Liverye pro Johanna Altham1

Sir Fr: Baringtons Steward is to defray the Charge:

Termino Hill. 3: Caroli feb: 4.
The Liverye continued till		term.	Pas.
the fee for the same	0	10	0
fetching the office from westm:	0	1	0
Rec. of Sir Fr: Steward Mai i. xx li.
The Copye of the office beinge of 50: sheets	1	12	6
mr. Audlyes2 hand to it	0	2	0
The feodary of Kent for a surveigh	3	0	0
to his man	0	6	8
to the feodary of Hertff. for his survey	2	5	0
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to the Auditors for the Copies of both the surveys	0	17	0
To mr. Surveyor for Allowing the Survey	1	3	4
mr. Brown John for the schedule	1	13	4
mr. Browne John for his paines	0	10	0
To the Auditors for Castinge vp the Rates	2	5	0
Trin. 4: Car. for a motion and Order for Sir Edw: Alth:3 to contribute etc.	0	8	0
A privye seale against Edward Jones4	0	7	10
The Affidavit for servinge it	0	2	0
A Cop: of the Order quia the originall was lefte with Sir Edw: Alth.	0	3	0
Cosin Hildershams 5 Affidauit	0	2	0
mr. Cholmly6 pro mot. v: Ed: Alth: militem	0	10	0
Rec. more of John Nimmo Sir William Mashams servant	20	0	0
mr. Recorder for the K. Fine	17	13	4
for the Acquitt. and entrye	0	2	6
For the order for the Liverye7	0	3	0
For the order and Affidavit v: Jones	0	6	0
The Attachment v: Jones	0	5	6
Michaelis 4: Car. mot. et 2: orders pro amerc. vie. pro deft. ret. et del. Attach.8	0	11	0

Hillarie 4: Caroli.
For takinge mres. Alth: Oathe	0	8	6
Mr. Raymond his man for the Indenture		5 s.
For another order and Attach: against Jones9	0	8	6
Rec. more of Mrs. Altham.10	36 li.

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more to mr. Receyver for halfe a years rent 40 li. out of which deduct 5 li. for exhibicion	35	0	0
to the Auditors for the debenture and onus	0	13	4
mr. Receyvers Clerks for enrolling the debenture and onus and the portage and acquittance	0	17	0
more to mr. Auditor for an Acquittance	0	3	4

In the Liverye Office
Office Fees	vj li.	}	10 li. 19 s. 6 d. sic
Scedule	33 s.
Indenture	30 s.
Survey	6 s. 8 d.
Warrant	x s.
Signature	18 d.
Contract	16 s.
Certificate	2 s.

Rec. more of Sir William Masham May 9. 20 li.

	li.	s.	d.
paid in the Pettibagge Office	15	4	6
for enrolling the Pattent grant in the Auditors office.	1	16	0
for taking out one bond	0	10	0
for enrolling the grant in the Exch:	2	8
for entring the homage etc.	0	7	0
for the Schedules in the Livery office	0	4	4
for a motion and order for Sir Edw: Alth: to attend mr. Auditor	0	3	0

1.

Daughter and heiress of Sir James Altham of Mark Hall, Latton, co. Essex, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Francis Barrington, for whom see Vol. I. 337, note 31 note 3 , and Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, new series, I. 251–273; II. 3–64. After the death of Sir James Altham his widow married Sir William Masham, whose letter to Winthrop concerning the livery, November 14, 1627, is printed in Vol. I. 367–368. Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, was chaplain to Sir William Masham. Two letters from him to Lady Joan Barrington, in regard to his proposed marriage to her niece, are printed in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, XLIII. (1889), 316–320 (see L. 169. 71).

2.

Hugh Audley, for many years one of the chief clerks of the Court of Wards and Liveries. He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1603, called to the bar in 1611, and elected an assistant to the bench in November, 1638. Isaac D'Israeli, who sketches his life in an article, “Usurers of the Seventeenth Century,” in his Curiosities of Literature (7th ed., IV. 245–68), relates that “at length” he “was enabled to purchase his office at that remarkable institution, the court of wards,” and when “asked the value of this new office, he replied, that 'It might be worth some thousands of pounds to him who after his death would instantly go to heaven; twice as much to him who would go to purgatory; and nobody knows what to him who would adventure to go to hell.'” Samuel Pepys writes, November 23, 1662, “I hear to-day how old rich Audley is lately dead, and left a very great estate, and made a great many poor familys rich, not all to one.” Inderwick terms him “a notorious usurer,” but also “a sound and diligent lawyer, with a practical knowledge of real property and conveyancing hardly equalled by any man of his day.” See D. N. B. , and a contemporary tract The way to be rich, according to the practice of the Great Audley, who begun with two hundred pound in the year 1605, and dyed worth four hundred thousand pound this instant November, 1662 (London, 1662).

3.

Sir Edward Altham of Mark Hall, uncle of the ward, who succeeded to the headship of the family on the death of his brother, Sir James. For the motion and order, see Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 14.

4.

Of co. Kent.

5.

Edward Altham, sheriff of London in 1531, and great-grandfather of Sir James Altham, married a daughter of Richard Hildersham of co. Cambridge, whence, presumably, this cousinship.

6.

Probably Nicholas Cholemley of London, admitted to the Inner Temple, 1584; called to the bar, 1592; to the bench, 1607; treasurer, 1641–44.

7.

“It is now ordered that the said Johan Altham shall proceede and sue forth her Liuery and if ther be cause Sir Edward Altham shall contribute rateablie towardes the chardge of the Liuery And mr. Auditor is to apporcion the said Rate.” C. W. 543. 333, July 3, 1628.

8.

C. W. 543. 456, 475, printed in Robinson, John Winthrop as Attorney, 15, 16.

9.

C. W. 543. 838, February 13, 1629, printed ibid., 25.

10.

“Mistress Altham,” the ward. Unmarried as well as married women were so addressed at that time.