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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
An enquiry into the office of Deputy-Lieutenant, as created by the Tudors, might be said to belong, strictly speaking, to military history. But it belongs also to the history of local administration, for not only was the organisation of county levies an integral part of local government, but that type of military rule which prevailed under the Tudors touched the common life of the country at many points, and those matters with which the Lieutenant and his Deputies could be called upon to deal in the service of the Crown demanded at least as much administrative skill as aptitude in the military arts.
page 151 note 1 Paley, Political Philosophy, Bk. VI, c. xii.
page 151 note 2 Cp. Fortescue, History of the British Army, vol. i., Bk. 2, c. iii,; Anson, Laws and Customs of the Constitution, vol. ii., Part 2. The Crown, C. viii.
page 151 note 3 Fortescue, op. cit.
page 152 note 1 S.P.D. Elizabeth, vol. lxxiv., No. 34.
page 152 note 2 Vol. cvii., No. 2. Ibid., Instructions to the Earl of Bedford.
page 153 note 1 Acts of the Privy Council. Feb. 2, 1546–47.
page 153 note 2 Patent Rolls, 3 & 4 Ph. and Mary, No. 917. Part 12. Patent Rolls, Elizabeth, Divers Years, No. 1606.
page 153 note 3 Loseley MSS. (ed. Kempe), No. 45.
page 153 note 4 Acts of the Privy Council, March 31, 1558.
page 154 note 1 At Knowsley.
page 154 note 2 Patent Rolls, 3 & 4 Ph. and Mary, No. 917.
page 154 note 3 S.P.D. Elizabeth, vol. clxix., No. 58. A Note of certain Commissions of Lieutenancy sent to Walsingham from the Earl of Bedford in two boxes.
page 154 note 4 S.P.D. Elizabeth, vol. lix., Nos. 57–62.
page 154 note 5 Prothero, , Select Statutes and Documents, p. 154Google Scholar.
page 154 note 6 S.P.D. Elizabeth, vol. clxix.. No. 58.
page 155 note 1 S.P.D. Philip and Mary, vol. xiv., Oct. 29. Ibid., Elizabeth, vol. vii., No. 9, and vol. lxxiv., No. 34.
page 155 note 2 Several copies of Commissions issued in 1585 and during subsequent years, exist; cp. Patent Rolls, Elizabeth, Divers Years, No. 1606. Hist. MSS. Com., Foljambe MSS., fol. 66. Lambeth MSS. 247 (Muster Book).
page 155 note 3 S.P.D. Elizabeth, vol. clxix.. No. 58.
page 155 note 4 Crown Office Docquet Book (P.R.O.), 1595–1602.
page 156 note 1 Acts of the Privy Council, Ap. 14, 1551; May 26, 1552; May 24, 1553.
page 156 note 2 Ibid., July 29, 1598.
page 156 note 3 S.P.D. Elizabeth, vol. clxxix., No. 52. Hist. MSS. Com., Foljambe MSS., f. 125b.
page 156 note 4 S.P.D. Elizabeth, vol. xii., No. 27.
page 157 note 1 Acts of the Privy Council, Oct. 30, 1597.
page 157 note 2 Hist. MSS. Com., Hatfield MSS., vol. L, No. 1409. S.P.D. Elizabeth, vol. ccxlv. No. 39. It is not without interest in this connection that, in 1893, the Report of the Royal Commission for the Amalgamation of the City and County of London, stated that a proposal was brought forward on behalf of the City to this effect, “that the Lord Mayor shall during his term of office be the Lord Lieutenant … of the County of London.” The spokesman of the Committee said, “We attach a great deal of importance to this proposal because we are very anxious to make the position of Lord Mayor of London really the chief position in the county.” The Chairman of the Committee asked, “You have at present a Lord Lieutenant of the County of London?” “Yes, the Duke of Westminster.” “And he would be displaced by this proposal?” “Yes.” The final recommendation of the Commission was that the Lieutenant of the County should not be displaced, but that the Commissioners of Lieutenancy for the City should act as Deputy-Lieutenants for the County of London. (Report of the Royal Commission on. the Amalgamation of the City and County of London, 1893, Par. 46.)
page 157 note 3 Duke of Bedford's MSS., fol. 31. Signedletter from Lord Hunsdou to his Deputies and others on supplies for the Navy.
page 158 note 1 Acts of the Privy Council, Aug. 13, 1598.
page 158 note 2 Hatfield MSS., vol. viii., p. 486.
page 159 note 1 Talbot Papers, vol. N., fol. 161. Cp. Lancashire Lieutenancy Papers, vol. i. Introduction, and Prothero, , Select Statutes and Documents, p. 154Google Scholar.
page 159 note 2 Hist. MSS. Com., Foljambe MSS., fol. 97, 113, etc. Ibid., Hatfield JMSS., vol. viii., No, 60, 103, S.P.D, Elizabeth, vol. cclxxii,, No. 25.
page 160 note 1 Acts of the Privy Council, 1591 onwards.
page 160 note 2 Acts of the Privy Council, 1591, various entries. Robert Cary, Memoirs. Unton Correspondence. (Roxburgh Club.)
page 161 note 1 Talbot Papers, vol. B, fol. 225.
page 161 note 2 Hist. MSS. Com., Hatfield MSS., vol. viii., No. 240, 76.
page 161 note 3 Acts of the Privy Council, 1597–8, various entries.
page 162 note 1 Hist. MSS. Com., Hatfield MSS., vol. iii,, various entries.
page 162 note 2 Ibid., Rutland MSS., vol. i., p. 208.
page 163 note 1 For an account of the dealings of the Deputy-Lieutenants of Lincolnshire with a recusant, see Hist. MSS. Com., Cowper MSS., vol. i., p. 8.
page 163 note 2 Talbot Papers, vol. N, fol, 121.
page 164 note 1 Hist. MSS. Com., Foljambe MSS., fol. 125b.
page 164 note 2 Cp. S.P.D. Elizabeth, vol. clxix., No. 58.
page 165 note 1 Acts of the Privy Council, June 26, 1596.
page 165 note 2 Acts of the Privy Council, Oct. 2, 1586.
page 166 note 1 Acts of the Privy Council, July 24, 1596; S.P.D. Elizabeth, vol. 261, No. 1.
