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April 1.
Chichester. |
S[amuel] C[arleton] to Sir Leoline Jenkins. A bold impudent
young fellow here, named James Lander, after the last election
was sent by Major Braman to all the disaffected party in Sussex
to set their hands to a petition for the parliament to sit without
disturbance, till they had done their work. When the news of
the dissolution came to Chichester, he boldly said in a public
house, What! Has the King dissolved the Parliament ? Then
let us all that voted for them go ourselves to Oxford to make
good what we have done, or words to that purpose. It is doubted
by good men that, if he be left at large, he may be sent the
second time to do more mischief than his former mission did.
I told the Mayor I thought it convenient he were secured, till
his Majesty's pleasure were known. The Mayor, an honest
man, that has hitherto in his office showed himself stout and
loyal, thought it fit to be done, but, not knowing the law himself,
thought it fit to know the Recorder's advice. The Recorder
is a cunning man, who when with the King's party speaks their
language, but is well known to be a man of so much self interest
that he will comply with any party underhand which he thinks
may come uppermost, and therefore a line to the Mayor himself
would effectually do the business. This James Lander is a very
lewd person, that frequents taverns, spends money at a great
rate, is well mounted, rides with his pistols and is absent sometimes a fortnight or three weeks. None here knows where he
goes or what he goes about. He goes fashionably as any gentleman and yet has no visible estate and exercises no trade. He
has a father as great a villain as himself, but beggarly and not
able to maintain him, and therefore is suspected to live by such
courses as have made many such march up Holborn to sing
their neck verse at the gallows. Noted, it was ordered that
Secretary Jenkins write to the Justices of the Precincts to do
therein according to law. [2 pages. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 415,
No. 108.] |
April 2.
St. Michael's Mount. |
John St. Aubyn and Thomas Yonge, collector of customs at
Penzance, to Sir Leoline Jenkins. Informing him that John
Boyd, John Eccles, John Macormick, John Hanna, and John
Whitehead of Belfast and John Covan of Londonderry, who had
arrived there 25 March in the Content of Belfast, John Scott,
master, from Havre to Ireland, refusing with the said John Scott
to take the oath of supremacy, though they took the oath of
allegiance, had been secured and desiring directions from the
Council about them. [Ibid. No. 109.] |
| April 2. |
Thomas Ward to Major John Braman. Expressing their
great satisfaction at hearing he was safe at home.—You have
heard the great haste the King made hither and mighty busy
we heard they were to fit a declaration to the hewmer (humour)
of the people, but I hear now it is laid aside and some other
measures taking. It's strange you never had mine to Henley
with some papers and Vox Populi. Just now Mr. Barnes paid
5l. 19s. which shall be paid by your order. [Ibid. No. 110.] |
April 3.
Whitehall. |
Reference to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of
London or either of them of the petition of Robert Caunter, M.A.,
praying to be collated to the vicarage of Bovey Tracy, Devon, void
by the death of Mr. Moore. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 117.] |
| April 5. |
Mr. L[? angham] to [? Secretary Jenkins]. We are very
quiet in the City, only in these holidays the youth are more at
liberty and, to prevent the worst, two companies of the Trained
Bands are on guard every night, and so will continue till to-morrow
and then one company only. Here is a great talk of a proclamation against conventicles and of some alteration in the lieutenancy.
I doubt not the list you have will afford you a very good choice,
only from what I have heard and seen a little before and since
the last parliament I think Mr. James Houblon not fit. I am
well assured that Mr. Walter Coventry, nephew to Mr. H. Coventry,
is a very worthy and loyal person and so is Mr. Richard Aly,
who fined twice for sheriff, and Mr. Thomas Coulston. [S.P.
Dom., Car. II. 415, No. 111.] |
| April 6. |
The case of Lady Katherine O'Brien. This is an abstract of the
tack granted by the King to James, Duke of Lenox and Richmond,
4 Sept., 1641, of the lands of Ila in the shirefdome of Argyle
and of the subsequent tacks to him and his successors, the last
being the tack to Lady Katharine, dated 30 May, 1678, calendared
in S.P. Dom., 1678, p. 196. [4½ pages. Ibid. No. 112.] |
| April 6. |
Receipts to Major John Braman by John Baker and William
Murrill for 2l. 12s. and 20s. [Ibid. Nos. 113, 114.] |
| April 6. |
Commission to Francis Carpenter to be lieutenant to the foot
company of Capt. Frederick Cornwallis in Jersey. Minute. [S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 29, p. 385.] |
| April 6. |
Pass for Sir John Yate and Edward Brice, his servant, to go
beyond the seas, he having been a long time in a consumption and
now being advised by his physicians to go for the recovery of his
health. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, f. 395.] |
April 6.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a grant to Thomas Marshall, D.D., Rector of
Lincoln College, of the Deanery of Gloucester, void by the
promotion of Dr. Robert Frampton to the bishopric of Gloucester.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 53, p. 50.] |
April 6.
Whitehall. |
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of
Eleanor Wall, laundress to his Majesty, for payment of 1,000l.
for building a house for his Majesty's laundry, she giving security
to employ it to that service. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 118.] |
April 6.
Whitehall. |
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of the report of the
Lord Lieutenant and the annexed report of the Solicitor-General
of Ireland on the reference to him of the petition of Edward
Fitzgerald, alias Villiers, which were:—1. That he had referred
the petition to the Solicitor-General, whose report he agrees with
and transmits. 21 March, 1680–1. 2. The Solicitor-General's
report that his Majesty by letters of 21 Aug. last had directed
passing letters patent to the petitioner and his wife of the lands
descended to her from her father and that the petitioner now
desires that in the said letters a clause may be inserted for granting
all his Majesty's right, title, estate and interest, either in possession,
reversion, remainder or otherwise howsoever, in and to the said
lands, which he conceives was intended by the said letters, and
that he does not see any reason why the same may not be therein
inserted. [1½ page. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 118.] |
April 6.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant, after reciting
the clauses in the Acts of Settlement and Explanation vesting
lands in Ireland in the Duke of York and the letters patent of
16 Oct., 1669, passed in pursuance of the letter of 19 Sept., 1669
(which is calendared in S.P. Ireland 1669–70, p. 5.), in his favour
and the letters of 28 March, 1676, calendared in S.P. Dom.
1676–77, p. 48, and that pursuant to the last-mentioned letters
the Duke had obtained two letters patent, one of 3 April, 1678,
containing a grant to him and his heirs of lands in Ireland amounting in all to 5,937 acres, 11 perches profitable land plantation
measure, according to the Down Survey, and the other of 18 Feb.,
1679, containing a grant of other lands amounting in all to
1,351 acres, 3 roods, 2 perches profitable land like measure, in
both which letters patent, by reason that in the said letters of
28 March, 1676, on which both were grounded, there was not
any clause for passing the said lands in reprize without any
reservation of quit rent as there ought to have been, the quit
rent payable by soldiers and adventurers is reserved out of all
the said lands passed to the Duke thereby, notwithstanding the
clauses and provisions in the said Acts; for causing on receipt
thereof letters patent to be passed containing a release to the
said Duke and his heirs of all the rents or other duties reserved
by the said Acts out of any of the lands lately passed to him by the
said two last-mentioned letters patent or which may be hereafter
payable to the Crown by reason of any conveyance or demise
of any of the said lands, whereon a less rent shall be reserved
than a full moiety of the improved value or otherwise, the omitting
of any clause in the said letters of 28 March, 1676, which ought
to have been inserted, for passing the said lands without reservation of quit rents and the reservation in the two last-mentioned
letters patent of the rent payable by soldiers and adventurers
to the contrary notwithstanding. Noted, as entered 8 April.
[5 pages. S.P. Dom., Signet Office, Vol. 10, p. 505.] |
April 6.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Signifying his pleasure
that he confer on Charles, son of Col. John Hubblethorne, who
was slain in his service at sea, the first ensign's place that shall
become void either in the regiment of Guards or the standing
army of Ireland. [Ibid. p. 510.] |
April 6.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant, after reciting
a draft letter on behalf of the Duke of York in the terms of the
above letter of the same date, and further reciting a reference
of the said draft to the Lord Lieutenant, who had the following
opinion of the Attorney-General of Ireland dated 8 Nov., 1679,
that all lands granted to the Duke for deficiencies or reprisals
ought by the Acts of Settlement and Explanation to be exempt
from the payment of quit rents and that, in regard the quit rent
reserved in the two last letters patent happened by the omission
of some few words to the contrary in the letter of 28 March, 1676,
he conceives that his Majesty declaring the same under his signet
and sign manual may freely discharge the said quit rents and
that he does not find that the said draft contains more than
what has been formerly granted to the Duke in all his lands
in Ireland and what he may justly crave pursuant to the Acts
of Settlement and Explanation and the letters patent of 16 Oct.,
1669, and who also had a report from the farmers of the Revenue
that the lands mentioned in the letters patent of 3 April, 1678,
contain 4,398 acres, 3 roods, 6 perches, Irish plantation measure,
in cos. Meath, Westmeath, Kildare and Kilkenny in Leinster,
whereon the quit rent amounts to 88l. 12s. 5¼d. per annum, and
1,558 acres, 1 rood, 5 perches, like measure, in cos. Tipperary,
Limerick and Cork in Munster, on which the quit rent amounts
to 24l. 3s. 2d. per annum, and that the lands mentioned in the
other letters patent contain 1,136 acres, 2 roods, 10 perches, like
measure, in co. Tipperary in Munster, on which the quit rent
amounts to 17l. 4s. 7½d. per annum and 215 acres, 32 perches, like
measure, in Westmeath in Leinster, on which the quit rent
amounts to 4l. 7s. 1¼d. per annum, the total of which quit rents
amounts to 134l. 7s. 4d. per annum, and that by a clause in their
contract for their present farm they conceive themselves justly
entitled to a defalcation of that sum, should the King remit
the same, and who thereupon made his own report dated 6 July,
1680, transmitting the above reports of the Attorney-General
and the Farmers, and further reciting a reference of the premises
to the Commissioners of the Treasury in England and their report
dated 24 March, 1680-1, that they had no objection to the passing
of the above draft letter, but with this proviso, provided that
the same extend not to remit any rents for a longer time than
the lands, whereon they are reserved by the said two letters patent,
have been in the possession of the Duke, nor to continue them
so discharged of quit rents for any longer time than other lands
vested in him by the Acts of Settlement and Explanation are
to be discharged: signifying his pleasure that he cause letters
patent to be passed containing a grant, discharge and release
to the Duke, his heirs and assigns, of all the rents and duties
mentioned in the said draft letter as if the said were herein
repeated but with the proviso contained in the report of
the Commissioners of the Treasury. Noted, as entered 22
November. [8½ pages. S.P. Dom., Signet Office, Vol. 11,
p. 24.] |
| April 7. |
Mr. L[? angham] to Secretary Jenkins. Recommending for
the lieutenancy of London John Short in Gracechurch Street,
Nathaniel Hawes, deputy to Sir John Peake, and Peter Ayleworth,
deputy to Sir W. Pritchard. He is informed that Mr. Bethell
has had a converse with Mr. Tychburne in the Tower for near
3 hours. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 415, No. 115.] |
April 7.
Chichester. |
Alderman Edward Exton to Major John Braman. Begging
that he might speak with him that evening. [S.P. Dom., Car. II.
415, No. 116.] |
| April 7. |
Edward Cole to Major John Braman. Informing him that the
court leet for choosing constables for the Hundred of Box and
Stockbridge is next Wednesday. Attached is a piece of ruled
paper with the numbers from 20 to 70 with a varying number
of strokes against each. [Ibid. Nos. 117, 117 i.] |
| [April 7.] |
Information of Charles Rea of the grand cabal at the King's
Head tavern in Fleet Street and of Lord Howard's assault on
him at his lodgings on the previous day, 6 April, 168[1] (written
1680 by mistake). (The purport sufficiently appears from the
abstract next calendared.) [5½ pages. Ibid. No. 118.] |
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Abstract of the above information Sir Thomas Player,
Sir Robert Clayton, Treby, Winnington, Sir Richard Cust,
Stroud and Pilkington were for a free state and no other government and Lords Shaftesbury, Grey, Howard and Chandos with
several others were for making the Duke of Monmouth King,
if occasion should be. In April and May, 1678 (sic), the
informant conversed with the said persons and Major Breming
(? Braman) and Trenchard in the Speaker's chamber and in the
Coffee-house in the Court of Requests, where Dr. Oates met
the private cabal every day. They would have the informant
swear against Col. Sackville certain words spoken by him of
the Parliament and against the plot and the King's evidence. |
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The informant was at the election at Chelmsford, where Lord
Howard desired him to cry out, No bishops, no bishops ! |
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Sometime after this, when the Parliament was sitting, Sir T.
Player and Sir R. Clayton asked the informant, if he wanted money
and what he would do for it; if he would kill the Duchess of
Portsmouth, they would give him 60 guineas in hand and 1,000,
when he had done it, but he answered, he would not wash his
hands in blood. They told him that, if he would kill the Duke
of York, they would give him 1,000l. down and 10,000l., when
he had done it, and that they would stand by him with their
lives and fortunes. Lord Shaftesbury asked him the day before
the Chelmsford election, 1678[-9], whether he would not do it,
but he answered he would not dip his hands in blood. |
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The informant met Mr. Bethell, now sheriff, several times
in Falcon Court, Fleet Street, who spoke dangerous words to
him of the King and Sir Henry Blunt's second son offered him
the same sums as abovesaid for killing the Duke and the Duchess
of Portsmouth. |
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Major Wildman said to him, we had enough of a king and
especially of such a one as this and that it was no sin to cut off
the King. |
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Sir T. Player and Sir R. Clayton told the informant they had
36,000 men ready listed to assist the Parliament, if they had not
been prorogued that day. |
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Yesterday, 6 April, 1681, Lord Howard came to the informant's
lodging at Knightsbridge and assaulted him for what he had
said of his lordship and threatened him, so that he was forced
to climb over a wall to save his life. [2½ pages. S.P. Dom., Car. II.
415, No. 119.] |
| April 7. |
Pass for Laurence Fackett and Sarah, his wife, Daniel Allen
and Judith, his wife, and Mary, his child, Thomas Cooke and
Elizabeth, his wife, and Elizabeth, their child, and Thomas and
Norton Reeve with three maidservants to pass into Holland
about their private affairs. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, f.
394.] |
| April 7. |
S. Musgrave to Benony Carr at Hexham. Informing him of
the steps to be taken for obtaining letters patent.—I advised
with Mr. Graham, the solicitor, who told me by this way it
would be very easily got, but you must get Major Christian, your
receiver, to make oath or certify that the lands the patentee
enjoys are much encumbered and that it will be advantageous
to his Majesty to take the 20l. a month at 28 days' payment
as the statute directs, but I fear, if you have such a grant, you
must pay from the first conviction to this time. I know you
would be desirous to know whereabouts the expenses will be in
passing this patent, but I cannot as yet learn, for Mr. Marriott,
who passed Sir John Arundell's patent, is out of town, but, if you
will go on with this design, it shall be carefully attended to with
as much thrift as possible. On your answer I will draw up the
petition and proceed as soon as may be, for I have seen the form
of Sir John Arundell's. I have neither seen nor hear of
Mr. Errington. [Admiralty, Greenwich Hospital 1, No. 91.] |
April 7.
Whitehall. |
Commissions to — Mackenzie of Suddie to be captain of one
of the two new companies to be raised and added to the Earl
of Mar's regiment, and to William Sharp and — Mackdougall
to be lieutenant and ensign of the said company, and to Alexander
Cairaes to be captain of the other new company and to John
Levingston and to — Wood to be lieutenant and ensign of
the said company. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, pp. 305–
310.] |
April 7.
Whitehall. |
Commission to Alexander Hamilton to be ensign of Capt.
Macgill's company in the regiment of Guard. [Ibid. p. 311.] |
April 7.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for the presentation of Patrick Auchterlony, student
in divinity, to be minister at the church of Rogertoune in the
diocese of Dunkeld. [Ibid. p. 312.] |
April 8.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a grant of a pension of 500l. per annum to Dame
Margery, widow of Sir Palmes Fairborne, late lieut.-governor
of the city and garrison of Tangier, in consideration of his
faithful services and for the support of her and her many children
out of the treasure appointed for the said city and garrison, to
commence from 24 Oct. last on which the said Sir Palmes died
of his wounds. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 50, p. 78.] |
| April 8. |
Pass for Anne Roper, servant to the Queen, having some
occasion in Flanders, to pass beyond the seas with three women
and two men servants. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, f. 395.] |
April 8.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Vice-Chancellor and Senate of the University
of Cambridge. Whereas Robert Brady, M.D., and Professor
of Physic in the University, has besought us to appoint that the
exercises of candidates for the degree of M.B. may be according
to that for the same degree in law, save that they still stand bound
to one opposition as formerly, and whereas the Vice-Chancellor
with many of the Heads of Colleges have certified that they
do not know any inconvenience or disadvantage it can be to the
University or the Faculty of Physick, if the exercise of such
candidates be established in the same condition that the exercise
of candidates for the same in law is at present, especially if the
said candidates in Physick still stand bound to one opposition
as formerly, and the Archbishop of Canterbury having given his
approbation thereto, we order, establish and appoint that the
exercise of candidates for the degree of M.B. be according to
that for the same degree in law (save as before excepted) any
statute or custom of that University to the contrary notwithstanding. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 53, p. 530.] |
April 8.
Whitehall. |
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of the
Earl of Ranelagh and John Stepney with the annexed draft
of a letter praying a stop of all prosecutions against them on their
bond of 30,000l. and their contract with his Majesty of 4 Aug.,
1671, in Ireland, till his Majesty shall declare his pleasure on
their appeals. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 120.] |
April 8.
Whitehall. |
The Earl of Conway to Mr. Brisbane. Desiring him to signify
to the Commissioners of the Admiralty that it is his Majesty's
pleasure that they order a yacht to attend Sir Henry Bellasyse
into Holland and to transport some men he is raising to recruit
his regiment there. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 56, p. 50.] |
April 8.
Whitehall. |
The King to the President of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Whereas by our letters of 16 March last we required you to
admit Richard Duke into the place of steward of that college
void by the death of Robert Cates and whereas you have
not complied therewith, we once more signify our pleasure that
on receipt hereof without any further delay you admit him into
the said place. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 57, p. 39.] |
April 8.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to Col. George Legge, Governor of Portsmouth, to
appoint Major Oliver Nicholas his deputy governor in the room
of Major John Mutlow, who desires to be discharged by reason
of his health. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 164, p. 62.] |
April 8.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to Henry Howard, Commissary General of the Musters,
after reciting that Major Oliver Nicholas, deputy governor of
Portsmouth, is allowed one soldier's pay out of each company
in that garrison and that Col. George Legge has been commanded
to order each of the captains to insert in the muster rolls a fictitious
name in each company without exceeding the established numbers,
for allowing such fictitious name to be inserted on the muster
rolls of each company. [Ibid. p. 63.] |
April 8.
Dublin. |
The Lord Lieutenant to Secretary Jenkins. I hope the quiet
you found at London continues and that the people will be weary
of their misleaders. God grant it and dispose the nation to a
sober consideration of their duty to God and the King and their
own happiness. |
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I have not yet received any such account of the persons that
took on them to enjoin the fast as that any prosecution can be
ordered against them. I expect it in a post or two and by that
time shall see what effect the dissolving of the Parliament will
have had and how his Majesty governs himself in relation to
that sort of men, whereby I must steer my course, unless I receive
his particular directions. The Protestant Dissenters have here
had great liberty allowed or connived to them and they have
been very apt to take more and I doubt they attribute the
indulgence more to the fear than the good nature of the government. When I came last to this station, I found them possessed
of greater freedom and of many more meeting-houses and their
congregations much more numerous than I left them, of which
I gave his Majesty early notice, but, having received no directions
in return, I have, as near as I could, kept things as I found them,
only I have, as far as I could, discountenanced any further
encroachment, by suffering no new meeting-houses to be built
or new congregations to be assembled, but now I am in some
doubt what to do or rather what to order the Archbishop here
to do, a new capacious meeting-house being erected not far from
this Castle but much nearer to the Council Chamber, there
being but little more than a new bridge between them. It was
not doubted, whilst it was building, it was intended for that use
yet, since the contrary might be pretended, the erecting of it
could not be interrupted, but now, that use having been made
of it, I desire to receive his Majesty's pleasure concerning it. |
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The Bishop of Killala is lately dead. The bishopric is one
of the poorest in the kingdom and consequently there is not
like to be any great competition for it, especially betwixt such
as deserve it, so I have been fain to offer my recommendation
to Dr. Smith, Dean of Kilmore (Dromore), a very worthy and able
man, and he thankfully accepts it, which you may acquaint his
Majesty with as what I think will be for his and the Church's
service. [2½ pages. Holograph. S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 342,
No. 35.] |
April 9.
Lyme. |
Capt. Gregory Alford to the King. I cannot hear anything
to the defamation of your Majesty or the government. Yesterday
about two miles west from Lyme I was overtaken by one Edmond
Gibons, who was in company with the Earl of Stamford. He
highly commended the great treat Lyme had given to the Earl
and said he came from Oxford with the Earl and that the King,
the night before he dissolved the Parliament, had a damned
ambassador from the King of France to assure the payment of
800,000l., on condition that your Majesty would presently dissolve
the parliament, which was presently agreed on, and that then
for the security of the money your Majesty passed a privy
seal on the entreaty of Bab May and William Chiffinch to the
ambassador. This was done to Gibons' own knowledge, which
he could and would prove, and that your Majesty dissolved the
Parliament to his knowledge on the said contract with the King
of France and that your Majesty presently sent an express to
the Duke of York to inform him of what you had done and that
now there was a necessity that there must and would be a war
with the King, as there was against the late King, to decide the
matter. One of the Earl's servants told me that Gibons was a
great favourite with the Earl and was to accompany him into
Cornwall as far as the Mount and no doubt, seeing he made such
discourse to me, he made much more to others of the Dissenting
party here and elsewhere to make your Majesty and your government odious. What I have written I shall be ready to testify on
oath. This Gibons is, I am informed, the son of Major Gibons,
a Cromwellite. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 415, No. 120.] |
| April 9. |
Pass for Henry Baker and Mistress Susanna Corsellis to go
to Holland with two maidservants and two menservants and to
return. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, f. 396.] |
| April 9. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Lord Lieutenant. (Calendared in
the Ormonde Papers, Vol. VI, p. 29.) [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 341,
p. 70.] |
| April 10. |
Commission to John Darcy to be guidon and major to the
Queen's troop of Horse Guards, whereof Sir Philip Howard is
captain and colonel. Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 29, p. 384.] |
April 10.
Whitehall. |
Commission to Sir John Fenwick to be lieutenant and lieut.colonel of the above troop of Horse Guards. Minute. [Ibid. p. 386.] |
| April 11. |
Thomas Langham to [Sir Leoline Jenkins]. All good churchmen were doubtless well pleased with his Majesty's speech and
his resolution since, which makes them brisk and consequently
the Fanatics dejected. The declaration was long expected and
as yet I cannot say how people relish it. |
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Many of the best subjects hope that there will be great care
throughout the nation for good Justices and for the militia and
that none but persons of known integrity be preferred to any
office in the King's dispose and that those that behave best be
advanced and not a sort of men for affronting the Crown as
has too often been done. |
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If there be a new commission of lieutenancy for London and
it be conceived fit to nominate any besides citizens, your Honour
having formerly mentioned Sir Richard Lloyd and Sir Thomas
Exton, I think, if they are put in, it may do well also to add
Sir Henry St. George, who was in the late King's army.
Mr. Johnson, an honest jeweller in Cheapside, now a Common
council man, who was one that opposed the petition when these
sheriffs were chosen, may be also thought of for one of the
Lieutenancy or at least a considerable officer, as also Lieut.-col.
Baker, who was laid aside on Sir Robert Clayton's being made
colonel. I could wish that Richard Master and Robert
Beddingfield, a draper of good interest and known loyalty, were
captains. Mr. Foster was formerly his apprentice. |
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When the like is done for Westminster, Mr. Smallbone, a woodmonger near Charing Cross, who was indicted for tearing the
petition, may be considered of by your Honour. [S.P. Dom.,
Car. II. 415, No. 121.] |
April 11.
Doddington. |
N. to Sir Leoline Jenkins. One Laurence Morris is committed
to Ely gaol by Sir Lionel Walden for dispersing seditious pamphlets and particularly a half sheet entitled Vox populi Vox Dei,
of which he had 1,400 and has disposed of the greatest part of
them. He says he had them from Brookesby, a bookseller, who
may be easily found out. Mr. Mearne, I doubt not, knows him.
He further informs that Laurence White rides about to fairs and
markets to disperse pamphlets to inflame the people. I cannot
doubt they are set on work by more considerable persons than
yet appear and conceive it will be no difficulty to discover the
bottom of the intrigue and, if they were made exemplary, it
might do his Majesty no inconsiderable service. [Ibid. No. 122.] |
| April 11. |
Commission to Richard Woodward to be lieutenant to Capt.
John Price in Col. Russell's regiment. Minute. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 29, p. 386.] |
April 11.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Signifying his
pleasure that he forthwith give such directions as have been usual
in like cases or he shall judge most expedient for reading the
King's declaration touching the causes that moved him to
dissolve the two last parliaments in all the churches and chapels
in the province of Canterbury during Divine service on some
Lord's day and that the same be done with all the convenient
speed possible. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 53, p. 51.] |
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Note of the like letter, mutatis mutandis, to the Archbishop of
York. [Ibid.] |
April 11.
Whitehall. |
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of Sir
Francis Leeke for power to make a deputy as one of the searchers
at Gravesend. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 120.] |
April 11.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a ratification of the contract betwixt Sir James
Dalrymple of Stair and Agnes Campbell and Patrick Tailziefer
her spouse (exercising the office of his Majesty's printer in
Scotland) for printing the Acts and decisions of the Lords of
Session since the restoration to this time, observed and written
by the said Sir James, as also the Institutions of the law of
Scotland written likewise by him. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant
Book 6, p. 312.] |
| April 12. |
The information of Thomas Hawley, gentleman porter of
the Tower, of what Mr. Fitzharris said to the Lieutenant of the
Tower and Sir Edmond Berry Godfrey's two brothers and a
friend. The Lieutenant ordered me to bring him and his warder
before him 24 March last. The Lieutenant asked him whether he
knew anything of the murder of Sir E. B. Godfrey. He replied
that what he knew thereof he had declared to the Recorder
of London and Sir Robert Clayton and would not declare any
more thereof, till he was sent for to Oxford by the Parliament.
No person whatever spoke to him either going to the Lieutenant
or at his return. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 415, No. 123.] |
April 12.
London. |
Alderman Edward Exton to Major Braman. About the
unsatisfactory condition of his private affairs. [Ibid. No. 124.] |
| April 12. |
Commission to Capt. Henry Villiers to be lieut.-governor of
Tynemouth Castle, Northumberland, during the absence of
his father Sir Edward Villiers, knight marshal, the Governor.
Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 29, p. 385.] |
April 12.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Lord Lieutenant. (Calendared in
the Ormonde Papers, Vol. VI, p. 33.) [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 341,
p. 71.] |
April 13.
Whitehall. |
Order in Council after reciting that information has been this
day made that a great number of disaffected persons have lately
in a very unusual manner kept unlawful meetings within the
garrison of Berwick and that Reuly, formerly expelled from the
said town holds frequent and numerous unlawful meetings within
the limits of the garrison there: that the mayor and chief
magistrates of the said town put the laws in execution for
suppressing the said unlawful meetings and prosecute the said
Reuly on the Act for restraining Nonconformists from inhabiting
in corporations and that it be signified that, if the said mayor
and magistrates be negligent in putting the said laws in execution,
his Majesty will speedily cause a Quo warranto to be brought
against the charter of the said corporation. [Fair copy and
draft. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 415, Nos. 125, 126.] |
| April 13. |
Commission to Du[n]can Aberercomey (Abercromby) to be lieutenant to Capt. Hugh Sunderland's company in Col. Russell's
regiment. Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 29, p. 386.] |
April 13.
Whitehall. |
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of Capt.
Hugh Varman that he may be allowed a pension as other captains
late belonging to the Duke of Monmouth's regiment are. [S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 121.] |
| April 14. |
Suggestions about the Lieutenancy of London. Mr. William
Witheres and Sir Richard Browne, who were in the old commissions
are left out. John Steventon, Lieut.-col. of the White, is out
of his place and ought to follow Abraham Stannion, and Lieut.-col.
Edward Baker ought to take place with the other five Lieut.colonels. I dare not vouch for Thomas Langham, for he has
often sided with the faction. I recommend in his stead Peter
Paravicini, a merchant of very good quality, who lives as genteely
as any man. Lieut.-col. Steventon is not of the Quorum, but
ever was and is one of the most constant men at the Lieutenancy.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 415, No. 127.] |
| April 14. |
The information of Mary Seares of St. Giles' in the Fields.
Corroborating the information of Francisco de Faria about the
attempt of William Lewis to suborn him to bear false witness
against Lord Chief Justice Scroggs. [2 pages. Ibid. No. 128.] |
April 14.
Whitehall. |
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of George
Legge for a lease for 41 years of the profits arising by the Seals
of the King's Bench and Common Pleas after the determination
of the Earl of Suffolk's grant on the same rents as he holds it.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 121.] |
|
Another entry of part of the above reference. [Ibid. p. 102.] |
April 14.
Whitehall. |
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of John
Woodruffe for restitution of lands and goods, his Majesty having
pardoned him his life for felony and burglary, for which he was
out of malice prosecuted and condemned at Northampton assizes.
[Ibid. p. 122.] |
April 14.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Duke of Newcastle. I enclose what
his Majesty has ordered in Council on the information touching
the conventicles at Berwick. I send a copy of the order. The
original is sent by this post straight for Berwick. You will see
by it that his Majesty's meaning is that the civil magistrate
should concern himself in suppressing those disorders and that
the charter itself should stand accountable for the peace and
good order of the place. In the meantime it would be acceptable
to his Majesty, if you employed some honest and discreet, able
person to observe what is done by the Mayor and his brethren
in obedience to the order, or, if they should neglect it, which
I wish they may not, by what steps and on what motives they
do it and particularly how far the Mayor or any other person
in office is wanting in or active against that part, which the law
makes to be his duty. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 145.] |
April 14.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Mayor of Berwick. Sending him
the enclosed order in Council, to which he refers him for the
contents thereof and for what himself and the chief magistrates
of Berwick are to do on the receipt of it, and desiring from him a
line or two of acknowledgement. (There is a copy of this letter
on the back of the order, calendared on p. 238.) [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 62, p. 146.] |
April 14.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Earl of Devonshire. Your letter
of 19 March containing a relation of one Stanley and of arms,
not suitable to his ordinary occasions or his quality, found in
his custody came to me just before his Majesty's removal from
Oxford hither. The hurry on that occasion was so great that
the Councils, wherein I designed to produce your letter, were
for some time discontinued and then so crowded with business,
that it was impossible for me till yesterday to lay it before his
Majesty in Council. On reading it in Council the active diligence
of the deputy lieutenants mentioned was very well approved
of and so was the laying of Stanley in prison, since he found not
securities for the peace. His Majesty commanded me to thank
you and the deputy lieutenants in his name. It is with great
satisfaction I obey this command. [Ibid. p. 147.] |
April 15.
Whitehall. |
Order in Council on a memorial of the Count de Miranda,
ambassador extraordinary of Portugal, setting forth that John
Francis Dickenson his chaplain, a Flandrian born, whom he
intended to have transported out of his Majesty's dominions,
was at the Old Bailey Sessions lately condemned to die, for a
pardon to the said Dickenson with a proviso that he shall depart
from the King's dominions before 1 May next. [S.P. Dom.,
Car. II. 415, No. 127.] |
| April 15. |
Edmond Warcupp to Sir Leoline Jenkins. I remind your
Honour to send a copy of Francis Weyer's information last Council
day to the Lord Lieutenant and to desire him that a strict
examination be made of the truth of the said examination as to
the three last consults held in Ireland by Plunket's order; the
last was in November last, and, if that be true, the plot in Ireland
still goes on. If false, the untruth of Weyer's information may
detect other untruths, this being the most material information
I have yet met with in relation to the Irish plot. |
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The Irish witnesses clamour much in London that they can
obtain no answers to their petitions long depending before the
Council nor any subsistence. Some of them are to be made use
of at Plunket's trial, some at Lord Tyrone's, Col. Lacy's and
other and some against Sir John Davys, but, if for dispatch you
would propose to his Majesty to refer them all to the AttorneyGeneral by the lump and direct him to report to the Council
the nature of the petitions, distinguishing the usefulness of the
witnesses against whom and where, and his opinion what answers
they may require, it would rid the Council of clamour and dismiss
the vast number of Irish witnesses to their own country or oblige
them to show cause why they stay here. His Majesty promised
pardon to several of these Irish witnesses. You may move that
the said pardons pass forthwith, that they may have no pretence
to stay in London, and order passes to be given to such as ought
to return to Ireland or have no other business here. [S.P. Dom.,
Car. II. 415, No. 130.] |
April 15.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Sir William Smith. I am by his Majesty's
command to signify to you (and I must desire you to communicate
what I write to the rest of the Middlesex Justices) that it would
be very acceptable to him to receive any propositions from you
and them touching the best ways to put the Statute of 43 Eliz.
for the relief of the poor in execution with effect. You presented
him not long since with a petition to that end. He now invites
you, it being the time that new overseers are chosen, to depute
some of you to attend the Lords of the Council with your overtures.
To-morrow at 10 a Committee of my Lords will be sitting and
they will hand such propositions as you shall make to his Majesty,
who is very desirous to see a thing so much for the good of his
people brought to all the settlement and perfection it is capable
of. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 148.] |
| April 15. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Justices of Middlesex. Signifying that
according their petition his Majesty had appointed a Committee
of the Privy Council to treat with a committee of them about
the best method of putting the statute of 43 Eliz. in execution.
[Draft. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 415, No. 131.] |
April 15.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to the Ordnance Commissioners to give order for
all such palisadoes as are or shall be brought in on the late estimate
for Tangier to be sent to Portsmouth for strengthening the
fortifications there, as Col. George Legge, the Governor, and
Sir Bernard de Gomme, the principal engineer, shall direct.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 164, p. 61.] |
April 15.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to the Ordnance Commissioners to give order for
sending all the rich Spanish weapons and such rich armour as
Col. George Legge and Hugh May shall think fit, to be set up in
Windsor Castle for the ornament of the Guard Room and St.
George's Hall there according as the said Hugh May shall direct,
and likewise to give order for the small arms now in the said
Guard Room to be returned to the stores in the Tower. [Ibid.] |
April 15.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to the Lords of the Treasury of Scotland for payment
to Capt. George Barclay of 120l. sterling in consideration of his
good and faithful services. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6,
p. 313.] |
April 15.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a charter of new infeftment to Alexander Forbes
of Foveran in life rent and to Samuel Forbes, his son, and the heirs
male of his body with remainders over, of the Tower and manor
place of Foveran and of the other lands therein mentioned, on the
resignations of the said Alexander Forbes and the other persons
therein mentioned, with a new gift and an union of the premises
into the barony of Foveran and with a change of the holding
from simple ward to taxt ward. [Docquet. S.P. Scotland, Warrant
Book 6, p. 314.] |
April 15.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a charter of new infeftment to Robert Pringle
of Stitchell and his heirs male, which failing, to his heirs and
assigns whatsoever, of the lands and barony of Home in the
shirefdome of Berwick and the lands and barony of Duns and
other lands, on his own resignation, with a new gift and a change
of the holding from simple ward to taxt ward. [Docquet. Ibid.
p. 315.] |
April 15.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a charter of new infeftment to Robert Hamilton
of Presmennen, advocate, with remainder to — Hamilton, his
son, and the heirs male of his body with remainders over, of the
town and lands of Goslingtoune and other lands in the parochine
of Stenhouse and shirefdome of Lanark, proceeding on the right
of wodsett formerly granted him by Sir Robert Hamilton of
Silvertounehill and now on the resignation of the said Robert,
with a new gift and a change of the holding from simple ward
to taxt ward. [Docquet. Ibid. p. 316.] |
April 15.
Whitehall. |
Memorial of a protection in the ordinary form to Robert
Graham of Morphie for two years. [Ibid. p. 317.] |
April 15.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant for a grant to
William Smith, D.D., Dean of Dromore, of the united bishoprics
of Killala and Achonry, void by the death of John, late Bishop
thereof, and for the restitution to him of the temporalities of
the said bishopric (except the portion of tithes commonly called
the Quarta pars episcopalis enjoyed by former bishops of Killala
and Achonry). [S.P. Dom., Signet Office, Vol. 10, p. 510.] |
April 15.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant for a stop of all
proceedings against the Earl of Ranelagh and John Stepney
on a bond for 30,000l. and also on their contract of 4 Aug., 1671,
till the first day of Trinity term next. [Ibid. p. 511.] |
| [April.] |
Lewis Smith, of Nottingham, to the King. Petition that he
be inserted in the next general pardon for poor convicts in the
Midland Circuit without the clause of transportation. He is
son of Sir Thomas Smith, who spent a great part of his estate
in the late King's service. Being educated in the Roman Catholic
religion, he was lately imprisoned and, for refusing to take the oath
of supremacy, is convicted of a premunire. He is now converted
to the Protestant religion and has received the Sacrament according to the rites of the Church of England as appears from the
annexed certificate. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 415, No. 132.]
Annexed, |
| April 16. |
Certificate by George Masterson, minister of St. Mary's
Nottingham, that Smith received the Sacrament there on
Quadragesima Sunday, 20 Feb. last, and Low Sunday,
the 10th instant, and frequents prayers and sermons there,
behaving decently and reverently. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 415,
No. 132 i.] |
April 16.
Hicks' Hall. |
Order of the Justices of Middlesex appointing 17 of their
number a Committee to consider ways and methods to set the
poor on work and to attend the Council with their overtures,
Secretary Jenkins having intimated by his letter of the 15th instant
his Majesty's pleasure that the Justices should put in execution
the Act of 43 Eliz. for the relief of the poor and for setting them
to work. [Ibid. No. 133.] |
April 16.
Whitehall. |
Warrant after reciting the warrant for a grant of a pension
to Dame Margery Fairborne, calendared ante, p. 233, for inserting clauses in the grant that, in case the treasure mentioned in
the said warrant should fail, the said pension be made payable
out of any of the treasure in the Exchequer. [S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 50, p. 79.] |
| April 16. |
Pass for Comte Perting, Envoyé Extraordinary from the Duke
of Savoy, now departing this kingdom with his attendants and
servants, 24 in number. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, f. 396.] |
April 16.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a patent for 14 years to Henry Holdin for his
invention of making and fining all sorts of glass and frett under
covered globe-like pots of one entire piece, so that no sulphur
nor dust can enter the pots but the essence or etherial spirit
of the fire, whereby the glasses are much better, which he has
found out with great loss of time and expense of about 2,000l.,
and also for his invention of building a glass house and glass
furnace, which he has already built and has men at work at the
said house and pots, whereby all sorts of metal for glass can be
fined and wrought with sea coal better than with wood. [Ibid.
f. 397.] |
April 16.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Capt. Alford. Your cousin Gammon has
delivered me your letter of the 9th directed to the King, which
he read over himself every word with good attention, acknowledging your firm and constant loyalty to the royal interest all
through the late usurpation, a great proof of which you still give in
your discovery of that traitorous and seditious discourse mentioned
in your letter. He commands me to return you his thanks with
an assurance that he will not be unmindful of you, as occasion
offers. He would also have you, as you profess yourself ready,
make affidavit of what you have written on oath before some
neighbour justice, of whose loyalty, discretion and secrecy you
can be confident, that such further course may be taken with
the offender as law and reason shall require. I desire you to
transmit such affidavit to me, but under cover and through your
cousin Gammon, whom I also use in conveying this to you and
shall do so as there shall be further occasion. I would entreat
you likewise to recollect yourself what other persons heard the
words and to acquaint me with their names and usual abodes
as also where the offender himself may be found or heard of.
You will do his Majesty a particular service in this. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 62, p. 149.] |
April 16.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Lord Lieutenant. (Calendared in
the Ormonde Papers, Vol. VI, p. 35.) [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 341,
p. 72.] |
April 18.
Whitehall. |
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of Capt.
William Legge for a lease for 31 years of an old messuage and
large close in the parish of Chipping Sodbury in Worcestershire,
at the rent of 12s. an acre. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 121.] |
April 18.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to Col. George Legge, Governor of Portsmouth, to order
the captain of each foot company in garrison at Portsmouth
to insert in the muster rolls a fictitious name in each company
without exceeding the established number in each, to the intent
that one soldier's pay in each company may be allowed to Major
Oliver Nicholas, the deputy governor, to commence from 1 May
next. (So dated, but the true date is probably 8 April, the same
as that of the two other warrants about Nicholas.) [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 164, p. 62.] |
| April 19. |
Alderman Edward Exton to Major Braman. About his
private affairs and his composition with his creditors. [S.P.
Dom., Car. II. 415, No. 134.] |
April 19.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Samuel Carleton. Your letter of the
1st touching Lander was read in Council. The direction I had
was that you should encourage the Mayor of Chiohester to inform
himself how Lander comes to live and spend above his estate
and rank. If he can give no good account of himself as to his
expenseful way of living above his quality, it is according to
law to require his good behaviour and, if he cannot find sureties,
he is to be committed. This is left to Mr. Mayor. When you
send me any information, pray let it be on oath and, where
you write any thing relating to the public peace or service, put
your name at length and not the initials only. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 62, p. 150.] |
April 19.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant, after reciting
that the Hospital for aged and maimed soldiers of the army in
Ireland is already begun to be erected on part of the King's lands
now enclosed in the Phoenix Park near the old ruinous building
commonly called the Castle of Kilmainham, for setting apart
and for ever thereafter continuing for the use of the said Hospital
the said land whereon the said hospital is now building with
such land thereto adjoining, not exceeding in the whole 64 acres
plantation measure, as he shall think fit to be laid thereto. [S.P.
Dom., Signet Office, Vol. 10, p. 512.] |
April 19.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant, after reciting
that the church of Chapel Izod has been lately pulled down and
that the new building thereof is nearly finished, but is now at
a stand for want of money notwithstanding that two assessments
have been made on all the lands in the said parish not in the
King's hands and that several sums have been contributed by the
inhabitants, and that the King's house at Chapel Izod and a
great part of the lands enclosed in the Phoenix Park lie within
the said parish and ought to bear a part of the said charge, to
which the King has not yet contributed in such a proportion
as might have been reasonable; for requiring Thomas Taylor
forthwith to pay into the treasury the 108l. 10s. deposited with
him some time ago by Sir George Carteret, deceased, for discharging so much of the sum due to the King on his account while
he was Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, and thereupon for payment
of the said sum to the minister and churchwardens of the said
parish to be laid out towards the completing of the said new
church. [S.P. Dom., Signet Office, Vol. 10, p. 513.] |
April 19.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant, after reciting
the letters of 21 Aug. last, calendared in the last volume, p. 618,
directing the passing of letters patent containing a grant and
confirmation to Edward Fitzgerald, alias Villiers, and Katherine,
his wife, and her heirs of the lands which belonged to the late
John Fitzgerald and that the said Edward Fitzgerald had since
petitioned for the insertion of a clause in the said letters granting
all the King's right, title, estate and interest either in possession,
reversion or remainder or otherwise in or to the said lands, there
having been such a clause in a former patent thereof (since
vacated) to the Earl of Tyrone, a reference thereof to the Lord
Lieutenant and his report with the opinion of the Solicitor-General
of Ireland that he sees no reason why such a clause should not
be inserted; for inserting such a clause in the letters to be passed
and also for causing the lands to be comprised in the said letters
patent to be created into five manors, to be called by such names
and such of the lands to be made part of the said manors as by
the said Edward Fizgerald and his wife shall be desired, with
the privileges usual in such grants of manors and with a grant
of a market every Friday at Dromana and of fairs on 25 May
and 8 Sept. at Dromana and of another fair on 15 Sept. at Grange
and of another fair on 1 May at Mountain Castle. [Nearly 3 pages.
Ibid. p. 514.] |
| April 20. |
Deed poll by Alderman Edward Exton appointing Major John
Braman and four others his attorneys for making composition
with his creditors. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 415, No. 135.] |
April 20.
Whitehall. |
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of
William, Earl of Inchiquin, for a remission of a year's advance
of his salary as Governor of Tangier and for a continuance of
his pay till the expiration of his commission, which was granted
him for three years. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 124.] |
| April 21. |
Alderman Edward Exton to Major John Braman. Sending
him the deed of composition of the previous day. [S.P. Dom.,
Car. II. 415, No. 136.] |
| April 21. |
Warrant for a licence to Sir William Farmer, of Eston Neston,
Northamptonshire, to stop an old way from Shuttlehanger to
Towcester and to substitute a new one (both ways being
described), it having been found by inquisition that such licence
to change the ways will be no damage to the King or to others.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, f. 397.] |
April 21.
Whitehall. |
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of Sir
Bernard Gascon praying that on a surrender of a grant of the duty
of 5s. per ton on French ships for 13 years to come at 1,200l.
per annum his Majesty would grant it him for his life without
any rent in consideration of his arrears &c. [S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 55, p. 122.] |
April 22.
Hardwick. |
The Earl of Devonshire to Secretary Jenkins. I imparted
to some of the deputy lieutenants of this county his Majesty's
gracious acceptance of the little service done by them signified
in your letter. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 415, No. 137.] |
April 22.
London. |
Richard Rumball and John Gladman to Major John Braman.
Requesting him to procure a solution of the enclosed queries
about a farm at West Marden belonging to Mr. Oughton offered
for purchase to a friend of theirs who is trustee for an orphan.
[Ibid. No. 138.] |
April 22.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a patent for 14 years to Edward Mayo of London,
the nominee of Francis Faudel du Fresne, a native of France,
for the new invention of the latter for making salt in England
and Ireland, with a proviso that, if it shall appear that this grant
is inconvenient or prejudicial to the King's service and the good
of the said kingdoms or any abuse therein be discovered or that
the said invention is not a new one, the said patent may be recalled
by order signed by six or more of the Privy Council. [2 pages.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, f. 398.] |
April 22.
Whitehall. |
Warrant, after reciting that for many years on every Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday a market has been held for buying and
selling hay and straw in a place called the Haymarket, being the
high road from the Mews to Piccadilly, the profits whereof, being
6d. for every load of hay and 2d. for every load of straw standing
there to be sold, were by a late Act settled for paving and keeping
in repair the street on which the said market was kept, which Act
is expired, by reason whereof and that no provision has since been
made for paving or cleansing the said street (no person being by
law obliged thereto) the same is run very much to decay and
like to become unpassable, unless some speedy course be taken,
and divers complaints having been made thereof, and Edward
Warcup having besought a grant of the said market and it
having been found on a writ of Ad quod damnum that it
will not be to the damage of the Crown or others, if he be granted
three markets to be held every week on Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday for buying and selling hay and straw in the said place;
for a grant to the said Edward Warcup, his heirs and assigns, of three
markets for buying and selling hay and straw in and on the place
and days aforesaid, taking tolls not exceeding the rates aforesaid,
nevertheless with this proviso that he and they shall hereafter
at their own charges pave, cleanse, maintain and keep in good
repair the aforesaid street or else the said grant to cease and be
void, and with a further condition for revoking the said grant,
if it should hereafter appear to be prejudicial or inconvenient
to the public. [2 pages. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, f. 399.] |
April 22.
Whitehall. |
Reference to the Attorney or Solicitor General of the petition
of the Mayor and Corporation of Cowbridge, Glamorganshire,
for a renewal of their charter with some alterations and additions.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 123.] |
April 22.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Philip Warwick. I have yours of the
22nd past. I rejoice with all my heart in the very good accounts
you continue to give of yourself and your negotiation. His
Majesty has more than once taken notice of your care and conduct.
I have observed the ministers that came abroad from that court
to be always men that had a great fonds of abilities and yet were
rigid in matter of forms and, though that Crown has not anciently
made that figure in the world as other Crowns did, yet the
ministers never abated any thing in the least of the pretensions
of the most ancient monarchs, which certainly is a conduct very
becoming those that new set up and not to be neglected by those
that have the eldest prescription. The answer you expect to
yours of the 9th past you will receive fully from Lord Conway.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 68, p. 419.] |
April 22.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Sir John de Leyenberg. Expressing his
joy and his Majesty's particular satisfaction that they shall once
more embrace him in this Court.—As nothing is more entirely
his Majesty's desire than to enter into the strictest correspondence
possible with his Swedish majesty, so nothing can be more
welcome to him than to do it and to cultivate the ancient friendship between the two kings by the ministry of a person so well
known to and esteemed by him as you are. When you see Mons.
Olivencrantz, pray assure him of my perfect respect and faithful
service. [Ibid.] |
April 22.
Whitehall. |
Commissions to George Murray to be lieutenant and to Edward
Ruthven to be cornet of the troop of life guard of Horse, whereof
the Marquess of Montrose is captain. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant
Book 6, pp. 317, 318.] |
April 22.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a gift to David Thoires, advocate, his heirs and
assigns whatsoever, of the town and lands of Cairnhill and other
lands in the shirefdome of Aberdeen, which pertained to the
deceased John Forbes of Gask, Alexander Irvin of Arnadge and
James Drum, burgess of Aberdeen, and are now fallen into his
Majesty's hands by reason of recognition. [Docquet. S.P.
Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 319.] |
April 22.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant, after reciting
the petition of the Earl of Ranelagh, calendared ante, p. 156,
concerning houses and lands in Athlone formerly the property of
George Devenish; a reference thereof to the Lord Lieutenant and his
report, with which the Lords of Treasury concurred, that granting
the petitioner's desire would not be prejudicial to his Majesty's
service; empowering and requiring him to give a further instruction to the Commissioners for the remaining part of the
security of the '49 officers to treat and compound with the Earl
of Ranelagh, should he so desire, for the said houses and lands
and to accept from him such unsatisfied part of '49 debentures for
any such houses and lands as the same being valued shall amount
to according to the rules of the Acts of Settlement and Explanation and thereon to grant him their certificate in order to his
passing new letters patent thereon, as they might do by their
present commission, were he in actual possession thereof. [Over
2 pages. S.P. Dom., Signet Office, Vol. 10, p. 516.] |
April 23.
Whitehall. |
On the petition of Thomas Fleming in a cause between him
and the Marquess of Antrim, reference of his case in a more
especial manner to the Lord Lieutenant to endeavour to persuade
the other parties to submit to the arbitration of such of the judges
as his Grace shall appoint to determine the matters in difference,
with a recommendation to his Grace to have such consideration
of the petitioner's son, now a soldier in the Irish army, as he shall
think he deserves. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 123.] |
| April 23. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Earl of Pembroke. Reciting his
letter of 11 March (calendared ante, p. 209) which directed the
removing of Mr. Thynne, Sir Thomas Mompesson, and Sir Edward
Hungerford and the appointment of Sir John Talbot, Mr. Wyndham
and Mr. Lewis in their places.—I laid before his Majesty your
letter of 21 March, which gave assurance of your readiness to obey
his commands, wherewith he was then satisfied, but he is now
informed that none of them have yet received their commissions
from you, which he very much wonders at and commands me
to write you this second letter and to require you in his name
to send commissions forthwith to the three last mentioned gentlemen for the several commands directed by the letter of 11 March
to be given them. I hope this delay, which is much more taken
notice of to your disadvantage than I could wish, will be repaired
by your giving these commissions all possible dispatch. I should
be extreme sorry this should have any mention again before
the King other than that you have fully obeyed his commands.
[1½ page. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 151.] |
| April 23. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Lord Lieutenant. (Calendared in the
Ormonde Papers, Vol. VI, p. 40.) [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 341,
p. 74.] |
April 24.
Whitehall. |
Order in Council that Secretary Jenkins cause Ralph Bamford
of Chorley, Staffordshire, to be brought in custody before this
Board for having spoken words of dangerous consequence, as
appears by the oaths of Elizabeth Astell and Elizabeth Harvey
of Lichfield. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 415, No. 139.] |
April 24.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant for admitting
Richard Pyne to be a King's Counsel in Ireland. [S.P. Dom.,
Signet Office, Vol. 10, p. 519.] |
| April 25. |
Receipt by Nicholas Exton to Major John Braman for 10.
out of 50l. returned by Mr. Godfrey. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 415,
No. 140.] |
| [April 25 ?] |
C. Aylwin to her cousin, Major John Braman. Having a bond
of Mr. Exton's for 100l. asking him to declare she is content to
take as the rest of the creditors do. [Ibid. No. 141.] |
April 25.
London. |
John Dwyre to Secretary Jenkins. You heard my case read
to the King in Council before you went to Oxford, and, finding
you inclined to help me, it is needful to give you some particulars
to insinuate it to the King and receive his direction. When the
Court of Claims was held in Ireland, the possessors of my birthright
suborned false witnesses to swear my father was in the war,
whereas the Duke of Ormonde and several gentlemen of Ireland
witnessed to the King he was not, and at the said Court the said
perjurers declared they were bribed, which I can prove. Whether
my father was innocent or not, he had but a life estate and the
remainder is in me in fee, which I can prove. He is not comprehendable in the Acts passed for Ireland. The King having promised me justice herein and also a maintenance, pray let your honour
prescribe the way to do me justice and, as the King grants several
gentlemen of that kingdom the quit-rent of their estate in
possession, much more would he grant me the quit-rent out of
my own birthright or 150l. per annum thereof. My most earnest
request is that you will endeavour what you can towards my
relief. [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 342, No. 36.] Perhaps annexed, |
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John Dwyre of Dundrum to the King. Petition for an order
to the Lord Lieutenant to do him justice and to grant him
150l. of the quit-rents of his birthright for his maintenance,
Lord Sunderland having told him he had the King's direction
to prepare an effectual order to the Lord Lieutenant to that
effect, of which the petitioner has had no benefit. [Ibid.
No. 36 i.] |
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John Dwyre to the King. Petition for some pension or place
or some other relief, his father having been unjustly divested
of divers lands in Tipperary of very great value. [Ibid.
No. 36 ii.] |
April 26.
Bristol. |
Presentment of the Grand Jury at Quarter Sessions to
Sir Richard Hart, Mayor, and the Aldermen and Justices of
Bristol. We profess our zeal for the true reformed religion as
established by law, and testify our allegiance to his Majesty,
acknowledging the happiness and tranquillity we have been
blessed with under his government. We render our thanks to
the Mayor and such of the aldermen and citizens as have joined with
him in preserving the honour, welfare and good government of this
city from being invaded by ambitious, factious and unreasonable
men. |
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We present that those who have become frequenters of
conventicles and their encouragers give the greatest wound to
our religion and are the principal authors of all the great disorders
and breaches of the peace that of late have happened amongst
us, whereby and by the dangerous doctrines taught in such
conventicles and daily spread abroad by those inspired by fanatic
zeal and democratic fury, the very foundations of our establishments both in Church and State are endeavoured to be removed
and the minds of the inhabitants and of such as resort hither
for the sake of commerce are quite taken off from their business
and too much of the time that had been better employed in their
callings is spent in debating State matters and hearing news
which often proves false, yet is very glibly swallowed by the
credulous, which we present as being of great detriment to our
trade as well as destructive of the peace and tending to the
impoverishment of the city. We therefore desire that the laws
against such conventicles as well as against Popish Recusants be
put in speedy and effectual execution and that the frequenters
of such conventicles, especially the preachers, be proceeded against
and punished as the law directs. |
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We present that all are guilty of breach of their oaths of burgesses
who, knowing of any unlawful assemblies under pretence of
religion or otherwise in this city, do not give notice thereof. |
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We present that Alderman Sir John Knight contrary to the
duty of his office in a furious and menacing manner assaulted
the Mayor on the public Tolsey whilst in the execution of his
office and having the sword of justice before him, he shaking
a cane at the Mayor and calling him base fellow and giving him
the lie. We also present him for publicly stigmatising all who
at the last election voted for Mr. Mayor and Mr. Thomas Earl
with divers odious names, especially of Papists, Popish dogs,
Jesuits and Popish devils. |
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We present Sir Robert Atkyns, Recorder and Alderman,
and the said Sir John Knight, Alderman John Lawford, Henry
Merrett, Henry Glesson, sen., William Doning, Samuel Hale,
Stephen Watts, John Hind, and Humphrey Corsley, Common
Council men, and Charles Plumer, a free burgess, for, in a petition
to the House of Commons, falsely inserting divers scandalous
untruths, tending to the reproach of the government of this
city and of the Mayor and present sheriffs and divers others of
quality and loyalty, and we submit whether the continual nonresidence of the said Sir Robert Atkyns be not a sufficient cause
for removing him from his office. |
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We present John Rowe to be a common sower of discord in
this city and one of the chief authors of all the said divisions
lately risen amongst us, a person of profligate life and conversation, a liar, a false accuser, and unfit to bear the sword before
the Mayor and pray, if he be not already dismissed, the Mayor
will convene a common Council to dismiss him. |
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We present Richard Fairclought, John Weeks, George Fownes,
young John Moon, — Steel, — Troughton and others as Nonconformist preachers without licence, and that the laws in force be
put in speedy execution against them. We present that John
Kimbar's coffee-house and tippling-house near the Tolsey has
a newly made door opposite to St. Ewin's principal church door,
whereby divers dissolute and idle persons sitting tippling and
smoking in the coffee-house at the time of divine service with
derision and contempt look on those at their devotions in the
said church and by their talking, tippling, and tobacco taking
interrupt those at church and greatly scandalize them. |
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We present that the said coffee-house is frequented by many
schismatical, seditious and disloyal persons, where they are
usually entertained with false news and lying and scandalous
pamphlets, for avoiding whereof we pray that, if it lie in the
power of this Court, the said house may be suppressed or else
that the Court will take order that no printed or written news or
pamphlets be suffered to be read or published there or in any
other coffee or tippling house but such as have been approved
by the Mayor or the Alderman of the ward where the house is.
[5 pages. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 415, No. 142.] |
April 26.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to Henry Legat, messenger, to search for, take into
custody and bring before his Majesty in Council Ralph Bamford,
of Chedley, Staffordshire, against whom information has been given
on oath before two of the justices for Lichfield of having publicly
spoken words of dangerous consequence, to answer to what
shall be objected against him. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 54,
p. 65.] |
April 26.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Lords of the Admiralty. By his
Majesty's command enclosing the petition of Martin, master of
the Maryland of London, complaining of Capt. Russell, commander of the Newcastle, his Majesty desiring that they should
with all convenient speed report to him what may occur relating
to the captain and the complaint against him. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 62, p. 152.] |
April 26.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Lord Chancellor. Signifying his
Majesty's pleasure that the Earl of Bolingbroke be removed
from being Custos Rotulorum in Bedfordshire and recommending
that the Earl of Ailesbury be put in in his stead. [Ibid. p. 153.] |
April 26.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a gift to —, his heirs and assigns, of the lands of
Comloddan with the fishing thereof in the water of Crie in the
lordship of Galloway, parochine of Monygaffe and stewardry
of Kirkcudbright with other lands in the same parochine, which
pertained to Patrick Murdoch of Cumloddan and are now fallen
into his Majesty's hands by the forfeiture of the said Murdoch
as traitor and rebel, and also of all other lands of the said Murdoch,
specified in the doom of forfeiture with a new gift of the premises. [Docquet. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 320.] |
April 26.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a gift to George, Lord Livingstoun, and the heirs
male of his body with remainders over, of the forfeited lands &c.
of William Gordon of Dundeugh, William Gordon of Craig,
William Gordon of Holme, Patrick Heron of Little Park, Robert
McClellan of Barscob, John Gordon of Over Barr, George
Macartney of Blecket, John Fullartoun of Auchinhae, Robert
Gordon of Garwarrie, Alexander Gordon of Knockgray and John
Gibson of Auchinshein, with an union of the premises into a
free barony and with a change of the holding from simple ward
to taxt ward. [2 pages. Docquet. Ibid. p. 321.] |
April 26.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for the presentation of the said Lord Livingstoun
to the respective superiors of the forfeited lands comprised in
the last warrant. [Docquet. Ibid. p. 323.] |
April 26.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Lords of the Treasury of Scotland. After
reciting his promise to the said Lord Livingstoune that out of
the forfeitures of the rebels he would bestow on him so much as
would amount yearly to 5,000 merks Scots and the last two
warrants, signifying his pleasure that they forthwith cause them
to pass the Exchequer and Seals, that he may with all convenient
diligence enter into the possession of the said forfeitures, out of
which if he shall not happen to have 5,000 merks Scots yearly,
they are to cause the deficiency to be made up to him out of
the first and readiest of the forfeitures to be disposed by them
according to a commission to be shortly signed, but they are to
take a bond obliging him, in case the yearly rent of the said
forfeitures should exceed 5,000 merks Scots yearly, to account
to them for the surplus and he is also to give security for payment
of such a proportional share of the 14,325l. sterling disbursed
towards the suppression of the rebellion as the King shall hereafter appoint in reimbursement of the said sum out of the forfeited
estates and the fines from those absent from the host, with a
proviso that what is due to John Hay, son to Thoma Hay deceased,
one of the clerks of Council and Session deceased, on two bonds
of 2,000 and 1,000 merks Scots by John Gordon of Over Barre,
be secured to the said Hay. [1½ page. Ibid. p. 324.] |
April 26.
Whitehall. |
Memorial of a protection in the ordinary form to James Murray
of Karlaverock for two years. [Ibid. p. 326.] |
April 27.
Whitehall. |
Order in Council that the Mayor of Hull cause John Baker,
proved on oath to be the author and publisher of false news,
to be bound to be of good behaviour and that he be prosecuted.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 415, No. 143.] |
| April 27. |
Commission to John Frye to be lieutenant to the foot company
of Capt. Frederick Cornwallis in Jersey. Minute. [S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 29, p. 386.] |
April 27.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Earl of Craven. Whilst staying at Windsor,
appointing him to command the horse and foot left behind to
secure the quiet of London and Westminster and to assist the
civil power, when requisite, in preventing and dispersing dangerous
meetings. [Ibid. p. 387.] |
April 27.
Whitehall. |
Memorandum by Secretary Jenkins. His Majesty, having considered the report dated 27 Oct., 1680, of the Lords of the
Treasury on the petition of Moses Pitt praying a grant to him
for the importation, custom free, of such paper, maps and books
as he shall require for carrying on his Atlas and other undertakings that such a liberty may cause great inconveniences and
trouble in the Customs and therefore recommending that what
his Majesty shall bestow on him had best be paid in money,
has thought fit to grant him 300l. as a free gift and that
he has accordingly commanded me to signify his pleasure to the
Lords of the Treasury that they give speedy and effectual order
for payment thereof to him. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 50,
p. 81.] |
April 27.
Whitehall. |
Warrant in the usual form for making Thomas Parkins of
Bunney, Nottinghamshire, a baronet of England with a discharge
of services to be performed or money to be paid in respect thereof
and with a non-obstante to the Privy Seal for 20,000l. out of the
money accruing by the creation of baronets to the use of the
Great Wardrobe. Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, f. 400.] |
April 27.
Whitehall. |
Denization in the usual form for John Joachim Becher, an
alien born. [Ibid.] |
| April 27. |
Warrant for a licence to the University of Cambridge to
purchase and hold lands and hereditaments not exceeding in
all the value of 1,000l. per annum, the statutes of mortmain
or any other statutes to the contrary notwithstanding. [S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 53, p. 529.] |
| April 27. |
The King to the Chancellor and Senate of the University of
Cambridge. Signifying his pleasure that they admit to the degree
of M.D. Jodocus Crull, a native of Hamburg, who has been
a student for a considerable time at the University of Leyden,
he paying the customary fees and performing the exercises
enjoined by the statutes or cautioning for the same. [Ibid.
p. 528.] |
April 27.
Whitehall. |
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of Norris
Jephson for a pension as captain in the Duke of Albemarle's
foot regiment, as others have been allowed. [S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 55, p. 123.] |
| April 27. |
The Earl of Conway to Mr. Brisbane. Signifying his Majesty's
pleasure that the Commissioners of the Admiralty order a yacht
to carry Sir Thomas Ogle into Holland. [S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 56, p. 50.] |
April 27.
Whitehall. |
Presentation of Robert Caunter, M.A., to the vicarage of
Bovey Tracy, Devon, void by the death of — Moore, the last
incumbent. Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 57, p. 40.] |
April 27.
Whitehall. |
Commission to Charles Wolseley to be ensign of Capt.
Stradling's company in Col. John Russell's regiment of Foot
Guards. Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 164, p. 64.] |
April 27.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a commission to the Duke of Rothes, Chancellor,
the Duke of Lauderdale, Lord President, the Marquess of Atholl,
Lord Privy Seal, the Earl of Moray, Secretary of State, the Earls
of Argyle, Strathmore and Kinghorn, Queensberry and Dundonald
and Charles Maitland of Halton, Treasurer Deput, to be commissioners for the sale of the estates of persons forfeited for
being in the late rebellion. [Nearly 2 pages. S.P. Scotland,
Warrant Book 6, p. 326.] |
April 27.
Whitehall. |
Instructions to the above Commissioners. 1. They are to
sell the lands of forfeited persons at not above 10 years' and
not under 8 years' purchase. |
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2. They are to try if any of the lands pay grassums or entries
either at receiving a new tack or at the death of the master or
tenant or otherwise, to the end that the price of such lands be
augmented according to the true value thereof. |
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3. They may abate one third of the price in so far as the lands
are liferented by any person, provided always that the right of
such liferent be completed by confirmation under the Great Seal
before the crimes were committed. |
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4. If any of the forfeited persons have any debts resting to
them, they are to transact with their debtors for the same,
deducting so much of the annual rents as they shall judge reasonable, but nothing of the principal. |
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5. They are immediately after the receipt of the commission
to cause exped the same through the seals and to make publication
thereof at all needful places. [Ibid. p. 328.] |
April 27.
Whitehall. |
The King to the Lords of the Treasury of Scotland. Having
received your letter of 19 March from Lord Halton, Treasurer
Deput, with an account of the matters you have ordered him
to represent, as we are sensible of the burden on our Treasury
and of the great importance to our service to have a considerable
sum laid up in Edinburgh Castle to be in readiness on all occasions,
so we are very well pleased with your proposal for removing
the one and effectuating the other, and therefore we have signed
a commission and instructions for the sale of forfeited estates
and have resolved not to grant any more gifts of those forfeitures
nor to draw any precepts on the moneys from the sale of them
till 7,000l. sterling be in the first place laid up in the said castle
for the said purpose and till thereafter the debts of the Treasury
be paid. As to the further imposition on Spanish and French
wines, tobacco &c., nothing remains to be said, the same being
already ordered in a proclamation by the Privy Council there. |
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Having also considered the estimate of the expenses of the
reparations of our palaces and castles amounting to 3,719l.
sterling, we have thought fit to add 600l. sterling to be bestowed
in reparations in and about Linlithgow palace, the whole amounting to 4,319l. sterling, which we are resolved shall be paid out
of the casualities hereafter falling there, wherefore we direct
you to send us an account as any such fall, that we may order
the benefit thereof to be applied towards the payment of the
said sums. [1½ page. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 329.] |
April 27.
Whitehall. |
Directions concerning the ranks of the regiments, troops and
companies in Scotland and the precedence of the officers thereof.
1. The colonel of the Foot Guards to be always the first colonel
and the regiment the first foot regiment, all other regiments or
companies to rank according to their standing. |
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2. All officers whether of Horse or Foot to rank according to
the regiment they serve in when the troops march with their
colours but on all parties, where their colours are not, to rank
according to the seniority of their commissions. |
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3. The captain of the Guards of Horse to rank as eldest colonel
of Horse, the lieutenant as eldest Lieutenant colonel of Horse,
the under lieutenant as eldest major of Horse, the cornet as eldest
captain of Horse, the quarter-master as eldest lieutenant and
the brigadiers as youngest lieutenants of Horse, the said troop to
take always precedency of all other troops or regiments of Horse. |
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4. As to the rank between Horse and Foot all colonels of Horse
to command all colonels of Foot in the field and so downwards,
but all colonels of Foot command all colonels of Horse in garrison
and so downwards. On no pretext whatever can any officer
of an inferior commission command a superior. In all councils
of war their ranks to be according to their command. |
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5. All officers of Dragoons to receive commands everywhere
from any officer either of Horse or Foot of equal commission
with themselves. |
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6. All officers under the condition of a general, when put into
any garrison, to obey the governor of the town or his deputy. |
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7. The eldest colonel to command on all occasions and, when
there shall be no colonel, then the eldest lieut.-colonel and so
downwards. |
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8. No officer hereafter to take any rank but according to this
signification of the King's pleasure. |
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(Directions for communicating the above to the colonel and
captain of the troop of Horse Guards, the colonels of the regiment
of Guard and of the Earl of Mar's regiment, the captains of
the three independent companies, the captains of the three troops
of dragoons and the governors of the garrisons.) [2 pages.
Ibid. p. 331.] |
April 27.
Whitehall. |
Warrant at the request of Sir Alexander Fraser of Dores,
his Majesty's principal physician, now apparently so near his
end, for the confirmation of the yearly pension of 300l. sterling
granted by the late King at Carisbrook Castle 27 Dec., 1647,
to him and his then spouse and the longest liver of them and
also of the yearly pension of 100l. sterling granted by the present
King 10 May, 1662, to him and Mary Fraser, now his spouse,
and the longest liver of them and for a renewal of the said two
pensions, making together 400l. sterling, to the said Sir Alexander
Fraser and Dame Mary Fraser, his spouse, and the survivor of
them during their lives. [2½ pages. S.P. Scotland, Warrant
Book 6, p. 333.] |
April 27.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a charter of new infeftment to Sir Alexander
Mackenzie, of Coull, his heirs male and assigns whatsoever, of
the Davach lands of Coull and the half Davach lands of Easter
Auchiltie with the salmond fishing on the water of Connan and
particularly of the fair called Contoune Market and of old
St. Muridus' day, on the resignation of the said Sir Alexander
Mackenzie, Sir George Mackenzie of Turbet and Colin Mackenzie
of Redcastle, with a new gift and a warrant that the said market
formerly held on the Kirkland of Contoune shall hereafter be
kept on the lands of Coull as more convenient, with an erection
of the said lands of Coull into the burgh of barony of Coull with
the usual privileges and a weekly market, with another yearly
fair to be held the second Tuesday in January to be called New
Year's day and another yearly fair to be held the second
Wednesday in May to be called Beltan day, and with an union of
the premises into the barony of Coull, and with a ratification
of the rights and infeftments of the said Sir Alexander and his
predecessors not only of the said lands but of others therein
specified. [2½ pages. Docquet. Ibid. p. 336.] |
April 27.
Whitehall. |
Memorial of protection in the ordinary form to David
Stamfield, burgess of Edinburgh for two years. [Ibid. p. 338.] |
| April 28. |
Proceedings at a court of Aldermen. Deputy Hawes, Mr. Loades
and others presented a petition signed by about 2,000 hands and collected in 12 hours and, while it was debating, Sir Thomas Player
announced citizens without, with another petition, which it was resolved to hear before answering the first. Player, Bethell, Dubois,
Papillon and others presented it, Player introducing it with a
long speech on the dangers and miseries of the City, the only
redress for which is a Parliament. The petition contained a
narrative of the plot, the murder of Godfrey, the assaulting of
Arnold, the corrupting of the King's evidence, the sham plots,
and requested that both petitions might be referred to a Common
Council which they prayed might be speedily, that they might
petition for a parliament. Both parties were then called, the
things on which they agreed noticed, and they were wished to go
home and love another. They resolved there should be no Common
Council. Names present:—Alleyn, Lawrence, Clayton, Shorter,
Pilkington, Gold, Cornish, Lord Mayor and Recorder. [S.P. Dom.,
Car. II. 415, No. 144.] |
| April 28. |
Alderman Edward Exton to Major John Braman. Thanking
him for his great trouble and care about his business and about
his private affairs. [Ibid. No. 145.] |
April 28.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to Sir Edward Phillipps (Phelipps). I have a
very kind letter from yourself and another from Col. Stawell. His
Majesty values very much the zeal of both of you for his service.
He would not have you make an attempt that may not have a
good issue; he would have you keep a watchful eye over such
as you know to be dangerous and suspect to be armed above
their proportions and quality. He would have you use (in order
to prevent vulgar as well as malicious clamour) some precaution,
as those of previous informations, if it may be, on oath, before
you search men's houses or disarm them; he in this depends
on your discretion. He would give you more particular directions,
if necessary, but his regality being only to give the laws and to keep
the peace, he is sure you will do your part. [S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 62, p. 154.] |
April 28.
Whitehall. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Earl of Winchelsea. Signifying
his Majesty's pleasure to him as Lord Lieutenant of Somerset
that Sir Haswell Tent (Tynt) be removed from being deputy
lieutenant there and that Francis Luttrell be constituted deputy
lieutenant there. [Ibid. p. 155.] |
| April 29. |
Sir Richard Graham, high sheriff of Yorkshire, to Sir Leoline
Jenkins. The country continues in as good a posture as I would
desire. My seal keeper, who unluckily read that paper at the
election of the knights of the shire pretends great contrition and
that it was a surprise to him and mightily importunes me to
readmit him to his place. I told him it would both dissatisfy his
Majesty and that a crime so notoriously done against the King
and the Duke ought to be stigmatized with public and continual
punishment. I beg your opinion, for I will never readmit him
without your approbation. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 415, No. 146.] |
April 29.
Windsor. |
The Earl of Conway to Mr. Brisbane. Signifying his Majesty's
pleasure that the Commissioners of the Admiralty order the
Merlin yacht to carry the corpse of Sir Alexander Fraser into
Scotland. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 56, p. 50.] |
| April 30. |
The information of Henry Thorpe, vicar choral of the Collegiate
Church of Ripon. Francis Barrowby of Bondgate, Ripon, at
the house of Christopher Hunton, Ripon, said that the King was
very much troubled because of his late declaration about the
dissolution of the last two parliaments, for it had given great
dissatisfaction to his subjects and it was about to be answered
speedily by some, who would convince him and them by arguments drawn from the same. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 415, No. 147.] |
April 30.
Lincoln's Inn. |
Charles Speke to Mr. Brome. About legal matters. [S.P.
Dom., Car. II. 415, No. 148.] |
April 30.
Windsor. |
Warrant to Henry Balgay, junior, High Sheriff of Derbyshire,
for prolonging the reprieve till the next assizes at Derby, of
William Lathbury and Richard Waller, convicted and sentenced
to death at the last Derby assizes for the killing of William
Lockyer, warrener to George Vernon, whose petition for a reprieve
or for transportation was referred to Sir Job Charleton, before
whom they were tried, who has reported that seven persons in
the night entered the said George Vernon's warren and divided
themselves but kept within call of one another, four of whom,
armed with long pikes and pistols, fell on the warreners and
killed one, the other escaping by flight, and that it did not plainly
appear that the petitioners were of the four that actually fought
but rather of the others, who came to aid and abet, if necessary,
which in law is all one; as the petitioners may probably be useful
for the discovery and apprehension of those other murderers
who have fled. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 54, p. 66.] |
April 30.
Windsor. |
Secretary Jenkins to the Mayor of Salisbury. Thanking him
and through him the rest of the corporation by his Majesty's
command for their address of 27 April expressing their satisfaction at his declaration of the causes of the dissolution of the
last two parliaments. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 157.] |
April 30.
Windsor. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant, after reciting
that Robert Nangle, of Dublin, had stated by his petition that
King James by an indenture of 19 June, 1611, made between
himself of the one part and Robert Nangle of Ballysax, Kildare,
of the other part had in consideration of his services to himself
and the late Queen Elizabeth demised to him the rectories of
Lissmaling alias Lissamalin, Raylestown, Ballingill and Garvock,
Tymahoe, Killmackale, Newtownleman, Stradbally and Shrowle
and one quarter land containing 60 acres in Ballywilliam in
cos. Tipperary, Cross of Tipperary, Kildare, Westmeath, Longford
and Waterford for the respective terms and at the respective
rents therein mentioned and that the remaining interests in the
said terms are now vested in him as administrator of the said
Robert Nangle deceased and that great waste has been committed
on the premises, by reason whereof and of the petitioner's minority
he has received but inconsiderable profit thereout, and thereof
prayed a further lease of the premises after the expiration of
the interests granted to the said Robert Nangle, deceased, a
reference thereof to the Lord Lieutenant and his report dated
5 March last, that the rectories mentioned in the petition are
by the Acts of Settlement disposed of to the incumbents of the
respective parishes where they lie after the expiration of the leases
now in being and that the reversion of the lands therein mentioned
has been granted to the Duke of Monmouth and his heirs, so that
he does not see how his Majesty can grant the petitioner any such
further lease as he desires, but that, if his Majesty should confirm
the petitioner's interest in the premises during the remainder of
the several terms he has therein yet unexpired, the petitioner conceives it may be of some advantage to him and that he does not
find it will be any prejudice to his Majesty and a further reference
to the Lords of the Treasury and their report, dated 26 April
last, concurring with the Lord Lieutenant's opinion; for a grant
to the said Robert Nangle of the fore-mentioned respective
premises during the remaining years of the terms formerly granted
to the said Robert Nangle, deceased, under the rents now payable
thereout. [Nearly 3 pages. S.P. Dom., Signet Office, Vol. 10,
p. 520.] |
| April. |
The information of Charles Rea. Lord Howard, Sir William
Cooper, Mr. Nelthrop, Mr. Jeston, Mr. Murre of Gray's Inn,
Col. Mansell and the informant being at the Dolphin in Lombard
Street and talking of the plot, Lord Howard said, he believed
the Popish party never intended to murder the King, for he
believed the King was the head of the plot and that the design
of murdering him by the Papists was given out only to raise
the spirit of the people, who generally love the King and would
not have otherwise believed the plot, and that all the others agreed
to what Lord Howard said, which was two days before the election
at Hertford in 1678[–9], and that the Queen deserved the worst
of deaths. |
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The informant gave two books called the Appeal to Lord
Chandos in presence of a Mr. Draper, and Lord Chandos then
told him, that he believed that the informant was very much
concerned with them and desired him to keep what he knew to
himself and not to discover it whatever came out. This was
the day the informant was taken by the messenger, on which
day he dined with Lord Chandos at his house in Fleet Street.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 415, No. 149.] |
| [April.] |
Charles Rea to the King. Petition for protection against the
evil designs intended against him. The 6th of this instant April,
1681, Lord Howard with two footmen came to his lodging at
the house of Richard Callaway, Knightsbridge. Callaway held
him, till his lordship twice struck him. A gentleman of the
Guards, who was with Callaway, helped the petitioner, who,
after several buffles escaped over a wall, all the doors of the house
and yard being locked. [Ibid. No. 150.] |
| [April.] |
Summary of the above petition.— |
|
Note of Charles Rea's deposition. In April, 1678 (sic), he was told
that Fitzharris, now in the Tower, was a priest or Jesuit and a
very dangerous fellow. He informed Sir Philip Mathews and
they with a constable apprehended Fitzharris at his house as
a priest or Jesuit. Searching his chamber they found nothing
but two Popish books. He said he stayed in town, because he
had no money to carry him out. Several persons he sent for
to bail him not coming, he said Lord Howard would be bail for
him. The informant then went to Lord Howard, who said
Fitzharris was a very honest gentleman, neither priest nor Jesuit,
and that he came to him every night and that he would not have
him go to prison for the world. He declined, however, to be bail for
him, but said, if the informant told Sir Philip it was his desire to have
him released, Sir Philip would agree to it. Accordingly on this
report from Lord Howard, Sir Philip was going to tender Fitzharris
the oaths in order to his discharge, but the informant first asking
him, if he knew anything of the plot or of those who died for it,
he answered, No, but he believed there was a plot but denied
he was a priest or Jesuit or that he had any hand in it, on which
Sir Philip gave him his oath. Lord Howard afterwards desired
the informant not to take notice to anybody of what had passed
concerning Fitzharris. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 415, No. 151.] |
| April. |
Warrant for a commission appointing a new lieutenancy for
London. [Draft. Ibid. No. 152.] Annexed, |
|
List of five persons suggested to be of the lieutenancy. [Ibid.
No. 152 i.] |
| [April ?] |
Names of the persons in the above commission of lieutenancy.
[Ibid. No. 153.] |
| [April ?] |
A letter from a Person of Quality to his friend concerning his
Majesty's late Declaration touching the reasons which moved
him to dissolve the two last Parliaments at Westminster and
Oxford. (Printed in State Tracts, p. 187.) [Printed pamphlet.
8 pages. S.P. Dom., Car. II., Case G.] |
| [April ?] |
H[ugh] S[peke] to Charles Speke at White Lackington. He
need not trouble himself, for I am almost persuaded they will
not trouble him any more on the information against him. If
he should be summoned to appear, it will not be here, but at the
assizes. I perceive by a letter from Samuel Key he thinks he shall
be summoned up again, but they will find it otherwise, for Walrond
has spit his venom and done his worst, and the Council will not
concern themselves in any of his informations in future, because
he sent up such a foolish one at first. The way they intend to
take now, it's thought, is, to pick out all those that have been
active against Popery and get men to swear falsely against them
for words or what else they please and so to lay them up secure
by fines and imprisonment, and by this means they hope to
terrify and overawe the country, and so carry on their designs
without opposition, having all persons in office according to
their own hearts' desire. |
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Pray get James Carrier to look after my horse's feet and get
him in as good case as you can. God knows what use I may
have for him and how suddenly. The times cannot be much
worse. [Franked by George Speke. Beginning torn off. S.P.
Dom., Car. II. 415, No. 154.] |
|
Copy of the latter part of the above letter. [Ibid. No. 155.] |
| [April ?] |
Capt. Terence Byrne to the King. Petition for an order for
some employment and particularly for some present relief, the
former order of June last, 1680, to the Admiralty Commissioners
to provide him with employment in some ship having failed
to give him any relief. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 415, No. 156.] |
[April ?]
Whitehall. |
Warrant for a privy seal for payment to Sir Thomas Dereham,
appointed Resident with the Great Duke of Tuscany, of 500l.
for his equipage and 1,000l. a year for his entertainment and
also of such sums for intelligence &c. as shall be allowed by a
Secretary of State. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 50, p. 80.] |
