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The inhabitants of Middlesex to the King. Petition that the
Parliament, which is prorogued till 26 Jan., [1679–80], may sit
to try the offenders and redress all other important grievances,
there having been and still being a most damnable and hellish
Popish Plot, for which several of the principal conspirators stand
now impeached. (Printed. With note in Hugh Speke's hand:
By the next coach I'll send you down fifty of these petitions, being
thought to be the easiest and best form and what London and
Middlesex both subscribe to, so that you may send them about
where you think fit. The other larger form will not pass. I'll
get one printed as for our county and in a larger character
and in the same form as this, after which I would have you get
all the best of the gentry to subscribe and all the rest of the
petitions must be passed over except that, as I have directed
by my letter and by the petitions I have sent you by the carrier,
doing one up on purpose to show you.) [Ibid. No. 70.] |
| [1679 ?] |
List of fees of 6s. 8d. each charged to various persons between
1660 and 1679. [4 pages. Ibid. No. 71.] |
| [1679 ?] |
Lodowicke Bray to the Earl of Arlington. Being assaulted
and hurt in my breast Mr. Dixon, the surgeon, thinks me in great
danger and sudden too. I arrested this fellow on an assault,
but, a witness being bribed, it went against me, and he arrested
me for the unpaid costs. The bailiffs scoffed at the Lord
Chamberlain's protection and carried me to the Marshalsea where
I have sat up all night and have taken nothing. I crave your
charity by the bearer. It is but 3l. 5s. besides last night's
charges at the Marshalsea. If the Parliament had sat, I should
have had friends that would have preserved me. [Ibid. No. 72.] |
| [1679 ?] |
Thomas Doyley, engineer of the Mint. Petition for a grant of
a patent for fourteen years for the manufacture of guns invented
by him of all sorts from a pistol to the biggest cannon, which
with less powder will shoot further than any others of the same
size, a full trial whereof has been lately made at Windsor before
Prince Rupert and since before the Duke of Monmouth. [Ibid.
No. 73.] |
| [1679 ?] |
Proposals to the Duke of Lauderdale by Lord Melville. |
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1. That the execution of the Act against Nonconformity be
suspended. |
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2. That liberty of preaching be allowed in any place wherever
any preacher shall be called, and (3) freedom to exercise jurisdictions of presbyteries in any place to which they shall be called.
[Conway Papers. Ibid. No. 74.] |
| [1679 ?] |
Account of the charges of the present forces in England,
viz., in all 885,624l. 5s. 3 27/32d. whereof the new establishments
amounted to 678,154l. 15s. 10d. and the old to 207,469l. 9s. 5 27/32d.
[Ibid. No. 75.] |
| [1679 ?] |
Statement that in Lent, 1678, Mr. Strutt, a messenger at
present in waiting on the Council, came in the coach from Bristol
to London. Among other passengers was a Mrs. Roberts, whose
husband had been a captain in the late times; and then living
in Gracechurch Street. She told Strutt that her husband had
notice of the Fire 24 or 28 hours before the time with a caution
to remove his goods. [Ibid. No. 76.] |
| [1679 ?] |
Note that Bartheleme Albrici, Italian traveller, Roman Catholic
(see Cal. S.P. Dom., 1679–80, p. 284), lives in Elizabeth Noure's
house in Panton Street and that Don Manoel de Crasto, a
Portuguese living in Antwerp, lives in York Buildings, Villiers
Street. (The last note is in Italian.) [Ibid. No. 77.] |
