William III: December 1695 | British History Online

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1695 Addenda 1689-1695. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1908.

'William III: December 1695', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1695 Addenda 1689-1695, (London, 1908) pp. 114-147. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/will-mary/addenda/1689-95/pp114-147 [accessed 18 April 2024]

December 1695.



Dec. 1. Whitehall.	Passes for Mary Hayes and Mary Pen, gunners' wives, and two small children, to go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 446]; and for Salomon Scheller to go to Holland [Ibid. 346, p. 172].
Dec. 1. Kensington.	Warrant to — Marcourt, appointing him major and captain of a company in the Swiss regiment commanded by — de Saconay. French. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 167.]
Dec. 1. Kensington.	Commissions for John King to be chaplain to Brigadier William Stewart's regiment of foot [Ibid., p. 250]; for Gervis Parker to be lieutenant to Captain Fiennes Twistleton in the same regiment; for Butler Mann to be ensign to Captain John Stewart in the same regiment; for James White to be lieutenant to Captain Robert Galbraith in the same regiment; for Thomas Hussey to be ensign to Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Hussey in the same regiment [Ibid., p. 251]; and for—Campbell to be captain in Lord Lorne's regiment [Ibid., p. 252].
Dec. 2. Whitehall.	Passes for Dettlef Brasch, Catherine Voyer, a French refugee, Jacob Finne, a subject of the States General, and Moise de Pommares, a French protestant, to go to Harwich or Gravesend and Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 445]; for Francis Fabre, a French refugee, and Estienne Cabrier, a French protestant, ditto [Ibid., p. 446]; for Abel Latanné to go to Holland [Ibid. 346, p. 172]; and for Charles Farmer ditto [Ibid., p. 176].
Dec. 2. Whitehall.	Warrant for the Comte de Wurtemberg, with a gentleman and four servants, the Comte d'Herberstein, with a governor and two servants, the Comte de Kokorsova, with a governor and valet de chambre, the Comte de Claris, with a governor, a valet de chambre, and the Baron de Godeck, with a valet de chambre, to embark on such of the king's yachts as shall be appointed for them, at any port of this kingdom, for Holland. [Ibid., p. 175.]
Dec. 2. Kensington.	Warrant for appointment of Robert Harmsworth, gent., as clerk of the markets of St. Michael, alias Bridgetown, Spykes Town, and all other towns in Barbadoes, to have and hold the said place during the king's pleasure, and his residence in the said island, together with all fees, etc., which John Stede or any other person had or ought to have had. [Ibid. 345, p. 266.]
Dec. 2. Kensington.	Commissions for Garet Cogland, esq., to be captain of the company whereof Captain Seymour was late captain in Colonel James's regiment of foot; and for Francis Hurrey to be adjutant to Colonel Francis Langston's regiment of horse. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 156.]
Dec. 2. Brussels.	Maximilian Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, to the King, thanking him for his past protection and influence, and hoping for a continuation of the same. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 15, No. 98.]
Dec. 2. Whitehall.	Sir William Trumbull to the Lords of the Admiralty, directing them to appoint a yacht to transport the Comte de Wurtemberg, and some other German gentlemen of quality, from hence to Holland, with the convoy that is now going thither. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 241.]
Dec. 2. Whitehall.	A duplicate of the above. [S.P. Dom. Naval 4.]
Dec. 2. Whitehall.	The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Admiralty. The enclosed memorial of Mr. Meisters having been laid before the king, his Majesty commands me to send it to you to give orders for stating the accounts of the six ships therein mentioned, as also for the paying off and discharging the same accordingly; and that the ship Fortune, now lying at Dartmouth, be brought about into the river and laid up here. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 100, p. 173.] Appended:—
	Mr. Meisters' memorial to the Duke of Shrewsbury, undated. I, W[illiam] Meisters, having received a verbal order from the Lords Justices in June last to take up special ships to carry stores to put into machines, and some for smoking fireships, all to be made use of in the expedition against Dunkirk. To six of them I paid one month's pay in hand; they wanted the rest of their pay; I desired the office of ordnance to pay for the following five (fn. 1) and the ship called the Ephraim to be paid by the navy, she being made a smoking fireship in the room of the Fortune, which was ordered to another design, and is now at Dartmouth. They refuse to pay them, only making difficulty that they must have an order in writing from his Majesty or the Lords Justices. Wherefore I pray you to assist me in procuring the aforesaid two orders for the payment of the aforesaid ships, the masters and owners troubling me every day. [Ibid.]
Dec. 2. Whitehall.	The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Admiralty, directing them to appoint a yacht to attend the Marquis d'Aurea, envoy from the republic of Genoa, to carry him and his family to Rotterdam, and that the said yacht be ordered to sail with the first convoy that shall be going to Holland from the river. [Ibid., p. 175.]
Dec. 3. Kensington.	The King to the Privy Council of Scotland. We require you to give orders for making a draft of thirteen hundred and thirty-two men out of the foot regiments in Scotland, for recruiting the Scotch regiments in Flanders, that is, two hundred and ninety-two out of Colonel Hill's regiment, and two hundred and sixty out of each of the other four regiments, which drafts are to be ready to embark by 1st January, and to be made in the presence of Lord George Hamilton or Colonel John Buchan, and divided and delivered by their directions to the officers sent from Flanders, that is, one thousand to be divided between one battalion of the guards, one of the royal regiments and the regiments commanded by Colonels Maitland, Lawder, MacKay and Buchan (which six regiments served at Namur), and three hundred and thirty-two to be delivered to the regiments lately belonging to D'Offarrell and Sir Charles Graham, now commanded by Colonel Robert Mackay and Colonel Walter Collier. For these men our officers from Flanders shall pay our officers in Scotland 20s. each for one thousand men, and 30s. for the remaining three hundred and thirty-two. And you are to allow the officers from Flanders to beat drums for raising what more men they want. And as to the regiments at home, you are to give orders for making the levy of one thousand men, granted to us by the late Act of Parliament, which men are to be delivered to the officers in Scotland a month after they shall have delivered the other thousand to the officers from Flanders. The pay of this month is to be allowed to the officers in Scotland, for reimbursing them of the 13s. and a groat which they must give the country, with the 20s. they got from the Flanders officers, to make up the 20l. Scots allowed by parliament for each man. And as soon as the officers from Flanders have got their recruits, you are to allow the officers in Scotland to raise three hundred and thirty-two men or what more they shall want, for doing which two months are allowed from the time the last recruits from Flanders embarked. And we also require you to give orders for making a draft of one hundred men from the two regiments of dragoons, for recruiting the two Scotch regiments of dragoons in Flanders, which men are to be delivered to the officers from Flanders before 1st January. [S.P. Scotland Warrant Book 16, p. 99.]
Dec. 3. Whitehall.	Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses incurred by Robert Wolseley, esq., his Majesty's envoy extraordinary to the Elector of Bavaria, for three quarters of a year ending 3 September, 1695. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 345, p. 270.]
Dec. 3. Whitehall.	Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses incurred by Viscount Galway, envoy extraordinary to the Duke of Savoy, from 1 January to 30 September, 1695. [Ibid., p. 271.]
Dec. 3. Whitehall.	Passes for Jane Farroone, wife of Esaias Farroone, a soldier in Colonel Tichborne's company, to go to Holland or Flanders; and for Mr. de Verdin, with two servants, to go to Holland. [Ibid. 346, p. 176.]
Dec. 3. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Thomas Chettle, esq. He prays letters patent for fourteen years for a new way of making iron stone into pig, or cast, or laden iron with pit coals or sea coals, "charked," or with peat or turf and other ingredients, and a new way of converting such iron into blooms and bars. Referred for report to the Attorney or Solicitor General. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 237, p. 146.]
Dec. 4. Whitehall.	Passes for Henry Martins to go to Falmouth and Spain [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 446]; for the Baron de Godeck, and two servants, to go to Harwich or Gravesend and Holland [Ibid., p. 447]; and for Michael Martin, Corsava and Schonfelder, Germans, to go to Germany [Ibid. 346, p. 176].
Dec. 4. Kensington.	Commission for Robert Austin to be first lieutenant to Captain Gilbert Symonds in the Marquis of Carmarthen's first marine regiment of foot. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 167, p. 293.]
Dec. 5. Whitehall.	Passes for Jean Bernard Streng and Martin Kyrn, Germans, to go to Germany; and for Isabella Simon, a Dutch woman, with her two children, and Jean Liege, a French protestant, to go to Holland. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 346, p. 176.]
Dec. 5. Whitehall.	Warrant to John Gellibrand for the apprehension of some person unnamed on a charge of publishing and dispersing certain seditious and treasonable libels against the King and government. [Ibid., p. 177.]
Dec. 5. Kensington.	Warrant for Sir Benjamin Bathurst, knt., and his successors, to hold two fairs at Cirencester, co. Gloucester, one upon Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday before St. Bartholomew's day, the other upon Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday before Palm Sunday, yearly, for buying and selling linen and woollen manufactures, cattle, and all other goods and merchandises. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 346, p. 178.]
Dec. 5. Whitehall.	Warrant for Isaque Couttinho and David Couttinho to be made free denizens of England. [Ibid., p. 180.]
Dec. 5. Kensington.	Warrant to the Earl of Romney, Master General of the Ordnance, for the continuance of pay to the company of pioneers attached to the train of artillery in Flanders. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 154.]
Dec. 5. Whitehall.	The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Commissioners of the Customs. I send you a copy of a letter from the English consul at Venice, upon which I desire your opinion how far the proposals he makes, in relation to his certificates for foreign ships, may be complied with. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 100, p. 176.]
Dec. 6. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of the Duke of Shrewsbury, praying a grant to him and his heirs for ever of four fairs to be held yearly at Little Budworth, co. Cheshire, on January 25th, April 23rd, June 30th, and Nov. 11th, and of two fairs more to be held at Dunham-on-the-Hill, in the said county, on April 10th and October 13th. Referred for report to the Attorney or Solicitor General. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 238, p. 37.]
Dec. 6. Whitehall.	Passes for Jacob Jacobse and John Willemse, Dutchmen, to go to Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 346, p. 177]; and for Cornelius Sorrensen, a Danish seaman, to go to Norway [Ibid., p. 179].
Dec. 7. Whitehall.	Passes for Louis Boucher and Gedeon Bataillé, French protestants, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [Ibid. 344, p. 447]; for Gerret Jansen, a Dutchman, to go to Holland [Ibid. 346, p. 179].
Dec. 7. Kensington.	Warrant for a grant of letters patent for fourteen years to Thomas Chettle, "of our county of Worcester, esquire," for his invention of a new way of making iron stone into pig, cast or laden iron, with pit coals or sea coals "charked," or with peat or turf, and other ingredients never yet used, and also a new way of melting, sinking and refining of pig and other cast or laden iron into blooms and bars of iron, with pit or sea coals, raw or "charked," or with peat or turf. [Ibid. 345, p. 267.]
Dec. 7. Kensington.	Warrant to allow the mayor, sheriffs, citizens and commonalty of the city of Norwich, and their successors, to purchase, receive and take any manors, lands, tenements and hereditaments whatsoever of or from any person or persons, so as the same do not exceed the yearly value of one thousand pounds, to enable them to perform the charities and good works directed by the will of William Doughty, gent., deceased. [Ibid., p. 272.]
Dec. 7. Kensington.	Warrant for letters patent for fourteen years to Thomas Savery, gent., for his invention of mill work to grind and polish looking glass and coach glass plates and marble stones, and also for rowing of ships with great ease and expedition. [Ibid., p. 275.]
Dec. 7.	Bernard Howard "of Norfolk" to Sir William Trumbull, as to Captain Byng's request that certain persons may be allowed to speak to him alone. [S.P. Dom., William and Mary 6, No. 45.] Enclosing a list of persons whom Captain Edward Byng desires may speak with him (undated):—Messrs. Gleast, Ward, Hyde, Thursby, surgeon, Tarrell and Gallaway, Mrs. Hyde, and Mrs. Fenn. Bing also desires that if he remembers other persons, their names may be inserted without troubling the Secretary with a new order. [Ibid., No. 45 i.]
Dec. 7. Dublin Castle.	Lord Capell to Mr. Vernon. Sir Richard Levinge's practices against me surprise me not. The interest he neglected to serve here, and the hasty means he used to serve himself, made way sufficient to remove him, and an honester man to be put in his place. Men must know little of this kingdom or the footing upon which his Majesty's interest stands here to turn out Mr. Rochford and Mr. Broderick. The first is by far the greatest practiser in this kingdom, and abounds in wealth, the other is the next great practiser here, and both true to the king's interests. Without them I could not have succeeded in the business of the sole right, and in time I hope to let the world see, and the remnant of Jacobites, that traitors may be brought to trial and the King's commissions drawn without flaws in them for the subject to be tempted to supersede them afterwards. My concerning myself in the attorney general's place between the old and the new is upon desire of Lady Gifford and Sir John Temple, and a "wholy" submission in Mr. Rochford to my award of what formerly has been in treaty between them. I am taking care of Mr. Foly. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 73.]
Dec. 8.	Proposals for the regulation of the two marine regiments. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 15, No. 101.]
Dec. 9. Whitehall.	Passes for Andries Tybert, Andries Andriese, Barent Janse and Peter Adrianse, Dutch seamen, to go to Harwich or Gravesend and Holland. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 451.]
Dec. 9. Whitehall.	Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses incurred by Consul Nicholas Herne at Alicante since 24 May, 1694, including the costs of diet, etc., for Edward Seshams in the hospital eighteen days; of provision for one Hall that came redeemed from Algiers; of diet, lodging, etc., of William Welsham, Henry Moses, James Knowling, and M. Hall, four seamen taken by the French in the Sarah Elizabeth, Caleb Stocker, master; of diet and lodging of Edward Turner and Philip Cales and victuals for Cadiz; of diet and lodging for George Beauchamp, John Williams, and David Roge, belonging to the Arcanie galley, lost in the Levant, twelve days, and their victuals for Cadiz; of victuals, etc., for William Hammond and James Butler for Cadiz; of provisions and passage of Philip Gould, Jeremy Leucy, Morice Crimen, Irish, John Thompson, Thomas Lindsey and Benjamin Hill, English, soldiers, to Cadiz, and their provision here for thirteen days; of diet and lodging for James and Zachary Taylor, for a sick man, James Anderson, for nineteen days; for Mathew Hedges and John Simins for nine days; for Roger Glassy, William Moseley, William Albi, John Williams, with provisions to Cadiz; of keeping Jacob Anderson in prison thirty-six days, to secure him until occasion offered to ship him off; of diet and lodging for eleven men taken in the Mercury, Captain Edward Mathews, commander; of charges on board a Moorish ship which came here with Consul Baker; of passage and diet for Edmund Prance, James Smith, David Jones, James Braine, Caleb Ellist, Joseph Hayman, John Whitfield, Philip Hally, Edmund Prance, junior, John Moyses, Richard Scorch, Thomas Gould, John Rou, Benjamin Seafort, John Wadding, sent from Tracy [Thrace], being there put ashore by a French privateer of the "Zants men," and who were put on board the Lark; of keeping Thomas Luke, belonging to the said ship, in the hospital, having a spotted fever and his head broken; and of keeping fourteen Irish soldiers, deserters from the French in Catolonia, who were put on board the Herne, Captain Barrett. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 345, p. 273.]
Dec. 9. Whitehall.	Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses, incurred by Lord Paget, ambassador extraordinary to the Grand Seignior, from 2 October, 1693, to 2 May, 1695. [Ibid., p. 277.]
Dec. 9. Whitehall.	Warrant for Mr. Gleast, Mr. Ward, Mr. Hyde, Mrs. Hyde, Mr. Thursby, a surgeon, Mrs. Fenn, Mr. Farrel and Mr. Gallaway to have access to Mr. Edward Bing [Byng], a prisoner in Newgate, in the keeper's presence. [Ibid. 40, p. 179.]
Dec. 9. Kensington.	Commissions for Stanley Russell to be lieutenant to Captain John Dally's company of grenadiers in Colonel Thomas Farrington's regiment of foot [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 151]; for Thomas Farrington to be ensign of Captain Robert Cheyne's company in the same regiment [Ibid., p. 152]; for Charles Christian to be lieutenant of Major Joseph Stopford's company in the Marquis of Carmarthen's first marine regiment of foot [Ibid., p. 153]; and for Josias Champane to be captain of Captain William Carey's late company in Colonel John Tidcombe's regiment of foot [Ibid.]
Dec. 9. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Philippa Sutton, widow of Captain John Sutton. Her husband served his Majesty as ensign in Holland, and afterwards as lieutenant in Ireland, and was afterwards made captain in Flanders; he was killed at Steinkirk and left her in a very poor condition; she prays for a pension. Referred for report to the Lords of the Treasury. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 237, p. 147.]
Dec. 9. Whitehall.	Sir William Trumbull to the Lords of the Admiralty. There being a dispute between his Majesty and the Kings of Denmark and Sweden concerning the respect due to his Majesty's men-of-war, he commands you to search in the books and records of your office, and enquire of the officers of the navy and Trinity House, and such other persons of experience as may give you light into what has been the custom and practice, what has been demanded by his Majesty's ships, and what in particular instances has been yielded by the ships of either of those crowns; whether the instructions now given to the commanders of his Majesty's ships in relation to the flag are the same as they have been since the restoration of Charles II.; what they are now, and if altered, wherein, and on what occasions; and to give an account of what the practice has been in relation to salutes between his Majesty's ships and those of the Kings of Sweden and Denmark, and their forts and castles in the Baltic. [S.P. Dom. Naval, 4.]
Dec. 10. Whitehall.	The Duke of Shrewsbury to Mr. Curtis. I have acquainted the King with the proposals you sent me in your letter of the 26th Nov., and he directs you to come hither to give a fuller information in that matter. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 100, p. 176.]
Dec. 10. Whitehall.	The same to Lord Capell with regard to the delay in the presentation of his report on Lord Bellew's petition till the rising of Parliament. [S.P. Ireland, King's Letter Book 2, p. 88.]
Dec. 10. Whitehall.	Pass for John Goedart, a protestant subject of the States General, to go to Harwich and Holland. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 458.]
Dec. 10. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Ann Hancock, widow. She sets forth that her husband, Lieutenant James Hancock, served his Majesty at the siege of the Grave in Holland, and since in Flanders in the royal regiment of fusiliers commanded by Brigadier Fitzpatrick, and was at the battle of Landen in Flanders and other places with the said regiment, but being upon a party near Bruges, was barbarously murdered by the French and lost all he had. That she had a son lost aboard the ship Henrietta, commanded by Admiral Nevill, now almost six years since. That she is left with three children destitute of all means whereby to subsist, and has never received any recompense either from her late Majesty or any one else, as other officers' widows of the said regiment have, and praying some allowance. Referred for report to the Lords of the Treasury. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 238, p. 40.]
Dec. 10. Kensington.	Commissions for Bardzey Fisher to be chaplain to Sir John Jacob's regiment [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 167, p. 251]; and for Henry Seymour to be captain of Major Blood's company in Colonel Seymour's regiment [Ibid., p. 252].
Dec. 11. Whitehall.	Certificate that Thomas Baker, esq., the King's consul at Algiers, returned from that employment into England 15 August, 1695. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 345, p. 266.]
Dec. 12. Whitehall.	Pass for Mr. John Grill, a subject of the king of Sweden, to go to Harwich and Holland. [Ibid. 344, p. 447.]
Dec. 12. Whitehall.	The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Admiralty, ordering that men be entered on board for the Channel service in the coming year. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 205, p. 182.]
Dec. 13. Whitehall.	Passes for Ensign George van Niewenheim, a Dutch officer, to go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 447]; for Peter Janse, of Rotterdam, and John Hulmers, a subject of the States General, to go to Harwich or Gravesend and Holland; for Mr. Philip Tinsey, with his servant Giles Joase, to go to Falmouth and Spain [Ibid., p. 452]; for Don Miguel Lopez to go to Spain; for Isaac Jansen and Peter de Lee, and Ole Hendrichsen, a Danish seaman, to go to Holland [Ibid. 346, p. 181].
Dec. 13. Whitehall.	Warrant for the payment of expenses incurred by Lord Villiers, envoy extraordinary to the States General of the United Provinces, and plenipotentiary at the congress, 8 July to 8 October, 1695, including an entertainment given on 28 Sept. by his Majesty's particular order, for the taking of Namur, illuminating, and other marks of public joy proper for the occasion, amounting to 135l. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 346, p. 182.]
Dec. 13. Whitehall.	Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses incurred by Hugh Greg, resident at Copenhagen from 1 April to 1 October, 1695. [Ibid., p. 183.]
Dec. 13. Kensington.	Commissions for — Norris to be captain of Major Edward Pope's company of grenadiers in Colonel John Tidcombe's regiment of foot; for Thomas Skackford to be ensign of Captain Quartus Spencer's company in the same regiment [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 155]; for James Nicholson to be lieutenant colonel of, and captain of a company in the same regiment; for Edward Pope to be major of and captain of a company in the same regiment [Ibid., p. 158]; and for Manley Calis to be first lieutenant of Captain Richard Courtenay's company in Lord Berkeley's marine regiment of foot [Ibid., p. 159].
Dec. 13. Whitehall.	Sir William Trumbull to Sir Charles Hedges. I received yesterday your account of your proceedings at the late sessions of the Admiralty, and having a petition put into my hand praying his Majesty's pardon to Henry Fog, one of the condemned persons, I desire you will furnish me with matter, if any there be, to make use of in moving his Majesty in his favour. I desire likewise you will let me know what proceedings have been had against the ship Talmodigheit of Copenhagen, Peter Pietman, master. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 241.]
Dec. 13. Whitehall.	The same to the Lords Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Affairs. Having laid the enclosed petition of Mr. King before his Majesty he was pleased, as well in regard to his having served several campaigns in Flanders, as to the loss he has sustained by an Act of Parliament passed the last sessions, which took away the advantages of his living in the Minories, to express his disposition to have him gratified with some other benefice, that should be in some measure proportionate to the said loss. Enclosure not here entered. [Ibid., p. 242.]
Dec. 13. Kensington.	Warrant appointing Lord Carmichael the King's High Commissioner at the next general assembly of the Church of Scotland. [S.P. Scotland Warrant Book 16, p. 101.]
Dec. 13. Kensington.	Instructions to Lord Carmichael, High Commissioner to the General Assembly. 1. You are to take particular care that nothing be done in the Assembly to the prejudice of our authority, or anything treated of that is not a fit subject for an ecclesiastical meeting. 2. You are to give the Assembly all assurances of our resolution to maintain Presbyterian government in the church of Scotland. 3. You are to let them understand that we expect that, at this time, they will chiefly make it their work to regulate matters of order and discipline amongst themselves. 4 and 5. You are to let them know that we regret the number of churches in Scotland in which there are no ministers, and that it would be more acceptable to us, and more becoming them, to apply themselves rather to restoring the Gospel to such churches, than to depriving other churches of it. 6. As to the non-jurors, you are to inform the Assembly that we are very sensible of the bad consequence it may entail, to trust the minds of any of our people to the influence of a ministry that declines to own our lawful authority; but that being a matter of state, we will give orders to the council about them. 7. You are to endeavour to convince the assembly how much it is to their interest, as well as to our service, to assume into their body the good and moderate men of those that were formerly of the episcopal way. 8. You are to represent the opportunity that there will be for this now, since those that have not taken the oaths now being at mercy, and many of them as we are informed being desirous to redeem the occasion, and the law allowing them still to take the oaths if the church shall first assume them, it is not to be doubted but a number of them will apply, if they can hope that they will be received. 9. You may assure the leading men of the assembly that, in order to oblige the non-jurors to apply, examples shall be made of the most obstinate, and if, notwithstanding due encouragement given them to apply, any of them shall decline to do it, we shall consider such of them hereafter as men irreclaimable. 10. In order to give the ministers an opportunity to plant vacant churches in the north, and to assume such as shall apply to them, you are to allow them to appoint a commission to go north in the spring, and to take care that it consist of wise and moderate men. 11. It is not convenient that the assembly should sit long at this time, therefore you are to excite them to dispatch all business, that must be now done, as soon as they can, and to leave other matters to the commission and the inferior judicatories. 12. You are not to allow the assembly to sit longer than 10 January next, and to dissolve them even sooner if business can be got done. 13. You are to communicate the sixth, seventh and eighth articles of these instructions to such of the ministers as you shall judge capable and willing to dispose their brethren to comply with the design of them. [S.P. Scotland Warrant Book 16, p. 103.]
Dec. 13. Kensington.	The King to the Commissioner of the General Assembly of Scotland, desiring him to induce the Assembly to fill the two hundred vacant churches in Scotland, instead of turning out incumbents formerly of the episcopal way, and to fill the vacancies with such ministers, already turned out, as are come to have a true sense of their duty; and if he finds that the spirit of the Assembly, and consequently of such ministers as will probably be on the commission for the north, is for more vacancies, to dissolve the Assembly before they name the said commission. [Ibid., p. 105.]
Dec. 13. Kensington.	Warrant to the Lords of the Treasury of Scotland for the payment of 400l. to Lord Carmichael, for defraying his expenses as High Commissioner to the General Assembly. [Ibid., p. 106.]
Dec. 13. Kensington.	Warrant to the Marquis of Tweeddale for dispensing with the want of a quorum in the Treasury and Exchequer, and for summoning any Lords of the Treasury that are in Scotland to attend, and giving orders for the payment of the troops and such other business as will not admit of delay, and for calling the Exchequer, and proceeding there to business in the same way. [S.P. Scotland Warrant Book 16, p. 107.]
Dec. 14. London.	Copy of a certificate on behalf of Daniel Du Bois, Raymond Arsus, and Jean Perdigrat, three French Protestant prisoners at Dover, who wish to stay in England. [S.P. Dom. Naval, 4.]
Dec. 14. Kensington.	Warrant for sixty dragoons to be drawn out of the two regiments in Ireland for recruiting the regiment commanded by Colonel Ross in the Low Countries. [S.P. Ireland, King's Letter Book 2, p. 89.]
Dec. 14. Whitehall.	Passes for John Christopher Fabricius, Simon vander Porten, and Salomon Levi, Hamburgers, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 448]; and for Adriaen Hendricksen, Dou Dovese, Dirk Dirksen, Folkert Piters, Claes Shot, Cornelis Sivart, John Riemer, Andries Andriesen, Dirk Andriesen, Dirk Hendricksen, Maurits Mouersen, Andreas Hander, Marten Soolant, Israel Eerkcen, Arij Simonsen, Broeder Laures, Hans Teven, Mats Bras, Martin Sander, Jonas Vrijegel, Eerik Andriesen, Jacob Joensen, Andries Tomese, Peter Rufsteed, Daniel Vregman, and Peter Tregel to go to Holland [Ibid. 346, p. 184].
Dec. 14. Kensington.	Warrant to insert the names of James Smith and Aubrey Price in the next general pardon. They were imprisoned for fraudulently deceiving the governor and company of the Bank of England of divers sums of money, by forged and counterfeited assignments and certificates relating to the Orphans' Fund, but have confessed the same, discovered their accomplices and made satisfaction and restitution to the said governor and company, of the money of which they had defrauded them. [Ibid. 345, p. 276.]
Dec. 15. Kensington.	Warrant for the preparation of a bill to pass the great seal, appointing the lord chancellor, the president of the privy council, the first commissioners of the treasury and of the admiralty, and the principal secretary of state for the time being, and the Earls of Bridgwater and Stamford, Sir Philip Meadhouse, knight, William Blathwayt, Samuel Clarke, John Pollexfen and John Locke, esquires, to be commissioners for promoting the trade of the kingdom, and for inspecting and improving the plantations in America and elsewhere. [Ibid., p. 278.]
Dec. 15. Whitehall.	Pass for Jan Lawrence Ketels and Arnaut Isvogel to go to Holland. [Ibid. 346, p. 184.]
Dec. 15. Admiralty Office.	List of the first, second, and third rates for the next summer service. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 15, No. 99.]
Dec. 16. Whitehall.	Passes for Andries Nebbens to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 449]; for Christoffel de Bringues, an officer, with his servant, to go to Holland [Ibid., p. 452]; for Giles Janse and George Plut, Dutchmen, ditto [Ibid. 346, p. 183]; and for Peter Rystedl, Hans Tewes, Mans Brask, Martin Anderson and Brode Larsson to go to Holland [Ibid., p. 184].
Dec. 16. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of George Treadway, Timothy Lannoy, Thomas Vernon and Walter Hornby. Shows that the ship Serpent of London, laden with galls, etc., belonging to them, was seized in the port called Salinis, in the island of Cyprus, by a French ship called the Madonna del Rosario. Francis David, commander, and carried to Sidon, and there stopped by the Bassa as being taken in a port belonging to the Grand Seignior. This being represented by the King's ambassador residing at Constantinople to the French King's ambassador there, it was agreed by the latter that the Serpent should be immediately restored; notwithstanding which the said French ambassador has since found several pretences to delay the same, during which delay Captain John Knapp, commander of his Majesty's ship Bonaventure, took out of a ship called the San Giuseppe a box of emeralds, etc., by way of reprizals, and has delivered part of the said goods to his Majesty's consul at Messina and has brought part to England. The petitioners pray that the said goods may be delivered to them until satisfaction be done them for their said ship and goods. Referred for report to Sir Charles Hedges, knt. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 238, p. 38.]
Dec. 16. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Hannah McDonnel. Shows that in consideration of a considerable portion brought by her to her husband Randall McDonnel, he did, before her marriage, by deed of 8 January, 1686–7, settle upon trustees for her use as a separate maintenance the sum of 300l. yearly out of his estate. That most of her said husband's estate consisted of money, and the same was laid out at interest in land security in Ireland, as likewise a great part of her own portion before marriage, several parcels of which lands so mortgaged are since seized into his Majesty's hands, the proprietors thereof being attainted, so that she is at present deprived of her said maintenance. She prays the benefit of her settlements. Referred for report to the Lords of the Treasury. [Ibid., p. 39.]
Dec. 16. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Lord Archibald Hamilton, commander of the Lichfield. He sets forth that he retook the Justice of Amsterdam, and according to a treaty between his Majesty and the States General, dated 22 October, 1689, it was mutually agreed that, for what ships or goods should be retaken on each side, one eighth part should be paid for salvage, to be disposed of as his Majesty or the States should think fit; he prays a grant of the sum paid into the Admiralty for the salvage of the said ship. Referred for report to Sir Charles Hedges, knt. [Ibid., p. 42.]
Dec. 16. Kensington.	Commissions for John Man to be cornet to Captain Gore in Captain Charles Rosse's regiment of dragoons; for James Rosse to be lieutenant to Captain Caldwell in the same regiment [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 167, p. 253]; for — Newcomen to be cornet to Captain — in the same regiment; for Griffith Lloyd to be cornet to Lieutenant Colonel Owen. Wynn in the same regiment [Ibid., p. 254]; for Samuel Piggot to be chaplain to the Duke of Bolton's regiment of foot; for William Wilkinson to be ensign of Major Cuthbert Wilkinson's company in Colonel Frederick Hamilton's regiment of foot [Ibid. 168, p. 153]; and for Robert Parker to be ensign of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Stearne's company in the same regiment [Ibid., p. 156].
Dec. 16. Whitehall.	The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Admiralty, commanding the men of war designed for Cadiz, provisioned and lying at Spithead, to sail with those Dutch men of war, there arrived on their way to the Straits. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 205, p. 182.]
Dec. 16. Whitehall.	The same to Sir George Rooke, excusing the delay of Mr. Cailleau, who lost his passage from Portsmouth, and recommending him as midshipman extra. [Ibid.]
Dec. 16. Kensington.	Warrant to the Bishop of London, authorizing a collection by the churchwardens or overseers of the poor from well-disposed persons at their respective dwellings on behalf of the poor of London; the sums collected to be paid into the Chamber of London, and distributed at the discretion of the Lord Mayor. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 162, p. 65.]
Dec. 16. Kensington.	Warrant to the Lord Mayor, recommending the above collection to his support. [Ibid., p. 66.]
Dec. 16. Kensington.	Warrant for Seth Eyres, a scholar of Winchester College, to be elected to a scholarship at New College, Oxford. [Ibid. 163, p. 71.]
Dec. 16. Whitehall.	Sir William Trumbull to the Commissioners of the Customs. I am informed that a vessel, coming, as was pretended, from Ostend, landed lately at Margate about twenty persons, supposed to be foreigners and some of them officers, and it being a thing which may have very ill consequences if men coming from beyond seas are permitted to land without passes without any notice taken of it, I desire you will give orders to your officers at Margate and on that coast to look more diligently about them, and not suffer passengers to be put on shore without examining them, and taking a strict account of them; and if they are foreigners or his Majesty's subjects (unless officers in his Majesty's army), and have not passes, they are to detain them and give immediately an account thereof to me, together with their names and what they can discover of them, lest dangerous and disaffected persons to his Majesty's government be invited thither, when they find there is so easy an entrance into the kingdom and that they may pass unobserved. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 242.]
Dec. 16. Kensington.	Warrant to the Privy Council of Scotland, for ordering one hundred and sixty-six men from the draft to be made out of Colonel Macgill's regiment to be given to Colonel Robert Mackay, for recruiting his regiment in Flanders, formerly belonging to d'Offarrell, the said Colonel Mackay paying for each man according to the orders given in the king's letter of the 3rd instant. [S.P. Scotland Warrant Book 16, p. 108.]
Dec. 16. Kensington.	Warrant for a remission of treason in favour of the Earl of Breadalbane, "without prejudice of the indictment lately raised before parliament against him for certain secret treasonable articles therein libelled to have been agreed between him and Major General Buchan and the chieftains of the Highland clans." [S.P. Scotland Warrant Book 16, p. 109.]
Dec. 16. Kensington.	Warrant to the Earl of Leven, constable and governor of Edinburgh Castle, for setting the Earl of Breadalbane at liberty. [Ibid., p. 112.]
Dec. 16. Kensington.	Warrant to the Privy Council of Scotland for taking bail of Master Levingstone of Kilsyth, who has been allowed to return to Scotland, for his peaceable behaviour, and appearing before them when required. [Ibid.]
Dec. 16. Kensington.	Warrant to the same for adding the Earl of Strathmore to their number. [Ibid., p. 113.]
Dec. 16. Kensington.	Warrant for nominating Mr. John Syme, student in divinity, professor of Hebrew in the new college of St. Andrews, in the place of Mr. John Gordon. [Ibid.]
Dec. 16. Kensington.	Docket of the warrant for Mr. George Hamilton, minister of the Gospel, to be principal of St. Leonard's College, St. Andrews. [Ibid., p. 115.]
Dec. 16. Kensington.	Docket of the warrant for a ratification of the office of Knight Marshal in Scotland, to the Earl of Kintore and Charles Keith, his third son, and of the fee of 400l. annexed thereto, whereby three former gifts are ratified: the first granted by Charles II. to the said Earl, therein designed John Keith, brother german to the Earl Marshal, the second also by the said King to the said Earl, therein designed Sir John Keith, and to John Keith, his second son, then an infant, and the third by the present King. [Ibid.]
Dec. 16. Kensington.	Docket of the warrant for nominating Mr. John Vauss keeper of the Council Chamber in Scotland, and furnisher of coal and candles thereto, and furnisher of pens, ink, etc. to the treasury and exchequer rooms. [Ibid., p. 117.]
Dec. 16. Kensington.	Docket of the warrant for John Yeatts, late trumpeter to Lord Yester, to be one of the King's ordinary trumpeters of Scotland. [Ibid.]
Dec. 16. Kensington.	Docket of the warrant for granting to Janet Home, Lady Eccles, the feu and non-entry duties, &c., belonging to the lands of Eccles, comprehending the lands of Gortshortrig, Southbank, and Bankhead, extending to sixteen husband lands, and all the mains of Eccles, comprehending the mains of Wormetlaw, extending to sixteen husband lands, with the mill called Horsrig, to the sum of 42l. 6s. 8d., for all years since the making of the last eque of the said lands in exchequer, which was for years preceding 31 July, 1655, and extending from that date to 31 July, 1695, to the sum of 1,693l. 6s. 8d. Scots money. [Ibid., p. 118.]
Dec. 16. Kensington.	Docket of the warrant for a gift of the office of sheriff principal of the sheriffdom of Forfar to —. [Ibid., p. 119.]
Dec. 16. Kensington.	Commissions for Major Robert Reid to be lieutenant colonel of Lord Lindsay's regiment of foot; for Captain James Cuningham, of Ailkel, to be major of, and John Baillie to be lieutenant in, Sir William Douglas's regiment of foot; for Francis Farquhar to be captain of Captain James Cuningham's late company in Sir John Hill's regiment; for — Moncreif, of Reedie, the younger, to be captain of Captain Billingham's late company, and Thomas Fife to be ensign colonel in Lord Murray's regiment; for Charles Mackinon to be — lieutenant to the company of grenadiers, Andrew Munro to be ensign colonel, and Donald Mackleane to be ensign to Major Duncan Mackenzie's company in Colonel George Macgill's regiment. [S.P. Scotland Warrant Book 16, p. 120.]
Dec. 17. Whitehall.	The Duke of Shrewsbury to Sir James Oxenden. Being informed that Charles Beeston, tailor of Sandwich (who was lately committed to Maidstone gaol for criminal words), has made suit to be bailed, and has proposed Thomas Barber, junior, of Sandwich, co. Kent, gent., and Ralph Goodchild of the same, grocer, to be bound for his appearance at the next assizes in Kent, I have nothing to oppose against it. Similar letter to John Cason, Esq. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 100, p. 177.]
Dec. 17. Dublin Castle.	Lord Capell to Duke of Shrewsbury. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 74.] Enclosing:—
Dec. 17. Dublin Castle.	Robert Rochfort's report upon the petition of the curriers of Dublin, dated 7 Nov., 1695. In obedience to your order of reference dated 30 September last, on the petition of Edward Geyton and others on behalf of themselves and the protestant curriers of Dublin, I have examined the several allegations and find that in 1681 the great charter of this city and all other charters of the several inferior corporations were, by the then barons of the exchequer, adjudged forfeited and seized into the king's hands. And I further find that at the instance of the late Earl of Limerick and others of the popish nobility and gentry and of the popish tanners and curriers of this city, the late King James did, by his charter dated 27 September, 1688, incorporate the tanners and curriers of this city into one guild, notwithstanding the endeavours of the protestant curriers to the contrary, and although they were never before incorporated with the tanners, in which charter there is provision for many superstitious uses. I am also informed that in London the tanners, and curriers are distinct corporations and have separate charters and that the curriers of this city increase daily and drive a very considerable trade, but I do not find that they have been incorporated other than as aforesaid. I further find that a statute made in England in the first year of this reign instituted an Act for the better security and relief of his Majesty's protestant subjects in Ireland. It is thereby enacted that all cities, bodies corporate, etc., in this kingdom should be restored to the same state which they were in on 24 June, 1683. Upon consideration of which I am of opinion that the said new charter in the late King James's reign is void in law, and it will be to the advantage of the trade of this city to grant the petitioners a charter. [Ibid. No. 74 i.]
Dec. 17. Dublin Castle.	The same to the same. I think myself obliged to give you an account of a passage that lately happened here between the chancellor and myself: Last Sunday morning, after we came from church, I acquainted him that I intended to make Mr. William Neave, a gentleman of the long robe, his Majesty's second serjeantat-law. The chancellor after some small pause told me he could not bear it, that it was to prefer his enemy that had appeared against him this sessions, and that he would write to the King about it. I replied he might write or do what he pleased, but that I was judge of the persons I thought fit to employ in the King's service, and that I intended to make Mr. Ormsby and Mr. Wingfield of the King's counsel at law. This morning Mr. Neave waited on his lordship with the flant or bill for his warrant to pass it under the great seal, but he said he would take time to consider it, and gives for reason that he is not of ability to discharge that employment. His first reason, that Mr. Neave was one of those who prosecuted the articles against him will not hold, his lordship having since called to mind the speech he made this session in the House of Commons in his own defence, that he had forgiven those who prosecuted him in former parliaments, and should now bear no resentment against any that might vote against him in this; though Mr. Reading, a barrister who had appeared against the chancellor the last parliament, was for that reason at his instance hindered from being approved of for the recordership of Drogheda. But since my being alone in the government I have made him of the counsel to the commissioners of the revenue, he having been of great use to me in bringing his Majesty's affairs to a good issue. Mr. Neave was recommended to me by the Earl of Meath, Lord Lanesborough and others, and I was assured by the Attorney and Solicitor-General of his ability to discharge that office. However, I expected not this return from the chancellor, having lately, at his instance, made Mr. William Porter, his brother, one of the King's counsel, Mr. William Molyneux, at his recommendation, one of the Masters in Chancery, and Sir Thomas Packenham, who always appeared and voted for him, his Majesty's prime serjeant. The influence and power of the lawyers in this kingdom is indeed very great, especially in parliament, and without their concurrence I could not have asserted his Majesty's right as to the beginning of money bills, and therefore I reserved these places in my disposal until the end of the sessions. But the true reason why I have thought fit to prefer these gentlemen was in obedience to his Majesty's commands, signified to me in yours of 23 November, that I should stop all manner of intended prosecution against the chancellor in the parliament of England. Finding, therefore, after the articles against the chancellor were rejected, that several of the members had meetings in order to accuse him in the parliament of England, and that some of these gentlemen of the law were principally concerned, I prevailed with them to desist; but if the chancellor is so haughty as to stop grants or preferments to those gentlemen that appeared against him, which they tell me they did believing him faulty in his place, I dare not undertake that his Majesty shall be troubled with no further complaints against him in the parliament of England. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 75.]
Dec. 17. Whitehall.	Warrant to the keeper of Newgate for receiving into his custody Henry Bish, charged with treasonable practices and giving information, to persons disaffected to the government, of the force, condition and designs of the King's navy and ships of war, the last summer, in the expedition against St. Malo. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 345, p. 287.]
Dec. 17. Whitehall.	Pass for Mr. John van Vleicden, Cornelis du Belt and John Peterson to go to Holland. [Ibid. 346, p. 183.]
Dec. 17. Whitehall.	The Duke of Shrewsbury to Sir George Rooke. I beg enquiries may be made respecting Mr. Cole, Mr. Goodwyn, and Mr. Loddington, the present consuls at Algier, Tunis, and Tripoli, accused of misdemeanours in letters received by the King from the coast of Barbary; meanwhile the presents being sent to the Deys of Algier and Tripoli are to be delayed. I further send you a copy of what I write to Mr. Stanhope concerning provisions to be furnished in Spain. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 205, p. 183.] Appending:—
	The accusation against Mr. Goodwyn and Mr. Loddington. Mr. Cole, the British consul at Algier, has lately sent a letter from the present Dey of Algier giving an account of the peace being renewed with that government, and in the close of the said letter he refers to another letter of Shaban Dey, the late governor of Algier which is transmitted at the same time, and in that letter the King's consuls at Tripoli and Tunis are accused of having procured and sent forged letters to the King, as appears by a copy of the said letter herewith sent. The King ordered an examination by the Lords of the Council, who were attended by Mr. Baker, the late consul at Algier, and Mr. Daniel Skinner, lately come from thence, whom Mr. Baker, when he renewed the peace at Tripoli, left there as consul till the King should appoint another, he designing it for his brother Francis Baker On the other side there appeared a brother of Mr. Loddington, the consul at Tripoli, and Mr. Streete and Mr. Rigby, merchants, friends and correspondents of Mr. Goodwyn, the consul at Tunis, and his partner Mr. Chetwood, who is involved in the same accusation of forgery. These persons justified the consuls and affirmed they were both incapable of so ill a practice, and that a suspicion of that nature ought more easily to stick upon Mr. Skinner, whom they represented as a loose indigent person, and one that came into Barbary from serving on board the French fleet. They said there was no reason to suspect Consul Goodwyn's letter from Shaban Dey was forged, since it was only to acknowledge that he and Chetwood had advanced 8,000 dollars for the redemption of English captives according to Consul Baker's contract which Mr. Baker did not disown, and this letter was only to recommend them to the King for their reimbursement. It was owned they procured this letter in distrust of Mr. Baker, that he would not deal fairly with them, and they found it necessary to make a private application by the French dragoman, believing Mr. Cole to be so much Mr. Baker's friend that he would oppose them.
	The letter supposed to be forged by Mr. Loddington was from the Dey of Tripoli, dated Oct., 1694, upon which the King renewed Mr. Loddington's commission, which resulted in the displacement of Mr. Skinner. In the same letter is a demand for powder, guns and other furniture for their ships, as pretending the same was promised by Mr. Baker, which he denies, though there is some mention of it in general terms in the letter Mr. Baker brought from that government, and the letter brought by Mr. Skinner from Tripoli does particularly mention a present of powder and shot as promised by Consul Baker.
	It was remarked that the letter of Sheban Dey bears date a very few days before he was deposed, and Mr. Goodwyn and Mr. Loddington's friends inferred that, by the date and style, it carried more visible marks of forgery than in the two letters it mentions. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 205, p. 183.]
	Appended is a note of enclosures not here entered, viz.:—
	Extract of Consul Cole's letter of 8th Sept., 1695.
	Letter of Sheban Dey of Algier to his Majesty, 19th July, 1695.
	Copy of the Duke of Shrewsbury's letter to Mr. Stanhope, 17 Dec., 1695.
	English translation of Sheban Dey's letter to the King of Great Britain.
	Dey of Tripoli's letter 17 Oct., 1695. [Ibid., p. 185.]
Dec. 17. Whitehall.	The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Admiralty, ordering the men-of-war appointed to outward bound ships of the East India Company to be made ready. [Ibid.]
Dec. 17. Office of Ordnance.	A state of mortarpieces (for land service) in the king's stores at the Tower, Woolwich, and at Blackheath, together with an account of bombs arrived at the said places and contracted for, and what powder will be requisite for them and each mortarpiece in time of service. Memorandum, that of the 10,000 bombs contracted for, for land service, 4,000 will be ready to be shipped off at some ports of Sussex about the last of April next, if the ways be passable and no accident befalls the foundries. [S.P. Dom., King William's Chest 15, No. 100.]
Dec. 18. Whitehall.	Passes for Abraham Poissans, a French protestant glover [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 449]; for Francisco Honrra Muño of Bisaya, to go to Holland; and for Mr. Thomas Fairfax to go to Flanders [Ibid. 346, p. 184].
Dec. 18. Whitehall.	Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses, incurred by James Cressett, his Majesty's envoy extraordinary to the Elector and Dukes of Brunswick and Luneburg from 12 September to 12 December, 1695. [Ibid., p. 185.]
Dec. 18. Whitehall.	Sir William Trumbull to the Commissioners for the Exchange of Prisoners. I send you herewith a certificate of Monsr. du Bordieu, Monsr. Satur, and Monsr. Larrivère, three French ministers of the Savoy, on behalf of Daniel du Bois, Raymond Artus, and Jean Pedigeat, three Frenchmen taken prisoners at sea, who, being protestants, desire to stay in England, and not be forced to return to France. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 243.]
Dec. 18. Whitehall.	The same to the Lords of the Admiralty. I have received your letter of yesterday's date with a paper enclosed relating to the flag, being a report of the Commissioners of the Navy in 1661, and if you consider my letter of the 9th instant, you will find that this is not a perfect answer to the particulars therein mentioned; therefore I must again refer to you for a more particular account of what has been the practice since the time of the aforesaid report. It is not on this side that the doubt is made of the respect due to his Majesty's flag, as you intimate, but the Swedes make it, who deny that this point has ever been carried so high and so far insisted upon as now. What we therefore want is to be furnished by you with authentic matter, and instances sufficient to answer their objections. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 204, p. 110.]
Dec. 19. Dublin.	Baron de Ronsele to Mr. Vernon. Some days since, at the request of the archbishops of Dublin and Tuam, his Excellency [Lord Capell] arranged for the examination of my certificates, in order that an account thereof might be sent to the King. I beg you to lay my case before the Duke of Shrewsbury. Appended is a sample of a new cypher, not containing the letters k, q, w, x, z, or y, which would give it the appearance (if intercepted) of an Italian, Spanish or Latin cypher. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 76.]
Dec. 19. Kensington.	Pass for the ship, Regina del Ceilo, belonging to Thomas Gherardi, a subject of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, whereof Captain Virgilio Pulino is master, to sail from Leghorn to Cadiz in Spain and any port of England or Holland, and to return. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 448.]
Dec. 19. Whitehall.	Passes for Erick Engbrets, a subject of the King of Sweden, and Mr. Berckell, one of the King's messengers for Dutch affairs, to go to Harwich or Gravesend and Holland [Ibid., p. 449]; for Salomon Juda, a subject of the States General, ditto [Ibid., p. 450]; for Jacob Arenzell, a tailor, to go to Holland [Ibid. 346, p. 184]; and for Charles Simonson ditto [Ibid., p. 185]; for Hans Rung, Cornelius Smith, Cornelius Schwart, Folikert Petersen, Dierick Dirickson, Clas Schott, Adrian Simonson, Dauwe Dousen, Adrian Hendricksen, Dirick Hendrickson, Andres Andressen, Andreas Tomsen, Jonas Wijegel, Jan Riemer, Martin Foland, Andres Schut, Israel Erickson, Dirick Andersen, Jacob Joensen, Martin Martinsen, Daniel Wieyman, Erick Andersen and Peter Trekel ditto [Ibid., p. 188].
Dec. 19. Kensington.	Proclamation prohibiting the passing of clipped coins. Printed. [S.P. Dom. Proclamations 4, No. 121.]
Dec. 19. Kensington.	License for William Milard, esquire, High Sheriff of Bedford, to reside out of the county during his term of office. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 162, p. 68.]
Dec. 20. Whitehall.	Passes for John Kahl and Samuel Caspar, German Protestants; Magdalen Couvrete and Judeth Pict, French protestants, to go to Harwich or Gravesend and Holland. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 450.]
Dec. 20. Kensington.	Warrant to grant the right of presentation to the church of St. Peter's and All Saints' in Stamford (united in the fourth year of Edward VI, in pursuance of an Act of Parliament for uniting poor churches in the then decayed and depopulated town of Stamford, made in the second year of his reign), after the death or resignation of the present incumbent, to the Earl of Stamford for the next turn, and afterwards to the King for one vacancy and the Earl of Stamford for the two following vacancies alternately, as was settled when the churches were united, and has been enjoyed since, until Charles II presented twice together, viz.: to Dr. Swadling, who died in 1669, and to the present incumbent, Dr. Cumberland, now bishop of Peterborough. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 345, p. 288.]
Dec. 20. Kensington.	Warrant for a nolle prosequi to be entered upon the indictments of John King for forging a seaman's letter of attorney. [Ibid., p. 291.]
Dec. 20. Kensington.	Warrant to dispense with any statute which may incapacitate Richard Reader, D.D., one of the senior fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, from holding the rectory of Killucan in the diocese of Meath, together with his senior fellowship. [S.P. Ireland King's Letter Book 2, p. 91.]
Dec. 20. Kensington.	Commission to Sir Charles Hara, knt., to be Brigadier General of Foot. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 157.]
Dec. 21. Whitehall.	The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Treasury. Mr Secretary Trenchard having in December last signified to Mr. Blackwell, the consul of Leghorn, that he should again employ an advice boat (that had some months before been discharged) for carrying advices to the fleet during their stay in the Mediterranean, or where else his Majesty's service should require it, and that he should be reimbursed from time to time what he expended in the same by the Postmaster General or those who execute that office, and Mr. Blackwell having sent over a bill of the charge of the said advice boat for eight months, from the first of March to the first of November last, amounting to 531l. 5s. 8d., his Majesty commands that the same be sent to you and that you give the necessary orders to Mr. Robert Cotton and Mr. Frankland for their paying the abovementioned sums. [Ibid. 100, p. 180.]
Dec. 20. Whitehall.	Sir William Trumbull to Mr. Roope, desiring him to discharge, on bail, the master or skipper of the Talmodigheit of Copenhagen, he being detained at Dartmouth and no accusation being brought against him. [Ibid. 99, p. 244.]
Dec. 21. Whitehall.	Passes for Mr. Lewis Langerhans, to go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 451]; and for Mary Dassas to go to Holland [Ibid. 346, p. 185].
Dec. 23. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Francis Woodward, gent. Shows that he is seized of a large tract of waste ground, lying in the parish of Stow, Salop, containing about two thousand acres, which would prove far more beneficial to petitioner and the neighbouring inhabitants, if about two hundred acres thereof were converted into a free warren, and prays letters patent accordingly. Referred for report to the Attorney or Solicitor General. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 238, p. 41.]
Dec. 23. Dublin Castle.	Lord Capell to the Duke of Shrewsbury. This morning Mr. Neave and Mr. Ormsby preferred their several petitions to me, which are enclosed, setting forth that the Chancellor had declined giving the necessary orders pursuant to my said warrants, and declared that he lay under no obligation to give any reasons for what he did, but that he would consider of it and speak to me about it. Since my first mentioning this to the Chancellor he has been often with me at Council, at a meeting of the governors of the hospital, and at the castle, and yet he has not taken the least notice of it to me, whereby it is evident he refuses to comply with my commands, and I did not think it proper to take any further notice of it to him, lest, upon his positive denial, I should have been forced to assert the authority of the sword. This being his behaviour upon this occasion he has, I presume, written to the King. One of the objections, as I hear, he makes against admitting Mr. Ormsby as one of the counsel is that it ought to be done by a letter under the King's sign manual, and not by immediate warrant from the chief governor. I find this latter to have been the method practised since the King's accession, and I looked no further back. To make this plain to you I enclose one precedent of it, viz. an original warrant from Sir Charles Porter and Lord Coningsby, when Justices, for making Mr. Rochfort of the counsel. I find the same was done by the late chief governors to Mr. Doyne, now chief baron, and having also made Mr. William Porter, the Chancellor's brother, of the counsel, I am sure it is not proper for Sir Charles Porter to start any objection of this nature. Another of his lordship's arguments against Mr. Neave is that he voted for the sole right of the beginning of money bills to be in the House of Commons. I must own that at the opening of Parliament he came to me and very frankly told me it was his opinion, but that he would not persist in it with obstinacy, and as soon as the debate was over he came to me again and assured me he would entirely serve me in Parliament affairs, and he has kept his word, in regard whereof and of his relationship to the Earl of Meath and Lord Lanesborough, and finding him well skilled in his profession, I gave him the place. As for the other gentlemen who appeared at the beginning of the session for the sole right, after that point was overruled no men were more diligent or earnest in settling the money bills than themselves, and they in a great measure helped to effect it and to prevent a breach between the two houses, which was principally designed by the Chancellor's party. Enclosures not here preserved. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 77.]
Dec. 24. Whitehall.	Sir William Trumbull to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford. I have received a letter of the 22nd inst. from Dr. Wallis, giving me notice that upon the late vote in the House of Commons, concerning the taxing of windows, it is thought proper that a proviso should be inserted in the bill which shall be brought into the House, that all colleges, halls and public buildings in the university be exempted from paying that tax, which letter I have communicated to Mr. Finch, who joins with me in this opinion, that this notice proceeds "from a mistake of the vote," as if it were thereby meant that all windows should be taxed; whereas, according to that vote, the highest tax reaches but to ten shillings upon a house, though it have never so many windows. However if the university think it worth the while to have it moved in the House that the colleges, etc., may be excused from paying ten shillings apiece, we will endeavour to serve them in it. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 244.]
Dec. 24. Whitehall.	The same to the Lords of the Admiralty, respecting a letter from Captain Kerr, commander of H.M.S. Burlington, giving an account of a dispute between him and a Swedish man-of-war, the Liefland, which the King commands that you immediately give orders for discharging. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 204, p. 109.]
Dec. 24. Whitehall.	The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Admiralty. Sir Oliver St. George, vice-admiral of the province of Connaught, being lately dead, the Lord Deputy of Ireland is very desirous that his son, Sir George St. George, should succeed him in that employment, whom he recommends as one very faithful in, and zealous for, his Majesty's service, upon which consideration I do not doubt but you will gratify him with a commission accordingly. [Ibid. 100, p. 178.]
Dec. 24. Whitehall.	The same to the Lords of the Treasury, enclosing Mr. Meisters' memorial relating to six ships taken up by him in June last, and directing them to give the necessary orders either to the Board of Admiralty or the Office of Ordnance for the clearing with and discharging the said ships. [Ibid.]
Dec. 24. Whitehall.	The same to the Lord Deputy of Ireland. The King has signed the dispensation for Dr. Reader, as desired. The letter in behalf of the carriers [curriers?] of Dublin is now ready for his Majesty's hand. The commissions for vice-admirals being granted by the Lords of the Admiralty, I have acquainted them with your concern for Sir George St. George, and do not doubt but they will appoint him to succeed his father. As to what you write in your letter of the 11th, which Colonel Cunningham brought me, I shall forbear answering it till I hear again from you in that matter, as you seem uncertain what would be the issue of it. [S.P. Ireland, King's Letter Book 2, p. 90.]
Dec. 24. Whitehall.	The same to Brigadier Wolseley, assuring him that there is no intention of stopping his grant. [Ibid., p. 91.]
Dec. 24. Kensington.	Warrant for Sir Mathew Bridges to raise eighty volunteers in Ireland to serve as recruits for his regiments of foot in Flanders. [Ibid. 2, p. 94.]
Dec. 24. Whitehall.	Caveat that nothing pass concerning the pardon of Nicholas Carew, esq., for the killing of Colonel Edmund Ashton, till notice be first given to Richard Minshull, esq., of the Inner Temple. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 74, p. 4.]
Dec. 24. Kensington.	Commissions for John Brook to be lieutenant of Captain Charles Cratchrode's company in Colonel Thomas Farrington's regiment; for Abel Cooke to be ensign of Major Christopher Wray's company in the same regiment [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 155]; for John Campbell to be captain of Captain Henry Smithwick's late company in Colonel Richard Coote's regiment of foot [Ibid., p. 162]; for Samuel Mortimer to be lieutenant of Major Arthur Noble's company in Colonel Thomas St. John's regiment of foot; for Ephraim Maynard to be ensign of Captain William Stewart's company in the same regiment; and for Samuel Jones to be ensign of Captain Downham Cope's company in Sir George St. George's regiment of foot [Ibid., p. 171].
Dec. 24. Whitehall.	Pass for Gabriel Catané, Anna, his wife, and a young child, poor French protestants, to go to Harwich or Gravesend and Holland. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 454.]
Dec. 24. Whitehall.	Warrant to Richard Hayward for the apprehension of — Warnicke, charged with treasonable practices. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 345, p. 290.]
Dec. 26. Whitehall.	Passes for John Loothans, a Dutch soldier, Samuel Mentzel, a barber, Gerard Weymans and William Berents, Dutch soldiers, Weynant vander Boom, Henry Gravenbergh, a Dutch soldier, and Geertruijt Sterchmans, subjects of the States General, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [Ibid., 344, p. 453]; for Mr. Thomas Searle, a merchant, ditto [Ibid. p. 454]; for Ann Swallow and her child to go to Flanders; and for Lucas van Beeck, a native of Amsterdam, to go to Holland [Ibid. 346, p. 188].
Dec. 26. Kensington.	Warrant for a grant under the great seal to Deborah Dumaresq, sole daughter and heir of Philip Dumaresq, late of Jersey, esq., deceased (for the prevention of difficulties and disputes such as have heretofore happened betwixt her ancestors and co-heirs for their "partages") of a small fief called Faisants, being a parcel of the fief of Samares in the parish of St. Clement (which she holds of the crown, together with the fiefs of Homet and Crapdoet in the said parish, and the fief of La Fosse in the parish of St. Heliers); upon which said fief called Faisants there is only a little house belonging to one Philip Favel; to hold of the crown at a yearly rent, the whole to remain entire and unpartable to whomsoever shall be eldest, or represent the eldest in the inheritance. Also for licence to the said Deborah to build a windmill within the lordship of Samares and to erect a watermill upon the waste of the said lordship, and to have a gallows upon the said fee in the parish of St. Clement, libera esperkerea in the said parish of the fish taken by her tenants, chattels of felons, and waif, strays and wrecks in the said parishes of St. Clement and St. Heliers from the brook next towards the east of Le Hac in St. Clement's parish, and the brook of Hauteville in St. Heliers parish; with further grant of the consolidation of the premises, together with all other lands of which the said Deborah is proprietor, to remain entire and unpartable to her and her heirs for ever. [Ibid., p. 189.]
Dec. 26. Whitehall.	Warrant to William Sutton for the apprehension of Mr. Edward Bing [Byng] for procuring an instrument or writing from the Pope constituting him his provincial in this kingdom. [Ibid., p. 194.]
Dec. 26. Kensington.	Warrant for Brigadier Wolseley to succeed Brigadier Stewart on the establishment of Ireland, and to receive the pay of brigadier accordingly from 1st January, 1694. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office 13, p. 266.]
Dec. 26. Kensington.	A duplicate of the above. [S.P. Ireland, King's Letter Book 2, p. 94.]
Dec. 26. Kensington.	Commission to John Webb to be colonel of Colonel John Beaumont's late regiment. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 167, p. 252.]
Dec. 26. Whitehall.	Proceedings on the petition of Sir Francis Brewster, knt. Shews that in the reign of Charles II he purchased a large tract of land in Ireland, being the most part waste and uninhabited, so that it never payed the rent due to the crown; that upon this estate he laid out above 30,000l. in erecting ironworks, setting up fisheries and several manufactories, and so improved the country that it added some 1,000l. a year to the crown, being at the beginning of the late troubles the chief support of the country. But the petitioner and all his protestant tenants being set upon by the Irish, and all they had taken from them, and his estate seized to the value of 30,000l. and the buildings and other improvements burnt, he prays his Majesty to grant him some forfeited lands, etc. Referred for report to the Lord Deputy of Ireland. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 237, p. 147.]
Dec. 26. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Joanna Ward, widow. Shows that her husband John Ward, being in the service of his Majesty's ordnance on the expedition against St. Malo and Havre de Grace, was blown up in the Granado bomb-vessel, leaving the petitioner and several children in a very miserable condition; and that the petitioner's brother, Major Fox, was likewise killed at the fight of Aughrim in Ireland, who was the only person she could have relied on in case of necessity; she prays for an allowance. Referred for report to the Earl of Romney, master-general of the Ordnance. [Ibid., p. 150.]
Dec. 26. Kensington.	Proclamation for encouraging volunteers for the sea service. Printed. [S.P. Dom. Proclamations 4, No. 122.]
Dec. 26. Whitehall.	Sir William Trumbull to the Lords of the Treasury. The enclosed extract of a letter from Mr. Greg, his Majesty's minister at the court of Denmark, dated 23rd past, concerning the great diminution of his allowance of twenty shillings a day by exchange and other ways, having been laid before the King, his Majesty being sensible of the truth of this matter, and disposed to do something for his relief, commands me to transmit it to you for your opinion. Enclosure not entered. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 245.]
Dec. 27. Whitehall.	The same to Mr. Francklyn. The King has been informed by the Judge of the Admiralty that Captain Knap, commander of his Majesty's ship the Bonaventure, did, within the port of Scanderoon, seize a Venetian ship the San Giuzeppe, one box of emeralds, etc., which he conceived belonged to French owners, part of which goods he delivered to his Majesty's consul at Messina, and the rest he brought "for" England. His Majesty's pleasure is that you forthwith, in his name, take out a warrant from the Court of Admiralty to arrest all such goods as were so seized at Scanderoon, and brought into England by the said Captain Knap, and detain and take care of the same until his Majesty signify his further pleasure. [Ibid.]
Dec. 27. Whitehall.	The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Admiralty signifying his Majesty's pleasure that they give orders for a commission to be prepared for Sir George St. George to be vice-admiral of Connaught. [Ibid. 100, p. 179.]
Dec. 27. Kensington.	Warrant to the Earl of Romney, master-general of the Ordnance, to make an allowance of 20s. a day to Colonel Wolfgang William Romer, an engineer employed under the office of Ordnance. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 238, p. 203.]
Dec. 28. Whitehall.	Passes for Jaques Vasso, a Jew, to go to Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 454]; for Christian Hoffman, a native of Friesland, ditto [Ibid. 346, p. 188]; and for Mr. Richard Spurway, merchant, ditto [Ibid., p. 193].
Dec. 28. Whitehall.	Warrant for Jacob Vanderstein, merchant, to have access to Nicholas de Roover [Rovery ?], a prisoner in Newgate for high treason, in the presence of a keeper. [Ibid., p. 194.]
Dec. 29. Whitehall.	Pass for Peter Jans, a subject of the States General, and one child, to go to Harwich or Gravesend and Holland. [Ibid. 344, p. 450.]
Dec. 30. Whitehall.	Passes for Marcus Russell, a subject of the States General, to go to Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 454]; for Lord Kildare to go to Montpelier [Ibid., p. 455]; and for Peter Seire, gent., of the troop of guards commanded by Lieutenant General d'Auverquerque, to go to Flanders [Ibid. 346, p. 194].
Dec. 30. Kensington.	Commissions for Morrice Thompson to be captain of Mr. Webb's late company of grenadiers in the Earl of Romney's regiment of foot guards; and for — Hall to be ensign to Captain Hastings in Sir John Jacob's regiment. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 167, p. 252.]
Dec. 30. Kensington.	Warrant for the election of William Wroughton to be a child on the foundation of the Charterhouse. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 162, p. 69.]
Dec. 31.	Passes for John Evenden to go to Harwich or any other port for Holland or Flanders [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 457]; and for Theodore de Mandelsloe, subject of the Elector of Brandenburg, with his servant, to go to Holland [Ibid. 346, p. 195].
Dec. 31. Kensington.	Warrant for the appointment of James Hannay, esquire, as provost marshal general of Barbadoes, and for revoking the letters patent granting the said office to George Hannay. [Ibid. 345, p. 292.]
Dec. 31. Kensington.	Commissions for — Delphy to be ensign of Captain de Vignoles's company in General Isaac de la Melonière's regiment of foot; for — Brisac to be ensign of Colonel Josias de Vimare's company in the same regiment [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 162]; for — de St. Auban to be lieutenant-colonel of, and captain of a company in, the same regiment, whereof Colonel Josias de Vimar was late lieutenantcolonel and captain; for Peter Dupuy [or La Bastide] to be captain of Lieutenant-Colonel de St. Auban's late company in Colonel Peter de Belcastel's regiment of foot [Ibid., p. 164]; and for Josias de Vimare to be colonel of foot. [Ibid., p. 166].
Dec. 31. Kensington.	Warrant for the election of Charles Franklyn, a scholar of Winchester College, to a scholarship in New College, Oxford. [S.P. Entry Book 150, p. 175.]
Dec. 31. Kensington.	Warrant for the regiments of foot commanded by Colonel Mitchelburne and Sir Richard Atkins to pass from Ireland into England. [S.P. Ireland King's Letter Book 2, p. 93.]
Dec. 31. Dublin Castle.	Lord Capell to the Duke of Shrewsbury, recommending to him the address of the Commons of Ireland about the city of Londonderry, which he sends by Mr. David Cairns, one of their representatives. [S.P. Ireland, King's Letter Book 2, p. 108.] Appended is the said address of the House of Commons, undated. The mayor, commonalty and citizens of the city of Londonderry have by a petition lately preferred unto us set forth the great losses and sufferings sustained by them in the late revolution, and the great debts contracted on the public account by their early securing and fortifying the place for their Majesties' and the protestant interest, buying of arms and ammunition, and subsisting with provisions, clothes and other necessaries those that were in that garrison for its defence during the seige, and that a great part of their city and suburbs were destroyed thereby; and they pray us to recommend them to you as fit objects of his Majesty's favour. We desire that you will lay the petitioners' case before the King, and take notice therein of David Cairns, esquire, a member of that city and one of their now representatives in Parliament, in regard of his early services in the first securing of the said city against the Irish, and several hazardous journeys made by him in order to the relief of the same and his great losses by the siege. [S.P. Ireland, King's Letter Book 2, p. 106.]
Dec. 31. Dublin Castle.	Lord Capell to the Duke of Shrewsbury. Having sent over the address of the House of Commons in favour of the town of Inniskillen, I think myself obliged to inform you of one particular relating thereunto. Captain James Corry, a gentleman of that part of the country, is to have half of such sums of money as can from this account be procured from his Majesty. Besides, he has this sessions showed himself forward enough to delay the passing the money bills, though he has lately had a grant from his Majesty of some forfeited lands and also of a mortgage of considerable value. This, with the ill character I have had of his morals, makes me think him unworthy of any further grace from his Majesty. As for the "Inniskilliners," I am told they made good advantage by the war, the other protestants of the kingdom, at the beginning of the rebellion, for their security, flying to that fast part of the country, where they were forced to pay dear for their accomodation, though they joined in the army with those of Inniskillen, and may equally pretend to a reward for services done in defence of his Majesty and the protestant interest. I desire what I say against them and Mr. Corry may have no relation to the other address in favour of Mr. Cairns and the city of Londonderry, who have deserved very well of his Majesty, though her late Majesty did, by her royal letters dated 9 June, 1693, give unto the reformed officers that served in that siege 2,400l., and also, as I am told, 1,500l. more towards repairing the church and market place of that city, which has been paid out of the revenue here, besides such other sums as have been given them of the royal bounty in England. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 78.]
[1695.]	Rough partial index to the minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices during May and June. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 273.]
Westminster.	Warrant for Zachary Cradock, D.D., to be dean of Lincoln in the place of Dr. Daniel Brevint, deceased. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office 13, p. 251.]
[1695.] London.	The petition of Percival Brunskell, praying for relief and showing that his case had been brought before Parliament 20 April last, but as it was just at the end of the session nothing was done for him. Printed. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 6, No. 46.] Appended:—
	A brief vindication of Mr. Percival Brunskell's case, with an account of "twenty-one years most remarkable passages," printed at London 1695. His parents in 1663 placed him with Mr. Coates, an attorney. After five years' clerkship he practised in Mr. Coates' and other attorneys' names several years, until some attorneys took advantage of the statute 3 James I. cap. 7, and forced him to take the oaths by law established, to discover such things as to his knowledge were done to the prejudice of the crown and people. He reported several abuses and their remedies, here set forth, and quotes the opinions of Sir Charles Harbord, Sir William Jones, Sir Robert Sawyer, Thomas Raymond, Edmund Saunders, John Sympson, Sir William Williams, Earl of Anglesey, Sir Harbottle Grimston, Mr. John Coates and Sir Edward Ward thereupon. Great endeavours were made to have Brunskell removed, and his salaries were stopped. He appealed to Charles II., who said that his salary should be paid, and he should be rewarded; but the King dying soon after, nothing was done. Afterwards he appealed to the present King, reciting the service he had done for the crown. And lastly he prays that some good office may be given him as a reward. [Ibid., No. 46 i.]
	Titus Gershom to —, commencing "Right honourable herro." A copy of his journal since he left Holland, 28 April, 1695, showing that on that date he left Rotterdam in a ship, belonging to Middleburgh in Zealand, and bound for the West Indies belonging to the Dutch. Off Ireland the ship was taken by the French, but Gershom and some of the crew escaped and came to Chester, where he remained four weeks practising his profession— physic. Afterwards he went with his goods to Hull, Yarmouth and lastly to Norwich. The Mayor of Norwich sent to search his goods, and, finding that there were several fire-arms among them, ordered him to be imprisoned. [Ibid., No. 47.]
	Rough notes of House of Commons proceedings about committees, false returns, bills after the second reading, etc. [Ibid., No. 48.]
	Proceedings upon the petition of Jennico, Lord Viscount Gormanston, and James, Lord Viscount Ikerrin, shewing that their ancestors were indicted and outlawed upon pretence of the rebellion in Ireland that began in 1641, and several of them without the least crime, and without the least evidence against many of them. That the petitioners submitted freely to the peace of 1648, and ever since have served the late King and the present King. That several of them have been restored to some part of their estate by the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, some in present possession and some after reprisals, and several of them were mentioned there by their names of peerage, by which it appeared that it was the clear intention of his late Majesty and his Parliament that none of these crimes should be imputed to them. Yet the said outlawries stand in force against them, whereby several of them that are descended from peers are thereby precluded from sitting in Parliament, and several others of them, cannot derive their pedigree from their ancestors nor entitle themselves to estates real or personal by them acquired. They pray that they may be allowed to bring writs of error or take some other legal course for reversing the said outlawries, and that they may have copies of the several indictments and outlawries. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 81.]
	Observations upon the Bill for encouraging privateers now brought into the House of Commons, by comparing it with the Act now in force, reciting the enacting clauses of both Bills and pointing out that the Act now in force prevents any collusive trade with France, and provides that all prizes shall be brought in entire and delivered to the officers of Prizes and Customs and some employed by the captor, to secure the prizes from embezzlements till adjudication in the Court of Admiralty; while the other takes only notice of goods taken as prize, which are prohibited by the two prohibition Acts, whereas there are several merchandises which may prove prize and are not of the growth or manufacture of France. It takes no notice of vessels so taken, or of retaken ships belonging to his Majesty's government, and does not provide that they shall be brought into port entire, or mention whose custody they shall be delivered into to preserve them from embezzlements, till they shall be adjudged in the Court of Admiralty. [Ibid., No. 82.]
	The substance of an Act of Parliament made in Ireland for raising a tax by way of poll. Every person is to pay 1s. except protestant refugees, widows discharged from paying hearth money, officers of the army commanded out of the kingdom, reformed officers of Londonderry or Inniskillin having no freehold estate, widows of such officers and of every soldier not having any freehold when the husband was killed or died in his Majesty's service, every person that receives alms, all private soldiers of Londonderry or Inniskillin, their wives, widows and children, and soldiers and sailors in his Majesty's service. Such as are chargeable by this Act with not more than 1s. shall not pay for more than two children under sixteen. Every archbishop to pay 50l.; a bishop, 20l.; archdeacon, 5l.; canon, 2l. 10s.; prebendary, 2l. 10s.; doctor of divinity, law or physic, 5l.; every parson having one benefice with cure of souls with 100l. per annum, 3l.; every parson having more benefices than one with cure of souls with 50l. and under 100l., 20s.; every parson having a sinecure of 100l. per annum, 10l.; every incumbent not resident, pluralist or not, shall pay for every benefice of 100l. per annum, whereon he is not resident, 10l.; every parson having one or more benefices under the yearly value of 50l., 10s. Every duke, 50l.; every marquis of, or having any estate in, this kingdom, 40l.; every earl, as before, 30l.; every viscount, as before, 25l.; every baron, as before, 20l.; the eldest son of every duke so charged, 30l.; the younger sons of such duke, 25l.; the eldest son of such marquis, 25l.; the younger sons, 20l. This abstract gives the ratability of every grade, and contains a proviso relative to Quakers, and gives in detail the arrangements made for collection, &c. Printed. [Ibid., No. 83.]
	A list of the names of the knights, citizens and burgesses returned to sit in Parliament begun and held at Dublin on Tuesday, 27 August, 1695. Printed. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 84.]
[Dublin.]	Rough memoranda of the minutes of the Council Board of Ireland relating to the rights of the papists. [Ibid., No. 85.]
[Dublin.]	Proceedings upon an appeal by Sir Stephen Rice and other Irish lawyers against being taxed double under a certain (recited) clause of the Poll Tax Act, citing the opinion of Mr. Ormesby, lately made King's counsel; which appeal is negatived. [Ibid., No. 86.]
[Dublin.]	List of arrears of rents out of the forfeited estates in the county of Dublin, due at or before 1st November, 1695, giving particulars of the estates of the following proprietors; the names of present tenants appear in brackets: Sir Luke Dowdal (Earl of Meath); Lord Merrion (James Sherriffe, Richard Collins, John Drury, Thomas Hall and Francis Shaw); Dr. Archbold (Patrick Brereton alias Thomas Connor); Lord Trimleston (Peter Lawlesse); Lord Merrion (John Craige, John Paine, Richard Ward, Andrew Cave, Christopher Fitz Patrick, Peter Warren for Joseph Hutchinson); Christopher Mapas (Richard Collins, John Rawlins); Richard Fagan (Hugh Evans and Henry Walsh); Dr. Archbold (Peter Warren); Lord Merrion (John Pugh); Richard Fagan (Thomas Daly); Lord Merrion (Hugh Jones); Captain Nicholas Cusack (Anthony Suxbury, Benjamin Chetwood for Captain Ford); John Stanly (William Dover); Mark Baggot (John Laughan); Patrick Allen (Thomas Handcock and William Shane); Earl Tyrconnel (William Chabenor); John Carbury (James Sherriffe); John Talbot (Lord Lisburne); John Carbury (Andrew Dederidg); Sir Thomas Hacket (Joseph Dean, senior); Colonel Aylmer (Mary Webb); Francis Seagrave and Peter Nottingham (William Hall and William Hart); Richard Fagan (John Fletcher); John Forster and Simon Luttrell (Mr. Sympson and Lewis Jones); Sir Patrick Bellew (Michael Harborn); Colonel Thomas Aylmer (Thomas Wilson, William Hall); Allen of St. Wolstan (Thomas Hudson); Lord Tyrconnel (William Dover); Peter Nottingham and — Talbot (Joseph Hoyle, Joseph Budden); Lord Merion (Colonel Dobson); James Talbot (Widow Ormsby); Peter Nottingham (Peter Nottingham); Thomas Warren, Lord Tyrconnel (Roger Nowland); Edward Sweetman (Edward Sweetman, Major Delamare); Thomas Warren, Lord Tyrconnel (Thomas Warren alias Richard Reddy, Sir Ans. Mullady); — Seagrave (Thomas Mutys); Maurice Connell (William Bennet, Thomas Keightly, esq.); — Arthur (Anthony Maud or Edward Ford, John Wilson, James Keigoe, John Walton); Lord Kingsland (Thomas Fitz Gerald); Lord Dunsany (Edward Hall); Martin Dillon (William Conron, Andrew Kenon, Madam Helen Dering); Peter Notingham (Richard Bury, John Percivall); James Hacket (heirs of Fitz Reary); Lord Kingsland (Patrick White); Christopher Nugent (Thomas Williamson); James Hadsor (Thomas Williamson); Lord Tyrconnel (John Stepney); Richard Fagan (John Fletcher, Charles Monk); William Plunket (John Fletcher); John Stanly (John Carson); Lord Barnwell (John Gyles); — Seagrave (Francis Coghran); Lord Barnwell (Richard Saunders, William Gun, George Gun, Lord Howth, Thomas Stepny); Captain Sutton (Charles Horn, Thomas Williamson); Lord Barnwell (William Payn); Martin Dillon (Isaac Davis); Sir Valentine Brown (Henry Langford); — Wade (George Wallis or James Andrews, John Gyles); Lord Barnwell (John Mitchell, Lord Howth); Allen of St. Wolstans (Peter Wyn, William Conolly); Richard Fagan (John Enos); Lord Barnwell (Samuell Byers); Lord Gormanston (Colonel Richard Coot); — Hussy and — Seagrave (Thomas Daly); Robert Arthur (John Finglas, Isaac Davis, Henry Monk); Lord Tyrconnel etc. (Dixy Codington); Thomas Hussey (Thomas Hussey); — Corbally etc. (Benjamin Thomas); Robert Preston etc. (Thomas Graham); Michael Chamberlain (Patrick Connell, Christopher Mapas); Lord Tyrconnel (Thomas Cooper); James Talbot (Mary Lyons); Lord Tyrconnel etc. (Jeremy Rascoe); Lord Tyrconnel (Jocelyne Mead); Thomas Dowd etc. (William Payn, Daniel Forest); Peter Nottingham (John Hoyle, Lady Kennedy); Richard Dalton (Alderman William Wats); Michael Chamberlain (Andrew Harvey); Richard Fagan (Nicholas Meyler); James Hacket (Leonard Boyton); Martin Dillon (Benjamin Thomas); Simon Luttrel (Henry Luttrel); — Harold (Edward Dean); — Sarsfeild (John Den); James Talbot (John Den); John Brown (Thomas Pope); Christopher Nugent, Martin Dillon, James Hadsor and Richard Hadsor (James Tisdal and Colonel Forster); Maurice Connell (Duke of Ormond); and Lord Merrion (William and John Brereton, Thomas Daley; John Rawlins, Richard Barnwell, Arthur Bush and Joseph Hutchinson). [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 87.]
	A list of messengers' bills allowed by the Duke of Shrewsbury in 1695, viz. the bills of Peter Marrisco and William Knight, Henry Legat, Ralph Young, Charles Kenge, Charles Maris, James Kitson, John Bale, William Sutton, Richard Hopkins, Francis Clarke and Simon Chapman, Samuel Hill, William Sutton, William Sharpe, Edward Gibbs, Peter Newlin and William Jones, Peter Tom, John King, and — Beake. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 345, p. 242.]
	A full state of the hospitals in Flanders during the campaign 1695. Delivered in by Mr. Lambe, contractor for victualling the hospitals. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 15, No. 102.]
	List of soldiers, dead and wounded, of the Dutch regiments before Namur, from the commencement of the siege to the end. French. [Ibid., No. 103.]
	Duplicate of the above. [Ibid., No. 104.]
	Quarters of his Majesty's forces; the names of twenty-five regiments and their quarters are given. [Ibid., No. 105.]
	List of squadrons and battalions. [Ibid., No. 106.]
	Memorial to the King, that two marine regiments be recruited, as the numbers have been so diminished by detachments to the Straits, West Indies and elsewhere. [Ibid., No. 107.]
	Mr. Browne's case upon a grant of Needwood Forest: King Charles II. had promised him a grant of the premises in return for 7,000l. and a conveyance of the lands at Sheerness, whereon the fort was built, with a release of all demands, the old reserved rents, and an addition of so much as would amount, by increase of rent and deduction of fees, to 70l. per annum, and keeping for the King's service 1,000 deer for ever, clear of all charges; and he desired he might use the name of Mr. Browne, and his servant Boheme in the said grant. Mr. Browne, at Colonel Vernon's request, advanced and paid the 7,000l. and the land at Sheerness was conveyed to his Majesty.
	21 Nov., 1683, the grant passed the Duchy seal.
	On the 4th of February, 1683, Mr. Brown lent Colonel Vernon 3,300l. upon security of the said grant.
	On the 7th of March following Colonel Vernon, Browne and Boheme conveyed the whole premises to Mr. Serjeant Birch, as to a moiety for the use of Mr. Browne, and his heirs, in consideration of the said 7,000l., and as to the other moiety in trust to repay Mr. Browne the said 3,300l. with interest in the first place, and afterwards to pay Colonel Vernon's other debts and then in trust for the Colonel and his heirs.
	On the 26th of February, 1685, a decree was made by Lord Chancellor Jeffreys, upon an English bill brought in Chancery, for setting aside the said grant, but reserving the land at Sheerness to the King. In the said decree no care was taken of Mr. Browne or for repayment of the 7,000l. or 3,300l., although the said Lord Chancellor then declared that care should be taken of Mr. Browne and that he should be paid all his money.
	In Trinity Term, 1686, Browne brought a bill in Chancery against the Attorney General and the Receiver General for the 7,000l. purchase money, and had a decree for it.
	Mr. Browne, conceiving he was aggrieved by the said first decree, for that he was an innocent purchaser for a valuable consideration and not privy to any undue means used in obtaining the said grant (if any were), was by the said decree to lose his 3,300l. really lent, and the interest thereof and of the said 7,000l. and all his charges, and never received one penny profit out of the premises.
	Upon their Majesties' accession to the Crown, Mr. Browne being advised that the decree was a strange and unusual decree, and very erroneous, brought a bill of review to reverse the said decree.
	In the winter session, 1690, a bill was brought into the House of Lords to set aside the said grant, and after their Majesties' counsel had been heard, and the matters of fact examined, their lordships passed the bill with a provision to pay Mr. Browne 3,300l. and interest; but the session ended before it passed the Commons.
	Then follows a specification of sums due to Mr. Browne. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 15, No. 108.]
	Parliamentary memoranda: What is said of the lawfulness of Sir Thomas Levingston's orders as to the men of Glencoe, upon the supposition of the refusing the King's indemnity, is marked in the Parliament's address to the King upon the subject.
	In Mr. Johnston's memorial to the King of the proceedings of Parliament [of Scotland] from the 9th to the 17th of May, he says that the difficulties of getting through this session were greater than he thought they would have been when he was in London, and that at best the session would prove backward and discreditable; there is a mark upon these words in the memorial above mentioned. But Mr. Johnston in his memorial from the 25th to the 28th of May says that many of the members of parliament were made tractable by the hopes "that one that was gone to the King did give them of changes, but that the gift granted to the Earl of Lithlithgow was taken for a declaration disingenuously dealt with."
	Mr. Carstairs has reason to think that the King would never have known that many of the members of parliament were made tractable, and much less that anything that Mr. Carstairs had said had contributed to the making them so, had there not been a design "to load him with disingenuity," it having been thought that he had contributed to the procuring of the Earl of Linlithgow's gift, for Mr. Carstairs had said all he had to say, for preventing heats in parliament, to any members that were of his acquaintance, before Mr. Johnston wrote his first memorial, wherein there is no mention of any tractableness of the parliament; but upon the contrary all hopes of it removed. But the Earl of Linlithgow's gift was not then come, and so no colour for loading Mr. Carstairs with disingenuity. This seems to be hard usage, but Mr. Carstairs has his integrity in the King's concerns for his support.
	Some things relating to Glencoe are in a short memorial from the 18th to 20th June, in which is also an account of the communicating that business to the parliament. In the memorial from the 25th to 28th June there is something about Glencoe that deserves the King's consideration, and seems to make it expedient to ask who gave the orders for quartering upon Glencoe.
	Earl Breadalbane's business in the memorials from the 6th to the 11th June and from the 3rd to the 6th July. There is no account given to the King of the act about the East India Company, but only about the time it passed. There is a word or two about an act passed in favour of companies for foreign trade, as it is marked in the memorial of the 21st to 25th June. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest, No. 109.]
	A list of the land forces which the King thinks necessary to be maintained in England, Scotland and beyond the seas, for the service of the year 1695. [Ibid., No. 110.]
	Disposition of the 2,500,000l. voted for the land forces this session, for the year 1695. The sum voted falls short of answering the above particulars by 401,014l. 15s. 9d., and yet there is no provision made in the foregoing particulars for the ordnance, transports, arrears of forage and all other extraordinary contingencies. [Ibid., No. 111.]
	An account of all the manors, messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments belonging to the crown which are in charge before the Auditor of Wales and not alienated. [Ibid., No. 112.]
	An estimate of the extraordinary charge of the army remaining unpaid and payable. Arrears for the year 1694, besides several sums advanced by Monsr. Schuylenburg, and which are to be repaid. Extraordinary charge for the first nine months of the year 1695, including charge of the hospitals, 25,000l. [Ibid., No. 113.]
Whitehall.	Draft of the privy seal, authorizing Henry Thynne, esquire, a minor, son and heir apparent of Thomas, Viscount Weymouth, to suffer recoveries of the manors and lordships of Warmister, Woodisons and Heaths, Corsley, Hunthell alias Huntenhull, Whitbourne and Bugley, Deverell Longbridge, Monkton Deverell, and Hussey Deverell, the house called Longleat House, the manors of Somerford, Sutton, Fifield, Gurston alias Gerardston, Bratton, Somerford Matravers alias Broad Somerford, in co. Wilts; Frome alias Frome Westwoodlands and Frome Eastwoodlands, Frome St. Andrew's, Walton, Lullington, Easthorrington and Cheddar, in co. Somerset; and Baggendon in co. Gloucester, &c., the hereditaments of Sir James Thynne, lately deceased, with a view to a settlement on the marriage of the said Henry with Grace Strode, daughter of Sir George Strode, knt., sergeant at law. [S.P. Dom. Law Papers 1, p. 61.]
	A memorial on behalf of the city of Limerick. In July, 1693, the Lords Justices of Ireland thought it absolutely necessary for the support of the garrison of Limerick that barracks should be built there, sufficient to contain 1,400 men, and accordingly Francis Burton, esq., entered into articles with the then Lords Justices to do this, and they built barracks in the King's Castle in Limerick sufficient to lodge six entire companies. These barracks were finished in 1694, for building which the said Burton craves an allowance from the government of about the sum of 600l. But ever since these barracks have been built they have lain waste for want of beds and other materials necessary for the lodgment of soldiers, which is greatly to the prejudice of the inhabitants of Limerick, as they are over-burdened by quartering of soldiers. This being taken into consideration by the then Lords Justices, they directed Francis Cuffe, esq., the Lieutenant of the Ordnance, to enquire and inspect what spare beds and other necessaries there were belonging to the King at the new hospital, near this city, and it was found there were about 150 beds. But Mr. Cuffe soon after dying no order was made for the delivery of the beds. [S.P. Ireland 355, No. 80.]
	Petition of Captain Connor O'Brien to the King. Daniel O'Brien, senior, first Viscount Clare, died in 1691 in actual rebellion; likewise his son and heir, Daniel O'Brien, junior, served as a colonel of a regiment of foot under the French king against William III. until the day of his death; and also Charles O'Brien, now commonly called Lord Clare, second son of the said Daniel O'Brien, senior, is in arms in the French service. The said Daniel, Lord Clare the father, and his said two sons have been actually attainted and outlawed in Ireland for high treason and rebellion, and their lands and estates in that kingdom seised and sequestered. By settlement duly made upon valuable and good considerations long before the last rebellion of Ireland, the petitioner was and is lawfully entitled in remainder for want of heirs male of the body of the said first Viscount Clare to all and singular the lands and real estates of the said Lord, he and your petitioner being of the same house and family, and originally descended from two brothers. And the said Charles, commonly now called Lord Clare, being the only issue male living of the said Daniel, first Lord Clare, and he not being married, your petitioner after his death without issue male will be rightly entitled to the said lands and estates, notwithstanding the attainders and forfeitures of the said father and two sons. That your petitioner, being bred a protestant, was in 1689 attainted of high treason by the pretended Parliament then sitting in Ireland, for no other cause but being in the service of William III., which attainder was procured by the said Daniel, then Lord Clare, with design not only to exclude your petitioner from his right in remainder to the said estate, but also from his own estate then and for many years before unjustly and most injuriously detained from him and his father by the said Lord Clare. By the King's success in reducing Ireland the petitioner became freed from the said attainder, and having for several years served in the army he conceives he is a proper object of the King's justice and favour. The said estate of Lord Clare in value is not considerable, and being highly encumbered to protestant creditors is of very little benefit to the King; and the petitioner after the death of the said Charles O'Brien without issue male being justly and by law entitled to the said estate, he therefore prays a grant thereof. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 88.]
	Petition of Captain Connor O'Brien to the knights, citizens and burgesses assembled in Parliament. Daniel, late Lord Viscount Clare, was seised of several manors and lands in the county of Clare in trust for the petitioner's father and his heirs. The said Lord Clare in the late King James's time procured the petitioner by express name to be attainted of treason in the late Parliament of Ireland, to the intent to hold the said lands free from the petitioner's trust, the petitioner being at that time and ever since in their Majesties' service in Ireland. The freehold and estate of the said Lord Clare (together with that whereof he stood seised in trust for the petitioner) by his being in actual arms under the late King in Ireland, and otherwise by his aiding and assisting him, will be vested in their Majesties. If it is intended to vest generally in their Majesties all the estates of such persons as were in the late Irish rebellion, thereby the petitioner's right to his estate will be endangered, unless his right therein be particularly saved, as was the case in the bill formerly intended to pass. [Ibid., No. 89.]
	Attached is the form of a saving clause recommended to be inserted in the Bill. [Ibid., No. 89 i.]
	Copy of an act of the Irish parliament (7 William III. cap. 3) for declaring void all attainders made in the late pretended parliament. [Ibid., No. 90.]
	A list of officers desired by Brigadier Sir John Hanmer to be recommended for commissions in his regiment upon the death of Captain Richard Hill. Lieutenant James Heane to be captain in the place of Captain Richard Hill, deceased. Ensign William Snead to be lieutenant to Captain Roger Foulke in place of Lieut. Heane. Mr. James Carvile to be ensign to Lieut. Colonel William Carvile. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 79.]
	An account of the bombarding of Calais showing that the loss of the English was not very great, the only person of note killed being Captain Osborne, commander of the Aldborough ketch. [S.P. Dom. Naval, 4.]
	Pass for Elizabeth Fox, wife of Lieutenant Fox in the Earl of Essex's regiment of dragoons, with five children and her maidservant Elizabeth Midleton. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 346, p. 118.]