[16] Strafford's _Letters_, i. 335. [17] _Id._ pp. 463, 467. [18] _Id._ ii. 117. It is well known that Charles made Richmond Park by means of depriving many proprietors not only of common rights, but of their freehold lands. Clarendon, i. 176. It is not clear that they were ever compensated; but I think this probable, as the matter excited no great clamour in the long parliament. And there is in Rymer, xx. 585, a commission to Cottington and others, directing them to compound with the owners of lands within the intended enclosures. Dec. 12, 1634. [19] Kennet, 64; Rushworth's Abridg. ii. 132; Strafford's _Letters_, i. 446; Rymer, xix. 323; Laud's _Diary_, 51. [20] Rymer, xx. 340. [21] Kennet, 74, 75. _Strafford Letters_, i. 358. Some petty sea-ports in Sussex refused to pay ship-money; but finding that the sheriff had authority to distrain on them, submitted. The deputy-lieutenants of Devonshire wrote to the council in behalf of some towns a few miles distant from the sea, that they might be spared from this tax, saying it was a novelty. But they were summoned to London for this, and received a reprimand for their interference. _Id._ 372. [22] _Clarendon State Papers_, i. 49, and ii. Append. p. xxvi. [23] This curious intrigue, before unknown, I believe, to history, was brought to light by Lord Hardwicke. _State Papers_, ii. 54. [24] See _Clarendon State Papers_, i. 490, for a proof of the manner in which, through the Hispano-popish party in the cabinet, the house of Austria hoped to dupe and dishonour Charles. [25] _Clarendon State Papers_, i. 109, _et post_. Five English ships out of twenty were to be at the charge of the King of Spain. Besides this agreement, according to which the English were only bound to protect the ships of Spain within their own seas, or the limits claimed as such, there were certain secret articles, signed Dec. 16, 1634; by one of which Charles bound himself, in case the Dutch should not make restitution of some Spanish vessels taken by them within the English seas, to satisfy the court of Spain himself out of ships and goods belonging to the Dutch; and by the second, to give secret instructions to the commanders of his ships, that when those of Spain and Flanders should encounter their enemies at open sea, far from his coasts and limits, they should assist them if over-matched, and should give the like help to the prizes which they should meet, taken by the Dutch, that they might be freed and set at liberty; taking some convenient pretext to justify it, that the Hollanders might not hold it an act of hostility. But no part of this treaty was to take effect till the Imperial ban upon the Elector Palatine should be removed. _Id._ 215. [26] _Clarendon State Papers_, i. 721, 761.