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July 1. Whitehall. |
Warrant for a conge d'elire to the Dean and Chapter of St. Asaph,
for the election of a bishop in the place of Dr. Isaac Barrow,
deceased, and also for a letter missive recommending Dr. William
Lloyd, Dean of Bangor and chaplain in ordinary to the King, for
election. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 53, p. 25.] |
July 1. Whitehall. |
Commission to Richard Legh to be quarter-master to Capt. Lucy
in the Earl of Oxford's regiment. Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 164, p. 48.] |
June 31. [? July 1.] Lisburn. |
Sir G. Rawdon to the Earl of Conway. I intended this by
Lord Granard now at Dublin, ready for his journey into England,
but John Totnall, having got advice that the butchers he sent
to buy sheep have bought 300 at the rate of about 8l. the score
at Kells, is come from Portmore in haste and receiving money
of Mr. Mildmay intends to be at Kells by noon to-morrow, and, if
he can, to ship them at Dublin next Monday, so, if my lord go not so
soon as next packet, I have desired this may be sent away Saturday
night. John would be glad if Francis Parsons met the sheep at
Chester. I suppose Lord Granard intends to the Bath, before
he goes to Court. He stayed as long as he could at Castle Forbes
expecting daily Mall's delivery, whom he left well last week,
as we are all here except myself, who have endured much pain
this month and more. I have writ to Sir W. Petty, my constant
doctor, who I expect will send Mr. Brookes his best advice. There
is no hope of Capt. Ball's life now. [Conway papers. S.P. Ireland,
Car. II. 339, No. 100.] |
July 1. Lisburn. |
Major Joseph Stroude to the Earl of Conway. Thanking his
lordship for his letter received by Mr. Totnall, complaining of the
aspersions of his enemies during his absence, but hoping that time
will clear up his innocence and retrieve his lordship's favour.
[Conway papers. Ibid. No. 101.] |
July 3. Kensington. |
Henry Hyrne to the Earl of Conway. I fear my second letter
is miscarried. Seeing you had made so little progress in your
addresses to Lord Delamere's daughter, I therein propounded
another lady. I have not seen her, but take the following relation
to be as true as if I had been an eye-witness. She is virtuous
and discreet, a knight's daughter. Her sister is married to a
lord. She is about 22 and has 10,000l. portion besides the
possibility of a share in the estate her father intends for his only
son, who is weakly and will probably scarce live to be a man.
She is also represented to be so handsome that no man need be
ashamed to own her for his lady. If you think you may fancy
such a person, in my next you shall know who is her father and
what lord has married her sister, but, whatsoever lady you pitch
upon, it is my hearty desire and humble advice that you would lose
as little more time as may be. [Conway papers. S.P. Dom.,
Car. II. 414, No. 1.] |
July 3. |
Note sent to Secretary Jenkins of the dates of the Midsummer
and Michaelmas Quarter Sessions and also of an intermediate
session in August for London and Middlesex. [Ibid. No. 2.] |
July 3. Rye. |
Francis Lightfoot, Collector of the Customs, to Secretary
Jenkins. Giving an account of the state of the corporation
there to the same effect as the letters of Crouch, Gillart and
Radford and of Robert Hall, calendared ante, pp. 526, 527.
[2½ pages. Ibid. No. 3.] |
July 3. Windsor. |
The King to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
to be communicated to the Senate. Recommending for the
degree of M.D. Richard Robinson, on whose behalf the Elector
and Censors of the College of Physicians at London have certified
that they know him to be very well skilled in the theory and
practice of physic, and who has represented that, his father
having been ruined for his loyalty in the late wars, he has not
been able to support himself in the University, he performing the
requisite exercises or cautioning for the same. [S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 57, p. 24.] |
July 3. Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Mr. Laugharne. Did you need any compurgators as to the libel you sent me, I should readily appear
in your vindication. You discreetly complied with the law in
sending the pamphlet to the two neighbour justices. |
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* I hope none of his Majesty's friends will lose their courage,
because the fanatic party gives out their interest is renewed at
Court, but it is not so, the King having of late had several occasions
to declare that he will rely on his old friends. [S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 62, p. 33.] |
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Note that the same from the asterisk to the end were sent
to the Bishop of Exeter and Col. Stawell. [Ibid.] |
Saturday, July 3. |
Newsletter to Roger Garstell, Newcastle. They write from
the Hague that the French ambassador had given in a memorial
to the States General containing the reasons inducing his master
to take a progress into the Low Countries, which were only to
see his new conquests and the new fortifications; that he intended
no injury to any nor to insult over the neighbours of that State
nor any others. |
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They write from Hamburg that they have letters from
Copenhagen that Baron John Guldensterne, formerly ambassador
and governor of Schonen, is dead, that the French use their utmost
in Sweden to engage that crown in a new alliance with them,
but it's thought that neither of the two Northern Crowns will
meddle therein. The French propose that the Swedes shall keep
10,000 men on foot in the bishopric of Bremen, half to be French
and French officers, but this is disliked. The King of Sweden is
resolved to stand on his guard and has given an order for building
several ships in Leifland and 6 considerable ones at Riga. |
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Sir Arthur Ingram, formerly mentioned to be dead, is not
dead. Yesterday he was cut of the stone, of which he has been
long under torment. It is hoped he may now recover, the stone,
which was a mighty one, being clear taken out, the whole operation
done in three minutes after binding by a person sent for on
purpose from Paris, who is accounted the best in the world at
that work. |
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The Lords of the Treasury are improving the revenues by all
legal ways. They have also commissioned Mr. Burton, their
solicitor, forthwith to prosecute all such Papists as reside or are
abiding in or about this city contrary to the statute and
proclamation, by which they forfeit — per month and the
master of the house, where they are, 10l., which will be certainly
recovered on them, several being now under prosecution, and an
account taken of many others. |
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Dr. Oates' pension of 12l. a week is reduced to 40s. a week,
and Mr. Bedloe's of 10l. a week to 40s. a week, and Mr. Dugdale's
and Mr. Dangerfield's quite taken off. The former had 5l. and
the latter 40s. Some of the lords intend to appear next Council
day in their behalf and, if the Council will not continue them a
competent allowance, will pray leave that they may do it without any offence to the Government. |
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Edmund Everard, reported to have been committed to the
Tower about the pamphlet called An Answer to his Majesty's late
Declaration, is not yet taken into custody. |
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An information having been brought into the Crown Office
against Henry Care, author of The Weekly Pacquet of Advice from
Rome or the History of Popery, and he continuing the same, the
Court of King's Bench the last day of term, made the following
rule that the said book be not printed or published by any whatsoever. |
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Yesterday the said Care was tried at the Guildhall before
Lord Chief Justice Scroggs and a numerous auditory. His
counsel were Sir Francis Winnington and Mr. Williams, Recorder
of Chester. After about two hours' hearing the jury withdrew
and in somewhat less than an hour brought him in guilty. The
information was for being author of the said pamphlet, particularly
for that of 1 Aug., 1679, wherein are the following words, which
were inserted in the information: "There is lately found out
by an experienced physician an incomparable medicament, called
the wonder-working plaister, truly Catholic in operation, somewhat akin to the Jesuits' powder, but more effectual. Its virtues
are strange and various. It will make justice deaf as well as
blind, and take out sp[ecks] of deepest treasons more clearerly
than Castile soap does common stains. It alters a man's constitution in two or three days more than the virtuoso's transfusion
in seven years. It is a great alexipharmick, and helps poisons
and those that use them. It miraculously exalts and purifies
the eyesight and makes people behold nothing but innocence
in the blackest malefactors. It is a mighty cordial to a declining
cause, and stifles the plot as certainly as the itch is destroyed
by butter and brimstone. In a word it makes fools wise men
and wise men fools and both of them knaves. The colour of
this precious balm is bright and dazzling, and being applied
privately to the fist in a decent manner and a competent dose
infallibly performs all the said cures and many others." [Damaged.
3 pages. Admiralty, Greenwich Hospital 1, No. 55.] |
July 3. Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Duke of Rothes, Chancellor, and the Privy
Council of Scotland. Having fully considered your letters of
17 and 22 June to the Duke of Lauderdale for our information
concerning the new project for securing the Highlands by dividing
them into several districts, we are resolved that the two Highland
foot companies shall not be disbanded but continue as they
are now, till the affair of Mull and that of Caithness be settled
and the peace of those countries fully secured, in order to which
we have already fallen on such a course as may shortly settle Mull,
and we hope the orders lately issued for quieting the disorders
and violences in Caithness will also prove successful, and, when
either of these shall be perfected, we will signify our pleasure in
reference to the necessary directions for disbanding the company
now employed in that service respectively, after which we will
declare our further pleasure concerning that project of the
districts, and, in regard there is no other fund than the pay of
those two companies for defraying the charge of that project, we
therefore in the meantime authorize and require you to put in
execution the ancient and laudable laws for securing the Highlands
from robberies and depredations (which have hitherto appeared
the most effectual means for that purpose), by obliging the heads
of clans and the heritors to become bound for that effect, which
we desire you to do with all possible diligence in the most effectual
manner, that no time may be lost in securing peaceable subjects
from the disorders and violences committed by thieves and
broken men. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 98.] |
July 3. Lisburn. |
Sir G. Rawdon to the Earl of Conway. About the sheep as in
his last letter.—Last night we had very welcome news from
Lady Granard by an express that your niece was very well
delivered of a son about 7 last Wednesday morning, 30 June,
and that both mother and child are in a very hopeful condition.
Her ladyship writes very importunately that I may come, or, if
I cannot, Arthur and his sisters to the christening, but I am not
in condition for such a journey, so Arthur and his sisters and
Mistress Steele are providing to go next week. My lady desires
my advice about his name, whether yours or mine or his father's.
I said I believe you will be of my opinion that his name be Arthur,
as his ancestors have been for many descents. Ensign Rawdon
wrote yesterday by a soldier to give me account of the lamentable
condition and torment Capt. Ball is in. (Account of his condition.)
I have advised you of his condition, but have not had one word
of your pleasure therein. I suppose his Grace is now at Kilkenny,
and perhaps Lord Granard may be shipped for England. We
have much wet weather here, so no hay cutting yet. [Conway
papers. S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 102.] |
July 3. Dublin. |
Phelim O'Neill to the Earl of Conway. Enclosing Sir G.
Rawdon's letter and about the sheep, and sending a very bad
account of Capt. Ball.—The processes issued for the old arrears
move great many people to come to town in order to clear their
charge, but few get off, so I hope it will in time come to good
effect, but it will be towards next term before any considerable
part of the money comes in. Some have been with me already
that would pay part now and give sufficient bonds to pay the
rest in half a year, but I durst not engage in it without your
advice. Lord Ranelagh has preferred a petition in your name
to have your December, '75, pay for troop and company assigned
on the present revenue, and obtained such an order for himself,
but the Duke will do nothing on your petition. I solicit it by
Lord Ranelagh's direction, but what will come of it, I know not
yet, but there is still the remainder of the debentures that
Capt. Thelwall left with me, about 290l., that we cannot any way
dispose of or apply; so I think it were well you should write
to Lord Ranelagh about them, and see if he would allow them
on the list of arrears, as it came in, which he may do without any
noise or anybody else the wiser of it. I have about 14l. deductions
due to me for September, '75, which I can no way get them to
allow. Pray, if you write about those debentures, hint my
concerns, to move their kindness in it. Besides these arrears
there remains due to you for one year's creation money to
Michaelmas, 1675, after deductions 9l. 14s., whereof you may
remind Lord Ranelagh, when you write about the other arrears. |
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A prodigious accident fell in Munterloony in Tyrone on
Saturday, 26 June. A thunder clap forced the bowels of a great
mountain belonging to Claud Hamilton, after which ensued the
fall of a prodigious cloud, which entering the cavities of the
said mountain made by the thunder, its weight bore the greatest
part of the mountain before, which fell into Glanally water that
was toward Newtown Stewart, drowned 19 persons in their houses,
turned the whole valleys for 8 or 9 miles, that were meadows
and corn, into a desert and dust a foot thick and killed all the
fish in the river for 20 miles. The other half of this cloud fell
into the Row water that runs through co. Londonderry, and
drowned 31 persons and forced away the bridge at Limavady.
[2½ pages. Conway papers. S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 103.] |
July 3. Windsor. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant for giving orders
for the remaining companies of the Scotch regiment and as many
more commanded men, who are to be drawn out of the forces in
Ireland, as will with the said five companies make up 500 foot
to march with all convenient speed to Kinsale and likewise for
giving orders for 120 horse with their officers, which are to be
formed in two troops to be drawn out of the army there and to
march as soon as may be to Kinsale, where both the horse and
foot are to be shipped for Tangier with their respective arms,
those only belonging to the commanded men excepted, for
whom necessary arms will be provided from England. [S.P.
Ireland, Car. II. 340, p. 11.] |
July 3. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord Lieutenant. Enclosing
the above orders.—His Majesty would have all possible expedition
used in this affair, having already given orders to the Commissioners of the Admiralty to send ships to Kinsale for the
transportation of the 500 foot, and also to the Commissioners of
the Treasury to contract for the transportation of the 120 troopers
with their officers and horses with three months' horse meat
besides hay and provender for their passage, and, that these
forces may be able to defend each other in their passage against
the Algerines or others, he recommends it to your care so to order
all matters that, though the shipping for the horse and foot be
provided by several persons, yet they may be ready to go together
under the same convoy. [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 340, p. 12.] |
July 3. Whitehall. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant, after reciting that
the petition of John Wogan and Judith Wogan alias Moore, his
wife, set forth that in consideration of a surrender of the Mills of
Kilmainham a pension of 150l. per annum was settled on the
petitioner, Judith Moore, 25 Nov., 1675, which the petitioners
received till 29 Sept., 1678, and that they have not since received
any part thereof; requiring him, notwithstanding any former
letters or orders or the present establishment or any instructions
whatever to the contrary, to give speedy and effectual order
for payment forthwith to the petitioners of what shall appear in
arrear of the said pension and for the future payment thereof.
[S.P. Dom., Signet Office, Vol. 10, p. 456.] |
July 4. Whitehall. |
Warrant to Thomas Atterbury, messenger, to search the house
of — Hall, near the Three Cranes in Thames Street for a Scotch
minister lately come out of Scotland, after having appeared in
arms in an actual rebellion, and having found him to take him
into custody and bring him before Secretary Jenkins to answer
to what shall be objected against him. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 54,
p. 45.] |
July 5. Windsor. |
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of
Sir James Edwards for the renewal of a grant to him as an original
adventurer of certain lands in Ireland formerly granted him,
but stopped in the passing thereof, which stop is now removed by
mutual consent with the Duke of Ormonde's counsel. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 55, p. 83.] |
July 5. Windsor. |
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of
Sir Richard Dereham, Remembrancer to the City, for satisfaction
for his great loss and pains as having been receiver-general of all
Recusants' estates, which having cost him much in passing his
patent, the patent is recalled. [Ibid.] |
July 5. Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Duke of Rothes, Chancellor, and the Privy
Council of Scotland. Having seen your letter of 30 June to the
Duke of Lauderdale with the new villainous and treasonable
covenant and declaration of the fanatic rebels there, we both
approve your proceedings in that affair and return you our hearty
thanks, not doubting you will continue your care and diligence
to use all lawful means for bringing those rogues to exemplary
punishment; and, to the end that our loyal subjects, being
informed, may have a just abhorrence of the principles and
practices of those villains, we hereby authorize you to cause
print and publish the said new covenant and declaration with
such other papers as you think fit. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6,
p. 99.] |
July 5. Windsor Castle. |
Warrants for presentations to the kirk of Dalgety in the diocese
of Dunkeld in favour of John Lumsdean, student in divinity,
and to the kirk of Marnoch in the diocese of Moray in favour of
Hugh Chalmer, student in divinity. [Docquets. S.P. Scotland,
Warrant Book 6, pp. 100, 101.] |
July 6. Ashridge. |
The Earl of Bridgwater to Secretary Jenkins. Enclosing a
letter received that evening from Sir Palmes Fairborne.—I
apprehend the latter part of this letter is very considerable, and
I cannot doubt his Majesty considers the shortness of the cessation
and will before the ending of it send a force sufficient for the
preservation of that place. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 4.] |
July 6. Windsor. |
Presentation of Daniel Appleford, M.A., to the rectory of
Llandrynio, Montgomeryshire. Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 57, p. 25.] |
July 6. Dublin. |
The Lord Lieutenant to Secretary Jenkins. I have received
yours of 26 June, and seen yours to the Lord Primate, who will
dispose of his Majesty's letters as directed and give you an account
of his proceedings. The Earl of Clanrickarde, though a Papist,
was never involved in the Irish Popish rebellion or in any other,
but faithfully in imitation of the loyalty of his ancestors served
the Crown in the times of most general defection of those of his
nation and religion, to which I can bear him witness. |
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You will shortly receive from me and the Council an account
of David Fitzgerald's petition to his Majesty, wherein if he had
set down the complaints of a like nature, if not the very same
made formerly to us and what we did for his relief, I think he
might have saved the pains he has now put us to, to recollect
and transmit them. I thought before now to have had for you
abstracts of the most material bills sent from hence, but the
King's counsel, who were to extract them, have been too busy.
[Holograph. S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 104.] |
July 7. Whitehall. |
Warrant for a grant to Thomas Hayward and his heirs of a
fair to be kept at Stonehenge, Wiltshire, on 25 and 26 Sept.,
yearly for ever, it having been found by inqusition that such a
fair will be no damage to the Crown or to any other. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 51, p. 355.] |
July 7. Whitehall. |
The King to the Mayor and Corporation of Falmouth. In
exercise of the power for that purpose reserved to him in the
charter to the town appointing Sir Peter Killigrew to be recorder
thereof for his life in the room of Walter Vincent, deceased,
and requiring the Mayor to swear and admit him into the said
place. [Ibid. p. 359.] |
July 7. Whitehall. |
Warrant for a presentation of Richard Long to the rectory of
Plymtree, Devon, ad corroborandum titulum. [S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 53, p. 26.] |
July 7. Whitehall. |
The King to the Warden and Fellows of the Collegiate Church
of Manchester. After reciting the letters of 2 Nov., 1670, and
8 May, 1675, in favour of George Ogden, M.A. (calendared in
S.P. Dom., 1670, p. 512, and S.P. Dom., 1675–76, p. 110), and that,
Richard Warburton, M.A., having since had a letter of 24 Sept.,
1679, to be elected and admitted into the first vacant fellowship,
the said Ogden apprehends he is in danger of being disappointed
again, which the King never intended, signifying his further
pleasure that they pre-elect the said Ogden into the first vacant
fellowship in that Collegiate Church and admit him thereto, as
soon as it is void, notwithstanding the said letter for the said
Warburton. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 53, p. 27.] |
July 7. Whitehall. |
The King to the Vice-Chancellor and Senate of the University
of Cambridge. Signifying his pleasure that they admit to the
degree of M.A. Samuel Bradford, of Corpus Christi College, who
is qualified both by learning and standing to take that degree,
but is incapacitated, because he has never taken the degree of
B.A., he performing or cautioning to perform all the exercises
requisite for taking that degree. [Ibid. p. 541.] |
July 7. Whitehall. |
Warrant to the Attorney-General to enter a nolle prosequi as
to the King's part of the money demanded by an information
against Robert Stonehouse, minister of Childerditch, Essex,
and one of the chaplains to the King, who is prosecuted for nonresidence by some factious inhabitants of that parish to his great
damage. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 54, p. 46.] |
July 7. |
Certificate by Sir Francis Compton that the charge of the
colours provided by him for the troop formed out of the Earl of
Oxford's regiment of horse for the defence of the garrison of
Tangier amounts to 9l., besides 9s., the poundage thereof, in all
9l. 9s. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 65, p. 16.] |
[July ?] |
Warrant to Nicholas Johnson, Paymaster-General of the forces
and garrisons, for payment of the above sum to Sir Francis
Compton. [Ibid. p. 15.] |
July 8. |
R[obert] F[erguson] to his wife. I very much rejoice my
lady is safely brought to bed and have given her mother notice
of it, who gives her most hearty love to her daughter and
Sir Robert. I long to see thee in London, therefore fail not to
come home to-morrow, for I would speak with you before I withdraw into the country, which it is absolutely needful I should do,
and I question whether I can come to Stonden at all. In the
meantime I am safe, so thou needst not be troubled. There is
no news save the ordering of more soldiers for Tangier. The
Colonel is not in the list of those to be indicted at the assizes,
as least as Mr. How says. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 5.] |
July 8. |
Certificate by Daniel Day that Richard Capps, coachman, did
not die of the wounds he received but of a malignant fever, after
he was well abroad and healed of his wounds. [Ibid. No. 6.] |
July 8 and 9. |
Five similar certificates by Gabriel Jones, Christopher Todd,
Ferdinand Watkins, John Seeger and Richard Nickes, on the
last of which is noted that Capps was the coachman supposed
to be killed by Mr. Doughty. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, Nos.
7–11.] |
July 9. 9 p.m. Windsor. |
William Bridgeman to Secretary Jenkins. The King would
have Mr. Fitzgerald, to whom he has given several particulars
in charge, go with the letters express to Tangier and not a
messenger. [Ibid. No. 12.] |
July 9. Ashridge. |
The Earl of Bridgwater to Secretary Jenkins. Thanking him
for the letters received from him last night and troubling him
with another from Sir Palmes Fairborne, brought him yesternight
from London.—It is of so ancient a date I believe it cannot now
be of any use; nevertheless I desire you should see it, and the
rather because it mentions an older one of 17 April, which never
came to me. I heartily pray for Lord Ossory's good dispatch
to, and good success at Tangier and for good fortune in all his
Majesty's affairs. If Lord Inchiquin be come, I hope he brings
so full an account of the state of that place as will enable his
Majesty to take his measures very exactly for the preservation
of it. [Ibid. No. 13.] |
July 9. Harwich. |
John Browne and Nicholas Denham, customers, to Secretary
Jenkins. Yesterday came over in a packet-boat Robert
Blockwoode, a merchant, as he says, at Edinburgh. We tendered
him the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, which he refused,
saying they were not the same as those in that kingdom, but
those he was willing to take, and, he pretending it would be much
to his detriment to be stayed here and being willing to be at the
charge of a messenger to come before you and the Council, we have
sent him up to be examined by you and disposed of as you shall
direct. Two Quakers are also come over by the same packetboat, that dwell at Bishop Stortford, that went over, they say,
about a month ago, and, refusing to take the oaths, we have
stopped them and pray your commands what shall be done with
them. [Ibid. No. 14.] |
July 9. Dublin. |
Michael, Archbishop of Armagh, to Secretary Jenkins. I have
received his Majesty's commands by yours of 26 June, and have
delivered his Majesty's letter to the Earl of Clanrickarde, and
had some discourse with him on the subject of it, but I cannot
yet find him inclinable to make any considerable addition to
his son, Lord Dunkellin's, allowance. He alleges his estate lies
under such great incumbrances that he is not able. I left the
matter on his further consideration, not doubting, as I told him,
that he would on second thoughts comply with his Majesty's
commands in this, which to the world must appear conducible to
his own honour as well as to the necessary support of his own family,
which I could not but very hopefully expect, because I never
yet heard but that he had ever showed a resigned obedience
to his Majesty's pleasure. I shall attend him with my best
endeavours and shall give you a further account thereof. |
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I have also delivered his Majesty's letter to Lord Dunkellin,
who very sensibly acknowledges his Majesty's great favour and
condescension. He is very willing to send his son to Oxford,
if means can be procured for his support there, which I shall press
on Lord Clanrickarde all I can. |
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Before I received his Majesty's commands, I had ordered
Lord Dunkellin to be put into the commission of the peace in
his proper county, and shall be very ready to perform him all
the civil offices I can. His Majesty signified to his lordship that
he had ordered his Chancellor to issue a writ of summons, when
a parliament is called here, whereby he may sit as baron in the
House of Peers, but I have not yet received any directions for that
purpose. [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 105.] |
July 10. London. |
Martha Cradock to Secretary Jenkins. Sending the bearer, her
husband, to wait on him with the enclosed paper, part of the
heads of the discourse of what she can say against the said party,
and asking for some money to fetch the rest of her papers and
other things that she may go on with the business. Endorsed,
"Concerning words said to be spoken by Bedloe." [S.P. Dom.,
Car. II. 414, No. 15.] Enclosed, |
16 June, 1679, William Bedloe said that the Duke of York
and the Queen had a hand in the Plot, and that he was a
traitorous rogue and that, when he saw him, he would take
him by the shoulder and let him know as much, and that the
Queen was a jade and as cunning as the Devil could make
her. 13 December, he said the Parliament should sit by the
means of the Council, his friends and others, and that one
man's humour should not undo a kingdom, meaning the
King, with much base scurrilous language not fit to be borne.
[Ibid. No. 15 i.] |
July 10. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to the Duke of Newcastle. I have two
letters from you, one in favour of Chesterfield for a new charter,
which the King has gratified them in, and the other recommending
Mr. Acres to be a justice, which the King has referred to the
Lord Chancellor, after I had moved him in it at the Council, where
the late changes in the commissions of the peace were made.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 56, p. 37.] |
July 10. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Secretary Jenkins. The King
thinks it would be for his service to have the truce with the
Moors prolonged for two months, and therefore would have the
Committee of Tangier meet as soon as may be to consider of it,
and, in case nothing occur to them against it, he would have orders
sent to Sir Palmes Fairborne from the Committee by
Mr. Fitzgerald to agree on a prolongation of the truce for two
months longer. [Ibid.] |
July 10. Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Mr. Humphreys, Dean of Bangor. I am
extremely surprised to hear of a trial against the College for
Clynnoc. I thought Mr. Powell had given over, and I gave a
civil answer to a Mr. Jeffreys that interceded for him very lately.
I could not promise him anything but my good wishes. The
benefice he pretended to in Breconshire was disposed of, before
I heard of the vacancy. Pray use all your endeavours and
interest, or rather that the Church and of religion and learning,
with my noble countrymen in your parts and entreat them most
earnestly to take care that no wrong be done to our very poor
country college. Did I know who to write to, I would do it with
all my heart. I purchased the fee of that advowson bona fide
for the College. I knew a grant of the first turn lay out in
Sir Richard Lloyd's hands, but the most able counsel here assured
me that, if the vacancy should fall out, as de facto it did, the
grant to Sir Richard would do the College no prejudice. I say I
purchased it, for the deed calls it a benefaction, and so I acknowledge
it to be with all my heart and so must all posterity too, yet I
should not have given Lord Pembroke that high rate I did for land
I purchased for the College the same time this was given us, but
that this advowson came in to help the bargain. Pray do what
you can to save the College right and Mr. Principal's, and you will
very sensibly oblige me. [2 pages. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 34.] |
July 10. Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Lords of the Treasury of Scotland. Being very
desirous to have all differences removed, which hitherto have been
between the Earl of Argyle and the Laird of Maclean, on which
the settlement of the peace of the Highlands very much depends,
we lately proposed to the Earl that to what he was willing by the
agreement concluded by the Duke of Lauderdale, when last in
Scotland, to bestow freely on the said Laird, we were resolved
to make an additional purchase from him of so much more as
will in the whole make an estate of 500l. sterling yearly to Maclean,
and we, being very well satisfied both with the said Earl's readiness
to make his own promise effectual and to accept of our offer
of making the said purchase in the island of Terie, now require
you with all convenient diligence to call for the said agreement,
now in the Earl of Moray's custody, and see what the Earl of
Argyle has promised himself to bestow on the said Laird, to which
we are resolved to add the purchase already mentioned. For
effectuating whereof we also hereby require you to make speedy
and strict inquiry into the true value of what the real rent of
Terie used to be, to the end that we may signify our pleasure for
giving due satisfaction to the said Earl of the purchase money
for so much of the said estate of 500l. sterling per annum, as will
exceed what he obliged himself by the said agreement to bestow
on Maclean, it being our resolution to have the same secured
to the said Earl by a grant of the few duties payable out of all
the lands belonging to him to the value of the purchase we are
about to make for Maclean. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6,
p. 102.] |
July 10. Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Lords of the Treasury of Scotland. Transmitting some proposals relating to the state of the artillery lately
presented by John Slezer, the lieutenant thereof, with the
signification of his pleasure thereon. First, as to the proposal of
reducing two men out of every company of the regiment of
Guard, one out of the troop of Guard, one out of each of the three
independent troops of Horse, three out of each of the three troops
of Dragoons, two out of every company of the Earl of Mar's foot
regiment, six out of the garrison of Edinburgh Castle and two
out of the garrison of Stirling Castle and converting their pay (which
is in all 1l. 18s. 2d. sterling per diem) to be a fund for defraying the
daily allowances ordered to be given to some inferior officers
and constant attenders of artillery according to the establishment
contained in these proposals, we approve the same, authorizing and
requiring you to cause the said number to be reduced forthwith
out of the said troops, companies and garrisons, and their pay
to be detained by the cash-keeper, who is to deliver it to the
said Lieutenant of the Artillery for the purpose aforesaid, and
you are to take care that he prepare fit persons to be listed and to
remain in the said artillery and that they be duly paid according
to the establishment already mentioned. As to what is proposed
in reference to the old and useless guns in Stirling and Dunbarton
Castles and a Spanish gun of 48lb. ball in Dunbarton Castle,
we are also very well satisfied with their being changed for the
pieces of ordnance mentioned by the proposer, leaving to you the
choice of sending them to England or to Holland for that purpose,
as you shall find it most expedient. As to what is offered in
reference to the more convenient and secure transportation of
ammunition to the Army and the provision of instruments for
pioneers to be in readiness as also the yearly allowance of 150l.
sterling to be employed as mentioned in the last proposal, we are
fully convinced of the necessity of all these, but, in regard we
have reason to apprehend that the Treasury is so overcharged
already as it is not fit we should burden it now with the 770l.
sterling mentioned by the proposer, besides the said yearly
allowance of 150l., for defraying that charge, we order you to
make these sums, as soon as you conveniently can, effectual for
this purpose, either out of the forfeitures of those in the late
rebellion or the fines of those who were absent from or deserted
our host at that time. [2 pages. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6,
p. 104.] Enclosed, |
The said proposals. The establishment of artillery attenders
in Scotland consists only of four gunners to serve in the
castles. I am honoured indeed with a lieutenant's place of
the Ordnance, but have no gunner nor no living soul to
dispose on, nor do I know where to find a single fit man, when
there shall be occasion, as appeared in the last rebellion, when
every governor thought to find use for his own gunners, and
with much ado I obtained only one gunner to go with 4 cannon
besides 3 men pressed from Leith, who proved very unfit.
My proposition, therefore, is that without increasing the
charge of the standing forces some establishment be found,
wherewith we shall be able to bring 8 or 10 cannon to the
field and to have them at any time completely served with
gunners &c. The thing formerly condescended on for this
purpose was to draw so many men out of the standing forces
and garrisons and let them wait on about the train, but
the difficulty I find is: 1. There will be a confusion of men;
I must take such as they give me. If they do not perform
their duty or are not fit, I cannot turn them out and take
others in their places. 2. Metrosses and the like attenders
must work from morning till night at anything necessary,
and therefore their pay is likewise more considerable. If I
offer to employ commanded men at the same rate, they will
take it very ill to leave their colours and an easy duty to be at
continual work with me at their ordinary pay. 3. The
officers, who send me any men for the train, must resolve to
want them at least 2 or 3 years, before they can return to their
colours, in whose places the like numbers behoved to be sent
again, and therefore it is all one to have their companies
reduced altogether of the small numbers hereunder mentioned,
it being my humble opinion that the artillery ought to be
in a continual readiness, otherwise no expense can do it on
a sudden. (Then follows a table of the men proposed to be
reduced, which appears from the above letter.) |
Establishment proposed to be entertained out of this reduction:— |
|
Daily pay. |
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s. |
d. |
1 Master Gunner and Fireworker
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3 |
6 |
2 Gunners at 2s. 6d. a day
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5 |
0 |
4 Gunners at 1s. 6d. a day
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6 |
0 |
18 Metrosses at 10d. a day
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15 |
0 |
1 Artillery wright at 2s. a day
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2 |
0 |
1 Artillery smith at 2s. a day
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2 |
0 |
1 Conducteur or Workmaster
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2 |
6 |
1 Clerk of the Store or Bookholder
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2 |
2 |
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1l. |
18s. |
2d. |
I likewise presume to represent some things relating to the
train itself. His Majesty has in Edinburgh, Stirling and
Dunbarton Castles some very good brass demi-cannons and
culverins, which are too heavy for the field except on particular
occasions. The cannons we use are 8 very fine minions,
but being something long and heavy and mounted after the
ordinary way with a travelling carriage, we can only keep
the highways and plain ground with them, and, when there
is occasion for our forces to take byways through the hills, we
must stay behind. Therefore I propose to have 4 other pieces
cast a great deal shorter and lighter and intend to mount them
such a way that I shall oblige myself to follow, wherever any
body of horse shall go before me. |
2. The rebels might take a post where our minions could not
be able to dislodge them. In such a case we could have recourse
to nothing but our heavy cannon. To mount 2 or 3 of them,
and lay in all things necessary for them to take the field is a
great expense, and then the trouble to carry them along,
especially in Scotland, is much worse, wherefore his Majesty
cannot want out of his magazine at least 2 demi-culverins
and 2 twelve pounders, standing ready with all that belong
to them for the field. (Proposal for changing useless guns
at the Castles which appears by the above letter.) I believe
I can bring home from Holland for them 4 of the short field
pieces I spoke of, completely mounted and 2 demi-culverins with
their carriages. If the old cannons yield more than the six
come to, it may be bestowed on shot for them. There lies also
at Dunbarton Castle a very fine Spanish gun of 48lb. ball.
We have nothing belonging to her, and, though we had, there
will hardly ever be any use for her, so I propose to try if his
Majesty would allow the officers of the Tower to change her
for 2 twelve pounders and, if not, that she might be sent
with the rest to Holland to be changed there for 2 twelve
pounders. |
3. In carrying along the ammunition of the army we are
necessitated to use country carriages, our powder is very much
exposed on their open carts, our match is sometimes in a very
ill condition when it rains, and very often we must take old
rotten carts and greath, then are we a continual stop and curse
to the army, something or other going wrong with us very
often every day. As part of our ammunition must be carried
on horseback to follow the forces where carts cannot drive,
the country uses to bring horses in for the train from one place
to another. When first we go out of Edinburgh, the country
people are pretty well provided with horse greath for laying
on loads, but all lies open and insecure and, when we come
further off, we get most commonly nothing but bare-backed
horses, so that we either should be forced to leave some of the
ammunition behind us or else must make bold with the country
people's furniture, whose horses we discharge, and there
we get all the curse and clamour of the country people
behind us. |
4. We have no provision of pioneers' instruments; if there
was any sudden occasion, it would take time to provide them.
Therefore I propose that, if any body be sent to Holland to
provide other necessaries, he may likewise bring seven or
eight hundred with him. |
The expense of all this will come to about the total sum of 770l.
all that I have proposed being but inconsiderable in consideration of what an army requires, and only intended
against a surprise. In the last place I offer that by an allowance of 150l. yearly all the old necessaries belonging to the
train be constantly repaired. Item that 25l. a year be bestowed
out of that allowance to keep the gunners and other artillery
attenders in continual exercise for improving themselves and
to defray the charge of taking for some days monthly the
cannons and mortars to some convenient place to let the
gunners improve themselves in shooting and casting
granadoes, and with the remainder, if any, the artillery may
be sometimes augmented with some more things necessary.
[5¼ pages. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 106.] |
July 10. |
Lord Dunkellin to Secretary Jenkins. Requesting him to let
his Majesty know with what ecstasies of joy he receives this most
gracious and unmerited favour and requesting him to beseech
his Majesty so far to take him into his protection that he may not
suffer for doing what the King's laws enjoin and his conscience
obliges him to. [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 106.] |
July 10. Whitehall. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant for giving orders
for payment of a pension of 100l. per annum to Littleton Clent,
the payment whereof is suspended, any order, letter, &c., to the
contrary notwithstanding. [S.P. Dom., Signet Office, Vol. 10,
p. 457.] |
July 10. Whitehall. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant, after reciting
that Philip Frowde had besought a lease for 99 years of Mountjoy
with the appurtenances, co. Tyrone, worth about 40l. per annum,
formerly granted for a term now expired or near expiring, and
now in possession of such as have no right thereto, a reference
thereof to the Lord Lieutenant and his report dated 17 March,
1679–80, that King James, 19 June, 1610, demised to Sir Francis
Roe the town of Castle Fort and lands of Mountjoy, co. Tyrone,
with 300 acres of land adjoining for 21 years from the following
Michaelmas, at the rent of 15s. per annum, and afterwards by letters
patent dated 2 Feb., 1617–8, granted the premises to Mountjoy
Blunt, Baron of Mountjoy, and the heirs male of his body under
the said rent, that the said lease is long since expired, but that
it does not appear whether the said Lord Mountjoy be dead
without heirs male of his body but that, in case his Majesty be
pleased to gratify the petitioner, he conceives his Majesty may
empower the Lord Lieutenant to grant the premises as expressed
in the former letters patent to the petitioner for the term he
desires, to commence from the date thereof, in case the estate
formerly granted to Lord Mountjoy be then determined, and,
if not then determined, to commence from the determination
thereof under double the rent formerly payable, and a report of
the Lords of the Treasury concurring with the Lord Lieutenant,
provided that the lease be made only for 31 years: for causing
letters patent to be passed of the said Fort of Mountjoy, co.
Tyrone, with 300 adjoining acres, which are mentioned particularly
in the said letters patent of 2 Feb., 1617–8, to the said Philip Frowde
for the term of 31 years, to commence forthwith in case the estate
to Lord Mountjoy be determined, but, if not, from the determination of that estate, reserving the yearly rent of 30s. [2 pages.
Ibid. p. 458.] |
July 11. 3 p.m. Chelsea. |
The Earl of Radnor to [Secretary Jenkins]. Desiring him to
appoint the Committee of Tangier to be summoned to meet
to-morrow at 10, where he intends to wait on them. [S.P. Dom.,
Car. II. 414, No. 16.] |
July 11. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord Chancellor. The King
being informed that a commission of review is ordered to be
granted in Mrs. Hyde's case, commands me to signify to you
that he would have the proceedings on the said commission
stopped and the commission not delivered out, if it may be legally
done, till you have spoken to him about it. [S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 56, p. 38.] |
July 11. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Lord Chief Justice Scroggs. His
Majesty, having been informed of a great riot and insolence
committed by the High Bailiff of Westminster and several of
his officers in breaking open the house of the Envoye Extraordinary
from the Duke of Savoy and forcibly detaining possession thereof
from his servants and being extremely sensible of this disorder
committed to the breach of the public faith and of the law of
nations, which all the foreign ministers here are much concerned
at, commands me to direct you to go in person and inform yourself
immediately of this and, in case you shall find that the possession
of the said Envoye's house is still forcibly detained from him or
his servants, that you give order and take care it be restored
as soon as possible according to law, and that the offenders may
be punished. He would have you use all diligence herein, because
it may have consequences of a high nature. [Ibid.] |
July 12. Whitehall. Treasury Chambers. |
Henry Guy to Secretary Jenkins. The Lords of the Treasury,
being informed that Lord Yarmouth has desired a stop of a patent
that is passing of the office of Surveyor of the Greenwax to
Mr. Aram, have commanded me to signify to you that the grant,
which the Earl of Peterborough, Lord Yarmouth and others had
of the Greenwax, is recalled, so that their lordships conceive
Mr Aram ought not to be obstructed by those patentees and
desire that his bill may forthwith pass. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414,
No. 17.] |
July 12. |
Lord Yarmouth to [Secretary Jenkins]. I cannot but wonder
at the answer you received, since Mr. Hyde thought our request
reasonable that a thing, gained by many hearings and great
expense and hastily revoked on the change of the Council, should
not now be hurried on without our being heard in the matter
and, the person that solicits our affair being gone out of town for a
month, I again solicit that the patent may not be precipitated
nor pass further, till our defence is heard. The Lord Privy Seal
has promised the like. [Ibid. No. 18.] |
July 12. Arbury. |
Sir Richard Newdigate to the Earl of Conway. Meeting Sir John
Knightley accidentally at Stoneleigh to-day, where I was on some
business to wait on Lord Leigh, he told me the good news of your
being in the country, which I much rejoice at, that I may pay
you my most humble thanks for your favour at Windsor and
acquaint you with the successful issue of that affair, which is
too long for a letter; next, I would offer to your knowledge our
proceedings in the treaty with Mr. Loftus and lastly our county
concern. I designed personally to wait on you at Ragley and to
impart the said transactions, but my health permits not at
present, for, since I waited on you, I am brought very low by a
fever and St. Anthony's fire in my face. Besides, I am now very
busy preparing for two trials at our next assizes, one, wherein
some of my friends are plaintiffs against those that broke their
heads in the field, or more properly prosecutors, the King being
formally plaintiff, and another, wherein I am defendant, being
indicted for a pretended riot by Sir William Jesson, actuated
by the E[arl] of D[enbigh]. Because we have just cause to
indict, they indict without a cause and resolve to carry this on
as partially as they did the poll, but I have some friends in the
country, who have given me notice of their proceedings, and
some at London, who have obviated their intentions, and I am
much mistaken, if these trials do not render them as ridiculous
as I can wish or the county they have imposed on desire. But,
because it is good to provide against the worst that can happen,
I have inquired what will follow, should I be cast, which, I am
told, will be a fine imposed by the judges of the King's Bench,
and, because it is impossible it should come to this, unless a jury
should be packed, and witnesses procured that will swear home
to the point, be it right or wrong, I am advised to entreat some
persons of honour to be there, who may possibly by their presence
deter some from dealing partially and might report what was
proved truly above, and, if we should be victorious, as I think it
morally impossible to be otherwise, then some noble persons
may stand us in great stead, to convince or silence the gainsayer,
should it be said our success was owing to any indirect means.
For these reasons I desired the favour of Lord Leigh to be at the
trial, which he has readily granted, and he wished heartily you
would be there, that he might have the honour and opportunity
of your acquaintance. If you could come to Warwick by Monday
noon and stay till the trial were over, which doubtless would be
Monday or Tuesday, you would, I am confident, receive a great
deal of satisfaction in hearing that proved on oath, which has
been before affirmed to you, and would most infallibly save me
from a great deal of foul play, and would, I hope, be pleased
with the care and caution used all along on our side. The Earl of
D[enbigh] intends to be there, and I cannot doubt the presence
of another peer when Jack Newsham is concerned; if therefore
you give Lord Leigh and me leave to wait on you there, it would
be an unspeakable kindness to me. [3 pages. Conway papers.
S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 19.] |
July 13. London. |
Sir Edward Harley to the Earl of Conway. The full dispatch
of Mr. Popham's purchase of Burton could not be effected before
yesterday. I hope 'tis well done for the buyers. The settlement
of the estate is exactly according to the agreement made with
Lady Wharton on the marriage. Mr. Gwyn was so kind as to
be a trustee. The news of your happy marriage will be exceedingly
a satisfaction to me. [Conway papers. Ibid. No. 20.] |
July 13. Whitehall. |
The King to the Lords of the Treasury. Whereas we understand by your report of the 6th instant on the petition of Henry
Coventry that he has paid 7,000l. into the Exchequer and in
lieu thereof received a privy seal for the enjoyment of our title
to a part of Sir William Doyley's estate extended in our name
and right, which title he relied on to be good, of which nevertheless he is now in great danger to be defrauded of by an artifice
of a double marriage settlement discovered since the said
Sir William's death, we have such a sense of the said Henry
Coventry's long and faithful services that we will not take
advantage of his having accepted the said title in discharge for
the said 7,000l. which was really paid out for our service, and
therefore we are willing to resume all that right and title we had
to the said part of Sir William Doyley's estate, and it is our
pleasure that the said Henry Coventry be reimbursed the said sum
by such means and ways as you shall find most convenient for
our service and his satisfaction. [1½ page. S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 50, p. 66.] |
July 13. Whitehall. |
Warrant for a licence to the Carpenters' Company of London
to purchase and enjoy lands not exceeding the yearly value of
200l., notwithstanding the Statute of Mortmain. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 51, p. 362.] |
July 13. Whitehall. |
Reference to the justices of Oyer and Terminer for the assizes
at the town of Nottingham of the petition of John Bower, the
elder, in behalf of his son John Bower, one of the clerks of the
Court of King's Bench, now a prisoner in Nottingham, that after
a trial of the prisoner and judgment thereon, the execution of the
sentence may be respited till his Majesty be well informed of the
case and signify his further pleasure. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 54,
p. 47.] Prefixed, |
The said petition for a reprieve, showing that the prisoner is
charged for killing John Leeson, which he hopes to make
appear was done in self defence, he having no quarrel or
malice prepense against the deceased, but being first assaulted
and beaten before he drew his weapon in such defence, forasmuch as several disaffected persons there very much envy
the petitioner and his son, who have vindicated his Majesty's
prerogative and government, as appears by the annexed
certificate. [Ibid.] Annexed, |
The said certificate by the Duke of Newcastle, Lords Chaworth
and Byron and A. Stanhope that the prisoner and his father
have been for many years and still are employed in many
of his Majesty's services, and that they have experienced
his loyalty and fidelity to the King and his good affection to
his person and government. [Ibid. p. 48.] |
July 13. Whitehall. |
Commissions in the Earl of Plymouth's regiment to be forthwith
raised and to be sent for Tangier. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 65,
p. 1.] |
July 13. |
Another list of the commissions in the above regiment with
some alterations from the above. (Printed in Dalton, English
Army Lists, Vol. I, p. 269.) [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 164, p. 50.] |
July. Whitehall. |
Warrant to Capt.-lieutenant Rooke for raising by beat of
drum 60 volunteers to serve as private soldiers in the Earl of
Plymouth's company in his regiment but, in case he beats his
drums within the City of London or the liberties thereof, he
is first to show this warrant to the Lord Mayor. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 65, p. 1a.] |
July. |
Similar warrant to Lieut.-colonel Kirke for raising 60 volunteers
to serve in his company in the above regiment. [Ibid.] |
[July.] |
Note of the like warrants for 14 companies more in the above
regiment. [Ibid.] |
July. Whitehall. |
Warrant to Henry Howard, Commissary-General of the
Musters, when the captains or other officers of the 16 companies
of the Earl of Plymouth's regiment shall produce 20 privates
besides officers to be mustered, for taking the first muster of them
respectively, from which time the said soldiers and also the
officers of the said company are to enter into pay and, when
20 more privates shall be produced to muster, for mustering them
accordingly, and, as soon as the said companies respectively
shall be completed, for mustering them so completed. [Ibid. p. 2.] |
July. Whitehall. |
The King to Lieut.-colonel Kirke or other the officer commanding the Earl of Plymouth's regiment. Ordering him to signify
to the captains appointed to raise the 16 companies of the above
regiment that they send notice to the Commissary-General of
the Musters when and where they will produce 20 privates of
such their companies respectively to be mustered, and in like
manner when and where they will have 40 privates and that
they send like notice to him when their companies respectively
shall be completed. [Ibid.] |
[July ?] |
The King to Henry Howard, Commissary-General of the
Musters. Notwithstanding the former orders, signifying his
pleasure that after the first muster of 20 soldiers in each company
of the Earl of Plymouth's regiment he muster the rest of the
soldiers of the respective companies by 10 or more in each
company as they shall be produced till the said companies be
completed. [Ibid. p. 3.] |
[July ?] |
The King to Lieut.-colonel Kirke. Informing him of the
last order and directing him to signify the same to the captains
or other officers in chief of the said companies. [Ibid.] |
[July ?] |
Warrant to the Ordnance Commissioners for the delivery of
arms, beds and bedding for the 16 companies of the Earl of
Plymouth's regiment, one moiety thereof to be delivered out
of the Tower to Lieut.-colonel Kirke for the use of 8 of the said
companies that will be raised about London and the other moiety
to be delivered to Major Trelawney at the Citadel of Plymouth
for the use of the other 8 companies, the proportion of arms
for each company to be one partizan, two halberts, and one
drum, with muskets and pikes for 60 soldiers and 3 corporals,
of which two-thirds are to be muskets and the other third pikes.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 65, p. 4.] |
[July ?] |
The King to the Governors of Clerkenwell Workhouse.
Informing them that he had ordered Lieut.-colonel Peircy Kirke
to order the captains now raising about the city of London
8 companies of the Earl of Plymouth's regiment that, as they
shall raise their soldiers, they bring them to Clerkenwell Workhouse
to be lodged, trained and exercised thereabouts, till they may
conveniently be sent on shipboard, and that the officers had
been ordered to contract for the diet of the said soldiers at not
exceeding the rate of 6d. a day for each, and signifying his pleasure
that they clear the said workhouse and the places belonging to it
of any persons or lumber, so that there may be convenient room
for the bedding and accommodation of the said companies
accordingly. [Ibid. p. 5.] |
[July ?] |
The King to Major Charles Trelawney or other the officer
in chief commanding the 8 companies of the Earl of Plymouth's
regiment therein mentioned. Directing him to give orders to
the captains now raising in the western parts of the kingdom
the said 8 companies that, as soon as they shall raise their soldiers,
they march with them to the Citadel of Plymouth, to be lodged,
trained and exercised there, till they may conveniently be sent
on shipboard, and the officers are to be very careful that their
soldiers behave orderly and pay for their diet and lodging on
their march to Plymouth, where they are to contract for their
diet so as not to exceed the rate of 6d. a day per man, and to
preserve the bedding ordered for them that the same may be
entirely shipped with the men. [Ibid.] |
[July ?] |
The King to Lieut.-colonel Peircy Kirke. Similar letter to the
last, for ordering the captains of the 8 companies now raising
about London to bring the soldiers as raised to Clerkenwell
Workhouse and to keep them there. [Ibid. p. 6.] |
[July ?] |
The King to the Earl of Bath, Governor of Plymouth, or in
his absence to the Lieut.-Governor. Informing him of the order
for bringing the 8 companies of the Earl of Plymouth's regiment
to the Citadel of Plymouth and for keeping them there, and
signifying his pleasure that he give order for admitting the
officers of the said companies to bring in, train, exercise and
lodge their men within the said citadel accordingly, and for
affording what accommodation is necessary for their officers.
[Ibid.] |
July 13. Whitehall. |
Commissions for 6 troops of Horse to be forthwith raised and
sent to Tangier. (Printed in Dalton, English Army Lists, Vol. I,
p. 268.) [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 164, p. 49.] |
July 13. Whitehall. |
Commission to the Earl of Plymouth to be colonel of a foot
regiment to be forthwith raised and sent to Tangier. Minute.
[Ibid. p. 50.] |
July 14. Whitehall. |
Order in Council referring to the Committee for Trade and
Plantations the petition of the vicar, churchwardens and
parishioners of St. Martin's in the Fields that, since the late
Commissioners of Scotland Yard have declined the grant offered
them by his Majesty of the toll of the Hay Market for 3 years,
because the profits would not enable them to satisfy the petitioners
for the ground they gave out of their churchyard to widen
St. Martin's Lane, the said toll might be granted to Col. Edmond
Warcup and his heirs, he having undertaken in consideration
thereof to satisfy the petitioners for their said ground. [S.P.
Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 21], Annexed, |
The report of the said Committee that Col. Warcup has declared
that he cannot reimburse the parish for what shall be due
to them for the said ground without a grant of the said toll
in fee simple or for 99 years. 19 July. Council Chamber.
[Ibid. No. 21 i.] |
July 14. Whitehall. |
Proclamation. Whereas at a Common Hall held this forenoon
for the election of sheriffs, violent hands have been laid on
Sir Simon Lewis, one of the present sheriffs, to the danger of
his life and several assaults have been made there, the said election
being to be proceeded with to-morrow by a poll, we will and
require that the Lord Mayor and Aldermen issue their warrants
for apprehending such as have broken the peace or committed
riots or behaved contrary to the laws or to the customs of the City,
in the said Common Hall, and we further require the Lord Mayor
and aldermen and also the sheriffs and justices to use all diligence
to keep the peace and prevent all riots, tumults and disorders,
as long as the said poll shall last, and we further command the
Lord Mayor, aldermen, sheriffs and justices to make proclamations
to the end that all riotous and disaffected persons and all persons
who have no voice may find themselves obliged to depart
forthwith and to do such other things as they ought by law to
be required to do, in order to keep the peace and carry on the
said election in a legal and quiet manner. We also require all
constables and all our officers and subjects to assist the Lord
Mayor, aldermen, and justices. We also require the Lord Mayor,
aldermen, justices and officers to commit to custody all persons
that shall publish or disperse any libellous or seditious papers,
requiring the Recorder and all our counsel to represent to all
the members and freemen of the City the danger that the charters
of the City will be brought to, in case the disturbers of the peace
therein be not effectually restrained by the authority entrusted
to the Lord Mayor, aldermen and justices. [7 pages. Draft.
Ibid. No. 22.] |
July 14. Whitehall. |
Commissions to Charles Progers to be ensign to Capt. John
Berkeley's company and to Francis Hawley to be lieutenant to
Capt. George Bowes' company, both in Col. John Russell's regiment
of Foot Guards. Minutes. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 29, pp. 357,
358.] |
July 14. Whitehall. |
Warrant to Sir George Jeffreys, Recorder of London, for
inserting in the next general pardon for poor convicts in Newgate,
but leaving out in the clause for transportation, Robert Gale,
prisoner in Newgate, convicted at the last Old Bailey sessions
but one, for buying a horse and mare, which proved to be stolen,
being ensnared thereto by his partner, who is since fled, the
principals, who confessed the offence and also a burglary, having
been convicted and executed, he being a young man and having a
wife and children, and being truly penitent and having made
discovery of such as he knows are guilty of the like offences.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 54, p. 49.] |
July 14. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to the Comte de Perting. Sending him
by the King's order copies of the two orders in Council touching
the affair of the Bailiff of Westminster, by which he will see
that his Majesty will omit nothing that can contribute to his
satisfaction and to punish those who have committed this great
insolence. [French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 56, p. 39.] |
July 14. Whitehall. |
Warrant to the Commissioners of the Ordnance for delivering
out of the stores to Capt. Phineas Pett, 12 tons of unsised or
any other shot and 2 tons of burr shot for ballast for the new
Bezan yacht. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 164, p. 51.] |
July 14. |
Lord Dunkellin's Case. Ulick, Marquess of Clanricarde, died
in 1658, without issue male, leaving one daughter, to whom his
estate descended. The ancient honour of his family, the earldom,
descended to his cousin Rickard, late Earl of Clanricarde. The
late Marquess' daughter was married to Charles, late Viscount
Muskerry, in 1661, by which he became entitled to the whole
estate of the house of Clanrickarde. His Majesty interposed
and declared he would not have the estate separated from the
honour and ordered a portion for the heir general and the estate
to continue annexed to the honour, and by letters patent of
8 April, 1662, granted the family estate to the said Rickard,
late Earl of Clanrickarde, in fee simple to the use of the said
Lord Muskerry, before the said portion should be paid, and then
to the said Earl in tail male, with remainder to the heirs male of the
body of Ulick, first Earl of Clanrickarde. The said Earl Rickard
died in 1666, leaving issue two daughters to whom he left 2,000l.
a piece for their portion, so careful was he to preserve the estate
for the honour, and the honour then descended to William, now
Earl of Clanrickarde, who possessed himself of the estate and
did not pay the portion. Lord Muskerry in 1664, by his will
divided the portion to his son and daughter, with remainder to
Lady Muskerry, the heir general. The son and daughter died
and the portion came to the lady and the legal estate that was
in Lord Muskerry for securing the portion descended to Callaghan,
late Earl of Clancarty, who conveyed the same to the Earl of
Clanrickarde subject to the payment of the said portion and all
estate and trust for Lady Muskerry. The said William, Earl of
Clanrickarde, afterwards settled all the estate (except some
inconsiderable part) on his children by the now lady, including
the house and lordship of Portumna, leaving neither house nor
estate to his son and heir, who is to succeed him in the honour.
His Majesty by the Act of Settlement confirmed the said letters
patent, by which the estate was preserved for the honour, and
the heirs general disinherited. Is it not the same reason for his
Majesty now to interpose, for the estate goes away from the
honour by the now Earl's settlement ? and the more so, because
there is no heir at law to be disinherited as was by the other Act.
The now Earl has no reason to complain, for there are 20 persons
that would come in as heirs general to the estate he now possesses
before him, if the King had not by Act of Parliament barred
the heirs at law, and it will be but an additional favour to the
now Earl to continue it in his heirs male, as was provided by the
Act and letters patent, by another Act against the Earl's own
settlement. If the now Earl's lady pretends that her brother,
the late Earl of Clancarty, conveyed this estate to the now Earl,
he did no more than what by a bill in Chancery he would be
compelled to. [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 107.] |
July 15. |
T[homas] B[lood] to the Duke of York. The great favour you
expressed towards me, when my son was with you yesterday,
requires the greatest return of acknowledgement I am capable
of. My request was that the Lords of the Treasury might be
spoken to by the King, for Lord Sunderland has often done so
without effect. Also I requested that on this fob action, in
case I could not find bail, his Majesty would encourage some to be
bail for me. You ordered my son to go to Sir L. Jenkins to
understand what instructions he had from the King concerning
me, and he said he knew not a word of it. I therefore humbly
beg that I may not be left in this cause to fall, which is, because
I keep the Commonwealth party in awe and broke the neck of
Sir William Waller. I intend to have a Habeas Corpus to-day
and to put in bail before Judge Dolben. If you can favour me
with any interest in him, it will be my great advantage. [S.P.
Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 23.] |
July 15. Ragley. |
The Earl of Conway to Matthew Anderton. Requesting him
to assist the bearer, Francis Parsons, employed to receive 300
sheep, which are to come to him out of Ireland and be landed
about Chester; and entreating him to wait on Lord Granard, who,
he hears, intends to be very suddenly at Chester and has desired
him to send him word where he may meet him, and tell him
he will be next week at Dunham, where he desires his lordship
to come to him. [Conway papers. Ibid. No. 24.] |
July 15. Whitehall. |
The King to the Earl of Ossory, Governor of the garrison of
Tangier, or any other officer of his troop therein mentioned.
Authorizing him to raise 50 volunteers to serve as privates in
the troop of Horse he has been commissioned to raise and command
for service at Tangier. He is to send notice to the CommissaryGeneral of the Musters when and where he will have 15 of them
besides officers in readiness to muster and from such muster the
officers with the privates who shall be mustered are to enter
into pay, and he is to send him the like notice when and where
he shall have other 15 or more soldiers who are then to be
mustered, and the like notice when and where the said troop
shall be complete. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 65, p. 8.] |
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Note of the like orders to the other five troops of horse appointed
to go for Tangier. [Ibid.] |
July 15. Whitehall. |
Warrant to Henry Howard, Commissary-General of the Musters,
after reciting that orders had been given for raising six independent
troops of Horse by the following captains, the Earl of Ossory,
Sir John Lanier, Captains Nedby, Coy, Langston and Pulteney
for service at Tangier, for, when the said captains respectively
shall produce 15 or more soldiers in their troops, mustering them
and also the officers of such troop, and, when they shall produce
15 others, for mustering them also, and when the said troops
shall be complete, 50 soldiers in each, besides officers, for
mustering them also. In regard that the horses for the privates
are to be provided in foreign parts, he is to muster the soldiers
of the said troops without horses. [Ibid. p. 9.] |
Friday, July 16. 1 p.m. Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Bishop of London. You were no
sooner gone from the Committee but the Recorder of London
coming hither in hopes to have found his Majesty, calls on me.
He says that the poll, which was already adjourned to 5 this
evening, will be thence adjourned to Monday morning. He
desired earnestly that you might be spoke or writ to to engage
your clergy to do their utmost that the well-wishers to the Church
and the King come to the poll and that they visit and excite
them to their duty. He would have besought the King, had he
been in town, to speak to you to this effect; 'tis of infinite
importance that the good men be chosen and that the ill ones
have not so clear a view of their own strength. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 62, p. 36.] |
July 17. Windsor. |
Declaration of the King's pleasure that William Ashton, M.A.,
Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, shall have the next
avoidance of the King's parsonage of West Horseley, Surrey, and
that caveats be entered in all the offices concerned to prevent any
warrant being offered for the King's signature for granting the
same to any other person. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 57, p. 25.] |
July 17. 11 o'clock. Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Countess of Yarmouth. Apologizing
for not being able to serve her, as he does not find that according
to the course of his office such a warrant as she demands can issue out
thence to the Lord Privy Seal. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 37.] |
July 17. |
Circular letter from Secretary Jenkins to Lord Morpeth, Lord
Chief Justice North, the Vice-Chancellor and the Bishops of Bath
and Wells and Exeter. A poll being granted on Wednesday, the
sheriffs attended it Thursday and yesterday, fore and afternoon.
It stands now adjourned to 8 on Monday. 'Tis thought that
Box and Cornish will have most voices. |
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The confidences of the restless party are very great and so
is their diligence in this pinch. I beseech God to bless his Majesty.
Such collisions are not without danger. The Court of aldermen
is very right, four or five excepted, unanimous and courageous.
[Ibid. p. 38.] |
July 17. 11 p.m. Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Mr. Hyde or Mr. Godophin, I come
now from speaking with Mr. Recorder and Sir Joseph Sheldon.
I find it in a manner taken for granted that Cornish and Bethel
have much the better on the poll yet some think that Bethel is
outdone by Box, nor is there any ground of hopes that we shall
mend ourselves by the poll that is to be on Monday nor by
continuing it longer. There are then three ways to come to
an issue:—1. That the Sheriffs declare the poll as they happen
to find it in the books. 2. That they declare Box and Cornish,
if not Nicholson, to have the better of the poll, whatever they
find the books to be. 3. That the Court of Aldermen persist to
declare, as they have done already, that Bethel and Cornish are
not eligible for this year. |
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The first way is extremely dangerous to the King's affairs;
the second is such a way as the Sheriffs, if I understand them
rightly, will hardly venture on, partly for fear of the damages
that Bethel may recover against them, which certainly should
not be great, in regard he will lose nothing but save money by
being laid aside, and partly for fear of the parliament, which
would be sure to take notice of such a partiality. The third
way the Court of Aldermen will hardly now be brought to, for:— |
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1. By admitting Cornish and Bethel to a poll, it is tacitly
implied they were eligible. |
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2. Sir William Jones and Serjeant Pemberton have delivered
it as their opinion that they were eligible, |
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What I fear is that excluding these people out of a right acquired
to them (it will be so pretended) may bring us within the hazard of
a tumult, which being once begun on such a popular account
and that the humour is in the height of fermenting, nobody can
tell where it will end. On the other, though the danger be great
to have two such sheriffs, yet it seems to me more possible to
keep them within the bounds of their duty by exacting from
them to keep and execute the law in all things, than it will be
safe to keep them out by any way that looks like illegal or
arbitrary, as both these (of the Aldermen adhering to their first
opinion and of the sheriffs declaring otherwise than the books
will bear) will be pretended to be. |
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This I take leave to say, because the Recorder and Sheriff
Lewys will be with you to-morrow, the first to take his leave,
for he goes on circuit Monday, and it will be of great moment
to take his advice before he goes. His judgment seems to be
that the Sheriff should declare for Box and Cornish without
giving an account how they stand in the books. The Sheriff
is of opinion that the Aldermen by adhering should exclude them
and by consequence Box and Nicholson should stand elected.
The Sheriffs should be desired to speak to the Deputies and
Common Council men in their ward to bring in on Monday
the gleanings of honest men to the poll. I'll do my best to
exhort them to it. I have sent this evening to see if any can
be got in Wapping. [3½ pages. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62,
p. 39.] |
July 17. Windsor. |
Commission to Richard Bassett to be captain of a company
of miners to be forthwith raised and sent to Tangier. Minute.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 164, p. 51.] |
July 17. Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Duke of Rothes, Chancellor, the Earls of
Argyle, Moray and Queensberry, the Bishop of Edinburgh and
Charles Maitland of Halton. Additional Instructions. 1. After
referring to the former instructions of 12 June (calendared ante,
p. 510), signifying his further pleasure that they from time to
time, as there shall be occasion, speak with any persons who have
been in or accessory to the rebellions in 1679 and 1666 that, if
any such persons shall make any discovery deserving of pardon
with any further reasonable encouragement, they may assure
them of it, and, in case they have had any opportunity of communing with any such persons for that effect since the said
instructions, approving of the same as well as of what they shall
do hereafter on this account. |
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2. Being informed that some very ill-affected persons in a
factious manner meet and keep correspondence in order to
petition the Privy Council for a Parliament or Convention of
Estates and for that purpose endeavour to procure elections
next Michaelmas and that some of the same gang are labouring
to obstruct what was ordered by the Privy Council in reference
to the new model of the Militia, earnestly desiring them to have
a watchful eye over the contrivances of those and all such other
persons as appear to be endeavouring to raise any disturbance
in the government either in church or state and to take such
courses as they shall judge most prudent for preventing their
designs and bringing them to punishment. [Nearly 2 pages.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 111.] |
July 17. Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Duke of Rothes, Chancellor, Sir James
Dalrymple of Stair, President of the College of Justice, and the
remanent Senators thereof. Warrant for admitting Alexander,
Earl of Moray, to the place of one of the extraordinary Lords
of the Session, which is now vacant. [Ibid. p. 113.] |
July 17. Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Lord Lieutenant. (Printed in the Ormonde
Papers, Vol. V., p. 348, where p. 349, line 11, "who have since
Wednesday the Sacrament" should be "they having since
received the Sacrament" line 17, "most abjured" "must have
abjured," and line 18, "gents," "men.") [S.P. Ireland, Car. II.
341, p. 24.] |
July 18. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Secretary Jenkins. The King
commands me to let you know he thinks it expedient the choice
of aldermen be deferred till the election of the sheriffs be over,
which he would have you endeavour to persuade the Lord Mayor
to. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 25.] |
July 18. [Received.] |
Col. Thomas Blood to Secretary Jenkins. My case is: I am
assaulted by the Duke of Buckingham and all the Commonwealth
party, who, though they knew I never meddled with any of the
concernment they charged me with, yet have spent 10,000l. to
get me out of their way, knowing that I have been a check on
their disloyal actions these 9 years and remain so still. I have
been left destitute of the usual supply of money from the Court
and tantalized from day to day and week to week, and, having
got the better of them as to the criminal part of the cause, in
spite and envy they arrest me in an action on the case for 10,000l.
supposing that sum was so great that it would fright any tradesman
from bailing me. |
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I would request that, as the Lords of the Treasury have promised
me from three days to three days the payment of that 600l.
which the King allowed me for my salary to enable me to do
his business, and all ended in words, they may be effectually
spoken to. |
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Next I desire an immediate supply of 30 or 40 guineas to bear
the charges of my disentanglement, for I am quite destitute,
having pawned my plate. I also would entreat you to encourage
some persons to be bail for me. [Ibid. No. 26.] |
July 18. London. |
Newsletter to Sir Francis Radcliffe at Dilston. Two days since
arrived 4 merchant ships in 11 weeks from Jamaica, one of which
informs us that the Earl of Carlisle, the Governor, will shortly
come for England. |
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Yesterday at Guildhall the sheriffs proceeded in polling. Some
persons in the Hall had printed papers, reciting the words of the
Act for regulating Corporations touching the qualification of
sheriffs &c. The Lord Mayor has sent to the clerk of each
Company to give an account of their members. The poll not
being ended yesterday, they adjourned it till Monday next.
Mr. Cornish stands as yet fairest in prospect for sheriff. |
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Mr. Bedloe, being in the Hall, was affronted by a person, who
called him thief, which begat such a disturbance that they were
carried before the Lord Mayor, who committed the offender to
the Compter, but he has since given bail to answer the same next
sessions. |
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To-day, being the day appointed for the sentence on John
Giles, the Recorder pronounced the sentence, which was that
he should stand in the pillory three several days in three
several places, viz., in Lincoln's Inn Fields, at Temple Bar and at
the Maypole in the Strand, and should pay 500l. fine to the King,
to remain in prison till he had paid it and found security for his
good behaviour during life. |
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Since his conviction a person has given information on oath
that he proffered him 200l. to assist him in his attempt on
Mr. Arnold, but, his occasions calling him suddenly into France,
he communicated it to only one person, who had not discovered
it. |
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This sessions above 40 convicted and sentenced to death
received their pardon, but the Court ordered they should be
transported, amongst which some are priests. |
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Their Royal Highnesses intend next week to pass some time at
Tunbridge Wells and after to go for Ireland. |
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Mr. Blood is now in the Gatehouse, being charged in an action
of 10,000l. at the suit of the Duke of Buckingham for scandalum
magnatum. |
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We hear by letters from Leghorn that the Duke of Grafton on
board the Leopard lying in the road of Constantinople, was visited
by the English factors, before the time limited for the product
was expired, at which the Grand Signior was so offended that
he commanded the factors to be imprisoned, and they could
not be discharged till they had paid 4,000 dollars. |
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The Duke of Anjou lately arrived from France to compliment
his Majesty and his Royal Highness, appearing in a most splendid
garb and train. He was received suitable to his high
grandeur. |
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When they were choosing sheriffs at Guildhall, [blank in original]
being abused, complained to his Majesty that the rabble had
affronted him, calling him rogue, rascal and cuckold 20 times over,
at which, it is said, his Majesty only smiled. |
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The overseers of the poll are Sir Thomas Player, Mr. Papillon,
Mr. Pilkington and Mr. John de Bois, all Parliament men, two
of them for this Cty. |
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Yesterday and to-day the drums beat up in the City for
volunteers for Tangier by order of Capt. Fox, but Lord Ossory,
being commander-in-chief, forbad it. |
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Verses were posted on several doors, particularly on Mr. Combes'
in Bartholomew Lane, advising the citizens that this is the time
to acquit themselves like men, alluding, as 'tis thought, to the
choice of sheriffs. [Admiralty, Greenwich Hospital 1, No. 56.] |
July 18. Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Commissioners of the Treasury and the
remanent Lords and others, Commissioners of the Exchequer of
Scotland. Warrant to admit Patrick, Earl of Strathmore and
Kinghorne, to be one of their number. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant
Book 6, p. 114.] |
July 18. Windsor Castle. |
The same to the same. Warrant for admitting the said Earl
to be a Commissioner of the Exchequer of Scotland. [Ibid. p. 115.] |
July 18. Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Commissioners of the Treasury of Scotland.
Warrant after reciting that in consideration of the loyalty and
services of George, Lord Livingstoune, the King is resolved to
confer on him, his heirs and assigns, so much of the forfeitures
of those guilty of or accessory to the late rebellion as will make
up 5,000 merks Scots of yearly rent and in order thereto had
promised him the forfeitures of William Gordon of Dyndeuch,
William Gordon of Craig, William Gordon of Holme, Alexander
Gordon of Knockgray, Patrick Mackgie of Larg, Patrick Heron
of Littlepark, —Gordon of Over Barre, — Gibson of Auchinnin,
Robert Macklellan of Barscob and Samuel, his brother, George
Mackcartney of Bleckett, John Fullertoun of Auchinhae and
Robert Gordon of Garwarey, for causing the Advocate to prosecute
at the charge of the said Lord Livingstoune, such of the said
persons as are not already forfeited and thereafter to prepare a
signature bearing an absolute grant to the said lord and his
foresaids of the forfeitures of the said 13 rebels, but with a proviso
that if, after deduction of debts and charges, the estates of the
said 13 rebels exceed the value of 5,000 merks Scots per annum,
he shall be accomptable for the surplus to be disposed of according
to the King's subsequent directions, and with a further proviso
that he shall reimburse his proportional part of the charge incurred
in the prosecution of the rebels already forfeited, so far as concern
those, whose forfeitures are to be bestowed on him, and with a
further proviso that what is due to John Hay, son to Thomas
Hay, deceased, one of the clerks of Council and Session, by the
said — Gordon of Over Barre, on a bond of 2,000 merks and
another bond of 1,000 merks Scots be secured to the said John
Hay, notwithstanding the said Gordon's forfeiture and the grant
thereof to the said lord. [Nearly 2 pages. S.P. Scotland, Warrant
Book 6, p. 116.] |
July 18. Windsor Castle. |
Commissions to George. Lord Livingstoune, to be first lieutenant
of the Marquess of Montrose's troop of the Lifeguard of Horse
in Scotland, vacant by the voluntary demission of the Earl of
Strathmore and Kinghorne, and to Patrick Lyon, second son
of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, to be captain of the
foot company in the regiment of Guards in Scotland, lately
commanded by George, Lord Livingstoune. [Ibid. pp. 117, 119.] |
July 18. Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Duke of Rothes, Chancellor, and the Privy
Council of Scotland. Warrant for ordering the Lieut.-General
of the forces in Scotland to draw 200 men without officers proportionally out of the companies of the regiment of Guard and
the Earl of Mar's regiment to be delivered to Major George Arnet
and such others of the Earl of Dunbarton's officers as are there to
receive them and, when the said officers shall receive money from
England for raising 80 men more, for granting a warrant for
levying them voluntarily, provided they do not meddle with any
person belonging to the militia, all which is to be done without
any charge to the Treasury in Scotland or the country, a course
having been ordered to be taken in England to defray the same,
and in the meantime particularly recommending to the said
Lieut.-General that for the said draft of 200 men immediately
the like number be levied to fill up the companies of the said
two regiments. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 120.] |
July 18. Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a presentation of Robert Johnstoun, Town Major
of Edinburgh, his heirs and assigns, to Alexander, Archbishop
of St. Andrews, superior of the lands of Dungeonhill and Chrystoun
and of the lands of Boglehall alias Nether Carmilne, which first
mentioned lands pertained to John Baird of Dungeonhill and
the last mentioned lands to Thomas Boigle, late of Boiglehall,
holden by them of the said superior, which lands are now forfeited
to his Majesty through the said Baird and Boigle joining in
arms with the late rebels in the West, requiring the said superior
to receive the said Johnstoun, his heirs and assigns, in immediate
tenants and vassals to him of the lands above mentioned.
[Docquet. Ibid. p. 121.] |
July 19. Council Chamber. |
W. Blathwayt to the Attorney-General. The Committee for
Trade request him to examine and be prepared to answer any legal
questions that may arise on the petition of M. de Frasne, a
Frenchman, for a patent for making salt in England. [S.P.
Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 27.] Enclosed, |
Order in Council referring to the Committee for Trade the
petition of M. de Frasne for a patent to erect salt works,
he having found out an easier way of making it here better and
stronger and thinking it might be bartered for copper, iron, hemp,
and other Navy stores now imported from the Northern
countries, which now send to Portugal for their salt. July 14.
Whitehall. [Ibid. No. 27 i.] |
Report of the Committee for Trade in favour of granting the above
petition. July 19. Council Chamber. [Draft. Ibid. No. 27 ii.] |
July 19. Ashridge. |
The Earl of Bridgwater to Sir L. Jenkins. Acknowledging the
receipt of his letter of the 16th, with Sir Palmes Fairborne's letters
returned, and explaining that he had troubled him with his letters
because he was afraid that letters to him might have miscarried as
those to himself had done.—I send a packet from Boston in
New England from Mr. Randolph, employed about the Customs
there, that at the Committee of Plantations you may make such
use of it as may be most proper for advancing his Majesty's
service there and for the better ordering that unruly and yet
dissembling people, who, when any of them are here, pretend
great duty to the King and yet there will do nothing tending
towards the acknowledgement of his authority, but still proceed
in their own methods, which are very derogatory to his Majesty's
right and power in that Plantation. I am very sorry Lord
Inchiquin did not do the good service on his interview with the
Kaid, which his former letter had bragged of, and heartily wish
good success to the prolongation of the truce, that either an
advantageous peace may follow or that Lord Ossory may be
able to reach Tangier in time to defend his Majesty's right and
interest there. [Ibid. No. 28.] |
[July 19 ?] 5 p.m. Sir G. Jeffreys' house. |
Francis Gwyn to Secretary Jenkins. The Common Serjeant
has been here to ask Sir George's advice how to proceed now
the poll grows towards an end. Sir George thinks that, when
all are come in, proclamation should be made, after which the poll
should be closed on our side and immediately summed up, and
then on the majority on our books the sheriffs declared on the
hustings and the Court dissolved to-night. The Common Serjeant
proposed difficulties that there would not be time to make an
end of it, but Sir George has satisfied him, that it is absolutely
necessary it be so. |
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If you discourse something of this kind to the Lord Mayor
and if he has any scruples, Sir George is here ready to attend the
Lord Mayor on his summons. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 29.] |
July [19]. |
Order, after reciting that on the lodging of two foot companies
in Carisbrooke Castle, formerly quartered on the inhabitants
of the island, an additional allowance of 2s. per diem for fire and
candles was appointed, which has been paid to 1 Jan. last, for
making and sending debentures for the time from the said 1 Jan.
to the first of this instant July and from thence at the end of
every muster for the said additional allowance. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 59, p. 47.] |
July 19. Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Bevil Skelton. My last from you, come
this day, is of the 29th. I am troubled to see you have so mistaken
an apprehension on your being recalled. Certainly you understand
the thing quite otherwise than it is. All the enemies you have
is P[rince] W[illia]m. 'Tis to those good offices you did him
that this ill office is to be imputed. You will have heard how
he treats the King in ridicule, which is an abominable return
for having contended for him so long. Your lady desired me
to motion your going into France. Mr. Savile is already returned
thither. He was not here above 6 or 8 days, so that it was very
improper to make any such motion. |
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In London there has been a poll on Thursday, Friday and this
forenoon for sheriffs. The poll is adjourned to Thursday morning.
How the books stand is not yet known, each man judging
according to his affection. |
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Lord Inchiquin is come here from Tangier, where all things
are as they were on making the truce. |
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Postscript.—You will be told dreadful things of our polling
here, but you are so well acquainted with our affairs as to know that
the liverymen are to choose the sheriffs according to their fantasy.
The difference now is not between the King and either of the
parties choosing or to be chosen, but between the Court of
Aldermen and the liverymen assembled in a Common Hall. The
Aldermen say that those two, whom the liverymen chose on
Midsummer Day, are not eligible, for, being once fined for not
having qualified by receiving the Sacrament within 12 months
before, they cannot be chosen a second time. The liverymen
pretend that, having taken the Sacrament since their election,
they are now qualified. However, 'tis to be observed they have
taken the Sacrament and are ready to take the oaths as well as
their rivals. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 64, pp. 16, 18.] |
July 19. Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Earl of Middleton. Your last is from
the Hague. I do not expect any from you till you come to
Linz or make a considerable halt. |
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Mr. Skelton will tell you all we have of the poll in London and
of Tangier, whither Lord Ossory is making all the haste he can.
The levies will be quickly finished. |
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They will tell you everywhere this polling of sheriffs is of vast
consequence. 'Tis not to be denied it had been well no such
heat had showed itself at this time, but first 'tis uncertain which
candidates, the Conformists or Nonconformists, for so two of
them are called, though they do conform, will have the majority;
next 'tis certain the sheriffs are a sort of officers that have a
voice or rather a part, not in matters of state or government,
but in keeping the peace and executing the processes of courts
of law. |
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The King sups to-morrow night at Sheriff Leroy's (Lewis'). [Ibid.
p. 17.] |
July 20. |
Statement by Thomas Edwards that William Payne of Newnham, Hertfordshire, but belonging to the Liberty of St. Albans,
went into the church at Newnham last week and in the presence
of many witnesses pulled down the rails of the Communion Table
made long before the late troubles and set up again since the
restoration. |
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Francis Turner, carpenter, churchwarden of the said parish
refused to give me the surplice belonging to the parish to officiate
in. I went to him twice myself and he flatly refused me. He
absents himself from Divine service and haunts tippling houses
to the discouragement of the minister and offence of the town.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 30.] |
July 20. Gresham College. |
Robert Hooke to the Earl of Conway. Answering his lordship's
objections to his plans for the alterations at Ragley and giving
details of what he proposes and showing that they are more
advantageous than the model, and recommending that the work
should not begin till March, for, should this prove a hard winter,
there would be a necessity in the spring to take down a great part
of the walls now built, especially the stone work, as the writer
has found twice in the building of St. Paul's and in a staircase
at Montague House and other places. [2 pages. Conway papers.
Ibid. No. 31.] |
July 20. Whitehall. |
Warrant to the Attorney-General at the request of the Mayor
and Corporation of Hertford for inserting in the new charter now
passing for the said borough a licence to them to turn their two
maces formerly carried before the mayor into one fair mace henceforth to be carried before him and also to have a sword to be
carried before him. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, p. 356.] |
July 20. Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Lord Lieutenant. His Majesty has
commanded me to refer the enclosed petition to you with this
remark from him, that he finds himself deceived in what the
sisters of Mr. Sarsfield mentioned in the petition have gained of
an estate bestowed by his Majesty on their brother. All that
his Majesty did for him was in favour of Mr. Sarsfield's wife, the
Duke of Monmouth's sister. The Duke has begun yesterday,
as 'tis said, his solemn progress for the West. [S.P. Ireland,
Car. II. 341, p. 26.] |
July 21. Whitehall. |
Reference to the Attorney or Solicitor General of the petition of
Sir Clement Clarke for a patent for his invention of a more advantageous way of melting minerals. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 61, p. 4.] |
July 21. Portmore. |
John Tattnall to the Earl of Conway. Hoping the 200 sheep
came safe.—We have had very great rain and extreme great
floods, so that almost all our meadows, that were possible, have
been flooded. It has taken away and spoiled about 20 acres of hay,
for we had 14 acres made up in the ley meadow and thought to
have been drawing it next day, but on the 15th came such extreme
rain that in 4 or 5 hours all our meadows about Portmore and
at the park were flooded to a great depth, so that the flood took
about 20 acres of hay and drove it, some to Lough Neagh, and
some into ditches and to the pales, which stopped a great part.
We have had great trouble to recover part, but a great part
is lost, and most of that in the ley will be lost, for the whole
meadow is nearly two feet deep all over. What we have saved
will be but very bad, for it was all drawn out of the water and
trenches. The floods have done much hurt in taking away all
the flood gates and a great many posts and pales near them and
the bridge at Portmore going up to the stable. (About the
horses.) |
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The weather makes us much dismayed, for it is the unkindest
weather that ever was seen. [Conway papers. S.P. Ireland,
Car. II. 339, No. 108.] |
July 22. London. |
Christopher Cratford to the Earl of Conway. I presume to
acquaint you with a proposal and the rather that I am well
satisfied there will be a just performance, if you think fit to
embrace it. The lady is a relative of Lord Townshend's. Her
portion will be 10,000l. down and another 10,000l. after her
father and mother, if her brother, who is a weak youth by default
of his nurse, miscarry. As to settlements, you will be left to
yourself. Her two sisters are each mothers to sons and heirs
of good families. [Conway papers. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414,
No. 32.] |
July 22. Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Lord Chief Justice North. I cannot
reach you at Dorchester with this, but hope it may find you at
Exeter as you pass for Launceston. His Majesty has notice
of a great treat at the Bear inn at Exeter during the last quarter
sessions and that another is intended for 40 persons at the assizes.
Sir W. Courtenay, Sir Francis Drake, Mr. Harris, Mr. Glyde and
others are named to have been present at the first, and that
there was an overture about a petition for the sitting of the
Parliament, but it went not far. There cannot be an imputation
more injurious to the King nor further from the truth, that he
has need to be sought to to meet his people in Parliament; 'tis
his interest, his intention, his longing, and there is no man
but knows what has retarded so wished for a meeting all this
while. On the other side what was there in the beginning and
progress of the last war more designing against lawful authority
and more pernicious in the consequences than popular petitions?
The artifice in them is so much the more un-ingenuous as that
the suffrages, that is the judgment of Tag and Rag, are made
equal to those of the greatest men. But, if these petitions should
end (which God forbid) as they ended in the last troubles in
combustions and a civil war, are those gentlemen that promote
them sure to find their account in the close ? Are they sure,
if things come once again to a scramble, as it came to pass after
the last war, between them that had begun and carried on the
war in its greatest heats and those that came in the close of
the day, that they shall have that share in the government that
their quality and merit may not unreasonably pretend to, be it
in a debased monarchy, or a new cast republic ? But why do
I trouble you about petitions ? 'tis a stratagem failed in at
this time and not to be essayed so soon again. A thing that in
all these labours against the Crown should be exceeding sensible
to a gentleman is that an ancient noble name will look odd in
story, when its glorious ancestors shall appear to have placed
their highest honour and merit in serving the Crown and a
descendant standing alone with the blemish of having dis-served
it. [2½ pages. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 43.] |
July 22. London. |
Newsletter to Roger Garstell, Newcastle. I had somewhat
to write to you last post relating to Tangier but, the relation being
imperfect, I forbare. |
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A most excellent petition of the French Protestants to their
King just before his progress is now translated and printed
here, in which is contained an abstract of their present oppressions
and praying redress. |
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At the Surrey assizes, which began at Kingston last Monday,
the Lord Chief Justice and Baron Weston attending, the former
was taken ill on the Bench and forced to go to bed. Next
morning he attended in court, but, his indisposition continuing,
he was forced a second time to leave the court and to return to
London, where he is now somewhat better. |
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His Majesty, having had a very plentiful entertainment at
Sheriff Lewis', returned as he came by water to Whitehall about
2 in the morning and about 10 the Council sat, his Majesty present.
A second petition was presented by Mr. Allingham in behalf of
her husband, now a prisoner in Jamaica on a judgment there
obtained against him, in which, as is alleged, were some undue
proceedings. His Majesty ordered that security be given in
here to the value of the judgment and that a writ of error and
other proper orders be sent to Jamaica to bring Capt. Allingham
over, that the case may be reheard. |
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Jane Powell petitioned his Majesty for 200l. as the prior witness
and discoverer of John Giles, to which no determination is yet
given. Several other matters were done of some particular
persons and complaints. |
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There having been an express from Tangier, intimating that,
some of his Majesty's ships lying before Sallee, the King of Fez
having notice thereof sent [to the Go]vernor of Tangier to acquaint
him [that, unless] the said ships forthwith sailed off, he would come
down with a strong army and attack the town and that he was
resolved to clear the Barbary coasts of all Christian inhabitants,
having already besieged Mamora, a Spanish town. There is a
report that the King of Fez had sent propositions on which
he will make a peace, viz., to have yearly a certain quantity of
fire-arms and ammunition, but I believe it not. The Council
had a long debate about the present state of the said place, but
came to no resolution. |
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The Council rising, his Majesty &c. returned in the afternoon
for Windsor. |
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The Earl of Ossory was taken very ill, which, it was thought,
would have proved an ague, but it appears to be a malignant fever. |
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This day a small number of the Lords and about 43 or 47 of the
Commons met at Westminster and were prorogued till 23 August. |
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Mr. Blood has been arrested at the Duke of Buckingham's suit
in an action of 10,000l. The officers would not give obedience
to his privilege but ran him into the Gatehouse, of which
complaint has been made to his Majesty and some of the Council
as a breach of right, and yesterday he brought his Habeas Corpus
and removed himself to the King's Bench, whence he was this day
bailed, as I am informed, and says he has been illegally proceeded
against and that the conspiracy was not on his side. |
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The poll at the Guildhall began again this morning about
9 and continued till 12, when the books were finally sealed up
and no more polling to be thereon and they are not cast up nor
is a day yet appointed when the persons on both sides shall cast
them up, but it is supposed it will be done next Monday. |
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At Heusden in Flanders this day sennight happened a very
sad accident by lightning, which passing through the very wall
of the maga[zine blew] it up with 8,000lbs. of powder and 30,000lbs.
of fireworks. It blew down one side of the castle and one
whole street and also the Dutch and French churches. Two
hundred persons are missing, of which 56 are found already dead. |
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At Madrid some of the persons condemned as Jews and heretics
by the Inquisition have been executed, 15 burned alive, others,
who had escaped, burnt in effigy, 45 strangled and 76, rather
than burn, turned Catholics, all which was done with great
ceremony. |
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Hamburg letters say that every post brings from France bills
of exchange for vast sums, part of which is immediately remitted
to Strassburg direct and the rest thither over Frankfort, which
makes us believe the French have bought some friends at Strassburg, the Bishop thereof having through the great encouragement
of France published a declaration threatening that city, if they
will not pay him obedience and invest him in all the rights of
his predecessors. |
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The French troops in Alsace have made themselves masters
of the town and castle of Daubartin, declared to be a dependance
on France by the Royal Chamber at Metz, all which alarms all
Germany. [3 pages. Torn. Admiralty, Greenwich Hospital 1,
No. 57.] |
July 23. Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Sheriff Lewis. Having been at Doctors'
Commons all this morning, I come home now at 3 and receive
your letter. The enclosed libel, that had been conveyed to you
so cunningly, I will lay before his Majesty on Sunday. I met
with one of them as I was coming home. I shall on all occasions
bear witness to your generous and firm resolutions. His Majesty,
I dare say, will never desire that you should appear in anything
but what the law will bear you out in. When you shall have
done with the poll books and the lists that are to be brought in
of the liverymen of the several companies, I would beg leave to
take copies of them, before they go out of your and Sheriff
Raymond's hands. I'll wait on you to learn how they may
be easiest transcribed. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 46.] |
July 23. London. |
Newsletter to Sir Francis Radcliffe at Dilston. The Dutch
Gazette informs us that the Grand Signior has caused a minister
of State to be put to death and has taken away all the privileges
and immunities of the English throughout his dominions. From
Madrid 'tis advised that they have burnt 22 of those Protestants
formerly mentioned to be under the lash of the Inquisition. Some
of them they burnt alive, others they first strangled, and 70
are turned to embrace the Catholic religion. |
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From Bohemia 'tis advised that the plague raged so violent in
Prague that it seems to make an end of the city, 800 dying in
the week. |
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Wednesday afternoon his Majesty and his Royal Highness
returned to Windsor. |
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It is reported there is a probability of a peace with the Algerines
and great hopes thereby that all the slaves will be redeemed. |
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Yesterday began again the poll about 9 and continued till 11.
At Sheriff Lewis' table the poll seemed to favour Mr. Box and
Mr. Cornish, but at Sheriff Raymond's Mr. Bethell and Mr. Cornish,
The sheriffs made a proclamation that, if any more would poll,
they were ready to receive them, otherwise they would shut
up the books. The people cried out, No more, whereon the
books were closed. |
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His Majesty has ordered a grant authorizing the Justices of the
Court of Common Pleas to give allowance to any prosecuting the
statute against Popery out of such money as they shall receive
in court on conviction and also authorizing them to reward the
prosecutors according to their discretion. |
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Yesterday both Houses met and were prorogued to 28 August.
There was but a slender appearance in the House of Commons,
viz., 43. |
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Lord Chief Justice Scroggs is fallen sick, insomuch that he is
returned from the circuit. |
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His Majesty has lately visited the Duchess of Monmouth and
stayed a considerable time with her, she being indisposed and,
'tis said, preparing to go for France for her health. |
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Monday a Spanish post brought letters from Tangier of 17 June,
giving an account that the Moors are going to besiege Menora
in the possession of the Spaniards 40 leagues southward the
Cape. |
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The Duke of Monmouth is at present returned into the country.
[2 pages. Admiralty, Greenwich Hospital 1, No. 58.] |
July 24. London. |
Francis Gwyn to the Earl of Conway. I cannot forbear sending
this to inquire of your health and to be better able to satisfy the
Lord Chancellor, who at least once a week asks me whether
you be yet married. |
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Here has been lately great solicitation for reconciling my
cousin Seymour and Lord Arran that my lord might again appear
in public and wait in his place. The King is prevailed on so far
as to order Lord St. Albans to write to Mr. Seymour to be at
Windsor the 29th, where Lord Arran is to meet him and ask his
pardon in a form of words agreed on. Lord St. Albans sent an
express on Thursday to that purpose to Littlecote. |
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Lord Ranelagh is still daily expected and the last news of him
is that he will land this week, but my lady is in great affliction,
hearing that Cocky is gone to meet him at Chester and being
now about two months in arrear of her house money, both of
which she complains of extremely. My lord has been ill this
good while in Ireland with a very sore throat and is not yet
well. |
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I have only one piece of goods concerning myself, that my
Welsh prothonotary is lately dead, and that place, which by your
favour I formerly had the reversion of, is fallen to me, which will
occasion my being in Wales 30 August to take possession of it
at our assizes. [Conway papers. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414,
No. 33.] |
July 24. Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Lord Chief Justice North. We are in an
entire peace and tranquillity all the three kingdoms over, yet so
restless are some spirits that they have persuaded several parts
beyond the seas that we are actually in a flame. |
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Ships from Barbados, nay from some ports in France, were
afraid, indeed would not put into our ports, till they had
discovered that the ports they intended held for the King. The
Duke of Monmouth set out but yesterday. His great gists are
to be at Mr. Thynne's, the Earl of Shaftesbury's, Sir William
Courtenay's and Sir William Portman's. This is given out.
The Earl of Oxford returned hither on Thursday. There was
a variation from the ancient style in his reception. The French
King did not stir off his chair at my lord's entering or recess;
nor did he touch his hat but a little at the beginning and so at the
ending of my lord's compliment. 'Tis true, my lord, being no
more but an envoyé, could not put on his hat, but in that case
the style has been for the King himself to remain uncovered, but
this inter nos. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 47.] |
July 24. Windsor. |
Warrant to John Maugridge, Drum-Major-General, for impressing one drum major with 32 drummers to serve in the Earl
of Plymouth's regiment, to be disposed of as Lieut.-Colonel
Kirke or other the officer in chief commanding the regiment shall
appoint. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 65, p. 19.] |
July 24. Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a grant to the Provost and Corporation of
Edinburgh of an imposition of 2d. Scots on each pint of beer and
ale brewed or vented within the said city or the liberties thereof
or otherwise of 2 merks Scots on every boll of malt to be paid
by the brewers therein at the option of the magistrates and
Council for 21 years from the expiration of the former imposition
thereon, notwithstanding any former agreement betwixt
the College of Justice, the heritors of Midlothian and the Magistrates and Council of Edinburgh whereby they have obliged
themselves not to seek any such imposition from his Majesty
without their consent. [5 pages. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6,
p. 122.] |
July 24. Windsor Castle. |
Warrant to the Commissioners of the Treasury and the remanent
Lords and others, Commissioners of the Exchequer of Scotland,
for passing without any delay the above gift in favour of the
City of Edinburgh that no time may be lost in order to its passing
the great seal. [Ibid. p. 127.] |
July 24. Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Commissioners of the Treasury of Scotland.
Whereas on a late address to us for freeing one of the donators
of the forfeited estates from his proportional shares of our expenses
in suppressing the late rebellion and prosecuting those guilty
thereof, we have again considered your letter of 16 Dec. last
to the Duke of Lauderdale with our answer of 27 of the same
month, we now require you to send us an estimate of so much of
the said expenses as will fall on every 1,000 merks Scots of yearly
rent as well of the forfeitures already granted as of those which
you judge may yet fall to be at our disposing and also to send
us an account of the true values of the forfeited estates already
granted. [Ibid. p. 128.] |
July 24. Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a gift to John Kennedy of Auchtinfardall, his
heirs and assigns, of the two halves of the lands of Prestoune in
the shirefdome of Linlithgow, which are fallen into his Majesty's
hands by reason of recognition, with power to the said Kennedy
to raise and pursue an action of declarator of recognition and with
a change of the holding from simple ward to taxt ward. [Ibid.
p. 129.] |
July 24. Windsor Castle. |
Warrant to the Duke of Rothes, Chancellor, for knighting
Patrick Lyon, Judge of the Court of Admiralty in Scotland.
[S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 131.] |
July 24. Windsor Castle. |
The Duke of Lauderdale to the Duke of Rothes. Informing
him that his Majesty on further consideration is now resolved
not to have the 80 new men raised for the Earl of Dunbarton's
regiment as mentioned in his letter of the 18th instant, renewing
nevertheless his former command for drawing 200 men proportionally out of the companies of the regiment of Guard and
the Earl of Mar's regiment. [Ibid.] |
July 24. Lisburn. |
Sir G. Rawdon to the Earl of Conway. Since I wrote this
day sennight, Ensign Rawdon sent me an express with the ill news
of Capt. Ball's death and that Ensign Caulfield, a very young
man, was gone post to Dublin. He was then at Charlemont, where
his brother's (Capt. Chichester's) company are on duty, so I sent
one immediately and wrote to Lord Arran to move his Grace
to forbear to give any commission of lieutenancy to your
company, till you should move for it. How the success will be I
know not, nor if you have written formerly about it as I proposed.
He desired to be buried at Inniskillen and has a nephew that was
with him in his sickness and the Ensign desired my advice about
the conveyance of the corpse, which I have given him to march
a part of the company, leaving the charge of the castle with a
trusty sergeant and the other soldiers, as far as Dungannon, and
I have ordered a guard of horse out of my troop now at Armagh
to wait on the corpse from thence to Inniskillen, and sent to John
Totnall, if he could not go himself, to send an inventory of your
goods at Charlemont to the Ensign to secure them in a room in
the castle. Seven out of the companies there and out of all the foot
are marched to be shipped in Munster, but we have no orders
yet for 5 out of each troop. I hear it is in debate whether their
horses should go or they should be provided with horses out of
Spain. Mall's midwife and nurse are come back from Castle
Forbes and left the mother and child very well, but Arthur and
his sisters stay there and the coach. Lady Granard is very
unwilling to part with them yet. The Earl of Longford was a
gossip and invites my children to his house. He is intending for
London shortly now that the East India ships are arrived and
says his brother Ambrose is for Tangier, and that he cannot
dissuade him from the voyage. Lord Massereene and his
company are expected every tide to land at Carrickfergus, and
Lady Mount Alexander, 'tis said, intends to ship for England
in the dogger boat that brings Lord Massereene. She and her
lord are now at Connor. The hay weather continues ill. |
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Postscript.—I received another letter from Ensign Rawdon saying
the captain died with so much patience, considering his pain,
and so Christianlike as was to the admiration of those present.
He left all to his brother except 80 pieces of gold, which he left to
a woman that lived with him and still attended him. Capt.
Chichester came the night after his death and lodged in the castle
and gave orders, being hot-headed, as if he were Lord Lieutenant,
and expects to command there and wrote to the Lord Lieutenant
and sent an express with it to Dublin. [2 pages. Conway papers.
S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 109.] |
July 24. Charlemont. |
Ensign Thomas Rawdon to the Earl of Conway. Informing
him of Capt. Ball's death on the 22nd and the arrangements for his
burial.—As soon as Capt. Chichester's ensign heard of his death,
he went to Dublin. The captain and his ensign were at him
some time to sell, but he declared he got it by you and would
lay it at your feet, for he would not sell, without you desired him.
I shall endeavour to follow Capt. Ball's steps. [Conway papers.
Ibid. No. 110.] |
July 25. Queen's College, Oxford. |
Dr. Timothy Halton to Sir L. Jenkins. I am informed that a
Mr. Hayward has got a grant to hold two fairs at Stonehenge not
far from Wayhill, where much about the same time there is a fair
yearly. The town of Andover are lords of the fair at Wayhill,
but most of the profit belongs to the Regius Professor of Physic here
and to the rectory of Wayhill, which is in the gift of our college
and of which I am at present possessed. I beg that the patent
may not pass till the University, the College and the town of
Andover be heard. I am very certain that passing the patent
will damnify the Professor 100l. per annum and myself above 60l. |
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I know not whether this affair be transacted in Lord Sunderland's office or yours, but at present it sticks at the Signet Office.
Your great kindness to the University encourages me to crave
your assistance. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 34.] |
July 26. Windsor. |
The King to the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury. Willing and
requiring them to admit Thomas Barford, M.A., prebendary of that
cathedral, into the first vacancy of a canonry residentiary therein
after such as have already obtained letters of recommendation
shall be provided for. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 57, p. 26.] |
July 26. Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Bevil Skelton. Mr. Cornish and Bethell,
two disaffected persons, have been elected sheriffs a second time.
The party has exerted its utmost vigour and diligence and ours
has been slack as they use to be. |
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Lord Mulgrave returned last night from Tangier, where he
left all things in very good order, but they demand a recruit of
6,000 foot and 600 horse. Our back friends at home endeavour
to represent us abroad (we have news of it from divers places)
that we are all here in a perfect flame, yet we are in an entire
peace and tranquillity. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 64, p. 19.] |
July 26. Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Earl of Middleton. I have not received
any letter from you since you wrote from the Hague. I come
just now from Windsor, where their Majesties and Royal
Highnesses enjoy perfect health. The King expressed to me a
kind of longing for the arrival here of Count de Thun in order
to enter into business. You will meet with a thousand malicious
stories of our condition. I have letters from several parts that
advise it to be the current report in France, yea in Barbados,
that we are all in a combustion. yet we are in a perfect peace.
'Tis true there have been several attempts to present his Royal
Highness for a Recusant, but they have been all baffled. It
has been otherwise in the City, for Mr. Cornish and Mr. Bethell
(the last was named of the Council of State in the last reign of
the Rump) were chosen sheriffs twice by the diligence of their
party. The election is not yet declared, but I have notice it will
prove so. I shall write to you as things are to the best of my
knowledge and on the measures you have from my little intelligence
you may with some confidence throw off any extravagant reports.
I speak this, because here is a little instrument or two that
represent to that Court our mortifications in the same dimensions
that they meet with them in the most implacable coffee houses.
[2 pages. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 64, p. 20.] |
July 26. Dublin Castle. |
The Lord Lieutenant to Secretary Jenkins. I received yours
of the 17th and 20th to-day and in the latter I find a petition of
Mr. Sarsfield, an infant, by his guardian, William Fanshaw, relating
to the estate formerly belonging to the Sarsfields, concerning which
by former directions I have taken pains to compose a difference
between Sir Theophilus Jones and Mr. Sarsfield's aunts, but,
not being able to bring them to agreement, having heard both
parties and their counsel in the presence of the Lord Chief Justice
of the Common Pleas and Justice Reynell, by their advice I
caused a report to his Majesty to be drawn up and signed it, but
Sir Theophilus, suspecting to what it would tend, desired he
might have a copy before it should be delivered out, which was
allowed him, but as in some days he brought no exceptions against
it, it was this day given to Capt. Sarsfield, the gentlewomen's
brother, before I received either your letters or the exceptions
just brought me by Sir Theophilus. I am not able to judge what
effect that report may have in this new controversy betwixt the
nephew and the aunts, their case not having come into consideration in the debate, nor have I time now to examine it, the judges
and almost all the lawyers being gone or ready to go out of town
and myself also in a few days to my own house, where I shall be
more in the way to give any needful directions for sending the men
that are to go for Tangier, but, the report being before his Majesty,
it depends on his pleasure what to direct upon it, or to give no
directions till his later commands on young Sarsfield's petition
shall be obeyed. [2 pages. S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No.
111.] |
July 27. Dover. |
Nicholas Cullen, mayor, and four Jurats to Secretary Jenkins.
Since our answer to the Governor's exceptions we hear of no reply
thereto, and therefore pray you to be instrumental that we may
be dismissed from further attendance and left to settle our
corporation according to our ancient custom and the law of
regulation. Noted, as received the 28th from Mr. Papillon.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No, 35.] |
July 27. Windsor. |
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of Col. Dongan's petition
for a grant of a parcel of Leah Baylywood in the Forest of Dean betwixt Michael Dean and Rure Dean, his Majesty being disposed
to gratify him in his request. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 84.] |
July 27. Windsor. |
Reference to the Lord Chancellor of the petition of Benjamin
Graves of London, watchmaker, for an order for passing his pardon
for usury stopped on the falsely grounded suggestions of
Richard Ellis. [Ibid.] |
July 27. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Secretary Jenkins. Enclosing two
packets received that morning from the Lord Lieutenant and
Council of Ireland, which he desires may be read at the Council
to-morrow morning. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 56, p. 40.] |
July 27. London. |
Newsletter to Sir Francis Radcliffe at Dilston. Two new
evidences are come in against Sir Miles Stapleton and [? Sir T.
Gascoigne], so it is thought it will go hard with them at their
trials. |
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Lord Chief Justice Scroggs, being pretty well recovered, went
yesterday to Horsham, the assizes then beginning there. By
reason of his absence at Kingston many trials were put off till
next assizes. Baron Weston, being early in the morning on the
Bench and business being not ready for him, fined the sheriff
and committed one of the trumpeters for his negligence and has
likewise fined several justices for their deficiency in their duties. |
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From Paris 'tis advised that a placeat is published that, if
any Roman Catholic shall marry with a Huguenot, he shall
thereby be rendered incapable to hold any office of trust. |
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The Dolphiness with great earnestness desired the French
King to give her the Protestant church near Paris to be a convent
for women. He desired her to tell him who put her on that
request. She named three, who were all Jesuits, at which he
was angry with them, forbidding them to advise her anything
but what immediately concerned her soul's health. |
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The Lord Mayor is abroad again in perfect health. We hear that
his Majesty, having received a character of Mr. Bethell by Baron
Weston, that he is a person very well-affected to the government,
has expressed rather satisfaction than the contrary at the people's
eagerness to choose him sheriff. It is not known who are chosen,
but it seems without doubt that Mr. Cornish and Mr. Bethell
have the most voices. The sheriffs will be declared very soon. |
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The Duke of Monmouth went out of town yesterday attended
with several of the gentry and nobility towards the Bath and
great provisions are made by [the coun]try to treat him. Lord
Ossory continues ill, being feverish. |
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The discourse continues that his Royal Highness is going
for Ireland and that his youngest daughter, the Lady Isabella,
is dying or dead at Windsor. |
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Henry Howard, a barber of Buckingham, was tried at the
assizes for that county in an action of scandalum magnatum at
the suit of the Duke of Buckingham, who overthrowed him, the
jury giving the Duke 1,000l. damages. The barber has since
made his humble submission to his Grace, who as yet has not
forgiven him. |
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We hear that one Owen has given information to the Council
of a traitorous design intended to be executed very shortly in
this kingdom. |
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Several of those that listed for Tangier are fled from their colours.
Some being apprehended are sent to Bridewell. [1½ page.
Damaged. Admiralty, Greenwich Hospital 1, No. 59.] |
July 27. Dublin. |
Richard Cope to the Earl of Conway. On Capt. Ball's death
the Lord Lieutenant has favoured me with his commission and
now it does not repent me of my long waiting, since it is my
fortune to be your lieutenant at last. I stay here to await your
commands for Charlemont. [Conway papers. S.P. Ireland,
Car. II. 339, No. 112.] |
July 27. Armagh. |
Archibald Hamilton, Pa. Adair, John Abernethy and Alexander Hutchesone to Viscount Granard. We being called here
by Sir Hans Hamilton find that the ministers of our persuasion
in these parts are again represented to those in authority as
unstedfast in our loyalty to the King and as abettors of these
people in Scotland, who have of late issued absurd and rebellious
papers tending to the subversion of the King and his government
and the fundamental laws of these nations. This information
by this person of quality was unexpected and surprising to us
and we know no way to vindicate ourselves and obviate these
calumnies, but to signify that we know nothing of ourselves
neither of the ministers and people of our profession in this
country but principles of loyalty and due obedience to his Majesty,
of which we have on all occasions given proof and which to repeat
so often as some suggest the contrary would prove but impertinent
and troublesome. We may assure your lordship that these
distracted courses of late by some in Scotland are lamented and
abhorred by all ministers and people we know in this country
both as rebellious against our lawful sovereign and highly sinful
against God, Who owneth lawful magistrates to be His ordinance
and commandeth due obedience, subjection and reverence to
them even for conscience sake. If we, who are ministers, were
together, we doubt not a more full declaring our minds would be
transmitted to you that, if you found it convenient, you might
acquaint his Majesty therewith. However, we, being together
and having such aspersions cast on us, judged it our duty to
signify this to you, that, as you have been all along instrumental
in preserving a good opinion in the King of his sincere and
faithful subjects in these parts, which has more and more
established them in their loyalty, so in this juncture you being
at Court may on the same grounds as formerly be instrumental
to continue that gracious disposition towards us which his Majesty
has so long and so much evidenced, whereof we hope all of us
are in some measure sensible, and we also resolve to acquaint the
rest of the ministers with what we have written to you, and,
if possible, during your stay at Court to transmit a paper to this
same purpose subscribed by other ministers as representing
the whole. Endorsed, "A letter of four Scottish ministers against
taking up arms against his Majesty, delivered by Viscount
Granard to his Majesty." [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 113.] |
July 28. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Secretary Jenkins. I received
yesterday two packets from the Lord Lieutenant and Council
of Ireland, which the King, not coming to London that week and
I being obliged to attend him here, directs me to send you, that
they may be read either at the Council or the Irish Committee,
as you think best. |
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The King would have copies given to the Duke of Lauderdale
of the letter and papers relating to Johnston's business. [S.P.
Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 36, and S.P. Dom., Entry Book 56, p. 40.] |
July 28. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Mr. Brisbane. I have acquainted
the King with your letter of yesterday, who finds no reason to
alter the resolution taken last Monday at the Committee of
Tangier, in pursuance of which you writ to the Commander of
the Sweepstakes to stay till further order. Mr. Creed will inform
you of what passed at the Committee, which you will acquaint
the Commissioners of the Admiralty with. [S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 56, p. 41.] |
July 28. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord President of the Council.
Lord Granard being come out of Ireland, and having acquainted
his Majesty with many things important to that government,
the King would have yourself, Lord Essex, Mr. Hyde, Mr. Godolphin
and myself meet to receive the same information from him and
to report our opinion on it to his Majesty, which occasions my
writing to know when and where you desire we should wait
on you. |
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If you let Mr. Godolphin know your mind, it will be sufficient.
[Ibid.] |
July 28. Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Duke of Rothes, Chancellor, and the Privy
Council of Scotland. Warrant at the request of the Duke of Albany
and York for the reprieve of John Nevin, master of the Fortune
of London, from the execution of the sentence of death shortly
to be pronounced against him, who is now convicted of uttering
most false and scandalous words against the said Duke, with a
proviso that any favour now or hereafter extended to the said
Nevin shall not free him or his ship and goods on the occasion
of any debts due by him to Theodore Johnson or any others,
who have any civil claim against him or his said ship and
goods. (See State Trials, Vol. VIII, p. 126.) [S.P. Scotland,
Warrant Book 6, p. 132.] |
July 28. Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a charter to Sir James Dalrymple of Stair, his heirs
and assigns, of the lands and barony of Dalmellingtoune. (The
purport appears from the ratification in The Acts of the Parliament of
Scotland, Vol. VIII, p. 339.) [Docquet. Ibid. p. 133.] |
July 28. Lisburn. |
Sir G. Rawdon to the Earl of Conway. I wrote last post
of the death of your deputy Governor and cannot give any better
account of the success of my application for his Grace's delay to
commission a lieutenant to your foot company, than that Richard
Cope, an attendant on his Grace, got a commission for it before
any letters could come from hence, though mine reached Dublin
within 24 hours after I had notice of Capt. Ball's death, yet
Ensign Caulfield, who was at Charlemont, posted away and was
first at Dublin, but missed his design, it having been determined,
I believe, for Mr. Cope, expecting that Capt. Ball was past recovery.
Had you written to his Grace, your cornet and I think he would
not have denied your request to delay the disposal of your
lieutenant's place. Now it is to be considered how you think to
supply the place of a deputy governor, which perhaps Capt.
Chichester may apply to you for, his company being there, for
I believe two companies will be still garrisoned there, especially
now the jealousies increase of another rebellion in Scotland,
Carrickfergus and Derry being to have each 5 or 6 companies,
unless this seasonable subduing of that mad fellow's party
(Cameron), alter the counsel, which news came here but this day,
and I now send it to the Lord Lieutenant. This gentleman
examined was sent over for Lord Granard's son, Thomas, who
is now in the house, a very fine youth, and I intend to stay him
here till next week to refresh himself, for he was seven days at
sea and came before this John Forbes, that brought this news.
Capt. Eustace is absent, and I think, if his company were ordered
to Charlemont or any other captain and his company that you
approve of for your deputy, it would be the best expedient, but
how will this be done, unless you apply to the General for it?
Some from Dublin write that you are by this time in Cheshire,
unless Lord Granard stay you at Ragley. [1¼ page. Conway
papers. S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 114.] |
July 29. Ashridge. |
The Earl of Bridgwater to Secretary Jenkins. I doubt not
the Committee will take what Mr. Randolph writes into due
consideration and direct what shall be most for his Majesty's
service in that country. We do not yet hear of the election of the
sheriffs of London, but I am very sorry to see by yours that
Cornish and Bethell are so likely to carry it. I enclose two letters
from Sir Palmes Fairborne, received yesterday. By them,
methinks, Tangier is far from being in good condition. I hope
therefore his Majesty will take such course as may secure the
place for his service and defend it from the Moors. [S.P. Dom.,
Car. II. 414, No. 37.] |
July 29. Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Sir Robert Holmes. I have shown
the King your letter about Thacker and another, who were seized
in the Isle of Wight making drafts. The King says he remembers
Thacker, but knows nothing of the other and therefore would
have them both sent up to the Council to be examined. You
must send some officer with them and I think it will be best to
send some one that can inform the King or the Council of the
cause there was to suspect them. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 56,
p. 42.] |
July 29. Whitehall. |
Reference to the Attorney or Solicitor General of the petition
of Sir Maurice Eustace, which stated that by the daily practice
of the Court of Chancery in England decrees enrolled are reexamined and sometimes reversed on the application of some
of the parties for the great ease of the subject, who by the ancient
practice of that court are put to the troublesome circuit of bills
of review and reversal to remedy any mistake in decrees, and that
the petitioner finds himself likely to be prejudiced by a mistake of the
Masters in Chancery in Ireland concerning a computation of
the mesne profits of some lands, which is made up in a decree
enrolled in Ireland against the petitioner in behalf of Michael
Tempest and Maurice Eustace, who by inquisition subsequent
to the said decree and otherwise appear to have no right to what
they claim by the said decree, even if there had been no mistake
in the said Masters' report, and therefore prayed his Majesty
to require the Lord Chancellor of Ireland in conformity to the
practice of the Court of Chancery in England to re-hear the said
cause before any further proceedings on the said decree: to
report whether it be the practice in the Chancery of England
to re-hear such causes and whether he think it fit that the Lord
Chancellor of Ireland be directed to do the like there in the
above-mentioned cause. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 61, p. 5.] |
July 29. Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Sheriff Lewis. I attempted to wait on
you last night but came too late. My business was to acquaint
you of what I had heard of a petition for the sitting of the
Parliament intended to be set on foot again this day at a Common
Hall. You need no entreaty, I am sure, to do your part this
day as you did in the like case on Midsummer Day. The thing
is stale and ridiculous after so many declarations of his Majesty
that he intends the Parliament shall sit in winter. Besides this is
not the business of the day. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 48.] |
July 29. The Council Chamber, Whitehall. |
Order in Council, that, whereas a letter from the Lord
Lieutenant and Council of the 16th instant, read that day, gave
an account of some suspicious papers and letters found in two
trunks lately landed from St. Malo at Cork by three unknown
persons, two of which letters were subscribed, James Hackett,
and another, Ambrose Hara, which seem to be the same person,
Secretary Jenkins cause inquiry to be made at St. Malo or elsewhere and endeavour to find out the said Hackett alias Hara,
said to be a Jacobin in a convent at Rennes, in order to a further
inquiry and that he write to the Lord Lieutenant to use his utmost
endeavours to secure the said three unknown persons and to
inquire whether the Bishop of Waterford, to whom one of the
said letters was directed, knows the said Hackett alias Hara.
[S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 115.] |
July 29. Whitehall. |
Sir L. Jenkins to the Lord Lieutenant. (Printed in the Ormonde
Papers, Vol. V., p. 357.) [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 341, p. 27.] |
July 30. Windsor. |
Sidney Godolphin to [Secretary Jenkins]. I have shown the
King the papers you sent me. He had received the same account
before some other way and, knowing there was nothing in them
new to his Royal Highness either, I was unwilling to detain your
messenger till I could speak with him. His Majesty has commanded me to write to the Lord President that the Sweepstakes
be ordered to stay at Portsmouth for the arrival of the yachts
with the horsemen till Wednesday next and no longer. I believe
the King will be in town next week. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414,
No. 38.] |
Friday, July 30. |
Secretary Jenkins to Sidney Godolphin. I was forced to write
this morning to the Lord Mayor for a copy of the petition
yesterday, neither Sheriff, Common Serjeant nor Alderman that
I sent to being able to supply me. Together with the copy the
Lord Mayor sends me his speech on the reading of it. The petition
is already in print. I'll not pretend to make observations on it,
but beg you to communicate it to his Majesty and his Royal
Highness. If you can, let me not lose the Lord Mayor's speech
nor the private advices; only please make use of them as you
think fit. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 49.] |
July 30. London. |
Newsletter to Sir Francis Radcliffe, at Dilston. We hear a report from Rochester that the Custom-house officers, espying a boat
deeply laden and supposing it to be uncustomed goods made towards
it, which they in the boat espying rowed towards the shore, which
when they recovered, they deserted their boat and fled. The
officers found the boat laden with daggers and knives of strange
fashion, which seemed fit for mischievous uses, wherewith they
acquainted the Mayor, who took them into his custody, where
they remain for the present. |
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Lord Inchiquin, having given the Council a satisfactory account
of his management of affairs at Tangier, has been several times
with his Majesty, who accepted from him a present of two
ostriches of an exceeding bigness. The tallest man in England
cannot reach the height of them. Also he has brought a tame
lion, which he presented to Lord Villiers. |
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Lord Ossory is dead, who is very much lamented in Court,
being a person every way accomplished for valour and of unsuspected integrity both to his prince and country. It is supposed
the Duke of Albemarle goes in his place as Governor of Tangier. |
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The gentlemen of the Guards, who went lately for Tangier,
are commanded back again and to leave behind them their
horses, arms and cloaks for others, who are forthwith to be sent
in their places. |
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Lord Rochester died last Monday at Woodstock. Lord Latimer,
the Earl of Danby's eldest son, is preferred to be one of the
Gentlemen of the Bedchamber. |
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Last Thursday the Court of Aldermen and several of the
Commoners met at Guildhall, precepts being issued for their
attendance, where Mr. Cornish and Mr. Bethell were declared
sheriffs, after which a petition was presented to the Lord Mayor
to recommend to the citizens to subscribe, to be presented to his
Majesty in the name of the whole city for the sitting of the
Parliament. Sir Robert Vyner and Sir George Waterman were
against the reading of it, but the Lord Mayor ordered the Common
Serjeant to read it publicly and it was approved by general
acclamation. |
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On Wednesday the Tangier affairs were debated before the
Council at Windsor. The Treasury Commissioners are ordered
to pay several sums for advance for that service. The volunteers
come in but slowly. [1½ page. Torn. Admiralty, Greenwich
Hospital 1, No. 60.] |
July 31. Windsor. |
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of
Col. John Strode, Lieutenant of Dover Castle, for a grant
of the personal estate of Richard May, of Kent, and his son
condemned at the last assizes for sheep-stealing. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 55, p. 85.] |
July 31. Windsor. |
Grant to John Fielding of a canonry residentiary in the
cathedral of Salisbury, void by the promotion of William Lloyd,
D.D., to the bishopric of St. Asaph. [Latin. S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 72, p. 241.] |
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Minute thereof. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 57, p. 26.] |
Saturday, July 31. |
Secretary Jenkins to Sidney Godolphin. Having received the
enclosed just now from Lord Morpeth I think it my duty to
hasten it towards his Majesty, it containing news of some moment,
if true, out of Scotland. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 50.] |
July 31. Windsor Castle. |
Warrant to the Lords of the Treasury in Scotland for
causing Sir William Sharp, Cash-keeper, to assign to Archibald,
Lord Lorne, or his nominee, the debt of 4,890l. Scots due to the
King by James Campbell, son of John Campbell, deceased, one of
the receivers of the King's rents in Scotland, for which sum the said
James Campbell, as principal, and the Earl of Argyle and Sir James
Campbell of Lawers, as cautioners, gave a bond dated 12 March,
1675, to the said Sir William Sharp. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant
Book 6, p. 135.] |
July 31 Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a gift to Alexander Irving of Drum, of the ward
and non-entry of the lands of Hiltoune and of all other lands
which pertained to umquhile Alexander Irving of Hiltoune,
together with the marriage of Francis, eldest son and heir of the
said umquhile Alexander Irving of Hiltoune. [Docquet. Ibid.
p. 136.] |
July 31. Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a gift to Alexander Irving of Linturk of the escheat
and liferent of Francis Irving of Hiltoune. [Docquet. Ibid.] |
July 31. Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a charter of new infeftment to John Cunninghame
of Enterkine, writer to the signet, his heirs and assigns, of the
lands and barony of Currie and the town and lands of Longhermeistoune in the parochine of Currie and shirefdome of Edinburgh
and all other lands pertaining to Grissell Beaton and William
Mackdougall of Garthland for his interest in the said parochine
or whereunto she may succeed as for the principal and of the
lands and barony of Garthland in the parochines of Stoniekirk
and Inch and shirefdome of Wigtoune in real warrandice of the
said principal lands, reserving to Marjory Kennedy, mother of
the said Grissell, her liferent of the said principal lands, on the
resignations of the said Grissell and William Mackdougall, her
husband, for his interest, with a new gift and an union of the said
lands, both principal and warrandice, into the barony of Currie and
with a change of the holding from simple ward to taxt ward.
[Nearly 2 pages. Docquet. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 137.] |
July 31. Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a gift to — of the escheat and liferent of
Alexander Burnett of Carloups. [Docquet. Ibid. p. 139.] |
July 31. Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for the appointment of William Calderwood for his life to
be purveyor of the cloth and maker of the gowns to the poor old
men, commonly called the King's Bedesmen, yearly at the time
when they use to have the said gowns made for them, which
is his Majesty's birthday, in the room of James Watson, deceased.
[Ibid. p. 140.] |
July 31. Whitehall. |
Sir L. Jenkins to the Lord Lieutenant. (Printed in the
Ormonde Papers, Vol. V, p. 359, where 16 lines from bottom "this"
should be "his".) [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 341, p. 28.] |
July. |
William Challoner, freeman of London and Bristol, and kinsman
to Sir Thomas Challoner, tutor to Prince Henry, to the King.
Petition for admission to declare before his Majesty a revelation
he has from God Almighty and that he may be taken into his
service till these things be performed, which will be an imitation
of Elijah in the Old Testament and John Baptist in the New.
The petitioner followed the King's father's interest and the
King's before his restoration. People then petitioned for a free
parliament, as now there are petitions for a parliament, and found
that the same way that his Majesty came in will bring in Christ
Jesus to reign amongst us. [2 pages. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414,
No. 39.] |
July. |
William Challoner to the Lord Mayor. Petition requesting him
to present the above petition to his Majesty and also that the
petitioner may have authority from him to choose twelve godly
men, ministers and others, to discourse before his Honour in
Drapers' Hall with twelve Jews, that he may hear what will be
propounded on our Saviour's behalf for the bringing in of them
and all others that do not confess Christ and compose all differences amongst dissenting Christians. [Ibid. No. 40.] |
July. |
Arguments to show that liverymen are within the Act of
13 Car. II. for regulating corporations. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414,
No. 41.] |
July. |
Warrant to Nicholas Johnson, Paymaster-General of the
Guards and Garrisons, for payment to Samuel Simpson of 3l. 1s.
due to him, he being respited on, but since allowed, the muster
of 1 March last, according to the annexed certificate. [S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 59, p. 46.] Annexed, |
Certificate that 5 Feb. last Samuel Simpson was appointed
one of the gunners of the garrison of Hull, but that by some
casualty he was not inserted in the muster-roll of the Earl
of Mulgrave's company for the muster of 1 March last, and
that he is therefore now allowed the said muster. 12 July,
1680. [Ibid. p. 45.] |
[July.] |
Warrant to Nicholas Johnson, Paymaster-General of the
Guards and Garrisons, Thomas Silver, master gunner, having
been allowed 2s. per diem and 11 other gunners 6d. each per
diem for their extraordinary attendance on 6 cannon in St. James'
Park, being in all 7s. 6d. per diem, which has been paid them
accordingly to 1 Dec. last, for payment to the said Thomas Silver
of 91l. 10s., the amount of the said allowance from 1 Dec. last
to the last of this instant July, out of which he is to pay the
said 11 gunners. [Ibid. p. 46.] |
July. Windsor. |
Reference to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland of the petition of
John Mountsteven, which recited letters of 9 Aug., 1677, to the
Lord Lieutenant for creating an office in the Custom-house at
Dublin for preparing all invoices and outvoices of ships, bills
of entry, cockets, etc. and for a grant thereof to Francis Godolphin
for his life, and stated that the said Godolphin is since dead
without passing the said letters into a patent, by which means
the said office is executed without any authority from his Majesty,
and therefore prayed that his Majesty would renew the said
letters patent and grant the same to the petitioner for his life.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 61, p. 3.] |
July. Whitehall. |
Warrant to the Ordnance Commissioners for the delivery to
Lieut.-colonel Kirke of arms, beds and bedding for 10 companies
of 60 soldiers each of the Earl of Plymouth's regiment and for
sending to the citadel of Plymouth the like for 6 companies
of the said regiment to be raised in the western parts under
Major Trelawney, to whom the same are to be delivered. [S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 65, p. 16.] |
July. Windsor. |
The King to Sir John Lanier. Sending him the order for
embarking by to-morrow night the three troops of horse commanded by Captains Nedby, Coy and Langston, in order to
their transportation to the garrison of Tangier and ordering
him not only to deliver the same to the eldest captain of them,
but also to take special care that the same be duly executed.
[Ibid. p. 19.] |
July. Windsor |
The King to Captains Nedby, Coy and Langston respectively.
Signifying his pleasure that the officers and soldiers of their
troops go by to-morrow night on board the barges in readiness
to carry them from Tower Hill to Greenwich, where they are
to be shipped on two yachts and carried to Portsmouth and
there embarked in the ships appointed to carry them to Tangier,
in which ships there being 120 horses of two troops, viz., of one
formed out of the three troops of Horse Guards and the other
out of the King's own regiment of Horse, it has been ordered
that the said horses with saddles, bridles, holsters, collars, backs,
breasts, pots and carbines of the privates of the said two troops be
delivered on shipboard proportionably to the captains commanding
the said three troops, who are to receive them for the use of the
said three troops, and further signifying his pleasure that the said
horses with their furniture and the said arms shall not be
delivered to the soldiers till their arrival at Tangier, it having been
directed that the horses with their furniture and the arms which
will be wanting for the complete mounting and arming of the
said three troops shall be provided and sent to Tangier after.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 65, p. 20.] |
July. Windsor. |
The King to Major Oglethorpe. Notwithstanding the former
orders to him with the party of the 3 troops of Horse Guards under
his command to embark for Tangier, signifying his pleasure that
he with the rest of the officers and soldiers shipped under his
command forthwith disembark and return in the vessels that
shall carry to Portsmouth the three troops of Horse designed
for Tangier. He is to take care that the horses of the privates
of the said party be not disembarked, but be proportionably
delivered on shipboard with their carbines &c. to the officers
commanding the said three troops, he taking receipts for the
same, in regard that satisfaction has been ordered to be made
for the said horses, saddles, bridles, collars and holsters. The
said party of Horse Guards are to keep and bring back their
pistols and after their arrival at London are to return to their
former stations and duty. [Ibid. p. 21.] |
July. Windsor. |
The King to Capt. Edwin Sandys or other the officers in chief
commanding the party drawn out of the King's own regiment
of Horse to embark for Tangier. Ordering them to disembark
and return to London in the same terms, mutatis mutandis, as
the last letter. [Ibid. p. 22.] |
[July ?] Friday morning. |
H. (?) Price to [Secretary Jenkins]. Enclosing a copy of the
petition and requesting him to move the King to-morrow with that
paper and to speak to Mr. Attorney. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414,
No. 42.] Enclosed, |
Francis Jenks to the King. Petition for a warrant to the
Attorney-General to enter a nolle prosequi to the indictment
of which a copy is annexed, there being a false accusation
and malicious prosecution against him. [Ibid. No. 42 i.]
Annexed, |
The said indictment. Charging Jenks with having at
Croydon on 20 April, 1680, said in discourse " The King
did unjustly with his subjects in knighting one justice for
taking an examination out of court and putting out another
justice (meaning W. Barnsly, late J.P. for Surrey) for the
same thing," with intent to raise sedition against the King.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 42 ii.] |
[July ?] |
Francis Jenks to the King. Similar petition to the above,
but for a pardon. [Ibid. No. 43.] |
[July ?] |
Memorandum that Philip Warwick, envoye extraordinary to
the King of Sweden, took leave of his Majesty on that day.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 50, p. 67.] |
[July ?] |
Warrant to Henry Howard, Commissary-General of the
Musters, for allowing and passing on the musters during his
absence Sir Samuel Clarke, lieut.-colonel of Col. John Russell's
regiment of Foot Guards, who has been sent to be majorgeneral of the foot at Tangier. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 65, p. 11.] |
[July ?] |
Warrant to Lieut.-colonel Piercy Kirke for ordering the captains
of the Earl of Plymouth's regiment to raise five soldiers more
in each of their companies over and above the 60 soldiers ordered
to be raised, so that each company shall consist of 65 soldiers.
[Ibid. p. 14.] |
[July ?] |
Warrant to Henry Howard, Commissary-General of the Musters,
after reciting the last warrant, for, on the completing of the said
companies to 65 soldiers in each, allowing and passing them
on the musters. [Ibid.] |
[July ?] |
Warrant to Major Charles Trelawney for ordering the captains
of the six companies of the Earl of Plymouth's regiment to be
raised in the western parts to raise their companies to 65 soldiers
in each. [Ibid.] |
[July ?] |
Warrant to the Ordnance Commissioners for delivering arms
and bedding for the additional 80 soldiers to be raised in the
Earl of Plymouth's regiment. [Ibid. p. 15.] |
[July ?] |
Warrant to Capt. Edward Hastings for raising by beat of
drum 65 volunteers, to serve as private soldiers in his company
in the Earl of Plymouth's regiment, but, in case he beats his
drums within the City of London or the liberties thereof, he is
first to show this warrant to the Lord Mayor. [Ibid. p. 31.] |
[July ?] |
Warrant to Henry Howard, Commissary-General of the
Musters, for allowing and passing on the musters the staff
officers of the Earl of Plymouth's regiment from the time when
one half of the established number of the private soldiers of the
said regiment were raised. [Ibid.] |
[July ?] |
Order to Capt. Savile with his company of the Earl of Plymouth's
regiment forthwith to march to Scarborough Castle, where he
is to join with Capt. Graham's company of the said regiment, to
the intent that they may be both embarked together for service
at Tangier. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 65, p. 39.] |
[July ?] |
The King to Sir Thomas Slingsby, Governor of Scarborough
Castle. Ordering him to receive Capt. Savile's company into the
said castle and accommodate them as well as he can, and the officers
of the said company will take care to provide diet for the soldiers
or give them subsistence money. [Ibid.] |
[July ?] |
Warrant to — to march to Portsmouth with the 50 men he
has listed as privates in the troop of Horse he has been
commissioned to raise and command for service at Tangier and
there embark with them in the ships appointed to transport
them to Tangier, observing on his passage the orders of the ship
commanders with whom he embarks and at his arrival the
directions of the Governor in chief of the said garrison. [Ibid.
p. 48.] |
[July ?] |
The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord Lieutenant. Signifying his
Majesty's pleasure that he order five lieutenants and five sergeants
out of the remaining companies of the Scotch regiment which his
Majesty has lately directed his Grace to send to Tangier, forthwith
to go for Scotland and attend the Lord Chancellor or the Council
there, who will have his Majesty's directions to send them on
board a vessel appointed to receive them at Leith with 200 men
that are to go from thence to Tangier, of whom the said officers
are to have the care and command on their way. [S.P. Ireland,
Car. II. 340, p. 13.] |
[July ?] |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant, after reciting that
Richard, Earl of Westmeath, is inserted in the present establishment of Ireland for a pension of 150l. per annum, the payment
whereof has been of late forborne by reason of a general stop of
pensions and that he has for some time allowed the said pension
to Lady Delvin, relict of Lord Delvin, his eldest son, deceased, for
the maintenance of herself and her children, which he is willing
to continue to her: for causing the name of the said Lady Delvin
to be inserted in the present and all future establishments of
Ireland in the room of the said Earl and for causing the said
pension with all arrears thereof to be forthwith paid to her
notwithstanding any stop of the pensions on the establishment.
Noted, as entered 12 Aug. [S.P. Dom., Signet Office, Vol. 10,
p. 461.] |