James II - volume 2: May 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: May 1687', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James II, 1686-7, (London, 1964) pp. 419-443. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/jas2/1686-7/pp419-443 [accessed 24 April 2024]

May 1687



1731 May 1.	Commission to Patrick Mcllvain to be ensign to Capt. John Johnston's company in the Royal Regiment of Foot whereof George, Earl of Dunbarton is colonel. Minute.
	S.P. 44/69, p. 209
1732 May 1.	[Erroneously entered April 1.] Reference to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the petition of John Oneby, gent., for authority to recover of the Bishop of Lincoln and his registrar 100l., which they forced him to pay and have not answered into the Exchequer although it belongs to his Majesty.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 336
1733 May 1.	Commissions to William Haggarston to be captain and to Edward Haggarston to be first lieutenant of that company whereof Sir Thomas Haggarston was captain in the Royal Regiment of Fuziliers; to John Bucknall to be third adjutant of the First Regiment of Foot Guards; to George Oldfield to be cornet of Capt. [Alan] Bellingham's troop in the regiment of horse commanded by Major-General Robert Werden; and to Richard Temple to be ensign to Capt. George Rooke in the Hereditary Prince of Denmark's Regiment of Foot. Minutes.
	S.P. 44/164, pp. 392, 395, 405
1734 May 1.	Commission to Sir Thomas Haggarston, bart., to be Lieut.-Governor of Berwick upon Tweed.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 396
1735 May 2.	Reference to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the petition of Elias Best for remission of a fine of 1000l. set on him in the King's Bench for drinking a health to the Protestant joiner.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 336
1736 May 3.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Mayor of Bristol. I have received yours of April 30 together with a copy of a letter subscribed with my name, which I never wrote. I desire you will endeavour to inform yourself further of this matter and in case you can make any discovery let me know it.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 372
1737 May 3.	Grant of the petition of William Conen for a writ of error in a judgment given against him in the King's Bench in a cause between him and Dirck Groothnyson.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 336
1738 May 3.	Grant of the offices of 'Register and Scribe' of the diocese of Hereford to John Underhill and Edmund Cornwall.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 270
1739 May 3.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord Deputy of Ireland. By his Majesty's command I recommended to the late Lord Chancellor a cause which the Marquess of Atholl has depending in Chancery, which recommendation I renewed to Sir Alexander Fitton, and am now commanded to tell you that his Majesty desires you should give the Marquess's agents all just favour and despatch.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 230
1740 May 4.	Commission to William Latham to be ensign of Capt. Henry Cope's Company in the regiment of foot guards called the Coldstreamers. Minute.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 392
1741 May 5.	The King to the Prince of Orange. I had yours of the 6 (N.S.) just before I went down to Chatham, so that till now I could not answer it. I find by it you had received mine in favour of the officers, some of which have been so hardly dealt with, which were laid by the heels about Sir Robert Peyton's affair, and hope by your means the States General will be favourabler to them than the States of Holland were. I came back yesterday from Chatham. I found most of my ships there in very good condition and saw one new 4-rate launched there, and as I came back another of the same rate launched at Deptford.
	Holograph. S.P. 8/4, no. 34
1742 May 6.	Memorandum of oath made by John Deverell of Waybridge, Surrey, that Anscell Beaumont, second Secondary in His Majesty's Remembrancer's Office, died on or about November 25 last past and was buried at Waybridge. Latin and English. Signed by John Deverell and witnessed by [Sir] Tho. Jenner.
	Entered in the office of the Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer on May 7.
	Entered in the office of the Clerk of the Pells on May 9.
	S.P. 31/3, fol. 183
1743 May 6.	The King to Henry Howard, Commissary General of the Musters, his deputy or deputies. Warrant, after reciting that he has granted leave to Edward King, soldier in Captain Orme's troop in Col. Richard Hamilton's Regiment, to go with his natural kin James, Duke of Berwick, into Hungary, to pass him notwithstanding his absence, upon the muster rolls as if he were actually present until the King's further pleasure be signified.
	S.P. 44/69, p. 210
1744 May 6.	Approbation of Samuel Skinner to be Clerk of the Goldsmiths' Company in the place of Charles Sprackling.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 270
1745 May 7.	Reference to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the petition of Charles Atherton, serjeant plumber to his Majesty, for the place of Mr. White, plumber at Windsor, who is dead, his predecessors having formerly enjoyed it.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 337
1746 May 7.	Reference to the same of the petition of Christopher Rowe for 25l. 4s. due to him for keeping the herons at Cheveley Park for the sport and recreation of the late King.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 337
1747 May 7.	Reference to the same of the petition of Dorothy Hubblethorne, widow, for continuance of a pension of 200l. per annum granted to her and her son for their lives under the Great Seal of Ireland.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 340
1748 May 7.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord Deputy of Ireland. I have yours of the 6th, 8th, 13th, 16th, 20th, 22nd, and 28th. The King does not think it proper that the declaration for liberty of conscience made here should be published in Ireland; not but that he thinks the granting of liberty of conscience as necessary there as here and accordingly would have it exactly and constantly preserved (which you are upon all occasions to let the people know), but because some clauses of the declaration which were requisite and proper in this kingdom are not so in Ireland.
	The King has the new charter for the hospital at Dublin under consideration, and I shall in a few days let you know his mind upon it. In the mean time he intends that Col. Jeffreys, the present Governor, being a person who has always behaved himself well, should continue in that place. He will provide otherwise for the Earl of Roscommon.
	Col. Dongan having lately writ to the King desiring to continue in the government of New York, his Majesty is not willing to remove him and therefore must provide some other way for the Earl of Granard, for whom he intended that government. Col. Macarty desires the command of the regiment of dragoons, which I believe the King will give him; and therefore you will do well to think of some person to recommend for Macarty's regiment.
	The King thinks Warburton the postmaster an honest man and that he will not open any letters, but that both he and Mr. Frowd may be trusted, and therefore does not think fit to remove Warburton.
	The establishment of the ordnance which you mention was not proposed by Lord Mountjoy. The King likes it and will have it stand. He told me it was his own act and I believe 'twas proposed by Lord Dartmouth. The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury have already written to you about it. The King approves of Col. Garrett Moore to be a Privy Counsellor and of Mr. Felix O'Neile to be one of the Masters of Chancery and Advocate General in the room of Sir John Topham, and you shall by the next have his letters for them.
	The Irish Primate and Bishop Molony have his Majesty's commands to go to Ireland in a few days.
	The King says he will not hearken to or receive any petition from the city of Dublin concerning their charter, or contrary to anything you shall think fit.
	I have obtained his grant for Mr. Bourk, who is to marry Lady Frances Hamilton, to be Viscount Galloway, but he refuses to grant the honour you propose for Sir Maurice Eustace and directs me to tell you he will create no other peers till about the time of the meeting of the Parliament there.
	I have moved him for Mr. Sheldon to be a brigadier. He thinks he has general officers enough and is not willing to increase his charge, but consents Mr. Sheldon should have 200l. per annum pension out of the concordatums.
	I leave what relates to Lord Clancarty wholly to you.
	His Majesty is sorry to find the revenue is like to fall so much, but he does not doubt of your care in ordering matters so that the prejudice he may suffer thereby shall be as little as possible.
	I have told Lord Chief Justice Davys he must be with you by the beginning of the next term. I desire you will be kind to him, for I doubt not but he will behave himself very well, as he has assured me.
	The King will not remove Mr. Keightly, but intends to send him over, and has told him he expects he should serve him faithfully and honestly. I have offered your reasons against Mr. Bellews having the next troop, but the King says he has promised it him, and therefore I think you will do well to say no more against it.
	The commissions you have written for shall be despatched out of hand.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 231
1749 May 8.	Reference to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the petition of Capt. Robert Bradshaw for a pension or other provision, representing his loyalty, sufferings, age and infirmities.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 337
1750 May 8.	Commission to William, Viscount Montgomery, to be colonel of and captain of a company in the regiment of foot whereof Charles, Marquess of Worcester, was late colonel. Minute.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 393
1751 May 9.	Warrant to George, Lord Dartmouth, Master General of the Ordnance—after reciting that by warrant dated November 21, 1685, 200l. per annum was appointed to be paid out of the treasure of the Ordnance Office to Sir William Trumbull, who was then removed from the place of clerk of the deliveries in that office to be employed on foreign service, and that he has now been constituted Ambassador at the Ottoman Porte and so will not need this encouragement for the future—to order the said allowance of 200l. to be paid to Edward Meredith, whom the King intends to employ as one of the principal officers of the Ordnance as soon as any occasion shall be offered, that he may be encouraged to prepare and qualify himself for that office, the said allowance to be paid quarterly by way of debenture, commencing from June 30 next.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 393
1752 May 9.	Warrant to the Lord Deputy of Ireland to cause letters patent to be passed containing a grant of the dignities of a baron and viscount of Ireland to Ulick Burke, second son to William, Earl of Clanrickard, under the name, style and title of of Baron Tyaquin and Viscount Galway, with the usual fee of 20 marks per annum for the better support of the dignity of a viscount; to enjoy the same to him and the heirs male of his body.
	S.O. 1/12, p. 183
1753 May 9.	Warrant to the same—after reciting that the King has thought fit to remove Sir John Topham from being a Master in Chancery and Advocate General in Ireland— to cause a grant of the said places to be passed in the usual form to Felix O'Neile to hold during pleasure.
	S.O. 1/12, p. 183
1754 May 9.	Warrant to the same to cause Col. Garrett More to be sworn of the Privy Council of Ireland.
	S.O. 1/12, p. 184
1755 May 10.	Reference to the Earl of Tyrconnell, Lord Deputy of Ireland, of the petition of Sir Robert Southwell, whom the King is disposed to gratify, showing that the corporation of Kinsale made a long lease to his father of a parcel of common land called Drownderrick, the fee farm whereof was afterwards upon an augmentation of rent granted him by lease, which the late King ratified by letters patent, directing in case the charter of Kinsale had been renewed that care should be taken of the petitioner's father's rights, the buildings and improvements made by him having been of great advantage to the town; and praying in the charter now intended a proviso saving all the premises to the petitioner to the same effect and purpose as they were granted to his father.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 338
1756 May 10.	Commissions to George Rooke to be captain of that company whereof Capt. Charles Herbert was late captain, and to Edmund Yarborough to be captain-lieutenant of the colonel's company, both in the Hereditary Prince of Denmark's Regiment of Foot. Minutes.
	S.P. 44/164, pp. 394, 395
1757 May 10.	Warrant to Thomas Atterbury, messenger, to summon John Crosse, Mayor, and — Gibbons, Deputy Recorder of Totnes, before the King to answer certain misdemeanours wherewith they stand charged.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 271
1758 May 10.	The King to the Prince of Orange. I have yours of the 13th by which I find that you in Holland are not alarmed at the King of France's journey to Luxemburge. Those who are jealous of it will I am confident be soon out of their pain. I suppose M. Dyckvelt will give you an account of two memorials [that] have been given me, the one by the C. Caunitz and the other by the Spanish Amb., both of them to desire me to endeavour to persuade the K. of France to let me be guarantee of the truce. You may be sure I will do my part [to] persuade that King to it since nothing can contribute more than that to continue the peace in Christendom. I have not time to say more but that you shall still find me as kind to you as you can desire. (fn. 1)
	Holograph. S.P. 8/4, no. 35
1759 May 10.	The Earl of Sunderland to Sir Thomas Newcomen. I have laid before the King what you write concerning the precedency given to Lord Mountjoy. He would have you be assured that it was not out of the least displeasure or discountenance to you, as you seem to think, but only because in all armies the place of Master of the Ordnance gives the person possessing it a particular and considerable post. I know the King has a consideration for you and your services and you need not doubt but as occasion serves, he will give you the marks of it.
	S. P. 63/340, p. 233
1760 May10.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord Deputy of Ireland. The King being pleased to continue Mrs. Knight her pension on the Irish establishment, I desire you will give order that it be duly paid to her agents.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 233
1761 May 11.	Reference to the Attorney or Solicitor General of the petition of Anthony Ball and John Browne for two weekly markets, on Tuesday and Friday, at Pitfield near Hogsden, for buying and selling fish, flesh and other provisions.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 338
1762 May 11.	Commissions to Vaughan Philips to be lieutenant and to Edward Fountaine to be ensign of Capt. James Fountaine's company in the regiment of foot commanded by Viscount Montgomery. Minutes.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 394
1763 May 12.	Commission to William Carew to be lieutenant to Capt. George Lation in Sir Edward Hales's Regiment of Foot. Minute.
	S.P. 44/69, p. 208
1764 May 12.	Warrant—after reciting that the Company of Adventurers trading to Hudson's Bay have by their humble petition represented that the ship Mary, John Groves, master, now ready to sail out of the River Thames, is designed to go as an interloper to Hudson's Bay—requiring the Advocate General and Proctor to cause process to be issued by the Court of Admiralty against the said ship for stopping her until security be given for not going into or trading in any place within the limits of the said Company's Charter.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 272
1765 May 12.	Warrant to the Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster or to Cheek Gerard, Clerk of the said Duchy, or his deputy, to prepare a bill to pass the seals of the Duchy containing a grant to Robert Philips of the office of Chancellor of the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster.
	S. P. 44/337, pp. 272–3
1766 May 13.	Reference to the Earl of Tyrconnell, Lord Deputy of Ireland, of the petition of Col. Patrick Sarsfield for a grant of the castle and fort of Moryborough, Queen's County, granted by the late King to Sir George St. George and since forfeited, and that the Attorney General [in Ireland] may be directed to assert his Majesty's right and seize the same.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 339
1767 May 13.	Commissions to William Sommers to be captain of the company of grenadiers whereof Capt. George Fitzjames was late captain, to [Richard] Oxinden to be ensign of the colonel's regiment, to Francis Wheler to be ensign to Major Richard Baggott, and to [Philemon] Powell to be lieutenant to Lieut.-Col. Oliver Nicholas, all in the Hereditary Prince of Denmark's Regiment of Foot. Minutes.
	S.P. 44/164, pp. 394, 396
1768 May 13.	Grant to Anthony Ball and John Browne, their heirs and assigns, of two markets to be held in a certain place near Hogsden called Pitfield, within the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, on Tuesday and Saturday in every week for buying and selling flesh, fish, and other provisions.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 273
1769 May 13.	Warrant to Charles, Earl of Dunmore, Master of Horse to the Queen, to admit and swear — Leybourne to the place of Equerry to the Queen.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 274
1770 May 13.	Warrant to the Clerk of the Signet Attending, to cause payment to be made to Henry, Lord Arundell of Wardour, Keeper of the Privy Seal, or his assigns, of the sum of 4l. per diem in lieu of the ancient diet of sixteen dishes of meat heretofore settled and allowed to the Keeper of the Privy Seal.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 274
1771 May 16.	The Earl of Sunderland to Colonel Widdrington. The King, having constituted Sir Thomas Haggerston Lieut.-Governor of Berwick in your place, has not made this change out of the least dissatisfaction to you but rather to give you ease, intending you a consideration equal to the advantages you had by that command.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 373
1772 May 16.	The King to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Warrant to grant a dispensation to Reginald Eyre, clerk, to hold the rectory of Newton Regis, Warwickshire, in the diocese of Litchfield and Coventry, together with the rectory of Beachampton, Bucks., in the diocese of Lincoln, although they are not within the distance limited by the statute; he having formerly held the rectory of Neenton, Salop, in the diocese of Hereford, which he has resigned, with Beachampton, by virtue of a dispensation from the late King.
	S.P. 44/57, p. 164
1773 May 16.	Reference to the Earl of Tyrconnell, Lord Deputy of Ireland, of the petition of Francis Barnewall for the arrears of a pension of 300l. per annum settled on his mother Bridget, late Countess of Tyrconnell, for life, there being about twenty years unpaid, or for a grant of some lands held by the town of Kerigfergus by charter but now surreptitiously possessed by particular people without advantage to his Majesty or the Crown.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 339
1774 May 17.	Lord Churchill to the Prince of Orange. The Princess of Denmark having ordered me to discourse Monsr. Dickfield and to let him know her resolutions so that he might let your Highness and the Princess, her sister, know that she was resolved by the assistance of God to suffer all extremities, even to death itself, rather than to be brought to change her religion, I thought it my duty to your Highness and the Princess Royal, by this opportunity of Mons. Dickfield, to give you assurances, under my own hand, that my places and the King's favour I set at naught in comparison of the being true to my religion; in all things but this the King may command me and I call God to witness that even with joy I should expose my life for his service so sensible am I of his favours. I know the bothering you, Sir, with thus much of myself, I being of so little use to your Highness, is very impertinent but that I think it may be a great ease to your Highness and the Princess to be satisfied that the Princess of Denmark is safe in the trusting of me, I being resolved, although I cannot live the life of a Saint, if there be ever occasion for it to show the resolution of a martyr. (fn. 2)
	Holograph. S.P. 8/1, pt. 2, fols. 110–11
1775 May 17.	Warrant to the Lord Deputy of Ireland to cause letters patent to be passed containing a grant to Sir Alexander Fitton, Chancellor of Ireland, of the yearly sum of 1,000l. which has usually been allowed to former Chancellors and also of the additional allowance of 500l. per annum to make his allowance 1,500l. per annum as was directed for Sir Charles Porter, the last preceding Chancellor.
	S.O. 1/12, p. 185
1776 May 18.	Reference to the Attorney or Solicitor General of the petition of the Distillers' Company for a new charter and that they may not be compelled to take any oath but to be true, faithful and obedient to his Majesty.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 340
1777 May 18.	Reference to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster of the petition of Henry Savile, esq., for approval of his assignment to Adam, Viscount Lisburne, of his right and interest in being Ranger of Enfield Chase and keeper of the three lodges there, which he holds by Mr. Coventry's will, and for leave to Lord Lisburne to pass a grant thereof in his own name.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 340
1778 May 19.	Capt. Thomas Symonds and Tristram Thornton, heir to Col. Robert Thornton, on behalf of themselves and others that served in the wars in Ireland before June 5, 1649, to the King. Petition, shewing that by the Acts of Settlement and Explanation the forfeited lands in cos. Wickloe, Longford, Letrium, Doniegall, and within Mileline, co. Clare, with the houses and lands in the corporations in Ireland and mortgages forfeited were set apart to satisfy the arrears and disbursements due to the 49 officers who served the King's father in that kingdom; that commissioners were appointed who distributed part of the security, which did not amount to one third part of the 12s. 6d. per pound allowed by the Acts; that soon after the Restoration Thomas Symonds was employed by the trustees as surveyor and overseer with a salary of 60l. per ann. and promise of 40l. more, who returned large quantities of lands, etc., to a great value as yet undisposed of; that the late King, being informed that great quantities of land, etc., belonging to the 49 officers' security were concealed and unjustly witheld, granted commissions, in 1675 and 1681, for receiving discoveries and ascertaining quit rents due to the Crown, and distributing the said lands in specie towards satisfying the 49 officers' unsatisfied debentures; that the petitioners and many others discovered to the commissioners concealed lands amounting to 20,000 acres in co. Wickloe, vested in the Crown, which by the Act of Settlement ought to pay 3d. per English acre yearly to his Majesty; that soon after it appeared that the commissioners were never sworn as required by the Act, so that the King was deprived of the quit rent due out of the said lands, and the petitioners of the benefit of their discoveries; that the petitioners are entitled to several 49 officers' unsatisfied debentures, and that large quantities of land are as yet concealed, the quit rents due whereupon will much increase the King's revenue and also satisfy several of the 49 officers who never received satisfaction for their service and disbursements, as namely Col. Robert Thornton's arrears pursuant to the report made in 1683 by the Duke of Ormonde; that there remain considerable sums of money due for lands set by former trustees, being part of the 49 officers' security, and that the commissioners, tho' never sworn, received considerable sums of money which remain unaccounted for in their hands, which would conduce much to satisfying the petitioners and the rest of the 49 officers; that there remain in the present possessors' hands considerable sums of money due for the mean profits, and that many woods of great value have been destroyed since the first discovery was made; that the petitioners have had several references, reports and orders granted them upon their petitions in this affair, but the favour that has been shown all along to the usurping possessors, the decease of the late King, the many changes of the chief governors of Ireland, and several other accidents have been the cause they have not been able to prosecute it to effect. Praying that a royal commission may be granted for finding out the King's title in all remaining forfeited and undisposed lands, etc., and for settling the quit rents due to the Crown out of the 49 officers' security as yet concealed and undisposed of, with power to receive and sue for and recover all arrears due to the said security; that the chief Governor and Lord Chancellor of Ireland may be directed to accept so many unsatisfied 49 officers' debentures, and so to be placed upon the premises concealed and undisposed of to the value of the premises to be so purchased, they paying eight years purchase for the same; that Col. Robert Thornton's arrears may be prior satisfied out of the premises to be bought by such debentures as shall be given to his heirs and assigns; and that Capt. Thomas Symonds's salary and expenses may be first paid him out of the public stock of the 49 officers' security. True copy.
	S.P. 31/3, fols. 184–5
1779	Certificates of various dates from the late Duke of Newcastle, the Duke of Ormonde, Charlotte, Countess of Derby, and various others in favour of Capt. Thomas Symonds.
	Copies.
	S.P. 31/3, fols. 186–8
1780 May 19.	The King to the Recorder of London and the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex. Warrant to stay for a week, until Wednesday May 25, the execution of the sentence of death passed at the late sessions held at the Old Bailey on Ann Selby, Richard King, Thomas Barrow, William Harris and Benjamin Butler, to the end they may the better prepare themselves for their later end.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 379
1781 May 19.	The King to Gervase Price, Under-Keeper of the Park of St. James. Warrant for permission to Robert, Earl of Scarsdale, to make a door in the park wall from his house in Duke Street in the range of buildings between Webb's and Story's houses, in terms similar to the like warrant of August 15, 1686, in favour of the Countess Dowager of Plymouth.
	S.P. 44/70, p. 271
1782 May 19.	The Attorney General's report on the petition of Capt. William Ferrers and Daniel Dobbins stating that their invention is distinct in nature from the Royal Oak Lottery, and not comprised within the prohibition contained in the grant thereof, but that he cannot judge how far it may be prejudicial to former lotteries. April 26, 1687. To be transmitted to the Commissioners of the Treasury for consideration and report.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 342
1783 May 19.	Reference to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the petition of Gilbert Crouch, representing his services and sufferings in the late rebellion in the West and praying the place of receiver of the revenue by wine licences, which was granted him by the late King but the patent not passed before that revenue was settled on his Majesty.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 342
1784 May 19.	Warrant to Henry Howard, Commissary General of the Musters, his deputy and deputies, to allow and pass David Lloyd, whom the King has thought fit to employ in his service at sea, as captain of a troop in the Royal Regiment of Horse with his servant in the musters during his absence.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 397
1785 May 19.	Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a grant to Sir John Coell, knt., his heirs and assigns, of a fair (in trust for Henry, Lord Dover) to be held yearly for the first fifteen days in May in a certain field called Great Brookfield in the parish of St. Martins-in-the-fields; and also for changing the days of the two markets held there weekly from Monday and Wednesday to Tuesday and Thursday.
	S. P. 44/337, pp. 275–7
1786 May 19.	Warrant to William, Earl of Bedford, for the preservation of game in the counties of Bedford, Buckingham and Hertford, within ten miles of Woburne Abbey.
	S.P. 44/337, pp. 278–9
1787 May 19.	Grant to Laurence Dupuy and James Dupuy, his son, of the office of Keeper of the Pall Mall in St. James's Park, with a house or lodge called the Mallhouse and a little garden belonging thereunto.
	S.P. 44/337, pp. 279–80
1788 May 20. Windsor.	The King to the Prince of Orange. I came to this place last night and had so much business on Tuesday last that I could not then let you know that I had received yours of the 20th by which I am sorry to find you think the Christian Army in Hungary is not like to be so strong as to do much this campaign; and if the season be as backward, and the drought as great there as 'tis here forage will be very scarce— for here, without it rains within a week or ten days there will be but little grass or hay. As for news all here is very quiet and my declaration has put people's minds much at ease and I have great reason to be well pleased with having put it out. On Wednesday morning early there happened a fire near the Tower which burnt near thirty houses and amongst the rest part of the Victualling Office where I lost about five thousand pounds' worth of casks and pipe staves, but by the care of those [who] were there and the blowing up of some houses the rest was saved. I have no more to say but that I shall always be as kind to you as you can desire. (fn. 3)
	Holograph. S.P. 8/4, no. 36
1789 May 21. London.	John Rooke to Lady Katherine O'Brien, at Cobham Hall near Gravesend, Kent. I received both yours, one by a waterman, the other by the upholsterer. I told Lady Howard about the gardener. She bid me write a penny-post letter to the green-keeper, which I did, and the gardener when you came to town should have notice.
	Enclosed is the rule of court, which I got of Mr. Gibbs. He must have it back the first day of the term to move for the trial.
	I called at Mr. Best's, but the registrar does not come to town till Monday, and he cannot get the order passed till he come. He would hasten it all he could, for he is tormented by the creditors every day. He has contracted with several of them to take half their interest to be quit, and believes the rest will comply. He thinks it best to pay them off as fast as may be. There's no danger of Sir C[harles] B[ickerstaffe] moving anything.
	The chair covers came by Mr. Geo[rge]. I find none of them here. I have sent 3 gross of corks. The green coat for Burr's boy is not yet made, tho' the tailor said it should be done in a day's time. Please acquaint Sir Jos[eph] I have not yet received the money from the Exchequer. They promise it on Monday.
	S.P. 31/3, fol. 197
1790 May 21. Windsor.	The King to the Clerk of the Signet Attending. Warrant for a bill containing the royal assent and confirmation of the election of Thomas Watson, D.D., to be Bishop of St. David's in the place of the late Dr. John Lloyd, as signified by the Precentor and Chapter by an instrument under their common seal dated May 9.
	S.P. 44/57, p. 165
1791 May 21. Windsor.	Warrant—after reciting that the officers of the Navy have contracted with Wm. Wallis and other merchants for bringing masts from New England for the service of the Royal Navy, and these being of greater length than can be brought by any British-built ship have been constrained to look out for and take up a foreign-built ship called the White Horse, now in Holland, of the burthen of 500 tons—for naturalizing and making free the said White Horse and granting her permission to pass to and return from New England without interruption, and with all rights etc. as an English-built ship, while employed on the King's service and manned by Englishmen according to the Act of Navigation.
	S.P. 44/337, pp. 277–8
1792 May 22. Windsor.	The King to the Clerk of the Signet Attending. Warrant to prepare a bill containing a grant to George Berkeley, M.A., clerk, second son to George, Earl of Berkeley, of the place of a prebendary of St. Peter's, Westminster, void by the death of Dr. Gill.
	S.P. 44/53, p. 202
1793 May 22. Windsor.	Commissions to James Purcell to be lieut.-colonel and captain of a company, to James Lacy to be major and captain of a company, to Capt. Cyriack Cornwall to be captain of that company whereof Sir John Morgan was captain, and to John Cornwall to be captain-lieutenant of the colonel's company, all in the regiment of foot commanded by Col. Henry Cornwall. Minutes.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 402
1794 May 22. Windsor.	The King to the Attorney or Solicitor General. Warrant, after an inquisition ad quod damnum, for a grant to Philip, Lord Wharton, his heirs and assigns for ever for holding a market at Shap, Westmoreland, every Wednesday and three fairs yearly on April 23 and 24, August 1 and 2, and September 17 and 18 (unless either of the days be a Sunday and then the fair to be kept the Monday following) for the buying and selling of all manner of live cattle and other goods and merchandizes, with tolls and profits to such market and fairs belonging.
	S.P. 44/70, p. 272
1795 May 22. Windsor.	Like warrant for a grant to Lord Wharton of three fairs yearly at Healaugh in the county of the city of York, on the first Wednesday and Thursday in July, the first Wednesday and Thursday in December, and September 19 and 20. Minute.
	S.P. 44/70, p. 272
1796 May 22. Windsor.	Like warrant for a grant to Lord Wharton to hold two fairs at Woburn, Bucks., on St. George's Day and the day after and Allhallows' Day and the day after. Minute.
	S.P. 44/70, p. 272
1797 May 22. Windsor.	The King to the Warden and Principal Officers of the Mint. Warrant to give order for engraving a judicial seal for the counties of Carnarvon, Merioneth and Anglesey according to the draft annexed.
	The draft is reproduced in the Entry Book.
	S.P. 44/70 p. 273
1798 May 23.	John Rooke to Lady Catherine O'Brien, Baroness Clifton, at Cobham Hall near Gravesend, Kent. Yours of yesterday I received this morning. Mr. Best said he never understood the matter in that sense, as you wrote that the creditors should reckon that time that they received interest as part of the half that they would take. He said he would tell them of it, but believed they would not take it. The Registrar, Mr. Edwards, who was to pass the order, came not to town till this night. I hope I shall have it to send tomorrow night's post. I cannot find the chair cases in the wardrobe. I believe they were sent down when Mr. Geo[rge] went, or else miscarried by the way. I have not yet received the money from the Exchequer.
	S.P. 31/3, fol. 196
1799 May 23. Windsor.	The King to the Prince of Orange. I find by yours of the 27 (N.S.) that you have had much the same weather as we have had here, only that the storm was greater with you than with us, for it has not done so much mischief here, nor do I hear it has done any upon our coasts. The letters from France tell us that they expect this day or tomorrow the King back at Versailles. I may soon expect also an answer to the proposal I have ordered my envoy there to make about the guarantee. This day Lord Sunderland was installed here, which is all the news this place affords.
	Holograph. S.P. 8/4, no. 37
1800 May 24. Windsor.	Reference to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the petition of James Gibbons, Clerk of the Robes and Wardrobes, to be reimbursed 300l. laid out in building lodgings in Whitehall for that office, and to annex the same thereto, or that he may be compensated by a further term of office.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 341
1801 May 24. Windsor.	Reference to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the petition of John Dryden, Poet Laureate and Historiographer, for the remaining part of his arrears upon his pension, amounting to 716l. 13s. 4d., besides 75l. due for the quarter from Christmas, 1684, omitted in his present patent.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 341
1802 May 24. Windsor.	Reference to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the petition of William Dabbs of Comage, Somerset, for some compensation for his services and sufferings during the late rebellion in the West, he being ruined for his loyalty.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 341
1803 May 24. Windsor.	Reference to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the petition of John Lund for remission of a fine of 400l. for barratry, which he is unable to pay.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 341
1804 May 24. Windsor.	Reference to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the petition of Sir William Gostling for 1,205l. 3s. 3d. due to him from 1679 to Michaelmas, 1684, for gold, silver and silk fringe laces delivered into the Great Wardrobe.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 342
1805 May 24. Windsor.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord Deputy of Ireland. The letter from you and the Council of the 2nd inst., giving an account that you had by Order of Council dispensed with several provisos and clauses in the Act for settling the subsidy of tonnage and poundage, I have laid before the King, who has referred the matter to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury and commands me to tell you he thinks such order should not have been made till he had been acquainted with it and signified his pleasure therein.
	I have also yours of the 7th and 11th and one from Mr. Justice Nugent of the 2nd, upon which his Majesty thinks all trials concerning lands upon titles by the Acts of Settlement and Explanation ought to be avoided as much as possible, because those matters relate so much to the settlement of the quiet of the whole kingdom that he cannot but think they should be deferred till the meeting of Parliament, when the whole may be settled with as little or less clamour as is now occasioned by any one of those trials.
	Lord Chief Justice Davys has taken his leave and assured his Majesty he will serve him well and faithfully, particularly in the business of the quo warrantos. The King is well satisfied with him and therefore I must desire you will be kind to him. I have only to add that his Majesty cannot think fit that those who serve him well and promise to continue to do so should be removed because others desire their places.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 234
1806 May 25. Windsor.	The Earl of Sunderland to Mr. Keitley. The King would have you attend him here within a day or two.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 373
1807 May 25. Windsor.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Earl of Bath. The King would have you take care the militia within your lieutenancies of Devonshire and Cornwall be not mustered till you receive his directions.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 373
1808 May 25. Windsor.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Earl of Bristol. A letter similar to the foregoing in respect of the militia [of Dorset].
	S.P. 44/56, p. 373
1809 May 25. Windsor.	The King to the Bishop, Dean and Chapter of Exeter and all others whom it may concern. Whereas George Smith, one of the four choral priests of the cathedral church of St. Peter, has represented to us that by the orders anciently made he cannot serve any cure and is obliged to dwell in the house belonging to him within the college, which he cannot perform without great prejudice to his health, and the profits of the said vicar's place being not sufficient to maintain him and his family, he has prayed us to dispense herein with the statutes in his behalf, we have thought fit to condescend to his request and accordingly give him licence to accept any cure within the city of Exeter and to hold the same together with the place of a choral priest, and likewise to dwell in any house within the city, provided he perform divine service in the cathedral church in his turn one week in four, according to the usual custom, without being obliged to any further attendance; he enjoying all the rights, privileges, etc., to a choral priest belonging, any statute, order or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
	S.P. 44/57, p. 165
1810 May 25. Windsor.	The King to John Massey, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford. Whereas it has been represented to us that the Deans, your predecessors, have had the right of nominating the chapter clerk there and have from time to time exercised the same, we have thought fit upon humble suit made to us to confirm unto you that right, and do grant you full power to nominate a chapter clerk as often as that office shall become void in the same manner as your predecessors have done. And whereas we are likewise informed that the place of a chaplain there, being in your disposal, is void, our will and pleasure is that you forbear conferring the same on any person, and that the profits thereof be sequestered into your hands and applied to such uses as we shall appoint. We further give you full authority to receive and retain to your own use without account all the profits of the deanery which became due during the vacancy thereof after the death of Dr. Fell and until your admission. Whereof all persons whom it may concern are to take notice and to yield due obedience to our pleasure herein before declared.
	S.P. 44/57, p. 166
1811 May 25. Windsor.	Warrant to the Justices of Assize for the Western Circuit, to insert Sarah Reignolds in the next General Pardon for all treasons etc., without any condition of transportation.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 278
1812 May 25. Windsor Castle.	Warrant to the Lord Deputy of Ireland—after reciting that the King has caused to be paid the sum of 789l. for the service of his chapel at Dublin, which he has resolved shall be repaid him without any abatement out of the revenues of Ireland—to give order to the Receiver General to return to Henry Guy, for the King's secret service without account the said sum and to pay such sum as the Lord Deputy shall think reasonable to be allowed for the exchange, so that the said 789l. may be entirely paid.
	S.O. 1/12, p. 187
1813 May 26. London.	Newsletter to John Fenwick at the Swan, Newcastle. Paris the 31st His Most Christian Majesty is expected at Versailles on Friday night. He has ordered the Chancellor to lay out 50,000 crowns for a purchase to be settled on his chirurgeon, Monsr. Felis, as a recompense of the great cure wrought upon him, whereof sufficient trial has been made by his journey to Luxemburg.
	He has likewise ordered all his Council to be ready to attend him at Versailles the day after his arrival, where he will receive the congratulations of this whole city, and the troops quartered near are ordered to rendezvous on the 8th of next month.
	The great business in expectation is to know what design he will be on with his fleet now ready equipped at Brest, Toulon and Marseilles, which make in all near thirty men-of-war but not so well provided with seamen as formerly, those of the reformed religion having deserted the service, who were very considerable for number.
	Letters from Jamaica arrived yesterday confirm the taking of Banister the great pirate by the Drake frigate, who with three of his companions was executed at their appearance before the fort. There are fourteen sail of pirates on the coast of Portorico and Hispaniola which do great mischief at places they land at as well as to ships.
	The Sosiaty [sic], one of the East India ships lately arrived and driven back to Spithead, sailed thence for the Downs the 23rd and it's thought was seen next day in company of two other great ships at the South Foreland, but the weather being so tempestuous no boats durst go to them.
	Lord Dartmouth having been at the Isle of Wight and other places to view the stores and fortifications returned to Portsmouth the 23rd and next day went for London.
	They write from Upper Hungary that General Carrafa has caused five more of the principal complices in the designed rebellion to be executed and has sent back the Turkish Aga who came from the Grand Vizier with proposals of peace.
	From Poland they write of the 29th that the Muscovites in their march towards the Crym had encountered and beaten a great body of Tartars, which had caused such consternation among them that their principal families were retired into Great Tartary, but it's confirmed that Sultent Waradone had passed the Neister with 6,000 Tartars, and it being feared they would make their course into Vallinia, those frontiers are reinforced as also the garrisons of the fortress of Bari.
	A riot having been committed in Whitefriars upon a constable, who was called to keep the peace, by those people called Alsatians, the Sheriffs with the posse comitatus and their officers went in this day and have brought away several of the offenders and with them some notorious cheats who are all sent to the counters by the Lord Mayor.
	The Earl of Devonshire has made great application to the King to obtain his pardon for striking Col. Cullpeper but it's referred to the law and tomorrow he must plead to the information.
	His Majesty was expected in town yesterday but changed his resolution, sending for the officers of his chapel to keep Corpus Christi Day at Windsor. This week Sir Thomas Hanmer, solicitor to the Queen Dowager, died. Saturday next the Duke of Berwick goes for Hungary and on the 10th of next month Prince George goes for Denmark.
	Christened 296. Buried 383. Increased 17.
	Adm. 77/3, no. 59
1814 May 27.	'Draft of a warrant [to the Attorney General] about the new French church'. To prepare a bill containing a licence to the French Protestants in London (who have petitioned for a place wherein they may worship, in their own tongue but according to the rites of the Church of England, until they can build themselves a church) to assemble in a certain tabernacle or house in Jewin Street without Aldersgate, which they have hired for that purpose, and there perform the daily offices and administer the Holy Sacraments and other rites of the Church in the French tongue, but still according to the Liturgy and usage of the Church of England; provided that the said house shall be so decently fitted, furnished and adorned as the Archbishop of Canterbury shall appoint and that such and so many priests and deacons of the Church of England (and no other) shall be authorized to officiate there as the congregation or their deputies shall nominate and present to the Archbishop and he shall approve and license, to whose care alone the establishment and regulation of the said congregation is committed; and whereas the French translation of the English liturgy used in the French church at the Savoy is not so exactly done as it ought to be, and in many particular offices differs very much from the English Book of Common Prayer, it is to be revised and then, with the licence of the Archbishop [and not otherwise], reprinted for the use of all French congregations in England, until which be done they are permitted to use the old one.
	Endorsed: (Apparently erroneously—see no. 611 above) by Sunderland as here headed and also as 'Recd. from My Lord of Canterbury May 27, '86'.
	Holograph of Archbishop Sancroft. S.P. 31/3, fol. 336
1815 May 27.	Colonel Belasyse to the Prince of Orange. I have presumed (by this worthy bearer) to give your Highness the assurance of my devotion to your service; in particular, the testimony I have given to the World of my loyalty and sufferings for the Crown obliges me in duty to pay the same to those who are so nearly related to it as the Princess Royal and your Highness, though my hand is so weak to express it or enlarge myself upon this subject my heart shall supply that defect in the profession I make, with all submission, of being Your Highness' most obedient and most humbly devoted servant. (fn. 4)
	Holograph. S.P. 8/1, pt. 2, fol. 112
1816 May 27. Windsor.	The King to the Prince of Orange. I would not let this bearer, the Duke of Berwick, go into Holland without writing to you by him, he being desirous to wait on my daughter and you, and so took that way to go to make another campaign in Hungary. He had the good luck to be well entered last year there, and has a mind to follow the trade.
	Holograph. S.P. 8/4, no. 38
1817 May 28. Hampton Court.	The King to the Wardens of Winchester and New College, Oxford, and the rest of the electioners for the school of Winchester. Requiring them, in regard to the services of his father, Noath Castle, who has many children, to admit Denham Castle, on whose behalf suit has been made, into a scholar's place in the school of Winchester at the next election.
	S.P. 44/53, p. 472
1818 May 28. Hampton Court.	The King to Sir George Pudsey, knt., Recorder of Oxford, and the Mayor of Oxford. Warrant to discharge Christopher Blunt, soldier in the Earl of Peterborough's troop, who, on a quarrel arising between him and his intimate friend and comrade Thomas Huggerford of the same troop, by means of great provocation given him by Huggerford, unfortunately killed him, for which he took his trial at the Quarter Sessions held for the city of Oxford in March last and was brought in guilty of manslaughter, but by favour of the court had the sentence of burning in the hand respited; and has by his petition requested that the execution of the said sentence should be remitted.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 380
1819 May 28. Windsor.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Prince of Orange. I received the honour your Highness was pleased to do me by Monsieur Dickvelt with all the respect I owe and will ever pay to your commands, which I shall on all occasions exactly obey. He is too well informed of everything here to pretend to give you any account of what has passed since his coming; and if he does me right, as I doubt not but he will, he must assure your Highness that no man in the world is, with more respect and submission than I am, your Highness's most faithful most humble and most obedient servant. (fn. 5)
	Holograph. S.P. 8/1, pt. 2, fol. 114
1820 May 28. London.	The Earl of Nottingham to the Prince of Orange. The great ambition I ever had of serving your Highness made me most readily obey the commands I received from you by the Heer Van Dyckvelt, who has encouraged me to the presumption of this humble address to your Highness.
	I have taken several opportunities of discoursing with him those things which I thought might be of use or satisfaction to you; I shall not trouble your Highness with any account of affairs here at this time for he has so fully informed himself of them that he can give you a very exact state of them: and of one thing especially he may assure you and that is the universal concurrence of all Protestants in paying the utmost respect and duty to your Highness. For you are the person on whom they found their hopes as having already seen you a refuge to the miserable and a most eminent defender of their religion.
	And among the many votaries your Highness has here for your long life and increase of honour none can be more zealously so than myself, who am resolved with the greatest fidelity to endeavour by all the actions of my life to obtain the title of your Highness's most obedient and most humble servant. (fn. 6)
	Holograph. S.P. 8/1, pt. 2, fol. 114
1821 May 28. London.	The Earl of Clarendon to the Prince of Orange. Though I have nothing worth giving your Highness the trouble of a letter yet I must not omit the opportunity of laying myself at your Highness's feet by Mons. Dyckvelt, who I doubt not will do me the justice to assure you of my most obedient duty. I should take it for a great honour to have any commands from your Highness and am ambitious of nothing more than a share of your good opinion as a person perfectly devoted to your service. Mons. Dyckvelt will give your Highness so full an account of all affairs here that I need add nothing to what he is so well informed of. I shall only take the liberty to say that as his conduct here has been very grateful so all good men are troubled he stays no longer with us. That God would prosper and bless your Highness in all your undertakings and give you all the comforts in this world suitable to your merits is the constant prayer of, Sir, your Highness's most faithful, most obedient humble servant. (fn. 6)
	Holograph. S.P. 8/1, pt. 2, fols. 120—1
1822 May 28. Windsor.	The King to the Prince of Orange. I would not let this bearer, Mr. Dyckvelt, return without writing to you by him. I have spoken to him of your private concerns of which he will give you an account as also of the public affairs here and have spoken very freely to him of them and told him what (I think) I have reason to expect from you for the good of the Monarchy as well as of our family which he has promised to tell you so that I need not write it but refer you to him; and though may be some persons that are not well affected to me nor the Government have misrepresented some things to him and find fault with my proceedings in several things yet I am satisfied I have not made one step but what is good for the Kingdom in general as well as for the Monarchy, and have more reason every day than other to be pleased with having put out my declaration for Liberty of Conscience, which is all I shall say now but that you shall always find me as kind to you as you can desire. (fn. 7)
	Holograph. S.P. 8/4, no. 39
1823 May 29. New Parke.	The Earl of Rochester to the Prince of Orange. Now that Monsieur de Dycvelt is returning to your Highness I presume to present my humble thanks to you for the very gracious and kind letter your Highness was pleased to write to me by him upon a subject that unless it had been by a sure hand it was not safe to say anything and by what hand soever was much beyond what I could expect; but what good opinion I have gained on that occasion I shall endeavour not to lose upon any other. In the circumstances I am, as to my retirement both on the public and my particular account, your Highness cannot expect that I should say much to you, as if it were otherwise, Mons. de Dycvelt hath had so good means of knowing everything, and hath so very good qualities that it were very unnecessary to write where he is going. I am confident he will do me right that I have not been reserved towards him when he has done me the honour to communicate anything to me. All that I can say more is that my wishes are very good, but neither now, nor for some time before everybody else saw it, could they signify much. In what condition soever I am, I beg your Highness to believe that I shall always continue with all duty and submission to be as I ought to your Highness. (fn. 8)
	Holograph. S.P. 8/1, pt. 2, fol. 122
1824 May 29. Windsor.	The Queen to the Prince of Orange. The same reason that kept you so long without writing to me has hindered me all this while from answering your letter, for if you believe that your letters can be troublesome to me and must needs think that you judge by yourself in finding mine so or else you could never wrong me so much as to have that thought of me. I have desired M. Dyckvelt, who is the bearer of this, to assure you that I have all the desire in the world to do you service, having as much esteem and friendship for you as I ought to have and as I shall always endeavour to shew you upon all occasions, being more than I can express what I hope you believe me truly yours. (fn. 7)
	Holograph. S.P. 8/4, no. 40
1825 May 30. Windsor.	Reference to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the petition of Dorothy Tooker, widow of John Tooker of Norton Hall, Somerset, bailiff of several manors in Somerset and Dorset belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall, for remission of 800l. which her husband, by means of his extraordinary expenses for the King's service at the time of the Popish Plot, and of some misfortunes, owed the King at his death, or that such compensation as she is capable to make may be accepted.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 343
1826 May 30. Windsor.	Warrant to the Justices of Assize and Gaol Delivery for the Western Circuit etc. —after reciting that Thomas Hicks is to be tried at Bristol for and concerning the death of Thomas Little, ostler—that in case the said Thomas Hicks is found guilty of manslaughter to forbear putting in execution the sentence passed upon him until the King signifies his further pleasure.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 280
1827 May 30. Windsor.	Warrant to Thomas, Lord Jermyn, Governor of Jersey, to discharge and set Richard Goodenough at liberty.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 280
1828 May 30.	J. Fitzpatrick to the Prince of Orange. The many obligations I have to your Highness and the sincere passion I have for your services embolden me to acquaint your Highness with the great importance that I think it would be not only to your Highness but the States if Mons. Dicfelt might be sent Ambassador here in the room of Mons. Van Citers. His great prudence and the zeal that he is believed to have for your Highness and the Princess has got him the universal good opinion of all parties here though differing never so much in their religion, which your Highness will safely find by the freedom with which they have communicated their innermost thoughts, hopes and fears to him, and I am sure will do so still when there is any occasion for it, the consequences of which I submit to your Highness's great wisdom. Begging your pardon for this liberty and the continuance of the favour to the person in the World that is the most ambitious of an opportunity to express his gratitude and manifest how much he is, Sir, your Highness's most obliged and most faithful servant. (fn. 9)
	Holograph. S.P. 8/1, pt. 2, fol. 124
1829 May 30. London.	The Earl of Danby to the Prince of Orange. At the arrival of Mons. Dykevelt in this place I did by him receive the honour of being remembered by your Highness. He also then told me that your Highness had been pleased to name me amongst some others with whom it was your pleasure he should confer on such occasions as he should think were for the service of your Highness. I am therefore in the first place obliged to return your Highness my most humble thanks for so great an honour and next to do that justice to Mons. Dykevelt to assure your Highness that as you could have employed nobody here who would have been more agreeable to the wellwishers in this county, so I am confident that nobody could have discharged themselves better than he has done, both in his deportments to the King and with all the satisfaction that could have been wished to those with whom he has concoursed concerning your Highness (of which both the numbers and qualities has been very considerable) his chief business having been to give assurances of your Highness's great firmness in the Protestant religion and to make known not only your wishes but endeavours that no alterations may be made amongst us otherwise than by Parliament and as our laws direct. By his prudent management of those discourses he has done your Highness great service and in all other things your Highness's worth and merits were so well known before that there served nothing to set them forth more than your own actions have already declared them to the World. I am sorry he is able to bring your Highness no better an account of our services during his stay here, but you know that our present stations do render most of us but little capable of doing anything which can deserve to be thought considerable. I confess that could there be a convenient opportunity for some of us to have a personal conference with your Highness it is not only my opinion but the opinion of others who have the honour of corresponding with your Highness that some purposes might be made which would be of use to your service and I hope that from those hands your Highness is well informed of their thoughts who are devoted to your service.
	For my own part I am so tied to be of that number by what I have done already (besides my continued inclination to be so) that if I were disposed to alter that character I should not be able to make myself believed, unless your Highness would contribute to it by some proof of your displeasure towards me, which I can never fear because I am equally assured of your justice as I am of my own integrity to your service and of the satisfaction I have received by those happy successes I have had in it to which I am sure no competitor can pretend an equal share and therefore if in this I presume so say more than I ought, I hope I may be pardoned a little vanity having been the happy instrument of so great a public good as I doubt not but it will at last prove as well as a particular one to your Highness. I am glad to find that Mons. Dykevelt who is so able to serve your Highness is so well established in your confidence as I understand by my Lord Halifax to whom you gave him such credentials as made me willing to speak much more freely to him than otherwise I should have done; but yet I must confess to your Highness (which I rely upon your justice to keep to yourself) that finding his Lordship who received those credentials not willing to impart some things to him, which are not very proper to be written, I thought it less prudent for me to say to him all that I wish your Highness were truly informed of. I say not this with the least reflection upon my Ld. Halifax (who I am confident is truly zealous in your service) but to show our unhappiness who dare not by second hands speak what were necessary for your knowledge. I have only to add that if I can in any kind be serviceable to your Highness your commands will meet with so great obedience and faithfulness that I shall not consider myself if your Highness shall think me worthy of the continuance of that favour I have formerly received and which I am sure I have not justly forfeited. In the meantime I will beg the honour of being presented by your Highness with all duty to the Princess's memory and that I may remain in your Highness's opinion as I truly am your Highness's most obedient and devoted servant. (fn. 10)
	Holograph. S.P. 8/1, pt. 2, fols. 126–8
1830 May 30. London.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to the Prince of Orange. I fear you will think this an unpardonable presumption in one that is so inconsiderable and so much a stranger to your Highness, but I was unwilling to let pass the occasion without assuring you that though I hope you have a great many servants and friends in this place yet there is not one that is more entirely and faithfully so than myself. It is so much every honest man's interest as well as ambition not only to say but be so that I hope you will the easier believe that what I speak is not a compliment but the truth of my heart. The great and only consolation we have left is that you are so generous to countenance us in our misfortunes, for at the same time we know you approve we are sure we are in the right. Your commands is the rule I have set myself to conduct the rest of my life and whenever I shall be so happy to receive them they shall be obeyed with that duty that becomes, Sir, your Highness's most humble and most obedient servant. (fn. 11)
	Holograph. S.P. 8/1, pt. 2, fol. 130
1831 May 30. London.	Lord Fauconberg to the Prince of Orange. Though I acknowledge myself one of the least significant of the many devoted servants which your Highness' great reputation and virtue has acquired in these parts, yet I despair not of your pardon, Sir, for presuming humbly to kiss your hands upon this occasion offered by the return of M. Dykvelt, from whose illumination and excellent conduct in this Court I assure myself your Highness will derive such entire satisfaction as leaves me under no temptation of offering any further trouble to your Highness than to read the profession I make of being your Highness' most faithful and obedient servant. (fn. 12)
	Holograph. S.P. 8/2, pt. 2, fols. 20–1
1832 May 31. Windsor.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Duke of Beaufort. Complaint having been made to the King of the misbehaviour of some of the magistrates of Gloucester, he commands me to send you the enclosed paper for your opinion what you conceive fit to be done in that matter.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 374
1833 May 31. Windsor.	Warrant to the Justices of Assize and Gaol Delivery for the Western Circuit and all others whom it may concern—after reciting that the King has extended his grace and mercy to Thomas Plase of Edington, Henry Pitman of Yeovell, Wm. Pitman of Sandford Orcas, Daniel Pomroy of Taunton, John Edwards of Trull, Azarias Pinny of Axminster, George Mullins, sen., of Taunton, John Collins of Chard, George Pickard of Rhode, Joseph Gaylard late of Exeter, Wm. Savage of Taunton, Edward Babbe late of Trull, John Oram of Warminster, Thomas Pumphrey late of Worcester, William Horsley late of St. Martin in the Fields, Nicholas Scading of Blagon Green, James Carryer of Ilminster, John Bovett of Taunton, William Way of Combe St. Nicholas, Robert Hucker of Taunton, woolcomber, William Gaunt of Wapping, Richard Lucas of Dulverton, John Marther alias Marder of Crewkerne, George Pavior of Longport, Benjamin Alsopp late of London, Christopher Eason of Chard, Brian Connory, John Woolters, Andrew Speed, Daniel Foe, John Harper, George Richmond, and Martin Goddard, who were engaged in the late rebellion—for causing the said persons to be inserted in the next General Pardon, without any condition of transportation.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 281
1834 May 31.	The Earl of Halifax to the Prince of Orange. I deferred my thanks for the honour of your Highness's letter till I could pay them by the same hand that brought it. Having had the opportunity of discoursing frequently and at large with Monsieur Dickfelt it would be less proper now to enter into particulars or to make repetitions of that which he will be so much better able to explain. I shall therefore only put your Highness in mind that my conjectures about the meeting of the Parliament have not hitherto been disappointed and if I may be allowed to continue them I am of opinion there will be none in November neither this nor a new one, though that is threatened upon a supposition that it shall be made up of dissenters and that they will comply with whatever shall be expected from them. Neither of these will be found true, in my opinion, if the trial should be made. There are a great many circumstances that make such a scheme very impracticable and the more they consider it the more they will be discouraged from attempting it. Besides, the case in short is this: the great design cannot be carried on without numbers; numbers cannot be had without converts, the old stock not being sufficient. Converts will not venture till they have such a law to secure them as has no exception to it, so that any degree of violence to the law would so entirely take away the effect of it that men would as little run the hazard of changing their religion after the making it as before. This reason alone fixes my opinion though other arguments are not wanting and upon this foundation I have no kind of apprehension that the legislative power can ever be brought to pursue the present designs; but our affairs here depend so much upon what may be done abroad that our thoughts though never so seasonable may be changed by what we may hear by the next post. A war in Germany, and much more if one nearer to us, will have such an influence here that our counsels must be fitted to it and whether or no we shall have an avowed part in it, it is pretty sure we shall have a leaning to one of the parties and our resolutions at home are to be suited to the interests abroad which we shall happen to espouse. Many jealousises here are so raised that they can hardly believe the King of France's journey to Luxembourgh to have no more in it than bare curiosity to see it, but your Highness have your eyes so open and your thoughts so intent upon everything that moves that no doubt you either see there is no mystery or if there is you have searched for the bottom of it. Monsieur Dickfielt will entertain your Highness with all his observations which he has made with great diligence, having conversed with men of all complexions and by that means he knows a great deal of the present state of our affairs. The opportunities he has had will make him the more welcome here again whenever there shall be a fair occasion of bringing him. His free way of conversing gives him an easier admittance than he would have if he was too reserved, and his being known to be a Creature of your Highness's encourages men to talk with him with less restraint. May your Highness continue well and safe and may no ill happen to you till I cease to be the most devoted of your servants. (fn. 13)
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1835 May 31.	The Earl of Devonshire to the Prince of Orange. Presuming that your Highness has heard of an unlucky accident that has happened to me lately I think myself obliged humbly to beseech your Highness not to believe me capable of intending any rudeness to the King [or] Palace having on the contrary endeavoured all I could to avoid it, and hope no action of my life can render me suspected of want of respect to his Majesty or the Royal family. I could heartily wish, Sir, that affairs in England were according to your Highness's satisfaction. Monsieur Dickvelt has been pleased to acquaint me with your Highness's intentions as to many things and, among thousands here that would be glad to receive your orders, on any occasion, none can be more cordially or with greater respect your Highness's most faithful and most humble servant. (fn. 14)
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1836 May 31. Windsor.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord Deputy of Ireland. I have received yours of the 23rd and two of the 24th with the papers enclosed and have laid before the King your apprehensions of some design the Scots in Ulster are carrying on and of a correspondence they maintain with Scotland. He thinks everything so quiet in Scotland and the Fanatics and Dissenters both here and there so well satisfied since his late declaration that he cannot believe there is any reason to fear them in Ireland, and therefore would have nothing done which might give them any apprehension or look like a distrust, without great occasion. He hopes the army in Ireland is in a condition to keep things in order there and therefore positively forbids you to disarm the disaffected persons and, in case you have begun to do it, would have you put a stop to it and proceed no further without new orders. I received not your letters till last night and therefore can say nothing now to the other particulars, whereof I hope to give you an account by the next. I would not defer one moment acquainting you with his Majesty's pleasure in this matter, the King thinking it of the last importance that nothing of this kind be done which would make so much noise.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 235
1837 May 31. Windsor.	The same to the same. His Majesty having been now further moved in behalf of Major Nicholas Brady, whose petition I some time since referred to you, commands me to transmit the enclosed and acquaint you that he would have him provided for in Ireland. He intends also to remove Mr. James Barrett, an ensign here in Col. Tufton's Regiment, to the like command in Ireland and would have you send over the name of the person with whom you think fit the exchange should be made. He refers to you Mr. Richard Bourke's petition for a pardon.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 236
1838 May 31. Windsor.	The same to the same. Mr. Keightly being ready to begin his journey for Ireland, the King commands me to tell you he has received great assurances from him that he will behave himself very well there, and would have you give order that his pension of 400l. a year be constantly and duly paid him, this being all the King gives him or that he has to depend upon.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 236
1839 [May.]	The Earl of Bedford to the Prince of Orange. Great and surprising honours the more joy they give the more they disable us to express it, and I am not ashamed to own I cannot find words to represent the deep sense and just gratitude with which my heart abounds for those assurances Monsieur Dickfeild has given me of your Highness's compassion for my late calamity and gracious disposition to comfort an unfortunate family which I should be less concerned for than I am if I could doubt any branches of it would ever fail in any point of duty to your Highness's person, which is here universally held in the highest veneration for those Christian and Princely virtues that make you worthy of whatever your high birth has given you has related or may entitle you to. That it would please God to give you long life and to continue all his blessings to you is the hearty prayer of him that has the uttermost devotion to your service and is with all humility, may it please your Highness, your Highness's most faithful, most obedient and most humble servant. (fn. 15)
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1840 [After 1686.]	N[athaniel Crew], Bishop of Durham, to the King. Advising him to withdraw his protection from Romish chapels; that the Archbishopric of York, which has been offered to the writer, may be filled with some more deserving person; that another Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, may be appointed instead of Mr. Massey, who is utterly incapable thereof by law; that the Fellows of Sidney College, Cambridge, may have leave to elect a new Master in the place of Mr. Bassett, unqualified on the same account, and to proceed in all other affairs according to their original statutes and constitutions; and to call a free Parliament as soon as may be.
	Printed sheet. Endorsed in pencil: 1686, May.
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1841 [? 1686.]	Paper, setting out in detail matters relating to affairs of State etc. in England, Scotland, and Ireland, concerning which the writer is prepared to give accounts etc. from time to time.
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1842 [? 1686.]	A series of papers relating to Crown lands.
	(1) — to —. As to purchasers of fee farm rents belonging to the Crown by false and forged bills and debentures for which Dr. Warner has a commission, and not being able to proceed any further in it for want of money:
	In 1649, 50 and 51. The said rents were sold, as appears by several acts of the then pretended Parliament, one moiety to be paid in public faith bills and debentures, the other in ready money.
	There were about 60,000 purchasers of these forged bills and debentures, paying 11d. or 12d. in the pound, the highest 16d.
	A commission issued out in 1655 to call the purchasers to account. By the depositions of direct witnesses, it appears there were about 70,000 forged bills and debentures.
	The books and papers that will make a perfect discovery of the forgers and the purchasers of lands with the forged bills are in the custody of Sir Joseph Williamson and I have seen his report touching the prosecution of the same.
	On the same sheet and in the same hand.
	Francis Royley to Lady —. You said I might thank you for the money I received. My condition is very low and poor and I beg you will desire Sir William that what kindness he has for me he will let me have it. I had sixpence a week from one that owes me money, but he is gone into the country and when he will return I know not. Therefore I beseech you will intercede for me.
	Endorsed: 'Sir Wm. Riddell', 10 Jan. 1653.
	(2) In 1649, 50 and 51. The manors, lands and tenements belonging to the Crown, bishops, dean and chapters and the royal party by several Acts of the then pretended Parliament. (Details of the issue, purchase and forgery of bills and debentures as in the foreging.) By the Act of General Pardon from his late Majesty the purchasers and forgers are excepted, the discover [sic] being a due debt to his Majesty.
	H.B., one of the purchasers, treated on behalf of the purchasers and offered to pay for his and their discharge and quietus 300,000l.
	(3) — to —. The books and papers that will make a perfect discovery of the forgers of public faith bills and debentures are ready to be produced to make appear the fraudulent dealing of those who knowingly bought fee farm rents therewith, and who are not yet prosecuted for a lesson to all future attempters of the like nature.
	(4) A list of persons that purchased Crown fee farm rents with fraudulent debentures, etc., in 1650, 1651 and 1652. Names, dates of contract, and sums paid. 3 names.
	(5) A less complete duplicate (only one name) of the preceding.
	(6, 7) Short lists of names (including those of Lambert and Ireton) with sums of money against them, evidently denoting similar purchases.
	(8) Purchasers of Crown Lands, Dean and Chapters' and delinquents' estates by false bills and debentures. 18 entries, some of them the same as in the preceding papers.
	(9) Memoranda. About Okeover and Sir C. Clarke and the 4,000l. But rather Q[ueen's] Tr[easurer's] Paper Office of false and forged debentures and in the same office is also the papers proving the sequestrations under their own hands and the forged debentures with which they purchased Crown Lands, etc. Vide the book of ordinance.
	To Capt. Cresset, and to Ratcliffe about the grant that prevented traps to search into Barker papers, which are of great value.
	To discourse about Wandesford.
	(10) Further names of purchasers.
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