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| [Jan. 1.] |
Draft of the Earl of Lindsey's pass, calendared ante, p. 1. [S.P.
Dom., Car. II. 287, No. 3a.] |
| [Jan. 5.] |
Draft of the warrant to the Lord Lieutenant in favour of Michael
Ward, calendared ante, p. 7. [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 330, No. 3a.] |
| [Jan. 11.] |
Draft of the warrant to Lord Aungier, calendared ante, p. 18.
[Ibid. No. 3b.] |
| [Jan. 11.] |
Draft of the King's letter in favour of William Robinson, calendared ante, p. 18. [Ibid. No. 3c.] |
| Jan. 15. |
The Quakers of Nottingham to the King and both Houses of
Parliament. We have much clearness to present our suffering condition unto you, though sensible that many of our friends and
brethren are deeply exercised in the same trial with us, which has
been presented to you in a general manner; but as our sufferings
are carried on by persons who do not seem to be sensible either
of law, equity, or mercy, we cannot but lay before you the sad
effects produced by their means, and which are likely to be continued, if not prevented by you; for we do not perceive that they
who first put their hands to the work against us, and who were
encouraged by your Act, intend to spare us while we have anything they can take from us, and many of us have already been
left in a very low estate, having lost corn, cattle, and household
goods, so that we are as a people seemingly appointed to a day
of outward distress, in a high degree. |
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We were once capable of doing good to others, and have relieved
many in their wants, and paid our taxes to the King, and our
rents to whom they were due, and maintained considerable families
in a comfortable manner, but are now made incapable of doing
such things, through the violence of men who pretend they have
your Act for what they do. We hope that the serious consideration of your own concernment may stop all future proceedings in
the desolation of so many honest families, and that you may cause
those who are ruining us to cease from their violence, for we are
grieved to see how men act daily against us to their own hurt,
besides the sorrow that attends us to see our own children and
families deprived of a comfortable livelihood. |
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We do not know that we have ever given just occasion why it
should be so done to us, having clear consciences in the sight of God
for having any intention against you; we must needs say that we are
afflicted innocently. O King and Parliament, remember the time of
your own adversity, and how a way was made for you to come into
your places of authority, and be merciful as God has showed mercy
unto you. But we continue to suffer. As the informers clear one
place, they go to another, and some Justice appears ready to answer
their minds, so we are compelled to complain to this great assembly.
If you do well, it will be well with you; but if you afflict the
innocent, the Holy One will turn against you. Oh, consider the
end for which you have power, and make use of it for the benefit
of all under it, and give glory to Christ Jesus, who is King and
Lord, that by your means the whole nation may be settled in love,
peace, and quietness. [Printed broad sheet, 217 signatures, of which
nearly half are those of women. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 287, No. 69a.] |
| [Jan. 18.] |
Colonel Richard Talbot, in the behalf of his Majesty's most
distressed subjects of the kingdom of Ireland, who were outed of
their estates by the late usurped governments and are not yet
restored. Petition, showing that the petitioners, upon his Majesty's
happy restoration, hoped to return into the lands and possessions whereof they were for their loyalty to his Majesty and his
royal father of blessed memory dispossessed by the late usurped
powers, and to partake in the advantages of liberty and property,
the birthrights of the people, which others happily enjoy under his
Majesty's most benign government, the petitioners having with
great fidelity served and suffered for his Majesty in the greatest
trials both at home and abroad, but their misfortunes are such that,
for want of a full and just representation of their case, their estates
are hitherto (contrary to his Majesty's declared intentions in their
favour) possessed by others, and themselves exposed to extreme
exigencies, groaning these many years last past under the unsupportable burden of misery and poverty for want of subsistence, and
have no refuge left them but to prostrate themselves at his Majesty's
feet for justice and compassion, and praying that some impartial
and uninterested persons might be appointed to hear their grievances and to make report to his Majesty what they find to be the
true state of the petitioners' present case and condition, and that in
the interim his Majesty might be pleased to give order to stop the
granting away any lands undisposed of in Ireland until his Majesty
has taken his final resolution concerning the petitioners. [S.P.
Ireland, Car. II. 330, No. 5a.] Annexed, |
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Several instances wherein clauses enacted and confirmed by
his Majesty's declaration of the first Act of Settlement are
repealed and made void by the second. |
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(These are the cases of the children of Philip Hore, of Patrick
Sarsfield, Patrick Colclough, and of those transplanted into
Connaught, the obstruction of the benefit by free grants, the
possession in May 1659 being a sufficient proof of title,
and the confirmation to soldiers not of General Monck's
army, all which instances sufficiently appear by Sir H.
Finch's statement printed in Carte, Life of Ormonde, Vol. ii.,
Appendix, pages 78-80.) [Ibid. No. 5a i.] |
| [Jan. 22.] |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Directing payment of 400l.
to Joseph Deane, Deputy Postmaster-General of Ireland, in the
terms of the warrant of that date, calendared ante, p. 38. [Draft.
Ibid. No. 8a.] |
| [Jan. 23.] |
Draft of the King's letter about Duncannon Fort, calendared
ante, p. 42. [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 330, No. 9a.] |
| [Jan. 25.] |
Draft of the warrant in favour of Sir E. Deering, or Dering,
calendared ante, p. 50. [Ibid. No. 11a.] |
| [Jan. 2-25.] |
Account of the Act proposed to confirm an agreement between
Lord and Lady Stafford and their copyhold tenants of Thornbury,
Oldbury, and Falfield, whereby many regulations beneficial to the
tenants are introduced, none to be bound thereby but such as subscribe the agreement, in order to avoid law suits between the
tenants and Lord Stafford, who holds the property in right of his
wife, notice having been given to all persons concerned to appear
before the Committee the 2nd of this instant January. [S.P. Dom.,
Car. II. 287, No. 124a. See Commons' Journals, Vol. IX., p. 194.] |
| Feb. 15. |
Particulars of fee-farm rents issuing from lands at Banbury.
[The greater part torn off. Ibid. No. 220a.] |
| Feb. 24. |
Sir C. Ha[rbord] to [the Commissioners for the sale of fee farm
rents ?]. By order of the Commissioners of the Treasury desiring
a brief abstract of the lands and hereditaments not exposed [for
sale?] by the late Act of Parliament as are before them and are
not part of the Queen's jointure or the jointure of the Queen
mother deceased, and of the leases thereof. [Ibid. No. 252a.] |
| [Feb. ?] |
Colonel William Carlos to the King. Petition stating that he
had procured a grant in reversion after Edw. Egleston, then ill and
since dead, of a King's waiter's place in the Customs, but Egleston
since made a surrender ante-dated, and begging a stop of the grant
on the said surrender, or his Majesty may never have such places
in disposal. [See ante, p. 108. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 288, No. 14a.] |
March 26.
London. |
Lord Mayor Sir Richard Ford to Lord Arlington. Since sending
the treasonable letter which was shown by a Quaking porter, I
have found a woman who owns that she gave it to the porter, and
that she found it in a street in St. Bartholomew's Close. I have
caused diligent inquiry to be made in every house in and near
St. Laurence Lane for John Gardiner, to whom the letter was
directed, but cannot discover him. I gave notice to the Farmers
of the Customs of what the letter designed against them; they say
that they had lately dismissed some dangerous persons from their
service, and that, if shown the letter, they might discover the
author. I have the porter and woman in custody, and wait your
commands how to dispose of them. [Ibid. No. 125a.] Probably
annexed, |
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Note about Jane Griffiths, calendared ante, p. 163. [Ibid.
No. 165.] |
| March 29. |
The trustees for the sale of fee-farm rents to —. Informing them that William Bearblock, purchaser of a rent issuing
out of the rectory of Wrangle, co. Lincoln, is entitled to the
rent for the half-year ending Lady Day last. [Torn. Ibid.
No. 151a.] |
| [March ?] |
Humphrey Leigh, serjeant-at-arms attending the Great Seal, to
the King. Petition for leave to nominate his successor, having held
the office above fifty years under nine Lord Chancellors and Lord
Keepers, and having attended the late King at all the battles where
he was present, and having been left for dead at Naseby. [See
grant of the office, calendared ante, p. 164. S.P. Dom., Car. II.,
288, No. 166.] |
| April 18. |
Note of a surrender of the Great Park [at Windsor] dated that
day. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 289, No. 69a.] |
| [April ?] |
Account of the case of Walter Clement, attorney. [Calendared
in S.P. Dom., Car. II. 1667–68, p. 141, but see ante, pp. 120
and 193. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 230, No. 53.] |
| [April ?] |
Sir Edward Scott to the King. Petition stating that the petitioner having faithfully served his Majesty both at home and
abroad, had been recommended to the Duke of Ormonde to have
some fortune settled on him in the settlement of Ireland, but had
never got anything since the Restoration, and that the lands mentioned in the annexed schedule, formerly the inheritance of some of
the petitioner's near relations, were at his Majesty's disposal, and
praying a grant of the same in fee simple. [See ante, p. 207. S.P.
Ireland, Car. II. 330, No. 71a.] Annexed, |
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The said schedule, comprising lands in the baronies of Iffa and
Offa, in Tipperary, formerly part of the lot of Dick and
Cunningham. [Ibid. No. 71a i.] |
| May 9. |
Draft or copy of the King's letter concerning Thomas and Henry
Howard, calendared ante, p. 225. [Dated 9 May 1672, but in the
23rd year of our reign, therefore 1671. Ibid. No. 79a.] |
| [May ?] |
Duplicate of the petition of Edmund Carent, calendared ante,
p. 226. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 289, No. 193a.] |
| [May 12.] |
Two drafts of Sir Robert Southwell's pass, calendared ante,
p. 232. [Ibid. Nos. 211a, 211b.] |
| [May 13.] |
A third draft or copy of the King's letter in favour of Col.
Talbot, calendared ante, p. 239. [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 330,
No. 85a.] |
| [May 18.] |
Enclosed in Richard Gibson's letter of that date, calendared ante,
p. 249, |
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Two copies of five warrants from Sir E. Spragg to Gibson,
dated respectively 31 March, 6, 10, and 12 April, and
15 May, concerning issuing tallow to pursers, building a
storehouse, providing shoes for seamen, payments to the
newly appointed smith, and an agreement with the surgeon
of the Golden Hand to look after the sick and wounded put
on shore at 5s. a man. [4 pages. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 298,
Nos. 48ii., 48iii.] |
| May 22. |
The King to the Warden and Electors of New College and Winchester College. Recommending Arthur, son of Sir Lancelot Lake,
now a scholar at Winchester College, for a scholarship at New
College at the next election. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 27, f. 166.] |
| [May 23.] |
Draft of the warrant for a grant to John Ferrars, calendared ante,
p. 264. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 290, No. 35a.] |
May 27.
Inner Temple. |
Robert Blayney to Mr. Auditor Morrice. By direction of the
trustees for the sale of fee-farm rents requesting an exact
particular of the rent issuing out of Dalbury, co. Derby. [Ibid.
No. 56a.] |
| [May ?] |
[Sir Charles Lee to Sir Robert Reynolds (?).] Before I left Warwickshire, Lord Conway, who presents his service to you and my
sister, showed me a letter from Lady Dungannon. She refers her
whole business to him, but if you can spare her the last 500l. six
months longer, you will do her a great kindness, having had to pay
so much since her husband's death. She will do whatever Lord
Conway advises. [Extract. Conway Papers. Ibid. No. 80a.] |
May 30.
The Iron Anchor, against St. Clement's Church, Strand. |
Sir Robert Reynolds to Viscount Conway. I blush that your
noble endeavours between Lady Dungannon and myself should
give you so much trouble, especially now, when the best of women
lies so heavy upon your thoughts. Sir Charles Lee, finding the
530l. appointed by you to be paid me last November still unpaid,
tells me the day before he went for Hampshire, he desired you to
write to Bevis Floyd, who has the money all this while, to pay it
me forthwith, in part of your order, which was 530l. last November and 515l. this May. I humbly beseech you, when you write to
Mr. Floyd or Lady Dungannon, to let them know what you have
determined herein long since, and that by your intervention I
have consented to stay six months longer for the last 515l., to be
then paid with interest and the mortgage bond delivered up. [Conway Papers. Ibid. No. 80b.] |
| [June ?] |
Duplicate of the petition of Alice and Luce Byron, calendared
ante, p. 292. [Ibid. No. 109a.] |
June 6.
Inner Temple. |
Richard Lightfoot to Thomas Raban. By direction of the
trustees for the sale of fee-farm rents requesting an exact particular of the rents issuing out of Church Lawton, Cheshire, and
the manor of Keel, Staffordshire. [Ibid. No. 150a.] |
| [Sept. 20.] |
Draft of the warrant for the delivery of the records, &c., concerning the settlement of Ireland to Sir James Shaen, calendared
ante, p. 494. [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 330, No. 204a.] |
| [Sept. 20.] |
Draft of the King's letter to Lord Hatton, calendared ante, p. 492.
[S.P. Channel Islands, Vol. 9, No. 8a.] |
| [Before Sept. 20. |
Note that the order for Wm. le Marchant's restoration to the
office of a jurat of Guernsey might recite that before the renewal of
privileges of the island, he was put into office by the late Lord
Hatton, in place of Peter Carey. That he has as good a right as
any of the other jurats, who sat not by election, but by the King's
order. Carey being dead, he was restored, but suspended pending
information why Carey was put out. That, by le Marchant's
restoration, the King does not mean to infringe the privileges of
the islanders, who are in future to enjoy freedom of election
according to their charter. [S.P. Channel Islands, Vol. 9., No. 8b.] |
Sept. 28.
Inner Temple. |
Richard Lightfoot to Mr. Auditor Morrice. Two letters giving
him notice by direction of the trustees for the sale of fee-farm
rents that William Young and John Buckworth, the respective purchasers of fee-farm rents issuing out of a tenement in Saxilby and
the manor of Gedney Abbotts, both in Lincolnshire, are entitled to
the half-year's rents due at Michaelmas. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 292,
Nos. 61a., 61b.] |
| Sept. 30. |
Tender by Mr. Harrington for supplying 457 spruce deals and
6,000 treenails. [S.P. Dom., Car. II., 300, No. 59a.] |
| Oct. 10. |
Robert Blayney to Mr. Auditor Morrice. Two letters giving
him notice by direction of the trustees for the sale of fee-farm
rents that Nathaniel Booth and Robert Clayton, the respective purchasers of fee-farm rents issuing out of the town of Mottram
Andrew, in the hundred of Macclesfield, Cheshire, and the manors
of Barney and Tupholm, co. Lincoln, are entitled to the rents due
last Michaelmas. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 293, Nos. 110a, 110b.] |
| [Oct. ?] |
Note that Jones murdered his mother at Monmouth, and that
her estate of about 100l. a year, to which he was entitled on her
decease, now comes to the King. Endorsed "Fr. Rogers." [See
caveat calendared ante, p. 534. Ibid. No. 163a.] |
| Nov. |
Richard Lightfoot to Mr. Auditor Morrice. By direction of the
trustees for the sale of fee-farm rents, desiring him to send them a
particular of the rents he thinks convenient to be reserved for the
pensions and other stipends contained in the particular already
transmitted. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 294, No. 99a.] |
| [Nov. ?] |
[Claude?] de Grange, or des Granges, to the King. Petition, praying as Tomkins the harpsichord player is dead, and there are many
that play thereon, that the place may be changed into that of a
bass, which is wanting in the King's music, and conferred on the
petitioner. [See ante, p. 592. Ibid. No. 100e.] |
| [Nov. ?] |
Similar petition of the same in French. [Ibid. No. 100f.] |
| [Nov. ?] |
The same to Lord Arlington. Praying him to present his
petition, and to speak to the King in his favour. The salary is
only 40l., but will give him a footing at Court. [Ibid. No. 100g.] |
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Several letters, all dated from the Inner Temple, from Richard
Lightfoot to Mr. Auditor Morrice, by the direction of the trustees
for the sale of fee-farm rents, requesting an exact particular of
the rents issuing out of the following lands:— |
| Date. |
Lands. |
Volume. S.P. Dom., Car. II. |
No. |
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June 8 |
Tenement in High Pavement, co. Notts |
290 |
170a |
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June 22 |
Manor of Dousby, co. Lincoln |
291 |
38a |
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Lands lately belonging to the College of Tattershall, co. Lincoln |
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June 23 |
Alverton, co. Notts |
291 |
38b |
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June 28 |
Willome Grange, co. Notts |
291 |
64a |
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Sept. 22 |
Manor of Gedney Abbotts, co. Lincoln |
293 |
30a |
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Nov. 14 |
Manor of Lower Withington co. Cheshire |
294 |
30a |
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Ravensmore |
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Advowson of Badeley |
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Nov. |
Mercaston and Summer Cotes, co. Derby |
294 |
99B |
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Date torn off |
Ladforth, co. Lincoln |
294 |
100H |
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Manors of Redborne and Manton, co. Lincoln |
294 |
100i |
