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[ELIZABETH I, Queen of England, (1558-1603)]. PRIVY COUNCIL. Two documents, the first an order signed by seven members of the Privy Council, addressed to the City of Norwich, St James's, 9 May 1572, one page, folio (integral leaf removed, small tear in left margin, traces of mounting on verso); the second, a warrant signed by seven members of the Privy Council including Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, addressed to Lord Buckhurst as Lord Treasurer and Sir John Fortescue as Under Treasurer, 'From the Court at Richmond the last of February 1598', one page, folio, integral address leaf (trimmed at right edge).
The first document gives instructions that any foreign residents 'that came into this Realme, some for religion, some for other afflicions of their own countries' who wish to return home should be encouraged and assisted to do so. The signatories are Sir Nicholas Bacon (Keeper of the Great Seal), the Earl of Lincoln (Earl High Admiral), Thomas Radcliffe, Earl of Sussex ('T. Sussex'), Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester ('R. Leycester'), Lord Howard of Effingham ('W. Howard, Lord Admiral'), Sir Francis Knollys, and William Cecil, Lord Burghley ('W. Burghley').
The second authorises payment to fifty soldiers levied in Merioneth the previous June 'being parcell of the 2000 sent at that tyme into Ireland furnished of coates & conduct money for seven days on [their] march to Chester', the charge amounting to 'tenn pounds for the coates, eleven poundes thirteen shillings and fower pence for the conduct and fortie two shillings for the conduct[or]s', the money to be paid to John Owen. The warrant is signed by John Whitgift (as Archbishop of Canterbury, 'Jo: Cant[ua]r'), Sir Thomas Egerton (Lord High Chancellor) and Thomas Sackville (signed as Lord Buckhurst).
Essex, much used by the Queen on Irish matters, was Earl Marshal for several months in the winter of 1. (2)
The first document gives instructions that any foreign residents 'that came into this Realme, some for religion, some for other afflicions of their own countries' who wish to return home should be encouraged and assisted to do so. The signatories are Sir Nicholas Bacon (Keeper of the Great Seal), the Earl of Lincoln (Earl High Admiral), Thomas Radcliffe, Earl of Sussex ('T. Sussex'), Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester ('R. Leycester'), Lord Howard of Effingham ('W. Howard, Lord Admiral'), Sir Francis Knollys, and William Cecil, Lord Burghley ('W. Burghley').
The second authorises payment to fifty soldiers levied in Merioneth the previous June 'being parcell of the 2000 sent at that tyme into Ireland furnished of coates & conduct money for seven days on [their] march to Chester', the charge amounting to 'tenn pounds for the coates, eleven poundes thirteen shillings and fower pence for the conduct and fortie two shillings for the conduct[or]s', the money to be paid to John Owen. The warrant is signed by John Whitgift (as Archbishop of Canterbury, 'Jo: Cant[ua]r'), Sir Thomas Egerton (Lord High Chancellor) and Thomas Sackville (signed as Lord Buckhurst).
Essex, much used by the Queen on Irish matters, was Earl Marshal for several months in the winter of 1. (2)
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