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| May 1. |
The information of Robert Bolron taken before Secretary
Jenkins. The Saturday before Palm Sunday he found at the
shop of John Smith, a bookseller in Great Queen Street, a book
or pamphlet, entitled The Popish Massacre, a copy whereof he
produced and left with me, having received it, as he said, last
night from Dr. Tonge, after the Doctor had been examined
before the Council, which book is printed for the said Smith.
On page 2 were these words printed "for the Duke of Monmouth
is legitimate &c." Having showed the passage to the bookseller,
and told him by this book the Duke of Monmouth is made
legitimate and lawful heir, he replied that, if the Dukes of York
and Monmouth outlived the King, the Duke of Monmouth would
be found to be the true heir, for Bishop Cosin on his deathbed
had left in Sir Gilbert Gerard's custody a black box, which would
make appear by the writing in it that the Duke of Monmouth
was legitimate and true heir, and that the King was married
with his mother, and that Sir Gilbert was charged by Bishop Cosin
not to show the box and the writing in it to anybody while his
Majesty was alive, for that after his death it would do good
to the Duke of Monmouth. [Ibid. No. 85.] |
May 1.
[Received.] |
Interrogatories by Col. Morgan. Major Clynton, who married
Lord Berkeley's son's widow, has a son, a linen draper in
Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. To examine him on these
points. 1. Whether he was ever told by any person and by
whom, that the King was married to the Duke of Monmouth's
mother, and particularly whether Sir Thomas Arm[strong] did
not tell him so. 2. Whether he did not himself tell a person
of quality the marriage would be proved by three witnesses,
whereof one was a judge. 3. Whether he was ever employed
by Sir T. Ar[mstrong] to enquire out persons that could make
out any proof of the marriage. [Ibid. No. 86.] |
| May 1. |
Pass for Letitia Isabella, daughter to Daniel Finch, going to
France for the recovery of her health with Mrs. Ester and
Mrs. Beaupre Nower, John Sanders, Elizabeth Charlton and
Alice Ashley, also John Pickering, Ann Ward, and Josiah Croke.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, p. 337.] |
| May 1. |
Certificate by Sir Stephen Fox that there is due to Col. Strother's
troop of dragoons from 9 July, 1679, to 30 April following,
2,382l. 16s., according to the establishment, but, considering
they ought to have been disbanded with the rest of the forces
raised for the Scotch expedition, the Lords of the Treasury have
thought fit that there should be only 842l. to pay and discharge
them to the said 30 April. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 59, p. 40.] |
| May 1. |
Warrant to Sir Stephen Fox, paymaster general of the forces
and garrisons, for payment to Col. Strother of the said sum
of 842l. [Ibid. p. 39.] |
| May 1. |
Commission to Peter Bristow to be ensign to the company
of the Holland regiment at Hull. Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 164, p. 46.] |
May 1.
Windsor. |
Warrant to the Ordnance Commissioners for providing 15 tons
of pig lead for ballast of the new yacht, the Bezan, now ready
to be launched at Chatham, and for sending the same to Phineas
Pett. [Ibid. p. 51.] |
May 1.
Whitehall. |
Warrant after reciting the warrant of 9 May, 1679, calendared
ante, p. 141, granting an exclusive power for 19 years to Sir Thomas
Murray of Glendoick, Clerk Register, to cause the Acts &c. therein
mentioned to be reprinted by whatsoever printer he should
nominate, and to sell the same, and that the said Sir Thomas has
now agreed with David Lindsay, merchant in Edinburgh, to
be the undertaker of the reprinting of the said laws &c., and
with—, printer, for the reprinting thereof, and has given
them his licence conform to his assignation to them of his foresaid
right and of the power therein contained, ratifying and approving
the licence and agreement betwixt the said Sir Thomas and
the said David Lindsay and—, printer, and also with the
consent of the said Sir Thomas granting full power and licence to
them, to cause to be reprinted and to reprint all the Acts &c.
mentioned in the said warrant of 9 May, 1679, with the exclusive
right of selling the same in Scotland for 19 years after the date
of these presents under the same penalties as those contained
in the said warrant. [4 pages. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6,
p. 1.] |
May 1.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Lords of the Treasury in Scotland.
Warrant after reciting the last warrant and the warrant of 9 May,
1679, for permitting the said David Lindsay to import paper
not exceeding 2,000 reams, for reprinting the Acts &c. therein
mentioned, free from custom and all other duties. [Ibid. p. 5.] |
May 1.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a gift to Kenneth, Earl of Seaforth, his heirs
and assigns, of the few duties due by him and them to his Majesty
out of the lands and barony of Lewis extending to 3,000 merks
yearly for all the years resting unpaid since 1674 to 1680 inclusive,
being 6 years. [Docquet. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 6.] |
May 1.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Lords of the Treasury and the remanent
lords and others of the Exchequer of Scotland. Warrant for
inserting in the signature of 30 Sept., 1678, in favour of
Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbet, Colin Mackenzie of Reidcastle,
and Alexander Mackenzie of Coull, calendared in the last volume'
p. 436, the several taxt duties therein, according to the old,
retoured duties of the wardlands. [Ibid. p. 7.] |
May 1.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a gift to James, Bishop of Dumblane, Dean of
the Chapel Royal at Stirling, and his successors, of the kirks
of Caldercleir, Dunsyre, Symontoun, Robortoun and Winstoun
with the parsonage teinds of the respective parochines, to be
holden in pura elemosina for ever, the said bishop and his foresaids
giving prayers for the happy and prosperous reign of his Majesty
and his successors for ever and providing the said kirks with
qualified ministers with fit stipends whereon they may live.
[Docquet. Ibid. p. 9.] |
May 1.
Whitehall. |
Commissions to John Innes, son to the Laird of Innes, to be
lieutenant in place of Kenneth Mackenzie of Suddie, and to John
Robertson, formerly one of the Lifeguard of Horse, to be ensign
in place of the said John Innes, of Ogilvy of Boyne's company
in the Earl of Mar's regiment. [Ibid. pp. 9, 10.] |
May 1.
Whitehall. |
Memorials of protection in the ordinary form to Sir John
Whiteford of Milton, and to — Bruce of Kinnaird, for 2 years
respectively. [Ibid. p. 11.] |
May 1.
Dublin. |
The Earl of Granard to the Earl of Conway. A country retreat
these five months has made me as great a stranger to affairs
here as I am to what is done in England. I have thoughts of
waiting on you in London, before I go to the Bath, only I desire
your advice where I may be sure to meet with you, whether at
your house in Warwick[shire] or in London, for I intend to begin
my journey about 1 June. All your friends are in good health,
my daughter[-in-law] Forbes ready to lay in. If it prove a boy,
I entreat you would name some in this country, who in your
stead may make it a Christian and who may honour my family
with your name. I have heard you are toward a fair lady. My
advice is you make no delays, for time is precious. God send you
a virtuous and a teeming lady, who may increase your family.
[Conway papers. S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 83.] |
| May 3. |
The examination of William Morgan. About May or June,
1679, being to visit a lady, a relation of his, a servant of hers brought
her word a gentleman desired to speak with her, whereupon the
lady desired the examinant to walk into the next room. He had
not stayed long there, before he heard a discourse between the
lady and gentleman concerning the marriage of the King with
the Duke of Monmouth's mother, and he heard him tell the lady
that it was credibly reported the King was really married to
the Duke's mother, and that it would be clearly proved by three
witnesses of it, one was a judge, the name of another was Prythero,
and the name of the third the examinant does not remember.
After the gentleman went, the examinant desired the lady to tell
him who the gentleman was. She told him it was Mr. —. He
telling her he had overheard something of her discourse, she
told him that this gentleman came to enquire of her concerning
certain letters, which he said he had been informed had been
formerly lodged with her, being letters from the King to the
Duke of Monmouth's mother, which he said he presumed would
make out that the King was married to her. He further said,
as she told the examinant, that, she being nearly related to the
Duke of Monmouth, he did not doubt she would readily serve him
in what she could, and that she could not serve him better than
by producing the said letters or at least in recollecting whether
the said letters did not plainly set forth the King was married
as aforesaid. He further said, as the lady told the examinant,
that the Duke of Monmouth was in great esteem with the King
and likewise with the people, and that, the Duke of York being
of a contrary religion, the Parliament and people were resolved
to assert the Duke of Monmouth's right to the Crown, who ere
long would be at the head of an army, and therefore, if she would
now serve him (the Duke), he would serve her, and if she pleased,
the Duke of Monmouth should wait on her in this matter, or,
if she would give Sir Thomas Armstrong leave, he would wait
on her. All which was repeated by her to the examinant as the
substance of the discourse betwixt her and the said gentleman.
[2½ pages. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 413, No. 87.] |
May 3.
Windsor. |
The King to the Dean and Chapter of Wells. Willing and
requiring them on the first vacancy of a canonry residentiary
in that cathedral after Dr. Levinz, in whose favour he had written
to them before, is provided for to confer the same on Thomas
Brickenden, B.D., and prebendary of that cathedral, of whose
piety, loyalty and sufferings he has received good testimony.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 57, p. 18.] |
May 3.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Bevil Skelton. I have to acknowledge
several letters from you, the last being of 16 April. I have been
since this day sennight in the function of Secretary, but, when
I am a little better in gear, I'll endeavour to give you part of the
news of this place, where all things at present are in quiet. Your
good lady is alarmed with the news of your being to be suddenly
revoked. If his Majesty continues of the mind to recall you,
I am sure it is for no dissatisfaction of your performance there,
for I have heard him speak of you with kindness. I have hurt
my hand by a little accident, which makes me make use of another.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 64, p. 1.] |
| May 4. |
Commission to Jeffry Tomlins to be capt.-lieutenant of the
colonel's company of trained bands in the Isle of Thanet under
Col. William Rooke. Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 29,
p. 359.] |
| May 5. |
Order that Secretary Jenkins send for Mr. Pierson, who belongs
to the Lord Privy Seal, and examine him particularly whether he saw
or had any papers belonging to Mistress Barlow or in her custody,
and what were their contents, if any such there were. [S.P. Dom.,
Car. II. 413, No. 88.] |
May 5.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a grant of the office of one of the principal
Secretaries of State to Sir Leoline Jenkins in the room of Henry
Coventry during pleasure, with the yearly fee of 100l., to commence from Lady day last. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, p. 338.] |
May 5.
Whitehall. |
Reference to the Attorney-General of the following case:—
King James creates M. S. a baronet, to descend to his heirs male.
He dies without issue. S. S., his next heir at law, having deserved
eminently of the Crown, becomes a suitor by the Duke of Albemarle
to his Majesty to be created a baronet, with the precedency his
relation had. Query, whether the King can do this ? The
affirmative is made good by several precedents. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 55, p. 79.] |
May 5.
Whitehall. |
Commission to William Matthews to be ensign to Capt. Daniell
in Lord Craven's regiment. Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book
164, p. 43.] |
May 5.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a gift to Alexander, Earl of Moray, his heirs or
assigns, of the ward and non-entry of — Colquhoun of Luss,
deceased, together with the marriage of — Colquhoun, now of
Luss. [Docquet. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 11.] |
May 5.
Lisburn. |
Sir G. Rawdon to the Earl of Conway. If this arrive before
John Totnall leave you, I desire your advice about the woods.
So many importune me for warrants for timber that I am very
weary of being his deputy and shall serve them all alike till he
come. The Bishop of Down is going next Monday for the Bath,
and intends to build the end of his house in his absence, and the
cross building, which will require many trees, and by his lease
there is no covenant to supply him with timber and, if I should
give warrants to all that solicit, the fall this year would be more
than ordinary, and whoever shall live a few years more, I am
confident, will find a great want of timber, for the woods of
Londonderry are almost wasted, so that the woods in the island
and parks will be the best stock of timber in the province, if
care be taken not to waste them too much. Will. Hill has a great
fall this year, and sells for 13s. a ton. He and his lady &c. dined
with us on Monday, and Mr. Ormesby, who has a decree to levy
1,600l. due for his wife's portion and interest and Tom Leath's,
is discarded, so how this payment will be settled I know not.
He has desired mine and your cornet's help to contrive it, and
promises its payment as we think best, and John Redmon is to
bring us his rentals to consider it. |
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The Earl of Mount Alexander and Sir Robert Colvill and
his two sons by his first wife and his daughter are now come to
town on their way to Dublin, the two first to settle a fine of lands
to Sir Robert and the young ones to stay in Dublin for education.
Lady Mount Alexander will stay in Ireland this summer. I hear,
if Mr. Wigg leave Adam's house, she is in love with the air and
neighbourhood heré. |
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If the weather continue good, I intend next week to Portmore
to see how the trenching in the moss advances and other business.
I resolve not yet of going to Castle Forbes next month, nor if your
nieces go as desired. The midwife and nurse will be sent about
three weeks hence. If Sir James Graham &c. come over, I think
I must be at Drogheda in June, the time my daughter expects
her delivery. I hear Lord Granard wrote to you from Dublin
before he went to Kilkenny with the Lord Lieutenant. [2 pages.
Conway papers. S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 84.] |
May 6.
Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Secretary Jenkins. Having
received the enclosed from Sir Robert Southwell since those
I sent you, I have showed it to the King, who would have you
let him know that he is well satisfied with his proceedings and
that as to what he writes concerning the Elector of Saxony the
King intends he should go to that Prince, as soon as his negotiation
in the Court of Brandenburg is either at an end or at least in
such a state that his Majesty may be able to judge what success
it is like to have. The King would have him find some way
of acquainting the Elector that his Majesty has resolved to send
him within a short time to his Highness. |
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I must desire you will send me this letter of Sir Robert's,
when you have done with it, his Royal Highness not having
seen it yet. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 56, p. 28.] |
May 6.
Windsor Castle. |
The Earl of Sunderland to the Bishop of Bath and Wells.
I have moved the King on your letter in favour of Mr. Brickenden
and, his Majesty having agreed to his suit, I enclose a mandate
to the Dean and Chapter, as you desired. [Ibid. p. 29.] |
May 6.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to Col. Strother for raising a troop of dragoons by
1 July next, to consist of a captain, a lieutenant, a cornet, a
quarter-master, a sergeant, two corporals, a drummer and 40
soldiers with their horses, and he is to beat up drums for that
purpose, but, in case he beat his drums within the City of London,
he is first to show this warrant to the Lord Mayor, and he is to
send advertisement to the Commissary General of the Musters
of the place where he will have the troop complete or at least
20 of them with their horses, besides officers, who will depute
some one to muster them by the said 1 July, at which time the
officers and the rest of the troop, not being less than 20 soldiers,
are to enter into pay, and the rest of the soldiers are to be mustered
as they shall appear and bring their horses, and he is to distribute
to the said troop the arms of his troop, which was ordered to
be disbanded. With note of the pay of the said troop amounting
to 1,095l. per annum. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 59, p. 33.] |
May 6.
London. |
Newsletter to Christopher Bowman at Newcastle on Tyne.
Yesterday the Council sat, his Majesty and his Royal Highness
being present. The affair between the Governor and Admiral
of Portsmouth was under consideration, and, after a full hearing
of both, his Majesty ordered that the Governor on setting his
watch should fire a gun, and that the Admiral at the same time
should answer him with another and set the watch on board the
fleet, and that the Admiral should communicate his word to the
Governor and the Governor his to the Admiral, so that, after the
setting of the watch in the garrison, no boats should be supposed
to come ashore without the word nor no boats to come aboard
without the same signal, and that neither should intermeddle
any further with the other's concerns. |
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At the same time a sculpturer was brought in custody of a
messenger for having printed the picture of the Duke of Monmouth
on horseback with the inscription of "his Royal Highness,"
which title does not belong to him, but he pleaded that it was
ignorance and not any evil design, and that he was told of the
mistake about two years ago, on which he altered his plate and
produced several of his copies that were altered. The Council
dismissed him, he paying his fees. |
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The affair of the Black Box was had under further examination,
and Mr. Smith, publisher of the Current Intelligencer, was examined
about printing a narrative that Dr. Tonge composed of one
Green's depositions, wherein there is a hint relating to some such
project, and it's said that Dr. Tonge and Sir Thomas Armstrong
are ordered to be proceeded against as authors of the report. |
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Two dangerous and scandalous libels were brought to the
Board, and the publishers of them being in custody attended, but,
the time being elapsed, the business was put off till next Council
day. One of them is in prose entitled The Description of the Scotch
Monster, the other in verse, reflecting on his Majesty and the
whole Government, and it's believed that, if the authors are
discovered, as in all probability they will, they will be made
exemplary. |
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After the Council was over, his Majesty and his Royal Highness
dined at the Earl of St. Albans', and after dinner his Majesty
returned by water part of his way for Windsor, and their Royal
Highnesses went to see a play. |
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This morning his Royal Highness went to Putney, where a
stag was lodged, which he intends to hunt, and, as soon as that
is over, will accompany his Majesty at Windsor. |
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This day the bill against the Duke of Buckingham was brought
before the Grand Jury by the Attorney-General, but, the evidence
not concurring, they brought it Ignoramus. A scandalous
pamphlet, the Morning Star, is ordered to be seized and the
printer and publishers to be taken into custody. [3 pages.
Admiralty, Greenwich Hospital 1, No. 50.] |
May 7.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Earl of Sunderland. The Committee
had sat near two hours, when Lord Ossory and myself arrived
here. We let them know the King's pleasure, which was:—
1. To go through with the examinations. 2. While 'tis a doing
to keep the persons separate from strangers. 3. To bring all
the depositions to a full point and to leave no places for a reserve
4. To forbear all publication of what is deposed, till his Majesty
have a report of all. This was readily agreed to, and these
persons are ordered to be under the same limitations as to seeing
company that they have been under all this while, till his Majesty
come to town. The material point in their depositions is that
Moyer, being at Marseilles in '73, saw a letter of Plunkett's to
the Secretary of the Propaganda in Rome purporting that 60,000
men were ready in Ireland, but that they wanted arms, therefore
that the Principe Colonna and Cardinal Grimaldi, Archbishop of
Aix in Provence, should be solicited to contribute &c. The rest
was all brangling between the Primate and these priests about
jurisdiction. |
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The Lord Chancellor desires that his Majesty may be moved
to determine of the time for a further prorogation, that he may
have time to prepare the commission, for, if his Majesty come
not to town till Wednesday, there will be but three or four days
to do it in. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 12.] |
May 8.
Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Sir L. Jenkins. I have received
yours of the 7th and 8th. The first I showed his Majesty, who
approves of what was done yesterday, and has commanded me
to let the Lord Chancellor know that he intends the Parliament
to be prorogued to 1 July. Your last his Majesty has not seen,
being abroad. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 413, No. 89.] |
May 8.
Rye. |
Robert Hall to Sir L. Jenkins. Letters have come on both
sides of this place regulating corporations, and hardly one place
in England wants it so much as this, it being wholly governed
by those not capable by the Act, and no letter being come here
makes them think they are secure or, if any be come, it is kept
up by the Mayor, who cannot read it, who was the greatest
instrument for encouraging those to appear to give their votes
for electing himself and afterwards burgesses for this place, by
sending his sergeants to warn them in that never presumed to
give their votes, since the execution of the said Act, when they
were turned out as disaffected to the King and Government.
[Ibid. No. 90.] |
May 8.
Windsor. |
Commission to Col. George Legge, Governor of Portsmouth,
the deputy governor for the time being and several others, after
reciting the commission of 29 January, 1677–8 (calendared in
S.P. Dom., 1677–8, p. 610) for strengthening the works on
Portsmouth side and building new works on Gosport side and
that several of the commissioners therein named are since removed
from Portsmouth, appointing them commissioners for carrying
on the said works in obedience to the former instructions
(calendared in S.P. Dom., 1677–8, p. 610). [1¼ page. S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 164, p. 43.] |
May 8.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Lord Lieutenant. (Printed in the Ormonde
Papers, Vol. V, p. 316.) [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 341, p. 1.] |
May 8.
Jersey. |
Sir Philip de Carteret to Secretary Jenkins. Congratulating
him on his happy arrival into England, and expressing his great
joy at the news of his being made Secretary of State.—If I could
create to myself and to this poor island where I live, whose
distance from its prince's eye often exposes it to the danger of
our enemies abroad and often also to the oppression and covetousness of our governors at home, so considerable a means to protect
it as yourself, as it has been protected those many hundred
years by Providence, who has still inspired in some generous
favourite the care of us and who, I flatter myself, has now
immediately raised you our protector in the place of Mr. ViceChamberlain that is dead, for, though this was his native country,
I hope as much and have reason so to do from your goodness
and generosity, as I should from all the other ties in nature.
[S.P. Channel Islands 1, No. 97.] |
May 9.
London. |
Thomas Stratford to Con. Magenis. Last Saturday I was at
your lodgings to have begged his lordship to give me two or
three lines to Mr. Finch to desire him to afford me his favour
in a matter which concerns me much and will shortly come before
him and the rest of the Lords of the Admiralty. I have now
almost 200l. due to me for towing down the River several ships of
war, which I have always done by order of the Navy Commissioners. I charge 3l. a tide's work, which is less than I have
had many times of the merchants. I was never at a set rate
with the Commissioners, because at the beginning of its working
they questioned very much whether it would perform what I
proposed, though I was certain it could, therefore I never made
them any price, concluding that, if it performed what I said, I might
then insist on such prices as I durst not pretend to before. Now that
they and all people are satisfied, it having carried down against wind
and tide ships of 1,200 tons, I am going to give in my bill, but am
told it will be carried before the Lords not only to be signed but
to have a rate agreed on for the future. Now that I am a stranger
to all the Commissioners and have no interest among them, my
lord's letter would be of great use to me, and, if it may come to me
to deliver with my own hands, I doubt not it will do my business
effectually. Pray, if possible, let the bearer hereof have it or
let me have your answer, for I shall make no progress till I hear
from you. [Conway papers. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 413, No. 91.] |
May 10.
Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Secretary Jenkins. The King
thinks Wednesday soon enough for the Council to meet, and
would have the Irishmen under restraint till then, when he will
be in town himself. The Duke not having yet read several letters
I have received that belong to you, I cannot send them till
to-morrow. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 413, No. 92.] |
May 10.
Preston. |
Mar[? y] Whitbie to Lord Conway. Beseeching him that by
this messenger she may receive his bounty to his poor old servant,
now the year is fully up. [Conway papers. Ibid. No. 93.] |
| May 10. |
Charles Ray to Secretary Jenkins. Stating his condition and
beseeching him to deliver the enclosed petition to the King.
[Ibid. No. 94.] Enclosed, |
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Charles Ray to the King. Petition for an order that the
petitioner may be discharged without paying fees. He was
committed about 8 months since to the King's Bench prison
for being concerned in publishing a pamphlet called, An
Appeal &c., and his Majesty having ordered at the intercession of Secretary Coventry his discharge without paying
fees, nevertheless Evans, the messenger, having received the
said order, did not give notice thereof to the petitioner for
ten days, and since demands fees for the said ten days, at
6s. 8d. a day. [Ibid. No. 94 i.] |
| May 10. |
Commission to Richard Cooke to be captain of the Trained
Band for Folkestone in the first regiment of the Cinque Ports.
Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 29, p. 358.] |
May 10.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Bevil Skelton. Lord Sunderland communicated to me two of your letters of 21 and 24 April, o.s. He
told me that the States General, being every day alarmed with
the pretensions the French set up in Flanders and the Empire,
his Majesty takes a share in their disquiet and himself talked
with the French ambassador yesterday of the dangerous consequences that all measures would draw after them that should
be taken contrary to the peace now established, and has ordered
Mr. Savile, his minister in the French Court, to advise with
the Dutch ambassadors there and to concert with them in all
repesentations fitting to be made to the Court of France for
preserving the general peace. The Dutch ambassador is hugely
satisfied with this, and the French ambassador no less startled
at his Majesty's discourse to him (though it was gentle, yet it
was home) on this subject. I give you this hint, because it may
be of good use to the quickening of things where you are.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 64, p. 3.] |
May 11.
Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Earl of Rothes, Chancellor, and the Privy
Council of Scotland. Warrant for setting at liberty John,
Lord Barganie, now a prisoner in Edinburgh Castle, upon his
giving sufficient caution to appear, if called for. [S.P. Scotland,
Warrant Book 6, p. 12.] |
May 11.
Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a confirmation to Henry Hay, commissar clerk
of Edinburgh, his heirs and assigns, of the one merk land of Over
and Nether Glenns in the barony of Earlestoun, parochine of
Dalry and stewardry of Kirkcudbright, holden of — Gordon of
Earlestoun, and now fallen into his Majesty's hands by the forfeiture
of the said Gordon on occasion of his being in the late rebellion
with a new gift and with all his Majesty's right and interest
thereto by reason of the sentence of forfeiture pronounced
against the said Gordon. [1½ page. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6,
p. 13.] |
May 11.
Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a gift to Lieut.-colonel Edmond Maine,
Major Theophilus Oglethorpe and Capt. Cornwall in equal shares
of the forfeitures of Gordon of Earlestoun, James Gordon of
Craichlaw and William Ferguson of Caitloch. (The purport
appears from the ratification printed in The Acts of the Parliament
of Scotland, Vol. VIII, p. 323.) [5¼ pages. Ibid. p. 15.] |
May 11.
Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Lords of the Treasury in Scotland. Warrant
after reciting that the three forfeited estates mentioned in the
last warrant, exceed, as the King is informed, the grant of 600l.
per annum sterling, promised to the said three grantees, for
taking security, before the said gift shall pass the Exchequer,
from the said Lieut.-colonel Maine, Major Oglethorpe and
Capt. Cornwall, to pay the surplus, if any, that the said estates
shall exceed the said grant and the debts payable out of the
same, to such uses as the King shall hereafter direct. [Ibid.
p. 20.] |
May 11.
Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Lords of the Treasury in Scotland. Warrant,
after reciting the said gift to Lieut.-colonel Maine, Major
Oglethorpe and Capt. Cornwall, and that it is represented by
the Earl of Queensberry that the lands and estate of the said
William Ferguson of Caitloch hold ward of him and that it will
be very inconvenient for him to be uncertain of the qualifications
of the person, who might become his vassal on the sale or disposition thereof, for taking care before they pass the said
signature that the said lieut.-colonel, major and captain give
security to make a full and absolute disposition of the lands
and estate both real and personal of the said Ferguson to the
said Earl's nominees, as soon as he shall procure to them a valid
right of the estate or estates of some other forfeited person or
persons equivalent to the said lands and estate of the said
Ferguson, the said donators being at no charge in making the
disposition of the said lands and estate of Caitloch nor in receiving
the right of the compensation to be made them for the same.
[Ibid. p. 21.] |
May 11.
Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a charter of new infeftment to John Graham of
Claverhouse and his heirs male, which failing to his heirs and
assigns, of the lands and barony of Ogilvy in the parochine of
Glamis and shirefdome of Forfar. (The purport appears from
the ratification, printed in The Acts of the Parliament of Scotland,
Vol. VIII, p. 314.) [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 22.] |
May 11.
Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Lords of the Treasury and the remanent
Lords and others of the Exchequer of Scotland. Warrant for
filling up the blanks, left in the above signature to John Graham
of Claverhouse for inserting the several taxt duties therein,
according to the old retoured duties of the said lands. [Ibid.
p. 23.] |
May 11.
Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a new presentation to Matthew Ewing, by a former
presentation minister at Hownam in the shirefdome of Roxburgh,
to be now parson of the said kirk of Hownam, because it is a
parsonage and has no local and modified stipend, and that he
was in the first presentation presented only to the local and
modified stipend thereof. [Docquet. Ibid. p. 24.] |
May 11.
Windsor Castle. |
Memorials of protection in the ordinary form for — years to
John, Earl of Caithness, Sir Robert Murray alias Chrichtoun, and
Robert Whitehead of Park. [Ibid. pp. 25, 26.] |
| May 12. |
J[ohn] S[peke] to his brother, Hugh Speke. I have been
altogether at Ford Abbey and at White Lackington. Now that
I am here, I shall see that the Statute Book of Keeble's be sent
you by the Tiverton or Yeovil carriers. I came hither Monday
last, when your letter came to my father, which very much
enraged him. He as good as cursed you and called you names
that you should meddle with his business, and that he did not,
whilst in town, spend anything in his own business, but now he
must sell his land &c., so myself and my mother guessed he had
an account in your letter of some charges, probably 10l. or more.
You know his temper. There's small encouragement to help him
in his concerns, which he himself would quite spoil. Since his
return, notwithstanding the numberless entreaties and advices
to be silent and not concern himself with public affairs, he gives
himself more liberty, and talks more at random and dangerous
than formerly, which is a great affliction to all his friends. His
intentions against Walrond and his discourse of higher persons
is not fit to be set down in post letters, yet Mr. Bonner and another
neighbour, at Col. Thomas Strangewayes' house, where was
then my lord of Bristol, heard them discoursing what was the
second information against G[eorge] S[peke], viz., that he should
say before sufficient witnesses that the [King] was a Pa[pist],
that the D[uke of] Y[ork] was a P[apist], and that the D[uke of]
M[onmouth] was a Prot[estant] and right he[ir] of the Cr[own],
the which is doubtless a notorious false accusation, and withal
that the parson of Watchet should be at Sir William Wyndham's
when directions came to him to choose a jury against G.S., and
it's talked of, as if G.S. should speak thus at London. Do not
take notice to name to G.S. who wrote any of the aforesaid contents to you. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 413, No. 95.] |
May 12.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a grant to Thomas Powys of Lincoln's Inn, of the
office of attorney of the counties of Denbigh and Montgomery,
in the room of Thomas Walcot, promoted to be serjeant at law.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, p. 340.] |
May 12.
Whitehall. |
Sir L. Jenkins to Sir Robert Carr. Signifying his Majesty's
pleasure, who has seen his report on the petition of Castillian
Morris, that he appoint a day and signify the same to the foresters
or commoners and others concerned to make their objections,
if any, against the said Mr. Morris' grant, on which he is to report
to his Majesty with his opinion whether he thinks fit the said
grant should pass. [Ibid. p. 342.] Prefixed, |
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The said report, that there was such a warrant under the Privy
Seal (which was no warrant to him), but afterwards his
Majesty granted a reference on the said Mr. Morris' petition,
whereon he reported that he thought his Majesty might grant
the petitioner's request, on which his Majesty granted a
warrant for passing the same, but on a petition signed by
many of the commoners or foresters and an application by
the Earl of Macclesfield, then Lord Gerard, Sir Thomas
Slingsby and others, his Majesty commanded that the commoners should be heard, which they have not yet been, for
presently after he had his Majesty's command to proceed no
further, till he had his particular order so to do. He cannot
find that the foresters or others petitioned for a grant of the
premises to a third hand, as alleged, but believes the petitioner's
family have been great sufferers and very well deserve his
Majesty's bounty, but submits whether his Majesty will
grant the land without hearing the foresters or commoners
and others. 20 April, 1680. [Ibid. p. 341.] |
May 12.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a grant to George Thorp, D.D., chaplain to the
Archbishop of Canterbury, of a canonry of Canterbury, void
by the death of Dr. John Bargrave. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 53,
p. 24.] |
May 12.
Whitehall. |
Proclamation for suppressing the printing and publishing unlicensed news books and pamphlets of news. (Printed in The
London Gazette, No. 1513.) [S.P. Dom., Various 12, p. 404.] |
May 12.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant, after reciting
letters patent of 16 April, 1674, granting to Richard and Thomas
Domville, sons of Sir William Domville, Attorney-General for
Ireland, the offices of clerk of the Hanaper and clerk of the Crown
in Ireland and letters patent of 5 July, 1679, granting the said
offices to Henry Gascoigne and Edward Bageley in reversion
(the letters directing the said grants are calendared in S.P. Dom.,
1673–4, p. 208, and ante, p. 166), and that the said Richard
Domville is dead, for a grant of the said offices in reversion after
the determination of the interests of the said Thomas Domville,
Henry Gascoigne and Edward Bageley to William Domville,
another son of the said Sir William Domville, and to William
Hartpole, grandson to the said Sir William, for their lives and
the life of the survivor of them. [S.P. Dom., Signet Office, Vol. 10,
p. 439.] |
May 12.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant, after reciting
that the daughters of Col. Lane had represented that the interest
amounting to 480l. to be paid them, till they should receive
6,000l. in one entire payment, had not been paid them at Easter
and Michaelmas last by reason of a stop to the payment of all
pensions, and therefore prayed that the said 480l. per annum
might be taken out of the list of pensions and placed among the
temporary payments on the establishment to be paid them till
they are fully satisfied the said 6,000l. principal, a reference
thereof to the Lord Lieutenant and his report of 6 Feb. last that
his Majesty may, if he think fit, order the 480l. per annum to be
taken out of the list of pensions, on which it now is, and placed
from Michaelmas, 1678, amongst the temporary payments, it
being properly such, to be continued to be paid them till the
said 6,000l. be satisfied, and that the said 6,000l. was part of
Lord Ranelagh's undertaking by his contract, and that, on a
supposition made by him that he had overpaid what he was
liable for by his contract, which, for ought that yet appears, is
not like to prove so, the interest thereof at 8 per cent was placed
and is on the present establishment, till the said 6,000l. be satisfied.
and that the Lords of the Treasury concur with this report; for
causing the said 480l. per annum to be taken out of the list of
pensions and to be placed from Michaelmas, 1678, amongst the
temporary payments to be paid them till the said 6,000l. be
fully paid them. [1½ page. Ibid. p. 441.] |
May 12.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant, after reciting
that Daniel Hignet of Limerick, has represented by his petition
that Symon Wrotham in 1666 obtained the judgment of the
Commissioners for executing the Acts of Settlement and
Explanation to be confirmed as a soldier in 59 acres in Loghcrew
in the barony of Half Fore, Meath, but that in drawing up his
certificate for the said lands they were expressed to lie in the
barony of Half Fore, Westmeath, and the letters passed with
that mistake and that the said Wrotham sold all his interest
therein to the petitioner, who has been these ten years kept out of
possession thereof on the said misnomer of county, and further that
he is a deficient adventurer of 119 acres, one rood and 6 perches
according to Munster rate, and that the moiety of Castletown
and lands of Balleslough, containing about 50 acres, and the
moiety of Knockbragh, containing about 60 acres, in the barony
of Connello, co. Limerick, are by the said Acts vested in his
Majesty and concealed and in the possession of John Lilles, and
therefore prayed letters for passing letters patent as well for
rectifying the said misnomer as for granting him the said lands
for satisfaction of his deficiency, a reference thereof to the Lord
Lieutenant and his report agreeing with the enclosed report,
dated 17 March, 1679[–80], of the Solicitor-General, which was
that as to the first part of the petition he conceived it very reasonable that the mistake should be rectified and the petitioner
admitted to pass a new patent of the said lands in Loghcrew,
and as to the other part of the petition that the petitioner is
deficient as therein alleged, but that he conceives it not fit that
the petitioner be admitted to pass any patent of the said lands
in the barony of Connello, till the King's title thereto be made
out, yet that, if his Majesty be pleased so far to favour the
petitioner as to allow him to pass the said lands towards satisfaction of his said deficiency, when his Majesty's title be made
out thereto, he may now grant the petitioner his letters empowering
his Grace to pass letters patent thereof to him and his heirs under
the rents payable thereout under the said Acts in satisfaction
of his deficiency after his Majesty's title be found thereto or they
recovered for his Majesty at the petitioner's prosecution, a further
reference to the Lords of the Treasury and their concurrence with
the Lord Lieutenant and the Solicitor-General: Authorizing
and requiring him to cause letters patent to be passed to the
said Hignet of the said 59 acres under the rent payable by the
said Acts and further that, when the said lands in the barony
of Connello shall at the prosecution of the said Hignet be found
to be vested in the Crown and recovered, for causing a grant
to be made thereof to the said Hignet and his heirs under the
rents payable thereout by the said Acts towards satisfaction
of his said deficiency, provided he make out the King's title
thereto within three years from the date hereof. [3 pages.
S.P. Dom., Signet Office, Vol. 10, p. 442.] |
May 12.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant for payment
of the arrears of the pension of 150l. per annum granted to
Sir Patrick Barnewall, and for what shall grow due to him thereafter, he having represented that by reason of some general
order the payment thereof has been stopped since Michaelmas,
1678. [Ibid. p. 445.] |
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Another copy of the above. [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339,
No. 85.] |
Thursday morning, May 13.
Whitehall. |
Resolutions of a Committee of the Council. Secretary Jenkins
to acquaint the Lord Mayor with his Majesty's present indisposition, and that it is the desire of the Council:—That he will
use his utmost endeavours to suppress all reports in the City
but what he shall receive from this Board or a Secretary of State;
that they have taken care to have notice twice a day from Windsor,
which they will acquaint him with; that one of the Clerks of the
Council is sent to Windsor to order messengers to come twice
a day from Windsor to give their lordships an account; that
Lord Craven and Col. Russell have received orders to be very
careful of the Guards, but not to double them. [Two copies.
S.P. Dom., Car. II. 413, Nos. 96, 97.] |
May 13.
Whitehall. |
Circular letter from Secretary Jenkins. His Majesty had
to day a fit of his ague. He was well and abroad in the morning.
At 9 it took him, and he took his bed upon it. He was up and
well again by 3. I give you this short account to prevent false
informations. Noted as sent to about 24 persons. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 62, p. 13.] |
| May 13. |
List of letters and papers delivered to the Committee of
Examinations to be sent into Ireland for the prosecution of
Oliver Plunket, titular Primate. [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339,
No. 86.] |
May 14.
9 a.m. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Sir L. Jenkins. The King has
rested very well all night, and is so well this morning that he believes
he shall have no more ague, which is so good news that, I hope,
it will quiet all fears at London as it does here. [S.P. Dom.,
Car. II. 413, No. 98.] |
May 14.
5 p.m. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Sir L. Jenkins. The King has since
had a little fit of an ague, much less than that he had yesterday.
The physicians think he will have no more, and all say there is
no danger, not so much as of the continuance of his distemper.
He is now very well again. [Ibid. No. 99.] |
| May 14. |
Memorandum that Francis Kirby said that the Duke of
Monmouth is heir to the Crown and that three quarters of the
Aldermen of London are Papists and those that did not sign the
petition are Papists also. Witnesses, Robert Hall in Exchequer
Yard and Mr. Mote in Essex. Endorsed by Secretary Jenkins as
delivered him 6 July, 1680, by the Common Serjeant. [Ibid.
No. 100.] |
May 14.
The Guildhall, Bath. |
The Mayor and Corporation of Bath to the King. Address
acknowledging the immense benefits they have all along enjoyed
by his most prudent and gracious government, more especially
illustrated by the recall of his Royal Highness, and professing
to maintain and defend his Majesty and his lawful successors in
their prerogatives and rights and utterly detesting all tumultuous
petitions and declaring that not one person in all this city ever
set their hands to such seditious and pernicious practices. [Ibid.
No. 101.] |
| May 14. |
Warrant to all Mayors, Sheriffs &c. and all other subjects whom
it may concern for aiding Thomas Atterbury, messenger, appointed
to conduct certain persons into Ireland as well by providing him
with necessary guards, where he shall have reason to demand
them, as by supplying him with horses at reasonable rates, if he
shall need any, or otherwise. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 54, p. 43.] |
May 14.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Bevil Skelton. Lord Sunderland has
put two letters of yours of 21 and 24 April, o.s., into my hands
as being come to the province he quits. I shall produce them
at the next Foreign Committee and, if I have any directions,
shall transmit them to you. I enclose the copy of a letter
Lord Sunderland has been lately directed to write to Mr. Savile,
whereby you'll see how entirely his Majesty enters into the
sentiments of the States General in what relates to France.
We have been in pain these two days about the King's health,
of which you have the best account I can give you, not
that we apprehend any danger. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 64,
p. 2.] |
May 14.
Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Earl of Rothes, Chancellor, and the Privy
Council of Scotland. Concerning the Indulgence formerly granted.
(Printed in Wodrow, Vol. III, p. 185.) [S.P. Scotland, Warrant
Book 6, p. 26.] Annexed, |
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Instructions for regulating the Indulgence. (Printed in Wodrow,
Vol. III, p. 186.) [Ibid. p. 29.] |
May 14.
Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Earl of Rothes, Chancellor, and the Privy
Council of Scotland. Warrant for empowering Andrew, Bishop of
Dunkeld, to receive 200l. sterling out of the first and readiest
of the vacant stipends in the diocese of Dunkeld, and to apply
the same to the building and repairing of a convenient manse
or lodging for himself and his successors, the house or manse
belonging to the See of Dunkeld being ruinous and out of repair.
[Ibid. p. 32.] |
May 14.
Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Lords of the Treasury and the remanent Lords
and others, Commissioners of the Exchequer in Scotland.
Considering the advantages arising to the government and the
church by preserving the rights of patronage of churches belonging
to the Crown and how easily signatures may be obtained, wherein
our patronages may be conveyed to others without our intention
to alienate them, we hereby require you to suffer no signatures
to pass before you, wherein any gift of patronage is contained,
till they be first considered by the Advocate and Solicitor as also
by the bishop of the diocese or archbishop of the province
respectively, and you have received their opinion and, if they
make it appear that they belong to us, you are accordingly to
stop them; you are also to take care that no gift of escheat be
granted save to honest and loyal subjects, for which end you
are to make the grantees thereof take the oath of allegiance and
subscribe the declaration and, for preventing frauds, you are
to cause every person, who shall obtain any such gift, to swear
solemnly for whose interest it is taken, that the person interested
may be obliged to take the test aforesaid, or otherwise he is not
to have that favour. Further, being desirous to preserve the
interest of our bishops and in particular the part of their revenues
arising out of quotes of testaments and understanding that many,
to defraud them of their rights, use the mean artifice of causing
or suffering themselves to be put to the horn and denounced
rebels, that so their escheats might fall, knowing that they may
be procured from you for easy compositions, and so they may
defeat the bishops of the said quotes, we therefore command that
no gift of escheat be granted by you hereafter without a clause
that it is granted with an express reservation of the quotes due
to the bishop and we require you to follow the same course in
passing such gifts of escheat as shall immediately pass under
our hand, we being willing to pay that proportion out of the
goods escheated for the encouraging of the bishops. [1½ page.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 33.] |
May 14.
Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Commissioners for plantation of kirks and
valuation of teinds. Requiring all their members to give their
due attendance to the ordinary diets of that Court and commanding them to warn such of the members as are frequently
absent to attend, certifying all such as being twice warned do not
amend, that the King will turn them out of the commission and
fill up their places with fit persons, who will attend, the King
being informed that their meetings are very unfrequent through
the non-attendance of many of the members. [Ibid. p. 34.] |
May 14.
Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Archbishop of St. Andrews. Being informed
that some presbyters in your diocese have promoted a petition
for convocating a general assembly of the clergy and have offered
it to you and recorded it in the register of their meetings for
exercise, you are with all diligence to call them before you, and,
if they do not in the most humble manner acknowledge their
offence by retracting that undutiful petition and consenting to
the rasing of it out of their register, you are to deprive them of
their offices and benefices and give us notice of their names, that
we may proceed against them as factious and seditious persons,
and we command you to intimate to all the bishops that, if any
presbyter or presbyters in their respective jurisdictions hereafter
petition any of them or any others in authority under us for
obtaining a general assembly, without any delay they depose
them from their offices and benefices and transmit their names
to us, that they may be exemplarily punished. [1½ page. Ibid.
p. 36.] |
May 14.
Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for four several commissions for visiting the
Universities of St. Andrews, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, and the
King's and Marischal's Colleges at Aberdeen, recommending
the said commissioners to entertain correspondence so that
uniformity may be observed in the several universities and
colleges in their discipline, order and method of teaching and
especially that no student, who shall abandon one college, be
received in any other without certificates from the masters of
the colleges they shall so abandon, the commissioners to give
an account of their diligence to his Majesty before 1 Nov., 1683.
[Over 4 pages. Ibid. p. 37.] |
May 14.
Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a gift of a pension of 100l. sterling to John, Bishop
of Edinburgh, during his life, to be paid by equal portions at
Whitsunday and Mertinmes, the first payment to be made next
Whitsunday. [Docquet. Ibid. p. 42.] |
May 14.
Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a gift of the escheat of Alexander, Lord Saltoun,
deceased, in favour of — [Docquet. S.P. Scotland, Warrant
Book 6, p. 43.] |
May 14.
Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a commission, ratifying the three commissions of
30 Sept., 1662, 16 Jan., 1664, and 9 May, 1665, in favour of
Sir William Purves, his Majesty's Solicitor, and Alexander, his son,
and also on the demission of the said Alexander, granting to
the said Sir William and John, his son, power to collect his
Majesty's casualties therein mentioned. [Docquet. Ibid. p. 44.] |
May 14.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Lord Lieutenant. I am commanded
by the Committee for Examinations, who sat yesterday by his
Majesty's direction given the day before in Council, to acquaint
you that Moyer, Morfey, Callaghan and Finan, who were lately
brought hither out of Ireland, are now by Order in Council to be
sent back again, not in custody but under the conduct of
Atterbury, the messenger, the bearer, in order to give evidence
against Oliver Plunkett, the titular Archbishop of Armagh.
The original informations they have given on oath are enclosed
and it is his Majesty's pleasure declared in Council that the said
Plunkett be forthwith prosecuted there and brought to trial
for the crimes laid to his charge. His Majesty has likewise
directed that you issue out strict orders for apprehending Moloney,
titular Bishop of Meath, and Dr. Creagh, who are charged in
the said informations. You will likewise receive enclosed certain
heads of information given in by David Fitzgerald against
Lord Brittas, Col. Lacy and others. He is ordered to return
likewise into Ireland in order to give evidence against them,
but for the ordering of his journey is left to his liberty and not
committed to the conduct of the bearer. His Majesty has further
directed especially that a new indictment be brought against
Lord Brittas for the crimes he has been charged with before as
well as upon any new matter, and that you take special care that
no Popish Recusants be in any of the juries that are to serve in
any of the proceedings against that lord or any of the persons
above mentioned. You will likewise find enclosed another parcel
of papers from No. 1 to No. 13 inclusive, which the Earl of Essex
brought yesterday to the Board as containing several matters
concurring with the informations of the persons above mentioned.
This is all I have in command, and you will find it exemplified
in the enclosed Order of Council. Yesterday his Majesty was
so well as to go abroad in the morning at Windsor, where he
now is, yet a fit of his ague took him about 9. Having taken
some cordial water and some powder Dr. Dickenson gave him
for a breathing sweat, he took his bed. He got up again, and was
very cheerful at 3 in the afternoon. Being up he divertised
himself at cards and intended to eat a little supper at night.
This morning we hear he had a good night's rest. The Council
met last night, but did no more than command me to wait on
the Lord Mayor to inform him of the accident, and to desire him
to suppress all false stories and to have an eye to the guards,
but not to double them. The same thing as to the guards was
the direction of the Council to Lord Craven and Col. Russell.
[3 pages. S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 341, p. 3.] |
May 15.
10 a.m. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Sir L. Jenkins. The King rested
very well last night, and the physicians are of opinion he will
have no fit to-day. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 413, No. 102.] |
May 15.
3 p.m. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Sir L. Jenkins. His Majesty seems
altogether as hearty and well as before his late indisposition.
He has had no fit of an ague to-day, and the physicians are very
confident he will have no more returns of it. [Ibid. No. 103.] |
May 15.
London. |
Francis Gwyn to the Earl of Conway. I received a letter
from my cousin Seymour with the enclosed parchment, as I
formerly gave you an account. He told me his wife had miscarried and that he was going straight to Bradley. Progers
was here before the Council since you left town. We dined
together that day, and his arm was not quite well, but he sent his
governor, Mr. Heyley, to me this morning, who told me he was
now perfectly well and also that he had a letter from
Lord Ranelagh last post, telling him he had got leave to come
out of Ireland and intended to begin his journey yesterday.
(About wine.) |
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We have had a great alarm here of the King's being sick at
Windsor. On Thursday night I was sent there by the Council,
where I found he had had a fit of an ague about 8 Thursday
morning. On Friday morning he continued very well till 11,
at which time I came away, but about 12 we hear he had a small
fit, but he rested very well last night, and at 3 this afternoon
continued perfectly well all day without the least grudging of a
fit. [Conway papers. Ibid. No. 104.] |
| May 15. |
Col. John Strode to Sir L. Jenkins. According to the commands of the Council at my being at Sandwich, I perused the
books of the several mayoralties from the time of the commissions
for the regulation of Corporations, and found no record kept
of any oaths taken by the jurats except those put in by the
commissioners nor any subscription to the declaration against
the Covenant, nor proofs they had received the Sacrament. This
was to my own view as well as by information, and I fear there
have been designs as well as neglect, the freemen not having had
so much as the oath of allegiance given them, though they have
as much to do in that Corporation as the Common Council has
in Dover and other places, where they have power to make laws
as well as give voices in all elections. [Ibid. No. 105.] |
May 15.
Southampton. |
John Speed to Sir L. Jenkins. The Corporation of Southampton
in answer to the letter from the Privy Council have returned
truly that all the present officers have performed what is required
by the Act, but they seem to be troubled that the Act reaches
no others but the annual officers, because many of the burgesses,
who are to succeed into the offices and have their voices in
elections of Parliament men and are part of the government of
the town, the style by which they are incorporated being Mayor,
Bailiffs and Burgesses, neither take the Sacrament nor will they
take the oaths again, if proffered, so that, though the government
be now in the hands of good men, it is in danger of falling into
others in a very short time. |
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There are also another sort, those ejected from being burgesses
and disabled from bearing offices by the Corporation Act, who
enjoy all the privileges of burgesses both in trade immunities
and votes at elections, only they are excused from the great
burden of offices, which is now laid very heavy on honest men,
and rewarded for refusing the oaths and neglecting the Sacrament,
as though the Act had been made in favour of those that break
the laws. These are a very troublesome and the thriving part
of the town, from whom may arise much mischief, and they are
already a great grievance to the honest party, being harbourers of
Nonconformists and dispersers of all seditious news. [S.P.
Dom., Car. II. 413, No. 106.] |
| [May 15?] |
Narrative of the alleged attack on John Arnold on 15 April,
1680. (The whole of this is printed except the last two paragraphs
in Pollock, The Popish Plot, p. 396, where, p. 397, lines 8 and 11,
"struck" should be "knocked," and "land" "land," and line 26
should run "or if wounded before this boy knocked.") The
two last paragraphs are:—One Ladd, a milliner over against the
Devil tavern in Fleet Street, observed three men waiting all
that day over against the Temple Lane, which he took for
sergeants, till on this fact they became suspected for the assassins.
He has described them and their habits and, as anybody is taken
up, he is showed to him to see if he knows him. |
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It is propounded that the sheriffs summon all their officers
of that quality to appear next morning, and that the milliner may
take a view of them and declare if he remembers any of them
to be the persons. Shall it appear that these three men were
city officers and that they waited there on their duty, the milliner's
evidence will then be laid aside, whereas otherwise honest men may
be brought into great inconvenience by being taken up merely
for the resemblance of those persons. [Nearly 3 pages. Ibid.
No. 107.] |
| May 15. |
Commission to Capt. William Sudell to be captain of a company
of trained bands for the town of Lydd, Kent, in the first regiment
of the Cinque Ports. Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 29,
p. 358.] |
May 15.
10 a.m. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Secretary Jenkins. The King
rested very well last night, and the physicians are of opinion he
will have no fit to-day, whereof I shall give you an account in
the afternoon. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 56, p. 29.] |
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Note of a like letter to the Lord Mayor. [Ibid.] |
May 15.
Whitehall. |
Circular letter from Secretary Jenkins. The letters written
me from Windsor this morning at 10 assure that his Majesty rested
very well last night, and that the physicians were of opinion
he would have no fit to-day. Others written at 5 this afternoon
say that he has had no fit this day, that he is hearty and well,
and his physicians are very confident he will have no more returns
of his ague. Noted, as sent to about 22 persons. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 62, p. 14.] |
May 15.
Windsor. |
Commission to John Delaval to be ensign to Capt. John
Downing in Col. John Russell's regiment of Guards. Minute.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 164, p. 45.] |
| [May ?] |
Commission to John Hatley to be lieutenant of a foot company
in the same regiment. Minute. [Ibid.] |
May 15.
London. |
"A Letter to a Person of Honour concerning the Black Box."
(Printed in Somers' Tracts, Vol. VIII, p. 189.) (Manuscript copy
bound up with The Letter to a Person of Honour, concerning the
King's disavowing his having been married to the Duke of Monmouth's
mother, dated 10 June, and seven printed copies of 8 pages each, and
an eighth printed copy of 7 pages, apparently a proof, which differs
from the others in some respects and especially by not containing
the paragraphs numbered Ninthly and Lastly in the others.)
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. Case G.] |
May 15.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Lord Lieutenant. (Printed in the
Ormonde Papers, Vol. V, p. 317.) [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 341,
p. 6.] |
May 16.
9 a.m. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to [Secretary Jenkins]. The King slept
very well last night, and has continued without the least symptom
of an aguish distemper ever since the last account I sent you.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 413, No. 108.] |
May 16.
4 p.m. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to [Secretary Jenkins]. The King having
missed his fit this day, continues so well that the physicians
think the return of it need not be much feared. [Ibid. No. 109.] |
May 16.
11 p.m. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to [Secretary Jenkins]. The King having
continued all day without any indisposition went also very well
to bed, so we hope his distemper has quite left him, and he has
resolved to come out of his chamber to-morrow. [Ibid. No.
110.] |
May 16.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a grant and confirmation of all the charters and
privileges of the Mayor and Corporation of Hertford with the
alterations and additions mentioned in the annexed paper of
heads. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, p. 344.] Annexed, |
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The said alterations and additions. Defining the boundaries
of the borough and making some alterations in the corporation.
[Over 2 pages. Ibid.] |
May 16.
Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord Mayor. In the same words
as his second letter of that day to Secretary Jenkins. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 56, p. 29.] |
May 16.
Dublin. |
The Lord Lieutenant to Secretary Jenkins. I believe that
whilst yours of the 8th was on the way hither one of about the
same date from me was on the way to you, and the subject much
the same, varying only in the persons, an argument, I hope,
of our equal disposition to a mutual friendship and confidence
as well in the service of our master as on all other occasions. |
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I thank you for the extract of the informations of those men
that were sent here to make discovery of a design to disturb
the peace this kingdom is yet in. |
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There is no doubt but that there has been, is, and I fear ever
will be a restless desire in the Papists to design and struggle
for the restitution of their religion in the King's dominions, and
my opinion, I think, is better grounded than from anything
those fellows are able to prove, and therefore it will be worthy
of his Majesty's and his ministers' care to prevent disturbance
to the government in this kingdom, where Papists are most
numerous and most absolutely given up to the government of their
clergy, who venture little of their own when they put the nation
in combustion. This were but an impertinent advice, if it could
not be shown that the thing advised is easily to be compassed.
We that serve the King here are preparing such bills to be transmitted for his approbation or correction with the advice of his
Council as we believe will contribute much to the end proposed,
but we fear we shall meet with opposition on both sides the sea,
on that side from such as may not find their private account
in the public settlement of men's fortunes and consequently
of their minds, from others that but little value the securing
of a kingdom, if by the application of the revenue of it to that
end they shall be disappointed of some advantages they have
or hope for out of it, and on both sides it is to be expected that
factious men under the colour of zeal against Popery will endeavour
to frustrate the most probable means of securing ourselves against
it, but I hope his Majesty's wisdom will discern and obviate
such endeavours on all hands and that what is proposed and will
be laboured in for his service will have success. [Holograph.
2½ pages. S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 87.] |
May 17.
8 a.m. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to [Secretary Jenkins]. The King continues
well and there is no fear of the return of his ague. [S.P. Dom.,
Car. II. 413. No. 111.] |
May 17.
Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to [Secretary Jenkins]. Since I wrote
this afternoon I have given the King and Duke Mr. Skelton's
letters, but the King has not altered his mind as to Mr. Skelton's
revocation and therefore would have you pursue the directions
sent you from him and let Mr. Skelton know he will consider
him some other way. [Ibid. No. 112.] |
May 17.
Llanvihangel. |
John Arnold to Hugh Speke. I delivered your letter to your
uncle, showed him the books and gave him the papers, and was
most nobly and kindly received by him. I get well, but extremely
weary and weak to Gloucester, but so tired with a coach I ventured
on horseback home, which with much ado I did in two days.
I was met at Ross and Monmouth by some hundreds of my
friends, and, since I came home, I have been almost hugged to
death. I am fain to keep my chamber still, being very weak
and the cough very bad. Before I came down, a Papist, a great
creature of —, was apprehended and committed and very
pregnant proofs against him even out of his own mouth by
boasting, but, for fear I should see him, he was bailed by three
good justices. I dare say no three lords of the Council would
have bailed him. We have settled our election, Sir Edward
Morgan to succeed Mr. Morgan, and I am very confident we are
20 to 1 against the great lord. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 413, No. 113.] |
May 17.
Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Secretary Jenkins. I enclose a letter
from Sir Gabriel Sylvius desiring the King's orders how to behave,
in case the French Envoyé should make any dispute about
precedency or the like. You will let him know that the King
would have him avoid as much as may be all occasions of dispute,
but, if that cannot be, he must maintain the King's honour and
the dignity of his own character, which will not suffer him to
yield to the minister of any other King. |
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He has also commanded me to tell you he would have you
send Mr. Skelton his letters of revocation in form, as soon as may
be, and in the meantime signify to him that he will receive such
letters. |
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I have showed his Majesty Sir Robert Southwell's letter to
you of the 5th, wherein he mentions M. de Rabenais' memorial,
which the King thinks is easily to be answered, and accordingly
he would have you send Sir Robert an answer to it. |
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The King continues so well that, after he had dined, he went
out of his chamber and walked about the house, so that we do not at
all apprehend the return of his distemper, but, though he be
so well, he does not think of coming this week to the Council,
which therefore he would have put off till Wednesday sennight,
which I desire you will acquaint the Lord President with. |
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Postscript.—I send you Mr. Skelton's letter to me and return
Sir Robert's. Your other letters the Duke has not seen yet,
and so I must keep them till to-morrow. |
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I have just received Mr. Skelton's letters, which I will deliver.
I think one may easily guess what is in them, and as easily that
the King's resolutions will not be changed by it. [Over one page.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 56, p. 30.] |
May 17.
Windsor. |
Commission to Thomas Gore to be lieutenant of an independent
foot company in garrison at Hull, whereof the Earl of Mulgrave,
Governor of the said town, is captain. Minute. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 164, p. 46.] |
May 18.
Past 8 a.m. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Sir L. Jenkins. The King continues
so well that we all conclude him perfectly recovered, which I have
acquainted the Lord Mayor with and told him that I did not
think it would be necessary to send him any further account of
the King's health. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 413. No. 114.] |
May 18.
7 a.m. Chelsea. |
The Earl of Radnor to Sir L. Jenkins. The examination of
the Irish priests requiring dispatch made me pitch on 10 on
Monday, knowing there were divers of the Committee of
Examinations, besides yourself, whose presence was not necessary
in the Lords' House. But, since you have not issued the summons, I desire you would forthwith for 4 this afternoon. [Ibid.
No. 115.] |
Tuesday,
May 18, at 5 a.m. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Lord President of the Council (the
Earl of Radnor). Informing him of the King's health and his
desire that the Council be put off, as in Lord Sunderland's letter
of the 17th.—This I am desired to acquaint you with. I take
a turn to Windsor this morning, but to be back to-night. [S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 14.] |
May 18.
Whitehall. |
Sir L. Jenkins to the Lord Lieutenant. (Printed in the Ormonde
Papers, Vol. V, p. 322.) [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 341, p. 8.] |
May 19.
London. |
John Coggs to the Earl of Conway. Requesting him to order
his money as he had promised him by Mr. Cratford. If he is
thus punished on the supposition that the plate is a little too
dear, he has had sufficient punishment, for the interest of the
money after so long forbearance comes to three times more than
the profit of the plate. [Conway papers. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 413,
No. 116.] |
May 20.
London. |
C.A. de Chastillon to Sir L. Jenkins. I beg you to let me know
if you think it suitable to propose soon to the King the business
of which I have spoken to you touching several secrets of writing
&c., which you offered to propose and support. But, if before
doing so you desire more distinct information about it or more
particular information as to who I am, I offer to produce here
persons of honour, quality and merit, who will answer for me.
My father was Vicomte and Seigneur of Chastillon, Elbéne and
Coudray, Baron and Seigneur of Pavant and Serain. He was
governor of a frontier town, maréchal des logis general des campes
et armées de France, maréchal des logis de la maison du Roy et
gentilhomme ordinaire de sa Majesté. I held for a time the last
two employments and lost them for my religion. If you judge
it suitable to propose me to the King or his Royal Highness for
some employment suitable to the secrets of which I have spoken
to you, I hope to give you every sort of satisfaction. [French.
Ibid. No. 117.] |
May 20.
Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Earl of Rothes, Chancellor, and the Privy
Council of Scotland. Having considered your letter of 8 April
to the Duke of Lauderdale with the drafts of two commissions
enclosed, one for proceeding against persons guilty of field conventicles, disorderly baptisms and marriages and the other a
commission of justiciary against such as have not accepted
the benefit of the late indemnity with a draft of articles anent
our enemies, we are very well satisfied with them and therefore
require you to fill up the blanks in the said commissions with
the names of such as you shall think fit to employ, and we have
appointed the Duke of Lauderdale to underwrite our consent
to each of the said commissions and to the said articles, that
they may be put in execution with all possible expedition. We
have also received yours of the 6th instant to ourself concerning
some garrisons proposed to be left in some houses during the
march of our forces through such places as shall be thought fit
and concerning a motion for reserving to ourself the mansion
houses, castles, towers and fortalices on the lands of such forfeited
persons as have been in the late rebellion, of which nevertheless
the donators are proposed to be heritable keepers, and, being
very well satisfied with the proposal relating to the garrison,
we require you to cause garrisons to be placed in the houses of
Greenlaw and Balgregan in Galloway, the houses of Newtoune
near Ayr, Blaquhan in Carrick and Dean near Kilmarnock in
Ayrshire, and the castle of Streven or Evandale in Lanarkshire,
whereof you are to give notice to the owners thereof, that the
same may be left for the accommodation of the garrisons, which are
to continue there till you and the lieut.-general order their
removal, and we also approve your motion concerning the houses
whch now belong to us by the forfeiture of those who have been
in the late rebellion. [2 pages. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6,
p. 45.] Annexed, |
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The said two Commissions. (Printed in Wodrow, Vol. III,
p. 183, note.) [Ibid. pp. 47, 48.] |
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Articles anent the King's enemies. The persons understood
to be such, are:— |
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1. All such as are forfaulted by the Parliament or Criminal
Court. |
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2. All heritors and ministers who have been in the late
rebellion. |
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3. All heritors who have contributed by levying men or
money to the late rebellion. |
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4. All others, who were in the late rebellion and have not
accepted the indemnity by taking the bond. |
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5. All such as have been in the rebellion and have taken
the bond and yet have been at field conventicles since
27 July last. |
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6. All such as have been in the rebellion and have taken
the bond and yet have done violence to the orthodox
clergy. |
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7. All guilty of assassinations, especially of the murder
of the late Archbishop. |
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8. All found at field conventicles in arms. |
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9. All denounced rebels for being in the rebellion before
the Circuit Courts since the Act of Indemnity. |
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10. All resetters of rebels or persons declared fugitives for
rebellion and such as have reset the murderers of the
Archbishop. |
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11. Those who being found at field conventicles and refusing
to be taken by the King's forces make resistance. [S.P.
Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 50.] |
May 20.
Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Lords of the Treasury and the remanent Lords
and others of the Exchequer in Scotland. Warrant requiring
them to take care that no signature bearing a gift of the forfeitures
of any of those who have been in the late rebellion be passed
in the Exchequer but with this reservation, that the mansionhouses, castles, towers and fortalices thereon be entirely at the
King's disposal, whenever he shall think fit to make use of them,
allowing nevertheless the donators thereof to be heritable keepers
of the said mansion-houses &c., the King having thought fit to
reserve to himself the propriety of the said mansion-houses &c.
[Ibid. p. 51.] |
May 20.
Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a charter in favour of the Marquess of Montrose
and the Earl of Menteith. (The purport appears from the
ratification printed in The Acts of the Parliament of Scotland,
Vol. VIII, p. 254.) [Dòcquet. Nearly 4 pages. Ibid. p. 52.] |
May 20.
Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Lords of the Treasury and the remanent Lords
and others of the Exchequer in Scotland. Warrant requiring
them in passing the signature in favour of the Marquess of
Montrose concerning his own estate and titles and the estate and
titles of honour of William, Earl of Menteith and Airth, to delete
the clauses relating to the disposing of the said Earl's titles of
honour that they may remain in the same state as they were
before the said late disposition, the King being unwilling to
alter the settled course of the titles of honour of the Earl of
Menteith and Airth. [Ibid. p. 56.] |
May 20.
Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for the confirmation of the charter dated 20 April,
1395, of King Robert III to the Corporation of Dumfries and of
all other charters &c. in favour of the said burgh, with a new
gift in favour of the said Corporation and specially of the customs
and impost of the said burgh with the port of the Water of Nith,
and making the said burgh into a free burgh royal with power
to have two weekly markets and three fairs yearly, and not only
with a ratification of all dispositions granted by William, Earl of
Dumfries, sometime heritable sheriff of the shirefdome of
Dumfries or his predecessors, heritable sheriffs thereof, or by
William, Earl of Queensberry, present heritable sheriff thereof,
in favour of the Corporation of the heritable right of sheriffship
within the said burgh, but also a new gift of the said heritable
office of sheriff to the Provost and Baylies of the said town.
[Docquet. Nearly 3 pages. Ibid. p. 57.] |
May 20.
Windsor Castle. |
Commission to Dr. Matthew Brisbane to be surgeon of the
troop of Lifeguard of Horse in Scotland. [Ibid. p. 60.] |
May 20.
Windsor Castle. |
The Duke of Lauderdale to the Earl of Argyle. As the King
is very desirous to have the differences betwixt you and the
Macleans taken away, so he is resolved to maintain you in your
just rights according to law and, that matters may now at last
come to a final settlement, his Royal Highness having proposed
to the King that, besides the 250l. sterling per annum which you
were willing to settle on the Laird of Maclean, his Majesty would
purchase for him 250l. sterling more per annum, it is now his
pleasure that I make an offer of 20 years' purchase to you for the
250l. per annum last mentioned, and for payment of this he
offers the same to you out of the undisposed-of forfeitures of
those who have been in the late rebellion. In the meantime
you are to retain the profits of the land, till you receive the
purchase money, the Laird of Maclean being nevertheless put in
possession of the 250l. sterling yearly, which he is to have by
the first agreement. To this his Majesty expects a speedy answer,
as he is very desirous to quiet the disorders in the Highlands
with as much expedition as possible, which he thinks will be
no difficult matter, if this affair were settled. [S.P. Scotland,
Warrant Book 6, p. 61.] |
May 20.
Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a presentation to the kirk of Kingoldroume in
the diocese of Brechin in favour of George Ogilvie, student in
Divinity. [Ibid. p. 62.] |
May 20.
Windsor Castle. |
Memorial of protection in the ordinary form to Thomas, eldest
son of Patrick Dunbar of Boghole, for two years. [Ibid. p. 63.] |
| May 21. |
—to Sir L. Jenkins. Great quantities of the libel entituled
A Letter to a Person of Honour concerning the Black Box have
been to-day scattered and taken up on the Royal Exchange, and
I hear there is an intention speedily to disperse them throughout
the kingdom. Knowing of how pernicious a consequence it must
be, I thought it my duty to give you this intimation, this being
post night. I am not without hopes of being able in a short
time to give some hints how the publisher, if not the author, may
be found out. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 413, No. 118.] |
May 21.
[Received from Mr. l'Estrange.] |
— to Roger L'Estrange. A sheet is printing entituled,
A Letter to a Person of Honour concerning the Black Box. It is
in quarto, contains 7 sides. The 5 first pages is a pretty large
black letter, the 6th and 7th a much smaller and paler letter.
I presume it is not yet printed off or at least the letters not dispersed.
[Ibid. No. 119.] |
May 21.
Rye. |
Robert Hall to Col. John Strode. To-day Edward Martin,
Mayor of Winchelsea, and William Smith, Mayor when you were
there, were with me to desire me to give you an account that they
have consulted counsel about the letter from the Council and
the Act, and that they are of opinion none of them can stand,
being not qualified, yet the Mayor says that as Mayor he received
the Sacrament and subscribed the oaths, but did not do it as a
freeman, which puts some doubt in him, as likewise Mr. Smith
has done the same. They inquire whether their burgesses are not
in the same condition. They beg a line or two from you what
they shall do. They have two parties, one for the King, the
other for the country, and so it is here, where they have appointed
Thursday next to proceed on their letter. [S.P. Dom., Car. II.
413, No. 120.] |
May 21.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Bevil Skelton. In my last of the 18th
I gave you an account of his Majesty's good health, which
continues so comfortably improving. He rode out this evening
at Windsor to take the air, and there are no more apprehensions
of the returning of his ague. |
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Last Monday your letters to the King and the Duke were
delivered by Lord Sunderland. Next day his Majesty commanded me to send you your letters of revocation, telling me
that I might assure you that he recalls you not for any dissatisfaction relating to your conduct there, and that he would
be ready to gratify you with an employment of this kind any
other where, nor can I perceive any ground for your removing
besides the commission you went upon at first to that Court,
which in some men's judgment may have rendered you suspected
to the ministers there as a person not thoroughly affected to the
measures that are now to be taken between his Majesty and the
Emperor. I can neither discover nor conjecture anything else. |
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I spoke yesterday to the Treasury Commissioners for your
supplies; their answer was, that what I asked was already done. |
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If I understand anything, you are very well with the King
and the Duke. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 64, p. 4.] |
| May 22. |
Affidavit of Stephen Whiteway, lately a hawker about London.
Last July or August I was acquainted with George Cawdron and
Robert Murray, both in the Penny Letter Office, and through
Cawdron's advice and persuasion I have vended several seditious
books that the said Murray and Cawdron supplied me with.
The books I accuse them of are The Political Catechism and The
Appeal, in quarto. I heard Cawdron often say that at a gentleman's request he caused Douglas' sermon to be printed. I
suppose Thompson, the printer, printed it for him. [S.P. Dom.,
Car. II. 413, No. 121.] |
May 22.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Bishop of Bath and Wells. Your
letter of the 15th touching the Bristol presentment and Mr. Speke
I read on Tuesday to the King, and the Duke afterwards read it
himself. They are very sensible of your watchfulness and zeal.
I beg your pardon that my advice about the King's health came
to you without any hand to it. I thought it my duty to send
a very great number of letters abroad on that occasion, which
caused the oversight in a hurry. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 15.] |
May 22.
London. |
Newsletter to James Parkinson (?) at Newcastle on Tyne.
Yesterday were the trials of Philip Le Marr and his mother.
Subornation was fully proved against them and the receipt of
great sums for managing the false accusation against the Duke
of Buckingham. Le Marr himself was not there, being sick,
yet both committed and to receive sentence Monday next, which,
'tis supposed, will be by fine and pillory. |
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The same day Corne, servant to Mr. Tasborough, who has been
some time in prison on the business of subornation, was bailed. |
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A Justice of Lancashire, who had been very active against the
Papists, sending his eldest son into France to be educated and
learn their speech, was lately set upon by some ruffians, but we
do not hear that he is dead. |
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On Thursday the Suffolk, a third-rate ship, was launched at
Blackwall. |
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About 3 on Tuesday morning, being much thunder and lightning,
it struck into the chamber of one living in Queen Street. The
man being in bed, it shivered the bedposts, doing him no harm. |
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We hear from France that his Most Christian Majesty is much
displeased with our ambassador there by reason he should say
his master was able to raise as puissant an army as any in France,
and could set out a fleet able to defend himself against the whole
world, if occasion should be, and we further hear he has sent to
his Majesty to recall him. |
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The Navy Commissioners lately went down to Woolwich and
gave order that all the ships there might be made ready that
they may be the sooner fitted to put to sea, in case his Majesty's
service should so require. |
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The Irish post house was this week let by his Royal Highness
to several persons for 3 years. |
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The Duke of Brandenburg's son being newly come over, several
proposals of a match have been made between him and some
ladies of quality. |
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By yesterday's Holland post we have advice that the French
King has lately made demand of the Lower Alsace with all its
dependents according to the treaty lately made. |
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On Wednesday are to be heard several informations touching
the discovery of the assaulters of Mr. Arnold. |
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We hear from Windsor of a great wager between the Duke of
Albemarle and the Earl of Peterborough for 6 men a side to
wrestle and 'tis said the Duke has sent his coach for two masons
that work in St. Paul's, great wrestlers. |
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The Duke of Buckingham comes frequently to his house on
College Hill, but has hitherto made no long stay. [3½ pages.
Admiralty, Greenwich Hospital 1, No. 51.] |
May 22.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Archbishop of Armagh, Lord Chancellor.
I want words to acknowledge your condescension in expressing
a satisfaction at my being called to a trust so near his Majesty.
The great charity and fatherly goodness my late Lord of
Canterbury had for me may have excited in you such expectations
as I want abilities to comply with, but I shall not want affections
that shall be sincere and entire in all things relating to the service
of the Church and the Crown. It is from the Church I have
learnt my duty to the King and 'tis to her I shall always endeavour
to approve myself. I shall reckon it a great honour and happiness to have any commands from you. [S.P. Ireland, Car. II.
341, p. 10.] |
May 23.
Windsor. |
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of
Rebekah, widow of Walter Brice, lately deceased, for an order
that she may enjoy by sufficient deputies the office of chief
searcher in the port of Bristol according to an agreement between
her said husband and Sackville Graves, to whom his Majesty
granted it. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 79.] |
May 23.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Earl of Sunderland. I send you all
I received last night by the Flanders mail. 'Twill be impossible
you should read them all over, yet Sir Robert Southwell's large
letter is worth reading. 'Tis an account of a personal conference
he had with the Elector. It shows how the Elector is resolved
to be neuter, how he refuses meeting with the Emperor and the
great Princes, how he would have the Emperor and others arm
first and then treat of confederacy. |
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The Elector in his answer to Sir Robert taxes us with having
refused his overtures of a treaty defensive about four years ago.
Mr. Skelton complains and hopes there will be some kind of
intercession for him from the Imperial Court, that he may stay
there. |
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Sir Peter Wyche lets me see that the Dutch ambassador here
does not do me right in Carew's business. 'Tis true I told him
that according to our forms there must be a great seal to supersede
a great seal; but I was so concerned that the business should
be done legally that I drew up the Order of Council myself and
then consulted Lord Chief Justice North before I brought it to
pass the Council. I drew likewise both the orders for arresting
the man-of-war and for apprehending the captain or any of his
complices, wherefore but one, the owner of the man-of-war, was
taken; the rest abscond. I brought Carew before the Council,
who, if he were brayed in a mortar, will still clamour and
threaten. |
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That Mr. Attorney has not sued out yet a supersedeas is none
of my fault, and it may not be his, for I suppose he goes on as
fast as the forms give him leave. |
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But let there be nothing in the least, I beseech you, spoke of
Lillo; 'tis now too late for the King to concern himself in it,
though it seems the ambassador imputes my want of affection
to his service (wherein he mistakes me as much as may be) to my
not being satisfied after that insolency. Let the ambassador be
rectified in his judgment of me, but first I beg you to read over
Sir Peter Wyche's paper. |
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I have no letters from Lord Bodmin or Sir Gabriel Silvius.
When his Majesty and the Duke have been satisfied what these
papers are, pray send them back. [2½ pages. S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 62, p. 16.] |
May 23.
Dublin. |
The Lord Lieutenant to Secretary Jenkins. Yesterday
evening Adderbury (Atterbury), the messenger, landed here with
the four persons under his care with yours of the 14th, the order of
Council of the 12th and the papers out of which the prosecution
of the persons named must be grounded. All these shall forthwith
be put into the Attorney-General's hands, that the proceedings
in this affair may be regulated to the best advantage. I would
have been glad to have understood how I am to treat Murphy,
Moyer, Callaghan and Finan, of which your intimation that they
are sent under the conduct and not in the custody of the messenger
puts me in some doubt, whether I am to set them at liberty on
their own bonds to prosecute those they have or may accuse, or
whether some more than ordinary care should not be had of
them that they slip not away or be not tampered with to suppress
or mollify their evidence in favour of Plunket, who is reasonably
well allied and friended in these parts. This caution is chiefly
applicable to Murphy, who broke prison to give his information
and stands charged with a capital crime, though of another nature,
nor have the rest the reputation of men of such tender consciences
but that, without doing them much injury, it may be suspected
they may hearken to an advantageous proposition from any
hand. I have long employed my best endeavour to take Mullony,
the titular Bishop of Killaloe, but have hitherto failed, but in
searching for him Dr. Creaght, titular Bishop of Cork, was taken
near Limerick and is there in custody, as I long since intimated
to Mr. Coventry, and I suppose him to be the Creagh mentioned
in the Order of Council. We are in great impatience for a
confirmation of his Majesty's perfect recovery. [1½ page.
Holograph. S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 88.] |
May 24.
Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Sir L. Jenkins. I send you the
letters received from you on Saturday with one of Lord Bodmin's.
To-morrow we expect you here and then you will have those you
sent me yesterday. As for Mr. Skelton, I wonder any man should
be so much out as to imagine a letter of his own from Prague
should alter a resolution taken here. The King is very well and
will be at Council on Wednesday. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 413,
No. 122.] |
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Another copy of the above. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 56, p. 31.] |
May 24.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Earl of Sunderland. I have one
from you of this morning to acknowledge. Mr. Hyde, having
brought orders that the Committee for Tangier should meet
to-morrow, tells me it is not convenient that both secretaries
should be absent. I will therefore attend it and depend on
your favour to excuse my not waiting to-morrow at Windsor. |
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I found the Lord Chancellor on Saturday not of opinion to
have the depositions about the Black Box published and that a
declaration from his Majesty would be effective and sufficient.
For the treaty in behalf of the African Company he was not so
clear. He thought it would be better deferred. |
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I spoke with Mr. Attorney this morning. He will be ready on
Wednesday with his report about the depositions relating to the
Black Box. He is clearly of opinion they are not to be printed,
but he has another end in his eye, 'tis to get them punished that
can be charged with having spread this idle, malicious story.
He thinks that Sellwood, that told the story of the Duke of
Lauderdale, may be punished, for Dudney swears it on him
and the Duke is ready to do it. He thinks Clinton may be
punished, for Mrs. Stanhop and Col. Morgan will prove some
words against him. The witness against Sir Henry Pomeroy
is not so express, so that he thinks he must be examined again,
and prove the words on Sir Henry. |
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However these depositions stand in order to punish two or
three seditious men, I conceive it would be worth while to have
the report considered of by the Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief
Justice North, before it be considered before the Council. [2 pages.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 19.] |
May 25.
11 a.m. Windsor. |
William Bridgeman to Sir L. Jenkins. By Lord Sunderland's
directions returning him the enclosed letters. [S.P. Dom., Car. II.
413, No. 123.] |
May 25.
Council Chamber, Whitehall. |
Warrant from the Privy Council to Francis Strutt, messenger,
to apprehend George Cowdron and Robert Murray for dispersing
seditious and scandalous libels and to bring them before the
King in Council. [Two copies, with a note on the back of one from
Thomas Saywell to [Sir L. Jenkins] that one of the persons was that
day taken. Ibid. Nos. 124, 125.] |
May 25.
London. |
Edmund Harrison to the Earl of Conway. Enclosing a letter
for him.—The exchange for Ireland is lately risen and no money
found at 7 per cent for Dublin. [Conway papers. Ibid. No. 126.] |
May 25.
Chester. |
John Tattnall to the Earl of Conway. I delivered your
lordship's the 23rd at Dunham, which I think was very acceptable,
and I was very much made of and had the happiness to see the
lady, who, I think, is a comely and a virtuous lady. For what
I can learn all the family is so too, for I never heard a better
report of a family. As for the lord being mad, there was never
such a thing spoke of, as far as I can learn in Cheshire, only he
is much given to melancholy and to study. My desire is that
your lordship will not deal time, for I think in so doing you will
be happy. [Conway papers. Ibid. No. 127.] |
| May 25. |
Pass for the Baron d'Overbeck and the Sieurs Philip Ernest
de Mandelslo, Christian Frederick de Freid, Charles Melcher,
and David Schleimuker, all subjects of the Elector of Brandenburg, to France. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, p. 343.] |
| May 25. |
Postwarrant to the above gentlemen to ride in post to Dover.
[Ibid.] |
| May 25. |
The examination of Edward Evans of Robertstown, taken
before Sir Charles Meredyth. Being with Henry Gwither at
Cabragh, co. Cavan, the 1st instant about daybreak, he saw
about 50 men on horseback marching in three squadrons and
in rank and file with white colours with a red cross. They were
well mounted, especially the officers. He saw many swords
with them and he knew Thomas Cappoke of the Nobour (Nobber),
whom they called captain, Bartholomew Cappoke, whom they
called cornet, and Patrick Balfe, whom they called quarter-master.
He heard the rest of the troop say that Richard Bellew was lieutenant. The examinant followed them about 5 miles to Nobour,
and, when they came there, the captain drew up the troop and
stuck up the colours and they fell a drinking. (Giving the names
of seven of them known to the examinant, the rest being unknown
to him.) [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 89.] |
| May 25. |
The examination of Joseph Wild of Robertstown. To the
same effect as the last. [Ibid. No. 90.] |
May 26.
Whitehall. |
Order in Council on the petition of the Duke of Norfolk for a
pass to him to go beyond the seas. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 413,
No. 128.] |
May 26.
Whitehall. |
Order in Council on reading the informations taken at Newcastle
on Tyne against William Falkener concerning the murder of the
late Archbishop of St. Andrews that the said Falkener be forthwith
sent into Scotland to be there examined concerning the said
matter. [Ibid. No. 129.] |
May 26.
Whitehall. |
The King to Bevil Skelton, envoyé extraordinary to the
Emperor. Letters of recall to his presence, that he may in this
critical conjuncture of affairs in Europe render a full and clear
account of the thoughts and intentions not only of the Emperor,
but also of the other princes of the Empire, as far as his correspondence or observation has been able to compass. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 64, p. 6.] |
May 26.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Emperor Leopold. Informing him of Bevil
Skelton's recall. [2½ pages. Latin. Ibid. p. 8.] |
May 27.
Whitehall. |
Affidavit by William Newland, coachman to the Earl of Radnor.
Yesterday between 6 and 7 in the afternoon, when driving his
coach, his lord being in it, he was met in Chelsea Fields by a
trooper of the Life Guard, whose name he knows not but conceives
he was much in drink. The trooper meeting the coach, though
there was room for another coach to pass, would go on in the
track where the coach was, and without the least injury offered
to him presented his carbine against the deponent's breast, but
it not going off he struck the deponent with it. Then riding a
little further he would have turned his horse, but checking him
short and being very near a ditch his horse and he fell into it,
and, the horse stretching out his foreleg, it became engaged in the
hind wheel of the coach, whereby the leg was broken. The
coachman then reined his horses back a little and gave room
for one of the footmen to loosen the horse's leg and to draw the
horse and man out the ditch, the coach going forward as soon as
the leg was disengaged. |
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Affidavits by Abel Jewell and by Giles Parsons and Samuel
Hill, his lordship's footmen, to the same effect. [S.P. Dom.,
Car. II. 413, No. 130.] |
May 27.
Windsor. |
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of Edward
Fitzgerald, alias Villiers, praying that a letter to Ireland about
his wife's estate might be renewed and some mistakes therein
corrected and power granted him to erect four manors. [S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 80.] |
May 27.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Lord [Sunderland]. About the affront
to the Lord President by a trooper, as in Newland's affidavit
calendared on the last page.—My Lord, when he came to the Council
this morning, complained to me of it and told me he would send
his coachman and three footmen, as he did this afternoon, to be
examined on oath. I spoke to the Duke of Albemarle of it, who
spoke with the officer that commanded the Guards yesterday
and sent for the Adjutant General to try to find him out, for the
coachman and footmen could make no description. 'Tis now
past 9 and 1 do not hear he is yet found out. |
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I intend to wait on you to-morrow, if this scurvy business
hinder me not, for the clamour will be great, till the offender
be found and the Lord President satisfied. |
|
Don Pedro Ronquillo visited me this afternoon. He says his
Majesty must make an alliance with Spain and it must not be
a visionary one, but made on the foot of our treaty and theirs
with the States General. This is all he said on that subject.
[1½ page. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 21.] |
May 28.
Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Sir L. Jenkins. Monday will be
more convenient to be here than to-morrow, because we shall
scarce be ready for Don Pedro Ronquillo sooner, but it would
be very well, if you could be here Sunday and Monday. Lord
Mulgrave is named by the King to go with the men he now sends
to Tangier. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 413, No. 131.] |
May 28.
Whitehall. |
The examination of William Mulligan, born in Nithsdale,
Scotland. Giving his version of his encounter with the Earl of
Radnor's coach and coachman. [Ibid. No. 132.] |
| May 28. |
Warrant to Edward Goldegay, messenger, to take into custody
William Mulligen and to convey him to the Gatehouse prison and
to deliver him to the keeper thereof. Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 54, p. 44.] |
| May 28. |
Warrant to the keeper of the Gatehouse to receive the said
William Mulligen and to keep him till delivered by due course
of law. Minute. [Ibid.] |
May 28.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Bevil Skelton. On Wednesday his Majesty
signed the enclosed letter to his Imperial Majesty, as also the
other for your revocation. You will, I doubt not, take leave of
the Emperor and his Court with the accustomed ceremonies, and
will also make the best use you can of this occasion to beget more
and more a confidence in his Imperial Majesty and his ministers
of his Majesty's sincerity and zeal to preserve the general peace
of Christendom and more particularly of his friendship for the
Emperor and of his concern for the repose and flourishing of the
whole House of Austria. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 64, p. 11.] |
May 28.
The Council Chamber, Dublin. |
The Lord Lieutenant and Council to the Earl of Sunderland.
Of late several petitions have been preferred at this Board from
divers persons complaining of the great trouble and charges they
are put to by commissions issued to inquire after his Majesty's
title to lands pretended to be forfeited and concealed lands and
therefore praying us to supersede the same, but, in regard they
are all in pursuance of his Majesty's particular directions on behalf
of the persons for whose use the same are prosecuted, and that
they are under the Great Seal, we did not think it convenient,
before his Majesty require it, by any order from this Board
absolutely to supersede them, and yet, considering the great
mischiefs and vexations they daily draw on abundance of his
subjects and the unsettlement a considerable part of the kingdom
lies under thereby, we held it reasonable to stop the further
execution of them and to stay the going out of more for the present,
for by colour of these commissions many, who have long enjoyed
estates under titles never before questioned during the sitting of
the late Courts of Claims, are now molested and others disturbed
on pretence of some niceties in law, whereby their titles may be
found defective, purchases made for valuable consideration are
in danger of being avoided and tenants and purchasers thereof
discouraged from building or improving, and those who follow
the execution of these commissions, having liberty to insert
therein what lands they think fit, summon what persons they
please to come to maintain their rights to the lands in their
possession, and, after they have made out their rights on one or
more of the said commissions, they have notwithstanding the same
lands again inserted several times afterwards in other new
commissions, by means whereof they are forced to be at great
expenses in bringing their counsel and witnesses and proving
their deeds and conveyances and, though at last no title be found
for his Majesty, they have no satisfaction for their trouble, nor
have they, for whose benefit such commissions issue, much if any
profit at all, where his Majesty's title happens to be found, but the
greatest part of the value of the lands is commonly shared amongst
agents, solicitors, pretended discoverers and others who prosecute
the said enquiries. |
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These inconveniencies were designed to have been provided
against by a bill transmitted hence relating to the settlement of
this kingdom, whereby the present possessors of lands liable to
such questions were intended to have been secured therein against
any title that might be pretended for his Majesty. But, that
bill being laid aside and the said inconveniencies remaining, we
submit to his Majesty, whether he will not think fit in such a
matter, wherein the ease and quiet of a multitude of his subjects
is so very much concerned, to direct the recalling of such of those
commissions as are already on foot and to forbid the issuing of
any more for the future, all which we desire you to represent to
him and to receive his pleasure thereon. [2 pages. Copy. S.P.
Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 91.] |
May 29.
London. |
Francis Gwyn to the Earl of Conway. I received your letter
by Mr. Muschamp and by its contents begin to hope I shall in
time make a pretty tolerable courtier, since I have arrived at the
art of making myself thought much more considerable than I
am, but I am confident you will believe that in obedience to
your commands I will use all my endeavours to serve the Lord
Chancellor of Ireland. |
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My cousin Seymour went out of town the day after Mr. Muschamp
came, so I am afraid he hardly spoke with him, but I do not
doubt he will appear heartily in the matter, if he is in town when
it is debated. |
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I have not heard a word of Lord Ranelagh, only my lady says
she expects him here the beginning of next month. |
|
I am commanded by the Lord Chancellor to send you an order
of Council, enjoining you to marry a wife that is young and healthy
without consideration of fortune within these two months or to
appear at the Board and give reasons to the contrary. If I
thought it would take effect, I would put the Council seal to it
and run the risk of a breach of privilege on your lordship. |
|
I think to wait on my cousin Seymour at Littlecote next week,
where I hope to see you, but I must return very shortly, for
one of my brethren, Sir Thomas Doleman, is fallen into the palsy,
so I shall be obliged to more attendance than ordinary. |
|
When you have prepared Sir Richard Newdigate, please to
let me know, that I may try whether I can pick up a poor livelihood
amongst my brother courtiers. |
|
Six hundred foot are ordered to be sent out of the Irish army
for Tangier and 600 foot out of the English army and 120 horse.
[2 pages. Conway papers. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 413, No. 133.] |
May 29.
Windsor. |
Warrant for a privy seal for payment to Henry Capell, late
consul at Tripoli in Barbary, of 300l. in full satisfaction of his
services as consul. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 50, p. 61.] |
The King's
birthday [May 29], 10 p.m. Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Lord [Sunderland]. On my return hither
I find one from you dated yesterday enjoining me to wait on
you to-morrow and Monday about Don Pedro Ronquillo's business.
You know how I offered to stay to-day at Windsor, till that
business should be over, and, being come hither, I find the Lord
President has appointed 10 on Monday, not only for the Committee
of Tangier to meet, where my attendance would not have been
very necessary, but also for the Clerks of the Council to bring
in what they were last Council day directed to draw up about
the Duke of Monmouth. This his Royal Highness commanded
me to-day to attend on and sure I am you will allow me to look
after it. As soon as the Committee on Monday is up, I shall
set out for Windsor and shall lose no time to receive your
commands. |
|
I hear, just as I arrive, of a complaint made by the general
officers here that, whereas they intended to single out the best
subordinate officers in their troops to go on the expedition, men
that are very raw under colour of warrant from the Court are
assigned these posts. For God's sake acquaint his Majesty
with the clamour and tell him that the specious pretext is that,
if these men, raw as they are, were recommended by his Majesty,
there would be no regret, but, the recommendation being from
other hands, men know not how to satisfy themselves. [1½ page.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 23.] |
May 29.
Windsor. |
Commission to Davenport Lucy to be cornet to Capt. Thomas
Lucy in the Earl of Oxford's regiment. Minute. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 164, p. 46.] |
May 29.
Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a patent making the Earl of Rothes Duke of
Rothes, Marquess of Bambreich, Earl of Leslie, Viscount of
Lugtoun and Lord Auchmouty and Caskiberry, with remainder
to the heirs male of his body. [Over 2 pages. S.P. Scotland,
Warrant Book 6, p. 63.] |
May 30.
Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Sir L. Jenkins. The King commands
me to let you know he would have the meeting of the Council put off
till next week if there be no pressing business requiring his presence,
which he leaves to you to judge of, and accordingly to give order
for the Council to meet next Wednesday or not. If the letters
for Mr. Skelton's revocation be not already gone, the King would
have them sent by to-morrow night's post. We expect you
to-morrow and have wanted you to-day. [S.P. Dom., Car. II.
413, No. 134.] |
|
Another copy thereof. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 56, p. 32.] |
May 30.
Queen's College, Oxford. |
Dr. Timothy Halton to Sir L. Jenkins. These two enclosed
letters I lately received, one in behalf of his Majesty's players, the
other of those who belong to the Duke of Ormonde. I am since
informed that the Earl of Ossory has been with the Lord
Chamberlain, who signified to him that he would not oppose
anything the Duke desired nor would interpose any further in
this affair. I am not at all versed in the modes of the Court,
yet am very unwilling to show any disrespect. I am very desirous
to know what is Lord Arlington's sense in the matter and what
will be expected from me. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 413, No. 135.] |
May 31.
Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Mr. Brisbane. The King would
have you acquaint the Lords of the Admiralty that he is given
to understand that they have appointed the Katherine yacht to
cruise in the Soundings and that he, not thinking it convenient
that any of his yachts should be employed for that use, would
have them provide some other way for that service. |
|
You will also acquaint them that Mr. Hyde, having something
to say to them from the King, desires to know where he may
speak with two or three of them about 9 to-night, which you
will let him know at his house in London. [S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 56, p. 33.] |
May 31.
Windsor. |
Commissions to Thomas Hussay and Francis La Rue to be
respectively adjutant of such foot companies and of such troops
of horse as are to be sent for the relief and defence of the city
and garrison of Tangier. Minutes. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 164,
p. 46.] |
May 31.
Windsor. |
Commission to William Godolphin to be captain of an
independent foot company in garrison in the Scilly islands in
the room of Sir William Godolphin. Minute. [Ibid. p. 47.] |
May 31.
Windsor. |
Commission to Capt. Sackville to command as lieut.-colonel
of a regiment of foot. Minute. [Ibid.] |
May 31.
Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a presentation to the bishopric of Argyle in favour
of Hector Maclean, late minister at Eastwood bishop of the
bishopric of Argyle. [Docquet. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6,
p. 66.] |
May 31.
Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a presentation to the bishopric of the Isles in
favour of Archibald Graham, late minister at Rosa bishop of the
bishopric of the Isles. [Docquet. Ibid. p. 67.] |
May 31.
Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a letter empowering the Archbishop of St. Andrews
and the Archbishop of Glasgow to translate James, late Bishop
of Moray now elect Bishop of Galloway, and to install him in
the see of Galloway, as also to translate Colin, late Bishop of
Argyle now elect Bishop of Moray, and to install him in the see
of Moray, and in like manner to translate Andrew, late Bishop
of the Isles now elect Bishop of Caithness, and to install him
in the see of Caithness, and likewise empowering the said
archbishops to consecrate Hector Maclean, late minister at
Eastwood now elect Bishop of Argyle, and to install him in the
see of Argyle, as also to consecrate Archibald Graham, late minister
at Rosa now elect Bishop of the Isles, and to install him in the
see of the Isles. [Ibid. p. 68.] |
May 31.
Windsor Castle. |
Commission to — Bruce, brother of — Bruce of Clackmannan,
to be captain of the foot company formerly commanded by his
said brother, in the Earl of Mar's regiment. [Ibid. p. 69.] |
May 31.
Windsor Castle. |
Memorial of a protection in the ordinary form to — Bruce of
Clackmannan for 3 years. [Ibid. p. 70.] |
May 31.
Clonfert. |
Edward Wolley, Bishop of Clonfert, to the Earl of Radnor,
Lord President of the Council. I have had the good success to
reconcile Lord Dunkellin, the Earl of Clanrickarde's eldest son,
to the Church of England from the errors of the Church of Rome,
which may prove of great consequence to his Majesty's service
here and to the continuing in peace and quiet of the Popish party
in Connaught, though very numerous. Lord Dunkellin with
his lady, children and family have honoured me with their company
several times and are now with me. He was reconciled to the
Protestant religion on Sunday, 25 April, and then received the
Holy Communion out of my hands publicly in the congregation
in the cathedral at Clonfert, and has since improved his knowledge
in the Protestant principles and has fortified his resolutions for
his sincere perseverance. It is very probable that his alteration
may exasperate his Popish relations to dangerous designs and
therefore I humbly desire you to acquaint his Majesty and Council
with his condition that he may be comforted and encouraged
and in safety with some plentiful support, being in his father's
displeasure, and I hope his Majesty and Council will piously incline
to find out a supply for him, his lady and children, and as to his
son, being now about ten years old, I hope his Majesty and Council
will take speedy care for his education at Oxford that he may
be instructed in religious and loyal principles and so be in safety
in England and by that means out of the reach of Popish designs
and dangers, which may be devised here against him. [S.P.
Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 92.] |
| May 31. |
Thomas McCreery to the Earl of Conway. The estate is entailed
to the executor and he passed a recovery last May making a will
to his father-in-law to enjoy it for his life and after his decease
it returns to my wife. For the legacy I had him served with a
subpœna and put in a bill in Chancery, and they would not put
in an answer but got an order for me to give security, because
they informed the Court I was a foot soldier belonging to some
company in Ireland. |
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If you would write a line to the Lord Chancellor in my behalf,
I conceive it may be much to my advantage. [Conway papers.
Ibid. No. 93.] |
May.
Windsor. |
Commissions to Henry Holt to be lieutenant to Sir Thomas
Ogle's company and to William Fettiplace to be quartermaster,
both in the Holland regiment. Minutes. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book
164, p. 45.] |
