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| June 8. |
Sir Philip Warwick to Edmund Sawyer. Col. Scott makes this
discovery. Pray judge whether it may not be a good service to be
instrumental in recovery. With list of sums received by various
Aldermen of York and statement that some of them pretended
they had paid the whole or part thereof. [Ibid. No. 48.] |
| [June] after the 18th. |
—— to the Earl of Winchelsea. Since my last of the 10th past
I have received divers of your letters and hope in future to be
more diligent in my returns, when I shall have found out a
convenience of sending, which I am now in hopes of by favour
of the Turkey merchants trading that way. |
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A Convocation of the clergy met here at the same time with
the Parliament and have continued without doing any thing
considerable save the renewing of the Canons, which they are now
upon. The Queen of Bohemia arrived here from Holland the
17th past. What stay she intends to make is not known. The
body of the late Marquess of Montrose was by order of the
Parliament of Scotland taken down and honourably interred at
Edinburgh and in its place by an eminent act of justice has been
since hanged up that of the Marquess of Argyle, who according
to sentence of Parliament was beheaded and his head ordered
to be set in the place where the Marquess of Montrose's had stood.
The like justice was executed on Giffen and Guthrie, a pair of old
incendiaries, this last being a seditious minister, and 'tis hoped
several others of that brotherhood may follow, in all which and
several other instances of loyalty and good affection to his
Majesty and his interest they continue our hopes of seeing a
happy settlement in that kingdom. |
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The Parliament here have omitted no occasion of showing their
zeal for his Majesty's service and the settlement of this nation as
well in Church as State, having ordered that devilish engine of
sedition, the Solemn League and Covenant, to be openly burnt
at the most public places of this city by the common hangman,
and that in a few days was followed by a rabble of its own spawn,
the Act for calling his late Majesty to his trial, the Engagement,
the Recognition of Cromwell and Instrument for setting up a
Commonwealth, etc., all which are attended with the applause and
general satisfaction of all good people and has been since ordered
by the Parliament of Ireland. |
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The 29th past, being the anniversary of his Majesty's nativity
and return to England, was this year celebrated with all imaginable
expressions of joy both in city and country. |
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The Parliament have now before them several very good bills,
one for the preservation of his Majesty's person, wherein it is
enacted and declared that whosoever for the future shall write or
speak in defence of the Covenant or otherwise any thing that may
tend to the alteration or disturbance of the present government
whether of Church or State shall incur a premunire. Another is
preparing concerning the settling of the militia, a third wherein
the nominating all mayors, recorders and town clerks is granted
to the King for one year, which will be of no small concernment
for the good of his service. That for the restoring the bishops
their ancient privilege of sitting in the Upper House has already
passed both Houses and only stays for the royal assent. |
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The Spanish Ambassador, notwithstanding his ruffling language
on his Majesty's declaring a resolution of matching with Portugal,
remains here still and things continue between us and that
crown at the same terms as they were; however his Majesty has
a particular eye on Dunkirk and has lately made Lord Rutherford,
a known soldier and a person of good worth, governor there.
Sir George Downing is sent into Holland to mediate in his
Majesty's name between the States and Portugal, to which five
of the Provinces seem much inclined, only Zeeland and Guelderland, whose more immediate concernments it is, stand off. The
Earl of Sandwich set sail with a fair wind the 18th instant for
the Straits with orders to require an exact observance of the
agreement formerly granted by those of Algiers to this nation
in the time of Cromwell or else to force them to it, his Majesty
thinking it but reasonable that his subjects should not sit down
with lower conditions under himself than they obtained under the
usurper. It is not yet resolved who shall go for the Queen
nor when. [Draft. 2½ pages. Ibid. No. 49.] |
| June 26. |
Receipt by Stephen Fox to Sir Thomas Player for 4,449l. 9s. 10d.
remaining unpaid of the 60,000l. borrowed of the City of London
payable to him by the Lord Treasurer's order of 7 June (calendared
in the Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. I, p. 251). [S.P. Supplementary 138, No. 17.] |
| June 29. |
Account by John Sealy, treasurer, of the cash relating to the
commissioners for the ejecting of scandalous ministers for
Somerset received between 19 Jan., 1655–6, and 3 Feb., 1659–60,
and of his disbursements. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 440, No. 50.] |
| [June ?] |
Note of warrants to John Cowper and Charles Porter and
others for several parcels of plate, money, etc., of the late tyrants,
to Augustine Brooke and Charles Porter for Col. Walton's goods,
to Charles Porter, Robert Cotta, Christopher Leech, John Baker,
Nathaniel Higgenson and John Wilson to search Mrs. Crisp's
for the goods and money of Peters and in the house of Josiah
Cole, and to Charles Porter, William Whitehead and Richard
Barrett to search for Love's goods in Pricky's (?) house. (The first
two are calendared in Cal. S.P. Dom., 1661–62, pp. 24, 27.)
[Ibid. No. 51.] |
