William and Mary: September 1693 | British History Online

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1693. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1903.

'William and Mary: September 1693', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1693, (London, 1903) pp. 297-349. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/will-mary/1693/pp297-349 [accessed 23 April 2024]

September 1693



Sept. 1. Admiralty Office.	The Lords of the Admiralty to Sir J. Trenchard. In your letter of the 29th of last month you told us that directions should be given to the admirals of the fleet not to dispose of or employ upon any distant service any fourth or fifth rates, besides those already employed by any former orders. Most, if not all, of the ships of those rates being at this time absent from the fleet, we desire you will let us know if, when those ships return to the fleet, they are not to be sent on other services till further order. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 556.]
Sept. 1.	Admiralty order to Captain William Bridges, commander of the Portland, at Elsinore. Her Majesty's pleasure is, that you take under convoy all ships ready to come for England from Elsinore and proceed to Gottenburg, and bring from thence, to the buoy of the Nore, such ships as be ready to sail with you. [Ibid. 5, p. 254.]
Sept. 1. Portsmouth.	W. Meisters to Sir John Trenchard, requesting that orders may be sent him regarding the machine vessels at Portsmouth, instead of Dartmouth. [Ibid. 6, No. 93.]
Sept. 1. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to the Lords of the Admiralty. The victuallers of the Navy are to be ordered to provide one month's victuals of all species for 26,000 men, over and above the two months' they have already orders to provide for the fleet. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book 1, p. 64.]
Sept. 1. Whitehall	The same to the same. The Commissioners of the Navy are to be instructed to give an account, forthwith, what ships of the main fleet must go into dock, what ships can keep the sea without repairs until the 1st of January, and what ships can keep the sea by careening or other repairs out of dock, and in what time that can be done. You are to give directions for the speedy doing of the same, and to send orders to the commander of the convoy gone to the Sound to call at Gottenburg and bring home the merchant ships thence, and to the victuallers of the Navy to take care that the men-of-war at Kinsale be immediately supplied with beer. which the Queen is informed the victualler at that port has refused to do, so that the seamen there have been forced to drink water. [Ibid., p. 65.]
Sept. 1. Whitehall.	The same to the same. In continuance of orders of the 29th ultimo for the fitting out of ships, the Queen commands that two of the tenders so appointed do attend before the Tower to take in stores for the bomb vessels in the same service. One fireship is to be added to the two already appointed, and each of the men-of-war is to have thirty men more than their complement. You are to inform the commanders that the rendezvous for this service is to be at Portsmouth. [Ibid.]
Sept. 1. Whitehall.	The Earl of Nottingham to Sir Gabriel Robartes. The Queen has commanded me to signify her wishes to you, to be communicated to the Turkey Company, that you and they should inquire in the best and most proper method what quantity of fine silk there is now in England, in the manufacture whereof the poor are usually employed, and for how long that quantity will serve to employ them according to the ordinary rate of consumption for that commodity; the Queen wishes this account laid before her with as much haste as is possible. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 692.]
Sept. 1. Whitehall.	The same to Sir Henry Bellasis. Twelve months ago last August I sent you a petition of Lady Frances Shaen, with her Majesty's wishes that you should return an answer to the complaint in it, but I have yet received none from you, and the petitioner has presented another petition to the Queen. I am commanded herewith to send you an extract from it, and to tell you that her Majesty wishes you to return an answer forthwith. [Ibid., p. 693.]
Sept. 1. Whitehall.	The same to Mr. Clarke. The Queen wishes you to consider when it may be most proper to land the forces on board the fleet, and particularly the regiment commanded by Colonel Ingoldsby, and what may be the most convenient quarters to assign to them. [Ibid.]
Sept. 1. Whitehall.	Sir J. Trenchard to Sir Charles Hedges. Mr. Bingham's petition has been laid before the Queen, who is disposed to gratify him and commands me to send to you for an account whether the ship petitioned for be already condemned, and what their Majesties' part may amount to. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 136.]
Sept. 1. Whitehall.	Commissions for Abraham Griffin, gentleman, to be ensign to Capt. George Carlton in Col. Zachariah Tiffin's regiment of foot [H.O. Military Entry Book 2, p. 384]; for William Southwell, gentleman, to be lieutenant of the company whereof Capt. Robert Poyntz is captain in Col. Frederick Hamilton's regiment of foot; for John Welch, gentleman, to be lieutenant of the company whereof Capt. Cuthbert Wilkinson is captain in the same regiment; for Anthony Fettiplace, gentleman, to be ensign of the company whereof Major Robert Sterne is captain in the same regiment [Ibid., p. 385]; for John Yates, gentleman, to be ensign of the company in the regiment of foot commanded by Col. Zachariah Tiffin whereof he himself is captain; for Zachariah Philips, gentleman, to be ensign of the company whereof Capt. Watson is captain in the same regiment [Ibid., p. 386]; for Henry Tiffin, gentleman, to be quartermaster in the same regiment [Ibid., p. 387]; for Nathaniel Brown, gentleman, to be ensign to the company whereof Capt. Isaac Foxley is captain in the regiment of foot commanded by Col. Richard Brewer; for John Wagstaffe, gentleman, to be lieutenant to Capt. Edward Thornycroft in the regiment of foot commanded by Col. Ferdinando Hastings; for William Jones, gentleman, to be ensign to Robert, Lord Lucas in the same regiment [Ibid. 3, p. 128]; for Herbert Humphreys, gentleman, to be lieutenant of the company of grenadiers whereof Capt. Joseph Studd is captain in Col. John Venner's regiment of foot; and for — Gardener, gentleman, to be ensign to the colonel in the same regiment [Ibid., p. 129].
Sept. 1. Whitehall.	Passes for Teunis Teunissen Draak, Peter Huybertsen, Abraham Cornelissen and Cornelis Petersen to go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 139]; for Jacobus Swart, Andrew Cock and Cornelis Schey, ditto; for Henry Gosken, John Seick and Jacob Swart, ditto; for Giles van Damme, ditto; for Daniel Larson, Aninka Larson, his wife, and Daniel Larson, a boy, to go to Gravesend and Sweden [Ibid., p. 140]; and for Mr. John Sanders and Mr. Richard Frith, with their servants John Kerridge and William Sutton, to go to Scotland [Ibid. 38, p. 345].
Sept. 1. Whitehall.	Warrant, reciting that by an inquisition taken in the county of Pembroke on the 19th of May, 1693, in pursuance of a writ of ad quod damnum, it was found that there would be no damage to the Crown or others if leave be granted to the mayor, bailiffs, and burgesses of Tenby to hold yearly three fairs within the said town for buying and selling all kinds of cattle, goods, provisions, etc., and directing the preparation of a grant accordingly. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 345.]
Sept. 1. Whitehall.	Passes for the Whitehall yacht, commanded by Thomas Croft, to go from England to Calais, taking on board French prisoners now in England [Ibid., p. 346]; and order for the Betty, ketch, commanded by William Hepburne, to take on board French prisoners in England, and transport them to St. Malo in France [Ibid., p. 347].
Sept. 1. Whitehall.	Warrant to the keeper of Newgate to allow Mr. Benjamin Dallion to see his brother, James Dallion, a prisoner. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 347.]
Sept. 2. Admiralty Office.	The Lords of the Admiralty to Sir J. Trenchard. We have directed the commissioners of their Majesties' navy to give us their opinion as to whether there are sufficient quantities of naval commodities, either in the King's stores or the merchants' yards, to fit the fleet for sea next year without depending on a supply from the Baltic, or whether a supply can be had from Holland or Hamburg; but they tell us that to answer the same with any certainty or dependence will take up more time than this affair will admit of, the following accounts being very difficult to obtain:—
	1. A general view of the rigging, ground tackle and furniture, as well as of all the hulls of the navy, with a calculation of the quantities of all the foreign commodities wanted to re-fit them.
	2. An account of what quantities of the said stores are in their Majesties' yards.
	3. What are in the merchants' hands not only here, but all over England.
	4. What are to be had from Holland and Hamburg towards answering these services.
	Therefore the commissioners cannot say that the fleet can be fitted out by the spring, if the stores contracted for and expected home this year from the East Country and Norway do not come. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 560.]
Sept. 2. Admiralty Office.	J. Sotherne to Richard Warre. I send you the enclosed extract of a letter from Captain Price, commander of the Assurance, about a privateer belonging to Ostend refusing to strike to him, in order that you may lay the same before the Earl of Nottingham. [Ibid., p. 564.] Enclosing:—
	Extract of a letter from Captain Price, commander of the Assurance in Ostend Road, dated 18 Aug., 1693. On the 16th inst., at five o'clock in the morning, a French privateer of twelve guns (which an Ostend manof-war of twenty-four guns-took) stood within a musket shot of the Assurance under my command. Being anchored in Ostend Road I ordered my gunner to fire across his forefoot to command him to strike, upon which he stood towards the shore. I ordered seven shots to be fired, but the sea being rough the shots did not hit him, whereupon I made all possible haste to weigh my anchor, being a short scope out, but he sailed faster than the Assurance and before I could come near him, he got under the command of the town. Therefore I went ashore at Ostend to demand why she did not strike. "Van Herd savilliette" desired there might be no difference, as we were friends, and that it was never usual for them to salute within their own Road, or within the Bank of Flanders, so desired me to write that there might be no difference meanwhile and that he would also write to his Majesty [the King of Spain ?] about it, and to the commissioners. They say the Road is their port, although it lies about a league from the shore, and the commanders of the King's ships are not to salute, although they take in their pennant and settle their top sails within the Bank of Flanders. In case I should remain on this coast I beg your direction in this affair. [Ibid., p. 568.]
Sept. 2. Guernsey. On board the Mary galley.	Captain Griffiths to Sir John Trenchard. Immediately after my last of the 27th August I made the best of my way to St. Malo, but have in vain attempted to take any prisoners from the shore, the coasts being alarmed and strictly guarded. We have met with "very foul hurry durry weather," which has forced me to return to my station. [H.O. Admiralty 6, No. 94.]
Sept. 2. Dublin Castle.	The Lords Justices to the Earl of Nottingham. That we may be able to act with all prudence in their Majesties' service, we have made it part of our business, since entering into the government, to get all due information of the present state of the kingdom, and have made considerable progress in several of those heads which ought to be understood. We have finished our inquiries as to the commission of inspection into forfeitures, and have put the most material things which have occurred to us into some observations, which we have sent by this post to the lords of the Treasury, with a letter to their lordships.
	When these papers are laid before their Majesties they will see in them the reasons both of what we have done and of what remains to be done in this business. Notwithstanding the haste that was made by some to prepossess the Queen, as far as they could, we do not doubt but that the stop which we have put to the proceedings of the commissioners will meet with their Majesties' approbation, and that they will also think it fit to supersede this commission and direct another to be passed, which will not be liable to such great objections. That you may be fully informed in the whole matter we have enclosed you a copy of our letter and observations.
	In the end of the letter you will find a clause tending towards making the forfeitures a security for such a sum of money as his Majesty will allow to put the fortifications of several garrisons into a serviceable condition and to build barracks where necessary. This was done that we might be able to borrow money upon the credit of the forfeited estates for repairing the works of Kinsale as the Queen has commanded and was signified to us by you in yours of the 25th of July last and to lay a foundation for extending this service further by the same means. [S.P. Ireland 355, No. 83.]
Sept. 2. Dublin Castle.	The same to the same. Copy of the foregoing. [Ibid., No. 84.]
Sept. 2. Dublin Castle.	The same to the Commissioners of the Treasury in England. The commission of inspection into forfeitures is one of the chief things now on foot, and we have heard several things alleged by sober men both against the commission itself and those employed in it. We were careful to be first informed of the nature of the commission and the proceedings upon it, and we have drawn up the result of our inquiry in some observations which we have made and transmit to you.
	When we first entered into the government we found that the commissioners were immediately going down into several parts of the kingdom as well to set all the forfeited lands for seven years, as to execute several other parts of their trust, and had we not immediately put a stop to it till we could be informed it would have been too late to do it afterwards. Their Majesties and your lordships may be told that the Crown will lose by this interruption and it may be true that the rents of the forfeited lands may this year come rather short of that produced, if they had been all now let; but admitting it should be so, when the several illegalities of the commissioners and the invalidity of the leases to be made, the partiality which might reasonably be thought would have been used in making those leases, the private interest which would have been the cause of that partiality, and especially when the inconsistence that there is between the design of their Majesties and the parliament in selling or otherwise disposing of these lands and letting them for seven years, shall be thoroughly considered, we doubt not but that what we have done will appear for the good of the service; and yet considering the commissioners' print, issued in June last, whereby all are to hold the lands as they did before till they shall be let, we think there will not be that danger of real loss by the stop we have put to those proceedings, though there may be some disappointment to those employed therein.
	We have advised with such of the judges as were in town and with the Council, and they are of opinion, in which we agree, that it is better to issue a new commission which shall not be liable to such exceptions, than to support this. There is a clause in the commission by which the government here is directed, on application made by the commissioners, to give such further instructions in writing as shall be necessary, and the commissioners are empowered to put such instructions in execution; but it is to be observed that instructions are not to be given without application from the commissioners, and that when they are given, they are but empowered and not required to execute them, and that the instructions to be given must be further instructions, which implies that they must be given in cases omitted in the commission and not such as are contrary to it, which yet have been and will be necessary, if the commissioners are to be supported by instructions. What authority such instructions will be of, and now legal the proceedings upon them, we offer to consideration.
	Lord Sydney was of this opinion, and he made some steps towards the regulation of this matter, and caused the draft of a new commission to be proposed to you by Sir Richard Cox, who also presented you with another paper of objections and answers, showing several particulars wherein the present commission is illegal and defective, and how it would be remedied by a new one. Mr. Justice Cox has presented us a draft of a commission to the aforesaid purpose, but at the same time, he tells us that it is defective, and that a much more perfect one is laid by him before you, but you are already furnished with what you might otherwise expect from this side. Where it is faulty you will see it rectified. As to the commissioners themselves, though we are tender of saying anything that may look like personal reflection, yet the service requires us to say this much, that we find in the general sense that they are not men proper for the work.
	We add, by way of memorial, for the safety of the kingdom or government, that the condition of several of the garrisons here is such that it will require a very considerable sum of money to repair the fortifications sufficiently and to build necessary barracks for the soldiers, and as there is a prospect of receiving money from that fund, without disordering any of the payments upon the establishment, we propose it to their Majesties' consideration whether the first money which shall come in either from the forfeited goods or lands should not be applied to or made security for this service, which is so necessary; and whether, till such a sum as their Majesties will allow shall have been received and paid for these uses, any other grant or disposition of any part shall take place. [S.P. Ireland 355, No. 85.]
Sept. 2. Dublin Castle.	The same to the same. Copy of the foregoing. [Ibid., No. 86.]
Sept. 2.	Observations upon the commission of inspection into forfeitures, etc., made by the Lords Justices, and transmitted to the lords of the Treasury.
	1. The commissioners have power to punish all persons concerned not appearing upon summons.
	This power is without limitation and therefore seems arbitrary and illegal, nor can any man be punished for not appearing, if he be not legally required to appear.
	4. (fn. 1) They have power of rewarding and compounding with discoverers.
	This power is general, and without any restraint to any proportion, and was therefore reduced by the Lord Lieutenant, by proclamation of the 18th November, 1692, to a fourth part of the goods discovered, and the commissioners, in a paper printed by themselves the 2nd of June last, have set it down as a method to be observed by themselves, that a fourth part of goods, and of forfeited incumbrances (not matter of record) and of the rents of lands for seven years shall be given to discoverers.
	5. They have power to state all accounts and give discharges.
	These discharges not being on record cannot be legal, nor is there any check on the commissioners as there would be in case this matter passed through the offices of the Exchequer.
	6. They have power to seize all forfeited and forfeitable goods (when appearing to be such) and to sell and dispose thereof.
	This power seems to make the commissioners judges of what are forfeitable goods, and may mislead them to seize goods from persons before they are forfeited, which they cannot do or act thereon otherwise than by process of law. For goods forfeitable cannot by law be seized till conviction of the party or awarding an exigent against him, and the necessity there was in the time of the rebellion for doing things in an extraordinary manner has now ceased. This power of seizing forfeited goods is liable to great abuse, since there is no charge against the commissioners. This commission has been on foot since the 4th of April last, and powers of like nature to this have been lodged in some of these commissioners ever since November last and yet no prosecution (save by one information in the Exchequer) appears to have been made upon any discoveries.
	7. They have power to seize the estates of persons who have embezzled any goods, stores, rents, etc. and to receive the benefit thereof till they have made their Majesties satisfaction.
	This cannot be legally done, for no man's goods or estate can be seized but after conviction and judgment, or some matter of record against him, and then by process of law only, founded on that judgment or record.
	8. They have power to pay all persons employed, and all contingent charges.
	This power having no limitation, it was given as an instruction by the late Lords Justices that no money should be paid without approbation of the government in writing.
	11. They have power to inspect into the forfeited estates real and personal.
	No legal method is prescribed how they shall do it.
	11 (sic). All arrears due and payable to their Majesties out of the forfeited estates on the 1st of May, 1692, are to be paid to the commissioners.
	Where any commission empowers commissioners to receive money for their Majesties' use, they are thereby made accountants, and ought to give security; and yet they have given no security for the money to be so received. They allege that they have appointed collectors to receive the same, of whom they say that they have taken bonds of the penalty of 1,000l. apiece, making themselves, instead of the barons of the Exchequer, judges of the security, and it was thought necessary by Lord Sydney and the late Lords Justices to be given as an instruction that they should themselves receive no money but by warrant to the collectors from the government, and that the collectors should, from time to time, return duplicates of all money received, one to the commissioners of the revenue and one to the receivers general; and since there are collectors already for the revenue it is but a needless charge to appoint others for the money expected for this fund. Nor need it be feared that the levying of this one branch will hinder the collection of any others, since the government may easily give such instructions as will prevent any inconvenience of that nature.
	12. They have power to lease all forfeited lands for seven years from May, 1693, and so from time to time as they shall be discovered.
	By the commission the power is to lease for seven years from 25 March, 1693, which makes a repugnancy between the commission and the instructions. It is not expressed whether it shall be at the utmost yearly rent the same will yield, or whether a fine shall be taken and the land let at a small rent. If it is meant that they should let the same by deed in their own names, as did the commissioners of the revenue, then those leases will be liable to the same exceptions as the leases from the commissioners, viz.: that no legal estate passed by them, and consequently the rent was not well reserved on them; that the Court of Exchequer could not regularly grant an injunction to put the lessee in possession on that lease; and that in cases of non-payment of rent, or for protection of the tenants, there cannot regularly be that remedy for the King by the process of the Court of Exchequer as in the case of a lease on record under the seal of that court, whereby the estate is legally and well granted and the rent duly reserved. Besides, distresses by the collectors for the rents reserved on those leases from the commissioners have been cried out against as illegal, and although, for the necessity of the thing the Exchequer has of late supported them, yet if strictly looked into they will not appear lawful and may occasion a clamour against the Court of Exchequer as well as the commissioners, and a reflection upon the government for countenancing such illegal proceedings.
	All this would be avoided if the power was for the commissioners to contract with tenants for leases at the highest rent they can get, and the Court of Exchequer to grant a custodiam according to the contract. This was the ancient method, and by this all things will be in course, and each lease will appear on record and be a charge there for the King; whereas if the lease or contract be lost, or not returned and entered in the auditor's office, the King may be abused and lose several of the rents.
	The regular and legal method of settling the lands forfeited to their Majesties is that the forfeiting persons be first attainted by outlawry or otherwise and then that the records of the judgments or outlawries be removed by certiorari into Chancery, and from thence by mittimus into the Exchequer, and thereupon that commissions may issue to find the lands, which are then to be set under the Exchequer seal; or else commissions may issue under the great seal for such inquiries and then the inquisitions may be sent out of Chancery into the Exchequer, whereupon leases or custodiums (sic) may be granted.
	This method has not been practised, partly by reason of the disorder of the times, and partly to save their Majesties the charge of those commissions and the execution thereof, and because it was not known who would be comprised in the articles of Limerick and Galway, the discoveries of their estates would have been a great needless expense, besides the proceedings to make leases by the Exchequer or great seal will be overburdensome to the lessees unless the officers of those courts agree to accept moderate fees, which we are informed they will be willing to do. But it is to be considered whether any leases should be made for seven years since it hinders the sale of the lands and will perhaps prevent the intention of parliament.
	16. Rent rolls are to be sent to the commissioners of the revenue and auditor general.
	The auditor general is himself one of the commissioners.
	18. The commissioners are to account half yearly or oftener to the government.
	The accounts ought to be before the commissioners for stating the public accounts of the kingdom.
	21. The quorum is two, three, or more.
	There being five commissioners there may be two quorums at one time, which is unusual and may be inconvenient.
	Upon their print of June 2nd, 1693, we observe that they thereby require payment or discharge of all arrears of forfeited rents, without any exception of those arrears which their Majesties have discharged in satisfaction of the bills of the army, as appears by his Majesty's letter dated November 9th; and by their proceedings thereupon we find that they have levied some of those arrears without any regard to that letter or the certificates of the commissioners of accounts in pursuance thereof. By the printed papers about when and where they were to have sat, it appears that the method designed for letting the forfeited lands is by receiving written proposals with the names of the security which are to be delivered to their secretary, by which means it will not be known who was the fairest bidder and whether the lands are let to the best advantage to the Crown, as it would be done had the lands been intended to be let publicly by way of "cant" or auction; and they require that proposals should be offered without their giving any particulars of the lands they intended to let, contrary to the common practice.
	By the same papers we find that the commissioners intended in some counties to have spent three weeks, in some ten days, and in others but four, and during that time they were to have executed a commission to enquire about those who died in rebellion; a commission to enquire into the estates of persons attainted; and also to enquire into the embezzlements of the forfeited goods and rents, stores of war, etc., and the persons who have defrauded their Majesties therein, and to have seized on such goods and to have discovered the true value of all forfeited lands, and to have let the same for seven years to their Majesties' best advantage, and to have taken order for getting in the arrears of the forfeited rents and to have discovered all forfeited incumbrances. The inquisitions to be taken were to be the ground and foundation of the leases they intended to make, and so ought to precede them; yet the leases were to be made at some time (if not before) the inquisitions were to be taken.
	In the commission of enquiry into estates of persons attainted, the judges and King's counsel with some principal persons of the country and the escheator were joined with the commissioners, but it seems that none of them were consulted therein, or knew of the time appointed for the execution of this commission, and it was in harvest time when it is inconvenient for the country to gather together, and when the judges and King's counsel were on their circuits, and therefore not able to attend. The time allotted for the work to be done was not long enough, so that this may justly give occasion to suspect that instead of letting the lands to the best protestant bidders, the bargains were made here, though leases (to colour the matter) were to be sealed in the country. [S.P. Ireland 355, No. 87.]
Sept. 2.	Copy of the foregoing. [Ibid., No. 88.]
Sept. 2. Whitehall.	Presentation of Thomas Smoult, D.D., a chaplain in ordinary, to the rectory of St. Mary, otherwise Northchurch, Berkhampstead, in the county of Hertford and diocese of Lincoln, void by the death of Joseph Sayers. [H.O. Church Book 1, p. 139.]
Sept. 2. Whitehall.	The Queen to the Wardens of New College, Oxford, recommending the admission of John Samber, a scholar of Winchester, into the same college. [Ibid.]
Sept. 2. London.	News letter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater, at Newcastle upon Tyne. They write from Vienna on the 22nd that they have nothing new from the army before Belgrade, but they continue to send thither all sorts of necessaries, also seamen to serve upon the fleet on the Danube, to cut off the communication of Belgrade with the country on the other side the Danube. There are letters from Turkey that confirm that the Grand Vizier parted from Adrianople on the 7th of July with those few troops he was capable of assembling, with a design to join at Ruseck, upon the Danube, those of the Cham of Tartary, but it is believed he will not be capable of attempting the relief of Belgrade, but will rather endeavour to make a diversion towards Transylvania. It is given out that there be letters from Adrianople, which say that the French ambassador has retired to a castle in the neighbourhood of Constantinople, and that most of the troops will be kept in Turkey to observe the commotions of the malecontents; but these reports we cannot depend upon, having too often been deceived by them.
	Letters from Strasburg say that the Dauphin is returning to Versailles, and the army advancing towards the Rhine, and that the country is ordered to bring in contributions to the adjacent places.
	The confederate army continues in the neighbourhood of Heilbron, where they will remain, till the enemy has repassed the Rhine. The French have left a garrison in Stuttgart, and taken six of the principal burghers with them as hostages, and have put the country under contributions, as far as the Danube. The Dauphin has gone to Versailles, having first detached 20,000 men for Piedmont and Flanders.
	From the Danish camp before Ratzburg on the 31st they wrote:— This morning, the bombs and cannon began to play upon the town and Colonel Harboard had that evening from his battery laid one part of the city in ashes. We have also ruined two of the Lunenburg batteries, and have sent 4,000 shot against the town, which has ruined above 300 houses.
	From Brussels on the 30th they say:—This evening the Duke of Holstein-Ploen arrived and took possession of the place and charge of the late Prince of Waldeck. The King has given the regiment of [Du]Cambon to the Count of Mortoy, and made Monsr. Villote major of the regiment of "blue guards." By a letter from Prince Eugene of Savoy, before Pignerol, bearing date the 16th, we have advice that the trenches before that town and castle were opened on the 15th, and that they battered the place with 80 cannon and 30 mortars, and had already cast in above 3,000 bombs; and by letters from Vienna of the 27th we have advice that on the 12th the Imperialists began the attack of Belgrade, that the hussars make their incursions as far as Nissa, and, by a postscript, it is said, they have carried the counterscarp of Belgrade, with the loss of 500 men or, as others have it, the town with the loss of 1,500, but this wants confirmation.
	From the King's camp at St. Quintin, the 3rd of September, we hear that both armies continue as in our last; the weather is extremely wet; the Duke of Holstein arrived at Brussels from Denmark, and was, on the morrow, expected in the camp to succeed the Prince of Waldeck in the command of the Dutch forces.
	From the Hague on the 4th we hear that the French army continues at Soignes and the confederates at St. Quintin. The King designs, in a few days, to quit the army and go to Loo, after which he will assist in the affairs of state about regulating the war for the ensuing year. On the 3rd, the States had under consideration the affair of their fleet and resolved to call home and disarm their capital ships, but to continue the lesser at sea some time. The States of Amsterdam are still inclined to have a fleet of 70 menof-war at sea next summer and to act apart. The Danes began the bombardment of Ratzburg on the 31st of last month.
	From Paris, the 31st ult., we hear that on the 19th the Dauphin sent his great artillery from his army and about 800 carriages to Fort Louis. Count Oxenstern, the Swedish minister, at the instance of the Duke of Wurtemberg, has regulated with the Dauphin the contributions for that duchy at 400,000 crowns to be paid in six months, and 100,000 crowns during the war per annum.
	From Edinburgh on the 26th we learn that yesterday their Majesties' privy council met, and a letter was read from his Majesty thanking them for what they had done in the management of the government and ordering his Majesty's advocate to bring an indictment of high treason against Mr. Robert Caddell, an episcopal minister, for writing the episcopal declaration which he owned before the council, as also to proceed against Mr. Kidd, who is seized in Holland and expected over, being accused of writing, several dangerous libels. It is also ordered that the persons sent down from London to be witnesses against the Duke of Gordon and Neville Payne be discharged from custody and enlisted in Lord Strathnaver's regiment.
	From Falmouth the 28th they write:—This morning a privateer of Flushing, of 26 guns, put in here; the captain reports that, about three weeks since, he met with 20 sail of French ships near the Cape bound for Canada under convoy of three men-of-war, one of which, of eight guns and laden with salt, he took and sent into the Isle of Wight; he adds that about 17 days since he saw three French men-ofwar, with a Dutch man-of-war of 62 guns, and four "Hamburghers," the least of them of 24 guns, which they had taken and were carrying towards Rochelle.
	From Cowes the 30th:—Yesterday the grand fleet came to St. Helens; the same day Lord Cutts came hither to this government and was met by most of the gentry, who accompanied him to Newport, where the corporation received him in their formalities and after an entertainment (at my Lord's charge) he went to see Carisbrooke Castle.
	From on board the Restoration at Spithead the 29th past:— Yesterday our fleet left Torbay leaving behind us only four or five third and fourth rates, which are to sail to Plymouth to join the like number there to make a winter squadron. On Sunday last our flags were reduced to their right station. It is believed we shall continue here about 14 days, and then all the great ships will go to their moorings.
	On Tuesday, the merchants of London presented two petitions to her Majesty in council against the East India Company; one praying protection for 400 seamen for the ships to go to the East Indies this season; the other against passing the new charter. Two other petitions were also presented against them by the clothiers, and one other from the linen-drapers of London, upon which it was ordered that the company have copies of these petitions delivered them, in order to give in their answers to the same.
	On Thursday night was scattered about town a print of a sheet, entitled "Observations on the Gazette in relation to the Turkey fleet, Battle of Lauden, &c.," endeavouring to prove a partiality and inconsistency in these relations and to destroy the reputation of the public and Gazette. On Wednesday the transport ships with the recruits for Flanders sailed under convoy of the Sally Rose. This day the parliament was prorogued by proclamation from the 19th inst. to the 3rd of October next.
	Postscript.—The French write from their Camp at Fenestrelle on the 23rd that the Duke of Savoy has quitted the siege of Pignerol and Fort St. Bridget. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters, Vol. 4, No. 20; and Entry Book 5, pp. 69–73.]
Sept. 2. Whitehall.	The Earl of Nottingham to Mr. Edward Bate, at Maids Moreton, near Buckingham. I have received your letter of the 31st of August, with the enclosed papers in it [not entered] and think you should bind over Henry Holland to prosecute Robert Herne and Elizabeth his wife in the manner proposed by you in your letter, and in the meantime to enquire from him the most likely place, and what may be the most proper means, to apprehend the said Herne and his wife. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 693.]
Sept. 2. Whitehall.	The same to Sir Edward Seymour. The enclosed petition was presented to the Queen, who commands me to transmit it to you, that she may be informed of your opinion whether the man be an object of favour before she declares her wishes therein. The Queen has given me leave to go into the country for ten days, so that I must ask you to send your answer to Mr. Warre, so that the man may lose nothing by my absence. [Ibid., p. 694.]
Sept. 2. Whitehall.	Commissions for William King to be lieutenant to Capt. Robert Wallis in Sir James Leslie's regiment of foot; and for John Eastone, gentleman, to be ensign to Major William Dobyns in the same regiment. [H.O. Military Entry Book 2, p. 384.]
Sept. 2. Whitehall.	Warrant for a grant of pardon to John Pickford, found guilty of robbing the house of Nicholas Salter, esq., upon condition of transportation. [H.O. Warrant Book 6, p. 597.]
Sept. 2. Whitehall.	Passes for Elizabeth Taalman, Abraham Taalman, her son, and Cornelia Tempo, to go to Falmouth and Spain; for Mary Johns and Jacob Johns, her son, to go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 140]; for Stephen van Nosse and Cornells van Hulst, ditto; for Abraham Vallery, Theophile Mussart and John Desmarets, ditto; for Stephen Agace, ditto; for Paul Papardin, ditto; for John Dains and Peter Mingart, ditto [Ibid., p. 141]; for Mr. Peter Torner and Gaspar Steenorth, ditto; for Martin Hemhold, ditto; for Abraham Ben Omachor and Anthony Rabot, ditto; for Cornelia Huyvenaar, and her three children, ditto; and for Herman Licius, Cornelis Dircks, Claas Jansen, Martin Davids, Joost Jacobsen, Peter Jansen, Christopher Corsten and Jacob Jansen, ditto [Ibid., p. 142].
Sept. 2. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Christopher Cheevers of "Carnagh Town." Shows that he had neither civil nor military employment under the late King. Not being molested by the English army then under the Duke of Schomberg at Dundalk he was soon after plundered by the Irish army. That he, being aged and infirm, withdrew his children and family two days before "the Boyne fight," and soon after came into England, where he stayed till May, 1692, when he returned into Ireland. But before this he was, by mistake as he believes, indicted and outlawed of high treason in one or more counties of Ireland. He therefore prays leave to bring one or more writ or writs of error for the reversal of the said outlawry or outlawries, and for pardon of high treason upon account of the rebellion aforesaid. Referred to the Lord Justices of Ireland. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 3, p. 20.]
Sept. 2. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of John Hodges. Shows that he has been a merchant for several years and paid considerable "customs and taxes" to the Crown; but that now his losses at sea have been so great that he is incapable of paying his creditors their full debts. As he is indebted to their Majesties upon bonds for customs to the amount of about 500l. he prays that the Crown will accept in discharge the same proportion of his debt as his other creditors are willing to do. Referred to the Treasury. [Ibid., p. 21.]
Sept. 2. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the report of the Attorney General as to the petition of Samuel Pitman, esq., who had "found out a new invention of arrows and darts to be shot out of guns with gunpowder." By the affidavit of William Digges, several "notable experiments" of the said invention had been made, and the Attorney General reports in favour of a grant of the letters patent requested. Referred to Viscount Sydney. [Ibid., p. 22.]
Sept. 3/13. Liege.	Baron de Heyden (?) to the King. Colonel de Banier has given me the letter you wrote concerning the succour of Charleroi. I think it necessary that you should be informed of the situation of our affairs here, and have sent to you, for that purpose, Count de Dohna major-general of the troops of the Elector of Brandenburg, my master. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 14, No. 39.]
Sept. 3. Whitehall.	Sir J. Trenchard to Sir Stephen Fox. A committee of the council has been appointed to meet at the Earl of Nottingham's office on the 4th inst. at 10 a.m., and the Queen thinks fit that you and Mr. Montague should be there. A like letter sent to Mr. Montague. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 137.]
Sept. 4. Admiralty Office.	The Lords of the Admiralty to Sir J. Trenchard. Pursuant to her Majesty's commands, signified to us by your letter of the 1st inst., we directed the commissioners of the Navy to cause a month's provisions for 26,000 men to be provided forthwith, and they have thereupon transmitted to us the copy of a letter written to them by the commissioners of the victualling relating to the same, which we enclose. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 572.] Enclosing:—
	Extract of a letter from the victualling commissioners, dated 4 Sept., 1693, to the Navy Board. We received your order of the 2nd inst., requiring us to provide one month's victuals for 26,000 men, which, with the former order, is two months, besides the month sent away in victualling ships.
	This order being only to provide, we desire to have your directions concerning the issuing of the same, that if it is to be done at Portsmouth to the fleet there, we may be shipping off what we are to sail from hence, which will require time. We also desire directions whether the provisions now in victualling at Portsmouth shall be discharged and put into the men-of-war, that those vessels may be either put out of pay or sent up here to relade.
	Those two months' provisions for 26,000 men, and also what further is and may be required for the rest of this year, being beyond the declaration, as you may perceive by the calculation sent you on the 4th of August, we shall apply to the Treasury for money to effect the same, without which it will be impossible to do it. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 576.]
Sept. 4. Admiralty Office.	The same to the same. We have sent orders to the commanders of the James galley, Portsmouth, and Swift, prize, to remain at Plymouth till further notice. We cannot without them make up the number of fifth rates which her Majesty has directed should be got in readiness for a particular service. We desire you will receive and communicate her Majesty's wishes to us whether the said ships shall stay at Plymouth or be ordered to Spithead. [Ibid., p. 580.]
Sept. 4. Admiralty Office.	A memorial from the Admiralty to the Queen. According to her Majesty's order in council of the 22nd of July last, we have made our report upon the petitions, memorials and proposals of several merchants and traders, wherein we offered our opinion concerning the number of convoys to be allowed to the several traders at the times therein particularly expressed. We also think it necessary to represent to your Majesty our inability, with the ships which are not employed upon other services by your order, to provide the several convoys mentioned in our report. [Ibid., p. 584.]
Sept. 4. Admiralty Office.	Report by the Lords of the Admiralty upon the demands of the merchants for convoys and cruisers.
	(1) The proposals of the Eastland merchants are reasonable; and for convoying home their ships now in the Baltic, the Portland, Pearl and New Africa have gone to Elsinore, and the Warrington to Norway.
	(2) We have no objection to what is offered by the East India merchants as far as relates to our office; we submit the matters of trade to her Majesty.
	(3) We have nothing to object to the proposed convoy to Barcelona, Majorca and Alicante, which, in our opinion, ought to be two fourth rates.
	(4) It is reasonable the Hamburg merchants should have a convoy from London and from Hull to that place; one fourth and one sixth rate will be sufficient.
	(5) The demand of the African Company for 400 seamen, besides land men, to enable them to carry on their trade in those parts, is fit to be allowed.
	(6) It is unnecessary to provide a special convoy to New York, there being a ship constantly on that plantation, and the merchants may proceed with the convoy either to Virginia or New England.
	(7) There is a fourth rate already at the Leeward Islands, and we think two fourth rates will be sufficient for those islands and Barbados.
	(8) The Jamaica merchants should be allowed a convoy of one fourth and one fifth rate.
	(9) The merchants to Italy may be protected by the convoy to Barcelona, &c.
	(10) The merchants should be consulted as to Mr. Gardner's offer, and the advice taken of the Navy commissioners, &c.
	(11) His [Mr. Gardner's?] proposals for carrying on trade at Madeira are reasonable,
	(12) As are those of Mr. Hall, Mr. Laytham and Mr. Duboys for the Madeira and West India trade.
	(13) With regard to the Exeter merchants and the Newfoundland trade, we hold it is too late to add more ships to the convoy now appointed.
	(14) It is too late to comply with the requests of the merchants in general trading to that (sic) place.
	(15) What the Bilboa merchants require is already provided.
	(16) The request of the Portugal merchants for ships to cruise between Cape Finisterre and the Rock of Lisbon is reasonable; and the ships should be two fourth rates.
	(17) The convoy to Lisbon and Oporto should be allowed, and should be one third and two fourth rates.
	(18) We have nothing to object to what the Barbados merchants desire for the proceeding of their ships to that island. [H.O. Admiralty 6, No. 95.]
Sept. 4/14. The camp near Liege.	Baron de Heyden to the King. By Count de Dohna, who left here yesterday, you will learn of the order I have from the Elector of Brandenburg, my master, not to leave here. I hope the Count will make it clear to you that the Elector has nothing so much at heart as the good of the common cause and your service. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 14, No. 40.]
Sept. 4. Whitehall.	Passes for Jacobus Verschraal to go to Harwich and Holland; for George Lodewick, ditto; for Mrs. Elizabeth Cartwright to go to Southampton and Guernsey and Jersey; for Dirck Steensen to go to Harwich and Holland; for Thomas Fletcher, ditto; for Hieronimus Schertenaar, Geertrüydt his wife and Elizabeth their daughter, ditto [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 143]; for John Dahlström, ditto; for Robert Crock and Henry Tong, ditto; for William Petersen, ditto; for Anna Voetsteen, Martin her son, and Johanna her daughter, ditto; for Edward Fryer, ditto; for Catharina Bydens, Michael Bydeur and Catherine Soopmans, ditto [Ibid., p. 144]; for Caspar Tiedeman to go to Gravesend and Sweden; for Paul van Mouwert and Ary Joris to go to Harwich and Holland; for Lewis Desormeaux, ditto; for Martin Perer to go to Falmouth and the Groyne [Ibid., p. 145]; for Groseppe Crocie and Rochs Costa to go to Harwich and Holland; for George Felster, ditto; for Arnold de la Grange, ditto [Ibid., p. 146]; for Daniel Benet and Peter his son to go to Holland [Ibid. 38, p. 347]; for Daniel le Cerf, ditto; for Joes Jacobson, ditto; for Peter Coert and his wife, ditto; for John Jemisen and Peter Johnson, ditto; and for Gil de Keyser and Jacobo Eyruddell, ditto [Ibid., p. 348].
Sept. 4. Whitehall.	Warrant addressed to John Gellibrand for the apprehension of George Croom. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 348.]
Sept. 5. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to the Lords of the Admiralty. Orders are to be issued for 250 men, with 25 sergeants and six commissioned officers of the marine regiments, to be put on board the vessels lately ordered for a particular service. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book 1, p. 65.]
Sept. 5. Whitehall.	The same to the same. In reply to yours of the 4th instant, the Queen commands that you give orders to the victuallers to send the provisions they are directed to make for the fleet to Portsmouth, to be put on board such of the men-of-war as shall be fit to keep at sea this winter; such part as cannot be put on board is to remain in the victualling ships at Portsmouth. The four regiments on board the fleet are to be put on shore. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book 1, p. 66.]
Sept. 5. Whitehall.	The same to the same. You are to give order for the preparing a commission of oyer and terminer for the Admiralty, for the trial of several English, Scotch and Irish men taken at sea, to pass the great seal; the names of persons in the enclosed list (not entered in this book) are to be inserted in the commission. [Ibid.]
Sept. 5. Admiralty Office.	The Lords of the Admiralty to Sir J. Trenchard. The Commissioners of the Navy have, by their letter of the 4th inst., proposed to us the most proper places for fitting several ships in the fleet, and we send you a copy of their said letter. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 588.] Enclosing:—
	Copy of a letter from the Navy Board, dated 4 September, 1693. We have already advised that the first and second rates should come to Chatham to be refitted for the next year's service, also such of the third as require most repair; but we have since desired the surveyor to consult the admirals, and give us his opinion about the disposition of the third rates by their names, and also of the fireships and the rest of the fleet. Concurring with what he has offered to us concerning the same, this is to communicate the said disposition to you for such directions thereupon as shall be thought expedient. A list of ships ordered to Chatham, the Thames, Deptford, Portsmouth and Plymouth follows [Ibid., p. 592.]
Sept. 5. Admiralty Office.	The same to the same. We have appointed Rear-admiral Nevill to command the ships designed for the Baltic Sea, and desire you will receive and communicate her Majesty's orders to us, as to where he shall proceed when he joins the Dutch men-of-war off the Texel. This board think it necessary that a flag officer should be at the Nore, and we desire you will let us know whether such an officer may be called from the fleet for that service, and whether the fleet is to be put to whole allowance of provisions.
	We have directed the admirals to cause the Oxford and Weymouth to be furnished with men from other ships in the fleet, and we think it necessary to tell you that there will be occasion for a timely supply of money to pay six months' wages to the men, and also to such as shall be turned over from the five ships ordered to Blackstakes, or from any other ships belonging to the fleet. [Ibid., p. 596.]
Sept. 5.	Mr. Dumer's report on the state of the fleet.
	The following ships are at St. Helens and will require docking for considerable repairs:—London, Royal Catherine, Vanguard, Captain, Lennox, Kent, Grafton, Edgar, Burford, Hope, Northumberland, Hampton Court, Restoration, Monmouth, Sterling Castle, Rupert, Lion, and Montague.
	The following are at St. Helens in good condition:—Britannia, St. Andrew, Sovereign, Royal William, St. Michael, Duke, Neptune, Albemarle and Sandwich.
	The following may stay till January without coming into dock. At St. Helens:—The Royal Oak, Devonshire, Cornwall, Russell, Sussex and Woolwich. At sea:—Carlisle, Winchester, Mary, Plymouth and Greenwich.
	The following, at Spithead or St. Helens, require their "furnaces" new set and calking, which may be done without going into dock.
	As to the first and second rates which remain in good condition, it is not fit that they keep the sea this winter, and I think the great third rates will be insecure in the Narrow Seas at that season. Time must be given to put the 70 gun ships in better order, or I dread the consequence.
	I have ordered the immediate preparation of the Woolwich, the brigantines Shark, Discovery, Spy and Diligence, the bomb-ships Kitchen and Salamander, and the fire-ships Vesuvius, Flame and St. Vincent.
	The following ships are "gone about":—Victory, Duchess, Ossory, Suffolk, and Elizabeth. The following sailed yesterday:—Expedition and Essex. The following are fitting for the Sound:—Breda and Dreadnaught. [H.O. Admiralty 6, No. 96.]
Sept. 5. St. Helens. On board the Brittania.	The Admirals of the Fleet to the same, submitting to the Queen the matter of the sentence on Thomas Legg. [Ibid. No. 97.] Enclosing:—
	Letter from the same to the Lords of the Admiralty of the same date. Owing to the daily desertions of seamen from the fleet, a court martial was held yesterday at which Michael Cashall and Thomas Legg received sentence of death. Your order of 7th July last, directing that the latter should not be tried, was mislaid by our change in secretaries (Mr. P. Bowles now being substituted for Mr. Anselme); it consequently slipped our memories and we beg you accordingly to solicit the Queen for his pardon. [Ibid. No. 97 i.]
Sept. 5. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Nathaniel Coe, who prays for a beadsman's place in Trinity College, Cambridge. Granted. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 344.]
Sept. 5. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Thomas Aylett. Shows that he was condemned for stealing, and imprisoned in the Southgate, Exeter. He prays for pardon. Referred to Sir Edward Seymour, recorder of the city of Exeter. [Ibid.]
Sept. 5. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of George Prows, grocer. Shows that he is convicted of murdering a child, and prays for pardon. Referred to Sir Edward Seymour. [Ibid.]
Sept. 5. Whitehall.	Passes for Hans Storm to go to Holland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 348]; and for Cathelyn Crysen, ditto [Ibid., p. 349].
Sept. 5. Whitehall.	Warrant for a grant of letters patent to Thomas Bennett, gentleman, for his invention of a new way of making salt. [Ibid., p. 349.]
Sept. 5. Whitehall.	Sir J. Trenchard to the mayor of Warwick. Your letter of the 2nd inst. has been received with an enclosed libel, many [copies] of which have been dispersed "in town." You have done well to seize them, and if any shall be found wilfully and knowingly to publish them they should be prosecuted, more for their malicious intention than for any real danger therefrom. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 137.]
Sept. 5. Whitehall.	Sir J. Trenchard to the Lord Chamberlain. The Queen has been moved on behalf of Richard Hayward, dismissed from his employment as messenger for suffering prisoners to escape from his custody. As these prisoners have been since retaken, and as her Majesty believes it was through negligence of others they escaped, she commands that the said Hayward be restored to his former employment. [Ibid., p. 138.]
Sept. 6. Whitehall.	The same to the Treasury Commissioners. 1,000l. is to be issued to the commander-in-chief of the vessels, now under orders on a particular service, for contingent expenses. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book 1, p. 66.]
Sept. 6. Whitehall.	The same to the Lords of the Admiralty. The James galley, the Portsmouth and the Swift prize are to be forthwith ordered to come to Spithead. [Ibid.]
Sept. 6. Whitehall.	Passes and post warrants for Catherine Linthout to go to Holland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 349]; for Joseph Sabine to go to Portsmouth; for Jan Claak Doyer, Jaan Claasz, Valentine Jansen and Claasz Hage, Dutch seamen, to go to Holland; for Andreio Coer, ditto; for Francis Simon, ditto; and for John Molles, Daniel Rivett and many others to go to Ireland, recommended by Mons. Molles, French minister [Ibid., p. 350].
Sept. 6. Whitehall.	Sir J. Trenchard to the Lords of the Treasury. The Queen has been moved upon the petition of Mr. Hughes, and believing his circumstances to be such that he will be under some difficulty in removing or supporting his family "upon the credit of so remote a tally as is given him for his arrears," commands me to transmit his petition for your consideration, in order that you may make the said payment more easy to him. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 138.]
Sept. 7. Treasury Chambers.	Report of the Lords of the Treasury to the Queen. According to your command signified to us by Sir J. Trenchard on the 6th inst., touching the memorial of the Lords of the Admiralty and the Victuallers of the Navy, which were transmitted to us on the 29th ult., we have considered the demands conveyed therein and are of opinion, considering the present state of the Treasury, that it will not be possible to comply with any of the demands mentioned in the said memorial from the Lords of the Admiralty, relating to the paying off of such ships as shall be thought fit to be brought into port, excepting the sum of 27,482l. for the Victory, Duchess, Suffolk, Ossory, and Elizabeth, whose seamen are to be turned over into other ships, towards which sum we have already furnished 6,000l. and shall endeavour to provide the remainder as soon as possible.
	As to the memorial of the Victuallers the whole sum which was designed in Parliament to be paid this year for victualling the Navy was 429,130l.; this year there have already been issued for ordinary and extraordinary expenses of the victualling 380,416l., which is short of the funds assigned in Parliament by 48,714l., and towards this sum we now furnish the victuallers with 2,000l. a week and shall endeavour to supply the remainder in such proportions as can best be spared with respect to the other public services which are extremely pressing, particularly that of the subsistence of the army, which is recommended by your Majesty as the most necessary of all. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 600.]
Sept. 7. The Neptune at St. Helens.	Sir George Rooke to [J. Sotherne]. I have received an order of Council, dated the 1st inst., to send up to the Board an account of my proceedings from the 19th of May to the time of my arrival in Ireland. I herewith send you the same, which I desire you will present to the Lords of the Admiralty. No enclosure. [Ibid., p. 602.]
Sept. 7. Maidstone.	Robert Swinnock, George Peirce, Robert Salmon, Abraham Beale, Thomas Allard, Thomas Boys, Samuel Fuller, John Jenings, John Hayward and Thomas Hippin, timber merchants, to ——. We believe you wonder we have not waited on you with tenders for timber this year as usual. Our reason is that our bills for last year's timber are placed on tallies so remote that we are informed they will not be paid these two years; while the gentlemen of the county sell nothing without ready pence, which obliges us to try and sell the timber we have by us to merchants who will pay ready money. [Ibid. 6, No. 98.]
Sept. 7. London.	News letter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater at Newcastle upon Tyne. Letters from Zurich of the 18th past say that the regiments of that nation that were at the battle of Lauden suffered extremely, and that they had killed or wounded 20 field officers, 10 captains, and above 40 subalterns; a great many French refugees that were in that country have sold the little they had, and were coming for Ireland, as are also some Swiss and Genoese families, by reason of the scarcity of provisions in those parts. Mons. Anelot, the French ambassador, has lately presented a memorial to the "loveable Cantons" in the ensuing terms, "Magnificent Lords: You ought to be persuaded by all which I have made known to you on the part of the King since the beginning of this war, that the intentions of his Majesty have always tendered to have an ear to a just and reasonable peace, and that if the necessity to make a war at a distance from the frontiers of his kingdom and upon the territories of his enemies have engaged him to make conquests upon those puisents that are in league against his crown, it was for no other end but to oblige them not more to trouble the repose of Europe; if there be still some persons that do not rightly understand things or are prepossessed with passion, or that doubt what I say, the conditions which his Majesty offers the [torn] ought to open their eyes, and the cause of continuing of the war will be, for the future, due to the Emperor and the states of the Empire, if they shall refuse to accept these conditions, at a time when his Majesty's arms are accompanied with so glorious a success, both by sea and land; so that the King has given me in charge to make known to all the members of the Helvetic body, as to his true friends and allies, to the end they might be informed of his zeal for a peace. I send for that effect Mons. Berron, secretary and interpreter to the Lords of Zurich, to communicate the same to them, who will not fail, according to custom, to communicate it likewise to the other loveable Cantons, to whom I wish all sorts of happiness and prosperity.
	From Edinburgh the 31st past they write:—On Saturday last French privateers came to the Bass, and supplied that garrison with provisions, and the next morning sailed again, after several salutes with their guns on both sides. On Tuesday the Lord Chancellor came to town and called a council, but could not make a quorum; but yesterday they met, and the result was the publication of three proclamations: one adjourning the parliament till the 13th of January next; the second that no Privy Councillor, nor anyone in public trust, shall leave the kingdom without a special warrant from their Majesties or the privy council; and the third banishing all beggars from the city and confining them to their own parishes. Yesterday Mr. Robert Caddall, the episcopal minister, had an indictment of high treason delivered him with orders to plead to the same by the 11th of next month. Our brewers here are so much disgusted at the heavy imposts laid upon ale and beer that, for a fortnight past, they have in a manner declined brewing, which has made a great scarcity; but the excisemen and brewers having now agreed, we shall be supplied as formerly. For ten days past we have had such excessive rains here that it has carried away houses and barns, and several families in the Cowgate of this city had much ado to escape with their lives from the violence of the inundation; but since Tuesday last we have had fair weather, and the husbandman is busied in gathering in his crop.
	From Falmouth on the 2nd they write:—Yesterday put in here their Majesties' ship Rupert that was cruising westward about three weeks but met nothing worth notice. The West India ships that have lain here, wind-bound some time, are preparing to sail for the river.
	From Plymouth on the 3rd they write:—Yesterday sailed eastward the Woolwich with several merchantmen from the Barbadoes under her convoy; at the same time, sailed three of their Majesties' frigates, cruising; eight more remaining still here.
	Their Majesties have incorporated Lord Chandos, Thomas Neal, esq., and Thomas Wharton, esq., and others by the name of the Governor and Company for digging and working of Mines and for beating and refining of the Ore in England, with power to carry on the same with a joint-stock.
	One Mr. Cornelius Laswell obtained a grant for the sole use and exercise of a new invented engine for the raising of water, conveying and lifting of goods, and other things of weight by an artificial flux and reflux of water.
	Yesterday morning a squadron of the Earl of Oxford's regiment, commanded by [torn] Middleton, marched hence to quarter at [torn] Oundle and Wellingborough; and this morning [a] squadron of them marched under command of Captain Tuck, and are to be quartered at Huntingdon, St. Neots, &c.; and on Saturday a third squadron will march and quarter at Northampton. [torn] custody being suspected to have printed Mr. Anderton's speech, which very much reflects upon the government and justice of the nation.
	Yesterday 90 ammunition muskets, well fixed, were found in a gentleman's house in Stratton Ground, Westminster, and a new drum and eight halberds, which are, by order of Sir Henry Goodrich, lieutenant-general of the Ordnance, carried to the Tower.
	We hear the justices of the peace for Middlesex have ordered the constables to bring a list of all papists and such as are reputed disaffected in their several parishes and precincts. Yesterday the sessions began at the Old Bailey, where five persons are to be tried for high treason, two of whom are parsons and the three printers, besides clippers, etc. We hear Sir Francis Wheler is recalled and on his return for England. The Lords of Appeal have condemned as good prize a large Genoese ship (as she pretended) of 500 tons, laden with wine, from France, some time since brought into Plymouth. We hear the East India Company have [torn] account by letters from Surat of the 7th February that seven French vessels arrived there the 26th of October and went to Coromandel, and ten Dutch ships, with two fire ships, went from Batavia in pursuit of them. They have also advice that the Madonna, a very rich ship, thought to be lost, is arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on her return home. Yesterday was to have been a hearing before the Archbishop of Canterbury between Mr. Finch, warden of All Souls' College in Oxford, and Mr. Prohust, a fellow of the said college, displaced by the warden; but his grace put off the same to the 15th of November and advised them, in the meantime, to accommodate the matter among themselves. There is brought in upon the Fund Bill 704,979l. We want the Holland mail. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters Vol. 4, No. 21; and Entry Book 5, pp. 73–77.]
Sept. 7. Whitehall.	Passes for John Henricker to go to Holland; for Mary Scotland and her child to go to Flanders; for Jurgen Hantjenbour to go to Holland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 350]; and for Mr. George Benest, recommended by Col. Harris, deputy governor of Jersey, ditto [Ibid., p. 351].
Sept. 8. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to the Lords of the Admiralty. You are to issue orders:—
	(1) For an account to be prepared of the men-of-war, and merchant ships employed as men-of-war, in what places they are, in what time such as want repairs can be repaired, and what ships are proper for convoys and cruisers this winter.
	(2) That Rear-Admiral Nevill obey such orders as he shall receive from the King.
	(3) That the state of the health of Sir Francis Wheler's squadron be examined before any of the men be permitted to come on shore at Plymouth, Cork or Kinsale.
	The Queen requires your opinion in writing as to what you think proper to be done upon the demands of the merchants for the security of trade, in relation to convoys and cruisers; she has pardoned Thomas Legg. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book 1, p. 67.]
Sept. 8. Whitehall.	The same to the Admirals of the Fleet. The Queen has been pleased to grant the pardon of Thomas Legg, condemned for desertion. [Ibid.]
Sept. 8. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to the Treasury, transmitting an extract of a letter from Sir Edward Gregory at Chatham to the Admiralty, for the Treasury to give such order as the service requires. [H.O. Admiralty 1, p. 68.]
Sept. 8. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Thomas Ditenor, who prays for a salary of 35l. per annum and a place in the Land Carriage Office in the Custom House, void by the death of Mr. Brandroofe. Referred to the Treasury. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 345.]
Sept. 8. Whitehall.	Sir J. Trenchard to the Lord Chief Baron. The enclosed petition [not entered] has been laid before the Queen, who commands me to transmit the same to you, that you should report to her how the fact appeared upon the trial of the two soldiers therein mentioned. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 139.]
Sept. 8. Whitehall.	Passes for John Schmid to go to Holland; for Francis Ratziensky, Peter Fabri, Frederick Bersett, Nicholas Magueran, John Wielt and Herman Wielt, ditto; and for Claas Pieterson Luyt, Pieter Mars, Cornelis Symontz, Arent Eldersen, ditto. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 351.]
Sept. 8. Whitehall.	Warrant to the Recorder of London for granting a free pardon to Margaret Williams, sentenced to death for felony and burglary. [Ibid.]
Sept. 8. Whitehall.	Warrant to the same for the reprieve of Gustav Adolph Van Viereck, found guilty of felony. [Ibid., p. 352.]
Sept. 9. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to the Lords of the Admiralty. The King having signified that he thinks it requisite that 25 men-of-war should be forthwith fitted out for a particular service, the Queen commands the immediate fitting out of five men-of-war of 80 guns, eleven of 70 guns and upwards, six of 60 and upwards, and three of 50 and upwards, and you are to transmit an account of what ships can be soonest fitted for that service. You are to order the first and second rate ships of the main fleet to come into the river, except such of the second rates as may be employed upon this service, instead of such third rates as cannot conveniently be made use of, and except such as can be so careened at Portsmouth as to be fit for the next year's service. Four months' provisions are to be put on board the said 25 ships. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book 1, p. 68.]
Sept. 9. Dublin.	W. Duncombe to the Earl of Nottingham. Whatever our opinions and doubts may be, it is not fit that everyone in both nations should know them; but that they may be only so communicated and concealed as the nature of the thing and service requires, I have desired to be allowed to send the enclosed to you with this intimation. Endorsed:— "Mr. Duncombe, with one from the Lords Justices enclosed." [S.P. Ireland 355, No. 89.]
Sept. 9. Dublin Castle.	The Lords Justices to the Earl of Nottingham. Before we can transmit those bills over in form, which we have prepared according to the commands sent us, and are now ready, we must beg their Majesties' directions in a difficulty which it is necessary to be resolved for their service.
	It is well known that the miscarriage of the parliament was upon the right of sending money bills into the House of Commons, and the case which has been drawn up by the Privy Council and judges here, with their opinion upon it, and since confirmed by the opinion of the English judges, has made it evident that the right of the Crown to this prerogative is founded upon law and constant practice.
	We suppose it was in affirmation of this prerogative that the first bill which we were commanded to transmit was the bill for an additional duty of excise upon beer, ale, and other liquors as being likely to meet with the fewest objections, since it was the same that was passed at the last parliament, and little can be said against it but what must come to the main point which has been brought into question, the right of sending bills for money. But when we compare the small sum which this act will afford with the sum which will be necessary to be demanded, we are much in doubt whether proposing the way of raising but a little part of that sum which must be required, and by consequence leaving the House to a liberty of raising all the rest in the way they shall think fit, be not rather to give up the right than to assert it, and at the best, whether it be not such a giving way to the pretensions of the Commons, though very ill founded, as may not only occasion the loss of this prerogative but encourage the attempt of further encroachments, and this, too, only upon expectation of an indifferent sum and at a time when this sum is as absolutely necessary for the peace and safety of the nation as for the ease of the government. It is possible that whatever reasonable sum shall be thought fit to be asked will more easily be given if the Commons be left entirely to themselves to give it which way they like; but it must be considered whether it will not be purchased at too dear a rate, and at such a one as may draw very ill consequences after it.
	We desire that you will lay our doubts before their Majesties, and beg that they may give us such commands as they shall judge best for their interest and service, and since there can be but one transmission before a parliament be called, we think it fit that we should know their Majesties' pleasure before we send these bills over, so that another bill for money may be added, which may come near the sum expected, if judged expedient so to do. We fear being censured, if we should send another bill with this, when only this was directed, or send another without having first proposed the reasons there are for doing it, and desiring further instructions.
	For maintaining this point, it is not necessary that a money bill sent to the House should pass, because they have undoubtedly a negative voice; nor will the laying aside of this bill by the House for any other reason but because it had not its rise in that house, be any diminution of the prerogative. Even the rejecting of it for that reason does not infer a loss of the money, because they may regularly propose heads for a new bill, if thought fit to let them proceed after such votes made a second time; but whether it be not necessary that one or more bills for such a sum as is fit to be demanded should be sent, their Majesties will best determine. [S.P. Ireland 355, No. 90.]
Sept. 9. Whitehall.	Sir J. Trenchard to the Lords of the Treasury. It is some time since I signified to you that Mr. Gregg, who is employed at the court of Denmark, should be paid his ordinary allowance of 20s. per diem and his bill of extraordinaries for half a year ending at Christmas last, particularly as he labours under great difficulties for want of the money being required to head the King of Denmark's army, and he has only received 100l. for one year and a quarter's service. Her Majesty commands that his circumstances should be considered. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 139.]
Sept. 9.	A list of persons necessary to attend the bomb vessels upon their expedition. [H.O.Military Entry Book 3, p. 134.]
Sept. 9. Whitehall.	Pass for John Bardon to go to Holland. [S.P. Dom.Warrant Book 38, p. 352.]
Sept. 10. Portsmouth.	E. Dumer, surveyor of the Navy, to ———. In answer to yours of yesterday, I have conferred with the commissioners and taken the opinion of the respective officers concerning the careening of any of the first and second rates here between this and January, being the appointed time when the 80 and 70 gun ships mentioned to be refitted here shall be taken in hand to be fitted for next summer's service, without hindrance to the other services which must necessarily be done here. We are somewhat "gravelled" to make you a clear answer.
	The works which are in hand and also those which necessity will throw upon this place on the occasion of so many ships designed this winter to cruise to the westward, must (by adding more work not provided for) be considerably retarded, especially as these well-boats are on this side, which are an inexpressible trouble to keep in order; but upon consideration it is thought possible by the officers and myself that the four three-deck ships, the St. Andrew, St. Michael, Neptune, and Vanguard, may be careened and fitted here before next summer's service, between this and the 1st January, provided the officers and men are punctual to attend; that there be but two at a time in harbour; that the officers of the ordnance be capable to perform their parts; that it be not thought a detriment for remanning them for next year's service; that the caulkers and carpenters who were pressed at Bristol and elsewhere be obliged to come here in time, there being only 45 of 150 who appear; that the small fourth and fifth rate cruisers take their fitting at Plymouth; and the stores wanted for the big ships be timely supplied, as it is by no means advisable to keep the sea with three-deckers in winter. Copy. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 608.]
Sept. 10. Ninove.	Ferdinand William, Duke of Wurtemburg, to the King. Refers to the garrison of Niewport and enquires the King's wishes on various points connected with the campaign. Encloses letters concerning Charleroi. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 14, No. 39.] Enclosures:—
	Four letters as to the siege of Charleroi. [Ibid., Nos. 41 i to 41 v.]
Sept. 11. Admiralty Office.	Lords of the Admiralty to Sir J. Trenchard. Pursuant to her Majesty's commands signified to us in your letter of the 8th inst. that the state of health of Sir Francis Wheler's squadron should be examined before any of the men be permitted to come on shore at Plymouth, Cork, or Kinsale, we have directed Sir Francis not to permit the men to go ashore till further orders. [H.O.Admiralty 4, p. 612.]
Sept. 11. Admiralty Office.	The same to the same. As you signified to us by your letter of the 10th inst. that we should report our opinion on what is fit and proper to be done upon the demands of the merchants and traders for security of trade, in relation to convoys and cruisers, we desire you will represent to her Majesty that the trade cannot be secured by convoys or cruisers only, but by a sufficient number of ships to be employed both as convoys and cruisers, and not to be taken therefrom for any other service. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 616.]
Sept. 11.	Extract of letter from the Navy Board. As to the circumstances of the Navy and its credit, the enclosed will give you an additional account, being the copy of a letter to Sir Edward Gregory from the timber merchants who have served Chatham yard all along in that commodity. By reason of the difficulties and losses in the discount of the tallies they received for their last bills, they are rendered incapable of dealing with them again. This is the case with the dealers of the Navy in general, as well as with the timber merchants there, and we think you should be acquainted therewith. [Ibid., p. 620.]
Sept. 11.	Extract of a letter from the Navy Board. As the first and second rates are not fit to be kept at sea in winter, it is not safe to expose them; and we confess we cannot disagree with him that even the great third rates will be found troublesome and uneasy enough in that season; but if the necessity of the service should require the convenience of any of them, we think the St. Michael may with least hazard be employed, being the smallest of the three deck ships. [Ibid., p. 624.]
Sept. 11. Treasury Chambers.	Lord Godolphin, Sir Stephen Fox and Charles Montague, to Sir Robert Howard. Warrant for the payment to Sir Leonard Robinson, knight, of 1,415l. 1s. 4d. not only in full satisfaction of his extraordinary charges and expenses, but also in reward for the care, pains, attendance and hazard of himself, his agents and clerks in receiving from divers citizens of London and others the sum of three hundred and fifty-eight thousand and seventy-five pounds and paying the same into the Exchequer. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 5, No. 25.]
Sept. 11. Whitehall.	Warrant addressed to Henry Viscount Sydney, major-general of the Ordnance, to cause mortars, powder, arms and other provisions of war for bomb vessels and certain other vessels, with the respective allowances to officers, &c., attending such service. [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 130.]
Sept. 11. Whitehall.	Sir J. Trenchard to the Lords of the Treasury. Upon the death of Sir William Colt, the King directed that Mr. Stepney should immediately go from Vienna to the Elector of Saxony, to continue the negotiations which Sir William had begun. His Majesty commands that you give order for paying forthwith all the arrears of ordinary and extraordinary sums due to Mr. Stepney and also one quarter's advance of his ordinary allowance to enable him to undertake this service. I am also to acquaint you that his Majesty has ordered Mr. Schweinfurt, Sir William Colt's secretary, to stay at the Elector of Saxony's court to assist Mr. Stepney, and to draw a bill on Mr. Guy for one hundred pounds. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 140.]
Sept. 11. Whitehall.	Passes for Simon Jans Pinion, his wife and two children, to go to Holland; and for Mr. Jeremiah Wainwright, recommended by Mr. Hayford Wainwright, ditto. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 352.]
Sept. 12. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to the Lords of the Admiralty. Captain St. Loe has now fully cleared himself as to the charges made against him before your board and the Treasury, therefore the order for staying his removal to the Navy Board is now withdrawn. [H.O. Admiralty 3, p. 81.]
Sept. 12. Dublin Castle.	Lord Capell to the Earl of Nottingham. I am desired by Colonel Wolseley on behalf of Sir Thomas Newcomen's son who has, as he tells me, unfortunately killed another officer in a duel, and to acquaint you with the merits of the family. Sir Thomas Newcomen, the father, was a great sufferer here for his zeal to this government in the late revolution, his house being burned and all his improvements destroyed. His second son, lieutenant-colonel to the Earl of Meath, was killed at the first siege of Limerick; and his third son, an officer under Colonel Wolseley, lost his hand at the battle of the Boyne. He is a lieutenant in Colonel Hastings' regiment. [S.P. Ireland 355, No. 91.]
Sept. 12. London.	Memorandum of the Council of War presented to Sir John Trenchard, relative to disorders in Mons. Rechteren's regiment with copy of letters attached. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 5, No. 26.]
Sept. 12. London.	Sir John Somers to the King. I should not have presumed to write now, but the Queen was pleased to command me, to-day, to represent to you what I took to be the present state of the business of the East India Company. This I will endeavour to do as truly and shortly as I can, though it is an affair I have always been very unwilling to meddle with.
	I need not put you in mind of the regulations which you approved of, before leaving England. It had been well if things had proceeded on that footing, because, before now, the controversy would have been at an end, for if subscribers had come in upon those terms, it would have been a convincing proof of the reasonableness of them; if there had been no number of subscriptions the old company could have had nothing to object to your constituting a new one. But a stop was put to the proceeding in this manner by the company's neglecting to pay the sum charged upon them by Act of Parliament, at the day prefixed, whereby according to the words of that act, the corporation was dissolved, and in strictness of law you became entitled to all the estate which they had as a company. You did not think fit to take advantage of this failure, but signified your pleasure that, as far as might be, the company should be restored to their former condition. In order to which a charter was prepared to constitute them a company as before, but subject to such regulations as you should impose within six months, and another charter was drawn containing the regulations. But the present question is only about passing the former of these charters, which was petitioned against by several merchants who were heard at the Council Board.
	That which is principally insisted upon against the reconstituting of the company is taken from what has happened since your departure from England, for they pretend that since it is now wholly in your power to constitute a new company, by reason of the dissolution of the former, by their own fault, you are in some sort engaged to do it by reason of a construction which they put upon a message to the House of Commons, sent by Sir Edward Seymour last winter, in answer to a former address of the House, whereby they desired you to dissolve the present East India Company and to constitute another. I have used my utmost endeavours to get a copy of this message to transmit to you, so you might judge if there was any weight to be laid upon it, but time being so short since I received the Queen's command, and the Clerk of the House of Commons being out of town, I could not procure it.
	Another thing which is stood upon is, that—except by Act of Parliament—the sole trade of the Indies cannot be granted to a few of your subjects exclusive of all the rest; and most of the Turkey merchants, as well as other merchants of the greatest estates being joined in opposing the charter, they press very importunately that in such an unhappy juncture, when they are deprived of the Mediterranean trade and are such losers everywhere, the Queen would not exclude them from the trade of so great a part of the world. At the same time they press by petition to be permitted to send out five ships to the Indies, undertaking to export in those ships to the value of above 100,000l. in cloth and other English commodities, and they likewise urge in this petition that, by law, they cannot be hindered. There are several other petitions from clothiers in divers countries (sic) and from other trades representing the deplorable condition they are in by the interruption of the Turkey trade and praying that these ships may go.
	I had a private discourse with Lord Chief Justice Holt this evening (he being the only judge in town), and by what I can collect from him, if these points were put to the judges, he thinks they would be of opinion against the East India Company, especially as to the stopping of ships at this time when there is no charter in being.
	All these things being laid together, in my opinion, make this whole matter very nice, especially upon the opening of a parliament, when it is so much to your interest that everything which might be an occasion of offence, or so much as a cause of debate, should be avoided. The company say the delay of the charter, or at least the permitting the ships to go, will ruin them. On the other hand nothing will be more liable to be hardly construed than the hindering the exportation of so great a quantity of cloth and other English goods at this time. I beg leave to suggest one thing more: that if you please that the charter should pass, and the ships be stayed, it must be done either without asking the judges' opinions or upon consulting them. If their opinions should be demanded, I have told you what reason I have to apprehend which way they will determine, and I must confess I should be sorry to have such a point determined against the Crown and should think it much better it should remain a doubt as it does now. On the other side, as it is a matter of law insisted upon I am apt to think it will be difficult to prevail with the Lords of the Council to advise her Majesty to pass the charter or stay the ships without taking the opinion of the judges. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 14, No. 42.]
Sept. 12. Whitehall.	Passes for Mr. John Matthew Simler to go to Holland, recommended by Esdris Mark Lieghtenstone, chaplain and curate to the High German Lutherian Church in London; for Elizabeth Smart to go to Ireland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 352]; for Jacob Souri to go to Holland; for James Cressett, esq., ditto; for Captain Franciscus Dobricht, his wife and servant, ditto; for Susanna Picard, her son and daughter, ditto; for Abraham Jansen and Jaspar Bovert, ditto [Ibid., p. 353]; and for Claude Melin, ditto [Ibid., p. 354].
Sept. 12. Whitehall.	Warrant for affixing the great seal to an instrument empowering and authorizing George Stepney, esq., to treat of and conclude a league offensive and defensive with the Elector of Saxony. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 353.]
Sept. 12. Whitehall.	Proclamation for continuing all seamen and others, belonging to any of the first, second, or third rate ships, in the service during the winter, and for payment of their wages before the fleet sails next summer. [S.P. Dom. Proclamations 6, p. 96.]
Sept. 13. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to the Lords of the Admiralty. The twentyfive ships appointed to be employed on a particular service are to come to the rendezvous at Spithead, and supplies for four months put on board them with all expedition. Six fireships, the storeship and stores that returned with Sir George Rooke, one hospital ship, two sixth-rates and two tenders are to be added to the squadron. All the ships to be refitted in the river are to be brought about forthwith, and the rest of the main fleet is to go from St. Helens to Spithead. [H.O.Admiralty Entry Book 1, p. 69.]
Sept. 13. Whitehall.	The same to the Commissioners of the Treasury. The Queen commands that you should give order to the Commissioners of the Customs to consider and propose such methods as they think most proper to prevent the exportation of corn out of any of their Majesties' dominions into France. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 140.]
Sept. 13. Whitehall.	Passes for Thomas Tucker, recommended by the Swedish secretary, his wife and three children to go to Holland; and for Jacob Mangin, ditto. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 354.]
Sept. 14. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to Mr. Papillion, enclosing a list of twenty-five men-of-war to be victualled immediately for four months, before all other ships. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book 1, p. 69.]
Sept. 14. St. Helens. On board the Britannia.	The Admirals of the Fleet to Sir John Trenchard, praying that their request for leave to come to town may be laid before the Queen. [H.O. Admiralty 6, No. 99.]
Sept. 14. Victualling Office.	The Victualling Commissioners to Lord Godolphin. "We humbly tender these enclosures for your lordship's perusal, and attend at the door to receive your lordship's direction." [Ibid., No. 100.] Enclosing:—
	(1) Representation as to the present state of victualling of the ships, and the necessity for a supply of money, without which the present orders cannot possibly be carried out. 14 Sept., 1693. [Ibid., No. 100 i.]
	(2) Copy of three orders for victualling ships received from the Navy Board, 14 Sept., 1693. [H.O. Admiralty 6, No. 100 ii.]
	(3) Statement of cost for provisions for 26,000 men for two months. [Ibid., No. 100 iii.]
Sept. 14. Victualling Office.	The same to Sir John Trenchard. We are appointed by Lord Godolphin to attend this evening at the Council. [Ibid., No. 101.] Enclosing:—
	(1) Statement as to what remains in Store, 31 August, 1693. [Ibid., No. 101 i.]
	(2) List of ships laden at London and sent to Portsmouth, towards the two months' victuals last ordered. [Ibid., No. 101 ii.]
Sept. 14. The camp before Pignerol.	Victor Amadeus, Duke of Savoy, to the King. Prays that he may retain the Bavarian troops with him. Recommends Count Tarin to the King. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 14, No. 43.]
Sept. 14. Liege.	Count Tilly to the King. Will march, to-morrow, with the troops of the States General. Those of the Elector of Brandenburg, commanded by Baron de Heyden, cannot march for reasons told you by Count Dona and written by the Baron. Will report progress of his march. [Ibid., No. 44.]
Sept. 14. The camp at Durlach.	Prince Louis of Baden to the King. Designs to deceive the enemy. Complains of his desertion by the army of the Elector of Saxony. Efforts to save Rheinfels. [Ibid., No. 45.]
Sept. 14. Whitehall.	Sir J. Trenchard to the Commissioners of the Treasury. I signified the Queen's pleasure to you on the 29th of last month, that you should give order for a privy seal to pass for granting their Majesties' part to the importers of several bales and parcels of silk lately brought from Holland, and seized at the Custom House, and that in the meantime the same should be delivered to them, they satisfying the officers who made the seizure. As there has lately been some stop in that matter, her Majesty thinks fit it should be removed, and commands that you give order for passing the said privy seal, and delivering the silk forthwith, and it is her Majesty's intention that the said silk be sold publicly, "and by inch of candle" by the importers. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 140.]
Sept. 14. Whitehall.	Passes for Mr. Isaac de Chauvers to go to Holland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 354]; for Richard Adams ditto; and for Lambart Taff and George Brown, ditto [Ibid., p. 355].
Sept. 14. Whitehall.	Warrant addressed to the Duke of Norfolk for preserving the game in Windsor Forest. All owners of hounds, greyhounds, or dogs, hunting or coursing within the said forest, are to produce a warrant, or other lawful authority for so doing. Notice thereof is to be affixed to the church doors, and at the crosses in market towns within the said forest. [Ibid.]
Sept. 15. Victualling Office.	The Victualling Commissioners to [Sir John Trenchard]. We have given the necessary orders with regard to the 25 ships designed for the winter guard. The instructions received from the Navy Board on the 14th instant require a great number more ships to be victualled than what was expressed to us.[H.O. Admiralty 6, No. 102.] Enclosing:—
	The same to the Navy Board, 15 Sept., 1693, requiring further explanation of the orders for victualling received from them on the 14th instant. [Ibid., No. 102 i.]
Sept.15. Council Chamber, Dublin.	The Lords Justices and Council to the Earl of Nottingham. The great applications that are made, and the miserable cases that come daily before us at this board (and which are not relievable out of the concordatum) has occasioned the recommending the state thereof to your favour, desiring the same may be forthwith laid before their Majesties and that we may receive their commands. The late allowance for concordatumshas been far less than was always appointed in former times and the great necessities which the late wars have laid upon the government to increase the usual payment of that sort has been the reason why the disbursements have far exceeded the sum allotted, and yet there remain many particulars which ought to be provided thereout.
	The lowest allowance for concordatumsthat we can find, even in the most happy and quiet times and most flourishing condition of Ireland since the restoration of Charles II., was 4,500l. from 1662 to 1669. But the money allowed for that service from the 25th of December, 1690, to the 24th of June, 1692, was but at the rate of 3,000l. per annum, and from the said 24th of June, 1692, to the 24th June, 1693, at the same rate, so that, though the greatest caution and good husbandry possible has been used, there has been a necessity to issue out orders for the payment of 9,687l. 14s. 5d., which exceeds the aforesaid allowance of 6,000l. by the sum of 3,687l. 14s. 5d., which last mentioned sum will not be allowed upon passing the treasury accounts unless there be a special warrant for the same, in the gaining of which we must again desire your favour.
	And further we must acquaint you that we have taken into consideration and fully examined what sum will be necessary to answer the ends of the concordatumfor the future from the said 24th of June last. We consider it absolutely necessary there should be 5,000l. a year allowed for that purpose and that less than that sum will not discharge the necessary and usual payments thereof, with the increase occasioned by the misfortunes of the late wars. [S.P. Ireland 355, No. 92.]
Sept. 15. Tongres.	Count Tilly to the King. Has just arrived at the camp near the Tongres with the States' infantry. Hopes the cavalry and dragoons will arrive to-morrow between Heck and Hassell. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 14, No. 46.]
Sept. 15. Whitehall.	Passes for the Baron Novelli, and five of his domestic servants, to go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 145]; for the shipMariner's Adventure, commanded by Thomas White, to go with her lading from Marseilles in France to any port in England, and for the shipSarah and Anne, commanded by Samuel Prius, ditto [Ibid., p. 147]; for Jacob Jordan to go to Harwich and Holland; for Catherine Sherburne, ditto; for Peter Bogvet, ditto; for Albert van Wanroy, ditto [Ibid., p. 148]; for John vander Linden and Gerrit vander Vegt to go to Holland; for Dorothy Christian and her child, ditto; and for Solomon Dapit, ditto [Ibid., 38, p. 355].
Sept. 15. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Eleanor Finch. Shows that her father disbursed, for the service of the Crown, 3,133l. 9s. in suppressing the rebellion in Ireland in 1642. Petitioner prays for grant of "royal letters manual" directed to the Lords Justices of Ireland, empowering them to grant to her a commission of enquiry under the broad seal for her to have, hold, and enjoy such lands, tenements, etc., as shall be found to be forfeited. Referred to the Treasury. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 345.]
Sept. 15. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of the gentlemen and freeholders of Wexford. Shows that a great part of the county of Wexford is now become waste and desolate by means of the war, and unable to satisfy the quit rents due on the same, many houses in the town of Wexford being pulled down and burnt; and that the said county is very barren and yet pays as much as the best land. The petitioners therefore pray for some reasonable abatement. Referred to the Lords Justices of Ireland. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 3, p. 24.]
Sept. 15. Whitehall.	Commissions for Nathaniel Taylor, gentleman, to be lieutenant of the company whereof Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Jacob is captain in Brigadier-General Ferdinando Hastings' regiment of foot; and for George Edward, gentleman, to be ensign of the company whereof Captain Edward Thorneycroft is captain in the same regiment. [H.O. Military Entry Book 2, p. 384.]
Sept. 15. Whitehall.	The Earl of Nottingham to the Commissioners of the Treasury. I have told the Queen about a letter I received from the Lords Justices of Ireland concerning the commission of inspection into forfeitures in that kingdom, whereof they have written at large to you by the same post and transmitted the papers to you which relate to this matter, and she commands me to tell you that she wishes you to dispatch your report herein as soon as possible, and lay the same before her that such directions may be forthwith given as shall be necessary. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 694.]
Sept. 15. Whitehall.	Sir J. Trenchard to Mr. Justice Rokeby. The report you have made of the trial of Parker and Stanbury has been laid before the Queen, who commands me to enquire of you to what time the said persons have been reprieved. [Ibid. 3, p. 141.]
Sept. 16. St. Helens.	Proceedings of a council of war held on Board the Britannia. Present:—the flag officers of the English fleet; Admiral Almonde, Vice-Admirals Callemberg and Vandeputten, and Rear-Admirals Evertsen, Vandergoes, Muys and d'Vries.
	After reading and debating upon the proceedings of various previous councils of war relating to the sailing of the fleet &c., &c., it was at last agreed and concluded that the resolutions in question were made according to the best of our reason, and executed to the best of our knowledge, and we heartily wish the event had answered our intentions and endeavours. [H.O. Admiralty 6, No. 103.]
Sept. 16. Whitehall.	Passes for Judith Godfroy to go to Harwich and London [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 146]; for Gerrit Hague to go to Harwich and Holland; for John Vleys, ditto[Ibid., p. 148]; for Francis Setin and Andrew Winskampel, ditto; and for Henry Beyne, ditto [Ibid., p. 149].
Sept. 16. Whitehall.	Sir J. Trenchard to Mr. Justice Rokeby. Her Majesty is informed that there are two persons now in Exeter gaol, Mr. Parker and Hanbury, both under sentence of death for murder. Their execution had been respited till her Majesty's wishes were known, and she now commands me to inform you that she revokes any warrant of reprieve and leaves them to be proceeded against according to their sentence. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 142.]
Sept. 16. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the report of Lord Godolphin and others, Commissioners of the Treasury, upon the petition of Gilbert Heathcote and Arthur Shallet (as set out under date August 29). They had referred this petition to the Commissioners of Customs, and send their report thereon. Referred back to the Treasury to give order according to the report from the Customs. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 3, p. 22.]
Sept. 16. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Michael de Great, of Peterborough. Shows that he has served as a soldier for several years, and is now 77 years old and incapable of work. Prays for a beadsman's place in Peterborough church. Granted. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 3, p. 24.]
Sept. 17. Hagenbach.	Prince Louis of Baden to the King. Has placed the country he passed through under contributions, so that the enemy may fail to obtain supplies. Will do all in his power to advance the common cause. Owing to the absence of the forces of Saxony he cannot reap the full advantages of the situation. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 14, No. 47.]
Sept. 18. Whitehall.	Commission to Captains Thomas Philips and John Bembow to command the expedition now sent upon a particular service on the coasts of France. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book 1, p. 69.]
Sept. 18. Whitehall.	Instructions for Captains Philips and Bembow, appointed to go upon a particular service on the coast of France.
	You are (1) to take under your command the vessels appointed for this expedition, and to see they are fitted with all necessaries for the same.
	(2) To sail with the first fair wind to St. Malo, avoiding to touch at any place on the way unless forced by contrary winds, &c.
	(3) To take care before you sail to provide yourselves with good and able pilots for the coast of St. Malo, especially such as shall be chosen and appointed by Philip Du Vall.
	(4) Also before you sail to give the necessary instructions and signals; in case you are forced to put in to any port, you are not to suffer any boats to go ashore except for the necessary carrying on of the service.
	(5) When you come before the town of St. Malo, to use your utmost endeavour to destroy the same by bombarding or setting it on fire, and to burn, destroy or take such ships as you shall find in the harbour.
	(6) If, after this service, you have sufficient ammunition and stores, you are at liberty to make an attempt on any other port or place of the enemy eastward of St. Malo, where you shall judge the same practicable.
	(7) After having performed this service you are to return to the nearest English port, where you may be safe, and give an account of your proceedings. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book 1, p. 70.]
Sept. 18. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to Viscount Hatton, or (in his absence) the Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey. Upon the application of Captains Philips and Bembow, you are to furnish them with so many able pilots from Guernsey as they may require for the service on which they are employed, and such small vessels as can be spared.
	A similar letter was sent to Lord Jermyn, or the LieutenantGovernor of Jersey. [Ibid., p. 71.]
Sept. 18. Admiralty Office.	The Lords of the Admiralty to Sir J. Trenchard. We send you an extract from a letter from the admirals of the fleet, touching the men they have been directed by this board to turn over from the ships ordered from the fleet into such as are designed on particular service, together with the resolution of the flag officers concerning the same, and an account of the men now on board the ships which are to come about, and how many are required to make up the complements of those which are designed on service as aforesaid [not with this letter]; also a copy of the orders this night sent to the admirals concerning the same. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 628.] Enclosing:—
	(1) The lords of the Admiralty to the admirals of the fleet, 18 September, 1693. Whereas, pursuant to our late order to you about turning over men from the ships of the fleet, by your letter of the 16th you have told us it will not be safe to venture the ships about with what men will be left them, and whereas at a Council of War held the 16th inst., the flag officers were of opinion that such ships as were designed to be brought about should not proceed with less number of men than their lowest complements; you are therefore required, after you have turned over so many men as will reduce the numbers to their lowest complement, to turn over so many as shall be wanting for the ships designed on particular service pursuant to our orders to you, from the St. Andrew, Neptune, Vanguard and Grafton, and after this is done you are to order the said four ships into Portsmouth harbour and supply them with men in case there are not a sufficient number left on board to carry them into harbour. [H.O. Admiralty, Vol. 4, p. 632.]
	Extract from a letter from the admirals of the fleet to the Lords of the Admiralty, dated at St. Helens, 16 Sept., 1693. We have received several orders from you dated the 12th, 13th and 14th inst., in relation to the ships you direct should stay here and those which are to come about, and you order so many men to be put on board the ships to stay here, and those designed for other services, that we do not think it would be safe to venture the ships about with what men are left after executing the said orders.
	We do not find the fleet so manned as to enable us to observe your orders, therefore having a "slatch" this morning, we called a council of war of English flag officers (a copy of the decision arrived at is here enclosed) and it is their opinion that it would be very dangerous to carry the ships about with less men than their lowest complements; we therefore send you this by express and would like your further orders by the same way, remarking to you that the soldiers that have been put ashore and the sick men have presumably reduced most of the ships that are to go about to near that state already. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 636.]
Sept. 18.	George Browne to the Ordnance Board, with regard to the method of fixing mortar-pieces. [H.O. Admiralty 6, No. 104.]
Sept. 18. Dublin Castle.	Lord Capell to the Earl of Nottingham. By the letter you will receive by this post from the government and council, you will find how impossible it is to be supplied with those necessary sums the King appointed to be disposed of to several persons, amounting to the sum of 2,500l. per annum, so that though the Queen should allow the concordatum money to be advanced to 5,000l. a year, yet so gross a sum will not (I conceive) be conveniently taken out of it without surprise to the Council, and therefore I know no other way to supply those necessary pensions but by a privy seal from England to take so much from the revenue to be disposed of as the King shall appoint, and if this method shall be approved of, I think it may be convenient to let it be for 3,000l. a year to answer all emergencies. "I wish you joy of your new purchase, and I hope this will find you safely returned from thence." [S.P. Ireland 355, No. 93.]
Sept. 18. Whitehall.	Warrant to [the Lords Justices of Ireland] to grant a pardon to John Bellew, esq., eldest son of Sir Patrick Bellew, of Barmeath, co. Louth, for all crimes and misdemeanours committed by him before the 1st of August last. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office Letter Book 13, p. 45.]
Sept. 18. Aigem.	The Elector of Bavaria to the King. Refers to transport of the artillery. Report that La Vallete is at Ypres with 10,000 men [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 14, No. 48.]
Sept. 18. Bruges.	———— to [the Elector of Bavaria ?]. It is reported that the enemy are before Ypres and have troops at Dunkirk. Movements of Monsieur de la Vallete. Information when ascertained will be despatched to his Highness by the Prince de Bergne. The writer is on the eve of his departure for Niewport. [Ibid., No. 49.]
[Sept.] 18. The camp at Eick?	Ferdinand William, Duke of Wurtemburg to the King. La Valette with 9,000 men is at Ypres. Necessity for strengthening Niewport. The march to Gaure commenced. [Ibid., No. 50.]
Sept. 18. Whitehall.	Passes for Daniel Mondon to go to Harwich and Holland; for Captain Francisco Coeli, ditto; for Anne Harwood, ditto [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37,p. 149]; and for Dr. John Cockburn to go to Holland [Ibid. 38, p. 355].
Sept. 19. Whitehall.	Order to the Lords of the Admiralty to instruct the captains and commanders of the vessels to be employed on the coasts of France to follow the orders of Captains Philips and Bembow. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book 1, p. 69.]
Sept. 19. Whitehall.	Warrant to the Lords Justices of Ireland to grant to Lieut.-Gen. Thomas Talmash, a custodiam for three years of the lands in the schedule annexed (the subject of previous warrants of 28 April and 18 August last) at a fixed annual rent. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office Letter Book 13, pp. 48–50.]
Sept. 19. Whitehall.	Warrant to the Lords Justices of Ireland. Whereas James Corry, esq., made humble petition to the King, setting forth that in 1689 his house at Castle Coole near Inniskillen was burnt, and the men he had appointed to guard the same were "commanded" into Inniskillen for our service, and his goods taken for subsisting the garrison there, as appears by a certificate under the hands of most of the chief officers of that garrison; and that he raised a troop of horse and company of foot at his own charge, and has since with difficulty supported his family in England on borrowed money; and whereas the report of the Lords Justices in July, 1692, confirms the above facts, and states that the petitioner's house was ordered to be burned with others, by the governor of Inniskillen, on receiving news that the Duke of Berwick intended to post himself in the said house, by which means the enemy's near approach to that place was prevented, which was probably the saving of the town; and whereas by a later petition the said Corry prayed us to grant him as compensation a debt of 2,000l. due by the late Earl of Tyrone to one Sir Edward Scott, a forfeiting person, now in the French King's service, and also a lease of a small estate late belonging to one Cucconaght Maguire of Tullyvill, co. Fermanagh, esq., a forfeiting person, which petition was referred to the Solicitor-General who reports thereon, giving details (here recited) of the property in question; we therefore hereby authorize you to grant the same to the said James Corry, according to the prayer of his petitions. [Ibid. pp. 53–57.]
Sept. 19. Whitehall.	The Earl of Nottingham to the Lords Justices. I have received your letter of the 9th and read it to the Queen at the committee, who fully realizes the importance of that point mentioned in it, but will not determine it before you transmit any bills from Ireland; for though there can only be one transmission before calling a parliament, yet there may be more after the issuing of the writs, etc. The reason her Majesty ordered but a few bills to be at first transmitted was only for expedition when she thought of calling a parliament there at the end of August or beginning of September, but now that reason has ceased, she wishes you to prepare as many money-bills or other matters relative to the good of the kingdom as you think proper; and that they may be more easily altered here, she would have the drafts sent over on paper not in form under the great seal, that they may be returned with the amendments.
	Her Majesty thinks of giving leave to the Lord Chancellor to come to England and attend this session of parliament, but wishes to know if you have any objection to it; you are to consider the best way of granting him leave and filling his place while in England. [S.P. Ireland King's Letter Book 1, p. 474.]
Sept. 19. Whitehall.	The Earl of Nottingham to Mr. Clark. I have laid before the Queen your letter of to-day's date. She would have you report what regiment is proper to be quartered at Norwich. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 695.]
Sept. 19.	The Earl of Nottingham to the Treasury. The Queen is informed that the Genoese ships carry goods to and from France. They are for the future to be more narrowly observed. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 695.]
Sept. 19. Whitehall.	The same to the same. I enclose [not entered] a letter from the Lords. Justices as to their salary. You are to report thereon. [Ibid., p. 696.]
Sept. 19. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of John Bingham, esq., who prays for 429l. (the sum for which the ship called the Sun of St. Malo is sold) in consideration of a ship and its lading formally taken by the said ship from the petitioners. Referred to the Treasury. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 347.]
Sept. 19. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Christopher Lovett and John Lovett. Shows that the offices of clerks of the market and packer and gauger in Ireland was granted to them by letters patent in 30 Charles II., and that they are great sufferers by the calamities of Ireland. They pray that upon the surrender of the said patent the said offices may be re-granted to John Lovett and Edward Yond. Referred to the Lords Justices of Ireland. [Ibid 3, p. 25.]
Sept. 19.	Warrant addressed to the recorder of London, for the reprieve, until the 27th Sept., of William Newbolt and Edward Butler, sentenced to death for high treason. [H.O. Warrant Book 6, p. 600.]
Sept. 19. Whitehall.	Passes for Capt. Leonard vander Stam, Adrian his son, and one servant to go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 149]; for Peter Godion, ditto; for Lawrence vander Linden, ditto; for Don John de Ponte, his wife and two servants to go to Falmouth and Spain; for Don Justo Carlier Suarer, Don Joseph Anthonio Fanardo, and Don John Baptista del Dugue to go to Gravesend and Flanders; for James Hanley, Elinor, his wife, with Hannah, John and Peter Hanley, their children, to go to Harwich and Holland [Ibid., p. 150]; for William Brincker, ditto; for Thomas Butler to go to Gravesend and Flanders; for Jean Felis to go to Harwich and Holland [Ibid., p. 151]; for David Watson, ditto; for John Bourdon, ditto [Ibid., p. 152]; for Capt. Francesco Manito, ditto [Ibid 38,p. 356]; and for Judith North to go to Holland [Ibid., p. 357].
Sept. 19. Whitehall.	Warrant for the reprieve of Elizabeth Gardner, condemned to death for clipping. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 356.]
Sept. 19. Whitehall.	Warrant to pay 200l. to Lucas Menard for his good services performed in taking the prize ship St. Charles, of Nantes. [Ibid.]
Sept. 20. Whitehall.	Warrant to the Lords Justices of Ireland to allow William Robinson, deputy paymaster-general for Ireland, to receive out of the revenues of that kingdom 7,997l. 13s. 4d., being the sum expended for clothing one regiment of foot and one regiment of dragoons raised for service in Ireland. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office Letter Book 13, p. 50.]
Sept. 20. Whitehall.	Warrant to the Lords Justices of Ireland for the recall of Elnathan Lumm, esq., from the office of paymaster-general in Ireland, to which he was appointed till the repayment was effected of sums advanced by Sir Joseph Herne, Sir Stephen Evance and Sir William Scawen. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office Letter Book 13, p. 51.]
Sept. 20. Whitehall.	Warrant to the Lords Justices of Ireland to cause the accounts of William Robinson, one of the commissaries-general for that kingdom, and his deputies, to be duly passed, he having been commanded to remain at Chester to settle the methods of transmitting provisions to Ireland, and having nominated Francis Cuff, esq., and James Vickers as his deputies. They are also to place to the account of the Earl of Donegall's regiment of foot and Colonel Cunningham's regiment of dragoons the 7,997l. 13s. 4d. expended in England for their clothing. [Ibid., p. 52.]
Sept. 20. The camp at Gaure.	The Elector of Bavaria to the King. I shall march, to-morrow, to Ninove. I have sent you the letters and relations I have received from Vienna, concerning the siege of Belgrade, and the governor of Ath's letter to the Marquis de Bedmar. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 14, No. 51.]
Sept. 20. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of John Walker, who prays for the sum of 40l. for his present support. Referred to the Treasury to report what has been lately paid to Londonderry officers. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 346.]
Sept. 20. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of John Walker. Shows that the places of clerk of the markets and of packer and gauger in Ireland are void, by reason of the former patentees, Christopher Lovett and John Lovett, not having taken the oaths. Petitioner therefore prays for a grant of the said offices. Referred to the Lords Justices of Ireland. [Ibid.]
Sept. 20. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of the master, wardens and company or fellowship of chandlers and soap-makers of the city of Bristol. They pray for new letters patent of incorporation. Referred to the Attorney-General. [Ibid., p. 347.]
Sept. 20. Whitehall.	Passes for Claude Jacobsen and Elias Johnsen to go to Harwich and Holland; for Pierre le Jeune, ditto [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 151]; for Henry Lenay, ditto; for James Rogers, Elinora Thomkins and Isabella Roberts to go to Falmouth and Spain [Ibid., p. 152]; for Nicholas Porter, Mary Porter, his daughter, and Mary Walsh to go to Holland [entered twice]; for Anne Danby, Edward and Anne Dymock, Mary and Anne Dymock, infants, and John Porter, ditto; and for John Ronsil, Madelaine Debeaude, his wife, Mary, their daughter, and John Ronsil, their brother, ditto [Ibid. 38, p. 357].
Sept. 20. Whitehall.	Warrant for the reprieve of Elizabeth Morgan, condemned to death for housebreaking. [Ibid.]
Sept. 20. Whitehall.	Warrant, addressed to Henry Legatt, for the apprehension of Thomas Aldridge, Christian Mathes, Frances Mathes, her daughter, Margaret Watson, her servant, Margaret Gill, Mary Harris, Mary Clarke, alias Martha Clare Tronside, Mary Clark, her pretended daughter, alias Mary Harrison, Ursula Fulham, and Benjamin Speering, for endeavouring to transport themselves to France. [Ibid., p. 361.]
Sept. 20. Whitehall.	Sir J. Trenchard to the Lords of the Treasury. Mr. Robinson, who is employed by their Majesties at the court of Sweden, has laid out the sum of 75l. for a particular service by the Queen's directions. Her Majesty commands that you give order that the said sum be forthwith remitted to Mr. Robinson. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 142.]
Sept. 21. Whitehall.	Passes for Jacob vanden Berg, John Maas and William Williamson to go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 152]; for Abraham Appeldoren, Jacob Johnson and Christopher Thomasz, ditto; for Eysbert Moorts, ditto; for Charles Hacker, ditto [Ibid., p. 153]; for Anne Feuguieres to go to Holland; and for John Rowte, ditto [Ibid. 38, p. 358].
Sept. 22. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to the Lords of the Admiralty. The Queen requires an account of what orders you have received and issued for victualling the main fleet for this year's service, and particularly of what ships were to be victualled, what number of men, and for how many months, when the ships came into sea provisions, and when to short allowance; also an account from the victuallers of how the said orders were complied with. Orders are to be given for hastening the twenty-five ships lately ordered, so that they may be ready if possible by the 1st October. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book 1, p. 71.]
Sept. 22. Whitehall.	Warrant to the Lords Justices of Ireland to pay 27l. and 82l. to Dionisia Hull, widow, who lost her husband in the service, as compensation for damages sustained by her through the use of two houses belonging to her in Cork by the fire-masters, and by Mr. Pierara keeping therein corn-meal, &c., and of another house in Kinsale, which was made a hospital for the sick and wounded soldiers, and quite ruined; she is a great object of charity, with a great charge of children. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office Letter Book 13, p. 57.]
Sept. 22. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of William Aldersey. Shows that he has invented two engines for cutting and washing rags for paper making, and prays for letters patent for his invention. Referred to the Attorney or Solicitor-General. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 348.]
Sept. 22. Whitehall.	Proceedings, upon the report of the Attorneys-General of England and Ireland, upon the petition of Captain John Butler and Dame Catherine, his wife. The report is as follows:— We have considered the allegations of the said petition, but the writings and evidences making out the petitioners' right and title to the mortgages in the petition mentioned have not been produced, being as yet, the petitioners affirm, in Ireland, so that we cannot inspect the same. But your Majesties' Attorney-General of Ireland affirms that he has perused the same there, and by the annexed order of your Majesties' court of Exchequer in Ireland, made the 19th of November, 1692, it appears that, by order of that court of the previous 3rd of June, it was referred to the Attorney-General of Ireland (and one of the present referees) to examine the petitioners' right, amongst other things, to the mortgages of the towns, lands and tithes of Killbeggs, Carrihill and Loughtowne, County Kildare, in the petition mentioned, and that he made a report thereupon, dated the 8th of July, 1692, whereby he certified amongst other things that William, Lord Dungan, afterwards Earl of Limerick, did, by deeds of lease and release dated the 28th and 29th of March, 1691, mortgage the said towns, lands and tithes to Alexander Eustace and his heirs for securing the payment of 800l. and the yearly sum of 80l. out of the premises till payment of the 800l., and that by endorsement on the release, dated the 13th of July, 1676, Lord Dungan acknowledged the 800l. to be the proper money of Sir Nicholas Plunkett, and that he had received 400l. more from him as an addition to the said mortgage for which Sir Nicholas was to receive 40l. per annum more out of those lands, and that by another deed of the 1st of August, 1679, Lord Dungan, taking notice of the said two sums of 800l. and 400l. for which the said premises were mortgaged, acknowledged to have received 100l. more from Sir Nicholas Plunkett as an addition to the said sums for which 10l. per annum was to be paid out of those lands, and further reported that those several deeds were proved by the affidavits of Peter Read and Peter Quin, and that Sir Nicholas Plunkett by lease and release of the 16th and 17th of September, 1680, conveyed the said lands and tithes of Killbegs, Carryhill and Loughtowne (amongst other things) to Sir Valentine Browne and others, and their heirs, to the use of Sir Nicholas for life, and after his death to the use of Dame Katherine, his wife, for her life, for her jointure, and after her death to the use of Lady Browne, then wife of Sir Valentine Browne and daughter of Sir Nicholas, and her heirs, with provision that if the said mortgages or any of them should be redeemed, then the money to be issued and secured to the same uses to which the lands were limited; that the deed was proved by the affidavit of Francis Worrall; that Sir Nicholas died on the 30th of December, 1680; that after his death his relict, Dame Katherine, married the petitioner, Col. Butler; that the said colonel had lived in England during the whole time of the late troubles, and that it appeared to him, by certificate from the clerk of the crown of the court of King's Bench, that neither of the petitioners was either indicted or outlawed, nor does it appear to us that either of them have been since indicted or outlawed. So that admitting the matter of the said report in the particulars above mentioned to be true, and that the moneys were really lent and remain due, we are of opinion that the mortgage and securities made by the said Lord Dungan as aforesaid did vest the estate in law of the said mortgaged premises in the mortgagee, and they being antecedent in time to your Majesty's title by the attainder of the Earl of Limerick, the equity of redemption only of the said mortgaged premises, upon payment of so much of the mortgage money and interest, or annuities for the same till payment, as remains due and unpaid, became forfeited by the said attainder. But as by an inquisition upon a commission for that purpose awarded, the mortgaged premises themselves were seized into your Majesty's hands, without any notice taken of the said precedent mortgage, as part of the estate of the said Earl of Limerick, forfeited for his treason, your Majesty thereby, in judgment of law, became entitled to the said mortgaged premises by double matter of record; so that there is no statute in Ireland extending to give leave in cases of high treason by plea and traverse to move your Majesty's hands as is allowed by statute in England in such case, made in the reign of King Edward VI.; the petitioners or such in whom the estate in law of the said mortgage is or shall be are therefore in strictness of law put to their petition of right for relief, which, though it be a proper, yet it is a long and chargeable way, and not to be avoided (as we conceive) unless your Majesty shall afford them either the benefit of the order of the 6th of April, 1693, granted in favour of your protestant subjects in Ireland who had incumbrances and charges upon forfeiting persons' estates (whereby leave is given to them to plead and try their titles in ordinary course of proceedings and to have allowance of such rights as shall appear upon trials) or else to vouchsafe them such other order or direction to that or the like effect, whereby they will be eased and dispatched. Referred to the Lords Justices of Ireland. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 3, p. 26.]
Sept. 22. Whitehall.	The Earl of Nottingham to Mr. Clarke. The Queen commands me to acquaint you that she would have Col. Hamilton's regiment quartered at Norwich, and you are to give the necessary orders therefor. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 696.]
Sept. 22. Whitehall.	The same to the Commissioners of Customs. You are to send to the Attorney-General copies of the bonds taken at the Custom House for preventing trade with France. [Ibid.]
Sept. 22. Whitehall.	Passes for Abraham Sabatier, Helene, his wife, Elizabeth, their daughter, John Rosny, Susanna, his wife, and John, their eldest child, to go to Harwich and Holland; for David Fries, Cornelis Roodt, Oke Holm, Lawrence Hespersen and John Jacobsz, ditto [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 153]; for Jasper Stoffelse, Paulus Janson, Cornelis Petersz, Albert Tjalensen and Martin Symons, ditto; for Elizabeth Barmeyer, ditto; for Abraham de Saint Amant to go to Gravesend and Denmark; and for Dirck Jansen, Oker Jansen, Jurian Tappes and Ary Dircks, ditto [Ibid., p. 154].
Sept. 22. Whitehall.	Warrant addressed to John Richards, treasurer of the chamber, to nominate and appoint Philip Newland to be repairer of the bridges and passages through and over the fords and boggs in the New Forest, in place of James Airay, deceased, and to allow him the salary of 20l. per annum. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 358.]
Sept. 23. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to the Lords of the Admiralty, requiring a copy of instructions to Sir George Rooke as commander of the Mediterranean ships. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book 1, p. 71.]
Sept. 23. Whitehall.	The same to the Admirals of the Fleet. A squadron of 25 ships being ordered to be forthwith fitted out, the Queen thinks it convenient you should continue some days longer with the fleet, till those ships be in greater forwardness. [Ibid., p. 72.]
Sept. 23. Whitehall.	The same to Lieutenant-Admiral Almonde. In reply to yours of the 1st October (N.S.), from on board the Haarlem at Spithead, I send you a list of the Dutch ships appointed by the King to join the English squadron now fitting out. The Guelderland and Maid of Dort, which were sent home as unfit to keep the sea, being two of the ships appointed, two others of like force must be ordered to take their place. The Queen, having no directions at present for you, leaves you to take your own time and convenience of coming to London. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book 1, p. 72.]
Sept. 23. Whitehall.	The Earl of Nottingham to the Lords Justices. The Queen is using all possible means to prevent the exportation of corn (which is likely to be dear) that the poor may not suffer, and that the French may not be supplied with it; they are under so great a scarcity that rates are very high and may possibly tempt some ill men. But this care will not be sufficient unless you take means to hinder the like abuses in Ireland; you are therefore to use the best methods to stop all exportation of corn. Her Majesty wishes you also to transmit the prices in Ireland of corn, beef, pork and other species of provisions used for victualling the Navy, for all are dear, and some very hard to procure here. [S.P. Ireland King's Letter Book 1, p. 475.]
Sept. 23. Whitehall.	Passes for Cornelis Lambert and Thomas Genoels to go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 154]; for Hans Martensen, ditto; for John Hogg, ditto; for Don Guillermo de Groote, William de Ryck and Caspar Balthasar Matthias to go to Falmouth and Spain; for Dirck Andrews, Lambert Stoffelsz, John Jacob Kuyper, Matthew Gabriel, Peter Johnsen, Gerrit Petersen and Jacob Johnsen to go to Harwich and Holland [Ibid., p. 155]; and for Michael Dupin to go to Holland [Ibid. 38, p. 358].
Sept. 23. Whitehall.	The Earl of Nottingham to Mr. Bedford. I herewith send you a petition of Joachim Sagar and Henry Struck, mariners, by the Queen's command, who wishes you to report the state of the case, as the same appeared upon the hearing before the Lords of Appeal and the reasons upon which the ship belonging to the petitioners was condemned. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 697.]
Sept. 23. Whitehall.	Sir J. Trenchard to the Mayor of Exeter. I have received your letter of the 16th inst. with an enclosed libel, no doubt dispersed with ill intentions, making the publisher, as well as the author, criminal if discovered. I have heard from Sir Edward Seymour that he has sent a further reprieve for Mr. Prowse. It is a particular satisfaction to me when I have an opportunity of gratifying you. [Ibid. 3, p. 143.]
Sept. 24. Plymouth.	Christopher Kirkby to Sir John Trenchard. I have examined at Totnes and Dartmouth the grounds of complaints made by reason of sick seamen being quartered amongst the inhabitants, and find they have arisen by people informing the poor folks there is no act of parliament to oblige them to receive the sick seamen into their houses, and blaming the government because there are not hospitals provided, whereas they ought to consider whence the money should first be raised. They also allege the men are not duly cared for because the poor quarterers are not better paid, not taking notice that in these parts they have been paid off till this summer's expedition, whereas at Portsmouth we have only been able to pay till 24 June, 1692, and at Rochester and Chatham we, are indebted almost two years. [H.O. Admiralty 6, No. 105.] Enclosing:—
	Account of men sent on shore at Brixham, Dartmouth and Totnes, and at Plymouth. [Ibid., No. 105 i.]
Sept. [24].	Thomas Phillips to the same. I got down to Long Reach the 23rd instant, and have made several trials of two of the bomb vessels, and find no manner of complaint either in the vessels, mortars or carriages. Our shooting is much straighter than in mortars from the shore, and our lengths with the same quantity of powder beyond expectation. The taking down and raising the fore rigging and mast of the vessel is wholly laid aside, which puts us in a much better posture of service. I beg orders may be sent for filling up the complement of our vessels here. [Ibid., No. 106.]
Sept. 24.	Captain Peter Cockett, commander of a privateer, to the Lords of the Admiralty. On the 9th instant Captain Stephens, commanding the Guernsey sloop, and Captain John Rounsifull, commander of the Dolphin (both private men-of-war) spied a fleet of about eleven sail of French merchantmen off the coast of Normandy, with a Danish ship of 40 guns for their convoy, who kept the merchants so close to him there was no taking any. Copy. [Ibid., No. 107.]
Sept. 24. Ehrenbreitstein.	The Elector of Treves to the King. News from the Moselle district that Marshal de Boufflers had passed that river and was marching towards the Meuse by the same route taken by the Dauphin on his going to the Palatinate. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 14, No. 52.]
Sept. 25. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to the Lords of the Admiralty. The complement of men for the squadron now preparing is to be made up out of any ships at the Nore or thereabouts, that there may be no delay in the service. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book 1, p. 72.]
Sept. 25. Gosport.	The Admirals of the Fleet to Sir John Trenchard. Seeing that we can contribute no more than any inferior flag to the forwarding of the squadron of 25 ships now ordered to be fitted out, we earnestly renew our desires for her Majesty's leave of absence; for many things of both private and public necessity make it of great importance for us to come to town. The want of leave exposes us not a little to the censures of those who have served on this expedition under our command. [H.O. Admiralty 6, No. 108.]
Sept. 25.	Caveat that nothing pass concerning a pardon to Arthur, Lord Viscount Irwin in the kingdom of Scotland—for giving Sir William Lowther, knight, justice of the peace and deputy-lieutenant, a box on the ear, in the execution of his office at the general quarter sessions of peace held at Leeds for the West Riding of York—without notice be first given to the Earl of Nottingham. Mr. William Fairfax to be acquainted with this at his chambers in Furnival's Inn. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 73, p. 17.]
Sept. 25. Whitehall.	Commissions for Gabriel Brocas de la Motte, gentleman, to be lieutenant of the company whereof Capt. Lewis de Garron de Thenie is captain in the regiment of foot lately commanded by BrigadierGeneral Francis du Cambon; for Francis Gilbert de la Motte, gentleman, to be ensign to Capt. Daniel de Virasel in the same regiment [H.O. Military Entry Book 2, p. 385]; for Richard Kane, esq., to be captain of the company whereof Captain Robert Blakeney was late captain in the regiment of foot commanded by Col. Frederick Hamilton; for Charles Fitzmorris, gentleman, to be lieutenant of the company whereof Major Robert Stearne is captain in the same regiment; and for Robert Blunt, gentleman, to be ensign of that company [Ibid., p. 386].
Sept. 25. Whitehall.	Passes for Abel Theuniss to go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 155]; for Symon Christiaantz, Christiaan Jansen Jacob Arentsz, Jan Claasz, Jan Martensz, Jan Jacobsen, Teunis Jansen, and Pieter Willemsz, ditto [Ibid., p. 156]; and for Egbert Willemse, ditto [Ibid. 38, p. 358.]
Sept. 26. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to the Lords of the Admiralty, enclosing extract of a letter from Captain Philips, for the requisite orders to be issued thereupon. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book 1, p. 73.]
Sept. 26. Whitehall.	The same to the Admirals of the Fleet. The Queen has directed the Lords of the Admiralty to send you leave to come to London, as you desire. [Ibid.]
Sept. 26. Whitehall.	The same to the Lords of the Admiralty. The Queen requires an account in writing of how the ships at Portsmouth, forming part of the squadron now fitting out, are victualled, and in what readiness they are to sail, and also what ships can be provided for convoys, according to the proposals of the merchants. The ten ships now ordered upon a particular service may be expected to return within one month, and will then be at your disposal. An account is also required of what merchant ships, from 30 guns upwards, can be hired, and in what time they can be got ready. [Ibid.]
Sept. 26. Whitehall.	The Earl of Nottingham to the Lords Justices. I have laid before the Queen your report upon the petition of Viscount Dillon, and she approves your reasons for reversing his own outlawry before that of his father, so that it may appear under what title he claims his estate. Her Majesty desires to be more fully informed whether, on the reversal of his father's outlawry, he will be restored to anything more than the title and dignity, before she declares her pleasure on that point. You are, therefore, to report the case as it shall appear, so soon as Lord Dillon has reversed his own outlawry. [S.P. Ireland King's Letter Book 1, p. 373.]
Sept. 26. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Richard Griffin, father of Richard Griffin, now prisoner in Newgate. Shows that his said son is eighteen years old, was well educated but got into bad company and was taken and tried at the last assizes in Surrey for robbery, for which he was acquitted. But about the latter end of June last, Henry Tredway, of Hertfordshire, accused his said son of breaking into his house, and kept him in prison ever since in hopes of getting money out of him, but never preferred any indictment against him. Justice Dolben, observing this, thought fit to have him discharged if nothing was brought against him. Petitioner prays, in consideration of his son's youth, that his name may be inserted in the next general pardon for poor convicts of Newgate. Referred to Sir William Dolben. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 3, p. 29.]
Sept. 26. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the report of the Commissioners of the Treasury as to the petition of George Treswell Fashaw, Elizabeth Plowden and Ursula Grimston (who prayed for relief concerning certain annuities and sums due to them out of an estate in Ireland, which was seized), together with a report made thereupon by Sir Richard Levinge, knt., solicitor-general of Ireland. Referred back to the Treasury to give effect to the Solicitor-General's recommendation. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 3, p. 30.]
Sept. 26. Ninove.	Ferdinand William, Duke of Wurtemburg, to the King. Refers to the candidates for vacant offices; you will best judge their capacity. The four regiments of infantry destined for Louvain with Brigadier Fagel will leave to-morrow. The regiment of Weede has gone to Ath. Brigadier Vittinghoff died at Brussels; he is regretted, being a good officer. The Duke of Holstein Sonderburg, who is lieutenantcolonel to the Queen, and served in Ireland in that quality, claims the deceased's regiment. Charleroi still holds out. Refers to the supply of bread during the winter. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 14, No. 53.]
Sept. 26. Ninove.	The Elector of Bavaria to the King. The intention of the enemy is to attack Niewport. The siege of Belgrade is raised. Fears that the Emperor will send Prince Louis of Baden into Hungary. [Ibid., No. 54.]
Sept. 26. Ninove.	Jean Adolf, Duke of Holstein, to the King. All here remains in the same condition as when you left. To-day Mons. Fagel marches with the four battalions to Louvain. Describes the artillery he takes with him. News of firing heard in the direction of Charleroi. La Forest left yesterday for Hamburg. [Ibid., No. 55.]
Sept. 26. Whitehall.	The Earl of Nottingham to the Commissioners of the Treasury. I have received a letter from the Lords Justices and Council of Ireland, about allowing the payments on the Concordatum, which exceeds the sum allotted for that service for two years and a half, ending at Midsummer last past, and for augmenting the Concordatum money in the future. I have laid the same before the Queen, and by her command enclose you [not entered] a copy of the letter, together with the accounts transmitted to me, that you may consider thereof and report your opinion as soon as convenient. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 697.]
Sept. 26. Whitehall.	The same to Sir James Leslie. I have received your letter of the 19th inst. and have moved the Queen as you desire for leave to come to town, which she has granted, and I will procure a licence for you in form under the Queen's hand by the time you arrive. [Ibid., p. 698.]
Sept. 26. Whitehall.	The same to Mr. Stock. I have received your letter of the 24th inst., and by the Queen's command have written to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury that they might pay you the 12l. for the two pilots mentioned in your letter. [Ibid.]
Sept. 26. Whitehall.	The Earl of Nottingham to the Treasury. The Queen desires that you order the sum of 12l. to be paid to Mr. Abraham Stock, expended by him at Deal for their Majesties' service. [Ibid.]
Sept. 26. Whitehall.	Passes for Peter Masico, Esther, his wife, and their four children to go to Harwich and Holland; for John le Feore, ditto; for Eysbrand Jacobsen Wintgever and Jacob Plaetman, ditto; for Peter Favier, Henry Hageman and Dirck Worckman, ditto [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 156]; for John Petersen, Lambert Jansen, Claas Symonsen, John Stevensen and Huybert Harmans, ditto; for Claas Benden and Jacob Tell, ditto; for Mary Jacobsen, ditto [Ibid., p. 157]; for Cornelia Hüysman and two children, and Johanna Leuvenstein and one child, ditto [Ibid., p. 158]; for Pieter Kovy, Reyer Munt, Abraham Fransen and Hendrick Buys, Dutch seamen, to go to Holland; and for Laurentz Huybertsen, Jan Cornelissen, Jan Foy and Frans Tyssen, also Dutch seamen, ditto [Ibid. 38, p. 359].
Sept. 26. Whitehall.	Confirmation of the election of Thomas Price, gentleman, as town clerk of the borough of Leominster, in the county of Hereford. [Ibid.]
Sept. 26. Whitehall.	Reprieve, for eight days, of William Newbolt and Edward Butler, sentenced to death at the Old Bailey for high treason. [Ibid. 38, p. 360.]
Sept. 27. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to the Lords of the Admiralty, enclosing papers for their consideration. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book 1, p. 73.]
Sept. 27. Whitehall.	The same to the same, transmitting a proposal of Mr. Dowding to build a brigantine to cruise upon the coast of Sussex, to hinder the commerce and correspondence with France. You are to order the 60 men of Sir David Collier's regiment, now on shipboard, to be put on shore; the hundred grenadiers at Portsmouth are to be taken on board such vessels of the squadron now fitting out as Captain Philips shall direct. [Ibid., p. 74.]
Sept. 27. Whitehall.	The same to the Treasury. Refers to their consideration Mr. Dowding's proposal for hindering commerce with France, in order to which he desires to have a deputation from the Commissioners of Customs, and a writ of assistance. [Ibid., and H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 143.]
[Sept.] 27. Sheerness.	Thomas Phillips to [Sir John Trenchard]. The bad weather this day or two has hindered our disposing of the stores on each vessel, which done we shall take the first "slatch" of weather for the Downs. I have been forced to complete the complement of the bomb vessels from the men-of-war. Orders should be given to the flag officers at Portsmouth to see that such ships as are ordered on this service be fully manned, and this with dispatch, as the first change of wind will put us thither before they are aware. I desire the men detached from the land forces may be sent that way as soon as possible, to be quartered at Portsmouth or in the Isle of Wight. [H.O. Admiralty 6, No. 109.]
Sept. 27. Whitehall.	Sir J. Trenchard to Viscount Sydney. The Queen commands me to give you orders for a double set of bedding to be sent to Portsmouth, for the use of the garrison there. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 144.]
Sept. 27. Whitehall.	Passes for Francis Marsand to go to Harwich and Holland; for Gerrit Willems and Pieter Arendts, ditto [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 157]; for Bouire Pietersen and Roelf Barentsen, ditto; for Mr. Curtius von Granatenbourgh and Mr. Henry Burchwart, ditto; for Lawrence Grasshof, his wife, and one child, ditto; and for Jacob Mitchel, ditto [Ibid., p. 158].
Sept. 27. Whitehall.	Warrant addressed to Henry Legatt for the apprehension of Samuel Wynne. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 360.]
Sept. 28.	[Sir Charles Hedges ?] to the Earl of Nottingham. The goods in the St. Joseph were condemned on 11 Dec., 1690, the same being three times taken and pillaged: first by the Expedition packet, then by a French privateer, and retaken by the Dover frigate; what remained was of little value. [H.O. Admiralty 5, p. 258.]
Sept. 28. Gosport.	The Admirals of the Fleet to Sir John Trenchard, thanking him for obtaining the Queen's leave for them to come to town. [Ibid. 6, No. 110.]
Sept. 28.	Prince Louis of Baden to the King. Describes the measures he has adopted to check the movements of the French on the Rhine. Complains of the absence of the troops of Saxony. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 14, No. 56.]
Sept. 28. London.	News letter addressed to Mrs. Katherine Gastle on the Sandhill at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Mr. Abraham Stock, postmaster of Dover, has written to town that a Flushing privateer has landed there two gentlemen who left Ghent this day week. They say that Charleroi held out then and made a vigorous defence, and that as they came away there ran a report that the French were going off from before it and to convert the siege into a blockade. These gentlemen add that the King had gone to Loo and that the Elector of Bavaria had received an express from Vienna with advice that the Duke de Crox [Croux?] had repulsed a great party of the Grand Vizier's army which attempted to relieve Belgrade, and afterwards had taken the counterscarp; he had made a lodgment and did not doubt but his next letters to the Emperor would be dated from the castle of Belgrade.
	Yesterday morning Lord Lovelace died and left no male issue, so that the honour descends to a kinsman of his name. By his death became vacant the places of justice in oyer and captain of the band of gentlemen pensioners, but the said places will not be disposed of until the return of his Majesty, though the Duke of Northumberland, and several other persons of mark put in for them. We had yesterday a current report upon the Exchange that the Diamond frigate, homeward bound from Barbadoes with merchant ships, had fallen into the hands of the French, but we suspend the entire credit of this news until we have a more particular account of it.
	The King is expected from Holland the next fair wind, his palace at Kensington being fitted for his reception. They write from the coast of Sussex that Captain Caswell, commander of the Revenge, laden with fruit from Malaga, fought a Dunkirk privateer of 16 guns for several hours until the French struck, but his ship accidentally blew up, and all his men were lost except such as had entered the French ship. He had on board 300 "frailes" of raisons. Yesterday was a great hearing before the Council on an appeal brought by the owners of the Stockholm, a Swedish ship condemned some time since as prize; after a long debate such part of the cargo as was contraband goods was condemned and the rest ordered to be restored to the owners.
	We have accounts from France that Major-General Maxwell, who was so long a prisoner in the Tower and since exchanged, died at St. Germains. It is said that the city of Bath has incurred the displeasure of the court, for which they will be punished. The printers are reprieved until this day week. It is said 45 English and Dutch men-of-war will be equipped and sent, before Christmas, to the Mediterranean with the Turkey and Straits' fleet, and afterwards join the "Spanish Armada" to favour the enterprises of the Duke of Savoy. Yesterday 30,000l. was brought into the Exchequer upon the Fund Bill, so that there is now brought in upon that project above 800,000l., and upon the city loan 152,000l. We have account from Milford that a Dutch caper, which had been crusing on the coast of Ireland for three weeks, had retaken and brought thither an English ship of 300 tuns which was taken on her way home by a French caper. There is advice from St. Malo that four of the most eminent merchants in the town "are broke." The mail for Holland was robbed some days ago between this and Harwich. Some nights ago the Duke of Gloucester's coach carrying a lady to Kensington was set upon by highwaymen who demanded to know which in the coach was the Duke of Leinster, as they meant to kill him; but the Duke of Leinster was not there, having gone to his house at Turnham Green.
	Advice from Scotland states that the Earl of Seaforth had an indictment of high treason delivered him by the herald "with sound of trumpet" to be tried before the lords of the justiciary on the 2nd of November. Viscount Kilsyth, who was in rebellion with Dundee, was married in prison to Lady Dundee. To-morrow commences the election of lord mayor for London. The candidates on one side are Sir Jonathan Raymond and Sir Thomas Cooke and on the other side Sir John Houblon and Sir William Ashurst, and it is believed the latter will carry it. [Greenwich Hospital News Letter, Vol. 4, No. 22, and Entry Book 5, pp. 77–81.]
Sept. 28. Whitehall.	Sir J. Trenchard to Mr. Lawrence. Her Majesty is informed that "great heats and animosities" are still kept up in the town of Colchester, upon the occasion of a pretended petition to the prejudice of the rights of the freemen there, whereas, in reality, no such petition was ever presented. As her Majesty is fully satisfied of your innocence (and accordingly gave orders for your discharge from any further prosecution on that account), so she expects that you will use your utmost endeavour to heal these differences; and in order thereunto you are to declare to the freemen of the town that you are satisfied that no such petition has been delivered. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 143.]
Sept. 28. Whitehall.	Commission for Samuel Roberts, gentleman, to be ensign to Captain Basil Purefoy in Col. Frederick Hamilton's regiment of foot. [H.O. Military Entry Book 2, p. 386.]
Sept. 28. Whitehall.	Proclamation declaring that the parliament shall, on the 3rd of October next, be further prorogued till Thursday, 27th of October, and requiring the attendance of members that day. [S.P. Dom. Proclamations 6, p. 97.]
Sept. 28. Whitehall.	Passes for Peter Favier, Henry Hageman and Dirck Worckman to go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 156]; for John Petersen, Lambert Jansen, Claas Symonsen, John Stevensen and Huybert Harmans, ditto; for Claas Benden and Jacob Tell, ditto; for Mary Jacobsz, ditto [Ibid., p. 157]; for Ary Jansen to go to Harwich and Holland; for Mary vander Star and two children, ditto; for John Hendrickse, Peter van Ryne, Maria Ambrosius and one child, and Martha Peters and two children, ditto; for John Arnold, ditto [Ibid., p. 159]; for Reinier Roelant, John Sinjeer, and Catherine de Vedt and a little child, ditto; for Catherine Keurlam, ditto; for Mary Portenton, ditto; for Stephen Sarrasin to go to Deal and Portugal [Ibid., p. 160]; for Joseph Burne and one child to go to Harwich and Holland [Ibid., p. 161]; for Thomas White to go to Holland; and for Bashaan Claarz, John Hendrick, Adrian Rex and Abraham Teransen, Dutch seamen, ditto [Ibid. 38, p. 361].
Sept. 29. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to Lieutenant-Admiral Almonde, desiring him to come to London as soon as he conveniently can. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book 1, p. 74.]
Sept. 29. Whitehall.	The same to the Lords of the Admiralty. You are to send an express to Sir George Rooke to come to town immediately; and as soon as he arrives to come to me at my office, her Majesty having given me something in command to say to him. Order is to be given to the Victuallers to furnish provisions for a fortnight or three weeks for 25 men on board two of the machine vessels at Chatham, and that the commissioner or master attendant at Portsmouth assist and supply any ships of the Levant Company now there with such stores as they need for going to sea, the ships paying for the same. [Ibid., p. 75.]
Sept. 29. Whitehall.	The same to the Victualling Commissioners. The Queen commands that you forthwith make the best enquiry you can of the price of all provisions proper for the fleet in Ireland, and report whether provision for the fleet may conveniently be made in that kingdom. [Ibid.]
Sept. 29. Whitehall.	The same to the Admirals of the Fleet. The Queen has given me something in command to say to you upon your arrival in town, and would accordingly have you come to me as soon as you reach London. [Ibid.]
Sept. 29. Admiralty Office.	The Lords of the Admiralty to Sir J. Trenchard. In obedience to her Majesty's commands signified to us by your letter of the 26th inst. we send you an account of the readiness of such of the ships of the twenty-five ordered to be fitted out as are now at Portsmouth, and we have directed that an account be given us as to how they are victualled, which shall be transmitted to you. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 640.]
Sept. 29. Admiralty Office.	The Lords of the Admiralty to Sir J. Trenchard. By letter dated the 27th inst., the Admirals of the Fleet have given us an account of what men are wanting for the ships at Portsmouth designed on service, and reported that it will be impossible to keep the ships manned unless some effectual orders be given to the civil magistrates for seizing deserters on the roads. They also propose putting the men to whole allowance of provisions. We send you an extract of their said letter. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 644.] Enclosing:—
	Extract of a letter from the Admirals of the Fleet to the Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated at Gosport, 27 Sept., 1693. As we informed you in our letter of the 25th, by express, we have directed Sir George Rooke to cause the companies of the St. Andrew, Neptune, Vanguard and Grafton to be turned over, correspondent to your orders, and the said ships to go into harbour; but the weather has been so bad for the last two or three days that little progress could be made in it. This has also prevented Sir George giving us a list to send you of what men are turned over, that we might know what men are wanting to be sent down for manning the several ships designed for the service. We think about 2,000 men will be required to supply the ships here to the complements directed. The seamen sicken very much, and leave their ships by every opportunity, so that if care be not taken and effectual orders given to the civil magistrates for seizing, stopping, and securing them on the roads, we conclude it will be impossible to keep the fleet manned.
	In our letter of the 22nd of August we gave you our opinions that it would be good for the service and satisfactory to the seamen to go to whole allowance from the beginning of this month, the approaching winter making it necessary. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 648.]
Sept. 29.	Account of the readiness of such of the twenty-five men-of-war and six fireships, designed for winter service, as are now at Portsmouth and Spithead. [Ibid. 6, No. 111.]
[Sept.] 29. The Nore.	Captain Thomas Phillips to Sir J. Trenchard. I have made shift at last to dispose of the men from the men-of-war that go with me to supply the bomb-vessels and tenders; otherwise I should not have been in a posture of sailing. I now hear the Admiralty have ordered a supply of men from Rear-Admiral Mitchell, and I have sent a ship to the Gunfleet for them. I desire you earnestly to give positive orders that the ships at Spithead be in readiness, otherwise we may be delayed as we have been here. Captain Benbow is gone that way. The vessels are all fitted and in good order. [Ibid., No. 112.]
Sept. 29. "Godlyman" [Godalming].	The Admirals of the Fleet to [the same]. Your messenger has just met us; we will wait on you upon our arrival in London. [Ibid., No. 113.]
Sept. 29. London.	W. Meisters to the same. Six of the machine vessels are laid up at Portsmouth, and all their men gone to Holland, being unwilling to continue any longer in the service. The two other machine vessels are come round to Chatham, laden with powder and other stores for which I could not find a convenient storehouse at Portsmouth. The men on board were going with the others to Holland, but I promised them fair that they should be dismissed at Chatham, where they now are without provisions. [H.O. Admiralty 6, No. 114.] Enclosing:—
	Account of the condition of the machine ships, and what is necessary to make them capable of cruising with the ships. [Ibid., No. 114 i.]
Sept. 29. Whitehall.	Warrant to the Lords Justices of Ireland to remit to Lord Galway the rents reserved on the lands granted him under warrants of 28 April and 27 June last, excepting the ancient quit rents thereon due and the sum of 69l. 2s. 4d. per annum, granted out of the said rents, reserved to Edmund Power, esq., for the service of himself and a troop of horse which he placed at the King's disposal. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office Letter Book 13, p. 62.]
Sept. 29. The camp at Ninove.	The Elector of Bavaria to the King. Encloses letters relative to operations against Charleroi. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 14, No. 57.] Enclosures:—The letters referred to. [Ibid., No. 57 i. to 57 iv.]
Sept. 29.	State of the revenue of the Duchy of Cornwall as the same stood at Michaelmas. [Ibid., 58.]
Sept. 29. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of William Newbolt and Edward Butler. Shows that they worked at a printing-press where 40 of the late King James's declarations were printed, though none of them published, for which they are under sentence of death for high treason. Petitioners state they had no evil intentions, but merely worked out of necessity to make a living, and pray for pardon. Referred to Sir William Dolben, knt., who tried them. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 348.]
Sept. 29. Whitehall.	Warrant for the grant of a charter for the East India Company. The charter is fully set out. [H.O. Warrant Book 6, pp. 600–611.]
Sept. 29. Whitehall.	Passes and post warrants for John Cornelissen to go to Harwich and Holland; for Henry de Vie, ditto; for Magdalen Beaurain, with David, John, Peter, Magdalen, and Suzanna, her four (sic) children, ditto [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 161]; for Dirck Willemse and Martin Posewaart, ditto; for Anthony da Costa, ditto; for Thomas Newlin, the messenger, to go to Falmouth; for Gerrit Willemsen to go to Harwich and Holland [Ibid., p. 162]; for Hendrick Boys to go to Holland; for John Robinson and James Stirling, ditto [Ibid. 38, p. 361]; and for Lambert Mercier, his wife and two children, Toussaintes du Chateau, his wife and three children, John Schames, his wife and one child, John Penan, his wife and two children, and Andrew Rant, his wife and one child, ditto [Ibid., p. 362].
Sept. 29. Whitehall.	Warrant addressed to Richard Hopkins for the apprehension of Francis West. [Ibid.]
[Sept. 30.]	Heads of a proposed charter for incorporating the soapmakers and chandlers of the city of Bristol. William Lewis to be first master of the company, and Francis Cadwallader and Nathaniel Ball first wardens. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 5, No. 26a.]
Sept. 30. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to the Lords of the Admiralty. The Queen commands strict orders to be sent to the commander-in-chief at Spithead that no leave be given to any seaman to go on shore without very good cause till the squadron now fitting out is manned; and if there be not sufficient men for the purpose of manning, they are to be sent, as soon as may be, from the river. More caulkers, and other hands necessary for the fitting out of the said ships are to be engaged. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book 1, p. 76.]
Sept. 30. Admiralty Office.	The Lords of the Admiralty to Sir J. Trenchard. We have received a letter from Peter Cockett, commander of a privateer belonging to Guernsey, which gives an account of his meeting with several French merchant ships under the convoy of a Danish ship of about 40 guns. We send you a copy of the said letter. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 652.]
Sept. 30. Victualling Office.	The Victualling Commissioners to the same. The price of beef and pork in Ireland is little more than half what it is in England, but the English beef is far better and can here be more certainly cured. The price of butter is likewise lower, but there has to be considered the cost of freight, the hazard of its quality and the uncertainty of its coming by sea. This year we had a vessel with butter thence, which was from the 8th of March to the latter end of June before it arrived at the fleet, by reason of the uncertainty of winds and staying for convoy; so we are of opinion there can be no dependence upon what can be provided there to supply the fleet. [Ibid. 6, No. 115.] Enclosing:—Statement of the prices of provisions in Ireland. [Ibid., No. 115 i.]
Sept. 30. Whitehall.	Earl of Nottingham to Lord Capell. I cannot give you an answer to your letter of the 18th till the King returns. The Queen will not give any directions in the matter which was first proposed to the King, and he thought fit to defer his resolution in it; possibly the forfeited estates may be a more proper and natural fund for this service than the ordinary revenue. I have not written to the Lords Justices about their letter of the 15th, touching the concordatum money, but, by the Queen's commands, the papers have been referred to the Treasury. [S.P. Ireland King's Letter Book 1, p. 476.]
Sept. 30. London.	The Marquis of Carmarthen to the King. Lord Lovelace being dead, give me leave to put you in mind of your formerly intended favour to Lord Abingdon for the office of justice in eyre south of the Trent. I hope you will forgive my presumption to request his place of captain of the pensioners for my son Danby, you having formerly intended him a place of benefit in the grant of the Post Office, and those in which he has served you, having been employed at very great expense to him. You may bestow the command of his regiment of Marines upon somebody who will look upon it as a great favour. If you were informed of the sums he has expended in your service, both at sea and amongst those poor marine officers who are starving, I am sure you would have a consideration of that alone, and I am sure he is not so ambitious of anything in this world as to signalize himself in something for your service. There being now four mails wanting and not hearing anything of you, makes us all very uneasy, but I hope we shall see you as soon as the letters. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 14, No. 59.]
Sept. 30. Ninove.	Ferdinand William, Duke of Wurtemburg to the King. Since my last nothing considerable has passed. It is said there are 500 soldiers from the English hospital in a fit state to return to the army, but, as a relapse is feared, which is very common, everyone is to go to his quarters. Mr. Talmash being taken ill has gone to Ghent, but Lieutenant-General Tettau has recovered. Refers to the suggested attacking and burning of Huy, whilst the enemy are engaged with Charleroi; the Bishop would not permit this to be done, and they await orders from you. As to the quarters at Liege, the charter house and citadel are utilised for the purpose. Colonel Braw wishes to have his battalion increased, and the six Danish battalions also wish for an increase, as they lost some of their number in going to England. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 14, No. 60.]
Sept. 30.	Memorandum on the progess of operations of the French against Charleroi. [Ibid., No. 61.]
Sept. 30. Whitehall.	The Earl of Nottingham to the Bishop of Peterborough. The Queen has been informed that Mr. Gilbert, a minister in Peterborough, during the whole summer has omitted to read prayers appointed to be used for their Majesties' preservation and success and that he has also preached that God Almighty has not set their Majesties over us, but only permitted them as He often does judgments for the sins of a nation. This is so scandalous and seditious that I am commanded to write to you to inquire into the truth of these matters, and desire that you will send me an account thereof. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 699.]
Sept. 30. Whitehall.	Commission for Nicholas Lysaght, gentleman, to be lieutenant of the company whereof Capt. Charles Greaves is captain in the royal regiment of dragoons, commanded by Col. Edward Mathews. [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 135.]
Sept. 30. Whitehall.	Passes for John Colonia to go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 162]; for Mrs. Elizabeth D'Offues to go to Falmouth and Spain; for Edward Gerritsen, Gaspar Fransen and Thomas Coning, to go to Harwich and Holland [Ibid., p. 163]; for Mr. Samuel Birch, his wife and child, to go to Portugal; for John Jorisz, mariner, to go to Holland; and for George Lints, John Johnson, Samuel Johnson and Martin Andriesz, ditto [Ibid. 38, p. 362].
[Sept.]	Petition of the Turkey Company that orders may be given to the master of attendance at Portsmouth to assist some of their ships that have returned to the Isle of Wight, amongst them the George, Captain Boucher, a heavily-laden ship, obliged to carry a much greater sail in her flight from the enemy than was convenient in her circumstances, by reason whereof she has sprung a leak; signed by Gabriel Roberts, deputy governor. [H.O. Admiralty 6, No. 116.]
[Sept.] The camp at Gaure.	The Elector of Bavaria to the King. It is reported that La Valette is at Arlebeck. Doubts as to the number of his army. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 14, No. 62.]
[Sept.]	The same to the same. As to the siege of Charleroi. [Ibid., No. 63.]