CH/20/70

CH/20/70

Item

Draft letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury

1606-1607

1 sheet

Draft letter, presumably intended to be from the Dean and Chapter, addressed to "Right Reverend and honorable our very good lord" with the salutation "May it please Your Grace"; later in the letter the addressee is again referred to as "your Grace" and as "our Metropolitayne et Columna Ecclesiae Anglicanae" (Metropolitan and Pillar of the Anglican Church) - beng the Archbishop of Canterbury. The draft letter is in the same hand and relates to the same issue, the tithes of the Parish of St Martin, as the presumably contemporaneous draft letter to the Earl of Northampton (CH/20/69).This draft letter rehearses the same facts about the Ranger of Clarendon Park obtaining a grant of the St Martin tithes from the King, and the need for the tithes to be reserved to the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury "for hospitalitie of the poore". It quotes verbatim from the other draft. This draft letter also states that "the Kinges Majestie being in this Towne twice . . . [and] . . . the said Ranger and his Coosen being both here present would not move this matter"; when "we could then have informed his Majestie of the cause for the which wee cannot demyse the said tythes". This draft letter also alludes, in words almost identical to those in CH/20/69, to Elizabeth I's letter of 25 July 1599 (CH/20/68) requesting the grant of "a better estate" in Sherborne to Walter Raleigh, which gave the assurance that "this Church should never hereafter be troubled with Sutes of like nature from the Court". With a transcript by Penelope Rundle, Archive Volunteer, llate 2010s.

English

Material: paper