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Aug. 2.
London. |
John Gibson to the Earl of Conway. About a painter he has
sent him. [Conway papers. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 44.] |
Aug. 2.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Bevil Skelton. Since my last of the 26th
past I am sorry to find by your letters of the 12th and 18th that
you are at so great a disadvantage both in regard of the inconvenient distance you are from the Court and of the quarantine
you are like to be put to in your return home. When you do
return, it will certainly be to a most gracious master, who will
show you a sense of your long and faithful service. |
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I am sorry to find that the Count de Thun is in no better forwardness this way. One would think they on that side have an interest
big enough to quicken them to this alliance, but their policy is to
drill the time till winter in hopes to be then able to judge what
will become of us on the crisis with the Parliament, whereas
their true interest, as one would think, would be to enter into a
conjunction with us and by that means to bring the Parliament
on to be confident, as our allies already are, of our sincerity in
espousing the true party. |
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I am of the opinion you write yourself of in your letter of the
18–28 past to Sir R. Southwell, the copy whereof you send me.
Our foreign maligners in that are more unequal and peevish
towards us than our domestic ones are. The foreigners, for
instance, draw consequences out of the election of the London
sheriffs that our ill-willers at home have not assurance enough
to promise to themselves. 'Tis true there is great reason to fear,
but the King exacting, as he may most justly, that those officers
keep close to the law or else answer it in the ordinary courts of
justice will, I hope, contain them within their bounds; at least,
the moderate sort of men will be loth to go further, when they
see, as they will, how far they have been hurried on beyond
their just measures by an unreasonable jealousy of their governors.
All you can say for us there will be little enough, but this you
may be sure of, we are not so bad nor ever can be (unless it
should please God that the sword should be drawn and the
scabbard thrown away), as the little pitiful foreign intelligencers
here represent, and yet those have no better authority for their
informations than that of the coffee-houses, where it is the
exercise and the divertisement also to declaim against the
government. |
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'Tis true 'tis an unhappy condition of affairs but with this
difference, that in former times and other nations people have
thought and spoke as ill of their governors as we do now, but no
governors have ever been so much manacled as ours are, partly
by the Habeas Corpus Act and partly by the partiality of our
juries, that they cannot do themselves right, as they might have
done by the ancient laws of England in former times. [3¼ pages,
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 64, p. 22.] |
Aug. 2.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Earl of Middleton. Having had
none of your commands, I have nothing to trouble you with.
Some notions of my own I shall not set down here. I have
troubled Mr. Skelton with them; they are not worth repeating.
The enclosed is from the son of the Prince it is directed to. Mr.
Skelton has addressed him to me. I have endeavoured to do
him respect, if it rebound any civilities to you, it will be a particular
satisfaction to me. [Ibid. p. 25.] |
Aug. 3.
Whitehall. |
On Mr. Isaack's petition for a grant of his estate, forfeited by
reason of his killing Joseph Bankes, recommendation to the Lords
of the Treasury to give order for a Privy Seal containing a grant
of restitution thereof to the petitioner. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 61,
p. 6.] |
Aug. 4.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a privy seal for payment to James Dixon and Philip
Williams, Grooms of the Chamber in ordinary to the Queen, of
2s. per diem each during pleasure for their entertainment by equal
quarterly payments to commence to the said Dixon from 2 Aug.,
1678, and to the said Williams from 3 May last. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 50, p. 69.] |
Aug. 4.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to Edward Griffin, Treasurer of the Chamber, for
payment to the Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal of 20l. in lieu
of three deer, granted of custom to them yearly. [Ibid. p. 70 and
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 53, p. 31.] |
Aug. 4.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a presentation of Daniel Salway to the vicarage
of Hillmerton, Wiltshire, void by the resignation of Lancelot
Addison, D.D., one of the King's chaplains in ordinary. [S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 53, p. 31.] |
Aug. 4.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Trustees of Sutton's Hospital. Signifying his
pleasure that they admit to any pensioner's place now void or
to the first that shall become void after the places, if any, of
those who have already obtained letters, Lieut. George Abernethy,
who was a commissioned officer from the beginning of the late
civil wars and received many wounds and was sent a slave to
the Barbados, where he continued 8 years, whereby he is reduced
to great want and is by sickness rendered incapable of any
employment. [Ibid. p. 540.] |
Aug. 5.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Mr. Bowes. Let me at your leisure know
whether all things are in a posture of tranquillity in your country
and particularly what comes to your knowledge of arms or horses
bought by disaffected persons, whether Papists or Fanatics,
beyond their proportion. This favour I shall take care to menage
without bringing your name in question but where it may be for
your service. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 50.] |
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Order to Col. John Russell to order the companies of Captains
Sir Edward Picks, Bassett and Sunderland to march 15 Aug. to
Tilbury Fort, to relieve the companies of Captains Price, Skelton
and Bowes. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 63, p. 7.] |
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Order to Sir Francis Leake, Governor of Tilbury Fort, to admit
the said relief. [Ibid. p. 8.] |
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Order to Capt. Price or other the officers commanding the three
companies therein mentioned, as soon as the three companies come
to Tilbury Fort to relieve the companies of Captains Price, Bowes
and Skelton, to march with the last mentioned three companies to
Westminster. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 63, p. 8.] |
Aug. 5.
Windsor. |
The King to Lord Alington, Constable of the Tower, or in
his absence to the Lieutenant. Having given order for three
companies of the Foot Guards to march to Tilbury Fort to relieve
the companies of Captains Price, Bowes and Skelton, and that
the companies of Sir Edward Picks and Capt. Bassett should be
part of the companies to march to Tilbury, signifying his pleasure
that he permit the said two companies (before they be relieved)
to march to Tilbury and to admit into the Tower the companies
of Captains Bowes and Skelton, when they return from Tilbury.
[Ibid. p. 9.] |
Aug. 5.
Dublin. |
Lieut. Richard Cope to the Earl of Conway. I shall be at
Charlemont next week to wait your commands and humbly beg
the favour my predecessor had. I have been a soldier these
six years and have lived in a fort by your favour and appointment.
[Conway papers. S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 116.] |
Aug. 5.
[Read.] |
Two papers brought by Lord Granard from the Lord Lieutenant
and read that day at the Committee. 1. The revenue but barely
answers the establishment, if it do that. In the Establishment
many things are omitted as necessary as anything taken care of
in it and more necessary than many things that are taken into it.
Such are the repair of forts, stores and magazines and providing
arms, ammunition and materials, of which there must be constant
consumption and therefore there ought to be as constant a supply.
There seems to be a sum designed for some of those ends in the
Establishment under the title of Concordatum, but it was at
first too little, and is since made less by fixing several other
payments on it, besides contingencies, which at present are very
extraordinary. |
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2. You take with you a list of the Army, as it now stands after
the several drafts taken out of it. In its full strength and if it
had been completely provided with all other necessaries, without
which there can be nothing but the name of an army, it was not
too great to keep the divided people here in quiet and obedience;
but now that it is so much weakened and so ill provided, it is to
be feared there will be less awe of it. The best men are drawn
out of it and it is to be feared that those remaining are for the most
part either antiquated or such as have trades and families and
perhaps small stocks and farms, which may be said to come
to pass in part by suffering companies to lie too long in one
garrison or quarter, and by the removes made since I came last
that suggestion seems to be verified and I am therefore going
on with them. But there is no certain or sufficient remedy but
the hospital we are in hand with, to maintain such as have grown
unserviceable in the Army and then the bringing over frequent
recruits of young and serviceable men, frequent, because, do
what we can, in a short time those that bring not wives with them
will find them here, so that his Majesty cannot count on the service
of all in the muster rolls, till he give leave and means may be had
to bring over recruits. I take the officers to be generally well
affected and it is my care that none but such come into the Army,
but, considering how many general officers have troops and
companies and how many noblemen have one or other, and how
many councillors and men of estate and families are officers and
how few old soldiers are left, I cannot say that to all purposes
the Army is well officered. |
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3. To remedy most of these inconveniencies, which were foreseen by his Majesty before I took leave of him three years since, I
took it to be resolved that soon after my arrival a Parliament
should be called and I have presumed, from the very first week of
my landing, to remind him of it, and at length bills were sent
over in order to it. But, either because they were not pleasing
to some, whose private interest was not provided for, or that
things supposed to be of a greater consequence and nearer home
have taken up all the time and thoughts of the ministers, those
bills lay by a long time unconsidered and at length were wholly laid
aside, partly to make way for others that should be more agreeable
to the conjuncture, which was much changed by the discovery
of the Plot, and now bills are once more transmitted. I will not
say but there might be good reason to object against the former
bills or presume to think but that there was good reason to delay
the consideration and return of them. But it is highly probable
that, if they had been sent, as great a cry as was raised against them
and, though all of them had not pleased all the Parliament, yet
his Majesty would long since have had the supplies proposed and
would have found the effects of them. The minds of men are
now much altered and it is not to be doubted that great diligence
has been and will be used out of England to frustrate all the
good to be expected from a Parliament, and yet I am confident
that, if a Parliament were now sitting, his Majesty would find his
account in it in spite of all the endeavours of the factious in
England and here and that he will do so, whenever it meets, if
some alteration to the worse beyond what we yet see happen not,
but especially, if the distemper in England shall abate, which I
conceive it must do or proceed to what I fear to think of. |
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4. I need not set down of what different principles, interest and
affection the people of this kingdom are, how they are to be
computed as to number and power, as you know and can discourse
it better than I can set it down. |
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The Regimenting of the Army. |
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The restoring of a trumpet and drum to each troop and
company, which was a very inconvenient retrenchment in the
last Establishment, pensions and other bounties being put in
their place. The addition of a lieutenant to the companies
in the regiment of Guards, which regiment is now the principal
strength of the kingdom. These are additions of charge and
are therefore not to be absolutely commanded till the revenue
be enlarged, but, if his Majesty shall leave it to the Chief Governor's
discretion to establish them, he may be answerable for the
reasonable doing of it. |
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That it be considered how the pay of all those forces at Tangier
on the Irish Establishment shall be returned to them and who
shall bear the charge of the remittal of it; if the officer and
soldier, it will strike deep in their entertainment, if his Majesty,
then will the revenue here be by so much more overcharged. |
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To know the kinds of victuals usually sent to Tangier, the
season of sending them and the rates at which they are distributed,
that suitable provision may be made here. That seasonable
information may be sent of the time when convoys may call
here for the provisions for the men to be victualled from hence.
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By the last letters from England received since these
memorandums were written, it is said great preparations are
making to object against some of the bills transmitted. It is
offered to consideration that a long delay of returning them
will proportionably delay all the advantages and security to be
expected from a Parliament and whoever understands the
dangerous state of the kingdom, believes there was and is still a
Popish plot or really fears a French invasion or a Popish rebellion
or both cannot be of opinion that it is fit to delay or frustrate
the only means of preventing or repressing those evils, unless
he have a very weak understanding or very ill affections. It is
therefore proposed that, if his Majesty conceives it necessary to
hasten putting this kingdom into a better condition of defence,
small or frivolous exceptions against the bills may not be too
long insisted on, and, if any shall be taken to them, that his
Majesty may think it to be of more importance that they be
speedily transmitted hither, that so we here may give satisfaction
if we can or acquiescing propose such amendments as shall occur
to us. [Over 1 page. S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, Nos. 117, 118.] |
Aug. 6.
[Read in Council.] |
John Giles to the King. Petition stating that the petitioner,
being sentenced to stand on the pillory in three places and
accordingly standing last Monday, was by the rabble so grievously
wounded and bruised with stones and bricks that he is in great
danger of losing his life, and is unable to undergo the remaining
punishment, and, though he were able to undergo it, yet can
he expect no other event thereof but to be stoned to death by the
rabble, and protesting his innocence of the act he is condemned
for and therefore praying a remission of the further execution
of the said sentence. [Original and copy. S.P. Dom., Car. II.
414, Nos. 45, 46.] Annexed, |
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Certificate by E. Smith, M.D. and E. Smalley, surgeon, of the
injuries received by Giles and that he is not at present able
to stand on his legs. 1680, Aug. 2. [2 copies. Ibid. Nos.
46 i, 46 ii.] |
Aug. 6.
Croydon. |
William Middleton to —. Requesting him to represent
to his Grace of Canterbury the case of the bearer, a member of
the addressee's hospital, and one that was concerned in the
petition against Mr. Shepherd, who has transgressed during
this time of harvest by entertaining his wife, who has been very
lame and was with him to be cured, upon which Mr. Shepherd
expelled him the house. [Damaged. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414,
No. 47.] |
Aug. 6.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Bishop Elect of St. Asaph. I have
private advice that there are very dangerous persons at Reading,
not only such as are of seditious principles, but such as are in a
readiness to break out into rebellion. I beseech you to use the
best means you can to know their numbers and the sect they are
of and more particularly what provisions they have made of
arms or horses beyond their proportion or their rank. It would
be useful to know which way their correspondence lies and who
in this city guides their counsels and motions. I know this cannot
be learned by you without the help of a false brother or two and
with such a one you cannot, it may be, communicate directly,
yet your prudence, sagacity and acquaintance there will, I doubt
not, go a great way. |
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Be pleased therefore to accept and make use of a full power
from me to fasten a little quarterly or monthly allowance on any
one that will watch them narrowly and to settle a correspondence,
which need not be into my hands but as you find it to be best
and surest for the intelligencer, who must be one of them and must
take on him to discover all apparent to a rupture. The charges
of journeys hither or anywhere else will be borne over and above
his allowance. Before you make your bargain, endeavour to have
a full survey of the party and their strength before you, then
you'll know better what is to be expected from an intelligencer
and, as you find the danger, so you must launch to buy off some
of them. You need not doubt but they'll take money. [2 pages.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 51.] |
| Aug. 6. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Lord Mayor. I enclose by the
commands of the Lords present, a petition that has just been
read at the Council Board. It is not their desire that any thing
else should be done on it, but that the further execution of the
sentence on the petitioner be respited, till his Majesty be duly
informed of the matter of fact suggested in the petition and
certificate, their lordships being careful that nothing of violence
may mingle with the King's justice. They suppose the judgment
was given before you and that therefore your directions to the
sheriffs will be proper. [Ibid. p. 53.] |
| [Aug. 6 ?] |
Secretary Jenkins to Lord Chief Justice North. I thank you
for the address, which I sent forthwith to the King. He commanded it to be put in the Gazette. We have had a conflict
to-day in the ward of Cheap about choosing a Common Council
man, but the loyal party carried it by very many voices.* The
ratifications were exchanged yesterday. The Moors keep the
truce hitherto. The Alcayde says he hears 10,000 men are coming
out of England but, if they were ten times as many, he knows
how to deal with them. [Ibid. p. 54.] |
| [Aug. 6 ?] |
Secretary Jenkins to the Bishop of Bath and Wells. To the
same effect as the last down to the asterisk, with Mr. Flower's
indictment. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 54.] |
| [Aug. 6 ?] |
Secretary Jenkins to Lord Morpeth. To the same effect as the
above letter to Lord Chief Justice North with the address. [Ibid.] |
Aug. 7.
London. |
Christopher Cratford to the Earl of Conway. I have yours of
28 and 30 July and hoped by yesterday to have heard of your
being returned safely to Ragley. |
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About the time you went into Cheshire I conveyed you a
proposal, which, I doubt, miscarried. |
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It was to-day before I heard of Mr. Andrews, but now he presses
on a dispatch with exceeding earnestness and all compliance that
can be anyway given, only I tell him counsel are mostly in the
country and I must have a little time to consider of things and
to pitch on such counsel as may be had at this time. |
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As to what you are to do, he excepts against nothing, only says
you were willing to covenant that Queen Street House should
continue 300l. a year during the lady's life. |
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As to what is to be done to you, the 5,000l. shall be paid down.
(Proposals for securing the other 5,000l.) |
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Indeed I think, if you be minded not to proceed, it will be
convenient to acquaint them with the true reason and of how
great concern that circumstance is to you, but, if you conceive
any other way fitter, I shall observe your commands. |
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Mr. Andrews says you did not call for the books as he expected
you would have done, if not satisfied, and says whatsoever counsel
I choose, he will use no other. I shall keep off what may be,
hoping shortly to hear from or see you. |
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I believe the Lord Chancellor will own any advice, if you desire
it. [2 pages. Conway papers. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 48.] |
Aug. 7.
Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord President of the Council.
The King would have the Committee of Intelligence attend
him here at 2 to-morrow afternoon on some business of importance.
He desires you will not fail of being then here. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 56, p. 43.] |
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Note that the like was sent to the Lord Chancellor. [Ibid.] |
Aug. 7.
Windsor. |
Warrant to Capt. Reginald Grahame, appointed a captain of a
company of the Earl of Plymouth's foot regiment, to be raised
for the garrison of Tangier, for, as soon as he has raised and
completed the said company, marching with them to Scarborough
Castle, where he is to lodge and continue till further order. [S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 60, p. 35.] |
Aug. 7.
Windsor. |
Warrant to Sir Thomas Slingsby, Governor of Scarborough
Castle, for admitting the above mentioned company and for
suffering them to lodge in the Castle. [Ibid.] |
Aug. 7.
Windsor. |
Warrant to the Governor of Portsmouth for delivering to the
eldest captain of the three troops now embarked at Portsmouth
for Tangier 150 pair of pistols for the use of the said troops.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 65, p. 24.] |
Aug. 7.
London. |
Newsletter to Sir Francis Radcliffe at Dilston. Last week Lady
Tempest was tried at York assizes. She excepted against 20 of
those summoned. At length a jury was impannelled. The evidence
seemed very full and positive against her, viz., that she gave
250l. to encourage the design of killing the King and other treasonable matters. The judge summed up the evidence and gave directions to find it, but, after they had some time withdrawn, they
brought her in Not Guilty to the great admiration of the whole
Court. |
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Sir Miles Stapleton was likewise called, but he excepted against
so many of the jury that there were not enough left to serve and,
the King's Counsel not moving for a talis, his trial is put by
till next assizes. |
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All the way the Duke of Monmouth travelled to the West he
was generally saluted with the acclamations of the people, and,
though he desired his coming hither might be kept privately, he
was met by the nobility and gentry of the country to the number
of 500 horse and upwards. |
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On Friday night an attorney's clerk stole away Serjeant
Sympson's daughter and married her in the Minories. They are
not since heard of. 'Tis said Mr. Gregory, a barber in Cursitors'
Alley, gave her away, who, being threatened by the Serjeant,
has since cut his throat. He is not yet dead but 'tis thought he
cannot live. |
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The King was Wednesday in Council, where much of the time
was taken up about Tangier. Nothing was concluded, but several
things were proposed, viz., directions were sent to the Governor
to prolong the peace with the Moors and to agree with them
for a certain parcel of ground, which they may encompass by
cutting a passage into the Jures river, which by computation
would amount to 10,000l. |
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Mr. Holder, a merchant, was yesterday seized at the Royal
Exchange and committed for having held a correspondency with
the Moors in Barbary and supplied them with ammunition and
other provision by way of Sallee. |
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On Wednesday, a person was examined before the Council,
who was observed to sound our harbours, channels and creeks,
being taken near the Isle of Wight. The matter is not yet public,
but 'tis whispered he was employed by the French King. |
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Prince Rupert continues ill of a sore leg. The Duke of Albemarle
is well recovered and supposed to go as General to Tangier. |
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The discourse is again renewed of the Duke of Ormonde's
being recalled from Ireland. [1½ page. Admiralty, Greenwich
Hospital 1, No. 61.] |
Aug. 7.
Belys. |
Frances Davis to the Earl of Conway. Thankfully acknowledging his command by Mr. Totton (? Totnall) concerning her
son Conway, being so far above her reason how to dispose of
him that she can only refer him to his Honour's generous will
and asking him to send over word to Mr. Totton when she shall
send him over to his lordship. [Conway papers. S.P. Ireland,
Car. II. 339, No. 119.] |
Aug. 9.
Windsor. |
The Earl of Sunderland to Mr. Brisbane. You will acquaint
the Commissioners of the Admiralty that the King would have
them give order to the captain of the first convoy for Tangier
to receive on board and carry to Tangier the Sieur de Vassarnas,
a Dutch gentleman, who goes to the Earl of Plymouth, and also
an order to any of the men-of-war that shall return to England
from thence or from Portugal to bring him back again. [S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 56, p. 44.] |
Aug. 9.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Bevil Skelton. Your two letters of 12
and 18 July, o.s. were read yesterday before his Majesty at the
Committee of Intelligence, except the clause in that of the 18th
relating to your own concerns, which I intend to lay before his
Majesty when I have an opportunity in private, being resolved
to serve you in it all I can. On the rest of your letters I have
no directions. I somewhat wonder I have not heard from Lord
Middleton since he left the Hague. To-day the ratifications
between his Majesty and the King of Spain were exchanged at
Windsor. The ceremony put us in mind of what the Spanish
ambassador has promised us of the Emperor's speedy coming into
the alliance. He was minded of it fully to-day. We are not
much edified that Count Thun is so long coming. Yesterday his
Majesty received the letter so much talked of from the Diet at
Ratisbon. |
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The States General having solicited the Most Christian King
afresh for a prolongation of the term about the title of Burgundy,
he caused an answer to be given by Monsieur D'Avaux that he
had received orders to let them know that his master in their
consideration only, which he would not do for any other body in
this world, would prolong the term for a month and, as long as they
continue to do nothing against him, he would' be their humble
servant. We are all here very quiet. [1½ page. S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 64, p. 26.] |
| Aug. 10. |
The information of William Connock. Being at Rotterdam
24 July—3 Aug. last to get a passage to London, he observed some
Englishmen carrying goods on board an English vessel; who
told him they were bound for Durham. He inquired if they
knew Mr. Basire and Mr. Thomas Carnaby. They replied they
did, and that the latter's servant was there, pointing to a young
man. Connock asked him, how his master did? He answered
Very well, and that he was then at Rotterdam, having bought
a quantity of arms there. |
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Then Connock found out Mr. Carnaby and asked him, what
occasion he had to buy arms? He said, He bought them for
Sir Ralph Cole for a regiment of the Trained Bands. Mr. Carnaby's
man told him not the number of the muskets and pikes, but that
the drums were about 12 or 16. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 49.] |
Aug. 10.
London. |
Francis Bourke to the Earl of Conway. Mr. Arthur writes
weekly about the 24l. 19s. 2d. owing by you. I beseech you to
order its payment without loss of time. [Conway papers. Ibid.
No. 50.] |
Aug. 10.
London. |
C. Magenis to the Earl of Conway. The 3rd Mr. Andrews and
I came here and the same night I delivered your letter to
Mr. Cratford and the writings next morning and waited on
Mr. Gwyn, Lord Granard and the Countess of Ranelagh. |
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Lord Ranelagh is daily expected here. |
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Lord Granard commands me to let you know he will be on his
return to Ireland in 16 or 17 days and will wait on you at Ragley
or any other place, where he hears you are. |
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Mr. Cratford expects to hear from you next post. Mr. Andrews
wonders at his delay in the business. They were to meet this
morning. (About wines, oranges and lemons and other private
matters.) [Conway papers. Ibid. No. 51.] |
Aug. 10.
London. |
C. Magenis to the Earl of Conway. Lord Granard, having
been abroad all day till now, which is almost 10, and going to
Windsor to-morrow and not having time to write to you till his
return, commands me to let you know. [Conway papers. Ibid.
No. 52.] |
| Aug. 10. |
Elizabeth Boothe to the Earl of Conway. Your lines bringing
fresh evidence of the place I hold in your memory give me freedom
of returning you thanks with this addition, that your thoughts
are not more often here than mine with you. I am sorry my
father's illness rendered him incapable of receiving you, but he
hopes your goodness will pardon all errors, especially such as are
unavoidable. [Conway papers. Ibid. No. 53.] |
Aug. 10.
Windsor. |
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of
Richard Hill for a grant of the Comptroller's place of the customs
in the port of Gloucester. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 85.] |
Aug. 10.
London. |
Newsletter to Sir Francis Radcliffe at Dilston. Several persons of
quality are preparing to go beyond sea against the sitting of the
Parliament, particularly Sir John Key is very earnest for a pass, and
we hear that Mr. Charles Bertie has promised to go Envoy Extraordinary to the Duke of Bavaria, as 'tis thought to prevent his
being obliged to give account of the petitions. |
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This week the soldiers raised for Tangier were guarded on shipboard in order to their transportation, 16 of whom leaped overboard to escape, where they were taken up half drowned and
secured again. |
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We hear that his Majesty has commanded Roger L'Estrange
to forbear writing such papers as tend to division. |
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Last Sunday, Charles Herbert of Colebrook was knighted. |
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We hear there will be great removal of persons from great offices
of trust, particularly Chief Justice Scroggs, and that Sir John
Keeling is to be commissioned in his stead and that Lord Shaftesbury will be made Treasurer with many other alterations, which
we shall forbear mentioning till further confirmation. |
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We hear that the Duke of Monmouth was received by the
inhabitants of Bath with very great demonstration of joy and
affection, being met out of the city with 200 gentlemen and
citizens on horseback, the bells ringing &c. |
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We hear that 300 Scots are come into the Downs for the service
of Tangier. |
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On Wednesday, Dr. Tonge's son was examined before the
Council and attested that this plot was a forgery contrived by
his father and Dr. Oates and that particularly his father forged
the letters relating to the plot. Lord Roberts asked him if his
father had forged Coleman's letters, to which he answered, Yes. |
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Then the Lord President asked him if he forged the letter
that Coleman acknowledged to be his own handwriting, which
question put him to a nonplus, and he looked about him as if he
expected to be prompted, so he was ordered to withdraw. On
the same day Dr. Oates petitioned the Council against him, who
was ordered to attend on it some other time. |
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We hear that the Duchess of Portsmouth has obtained a promise
from his Majesty that her son shall be installed K.G. instead of
Lord Ossory. |
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On Wednesday night, before his Majesty went to Windsor, the Lord
Mayor and Sheriff Raymond waited on him to give him an account
of the citizens' petition for the sitting of the Parliament. His
Majesty remarked on it that, though they had promised in it to
stand by him with their lives and fortunes in defence of the
Protestant religion, yet they had not expressed the words "as
at present established by law" and told them that it should be
the Parliament's fault, if course was not taken for securing their
lives, liberties and estates against the growth of Popery and
greatness of France, and bad them tell their fellow citizens that
the Parliament should undoubtedly sit next November. [1½ page.
Admiralty, Greenwich Hospital1, No. 62.] |
Aug. 11.
Bristol. |
Certificate by Sir Robert Cann, Roger Yeamans and Ralph
Olliffe, that Nathaniel Wade of this city, now bound to appear
at Wells assizes, is and has for three years been guilty of divers
seditious and disloyal practices, particularly in that he with
other sectaries and Nonconformists to the number of 60 at least,
whereof he was a ringleader, not long since without the consent
of the lord lieutenant, deputy lieutenants or any of the civil
magistrates formed themselves into an armed company and had
several meetings, where they exercised themselves in arms, and
also that he has lately resisted a justice in disturbing a conventicle,
for which he has been convicted and fined at the Quarter Sessions,
and likewise that on Sunday, the 1st instant, he resisted another
Justice in disturbing a conventicle, for which he and his brother
were committed to prison and ordered to be of good behaviour.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 54.] |
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B. Peake to the King. Enclosing these papers. [Undated,
but with postmark of 11 Aug. Ibid. No. 55.] Enclosed, |
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A Relation of the Contents of the Black Box with some other
remarkable occurrences. Pamphlet relating how a nobleman,
whose treasonable practices were brought to light, persuaded
his steward to make himself the principal and indeed the
only conspirator, promising to procure him a pardon, if
condemned, and a great recompense. The steward accordingly
confessed he was the sole traitor and that his master was
absolutely clear of it, for which he was sentenced to death.
The nobleman came to see him in prison and told him he had
procured his pardon, showing him one he had counterfeited,
which he took out of a black box, but he was for an example
to be carried to the place of execution and there receive his
pardon and that, when he should see a person there on his right
hand hold up a black box, it should be an infallible sign of his
pardon being there. Accordingly at the place of execution
the bearer of the black box placed himself on an eminence
at the prisoner's right hand, who having drawn out his speech
to an unusual length, the chief officer told him he would stay
for him no longer. The prisoner replied a gentleman was
there with a black box, who, he was confident, had his pardon.
The gentleman delivered his box to the chief officer, who took
a paper out of it, with the words "On sight hereof, let the
prisoner be immediately executed," which order was so speedily
obeyed that the prisoner had no time to discover the cheat.
This is the substance of what I have heard concerning the
black box. |
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(Then follow the stories from Baker's Chronicle of the miller's
man who pretended to be the miller and of the Mayor of
Bodmin.) 1680. [Printed. Ibid. No. 55i.] |
Aug. 11.
Windsor. |
Warrant for a grant of the offices of prothonotary and clerk
of the Crown of the counties of Glamorgan, Brecknock and
Radnor to Anthony Gwynne for his life in reversion after Francis
Gwynne, one of the clerks of the Privy Council, the present holder.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, f. 365.] |
Aug. 11.
Windsor. |
The Lords of the Council to the Ordnance Commissioners.
Warrant for providing and issuing all the stores now demanded,
specified in the annexed particular, and for shipping the same for
the garrison of Tangier and further for stopping all the train
and stores directed to be sent thither by the warrant of 14 July
and for discharging all the officers and ministers appertaining to
that train, excepting only the 47 miners and 20 of the gunners,
which, as also the coals and lime directed in the said warrant,
they are to cause to be sent to Tangier as soon as possible.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 65, p. 32.] Annexed, |
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An account of stores and provisions of war necessary for the present
supply of the garrison of Tangier, giving numerous particulars.
10 July, 1680. Tangier. With note by Sir Palmes Fairborne
and Martin Beckman that the powder in store, except what
came over with the last supplies, belongs to the Navy, therefore
care must be taken to send over good supplies on the garrison's
account. 12 July, 1680. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 65, p. 33.] |
Aug. 11.
Lisburn. |
R. Mildmay to the Earl of Conway. Sam. Chambers sets forward
with your horses next Monday, about 20 in number, but I believe
not all are yours. He earnestly desires you would send good
help to Neston to unship them. (About his having bargained
with John Tattnall and Chambers to keep old Essex in exchange for
two cobs, which he and they think is his full value, for they agreed
with him for 5 guineas, which is 11s. short of these 2 cobs, as they are
now valued.) I have received your last bill for 216l. and 'tis now almost due, but I want 34l. of paying off the former. I shall pay this
216l. as soon as I can. We are distraining some in every parish in
order to it. You wrote that you drew by guess, but I am sure you
guess so well that I have not had time to make up 100l. above
twice. Since May I have paid it almost as I received it. Sam.
Chambers must now have 40l. for his journey. This wet weather
continues so extreme that the greatest part of hay is dung, and
among the rest you have share. John Tattnall says at Portmore
20 or 30 acres of hay are gone quite away with the floods. At
Charlemont no part of the meadows has been seen these two
months nor is it like to be mowed this year. Great part of the
corn is flat on the ground and grass and weeds grow through it.
I have settled the accounts of Charlemont with Sergeant Twinyhoe
of your company. He always had the accounts in Capt. Ball's
time. I intend to go there again to see the provision of wood
and turf &c., as was formerly done for the use of the garrison.
The arrears now here are 851l. 9s. 8d., which will not be all paid
in money, for John Tattnall and I have not yet reckoned for his
and his workmen's rent, which usually takes up a good part
of 100l. [Conway papers. S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 120.] |
Aug. 11.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant for the payment
of the pension of 20s. a week granted 20 Dec., 1662, to William
Awbrey and the arrears thereof, the payment of which has been
stopped since Michaelmas, 1678, till he shall be satisfied 516l. 11s.
11d. sterling. [S.P. Dom., Signet Office, Vol. 10, p. 465.] |
| Aug. 12. |
Order in Council that copies of the two letters directed to
Mrs. Coyney be taken and the originals sent to Mr. Chetwynd to
trace the matter and to examine the postman of the Stone bag.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 56.] |
Thursday,
Aug. 12. Chester. |
Lieut. Lancelot Bolton to the Earl of Conway. I am very
glad to have the happiness to kiss your hands at Ragley on
Saturday at night. Lord Ranelagh desires that your coach meet
him at Birmingham on Saturday. [Conway papers. Ibid. No. 57.] |
Thursday,
Aug. 12. Chester. |
The Earl of Ranelagh to the Earl of Conway. I have got safe
here and intend to be with you at Ragley on Saturday night. I am
much out of order in my health and riding does not agree with
me, therefore I desire you to send your coach for me as far as
Bremingham. [Conway papers. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 58.] |
| Aug. 12. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Earl of Plymouth. It is with a very
sincere joy I observe the ample testimonies brought hither of
your good conduct in your present station. You'll easily believe
it is a particular contentment to his Majesty to see you open
yourself a way to those great trusts and honours that they have
title to who most eminently and successfully serve the Crown. |
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I wish heartily there were anything in my power here, wherein
I might be useful to you. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 55.] |
| Aug. 12. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Bishop of Bath and Wells. His
Majesty has commanded me to assure you and by you as many
of your friends as you possibly can that he utterly dislikes the
proceedings of the Duke of Monmouth; that he desires his friends
not to show him any respect nor to have any commerce with
him in this ramble; that the course he is now in, however the
law, as it now is, lay not hold of him, is very much against common
prudence and the duty he owes to his Majesty. This I have in
command to tell you. I gave Sir Robert Cann by this post an
account of what the Lords of the Council have determined this
day relating to Wall, the coiner. [Ibid.] |
| Aug. 12. |
Secretary Jenkins to Sir Robert Cann. I had not an
opportunity till this morning to produce the depositions of the
coiner and others before the Council. It was their judgment
that, if Nicholas Wall made a discovery worth the while, they
should and would become suitors to his Majesty for his pardon.
This they will do, and I'll be sure to mind them of it, in case Wall
in any measure deserve it. [Ibid. p. 56.] |
| Aug. 12. |
Secretary Jenkins to George Clarke at Swaynswick near Bath.
In your letter to me of the 6th, I find a great evidence of your
affection and zeal for his Majesty's service. I shall watch for an
opportunity to produce it before his Majesty in Council as soon
as may be, and, if I have any directions on it relating to you, I'll
give you notice of it with the soonest. I say "if I have," for since
the Habeas Corpus Act no words but those of downright high
treason will deprive a seditious person of his liberty. 'Tis true
he may be indicted. Whitaker is very well known to his
Majesty and Council to be the person he speaks himself to be in
the coffee-houses. [Ibid. p. 57.] |
| Aug. 12. |
Secretary Jenkins to Walter Chetwynd. Your letter to
Mr. Gwynne being read to-day in Council with the examination
of Mrs. Coyney, I am commanded to send you the two original
letters that you may make the best use of them you can to trace
out the disguise Mrs. Coyney uses. Their lordships think that,
when you have perused and sealed them up, you may find a proper
unsuspected person to convey them to her and thereby find out
whether she be the person concerned in them or not, but first
and above all they desire that you take a very strict account from
the postmaster that has the opening of the Stone bag, for certainly,
if Mrs. Coyney knows nothing of these letters, he does. They
would likewise know what religion Coyney is of. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 62, p. 58.] |
Aug. 12.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to 8 seaport towns. An Order in Council
is directed to the Lords of the Admiralty to seize a certain private
man-of-war of 12 guns, whereof one Guittard is captain and
Hawkeshead lieutenant. She, as I am informed, sailed out of
Dunkirk about 1 August, n.s. and was designed for some port
in England to take in Englishmen to go on a privateering voyage
under pretence of executing certain letters of reprizal granted
to George Carew and others against the subjects of the States
General. It is true such letters were granted in or about 1665,
but the execution of them was, in a year or two, suspended by
proclamation and they have been declared about two months ago
to be void by a supersedeas. |
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The reason of vacating them, as I conceive, was that his
Majesty in a solemn treaty of peace at Breda in 1667 revoked
all letters of marque and reprizal whatsoever. The States did
the same on their part. But the States General and those of
Zealand are at this time extremely alarmed with the news of
the setting out of this man-of-war from Dunkirk. For that reason
the Dutch ambassador came to me this afternoon and demanded
I should do all the offices in my power to preserve the peace
between both nations, and to take care that no such vessel set out
of his Majesty's ports. This obliges me to desire your care in
executing the orders of the Lords of the Admiralty, if they be
come to the Vice-Admirals or other officers in your port, and,
if they be not come, that you suffer no vessel suspected to be on
the design of any such voyage to go out of your port, before you
advertise the Lords of the Admiralty thereof and receive their
orders. This I thought it my duty to give you notice of for the
public peace and to prevent all misunderstanding between his
Majesty and his allies, the States General or their respective
subjects. [2½ pages. Ibid. p. 59.] |
Aug. 12.
Windsor. |
Order to Capt. Savile of the Earl of Plymouth's regiment to
march forthwith with his company to Whitehaven, where they
are to continue in order to their embarcation for Ireland.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 65, p. 22.] |
Aug. 12.
Windsor. |
The King to Lieut.-colonel Piercy Kirke. Having thought
it needful that 400 privates of the Earl of Plymouth's regiment
be with all possible speed embarked with their arms at Blackwall
with two captains, two lieutenants, two ensigns, four sergeants
and eight corporals, which officers you are to appoint, you are
therefore to give order to the respective captains to hasten the
completing their proportions of the said number, and you are
to apply yourself or send an officer to the Commissioners of the
Admiralty and the Navy to know when shipping will be ready
with victuals on board for the said officers and soldiers, on which
you are to give order and take care that as many of the said
soldiers as are mustered or in readiness be forthwith embarked
in these ships with their arms, and the said officers or so many of
them as you shall think fit be then embarked with them, and,
as the rest of the soldiers shall be raised, you are to cause them to
be shipped with their arms in like manner with the residue of the
said officers; you are to give order to the eldest captain going with
them to take care of getting together and securing their arms on
shipboard under the custody of the commanders of the respective
ships, who are to deliver them at Tangier as the Lieut.-governor
shall direct. You are also to give order to the said officers and
soldiers to pass over in the said ships to Tangier, where the
officers are to dispose of the soldiers according to the Lieut.governor's orders, whose certificate or receipt they are to desire
for the numbers of men so disposed of, wherewith the said officers
are then to return back hither, and you are to send notice to the
Commissary-General of the Musters when the said officers and
soldiers shall embark in order to their being mustered according
to the orders given in that behalf. [1½ page. S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 65, p. 25.] |
Aug. 12.
Windsor. |
Warrant to Henry Howard, Commissary-General of the Musters,
for mustering the officers and men mentioned in the last warrant.
[Ibid. p. 26.] |
Aug. 12.
Windsor. |
The King to Capt. Graham of the Earl of Plymouth's regiment.
Notwithstanding the former order for his company to march to
Scarborough Castle, ordering him forthwith to march them to
Whitehaven, where they are to continue in order to their embarcation for Ireland. [Ibid. p. 27.] |
Aug. [12].
Windsor. |
The King to the Earl of Oxford, colonel of the King's own
regiment of Horse. Ordering him to send the two troops of his
regiment that lie most convenient for that service to assist
Lieut.-colonel Kirke in the embarcation at Blackwall of the
officers and 400 soldiers of the Earl of Plymouth's regiment.
[Ibid.] |
| Aug. 13. |
George Robinson, high bailiff, four Aldermen and nine Common
Council men of Ludlow to the King. Informing him that they
had that day re-elected Edward Smalman to be town clerk
by 15 voices against 11 given for Mr. Charlton and recommending
him for his approbation, with reasons to show that Smalman
is fitter for the place than Charlton. [2 pages. S.P. Dom.,
Car. II. 414, No. 59.] |
| [Aug. 13.] |
Sir Job Charlton to Secretary Jenkins. You may remember
his Majesty signified his pleasure to the corporation of Ludlow
as to the disapproving of the election of Edward Smalman and
recommended their former town clerk for a new election, which
they have so slighted that they have this day elected Smalman
again. It was carried by four voices and by the encouragement
of Lord Newport and Col. Fox, neither of whom have reason to
contribute towards the affront of his Majesty's authority. By
their charter they are on his Majesty's disapprobation to choose
another and not the same. I desire you speedily to acquaint his
Majesty herewith and that he would signify by you his resentment
of their undutiful carriage and command them to proceed to a
new election. Be pleased also to acquaint the Lord Chancellor
herewith. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 60.] |
Aug. 13.
The Council Chamber, Whitehall. |
The Lords of the Council to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
After reciting the former order that the remaining companies
of the Scotch regiment in Ireland and as many commanded men,
to be drawn out of the forces there as would with the said five
companies make up 500 men and also 120 horse with their officers
to be drawn out of the army there, which were to be formed in
two troops, should march to Kinsale, there to be shipped for
Tangier, signifying his Majesty's pleasure that the said foot
and horse should be forthwith stopped and remanded again
to their respective employments in Ireland. [S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 65, p. 28.] |
Aug. 13.
Whitehall. |
The Lords of the Council to Sir Palmes Fairborne. Finding
by the particular brought by Capt. Lestley that there were at
Tangier, 10 July, forces amounting in the whole to 2,432, and
640 more from Ireland being on the sea, if not yet arrived, and
three troops of 180 horse being already sailed as far as St. Helens,
where they wait for the first fair wind, and 200 recruits of foot sent
for from Scotland, [which] may be speedily expected with you, these
forces his Majesty accounts sufficient to defend the place till the
beginning of spring, when the season and condition of the ground
will permit entering on fortifying, and then he intends to send out
such addition of forces as shall be judged convenient. Nevertheless, he, being mindful of his resolution of not suffering the soldiers
to be overlong continued at Tangier, has ordered 400 foot more
of the men newly raised to be speedily shipped as recruits for
Tangier to be disposed of for recruiting the old regiment as you
shall find best and on the arrival of these 400 it is left to you to
discharge and send back two or three hundred as you think best
of the men that have been longest at Tangier and are most desirous
to be discharged and the Admiralty have order about bringing
them for England. [Ibid. p. 29.] |
Aug. 13.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to William Hewer, Treasurer for Tangier, for payment with all convenient speed, he being enabled thereto by the
Lords of the Treasury, to about 140 unserviceable soldiers from
Tangier landed at Plymouth, Deal or elsewhere, of the arrears of
pay appearing due to them, deducting the value of what has been
furnished to any of them in clothes since their landing, all which
arrears are computed to amount to about 435l. 3s., and he is to
issue them their pay from the day he shall find by their
certificates they were discharged at Tangier till they shall be paid
off here together with conduct money at the rate of 1d. per mile
from where they were paid off to the place of their abode.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 65, p. 30.] |
Aug. 14.
Bristol. |
R[obert] F[erguson] to his wife. I am come safe here this
afternoon, having been at Worcester, Gloucester and Bath, since
I parted with my brother, who, I hope, is safely returned to
London. If nothing intervene, I intend to be at home next
Thursday. I have not only enjoyed my health since I left London,
but am better by travelling than I could have reasonably
promised myself. There is nothing here to acquaint you with,
save that Mr. Bedloe lies sick of a fever, and, as it is thought,
unto death. Were there anything extraordinary at London,
I should have had some intimation of it by the letters that came
in to-day. The Duke of Monmouth has been in these parts and
greatly caressed by the gentry and people. He is now gone
to Lord Shaftesbury's in Dorset. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414,
No. 61.] |
Aug. 14.
London. |
Christopher Cratford to the Earl of Conway. I have yours of
the 10th and shall take the first opportunity of discoursing
Mr. Andrews concerning the lady. (About the arrangements for
the settlements and other private affairs.) [Conway papers.
Ibid. No. 62.] |
Aug. 14.
London. |
C. Magenis to the Earl of Conway. I have seen your letter to
Mrs. Acton and thank you for your continual care of me. I have
at this time no need of a doctor and had writ this day sennight,
if I had not been prevented by Lord Granard's keeping me with
him till it was too late to write. As for Mr. Andrews and I being
together, I had not seen him that day nor in three days together,
nor was I in any other company, only waited on Lord
Granard. |
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Mrs. Acton had written by this post, but the child she has in
keeping is very ill and like to die. I made inquiry in Covent
Garden of what you know of, but no such person could be
found there. |
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Mr. Gwyn takes his journey to Wales ten days hence and will
wait on you at his return about Michaelmas. Lord Ranelagh
landed last Sunday at Holyhead. |
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The Earl of Longford is also landed and is expected in town
to-night. Lord Granard is to-night come from Windsor, but is
not yet come to his lodgings. His servant will give him your
letter, as soon as he comes in. [Conway papers. Ibid. No. 63.] |
Aug. 14.
Chester. |
Matthew Anderton to the Postmaster at Coventry. Having
received directions to send all letters for the Earl of Conway to
Dunham, I sent thither a messenger with this, who meeting a
servant of Lord Delamere's that assured him Lord Conway was
gone to Ragley, I thought it best to send you this to forward.
[Conway papers. Ibid. No. 64.] |
Aug. 14.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for the creation of Elizabeth, Lady Dacres, mother of
Thomas, Earl of Sussex, to be Countess of Sheppey for her life.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, f. 365.] |
| Aug. 14. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The
Dedimus is lodged at the Crown Office. When there will be a
seal is uncertain, 'tis the depth of the vacation. I have given
Sir Robert Cann the sense of the Committee about the coiner.
I have a cipher ready whenever you will appoint a safe hand to
call for it*. You will see by the enclosed address that the Grand
Jury of Durham have done well, and by the letter that the Diet at
Ratisbon have writ to the King that the weight of the Crown
of England in the balance of Christendom is looked on as
considerable by those abroad and certainly it is so, when we are
at unity among ourselves. God send us to be so. I know no
reason for the wild talk of the town of changes to be at court.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 62.] |
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Note of letters to the same effect as the above from the
asterisk to Lord Chief Justice North and the Bishop of Exeter,
only that in the former was added as follows:—The King was
mightily pleased with the address of the grand jury you sent
me. He commanding it to be printed, I offered it might be
mentioned only or else the substance of it given, but the King
would have it published totidem verbis. [Ibid.] |
Aug. 14.
Windsor Castle. |
Warrant for a gift to Alexander, now Earl of Kincardine, of
a yearly pension of 500l. sterling for his life, to be paid by equal
portions at Whitsunday and Mertinmes, the first payment to be
made next Mertinmes. [Docquet. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6,
p. 141.] |
Aug. 14.
Windsor Castle. |
Memorial of a protection in the ordinary form to William
Loudoun of Sunnyside for 3 years. [Ibid.] |
Aug. 14.
Lisburn. |
Sir George Rawdon to the Earl of Conway. Sam. Chambers
took leave of me to-day. I took this note of his draft of horses.
Also I enclose this letter from Capt. Lyndon, Roger Lyndon's
second son, and believe, if Lord Granard were with you, he would
tell you of his good service at sea and when he was Col. Holmes'
deputy-governor in the Isle of Wight, and that he is very capable
of such a charge and is a favourite of the Earl of Arran's and
would have a ready approbation from our general. I offer it to
your consideration that, in case two companies be continued in
Charlemont and you think fit to move for it, this captain may
be there. I believe none fitter and that would be more obsequious
to you, but I have some doubt whether Lord Granard would like
his removal from Mullingar, where he chose that company to
be in garrison before any other in the army, but, since he has now
a company of his own, perhaps it may not be inconvenient for him
to have them there, and as to Capt. Wilkinson, I doubt, unless he
could purchase your lieutenant's commission or rather some other
foot company, how he can support the place of governor there.
It may be feared the resolution the Earl of Essex took and which
has been declared by our now Lord Lieutenant, that none that sold
their commission, unless to get a better in the army, should have
any other afterwards, may be objected to Capt. Wilkinson. |
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Our wet season rather increases, so that hay and firing will
be very scarce this year, where there is nothing of fuel but turf.
Mr. Chads of Charlemont has persuaded John Totnall, as soon
as he can get time, to go over with him into Tyrone to see an
appearance of a coal mine lately found within two miles of the
Lough, that may supply this part of the country, if well managed,
which, if it prove, would be a great conveniency to us and our
neighbours. |
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There was a strong report that Lord Granard was named to
command the forces to Tangier, who could not well be spared
from hence, but last post we hear that Lord Alington is in nomination for that expedition. |
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There is doleful lamentation at Dublin for the death of the
Earl of Ossory and much more at Kilkenny doubtless in that
family, but I have not heard from there since the sad news
arrived. Here it is commonly spoken you are married, which
I credit not till I hear it from yourself. Lord Massereene and
others have given such a character of the perfections of your
mistress that none doubts of your great prudence in your choice. |
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I have sent for my girls and yours, thinking their stay too long
may be troublesome at Castle Forbes, but my lady is so pleased
with their company that she is very unwilling to part with them.
Arthur had gone for them, but that I daily expect Sir James
Graham's landing and then I must venture a journey to Tredath
and Dublin. Moll and her boy are very well. [Conway papers.
S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 121.] Enclosed, |
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Capt. George Lyndon to [Sir G. Rawdon]. Requesting his
letter to Lord Conway in support of his desire to receive
the honour of commanding Charlemont. Dublin, 10 August.
[Conway papers. Ibid. No. 121 i.] |
Aug. 14.
Lisburn. |
Arthur Rawdon to the Earl of Conway. Hearing of Capt.
Wilkinson's landing at Dublin and falling sick on his way home
and that he had waited on you in England, I went yesterday
in a wet day, which is our usual weather of late, to inquire of your
health and found him recovering and that he left you very well.
I have been at Portmore several times of late, where it is winter
still and the park so wet and the lough so high, that there is as
little pleasure now as in winter. My father has writ for my
sisters home, though Lady Granard is not very willing to part
with them. [Conway papers. Ibid. No. 122.] |
Aug. 15.
Ludford. |
Sir Job Charlton to Sir Thomas Lyttelton. Complaining of the
conduct of the corporation of Ludlow in passing over his son and
again electing Mr. Smalman as town clerk, notwithstanding the
King's letter, and asking him to use his influence in preventing
the approbation by his Majesty of the election.—Sir George Jeffreys
told the bailiffs and divers of the corporation he would be
neutral in the matter, which I doubt gave encouragement,
whereas he, being the King's servant, ought rather to have
asserted the King's right. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 65.] |
Aug. 16.
Whitehall. |
Affidavit by Robert Stephens, messenger of the Press, of his
seizure of sheet F of a pamphlet entituled Malice Defeated, or
Mrs. Cellier's Narrative when printing at the house of Downing,
a printer in St. Bartholomew Close, and that he, asking for the
former sheets, was answered by Downing that he had delivered
them already to Mrs. Cellier, who gave him the copy to print.
[Ibid. No. 66.] |
| Aug. 16. |
Warrant to Thomas Atterbury, messenger, after reciting the
above affidavit, to bring before Secretary Jenkins the said Downing
and Cellier, to answer to what shall be objected against them.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 54, p. 50.] |
Aug. 16.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Earl of Middleton. Having received
no letter from you since you left the Hague, I have nothing to trouble
you with. We do not know as yet of your being in function,
but have reason to believe you are already some while at the
Emperor's court. The Spaniards having obtained a longer
term till 16 Sept. to bring in their powers without the title of
Burgundy in the style of their King, 'tis hoped they'll do it.
Sir Henry Goodrick and Monsieur de Hemskirk are ordered to
do their best offices to dispose the Court of Madrid to it. We have
no news from Tangier later than that Capt. Lesley brought.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 64, p. 28.] |
Aug. 16.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Bevil Skelton. I have none of yours since
the 18th past. We are quiet at present. The grand juries of
Devon, Kent, York, Durham, &c. have at the respective assizes
renounced petitioning. What your lady may possibly write
to you of Lord Middleton's being to be recalled on the sudden
is not, that I can yet perceive, well-grounded. When I know
more of it, you shall not fail of what comes to my knowledge.
[Ibid.] |
Aug. 16.
London. |
Newsletter to Sir Francis Radcliffe at Dilston. Foreign news
from Brussels, Vienna and Cologne. |
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It is very much discoursed that the rest of the Protestant
jury or most of them will soon be taken into custody for several
accusations alleged to be against them. [Nearly 3 pages.
Admiralty, Greenwich Hospital 1, No. 63.] |
Aug. 16.
Lisburn. |
Capt. Robert Thelwall to the Earl of Conway. Having wrote
last when he was very ill, informing his lordship that he is now
so well that he believes he is as able to serve him in his present
employment or in any other his lordship will favour him with,
as he has been these many years past.—Of the business relating
to your troop, my lieutenant, who is with you, I suppose, will
give you account, as I wrote to him, as also of the debentures
you left with Mr. O'Neill and those I left with him since. By
report we have here, I presume to wish you joy and wish all
happiness may be added thereto; if there can be any more than
you expect in the incomparable lady you have. [Conway papers.
S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 123.] |
| Aug. 16. |
Capt. Philip Wilkinson to the Earl of Conway. The report
and afterwards the confirmation of Lord Ossory's death put the
Lord Lieutenant into such disorder that I could by no means
deliver your letter, but was glad to leave it with Capt. Aungier,
who is taking leave to go for Tangier and has promised to deliver
it with all the advantage he can and to give me an account of it.
I am told that Lieut. Cope is in some trouble that you have, as
report goes here, denied him to be your deputy and, as some
think, will sell his commission. If I have your encouragement,
I will employ some friend to treat with him. If you send me
power to examine and give you account of the state of things
in the government, I will do you all the service I can and it will
amaze the Lieutenant. I fell dangerously ill of a pleurisy, as I came
from Dublin, but hope to recover. [Conway papers. Ibid. No. 124.] |
Aug. 17.
Gresham College. |
Robert Hooke to the Earl of Conway. About his lordship's
new buildings at Ragley. [Conway papers. S.P. Dom., Car. II.
414, No. 67.] |
Aug. 17.
London. |
C. Magenis to the Earl of Conway. Mr. Bourke will let you
have what sum you please at 8 per cent, which is lower than I
could have it of any other merchant. I saw bills in his hands
payable at Dublin at 8 per cent. I will endeavour to get credit
for a small parcel of wine for present use. I think 10 dozen of
the claret may serve at present. Mr. Cratford met Mr. Andrews
this morning. What they have to do I suppose will be done in
10 or 12 days, though at present they cannot agree. |
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You may take the impression of the snuff-box in wax and send
it by the carrier. The tradesmen are daily with me to write to
you for money for them. The beltmaker and lace-woman are
very poor and not able to trust. Lord Granard has been these
two days at the Duke of Lauderdale's at Ham. He had your
letter, but is not certain whether he may come to town to-night.
[Conway papers. Ibid. No. 68.] |
Aug. 17.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to George Clarke of Swaynswick near Bath.
Your letter to me was this day read at the Council Board. My
lords very much approved of your good affection to his Majesty
and commanded me to desire you to put the matter of Whitaker's
words, as near as your memory can furnish you, into an affidavit.
I'll send you your letter next post to assist your memory.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 63.] |
Aug. 17.
London. |
Newsletter to Sir Francis Radcliffe at Dilston. Last week Dr.
Oates was married to a lady, niece to Lord Shaftesbury, by his
lordship's consent. |
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Letters from Ireland say that a person has lately given information before the Council of a design of the Scots residing
in the North to raise a rebellion and to assist their associates
in Scotland with 10,000 men to carry on the rebellion there,
delivering a schedule of about 70 men's names of the principal of
them with the whole particulars thereof, which we cannot yet
learn. |
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Strassburg, the 9th instant.—It is written from Brazell (Basel)
that there happened a very great earthquake, and next day extraordinary thunder with fierce wind, insomuch that it broke down
and tore up by the roots the trees for three or four miles round
and such a quantity of wood came down against the bridge as
put it in danger of being driven away. |
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We are credibly informed of eight pardons now passing for
eight persons of honour, whose names we will forbear mentioning
till further confirmation. |
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The Lord Chancellor is very ill of the gout. |
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There is a new order by his Majesty and Council for putting the
penal laws against Papists in execution. |
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Dr. North, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, is dead and
so is Commissary Baines. |
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The Duke of Norfolk is going over sea with all speed. |
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It is certain that the French King has commanded his ecclesiastics
not to appeal to Rome an any account whatsoever. |
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We hear that one of Dr. Tonge's son's confederates has confessed
the whole contrivance of the design against his father and
Dr. Oates. [Admiralty, Greenwich Hospital 1, No. 64.] |
| Aug. 17. |
Newsletter to Roger Garstell, Newcastle. From Toulouse we
have this relation, which we thought fit to insert here, every one
being free to use his own sentiments thereof. |
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Some days ago arrived here two old men, which call themselves
apostles having the spirit of truth. None saw them come into
the city. They are apparelled after such manner as the like
was never seen before. They preach in the streets to the people
repentance and forsaking their evil lives, for the wrath of God
is kindled against the Romans. They say this city is a second
Sodom, that the iniquity of the people is ascended to the heavens
and that within three months, if they do not repent, the city shall
perish by fire. They have continued now eight days preaching,
bare-headed and bare-footed with joined hands. The magistracy
have forbidden them to preach but they answer, that they were
sent from God to move the people to repentance. They were
put in prison, where the Jesuits went to visit them and disputed
with them in the Latin, Hebrew and Chaldean tongues. They
know such as lived bad lives. Their meat is bread alone and
drink, water. They name the day wherein the Lord shall come.
Being asked how long it should be before the Day of Judgment,
they answered that the first day of 1690 should be the last day
of the world. They say that they are a thousand years of age.
The magistrates demanded of them whence they were. They
answered that they came from Galadiam in Damas, a city of
Galilee, sent by God to preach repentance to the world. The
Jesuits have prevailed with the magistrates to let them be conveyed
to Rome to the Pope. |
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The said apostles say that they knew very well what would
become of them and that it was not necessary they should enchain
them with such magnificence and that they had a great desire
to see Rome and so broke the chains all in pieces. The people were
all astonished and judged them saints. |
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They prophesied that:—In 1681 shall be wars over all. In
1682 shall be no Pope and Rome shall have no head. In 1683
they shall preach throughout the world. (The paper with the
prophecies for 1684 is torn away.) In 1685 a great man shall
rise. In 1686 a great earthquake shall happen. In 1687 all
Africa shall burn. In 1688 the four parts of the world shall be
greatly astonished. In 1689 shall be the time when God shall
judge the world. |
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Letters from France 14 days since mentioned two such men
to be at Toulouse and that they had deported themselves as is
here inserted, but the Haarlem Courant of the 20th says that the
prophecy came out last week in print from Toulouse and is looked
on as slight and an invented thing. |
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Laurence Hyde, one of the Lords of the Treasury, is made one
of the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber. |
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The Earl of Clarendon is made Chamberlain to her Majesty
in place of the late Earl of Ossory, whose son, the present earl, last
week waited on his Majesty at Windsor and presented his father's
George and Garter, by which it appears that the valet de chambre,
as was reported, did not go away with them, but some say Count
Castell Mehoza, a Portuguese now in disfavour with that Court,
is to be Chamberlain to the Queen. |
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Dr. North, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a
prebendary of Westminster, is dead and his prebend, I am
informed, is given to Mr. Ashton, who was chaplain to the late
Earl of Ossory. |
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Capt. Bedloe, having settled himself and family at or near
Bristol, went hence thither a few days since, but letters from
Bristol yesterday say he has a violent fever, which by intermissions
makes him light-headed, but the physicians hope the worst is
past. |
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Last Friday the house and goods of Mr. Slingesby in Suffolk
Street were seized to his Majesty's use by the order of the Lords
of the Treasury [? on account of a debt due to] his Majesty for
money which came [to his hands] when Master of the Mint and
which [he has] not yet accounted for. |
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Last Saturday arrived at Windsor the famous Swedish General,
Count Coningsmark, having in this time of peace got leave of his
master to come for England with intention to serve as a volunteer
at Tangier. The Count was well received and it's said, since there
appears not any likelihood of action at Tangier, he intends to
reside here some time. |
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Several ships from Barbados and the Leeward Islands are
arrived in the Thames and report that they saw in the Chops of
the Channel two Algerines, but by reason of their number they
were not attacked by them. |
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Last Sabbath day about 2 his Majesty and his Royal Highness,
accompanied by the Earl of Lichfield, Lord Arran and others
took coach to Putney. At 4 they took barge there and shot the
Bridge at 5. About 7 they went on board the yachts at Erith
and immediately weighed for Chatham to see a new yacht
launched, which is built after a new form by his Majesty's
particular directions, after which he intends to visit his forts
of Gravesend and Sheerness on Monday. |
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His Majesty dined at Mr. Goddin's, the Commissioner at
Chatham, and thence went for Sheerness, whence this morning
he is gone in this new yacht for Portsmouth. |
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Mr. Hughes, a vigilant prosecutor of the discovery of priests
and Jesuits' estates and now particularly that of the late Father
Harcourt, for which a commission was yesterday to have been
sealed, last Saturday night was set upon in Drury Lane and
grievously assaulted by persons as yet unknown, so that his
life is despaired of. [3 pages. Damaged. Admiralty, Greenwich
Hospital 1, No. 65.] |
Aug. 18.
London. |
John Coggs to the Earl of Conway. Begging him once more
to take some speedy order that he may receive his money, it
being now almost a year since his lordship had his plate. [Conway
papers. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 69.] |
| Aug. 18. |
Memorandum that the underwritten commissions for officers in
the Cinque Ports were signed by the King when Henry Coventry
was secretary of state, but countersigned by Secretary Jenkins,
this 18 Aug., 1680. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 29, p. 358.] |
| Aug. 18. |
Sir James Shaen to the Privy Council of England. Your
lordships having delivered me a copy of the bill for granting
200,000l. requiring me to make observations thereon, as it relates
to the farm of the revenue of Ireland, I presume to observe that
so great a sum as 200,000l. to be levied in so few years with the
great arrears already due over and above the growing revenue
payable by a poor, moneyless, overcharged and indebted people,
may seem to others very difficult but to the farmers impossible,
without great hardships on the subjects, destroying the farm,
and extraordinary prejudice to the growing revenue, especially
if it be considered:—1. That Ireland is yet indebted to his Majesty
and those deriving under him above 300,000l., a hasty collection
of which (which doubtless will be endeavoured on an assured
prospect of a Parliament with so great taxes and to prevent delays
by privileges of Parliament and protections) will ruin many subjects
and disable them from paying not only the growing revenue but
also the new taxes, unless they sell their substance at half its real
value. 2. The perpetual revenue granted already or belonging to
his Majesty, if fully taken, will exceed 300,000l. per annum, which
is above three times more than any of his progenitors ever had
and is much more than they are at present able to pay, till by
due encouragement of their trade and manufactures and by
breathing awhile after payment of, or being freed from, the said
arrears they shall gather strength towards bearing the burden
they are already for ever liable to. 3. Already, one way or
another, from the subjects in Ireland is received near 300,000l.
per annum and, if the people had been or shall be able to pay it,
much more might be received. If England paid as much in
proportion as Ireland, the revenue of England would exceed
three millions per annum. 4. Ireland in all former reigns was a
constant charge to England, but now the revenue exceeds the
ordinary necessary charge above 60,000l. per annum, which
is at least one-fourth of the perpetual revenue. 7. The whole
current coin of Ireland before this farm, which commenced at
Christmas, 1675, on a serious consultation of the most knowing
people in such an affair was reckoned under 360,000l., which
is not much more than his Majesty may by law take from his
subjects yearly, if they were able to pay it, without any new Act,
which coin is in all likelihood much diminished since considering:—
(1) The advance money on the present farm was detained and used
in England and above 180,000l. of the farm rent above the ordinary
charge of the government of Ireland drawn into England as also
great sums out of the produce of the late farm. (2) Many of the
nobility and gentry and generally the Adventurers, who have
estates in Ireland, reside in England and draw over their rents
thither, whereby Ireland goes much to decay and the coin there
daily decreases. (3) The trade of Ireland is generally driven with
the effects and stocks of merchants, who do not inhabit there,
especially that of exportations, on which there is at present but a
small duty (though twice as much may be taken by law) and yet
the best merchants in Ireland have given over the trade of
importations, because it now pays a great duty, and leave the
same to the meaner sort of merchants, who use all possible
artifices to evade payment of the duties, whereby not only the
statute of Employments is eluded and the current coin diminished,
but also the wealth of the kingdom goes to those who do not reside
in, nor contribute towards the charge of it. (4) The coin there
is generally foreign and very light, uncertain and of such broken
denominations and so much abased and under the value at which
it is to pass current, that all the little good money which remains
will be swept away and the other left, which is not sufficient to
drive the trade of that kingdom.—6. Seeing the people do already
or ought, if they were able, pay in respect only of the perpetual
revenue near as much yearly as the whole current coin of the
kingdom amounts to, it is very improbable that this or any other
new concurrent tax can be paid without proportionably lessening
the perpetual revenue and it can hardly be precedented elsewhere
that the public yearly revenue exceeds or equals the current coin
thereof. 7. The people are generally straitened in their fortunes,
behindhand or poor and make very hard shifts to pay the present
duties, insomuch that the collectors are forced many times to
distrain their riding nags, milch cows, plow beasts, nay their
pots and pans and very bedclothes, which the people with great
difficulty, if at all, redeem, and they are often sold at near half
the value and therefore are fitter to receive, at least to be forborne,
than to give more. (Review of the condition of the clergy, the
nobility and gentry, the merchants, the farmers or husbandmen,
the artificers and manufacturers, the retailers of exciseable liquors,
the cottagers and cabineers, to prove the above assertions.)
8. The great argument against levying the composition for the
lapsed money was the poverty of the people, and, if that was a
good reason against raising so small a sum on an Act already
passed, it may be much more so against making a law for raising
this and other great sums. 9. When heretofore the extraordinary
subsidies were 60,000l. per annum, the ordinary revenue was about
150,000l. and now, while there are no extraordinary taxes, the
ordinary revenue is 240,000l. though there have been no new
Acts since to increase it, but on the contrary, some to abate it,
and much of the quit and other rents have been since discharged
or abated and it is presumed the ordinary revenue will decrease
as the extraordinary is increased. 10. This tax of 200,000l.,
as has been found by experience, will fall heaviest on the poor,
for the commissioners and assessors, being of the richer sort and
not on oath, commonly favour themselves and their own tenants,
friends and relations and lay the burden on others, whereby the
poor and friendless will pay more in proportion and yet they
commonly have the least benefit by any Acts of Grace. 11. It
may be feared that this wet harvest will occasion a dearth of corn
and cattle, which will very much prejudice the Customs, Excise
and other branches of the constant revenue and may also disable
the people from paying the same for divers years to come without
any other concurrent payments, as was found in 1673, whereby
the late Farmers lost 20,000l. by the Inland Excise only, and
yet have been denied any allowance of defalcations for the same.
12. As to the parts of this bill, which may more particularly
prejudice the present revenue, the assessors are by a pound rate
to assess inter alia all rents, merchandises and offices, wherein is
considerable:—(1) There are no exceptions to free the rents,
payments and sums payable to or by the Farmers, but on the
contrary no persons or bodies politic or corporate are to be
exempted except the College and the Hospitals and all the feefarm rents and all rents, payments and sums are to be taxed,
and it may easily be believed that the commissioners and assessors
will not forget to charge the Farmers. (2) The year's value of
the forfeited lands being about two-thirds of the whole kingdom
was about 180,000l. according to which proportion the value of the
whole may be 270,000l. and the rent of the Farm, being 240,000l.
may be charged by the letter of the Act with near as much as all the
other rents in Ireland, for which the Farmers will be entitled to
defalcations. (3) The Farmers and their officers receive or ought
to receive about 48,000l. per annum, for which by the letter of
this bill they may be charged, for there is no exception of the
revenue officers as there is of the judicial and military, in which
case all the Farmers will be entitled to defalcations. (4) If by
this Act the Houses of Parliament in Ireland or the commissioners
and assessors shall, as they may, impose any duties or taxes on
merchandises imported, the Farmers are to have the collection
thereof, and, if merchandises, which pay a great duty already, be
further charged, it will be a great burden on trade and discourage
merchants, whose goods and the full value of them may easily
be known by the rates and entries for Customs and Excise.
(5) Though only 4 of the payments of the 200,000l. be made
within the present Farmers' term, yet the other 4 will be due
before they can get in their arrears and will influence the same,
but will be more prejudicial to his Majesty in respect of the growing
revenue after the end of this Farm. (6) The tenants who pay
their rents, &c. to the Farmers have by this bill power to detain
the proportions charged thereon and the Commissioners are to
determine all differences in this matter, and, if the Farmers be
wronged and complain not in six days (which is impossible,
because their concerns are scattered all the kingdom over),
they are without remedy. 13. The Farmers out of their
knowledge that the people are not yet able to pay all
they ought and to preserve the growing revenue have forborne
to demand sundry duties they might and would have collected
and may still collect, when the people are able. 14. The
Farmers, who are engaged out of that poor, overcharged and
indebted country, wherein there is such scarcity of money, to pay
his Majesty 20,000l. a month, do next under him presume to look on
themselves as much concerned as any other in the prosperity
thereof, for thereon depends their performance or non-performance
and by any fatal miscarriage in that affair, even where it appears
not to be by their default, they and those engaged with and for
them may be utterly ruined and therefore are necessitated to
speak before it be too late and humbly beseech their lordships
to represent the same to his Majesty. 15. But, if urgent necessities
require the effecting what is designed to be done with this 200,000l.,
the Farmers, rather than run the hazard of the assured ruin of the
Farm and themselves and to prevent the inconveniencies which may
otherwise befall the growing revenue will be ready without new Acts
to offer such expedients as may effectually accomplish those ends
without obstructing the defraying of the ordinary and necessary
charge till the poor subjects be in a better condition to reimburse
his Majesty what shall be expended therein more than his ordinary
revenue will allow. With references to various clauses of the
bill in support of the above allegations. [8 pages. S.P. Ireland,
Car. II. 339, No. 125.] Perhaps annexed, |
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Heads of an establishment to be paid out of the revenue of
Ireland, not exceeding the sums under each head and not
exceeding in the whole 288,000l. viz., for interest of advance
money 6,000l., for interest of lent and borrowed money
6,000l., to the Civil list 53,650l., to the Military list 166,393l.,
to the Pension list, 11,201l., to provide arms and ammunition,
buildings, magazines and storehouses, to make docks and
build 10 or more frigates for the defence of the coast 36,000l.,
for payment of debts and arrears and for public uses for
the benefit of Ireland 8,776l. [Ibid. No. 125 i.] |
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The principal covenants and agreements on the part of the
contractors with his Majesty. [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339,
No. 125 ii.] |
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The principal heads of the agreement proposed to be made
between his Majesty and the contractors for or managers of the
revenue of Ireland and payment of the establishment not
exceeding 288,000l. in any one year. [Ibid. No. 125 iii.] |
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Observations on the 200,000l. Bill with expedients for answering
the ends thereof. [Ibid. No. 125 iv.] |
Aug. 18.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant, after reciting
that the petitioners, Edward Andrewes and Margaret his
wife, obtained from the Commissioners for executing the
Acts of Settlement and Explanation a certificate for several
houses and lands in or near Athlone, which were decreed to them
in fee simple under the rents payable thereout to the Crown,
which certificate was returned into the Auditor-General's office,
whereby the said rents are put in charge, and is also enrolled
in the Chief Remembrancer's office, but that, the original certificate
being lost or mislaid, the petitioners are unable to pass letters
patent in pursuance of the said Acts without the King's letters
empowering the Lord Lieutenant to pass the same: in case he
finds the said certificate to be so enrolled, for giving effectual orders
for passing letters patent to the petitioners according to the tenor
of the enrollment of the said certificate without producing the
original certificate. [S.P. Dom., Signet Office, Vol. 10, p. 474.] |
Aug. 19.
Ashridge. |
The Earl of Bridgwater to Secretary Jenkins. Sending him
two letters of 27 June and 3 July from Sir Palmes Fairborne,
which he requests may be returned when done with, and asking
him to give him some encouragement to hope that the relief of
Tangier is likely to come in time before the ending of the truce
and to be of a proportionable force to preserve his Majesty's
interest there. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 70.] |
Aug. 19.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to William, Bishop of Bristol, at Symondsbury
near Bridport. Thanking him for his letter of the 14th.—
Mr. Solicitor told me his opinion but not to the Board that, if the
information sent up from Bristol be true, the sword-bearer has
forfeited his recognizance. I beseech you to impart to me
or some other of the Council what passes at this time, especially
in the county where you now are. |
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I ask it not for curiosity, 'tis in order to make the best use of it
I can for the service of the public and for your own particular
merit with his Majesty. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 64.] |
| [Aug. 19?] |
Note of a letter to the Vice-Chancellor about a libel sent by
him and the spreading of it at the Bath by the Monmouth party.
[Ibid.] |
Aug. 20.
Ludford. |
Sir Job Charlton to Secretary Jenkins. Last week I gave you an
account of the reception his Majesty's letter had at Ludlow.
The High Bailiff and five others have since drawn up a certificate
with untrue reflections on my son, as if he were unable for the place,
and thus contrived to get the town seal thereto. The High
Bailiff having one key, the other is kept by the eldest Justice,
Alderman Griffith. Him they sent for, pretending they were to
seal a lease. The seal produced, they forcibly fixed it to their
certificate, though he told them the whole company ought to hear
it read and agree to it, for, though they had the major vote for
Smalman, he said, they ought not to put any thing else in the
certificate to defame my son but on the consent of the whole
company. (Names of the persons who acted in this), which I
mention, in case it should be thought fit to send for them to answer
this or the former matter at the Council Table. I much doubt, if
some severe check be not given to this affront to his Majesty's interest reserved to him by their charter, that other corporations will
follow. It was thought a wise resolution of the Council at the
restoration that all charters, which should be confirmed, should have
the clause of approbating the Recorders and town clerks reserved
to his Majesty and that Quo Warrantos should issue against
such as came not in to renew. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 71.] |
Aug. 20.
Windsor. |
Warrant to Major George Arnot or in his absence to the chief
of the officers of the Scots regiment at Tangier, who are now at
Edinburgh or Leith, for immediately receiving into his charge
the 200 men, which the Privy Council of Scotland lately caused
to be drawn out of the standing regiments there for recruiting the
Scots regiment at Tangier, which 200 men he is with all possible
expedition to embark on the ship now lying at anchor in Leith
Road in order to their transportation to the Downs, where he
is to expect further orders. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 65, p. 36.] |
Aug. 20.
Windsor Castle. |
Warrant from his Majesty for himself as King and as Prince
and Steward of Scotland and as nearest heir male to Charles,
Duke of Lenox, deceased, for a grant to Charles, now
Duke of Lenox and Richmond, and the heirs male of his body,
which failing, to return to his Majesty and his successors, of the
dukedom, earldom, lordship, barony and regality of Lenox and
particularly of the lands of Methven and of the office of Admiralty
of Scotland and the isles thereof, with the office of Chamberlain
of the said kingdom and with the Castle of Dunbarton and
also of the earldom, lordship, barony and regality of Darnley as
also of the office of bailziary and justiciary of the barony and
regality of Glasgow and also of the lands and barony of Kilmaronnock with all other lands &c. whatsoever pertaining to the said
Charles, Duke of Lenox, deceased, or whereunto his Majesty
may or can succeed as nearest heir male and of taillie to him
or any others, his predecessors; with an erection of all the said
premises in the new Dukedom of Lenox and the new Earldom of
Darnley: with a presentation of the said Charles, Duke of Lenox
and Richmond to be vassal to the Archbishop of Glasgow, of whom
the said heritable office of bailziary and regality of Glasgow doth
hold, requiring the said Archbishop to receive the said duke as
vassal to him in the said office; excepting and reserving the gift
of the office of Lord High Admiral of Scotland granted to the Duke
of Albany and York for his life, and also the gift to Frances,
Duchess of Lenox, of the rents and casualties of the said estate
during her life and also the gift to the Duke of Hamilton of the
said bailziary and regality of Glasgow during his life and the
gift of the Chamberlainry granted to the Duke of Monmouth
during his life. [3 pages. Docquet. S.P. Scotland, Warrant
Book 6, p. 142.] |
Aug. 20.
Windsor Castle. |
Memorials of protection in the ordinary form to William
Durham, elder, of Grange of Monefieth, and to William Grange,
younger, of Monefieth, for 3 years respectively. [Ibid. p. 145.] |
Aug. 21.
London. |
Lord Granard to Lord [Conway]. Since my last, I have been
mostly at Windsor and with Lord Lauderdale at Ham, whom
I find amongst others withdrawn from business either with or
against his will, but I believe the latter. Changes are much
talked of, either before or at the sitting of the parliament. |
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I received a letter from Sir G. Rawdon relating to a match
with Sir James Graham's daughter and his son, but I find Sir
James has been on a treaty with others and it is not his fault
this was not concluded, which is not fair play. [Conway papers.
S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 72.] |
Aug. 21.
Dublin. |
Phelim O'Neill to the Earl of Conway. I doubt not you and
Lord Ranelagh have conferred about your affairs here and that he
has given you an account in what condition he left them. As
to the December pay '75, it is secured and I have good hopes
of the money due on the process that it will come in next term,
but I hear of no order he left for settling the 279l. 1s. debentures
which I delivered him last, as he promised, nor of the 10l. creation
money due to you Michaelmas, '75, nor of my 14l. due Sept., '75,
and stopped in the Treasury for me and from me since. Ned
Knight, Thomas Lightfoot and Sam. Chambers are here with
about 20 horses to carry over. About 13, I believe, belong to
you. There is no shipping here at present for their transportation,
so I am afraid they will be forced to stay longer than they would
willingly. [Conway papers. S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 126.] |
Aug. 21.
Whitehall. |
Sir L. Jenkins to the Lord Lieutenant. (Printed in the
Ormonde Papers, Vol. V., p. 386.) [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 341,
p. 30.] |
Aug. 21.
Whitehall. |
Sir L. Jenkins to the Archbishop of Armagh, Lord Chancellor.
I have yours of the 30th by Lady Dunkellin. She with infinite
thanks acknowledges your protection and bounty to her. I see
but little probability of a maintenance for her son at Oxford
unless by private contributions, to which I shall most readily
give in my mite. 'Tis a consequence worth while to that church
and kingdom to have this young nobleman brought up in our
communion. I hope to have his Majesty's pleasure to-morrow
more particularly touching Lord Dunkellin's sitting by writ
in the House of Peers, for I hope now ere long a Parliament will
sit in Ireland, though maybe the Farmers and some others are
not so rightly disposed to it. Our Parliament will sit without
fail 21 Oct. [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 341, p. 32.] |
Aug. 21.
Windsor. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant, identical with
the warrant of 21 April, 1680, calendared, ante, p. 444, down
to the end of the report of the Lord Lieutenant and the AttorneyGeneral, and then reciting the report of the Lords of the Treasury,
dated 3 Aug., 1680, concurring therewith, provided that the
grant be restrained to such lands as belonged to John Fitzgerald
and whereof the petitioners are now in actual possession or seisin
or whereof Mabel Digby, relict of Garret Fitzgerald, the petitioner's
grandfather, her assigns or undertenants are in seisin or
possession in right of any dower, jointure or thirds as such relict,
or which are now in the possession or occupation of Ellen,
Countess of Clanrickarde, as her dower or thirds as being formerly
the wife of John Fitzgerald, the petitioner's father: for a grant
and confirmation to the petitioner Edward Fitzgerald and
Katherine, his wife, and to her heirs of the lands as specified in the
above report of the Lords of the Treasury. [Nearly 4 pages.
S.P. Dom., Signet Office, Vol. 10, p. 461.] |
Aug. 23.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Bevil Skelton. I have four of yours of
26 and 31 July and — and 7 August. They were all produced
yesterday before his Majesty at a Committee of Intelligence.
They came together by one ordinary. 'Tis not his Majesty's
meaning, and so he declared, that you should be put to any
straits or difficulties, much less to any risk or damage,
because you would hasten home. He knows you will not trifle.
On the other side he allows you to take what precautions you
can for your healthy and safe passage without exposing yourself
more than Count de Thun shall do. I asked him whether he
had any service to command you in any court in your way home.
He could not think of any. He has nominated Mr. Charles
Bertie to go to the Electors on the Rhine. What his commission
will be is not yet known, but I think the end of his journey will
be to relieve Sir R. Southwell. I could not be so forgetful of you
as not to mention you, as I did last Wednesday in private, to his
Majesty, as one that had deserved very well in the post where
you are and as one that was very capable of such commissions.
He used gracious expressions of you and said he would (the word
was "We must") find something for him. I write this that you
may assure yourself there is no ground for the jealousy you have
and that you have no enemies, as you term them, that have
done you ill offices and, when I embrace you here, I'll give you an
account more fully of my thoughts. [Nearly 2 pages. S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 64, p. 29.] |
Aug. 23.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Earl of Middleton. Your letters of
31 July and 7 August were read yesterday before his Majesty at
the Committee of Intelligence. The account of your conversation
with Count Zinzendorf was well liked. You must be prepared
for all such surmises. One thing I dare assure you; our condition
at home is not near so dangerous and desperate as they make it
abroad and they do not deal fair with us in that Court and in
some others, when they judge of our affairs by the intense malice
of a fanatic villain that is hired to bawl in coffee-houses or to
write libels and is as ready to declaim against his God as against
his King. 'Tis no wonder our land should produce such men
or rather such monsters, nor is it a wonder that foreign scribblers
(ministers I will not call them) should gather up such riff-raff
matters and send them to their princes, but 'tis a wonder to me
that the ministers and counsellors of princes should frame their
judgment of our affairs and determine de summa rerum on such
miserable informers' advices. You shall have notice from my
office constantly of what passes in the three kingdoms and,
when there is anything bold and mortifying offered to be put to
you, you may throw it back on the authors, unless you find it
confirmed by your own letters from hence. We met to-day at
Westminster and adjourned (I should have said prorogued) to
21 October. Then the Houses are intended by his Majesty to
sit and you shall have a constant account of what shall have
passed in the two Houses, and so you shall, if anything happens
worth your notice in the meanwhile. It was a generous thing to
own in your letter the light you have from Mr. Skelton. That
letter being read in the Committee, his Majesty had time to take
notice of the ingenuity. [Over 2 pages. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 64,
p. 31.] |
Aug. 24.
London. |
C. Magenis to the Earl of Conway. About money matters,
the wine, and his intended journey to Ragley.—Lord Ranelagh
and Capt. Bolton went to Windsor last Saturday and are not
yet returned. Mr. Gwyn told me to-day he will by this night's
post give you an account of his intended journey to-morrow for
Wales. Mrs. Acton is full of grief for the little child, who died
this night. [Conway papers. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 73.] |
| Aug. 25. |
Presentment of the Grand Jury for the city and county of the
city of Bristol at the Quarter Sessions to the Mayor and Aldermen.
Laying before them the unhappy dissensions and animosities of late
arisen there.—Strange, when there is a danger so evident, declared
by so many proclamations, so many votes of both Houses, and
many other incontestable proofs of the wicked designs of the
Jesuits, more heats and animosities should be fomented among
us than have been since the restoration, which gives just cause
to suspect such men are influenced by Jesuitical principles.
From this evil spirit the city has been represented as ill-inclined
to his Majesty's person and government, the mayor, a person
of unquestionable loyalty and of exemplary zeal for the Church,
traduced as fanatically disposed and all those true sons of the
Church, who have any moderation towards dissenting Protestants,
to be more dangerous to the Church than the Papists themselves,
when we cannot but think a hearty union amongst all Protestants
is now more than ever necessary to preserve us from our
open avowed enemies. [Two copies. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414,
Nos. 74, 75.] |
Aug. 25.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Laurence Hyde. Thanking him for representing to his Majesty what he troubled him with last night.—I am now
put on giving his Majesty a new trouble. The Council sitting this
day, Sir John Lanier was called in and acquainted them that the
horsemen under his command are in great distress for want of
the due payment of their subsistence money. Thereon their
lordships commanded me to write to Windsor that his Majesty
might be informed that it is their opinion that all the men that
are to go to Tangier are to be dispatched with all possible speed
and likewise that care should be taken that the men under Sir
John Lanier be forthwith paid their subsistence money. Let
me beg you to lay this before his Majesty. [S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 62, p. 65.] |
Aug. 26.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Laurence Hyde. The new sheriffs, Cornish
and Bethel, have this day at a Court of Aldermen signed their bond
and consequently are to hold for the ensuing year. The aldermen
that are my friends happened to be abroad in the Artillery
Ground, so I cannot give so exact an account as I could wish
of what passed at that court, only Bethel made a motion that
he and his colleague might have access to the public acts and
records of the City, on which Sir Robert Hanson answered that he
supposed they wanted not the Act passed in Philip and Mary's
time for regulating the expenses of mayors and sheriffs. This Act
Bethel has lately put out. Bethel, to show his inclinations, has, it is
said, appointed Goodenough, a pestilent attorney, to be his undersheriff. Yet I fear more from Cornish. 1. He took the oaths
and the Sacrament merely to serve this turn. 2. He is guided
by Sir Thomas Player and Alderman Ashurst. 3. He has given
his word to some friends that, if Bethel did hold, he would fine
off, yet this day's work shows he is not a man of his word, but
is at the devotion of the party. Yet all the mischief they can
do will not be great, if his Majesty hold them hard to the law
and himself also stick close to his old friends. |
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Another most venomous libel is come out called A Relation of
two free Conferences between Father la Chaise and four considerable
Jesuits, &c. I beseech God to deliver his Majesty from the
malice of the authors of these devilish libels. [2 pages. Ibid. p. 66.] |
Aug. 26.
Windsor. |
The King to the Bishop of London and the Dean and Chapter
of St. Paul's. Willing and requiring them to confer on Francis
Hawkins, D.D., the next vacant prebend and canonry residentiary
in that cathedral, as they shall respectively become void.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 57, p. 27.] |
Aug. 26.
Windsor. |
Warrant to the Commissioners of the Ordnance for forthwith giving
order for the transporting of a train of 12 brass guns with their
furniture, which are now at Portsmouth, to Plymouth, to be
delivered to the Governor of the Royal Citadel there. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 164, p. 52.] |
Aug. 26.
Windsor. |
Proclamation declaring the recall of the letters of mart
formerly granted to George Carew against the United Provinces,
for satisfaction of a demand of Sir William Courteen and others,
the said demand having been extinguished by the treaty between
the King and the States General. [S.P. Dom., Various 12,
p. 405.] |
Aug. 26.
Windsor. |
Proclamation declaring that the Parliament shall meet and sit
on 21 Oct. next and requiring the attendance of members on that
day. [Ibid. p. 406.] |
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Other copies of the above proclamations. [S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 51, ff. 366, 367.] |
Aug. 26.
Windsor. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant for a grant to
Col. William Cecill of the governorship of the Fort of Culmore
in reversion after Col. John Gorge, the present holder, during
pleasure. [S.P. Dom., Signet Office, Vol. 10, p. 466]. |
Aug. 26.
Windsor. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Recommending Francis
Rolleston, formerly a lieutenant in the army in Ireland, for the
command of a foot company, as soon as any vacancy shall happen.
[Ibid. p. 467.] |
Friday,
Aug. 27. Clapton. |
William Johnson to the Earl of Conway. It is true that last
Wednesday my lady had some blood taken from her, but after
three or four days of her ladyship's incessant prayers and
importuning me. Her condition, as being so near her lying in,
made me altogether averse to it, but the consideration of her
former distemper and the appearances of its reverting with her
constant crying, Bleed me or I shall surely perish, at length
overcame me and I breathed her a vein, but with that consideration, as if it had dropped from her nose, for upwards of an hour
was spent in taking 4 oz. of blood. No ill accident ensued, which, if
at all, usually falls out soon after the operation. Her ladyship's
case has been very complicated and dubious, but there are some
appearances of her coming through. My care of her has been as
much as my other patients in this sickly time would possibly
permit, and now your desire shall fix my service only to her
ladyship. I have given Sir Joseph and her ladyship an account
of your care of them. [Conway papers. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414,
No. 76.] |
Aug. 27.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Earl of Middleton. Thanking him
for his of the 10–20th from Linz, containing an account of his
first audience and bringing a copy of his memorial on it.—I'll
get the memorial put into English against next Sunday in hopes
then to lay the whole affair before his Majesty, who, I am persuaded,
will be very well pleased with what is to be seen in it of your
prudence and sufficiency. |
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* His Majesty does not so much value himself with that court on
his mediatory offices at Nimeguen, for, though they were very
hearty and incessant, yet he could not prevail in any thing that
from the nature of the affair itself or by the instances of the
plenipotentiaries on the place was recommended to him in behalf
of the Emperor, the Princes of the Empire or the Duke of Lorraine;
so rigid and dictator-like were the French plenipotentiaries in
the conferences that, whatever was in their own concept or
project, they carried it in their treaty with the Emperor in their
own terms with little or no abatement and whatever on the other
side was in the concept or project that the Emperor's plenipotentiaries proposed to treat upon was wholly rejected by the French
plenipotentiaries, in case it differed materially from their own
project. Witness those elucidations offered by the Imperialists
to the doubts and difficulties that had risen before the war on the
sense of the Treaty of Münster in relation to the pretensions
of France in Alsace and in the three bishoprics of Metz, Toul and
Verdun. Of this there is not a word in the Treaty of Nimeguen,
the French refusing absolutely to come to any explanation of the
Treaty of Münster. |
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But what touched his Majesty most sensibly was that nothing
of those hard and intolerable conditions intended to be imposed
on the Duke of Lorraine would be abated or mollified, notwithstanding that the King used all the intercessions imaginable both in
the court of France and in the conferences at Nimeguen in his
behalf. |
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I say this and intend to say more next post, that you may be
sparing in mentioning the King's mediation, since it has succeeded
no better and that his offices met not with the regard that those
of so great a prince might have justly expected. |
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The merit of having prevailed with almost all the princes
of Christendom to send plenipotentiaries to that assembly is
entirely his Majesty's and he owns it, but the issue of the Emperor's
negotiations there has turned on accidents for which his Majesty
is not accountable. Such were the ill successes of the allies in
the field, their disconcert and jealousies of each other, their
shifting for themselves by separate treaties, first managed underhand in the French court, then open at Nimeguen. * |
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I enclose a memorial that a Secretary of the Emperor's here
has given in, but not directly, as I am told, to his Majesty. It
was the Spanish ambassador that handed it. I also send the
answer I was directed to make to it. I also send, as I do to
Sir R. Southwell by this post, a piece of news that I desire you
and him to confer notes upon. 'Tis true it comes from Frankfort.
What makes me suspect it is not so much the ill figure we are
thought to make in the world as the falsity of our having at
this time an intrigue with France. [4 pages. The part between
asterisks was in cipher in the original. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 64,
p. 34.] |
Aug. 28.
London. |
C. Magenis to the Earl of Conway. Enclosing a letter of
Lord Granard's, acknowledging his lordship's letters, which
he delivered, about a payment and about wine.—I have taken a
place in Worcester coach for Monday and hope to be at Ragley
Tuesday. [Conway papers. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 77.] |
Aug. 28.
London. |
The Earl of Ranelagh to the Earl of Conway. Last Sunday I
went to Windsor, where I was very well received by my master
and his brother and our great ministers. I stayed till Thursday
night and then returned here and sent next morning for
Mr. Hooke, but as yet he is not come, but I believe I shall see
him Monday morning. If I do, you may expect to hear from me
by Tuesday's post. In the meantime let Mr. Hallbord send me
up the drafts of your house, for I have discoursed of it to Mr. May
at Windsor, who will give no opinion till he sees the drafts.
[Conway papers. Ibid. No. 78.] |
Aug. 28.
Whitehall. |
Recommendation to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition
of the officers of Col. Macarty's regiment in France, who quitted
the French service on the proclamation, for relief, the officers
of the Duke of Monmouth's and the Earl of Dumbarton's regiments,
who did the like, having received half-pay ever since their return,
and the petitioners not having received any thing, though their
circumstances are the same; that they may take speedy and
effectual course for the relief of the petitioners' necessities.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 61, p. 6.] |
Aug. 28.
Whitehall. |
Newsletter to Roger Garstell, Newcastle. By reason of the
delay of the proclamation for calling the parliament and what
passed lately at Bristol many have suggested it should not meet
on 21 October, but to put it out of doubt this day is published
the following proclamation. (Then follows the proclamation,
calendared ante, p. 621.) |
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A man was yesterday hanged at the common execution place
for Surrey, whose case and punishment, having long wanted a
precedent, take as follows. He was last Lent assizes at Kingston
indicted for murder and found guilty. When sentence of death
was to have been passed on him, he pleaded his Majesty's pardon,
which was then allowed, but, the crime and fame of the person
being notorious, the judge ordered him to give good sureties for
his behaviour, which not being able to do or neglecting, he was
last assizes at Kingston with other prisoners carried down, when,
expecting to have had a discharge, instead thereof the wife of
the murdered person appealed to the judge, who thereon caused
him to be brought to the bar and passed sentence of death against
him, telling him he should certainly die and wished him to prepare
for it, for that now his life was in the hands of that woman, who
had power to call for his execution when she pleased, which
accordingly she did yesterday. |
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The death of Mr. Bedloe occasions much discourse and it's
affirmed that at Bristol they have had that value for his memory
and respect to his relict and young infant that they have resolved
to present the first with 1,000l. and the second with as much
well secured and, as a further mark of their affection will bestow
200l. on a monement, that posterity may remember the veneration
and respect their ancestors paid to one, who had so eminently
served the Protestant interest. His funeral was decent and the
sermon preached by Mr. Palmer, a worthy minister of Bristol,
on Romans 14, verses 12 and 13. |
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Their Majesties and the Court are in good health at Windsor,
whence her Majesty returns to London 10 Sept. and his Majesty
and the whole Court the day following. |
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Their Majesties and their Royal Highnesses in one coach last
Wednesday rode to the Earl of Clarendon's, 16 miles off, where
they were magnificently entertained. They returned that night
but some of the coach horses fell down dead in the road. |
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The Prince Palatine and Count Coningsmark are at Court
and the former stands covered in the presence. |
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The Duke of Norfolk, having been presented for recusancy, is
arrived here from beyond sea and will appear next Old Bailey
sessions thereunto. |
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Mr. Henry Savile, envoy extraordinary to France, is arrived
at Windsor, some say on his own private affairs, others on
public. |
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Two companies of the forces in Scotland, which were shipped
for Tangier, are set sail for that place, of which we have had a
report that the Alcalde was returned and set down before it
with 10,000 men and that the garrison was in danger, but this
is not believed, in regard it comes to private hands and no such
account to the Court but rather to the contrary. |
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It's discoursed that the Marquess of Worcester is to be made
a duke, and that Mr. Hyde, one of the Lords of the Treasury,
is created a viscount, I think of Killingworth. |
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The Duke of Monmouth, it's said, is gone into Dorsetshire,
to the Earl of Shaftesbury's, whither he was attended by a
considerable number of gentlemen of those parts, some say
thousands, who pay him much respect. Thence he goes or is
gone into Cornwall. Letters say the Duchess of Monmouth and
those with her are safely arrived at Paris. [3 pages. Admiralty,
Greenwich Hospital 1, No. 66.] |
Aug. 28.
Windsor Castle. |
The King to the Duke of Rothes, Chancellor. Being informed
that certain persons of England have lately been in Edinburgh
and Glasgow and elsewhere in Scotland, of whose ill intentions
we have good reason to be very suspicious, we hereby authorize
and require you to cause strict enquiry to be made after them
and to cause them, being found in Scotland, to be seized and
brought before you or the Privy Council, as you shall think fit,
to be strictly examined according to law and particularly to seize
all their papers, after perusal whereof if you shall find they have
been concerned in any negotiation or correspondencies tending
to the disturbance of the public peace, we further authorize and
require you to commit them to prison and to secure their papers,
till we receive a full account of your proceedings and declare our
pleasure. In the meantime, if it shall be found that any of our
Scottish subjects have been concerned in any such seditious
practices, we also require you to cause the laws to be strictly
put in execution against them. |
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And being likewise informed that some ill-affected persons there
have endeavoured to render ineffectual our orders for settling
the new model of the militia, notwithstanding that the Privy
Council have condescended at several meetings to clear all doubts
and satisfy all objections made by the Commissioners of some
shires concerning the legality of the new model, it is now our
express will and pleasure that our former orders be punctually
obeyed without further delay, being fully convinced that the
settlement of the militia in that model will prove one of the
most effectual means for securing the peace and happiness of
Scotland. As we cannot but be very ill-pleased with such as
have made unreasonable and frivolous objections against it,
and thereby occasioned unnecessary delays in it hitherto, so we
will take our own time and method to express our resentments
of their undutiful and disloyal deportments. Of all this we desire
you, if needful, to acquaint the Privy Council and to cause the same
to be recorded in their books. [Nearly 2 pages. S.P. Scotland,
Warrant Book 6, p. 145.] |
Aug. 28.
Lisburn. |
Ralph Smyth to the Earl of Conway. Having been this year
sheriff of Antrim, it is part of my office to nominate three persons
out of whom one is usually chosen to succeed in the ensuing year.
Therefore I pray your commands whom you would have
nominated, for I would not pitch upon those that were not
acceptable to you. [Conway papers. S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339,
No. 127.] |
Aug. 28.
Whitehall. |
Sir. L. Jenkins to the Lord Lieutenant. The bill for additional
duties was this day considered and the Committee heard Sir James
Shaen and our Commissioners of the Customs on it. The first
especially argued against it and so closely in my judgment that
that bill will be hard set. He had set down in writing but not
perfected what he had to say against it. So had the Commissioners, but they had further time till Tuesday evening to
perfect what they have to object. This gave them occasion to
withdraw their papers, otherwise I should have sent you a
transcript of them. On Monday the bill for the 200,000l. was
read over by their lordships a second time. I am in good hopes
it will pass. My lords have not yet had before them either of
the bills of Settlement. For those two, the rest of the bills I
hope there will not be much difficulty to pass them, they being
all of public advantage and most of them exampled here. That
of ecclesiastical leases is as good as wholly laid aside. [S.P.
Ireland, Car. II. 341, p. 33.] |
Aug. 29.
Windsor. |
The King to Sir Thomas Exton, Advocate General, and Samuel
Francklin, Procurator General. Whereas Thomas Chapman,
bastard son of Elizabeth Chapman and her executor and
residuary legatee, dying in his apprenticeship to Augustin Tucker
of London, the said Tucker on untrue allegations obtained letters
of administration of the goods and chattels of the said Thomas
Chapman as his principal creditor, when in truth he was no
creditor, by virtue of which he would become entitled to the
administration cum testamento annexo of the said Elizabeth
Chapman, and whereas 18 March, 1679[–80] on the application of
Samuel Francklin the Judge of the Prerogative Court revoked the
said administration to the said Tucker and decreed the same to be
granted to an assignee appointed by us, our zeal for the rebuilding of
St. Paul's has easily prevailed with us to give all our right and
title to the goods and chattels of the said Thomas Chapman
towards carrying on that work and we therefore authorize and
require you to appear before the Judge of the Prerogative Court
and demand in our name that the administration cum testamento
annexo of the said Elizabeth Chapman of all the goods and chattels
of the said Thomas Chapman (sic) be committed to Edward Stillingfleet, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's, to be applied by him after payment
of debts and expenses towards the rebuilding of St. Paul's,
without further account than such as the Commissioners for
rebuilding St. Paul's are authorized to take. [2 pages. S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 53, p. 30.] |
Aug. 29.
Windsor. |
Warrant for the presentation of Jonathan Blagrave, M.A.,
to the rectory of Longworth, Berkshire. [Ibid. p. 32.] |
Aug. 29.
Windsor. |
Reference to the Lord Lieutenant of the petition of Charles
Henry, Lord Wotton, for a lease of the duty arising by the French
tonnage in Ireland for 21 years, to commence from the determination of that granted to Sir George Carteret and Daniel O'Neal,
both dead, at the rent of 200l. per annum formerly reserved.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 86.] |
Aug. 29.
Windsor. |
Commissions to John Hope to be lieutenant to Capt. Thomas
Talmash and to Gamaliell Chetwynd to be ensign to Lieut.-colonel
Sir James Smith both in the Coldstream Guards. Minutes.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 164, p. 52.] |
Aug. 30.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Earl of Middleton. Your letters of
the 10th and 14th with your memorial were produced yesterday
before his Majesty, who was very well satisfied with them. Having
nothing by way of direction on them, I will so far pursue the subject
of my last as to tell you that the ministers there are dissatisfied
not only with the want of vigour in his Majesty's late mediation,
as I told you in my last, but much more that we did not break
into the war, when the world believed we intended it, which we
cannot better excuse than from those distractions at home that
interrupted that expedition or rather began before it together
with the separate peace the Dutch clapt up so hastily with the
French the very last evening that they were free to do it, for, had
they stayed till next morning (that is 1 Aug., 1678), they were
tied by treaty with us to continue the war and we obliged to
come in to it and neither of us to make a peace without the
other. |
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They were displeased with us also in some ceremonials at
Nimeguen. We pretended the first place in signing their treaties
and the hand of them in all third places on this ground, that
all the Kings of Christendom allowed it us, as it were by common
consent. We pretended the Emperor should have done the
same, the crowned heads of Europe accounting him no more but
Primus Regum, though he reckons himself to be a higher rank
and species of potentate than Kings are. |
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I have spoken with the Emperor's secretary. I do not think
the script from Frankfort a sufficient ground for me to expostulate
with him upon, but I have desired his justice to us that, how
ill soever he represented our distractions at home, yet that he
would not do us that gross injury as to charge us with intrigues
with France. |
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We have letters of 13–23 Aug. from Madrid, which speak all
things in Tangier to be in statu quo, and consequently what is said
of the Moors having broken the truce is false. [Over 2 pages.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 64, p. 38.] |
| Aug. 30. |
Secretary Jenkins to Bevil Skelton. About his impatience
to leave the Imperial Court. [Ibid. p. 40.] |
Aug. 30.
Lisburn. |
Sir George Rawdon to the Earl of Conway. Cornet Rogers
has bred his son a young merchant, as we call shopkeepers here,
and supplied him with ready money to set up with, and now he is
going to London ad merces emendas, but did not tell me he would go
by Ragley till now he is taking horse and I believe may ship at
Dublin as soon as your horses, which have been delayed there
so long. We are all well. My three daughters came last week
well home from Castle Forbes. Mall is very well, but not willing
to make any long stay from her kind lady mother and her boy,
a very hopeful child and all say very like you. I promised to
venture a journey to Dublin to bring her thither about a fortnight
hence and there Lady Granard's coach will fetch her home and
Mistress Katherine come for her and perhaps my lady herself.
I take Doll and Brill to Dublin, which they never saw yet, also
Arthur, being in some expectation Sir J. Graham and his company
may land in the meantime. I have also to pay my debt of 1,000l.
to the Bishop of Kilmore, which lies ready for him. |
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If I return safe, I believe it will be the last journey I shall ever
make so far. |
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I hope not to stay above ten days and shall then have your
goods disposed of as you ordered. I intend not to use the beds
there but to borrow bedding. Mall has some hope to meet Lord
Granard also there and her husband. We had lately 5 or 6 days
of fair weather, but these last three constant wet. We hear
reports variously from Dublin and here of you. That affair of
Charlemont requires your care of settling it some way or other.
[Conway papers. S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 128.] |
Aug. 30.
Lisburn. |
Capt. Robert Thelwall to the Earl of Conway. We mustered
here on Saturday and we hear that our men, who went to Cork,
are on their return hither. [Conway papers. Ibid. No. 129.] |
Aug. 31.
Windsor. |
Sir Richard Mason to Secretary Jenkins. Yesterday I attended
the Earl of Sunderland with Sir Job Charlton's request that he
would appoint a day to hear his exceptions against the certificate
of the magistrates of Ludlow for the election of Mr. Smalman.
My lord told me that, when the certificate came to his hands, he
could neither delay nor deny giving the matter a dispatch and
that he conceived the election and certificate good and that he
thought it unreasonable his Majesty should further interpose
therein. Having found it impossible to change his resolution
I know nothing more I can do for Sir Job, but possess you with
his lordship's intentions. He has writ to the Lord Chancellor,
who perhaps may be induced to speak to the Earl of Sunderland, at least to suspend the conclusion of this affair, till Sir
Job can be informed. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 79.] |
Aug. 31.
Windsor. |
Warrant for a privy seal for payment to Charles Bertie,
appointed envoyé extraordinary to several of the Electors and
other Princes of Germany, of 500l. for his equipage and 5l. per diem
for his entertainment and of such sums for extraordinaries as
shall be allowed by a Secretary of State. [S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 50, p. 71.] |
| Aug. |
S[impson] T[onge] to the King. Before Mr. Kirkby discovered
the plot to your Majesty, besides the places formerly mentioned,
my father and Mr. Oates met privately at the Golden Horse Shoe
in the Strand, to consult on Mr. Oates' papers, and all that while
Oates went under the name of Ambrose. They both met likewise
in York Buildings and seldom kept one constant place. Both
frequented the Bull in Great Queen Street. Besides the depositions of the Plot, which Oates caused to be printed, my father
drew up another copy of his depositions by Oates' directions
altogether different from the former copy of the plot. This
other copy was to be transcribed fair by a Mr. Crowley, but,
Oates' copy coming out first, that copy of my father's was stopped,
which Mr. Crowley will likewise attest was quite different both
in words and circumstances from Oates' printed copy.
Sir William Waller, searching in the Temple, found that copy
of my father's and took it away, but, I am since informed, returned
it to Mr. Crowley, my father giving his consent to the former copy
as truest, though before he thought that which he had drawn up
to be as good as his. This I observe as to the belief of Oates'
evidence, or whether such credit is to be given on which any
person's life may be taken away, when two copies so different
from each other could be at the same time produced by the
same person, for my father wrote what he did by Oates' direction,
and, after he had let my father have one copy of his depositions,
he prints another quite different. |
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During the intrigue of this plot my father and Oates corresponded
very much with Lords Wharton, Essex and Shaftesbury and my
father was especially intimate with the two former and Lord
Essex was very forward in the Irish plot, and sent several letters
from London concerning it and, I am persuaded, is one my father
very much corresponds with and who encourages him to the
utmost of his power to defend what has been cunningly contrived,
finding the truth to come every day more and more to light.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 80.] Probably annexed, |
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Paper showing the alterations in Oates' narrative between the
original in writing and as printed. The former coincides
with the narrative in S.P. Dom., Car. II. 409, and with
some small differences with that printed in Lords' Journals,
Vol. XIII. p. 313 and in State Trials, Vol. VI., col. 1434.
The variations are immaterial. [Ibid. No. 80 i.] |
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Paper showing the differences between the original and the
final copy of Dr. Tonge's Journal, which appear from the
journal itself which is in S.P. Dom., Car. II. 409. [Ibid.
No. 80 ii.] |
[1680 ?]
[Aug. ?] |
Lord Granard to Lord [Conway]. You shall not long upbraid
me with my breach of promise, for the morrow I intend to pay
my duty at the Tower, when I will be out after a course of physic. |
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Sir James Graham I have spoken with according to my brother
Rawdon's directions, who tells me a fair tale that there
were no pretenders whose relation he approved of so much, yet
what I wrote to you and Sir George I had from Lady Lauderdale. |
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The opinion of some knowing persons is that the King is like
to take new measures at the sitting of the parliament. Bedloe's
declaration on his deathbed or rather his examination on oath
before Chief Justice North fills the coffee-houses with strange
discourses and sober men with apprehensions. The King seems
inclinable to have a parliament in Ireland. When I return
from Windsor, where I have not been this fortnight, I will give
you all I know. [Conway papers. Ibid. No. 81.] |
1680.
[Aug. ?] |
Warrant to Nicholas Johnson, Paymaster-General of the
Guards and Garrisons, for continuing the payment to Henry
Howard, commissary-general of the Musters, from Christmas, 1679,
of 20l. per annum by equal quarterly payments, being the
allowance for postage of letters, packets and muster-rolls concerning the musters originally granted by the Duke of Albemarle,
deceased, on 24 August, 1667. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 59, p.
48.] |
| [Aug. ?] |
Warrant to Nicholas Johnson, Paymaster-General of the
Guards and Garrisons, after reciting that by the last establishment
of the forces in January, 1679[-80], Henry Howard, commissarygeneral of the Musters, was retrenched 150l. per annum granted
him in lieu of one day's pay in a year from every officer and
soldier in the army, for stopping one day's pay in a year from
every officer and soldier mustered by the said commissarygeneral or his deputies, the first day's pay for this present year
to be stopped on the muster of July and August, 1680, and so
to continue yearly and for payment of the sum so stopped to
the said Henry Howard. [Ibid. p. 49.] |
| [Aug. ?] |
Warrant to the Ordnance Commissioners for sending 130
muskets (in the usual proportion of matchlock and snaphance
muskets) with the like number of collars of bandaliers and 70
pikes to the Downs under the charge of some fit person, who is
to deliver them on board the vessel or vessels bringing 200 foot
soldiers sent from Scotland for service at Tangier. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 65, p. 23.] |
| [Aug.?] |
Warrant to the Ordnance Commissioners for causing two
barrels of powder with match proportionable to be delivered
to Lieut-colonel Peircy Kirke for the use of the Earl of Plymouth's
foot regiment. [Ibid. p. 35.] |
| [Aug. ?] |
Warrant to Captains Trelawney, Tiffeney and Cheffers for
their companies forthwith respectively marching to the citadel
of Plymouth, where they are to be received and to lodge till
further order. [Ibid. p. 36.] |
| [Aug.?] |
Three separate warrants to the above three captains, each
to the same effect as the last. [Ibid. pp. 37, 38.] |
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Grants of denization to the following persons between 1 Jan.
and 31 Aug., 1680:— |
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Date. |
Name. |
Reference. |
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1680. |
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May 18. |
James Tayne, merchant, of London. |
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, p. 342. |
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May 18. |
David Primrose, minister of the French congregation in London. |
Ibid. |
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Passes to the following persons between 1 Jan. and 31 Aug.,
1680:— |
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Date. |
Name. |
Place. |
Reference. |
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Jan. 16. |
Dr. Bermslow and Katherine, his wife, Bernard, his son, and Katherine and Elizabeth, his daughters. |
Parts beyond seas. |
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, p. 309. |
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Jan. 20. |
Ludovico Balbiani, native of Italy and subject of the Great Duke of Tuscany, and his servant. |
Tuscany. |
Ibid. p. 311. |
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Jan. 24. |
Arthur Forbes, Viscount Granard's eldest son, with two servants. |
France. |
Ibid. |
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Feb. 8. |
Dame Mary Tuke and Teresia, her daughter, with two women servants and two footmen, and Mary Yates and her servant. |
— |
Ibid. p. 312.
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Feb. 18. |
Allen Hutchinson and Lucy, his sister, with three servants. |
Portugal. |
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, p. 315. |
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Feb. 21. |
Don Gaspar Alreu de Freitas, Ambassador from the Prince of Portugal. |
Portugal. |
Ibid. p. 318. |
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Feb. 21. |
Samuel, son of Robert Blackborne, Secretary to the East India Company, with David Blaire, his companion. |
Parts beyond seas. |
Ibid. |
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Mar. 9. |
Edward Fitzharris and Roger Godfrey. |
France. |
Ibid. p. 322. |
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Mar. 15. |
Henry Langton, page of the Backstairs to the Lady Anne, daughter of the Duke of York. |
Holland. |
Ibid. |
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Mar. 15. |
John Mendes da Costa, of London, merchant. |
Dieppe. |
Ibid. |
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Mar. 16. |
Jacob Rodrigues and his servant. |
France. |
Ibid. p. 323. |
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Mar. 17. |
Jacques Buisson and Jean, his brother, noblemen of Geneva. |
Holland. |
Ibid. p. 324. |
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Mar. 18. |
Sir Richard Mason, one of the Clerk Comptrollers of the Board of Greencloth, with his lady, who is advised for her health to take the air of that country, his daughters, Dorothy and Anne, with two women and three men servants, and to return. |
France. |
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 60, p. 42. |
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Mar. 19. |
Henry Belasise and Laurence Cary, his governor, and Isaac Hollingshead, his valet de chambre. |
France. |
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, p. 323. |
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Mar. 19. |
Francis du Cayla and John André, servants to the Duchess of Portsmouth. |
France. |
Ibid. |
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Mar. 26. |
John Thuret, native of France, and Elizabeth, his wife. |
France. |
Ibid. p. 325. |
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April 1. |
Margaret, Countess of Inchiquin, with seven women servants, and John Moore, Lewis Pass, her page, and three footmen. |
Holland. |
Ibid. |
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April 2. |
The Chevalier de Savoye, native of France, with three servants, three horses and three dogs. |
France. |
Ibid. p. 327. |
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April 3. |
Peter Beavais and Mary Beavais, his sister, and Thomas Harmant, native of France. |
France. |
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, p. 327. |
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April 6. |
Thomas Wiseman with William Smith, his governor. |
France. |
Ibid. |
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April 13. |
Marquis de Bourgomaine with two chaplains, ten secretaries and gentlemen, two pages and 20 inferior servants. |
Parts beyond seas. |
Ibid. p. 329. |
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April 15. |
Robert Burck and John Macnamara. |
Ireland. |
Ibid. p. 328. |
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April 15. |
Comte de Mayan, envoyé extraordinary from the Duke of Savoy. |
France. |
Ibid. p. 329. |
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April 15. |
Ten servants, four horses and ten couple of hounds belonging to the Comte de Mayan. |
France. |
Ibid. |
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April 16. |
Francis and Jeremy Marsh with Ralph Rule, their governor. |
Parts beyond seas. |
Ibid. p. 333. |
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May 3. |
Thomas Tramalier. |
France. |
Ibid. p. 337. |
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May 11. |
Dorothy Bettinson and Francis Bettinson and a man and a maid servant. |
France. |
Ibid. p. 339. |
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May 13. |
Magdalene Charas, wife to Moses Charas, one of his Majesty's chymists, and William Ree. |
France. |
Ibid. |
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May 21. |
Sir John Wynne, Walter Narborne and Thomas Sturney with three servants. |
Parts beyond seas. |
Ibid. p. 343. |
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June 2. |
William Wray. |
France. |
Ibid. p. 346. |
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June 5. |
Duke of Norfolk. |
Parts beyond seas. |
Ibid. p. 348. |
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June 15. |
Heer de Leyden de Leeuwen, ambassador extraordinary from the States General. |
Parts beyond seas. |
Ibid. p. 350. |
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June 19. |
Sir William Pulteney and John, his son, and Richard Prince. |
France. |
Ibid. p. 352. |
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June 28. |
Col. Henry Sidney, envoyé extraordinary to the States General, with nine servants, also for John Shelton, Mrs. Hayrland, Mrs. Frances Hayrland, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Gibson, Mrs. Lee and Bryan O'Bryan, servants to the Princess of Orange. |
Holland. |
Ibid. p. 353. |
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June 29. |
Charles, Earl of Middleton, envoyé extraordinary to the Emperor, with ten servants. |
Parts beyond seas. |
Ibid. |
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July 10. |
John, son of Lord Crewe, with three servants. |
France. |
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, p. 361. |
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July 14. |
Barnaby Cunningham, native of Dublin, and Margaret, his wife, and John, his son. |
Ireland. |
Ibid. |
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July 15. |
Thomas Tomkinson. |
Parts beyond seas. |
Ibid. f. 362. |
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July 16. |
Owen Calahan. |
Dublin. |
Ibid. |
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July 17. |
John Maximilian de l'Angle, Prebendary of Canterbury and chaplain to the King, with Isaac Addee, his friend. |
Holland. |
Ibid. |
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July 19. |
Joshua le Febre and Mary Ross and her servant. |
France. |
Ibid. f. 363. |
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July 28. |
James Hamilton with Cheyney Culpeper and George Hamilton. |
France. |
Ibid. |
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Aug. 2. |
Leopold Polna and Philip Roche, persons of quality that have travelled into England for their curiosity. |
Parts beyond seas. |
Ibid. |
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Aug. 4. |
Alderman Edward Backwell, employed in the King's special service to the States General with four servants, five horses and his goods. |
Holland. |
Ibid. |
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Aug. 7. |
Anne, Duchess of Monmouth, with her two sons, James, Earl of Doncaster, and Lord Henry Scott, and her daughter, Lady Anne Scott, and with thirty servants, she having desired licence to remain some time there for the recovery of her health. |
France. |
Ibid. f. 364. |
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Aug. 25. |
Georgius Janicius, a gentleman of Poland. |
Parts beyond seas. |
Ibid. f. 366. |
