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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne, 1702-3. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1916.

'Anne: April 1703', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne, 1702-3, (London, 1916) pp. 668-700. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/anne/1702-3/pp668-700 [accessed 19 April 2024]

April 1703



1 Ap. Whitehall.	Hedges to William Blathwayt.
	The Duke of Marlborough is much disappointed that cloth has not come for the foot. I am told the fault lies on the clothiers and transport officers. Please give notice to those concerned to come to Lord Secretary Nottingham's office in the Cockpit to-morrow at 11 a.m. to clear the matter up.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 293.
2 Ap. Sick and Wounded Office.	The Commissioners of Sick and Wounded to Nottingham.
	According to your orders we have directed a vessel to be prepared to carry over 200 prisoners from Plymouth to St. Malo. The Marquis de la Gallissonniere will give a certificate in addition to that of M. de Saint Sulpice to secure the vessel during her voyage. Mr. Wanless is the only English officer we know of who is a prisoner at Dinant; and we shall make a special request for his return. We propose to send off the oldest and most sickly prisoners now, and that English prisoners of the like sort be sent home in exchange for them. After them we may if you please, give preference to those who have been longest confined; and will tell our agent to make a list of the men whom he sends; and the master of the vessel shall have it and also a request to the Sieur de Saint Sulpice to desire the return of the like number and quality, or as many more as he pleases for the like to be returned hereafter by us.
	We have visited the French gentlemen in the Gate House. They were indifferently lodged, and have since been removed to better quarters. As they complain that the jailer makes them pay exorbitant prices for their diet, &c., and asked leave to give details, we shall send them when received. The jailers, whether in London or the county towns, are no officers of ours; and we think it better, "beside" (fn. 1) these complaints, to keep the prisoners where they are [than to move them to the county jails], for the following reasons:—
	First, the prisoners being over 4,000, would require twenty jails, holding 200 each, or, in view of the size of the jails and of other prisoners, forty jails.
	Secondly, The [county] jailers being no servants of ours, we could not get from them such accurate accounts of the names and qualities of the prisoners and of the way in which her Majesty's allowance for them is spent as we now have from our Marshals. They send these in books according to the enclosed forms. Without such accounts it would not be possible to prevent the expenditure of much money "in her Majesty's wrong."
	Thirdly, To carry prisoners to the jails, to bring them back for exchange and to pay for their keep will be very expensive.
	Fourthly, Very spacious and convenient prisons have been fitted up for them at Dover Castle, Southampton, Farnham, and Plymouth. At Southampton they have room for some hundreds more. At Farnham there is no complaint as to accommodation, and from Plymouth we are now taking 200 away, which will stop overcrowding. If the exchange of prisoners goes on, we shall soon have more accommodation than we need; and we have just been offered a house at Winchester for 20l. a year that will hold 500 men. We could get accommodation there for 1,000 more for less than it would cost to move the prisoners to the county jails and keep them there. We can give further reasons, and, if they are desired, request an interview.
	Count de Mornay asks for leave to go to France to arrange a cartel. If the complaints which he sends are true we will have them remedied and the officer punished.
	Pp. 4. Signed by three Commissioners. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 94. Enclosing:—
	A, B, C and D. Four blank forms for returns as to the French prisoners, shewing:—
	a. The prisoners received into the custody of —, Marshal at the port of —.
	Details:—By what ship taken, when, name of prize, name and rank of captives, nationality, and date of reception into custody.
	b. Decrease of prisoners at —.
	Details as before, but the account to show how the prisoners were disposed of.
	c. The charge of prisoners received into sick quarters at—, between 1 January. 1703, and 31 March, 1703.
	Details in conformity with heading, as to date and nature of sickness or wound, treatment, duration of illness, burial &c.
	d. Charge of prisoners received into custody at — between 1 January, 1703, and 31 March, 1703.
	Details in conformity with heading. Summarises A, B and C.
	The above are specimen forms, and are, apparently, forms sent or to be sent to Plymouth, and have the blanks filled up in red ink accordingly.
	In all pp. 4 (small). S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 94A, B, C and D.
2 Ap. Whitehall.	Hedges to Colonel Gibson.
	I send M. Vryberge's answer in the matter of a Dutch seaman, who wants to go home. The matter being as the Envoy represents it, let the seaman go.
	P. 1/6. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 295.
Same.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	In exchanging prisoners, pick out such Frenchmen as were taken on merchant ships or fisher boats, and leave those [taken] on privateers to be last exchanged. Many of the privateersmen being St. Malo men, M. de Saint Sulpice will probably ask for them; but you probably have enough others belonging to that port to make up the number, though all you send should not be Malouins. Details.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 249, 250.
	2. To the Sheriff of Hereford.
	Queen's command:—Respite execution of sentence on Thomas Husbands and Thomas Pritchard till further order from her Majesty.
	P. ½. Ibid, p. 250.
	3. To the Duke of Marlborough.
	If any credit is to be given to what Mr. Methuen and the Portuguese Envoy here say, the treaty with Portugal is concluded, and we must consider how to fulfil our obligations under it.
	I believe we could easily raise one or two regiments of French refugees. This would save our own subjects, who will be wanted to fill our regiments, for which it is already difficult to get enough recruits. It will be possible to make some attempt on the coast of France with the men we must send to Portugal, and for this purpose the French refugees will be specially suitable. When there is no further service for them it will be easier to disband them than the English, and they will expect less.
	I should like your views as soon as possible, that nothing may be left undone on my part.
	I know well that compliance with what we have undertaken by the treaty with Portugal will depend on our success abroad. I have no doubt of the result where your Grace is in command, but I fear even that will not render possible such a detachment from your army as this treaty will require, unless matters in Germany are more prosperous than as yet seems likely. However, if I might suppose such a case as I wish, and that we could have troops embarked and ready to sail by Midsummer, we should have two months' time to act with them against France before it will be necessary for them to be in Portugal, "where by reason of the heats they cannot take the field till the beginning of September." Your Grace is the best judge of these matters, of which I know nothing; "and besides I am biast by an opinion that we shall never have any decisive success nor be able to hold out a war against France but by making it a sea war and such a sea war as accompanies and supports attempts on land."
	We have no news yet here of the Dutch ships, which should join the Mediterranean squadron. If they disappoint us it will cause much clamour here. I believe I shall be able to discover the way of Isaac Boben's correspondence, and to inform you.
	Pp. 1½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 26, 27.
About 2 Ap. (fn. 2) St. James'.	Instructions to Lord Commissioner Queensberry for Holding the Scottish Parliament.
	1. You may give our assent to any laws that shall be proposed for the protection of the Protestant reformed religion.
	2. You may give our assent to an Act ratifying Presbyterian Church Government by Kirk Sessions, Presbyteries, Synods and General Assemblies.
	3. You may pass an Act allowing the episcopal ministers to preach in meeting-houses in such terms as the Parliament shall propose, "they always qualifying themselves by taking the Oath of Allegiance and signing the assurance."
	4. You are to endeavour to obtain an Act asserting and recognising our right and title to the Crown of Scotland.
	5. You are to pass Acts necessary against the Popish priests, and for suppressing the growth of Popery.
	6. You are to give our assent to such Acts as may be proposed "for punishing and restraining profaneness and immorality."
	7. You are to endeavour to obtain competent supplies for maintaining the forces on the present establishment and providing and repairing garrisons, to take effect after the present cess laid on by the last Parliament expires, for so long as allowed by Parliament.
	8. You may pass any Acts proposed to prevent the irregular marching and quartering of our forces and for payment of what shall be supplied to them.
	9. Same with regard to prevention of Highland thefts and robberies.
	10. You may give our assent to what laws shall be proposed for the more effectual clearing and assuring of private men's rights, the more easy administration of justice and better punishing of crime, for renewing former laws altering or rectifying the regulation of judicatories and granting a new commission for that end, the Commissioners being always named by us.
	11. You are to pass such Acts as are proposed for accommodating the differences between Royal and other burghs concerning the Act for communication of trade.
	12. You may consent to such Acts as are proposed for making up the records of tithes and for obviating the inconveniences that may arise by their loss.
	13. You are to pass such Acts as shall be necessary for the regulating and encouraging of trade and for erecting manufactories and companies of trade, "and especially of fishing."
	14. You are to pass Acts for encouraging the planting, enclosing and other improvements of ground.
	15. You are to pass Acts for better maintaining and employing the poor.
	16. You are to pass such Acts as shall be thought needful for regulating coin and coinage.
	17. You may consent to such Acts as shall be proposed for defining and determining what is high treason, for clearing, mitigating and otherwise amending the former laws "anent leasing, making, depraving and misconstruing in relation to government."
	18. You may give our assent to an Act increasing the salaries of the Lords of Session, the Parliament providing a fund for that end.
	19. You are to endeavour to procure an Act clearing and asserting the jurisdiction of our Exchequer or what relates to our revenue.
	20. You are to pass an Act allowing the Commissioners of our Treasury and Exchequer to set tacks of the annexed property, and particularly of Orkney and Zetland by way of roup to the highest bidder, not exceeding twenty-one years, notwithstanding any Acts of "annextion" or other Acts to the contrary, and empowering us to give some suitable consideration to the Earl of Morton out of those islands for extinguishing his pretensions.
	21. You are to endeavour to have the prohibition against importation of French wines taken off, without prejudice to the prohibition of trade with France during the war.
	22. You are to endeavour to obtain an Act rescinding or suspending the premium allowed by the Act of 1695 (fn. 3) for exporting victual, or to obtain a fair equivalent.
	23. You may pass an Act or Commission for plantation of Kirks or valuation of teends.
	24. You may pass an Act declaring that in future titles of honour cannot be transmitted upon the signature with the former precedency.
	25. You are to give our consent to an Act of Pardon and Oblivion consonant to our Act of Indemnity published there.
	26. You shall give our consent to such Acts as shall be judged necessary for regulating the Post Office.
	27. You are to pass Acts naturalising foreigners who live in Scotland and are not Popish.
	28. You may adjourn [the Houses] from time to time and use all your authority as you shall think best for the conduct of our affairs.
	29. You may confer knighthoods on deserving persons, not more than six.
	30. You are to conclude the session "as calmly as you can," and as soon as practicable, and summon the next meeting for [blank].
	Pp. 3¼. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, pp. 513–516.
3 Ap. Admiralty Office.	The Prince's Council to Nottingham.
	We have by the Queen's command considered the representation of the Old East India Company concerning Captain Dampier in the ship St. George, Captain Pullerine in the ship Fame, and some other vessels now fitting out to sea, in order, as it is said, to cruize on the Spaniards in the West Indies. We sent for the persons concerned, and told them that the Company were afraid that something might be done by them (the vessels) which might be prejudicial to the Company's affairs in India, and recommended them to give such security to Dr. Bramston, Surrogate to the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, as might satisfy the Company. We send Dr. Bramston's report on their security for her Majesty's consideration and approval, pending which the ships are, by her Majesty's orders, stopped in the Downs.
	P. 1. Signed by Mitchell, Churchill, Hill and Brydges. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 30. Enclosing:—
	a. Dr. Bramston's report as above.
	The securities given in are 3,000l. for each ship (gives names of the sureties). They amount to three times what is required by her Majesty's instructions for privateers
	P. 1. Copy. Signed (copy). Ibid, 30a.
	Also enclosing [?].
	b. Notes on the owners of and sureties for the Fame and St. George.
	Twelve names of joint owners given; also three names of sureties. In all p. ¼. Ibid, 30B.
3 Ap. Sick and Wounded Office.	The Commissioners of Sick and Wounded to [Same].
	Yours of yesterday crossed ours. We still think we should send away the old and sick prisoners first. These, though taken in privateers, cannot be more serviceable than merchant seamen or fishermen, (fn. 4) and we suggest that we should adhere to our plan. When we get our English prisoners back in exchange (and we hope to get back many more than we send), we may refuse them their privateers-men if they demand many of them. We will give orders that Le Griel shall not be sent over.
	We send enclosures from the Marquis de la Gallissonniére [details] and from the French prisoners in the Gate House as to their gaoler's exactions.
	Pp. 1¼. Signed by four Commissioners. Endd. in Warre's [?] hand. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 95.
3 Ap.	Hedges to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford.
	Dr. Sherard is in the Queen's service, but is pressed to return to "the College." The Queen is anxious to keep him here and to send dispensing letters to you for excusing him from residence, but does not know what her dispensing powers are in this matter. She will be tender of your rights. Pray find a way to avoid his suffering by being in the Queen's service. If a letter is necessary, I will send one in the form you like best. Pray arrange that no act is done to Dr. Sherard's prejudice until you hear further from me.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 294.
3 Ap. Whitehall.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	Mayor of Chichester writes that Nicholas Furnace, a French prisoner, has been taken at the seaside. He escaped from the Tower alehouse. Send your officers to take him, and keep him more severely. Have you had any account from them of how this man and others escaped? If so, send it, that they may, if negligent, be punished.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 251.
	2. To Same.
	The Queen approves of the enclosed certificate and letter of the Marquis de la Gallissonniére, and would have you send them away. Notwithstanding previous directions, 5d. a day is still to be allowed to the prisoners of war.
	Note.—Enclosed was a letter from Gallissonniére to M. de Pontchartrain and a certificate from the same as described in Nottingham's letters of 30 March to the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded. (fn. 5)
	P. ¼. Ibid.
	3. To Sir Cloudesly Shovell.
	Queen's command:—To receive on board your squadron for the Mediterranean the presents which, by her Majesty's orders, have been prepared for the Governments of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. Order Mr. Wyndham Cole and Mr. Robert Cole, who are nephews to her Majesty's Consul at Algiers, to be received on board the same ships and carried to Algiers; and give passage thither to the two Turks who recently came here after escaping from slavery, and to Bohas Pinhas, a Tripoli Jew, who was sent by that Government to Holland, and has now come here to get a passage home.
	P. ²/3. Ibid, pp. 251, 252.
4 Ap. Westminster. Prison.	The Marquis De La Gallissonniére to [Nottingham].
	I am informed by Mr. Hill and Dr. Sherard that the Queen is anxious to complete the cartel, but that the French Government had apparently changed their minds, as no full power had been sent to Count de Mornay as promised by M. de Pontchartrain. I will write myself, as Mr. Hill suggests, if I hear you approve of it.
	We hope for relief in the matter of the complaints sent.
	Pp. 1½ (small). (Hol.) In French. Endd. in Warre's [?] hand.
	S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 96. Enclosing: —
	a. Memorandum from the French officers who are prisoners of war in Westminster prison.
	They ask that a person be sent to regulate the price of rooms let to them. They are charged1l. 1s. a week for each room.
	They ask liberty to go from their rooms to visit one another, and to walk in the court without having to pay 6 sols each.
	They desire that their servants may be allowed to prepare their meals without having to pay a daily fee for leaving the separate prison in which they [the servants] are kept.
	They complain of being kept in cells, on rotten beds without sheets or bedclothes. The naval officers have to sleep on plank beds. They ask for beds and palliasses.
	They ask for leave to buy their provisions freely and not to be compelled to buy anything from the jailer, who charges high prices; and for leave to speak to those who give them money.
	Pp. 1¾. In French. Ibid, 118, 96a.
5 Ap. Whitehall.	Nottingham to P. Brown (gaoler at the Gate House).
	You are to take no fees from the French prisoners for their lodging or otherwise. The Queen intends to pay you for it.
	You are not to demand any money for letting them go into the court of the prison. You are to permit their servants to come to them and attend them, but those servants must not leave the prison. One such servant may go out every day to buy provisions, and you must send some one with him to prevent his carrying letters or going elsewhere than where he gets provisions.
	You are to let such of them as now lie on boards have beds fitting for their condition.
	You may permit them to visit one another under such conditions as are required for safety.
	In all other points observe your former instructions.
	P. ¾. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 252–3.
5 Ap. Kirby.	Lord Hatton to Nottingham.
	There are now more than 400 prisoners in Guernsey, more than the garrison, and they are likely to increase by captures by privateers. Over twenty local privateers, and several from England frequent the place, and victual there. These privateers and prisoners are likely to starve the island, and the islanders can carry on no trade for need of convoys. Frigate urgently needed. The Lieutenant-Governor wants a holiday. An earthquake was lately felt there, accompanied by a loud noise.
	Pp. 1¼ (small). Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 51.
6 Ap. Whitehall.	Hedges to the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded.
	Queen's command:—The Spanish prisoners to have the same liberty as they had before the recent instructions—which only apply to the French prisoners—were issued.
	P.1/6. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 295.
Same.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Marquis de la Gallissonnière.
	Sends the orders to the gaoler (see above at 5 April, 1703), which will show how the Queen is anxious for the French prisoners to be well treated. If any gentleman wants to see his banker, leave will be granted on application.
	P. ¼. In French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 253, 254.
	2. To Dr. Bramston.
	To take assignment of certain security offered by the owners of the St. George and Fame [details]. When this is done, the Queen will direct the embargo to be taken off and those ships to go on their voyage.
	P. ²/3. Ibid, p. 254.
	3. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	The French seamen sent to the Gatehouse on Sunday may act as interpreters between the French prisoners and the keeper's servants, but there seems no reason why the prisoners and the seamen should be allowed to converse more than is necessary for that purpose.
	Dr. Amiott may attend on the Marquis de la Gallissonniére as a physician; but you must send somebody with him to see that this visit of a physician is not made use of for any other purpose.
	Acquaint the Marquis that we are quite ready to treat with him for a cartel, but that the commission or full power, to whomsoever it be sent, must be sufficient and clear.
	P. ¾. Ibid, p. 255.
	4. To the Council of Trade and Plantations.
	By Queen's command:—I send you an extract from the Prince's Council's answer to your proposals that the seamen should assist in the work on shore in Newfoundland. Pray consider and report on it. Further pleasure.
	The extract aforesaid:—
	In answer whereto we have to say that it is absolutely necessary that the ships should cruize off the coast for the protection of the fishery and themselves, so that their men can't be spared. Proceeds as in the Prince's Council's letter of 30 March, 1703, above.
	P. ¾. Ibid, p. 256.
7 Ap. Mapplace.	Sir Cloudesly Shovell to Nottingham.
	I have ordered the presents &c. you mention to be received on board the Warspight (Captain Edm. Loades), now in Long Reach. She will be there till Friday or Saturday. If they cannot be got ready by then, I hope they may be sent to Portsmouth, where the fleet is directed to sail. Yesterday, we came out with the great ships from Blackstakes to the Buoy of the Nore; and I suppose they will sail in two or three days for the Downs.
	P. ²/3. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 67, 36.
7 Ap. Admiralty Office.	Memorial by the Lord High Admiral.
	Sir George Rooke informs me that the Barfleur, Newark and Queen are unfit for service owing to not having sufficient men. I therefore propose to the Queen, as advantageous to her service, that these three ships be paid off and laid up at Chatham, and that their foremast men be put aboard the new frigates fitting out in the Thames, that these may be sooner fit for sea.
	P. ½. Signed. Countersigned by George Clarke. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 31.
7 Ap. Whitehall.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Prince's Council.
	Command:—To give orders for an agent of the Victuallers to go with Sir Cloudesly Shovell to take care of the provisions brought aboard or bought later, and to send money for the payment of short allowance money from time to time. Sir Cloudesly has asked for this.
	P. ¼. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 27 (fn. 6)
	2. To the Lieutenant-General and Officers of the Ordnance.
	Such things as are designed to be sent to Newfoundland should be put on board some transport ship and ordered at once to Plymouth, to be ready to sail with the Centurion, which is ordered to go thence next month.
	P. ¼. Ibid, p. 28.
	3. To the Commissioners of Prizes.
	Queen's command:—Appoint an officer to go with Sir Cloudesly Shovell's squadron and look after any prizes which the ships may take. Direct him to obey Sir Cloudesly or the commanderin-chief for the time being, and give him instructions for the valuation and disposal of prizes in such manner as you think best for the service.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 257.
8 Ap. Whitehall.	Richard Warre to Mr. Burt.
	I send letters from the Mayor of Chichester and from Mr. Clarke of Brighthelmston. Lord Secretary Nottingham desires you to acquaint the Commissioners with them, that they may order their officers to take and keep the Frenchmen in question. Details.
	P. ¼. Unsigned, but in Warre's hand. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 146, p. 4.
9 Ap. Doctors' Commons.	Dr. Bramston to Nottingham. (fn. 7)
	The owners of the St. George and Fame have appeared at the Court of Admiralty and have entered into a recognizance of 3,000l. to indemnify the security which they had before given for the civil and honest behaviour of the officers and men belonging to the said ships.
	P. ½. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 32.
9 Ap. Whitehall.	Nottingham to the Prince's Council.
	I send draft order to Vice-Admiral Leake, which her Majesty has approved, for you to dispatch it. I also send you some accounts of the maritime affairs of France, and the Queen would have you consider among yourselves what other services besides what Vice-Admiral Leake is employed in may at present properly be attempted, that you may be able to give her Majesty better satisfaction when you attend on Sunday night. In case you may not have enough ships (exclusive of Sir C. Shovell's squadron) for those services, speak with him, and let him know that he must attend the Queen at the Cabinet on Sunday, because her Majesty will then speak with you and him about the squadron designed for the Mediterranean.
	P. ¾. The enclosed documents not entered. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 28.
About 10 Ap.	Depositions of Cecilia Budd and others.
	[These depositions are endorsed April 14, on which date warrants issued to arrest Reed and his passengers, which will appear in the Table of Secretaries' warrants at end of 1703. Possibly these depositions contain the information referred to in those warrants.]
	Cecilia Budd:—She went with the Duchess of Powys to Ghent, and has been there five years with her. Came over in the William and Mary yacht (Captain Robinson). The painter [?] and dancing master are lately come into the family.
	Marie du Rieux, native of Tournay (fn. 8) :—Has been four and a half years with the Duchess. Was never in England before, and only five weeks in Holland. Came in Mr. Reed's vessel.
	In all p. ²/3. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 77.
	Edward Bryer:—Is gentleman to Lord Powys. Has been out of England about five years. Went over with my lord, and came back to fetch my lady. Has been all the time at Ghent except when my lord came to Rotterdam last December, where he lived publicly. Was seized there with some of my lady's servants and kept under arrest for twenty-four hours, as having the Prince of Wales with them, they taking my lady's page for him. Came over in Reed's hoy with thirteen of my lord's servants and other passengers whom he does not know. Lord Powys waited on the Duke of Marlborough.
	P. ²/3. Endd. Ibid, 78.
	Mary Ireland:—She is one of Lady Powys's servants, and has lived with her fifteen years. Has only been out of England about five weeks. They came over in the William and Mary yacht with a woman and David Tate, a footman. The rest of my lady's servants and one of her daughters came in Reed's ship. Eleven servants came over with Reed. Some of them were imprisoned at Rotterdam on information that they were bringing over a Prince; but the informer, who was, she thinks, a Frenchman, ran away. My lady's servants were here, except Mary Williams, who was left to look after a small child.
	P. 1. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 79.
	James Baker:—Is Lady Powys's page, and has lived with her about seven years. His father is in France, and his grandfather on his mother's side is living in St. Anne's parish. He is a pawnbroker named Blackmore. Was imprisoned at Rotterdam, but does not know why.
	Lewis [?] de Grave, native of Ghent:—Has been about three months footman to Lady Powys. Was never in England before. Came over in Reed's boat with six or seven passengers besides my lady's family.
	P. ²/3. Endd. Ibid, 80.
	Peter Lully, a Fleming of Ghent:—Is a music and dancing master and in Lady Powys's employment; teaches the young ladies. Left England about eleven months ago to see his friends. Lived a year with Colonel Wharton and with one Lavarty, a dancing master. Is not naturalised. Was not taken up in Holland. Has lived three or four years in England, before which he lived at Ghent, his native place. Came over in Reed's ship with my lady's servants, and saw six or seven other passengers in her, whom he did not know.
	P. ²/3. Endd. Ibid, 81.
	Adrian Duval, native of Rouen (fn. 9) :—Three months ago Lady Powys took him into her service at Ghent as gardener. Has never been in England before. Was arrested on suspicion that her little page was the Prince of Wales. Came over in Reed's ship. Corroborates foregoing as to those on board her.
	P. ²/3. Endd. Ibid, 82.
	Elizabeth Fay:—Has been at Ghent two years in the Duchess's family. Came over in Reed's vessel.
	Anne Lewis:—Has lived with Lady Powys one and a half years, who sent for her out of Montgomeryshire. Was born by Powys Castle.
	P. ½. Endd. Ibid, 83.
	Claudius Pinet, born in Picardy:—Has been clerk of the kitchen to Lord Powys at least eighteen years. Is not naturalised. Came over in Reed's vessel; but did not know the other passengers except the family.
	Thos. Fay:—Is Lord Powys' coachman. Three years' service with him. Came over in Reed's vessel. Corroborates foregoing.
	In all p. ¾. Endd. Ibid, 84.
10 Ap. Bishopsthorp.	John [Sharp] Archbishop of York to [Nottingham].
	Thanks for your favours in London. I found both your brothers here, and hope to enjoy their company for a month more. As you permitted, I put two or three things before you which I had not time to leave with you, and beg you to remember them.
	The Queen has promised Greenwich rectory, when it falls vacant, to Mr. Turner. I recommended him as all whom I spoke to gave the best accounts of him. I enclose the parishioners' letter in his favour.
	Mr. Lany was eleven years chaplain to the late King's household at Kensington. He had 80l. a year allowed him, which remained unpaid for three years, and had no preferment allowed him, so petitioned the Queen to consider his circumstances. The Queen promised to give him a good living. Pray remember this when occasion arises, if the Queen does not remind you.
	The Queen promised to make an allowance of 60l. a year, I think, to Dr. Cockburn at Amsterdam, and told us last week she would order payment of it. Dr. Cockburn has appointed Mr. Sartre, (fn. 10) prebendary of Westminster, to receive the money, of which the first quarter is now overdue. If you will remind her Majesty of it, Mr. Sartre will wait on you to receive directions on it.
	Pray remember Sir William Sharp, who has nine children, and is very poor. All Scotchmen whom I have spoken to agree as to his integrity and ability to serve the Queen.
	Polite messages to yourself and Lady Nottingham.
	Pp. 3. (Hol.) Endd. in Nottingham's [?] hand. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 85.
10 Ap. Dublin Castle.	The Lords Justices of Ireland to [Same].
	We shall, as ordered, constantly correspond with the Lord Lieutenant while he is in England.
	P. 1/6. Signed. Endd. S.P. Ireland 363, 4.
12 Ap. On board the Royal Sovereign in the Downs.	Sir George Rooke to [Same].
	I arrived here with the ships in the margin (fn. 11) yesterday. Coming from the Gunfleet, I saw several of the yachts making up the river from Holland. They signalled to speak, and said that the day before when they were under the convoy of the Salisbury and Adventure with a great fleet of merchantmen, they met M. Pontie [Pointis] with seven men-of-war 13 leagues E.S.E. of Orford Ness. They think he took the two warships and many of the merchantmen. I immediately detached Rear-Admiral "Binge" with five ships [names given (fn. 12) ] to make for the coast of Flanders and prevent the French ships and prizes from getting into Dunkirk or Ostend, and sent off my 20-oared boat to RearAdmiral Beaumont in the Downs with orders to make up a squadron at once and sail to the same place. This is all I can do now, and I fear "I had need do more than possibilities to please all people." Beaumont is on the back of the Goodwin working Eastward, but delayed by want of wind when the tide is against him.
	I shall work my way to Portsmouth, as I think the squadron for the Bay will be sooner ready by my being there.
	Pp. 2. Signed. Endd. in Nottingham's [?] hand. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 97.
12 Ap. (fn. 13) Genova.	Memorandum on the French Naval Preparations at Toulon.
	Enclosed gives a list of all the ships they arm out of Toulon this year. Those marked L are in the Levant, those marked C gone westward it is believed for Cadiz. The rest are careened and marted [masted ?] and gunned, wanting only men, which they said they were expecting from West France. In addition to those in this list, there are seven old ships at Toulon which are to be broken up. They are building one ship for the Maltese. With my friend came a Commissary to buy timber, but no one here will sell him aught. They fear no attack by sea on Toulon, and have only a few soldiers, and having only fitted two out of the six half moons of six guns each at the entrance to the port.
	Two French men-of-war are expected at the latter end of the next month with eight merchantmen from the Levant. They are to touch at Leghorn, and so to Marseilles. They are very rich, and it is a pity we have no frigates to intercept them. One Padrone Marcus, a Genoese, who was employed in the last war and is a bold and experienced fellow, was freighted this week to go to a river in Languedoc with a letter from a great man. He is to carry the letter till he meets our fleet or a squadron. He binds himself to go as far as Lisbon in his felucca. 'Tis to encourage our fleet to appear on the coast when the country would rise, being "mature for a turn." He is to have 80 pistoles down and 70 at Lisbon, or when he delivers the letter. He navigates with ten men and a boy with Naples colours.
	List of vessels follows, shewing:—
	1. Twenty-two men-of-war with their guns, crew of men and of boys. In some cases they are marked L or C, as stated above.
	2. Four fireships [brulloiz], with similar information to guns and crew.
	3. Three storeships [fleutes], with same information.
	In all pp. 1½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 50, 51.
13 Ap. Admiralty Office.	George Clarke to Hedges.
	Sends enclosed account of the misfortune at sea, which will tell also what has been done to intercept the French. Sir George and the Prince have sent the same orders to Rear-Admiral Beaumont.
	P. ½. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 98. Enclosing:—
	a. Sir George Rooke to [the Prince's Council].
	I arrived here this morning with the Royal Sovereign and ten other vessels (names given). Yesterday, as we came from the Gunfleet the yachts made signal to speak with me, and reported that the day before M. Pointy [Pointis] and seven French men-of-war came up with the Salisbury and Adventure and their convoys from Holland, and that they feared the men-of-war as well as several of the merchant ships were taken. Upon this I immediately sent RearAdmiral Byng, in command of the Ranelagh, Somerset, Torbay, Cambridge and Winchester to lay in the fairway between them and Dunkirk. I saw them join a Dutch Rear-Admiral and four ships before night. I send copy of these orders and of those which I sent to Rear-Admiral Beaumont by my 20-oared boat. As I came through the Gull Streams this morning, I saw him sail about the South Sand head with eight sail of frigates. I directed Admiral Byng to join the Winchester to Rear-Admiral Beaumont, she being a clean ship.
	I send enclosed just received from Beaumont.
	Pp. 1½. Extract. Dated aboard the Royal Sovereign in the Downs, 13 April, 1703. Enclosing further:—
	Rear-Admiral Beaumont to Sir George Rooke.
	I had your orders to sail last night, and should have done so if I could have got pilots. Am surprised at "the accident," and hope it may not be so bad as it appears, for I am sure neither Pointy [Pointis] nor any of the men-of-war are out, but only privateers. There was not a ship in Dunkirk road on Thursday night, and on Friday the Dutch Rear-Admiral came past both places and no ship was there. I shall go before Dunkirk and Ostend with eight ships [names given]. The fleet met the enemy so near Ostend that they certainly got in the next morning.
	P. ²/3. Dated aboard the Mary in the Downs, April 12. In all pp. 2. Endd. Ibid, 98a.
13 Ap. Whitehall.	Hedges' Letters.
	1. To Captain Gifford.
	In spite of what I said to them, I find the Governors of the Post Office will not arrange that the post comes into Portsmouth about five or six in the evening, as it does to Deal; so I shall obtain an order from her Majesty for them to arrange it so. I am glad you are better. Thank you for looking out for some good wine for me. It will come very seasonably.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 300.
	2. To Mr. Edisbury.
	Complaints have been received [details] of crowds of poor people, soldiers' wives and others at Harwich. Command:—To allow soldiers that are left behind, and their wives, or the wives of those now in Holland, to go over there in the packet-boat; and to tell the packet-boat commanders to bring over no one from Holland without a pass from the Commander-in-Chief of the forces there or her Majesty's special Envoy at the Hague. This will prevent poor people coming over who burden the town. Her Majesty has signed a warrant to the Postmaster General to allow officers of the army to go over free in the packet-boats.
	P. ¾. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 297.
13 Ap. Whitehall.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Prince's Council.
	Queen's command:—To take the embargo off the Fame and St. George. Lay this before his Royal Highness for the necessary orders.
	P. ¼. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 257.
	2. To John Noble, Sheriff of Herefordshire.
	You did well not to execute sentence on Pritchard and Husbands. Details. The Queen will pardon them.
	P. ½. Ibid, p. 258.
	3. To the Prince's Council.
	I hear by letters from Lisbon of March 23 that Captain Wishart with the men-of-war and merchantmen was to sail thence on last Friday or Saturday fortnight, sending two ships ahead to pick up the merchantmen which were ready at Oporto and Viana. Can you not strengthen that convoy and so prevent such a misfortune (by French ships from Rochfort or Brest), as lately happened to the convoy from Holland ?
	P. ⅓. Ibid, pp. 258–9.
	4. To Mr. Methuen.
	Yours of 23rd and 24th received. It is extraordinary that Portugal should propose any new terms after the articles were agreed and only wanted to be put into form; but as she seems to have receded from them, and they are capable of accommodation, probably all will be well before this reaches you. If not, what I have now to write will help towards that result.
	You speak of three points in dispute: the time of the payments, the twelve ships to be at Lisbon when no greater [British] fleet is in those seas, and the composition of the debt to the Dutch. The Portuguese Envoy, however, tells me that it is only on the last two points that any difference remains. We have written Mr. Stanhope, and have pressed the Dutch Envoy here to get the Dutch to give in on the matter of the salt. We hope that this point will not delay the conclusion of the main treaty. If it should remain unsettled, no doubt it will be settled later by the interposition of her Majesty.
	If the King really insists on twelve ships of war being always in Lisbon &c., you may agree to it, though it will do him little good. If they are to stay literally in the harbour, they can be of little use, and in no case will they be allowed to be under his orders. This has never been permitted. On the other hand, it would be to our interest to have twelve ships, English and Dutch, whose port is Lisbon, always ready. Convenient for cleaning, &c. To such a suggestion you may agree. Moreover, lest the King of Portugal should think this would not be of service to him (though it will give great security to his trade), you may assure his Majesty that the flag commanding officer will have positive orders to protect his coasts against any insults by the French and to protect his interest as far as possible if any French attempt is made on Lisbon by sea.
	Count Wratislaw is informed that you and M. Schoneburg have refused to sign the article that no peace shall be made by which the Crown of Spain is left to Philip V or any Prince of the House of Bourbon. I cannot believe that you have refused this. If so, assent to such a clause now, and no doubt M. Schoneburg will do the same.
	Pp. 2¾. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 29–31.
14 Ap. Admiralty Office.	Josiah Burchett to Richard Warre.
	Inform Lord Secretary Nottingham that steps have been taken by orders to Sir G. Rooke, to strengthen the convoy coming home from Lisbon. Other vessels [details] have been ordered to sea from Plymouth for the same purpose.
	P. ½. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 33.
Same.	Same to Same.
	I send for Lord Secretary Nottingham news (fn. 14) from the Adventure, one of the convoys which lately came from Holland. She brought ten merchantmen into the Nore. Others made their way to Holland. There is no news from the Salisbury. The captain of the Adventure fears that she and a great part of the convoys are taken.
	Lieutenant Dyas, of the Newcastle, was two days ago on the packet-boat that came from Calais to Dover with prisoners. Her captain said that Ponty [Pointis] and all his squadron are in Dunkirk unrigged, that a St. Malo privateer of 40 guns and 245 men sailed from Dunkirk and took a Dutch man-of-war of 50 guns, and that both of them were taken by three English ships of war off the Texel; that the Emperor is reported to be dead or dangerously sick, and that the Dunkirkers are so poor they cannot fit out privateers, so many being taken.
	From the foregoing it is plain that the ships which met our convoys from Holland were privateers only. Probably most of them came out of Ostend.
	P.S.—I doubt the recapture story. We have no ships thereabouts.
	Pp. 1¾. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 34.
14 Ap. Whitehall.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Commissioners of Prizes.
	The Lieutenant Governor of Jersey has been ordered (see following) to release a small bark, the Peter of Royan. Send similar orders to your officers there if you think that, otherwise, there would be a dispute about executing the order.
	P. ⅓. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 259.
	2. To the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.
	As described in foregoing. William Drovet, or Drewit, by his petition, shews that his father arrived at Jersey from Bordeaux river on May 6 last, and delivered his cargo to its owners there, further that petitioner is a Protestant, and came to settle in England with three Protestant seamen, all ready to serve the Queen. Petitioner has served the Queen on several ships for 14 years, and asks for release of the Peter, when his father and the seamen will come to England. Release her.
	P. 1. Ibid, pp. 259, 260.
15 Ap. Whitehall.	Hedges to the Prince's Council.
	I send for the Lord Admiral's consideration and report papers relating to the embezzlement out of the galleons and a retaken Dutch ship. They come from the Lord Treasurer.
	Note.—The enclosed documents were an order by Sir G. Rooke to the commanders of the Queen's hired ships and vessels, dated 15 October, 1702, a letter from the Commissioners of Prizes to Mr. Lowds [Lowndes] with an account of such transport ships as had unladen in London, but had not delivered to the prize warehouses according to the accounts they gave in to Sir G. Rooke, and the Commissioners of Customs' letter to the Lord High Treasurer with an affidavit from their officers at Plymouth.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 296, 297.
15 Ap. Whitehall.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Prince's Council.
	The Queen consents to the Queen, Barfleur and Newark being paid off and laid up at their moorings at Chatham, and their foremast men moved into the new frigates fitting out in the Thames.
	P. ⅓. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 260, 261.
	2. To Captain Atkinson.
	Command:—Provide 1,000 pair of shoes to go on board one of Sir C. Shovell's ships.
	P. 1/6. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 31.
16 Ap. Admiralty Office.	George Clarke to Ellis.
	Sends enclosure.
	Three lines. (Hol.) S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 35. Enclosing:—
	A. Captain John Robinson to [George Clarke ?].
	Besides Lady Powis, I brought over Mrs. Blount with one maidservant. She has a pass from the Queen's Envoy at the Hague (Mr. Stanhope), and an Englishman and two Dutchmen with the like passes; also Mr. Solomon Pereyra and his servant, both Jews, and recommended by Mr. Isaac Pereyra. He had no pass, but is a merchant residing in Lime Street, London. I have brought over no other passengers. If his Royal Highness would see any of these persons, I am told they are to be found on the Exchange of London. When commanded, I shall endeavour to produce them.
	P. 1. Copy. Dated, William and Mary yacht, Deptford, 16 April, 1703. Ibid, 35a.
16 Ap. Whitehall.	Hedges to the Attorney General.
	Queen's command:—To prepare for the Queen to see to-morrow a proclamation stating that whereas undesirable foreigners and disaffected persons have come to England from beyond seas, all captains and masters of her Majesty's ships and merchant vessels are forbidden to bring over any person unless he have a pass from the General or Commander-in-Chief of her forces, or from her Majesty's minister to the country where he is taken on board, on pain of prosecution.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 296.
Same.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Lord Treasurer.
	Queen's command:—Order John Forster, the Surveyor at Dover, to restore to Captain Gibson 500l. which he took from him pending directions. Gibson received the money from several people at Calais to pay to the French prisoners here and pay those who had given them credit.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 261.
	2. To the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded.
	Captain Gibson has received from the Sieur la Tour Montfort assurances that on bringing to Calais the fishermen of Dieppe and elsewhere, now prisoners here, he will receive as many English of the same quality in exchange. Queen's command:—Send the captain over with those prisoners.
	Inform Count de Mornay that the French ships detained at Guernsey have long been released, and that I know of no prosecution against any Irish taken in French ships. If you hear of any, let me know of it before you mention it to him.
	Inform the prisoners at the Gate House that as news has come that the English prisoners in France are better treated, the Queen has ordered their removal thence to the Tower, where they will have liberty of the citadel. The Queen is willing that they should be treated at least as well as the English prisoners in France. This shall be done at once.
	P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 261–262.
16 Ap. On board H.M.S. Boyne, at Guadeloupe.	Captain Hovenden Walker to Nottingham.
	On 12 March some of the forces under General Codrington went ashore at Guadeloupe, about two leagues to the northward of the town, and were very warmly received by the French, who had made breastworks everywhere. Our men, however, forced them from their trenches, and the next day almost all the soldiers and 400 sailors, going ashore, occupied the town and there lodged all the forces—the French having quitted it. The Chichester on the evening before silenced some French batteries which were placed between the town and place of landing.
	On the 15th I sent guns and ammunition ashore to open on a fort which the French still had and which commanded the town. They held out till 2 April, when I ordered two ships to open on the Castle, their trenches and line of communication. The Castle had been much battered by the guns ashore; and the next day the French blew up the Castle and fort and retired to the impenetrable woods and mountains, which are their only refuge. Out of these hunger alone will chase them; and our provisions are not enough to do it, as the Resolution has not yet come. In all this fighting, strange to say, not one French prisoner has been taken.
	Pp. 1¾. Signed. Noted a duplicate. Add. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 199.
17 Ap. Whitehall.	Nottingham to the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	To send the person seized at Dartmouth to Farnham or Plymouth. The French prisoners there will be probably able to say whether he is the Irishman who is gaoler of the prison at Dinant. The English prisoners lately at Dinant may be able to identify him. Take special care that he does not escape.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 262, 263.
17 Ap. Guernsey.	Eleazer Le Marchant to—.
	Robert Lee is the most fit man in the island to be agent to the Lord High Admiral. He performed that duty well during the late war. An owner or husbandman [?] of privateers should not have that post, as is now the case. Mr. Lee has his accounts regarding prizes ready to send to the Admiralty, but cannot send them for want of a frigate. He dares not trust them to vessels that are "runors," which would probably throw them overboard. Pray inform H.R.H. of all this.
	P. ¾. (Hol.) Badly spelt. Add. to a lady unnamed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 52.
18 Ap. Whitehall.	Hedges to the Commissioners of Customs.
	I send papers &c. Please consider and report if any masters of the said ships have been guilty of embezzlement, and, if so, see that they are prosecuted before the High Court of Admiralty.
	P. ½ (with note of papers sent). S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 299.
19 Ap. Whitehall.	Hedges to Lord Coningsby.
	Sends Elizabeth Wanless' petition, and Queen's command to pay her 20l. to support her husband: the money to be stopped out of his pay.
	Note.—Her petition states that her husband was sent from Ireland to the West Indies, and was, on the voyage, captured by the French on 28 November last. He was carried to Dinant, and has since remained there. Very poor. Contracted debts there, which will detain him if he is released. She prays for a sum for his relief or arrears of his pay.
	P. ²/3. Ibid, p. 298.
Same.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	The Queen intends to remove the French officers from the Gate House to the Tower. Go there and report whether there is enough accommodation for them in time for your report to be laid before the Queen at the Cabinet Council to-morrow morning.
	P. ¼. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 263.
	2. To the Prince's Council.
	I hear from Pisa that one Captain Pickering brought pitch, tar &c. under Swedish colours to Marseilles, and that a ship, supposed to be his, was coming into that port on March 31. Give orders to arrest any ship commanded by this officer pending inquiries.
	P. ¼. Ibid.
20 Ap. Whitehall.	Hedges to William Jennings and Thomas Renda.
	To assist bearer, who is warranted to arrest Richard Paine and other deserters from Lieutenant-General Stewart's regiment, and believed to be in or near Wallingford. They are to be sent, if need be, from constable to constable up here.
	P. ⅓. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 299.
Same.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	The commanders of French merchant ships who are prisoners at Farnham complain that they are treated as common seamen. Queen's command:—They must be treated with the distinction with which Englishmen of their quality are treated in France.
	Remove the French prisoners from the Gate House to the Tower. No fees for lodging &c. to be charged them there.
	P. ²/3. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 264.
	2. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	The Queen will not accept the service of any French prisoners, however anxious they may be to enter it; but if any are real Protestants and want to stay in England, do not send them back to France when exchanging prisoners. None, even though Protestants, are to be released without her Majesty's special order.
	P. ⅓. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 264, 265.
	3. To Edmund Maine, Esq., at Berwick.
	Queen's approval. Continue your care in her service.
	P. ¼. Ibid, p. 265.
	4. To the Prince's Council.
	Queen's command:—Take no French into her service, that the French may have no excuse for forcing English into theirs.
	P. 1/6. Ibid.
	5. To Colonel Ellis, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey.
	Leave has been granted to you to come over to Bath for your health. You will, of course, take care that the Queen's service does not suffer by your absence.
	P. ¼. Ibid, pp. 265, 266.
	6. To Captain Gibson.
	Queen's command:—Not to bring over from Calais any English master taken by the French who ransomed his ship.
	P. ¹/8. Ibid, p. 266.
	7. To the Commissioners of Transport.
	The Queen approves your proposal for making serviceable some beds, rugs and pillows returned from the late expedition to Spain at a cost of 2s. 6d. each. Take steps accordingly.
	P. ½. Ibid, pp. 266, 267.
	8. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	There are about 400 French prisoners at Guernsey and will probably be more. They are more numerous than the garrison, and there are not sufficient victuals for them, which is dangerous to the island. Consider means of moving the prisoners who are there, or may come there, to some other place. Details.
	P. ½. Ibid, p. 267.
	9. To the Prince's Council.
	The Queen approves the enclosed letter from the Council of Trade and Plantations with regard to seamen assisting in the fortification of St. John's, Newfoundland, and their estimate for some stores necessary for the boom there. Queen's command:—Lay these particulars before the Prince, that he may give the necessary orders therein.
	Also details of anchors, chains and iron asked for. The cost of these is 23l. 15s.
	P. ½. Ibid, p. 268.
	10. To the Lord Treasurer.
	By Command:—I send you an estimate regarding the expenses of laying the boom at St. John's, received [&c., as foregoing], so that you may give orders for sending this money as you think necessary.
	The estimate:—
		l.	s.	d.
	To 25 men of the garrison at 12d. a day extra for about 70 days. (The time will vary according to the difficulty in getting timber.)	87	10	0
	Carpenters' work in making the boom	15	0	0
	Care of the "Shalloway" or boat to bring the trees	30	0	0
	Extraordinary charges	20	0	0
	The "skifft" [skiff] to attend the boom on all occasions	6	0	0
		158	10	0
	P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 268, 269.
	11. To M. de Pimont.
	You will be given in exchange for any Englishman of like quality to yourself. When I hear that the French Court agrees to this, I will do all I can to hurry the matter.
	P. ¼, in French. Ibid, p. 269.
	12. To the Count de Mornay.
	Having told you that nothing was wanting for the completion of a cartel but that you should have a full power in proper form to treat, I am surprised at the power which you have sent me. This is the only cause of delay. The English officers would not dare to take French sailors into service in their ships (which M. de Pontchartrain supposes to be the cause of delay), for the Queen has given a positive order that this shall not be done. Not even the poor French Protestant prisoners, who prefer captivity in England to the sufferings which they undergo in France [are allowed to enter her service]; and the Queen hopes that, this being so, the French King's order against the enlistment of English prisoners will be extended to his fleet as well as to his army.
	As for the French prisoners, though the Queen has heard complaints that the English prisoners in France are nearly starving, she has voluntarily ordered that deductions made from the pay of the French prisoners here for their food be restored. (fn. 15) You (the French officers here) will be treated according as the Queen hears that the English officer prisoners are treated in France. Please make any suggestion you can as to how the orders of the Queen and the King of France may be carried out; and please inform the Marquis de la Gallissonnière of the contents of this letter.
	Pp. 2½, in French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 270–272.
	13. To Lord Treasurer Godolphin.
	Captain Atkinson has provided 1,000 pair of shoes, and disposed of them as ordered. The cost was 97l. 18s. 4d. He should be reimbursed.
	He also provided 543 beds for Colonel Holt's regiment. Kindly inform him where he should place the charge for them.
	P. 1/6. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 31.
21 Ap. Kirby [Northants].	Viscount Hatton to Nottingham.
	I think it would do as well to send a general recommendation to the bailiffs and jurats of Guernsey to rebuild their Court as to direct any particular way to raise money. Such answer will require no debate with the Lords of the Council. Details.
	P. ²/3 (small). (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 53.
21 Ap. Whitehall.	Nottingham to Cornelius Smith, at Dover.
	I have good reason to suspect that one Thomas Noel is an instrument for carrying on a correspondence with France. Details. Observe him carefully, and, if you find my suspicion justified, try to secure both Noel and his letters and intermediaries. Although you should not need it (as it is the duty of all good subjects to inform against such spies), I allow you to show this letter to any magistrate to whom you may have to apply. Meantime keep it very secret. Your expenses will be paid and your trouble rewarded.
	P. ½. Note: sent to Mr. Breton. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 32.
22 Ap. London.	Hedges to Count Wratislaw.
	You did not shew clearly that M. Crock was a subject of the Empire, and he appeared rather to be a Frenchman. If you certify that he is of the Empire, I will see that he has his passport out of consideration for you.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 300.
22 Ap. Whitehall.	Nottingham to Sir James Etheridge.
	Examine as to the truth of the enclosed affidavit of Mr. Henry Gooding, which was brought here this morning, and take steps that the offender may not escape. Mr. Gooding will wait upon you for particulars. Report.
	P. ½.
	Also note of the information taken before Richard Warre, against Corporal Cotterell of Great Marlow, innkeeper, and Mr. Hood who lived in Mr. Duffell's house in Bucks. The substance not stated.
	In all p. ¾. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 272, 273.
[23 Ap.]	List.
	Of French prisoners committed to the Tower by virtue of Lord Secretary Nottingham's warrant.
	Identical with the list at 24 April, 1703, q.v., below, p. 693.
	P. ¾. Endd. with date. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 86.
23 Ap. Admiralty Office.	Memorial by the Lord High Admiral to the Queen in Council.
	Frequent complaints are made to me that when her Majesty's ships touch at Jersey or Guernsey the crews desert to serve in the privateers. The Governors and Lieutenant Governors of those islands should be ordered to search their respective islands, and all privateers thereto belonging, with care for such deserters and to arrest and replace them on one of her Majesty's ships.
	Pp. 1¼. Signed, and with counter-signature of George Clarke.
	Endd.S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 36.
23 Ap. Whitehall.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Lieutenant of the Tower.
	Receive herewith several French officers, prisoners of war. Queen's command:—To accommodate them according to their quality and allow them to walk on the parade at proper times.
	P. ¼. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 273.
	2. To the Prince's Council.
	Colonel Collier, the Lieutenant-Governor, reports that, according to order, the Experance de Derneville has been released in Jersey, but that the master was first compelled to give a bond to the agent who cares for the Lord High Admiral's share of prizes, that if 30 liveretswas to be paid, being the appraisement of the boat, it should be done. Queen's command:—To cancel and deliver up the bond.
	P. ²/3. Ibid, pp. 273, 274.
	3. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	I send a warrant and letter (fn. 16) for receiving the French [officers] prisoners into the Tower and a warrant to the Keeper of the Gate House to receive them. It might be well if you saw them safe to the Tower, if possible, to-day.
	P. ¼. Ibid, p. 274.
Same.	Hedges to the Prince's Council.
	Command:—To prepare at once instructions for Sir Cloudesly Shovell that he may lose no time in starting if the Queen decides to send him with a squadron to the Mediterranean.
	P. ¼. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 373.
24 Ap. Whitehall.	Nottingham to the Agent of the Post Office at Harwich.
	If one named Reinalducci, or anything like it, arrives from Holland by the packet, take care to stop him even if he has Mr. Stanhope's pass, or any other, and keep him till you have reported and had further orders. If the register, which I hope you keep, of arrivals shews such a person to have arrived, let me know when he came, where he went to, and any other "necessary circumstance." Observe secrecy in this.
	P. 1. Copy. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 87. Also p. ¾. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 275.
24 Ap. Narva.	Thomas Dunn and Ralph Elmsall to John Wych.
	Since our last we hear only that the "Russe" has a numerous army near his frontier, and, according to the best information, will certainly besiege this place. There is nothing to hinder them, Slippenbach's army being dispersed and Croncort's the same. We hear of no succour from Swede-land; "yet is thought" nothing will be attempted till the grass is grown, which will be in about five weeks, although they begin already to make some small ravages. They have also an army by Notteburg, with which, it is reported, that they will attack Nyen. If a sudden peace is not made in Poland, the King of Swedeland's affairs in these parts will be in a miserable condition. Quantities of goods lie at Wyborg. Considering the danger in loading if the Russe takes either place, and as we have nothing to show that we are friends to the Russe, we ask you to get our passes from the Queen of England. We have herewith ordered our friend Mr. Rimington to make good to you any disbursements which you may incur in connexion therewith. At the beginning of the war, several of our fellow countrymen had passes from the late King, which were much respected by the Russes. We hear that England and Holland may send a fleet into the East sea to compel Sweden to make peace. If so, it will not be possible for us to stay here, for the inhabitants will be inveterate against us. We should be glad to hear from you if this fleet will come, also what chance there is of peace with the Russe.
	P.S.—No ships are yet here, but they are expected daily, the sea being clear of ice.
	Pp. 2¾. Signed. Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 88.
24 Ap.	Notes of Fees due to the Lieutenant of the Tower of London.
	On the date in margin the following noblemen and gentlemen were committed prisoners to the Tower. The usual fee to the Lieutenant is 100l. for a nobleman and 50l. for a gentleman, so that in all 1,200l. is due.
	Names:—The Marquises D'Aligre and de la Gallissonnière; the Count de Mornay; MM. Sorel, Pimont, De la Grois, Maison Fort, De Coyeux; Chevalier de Tour [de] Landre; Chambellan Gratton; MM. De Lambour, Du Chattell, De Cotte Cott, Durand, Du St. Fray, Corvett, Romaine, Felicien, Pigeon, Pubeloy (Guarde de la Marine), Begon (same).
	P. ¾. Endd. Ibid, 89.
26 Ap. [Whitehall.]	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Lord Mayor.
	Command:—To celebrate the Prince of Baden's victory and repulse of the French, with the usual ringings in the City.
	P. ¼. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 276.
	2. To the Prince's Council.
	Queen's command:—Report what is the best way to purchase La Finesse. She was lately condemned as prize, and she is suitable for patrolling the coasts of Kent and Sussex to prevent correspondence with France and the "running of goods." Meantime, prevent this vessel being otherwise disposed of.
	P. ½. Ibid.
Same.	Hedges to the Prince's Council.
	Command:—Six ships to be laid up and paid off at Portsmouth, as the Lord High Admiral suggests.
	P. ⅓. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 369.
27 Ap. London.	Pierre Du Souley [?] to [Nottingham].
	I spoke to the Speaker [M. L'Orateur] about a person fit to translate the Gazette, who told me to tell you of him. I therefore send enclosed and shall wait on your lordship [Vōtre Grandeur] to-morrow to know if he will suit.
	Pp. 1⅓ (small). (Hol.) French. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 90.
	Enclosing:—
	a. Description of M. Pierre De La Touche.
	He is a French refugee of merit and has been here seventeen years. He is of good character, and was Master of the Pages to the late Queen, in which employment he acquitted himself with much honour. He is of Saumur, one of the towns in France where they speak French best. Seven years ago he wrote a book on the art of speaking French well, which he dedicated to the Duke of Gloucester. He also understands well the humanities, geography, history, fortification and other things which qualify him to translate the Gazette well.
	He is particularly well known to Lord Jersey and Lord Northampton, the Bishop of London and several persons of quality.
	P. ²/3. French. Ibid, 90a.
27 Ap. Whitehall.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.
	Command:—Make search for sailors who have deserted the Queen's ships and entered privateers at Jersey; seize them and put them aboard some ship, that they may be returned to her Majesty's fleet.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 277. Also note of same. Ibid, p. 315.
	2. To Colonel Farewell.
	Sends an order on Captain Atkinson for as many beds as may be wanting for the ordinary Frenchmen in the Tower.
	Also the order. The beds are for the French officers' servants.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 277, 278.
	3. To the Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey.
	Similar to No. 1 above.
	P. ½. Ibid, p. 314. Also note of same; Ibid, p. 277.
28 Ap.	Secretary Southwell to Nottingham.
	Three men-of-war are reported at Dublin on the 21st, and the two regiments were to be embarked at once and go to the Downs for pilots, and so on to Holland.
	P. ¼. Endd. with date. S.P. Ireland 363, 5.
28 Ap. Admiralty Office.	Josiah Burchett to Hedges. (fn. 17)
	The Lord High Admiral desires you to recommend someone as Deputy Judge Advocate of the Fleet, who will be sent to sea with Sir C. Shovell's squadron.
	P. ½. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 37.
28 Ap. St. Malo.	Louis Maget to Samuel Eyre, Merchant, in London.
	Our Commissary arrived here yesterday, and I have had a long talk with him about settling the cartel; [and we agreed] to exchange man for man and quality for quality, and the freight of the packet to be 10 livres tournois for each French prisoner delivered here. If, owing to any order from the King of France, the ship is not cleared in eight days, an allowance for demurrage [details] (fn. 18) will be made to the captain or master and his crew. He agrees to this. You have now only to give your orders to whom you please to be your agent here. If you appoint me, I will serve you well.
	I will at once forward the passports you asked for when I receive them; but whether they come or not, send the packetboat, for the Commissary has given me an order under his hand for her safety.
	P.S.—I enclose the agreement for the exchange of prisoners, which I have received from M. de St. Sulpice since I wrote the above. If you disapprove of anything in it, let me know, that I may have it changed. I send a copy of it to Mr. Humphry Willet, who says he has got permission from the Court to send 200 French prisoners to this town. We expect them daily, and he is to have 200 English prisoners in exchange. This is only a beginning. If you please to use me here, please send me full powers. Am sending another copy to Plymouth in case this miscarries. Details.
	Pp. 2, in bad English. Signed. Add. Endd. with note(inter alia) that 10 livres=12s. 6d. and 4²/3 crowns a Louis d'oro. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 100. Enclosing:—
	A. Declaration by M. de St. Sulpice.
	As Commissary of the Marine in the Department of St. Malo, I declare that I have power from the Court of France to give English prisoners who are in France in exchange for French prisoners sent from England, man for man and quality for quality, giving to the masters who shall bring French prisoners 10 livres for freight, and provisions for each prisoner. If the English ships bringing over prisoners are kept more than eight days, 3 livres per ton per month shall be paid them for demurrage, and 60 livres for the pay and provision of the master and 24 livres for the pay and provision of each sailor. During their stay the master and crew shall be kept at the expense of the French Government, and shall not be imprisoned, and the whole shall be managed according to the cartel in the late war. The Commissioners are requested to send over first the oldest prisoners, and I shall do the same here.
	Pp. 1½, in French. Signed. Ibid, 100a.
	b. An incomplete translation of foregoing into English.
	P. ¼. Endd. Ibid, 100b.
28 Ap. Whitehall.	Hedges' Letters.
	1. To the Prince's Council.
	You are to attend the Committee of Council at Lord Nottingham's office at 10 a.m. to-morrow, and to bring with you instructions for Sir George Rooke concerning such services as may be thought practicable on the French coast and in the Bay. It is intended that he shall go to sea at once.
	P. ¼. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, p. 71.
	2. To Same.
	You will understand from Sir Cloudesly Shovell that Malta is not to be mentioned in the Lord High Admiral's instructions. Sir Cloudesly will tell you how it is to be altered. The Lords of the Committee of Council also direct that the following additions and alterations be made in them.
	1. Sir Cloudesly to be left discretion as to when, in the month of September, the fleet shall return from the Mediterranean.
	2. Sir Cloudesly to have leave to send away one to treat with the Governments on the coasts of Barbary. Your instruction to be framed accordingly.
	3. You are desired to send to the Turkey Company and adjust with them the time for their ships' return to the rendezvous. My Lords think it should be as soon as possible, but leaving to Sir Cloudesly's discretion to enlarge the time if he thinks this can be done with safety.
	P. ¾. Ibid, pp. 71, 72.
29 Ap. London.	Pierre Du Souley[?] to [Nottingham].
	I have, according to your lordship's orders, spoken to Mr. Howard and to Mr. Edger on the subject of the Gazettes. They tell me they have no orders on the matter. Pray give me an order to those gentlemen, so that I may recommence my small trade for the relief of my poor family. I humbly await an answer at your lordship's house.
	Pp. 1½ (small). (Hol.) French. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 91.
29 Ap. Whitehall.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	One of you who is a physician will please to go to the Tower and see if M. de Maisonfort is, as alleged, so troubled with colic that the only cure is the bagnio. If it be so, give him leave to come out on parole, that so he may make use of the bagnio.
	P. ⅓. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 278.
	2. To same.
	Report to the Queen how far Hertford, Reading and Aylesbury are fit places to receive prisoners. The Queen approves of them, and there is a new hospital vacant at Hertford. Say which is the fittest of them.
	P. ½. Ibid, p. 279.
	3. To the Prince's Council.
	Command:—To have a ship ready to go at once to Portugal as ordered by her Majesty or a Secretary of State.
	P. ¹/8. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 32.
30 Ap. H.M.S. Mary, in the Downs.	Rear-Admiral Beaumont to—
	All can find out about the Irish vessels trading to Dunkirk is that the master of one of them is called Edward More. His ship is square-sterned and arrived at Dunkirk about seven weeks since, laden from Galway, but is thought to belong to Waterford. He was last year at Christiansand in Norway with two other Irish pinks, one [with] a crown in her stern and the other a blackamoor's head.
	P. ½. Extract. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 38.
30 Ap. [Whitehall.]	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Prince's Council.
	I send you copy of the Articles intended with Portugal in regard to the fleet that you may be better able to give your opinion on them when you attend the Cabinet Council at my office at six this evening; and, that this matter may be settled consistently with her Majesty's honour and the satisfaction of the King of Portugal, bring with you an account of how the command has been settled on previous occasions when the English fleet has acted as auxiliary, and particularly of the regulation made when the fleet went to Barcelona.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 33.
	2. To the Pensioner [Grand Pensionary].
	Command:—To tell you that we are informed that the people of France as well as in the Cevennes are well disposed for a rising if they would be supported in it—particularly about Bordeaux. The project for this support, which has been submitted to her Majesty, can be carried out with 12,000 men, especially at this time of the year, when the fleet is at sea, or ought to be so. But as it is impossible for the Queen and the States General to raise so many men in time for such an expedition, so it is to be wished that the expense thereof should be avoided if, by any other means, the design can be pursued. The only alternative is to take such a number of men from our united forces under the Duke of Marlborough. We hope your affairs may be in so good a posture that these may be embarked and on our coast by the end of June, after which there will be two months for them to act before they need be sent to Portugal (if that Treaty is successful, as we hope), and the design of sending them to Portugal will serve to cloak the intermediate design against France. This will in itself divert the arms of France, and, if it induces a revolt, will be very fatal to the French King, and in the meantime it is the surest method of diverting him from those advantages he has in most places against the Allies. The Queen has therefore commanded me to write on this matter to you, as I have done to the Duke of Marlborough, and earnestly to recommend it for you to help, and hopes that you will resolve on it at once and carry it out with vigour.
	Permit me to add that I have long thought that no war can be so dangerous to France as one which is carried on in this way, i.e., "by a fleet and an army accompanying it, and this I say, although there were not such a prospect as there is of the French themselves concurring with us. I think the reasons for this assertion are so plain that I need not mention them, and the last war is an unhappy instance of the truth of it." I leave the matter in your hands, the project to be worked out by you in concert with the Duke of Marlborough. Pray let me know what we are to expect, that no time may be lost on our part.
	Pp. 1¾. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 33–35.
	3. To the Duke of Marlborough.
	Sends copy of foregoing, and discusses its substance. The force promised to Portugal is 10,000 foot, 1,000 horse and 1,000 dragoons, to be mounted in Portugal. Proceeds:—This is thought to be the least number requisite for this design. If so many men cannot be spared from the armies under your command, if the States will send 6,000 of the troops under their pay and so many of the troops in her Majesty's pay as will make up two Irish and two Scotch regiments and one of French to be raised here to the like number of 6,000, this will answer the end and in some degree obviate the objection they may have of sending away the whole 12,000.
	If, however, the States cannot be prevailed on to send so great a number, and you think it not safe to send them without replacing them by an equal number, which may be had from the Princes of Germany, then, to further so great a service and prevent the expenditure on our fleet from being wasted, you may concur with them [the States General] in any Treaties they make for troops in lieu of those which shall be sent on this service. All of these are to be at the joint and equal expense of her Majesty and the States.
	P. ¾. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 35.
	4. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	Queen's command:—Send a vessel to St. Malo for exchange of prisoners.
	Four lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 279.
30 Ap. Whitehall.	Hedges to Sir George Rooke.
	Besides the instructions which you have from his Royal Highness, my Lords have advised the Queen to give you those enclosed, which I send by her command. You will find by them that you are not only to annoy the enemy, but to find out as best you can what further services will be practicable in case that by the end of June (by which time it is expected you should return), the Dutch squadron for the Channel service should join you with 10,000 land forces on board.
	The descent according to the enclosed project and the destroying the saltpans are the principal services thought on at present, concerning which her Majesty would be informed as soon as you can. The other paper came with the foreign letters to-day, and is sent for your information, and was, I believe, partly the occasion of despatching your instructions to-night. If I had had time I should have told you, before it was signed, what is now sent you in writing. Should you have any suggestions as to how anything may be better turned or framed, I will try to get it done accordingly and send it after you. "I most heartily wish you success in all you undertake.
	P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book208, pp. 72, 73, followed by:—
	Instructions to Sir G. Rooke.
	1. You are to burn, sink, destroy, harry &c. the ships and coasts of France and Spain and the saltpans, and to inform yourself as best you can [&c., as in the preceding letter, par. 1. re arrival of Dutch force &c.]. Get the best information as to how such designs may be put in execution.
	2. Inform yourself as well as you can of the inclinations to rebellion of the people at and about Bordeaux and how they may best be supported; also of the passage into the river of Bordeaux, and how practicable it is to enter into it, and with what sort of ships, and of the best means for making a descent in or near that river.
	In putting these instructions in force, you are, as often as you think fit, to call a Council of flags and captains, and act according to the resolutions that shall be taken there; and to proceed as far on such services as shall be thought reasonable and most conducive to the annoyance of the enemies.
	Pp. 1¼ In all pp. 2¼. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 72–74.
April. Whitehall.	Nottingham to Sir Robert Sutton.
	The Queen has written letters on behalf of Mr. William Pentlow and his mother to the Grand Signior and the Vizier. Command:—To deliver them in person if you have occasion to go to Adrianople. If not, deliver them in the usual way. Do all you can to get satisfaction for them.
	P. ²/3. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 278, 279.
April.	Note for the Divident for April, 1703.
	Mentions Lord Granville's three offices, the Duke of Schomberg's annuity, and the discharge to Sir Joseph Williamson's heirs.
	Left-hand figures, (fn. 19) 3l. Right, 18l. 18s. 0d.
	P. ½. Endd. as similar previous notes. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 92.
About April.	Rear-Admiral Whetstone to [Hedges].
	I hope my letters of 16 February arrived by H.M.S. Bristol, which I sent to convey home some merchantmen and the prisoners Captains Kirkby, Wade and Constable. All the captains advised this, fearing that, in the consternation caused by the fire, they might escape. They sailed on 14 February. I sailed with them as high as Hispaniola, and afterwards went in search of some merchant ships and a convoy from France, of which I had information. Cruised for five weeks in search of them and then looked into Port Louis, where there was only one, formerly chased in by our cruisers. Relates his movements in search of French, and detachment of Captain Vincent in the Defiance. Captured or drove ashore three privateers. Burnt or sunk vessels in the Cue. The French compute their loss by these burnings &c. at 18,000l. Further movements and detachments. Receipt of his Royal Highness's despatch of 23 January off East of Jamaica. Is fitting out, expecting reinforcements from Windward, and hopes to be ready to execute his Royal Highness's orders. Does not give details, lest the merchant ship which takes this should be captured.
	Pp. 1½. Undated. Signed "W.W." Endd. A duplicate. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 101.