James II - volume 2: January 1687 | British History Online

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James II, 1686-7. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1964.

'James II - volume 2: January 1687', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James II, 1686-7, (London, 1964) pp. 332-353. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/jas2/1686-7/pp332-353 [accessed 19 April 2024]

January 1687



1295 January 1, 1687.	Commission to Capt. Ranald Graham to be captain of the company whereof Capt. [Michael] Bourck was late captain in the regiment whereof John, Earl of Bath is commander. Minute.
	S.P. 44/69, p. 204
1296 January 1.	Commissions to Charles Strother to be captain of that troop in the Royal Regiment of Dragoons whereof Col. William Strother was captain; to Mark Strother to be cornet of Lieut.-Col. Charles Netby's troop in the Regiment of Horse commanded by the Earl of Arran; to Lancelot Ord to be cornet of Lieut.-Col. Bernard Howard's troop in the Regiment of Horse commanded by Major-General Robert Werden; to William Burton, clerk, to be chaplain to the Regiment of Foot commanded by Col. Henry Cornwall; to John Thomas to be cornet of Capt. Thomas Harrington's troop in the Regiment of Horse commanded by the Earl of Arran; and to Thomas Waldron to be ensign of Capt. Richard Kidley's company in the Regiment of Foot commanded by Col. Henry Cornwall. Minutes.
	S.P. 44/164, pp. 371–2, 374
1297 January 1.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The King intends you should forthwith come into England and constitute the Earl of Tyrconnell, Lord Deputy. He will be in Ireland before the end of this month and his Majesty's intention is you should give up the government to him a week after his arrival.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 188
1298 January 1.	Commission to Capt. Michael Bourke to be captain of the troop whereof Capt. Ranald Grahme was captain in the regiment of horse commanded by Vere Essex, Earl of Ardglasse, in Ireland. Minute.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 189
1299 January 2.	Dispensation for several inhabitants of the City of London, viz., John Glimster, of St. Butolph's Aldersgate, distiller, Robert Marner of St. Austin's London, tobacconist, William Marner of the same, tobacconist, Robert Hore of St. Martin's le Grand, tallow chandler, Stephen Tory of the same, capmaker, Thomas Fabian of St. Leonard Fosterlane, stationer, William Thead of St. Michael le Querne alias Foster, hosier, William Swan of Coleman Street. Minute.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 363
1300 January 2.	Like dispensation for several inhabitants of Newcastle upon Tyne, viz., Ambrose Barnes, Richard Reighe, William Hutchinson, Jonathan Hutchinson, James Hargrave, Thomas Partis, Mathias Partis and Robert Holop. Minute.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 363
1301 January 2.	Like dispensation for several inhabitants of the City of London and Borough of Southwark, viz., William Steere of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, woolstapler, John Strong of the same, whitster, John Barnard of the same, woolstapler, William Smith of the same, blacksmith, William Roberts of St. Olave's, Southwark, gent., Samuel Bagnell of the same, dyer, Thomas Hodgson of Rotherhithe, miller, Humpry South of St. Mary, Whitechapel, mariner. Minute.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 364
1302 January 2.	Like dispensation for several inhabitants of Dartmouth, Devon, viz., Philip Carew, William Ball, Elias Newcomin, Edward Jeffreys, William Horsham and Samuel Sickes, tradesmen. Minute.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 364
1303 January 2.	Like dispensation for several inhabitants of Essex, viz., Robert Harris of Wimbish, Isaac Livermore of Weatherfield, Arthur Suckling of Little Bradfield, Andrew Hall of Finchingfield, Henry Bryer of Great Hollinbury, Richard Oslin of Chiswell, yeomen. Minute.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 364
1304 January 3.	The King to the President and Fellows of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Recommending Joshua Basset, B.D., one of the senior Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, for the mastership of Sidney Sussex College, now vacant.
	S.P. 44/57, p. 149
1305 January 3.	The King to the Attorney or Solicitor General. Warrant for a grant to Sir Robert Gordon, his executors, administrators and assigns of a special licence, full and sole power, privilege and authority to use, for the term of fourteen years, an engine which at great charge and study he has invented for drawing water both at the thrusting down and pulling up of the same rod or pumpstaff with valves going from both sides and fast in the middle; which may be of great advantage to the King's subjects in general.
	S.P. 44/70, p. 260
1306 January 3.	Warrant to all Archbishops, etc., for stay of process etc. against John Kenworthy of Staley in the parish of Moteram in Longdale, co. Chester, Samuel Ainger and Thomas Oldham of Stockport in the same county, and Robert Moseley of Glossup, co. Derby.
	In the margin: Mr. Brent.
	S.P. 44/337, pp. 171–2
1307 January 3.	Like warrant for Andrew Wyke, Robert Charterton, John Glathorne, and John Leeds of Manchester.
	In the margin: Mr. Brent.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 172
1308 January 4. London.	Newsletter to John Fenwick at the Swan, Newcastle. Upon the arrival of the Marshal de Scomburgh at Portsmouth on his way to Holland the Governor sent to compliment him and would have ordered him a sentinel at his lodging, which he refused. His Majesty has ordered the Earl of Feversham to write to him and let him know that if he would come hither he would be very well pleased to see him. But it's believed that he may by this time be embarked.
	Yesterday the Lord Treasurer sat to finish some matters that were before him and this day resigns his staff and has the pension mentioned in my last. The Commissioners are now declared to manage the Treasury.
	Lord Tyrconnell's equipage and coaches were put on ship board yesterday and next week he goes to take possession of the government of Ireland.
	On Thursday last died in this town one Dr. Standish, minister of some place in Hertfordshire, the presentation of whose living was in the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. They offered it to Dr. Stillingfleete, who has accepted it and will leave St. Andrew's, Holborn, and live in Hertfordshire. That of St. Andrew's is in the presentation of the Countess of Northumberland, who has given it to one of her chaplains.
	Vienna letters of the 26th advise that they are at work day and night in their magazines to prepare for the next campaign but that they talk no more of raising new troops or recruiting the old. Therefore it's believed the Emperor will make use of the troops of the Electors and other princes of the Empire. The Prince of Baden with General Schultz and many other principal officers are gone to pass the carnival at Venice. An Armenian is found among the Turkish prisoners who being turned Turk was their chief miner at Buda and being very expert in that art he has not only promised to embrace the Romish religion and serve the Emperor but has showed great faults committed by the Christian miners in the siege of Buda.
	Hague the 7th. Several English officers have been apprehended, tried and condemned to die for making the insult [assault] on Sir Robert Payton and several more are searched for that were concerned in it. But it's believed upon the least intercession of his Majesty of Great Britain their punishment will be remitted, since what they did was done in his favour. It's now as good as concluded that a fleet shall be equipped for the spring but as to the 10,000 seamen to be kept in yearly pay and the farther recruiting the land forces it is still under debate. To the first those of Amsterdam incline but to the latter demur, being desirous of a reduction there.
	Adm. 77/3, no. 47
1309 January 4.	Warrant to the Lord Lieutenant and Lord Deputy of Ireland—after reciting that he has transmitted to the High Treasurer of England the petition of the six trumpeters and kettledrummer ordered to attend the State of Ireland setting forth that they had always liveries allowed them yearly provided by the chief governor and that they have been four years without new liveries, for want whereof they are not equipped as they ought to be—to give order for the making of new liveries for them at the best and cheapest rate and to issue orders to the Receiver General to pay for the same.
	S.O. 1/12, p. 146
1310 January 5.	The Earl of Sunderland to Sir Robert Holmes. The King being informed that Mons. le Maréchal Schomberg has some horse on board a ship which came from Portugal, would have you give order that they may be landed without paying any duties and embarked again after a few days when they are to go away.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 358
1311 January 5.	Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a Great Seal constituting Richard, Earl of Tyrconnell, as Lord Deputy of Ireland, with similar powers as contained in letters patent constituting Henry, Earl of Clarendon, as Lord Lieutenant, and with a clause determining the said letters patent within fourteen days of the Government being delivered up to the Earl of Tyrconnell by the Earl of Clarendon.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 173
1312 January 6.	Dispensation for some inhabitants of Exeter and Devon, viz., Thomas Savery of Exeter, merchant, Robert Tristram of the same, merchant, Matthew Combe of the same, tailor, John Dennis of the same, carpenter, William Packer of the same, gent., Zachery Humphrey of the same, butcher, George Buley of Crediton, sergemaker. Minute.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 365
1313 January 6.	Memoranda of letters from the Earl of Sunderland, similar of that of Dec. 8, 1686, to Lord Jermyn (see no. 1220 above), to Mr. Shackerley in behalf of Mr. Peter Goodin going to Chester; to the Earl of Plymouth in behalf of Mr. Richard Frane going to Hull; and to the Earl of Bath in behalf of Mr. Christopher Turner going to Plymouth.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 356
1314 January 7.	Dispensation for some inhabiting in and near the city of London, viz., Nehemiah Cox of Lime Street, physician, John Peck of St. Giles Cripplegate, brewer, Elizabeth Nightingall of St. Botolph's Bishopsgate, widow, William Collins of St. Saviour's Southwark, gent., Thomas Hopgood of the same, shoemaker, Benjamin Wilmot of St. Olave's Southwark, hat dyer, Tobias Ingram of St. Giles in the Fields, smith. Minutes.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 365
1315 January 7.	Like dispensation for Graves Weaver of St. Bennet Gracechurch, baker, Benjamin Ward of St. Margaret New Fish Street, goldsmith, William Short of St. Giles Cripplegate, sugar baker, John Thorougood of St. Sepulchre's, cutler, John Oakes of St. Dunstan's Stepney, gent., William Kining of St. Dunstan's East, plumber, John Atkins of St. Saviour's Southwark, dyer. Minute.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 365
1316 January 7.	Like dispensation for John Bankes of St. Bennet's Paul's Wharf, merchant, James Tinlocke of St. Michael Queenhythe, soap boiler, John Tyler of St. Michael Crooked Lane, draper, John Belchere of St. Botolph Aldgate, linen draper, William Hodges of the same, slopseller, Robert Reynolds of St. Giles Cripplegate, timber merchant, and James Cole of St. Dunstan's Stepney, weaver. Minute.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 366
1317 January 7.	The King to the Master and Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge. Signifying that he has dispensed Thomas Man, M.A., one of the Fellows of that college, who is desirous to apply himself to the study of physic, from the obligation to take any degree except in the faculty of physic, and requiring them nevertheless to permit him to enjoy his fellowship with all rights, privileges, etc., thereunto belonging, any statute, custom or constitution to the contrary notwithstanding.
	S.P. 44/57, p. 150
1318 January 7.	Dispensation in the usual form for Morgan Randyll, High Sheriff of Surrey, to be out of his country. Minute.
	S.P. 44/70, p. 259
1319 January 7.	Grant of denization to Abraham le Conte, merchant.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 173
1320 January 7.	The King to the Prince of Orange. I had yours of the 7 (N.S.) on Tuesday last, but having been a-hunting received it so late that I could not then by that post let you know I had received it. I suppose by this M. D'Albeville has been with you, who, amongst other things, I had charged to tell you of the change I had resolved to make in the Treasury (so that I need not repeat it), which is now done. As for other news, the Marshal de Schomberg is come hither, having been driven back from the coast of Holland by bad weather to Portsmouth. He intends to go back thither to embark again upon the Dutch man-of-war. As the winds are now and like to continue he will, I [am] confident, be soon with you.
	Holograph. S.P. 8/4, no. 20
1321 January 8.	The King to Henry, Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Warrant to cause letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of Ireland constituting Richard, Earl of Tyrconnell, Deputy of Ireland and within one week after the receipt of these letters to deliver up the Sword of Estate to him, administering to him the oath of Deputy and no other.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 189 and S.O. 1/12, p. 148
1322 January 8.	The same to the same. Warrant to give order for putting the names of Sir Charles Meredith, Francis, Earl of Longford, Murrough, Viscount Blessington, and Robert Fitzgerald, esq., who have been removed from the Council of Ireland, out of the Council books and for discharging them from further attendance.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 190
1323 January 8. London.	Newsletter to John Fenwick, Newcastle. The Earl of Rochester since resigning his staff is now returned to his house at Twitnam.
	The Marshall de Scomburgh was yesterday entertained with a view of his Majesty's Guards who were drawn up in Hyde Park. As he came to this town he was very handsomely entertained by Mr. Savill at Bury [sic—? Bushey] and brought hither in the Lord President's coach.
	The French have taken a castle in Hudson's Bay where the French had their chief factory.
	Last night his Majesty ordered a proclamation to be published for the further proroguing of Parliament till April 28.
	Flanders letters are arrived this day with an account from Vienna that the deputies from Transylvania are arrived there with the ratifications of the contributions demanded by General Carraffa for the subsistence of the Imperial troops in Upper Hungary. They have agreed to give 10,000 rations daily, one half to be paid in money and the other in corn, which they are to carry to the Imperial troops at a florin less per measure than the ordinary contribution. A famous engineer has given an exact plan of the fortifications of Alba Regalis and the places by which it may be easily attacked. It's uncertain whether they will attempt it this winter or reserve it for the opening of the next campaign. However, 5,000 bombs and 3,000 cannon bullets to be shot red hot are ready to be sent into Hungary.
	The city of Derbethine having refused to pay the contributions demanded by the Emperor because the Bassaw of Warradine had threatened to destroy the country with fire and sword, General Carraffa sent immediately 6,000 men for their security. The express was arrived at Vienna with an account that General Thungen with 500 horse and 250 foot had taken the lower town of Zigeth full of forage, provisions and cattle. They carried away the greatest part and burnt the rest with the town and retired with a great many prisoners and no loss.
	From Flanders they write that the business about the limits of Namur is adjusted, his Excellency having given Walcott and another village between the Sambre and Meuse as an equivalent for those lands of Namur which shall remain in the hands of the French till the truce be expired and the peace concluded.
	This day his Majesty's proclamation was published for proroguing Parliament. Sir Charles Porter, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, being on his return for England with Lord Clarendon, Sir Alexander Fitton is declared Chancellor. Mr. Whiteakre, that was famous in managing the trial of Fitzharris at Oxford and a busy man in all the troublesome factious times and has been absented ever since, was seized yesterday at the Angel and Crown, behind the Exchange, with one Ellis and two or three more. It's said he is outlawed for high treason and is now committed close prisoner.
	Marshal de Scomburgh has kissed his Majesty's hand.
	Adm. 77/3, no. 48
1324 January 8.	Warrant to the Lord Lieutenant and Lord Deputy of Ireland to cause Viscount Nethervile to be sworn of the Privy Council of Ireland.
	S.O. 1/12, p. 147
1325 January 8.	Notes of like warrants for Matthew, Lord Louth, John, Lord Bellew, Sir William Talbott, Col. Richard Butler, Anthony Hamilton, esq., Thomas Sheridan, esq., and Simon Lutterell, esq.
	S.O. 1/12, p. 147
1326 January 9.	Dispensation for several inhabitants of the City of London, viz., Richard Jackson of All Hallow's Stayning, tailor, John Gildersly of St. Peter's Paul's Wharf, dyer, Richard House of St. Andrew's Wardrobe, feltmaker, William Mosely of Brick Lane, shuttlemaker, Robert Collyer of St. Peter's Poore, yeoman, Charles Barksdale of London, merchant, John Barksdale of the same, merchant, Thomas Hollis, sen., of the Minories, cutler, Thomas Hollis, jun., of the same, cutler. Minutes.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 366
1327 January 9.	Like dispensation for some inhabitants of Leicestershire, viz., William Massey of Harborough, gent., William Billers of the borough of Leicester, gent., William Bent, of Little Stretton, gent., William Lewis of Foxton, gent., William Biggs, Thomas Webster, Jeremiah Parker, William Orton. Minute.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 366
1328 January 9.	Like dispensation for two inhabitants of Lyme Regis, Dorset, viz., Amos Short, John Kerridge, gents. Minute.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 367
1329 January 9.	Like dispensation for two inhabitants of Devon, viz., Robert Collins of St. Mary Ottery, gent., John Short of Axmouth, gent. Minute.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 367
1330 January 9.	The Earl of Sunderland to Dr. Sharpe. I have read your petition to the King, who allows you to return to the execution of your function as formerly.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 358
1331 January 9.	Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for George, Lord Jeffreys, Lord Chancellor, Robert, Earl of Sunderland, Lord President and Principal Secretary of State, John, Earl of Mulgrave, Lord Chamberlain, Theophilus, Earl of Huntingdon, Nathaniel, Lord Bishop of Durham, Thomas, Lord Bishop of Rochester, and Sir Edward Herbert, knt., Chief Justice of the Pleas, to be Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes.
	S.P. 44/337, pp. 173–4
1332 January 10.	Pardon to Cheyney Culpeper for manslaughter, whereof he stands convicted for killing Francis Minshall, and of all indictments etc. incurred by reason thereof.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 174
1333 January 10.	Warrant to all Archbishops, etc., to stay all process etc. against John Cooke of Newcastle, apothecary, John Lemon, sen., of the same, merchant, Samuel Chicken of the same, merchant, George Carre of the same, merchant and Leonard Johnson of the same, tobacconist.
	In the margin: Mr. Brent.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 175
1334 January 10.	Like warrant for John Mansfeild of Rowell, co. Northampton, plumber, Peter Ashton of Little Bowden, baker, Thomas Webb of Isham, draper, Dorcas, wife of John Dole of Bristol, silkweaver, and Abigail, wife of Wm. Smith of Ireland, merchant (the two last persons are now prisoners in Exeter Gaol).
	S.P. 44/337, p. 175
1335 January 10.	Instructions to Richard, Earl of Tyrconnell, Lord Deputy of Ireland. Virtually identical with those issued to the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant, Nov. 30, 1685.
	S.P. 63/340, pp. 190–208
1336 [January.]	Commissions which the Earl of Tyrconnell took over with him.
	Duke of Ormonde's Regiment of Horse: Col. Theodore Russell, lieut.-colonel with a brevet of colonel; Sir Neile O'Neile, captain in Lord Kingston's room; Nicholas Purcell in Capt. Boyle's room; William Nugent in Capt. Aunger's room; Earl of Limerick in Lord Blessington's room; Ulick Bourke lieutenant to Capt. Nicholas Purcell; Richard Butler cornet to the Earl of Limerick; George Barnwell cornet to Capt Carne; — Grace, capt.-lieutenant.
	Earl of Tyrconnell's Regiment of Horse: Nicholas Cusack capt.-lieutenant; Henry Dillon lieutenant to Walter, Lord Dungan; John Nugent cornet to the same; Francis Meara lieutenant to the Earl of Mountalexander; John Roche cornet to Lord Blany; John Nugent lieutenant to Dominick Sheldon; Edmund Butler cornet to the same.
	Earl of Ardglasse's Regiment of Horse: Edward Butler capt.-lieutenant; Walter Bourke lieutenant to Lord Galmoy; Capt. Arthur Dillon lieutenant to Sir Charles Hamilton; Callahan Macallahan cornet to the Earl of Clancartie; Roger Jeffreys cornet to Capt. Anderson; Sir Charles Hamilton captain in Francis Hamilton's room.
	Col. Richard Hamilton's Regiment of Dragoons: Major William Hungate to have Simon Luterell's troop; John Gaydon cornet to Col. James Dempsey.
	Col. Russell's Regiment of Foot: Anthony Hamilton to be colonel; Edward Kindellan capt.-lieutenant; Christopher Barnwell lieutenant to Capt. Rolleston; Morgan Lloyd captain of grenadiers in Capt. Dering's room; William Sheridan ensign to Capt. Arthur; Thomas Purcell ensign to James Eastland.
	Sir Thomas Newcomen's Regiment of Foot: Col. Richard Grace to have Capt. Arthur Dillon's company and to be Governor of Athlone; Jeffrey Connell ensign to the colonel; Simon Lutterell lieut.-colonel; Walter Nugent captain in Charles Poyntz's room; Henry Edgeworth lieutenant to Major Purcell; Hugh Roick lieutenant to Col. Richard Grace; William Nettervile lieutenant to Capt. Leighton; — Dungan lieutenant to Walter Nugent; Eustace White lieutenant to Richard Butler; John White lieutenant to Sir Maurice Eustace; Thomas Lutterell ensign to Sir John Devillier.
	Lord Forbes's Regiment of Foot: William Talbott major; George Newcomen captain in Sir Thomas Newcomen's room; — Newcomen ensign to him; Col. Harvey captain in the room of Thomas Whitney; Francis Slingesby lieutenant to Lieut.-Col. William Tuite; Charles Moly lieutenant to Capt. Newcomen; Thomas Colt lieutenant to Capt. Richard Eustace; Anthony Mallone lieutenant to Sir John Edgeworth; Richard Barnwell ensign to the major.
	Lord Mountjoy's Regiment of Foot: John Bourke captain in Robert Lucas's room; Richard Plunkett lieutenant to Capt. Pierce Lacy; Constantine Neale lieutenant to Capt. William Butler; John Talbott lieutenant to Lieut.-Col. Robert Lundy.
	Major-Gen. Macartie's Regiment of Foot: Edward Fitzgerald captain in George Stoughton's room; Henry Sheridan ensign to Capt. —.
	Col. Fairfax's Regiment of Foot: Major John Hamilton lieut.-colonel, with John Beversham's company; John Talbott ensign to him; Arthur Fitton lieutenant to Lord Louth; Florence Fitzpatrick lieutenant to Sir Richard Rooth; Silvester Matthews ensign to the lieut.-colonel; Thomas Talbott ensign to Major Marcus Talbott.
	Regiment of Foot Guards: Thomas Arundell captain in Richard Morris's room; Daniel O'Neale lieutenant to Capt. Bruno Talbott; Philip Terrett lieutenant to Capt. Anthony Rodney; Mountjoy Blunt ensign to Thomas Arthur; Andrew Dorrington ensign to Wentworth Harman; Thomas Clayton ensign to Thomas Flower; Nicholas Stafford ensign to Edward Ford.
	S.P. 63/340, pp. 209–12
1337 January 11.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The King being informed that Mr. Robert Midgeley, Bachelor of Physic, has yours and the Bishop of London's deputation for licensing books, etc., to be printed, would have the said deputations continued to him.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 358
1338 January 11.	The King to the Master and Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge. Signifying that, on humble suit made to him, he has dispensed with any statute which in respect of his county or otherwise may obstruct John Chester, B.A., from being elected a Fellow of that college, and authorizing them to elect him.
	S.P. 44/57, p. 151
1339 January 11.	Warrant to Sir Richard Raines, knt., Judge of the High Court of Admiralty— after reciting that information has been received that the ship Andalusia, whereof Captain John Jacobs is commander and —, Price, supercargo, which has arrived or is expected in the River Thames, has committed several piracies and violences in the East Indies and has also traded within the limits of the East India Company's Charter contrary to law—for seizing the said ship with the goods, commander, supercargo, officers, seamen, and passengers, and to keep them in safe custody in order to their being examined and further proceeded against.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 176
1340 Janury 12.	The King to the President and Fellows of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Requiring them to elect and admit Joshua Basset, recommended to them by letters dated January 3, to the mastership of that college without administering any oaths which have been dispensed with in his behalf.
	S.P. 44/57, p. 150
1341 January 12.	Presentation of Thomas Spencer, clerk, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, to the rectory of Methley in the diocese of York. Minute.
	S.P. 44/57, p. 152
1342 January 12.	Warrant to Thomas Cheek, Lieutenant of the Tower of London—after reciting that Charles Gerard, Lord Brandon, has given bail for his appearance from time to time when required and for not departing the Kingdom without first obtaining a licence—forthwith to discharge and set at liberty the said Charles Gerard, Lord Brandon.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 176
1343 January 12.	Warrant to James, Duke of Ormond, Lord Steward of the Household, to swear and admit Col. Thomas Stradling to the quality of Serjeant Porter in the room and place of Sir Henry Progers, deceased.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 177
1344 January 12.	Warrant in the usual form for discharging Timothy Robinson of Greenwich, cook, Thomas Oliver of Deptford, blacksmith, Samuel Lane of the same, shipwright, John Trapp of the same, house carpenter, John Archer of the same, blacksmith, Jane Spilman of St. Olive's, Southwark, widow, and Theophilus Griffith of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, feltmonger.
	In the margin: Mr. Brent.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 177
1345 January 13.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Mayor of Gloucester. I have received yours of the 5th with a letter and another scandalous infamous paper enclosed. The King is very well satisfied with your care and diligence, which he doubts not but you will continue.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 359
1346 January 13.	Dispensation in the usual form to Hugh Bodurda, High Sheriff of the county of Carnarvon, to be out of his county. Minute.
	S.P. 44/70, p. 263
1347 January 13.	The King to Henry, Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal. Warrant conveying instructions for the bestowal of arms on the King's natural son, James Fitzjames, his heirs and descendants; in consideration both of the King's affection for him and of his early courage signalized in the late siege of Buda.
	S.P. 44/337, pp. 177–8
1348 January 13.	Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General—after reciting that Thomas Stubbs of Stapleton, co. Gloucester, was indicted 36 Car. II for saying that the late King had broken his Coronation oath with the Scots, which indictment was removed by certiorari to the Crown Office and judgment entered by default; and that on an information filed against the said Thomas Stubbs 35 Car. II judgment was likewise entered for saying that Sir John Newton and — Meredith, Justices of the Peace, made use of the King's commission for worrying him and — Creswick out of their estates, and whereas it is reported that the said Thomas Stubbs has through the whole course of his life manifested constant loyalty to the Crown—to enter a noli prosequi on record of the said judgments and discharge all proceedings thereupon.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 179
1349 January 13.	Warrant to the same to cause a nolli prosequi to be entered on an indictment against Francis Creswick for having held correspondence with the late rebels in the West.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 147
1350 January 13. London.	Newsletter to John Fenwick at the Swan, Newcastle. On the 5th a Dutch ship of about 500 tons laden with corn for Lisbon was driven into Falmouth, having been foul of another ship, broke in all her upper work, so will be forced to stay there till repaired. She came out with 23 sail more from Holland with their convoy who were separated in the storm. Several other vessels are arrived there from Bordeaux, the masters whereof affirm that the French King has commanded the men-of-war that lay in the river (to search all vessels from carrying away the French Protestants) to sail thence with the first wind for Brest.
	On Sunday we had an account that the Adalasea, an interloper from the East Indies, was seen off Dover very richly laden and was expected up the river but yesterday we had advice from Portsmouth that she was arrived there, being forced back by contrary winds and having lost her rudder and sprung a leak. She has been gone about two years, Captain Jacob commander, in all which time they have had but three men dead. It's said the owners have got liberty for her safe coming in and that the East India Company will buy all her loading, being calicoes and saltpetre, to prevent the fall of their own goods. From Constantinople they write that an Envoy is arrived from the Emperor of Persia complaining that the Bassaw of Erzerum has plundered the Persian caravans contrary to the treaty between the two empires and that the Grand Signior immediately despatched a chiaux to strangle the Bassaw and the authors of the infraction of the peace. But it was believed the affair would not end so, the Persian Envoy insisting on a reimbursement of what the merchants lost, which amounts to several millions.
	Letters from Hamburg advise that since the Resident of Brandenburg had acquainted the Magistrates that the Danish troops were in perpetual motion in Holstein and that General Arendorffe was to review them near Itzco the captains of the burghers have been assembled, who ordered the guards to be reinforced with two companies as also the five sconces without the town, that they may be able to make a good defence if they be attacked, and the senators who were sent to thank the Elector of Brandenburg and the Prince of Lunenburg for their late assistance have desired them to continue it, which they very readily promised.
	Yesterday Lord Brandon Gerrard was bailed out of the Tower, having four securities bound in 5,000l. each and himself in 10,000l. Mr. Dryden, Poet Laureate, is made Warden of All Souls' College, Oxford. Yesterday the Earl of Tyrconnell went hence for Ireland.
	Christened 297, buried 389, increase in burials 2.
	Adm. 77/3, no. 49
1351 January 13.	The King to Sir Charles Porter, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Warrant to deliver the Great Seal of Ireland into the hands of the Lord Deputy, to be disposed of as directed.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 212
1352 January 13.	Warrant to the Earl of Tyrconnell, Lord Deputy of Ireland—after reciting that the King has thought fit to ease Sir Charles Porter of the place of Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal of Ireland and has resolved to confer the same on Sir Alexander Fitton, as a person of whose learning, uprightness and constant loyalty he is well satisfied —to cause letters patent to be passed containing a grant to Sir Alexander Fitton, knt., of that office, and of all powers, jurisdictions, privileges, etc., enjoyed by Sir Charles Porter, Michael, Archbishop of Armagh, Sir Maurice Eustace or any other, during pleasure; and to cause the usual oath of counsellor to be administered to him and to deliver him the Great Seal.
	S.O. 1/12, p. 149
1353 January 14.	Dispensation for some persons inhabiting in and near the City of London, viz., Robert Barsby of St. Stephen Wallbrook, boxmaker, John Garlicke of St. Michael Querne, milliner, Samuel Thompson of St. Mary Aldermary, barber, John Tridwell of Stepney parish, weaver, John Farmer of St. Gregory's, tallow chandler, Edmund Jenks of St. Anne Aldersgate, scalemaker, Katherine Poumley of the same, widow, James Cocomb of St. Botolph Aldgate, bricklayer, Thomas Capell of St. Stephen [sic] Harts Street, blacksmith, Richard Wates of St. Stephen Walbrook, factor, George Coles of the same, skinner. Minute.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 367
1354 January 14.	Like dispensation for some inhabitants of Northamptonshire, viz., Robert Tebbut, mason, and Susanna his wife, Thomas Chambers, blacksmith, Frances Chambers, spinster, Susanna Browning, widow, Jonathan Wells, carpenter, all of Rowell; John Percivall of Weekley, husbandman. Minute.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 367
1355 January 14.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Earl of Gainsborough. The King having received an account that the Andaluzia, an East India interloper, which has committed divers piracies there, is come into Portsmouth, and having given order for securing her, the commander, men and goods on board, would have you give order that the persons employed for the seizure have all fitting assistance from the officers and others in the garrison.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 359
1356 January 14.	Reference to the Attorney General, to give order as he shall think fit, of the petition of David Grant for a noli prosequi; showing that having been forced to sue several persons for recovery of tithes and other things, they indicted him for barratry and thereby became witnesses.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 309
1357 January 14.	Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General to prepare a bill to pass the Great Seal containing a grant to Daniel Arthur, late of London, merchant, now residing in Paris, and to his family, for enabling them to be naturalized in France and for safeguarding their estate notwithstanding such naturalization.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 180
1358 January 15.	The King to the Sub-Warden and Fellows of All Souls' College, Oxford. Recommending Leopold Finch, esq., M.A., one of the Fellows of that college, for the place of Warden, vacant by the death of Dr. Thomas James, the late Warden.
	S.P. 44/57, p. 152
1359 January 17.	The King to the Attorney General. Warrant to prepare a bill containing a general pardon to Laurence, Earl of Rochester.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 371
1360 January 18.	Dispensation in the usual form, for Samuel Jones, esq., High Sheriff of Berks., to repair to his dwelling house in Wiltshire or any other part of the Kingdom out of his county.
	S.P. 44/70, p. 261
1361 January 18. London.	Newsletter to John Fenwick at the Swan, Newcastle. Letters from Portsmouth say that the Marshal de Scomburgh being forced back by contrary winds his Majesty has ordered a yacht to transport him.
	On Saturday Sherindine, secretary to Lord Tyrconnell, took post for Chester, where he hopes to be before Lord Tyrconnell.
	The Warden of All Souls' College, Oxford, being lately dead, his Majesty has sent a mandamus to the Fellows to choose Mr. Finch, Lord Winchelsea's son.
	The indisposition of the Queen Dowager is much better and every day adds to her health.
	Dr. Sharpe preached last Sunday at his parish church at St. Giles's to a very numerous assembly and to their great satisfaction.
	On Saturday the Duke of Cray, one of the Imperial generals, arrived at Harwich and this day came to town, to the Imperial Envoy's house.
	Flanders letters advise that the Governor has received advice from the frontiers that the French troops are drawing together in those parts with design to bombard Mons or Aieth on pretence that the 500,000 crowns were not paid at Cadiz, whereupon his Excellency ordered seventeen companies of the Spanish regiments to march to Mons and ten to Aieth and all the officers were commanded to their garrisons within 24 hours upon pain of cashiering. But when these letters came away none of the French troops were in motion.
	On Sunday Lord Chief Justice Herbert was at church at Whitehall in the Prince's chapel both forenoon and afternoon. I write this to let you see how malicious the people here are, for there has been a report spread that he had declared himself a Roman Catholic.
	Spanish letters advise that the English Ambassador in that Court much presses what he demanded in his memorial, but that hitherto he has only procured the liberty of the English merchants that were in prison at St. Sebastian. The Marquess de Lass Bellbasses is ordered to go from Italy to Vienna, being charged with a very secret commission of great importance.
	By a Holland ship that arrived at Venice we received advice that two Turkey ships richly laden that went hence were cast away in their way to Turkey. The Providence of London foundered at sea near Plymouth the 10th. On Sunday night Lord Bellasis sat in the Cabinet Council as First Commissioner of the Treasury. Yesterday the Governors of the Charterhouse met and elected the Earl of Berkeley Governor in the room of Mr. Coventry, deceased. On Saturday the sessions of the peace ending, the Dukes of Somerset and Northumberland, Lords Arundell of Wardour, Powis, Bellasis and Petre and divers officers of the army, etc., to the number of sixty, were inserted in the commission for new Justices of Middlesex. His Majesty has ordered the Clerk of the Peace of Middlesex to dismiss several appeals that were brought last sessions of conventicles and also to restore what money has been levied on Dissenters.
	Adm. 77/3, no. 56
1362 January 18.	The Earl of Halifax to the Prince of Orange, commenting on the decision to prorogue Parliament and pointing out that, because of the Nation's aversion to change, it is thought the prevailing party will mend their pace. (fn. 1)
	Holograph. S.P. 8/1, pt. 2, fols. 92–93
1363 January 18.	The King to the Prince of Orange. I had yours of the 21 (N.S.) on Sunday last by which I find M. D'Albeville was arrived at the Hague and had given you an account of what I had charged him to say to you, and that you had charged M. Dykvelt (whom the States are sending over hither) to impart several things to me from you. If the winds have been with you as they have been here for these two days last, I believe the frost to be at an end with you, though it be but just begun with us here . . . and till yesterday morning the canal in the Park has not been frozen.
	Holograph. S.P. 8/4, no. 21
1364 January 19.	The King to Gervase Price, esq., Keeper of the Park of St. James. Warrant— after reciting the petition of George, Lord Jeffreys, High Chancellor of England, who has hired a dwelling-house near the brick wall of the park in the range of buildings between Webb's and Story's houses—to allow the workmen employed by him to build one or more rooms on such vacant piece of ground as he shall choose between those buildings and the park wall and to pull down or make use of part of that wall to build the said rooms; and to make a passage from his house into the park in such manner as he shall appoint; which rooms and passage he is permitted to use during pleasure.
	S.P. 44/70, p. 262
1365 January 19.	Approbation of Sir Nicholas Butler to be a Deputy Lieutenant of Middlesex.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 373
1366 January 20.	Direction to the Clerk of the Signet Attending, on the petition of William Beale of Gloucester, to prepare a bill for granting him the beadsman's place in the cathedral church of Gloucester vacant by the death of William Beavan.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 309
1367 January 20.	Warrant to George, Lord Dartmouth, Master General of the Ordnance— after reciting that leave having been given to the Governor of the East India Company to fit out two doggers from Holland for discovering a passage by the North-East to China and Japan, the design, meeting with some disturbance, was given over; that the stores provided for the same having been since brought over from Holland, which by law is prohibited otherwise than for the King's service, are seized by order of the Commissioners of the Customs, viz., fifty firelock muskets, six brass musketoons and 24 back swords: and that it is the King's pleasure that those stores be delivered by the Commissioners to the Master General of the Ordnance—to deliver or cause the same to be delivered to the Governor of the East India Company or such persons as he shall appoint, to be by him shipped to the East Indies for the service of Fort St. George.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 372
1368 January 20.	The Earl of Halifax to the Prince of Orange. At the request of Mr. Fielding and at the recommendation of my Lord Nottingham your Highness will, I hope, give me leave to present this young man to you whose friends are ambitious to place him as a Page in your own or the Princess's family. He is cousin-german to my Lord of Denby, a young nobleman now abroad; his father is Prebend of Salisbury and very well esteemed. He doth not pretend to an immediate admittance but is willing to wait till there may be a vacancy after your Highness shall have satisfied your preengagements to any other pretenders of the same kind. Having made this request in the behalf of another, I must make one in my own, which is, that your Highness will consider my part in this as it is, and that you will believe that in this as well as in all other cases I offer nothing but upon the terms of respect and resignation that shall eternally be paid to you by the most devoted of your servants.
	Holograph. S. P. 8/1, pt. 2, fols. 94–95
1369 January 21.	Dispensation for some inhabitants of Dartmouth, Devon, viz., John Flavell, John Shepheard, Thomas Alwin, Thomas Plumbeigh, Deborah Brockendon, Elizabeth Huckmore, Silvanus Evans and Samuel Bueley. Minute.
	S. P. 44/54, p. 368
1370 January 21.	Commissions to Simon Duffe, to be lieutenant of Lieut.-Col. Philip Kirke's company and to George Wescombe to be lieutenant of Capt. Thomas Barbour's company, both in the Queen Dowager's Regiment of Foot. Minutes.
	S. P. 44/164, p. 373
1371 January 21.	The King to Henry, Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal. Warrant for bestowing a coat of arms on the King's natural son, Henry Fitzjames, his heirs and descendants, in consideration of the King's affection for him and for the hopes he gives of his future courage and conduct.
	At the foot: This warrant was afterwards signed again and altered as above and dated February 22.
	S.P. 44/337, pp. 180–1
1372 January 22.	Commission to Marmaduke, Lord Langdale, to be colonel and captain of a troop in that Regiment of Horse whereof Charles, Earl of Shrewsbury, was late colonel. Minute.
	S. P. 44/164, p. 373
1373 January 22. London.	Newsletter to John Fenwick at the Swan, Newcastle. Vienna letters of the 16th say that the funeral obsequies of the late Empress Dowager were solemnized for three days together, their Imperial Majesties with all the Court assisting in the ceremony, after which orders were given to discharge her domestics.
	The Duke of Lorraine has nominated the Prince Elector Palatine, Count de Tarrora and the Count Ollingham to divide and receive the estate of the late Empress. The Emperor to accord expenses will not allow above seventy persons in the train of the Muscovite Ambassadors: the surplus of their train must be maintained by themselves. The Emperor has commanded the inhabitants of Styria and other territories adjoining Lower Hungary to furnish provisions both for men and horse for the garrison of the Five Churches. The Franciscan friar after he had prepared at Raab all necessaries for bombarding Agria came back to Vienna for some days but returned again with some workmen to assist him and is since gone with 400 wagons towards Upper Hungary where General Carraffa has assembled his troops. The Turks desert in great numbers from Agria and Alba Regalis, several being taken by the Imperialists.
	Yesterday Count Caunitz, Envoy from the Emperor, had his audience here.
	The Princess of Denmark was indisposed and having had a jolt in her coach is miscarried but is as well as can be expected in her condition.
	About one on Friday morning broke out a fire in Holborn Court, Gray's Inn, which burned down about forty chambers, spoiled part of the chapel and quite burned down the Pipe Office where several records of the Exchequer were kept.
	The Sieur Dickvild is daily expected from Holland about the affairs of the East India Company. I am told they have laid the matter before the King and will not meddle with it themselves.
	Marshall Scomburgh is returned from Portsmouth and was robbed of a great deal of money by some persons who took it out of his house. All care imaginable is taken for apprehending the felons.
	The council of war that sat on three men that ran from their ships at Portsmouth found them all guilty: one is to be whipped on board three guard ships and the others to be hanged. There is a petition for their pardon and the execution is deferred till an answer be sent.
	Letters from Chester say that the Earl of Tyrconnell approaching that place was met by the Bishop and conducted thither in his coach. He was received by the Mayor, Aldermen and citizens in the usual manner. He lodged at the Bishop's palace where he had a splendid supper and next morning at his departure was saluted by the cannon from the Castle, the Marquess of Worcester's Regiment being drawn up as they were also the day before. His Excellency went in the stage coach to Beaumaris, where he expected the yacht to transport him to Ireland.
	Yesterday the Council took notice of several complaints against the affairs of the new insurance and will have a full hearing next Council day.
	Sir John Norton, bart., of Hampshire, a member of Parliament, is lately dead and much lamented.
	Adm. 77/3, no. 51
1374 January 24.	Bill of extraordinaries of Charles, Lord Lansdowne, Envoy Extraordinary to Spain from 1 November, 1685 to 1 May, 1686, amounting to 599l. 17s. 0d.
	At the foot: I allow this bill except the last particular (viz. 58l. 16s. for secret intelligences). Sunderland.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 182
1375 January 24.	Warrant to the Lord Lieutenant and Lord Deputy of Ireland to give orders for payment to James, Viscount Ikeryn or his assigns of a pension of 100l. per annum, which the King has allowed him in consideration of the sufferings of his family out of the revenue of Ireland by placing the same on the list of pensions in the establishment there; the same to be paid quarterly during pleasure.
	S.O. 1/12, p. 150
1376 January 25.	The Earl of Sunderland to Mr. Pepys. His Majesty would have you send order to Sir William Jennings at Portsmouth that the Andalusia, lately arrested by his Majesty's order, be not suffered to come away and that no goods be conveyed out of her, and particularly in the yacht which is to bring the men of the ship to London.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 359
1377 January 25.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Duke of Newcastle. I have acquainted his Majesty with yours of the 21st. He would have you confine Lord Kingston and Sir John Parsons or take such order as you shall judge most effectual for preventing a duel between them, which he thinks you have sufficient authority to do as Lord Lieutenant.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 360
1378 January 25.	The King to the Prince of Orange. Yesterday, after I came from hunting, I received yours of the 28 (N.S.) by which I find that though it thawed and the wind was westerly the rivers were still full of ice, which thought made the Marshal Schomberg resolve to go in a yacht from hence. He sailed from Greenwich yesterday in the afternoon. The wind was favourable enough then but is not good for him now, so that without it change again he is like to have an ill passage out . . . I was at a play in the town this afternoon, and 'tis now late so have not time to say more.
	Holograph. S.P. 8/4, no. 22
1379 January 25. London.	Newsletter to John Fenwick at the Swan, Newcastle. Yesterday Marshal Scomburgh parted hence to embark on the yacht his Majesty has ordered to transport him to Holland.
	The Princess of Denmark is very well since her miscarriage of a son. The Queen Dowager is perfectly recovered also.
	His Majesty has given the Earl of Shrewsbury's Regiment of Horse to Lord Langdale, but it's yet uncertain who will have Lord Lumley's, there are three candidates, the Earl of Carlingford, Lord Dunbar and Mr. Bernard Howard.
	Letters from Scotland of the 15th advise that on the Friday before died Lord Patrick Murray. The same day the Duke of Queensberry came to Edinburgh with a great train of gentlemen and others. The day before came the Marquess of Atholl, Lord Privy Seal.
	Letters from Poland advise that the conferences were daily continued with the Muscovite Ambassadors but would be quickly ended and the Ambassadors have their audience of leave, but would send back a great part of their train (which stands them in 7000 florins weekly) to Moscow with the Ambassador of the King of Poland, who is sending thither several letters from the Governor of Alba Regalis to the Grand Vizier, intercepted by the Imperialist and deciphered. They impart that the garrison consists of 4000 men but that not above 700 are courageous, that they are in great want of provisions, that the soldiers begin to mutiny for their pay, that the fortifications were out of repair and that if not relieved before the Christian army came into the field they should not be able to make any considerable defence.
	Our last letters from the West speak of several other vessels come thither from Bordeaux with many French Protestants, who confirm that the French soldiers and men-of-war were drawn off from the sea-ports so that they have liberty to transport themselves, and that they are not so severe against them as formerly. A Dutch manof-war that had rid some time at Stokes Bay by reason of contrary winds sailed by Spithead for Holland the 22nd.
	Last week Mr. Johnson, one of the late judges in Ireland, died and was interred in the Temple Church. On Sunday an order of the Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Affairs was read in several churches, importing that it has been the practice of late years for the ministers of privileged places to marry without licence to the dishonour and ruin of many families, and to prevent the like for the future all parsons, vicars, etc. are prohibited to marry without licence or banns.
	Sir John Knight of Bristol appeared yesterday and is still continued on bail.
	Adm. 77/3, no. 52
1380 January 26.	The King to the Recorder of London and the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex. Warrant for a reprieve to John Clarke, who at the last sessions of gaol delivery held at the Old Bailey was found guilty of the murder of Anne Parsons and sentenced to death and would have been executed this day had not a more than usual incident intervened.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 369
1381 January 26.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Earl of Bath. The King having appointed Mr. Christopher Turner to say Mass and assist his Roman Catholic subjects in garrison in the citadel of Plymouth, would have you give order that a convenient place be provided in the citadel as well for Mr. Turner's lodging as for the exercise of his function.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 360
1382 January 26.	Commission to Francis Haggerston to be ensign of Lieut.-Col. Philip Kirke's company in the Queen Dowager's Regiment of Foot. Minute.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 374
1383 January 27.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Mayor of Bristol. I have received a letter signed by you and several of the Aldermen enclosing a treasonable libel which was sent to a gentleman of that city. His Majesty doubts not but you will continue your care for the suppressing of all such villainous pamphlets and for discovering and punishing the parties concerned in publishing or dispensing them.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 361
1384 January 28.	Dispensation in the usual form for some inhabitants in and near London, viz., Samuel Mee of St. Leonard Shoreditch, silk stocking frame maker, William Beadle of St. Mary Whitechapel, Francis Tucker of St. Peter's Cornhill, hatband maker, James Morris of St. Vedast Foster Lane, joiner, John Crofts of St. Mary Hill, chapman, Edward Hurst of St. Andrew's Holborn, gent., Abraham Hickman of St. Giles Cripplegate, cheesemonger. Minute.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 370
1385 January 28.	Like dispensation for some other inhabitants of London, viz., Edward Harrison of St. Peter's Cheap, goldsmith, James Jones of St. Bartholomew's Exchange, tailor, Joshua Lock, jun., of St. Lawrence Jewry, salter, John Collet of St. Martin Odgars, factor, William West of Wapping, Whitechapel, woollendraper, Sarah Haines of the parish of St. Mary Woolchurch, wax chandler and Sarah Buttolph, wife of Jonathan Buttolph of Battersea, Surrey, sugar baker. Minute.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 370
1386 January 28.	The King to the Master and Fellows of University College, Oxford. Requiring them to forbear electing any person to this fellowship void by [Edward] Hinchcliffe until further order; the revenue of the same to be in the mean time to be sequestered into the hands of the Master to be applied to such uses as the King shall appoint.
	S.P. 44/57, p. 153
1387 January 28.	Commission to Robert Ingram to be major and captain of a company in the Regiment of Foot commanded by the Earl of Huntingdon. Minute.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 374
1388 January 28.	Grant of denization to Abraham Meure, Louis Pierre Berard, Laurent Galdy, Louis Galdy, Elias du Puy, Michael du Puy, and Joseph du Casse.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 183
1389 January 29.	The King to the Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor and Senate of the University of Cambridge. Whereas we have received good testimony of the loyalty and learning of Peter Paxton, student in physic, and that he has attained to great abilities in that science, and has for some years past practised physic with good success, at his humble request and for his further encouragement we require you to admit him to the degree of Doctor of Physic, he paying the customary fees and performing such exercises as by the statutes of the university are enjoined, or else giving sufficient caution for such performances, any statute or custom notwithstanding.
	S.P. 44/53, p. 475
1390 January 29.	The King to the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, to be communicated to the Senate. Recommending John Northleigh, B.A., of King's College, who has for several years past wholly applied himself to the study of physic, for the degree of Doctor of Physic, he performing the requisite exercises and paying the customary fees and duties, any statute to the contrary being dispensed with.
	S.P. 44/57, p. 155
1391 January 29.	Commission to Sir John Talbott to be colonel and captain of a troop in the Queen Dowager's Regiment of Horse, whereof Richard, Viscount Lumley, was late colonel. Minute.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 374
1392 January 29.	Warrant for renewing the Charter of Gravesend in the same terms as that of 17 December, 1686 (see no. 1254 above) and with a similar Paper of Heads, save for the insertion of the names of James Frye, John Clarke, and Edward Mills as members of the Common Council in the place of John Foster, Henry Geale, and Joseph Wakelyn.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 185
1393 January 29.	Warrant to the Justices of Assize and Gaol Delivery for the Oxford Circuit, etc.—after reciting that Nathaniel Priest was tried at the Hereford Assizes for and concerning the death and killing of John Busher and was sentenced to death—to cause the said Nathaniel Priest to be inserted in the next General Pardon, without any condition of transportation.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 197
1394 January 29.	An abstract of the Commissioned Officers of his Majesty's Army in Ireland, of the number of non-commissioned Officers and Soldiers, and their Headquarters, together with an account of the number of private men entertained at the last December muster in room of others dead, discharged, or run away.
	With crosses against the names of certain officers.
	S.P. 8/1, pt. 2, fols. 96–103
1395 January 30.	The Earl of Sunderland to Sir Benjamin Thorowgood. Capt. Hewetson being commanded upon his Majesty's service into Ireland and having some particular concerns to which I am informed you can put a speedy end, I desire you will give him a quick and favourable despatch.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 361
1396 January 30.	Reference to the Earl of Tyrconnell, Lord Deputy of Ireland, of the petition of William, Viscount Mountjoy, Henry Mervin, Hugh Hamill, Oliver McCasland, esqs., and Robert Ecclin, Clerk, Justices of the Peace for co. Tyrone and the Grand Jury of that county at a general sessions of the peace held at Omagh, for an order for holding and continuing the assizes and sessions at Omagh, which town, lying in the centre of co. Tyrone, is the most fit place to hold the assizes in, for which purpose the petitioners and inhabitants of the county have built a session house and gaol there.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 311
1397 January 31.	Dispensation in the usual form for James Zouche, High Sheriff of Southampton, to be out of his county. Minute.
	S.P. 44/70, p. 261
1398 January 31.	Reference to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the petition of John Chase, apothecary to the late King, for payment of his arrears; showing that at the time of his Majesty's death there was due to him for goods 3,930l. 18s. 8d., of which there was inserted in the book of arrears payable to the King's servants out of the imposition on tobacco and sugar 1,310l. 6s. 2½d.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 310
1399 January 31.	Reference to the Lord Chancellor of the petition of Thomas Powell, citizen and mercer of London, showing that the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen have given him licence for country chapmen not free of the City to sell country lace at the first hand in a place at Thanet House in Aldersgate Street for 21 years from Christmas, 1686, and praying a licence under the Great Seal to hold a market for that term at Thanet House or any other convenient place in Aldersgate on the days usual in London.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 310
1400 January 31.	The King to the Earl of Tyrconnell, Lord Deputy of Ireland. Warrant, after reciting that he is informed that the free school of Iniskillin in the county of Fermanagh and the diocese of Clogher, being in the King's disposal, is not regulated as is requisite, to give order to Dominick, Lord Primate of Ireland, to inspect it and put in a schoolmaster and other officers and make such regulations for its better government as he shall think fit, the Lord Deputy giving him such assistance as he shall need.
	Memorandum that this letter was renewed March 19 with the addition of 'any statute, order, constitution or custom to the contrary notwithstanding, with which we are graciously pleased to dispense in this behalf'.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 213
1401 January 31.	The King to Dominick, Lord Primate of Ireland. Appointing him Chaplain General of the army in Ireland, with power to inspect the manners and behaviour of the chaplains and to inflict such censures or punishment on any misbehaving themselves as he shall think fit, the said chaplains being required to be obedient to him as their superior, and to observe such directions as he shall from time to time receive from the King or the chief governor of Ireland.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 214
1402 January 31.	Commission to Robert Welsh to be cornet to Capt. Owen O'Connor in Col. Richard Hamilton's Regiment of Dragoons. Minute.
	S.P. 63/240, p. 214
1403 January 31.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord Deputy of Ireland. The King having received a good account of the loyalty and capacity of Mr. Darby Long thinks fit that he should be made Recorder of Cork and would have you give the requisite order.
	S.P. 63/240, p. 215
1404 January 31.	Warrant to the Lord Deputy of Ireland for causing Darby Long to be of the King's Counsel learned in the law of Ireland.
	S.O. 1/12, p. 157
1405 January. London.	M. Blancard to the Prince of Orange, revealing details of the secret intrigues of the French and English Courts during the reign of Charles II. (fn. 2)
	French. S.P. 8/2, pt. 2, fols. 205–10