William and Mary: November 1689 | British History Online

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1689-90. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1895.

'William and Mary: November 1689', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1689-90, (London, 1895) pp. 311-341. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/will-mary/1689-90/pp311-341 [accessed 23 April 2024]

November 1689



Nov. 1.	Account of supply due and of money paid to the forces from the previous 27th March. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 6, No. 27.]
Nov. 1.	Commission for John Johnson, gent., to be quarter-master in Sir James Leslie's regiment of foot. [H.O. Military Entry Book 2, p. 127.]
Nov. 1. Whitehall.	Commission for Henry Higden for be a lieutenant to LieutenantColonel Charles Cotton, in the second regiment of foot guards, commanded by Colonel Thomas Talmash. [Ibid. 3, p. 8.]
Nov. 1. Whitehall.	Commission for Randolph Cooke for be ensign in Captain Richard Wibrow's company in the regiment of foot commanded by Sir George St. George; and Charles Ashe, gent., to be ensign to Captain Nicholas Brady in Sir George St. George's regiment. [Ibid., p. 11.]
Nov. 1. Whitehall.	Commission to John Cradock, gent., to be lieutenant to Samuel Pash's company in Sir George St. George's regiment. [Ibid., p. 12.]
Nov. 1. Holland House,	Warrant for William Scott, cabinet maker in Edinburgh, to be sole and only maker of cane chairs in Scotland. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 14, p. 206.
Nov. 1. Holland House.	Warrant for a commission for Mr. Andrew Kennedy of Clowburn to be conservator of the Scots' privileges at Campheir, and Resident for the affairs of Scotland in the seventeen provinces of the Netherlands. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant. Book 14, p. 207.]
Nov. 1. Holland House.	Warrant for a gift of a yearly fee of 100l. to the same Andrew Kennedy as their Majesties' conservator of the Scots' privileges in the Netherlands, and Resident for Scotch affairs in the seventeen provinces of the Low Countries. [Ibid., p. 209.]
Nov. 1.	Pass for Samuel Legat to go from London to Devonshire. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 491]; and post-warrant for William Sutton to go to Oxford. [Ibid., p. 150.]
Nov. 2. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to the Commissioners of the Great Seal, Colonel Whitley, who was lately named by his Majesty to be Custos Rotulorum for the county of Flint, desiring to be excused from that office, it is his Majesty's pleasure that a bill be prepared for his son, Thomas Whitley, esq., to hold that office. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 178.]
Nov. 2. Whitehall.	The same to Mayor of Dover. Since my letter to you of the 22nd October, about stopping the ports, some of those persons have appeared who were the occasion of those orders being given; therefore the orders may be relaxed; but permit only those to pass who are allowed. Even those that have passes must be searched for letters which are to be examined, and, if necessary, sent here. [Ibid., entered again, in part, on p. 180.]
Nov 2. Whitehall.	The same to Sir William Dolben. At the sessions at the Old Bailey before the last, there was tried, when you were upon the bench, one John Harman a Dutch soldier for killing a young child, for which he was found guilty and received sentence of death. Many applications having been made to the King to pardon him, you will do a favour if you send me an account how these facts appeared to you on the trial that I may lay them before the King. [Ibid., p. 180.]
Nov. 2. Whitehall.	Warrant to Lord Lucas to receive Edward, Lord Griffin into the Tower, for holding correspondence with the King's enemies. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 495.]
Nov. 2.	Warrant for arrest of Mons. Chretien, a Frenchman, for disobeying an order to quit the kingdom. [Ibid., p. 495.]
Nov. 3.	Warrant for arrest of the Earl of Ancrum on suspicion of dangerous designs against the Government. [Ibid., p. 495.]
Nov. 2.	Warrant for keeper of the Gate House to receive the body of — Patrick, committed for high treason. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 13.]
Nov. 2.	Passes and post-warrants for Mr. John Blondeel and Mr. Peter Van Hoechen to go to Holland; for Mr. Thomas Jervais to go from London to Basingstoke; for Dr. Hutton, his Majesty's first physician in ordinary, to go to Holland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Books 34, p. 494]; and for Cornelius Witteman and David Witteman to go to Holland [Ibid., p. 495.]
Nov. 3. Paris.	James Kenney to Andrew Browne. Inside is a copy of the attestation you must send me under the Earl of Tyrconnell's hand. I hope this will find you and all friends well. Let none of my friends expect to hear from me as yet; the bearer will tell the reason. [S.P. Dom. Will. & Mary 2, p. 45.] Appending:—
Nov. 3. Paris.	Draft certificate that Andrew Brown and James Kenney are natives of "this town" and Roman Catholics, good and faithful subjects of King James the Second, and that certain goods shipped from the island of Montserrat are their property. [Ibid., No. 45 (i).]
Nov. 3. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to Major Wildman. Lord Griffin being now come in, the King thinks it unnecessary to continue the stop any longer upon the ports and the packet boats may now go as formerly even to Calais, until you break off entirely that way of sending letters. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's), p. 179.]
Nov. 3. Whitehall.	Pass for William Wilkins to embark at Cheshire, or elsewhere, for Ireland. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 35, p. 150.]
Nov. 4. Dundalk.	The Duke of Schomberg to the King. My French secretary has fallen sick. Describes the four regiments arrived from Scotland; Hastings' troop does not consist of 300 soldiers. The enemy cannot be forced to battle on account of the nature of the country. Unless arrangements are made here, similar to those in France and Flanders, for furnishing supplies at fixed prices, it will not be possible to sustain this war. Expresses his devotion to the King, which induces him to endure so many hardships.
	November 5. Most of the enemy's army has marched towards Drogheda, except eight regiments of infantry and one of cavalry, left in a fortification made at Ardee. From what can be learnt from deserters and the country people a number of them are dead. I, yesterday, sent away some of the regiments, as I should have done the whole army if I had dared to quit this position where we have ships in which we have our sick; but the contrary wind hindered the ships from going out from this port in which from its position they are not secure from being burnt by the enemy. I am surprised at not hearing anything of Trelawny's descent on the "parts of Kinsale." I can hardly believe that the enemy suspected his movement, as they sent a large detachment from Sligo, where Colonel Russell has lost some men. Having stayed six days at Enniskillen, with the troops with which he left here, he tells me that he has retired to Ballyshannon I have sent from here all the Enniskillen troops, and Lanier, with his regiment and that of Hesfoot [Heyford ?]. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 6, No. 28]
Nov. 4. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to Major General Kirke. I received your letter of the 24th October, with one enclosed, which, by its contents I understood to be from Justin Macarty, though I find it subscribed by another name, and, for that reason, I cannot send an answer directly to himself, which I would otherwise have done, in remembrance of our former acquaintance, because I believe he has forgot the old name which we knew one another by, and here we have not yet learnt the new one. However, I have still the same esteem for him that I ever had and heartily wish him his liberty, and for the procuring it I readily joined, in the expedient proposed of exchanging him for Lord Mountjoy, and hoped to have heard that some course had been taken towards effecting it, which now depends upon the endeavours that are to be used in Ireland. I am so well satisfied as to his being a man of honour, that, as for myself, I should rely upon his word for anything he might engage in; but, this being the concern of another gentleman who certainly has suffered, and still suffers, extremely, as well as undeservedly, I cannot act in it, but by the advice of his friends, who from the usage Lord Mountjoy has hitherto met with "are very jealous that they would be more careless of giving him his liberty if they once understood" (Letter imperfect ?). [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 179.]
Nov. 4.	Message from the King to Convocation. His Majesty has summoned this convocation not only because it is usual upon holding of a Parliament, but out of a pious zeal to do everything that may tend to the best establishment of the Church of England, which is so eminent a part of the reformation and is certainly the best suited to the constitution of this government, and therefore does most signally deserve and shall always have both his favour and protection; and he doubts not but that you will assist him in promoting the welfare of it, so that no prejudices, with which some men may have laboured to possess you, shall disappoint his good intentions or deprive the church of any benefit from your consultations. His Majesty therefore expects that the things that shall be proposed shall be calmly and impartially considered by you, and assures you that he will offer nothing to you but what shall be for the honour, peace, and advantage both of the protestant religion in general, and particularly of the Church of England. Note. This message was delivered by Lord Nottingham. [H.O. Church Book 1, p. 44.]
Nov. 4.	Pass to Colonel Richard Crofton, Captain George Brook, Captain Boyle Allworth, Mr. James Smith, Mr. James Temple, Mr. Robert Chilham, Mr. James Chilham, Mr. John Hinde, Mr. Henry Brooke, Mr. George Brooke, Mr. Blainy, with two servants of Colonel Crofton, to go from Chester, Liverpool or Hoylake to Ireland. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 497.]
Nov. 5. Oxford.	Dr. John Wallis to the Earl of Shrewsbury. I sent you by the common post on Sunday morning, that you might have it the sooner, the postscript of that letter the body of which I send with this, which is in Mons. De Teil's second cipher. There is another letter of the same date (Oct. 5, 1689), and I suppose from the same hand, but to some other person, and it is in a different cipher from any I have yet deciphered, which will create a new difficulty. The other letters, whether some or all of them are in a new cipher, I have not yet examined. [S.P. Dom. Will & Mary 2, No. 46.].
Nov. 5. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to the Mayor of Bristol. His Majesty having been moved in Council about prisoners in several parts of this kingdom, upon the directions given for stopping the ports and apprehending all dangerous and suspicious persons, I desire you to send me a correct list of all such as are imprisoned in any of your gaols, by virtue of such directions, with as full an account as you can of the quality of the persons, their respective crimes, and the evidence against them, wherein you are to take the advice of some neighbouring justices of the peace and to transmit the same to me that it may be considered and further directions given. Similar letters were sent to the mayors of Pembroke, Chester, Liverpool, and Carlisle, and to the chief magistrate of Whitehaven, Holyhead, and Beaumaris. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 181.]
Nov. 5. Whitehall.	The same to Lords of the Admiralty. I wrote to your lordships, formerly, concerning orders to be given for the bringing Mr. (sic.) Charles Scarborough from Lisbon; but his friends, now considering the uncertainty when one of his Majesty's ships may call there, and there being a fleet now going to the Groyne, from whence some of the ships are immediately to return here, they think this the best opportunity he can have; and, his Majesty approving of it, you are to give the necessary orders that if he arrive at the Groyne before the fleet sail from thence, he, his servants, and equipage, be received on board and brought to England. [Ibid.]
Nov. 5.	Grant of the place of residentiary in St. Paul's, void by the promotion of Dr. Stillingfleet to the bishopric of Worcester, to Dr. Stanley. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 72, p. 247.]
Nov. 5.	Passes and post-warrants for Thomas Pulteney, to go from London to Chester, Hoylake or any other part of the kingdom and from thence to Ireland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 494]; and for Mr. James Vergier, a Frenchman, to go to France, he being ordered to quit the kingdom. [Ibid., p. 497.]
Nov. 6.	The King grants the place of residentiary in St. Paul's, void by the promotion of Dr. Tillotson to the archbishopric of Canterbury, to Dr. Sherlock. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 72, p. 247.]
Nov. 6. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to the Principal Commissioners of Prizes. At the instance of the Spanish Ambassador, his Majesty has directed a commission of appeal for receiving some sentences, lately given in the Court of Admiralty, and particularly in the case of the ship St. Joseph; that commission not as yet being appointed under the Great Seal, the persons concerned in the said ship desire that this delay may not prove prejudicial to them, and that their goods may in the mean time be unladen [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 182.]
Nov. 6. Whitehall.	The same to the Lords of the Admiralty. Enclosing a letter from the Trinity House at Hull with a request that they will give such orders therein as will be for the benefit of his Majesty's service and the encouragement of trade. [Ibid., p. 183.]
Nov. 6.	Pass to Mr. Jacque Audineau to go from Dover to Flanders or Nieuwport. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book, 34, p. 497.]
Nov. 7. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to the Wardens of the Trinity House at Hull. I have sent your letter to the Lords of the Admiralty, who will give the necessary orders in this matter. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 182.]
Nov. 7. Cassel.	Sir W. D. Colt to Mr. Warre. Continental news. On the 5th inst. "the day his Majestie landed most happily in England, the Landgrave made a most noble entertainment on purpose, drinking to the health and prosperity of their Majesties." [H.O. Regencies 1, p. 96.]
Nov. 7. Whitehall.	Warrant for a grant, to John Stede, gentleman, of the office of clerk of the market of St. Michaels alias Bridge Town, Spykes Town, and all other towns on the island of Barbadoes as fully as Thomas Robson, gentleman, held it. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 1.]
Nov. 7. Whitehall.	Warrant for a grant to Richard Lloyd, esq., of the offices of clerk of the crown and clerk of the peace in Jamaica. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 498.]
Nov. 7. Whitehall.	Warrant to Sir Thomas Ogle, governor of Chelsea Hospital, to admit Christopher Capel, as barber to that hospital. [Ibid. 35, p. 150.]
Nov. 7. Whitehall.	Passes for the Hannah and Jane, Robert Hepburne, master, to sail from London to Spain. [H.O. Admiralty 3, p. 22.]
Nov. 8. Navy Office.	Sir John Berry to the Marquis of Carmarthen. I send your lordship a list of those ships that were hired for their Majesties' service, with an account of which of them victualled for the West Indies and which for Newfoundland. [S.P. Dom. Will. & Mary 2, No. 47.]
Nov. 8. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of John Ridgway, praying for a grant of the ships and goods belonging to rebels in Ireland. Referred to the Commissioners of the Treasury. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 218.]
Nov. 8. Whitehall.	Licence to Sir William Williams, one of the King's counsel, to act as counsel for Gaynor Jones and William Crosse in an action brought against them. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 2.]
Nov. 8. Whitehall.	Passes for Jean Desperoy to go with his necessaries from any part of the river or from Harwich to Holland [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 1]; for Mr. Benjamin Barton, John Green, and John St. Loe, his servant, to go from any part of the river or from Harwich, to Holland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 497.]
Nov. 9. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to Captain Killigrew. Mr. Baker, who has been proposed to go with you into the Straits, to be employed in ratifying the peace with Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, in case you cannot attend that service yourself, insists upon such high terms that I question if the King will purchase his service at so high a rate5l. a day, the pay of an envoy. He also claims an arrear of above 600l. due to him while consul at Tripoli. Whereupon I have considered that as nothing more is now required than the confirmation of the treaties as they stand at present, without any alteration, whether this might not be as well, or better, performed by any of the captains of the fleet who may be supposed to have at least as much respect paid him as to one who has lived, and is known, amongst those people. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 184.]
Nov. 9. Whitehall.	Warrant to swear Thomas Nowell as serjeant of the Admiralty of the Cinque Ports. [H.O. Admiralty 3,p. 22]
Nov. 9. Holland House.	Blank warrant for a gift of the office of writing and keeping of the Minute Book of the Lords of Session. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 14,p. 210.]
Nov. 9. Whitehall.	Warrant for Richard Browne, one of the messengers of his Majesty's chamber in ordinary, to search for and arrest James Bruce for dispersing scandalous and seditious news against the Government, and to seize all his papers. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 3.]
Nov. 9. Whitehall.	Warrant for John Grobham How, esquire, to hold weekly markets on Saturdays and three fairs yearly, on the 11th April, the 24th June, and the 29th September, in the town of Pontypool lying in the manors of Wentsland and Bringwin, in the county of Monmouth. The said manors being the inheritance of Anne and Frances Morgan, infants, daughters of Sir Edward Morgan, deceased, whose mother is married to the said John Grobham How. [Ibid.]
Nov. 9. Whitehall.	Passes and post-warrants for Philipp Draycot, esquire, to go with two servants and three horses from Dorsetshire to his own house in Staffordshire [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 1]; and for the Earl of Arran to go, with four horses and three servants, from London to Scotland. [Ibid., p. 2.]
Nov. 10. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to the Lord Chamberlain. His Majesty having seen your report upon Sir (sic) Charles Scarborough's petition, concerning his lodgings in Scotland Yard, and approving the settlement made thereof by King Charles II., is pleased that Sir Charles should be continued in the quiet possession of the same during his life. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 183.]
Nov. 10 Whitehall.	Warrant to apprehend Joseph Gilstrep for high treason. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 10.]
Nov. 11. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to Mr. Samuel Watts, headborough of Hammersmith. You are to forthwith deliver up to Sir William Stych the two coach horses and the two padds which were lately seized, in his custody, to their Majesty's use by virtue of a late Act of Parliament for seizing horses belonging to papists he having given security for the redelivery of the same upon demand; and in the meantime they are only to be used for his intended journey for the recovery of his health. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 183.]
Nov. 11. Whitehall.	The same to the Commissioners of the Customs. A French merchant, Peter De Clos, who arrived in the west of England about January last on board the ship the St. Joahn of Rochelle, appears before me in discharge of an obligation he entered into, by direction of some of your officers at Penzance; and finding that he was secured only under a general order of council for apprehending all Frenchmen at the first rupture between the two Crowns, and considering that he was here some months before the order was made, under the necessity of looking after that ship, I am of opinion that he ought to have his liberty and the bond he has given delivered up to him. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 185.]
Nov. 11. Whitehall.	Warrant to search for and apprehend Simon Buttrice for uttering seditious words against the Government. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 5.]
Nov. 11. Whitehall.	Passes and post-warrants for Guillaume Van Battum to go with necessaries from Harwich or (any part of the river) to Holland and to return again [Ibid., p. 4]; for Mr. Peter De Clos and Francis Champelon to pass from London to Penzance in Cornwall and thence to Scilly and return; Mr. Richard Johnson to go from London to Chester; for Martin Smout to go with his necessaries from any part of the river or Harwich to Holland [Ibid., p. 5]; for John de la Haye and Peter Perrouse, the first aged 40, and the other 30, hatters by trade, and both poor French protestants. to go to Gravesend, or elsewhere and pass to Edinburgh, recommended by Mr. Torin, hatmaker at Wandsworth; for Garret Barry and James Walters, "two young gentlemen," to embark at Gravesend, or thereabouts, for Lisbon. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 35, p. 150.]
Nov. 12. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to Mr. Jephson. I desire you to acquaint the Lords of the Treasury that my letter of the 22nd of October was written by reason of Lord Griffin absenting himself; now that he has appeared there is no occasion to take more than the ordinary care to prevent the passage of such as have no allowance for it. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 185.]
Nov. 12. Whitehall.	The same to the Earl of Ranelagh. The King has been much importuned of late by the frequent petitions of the widows of several soldiers who have been killed in his service; and, as it may often happen during the war, has commanded me to signify to you to propose to him some scheme whereby he may be able to gratify petitioners of this kind to which he is graciously disposed. [Ibid., p. 186.]
Nov. 12.	News letter. The Jews will rather remove their effects into Holland than pay the imposition which Parliament has designed to lay upon them, which is 100,000l. sterling to carry on the war; that next year the rest of the 1,400,000l. to be raised by a subsidy of 2 s. in the pound of all lands, and double of those that refuse the new oath of allegiance and supremacy. It is said that the King has some jealousy of some of the Cabinet Council, for giving an account of all designs against the French for the next year, which is very unpleasant. On Sunday last, a new apartment, building in the house which the King bought of Lord Nottingham in Kensington, suddenly fell flat to the ground, killing seven or eight workmen and labourers. The Queen had been in that apartment but a little while before. Lord Arran came privately out of the Tower last night, in the dark of the evening, took a pair of oars and went to Chelsea where some servants and his horses met him, and rode away to Scotland. The House of Commons has ordered an address to be drawn up to desire the King to send fit persons to see into the state of the army in Ireland. At St. Malo they have lately taken 12 rich merchantmen from the English one of them having 80,000 pieces of eight, besides other rich lading. Lord Griffin is under the Black Rod but expects to be bailed in two or three days. Lord Preston on claiming his peerage, granted by King James as St. Germans, was committed for high treason.
	On the 5th inst. there was sent to Scotland from Berwick 40,000l. to pay the Danes with when they land. The French vessels laden with arms, ammunition, and 2,000,000 crowns, for Ireland, met with the Dover frigate and the Portland. The Dover took one of them laden with 4,000 stand of arms, powder and ammunition, the other got away for Ireland. The vessel which had the money escaped. A Danish vessel coming in four days from St. Martin's gives an account that there are 80 sail of French menof-war with 10,000 soldiers embarked ready to set sail for Ireland with all speed. Lord Berkeley is to go soon with 17 vessels, and Admiral Russell with another squadron, for Zealand, to conduct the Queen of Spain. Several commissioners are sent to Ireland to inspect the army. I am told that the Duke of Brandenburg will quit his alliance with the Emperor because the Emperor will not suffer any of the Duke's forces to have their winter quarters in his country. This is credibly told me since Lord Lexington came home from his embassy from that place. We have had a report these ten days that the French have landed eight or ten thousand men in Ireland from Brest under the command of Count Lauzon. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 3, No. 77, and Greenwich Hospital News Letter Entry Book 2, p. 353.]
Nov. 13. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Treasury. Mr. Albion Chare having made application to me to move you on his behalf for a commissioner's place of the wine licences, I desire you to recommend him to Mr. Young and Mr. Russell, the two surviving commissioners, upon a late contract, to be by them nominated for the employment. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 186.]
Nov. 13. Whitehall.	The same to the Commissioners of the Great Seal. It is sometime since his Majesty directed a commission to pass under the Great Seal for hearing causes upon appeals from the court of Admiralty, which not only the persons concerned, but the ambassadors and minister of those princes whose subjects are appellants, seem very impatient for. His Majesty, being informed that this commission lies before you, commands me to press you for its dispatch. [Ibid., p. 187.]
Nov. 13.	The Earl of Nottingham to the Earl of Torrington. There being news that several of the Danes, both horse and foot, are driven upon the coast of England, and there landed, I conclude that parts of the orders relating to the providing of more ships for their transport from Scotland will be needless, and, therefore, that you will respite the executing of it, till his Majesty's further pleasure be known to-morrow. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 56.]
Nov. 13. Whitehall.	Passes and post-warrants for Mr. Francis Gendron to go from any part of the river or Harwich to Holland; for George Gammon and Livesea Dodson to go with their necessaries from Harwich, or any part of the river, to Holland; for Mr. Thomas Foley, Mr. Bragg, Mr. Henry Ashurst, Mr. Shower, and Mr. Pruder to go with their servants and necessaries from any part of the river or Harwich to Holland [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 6]; for Mary Cunningham to go from Harwich, or any part of the river to Holland [Ibid., p. 7]; and for Peter Gautier aged 40, and Paul Galabin, aged 22, both French protestants and hatters by trade, to embark at Gravesend for Berwick-upon-Tweed, recommended by Mr. Torin. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 35, p. 151.]
Nov. 14.	— to King William. Congratulating him on his birthday, his happy descent on England and expressing admiration of his actions. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 6, No. 29.]
Nov. 14. "Luinegarve."	The Duke of Schomberg to the same. Sends this by Mr. Lumley Sir John Lanier's lieut.-colonel. Our chief difficulty is marching with a corps d'armee from the side of Sligo; we lack carriages to carry the bread, an absence that will be more felt when the Danes arrive. It is difficult to carry on the campaign at this season. I have put the troops into the villages and towns from Newry to here, and Armagh. According to Lord Shrewsbury's letter, I have given Sanky, Lovelace's regiment. Sir Henry Ingleby has the gout, and his regiment is much wasted. I have made Purcell its lieutenant-colonel. I have sent Sir John Lannier to the side of Sligo with the regiments of Halford (?) and Hastings; but he has not passed Enniskillen, making the excuse that he cannot find subsistence for the troops: the Enniskillen troops have also had order to follow him; I have had a second letter from him, full of difficulties. All this makes me see plainly that the officers only desire rest. Lanier says that his regiment was in a wretched state before going to Scotland. I have just learned that two of his horsemen have gone to give themselves up at Charlemont. A lieutenant, a "creature" of Lord Dartmouth (Dormouth), has been arrested for wishing to do the same. I have ordered Shales to send to the side of Ballyshannon, a ship laden with biscuit and meal, and have asked him how he can furnish us with carriages, in case we should wish to march in this country. Pressed for the truth, he confesses that he cannot supply more than twenty-four [ships]. Count Schomberg, having no great work tocarry on here at this season, asks permission to go to the Elector of Brandenburg to look after some business at that Court. Mr. Harboard makes great profit out of the musters, the hospital, the artillery and the payment of the troops; he is laid up with the gout. I have been laid up for a month with "une fluxeon sur la poitrine"; the doctors here advise me to go to England; asks permission to do so towards the spring. [Ibid., No. 30.]
Nov. 14. Whitehaven.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to Sir Jacob Astley. I am obliged for your account of the landing of part of the Danish forces, and I hear that more of them are come into the Humber. His Majesty has given orders that care shall be taken of them as also for their marching towards Ireland. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 187.]
Nov. 14. Whitehall.	The same to Lieutenant-Governor Billingsley. Your letter was brought to me yesterday, concerning one Kingsley, who having been formerly secured, as he was going to serve King James, has now taken the oaths and declared his intention to serve their Majesties. If you are satisfied with his security, his Majesty is willing that he be discharged. [Ibid., p. 189.]
Nov. 14. Whitehall.	The same to Captain Jeremy Lillestone. Encloses a petition presented to the King. [Ibid., p. 219.]
Nov. 14.	The Lord Chamberlain's warrant for the delivery of certain stuffs &c., to Captain Henry Killigrew, for distribution in Algiers. [Ibid., p. 213.]
Nov. 14. Cassel.	Sir W. D. Colt to Mr. Warre. I entreat the continuance of the votes of Parliament which will be of great use to me, now I am sure they are right, which often they were not when written "Confidential News." I intend to leave this Court on Monday next. [H.O. Regencies 1, p. 100.]
Nov. 14. Whitehall.	Proclamation for the apprehension of Col. Edmund Ludlow, the regicide, who has presumed to enter this kingdom. [S.P. Dom. Proclamations, Vol. 6, No. 39.]
Nov. 14. Whitehall.	Warrant for presentation of Francis Stooke, clerk, M.A., to the vicarage of Bovey Tracy in the county of Devon and diocese of Exetor, void by the death of Robert Carter. [H.O. Church Book 1, p. 36.]
Nov. 14. Whitehall.	Order, reciting that complaint had often been made that divers persons did rudely press, and with evil language and blows, force their way into the King's theatres (called the Theatre Royal in Bridge Street and the Duke's Theatre, now the Queen's Theatre, in Dorset Garden) at the time of public representations and actings, without paying the price established at both the said theatres, to the great disturbance of the King's servants licensed by royal authority, and to the danger of the public peace, and directing that no person, of what quality soever, presume to come into either of the said theatres during the time of acting nor until the plays are quite finished, without paying the price established for the respective places. The money which shall be so paid by any persons for their respective places, shall not be returned again after it is once paid, notwithstanding that such persons shall go out at any time during the play. And, to avoid further fraud, everyone shall take a ticket at the offices appointed for that purpose, and deliver it to the respective doorkeepers before they enter into the pit, first, or upper galleries.
	And forasmuch as it is impossible to command those vast engines used in operas (which move the scenes and machines), and to order such number of persons as must be employed in works of that nature, if any but such as belong thereunto be suffered to press in amongst them, it is commanded that no person, of what quality soever, presume to stand or sit on the stage, or to come within any part of the scenes at either theatre before the opera or play begins, while it is acting, or after it is ended. It is also commanded to the officers and guard of soldiers, which attend the respective theatres, not to allow any footmen and servants who attend there to come within the said theatres during the time any play or opera is being represented, or make any noise without to disturb the audience, and to see this order exactly observed. And if any person or persons whatsoever shall disobey this order he or they shall be proceeded against as "contemners" of the regal authority and disturbers of the peace. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 7.]
Nov. 14. Whitehall.	Pass for John de Iradains to go with his necessaries from Harwich, or any part of the river to Holland. [Ibid.]
Nov. 15. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to the Earl of Nottingham. The King commands your attendance at my office this afternoon at 5 o'clock. Similar letters were sent to Lord Halifax and the Marquis of Carmarthen. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 187.]
Nov. 15. Whitehall.	The Earl of Nottingham to the Lords of the Admiralty. The King gave me the enclosed letters, and recommended me to send them to you, with this direction, that he would have you cause the matter of the complaint contained in them to be strictly and speedily examined, and if you find the same to be true, that you take care the offenders be severely punished. [Ibid. 2, p. 56.]
Nov. 15. Whitehall.	The same to Mr. Fotherby. The gentleman, by whom I received yours of the 12th instant, will bring you this to welcome you into England, after the many hardships under which you have laboured. The difficulties are beginning now, on our side; for, it seems, by your letter, that it is impossible to send the troops by sea to [from ?] Scotland, without great expense and delay and greater hazard; and, therefore, though all the ships are ready at Lochryan, in Scotland, and have been so for a long time, to the great charge of the King, in order to transport the Danes into Ireland, yet the King is pleased, to prevent any further damage to the troops, and perhaps the total loss of them, to order them to be disembarked, and has written to the Prince of Wurtemberg to land them, with all speed, in order to their march by land to Chester, and from thence to be transported into Ireland. And you must on your part take more than ordinary care to prevent any abuses that may be committed by them in the country through which they shall pass; every offender is to be punished, with the utmost severity. The King has written to the Prince of Wurtemberg to the same effect that he might cause exact discipline to be observed. The King has ordered 12,000l. or 13,000l. to be sent to Hull for these troops, for which the orders will be despatched to-morrow, and may perhaps be at Hull as soon as this; so that the soldiers will be enabled to discharge their quarters and pay duly on their march. You must take an exact account of the numbers and condition of the horse and foot, and what damage or loss has been sustained in this voyage, and transmit it to me, so soon as you can, and you will also send me the ratification, by the first convenient conveyance.
	I received, yesterday, yours dated October 31, with the enclosed protest, which, by the account you then gave me, seems to have been necessary, and has now proved to be more so. If you had gone to Leith you would have found letters from me, and from Mr. Blathwait, by which you would have seen that the King has appointed you Commissary of the Musters of these troops. I have spoken to Mr. Blathwait to send you copies of the letters, and orders he sent to you at Leith, and I have enclosed here the copies of mine. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 58.]
Nov. 15. Whitehall.	Pass for Captain Arthur Keating to go to Holland. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 35, p. 151.]
Nov. 16. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to Mr. Jephson. Recommending Mr. Clarke for an entering clerk's place in the Alienation Office. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 188.]
Nov. 16. Whitehall.	The same to Sir John Bowyer. I received your letter and I take this opportunity to do you a service. I am sorry for the occasion you have to make your excuse, but the King is pleased to accept of it. being satisfied that you will not be wanting in any duty you can pay him. [Ibid.]
Nov. 16.	Passes and post-warrants for Mr. Richard Swan to go from Chester, Liverpool, or Hoylake to Ireland [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 7]; for Mr. Susannett to go to Hull; and for Jean Rodolph May, a Swiss, and Francois de Visel, a French protestant, recommended by Lord Lexington, to embark at Chester, or elsewhere, for Ireland. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 35, p. 151.]
Nov. 18. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to the Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas. I formerly sent you a bond for the appearance of Mr. Charles Orby. He having satisfied the obligation of it, I ask you to deliver it to him. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 89.]
Aug. 18. Hampton Court.	Warrant to affix the Great Seal to the grant of a baronetcy to John Ramsden of Byrom in the county of York, esquire, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 6.]
Nov. 18. Whitehall.	Warrant for the apprehension of John Trinder and other disaffected persons, who lie concealed in the houses near Lincoln's Inn Fields, for using dangerous and seditious words, and for securing their papers. Note.—That this warrant was called in and another of the same date granted, with the alteration of "in the city and liberties of Westminster, and places adjacent," for "near Lincoln's Inn Fields." [Ibid., p. 9.]
Nov. 19. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to Colonel Fairfax. I have received your letter with an account of several Danish ships putting into the Humber, which his Majesty has been acquainted with, and has given orders accordingly. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 189.]
Nov. 19. Holland House.	The King to Sir James Leslie. Whereas we are informed by George, Viscount of Tarbet, "that Major Wishart did, in October last, forcibly enter his house of New Tarbet, and did break open doors, and, contrary to law, did garrison the said house in warlike manner, being a private dwelling-house, and that the same was done by order or concurrence of David Ross of Bellengown, as also that numbers of soldiers were quartered on the said Viscount's lands on free quarters, and that several abuses were committed by the soldiers on his tenants and inhabitants there, as the double of the petition given in to us, and herewith sent to you, doth bear [witness].
	"These are desiring you to call before you at Inverness, or at some other place near these lands, where you think most expedient, the foresaid David Ross and Mr. Wishart, and others concerned as actors in what is thus represented, as also to call the said Viscount's friends, and servants, who were upon the place, and to examine the matter of fact of the said complaint, and put the same in writing, and to transmit the same to us, sealed and signed by you.
	"And further we desire to know if the said house of Tarbet be a suitable place for a garrison, or if there be not more suitable places near adjacent, and if the retiring of our forces to that place did leave the country open to the rebels, and if there were garrisons at the other end of the shire, nearer the enemy, when they were robbing Killoden's [Culloden's] lands, and whether the marching of our forces towards these garrisons would not have covered that country from the rebels, which was left open to them by retiring into Tarbet: of all which we expect an account from you." [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 14, p. 211.]
Nov. 19. Holland House.	Warrant for a ratification of the place and office of one of the Clerks of Parliament and Session to James Justice, the younger, of Easter Creightown. [Ibid., p. 212.]
Nov. 19. Holland House.	Warrant to James Rotteirs, graver of the Mint in the Tower of London, for engraving and finishing all such puncheons, counterpuncheons, matrices, and dies for the silver of Scotland, as are desired by the General or Master of the Scotch mint. [Ibid., p. 213.]
Nov. 19. Holland House.	Warrant to Sir Patrick Murray and James Oswald, receivers and collectors general of their Majesties rents, &, in Scotland, for payment of 200l. to Lord John Hamilton. [Ibid., p. 213.]
Nov. 19. Holland House.	Like warrant for payment of 200l. to William Denholme of Westsheills, master of the mint in Scotland, for defraying the cost of the instruments for the Scotch mint, made in the Tower of London. [Ibid., p. 214.]
Nov. 19. Holland House.	Commission to William Erskine to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Castle of Blackness, and lieutenant of the company of soldiers that shall happen to be in garrison there. [Ibid., p. 214.]
Nov. 19. Whitehall.	Warrant to search for and apprehend John Keagle for uttering scandalous and seditious words against the Government. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 9.]
Oct. 19. Whitehall.	Warrant to search for and arrest John Baigo, suspected to be a popish priest. [Ibid., p. 12.]
Nov. 19. Whitehall.	Passes and post-warrants for Mons. James Arnaud to go from Harwich or any part of the river to Holland [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 8]; for Mr. Henry Evans one of his Majesty's messengers, to go from Chester to Ireland; the like for him to go from London to Chester, Liverpool, or Hoylake [Ibid., p. 10]; and for Robert Tempest, captain in Sir Henry Bellasis' regiment, with ten men, to embark at Chester or thereabouts, for Carlingford. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 35, p. 153.]
Nov. 20. Whitehall.	Pass for the Sieur Du Clos Chretien, who is commanded, by Order of Council to leave the Kingdom, to pass from London and to embark at Dover or in the river, for Flanders. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 10.]
Nov. 21. London.	— Lindsay to "Mr. Anderson at Andrew Young's, cook, against Black Fryar Wind." Lord Dover is landed in Ireland with money and ammunition but the Count "Loinnie" with the army are sailed only, by account of our last letters. We have great fears for ourselves at present; people begin to see themselves too far cheated, and since the news of Ireland, we have lost thousands of friends, may, to that height that our Parliament men have said they saw no remedy but their calling the old gentlemen. Judge where we are when such things go about, nay, the people in the streets talk to such purposes.
	Our convention for settling religion is likewise broken in pieces, for our presbyterian party hoped Dr. Tillotson would have been chosen Prolocutor, or their man, as they call him, but the vote being between him and Dr. Jean, the latter had it. Dr. Tillotson was one that would have granted us all we could have wished for, both in the alteration of the liturgies, prayers, ceremonies, and all; but this Jean is so stiff for the Church of England, that he will grant nothing. Dr. Fairfax made a proposal that some alteration might be made in the Lord's Prayer, as that the first part, viz. "Our Father which art in heaven," was not grammar, and, therefore ought to be "Our Father which is in heaven"; and that the petition "Lead us not into temptation," ought to be put out, as the making God the author of sin. This was not regarded, and Baxter, and all the other presbyterian good men, will, we are afraid, decline meeting any more, but we hope all is not true that is said to-day, as that the fleet from Spain is taken, and the crown and sceptre cut out of King William's picture at Guildhall. The Duke of Hamilton departs on Tuesday; he comes neither with commission or commissioners that I hear of, King William having last night told him he will neither have Commissioner or Parliament till he is at leisure to hold it himself. The confederates are in pieces and we know the Emperor's Ambassador is returned from London, without going to court, and that ours is stopped on his way to Vienna, except he come as from the Prince of Orange. Brandenburgh and Saxony are in pieces. Endorsed—Copy of a letter from Mr. Lindsay which was intercepted. [S.P. Dom. Will. & Mary 2, No. 48.]
Nov. 21. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to the Lord Chamberlain. I sent you, sometime since, the names of three persons for the messengers places, two of which were immediately admitted, but the third, Anthony de Veze, a Frenchman, was then employed abroad on his Majesty's service. Not having heard from him since, I desire you to confer the place upon John Gibbon. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 190.]
Nov. 21. Whitehall.	The same to the Mayor of Dover. I have received your account of one secured for carrying over wool, and I have sent your letter to the Commissioners of Customs. I am glad you observe the directions I sent you as to searching such persons for letters as have leave to go out of the country. [Ibid.]
Nov. 21. Whitehall.	The same to Sir George St. George. I have seen the letter you have written to Sir John Morgan and I find that other persons are of the same opinion as yourself, that Fuller, and the woman lately come from Dublin, have been sent over for evil purposes; for there are those in town, well acquainted with the character of the man, who believe his design is to load his vessel with salt, which is very scarce in Dublin. Therefore you have done well to stop the vessel and it is very fit to secure both these persons in order to use all fitting means to obtain the knowledge why they came over and perhaps this may be known if you examine the seaman who will not conceal it. There is mention made in the same letter of two persons sent thither by the Duke of Schomberg, one Johnson and a suspected abbess. I have not heard from the Duke concerning the former, but there is a report here that one of that name came from Dublin to the camp, where he was arrested as a spy; some letters, that were found on the other person, were sent me by the General and though I find grounds for suspicion, yet there is nothing clear in them, therefore get all the information you can and refer it to the civil magistrate if there be cause for their commitment. [Ibid., p. 191.]
Nov. 21. Whitehall.	The Earl of Nottingham to Mr. Fotherby. "I desire you to send an account of all matters relating to the Danish troops. I have received the protest you made, and would know whether any of those things of which you complained were redressed, and what number of horse and foot were actually embarked, and what numbers died before you sailed, what number of ships sailed with you and how many are arrived, what number of horse and foot are landed at Hull, or thereabouts, and in what condition they are and you are to inform yourself, the best you can, how it came to pass that you steered a wrong course, and came to Hull, instead of Leith, and particularly enquire into the charter-parties of the hired ships of transport, because I have heard that in them, it was agreed they should come for England. I hope you will give me, speedily, a particular answer to these questions and inform me also of all other things that you think may be material." [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 59.]
Nov. 21. Whitehall.	Licence for John Blandy, sheriff of Berkshire, to live out of the said county. [H.O. King's Letter Book 1, p. 16.]
Nov. 21. Whitehall.	Recommendation by the King of Abraham Stanyan, a child from Winchester College, for election to New College, Oxford, at the next election. [H.O. Church Book 1, p. 37.]
Nov. 21. Whitehall.	Commission for Thomas Fotherby to be Deputy-Commissary General of t' e musters of the Danish forces. [H.O. Military Entry Book 2, p. 67.]
Nov. 21. Whitehall.	Warrant for a pardon to Colonel William Beveridge for killing Thomas Danby, esquire. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 11.]
Nov. 21.	Passes for Francis Hadson to go from Gravesend or Dover to Flanders; and for John Dungane to go from Gravesend or Dover to Flanders. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 10.]
Nov. 22. Hanover.	Sir W. D. Colt to Mr. Warre. It seems that the differences on account of the inheritance of Saxe Lawenburg and the winter quarters will be agreed upon. [H.O. Regencies 1, p. 104.]
Nov. 22. Holland House.	Warrant to Sir Patrick Murray and James Oswald. Receivers and Collectors-General of their Majesties' rents, etc., in Scotland, to pay 500l. to George, Lord Melville, Principal Secretary of State for Scotland. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 14, p. 215.]
Nov. 22. Holland House.	Like warrant to pay 100l. to David Nairne. [Ibid., p. 215.]
Nov. 22. Whitehall.	Certificate that Alexander Stanhope, esquire, envoy-extraordinary to the Court of Spain, took his leave and kissed his Majesty's hand on the previous day. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 28.]
Nov. 22. Whitehall.	Warrant to search the house of — Pownds, deceased, near St. Andrew's, Holborn, for arms, and if any be found to bring them and the person in charge of them to the Earl of Shrewsbury. [Ibid., p. 11.]
Nov. 22. Whitehall.	Pass to Jan Verhoock and Pieter Pel, cavaliers, and James Pakott, to go from Harwich or Gravesend to Holland. [Ibid.]
Nov. 23. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to Mr. Sneyd. I have received your letter desiring I would engage myself on behalf of the burgesses and lessees who claim under the new charter and am sorry I cannot comply with your request; it being a matter of property and determinable at common law, I do not think it advisable to interpose in the matter. As a proof of my desire to serve you, I have put Mr. William Sneyd, your father, into the next commission of the peace for your county. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 192.]
Nov. 23. Whitehall.	The same to Duke of Bolton. I send you the copies of a letter and examination concerning one Hopkins, a collector of the revenue, in which you will find that Mr. Hastings, a justice of the peace for Hampshire, is reflected on, as if he had not taken due notice of the information. I believe you could find out the best means of making an enquiry into this matter whether the evidence were defective or the justice wanting in his duty. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 192.]
Nov. 23. Whitehall.	The same to Sir George St. George. I answered your letter by the last post; I have only to add it will be considered at a committee whether it is necessary to send for Mrs. Baker, the quakeress, and Mr. Johnson; in the meantime you will retain them in custody. [Ibid.]
Nov. 23. Whitehall.	The Earl of Nottingham to the Lords of the Admiralty. I send you a copy of a letter of Mr. John Gale, giving an account of what he has done in execution of the directions I sent to him, and of the contract he has made with Rowland Jackson, master of the Pilgrim, that you may acquaint the said Mr. Gale how he may draw a bill for the payment of 38l. 2s. 6d. mentioned in his letter. [Ibid. 2, p. 60.]
Nov. 23. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of James Burkett stating he was born in the Parish of St. Margaret, Westminster, that he was lame from birth, and is at present in distress. Prays for an almsman's place, on the first vacancy of one of the twelve almsmen of the Church of St. Peter, Westminster. Referred to the clerk of the signet to prepare a warrant accordingly. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 1, p. 55.]
Nov. 23. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of William, Bishop of St. Asaph, Lord Almoner. The petition states that Jasper Grant being in custody for conveying away a person beyond the seas, was admitted to bail by Judge Holloway, in Trinity term, 3 James II., John Whiteing, esquire, and Francis Bonny goldsmith, being his sureties in 1,000l. each. Grant was afterwards convicted and fled to Ireland, and was then in arms against the King. Bonny gave a bond to Whiteing in 2,000l. to indemnify him and afterwards committed suicide; as a felo de se, his personal estate, 6,000l., became forfeited. The executors by undue means prevailed on the coroner to return non compos mentis, by which the petitioner, as Lord Almoner, is defeated of the King's right. Prays for a grant of the forfeitures and of the recognizance given by Grant, Whiteing and Bonny with all benefit therefrom. Referred to the Treasury. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 1, p. 56.]
Nov. 23. Whitehall.	Warrant to apprehend, at Chester, William Sitch, master of the Blessing, of Dublin, for holding correspondence with the King's enemies. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 35, p. 153.]
Nov. 23. Whitehall.	Warrant for the arrest of — Patrick, formerly servant to the Pope's nuncio, for high treason and levying war against their Majesties and the Government, and also to secure his papers. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 12.]
Nov. 23. Whitehall.	Passes and post-warrants for David Penkar (sic) to go with two horses from London to Portsmouth [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 12]; for Owen Taylour, and Christian Taylour his wife, with one child, to embark at Harwich or elsewhere for Holland; and for David Piker (sic) to go to Portsmouth and return. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 35, p. 153.]
Nov. 24. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to Lord Sydney. I am informed that on some of the messengers in searching for arms near Somerset House, obtained the assistance of the guard there, and that some of the arms found were forcibly carried away by the soldiers of your regiment. In particular, a case of pistols of value, and a sword were seized by Lieutenant Gostwick and a sergeant, who still retain them; besides this there were other miscarriages of which the bearer will acquaint you. I doubt not you will order the arms to be restored and give directions that both officers and soldiers keep within the bounds of their duty when they are called upon these occasions. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 193.]
Nov. 24.	Passes for Jacques Mercier to go from Harwich or any part of the river to Holland [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 10]; and for Jerome Wilke to go from hence to Scotland. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 497.]
Nov. 25. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to Sir George St. George. This letter will be delivered to you by the messenger whom I have sent to Chester to bring up in custody the four persons I wrote to you about. I think there is no mistake in the names of the men, one of whom is a quaker lately arrived from Dublin, and the other the person sent to Chester by the Duke of Schomberg; the other two to be brought up are the gentlewoman sent back by the General and who came over with Mr. Fuller. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 193.]
Nov. 25. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Emanuel Wilkinson of Meedle (sic) in Shropshire praying leave to build a small cottage there on a piece of waste ground. He has the consent of the inhabitants and churchwardens, but is prevented from doing so by Francis Gasbrooke and Luke Poole, Roman catholics Referred to the Treasury. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 2, p. 167.]
Nov. 25. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Elizabeth Bosheire stating that as heir-at-law of Ann Borlace deceased, she is possessed of a small estate now claimed by Mary Portington a professed nun, under a pretended will devising to her the said estate which has thereby escheated to the Crown. Prays confirmation of same to her. Referred to the Treasury. [Ibid., p. 209.]
Nov. 25. Whitehall.	Warrant for a commission appointing William, Earl of Inchiquin, Governor of Jamaica, as Vice-Admiral of that island. [H.O. Admiralty 3, p. 24.]
Nov. 25. Whitehall.	Warrant for the arrest of Abraham Fuller, Richard Johnson. Mary Baker and Ann Doran of Chester, on suspicion of dangerous and treasonable practices. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 13.]
Nov. 25. Whitehall.	Warrant to the keeper of the Gatehouse to receive the body of Roger Tilley accused of high treason. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 14.]
Nov. 25. Whitehall.	Passes for Mrs. Jean Farrers and Mary Fenettey to go from Dover to France; for Mr. Hugh McGill to go with his horses, servants, &c., from Chester, Whitehaven, or Liverpool to Ireland; and for Mr. William Batt and Mr. Moore to go with a coffin, &, from Chester, Liverpool, or Hoylake to Ireland and to return. [Ibid., p. 8.]
Nov. 26. Victualling Office.	The Victuallers of the Navy to the Committee for Ireland. We hear from Mr. Addis of Plymouth that the ships that carried the last month's provisions for Ireland and which were despatched from hence the latter end of August are still at Plymouth for want of convoy and that the provisions by badness of the weather, the bread especially, are very much damaged. We have likewise shipped part of the provisions for the regiments now going to Nevis; the remainder is in people's hands which will not deliver it unless they have money paid them down. We beg you will write to the Lords of the Treasury that we may receive orders for payment of the same, that the ship may be despatched. [S.P. Dom. Will. & Mary 2, No. 49.]
Nov. 26.	Address from the House of Commons to the King praying that Mr. John Shales, Commissary-General of the Provisions, may be forthwith taken into custody, and all his account, papers, and stores secured; and that a fit person or persons be put into his place, and that his Majesty will empower the Duke of Schomberg to do the same. [Ibid., No. 50.]
Nov. 26. Castle of Edinburgh.	The examination of Archibald Cockburn, laird of Langton, the younger, before Lord Cardross and the master of Melville. States that he kept correspondence with persons in England, besides his fatherin-law, in the name of William Anderson, his servant, and Katherine Brown, his lady's servant, but that he never treated of anything against the state, but only of what passed as common news; that he had a letter, the last post but one, and he thinks it was part of that letter he tore and endeavoured to burn in the Earl of Balcarres' chamber, when he was about to be searched. [Ibid., No. 51.]
Nov. 26.	The like examination of William Anderson, servant to the Laird of Langton. He acknowledges that the letter directed to "Mr.Anderson, at Andrew Young's, over against Black Fryar Wynd, (fn. 1) " was directed to him to be delivered to Langton. He has frequently written letters direct to Sir George McKenzie. [Ibid., No. 51a.] Appended—
Nov. 26.	Examination of the Laird of Langton before the Council. The person that wrote the letters to him from London was David Lindsay "late servitor to the Earl of Melfort. The Laird desired the same David, before he went up out of Scotland" to give him account of what passed. All the news he wrote was of goods taken of Cardross and Kilmarnock's lands, of the loss sustained by Culloden and that by the damage done by the forces, corn was likely to be scarce and dear. He has not written above three letters to David Lindsay and has not got above twelve letters from him. He directed his letters "For Mr. Jameson at 'the Seven Stars'" in Paternoster Row. Mr. Lindsay did not write to him anent Scotch people except that the Earl of Arran was liberated and was a very honest man and that Sir Robert Hamilton was to be bailed, and that he saw "all his friends well," by which he concludes that he means his father-in-law and Tarbet. Yesterday when he was in the castle there passed nothing amongst them but "ordinary discourse" and Sir William Campbell was there a considerable time. He knows of no one who keeps correspondence with the Highlands or with Ireland. [S.P. Dom. Will. & Mary 2, 51a (i.)]
Nov. 26. Edinburgh.	— to David Lindsay. This night young Langton has been examined before the Council upon a news-letter intercepted from London and is committed to prison. It was written as from one that favoured the Government, but the disguise was found out; they who have kept this correspondence would do well to take notice, lest they be secured likewise; for it is thought advice is sent up concerning them. The letter is discovered to be from George's partner. I shall not name him because you cannot but guess. Endorsed—Copy of a letter directed to David Lindsay which was in ercepted. [Ibid., No. 52.]
Nov. 26. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to Lord Sydney. His Majesty having seen the inclosed information against the Captain of Walmer Castle (which was given in by one of Dover of the same name) and believing that your lordship is best able to give him an account both of the accused and accuser commands me to send this paper to you for report. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 194.] Enclosing:—
Nov. 26. Whitehall.	Information by Robert Jacob against the Captain of Walmer Castle, as enclosed in the foregoing. Sir Abraham Jacob, Captain of Walmer Castle, near Deal, did, at a quarter-session for the county, sign an address promising to take the penal laws and test, and acted all along with Sir Edward Hales and took upon him the place of justice of the peace for the said county when most other gentlemen laid it down. He was much in the favour of late Lord Teynham. late Lord-Lieutenant of the county, and courted by him and designed to be a burgess for Dover. He told me several times that he would not take the oaths to this King and Queen, but would rather lose his Castle than do it, speaking much against the Government, saying that the States of Holland were weary of the Prince and that made them send him to England, and further said the Prince had wasted his estate, and upon my showing him the Prince's declaration he seemed much to dislike it and found great fault with the words "We" and "Our," saying it looked too much king-like. [Ibid.]
Nov. 26. Whitehall.	The same to Mr. Jephson. By the last post I received the enclosed letter with a duplicate of the Poll Bill for the county of Anglesey which you know better how to dispose of than I do [Ibid., p. 195.]
Nov. 26. Whitehall.	The Earl of Nottingham to Mr. Fotherby. The King commands me to tell you that he has appointed the bearer, Mr. Butts, to assist you as may be necessary for his service, both in the march of the Danish forces and in the embarkation for Ireland. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 60.]
Nov. 26. Hanover.	Mons. de la Roque to Mr. Warre. Continental news. I am much obliged for what you have written me on the subject of the English Church. I have read it to several persons here who have expressed satisfaction at "le terme de reformation," of which all the gazettes are full. It has confirmed what I have always told them, and above all, the Duchess, who has often spoken to me about it. I have always regarded what the English Church is now doing towards the nonconformists more as the result of true Christian charity, which tolerates the weakness of its brethren, than as any token of blemish in its own belief. There are few foreigners who have laboured more than I, to instruct themselves in the differences which have parted the English Church and the nonconformists; and for that reason, I impute all the wrong to the latter, who refuse to submit to an established discipline and who join a society that they themselves avow is pure. [H.O. Regencies 1, p. 108.]
Nov. 26. Kensington.	Warrant for a grant of authority to Henry, Bishop of London, president of this present Convocation for the province of Canterbury (upon the suspension of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury) during the present Parliament now assembled, and in his absence to such other bishop as shall be appointed president thereof, and to the rest of the bishops of the same province, and to all deans of cathedral churches, archdeacons, chapters, and colleges, and the whole clergy of every several diocese within the said province to confer, from time to time during the present Parliament upon such matters as we from time to time shall propose, or cause to be proposed, by the said Lord Bishop of London, or other president of the said convocation, concerning alterations and amendments of the liturgy and canons, and orders, ordinances and constitutions for the reformation of ecclesiastical courts, for the removing of scandalous ministers, for the reformation of manners, either in ministers or people, and for the examination of such persons as desire to be admitted into Holy Orders, and all such other matters as their Majesties shall think necessary and expedient for advancing of the honour and service of Almighty God, the good and quiet of the Church, and the better government thereof, with liberty and authority to draw out forms, rules, orders, ordinances, constitutions, and canons on such matters as to them shall seem necessary and expedient for the purposes above-mentioned, and to set them down in writing and, from time to time, to deliver them unto the King to the end that he, as occasion shall require, may thereupon have the advice of Parliament. [H.O. Church Book 1, p. 38.]
Nov. 26. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Philip Dallows, one of the masters of the Green-glass Works, stating the masters and workmen employed in glass-making are almost mined and destroyed, partly by the Act forbidding vintners to draw wine in bottles, partly by a proclamation in Scotland prohibiting bottles there, and partly for want of foreign trade. Petitioner has discovered a way of making "granado shells" of glass, cheaper, better for execution and lighter for carriage than iron ones. He has also found a way of making glass bottles sealed, quarts or pints, or any other exact size. Prays to be appointed glassmaker to the King and Royal Family, and for a grant of a patent for making "granado shells" of glass and for making marked glass bottles for taverns, in case an Act for their use be obtained. Referred to the Attorney or Solicitor General. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 1, p. 57.]
Nov. 26	Pass to Mr. Joachem Sprong to go from Harwich or any part of the river to Holland [H.O. Warrant Book, 5, p. 13]; for Francis Crofts and Leonard Frankling, two young men, to embark at Dover or thereabouts for Flanders; for Jacob Robertson and Andries Willemson, two Dutchmen, to go to Holland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 35, p. 153]; and for the ship Francis and Samuel, of London, Elihu Robinson, commander, to sail from London to Jamaica. [H.O. Admiralty 3, p. 24.]
Nov. 27. Whitehall.	Pass for the Swedish ship Nostiern, Livert Erickson, commander, to go from England to France and return to Sweden with a cargo of wine, salt, brandy and fruit. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 36, p. 17.]
Nov. 27. Whitehall.	The like passes for the Fortune, Claes Brower, commander; the Carolus, Jan Janson Lampage, commander; the Prince Carl, Jan Heydes, commander; the Blew Lyon, Albert Gossus, commander [Ibid., p. 18]; the Round Fish, Henry Schultz, commander; and the Peace, Erick Lourenson, commander. [Ibid., p. 19.]
Nov. 27. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to Colonel Trelawny. The letter, whereof the inclosed is a copy, was given me by a member of the House of Commons, which I would not omit sending to you; for, though the writer has taken care to conceal his name, yet you will consider whether there be any ground for his scruples concerning Captain Caroll, if there be an officer of that name in your regiment. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 195.]
Nov. 27. Whitehall.	The same to the Lords of the Admiralty. Having an account that the vessel, commanded by Captain Townshend, is now arrived at Hoylake, I acquaint you that I have no further service for it, and therefore you may dispose of it as you think fit; only I desire you to give directions concerning, the soldiers now on board belonging to the Guards. [Ibid.]
Nov. 27. Whitehall.	Pass for John and Thomas Bond to go from Harwich or any part of the river to Holland. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 13.]
Nov. 28.	Receipt by John Stephens, messenger, for certain arms left in the hands of the head bailiff of Westminster, by order of the Earl of Shrewsbury. [S.P. Dom. Will. & Mary 2, No. 53.]
Nov. 28. Victualling Office.	The Commissioners for Victualling the Navy to the Committee for Ireland. We pray your lordships will move the Lords of the Treasury for payment of the sum due for provisions for the soldiers in their transportation to Nevis, to enable us to despatch the ship hired to convey the soldiers. [S.P. Dom. Will. & Mary 2, No. 54.]
Nov. 28.	Order by the Lords of the Council that the Commissioners of the Admiralty give notice in the Gazette, of the time they appoint for their convoys departing. [Ibid., No. 55.]
Nov. 28. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to the Mayor of Dover. Having received information that one Mary Conjet (?), commonly called "French Mary," whose husband formerly kept the post-house at Dover, is employed privately to convey disaffected persons into France, in order that they may go over to Ireland to the late King James, I have thought fit to inform you thereof; for though I do not attach sufficient importance to it to cause her to be apprehended I would have her narrowly watched. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 196.]
Nov. 28. Whitehall.	The same to the Lords of the Admiralty. Mons La Brie, a Frenchman, who has done the King some service in a discovery he made, desiring a free passage to Jamaica, and being unable to pay his passage, I desire you to give orders to some of the captains, going on that voyage, to convey him there without charge. [Ibid.]
Nov. 28. London. Whitehall.	News letter. The news from Edinburgh is that on the 20th inst. there arrived in Leith Road a Danish vessel having on board 70 foot soldiers, having been at sea 14 days. The commander appeared before the Council on the 21st; they have their quarters assigned them on the road towards Ireland. On Tuesday, Parliament ordered that a bill be brought in to attaint all persons who were in arms against the King and Queen since the 14th of February 1688[9] They also resolved that an address be presented to the King that Mr. John Shales, Commissary-General for the provisions in Ireland, be forthwith taken into custody, all his books of accounts secured, and a fit person put in his place Major Wildman was ordered to present the address.
	Two Irish mails of the 18th and 21st inst. advise that our army is quartered, viz.:— the General's headquarters at Lisnagary, the rest at Monaghan, Dungan, Loughgall, Portadown, Coleraine, Antrim, Belfast, Carrickfergus, "the Ards, and Le Kells," and about three regiments in and about Newry. The Duke has published a proclamation setting the price on all sorts of provisions for the army, which is at so just a rate that the army may be very well supplied and the country people very well satisfied. There is little other news than the confirmation of the taking of Sligo and the great mortality that is in the late King's army, which is such that he has removed from Dublin to Kilkenny and has left the Duke of Berwick governor of that city, which is almost turned into a hospital. The Irish confess they have lost in their winter's camp 7,000 men, besides a great many sick. They say that Sarsfield has put into Sligo a regiment of horse, a regiment of dragoons and 3,000 foot. The horse are commanded by Col. Luttrell, the dragoons by one O'Neal, and the foot by one Browne, lately sent from Dublin to them.
	Yesterday the Convocation met and settled the proxies, and then adjourned till Monday next, when it is believed the King will send them their commission. Yesterday Lord Preston, on his petition to the House of Lords, was discharged from the Tower, and proceedings against him at the King's Bench Bar are ordered to be stopped. The news from Scotland is that the Earl of Arran has arrived there and that the other lord that went from there for England is expected back in a few days. The Duke of Hamilton in his journey for Scotland was set upon by some highwaymen and robbed to the value of 2,000l. in money and jewels, in which was his "George." [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 3, No. 78, and Greenwich Hospital News Letter Entry Book 2, p. 357.]
Nov. 28. Whitehall.	The King to the Commissioners for the Lieutenancy of the City of London. We learn that the militia of London is much indebted, and in arrear of their duty and other incidental expense, and consequently less able to serve us in the safeguard of our persons and in preserving peace. Our pleasure is that you impose, for one year from Lady Day next, so much money as you shall find needful for defraying the expenses of the said militia according to the rules laid down in the Act of 14 Charles II. [H.O. King's Letter Book 2, p. 34.]
Nov. 28. Whitehall.	Certificate that Robert, Lord Lexington, late envoy-extraordinary to the Elector of Brandenburg, returned from his said employment on the 10th instant. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 35, p. 154.]
Nov. 28. Whitehall.	Warrant to search for and apprehend — Tileman and — Johnson accused of high treason in levying war against their Majesties. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 15.]
Nov. 28.	Passes for Mr. Osbert Backler to go from Harwich to Holland [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 12]; for Mr. Jacob Balckhuyse to go to Harwich or from any part of the river to Holland; and for Mr. Siprant Obles to go from Harwich to Holland. [Ibid., p. 14.]
Nov. 29. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to Lord Willoughby. His Majesty commands that Lord Brandon Gerard (sic) be constituted, under the Duchy seal, Custos Rotulorum for Lancashire; and being informed that the constableship of Liverpool Castle, the butlership of the county of Lancaster, and the stewardship of the Black Bomeshe, Tottington and Clitheroe, formerly granted to Caryll, Lord Viscount Molyneux, and William Molyneux, esq., are now void by the patentees neglecting to take the oath, his Majesty has directed a warrant to be prepared for a grant of them to Lord Brandon. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 197.]
Nov. 29. Hanover.	Sir W. D. Colt to Mr. Warre. Nothing more has transpired as to the affair of Saxe Lawenburg or as to the winter quarters, but a renewing, in a few days, of their promise to give me in writing, the right to the succession of this family. News from Augsburg and Berlin. [H.O. Regencies 1, p. 112.]
Nov. 29. Whitehall.	Warrant to the keeper of the Gatehouse to receive the bodies of — Tileman and — Johnson, charged with high treason. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 16.]
Nov. 29. Whitehall.	License for Robert Plot, Doctor of Laws, to have access to and search the records of the libraries of St. James, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and all registries. [Ibid., p. 18.]
Nov. 29. Whitehall.	Passes and post-warrants for Hans Jurien, Benjamin Pompeys, Isaac Minder, Derk Boejeing, Adolfe Janse, Cornelis Dirckse, and Jacob Obbens to embark at Harwich or in the river for Holland; for Mr. Stephen Piper, Mr. Jan Cornelius and Mr. Francis Van Randick to go from Harwich or any part of the river to Holland [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 14]; for Mrs. Churchill and her servant, John Wroth, about 15 years old, to go from London to Dover and there to embark for France; for Mr. George Rattray and his wife to go from London to Dover and there to embark for Flanders [Ibid., p. 15]; for John Harvey, esq., to go with servants and necessaries from London to Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk and to return again; for Pieter Renssius and Henrie Sans to go from Harwich or any part of the river to France; and for Jan Peter Hoeck to go from Harwich or any part of the river to Holland. [Ibid., p. 16.]
Nov. 30. Paris.	— Sheridan to —. Col. Porter is arrived from Ireland being sent by his master, ambassador to the Pope. Lord Melfort's express had not got into Ireland when he left that Kingdom; his friends desire to have them both joined in the embassy, but whether that will be or no is uncertain, there being many here that wish that lord very ill. The news he brings is, that the King's army is very strong, 25,000 in the field, still observing Schomberg's motions; that he has 15,000 more in the garrisons; that all things are exceedingly plentiful in his camp, and very cheap; that if any forces are sent from England to Munster or any part of Ireland, except Ulster, they will infallibly be cut off at landing, as Schomberg had been if the King had expected him, which made him be then unprovided. Schomberg has lost above 7,000 of his men, and daily more and more fortifies himself in his trenches; he has neither forage nor provisions, but what he gets from England, and it is believed if he continues in the camp this winter, he will kill all his men, and if he decamps, they will all be cut off.
	All Ulster, except Loudondery and Carrickfergus, is burnt and the plague still rages. Charlemont holds for the King and [the inhabitants] think themselves in no danger of being taken, yet all Connaught, as well as Leinster and Munster (where all the leading protestants are imprisoned and the lesser sort turned out of the garrisons) is entirely the King's, Sligo having been lately retaken by Sarsfield and in it your friend Col. Russell and about 400 horse made prisoners, of whose party Sarsfield killed 800 foot and 125 horse. It is here approved for certain that there are already arrived at Belle Isle 30 Algerines who are to prey this winter upon all the King of France's enemies, and to have the liberty of parts in Ireland as well as in his own dominions; if so, I fear England and Holland will suffer vastly in their trade, which will not well agree with the great taxes the war will oblige them to pay.
	I presume from the printed votes, that the lords in the Tower, may be visited by their friends. I pray, therefore, you would present my humble service to Lord Petre, and tell him I am much grieved he could not get his liberty upon bail. His friends here have an account, that none of his fellow prisoners behaved themselves so bravely as he, less could not be expected from his courage and his wit. They do not at all apprehend his new commitment or [think] an impeachment can do him more hurt than the continuing longer his restraint. His life is secured by the King's pardon for the change of his religion. A law can do no hurt that was made in terrorem, and on which yet never any man was prosecuted, which will not now be attempted, at least to death, considering that the Emperor and Catholic Allies are made believe the quarrel is not religion, and that the Spanish Ambassador has certainly written, as well to Vienna as Madrid, that no Roman Catholic, as such, was touched or molested since the change. I pray, as soon as possible, let me know from you how this noble lord enjoys his health, and everything else you can learn concerning him. [S.P. Dom. Will. & Mary 2, No. 56.]
Nov. 30. Paris.	The same to —. I had sooner acknowledged the favour of yours, but that for some time we understood here the posts were stopped on your side. It is no news to tell you that Lord Melfort, after he was reported to succeed Lord Waldegrave, designed for Montpelier in order to benefit his health, and is gone to Rome as ambassador to his Holiness; he has sent one towards Ireland for credentials, but we now hear Col. Porter is arrived at Brest with intention to go to Rome on the same errand, so that here it is variously reported what will be the issue of this affair. Some will have it, that, for accommodation, both must be joined in the same embassy, but this will take up much time and perhaps double the charge. England weakens itself to the joy of France, without hurting its great monarch; in my opinion, if there were no other reason for it than that English understanding may be a reproach as well as hitherto, Irish understanding. I am extremely grieved my friends in the Tower could not have the benefit of the law. The printed votes of the Commons show their zeal against Popery, but surely the King's pardon must secure all the prisoners concerned from suffering. As the law stands nothing but an Act of Parliament can make any of the prisoners suffer for what was done twelve months before this time, and I hope none of my friends will want courage. Pray advise Mr. P. to comfort those that are weakest and need [comfort]. You will hear very surprising news before long. [Ibid., No. 57.]
Nov. 30.	Warrant for the appointment of Lancelot Stepney as consul in the city and port of Oporto in Portugal. Copy. [Ibid., No. 58.]
Nov. 30.	Warrant for the appointment of Robert Gislingham, as consulgeneral in the Kingdom of Portugal (the city and port of Oporto excepted), and also in the Islands of the Azores, Madeira, Porto Sancto, the Algarves and frontier towns of Barbary; he to make some allowance for the support of the minister at Lisbon. Copy. [Ibid., No. 59.]
Nov. 30. "Our Court at Dublin."	King James II. to Sir Donald McDonel of Slate. The proofs which at this time our subjects give us of their loyalty and zeal for our service, are always extremely acceptable to us, but we cannot but have a particular resentment of those which we receive from you, at a time when the malice of our enemies has so far prevailed against us. "We cannot sufficiently express how much we are afflicted at the news of the Viscount Dundee's death, and next the loss of so brave a man, what is sinseable to us is the opportunity we lose by it of rewarding his services by putting personal marks of our favour upon him; but since we cannot do that, we will largely gratify his family when it shall please God to put it in our power to do justice to merit." What he had so happily begun we urged him to finish, since, "no less than the preservation of the hereditary succession of our Crown is at stake." What we chiefly recommend you is that you support yourselves some time longer; for nothing would gratify our enemies more than to see you afraid of continuing in a posture of defence, "which is the only thing they apprehend finding you in, because of the many forces sent into the kingdom by the usurper to invade us."
	We could not sooner spare the succour we destined for your assistance; but "God Almighty having made it His own work to destroy and confound the army that was landed upon us, we have resolved to send our right trusty and entirely beloved natural son, the Duke of Berwick to your aid as soon as the season will permit the shipping of any number of horse." Meanwhile, we will send the Earl of Seaforth to head his friends and followers, "and the success we hope for from their and your endeavours shall be acceptable to us, and we shall show you our gratitude [not only] by protecting you in your religion, laws, and liberties, as we have already promised, but, by rewarding your, and each man's merit in particular, out of such forfeitures as shall come to us by the unnatural rebellion of the rest of our subjects there. We must above all thing are recommend unto you a thorough union amongst yourselves, and a due obedience to your superior officers, and that you look with the greatest indignation upon any body that, under any pretence whatever, shall go about to disunite you." The bearer will give you a full account of our force and the present condition of the enemy, "which is such as will put our affairs here soon out of all doubt." Copy. [S.P. Dom. King William's Chest 6, No. 31.]
Nov. 30. Whitehall.	The Earl of Shrewsbury to the Duke of Ormond. I have received your letter concerning the office of Marshal of the Admiralty; I have made enquiry at the Admiralty and they have already disposed of it. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 1, p. 197.]
Nov. 30. Whitehall.	The Earl of Nottingham to Mr. Fotherby. "I have received yours of the 26th instant, with the copies of several charter-parties inclosed, I presume the Lords of the Treasury have given such effectual orders for the supply to you of money, that you will be sufficiently enabled to carry on his Majesty's service with satisfaction, also to the Danes, and I would not have the difficulties you have met with discourage you from proceeding in the discharge of that duty to which the King has authorized you by his commission, and I do not doubt but you will perform it with that respect to the Danish officers, and that fidelity to the King, that neither they shall have any just cause of complaint against you, nor his Majesty, of taxing you with any neglect of the trust reposed in you. You have reason to be very well satisfied that his Majesty has hitherto approved your services. I shall acquaint the Lords of the Treasury with the charge you have been at in the exchange of the guineas, and doubt not but that they will allow it." [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 6.]
Nov. 30. Whitehall.	The same to Dr. Georges. "I have received yours, dated the 8th instant, from Dundalk, with some papers enclosed, but it came not to my hands till the 28th, and I think it has not only been detained, but opened too, for the wax with which it was sealed is of two different sorts, and the seal itself is a coat of arms, but not yours; and therefore I desire you to let me know by your next what seal you used, or rather send the impression of it that I may enquire into this abuse, if it be one. I thank you for the account you give me of the army, and your proceedings in Ireland, and for the suggestions you offer to remedy the misfortunes under which you have laboured and to prevent the like for the future; for the present I can only tell you that I am sure all possible care will be taken that will contribute to a speedy and happy success of this war." [Ibid., p. 62.]
Nov. 30. Holland House.	The King to the Privy Council of Scotland. Whereas by our letter dated the 21st September last, we authorised you to adjourn our Parliament of Scotland to the 20th of December next, we hereby authorise you to issue forth a proclamation in our name, ordering a continuance of the adjournment of our said Parliament to the 1st day of March next ensuing the date of these presents; and if we shall find it necessary that our said Parliament meet sooner we will signify the same by a proclamation to anticipate that diet. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 14, p. 216.]
Nov. 30. Holland House.	The same to the same. Whereas we understand by a letter from the Earl of Crawford, in your name, directed to our Secretary that the Inland Excise of several shires of Scotland, being at present in your hands, you did by a proclamation appoint the same to be rouped and farmed upon the 29th of October last, and in regard the Commissioners of our Treasury were not named, you did adjourn the roup till the 21st of this instant, and now to prevent the prejudice that might arise to us and the discouragement of those who might desire to farm our excise, you have proceeded to roup the same, wo do approve your service and care in this matter and recommend you to proceed in the roup till such time as we shall constitute our Treasury. And we authorise you to conclude and agree for the Excise of the shires which are in our hands, at the best rates you can, and to sign and deliver tacks or contracts thereanent, in our name, which shall be as valid and sufficient as if they were signed under our royal hand or by the Lords Commissioners of our Treasury and Exchequer. We do likewise recommend to your care to take what course the law does allow for securing the estates of such as are or have been in rebellion, without taking the benefit of our gracious indemnity, for the better subsistence of our troops in defence of our authority and good subjects. [S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 14, p. 216.]
Nov. 30. Holland House.	Commission to Lieut.-Col. James Murray to be their Majesties' lieutenant-governor of the Castle of Edinburgh. [Ibid., p. 217.]
Nov. 30. Whitehall.	Allowance of Mr. Scott's bill. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 35, p. 157.]
Nov. 30. Whitehall.	Warrant to apprehend Nathaniel Herbert upon suspicion of dangerous practices against the Government. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 17.]
Nov. 30.	Passes and post-warrants for Mr. Gilbert Crawford to go from London to Dover, thence to Holland, and to return with Mr. Richard Savage [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 14]; for Mrs. Wortley and Mrs. Mary Lovelace, her maidservant, to go from Dover to France [Ibid., p. 15]; for Mr. John Cassen, native of Liege, to go with Mark Bowen, his servant, from Dover to France [Ibid., p. 16]; for Thomas Miller, a poor Scotchman, to embark at Harwich, or thereabouts, for Holland; for Daniel Butts to go to Hull; and for Catherine Patternut, aged 57, and her daughter, aged 18, to embark at Harwich or elsewhere for Holland. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 35, p. 154.]
[Nov.]	Appointment of John Sharp, S.T.P., one of the chaplains in ordinary, to the deanery of Christ Church, Canterbury, void by the resignation of Dr. John Tillotson. Copy. [S.P. Dom., Will. & Mary 2, No. 60.]
Nov. Whitehall.	Proceedings upon the petition of Charles White stating that, upon news of his Majesty's landing in England, he went with two men and three horses to join the Earl of Devonshire, and maintained those men and horses during the whole expedition at his own charges. He, being a husbandman, prays to have the place of Surveyor of the Woods in Sherwood Forest, now vacant. Referred to the Treasury. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 1, p. 55.]
Nov. Whitehall.	Warrant to Charles Godolphin, esquire, James Hoare, esquire, Comptroller of the Mint, and Andrew Corbett, esquire, Commissioners for making farthings and halfpence of tin. You are, from time to time, to cause all such blank pieces of tin with a stud of copper wire in the centre of them for making farthings and halfpence, on our own account, to be of the same weight as the first tin farthings and halfpence were, at 20d. the pound weight, with the remedy of two or three farthing pieces in each pound weight, avoidupois. They are to be marked on the edges or rounds of the pieces with these words Nummorum Famulus and the year of our Lord, "with such other marks as you shall think fit," and to be coined with their Majesties' portraits or effigies, with these words Gulielmus et Maria, on the one side of them, and the figure of a woman sitting on a globe, as was on the first tin farthings and halfpence, with the word Britannia on the other side. [H.O. Warrant Book 5, p. 19.]
Nov.	Warrant to seize as a prize, the ship Tobias, of Hamburg, taken by Capt. Charles Causey, commander of the Charles, of Dover. [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 35, p. 152.]