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Feb. 1.
Kensington. |
Commissions for Rimond Hansberg, gent., to be adjutant to the
third troop of horse guards, commanded by Richard, Viscount
Colchester; for William Stoughton, clerk, to be chaplain to
Col. Francis Langston's regiment of horse [H.O. Military Entry
Book 2, p. 238]; for Michael Richards, gent., to be lieutenant of the
company of which Capt. Leek is captain in the regiment of foot,
commanded by Col. William Selwyn [Ibid. 3, p. 111]; for Richard
Coote, esq., to be colonel of the regiment of foot of which Adam,
Lord Lisburne was colonel [Ibid., p. 112]; for Col. Henry Rowe
to be colonel of the regiment of foot, lately commanded by Lieut.Gen. Douglass, and likewise to be captain of a company in the same
regiment; for Richard Sampson, gent., to be ensign to Capt. Edward
Cornwall's company in Col. Stewart's regiment [Ibid., p. 113];
for Clement Nevill, gent., to be lieutenant to Capt. Richard Hill, in
the regiment of foot commanded by Sir John Hanmer; for Bold
Leighton to be ensign to Capt. Maurice Wynne, in the same
regiment; for—Gwynn, gent., to be quarter-master in the
same regiment [Ibid., p. 115]; for Lieut.-Col. Murdo Mackenzie
to be lieutenant-colonel of the regiment of foot, commanded by
Col. Henry Rowe, and likewise to be captain of a company in the
same regiment [Ibid., p. 116]; for Capt. John Hamilton to be
captain of the company of which Capt. Alexander Cunnyngham was
captain in the regiment of Scotch foot guards, commanded by
Col. George Ramsey, and to command and take his rank as
youngest lieutenant-colonel of foot [Ibid., p. 117]; brevet on
— Laprimauday to be cornet in the regiment of horse
commanded by Major-Gen. the Marquis De Ruvigny; for James
St. Cristol, gent., to be cornet in the same regiment; and for Claude
Guirandet to be quarter-master of the troop of which Capt. Peter de
la Bastide is captain in the same regiment. [Ibid., p. 121.] |
Feb. 1.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Sir John Elwes. Shows that
a ship called the Aleppo Merchant, Capt. Spooner, commander,
bound with cloth, &c. to the West Indies, value 5,000l., took fire on
the river and was driven to sea and sunk near Hole Haven, and
that his Majesty has the disposing of the said wreck. Prays for a
grant of the same. Referred to the Attorney or Solicitor-General.
Vide Post, p. 124. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 297.] |
Feb. 1.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Frances Jones, widow. Shows
that she has served in Court as laundress ever since King Charles's
restoration, and that her husband, who has served in the Royal
Navy above 20 years, is lately dead, and has left her in a poor
condition and incapable of getting her livelihood as formerly.
Prays for an order to be admitted into the almshouse at
"Clerkenhall, London" (sic). Granted upon the first vacancy.
[S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 299.] |
Feb. 1.
Dresden. |
Baron de Heckeren to the Prince of Waldeck. Considers that
the partizans of the French are affected by the policy of that Court
[the Court of Saxony]. It is very necessary to gain Schoning
over to the side of the Allies, and this he has been endeavouring to
do. Considers it would be good policy to promise him a pension of
6,000 or 8,000 crowns a year. Remarks on Schoning's views and
those of his master, the Elector. Copy. [S.P. Dom. King William's
Chest 12, No. 23.] |
Feb. 1.
Admiralty Office. |
J. Sotherne to Richard Warre. I desire you will lay, before the
Earl of Nottingham, the enclosed copy of a confession made by one
Hoskins, before several commanders of vessels at Rye [H.O.
Admiralty 4, p. 207.] Enclosing:—The confession of Thomas
Hoskins of Dover, who says he was lately hired by one Joseph
Spinsax, of Dover, and Edward Brown, of Folkestone, belonging to
a small sloop, to carry combed wool. Dated at Rye, 24th January
1692. [Ibid., p. 211.] |
Feb. 2.
Kensington. |
Commissions for Major Thomas Allen to be lieutenant-colonel of
the regiment of foot of which Adam, Lord Lisburne was colonel;
for Capt. Francis Holroyd to be major of the same regiment; for
—Pywell, gent., to be lieutenant to Capt. Henry Smithwick's
company in the same regiment; for Richard Coote, junior, gent., to
be ensign to Capt. Robert Philips's company in the same regiment;
and for Robert Philips, gent., to be captain of the company of which
Major Francis Holroyd was captain in the same regiment. [H.O.
Military Entry Book 3, p. 112.] |
Feb. 2.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Anthony Du Vivier, esq., a
French Refugee. Shows that he has found out a way to make a ship
go against wind and tide by a very easy machine, not costly, or yet
known by anybody. Therefore, if his Majesty will grant him a
patent for 14 years for making the said machine in all his Majesty's
dominions, he will make it useful for the fleet. Prays for a patent
accordingly. Referred to the Attorney or Solicitor-General. [S.P.
Dom. Petition Entry Book 1, p. 232.] |
Feb. 2.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of the Provost, Fellows, and
Scholars of Trinity College, near Dublin. Shows that the said
College was founded by Queen Elizabeth, and that several of her
successors had augmented that establishment, so that they were
endowed with a revenue of about 2,000l. per annum which was but
equal to the support of their society, and to answer the ends of their
institution. That there was reserved, on their lands, a Crown rent
and quit rent of 257l. per annum which was exactly paid to
Michaelmas 1688, but since that time, such has been the public
calamity, that, for three years past, they have not been able to
receive 100l. of the whole. Their estates lying in Kerry and Ulster,
which have been ruined, will lie waste for a long time and be very
slow in recovering, and their College has been made a place to
quarter French and Irish soldiers, and reduced to a ruinous
condition. |
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It is needful to restore them to their complete number of Fellows
and Scholars, and to consider their support so that the gentlemen
of Ireland may be able to send their sons thither for education.
Supplies for the church will depend upon this foundation. |
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They pray that the said quit rent of 257l. per annum may, for the
next seven years, be reduced to 10l. per annum, so that their
Society and College may revive. Referred to the Treasury.
[S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 1, p. 233.] |
Feb. 2.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Robert Aylway, Comptroller of
their Majesties' train of artillery in Ireland. Shows that he was, in
1677, made Auditor-General of Virginia for life, and in 1682, Clerk
of the office of the Ordnance in Ireland, as also Clerk of the
Deliveries, and since his Majesty's accession to the Crown, has served
as Commissary and Comptroller of the train of Artillery in Ireland;
but that upon some miscarriage, he was suspended from the same.
Prays his Majesty to grant that he may be restored to his employment, and to order the stating and paying the arrears of pay due to
him, together with what money is due to him upon account.
Referred to Baron Ginckle. [Ibid., p. 297.] |
Feb. 2.
Whitehall. |
The Earl of Nottingham to the Commissioners for the Exchange
of Prisoners. I am commanded to tell you, that you are not only to
take such security as Capt. Henry Macdonogh and Lieut. Connor
Macdermot are able to give, but to take the best which you can get.
[H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 376.] |
Feb. 2.
Whitehall. |
The same to the Commissioners of Prizes. Mr. Baker, his
Majesty's Consul at Algiers, has agreed to pay the Dey of that place
910,087 reals in weighty Spanish dollars at the rate of 8 reals
each without any deduction. His Majesty has been pleased to
approve of this agreement, and to declare that he will accordingly
bear the loss on the exchange and all other charges, so that the sum
above mentioned may be paid at Algiers according to the agreement
without any defalcation; and he would therefore have you attend
the Treasury for their directions therein, that this service may be
performed without delay. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 2.
Whitehall. |
The same to the Attorney-General. The King having been pleased
to direct that Col. MacCarty, Major MacCarty, and Capt. Murphy,
now prisoners in the Tower of London for high treason, should be
discharged from their imprisonment in a legal way, in order to
their being carried into France, and there exchanged for such of his
Majesty's subjects as are prisoners in that kingdom, you are to give
such directions herein as are necessary. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 2.
Whitehall. |
Viscount Sydney to the Mayor of Exeter. The King being informed
that there is the master of a Danish vessel, now a prisoner in the City
Gaol of Exeter for smuggling French goods in the West of England,
and there being just cause to suspect that several English merchants
are concerned with him in such dangerous practices, has commanded
me to issue forth my warrant to the bearer hereof, one of the
messengers, to bring the said master up here to be examined
touching the premises, which I have done, and I desire you will
deliver him into the hands of the said messenger, with such examinations and papers as you may have. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's)
3, p. 98.] |
Feb. 2.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to the Keeper of Newgate, or his deputy, to allow the
mother of Claudius Willett, a prisoner for high treason, to have
access to her son, from time to time, in the presence of a keeper,
[S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 232.] |
Feb. 2.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to Henry Allen, messenger in ordinary, to receive the
master of a ship into custody, and bring him to be examined,
concerning certain dangerous practices against the Government.
[Ibid.] |
Feb. 2.
Whitehall. |
Allowance of the disbursements, made by Commissary Jean
Danckaerts, in attending upon, and bringing over, his Majesty's
English letters at the Brill, during the months of June, July, August,
September, and October, 1691. [Ibid., p. 236.] |
Feb. 2.
Whitehall. |
The Earl of Nottingham to the Lords-Justices. The ratification
of the articles of Limerick, as soon as it is passed under the Great
Seal, will be sent over to you, so that you will have no occasion of
an exemplification. His Majesty will speedily come to a resolution
about the garrisons, and I believe the orders will be dispatched
before he goes to Holland; he will in like manner give some orders,
before that time, in relation to the residence of the person who is to
command the forces there. As to the declaring the war to be at an
end, since it may be necessary to make a distinction between several
counties and places according to the difference of their abilities to
pay the quit rents and the hearth money, his Majesty would know
what you think most proper for the commencements of those payments according to the circumstances and condition of several parts
of the kingdom, so that he may declare the war at an end. [S.P.
Ireland King's Letter Book 1, p. 293.] |
Feb. 2.
Whitehall. |
The King to the same, desiring them to make a detachment
out of Lord George Hamilton's late regiment of two lieutenants,
and 150 private soldiers, with serjeants and corporals proportionable,
and to send to them to England, where they are to join the regiment
commanded by Col. Tiffin. Such of the other non-commissioned
officers and private soldiers, who shall voluntarily offer themselves
to continue in the service, are to be transferred into other regiments
as recruits to the same. You are to cause an account to be stated
of their arrears in order to their payment, and to make provision to
the officers and soldiers who shall desire to return home. You are
likewise to cause the troop of provosts to be disbanded. [Ibid.,
p. 294.] |
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State of the Customs. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 12,
No. 24.] |
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State of the Excise. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 12,
No. 25.] |
Feb. 3.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the report of the Attorney-General upon
petition of Sir John Elwes [vide ante, p. 120]. The report is as
follows:—In obedience to your Majesty's order of reference, I have
considered this petition, and find the allegation therein contained,
relating to the sinking of the ship mentioned in the petition, to be
true, and it seems probable to me that part of the goods and lading
of the said ship may, with considerable expense and labour, be
recovered. Now forasmuch as the petitioner has contracted with
the owners of the said ship and goods, to make them a reasonable
satisfaction, and is ready to allow your Majesty's officers a tenth
part of the profits arising by the said wreck, I conceive it reasonable
for you to gratify the petitioner's request by granting him your
royal letters of license, in order to endeavour the recovery of the
said ship, Aleppo Merchant, and her cargo. Referred to the
Treasury. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 302.] |
Feb. 3.
Whitehall. |
Pass for Mr. Zachariah Madona, one of the gentleman of the
second troop of guards, to go to Holland. [S.P. Dom. Warrant
Book 38, p. 232.] |
Feb. 3.
Kensington. |
Warrant for a gift to Mr. John Dundas of the office of "Clerkship
of Cocquet and Searchery" from Glasgow, on both sides of the
Clyde, to Dumfries. [S.P. Scotland Warrant Book 15, p. 74.] |
Feb. 3.
Whitehall. |
Pass and post warrant for John de Vega-Arredondo to go to
Harwich and there embark for Holland. [S.P. Dom. Warrant
Book 36, p. 159.] |
Feb. 3.
Kensington. |
Leave granted to George Gooday, esq., high sheriff of Suffolk,
to reside out of the said county. [H.O. King's Letter Book 1,
p. 42.] |
Feb. 3.
Kensington. |
Similar leave for Philip Eyton, esq., high sheriff of Montgomeryshire. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 3/13.
Malines. |
Count de Solms to the Prince of Waldeck. Has received various
complaints from the officers of the regiments as to their quarters in
Bruges. Notice must be sent about the arrival of the Danes, so
that their quarters may be appointed to them. Many advices have
been received from different parts, these differ somewhat, but agree
in thinking that there is a great scheme on foot. The Spaniards
desire that a great number of troops be sent towards Charleroy.
Corn has been sent to Namur. The need of a magazine at Ghent
is discussed. The payment demanded from the infantry by Pereyra
is shown to be impossible; quotes Mons. Dyckvelts proposition
concerning them. The Prince of Vaudemont informs the writer
that Brussels and many other towns are menaced; he does not
know what to do for the best and much wishes that the health
of the Prince of Waldeck would permit him to come to Malines.
Mentions that the King desires four battalions to be sent to Namur;
discusses the movements of these and other battalions, and of the
difficulties arising from moving them. Mentions the behaviour of
Colonel Hodges and the message from the King concerning him.
He has great difficulty in finding quarters for the troops, although
he is doing his very best. He is very grieved that the Prince is
not satisfied with his conduct with regard to the hospital at
Maestricht. Is most anxious to obey any orders, but does not see
how, under the present condition of affairs, he can act differently,
especially as regards the English troops. Proposes that instead of
the English battalions designed to go out from Maestricht towards
the Rhine, those from Gotha should go. Copy. [S.P. Dom. King
William's Chest 12, No. 26.] |
Feb. 4.
Whitehall. |
Commissions for William Row, esq., to be lieutenant to Captain
Stephen Piper in Colonel Henry Trelawny's regiment of foot [H.O.
Military Entry Book 2, p. 232]; for Lewis de Chivré de la Barre,
esq., to be captain of the troop of which Lord O'Brien was late
captain in Colonel Hugh Wyndham's regiment of horse [Ibid.];
for John Bing, gent., to be lieutenant of the troop of which Captain
Edwin Sandys is captain, in the royal regiment of horse, commanded
by Aubrey, Earl of Oxford; for Colonel Benjamin Fletcher to be
captain of the company of foot, in New York, of which Colonel
Henry Slaughter was late captain; for Peter Matthews, gent., to
be lieutenant of the company of foot, in New York, of which Colonel
Benjamin Fletcher is captain [Ibid., p. 233]; for John Trent, gent.,
to be quartermaster of the Princess Anne of Denmark's regiment
of foot, commanded by Colonel John Beaumont [Ibid. p. 234];
and for William, Lord O'Brien, to be major of the regiment of horse
commanded by Col. Hugh Wyndham. [Ibid. 3, p. 122.] |
Feb. 4.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Michael Rosse, and James
Johnstone; shows that, with long practice and great charges, they
have found out an engine whereby one or more men may work
under water for about a quarter of an hour, by which means bullion,
plate, guns, &c., lying under water, may be recovered. They pray
for a patent for 14 years for the sole use of their invention. Referred
to the Attorney or Solicitor-General. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry
Book 1, p. 236.] |
Feb. 4.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Thomas Lawrence of Winsham,
in Somersetshire, yeoman; shows that, at the time of the late
Duke of Monmouth's landing in the West, he was with those of
his party, apprehended, indicted, and attainted of high treason,
which attainder stands in force against him. Prays to have a Writ
of Error for the reversal of his attainder. Referred to the AttorneyGeneral for report. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 4.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Anthony Smith; shows that,
with great charge, pains, and industry, he has found out a way
for boiling and heating water and all other liquors, as also for
melting and refining sugars and all other things that are done with
fire, with less charge and greater expedition than is now done.
Prays for letters patent for the sole use of the said invention in
England, Ireland, and the Foreign Plantations, for 14 years,
according to the statute. Referred to the Attorney or SolicitorGeneral. [Ibid. 2, p. 298.] |
Feb. 4.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Barbara Caswell, widow; shows
that her husband being a "life guard man," unfortunately killed a
man, in November last, and was convicted and executed for the
same, whereby the inheritance of the jointure in five houses in
Brentford was forfeited to the King. Prays his Majesty to grant
her the inheritance of the said houses. Referred to the Treasury.
[S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 1, p. 299.] |
Feb. 4.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Capt. Chidley Coote. Shows
that he commanded a company in Sir Henry Ingoldesby's regiment
of foot, which was disbanded in January 1689, and prays to be
allowed half pay from that time. Referred to Charles Fox, Paymaster of the forces in Ireland. [Ibid., p. 300.] |
Feb. 4.
Whitehall. |
The Earl of Nottingham to Mr. Stock. I have read your letter
of the 3rd, and as to Thomas Hoskins and the other two taken with
him which are mentioned, the most proper way will be to carry
them before the Mayor of Sandwich, who upon this evidence will
examine them and commit them to prison, and when this is done
give an account of it to Mr. Aaron Smith, that he may take care
of their prosecution; the same course may be taken with the others
who have absconded, as soon as you can discover where they may
be taken. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 377.] |
Feb. 4.
Whitehall. |
The same to the Mayor of Sandwich. I have received your letter
of the 1st with the examination of Mr. Thomas Stepney against
Mr. Mills. You have done well to commit this latter in order to his
prosecution. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 4.
Whitehall. |
The same to Sir John Morgan. The King is informed by Lieut.Gen. Ginckle that Lord Kenmare, Lord Slane, Lord Bophin, Major
Erskin, Lieut.-Col. Butler, Major Lawless, and Capt. Kennedy, who
were taken at the battle of Aughrim, and are now prisoners in your
custody, are such, as by the articles of Limerick, ought to be
released; and his Majesty has commanded me to tell you to
discharge them accordingly. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 4.
Whitehall. |
The same to the Attorney-General. The King having been
pleased to direct that Theobald, Lord Caher, Col. Owen MacCarty,
Major Donoghue MacCarty, and Capt. Cornelius Murphy, now
prisoners in the Tower of London for high treason, should be discharged from their imprisonment in a legal way, in order to their
being carried into France, and there exchanged for such of his
Majesty's subjects as are prisoners in that kingdom, you are to give
all necessary directions for so doing. [Ibid., p. 378.] |
Feb. 4.
Whitehall. |
The same to the Commissioners of the Treasury. The King being
pleased to give 200l. to Capt. Richards in consideration of his
good service in Ireland and for his present support, I acquaint you
with it, that you may give directions for paying that sum to him.
[Ibid.] |
Feb. 4.
Whitehall. |
The same to the same. The King directs that the allowance
of 3l. per diem, granted to John Andrew Eckhart, his Resident at
Brussels, who died on the 9th of January last, be paid to his relict
and administratrix, in consideration of her expenses after the time
of his death, relating to his said employment. [H.O. Letter Book
(Secretary's) 2, p. 378.] |
Feb. 4.
Whitehall. |
Viscount Sydney to the Mayor of Canterbury. I have your letter
of the 2nd concerning three gentlemen, Mr. Plowden, Mr. Anthony
Englefield, and Mr. Henry Englefield, who lately came from France
with two servants and are secured by you. They had passes to
come over from me, and therefore you may discharge them, and let
them come away, but what papers you have secured of theirs I
think it necessary should be transmitted to me. [H.O. Letter Book
(Secretary's) 3, p. 99.] |
Feb. 4.
Whitehall. |
The same to the searchers at Gravesend. Thomas Ogilvy, and
John Ogilvy, having obtained a pass from me to go beyond the seas,
and there being just reason to suspect the said persons to be disaffected to the Government, you are to secure them, notwithstanding
they have a pass from me. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 4.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to John Thompson, messenger in ordinary, to search for
Thomas Ogilvy and John Ogilvy, and apprehend them for treasonable practices. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 233.] |
Feb. 4.
Whitehall. |
Pass for Mr. Thomas Churchill and Thomas Miller, his servant,
to go to Holland or Flanders. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 4.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor-General to prepare a bill
for adding to the list of justices of the peace of the City of London,
six aldermen of the same city. [H.O. Warrant Book 6, p. 245.] |
Feb. 4.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to the same to prepare a bill for a charter incorporating
the Company of Pearl Fishers in the rivers Irt and End (sic) and
other waters in the county of Cumberland. Heads of the
Charter: the company is to exist, and have succession for 14 years.
Thomas Patrickson, gent., is to be the first governor; Samuel
Sommerford, esq., the first Deputy-Governor; and Daniel Field.
Giles Redman, Hugh Redman, Charles Middleton, Richard Haynes,
Henry Limbrey, John Blake, and Henry Harbin, of London, merchants, the first Assistants. The Governor and Company, or the
major part of them, whereof the Governor or Deputy-Governor
is to be one, are to hold courts in London or Cumberland as often
as there is cause. They are to elect a treasurer, one or more
solicitors, secretaries, auditors, comptrollers, searchers, surveyors,
clerks, beadles or other under officers to reside in London and in
Cumberland. [Ibid., pp. 246–249.] |
Feb. 4.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to the Keeper of Newgate, or his deputy, to receive
John Sebille, and to keep him in safe and close custody for being
an enemy and spy until further orders. [Ibid., p. 250.] |
| Feb. 4. |
A list of soldiers disabled by their wounds and now in the Royal
Hospital of King Charles II. [Chelsea Hospital]. Gives the names
of the soldiers and of the regiments in which they served. [S.P.
Dom. William and Mary 4, No. 6.] |
Feb. 5.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Henry Frere, an infant nine
years of age, and Daniel Frere and Sylvester, his wife, father and
mother of the said infant, and Dr. John Young, guardian of the
said infant under the will of Henry Frere, uncle of the said infant.
They pray directions to the Lord Chief Justice and the rest of the
justices of the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster for allowing
the said Henry Frere, by himself or guardians, notwithstanding his
non-age, to suffer a common recovery of certain lands, &c., in the
parish of Minster, in the Isle of Sheppey, in Kent. Referred to the
Attorney or Solicitor-General. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2,
p. 298.] |
Feb. 5.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Maria Williams, praying an order
to be reimbursed the sum of 500l. and upwards, disbursed by her
husband William Manley in provisions for his Majesty's fleet.
Referred to the Admiralty. [Ibid., p. 299.] |
Feb. 5.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to Charles Couchman, messenger in ordinary, to make
strict search for Gerard Martin, an alien enemy, and having found
him, to apprehend and seize, and bring him in safe custody to be
examined. [H.O. Warrant Books 6, p. 253.] |
Feb. 5.
Whitehall. |
Like warrant to apprehend Nicholas Moisye. Like warrants to
Charles Kenge, to apprehend Peter Dulivier and John Bevionde; to
William Jones to apprehend Peter Marqueth and Anthony Didier;
to Peter Marescoe, to apprehend Nicholas Midy and Bartholomew
Midy; to Nicholas Hill, to apprehend Peter Deharce and John
Depremont; for William Sutton to apprehend —Darache and
Peter Vivario; to Peter Newlyn, to apprehend Peter Dubilly and
Lawrence Bon; to Robert Knollys, to apprehend Anthony Bondor
and Nicholas Gorey; to Thomas Newlyn to apprehend Lewis Dye,
and —Vanbromling; and to George Shipside to apprehend
—Block. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 5/15.
Culenburg. |
Memorial brought in by Colonel Dopft on military matters, with
remarks thereon by Countde Solms. On a question of Colonel
Hodges it is remarked that the King wishes the English to be
employed, and so the Count will, whenever it is possible, employ
them with the other troops. The conduct of the Spaniards is not
satisfactory. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 12, No. 27.] |
Feb. 5/15.
Culenburg. |
Copy of the previous memorial, but without the remarks by Count
de Solms. [Ibid., No. 28.] |
Feb. 6.
Whitehall. |
The Earl of Nottingham to the Commissioners of the Treasury.
I have laid before the King the enclosed petitions of Lady Conyngham, Mrs. Lloyd, Mrs. Mayo, Mrs. Newcomen, and Mrs. Hami'ton,
which were delivered to me by Lieut.-Gen. Ginckle, who recommended these widows, as the chief objects of his Majesty's favour
and charity. His Majesty commanded me to transmit them to
you that you may lay them before him for his directions upon each
of them. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 383.] |
Feb. 6.
Kensington. |
Additional instructions to the Earl of Lothian, Commissioner
to the General Assembly. We have seen that draft sent up by you
prepared by the committee of the General Assembly as an answer to
our letter, whereby we perceive they refuse to receive such as are
willing to apply to them in the terms of the formula and declaration
which we had approved. We judge it best, to prevent further
animosities and divisions, instead of union, that you stop this letter
to be voted or passed in the General Assembly, if you can divert it.
Suffer them to sit the complete month, conformably to your first instructions, in case you can keep them from falling upon any matter
that is contrary to what is contained in our letter to them and your
instructions; and if you cannot restrain them, dissolve them "with
the first that you see it necessary." You are to dissolve the General
Assembly without calling a new one as in your last instructions.
[S.P. Scotland Warrant Book 15, p. 76.] |
| Feb. 6. |
Heads of Acts received from the Lords-Justices of Ireland, with
remarks thereon. [S.P. Dom. William & Mary 4, No. 7.] |
Feb. 6.
Admiralty Office. |
J. Sotherne to Richard Warre. I enclose a letter [not preserved]
addressed to you from Capt. Pedder, commander of the Swift prize,
which came to me open as you will find it. The captain writes me
word that he took it from on board one of the transport ships that
he met at Waterford which came from Brest with French wine and
linen bound for Dublin. You will also herein receive a copy of a
letter taken on board the said ship directed to Mr. Robinson at
Dublin which you are desired to lay before the Earl of Nottingham.
[H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 219.] Enclosing:— |
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Daniel Butt to William Robinson, esq., at the Treasury in Dublin.
I am going to Nantes next Monday to pay for the goods I bought
here, and which I consigned to Mr. Trigg. Refers to his dealings
with Sir John Kerwan, of Nantes. The kingdom is big enough for
more goods than we shall be able to send, and being all in our hands,
as they shall be, whomsoever I meddle with, it can do no damage
to the market which must mend every day, if the war continues,
and after this opportunity there is an end of this country's commodities going to Ireland during the war, which to me here looks
to be but beginning. If anybody can be believed the French King
has money in his Treasury to maintain the war for two years to
come, and is now gathering for the third, and the clergy have
proffered him enough for one year more when pleased to command
it, so when this is likely to be at an end God knows, though they swear
never till King James is restored. There are not less than 20,000
men at work at Brest every day, and are constantly paid every
week, and as they tell me it is everywhere the same all over France.
Dated 6th January 1692. [Ibid., p. 223.] |
Feb. 7.
Whitehall. |
Passes for the return out of France into Ireland of the ship John,
of Limerick, belonging to John Leonard, manned with English and
Irish seamen and with his goods and "estates" [S.P. Dom. Warrant
Book 36, p. 159]; for the ship called The Happy Return of Limerick
belonging to the said John Leonard to return out of France into
Ireland [Ibid., p. 160]; and for Bartholomew Walmsley, esqre., his
sister Eleanor Walmsley, and John Lovell, Robert Wingatt, Miles
Low, Alice Ghast, and one other woman, their servants, with their
goods and necessaries, to return out of France and land in any port
of England, without let or hindrance. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 36,
p. 161.] |
Feb. 7.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to the Clerk of the Signet attending, to prepare a bill
containing a warrant to the Commissioners of the Treasury, &c. to
pay or cause to be paid to Robert Wolseley, esq. (who is appointed
to be the Envoy Extraordinary to the Elector of Bavaria, Governor
of Flanders) 500l. for his equipage, and the further sum of 5l. by
the day for his ordinary allowance; to commence from the day of
his departure from England and continue until his return. [H.O.
Warrant Book 6, p. 250.] |
Feb. 7.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to Henry, Viscount Sydney and the Lords-Justices of
Ireland to cause the outlawry upon Luke, Earl of Fingall, of
Virginia in the county of Cavan, to be reversed, Margaret, Countess
of Fingall having represented that the said Earl, her late husband,
was lately outlawed there notwithstanding he had been dead above
six years, and that her son, Peter, Earl of Fingall, is a minor and
was never in Ireland. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office 12, p. 421.] |
Feb. 7.
Malines. |
Count de Solms to the Prince of Waldeck. Enclosing a letter
from Major-General de Theil which complains that the infantry and
cavalry are badly lodged; similar complaints might be made in
regard to other regiments. Remarks on the unfitness of the officers
and gives various examples of ill-conduct. Copy, extract. [S.P.
Dom. King William's Chest 12, No. 29.] |
Feb. 8.
Kensington. |
Warrant to Sir Henry Goodrick to appoint Thomas Glover, gent.,
to be "one of our engineers," at a salary of 100l. per annum [H.O.
Military Entry Book 3, p. 110.] |
Feb. 8.
Kensington. |
Leave granted to William Seys, esq., high sheriff of Glamorganshire, to reside out of the said county. [H.O. King's Letter Book 1,
p. 44.] |
Feb. 8.
Berlin. |
General Schoning to the King. Assures him of his devotion and
of his desire for a means of showing it. [S.P. Dom. King William's
Chest 12, No. 30.] |
Feb. 8.
Malines. |
Count de Solms to the Prince of Waldeck. With regard to the
Hospital at Maestricht, even if the English were put on an equal
footing with the Dutch, that would not put the King right with
Parliament, for the English officers write to England all that is
passing, and finding that they abroad are treated in a different
manner to the foreigners in England the feeling would be prejudicial to the King. The hospital shall not suffer as when the
troops leave I will undertake that they give a present to the
hospital in proportion to the sum the others pay per month, but I
hope I may not be pressed to proceed in a matter which seems to
me so full of essential difficulties. Copy. [Ibid., No. 31.] |
Feb. 9.
Whitehall. |
The Earl of Nottingham to Sir Brian Broughton. I have
received your letter of the 27th of January and have acquainted the
King with what you say "concerning the virtues of your beer for
curing green wounds." He is well pleased with the account and
would have you send up a little of this liquor to make an experiment, after which he will come to some further resolution. [H.O.
Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 379.] |
Feb. 9.
Whitehall. |
The same to the Commissioners of the Treasury. The Queen,
last summer, ordered Consul Lambert Blackwell, at Leghorn, to
procure a small vessel to be employed in their Majesties' service in
those parts in the nature of a packet boat; the consul has acquainted
me that it would be the cheapest method to build such a vessel, and
her Majesty gave him order to do it. The King, on his return,
approved of these directions, and the vessel being finished, I transmit to you the enclosed accounts which I received from Consul
Blackwell of the money expended by him in this service, of which
500 crowns, advanced by him, has already been paid by the postmasters, upon whom he has drawn a bill, pursuant to her Majesty's
directions. The King would also have you direct the postmasters to
accept and answer such other bills for the necessary expenses in
buying provisions, the seamen's wages, and other charges of this
vessel, as he shall transmit to them. [Ibid.] |
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Enclosure:— Account of the cost of building the Tartan (sic)
Velocrita. [Ibid., p. 381.] |
Feb. 9.
Whitehall. |
Viscount Sydney to the Commissioners of the Treasury. Mr. Beaubuisson having been admitted to the office of [keeper of] his
Majesty's setting dogs, ever since Lady Day 1689, and no allowances as yet settled on him for the charge and execution thereof, he
made application to his Majesty, who desires you to give the
necessary orders for putting him upon the establishment, with the
allowance of 230l. 12s. 6d. per annum, to commence from the
time when he was sworn and admitted. [Ibid. 3, p. 100.] |
Feb. 9.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to Peter Newlyn, messenger in ordinary, to search for
Thomas Ogilvy and John Ogilvy, and apprehend them for treasonable practices. See under date of February 4. [S.P. Dom. Warrant.
Book 38, p. 234.] |
Feb. 9.
Culenburg. |
The Prince of Waldeck to the King. Is sending despatches to
the Count de Solms by Colonel Dopft. Movements of some of the
regiments. It would be well to ascertain the views of the
Imperial Court with regard to the Elector of Saxony. [S.P. Dom.
King William's Chest 12, No. 32.] |
Feb. 9.
Whitehall. |
Viscount Sydney to the Lords of the Admiralty. The King is
informed that you have lately sent an order to Sir Robert Holmes,
Vice-Admiral of the county of Southampton and the Isle of Wight,
to deliver, or cause to be delivered, the ship City of Warsaw, with
her lading, which was lately seized by some officers of that ViceAdmiralty, unto such person as Rear-Admiral Carter shall appoint
to receive her. You are to supersede your said order and permit
the said ship to remain under the seizure of such person in whose
custody she has hitherto been, and still is, until further order.
[H.O. Admiralty 3, p. 70.] |
Feb. 10.
Whitehall. |
The Earl of Nottingham to the Commissioners for the Exchange
of Prisoners. The Attorney-General has acquainted me that he
intends, next Friday to bring Theobald, Lord Caher, Col. Owen
MacCarty, Major Donoghue MacCarty and Capt. Cornelius Murphy,
now prisoners in the Tower of London, for high treason, to the
King's Bench, in order to their being bailed, pursuant to his
Majesty's directions, that afterwards they may be exchanged as
prisoners of war. It will be necessary you should attend the
Court at the same time in order to receive the said Lord Caher
and the other gentlemen into your custody as prisoners of war.
[H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's), 2, p. 381.] |
Feb. 11.
Whitehall. |
Viscount Sydney to the Postmaster-General. Whenever any letters
shall come into your office directed "to Mr. Brett, at Mr. Hugh's, a
stationer at the Unicorne in Paternoster Row, London," or with
this direction: "to Mr. Brett, at Dr. Harborough's, over against
the back gate of Doctor's Commons," I desire you will take
care to have them stopped, and transmitted to me. [Ibid. 3,
p. 100.] |
Feb 11.
Whitehall. |
Passes for Mr. Daniel Oliver, to go to Holland, recommended by
the Minister of the French Church in the Savoy; and for Mr.
Gideon Bovillane, and Mr. Pierre du Moulin, ditto, "desired by the
Duke of Ormond." [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 233.] |
Feb. 11.
Whitehall. |
Pass for James Alere, aged 20 years or thereabouts, to go to
Harwich and embark for Holland. [Ibid., 36, p. 160.] |
Feb. 11.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor-General, to prepare a bill
containing a patent to Anthony Du Vivier for the sole use and
benefit of his new invention of a way to make a ship go against
wind and tide "by a very easy and not costly machine." [H.O.
Warrant Book 6, p. 251.] |
Feb. 11.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to the same to consent to a writ of error for reversing
the attainder of Thomas Lawrence as being one of the persons
concerned in the late Duke of Monmouth's rebellion in the west.
[Ibid., p. 252.] |
Feb. 11.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to Charles, Earl of Dorset and Middlesex, Chamberlain
of the Household, to swear and admit Richard Morton, esq., servant
in ordinary, to the place of Clerk of the Cheque of the Guard of
Yeomen of the Guard, in the room of Samuel Clerk, esq. [Ibid.,
p. 254.] |
Feb. 11.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to the Lords-Justices of Ireland to grant Godert, Baron
de Ginckle the dignities of Baron of Aughrim, in Galway, and Earl
of Athlone, in Roscommon. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office 12, p. 424.] |
Feb. 11.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to the same to cause Letters Patent to be passed under
the Great Seal of Ireland for settling upon the Eestablishment in
Ireland a pension of 200l a year on Elizabeth Foulke, widow of
Garret Foulke, esq., who died of the wounds he received at the
fight at Aughrim. [Ibid. p. 428] |
Feb. 11.
Culenburg. |
The Prince of Waldeck to the King. Further details as to the
army in the Low Countries. Says that the Elector of Saxony throws
many difficulties in the way, when they wish to accomplish anything. The Electors of Brandenburg and Bavaria desire to be at
the head of the army in person. [S.P. Dom. King William's
Chest 12, No. 33.] |
Feb. 11.
Culenburg. |
The same to Count de Solms. Refers to the hospital at
Maestricht, and does not altogether approve of the Count's conduct
in this matter; the position of the English in that country is a
delicate subject. [Ibid., No. 34.] |
Feb. 12.
Kensington. |
Commissions for John Culliford, esq., to be captain of the
company of which Capt. Thomas was captain in the regiment of
foot commanded by Col. William Selwyn; for Phineas Bowles, esq.,
to be captain-lieutenant of a company in the same regiment; for
—Gardner, gent., to be lieutenant to Capt. Philips in the same
regiment [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 112]; and for Lancaster
Symes, gent., to be 2nd lieutenant of the company of foot of which
Major Richard Ingoldesby is captain in the province of New York.
[Ibid., p. 114.] |
Feb. 12.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Edmund Winder, Thomas
Winder, Henry Chapman, and John Chapman. Shows that Roger
Swinglehurst commenced an action of trespass upon the case in
the Court of Common Pleas against them, and obtained judgment
thereupon; which said judgment was confirmed in the Court of
King's Bench. In this there is manifest error. They pray for a
Writ of Error returnable in Parliament. Granted. [S.P. Dom.
Petition Entry Book 1, p. 236.] |
Feb. 12.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of John Trench. Shows that he
has been plundered of all he had by the papists in Ireland for
adhering to his Majesty's interest; that from April 1689, the time
of his coming from Dublin, he had been employed in his Majesty's
service to the frequent hazard of his life, and that, in the last
campaign the General, the Lords-Justices, and the Lord President
can testify what he did for his Majesty's service. |
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States that he was, by his Majesty, before Christmas last,
recommended to the Deanery of Raphoe, which is so much wasted
by the late troubles that for three or four years to come it will
yield very little of anything to him; and he, having lost all that
he had, by the enemy, is not able to raise so much money as the
first fruits due to the King will come to, being about 30l. Prays
to have the first fruits of the said deanery remitted to him. Referred
to the Treasury. [Ibid., p. 237.] |
Feb. 12.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Philip Watkins. Shows that
he was very serviceable to their Majesties' forces in Sligo, and laid
out for them almost all he had, being about 154l.; and that ever
since he has been in a sad condition, and not able to subsist himself
nor his family. Prays for the payment of the 154l. 10s. (sic).
Referred to the Treasury. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 12.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Sir John Kirwan, knt., showing
that he was an inhabitant and merchant of Galway, and being
inclined to peace and quietness, and showing his resentment to the
proceedings in that town in the late war, his goods, to the value of
3,000l., and upwards, were seized and carried to France. Not being
able to obtain leave to go elsewhere he was necessitated, to avoid
the violence used to him in Galway, to go into France with his
family, and the remaining part of his goods. On the surrender of
Galway, he, being comprehended in the Articles, had license, under
the seal of the General, to return to Ireland with his ships, merchandizes, and goods, without any seizure or confiscation whatsoever.
Having three small ships laden with salt, brandy, and wine at
Nantes, bound for Galway, pursuant to the said license, he did in
his way thither, arrive in England, and found that the said goods
were prohibited there to his utter ruin, if not relieved by his
Majesty. |
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Forasmuch as he intended to remove all his effects out of France
into and under his Majesty's Government, depending on the said
license, and knew nothing of the said prohibition till he landed in
England, he prays for a pass to carry the said ships and goods into
Ireland, if that can be granted, or otherwise to Hamburg, in order
to make sale thereof, and then to return into his Majesty's kingdoms
of England or Ireland. Referred to the Lords Committee for Trade
and Foreign Plantations. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 1,
p. 239.] |
Feb. 12.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to the Attorney-General, to prepare a bill, containing a
grant to Thomas Hutton, of the sole use of his inventions of a new
way of making paper by an engine to be driven either by wind-sails,
or water-wheels, and to work eighty stampers at once, and of an
engine, appertaining to it, for raising great quantities of water,
useful for draining mines, etc. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38,
p. 234.] |
Feb. 12.
Whitehall. |
Pass for John Auchmouty, gent., his wife, a child and a maidservant, William Deanes, gent., John Livingston, gent., Alexander
Gawne, gent., Robert Johnston, gent., Patrick Cunningham, gent.,
and James Innis, gent., with their goods and necessaries, to embark
in any port of this kingdom, and pass over into France. In the
margin "Scotch Officer's pass." [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book, 36,
p. 161.] |
Feb. 12.
Kensington. |
Leave granted to Samuel Gauden, esq., bigh sheriff of Hampshire,
to reside out of the said county. [H.O. King's Letter Book 1,
p. 44d.] |
Feb. 12.
Kensington. |
Similar leave for Sir Robert Bernard, bart., high sheriff of
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 12.
Whitehall. |
Certificate showing, that John Methuen, esq., his Majesty's
Envoy-Extraordinary to the King of Portugal, kissed his Majesty's
hand, and left the kingdom on Sunday, December 20, last past.
[H.O. Warrant Book 6, p. 252.] |
Feb. 12.
Culeuburg. |
The Prince of Waldeck to the King. Sends enclosures, so that
the King will be able to tell him what answers to send to Baron de
Heckeren and General Schoening. [S.P. Dom. King William's
Chest 12, No. 35.] |
Feb. 12.
Brussels. |
The Prince of Vaudemont to the Prince of Waldeck. The enemy
appear to menance this place. Hopes that the States will make
arrangements to send means of defence and provisions, as it is very
important to maintain this place. [Ibid., No. 36.] |
Feb. 13.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of the Mayor and Commonalty of
the borough of Plymouth, shows that the said borough is an ancient
one, and that the Mayor and Commonalty of the same have enjoyed
divers liberties, pre-eminences, franchises, and hereditaments as well
by perscription and custom as by virtue of divers acts of Parliament
and charters. They were prevailed upon, by a deed under their
Common Seal, dated the 17th of April in 36 Charles II. to surrender to his said late Majesty all their charters, liberties, &c., as
by the said deed, enrolled in chancery, may appear. |
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Now forasmuch as the said surrender was unduly obtained, and
they thereby necessitated to accept of a new charter from his said
late Majesty, which in effect, made them a corporation during
pleasure only, they pray his Majesty to grant, confirm, and restore
to them all and singular the powers, prescriptions, franchises,
privileges, lands, and tenements, &c., which they or their predecessors
enjoyed at any time before the making of the said surrender, and
that John Martyn, esq., may be the first and present mayor, and
that such persons, who at the time of the said surrender, enjoyed
the offices of Recorder Masters, or Chief Burgesses, Justices of the
Peace, Town Clerk Assistants, and Burgesses of the Common Council,
Coroner, or any other offices within the said corporation may be
restored. Referred to the Attorney or Solicitor-General. [S.P.
Dom. Petition Entry Book 1, p. 238.] |
Feb. 13.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Edward Hurd, sets forth that,
by his great industry and expense, he has attained and brought to
perfection the art of "lacquering after the manner of Japan" to
such a degree of "curiousity and durableness," as to equal any
brought from India, and more particularly for lacquering upon iron,
and all sorts of metals, exceedingly useful for armour, guns, &c.
Prays for letters patent for the sole use, exercise and benefit of the
said invention for 14 years. Referred to the Attorney or SolicitorGeneral. [Ibid. 2, p. 301.] |
Feb. 13.
Whitehall. |
The Earl of Nottingham to the Attorney-General. I send you
enclosed a copy of the Commission granted to the late Earl of Essex
to be lord lieutenant of Ireland, that you may consider it and prepare
such a draft as you shall judge necessary. [H.O. Letter Book
(Secretary's) 2, p. 382.] |
Feb. 13.
Whitehall. |
Viscount Sydney to the Postmaster-General. The King having
allowed that each Danish officer, who is appointed to go over to
Denmark for recruits, shall have a free passage to Holland or
Flanders, on board the packet-boats. I enclose, by his command,
a list of such of them as are forthwith appointed to go over for that
purpose, so that you may give necessary orders to the masters of
the packet-boats to receive them on board, and give them a
free passage to Holland or Flanders as the circumstances of the
voyage shall require. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 101.]
Enclosing:— |
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A list of Danish officers. Col. Otto De Viettinghoff; Major Bacon
D'Uffen; Major Conrad Fleche; Captains Schiller, Biege, Bieliz,
Lattorf, and Vientin; Capt.-Lieut. Legaard; Quarter-master
Hammer; Lieutenants Arnold, Meerheim, Dichman, Grabo, Blome,
Hagedorn, and Klepping; and Ensign Bauman; Non-Commissioned
Officers, 25; Officers' servants, 15; in all 58 persons. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 13.
Whitehall. |
Passes for Yan Soomer and 12 Dutch seamen to go to Harwich
and embark for Holland. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 36, p., 160];
and for Suzannah Barry, Ann Lawrence, her servant-maid, Honor
Colman, and her servant-maid, with their goods and necessaries, to
return out of France and land in any port of England. [Ibid.,
p. 162.] |
Feb. 13.
Whitehall. |
The Earl of Nottingham to the Lords-Justices. The Emperor
having desired 500 Irish, besides the 1,400 already ordered, his
Majesty is pleased to condescend thereunto if so many of the Irish
are willing to enter into that service. If they are formed into five
companies, each consisting of 100 men, he would have Capt. Fitzgerald, and Capt. Sheldon to be two of the captains. [S.P. Ireland
King's Letter Book 1, p. 295.] |
Feb. 15.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Sir Francis Compton. Shows
that whereas Sir Thomas Williams, knt., and Joseph Hills, goldsmith, detained a certain parcel of waste ground in Sussex from the
King under a fee-farm rent of 100l. 1s. per annum by grant or
letters patent from King Charles II., and under the Duchy Seal of
Lancaster, dated the 22 day of November, 1676, which said grant is
defective and void in law. Prays for a grant of the premises for
the term of 99 years, and that his Majesty would invalidate the
said grant, the petitioner paying the same rent during the term,
and being at all charges in "nulling" the said grant in being.
Referred to the Attorney or Solicitor-General. [S.P. Dom. Petition
Entry Book 2, p. 300.] |
Feb. 15.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Col. Jacob Richards. Sets forth
that he had disbursed, in their Majesties' service in Ireland,
606l. 11s. 6d. This petition was referred to the Board of Ordnance,
and they made a report thereupon, allowing the same account of
disbursements; but in regard it has respect to the service of Ireland,
for which there is no fund appointed in that office, the Board sees
no way for the petitioner's receiving such satisfaction and gratification as his Majesty shall please to give him, but by his Majesty's
signifying his pleasure therein to the Lords of the Treasury.
Referred accordingly to the Treasury. [Ibid., p. 301.] |
Feb. 15.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Robert Colepepyr [Culpepper ?].
Shows that the decay of Rye Harbour in Sussex is likely to bring
great damage to the western navigation and proposes a means to
prevent the decay and restore it to a condition of being very useful
to men-of-war, &c. Prays for some "over flowed salts" necessary
to be fenced off from the sea for the better performance of his work.
Referred to the Treasury. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2,
p. 302.] |
Feb. 15.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to the Keeper of Newgate, to allow Claudius Willett, the
liberty of the Press Yard, and that his friends may have access to
him at seasonable hours. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 236.] |
Feb. 15.
Kensington. |
Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor-General, to prepare a bill
containing a grant to Thomas Addison, of a patent for his invention
of melting or smelting down all sorts of iron ore, iron stone, slaggs,
cinders, old broken cast or hammered iron and other materials, by
the use of sea, or pit coal, and of refining and making the same into
good and merchantable bar-iron, guns, bullets, and other utensils.
[H.O. Warrant Book 6 p. 257.] |
Feb. 15.
Kensington. |
Warrant to Sir Robert Cotton, and Thomas Frankland, esq.,
Postmaster-General. Their Majesties having issued orders for
recruiting several regiments of foot, serving in the Low Countries,
they direct you to give necessary directions to the masters of the
packet boats, to give free passages to any recruits brought to them,
in your boats to Holland or Flanders, taking a certificate, under the
hand of such commission-officer who has charge of them, of their
names, and the regiment to which they belong. [H.O. King's Letter
Book 2, p. 44.] |
Feb. 15.
Culenburg. |
The Prince of Waldeck to Count de Solms. Replies to his letter.
Regrets the nonchalance and malice of the Spaniards, who appear to
be content with defeats. Discusses other matters concerning the
campaign. Copy. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 12, No. 37.] |
Feb. 15.
Culenburg. |
The same to the Prince of Vaudemont. Remarks on the
contents of the two letters he has received from the Prince of
Vaudemont, regrets that his health does not permit him to join him.
Count de Solms is full of good intentions, but complains of the
quarters allotted to the troops. Copy. [Ibid., No. 38.] |
Feb. 15.
Whitehall. |
Viscount Sydney to the Lords of the Admiralty. These four
persons, viz.:—Thomas Lemmon, Edmund Admans, William Thomas,
and John Mercer, are employed in my service at Sittingbourne, in
Kent, and I desire you will give them your protection that they may
not be impressed. [H.O. Admiralty 3, p. 71.] |
Feb. 16.
Kensington. |
Commissions for Richard Billing, esq., to be lieutenant-colonel, of
Col. William Selwyn's regiment of foot; for George Westcombe, esq.,
to be Major of the same regiment; and for Thomas Gosling, gent.,
to be ensign to Capt. Percy Kirke's company in the same regiment.
[H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 113.] |
Feb. 16.
Whitehall. |
Viscount Sydney to the Solicitor-General. About a week since, I
signed a reference to you upon the petition of Anthony Forrester,
smith, for a new invention of heating liquors, and being satisfied
that the same is a new invention, as the petitioner sets forth, I
hope for once you will take my word for it, and let him have a
favourable report from you. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3,
p. 102.] |
Feb. 16.
Whitehall. |
Pass for Nathaniel Linnicar to go to Ireland. [S.P. Dom.
Warrant Book 38, p. 237.] |
Feb. 16.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to John Gellibrand, messenger of the press, and Charles
Maris, to apprehend — Walbanke for treasonable practices.
[Ibid.] |
Feb. 16.
Whitehall. |
Pass for Yob Van Schagen and Yan Yanse Van Dingen to go to
Harwich and embark for Holland. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 36,
p. 161.] |
Feb. 16.
Whitehall. |
Viscount Sydney to the Lords-Justices. The King intending to
make some alteration in the list of persons, mentioned in his letters
to you of the 20th ult. for the Royal Fishery of Ireland, has
commanded me to signify his pleasure that, in case the letters
patent thereby directed to be passed, are not already under the
Great Seal, you forthwith give order for stopping them. [S.P.
Ireland King's Letter Book 1, p. 158.] |
Feb. 16.
Whitehall. |
The Earl of Nottingham to the Lords-Justices. I have sent you
the names of the captain's appointed to command two of the five
additional companies desired by the Emperor, the other three are
John Carnay [Kearney ?] Owen Fernes, and Jeremy Hullaham.
[Ibid., p. 296.] |
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Extract from some document relating to the French Protestants
in Switzerland with Order thereon. Lord Nottingham is asked to
move the King to give orders to Mr. Cox or Mons. Herveart, at
Berne, to use their offices with the heads of the Protestant Cantons
so that they allow the French to stay in their country, until they
are to be sent to Ireland. It is also noted that it will be necessary
to provide means for the conduct of these Protestants to England,
and from thence to Ireland. In the margin it is stated that orders
were sent to Mr. Cox accordingly. [S.P. Dom. William & Mary 4,
No. 8.] |
Feb. 16.
The Bastile. |
Viscount Mountjoy to the Earl of Nottingham. Though I have not
the honour to be known to you, I take the liberty to send you the
only letter I have seen for a very great while, and to beg your
favour and protection in a matter which touches me so near. You
know where it was judged more to save a citizen than to destroy
an enemy, and the long and close imprisonment I have suffered for
it, makes me, I hope, deserve some of my country's care, though my
actions did not, and I may own to you they have been such as will
not perhaps make the hardest sentence against me unjust in the
place where I am; but had I no other concern in this matter than
his Majesty's service, I should fall at his feet to beg Lord Preston
might not be treated with the utmost vigour, and former obligations
I have received from that lord, makes it a duty upon me. My
circumstances will, I hope, procure your pardon for the freedom and
faults of this paper. Seal of Arms. [S.P. Dom. William & Mary 4,
No. 9.] Enclosing:— |
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Feb. 15, 1691–2. S. Bulkeley to [Lord Mountjoy]. I cannot
forbear giving you this notice secretly (being your relation and well
wisher) that the King is so incensed at the judgments which have been
lately given against Lord Preston and Mr. Assheton, that he is resolved
to desire the King of France to command you may receive the same
treatment this said Lord Preston and Mr. Assheton meet with.
Wherefore for God's sake, without losing a moment's time, write to
your friends in England or to Lord Nottingham, now Secretary of
State, a favount (sic) to the Prince of Orange, to let them or him, know
the present danger that threatens you; and if you will send me a
letter by the secret way I send this, I will find means to send it for
you to England by to-morrow's post. This letter is apparently a
copy in the Lord Mountjoy's handwriting. [Ibid., No. 9i.] |
Feb. 16.
Whitehall. |
Thomas Addison and Christopher Kirkby to [Mr. Warre]. We
have just received the following and desire it to be laid before Lord
Nottingham. Extract from Mr. George Dickinson's letter from
Plymouth, dated 6th February 1692: We have no French prisoners
here at present, but I hear the St. Alban's on her way to Calais
took a French caper. Mr. Wynn tells me all the privateers are
called in, and that they are fitting out 12 men-of-war at Brest,
upon what design is not known being kept very private, some are
of opinion it is either to waylay our fleet from Calais, or to
disturb us in landing the soldiers in Flanders." [H.O. Admiralty 4,
p. 215.] |
Feb. 17.
Whitehall. |
Passes for Mrs. Frances Roberts to go to France on board the
next transport ship. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 237.]; and
for the same with her servant, James Smith, ditto [Ibid. p., 239.] |
Feb. 17.
Whitehall. |
Pass for Mr. Abraham Pierrat and Mr. Peter Gontard to go to
Harwich and to embark for Holland. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 36,
p. 162.] |
Feb. 17.
Admiralty Office. |
Order upon the complaint of Lieutenant Serles, showing the
abuses he met with in pressing men, and particularly that he found
Andrew Niblett, who belonged to the Kent and Edward Wilson,
belonging to the Harwich, who had run away from the said ships,
at Thomas Glin's house in Blackman Street, Axe Alley, Southwark,
and going before Justice Evans, he confined him and set the two men
at liberty. Minuted: To speak to the King about putting Justice
Evans out of the commission of the Peace. [H.O. Admiralty 4,
p. 227.] |
Feb. 17.
Whitehall. |
Viscount Sydney to the Lords of the Admiralty. The King
having thought fit that the Mary yacht, which was appointed to
carry the Duke of Wurtemburg to Holland, should not stir off
this coast; you are therefore to appoint some other yacht to carry
that Duke into Holland. [H.O. Admiralty 3, p. 71.] |
Feb. 17.
Whitehall. |
The same to the same. The Baron of Simeon (sic) Envoy from
the Elector of Bavaria, being upon his return into Flanders, you are
to give orders for a yacht to transport him, and his retinue, to
Ostend. [H.O. Admiralty 3, p. 71.] |
Feb. 18.
Whitehall. |
Commissions for Richard Morley, esq., to be lieutenant and
youngest captain of the troop of grenadiers belonging to the 3rd
troop of horse guards, commanded by Richard, Viscount Colchester
[H.O. Military Entry Book 2, p. 233]; for Matthew Whitfield, esq,
to be brigadier and eldest lieutenant of the same troop; and for
— Griffith, esq., to be lieutenant of the troop of which
Captain William Wentworth is captain in John, Lord Berkeley's
regiment of horse [Ibid.]; and for Sherrington Davenport, esq., to
be captain of the troop of which Captain Charles Villiers was captain
in the regiment of horse commanded by Col. Hugh Wyndham.
[Ibid. 3, p. 115.] |
Feb. 18.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to Sir Henry Goodrick to cause 14 long pikes to be
issued to the battalions in Flanders. [Ibid. 2, p. 234] |
Feb. 18.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Matthew Remington, gent.
Shows that one Edmund Robinson, clerk, was some time since,
executed for high treason, who it is presumed died possessed of some
small personal estate, not yet discovered to his Majesty. Prays his
Majesty will be pleased, by Privy Seal, with non obstantes, and
other usual clauses, to grant unto him, the goods and debts, &c., due
to the said Edmund Robinson, at the time of his death. Referred
to the Treasury. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 304.] |
Feb. 18.
Whitehall. |
The Earl of Nottingham to the Commissioners for the Exchange
of Prisoners. The King would have you discharge Lord Caher, and
exchange Col. Owen MacCarty, Major Donaught (sic) MacCarty
and Capt. Cornelius Murphey, in the usual method, by the first
convenience. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 382.] |
Feb. 18.
Whitehall. |
The same to Mr. Blathwayt. I send you the enclosed petition,
by the King's command, who would have you dispatch strict and
positive orders to Col. Foulke in Ireland that he appoints some
person, forthwith to make up an account here of what is due from
him to the petitioners according to what is proposed by Mr. Fox
at the end of his report, annexed to the said petition. Memorandum
that another letter was sent to Mr. Fox the Thursday following
for the same purpose. [Ibid., p. 383.] |
Feb. 18.
Whitehall. |
Passes for Anne Cadane, and Margaret Leasenby, to embark on
the first ship going to France with prisoners to be exchanged; for
Cornelius Soverainson, a Dane to embark at Newcastle for Denmark
[S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 237]; for Mrs. Ann Leyburn, and
Mrs. Catherine Leyburn, to embark at Harwich for Holland or
Flanders; and for Eli Geraud, quartermaster of Col. Seechested's
regiment of Danish horse, to go to Holland. [Ibid. p. 239.] |
Feb. 18.
Whitehall. |
Warrant for naturalizing the ship Diligence John Long, master,
in order that she may bring masts or bowsprits, &c., for the immediate service of the Navy, from New England, John Taylor,
merchant, having received order to import these. [H.O. Warrant
Book 6, p. 254.] |
| Feb. 18. |
Like Warrant for naturalizing the ship Fir-tree, John Garfoot,
master. [H.O. Warrant Book 6, p. 255.] |
Feb. 18.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to the Attorney-General, to cause to be entered a nole
prosequi in case of Edmund Elliot, who with Viscount Preston and
Richard Assheton, gent., was indicted of high treason at the sessions
held at Newgate, in January 1690. [Ibid., p. 256.] |
Feb. 18.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to Viscount Sydney and the Lords-Justices of Ireland
for the reversal of the outlawry for high treason of Almaric, Baron
Kinsale, he having represented that after his imprisonment for
endeavouring to retire out of the enemy's quarters in order to submit
himself to King William at the siege of Limerick in 1690, he took
the first opportunity to escape, and in July 1691 took the oath
of fidelity before Col. Tounsend, a justice of the peace in the county
of Cork. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office 12, p. 429.] |
Feb. 19.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of John Weale, praying to be
admitted master of the science of single rapier, and to be employed
in teaching therein, such young gentlemen of his Majesty's family
and dependance as his Majesty shall direct, with such salary and
privileges as he shall think fit. Referred to the Duke of Leinster.
[S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 303.] |
Feb. 19.
Whitehall. |
The Earl of Nottingham to Sir John Morgan. The King commands me to acquaint you that you are to discharge Col. Bourke, a
prisoner of war, sent out of Ireland and now remaining in your
custody. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 383. |
Feb. 19.
Whitehall. |
Allowance of the bill of Sir Paul Ricaut, knt., their Majesties'
resident at the Hans Towns, Hamburg, Lubeck and Bremen since
the 1st of July 1691, until January last. [S.P. Dom. Warrant
Book 38, p. 238.] |
Feb. 19.
Whitehall. |
Passes for Sir George Barclay, and his two servants, John
Maintoch and Robert Casar, to embark on the first transport ship
which goes to France from England, and to land there; and for Mr.
Paumgartner [Baumgartner ?] to go to Holland, recommended by
Mons. Hoffman, the Emperor's Secretary [Ibid., p. 239.] |
Feb. 19.
Whitehall. |
Passes for Anthony Servaes to go to Harwich and embark for
Holland, and for Huÿbert Duÿm, ditto. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book
36, p. 162.] |
Feb. 20.
Kensington. |
Commissions for Christopher Nattel, gent, to be lieutenant to
Capt. Robert Sappon's company in Col. Richard Brewer's regiment
of foot [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 113]; for James Otway,
gent., to be ensign to Sir Edward Byron's company in the same
regiment; and for—La Jour, gent., to be ensign to Capt.
John Blake's company in the same regiment. [Ibid., p. 114.] |
Feb. 20.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Ludovick Jackson, gent., for
leave to execute the office of Escheator of Waterford, by deputy.
Referred to the Attorney or Solicitor-General. Vide ante, under
date Jan. 2. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 305.] |
Feb. 20.
Whitehall. |
The Earl of Nottingham to the Postmaster-General. I send you
enclosed a complaint of the Portuguese Envoy concerning a
Portuguese ship, and desire you will send me an account of what
you know of this matter, or inform yourselves, if you can, of the
circumstances of it. The captain's name perhaps is mispelled for I
believe Capt. E. Kins was the person who then commanded the
Spanish expedition. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 384.] |
Feb. 20.
Kensington. |
The same to the Privy Council of Scotland ordering them to
grant a reprieve to William Martine for the murder of James Patoun.
[S.P. Scotland Warrant Book 15, p. 76.] |
Feb. 20.
Kensington. |
The same to the Lords of the Treasury of Scotland. We have
seen a memorial, given in by Captain John Selzer (whereof we send
you the double) proposing several alterations to render our artillery
more useful, and likewise for setting up of a manufacture of arms
in that our ancient kingdom, whereby our magazines may be as
well provided, and at as much lower rates than they are now
brought thither from abroad; and that the old broken arms and
brass, which either lies useless in our magazines or has been lent
out upon receipt, being given to him, he offers to supply our stores.
We consider these as reasonable proposals, and therefore require you
to call for the said captain Slezer and consider what he proposes.
[Ibid., p. 77.] |
Feb. 20.
Kensington. |
The same to the same, terminating the payment of a pension of
500l. to the Earl of Tweeddale as one of the Lords of the Treasury,
from and after Martinmas last, and ordering payment of arrears
due to him before that time, he having been appointed Lord High
Chancellor of Scotland. [Ibid., p. 78.] |
| Feb. 20. |
The same to the same, requiring them to examine Col. Buchan's
accounts, and to pay him what sums he has expended. [Ibid.] |
| Feb. 20. |
The same to the same. Recites that representation has been made
by George Hamilton of Barnetown, tacksman of the customs and
foreign excise from November 1686 to November 1688, stating that
you had granted him an abatement in consideration of the stoppage
of trade by the embargo upon ships for that last year, and craving
our warrant for allowing the same, and for what further abatement
we think fit, and also craving our warrant for allowance of the price
of the wines and fruits furnished to the Officers of State and Lords
of the Treasury according to custom; and also craving that he may
have allowance of 700l. money which he seized, when transported
out of the kingdom contrary to law, and asserting that he, as commissary of the army, has advanced and disbursed considerable sums
of money. In consideration of all which he prays that his accounts
may be audited, and the balance paid to him. The King approves
of the abatement given to the said George Hamilton in consideration
of the stoppage of trade in the last year of his tack. [Ibid., p. 79.] |
Feb. 20.
Kensington. |
The same to the same, in favour of Charles Murray and James
Oswald, tacksmen of the Excise of East Midlothian, the town of
Edinburgh, and of the late imposition in favour of that town,
[Ibid.] |
Feb. 20.
Kensington. |
The same to the same ordering payment of the arrears of
Alexander, late Archbishop of Glasgow's pension, out of the rents
of that archbishopric. [S.P. Scotland Warrant Book 15, p. 80.] |
Feb. 20.
Kensington. |
The same to the same, requiring them to audit the accounts of
Captn. Andrew Rollo and pay him what is justly due out of excess
of the supply and excise. [Ibid., p. 81.] |
Feb. 20.
Kensington. |
Warrant for a ratification and new gift to Lieut.-Col. John Erskine
of the charge and office of Lieutenant-Governor and constable of
Stirling Castle and captain of the company in garrison there during
the minority of the Earl of Mar. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 20.
Kensington. |
Warrant for a gift to James Hamilton, writer to the signet, of the
office of general and sole collector of the Bishops' rents in Scotland.
[Ibid., p. 83.] |
Feb. 20.
Kensington. |
Docquet of the warrant for a gift to John Dewchar of the office
of one of the four ordinary macers before the Lords of Council and
Session. [Ibid., p. 84.] |
Feb. 20.
Whitehall. |
Pass for Nicholas Hendrickson to go to Harwich for Holland.
[S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 36, p. 162.] |
| Feb. 20. |
John Ellis to the Earl of Nottingham. I went from waiting on
you this morning to Mr. Straetman's (?) house, who was not at
home, and I was told had gone into the city with Mons. Hoffman.
Enclosed is the computation you ordered to be made by the Commissioners of Transportation of the charge of carrying 2,000 Irish
from Kinsale to Hamburg. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 4,
No. 10.] Enclosing the computation referred to. [Ibid., No. 10i.] |
| Feb. 20. |
The Earl of Ranelagh to the King. King Charles II., being
satisfied by a report of the Lord Treasurer Clifford, that he was
justly indebted to the estate of Francis, Lord Willoughby of
Parham, in the sum of 8,397l. 2s. 4½d., was pleased, by a Privy
Seal, dated the 12th of July 1673, to direct the payment of that
sum to me, and the late Lord Brereton (we having married the two
daughters and coheirs of the said Lord Willoughby) out of the
revenue of Barbadoes, and the Leeward Islands, with a positive
direction therein, that not only tallies of provision, or tallies of assignment but also tallies of anticipation, if desired, should be levied for
the said sum. |
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In pursuance of the said Privy Seal, we struck tallies for
5,638l. 11s. 2d. which we sold at low rates to the then farmers of
the said revenue. No tallies being struck, for the remainder of the
said Privy Seal, being 2,758l. 11s. 2d., during the reign of the said
King, his late Majesty. |
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James II., by his Privy Seal, dated the 5th of January, in the
second year of his reign, directed the payment of the said sum to
me, or my assigns, out of his revenue of Barbadoes, and the
Leeward Islands, growing due, for the year 1686, next after the
said revenue should have produced, so much as would be sufficient,
to satisfy the established charge of the government of the said
islands, for the said year. |
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Notwithstanding the said direction, I have not yet received one
farthing of the said 2,758l. 11s. 2d., though the said revenue
produced sufficient, that year, to answer the established charge of
the government of those islands, and to satisfy that sum which had
been so long justly due to me. I cannot hope now to receive it out
of that revenue as you have assigned the whole for the payment of
the forces in those parts. When I do receive it, I must pay it out
to the creditors of my father-in-law, in part of 4,000l. due to them,
for which they have obtained a decree against me in the Court of
Exchequer here, as I am an administrator to him, for which, if not
protected by my privilege of Parliament, I should soon be arrested,
and am forced in the meantime to pay them interest for it. |
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Charles II., under his great seal of Ireland, granted on the 30th
of May 1677, to Viscount Lisburne, and Lemuel Kingdon, esq.,
both since deceased, a yearly pension of 300l., payable out
of his revenue of that kingdom, during their lives, which said
grant was in trust for me. His said Majesty was also pleased, by
his letters, under his Sign Manual, dated the 21st of August 1684,
to declare and order that the said yearly pension should be duly
paid, the punctual payment thereof, being one of the conditions upon
which I surrendered my letters patent, of vice treasurer of that
kingdom. Accordingly the said pension was constantly paid up to
the 25th of March 1688 inclusive, having been always inserted in
the several establishments there. But from that time, to the 29th
of September 1691 inclusive (Lord Lisburne was killed before the
said 29th of September) there is an arrear due to me of 1,050l. |
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I therefore beg you to grant me your order, directing the payment of the said 2,758l. 11s. 2d., and 1,050l. out of such arrears as
are due to you from the private estate of the late King in Ireland,
and I hope my request will appear reasonable when you consider,
that the first sum is the remainder of a just debt long due, and that
I must be ruined, by the aforesaid decree, given in favour of my
father-in-law's creditor's when my privilege ceases; and that the
second sum is secured by letters patent, and is all I can ask by
virtue of them, having had the misfortune to loose my right to the
said pension, for the time to come, by the death of the trustees,
though the King, your uncle, intended it for me during my life.
[S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 12, No. 39.] |
Feb. 21.
Brussels. |
Proposition for strengthening the town of Brussels, as it is necessary for the safety of the Low Countries that this town should be
preserved. [Ibid., No. 40.] |
Feb. 22.
Kensington. |
Commission for—Cole, esq., to be captain of the company
lately commanded by Adam, Viscount Lisburne in the regiment of
foot commanded by Col. Richard Coote. [H.O. Military Entry
Book 3, p. 120.] |
Feb. 22.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of 730 poor prisoners [in the
Marshalsea ?] praying relief against the oppression of the Marshal.
Referred to the Lord Chief Justice Holt. [S.P. Dom. Petition
Entry Book 2, p. 305.] |
Feb. 22.
Kensington. |
Licence for Capt. Grenville Collins to publish his survey of the
sea coast, under the name and title of "Great Britain's Coasting
Pilot." [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 240.] |
Feb. 22.
Kensington. |
Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor-General to prepare a bill
containing a grant to John Williams of Exeter, of the benefit of his
invention of a new engine, "the model whereof is hereunto annexed,"
for carrying four men, 15 fathoms and more under water in the
sea, whereby they may work 12 hours together, without danger.
[H.O. Warrant Book 6, p. 259.] |
Feb. 22.
Malines. |
Suggested disposition of the troops in case the enemy attempt
anything against Brussels. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 12,
No. 41.] |
Feb. 23.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of John Lord Massereene. Shows
that the papists in Ireland have deprived him of a good estate, both
personal and real, and that the garrison of Londonderry took and
made use of 60 tons of salmon belonging him. Prays some satisfaction for the same, and some provision to enable him to serve his
Majesty. Referred to the Attorney or Solicitor-General of Ireland.
[S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 304.] |
Feb. 23.
Whitehall. |
Passes for Lawrence Vanden Brock, Adam Hanse, and Bonaventure Marlee to go to Harwich and embark for Holland; and
for Fennecke Bosch, Cornelia Van Ulsden, and Catherine Bové,
with two small children, ditto. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 36,
p. 163.] |
| Feb. 23. |
The petition of William Fuller, gent. Shows that he has long
groaned under the misfortunes occasioned by the immaturity of his
judgment. He was imposed on by the perfidies of Col. Thomas
Delaval and Mr. George Hays, for whose appearance he engaged to
the House of Commons, for the nation's service—though the event
proved the contrary—and for their failure the petitioner incurred
the displeasure of the House. |
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He presumes that most of the now members of the House of
Commons were present when his informations were read in 1691,
and Lord Preston's and Mr. Matthew Crone's confessions were laid
before them. |
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He begs the consideration of the High Court of Parliament now
assembled, upon his case, by which he was ensnared by the artifices
of the late King, and his employed adherents for that purpose, with
a design to prevent his discoveries of the true mother of the
pretended Prince of Wales, and to invalidate his informations
concerning their horrid designs against his present Majesty. |
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Mr. Thomas Jones is now in England, who was privy to that
intrigue of Delaval and Hays, and was ordered to attend the House
of Commons with them, February 23rd, 1691–2, but that same day
made his escape to France with them, by the help of a pass. The
petitioner is ready to produce the said Jones and the pass, and also
undeniable witnesses to prove that he, the said Mr. Jones, paid 500
guineas at the Secretary's Office for the said pass, and several other
sums of money amounting to 6,000l. by order of the late King
James and his Queen, in order to baffle the petitioner. |
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He begs leave to lay before both Houses, or either House of Parliament, the affidavits of 45 persons of honour and worth, already
made before several Justices of the Peace, and given voluntarily by
the deponents to him, which all proves the management of the
supposititious birth of the pretended Prince of Wales. |
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He is also ready to give the names and abodes of each deponent;
and says he was the first who discovered to the King, Col. Parker's
and the Chevalier Granville's design of assassinating his Majesty
in Flanders, where the latter suffered for the same and confessed
his horrid intentions. |
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He has long been reduced to great extremity, and some great
men have gained honour to themselves by his discoveries, and
suffered him to be starving, even for want of what money he had
disbursed in the nation's service, as the Duke (sic) of Shrewsbury
has sufficiently certified by his own hand. |
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That for several years he has been the object of the most inveterate
hatred of the late King and his adherents here and in France, and
has been falsely abused by several scandalous libels written by
William Pettis for Abel, Roper, and Chantry, booksellers, published
by John Nutt and advertised by Benjamin Beardwell in his Post
Boy (of which William Pettis has publicly owned himself to be the
author), which libels tend to deceive the good people of the land,
by pretending to justify the legitimacy of the pretended Prince of
Wales, and that he (Pettis) is resolved and proud to vindicate that
imposter, whom he terms King James the Third. |
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Prays that a consideration may be made of his case, and that a
dreadful example may be made of the greatest imposter who ever
lived; and that he (the Petitioner) may have leave to publish the
depositions of Thomas Jones and Thomas Witherington, esqs., with
the names of those mentioned therein who have taken bribes from
France to ruin this nation. [S.P. Dom. William & Mary 4, No. 11.] |
Feb. 24.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Sir Simon Leach, K.B., Charles
Heddon, Anthony Jefferys, and others. Shows that one Thomas
Thompson obtained a judgment against them in the Court of
Common Pleas, since affirmed in the court of King's Bench, in
which said judgment there is manifest error. They pray to have
a Writ of Error returnable in Parliament. Granted. [S.P. Dom.
Petition Entry Book 1. p. 240.] |
Feb. 24.
Whitehall. |
Viscount Sydney to the Postmaster-General. I enclose you a second
list of Danish officers appointed to go to Denmark for recruits, that
you may give the necessary directions to the masters of the packet
boats to receive them on board, and give them a passage to Holland
or Flanders [H.O. Letter Book Secretary 3, p. 102]. Enclosing:—
A list of Danish officers—Lieut.-Col. Fromhold De Viettinghoff,
Captains William Ellenberger, and Schaek; Lieutenants Reusch,
Johanssen, Danckwarts, Wichman, Braun, Kramer, and Doscher, and
Ensign Schroder, 25 non-commissioned officers and 15 officers
servants, in all 51 persons. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 24.
Whitehall. |
Passes for Mr. Jean Godet, a French protestant, to embark at
Harwich for Holland, recommended by Mons. Lombard, French
minister; for John Ward, a Dutchman, ditto [S.P. Dom. Warrant
Book 38, p. 241]; for Mr. Benjamin Conway, chaplain to Col.
Fitzpatrick's regiment, ditto; for John Prendergast, ditto; and for
Lieut. Casper Otto de Glasenapp, a Brandenburg officer, with
Casimir Hasse, his servant, ditto. [Ibid., p. 243.] |
Feb. 24.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to the Keeper of Newgate, to receive into custody
Giles Wilcox and Daniel Brett, charged with high treason.
[Ibid.] |
Feb. 24.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to William Jones, messenger in ordinary, to apprehend
and seize Thomas Dale, for high crimes and misdemeanors, and to
bring him to be examined. [H.O. Warrant Book 6, p. 257.] |
Feb. 24.
Kensington. |
Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor-General, to prepare a bill
containing a grant, to Patrick Gordon, of the benefit of his invention of making blue, purple, and all sorts of paper and pasteboards,
and to embellish and beautify the same by such ways as were never
yet known in Ireland. [Ibid., p. 260.] |
Feb. 24.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to Thomas Beake, one of the messengers of their
Majesties' Chamber in ordinary to make strict search for Billidge
Clayton, gent., and having found him, to apprehend and seize him
for high crimes and misdemeanors, and to bring him in safe custody
to be examined. [Ibid., p. 266.] |
Feb. 24.
Admiralty Office. |
The Lords of the Admiralty to the Earl of Nottingham. Having
directed the Navy Board to make enquiry, concerning the complaint made by Lord Massereene, in his letter to Sir Robert
Southwell of the 2nd of December last, of which you gave us a
copy, concerning felling some of his timber in Ireland for the service
of the Navy. We enclose an account which the Navy Board have
received from their purveyor in Ireland concerning that matter.
[H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 231.] Enclosing:—The report referred to.
[Ibid., p. 235.] |
Feb. 24.
Falmouth. |
Copy of a letter from Capt. Gillam, commander of the Chester.
I have just arrived here with 25 sail of transport ships. I left
Scilly yesterday morning. I fetched this place this morning with
all the ships. The Centurion, Milford, and Portsmouth, sailed
from Scilly on the 21st instant with part of the fleet, but before all
the fleet could get out the wind changed to N. and blew so hard
that none of the ships could purchase their anchors, so I stayed with
them. All the soldiers would have been starved if we had stayed
eight days longer in Scilly. I have written to Mr. Addis in Plymouth to send some provisions hither for my men, for I want
victuals, and what to do for the soldiers in the transport ships I do
not know. I will not lose a minute's time when fair weather comes.
The day the Centurion sailed; one of the transport ships who went
out after her, struck upon a rock, and sank, but all the men were
saved. [Ibid., p. 239.] |
Feb. 25.
Whitehall. |
Commisions for Francis Nicholas, gent., to be lieutenant of the
troop of which Captain Henry Foubert is captain, in Colonel Hugh
Wyndham's regiment of horse [H.O. Military Entry Book 2, p. 237];
for Francis Strickland, gent., to be cornet of the troop, in the same
regiment of horse, of which he is captain [Ibid.]; for Samuel Foxton,
esq., to be lieutenant-colonel in the room of Lieut.-Col. Ventris
Colombine, and likewise captain of the company, which he commanded in the regiment of foot, commanded by Ernest Ludowick,
Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt [Ibid. 3, p. 114]; and for Lieut.-Col.
Ventris Colombine to be captain of the company of which Lieut.-Col.
Samuel Foxton was captain in the first regiment of foot guards,
commanded by Charles, Duke of Schomberg. [Ibid., 3, p. 115.] |
Feb. 25.
Whitehall. |
Warrants to Sir Henry Goodrick, to cause 156 French (?) tents,
furnished, to be issued to George, Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt, for the
use of the regiment of foot under his command [H.O. Military Entry
Book 2, p. 235]; and to cause the sum of 500l. to be paid to Colonel
John Wyant Goor, or his assigns, in compensation for all the broken
brass ordnance and bells found in the towns, reduced during the war
in Ireland, which are a perquisite belonging to him, as colonel of the
train of artillery. [Ibid., p. 236.] |
Feb. 25.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Sir John Kirwan, knt., merchant
of Galway, shows that his correspondent at Brest shipped, on the
Mary, of Dublin, George Lister, master, certain woollen cards on the
petitioner's account. These were seized on board the said ship in
the harbour of Waterford, and are still detained there. Prays for
restitution of the same. Referred to the Lords Committee for Trade
and Foreign Plantations. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 1,
p. 240.] |
Feb. 25.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Richard Owen, esq., Thomas
Martyn, Benjamin Rookby, and Thomas Powell, of London,
merchants, shows that many endeavours have been used for several
years last past for obtaining the art and way of making salt-petre
within this kingdom, which have hitherto proved ineffectual as to any
quantities being made proportionable to the use thereof; and that
the petitioners have obtained the art of making salt-petre, and
therefore pray to be incorporated. Referred to the Attorney or
Solicitor-General. [Ibid., p. 241.] |
Feb. 25.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Ralph Grey, setting forth his
services, and praying the place of auditor of Wales. Referred to the
Treasury. [Ibid. 2, p. 305.] |
Feb. 25.
Whitehall. |
The Earl of Nottingham to Charles Fox. The King having been
moved upon the enclosed petition of some late captains in Col.
Foulkes' regiment of foot, has commanded me to transmit the same
to you, together with your report annexed to it, and would have you
take care that strict and positive orders are sent to Col. Foulkes
forthwith to appoint his agent, or some other person, to make up an
account before you with each of the petitioners, according to what is
proposed by you in the said report; so that the petitioners may be
paid what appears to be justly due to them from Col. Foulkes,
[H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 384.] |
Feb. 25.
Whitehall. |
The Earl of Nottingham to Lord Massereene. I send you enclosed
[enclosure not entered] a copy of what I received from the Admiralty
in answer to your complaint about felling some of the timber in
Ireland which I transmitted to them. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 384.] |
Feb. 25.
Whitehall. |
The same to the Attorney-General. I send you here enclosed a
copy of his Majesty's Order in Council for omitting from Col.
Fletcher's commission to be Governor of New York the clause for
putting East and West New Jersey and Pennsylvania under the
care and government of the said Col. Fletcher. His Majesty would
have you dispatch Col. Fletcher's bill, now depending before you,
with all speed, omitting the clause above mentioned. [Ibid., p. 385.] |
Feb. 25.
Whitehall. |
Viscount Sydney to Viscount Fitzharding. Captain Chidley Coote
(the gentleman who will deliver you this), having acquainted me that
you have expressed a ready disposition to constitute him your deputy
in the government of Kinsale, and I recommend him to you for
that purpose. [Ibid. 3, p. 103.] |
Feb. 25.
Kensington. |
The King to the Lords of the Treasury of Scotland, directing
payment to Henry, Lord Cardross, of 300l. sterling, out of the
"excresence" of the supply and excise, in consideration of his
expense in connection with his regiment of dragoons. [S.P. Scotland
Warrant Book 15, p. 85.] |
Feb. 25.
Kensington. |
Warrant to George Hamilton, of Barntown, for payment to John.
Lord Belhaven, of 300l. sterling, on account of the arrears of the
retention money due to his troop. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 25.
Kensington. |
The King to the Lords of the Treasury of Scotland, ordering them
to sign precepts upon Sir Patrick Murray, for payment to Sir
William Lockhart, solicitor, "what terms are resting to him, either
of salary or for dispatches of the Criminal Court, Council, and
Exchequer, and to pay him timously hereafter what he lays out for
dispatches." [Ibid., p. 86.] |
Feb. 25.
Whitehall. |
Passes for Margrietha Mercx, with her four children, Jannetje,
Jacobse, and Dyna Hoché, to go to Harwich and embark for Holland,
and for Archibald Cockburne, gent, with his goods and necessaries,
to embark in any port of this kingdom and pass over into France.
[S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 36, p. 163.] |
Feb. 25.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor-General to prepare a bill
containing a grant to Michael Rosse and James Johnstone of the
benefit of their invention of an engine, whereby one man or more
may continue and work under water for about a quarter of an hour
upon wreck or wrecks with great freedom and clearness of sight,
and with the assistance of any person who can swim, may recover
and take up without diving, any bullion, plate, guns, goods, &c., lost
under water. [H.O. Warrant Book 6, p. 258.] |
Feb. 25.
Brussels. |
The Prince of Vaudemont to the Prince of Waldeck. Deals with
the affairs of the army in the Low Countries. Replies to remarks
made by Count de Solms. Copy. [S.P. Dom. King William's
Chest 12, No. 42.] |
Feb. 25.
Plymouth. |
Copy of a letter from Capt. Wivell, commander of the ship
Centurion. An express has just come saying Capt. Gillam has
arrived at Falmouth with the rest of the Danes from Scilly and
cannot put out from hence until he has provisions for them, he
having with him about half the ships with the Danes. Mr. John
Addis will provide provisions for them against an order from
London. I intend to-morrow sending him [Capt. Gillam] one of
the men of-war to join him and a month's provision. If we can we
will also join at sea. Capt. Hoskins and his fleet are coming into
the Sound, but the wind took them contrary yesterday. [H.O.
Admiralty 4, p. 243.] |
Feb. 25.
Leghorn. |
The declaration in Dutch, with English translation, of Dirck Janse
of Rotterdam, concerning the ship William, commanded by Capt.
John Nall, an Englishman. [Ibid., pp. 44–51.] |
Feb. 26.
Whitehall. |
Commission for John du Cros, surgeon, to be surgeon of the
regiment of dragoons, commanded by John, Viscount Fitzharding.
[H.O. Military Entry Book 2, p. 233.] |
Feb. 26.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Charles Webb, Samuel Huxford,
and William Hunt. Shows that the petitioners served as seamen
on board the ship called the Arcania galley, whereof John Wood
was commander, which said ship was, soon after their Majesties'
accession to the Crown, fitted out as a privateer against France by
several merchants in and about the city of London, in which the
petitioners "were to sail at no purchase, no pay." |
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About May, 1690, instead of privateering, as the petitioners
expected and agreed with the said master, he the said master, in
Dover Road, took on board the said ship, the Countess of Southesk
with several other people and goods to a considerable value, and
landed the same at Calais contrary to the law; for which, at the
return of the said ship, by the information of the petitioners, the
said ship was arrested, proceeded against and condemned to their
Majesties use in the Court of Admiralty, and John Wood the
master was carried to Maidstone, and there tried the last summer
assizes. |
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The petitioners were ordered by their Majesty's council to attend
to give evidence as well against the said ship, as also at the trial of
the said John Wood at Kent assizes, both which they did to their
great charge, trouble, and loss of time. They therefore pray his
Majesty to consider their loss of time and great expenses in so long
attending to their Majesty's affairs at their own charges. And that
he would grant them the several parts and shares of such of the
owners of the said ship as have not made oath of their ignorance
of such the proceedings of the said John Wood. Referred to the
Admiralty. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 1, p. 242.] |
Feb. 26.
Whitehall. |
The Earl of Nottingham to the Commissioners of the Treasury.
The King having thought fit to increase the salary of Sir Charles
Porter, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, to 2,000l. per annum, to
commence from the time when his salary as one of the LordsJustices shall cuase, directs you to despatch all necessary orders in
that behalf. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 385.] |
Feb. 26.
Whitehall. |
Passes for Mrs. Mary Jolly, with two children, Anne and Teretia
Hunlock, and Elizabeth Coleman, their maid servant, to go to
Holland or Flanders; for Mrs. Ogilby, wife to Lieut. Ogilby in
Sir Robert Douglas's regiment, and with a maid servant, to go to
Holland; for Anne Murphy and Mary Murphy, to embark on the
next ship going to France with Irish prisoners [S.P. Dom. Warrant
Book 38, p. 243]; for Mr. William Stretch, to go to France; for
Major Lawlesse, ditto [Ibid., p. 244]; and for the same, with
Andrew Richardson, his servant, ditto. [Ibid., p. 245.] |
Feb. 26.
Kensington. |
Warrant for a ratification to Sir Patrick Murray of Saltcoats, f
the place and office of receiver of the old crown rents, &c. in Scotlan
[S.P. Scotland Warrant Book 15, p. 86.] |
Feb. 26.
Kensington. |
Warrant for a gift to Mr. Alexander Stevenson of the office of
clerk of "the commissariat of Glasgow," in succession to Mr. William
Nimmo. [Ibid., p. 89.] |
Feb. 26.
Whitehall. |
Pass for Mrs. Margaret Mutlow, with two children, and one maidservant, to go to Harwich and embark for Ostend. [S.P. Dom.
Warrant Book 36, p. 164.] |
Feb. 26.
Kensington. |
Warrant to the Chief Justice of the King's Bench, the recorder
of London, and sheriffs of Middlesex, to forbear putting into
execution the sentence of death passed upon Lancelot Snowdon,
gent., who was convicted, at the last sessions held at the Old
Baily, of the murder of Richard Loader. [H.O. Warrant Book 6,
p. 261.] |
Feb. 26.
Culenburg. |
The Prince of Waldeck to the King. Encloses the dispatches
which have passed between the Prince of Vaudemont, Count de
Solms, and himself. Fears the arrival of the Elector of Bavaria
will be too late to do much good. [S.P. Dom. King William's
Chest 12, No. 43.] |
Feb. 27.
Whitehall. |
Commission for Henry Killegrew, esq., to be deputy-lieutenant of
Hertfordshire, and for the Earl of Essex, lord-lieutenant of that
county, to issue out his deputation accordingly. [H.O. Military
Entry Book 2, p. 234.] |
Feb. 27.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Percival Brunskill, praying that
in consideration of his great services, his Majesty would grant him a
parcel of ground, waste or common, adjoining the Forest of Windsor,
under the yearly rent of 10l. for 99 years. Referred to the Treasury.
[S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 308.] |
Feb. 27.
Whitehall. |
The Earl of Nottingham to the Attorney-General. I send you
enclosed, by the King's command, a copy of the charter of Dublin
Hospital, that you may consider the validity of it, and the several
clauses in it, and report your opinion thereon. The king would
have you prepare the draft of a proclamation for declaring the war
in Ireland at an end. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 385.] |
Feb. 27.
Whitehall. |
Viscount Sydney to the Commissioners for Exchange of Prisoners.
The King desires that the several persons mentioned in the enclosed
list, being the wives, children, and servants, belonging to the Irish prisoners, be permitted to go over with them into France. A list follows
of the wives, children, and servants, belonging to the Irish prisoners
of war, now in the Savoy, who are to be permitted to go with them to
France; Col. Ulrick Burk's wife, Major Thady Byrne's wife, and a
maid servant; Major Edward Butler's wife, and a maid servant; Capt.
Charles Booth's two daughters, one 8 the other 6 years old; Capt.
William Mecavoy's wife, Capt. Matthew Ferrell's maid servant, Hugh
Rork Nola Philipps, Francis Magineys, Terrance Roaney, Nicholas
Murry, Luke Mottley, Michael Durfey, a boy; Thomas Garman,
Robert Urrell, William Collins, William Browne, Walter Dabin,
Patrick Porter, Michael Verdon, James Geahegan, Edward Moore,
Richard Coulan, Patrick Savage, Peter Olean, William Dallon, Edward
Karney, James Osbason, Miles Mead, Patrick Goan, Farrell Keholl,
Thomas Murphey, Patrick Riley, John Mecannagh, Morris Dahell,
John Wheland, Morgan Ryan, Nicholas Kelly, John Hart, Barneby
Brother, Mary Barley, Robert Fanning, Robert Crelly, John Fennely,
Henry Sulliver, — Fennegan, Phaly Rice, John Stage, Mark
Collens, Hugh Hyne, Darbey Costugan, Patrick Delany, Michael
Browne, Patrick Meffit, Lewis Byrne, Edward Everard, Garrett
Ryley, Charles Grant, Henry Rymond, Michael Bron, Darbey
Sulliviere, and Edmund Salisbury. In all 65 persons. [H.O. Letter
Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 104.] |
Feb. 27.
Whitehall. |
Viscount Sydney to the Lords of the Treasury. The King being
pleased to give the Earl of Scarbrough his tenths of the prize ship,
the Crown Prince Frederick, and of her lading, brought into Newcastle about August last, desires you to give the necessary orders
for passing a grant to the said Earl accordingly. [Ibid., p. 105.] |
Feb. 27.
Kensington and Whitehall. |
Passes for Mr. Jeffery Keating to embark at Chester for Ireland;
for Jean Cercu, a French protestant, to embark at Harwich for
Holland, recommended by the minister of the French Church in
Hungerford Market; and for John Germayn, a native of Lubeck, to
go to Flanders. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 244.] |
Feb. 27.
Whitehall. |
Warrant to John Gibbons, to search for Henry Guy, and apprehend
him for treasonable practices. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 27.
Whitehall. |
The Earl of Nottingham to the Lords-Justices. This is only to
send the enclosed letter by the king's command, for demolishing
some forts in Ireland. [S.P. Ireland, King's Letter Book 1, p. 297].
Enclosing:— |
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The King to the Lords-Justices. It is thought unnecessary to
continue any garrisons in the forts and castles of Ballahy, Ballymote, Nenagh, Castle-Connell, Carrickagunnell, Oldcastle Town,
Kilbolaine, Roscrea, and Tercroghan; and as they would be
dangerous for the peace and safety of the kingdom if they fell into
the enemy's hands, you are to order them all to be demolished.
Kensington, 26th Feb. 1691–2. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 27.
Munich. |
Maximilian Emmanuel, Elector of Bavaria, to the King. Assures
the King of his devotion and gratitude towards him, and much
regrets that he has not been able to go to the Low Countries
immediately; he has been delayed through many causes, and is
making every preparation with as much haste as he possibly can.
[S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 12, No. 44.] |
Feb. 28.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Joan, Lady Howard, widow of
Thomas, Lord Howard of Escrick, deceased. Shows that her said
husband was sent to Flanders by King Charles II., in command of
a battalion of the Guards for securing Ostend, etc., against the
French, in the year 1678; who, dying at Brussels, his estate (being
entailed) was to fall to his brother, so that she had nothing left for
her subsistence. In consideration whereof the King, at the desire
of her lord, promised him to take care of his lady, and accordingly
(upon news of his death) granted by patent to the petitioner a
pension of 500l. per annum during her life. The said pension was
paid to her by his said Majesty, and during the reign of the late
King James; but she has not received any part of it since his
present Majesty's accession to the Crown. Prays that the King would
give such directions to the Lords of the Treasury that the said
pension may, as it becomes due, be paid to her, and that the arrears
may be ordered to her for her present subsistence. Referred to the
Treasury. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 306.] |
Feb. 28.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Henry, Lord Dover. Shows
that, although his Majesty has granted him a pardon of all treasons
and outlawries, yet he (the said outlawries remaining in force)
is degraded in honour and divested of his estate. Prays the King's
directions to the Attorney-General to consent that a writ of error
be brought to reverse the said outlawry. Granted. [Ibid., p. 307.] |
Feb. 28.
Whitehall. |
Pass for Mr. Thomas Lowe, and two servants, Anthony Nicholls
and Adam Vanderwicke, to go to Holland. [S.P. Dom. Warrant
Book 38, p. 244.] |
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List of the Danish Infantry as they appeared on their arrival at
Plymouth. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 12, No. 45.] |
Feb. 28.
Fort William. |
Colonel Hill to the Earl of Portland. My last gave you an
account of the houses of Invergarry and Island Donan being in my
possession for the King, and of the ruin of Glencoe, the latter
named of which houses, I presume, were better destroyed than kept,
for it is situated in such a place that it is hard to relieve it in
winter, or at any time well, but by sea; it cannot contain a force
to awe those countries in case they should again prove rebellious,
and whilst my Lord Seaforth is come in, there is no doubt but his
people may be kept quiet, and young Sir Donald McDonald is "a
peaceable inclined man," and his relations in Skye mostly protestants, so there is no fear from thence, and that house will be but
a charge to little other purpose, as is fit to be blown up. |
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Those men of Glencoe that (by help of the storm) escaped, would
submit to mercy if their lives may be granted them, upon giving
security to live peaceably under the government, and not to rob, steal,
or receive stolen goods hereafter, and I humbly conceive (since there
are enough killed for an example and to vindicate public justice) it
were advisable so to receive them, since it will be troublesome to
take them, the Highlanders being generally allied one to another,
and they may join with other broken men, and be hurtful to the
country. Nevertheless, in the meantime, it were necessary that the
proclamation against them, mentioned in my last to the Secretary,
were issued out. At the present they [the men of Glencoe] lie
dormant in caves and remote places. |
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The people now all seem resolved on settlement, and cry out
for a jurisdiction amongst them (and the country will never
be right till it be so) they flock in daily to submit to the
King's mercy. Appin is a much changed man for the better;
professes to everyone he meets his sincerity in keeping his oath of
allegiance, and all those people of Appin have good inclinations to
quiet, being many of them intelligent men, of whom I doubt not to
make very good subjects. The Laird is a "pretty young man" of
about 21 years, and had taken the oath before the day, but that
he was tied to his bed by sickness at that time, and was carried in
a boat to me, to do it, sooner than he was well able. |
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It were meet that some things were left to the discretion of
whoever commands in so remote a place as this, otherwise sometimes
advantages are lost before orders can be obtained, and then (for want
of true intelligence of matters) the orders may happen to be wrongly
conceived, and when I was here before, the whole was left to me,
and it succeeded well. The more authority any[one] has here, the
more the people observe to obey. I judge Ruthven in Badenoch a
place of more use to be kept than Island Donan, being upon a
great strath, and the greatest pass from the north to the south;
if it be thought fit to keep it, this regiment may send a garrison
thither, and to some other places that may be thought fit to be
kept. |
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The captain of Clanronald, "who is one of the prettiest
handsome youths I have seen," came in and brought all the chief of
his friends, and made his submission and took the oath with the
greatest frankness imaginable, as did also all his friends; he has
gone to his uncle, the Laird of McLeod, to settle his affairs and to
get up some money; he then resolves to wait on the King and
Queen, and if he overtake the King at London, he will beg his
favour that he may attend him into Flanders. If the King be gone
'ere he reach London, he resolves to follow him, and to be wholly
governed by the King's pleasure; only prays he may be so disposed
of as to better his education. It will be an act of great charity to
"breed" him. I have sent to McNeil of Bara (a remote island), who
I doubt not will come in as the rest; so all the work is now done
but the settlement of a civil jurisdiction. I find this winter
campaign put the Highlanders under great consternation, and they
were much affrighted, and are all very submissive and humble.
Seal broken. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 12, No. 46.] |
Feb. 29.
Kensington. |
Commissions for Thomas Boyd, gent., to be lieutenant of the troop
of which Captain Edmund Mortimer is captain in the regiment of
dragoons, commanded by John, Viscount Fitzharding [H.O. Military
Entry Book 2, p. 237]; for Charles Ashfeild, gent., to be cornet
of the troop, whereof Captain Holegate is captain in the same
regiment of dragoons [Ibid.]; for John Connock, esq., to be captain
of the company, of which Capt. Henry Killegrew was late captain
in the regiment of foot, commanded by George, Prince of Hesse; for
Benaddot (sic) Young, esq., to be captain of a company of grenadiers,
in the same regiment; for James Montague, esq., to be captainlieutenant of this company in the same regiment; for Timothy
Hartichem, gent., to be first-lieutenant of the company of grenadiers,
of which Captain Benaddot Young is captain in the same regiment;
for Henry Twingho, gent., to be second-lieutenant of the same company,
in the same regiment; for John Dorrington, esq., to be lieutenant of
the company, of which Capt. Richard Temple is captain in the same
regiment [Ibid., p. 239]; for Robert Young, esq., to be lieutenant
of the company of which Capt. Thomas Brown is captain in the
same regiment; for John Reed, esq., to be lieutenant of the company,
of which Capt. Richard Couretney is captain in the same regiment;
for Thomas Hinds, gent., to be adjutant to George, Prince of Hesse's
regiment of foot; for Abraham Hunt, gent., to be ensign of the
company of which Lieut.-Col. Samuel Foxton is captain in the same
regiment; for Matthew Norget, gent., to be ensign of the company
of which Capt. John Connock is captain in the same regiment
[Ibid., p. 240]; for Henry Holmes, esq., to be major of the Princess
Ann of Denmark's regiment of foot, commanded by Col. John
Beaumont, and likewise to be captain of a company in the same
regiment [Ibid., p. 241]; for Anthony Colombier, esq., to be
captain of the company of which Major Benjamin Fletcher was late
captain in the Princess Anne of Denmark's regiment of foot; for
Gustavus Belfont (?), esq., to be lieutenant of the company of which
Capt. Anthony Colombier is captain in the same regiment; for John
Harris, esq., to be ensign of that company, in the same regiment of
foot, of which he himself is captain; for Daniel Kiddley, clerk, to be
chaplain to the same regiment [Ibid., p. 242]; and for William Jordan,
esq., to be lieutenant and youngest captain of the troop of grenadiers,
belonging to the second troop of horse guards commanded by James,
Duke of Ormond [Ibid., p. 243]; for Barnard Granville, esq., to
be captain of the company which was Capt. John Prideaux's in the
Earl of Bath's regiment; for Admiral Edward Russell to fill up such
vacancies in the two marine regiments, as should happen during this
summer's expedition [Ibid. 3, p. 116]; for William Villiers, esq.,
to be major of the regiment of horse commanded by Col. Edward
Villiers [Ibid., p. 117]; for Capt. André Costard Rois Morell, to
be captain of the company, which was Lieut.-Col. Henry Row's in
Col. Selwyn's regiment; and for Charles Selwyn, gent., to be ensign
to Capt. Henry Collier's company in the same regiment. [H.O.
Military Entry Book 2, p. 120.] |
Feb. 29.
Kensington. |
Warrants to the Attorney or Solicitor-General, to prepare a bill,
containing a commission appointing Thomas, Marquis of Carmarthen,
President of the Council, lieutenant of the East, West, and North
Ridings of Yorkshire [H.O. Military Entry Book 2, p. 235]; and
to prepare a bill, containing a commission appointing Henry, Earl of
Westmorland, and Henry, Viscount Sydney to be jointly and
severally lieutenants of Kent and Canterbury. [Ibid., p. 236.] |
Feb. 29.
Whitehall. |
Warrant, to the officers of the Ordnance, to cause directions to be
given to the officers of the Ordnance in Ireland, that the articles, in the
account hereunto annexed, be immediately put on board such vessels
as are, or shall be provided, and consign the same to Lieut.-Gen.
Ruvigny. [H.O. Military Entry Book 2, p. 241.] |
Feb. 29.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Colonel Henry Luttrell. Shows
that upon his late petition (setting forth that he was in immediate
remainder to the estate of his brother Col. Simon Luttrell, who is an
infirm man and has been so for several years, and has no issue, and
has, by the Articles of Limerick eight months time, from the date of
the said Articles, to return into their Majesties' dominions and be
restored to his estate) his Majesty was pleased to give order that he
should, during his Majesty's pleasure, have a custodium of the said
estate. Since then, by a general order, the granting of custodiums
has been countermanded, by which reason he has not yet obtained
the effect of his Majesty's said order. Prays to have the benefit of
the same. Referred to the Treasury. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry
Book 1, p. 243.] |
Feb. 29.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Nicholas Lynch of Galway,
merchant. Shows that he was brought up a merchant, and spent
most of his time on voyages to and from the West Indies, and other
remote parts beyond the seas. He has been on a voyage for France,
these seven or eight months past, and intending to return to his
country and live there, prays a pass for himself, family, and such
goods as as are not prohibited, and to be restored to the enjoyment
of what he left in Ireland. Referred to the Attorney or SolicitorGeneral. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 29.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Charles, Earl of Abercorn.
Shows that he had by several petitions represented his case to his
Majesty, both before his going to Ireland, and since, very lately, by
the mediation of the Earl of Devonshire; that the House of Commons,
as well in the former bill concerning the Irish forfeitures as in the
bill lately passed, was so sensible of his case that they made a clause
in the said act to recommend him to his Majesty's favour, as to his
honour and estate, a copy of which proviso is annexed. His
estate is now in the possession of one Mr. Bridges, a mortgagee
for above 3,000l., as he alleges, for which and several other considerable sums the petitioner stands engaged for his brother, and is now
like to be thrown into gaol, to his and his family's utter ruin. |
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Prays, therefore, that his Majesty will confer upon him the equity
of redemption, and his Majesty's right to the said estate with the
title of the barony of Strabane hitherto enjoyed by his ancestors.
Referred to the Lords-Justices of Ireland. Memorandum.—Another
petition was referred to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland on the 11th
of March. [Ibid. p. 244.] |
Feb. 29.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Eleanor Smith, widow of Francis
Smith. Shows that in commiseration of her said husband's 30
years' cruel imprisonment and exile, his Majesty was pleased to
grant him a place in the Custom House; but he dying a little while
after, left the petitioner and her children in a more deplorable condition than ever. Prays the place of a supernumerary land waiter
for one of her sons. Referred to the Treasury. [Ibid. 2, p. 307.] |
Feb. 29.
Whitehall. |
Proceedings upon the petition of Elizabeth, Anne, and William
Disney, children of William Disney, esq., deceased, praying a pension
in commiseration of the great services and sufferings of their said
father. Referred to the Treasury. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry
Book 1, p. 308.] |
Feb. 29.
Whitehall. |
The Earl of Nottingham to the Commissioners of the Treasury.
The King, being moved upon the enclosed petition of the Scotch
officers to have their forfeited goods, etc. restored to them, was
pleased to grant the petitioners their request; and desires you to
give such orders as shall be necessary. [H.O. Letter Book
(Secretary's) 2, p. 386.] |
Feb. 29.
Whitehall. |
The same to Sir John Morgan. The King desires you will
discharge Lieut. Nicholas Blanchfields, a prisoner of war, sent out of
Ireland and now in custody. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 29.
Whitehall. |
Viscount Sydney to the Commissioners of the Treasury. The King
having appointed me his lieutenant of Ireland, and commanded me
to prepare all things for my repairing thither, with all speed, I
desire you will give orders for such sum of money as is usually paid
for "grumpett's livings" for that kingdom. [Ibid. 3, p. 105.] |
Feb. 29.
Whitehall. |
The same to the Commissioners of the Great Seal. The King
desires that Richard Hutchinson, Evan Lloyd, Benjamin Desborough,
Francis Barrington, John Haines, Ralph Crefeild, Nathaniel
Lawrance, Richard Vaughan, William Mott, and Josiah Child, all of
the county of Essex, be added to the number of the Justices of the
peace for that county, and that their names be inserted in the next
commission, and that Richard Harrison, Esq, be put into the
commission of the peace for Kent. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 29.
Whitehall. |
The same to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The
King desires that Sir Robert Duckenfield, and Sir William Pennington, barts., and Thomas Patten, Thomas Willis, William Clayton,
Bartice (sic) Entwistle, John Latas, and Thomas Waller, all of the
county and duchy of Lancaster, be added to the number of the Justices
of the Peace for the same, and that their names be inserted in the
next commission. [Ibid., p. 106.] |
Feb. 29.
Whitehall. |
Passes for Mary Day to embark at Harwich for Holland; for
Elizabeth Vaudry, with her son John Vaudry, a child six years old,
to go to Flanders; for Louis Senault, the late Duke of Schomberg's
coachman, to go to Holland, recommended by Mons. La Riviere,
minister of the French church in the Savoy; for Austin Jenison, to
go to Flanders [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 245]; and for
Thomas Claypole, esq., servant to his Majesty, and his servant to
go to Holland or Flanders. [Ibid., p. 247.] |
Feb. 29.
Kensington. |
Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor-General, to cause a bill to be
passed containing a grant for making Anthony Didier, an alien born,
a free denizen of England. [Ibid., p. 246.] |
Feb. 29.
Kensington. |
Warrant to the same, to prepare a bill, containing a patent to
Edward Hurd, of the sole use of his invention of "lacquering after
the manner of Japan " iron and all sorts of metals equal to any
brought from India. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 29.
Kensington. |
Warrant for a letter of exoneration in favour of the Earl of
Argyll, "for his few blench taxt and tack duties." [S.P. Scotland
Warrant Book 15, p. 90.] |
Feb. 29.
Whitehall. |
Passes for Mrs. Ann Barker to go to Harwich and embark for
Holland; and for Mons. de Wildeg, and one servant, ditto. [S.P. Dom.
Warrant Book 36, p. 164.] |
Feb. 29.
Kensington. |
The King to the Lords-Justices. King Charles II. granted to
Matthew Barry, Esq., the office of Clerk of the Privy Council of
Ireland, to hold for life; you are now required, upon the surrender
of the letters patent granted to him, to cause also letters to be
passed containing a grant to John Pulteney, Esq., of the said office
[S.P. Ireland King's Letter Book 1, p. 159.] |
Feb. 29.
Kensington. |
Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor-General, to prepare a bill,
containing a pardon to Lancelot Snowdon, gent., for the murder of
Richard Loader. [H.O. Warrant Book 6, p. 262.] |
Feb. 29.
Kensington. |
Like warrant to the same, to prepare a bill, containing a grant of
the office of Keeper of the Privy Seal to Thomas, Earl of Pembroke
and Montgomery. [Ibid.] |
Feb. 29.
Kensington. |
Like warrant to the same, to prepare a bill for revoking and
determining certain letters patent bearing date the—day of—
last past whereby Thomas, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Sir
John Lowther, Sir Richard Onslow, barts., Henry Priestman, esq.,
Anthony, Viscount Falkland of Scotland, Robert Austen, Esq., and
Sir Robert Rich, bart., were appointed commissioners for executing
the office of High Admiral of Eng'and, and also for constituting and
appointing Charles, Lord Cornwallis, the said Sir John Lowther,
Sir Richard Onslow, Henry Priestman, esq., Anthony, Viscount
Falkland of Scotland, Robert Austen, esq., and Sir Robert Rich,
bart., commissioners for executing the office of High Admiral of
England and Ireland. [Ibid., p. 263.] |
Feb. 29.
Kensington. |
Like Warrant to the same, to prepare a bill, containing a grant of
the dignity of a Baron of England to Sir William Farmer, bart., by
the name and title of Lord Leominster, Baron of Leominster.
[Ibid., p. 264.] |
Feb. 29.
Kensington. |
Like warrant granting to Moses Slade, gent., the office of Town
Clerk of Wallingford, in the room of Peter Sayer, gent., deceased.
[Ibid.] |
Feb. 29.
Kensington. |
Warrant for a grant to Godert, Earl of Athlone, of all the estates
of William, Earl of Limerick, and Viscount Slane, in the kingdom of
Ireland forfeited, for high treason. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office 12,
p. 431.] |
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Memorial by the Prince of Vaudemont. Difficulty experienced in
lodging the soldiers. Ath is seriously menanced this memorial is
sent to Mons. d'Auverquerque, who is to forward it to Count de
Solms. Demands of the Spaniards. [S.P. Dom. King William's
Chest 12, No. 47.] |
| [Feb.] |
Petition of the officers, innkeepers, and clothiers who served
in, quartered, and clothed the army, raised by Act of Parliament
in 1677, and disbanded by another Act in 1679. Shows that
the said forces being raised to enter into an actual war against
the French King, several of the petitioners furnished the forces
with divers necessaries, amounting to a considerable sum; that
in 1685, upon petition to the House of Commons, a committee
was appointed to inspect the accounts and report the same;
that another petition was also presented to the Parliament the
6th of May, 1689, who ordered a committee to examine the
matter of fact of the petition, and to report the same to the house;
upon reading whereof, the 16th of July last, it was resolved to take
the petitioners case into consideration at their next meeting, which
was prevented by the sudden dissolution. They pray that the said
House will take their said condition into consideration, that those
in prison may be relieved, and others under miserable circumstances
may be preserved from ruin. [S.P. Dom William & Mary 4,
No. 12.] |
