William and Mary: February 1689

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1689-90. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1895.

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February 1689

1689. Feb, 13.
Whitehall.
The Earl of Shrewsbury to Mr. Pollexfen and Sir Robert Atkins.— The King directs you to attend him to-morrow at nine of the clock at the Secretary's Office in the Stone Gallery here, and I am bid to let you know it is to have your opinion how this present convention may best be turned into a Parliament. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 29.]
Feb. 13. Proclamation of William and Mary, as King and Queen of England. [S.P. Dom. Proclamations, Vol. 6, No. 6.]
Feb. 14.
Whitehall.
Proclamation that all Sheriffs Justices of the Peace, Collectors, Receivers, and others connected with the revenue, being Protestants, and who held office on the 1st of December last, shall be continued in the same. [Ibid., No. 9.]
Feb. 14.
London.
News-letter. The Lords and Commons, having on Tuesday night fully agreed the preliminaries and ordered them to be enrolled in the records of Parliament, and Chancery; they agreed to a Proclamation for proclaiming William and Mary, King and Queen of England, &c., and yesterday they were proclaimed in London and Westminster with all the accustomed formalities, accordingly. The Lords and Commons having met at Westminster, went thence to Whitehall and, in the Banqueting House, desired them to accept the Crown, as above; which they did, and afterwards proceeded with the heralds to the Royal Exchange, being met at Temple Bar by the Mayor and aldermen on horseback. The King and Queen having heard the declaration of the Lords and Commons read, went to the Royal Chapel where the Bishop of London preached; the Princess of Denmark was with them. Dr. Burnet officiated as clerk of the closet to the King, and Dr. Stanley to the Queen. The sermon being ended, all the Bishops that were at chapel, viz.:—The Archbishop of York, the Bishops of London, St. Asaph, Winchester, Gloucester, and Bristol, and the Bishop of Kildare in Ireland went from thence and took off their habits in order to wait on their Majesties, who received them very graciously. The Lords have ordered the Clerks of the Court of King's Bench to make copies or abstracts of what proceedings have been in their office against any peers in criminal cases since James II. to this time. Yesterday Lord Chief Justice Wright was apprehended by Sir William Waller at the Old Bailey and carried before the Lord Mayor and being accused of having committed high misdemeanor was committed to Newgate. His Majesty has made Lord Shrewsbury one of his principal Secretaries of State Lord Devon, Lord Steward of his household. Mons. Benting, Lord Chamberlain, Mons. Overkirk Master of Horse, Lord Halifax, President of the Council, and it is said the Lord Danby will be made Treasurer. The Privy Councillors were sworn this day. [Greenwich Hospital, News Letters, Vol. 3, No. 66, and Greenwich Hospital, News Letter Entry Book 2, p. 281.]
Feb. 14.
Whitehall.
The Earl of Shrewsbury to the Lord Great Chamberlain. As the King does not intend to go to-morrow to the Parliament you need not summon the peers to be there in their robes. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 29.]
Feb. 15.
Whitehall.
Warrant to George Collins, one of the King's messengers in ordinary to arrest Edmund Stack, a reputed Roman Catholic, lately one of the clerks in the Excise and Hearth Office, who has absconded with bonds and papers relating to those branches of the revenue. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 164, and Entry Book 72, p. 19.]
Feb. 15.
Whitehall.
Warrant to Thomas Neale, Master of the Mint, to continue to coin the gold and silver bullion in the Mint with the former dies until the puncheons and dies "with our effigies and arms shall be made and finished." [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 165, and Entry Book 72, p. 21.]
Feb. 15.
Whitehall.
Passes for John Evans, and his servants, John Wright and Thomas Johnson, to go beyond seas. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 72, p. 19]; a duplicate of the above, [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 164]; for Jonathan Evans, ditto; and for John Sparrow and Ralph Onion to go to Holland, and to return. [Ibid.]
Feb. 16.
Whitehall.
Warrant to search printing houses for unlicensed, seditious, false, and scandalous papers, books, &c. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 72, p. 22.]
Feb. 16. Duplicate of the above. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 168.]
Feb. 16. Order in Council that in all prayers for the King, to the word "King" be added " and Queen," to the word "Sovereign Lord" be added" and Lady" and that instead of the King's name, "Charles" or "James," there be used the names "William and Mary." And the first petition for the King in the Litany shall end thus "Thy servants William and Mary, our most Gracious King and Queen." In the prayer for the High Court of Parliament, instead of "Our sovereign and his" these words, " Their Majesties and their." In the first and second collects for the King, next after the Commandments, the words be read thus, "The hearts of thy chosen servants King William and Queen Mary, that." In the prayer for Christ's Church militant the words be read thus, " And especially Thy servants William and Mary, our King and Queen." In the first prayer in the form to be used at sea, the words be read thus, "Our most Gracious Sovereign Lord and Lady King William and Queen Mary and their Kingdoms." And in all prayers for the Royal Family the persons particularly to be prayed for, be thus named and expressed, "Catherine the Queen Dowager, her Royal Highness the Princess Anne of Denmark and all the Royal Family." [S.P. Dom., Will. & Mary 1, No. 1; and S.P. Dom. Proclamations, Vol. 6, No. 7.]
Feb. 16.
Whitehall.
Warrant to Robert Stevens, messenger, inspector of printing presses, to apprehend the authors of "divers false, scandalous, and seditious books, papers, news, pamphlets, and intelligences, daily printed and dispersed, containing idle and mistaken relations of what passes, with malicious reflections upon persons to the disturbance of the public peace, which are published without any authority contrary to the laws in that case provided." [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 168.]
Feb. 16.
Whitehall.
Pass for Mrs. Arabella Knifton and Mrs. Anne Clifford, with a maidservant, to go to France. [Ibid.]
Feb. 17.
Cambridge.
Dr. John Covell to the Earl of Shrewsbury. I have heard from Dr. Wynne that orders were sent from the Council Chamber to all Corporations for proclaiming their present Majesties; neither I nor the Mayor have received them. [S.P. Dom., Will. & Mary 1, No. 2.]
Feb. 17.
Whitehall.
The Earl of Shrewsbury to Sir Robert Holmes. I send you for examination the copy of a Memorial delivered in by the Agent of the Hanse Townes, relating to the two ships therein mentioned, and request that you return it to me, together with your opinion what it becomes his Majesty to do in this case. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 29.]
Feb. 17.
Whitehall.
Passes for — Robinson, merchant, to go to Hamburgh and to return; for Epinetus Pollett and Thomas Clifton to go to France [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 168]; and for the following persons to embark at Dover for Calais:— Charles Leybourne, esq., Humphrey Northall, Thomas Arnold, Thomas Wentworth, esq., James St. Claire, esq., Joseph Persicoe, esq., and 6 servants, Robert Buckingham, esq., Henry Hurlston, William Singleton, Walter Dormer, senior, Thomas Johnson, Robert Doary, Walter Dormer, junior, Richard Drew, Henry Devon, Richard Chaire, Bartholemew Gardner, John Serjeant, Thomas Hooper, Robert Wallis, Robert Chapman, John Ketchlove, Thomas Palmer, John Grey, John Meckries, Charles Johnes, David Robert, Guy Forster, Thomas Muttlebury, Thomas Butler, junior, John Hampsted, Henry Pockley, John Floyd, Thomas Swift, Peter Vandore, Timothy Clarke, John Lewin, George Peirson, Philip Carney, Benjamin Booth, John Fisher, Benjamin Cotton, Thos. Chamberlain, and — Faune. [Ibid., p. 166–7.]
Feb. 17.
Whitehall.
Duplicate of the last without the list of names. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 72, p. 22.]
Feb. 18. His Majesty's speech in the House of Lords. Printed. [S.P. Dom. Will. & Mary 1, No. 3.]
Feb. 18.
Whitehall.
Proceedings upon the petition of Sir William Phipps, knt., and Increase Mather, rector of the college of Cambridge, in the New England, setting forth that the charters of Incorporation, granted to the four colonies in New England, were, in the year 1684, taken away, and Sir Edward Andros, made Governor of that Colony; and praying that their ancient privileges may be restored to them. Referred to the Committee for trade and foreign plantations for report. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 53.]
Feb. 18.
The Hague.
Count Weibbenum to [the King ?].—The Marquis of Castanaga's opinion on the action of the French. Asks for 5,000 English troops to assist in the campaign. Condition of the cavalry and of the garrisons. The Prince of Vaudémont hopes for a continuance of your protection. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 5, No. 1.]
Feb. 18.
Whitehall.
Warrant for a grant of 4 l. a day to George, Marquis of Halifax, as Keeper of the Privy Seal. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 212.]
Feb. 18.
Whitehall.
Warrant to the Clerk of the Signet to prepare a Bill to pass the privy seal for the payment of 4l. per diem to George, Marquis of Halifax, Keeper of the Privy Seal, "in lieu of the ancient diet of sixteen dishes of meat." [Ibid.]
Feb. 18.
Whitehall.
Passes for Elizabeth Philips to go to France; and for Andrew Ker, Adam Davidson and Lawrence Deese to travel by land to Scotland. [Ibid.]
Feb. 19. Protection for Mrs. Ann Talbot, of Longford, Shropshire, who is "under great apprehensions of being molested and prejudiced by some disorderly persons; and also to William Hill, her steward." [Ibid., and S.P. Dom. Entry Book 72, p. 23.]
Feb. 19.
Whitehall.
Warrant to Henry Harris, "engraver," to make "two new seals for our signet" according to a draft enclosed. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 70, and S.P. Dom. Entry Book 72, p. 25.]
Feb. 19.
Whitehall.
The like to the same to engrave "a new seal to be used as our privy seal," according to a draft enclosed. [Ibid.]
Feb. 19.
Whitehall.
Warrant to deliver Colonel John Butler, taken into custody at Whitehaven, and all other Irish prisoners, to the officer appointed to take them to Carlisle. [Ibid., and S.P. Dom. Entry Book 72, p. 25.]
Feb. 19. Proclamation for avoiding all damage and loss to the subject by the foreign coins lately received by them. [S.P. Dom. Proclamations, Vol. 6, No. 10.]
Feb. 19.
Whitehall.
O. Wynne [Secretary to the Earl of Shrewsbury] to Richard Owen, Postmaster at Holyhead. You will find by the enclosed that a strict eye is to be had to the port of Holyhead that no person be suffered to go for Ireland without a pass. I am bid to desire you to send constant accounts of what news you have from Ireland, and of such persons as shall happen to be stopped there. And if you be not the chief officer in that port, you are to communicate this to him. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 30.]
Feb. 19. Pass for Thomas Jolly, with six children and three servants, to go to Flanders. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 169.]
Feb. 20. Proceedings upon the petition of Edward Strode for a writ of error, upon a judgment of the Court of King's Bench, given against him, in an action of trespass upon the case, brought by one George Rodney in the county of Devon. Granted. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 54.]
Feb. 20.
Whitehall.
Passes for Allycourt and Halleele, two Turks to go beyond sea; for Mr. Nicholas Hubin, with his wife and two servants to go to France; Mr. — de Roche and Mr. — de Perigni to go to Holland; for John Issen with his wife and two children, to go to Flanders [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 170]; for Thomas Thompson, with one servant to go to France; and for Thomas Plott to go to Italy, by way of France. [Ibid., p. 178.]
Feb. 21.
Whitehall.
Warrant to William, Earl of Devonshire, Steward of the Household to swear and admit Francis, Viscount Newport, as Treasurer of the Household, Thomas Wharton, as Controller of the Household, Sir Stephen Fox, as eldest clerk of the Green Cloth, William Forrester, as second clerk of the same, James Forbes, as eldest clerk comptroller and — Isaac, as youngest clerk comptroller. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 172, and S.P. Dom. Entry Book 72, p. 25.]
Feb. 21.
Whitehall.
The Earl of Shrewsbury to Capt. Hamilton at Chester. By his Majesty's commands, I send you the enclosed letters and papers. The instructions which are signed for you by the King will sufficiently inform you of his intentions and pleasure, so that there is nothing more to be added than to acquaint you that I have written the enclosed letters to Mr. Anderton and Mr. Frith, Officers of the Customs and Excise at Chester, directing them to furnish you with the 1,000l. and to provide a vessel for carrying you and the stores, as is mentioned in the said instructions. The form of the oath which is required to be taken by Lieutenant-Colonel Lundy you will find in the printed Declaration of the Lords and Commons. There are some other papers which are to be sent into Ireland with care and diligence such as the printed proclamations for proclaiming his Majesty in that Kingdom which will be sent forward as soon as ready, but the condition of that country calling for your speedy departure, you need not stay for them when you shall be provided with all things else for your voyage. [Postscript to a duplicate letter.] Copies of the proclamation are enclosed for publication in Ireland. More will be sent. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 30.]
Feb. 21.
Whitehall.
The same to Lord Tweeddale. I am commanded by his Majesty to acquaint your lordship that he has received your letter of the 7th instant, and that the account you gave him of having assisted the Protestants in Ireland with arms and ammunition was very acceptable to him, their conditions being such as ought to engage all of the same profession to give them all possible relief and succour against the common enemy of our religion, which his Majesty is so extremely sensible of, that his thoughts are almost wholly employed how to rescue and deliver them from those imminent dangers that threaten them and therefore cannot but be very well pleased that your Lordship, and such as have nearer opportunities to serve them, are so readily disposed to do it. [Ibid., p. 32.]
Feb. 21.
Whitehall.
The Earl of Shrewsbury to [Matthew] Anderton and W. Frith, Officers of the Customs and Excise at Chester. Directing them to furnish Capt. James Hamilton with the sum of 1,000l. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 31.]
Feb. 21.
Whitehall.
The same to Matthew Anderton. Directing him to despatch the stores of war to be sent to Ireland under the charge of Capt. Hamilton, in a sufficient merchant ship hired at the port of Chester. [Ibid., p. 32.]
Feb. 21.
Cowes.
Sir Robert Holmes to the Earl of Shrewsbury.—On the 31st of December last, a privateer pinck of Flushing, burthen about eighty tons, called the White Phœnix, Vita Vita, master, brought into this road two prizes; viz. The Cornelius, a galliot hoy, of and from Hamburgh, Jacob Jacobson, master, bound for Rouen; and the St. Bartholomew, a flyboat, of and from Hamburgh, Casteen Fryer, master, bound for Honfleur. On the 12th instant the privateer sailed hence with her prizes. Though the prizes were seized under a commission from the Prince of Orange, I think " the King of England has nothing to say to them," but that the Zealand privateer may carry them into Zealand, and the Hanse towns make their complaint to the States. "For if the Hanse towns be permitted to carry naval stores to France, it may be of ill consequence to any prince or state, which hath war with him." The privateer and the two Hamburgh vessels are still at Spithead, if the King has any more to say to them. "I have a report from a newly-arrived vessel that there are several French men-of-war and privateers cruising in the Channel. Some few of the Irish in the Island have made their escape, and as many as can will; slipping on board some vessel or other. It were very well that some men-of-war were ordered to Ryde, in these roads, to search all vessels that pass about the Island." [S.P. Dom. Will. & Mary 1, No. 4].
Feb. 21.
Whitehall.
Passes for Mr. Noel Aubert, to go to France [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 171]; for James Keneady and Edward Wouten to go beyond sea; for William Philpot, with his two servants, to go to France, or any other place beyond sea; and for Edward Talbot, George Saunders, and George Shepherd, to go to France [Ibid., p. 172].
Feb. 22. Warrant to appoint Arthur Herbert, John, Earl of Carbery, Sir Michael Wharton, Sir Thomas Lee, Sir John Chicheley, Sir John Lowther, of Whitehaven, and [William] Sacheverill, Commissioners of the Admiralty. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 180.]
Feb. 22.
Whitehall.
The Declaration of William and Mary, as King and Queen of England, France, and Ireland. Printed. [S.P., Ireland, 352, No. 1.]
Feb. 22.
Whitehall.
Proclamation granting pardon and indemnity to those of the Kingdom of Ireland who shall lay down their arms and retire to their places of abode before 10th April next, and also granting to Roman Catholics the favour for the private exercise of their religion. [S.P. Dom. Proclamations, Vol. 6, No. 11.]
Feb. 22.
Whitehall.
Passes for Signori Innocentis Fede, Bernardo and Jean Cazall, Italians, to go to France, and for Mrs. Mary Porter, Isabella Porter her daughter, and one maid servant, ditto. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 173.]
Feb. 23.
Hampton Court.
Warrant to the Governor, &c. of Tilbury Fort to let pass the ships to the number of 36 or thereabouts, which have embarked the forces going to Holland. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 72, p. 27, and S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 178.]
Feb. 23.
Whitehall.
Warrant to the Earl of Dorset to swear William Churchhill, citizen of London, as the King's bookseller, bookbinder and stationer. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 179.]
Feb. 23.
Whitehall.
Warrant to the same to swear Sir John Lowther as Vice Chamberlain of the Household. [Ibid.]
Feb. 23. An Act for removing and preventing all questions and disputes concerning the assembling and sitting of this present Parliament; enacting that the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, convened at Westminster the 22nd day of January, 1688–9, and there sitting on the 13th day of February following, are the two Houses of Parliament, and so shall be. Printed. [S.P. Dom. Will. & Mary 1, No. 5.]
Feb. 23.
Whitehall.
The Earl of Shrewsbury to Lord Lucas [Governor of the Tower]. Directing him to allow the children and relations of Sir Thomas Jenner, a prisoner in his custody, to have access to him, and that he be suffered to have the liberty of the Tower in the presence of a warder. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 33.]
Feb. 23.
Whitehall.
Passes for the Duchess de Bouillon, with 32 servants, to embark on board the—, whereof Capt. Gay is master, for France [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 72, p. 27]; Duplicate of the above [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 173]; also for the following persons to go to France:—Mrs. Chappelle, Raphael her son, and two boys, Philip and Thomas Deligny, Charles Turner esq., and Walter Plummer, William Goodwyn, and John Davis, his servants, Ralph Sheldon, esq., and Timothy Crosse, Nicholas Upton, his servants; Thomas Wyndham, Richard Graham, esq., Richard Lane, and Thomas Thompson; Robert Gargrave, esq., William Barker, and John Barker, his servants; William Banks, esq., and Richard Harrison, and Thomas Harman, his servants; John Calvert, esq., and John Trigg, and Elizabeth Horner, his servants; Gerald Devereux, esq., and Walter Devereux, and John Taylor, his servants; John Decanter, Esq., and Matthew Wightell, his servant; Thomas Rose, Edward Commins, William Cunningham, and Thomas Rosse, their servant; Nicholas Miller, senior, Nicholas Miller junior, Thomas Bray, Jonas Watson, Henry Higgins, Richard Tildesley, John Dixy, Thomas Welsh, John Adams, with John Stoakes, David Henderson, Lachary Broome, George Aleby, Francis Smith, George Paul, John Hurry, John West, and William Kelly, their servants; Richard Hulk, Leon Wyatt, Thomas Woodcock, Aaron Wall, Robert Richardson, Jervas Haulton, Henry Robinson, John Adamson, Robert Peake. Thomas Shepheard, Thomas Man, Benjamin Marett, Michael Burton, Thomas Farryan, John Ullock, Richard Smith, Joseph Dufty, with John Woodcock, and Francis Wyatt, their servants; John Peach, Thomas Alsop, his servant; George Holder, and John Holder, his boy; John Marsh, and Edward Parkes, John Pattison, John Burton, his servants; William Bright, John Bulmer, William Bulmer, Francis Farne, Nicholas Chappell, William Smithson, Richard Jackson, Joseph Wood, and John Dent; Sir Thomas Morley, Penelope his lady, and Francis their daughter; Mary Whitehead, gentlewoman, with Dorothy Mecater, (?) John Holland, and Thomas West, their servants; John Lewin, and his son; John Stapleton, Daniel Fulham, Richard Hebert, Balthazar Artimo, Warnecombe Pierrepoint, his wife and son; Mrs. Waldegrave, Mary Jones, Mrs. Harnidge, Mrs. Elstone, John Hatfield, Claudius Piennett, Mrs. Blackbourne, Mrs. Aubing, Mrs. Hatfield, Gwin Evans, David Lewis, William London, and two children, Alice Thompson, Elizabeth Clarke, Bryan O'Bryan, Robert Johnson, Mr. Desarter, and 4 servants, Matthew Smith, Thomas St. John, Guy Foster, Mr. Le Point, and Peter Thomas, his servant, John Wade, Magdalen St. Paul, Thomas St. Paul, Isabella de Lattre, Rosamond Southward, Mrs. Read, and Mrs. Salvin, Walter Strickland, esq., Elizabeth Parkinson, Philippa Neptune, Mrs. Francis Hawksted, Benjamin Cotton, Humphry Northall, Richard Cotton, John Lynall, Innocentia Feady, Bernardo Alberti, Josepho Battalini, Francisco Marco, Antonio Plunket, James Seopolina, Antonio Maria Grandi, Elizabeth Marco, two servants, Humphrey Prescott, Mary Wiliams, William Shadd, Thomas Jones, two washerwomen, Mr. Hide, Mr. Dixon; the officers of the buckhounds, the serjeant, his wife, four children, two maids two men, with five horses for himself, and one for each servant; the harbourers;—Jolly, his wife, three children, a maid, a man and four horses; and Babel, three horses, and a man; Lancelot Carlisle, Anthony Knight, and Thomas Pierson, yeoman with 14 horses, to each of them a servant, and five horses; James Loftus, Richard Holmes, and Thomas Atkins, yeomen, foot-huntsmen; and William Webb, Thomas Comfort, Thomas Todd, two servants and five horses, and 45 couple of hounds. [Ibid., pp. 173–7.]
Feb. 24.
Chester.
Captain James Hamilton to the Earl of Shrewsbury. I received your letter of the 21st instant this morning at Neston, where the ships ride, and as the wind is still too westerly for them to sail, I came hither to attend to your order to the officers of the customs here. In view of the importance of haste, and my inexperience, I desire to describe my actions more particularly. I was commanded to go hence with the arms and ammunition to Whitehaven, to receive more there. But finding that the Jersey, frigate, did not dare to deal with that coast, I agreed with Captain Beverley to ride off Ramsey Point in the Isle of Man, while I went into Whitehaven on board the Pelican, which had the arms.
However, as I must hire another ship at Whitehaven for the arms, unless there is a fair wind to-morrow, I shall go by land to Whitehaven for that purpose. I have already sent an express thither to order that the ammunition be made ready; and though it is 115 scurvy miles from this place and not within the post road I hope to arrive there by next Wednesday. The Customs here have but 48l. in cash and the collector is on his circuit. By reason of the sense I have of the sad condition of the people, for whom these succours are designed, I shall leave the necessary orders for the money, or so much as can be got together, to be put on board the frigate, rather than lose so much time as this matter seems to require. I doubt, but I may be delayed at Whitehaven, seeing that the stores must come 30 miles over land from Carlisle. Could not orders be sent to the officers of the customs at Whitehaven, to supply me with the necessary money for Ireland ? — Postscript, February 25. The wind is now fair, and I am in haste to save the tide. Mr. Matthew Anderton has advanced me 595l. 16s. 8d. upon his own credit. [S.P. Dom. Will. & Mary 1, No. 6.]
Feb. 25.
Whitehall.
Proceedings upon the petition of Sir John Cope. Stating that Lady Cope, the widow of his late brother, Sir Anthony Cope, is a lunatic, and that upon the lands in her jointure great waste has been done, these being upon part of the petitioner's estate in Oxfordshire. Prays that she and the estate may be committed to the custody of Thomas Wharton comptroller of the household. Granted. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 56.]
Feb. 25.
Whitehall.
Warrant for a grant to Lord Lucas of the office of chief governor of the Tower of London. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 188.]
Feb. 25.
Whitehall.
Passes for Claud Fourmont, Louis Menar, Jane Fallofield, Robert Blandford, senior, Robert Blandford, junior, and Luke Smith, to go to France; for Thomas Heywood and Edward Wissen, do.; for Mrs. Ann Aumont, Hern Krell, and Elizabeth Krell, do.; and for Sir Edward Baesch, do. [Ibid., pp. 178 and 179.]
Feb. 26.
Whitehall.
Passes for Elizabeth Foole with Mary Foster and her two daughters to go to Stirling; for Andrew Hay to pass by land from Scotland to London [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 180]; for Honor Dayell, Katherine Morfie, Ellen Sullivan and a child, Jane Willdon and Alligarty, with a child, to go to Flanders; for James Clinton and William Bruce to go to Holland; for Isaac Lafon and one servant to go to Hamburgh; and for Francis Johnson and Anthony Maynard to go to France, on board the Penelope. [Ibid., p. 181.]
Feb. 27.
Whitehall.
Warrant for a commission appointing Sir John Maynard, sergeantat-law, Anthony Keck, and — Rawlinson to be keepers of the Great Seal. [Ibid., p. 183.]
Feb. 27. Duplicate of the above. [Ibid., p. 185.]
Feb. 27.
The Council Chamber at Whitehall.
Warrant to Henry Evans, one of the messengers of his Majesty's chamber, to arrest Sir Robert Hamilton on suspicion of high treason. [Ibid., p. 194]
Feb. 27.
Whitehall.
Warrant to Simon Chapman, a King's messenger, to proceed to Dover to recall the passports lately granted for the transport to France of persons, horses, coaches, &c., belonging to the late King James. [Ibid., p. 181.]
Feb. 27.
Whitehall.
The Earl of Shrewsbury to Lord Lucas. Directing him to grant to Charles Hales, a prisoner in the Tower, the liberty of the Tower in the presence of a warder. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 33.]
Feb. 27.
Berlin.
The Elector Frederick [of Brandenburgh] to the King. I am unable to express the greatness of my joy at the accomplishment of the desire I have had for several years, particuarly during the six months since Minden, for your elevation to the throne of England, which is equally due to you, by blood, and by the benefits which England and all Protestants, indeed all Europe, have received by your means. Hopes for a continuance of the King's friendship. Holograph. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 5, No. 2.]
Feb. 27.
Whitehall.
Warrant revoking the passports granted to the ships the John of London, the Penelope ketch, or any other vessels, to transport the late King and Queen's servants, &c. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 182.]
Feb. 27.
Whitehall.
Passes for Christopher Hickson to go to Ireland; the like for Mons. Becheville, with three servants, to go to France [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 181]; and for Mrs. Anne Wessells, with three children to go to Scotland, by sea. [Ibid., p. 182.]
Feb. 28.
Whitehall.
Proclamation requiring the bringing in of arms lately embezzled. [S.P. Dom. Proclamations, Vol. 6, No. 12.]
Feb. 28. Proclamation for the discovery and apprehension of Robert Brent, gentleman. [Ibid., No. 13.]
Feb. 28.
Whitehall.
The Earl of Shrewsbury to Matthew Anderton collector of customs, at Chester. I have received your letter of the 24th instant which gives an account of the 595l. 19s. 8d. lent by you to Captain James Hamilton and I have acquainted the Lords of the Treasury with the service you have done. They have promised me to receive the King's directions for your being reimbursed this sum, and also what shall be further or advanced to the said Captain Hamilton towards completing the 1,000l. which his Majesty ordered to be taken upon credit for this occasion; the due payment whereof you may depend. upon. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 33.]
Feb. 28.
Whitehall.
The same to William Jackson, Mayor of Bristol. I have received your letter of the 23rd instant, which I have laid before his Majesty, who declares that the keys of the City shall be kept by you and not by the officer commanding the forces quartered there, which you are to signify to Lieut.-Col. Brewer, and I do not question but he will acquiesce therein. [Ibid., p. 34.]
Feb. 28. A certificate, signed E. Griffith, stating that the writer knows Edmond Donellan, of Cloghan (?) in the county of Roscommon, to be a very honest gentleman and a good Protestant of the church of England, and that his son James Donellan, late of the Middle Temple, at whose request this certificate is given, is also reputed to be a good Protestant. [S.P. Dom. Will. & Mary 1, No. 7.]
Feb. 28.
Whitehall.
Warrant to Sir James Grant, being upon the King's service, with a horse and guide, to go to Edinburgh. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 182.]
Feb. 28.
Whitehall.
Warrant to commit James, Earl of Arran, to the Tower, for treasonable practices. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 183.]
Feb. 28.
Whitehall.
Warrant for Arthur Herbert to give such orders to the Commissioners and Officers of the Navy, as shall be necessary for the service, till a Lord High Admiral, or Commissioners for that office, be appointed. [Ibid., p. 184.]
Feb. 28.
Whitehall.
Warrant for a grant of the office of Keeper of the Privy Seal to to George, Marquis of Halifax. [Ibid., p. 192.]
Feb. 28.
Whitehall.
Warrant to grant the office of Solicitor-General to Sir George Treby, knt. [Ibid., p. 197.]
Feb. 28.
Whitehall.
Passes and post-warrants for Joseph Avis and William Anderson, his servant, to go to Shrewsbury and to return; for George King, ditto.; for Lord Glamis, and his two servants to go to Edinburgh; for Major Littleton to go to Huntingdon [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 184]; for Francis Bridgman, to go to France: for Mr. Maldronet. to go to Holland [Ibid., p. 185]; and for Edward Carew, esquire, to go to Flanders. [Ibid., p. 197.]
Feb. 28.
Whitehall.
Warrant to swear John, Lord Lovelace, as Captain of the band of pensioners. [Ibid., p. 185.]
Feb. Draft Bill, "For the better manifestation of the duty and allegiance of their Majesties' subjects and security of their Government." [S.P. Dom., Will. & Mary 3, No. 8.]
[Feb. to June.] A book of rough memoranda of Parliamentary matters classified under the following heads:—House of Lords, containing rules of procedure in the Commons upon a message from the Lords, &c.; Conferences, relating to procedure upon conferences between the two Houses; Privileges, as to whom the privileges of the House extend; Orders, as to the Chairman and attendance at the Committees of the House; Elections, giving the franchise for Poole, Wallingford, Dunwich, Old Sarum, East Grinstead, New Radnor, New Windsor, "Michell," Southampton, and Abingdon; Divisions of the House; Matters remarkable; and Votes. [Ibid. No. 9.]
Feb. to June. William Churchill's bill for stationery. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 498.]