James II volume 1: December 1685

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James II, 1685. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1960.

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'James II volume 1: December 1685', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James II, 1685, (London, 1960) pp. 398-433. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/jas2/1685/pp398-433 [accessed 27 March 2024]

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December 1685

1977
Dec. 1.
The Earl of Sunderland to the Earl of Chesterfield. In pursuance of your letter I have made your excuse to the King that you did not attend at the last meeting of the Parliament. I have also acquainted him with your desire to quit your justiceship in Eyre, which he is pleased to allow of. I am sorry you have not employed me in something of another nature.
Entry Book 56, p. 303
1978
[? Dec. 1–4.]
The King to Sir Mark Milbancke, High Sheriff of Northumberland. Dispensation to repair to his mansion house in the county of York or to any place out of Northumberland as his occasions call him and to remain as long as shall be necessary.
Entry Book 70, p. 200
1979
Dec. 1.
The King to William Molyneux, son and heir of Caryll, Viscount Molyneux. Warrant, in the usual form, for preserving game within twenty miles of Croxteth.
Entry Book 70, p. 199
1980
Dec. 1.
Reference to the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, of the petition of Richard, Earl of Barrymore, showing that he is seised of the castle and manors of Shannon, which castle was by King Charles I used as a garrison for preserving the city of Cork in obedience, that he is ready to dispose of the castle for his Majesty's use and surrender the manor and become seneschal therein, and praying it may be referred to the Lord Lieutenant to satisfy his Majesty of what consequence the castle and manor may be to the Crown, what arrears of rent is due to him and what damage he sustained during the continuance of the garrison there, that order may be taken for his relief.
Entry Book 71, p. 209
1981
Dec. 1.
Reference to the Lord Treasurer of the petition of Sir John Bunce for payment of 900l. for which tallies were struck by his father some nine or ten years since upon the duty of French tonnage, which fund was not able to answer the same.
Ibid., p. 211
1982
Dec. 1.
Reference to the Lord Treasurer of the petition of Sir John Paul for payment of above 2600l. due to him as Resident in Denmark.
Ibid., p. 211
1983
Dec. 1.
Reference to the Lord Treasurer of the petition of Susanna Corbet, late servant to Mrs. Honora Harding, deceased, for payment of the arrears of Mrs. Harding's pension amounting to 2,100l.
Ibid., p. 211
1984
Dec. 1.
Reference to the Lord Treasurer of the petition of Michael Haddon for satisfaction for the damage he sustained by the exercising and encamping of soldiers in the meadow called Goswells near Windsor this last summer.
Ibid., p. 216
1985
Dec. 1.
Warrant to the Lieutenant of the Tower of London and the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex for deferring the execution of Charles Gerard, heretofore called Lord Brandon, until the King's further pleasure be known.
Entry Book 336, p. 287
1986
Dec. 1.
Warrant to the Attorney General to prepare a bill to pass the Great Seal containing a grant to the Master, Fellows and Scholars of St. Peter's College in the University of Cambridge, and their successors, to purchase, receive and take any manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments; and for authorizing the sale to them of any manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments not exceeding 600l. per annum, notwithstanding the statute of mortmain or any other law or statute. (See No. 1937 above.)
Ibid., p. 287
1987
Dec. 1.
The Earl of Rochester to the Prince of Orange. I acquainted the King with the receipt of your Highness's letter of the 4th instant as soon as I received it and with the proposition your Highness made on Colonel Macquay's behalf, which his Majesty hath taken some further time to consider of, and therefore directed me to defer giving your Highness any answer. However, I thought it my duty to give you this account that I might not seem negligent in your Highness's commands. The King hath a very good esteem of the gentleman as may be seen by the commission his Majesty gave him here and by his recommendation of him to your Highness for the like character in Holland and I doubt not but that his Majesty will in this or some other occasion let him see his kindness for him, and as soon as I shall receive his pleasure in this particular I shall acquaint your Highness with it and hope it will be to your satisfaction to which I would always contribute my most humble and faithful service. (fn. 1)
Holograph. King William's Chest I, part II, fos. 47–48.
1988
Dec. 1.
The King to the Prince of Orange assuring him of his continued efforts to secure satisfaction for the Prince in his dispute with the French in the Principality of Orange; also expressing regret for having to prorogue Parliament and giving the news that he had granted a reprieve to Lord Brandon. (fn. 2)
Holograph. King William's Chest 3, No. 165
1989
Dec. 3.
The Earl of Sunderland to Sir Courtney Poole, Sir Thomas Putt, Colonel Poole and Lieut.-Colonel Waldron, Justices of the Peace for Devon, or any one of them near Honiton, Devon. His Majesty being informed that a party of Lord Cornbury's troop and a party of Capt. Churchill's came lately from Honiton and Autrey, where they are quartered, to Culliton and there broke open the house of William Bird and carried away a parcel of bone-lace which cost him 325l. 17s. 9d. the making, as has been proved on oath, besides the damage done by breaking open his house, and frightening his wife and children to the danger of their lives; and intending that the offenders should be punished according to the utmost severity of the law and that full reparation should be made to Bird, he would have you or some of you repair to Culliton and strictly examine this fact and the persons accused and commit such of them to the county gaol as shall appear to be guilty, taking care that they may be proceeded against according to the law. He would also have you send up an account of the whole matter of what damages Bird has sustained.
The King has commanded Lord Cornbury to go down to Culliton to be present at the examination.
Entry Book 56, p. 303
1990
Dec. 3.
Grant of the petitions of Francis Burdett for a writ of error on a judgment obtained against him by John Proctor, jun., in the Court of Common Pleas in action of covenant broken and afterwards affirmed in the Court of King's Bench.
Entry Book 71, p. 212
1991
Dec. 3.
Warrant to Henry Howard, Commissary General of the Musters, his deputy or deputies, to allow and pass Sir William Clifton as colonel of a Regiment of Horse in the musters during his absence in France, where he has been given leave to go and remain for two months.
Entry Book 164, p. 284
1992
Dec. 3.
Warrant to Thomas Saywell, or any other messenger, to apprehend—Vaughan for seditious and scandalous words.
Entry Book 336, p. 288
1993
Dec. 3.
Like warrant for the apprehension of Bernard White and Robert Roberts, printers, for printing or causing to be printed part of a book entitled 'Baxter's Saints Everlasting Rest', without licence.
Ibid., p. 288
1994
Dec. 3.
Like warrant for apprehending diverse persons who carry about and disperse divers seditions, scandalous, and unlicensed books, pamphlets, pictures, and papers, to the endangering of the public peace.
Ibid., p. 288
1995
Dec. 3.
A like warrant in the same terms.
Ibid., p. 288
1996
Dec. 4.
The Earl of Sunderland to Mr. Cheek. His Majesty would have you permit Sir Hugh Tent to have access to and speak with Mr. Prideaux.
Entry Book 56, p. 305
1997
Dec. 4.
The King to the Attorney or Solicitor General. Warrant for a grant to Thomas Philips, of the office of the King's second engineer in the room of Major Martin Beckman, who has been made chief engineer, with all fees, profits, etc., as enjoyed by Major Beckman or any other.
Entry Book 69, p. 182
1998
Dec. 4.
The King to Sir Thomas Duppa, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. Warrant, after reciting the warrant of March 31 as to the payment of fees of honour (see No. 477 above), to excuse William Rooke, upon whom the honour of knighthood has been conferred as a mark of satisfaction in his long and faithful services to the King, his father and his brother, from paying those fees.
Entry Book 70, p. 201
1999
Dec. 4.
The King to the Earl of Winchilsea. Warrant for the better preservation of game in the county of Kent, similar in form and import to that directed to William Molyneux on Dec. 1. (See No. 1979 above.)
Ibid., p. 202
2000
Dec. 4.
The King to Philip, Earl of Chesterfield, and Sir William Stanhope, Ranger of [Thorny Woods] Chace. Although we doubt not of your care and best endeavours for the preservation of our game within our chace of Thorny Woods, being within your charge and custody, yet notwithstanding that there be divers purlieus and certain other precincts and coverts near adjoining, wherein our deer sometimes feed and are killed, whereby our game is both disquieted and destroyed, we hereby give you and your underkeepers and assignees authority to rechase and hunt back again into our said chace the deer in these purlieus, precincts and coverts, and to shoot at and kill any dogs suspiciously taken or found trespassing to the disquieting of our game. And we further authorise you to search the houses of all such as you shall suspect to be malefactors and disturbers of our game and to take from them all such nets, buckstalls, guns, cross-bows or other engines as you shall have cause to suspect are kept for the destruction and disquiet of the deer. Willing and requiring all [municipal] officers to be aiding and assisting herein.
Entry Book 70, p. 203
2001
Dec. 4.
The Lord Treasurer's report on the petition of Capt. Alexander Makenny and the other officers of the troop of horse late in Tangier under his command to the late King. (See Cal. of Treasury Books, 1685–9, Vol. VIII, part 1, pp. 407–408.) Treasury Chamber, Nov. 9, 1685.
To be transmitted back to the Lord Treasurer to give the requisite order therein, the King approving of the report.
Entry Book 71, p. 212
2002
Dec. 4.
Reference to the Attorney General of the petition of Charles Clotterbooke and James Pawlett, whom the King is disposed to gratify, for a grant of the hay market near Charing Cross with the tolls and profits thereof for 31 years, under a condition of paving and cleansing that street.
Ibid., p. 215
2003
Dec. 4.
Warrant to George, Lord Dartmouth, Master General of the Ordnance, after reciting that by the death of Sir Bernard de Gomme, late Surveyor of the Ordnance, the important business of that place in this present conjuncture will require more than ordinary assiduity and attendance, immediately to admit James Rothwell to be assistant to the Surveyor of the Ordnance with power to be present at all councils and meetings, to attest and allow bills and to sign debentures and to do all other things to the place belonging in as full and ample manner as the Surveyor himself, with the yearly salary of 250l. to be paid quarterly by bill and debenture out of the treasury of the Ordnance Office commencing from Christmas day next.
Entry Book 164, p. 283
2004
Dec. 4.
Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General to prepare a bill to pass the Great Seal containing a grant to Richard, Viscount Preston, of the office of Keeper of the Great Wardrobe, together with the yearly allowance of 2,200l. for himself and 200l. for his deputy, to be paid from the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel last past.
Entry Book 336, p. 289
2005
Dec. 5.
The King to the Clerk of the Signet attending. Warrant for a grant to William Levett, d.d., of the place of Dean of Bristol void by the death of Dr. Richard Thompson.
Entry Book 57, p. 115
2006
Dec. 5.
Reference to the Lord Treasurer of the petition of Joseph Rawson of Aylesbury, whom the King, being well satisfied with his loyalty and good services, is disposed to gratify, for payment of near 2,000l. mentioned in an Order in Council of the late King to redeem him from poverty, which nothing but loyalty has brought upon him, or else to give him some office or employment.
Entry Book 71, p. 215
2007
Dec. 5.
Grant of the dignity of a Baronet of England to George Davies, Consul at Naples, and to the heirs male of his body.
Entry Book 336, p. 289
2008
Dec. 5.
The Earl of Sunderland to Henry Kitson, messenger. Warrant-after reciting that information has been given that James Henry, a Scotchman, who stands accused of high crimes and misdemeanours, has lately broke prison in Scotland and is fled into England-for the apprehension of the said Henry and for bringing him before the Earl for examination.
Ibid., p. 290
2009
Dec. 5.
Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General to prepare a bill to pass the Great Seal containing a pardon to Edward Whitehead, late of Bridgewater, for high treason, with a clause obliging him to find very good security for his good behaviour and such other clauses as are usual and requisite.
Ibid., pp. 290–291
2010
Dec. 5.
Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General to prepare a bill to pass the Great Seal for incorporating the burgesses and inhabitants of Reading, co. Berks., by such name and in such manner as they were incorporated by former letters patent.
Annexed:—
Paper of heads. That it be incorporated by the name of Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses and that it consist of a Mayor, twelve Aldermen, and twelve Assistants.
Henry, Earl of Clarendon to be High Steward; Richard Johnson, Mayor; Thomas Coates, John Blake, Giles Pocock, George Goswell, Thomas Harrison, Henry Head, David Webb, Francis Terrell, sen., John Thorne, sen., Richard Lambden, Giles Hinton, Henry Paine, Aldermen; Sir Thomas Holt, Serjeant at Law, to be Recorder there as now he is; Wm. Wilder, Francis Terrell, jun., John Saunders, Wm. Whistler, Thomas Jemmat, John Thorne, jun., Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Reeves, Thomas Terrell, Wm. Wilder, jun., Assistants; David Webb and John Saunders, Chamberlains; Richard Grover, Town Clerk and Coroner.
Sir Thomas Holt to be one of the Justices of the Peace.
That there be four Attornies and three Serjeants at Mace.
The day of electing a new Mayor to be on the first Monday in August (as it is now the last) and to be sworn on the first Monday in September yearly.
The electing and swearing of Chamberlains to be on the same days.
The last Mayor to be yearly sworn on the first Monday in September a Justice of Peace there for one year.
The Mayor to choose an Alderman, who has been Mayor, to be his deputy.
The four Fairs to be continued and kept in the Forbery as now they are.
Servants to be hired on St. Matthew's Fair, there being a Fair already thereupon.
The jurisdiction of the Court of Peace there to bear any sum of money not exceeding twenty pounds, it being now ten pounds.
The Mayor and Aldermen empowered to end any action brought for any sum of money not exceeding ten shillings, it being now five shillings.
That there be seven Justices of the Peace-Mayor, Recorder, last Mayor, two senior Aldermen, the Bishop of Sarum and his Chancellor.
The King empowered to remove officers.
Ibid., pp. 291–293
2011
Dec. 5.
Pardon to Robert West of all treasons, etc., committed before December 5.
Ibid., p. 293
2012
Dec. 5.
Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General to prepare a bill to pass the Great Seal containing a grant to Charles, Marquess of Worcester, of the offices of Keeper of the Gawle above and under the wood within the Forest of Dean, co. Gloucester, and of one of the Riding Foresters and Alecunner within the said forest. To have, hold, and enjoy the said offices in as full a manner as William Wolseley or any other former holder.
Ibid., p. 294
2013
Dec. 5.
The Council Chamber, Dublin.
The Lords Justices and Council of Ireland to the Earl of Sunderland. Upon information given to us the Justices of the printing and uttering of a false and scandalous paper entitled 'A Narrative of the Settlement and Sale of Ireland' and said to be printed by one Ray and sold by one Weston we immediately gave order for apprehending the persons and seizing those books; the persons were taken into custody but of the books there could be but six found, and the matter being examined before a Committee of the Board there did not appear anything against the printer, so as it was thought to dismiss him; but Mr. Weston, the book-seller, confessing his sale of them, and that he had them from his correspondent one Wm. Grantham, a book-seller in Cock-pitt-Ally, London, and had sold and uttered them here as by the enclosed copy of his examination appears, we at present ordered security to be taken of him for his appearance upon three days' warning until a course be taken for further proceedings against him according to law. The printing and spreading of such false and scandalous pamphlets are occasion of much [inconvenience] and disturbance to the peace and quiet of the Kingdom, which we shall, as far as we can, endeavour to prevent. And lest your Lordship may not readily come by one of those pamphlets we send you a printed copy here enclosed, and do desire your Lordship will take an opportunity humbly to offer this matter to his Majesty to whose excellent judgment we humbly submit the same.
S.P. Ireland 351, fo. 89
2014
Dec. 5.
Dublin Castle.
The Lords Justices of Ireland to the Earl of Sunderland. The time limited by a late proclamation issued for putting the arms of the militia of this Kingdom into his Majesty's stores being expired we find as well by the Clerk of the Stores in Dublin as by intimation from several other parts that in obedience to the said proclamation very many of the officers of the militia have returned the arms of their troops and companies, a more particular account whereof we daily expect from the storekeepers in the several provinces; and now that those arms are thus delivered we hold it necessary to inform your Lordship that we took in the arms of all militia-men promiscuously without distinction of persons and that a great number of his Majesty's subjects (amongst whom we presume there are very many well affected to his Majesty and government) who for want of their arms may be exposed to the hazard of being robbed and despoiled of their goods if not deprived of their lives by evil disposed persons, who have taken this opportunity to turn Tories in much greater numbers than usual and rob and spoil the poor inhabitants in the country most barbarously and to their utter ruin; and also his Majesty's army are placed in several convenient garrisons and quarters and are ordered to a strict duty for the safety and protection of his Majesty's good subjects from the rapine of such evil persons, yet we fear it will not lie in the power of the army to prevent the mischiefs that may be done in the highways and in the houses and holdings of particular persons who inhabit at any distance from those garrisons and quarters; but we humbly conceive if some particular men concerned in their own safety and preservation (and thought fit by the Government to be trusted) were permitted to have arms they would be able to defend themselves not only from all rebels and Tories, but be in a posture to pursue and prosecute them and bring them to justice, who are now in a posture only to look on and see their neighbours plundered, being in no condition to help others or defend themselves, their arms being delivered up as aforesaid. And this we humbly suppose may be done without the least insecurity to his Majesty's service in the Government of this Kingdom, and being a matter of great importance and for the safety and preservation of his Majesty's subjects we have thought it our duty to represent the same to your Lordship and desire that you will be pleased to take an opportunity humbly to offer the same to his Majesty's consideration that such orders and directions may be given therein as his Majesty in his high wisdom shall think fit.
Ibid., fo. 91
2015
Dec. 6.
Dispensations in the usual form for Richard Milton, High Sheriff of Salop, and David Morris, High Sheriff of the county of Montgomery, to be out of their counties. Minutes.
Entry Book 70, p. 204
2016
Dec. 6.
Commission to Thomas Jones, to be adjutant of the Regiment of Horse commanded by Major-General Robert Werden. Minute.
Entry Book 164, p. 284
2017
Dec. 7
[The Earl of Middleton] to Joseph Harvey, serjeant-at-arms, Hugh Butler of Exeter, and Thomas Atterbury, messenger. Warrant, on information that — Speed, late of Tiverton, Devon, and — Speed, his son, were in arms in the late rebellion in the West, to search for, seize and apprehend them and bring them before the Earl.
Entry Book 54, p. 329
2018
Dec. 7.
The Earl of Sunderland to Mr. Cheek. His Majesty would have you permit the Earl of Stamford to have the liberty of walking in the Tower at convenient hours, having the Gentleman Porter or some other guard with him.
His Majesty having permitted Col. Rumsey to write a letter to the Earl, I enclose it that you may deliver it and send me Lord Stamford's answer.
Entry Book 56, p. 305
2019
Dec. 7.
The Earl of Sunderland to the Duke of Somerset. The King being informed that about twelve miles from Taunton and thirteen from Wells, at a parish called Worrell, a great meeting of fanatics is kept every Sunday and that several of them are armed to the great endangering of peace and in manifest contempt of the law, he would have you direct some of the adjacent Deputy Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace to examine into the matter and apprehend and prosecute the offenders with all severity. The King's troops in those parts have orders to assist upon this or any like occasion.
Ibid., p. 306
2020
Dec. 7.
Presentation of Thomas Holbech, clerk, to the rectory of Holdenby, Northants., in the diocese of Peterburgh, void by the death of Nicholas Trench, the last incumbent. Minute.
Entry Book 57, p. 115
2021
Dec. 7.
Reference to the Attorney General of the petition of Henry Owen to be admitted to bail.
Entry Book 71, p. 216
2022
Dec. 7.
Reference to the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, of the petition of Christopher Russell, son of George Russell, late of Killough, representing the loyalty and sufferings of his father in the late times and praying a grant to himself and his heirs of 42 acres, part of the town and lands of Killough now vested in his Majesty as regicides' land and held by Sir Robert Ward, who has not taken out any lease, and to give some employment in Ireland in recompense of his father's suffering and for support of himself, his wife and children, who are in a starving condition.
Ibid., p. 216
2023
Dec. 7.
Approbation of Robert Davis to be Deputy Lieutenant of the counties of Denbigh and Flint and of Sir William Poole and John Romsey to be Deputy Lieutenant of the city and county of Bristol.
Entry Book 164, p. 285
2024
Dec. 7.
Grant of the dignity of a Baronet to Paul Jenkinson of Walton, co. Derby, and to the heirs male of his body.
Entry Book 336, p. 294
2025
Dec. 7.
Pardon to John Pacy of all treasons, etc., committed before December 5.
Ibid., p. 294
2026
Dec. 7.
Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General to prepare a bill to pass the Great Seal containing a commission for authorizing Robert, Viscount Teviot, Robert Philips, and — Evelyn, or any two of them, to execute the office of Keeper of the Privy Seal in the absence of Henry, Earl of Clarendon.
Ibid., p. 295
2027
Dec. 8.
Reference to the Lord Treasurer of the petition of William Tyack for the office of Escheator of the Leeward Islands.
Entry Book 71, p. 217
2028
Dec. 8.
Warrant to Henry Howard, Commissary General of the Musters, his deputy or deputies, to allow and pass Stephen Piper as ensign of Capt. Fox's company in the Queen's Regiment in the musters during his absence abroad, he being employed in the King's service with Roger, Earl of Castlemaine, who has been appointed Ambassador Extraordinary at Rome.
Entry Book 164, p. 285
2029
Dec. 8.
Warrant to the Recorder of London and all others whom it may concern, to insert Kathleen Browne, a prisoner in Newgate, condemned for concealing the murder of her bastard child, in the next general pardon without any condition of transportation.
Entry Book 336, p. 295
2030
Dec. 8.
Warrant signifying the King's pleasure that the new Charter of Reading should pass the respective offices without paying fees.
Ibid., p. 295
2031
Dec. 9.
Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General-after reciting that Nicholas Dupin, Adam de Cardonel, Elias de Gruchy, Marin Regnault, James de May, and Robert Shales having been encouraged to improve the art of making all sorts of writing and printing paper, and to imprint the Royal Arms on such paper, have lately brought excellent workmen from France and have set up several newly invented mills and engines and engaged French artificers to instruct English persons in the said art; and having been at vast charges have now petitioned for the grant of letters patent for the sole exercise of the said art-to prepare a bill to pass the Great Seal containing a grant of a licence to the said persons for the sole use and exercise of their art for a term of fourteen years.
Entry Book 336, p. 296
2032
Dec. 9.
Warrant to the Recorder of London and all others whom it may concern, to insert John Spencer, a prisoner in Newgate, sentenced to death for being an accessory in stealing some goods, in the next general pardon, without any condition of transportation.
Ibid., p. 297
2033
Dec. 10.
Reference to the Committee for Trade and Plantations of the petition of Edward Plampin of London, showing that as administrator to Mr. John Bagnall he is entitled to a debt of 5,000[l.] by bond from Mr. Edmund Scarborough, deceased, which he is able to prove, but the executors being powerful in Virginia he cannot bring it to a trial, and praying letters to the Governor that the same may be speedily tried and justice done him.
Entry Book 71, p. 217
2034
Dec. 10.
The Lord Treasurer's report on the petition, referred to him on Feb. 17 past, of Bartholomew Price, administrator to Col. Herbert Jeffryes, late Lieut.-Governor and Commander in Chief of Virginia. (See Cal. of Treasury Books, 1685–9, Vol. VIII, part 1, pp. 474–475.) Treasury Chamber, Dec. 7, 1685.
To be transmitted back to the Lord Treasurer to give the order necessary for the petitioner's satisfaction.
Ibid., p. 218
2035
Dec. 10.
Reference to the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, of the petition of Sir James Graham showing that John Bramhall, late Lord Primate of Ireland, purchased 64 acres of course lands in Clancurr in Meath of the yearly value of 8l., that Sir Thomas Bramhall, his son and heir omitting to claim them in the late Court of Claims they were decreed to his Majesty, whose agents were admitted to waive them as incumbered lands and obtained a reprize for them, whereupon Sir Thomas Bramhall obtained a decree certificate and letters patent of the lands, and that his Majesty's now commissioners and agents finding them in his Majesty's patent demand them from the petitioner, who married one of the coheirs of the Lord Primate and Sir Thomas and is in possession thereof, and praying his Majesty to direct his agents to waive the said lands.
Ibid., p. 221
2036
Dec. 11.
Order in Council referring the annexed petition to the Committee for Trade and Plantations.
Annexed:—
The Merchants trading to Portugal to the King. Petition, shewing that Consul Maynard lately coming from Lisbon in order to the renewing his patent and understanding the petitioners intended to seek relief in some particulars contained therein, he applied to them and to prevent them entering a caveat assured them that some clauses should be inserted and others altered in the patent, but that contrary to his promise he had procured it to be passed without any alteration; and praying that a day may be appointed when the petitioner and the Consul may be heard. (Sgd.) Robt. Stepney, James Rudge, Willm. des Bouverie, John Lordell, Joseph Herne, Edw. des Bouverie, Isaac Jurin, [?]re. Houblon, Is. Deliller, Wm. Jacomb, Abraham Tillard, Avyn Aeworth, Jos. Cox, John Milbanke, Tho. Goddard, James Denew, James Ducane, John Gardner, Edward Ruge, Wm. Cranmer, William Clarke, William Robinson, Peter Houblon, An. Dune, Richard March, John Houblon, Sam. Lethieullier, Mathew Carleton, Jacob Delillers, Abraham Lethieullier, A. Houblon, John Lloyd, Thomas Gill, Samuel Boulteel, Wm. Lethieulliers. Endorsed as received Dec. 11 and read Dec. 22, 1685.
True copy. S.P. Dom., Jas. II, 5, pp. 10, 11
2037
[After Dec. 11.]
The Merchants trading to Portugal to the King. A counter-petition to the foregoing, setting forth that Thomas Maynard has faithfully served as Consul General in Portugal for thirty years and more and praying that he may be continued therein without any alterations in his patent. (Sgd.) George Ford, Simon Cole, Charles Spencer, Dan Perrott, William Bird, John Wilford, William Gunn, John Pollexfen, Samuel Lockly, William Bird, jun., John Clark, John Stone, Stephen Bearcroft, Allen Auworth, Thomas Brailsford, Giles Ainsworth, John Newton, Joseph Henchman, Nicholas Travanion, Robt. Castele, Samuel Peter, Samuel Eyre.
On the same sheet a certificate from English merchants residing in Lisbon in Maynard's favour. (Sgd.) Ri. Buller, Peter Bulteel, Wm. Bathurst, Joseph Hardwick, Tho. March, Wm. Bird, John Hickes, jun., Robt. Sislingham, Peter Nepnen, John Aclibear, Wm. Brooks, John Hicks, sen., John Leduke, Wm. Sangford, Edward Gardner, Joseph Gulston, Robt. Dowding, John Person, Nath. Mozley, Henry Rouse, Joseph Whetham, John Earl, Tho. Farrington, Tho. Thornton, Wm. Raphe, Dan. Denny, Rob. Stuckey, Henry Jacob, Rob. Northleigh, Hen. Honywood.
Copy. Ibid., p. 19
2038
Dec. 11.
Commission to Thomas Love, jun., to be second lieutenant to the company of grenadiers employed in the castle of Tynemouth whereof Henry Villiers is captain. Minute.
Entry Book 69, p. 183
2039
Dec. 12.
The Earl of Sunderland to the Mayor and Aldermen of Coventry. I have represented your letter of the 14th, together with a copy of a seditious newspaper and two informations taken by you relating to it, to his Majesty, who very well approves of your zeal in preventing the ill consequences of such false and seditious reports. He recommends you further to proceed against all persons concerned in the newspaper as the law directs.
Entry Book 56, p. 307
2040
Dec. 12.
Reference to the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, of the petition of Helen Dempsy alias Macartie for an allowance of 80l. per annum out of the revenue of Ireland promised her by the late King.
Entry Book 71, p. 217
2041
Dec. 12.
Reference to the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, of the petition of Valentine Russell to be admitted tenant in reversion of about 307 acres in Rathmoylin, Ballylucas, Ilandbane and Ballyplunt in the barony of Lecale, part of the ancient estate of his family, who suffered much for their loyalty.
Ibid., p. 218
2042
Dec. 12.
The Earl of Sunderland to the Lords Justices of Ireland. I have yours of the 4th and your Grace's of the 14th, and with the former the returns from the colonels of the officers in their respective regiments, and also the copy of a letter from the Mayor of Cork, with some examinations of two persons suspected to have been in the late rebellion in the West, which I have put into Mr. Attorney's hands that he may give his Majesty an account whether there be any information against them.
The Lord Lieutenant has fixed upon Wednesday next to begin his journey for Ireland.
S.P. Ireland 340, p. 128
2043
Dec. 13.
Warrant to Thomas Charnock, Serjeant at Arms, to apprehend Henry, Lord Delamere, indicted of high treason, and carry him to the Tower of London.
Entry Book 336, p. 297
2044
Dec. 13.
Warrant to the Lieutenant of the Tower of London to receive into custody Henry, Lord Delamere.
Ibid., p. 298
2045
Dec. 13.
Warrant to the Keeper of Newgate to permit Mr. Hambden to see his wife, his father, and Sir William Ellis without the presence of a keeper.
Ibid., p. 298
2046
Dec. 13.
Warrant to the same to permit Mrs. Hambden and Mr. Webb to have access to Mr. Hambden without the presence of a keeper.
Ibid., p. 298
2047
Dec. 14.
The Earl of Sunderland to Mr. Cheek. His Majesty would have you permit Lady Delamere to be with her husband in the Tower.
Entry Book 56, p. 307
2048
Dec. 14.
The Earl of Sunderland to Mr. Cheek. His Majesty would have you permit Mr. Edmund Prideaux to have access to and speak with Mr. Prideaux in the presence of a keeper.
Ibid., p. 307
2049
Dec. 14.
Grant to John Younger, D.D., one of the chaplains to the Princess Anne of Denmark, of the place of a prebendary of Canterbury, void by the death of Dr. John Bradford. Minute.
Entry Book 57, p. 115
2050
Dec. 14.
Grant of denization in the usual form to Richard Boevey, son of John Boevey, an infant, with a proviso that the letters patent shall be void if he should fail to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy within six months of attaining sixteen years of age.
Entry Book 336, p. 299
2051
Dec. 15.
The Earl of Sunderland to Sir Henry Brabant. His Majesty having signified to you and the Aldermen of Newcastle his pleasure for the choice of a new Common Council, thinks it will be for his service and the good of the town that Mr. Nicholas Cole, Mr. Henry Jennison, Mr. Thomas Bewick, Mr. Ralph Gray, Mr. Robert Fenwick, Mr. James Carre, Mr. Matthew Matfin, Mr. William Hall, Mr. Robert Wetwang, Mr. Edward Todd, Mr. Christopher Shadford, Mr. Matthew Blunt, Mr. John Squire, Mr. Nicholas Ridley, Mr. John Rumney, Mr. William Proctor, Mr. William Ramsey, Mr. Matthew White, Mr. Benjamin Davison, Mr. Humphrey Pibus, Mr. Thomas Wasse, Mr. Thomas Dobson, Mr. Anthony Spensly and Mr. Thomas Mitford be chosen, and therefore recommends you to take care that they be chosen accordingly, wherein he doubts not of your compliance.
Entry Book 56, p. 308
2052
Dec. 15.
Reference to the Lord Treasurer of the petition of Andrew Cockayne showing that he was yeoman rider of the hunting horses and governor of the running horses at Newmarket, which places have been given to another, that having built a house at Newmarket Sir Stephen Fox by the late King's command agreed with him for it for 300l., which was never paid, only interest out of the Cofferer's Office, and that there are due to him for arrears and purchase money above 1,000l., and praying relief and a pension.
Entry Book 71, p. 220
2053
Dec. 15.
Commissions to Hugh O'Connor to be captain of the troop whereof Charles, Earl of Manchester, was captain; to William Barlow to be captain-lieutenant of the colonel's troop, and to John Scott to be cornet, all in the Regiment of Horse commanded by the Earl of Peterborough. Minutes.
Entry Book 164, p. 286
2054
Dec. 15.
Pardon to Wm. Buckler, mercer, of all treasons, etc., committed before Dec. 5.
Entry Book 336, p. 299
2055
Dec. 15.
The Earl of Sunderland to —. Warrant for apprehending Wm. Grantham, book-seller in Cock-pit Alley in London, for printing or dispersing a scandalous pamphlet entitled 'A Narrative of the Settlement and Sale of Ireland', and for seizing the copies of the said pamphlet and bringing them before the Earl or Sir Roger L'Estrange.
Ibid., p. 299
2056
Dec. 15.
Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General - after reciting that the Ministers, Church Wardens and Congregation of the French Church at the Savoy have represented that their Chapel is too small and that they have obtained the consent of the master of the Savoy and the Surveyor General of the Works to its enlargement - to prepare a bill to pass the Great Seal containing a grant for the enlargement of the said Church or Chapel according to such draft as is made thereof by the Surveyor General.
Ibid., pp. 300–301
2057
Dec. 16.
Commissions to Thomas St. Lo, clerk, to be chaplain of the Royal Regiment of Dragoons; to Edmund Wilson to be captain of the company in the Royal Regiment of Fuzileers whereof Capt. Charles Fitzwilliams was captain; to John Coye to be lieut. colonel of the Regiment of Horse commanded by the Earl of Shrewsbury and captain of a troop therein; to Alan Bellingham to be captain of the troop in the Regiment of Horse commanded by Major-General Robert Werden whereof Robert, Lord Willoughby was captain; to Henry Luttrell to be captain of the company in the Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Foot whereof Capt. John Coke was captain; to Sir Michael Wentworth to be captain of the troop in the Regiment of Horse commanded by the Earl of Peterborough whereof Capt. Richard Bertie was captain; to Major John Skelton to be major of the Regiment of Horse commanded by the Earl of Shrewsbury; to William Stuart to be captain of the company whereof Capt. Skelton was captain in the first Regiment of Foot Guards; to Anthony Heyford to be lieut.-colonel of the Royal Regiment of Dragoons and captain of a troop therein; and to Patrick Sarsfield to be captain of the troop in the Regiment of Horse commanded by Lord Dover whereof Capt. Henry Bertie [was captain], with a marginal note that the commission was not taken out. Minutes.
Entry Book 164, pp. 285–287, 289, 292–294
2058
Dec. 16.
Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General to prepare a bill to pass the Great Seal determining the grant lately made to Charles Fox of the office of Paymaster of the Forces and for granting the same to Richard, Earl of Ranelagh.
Entry Book 336, p. 300
2059
Dec. 16.
Warrant to the Keeper of Newgate to discharge and set at liberty William Williams, committed to custody for high treason on October 25. (See No. 1812 above.)
Ibid., p. 301
2060
Dec. 17.
The Earl of Sunderland to Mr. Cheek. Being informed that Mr. Prideaux is much indisposed and desires to be let blood, and his Majesty being gone a-hunting so that I cannot acquaint him therewith till the evening, I think it would be convenient you should permit Mrs. Prideaux and Mrs. Slaughter to have access to Mr. Prideaux in the presence of a keeper, in order to his being let blood if it shall be necessary.
Entry Book 56, p. 308
2061
Dec. 18.
The Earl of Middleton. It is his Majesty's pleasure that Mary Allet, now prisoner in the Marshalsea, be discharged, and that Mr. Lowman, keeper of the prison, carry her before any Justice of the Peace to take her recognizance for appearing when his Majesty's service shall require.
Entry Book 54, p. 330
2062
Dec. 18.
Lord Middleton's warrant to search for, seize and apprehend — Noble convicted of high treason in Ireland and lately fled into this kingdom and to bring him before his Lordship. Minute. To whom the warrant is directed is omitted.
Ibid., p. 330
2063
Dec. 18.
Dispensation in the usual form for Nicholas Jones, High Sheriff of the county of Monmouth, to repair into the county of Hereford where his mansion house is, or any other parts out of the county of Monmouth. Minute.
Entry Book 70, p. 206
2064
Dec. 18.
Reference to the Attorney or Solicitor General of the petition of the Bailiffs, Burgesses and Commonalty of Tewkesbury for a new charter.
Entry Book 71, p. 221
2065
Dec. 18.
Like references of the petitions of Brecon and Carmarthen. Minutes.
Ibid., p. 221
2066
Dec. 18.
Reference to the Lord Treasurer of the petition of Capt. Richard Fowler, whom the King is disposed to gratify, for the forfeiture of a recognizance of 100l. entered by Roger Howard for the appearance of six bargemen at the general quarter sessions for Berks., where none of them came.
Ibid., p. 222
2067
Dec. 18.
Warrant to the Keeper of Newgate to permit Mr. Hambden's mother and sister to have access to him without the presence of a keeper.
Entry Book 336, p. 301
2068
Dec. 18.
Warrant to the same to receive into custody Robert Cragg for high treason.
Ibid., p. 302
2069
Dec. 18.
Warrant to the Attorney General to prepare a bill to pass the Great Seal containing a grant to Charles Clutterbook and James Paulett of all that market called the Haymarkett in or near Piccadilly in the parishes of St. Martin in the Fields and St. James, to be held in a place there between the denter or midway leading from Panton Street to the channels of Norris Street, and from there down to the messuage or tenement known by the sign of the Unicorn in the occupation of Robert Newington, victualler, and cross the said street there to the house in the occupation of Batton Sadler, with the usual toll of sixpence for every load of hay etc., and threepence for every load of straw, and all other tolls and profits belonging to the said market. To have and hold the same for a term of 31 years at a rent of 6s. 8d. per annum, giving good security to pave and cleanse the said market, with a clause that no horses belonging to carts other than the Miller shall stand or be fed in the market and that none of the carts shall stand longer in the market than the hour of three between the feast of St. Michael the Archangel and the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and longer than the hour of four between the said feast of the Purification and the said feast of St. Michael.
Ibid., pp. 302–303
2070
Dec. 18.
The King to the Prince of Orange. Before the last post went I received yours of the 18 (N.S.), but had not then time to let you know it. I have now but little news to write there being none of any consequence stirring amongst us. The Venetian Ambassadors had their audience this day before Council, from whence I am but just now come. It being supper time I have not time to write before it come so that I must end which I do with assuring you of being still as kind as you can desire.
Holograph. King William's Chest 3, No. 166
2071
Dec. 18.
Warrant to the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to cause letters patent to be passed for granting to William, Viscount Dongan of Claine, in consideration of the many good and acceptable services to the King and his father and brother performed by him and his family, the dignity of an Earl of Ireland by the title of the Earl of Limerick, with the fee of 20l. per annum payable out of the revenue of Ireland, with remainder, in default of heirs male of his body, to Col. Thomas Dongan his brother and the heirs male of his body and in default thereof to John Dongan his cousin german and the heirs male of his body.
Signet Office, Irish Letter Book 12, p. 28
2072
Dec. 18.
Dublin.
Colonel Fairfax to the Earl of Sunderland. Sir Nicholas Armorer, a captain in my Regiment, being very aged and infirm has made it his request to me that he may resign his company to one Mr. Walter Buttler a gentleman who I have known these many years to be very zealous for his Majesty's service. My Lord of Tyrconnell knows him very well and will give your Lordships an account of him. Therefore I humbly beg of your Lordship to move the King in the matter.
S.P. Ireland 351, fo. 93
2073
Dec. 19.
Newcastle.
Sir Henry Brabant, Mayor, to [the Earl of Sunderland]. Last night's post brought me very surprising news in a letter subscribed by Sir [Nathaniel] Johnson and Sir Wm. Blacket, whereof enclosed is a copy.
Against my being elected Mayor I made it my study to make up a Common Council of men not only loyal to the King and Government but also descended from such persons as signalized themselves as such; yet they were no sooner named than they were opposed by a contrary party, who brought in a set of men quite otherwise affected and in front of them one who subscribed to the death of King Charles I. Upon this I addressed his Majesty, who signified his pleasure that the Common Council I named should be chosen, confirmed and sworn, which was accordingly done; so I hope his Majesty will not suffer a disgrace to be put upon me and so many good men before we have a hearing and know what is said to our charge to deserve his Majesty's displeasure in so high a degree. We implore that the present Common Council may stand until both parties be fairly heard before his Majesty in Council.
S.P. Dom., Jas. II, 1, No. 150 and a signed copy, No. 149
Enclosed:—
Sir William Blackett and Sir N[athaniel] Johnson to Sir Henry Brabant, Mayor, and the rest of the Aldermen in Newcastle. We have this night heard from the Earl of Sunderland that it is his Majesty's pleasure that the present Common Council of Newcastle be laid aside and that you proceed to an election according to the custom and charter of the town. Sir William Blackett is to bring down his Majesty's express commands in writing.
Ibid., No. 150 and a copy, No. 149a
2074
[Dec. 19.]
Sir Henry Brabant, Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne, to the King. Petition, after setting forth the grievances attended to in the foregoing letter, that the Common Council elected by the petitioner may continue, or that they and he may be heard before his Majesty in Council.
Ibid., No. 150b
2075
[Dec. 19.]
Some observations touching the difference betwixt Sir Henry Brabant, Mayor, and the Aldermen of Newcastle about the electing of Common Council men.
1. It seems to require a reason from the Mayor's adversaries, why they seek to debar him from the privilege of naming his own Common Council, which has been used by all preceding mayors since the Restoration.
2. Since the Mayor's adversaries know that the present Common Council are all men of undoubted loyalty and the most substantial inhabitants, and have been once approved by his Majesty, why so much labour and industry to have them changed ?
3. The Mayor affirms that the present Common Council were elected according to the Charter, viz. by the consent and approbation of the electors upon the Mayor's nomination, except this only difference that such consent and approbation was not obtained until the King's pleasure was signified.
4. Admitting there was any irregularity in the election, the same is sufficiently helped by the Aldermen having joined with the Mayor and Common Council in making and passing several orders, and thereby owned them for lawful Common Council men; and then the rule in law seems just in this case: Quod fieri non debet factum valet.
5. The present Common Council (upon notice of the King's approbation) were sworn to serve for the year ensuing and have taken the Test and Oaths by law enjoined.
6. The Mayor's adversaries who were concerned in the surrender of their late Charter, have not dealt fairly with the Crown in the matter of that Charter, for though it was intended that the power of putting out and displacing all the governing officers in the Corporation should be reserved to the King, yet in the passing of the new Charter they have left out the Common Council men, who (having command of the town's purse) are the most material governors, and if the electors shall ever happen to choose a factious mayor they will certainly at the same time choose a factious Common Council, and though the King may in such case displace the Mayor yet there is no power left the King by the Charter to displace the Common Council, and since the Mayor can act nothing to any purpose without the concurrence of the Common Council, there will not be a loyal man found to serve for mayor when the Common Council is factious, and so there is like to be a factious mayor or no mayor at all.
7. If it be thought fit to halve the present difference, the Common Council consists of 36 in number, and then it seems equal the Mayor should have the nomination of 18 or 17 at the least. Endorsed, Sir Henry Brabant's reasons for his Common Council.
Ibid., No. 150c
2076
Dec. 19.
The King to the Attorney General. Warrant, on his petition, for a nolle prosequi in the cause of Thomas Cullpeper, who at the sessions held for the verge of the Palace of Westminster on July 20 last past was convicted of an assault on William, Earl of Devonshire, and sentenced to have his right hand cut off, to pay a fine of 1,000l. and to suffer imprisonment during his life.
Entry Book 54, p. 331
2077
Dec. 19.
The Earl of Sunderland to Mr. Cheek. I have received a letter from you this morning giving me an account that Mr. Prideaux is very ill and that his wife and one Mr. Slater desire to come to him from time to time to look after him, which I think is but requisite and therefore you may admit them in the presence of a keeper.
Entry Book 56, p. 309
2078
Dec. 19.
The King to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Warrant to grant a dispensation to Francis Rogers, clerk, rector of Yatsbury, Wilts., in the diocese of Sarum, to hold the said rectory with the rectory of Kirkby Overblow in the county and diocese of York, notwithstanding they are without distance.
Entry Book 57, p. 116
2079
Dec. 19.
Reference to the Lord Treasurer of the petition of Jonathan, Bishop of Bristol, whom the King is disposed to gratify, that his first fruits, amounting to 294l. 11s. 3¾d., may be remitted to him.
Entry Book 71, p. 222
2080
Dec. 19.
Warrant to Edward Griffin, Treasurer of the Chamber, to pay to George Man, Keeper of the King's House and Wardrobe at Newmarket, the yearly salary of 200l. by quarterly payments.
Entry Book 72, p. 219 and Entry Book 336, p. 303
2081
Dec. 19.
Pardon to Captain Anthony Hastings of and for the death and killing of Nathaniel Ludlow in the island near Cadiz in the kingdom of Spain.
Entry Book 336, p. 303
2082
Dec. 19.
Another copy of the foregoing.
Ibid., p. 307
2083
Dec. 21.
The Earl of Sunderland to the Duke of Norfolk. His Majesty commands me to send you the enclosed copy of a paper given him by the Lord Chamberlain of the Household, that you may offer what you think requisite in answer thereunto. In the mean time, till he shall have heard and determined the matter in difference, whatever is done therein on either part shall not be drawn in consequence.
Memorandum that a like letter was sent to the Lord High Chamberlain.
Entry Book 56, p. 309
2084
Dec. 21.
The Earl of Sunderland to Mr. Cheek. I writ to you on Saturday for admitting Mrs. Prideaux and Mrs. Slaughter to Mr. Prideaux. His Majesty's intention is Mrs. Prideaux should for the time to come be confined with her husband, if she desires to see him, and have the liberty of a servant with a physician and apothecary to come and go as there may be occasion.
Ibid., p. 310
2085
Dec. 21.
Warrant confirming the election of Robert Skinner of the Inner Temple as Recorder of Daventree, co. Northampton, in the room of Wm. Buckby, serjeant at law, deceased.
Entry Book 336, p. 304
2086
Dec. 21.
The Earl of Sunderland to the Keeper of Newgate. The King being informed that Mr. Henry Ireton is indisposed would have you permit Mrs. Bridget Bendish, his sister, with such friends as she shall bring with her, have access to him from time to time in the presence of a keeper. He is also to be allowed all the conveniences the place will afford.
At the foot: His Majesty would also have you allow him a nurse to be constantly with him.
Ibid., p. 304.
2087
Dec. 21.
Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General to prepare a bill to pass the Great Seal containing a grant and confirmation of the Office of Secretary at War to Wm. Blathwayte.
Ibid., pp. 305–306
2088
Dec. 21.
Grant to Sir Philip Lloyd of the Office of one of the Clerks of the Privy Council, together with the fee of 250l. per annum.
Ibid., p. 307
2089
Dec. 21.
Warrant, in the usual form, to George, Lord Dartmouth, Master General of the Ordnance and Lieutenant and Chief Keeper of the Forest of Ayles Holt and Woolmer to preserve game within the said forest or within ten miles compass thereof.
Ibid., pp. 307–308
2090
Dec. 22.
Reference to Lord Dartmouth, Master General of the Ordnance, of the petition of Walter Archer, son of Capt. James Archer, for a warrant to the Master of the Ordnance for the allowance of 50l. per annum granted him by the late King for his encouragement in travelling to study the art of fortification, which is much in arrear so that he is not able to subsist any longer, or for an employment in the army.
Entry Book 71, p. 223
2091
Dec. 22.
The Duke of Ormonde's report on the petition of Garrett Goff, referred to him on Dec. 8 last [1684], certifying that in regard the petitioner is under the same circumstances as his brother he may be put on the establishment [of Ireland] for the pension of 50l. a year formerly enjoyed by his brother.
To be transmitted to the Lord Treasurer, the King being disposed to gratify the petitioner.
Ibid., p. 223
2092
Dec. 22.
Warrant to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland - after reciting that Vere Essex, Earl of Ardglas, and Hugh, Earl of Mountalexander, by their petition represented that they and other noblemen and gentlemen of co. Downe and other parts of Ireland to encourage the breed of horses there have subscribed to raise a considerable sum of money to be employed for the maintenance of a plate to be for ever run for yearly in the said county and have agreed that the money shall be laid out in the purchase of some lands and tenements for that purpose, and prayed that for the better effecting that design they might be created a body politic - to cause letters patent to be passed for incorporating Vere Essex, Earl of Ardglas, Hugh, Earl of Mountalexander, Lewis, Viscount Dungannon, and such others as have contributed towards maintaining the said plate by the name of the Governor and Freemen of the Corporation of Horsebreeders in the County of Downe and for granting them and their successors the powers, privileges, franchises and immunities in the paper of heads annexed.
Annexed:—
The paper of heads. The corporation to consist of a Governor and Freemen to be called the Governor and Freemen of the Corporation of Horsebreeders in the County of Downe. Hugh, Earl of Mountalexander, to be the first Governor and continue in office for one year from the Easter Tuesday next after the date of the erection of the corporation; and afterwards the Governor to be yearly elected by the major part of the Freemen meeting on Tuesday in Easter week at the chief inn in Downe or some other place in the county. The election to be between 10 and 12 in the morning. The Governor allowed to appoint a Deputy and in case of the Governor's death the Freemen to choose a new Governor for the remainder of his term.
The Governor to be Master of the Game in co. Downe and to have power to appoint one or more deputies.
Such as have contributed to maintaining the plate to be the first Freemen. Others to be admitted as the Governor and Freemen according to the rules to be made shall think fit.
The Governor and members to have power to hold their general meeting four times a year or oftener: the first to be held at Downe on the last Tuesday of the month next ensuing the month wherein the letters patent are dated.
At the first and every succeeding meeting they may appoint the time and place of the next, and at such meetings shall have power to appoint when and where the next horse race shall be run and for what stake, and under what rules, orders, restrictions and regulations, and may make a common seal for the corporation with such inscription as they shall think fit.
To have power to purchase for their use lands, tenements and hereditaments and goods and chattels to such value as they shall think fit.
To have power to make rules, orders and by-laws for or concerning any matter relating to the corporation or for preventing disorders at their meetings.
To have power to choose any of their members to be Treasurer and to appoint a Register and other officers they shall judge necessary, in such manner and to continue for such time as they shall think fit.
To have power at every meeting appointed for a horse race, to hold, with the consent of the owner of the land where it shall be run, a fair for six days beginning the Monday before the race for the buying and selling of horses and all other cattle and commodities and to take all the tolls and profits of such fairs to the use of the corporation without yielding any account, paying to the King 10s. yearly, and to hold a court of piepowder during such fairs, with a clause that the grant of the fair shall be good notwithstanding the not issuing or returning any writ of ad quod damnum before the passing of the letters patent.
Signet Office, Irish Letter Book 12, p. 31
2093
Dec. 23.
Wellbeck.
The Duke of Newcastle to [the Earl of Sunderland]. I received this day a letter from the Mayor of Newcastle, who had notice of his Majesty's order for choosing a new Common Council. When I read a copy of the order yesterday shewed me by Sir Will. Blackett I told him this is the Mayor's desire (sic) he made little answer but hastened away. Mr. Mayor writes that the order was desired only to affront him and his friends. I desire your favour to him.
S.P. Dom., Jas. II, 1, No. 151
2094
Dec. 23.
The King. Whereas not only the pious Christian Emperors in ancient times but also of late our own most religious predecessors, kings of this realm, did cause the days on which they began their several reigns to be publicly celebrated every year (so long as they reigned) by all their subjects with solemn prayers and thanksgivings to Almighty God, this pious custom received lately a long and doleful interruption upon occasion of the barbarous murder of our most dear father of blessed memory, which changed the day on which our late most dear brother succeeded to the Crown into a day of sorrow and fasting. But now we thinking fit to revive the former laudable and religious practice, and having caused a form of prayer and thanksgiving to be composed by our bishops for that purpose, our will and pleasure is that it be forthwith printed and published to be used yearly upon the sixth day of February (the day on which we began to reign) in all churches and chapels within our kingdom of England, dominion of Wales and town of Berwick upon Tweed. Countersigned by Middleton.
Entry Book 53, p. 187
2095
After Dec. 23.]
Caveat.
Mr. Bertie desires that no grant may pass for a presentation of any person to the living of Seaton, Rutland, until he be made acquainted.
Ibid., p. 187
2096
Dec. 23.
Report of the Lords Justices of Ireland on the petition of Col. John Strode, referred to them on April 10 last for a grant of all benefits and advantages arising by encroachments on his Majesty's waste in that kingdom; stating that they have referred it to the Attorney General in Ireland, who reports that he conceives the grant may be recommended but that, in regard the said lands are of no advantage to his Majesty at present yet may for the future yield some improvement to his revenue, it is adviseable to reserve to his Majesty a rent out of such lands as are taken in by encroachment and on buildings erected thereon or else an entire rent out of the whole grant. (Attorney General's report dated Aug. 10, 1685.) Dublin Castle, Oct. 5, 1685.
To be transmitted to the Lord Treasurer for consideration and report.
Entry Book 71, p. 224
2097
Dec. 23.
On the petition of Daniel Lee, A.M., that Nathaniel Lee his brother, a lunatic, may have residence in the Hospital of Bethlehem at his Majesty's charge, the Board of Green Cloth is to be directed to give order accordingly.
Ibid., p. 225
2098
Dec. 23.
The Lord Treasurer's report on the petition of Sir William Gostlin and Sir Peter Vandeput, late Sheriffs of London, referred to him on Nov. 25 last. (See Cal. of Treasury Books, 1685–9, Vol. VIII, part 1, pp. 493–494.) Treasury Chamber, Dec. 21, 1685.
To be transmitted back to the Lord Treasurer to give the requisite order therein.
Entry Book 71, p. 226
2099
Dec. 23.
Commission to Benjamin Bloor to be second lieutenant of an independent company of grenadiers whereof Capt. Thomas Cheek is captain. Minute.
Entry Book 164, p. 287
2100
Dec. 23.
Warrant to George, Lord Dartmouth, Master General of the Ordnance, after reciting that he has represented that several brass guns mentioned in a list annexed and now in the stores at Woolwich are found to be defective and unuseful, to give order to the principal officers of the Ordnance to cause the metal thereof to be cast into such new brass mortar pieces or other ordnance as he shall direct.
Annexed:—
The said list. Demi-canon of 12 foot, cut at muzzle and very defective about 18 ins. within the muzzle; canon perier of 7½ foot, cracked in the chamber; demi-culverin of 9 foot, broken at the vent and cannot be repaired; 16-pounders of 11½ foot, very much honeycombed; demi-culverin of 11 foot, much honeycombed.
Ibid., p. 288
2101
Dec. 23.
Warrant to George, Lord Dartmouth, Master General of the Ordnance, to pay or cause to be paid to Major Martin Beckman, Chief Engineer, out of the treasure in the Ordnance Office a salary of 300l. per annum and an allowance of 20s. per diem for travelling charges and to charge the same upon the quarter books of the Ordnance Office, the salary to commence from Christmas, 1685.
Ibid., p. 289
2102
Dec. 23.
Warrant to the same to pay or cause to be paid, similarly to the foregoing, to Thomas Phellipps, second engineer in the place of Major Martin Beckman, a salary of 250l. per annum and an allowance of 13s. 4d. per diem for travelling charges.
Ibid., p. 290
2103
Dec. 23.
Warrant to the Recorder of London and all others whom it may concern, to insert Lenart Biet, sentenced to death for rape, in the next general pardon for the poor convicts of Newgate.
Entry Book 336, p. 308
2104
Dec. 23.
Warrant to the Keeper of Newgate to permit — Dabs to have access to Richard Wickham in the presence of a keeper.
Ibid., p. 309
2105
Dec. 23.
Privy seal for paying John Lytcott, Secretary to the Embassy at Rome, the sum of 300l. for equipage and transportation, and the sum of 40s. per diem for his ordinary entertainments and allowances. Further sums for intelligences, expresses, and other extraordinaries to be paid on the certificate of a Principal Secretary of State.
Ibid., p. 309
2106
Dec. 23.
Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General to prepare a bill to pass the Great Seal containing a grant to Theophilus, Earl of Huntingdon, of the places and offices of Warden, Chief Justice, and Justice in Eyre and of all forests, chaces, parks and warrens on this side Trent, together with the yearly annuities of 100 pounds and 100 marks and with all rights, dues, etc. as any other Justice in Eyre formerly held and enjoyed.
Ibid., pp. 309–310
2107
Dec. 24.
The Earl of Sunderland to Mr. Palmer. Your brother having informed me of your being wounded and robbed by some soldiers, I acquainted his Majesty therewith, who is much concerned at it and will give order that they shall be punished with the utmost severity of the law. What information you can give should be taken before and lodged in the hands of some Justice of the Peace to be produced at the trial.
Entry Book 56, p. 310
2108
Dec. 24.
Reference to the Lord Treasurer of the petition of Francis Durant of the Devizes, Wilts., for a grant of a fine of 40 marks set upon one White of the Devizes for seditious words at the petitioner's prosecution.
Entry Book 71, p. 227
2109
Dec. 25.
The Earl of Sunderland to the Prince of Orange. I should sooner have returned my most humble acknowledgements for the honour of your Highness's letter of the 4th of this month but that I expected some account from Sir W. Trumbull concerning your sovereignty of Orange, he having reiterated orders to press for satisfaction such as is due to your Highness by the Treaty of Nimegen, and by the truce which confirms that Treaty. He has writ that he hopes very soon to have some answer to a memorial given in for that purpose and I am sure he will not neglect anything which can contribute to the service of your Highness, so warmly recommended to his care as this has been, but however I would no longer defer the assuring your Highness that I will always most exactly and most zealously obey whatever you shall please to command your Highness's most faithful, most humble, and most obedient servant. (fn. 3)
Holograph. King William's Chest 1, part II, fos. 50–51
2110
Dec. 26.
Newcastle.
Sir Wm. Blackett, Tim. Davison, Mat. Jeffreyson, Tim. Robson, Geo. Morton, Nich. Fenwicke, and Wm. Aubone [Aldermen of Newcastle], to [the Earl of Sunderland]. This day Sir Wm. Blackett presented his Majesty's commands and your letter about the election of a new Common Council. The Mayor, being desired to summons an election in pursuance thereof, replied he could prefix no time, for he had sent an express to know his Majesty's further pleasure. He was acquainted that ready obedience was given to his Majesty's former commands of the like nature, and desired to yield the same due honour, but he refused. Endorsed, several of the Aldermen.
S.P. Dom., Jas. II, 1, No. 152
2111
Dec. 26.
Newcastle.
Sir Henry Brabant, Mayor of Newcastle, to [the Earl of Sunderland]. On the 19th present I wrote to you by post and, fearing it might be intercepted by the cunning of my adversaries, I sent a copy by an express, to let his Majesty know what surprising news Sir William Blackett and Sir Nathaniel Johnson's letter to me (whereof I sent you a copy) brought to his Majesty's true servants in this corporation — his Majesty's order to Sir William Blackett to lay aside the present Common Council and choose a new one. I hope his Majesty will afford his faithful servants a hearing in this matter.
This day, and no sooner, Sir William Blackett delivered me his Majesty's letter, directed to me and the aldermen, and yours to myself. In regard of his Majesty's bounty in limiting no time, but leaving it to be done with the most convenience, joined with the great solemnity of these festivals, when little business is transacted without special command, I told Sir William Blackett that upon receipt of his and Sir Nathaniel Johnson's letter, I sent his Majesty an express, which I doubted not would bring his further pleasure before the holidays were over, which should be most exactly obeyed. So I beseech his Majesty not to construe my non-compliance with Sir William Blackett's desire, in proceeding to election this very day, as any breach of my duty or contempt of his pleasure. What I have done is to the best of my skill most for his Majesty's service, as a little time will show if I and my friends be admitted to a hearing. In the interim I return you a million thanks for your letter, and for particularizing the names of such as Sir William Blackett and Sir Nathaniel Johnson presented to be the new Common Council, which gives me room to believe that one of the reasons offered for this change was that the town would be peaceably settled by dividing the Common Council, leaving twelve for me and twelve for them. If this was offered they broke sincerity in the first place by leaving me but ten of the present Council and imposing two new ones, Mr. Shadford and Mr. Todd. But had they granted me what twelve I pleased, it had availed no more than if they had taken the whole number from me, for the six aldermen constantly residing in this town, and who all along opposed the royal party, will always join their votes with their twelve commoners, which will make eighteen against me and my twelve; so that if his Majesty judges us fit for his service, we are not able to act anything towards it, but be nosed and trampled upon at every turn, which will put those ten they seem to leave me upon petitioning that they may be discharged, rather than lie under the censure of any maladministration which they cannot resist. In those twelve they choose for themselves, five at least are electors, who choose themselves. I leave you to judge how things are packed and carried on; which I hope his Majesty will consider and not suffer his old servant to be thus balloted by his implacable enemies, who will appear to seek more the gratifying their own private revenge and upholding a faction than his Majesty's service.
Ibid., No. 153
2112
Dec. 26.
The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord Mayor. The King would have you attend him at my office to-morrow at 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
Entry Book 56, p. 311
2113
Dec. 26.
Chester Castle.
The Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to the Earl of Sunderland. Not having any rest since I began my journey till I came to this place I had no opportunity of writing sooner to your Lordship; and in truth I needed not have given you this trouble now (having nothing of business to inform you of) but that I think I should omit of no opportunity of paying you my respects and of professing the many obligations I have to your Lordship, which I shall acknowledge all manner of ways as long as I live. And I hope your Lordship will continue your favour and protection to me and make me as useful to the King's service as may be by your advice which I shall always follow. All the account I can give your Lordship of the Counties I have passed through is that all things are very quiet and all people make great professions of duty and loyalty to the King; there are no complaints of the soldiers and the towns where they are quartered speak very well of them. By my Lord Tiveot's favour I had a view of Althrop but the time was so short and the weather so bad that I could only see enough to long for an opportunity to wait on your Lordship there. That you may live long to enjoy that noble place and all other things to your heart's desire is the prayer of, my Lord, your Lordship's faithful and most humble servant.
Holograph. S.P. Ireland 351, fo. 95
2114
Dec. 27.
Certificate of the burial of Mr. Thomas Wise of London, mason, late of the parish of St. Savory's, Southwark, at Winckfield, Berks., on Dec. 27, 1685. Signed by Rob. Gunnis, vicar; Edward Wise and Jo. Muttleburig, churchwardens; Jonah Dec, clerk.
Entered in the office of the Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer, June 18, 1688.
Entered in the office of the Clerk of the Pells.
S.P. Dom., Jas. II, 1, No. 154
2115
Dec. 27.
Reference to the Lord Treasurer of the petition of Elisabeth, widow, and Henry Elisabeth, Alice and Sarah, children of Henry Cornish, late citizen of London for the remainder of his estate, forfeited for treason, after his just debts are paid.
Entry Book 71, p. 228
2116
Dec. 27.
Commission to James Brentfield to be cornet of Sir Thomas Grosveneur's troop in the Regiment of Horse commanded by the Earl of Shrewsbury. Minute.
Entry Book 164, p. 289
2117
Dec. 28.
The King to the Earl of Mulgrave, Chamberlain of the Household. Warrant to swear or cause to be sworn Nathaniel, Bishop of Durham, Dean of the Chapel Royal.
Entry Book 57, p. 116
2118
[Dec. 28.]
Like warrant for swearing Thomas, Bishop of Rochester, Clerk of the Closet. Minute.
Ibid., p. 116
2119
Dec. 28.
Reference to the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who is to give orders for hearing all parties concerned at the Council board there, of the petition of Edward Fitzgerald Villiers and Katherine his wife showing that Katherine's father after her mother's death married the present Countess of Clanricarde, whereby she was entitled to a dower, that during Katherine's minority the Countess sued for and had lands assigned her as dower of far greater value than the thirds of her father's estate, that the petitioners have brought a writ of error in the King's Bench in Ireland, where the case has been argued and is ripe for judgment, and that they are informed the Earl and Countess of Clanricarde are endeavouring to obtain letters patent in the said lands, and praying that nothing may be done in it till they be heard.
Entry Book 71, p. 228
2120
Dec. 28.
The Earl of Sunderland to Thomas Atterbury. Warrant for the apprehension of Nathaniel Child, Archibald Wright, — Wattson or Watts, and — Russell, an apothecary, suspected of having harboured or corresponded with rebels, and for bringing them before the Earl or one of his Majesty's Judges for examination.
Entry Book 336, p. 310
2121
Dec. 28.
A further warrant to the Attorney General for satisfaction to be acknowledged on the fine of 500l. imposed on Daniel O'Farrell alias More. (See No. 1416 above.)
Ibid., p. 311
2122
Dec. 28.
The Earl of Sunderland to the Keeper of Newgate. His Majesty's pleasure is that you permit Mrs. Goodenough, with her children, to have access to her husband from time to time without the presence of a keeper.
Ibid., p. 311
2123
Dec. 29.
The Earl of Sunderland to the Duke of Newcastle. I have acquainted his Majesty with the contents of yours of the 23rd. The resolution he has taken about the Common Council of Newcastle was after very mature consideration and he thinks Sir Henry Brabant should not be concerned at it, because the former election was directly against the town's charter (as he has been since given to understand) and consequently void, and by his last directions half of the Common Council to be chosen will be such as Sir Henry Brabant had before nominated.
Entry Book 56, p. 311
2124
Dec. 29.
The Earl of Sunderland to Sir Henry Brabant. I have acquainted his Majesty with yours of the 19th. He wonders you should be so much concerned at his order for electing a new Common Council at Newcastle, especially seeing the former election was directly against the town's charter and consequently void, and by the last directions half of the Common Council to be chosen will be such as you had before nominated. He therefore doubts not but you will comply with his resolution.
Ibid., p. 312
2125
Dec. 29.
Commission to George Barclay to be major, in the room of Major Robert Middleton, of the Regiment of Foot whereof Sir Edward Hales is colonel. Minute.
Entry Book 69, p. 183
2126
Dec. 29.
The Earl of Sunderland to Thomas Atterbury, messenger. Warrant for the apprehension of — Percivall, an attorney, suspected of dangerous practices, and for bringing him before the Earl for examination.
Entry Book 336, p. 311
2127
Dec. 29.
The King to the Prince of Orange. I have received yours of January 1 (N.S.) and have been so long this night at the Treasury Chambers that I have but little time to say anything to you, but that I have resolved not to let the Parliament sit in February and to prorogue it till May; but not with an intent to let them meet then, except there should be a great occasion for it, thinking it best not to call them together till towards the winter which is all I can say now, but that I shall always be as kind to you as you can desire.
Holograph. King William's Chest 3, No. 167
2128
Dec. 29. Dublin.
Copy of letters patent granted to John Knox, Lord Mayor of Dublin, to mint coins in Ireland. (See No. 1801 above.)
A slip has been pasted on the last folio. On it has been written in another hand:—
Copy of Letters Patent for coyning halfpence and farthings, 20 Dec., 1714.
A possible explanation is that this patent was laid before the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury at that time in connexion with their report of 23 December, 1714, on the subject of minting. (See T. 54/22, pp. 378–381.)
S.P. Ireland 351, fos. 97–104
2129
Dec. 29.
Dublin.
Another copy of the foregoing, with a number of marginal comments in a different hand; also indicating that enrolment in the Rolls of the High Court of Chancery in Ireland took place on 20 April, 1686.
Ibid., fos. 109–119
2130
Dec. 29.
Warrant to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland empowering him to issue licences for the exportation of wool from Ireland, and revoking similar powers previously granted to the Commissioners of Revenue. (See No. 905 above.)
Signet Office, Irish Letter Book 12, p. 29
2131
Dec. 30.
Reference to the Attorney General of the petition of the hawkers, pedlars and petty chapmen of England and Scotland that letters patent may be granted to such persons as his Majesty shall think fit to examine their lives and conversations and that licence may be given to such of them as are found honest and loyal and have habitations, with a proviso for revoking the same if inconvenient.
Entry Book 71, p. 229
2132
Dec. 30.
The Earl of Sunderland to the Keeper of Newgate. You had orders before Mr. Hambden's trial to admit several of his relations and other persons to come to him, and his Majesty's pleasure is that you admit the said persons to Mr. Hambden from time to time according to the said former directions.
Entry Book 336, p. 312
2133
Dec. 31.
The Earl of Sunderland to Mr. Cheek. His Majesty would have you give notice to Lord Delamere that this day fortnight is appointed for his trial.
Entry Book 56, p. 312
2134
Dec. 31.
The Earl of Sunderland to Sir Courtney Poole, Sir Thomas Putt, Colonel Poole, and Lieut.-Colonel Waldron, Justices of the Peace for Devon, or to any one of them near Honiton. His Majesty having some reason to think by the enclosed copy of a letter from Mr. Bird's brother that there may have been some practice to augment Mr. Bird's loss, would have you strictly re-examine that point, transmit an account of the real damage Mr. Bird has sustained, and certify what it amounts to.
Ibid., p. 313
2135
Dec. 31.
Reference to the Lord Treasurer of the petition of the Lord Mayor and other Commissioners of Christ's Hospital, whom the King is disposed to gratify, setting forth that they have discovered that Thomas Bell of London, chirurgeon, by his will devised to several independent ministers the yearly sum of 50l. to be disposed of to charitable uses, and that there is about 225l. undisposed of, and praying the King to direct prosecution for the recovery thereof at the petitioners' charge and that when recovered it may be applied to the uses in the hospital.
Entry Book 71, p. 229
2136
Dec. 31.
The Earl of Sunderland to the Keeper of Newgate. His Majesty having been graciously pleased to consent that Mr. Henry Ireton should be bailed, you are to carry him before my Lord Chief Justice or some other of the Judges to take bail for his appearance in the King's Bench.
Entry Book 336, p. 312
2137 [n.d.] The King to the Lord Mayor of London. Letters patent containing a commission for the conservation of the River Thames in like manner as granted by his Majesty's predecessors.
With a note by the King annexed that this commission is to pass by immediate warrant.
Latin. S.P. Dom., Car. II, 359, pp. 196–203
2138 Rye. Lewis Gillart, Mayor, to Sir Lionel [Leoline] Jenkins, Principal Secretary of State (sic). In answer to yours of the 22nd inst., my desire never was to molest the French nor their nets till they had a hearing before the King in Council. I suppose there is a petition ready to present to his Majesty in Council by the English with a piece of net of the bigness of the mesh they fish with, and also a piece of net of the bigness of the net (sic) the French fish with. The English have made a new net of 5-inch mesh, but have never used it. The French are miserably poor and if his Majesty would order both French and English to fish with a 4-inch mesh, it might do indifferently well for both; but at 5-inches the French must starve, which they had done this winter had it not been for charitable people. Endorsed, Monsr. Gillard about the French Protestants at Rye.
This letter has been incorrectly dated 25 March, 1685, and would seem to refer to the previous year. (See Cal. S.P. Domestic, Chas. II, 1683–4, p. 334.)
S. P. Dom., Jas. II, 1, No. 71
2139 [n.d.] Threnodia Augustalis: A Funeral-Pindarique Poem sacred to the Happy Memory of King Charles II. By John Dryden . . . London. Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's Head in Chancery Lane, 1685. 25 pp.
Ibid., No. 157
2140 [n.d.] An elegiac poem, 'printed by George Croom, at the Blue-Ball in Thames-street, near Baynard's Castle, 1685'. A folded sheet, printed on one side only, with a black border adorned with funeral emblems. The upper part, including the title, has been cut away; but the subject of the poem, who was evidently a divine and a well-known preacher, is referred to as 'Great Ben' and may probably be identified with Dr. Benjamin Calamy, prebendary of St. Paul's, who died Jan. 3, 1685–6. There is no signature at the end of the poem.
Ibid., No. 155
2141 [n.d.] List of Rebels delivered to be transported:—
(i) Richard Stevens, Richard Edgar, Charles Lucas, George Gray, John Bartlett, John Stoodley, Robert Paull, Robert Mitchell, John Gale, Bartho. Randall, John Rogers, Wm. Haynes, Wm. Barnard, Thomas Mathewes, Henry Meyer, John Breffet, Richard Allen, John Poole, John Burges, John Farmer, Richard Bickham, Henry Gibbons, John Bason, George Nowell, Morris Furse alias Vosse, Humphrey Trump, John Warren, George Warren, Humphrey Pope, Osmond Read, Henry Quant, Wm. Burroughs, Wm. Daw, Wm. Parker, Robert Sease, Thomas Middleton, James Hillman, John Bray, Ambrose Winter, Laurence Hussey, Robert Seaman, Edward Lyde, John Chappell, Robert Easton, John Walter, Thomas Brock, George Mollins, Daniel Pumroy, Jeremy Atkins, Samuel Boone, John Edwards.
(ii) George Michill, Wm. Drew, Thomas Dennis, John Avoake, Wm. Tiverton, Joseph Vimcott, John Seymer, John Leaker, Symon Poole, John Wale, Richard Wadham, Stephen Rodway, Francis Came, Michael Powell, John Kerle, Thomas Galhampton, George Carrow, Abraham Pollard, John Budge, Wm. Harvey, Wm. Hall, Wm. Phippen, John Chilcott, Robert Coward, John Cantlebury, Wm. Woolridge, Wm. Smyth, John Smyth, Wm. Mead, George Keel, Edward Councell, Joseph Wickham, John Harris.
(iii) Robert Teap, Timothy Hawkier, Wm. Smyth, Joseph Newberry, John Smyth, John Clode, Jonas Cross, John Bragg, Wm. Hutchins, John Mitchell, Edward Vildy, Justinian Guppy, Wm. Combe, James Baker, Thomas Gamage, Wm. Walter.
(iv) Edward Luther, John Downe, Benj. Crow, Thomas Bennett, John Fisher, John Manning, Robert Lumbard, Wm. Wadford, Rich. Keech, George Plumley, Thomas Allen, John Reason, John Speering, Matthew Porter, Robert Spurway, John Edwards, John Hardiman, Bernard Bryant, John Minifie, John White, James Pomeroy, Robert Shale, Thomas Hoare, Peter Row, John Loveridge, Elias Stephens, John Bridle, Thomas Parsons, Nicholas Palmer, Thomas Williams, Mathew Hutchins, Nicholas Smith, Emanuel Collins, Roger Hobbs, John Gay, Joseph Hallett, Nathaniel Webber, Edw. Moreton, James Salter, Wm. Loveridge, Ambrose Ashford, Roger French, Nicholas Warren, Wm. Wills, John Pryor, Wm. Tucker, Wm. Brown, Samuel Laurence, John Hutchins, Wm. Clarke, John Browne, Robert Burridge, Henry Tucker, Thomas Burridge, John Allambridge, Thomas Cornelius, Humphrey Moleton, Edw. Willmott, Wm. Williams, Thomas Marshall, Richard Paull, Joseph Paull, Hugh Willmott, John Johnson, Richd. Allens, John Pitts, Stephen Gammage, Andrew Rapson, Wm. Cozens, Thomas Townesend, Jasper Diamond, Thomas Gregory, John Allen, Robert Hellyer, Thomas Allen, Thomas Best, Thomas Hellyer, John Long, Wm. Bennett, John Markes, John Mitchell, John Madders, Thomas Hallett, John Alston, George Macy, John Pinney, Charles Strong, Wm. Feade, Wm. Saunders, James Spence, John Wilson, Edwd. Adams, John Adams, Arthur Lush, John Hutchins, Thomas Bovett, John Truren, James Fowler, John White, Francis Langbridge.
(v) John Morley, Humphrey Maundry, James Moody, Thomas Mitchell, Ralph Middleton, Wm. Merrick, Edw. Mitchell, John Muttleberry, Joseph Mullins, Roger Mortimer, Nathaniel Weale, Baldwyn Parker, Wm. Preist, Andrew Palmer, Silas Phillips, John Pope, Francis Plummer, James Parker, James Peirce, John Palmer, George Russell, Christopher Richards, Henry Rooke, Wm. Read, Alexander Robinson, Argentine Rust, Robert Smith, Robert Sly, Wm. Sheppard, Wm. Smith, Wm. Sherry, John Symon, Francis Savage, Wm. Selfe, George Searle, John Saunders, Jonathan Sutton, James Smith, John Say, Jonas Say, Rich. Spiler, Rich. Selwood, Rich. Symes, John Skyff, Thomas Tuckey, Rich. Tapper, Rich. Turner, John Tilley, Lewis Tricks, Peter Wellis, Robert Wilkins, Rich. Wilcox, John Williams, sen., John Williams, jun., John Worrall, Joseph Warren, Thomas Walter, Rich. West, Wm. Warren, Robert Willis, John Watts, Rich. Young, Mathew Woodland, Stephen Walsh, Thomas Waggett, Edward Kemp, Hugh Banton, Wm. Clatworthy, Thomas Carden, Edward Gilbert, Wm. Greenland, Thomas Goodson, Rich. Hooper, Henry Hunt, Wm. Harris, Robert Jennings, Rich. Lyme, Wm. Lyning, John Lash, Charles Mason, Rich. Milward, Thomas Norton, James Navell, John Stone, Henry Roper.
(vi) Francis Carter, John Fathers, John Laver, Shadrick Morley, Mathew Pryor, Nicholas Gill, John Hurle, John Lease alias Gamling, Samuel Denham, John Oram, Robert Haywood, John Helps, John Peircy, Richard Willmott, Thomas Speed.
(vii) Gabriel Smart, Henry Cook, Isaac Pryor, Wm. Eyres, James Payne, Nicholas Kelford, John Butcher, Christopher Candy, John Bennett, Tho. Archett alias Orchard, Nath. Dennick, Humphrey Davis, Henry Syms, Jonathan Drew, John Jones, Robert Millard, Robert Stuckey, Pasche Stuckey, James Feild, jun., Israel Bolster, John Hussey, Andrew Staley, John Reynells, Arthur Everard, Robert Reeves, Robert Norton, Edmund Hurd, Thomas Hurd, Thomas Laurence, Giles Whittle, George Hallett, John Hart, John Laurence, James Aymes, Samuel Ellworthy, John Hollway, James Hurd, John Feild, John Weech, Wm. Staunton, Thomas Salisbury, Thomas Andersey, James Heale, Robert Beaton, Symon Chynn, John Portnell, James Puttman, Thomas Mills, Joshuah Sulley, Ambrose Vining, Peter Durdant alias Durden, Joseph Hawkier, Thomas Snook, Henry Snook, Wm. Chynn, George Harding, Nicholas Davidge, John Hanning, James Moor, Henry Mills, James Wake, John Atwood, Wm. Lacy, Adam Smith, Robert Beale, Rich. Hoare, Chris. Gray, John Woodrow, Roger Cole, Edward Vile, Anthony Woodrow, Philip Lacy, Wm. Best, Edw. Willmott, Wm. Prowse, Christopher Masters, Wm. Lane, John Crowder, Tho. Redbeard, James Best, Robert Best, John Stower, Thomas Laver, John Baker, Edw. Vagg, Robert Clark, Joseph Robins, Thomas Pittard, Timothy Toleman, James Sheppard, James Ellford, John Harwood, Roger Chaning, Thomas Chaning, James Baker, Charles Pople, John Webb, George Allen, John Palmer, Robert Burridge.
(viii) Rich. Allwood, Jacob Adams, Samuel Blackmore, John Browne, James Broughton, Charles Baker, Thomas Bridgwood, John Bright, Wm. Bush, Thomas Browne, Francis Bagwell, John Browne, John Bartlett, James Bickley, Robert Court, John Classey, John Coome, Samuel Clarke, John Clarke, John Collins, John Coleman, Henry Collins, John Cox, Nicholas Cumins, Robert Clarke, Benj. Cable, Richard Chaplin, Joseph Couse, John Coleborne, Wm. Coles, Thomas Churchouse, Peter Drayton, James Dew, Wm. Dew, Symon Dyer, Thomas Daniell, Richard Denham, Richard Dyer, Francis Dunning, John Denning, Phillip England, Wm. England, Rich. Easton, Rich. Edghill, James Elford, Cornelius Elliott, John Ervyn, Thomas Ferris, Edw. Ford, Sam. Farmer, Arthur Ford, Walter Freston, Rich. Fouracres, John Flower, John Foster, Wm. Feare, Francis Gamlyn, Joseph Geale, Thomas Gamlyn, James German, Nehemiah Gough, Wm. Guppy, Edw. Goodman, Peter Goodgroome, John Holmes, John Henson, Thomas Hooper, Thomas Herring, Thomas Hutchins, Robert Hanham, Humphrey Hodge, Edw. Harris, Rich. Howells, Andrew Howard, John Hull, Moses Higwell, Thomas Humphreys, Francis Hales, Wm. Higden, George Halfeyard, Josias Howard, James Harman, Thomas Hill, Wm. Jackson, Joseph Jerman, John Jones, Rich. Jacob, Charles Jones, Wm. Johnson, Samuel Knight, Phillip Keeping, Wm. Key, John Lewis, John Larkeham, John Lock, John Laurence, Wm. Lock, John Langford, Paul Morse, Henry Quick.
(ix) John Moggeridge, Thomas Quick, Nicholas Salter, Francis Smith, Richard Green, Wm. Mathews, John Facy, Wm. Greenway, Rich. Daniell, Peter Kent, Chris. Jewell, Abraham Thomas, John Baker, Samuel Pinson, Robert Clarke, George Ebdon, Samuel Dolebeer, Benj. Whicker, John Whicker, John Hitchcott, Tho. Forcy, Wm. Giles, Joseph Gage, Robert Mullins, Roger Bryant, Charles Broughton, Rich. Parker, John Hayne, John Connett, Barnard Lowman, John Heathfeild, Edw. Venn, Rich. Pine, Thomas Pester, John Sam, Henry Simes, Wm. Deale, Wm. Haynes, Thomas Franklyn, Wm. Guppy, Azarias Pinney, John Bovett, Robert Sandy, Tho. Dolling, Edw. Marsh, John Easemond, John Vincent, Allen England, Robert Vater, John Prew, Oliver Hobbs, Philip Cox, Peter Tickin, Wm. Clarke, Walter Osborne, Rich. Hoare, Robert Foane, Daniel Parker, Peter Bagwell.
(x) Abraham Hunt, Chris. Cooper, Edmund Bovett, John Follett, Peter Bird, John Kemplyn, Walter Teape.
(xi) John Jolliffe, Robert Peirce, John Dodds, Henry Pittman, Nath. Beaton, Peter Cordelion, Wm. Biggs, Wm. Puttman, John Cooke, John Harcombe, John Collins, Nath. Standerwick, Rich. Dyke, John Denham, Abraham Gooden, John Mead, John Brice, Andrew Holcombe, John Hooper, Thomas Venner, Laurence Caswell, Thomas Chynn, Samuel Weaver, Robert Batt, John Hooper, John Gould, John Cooke, John Johnson, John Willis, Rich. Nash alias Lyllant, John Foot, John Reeves, John Giles, jun.
(xii) Thomas England, Francis Puckett, Wm. Combden, John Lock, John Gardiner, Wm. Lush, John Sturrick, Samuel Paul, Robert White, John Woodward, Wm. Sellwood, John Shinler, Mathew Elliott, John James alias Jeanes, John Sprake, John Bagwell.
(xiii) Wm. Edwards, James Combe, John Hooper, John Smith, Bernard Periam, Robert Shoesmith, John Phinnimore, Jacob King, John Pope, Thomas Whittey, Wm. Hayes, Josias Harte, Walter Blew, John Gardiner, Robert Barge, Edw. Lugg, John Furber, John Lyde, Thos. Cutler, Wm. Hooper, Henry Hooper, Elisha Davys, Rich. Lang, Thomas Bray, Thomas Adams, Wm. Goodland, Alexander Townesend, John Hensley, Samuel Hensley, Isaac Kingston, Wm. Row, Hugh Gill, James Glanvill, Henry Wrentmore, Thomas Crosse, John Hoare, Tobias Dryer, Wm. Bayley, Rich. Masters, John Gibbs, Wm. Spreate, Wm. Crofte, John Hucker, jun., Robert Broadbeare, Joseph Lacey, Nath. Musgrave, Tho. Curtis, Wm. Page, Robert Meade, Sam. Saxbee, John Fowler, sen., John Fowler, jun., Rich. Perkins, Humphrey Slade, Wm. Venting, Wm. Tapscott, Benj. Sparke, Bartho. Davy, Robert Brookes, Wm. Norman, Andrew Boyte, John Grise, James Soper, Thomas Howell, Peter Shorland, George Ley, Humphrey Saunders, John Butfeild, Samuel Tottle, Edw. Eves, Tho. Debnam, Tho. Hendy, Giles Crane, Walter Phillips, Rich. Drake, Mathew Pottle, Geo. Robertson, John Mettyard, Henry Harnett, James Gallop, Wm. Bull, Andrew Nabrick, Geo. Smith, Tho. Markes.
(xiv) Thomas Cornish, John Mead, Joseph Cooper, Samuel Dare, Edw. Way, John Chappell, Gideon Dare, Thomas Redwood, Geo. Wells, James Indoe, Henry Webb, Samuel Adams, John Turle, James Turle, Tho. Bagley, John Willey, Robert Daw, Wm. Russell, Wm. Aplyn, Robert Acastle.
(xv) Daniel Rutter, Jeremiah Poole, John Baker, Robert Pearce, Leonard Staple, Edw. Kent, Charles Bennett, John Parsons, John Gibbs, John Bryer, Tho. Gould, John Hartey, Wm. Pitts, James Webb, Nicholas Collins, jun., Rich. King, Emanuel Marchant, Wm. Marchant, John Slade, Samuel Bond, John Rogers, Barnard Loveridge, Percival Nowis, William Saunders, William Veryare, Henry Chambers, Thos. Rowsewell, Mathew Cooke, John Crane, Charles Burrage, Wm. Ley, John Robins, Luke Porter, Thos. Preist, Cornelius Radford, Philip Cheeke, Robert Earle, John Mogridge, Henry Randall, James Maynard, John Culverwell, George Trubbs, Sylvester Lyde, Wm. Phelpes, Elias Lockbeare, Silvester Poole, Thomas Moore, Laurence Preist, Wm. Gould, Henry Preist, Enoch Gould, John Bennett, John Baker, Samuel Mounstephen, Thos. Buglar, Stephen Jeffreyes, John Morse, Wm. Scurrier, John England, Jacob Powell, John Godsale, John Andrews, Samuel Sweeting, George Rowsell, Edw. Bellamy, William Crosse, Jonas Browne, John Crosse, Christopher Knight, Thos. Meade, John Needs, Thos. Pitts, Robert Richards, Christopher Row, Mathew Craft, jun., Richard Peircy, John Miller, Geo. Snow, Samuel Collins, John Cockran, James Cockran, Christopher Hoblyn, John Marwood, John Timothy, Thomas Austin, Moses Osborne, Walter Hucker, Randall Babington, John Knight, Job Hunt, Wm. Woodcock, John Adams, Thos. Pomfrett, James Patten, Thos. Bambury, James Clift, Thos. Chamberlaine, Humphrey Justine, Isaac Dyer, Richard Symons — 820 [names].
Rebels to be transported for whom no warrant is as yet delivered.
(xvi) Edward Rawbone, Thomas Nashion, Richard Wiseman, Thomas Eglin, Richard Snooke, Thomas Lockyer, Moses Moore, Samuel Ruddle, John Parsons, Robert Mudford alias Munford, John Bishop, John Spreake, Thomas Viles, David Thomas, Wm. Powell, Wm. Prowse, Robert Sweete, jun., Edward Hody, John Wythiman, jun., Joseph Wytherell, Wm. Sweete, Josiah Gilham, John Partridge, John Bramble, James Bramble, George Butcher, Edward Abbott, Mathew Goodman, Benjamin Traske, Henry Noone, John Key, Philip Smith, John Westlake, Wm. Redbeard, John Dinnett, John Quick, Thos. Saunders, Wm. Chilcott, Tho. Vile, Tho. Doleman, Robert Carter, Edw. Hawlsey, Wm. Broadbeare, Edw. Chedzoy, John Hill, Thos. Trott, Wm. Collyer, John Parsons, John Rotherton, John Arnold.
(xvii) George Miller, James Smith, Samuel Harvey, Robert Clarke, John Ham, Stephen Helman, James Herring, Francis Gardiner, Tobias Hucker, Thos. Clarke, Daniel Hallett, Thos. Parsons, Lewis Hagley, Wm. Martin, James Edmonds, Wm. Searle, John Bisse, Roger Casewell, Wm. Baker, Humphrey Gillard - 70 [names].
At foot: 820+70=890 [names].
Endorsed: List of Rebels convicted to be transported - Bundle 'G', Paper 1.
S.P. Dom., Jas. II, 1, No. 159
2142 [n.d.] A poem, beginning
Lord what a worm am I
What couldst thou here espie,
and ending,
Why should the fond delights
Of parents puff me up ?
Signed, George Swayne, 1685.
Ibid., No. 161
2143 [n.d.] 'On Munday 2d of ffebruary Candlemas day the King rose early, said he had not slept well. About 7 a clock comeing from his private devotions out of his closett, fell down so that he was dead for foure hours in an Apoplecticke fitt: with losse of 16 ounces of blood and other applications came to his sences againe: Great hopes of his recovery till Thursday one a Clocke. But at 5 the Doctors being come before the Councill declared he was in great danger. On Friday a quarter before 12 he departed. God have mercy upon his soule.
P[ère] M[ansuete] a C[ordelier] ffryar C[onfessor] to the Duke upon the doctors first telling him of the State of the K[ing] told him that now was the time to take care of his Soule and that it was his duty to tell him so. The D[uke] with this admonition went into the King and told it, the K[ing] answered, O Brother how long have I wished but now help me: He said he would have ffather Hudd[leston] who preserved him in the tree, and now hoped he would preserve his Soule; H[uddleston] was sent for to bring all the necessaries for a dying man: Not having the B[lessed] S[acrament] by him, H[uddleston] mett one of the Q[ueen']s P[ages] told him the occasion, desiring his assistance to procure it and bring it to the back staires. The King having notice that Mr. Hudd[leston] waited desired to be in private with his Brother. All the B[isho]pps and Nobles goeing out, the D[uke] latching the dore, the L[or]ds P—B[ath] and ff[eversham] were going out also, the D[uke] told them they might stay, the K[in]g seeing the ffather cryed out: Almighty God what good planet governes me that all my life is wonders and miracles when I O Lord consider my infancy, my Exile, my Escape at Wor'ster my preservation in the tree by this good ffather and now to have him againe to be the Preserver of my Soule, O'Lord my wonderfull Restauration, the great Danger of the late Conspiracy and last of all to be raised from death and to have my soule preserved by the assistance of this good ffather whom I see that thou O Lord hast created for my good: the D[uke] and E[arl]s withdrew into the Closett, they were private for some time, after which the D[uke] and E[arl]s entred againe, the ffather remaining Comforting and Praying with him, He said, if I am worthy of it, Pray lett me have it, the ffather said he exspected it and offered to proceed with the Extreme unction, the king said, with all my heart: the D[uke] and the L[or]ds assisting at the time Mr. Hudd[leston] being called to the doore received the B[lessed] S[acrament] he desired the K[ing] to compose himselfe to receive. The King would rise, he was perswaded to the Contrary, let me meet my heavenly father in a better posture then lying thus, being overruled they pray, amongst other the ffather repeated the Act of Contrition, the King desired him to repeate it againe, saying it word by word after him. Received with the greatest expressions of devotion imaginable: this being ended they proceeded to the Prayer de Recommendacione Animae, that being done, the King desired a repetition of the Act of Contrition once more, Lord Good God when my lips faile let my heart speake these words eternally.
The Bishops and Lords entred againe and perswaded the King to remember his last end and to endeavour to make a good end. He said he had thought on it and made his peace with God. Asking him whether he would receive, he said he would not, he persisting in extolling the Queene and Duke said he was not sorry to leave the world leaving so good a brother to rule behind him.
Ibid., No. 163
2144 [n.d.] 'A Plain Account of the Persecution, now laid to the charge of the Church of England.' Asserting the tolerant spirit of the English Church in its dealing with Dissenters, and contrasting it with the intolerance of Papists, as illustrated by the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
Printed. Ibid., No. 164
2145 [n.d.] 'An account of the late Earl of Argyle's circumstances before his crimes for which he was last forfeited.'
Ibid., No. 165
2146 [n.d.] The Case of several Persons to whom great Sums of Money are due, viz., to Officers, and for Quartering and Cloathing, and other Necessaries for the late Forces that were Raised by Virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the year 1677. By an Act of May 29, 1679, for paying and disbanding the said forces, 206,462l. was given to his Majesty for that purpose; but the soldiers being to be first paid, and the money falling short, about 60,000l. is still due to the persons aforesaid.
Printed. S.P. Dom., Jas. II, 3, p. 10
2147 [n.d.] A list of perpetuities and pensions during life or lives and for terms of years payable at the Exchequer, Custom House, Excise Office, Post Office, etc. Comprising the names of the recipients, the annual sums payable to them, and the amounts due at Christmas, 1684. The total sum annually payable is 184,608l. 0s. 11d., and the total arrears 340, 314l. 17s. 8¾ d.
S.P. Dom., Jas. II, 4, p. 224
2148 [n.d.] Lord Viscount Gormanstoun my Capt-Lt. in the place of Lt. Florence Carty formerly servant to Lord Granard.
Capt. Willm. Talbot my Cornet in the place of one Doyly formerly servant in the Duke of Ormond's family.
Capt. Nicholas Cusalk, Lt. to Sir Willm. Titchborne in the place of one Hoy formerly a servant in the Duke of Ormond's family and the son of an ill man.
Capt. Willm. Nugent, Lt. to Lord Mountalexander in the place of one Poe an old Crumwellian and an ill man.
Cornet John Nugent Cornet to Capt. Sheldon in the place of one Hoyle a little fellow formerly my Lord Longford's servant.
Cornet Dillon my Lord Dillon's eldest son in the place of one Wentworth formerly servant to my Lord Roscommon and good for nothing.
Apparently some notes made by the Earl of Tyrconnell. At the foot is the following comment:— Those I put in are all of them of the best quality of this country, brave men, and served all abroad except two Cornets, who are brave young gentlemen of great quality; and all my own relations. Those I put out were all servants to someone or other, and no officers, and good for nothing, as most of the lieutenants and cornets of this Army are at present.
S.P. Ireland, 351, fo. 67
2149 [n.d.] A sheet of paper with some notes apparently arising out of Lord Keeper Guilford's advice to the Earl of Clarendon on the latter's appointment as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and referring particularly to the conviction of Dr. Robert Lalor, an Irish priest, 4 Jas. I. (See 'The Correspondence of Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, and of his brother, Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester', Vol. I, pp. 183–187, by Samuel Weller Singer, f.s.a., London, 1828.)
Ibid., fo. 122
2150 [n.d.] Letter to the Archbishop of Armagh, giving an assurance of the writer's intention to forward news of importance.
This letter is badly torn and the signature cannot be determined.
Ibid., fo. 120
Passes Issued.

Footnotes

  • 1. Printed in Japikse, op. cit., p. 723.
  • 2. Printed in Dalrymple, op. cit., p. 173.
  • 3. Printed in Japikse, op. cit., p. 742.