Charles II: December 1665 | British History Online

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, Addenda 1660-1685. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1939.

'Charles II: December 1665', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, Addenda 1660-1685, (London, 1939) pp. 145-151. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/chas2/addenda/1660-85/pp145-151 [accessed 16 April 2024]

December 1665



Dec. 12.	Certificate by William Davies that the Maryland Merchant was delivered to the owners and discharged from his Majesty's service 11 Dec. [S.P. Supplementary 136, No. 380.]
Dec. 20. Oxford.	Letter missive to the Dean and Chapter of Bangor. Requiring them to elect Dr. Robert Price, now Bishop of Ferns in Ireland, to the bishopric of Bangor, void by the death of the late bishop. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office 1, Vol. 6, p. 103.]
Dec. 21.	Instructions for Sir Thomas Morgan, going Commander-inChief and Governor of Jersey.
	1. You shall with all convenient speed repair thither and receive into your possession the government of the island, Castle Elizabeth and other the forts there according to your commission of even date herewith, and also all arms, etc.
	2. You shall expose your commission to the Bayliff and jurats, requiring their obedience to it, and, having informed yourself very particularly of the present state of the island, its defects and dangers, with the most effectual means to redress the one and prevent the other, shall return a full account thereof and of whatever else you shall find of importance for the present safety of the place.
	3. You shall at your first entrance assure the magistrates and good people of the island of our particular care to preserve them in the full enjoyment of their civil rights and privileges and to protect them from all violence and invasion from abroad and that accordingly we have given in charge very especially to you to take care that their just rights and powers in the civil government remain entire to them according to the usual rules and customs, in the supporting of which you are to be assisting to them.
	4. You shall, as often as you think fit, assemble the militia, which you shall so model that by frequent disciplining and exercise they may be rendered of most use to the defence of the island.
	5. You shall, as soon as you are settled, apply yourself to the fortifying of the Bowling Green according to the directions that shall be given you, and in order thereto possess yourself of a certain privy seal for 2,000l. designed for that expense.
	6. Because it is agreed that the Earl of St. Albans, your predecessor, shall charge himself with the paying the garrison their complete pay due to them according to the establishment till Michaelmas last, you are to see fully and clearly stated the accounts till that time, which being satisfied by the said earl you are thenceforth to take into your care the paying of the garrison out of the moneys from time to time assigned for that purpose.
	7. You are likewise to enter in our name on the receipt of the revenues of any kind in that island, out of which you are to reserve to yourself so much as with the pay due to you as captain of a troop and company (whereof you will herewith receive your commissions) will make up 1,000l. by the year, which we intend shall be allowed you for your pay and entertainment as Commander-in-Chief and Governor, and the remainder, if any, you shall employ in defraying the incident charges of the administration of the government.
	8. You shall weekly or as often as you have opportunity advertize us of all your proceedings, especially of the postures and motions of our nearest neighbours, which you are during this state of things diligently to observe by the best information you can procure. [2½ pages. Foreign Entry Book 174B, p. 76.]
Dec. 28.	Certificate by Capt. Richard Smith, late captain of the Prudent Mary, that he delivered her that day to Isaac Woodgreene, one of the part owners thereof. [S.P. Supplementary 136, No. 381.]
Dec. 28.	Receipt by Isaac Woodgreene for the said ship. [Ibid. No. 382.]
[Dec.]	Report [by Lords Arlington and Berkeley] in obedience to the order in Council of the 22nd instant (22 Dec., 1665, see Privy Council Register, Vol. 58, p. 312) that they have examined the matter of the Smith of Runnaby taken some time since by the Scarborough ketch and brought into Scarborough and that they find that the Resident of Sweden is well satisfied with the offers of Sir Jordan Crosland, which are that the vessel with her tackle and furniture be restored in the state she was in when captured and that 260l. be paid to the master and other subjects of the King of Sweden interested in her in full satisfaction of the part of the cargo claimed on Swedes' account and of all other loss, expense and damage occasioned to them by the said capture, with which the said Resident declared himself fully satisfied. Now, whereas the said ship and furniture have been sold to Alderman Blome and — and remain at present under an arrest in the hands of the Deputy Governor of Hull, the said Sir Jordan prays an order that on his paying to the said alderman and — 400l., which was the value at which the said vessel, tackle and furniture was apprized at, the said vessel tackle and furniture may be forthwith delivered to such person as the said Resident shall appoint; and as to the said 260l. Sir Jordan prays an order to the Farmers and other officers of the customs at Hull for paying to the person so appointed by the said Resident the said 260l., they having received the like sum of the said Sir Jordan Crosland and partners in lieu of custom and other dues on the lading of the said vessel. Which we are of opinion will be a good expedient to end this difference and free your Majesty from further trouble and therefore recommend that the two orders desired by Sir Jordan be granted him. [2½ pages. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 440, No. 108.]
	Draft of the above by Joseph Williamson. With memorandum that the ship at Plymouth is to be bought by the Resident of Sweden. An order from the Lords Commissioners for the preference in the sale of it. [Ibid. No. 109.]
[Dec. ?]	The case of John Abris and others presented by Samuel Cooper. He was drawn out of the garrison of Enniskillen and commanded to sea in the Plymouth, where he lost his leg, but it does not appear how he lost the use of his right hand. He has received from the governors of the Chest at Chatham as a gratuity for the loss of his leg 6l. 13s. 4d. and 6l. 13s. 4d. per annum as a pension for his life. It is untrue in his petition that he has been debarred the allowance of the house in St. Thomas' Hospital by Cooper, the paymaster there, for they receive, while under cure, the allowance of the house, viz., their physic, chirurgery, diet, lodging, fire, attendance, etc., or in lieu of diet 4d. per diem, but the 3d. a day mentioned in the petition is a superadded allowance made by order of the Commissioners for sick and wounded and intended only to those under cure and not in pension, though some peradventure partake thereof that Cooper knows not of for want of a continued correspondence with the Clerk of the said Chest, which Cooper has formerly presented as an inconvenience. Cooper has presented the case of Abris to the Duke of Albemarle, praying his direction, who ordered the suspension of the said 3d. per diem, and on his desire to go to his garrison in Ireland his Grace commanded Abris to attend him, which was signified to him by Cooper and he has not since heard of him. (See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1665–66, p. 93.) [Ibid. No. 110.]
[1665.]	Deposition on oath of Joseph Hall. About three weeks ago two men laden with wire came by his door in St. Katherine's. He asked if they would sell it and one of them answered, yes. He said he had it out of the Providence and that it was not prize goods, and came out of a hoy that was a wreck, whose master's name was Smith, and that he was carrying it to Capt. Wood's house in Wapping. The said captain with another man came to the deponent and asked him if he would swear as above recited. He answered yes and asked him if he had any thing to offer as to helping Mr. Harding to his goods and in particular his glass. He then swore, let him take his course and do what he would, he should never have it. Discoursing with him about the saving of the vessel the captain replied he cleared her of her water, and he believed she might have been saved if the master had not been a knave, and that one of his company had proffered him 5l. to let him have another man and he would then save the hoy, which he refused to do, though he believed, if he had suffered them to go about it, she might have been saved. The deponent said, Then the reason you would not suffer them to go and save the hoy was because, if she sank, you could the better prove her a wreck. [S. P. Supplementary 136, No. 383.]
[1665.]	The deposition on oath of William Colchester. About 18 Nov. last he told Capt. Wood that Mr. Harding desired him to tell him what he had done concerning his goods. He replied he had not been aboard his ship yet, but his boatswain had told him the boxes were overboard, and he wondered it should be so for there was no sign of it and promised to go on board and search for them. [Ibid. No. 384.]
[1665.]	Deposition on oath by Arthur Hall that Capt. Wood, commander of the Providence fireship, about 11 Nov. last declared to him that he saw two boxes of Muscovia glass brought from Thomas Smith's hoy on board the said ship by two of his men and promised to bring the men to Mr. Harding who claimed the goods. [Ibid. No. 385.]
[1665.]	"The distribution of the general demand into the several stores at Chatham, Deptford and Portsmouth, Harwich and Dover to be supplied from the rest as demanded." [Ibid. No. 386.]
[1665.]	"Account of provisions wanting in the several stores to fit out the fleet to sea and an estimate of what may be wanting to refit them after an engagement." [Ibid. No. 387.]
[1665.]	Account of cable and junk expended in the Prudent Mary between 23 April and 28 July, 1665, by Capt. Haward's order. [Ibid. No. 388.]
[1665.]	Statement by Commissioner Peter Pett of the dimensions of the ports of second, third and fourth rate ships. [Ibid. No. 389.]
[1665.]	Mr. Oliver's account of receipts from the counties of Stafford, Hereford, Salop and Worcester and payments thereout, among which are payments of 600l. to the five brothers Pendrell. [S.P. Supplementary 135, No. 6.]
[1665 ?]	Schedule of the hearth money to the end of 1665 in the divisions of Easington and Chester, co. Durham. [Ibid. No. 7.]
[1665 ?]	Particulars moved by John Taylor, Commissioner at Harwich.
	1. About filling with clay and earth the new wharf at Harwich.
	2. How to agree with or compel men and vessels to go out to look for anchors and cables left behind at Southwold Bay and elsewhere and how to pay them.
	3. Money to be appointed for broom and several other contingencies.
	4. Whether, when stores come down, if labourers cannot overcome the works, seamen out of the men of war and others shall be hired ?
	5. About the number to be allowed on the ordinary.
	6. About petty warrant when ships are in harbour.
	7. What men may be borne on the Hare fireship (burnt Feb., 1665–6) and other ships now in harbour ? [S.P. Supplementary 136, No. 390.]
[1665 ?]	Bill for anchors approved by Commissioner John Taylor. [Ibid. No. 391.]
[1665 ?]	Account of junk, oars and other stores supplied to the Eagle and Maryland Merchant. [Ibid. No. 392.]
[1665 ?]	Giles Bond to the Navy Commissioners. The Harwich hoy wants to be trimmed. I request to be allowed two small guns and half a score grenado shells with small arms, for last Sunday a Holland man-of-war was off the West Rocks at Harwich. Mr. Deane promised to certify you of the necessity of the guns. [Ibid. No. 393.]
[1665 ?]	List of seven impressed barges with the names of the masters and men for whom protections were desired. Noted that protections were given to all these barges during their carrying the King's timber from Guildford and naught else. (See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1664–65, p. 543.] [Ibid. No. 394.]
[1665 ?]	Henry Harris to the King. Petition for the place of chief graver, void by death of Thomas Simonds (ob. June, 1665). He has since been employed by Lord Arlington in engraving several seals for his Majesty's service, and hopes they have given satisfaction. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 440, No. 111.]
[1665 ?]	Note that the name of the party for whom the Earl of Strafford desired a mandamus for the next Northern vacancy of a fellowship at Jesus College, Cambridge, is Hugh Wentworth (B.A. 1662–3, M.A. 1666) and it should be a double mandamus, one to the Master and Fellows to elect him for one, and the other to the Bishop of Ely to nominate him, for the College statutes require that the Master and Fellows choose two, of whom the Bishop is to nominate one. [Ibid. No. 112.]
[1665 ?]	Order to Mr. Surveyor to permit Mr. Progers to take up the lead pipes which formerly conveyed water from the conduit in Bushy Park to the stables at Hampton Court, which is not now made use of, towards the building of his lodge in the North Park. (See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1664–65, pp. 4, 96, and 1668–69, p. 326.) On the back are names of persons to be received on board the Crown frigate for Tangier. [Ibid. No. 113.]
	Abstract of the accounts of Richard Hutchinson, Treasurer of the Navy, from Jan. 1, 1655–6, to 31 Dec., 1657, accounts of various payments to surgeons, ministers and other officers of various ships and abstract of arrears of receivers general of divers counties for several assessments. The latest date is a note on the last page that John Chutterbooke declared his account 23 Nov., 1664. [32 pages. S.P. Dom., Car. II., Case G.]
[1665 ?]	Christopher, Lord Hatton, to the King. Petition. He, having a high resentment and sorrow at having given his Majesty just cause of offence by some unjustifiable expressions in a petition lately delivered from him at the Council Board, in no way urges his own distemper nor the fault of those he relied on for wording it to palliate his great offence, but casts himself at his Majesty's feet, begging to be restored to his gracious countenance. The scope of his former petition aimed at nothing else but that by his Majesty's favour he might be restored to the quiet possession of the revenue conferred on him by letters patent and that his Majesty would send his son to Guernsey to supply his place there in his absence according to his gracious intention declared to him. The petitioner, imploring a pardon of his late offence, requests his Majesty's concession to these two particulars as a mark of his forgiveness, and that, as to the other matters which touch his reputation, wherein he is highly concerned to clear himself and make appear the truth of the answer given in for him to the several articles wherewith he has been charged, his Majesty will appoint some time after his happy return to London to hear the whole matter in Council. (See Cal. S.P. Dom., 1670, p. 699.) [S.P. Channel Islands 1, No. 147.]
1665–1672.	Copies of orders in Council relating to the war with Holland and France in 1665 and 1666 and with Holland in 1672, 1673, the earliest being dated 22 Feb., 1664[–5], and the last 23 July, 1673. [25 pages. S.P. Supplementary 133, Bundle 3.] (fn. 1)