Catalogue description Petition of ROBERT, EARL OF LINDSEY, to KING CHARLES I.

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Details of 8ANC8/37
Reference: 8ANC8/37
Title: Petition of ROBERT, EARL OF LINDSEY, to KING CHARLES I.
Description:

--For the sum of 3,000l. and " for reward of service," his Majesty granted petitioner (by letters patents under the Great Seal, dated Sept. 2, 1629) divers coppices in the forests of Shottover and Stow-wood, for fifty one years, under the yearly rent of a hundred marks ; and did thereby sell him the timber trees there, with the exception of fourteen thousand trees, marked for his Majesty's use and pleasure ; petitioner being bound " under a great pain " to pay the rent, preserve the springs, and plant forty thousand trees, all which he will be careful to perform. He has ever since paid the rent and " the 3,000l. and interest for it," yet has hitherto had no fruit of the grant; wherefore in June last, he caused five or six hundred trees to be cut down, and some of them are sold to divers men near thereunto but yet remain there. And he offered to the purveyor of the Navy such trees as he thought fit for the service at such rates as others would give, and likewise offered to furnish St.John's College [Oxford] with timber at the like rates. But by warrant of the 23rd of August last, his Majesty has ordered the verdurers and regarders of the forest to make stay of felling of wood there + (save for certain uses expressed) and also of the trees cut down ; with direction to the purveyor of the Navy to mark such as are fit for the service.

 

Prays that he may be allowed to enjoy the benefit of his patent, and that his Majesty will vouchsafe to recall the warrant.

 

+Cf.Warrant dated Sept.7, 1631, amongst the State Papers.

Date: [1631 ?]
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 1 page.

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