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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne, 1702-3. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1916.

'Anne: February 1703', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne, 1702-3, (London, 1916) pp. 566-606. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/anne/1702-3/pp566-606 [accessed 16 April 2024]

FEBRUARY, 1703.



1 Feb. Guernsey.	Bernard Ellis to Nottingham.
	In obedience to the Orders in Council of December 17 (issued on Sir Thos. Hardy's complaint to the Lord High Admiral and received January 16), I have done my best to arrest deserters from the fleet who had got on to a Guernsey privateer. One, Brock, has surrendered, and the rest, except John But, are, I hear, on the Runner, privateer, Robert Slowley commander, now at Plymouth. The Runner lately took a French privateer of 16 guns and brought her into Plymouth. She was formerly an English frigate, the Falcon. Prisoners report fifteen men-of-war ready to sail from Brest. Will look out for and secure deserters.
	Pp. 1½. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 45. Enclosing:—
	A List of deserters from H.M.S. Pembroke (Sir Thomas Hardy commander).
	Eleven names. Some are on the Runner now at Plymouth. Short details.
	P. 1. Dated, Guernsey, 1 February, 170²/3 S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 45A.
1 Feb. Whitehall.	Hedges' Letters.
	1. To the Prince's Council.
	The design of the squadron for Portugal seems to be at an end. Advise what is to be done with the ships intended for it. Confer on the matter with MM. Allemonde and Cruan, who will be at home this evening in expectation of your making an appointment for to-morrow morning. After meeting them report the result to her Majesty at the Committee of Council at St. James' at 6 p.m. to-morrow.
	P. ⅓ . S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 279.
	2. To M. Vryberge.
	The Queen approves the use of the squadron intended for Portugal here, as the Lord High Admiral and Admiral Allemonde agreed at their meeting to-day. Please inform the ambassadors.
	P. ¼. French. Ibid, p. 280.
1 Feb. Portsmouth.	Colonel Gibson to Nottingham.
	I send an affidavit received from the Mayor of Southampton, and his letter, the last paragraph of which shews what he desires. I know nothing of him, but presume that Mr. Cardonell, who represents Southampton in Parliament, can give you some account of him. I am just going to muster and embark Brigadier Columbine's regiment; and when that is done am going to proceed with the two companies of Major-General Erle and the detach–ment of the "fuzaliers." Some officers fear disturbances, but I hope that the method I have taken will prevent them.
	P. ½. Signed. Add. Endd. With seal. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 25. Enclosing:—
	A. Thomas Bracebridge, Mayor of Southampton, to Colonel Gibson.
	I send an affidavit (fn. 1) and will send any further news received.
	If Mr. Jackson is removed, pray recommend me for his office.
	P. ¼. Copy. Dated, Southampton, 30 January, 170²/3. Ibid. 25A.
1 Feb. Whitehall.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Postmasters General.
	You should go at once to the Duke of Queensberry and find out from him who the person here is who has authority to adjust the matter with you in relation to the [Scottish] post office. The Scots' Lords are leaving town, and the opportunity may be lost unless you go to-morrow.
	P. ¼. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 203.
	2. To Captain Roope.
	You must supply two transport ships at once for carrying 600 recruits to Holland. You may stop two of the transport ships, which have been ordered to come away from the Downs, in the hope that they may be readier for this service.
	You are also to go to the Duke of Marlborough and receive his further directions in this matter.
	P. ⅓. Ibid, pp. 202, 203.
2 Feb. Sick and Wounded Office.	The Commissioners of Sick and Wounded to Nottingham.
	Three masters of English merchant ships, who have been released from Ostend, have, in accordance with the terms of their release, applied to us, on behalf of themselves and five of their officers, for the release of two merchant masters and six seamen of that place who are prisoners here. They tell us you sent them to us, saying we had power to agree to the exchange. We have some doubt as to whether yours of 23 December has given us that power, and ask for special directions.
	P. ²/3. Signed by Lee, Sherard and Morley. Endd. S.P. Dom. Naval 118, 26.
3 Feb. Admiralty Office.	Memorial to the Queen in Council by Prince George of Denmark, Lord High Admiral &c.
	By an establishment made by King Charles II in Council on 18 December, 1677, the following rules were established for qualifying persons to serve as lieutenants in the Navy.
	1. That they shall spend so much time actually at sea in one or more voyages in the service of the Crown (after abatement for all intervals) as shall together amount to three entire years at least, and to have served in the quality and performed the duty of an ordinary midshipman in some one of the ships of war for one year at least of these three, receiving midshipman's pay for the same.
	2. The second part of the above not to apply to any who—
	(a) has then served at sea for more than two years in the quality of volunteer by warrant from his said Majesty or the Lord High Admiral;
	(b) abides the examination and answers in every respect what is required from him except midshipman's service.
	3. He shall not be under 20 years of age at the time of his first admission to the said office.
	4. He must produce certificates under the hands of his several commanders testifying to his voyages, and to "his sobriety, diligence, obedience to order, applications to the study and practice of the art of navigation," and to his having served as a midshipman, as before required (except as before excepted).
	5. He must produce a like certificate under the hand of one at least of the principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy, who has served as a commander at sea, as also of two other commanders of 1st rate or 2nd rate ships of war [details as to alternatives], jointly certifying that, after examining him at the office of the Navy, they are satisfied that he is able "to judge of and perform the duty of an able seaman and midshipman," and has "attained a sufficient degree of knowledge in the theory of navigation" to capacitate him for it.
	By a long practice in the Navy, no young gentlemen have been or ought to have been admitted to serve as volunteers in the fleet by warrant from the Lord High Admiral who are above the age of 16 years or under that of 14. It is common for them to be admitted before they are 16 years old. When they have served two years as a volunteer and one as an ordinary midship—man they are entitled to an examination and, if found qualified, to the employment of a lieutenant, so that probably some of them will by that time be not above 17 or 18 years old.
	It is therefore proposed to her Majesty that when any young gentlemen shall hereafter be admitted to serve as a volunteer on any of her Majesty's ships at the age of 14 years, or between that and 16, they be obliged actually to serve four years as a volunteer and two as an ordinary midshipman before being admitted to the examination for a lieutenant's office. And whereas divers persons have from their youth addicted themselves to the sea with hopes of preferment in the Navy, when they have by their industry qualified themselves for employments, and, in order thereunto, have served in the fleet as midshipmen and mates, it is further proposed to her Majesty that, notwith—standing such persons have not served as volunteers by warrant, yet that, if they have served three years in the Navy either as mates or midshipsmen (after abatements for intervals of voyages), and produce certificates [details] of this, they may, as an encouragement to them, be admitted from time to time to an examination, and, if found qualified, to a lieutenant's office.
	Pp. 3. Draft; with note of the Lord High Admiral's and of Burchett's signatures. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 15.
3 Feb. Southampton.	Captain Coshart to [Nottingham].
	I wrote to ask your leave to go hence and be with my brethren. I wished to be treated as an officer of the King of France. I desire to be protected by you against the insults which the Sieurs La Rufie and Jouche, officers of privateers, have put upon me by reason of my last letter to your lordship. They said I had written against them [?] and abused me violently, as you will see by the evidence, signed, of eye-witnesses which Count de Mornay will send to you. I hope for justice. I hope you will not confound a number of prisoners who are here, who had no part in the matter [,with the guilty;] and I hope for justice to those who insulted me.
	Pp. 2¼. Signed. In bad French. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 27.
3 Feb. London.	William Smith to John Hollingbery, Mayor of Dover.
	There is one in Dover jail going by the name of Johnson. His real name is Mark Goodyear, and he is one of the greatest villains in the kingdom, as I and several other witnesses can prove at the next Kent Assizes. Meantime, pray secure him, for it is unsafe that so dangerous a person should go unpunished. Secure him, and let me have an answer, to be left at the Sign of the Black Bull in Tower Dock.
	P. 1. (Hol.) Add. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 28.
3 Feb. Whitehall.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	Yours of yesterday. As to the three masters of English merchant ships and their five officers, who were prisoners of war at Ostend, and are now released on condition of obtaining the enlargement of two masters of merchant ships and six seamen of that country who are prisoners here, you must find out if the Englishmen, on being taken, ransomed their ship of the privateer and were taken to Ostend as hostages for payment of the ransom, as has been too usually done. If not, find out the facts as to their capture, taking to Ostend and release, and report to her Majesty.
	P. ²/3. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 203, 204.
	2. To Dr. Brampston.
	Sends a memorial of the Portuguese envoy for consideration and report.
	Four lines. Ibid, p. 204.
	3. To the Attorney General.
	I send papers relating to one Jackson, for whose arrest and bringing up in custody I have issued a warrant. Consider, on the depositions, what prosecution the offence will bear and what crime I may lay to his charge in the warrant of commitment.
	Also note. Enclosed were a letter of Mr. Cardonell of January 23, 170²/3, and depositions of John Hides, Joseph Man, Charles Wallis, John Le Cras, William Snow, Daniel Tapin, Aron Dereville and Moses Goodridge.
	In all p. ½. Ibid, p. 205.
	4. To Paul Methuen [jun.].
	I have read your father's letters to 15 January to the Queen.
	To the demands which are put forward [by Portugal], no answer can be given. It would be impossible to accede to them. If the King of Portugal comes down to reasonable terms, which your father did not expect, we may not be able to agree, but, at least, there will be some ground for negociation and for a treaty "it being most apparently as much for the interest of Portugal as it can be for ours."
	The envoy of Portugal here has not receded at all from the original demands, though I pointed out that it was quite impossible to accede to them and hoped he might have reduced them. But, after I had spoken with him at length and pointed out the desirability of prompt and early action by Portugal, and assured him of our willingness to do all we can, he said he would write fully on the matter. It was right to let you know this.
	P. ¾. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 11, 12.
4 Feb. Whitehall.	Hedges to the Postmasters General.
	Queen's command:—Forbidding passengers to go on the packet-boats to or from Holland unless they have passes from the envoy at the Hague, the Commander of the forces in the Low Countries, her Majesty, the Captain-General of the forces [at home] or one of the principal Secretaries of State. Give directions accordingly.
	P. ¾. A copy. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 34. Also S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 279.
[4 Feb.]	Petition to the Queen of John Henry and Peter Huguston, of Amsterdam, merchants, shewing that:
	Petitioners are burgers and merchant bankers in Amsterdam, and deal in foreign bills of exchange. They lately sent several bills payable in London to Paul Bretton of London, book-keeper. These were drawn on English merchants in London, who have drawn bills on petitioners, which they have accepted. The said bills are now due.
	Above three weeks ago Bretton was arrested on Secretary Nottingham's warrant, and is still confined on suspicion of remitting moneys for the subsistence of the French troops.
	Petitioners are innocent of that matter. When Bretton was arrested, his papers were sealed up. Amongst them are books and papers of petitioners. The bills [drawn on petitioners] are due, and petitioners must make them good, and will be ruined if those seized are not restored, so as to be paid.
	Pray for restoration of the said bills to Bretton.
	P. ¾. Endd. Generally and with date, and "To be put into the hands of Secretary Hedges." S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 29.
4 Feb. St. James'.	List of Persons whose names are to be inserted in the new Commission to be granted to the Privy Council of Scotland.
	Prince George of Denmark.
	James, Earl of Seafield, Chancellor; William, Marquis of Annandale, Lord President of the Council; John, Earl of Tullibardin, Keeper of the Privy Seal; James, Duke of Queensberry, a Secretary of State; the Duke of Argyll.
	The Marquesses of Atholl and Lothian.
	Earls of Crawford, Erroll, Sutherland, Mar, Morton, Buchan, Glencairn, Eglinton, Strathmore, Galloway, Lauderdale, Loudoun, Finlater, Leven, Northesk, Forfar, Kintore, Breadalbin, Dunmore, March, and Hyndford.
	Viscounts:—Tarbat (a Secretary of State), Stair, Duplin, and Roseberry.
	Lords:—Strathnewer [sic], Inverurie, Polwarth, Forbes, Ross, Reay, and Boyle (Treasurer Depute).
	The Master of Tarbat, Sir Hugh Dalrymple of North Berwick, President of the College of Justice; Sir James Murray of Philiphaugh, Lord Register; Sir James Stewart, Lord Advocate; Roderick Mackenzie of Prestonhall, Lord Justice Clerk; Sir Colin Campbell of Aberuchill; Sir John Hamilton of Halcraig; Sir Archibald Hope of Rankeiller; Sir William Anstruther of same; Sir David Falconer of Phesdoe; Stewart of Tillicoutrie; General George Ramsay; Mr. Francis Montgomery; Sir James Foulis of Colington; Sir James Stewart, Sheriff of Bute; Sir Robert Sinclair of Stevenson; Sir James Primrose; Archibald Douglas of Cavers; — Crawford of Kilbirnie; George Lockhart of Carnwath; — Hope of Hopetoun; the Provost of Edinburgh.
	Pp. 1¾. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book18, pp. 393–5.
5 Feb. St.James'.	Instructions to the Earl of Seafield as Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
	1. Give the Assembly all assurances of our resolution to continue Presbyterian government in the Church.
	2. Let them know that we expect that at this time they will regulate matters of order and discipline amongst themselves.
	3. Hinder "the turning of those ministers out of their churches who have qualified themselves according to law by taking the oath to us. And for those who have not qualified themselves, it being a civil affair, we shall give directions to our Privy Council concerning them."
	4. Take special care that nothing be done in the Assembly prejudicial to our authority or prerogative, "and that they treat of nothing but ecclesiastical affairs."
	5. "Since the shortness of time by the near approach of the Parliament's dyet doth press, you shall allow the Assembly to grant a commission to such of their number as they think fit for revising of their Synodical books and such other matters as they judge proper to be tried by the commission."
	6. "You may advise with our officers of State or members of the Assembly that you think fit in matters of difficulty."
	7. "It is not convenient that the Assembly should sit long at this time." Excite them to complete the business that must necessarily be now done and to leave the rest to the commission and inferior judicatories.
	8. Appoint a new Assembly to meet on [blank].
	Pp. 1¼. Ibid, pp. 401, 402.
Same.	List of Names to be inserted in the new Commission to the Lord and others of the Exchequer of Scotland.
	Prince George of Denmark.
	Earl of Tullibardine, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal; Marquis of Atholl; Robert, Marquis of Lothian, and Lord Justice General.
	Earls:—Mar, Morton, Galloway, Lauderdale, Leven, Northesk, Kintore, and March.
	Viscounts:—Tarbat (Secretary of State), Stair and Roseberry.
	The Master of Tarbat.
	Sir Hugh Dalrymple, Sir James Murray, Sir James Stewart, Lord Advocate, Roderick Mackenzie, Sir C. Campbell, Sir J. Hamilton, Sir Robert Sinclair of Steinston [Stevenson] Archibald Douglas of Cavers, and the Sheriff of Bute.
	P. 1. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book18, p. 396.
5 Feb. Whitehall.	Nottingham to Brigadier Colenbine.
	Details. Colonel Codrington's orders, as you know, are such that he cannot delay you in doing the other service which you are particularly to perform. You need therefore have no fears on that point, and will, I hope, cordially co-operate with him in the Queen's service whilst you are with him. Details.
	All is in order for you to said, and I wish you a fair wind.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book209, p. 12.
6 Feb. Dover.	John Hollingbery, Mayor of Dover, to Nottingham.
	Johnson, whom I imprisoned two months ago for not taking the oaths to the Queen, is still in prison here. I have received the enclosed two (fn. 2) letters about him, and do not know how to deal with that of the third, so send it. The persons who wrote it are in London, and may inform you if they have anything material to say. Pray send me directions what to do.
	P. ²/3. Signed. Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne2, 35. Enclosing:—
	A. John Yeats to the Mayor of Dover.
	I hear one who goes by the name of Johnson is in Dover gaol, "a little man in black, a very high nose, and wears his own hair." He goes by so many names he cannot be found in the City of York, where he was in prison twelve months and pilloried for perjury and forgery, by which he intended to take away the lives of several honest gentlemen. In that place he went by the name of Bonan. He was in jail at the Savoy last year, when he came from France under the name of Morgan. He sometimes passes as a priest and sometimes as a Presbyterian. Other details. His real name is Mark Goodyear, and he was born in Holbourn in London. He has often tricked the Secretary of State. I desire to know what he is in jail for now, that his further mischiefs may be prevented.
	P.S.—Direct"For John Yeats, at the sign of the Three Falkens in St.John Street, near Hix Hall."
	P. 1. (Hol) Dated, London, 25 Jan. Add. Endd. Ibid, 35A.
General date, 6 Feb.	Documents relating to the alleged Impressment of Men in Cumberland.
	1. Information of Captain Christopher Dalston, of Sir Richard Temple's regiment, taken on oath at Hayton Castle on 6 February, 1702, before Sir Richard Musgrave, Bt., J.P.
	Informant says that on Monday, 1 June last, at the house of Mr. John Inman, of Cockermouth, in the aforesaid county, he gave one shilling to John Cuppage, a fiddler in the said town, as a retainer to serve in Temple's regiment. Cuppage accepted the coin and was lawfully listed. Nevertheless, on 18 January last, Richard Lamplugh, Esq., a J.P. for Cumberland, issued his warrant to arrest informant and bring him before a Justice to give security for his appearing at the next General Sessions of the Peace to answer the premises and to be of good behaviour; and informant was compelled to make immediate application to Sir Richard for relief therein. Sir Richard had made a former examination of the whole matter in the presence of Mr. Lamplugh, and was satisfied that Cuppage had been lawfully retained. He therefore superseded the warrant, and informant hoped to have no further trouble; but Lamplugh, continuing his endeavours to prevent him from enlisting men, issued forth another warrant the very next day (January 19th) to arrest and bring before him the said Cuppage and several of informant's other men. And in pursuance thereof the constable of Lorton and about 14 or 15 men and horse, headed by Mr. Robert Lamplugh, son of the said Richard Lamplugh, J.P., came to informant's house at Lorton, assaulted informant and took away Cuppage and four other of his soldiers and brought them before Richard Lamplugh, Esq., who detained Cuppage and sent the others back to their quarters, as they tell informant. Informant believes that he can prove that Lamplugh has kept Cuppage in his home and under his sanctuary ever since the said rescue.
	Pp. 1½. Signed by Dalston, and taken and sworn before Sir Richard Musgrave, who also signs. Endd. "Sir Rd. Temple," S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 36.
	Certificate by William Tyson, Constable, and Anthony Preston, Sergeant.
	We certify that Captain Dalston, having a man deserted from him at Whitehaven, had a warrant from Justice Gilping to search for him, and that William Robertson, attorney, denied the warrant when Dalston wished to search his house.
	P. ²/3 (small). Signed by the above. Dated, 6 February, 170²/3. Ibid, 37.
	Information on oath of Daniel Fisher and Joseph Tyson, both of Lorton in Cumberland, yeomen, taken at Hayton Castle on 6 February, 170²/3, before Sir Richard Musgrave, J.P.
	The informants severally say:—On or about 19 January last Thomas Burnyeats, constable of Lorton, Robert son of Richard Lamplugh, J.P., and about fourteen horsemen came to Lorton to apprehend John Cuppage, Richard Mitchell, Henry Wood, John Hodgson and Thomas Cunningham, soldiers in Captain Dalston's company, &c., then quartered at Lorton, under a warrant from Richard Lamplugh, Esq., J.P. They took these people away and assaulted Dalston and blooded one of the servants. Informants were present at the time.
	P. 1.Signed by informants and taken [&c., as last but one]. Followed by:—
	Information by Thomas Burnyeate, Constable of Lorton, taken [&c. as foregoing].
	Corroborates foregoing as to the arrest of Cuppage and the others. They were brought before Richard Lamplugh, J.P., who, having examined them, released all of them except Cuppage, whom he kept, and still keeps, in his house.
	P. 1. Signed by Burnyeate with his mark and taken &c. as foregoing.
	In allpp. 2. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne2, 38.
	Information of Joseph Relfe, William Ewart and Richard Crosthwaite, all of Cockermouth, gentlemen, and of John Peile, of Lorton, yeoman, taken on oath [&c. as foregoing].
	They say severally:—On 1 June last they saw Captain Dalston give John Cuppage one shilling at the house of John Inman in Cockermouth as a retainer to serve in his [Dalston's] company. Cuppage accepted it, and was lawfully listed according to informants' judgment.
	P. 1.Signed by all the informants and taken &c., as foregoing. Ibid, 39.
	This concludes the documents relating to this case.
6 Feb. Sick and Wounded Office.	The Commissioners of Sick and Wounded to Nottingham.
	According to your orders, we send an account of the numbers of prisoners at war in the custody of our several officers on 31 January last. We have told them to let us know of any increase or decrease in these numbers from time to time, and will send weekly lists.
	P. ¼. Signedby Adams, Sherard and Morley. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval118, 30. Enclosing:—
	A. List of Prisoners referred to above.
	Plymouth			1,116
	Gosport			68
	Southampton			823
	Farnham			173
	Dover			413
	Yarmouth			23
	Exeter			30
	Kinsale			354
	Guernsey			314
	Jersey			55
	Tower Hill, London.			24
	Oxford, on parole			32
	P. ²/3. Ibid, 30A.
Same.	Same to Same.
	In obedience &c. we asked the three English masters of ships lately prisoners at Ostend as to the terms of their release. They were taken by men-of-war and did not ransom their ships, nor were they detained hostages there, but were set at liberty on bonds of 200 guilders to petition for the release of certain Ostenders who are prisoners here. They offered to make oath of this, but we had no power to administer an oath.
	P. ⅓. Signedby Adams, Sherard and Morley. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval118, 31.
6 Feb. Southampton.	Thomas Rice to Henry Lee.
	I went to Lyndhurst on the 4th with Mr. Taunton, of this town, to examine the Queen's stables. They are very commodious [details of measurements], with good lodging-houses over the stables and coach-houses. You can judge how many men they will hold. There is one butcher in the place, and two or three more three miles from thence, and at Ringwood there are many butchers, some of which bring meat to Hampton market, which is 16 miles away, and Lyndhurst is but seven from there. Kitchen furnaces may be set up outside under a skilling of the side of the stable or in one of the coach-houses.
	Soldiers can be quartered in one of the four public-houses in the place, or in the chambers over the stables, or in part of her Majesty's house. It has now in it only a small family to keep it clean. There is a great bakehouse within three or four miles, and as for garden stuff those of the place bring it to market for want of a trade for it at home.
	Pp. 1½. Extract. Ibid, 32.
6 Feb. Whitehall.	Nottingham to the Lord Treasurer.
	Recommends that Mr. Alexander Griffith, Attorney General of New Jersey, be paid a year's salary of 60l. in advance, as he desires. This will promote the service by enabling him to go to his duty.
	P. ¼. S.P. Dom., Entry Book104, p. 206.
7 Feb. Portsmouth.	Brigadier Colenbine (fn. 3) to [Nottingham ?].
	Yours of the 5th. I make no difficulty about serving under Colonel Codrington, and am proud to serve the Queen in any capacity. I am ready when wind and weather permit, and wish all things in the expedition were so. I hope the wind will soon prove kind.
	P. ²/3. Signed. Endd. in Warre's[?]hand. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 33.
7 Feb. Farnham[Surrey].	The French Officers at Farnham to [Same].
	Twenty-five of us are here, sent hither by the marshal of Southampton. They have shewn us the prison which is being made ready for us. It is a place where the water lies, dark and without windows, and very low. We can only hope for straw for beds. If this happens we do not think we can live eight days.
	At Southampton we had houses of the townspeople for prisons, and behaved ourselves as we were ordered. We beg for a similar favour here, or, at least, for a place where we can have beds by paying for them. We shall remember it, if granted, when any [English] fall into our hands.
	Pp. 2½. French. Signed by Charles Feret, captain of the fleet[?] of the King of [France], De Sollign[e]s, Du Plessis, Creeheoalleir [sic], Harel, S. Hermaden, Lievre and Havuffier [?]. (fn. 4) Endd.in Warre's hand.S.P. Dom.,Naval
8 Feb. Whitehall.	Hedeges' Letters.
	1. To George Clarke.
	Her Majesty desires all the general officers to be present at the meeting at the Horse Guards and give their opinion in the case of Sir Henry Bellasyse and Sir C. Hara, and lay it before her Majesty as soon as possible. An account to be taken of those who are present and absent. Give notice to all that the may speedily comply.
	P. ⅓. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 280.
	2. To the Attorney General.
	The town of Great Yarmouth have lately petitioned for incorporation of themselves and the town of South Town in Suffolk as a borough. The town claims an Admiralty jurisdiction to the exclusion of that of the Lord High Admiral, which has occasioned many disputes and obstructed the course of justice. Consider the matter and report what grounds there are for this pretence in their charter, and what may be done to settle the matter and prevent the like inconveniences in the future.
	P. ½. Ibid, p. 281.
8 Feb. St. James'.	Royal Warrant to the Master General of the Ordnance (Duke of Marlborough).
	Having by warrant of 14 March last ordered a train of artillery to be prepared to go over to Holland for our service there, we now find it requisite that that train should be augmented. You shall cause the several brass ordnance, mortars, ammunition and other stores of war mentioned in a schedule hereto annexed to be forthwith provided and made ready for our service. You shall cause the officers, gunners, bombardiers and other attendants belonging to the said train to be regulated and established, with their respective pays per diem, as is mentioned in a list hereto likewise annexed, "which we do hereby approve of and establish accordingly," and shall pay these officers and men out of the sums paid in from time to time to the Treasury of the Ordnance for land service; the pay to commence from 18 February next. You may also diminish the "natures of ordnance" and proportion of ammunition and other stores and attendants as you think fit, or add to them.
	Pp. 1²/3. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, pp. 124, 125. Followed by:—
	Schedule 1.
	A proportion of ordnance, ammunition and other habiliments of war to compose a train of artillery for the service of her Majesty's forces in Holland.
	Howitzers			4
	Brass ordnance:—
	Demi-culvering[s]			6
	Saker[s]			14
	Three-pounder[s]			16
	Travelling carriages. The complement is for:—
	Demi-culvering[s]			8
	Saker[s]			11
	Three-pounders			nill.
	Travelling carriages with limbers for three pounders			19
	Carriages with limbers for howitzers			6
	Spare limbers—
	Demi-culvering[s]			1p. (fn. 5)
	Saker[s]			2p.
	Three-pounders			2p.
	Spare hind wheels for —
	Demi-culvering[s]			2p.
	Saker[s]			3p.
	Three-pounders			3p.
	Spare fore wheels for —
	Demi-culvering[s]			2p.
	Saker[s]			2p.
	Three-pounders			2p.
	Spare shafts			2p.
	Spare extras for —
	Demi-culvering[s]			3
	Saker[s]			3
	Three-pounders			3
	Howitzers			2
	Spare wheels for howitzers			1p.
	Round shot for —
	Demi-culvering[s]			1,200
	Saker[s]			2,540
	Three-pounders			3,304
	Tin cases filled with musket shot for —
	Demi-culvering[s]			240
	Saker[s]			282
	Three-pounders			324
	Howitzers			26
	Kettle-drum complement			1
	Granado shells of 73¾ in.			735
	Ladles and sponges for —
	Demi-culvering			8 & 8
	Saker[s]			14 & 14
	Three-pounders			16 & 16
	Howitzers			4 & 4
	Ladle staves, 154; funnells of plate, 6; hand hatchets, 413; bill hooks, 523; sheet lead, 5cwt.; field staves for the gunners, 14; crows of iron, 20; linch pins, 133 pr., forelockeys, 60 pr.; sledges, 4; field beds, 49; field coynes, 114; field great tampeons, 10; do. small, 31; heads and rammers, great, 16p.; do. small, 60p.; formers, 6, and 4 small; bridge barrells, 34; baskets, 100; paper, Royal, 15 rhe [reams ?]; oil, 10 galls.; starch, 30lb.; needles, 30 doz.; thread, 30lb.; lanthorns, ordinary, 29; do. tin, 12; do. dark, 12; Musco lights, ordinary, 15; wadhooks, 49; handspikes, 66; powder horns, 60; priming irons, 110; linstocks with locks, 30; tarpaulins, 60; aprons of lead, 8; marlin, 134lb.; twine, 25lb.; wire, 15lb.; handscrews, 6; small hammers, 30; pincers, 30 pr.; pairs of scales with weights and pile, 3; great melting ladles, 4; do. small, 4; nails and spikes (details of different sizes); tanned hides, 78; white rope (details of different lengths and sizes); sheepskins, 84; hair cloths, 78; tallow, 5cwt.; grease, 10½cwt.; shovels, 4,000; spades, 4,000; pickaxes, 4,954; helves for same, 5,454; hand grenadoes, 5,794; fuzes for do., 4,500; links, 500; iron bars, 20c.[cwt. ?]; do. in rods, 40 bundles; steel, 50[lb. ?]; whip saws, 6; handsaws, 6; slings for horses, 50; pontoons, 18; brass petards, 6; pitch, 4 barrells; tar, 4 barrells; candles, 418lb.; bare hides, 10 tarred thread, 26lb.; felling axes, 59; small carts, 30; forge carts, 2; sling carts, 1; small block carriages, 2; gynns furnished, 3; spare gin-head, 1; horse harness as follows—trace 122, twill [?] 48, fore-horse halters nil; do. bit 176; do. hemp 30; tug pins, 30 pr.; corn powder, 2,836 ½ barrells; match, 9tons 7cwt. 2qrs. muskett shot, 106 tons; carbine shot, 8tons 16cwt.; Pistol shot, 3tons 14cwt.; flints, 298,662; bags filled wth musket shot, 592; belts [?] for arms, 2; fuzes for the matrosses, 2; cartouch boxes, 2; swords, 22; rugs, 50; brass kettles, 50; swingle trees, 36; draught chains, 25 pr.; ridge ropes, 80; draught ropes, 20; pickets shodd, 138; distinguishing flags, 3; washers, 50; halberts, 8; straps of leather, 12 pr.; do. for the muzzles, 6; draught ropes of 2½ inch, 120 pa.[?]; carbines, 10; hangers with brass hilts, 40.
	Schedule 2.
	A list of the officers, ministers and attendants appointed to attend the train of artillery in Holland in 1703, with their daily pay.Per day.
		Per day.
		i.	s.	d.
	Master General	0l.	0	0 (fn. 6)
	His secretary	0	0	0
	His clerk	0	0	0
	Colonel	1	5	0
	Lieutenant-Colonel	1	0	0
	Comptroller	1	0	0
	Major	0	15	0
	Paymaster	0	10	0
	His assistant	0	3	6
	Adjutant	0	6	0
	Quartermaster	0	6	0
	Chaplain	0	6	0
	Commissary of the horse	0	6	0
	Master Surgeon	0	5	0
	His Assistant	0	3	0
	Provost marshal	0	2	6
	Kettle drummer	0	3	0
	Do. driver	0	1	6
	A first company of gunners consisting of —
	A Captain	0	10	0
	A Lieutenant	0	6	0
	A Gentleman of the Ordnance	0	4	0
	Three sergeants, each 2s. 6d.	0	7	6
	Three corporals, each 2s.	0	6	0
	Thirty gunners at 1s. 6d.	2	5	0
	Twenty-five matrosses at 1s.	1	5	0
	A second company of gunners.
	This has the same establishment as the first company, but in addition the following:—
	Two fire-workers at 4s.	0	8	0
	Eight bombardiers at 2s.	0	16	0
	Commissary of the stores	0	6	0
	His assistant	0	4	0
	Two clerks at 4s. each	0	8	0
	Eleven conductors at 2s. 6d. and a conductor and cooper at 3s.	1	10	6
	A Master carpenter	0	4	0
	His mate	0	3	0
	Six carpenter at 2s. 6d.	0	15	0
	Master wheelwright	0	4	0
	Three wheelwrights	0	7	6
	Master smith	0	4	0
	Two smiths at 2s. 6d.	0	5	0
	Master tinman	0	4	0
	One tinman	0	2	6
	A company of pioneers consisting of—
	Two sergeants at 2s.	0	4	0
	Twenty pioneers at 1s.	1	0	0
	A company of pontoon men consisting of—
	A Bridgemaster	0	5	0
	Two corporals at 2s.	0	4	0
	Twenty pontoonmen	1	10	0
	Pp. 6½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, pp. 126–32.
9 Feb.	John Tutchin to Nottingham.
	I have cause to believe that, since your lordship's just management of printers and publishers, the method of printing pamphlets will be carried on, as formerly, in Holland, where they print everything. I think it right to tell you that John Gellibrand, quondam Clerk of the Cheque to the Messengers, has a post at the Custom House, where he may be serviceable to such a trade, he passing all books that are taken up there. He is put in there by the Archbishop of Canterbury, has his warrant from the Treasury and is paid at the Custom House. He is busy about something and keeps company every night at a certain place with some lords and others. I thought fit to tell you this knowing your eyes cannot be everywhere.
	P. ½. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 40.
9 Feb.	Proposals tendered to the Queen by Sir Jeffrey Jeffreys.
	Your Majesty has 'arranged a service of four packet-boats to the West Indies, whereby frequent advices may be sent from and to those parts. The same method will be advisable in relation to communication with North America, "and New York being the centre of those parts."
	Sir Jeffrey proposes to furnish your Majesty with two vessels suitable for that service. One of these, with twelve guns, forty men, oars and strong fittings for the winter service, will leave the Isle of Wight for New York in a month, stay there 30 days only, in which time letters may be sent to and answers received from New England, Virginia, Maryland and all adjacent Colonies, and brought back to the Isle of Wight, at 200l. a month. From thence the ship shall depart in twenty days or so soon as is directed.
	The other vessel to be fitted with eight guns and thirty men, to be ready two months later and keep the same course, at 150l. per month. By this means your Majesty and your subjects may send and receive news from those parts every two months.
	The ships must be allowed to take in passengers who offer, and a few goods for ballast on both journeys, not exceeding fifty tons and thirty tons respectively. The crews must be protected both at sea and on shore, the hire to be paid quarterly and to have three months' pay imprest.
	P. 1. Endd. Ibid, 41.
9 Feb. Admiralty Office .	Josiah Burchett to Richard Warre.
	By command of his Royal Highness, I send the enclosed copy of a letter touching the ill-treatment of English prisoners at Dunkerque to be laid before her Majesty's principal Secretary of State.
	P. ½. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 35. Enclosing:—
	Captain Cock to the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	The English prisoners here are kept seventy or eighty in a room, so that one half have to rise when the other half lie down. They have tasted nothing but the worst of cheese, and what they have had from the English nuns here and myself in charity. They are not allowed to leave their rooms on the greatest occasion, and " do everything that nature requires in common where they lie." There are orders from M. Pontchartrain to keep me under close confinement, although the captain of a Dutch man-of-war taken last summer by the gallies is at large. They scrutinise our letters very closely. The reason given for this is that they hear that the French officers and men in England are ready to starve in their prisons. I believe, on investigation, that their informant on this point is the Count de Mornay, who was taken at Vigo. "And not only these things, but matters of more moment are very well understood here, insomuch that in two minutes after my coming on board and before anybody was spoken to, I was told by one of the ship, not proper to be named, that they were purposely fitted out for the taking of our ship and a less in the river, and did expect a yacht to be sent over into Holland for a person of quality and lately an Embassador"; but the damage received from us has, I hope, prevented [this], for, had not the wind been fair that day we were taken, so that we got in the next, both our own and the enemy had sunk in the sea, the latter having all night four and five feet of water in the hold.
	I am assured here that if no cartel be arranged, there will be no difficulty about my being exchanged for any French captain, and beg that his Royal Highness will favour me accordingly. I hope to give a good account of the loss of the ship. On examination I find the killed and wounded were about seventy.
	Pp. 2. A copy. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 35A.
9 Feb. Sick and Wounded Office.	The Commissioners of Sick and Wounded to Nottingham.
	We send a copy of a letter from our new Marshal at Southampton.
	The Duke of Ormond proposed to one of us that we should exchange M. Soreli, now a prisoner at Oxford, for Captain Cock of the Ludlow (5th rate), lately taken. We are told that M. Soreli held important posts. [Details.] Besides your lordships' orders to remove the prisoners from Southampton inland, we have had complaints from the people of Southampton that the report of sickness amongst those prisoners keeps people from their markets. We have made inquiries and heard of some stables belonging to the Queen at Lyndhurst.
	Pp. 1½. Signed by Lee, Adams and Morley. Endd. Ibid, 36. Enclosing:—
	A. Peter Stanley to the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	I have found from Coshart's servant that Latouche bought two horses and that they [Latouche and Coshart] went to London. Details A little brother of Coshart's is left there with an ensign who was very intimate with them, and, I think, knows where they are, and has, I am informed, heard from Coshart since he left. I keep him here in case the Board wish to send for and examine him.
	Pp. 1¼. Dated, Southampton, 6 Feb., 170²/3. Ibid, 36A.
1703. 9 Feb. Oxford.	Count De Mornay to Nottingham.
	I have heard from M. de Pontchartrain. The King of France is surprised at what is asked of me as to my powers, since the Commissioners themselves sent me proposals for a cartel to send to France and since I had signified his Majesty's consent to you, and he had done all that could be expected of him. [Details.] But I hear that the King consents to my treating for a cartel for Spaniards taken at sea as well as French subjects making separate treaties. If necessary, a power for this will be sent me. I think therefore that all difficulties are settled; and, as the power must now be on the way, we may begin. I am to tell you again that M. La Tour Monfort, commandant at Calais, has been authorised to sign [?] the matter and has a passport for the person you send thither.
	I am to say that unless the French prisoners in England are better treated, retaliatory treatment will be dealt out to the English prisoners in France. The English sick in France are in hospitals at Dinant, of which they will be deprived unless there is similar relief given in England. Repeats demand for punish—ment of an officer at Southampton.
	Proceeds:— M. Pontchartrain will be surprised that my protest against the attempt to induce captives to enter the English service is only answered by the Commissioners with recriminations. As to the charge that such things are done in France, they could not be done without express authority from the King. I will, however, get proofs [details] that there is no foundation for the charge. I have endeavoured to keep silence in this matter and to bring the two parties together, for the relief of unfortunate men.
	Pp. 3½. Signed. French. Endd. in Warre's[?] hand. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 37.
Same.	Same to the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	Though the King [of France] is greatly surprised at the want of punctuality which has been shewn in dealing with the cartel, I am informed by M. de Pontchartrain that I shall soon have power to treat for a cartel applying to both French subjects taken at sea and Spanish subjects.
	Expresses hopes for a speedy settlement, otherwise a number of poor soldiers on each side will perish, which should not happen amongst Christian peoples. Proceeds:—M. de Pontchartrain tells me positively that there are as many prisoners in France now as you can have in England. Thus a treaty for exchange is as much to be desired on one side as on the other, and I shall be always ready to deal for it when I meet with the required sincerity.
	P. ²/3.French. An extract. Ibid, 38.
9 Feb. Whitehall.	Hedges's Letters.
	1. To the Prince's Council.
	By command:—I enclose case and request of Captain William Hester, now a prisoner at Dunkirk. Report whether you have any objection to exchanges of this kind being made and whether you suspect that this ship was taken by collusion.
	P. ²/3. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 362.
	2. To the Prince's Council.
	To give order for clearing Andrew Peterson a Swedish subject, lately pressed on the Mary. Leyoncrona's request.
	P. ⅓. Ibid, p. 363.
9 Feb. Whitehall.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	I see from your list of prisoners that 68 of them are still at Gosport. All prisoners there and at Portsmouth and Plymouth must be removed inland. Her Majesty consents to liberate three French prisoners in exchange for the three English masters who have been discharged. Let me know the names of those whom it is proposed to set free, and their qualities.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 206, 207.
	2. To the Lord High Treasurer.
	Encloses Alexander Inglis' petition.
	P. 1/6. Ibid, p. 207.
	3. To the Victuallers of the Navy.
	As the supplies of provisions sent to Jamaica from here and from New England and Carolina may be more than are needed, command: To order your agent and Jamaica to sell any of them which may not be required for the soldiers and seamen who re—main in those parts after the service is over. Keep accurate accounts [details].
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 13.
10 Feb. Admiralty Office.	The Prince's Council to Hedges.
	Yours of yesterday. We do not object to giving up Captain Mathias Depray, of Dunkerque, in exchange for Captain William Hester, who is now a prisoner there, if it does not appear that Captain Hester's ship was collusively taken (which does not appear here), and "that the French ship was not actually a privateer and not a trading ship with a letter of mart. (fn. 7) "
	P. ½. Signed by Rooke, Mitchell, Churchill and Hill. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 16.
10 Feb. Whitehall.	Hedges to the Prince's Council.
	I send M. Leyoncrona's request for release of several Swedish ships which are embargoed here. Command:—Consider and report on it.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 363.
10 Feb. Portsmouth Dock.	Affidavit by John Lane..
	Late purser deputy of H.M.S. Royal William. Says:—To the best of his memory it was about the middle or the latter end of November last that Sir G. Parker, Mr. Goring and two other gentlemen, one of them being a Frenchman of small stature and "a cast with one of his eyes," taken to be Captain Coshart, came on board the Royal William with a boat and a boat's crew from Hampton, and stayed there about a quarter of an hour, From thence they rowed up the harbour and, Lane believes, went on board the Victory. Three or four days later, he saw the Frenchman again at Gosport, and, about a fortnight later, saw him again riding out of Gosport.
	When the said gentleman come on board the Royal William none of the officers were on board but himself, the boatswain being gone to work in the ordinary. The Frenchman conversed with nobody there.except those with whom he came.
	P. 1. Copy, with copy of Lane's signature and of attestation by D. Batwell. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 39.
11 Feb. Sick and Wounded Office.	The Commissioners of Sick and Wounded to Nottingham.
	We send enclosed relating to the escape of Captain Coshart. Have arrested Sutton.
	P.1/6. Signed by Lee and Herbert. Add. Endd. Ibid, 40. Enclosing:—
	A. Voluntary affidavit of " John Bechett," prisoner at war.
	Deponent belongs to Coshart's ship. On the same night that Captain Coshart went away he (Coshart) told deponent that he had satisfied and contented — Sutton, under jailkeeper, that everything was ready and that they would go away that night. Saw Coshart take money out of his pocket and give it to Sutton.
	P. ½. Copy. Signed (copy) by " Jean Bechet," and with copy of attestation before Adam de Cardonell, Colonel, dated, Southampton, 8 February, 170²/3. Ibid, 40A.
11 Feb. Whitehall.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Prince's Council.
	Her Majesty refers enclosed petition of Eleanor Wreen to you and favours her request for payment of 1¾. arrears of pay owing to her husband's services and her own condition. Give orders to pay it unless there is strong reason against it; and, if there is, report thereon.
	P. ⅓. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 207, 208.
	2. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	The Queen has received complaints from the French officers regarding the accommodation provided for them at Farnham. See it is as convenient for them as may be consistently with security against escape.
	You may not exchange—Sorelli for Captain Cock. The Queen does not approve of Lyndhurst as a place for prisoners.
	P. ½. Ibid, p. 208.
	3. To the Lord High Treasurer.
	Queen's command:—To consider the enclosed memorial regarding the Alcalde of Rotta in Spain and his nephew, and report what may be further done for them.
	P. ¼. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 209.
	4. To the Prince's Council.
	Sends enclosed from Mr. Ellis, Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey, as to some men who ran away from H.M.S. Pembroke (Sir Thomas Hardy). Sends also memorials by Mr. Henry Baker regarding the correspondence between French sloops and privateers and the owlers of Romney Marsh. Report what should be done to prevent the latter great abuse.
	Also memorandum of the enclosed documents, which are as stated above, and are dated 1 February, 1703, and 7 and 27 January (two memorials), 1703.
	P. 1. Ibid, pp. 209, 210.
	5. Same to the Lord High Treasurer.
	By Queen's command:—Sends part of a letter from Consul Lodington at Tripoli and a statement of his arrears, for such order therein as the Treasurer thinks necessary.
	His arrears are:—
		l.	s.	d.
	Salary at 380l. a year arrear to Christmas last	475	0	0
	Two bills of extraordinaries	302	10	0
		777	10	0
	P. ⅓. Ibid, p. 210.
11 Feb. Admiralty Office.	Josiah Burchett to Richard Waree.
	Pray move Lord Secretary Nottingham to advise the Queen to send to the Council of Scotland for the seamen which the frigates are going to that Kingdom in order to bring here for the fleet.
	P. ½. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 17.
12 Feb. Sick and Wounded Office.	The Commissioners of Sick and Wounded to Nottingham.
	Yours of the 9th and to-day. As to the first, the prisoners whom we stated to be at Gosport are at Fortune, a little village a mile from that place. They were too sick to be moved with the others to Southampton, but will be sent there as they recover. Our agent at Plymouth has orders to look out for some place inland in which to keep prisoners and, meantime, to keep them so close in prison that they cannot see what is going on in the port. Details, with names, as to exchange of prisoners for English prisoners at Ostend. Proceeds:—If you approve of our discharging these and of their being permitted, on their return to Ostend, to promise the surrender of any other two Ostenders of equal quality with Hendricksen and Jacks, we presume the English masters will be acquitted of the obligations they entered into for this exchange. They say the judge at Ostend assured them that if these men were returned all the English prisoners at Ostend would at once be liberated.
	We have instructed our officer at Farnham to do what he can for the accommodation of the French officers there consistently with their security. He finds it very hard to find house-room for them. Having your strict orders we had to order them to be sent thither and accommodated as best could be. We have been prevented from sending prisoners away from the seaport towns, as you directed, by the difficulty of getting house-room for them; but we hope that, as they grow more healthy (which they do) the people will be less unwilling to let houses for the purpose.
	We are negotiating, under orders from his Royal Highness for the exchange of Captain Cock against Count de Mornay. We have informed the Count of it and of the ill-treatment of the English prisoners at Dunkirk, of which Captain Cock was an eye witness. We have sent him the sense of Captain Cock's letter and told him how much more cause for complaint those prisoners have than the French prisoners here, who have 5d. a day allowed for each soldier, 6d. for each commander of a privateer, and 12d. for a commissioned French naval officer. Those who are sick or wounded receive the same treatment as her Majesty's own subjects.
	We send a copy of part of a letter (fn. 8) from Count de Mornay concerning his authority to settle, a cartel.
	Pp. 2½. Signed by Lee, Adams and Sherard. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 41.
12 Feb. Sick and Wounded Office.	E. Burt to [Nottingham.].
	The number of French prisoners who died up to Jan. 31 is 281. I have spoken with somebody who hopes soon to take both Coshart and "La Tooch."
	P. ¾. (Hol.) Endd. in Warre's[?] hand. Ibid, 42.
13 Feb. Portsmouth.	Brigadier Colenbine to Same.
	Has got sailing orders and is going aboard. Presumes Plymouth is the best place to which to send further orders.
	Four lines. Signed. Add. Endd. Ibid, 43.
13 Feb. Whitehall.	Hedged to the Lord High Treasurer.
	The bearer, as previously reported, says he can give some information as to abuses in the management of the revenue.
	P. ¹/6. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 282.
13 Feb. Admiralty Office.	Memorial by the Lord High Admiral to the Queen in Council.
	I ordered [details] the Muscovia and Loyal Merchant to carry recruits to Holland, and to follow the directions of the Commissioners of Transportation. The Commissioners of the Navy have given orders accordingly, but submit that the charge of these vessels should not be paid out of money appropriated for the Navy, which it cannot be without exceeding the estimates. I therefore propose to the Queen that neither the charge of this nor any other transportation be laid on the Navy.
	P. ²/3. Signed. Countersigned by Geo. Clarke. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 18.
14 Feb. Dinant.	Extract from a Letter from John Blenkern, a prisoner at war.
	The men in hospital die at the rate of eight or ten a day. If this continues they need not trouble themselves about a cartel. I never heard of any of them having any medicine, whatever be their illness. There are about 550 or 600 English and Dutch prisoners. Many have run away. About 28 are now going out of hospital to the French privateers. Instead of being better used, we are worse. The Governor is very sick, and if he dies I fear we shall be worse treated.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 44.
15 Feb.	Extract from the London Gazette.
	Notice is given that, in this time of war, no person whatever is to be received on board of any of her Majesty's ships as a passenger or on board any of the packet-boats at Harwich or Falmouth, or to go abroad from any port in England or Wales without a pass under the Royal Signet and Sign Manual or under the hand and seal of one of the Secretaries of State, unless they be officers, soldiers and recruits for the forces in Holland or Flanders. These must produce a pass from the Generalissimo or General. Customs and port officers to take notice of this.
	P. ²/3. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 42.
Same.	Deposittion of Ccharles Goring.
	In November last was at Portsmouth taking care of plundered goods. One day got to Gosport with difficulty, owing to rough weather. Dined there with Sir George Parker, Mr. Culliford, a Custom officer at Southampton, and two other gentlemen from the Custom House at London, who were to assist us to take care of the Queen's duty. Mr. Culliford informed us that one Captain Coshart was in the next room, that his keeper Jackson had left him there, and that Culliford desired the captain might dine with us. (fn. 9) We agreed. Before we went to dinner, Jackson came in and told us he was going with a warrant to the Governor of Portsmouth for M. De Le Agra. I said I thought it very improper of Jackson to carry Coshart into a garrison and especially into the Governor's house, and that he had been guilty of great neglect of his duty in relation to one Lewis de Lot, that he [Jackson] had given in contradictory evidence to what he had sworn in order to the condemnation of a prize, which was like to create a lawsuit between the Lord High Admiral and the Prize Office, and that I had already complained to the Governor of him. He then desired Coshart might stay with us, and that he would be back in half an hour. He never came back. Coshart could speak no English and I no French, but Culliford told me he was very unwilling to be left alone, and desired to go over the water with us to be delivered to Jackson or the town major. We went over (other details). Coshart was taken care of that night by the town major and delivered back next day.
	Pp. 1½. Copy. Endd. with date. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 43.
15 Feb. Oxford.	The Marquis De La Gallissonniere to [Nottingham].
	I send enclosed from my correspondents in London, from which you will see that we can get no money. We shall be in great want, having hitherto lived at our own expense, and had nothing from the Queen since we have been prisoners at war, and do not know how we can live if we cannot be helped by our friends at home. Pray present this to the Queen, that the bankers of London may be allowed to help us.
	P. 1. (Hol.) French. Endd. in Warre's hand. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 45. Enclosing:—
	A. Couuren [sic] and others to the Marquis de la Gallissonnière.
	We have long been ordered to pay you 200 guineas by M. De Menues' [?] order, he having it from M. de Vanoles, the Marquis same to M. Sosel [Sorel] and 4,000 francs to the Marquis de Camilly, by order of M. Bernard. We are sure you want the money which, at another time, we should have paid at once; but we hesitate to pay at a time of difficulty and danger. We should have to be reimbursed by drawing on Paris, and if we did this, should incur the charge of corres ponding with France. We desire to be of service to every body, and especially to persons of your merit, who are in trouble, but we cannot offend the Government. This is to you and the other gentlemen.
	P. 1. French. Dated, London, 13 February. Signed, Couuren, Baudouin, Santiny and Seignorst [?]. Add. to Gallissonnière, at Oxford. Ibid, 45A.
15 Feb.	E. Dummer to Same.
	The following is a record of the voyage of the Bridgman:—
	She left the Needles on 22 October, 1702, and arrived at Barbados 18 November.
	She left Barbados 20 November, and arrived at Antegoa 24 November.
	She left Antegoa 26 November, and arrived at Monserat 27 November.
	She left Monserat 28 November, and arrived at Nevis 28 November.
	She left Nevis 29 November, and arrived at St. Christopher's the same day.
	She left St. Christopher's 1 December, and arrived at Jamaica 6 December.
	She left Jamaica 15 December, and arrived at Falmouth 2 February, 1703.
	The total is 3 months and 13 days, and the captain thinks that but for an interruption at Jamaica and some difficulty with a privateer, he would have saved 12 days. He has not lost a man, but had hard weather coming into the Channel.
	P. ²/3. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 46.
15 Feb. Admiralty Office.	Josiah Burchett to the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded.
	Yours of the 13th, enclosing that of your officer at Yarmouth. As there is no means of transporting the prisoners there to Dover, apply to Lord Secretary Nottingham for the Queen's order to the magistrates at Yarmouth and elsewhere to receive the prisoners into the county jails.
	P. ½. Copy. Ibid, 47.
15 Feb. Southampton.	Peter Stanley, Marshal for Prisoners at War, to the Secretary to Same.
	Yours of the 11th, with an order from the Board for securing Sutton. I applied to the Mayor who, with Dr. Cropp and Mr. Cornelius, committed him to prison. He swore he was no party to Latouche's and Coshart's going away, and that he had no money from them. The magistrates did not think it well to rely on a prisoner's evidence, as this might encourage them to give false evidence, and also the prisoners might have been actuated by malice, as they were more strictly confined than they had been for some time. Pray let me know if Sutton may be admitted to bail. I think if he had been guilty he would have confessed. Coshart and Latouch used to get their money from M. De veale, a French merchant in this town.
	Pp. 1¼. An extract. Ibid, 48.
15 Feb. Oxford.	Count de Mornay to the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded.
	Yours of the 12th. If things are ordered as you have directed, the French prisoners would be very wrong in complaining as they have done, and still do. You tell me that you only receive into your fleet Protestants who have certificates and present themselves. This does not agree with what M. de la Gallissonnière and I hear [to the effect] that a French minister called Gogo visits the prisoners daily to try to get them to change their religion and to engage, offering them money, and that, on the day when the officers left for Farnham, there were four sailors and a soldier who agreed to do so.
	If these poor men are offered money and liberty [on these terms] and at the same time kept in captivity, it is natural that many will become Protestants; and those who give them money can also give them certificates. Moreover, I do not see that you have any greater right over Protestants than over Catholics. Whatever faith they may believe, they are subjects of the King of France.
	As for the complaints you make of the ill-treatment of English prisoners in France, and especially at Dunkirk, I have great difficulty in believing them, because the officer in command there is the most just and reasonable of men. I am very grateful for your suggestion as to my own exchange, and obliged for your offer; but the Queen has long said that she would not agree to particular exchanges until the whole question of exchange was regulated. Moreover, Lord Secretary Nottingham has asked me to ask for authority to treat for the cartel, and this will soon arrive, unless it be true, as I hear, that the Queen has instructed her Ambassador in Holland to treat for it. If that be so, and if exchanges are made man for man, according to rank, I gladly accept your offer, and pray you to remember it. Being the first taken, I am entitled, by the laws of war, to be first released. I shall rely on your justice.
	Pp. 2½. Copy. French. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 49.
15 Feb. Whitehall.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To Sir George Parker.
	Queen's command:— To come to town. I will tell you the reason when I see you.
	Three lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 211.
	2. To Colonel Gibson.
	Queen's command:—To send a report on the bringing of Captain Coshart to Southampton by Sir George Parker and others in November last, and the giving him into the custody of the town major.
	P. 1/6;. Ibid.
Same.	Hedges to the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded.
	Queen's command:— To give directions for allowing Captain Martin de Sansinenez [sic], who lately commanded a Spanish ship, and is now a prisoner at Southampton, to come up here with any three men of his company. Give these directions to Sir William Hodges, who answers for the said prisoners, or whom soever he shall appoint to attend you for the same.
	P. ⅓. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 281.
General date, 16 Feb.	Documents relating to the case of James Morrisse.
	Petition to Nottingham of James Morrisse, a young French Protestant, now prisoner at Plymouth, shewing that:—
	He was born and bred a Protestant, as appears by annexed certificates. Was sent to San Domingo and, in his return, was captured in the Eagle of Nantes. Is anxious, with the consent of his mother and family, to stay in England for liberty of religion and to follow a trade.
	Prays for release from prison.
	P. ½. Copy. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 44.
	Certificate by — Hugueville [?] and others.
	Morrisse was born and bred a Protestant, but, because of the persecution in France, could not there make a public profession of it. Relates his capture, "by God's providence," and desire of his mother and relatives that he should live in England and learn a trade.
	P. ²/3. Dated, London, 7 February, 170²/3. Signed by —Hugueville, minister, Jacob Assreni [?], formerly minister of Dieppe, S. Dubourdieu, minister, Michel de Caux, James de Caux, Thomas Thomas, and Thomas Bareau. Ibid, 45.
	Certificate by James de Joux and others.
	By testimony of many refugees of Plymouth who knew Morriesse's family at Dieppe, they corroborate foregoing. They have seen Morrisse in prison and testify to his desire to remain in England.
	P. ½. Dated, Plymouth, 29 January, 170²/3. Signed by James De Joux, minister, Francis Delacombe, and James Delacombe.Underwritten with—
	Note by the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	They have no power to discharge French prisoners of war by reason only of their being Protestants, unless they are willing to serve in the Queen's Navy.
	P. ¼. Signed by Lee, Sherard, Adams and Morley. Dated, Sick and Wounded Office, 16 February, 170²/3. Ibid, 46.
	This concludes the documents relating to this case.
16 Feb. Whitehall.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To Sir Richard Cox, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland.
	Desiring his presence in England. The Queen is considering many Irish matters in which he may be useful.
	P. ¼. S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, p. 41.
	2. To Paul Methuen, jun.
	I have spoken with the envoy of Portugal on his master's proposals, as they are now reduced. Details.
	P. ¼. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 13.
	3. To Sir Lambert Blackwell.
	Yours, to January 28, I have read to the Queen. The answer of Genoa evades the point on which you were to press, i.e. that the Queen's enemies should not be supplied with ships or stores by Genoese subjects. If any of them do it, the Queen will resent it, for the State of Genoa should forbid it.
	The Queen, I repeat, will not allow enemies' goods to be carried in Genoese ships. She welcomes the Genoese concession of magazines, but the Genoese consul says that salt will not be granted at less than the usual price, which, as you said, they had agreed to let us have at one-fifth thereof. Please explain this discrepancy.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 14.
16 Feb. Plymouth.	Brigadier Colenbine to William Blathwayt.
	The four transport ships carrying my regiment have not come down, thought Captain Lyell tells me he gave the necessary orders and signals. All the officers were certainly on board before I left Portsmouth, and I do not know why they didn't sail. The seamen on the Three Pilgrims mutinied. I tried to inform Captain Lyell of the Resolution, but, before I got up with him, he was past the Narrows, and the tide so far spent he could not return, though he tried to; so all that could be done (the other ships being under sail and the wind making it impossible to go back) was to come on here and await those which have not come. I cannot understand why the others have not come, for, while speaking the Three Pilgrims, I saw them ready [details]. I hope those to blame will be punished, for we have lost time and the best wind that could blow.
	P. ¾. Signed. Add. Endd. With seal. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 50.
Same.	Same to [Nottingham].
	Gives shortly the substance of the foregoing.
	P. ²/3. Signed. Endd. in Nottingham's hand. Ibid, 51.
16 Feb. Sick and Wounded Office.	The Commissioners of Sick and Wounded to Same.
	Fifty-four prisoners have arrived at Yarmouth, and as we Office.cannot get accommodation for them there we asked his Royal Highness to give orders for some ships coming from the North to call and bring them to Dover. His Royal Highness having told us to apply to you, we send a copy of his letter.
	P. ⅓. Signed by Lee, Adams, Sherard and Morley. Endd. Ibid. 52.
16 Feb.	Colonel Gibson to [Same].
	About a week ago M. Dutot [?], a French prisoner, now turned Protestant and married in Gosport (who escaped out of our town prison some months ago, as I informed the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded), came to me and asked for a warrant to arrest Captain Couchart [Coshart]. I said to him the Queen's proclamation was sufficient warrant, but, he insisting, I thought abundance of the law could not break the law, and gave him my warrant, as he was positive that he could find Coshart. He now comes back with a long story, which I enclose. I have no good opinion of this gentleman, and wish he were settled elsewhere.
	P. ²/3. (Hol.) Endd.in Warre's hand. Ibid, 53.
[17 Feb.]	Robert Porteus to Nottingham.
	One Richard Whitman, who is here to attest, informs me that he met Captain La Touche in the house of William Games, a victualler at Wapping Dock, on February 1, with a Mr. Morgin, who is a pretended husband to the ship that Captain Damper is going out in, and reports that he is a part owner of that ship. Knowing La Touche, Whitman asked him how he came out of prison. La Touche, answered that he was cleared out and that Morgin was his friend. Details. Morgin knows where La Touche now is.
	In answer to my questions, Whitman said he could not swear whether the person he had spoken to was La Touche or Captain Coshart, but knew that he was one who had been a prisoner at Southampton in December [1702] and was called a captain. Having taken steps [details] to get a description of La Touche, I tried on February 13 to find him, but could not identify him for certain, and they who were with him said they knew no man by [that?] name and asked what order I had to search. I therefore write to acquaint your honour with what I have heard; and, if the parties or party be arrested, hope I may have the bounty money promised in the Queen's proclamation.
	P. 1. Signed by Porteus and Whitman. Endd. with date.S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 47.
17 Feb. Portsmouth.	Colonel Gibson to [Same].
	Yours of the 15th. Towards the end of November (I cannot give the day) I was at one of our coffee-houses in company with Dr. Sherrarde. The Town Major came to receive the word and orders for the night— it being about the time of shutting the gates. Before I gave him the word, he told me that Sir George Parker had brought over from Gosport M. Coshart to see M. D'Aligre, a prisoner then at the Town Major's house in custody; but that he [the Major] had not allowed them to meet till he had my consent. I objected, and said that if it were not out of respect to him I would confine Coshart and Jackson. The doctor was very much concerned, and sent for Jackson, then at Gosport. I told the Major to tell Sir George Parker that I would not comply with his desire, it being a thing I could not answer. The enclosed (fn. 10) shew the sequel, and I am sure Dr. Sherrarde and Sir G. Parker will both do me and the Town Major justice in this affair, if asked.
	The enclosed, to the best of my knowledge, are matter of fact. Next morning Coshart was carried over to Gosport and delivered to the Marshal, and the Doctor knows best how he reprimanded him. I am sorry your lordship should have so much trouble in this affair, but I could not avoid it.
	Pp. 1¾. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 54.
Same.	Robert Dalzell to [Same].
	Yours of the 15th to the Lieutenant Governor [Gibson] says that you are informed that when Captain Coshart was brought over from Gosport by Sir George Parker and others he was delivered to me. What I can say on the matter is as follows:—About sunset on the day in question, at the usual time for firing the gun for shutting the gates, I was going towards the main guard, and found standing near it Sir George Parker, Mr. Goreing, and I think Mr. Bryan, with Lieutenant Foulks, of Colonel Holt's regiment. The first three gentlemen belong to the prize office. Captain Coshart, whom I had never seen or spoken to before, was with them. The gentlemen had brought him over from Gosport to pay a visit to M. d'Aligre, a French prisoner of war, who was then detained at my house. Corroborates the foregoing as to the refusal of the LieutenantGovernor [Gibson] and Commissioner [Dr. Sherard] to authorise the meeting between Coshart and D'Aligre. At the time when he was asked for leave, the Lieutenant Governor was at the Point Coffee House, and Parker &c. remained at Norris' Coffee House. Proceeds:—The Lieutenant Governor told me to keep him [Coshart] till next morning in some proper place with two sentinels. When I delivered Coshart these orders, there were present Sir G. Parker, Mr. Goreing, Mr. Bryan, Lord Durzly, Major Lawrence, Lieutenant Foulks and many others. I refer for details to Major Lawrence's letters of this date.
	Pp. 2½p. (Hol.) S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 55.
17 Feb. Whitehall.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	The Queen approves your exchange of prisoners [details], and you may tell those you discharge that you will set at liberty two more, of the same quality as Hendricksen and Jacks, when the names of any such two are sent you. The Queen approves of Count de Mornay being exchanged for Captain Cock. If the French won't agree to this, let me know.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 211, 212.
	2. To the Prince's Council.
	I send enclosure from the Duke of Marlborough that anything which is wanting to enable the transports to join the men-of-war for the West Indies, may be ordered by the Council.
	P. ¼. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 14.
17 Feb.	Note of [Richard Warre] to the Mayor of Dover.
	Wrote that my Lord received his letter and sent for the two persons who writ to him, William Smith and John Yeates, (fn. 11) whose letters he enclosed, but they could not be found. [They were:—] John Yeates, at the sign of the Three Falcons in St. John's Street, near Hick's Hall. Three months ago lay there four nights, but they know nothing more of him.
	William Smith, at the sign of the Black Bull in Tower Dock.
	Mrs. Bland, at the Cat and Dog in Rosemary Lane. Gone thence, and letters to be delivered to Mr. Paddison. Gone thence to quarters.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 146, p. 3.
18 Feb. Admiralty Office.	Josiah Bubchett to Richard Warre.
	Lord High Admiral's request:—To move Lord Secretary Nottingham for the Queen's orders to the Governor of Tilbury to permit the vessels to proceed to Chatham that have ballast aboard for her Majesty's ships, or appear to him to be on the Queen's service.
	P. ½. Signed. Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 19.
18 Feb. Sick and Wounded Office.	The Commissioners of Sick and Wounded to Nottingham.
	Send a list of prisoners; and letters (fn. 12) from Count de Mornay, Captain de Gratton and their officer at Southampton.
	P. ¼. Signed by Lee, Sherard, Morley and Adams. Endd.
	S.P. Dom., Naval118,56.Enclosing:—
	A. Return of the number of Prisoners at war in custody.
	Plymouth, 1,116; Gosport, 68; Southampton, 823; Farnham, 173; Dover, 596; Yarmouth, 77; Exeter, 30; Kinsale, 393; Guernsey, 314; Jersey, 55; Tower Hill, London, 24; Oxford, on parole, 32.
	P. ²/3.(small). Dated, 16 February, 170²/3. Endd. Ibid, 56A.
18 Feb. Whitehall.	Nottingham to the Prince's Council.
	Refers John Colston's petition for consideration and report as to how he may best be employed in the Queen's service. Further pleasure. Note. The petition was enclosed.
	P. ¹/6. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 212.
19 Feb. Admiralty Office.	Josiah Burchett to Richard Warre.
	Inform Lord Secretary Nottingham that the Resolution and Blackwall are stopped in Plymouth Sound, and that the Tilbury 4th rater is gone with the transports from Spithead to join them there.
	P. ¹/6. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 20.
Latest date, 19 Feb.	Notes on the movements of Morgan.
	Wednesday, February 17, he went to Long Acre, to a broker's in.[St. Martin's Lane, to Wido's [?] Coffee-house in Spring Garden, to the Admiralty, to the Admiralty Coffee-house, to Hanel [?], a Frenchman [?], in Warwick [?] Street, to King Street, near Golden Square, to Devil tavern at Charing Cross. There he met five gentlemen. [Their clothes &c. described.] On Sunday, 14 February, he went to the Chapel in Lincoln's Inn Fields and thence to Clancy's, where he spent three-quarters of an hour.
	Mary Russell, now Collins, makes oath that some day within a week past she saw Morgan go to the house of Clancy, an Irishman, in Long Acre, where La Touche was taken, and that he staid in that house near an hour.
	In all p. ¾. The deposition of Collins signed with her mark and written and attested on 19 February, 170²/3. by Lord Secretary Nottingham. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 57, 1 and 2.
19 Feb. Plymouth.	Brigadier Colenbine to Nottingham.
	The ships which were delayed have arrived with my regiment.We shall sail as soon as the wind serves, unless otherwise ordered.
	P. ½. (Hol.) Endd. Ibid, 58.
19 Feb.	Memorandum by Sir G. Parker.
	Some day in November last, after working at Portsmouth in connection with the landing of the Port St. Mary's plunder, I and some other gentlemen went to dine at Gosport. Before we sat down, Mr. Cullfort, an officer of Southampton, being in company with us, was alone in the next room, and desired to be admitted to dinner with us. We consented.
	In the evening we were going over to Portsmouth, and he asked leave to come with us, as he was alone. He said he had come from Southampton with a design to wait upon some prisoners who were taken at Vigo. Details. When we landed at the " Pint a' Portsmouth " we met the Town Major, to whom I referred Captain Coshart for leave to see M. d'Alleger [D'Aligre]. I saw Coshart afterwards in the coffee-house, but do not know what became of him from that time to this.
	P. ¾. Signed. Endd. Ibid, 59.
19 Feb. Portsmouth.	[Major] H. Lawrence to [Nottingham].
	To vindicate Major Dalliele from the suspicion of neglect, I beg to state what I saw in November last:—
	As Major to Colonel Holt's regiment here, I have frequently had orders from Colonel Gibson to make detachments to convoy prisoners to Southampton. Amongst them was Coshart, whom I at first treated with the decency due to his appearance, but he soon "forfeited my condescension," and I had to give orders to the officers at Southampton to treat him strictly. Details. He the made favour with his gaoler, who consented to many irregularities.
	Confirms Colonel Gibson and Sir G. Parker [above at 17 and 19 February, 1703] as to the events before Coshart's escape. Proceeds:—After supper I took him to my lodging, had my field bed set up [for him] and never let him out of my sight till I sent him under an officer's guard to Jackson, his keeper.
	Pp. 4 (small). (Hol.) Ibid, 60.
19 Feb. Whitehall.	Hedges to the Postmaster[s] General.
	The Holland mail to go to-night for Harwich. The packetboat not to sail thence till a flying packet arrives.
	P. 1/10. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 282.
Same.	Nottingham to the Lord Treasurer.
	1. Her Majesty desires your opinion on the enclosed petition of Sir Alexander Bruce before she takes any action on it.
	Note. Petition enclosed.
	P. ¼. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 213.
	2. Queen's command:—To pay 200l. to the person by whose means La Touche, one of the French prisoners who lately escaped from Southampton, was captured. The money is to be paid to Mr. Thomas Armstrong, and I will see it paid to the proper person. His name must be kept secret, in order that he may be better able to seize Coshart too.
	P. ⅓. Ibid.
	3. Enclosed is an account of what the late King presented to the Governments of Algier, Tripoli, and Tunis; but your lordship will see by another paper that things of another nature will be more welcome at Algier. The Queen is willing to allow 300l. to be laid out in a present to that Government and a bale of cloth and a gold watch and two "prospective" glasses to each of the Governments of Tunis and Tripoli. Give orders accordingly, I have ordered Mr. Baker, late Consul at Algier, to attend you, as he may be useful on this occasion.
	P. ½. Ibid, p. 214.
20 Feb. Greenwich.	Memorial [to the Archbishop of Canterbury ?] by certain Inhabitants of Greenwich.
	We hear that certain persons are trying by your Grace's interest to procure the presentation to this vicarage when it shall fall vacant. The incumbent is not likely to live long. We certify that Mr. Turner is very acceptable to the parish, "having for several years lived in our neighbourhood, and being much valued by us for his prudent behaviour, profitable preaching, affection to the present Government and zeal for the established Church. We pray that by your interest he may succeed to the living when it falls vacant.
	P. ½ Signed, Litchfield, Derby, Philip Becket, Isr. [?] Clements, Robert Robinson, Gebriell Milliken [?], S. Cade, William Hooker, Robert Robinson, Richard Crick, Nicholas Cooke, John Stow, William Nepuen, Jo. Cottle, Robert Watson, Thomas Robinson, Benjamin Dyer, Charles Guy, J. Guy, Searle Spranger, John Blundell, Luke Cooke, Natha[niel ?] Ryley, Gabriell Garrett, Thomas Wiggell, John Tindalls, George Fuller, Thomas Dewell, John Fisher, Ernest Madox, Genath Bestwick and Ambrose Page.
	In all pp. 1¼. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 48.
20 Feb. Whitehall.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To Mr. Blathwayt.
	Is it true, as "the Committee of Council" are informed, that the recruits brought up to the Savoy are ill-cared for, and have to lie upon boards ? Inform yourself, and send me an account to lay before the Queen "at the Cabinet Council" to-morrow evening.
	P. ⅓. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 214.
	2. To Mr. Couereu and Co.
	The Queen permits you to pay 200 guineas to the Marquis de la Gallissonniere, the same to M. Sorel, and 4,000fr. to the Marquis de Chamilly, according to instructions which she hears you have from Paris.
	P. ½. Ibid, p. 215.
	3. To the Marquis de la Gallissonnière.
	Informs him that the permission referred to in the foregoing has been given.
	P. ¼. French. Ibid, pp. 215, 216.
	4. To the Governor of Tilbury.
	The Queen hears that you stopped some ships with ballast on board for her Majesty's ships without permitting them to proceed to Chatham. Command:—Let all vessels proceed which appear to you to be in her Majesty's service.
	P. ¼. Ibid, p. 216.
Same.	Hedges' Letters.
	1. To the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded.
	The Queen approves the exchange of Captain William Hester, who commanded the Diamond galley, taken in November last by a French privateer, and now at Dunkirk, for Mathew du Prey, master of the Bonheur, lately taken by her Majesty's ship Chatham and now a prisoner at Plymouth. Take action accordingly.
	P. ⅓. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 282.
	2. To the Postmaster[s] General.
	To send enclosed by a flying-packet to Harwich, whence the packet is to be despatched as soon as they arrive.
	P. ¹/8. Ibid, p. 283.
20 Feb. Office of Ordnance.	Warrant by the Duke of Marlborough.
	Appointing Peter Cotter kettle-drummer to the train of artillery commanded by Colonel Holcraft Blood. Pay 3s. a day, as from 18 February, 170²/3.
	P. ¾. (Copy.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Military 34, 1.
20 Feb. St. James'.	Royal Warrant to the Master-General of the Ordnance.
	It is for the good of our service that a true state and account of the present condition of all our garrisons, forts and block-houses should be reported to us. No survey has been made of them for a long time, so that their condition, and the amount of repair needed to fit them for defence of the realm, "against foreign invasions or other hostile attempts that may be made against our State and Government," cannot be known. We authorise and desire you, taking the assistance of such officers, engineers and clerks as you think fit, to make such a particular survey of "all our said garrisons, castles, forts and blockhouses situate upon the coasts, harbours, maritime places and frontiers of this our kingdom and town of Berwick-on-Tweed." Consider and certify how many of them are "useful and of such defence as may make them capable of rendering us considerable service at least of such importance as may countervail the charge of their respective entertainments and supplies, how many ([because] the sea hath forsaken them or in respect of any other important defects in the situation, form, materials, endowments or other remarkable decays) are become unserviceable and unfit to be maintained" as being too chargeable to us; how many should be maintained with a small number of men or otherwise; and of these "to take due consideration of their fortifications and works and of all annoyances which may make them subject to the danger of a surprise." Return an estimate of the cost of necessary repairs and of what entertainment (issued out of what fund and upon what consideration) has been allowed for their support. Say whether such consideration still exists and what change has occurred since the allowance was first made.
	If you cannot yourself undertake this survey, you may depute such of our principal officers of ordnance as you approve to do it, acting under your instructions, under which they shall make a detailed return of the state of the fortifications, which you shall send to us. You, or those under your orders, shall make a return also of all the ordnance, platforms, carriages and habiliments of war charged out of our magazines and remaining in any of our said forts, of the defects of such provisions and their need of repair. You, or they, shall also report what ordnance &c. is necessary in each of these forts, whether the officers, gunners &c. that receive our pay are capable of discharging their respective charges, what officers and men are allowed for each fort, at what pay, what repairs are needed for the quarters of such officers and men, what encroachments, if any, have been made to the prejudice of the forts, what officers and men were allowed, originally and now, for each fort, (fn. 13) whether all such officers and men are in residence, and generally all particulars which you think conducing to our service touching the said castles &c. Lastly, have the remainder of stores in each fort examined and get certificates from the person in command of each [details], how their stores of all kinds have been expended or saved according to our instructions for preventing waste. Where particular commanders have been wasteful, certify their names and defaults, and do not discharge them on their accounts till you hear from us or the Privy Council.
	All officers, gunners &c. in forts are commanded to assist and obey you in this service.
	Pp. 5. Countersigned by Hedges. S.P. Dom., Entry Book171, pp. 156–161.
21 Feb.	Edward Morgan to Nottingham.
	Promises to reveal secrets and find out where certain persons are. Protests his sincerity. Proceeds:—Your lordship can see that my intention was real, seeing otherwise I had not gone near La Touche nor troubled myself about it, knowing the consequences of such affairs. If the management of the affair had been left in my hands, I might by to-morrow have been able to give you some account of "Coshar." It was through me that the information about La Touche reached you. Others are trying to defraud me of the benefits of the Queen's proclamation. Details.
	Pp. 2. With seal (bearing a swan). (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P.Dom., Anne 2, 49.
22 Feb.	Same to Same.
	I hope you have the letter I sent by Mr. Hill. Please order me to be set at liberty. Whatever people may tell you, I do not know where Coshart is. Subservient expressions.
	Pp. 1¼. Seal as foregoing. (Hol.) Add. Endd. Ibid, 50.
22 Feb. Whitehall.	Nottingham to the Attorney General.
	Queen's command:—To prepare a proclamation commanding all deserters to repair to their ships, promising pardon to all such as shall return by 10 April next, and pardoning William Gray, of Ipswich, who is condemned at Spithead for desertion.
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 217.
23 Feb. Sick and Wounded Office.	The Commissioners of Sick and Wounded to Nottingham.
	Send enclosed. Observe that Count de Mornay does not refer to the proposal to exchange him for Captain Cock.
	P. ¼. Signed by four Commissioners. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 61. Enclosing:—
	A.Count de Mornay to [the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded].
	I send the letter I am sending to M. de Pontchartrain for you to read and shew, if you think well, to Lord Secretary Nottingham.
	I make the complaints which you ask for. If you desire any alteration in my letter, let me know and I will make it.
	P. ¼. French. Signed. Dated, Oxford, 22 February. Ibid, 61A.
24 Feb.	Report on the Gaol Delivery of Newgate, the 24th of February, 170²/3.
	London and Middlesex. Condemned to die:—
	Thomas Moore.—For privately stealing 10s. in money from Hester Hebbard. Pardoned.
	Mary Fudge.—For privately stealing goods value 3l. 13s. 0d. out of the shop of Elizabeth Hobday. Pregnant. (fn. 14)
	Richard Gerratt.—For stealing a mare value 3l. from Elizabeth Holden. Transported.
	Anne Denton.—For privately stealing goods value 40s. from Peter Reeves. Pregnant. (fn. 14)
	John Estrick alias Howard alias Walker.—For a burglary in the house of John Bourne and stealing his goods, value 10l. and 126l. and goods value 12l. from William Dawson. Executed.
	Mary Raby alias Rogers alias Jackson alias Browne alias Crone.—Burglary in the house of Lady Rhoda Cavendish and stealing her goods, value 170l. Pregnant. (fn. 14)
	Burnt in the face, 15.
	Respited from being burnt in the face, 5.
	To be whipped, 6.
	P. 1. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 51.
24 Feb.	Captain [Sir] Thomas Harlow, commanding H.M.S. Grafton, to [Nottingham].
	I sent to Barnstaple and Falmouth for volunteers. Five volunteers were brought from Falmouth yesterday. My master, mate and midshipman were ill-treated at Falmouth. The Mayor refused to enter any man he brought and suffered the people to "palt" [pelt] them through the town when they beat up for volunteers, put those he had entertained in prison, and afterwards sent them on board the ships he was concerned in. If officers are so treated by magistrates, we shall have an ill time of it, and of what use is her Majesty's proclamation, and what use is our expense if they "banter with the authority."
	I send the names of the men enclosed. He had no presswarrant with him. I thought they might have interest enough, being both of that country, to raise volunteers, "but in this, as in other matters, meet disappointments by a disaffected sort of people."
	Pp. 1¼. Extract. Endd. in Nottingham's hand: Sir Thomas Harlow. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 21.
24 Feb. Whitehall.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	Yours of the 18th. Queen's command:—To commit Sutton for high treason in corresponding with her Majesty's enemies.
	P. ¼. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 217.
	2. To Colonel Collier.
	Yours of 17 December and 25 January. Queen's command:—To release the Esperance de Derniville and detain the French merchant and others prisoner.
	P. ¼. Ibid, p. 218.
25 Feb. St. James'.	Royal Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General.
	To prepare a bill &c. to pass the Great Seal incorporating the bailiffs, aldermen, burgesses and commonalty of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, and the town of South Town in Suffolk, by the name of the Mayor, aldermen, burgesses and commonalty of the Burgh of Great Yarmouth, in order to enable them to execute the powers given to that corporation by an Act of Parliament passed in 1699, for maintaining the piers and haven there. The grant shall contain all the privileges mentioned in the annexed schedule, and the persons whose names are therein mentioned with all other usual privileges.
	Pp. 1¼. S.P. Dom., Warrant Book 350, pp. 317, 318.
	Schedule.
	The petitioners were, by a charter of 1668, united into one corporation by the names of the bailiffs, aldermen, burgesses and commonalty of the Burgh of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk.
	They pray that they may have a Mayor instead of two bailiffs, to be chosen from among the aldermen and sworn at the same time as the bailiffs have hitherto been sworn, and that they be incorporated as the Mayor &c. [see warrant above] of Great Yarmouth, and that Benjamin Engle, Esq., may be the first and modern Mayor of this town, and may continue so till next Michaelmas.
	By a charter of 22 July, 1608, they have twenty-four aldermen. They desire that as these die they may be reduced to eighteen, and ever after remain at that number. They desire that their Common Councilmen who, by a charter of 8 January, 1664, are forty-eight, be reduced by death to thirty-six, and kept ever after at that number.
	They desire the present High Steward, Recorder, and the rest of the officers of the Corporation to be continued according to the charters, except the bailiffs, and that there may be a man learned in the law to be called the under steward of the said borough, that Francis Long, Esq., be the first under steward, to continue during good conduct, and that the High Steward, Recorder and under steward continue in office during good behaviour. The other officers to be elected according to the custom of the borough, and the Mayor to have such power at elections as the bailiffs now have.
	That in case any Mayor refuse to serve, or be removed, the senior, or any willing, alderman who is a Justice of the Peace have power to call a Common Council of the borough, giving three days' notice to each resident member, and that such Council proceed to the election of a new Mayor.
	That the Mayor may elect any other alderman to be his deputy, who shall have power to execute all the Mayor's functions during his absence.
	The Mayor or (in his absence or sickness) the Deputy Mayor to have power to call a Common Council, which shall have all the powers that the Common Council ever had.
	By former charters the Bailiffs, Recorder and one other man learned in the law, chosen by them at Michaelmas, were Justices for the year ensuing. They desire that instead of this, the seven senior aldermen of the said borough, now being, vizt., Benjamin England, Peter Caulier, Sam Fuller, Nathaniel Symonds, Thomas Godfrey, Antony Ellis, sen., and Gabriel Ward, and every Mayor, from his entering and during office, and every Mayor, or ex-Mayor who is still an alderman, and every High Steward, Recorder and Under Steward, while he holds his office, shall be Justices of the Peace for the said borough; and that they or any three of them (of whom the Mayor or Deputy Mayor, Recorder or under steward shall be always one) be justices to meet, call and adjourn any Sessions [details]; and that all writs, precepts &c. of the Sessions be directed to and executed by the officers of the said borough without any warrant from the Sheriff or Coroner of Norfolk or Suffolk in that behalf to be directed according to the charter of Queen Elizabeth.
	By former charters, the Justices of the Peace for Norfolk were prohibited from exercising jurisdiction in Great Yarmouth, and by the charter of 1668 the King granted to Little Yarmouth all the privileges which Great Yarmouth formerly enjoyed. They desire that the authority of the said Justices of the Peace of Great Yarmouth may be extended to Little Yarmouth, and that the Justices of Suffolk may be prohibited from officiating there.
	They desire that each Mayor-elect, before he enter his office, take the oath of office before the seven senior aldermen or any two of them; and that all other officers of the borough take the oath before entering on their offices [details].
	They desire that the Mayor or Deputy-Mayor may hold all such Courts and may enjoy all such privileges, fees, perquisites &c., as the bailiffs, jointly or severally, formerly had; and that the new corporation have and enjoy all the lands, liberties, prescriptions, fees &c. which the old corporation had; and that the Mayor may elect a sword-bearer during pleasure.
	Pp. 5½. S.P. Dom., Warrant Book 350, pp. 319–324.
25 Feb. Sick and Wounded Office.	The Commissioners of Sick and Wounded to [Nottingham].
	Send list of prisoners, and an extract of a letter from their officer at Weymouth.
	Four lines. Signed by four Commissioners. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 62. Enclosing:—
	A. Number of prisoners of war in custody on 25 February, 170²/3.
	The total is 3,714. Number at each of the various ports given [see above, pp. 575, 596].
	P. ²/3, small. Endd. Ibid, 62A.
	B. Charles Taver, surgeon at Weymouth, to the Secretary to the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
	The Conqueror, privateer, has just come in here and has brought in a French prize of 26 tons and nine men, laden with wine and brandy. She belonged to "Deip" and was coming from Bordeaux. I learn from them only that Bordeaux is full of soldiers and a revolt apprehended there. Soldiers are being impressed night and day; but they believe the Grand Fleet will not come out this year. "The master is, as they call him, a new convert, and he tells me that certainly the French King hath an intent upon Holland, and he adds that about 60,000militia men are raised at the country's charge," and that Chateaurenought is still at Paris. They complain of an extraordinary poverty. That is all at present.
	P. ²/3. Dated, 22 February, 1702[3]. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 62B.
26 Feb. Whitehall.	[Richard Warre] to Mr. Burt.
	Lord Secretary Nottingham directs me to say that although La Touche, who made his escape from Southampton, is now committed to Newgate, he thinks he should be so far considered a prisoner of war as to have the same allowance for his subsistence which he had at Southampton, to commence from the time of his commitment (19 February). Acquaint the Commissioners with it. If they desire further directions they will be sent, "but my Lord is now gone in haste to the House."
	P. ½. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 146, p. 3.
27 Feb.	J. Hite to Hedges.
	My Lord Marquis wants and expects the two men from me. Other details.
	P. ²/3 (small). (Hol.) Add. S.P. Dom., Anne2, 52.
27 Feb. Whitehall.	Nottingham's Letters.
	1. To Sir Thomas Harlow, Captain of the Grafton.
	Your complaints of the Mayor of Falmouth have reached me through the Prince's Council, but must be corroborated on oath before the Queen can take any step. Send depositions in support by those who have knowledge of these proceedings.
	P. ¼. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 218.
	2. To the Mayor of Falmouth.
	Complaint has been made that you discourage volunteers and allowed some officers of the Grafton to be ill-treated when they beat up for them, and imprisoned some who had listed themselves. The Queen desires your account of this matter before she acts.
	P. ½. Ibid, p. 219.
	3. To the Lord Treasurer.
	I enclose Mr. Burchett's to Mr. Warre of 23 February. The Queen would have the galleons therein mentioned taken into her Navy, and leaves it to your lordships to consider how this may best be done and to give orders accordingly.
	Note of enclosure.
	P. ¼. Ibid, Pp. 219, 220.
Feb. St.James'.	Warrant to the Clerk of the Signet attending.
	To prepare a bill &c. to pass the Privy Seal licensing Sir Andrew Forrester (who went to France since 11 December, 1688, without leave), to return into and remain in England.
	p. ²/3. Draft. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 53.