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Original Letters Illustrative of English History: To 1799. (1846)
Original Letters Illustrative of English History To 1799 - 1846 Author:Henry Ellis Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: other to retourne with him. " Yea," saith her Ma- jestye, " there be some makes excuses that they would not goe, but their, excuses shall serve them." I thanked ... more »her Matie, and came my waies ,- for shee made baste to goe a walkinge with the ladyes, because it was a frost. Farre ye well: from Hampton Courte, the xj of December, 1572. Yours, allwaies to be commaunded, THO. SMITH. Her Highnes appauleth still upon Mr. Francis Carewe to bee your successor, but hee maketh great labour to the contrarie, by ladies of the Privie Chamber, and others, but as I can perceave by his last speache, and others, hee shall succeede you. To the right worshipfull Frauncis Wulsingham, Esquire, Ambas- sador resident for her MaUe in Fraunce. LETTER CCCCV. A Complaint from the Sussex Justices to the Lord Treasurer, of her Majesty's Purveyor summoning Teams to carry the Queen's timber, at twenty-four miles distance. [lansd. Ms. xvi. art. 83. Grig.] The reader who sees the term "Purveyor," written over tradesmen's shops in London, indicating them to be providers of victuals, little thinks of the national grievance out of which the name arose. Purveyance in former times extended not only to the arbitrary purchase of provisions, but to the temporary seizure of horses, carriages, and other accommodations for the King's use. This power having been often abused by the purveyors, was restrained by many statutes, such as the 21st chapter of Magna Charta; 28th Edw. I. c. 2 ; 4th Edw. III. c. 3; 5th Edw. III. c. 2, and many others; and at last was wholly taken away by the same Statute which abolished feudal tenures, namely, 12th Cha. II. c. 24. The Lansdowne MS. 58, art. 52, contains a List of the Purveyors to the Queen, their Commissioners, and Deputies. Among them we find Purveyor...« less