James II - volume 3: August 1687 | British History Online

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James II, 1687-9. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1972.

'James II - volume 3: August 1687', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James II, 1687-9, (London, 1972) pp. 41-65. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/jas2/1687-9/pp41-65 [accessed 20 April 2024]

August 1687



199 August 1. Windsor.	Reference to the Attorney or Solicitor General of the petition of Richard Kent and partners concerned in the work of milled lead for a patent for the sole use of their invention for 14 years.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 361
200 August.1 Windsor.	Reference to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the petition of Joshua Jordaine, author of the Duodecimal Arithmetick, for a place in the excise for a kinsman very well versed in gauging and fit to serve.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 365
201 August 1. Windsor.	Commissions to Capt. Charnock Heron to be captain of that company whereof Capt. Bryan Turner was captain in the regiment of foot commanded by the Earl of Huntingdon; to James Dodington to be lieutenant and to Thomas Smalbone to be ensign of the Earl of Abercorn's company in the regiment of horse commanded by the Earl of Plymouth; to Sir Charles Carney to be lieut.-colonel and captain of a company, to Sir Bevill Granville to be major and captain of a company and to Capt. John Sydenham to be captain of Sir Nicholas Slanning's company, all in the regiment of foot commanded by the Earl of Bath; to Edmund Reiley to be lieutenant of Capt. [John] Lloyd's company in the regiment of horse commanded by the Earl of Peterborough; and to Samuel Hamilton to be lieutenant of Lieut.-Col. Parker's troop, to Sir William Mouett to be cornet to the colonel, to John Thomas to be cornet to Capt. Featherstonhalgh and to Edward Fenwick to be cornet to Capt. Harrington, all in the regiment of horse commanded by the Earl of Arran. Minutes.
	S.P. 44/164, pp. 410-11, 415
202 August 1. The Hague.	William Carstares to [William Bentinck]. I only presume by this to give a conveyance to the enclosed in which there are some particulars which are not worthy of your being at the trouble to read them, but I did judge, Sir, that it might be more fit to send them to you entire, than that you should have, Sir, any reason to think that what was blotted out was of greater concern than indeed it is. I shall not be so bold, Sir, as to make any reflections upon Mr. Stuart's arguments, but shall only, Sir, take the liberty to show you that they are not so strong as to proselytize me to his opinion, either as to the Test or some other things for which he pleads. I am bold, Sir, to promise myself that the same goodness that hath prompted you to treat with so much civility as I have always had the honour, Sir, to meet with from you, one so very much below a person of your high quality and character, will also influence you to allow me the liberty, without incurring the hazard of being mistaken, to show you, Sir, that though some here do industriously spread reports of me as if I had so abused the honour that hath been allowed me of access to some about Court as by a rude and foolish freedom in my discourses to have the unhappiness of being under his Highness' displeasure and exposing myself to be treated in ridicule, yet I hope I shall always have the testimony of a good conscience that, as it hath been so, it shall be my endeavour and care as to be entirely faithful to the duty which I owe beyond many to his Highness, so to answer the character which I presume, Sir, to take to myself of: Right Honorable, your most faithful and most humble servant. (fn. 1)
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	Enclosed
	Two papers, in James Stewart's hand:—
	1. Reasons why Protestant Dissenters ought to concur for the loyal establishment of the late liberty.
	2. Reasons why, as it is humbly contended, their Majesties the Prince and Princess of Orange ought to consent to and concur for the present liberty.
	S.P. 8/1, pt. 2, fols. 136-40
203 August 2. London.	John Rooke to Lady Catherine O'Brien, Baroness of Clifton, at Cobham Hall near Gravesend, co. Kent. I was this afternoon at Mr. Solicitor's chamber. His clerk (himself being in the country) told me he had heard nothing of Mr. Etkins, who had not brought back his petition, that he knew of.
	Mr. Monschau will be in town tomorrow and deliver me the hounds, for the foot huntsman said if he himself was gone he would order Mr. Monchau to receive the money and deliver them, for the dog-keeper should not meddle with them.
	I hear nothing of the man that came from Lady Eliz. Dalavill, though I left a note at his lodging. All is safe, but the house wants cleaning mightily.
	S.P. 31/3, fol. 110
204 August 2. Windsor.	The Earl of Sunderland to Mr. Spencer, High Sheriff of co. Lancaster. The King having pardoned Lord Brandon Gerard and being entirely satisfied with his good inclination to serve him, who is now going into the country for his service and by his direction, I thought it requisite to acquaint you with it that you may behave towards him accordingly.
	Memoranda: Like letters were sent to the High Sheriff of co. Chester and the Judges appointed to the Northern Circuit.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 377
205 August 2. Windsor.	Commission to Alexander Canan to be colonel of the Queen Consort's Regiment of Dragoons and to be captain of a troop therein.
	S.P. 44/69, p. 211
206 August 2. Windsor.	Grant of the petition of Charles, Lord Brandon Gerard, for a writ of error for reversing his attainder.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 364
207 August 2. Windsor.	Reference to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the petition of Robert Mercer, who believes there is a royal mine within twenty miles of Dublin, for a lease thereof when discovered of 21 [years], rendering yearly one moiety upon oath.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 364
208 August 2. Windsor.	Reference to the Earl of Tyrconnell, Lord Deputy of Ireland, of the petition of Thomas Stratford to be granted the keeping of a beam throughout Ireland by the name of the King's beam.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 364
209 August 2. Windsor.	Reference to the same of the petition of Charles Evers for a pardon of all crimes except murder.
	S.P. 44/71, p.365
210 August 2. Windsor.	Reference to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the petition of Joseph, William and Mary Fitzgerald, who are in a bad condition, for the arrears of one year and seven months due on the salary of £50 per annum paid to their father, Richard Fitzgerald, who was employed by the late King in sending intelligence from Madrid and was murdered there.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 369
211 August 2. The Hague.	William Carstares to [William Bentinck]. Your own allowance makes me presume to give you the trouble of these lines with which I convey the enclosed (see no. 181 above) which I had this day from Mr. Stewart. I shall not adventure, Sir, to make comments upon it; I am passive in the whole of this affair, leaving myself to your direction as to the method I shall follow in the managing of it. I am very sensible that it is not fit to give up a correspondence with Mr. Stewart, nor shall I give myself leave to think, till I have better grounds than yet I have, that he will betray me or the interest of his religion and friends. Yet the affair he writes of, and the immediate concern that you see, Sir, by the enclosed the King hath in it, and the zeal with which he urges my effectual interposing in that matter do call for the utmost of circumspection in my management and make me bold humbly to beg your instructions as to the return I shall give to the particulars of that enclosed. And pray, Sir, consider not any hazard I may incur in doing anything that may be for his Highness' service or the advantage of the interest of the Protestant religion, which ought to be preferred to all other concerns. The obligations that for many years I have been under to his Highness and the assurance that I have of his real respect for the Reformed religion, the preservation of which from the designs of multiplied enemies seems to be bound up in his safety, make me willing and ready to do anything that may be for the advancing of so great and excellent an interest as that of religion, and may testify my gratitude and duty to his Highness. As for what Mr. Stuart writes concerning the cheerfulness with which the liberty is embraced in Scotland, it is true, for I have had myself this day a call, subscribed by several persons, urging me to go thither to exercise my ministry in one of the cities of that Kingdom, and am pressed to give a sudden answer, but the fear, Sir, I have of a storm after this calm and the sad experience I have had of the cruelty and treachery of some of those concerned in the government of that Kingdom make me have an aversion from being within the reach of men from whom I have suffered so much. Nor do I intend to move towards those Kingdoms without the allowance of his Highness, who has been pleased to put such a confidence in me as brings me under the strongest obligations of faithfulness to his interest, and dutifulness to his commands. It is like, Sir, you may wonder that Scotland should so cheerfully embrace a liberty that is so plainly designed for the advantage of the enemies of her religion, but the violence of extraordinary and inhuman oppressions to which Dissenters of that Kingdom have for many years been exposed cannot but make quiet sweet. And yet, Sir, I am confident that they will be found to be zealous Protestants and, I hope, true friends to the interest of the successors.
	Since I wrote my letter to Mr. Stewart I have had the honour of discoursing with the Pensionary upon the enclosed which he seems to look upon as deserving his Highness' consideration. I have his allowance to write more fully to Mr. Stewart concerning the [Protestant] aversion from oppressing the consciences of any, but withal am desired to show him that his Highness hath such a respect to the Protestant interest that nothing will move him to allow that taking away of laws that seclude Papists from public offices; and, indeed, what the Pensionary has told me that his Highness has declared upon these heads is so just that I cannot see what any true Protestant can except against it, and I shall long till I have Mr. Stuart's reply to what I have wrote about it.
	My Lord Melvill did wait upon Abbevill and gave him an account of the circumstances in general, which he was desired more than once to set down in writing; but he shifted the granting what he thought was impertinently demanded. Whilst he was there two Scotch or English officers came in with whom the Envoy had a serious consultation, leaving my Lord to sit alone; but he heard him very inquisitive about who was in the coach with his Highness, what company did ride along with him, what pages or footmen were to follow, and what they were. As to the last, it was answered that one or two of those that were to go after his Highness were honest fellows. His Highness travelling with so few in company grieves his friends and seems to be a temptation to his enemies. God Almighty preserve him! My Lord Melvill has received this day a letter from the Duchess of Monmouth wherein she shows him that, though she had been and was very desirous to see him, yet now she did not dare to advise him to come that way, which makes him conclude that he is not acceptable at Court and makes him anxious as to what may be the issue of his going home. Yet he intends to take the first opportunity of a vessel. There are some things in the letter which you may be apt to mistake and therefore, Sir, I make bold to give the explication of them. As to what he says of a person that is acceptable here and might do good, but is not acceptable where he is, I suppose none else can be meant but my Lord Melvill or Lord Stares. By the friend he mentions to live at Utrecht he means Sir Patrick Hume. By his patron he understands Melfort.
	I humbly beg, Sir, to know your mind as to what is desired of me by Mr. Stewart as to meeting with him. I did not think it necessary to satisfy his desire in coming to Loo, seeing, Sir, you have allowed me the honour of writing to you; but my motions are to be ordered by you and I presume, Sir, to respect your commands as to the whole of the enclosed letter which shall be punctually obeyed.
	Postscript: I make bold, sir, to send a copy of the letter I have wrote to Mr. Stewart (see no. 196 above) which I shall enlarge according to the Pensionary his directions by the next post. I hope there is nothing in it that may displease his Highness or give just offence to those on the other side. I shall only presume to add, Sir, that I know I shall be allowed to break off this correspondence with Mr. Stewart when it comes to be such as it cannot be entertained without either unfaithfulmess to his Highness or an unhandsome carriage to Mr. Stewart putting some trust in me, seeing I were unworthy of any share in his Highness' favour or, Sir, your kindness if I should approve myself in a guilt of either of these; but while the nature of the correspondence is not as yet such I do conceive the keeping of it up may be of advantage. But, Sir, I encroach too much upon your patience by a multitude of confused particulars for which I humbly beg pardon and could only expect it from one of your goodness and generous civility. (fn. 2)
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	S.P. 8/1, pt. 2, fols. 141-2
212 August 2. Windsor.	The Queen to the Prince of Orange, telling him of her sorrow at the death of her mother, the Duchess of Modena. (fn. 3)
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	S.P. 8/4, no. 46
213 August 2. Windsor.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord Deputy of Ireland. His Majesty commands me to send you the enclosed petition and copy of a letter from the late King to the chief governor in Ireland concerning the jurisdiction of the High Admiral, and would have you give order and take order that in such of the new charters where it shall be proper, a clause be inserted for preserving the jurisdiction, authority and privileges of the Admiralty as directed by the said letter.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 246
214 August 3. Windsor.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Justices of the Grand Sessions of Glamorganshire. By letters of Privy Seal dated July 28 last his Majesty directed that Sir Humphrey Mackworth and Mary his wife be admitted to levy fines and suffer recoveries in the Court of Grand Sessions for the county of Glamorgan of the estate of the said Mary in that county. It is his pleasure that those directions be forthwith put in execution and that you make such entries, endorsements, warrants and other acts as are needful.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 378
215 August 3.	Reference to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the petition of Capt. Francis Colles, executor of Henry Hastings, late Lord Loughborough, representing a great debt due to that Lord, who himself died much in debt to the petitioner and praying employment or a pension.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 365
216 August 3. Windsor.	Reference to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the petition of Arthur Shallett and others of London, merchants, that their ships—the James, Vineyard and Nathaniel of London and the Adventure, Dorothy, Hopeful Luke and Patience of Whitby —all which though foreign built belonged to them many years before the passing of the Act for encouraging the building of ships, may be made free, custom being paid for them if not already paid.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 366
217 August 3. Windsor.	Warrant to George, Lord Dartmouth, Master General of the Ordnance—after reciting that a particular demand of arms was presented to the King in Council on March 24, 1685–6, by Lord Mountjoy, Master of the Ordnance in Ireland, for the army there, consisting of about 7,800 men—to cause such proportions of the said demand as can be conveniently provided from time to time to be sent thither by any man-of-war signified to him by the Admiralty and delivered to the Master of the Ordnance there and his indent taken for the same.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 413
218 August 4. Windsor.	Warrant for appointing Jeffrey Haford of Dover to the office of Clerk of Dover Castle and Clerk and Register of the Court of Chancery and Admiralty of the Cinque Ports in the room of James Hardresse, to hold the said office with all the fees, allowances, etc., thereto belonging.
	S.P. 29/359, p. 219
219 August 4.Windsor.	Earl of Sunderland to the Earl of Huntingdon. The King has appointed you Lord Lieutenant of the county of Leicester and has signed your warrant for that purpose. The matter concerning the New Forest whereof you wrote is lodged with the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. I will speak to Lord Godolphin in it.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 379
220 [August 4.]	Memorandum of a letter to Lord Molineux acquainting him of his appointment to be Lord Lieutenant of co. Lancaster.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 379
221 August 4. Windsor.	Commission to William Leche to be captain of that company whereof Capt. Richard Kidley was captain in the regiment of foot commanded by Col. Henry Cornwall. Minute.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 411
222 August 4. Windsor.	Warrant for commissions of lieutenancy in the usual form to Richard, Viscount Preston, for cos. Cumberland and Westmorland in the room of Thomas, Earl of Thanet; to Theophilus, Earl of Huntingdon, for co. Leicester in the room of John, Earl of Rutland; to Henry, Lord Waldegrave, for co. Somerset in the room of Charles, Duke of Somerset; and to George, Lord Jeffreys, Lord Chancellor of England, for co. Salop in the room of Francis, Viscount Newport. Minutes.
	S.P. 44/164, pp. 413-4
223 August 4. Windsor.	Pardon to Charles Gerard, commonly called Lord Brandon Gerard, of all treasons etc.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 315
224 August 4. Windsor.	Warrant to the High Sheriff of co. Monmouth and all others whom it may concern—after reciting that Samuel Berington, gunsmith, was at the last Assizes held at Monmouth found guilty of counterfeiting coin and had sentence of death passed upon him—to forbear putting in execution the said sentence until the King has signified his further pleasure.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 315
225 August 4. Windsor.	A rather fuller version of the warrant of July 23 (see no. 166 above) concerning treasure near the coast of Hispaniola.
	S.P. 44/337, pp. 316–7
226 August 4. Windsor.	Warrant to Viscount Grandison, Captain of the Yeoman of the Guard, to swear and admit Ambrose Meres to the quality of Corporal of the Yeoman of the Guard in the room of Thomas Orme.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 318
227 August 4. Windsor.	Warrant to Henry, Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal, signifying the King's pleasure that Lady Mary Tudor, natural daughter of the late King, should bear and use the Royal Arms.
	S.P. 44/337, pp. 318-19
228 August 4. Windsor.	Grant to Sir Wm. Phipps of the office or place of Provost Marshal of New England in America in the room of Thomas Savin deceased.
	In the margin: Altered page 342 (see no. 229 below).
	S.P. 44/337, p. 319
229 August 4. Windsor.	More detailed copy of the foregoing, addressed to the Attorney or Solicitor General, for erecting and establishing an office to be executed in New England by the name of Provost Marshal General, and for a grant of the same to Sir Wm. Phipps, knt.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 342
230 August 4. Windsor.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord Deputy of Ireland. The King having fixed his progress intends to be at Chester on the 27th and would have you order your affairs so as to be there at that time, or rather before, the King intending not to stay above two days there, where he will talk with you at large both of his affairs in England and Ireland. I am to attend him in this journey and am glad of this occasion to wait on you.
	His Majesty is of opinion that it is not for his service the charter of Dublin should be renewed, at least not yet, but that they be governed (as is the City of London) by magistrates appointed by you.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 247
231 August 5. Windsor.	Reference to the Attorney or Solicitor General of the petition of Henry Ayscoghe for letters patent for the sole use of an art he has invented to remain and walk under water two or three hours.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 378
232 August 6. Windsor.	Reference to the Duke of Albemarle, Governor of Jamaica, recommending him, on his arrival there, to cause the matter to be settled and right and justice done the petitioner of the petition, desiring such recommendation, of Elizabeth Vincent, sister and heir of Francis Vincent, late of St. Iago de la Vega in Jamaica, showing that upon her brother's death without issue the present Governor has seized his estate till he be advised who is next heir, which she is ready to make out that she is.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 369
233 August 6. Windsor.	Pardon to John Power of Bersham, co. Denbigh, and James Eaton of Pentre Maddock, co. Salop, of manslaughter for and concerning the death and killing of — —, whereof they were convicted at the last Assizes held for the county of Denbigh.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 319
234 August 6. Windsor.	Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General—after reciting that by his petition Christopher, Duke of Albemarle, has represented that there are in the Plantations in America great quantities of wood, which for want of labourers cannot be so well cleared from the ground and made fit for use as might be by saw-mill (never yet known in those parts) to the great prejudice of the Revenue, and praying letters patent for erecting saw-mills to move by wind and water within the Colonies and Plantations in America (except New England) for 14 years—to prepare a bill to pass the Great Seal for granting letters patent as aforesaid to Christopher, Duke of Albemarle, his executors, administrators, and assigns, with a prohibition to all others to erect or use any such saw-mills within any of the said Colonies or Plantations.
	S.P. 44/337, pp. 320-321
235 August 6. Windsor.	The King to the Earl of Tyrconnell, Lord Deputy of Ireland. Warrant—after reciting that judgment has been given against the Charter of the city of Dublin and that he thinks it for his service not as yet to regrant a new Charter—to cause commissions to be passed under the Great Seal appointing such persons as he shall think fit to be Lord Mayor and Aldermen and other officers and magistrates during the King's pleasure, with such powers etc., as he shall think requisite.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 248
236 August 6. Windsor.	The same to the same. Warrant—after reciting that he intends to take a progress to Chester and other parts of England and that, as already signified by the Earl of Sunderland, he thinks it requisite that the Lord Deputy should repair to Chester —to cause letters patent to be passed constituting Sir Alexander Fitton, Chancellor, and such other persons, as he shall think fit, to be Justices for the government of Ireland during his absence.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 248
237 August 7. Windsor.	The King to the Attorney or Solicitor General. Warrant to prepare a bill containing a grant for naming John, Earl of Mulgrave, Lord Chamberlain of the Household, to be Lieutenant, in the room of Charles, Duke of Somerset, for the East Riding of co. York and all boroughs, liberties, etc., therein, the town and county of Kingston-upon-Hull only excepted.
	S.P. 44/69, p. 213
238 August 7. Windsor.	The King to the Attorney or Solicitor General. Warrant for a grant of a baronetcy of England to William Pynsent of Erchfont, co. Wilts.
	S.P. 44/70, p. 280
239 August 7. Windsor.	Directions to the Attorney or Solicitor General—on the petition of the Lady Spencer of Yarrington showing that Margaret Hyde alias Spencer, spinster, not yet 14 years of age, being under the petitioner's guardianship and entitled to a considerable estate, was taken away between Uxbridge and Beaconsfield against her consent, and praying a proclamation to command the bringing her back and for apprehending the criminals—to prepare the desired proclamation.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 366
240 August 7. Windsor.	Reference to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the petition of Capt. Francis Johnson showing that a meeting-house having in 1673 been built on a piece of land near Old Graveline at Ratcliffe, afterwards devised to his wife and children, some Justices of the Peace in 1685 seized it for his Majesty's use, and, there never having been any forfeiture, praying the forfeiture may be taken off and he restored to his right.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 367
241 August 7. Windsor.	The Solicitor General's report on the petition of Sir Thomas Barnardiston, bart. (see no. 36 above), stating that in Easter Term last such a decree was obtained on the King's behalf against the petitioner without opposition by him as he alleged, at which time there was due from him to Sir Samuel Barnardiston £2,000 principal and £480 interest, by which decree not only the lands originally mortgaged to Sir Samuel stand liable to the King but all other the petitioner's lands may be charged towards payment of the said debt, and his person also, and accordingly an attachment is sued out against him. The petitioner alleges (doubtless very truly) that he is utterly unable to raise the money by transferring the security to other persons because his original deed of mortgage remains in the hands of Sir Samuel, who lies in prison and will no ways contribute towards the payment of the money to the King, and the rest of his estate the petitioner alleges is so settled that he cannot take up money or make a security out of any part, and therefore proposes that all the tenants of his mortgaged lands, which are about the value of £700 per annum, should attorn to the King or that he himself may become tenant thereof to his Majesty, paying £500 per annum till the debt is satisfied; but whether the King will extend such grace to the petitioner depends entirely on his grace and royal pleasure. Aug. 6, 1687.
	Referred to the Commissioners of the Treasury.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 367
242 August 7. Windsor.	Reference to the Attorney or Solicitor General of the petition of the Cinque Ports for a new Charter.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 368
243 August 7. Windsor.	Commissions to John Thornhill to be lieutenant to Capt. William Barnes's company and to Mathew Rugeley to be lieutenant to Capt. William Stow's company, both in the regiment of foot commanded by Col. Sackvile Tufton. Minutes.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 411
244 August 7. Windsor.	Warrant to Henry Howard, Commissary General of the Musters, his deputy or deputies, to allow and pass Samuel Oldfield as cornet of Capt. Edward Sands's troop in the Royal Regiment of Horse with his two servants in the musters during his absence, he having been given leave to go abroad for some time.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 412
245 August 7.Windsor.	Like warrant in behalf of Soloman Slater, captain in the regiment of foot commanded by Col. Henry Cornwall, with his servants, he having been given leave to go into France and remain there for some time.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 412
246 August 7. Windsor.	Grant of the dignity of a Baron, Viscount and Earl to Sir Francis Ratcliffe of Derwentwater, co. Cumberland, bart., by the title of Baron of Langley, Viscount Tindale and Earl of Derwentwater aforesaid, and to his heirs male, with the usual fees.
	In the margin: Altered as it is entered page 239 (see no. 281 below).
	S.P. 44/337, p. 320
247 August 7. Windsor.	Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General—after reciting that Anthony Gerente alias de Clairant had by his petition represented that he had invented the art of making three sorts of tar or pitch, one of which preserves wood from putrefaction and the gnawing of worms, the second from fire and does not run in the sun, and the third keeps ropes a long space of time, either in water or in air, and praying letters patent for the sole use of the said invention—to prepare a bill to pass the Great Seal containing a grant of licence and privilege to the said Anthony Gerente alias de Clairant and Peter Vanden Anker, merchant, his partner, their executors, administrators and assigns, of the sole use and benefit of the said new invention for a term of 14 years.
	S.P. 44/337, pp. 321–32
248 August 8. Windsor.	The Lord Deputy's report on the petition of Francis Barnwall referred to him on May 16 (see last no. 1773 in Vol. II), stating (after reciting the petition) that he referred it to the Attorney General in Ireland, whose report [not entered], with which he fully agrees, he transmits, and certifying that the town of Carricfergus, having expressed their duty and loyalty by a ready and early surrender of their Charters, merit the King's favour, and that the petitioner is on many accounts very deserving and a very fit object of his Majesty's bounty, who may (if he think fit) allow him and his wife during their lives a pension of £200 yearly out of the Irish revenue, which he hopes upon the sitting of the Parliament will receive so considerable an increase as to afford a fund for that bounty. June 23, 1687.
	Transmitted to the Commissioners of the Treasury for consideration and report.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 370
249 August 8. Windsor.	Warrants for commission of lieutenancy, in the usual form, to John, Earl of Mulgrave, Chamberlain of the Household, for the East Riding of co. York in the room of Charles, Duke of Somerset, and to Caryll, Viscount Mollyneux, for co. Lancaster in the room of [William George Richard] Earl of Derby. Minutes.
	S.P. 44/164, pp. 413, 417
250 August 8. Windsor.	Certificate that Sir John Lytcott, Agent at Rome, took his leave of his Majesty in order to his said employment on the 25th day of February last past.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 323
251 August 9. London.	John Rooke, servant to Sir Joseph Williamson, to Richard Bishop, Mayor of Gravesend, co. Kent. This enclosed to my Lady I humbly crave you would send over to Cobham Hall by some trusty person with all speed. If it could be there by 8 or 9 tomorrow morning you would do my Lady and Sir Joseph an extraordinary favour.
	Postscript: I am afraid the boy Sir Joseph employs will not make enough speed, therefore I make bold to trouble you.
	S.P. 31/3, fol. 111
252 August 9.	John Chase, Beadle, to Sir Joseph Williamson, at Cobham Hall near Gravesend. Desiring him, on behalf of the Master and Wardens of the Clothworkers Company, to be at Clothworkers Hall in Minchin Lane on Tuesday the 16th inst. for the election of a new Master and Wardens, and to bring his lady to dine with them at the Hall that day.
	S.P. 31/3, fol. 112
253 August 9. London.	John Rooke to Lady Catherine O'Brien, Baroness of Clifton, at Cobham Hall near Gravesend, co, Kent. 'With speed'. I received yours of Friday last with Sir Joseph's and the enclosed on Saturday night. All the enclosed I sent away, and those to Mr. Mendham gave to Mr. Woodraft, who promised to despatch them under his cover.
	S.P. 31/3, fol. 113
254 August 9. Windsor.	The Earl of Sunderland to Colonel Widdrington. Upon yours of July 28 from Newcastle, his Majesty does not think it fit any person should make an interest to be chosen a member of Parliament till he shall have declared his pleasure for the meeting of a Parliament.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 379
255 August 9. Windsor.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Duke of Beaufort. The King intending to make a progress this month does not expect the militia should be drawn together to receive him, being willing to excuse the country from that trouble and charge. He will only expect that such of the Lords Lieutenants, Deputy Lieutenants, Sheriffs and other gentlemen who are in the neighbourhood of the places to which he comes should attend him.
	Memorandum: Like letters were sent to the Earls of Northampton, Abingdon and Plymouth and the Lord Lieutenants of cos. Stafford Salop and Chester.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 380
256 August 9. Windsor.	Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General—after reciting that Sir Philip Howard, knt., and Francis Watson, having discovered a certain engine or roller to draw, roll or mill plates of lead etc., had been authorised by statute 22 Car. II to exercise the sole use of the said invention for the sheathing and preservation of ships for 25 years; and that the right and title to the same had come into the hands of Richard Kent, Charles Davenant, Doctor of Laws, Thomas Agar, John Warter, Thomas Hale and Michael Hale, who had represented that the said invention might be made of good use for many other purposes besides the sheathing of ships—to prepare a bill to pass the Great Seal containing a grant to the persons named, their executors, administrators and assigns, of the sole use and exercise of their invention of milling lead etc. for the term of fourteen years, according to the statute in that case provided, as well for the sheathing of ships as for all other uses and purposes whatsoever.
	S.P. 44/337, pp. 330–1
257 August 10. Windsor.	Commission to Robert Frayne to be adjutant of the Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Dragoons. Minute.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 418
258 August 10. Windsor.	Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General authorising Henry, Duke of Norfolk, to call and hold a Court of Chivalry from time to time; the said Court having not been used since the Rebellion in 1641, by reason whereof many abuses not determinable in any other Court have been unreformed and gone unpunished.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 323
259 August 10. Windsor.	Warrant to the Lord Deputy of Ireland—after reciting the petition of Capt. Randall Macdonnel setting forth that his father Sir James Macdonnel in 1641 was possessed of a plentiful estate in co. Antrim, all which was in the late usurper's time seized and set out except about 900 acres in the barony of Dunlice, praying a grant of the reversion of the said 900 acres—to cause letters patent to be passed containing a grant to Rowland White of the Middle Temple and John Bagott of Dublin, their heirs and assigns forever of the said lands commonly called the Thirteenth Quarter in the barony of Dunlice, that is to say in the quarter of Cross, Glaustall, Dromueagh, Ballynecrelegg, Drumnekesky, Bonderog, Cabragh, Lower and Upper Enagh, Drumskea and Unshinagh, Ballynovy and Claghy, 944 acres of profitable land plantation measure according to the Down survey, together with all rights, fishings, immunities, etc. and of the reversions, remainders, rents etc., of the premises and all the King's right in the same, to hold to the said White and Bagote, their heirs and assigns to the use of Captain Macdonnel and Hannah his wife for their lives and the life of the longer liver without impeachment of waste and after their deceases to the use of their first son lawfully begotten and his heirs male, and for default of such issue to the use of their second son, etc., and for default of such (male) issue to the use of their daughters and their heirs, and for default of such issue to the right heirs of Captain Macdonnel forever, to be holden of the King, his heirs and successors as of the Castle of Dublin in free and common soccage under the rent of £5 per annum.
	S.O. 1/12, p. 208
260 August 10. Windsor.	Warrant, empowering the Commissioners of the Revenue in Ireland, or any three of them, to pay the salaries, rewards, etc. of those in their employ out of the revenues collected.
	S.O. 1/12, p. 213
261 August 12. Barnards Inn.	Richard Gibbs to Sir Joseph Williamson. Mr. Hornsby told me you desired to know how Sir Robert Viner's business stands. There is judgment against him in the action of ejectment and he has brought a writ of error thereupon, which is all that can be done till the term. There is also a bill in Chancery against him to foreclose him from the equity of redemption, to which he has not appeared, but Mr. Rooke has made affidavit of the service of the subpoena and I have ordered an attachment against him returnable the first return of the term, and will proceed therein as fast as the course of the Court will admit.
	S.P. 31/3, fol. 115
262 August 12. Windsor.	Warrant to the High Sheriff of Worcester and all others whom it may concern—after reciting that Anne Collins was at the last assizes held at Worcester found guilty of the death and killing of her bastard child and was condemned to death —to forbear putting in execution the sentence passed upon her until the King has received a fuller account of the matter and signified his further pleasure.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 324
263 August 12. Windsor.	Pardon to Sir Francis Drake, bart., of all treasons etc.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 324
264 August 12. Windsor.	Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a new Charter to the Company of Distillers of London.
	Paper of Heads annexed
	That whereas the Corporation extended to 21 miles distant from the Cities of London and Westminster, the same be now increased to 31 miles.
	That the Company, or any 13 of them, whereof the Master to be one, may have power to choose a Master and other Officers from time to time, and make by-laws and orders, whereas the major part did it before.
	That whereas the Assistants were 20 in number they may be now increased to 24.
	That whereas the Master, Wardens and Assistants were chosen the first Tuesday after the Feast of St. James the Apostle yearly, they may now be chosen on the Thursday next before the feast of St. Matthew the Apostle yearly.
	That they have power twice in the year or oftener to appoint Searchers for adulterated wares in London and Westminster and once or oftener in any place within 31 miles of the same.
	The livery to be elected by the Master and Wardens not to exceed 60 persons in number.
	That they have power to purchase in mortmain lands and hereditaments not exceeding £500 per annum.
	The King empowered to remove Officers.
	General confirmation of all former Charters and privileges not repugnent to these alterations and a nonobstante to the statute of 13 Car. II for regulating Corporations and the statute of 25 Car. II for taking the Oaths of Allegiance etc.
	Henry Taylor—Master; Michael Symonds, Samuel Young and William Harris— Wardens; Thomas Rawlinson, Jervais Seaton, Joseph Harrison, James Woods, John Heath, John Vyner, Edward Alsopp, John Freeman, George Hubbard, Thomas Jordan, John Roberts, Thomas Hanson, Wm. Barnes, Thomas Heming, Wm. Jerman, Thomas Plaistee, Thomas Chew, Wm. Ashton, Andrew Robinson, Tho. Roffee, Richard Gregory, Wm. Greenwood, Robert Rawlinson, Ephraim Coleing—Assistants, John Green—Clerk.
	S.P. 44/337, pp. 324–6
265 August 13. Windsor.	Reference to Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Admiralty, of the petition of John Israell on behalf of his correspondent, Mr. Broder Broderson, and others of Husum in Holstein, owners of the Orange Tree, Jacob Poulson master, cast away and brought into Scarborough, praying the ship and loading may be restored on reasonable satisfaction being given for bringing her into port and security the that ship and loading shall be restored to the right owner.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 371
266 August 13. Windsor.	Reference to the Attorney or Solicitor General of the petition of Sir Thomas Laurence, bart., and Dame Anne his wife, for letters of Privy Seal to empower their eldest son to suffer a recovery of an old messuage and a close in Chelsea.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 371
267 August 13. Windsor.	Reference to Mr. Justice Holloway, before whom the petitioner was tried, of the petition of James Younger, attainted at the last assizes at Monmouth, of high treason in counterfeiting coins, for a pardon.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 372
268 August 13. Windsor.	Direction to the Clerk of the Signet Attending, on the petition of Thomas Graham of Durham, to prepare a bill for granting him an almsman's place now void in the cathedral church of Durham.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 372
269 August 13. Windsor.	Commission to Sir Richard Maleverer, bart., to be captain of that troop whereof Sir Thomas Maleverer, deceased, was captain in the regiment of horse commanded by Major-General Robert Werden. Minute.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 414
270 August 14. Windsor.	The King to the Senior Fellow or, in his absence, the Senior Fellow residing, and the rest of the Fellows of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford. Requiring them forthwith to admit Samuel, Bishop of Oxford, into the place of President of the college, any statutes to the contrary being dispensed with in his behalf. (fn. 4)
	S.P. 44/57, p. 177
271 August 14. Windsor.	Royal licence, after reciting the order of July 30 last against killing game within ten miles of Hampton Court palace (see no. 188 above), to Charles Duncombe to hawk, hunt and shoot at any convenient time within that limit.
	S.P. 44/70, p. 281
272 August 14. Windsor.	The King's pass for Charles, Earl of Shrewsbury, with his servants, goods and equipage to go beyond the seas. Minute.
	S.P. 44/70, p. 282
273 August 14. Windsor.	Reference to the Earl of Mulgrave, Lord Chamberlain, of the petition of the corporals of the King's Bodyguard for a warrant for payment of £5 from every town corporate and £5 from every cathedral church upon the King's first entrance given them by the late King.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 372
274 August 14. Windsor.	Reference to the Earl of Tyrconnell, Lord Deputy of Ireland, of the petition of Robert Mercer for a moiety of some lands he has discovered near Dublin.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 373
275 August 14. Windsor.	Warrant to Henry Howard, Commissary General of the Musters, his deputy or deputies, to allow and pass John Davies as ensign to Lieut.-Col. Rupert Billingsley in the regiment of foot commanded by Col. Sackvile Tufton, with his servant in the musters during his absence, he having been given leave to go into Ireland and remain there for six months.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 414
276 August 14. Windsor.	Commissions to Walter Bridger to be lieutenant of Capt. Henry Heveningham's troop and to James Power to be cornet to the colonel, both in the Queen Dowager's Regiment of Horse. Minutes.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 415
277 August 14. Windsor.	Warrant to George, Lord Dartmouth, Master General of the Ordnance—after reciting that the King has received information from him of the experience of John Hopeke in the art of fireworking, wherein he has been employed several years in foreign parts, and that he is duly qualified for the King's service, as has been certified by John Christopher Wolferman, the King's chief firemaster—for the better encouragement of the said Hopeke and that he may improve himself in his art, to make him by bill and debenture the allowance of 3s. per diem to be paid him out of the treasury of the Ordnance Office and to commence from the feast of St. John Baptist last.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 424
278 August 14. Windsor.	Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General—after reciting that by his petition Henry Ayscoghe had represented that with great study, charge and pains, he had discovered a method whereby he can teach and instruct persons to walk and remain under water for the space of one, two or three hours, without any covering over their head or body, the water coming both round and next their naked skins, and so with their perfect senses work or do any service in recovering and taking up any goods or merchandise lost under water with greater ease and vigour than ever heretofore practised—to prepare a bill to pass the Great Seal, containing a grant to the said Henry Ayscoghe, his executors and assigns, for the sole use and benefit of the said invention for the term of fourteen years.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 327
279 August 14. Windsor.	Warrant to Henry Frederick Thynne, Keeper of the Library at St. James's, to deliver to the Benedictine Monks there such books as they shall desire, taking the receipt of Fr. Thomas Howard for their return.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 327
280 August 14. Windsor.	Grant of denization to Menasses Mendez, Andrew Lopez, Abraham Demarcado, Jacob Frances Munes, Jacob Bueno Henriques, jun. and Josuah Bueno Henriques.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 328
281 August 14. Windsor.	Grant of the dignities of a Baron, Viscount and Earl to Sir Francis Ratcliffe of Dilston, bart., and to his heirs male by the name, style and title of Baron Tyndall, Viscount Ratcliffe and Langley and Earl of Derwentwater, with the usual fees to support the dignities (see no. 246 above).
	S.P. 44/337, p. 329
282 August 14. Windsor.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord Deputy of Ireland. His Majesty having received an account as well from you as the Earl of Dunbarton and others of the bearer Sir John Edgeworth's constant loyalty and services to and sufferings for the Crown, commands me to recommend that something may be done for him either in the next Parliament to be held in Ireland or otherwise. He is persuaded that this gentleman is very deserving and may be useful to his service.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 249
283 August 14. Windsor.	Warrant to the Lord Deputy of Ireland to cause letters patent to be made containing a grant to Nicholas Shee, Walter Kealy, Richard Madding, John Pursell, Conlan Cashin, John Fitzpatrick, Edward Gough, Charles Callinan, John Hicky, Thomas Connor, Brian Shiele, James Cullen, Morgan Brian, John Hayes, Doctors in Physick, and such other Doctors of Physick as thought fit, to be in deed and in name one body and perpetual community by the name of the President and Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians in Kilkenny, and for Nicholas Shee to be first President thereof and after his death or removal the said College or Community to choose yearly such other person as President as shall be approved by the Lord Deputy or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland; and likewise empowering the said College or Community to elect and choose from time to time such of the said profession as they, or the major part of them, and the said President, with the approbation of the Lord Deputy or other Chief Governor, shall judge fit to be added to the said Community, and for letting them have a common seal and ability to purchase lands, etc., not exceeding £100, with ability to sue and be sued; and forbidding the exercise by any person of the faculties of physick, chirurgery, and selling of drugs and apothecaries within the cities of Kilkenny, Waterford and Cashell, the towns of Clonmell, Caterlogh, Mariborough, Wexford and Athey, and all other towns and places in the counties of the said several cities, and counties of Kilkenny, Waterford, Queen's County, Tipperary, Catherlogh, Kildare and Wexford as shall be approved by the Lord Deputy or other Chief Governor, unless he or they be admitted thereunto by the said President and Community, under the penalty of £5 for every month in which such person not so admitted shall exercise any of the said faculties—one half thereof to go to the Crown and the other half to the President of the said College; with such other beneficial clauses etc. as granted by the late King to the College of Physicians in Dublin, and as may render the grant more effectual, with a clause reserving power to the Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland to remove by Order of Council the President or any of the Fellows or Officers of the said College.
	S.O. 1/12, pp. 215–7
284 August 14. Windsor.	Warrant to Richard, Lord Preston, Master of the Great Wardrobe, to deliver, or cause to be delivered, to Charles Villiers, Clerk of the Cheque to the Yeomen of the Guard, or to Thomas Coleman, his deputy, 120 livery coats (100 for the King's Guard and 20 for the Yeomen Warders at the Tower), 120 pairs of breeches, 120 bonnets, 120 pairs of stockings, 120 waist belts and 50 carbine belts, together with the sum of £120 for the provision of cloth for watching gowns.
	S.O. 1/12, p. 218
285 August 15.	Francis Carye to Sir Joseph Williamson, at his house in Garmon Street in St. James's, London. Against you come to Sutton I believe I shall get a map of the several tenements with the number of acres and take a view of the salt marsh and get it put in the same map. I writ to Lady Catherine by the last post and enclosed a bill of £50.
	S.P. 31/3, fol. 118
286 August 15. Windsor.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Earl of Craven. The King has appointed the Lord Chancellor and Lord Middleton to continue in London during his progress. If in that time anything shall occur in your station that may be necessary for his service, he would have you acquaint them with it.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 380
287 August 15. Windsor.	The King to the Master and Fellows of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. Requiring them to admit Henry Scrivener, Doctor in Physic, into the first foundation fellowship that is or shall become vacant, he having been recommended by the King's letters dated Nov. 15 last for the fellowship enjoyed by John Gascarth, as soon as it should become void, but having not yet received the benefit intended him.
	S.P. 44/57, p. 177
288 August 15. Windsor.	The King to the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. Recommending Benjamin Postlock, B.A., of that college for the next vacant fellowship of that college after those persons are provided for who have already obtained the King's letters.
	S.P. 44/57, p. 178
289 August 15. Windsor.	Reference to Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Admiralty, of the petition of Joseph Colinge, for leave to work with an engine which he hath found out to remove the shoals and shelves in the Thames obstructive to navigation, he taking only 6d. per tun for the ballast.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 373
290 August 15. Windsor.	Reference to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the petition of Elisabeth, widow of Thomas Jarvis, and Thomas, their son, that a bond may be discharged in Virginia.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 373
291 August 15. Windsor.	Reference to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the petition of Ralph Carey for authority to inspect the proceedings of the protonotaries and receive the fines of 6s. 8d. payable upon certain pleas in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, paying £50 per annum into the Exchequer for the same.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 374
292 August 15. Windsor.	Warrant for a commission of lieutenancy in the usual form to Robert, Lord Ferrers for co. Stafford in the room of Charles, Earl of Shrewsbury. Minute.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 415
293 August 15.	Commission to Isaac Davies to be ensign of Sir John Hanmer's company in the regiment of foot commanded by the Marquess of Worcester. Minute.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 391
294 August 15. Windsor.	Warrant signifying the Royal pleasure that the sum of £5, being a Fee of Homage, should be paid to the Corporals of the Yeomen of the Guard on the King's first entrance to any Town Corporate or Cathedral Church, unless specially remitted under the Royal Signet and Sign Manual.
	S.P. 44/337, pp. 329–30
295 August 15. Windsor.	Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General to prepare a bill to pass the Great Seal, containing a grant to Matthew Turner of Holborn, bookseller, and his assigns, of sole power, licence, privilege and authority to print, reprint, utter or sell, either in the Latin or English tongues, any of the books hereafter mentioned without incurring any penalties, etc., under former statutes:
	The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent; The works of Lewis de Granade; The works of Francis de Sales; The devotional treatises of St. Augustin; The works of Thomas a Kempis; The devotional treatises of St. Bonaventure; Fr. Parsons' Christian Directory or Book of Resolutions; as also his Treatises of the three conversions of England; A Journal of Meditations for each day in the year, by N.B.; Meditations used at Lisbon College; The Christian daily exercise, by T.V.; Paradisus anima Christiana: The Key of Paradise; Stella's Contempt of the World; The works of Hierimias Drenellius; The devotional treatises of Cardinal Bona; Bede's Ecclesiastical History; Turbeville's Manual of Controversies; Vane's Lost Sheep Returned; Portraiture of the Church; Catholic Scripturist; Historical collections in the reign of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and King James; The devotional works of Cardinal Bellarmine; The Question of Questions; The works of Lewis de Puente; The works of Alphonsus Rodrigues; The poor man's devotion.
	The number of any one of the said books printed in any one year not to exceed four thousand.
	S.P. 44/337, pp. 339–41
296 August 15. Windsor.	The King to the Prince of Orange. I have received yours by this bearer, M. Zulistein, in which you let me know the part you take in the death of the late Duchess of Modena. (fn. 5)
	Holograph. S.P. 8/4, no. 4
297 August 15. Windsor.	Warrant to the Lord Deputy of Ireland to suspend any sentence that may be passed upon George Buchanan, accused of killing James Part, until the King's further pleasure be made known.
	S.O. 1/12, p. 215
298 August 16. Windsor.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord Deputy of Ireland. The King is still of the same mind in relation to the corporations, thinking it very fit and necessary that this power should be transmitted to his successors as entire as he received it; and would therefore have you despatch the Charters with that clause inserted without any further delay, according to the directions already sent you.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 250
299 August 18.	John Rooke to Lady Catherine O'Brien, Baroness of Clifton, at Cobham Hall near Gravesend, co. Kent. I called at Mr. Solicitor's this day, but he was at Epsom. His clerk told me he had not made his report yet. I have not yet got the list from Mr. Best. He has been very ill, but is a little better now. Sir Hugh Campbell is not yet come to town, but is expected every day.
	S.P. 31/3, fol. 114
300 August 20. London.	John Rooke to Sir Joseph Williamson, at Cobham Hall near Gravesend, co. Kent. After I had received yours by Mobbs I went immediately to the man at Smithfield Bars, but found him not. His wife said Saturday was a dunning day and he was gone amongst the butchers (to whom he had sold cattle) for money. She did not know when he might return. I waited till almost 6 o'clock and could not meet with him, so left a note of my business and that I would call on Monday morning. His wife said the money was ready but they did not know the day when we would call. Mr. Cory had given them advice of it. The other man, Mr. Thirkell, did not lodge there, but in Wapping. I found him not within, and left a note for him also. On Monday I shall go again to these men and receive what money I can get.
	Sir Hugh Campbell is come to town. I went to him this morning, gave him my Lady's letter and left him the other paper to peruse. Your command shall be observed to have in readiness the supper, etc., against you come. I shall speak to Mr. Weston on Monday morning about the labourer, also to the woodmonger. All is safe here.
	S.P. 31/3, fol. 117
301 August 20.	The Earl of Middleton to Henry Evans, messenger. Warrant, on information received that Magnus Mason, master of the Providence lately arrived from Holland, has on board two small parcels marked W.S. containing scandalous libels against the King and his Government, which he promises by his bill of lading to deliver to William Spence or his assigns, to search the ship for the two said parcels of books or libels, seize them and bring them to the Earl, and to take Mason into custody and bring him before the Earl to answer to such treasonable matters as shall be objected against him.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 382
302 August 21. Bath.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Duke of Albemarle. The Spanish Ambassador having continued his earnest and pressing solicitations that no other method be taken for reducing the pirates in the West Indies than by sending a squadron of ships thither, and having insisted that the person to command it be Sir Robert Holmes, the King has this evening determined and declared in Council that such a squadron shall be forthwith set out under Sir Robert Holmes as sole commissioner. It is therefore his pleasure that you return by this messenger the proclamation now in your hands relating to the pirates to be cancelled, and he thinks it very much for his service that you no longer delay your departure for Jamaica but take the first opportunity of proceeding on your voyage.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 381
303 August 21. Bath.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Senior Fellow of St. Mary Magdalen College. The King having by his letters mandatory required the Fellows of that college to admit the Bishop of Oxford as President, immediately upon receipt hereof he would have you assemble the Fellows and communicate to them his said letters. He expects ready obedience herein and I desire you will send me an account of your proceedings as soon as you can that I may acquaint him with it.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 382
304 August 21. Bath.	Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a commission to Sir John Peake, Lord Mayor, and the Lord Mayor of London for the time being, George, Lord Jeffreys of Wem, Chancellor of England, Sir Thomas Jenner, Baron of the Exchequer, Sir William Hooker, Sir John Tate, Recorder of London, and the Recorder for the time being, Sir Robert Vyner, knt. and bart., Sir Jonathan Raymond, Sir John Shorter, Sir Peter Daniell, Sir William Goslyn, Sir Peter Vandeputt, Sir Thomas Kensey, Sir Thomas Rawlinson, Sir Thomas Fowle, John Jolliffe, Samuel Thompson, John Bawden, Sir Basil Firebrace, Sir John Parsons, Humphrey Edwyn, William Kiffin, John Mawson, James Paul, William Ashurst, Sir Richard Hawkins, John Gardner, Sir John Eyles, Edward Underhill, Thomas Redbard, John Berry, Sir John Werden, bart., Sir Nicholas Butler, Sir Dudley North, Sir John Buckworth, Thomas Chudleigh, Jacob Lucy, Sir Peter Paravicini, William Pepys, Sir John Cutler, bart., Sir William Dodson, Sir James Ward, Sir Thomas Bludworth, Sir Edmund Wiseman, Sir Thomas Duvall, Thomas Cowden, Edward Beaker, John Jeffreys, Adrian Quiney, John Wallis, Nicholas Charlton, Anthony Sturt, Henry Loades, Ralph Box, John Short, William Hedges, Hugh Strode, William Strong, William Winbury, Thomas Colson, William Warren, John Bull, Sir Denny Ashburnham, bart., Dr. Charles Davenent, Sir John Friend, Joseph Hornby, Richard Graham, Felix Colvert, Francis Parry and James Mundy, to be commissioners of lieutenancy of the City of London, with power to any seven of them, whereof the Lord Mayor, Lord Jeffreys, Sir Thomas Jenner, Sir William Hooker, Sir John Tate, Sir Robert Vyner, Sir Jonathan Raymond, Sir John Shorter, Sir Peter Daniell, Sir William Goslin, Sir Peter Vandeputt or Sir Thomas Kensey be one, to perform all things contained in the last commission; and to insert the clause now usually inserted in commissions of the peace, dispensing the persons [above named] from taking the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and subscribing the Test and receiving the Sacrament.
	S.P. 44/164, p. 416
305 August 21. Bath.	The Queen to the Prince of Orange, thanking him for sending M. Zulistein with an assurance of the Prince's condolences on the death of her mother. (fn. 6)
	Holograph. S.P. 8/4, no. 48
306 August 21. Bath.	The King to the Prince of Orange. I find by yours of the 21 (N.S.), which I received since my arrival here, that you did not expect so good news from Hungary as the letters of the tenth of this month brought us. I confess I did not expect so good news, and hope they will make the right use of so great a victory. Tomorrow I am to go for Gloucester and so intend to continue on my progress as I have designed.
	Holograph. S.P. 8/4, no. 49
307 August 22. Windsor.	Warrant to the Lord Lieutenant and Lord Deputy of Ireland—after reciting that Robert Hill, whom the States General of the United Provinces have appointed to be their consul in Ireland, has desired a royal letter for his admission to exercise that office with such privileges and protections as the King's consuls enjoy in the States' dominions, and that he may have leave to transport into Ireland his family, goods, merchandize and other necessaries and that the same liberty may be granted to several other families with their goods, merchandizes and working tools for setting up a manufacture in that Kingdom; and that the consideration thereof was referred to the Lord Lieutenant, who has reported that he has consulted with the lords of the Privy Council of Ireland and with the principal merchants and traders in Dublin and that all parties are agreed that the admission of a Dutch consul in the manner proposed might be a means to advance and promote trade to the common benefit of the nation and to the increase of the customs—to admit the said Robert Hill as consul of the States General of the United Netherlands to reside and act under that character in such place or places as they shall judge most expedient, and to permit him to transport himself, his family, goods and merchandizes thither and to settle and establish himself and them and to enjoy all rights, privileges and advantages enjoyed by the King's consuls within the dominions of the States General, and to give requisite passports to such persons with their families, goods, merchandizes and working tools for the setting up of manufactures as Hill shall reasonably propose.
	S.O. 1/12, p. 178
308 August 23.	Warrant signed by Lord Middleton directed to Thomas Smith, messenger, to take into custody — Tatham lately brought from Pennsylvania and keep him safely till further order. Minute.
	S.P. 44/54, p. 383
309 August 24. Ludlow.	The King's pass for Sir John St. Barbe, one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, being suddenly fallen ill by a defluction from his lungs and advised by his physicians to go to Montpelier in France, with his lady and servants, to embark in any port and to return with like freedom.
	S.P. 44/70, p. 282
310 August 25. London.	The Earl of Halifax to the Prince of Orange. . . . There are some things that can never prevail upon men's minds, if they have time enough to consider them. This may be the present case, the whole kingdom being now so well informed that all men are settled in their dislike of the unwelcome thing that is endeavoured to be imposed on them; this consideration alone freeth me in great measure from the fears I might otherwise have . . . (fn. 7)
	Holograph. S.P. 8/1, pt. 2, fols. 143–6
311 August 26. Shrewsbury.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Duke of Albemarle. I laid your letters of the 19th and 23rd before his Majesty. As to the taking a view of the militia in the several plantations where you touch, he consents to what you desire and the necessary orders shall be despatched as soon as possible. As to the commission to Sir Robert Holmes, his Majesty did not take that resolution out of any suspicion or distrust of your Grace (with whom he is entirely satisfied) but thought it absolutely necessary for the effectual suppressing those pirates that the squadron for the West Indies should be commanded by one who could solely attend to that service. He therefore chose Sir Robert Holmes, being the rather induced to it by the earnest and pressing instances of the Spanish Ambassador, which he thought so well grounded as not to be refused.
	S.P. 44/56, p. 382
312 August 26. Whitchurch.	The King to [the Attorney General]. Warrant—after reciting the petition of Joseph Mason of Norwich showing that he has lately invented an engine by the help of which a weaver may perform the whole work of weaving such stuffs as the greatest weaving trade in Norwich now depends on without the help of a draft boy, which engine has been tried and found of great use, and praying letters patent—for a grant of a special licence to the said Mason, his executors and assigns for the sole making of the said engine for the term of fourteen years, with the usual prohibitions, etc.
	S.P. 44/70, p. 283
313 August 26. Shrewsbury.	Warrant to the Justices of Assize and Gaol Delivery for the Oxford Circuit and all others whom it may concern, to cause Anne Collins, sentenced to death for killing her bastard child, to be inserted in the next General Pardon, without any condition of transportation.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 332
314 August 26. Shrewsbury.	Like warrant to the same for inserting John Carter and Thomas Carter, condemned to die at the last assizes held at Oxford, in the next General Pardon, without any condition of transportation.
	S.P. 44/337, p. 332
315 August 29. Chester.	Reference to the Earl of Tyrconnell, Lord Deputy of Ireland, of the draft of a letter for authorising him to pass a grant to Garrett Wesley of the reversion and remainder of the manor of Dingen and other lands in Ireland passed to his father by a decree of the late Commissioners for executing the Acts of Settlement.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 374
316 August 29. Chester.	Reference to the same of the petition of Elisabeth and Dorothy Gorges showing that in consideration of £500 paid with the consent of the late King their father Robert Gorges had a pension of £100 per annum granted him during life, but that soon after passing of it he was left out of the establishment, and since has not received any money on it, and praying that on surrender of the old patent the pension may be granted to them and the survivor of them.
	S.P. 44/71, p. 375
317 August 29. Chester.	The Earl of Sunderland to the Lord Deputy of Ireland. The King commands me to signify his pleasure that Father Bennet Tatlock, a Capuchin, remain in Ireland under obedience to his local superior without pretending either mission or superiority in England or Scotland or being any way superior to those of his order in Ireland.
	S.P. 63/340, p. 250
318 [August.]	Francis Price, vicar of Blackburne in La[ncashire], to Thomas, Bishop of Chester. Upon the eighth day of this instant August, 1687, Mr. William Crosse of Upper Darwen in the parish of Blackburne demanded of me the keys of the chapel of Darwen, to which as vicar of Blackburne I have an indubitable right, pretending that the King had assigned it for the use of such of the inhabitants as did not conform to the Church of England. But because in the licence which he showed me I did not find the word 'chapel' once mentioned, nor anything sounding like it, excepting one expression 'We have allowed and do hereby allow of a meeting-place erected in Darwen in the parish of Blackburne', I could not consent to the delivery of the keys till I was satisfied that his Majesty meant the chapel. Yet I offered to deliver them if three of the Justices of the Peace apprehended that those words in the licence were to be interpreted of the chapel and not of another edifice already set apart by some of the dissenters. This motion was rejected, and since then the doors of the chapel have been broken open and the curate not permitted to perform his ministerial offices; which I humbly desire you to make known to his Majesty and to beseech him to certify whether he meant the chapel of Darwen in the words quoted. If he did not, I beg you would issue an order to be affixed to the door of Darwen chapel that no minister presume to preach there but such as are duly licensed by you. But if you find that the chapel is meant, and that his Majesty thinks fit to waive my title and determine against my curate's readmission, we shall not impatiently repine, nor uncharitably censure, much less undutifully disobey, but in all becoming silence sit down in submission to his Majesty's good will and pleasure.
	The inner pages of the same folded sheet contain:
	(i) An abstract headed 'Contents of this [the foregoing] Petition', from which it further appears that on Sunday last [in the margin, Aug. 21] one Heywood, a nonconformist, had a meeting and preached in the chapel, and that the curate's name was William Coulton.
	(ii) The Warden and Fellows of Christ's College, Manchester, to the Bishop of Chester. Petition, after reciting that Birch chapel in the parish of Manchester had been seized by one Mr. Finch, a nonconforming minister, or some others for him, and violently detained from the curate sent to supply it by the petitioners, that the Bishop will represent to his Majesty that the chapel may be restored to the petitioners for the exercise of divine service according to the usage of the Church of England.
	The sheet is endorsed: About the chapel of Darwin in the county of Lancaster; in another hand: August 1687; and in pencil: 21 Aug. 1687.
	Copy.
	S.P. 31/3, fols. 41–2