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[1680. Aug.] |
Francis Gwyn to the King. Petition stating that his Majesty
granted him the reversion of the prothonotary's place for the
circuit of Glamorgan after the death of Charles Hughes, that
afterwards Mr. Lyster unduly procured a warrant for the said
reversion, and that his Majesty, remembering the grant to the
petitioner to be 3 or 4 days before the date of the said warrant,
ordered the Attorney-General to prepare the like of the reversion
to the petitioner, and, the said Hughes being dead and the petitioner possessed of the said office, praying a grant thereof in
reversion after the petitioner's death to Anthony Gwyn for his
life, whose father, being an officer in the late wars and a true
servant of the Crown, was a great sufferer thereby, and who is
left wholly unprovided for. (See Calendar, S.P. Dom., 1679-80,
p. 598.) [Ibid. No. 184.] |
Oct. 8. |
Warrant from the Commissioners appointed to inquire what
lands, goods or chattels Thomas White alias Whitebread, John
Fenwick, William Harcourt, John Gavan and Anthony Turner
were seised or possessed in Middlesex to the Sheriffs of that county
to summon on the 14th instant at New Inn Hall, 24 good and
lawful men of the said county to inquire into the truth of the
matters contained in the said commission. [Ibid. No. 184a.] |
Dec. 5.5 p.m. |
Francis Gwyn to Secretary Jenkins. His Majesty was to-day
spoke to from Mr. Seymour for his favour in naming me one of
the three Commissioners of Inspection in Ireland not to be suspended by the late order in Council, who encouraged me to hope
I may be one continued, and has spoken to Lord Conway to
acquaint you and that you would state the case to his Majesty
that he may take order in it, which I beg you to do as soon as
convenient. There being five Commissioners originally on the
Irish establishment, a sixth was added three years ago by his
Majesty's particular order. The Council on a supposition there
were but five and that two (whereof the Chancellor of the
Exchequer there to be one) were sufficient to manage the business
made an order 9 Nov. last to suspend the salary of three of them,
intending to leave but two unsuspended, who were to be actually
on the place, that number being a quorum and sufficient to do
the duty, but now, it appearing that three are left unsuspended
and that in their lordships' judgment two are enough, I presume
I may have as just pretences to his Majesty's favour of being
one not suspended and without any prejudice to his affairs,
though I am attending his service here and not on the place,
as any of my brethren, though they may live in Ireland. (See the
Ormonde Papers, Vol. V, p. 493.) [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 342, No. 93.] |
Feb. 8. |
— to Sir Francis Radcliffe, Dilston. The story in the
enclosed of a gentleman's being killed by a gentlewoman is
certainly true, for it was done in our parish. Major Parry's
daughter shot him in the heart, but it was not designedly done.
The patent making Mr. Noel Baron of Titchfield is engrossing.
His Majesty, since conferring the honour of knighthood on
Sir George Treby, has commissionated him a Justice of the cities
of London and Westminster, and of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey,
Kent and Devon. |
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The Earl of Arundel is going towards Cumberland Shrove Tuesday
next. We hear of many coaches being robbed. The election little
differing from the last Parliament, the members that served
before will serve again. Our lord continues more indisposed
and it's thought he will never recover. |
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Our Holland letters give us an account of dreadful apprehensions there on their accounts from Paris of the great preparations making against the next campaign. They have made a
reform of their magistrates and displaced many of the Prince of
Orange's party. [Admiralty, Greenwich Hospital 1, No. 81a.] |
Feb. 11. |
The Lord Lieutenant to the Earl of Arran. Extract concerning
Lord Clare, beginning "The packet I sent the King," ending
"may not be impertinent," printed in the Ormonde Papers,
Vol. V, p. 577, and alluded to in the Lord Lieutenant's letter of that
date, calendared ante, p. 162. [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 342, No. 5.] |
March 25. |
Receipt by John Bridges, Warden of Emanuel Hospital, Westminster, for 50l., one half year's rent of lands in the manor of
Bramsburton, Yorkshire, the gift of Lady Anne Dacres, foundress
of the Hospital. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417, No. 184b.] |
June 14. |
Newsletter to John Squier, Newcastle. Giving a summary of
the speeches of Justice Jones and Justice Dolben at Fitzharris'
trial, which are reported in State Trials, Vol. VIII, col. 394. |
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Dr. Burnett was to-day by command sent to Fitzharris to
lay before him the danger of his condition and to persuade him
at last to make a full discovery. The Lieutenant of the Tower
was by all the time he was with him. The Lord Chancellor was
with him on Saturday, and went from him to Windsor.
Lord Hyde and several others of the Privy Council came to town
yesterday about Lord Howard's business. He was searched
yesterday by Capt. Cheeke, and some papers found in his pocket. |
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Yesterday Samuel Harris, that was committed for dispersing
Fitzharris' libels, was brought again to the Old Bailey, and,
there being no evidence against him, the Court took four bail
for him in 500l. apiece and himself in 1,000l. for his appearance
the next Sessions. |
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The East India Company, not being pleased with the order
of the Admiralty Court permitting the interlopers to land and
dispose of their goods, have appealed to the Lord Chancellor,
who has for the present put a stop to the same. |
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We suppose to-morrow Fitzharris and Plunket will receive
their sentence, there being a rule of Court to that purpose. |
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Their Majesties continue in good health at Windsor. (Describing
the presentation of addresses from Bath by Mr. Nevill, the
Recorder, and from Dorset by the Earl of Bristol.) His Majesty
said to the Earl: I believe that Lord Shaftesbury will be angry
at this address, but I see that a prophet is not always that prophet
in his own country. The King also knighted two gentlemen
that accompanied the Earl. We have advice from Deal that
an address will be presented from there this week. |
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On Saturday I gave you an account that Lord Howard was
accused by Mrs. Fitzharris of being concerned in the libel for which
Fitzharris was convicted, and that night he was taken by a
Serjeant at Arms and brought before Sir L. Jenkins, and after
a long examination was committed to the Tower for high treason.
[3 pages. Admiralty, Greenwich Hospital 1, No. 102 a.] |
[1681. June.] |
Lord Dunkellin to the King. Petition for a grant to him of
the government of co. Galway and of the county of the town
of Galway, together with the command of the first vacant troop
of horse and company of foot in Ireland, the said government
having been granted by several patents from Queen Elizabeth,
King James and the late King to his ancestors, Earls of
Clanrickard and Lords of Dunkellin, till Ulick, the Lord Deputy,
was overthrown and dispossessed by the late usurper, and,
though his Majesty's predecessors dispensed with the former
Earls being of the Romish persuasion, yet since the restoration
his Majesty having discontinued these marks of his favour to
Richard, the late, and William, the present Earl, the petitioner's
father, the petitioner being not only a serious professor of but
a great sufferer for the Protestant religion, being for the same
exposed to the resentments of an angry father. [S.P. Ireland,
Car. II. 342, No. 94.] |
[1681. June.] |
Lord Dunkellin to the Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor.
Stating his case in relation to his pretension to the government
of the town and county of Galway and other the commands of
his ancestors in Ireland by giving a history of the Clanrickard
family since the latter part of the reign of Henry VIII and
showing how many of his ancestors had held the above government. (For both these papers see ante, pp. 336, 380.) [12 pages,
Ibid. No. 95.] |
Sept. 24. London. |
Newsletter to John Squier, Newcastle. Mr. Cotton, a
factious and scandalous news-writer, having lately in his newsletters
scandalized Mr. Castleton, of which he made complaint, is for
his misdemeanours ordered to be seized by a messenger to answer
the same. |
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Our Scotch letters of the 17th bring an account that the
Parliament met there the 16th and passed several Acts, one for
asserting his Majesty's prerogative in changing and nominating
sheriffs, though heritable, and that for any misdemeanour by
them he may turn them out and appoint others in their places,
another against minors granting bonds with an oath to be
taken when they are majors, by which it is declared that the
writers and takers of such bonds be looked on as infamous, a third
against importation of salt unless for curing fishes and that salt
to be sold for 5l. the Lithligo (Linlithgow) boll, all duties paid,
the fourth that all bonds granted by noblemen for carrying on
the late war and rebellion and maintaining the covenant be void
and particularly those given by the Duke of Rothes' father. The
fifth was that all that give their votes for choosing any members
shall first take the test, after which they adjourned till the 17th,
when several votes passed, viz., that all flesh should be sold by
weight, and that his Majesty should nominate such as he shall
think fit to survey all the laws and put to them in form and words,
rectifying errors, and to take away any that are superfluous. A letter
to his Majesty was also ordered to thank him for having given
them his brother to reside amongst them, by whose means so
many wholesome laws had been made, after which they were
adjourned to 1 March next. |
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A Committee of the Council for Examinations sat yesterday
and had before them Dr. [Tong]e's papers and other things,
relating to a correspondency between Dr. Oates and him, by
which papers 'tis said that great discoveries are made, which
in a few days will be public. |
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'Tis discoursed as though the term will be adjourned, but on
what grounds is uncertain. |
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In most of the public prints that came out to-day they say
that Dr. James is made prebendary of Westminster in place of
Dr. Gibbs, deceased, but I am very well assured that Dr. Sill,
chaplain to the Bishop of London, has that prebend conferred
on him. |
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Three persons having given information on oath against
Mr. Farringdon that lives in Holborn for speaking treasonable
words, a warrant is out against him. These words are, 'tis said,
of the same nature as those for which College suffered. |
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Capt. Loveday being dead, the place of keeper of Wood Street
Compter is sold for 1,500 broad pieces of gold. |
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The Hague, 30 Sept. All the discourse here is now about the
treaty on foot between this State, the Emperor, the Protestant
princes, the Kings of England and Spain and the two Northern
Crowns, to which alliance his Most Christian Majesty will be
invited, for better preserving the treaties of Nimeguen and
Westphalia, and it is provided by this treaty that, if any one
shall go about to make any breach of the said treaties, he shall
be opposed by the united forces of all the other allies. This
league advances apace, which has so far alarmed the French
Ambassador, that he has declared to the Deputies of Amsterdam
and several others that, if they proceed any further therein,
his Master will take it for a rupture. [Admiralty, Greenwich
Hospital 1, No. 136 a.] |
Plymouth. |
Inventory of books in English, Latin and Spanish, manuscripts,
letters and other things, taken with the two Irish priests seized
there, some being specified as found in the custody of Owen
Holaron. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417, No. 185.] |
London. |
" A narrative of the Popish Plot in Ireland for the murdering
the Protestants there and the introducing of Popery and the
assistance they depended upon from England, discovered by
me, James Carroll, in the year 1672, with an account of my
sufferings for discovering the same," sworn before Sir George
Treby, 7 Feb., 1680[–1]. Describing how he and his father in April,
1672, heard Thomas Allen, innkeeper at Portumna, a tenant
of the Earl of Clanrickard, declare how, if the Dutch were beaten,
Lord Clanrickard intended to rise and cut off the Protestants
in that country, and the subsequent persecutions he and his
father suffered from Lord Clanrickard in consequence, with a
dedication to the Earl of Essex and a copy of the Order of the
House of Commons, dated 25 March, 1681, ordering the
examinations taken before Sir G. Treby to be printed. [16 pages.
Printed for Richard Janeway. S.P. Dom., Case G.] |
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The Case of the Kerry Quit-Rents, arguing by which column
in the Survey they should be charged by, that called the Extreme
or by that called the Reduced Column, and that, whereas the
plaintiffs have enjoyed the lands set out to them scarce three years
out of 21½ years, the quit-rents be not fully satisfied. [14 pages.
Printed. Ibid.] |
July 25. |
Affidavit by Sir William Petty in John Marshall and James
Waller v. William Muschamp and Daniel Burges, concerning
the quit-rents on lands in the baronies of Iveragh, Dunkerron,
and Glanaroght, Kerry, set out to Robert Marshall, as assignee
to the said Sir William and now let in custodium to the defendants,
to the effect that neither he nor the said Marshall had from Easter,
1660, to Easter, 1681, received out of the premises to the clear
value of 3 years of the present custodium rent. [3½ pages. Printed.
Ibid.] |
[1681 ?] |
The Second Part of the Case of the Kerry Quit-Rents. Replying
to objections to the former Case and supporting the arguments
therein. [15 pages. Printed. Ibid.] |
London. |
The Absurdity of that new devised State Principle, viz., that
in a monarchy the Legislative Power is Communicable to the
Subject, and is not radically in Sovereignty in one but in more,
in a letter to a Friend. (Printed pamphlet to be sold by Randal
Taylor, near Stationers' Hall.) [Ibid.] |
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List of several of the Irish Bishops, with notes about some
of them, one being Parker, Archbishop of Dublin, who was
Archbishop from 28 Feb., 1678-9 to 28 Dec., 1681. With some
other memoranda, one being "the foot of the account of the new
hospital vouched before us, 3 Feb., 1680-81." [S.P. Ireland,
Car. II. 342, No. 96.] |
[1681.] |
Advertisement of a very useful book sold by Nath. Crouch
at the Bell, next Kemp's Coffee-house in Exchange Alley, entitled
"Historical Remarks and Observations of the antient and present
state of London and Westminster," with an account of the most
remarkable accidents for above 900 years past to this year 1681,
and a description of the manner of the trial of the late
Viscount Stafford, by Richard Burton, author of the "History
of the Wars of England." [Printed. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417,
No. 186.] |
[1681 or 2.] |
Account of certain clauses taken out of the charter for the
city of Hereford, and of ancient liberties and customs confirmed
thereby, with articles of maladministration of the city on the
part of the Mayor and Aldermen &c., which amount, it is thought,
to a forfeiture of its charter, as electing mean persons, not
freemen, for Common Councilmen, giving the freedom to 200
foreigners, apprentices or paupers, suffering non-residents who
are not citizens to trade there, taking the city taxes without
account for private uses, non-registration of freemen of the
city, imposition of unwarranted oaths on the freemen and others,
neglecting repair of bridges and highways, choosing as officers
disaffected persons, some of whom were in arms against the late
King, neglecting to take the oaths required for magistrates from
25 March, 1663, to 24 March, 1679[-80], so that there is no lawful
government at present, as only 13 Common Councilmen survive
who have taken the oaths, who not being a majority of 31, of
which the Corporation consists, can no longer lawfully act,
although on receipt of a letter from the Council in 1680 many of
them, to keep themselves safe, took the sacrament and the oaths.
List of the pretended Corporation of Hereford in 1680, with notes
relating to them, one of the Common Council men being Richard
Gower, noted as the present Mayor, who became Mayor the
Monday after Michaelmas Day, 1681. [8 pages. Ibid. No. 188.] |
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Copy of the above. [Ibid. No. 188.] |
[1681.] |
Address of the city of Exeter to the King. Thanking him
for his gracious declaration of 8 April last, and his steady
resolution to rule by law, and wondering at the unsuitable returns
made by the House of Commons in the last two Parliaments,
their refusal to grant supplies for support of Protestant allies
against the French power, and the preservation of so important
a place for trade as Tangier; their strange votes to prevent the
advance of money on the revenues; their resolves to give no
supplies unless the Exclusion Bill were passed; their tyrannizing
over their fellow subjects by their frequent orders to take
persons into custody; declaring divers eminent persons enemies
of the kingdom, without process of law or hearing their defence;
voting the Lords' procecdings about Fitzharris a denial of
justice; their request for remission of fines of seditious persons;
their resolves that it is dangerous to the peace of the kingdom to
execute penal laws against Dissenters, and passing a Bill to
repeal many such laws; their Bill of Association to authorize
taking up arms without authority from his Majesty; their
dilatoriness in bringing the impeached Popish lords to trial &c.
These proceedings make them fully satisfied with the dissolution
of these Parliaments, and they hope better representatives will
be sent in future, citing the miseries caused by the Long Parliament. They applaud his resolution not to disinherit his
brother, as it would be certain to excite a civil war, especially
in Ireland, and a certain disuniting of Scotland from England,
thanking him for his care to obviate mischiefs from a Popish
successor and requesting vigorous execution of the laws both
against Popish and fanatic Dissenters, as there is no security
against one, without suppressing the other, for it is evident from
Dr. Oates and others that many famed teachers in conventicles have
been disguised Jesuits, sent to seduce the people's affections from
the government. [3½ pages. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417, No. 189.] |
[Nov. ?] |
— to Secretary Jenkins. The Doctor is most certainly
informed that Sir W. Jones, Sir F. Winnington and Mr. Williams,
with several others of that party, certify to the Coopers' Company
of the honesty, ability and former good service to them of
Mr. Browne, and therefore offer him to them to be their clerk.
He was formerly their clerk, but for misdemeanours against the
Government was fined 1,000 marks and to continue in prison
till it was paid, and to give security for his good behaviour for
seven years. He assuring the Doctor he would become a good
man, he prevailed with the King to pardon him, but, finding he
has not answered his promise, he offers that the King shall let
the Company know he shall not take it well, if they receive
such a one into their service. This must be done before next
Tuesday, the day appointed to deliver the request of the said
gentlemen, which without some interposition will be granted,
but the least hint from the King will prevent it. The Doctor
prays you to communicate this to the King and Lord Hyde. |
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He further says that, since you have begun with the Dissenters,
if you look back, you will be in great danger to be lost, for he has
always observed that, when you have made ten steps forwards
and but one backwards, the adverse party has grown prodigiously,
and several such forward steps having been made and not
persevered in has brought things to their present pass. Dilatory
proceedings have given the adverse party advantage, therefore
either go through or meddle not at all, for, not obtaining your
end, you give the enemy the greatest advantage imaginable.
'Tis now come to a civil war, not with the sword, but law, and,
if the King cannot make the judges speak for him, he will be
beaten out of the field. The Committee of the City hope to
bring it to a concilium, thereby to prevent a jury, therefore 'tis
absolutely necessary that the King should beforehand know
the judges, and, if he find them agreeing, 'tis well; if not, to
make such as will. The business relating to the City carries
life and death in it, therefore not to be played with, nor to be too
easily taken on trust, but before trial to have full assurance
from the judges that at the same time they give it, there should
be the same assurance given that they should be stood by. |
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I spoke with Mr. Fowens yesterday. His hopes are that they
shall prove the mittimus, by which he was committed, insufficient,
and hopes the judges may be satisfied, so that he shall not be
remanded back to Bristol, and then the point is gained, but, if
he should be remanded back, all is lost. Endorsed, "Private
advice." (See ante, p. 637.) [1½ page. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417,
No. 190.] |
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William Howell, messenger, to the Lords of the Treasury.
Petition for payment of 100l. of his salary or bills, above seven
years' wages being due to him, two years whereof and above
200l. due to him by bills accrued since they were Commissioners, above 500l. in all being due to him. About a year
ago he hurt himself by a fall, and has been on crutches ever since,
and has been constrained to borrow much money for his cure.
[Ibid. No. 191.] |
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Information. It can be made to appear that Rouse, lately
found an Ignoramus (18 Oct., 1681), is a perfect Papist, and that
after disbanding of the late army he on all occasions in company
he thought himself free with declared himself a Papist, and would
pull out his beads and crucifixes. He was then employed by
Player &c. to put a remark on those he knew were Papists. |
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One Wyat was a poor prisoner in the Fleet when Escrick Howard
was Warden. He being a professed Papist, Howard took a
particular kindness for him, forgave him his chamber rent, fees &c.
He has been, and is still, though a Papist, this worthy Protestant
Lord's great favourite, which, if duly examined into, might, I
believe, be of the greatest concern to his Majesty's service. [Ibid.
No. 192.] |
1681. |
David Fitzgerald to Secretary Jenkins. Some think that
less matters than those in the enclosed informations would do
to find a bill against any person unless he were of the Ignoramus
tribe. You will find that most of the bills in the past trials were
found on single testimonies. (Giving seven examples thereof.)
The Earl of Shaftesbury's case is different from all the rest, for
you have three persons against him and clearer proof. [Ibid.
No. 193.] Annexed, |
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Informations lately put into Fitzgerald's hands. 1. Last
March the informant waited on the Earl at Oxford, and
amongst other discourses with Mrs. Fitzharris the Earl said
that everything in the libel found with Mr. Fitzharris was
true, and that whoever knew the old King and this King
would not question the truth of the libel. Such measures
are now taken that the tricks and contrivances of this King
will not take effect at this juncture, for, if he does not comply
with the Parliament in every particular, he shall, before he
parts, receive the like measure as his father. Then he advised
her to be cheerful, and said he would in spite of the King
bring her husband off his impeachment, and told her she
need not be at all concerned for her husband, and that the
King's head would be cut off before Fitzharris should lose a
drop of his blood. |
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2. In Oxford last March, the Friday before the Parliament was
dissolved, he heard the Earl say that the old game was coming
about again, and that the world saw what tricks were imposed
on the people of England, to bring them into slavery. They
must immediately stand up and maintain their privileges
against arbitrary power, for this is the time or never. |
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3. In Oxford last March he heard the Earl say it was an odd
proceeding to put off Parliament, but, said he, let him and
his Popish Councils have rope enough and at last their work
will be done. [S.P. Dom. Car. II. 417, No. 193 i.] |
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The information of David Fitzgerald against Lord Howard
of Escrick and Roderick Mansell. The day before he gave his
information at the bar of the House of Lords (4 Nov., 1680),
they brought him into a coffee-house, where Lord Howard said:
We know you are a gentleman, and therefore the House of Lords
will expect more from you than from any other from Ireland,
and certainly you must know more than any of them, and I desire
you to spare nobody. If you declare the truth, I am sure you
will charge the Duke of York home. Aye, said Mansell, and
the King too, for it is certain one is as deep in the mire as the
other. Said his lordship: Let the King pretend what he will,
he is the head of all. Said Mansell, laughing: It is better to
cut off the head than corrupt the whole body. Aye, said my
lord, if things be rightly managed, you may see that and more,
therefore be not daunted and spare none of them. Mansell said:
England was never the same since they came into it. [Ibid.
No. 194.] |
[1681.] |
Fragment of Fitzharris' libel from "merely for being zealous
prosecutors of priests and Papists" to "his Macks, his cutthroats," printed in State Trials, Vol. VIII, cols. 359, 360.
[Ibid. No. 195.] |
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List of 47 members of the Oxford Parliament, all or most of
them opposers of the Court party. [Ibid. No. 196.] |
[1681 ?] |
Entries in the books, which may seem to make for or against
the negative voice of the Mayor and Aldermen in the Common
Council of London. (See ante, p. 632.) [9 pages. Ibid.
No. 197.] |
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Morthough Downey and Owen Callaghan to the King and
the Privy Council. Petition that they may be called before
them to give a full account of their services, the petitioners
having been some of the first discoverers of this plot by discovering
the treasonable design of William Hetherington and his abettors
to take away the lives of the King, the Queen, the Duke of York,
the Duke of Ormonde and others of his Majesty's best subjects,
they having already a grant of pardon and arrears, which are
kept from them to their ruin, they daring not to return to their
own country for want of the pardon. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417,
No. 198.] Perhaps annexed, |
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The information of Owen Callaghan and Morthough Downey,
taken before Simon Parry, J.P., Last March Hetherington
in this informant's company was proposing to compass
the death of the Queen, the Duke of York, the Duke of Ormonde,
the Earl of Arran, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Lord Chief
Justice Sir William Davys, Sir John Davys, Secretary of
State, and others of his Majesty's best subjects, and, with
intent to take away their lives, offered this informant 10l.
and undertook to procure him a settlement of 100l. a year
from the Parliament, and to procure him also the favour of
the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, if he would swear against
the said persons, and said that nothing would oblige the
Parliament more than to say that the Queen and the Duke of
York were the authors of this Popish plot in England
and Ireland, and that there was a combination between her and
the other above-mentioned persons to carry on the plot, and
he would instruct this informant what to swear, if he would
undertake it, but this informant told him that, if he should
swear for the said bribe, his soul should be damned and wished
Hetherington not to seek the royal blood so maliciously nor
the ruin of his Majesty's best subjects. Hetherington said
it was general good, and that the Parliament and the Lord
Mayor would give this informant 100l. a year for swearing
the said matter. This informant answering he would see
him hanged first, Hetherington told him he had no business
before the Parliament at Oxford, unless he had sworn that
the said persons were confederates in the said plot. May 14,
1681. [Copy. Ibid. No. 198 i.] |
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Owen Callaghan and Morthough Downey to the Duke of York.
Petition that they may be called before him to give an account
of their services, and that he would stand their friend whereby
they might have a pardon to go to their own country. They
have been serviceable to him against Hetherington, now in
prison, and were sent to the country for fear of prosecuting him
or his abettors, who were to exclude and banish the Duke, had
not the petitioners prevented it by their discovery. They send
a copy of their information taken by Justices. [Ibid. No. 199.]
Probably enclosed, |
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The information of Owen Callaghan and Morthough Downey,
taken before Sir William Smith and Simon Parry, Justices.
About 20 March last, being at dinner at the Bear, Threadneedle Street, Hetherington bade them have a good heart,
for the Parliament then to sit at Oxford would not be fooled
by his Majesty, and engaged them, telling them, if his Majesty
would play the fool with the Parliament, he would have the
same luck his father had, and said his father had no good luck
for going to Oxford. This informant asked him what he
meant, on which he said he meant that the late King was
beheaded, and that the present King will be so too, without
he pleases the Parliament, and further that, if the King would
come to London and not please the Parliament, he,
Hetherington, would contrive a way to see him beheaded, and
that he would have his head cut off, though he were forced to do it
himself, and also that he had written to the Earl of Shaftesbury,
Sir W. Waller and Sir T. Player, and was sure of receiving
a certain account of all proceedings at the Parliament at
Oxford, and again bade this informant to have a good heart,
and said that he and this informant were more beholden
to the City of London than to his Majesty, and prayed that
God might bless the Lord Mayor and Aldermen. May 23,
1681. [Copy, examined 7 July, 1681. S.P. Dom., Car. II.
417, No. 199 i.] |
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Draft of the above petition to the Duke of York. [Ibid.
No. 200.] |
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Morthough Downey and Owen Callaghan to the Duke of
Ormonde. Petition asking him to stand their friend whereby
they might have his Majesty's pardon, as already promised them,
to go to their own country, they having been serviceable to him
by discovering the treasonable design of William Hetherington
and the rest of his cursed abettors. [Ibid. No. 200.] Annexed, |
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Another copy of their information of 14 May, 1681, calendared
ante, p. 663. [Ibid. No. 201 i.] |
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The substance of the indictment against Hetherington, being
to the effect of the information of 23 May, 1681, calendared
ante, p. 663. [Ibid. No. 202.] |
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Owen Callaghan and Morthough Downey to Secretary Jenkins.
Desiring to be called before the King and the Privy Council,
having material evidence concerning the Queen and the Duke of
York. [Ibid. No. 203.] |
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Francis Millington, one of the Commissioners of the Customs,
to the King. Petition for continuance in his employment. In
September, 1671, his Majesty requiring him to attend his service
as a Commissioner of the Customs, he immediately drew out his
stock from trade, being then in a considerable way of merchandizing.
He lost 10,700l. he had lodged in the bankers' hands by the stop
of the Exchequer. He is lately informed that some one unknown
to him has suggested that, he being a great trader in Spanish
wines, his Majesty has thereby very much suffered in his Customs.
He replies that he has not for several years traded in any Spanish
wines, and that in near 10 years he has served as a Commissioner
he has not defrauded his Majesty of a shilling, nor made any
advantage of his place, save the salary allowed him. [Ibid.
No. 204.] |
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Thomas Hill, prisoner in the King's Bench prison, to Lord Hyde,
Viscount Killingworth (who was Viscount Killingworth from
24 April, 1681, to 29 Nov., 1682). Petition to recommend his
case to the Justices of Surrey, in order to his discharge, according
to the late Act for the discharge of poor prisoners for debt, he
having procured himself to be sworn and his creditors summoned
in accordance therewith. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417, No. 205.] |
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The State of L'Estrange's case. After he had spent above 20
years in the service of the Crown, almost four of them in Newgate
under a sentence of death, the King in 1663 granted him a patent
for the Newsbook, with other privileges of printing, and appointed
him overseer of the Press. |
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Lord Arlington has certified that in 1665, while he was Secretary
of State, his Majesty ordered the Newsbooks to be taken into the
Secretary's office, and in consideration thereof ordered that
100l. per annum should be allowed to L'Estrange out of the profits
thereof, and also that Lord Arlington should give him 200l.
yearly, which he constantly paid him, over and above allowances
for extraordinary expenses in the discovery of libels, to 29 Sept.,
1674, on account of secret service. |
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His extraordinary expenses in coach-hire, intelligence, searches,
libels bought &c., amounted to about 50l. a year. |
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On the publication of some late libels, L'Estrange excused himself in regard he had not money to support him in his expense,
being very much behind in his allowance, whereon his Majesty
promised to direct the Lord Treasurer for the payment of his
arrear, on which he made such discoveries as would in all likelihood have reached the authors thereof, if they had been
vigorously pursued, and brought one person to be sentenced and
fined. |
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He afterwards petitioned his Majesty for his arrear and for
the renewing of his patent, which was formerly referred to
Sir Jeffery Palmer and Sir Heneage Finch (now Lord Chancellor),
who reported favourably, and there was a further reference by
the Lords of the Treasury to Sir Robert Long, as having some
relation to the revenue in the printing of blanks for collecting it,
who also made a favourable report, but it was lost or mislaid in
the Treasury Office, so that L'Estrange could never recover it. |
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The above-mentioned petition was presented by the Bishop of
London, and referred to the Lord Treasurer, who ordered payment to L'Estrange of 200l. by two instalments, which he received,
which deducted from 750l. due on his allowance to last Michaelmas,
550l. remains. (See ante, pp. 627, 643.) [1½ page. Ibid.
No. 206.] |
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Charles Blood to the Duke of York. Most dangerous conspiracies are still carrying on against your person and interest,
far more general and dangerous than the late Association, not only
by the members of the same, but by incredible numbers of the
commonalty and gentry of both city and country. |
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If you will be pleased that I shall communicate their wicked
intentions to you, I am fully assured that I can have information,
though not without difficulty, of every circumstantial part of their
proceedings. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417, No. 207.] Probably enclosed, |
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The information of Charles Blood. About August
Mr. Gefferyes (Jefferyes) and Mr. Trawe discoursed of the
danger of the Protestant religion through the growth of Popery
and arbitrary government, urging it was the duty of every
true Protestant to oppose it to the hazard of their lives and
fortunes, to which end they declared that they and others,
viz., the Duke of Buckingham, Colonels Owen, Scot and
Mansel, Mr. Ginks (Jenks), and many other very considerable
men had formed an association to provide effectual expedients
for the prevention of such dangers and were resolved to persist
in using all their interest in engaging (as they had often
endeavoured to do me) all those they thought capacitated
to contribute to their success. They were then exceedingly
encouraged by their success in bringing over great numbers
qualified as well to provide arms as to bear them. |
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The chief of them had prepared both offensive and defensive
weapons, which they gave gratis to such as were unable to
purchase them, particularly a kind of weapon they had lately
invented resembling a halberd, but far more dangerous, and
had set artificers to make vast quantities, which they gave
to such as were not instructed in the exercise of pike and
musket. In case notice should be taken of them, they would
pretend they were only for watching bills. Such of their
confederacy as were able had furnished themselves with
horses, and their accoutrements, and with musketoons,
blunderbusses, and particularly with a kind of silk quilted
armour that would resist a carbine bullet. |
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I have often since, especially lately, heard the said persons
and others declare their success in bringing over great numbers
to join them, and that such as had fortunes not only had
procured each several stout men to be in readiness at an
hour's warning to be in arms, but also had agreed to contribute
money to the encouragement of such as should bear arms. |
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They determined to continue so, expecting when anything should
be acted towards them, as might excuse their rising in arms.
They have lately determined, since they have been disappointed of having the Duke excluded by Parliament, that,
when the King shall die, it being the privilege of the Lord
Mayor to proclaim his successor, that a considerable number
of the chief of their association shall under colour of attending
the solemnity, force their own choice by force of arms, being
satisfied that the mobalye will join them to oppose the Duke.
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I am likewise informed that they are on close consultations
whether it be necessary to suspend the execution of their
purposes so long, objecting that delays are dangerous, or not,
but it has not yet been determined. (See ante, p. 550.)
[Nearly 2 pages. Ibid. No. 207 i.] |
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The information of Lawrence Mowbray. The day or the
day after the dissolution of this last Parliament at Oxford, the
Earl of Shaftesbury, in a chair or sedan, overtook the informant
and Mr. Everald (Everard), and, causing his chairmen to go
easily by a long wall of a college, told Everald that their design
was frustrated by the unexpected dissolution and the King's
sudden departure; otherwise, notwithstanding the dissolution,
it would have been effected, but there would be as fit an opportunity elsewhere. Everald told his lordship he heartily wished
it had been effected, and hoped their next attempt would be
successful. The informant, after the Earl departed, begged
Everald for an explanation of the mysterious conference, who
told him under pledge of secrecy of a design of the Earl of
Shaftesbury, Lords Grey, Howard, Huntingdon and the Duke of
Monmouth, and many others, and, as he said, by the Presbyterians
in general, to alter the government, in order to which they intended
to secure the King in Oxford, had he not got away so suddenly.
The informant insisted that so small a number as he named could
not effect such an exploit, considering the King had so strong a
guard. Everald replied that the lords and their party had force
enough in readiness to defeat the guards, which would certainly have
been done, had not the King got away. The informant insisted that
the Government could not be better than it is, but Everald told
him he was grossly mistaken, for the King was very much inclined
to Popery, and was altogether guided by a Popish Council, and
consequently, if not prevented by those wise statesmen, as he
called the said lords, Popery would be set up. Everald used the like
arguments last July and August, always urging it would be for
the informant's interest, if the said design took effect. The
informant has had the like discourses with Hetherington at
Oxford, when College was tried, he very much envying that the
King was not seized when the Parliament sat there, as was
designed, for then this had not been, meaning College's conviction for being in the Oxford conspiracy with the Presbyterians.
After the trial Hetherington, being apprehensive there was a
warrant to take him, wished that the King had been secured,
when the Parliament sat at Oxford, and that, if ever there were
the like opportunity, he would be in readiness, and taking hold
of his sword, which was properly a riding sword, said it would
do good service on that occasion. |
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These and Everald's discourses the informant would have
long since discovered, but for the dangers such discoveries incur,
a witness for the King in cases of treason being no way safe from
the outrages of the Papists nor the factious Presbyterians and
their party. [Nearly 3 pages. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417, No. 208.] |
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Testimony of Charles Rea. Smith, the bookseller in Cornhill,
when in the King's Bench prison, begged him to keep to himself
what he knew, and promised to have him bailed, when he got out
himself. He said he was printing a New Year's gift to Lord Chief
Justice Scroggs and other things, and would never give over
printing or writing till the Government was changed into a free
state. If he would deny all he had done, they would relieve him.
Finding it to be no use, they got him put on the common side of
the prison, in a damp room five feet under ground. He offered
to reveal something to the Marshal, but he made light of it, and
was in frequent correspondence with Lord Howard. He was
visited since his release by Lord Howard's son, who accused him of
ill conduct to his father when in prison, and afterwards by Lord
Howard himself, but refused to see him. Mr. Claypole asked
whether he did not hear from Lord Shaftesbury or had seen Sir
Robert Payton. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417, No. 209.] |
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Sir Edward Fitzharris to the King. Petition stating that in
consideration of his long imprisonment and other great sufferings
for his loyalty and his great trouble, charge and hazard from
the malicious prosecution of the possessors of his estate in Ireland,
who hoped thereby to prevent his recovery of it, where he was
acquitted of the offences he was accused of, and also of his being
disappointed of the provision intended for him by the Act of
Explanation, his Majesty granted him (22 Oct., 1674) a yearly
pension of 150l., which was nevertheless stopped for two years
and a moiety for one year, so that there is an arrear of 375l. and
praying an order for the payment thereof and for an increase of
his pension. [Ibid. No. 210.] |
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Memorandum, "Mr. Hugh Ryley, lodging next door to the
Sign of the George, near Clare House, Drury Lane." |
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Mrs. Hollis spoke to a gentlewoman that Mr. Fitzharris needed
not to pretend he was surprised in a closet by Sir William Waller,
for Sir William, Mr. Blake, a woollen-draper at the Angel in
Bedford Street, and a nobleman were at Fitzharris's lodging
in her house in private with him about three weeks before he
was apprehended and stayed several nights till about two or three
in the morning. [Ibid. No. 211.] |
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Ann Fitzharris to his Majesty. Petition for a supply. Though
she apprehends she has been traduced to him, as her unfortunate
husband was, yet she is encouraged by his charity to her poor
children. [Ibid. No. 212.] |
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Ann Fitzharris to the King. Entreating him not wholly to
reject her suit. The hope of his clemency and mercy has a great
while been the only support of her life. [Ibid. No. 213.] |
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Bill of charges addressed to Secretary Jenkins and Lord Hyde
for Madame Fitzharris and Mrs. Peacock, her maid, and her
two children, being 25l. for five weeks, also paid for coach hire
4l. 5s., and for Mr. Fitzharris' burial 4l. 10s. 0d. For my own
trouble in waiting on them what your Honours please. Endorsed,
"Mrs. Peacock's demands." [Ibid. No. 214.] |
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Memoranda of a great number of orders of the House of
Commons, the latest in date being that of 30 Dec., 1680, that
no member should accept of any place at Court. [7 pages. Ibid.
No. 215.] |
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Henry Nevill to the Duke of York. About a year and a half
ago (3 Jan., 1679, see Calendar S.P. Dom., 1679–80, p. 3)
he and his wife were given leave to pass beyond the seas
on condition of not returning without his Majesty's leave. He
is now prosecuted very hard in the Exchequer for payment of
2,500l., which Mr. Oates swears he has of the Jesuits' money.
A decree was passed last term that, if cause were not shown
to the contrary next term, the 2,500l. should be forfeited as
belonging to the Jesuits, so that he cannot plead for himself nor
raise the money, if forfeited, unless they have a pass to come
over. He implores the assistance of his Royal Highness to
obtain it. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417, No. 216.] |
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Mr. Smith to Secretary Jenkins. In Easter term, 1679, the
Attorney-General exhibited his bill in the Exchequer against
Henry Nevill and his trustees for payment to his Majesty of
2,550l. lent him on mortgage by the Society of the Jesuits. He
and his trustees answered, and the cause was decreed if cause
to the contrary was not shown. Thereupon the Jesuits caused
a bill to be filed in several persons' names, who pretended to the
said money, and the Court gave the complainants all lawful
advantage, but in this cross cause the Jesuits' pretenders have
examined none but Papists, one or more suspected as Jesuits,
another a knight of the post. |
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It is prayed that William Read, who is much suspected to be
in Romish Orders, and lives in St. James' House, may be sent for
to give an account of himself. This Read lives in Flanders, and
came over on this occasion. He belongs to the Queen's chapel
and is to be heard of at the Duke's confectionery office, though
not his servant. [Ibid. No. 217.] |
[1681 ?] |
The King to the Lord Mayor. The constant attendance on
you of such of the Aldermen as are well-affected is very necessary
at this time, that the world may see the harmony there is between
you and the major part of them and that they should be ready
to assist you on all sudden emergencies. You are therefore
to let them know that we expect that they should give their
attendance at every Court of Aldermen, having observed that
some of the Aldermen have been extremely diligent and watchful
with design to carry things unreasonable and dangerous in a thin
Court, and also that a good number of the well-affected Aldermen
be on all occasions ready to attend you at your going abroad
in public and to give you their assistance and advice. [2 pages.
Draft. Ibid. No. 218.] |
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The Justices at Hicks' Hall to the King. Sending a presentment from the Grand Jury containing matters of great importance,
with which they unanimously concur. As to the matters of the
presentment, which are in the extent of their commission, they
have already in part and shall further have them put in execution.
[Ibid. No. 219.] |
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Propositions that provision be made for all foreign converts
from the Romish religion that come over either by reserving in
every college of both universities a fellowship or some hospital
erected on purpose. |
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Schoolmasters, physicians, chirurgeons, and midwives that are
or have been Papists, not suffered in England, at least not in
London, and none admitted in future, if it be thought fit not
to put the present by. |
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Militia on duty not suffered to ramble and drink more than
is necessary. |
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Oaths and Test not sufficient to discover a Papist, but bonds
more to be trusted. |
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Musicians, painters (if extraordinary artists) and other rare
manufacturers, though Papists, giving good security, to be suffered
to stay in London. |
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When 'tis thought fit to banish the Papists from London, a
proviso should be made that the country should receive them
civilly and not prosecute them till the new Act be finished. |
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The prosecution against Papists be not converted against
Protestant dissenters. |
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Papists, being obliged to keep within five miles of their
dwellings, giving security for their behaviour &c., may then,
paying some yearly acknowledgement for their protection and
exemption from offices, enjoy the full benefit of their estates, or
else it is better to banish them quite, giving them time to dispose
of their estates. |
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The best of our ministers be obliged to discourse with the
Papists inclinable to conform and take the oaths to give them
full satisfaction, and especially to attend the Sessions and Assizes
for that purpose. |
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No Prince of England on any account be suffered to marry a
Papist. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417, No. 220.] |
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Information of Thomas Aslaby. The constables of Bridlington
had several warrants from William Osbaldeston, a Justice for
the East Riding, for suppressing seditious meetings, the execution
whereof they neglected. Then Osbaldeston sent a warrant
to distrain on the constables' goods for 5l. apiece. They
appealed to the last General Sessions at Beverley, where the
Under-Sheriff had returned on the jury all or most Fanatics and
disaffected. Some of them had formerly begged the charity
of their brethren for a Non-conformist minister. When the
constables heard the Justices were angry with the Under-Sheriff
for returning such a jury, they immediately submitted to the
Court. |
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The King, being informed of a great abuse to him in executing
the searchership of Hull, sends his commission to inquire into
it, but, the parties concerned being very ill-affected persons,
the Under-Sheriff returns a jury for their purpose, all or most
of them dissatisfied with the Government, who would, though
on full evidence, either find nothing or what signified as little.
[Ibid. No. 221.] |
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Edward Ivie, late of Somerset, and now of Ireland, to the
King. Petition for an equal weekly allowance with the other
most material witnesses, while his attendance is commanded
in England. Soon after he understood the designs of divers
ill-disposed men in the City, he gave information thereof, as
Secretary Jenkins can inform the King. He shall be faithful to
evidence the truth of his knowledge of such designs, when called
on, as also of the conspiracies of divers in Ireland against some
faithful Protestant subjects there, under pretence of making
out a horrible Irish Popish plot, intending under a pretence
of preserving the Royal Government over that kingdom to overthrow it. As he came purposely from Ireland to discover the
said practices and gave early demonstrations of his loyalty, as
well in this as in his endeavours towards the restoration, he
prays a pardon for treason and misprision of treason with an
exception of all other crimes whatever and the King's protection
during his stay in England, that he may be free from the arrests
of persons in the City, who gave him several sums, for which
since his discovery of their designs they threaten actions against
him, and others endeavour to render him contemptible by giving
out untruly that he is a person of most flagitious life. He was
the first to give informations against the Earl of Shaftesbury,
College and others not yet taken, and has with much expense of
time and money persuaded some of the most material witnesses
against them to join him in the discovery aforesaid. (See
ante, p. 643.) [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417, No. 222.] |
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Philip Bennett to [? Owen Wynne]. I could not speak with
Mr. Stephens about Mr. Ivey's business, but met the Deputy
Clerk of the Crown, who drew the petition whereto the certificates
are annexed, who tells me that it only needs that there be written
at the foot of the petition that it is his Majesty's pleasure
that the petitioners be inserted in the next circuit pardon, with
the day &c., and Mr. Secretary's hand. I desire you to put
a dispatch, because our circuit pardon is stayed till answer
herein. [Ibid. No. 223.] |
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Memorandum that Ivie first brought Haynes to the Earl of
Shaftesbury. He acknowledges that out of charity he procured
small sums for witnesses. He had been told that leading questions
had been asked some of the witnesses and even by some of the
Privy Council, which was not fair. [Ibid. No. 224.] |
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Similar notes of Ivie's examination. [Ibid. No. 225.] |
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Statement by David Creagh that D[avid] F[itz] G[erald] told
him 700l. and odd pounds were due to him, whereof he has
received part, which he has expended in private services to
stifle the Po[pish] p[lot] by the directions of persons of honour,
whose letters he has ready to produce. He denied it was dangerous
to say anything of that kind, for some of the greatest ministers
knew it to be true and were privy thereto, and, though they
now delayed the payment of the remainder of his money, yet
they then put him on those services and instructed him therein.
With note by Sir John Fitzgerald that he and Captains O'Neale,
Bourke and Lacy can prove much of the same and several other
particulars. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417, No. 226.] |
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Abstract of Eustace Comyn's information concerning the
King's witnesses. |
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Bernard Dennis told him that he never knew Dr. Oates before
he came to London. Hetherington said that the Protestant
bishops were all guilty of the plot, and that, if the Parliament
sat, a Bill would be brought in against them as well as the
Duke of York. Bourke said he had six witnesses to swear against
the Earl of Tyrone, and would get seven more, who should have
100l. apiece. Phelim O'Neale said he was offered great sums
by a person of quality to swear against the Duke of Ormonde
and the Earl of Arran. Edmond Everard desired the informant
to swear against Sir Redmond Everard and the Queen and the
Duke. Samson asked the informant if he would swear against
the Duke of York. Hetherington told the informant that there
was 3,000l. to be distributed among six evidences against the
Duke of York, and would have him be one, promising him a
sixth. Edmund Murphy told the informant, coming from Oxford,
that, if Sir John Davys and Dr. Oliver Plunkett would give
him wherewithal (meaning a good bribe), he could save both
their lives, in spite of all that would swear against them.
Hetherington told the witnesses that, if they would not swear
what he would have them, they might go home like fools as
they came, for it was easy for him to get witnesses enough for
money to swear anything. [2 pages. Ibid. No. 227.] |
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Matthew Clay to the King. Petition for protection and some
accommodations for his old age, he having attended in town
about these two years in the public service, and having done
actual service against those traitorous plotters, the Jesuits, at
the Sessions House, and being now in great danger of mischief
by the Jesuitical party. [Ibid. No. 228.] |
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John Macnamara to the King and the Privy Council. Petition
stating that the petitioner, being accused by Mr. Ivy of joining
in a conspiracy against the Government and the Protestant
English interest in Ireland and imprisoned eight or nine weeks,
above two years since made a full discovery thereof, and how
the French were intended or solicited to invade Ireland, and,
to make this evident, he brought up several witnesses to Dublin
at great charge, towards which he received about 30l. from the
Lord Lieutenant and about 14l. from the Exchequer in England,
which falls much short of what the petitioner expended in the
prosecution of the said parties at Waterford, and is no way
equivalent to his vast charge in attending his Majesty and Council
and the Parliaments in England, where he has attended ever
since the said trial at Waterford for more than two years, and
therefore beseeching his Majesty to order him his past charges
and weekly maintenance from November, 1678, till his Majesty
shall dismiss him. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417, No. 229.] |
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Denis Macnamara to the King and the Privy Council. Petition
for a weekly allowance from December, 1679, till he is discharged.
He was obliged by John Macnamara, one of the witnesses about
the Irish plot, to go to Dublin in December, 1679, to give his
evidence about the plot, and was paid 5l. by the Lord Lieutenant's
order. Thence he came to England on the said service, and
has ever since attended the same with the said John Macnamara,
but has never received a penny more than the said 5l. from his
Majesty or any of his officers. [Ibid. No. 230.] |
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Bernard Dennis to the King and the Privy Council. Petition
for a weekly allowance from 15 Oct. last till he shall be dismissed.
About that day he was examined by Sir John Davys and the
Bishop of Meath in Dublin touching his knowledge of the Irish
plot, and was commanded by the Lord Lieutenant to go to
England, and was paid 5l., and has ever since attended here to
give evidence. 20l. more was bestowed on him, which is all that
has been paid him since he became one of his Majesty's witnesses.
[Ibid. No. 231.] |
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Major Nicholas Bayly to the King. Petition for a grant of
the first lieutenant's or cornet's place vacant in the Irish army
to his only son, now about 20, setting forth his services and
sufferings and the reports of the late Lord Treasurer of 1 May,
1676, and of the Lord Lieutenant of 5 June, 1678, in his favour,
and that, had the Bill for confirmation of estates in Ireland passed,
he had been promised the place of Register, and that 550l. was
still due to him from his Majesty, which ought to have been paid
him by Lord Ranelagh and partners, and that he had recovered
for his Majesty above 320l. paid into the Admiralty Court and
1,800l. from the Doubling Adventurers. (See the Ormonde Papers,
Vol. VII, pp. 15, 37.) [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 342, No. 97.] |
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Capt. Samuel Terrilke to [Secretary Jenkins]. Requesting
his Honour to interpose for him either for a troop of dragoons
or a company of grenadiers for Ireland, he being able to raise
100 men in Cheshire and the counties near the seaside. He has
served above 40 years, commanded a troop of dragoons in
Prince Rupert's regiment the last levies, and was enrolled for a
captain of foot under the Earl of Ossory for Tangier, since which
time he has been out of employ. [Ibid. No. 98.] |
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Marcus Browne, one of the Farmers of the Customs of Galway
in 1650, to the King. Petition for a licence to ship goods Custom
free to the value of 657l. 17s. 4d., with interest, being his loss on
the said farm, which was by his contract to be made good
to him, and to order a defalcation thereof to the present Farmers
or for some other expedient for his satisfaction. The petitioner
made several applications to the now Lords of the Treasury,
who, 22 April, 1680, declared that, if his Majesty recompensed the
petitioner, it should be out of the Irish revenue, and that he should
apply to the Lord Lieutenant. The Irish revenue being now in
farm, no recompense can be made to the petitioner, unless a
defalcation out of the farm is ordered for the same. [S.P.
Ireland, Car. II. 342, No. 99.] |
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Richard Fitzgerald Franklin and Lætitia, his wife, to the
King. Petition stating that the petitioners have a title to all
the estate of John Fitzgerald, late of Dromana, co. Waterford,
deceased, by virtue of a settlement by him and by the breach
of certain limitations therein by Katherine, his daughter, niece
of the petitioner Lætitia and now wife of Edward Villiers, which
title has been depending for several years in the Courts of King's
Bench in England and of Chancery in Ireland and is still
undetermined, and that during the continuance of the said suits
the said Edward Villiers, now calling himself Fitzgerald, and
his wife have, to strengthen their weak titles, obtained letters
to the Lord Lieutenant to cause letters patent to be passed of all
the estate of the said John Fitzgerald and another for manors
fairs, markets &c. (see ante, p. 265) to the said Edward and
Katherine and her heirs and have warrants from his Grace to
pass the said letters patent, which are not yet passed the great
seal of Ireland or enrolled, and therefore praying a mandate to
the Lord Lieutenant to stop all proceedings relating to the passing
thereof, till the petitioners' right to all or any part of the said
estate is finally determined at law. [Ibid. No. 100.] |
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Mary Arthur to the Duke of Ormonde. Petition for relief
for her son, John Arthur. She came lately out of Ireland and
found him in a most deplorable condition, he having been cast
into prison for a small debt and wholly depending on his
Majesty's gracious allowance ordered him for his services
in discovering the treasonable design of the Earl of Shaftesbury, William Hetherington and the rest of their abettors.
[Ibid. No. 101.] |
[1680 or 1681 ?] |
William, Earl of Clanricarde, to the King. Petition showing
that the late Marquess and Earl of Clanricarde, owing to his
expenditure in the Royal service, left the petitioner an estate
burdened with many debts, besides 20,000l. due to Lady
Purbeck (married in 1676 to Lord Purbeck). Of this she
has received 14,000l. some years since, and by a decree made
in the Chancery of Ireland in Trinity term last is to have 25,600l.
more out of the said estate, to petitioner's and his counsel's great
surprise. His debts have been very much increased by many
lawsuits commenced against him by his creditors, when they
saw all his hopes of discharging the said encumbrances fatally
frustrated by the unfortunate marriage of his eldest son, so
that without some further rays of the King's bounty he cannot
expect in his lifetime to free himself from these impending
troubles, though he hath, to endeavour the same, contracted
his expenses to a much narrower compass than bears any proportion
with his quality. The petitioner's ancestors have for some
ages successively, till his Majesty's happy Restoration, and
even in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and of the last two
Kings, enjoyed the government of the town of Galway, the
command of a troop of horse and a company of foot, though
they professed the same opinion in religion that the petitioner
now doth, who solemnly declares before the Almighty that no
power or persuasion could or shall prevail with him to be of any
religion or communion that should be the least check upon him
to venture his life and fortune for his Majesty, and praying
that the King may credit no suggestion to his disadvantage,
and may think him a fit object of his favour. (See ante, p. 656.)
[S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 342, No. 102.] |
Dec. 25. Whitehall. |
Commission to — Oldhurst to be ensign to Capt. Griffith's
company in Col. Charles Trelawney's regiment at Tangier.
Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 29, p. 421.] |
[1681, Jan. 10–18.] |
Advice to "Courteous Reader." If thou beest a true Englishman, neither Romanized nor Frenchified, and intendest to keep
thy conscience as free as thou wast born, and meanest to transmit
the same liberty to thy posterity which thy ancestors maintained,
and wouldest not see thy children degenerated into French asses
to draw some lustful tyrant, goat or ape in his domineering chariot,
it concerns thee to know, if ever thou votest again as of late for
a free Parliament, that the persons named in this list are for
the most part that seed by which the degenerate and now tottering
ministers of Rome and France hope to propagate by money
and gifts a fresh execrable generation of Roman and French
ministers and pensioners, except such as are already known
to be of that damnable crew, for what else could they mean,
who separated themselves from the common vote against their
country's liberty and religion, when Scotland and Ireland are in
continual dreadful expectations of mutinies and rebellions, and
the French attend with vast forces for an opportunity to invade
us, when at home the Lords and Lords Bishops have voted the
King an absolute power to indemnify all traitors, assassins and
incendiaries, who had already fired our cities, endeavoured by
one blow at his Majesty to cut the thread of all our lives, would
have sold our liberties, laws and religion, could they have found
any buyers, have sold our arms and ammunition to our enemies,
built and taught them to build ships to destroy our navy, employed
our own vessels to rob our merchants and ruin our trade, have
trained in foreign war in assistance of the enemies of our religion,
liberty and commerce at our cost our Roman and debauched
gentry, and daily exercise and pay troops at our doors listed
to cut our throats, dared in the face of their country and the
whole Christian world to deny us a succession of Protestant
princes and tie our allegiance to perpetual vassalage under Popish
furies, armed, resolved and sufficiently provoked to massacre
as many of us as they could, bringing after them an invading
rabble of hellish French and Popish miscreants fleshed in
Protestant and other neighbour countries with rapine, rapes
and murders, as if they had a curiosity to see the crooked French
Duke on this side the water cherish his Roman bloodhounds;
or could believe that they, who murdered and ravished Protestants
and Papists without distinction, would spare our wives and
daughters and babes, and had forgot the Irish and Parisian
massacres, or, if we liked not this, were resolved to leave us no
choice than rebels' swords. (Further invectives against such
persons.) |
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These are they who laboured so hard to befool our prudent
Senators unto a persuasion that they might hedge out the Roman
kites from their prey and would afterwards have derided them
for Gotham cuckoos, or those silly mice, who wisely ordained
that a bell should be hanged about Pussie's neck, but never
considered that none of their whole nation was of sufficient
strength or courage to tie it on or keep it there. |
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* Beware then of these honest countrymen, if you hope
ever to see your Parliament unanimous, your Church uniform, your trade prosperous, your times peaceable, your
minds settled, your fears extinguished, your King happy and
glorious. |
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You began well in your last elections, purge now throughly
your House in the next and fear not, if your members know
and represent your minds steadily, but your gracious Prince
will be able to deny nothing to their just importunity, that is
either good for you or safe for him. Their wavering petitions
are the cause of his doubtful answers and resolutions. How
should he answer your expectations, when you send them
to him, who know not truly or will not faithfully express
your desires ? Foolish queries deserve foolish returns. Treat
your trustees, when they return to you, according to their
merits. |
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They that go about to circumvent you by treats expect to
be treated by others. They that buy your votes in the country
will sell their own in Parliament and you and all that is yours
to their best advantage, and of this you have had woeful
experience in the late odious over-long Parliament. Scorn ye,
therefore, as much to be bought as to be sold for slaves and serve
as stepping-stones to mount the French ambition to an universal
monarchy and all Europe with your posterity to an universal
slavery, first to the Pope and shortly after to the Turk. |
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Those in this foregoing list are they (I dare not say) who are
the worst of their country's enemies, yet such, who, that they
might sit amongst the rest and be accounted patriots, have bought
their country's votes and afterwards (I do not say, but will leave
you to judge) have sold and traded with their consciences, lives
and liberties to raise to themselves honour to countenance their
riches or else riches to maintain a false honour. |
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If I could once see the tables turned in the country, and the
electors treat and entertain the elect at the public charge as
you have best reason to do, I might assure myself that a noble
and free people would produce a free and generous Parliament
and not a pensionary one, and by them settle a lasting freedom
in Church and State.*
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Imagine not they will save yours, who damn their own souls
and bodies. Never believe that God will honour them to be a
blessing to a nation that never acknowledge Him and know not
how to call on His name but only in profane cursing and swearing. |
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You have been once saved, when your Samsons led blindfold
pulled the house on their heads, who thought to have held them
bound in slavery to grind in their mills. Now your eyes are
opened at the extreme peril of their lives, who show you your
plotted danger. Bring not the fresh withes and cords to the
Philistine lords or their Dalilas. Your religion, lives and liberties
have been often in the power of one or two Yeas or Noes, and
there are many yet in the House who put those questions. Your
annual Parliaments, though repealed, are still preserved, if your
trustees dare once challenge them. Your Habeas Corpus, though
condemned by many votes, was enacted by one mis-teller, guided
by the justice of Heaven, in spite of the false and slavish pensioner mitres and coronets. |
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It is in the power of your declared resolutions and votes to
cause that this prorogation shall not prorogue nor defer any public
good, nor a new Parliament innovate anything to the prejudice
thereof. Against your adversaries vox populi est vox Dei. |
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If any innocent soul be found in this black list, let him not
be offended at me, but consider whether some mistaken principle
or interest may not have misled him to vote, though with his
own yet against the public light and conscience of his country,
to the extreme hazard of ruining for ever their religion, laws,
liberties and properties, and that family which he will most
zealously pretend to uphold, when indeed he only gives to one
person of that line the miserable advantage of scarce some few
years to see again the dreadful wars and massacres of the last
years of his father's reign, in which it can hardly be determined
whether it would be more insupportable for him to conquer with
the slaughter of the majority of his people in rebellion against
him and the utter subversion of their religion, laws and liberties,
or to be vanquished, to the universal ruin of his family and his
loyallest subjects, and the total and final extirpation of that religion
and those persons and houses, whose defence and dignity he
sought to advance, with his crown and life staked on the event
of a few battles, in which, though he should, which is very unlikely,
speed better than his father in England, he could hardly hope
to live so long after his brother as to settle the conquest of
England, so as not to be infested with a second rebellion there.
In both Scotland and Ireland it is too manifest that on a civil
war here the first party prevailing, expecting a second war hence,
would show no mercy to their adversaries. |
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The case being much altered from his father's by the fuller
discoveries of the Popish Plot, he must fight not only against
the fears and jealousies of unarmed, undisciplined people, headed
by a few unknown and despised persons, but against their rage
and despair, universally provoked, armed, and everywhere
provided with experienced officers. It were madness to expect
the clergy and gentry to fight for the preservation of their
cathedrals, lands and dignities, which are to be taken from them
and bestowed on their most bitter enemies irrevocably. The
most that could be expected from them would be to be neuters,
which will be a very miserable condition, whilst the war lasts,
and necessarily involves them in greater afflictions, when it ends,
whichever party prevails. This being thus, without consideration
of what foreign forces called in may add to the rage and despair
of this people and so to their slaughter and misery very much,
but little or nothing to the success of a Popish Prince, I see not,
whilst our laws make it treasonable to deny the King in Parliament
a power to limit both the succession and government of the
Crown, why any true son or the fathers of the Church should
scruple to suspend the next presumptive heir for a few years
from so miserable an exercise as the butchery of his people, to
prevent the ruin of his family and kingdoms and their religion,
laws and liberties. (This must be between 10 and 18 January,
1680–1, the dates of the prorogation and dissolution of the
Parliament.) [7 pages. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417, No. 232.]
Probably enclosed, |
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List of members of Parliament containing 124 names. [Ibid.
No. 232 i.] |
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Another copy of the passage in the above address between
asterisks, with some variations, particularly adding the last
paragraph on p. 676. [Ibid. No. 233.] |
[Feb. 5.] Saturday evening. |
R[ichard] T[hompson] to his brother-in-law, Major John
Braman. Sending him a list of the cakes and sweetmeats, and
their prices, according to his letter of 1 Feb. The cakes and
almonds are fit for a christening, but not for the entertainment
of a person of quality. Here is about 9½ lbs. of good sweetmeats
for 1l. 3s. 3d. Advising him how to set them off to the best
advantage, by putting one dish upside down into another,
garnishing them with laurel and putting the worst at the bottom
and the best at the top, which way is modish and practised here
in such cases. |
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If you could aim at a certain day, it were better, for some
things are to be done fresh. London's election and behaviour
is suitable to their former bravery. Loyal and bold is what
becomes the greatest Protestant city. |
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The grand jury of Middlesex have presented the King's guards
as illegal. [Ibid. No. 234.] |
[Feb.] |
The same to the same. Sending a bill of the cakes and sweetmeats he had bought, with their prices, and asking him to see
that the contents of the box agree therewith. [Ibid. No. 235.] |
[1681 March ?] |
Minute of an instruction [to the Earl of Craven] that, in case
of insurrection in the city [of London] if on the approach of the
guards the people refuse to disperse, he is to do his utmost to
quell and suppress them, forbearing no act of hostility permitted
by the usages of war. [In Secretary Jenkins' hand. S.P.
Dom., Car. II. 417, No. 236.] |
[March ?] |
Warrant to the Commissioners for executing the office of Master
of the Ordnance for delivery to the Earl of Craven, appointed to
command the forces in London and Westminster during the
King's absence, of such quantities of powder, match and bullets
and other Ordnance stores as he shall desire in writing under
his hand. (The office was in commission from 1679 to January,
1682.) [Draft. Ibid. No. 237.] |
April 22. |
The queries about a farm at West Marden enclosed in Rumball's
and Gladman's letter calendared ante, p. 246. [S.P. Dom., Car. II.
415, No. 138 i.] |
[May ?] |
[Edward Fitzharris to his wife.] I am well satisfied that you
approve of what I did to the judges. (6 May, see ante, p. 264.)
I gave you in my last an account of what I said to them. I was
not on oath, nor would they hear but what was directly my
knowledge. The Frenchman that I named, if my friends will
go to Lady Holles and inquire of her for a Frenchwoman, a
Protestant, that was put into Bridewell by Sir Edmund Bury
Godfrey, and Lady Holles took her part to recover damages
against the said Godfrey for the abuse, she was the said Frenchman's wife, that being the motive that irritated him against
Godfrey. I leave the managing of this to them. I suppose
they will try me without any more ado. I will name no more
witnesses. I was in great fear you would blame me for naming
them. I suppose the answer you sent yesterday was on purpose,
or else I would take it unkind. Pray, as you tender me, do
not speak to the Lt. (? Lieutenant) about this money, for he is my
enemy, and has given me an answer that the Treasury would
not pay it. If you can make any shift, pray let him have part
of it, and fair words for the rest. Tell him the answer yesterday
was on purpose, for he was very angry at it. You know the
kindness I receive deserves more than that. You may be sure,
if I come off, the King will use me better than hitherto. Let
me have what comfort you can by this friend. I will, for your
satisfaction, repeat the persons I accused: Lord Ranelagh,
Peterborough, Mazarin, Arundel and Belasyse, several priests,
Fitzgerald for burning the City, and others. There were some
particulars of Godfrey's murder relating to the two witnesses,
who received money from the Earl of Danby, as they informed
me. The Frenchman showed me four broad pieces of gold. Pray
let me understand what you mean by saying you do not value
the libel. I did not hear or know of anything else against me.
If you do, let me know it, as also if Mistress Wall will do me
justice. They forswear themselves, if they say anything else.
The judges asked me who put me on writing the libel. I answered,
I never writ it, Everard gave it me and the King employed me.
My dear, I beg you will be very kind to this friend and
Mr. Walmesly, and do not be perting with the Lt., for
it's folly to contest with power, besides it may occasion him
to remove me, therefore, pray observe my directions in these
particulars. If you can, pray send the wine, and let me know
of your condition and whether my friends relieve you. I hope
you are in no want. I will send you the guinea, if you do. I
will once more beg of you by words or deeds to satisfy Walmesly,
and let me have what comfort you can. I long to see you at
liberty. I never thought I had so ardent a love for you as I
find now, though my affections were never astray from you nor
never will. My blessing to my poor children. Let me know
if my friend out of town has turned courtier. I cannot believe
it. [4 pages. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417, No. 238.] |
[May.] |
Memorandum that the whole number of Common Council men
is 234, whereof we suppose them to be as follows:—105 good men,
89, 31 doubtful, 9 that we judge will be absent, 234. 105 and
14 Aldermen, 119; 89, 31 and 9 Aldermen, 129. (See ante, p. 274.)
[Ibid. No. 239.] |
[May 13.] |
Account of the vote in the Common Council that day, 66
Common Councilmen and 11 Aldermen against 84 Common
Councilmen and 7 Aldermen, majority 14. Two neuters did not
poll on either side. With observations on some of those that
voted. (See ante, p. 276.) [Ibid. No. 240.] |
Aug. 4. |
— to —. I design to be in London next Tuesday, and
the following Friday shall set forward for Norwich. We had here
last Monday a great canvas for a new town clerk. Lords Norreys
and Lovelace, Sir George Pudsey and Brome Whorwood, with
several others of the neighbouring gentlemen, were at the election,
but the Whiggish party carried it by a great majority, near 4 to
I, which shows the temper of our townsmen. Lord Norreys,
being somewhat nettled at this, began to fall foul on Whorwood,
and asked how he had the impudence to appear there, when
he owed so many just debts, which he refused to pay. Whorwood
answered he owed no man anything, whereat my lord instanced
himself, and told him he owed him money, and bade him pay it,
at which Whorwood gave him the lie, and my lord called him "Old
knave," and he in return called him "Young rogue," whereat
his lordship fell on him with his cane, and with several blows
blooke (? broke) his pate very severely in the face of the whole
town, whereat Whorwood told him, were he not disabled by his
age, he durst not deal so with him, at which my lord answered
he had seconds enough to revenge his quarrel that were young
enough, if they thought fit to undertake it, meaning Lovelace, but
he sat very quiet without interposing in the least. The person
elected is Prince, an attorney, but he being not confirmed in his place
without the King's approbation, it's supposed Lord Norreys will
interpose that way to obstruct what has thus been carried against
him here. Endorsed, " Account of the election of a town clerk
in Oxford." [Signature torn off. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417,
No. 241.] |
[Sept. 15.] |
The speech of Sir Richard Hart, late Mayor of Bristol. This day
has summoned me to resign the office you entrusted me with the
past year. It is a matter of joy that it ends so calm, considering
how stormy it began, when some of our worthies were seized
and imprisoned without due process of law, the peace of this city
disturbed to gratify private revenge, and many of the chiefest of
you threatened, but that the King restrained their fury by his
prorogation. An honest man must sorrow to see those
animosities now amongst us. If the peace and welfare of this
city ought to be preferred before maintaining a faction and
supporting a discontented party, our fellow citizens are justly
blameable, who disputed our election at Westminster, and would
have compelled us to lodge our safety, our all, in the bosom of
a stranger. Self-preservation obliges us to unite, that we may
be strong to oppose the plots of wicked men. There have been
amazing discoveries, and God knows when it will end. We
know the law has passed on some. |
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I cannot remember that I have used my office to oppress my
neighbour. If in the press of business any has not had justice,
I ask his forgiveness, as I forgive the slanderers who branded me
as a Papist. I am a son of the Church of England as by law
established, and will live and die so. |
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I thank the Common Council and Aldermen for their assistance,
and wish the Mayor and Sheriffs elect a peaceable and happy
year. Though rash persons call you abhorrers for the King's
sake, he will render them fit to be abhorred. |
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May this city flourish, may the Church of England triumph
over all her enemies, both Papists and Schismaticks, may the
King's days be prolonged, and may there never want a man
from the loins of our Royal Martyr to govern these kingdoms.
[1½ page. Ibid. No. 242.] |
[Oct.] |
Sir William Smyth to the King. Petition stating that he had
lent the King 5,000l. on the credit of the Act for an imposition on
wine and brandy at 6 per cent., which on the repeal of that Act
was transferred to the hearthmoney, that he constantly received
his interest during the treasurerships of Lords Clifford and Danby,
and that he has now occasion for his money for a daughter's
portion, who is to be suddenly married, and therefore praying for
payment of the principal with the interest in arrear, or else
for payment of the interest, and that a tally might be struck
for payment of the principal on the hearthmoney on a half-year
certain, in order that he may make use of the credit thereof.
(See ante, p. 503.) [Ibid. No. 243.] |
[Nov.] |
David Povey to the King and the Privy Council. Petition
for a pardon by immediate warrant to the same effect as has
been granted to the other evidences. Lord Howard is very
much incensed against him for discovering his traitorous words
and design, and intends to put him to trouble. (See ante, p. 568.)
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417, No. 244.] |
[Nov.] |
Queries to prevent the great mischiefs from the misuse of the
privileges that the Mayor and Corporation of London pretend
to. 1. Whether the exacting of money by an Act of Common
Council not warranted by charter or prescription and erecting
markets by the authority of a late Act of Parliament, wherein
there is no mention of any toll, and levying rates on persons
resorting thereto be not sufficient ground for a Quo Warranto
or Information ? |
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2. Whether making a bylaw to exact great sums from all
inhabitants for making new conduits be not ground for the
same ? |
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3. Whether the Common Council's vindicating the sheriffs
in their refusal to attend the Middlesex Justices at their Quarter
Sessions (25 Oct., 1681) be not ground for a scire facias to repeal
their charter or so much thereof as empowers them to make
sheriffs ? |
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4. Whether at the same time an information should be brought
against them for misemploying the coal money for private
purposes ? |
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5. Whether it be not advisable that a Quo Warranto be brought
against them as to their manner of choosing sheriffs, for, though
they have used to choose by the liverymen only, which for these
last two years has been increased to serve the purpose of the
last two Mayors, yet they ought to be chosen by the freemen
in general and not only by the liverymen ? |
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6. That informations be brought against the two late and
the two present sheriffs for selling offices, which they call their
perquisites. |
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It is proposed that some of the King's Counsel be required to
deliberate on these heads, and to give their opinion what is fit
to be done. (This must be earlier than the bringing of the
information against the City in Michaelmas term, 1681.) [1¼ page.
Ibid. No. 245.] |
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List of the officers of the City relating to the peace and the
course of justice; proposing that no choice of officers or Act of
Common Council be good without approbation of the Mayor
and Aldermen. In reference to the officers who are to be
dependent on the King, they may either not be admitted without
his approbation, or removeable at pleasure or by writ, or, which
is thought best, removeable by order of King in Council, after
hearing the parties complained of. [Ibid. No. 246.] |
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Proposals that the King have the approbation of the Lord
Mayor, recorder, and common sergeant; the sheriffs and justices of
the peace to be by the King's commission, as in other counties;
the Mayor, or at least the Mayor and Aldermen to have a negative
on all elections or public acts of the corporation, except the
returning members to Parliament; the Aldermen to have a
negative as to the choice of Aldermen and to regulate the number
and qualification of the liverymen of each company; the Mayor,
recorder and all the Aldermen above the chair and three under
to be justices, none to be omitted or added but by the King's
special direction; the King not to constitute any sheriffs except
fitting citizens. If they comply, these franchises should be
surrendered and a new charter accepted with these qualifications.
It is expedient that Mr. Attorney know the King's pleasure herein,
that he may declare it on occasion and order his proceeding
accordingly. The City will receive no prejudice to their profits,
only the offices relating to the peace will be in the hands of
persons in whom the King may confide, thus showing his care of
the City, as being the most populous in the kingdom, and his
own chief residence. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417, No. 247.] |
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Heads of a Quo Warranto against the City of London for using
these franchises. The nomination and election of sheriffs for
the City and one for Middlesex; claiming exemption for the
sheriff of Middlesex from attendance at sessions; claiming to
have justices and to hold sessions without the King's special
commission; receiving large sums for tolls, tallages, etc.;
imposing great sums for making and adorning new conduits;
holding Common Councils, wherein they debate the King's prerogative and the affairs of the kingdom, which should not be
treated of without special license, and claiming the privilege of
selling offices connected with the government of the City. [Ibid.
No. 248.] |
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George Beardsell to Secretary Jenkins. Petition, stating that
he having expended on the taking of Hawley and Hogshead
(Hawkshead), pirates that acted under Carew's commission,
upwards of 40l., besides nine months' waiting, applied for repayment to the Lords of the Treasury, who referred it to his Honour
to report what was fit to be allowed him, who reported that 25l.
and no more was sufficient, and that, having petitioned their
lordships for a second report, he has obtained a reference to his
Honour, and praying him to make his report so that the petitioner
may be satisfied. [Ibid. No. 249.] |
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The same to the same. Petition to the same effect as the
last, but praying that his Honour will appoint some time for
the petitioner to attend him. [Ibid. No. 250.] |
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Samuel Kendrick to Secretary Jenkins. Petition, stating
that he was employed by his Honour in the taking of Hawley
and Hoggshead, and has petitioned the Lords of the Treasury
for his satisfaction, who sent Mr. Guy to attend his Honour for
his report, and praying him to grant him his report for his satisfaction. (For these three petitions see S.P. Dom., Car. II. 1679–80,
p. 601.) [Ibid. No. 251.] |
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Mortaugh Downey, Owen Callaghan and John Arthur to the
King and the Privy Council. Petition praying to be called
before the Council that they may give a full account of their
services, having been some of the first discoverers of the late
plot by discovering the treasonable designs of William Hetherington
and his abettors. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 417, No. 252.] |
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The Governors of Christ's Hospital and of his Majesty's new
royal foundation there to the King. Petition stating that
Erasmus Smith, pursuant to the power given him by certain
Acts of Parliament in Ireland and letters patent, appointed
one moiety of the overplus of the rents and profits of all
the lands and hereditaments thereby settled, remaining after
all the charges and payments therein mentioned, and the arrears
thereof since 27 June, 1673, to the petitioners in trust for
the further support of the said royal foundation and other
charitable uses, and that the petitioners have hitherto reaped
no benefit by the said intended charity for want of knowing
the true value of the said lands and hereditaments and the tenants
thereof, and for what rents and terms they claim the same, and
what is in arrear from them since the said 27 June, 1673, and
how far the Governors of the charity there have applied the profits
of the said lands and hereditaments towards the intended
charitable uses, and, because the petitioners cannot without
much difficulty and charge prevail with the Governors to give
them an exact account of the said profits, praying that his Majesty
by letters to the Lord Chancellor and other the Governors in
Ireland would require them to give the petitioners an exact
account of the said profits of the premises and of the yearly value
thereof, and of the tenants thereof and of their respective rents
and of the terms for which they hold and of how much of the said
profits has been applied by them in discharge of their trust,
and of how much thereof is still in arrear since 27 June, 1673.
[S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 342, No. 103.] |
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The same to the same. Petition to the same effect as the
last, and stating that, though his Majesty having been applied
to by the petitioners has interposed therein, the Governors of
the schools, making allegations, as if the petitioners were not to
expect any benefit of the said moiety, but that all is vested in them
and is to be applied to other the uses in the said Acts, charter and
letters patent mentioned, deny to the petitioners the benefit of
the said charity for the uses designed, whereas it is well known
to them and appears by express terms in the charter incorporating
them that the said moiety ought to be applied to such uses
as the said Smith should by deed or will appoint, who by his deeds
in July, 1680, has duly appointed it to the uses aforesaid, and,
for that the authority by which the charity subsists flowed from
his Majesty, before whom the performance or non-performance
thereof is properly examinable, and, for that the subject matter
lies in Ireland, where the judges of both law and equity are concerned as governors, and endeavour to have all applied to uses
in Ireland contrary to the donor's intention, and for that, if
the petitioners could have any relief in the Irish Courts for the
said moiety, which they conceive they cannot, yet it would prove
a great expense to the charity to recover the same, and for that
such matters are, as they conceive, properly heard and determined
by his Majesty, praying that he would command the governors
of the said schools in Ireland from time to time to give accounts
and transmit the moiety of the said overplus to the petitioners
according to the said charter and the said Smith's limitation
by his said deeds, that so the petitioners may be further enabled
to perform his Majesty's gracious purposes in founding the said
new foundation, and that the said Smith's pious intention may
attain its due effect. (For both these petitions see the Ormonde
Papers, Vol. VI, pages 14, 78, 121, 268.) [S.P. Ireland, Car. II.
342, No. 104.] |
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Passes to the following persons between 1 September and
31 December, 1681:— |
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Date. |
Name. |
Place. |
Reference. |
|
1681. |
|
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|
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Sept. 5. |
Mary, wife of Sir Henry Goodricke, envoyé extraordinary to
Spain, with Capt. Hugh
Kelley, two gentlewomen and
7 servants. |
Madrid. |
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 66, p. 3. |
|
Sept. 5. |
George, Lord Carteret, with
John Grenville, John Gailhard, his governor, John
Aleman and a servant. |
Parts beyond seas. |
Ibid. |
|
Sept. 13. |
Mr. Augibaud, apothecary to
the French King, and Mr.
Vaillant, a French merchant. |
France. |
Ibid. p. 5. |
|
Sept. 16. |
John Hampden and William
Besters and two servants. |
Parts beyond seas. |
Ibid. |
|
Sept. 28. |
The Sieur de Zulestein, belonging to the Prince of Orange,
with his lady, Mrs. Du-Has
and 2 footmen. |
Holland. |
Ibid. |
|
Sept. 30. |
Oliver, Earl of Bolingbroke,
with Howard Becher, three
superior and 4 or 5 inferior
servants. |
Parts beyond seas. |
Ibid. p. 6. |
|
Oct. 1. |
Samuel Alderst. |
Tangier. |
Ibid. |
|
Oct. 11. |
Mrs. Albinia Betinson and
Theodosia Betinson, her
daughter, and her woman,
Mrs. Elizabeth Brownlow and
her woman, a young maid
and a footboy. |
France. |
Ibid. p. 12. |
|
Oct. 14. |
Lady Frances Bellings and
Richard and John, her children, with 4 women and two
menservants. |
Parts beyond seas. |
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 66, p. 13. |
|
Nov. 8. |
Madame Bouslaer and other
servants of Col. Henry Sidney,
late envoyé extraordinary to
the States General |
Holland. |
Ibid. p. 18. |
|
Nov. 12. |
George, Earl of Northumberland, with— Cornwallis
and — Lewis, gentlemen,
— Wickail, his chaplain,
— Lachevaye, his governor
and 4 servants. |
Parts beyond seas. |
Ibid. |
|
Nov. 12. |
Christian, relict of John, Lord
Berkeley of Stratton, with 3
women and 4 men servants. |
France. |
Ibid. p. 19. |
|
Nov. 13. |
Edmund Mole, servant to
Viscount Mordaunt, with 2
horses and guide. |
Plymouth and back. |
Ibid. p. 18. |
|
Nov. 14. |
Lady Theophila Lucy and Lady
Anthea Berkeley, daughters of
the Earl of Berkeley, with two
women and one man servant. |
France. |
Ibid. p. 20. |
|
Dec. 12. |
Juan Antonio de la Grené, servant to Don Pedro Ronquillo,
the Spanish ambassador, with
his wife and a maid and man
servant. |
— |
Ibid. p. 39. |
|
Dec. 12. |
Anne Baxter, midwife to the
Duchess of Norfolk, to go to
her. |
Flanders. |
Ibid. |
|
Dec. 22. |
Sir Samuel Moreland and his
two servants. |
France. |
Ibid. p. 44. |
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Newspapers for the Year. |
|
The London Gazette, published twice a week from No. 1578
(from Thursday, 30 Dec., to Monday, 3 Jan.) to No. 1682 (from
Thursday, 29 Dec., to Monday, 2 Jan., 1682). Nos. 1632 and 1681
are missing. |