Bibliothecae Colfanae catalogus. Catalogue of the library in the free grammar-school at Lewisham founded by the Rev. Abraham Colfe in the year 1652 / By William Henry Black.

  • Colfe Grammar School (Lewisham, London, England). Library.
Date:
1831
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Credit: Bibliothecae Colfanae catalogus. Catalogue of the library in the free grammar-school at Lewisham founded by the Rev. Abraham Colfe in the year 1652 / By William Henry Black. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ Memoranda, that in ye yeares of our L. 1614 & 1615, we had many troubles & suites concerning our comon of Westwood, being in quantity about 500 acres of ground, wherevnto the Lord of his mercy gaue a good issue in end.1 The occasion was yis. Henry Newport, of Lews ham, gentleman, & yeoman of ye boil¬ ing-house to King James, fiauing lined long in our parish in ye yeare 1605 begged this comon of the King, and made meanes to his Maiesty for a lease of it at a yearely rent: wherevpon our cause was heard first on ye 25 Aprilis 1606 before some of ye Barons: yen ye 26 Junij 1607 before ye Lords after dinner on a Starre- chamber day : & againe ye 9th Nouembris 1608 before ye Barons of ye exchequier. But either he non suited himself or other error fell out in ye 4pceedings, so yt he obtained not as yet his purpose. After, Henry Newport ioyned two more with him, namely Robert Raines, sergeant of the buckhounds, & Inno¬ cent Lanier of Greenwich one of the Kings Musitians ; & ioyntly took a lease from his Maiesty of ye comon of Westwood ; & then began very much to vexe ye inhabitants. We complained. At length our cause was heard, first privately before the Barons on ye 14th &l 21th daies of May 1614. And after, by an order set downe for John Burnet of Lewsham to be ye defendant; our cause was heard publikely before the Barons, on the ijth day of October : & a verdict passed against vs. At wch time John Sher¬ man of Greenwich was fore-man, also John Halfpenny, and Henry Dobbins, and Henry Abbot, all 4 of Greenwich 5 and John Leech of Detford, & diuerse others were of the Jury. Presently the [lessees] Patentees began to make ditches about the comon, & inclosed it, & draue out & killed sundry of the cattell of the inhabitants. Wherevpon neere 100d people [of the parish] 1 2 yong & old, went through ye city of London, & a litle on this side of Topnam high-crosse petitioned King James ; who very graciously heard yc petition, & ordered that the Lords of his priuy counsell should take a course that he might be no more 1 The words in italics are interlineations. 2 These words within brackets are struck through.
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