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ECR 48 236

Reference code

ECR 48 236

Title

Mapledurham, Oxfordshire: Letter concerning various issues

Level

Item

Date

1 August 1642

Extent & medium

A book of 20 folios

Content description

Richard Day, Mitcham, to his cousin William Day, mainly concerning his difference with the Provost of Kings about his enjoyment of the third part of the appropriate parsonage of Wodon Weston in Northamptonshire. The letter is accompanied by copies of Secretary Conway's letter of 7 July 1627 to Sir Thomas Aylesbury concerning Day's proposition for increase of woods in Windsor Forest (Cal. State Papers, Domestic, 1627-8, p.246), with the reultant warrants under the signet of 13 August to William Taylor, surveyor of the honour and castle of Windsor; and of the petition of the same Richard Daye, son of William Daye, sometime bishop of Winchester, dated 27 January 1630, for reference to a select number of the Council of a scheme for buying up impropriations, with the reference of the same to a Committee headed by the Archbishop of York (Cal. State Papers, Domestic, 1629-31, p. 174), with copies of other documents in this matter and a discourse upon the petition and declaration by the petitioner; also an apologie resecting the late parliamentarie ordinance for publike repentance and humiliation; and A briege Preface which was devised and framed before the coming forth of the said Order of Parliament.
A book of 20 fs. endorsed: Procedinges of my cosen Mr Richard Day; for gaining of inpropriations to the church; and for ye plantations of woods.
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