Add MS 78209

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XLII. (ff. 130). Miscellaneous legal documents, etc., relating to disputes relating to shipping; June 1640-April 1656, April 1660, and undated. Partly copies. Partly Latin and French. Several of the suits concern claims for restoration of 10^ths and 15^ths due to Charles II and James, Duke of York, from prizes taken.

1. ff. 63. Papers in a case rel. to a cargo of paper consigned by Robinson Hayward, Matthew Holworthy and others, English merchants, in the vessel La Lune Dorée under captain Alexander Baynham; Genoa, 19 June-21 Aug. 1640. Two copies of Hayward’s petition, with attestations, in Italian, Spanish and Dutch, by and rel. to Pedro Martinez, captain of La Luna Dorada of Danzig, 26 June 1640. Signed by Martinez and by Cristofero and Emmanuele Dongo, etc., and directed to Giovanni Antonio Dongo.

2. ff. 4. Arrêt issued by Louis Seguier, Baron de St. Brisson, king’s councillor, in a case of debt involving Daniel Coghill of Marseilles and Thomas Batty of Paris, English merchants; 15 Sept. 1642. Vellum.

3. ff. 28. Eight documents in a suit brought by Jehan Foss, merchant of Nantes, acting for Charles II, against Jaspar Holston, Guillaume Balsart and others, rel. to a debt of 960 livres for 10^th and 15^th parts due to Charles from a prize sold at Nantes; 14 Mar.1651-13 Dec. 1652 [i.e 14 Mar., 18, 24, 28 May, 4, 10, 12 June 1651, and 10, 13 Dec. 1652]. Partly vellum. For Foss see also Browne’s despatches of 28 Jan., 25 Feb. 1650 in Add. MS 12186, ff. 112, 124.

4. ff. 26. Report by Hamon le Jacobin, sénéschal of St. Pol de Léon, with interrogation by the authorities of the town of a witness, relating to ships in the harbour of Roscoff and mentioning Captain Lazare Perigent; 8 July, 11 Sept. 1654.

5. ff. 48. Legal documents, papers and accounts rel. to the suit brought by Browne acting on behalf of Charles II and James, Duke of York, against François le Dourguy, Sieur de Roscerff, for restitution of their 10^th and 15^th parts in prizes withheld by Roscerff in contravention of the terms of the commission granted to him in May 1653 to harry the ships of the English parliament; 1 May 1653-3 April 1656, 9 April 1660 and n.d. Partly copies. Partly Latin and French. Included are: (a) an ‘Account by Mr Ben: Johnson concerninge Monr. De Roscerf. &c.’, Nov. 1655; - (b) an ‘Account of the Processe against Roscerf at Rennes. Apl: 9^th. 1660’, written on a blank leaf from a letter from Charles Murray, 24 Sept. 1645; - (c) extract, on vellum, from the registers of the parliament of [?Britanny], 7 Feb. 1656; - (d) memoranda in the hand of Browne’s attorney Charles Bourguinony of St. Pol de Léon. For further letters of Bourguinony and others rel. to this case, 8 June 1655-17 April 1656, see Add. MS 78199 above. See also a letter of Roscerff to Browne, 7 Aug. 1653, Add. MS 15857, f. 209.