkinson, James, his accounts for 
 the sick soldiers at Exeter, 
 224. 
 Jennings, Mr., plot of ground to be 
 
 granted to, 338. 
 Jermyn. See Germyn. 
 Jesse, William, of Exeter, will of, 415. 
 Jesuit or other Roman priest, access 
 
 to forbidden, 39. 
 
 Jesuits, priests and recusants, peti- 
 tion against, presented to 
 James I, 114. 
 
 documents concerning, 109-11. 
 Jewell : 
 
 Roger, of All Hallows on the 
 
 Walls, Exeter, will of, 416. 
 William, Captain, sends warrant, 
 
 12. 
 
 Jewne, Humphrey, Letter of Attor- 
 ney to, 291. 
 
 John, as Earl of Mortain, grant of, 2. 
 as Prince, grant by, 396. 
 King, confirmation of grauc 
 by, 2. 
 
 , confirmation of grant of, 
 
 2. 
 
 , inspeximus of Charter of, 
 
 346. 
 
 , his death at Newark and 
 
 burial at Worcester, 350. 
 -, Izacke's Memorials begin 
 
 with the reign of, 355. 
 Johnson, Benjamin, deputed by the 
 
 Chamber to receive money 
 
 due to it, 166. 
 Jones : 
 
 James, member of a Company 
 
 of Players, 171. 
 John, cordwainer, deposition of, 
 
 &c., 60, 61. 
 Pitman, signature of, 14. 
 
 , note by, 377. 
 
 Jonys, John, of Exeter, lease to, 289. 
 Jordan (Jordayne, Jurdayne, &c.) : 
 Elizabeth, legacy left by, 159. 
 , agreement between the 
 
 Mayor, &c., of Exeter and the 
 
 trustees of, 160. 
 George, legacy left by, 159. 
 Ignatius, sometime Alderman 
 
 and M.P. for Exeter, accused 
 
 of infringing the Bishop's 
 
 privileges, 48. 
 
 , letters to, 78, 177. 
 
 , letters of, 110, 112. 
 
 Jordan, Ignatius- cont. 
 
 , signature of, 150, 151. 
 
 , Parliament in which he 
 
 sat, 184. 
 
 , his claim for his Parlia- 
 mentary wage, 188, 189. 
 
 , charged with contempt, 
 
 206 
 
 , gifts to be presented by, 
 321. 
 
 John, of Exeter, will of, 416. 
 Thomas, weaver, lease to, 290. 
 Josias the Keeper of the Great Clock 
 at the Great Church, payment 
 C to, 326. 
 
 Jo vis, document dated at, 188. 
 Joyner, Leonard, warrant to, 110. 
 Juel, Jewel, John, letter of, 39. 
 Jugge, Richard, printer to the Queen, 
 
 43. 
 
 Justices of Assize, Acts produced be- 
 fore, 53. 
 petition to, 81. 
 reference to, 82. 
 proposed petition to refer suit 
 
 to, 116, 118. 
 
 information to be sent to, 117. 
 allusion to opinion of, 135. 
 dine with the Mayor of Exeter, 
 
 322. 
 
 pleas at Exeter before, 393. 
 Jutsum, case re, 421. 
 
 K 
 
 Keate, George, of London, gift of, 
 433, 
 
 Kedwellye, Borough of, Charter of 
 the, 433. 
 
 Keeper, Lord. See Williams. 
 
 Kellend, Mr., trustees of, 338. 
 
 Kelly, John, will of, 44. 
 
 Kelwaye (Keylwey, &c.), Robert, 
 Surveyor of the Court of 
 Wards and Liveries, deeds of 
 sale to, 22, 23. 
 true copy of gift by, 23. 
 
 Kemp, John, Archbishop of York, 
 executor of Cardinal Beaufort, 
 petition to, 390, 
 
 Ken, John le, and Sarra his wife, 
 grant by, 388. 
 
 Kennaway, William, property con- 
 veyed to, 279.
 
 504 
 
 Kenne [Somerset], manor of, Court 
 
 Rolls of, 396. 
 Kenneday's Company of Players, 
 
 173. 
 Kennick, John, his death sentence 
 
 commuted, 237. 
 Kensington, Court at, order issued 
 
 from, 74. 
 
 letter dated at, 247. 
 Kent, 124. 
 
 soldiers to be billeted in, 183. 
 coast of, 235. 
 Kenton [Devon], ship to be supplied 
 
 by, 8. 
 included in the Port of Exeter, 
 
 29. 
 
 complaint about foreign in- 
 habitants in, 68. 
 Charters of, 372, 374. 
 vessels from, 375. 
 Bailiffs and Commonalty of, 
 
 writ to (1347), 8. 
 
 Kepple, Frederick, Bishop of Exeter, 
 
 made freeman of Exeter, 371. 
 
 Kerison, Samuel, founder, of London, 
 
 receipt from, 79. 
 Kerslake, Walter, loan to, 332. 1 
 King, the, v. St. SidweU's (1756), 419. 
 v. Stokes (1768), 419. 
 v. Henry Lee, Town Clerk (1787), 
 
 420. 
 v. Christie, Surgeon of Dragoons 
 
 (1788), 420. 
 
 v. City of Exeter (1810-11), 420. 
 v. Mayor of Exeter (? 1825), 421. 
 v. Exeter (1828), 420. 
 v. Mayor, &c., of Exeter (1829), 
 
 420. 
 
 [sic] v. Exeter (1844), 420. 
 King: 
 
 John, extracts from the will of, 
 
 225. 
 John, of Ockham, M.P. for 
 
 Exeter, in London, 243. 
 [Sir Peter], Chief Justice, to be 
 invited to the opening of the 
 Port, 32. 
 Kingdom, defence of, money to be 
 
 raised for, 85. 
 Kingsbridge [Devon], letter dated at, 
 
 210. 
 ancient agreement between the 
 
 Abbot of Buckfast and, 209. 
 Kingston, John, deputed by the 
 Chamber to receive money 
 due to it, 166. 
 Kingswear (Kynswere) [Devon], 
 
 vessels from, 375. 
 
 Kington [Somerset], Charter referr- 
 ing to advowson of, 346. 
 Kington, Mr., an Attorney at Dor- 
 chester, 235. 
 
 Kirk In m i v. Knightley, 419. 
 
 Kneller, James, member of a Com- 
 pany of Players, 171. 
 
 Knightley, Sir Valentine, of Fawsley, 
 Northants, 93. 
 
 Knolles, Sir Francis, to come to 
 Exeter, 317. 
 
 Knollys, [Sir] W., signature of, 74. 
 
 Knott, Thomas, sent to attend a 
 conference in London, 86n. 
 
 Knowles, Mr., referred to as a wit- 
 ness, 95. 
 
 Kyes or Keys, Roger, Treasurer of 
 the Cathedral, engaged in the 
 dispute with Bishop Lacy, 
 286. 
 
 Labourers, field, wages of. See 
 
 Wages. 
 Lacy: 
 
 Edmund, Bishop of Exeter, bond 
 
 from the Chapter of Exeter 
 
 and, 285. 
 , his dispute with the City, 
 
 285, 286. 
 , seals of the Chapter and, 
 
 286. 
 
 , bond of, 286. 
 
 , indenture between the 
 
 Mayor, &c., of Exeter and, 
 
 360. 
 -, and the Church of Exeter, 
 
 Charter of, 372. 
 Mrs. E., letters of, 258. 
 Ladubed, Baialandus, grant by, 269. 
 Lake, Peter, Counsellor of Exeter, 
 
 abusive language of, 308. 
 Lambartt, Thomas, of Exeter, will 
 
 of, 414. 
 Lambe : 
 
 [Sir John], commission of, 116. 
 Mr., money paid to, 130. 
 Lambert, Thomas, of Exeter, will of, 
 
 414. 
 
 Lamplugh, Thomas, Bishop of Exe- 
 ter, consecration of, 355. 
 mention of, 356. 
 Lancaster, Duchy of, liberty of the, 
 
 342. 
 
 Charter of the, 342. 
 statutory freedom of the tenants 
 inhabitants within the, 349.
 
 505 
 
 Landry, Thomas, grant by, 396. 
 
 Laud's End, 89. 
 
 Lands for charitable uses, enquiry 
 
 concerning, 12. 
 
 Land Tax, the, collection of, 236. 
 documents concerning, 254-55. 
 Commissioners, 254, 255. 
 
 , bill for rectifying mistakes 
 
 in the names of, 234. 
 -, Acts of Parliament for 
 
 appointing, 254. 
 Rates, copies of, 255, 379. 
 
 , redeemed in the City of 
 
 Exeter, 379. 
 
 Land Tenure, customs as to, docu- 
 ments relating to, 162-65. 
 
 Lanlranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, 
 attestation by, 280. 
 
 Lange, Henry, book of deeds for- 
 merly belonging to, 268. 
 
 Language, bad, complaints of, 236. 
 
 Langworthie, George, bond of, 85. 
 
 Lant's Charity, accounts of, 425. 
 
 Lapp, William, of St. George, Exeter, 
 will of, 416. 
 
 Larkbeare (Leverkebeare), Adam de, 
 gift of land by, 264. 
 
 Larkbeare, payment for work at, 207. 
 
 La Rochelle, Relief of, letter con- 
 cerning, 178-80. 
 
 Las Navas, Marquis of, entertained at 
 Exeter, 15. 
 
 Latimer, Hugh, Bishop of Worcester, 
 his preaching in Exeter, 350. 
 
 Laud, William, Bishop of London, 
 illness of, 191. 
 
 Launceston [Cornwall], priory of, 
 purchase of lands lately be- 
 longing to, 20, 271, 291, 411. 
 Prior of, dispute with (1499), 
 286. 
 
 Lawdye, Sir Richard, gives 100?. for 
 charitable uses, 334. 
 
 Lawnie, du, person of name of, 
 vexations occasioned by, 193. 
 
 Lawyers, wealth of, 85. 
 
 Leach : 
 
 George, clothier, appointment 
 
 of, 75. 
 
 Simon, contract with, 67. 
 Canon, lecturer at St. Peter's, 
 
 gifts to, 321, 322. 
 Mr., remembrances to, 112. 
 
 Leather, bonds of sellers of, 423. 
 
 searchers of, appointed within 
 
 the City of Exeter, 316. 
 searchers and sealers of, 227. 
 
 Lechlade, Walter de, murder of, 
 267. 
 
 Lee, Richard, report of, 220. 
 
 Leeds [Yorks], how it might profit 
 by trade with Guinea, 243. 
 
 Legge, Henry Bilson, Chancellor of 
 the Exchequer, is upbraided, 
 251. 
 to receive the freedom of the 
 
 City of Exeter, 251. 
 Leghorn, Exeter's commerce with, 
 
 231. 
 Leicester, bills brought into the 
 
 Parliament held at, 351. 
 Corporation of, claims a share 
 of Sir Thomas White's estate, 
 232. 
 Leigh : 
 
 Edward, attestation of, 220. 
 Humphrey, Chamberlain of 
 Exeter, solicitor to the Cham- 
 ber, 104. 
 
 : , petitions to prosecute in 
 the name of, 54. 
 
 , letter of, 225. 
 
 -, brother of, 225. 
 
 William, letter of, 177. 
 Lemon, Sir William, receives the 
 freedom of the City of Exeter, 
 251. 
 
 Lenne (?), Richard de, 359. 
 Lent, observance of, orders concern- 
 ing, 89-90, 318. 
 Lethbridge : 
 
 Christopher, bequests of, 162, 
 277. 
 
 , purchase by, 255, 277. 
 
 , charity of, papers con- 
 cerning, 277, 378, 425. 
 
 -, accounts of, 379. 
 
 John, merchant, bequest of, 
 
 162. 
 Letters and Papers, seven volumes 
 
 of, 376. 
 Levennore : 
 
 John, sometime Mayor of 
 
 Exeter, 104. 
 
 , letters of, 108. 
 
 John, asks Mrs. Flaye for a Bill 
 
 of Exchange, 275. 
 Mr., instructions to, 80. 
 Mrs., suit between a person 
 
 named Trosse and, 63. 
 Lewis (Lewys) : 
 
 Geoffrey, merchant of Exeter, 
 
 Mayor of Exeter and some- 
 time Warden of the Magdalen, 
 
 210. 
 
 , accounts of, &c., 263, 398. 
 
 , his answer to complaints 
 
 against him, 398. 
 John, Prior of St. Nicholas, 271, 
 
 396. 
 Matthew, to be appointed to the 
 
 parish church of St. Edmund 
 
 upon Exbridge, 210. 
 Richard, letter of, 255.
 
 506 
 
 Ley : 
 
 Henry, Town Clerk of Exeter, 
 letters to, 251, 253, 273. 
 
 , vote of thanks to, 225. 
 
 James, Earl of Marlborough, 
 Lord High Treasurer, orders 
 to, 176, 180, 181. 
 , order from, 11. 
 
 Liberties of England, Keepers of 
 (1650), decree from, 206. 
 
 Lichfield, Chancellor of (1622), com- 
 mission for, to be a Justice, 
 118. 
 
 citizens of, their suit to the 
 Lord Keeper, 118. 
 
 , their intention to petition 
 
 the King, 118. 
 
 Lighterage and cranage, scale of pay- 
 ments for goods brought to 
 Exeter Key, 336. 
 
 Lighthouse and other dues, receipts 
 for, 237. 
 
 Lillapita (? Luppitt), Auger, Hugh 
 son of, land given by, 264. 
 
 " Limedrye " [Devon], part of the 
 Duchy of Lancaster, Letters 
 Patent for the inhabitants of, 
 342. 
 
 Lindridge, Fra., signature of, 20. 
 
 Lindsey, Earl of. See Bertie. 
 
 Linen manufacture of Scotland, bill 
 to encourage, 244. 
 
 Lippencott, Francis, an order con- 
 cerning, 209. 
 
 Lisieux (Lexov.), Arnold, Bishop of, 
 witness, 2. 
 
 Littleham (? Exmouth), manor of, 
 composition concerning the 
 respective rights of the Mayor 
 and Commonalty of Exeter 
 and the Abbot and Convent 
 of Sherborne, 386. 
 
 Liveries, Statute of, pardon for 
 offences against, 9. 
 
 Livermore, Mr., Bishop Hall's appeal 
 on behalf of, 26. 
 
 Liverpool (Leverpole), traders from, 
 240. 
 
 Loan, forced, of 1627, commission for, 
 
 11. 
 alluded to, 85. 
 
 Loans, documents concerning, 84- 
 85. 
 
 Lodeswill, Henry de, ordinations of, 
 396-97. 
 
 London, Stephen de, citizen of 
 Exeter, grant to, 387. 
 
 London, 63, 66, 142, 191, 232. 
 letters from, 85. 
 
 letters and documents dated at, 
 1, 3, 20, 25, 29, 34, 41, 43, 49, 
 51, 52, 64, 65, 73, 75, 76, 77, 
 
 London, letters and documents dated 
 at cont. 
 
 84, 86, 88, 90, 108, 110, 112, 
 
 114, 115, 117, 131, 132, 137, 
 
 166, 190, 218, 221, 228, 230, 
 
 231, 233, 244, 246, 248, 257. 
 custom of, 2, 163. 
 Exeter Charters sent to, and duly 
 
 returned, 2, 334, 335. 
 note of expenses in, 25. 
 the prisage wine in, 33. 
 cited as example, 53. 
 Post from, to Plymouth, 64, 65, 
 
 66. 
 
 John Aclande busy in, 67. 
 rates and orders procured from, 
 
 87. 
 Chancellor of Exeter goes to, 
 
 118. 
 
 William Prows in, 129, 130. 
 J. Chappel comes to, 137. 
 note of ships not less than 100 
 
 tons burthen belonging to, 
 
 187. 
 
 prices of wines sold in, 194, 195. 
 petition and letters to be sent 
 
 by express to, 212. 
 sick soldiers discharged to, 223. 
 alderman and Town Clerk of 
 
 Exeter in, 225. 
 John Risebrow in, 233. 
 Court of Conscience in, mention 
 
 of, 234. 
 duty paid by ship bound for, 
 
 237. 
 
 traders from, 240. 
 how it might profit by trade with 
 
 Guinea, 242. 
 its method of presenting the 
 
 freedom of the City, 251. 
 return on the Exeter enquiry 
 
 sent to, 260. 
 
 rates for wools, &c. in, 288. 
 Gilda mercatoria cum Hansa in, 
 
 mention of, 288. 
 connection of Exeter with, 
 
 documents relating to, 288. 
 payment for journey to, 302. 
 pestilence in (1563), 310. 
 chimney sweep from, desired for 
 
 Exeter, 328. 
 
 broadside printed at, 341. 
 liberties and suits in law be- 
 tween Exeter and, 346. 
 the great fire of, 357. 
 fire in London and suburbs 
 
 (1676), 357. 
 expenses for conducting some 
 
 Exeter affairs in, 362. 
 Mary proclaimed Queen in, 
 
 366. 
 vessels from, 375.
 
 607 
 
 London cont. 
 
 goods brought to Exeter from, 
 
 426. 
 
 City of, Charter of (1563), 345, 
 346. 
 
 , (1578), 342. 
 
 , , , contemporary 
 
 copy of, 404. 
 
 (1675), 
 
 copy of, 
 433. 
 -, abstract of privileges con- 
 
 tained in other Charters of, 
 342. 
 
 freemen of, 422, 423. 
 Mercers Company in, place 
 two lecturers in Northumber- 
 land, 195. 
 
 merchants of, charter desired 
 by, 89. 
 
 , summoned to appear 
 
 before the House of Lords, 
 138. 
 Bishop of. See Grindal ; and 
 
 Laud. 
 
 Chamberlains of (1566), messen- 
 ger sent to, 52. 
 
 Mayor or Lord Mayor of (temp. 
 Eliz.), printed order of, 69. 
 
 , Peter Proby, letter of, 
 
 114. 
 
 (1629), letter to, 65. 
 
 , Sir Rich. Gurney, kt., 
 
 money to be paid to, 85. 
 Mayor and citizens of, guild held 
 
 by, 288. 
 
 Mayor and Sheriffs of, their 
 claim to have the custom and 
 scavage of the inhabitants of 
 Exeter, 342, 360, 403. 
 Recorder of (1622), 127. 
 Vintner of, authority of, 75. 
 Streets, buildings, &c., in : 
 Admiralty, the, letter dated 
 
 at, 250. 
 
 Aldersgate Street, 116. 
 Bell Yard, letter dated at, 
 
 250. 
 
 Blackwell Hall, stalls for 
 foreigners in, 34. 
 
 , copy for the rate of, 
 
 362. 
 
 Bread Street, 342. 
 Bruton Street, letter dated 
 
 at, 252. 
 Chancery Lane, letter dated 
 
 at, 188. 
 
 Charter House or Sutton's 
 Hospital, King James' 
 Hospital in, letter dated 
 at, 97. 
 
 the Cocoa Tree, 250. 
 Exchange, 230. 
 
 London, Streets, buildings, &c. in 
 cont. 
 
 Exchequer, the, Exeter 
 
 ordered to pay its arrears 
 
 of Poll money into, 212. 
 Exchequer Chamber, 53. 
 
 , letter dated at, 86. 
 
 Guildhall, certificate dated 
 
 at, 328. 
 , standard measure 
 
 kept in, 194. 
 , money to be paid to 
 
 the Treasurers of War at, 
 
 211. 
 Hawkers' Office, letter 
 
 dated at, 70. 
 Heralds' College, duplicate 
 
 of Hooker's " Order of 
 
 keeping of a Parliament " 
 
 in, 377. 
 Inner Temple, letter dated 
 
 at, 50. 
 
 King's Bench, 419. 
 King's Head, 91, 92. 
 in the Old Bailey, 
 
 papers printed at, 211. 
 Leaden Hall, the King's 
 
 beani in, 288. 
 Lincoln's Inn, letter dated 
 
 at, 132. 
 Lincoln's Inn Fields, letter 
 
 dated at, 251. 
 Lyons Inn, 234. 
 Mark Lane, 74. 
 Marshalsea Prison, relief of 
 
 the poor prisoners in, 
 
 68. 
 Merchant Taylor's Hall, 
 
 232. 
 Pall Mall, letter dated at, 
 
 254. 
 Queen's Bench Prison, 
 
 relief of the poor prisoners 
 
 in, 68. 
 Russell Court, the Sun in, 
 
 233. 
 Savoy, the, letter dated at, 
 
 49. 
 Somerset House, the Court 
 
 at, letter dated at, 63. 
 Star Chamber, documents 
 
 dated at, 89, 194. 
 St. Giles Fields, Sir John 
 
 Oldcastle burned in, 352. 
 St. James's, documents 
 
 dated at, 237, 238. 
 St. Martin's Lane, Sir 
 
 George Calvert's house 
 
 in, 125. 
 
 St. Paul's Cathedral, collec- 
 tion for the restoration 
 
 of (1633), 12, 432.
 
 608 
 
 London, Streets, buildings, &c. in 
 cont. 
 
 St. Paul's Churchyard, pro- 
 clamation printed at, 43. 
 
 Strand, Exeter House, let- 
 ter dated at, 75. 
 
 , Newcastle Street, 
 
 letter dated at, 234. 
 
 Taxes, Office for, letters 
 dated at, 254, 258. 
 
 Tower of, 363. 
 
 , charter dated at, 341. 
 
 , traitors and rebels in, 
 
 367. 
 
 Tower Hill, letter dated at, 
 103. 
 
 Trinity House, 237. 
 
 Trinity Priory, part of the 
 fee farm of Exeter paid 
 to, 4. 
 
 Wallingford House, letter 
 dated at, 78. 
 
 War Office, letters dated at, 
 249, 250, 257. 
 
 Westminster, letters and 
 documents dated at, 2, 
 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 15, 24, 27, 
 41, 82, 83, 97, 113, 138, 
 166, 364. 
 
 , Council at, 8. 
 
 , the Burgesses for 
 
 Exeter to return from, 
 22. 
 
 , Parliament at, 50, 189, 
 
 227, 352. 
 
 , Queen Anne buried 
 
 at, 233. 
 
 , the Staple at, 288. 
 
 -, statute in the Parlia- 
 
 ment (1504) at, 288. 
 , Domesday Book in 
 
 the Exchequer at, 344. 
 , Henry VI crowned 
 
 at, 359. 
 , records remaining at, 
 
 391. 
 
 , the Courts at, 406. 
 
 -, the Palace, letters 
 
 dated at, 17, 22, 24, 86. 
 
 Whitehall, letters and docu- 
 ments dated at, 17, 40, 
 41, 65, 66, 68, 73, 74, 75, 
 78, 79, 80, 88, 89, 105, 
 106, 110, 114, 135, 139, 
 175, 178, 181, 182, 183, 
 190, 193, 194, 195, 206, 
 211, 215, 219, 221, 237, 
 246. 
 
 , Council Chamber at, 
 
 debate in, 108. 
 -, James I at, 109, 114, 
 
 131. 
 
 London, Streets, buildings, Ac. in : 
 Whitehall cont. 
 
 , James I to return to, 
 
 128. 
 -, Privy Council at, 140, 
 
 370. 
 -, Charles 
 
 I and his 
 Queen coming to, 191. 
 Worcester House, letter 
 
 dated at, 82. 
 
 Londoner, a, partly maintains a 
 lecturer in the diocese of 
 Carlisle, 195. 
 
 Londoners, the, 51, 52, 108. 
 Long v. Savage, 419. 
 Longsands, vessels from, 375. 
 Lords, House of, allusion to examina- 
 tion of the Lord Treasurer's 
 conduct in, 114. 
 proposed petition to, 121. 
 merchants of London and 
 Bristol summoned to appear 
 before, 138. 
 
 bill to be presented to, 166. 
 copy of petition to, 433. 
 Lords Justices, the (1714), give the 
 Royal Assent to certain bills, 
 234. 
 
 thank both Houses of Parlia- 
 ment in the King's name, 
 234. 
 
 (1745), proclamation of, 246. 
 Lome, Louise, Marchioness of (1873), 
 
 signature of, 238. 
 
 Losquyt, Thomas, appointed chap- 
 lain to the chantry of the B. V. 
 Mary upon Exbridge, 210. 
 " Lothebrotus," name of a " paynym 
 
 Kyng " in Denmark, 398. 
 Lottery for raising money for the 
 
 Crown, 234. 
 
 Love for Love, play called, 173. 
 Lowbridge, Richard, contract by, 
 
 285. 
 
 grant to, 285. 
 Low Countries, war of (temp. Eliz.) 
 
 Englishman serving in, 66. 
 messengers from (1621), bring 
 propositions to the King, 111. 
 Abraham Rutter's expected re- 
 turn from, 133. 
 
 United Provinces of. See Uni- 
 ted Provinces, 
 Lowther, James Baron, letter of, 
 
 253. 
 receives the freedom of the City 
 
 of Exeter, 253. 
 Loxton, Henry, of Wells, musician, 
 
 200. 
 Luke, Mr., chaplain to the Mayor of 
 
 Exeter (1537), 45. 
 Lundy (Lundi), Isle of, 280.
 
 509 
 
 Lutter, battle of (1626), lln. 
 Lyall, Alexander, left to attend the 
 
 sick soldiers, 222. 
 
 Lyford, John, Collector of Excise, 
 Exeter collection, receipt 
 from, 79. 
 
 Lyfthelehale (Listehele, &c.), in 
 
 Mo Hand Botreaux near South 
 
 Molton, land in, granted to St. 
 
 Nicholas' Priory, 270. 
 
 Lyme or Lyme Regis [Dorset], 88, 95, 
 
 96. 
 
 letter dated at, 39. 
 refuses to join the new Company 
 
 of Merchants, 4 In. 
 benevolence of, 196. 
 petition to be sent from, 244. 
 Lymesy, Lord Roger de, Canon of 
 
 Exeter, house of, 400. 
 Lympstone [Devon], letters dated at, 
 
 101. 
 included in the Port of Exeter, 
 
 29. 
 
 (Lympton), vessels from, 375. 
 Lympynd, John, Receiver of Exeter, 
 
 361. 
 
 Lynn, John, sergeant, 83. 
 Lynn or Lynn Regis, Norfolk, 238. 
 how it might profit by trade with 
 
 Guinea, 243. 
 Corporation of, v. Corporation of 
 
 London, 422. 
 
 Lynne, John, M.P. for Exeter, 184. 
 elected Mayor of Exeter and 
 resolution of the House of 
 Commons concerning, 188. 
 not paid his Parliamentary 
 
 wage, 189. 
 Lyttleton [Charles], Dean of Exeter, 
 
 proposal submitted by, 199. 
 Lywer, William, of Topsham, 19. 
 
 M 
 
 Mackay, Major-General [Hugh], 
 regiment of, 221. 
 
 Maddison, Lieut. -Col., information 
 received from, 257. 
 
 Mainwaring v. Courtnay, 419. 
 
 Mainwaring, Mr., information sup- 
 plied by, 122. 
 
 Mallett : 
 
 Edward, Chamberlain of Exeter, 
 his discharge from the office, 
 104, 
 
 Mallett cont. 
 
 Mr., mention of, 43. 
 
 Mamhead [Devon], letter dated at, 
 253. 
 
 Manchester, dispatch sent to, 239. 
 how it might profit by trade with 
 Guinea, 243. 
 
 Mandeville, Viscount. See Montagu. 
 
 Mannering, Dr., submission of , 188. 
 
 Mansfeldt, Count Ernest von, 
 rumoured overthrow of, in the 
 Lower Palatinate, 113. 
 
 Manwoode, Sir Roger, knight, Lord 
 Treasurer (sic), Baron of the 
 Exchequer, commission ad- 
 dressed to, 309. 
 matter referred to, 30. 
 
 Maps, a large volume of, belonging 
 to the Chamber of Exeter, 
 376. 
 
 Index or Reference Book to, 
 376. 
 
 Maps and Plots, documents concern- 
 ing, 104-5. 
 
 Marche, James, of Exeter, will of, 
 415. 
 
 Marde, Mr., money paid to, 363. 
 
 Margarita, Island of, granted to the 
 Earl of Pembroke and Mont- 
 gomery, 203. 
 
 Mariansleigh (Marleghe), near South 
 Molton [Devon], rectory of, 
 to be taken over by the Cham- 
 berlain of Exeter, 210. 
 rectory and tithes of, given to 
 found Davie's Almshouse, 
 274. 
 
 Chamber of Exeter as patrons 
 of, 274. 
 
 Mariscis, William de, 280. 
 
 Marlborough (Marleburge), Earl of. 
 See Ley. 
 
 Marley [Devon], note of the names 
 of the parishioners of, and the 
 rate paid for their tithes, 324. 
 
 Marque, letters of, order concerning, 
 235. 
 
 Marten, Master, arms of, 45. 
 
 Martial Law in his Majesty's Army, 
 commission for the execution 
 of, temp. Car. I, 395. 
 
 Martin (Martyn) : 
 
 John, Chamberlain and Town 
 Clerk of Exeter, receipt by the 
 hand of, 68. 
 
 , communications from, 70, 
 
 102. 
 
 , letter of, 103. 
 
 , death of, 114, 138. 
 
 , letter to, 132. 
 
 -, sent to Perriman, 141. 
 
 John, letter to, 217,
 
 510 
 
 Martin cont. 
 
 Nicholas, Justice, examination 
 before, 57. 
 
 , order to be referred to, 64. 
 
 Richard, letters of, 79, 99. 
 
 , gives bill to his brother, 
 
 99. 
 
 , case delivered to, 102. 
 
 , to go to Sir Robert Denys, 
 
 317. 
 , receipt by the hand of, 
 
 323. 
 
 Thomas, petition of, 4 In. 
 Thomas, Capt. of the band of 
 
 the East Ward, 83. 
 Thomas, M.P. for Exeter, favour 
 
 solicited for, 90. 
 Thomas, of Exeter, will of, 415. 
 William, agreement with, 30, 
 
 31. 
 
 , request to, 93. 
 
 , money to be paid to, 312, 
 
 317. 
 , receives a gift of a copy 
 
 of Hooker's pamphlet, 376. 
 William, Recorder of Exeter, 
 
 letters to, 47, 83. 
 
 , grant of the office to, 55. 
 
 -, examination taken before, 
 
 62. 
 
 85. 
 
 -, information to, 70. 
 -, signature of, 79, 402. 
 -, information to be given to, 
 
 , Deputy Lieutenant for 
 Exeter, 85. 
 
 , notification to, 102. 
 , money received by, 322. 
 -, to be bearer of information 
 
 to the Bishop, 322. 
 William, Sheriff of Exeter, order 
 
 from the Lords of the Council 
 
 to, 311. 
 
 , receipt to, 311. 
 
 Mr., to confer with Mr. Norden 
 
 about the property in North- 
 
 ernhay, 197. 
 
 Martin v. Tickell, 102, 419. 
 Martyn v. Worth, 418. 
 Mary, Queen, letters of, 15, 366. 
 
 requires ships from Exeter, 36. 
 proclaimed Queen, 362, 366. 
 marries Philip of Spain at Win- 
 chester, 362. 
 death of, 307. 
 and Philip, mention of letters of, 
 
 37. 
 
 , Council of, 362. 
 
 , suit referred to, 363. 
 
 Mary, Princess, daughter of Henry 
 
 VII, treaty for her marriage 
 
 (1507), 14, 
 
 Mason : 
 
 John, signature of, 366. 
 John, Clerk of the Parliament, 
 writ to, 5. 
 
 Masons, wages of. See Wages. 
 
 Masters of Defence, copy of Letters 
 Patent for, 35. 
 
 Matford (Mathford), in Alphington, 
 land in, granted to St. Nicho- 
 las' Priory, 270. 
 
 Mathewe, Robert, will of, 414. 
 
 Matthieu, person of name of, vexa- 
 tions occasioned by, 193. 
 
 Maud, Queen of Henry I, grant Dy, 
 
 288. 
 
 confirmation of grant, 428. 
 secures the King's favour for the 
 
 City of Exeter, 391. 
 the people of Exeter keep a 
 
 yearly obit for, 391. 
 the obit of, 305. 
 
 Maudit (Mawditte, &c.) : 
 
 Isaac, Alderman of Exeter, 19. 
 
 Isaac, the elder, 44. 
 
 Mr., bearer of a letter, 217. 
 
 Maunder, John, sleamaker, enquiry 
 
 into the death of, 60-62. 
 wife of, 61. 
 
 Mawe, Leonard, Bishop of Bath and 
 Wells, death of, 191. 
 
 Mawrey, Alexander, will of, 415. 
 
 Maxwell, Robert, letter of, 105. 
 
 May or Moy, Thomas, signature of, 
 20. 
 
 Maynard, Sir John, baronet, Com- 
 missioners appointed by, 333. 
 
 Maynwaringe or Maniaring, Christo- 
 pher, order forwarded by, 84. 
 
 McKayard, Donald, Prince of Dece 
 [? Decies, co. Waterford, or 
 Deece, co. Meath], letter of 
 protection from, 286. 
 
 Meade, Thomas, of St. David's, 
 Exeter, will of, 415. 
 
 Meaux, France, besieged, 352. 
 
 Mediterranean, trade of the, 242. 
 
 Medland, the cutler, money to be 
 paid to, 313. 
 
 Melcombe Regis [Dorset], Charter of, 
 344. 
 
 , description of the seal 
 
 attached to, 344. 
 
 Meller, Richard, document for- 
 warded by, 83. 
 
 Melville, David, Earl of Leven 
 (Leivan, Levaines), regiment 
 of, 221, 223, 224. 
 
 Memoranda Rolls of the Exchequer, 
 403-4. 
 
 Mercer, Edward le, payment by, 
 386. 
 
 Mere [? Devon], grant dated at, 2.
 
 511 
 
 Meylclonde, William, and Aumeye 
 
 his wife, grant to, 389. 
 Michell, Tristram, signature of, 172. 
 Middlesex, Earl of. See Cranfield. 
 Middlethirds, Barony of, in the 
 
 county of Tipperary, in the 
 
 province of Munster, the 
 
 Chamber's lands in, 329, 423. 
 Middleton [Westmoreland], letter 
 
 dated at, 83. 
 Middleton (Myddleton), Sir Thomas, 
 
 his match broken off, 117. 
 Midwinter, John, alderman of 
 
 Exeter, afterwards Mayor of 
 
 Exeter, q.v. 
 appointed Commissioner for 
 
 Exeter (1552), 260. 
 monastic property purchased 
 
 and sold by, 291. 
 Militia for Exeter, Commissioners of, 
 
 letter to, 215. 
 
 Militia Acts, the, document concern- 
 ing, 215. 
 
 Militia Act Papers (1855), 425. 
 Miller, Richard, glover, lease to, 290. 
 Mills. See under Exeter. 
 Miscellaneous Papers, 423-27. 
 Modbury [Devon], letter dated at, 
 
 209. 
 
 a sick soldier from, 224.' 
 " Modus Tenendi Parliamentum," 
 
 353. 
 Modyford, John, named for deputy 
 
 lieutenancy, 133. 
 Moggridge, Mr., gift of, 276. 
 Mogrige : 
 
 Richard, of Exeter, two copies 
 
 of will of, 414. 
 Thomas, widow of, acquittance 
 
 with, 97. 
 Mohams Ottery, Mohuns Oterie, &c., 
 
 letters dated at, 24. 
 Mohun, John, Baron Mohun of Oke- 
 
 hampton, letter of, 190. 
 Mol, William le, glover, 165. 
 
 tenement recovered from, 406. 
 Monck (Monk) : 
 
 Christopher, 2nd Duke of Albe- 
 
 marle, elected High Steward 
 
 of Exeter, 78. 
 , made freeman of Exeter, 
 
 371. 
 
 , commission of lieu- 
 tenancy to, 432. 
 
 George, 1st Duke of Albemarle, 
 Lord Lieutenant of Devon 
 and Exeter, commission to, 13. 
 
 , elected High Steward of 
 
 Exeter, 78. 
 
 -, letter of, 211. 
 
 , letter presented to, 218. 
 
 r , interview with, 218. 
 
 Monck cont. 
 
 Sir Thomas, father of General 
 
 Monck, letter of, 162. 
 , and his wife v. Sir Nicho- 
 las Smith, 162, 163. 
 Money, base and current, proclama- 
 tion concerning, 314. 
 Money clippers, commission for the, 
 
 132. 
 
 Monk Okehampton [Devon], 93. 
 Montague, Montagu : 
 
 Henry, Viscount Mandeville, 
 Lord President of the Council, 
 108, 118. 
 
 , his friendly disposition 
 
 towards Exeter, 116. 
 
 , a follower of, 125. 
 
 , letter of, 134. 
 
 , signature of, 140. 
 
 -, present at a meeting of 
 
 the Privy Council, 145. 
 James, Bishop of Bath and 
 
 Wells, 96. 
 
 John, Earl of Sandwich, signa- 
 ture of, 238. 
 John, writ to, 8. 
 Thomas, engaged in the dispute 
 
 with Bishop Lacy, 286. 
 Montgomery, Earl of. See Herbert. 
 Monuments, defacing of ancient, 
 in churches, proclamation 
 against, 314. 
 Moore : 
 
 Francis, clerk, recommendation 
 and election of, to the Bodley 
 Lecturership, 98, 99. 
 , Bodley Lecturer, pay- 
 ment to, 276. 
 
 -, to have power to set 
 
 and let the tithes of Hennock, 
 276. 
 
 -, to have power to 
 
 dispose of the Rectory of 
 Hennock, 277. 
 
 John, plumber, of Exeter, con- 
 tract by, 285. 
 
 John, and his wife, request to 
 grant an almshouse to, 73. 
 
 Nicholas, will of, 415. 
 
 Samuel, conveyance to, 230. 
 
 William, Bishop Cotton's Bailiff, 
 47. 
 
 Alderman, refuses to pay an 
 
 account, 253. 
 Morbgan [? Morbihan], vessels from, 
 
 375. 
 
 Morchard Bishop near Crediton [Dev- 
 on], suspected Papists in, 110. 
 
 the gavel of, 263. 
 More : 
 
 James, servant of the Earl of 
 Bedford, 39.
 
 512 
 
 More con/. 
 
 John, arbitration of, 48. 
 
 John, to build an almshouse, 
 
 305. 
 
 Moreton [Devon], petition from, 244. 
 Morlaix (Morlis, Morlaise), barks of, 
 
 192. 
 
 vessels from, 375. 
 Morrell, Hugh, merchant, of Exeter, 
 
 complaint of, 72. 
 Morris : 
 
 Peter, carrier, letter sent by, 
 
 197. 
 Mr., servant of Lord Howard 
 
 of Effingham, 38. 
 Mortimer (Morttymour) : 
 John, drummer, 83. 
 Mary, instructions for making 
 
 the will of, 416. 
 Moulis, Richard, accounts drawn up 
 
 by, 398. 
 Moungwell, John, of Exeter, will of, 
 
 162. 
 Mountgomery, John de, Admiral of 
 
 the West, to raise ships for the 
 
 King's expedition to Calais, 
 
 8. 
 Mount Radford [Devon], engagement 
 
 fought at, 207. 
 MSS., fragments of old, destroyed 
 
 in the reigns of Henry VIII, 
 
 Edward VI, and Elizabeth, 
 
 404. 
 Mugge, John, reversionary lease 
 
 granted to, 291. 
 
 , Joan wife of, 291. 
 
 Mungwell, William, of St. Mary 
 
 Major, will of, 415. 
 Munst, Friar Robert, of Thelesford 
 
 Priory, Vicar-General of the 
 
 Trinitarians, letters of frater- 
 nity issued by, 287. 
 Muster, general, taken, 85. 
 Mustian, Mr., apothecary, account 
 
 of, 223. 
 Mylbroke, vessels from, 375. 
 
 Nash, Thomas, loan to, 332. 
 Nassau, Graf van, regiment of, 221. 
 Navy, the, balinger made by the 
 
 citizens of Exeter for, 4. 
 Commissioners for, 191, 
 
 Navy, the cont. 
 
 assessment for paying off and 
 
 discharging of, 211. 
 Commissioners appointed for 
 
 discharging of, 211. 
 Neald, William, named as suitable 
 for the town clerkship of 
 Exeter, 138. 
 Neil, Vulialm, letter of protection to, 
 
 286. 
 
 Nethway, letter dated at, 88. 
 Nevis (Neviss), island of, trade with, 
 
 imperilled, 242. 
 Newark [Notts], death of King John 
 
 at, 350. 
 
 Newcastle, note of the ships of not 
 less than 100 tons burthen 
 belonging to, 187. 
 Corporation of, 230. 
 Court of Conscience in, 234. 
 Newcombe : 
 
 John, receipt to, 248. 
 Robert, appointment of, 249. 
 Newcome, William, Bailiff of Exeter, 
 
 mention of, 340. 
 New England, documents relating 
 
 to the plantation of, 166-71. 
 
 allusion to Royal Charter for the 
 
 planting of a colony in, 169. 
 
 proposed fishing on the coasts 
 
 of, 170. 
 
 Newenham [Devon], abbey of, sale of 
 the monastic property of, 20. 
 
 , lands &c. lately belonging 
 
 to, 271, 291. 
 -, purchase by the City of 
 
 the monastic possessions of, 
 411. 
 
 Newfoundland, rates for salt for, 318. 
 fish, 422. 
 
 Newington, Surrey, certificate of a 
 death at, 66. 
 
 Newmarket [Cambs.], James I at, 
 111, 112. 
 
 Newnam, John, letter of, 202. 
 
 Newnam Bridge, [Worcestershire], 
 taken, 36. 
 
 Newton, Richard, obit of, 270. 
 
 Newton Abbot [Devon], lands, tene- 
 ments, &c., in, left to the 
 Chamber of Exeter, 277. 
 petition to be sent from, 244. 
 
 Newton Bushell [Devon], the alms- 
 house of, 307. 
 
 Newton Popilford [Devon], 396. 
 
 Newtun, John, makes the Great Con- 
 duit of Exeter, 285. 
 
 Nicholles, Ferdinand, clerk, Bodley 
 Lecturer, 99. 
 
 Nix, Farmer, and his wife, 258. 
 
 Non-Jurors, documents concerning 
 (1559-81), 39.
 
 513 
 
 Norbrooke, John, papers relating to 
 a dispute between the City of 
 Exeter and, 393. 
 
 Norcott, Mr., Commissioner to the 
 County of Devon and County 
 and City of Exeter, 212. 
 Norden, John, conference between 
 
 Mr. Recorder and, 123. 
 his business as Surveyor for 
 
 Prince Charles, 124. 
 his business concerning property 
 
 in Northernhay, 196, 197. 
 Normandy, death of Henry V in, 
 
 359. 
 Norryce or Norres, Henry, property 
 
 surrendered to, 291. 
 North: 
 
 Abraham, one of the Constables 
 of Exeter, deposition by, 
 225. 
 
 Sir Edward, signature of, 366. 
 Frederick, Lord North, Prime 
 Minister and Chancellor of the 
 Exchequer, presented to the 
 freedom of the City, 252. 
 , acquires the Wynard pro- 
 perty, 279. 
 
 , his marriage with Ann 
 
 Speke, 279. 
 -, sells the Wynard property, 
 
 279. 
 W. [? Sir Edward], signature of, 
 
 25. 
 Northam [Devon], letter dated at, 
 
 177. 
 forms part of the Port or Haven 
 
 of Exeter, 29. 
 
 Northampton, Earl of. See Howard. 
 Northampton, statutes of, to be en- 
 forced, 8, 429. 
 a borough town not a county, 
 
 116. 
 discontent of the burgesses of, 
 
 116. 
 
 Corporation of, claims a share 
 of Sir Thomas White's estate, 
 232. 
 Northcot : 
 
 Jo., signature of, 27. 
 
 John, of Yewton near Crediton, 
 
 letter of, 173. 
 Northcote : 
 
 Sir Henry, M.P. for Exeter, in 
 
 London, 243. 
 
 , uses his influence to for- 
 ward the petitions from 
 Devonshire, 244. 
 
 , instructions sent to, 245. 
 
 -, letters of, 245, 246. 
 
 Mr., about to retire from office, 
 
 84. 
 Northl , Bober, 105. 
 
 Wt. 20757. 
 
 Northleigh, Henry, attestation of, 
 
 220. 
 Northumberland : 
 
 Duke of. See Dudley. 
 Earl of. See Percy. 
 Northumberland, two lecturers 
 placed in, by the Company of 
 Mercers in London, 195. 
 Norwich, Court of Conscience in, 234. 
 dispatch sent to, 239. 
 how it might profit by trade with 
 
 Guinea, 243. 
 
 petition to be sent from, 244. 
 Mayor and Aldermen of (1713), 
 
 instructions given by, 233. 
 Not, William, grant by, 396. 
 Nottingham, Earl of. See Howard. 
 Nottingham, Corporation of, claims 
 a share of Sir Thomas White's 
 estate, 232. 
 Noye, William, services of, retained, 
 
 119. 
 
 to go to Mr. Attorney, 121. 
 Prows mentions a conference 
 
 with, 124. 
 fees to, 130. 
 Breviat for Exeter school for, 
 
 158. 
 
 as Attorney- General, allusion 
 to commission between the 
 Mayor, &c., of Exeter and, 
 105. 
 Nymet : 
 
 John, will of, 282. 
 
 John, of Exeter, licence to, 286. 
 
 Oakhampton [Devon], petition to be 
 
 sent from, 244. 
 member for (1739), 244. 
 Barony of, Lord Hugh de 
 Courtenay usurps certain 
 rights as part of his, 389. 
 Oaths and Test to be administered, 
 
 235. 
 
 Oldcastle, Sir John, Lord Cobham, 
 condemned and executed for 
 treason and heresy, 352. 
 Oldham (Olden, &c.), Hugh, Bishop 
 of Exeter, bond of agreement, 
 48. 
 
 agreement of, 48. 
 licence given by, 152. 
 
 Ex 33
 
 514 
 
 Oldham, Hugh cont. 
 injunction of, 154. 
 his injunction out of date, 155. 
 Olivean, Stephen, benefactor to the 
 
 poor of Exeter, 356. 
 Oliver : 
 
 Dr. George, compiles the old 
 Calendar of the Archives of 
 Exeter, 377, 378. 
 
 , note by, 377. 
 
 Mr., produces the purchase deeds 
 of the Barton of Exweeke, 
 338. 
 
 Opinions, bundle of cases for, 421. 
 Orange, Frederic Henry Prince of 
 (the Flemand), success of, 
 192. 
 
 quarter given by, 192. 
 Orenge, John, grant to, 287. 
 Oreny, John, arbitration of, 48. 
 Orforde (or Forde), William, letters 
 
 of, 93, 97. 
 resigns the Bodley lecturership, 
 
 97. 
 
 ? Orinoco (Arinocth), River, 203. 
 Ormond, Duke of. See Butler. 
 Osbern, Bishop of Exeter, confirma- 
 tion of a grant by, 269. 
 attestation by, 280. 
 Osborne, Mr., the owner of the Irish 
 lands formerly belonging to 
 the Chamber of Exeter, 335. 
 O'Sullivan, Dermitius, letter of pro- 
 tection from, 286. 
 
 Ottery [Devon], petition from, 244. 
 bread riot at, 255. 
 paper to be published in the 
 
 market place, 255. 
 Ottery St. Mary, order to the High 
 Constable, &c., of, concerning 
 Popish Recusants, lOn. 
 Henry VI at, 359. 
 Oxford, Earl of. See Walpole. 
 Oxford, commission dated at, 13. 
 
 the Court at, letter dated from, 
 
 209. 
 
 Parliament at, 13. 
 adjourned meeting of Parlia- 
 ment at, 189. 
 
 Exeter College in, letters dated 
 at, 97, 98, 99, 102. 
 
 , documents concerning, 99- 
 
 102. 
 
 , members of, letter of, 100. 
 
 , most of the Exeter men 
 
 repair to, 152. 
 
 , Dean of (1734), certificate 
 
 of, 102. 
 
 , Rector of (1631), testi- 
 monial from, 159. 
 -, sub-rector of (1734), certi- 
 
 Oxton [Devon], manor of, 432. 
 Oxton or Okestun, Geoffrey de, gift 
 of rent charge by, 265. 
 
 ficate of, 102. 
 
 Packer, Mr., maintains a lecturer in 
 
 the diocese of Carlisle, 195. 
 Padeslo, Walter de, will of, 358. 
 Padstowe [Cornwall], Charter of the 
 
 Town of, 433. 
 Page, W., signature of, 42. 
 Pagett, William, signature of, 25. 
 Paice, Nathaniel, note of interest 
 
 sent by, 248. 
 Palatinate, the, money contributed 
 
 for the defence of, 106. 
 money paid for the recovery of, 
 
 111, 112. 
 
 Spanish army in, 112. 
 Palk, Sir Robert, formerly Governor 
 of Madras, receives the free- 
 dom of Exeter, 252. 
 Palmer : 
 
 John, gift of, 411. 
 one, a shuttlemaker, 60. 
 Papers, unsorted, 18th and 19th 
 Cent. (Rolls, Oath Rolls, &c.), 
 428. 
 Papists, their hopes concerning the 
 
 Spanish match, 112. 
 laws against, to be put in execu- 
 tion, 246, 247. 
 Pare, John, the ringer of the Curfew 
 
 at Exeter, petition of, 217. 
 Parett, John, wife of, 352. 
 Paris, Henry VI crowned King of 
 
 France at, 359. 
 
 Parke, Mr. Edmond, mention of, 85. 
 Parker : 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth, 243. 
 
 John, of Luppit, wicked conduct 
 
 of, 24. 
 
 Matthew, Archbishop of Canter- 
 bury, letter of, 49. 
 Robert, letter of, 238. 
 Thomas, of Westminster, Mary 
 
 widow of, licence to, 293. 
 Parliament, grants subsidy for the 
 
 French war (1523), 9. 
 subsidies granted in, 10. 
 remembrances for (1553), 32-34. 
 John Prowse attends to the 
 City's instructions in., 41 1
 
 515 
 
 Parliament cont. 
 
 allusion to a communication 
 
 from James I to, 106. 
 third, of James I, to assemble, 
 
 109. 
 
 account of doings in, 111-14. 
 the case of the Exeter school to 
 
 be brought before, 137. 
 documents concerning the pay- 
 ment of members of , 188-89. 
 scouts sent in the service of, 
 
 208. 
 messenger sent to Exeter by, 
 
 208. 
 allusion to an ordinance of 
 
 (1647), 209. 
 
 Commissioners for discharging 
 the Navy appointed by, 
 211. 
 ordinances of, for the quartering 
 
 of soldiers, 212. 
 
 loyalty to the cause of, an 
 essential qualification for an 
 officer in the Militia, 215. 
 proposed petition from Exeter 
 
 to (1739), 243. 
 
 Annual, ineffectualness of, 245. 
 Triennial, necessity of a law for 
 
 restoring, 245. 
 proposed application to, for a 
 
 Bill for Exeter streets, 248. 
 proposed petition to, for a turn- 
 pike road in Exeter, 248. 
 petition from Exeter sent to the 
 
 King and, 324. 
 prosecution of an order of the, 
 
 325. 
 
 the Chamber looks for money 
 or other satisfaction from, 
 328. 
 the order of keeping of a, by 
 
 John Hooker, 377. 
 a Journal of the Parliament of 
 
 1571, by John Hooker, 377. 
 Acts of : 
 
 For determining the limits 
 of the county of the City 
 of Exeter (1549), 5, 347, 
 372, 374, 430. 
 
 Concerning the attainder, 
 &c., of the Duke of 
 Somerset, exemplifica- 
 tion of, 6. 
 
 For the confirmation of the 
 Charter for Orphans and 
 other liberties of Exeter 
 (1563), 6, 347, 374. 
 For the repair of Calabeer 
 Wear, exemplification of, 
 7, 431. 
 
 For granting a subsidv 
 (1523), 14. 
 
 Parliament, Acts of cont. 
 
 For raising money to make 
 the Exe navigable, hope 
 to procure, 31, 32. 
 For establishing divine 
 
 service, 39. 
 
 Concerning weights and 
 measures (1429), copy of , 
 78. 
 
 For confirming the privi- 
 leges of the schoolmaster 
 of Exeter, desire to ob- 
 tain, 155. 
 
 To prevent Players of Inter- 
 ludes, 173. 
 
 For Poll money, 211. 
 For raising Assessment 
 
 money, 212. 
 
 Additional, for the better 
 ordering of the forces, 
 217. 
 For the Corporation of the 
 
 Poor, 225. 
 
 The Scots Act, suggested 
 petition to desire a 
 change in, 244. 
 For paving the streets of 
 Exeter (1467), 248, 341, 
 368. 
 
 For amending roads 
 and widening Exbridge 
 (1773), 249, 419. 
 For Recruiting the Land 
 Forces, a defect in, 249. 
 
 , a new, 250. 
 
 , Commissioners for, 
 250. 
 
 Land Tax Act (1765), 254. 
 For repealing duties upon 
 windows and lights, 258. 
 For promoting the Gospel, 
 
 331. 
 
 Disgavelling Act of the 
 
 City of Exeter, 341, 394. 
 
 For bounding St. Sidwell's 
 
 Fee (1437), 346, 402. 
 For confirmation of Exeter 
 
 Charters (1563), 372. 
 Of the Queen's pardon 
 
 (1571), 377. 
 
 For Rodney in Somerset- 
 shire, 377. 
 For Recruiting his Majesty's 
 
 Forces (1743), 419. 
 Paving and Lighting Act 
 
 for Plymouth, 419.' 
 Insolvent Debtors' Act, 
 
 419. 
 For the Workhouse, Exeter, 
 
 420. 
 
 Paving Act, Papers relating 
 to, 420.
 
 516 
 
 Parliament, Acts of cont. 
 
 Port Dues Act, 421. 
 Defence Act, 426. 
 Relating to the possessions 
 
 of the Duke of Somerset, 
 
 430. 
 Act of Resumption, old 
 
 copies of, 430. 
 Bills in : 
 
 For prentices and ser- 
 vants (1563), 51. 
 For the uniting of 
 
 churches in Exeter 
 
 (1563), 61. 
 For orphans (Exeter), 
 
 (1563), 51 % 
 
 Bills passed, mention of, 52. 
 For the true making of 
 
 serges (1624), 166. 
 For perpetuanes (1624), 
 
 166. 
 Relating to the Poor 
 
 Rates (Exeter), (1748), 
 
 225. 
 For putting the Land 
 
 Tax in execution (1714), 
 
 234. 
 Scots Bill put off (1739), 
 
 244. 
 To allow the drawback 
 
 on soap, ashes, starch, 
 
 &c., 244. 
 To encourage the linen 
 
 manufacture of Scotland, 
 
 244. 
 
 Wool Bill, 244. 
 For Exeter preferred(1610), 
 
 321. 
 
 For transferring tem- 
 poral lands from the 
 
 Church to the King 
 
 (1413), 351. 
 For Henry V to claim 
 
 the Crown of France, 351, 
 
 352. 
 " For bringing foreign 
 
 wares prohibited " ( 1 57 1 ), 
 
 377. 
 For the trial of felons 
 
 in Wales (1571), 377. 
 For vagabonds overthrown 
 
 by the Lords (1571), 
 
 377. 
 Parliamentary Candidates, letters 
 
 relating to, 230-232. 
 Parliamentary Registration, 425. 
 " Parliaments of England, the 
 forms and manner of the," 
 353. 
 Parr : 
 
 John, Chamberlain of Exeter, 
 estate made over to, 88, 
 
 Parr cont. 
 
 Mr., grant of the next avoidance 
 of the vicarage of Hennock to, 
 277. 
 Parret, John, of Lyme Regis, will of, 
 
 414. 
 
 Parry, Henry, joint letter of, 39. 
 Pasemore (Passemore) : 
 
 Mr. Holmes [? Thomas], per- 
 mitted to teach, 154. 
 John, an insolvent debtor, 420. 
 Thomas, schoolmaster, licence 
 
 granted to, 158. 
 Patrike, George, servant to George 
 
 Scarell, deposition by, 57. 
 Paule: 
 
 Katherine, Exeter, will of, 415. 
 Thomas, of Exeter, will of, 415. 
 Paulet, William, Marquis of Winches- 
 ter, Lord Treasurer, request 
 of, 28. 
 
 letters of, 35, 36, 42. 
 letter to, 37. 
 
 matter heard at the house of, 53. 
 signature of, 364, 366. 
 secretary of, money paid to, 362. 
 Payne : 
 
 George, tobacco -cutter, lease to, 
 
 195. 
 
 Richard, brewer, 104. 
 Pearse : 
 
 James, Sheriff, entreated to 
 make a loan to the Chamber 
 of Exeter, 327. 
 John, sometime Bailiff of Exeter, 
 
 letter to, 11. 
 Peckam, Mr., money paid to clerks of, 
 
 363. 
 
 Peeter, Alice, of Exeter, will of, 415. 
 Peeterson. See Peterson. 
 Pelham, George, Bishop of Exeter, 
 
 letter of, 48. 
 
 Pembroke, Earl of. See Herbert. 
 Pembroke and Montgomery, Earl of. 
 
 See Herbert. 
 
 Pembroke and Montgomery, Pro- 
 vince of, 203. 
 
 Pendarves, Sir William, M.P. for 
 St. Ives, Cornwall, letter ad- 
 dressed to, 233. 
 
 Pendennis, letter dated at, 212. 
 Penmarcke, vessels from, 375. 
 Penny : 
 
 William, security of, 332. 
 
 Mr., his statement concerning 
 
 Ferryman's school, 156. 
 Percy : 
 
 Henry, Earl of Northumberland, 
 
 signature of, 73. 
 Thomas, Prior of Holy Trinity, 
 Aldgate, London, acknow- 
 ledgment by, 288.
 
 517 
 
 Pergam, Jo., signature of, 26. 
 Perpetuanes, buyers and sellers of, 
 petition of, 50. 
 
 Bill of, twice read in Parliament, 
 
 166. 
 Perrot, T. [? Sir John], Lord of the 
 
 Council, signature of, 63. 
 Perry, William, licence granted to, 
 
 171. 
 Ferryman, Perriman : 
 
 William, schoolmaster of the 
 High School in Exeter, his 
 petition to the Lords of the 
 Council, 134. 
 
 , his petition to the Arch- 
 bishop of Canterbury, 135. 
 
 , his second petition to the 
 
 Lords of the Council, 135. 
 
 , summoned to appear be- 
 fore Lord Russell, 135, 141. 
 
 , his complaints against the 
 
 Exeter magistrates, 135, 136, 
 147. 
 
 , his exemption from taxes 
 
 for subsidies, &c., 135, 136, 
 139, 141, 147. 
 
 , his case heard before the 
 
 Bishop of Exeter, 136, 137. 
 
 , the size and value of his 
 
 school, 137. 
 
 , his two examinations be- 
 fore Lord Russell, 139. 
 -, answer to the complaints 
 
 of, 140, 142. 
 
 , obtained his school 
 
 through Archdeacon Hellier, 
 141. 
 -, receives a large sum to- 
 
 wards rebuilding his school, 
 
 141, 142. 
 , the Bishop's account of 
 
 the controversy, 142-144. 
 , opinion concerning his 
 
 ability as schoolmaster, 143, 
 
 144. 
 , complaints against, by 
 
 parents of his scholars, 145. 
 , order from the Privy 
 
 Council concerning, 145, 148. 
 , admonished by the Privy 
 
 Council, 146. 
 , another petition to the 
 
 Privy Council, 147. 
 , forced by the magistrates 
 
 to pay the assesses, 147. 
 , restitution to be made to, 
 
 148. 
 , has farmed out his school, 
 
 149, 156, 158. 
 , his extortionate charges 
 
 for schooling, 150, 151, 153, 
 
 154, 155, 156, 157. 
 
 Ferryman, William con/. 
 
 , possesses no University 
 
 degree, 152. 
 , his receipts for rebuilding 
 
 his school thought to exceed 
 
 his disbursements, 152, 156. 
 , notes taken about petition 
 
 and order, 156-57. 
 , only assessed for the poor, 
 
 156. 
 , has remitted his pension 
 
 from the Dean and Chapter, 
 
 157. 
 
 , his improved position, 157. 
 
 , the large number of his 
 
 scholars, 157. 
 , document concerning his 
 
 controversy with the mayor 
 
 and magistrates of Exeter, 
 
 158. 
 , his allegations denied, 
 
 159. 
 -, testimonial from the Rec- 
 
 tor of Exeter College, 159. 
 George [? William], complaints 
 
 of, 135. 
 
 , petition of, 139. 
 
 Peryam (Periam) : 
 John, bond of, 40. 
 
 , restricts his charity, 41. 
 
 , money received by the 
 
 hands of, 55. 
 , Deputy Lieutenant for 
 
 Exeter, 85. 
 
 , letters to, 92, 93. 
 
 , letters of, 93. 
 
 , his liberality towards Exe- 
 ter College, 100, 102. 
 
 , gift by indenture of, 277. 
 
 , begs he may not again be 
 
 elected Mayor, 277, 278. 
 , lived sometime in London, 
 
 278. 
 , his portrait in the Mayor's 
 
 Parlour, 278. 
 , to go to Sir Robert Denys, 
 
 317. 
 , gives 1,0001. for charitable 
 
 uses, 334. 
 , documents concerning his 
 
 Charity, 277-78. 
 -, rolls of Account of his 
 
 Charity, 412. 
 John, property piirchased and 
 
 sold by, 291. 
 , sometime Mayor, suit by, 
 
 342. 
 William, refuses to restore 
 
 church goods, 262. 
 William, Justice of the Common 
 
 Pleas, commission addressed 
 
 to, 309.
 
 518 
 
 Peter (Petre) : 
 
 John, signature of, 372. 
 
 , customer of Exeter, sale 
 
 of Hayes to, 23. 
 
 John, of Topsham,' nephew of 
 John, inherits the prebend of 
 Hayes, 23. 
 
 William, of Whipton House, en- 
 quiry into the death of, 62. 
 Sir William, Secretary of State, 
 signature of, 364. 
 
 , clerk of, money paid to, 
 
 363. 
 
 Sir William, v. Exeter, 419. 
 William, gift of Hayes to, 23. 
 Peterson, Peeterson, William, Dean 
 
 of Exeter, signature of, 144. 
 Mr. Snow and others ap- 
 pointed by the Chamber to 
 treat with, 332. 
 
 and the Chapter, make agree- 
 ment with the Chamber, 333. 
 Petition of Right, copy of, with 
 
 a few alterations, 184. 
 Petty, William, Earl of Shelburne, 
 
 letter to, 258. 
 
 Peynter, Antony, payments to, 399. 
 Peytevyn, Thomas, yeoman, men- 
 tion of, 87. 
 
 Peyton, Col. Sir Robert, regiment 
 under the command of, 221, 
 223. 
 Philip, Prince of Spain, expected 
 
 arrival of, 35. 
 
 lands at Southampton, 362. 
 married to Queen Mary at Win- 
 chester, 362. 
 "his M.," attempts to gain 
 
 goodwill of, 363. 
 Philipps : 
 
 Edward, Speaker of the House 
 of Commons, gift from the 
 Burgesses of Exeter to, 321. 
 Mr., money paid to, 130. 
 Picot, Henry, gift of tenement by, 
 
 264. 
 
 Piedmont, Prince of [? Emmanuel 
 Philibert, Count of Pied- 
 mont], letter concerning, 34. 
 Pierce, Adam, solicitor, bill of, for 
 charges in conducting the 
 City's legal business (1761- 
 1799), 380. 
 
 Piggott, Arthur Leary, Solicitor to 
 the ^Prince of Wales, to be 
 presented with the freedom of 
 the City of Exeter, 225. 
 Pilots, regulations for the duties of, 
 over the bar of the Port of 
 Exeter, 337. 
 
 Pilton (Pyllton), Devon, sale of priory 
 property, 20, 291. 
 
 Pipe Rolls, extracts from, 404. 
 (temp. John), 428. 
 (temp. Hen. Ill), 428. 
 Pirates and Piracy, letters concern- 
 ing, 14, 15. 
 
 documents concerning, 8889. 
 commission for suppressing, 192, 
 
 431. 
 Pitt, William, Secretary of State, 
 
 signature of, 237. 
 to receive the freedom of Exeter, 
 
 250, 251. 
 
 Place Bill, desire for an effectual, 245. 
 Players, Companies of, documents 
 
 relating to, 171-73. 
 Players and shows, regulations for, 
 
 in the City and County of 
 
 Exeter, 321. 
 Pleas of the Crown, certified extract 
 
 from, 4. 
 
 exemplification of, 429. 
 Plot, alleged (1609), document con- 
 cerning, 79. 
 Plymouth [Devon], 88, 223, 312, 
 
 370. 
 Duke of Buckingham returns to, 
 
 18. 
 the Prince of Piedmont to sail 
 
 from, 34. 
 
 Philip's expected arrival at, 35. 
 the Sea Horse Inn at, 63. 
 the Post from London to, 64, 
 
 65, 66. 
 
 search for aliens in, 116. 
 two public free grammar schools 
 
 in, 154, 158. 
 payment of Exeter soldiers in, 
 
 174. 
 payment of the garrison of the 
 
 port of, 175. 
 
 distress and sickness in, 176. 
 billeting of soldiers at, 180, 181, 
 
 182. 
 
 heavily burdened by the billet- 
 ing of soldiers, 182. 
 soldiers to assemble at, 183. 
 Commissioners for billeting 
 
 soldiers at, letters to, 180, 181, 
 
 182, 183. 
 
 no answer from, 244. 
 petition to be sent from, 244. 
 Exeter ships at, 313. 
 vessels from, 375. 
 grain bought at, 381. 
 Paving and Lighting Act for, 
 
 419. 
 
 letters dated at, 115, 190. 
 Mayor of (1588), letter to, 316. 
 , John Martyn, letter of, 
 
 115. 
 -, Thomas Sherwill, letter of, 
 
 176.
 
 519 
 
 Plymouth, Mayor of cont. 
 
 , Nicholas Sherwill, letter 
 
 of, 190. 
 
 , , letter to, 190. 
 
 (1629), letter to, 65. 
 
 Plympton [Devon], letter dated at, 
 
 27. 
 Collegiate Church of, grants to 
 
 the Canons of, 272. 
 Manor of, confirmation of deed 
 
 of purchase of, 6. 
 Priory of, sale of property of, 
 
 20, 271-72, 291, 411. 
 Prior of, his property in Exeter, 
 
 271. 
 John, Prior of, v. John Hull, 
 
 392. 
 Robert, Prior of, v. John Bio yon, 
 
 392. 
 
 Poke, Robert, of Thorverton, con- 
 tract with for building East- 
 gate, 302. 
 Poland, a sick soldier in the Prince of 
 
 Orange's army from, 224. 
 Pole: 
 
 Sir John, receives the freedom of 
 
 Exeter, 253. 
 
 Sir William, money delivered by, 
 124. 
 
 , suit between the poor and, 
 
 122. 
 Poleworth, Andrew, baker, will of, 
 
 282. 
 
 Poll Money, Acts for, 211. 
 Pollard : 
 
 Lewis, Serjeant-at-Law, 48. 
 
 , Recorder of Exeter, gift 
 
 for, 56. 
 
 Mr., fee paid to, 92. 
 Richard, Sheriff, to receive a gift 
 in recognition of his services 
 to the City, 305. 
 Pollerd, Sir John, knight, money 
 
 paid to, 362. 
 Polonians, the, conclusion of peace 
 
 between the Turk and, 126. 
 Polsloo, Devon, sale of the priory 
 
 lands, 20, 271, 291, 411. 
 land near, 282. 
 Prioress of, Avelina, grant by, 
 
 280. 
 Pomeray, Henry de la, senior, land 
 
 held by, 401. 
 contention with respect to the 
 
 body of, 401. 
 
 Poole (Powle), will not allow Exeter 
 free with them for custom, 33. 
 petition from, 244. 
 vessels from, 375. 
 Poor, rate for the, 161. 
 Poor Rates, Bill relating to, alluded 
 
 to, 225, 226. I 
 
 Pope Celestine III, confirmation of 
 
 grant by, 263. 
 
 Pope, the, and his clergy, Sir John 
 Oldcastle's fate brought about 
 by the tyranny of, 352. 
 Pope : 
 
 Thomas, farmer of the Haven, 
 
 26. 
 
 Mr., the late harbour master 
 and assistant wharfinger at 
 Topsham, 420. 
 Popham, Sir John, Attorney -General, 
 
 holograph letter of, 63. 
 receipt of, 68. 
 signature of, 74. 
 
 Porsel, Joachim, robbery of, 63. 
 Portbury, Edward, Hooker's Manu- 
 script Book shown to, 341. 
 Port Dues Act, 421. 
 Porte, Alured de la, lease to, 71, 386. 
 Port Mahoon, its value to the trade 
 
 of the Mediterranean, 242. 
 Portsmouth, 235. 
 
 ships to meet at, 179. 
 Commissioners for soldiers at, 
 
 182. 
 
 handbill printed at, 260. 
 Portugal (Portingall), trade with, 
 
 89. 
 
 soldiers returned to, 317. 
 Portages [? Portuguese], the, Dutch 
 
 practices towards, 242. 
 Posts of the Western Stages, regula- 
 tions concerning, 6466. 
 Potheridge (Poderidge) near Torring- 
 
 ton, letter dated at, 162. 
 Potter : 
 
 Barnaby, Bishop of Carlisle, 
 
 letter of, 195. 
 George, payment from, as exe-- 
 
 cutor of a will, 205. 
 Poughill (Pochelle), near Crediton, 
 Church of, granted to St. 
 Nicholas' Priory, Exeter, 269. 
 Poulett : 
 
 G., letter of, 83. 
 
 John, Earl Poulett, Lord Lieut - 
 tenant of Devon and Exeter, 
 appoints his deputies, 13. 
 Poulter, John, warrant to, 110. 
 Powderham [Devon], included in the 
 
 Port of Exeter, 29. 
 complaints about foreign in- 
 habitants in, 68. 
 Powys, Sir Littleton, Justice of 
 
 Assize, petition to, 32. 
 Praed, Mr., recommended as parlia- 
 mentary candidate for Exeter, 
 253. 
 
 Prat, Thomas, letter of, 273. 
 Pratt, Sir Charles, Chief Justice of 
 Common Pleas, letter of, 251.
 
 520 
 
 Pratt, Sir Charles cent. 
 
 receives the freedom of Exeter, 
 
 251. 
 his portrait in the Guildhall, 
 
 251. 
 " Prattishead," a piece of land near 
 
 Exmouth, 289. 
 Predeox, Thomas, of Ashburton, 
 
 deposition by, &c., 57, 58. 
 Prestwood : 
 
 Richard, remembrances for the 
 Parliament probably by, 32. 
 
 , rode to London, 308. 
 
 , Sheriff, insult to, 308. 
 
 , signature of, 372. 
 
 , a servant of, 309. 
 
 Thomas, Burgess for Exeter, re- 
 quest to, 22. 
 
 , Alderman of Exeter, Com- 
 missioner, 260. 
 -, property purchased and 
 
 sold by, 291. 
 -, of Exeter, will of, 414. 
 
 Pretender, the Old, 246, 247. 
 
 the Young, reward offered for 
 the apprehension of, 246. 
 
 , documents relating to his 
 
 landing in Scotland, &c., 246- 
 248. 
 Price, Thomas, of Stafford, convicted 
 
 of burglary, 237. 
 Prideaux : 
 
 Edmund, Attorney-General to 
 the Commonwealth and Re- 
 corder of Exeter, 12. 
 
 , letter to be written to, 
 
 213. 
 -, elected to the Recorder- 
 
 ship, 325. 
 George, letter of, 210. 
 John, Rector of Exeter College, 
 letters of, 99, 100. 
 
 , , allusion to letter of, 
 
 102. 
 
 John, letter to, 367. 
 Peter, letter of, 217. 
 
 , to come to Exeter, 218. 
 
 Prigge, Henry, request from the 
 Chamber of Exeter to, 
 328. 
 Prigs, William, soldier, relief ordered 
 
 for, 66. 
 
 Prisoners, poor, relief of, 68. 
 Privy Seal, writ of, 5. 
 
 extract from writ of, 6. 
 Privy Seals desired, 20. 
 
 money to be lent upon, 84, 
 
 85. 
 Proclamation, commission for a 
 
 (1382), 429. 
 
 Proclamations, Royal, 424. 
 Produm, William, grant by, 400. 
 
 Prouse (Prous, Prows, Prowse) : 
 
 John, M.P. for Exeter, letters of, 
 
 41,76, 80,82,93,97, 109, 110, 
 
 111-14, 131, 138, 166. 
 
 , letters to, 75, 117. 
 
 , forwards copy of an Act 
 
 of Parliament, 78. 
 
 , favour solicited for, 90. 
 
 , return of the bond of, 
 
 desired, 103. 
 -, contribution delivered by, 
 
 105. 
 
 , recommends his brother 
 William for office, 114. 
 
 , allusion to letters to, 127. 
 
 , appointed by the Chamber 
 to bring their suit to the King 
 and Privy Council, 130. 
 
 , Alderman of Exeter, 
 accused by Ferryman, 136. 
 
 , information given to, 137. 
 
 , has an interview with the 
 Bishop of Exeter, 137. 
 -, Ferryman complains of, 
 
 140. 
 
 , to receive an allowance 
 
 from the City in recognition 
 of his long services, 321. 
 Richard, son of John, return of 
 the bond of, desired, &c., 103. 
 Richard, mayoralty of, 320. 
 Robert, will of, 415. 
 William, Chamberlain of Exeter, 
 letters of, 77, 90, 108, 115- 
 30 132, 134. 
 
 narration of business left 
 
 82. 
 
 document sent to, 83. 
 
 makes search in the Rolls, 
 
 to 
 
 90 
 
 money due to, 103. 
 presentment of the names 
 
 of the sureties of, 103. 
 , bearer of the contribution 
 
 from Exeter, 107. 
 , desires to be reimbursed 
 
 for his expenses, 123. 
 , to solicit Sir G. Calvert's 
 
 favour for the petition from 
 
 Exeter, 125. 
 , his second interview with 
 
 the Lord Keeper, 127. 
 . intends to prosecute a new 
 
 course, 129. 
 . his expenses in London, 
 
 130. 
 , appointed by the Chamber 
 
 to bring their suit before 
 
 the King and Privy Council, 
 
 130. 
 , presents petition to James 
 
 I at Hampton Court, 131.
 
 521 
 
 Prouse, William, Chamberlain of 
 Exeter cont. 
 
 , goes to Windsor to receive 
 
 James I's answer, 131. 
 , employed about 
 
 the 
 
 escheatorship, 132. 
 -, receives instructions from 
 
 the King's Attorney, 134. 
 William, son of the Chamber- 
 lain, letter of, 103. 
 Mr. [? John or William], order 
 to be referred to, 64. 
 
 , to confer with Mr. Norden 
 
 about the Prince's property, 
 197. 
 
 , to make enquiry concern- 
 ing a bequest to the poor, 319. 
 Mrs., widow of William, demand 
 
 of, 103. 
 Prussia, a soldier from, in the Prince 
 
 of Orange's army, 224. 
 Prynce, Edward, weaver, agreement 
 between the Chamber of Exe- 
 ter and, 80. 
 Punishments for various offences, 
 
 memoranda of, 313. 
 Purselowe, Thomas, recommended 
 for the Bodley Preachership, 
 93. 
 
 Pye, Sir Robert, Auditor of the 
 Exchequer, receives the con- 
 tribution from Exeter, 108. 
 Pym, Mr., Receiver of Exeter, order 
 
 to, 332. 
 
 Pyrke, Jonathan, contract by, 285. 
 grant to, 285. 
 
 Queen or Regina v. Wm. Moham, 
 John Arundell and Margaret 
 Buller(1574), 418. 
 v. Macgowan (1829), 420. 
 v. Exeter (1840), 420. 
 
 Queen's Bench, exemplification of 
 
 proceeding in (1575), 7. 
 case in, 421. 
 
 Quick, John, suspected of treason, 
 324. 
 
 Quicke, John, vicar of Churchstow 
 and Kingsbridge, application 
 of, 210. 
 
 Quivil, Peter, Bishop of Exeter, in- 
 vites Edward I to Exeter, 
 267. 
 
 Quivil, Peter cont. 
 
 agreement between the City and 
 280. 
 
 address by the Dean and Chap- 
 ter and, 361. 
 
 and the Chapter of Exeter, 
 tithes and compositions be- 
 tween the Mayor and Com- 
 monalty and, 384. 
 Quo Warranto, writ of, copy of, 
 361. 
 
 pleas of, 393. 
 
 Radcliffe, Jasper, notification by, 31. 
 
 Radford [Devon], letter dated at, 84. 
 
 Radford : 
 
 John, executor of the will of 
 Nicholas Radford, acknow- 
 ledgment by, 56. 
 Nicholas, Recorder of Exeter, 
 pension granted to, 56. 
 
 Raindolls, Thomas, Controller and 
 Master of her Majesty's 
 Posts, letter of, 64. 
 
 Ralegh (Raw ley), George, ship be- 
 longing to, 64. 
 
 Sir Henry de, contention with 
 respect to the body of, 401. 
 
 Ralph, admitted into the brother- 
 hood of Thelesford, 287. 
 Anastasia wife of, 287. 
 
 Randulph, the Papal Legate, 280. 
 
 Ratcliffe, Han., signature of, 341. 
 v. Leveryng, 419. 
 
 Rawley. See Ralegh. 
 
 Raymond, Charles, letter of, 231. 
 
 Rayshleygh, Theophilus, Secretary 
 to the Earl of Nottingham, 
 Lord Steward, letter of, 75. 
 
 Reading [Berks], writ dated at, 8. 
 
 Rebellion of 1549, 21-22, 24. 
 
 Rebellions, misdemeanours, &c., 
 commission to enquire con- 
 cerning, 432. 
 
 Recognizances, exemplification of 
 decree concerning forfeited, 
 431. 
 of the Staple, book of entries of, 
 
 394. 
 , roll of entries of, 394. 
 
 Recusants, ammunition reported to 
 be brought to the houses of, 
 &c., 112-13.
 
 522 
 
 Recusants cont. 
 
 Popish, proclamation concern- 
 ing, 10. 
 Rede, Simon, the last Abbot of Tor, 
 
 lease by, 275. 
 surrenders the abbey, 275. 
 Redwoode, Joan, of Exeter, will of, 
 
 415. 
 Redynge, Henry, about to leave his 
 
 office at the Guildhall, 44. 
 Reginald, Earl of Cornwall, witness, 
 
 2. 
 
 Henry son of, Charter of, 341. 
 Religious Houses in Devon and Corn- 
 wall, property lately belong- 
 ing to, documents concerning, 
 20-21, 263, 291. 
 
 Renolle, Arnold, of Exeter, money 
 received of the goods of, 309. 
 Reprisal goods, examination touch- 
 ing, 193. 
 Requests, Court of, suit in, 394. 
 
 Masters of, 47, 82. 
 Restoration, the, refusal to subscribe 
 
 the oaths at, 427. 
 Reve, Nicholas, of Exeter, will of, 
 
 414. 
 
 Revels, Children of the, 171. 
 Reynell : 
 
 Richard, J.P. for Devon, letters 
 
 of, 110, 111. 
 
 Mr., to attend the Sessions, 132. 
 Reynold, Arnold, of Exeter, two 
 
 copies of will of, 414. 
 Rh6, Isle de, reinforcements to be 
 
 sent to, 17, 180, 181. 
 the King's army in, 182. 
 Rice, Agnes, of Exeter, will of, 
 
 415. 
 
 Rice, price of, 256, 257. 
 Rich, Henry, Earl of Holland, sol- 
 diers sent with, 180. 
 Richard I, grants of, 2. 
 
 confirmation of grants of, 2. 
 confirms Charter, 346. 
 copies of Charters of, 428. 
 Richard II, confirmation of grant by, 
 
 4, 281. 
 
 confirmation of grant of, 4. 
 copy of writ of, 397. 
 Richard, King of the Romans, grants 
 
 of, 2, 3. 
 
 confirmations of grant of, 3. 
 Charter of, 403. 
 
 Richard, Robert fitz, grant by, 396. 
 Richmond [Surrey], letter dated at, 
 
 15. 
 
 Ridgwaies, Mr., payment to, 34. 
 Ridlesden, Stephen, Clerk of the 
 
 Ordnance, letter of, 72. 
 Rigby, C., letter of, 254. 
 Rigdon, Moor of. See Ringswell. 
 
 Ringswell, Lordship of, the Moor of 
 
 Rigdon in the, 278. 
 Riots, tumults and unlawful assem- 
 blies to be suppressed, 246, 
 
 247. 
 Risdon : 
 
 T., of Winscott, his descriptive 
 
 volume of the County and 
 
 City of Devon, 357-58. 
 tailor named, speech of, 109n. 
 Risebank [or Rysbrook, France], 
 
 taken, 36. 
 Risebrow or Rixborough, John, 
 
 Alderman of Norwich, letter 
 
 of, 232. 
 Robert : 
 
 Stephen fitz, grant by, 396. 
 Walter fitz, grant by, 396. 
 Robins, Robert, payment to, 208. 
 Rocabacke, Tobias, recommended as 
 
 swordbearer, 84. 
 Rodd, James, petition of, 32. 
 Rodney, Somersetshire, Act of 
 
 Parliament for, 377. 
 Roffa, Solomon de, Justice of Assize, 
 
 Iter of, 387, 393. 
 Roger : 
 
 John fitz, grant by, 396. 
 William, engraving by, 354. 
 Roke, John, a grey friar, accused of 
 
 immorality, 352. 
 Rolle, John, of Tidwell, letter of, 
 
 231. 
 recommended as member for 
 
 Exeter, 232. 
 Rolls, the, Keeper of (1627), fee paid 
 
 to, 91. 
 Roman Catholics, petitions and 
 
 papers against, 424. 
 Romans, King of. See Richard. 
 Rose Castle [Cumberland], letter 
 
 dated at, 195. 
 Rotterdam, letter dated at, 230. 
 
 the erection of St. Mary's 
 
 Church in, 230. 
 Rouen, grant dated at, 2. 
 Roughe, Nicholas, confession of, 
 
 314. 
 Rowe : 
 
 John, arbitration of, 48. 
 
 John, reversion of property of, 
 
 197. 
 
 William, will of, 282. 
 Mr., debt due to, 71. 
 Rowse, John, of Exeter, loan to, 
 
 332. 
 Roy, Thomas, Solicitor for the City 
 
 of Exeter, agreement con- 
 cerning, 197. 
 
 Royal Aid. See under Aid. 
 Royal Proclamation. See under Pro- 
 clamation.
 
 523 
 
 Ruffus, Baldwin, Gilda daughter of, 
 
 gift of house by, 264. 
 Rupe, Adam de, grant by, 396. 
 Rushmarsh, in the parish of Ex- 
 minster, forms part of the 
 Port or Haven of Exeter, 29. 
 Russell : 
 
 Edward, 3rd Earl of Bedford, 
 letter of, 72. 
 
 Francis, 2nd Earl of Bedford, 
 Lieutenant of Exeter, Devon 
 and Cornwall, recommenda- 
 tion of, 41. 
 
 , letters of, 38, 39, 42, 43. 
 
 , instructions of, 42. 
 
 , bestows arms on the City 
 
 of Exeter, 307. 
 
 , commission addressed to, 
 
 309. 
 
 , signature of, 311. 
 
 , present at a proclamation 
 
 at Exeter, 314. 
 
 , procures preferment of 
 
 Bishop Wotton, 346, 373. 
 -, ordnance and artillery of, 
 
 375. 
 -, his lieutenant, 38. 
 
 Francis, Lord of Thornhaugh 
 
 and 4th Earl of Bedford, 
 
 Lord Lieutenant of Devon 
 
 and Exeter, 11, 183. 
 
 , his deputies, 11. 
 
 , claims allowance from the 
 
 Chamber of Exeter, 11. 
 
 , appointment by, 83. 
 
 , orders to, 83, 200, 201, 
 
 202. 
 , information concerning 
 
 his commission, 132. 
 , Perriman to appear before, 
 
 135. 
 , orders the powder rate 
 
 to be paid, 141. 
 
 , motion of, 182. 
 
 , letters of, 11, 138, 166, 
 
 202. 
 -, allusion to letter of, 
 
 142. 
 -, letters to, 17, 169. 
 
 John, Lord and 1st Earl of Bed- 
 ford, Lord Privy Seal, and 
 Lieutenant in the west parts, 
 gift to, 33. 
 
 , his friendship to the 
 
 Haven, 33. 
 
 , letters of, 21, 22, 24, 27, 
 
 34, 35. 
 -, signature of, 25, 364, 
 
 366. 
 John, son of Robert, receipt 
 
 from, with seal, 287. 
 Robert, grant to, 287. 
 
 Russell cont. 
 
 William Lord, afterwards 1st 
 Duke of Bedford, Lord Lieu- 
 tenant of Devon and Exeter, 
 11. 
 
 , his deputies, 11. 
 
 , orders to, 200, 201, 202. 
 
 , letter of, 202. 
 
 Rut hen, Colonel, payment for a guide 
 
 of, 207. 
 Rutter, Abraham, warrant for the 
 
 arrest of, 133. 
 in the Low Countries, 133. 
 safe custody of, 134. 
 his house searched, 1 34. 
 his books, &c., to be sent to 
 
 London, 134. 
 
 Rydon, Robert, enters into an in- 
 denture with the Mayor of 
 Exeter, 283. 
 
 Rydgeway, John, letter to, 367. 
 Rye [Sussex], letter dated at, 235. 
 vessels from, 375. 
 Harbour, petition for the re- 
 storation of, 235. 
 Mayor of, John Slade, letter of, 
 235. 
 
 Sackville : 
 
 Edward, Earl of Dorset, Lord 
 Chamberlain to Queen Hen- 
 rietta Maria, commission read 
 to, 191. 
 
 Lionel Cranfield, Duke of Dor- 
 set, President of the Council, 
 letter to, 247. 
 
 Thomas, Earl of Dorset, Lord 
 of the Council, signature of, 
 74. 
 
 Thomas, 1st Lord Buckhurst, 
 Lord of the Council, signature 
 of, 73. 
 
 J. [? Thomas], signature of, 63, 
 
 66. 
 St. Albans, [Herts], money left for 
 
 the poor of, 319. 
 
 St. Bernards, Island of, granted to 
 the Earl of Pembroke and 
 Montgomery, 203. 
 
 St. Christopher's or St. Kitts, Lee- 
 ward Islands, English ships 
 taken by the French at, 192.
 
 524 
 
 St. Christopher's or St. Kitts, Lee- 
 ward Islands cont. 
 
 captured by the Spaniards, 192n. 
 trade with, imperilled, 242. 
 St. John, Sir Oliver, Viscount Grandi- 
 son, late Deputy of Ireland, 
 made a Privy Councillor, 129. 
 St. Leger, Sir John, knight, commis- 
 sion addressed to, 309. 
 St. Malo (St. Mallo), barks of, 192. 
 
 vessels from, 375. 
 
 St. Martins-in-the-Fields [Middle- 
 sex], 76. 
 Sain thill, Mr., his mills destroyed, 
 
 255. 
 
 Salcombe [Devon], vessels from, 375. 
 Salisbury [Wilts], letter dated at, 
 
 176. 
 
 stage for Post, 65. 
 two public free grammar schools 
 
 in, 154. 
 
 distress and sickness in, 176. 
 Mayor of, James Abbott, letter 
 of, 176. 
 
 (1629), letter to, 65. 
 
 Salisbury, Earl of. See Cecil. 
 Salmon fishing. See Exe, the, fish- 
 ing of. 
 
 Salt, sale of, petition concerning, 68. 
 Salter : 
 
 George, letter delivered by, 132. 
 Mr., to be sent with poll deed, 
 
 122. 
 Sampford : 
 
 Cecilia, coroner's inquisition on 
 
 the death of, 58, 387. 
 John, to be sent to London with 
 letters, 312. 
 
 , money paid to, 312. 
 
 Walter, father of Cecilia, 58. 
 Sampford Courtenay [Devon], ac- 
 count of the manor of (1493- 
 94), 396. 
 
 Sanda, Thomas de, grant by, 399. 
 Sandes, Mr., answer requested to be 
 
 sent by, 229. 
 Sanford : 
 
 William, sometime Alderman 
 of Exeter, money to be re- 
 ceived by, 276. 
 
 , money received from, 334. 
 
 , to receive certain bonds 
 
 and report on them to the 
 Chamber, 335. 
 -, to arrange the business of 
 
 the Chamber concerning their 
 
 Irish lands, 335, 336. 
 William, abstract of title of, 
 
 431. 
 Sandwich [Kent], ships appointed to 
 
 meet at, 8. 
 ships belonging to, 187. 
 
 Sandwich, Earl of. See Montagu. 
 
 Sankey (Sankie), Colonel Hierom or 
 Jerome, of Clonmell, convey- 
 ance for the sale of the Cham- 
 ber's lands in Ireland to, 329, 
 330. 
 
 a release under the Common 
 Seal sealed to, 336. 
 
 Santiago di Compostela, letter dated 
 at, 35. 
 
 Sara [? Feria], Marquis of, his ex- 
 pected visit to Exeter, 38. 
 
 Saumur, grant dated at, 2. 
 
 Saunders : 
 
 John, of Holy Trinity, Exeter, 
 
 will of, 415. 
 
 Richard, and other displaced 
 members of the Council and 
 Chamber of Exeter, reinstated, 
 325. 
 
 Savery : 
 
 Christopher, letter of, 209. 
 Thomas, a merchant adventurer, 
 losses sustained by, 41. 
 
 Savidge, John, of Exeter, will of, 
 416. 
 
 Scarell, George, baker, 57. 
 
 Scavage or Savage, short historical 
 
 notice of, by Hooker, 342. 
 exemplification of Queen's 
 Bench Judgment Roll, of a 
 suit about, 342. 
 similar suit, 342. 
 
 Scawen, Robert, signature of, 211. 
 
 Score, John, letter to, 243. 
 letters of, 244. 
 
 Scotland, Bill for the linen manu- 
 facture of, 244. 
 the Young Pretender lands in, 
 
 247. 
 the Young Pretender raises his 
 
 standard in, 247. 
 proposal for Henry V to invade, 
 351. 
 
 Scots, invasion of the (1644) 13. 
 
 Scottish wars, ship to be used in the 
 King's service for the (1303), 
 281. 
 
 Scott, James, his death sentence 
 commuted, 237. 
 
 Scroope, Mr., M.P. for Lyme, inter- 
 view with, 244, 245. 
 
 Seal, Great, of England, commission 
 appointed to pass under, 118. 
 
 Seals, collection of, in the Miscel- 
 laneous Deeds, 3001. 
 
 Seamen, supplied by Devon for the 
 
 King's service, 1 8. 
 and see under Impressed. 
 
 Seine, the, a French fleet in, 192. 
 
 Seldon, Laurence, bequest of, 68n, 
 278.
 
 525 
 
 Seldon, Laurence cont. 
 
 his unfinished portrait for the 
 
 Chamber of Exeter, 278. 
 and his wife, picture of, 320. 
 Charity of, documents concern- 
 ing, 278. 
 
 , land belonging to, 255. 
 
 , accounts of, 425. 
 
 Sellynger, Sir John of, letter to, 367. 
 
 Serges, Bill for the true making of, 
 
 twice read in Parliament, 1 66. 
 
 Serlo, Dean of Exeter, gift of house 
 
 by, 266. 
 
 Servants, wages of. See Wages. 
 Sevell, Gilbert, weaver, of Exilond, 
 
 deposition of, 59. 
 Sevill, W., signature of, 366. 
 Sewens, Abraham, of London, mer- 
 chant, complaint of, 72. 
 Seymour : 
 
 Edward, Duke of Somerset, 
 purchase of manors by, 6. 
 
 , grant of manor to, 6. 
 
 , attainder, restitution, &c., 
 
 of, 7. 
 
 , true copy of confirmation 
 
 from, 23. 
 
 , signature of, 25. 
 
 [?], mention of, 33. 
 
 -, exemplification of deeds 
 
 relating to the possessions of, 
 
 430. 
 
 Lord Edward (1585), commis- 
 sion addressed to, 309. 
 Sir Edward, bart., resigns his 
 
 office of Recorder of Exeter, 
 
 13. 
 , Recorder and M.P. for 
 
 Exeter, the Chamber appeals 
 
 to, 31. 
 , Speaker of the House of 
 
 Commons, letter to, 41. 
 
 -, letter to be de- 
 
 livered to, 219. 
 -, M.P. for Exeter, letter to, 
 
 225. 
 
 Shaftesbury, stage for Post, 65. 
 
 Sheere, Mr., Alderman of Exeter, not 
 present at the examination of 
 Perriman's business, 140. 
 
 Shelburne, Earl of. See Petty. 
 
 [Sheldon], Gilbert, Archbishop of 
 Canterbury, consecrates the 
 Bishop of Exeter, 355. 
 
 Shepcott, Henry, bearer of a docu- 
 ment, 323. 
 
 Sherborne, [Dorset], stage for Post, 65. 
 letters dated at, 258. 
 Abbot of, John de Saunde, com- 
 position between the Mayor 
 and Commonalty of Exeter 
 and, 289, 355, 386, 
 
 Sherburne, Edward, Clerk of the 
 Ordnance, order sent by, 216. 
 
 receipt by, 216. 
 
 Sheriffs, County, neglect of, 211. 
 Sherwode, Robert, merchant, letter 
 of, 104. 
 
 allusion to examination of, 105. 
 Shetland, a soldier from, in the Prince 
 
 of Orange's army, 224. 
 Sheviock near St. Germans in Corn- 
 wall, 275n. 
 Shillingford, John, seal of, 278. 
 
 documents relating to his con- 
 flict with the Bishop of Exeter, 
 285, 286. 
 
 owns property in Exeter, 286. 
 Shillingford Letters and Papers, 
 
 boxes containing, 405. 
 Ships and Shipping : 
 
 merchants to be protected by, 
 15. 
 
 contributed by Exeter against 
 the Armada, 63-64. 
 
 charges for the setting forth and 
 providing of, 312, 313, 316, 
 317, 368-70. 
 Ships named : 
 
 Adventure, 191. 
 
 Amytie, 88. 
 
 Bartholomew, 63n, 312, 313, 368, 
 369. 
 
 Convertive, 192. 
 
 Diligence, 207. 
 
 Dimond, man of war, sent to 
 Guinea by the Government, 
 241. 
 
 Dreadnought, 191. 
 
 Gift of God, 311, 312. 
 
 Grenurich, man of war sent to 
 Guinea by the Government, 
 241. 
 
 Guise, 63n. 
 
 Guyfte, 369. 
 
 Hopewell of Dartmouth, 88. 
 
 Jonker of Dansk, 63. 
 
 Lord Viscount Willmot, 18. 
 
 Lyon, 191. 
 
 Maria Otresmuth, 286. 
 
 Rose, 63n, 369. 
 
 Rose of Exeter, 312, 313. 
 
 Sauveye, La, 281. 
 
 Spence Sloope, man of war sent 
 to Guinea by the Government, 
 241. 
 
 St. Marie Cog de Exemuth, 281. 
 
 Sunderland, 249. 
 
 Thomas William, 237. 
 
 Wagen de Burg, 221. 
 Show, Wild Beast, a, document con- 
 cerning, 259. 
 
 Shower, Sir Bartholomew, M.P. for 
 Exeter, letters to, 225,
 
 526 
 
 Shrewsbury, Earl of. See Talbot. 
 Sidbury [Devon], 157. 
 bread riot at, 255. 
 
 Sidmouth, Devon, Admiralty Court 
 of Devon summoned to meet 
 at, 376. 
 
 church of St. Giles, 392. 
 letter written from, 48. 
 Silverton (Silferton) [Devon], letters 
 
 dated at, 47, 83. 
 conference at, 94. 
 
 Simcoe, Lieut. -Col., to be presented 
 to the freedom of the City of 
 Exeter, 252. 
 
 Slade, Mr., request from the Cham- 
 ber to, 330. 
 
 Slaves, trade in, 241, 242. 
 Slegh, Ralph, grant by, 389. 
 Smith (Smythe) : 
 
 Dorothy, of Larkebeare, widow 
 of Sir Nicholas Smyth, lease 
 by, 164. 
 Edward, the widow of, gift of 
 
 land by, 264. 
 
 Elizabeth or Lady Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Sir George 
 Smythe, wife of Sir Thomas 
 Monck, 162, 163, 164. 
 George or Sir George, signature 
 of, 79, 164, 402. 
 
 , M.P. for Exeter, letter of, 
 
 80. 
 
 , desired as Deputy-Lieu- 
 tenant for Exeter, 85. 
 
 , provisions of, 162. 
 
 , his purchases and leases, 
 163, 273. 
 -, his estate in Northernhay, 
 
 197. 
 
 George, instructions for, 26. 
 
 , instructions given to, 72. 
 
 Grace, daughter of Sir George 
 
 Smythe, 164. 
 Henry, and Matilda his wife, 
 
 grant to, 399. 
 Sir James, Sheriff of London, 
 
 letter to, 41. 
 Sir James, M.P. for Exeter in 
 
 the Pensionary Parliament, 
 
 letter of, 218. 
 
 , letter to, 218. 
 
 Jane, daughter of Sir George 
 
 Smythe, 164. 
 Nicholas or Sir Nicholas, son of 
 
 Sir George Smythe, 164. 
 
 , lawsuit of, 162, 163. 
 
 Nicholas, lands of, 395. 
 
 Peter, grant for the manor of 
 
 Topsham to, 367, 404. 
 Robert, grant by, 396. 
 Susannah, order for the execu- 
 tion of, 237. 
 
 Smith cont, 
 
 William, an out pensioner of 
 
 Chelsea Hospital, 257. 
 Mr., letters for, 312. 
 Smythesheghes, Thomas, reference 
 to the executors of the will of, 
 282. 
 Snape, Edmund, D.D., appointed to 
 
 be a preacher in Exeter, 40. 
 Snelgrove, Alexander, Sweet's pos- 
 sessions in the house of, 109. 
 Snell : 
 
 John, his appointment as 
 Deputy Lieutenant for the 
 City of Exeter, 13. 
 John, M.P. for Exeter, letter 
 to, 220. 
 
 , to be presented to Queen 
 
 Anne, 220. 
 Snellinge, John, of Exeter, will of, 
 
 416. 
 Snow (Snowe) : 
 
 Robert, Clerk, of Exeter, execu- 
 tors of, 293. 
 
 Simon, Alderman, bond to be 
 given to, 332. 
 
 , desired by the Chamber 
 
 to treat with the Dean, 332, 
 333. 
 
 , to bring in the lowest price 
 
 and value of a house, 333. 
 
 , acquittances for receipts 
 
 of, 334. 
 Thomas, merchant, of Exeter, 
 
 orphan children of, 81. 
 Mr., executors of, 335. 
 Soap, Bill to allow the full drawback 
 
 on all, 244, 245. 
 Soldiers, billeting of, documents 
 
 concerning, 180-84, 212-13. 
 claims from Exeter for expenses 
 
 of sick and wounded, 218-24. 
 disordered, order to apprehend, 
 
 38. 
 
 maimed, payments to, 66. 
 Somerset, County of, 427. 
 
 soldiers to be billeted in, 183. 
 
 dozens, 138. 
 
 Lord Lieutenants of, letter to, 
 
 169. 
 
 Somerset, Duke of. See Seymour. 
 Somerset, Edward, Earl of Worces- 
 ter, letter of, 82. 
 (F.J.), signature of, 74. 
 Soor, Thomas and Alice, grant to, 
 
 387. 
 Soper, William, of London, copy of 
 
 the will of, 275. 
 Soth, Peter, will of, 280, 281. 
 Sothern, Thomas, Treasurer of 
 Exeter Cathedral, lease to, 
 87.
 
 527 
 
 Sotheron, Henry, of Exeter, bond of, 
 
 39. 
 Southampton (Hampton), 33, 89, 
 
 363. 
 
 petition from, 244. 
 soldiers to be at, 304. 
 Philip of Spain lands at, 362. 
 Southampton, Earl of. See Wrio- 
 
 thesley. 
 Southcote : 
 
 Fitzwilliams, of Towton, son of 
 Thomas, sells the Rectory of 
 Hennock, 275. 
 John, of Bovey Tracey, lease to, 
 
 275. 
 Sir Popham, son of Thomas, 
 
 276. 
 Souther, John, glover, of Exeter, 
 
 bond of, 9. 
 Southmead, William, deposition of, 
 
 61. 
 South Sea Annuities, documents 
 
 concerning, 248. 
 Southwark, a fire in London and 
 
 (1676), 357. 
 Sowton near Exeter, redemption of 
 
 Land Tax on land in, 255. 
 bequest of property in the parish 
 
 of, 278. 
 Spain, prospect of war with (1624), 
 
 10. 
 the Prince of Piedmont about to 
 
 return to, 34. 
 trading with, 89. 
 desire for war with (1621), 112. 
 peace with, expected (1629), 
 
 191. 
 Sir Francis Cottington and 
 
 others going to, 191. 
 war with (1742), justice of, 245. 
 sends a powerful force for the 
 reduction of Gibraltar (1783), 
 252. 
 
 Prince of. See Philip. 
 Spaniards, ships that served against 
 
 the, 317. 
 coast ships serving against the, 
 
 369. 
 
 Sparrow, Anthony, Bishop of Exeter, 
 Izacke's Catalogue of the 
 Bishops closes with, 356. 
 Speer, William, engaged in the dis- 
 pute with Bishop Lacy, 286. 
 Speke : 
 
 Ann, married to Lord North, 
 
 279. 
 
 George, of White Lackington, 
 near Chard, ordered to re- 
 build the Wynard hospital, 
 279. 
 
 John, will of, 303. 
 Mr., house of, 34. 
 
 Spelman, Francis, Clerk of the Parlia- 
 
 mer ts, writ of certiorari to, 6. 
 Spicer (Spycer) : 
 
 Christopher, executor of, 81. 
 Christopher, Lieut, of the band 
 
 of the East Ward, 83. 
 Elizabeth, widow, receipt to, 
 
 81. 
 George, son of Christopher, 81, 
 
 82. 
 Nicholas, merchant, lease to, 
 
 290. 
 , money to be received by, 
 
 312, 313. 
 -, to receive into the City 
 
 the Earls of Essex and Hunt- 
 ingdon and Sir Francis 
 Knolles, 317. 
 
 Nicholas, letters of, 190-93. 
 
 Thomas, schoolmaster, 145, 154, 
 158. 
 
 Thomas, merchant, instructions 
 for, 26. 
 
 , conveyance from, 80. 
 , money to be received by, 
 312, 313. 
 -, to be responsible for the 
 
 victualling of ships, 313. 
 William, son of Christopher, 
 81. 
 
 Spicer's Charity, account of timber 
 on Halberton tenement be- 
 longing to (1769), 379. 
 
 Spratt, John, Subdean of Exeter, 
 signature of, 144. 
 
 Springham, Matthew, letter of, with 
 others, 86. 
 
 Squibs, election, 253. 
 
 Squill, Mr., Clerk of the Treasury, 
 221. 
 
 Stabbock, William, contract made 
 with, 339. 
 
 Stabeck, Andrew, of Exeter, will of, 
 416. 
 
 Stafford, John, Archbishop of Can- 
 terbury, decision of, 285. 
 
 Staines [Middlesex], stage for Post, 
 
 65. 
 petition of the town of, 370. 
 
 Stamford, Earl of. See Grey. 
 
 Stapel, Richard atte, will of, 358. 
 
 Stapeldon (Stapleton), Walter, 
 
 Bishop of Exeter, 361. 
 agreement between the Mayor, 
 &c., and, 281. 
 
 Staplehill : 
 
 Walter, signature of, 372. 
 William, his charges upon the 
 suite of Church plate, 362. 
 
 Starch, making of, forbidden, 67. 
 
 Bill to allow the full drawback 
 on all, 244,
 
 528 
 
 Starkie, Henry, cook, of London, 
 buys and sells a messuage 
 formerly part of the Cathedral 
 property, 214. 
 
 Start, the, ships to keep about, 192. 
 Staryge, Hundred of, Court Roll of, 
 
 396. 
 
 Statute Merchant, to set forth recog- 
 nisance of, 33. 
 Statutes, Book of, gift of, to the City 
 
 of Exeter, 16. 
 Stephen, King, Charter of, reference 
 
 to, 372, 374. 
 Stephen : 
 
 Robert fitz, grant by, 396. 
 Dr., copy of will of, 419. 
 Stephens (Stephynes) : 
 
 John, Prebendary of Hayes and 
 Canon of St. Peters, deeds of 
 sale, &c., by, 22, 23. 
 Dr. Lewis, money bequeathed 
 
 by, 425. 
 
 Mr., to be restored to his 
 ministry in the Magdalen, 320. 
 Sterte, Ellis, Commissioners ap- 
 pointed by, 333. 
 
 Steven, John, M.D., Canon of the 
 Cathedral, almshouse erected 
 by (St. Katherine's Alms- 
 house), 285. 
 
 Stonehurst, vessels from, 375. 
 Stooke, Clement, of Exeter, will of, 
 
 416. 
 
 Strangwaye v. Wilford, 432. 
 Stratton, the defeat at, 324. 
 Strete [? Swete], Harry, and his wife, 
 
 25. 
 
 Strode or Stroode, William, of Newn- 
 ham, agreement of, 27, 314. 
 letter of, 27. 
 letter to, 28. 
 Stronge, Walter, lease of a plot of 
 
 ground to, 330. 
 Stubbes, William, of Ratclyffe, 
 
 Middlesex, bond of, 72. 
 grant to, by letters patent, 72. 
 Stubbs v. Martyn, 419. 
 Stukeley, Mr., agreement drawn up 
 and approved by the Chamber 
 of Exeter and, 330. 
 Sture, Mr., recommended as a 
 
 Councillor, 24. 
 
 Sturte, Peter, Warden of the Magda- 
 lene, rental drawn up by, 398. 
 Subsidies, letter concerning, 42. 
 documents relating to, 427. 
 Subsidy, the, (1563), 52. 
 
 Commission for a (1571), 10, 
 430 
 
 (1590), 10, 431. 
 
 (1624), 10, 431. 
 
 (1625), 10, 431, 432, 
 
 Suffolk, Duke of. See Grey. 
 Sukespiche or Sukespic, Robert, gift 
 
 of land by, 264. 
 Sumpforde, John, sent to London 
 
 with letters, 29n. 
 
 Supremacy and Allegiance, Oath of, 
 to be administered (1642), 13. 
 Supremacy, Oath of, to be adminis- 
 tered (1679), 13, 432. 
 Surrey, County of, soldiers to be 
 
 billeted in, 183. 
 
 Susa, Peace of, documents concern- 
 ing, 190. 
 proclaimed, 192. 
 Sussex, coast of, 235. 
 Sutcliffe, Matthew, Dean of Exeter, 
 
 mention of, 117. 
 Sutton : 
 
 John de, of Exeter, recovery of 
 
 rents by, 164. 
 Zacharias, executed, 237. 
 Sweet (Sweete, Swete) : 
 
 Gilbert, signature of, 151, 153. 
 Harry, Bailiff of the manor of 
 Exilond, lease from, 25. 
 
 , Richawde, wife of, 25. 
 
 John alias John Dowes or Douse, 
 Jesuit, custody examination, 
 &c., of, 109-11. 
 
 Richard, Receiver of Exeter, 
 340. 
 
 , to be responsible for the 
 
 victualling of the ships, 313. 
 Richard, punishment of, 309. 
 Sweden, a soldier from, in the Prince 
 
 of Orange's army, 224. 
 Switzerland, a soldier from, in the 
 Prince of Orange's army, 
 224. 
 
 Syden, William de, convention be- 
 tween the Prior of St. James 
 and, 399. 
 
 Sydenham, Humphrey, M.P. for 
 Exeter, letters to, &c., 172, 
 225. 
 
 instructions sent to, 245. 
 determines to complain to the 
 House of Commons, 245, 
 246. 
 Sydney, Major-General, regiment of, 
 
 221. 
 Symon, Simon or Symons : 
 
 William, sends information, 32. 
 
 , communication from, 74. 
 
 , survey, &c., of Exeter 
 
 estates sent by express to, 
 227 
 
 , letter of, 234. 
 
 -, his long service to the City 
 
 of Exeter, 235. 
 Mr., preaches and reads prayers, 
 236,
 
 529 
 
 Syon, Sion [Middlesex], granted to 
 the Duke of Somerset, and 
 then to the Duke of North- 
 umberland, 33n. 
 
 , Abbey or Monastery of, ex- 
 tract from the charter of, 371. 
 
 , , liberties and privileges 
 
 granted by Letters Patent to, 
 403. 
 
 -, exemplification of char- 
 
 ters to, 433. 
 
 Tailor, the widow, of St. David's, 
 
 Exeter, 173. 
 Talbot, Francis, Earl of Shrewsbury, 
 
 signature of, 366. 
 Talmash or Tollmache, Col. Thomas, 
 
 regiment of, 221. 
 
 Tamer, River, freeman of Exeter 
 charged toll and passage on 
 the, 384. 
 Tanfield, Sir Laurence, Lord Chief 
 
 Baron, 102, 122. 
 letter of, 82. 
 Taunton [Somerset], letter dated at, 
 
 177. 
 
 distress and sickness in, 177. 
 payment of a messenger from, 
 
 207. 
 how it might profit by trade with 
 
 Guinea, 243. 
 no answer from, 244. 
 a freeman of, 422. 
 Mayor of (1640), letter of, 177. 
 
 (1739), votes sent to, 244. 
 
 Canal Papers, 420. 
 Taverner : 
 
 Nicholas, letter of, 230. 
 Roger, gift of land by, 264. 
 Tavistock (Tawestock) [Devon], 
 
 letters dated at, 38, 39. 
 foot postman of , 128. 
 sale of messuages in, 238. 
 Taylder, Peter, of All Hallow's, Exe- 
 ter, will of, 415. 
 Taylor : 
 
 Agnes, of Upton Pyne, widow, 
 
 173. 
 
 John, executed, 237. 
 John, member of the Company 
 of Merchant Adventurers, re- 
 fuses to pay taxes, 193. 
 
 Wt. 20757. 
 
 Teignmouth [Devon], included in the 
 
 Port of Exeter, 29. 
 customs at, 422. 
 Newfoundland fish landed at, 
 
 422. 
 
 Harbour Bill, 421. 
 West, property in, 291. 
 Teukesbury, Nicholas of, Lord of 
 Hewes, composition between 
 the Lord of Totnes and Dart- 
 mouth and, 341. 
 
 Thacher, Peter, Rector of St. Ed- 
 mund's, Salisbury, letter of, 
 176. 
 Thames, the, two of the King's ships 
 
 in, 191. 
 
 vessels in, 237. 
 
 Thanet, Earl of. See Tufton. 
 Thomas : 
 
 Gabriel, of Rewe, Keeper of 
 
 Exeter gaol, 292. 
 John, senior, of Exeter, will of, 
 
 414. 
 
 John, fisher, lease to, 25. 
 Mr., order to be referred to, 64. 
 one, equipments delivered to, 
 
 304. 
 [Thornborough, John], Bishop of 
 
 Bristol, 96. 
 
 Thorverton (Thurfurton), land in, 
 granted to St. Nicholas' 
 Priory, 270. 
 
 Throgmorton, Mr., Alnager for Exe- 
 ter and Devon, 46. 
 Tickill (Tyckell) : 
 
 George, Clerk, elected to the 
 
 Bodley Lecturership, 97. 
 Richard, Chamberlain of Exeter, 
 
 sureties for, 104. 
 William, Chamberlain of Exeter, 
 coroner, examination taken 
 before, 62. 
 
 , appointed to take over 
 
 the Rectory of Mariansleigh, 
 210. 
 -, his election as Chamber- 
 
 lain, 320. 
 Mrs., suit of, alluded to, 81. 
 
 , legal proceedings against, 
 
 &c., 102, 103. 
 
 Tipton [Devon], bread riot at, 255. 
 Time, James, of St. John, Exeter, 
 
 415. 
 Titchfield [Hants], Council at (1552), 
 
 letter from, 260. 
 letter dated at, 366. 
 Tiverton [Devon], 81: 
 
 refuses to join the new Company 
 
 of Merchants, 4 In. 
 no answer from, 244. 
 troops at, 256. 
 letter dated at, 258. 
 
 Ex 34
 
 530 
 
 Tiverton cont. 
 
 Mayor of (1623), Prows' account 
 to, 130. 
 
 (1739), votes sent to, 244. 
 
 Tobacco, sale of, document concern- 
 ing, 195. 
 Tobago, island of, plantation of, 41. 
 
 granted to the Earl of Mont- 
 gomery and Pembroke, 203. 
 
 documents concerning the 
 peopling and planting of, 203- 
 205. 
 To bey, Mr., of Cullompton, suggested 
 
 as swordbearer, 83, 84. 
 Tobye, Edward, member of a Com- 
 pany of Players, 171. 
 Toker, Mr., of Colhampton, 36, 37. 
 Tokett, person named, lease of a mill 
 
 to, 308. 
 Toll-free places, list of, by Hooker, 
 
 340. 
 Tooker, Toker : 
 
 Robert, bill of charges of, 91. 
 
 Robert, of Sidford, lease of land 
 to, 238. 
 
 Samuel, letter of, 87. 
 
 Thomas, letter of, 87. 
 
 Thomas, swordbearer, dismissal 
 of, 83n. 
 
 Valentine, compelled to leave his 
 house, 86, 87. 
 
 , receipt from, 87. 
 
 Topsham [Devon], ship to be sup- 
 plied by (1347), 8. 
 
 Shilleys in, forms part of the 
 Port of Exeter, 29. 
 
 dispute between the City of 
 Exeter and, 30. 
 
 river to be made navigable be- 
 tween Exeter and, 31. 
 
 to provide ship, &c., against the 
 Armada, 63n. 
 
 complaint about foreign inhabi- 
 tants in, 68. 
 
 house called La Fyve Selers, 
 lease of, 72. 
 
 petition on behalf of the in- 
 habitants of, 73. 
 
 Haven of, lease for a passage 
 through, 73. 
 
 Port of, complaint against the 
 Comptroller of, 73. 
 
 , documents concerning, 
 
 72-73. 
 
 ship for securing the harbour of, 
 207. 
 
 vessels bound for, 237. 
 
 document dated at, 237. 
 
 rates for goods brought between 
 Exeter and, 318. 
 
 rules for the duties of pilots to 
 be hung up in a frame at, 337. 
 
 Topsham cont. 
 
 vessels from, 375. 
 
 customs due from ships coming 
 to, 383. 
 
 ships compelled to unlade jat, 
 390. 
 
 the Earl of Devon interferes with 
 the shipping of Exeter by 
 making a wharf at, 392. 
 
 customs for goods landed at, 
 422. 
 
 Town customs at, 422. 
 
 tolls at, 428. 
 
 fee farm and cranage of, 424. 
 
 the wharf and crane of, lease of, 
 72. 
 
 cranage and wharfage of, docu- 
 ments concerning, 72-73. 
 
 crane, " key " and wharf of, 
 agreement between the Cham- 
 ber of Exeter and the farmers 
 of the, 322. 
 
 cranage and quay of, copy decree 
 concerning, 431. 
 
 quay, the new haven from, 
 to Exeter, 29. 
 
 , wrecked by a storm, 320. 
 
 , to be repaired, 321. 
 
 , composition respecting, 
 
 343. 
 
 , orders and customs to be 
 
 observed at, 343. 
 
 , accounts of, 418. 
 
 , lawsuits respecting, 419. 
 
 , customs at, 422. 
 
 orders and rates for, 426, 
 
 431. 
 
 manor of, 425. 
 
 , granted to the Duke of 
 
 Somerset, 6. 
 
 , the King to grant an 
 interest in, to the Earl of Bed- 
 ford, 72. 
 
 , grant for the, 367, 403. 
 
 -, grant of, 431. 
 
 of 
 
 mills of, 72. 
 
 wear mills of, 419. 
 
 parish of, 421. 
 
 Bailiffs and Commonalty 
 (1347), writ to, 8. 
 
 Lord of, custom due to the 
 
 (1467), 72. 
 
 Tor, Abbey of, the Rectory of Hen- 
 nock formerly belonged to, 
 275. 
 
 surrendered by the last abbot 
 
 (1539), 275. 
 Torbay, ships to keep about, 192. 
 
 landing of William III at, 223. 
 
 vessels from, 375. 
 
 Torrington [Devon], sale of messua* 
 ges in, 238.
 
 531 
 
 Tothill, Geoffrey, Recorder of Exeter, 
 and M.P. for Exeter, writes 
 to the Mayor, 29. 
 
 letters of, 51-53. 
 
 receipt by John Tothill for, 52. 
 
 his brother Walter, 52. 
 
 grant to, 72. 
 
 remembrance of certain articles 
 
 for, 315. 
 Totnes [Devon], letter dated at, 38. 
 
 document dated at, 341. 
 
 Council letter sent to, 88. 
 
 member for (1739), 244. 
 
 petition to be sent from, 244. 
 
 description of the charters and 
 liberties of, 341. 
 
 copy of a history of, 395. 
 
 Archdeacon of, a Canon of Exe- 
 ter (1458), 285. 
 
 , Thomas de Bodeham, 
 
 composition between the 
 Archdeacon of Cornwall and, 
 400. 
 
 [Roger le Rous], agree- 
 
 ment with the Mayor and 
 Commonalty of Exeter by, 
 345. 
 
 [John Lydford], grant of a 
 
 tower upon the walls of Exe- 
 ter to, 373. 
 -, suit of St. John's Hospital 
 
 against, 400. 
 Totnes and Dartmouth, Lord of. See 
 
 Zouche. 
 Tours, Walter de, Maud widow of, 
 
 gift of land by, 264. 
 Townsend, Thomas, to receive arms 
 
 and ammunition, 216. 
 Trade, interests of merchants in 
 
 conflict with those of the King 
 
 113. 
 
 commission for (1622), 165. 
 with Guinea, value of British, 
 
 238-243. 
 
 decay of, 86, 107. 
 documents concerning, 108-9. 
 Transcripts, 428-33. 
 Trasque, , 95. 
 Treasurer, Lord High. See Cecil ; 
 
 Cranfield ; Howard ; Ley ; 
 
 Weston. 
 Treasury, the, an enquiry made in, 
 
 221. 
 Lords Commissioners of, account 
 
 from Exeter presented to, and 
 
 enquiry thereon, 220, 221. 
 Trelawny, Jonathan, Bishop of 
 
 Exeter, to present petitions 
 
 to Queen Anne, 220. 
 mention of, 356. 
 Tremenet, Richard, Lord of Awlis- 
 
 combe manor, 272. 
 
 Trenchard, John, letter of, 254. 
 Trevill, William, 162. 
 Trevillian v. Exeter, 421. 
 [Trevor, Sir Thos.], Attorney General, 
 
 report by, 74. 
 Trew : 
 
 John, of Cardiff, covenants with, 
 
 28, 29, 316. 
 
 John, of Alphington, maker of 
 the New Haven, annuity to, 
 &c., 29. 
 
 , his weir broken down by 
 
 ice (1608), 30. 
 -, his weir, 419, 420. 
 
 Trew's matter, 52. 
 Trinidado, island of, granted to the 
 Earl of Pembroke and Mont- 
 gomery, 203. 
 Trippe, Nicholas, memorandum of 
 
 will of, 416. 
 
 Trood v. Mayor of Exeter, 420. 
 Trosse, person named, suit between 
 
 Mrs. Levermore and, 63. 
 Trustees for the sale of lauds of Bish- 
 ops, Deans and Chapters, 214. 
 Trustees for the maintenance of 
 
 ministers, order of, 213. 
 Tucker : 
 
 James, signature of, 172. 
 James, given 100Z. for charita- 
 ble uses, 334. 
 John, merchant, beqviest of, 
 
 162. 
 John, holds the manor house of 
 
 Awliscombe, 273. 
 Tuckfield : 
 
 Joan, gift of, 411. 
 John, M.P. for Exeter, letters 
 to, 172, 225. 
 
 . re-elected as member for 
 
 Exeter, 254. 
 
 Tufton, Sackville, Earl of Thanet, 
 receipt from the collector of, 
 237. 
 Turberville, James, Bishop of Exeter, 
 
 in prison, 39>i. 
 as witness, 49. 
 Turk, the, Mustapha I, reinstatement 
 
 of, 126. 
 
 Ottoman II, conclusion of peace 
 between the Polonians and, 
 126. 
 
 , murder of, 126. 
 
 Turkish pirates, outrages by, 89. 
 Turks, the, losses sustained by mer- 
 chants from, 107. 
 Turner : 
 
 John, signature of, 145. 
 Richard, will of, 283. 
 
 , Margery wife of, 283. 
 
 Turpin, , servant to Bishop Cotton, 
 47.
 
 532 
 
 Tuscan trade, risk of losing, 231. 
 
 Tuscany, Grand Duke of [Cosmo III], 
 endeavour to create misun- 
 derstanding between England 
 and, 231. 
 
 Tyler (Tiler), Wat, rising of, 8. 
 
 Tyrrell, Thomas, of Exeter, licence 
 for, 69. 
 
 Tyrwhitt, Thomas, letter of, 250. 
 
 Uffculme [Devon], parish of, lands in, 
 81. 
 
 Unde or Undy, Richard, Receiver of 
 Exeter, Surveyor of the Lords 
 of the manor of Awliscombe, 
 272. 
 
 Underdon, John, Receiver of the 
 " Priory of St. Nicholas, Exeter, 
 396. 
 
 Underwood, Mr., influence of, 
 secured, 102. 
 
 Unemployed, the, documents con- 
 cerning, 80-81. 
 
 United Provinces, the, fishing busi- 
 ness of, letter concerning, 86. 
 
 Unwoon, John, sends warrant, 12. 
 
 Upham, Mr. Wharfinger, accounts, 
 &c., of, 421. 
 
 Upton Pyne [Devon], parish of, 173, 
 
 174. 
 
 land at, 27. 
 
 tenement called Glosseford in, 
 70. 
 
 Vagabonds, carriers, &c., documents 
 
 concerning, 69-70. 
 Valentine House, letter dated at, 
 
 231. 
 
 Van Hagell, regiment of, 221. 
 Ven, John, letter of, 228-29. 
 Venella, William de, agreement with, 
 
 358. 
 , Julia wife of, 358. 
 
 Vere, Sir Horace, rumoured over- 
 throw of, in the Lower Pala- 
 tinate, 113. 
 
 Victoria, Queen, papers relating to 
 the Coronation of, 425. 
 
 Victuallers' recognizances and 
 licences, 425. 
 
 Villiers, George, Duke of Bucking- 
 ham, in the Isle of Rhe, 17. 
 returns to Plymouth, 18. 
 
 Vilvaine (Vilvayne) : 
 
 Dr. Robert, promises annual 
 contribution towards repair 
 of St. Paul's, 12. 
 
 an Exeter man, 100. 
 
 draft probably by, 156. 
 
 notes apparently by, 157. 
 
 statement by, 167-58. 
 
 letter of, 160. 
 
 grant of property by, 160. 
 
 an executor of, 293. 
 
 Stephen, of Exeter, will of, 414. 
 
 Virginia Company, the, letter con- 
 cerning, 99. 
 
 Vivian, John, letter of, 100-1. 
 
 Volunteers, document concerning, 
 258. 
 
 Vowell alias Hooker, John. See 
 Hooker. 
 
 Voysey, John, Bishop of Exeter, true 
 copy of confirmation from, 
 23. 
 his house to be prepared to 
 
 receive Philip of Spain, 35. 
 letter of, 289. 
 
 Vyelston, 396. 
 
 W 
 
 Wade, Thomas, senior, of Exeter, 
 will of, 416. 
 
 Wadham : 
 
 Nicholas, gift of land to, 23. 
 Nicholas, knight, 283. 
 
 Wagband, Edward, of Exeter, 
 " barel berer," 291. 
 
 Wages, rate of, documents concern- 
 ing, 50-51. 
 
 Wainell, Richard, clerk, parson of 
 St. Keran's, papers in a suit 
 between the Chamber and, 
 394-95. 
 
 Wales, Poll money in arrears in re- 
 spective counties and places 
 in, 211.
 
 533 
 
 Wales cont. 
 
 Bill for the trial of felons in, 377. 
 Walker : 
 
 Endymion, Alderman, of Exeter, 
 19. 
 
 Colonel Harry, letter of, 212. 
 
 Robert, his statement concern- 
 ing Ferryman's school, 156. 
 
 Robert, signature of, 341. 
 
 Thomas, bond of, 40. 
 
 , signature of, 79, 402. 
 
 , leaves 200Z. for charitable 
 
 uses, 146, 334. 
 
 , payments to be made 
 
 by, 312, 313. 
 
 , to be auditor of the ac- 
 count for victualling the 
 ships, 313. 
 
 , money to be paid to, 316. 
 
 -~ , his Charity, rolls of ac- 
 count of, 412. 
 
 Mr., mention of, 114, 178. 
 
 person named, 218. 
 Walmer Castle, letter dated at, 252. 
 Walpole, as Sir Robert, Lord, and 
 Earl of Oxford, to be invited 
 to the opening of the Port, 
 32. 
 
 recommendation to, desired, 
 243. 
 
 fall of, documents relating to, 
 245-46. 
 
 Gustos Rotulorum for Devon, 
 
 letters to, 246, 247. 
 Walsingham, Sir Francis, Secretary, 
 64. 
 
 signature of, 63, 311. 
 
 letter of, 63. 
 Walter : 
 
 John, Chief Baron of the Exche- 
 quer, letter of, 56. 
 
 John, of Bicton, re-elected M.P. 
 for Exeter, 254. 
 
 , sends money for the poor 
 
 of Exeter, 254. 
 -, letter of, 257. 
 
 John Rolle, elected M.P. for 
 Devon, 231. 
 
 , M.P. for Exeter, letter of, 
 
 232. 
 Waltham : 
 
 Geoffrey, signature of, 79, 402. 
 
 , named for deputy lieu- 
 tenancy, 133. 
 
 Richard, Counsellor at Law, to 
 attend the Sessions, 132. 
 
 , Recorder of Exeter, 
 
 signature of, 150, 151, 153. 
 
 , sits in place of the Re- 
 corder of Exeter, at the 
 examination of Ferryman's 
 business, 137, 140. 
 
 Ward, Seth, Dean of Exeter, gives 
 
 advice, 217. 
 Bishop of Exeter, commission to, 
 
 12. 
 
 expected to return to Exeter, 333. 
 Ward v. Hunt, 419. 
 Ware, Jacob, waggoner, abusive 
 
 language of, 225. 
 Wareham [Dorset], Lord Howard's 
 
 house at, 55. 
 letter dated at, 55. 
 Warelwast, Robert, grants by, 272. 
 Warham, William, Archbishop of 
 Canterbury, a broken seal of, 
 275. 
 Warner : 
 
 John, signature of, 328. 
 Peter, Charter by, 361. 
 
 , Isabella, wife of, 361. 
 
 Warren, John, elected Hebrew 
 Reader in Exeter College, &c., 
 102. 
 Warwick : 
 
 Earl of. See Dudley. 
 Countess of, fishing of the Exe 
 to be procured by copy from, 
 26. 
 
 Waters, Mr., his account of the dis- 
 bursements of the sick sol- 
 diers in Exeter Hospital, 222. 
 Way, John, curate of Kingsbridge, 
 
 money due to, 209. 
 Ways and Means, Committee of, 258. 
 Weare, Samuel, waggoner, assault 
 
 by, 225. 
 
 Weather, severity of, 113. 
 Webbe, Nicholas, signature of, 341. 
 Weights and Measures, documents 
 
 concerning, 78-79. 
 new and corrected, to be dis- 
 persed throughout England, 
 371. 
 
 Weinbergh, regiment of, 221. 
 Werman, Magister, 359. 
 Westcott : 
 
 Ellerye, will of, 414. 
 Mr., destruction of his mill, 255. 
 West Country, the, merchants of, 89. 
 Western parts, the, petition from, 
 
 89. 
 
 [Westlake, Thomas], Town Clerk of 
 Exeter, to assist the Com- 
 mittee appointed to draw up 
 the grievances of the City, 
 327. 
 
 his letter from London and the 
 resolution of the Chamber 
 concerning it, 330. 
 order to be signed by, 331. 
 presents to the Chamber a note 
 of sums given to charitable 
 uses, 334.
 
 534 
 
 [Westlake, Thomas], Town Clerk of 
 Exeter cont. 
 
 three City Charters sent to 
 
 London by, 334. 
 Westminster. See London. 
 Weston, Sir Richard and Baron, 
 Chancellor and Under-Trea- 
 surer of the Exchequer, order 
 from, 11. 
 
 , orders to, 176, 180, 181. 
 
 High Steward of Exeter, letter 
 
 of, 78. 
 
 present at Council debate, 108. 
 Lord Treasurer of England, com- 
 mission read to, 191. 
 attitude of, 192. 
 Weymouth [Dorset], fragment of 
 
 letter to, 88. 
 
 town of, v. Crossing, 422. 
 copies of ancient records relating 
 
 to, 422. 
 
 Wheadon, Thomas, letter to, 31. 
 Whetecombe, Edmund, of Exeter, 
 
 will of, 414. 
 Whigs, disloyal behaviour of, 233, 
 
 234. 
 
 Whitburow, a bailiff, abusive lan- 
 guage of, 236. 
 White: 
 
 George, payment to, 338. 
 James, Barrister-at-Law, to be 
 presented to the freedom of 
 Exeter, 225. 
 James, money for the billeting 
 
 of soldiers paid out by, 184. 
 Major, distributes money to 
 soldiers for maintenance, 221. 
 Sir Thomas, the settlement of 
 his money, 232. 
 
 , disposal of part of his 
 
 money, 332. 
 
 Walter, certificate of monies 
 received by, 328. 
 
 , gives an account of the 
 
 monies, &c., 276. 
 Whitehall. See London. 
 [Whitgift,] John, Archbishop of 
 Canterbury, signature of, 73, 
 340. 
 
 licence granted by, 158. 
 Whitwell, Matthew, request of, 
 
 199. 
 Whityng, John, tenement recovered 
 
 from, 405. 
 
 and others, v. the Master of St. 
 John's Hospital, Exeter, 392. 
 Wilbraham, Roger, letter of, 74. 
 Wilcocks, Thomas, letter of, 255. 
 Wilde : 
 
 Joan, will of, 282. 
 John, Chief Baron of the Exche- 
 quer, fine imposed by, 206. 
 
 Wildman, William, Viscount Bar- 
 rington, Seeretary-at-War, 
 letters of, 249, 250, 257. 
 Wilford, William, will of, 44, 283. 
 Annye wife of, 283. 
 seal of, 283. 
 
 Wilkes, John, release of, 251. 
 William I, grant by, 280. 
 William III (William of Orange), 
 petition to be presented to, 
 32. 
 
 soldiers of, 208, 219-24. 
 petition to, 219, 220. 
 refers petition to the Commis- 
 sioners of the Treasury, 220. 
 debt to the Chamber of Exeter 
 
 due from the late, 220. 
 leaves his sick soldiers in the 
 charge of the Chamber of 
 Exeter, 223. 
 grants triennial Parliaments, 
 
 245. 
 
 his visit to Exeter, 423. 
 his regiment ' Prince of Orange,' 
 221 222 
 
 - ''Prince's Guard,' 221, 222. 
 ' Prince's Artillery,' 224. 
 William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, 
 receives the freedom of the 
 City of Exeter, 253. 
 met at Hom'ton, 253. 
 William, John fitz, grant by, 396. 
 Williams : 
 
 Abraham, agent for the King of 
 Bohemia, acquittance signed 
 by, 106. 
 
 John, Bishop of Lincoln, Lord 
 Keeper, dormant warrant 
 from, 11. 
 
 , orders of, 115, 118. 
 
 , powers of, 116. 
 
 , his policy with regard to 
 
 the Bishop of Exeter's suit, 
 117-30. 
 
 , to be made Lord Chancel- 
 lor, 119. 
 -, petition from the Chamber 
 
 of Exeter to, 119, 120. 
 , unscrupulousness of, 128. 
 , request to, 163. 
 
 -, merchants of London and 
 
 Bristol to be sworn by, 138. 
 Sir John, knight, Treasurer of 
 
 Augmentations, 291. 
 Sir Roger, to give certificate, 66. 
 Thomas, M.P. for Exeter, 315. 
 William, note forwarded to, <>!'. 
 Mr., late wharfinger at Topsham, 
 
 420. 
 
 v. Mayor of Exeter, 420. 
 Wills, Zachary, riotous conduct of, 
 
 134.
 
 535 
 
 Wills, Early, 281-83. 
 Wilmot, Mr. Justice, 422. 
 Wiltshire, soldiers to be billeted in, 
 
 183. 
 
 Wimand, Peter, gift of house by, 264. 
 Winchester, regulation measures of, 
 
 206. 
 
 Charter of, 341. 
 St. Swithin's, marriage of Queen 
 
 Mary at, 362. 
 
 statutes of, to be enforced, 8. 
 Dean and Canons of, Charter by, 
 
 368. 
 Winchester : 
 
 Bishop of. See Andrews ; Fox. 
 Marquis of. See Paulet. 
 Windebank (Wyndebanck), James, 
 
 signature of, 16, 370. 
 Winditt, Edward, servant to Richard 
 
 Collins, deposition by, 57. 
 Windows and Lights, Act for repeal- 
 ing duties upon houses, 
 
 258. 
 
 WindowTax, the, document concern- 
 ing, 258. 
 
 Windsor, James I at, 131. 
 Charles I at, 191. 
 Henry VI born at, 359. 
 letter dated at, 18. 
 Charter dated at, 374. 
 Winterstoke and Cedder [or Cheddar, 
 
 Somerset], hundred of, Charter 
 
 referring to, 346. 
 Witeri or Veteri, Thomas de, gift of 
 
 land by, 264. 
 Withecombe, Thomas, of Exeter, 
 
 will of, 415. 
 Wo burn (Woeborne), [Beds], letter 
 
 dated at, 200. 
 
 Wode, John, lease granted by, 72. 
 Wolcom . . ., Robert, signature of, 
 
 341. 
 Wollecott, Christopher, Warden of 
 
 the Grey Friars, conveyance 
 
 of, 269. 
 Women's Names, mentioned in the 
 
 Miscellaneous Deeds, 298. 
 Wonard, W T illiam, award of, 401. 
 Woodbridge, note of the ships of 
 
 not less than 100 tons burthen 
 
 belonging to, 187. 
 Woodhouse, Captain Henry, his 
 
 commission, 180. 
 Woodstock [Oxfordshire], the Court 
 
 at, letter dated from, 203. 
 Wool Bill to be brought in, 244. 
 Wool trade between England and 
 
 Ireland, 243. 
 Woollen manufactories of Scotland, 
 
 244. 
 
 Woolley (Wolley), Sir J[ohn], signa- 
 ture of, 63, 66, 
 
 Woolton, John, Bishop of Exeter, 
 commission addressed to, 
 309. 
 order from the Lords of the 
 
 Council to, 311. 
 perferred through the influence 
 
 of the Earl of Bedford, 346. 
 included in the " Lives of the 
 
 Bishops of Exeter," 353. 
 catalogue of Bishops ending 
 
 with, 373. 
 receives a copy of Hooker's 
 
 pamphlet, 375. 
 signature of, 402. 
 Worcester, King John buried at, 
 
 350. 
 Worcester : 
 
 Bishop of. See Latimer. 
 Earl of. See Somerset. 
 Woterford, Nicholaa, will of, 282. 
 Wotton, Sir E[dward], signature of, 
 
 74. 
 Wright, John, papers printed for, 
 
 211. 
 
 Wriothesley, Thomas, Earl of South- 
 ampton, Lord High Treasurer, 
 letter to, 212. 
 Wyatt, Thomas, son of Matthew 
 Wyatt, administration grant- 
 ed to, 416. 
 Wychingham, William de, writ to, 
 
 8. 
 
 Wycliff, mention of, 352. 
 Wydecumb, Alexander de, grant to, 
 
 399. 
 Wye, Mr., of the Temple, money paid 
 
 to, 363. 
 
 Wynard (Wenard, &c.), William, 
 Recorder of Exeter, founds 
 an almshouse, 278. 
 purchases customs of fish from 
 
 the Chamber, 278. 
 j seal of, 279. 
 
 death of, 279. 
 his almshouses, 278-79. 
 Wynard's Minute Book, 340. 
 Wynnam, Henry, weaver, lease to, 
 
 290. 
 
 Wytcumbe, Edmund, Letter-of- 
 Attorney to, 291. 
 
 Yard, George, Receiver of Exeter, 
 information to, 74.
 
 536 
 
 Yarmouth or Great Yarmouth, note 
 of ships of not less than 100 
 tons burthen belonging to, 
 187. 
 
 Corporation of, 230. 
 petition to be sent from, 244. 
 Yarnscombe, Ernescombe, near 
 Barnstaple, the church of, 
 appropriated to St. John's 
 Hospital, Exeter, 267. 
 Yelverton, Sir Henry, Attorney- 
 General, report by, 89. 
 Yeo, William, of Exeter, will of, 415. 
 Yeovil, Exeter and, Railways, 421. 
 Yonge : 
 
 Sir George, letter of, 255. 
 
 , letter to, 256. 
 
 Robert, Chaplain, admitted into 
 
 the brotherhood, 287. 
 Sir Walter, Baronet, report of, 
 
 220. 
 Sir William, of Escott, M.P. for 
 
 Honiton, 244. 
 York, cited as example, 53. 
 
 Mayor of (1381), proclamation 
 to, 8. 
 
 York, Archbishop of. See Black- 
 burn ; Kemp. 
 Yorke, Walter, late Mayor of (Exeter, 
 
 reply to, 271, 396. 
 Younge : 
 
 Edward, letter of, 258. 
 John, of St. Stephen's, Exeter, 
 will of, 415. 
 
 Zealand, a soldier from, in the Prince 
 of Orange's army, 224. 
 
 Zouche, La, William, Lord of Totnes 
 and Dartmouth, composition 
 between the Lord of Hewes 
 and, 341. 
 
 composition between the Bur- 
 gesses of Totnes and, 341.
 
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