Charles II: October 1680

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1680-1. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1921.

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'Charles II: October 1680', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1680-1, (London, 1921) pp. 46-74. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/chas2/1680-1/pp46-74 [accessed 26 March 2024]

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October 1680

Oct. 1.
Newmarket.
Sidney Godolphin to Secretary Jenkins. I am sorry I was not able to send you his Majesty's pleasure about writing to Sir R. Southwell time enough for your letter to have gone from London by to-day's post, but I could not have audience till this morning. He thinks it very reasonable you should write such a letter as the ambassador desires, and that it ought to have been done before this. I have shown him the papers of private advice and keep them till I see you. The King may perhaps stay a day longer here than has been named for his return till Saturday sennight. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 110.]
Oct. 1.
Newmarket.
Reference to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland of the petition of John Mihill for a grant to him and his son, Maximilian, of the reversion of Dr. Miller's pension of 185l. 14s. 5d. from 1683 for their lives, his Majesty retaining a gracious sense of the loyalty, services and great sufferings as well of the petitioner as of his ancestors. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 61, p. 9.]
Oct. 1. Secretary Jenkins to Sidney Godolphin. I beseech you to pardon the trouble of the enclosed. I will only add that Capt. Ely was to-day before the Council. It appears that young Tounge was brought to him by the wife of Lane, a Yeoman of the Guard, but Oates will go near to prove that both Ely and Choqueux went beyond their bounds in the conduct of what they had undertaken by tampering with people to become witnesses.
Ely has deposed that those who pretend to make the plot a fiction were all Papists and Irishmen, and 'tis in the proofs that young T[ounge] had been with Mrs. Cellier and had writ to her. On Michaelmas day two or three hundred were observed to repair to her Majesty's chapel at St. James', but most of them women. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 104.]
Oct. 1.
Whitehall.
Secretary Jenkins to the Earl of Middleton. I have two of yours of 7 and 11 Sept. to acknowledge. Sir R. Southwell has purged us here of an ill opinion we had of the little secretary here, and he has been with me himself some days ago to protest not only of his innocency but of his good offices. You will hear of the caballing here towards the sitting of the Parliament. The busy men have so many hares on foot that they must agree better before they can compass their ends. One thing they will be certain to pursue with all eagerness, that is, the plot, and they will have new matter furnished out of Ireland. In all this the King will join with them, and that with all the reason in the world. You went hence furnished with arguments enough from your own reason and experience to justify our proceedings against Popery. The King will deny them nothing but his consent that they should meddle with the succession, nor ask them anything but that they would provide for their own peace and security both at home and abroad. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 64, p. 45.]
Oct. 1. Secretary Jenkins to Philip Warwick. I have yours of 1 and 9 September. By the last I find you are already acquainted with the state of that Court. In Germany the alliance between Sweden and France is supposed perfected and the French are to maintain 20,000 men in Pomerania, one half to be commanded by Frenchmen. If you find any such league concluded, you will, I doubt not, with the first let us know and what you can learn of it. They are telling you there by this time all the boding things that the clubs and coffee-houses here vent of the approaching session. You are furnished with reason enough out of your own experience and judgment in the affairs of our country whereby to satisfy all moderate men. When we are come nearer to the crisis, we shall give you the most minute notices we can hence. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 68, p. 427.]
Oct. 2.
Newmarket
Sidney Godolphin to Secretary Jenkins. I have yours of the 30th with the enclosures, but have not yet showed them to the King, he having been abroad all this morning, and he will not be come in till too late to write by the post, but, Lord Sunderland being to be in town to-morrow, there will be less need of troubling you with anything from hence. He does not write to you for that reason, but hopes you have remembered to send a yacht for Mr. Van Leewen, who desired it might be at the Brill by the 5th. If it be not already gone, it will come somewhat late. I hope your news of the Prince of Orange is not true. It would be too cruel a misfortune at this time to add to the circumstances we lie under at present. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 111.]
Oct. 2. Secretary Jenkins to [Sidney Godolphin]. I have letters of the 4/14th from Hamburg, which speak nothing of any disaster to the Prince of Orange, so that M. du Cros' news, that came to Amsterdam in letters of the 1st from Hamburg, must be false, and, in all likelihood, malicious.
I send you Capt. Ely's and Lane's depositions, that you may see there is nothing in them but what agrees with the clause in your letter of the 25th, no more is there in a large confession that Mr. Bridgeman took of young Tounge at Newgate, by order of the Council yesterday, in which Choqueux, Mr. L'Estrange and Ely were reflected on as endeavouring by indirect means to bring Tounge on to make a fiction of the plot.
The Council on Friday renewed a proclamation now expired that Papists should retire out of London, and commanded me to move his Majesty for his royal hand to it, which I beseech you to do for me, and, if it be not too great a trouble to his Majesty, to lay before him what concerns the completing of the Bishop of St. Asaph, who is consecrated to-morrow, in order to his qualifying to sit in the House.
There are two other things more, one that concerns Sir R. Southwell, the other him that succeeds the Bishop of St. Asaph in the poor deanery of Bangor. His Majesty is acquainted with both concerns, and Mr. Humphreyes is a worthy man.
I thank you for yours of yesterday, and send you Sir R. Southwell's letter, which is the only foreign thing I have worth your trouble. [Nearly 2 pages. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 105.]
Oct. 2.
Whitehall.
Secretary Jenkins to —. I acknowledge with all humble thanks your most obliging letter received last Monday. I have sent to Oxford for a copy of the lease you desire to see, for I have none of it. If the pious use be perverted in it, I shall not desire it should stand good. It was the opinion of good lawyers, when the College took the lease, that it was so far from a misapplying that it was a fair and honest improving of the gift of the royal donor, King Henry VIII. If it be found otherwise in justice and judgment of law, currat lex. Though it cost me some pains to bring it to the settlement it is now at, yet I crave no favour in this case even to the College. [Ibid. p. 107.]
Oct. 3.
Preston.
Thomas Martin, undersheriff of Lancashire, to Sir William Dolben. I received your letter of 25 Sept., and would have answered it by return of post, but happened to be abroad then.
I have laid forth myself as actively as possible to do the service required by your warrant and letters against the rioters, and since my last have apprehended two more, James Radcliffe and Henry Highley, and have discovered three more that had a hand in the riot, John Crosse and his wife and David Crosse, who, living in a house over against where the prisoners were, entertained and abetted the rioters. The two persons apprehended are now in custody, and neither pains nor care shall be wanting to the execution of the law. But I know not which way to turn, for a summons is sent me from the Privy Council to attend the Board the 19th, I suppose on the very same account of not executing these warrants, wherein I have been as active and diligent as ever man could be. The circuit of the sessions begins to-morrow, and the Exchequer processes against Recusants to take inquisitions, in number many hundreds, are to be executed this month, all which things utterly incapacitate me to perform all. I therefore beg your representation to the Board of these affairs all on foot at once, and that, if possible, I might be spared attending, or at least a further day may be granted me, else much of the King's service will necessarily be retarded. I cannot give any account of what the justices do on recognizances, because the sessions begin but to-morrow. [1½ page. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 112.]
Oct. 3. Secretary Jenkins to [Sidney Godolphin]. I have nothing to-night to trouble you with. It is most certain that an impeachment is intended against the Duke of Ormonde. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 107.]
Oct. 4.
Newmarket.
Sidney Godolphin to Secretary Jenkins. Returning the papers signed by the King.—I got them dispatched the sooner because of the proclamation against Papists, for I should be sorry the Lord President could be able to lay any delay of that matter to my charge. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 111.]
Oct. 4.
Newmarket.
The King to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Warrant for a dispensation to the Bishop of St. Asaph to hold in commendam the archdeaconry of St. Asaph, and also the rectory of Llandrinio, and any three other benefices with or without cure in the diocese of St. Asaph, which belong to that bishop's proper presentation, so as all three exceed not the value of 50l. per annum in the King's Books, and with licence of permutation of all or any of them, as he shall see good cause, during his life or his incumbency in the said bishopric. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 53, p. 35.]
Oct. 4.
Newmarket.
Warrant for the donation and collation of the Deanery of Bangor to Humphrey Humphreys, B.D., Canon of the said church, void by the promotion of Dr. William Lloyd, the late dean, to the Bishopric of St. Asaph, with a warrant to the Bishop of Bangor to institute him therein. [Ibid. p. 36.]
Oct. 4.
Newmarket.
Warrant for the restitution of the temporalities of the Bishopric of St. Asaph to William, now Bishop thereof, to commence from the day of the death of the late Bishop. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 53, p. 37.]
Oct. 4.
Newmarket.
Warrant to the Earl of Feversham, colonel and commander of the Duke of York's troop of Horse Guards, or in his absence to the officer in chief commanding the said troop, for obeying such orders as he shall from time to time receive from the Duke of Albemarle in what concerns the said troop under his command. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 59, p. 56.]
Oct. 4.
Newmarket.
Warrant to Sir Philip Howard, commander of the Queen's troop of Horse Guards, in the same words mutatis mutandis as the last. [Ibid.]
[Oct. ?] Other warrants to the Earl of Feversham and Sir Philip Howard to the same effect as the above, but with some differences in the wording. [Ibid. pp. 62, 63.]
Oct. 4.
Whitehall.
Secretary Jenkins to [Sidney Godolphin]. The enclosed from Sir Gabriel Silvius will sufficiently confirm you in the belief that the Prince of Orange has had no mischance as the Hamburg letters did write.
The Quarter Sessions began to-day at Westminster. Strode, the high bayliff, has returned five or six fanatics of the jury, but the major part are supposed to be honest men. Nothing has been stirred to-day against his Royal Highness, but to-morrow is a more critical day.
On Monday the Quarter Sessions begin at Hicks' Hall, but the jury will be impannelled and sworn next Thursday. All the precaution is used that I can think of. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 108.]
Oct. 4. Secretary Jenkins to the Earl of Middleton. Since my last I have two from you of the 14th and 18th, o.s. I told you in one of my last we began to entertain a good opinion of the secretary here. He has since confirmed me in it by some communications he has made me, and is ingenuous enough to confess that it is their interest to make the best of our affairs, since they have need of us, and that our distractions, if they do disable us from looking abroad, will put them to the greatest insecurity imaginable. We are drawing near towards a Parliament, therefore you must expect to hear much of our caballing. This you may be sure, that no man alive can tell what they will begin with. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 64, p. 46.]
Oct. 4.
Newmarket.
Proclamation ordering all Papists and reputed Papists to depart from within 10 miles of London and Westminster, and not to return for six months. [Printed. S.P. Dom., Various 12, p. 407.]
Another copy of the above proclamation. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, f. 372.]
Oct. 4.
Newmarket.
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant, after recitals identical with those in the letter of 27 Feb. preceding (calendared in the last volume, p. 401), and that Sir Robert Southwell had presented a schedule signed by the Deputy Auditor General of Ireland of rents payable by him to the Crown out of lands in co. Cork amounting to 35l. 4s. 10d. per annum, and of rents reserved to the Crown out of lands in co. Limerick amounting to 45l. 1s. per annum, which last-mentioned lands were granted 28 July, 1666, to William, now Sir William, Godolphin, and his heirs, from whom the said Sir Robert purchased them; for a release to the said Sir Robert, his heirs and assigns, of all the said yearly rents out of the said lands in co. Cork amounting to 35l. 4s. 10d. per annum, and also for a grant to William Blathwayt, his heirs and assigns, of such part of the said rents reserved out of the said lands in co. Limerick as shall amount to 39l. 15s. 2d. in trust for the said Sir Robert, his heirs and assigns, to complete the sum of 75l. per annum intended to be released, and further that the remaining rents, amounting to 5l. 5s. 10d. per annum, be left chargeable on such of the said lands in co. Limerick or any part thereof as the Auditor General shall think fit to place the same, and further for stopping all further proceedings in the said letters of 27 Feb. last. [Over 3 pages. S.P. Dom., Signet Office, Vol. 10, p. 479.] Annexed,
The said schedule, giving particulars of the said lands, of the rents issuing out of, and of the title to each of them. [5 pages. Ibid. p. 482.]
Oct. 5.
Garstang.
Thomas Martin to Sir William Dolben. In my last I gave you an account of the progress I had made against the persons that rescued the two men taken on the excommunicato capiendo. I have since apprehended seven more (giving the names of six), and Grace, the wife of John Crosse, at whose house several of the rescuers were sheltered, and have got information of several others concerned therein, so I shall with all care and diligence pursue your directions for apprehending them, and am at present myself, with above 20 bailiffs and constables, searching them out where I hear they are fled, and hope next post to give you account of several more apprehended. I am confident of your intercession with the Council for my not attending the 19th. [Original and copy. S.P. Dom., Car. II., Nos. 114, 115.]
Oct. 5.
Whitehall.
Secretary Jenkins to the Earl of Derby. The Council was already possessed of the affidavits you sent me touching the riot and rescue in that country last July. They have directed the Clerk of the Council in waiting to put their directions into an Order of Council, which you will receive with the first convenience, at least an account of what is to be done on your part. My lords would have the two Papists rescued diligently sought after, and of the rescuers, but those more especially, because by their means the abettors, that set the rescuers on work, may be found out. It is most apparent that these rescues were for the sake of the cause more than for the sake of the rescued. My lords have not ordered any of the rioters to be brought hither. They are confident you will have all possible care to have the laws put in execution in this case, but they will have the Undersheriff hither, being not satisfied that he has done his duty.
The depositions from Chester were read at the same time before their lordships, but I have nothing in direction on them. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 108.]
Oct. 5. Secretary Jenkins to Sidney Godolphin. I thank you for yours of yesterday, and for the proclamation and other papers in it, to which you had procured his Majesty's hand.
The adjourning of the Parliament to Oxford is what exercises the faction at this time. Mr. Oates is said to have been the first author of this surmise at a club in the City. The malicious people make this use of it, that the people must lodge their demands betimes with the Commons in Parliament, and that there will be no safety for the House of Commons unless it adjourn to the City.
The new Lord Mayor took occasion lately to say that he will spend his last drop of blood against Papists and Popishly affected. [Ibid. p. 109.]
Oct. 5. Secretary Jenkins to Philip Warwick. Recommending the contents of the enclosed letters.—Alderman Jeffreys is a marvellous honest man; I hear nothing but very well of Mr. Lucie. However, they are the King's subjects and have a title by your protection, nor must I conceal that I have been infinitely obliged to Alderman Jeffreys. I have subsisted 4 or 5 years in my employments abroad by the credit he gave me, so that whatsoever you do for him will be a special obligation on me. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 68, p. 426.]
Oct. 6.
Whitehall.
Order in Council. Mr. Charles Bertie this day refusing to give security by bond to discharge his Majesty from payment of a debt claimed by Francis Terence and Martin Dinance, merchants, according to his engagement of 12 Nov. last, in case it were adjudged by law that his Majesty ought to pay the same, that Secretary Jenkins move his Majesty that Mr. Bertie be not dispatched for Germany till he shall give such security. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 116.]
Oct. 6. Richard Beane to Sir L. Jenkins. Though I never was known to you nor appeared before you more than twice, which was about a speech of King James I had a mind to reprint, I beg you to present to his Majesty my enclosed petition. I could have urged with a great deal of truth that I was brought up in loyal principles, that I served as a clerk to the Admirals in both the Dutch wars, where I endeavoured to insinuate courage into others and did not play the coward myself, that I have since spent my money and all my little reputation in attempts to serve his Majesty by new and useful inventions, and that near 300l. has been due to me out of the Treasury of the Navy above 10 years, but I disclaim all pretences of merit and pray to be employed only for the sake of what I hope to do hereafter. By my Advice to a Soldier, and by the petition and this letter, you may perceive I can write an indifferent plain hand and plain English, and I can be diligent. I am of mean birth and education, and my expectations are low. Let me be anything, let me be a Gibeonite. [2 pages. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 117.]
[1680.] Oct. 6.
Dunham.
Elizabeth, Lady Delamer, to [the Earl of Conway]. I no sooner received your letter but I was impatient till I had told you my happiness in giving you a beloved child. I hope and doubt not she will make you as happy in the relation God has made her to you now as she has ever been to me and her father, who commands me to let you know that, if he was not so lame that he cannot stir, he would have expressed his sense of the value you put upon his daughter, and prays that God would bless you together with comfort and happiness to each other, which prayer I must say Amen to. [Conway papers. Ibid. No. 118.]
1680. Oct. 6. Secretary Jenkins to Sidney Godolphin. The Council last Friday ordered Mr. Bertie to give bond to one Cox that he would perform the decree of the Court of Exchequer, as had been ordered last November on a hearing before the Council, but Mr. Bertie appearing with counsel to-day at the Board endeavoured to make out that such a condition ought not to be imposed on him, and desired to be excused from giving any such bond. My lords hereon made an order that his Majesty might be moved not to send him abroad till he give this bond, which they were content not to require to be given to the King, because of the consequence, but to some other. Mr. Bertie was no sooner gone out of the Council Chamber, but he declared that he desired to be excused from going this voyage. This surprised me very much, who had adjusted all things that related to his instructions. His Majesty will be to seek for an envoye in his place, and, if I may presume so far, I would name Mr. Chudleigh to his Majesty. He has been secretary to the King's embassies in France, Spain, Italy, Cologne and Nimeguen. He has all the accomplishments that can be desired in a gentleman for business, and, having been privy to all that passed at Cologne and Nimeguen, he must have a better insight into the constitutions of the Empire and the affairs of its princes than can be well hoped for in another.
The Council ordered Primate Plunkett to be sent for over, to be tried here for treason on Hetherington's petition and the remonstrance annexed to it in writing that the law was so; he had it under Pollexfen's, Pemberton's and Sir William Jones' hands.
Our sessions at Westminster are well over. Pray God sent it so at Hicks' Hall. There was a Common Hall to-day in London, but nothing of moment passed in it.
Pray let me recommend the enclosed to your favour.
The Irish convert priest from Durham appeared to-day before the Council and charged the Earl of Tyrone with words of high treason.
Just as I am closing after seven, Sir John Nicholas sends me the Order of Council relating to Mr. Bertie. [2½ pages. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 111.]
Oct. 6.
Whitehall.
The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord Lieutenant. The Council having resolved that Oliver Plunkett, the titular Archbishop of Armagh, should be forthwith sent into England to be tried, I send you a letter from the Board to that effect. The other letter enclosed is in answer to one of the 18th ult. from you and the Council of Ireland to me enclosing a copy of David Nash's information. [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 340, p. 16.]
Oct. 6.
Whitehall.
The Earl of Sunderland to Mr. Frowde. The Council having thought it necessary to send the enclosed to the Lord Lieutenant by express, I am to direct you to dispatch it accordingly, and that, in case it do not overtake last night's Irish mail before it be gone from Holyhead, you send order to send the packet-boat or some other vessel express with the same. [Ibid. p. 17.]
Oct. 6.
Whitehall.
The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord Lieutenant. The bearer, James Geoghegan alias Dalton, having acquainted the Council that he could make some considerable discoveries of designs and Popish conspiracies in Ireland, he being protected there from any violence that may be offered him by reason of the said discoveries, and the Board thinking it necessary he should immediately go thither, I am directed by them to signify the same to you, and that they desire you will appoint him a sufficient guard for his safety, and give him all other necessary assistance for the discovery and seizing of all such persons as he shall accuse of being concerned in the said conspiracies, and that you also cause the examinations to be taken of all he shall apprehend, and thereupon proceed in such manner as you shall find most conducive to his Majesty's service, giving an account of all proceedings herein to the Board. You are likewise desired to furnish him with such reasonable sums as shall be necessary, he being already supplied wherewith to bear his charges into Ireland. [Ibid.]
Oct. 6.
Whitehall.
Order in Council directing the preceding letter to be written and to the same effect therewith. [Ibid. p. 18.]
Oct. 6.
Whitehall.
Pass for the said Geoghegan to transport himself to Ireland and to return, with a warrant to all postmasters to furnish him with a posthorse and guide going and returning. [Ibid. p. 19.]
Oct. 7. Secretary Jetkins to [Sidney Godolphin]. Her Majesty has been let blood this morning, yet she is said to have been somewhat feverish all day, but now at seven to be somewhat better.
An honest jury was sworn this day at Hicks' Hall, where they'll begin the Quarter Sessions on Monday. Sir James Butler was in the chair and gave the charge. Lord Paget was with them on the bench (it seems to watch them) all this day.
I have a letter from the Prince of Orange, which speaks his resolution of beginning his journey one day this week for Berlin or Potsdam, to visit the Elector of Brandenburg, yet Sir R. Southwell thinks that trouble will be to little purpose.
Mr. Fanshaw brings me a paper just now, as I am closing, sent him by Zeal, a prisoner in the Marshalsea. He pretends he was tempted to swear some treasonable words against his Royal Highness, and that it was Lord Shaftesbury that had tempted him, but the whole is an improbable story. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 114.]
Oct. 8.
Euston Hall.
The Earl of Arlington to Secretary Jenkins. Mr. Blathwayt tells me you are much inclined to further Sir. R. Southwell's revocation and that you would willingly endeavour to get my cousin Pooley left in that Court to watch the motions of it, which is all any minister can do there for the present. Of the former I myself am a good witness, and for the latter you will oblige me very much in effecting it. I will be answerable that Mr. Pooley is very fit for that employment. He is not unknown to his Majesty. If you name him to him, you will put a particular obligation on him and on me. [2 pages. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 119.]
Oct. 8.
Newmarket.
Order to Sir Thomas Slingsby to march with his troop of the Earl of Oxford's regiment of Horse from Barnet to the garrison of Portsmouth where he is to obey such orders as he shall receive from the Governor. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 60, p. 36.]
Oct. 8.
Newmarket.
The King to Col. George Legg, Governor of Portsmouth. Ordering him to admit the above-mentioned troop into the said garrison. [Ibid. p. 37.]
Oct. 8. Secretary Jenkins to Sir Peter Wyche. On reading your letter to the Lord Privy Seal, he was of opinion I should take his Majesty's pleasure on the case as stated in several of your letters before writing to Mr. Bancks. You have pursued your instructions. Bancks therefore should either have acquiesced or else have addressed his complaints hither to have the instructions rectified and not to have disturbed you in the execution of them. You shall hear more of his Majesty's pleasure, and so shall Mr. Bancks too, when I shall be at his Majesty's feet. He comes back to-morrow. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 68, p. 426.]
Oct. 9.
Whitehall.
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of Thomas Lloyd, praying that, his Majesty having ordered him to disburse 14,000l. for his service in Ireland for such uses as he should direct by warrant under the sign manual, his Majesty would direct the passing of letters patent in England for the payment of 2,000l. per annum for seven years out of the revenue of Ireland, to commence after the last payment of 14,000l. granted to the Earl of Ossory, deceased. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 88.]
Oct. 10.
Peele.
Roger Kenyon to Col. Richard Kirkby. I am just returned from the Lancaster and Preston sessions. Your letter of the 30th meets me here. Though the Justices at Lancaster sessions had ordered me to prepare estreats against a very great number of Popish Recusants, which I had accordingly prepared, yet on the motion of three young lawyers, counsel for the Recusants, the signing of the estreats was forborne and an argumentative letter writ to Lord Sunderland to know his Majesty's pleasure penned, I think, by Mr. Fleming and signed by himself and all the other Justices, and an order made only to estreat such as had never appeared, but to stay the estreating of such as at any time appeared and took the oath of allegiance, albeit they refused that of supremacy. As to the estreating of such as never appeared, I told them that would be nobody at all, for, albeit some had never personally appeared, the court had as to such accepted an appearance by an attorney, so that the record notified an appearance, wherefore I would have omitted that clause in the order, but they told me that in their letter they had writ of such an order and therefore it must be so that it might quadrate with the letter. At Preston the Justices made the same order, so no estreat is hitherto signed against the Papist.
Last March a letter and commission came from the Council to the Justices to prosecute certain persons named in the commission to a premunire, and most of them were bound over. Now the persons so to be prosecuted, having notice of the Council's appointment, absented and made default and many others by their example did the like. I thought they would surely have estreated the recognizances of those defaulters, but these are the gentlemen chiefly, on whose behalf this arguing letter is writ.
The estreats of this county have been a long time in farm to Robert Heywood, who pays 25l. 10s. per annum rent. They were for many years before in farm to his father, but this is so vast a sum if it fall to be estreated and to Mr. Heywood's share, as will make him a great man, and yet a third part of the Papists in this county were never bound. The value of the estreats prepared was above 60,000l.
Lord Derby was with us at Preston sessions and had before ordered the sheriff to send out his officers to apprehend the Popish riotous rescuers. Eight of them, besides the person rescued, are sent to prison, till his Majesty's pleasure be known, and a warrant is gone out against eight more. I took a great many informations against them and the examinations of all that were taken and sent them to-day to Lord Derby, who is now at Wentworth Woodhouse, the Earl of Strafford's house in Yorkshire. He will send them to the Council. The persons taken are of very mean quality, not a man of note amongst them. They do not deny the fact, but will not confess who set them to do it. To-morrow are our sessions at Wigan. [3 pages. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 120.]
Oct. 10. Pass for John Rawstorne, travelling into France for the recovery of his health, with Sir William and Samuel Rawstorne, his brothers, and Christopher Coles, with two servants who accompany him thither and return. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, f. 372.]
Oct. 10.
Jersey.
Sir Philip de Carteret to Secretary Jenkins. Thanking him for his obliging letter.—I desire your assistance in a business of which Sir Edward de Carteret, the Black Rod, has already informed you, and of which he will inform you further by showing you the copy of a letter from the Judge of this island to the King and Council, where the case is clearly stated. After a long pleading on both sides and in an extraordinary full Council, the matter was decided, as appears by an order of 4 Dec., 1674. Nevertheless my party endeavoured to have a rehearing; which was refused and by a special order the first was confirmed and the sentence in Jersey re-confirmed. Nevertheless I am informed she has petitioned again for a rehearing, which, if granted, will be a thing unheard of in this island and for redress whereof the Royal Court here will be obliged to petition the King and Council, for, if once a door be open for obtaining rehearings, the parties will never want pretexts and will never cease till they be ruined, who must be at extraordinary charges to go into England, as may appear by an order of the King in Council, which, to prevent their ruining by continual appeals, orders that there shall be no appeal under such a sum and that the appellant shall give security for the charges and for the 5l. fine payable to the Bailiff, if he fails. If such precautions be absolutely necessary for appeals, by much more reason should graver precautions be taken for rehearings, especially in a case so favourable as I hope mine will appear to you, which is of almost 60 years standing against a party capable, if the Council grant her request, of putting me to great charge and trouble and who is incapable of making any recompense, she having nothing, God having taken away a pretty estate she had left because of her undutifulness to her father, whom in her plea she makes to be a madman, her husband a tyrant, and from these premises she desires an absolution from a two-fold perjury, she having taken her oath in Guernsey never to go against the said bargain and caused her attorney to ratify the same here. [S.P. Channel Islands 1, No. 99.]
Oct. 11.
Whitehall.
The King to the Dean and Chapter of Sarum. Signifying his pleasure that they forthwith admit and instal John Younger, B.D., Senior Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, into the prebend of Woodford and Welford, void by the promotion of Dr. William Lloyd to the bishopric of St. Asaph, and in the King's gift pro hac vice. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 53, p. 38.]
Oct. 11. Secretary Jenkins to the Lord Chief Justice. His Majesty having directed that the judges should meet to-morrow night, being Tuesday, about 7 at the Lord Chancellor's to deliberate and give their opinions in some things relating to his service and requiring a present attendance, has commanded me to advertise you of his pleasure and to desire you to afford your presence and counsel. I have therefore sent this messenger express to wait on you and shall tell you further of my own knowledge that his Majesty and the Lord Chancellor think your presence here next Wednesday morning very necessary to begin the quarter sessions in London. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 115.]
Oct. 11. Secretary Jenkins to the Earl of Middleton. I have not any letters from you since my last. His Majesty returned hither Saturday in perfect good health. We expect the arrival of M. van Lewen, the former ambassador of the States, and 'tis the clearest demonstration possible of their zeal and concern for his Majesty's peace and prosperity that this worthy person is sent over, as best knowing us, to dispose us to be sober-minded and to look to the main chance. I am told he has instructions so tending to our good and union under his Majesty that nothing can be more apposite, more express. His very passing hither at this time will be a good argument in your mouth to prove that the great anxiety of the Dutch is not from any apprehension they have of any intrigues that our enemies surmise we have with France but from a dread lest we should fall out among ourselves. This you will make use of, without making any great fonds on his instructions. His very voyage hither is indication enough of what is next their hearts. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 64, p. 51.]
Oct. 11.
Whitehall.
Warrant for a gift to Patrick Menzies of the office of one of the clerks of the Privy Council of Scotland vacant by the demission of Alexander Gibson, for his life. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 183.]
Oct. 11.
Whitehall.
Warrant for a patent constituting Alexander, Earl of Moray, principal and sole Secretary of State for Scotland, which office is now vacant through the demission of the Duke of Lauderdale. [Over 2 pages. Ibid. p. 184.]
Oct. 12.
Whitehall.
Commission to Philemon Powell to be ensign of a company in the Duke of York's regiment commanded by Sir Charles Lyttelton, whereof he himself is captain. Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 164, p. 53.]
Oct. 13.
Whitehall.
Warrants to Col. John Strode, lieut.-governor of Dover Castle, for swearing and admitting William Birch to be lieutenant, in the room of James Bacon, deceased, and James Neale to be porter of Sandown Castle, in the room of William Birch, who has surrendered that place. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 359, p. 69.]
Oct. 13.
Whitehall.
Grant of denization to Margaret Weyman, daughter of John Weyman of Rotterdam, merchant. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, f. 373.]
Oct. 13.
Whitehall.
Recommendation to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of the Countess Dowager of Kinnoul for the arrears and payment of her pension of 1,000l. per annum, with direction that they take effectual care forthwith to discharge what is due and to settle the payment of the pension so that it may be constantly paid for the future. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 61, p. 8.]
Oct. 13.
Whitehall.
Warrant for a ratification, exoneration, pardon and indemnity in favour of the Duke of Lauderdale. [Nearly 4 pages. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 187.]
Oct. 13.
Whitehall.
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant for payment of the annuity of 200l. per annum and of the arrears thereof, if any, granted to Lady Frances Keightley and Thomas, her husband, and the survivor of them, whereof the payment is suspended, any order, letter, &c. to the contrary notwithstanding. [S.P. Dom., Signet Office, Vol. 10, p. 487.]
Oct. 14.
[Received.]
List of the London Grand Jury with notes against every man of his character or quality. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 121.]
Oct. 14.
Whitehall.
Commission to Andrew Wheler to be ensign to Capt. Lionel Copley in Col. John Russell's regiment. Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 164, p. 53.]
Oct. 14.
Whitehall.
The Earl of Moray, Secretary of State for Scotland, to the Lord Advocate. An address being made to the King in behalf of Walter Bell, in Winterhouphead, now a prisoner there, who is shortly to undergo a trial for the slaughter of John Bell, brother to Walter Bell of Nook, notwithstanding, as is alleged, there is no evidence to prove him guilty of the said slaughter, but that he is only arraigned as art and part, having only been accidentally in the company, his Majesty, being given to understand that he is an aged man with a very numerous family and has hitherto lived in very good reputation, has commanded me to acquaint you that he will have his trial delayed, till you shall send him full account of his case. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 190.]
Oct. 14.
Kilkenny.
The Lord Lieutenant to Secretary Jenkins. The last I had from you was of the 26th ult. By the time this comes to you I suppose Sir J. Shaen's project and the considerations of the bills in order to a Parliament here will be under an adjournment, other matters nearer home and of the last importance being like to take up all the time and thoughts of the ministers, but, in case any spare hours should be found, I must offer that Sir Richard Stephens, now at London, may be called on and heard both as to the proposals and the bills. He is a King's Counsel, a very able man in his profession and thoroughly embarked with the English and Protestant interest in Ireland and such I wish all those may be that may be consulted with in the bills and the project. I heartily pray that the approaching session there may subvert the designs of all that aim at the subversion of the government. [Holograph. S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 139.]
Oct. 15.
Whitehall.
Order in Council, that the Attorney-General prepare a pardon to George Courtney, born in Ireland, lately a Popish priest, but now converted to the Church of England, of all penalties and forfeitures incurred by him for abiding in this Kingdom, while a Popish priest. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 122.]
Oct. 15. Memorandum that Charles Bertie, envoye extraordinary to several Electors and other Princes of Germany, took leave of his Majesty on that day. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 50, p. 75.]
Oct. 15. Secretary Jenkins to the Earl of Middleton. Your letters of 21 and 27 Sept. were read yesterday before his Majesty. Nothing was given in command on them. I am not at liberty to tell you any thing of the measures that are taking with relation to his Royal Highness against the sitting of the Parliament. Mr. van Lewen does all the good offices possible to beget a right understanding of affairs abroad. It is now almost a week since his Majesty sent a yacht to take in the Count de Thun, though we have yet no news of his arrival in Holland. Mr. Bertie has his dispatches ready and will be going in a day or two. I know you will not be over confident in undertaking for the success of such things as are not in his Majesty's power, but you may be sure that the King will refuse nothing that can make this session happy. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 64, p. 47.]
Oct. 15.
Whitehall.
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. Warrant, after reciting that the Earl of Ranelagh and John Stepney, having been furnished by the King by way of imprest with 24,000l. for better enabling them to clear December pay, 1675, entered, 29 May, 1676, into a bond of 30,000l., conditioned that they should within two months after the account of their undertaking should be settled and adjusted repay the said 24,000l. or so much as their just demands, when settled, should fall short thereof, that the said bond was by the King's order of 4 July, 1679, directed to be delivered to the Attorney-General of Ireland to be by him prosecuted in the Exchequer, as he should see cause, and that he accordingly began to prosecute thereon last Michaelmas term, though their accounts were not stated till 29 July last, from which they have in several cases appealed: for giving speedy and effectual orders to the said Attorney-General for stopping all prosecution on the said bond till the first day of Hilary term next. [S.P. Dom., Signet Office, Vol. 10, p. 488.]
Oct. 16.
Ilminster.
Samuel Key to Hugh Speke. About clothes he is sending him.— I and the rest of our town request you would afford us the news, which we expect and doubtless will be considerable at this juncture, every one's ears itching to hear the proceedings in parliament, and doubtless the prayers and hearty desires of all good Christian Protestants will not be wanting for their success. We desire to hear from you by one post a week. Your father and brother went to London yesterday and intend to be with you Tuesday night. The printed papers came safe to your brother. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 123.]
Oct. 16.
Whitehall.
The King to Sir Thomas Slingsby. Signifying his pleasure that he pursue the former orders concerning the marching of his troop to Portsmouth and continuing there till further order and that in the meantime he send an officer with — horsemen of his said troop to be by next Monday, the 18th, by 7 a.m. at the Office of the Treasurer of the Navy in Broad Street and thence to convey such moneys to Portsmouth as shall be ready to be sent thither under the charge of such officer as shall be sent therewith, whose orders the said officer and party are to observe, till he shall lodge the said moneys at Portsmouth, after which the said party may be ordered either to stay at Portsmouth, till the rest of the troop come thither, or to come to their colours. Noted that this order was granted on Mr. Maddock's letter from the Treasury Office, Broad Street, dated 15 Oct., 1680. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 60, p. 37.]
Saturday, Oct. 16.
London.
Newsletter to Roger Garstell, Newcastle. At the Norfolk assizes at Norwich last August were indicted for recusancy the Duke of Norfolk, Sir Henry Bedingfield, senior, Sir Henry Bedingfield, junior, with divers others, which assizes were kept on foot by adjournment till the 14th instant to Thetford, where the Lord Chief Baron came and the Duke appeared and put in his plea, which was that at the day of the indictment he was beyond seas; the rest appeared and pleaded not guilty and are to try the issue next assizes.
The Duke took horse with Sir Henry Bedingfield, junior, immediately for London, whence, as I am informed, he went yesterday for Flanders.
The Old Bailey sessions ended yesterday, where several Recusants appeared. Some were discharged, some put in pleas, others continued on bail. Little else remarkable save the trial of Ralph Markland, formerly a brewer, for clipping money, which was proved against him and so he had judgment to be drawn, hanged, not quartered. There were tried with him his wife and Ann Markland and Robert Gregory, a refiner by trade, but they were all discharged save Markland. During the sessions was brought one Bullin, a priest, taken by Mr. Prance, just before. The oath being tendered to him he refused and was committed.
Thursday night Sir Philip Mathewes and Justice Warcupp, attended by some gentlemen of quality and 26 constables and watchmen made a general and privy search through the city and liberties of Westminster. They searched divers places and took 14 into custody, eight of which the next morning took the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy. Four took the oath of Allegiance, but refused the other, for which and for being in town contrary to the proclamation they were obliged to answer the same next sessions and to give good security for their good behaviour in the interim. The other two were William Pursell, an Irishman, who refused both the oaths, for which and being in town contrary to the proclamation he was committed to the Gatehouse, the other was John Crawcroft, a tall ancient man, suspected to be a priest. He also refused the oaths yet avers he is a Protestant. He also was committed to the Gatehouse.
Mr. Coppinger sometime since complained to his Majesty in Council that the Lord Chancellor of Ireland in a case of 10,000l. concern had made a decree contrary to the opinion of the judges to his great prejudice, in which he looked on himself as unjustly and illegally dealt with, which complaint was yesterday heard at the Board with great patience and impartiality, wherein occurred many severe reflections on the proceedings of the Lord Chancellor, who on the whole matter was ordered to summon Mr. Coppinger's adversaries before him to know whether they will abide by the judgment of his Majesty and Council in the case, as Mr. Coppinger has submitted to do, and, in case of refusal, the Council declare that they will command the Lord Chancellor of Ireland to pronounce such decree as the majority of the judges of Ireland shall on hearing the cause think to be just.
Judge Dolben attended the Council and gave his Majesty and their lordships an account of Lady Tempest's trial at York and amongst other things acquainted them with the testimony of Capt. Beane, who intimates a great confirmation of the Popish plot here, although he professes himself a Roman Catholic but observes the practices of some so called. The informations taken from the said captain by Justice Warcupp and delivered into Council with what the said Judge informed gave his Majesty and the Board great satisfaction in many things.
The great point now in discourse and expectation is whether his Royal Highness go or stay, exemplify his communion with the Church of England or not. Most are of opinion of the affirmative. A few days will show, perhaps to-morrow, when some say he will take the oaths, Sacrament, &c. The Parliament is not prorogued for 10 days or any time, as was believed it would be. Many members daily come up and take their lodgings in the City.
The Duke of Monmouth has taken a house behind the Excise Office in Bishopgate Street, newly built by Sir Eliab Harvey. The rumour mentioned in Tuesday's letter of a massacre discovered to be intended by the Papists receives since no further proof that I heard of than the jealousies of the people from the reports of so many Irish Papists and other lately come over, who are as obnoxious in their very names here as once they were in Ireland and Paris. [3 pages. Admiralty, Greenwich Hospital 1, No. 69.]
Oct. 16.
Whitehall.
The King to the Commissioners of the Treasury in Scotland. Warrant for payment to the Duke of Lauderdale of 2,500l. sterling yearly out of the excrescence of the Inland Excise for 5 years, to commence on the expiration of a like grant for 5 years. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 191.]
Oct. 16.
Whitehall.
Warrant for a gift to William Paterson, one of the clerks of the Privy Council in Scotland, of the ward and non-entry of the lands which pertained before to Charles Dune together with the marriage of — Dune. [Docquet. Ibid. p. 192.]
Oct. 16.
Whitehall.
Memorial of protection in the ordinary form to Alexander Bruce of Garland, for 2 years. [Ibid. p. 193.]
Oct. 16.
Whitehall.
The Earl of Moray to the Duke of Rothes, Chancellor. Application having been made by the Earl of Carlisle in favour of Sir John Ballantin, representing that the late grant of his escheat to Adam Urquhart of Meldrum, was founded on a horning, from which he was relaxed and so asserting that his escheat did not fall under his Majesty's gift, signifying his Majesty's pleasure that his Grace examine that affair and send a full account thereof to his Majesty and that in the meantime the said gift of escheat do not pass, till after receiving the said account he shall declare his further pleasure. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 193.]
Oct. 17.
Kilkenny.
The Lord Lieutenant to the Earl of Sunderland. Concerning the sending over of Plunket, the Popish Primate, and David Nash and Donogh Lyne. (Printed in the Ormonde Papers, Vol. V, p. 454.) [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 339, No. 140.]
Oct. 18.
Whitehall.
Secretary Jenkins to Sir Harbottle Grimston, Master of the Rolls. While the petition of John and Philippa Culpeper, son and daughter to Lord Culpeper, deceased, concerning a provision to be made for them by the disposal of a Six Clerk's place in Chancery, was under the consideration of some of the Council, to whom it was referred, notice was brought to their Lordships that Mr. Wilkinson, one of the Six Clerks, was dead, whereof his Majesty being also informed commanded me to signify his pleasure to you that the said vacancy should be given to the said John Culpeper in performance of his promise to the said Lord Culpeper as a provision for his foresaid son and daughter. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, f. 374.]
Oct. 18.
Whitehall.
Commission to Capt. Richard White to be captain in the room of Major White in the regiment in garrison at Tangier commanded by the Governor. Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 164, p. 54.]
Oct. 18.
Whitehall.
The King to the Earl of Rothes, Chancellor, and the Privy Council of Scotland. Having by divers letters recommended to you the settlement of the new model of the militia and yet finding but small progress made therein from the unwillingness of some and the slowness of others, we have thought fit for the better dispatch of that affair and for the general settlement of the peace and quiet of that kingdom to send the Duke of Albany and York thither, who will make all the haste he can, and we doubt not but your zeal to our service will beget an emulation in all of you for effectuating the same and what else may tend to the establishment of our government. We well remember your account in your letter of 17 Feb. last of his successful endeavours towards that purpose during his late abode there, which renders us the more confident that we shall soon find the good effects of his going thither now. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 195.]
Oct. 18.
Whitehall.
The King to the Lords of the Treasury of Scotland. Warrant to them for taking particular care that the order in the next warrant be punctually and speedily obeyed. [Ibid. p. 196.]
Oct. 18.
Whitehall.
The King to the Duke of Hamilton, Keeper of Holyrood House. Warrant for taking special care that all the lodgings therein be voided and that all the goods and furniture therein be removed with all possible expedition to the end that the said palace may, as soon as possible, be made ready for the accommodation of the Duke and Duchess of Albany and York with their retinues, yet the Chancellor is to be continued in his lodgings as formerly. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 197.]
Oct. 18.
Whitehall.
The Earl of Moray to the Duke of Rothes, Chancellor. By the letter to the Privy Council you will perceive the important considerations which moved his Majesty to do our country the honour and happiness of sending his Royal Highness to pass some time there. Though his Majesty does not at all doubt the affection and duty of that kingdom to a person so immediately related to the Crown, yet the time allowed to prepare for his arrival there being so short, for he is in a day or two to part by sea for Leith, I am commanded to recommend earnestly to your particular care that his reception may be as dutiful and splendid as possible on so short an advertisement. The magistrates and militia of Edinburgh with such of the nobility and gentry as live near that city will certainly on the first notice be ready to pay their duty to his Royal Highness, and his Majesty doubts not but you and the rest of his true friends and faithful servants there will do all in your power to let the world see not only that he shall rather meet with more than less evidences of affection, respect and duty at this time than when he was last there, but also that he shall have very good success in the great designs on which he is now sent thither. [Ibid.]
Oct. 18.
Whitehall.
The Earl of Moray to General Thomas Dalyell, Lieut.-General of all the forces in Scotland. Signifying his Majesty's pleasure that he order the Marquess of Montrose's Troop of Guard and six companies of the regiment of Guard to wait on the Duke of Albany and York as his guard during his stay in Scotland, and that, the said troop being ordered into four divisions, one division is to be on guard for 24 hours by turns as formerly, they being obliged to give their constant attendance in some convenient room near his bed-chamber as well in the night as in the day time, except when they shall wait on him abroad. As to the divisions of the six companies, who are also to be on guard by turns for 24 hours, his Majesty leaves the ordering of them to his Royal Highness, they likewise being obliged to give their constant attendance in a court of guard as near the palace as conveniently may be. [Ibid. p. 198.]
Oct. 19.
Whitehall.
On the petition of Adam Loftus, being prosecuted in the Exchequer in Ireland on a bond of 1,000l. entered by his grandfather, Sir Adam Loftus, to one Maule, who has assigned the same to his Majesty, and on an inquisition issued from that court a return being made of such lands as were entailed in marriage before that debt was contracted, for an order that the judgment be discharged or he allowed to plead the settlement, which, his agent not appearing, was before neglected and praying that in the meantime all proceedings might be stopped, reference thereof to the Lord Lieutenant with a signification of his Majesty's pleasure that in the meantime the proceedings against the petitioner be suspended, if his Grace shall think it reasonable. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 89.]
Oct. 19.
Whitehall.
Warrant for a gift of the office of Master of the Ordnance in Scotland to John Drummond of Lundin with the yearly salary of 100l. sterling. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 199.]
Oct. 19.
Whitehall.
Instructions to John Drummond of Lundin, Master of the Ordnance. 1. He is to take the command of all officers and others belonging to the Artillery in Scotland and see that every one of them be diligent in performing his duty. Such of them as have a commission he is on their committing faults to suspend from their duty and inform the King thereof and he is to cashier or punish such as have not commissions according to their faults.
2. He is to receive the moneys due to all the persons in the establishment of the Artillery and see every one of them paid, and, before making any alteration, he is to acquaint the Lords of the Treasury therewith and receive their approbation.
3. He is to take into his care all things belonging to the Artillery in Scotland and keep lists thereof and of the sizes of the guns and where they lie.
4. When he goes into the field he is to obey the orders of the commander-in-chief of the forces.
5. Notwithstanding the instructions to Mr. Slezer, he is to employ the brass of the old guns in Stirling and Dunbarton Castles as may be most advantageous for the service.
6. On the death of any belonging to the Artillery and holding a commission he is to inform the King and to recommend any fit person he knows of to succeed him, but on the death of any not having a commission he is to establish a qualified person in his place, and he is once every year to return an account of the state of the Artillery.
7. He is once to establish the train in Edinburgh Castle and thereafter the King will dispose of it as he shall find most convenient.
8. He is to obey all instructions already given concerning the Artillery, except so far as there is any alteration made by these instructions.
9. He is to present these and any other instructions he may receive to the Lords of the Treasury, who are to record them in their books. [Ibid. p. 201.]
Oct. 19.
Whitehall.
The King to the Commissioners of the Treasury in Scotland. Warrant for payment of 100l. sterling to John Drummond of Lundin, who is lately come to England about business relating to Edinburgh Castle, towards defraying the charges of his journey. [Ibid. p. 203.]
Oct. 19.
Whitehall.
Warrant for the appointment during pleasure of Sir William Sharp of Staniehill to be Cash-Keeper and Receiver-General in Scotland with the salary of 300l. per annum. [3 pages. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 204.]
Oct. 21.
Whitehall.
Order in Council. There having been this day read a letter of the 9th instant from the Earl of Derby to the Board transmitting one from three justices of Lancashire and divers informations and examinations concerning the late riotous rescuing of two Popish prisoners, by all which appears the great care and diligence of his lordship and the said justices: that Mr. Secretary Jenkins signify to the Earl his Majesty's acceptance thereof and desire the continuance of their care in causing all the said rioters to be prosecuted according to law, and, it being represented in his lordship's letter that Mr. Tildesly has lately uttered very scandalous speeches of his Majesty and this Board, Mr. Secretary is likewise to desire his lordship to cause him to be prosecuted, if he shall be remaining in those parts, care being taken, should he be found here, for the effectual prosecution of him. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 124.]
Oct. 21.
Whitehall.
The King to the Warden and other the Electors of New College and of Winchester College. Willing and requiring them to elect and admit Henry Downes, a scholar at Winchester School, to be a child of that college at the next election. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 57, p. 29.]
Oct. 21.
Whitehall.
Recommendation to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of Capt. Trant for relief in consideration of his quitting the French service. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 61, p. 9.]
Oct. 21.
Whitehall.
Recommendation to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of Capt. Michael Burke for relief in consideration of his quitting the French service, his Majesty retaining a gracious sense of the petitioner's constant and faithful services and particularly of his great care and expense in bringing over a considerable number of soldiers from the French service. [Ibid. p. 10.]
Oct. 22.
Whitehall.
Order in Council. After reciting that a letter had been presented at the Board that day from James Vernon, collector at Liverpool, to Secretary Jenkins, giving an account that on the examination of several persons lately arrived there from Ireland, Thomas Hales of Bickerstaff, Lancashire, husbandman, refused to take the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, when tendered to him, whereon he was committed till further directions be given concerning him: that Mr. Secretary Jenkins write to the Mayor of Liverpool requiring him, if there be any court within the jurisdiction of the said corporation which can take cognizance of this matter, to proceed therein against Hales, but, if not, to take security of him to appear and answer the same at the next assizes for the said county, where the said Mayor is to cause him to be prosecuted. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 125.]
Oct. 22. Secretary Jenkins to the Earl of Middleton. Last Tuesday arrived Count de Thun and had his audience just now at 8 this evening. We have a frigate waiting for him at this time at the Brill, for he came away in the packet-boat that first presented itself, using extreme diligence all the way he came. I send you an extract of his credentials. For the occurrences I refer you to what comes along from one of my people. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 64, p. 48.]
Oct. 23. Three Justices of Shropshire to the Privy Council. Having received a commission for tendering the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to all Papists or suspected Papists therein named with the instructions and your letter for putting the laws in execution against Papists, we issued warrants to the chief constables of the Hundreds of Clun and Purslow, where we reside and usually act, requiring them to summon Edmond Plowden, Rowland Eyton of Plowden, Edward Harnage of Norbury, Richard Clough of Mintown, Terence Danniell of Shedwall, John Edwards of Whittrett Keyset and Anne, wife of Henry Francis, to appear before us, in order that the said oaths should be tendered to them. The said chief constables made return that the said Plowden died two years ago and the others were not to be found and that they had left notice in writing at their several dwelling places declaring the contents of our warrants and requiring them to appear before us, but they did not appear. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 126.]
Oct. 23. Secretary Jenkins to the Mayor of Liverpool. I enclose a copy of an Order of Council directing you to proceed against Thomas Hales, a Popish Recusant, as 'tis supposed, now committed to custody in your town.
Pray let Mr. James Vernon, the Custom-house officer, know that his service was taken notice of as acceptable by his Majesty and the Council. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 116.]
Oct. 23.
Whitehall.
Warrant for a gift to Alexander Malcolm, advocate, of the escheat of the goods and gear which pertained to — Forbes of Craigevar at the time of his murdering — servant of Craigmiles. [Docquet. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 207.]
Oct. 23.
Whitehall.
Warrant for a gift to James Riddoch, his heirs and assigns, of the barony of Glenmure, which pertained to Sir William Cunningham of Caprington, deceased, — Creighton of Castlemaynes, the deceased Earl of Dumfries or one or other of them, and which now pertain to his Majesty by reason of recognition, with a new gift of the premises and an union thereof into the barony of Glenmure. [Docquet. Ibid.]
Oct. 23.
Whitehall.
Memorials of protection in the ordinary form to William Bruce of Newtowne and to John Browne, son to the deceased John Browne, factor in Edinburgh, for two years respectively. [Ibid. pp. 208, 209.]
Oct. 23. Secretary Jenkins to the Lord Lieutenant. About Mr. Ellis. The Irish bills have not been meddled with since his Majesty's return from Newmarket and now all heads and hands are so full of the business of our Parliament that, as you foretold a good while since, there is no room left for anything else in the deliberations here. I beseech God to bring things to a happy issue; He and He alone can do it. [S.P. Ireland, Car. II. 341, p. 49.]
Oct. 25. Sir Samuel Clarke to Sir L. Jenkins. Thanking him for viewing his papers as to his concern of Coundon, Warwickshire.—I beg your advice and I shall close with it. Lord Arlington, who is my relation and promised to speak to you on my behalf, had all my papers to peruse. I and my two sons are now in actual service in the Guards and have been commanded beyond seas and that so very small a thing as I request should be denied me would render me very low; and I shall be ashamed ever to look Warwickshire in the face again. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 127.]
Oct. 25.
Whitehall.
Recommendation to the Commissioners for executing the office of Master of the Ordnance of the petition of Margaret, widow of John Browne, late fire-master to the Ordnance Office, for some yearly allowance in consideration of the loss of her husband, to take effectual care that some provision be forthwith made for the support of her and her poor children. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 61, p. 10.]
Oct. 25. Secretary Jenkins to Sir Charles Lyttelton. Sir Francis Clarke dined with me to-day. He made no doubt but things would go there to your mind. I could not possibly wait on Sir Joseph Sheldon, having been attending his Majesty ever since the House has been up till now at 10. Present my most humble service to the Dean of Rochester. Sure I am you will see him and receive full satisfaction in his acquaintance. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 62, p. 116.]
Oct. 26. Secretary Jenkins to Sir Charles Lyttelton. Sir Joseph Sheldon writes to you to-night and to Mr. Dean as effectually as you can desire. I wish you good success. [Ibid.]
Oct. 26. Secretary Jenkins to the Vice-Chancellor [of the University of Oxford]. If I do not write to you every post, it is my unhappiness, not my neglect. We had to-day a warm vote in the House of Commons for suppressing Popery and preventing a Popish successor. What will follow, God only knows. Dangerfield desired to be heard at the bar of the House and accused his Royal Highness as for giving him money (20 guineas) towards the sham plot so of finding fault with him for that his courage failed him to kill the King when he had an opportunity. He accused Lord Peterborough and the Lord Privy Seal, the last for corresponding with and encouraging the lords in the Tower. He spoke with great ease, clearness and presence of mind, but I cannot think that any that heard him believed one word he said. Let me beg you not to show my letters. [Ibid. p. 117.]
Oct. 26.
Whitehall.
Reference to the Lord Lieutenant of the petition of Robert and William Bridges for directions to the Lord Lieutenant for relief in their just demands relating to the agreement for advancing 36,565l. 4s. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 91.]
Oct. 26.
Whitehall.
The Earl of Moray to General Thomas Dalyell, commander-inchief of the forces in Scotland. The King having lately received information from the Lord Lieutenant that Russell, one of those guilty of the murder of the late Archbishop of St. Andrews, having been twice taken prisoner and having as often escaped in Ireland, is again taken and remains a close prisoner there and his Majesty having sent an order to the Lord Lieutenant for sending the murderer over into Scotland, signifying his Majesty's pleasure that he order a sufficient guard to be in readiness at Port Patrick to receive him from the party that is to come over with him from Ireland and to carry him to Edinburgh, in order to his sure imprisonment and trial as the Privy Council should direct. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 209.]
[Oct.] William Crouch and James Whiston to the King. Petition, stating the reference of their former petition for a patent for their invention of making black pepper white, and the Attorney-General's report that the merchants concerned in the pepper trade should first be heard and that notice has been given to the East India Co. and such other merchants as the petitioners conceived might be affected, who have taken no notice thereof, and therefore praying an order to the Attorney General forthwith to prepare a bill for their patent. At the side,
Oct. 27.
Whitehall.
Reference thereof to the Committee of Trade. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 128.] Annexed,
[W. Blathwayt] to Sir William Thompson. Transmitting the above petition and desiring the East India Co. to put their answer into writing and to depute some of their members to present the same to the Committee of Trade next Thursday, 1 Nov. [Ibid. No. 128 i.]
Another copy of the above reference. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 90.]
Oct. 27.
Whitehall.
Pass for Col. Henry Sidney, Envoyé Extraordinary to the States General, now returning into Holland, with Thomas Langfort, Charles Sayer, Mr. Borros, Mrs. Wills and her two children and John van Doffel, all belonging to the Prince of Orange, Mrs. Wordinton and her maid, belonging to the Princess of Orange, also Laurence Dorville, John Ward, John Warner, Thomas Wesson, Bartein Prow, James Orrence, Matthew Sisson, Thomas Merit, Giles Thorp, John White, Thomas Wilkeson, John Rabison, Thomas Lloyd, William Hutchison and John Arthur to pass to Holland. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 51, f. 373.]
Oct. 27.
Whitehall.
Warrant to Henry Howard, Commissary-General of the Musters. After reciting that the Governor of Portsmouth had been ordered to order the foot captains now or hereafter belonging to the garrison of Portsmouth to insert in the muster-rolls a fictitious name in each of their companies to the intent that one soldier's pay in each company may be allowed to Major John Mutlow, the deputy governor, for his support, for allowing one fictitious name in each of the said companies for that purpose without exceeding the established number in the said companies respectively. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 59, p. 58.]
Oct. —.
Whitehall.
Similar warrant to the above with slight differences in the wording. [Ibid. p. 57.]
Oct. 27.
Whitehall.
Warrant to Nicholas Johnson, Paymaster-General of the Guards and Garrisons, for payment to Lieut. Francis Rolleston of 24l. 6s. for half of a lieutenant's pay for 8 months commencing 1 Nov., 1679, as was allowed to other officers that served in France and Flanders in the Duke of Monmouth's regiment, he having not been comprised in the lists of the officers of the said regiment allowed half pay for the said 8 months. [Ibid. p. 58.]
Oct. 27.
Whitehall.
Order to the same for payment out of the moneys for contingencies to Ensign Windham and Daniel Giles, marshal, of 7l. 10s., which they have laid out in bringing over two persons from the Isle of Wight in order to appear before the King in Council. [Ibid. p. 59.]
Oct. 27.
Whitehall.
The King to the Duke of Rothes, Chancellor and the Privy Council of Scotland. Having fully considered your last letter concerning the militia of the Western shires we are well satisfied with your former proposal in reference thereto, notwithstanding any directions from us to the contrary, and therefore it is now our pleasure that the proportions of the militia in those Western shires may be taken in Horse and not in Foot, conform to the Act, which we are convinced will be more useful for our service and more legal in itself.
We have seen a list of houses proposed as most convenient for having garrisons put in them, viz., Dumfries Castle, the house of Kaitloch in Dumfries-shire, Machrimoir in the Stewardry of Kirkcudbright, the house of Balvaird in Fife, the house of Cesford and house of Ancram in Roxburghshire, the houses of Balgregan and Kenmuire in Galloway, Newtoune near Ayr, Balwhan in Carrick, the house of Dean near Kilmarnock, the Castle of Streavan or Evandale and Gilkerscleuch in Lanarkshire, of all which we approve, requiring you to issue the necessary orders for placing such garrisons in them respectively as you and the lieut.-general shall think fit. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 210.]
Oct. 27.
Whitehall.
Warrant for a charter granting to Charles Maitland of Haltoun, Treasurer Deput, and his heirs male and of tailzie succeeding him in the lands and barony of Haltoun, which failing, to his heirs and assigns whatsoever, of the patronage of the provostry and college kirk of Corstorphine and prebendaries thereof so far as the said patronage and provostry may be extended to the teinds, parsonage and vicarage teinds of all lands in the parish of Ratho with the right of patronage of the kirk of Ratho, on the resignation of James, Lord Forrester, with a new gift, the said Charles Maitland paying the minister serving the cure at the said kirk of Ratho the yearly modified stipend of the same according to use and wont. [Docquet. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 211.]
Oct. 28.
Council Chamber.
The Committee for Trade to the King. Requesting that for the satisfactory prosecution of their duties, strict orders may be given to the Commissioners of Customs, and the governors of plantations to transmit to them quarterly accounts of all exports and imports and of the shipping used in their conveyance. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 129.]
Oct. 28. Warrant to George Pearce, messenger, to apprehend Mrs. Houlbey and bring her before the Council next Friday, the 29th, to answer to what shall be objected against her. Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 54, p. 51.]
Oct. 28.
Whitehall.
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of a draft letter in behalf of Sir Robert Hamilton for granting him the place of Comptroller General of the revenue of Ireland with the fee of 300l. per annum granted him as Commissioner of Inspection and 100l. per annum for clerks, &c., and of the matter therein contained. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 55, p. 90.]
Oct. 28.
Whitehall.
Warrant to the Ordnance Commissioners, after reciting that there remains in the hands of the Treasurer of the Ordnance 565l. 19s. 10d., part of 10,000l. due on three tallies by him levied 19 March, 1678[-9], on the Receiver General of the Customs for one quarter's ordinary allowance to the said office ended Midsummer, 1678, whereof one tally of 3,000l. has already been diverted and assigned to Sir Thomas Fitch and John Fitch by order of the Lords of the Treasury for carrying on the fortifications at Portsmouth on their assurance to the Commissioners of re-supplying the said office with the like sum in some short time and that there is at present a more than ordinary occasion, the season requiring it, for a speedy dispatch of part of the said fortifications, which cannot be completed without ready money, which the emergency of the King's affairs at that time does not suffer him otherwise to comply with; for causing the said remain of 565l. 19s. 10d. to be forthwith imprested to Capt. Samuel Williams of Portsmouth to be by him paid and disposed of for the service of the said fortifications as shall be directed by the Commissioners for carrying on the said fortifications, Col. George Legg, Governor of the said town and garrison being specially commanded in the King's name to solicit the said Lords of the Treasury for a reasonable re-supply of the said office not only with the said 565l. 19s. 10d. but also with the 3,000l. formerly diverted. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 59, p. 54.]
Oct. 28.
Whitehall.
Reference to the Lords of the Treasury of the petition of Christian, relict of Capt. John Stephens, commander of the Chestnut pink, for the payment of her husband's and servant's wages due since 15 Jan., 1666[-7]. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 61, p. 11.]
Oct. 28. —to Sir Francis Radcliffe. Giving an account of the proceedings in parliament on 26, 27, 28 October, which fully appear from Lords' Journals, Vol. XIII, p. 623, and Commons' Journals, Vol. IX, pp. 640–642.
Mr. Radcliffe has not been very well these two or three days past, but was very well to-day. He moved to be discharged but, the Attorney-General not being there, the Lord Chief Justice ordered he should have notice of it. Then Judge Jones said: It will be expected that you give us security to go out of town immediately after your discharge.
Several informing the House of Commons that Mr. L'Estrange was a Papist, he was sent for but told them he durst not come, being in debt. They sent him word he should be protected coming and going, but, ere they came to him, he was fled. [4 pages. Admiralty, Greenwich Hospital 1, No. 70.]
Oct. 28.
Whitehall.
Warrant for a gift to Andrew Forrester, who has served for more than 10 years as secretary to the Duke of Lauderdale, of a pension of 100l. sterling for his life to be paid at Whitsuntide and Mertinmes by equal portions, the first payment to be made next Mertinmes. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 6, p. 213.]
Oct. 28.
Whitehall.
The Earl of Moray to the Earl of Roxburgh. Returning him the King's hearty thanks for his offer of all his houses in Roxburghshire for his service and particularly of his house of Cesford as most convenient for the accommodation of a garrison. [Ibid. p. 214.]
Oct. 29.
Rye.
The Mayor and Jurats to Sir L. Jenkins. Again informing him that they had committed Ralph Lawson and Charles Laborne, two Englishmen that arrived there from France, for refusing to take the oath of Supremacy and desiring to know his Majesty's further pleasure therein. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 130.]
Oct. 29.
Whitehall.
Reference to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland of the petition of Dorothy, relict of Col. Hubblethorne, for a letter to the Lord Lieutenant for payment of her pension of 200l. per annum, of which she has received nothing for above a twelvemonth, his Majesty having ordered a stop on the payment of all pensions, it being the whole subsistence of herself and her children and she having never received a penny of the 200l. granted for her present supply and having expended above 100l. in attending, soliciting and employing agents. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 61, p. 11.]
Oct. 30.
Whitehall.
Commission to Francis Russell to be captain of the company late Capt. Graham's, in the regiment lately raised for Tangier under the command of the Earl of Plymouth. Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 164, p. 53.]
Oct. 30. Commission to — Robinson to be lieutenant to Capt. Whorewood in Col. John Russell's regiment. Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 164, p. 60.]
Oct. 30. Commission to Capt. William Rigg to be lieutenant to Capt. Thomas Talmish in the Earl of Craven's regiment. Minute. [Ibid.]
Oct. 30.
Whitehall.
Proclamation promising free pardon to all who, within 2 months, shall give further information and evidence concerning the Popish plot. [S.P. Dom., Various 12, p. 408.]
Oct. 31.
Whitehall.
Commissions to Henry Sandys to be ensign to Sir Edward Picks and to Thomas Throckmorton to be lieutenant to Col. Edward Sackville, both in Col. John Russell's regiment. Minutes. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 164, pp. 58, 59.]
Oct.
Whitehall.
Warrant to Col. George Legg, Governor of Portsmouth, for constituting Major John Mutlow, to be his deputy governor, in the room of Sir Roger Manley, formerly deputy governor but since removed to Landguard Fort. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 59, p. 53.]
Oct.
Whitehall.
Warrant to the same for ordering the captains of the companies now or thereafter in garrison at Portsmouth to insert in the musterrolls a fictitious name in each company without exceeding the established numbers in the said companies respectively, to the intent that one soldier's pay in each company may be allowed to Major John Mutlow, deputy governor, which Col. Legg is to cause to be allowed to him accordingly. [Ibid. p. 54.]
Oct.
Whitehall.
Order to Col. John Russell to appoint Capt. Sackville Tufton's company of his regiment to relieve Capt. John Downing's company of the same regiment, it being about four months since the latter was sent to Windsor Castle. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 63, p. 11.]
Oct.
Whitehall.
Order to Capt. John Downing, when relieved, to march with his company to Westminster. [Ibid. p. 12.]
Oct.
Whitehall.
Order to Prince Rupert to admit of the said relief and of Capt. John Downing's marching from Windsor Castle. [Ibid.]
[After October.] Memoranda about Mr. Justice Warcupp. Order in Council. After reciting that by the order of 6 June last in consideration of Mr. Warcupp's diligence in executing orders relating to the discovery of the Plot his Majesty recommended him to the Lords of the Treasury to find out some fitting employment for him either as a commissioner for Wine Licences or otherwise and that Mr. Warcupp by his petition read that day has stated that a new commission for the said licences is now passing without taking any notice of him and therefore prayed to be heard before the commission be sealed or else that there may be bestowed on him the place of Treasurer of Tangier, Comptroller of the Hearth money or Commissioner of the Excise: his Majesty declared that, the commission for Wine Licences having already passed the seals, he could not gratify the petitioner in that request but that he recommended him again to the Lords of Treasury according to the said order of 6 June last. 19 Nov., 1679.
Minute of the Lords of the Treasury. When the Comptrollership of the Hearth money comes to be disposed of, they will consider of Justice Warcupp's petition and the annexed orders. 19 Dec., 1679.
Recommendation by his Majesty of Mr. Warcupp for the said Comptrollership, 16 Jan., 1679[-80].
Minute of the Lords of the Treasury. They intend to consider of a Comptroller of the Hearth money, when this petition is to be laid before them. 29 Jan., 1679[-80].
Minute of the Lords of the Treasury. When they consider of a Comptroller of the Hearth money they will regard Justice Warcupp's petitions about it. Oct., 1680. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 414, No. 131.]