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VOL. CLXXXIII. OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, 1658. |
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1. Resignation by Barnaby Love, B.L., in presence of Rich. Osgood, public notary, and 2 witnesses, of the office of principal registrar of the Chancellor's Court, Oxford, being wishful to be free from the burden thereof. Hen. Beeston and Wm Gawen to be his procurators in resigning the office to the Protector, as Chancellor of the University, and to obtain the avoidance thereof for him. 4 signatures. [1 page.] |
Oct. 2/12.
Brussels. |
2. Pass from the King to John Jackson, his faithful subject, who is about to travel. [2/3 page, French, not signed.] |
| Oct. 5. |
3. Request of Col. T. Biscoe to his Excellency, to move Council for an order for 100 firelocks, 70 pikes, and 120 collars of bandoleers, in lieu of so many sent with the soldiers of his regiment into Flanders. [¼ page.] |
| Oct. 5. |
Note in Council of the reference of this request. [I. 84, col. 3.] |
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4. Petition of the mayor, bailiffs, and commonalty of Oxford, to the Protector. We have this day, 30 Sept. 1658, received your letter, dated 23 Sept., commanding us to give an account concerning the election of Mr. Whistler, mayor, who was heretofore sequestered, has compounded, and by the petition and advice, is rendered incapable of office; also suspending the swearing in of Whistler. We
have forborne accordingly, but we believe you are misinformed. We have never heard that he was sequestered, or that he compounded, or that he acted in the late wars otherwise than by living at his usual place of habitation, and paying forced taxes whilst under the power of the enemy. He was mayor of Oxford at the beginning of the Long Parliament, and since the rendition of Oxford, he has continued an alderman, and lived peaceably, and given signal proof of his good affection to the present Government. We should not have elected him if he were such a person as he is represented. As we cannot elect other officers till he is sworn in, and as Thomas Dennis, the preceding mayor, is so infirm that he cannot further attend the service, we pray your order that we may swear Whistler in at once. 30 Sept. 1658. [Parchment, 1 sheet.] |
| Oct. 5 |
Note of order in Council that the letter for Whistler to suspend his oath be vacated. [I. 84, col. 43.] |
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Index of entries of Proceedings in Council. [I. 84.] |
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Fras. Finch, leave to come to London. [Col. 15.] |
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Instructions to be renewed to the Lord-Lieutenant, Council, and judges in Ireland. [Col. 22.] |
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A letter from Col. Doyly in Jamaica read. [Col. 22.] |
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Sir Mat. Tomlinson's proposals referred; his horses to be duty free. [Col. 40.] |
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The Lincoln petition about Justice Wyndham referred. [Col. 26.] |
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300l. in Scotland to Marg. Hamilton. [Col. 20.] |
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Maj.-Gen. Leslie's petition for liberty referred. [Col. 26.] |
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" Overton's " " [Col. 31.] |
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The prisoners' case referred to a committee. [Col. 32.] |
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The petition of the trustees for the estate of Birt, bankrupt, referred. [Col. 3.] |
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Wm. Osborne's certificate confirmed, and Salmon's debt from the estate. [Cols. 3, 36.] |
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[Missing Order Book, pp. 66–69.] |
| Oct. 5. |
5. Order in the Committee of Council on the petition of Wm. Kiffin and others, on behalf of themselves and their congregations, for a grant of the Old Artillery Ground (except the house and place for proof of muskets, and liberty for the practice of ordnance in gun-range) for the use of the said congregation for 99 years;—that the Admiralty Commissioners have the said grounds and buildings viewed, consider what can be granted without prejudice to the State, and certify. [1 page.] |
Oct. 6.
Cockermouth. |
6. Thos. Smith to Williamson. I send you a bulky enclosure to Lamplugh. I hope you are safe at Oxford, and all there well. Tell me your thoughts about my business there. St. Thomas' day is unseasonable for a long journey, and I fear neither ways nor weather will mend between that and Christmas. Your brother, sisters-in-law, and friends here are well. [1 page.] |
| Oct. 7. |
7. Order in Council that the Admiralty Commissioners order the Ordnance officers to issue match in proportion to the 40 barrels of powder ordered 6 Sept. for the militia of London, [¾ page.] |
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8. Like order referring to the Admiralty Commissioners the petition of merchants trading to the East Indies, for a convoy to some ships laden by them in the East Indies. [½ page.] |
| [Oct. 7.] |
Index of entries of Proceedings in Council. [I. 84.] |
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Depremont and Ladore summoned. [Col. 9.] |
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The bailiff of Pevensey summoned. [Col. 32.] |
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The petition of the soap-boilers of London referred. [Col. 36.] |
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Col. Guibon's company referred. [Col. 18.] |
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[Augmentation for] Mr. Manning, lecturer at Sibton-cum-Pensenhall. [Cols. 27, 36.] |
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Col. Salmon's company from Flanders. [Col. 36.] |
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Phil. Fox summoned. [Col. 15.] |
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Clement Wakelin summoned. [Col. 43.] |
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The case of the riots in Needwood Forest referred; troops sent there, and reference made to the sheriff. [Col. 29.] |
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Sherwood Forest verderer's fines, &c., referred. [Col. 36.] |
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Rob. Tutchin, of Brockness, augmentation. [Cols. 3, 40.] |
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3l. a week to Mrs. Christian English. [Col. 14.] |
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The salary of Denis Bond, deceased, to be paid. [Col. 3.] |
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Mr. Fauntleroy to have an allowance as clerk of the Pells. [Col. 15.] |
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Lighthouses to be erected in Ireland, and the rates for the duties referred. [Col. 22.] |
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Thos. Brown, consul at Tunis, to make a deputy. [Col. 3.] |
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Augmentation to Bury St. Edmunds. [Col. 3.] |
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His late Highness's funeral to be on 9 Nov. [Col. 15.] |
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Report on a charter for Tewkesbury. [Col. 40.] |
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[Missing Order Book, pp. 70–74.] |
Oct. 7.
Whitehall. |
Admiralty Commissioners to Capt. Stoakes. The winds being now east, the Tiger and victualling ship sailed from the Downs on the 2nd for Toulon. We send you a pamphlet of the good success of our forces in Jamaica over the Spaniard. [1 page, copy, French correspondence.] |
Oct. 9.
The prison, Ostend. |
9. Wm. Brassey to his wife, care of Wm. Brassey, Green Dragon Alley, Wapping. The women came for the 3 Dutch letters you inclosed in yours. As we are in a very sad condition, and ready to perish with cold and hunger, I hope you will do your utmost to get my release, as we have little hopes here. A list of all our names was sent by the Lords of Ostend by the last packet, but we have not yet heard anything in reply. With the names of Paule Peterson and Fras. Puxgin subscribed. [½ page.] |
| Oct. 9 |
10. Order in the Admiralty Committee that the Navy Commissioners cause copies of the following order to be framed, and hung up in the yards at Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham, and Portsmouth, enquire from time to time whether the same is observed, and cause the penalties to be inflicted where they find cause:—"Upon consideration of the damage that has accrued to the State by the liberty the officers of the several yards take to absent themselves from their duties without leave, and by the carelessness and negligence of divers of them in the performance of their duties when present, whereof there has been a sad instance of late in the case of the Entrance:—It is ordered that none of the said officers do absent themselves for the time to come from their respective charges, but diligently attend the same, unless upon urgent occasion they have leave for so doing from the Commissioner upon the place; or that in his absence, as likewise in the yards where no Commissioner resides, those that are borne in ordinary have the leave of the master-attendant, and in extra of the master-shipwright, upon pain of loss of place; and that the master-shipwright and master-attendant do not, in the absence of the Commissioner, leave their charges, without licence first obtained from the Navy or Admiralty Commissioners. And it is further ordered that as well every neglect of duty, as the doing thereof unskilfully and imprudently, contrary to former directions or right reason, whereby the ships or stores of the navy are endangered, shall be punished with the loss of place and pay, although no further damage (which God forbid) do actually come thereby." [1½ pages.] |
| Oct. 12. |
11. Petition of Elizabeth, widow of Nath. Smith, late mayor of Dover, to the Protector. On your orders, and those of Sec. Thurloe, my husband took great care of the sick and wounded from Mardike and Dunkirk, attending them on their arrival, providing quarters, visiting them, providing them necessaries, and paying the inhabitants weekly, "and endured their most noisome scents and smells, which hired servants would not," which encouraged the inhabitants to receive them, though they brought sickness and death into almost every family where they came, and have caused my great loss, being left with 6 small children. In 1648, I lost my former husband, slain in defence of Dover Castle, and had no compensation. I beg a competent allowance for me and my children. [¾ page.] Annexing, |
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11. I. Wm. Cullen, mayor of Dover, to Council. I beg your help for this widow, the rather that Sec. Thurloe, hearing of her husband's sickness, wrote to promise him encouragement for his service, of which he took notice on his dying bed. The loss to this corporation cannot easily be repaired. Dover 4 Sept. 1658. [1 page.] |
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11. II. Eliz. Smith to Sec. Thurloe. I beg you to pass some of my trouble from me. My husband promised payments to the inhabitants of Dover for necessaries for the sick and wounded. I beg payment with speed to Mr. Merry-weather of London, to whom I have sent the account. |
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I beg you also to promote my petition to Council for some recompense, as you promised my husband in his sickness. Dover, 10 Sept. 1658. [¾ page.] |
| Oct. 12. |
Note of an order in Council for money to be paid to the widow. [Index, I. 84, col. 36.] |
| [Oct. 12.] |
Index of entries of Proceedings in Council. [I. 84.] |
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East India Company's report touching injuries by the Dutch. [Col. 14.] |
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Times of sitting of the Council's committees appointed [Col. 7.] |
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Commissioners to meet the Dutch ambassador. [Col. 9] |
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Account of the late mayor of Dover for the sick from Flanders there. [Col. 15.] |
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Petition about the Thomas of Ipswich referred. [Col. 40.] |
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The business of new buildings referred. [Col. 3.] |
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[Missing Order Book, pp. 81–84.] |
| Oct. 12. |
[Officers of the Fleet to the Protector.] God has taken your most renowned father, whom the Lord made a most wise and successful captain for the deliverance of his people from a profane and enraged party, that sought not only their oppression but utter ruin, and also an instrument by whose prudent government peace has been preserved, in the midst of the restless attempts of all sorts of enemies; religion has been preserved, and the interest and honour of the nation promoted. We cannot but notice the indulgence he showed us who served him in his fleet; and in our address to you, express our deep sorrow at this sad providence, looking on it as a great rebuke from the hand of God; and yet he has mingled mercy with judgment, in raising you up to succeed your father, and giving you a peaceable entrance on the government, and we trust he will give you a double portion of your father's spirit, to carry on the work of liberty and reformation which he so successfully began. |
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Considering the difficulties with which he had to contest all his life long, and to which you are likely to succeed, we present this humble address, to assure you of our constant fidelity to you as rightful and undoubted Protector, and of our readiness to stand by you to the hazard of life and estate, and to defend you against Charles Stuart and his adherents, and all who endeavour to place the legislative authority otherwise than in a single person and 2 houses of Parliament. [2¼ pages, copy. French correspondence.] |
| Oct. 14. |
12. Admiralty Commissioners to Council. We have several times laid before you the great straits and necessities of naval affairs, and hoped something would have been done. We attended his late Highness at Hampton Court, and he assured us that if it pleased God he lived, he would speedily and reasonably provide. |
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The late sad change has constrained us to silence, but the need becoming more pressing, and no whit provided for, we must remind you thereof, the rather that the receipts assigned to the navy are again in part diverted and diminished, though falling very short of the charge. |
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We have struggled to keep off clamours, but ships have to be kept abroad upon dead wages, contracts and debts are unpaid, the stores unsupplied, and contracts for the ensuing year have to be disannulled. |
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We beg that the navy income may not be diverted, and that some course may be taken to carry on the service. [1½ pages.] |
| Oct. 14. |
Note of a letter from Council to the Admiralty Commissioners. [I. 84, cols. 1, 89.] |
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Index entries of proceedings in Council. [I. 84.] |
| Oct. 14. |
Committee to meet with the public ministers of Sweden on the Swedish treaty. [Col. 36.] |
| Oct. 14. |
Hospitals' money to be paid. [Col. 20.] |
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The Treasury Commissioners to examine what has been expended of the 300,000l. a year for government. [Col. 40.] |
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1,500l. towards his Highness's funeral. [Col. 13.] |
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[Missing Order Book, pp. 89, 90.] |
| Oct. 14. |
Navy Office. 13. Navy Commissioners to the Admiralty Commissioners. Having heard a report of Capt. Pett, clerk of the check at Chatham,—which, if true, is a great dishonour to God, and scandal to the navy affairs,—that we might have the certainty of it, we wrote to a credible person for a true information. He returns us answer that 7 or 8 weeks since a child was known to be at nurse in Chatham, whose father and mother were concealed; the thing being enquired after, one Mrs. Hudson, the midwife, affirmed that Mr. Milton's wife is the mother, and at her travail, the strumpet did say that Capt. Pett was the father, which is not denied. As we think it worthy of your consideration, we lay it before you. [1 page.] |
| Oct. 15. |
14. Order in Council—on request of Amb. Bordeaux, that Juan Nunnes, a Spanish prisoner in Chelsea college, may be released to attend on him as footman,—that the Admiralty Commissioners give order to the officers under whose charge he is to release him. [¾ page.] |
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Index entries of proceedings in Council. [I. 84.] |
| [Oct. 15.] |
Augmentation for Debenham. [Col. 9.] |
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Petition of officers employed by Col. Hen. Smith about recruits for Mardike referred. |
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Report of Col. Salmon's officers for disbursements for fire and candle. [Col. 36.] |
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Augmentation for Weston Market. [Col. 43.] |
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Money debate adjourned, and a Committee to consider how to raise 10,000l. [Col. 27.] |
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Lady Bedle's bond to be delivered up. [Col. 3.] |
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Reference about the release of the ship Fortune. [Col. 15.] |
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Fanshaw's bond to be delivered up. [Col. 15.] |
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Account of Col. Smith, governor of Hull, reported. [Col. 36.] |
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[Missing Order Book, pp. 91–94.] |
