Essex, Arthur Capel 1st Earl of

1631 – 1683

• Letters written by his excellency Arthur Capel, earl of Essex, lord lieutenantof Ireland, in the year 1675
• Whereas His Majesty, under his royal signet, and sign manual, bearing date at his court at Whitehall, the sixth day of September 1672, hath signified unto us the lord lieutenant and Council, that His Majestie by letters patents, under his great seal of En
• Whereas we are authorized and required by His Majesties letters, bearing date the 13th day of February, 1676, to give such further rules and directions for the better disposing and settling the remaining part of the security of the commissioned officers w
• Whereas we are informed, that the price of corn, and all sorts of grain and meal, is grown excessive great in severall parts of this kingdom, and the same doth arise (as is conceived) not so much from the scarcity of the store, as from the great quantitie
• Whereas we the lord lieutenant and Council according to His Majesties pleasure, and commands signified unto us by the lords of His Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council of England, by their letters bearing date the twenty sixth day of September last ...