William and Mary: March 1694 | British History Online

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1694-5. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1906.

'William and Mary: March 1694', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1694-5, (London, 1906) pp. 46-83. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/will-mary/1694-5/pp46-83 [accessed 23 April 2024]

March 1694



March 1. Whitehall.	Commissions for William Murray, esq., to be captain in the regiment of Scottish foot guards, commanded by Brigadier-General George Ramsey, with power to take rank as lieutenant-colonel of foot; for James Calhoone, gent., to be lieutenant of LieutenantColonel Scott's company in the same regiment, with power to take rank as captain of foot [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 168]; for James Cunningham, esq., to be lieutenant of Lieutenant-Colonel William Murray's company in the same regiment; for James Scott, esq., to be captain in the same regiment, and to take the place of lieutenant-colonel of foot [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 169]; for John Foules, esq., to be captain-lieutenant of that company in the regiment of Scots foot guards, commanded by Brigadier-General George Ramsay, whereof he himself is captain, with rank as lieutenantcolonel; for William Ramsay, esq., to be lieutenant of the company of which Peter Ronald is captain in the same regiment, and to command and to take rank as captain of foot; for Peter Atcherley, alias Ashley, esq., to be captain of a troop to be forthwith raised and added to the regiment of dragoons commanded by Thomas, Lord Fairfax [Ibid., p. 174]; for Henry Trenchard, gent., to be lieutenant of the company of which Captain —— Abington is captain in the regiment of foot commanded by Brigadier-General Thomas Earle [Ibid., p. 176]; for Joshua Churchill, esq., to be captain of the company of which Colonel Charles Manwaring was captain, in the regiment of foot commanded by Brigadier-General Charles Churchill; for Henry Desonay, gent., to be ensign of the company of which Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Pitcarne, alias Wheeler, is captain in the first regiment of foot guards commanded by Viscount Sydney [Ibid., p. 177]; for Robert Dent., esq., to be lieutenant of the troop of grenadier guards commanded by Colonel George Cholmondeley, and to take rank as eldest captain of horse; for Basil Beaumont, esq., to be captain of Captain John Clements' company in the second marine regiment of foot, commanded by Lord Berkeley [Ibid., p. 178]; for Edward Shadwell, esq., to be captain-lieutenant to the Duke of Bolton's company in his regiment of foot; for Mr. Alvery Dodsley to be surgeon to the regiment of foot commanded by Colonel John Beaumont; for Roger Davis, gent., to be lieutenant to Captain Lancelot Sandys' company in the regiment of foot commanded by Colonel William Selwyn [Ibid., p. 180]; for Richard Morley, esq., to be guidon and eldest captain to Colonel George Cholmondeley's troop of grenadier guards and to command and take rank as eldest captain of horse; for Clode Bernard, gent., to be ensign to Captain —— Cornwallis in the regiment of foot commanded by Colonel John Beaumont [Ibid., p. 181]; for Mr. Francis Alexander to be adjutant of the regiment of foot commanded by the Duke of Bolton; for Mr. John Pipin to be ensign of that company of which Lieutenant Colonel William Norton is captain in the same regiment; for Mr. Joseph Bulmer to be ensign of the company of which Captain Charles Morgan is captain in the same regiment; for Mr. Thomas Kitson to be captain of the company of which Major Thomas Hooper was captain in the same regiment [Ibid., p. 182]; for Mr. Richard Collier to be chaplain to the regiment of horse commanded by Hugh Windham [Ibid., p. 183]; for Thomas Toogood, gent., to be lieutenant to Lieut.-Colonel Norton in the regiment of foot commanded by the Duke of Bolton; for Robert Oulds, esq., to be captain-lieutenant of the company in the regiment of foot commanded by Colonel Edward Lloyd, of which he himself is captain; for Timothy Banks, gent., to be lieutenant of the company of grenadiers, of which Captain John Titchborne is captain in the same regiment; for —— Wallis, gent., to be lieutenant to Captain Cornelius Manning in the same regiment; for William Howell, gent., to be lieutenant to Captain William Lowers in the same regiment; for John Lloyd, gent., to be ensign to Captain William Lloyd in the same regiment; for William Parker, gent., to be ensign to Captain Thomas Kynaston in the same regiment; for Walter Goodwin, esq., to be captain of the company of which Captain John Connox, deceased, was captain in the Marquis de Rada's regiment of foot [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 184]; for John Brown, surgeon, to be surgeon to the troop of grenadier guards commanded by Colonel George Cholmondeley [Ibid., p. 187]; for George Fowke, gent., to be lieutenant to Captain Thomas Brent, in the regiment of foot commanded by Charles, Earl of Monmouth; for John Gurson, gent., to be lieutenant of the company of grenadiers of which Captain Archibald Hamilton is captain in the regiment of foot commanded by Colonel John Beaumont [Ibid., p. 189]; for Streamer Thomas, gent., to be ensign of the company in the regiment of foot commanded by Brigadier-general Earle, of which he himself is captain; for Mr. Carre to be adjutant in Colonel Langston's regiment [Ibid., p. 190]; for Captain Arthur O'Neale, gent., to be ensign to Captain —— Pitts, in the regiment of foot commanded by Brigadier-General Thomas Earle [Ibid., p. 191]; for Lancelot Manning, clerk, to be chaplain to Colonel Samuel Venner's regiment of foot [Ibid., p. 192]; for John Bridges, gent., to be sub-brigadier of the second troop of horse guards of which James, Duke of Ormond, is captain and colonel, and to take the rank as cornet (sic) of horse [Ibid., p. 195]; for Charles Ashfield, esq., to be lieutenant of the troop of which Captain George Holgate is captain in the regiment of dragoons commanded by Algernon, Earl of Essex; for Robert Calcroft, gent., to be lieutenant of the company of grenadiers of which Captain Brathwayte is captain in the regiment of foot commanded by George, Viscount Castleton [Ibid., p. 200]; and for Robert Wind, gent., to be lieutenant to Captain Andrew Abington in the regiment of foot commanded by Brigadier-General Thomas Earle [Ibid., p. 205].
March 1. Whitehall.	Warrant to the Lords of the Admiralty rescinding the Queen's order of September 5, 1690, that the two marine regiments should not be recruited till farther order; and directing that the said two regiments should be now recruited as soon as possible, and each man of the said recruits to be allowed 40s. [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 169.]
March 1. Whitehall.	Appointment for Christopher Dalston, esq., to be lieutenantgovernor of the town and castle of Carlisle and of the fort and fortifications there. [Ibid., p. 202.]
March 1. Whitehall.	Pass for John Renier to go to Holland, on the recommendation of C. Piores, French minister. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 505.]
March 1. Whitehall.	Warrant, in consequence of the petition of Sir John Buckworth, to enter a Noli prosequi upon an indictment preferred against him by the name of John Buckworth, late of Richmond, Surrey, esq., at the last Lent Assizes, for not repairing a bridge at Weybridge over the river Wey, he being only a "termer for years" in the manor of Byfleet under a lease made by the late Queen-Mother's trustees. [Ibid.]
March 2. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to the Lords of the Admiralty, requiring a protection from pressing for John Adcocke of Deale, a witness at the next Kent assizes against William Wing and Nicholas Rolfe. [H.O. Admiralty 3, p. 86.]
March 2. Whitehall.	The same to the same. Orders are to be given to some of the master-builders to join with Col. Richards in taking up twelve vessels into their Majesties' service, each of which vessels is to carry one mortar. (fn. 1) [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book I, p. 102.]
March 2. On board the Albemarle, at Blackstakes.	Sir George Rooke to [Sir John Trenchard], enclosing the weekly account (not preserved here). Since making it up the Suffolk and Hope have sailed to the buoy at the Nore. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 694.]
March 2.	Return of progress made in fitting the ships, signed by Sir George Rooke. [Ibid., 8, p. 257.]
March 2. Whitehall.	Passes for Mr. Lamb, their Majesties' master-cook, and two servants, to go to Holland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 505]; for Mr. Edward Robinson, ensign in Colonel O'Farrell's regiment, and two servants, ditto [Ibid., p. 506].
March 2. Whitehall.	Commission for Charles Churchill, esq., to be major-general over all and singular the forces, horse and foot. [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 175.]
March 3. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Henry Petty, esq., setting forth a devise by will of his father, Sir William Petty, of lands in co. Kerry, Ireland, charged with a quit-rent to the Crown of 400l.; the said lands are now diminished in value, and he prays letters patent for an abatement of the rent to 200l. Referred for report to the Treasury. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 375.]
March 3. Whitehall.	Sir J. Trenchard to Mr. Fortescue. I have received yours of the 28th past, with the enclosed information of Stephen Clark, which I shall lay before his Majesty as a mark of your care in his service. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 162.]
March 3. Whitehall.	The same to the Mayor of Warwick. I wrote you in December last concerning one Alexander Selon, a prisoner at Warwick; as he is still detained I suppose that letter may have never been delivered, therefore I send you a copy of it to report to you that I know of nothing to charge him with that should hinder his being set at liberty. Enclosure not here appended. [Ibid., p. 161.]
March 3. Whitehall.	The same to the Commissioners of the Treasury. The enclosed petition of the executors of Mr. Harbord, late paymaster of the forces in Ireland, with the papers annexed, having been laid before the king, his Majesty commands me to send the same to you that you may report your opinion thereof. Enclosures not here appended. [Ibid.]
March 3. Whitehall.	The same to the Mayor of Poole. I have received your letter of the 8th of February, and communicated your desires to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, who made no difficulty in complying with them, but they require that the number of boats be specified to which these men belong, for whom protections are desired. It is necessary that every boat should have one to produce upon occasion to the pressmaster. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 161.]
March 3. Whitehall.	Warrant to search for Paul Pepper, for treasonable and seditious practices against their Majesties and the Government. [S.P. Dom., Warrant Book 38, p. 507.]
March 3. Whitehall.	Passes for Colonel James Ferguson and three servants to go to Holland; for Christofle Carré, a French Protestant, ditto; for Francis Bavais and two children, ditto; and for Thomas Briess, Margery Gould and John Barker, ditto. [Ibid.]
March 3. Admiralty Office.	An account of all their Majesties' ships of the first, second, third, fourth and fifth rates now in pay, with the condition of those in port and the present stations of such of them as are at sea. [H.O. Admiralty 8, p. 251.]
March 3. Whitehall.	Commission for Mr. John Balfour to be ensign of the company of which Captain Ralph Hedley is captain in John Beaumont's regiment. [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 182.]
March 3. Dublin Castle.	The Lords Justices to Mr. Secretary Trenchard. To the Solicitor General's report made in compliance with the King's commands signified by yours of the 12th, we have only this to add, that in October last Mr. McCarroll came to us and told us he was newly landed from Rochelle, and that his wife and children would follow. But there were so many circumstances which made us suspect the sincerity of his relation (which we acquainted Lord Nottingham with in ours of the 28th of Oct.), that we committed him, and ordered prosecution against his ships and cargo; and it has since appeared that our suspicion was well grounded. [S.P. Ireland 356, No. 18.]
March 3. Ordnance Office.	Representation by the Ordnance Board to the King on the state of the forts and fortifications of Jersey and Guernsey, and what is fit to be done to put the islands in a better state of defence.
	It appears from the books and accounts of this office, that in 1689 the inhabitants of Jersey represented to your Majesty the danger they then apprehended from France, and the necessity there was of putting Elizabeth Castle in a better state of defence, which service was performed to the satisfaction of the islanders. About July last, thirty-five pieces of ordnance and suitable stores were sent to Jersey. The other fortifications, however, in that island, viz. Mount Orgueil and Fort St. Albans have had nothing done to them for many years past, and are now in a very ruinous condition.
	In regard to the engineers' plan for securing the defences of Guernsey, we have nothing to object, except as to the method in which they proposed to carry on the several works by the arrear of day's work due from the inhabitants to the crown, which we fear might (considering the poverty of the people) make them very uneasy, the crown having not in many years required such a service from them. [S.P. Channel Islands 10, No. 3.] Appending:—
	(1) Account of works proposed by the Governor of Jersey to be done at Elizabeth Castle, in Jersey, undated [Ibid., No. 3, i]; (2) An account of new works and repairs proposed to be done in Guernsey by Captain Phillips and Mons. Carles, engineers. Undated [S.P. Channel Islands 10, No. 3, ii].
March 4.	Minutes of proceedings of Committee of Council relative to the letter to be written to the Lord Mayor, announcing the visit of the Lords of the Council to the Common Council to demand a loan; the petitions of Madame Oberhan, and of Queen's College, Cambridge, &c. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 5, No. 59.]
March 4. Gibraltar.	Rear-admiral John Nevill to Sir John Trenchard. Since the council of war reported in my letter of the 27th February, at which we came to no resolution, we have had a council where it was resolved we should sail for Cadiz with the first favourable opportunity, this being a place of no security if the enemy is out, as is reported. The disabled ships will be ready to sail in four days. The wind is westerly, and I fear it will continue so some time, it having blown easterly these three months past; so that we shall be in jeopardy if the enemy send a squadron from West France, as is reported, our squadron being much weaker than we were when we came out. Appended is a list of the ships of the squadron. [H.O. Admiralty 7, No. 9.]
March 4. Admiralty Office.	A list of their Majesties' first, second and third rate ships now in pay, designed for the main fleet, with an account of their complements, &c. [Ibid., 8, p. 243.]
March 4.	Commissions for William Cardugan, esq., to be captain of the company of which Captain Edmund Bowyer was captain in General Earle's regiment; for —— Wilkinson, esq., to be captain-lieutenant of the Colonel's company in the same regiment [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 209]; for Richard Wills, gent., to be lieutenant to Major Charles Burrington's company in the same regiment; for Thomas Robinson, gent., to be lieutenant to Captain —— Pitts' company in the same regiment; for —— Holland, gent., to be ensign to Captain John Redmore's company in the same regiment; for Henry Holland, gent., to be quartermaster of the same regiment; for Thomas Dixie, gent., to be lieutenant to Captain James Bard's company in Colonel Zachariah Tiffin's regiment of foot [Ibid., p. 210].
March 4.	Warrant for Charles, Earl of Shrewsbury, their Majesties' principal Secretary of State, to be sworn. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 185.]
March 4. Whitehall.	Pass for Alice Wilson to go to Holland. [Ibid., 38, p. 507.]
March 5. Dublin.	The Privy Council of Ireland to ———. We received a letter from my Lord Nottingham in March last, with regard to the settlement of a colony of French Protestants in this kingdom, and a further signification from Lord Galway, and did thereupon return to his lordship a letter unto which were annexed several proposals made by gentlemen of this kingdom on that subject; a copy of which letter we herewith send you, by which you will perceive that 1,200l., part of the 20,000l., was presently desired before their coming over, no part whereof hath been yet sent, and indeed it is impossible for us to do anything with them without money to set them up first. To this we have received no answer, but several hundreds of those Protestants are come over and others coming daily in the hope of their Majesties' bounty; there being no money for their establishment here, such as are come were in danger of starving if we had not subsisted them by several sums given on the head of concordatum, which the Government here can very ill spare; nor are we able to go further, but must desire you to lay this matter before their Majesties, that some provision may be made for the subsistence of these poor people, or else that they may be informed that the relief they hope for here must not be expected till their Majesties' affairs can better spare the money, and by that means they will be stayed from falling into the misery they will inevitably find here if they cannot have money to settle them. [S.P. Ireland 356, No. 19.]
March 5. Whitehall.	Sir J. Trenchard to the Lords of the Treasury. The enclosed petition of Madam d'Oberhan, and letters from the Canton of Zurich, and Lord Galway, having been laid before the King at a Committee of Council, his Majesty commands me to transmit them to your lordships, and to acquaint you that he thinks fit that what is due to the petitioner should be paid, and you are to give order accordingly. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 162.]
March 5. Whitehall.	Warrant revoking the reprieve of 11 August, for Claudius West, alias Wilt, condemned to die for robbing on the highway. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 508.]
March 5. Whitehall.	Warrant for a Noli prosequi upon the petition of John Mackie, John Westbrowne, John Messenger, and Madison Hunt, reciting that William Puplett, apprentice to Isaac Bernard of London, merchant, ran away from his said master in August last, taking with him a considerable sum of money, and transported himself in the packet boat at Harwich for Holland; and in Michaelmas term last an information was exhibited in our name against the petitioners for having conveyed and transported the said William Puplett into Holland, and it is represented that at great hazard and charge they have caused him to be seized and brought into England, and delivered into the hands of the said Isaac Bernard, his master, where he now is. [Ibid., p. 510.]
March 5. Whitehall.	Passes for Guillaume Allard, recommended by Mr. Blanc, parson of the French church, London, to go to Holland [Ibid., p. 507]; for Mr. Murrray and his tutor Mr. Colm, recommended by Mr. Bridgeman, ditto; and for Johanna de Matthys and five children, and Sarah de Groot and three children, ditto [Ibid., p. 511].
March 5. Whitehall.	Commission for George Ramsay, esq., to be Major-General over the horse and foot forces. [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 176.]
March 5. Admiralty Office.	The Lords of the Admiralty to Sir John Trenchard. Several of the Virginian merchants have been with us this evening, and have been very pressing for some ships to cruise in the Soundings. The Mary, Ruby and Weymouth are daily expected in the Downs; shall they be sent accordingly ? We have ordered others to convoy the forces from Scotland to Holland, and to cruise off Jersey and Guernsey. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 666.]
March 5. Portsmouth.	B. Tymewell to Sir John Trenchard. My zeal for the service obliges me to think it necessary that, among other preparations for the defence of our country, some provision should be made for the security of their Majesties' ships in the docks, and the stores, &c., in this yard, by putting the officers into commission and the workmen into arms; so that, upon any emergency, we may be in a posture of defence. If this be approved, there will be a want of swords and bayonets, &c., proportionable to 600 arms, which are already in store. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 662.]
March 5. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to the Lords of the Admiralty, ordering a passage to Barbados on a man-of-war for Mr. Cranfield, Revenue Commissioner there. [H.O. Admiralty 3, p. 86.]
March 5. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of the Master and Fellows of Queen's College, Cambridge, setting forth that David Edwards, gent., bequeathed certain lands to the said college for the founding of a fellowship; but, the said lands not exceeding 20l. per annum, the petitioners cannot, without prejudice to the fellows of the ancient foundation, admit Mr. Edwards' fellow to equal privileges with themselves, and praying authority to admit him into their society under such rules and statutes as his Majesty shall think fit for this or any other by-foundation. Referred for report to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Ely, and such other bishops as have been members of the University of Cambridge. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 376.]
March 6. Dublin.	Ch. de Sailly to "My Lord" ———. Having been sent here in company with Mons. de Virasel for the establishment of the colonies, I feel myself obliged to make known to you that, being unable to establish or maintain the Protestants who come here, I have proposed to the Lords Justices the expedients contained in the enclosed memorials, which they have approved, ordering me to write you and Lord Sydney, or to go to London to solicit the King and the credit of the Duke of Portland, and to obtain money from Lord Godolphin out of the 40,000 florins voted by Holland to the King last year for those who come from Switzerland, and to provide for certain pensioned ministers in London and Holland. As I cannot go there, having no money, although I came here supposing the King would give me wherewithal to live, and as my family, left in Holland in October, 1692, have used the money I left there, I beg that my allowance may be made one hundred pieces, equal to that allowed (in the memorial of Lord Galway) to Mons. de Virasel. Lord Galway led me to expect employment during eighteen months. Enclosures not here preserved. [S.P. Ireland 356, No. 20.]
March 6. Kensington.	Appointment for Armand de Bourbon, Marquis de Miremont, to be major-general of horse and foot. [H.O. Military Entry Book 4, p. 1.]
March 6. Whitehall.	Passes for Cornelia Heymans and her two children to go to Holland. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 511.]
March 7. Kensington.	Commission for —— Pontereau, esq., to be captain of the company of which Captain Rochefort was late captain in the regiment of foot commanded by Colonel Peter de Belcastell. [H.O. Military Entry Book 4, p. 5.]
March 7. Whitehall.	Pass for Alexander Fichtel to go to Harwich and Holland. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 185.]
March 7. Whitehall.	Passes for Hendrick Jansen, Mathys Harst, and Peter Jansen to go to Holland; for John Camlin, ditto; and for Mr. Christopher Guise to go to Barbados. [Ibid., 38, p. 511.]
March 8. Whitehall.	Sir J. Trenchard to the Commissioners of the Customs. The Spanish Ambassador has complained to me that some letters have been forcibly taken from a Spanish gentleman and detained by an officer of yours on board a Jamaica ship (Captain Jones, commander), lately arrived from Jamaica. I enclose you the Ambassador's letter, which will inform you more particularly of the matter, and desire you will forthwith give order that the said letters be either given to the said gentleman or sent up to me. Enclosure not here appended. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 162.]
March 8. Whitehall.	The same to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. The King commands you to give orders for putting Colonel Wolseley upon the establishment of Ireland as Master-General of the Ordnance, with an allowance of 500l. per annum, to commence from the date of the letters patent granting that place to him. [Ibid., p. 163.]
March 8. Whitehall.	The same to the Lords of the Admiralty. The Mary, Ruby, and Weymouth are to be ordered to cruise in the Soundings for the security of the homeward-bound Virginia ships. [H.O. Admiralty 3, p. 87, and Entry Book I., p. 103.]
March 8. Kinsale Fort.	The Earl of Inchiquin to the King. May it please your Majesty before leaving England to give new commands that the money may be paid which your Majesty once ordered for fortifying the fort of Kinsale. When I came there I found it in a mighty ill condition, which I gave the Queen an account of, and soon after received a letter from Lord Nottingham to tell me that her Majesty had ordered him to write about it to the Government here. I saw the project which they told me Lord Fitzharding had shown to your Majesty, and that you had approved it and ordered the money should be paid, the charge which it amounted to being 1,547l. There has not been above 200l. paid, so that what could be done with that makes very little show, and signifies nothing for the defence of the place. I have pressed the Lords Justices for the rest of the money. They answered me that there was scarce enough in the treasury to pay the subsistence of the army, and that none could be spared for any other use. I think it my duty to acquaint you in how ill a condition the fort lies, and I hope you will order that some expedient may be found to furnish the rest of this money. I should take care that not a penny of it should be applied but to your Majesty's service, and Monsieur Corneille, who is engineer here, is so honest a man and so much master of his business that he will make it go as far as possible, which may be seen by what he has already done in this place. I am fully persuaded that his fidelity to your Majesty is no way to be doubted. I believe you are persuaded that this place is of importance to your service, and the condition it is now in makes me hope that your enemies will offer it no insult this year, for it is capable of making but little resistance. [S.P. Ireland 356, No. 21.]
March 8. Whitehall.	[The Earl of Shrewsbury] to Viscount Sydney. His Majesty has taken into consideration your representation in relation to the islands of Guernsey and Jersey, and commands me to signify his pleasure to you, that you appoint an able engineer to go to the said Islands and there to direct such repairs and works to be done as he shall judge immediately necessary for the better defence and security of those places, and particularly for the security of Castle Cornet in Guernsey, and also that you will send with him some other faithful and experienced person, and take care that the sum of two thousand pounds be put into his hands on account, which he is to see carefully laid out as the service shall require, and also to carry with him a sufficient number of carpenters, masons, bricklayers, and the like workmen, together with all necessary materials, tools and what else shall be wanting and useful for carrying on the said work. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 5, p. 1.]
March 8. Whitehall.	Commissions for William Dobbins, esq., to be lieutenant-colonel of the regiment of foot commanded by Sir James Leslie, kt., and likewise to be captain of a company in the same regiment; for John Villebon, esq., to be captain of the company of grenadiers of which Captain William Baxter was captain, in the same regiment; for Edward Juckes, gent., to be lieutenant to Major William Baxter in the same regiment; for Edwin Temple, gent., to be ensign to Captain Robert Leslie in the same regiment [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 176]; for Mr. Gamaliel Lloyd to be adjutant to the second marine regiment of foot commanded by Lord Berkeley, in the room of Mr. Thomas Balderston [Ibid., p. 180]; for Mr. St. John Webb to be adjutant of the second marine regiment of foot commanded by Lord Berkeley [Ibid., p. 181]; for Mr. William Baxter to be major of the regiment of foot commanded by Sir James Leslie, and likewise to be captain of a company in the same regiment [Ibid., p. 183]; for Robert Sewell, gent., to be ensign of the company in the regiment of foot commanded by Colonel John Tidcombe, of which he himself is captain [Ibid., p. 186]; and for Robert Farthing, gent., to be adjutant of the second marine regiment of foot commanded by Lord Berkeley [Ibid., p. 189].
March 8. Whitehall.	Commissions for James Pelletier, esq., to be lieutenant of the troop of which Captain Thomas Newcomen is captain in the regiment of horse commanded by Brigadier-General Richard Leveson [H.O. Military Entry Book 4, p. 2]; for Walter Leveson, esq., to be cornet of the troop of which Captain Samuel Blount is captain in the same regiment; for William Lee, gent., to be ensign of the company of which Captain Frederick Hamilton is captain, in the regiment of foot commanded by Colonel Francis Collingwood; for Thomas Merick, gent., to be ensign of the company of which Captain Thomas Musgrave is captain in the same regiment [Ibid., p. 3]; for Charles Cockburn, esq., to be captain of the company of grenadiers of which Captain Archibald Humes was late captain, in the royal regiment of foot commanded by Lord George Hamilton [Ibid., p. 4]; for —— Dickson, esq., to be captain of the company of which Captain James Minzies was late captain in the same regiment; for James Cunningham, esq., to be captain of the company of which Captain John Sterlins was late captain in the same regiment; for William Kerr, esq., to be captain of the company of which Captain Balthasar Guidet was late captain in the same regiment; for William Weightman, esq., to be captain of the company of which Captain Gervace Lillingston was late captain in the regiment of foot commanded by Colonel Gustave Hamilton [Ibid., p. 5]; for Gervace Lillingston, esq., to be captain of the company of which Captain William Weightman was late captain in the regiment of foot commanded by Colonel Luke Lillingston; for David Ogleby, esq., to be captain-lieutenant of the company in the royal regiment of foot commanded by Lord George Hamilton [Ibid., p. 6]; for William Holmes, esq., to be captain of the company of which Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Farrington was late captain, in the second regiment of foot guards called the "Coldstreamers," commanded by Lieutenant-General Thomas Talmash, and to take the rank of lieutenant-colonel of foot [Ibid., p. 7]; for Captain Charles Cockburne, late of Colonel Stanley's regiment, to hold the same rank and command that Captain Minzies held in the regiment of foot commanded by Lord George Hamilton [Ibid., p. 10]; and for David Graham, gent., to be lieutenant of the company of which Captain Josué Vanbeest is captain in the regiment of foot commanded by Sir Charles Graham [Ibid., p. 15].
March 8. Whitehall.	Passes and post warrant for Elizabeth Le Maitre to go to Harwich and Holland; and for Mr. William Williams to go to Winchester and Portsmouth with one horse and a guide. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 185.]
March 8. Whitehall.	Warrant for the appointment of Charles, Earl of Shrewsbury, as one of the principal secretaries of state, with a fee of 100l. by the year. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 512.]
March 8. Whitehall.	Warrant to the Attorney General. Recites that there is a cause depending in the Court of Exchequer, at the relation of George Watson, esq., plaintiff, against the Archbishop of Canterbury and several of his tenants and under tenants and others, defendants, the question being whether or not a piece of ground in Deal, in Kent, called the Sea Valley, alias Beach, upon which houses and buildings are erected, belongs to the Crown, as derelict, concealed, or waste land, or whether it is parcel of the possessions of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The relator has a lease of the premises for 61 years from the Crown, and by an order of the Court of Exchequer, made on Feb. 20 last, several things are therein expressed to be consented to by and on behalf of the relator, so far only as his interest extends, and on behalf of the defendants, for putting in answers without oath, joining issue and examination of witnesses in the said cause, and for referring all matters in difference between the relator and defendants, as to the relator's interest only, to the award and final determination of Sir John Somers, keeper of the great seal, and Sir John Holt, chief justice of the court of King's Bench, and Sir George Treby, chief justice of the court of common pleas, or any two of them, to be made before Christmas next; such award to be ratified by the decree of the said court. No consent has been had touching the Crown's right, title and interest to the premises, which nevertheless the Crown is willing should be referred and determined in like manner. You are therefore authorized to give the necessary consent on the Crown's behalf. [Ibid., 39, p. 1.]
March 9. Admiralty Office.	The Lords of the Admiralty to Sir John Trenchard. The Navy Commissioners have informed us that there are three or four hundred very good knees of timber in the woods in Ireland, which cannot be got down to the waterside for transportation to England without a guard, which hath been often solicited without success. We beg that directions may be sent to the Lords Justices to provide this guard as soon as may be. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 670.]
March 9. The Albemarle at Blackstakes	Sir George Rooke to [Sir John Trenchard] enclosing [an account of the state of the ships]. He has only been waiting an opportunity of wind, these four or five days, to sail to the Nore. [Ibid., p. 698.]
March 9. The Rochester in Alicante Road.	Gabriel Hughes to Secretary Sotherne. The following is an account received from Jacob Vandenrade, master of the Ufrow Cornelia of Amsterdam, who was separated from me on the 2nd of March and joined me on the 7th instant. On the 4th instant, being S.S.W. two miles from Veliz Mallaga, he discovered eighteen sail of great menof-war, one having a flag white and blue at the main topmast head, five others with broad white pennants, one of which had three tier of galleries in her stern; they sailed two together, spreading the sea, and making for the Straits' mouth. Copy. [Ibid. 7, No. 10.]
March 9.	Account of progress made in fitting out the ships, signed by Sir George Rooke. [Ibid. 8, p. 247.]
March 9. Whitehall.	Pass for Mary Hayes to go to Harwich and Holland. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 186.]
March 9. Whitehall.	Passes for Nicholas Wouters and Giles Wouters, his brother, to go to Holland; for Mary Gaby and John, her son, ditto; for Mary Oosterleck, a Dutch woman, ditto; for Gillis van Niewdenhuyse and Paul Jacobsen, ditto [Ibid. 38, p. 512]; and for John Kempson to come from Holland or Flanders into England on the recommendation of Mr. Archer, "Parliament man." [Ibid. p. 513.]
March 9. Whitehall.	Caveat that nothing pass concerning a commission of review desired by Bussy Mansell, esq., and John Collins, executors of the pretended last will of Hugh Gore, late Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, till notice first be given to Mr. Robert Bargrave, in Doctors' Commons, proctor for John Mason, esq., one of the executors of the true last will of the deceased. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 74, p. 1.]
March 9. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of John Leacount, setting forth that he lost a leg in the Kingfisher galley in their Majesties' service, and, being reduced to great want, he craves an almsman's place in the cathedral church of St. Peter's, Westminster. Order to the Clerk of the Signet attending, to grant such place accordingly. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 377.]
March 9. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Honora Goodwin, widow of Colonel Goodwin, setting forth the loss of her husband, and that money was due to him from the officers of the regiment; praying that the agent may receive the clearings to the date of Colonel Colt's commission, and that her son may be continued on the musters notwithstanding his absence. The matter as to the clearings is referred to Lord Ranelagh, paymaster-general of the army, for his report; the other requests are granted by the King. [Ibid., p. 378.]
March 9. Whitehall.	Commission for Mr. Robert Byng to be second lieutenant of the company of which Richard Shoreditch is captain, in the second marine regiment of foot commanded by Lord Berkeley. [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 183.]
March 10. Whitehall.	Passes for Rachel Hendricksen and her four children to go to Harwich and Holland, and for Elizabeth Davidson, ditto. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 186.]
March 10. Whitehall.	Passes for Lt. Edward Pinsyn and two servants to go to Holland; for Elizabeth Dircksen and three children, ditto; for Jacob Hogen, a Swede, ditto; for Jacob Cornelissen, a Dutchman, ditto; for Cornelia Antonyssen and Mary Hendricksen, both Dutchwomen, with seven children, ditto; and for Simon O'Haugherne, his wife, two children, and John O'Haugherne, his servant, ditto. [Ibid. 38, p. 513.]
March 10. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Major Hawley, gentleman-porter of the Tower of London, setting forth that a salary of 60l. due to him out of the Ordnance Office is now ten years in arrear. Referred to Lord Sidney for report. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 376.]
March 10. Whitehall.	Commission for Josias Alsop, clerk, to be chaplain to Colonel William Selwyn's regiment of foot. [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 181.]
March 11. Berlin.	Princess Sophia Charlotte to the King. I am delighted with the favour your Majesty has done me, not only by your remembrances conveyed through Mons. de Trepenay, but also by your kind letter. [King William's Chest 15, No. 3.]
March 11. Charles Fort.	James Waller to James Vernon. Captain Launce with the Sheerness is just come into this harbour; he gives an account that upon the 2nd inst., 25 leagues south-west from Scilly, he met eight French men-of-war, all great ships and very clean, from whom he escaped by sailing. The next day about 60 leagues south-west from Scilly he met a ship of about 700 tons and 40 guns, with whom he engaged from 12 at noon to 7 at night. The French ship fought under English colours, and they were so near as to hear them call out to strike for King James. The Sheerness is much shattered in her rigging, and has several 15 pound balls still in her hull, besides what went through her. Her master and two men were killed, and twenty-one more wounded; but, having the advantage of the Frenchman by sailing, it is not doubted that the French ship is much more damaged, for her masts were so disabled that he would have boarded her, but that the sea ran too high for the attempt, which, together with the night, and that Captain Launce had but two rounds of ammunition left, was the occasion of their parting. The Southampton is also arrived in order to convoy about 86 merchant ships who are bound for England; one of them is the coast frigate from Guinea, and five or six men from the West Indies. They will sail with the first fair wind. [S.P. Ireland 356, No. 22.]
March 11. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Nathaniel Booth, setting forth a grant to his father of the prefines and postfines in Cheshire and Flintshire for thirty-one years, at one hundred marks yearly; his father is dead, and the term almost expired; he prays a renewal of the grant. Referred to the Treasury for report. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 378.]
March 12. Whitehall.	Commissions for Mr. Francis Lane to be captain-lieutenant in Colonel Langston's regiment; for Mr. Mark Swother to be captain in the same regiment; for Mr. Fisher to be cornet to LieuteuantColonel Aylmer in the same regiment of horse; and for Mr. Christopher Bentley to be lieutenant to Captain Hepburne in the same regiment. [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 190.]
March 12. Whitehall.	Pass for Monsieur de Veix with eleven grooms and servants, twentyfour horses and a pack of hounds, to go to Gravesend and Holland. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 185.]
March 12. Whitehall.	Passes for Danchert van Valsen, a Dutchman, to go to Holland on a pass from the city of Amsterdam; for Mr. René Tinnebac, a French Protestant, ditto; for Pieter Jacobsen and Pieter Unigenbeck, ditto; for Elizabeth Redford, ditto; for Mary Savouret, a French Protestant, ditto; and for Abraham Monée, a French Protestant, ditto. [Ibid. 38, p. 514.]
March 13. Dublin.	Brigadier Stuart to ———. This is to inform you that one of the convoys has at last arrived here, and that my regiment embarks to-morrow; by next post I shall be able to tell you what success I had in putting them on board; if I had not stayed for the convoys, they might have been landed in England eight days ago. In four or five days I hope to ship Colonel Rowe's regiment, and the rest as fast as they arrive. Want of martial law and money to pay the soldiers' arrears put me to great difficulty as to how to ship off the regiment. In my last last letter I informed you that the Justices had no directions given to embark Colonel Wynn's regiment of dragoons, so that if orders for that purpose are not already dispatched, I desire you will speak to the King about it. [S.P. Ireland 356, No. 23.]
March 13. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to Mr. Wright. I have received your letter of the 9th inst., and as you have written to me and to Secretary Trenchard concerning some unlawful meetings in [your] neighbourhood, so I hope you take care to give the same information to some of the nearest Justices of Peace, who are intrusted to take cognizance of such assemblies, and to put the laws in execution against them; and if it were necessary to have that matter recommended to them from hence, there may be found means for doing so, though I rather wish that gentlemen would of themselves consider how much it is incumbent on them to preserve the peace of their county and to assert the laws established. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 5, p. 1.]
March 13. Whitehall.	The same to the Lord Keeper. I have received the enclosed letter from one I have no knowledge of; but finding it contains information of a matter that concerns the Government, and that may have very prejudicial consequences if not timely taken care of, I believe you might consider it enough to recommend it to the Judges who have gone the Norfolk circuit; as well to inquire into the truth of what is here alleged, as (if it be necessary) to apply such remedy as the case may require and the law directs. Therefore I send the same to you and leave it for your consideration. Enclosure not entered. [Ibid., p. 2.]
March 13. Whitehall.	Passes for Hendrick Person to go to Holland; for Cornelia Shellings and two children, ditto; for Jacob Dennis and — Yver, ditto [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 514]; for Margaret Cornelis, a Dutch woman, ditto; for Holger Melsen Olivarling, a Dane, ditto; for Justus Christianus Rotcher, a German, ditto; for Esaiah Corbeau, his wife and son, ditto; for Jacquemintre Bosch and her child, ditto; for John Ludich, a Dutchman, ditto; for Cornelius Overfield, a German, ditto; for Catherine Thompson, recommended by Mr. Gorsuch, Captain of the Guards, ditto; for Mary Grimes, recommended by Col. St. George, ditto; and for Jane Cambel, recommended by Alexander Wilkie, sergeant of Col. Douglas' regiment, ditto. [Ibid., p. 515.]
March 13. Whitehall.	Warrant to apprehend Sir Æneas Macpherson for high treason in adhering to their Majesties' enemies. [Ibid., p. 524.]
March 13. Lisburn.	Copy of the sentence for the suspension of the Bishop of Down and Connor during their Majesties' pleasure. [S.P. Ireland 356, No. 24.]
March 14. Dublin Castle.	Lord Capell to Mr. Vernon. I am very glad you have got your old master again, to whom I am infinitely obliged for the early notice he has given me of the station he is now in. If we lose the king a second time, I think I may say our friends are bunglers in politics as well as in court behaviour. I am sorry I cannot preserve you in our province, since you know the course of things appoints the affairs of this kingdom to be in the hands of the first secretary. When the quarter is due, and the salary to be paid, I will give you notice, not doubting that Mr. Secretary Trenchard will take care that you shall have a moiety thereof for the time you have been in this service. I hope you will continue your letters to me, for all the intelligence I receive is little worth, your letters excepted. [Ibid., No. 25.]
March 14. Whitehall.	Sir J. Trenchard to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Complaint has been made to the King that a Portuguese ship has been pillaged on the coasts of Cornwall. I enclose you a memorial which will inform you of the fact, and you are to give order for examining the matter very strictly, and for recovering and preserving the remains of the lading of the ship; you are also to give his Majesty an account of what is done therein, that his Majesty may give such further orders in it as are requisite. Enclosure not here appended. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 168.]
March 14. Whitehall.	Pass for Peter Nicholsen to go to Harwich and Holland. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 186.]
March 15. Whitehall.	Warrant for grant of market and fairs at Reeth to Philip, Lord Wharton, as in warrant of 25 Jan., q.v. [Ibid., 38, p. 518.]
March 15. Whitehall.	Passes for Captain Charles Cockburne and Captain Stephen Penewick in Col. Stanley's regiment, with four servants, to go to Holland [Ibid., p. 516]; for Maurits Jacobsen, ditto; for Anne Morley and three children, ditto; for Larent Sheel, Peter Shrode and Jean Kinger, ditto; for Mr. George Rolph, surgeon to Colonel Stanley's regiment, and three servants, ditto; and for Pierre Le Gris, ditto [Ibid., p. 517].
March 15. Whitehall.	Warrant for the reprieve of Andrew Peterson, convicted at the last assizes held at Reading of burglary, and condemned to death. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 517.]
March 15. Whitehall.	Warrant to the Attorney General for letters patent appointing the following privy councillors commissioners for receiving, hearing, and determining appeals in causes of prizes during the present war: Prince George of Denmark, John, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir John Somers, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Thomas, Marquis of Carmarthen, Lord President of the Council, Thomas, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Lord Privy Seal, Henry, Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England, Charles, Duke of Bolton, William, Duke of Hamilton, Charles, Marquis of Winchester, and thirty-six others. [Ibid., 39, p. 4.]
March 15. Whitehall.	Commissions for James Cheisholm, gent., to be lieutenant to Captain Robert Campbell's company in the Earl of Argyll's regiment of foot; for William Campbell, gent., to be ensign to Captain Duncan Campbell's company in the same regiment; for John Knox, gent., to be ensign to Captain Colin Campbell's company in the same regiment; for James Mercer, gent., to be ensign to Captain John Campbell's company in the same regiment; and for James Lindsay, surgeon, to be surgeon of the same regiment. [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 192.]
March 15. Whitehall.	Commissions for Garvin Ramsey, gent., to be lieutenant of the company of which George, Earl of Dalhousie, is captain in the regiment of foot commanded by Sir Charles Graham; for John Chambers, gent., to be ensign of the company of which Captain Josua Van Beest is captain in the same regiment [H.O. Military Entry Book 4, p. 3]; and for Philip Sunterman, gent., to be adjutant to Sir Charles Graham's regiment of foot [Ibid., p. 6].
March 16.	Sir George Rooke's account of progress made in fitting ships. [H.O. Admiralty 8, p. 235.]
March 16. Whitehall.	Pass for Paul Geertz to go to Gravesend and Hamburgh. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 186.]
March 16. Whitehall.	Passes for Catherine Pilgrum, her daughter and one servant, to go to Holland [Ibid., 38, p. 518]; for Jan van de Heyde, Jan Joofsten, Paulus Wulps, Dirick Jansen, Bernt Andries, Peter Jacobsen, Herman Jacobsen, Jacob Kroam and Francis Russent, Dutch seamen, ditto; for Jacques Auge, a French Protestant, ditto; and for Sir James Hays' lady, and one servant, to go to Ireland [Ibid., p. 519].
March 16. Whitehall.	Warrant to Peter Marescoe and Richard Poyne, messengers, to go to the house of Mrs. Parker at Parkershall, near Reigate, Surrey, to search for Colonel John Parker, and to apprehend him for high treason and secure his papers. [Ibid., 39, p. 9.]
March 17. Admiralty Office.	The Lords of the Admiralty to Sir John Trenchard. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 674.] Enclosing:—
	Michael (or Nicholas ?) Gray to Felix Caffery, prisoner of war in Plymouth, dated London, 3 March, 1693-4. For three weeks I have made interest to go to Flanders, but, for want of both friends and money, have been constrained to take on in the service in the quality of a surgeon. I have been examined in the Surgeons' Hall, and received a warrant as surgeon's mate in one of their Majesties' ships. I desire you will l-t none in prison know of this except my cousin Hugh Connah. Since my coming I have seen Mrs. Nugent's brother. It is needless to tell you what ship I belong to, for if it be your chance to come to London, you will have an account of me from some of our countrymen, which I am sure you will not miss to find. I hear that four score of the best men are to be brought here and tried for their lives; of thirty-three men that are here of Capt. Goulden's company, nine are condemned to die, of which Capt. Goulden is one, who is to be hanged and drawn in quarters, except there be a reprieve granted against Monday next, which is the day of execution. I hope they will be reprieved, because of their many good friends in court. I went to see Francis Rigway's brother, who is not found guilty of death, and therefore expects within two days to be set at liberty, with five more that were on board the same prize. Give my service to all our good friends, including Mr. Aherin, Mrs. Quin, Mr. Commerford, Mr. John Power, the doctor Mr. Foulom, Mr. Cleer and Mr. Hedrington. Tell my cousin Thomas Mead I have acquainted Councillor Unick of his misfortunate imprisonment; tell him also that his old comrade Mr. John Row is in this city. On my first arrival here I wrote to Ireland to have an account of my brother the doctor, and hear that since leaving Ireland there is no tidings of him. Copy. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 678.]
March 17. Admiralty Office.	An account of all their Majesties' ships of the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth rates now in pay, with the conditions of those in port, and the present stations of such as are at sea. [Ibid., 8, p. 239.]
March 17. Whitehall.	Commission for Captain George Whitehead to be major of the regiment of foot commanded by Colonel Gustavus Hamilton, and to be captain of a company in the same regiment. [H.O. Military Entry Book 4, p. 8.]
March 17. Whitehall.	Passes for Philip Dommage to go to Harwich and Holland, and for Marguerite Burge, ditto. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 187.]
March 17. Whitehall.	Passes for Eticune Tuelin to go to Holland; for Mr. Francois Theodor Hoen, an officer in the Dutch Horse, ditto; and for Hans Eystler to go to Sweden. [Ibid., 38, p. 519.]
March 17. Whitehall.	Allowance of the extraordinary expenses of the Right Honble. Charles, Lord Dursley, envoy extraordinary from their Majesties of Great Britain to the States General of the United Provinces, and plenipotentiary at the Congress from 6 December, 1693, to 6 March following. [Ibid., 39, p. 5.]
March 18. Admiralty Office.	A list of their Majesties' first, second, and third rate ships now in pay designed for the main fleet, with an account of their complements, &c. [H.O. Admiralty 8, p. 231.]
March 18.	Minutes of proceedings of the Committee of Council relative to a grant of 1,500l. for the French refugees. Letters to be prepared for Mons. D'Hervart and the Dey of Algiers. Mr. Baker to be recalled and Mr. Robert Cole to be made consul. The Lord Mayor's petition to be referred to the Lords Justices of Ireland. [S.P. Dom. Will. and Mary 5, No. 60.]
March 18. Whitehall.	Passes for — Siscraad, a Dutchman, to go to Holland [S.P. Dom., Warrant Book 38, p. 519]; and for Henry Morris and his son, ditto [Ibid., p. 520].
March 19. Whitehall.	Sir J. Trenchard to Mr. Justice Powell or Mr. Justice Rookby. The King is informed that Captain Robert Willmot is to be tried before you for the murder of Mathew Royden, and as it has been represented to his Majesty that Mr. Willmot had very great provocations from the deceased person, his Majesty commands me to signify his pleasure to you that in case Captain Willmot be convicted, the execution of the sentence be respited till you have given his Majesty an account as to how the matter appeared upon the trial, and that if the conviction be only for manslaughter, the burning of the hand be also respited till the King's orders be further known. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 164.]
March 19. Whitehall.	Earl of Shrewsbury to the Lord Keeper. I trouble you with another letter that I have received from the same person who sent the last, but he has set down in this the names of some justices of the peace who may be depended on for suppressing these unlawful assemblies, if they were encouraged to it. I thought you would recommend this matter to them either by the Judges who begin the assizes in that county the 22nd inst. or by what other way you think more proper. [Ibid., 5, p. 2.]
March 19. Whitehall.	The same to Mr. Blathwayt directing that orders be issued for the officers belonging to the Earl of Monmouth's regiment of foot, forthwith to go to their respective companies in Guernsey and Jersey. [Ibid., p. 3.]
March 19. Whitehall.	Passes for John Dominick Antonetti, Omfrio Maberine, Leonardo Maynero, Seraffino Cortellini, Catherine and Anne Cortellini, all Italians, to go to Harwich and Holland; and for Peter Boyer, a French Protestant, ditto. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 187.]
March 19. Whitehall.	Duplicate warrant for patent to Francis Boynton, for his waterpumping machine. (See warrant of 31 Jan.) [Ibid., 38, p. 520.]
March 19. Whitehall.	Warrant for grant to Edward Carteret, esq., of the office of bailiff of Jersey, in as full and ample a manner as Sir Philip Carteret, late deceased, hath held the same. [Ibid., p. 521.]
March 19. Whitehall.	Passes for Wolf Henry Theeler and one servant to go to Holland; for Mr. John Berthold, a German, ditto [Ibid.]; and for Edward Rous and John Oder to go to Lisbon [Ibid., p. 522].
March 20. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Edward Medway, praying an almsman's place in the college of Gloucester. Order to the Clerk of the Signet attending, to prepare such grant accordingly. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 381.]
March 20. Whitehall.	Passes for Mr. Henry Trotter, Mr. Charles Banks and Mr. Edward Acton to go to Gravesend and Hamburg. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 187]; for Dame Margarett Anderton, Sir Charles Anderton, Mrs. Mary Anderton, Mrs. Anne Anderton, Mr. John Turbervile, Mrs. May Osbaldistone, with a man and maid servant, to go to Holland; for Adam Pelletier, with his son and child, to go to Flanders; for Mr. John Mirne to go to Holland; and for Lt.-Colonel Edward Braddock, John Smith and Joan Price, servants, ditto. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 522.]
March 20. Whitehall.	Allowance of the extraordinary expenses of T. Baker at Algiers from Oct. 10, 1692, to Nov. 20, 1693, including relief to the galley slaves and other our poor sick captives. [Ibid., p. 523.]
March 20. Whitehall.	Allowance of the expenses of James Cresset, esq., their Majesties' envoy extraordinary to the Elector and Dukes of Brunswick and Luneburg, from 12 Sept. to 12 December, 1693. [Ibid., 39, p. 6.]
March 20. Whitehall.	Commissions for Josiah Clarke, gent., to be ensign of the company in the regiment of foot commanded by Brigadier General Ferdinando Hastings, of which he himself is captain [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 185]; for Thomas Pollexfen, esq., to be captain of that company whereof Captain Christopher Wray is captain in the regiment of foot commanded by Colonel Samuel Venne [Ibid., p. 186]; and for Alexander Dutens, gent., to be ensign to Captain — de Loche in BrigadierGeneral Ferdinando Hastings' regiment of foot [Ibid., p. 189].
March 20. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of George Clarke, esq., on behalf of the Earl of Athlone, setting forth that by letters patent in Ireland, dated 15 April last, the estate of Christopher, late Baron Slane, was granted to the said Earl, but his debts and personalty were not mentioned in the said grant. As there are many debts owing out of the said estate, the petitioner prays a grant of the personalty. Referred to the Treasury for report. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 380.]
March 20. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of John Swindall and Bridget his wife, praying a writ of error in a cause in the Exchequer between Humphrey Vaughan, plaintiff, and Humphrey Humphreys and the said Bridget, defendants. Granted. [Ibid., p. 382.]
March 20. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Elizabeth Smallpage, widow, setting forth that her husband served their Majesties for several years, and was at the burning of the French ships at la Hogue, being then boatswain's mate of the ship Victory, under the command of the late Sir John Ashby. He was on 21st September last past killed by the fall of the knot of the topsail sheet, leaving her in a deplorable condition, with a young child. She therefore prays some allowance be granted her. Referred for consideration to the Lords of the Admiralty. [Ibid., 3, p. 45.]
March 20. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Thomas Walby praying for the grant of an almsman's place in Ely cathedral. The King directed the Clerk of the Signet to prepare a bill granting to the petitioner the place desired. [Ibid.]
March 20. Whitehall.	Proceedings on the petition of Peter Hudson, merchant, shewing that he voluntarily furnished the King, whilst Prince of Orange, with 4,000lbs. of gunpowder upon credit, and since the King's accession has supplied him with considerable sums of money, and has furnished gunpowder to the magazines of the Tower. He has lately been the victim of a conspiracy among his workmen, who have placed stronger powder than ought to be supplied on the top of each barrel, and by this means have procured a prosecution against him for fraud. Referred for report to Lord Sydney. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 47.]
March 21. Whitehall.	Earl of Shrewsbury to Sir Charles Hedges. The Earl of Scarborough has put the enclosed letter and information into my hands. I thought fit to send them to you and desire your opinion how far there appear to be grounds from hence to proceed against the ship therein mentioned now lying off Sunderland, or either of the persons informed against. Enclosure not entered. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 3, p. 3.]
March 21. Whitehall.	The same to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. The enclosed is an abstract of a letter from Ostend, which, though I do not know what credit is to be given to it, I would not omit to communicate to you, as I intend to do all other advices I receive of this kind, that you may make what use you think fit of them. (Enclosure not appended here.) [Ibid. 5, p. 3.]
March 21. Lisburn.	Copy of the sentence of deprivation upon the bishop of Down and Connor. [S.P. Ireland 356, No. 26.]
March 21. Lisburn.	Copy of the appeal of the Bishop of Down and Connor from the sentence of suspension pronounced upon him by the Commissioners. Witnessed by John Russell, Samuel Adams. [Ibid., No. 27.]
March 21. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Stephen Creagh, merchant, setting forth that the ship Mary being taken by an Ostend privateer and condemned as prize, was bought for the petitioner; one Smith, being made master, pretended he had cleared for Dunkirk, though his orders were for London, and so procured the ship to be arrested by the Customs house officers, who plundered all that was valuable in her; praying redress. Referred for report to Sir Charles Hedges. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 379.]
March 21. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Hierosme Lamberty and Francis Pousset praying for letters patent, in Francis Pousset's name, respecting their discovery of a method of preparing crapes and all sorts of woollen stuffs and silks with designs of flowers, etc., before dyeing, so that after that process they appear in different colours upon the same piece. This will greatly improve the manufacture of crapes and materials and increase the exportation. Referred for report to the Attorney-General or Solicitor-General. [Ibid. 3, p. 46.]
March 21. Whitehall.	Pass for Mr. Joseph Ormston to go to Harwich and Holland. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 188.]
March 21. Whitehall.	Passes for Clement Serjeant with one child to go to Holland; for Lavientus Coningh and Jan Janse van Dinghen, Dutch foot guards, ditto; for Mary Hornus, ditto [Ibid. 38, p. 522]; for Pedro Tousaints, Pedro Tirribord and Pedro Palmer, ditto; for Walter Gourdan, cadet in Count Nassau's regiment, ditto; for Elizabeth Walland and her child to go to Flanders; and for Arent van Wereckhoven, a Dutchman, to go to Holland [Ibid., p. 523].
March 21. Whitehall.	Allowance of the extraordinary expenses of John Robinson, now residing at the Court of Sweden by their Majesties' command, from 12 Nov., 1693, to 12 Feb., 1693–4. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 39, p. 77.]
March 21. Whitehall.	Affidavit by Robert Masters of London, mariner, that Mr. Joseph and Mr. Peter Dulivier of Paris, are not concerned as owners in the Robert ketch. [H.O. Admiralty 7, No. 11.]
March 21. London.	Warrant to the wardens and other electors of New College, Oxford, and of the college near Winchester, to admit John Sheldon to be a child of that College of Winchester at the next election. [H.O. King's Letters II., p. 56.]
March 22. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Admiralty. I have your letter of the 21st inst. with the extract of a letter from the commander of the Maidstone, and having this day received the like advice from Deal, have thought fit to send for Mansey and Spencer mentioned in the said informations, and accordingly two messengers are employed to bring them up in custody, by whom I desire you would send orders to Captain Tuckey for delivering the said persons to them. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 5, p. 4.]
March 22. Whitehall.	The same to the Mayor of Rye. Having received advice of the seizure of two persons, Roger Mansey and Benjamin Spencer, who lately came from France, I have sent for them in custody of messenger; and, understanding their examinations were taken by you, I desire you will send me the original confession and depositions, to be made use of as there may be occasion. [Ibid.]
March 22. Whitehall.	The same to Mr. Stock. I have seen your letter of the 21st inst. sent to your office, and thereupon I have signed a warrant and directed two messengers to bring up Mansey and Spencer from on board the Maidstone, and I have likewise written to the mayors of Dover and Sandwich for apprehending Hoskins and Smith; if it be necessary, in order thereunto, to take the depositions again of Mansey and Spencer, you had best see it done before they are brought up, and that the messengers have orders to follow your directions.
	I ordered Mr. Vernon to write to you to transmit hither the advices of what occurs in those parts, which will not only be acceptable, but may be of use for their Majesties' service, and you may be assured when anything happens of that nature it shall not be neglected. [Ibid., p. 5.]
March 22. Whitehall.	The same to the Mayor of Sandwich. I am informed that one Robert Smith belonging to the town, and owner of the sloop Sarah and Anne, is accused upon oath of having been lately in France without leave; I thought fit to tell you that it is for their Majesties' service that you cause the said Robert Smith to be forthwith apprehended and secured for further proceedings [Ibid.]; similar letter to the Mayor of Dover for the apprehension of Thomas Hoskins, master of the said sloop [Ibid., p. 6].
March 22. Admiralty Office.	The Lords of the Admiralty to Sir John Trenchard. We are causing strict enquiry to be made into the embezzlement of their Majesties' stores, alleged to have been made by Mr. Blackway, sailmaker, as set forth in the letter you sent us from one James Wilson. We suppose you will undertake his prosecution with regard to the villainous expressions against the Government. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 681.]
March 22.	Proceedings upon the petition of John Gardiner, a tailor of Oxford, praying an almsman's place in the hospital of Ewelme, co. Oxford, for his son Gilbert Gardiner. Order to the Clerk of the Signet attending, to prepare the desired grant. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 381.]
March 22. Whitehall.	Commissions for Francis Savage, gent., to be ensign to Captain Thomas Carew's company in the regiment of foot commanded by Sir Bevill Granville; for Lashley Finch, esq., to be captain of the company of which the Marquis de Rada was captain in the regiment of foot, commanded by John Lord Cutts [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 185]; for Michael Wilkinson, gent., to be ensign to Sir Edward Byron's company in Colonel Richard Brewer's regiment of foot [Ibid., p. 186]; for Edmond Wright, gent., to be ensign to Captain De Veaux's company in Colonel John Tidcombe's regiment of foot [Ibid., p. 187]; for Timothy Hartingen, esq., to be captain-lieutenant of the company in the regiment of foot commanded by Henry de Caumont, marquis de Rada, of which he himself is captain; for Henry Masham, esq., to be major of the regiment of foot commanded by Colonel Luke Lillingston, and likewise to be captain of a company in the same regiment; for William Helmsley, gent., to be ensign of the company in the regiment of foot commanded by Lord Cutts, of which he himself is captain [Ibid., p. 188]; for Peter Colbourne, gent., to be ensign to Captain Thomas Lewis in Lord Cutts' regiment of foot; for Holcroft Blood, esq., to be major of the regiment of foot commanded by Lord Cutts, and also to be captain of a company in the same regiment [Ibid., p. 189]; and for Thomas Fen, gent., to be lieutenant to Captain Young in the regiment of foot commanded by Henry de Caumont, Marquis de Rada [Ibid., p. 199].
March 22. Whitehall.	Commissions for Thomas Lucas, gent., to be lieutenant of the company of which Captain Richard Salter is captain in the regiment of foot commanded by Colonel Francis Russell [Ibid. 4, p. 6]; for Theodore Colladon, M.D., to be physician to the Royal Hospital near Chelsea [Ibid., p. 9]; for Philip Millward, gent., to be lieutenant of the company of which Captain Joseph Crisp is captain, in a regiment of foot commanded by Colonel Francis Russell; for John Moseley, gent., to be lieutenant of the company of which Captain Jonathan Langley is captain in the same regiment [Ibid., p. 10]; and for Edward Rupert, esq., to be captain-lieutenant in the same regiment [Ibid., p. 11].
March 22. Whitehall.	Passes for Nicholas Goujon, Elizabeth his wife, and three small children, to go to Bristol and Ireland; for Abraham Didier, a silk weaver, to go to Harwich and Holland; for John Malachane to go to Bristol and Ireland; for Simon Dircksen, Mary his wife, and six children, to go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 188]; and for Lewis Girard, doctor of physic and oculist, to come from France into England, and to stay for four months for a particular operation to be performed by him [Ibid. p. 227].
March 22. Whitehall.	Passes for Anne Mallard to go to Holland; for Dinah Johnson and her child, ditto; for Mr. John Scippers and John Stapleton, ditto; for Archibald Stewart, his wife and children, ditto; for John van der Hurst, Dutch mariner, ditto; for Arent van Werckhoven, a Dutchman, ditto; and for Thomas Meux, a Swede, ditto. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 524.]
March 22. Whitehall.	Warrant to the Commissioners for Prizes to forthwith pay the sum of 440l. to the owners of the lading of the ship the Wrestling Jacob, Hendries Muller, master, being the amount of the sale. [Ibid. 39, p. 8.]
March 22. Whitehall.	Warrant to Stephens Gethins and John Bale, messengers, to go on board their Majesties' ship the Maidstone (whereof Captain Tuckey is commander), in the Downs or elsewhere, and take into custody Roger Mansey and Benjamin Spencer (now prisoners on board the said ship) for high treason in going to France without leave. [Ibid., p. 9.]
March 23.	Affidavit by Henry Allen, of the Savoy, Robert Peppett, and David Parsons, weaver, that they received into their custody, at the prison in the Savoy, made for that purpose, one hundred and thirtysix prisoners esteemed and taken as commission officers from Ireland, from the hands of Esquire Robinson, the Provost General, and, by order from the Tower, four, and that all the said prisoners, excepting four that died and three that were left behind by an order, were, by order from the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded Seamen, put on board the ship Elzebeth, William Tudor, commander, then riding in the river Thames, to be transported to Calais, 23 March, 1693. [S.P. Ireland 356, No. 28.]
March 23. Whitehall.	Passes for Moses Bendennon, a Jew, to go to Harwich and Holland; for Lambreght Dillis and Peter Daniel, ditto; and for Jacob Alexander, ditto. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 189.]
March 23. Whitehall.	Passes for Christopher Rogers, recommended by Capt. Berkley, of the Guards, to go to Holland; and for Christopher Meyer, his wife and two children, ditto. [Ibid. 38, p. 525.]
March 23. Whitehall.	Commissions for John Drake, gent., to be ensign to Captain James Granville, in Sir Bevill Granville's regiment of foot [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 185]; and for William Sylvester, gent., to be lieutenant to Captain Richard Salter's company in Colonel Francis Russell's regiment of foot [Ibid., p. 203].
March 23. Admiralty Office.	The Lords of the Admiralty to Sir John Trenchard. Michael Gray has been taken into custody by the marshal of the Admiralty, and we have ordered him to be brought before you to-morrow morning. [Ibid., p. 686.] Enclosing:—Account of himself, delivered to the Lords of the Admiralty by the said Michael Gray. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 690.]
[March 23.]	The Levant Company to Sir John Trenchard. The last letters from Cadiz advised the departing of Sir Francis Wheler and the merchant ships bound for Turkey and the Mediterranean. In view of the great estate they are likely to bring back, we beg that orders may be given to the commander of the convoys at Smyrna to stay there till he receive intelligence from Sir Francis Wheler (or whoever shall be commander of their Majesties' fleet) by an advice boat sent with instructions, when and how to come away, as the posture of affairs may then require for their security. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 702.]
March 23. Whitehall.	Commissions for William Guilliam, gent., to be lieutenant of the company of which Capt. Richard Salter is captain in the regiment of foot commanded by Col. Francis Russell [H.O. Military Entry Book 4, p. 6]; for Abraham Jamain, gent., to be lieutenant of the company in the same regiment [Ibid., p. 11]; for William Waller, gent., to be lieutenant of the company of which Major Thomas Garth is captain in the same regiment; for William Wild, gent., ditto; for Stephen Thompson, gent., to be lieutenant of the company of which Captain Joseph Crisp is captain in the same regiment; and for Rowland Hill, gent., to be lieutenant of the company of which Captain Jonathan Langley is captain in the same regiment [Ibid., p. 12].
March 24. Lisburn.	The Bishops of Meath and Derry to Lord Capell. We have hitherto sent an account of our proceedings on the commission from time to time to Lord Longford, but now we make the following report direct to you.
	On the 21st inst. we deprived the Lord Bishop of Down on the second set of articles relating to his jurisdiction, and we humbly conceive that we had just reason to do so, if simoniacal pacts, great mismanagement, and false certificates of subscriptions to let papists into the church, are allowable causes of deprivation. On the 22nd inst. his lordship interposed an appeal to the Chancery in England upon the first sentence of suspension, and I presume he will within the time allowed by law, being ten days, interpose the like appeal from the second sentence.
	We have no reason to be ashamed or afraid of what we have done, and are humbly of opinion that any judge that regards the merits of the cause, which in appeals is chiefly to be considered, will not easily be induced to reverse what is done, and we only presume to give you this intimation that their Majesties may know the true state of things before they are solicited by the Bishop's agents, and then let them do what they think fit in their princely wisdom. There will remain several disorders to be cured which are not within the verge of our commission, some of which we hope will be remedied by the triennial Visitors, and others must be left to the succeeding Bishop, who will not be able in a little time to cure the growing disorders of twenty years.
	We shall not presume to recommend any successor, but we do most humbly pray you to be wary in your choice, and consider well the qualifications of the person that is designed to succeed, for, as the dioceses are large in compass, filled with dissenters (of whom many have been made by the neglect of the bishop and clergy), the two cathedrals and most of the parish churches out of repair, the diocese of Down being a key and inlet to the malcontents of Scotland and the Presbyterians that come from thence, and in one part of it there being one Houston, a clergyman, that preaches up the Solemn League and Covenant, accusing the people of Scotland of perjury in not sticking to their League, and having a congregation of five hundred resolute followers that adhere to him; so the disorders of this place will require a learned, moderate, prudent and well-tempered person for the cure of them; one that is young, healthy and able to ride about the diocese, to make an ocular inspection into things and retrieve the neglected discipline of the church, which is sunk so low that few here seem either to fear or regard it, and several are of opinion that we have no discipline in our Church.
	We know not how far our proceedings may tend to rectify their mistake, though we take care to let them know that we have good laws, and that if faults are committed, it is for want of due execution of them; but we have some hopes that things are not irretrievable, and do not doubt that you will be very diligent in the cure of future evils, since you have so generously engaged in the issuing out a commission which has been the desire of all good men, and has been reserved by Providence as a peculiar honour to your government. We have sent your lordship a copy of the last articles, sentence, and the Bishop's appeal, and some other papers, that your lordship may lay them before his Grace of Canterbury, or otherwise dispose of them as you think fit. Enclosures not preserved here. [S.P. Ireland 356, No. 29.]
March 24. Lisburn.	The same to the Archbishop of Armagh. We think ourselves obliged to send you an account of our proceedings in the affairs of this diocese. We have exhibited and proved two sets of articles against our brother the Bishop of Down and Connor, the first relating to his power of orders, the second to his jurisdiction, in both of which there have been great and inexcusable faults and neglects committed. We thought fit to suspend him on the 13th inst. on the first set of articles, and on the 21st we deprived him on the second set, upon full proof made of simoniacal agreements, great mismanagement of jurisdiction, and giving a false certificate to Mr. Moore, who after turned papist, that he had subscribed to the doctrine and discipline of the church, and done other things by law required, whereas Moore in his depositions upon oath confessed that he had done none of them, but that they were procured for him by Sir Robert Hamilton, and sent to him out of England under the Bishop's hand and seal. There are four or five more, viz., Archdeacon Mathews, Dean Ward, Mylnes, Jones, and Charlton, whom we shall deprive upon proof either of simony, adultery, fornication, scandalous non-residence or neglect of duty. If we would give way to the passions and animosities of the clergy here against one another, who are not sparing in their informations against their brethren, I believe we might deprive or at least suspend one half of the clergy, but as that would continue our stay here very long, we pity their imprudences, and proceed against few but such as are scandalously obnoxious.
	The disorders of these dioceses are so many that we have neither power nor leisure to cure them all, but must leave some of them to the correction of your Grace's visitors, hoping that your Grace will pitch upon persons of so much prudence, temper and integrity as will apply proper remedies to those disorders which are not within the power of that limited commission which has been granted unto us. The Bishop has on the 22nd interposed an appeal in scriptis to the King in Chancery, which is under consideration. [S.P. Ireland 356, No. 30.]
March 24.	Copy of the appeal of the Bishop of Down and Connor from the sentence of deprivation pronounced upon him by the Commissioners. Witnessed by Thomas Jones and Samuel Adams. [Ibid., No. 31.]
March 24. Whitehall.	Warrant to William Knight to apprehend Capt. James Hamilton, for uttering treasonable and seditious words against their Majesties. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 516.]
March 24. Whitehall.	Pass for Captain John Stephens and Peter Le Fevre, his lieutenant, to go to Gravesend and Ostend [Ibid., 37, p. 189]; for Mr. Thomas Watson to go to Harwich, or down the river, and embark for Holland; and for John van Peterson te Jonge to go to Harwich and Holland [Ibid., p. 190].
March 24. Whitehall.	Pass for Willemnite van Ree to go to Holland. [Ibid., 38, p. 525.]
March 24. Whitehall.	Warrant to the Commissioners for Prizes to give orders to their agent at Kinsale to release the ship America and her lading (Hillebraen Baen, master) and permit her to pursue her voyage. The America was formerly called the Baltimore, and then belonged to Michael Pope and other merchants; on March 27 last she was taken by a French privateer and carried into Santa Cruce in the West Indies and made prize, and about a month after bought by the French for the use of the Brandenburg's company, by their director General Pedro Van Bell, and afterwards bound from the island of St. Thomas (where the said company have their settled factory), and by stress of weather forced into Kinsale on her homeward voyage, where she was seized and detained and proceeded against in the High Court of Admiralty. [Ibid., 39, p. 11.]
March 24. Kensington.	Warrant to the Master and Wardens of the Trinity House. It having been represented to us that the lastage and ballastage, together with the office of ballasting all ships whatsoever within the Thames from London Bridge to the sea, to which you are entitled by former royal grants, was demised to George Bowerman for a term of years expiring at Lady Day, 1694, we are pleased to signify to you that it seems to us most just and reasonable that the premises should always be managed by lessees or farmers, by reason that they will always be thereby subject to your rules and orders, as hath hitherto been practised in all cases of dispute arising with any of our subjects about the ballasting of our ships in the said river; and by these presents we recommend to you Benjamin Albin, gent., to be your lessee for a new term of years. [H.O. King's Letter Book I., p. 51.]
March 24. Whitehall.	Commission for Charles Isakson, gent., to be ensign to Captain John Bradshaw, in Colonel John Tidcomb's regiment of foot. [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 191.]
March 24. Kensington.	Commission for Major George Kellum to be captain of the troop of which Captain Roger Pope was late captain in the regiment of horse commanded by Colonel John Coys. [Ibid. 4, p. 12.]
March 24. Admiralty Office.	An account of all their Majesties' ships of the first, second, third, fourth and fifth rate now in pay, with the conditions of those in port, and the present stations of such as are at sea. [H.O. Admiralty 8, p. 227.]
March 25. Admiralty Office.	A list of their Majesties' first, second, third and fourth rate ships now in pay, designed for the main fleet, with an account of their complements, &c. [Ibid., p. 219.]
March 25. Whitehall.	Passes for Le Sieur Galé, an officer, to go to Holland on Sir Henry Bellasis's pass; for Samuel Barrington, ditto; for Elizabeth Dofines and her child, ditto; and for Theodore Vincent, ditto. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 525.]
March 25.	Minutes of proceedings of the Committee of Council. A warrant to be issued to the Admiralty to pay the officers of the marine regiments out of the ordinary of the navy; and an order to be prepared according to the proposals of the Levant Company. [S.P. Dom. Will. and Mary 5, No. 61.]
March 26.	Unsigned memoranda [agenda for Committee of Council ?] relative to Colonel Richards' expedition. Eighteen bomb vessels will cost near 70,000l., and cannot be fitted in less than a month; four will be ready in fourteen days. April 22nd, the day appointed. To move the King that ten English regiments be ready to embark on the English and Dutch men-of-war and their tenders; one Irish regiment is lately landed. That ships be provided for a regiment of dragoons; and if such regiment cannot be provided, let there be 150, or at least 100 (sic). The yacht at Portsmouth to be employed again as a bomb vessel. One of the companies of gunners and matrosses, prepared for Flanders, to be ordered on this expedition. That Col. Richards may have care of the expedition, with Mons. la Mothe and such other engineers as my Lord Sydney may appoint. [Ibid. No. 62.]
March 26. Paris.	Mons. Delagny to the Commissioners for the Exchange of Prisoners. Three months ago an order was given in the ports to which the French prisoners are taken to pay the masters of the transport vessels for their passages according to our treaty of exchange; and Sr. Dulivier [?], who up to that time had been recognized as your agent to receive payments, has assured me all has been paid that was due out of the last moneys I placed in his hands. Directly the transport ships arrive you may be certain that whatever is due shall be punctually paid.
	Before I received your letters, the King had ordered the discharge of Col. Holt, who had been arrested at the instance of the relatives of a French gentleman named Bertellier, detained in England. Now, as soon as Bertellier receives a passport to return to France, one will be made out here to Mr. Edrington for England; and for this reason we cannot make the exchange against Mr. Lubière as you suggest.
	I wrote to Dinant for the conditional release of Capt. Wickhom (sic). English prisoners brought into all ports in the St. Malo district are taken to Dinant, so that they may be given greater liberty in confinement, and are taken thence to St. Malo on the arrival of the transports.
	I have also written to Nantes on the subject of Thomas Cox and his brother's letter, and shall receive information forthwith. Orders have been given to release Edward Tayler, William Reynolds, Robert Smith and John Breston, and all others who come within the terms of the treaty. Our prisoners are well treated, in the hope of inducing you to do the same by the French, and I beg you to recommend this be done more faithfully than has hitherto been the case. You will be informed of the truth of the pretended detention of two Englishmen at Calais. French. Copy. [S.P. Dom. Will. and Mary 5, No. 63.]
March 26. Whitehall.	Warrant to the Lords Justices of Ireland to permit Colonel Fergus D'Offarell to raise fifty volunteers in Ireland as recruits for the regiment of foot under his command in Flanders. [S.P. Ireland King's Letter Book 2, p. 3.]
March 26. Whitehall.	Passes for Mr. Matthew Rogers, Mr. John Hill, Mr. Francis Jeffreys, and Benjamin Richards to go to Harwich and Holland; for Signior Tozy and Jacob Denis, his servant, ditto [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 190]; and for Mr. Knatchbull to go to Gravesend and Hamburg [Ibid., p. 191].
March 26. Whitehall.	Passes for Ernest Ottell and Theodore John, his servant, to go to Holland; for Claes Deton, ditto; for René Avrin, ditto [Ibid. 38, p. 525]; for Anthony Van Triste, ditto [Ibid., p. 528].
March 26. Whitehall.	Warrant for grant of letters patent to Francis Pousset for his invention of preparing crapes and other sorts of woollen stuffs and silks in flowers, ramages, and in all other figures before they are dyed, which appears after dyeing in different colours upon the same piece. [Ibid. 39, p. 10.]
March 26. Whitehall.	Commission for Richard Doyley, gent., to be lieutenant of the company of which Captain James Waller is captain in the second marine regiment of foot commanded by Lord Berkeley. [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 191.]
March 26. Whitehall.	Warrant to Viscount Sydney, Master of the Ordnance. Reciting that a regiment of Dragoons is forthwith to be raised, to be commanded by Colonel Edward Leigh, and to consist of eight troops, each troop to be composed of sixty private soldiers, three corporals, two serjeants, and two drummers, besides commission officers; also a foot regiment to be commanded by Colonel Thomas Farrington, to consist of twelve companies, and one company of Grenadiers; each company to be composed of sixty private soldiers, three corporals, three serjeants, and two drummers, besides commission officers; and directing that out of the stores remaining in the office of the Ordnance the necessary arms are to be issued for arming the said regiments. [Ibid. 4, p. 13.] Like warrant reciting that a regiment of foot is to be forthwith raised for Barbadoes to be commanded by Col. Francis Russell, and to consist of five companies, each company to be composed of one hundred private men, three corporals, three serjeants and two drummers. [Ibid., p. 14.]
March 27. Whitehall.	Earl of Shrewsbury to Mr. Stock. I have received your letter of the 25th inst., and have sent a copy of that part of it which gives an account of the insufficiency of bonds taken at Dover, to the Commissioners of the Customs, who I hope will take the hint to oblige their officers to a stricter discharge of their duty. You need not fear being thought tedious when you have anything to impart to me for the Service, and my care and furtherance shall not be wanting, as far as they are necessary. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 5, p. 6.]
March 27. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to the Lords of the Admiralty. Orders are to be given (1) for the Germoon to sail, as soon as may be, to the coast of France, near Brest, to get intelligence of the enemy's fleet; (2) for the commander in chief of the third-rate ships ordered to cruise in the Soundings, to send once in six days to Falmouth to enquire for instructions; (3) for the Dutch men-of-war at Portsmouth to be cleaned by careening or docking. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book I., p. 103.]
March 27. Whitehall.	Warrant for placing Louis le Banc du Perce upon the establishment of the forces in Ireland as captain reformed in pension in place of Charles de Revol, who has gone with Viscount Galway into Piedmont. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office Letter Book 13, p. 104.]
March 27. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Charles Bridgar of Bermondsey, sailmaker, shewing that he has been recommended by the Lord Mayor to serve as sailmaker in the royal navy; Mr. William Blackway, at present employed in that quality, has been "criminated" for his notorious disaffection to the present Government. Prays that Blackway may be removed and the petitioner appointed in his place. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 3, p. 48.]
March 27. Whitehall.	Passes for the Right Honorable Lord George Hamilton and three servants to go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 191]; and for Captain Stageno to go to Gravesend or any other port and embark for Holland [Ibid., p. 192].
March 27. Whitehall.	Warrant to pay to Robert Cole, Esq., agent and consul-general at Algiers, the yearly salary of 600l.; the same to begin from the day of his delivering his letters credential to that Government, and to be paid quarterly by equal portions during his continuance in the said employment, the first three months' allowance to be advanced him; and also to pay him such sum or sums of money for intelligence and other extraordinary expenses as shall be allowed by one of our Principal Secretaries of State. [Ibid. 38, p. 528.]
March 27. Whitehall.	Passes for Captain John Cunningham and two servants to go to Flanders. [Ibid.]
March 28. Lisburn.	The Bishops of Meath and Derry to the Lords Justices of Ireland. We have proceeded with all the care and diligence we could against the bishop and obnoxious clergy here, but we must expect that they will struggle as long as they can to save themselves from the just censures of the law.
	We send a copy of the bishop's appeal from the sentence of deprivation pronounced against him. It is not possible for us to attend or prosecute this matter in the courts of England to which the bishop appeals, nor do we look on ourselves as concerned to do it; but we request you to recommend this affair, in which the honour of religion and the good of the Church are so deeply concerned, to some on the other side who will effectually attend to it, and likewise desire that we may have the opinion of the King's Council here as to how far in law we ought to admit the appeal, the bishop pressing very much to have our resolution concerning it.
	Yesterday we heard Archdeacon Lemuel Mathews' cause as to his non-residence. The charge against him consisted principally of these heads; first, that as archdeacon of Down he had four cures without any vicarages endowed, and five cures as prebend of Carncastle in the diocese of Connor, and for above twenty years never resided in any of them; secondly, that he never had any resident curates in some of them; that in others he had only nominal curates to answer at visitations, but not to perform any offices; in others curates that were altogether insufficient and unfit; that where he had curates he did not allow them a sufficient maintenance, and where he promised them an allowance he did not pay them; that catechising, visiting the sick, and administration of the sacraments were so neglected that many left the church and turned Presbyterians or Papists; thirdly, that he used several artifices to save the charge of curates, such as corrupting visitation books, procuring the bishop to unite parishes in perpetuum, choosing no church wardens, and not entering his curates' licenses, or corrupting them when granted; lastly, that he usurped the bishop's office in some parts of ordination, and presented unfit men to be ordained without due examination. For these offences, being fully proved, we this day proceeded to sentence of deprivation against him from his archdeaconry; but, being unwilling to use all the rigour we might, we only suspend him during their Majesties' pleasure from his prebend of Carncastle. To-morrow his other cause as chancellor of the diocese will be heard. His mismanagements of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction are many and grievous, and will appear such on proof, but inasmuch as the chancellorship is reputed by the common lawyers generally to be a lay fee, we are not certain how far it may be advisable for us to meddle with it, at least whether we may deprive him of it. [S.P. Ireland 356, No. 32.]
March 28.	Statement by Richard Midleton, proxy for Mr. Armar, as to the latter's inability to appear before the commissioners at Lisburn, owing to ill health. Copy. [Ibid., No. 33.]
March 28. Lisburn.	Copy of the sentence of deprivation pronounced by the commissioners against Lemuel Mathews, archdeacon of Down and prebendary of Carncastle. [Ibid., No. 34.]
March 28. Kensington.	Warrant for the appointment of Colonel William Wolseley to be Master General of Ordnance in Ireland, with a yearly salary of 500l. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office Letter Book 13, p. 101.]
March 28. Kensington.	Warrant for the payment to the Earl of Scarborough of a sum lent by him to Colonel Patrick Sarsfield (who is outlawed for high treason), out of the forfeited estate of the said Sarsfield, now in the hands of the crown. [Ibid., p. 102]
March 28. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to the Lords of the Admiralty, enclosing, for report, an account of the late Captain Philips, and of Captain Benbow. Enclosure not entered here. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book I., p. 104.]
March 28. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Sir Edward Hungerford and John Hill, gent., executors of Sir William Bassett, praying a writ of error upon a judgment obtained against them in the King's Bench by John Hitchins. Granted. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 381.]
March 28. Whitehall.	Passes for Captain William Graham and James Douglas, his servant, to go to Harwich and Holland; and for Mrs. Judith Riche de Cerisy, ditto. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 191.]
March 28. Whitehall.	Passes for Francesco Serjeanni, an Italian, to go to Holland [Ibid. 38, p. 529.]
March 28. Whitehall.	Warrant to Henry Allen to go to Dover and Sandwich, and there apprehend Thomas Hoskins and Robert Smith for high treason, in going to France without leave. [Ibid. 39, p. 12.]
March 29. Dublin Castle.	The Lords Justices of Ireland to Sir John Trenchard. There have been, formerly, representations made from hence of the mischiefs which still happen by the pressing seamen here by the men-of-war as they come into port, without the knowledge of the Government, and we fear that his Majesty's service will suffer by it. The Pearl frigate had no sooner arrived here with the ships that came for corn, than immediately we heard complaints from the masters of those vessels which were hired to transport the forces, and had the King's provisions on board, that their men were pressed, and that they had not hands enough left them to manage the sails. We took care to have the men restored to those ships which were under hire, and have been able by that to send three regiments of foot and three troops of dragoons for England. But we find that the trading ships have been so frightened by this, that we are informed there is not a ship left in the harbour, and it is feared that none will come as long as any man-of-war is here, so that it may very much retard our sending off the other two regiments of foot and five troops which remain and are ready to be transported. We will do what we can to expedite this service, but think it necessary to give you this information, that if these forces do not come so soon as might otherwise be expected you may know and acquaint his Majesty with the reason of it. [S.P. Ireland 356, No. 35.]
March 28. Dublin Castle.	The same to the same. In pursuance of his Majesty's pleasure signified to us by yours of the 10th inst. about the subsistence of Colonel Wolseley's regiment, we send you the enclosed report. Not here preserved. [Ibid., No. 36.]
March 29. Dublin Castle.	The same to the Lords of the Admiralty. We have seen a letter from Sir John Lowther to Mr. Lowther, one of the commissioners of the revenue, concerning the providing of cruisers for this kingdom.
	The Dolphin is at present ordered to cruise for fourteen days between Beerhaven and the river Kilmare, upon notice we received that Walsh, the privateer, was suddenly expected thereabouts, and to prevent the designs of some rapperees who have lately committed great disorders upon that coast. The Saint Martin's Prize sailed from Kinsale to Plymouth by your order in December last. The Sapphire and Virgin Prizes are both in this harbour, to convoy the regiments which are commanded for England, according to directions which we received from Mr. Secretary Trenchard. But Captain Walker of the Sapphire, has newly put in a memorial (which we send your lordships) by which we find that little service can be expected from that ship till she has been in the dock and new repaired. And he has since been with us to give us a further account of the great danger he foresees from the weakness of that vessel, and of his daily discovering fresh signs of it, so that we shall be forced to send her to England suddenly, there to await your orders. Instead of four ships, therefore, we have but two, which as soon as this service is over shall be sent northward.
	We hope that your Lordships will send us two others that shall be fit for service, and also take care for the other stations. But we find that whatever ships you shall send to ply upon this coast will not do that service which ought to be expected from them, unless, during the time they be so employed, they be under the sole direction of this Government. We do not intend or think of any encroachment upon your Lordships' commission, but only that all such orders as shall be found requisite to be sent from England be signified (as is done in all other cases) to the Government, and that thereupon the necessary orders issue from hence, and in the meantime such ships obey such other orders as shall from time to time be sent from this Government, for they will otherwise rather lie at watch in harbour to catch some merchant ship with prohibited goods (for which the law has provided other remedies), and under colour of that piece of service do the merchants and the trade great damage very often, and not make it their business to be stirring and looking out sharply for the privateers which so frequently make it unsafe for any ship to go out and return; besides which the Government will never know when they come or go (but by complaints of the merchants), so that there cannot so much as advice be sent them, or if it happen that we know how to direct them, it is at their choice whether they will take notice of it or not.
	Before news of the occasion of this service can be sent to England, and orders had from thence, the opportunity for action may be over. We mean this only for such stationary ships as shall be appointed to do duty on this coast, and for no other. There is another thing by which this service is hindered, and with which it is fit that we should acquaint your lordships. There is so much time lost by these ships being obliged to sail for Milford or Liverpool for their provisions, etc., that what with their sailing thither, their stay there, and their being detained by contrary winds or the pretence of these, this kingdom has not had that benefit of them which otherwise it might have had. Whereas these necessaries might be provided for in convenient ports here at a cheaper rate, and without such loss of time. [S.P. Ireland 356, No. 37.]
March 29. Admiralty Office.	The Lords of the Admiralty to Sir John Trenchard. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 714.] Enclosing:— (1) Copy of the examination of Charles Welch, suspected to be a spy. He was born at Cadiz, of Irish parents, and has been in their Majesties' service about six years, excepting that he was a prisoner in France about eighteen months. [Ibid., p. 718.] (2) Copy of the examination of Henry Cooke, a native of Shropshire, living at Boulogne, in France, and taken prisoner by an English man-of-war. [Ibid., p. 718.] (3) Extract of a letter from the Earl of Danby, dated Portsmouth, 27 March, 1694. I had the three enclosed letters from Capt. Haughton, of the Devonshire, who had them from the tailor of Plymouth, who intercepted them as directed. The writer, Charles Welch, is now in irons on board the St. Michael, as also an English prisoner, taken by Capt. Haughton in a small privateer of two guns off Beachy. Charles Welch belongs to the Devonshire, and it is my opinion he will be found to be a cunning, villainous spy, that ought to be hanged. [Ibid., p. 722.] (4) Copy of a letter from Charles Welch to ——, dated 8 March [1694], from their Majesties' ship Ruby in Hamoaze. As soon as we got to Portsmouth, we were sent on board this ship, with an express to the flag that was cruising to the west of Scilly. After this, there happened a French frigate into our company, which gave one of the Dutch men-of-war two broadsides, wounding fifty, and killing fifteen, men. She was met by another Dutchman of 20 guns, but escaped us all. We have lost a ship of 31 guns, called the Pembroke, whose luck was foretold at Portsmouth; she had 65 of our men, amongst which company I am sorry it was not my lot to be one. We have also taken a small sloop of two guns under Beachy, on board of which is an Englishman I have seen in Dunkirk, who they suppose is come for a spy. He tells me that Nicholas Welch is captain of the Arran, a ship of 40 guns, and that Father Conyers is taken as a spy in England. Also Mr. Conly and Mr. Latham have run away from Dunkirk as broken merchants. Sir James [Geraldine] is in great distress, of which I am heartily glad, for it was through his means I left Dunkirk, and Mrs. Dromont's deceitful love. Give my love to my friend John Walsh. [Ibid., p. 726.] (5) Copy of a letter from the same to [Capt. Haughton]. I hope you will excuse my error, for which I do suppose I am here fettered, which is for writing to my cousin; by writing to him in that sort, I thought to get him into the service. [Ibid., p. 730.] (6) Copy of a letter from the same to "my dear cousin," dated as above, 8 March. I am most heartily sorry for your imprisonment; I have been hitherto in as bad a condition, but am now in hopes of some liberty, for it is a complete year since I was pressed at Cowes. This cruise being over, we shall return on board our own ship the Devonshire. If you are willing to bear me company, I will speak to the captain to get you cleared from prison; for there you cannot hope to get your liberty, but here, either by one means or another, it may be obtained. I did write to Burne that I was married to Katey Lawrence, it being a cloak of pretension, that if I should run here they might not hurt me; besides, there is no one but believes I am a Spaniard born, for so I pass. [Ibid., p. 734.]
March 29. Whitehall.	Passes for James Boid, a volunteer in Sir Charles Graham's regiment of foot, to go to Harwich and Holland. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 191]; for Mr. John Clark to go to Holland; and for Mr. Francis Ignatius Vulpino, an Italian, ditto [Ibid. 38, p. 529].
March 29. Whitehall.	Warrant for the inclusion of William Dolby, late boatswain of the Assurance, and Edward Legg, in the next general pardon for poor criminals of Newgate, without condition of transportation. They were tried and condemned to die in the colony of Virginia for the murder of William Marshall, an inhabitant of the said colony. [Ibid.]
March 29. Whitehall.	Commissions for Robert Jackson, gent., to be sub-lieutenant of the troop of grenadier guards, commanded by Colonel George Cholmondley, and to take rank as eldest lieutenant of horse [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 190]; for Thomas Salisbury, gent., to be ensign of that company of which Captain Henry Wortley is captain in the regiment of foot commanded by Colonel Fergus D'Offarell; for Anthony de Pruneville, gent., to be ensign of the company of which Captain Heleon de Villeneuve is captain in the regiment of foot commanded by Major General Isaac de la Melonnière; for Colonel James Maithland to be colonel of the regiment of foot of which David, Earl of Leven, was late colonel, and likewise to be captain of a company in the said regiment [Ibid. 4, p. 15]; for Peter Hawker, esq., to be captain lieutenant of the troop in the regiment of dragoons commanded by Thomas Lord Fairfax, of which he himself is captain; for Thomas Lane, gent., to be lieutenant of the troop of which Captain James Crow is captain in the same regiment; for Peter Petty, gent., to be cornet, ditto; for John Dudley, gent., to be cornet of the troop of which Major William Stainforth is captain in the same regiment [Ibid., p. 16]; for Irby Montague, esq., to be captain of the company of which Sir Francis Wheeler was late captain, in the first regiment of foot guards commanded by Henry Viscount Sydney [Ibid., p. 17]; and for Henry Hunt, gent., to be lieutenant of that troop of which Capt. Francis Gore is captain in the regiment of dragoons commanded by Thomas, Lord Fairfax [Ibid., p. 20].
March 30. Whitehall.	Order to the Commander-in-chief of the Turkey convoy, directing him to remain at Smyrna, and delay sailing for home, until receiving further instructions from the Commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean. [H.O. Admiralty Entry Book I., p 104.]
March 30. Whitehall.	Order to the Commander-in-chief of the ships in the Mediterranean to send instructions to the Commander-in-chief of the Turkey convoy, as the posture of affairs may require, when, and how, to come away. [Ibid.]
March 30. Whitehall.	Order to the commander of the Scanderoon convoy to sail from that place to Smyrna, as soon as the merchantmen are ready. [Ibid. p. 105.]
March 30. Whitehall.	Sir John Trenchard to the Commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, sending copies of orders dispatched direct by the King to the commanders of the convoys, upon the representation of the Turkey Company. [Ibid.]
March 30. Admiralty Office.	The Lords of the Admiralty to Sir John Trenchard. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 706.] Enclosing:—(1) Extract of a letter from L. Jackson, Collector of Customs at Weymouth, dated 28 March, 1694. The master of a small barque from Guernsey confirms the report of the French army being in readiness on the coast, and, as they give out, only waiting for the galleys; fifty men-of-war are at Brest, and ten more at Cheraunt; the late captain of the Diamond frigate has landed at Jersey on his way to England. [Ibid., p. 710.] (2) Copy of the examination of Paulus Martin, master of the St. Maria, of Dunkirk, taken before Capt. William Dornel, commander of Cowes castle, 26 March, 1694. The said Martin sailed about fifteen days ago from Gaberet, near Brest, in a fleet of about eighty merchant ships, under convoy of three men-of-war; meeting with an accident, he put into Brest, which he left on the 23rd inst., and in the evening of the 25th was taken, off the Isle of Wight, by Capt. Jasper Newbury, commander of the Somer of Middleburgh. When he came from Brest there were twenty-four sail of ships, eight of eighty guns, and none of the others less than sixty. It was said they were to go to Toulon, commanded by Mons. Shatterance [Chateau Renaud ?]. The great ships at Brest were not preparing for sea, but it was supposed that when Mons. Tourville came there, which was daily expected, they would be fitted. Two fly-boats, and two men-of-war laden with bombs, had sailed from Brest to Dunkirk. [H.O. Admiralty 4, p. 710.] (3) Extract of a letter from Captain Young of the Delavall, in Portland Road, 27 March, 1694. A barque, arrived last night from Guernsey, reports the inhabitants of that place are in great consternation, expecting the enemy to attack them every day. I was ordered by Captain Guy to stay here till he called for me. [Ibid., p. 711.]
March 30. Whitehall.	Commissions for Andrew Samerson, esq., to be captain of the troop in the regiment of dragoons, commanded by Algernon, Earl of Essex; for Edmund Webb, gent., to be lieutenant to the troop of which Major Mountjoy Mortimer is captain, in the same regiment; for William Harris, gent., to be cornet of Captain George Holgate's troop in the same regiment; and for — Lloyd, gent., to be cornet of the troop of which Colonel — Lloyd is captain in the same regiment. [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 205.]
March 30. Whitehall.	Warrant to Viscount Sydney. Reciting that two companies of foot are to be added to the regiment of Scots Guards commanded by Major General Ramsey, to consist each of three sergeants, three corporals, two drummers and eighty private soldiers, and directing that out of the stores remaining in the Office of the Ordnance, the necessary arms and appurtenances be forthwith issued for arming the said two companies [Ibid. 4, p. 18]. Like warrant reciting that two troops of dragoons are to be added to the regiments of dragoons commanded by Major General Sir Thomas Levingston, and Colonel Cunningham respectively, consisting each of two sergeants, three corporals, two drummers, and sixty private soldiers; an addition is also to be made of ten men to each of the six old troops, and the necessary arms are to be provided for arming the same. [Ibid. p. 19.]
March 30. Whitehall.	The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Admiralty. I send you enclosed the copy of a letter from Cowes, giving an account of the examination of the master of a French prize who lately came from Brest. Enclosure not entered. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 5, p. 7.]
March 30. Whitehall.	The same to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. Scarce any foreign post arrives without bringing complaints from one or other of the ministers abroad of the difficulty they have to subsist, and that they are so far in arrear at the Exchequer as hardly to have credit left to support themselves. I am made so sensible of their wants that I cannot but be very earnest with you for their relief, and as they all stand in need of it, I think myself obliged to recommend their case in general, and desire you will consider it in time lest the dignity of their character be exposed by their lying so long under difficulties. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 5, p. 22.]
March 30. Whitehall.	Passes for James Genot and Mary his wife, Daniel Fromy, Susanne his wife, Andrew and Mark their children, to go to Harwich and Holland; and for Alida Jansz, to go to Gravesend and Holland. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 37, p. 192.]
March 30. Whitehall.	Passes for Jane Ygon, a French woman, with two children, to go to Holland; for Beatrix Timming, her child, Clasje Martens, and Mary Bois, soldiers' wives, ditto; for Fromet Jacobsen, a Dutch woman, ditto; for Mr. Mark Anthony Barnett, lieutenant in Lord Castleton's regiment; and for Mr. William Barnett, ensign in the same regiment, and one serjeant and twenty-four men, ditto. [Ibid. 38, p. 530.]
March 31.	The Bishops of Meath and Dromore to the Lords Justices of Ireland. Mr. Archdeacon Mathews left this town on the 28th inst., after sentence of deprivation and suspension had been given against him. The Bishop of Down has supplied him with 100l. and he has borrowed 150l. more upon bond, and is gone to England to manage his own and the bishop's business, and he left with so much precipitation that he would not stay to make any defence for himself on the 29th inst. when his cause was heard before us, about the mismanagement of his jurisdiction as chancellor of the diocese, by an extraordinary commission in his new court of audience, but left his jurisdiction to shift for itself, without leaving any instructions either to advocate or proctor concerning it. We therefore pray you to write by the first post into England either to his Grace of Canterbury or to whom else you shall think fit, that he may not prepossess the court with prejudices either against our commission or our proceedings, which we think have been so fair that we believe they will be their own justification when they come to be examined. [S.P. Ireland 356, No. 38.]
March 31. Admiralty Office.	An account of all their Majesties' ships of the first, second, third, fourth and fifth rate now in pay, with the condition of those in port, and the present stations of such as are at sea. [H.O. Admiralty 8, p. 223.]
March 31. Whitehall.	Pass for Don Joseph Benites de Lugo, a Spanish officer, to go to Flanders. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 38, p. 530.]
March 31. Whitehall.	Commissions for Robert Pointz, esq., to be captain of the company of which Captain John Southwell was captain in the regiment of foot commanded by Colonel Samuel Venner; for John Southwell, esq., to be captain of the company of which Robert Pointz., esq., was captain in the regiment of foot commanded by Colonel Frederick Hamilton [H.O. Military Entry Book 3, p. 191]; for William Kingsley, esq., to be captain of Captain John Lake's company in Colonel William Selwyn's regiment of foot [Ibid. p. 193]; for Edward Bush, gent., to be lieutenant to Captain Emanuel Hobbs in the Queen's regiment of foot commanded by Colonel Henry Trelawny; for John James Benard, gent., to be ensign to Captain John Bedford in the same regiment; for Theodore Collier to be ensign of the company in the regiment of foot commanded by Henry de Caumont, Marquis de Rada, of which he himself is captain [Ibid. p. 194]; and for John Lake, esq., to be captain of Captain William Kingsley's company in Colonel Samuel Venner's regiment of foot [Ibid. p. 213].
March.	Warrant for renewal of licence of absence to the bishop of Rapho. [S.P. Ireland 356, No. 39.]
March. Lisburn.	Extracts of several letters from Lisburn, all but the last from the Bishop of Meath:—
	17 March. There are some that proffer to resign some of their livings so they may hold the rest, but I tell them I have no commission to compound with any one, and do expect they should stand the trial. I do not find any one (except Goldsmith) that has come into livings since the revolution but through the door of simony, either with the bishop, or his wife, or Mrs. Cole, or the Jacobites that resigned in England. There seems to be no sense of that sin among them.
	21 March. Giving reasons for the deprivation of the bishop of Downe and Connor, viz., mismanagement of his jurisdiction by women and other persons unfit, and yet intrusted with it; giving a certificate of subscription, &c., to Alexander Moore, who had never subscribed, and afterwards turned papist; this was done at the solicitation of Sir Robert Hamilton and to the end that he might obtain Tyrconnel's license of absence, &c.
	31 March. On the 28th inst. one Mylnes, prebend of Kilroot, was heard before us and received the several sentences of admonition for drunkenness, suspension for neglect of duty and purgation for incontinency.
	31 March. As for what I can gather by the converse of the people here, if the commissioners' authority be continued and their judgments be allowed, I doubt not but our church will gain more proselytes in a little time than have been for these many years past. [Ibid. No. 40.]
[March.]	The humble representation of the House of Commons to his Majesty, with his Majesty's gracious answer thereto. The usage in Parliament in all times hath been, that what bills have been agreed by both houses for the redress of grievances or other public good have, when tendered to the Throne, obtained the royal assent; and there have been very few instances where such assent in such cases hath not been given, and those attended with great inconveniency to the Crown of England, especially where the same hath been withheld by insinuations of particular persons, without the advice of the privy council.
	The Commons therefore, out of their sincere desire for the welfare of your Majesty and your Government, and that you may always reign in prosperity and happiness in the affections of your subjects, cannot without grief of heart reflect that, since your Majesty's accession, several public bills made by the advice of both houses have not received the royal assent, and in particular one bill, intituled, an act touching free and impartial proceedings in Parliament, which was made to redress grievances and take off a scandal relating to the proceedings of the Commons after they had freely voted great supplies for the public occasions, which they can impute to no other cause than the insinuations of particular persons. None can have so great a concern and interest in the prosperity and happiness of your Majesty and your Government as your two Houses of Parliament, and we therefore humbly pray that for the future your Majesty would graciously be pleased to hearken to the advice of your Parliament, and not to the secret advices of particular persons who may have private interests of their own.
	His Majesty's answer:—No prince ever had a higher esteem for the constitution of the English government than myself, and I shall ever have a great regard to the advice of parliaments. I am persuaded that nothing can so much conduce to the happiness and welfare of this kingdom as an entire confidence between the King and people, which I shall by all means endeavour to preserve; and I shall look upon all persons to be my enemies who shall advise anything that may lessen it. [S.P. Dom. Will. and Mary 5, No. 64.]