CXXXIII. 1604? LETTER and five pound waight of tobacco promised, hath sold the tobacco and reteyneth my mony; finding mee now fitt for all men to tread on. Hee hath goods in a shipp of Mr. ALOBLASTER'S, which Mr. ALOBLASTER advised mee to attach, but he hath cunningly shippt them in other men's names, so as I have lost a charge. Arrest hyme I cannot, nor sew hyme, because the law knowes me but for dead. My humble sute is to have a pursevant, and my Lord's letter to take hyme. Hee meanes to go away for Spayne in Mr. ALOBLASTER'S shipp; so as, if the pursevant find hyme not this Sonday, he will imbarck one1 Munday, onless it would pleas my Lorde to write a cummandment to the master of Mr. ALOBLASTER'S shipp, called The Prudence, of London, to command the master not to take hyme abord, here or elcewher, till hee have payd me the mony. If yow thinck it not offencive, good Mr. LEVINUS, procure it; if yow do, I must have patience, till God geve end to my miseres or to mee. Your poore frinde assured, Addressed: W. RALEGH. To my loving frinde, Mr. LEVINUS; or, in his absence, to Mr. Endorsed: "Sir Walter Raleg;" and, in a later hand, "To Mr. BRUERTON, 1 on. CXXXIV. TO THE LORD TREASURER BUCKHURST, ΤΟ From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. cix. § 14 (Hatfield). Holograph. LETTER CXXXIV. 1604. To Lord Buckhurst and others. [From the Tower. ] Particulars of his Estates at &c. IF ther be any more rents then thes,1 to my knowledg, but the herbage of the Parks, which was never in mee, but purchased in my child's name, tenn year since, and a Lease of Pinford grounds in Mr. HERIOT, for 58 years, then I refuse all grace of and from His Majesty, -except I may miscast a matter of foure or five pound in the whole, or leve out sume five or six akers of ground in sume quillet. But this is the substance of all, uppon my alleagence; Sherborne, and, therfore, if it pleas your Honors to make further inquiry, I submit my sealf unto it; and I beseich your Lordships that a coppy hereof may be delivered to the Commissioners. All that greevs mee herein is that so infamus and detested a wrech as MEERE2 is made a Commissioner, as hee hath vaunted and sent me worde, -and who dares not, otherwise, shew his face, having so many executions agaynst hyme; and hath not forty shilling-worth of ground in the world, but of my gift, and who now rooteth up my copps-woods and promiseth to pay all his creditors with the part promised hyme out of Sherburn; spreding it abrod that sume one of your 1 See the Schedule, hereafter. 2 See Letters XCVIII. CII. and CVI., heretofore; pp. 227, 237, 245. LETTER CXXXIV. 1604. Honors hath imployed hyme, withe a purpose to procure this (the remaynder of all which I had in the world) of His Majesty, and to turne my poore wife, child, and famely a begging. But I trust that God hath not geven so cruell a hart to any worthy man,-whom the spoyle of me and myne cannot inrich; but that all your Lordships will in charety stand my good Lords herein,— having lost allreddy £3,000 a yeare. And I shall remayne your humbell sarvant, W. RALEGH. [SCHEDULE. Wholly in Sir W. Ralegh's hand, and written on the first leaf of the shot The Manner of Sherburne, with the .£150 16 41 old Castell standeth, is of rent of assise 003 12 0 A secound street or Village within Sher burn towne, called Newland, is of rent A Village in the country, three mile from 003 13 41 . . 021 11 2 A Village without the park wall, parcell The Farm of Whitfeild is of the old rent of . 007 13 104 But this Manner is a kind of Fee simpell in the fine att every death or alienation. Sum totall of the old rent The Farm of Sherburn is worth by improvement, besyds all reprises, if it do 1£207 8 01 .£250 0 0 Ther ar also certayn demayn grounds in . the yearly rent of Ther ar other grounds, redeemed out of the Tenants' hands, in Caundell Byshope, or Doton, worth by the year обо оо I do also rent sume pasture grounds of a Tenant of myne called SWETNAM, and do make profite of them, besyds 040 0 0 the rent which I pay hyme by the year 012 оо Ther ar other grounds and closes about Sherburn which may be worth about LETTER CXXXIV. 1604. Brought forward I have also half of a demayns1 in Pinford, old rent of. . £384 10 31 005 00 I have also the moyty of the Manner of I have also a Close behind the Castell of five 271 006 4 10 which, to bee lett, ar worth by the year 006 50 The totall of the rent charg. £22 10 The totall of the old rent. 31 In fees dew to Officers and others 044 13 Besyds payments to the King for the Hous hold and other small charges. Butt wheras in this deduction of fees the Bayly is to have £8. a yeare, and the 334 13 0 So remayneth clere, £295 0 1 demerne. |