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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 A short report upon the collection of the Earl of Dartmouth 
 was drawn up by the late Mr. Horwood and printed in the Second 
 Report of the Commission in the year 1871. Circumstances did 
 not allow of a complete account of the contents being made at 
 that time, and Lord Dartmouth very readily consented that a 
 more exhaustive report should be prepared, the papers having 
 been put in the meantime in chronological order and otherwise 
 rendered more suitable for examination. The present report 
 has been drawn up by Mr. W. O. Hewlett. The documents 
 therein calendared range in date from 1GG0 to the beginning of 
 the present century. It has not been thought necessary to 
 include notices of the letters of earlier date, though some of those 
 relating to the Civil Wars form the most interesting part 
 of the Collection, as all of them of any historical value were 
 freely used by Mr. Eliot Warburton in his work on Prince 
 Rupert and the Cavaliers, and the general account of them 
 already given by Mr. Horwood seems sufficient for historical 
 purposes. 
 
 Some biographieal details of the chief members of the Legge 
 family, to whom the large majority of the letters calendared are 
 addressed, will help to explain the circumstances under which 
 many of the documents came into their hands. These details we 
 get from A Genealogical account of the Detoendcmts of Thomas 
 Legge, of Legge s Place in Kent, vjho lived in the reign of Edward 
 the Third, a manuscript volume in the handwriting of the first 
 Earl of Dartmouth, which forms part of the collection. 
 
 " William Legge, eldest son of Edward Legge and Mary Walsh, was 
 brought out of Ireland by Henry Dan vers, Karl el" Dauby, President of 
 Munster, his godfather, who had promised to take care oi" his education. 
 He was sent into the Low Countries to serve under Prince Maurice of 
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 Saxony. On his return to England he was made groom of the bedcham- 
 ber to Charles L, and had a commission as lieutenant-general of the 
 Ordnance, under Lord Newport as general, in the first expedition 
 against the Scots in 1639. He served in Rupert's regiment in the 
 battle of Newark, was taken prisoner at Dunsmore Heath and again at 
 Lichfield. 
 
 " In 1644 he was governor of Chester and Oxford, and at a later date 
 was one of the three companions Charles I. chose to accompany him in 
 his flight from Hampton Court. Referring to the latter occasion Lord 
 Clarendon writes of him — 
 
 " Legge had had so general a reputation of integrity and fidelity to 
 his master that he never fell under the least imputation or reproach with 
 any man. He was a very punctual and steady observer of the orders 
 he received, but no contriver of them, and though he had in truth a 
 better judgment and understanding than either of the other two (Ash- 
 burnham and Berkeley) his modesty and diffidence of himself never 
 suffered him to contrive bold councils." 
 
 After the death of Charles I. William Legge was imprisoned 
 in succession at Plymouth, Bristol, and Arundel, where he ob- 
 tained leave to go abroad. In 1650 he went with Prince Charles 
 into Scotland, was wounded, and taken prisoner at Worcester. 
 With the aid of his wife he made his escape in women's clothes 
 out of Coventry gaol. During the Commonwealth he was busy 
 in many Royalist plots, and on the restoration of monarchy he 
 reaped the reward of his fidelity by the bestowal upon him of 
 his old places in the Bedchamber and the Ordnance, a company 
 of foot in the Tower, the King's house in the Minories, the 
 lieutenancy of Alice Holt, and Woolmer forests in Hampshire, 
 a pension of 500/. a year for his own and his wife's lives, &c. 
 His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Washington 
 of Packington, co. Leicester. He died Oct. 13, 1670 (not 1672, 
 as the monument in Trinity Church, Minories, states, which his 
 grandson puts down as a mistake of the stonecutter) in the 
 eighty-third year of his age. 
 
 George, eldest son of Col. William Legge, born about 1647, 
 educated at Westminster and at King's College, Cambridge, was 
 sent to sea at seventeen years of age under Sir Edward Spragge, 
 and commanded the Pembroke in 1667, the Fairfax in 1671; and 
 the Royal Catherine in 1672, and served in both the Dutch 
 wars. He also succeeded to the command of his father's com- 
 
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 pany of foot, became governor of Portsmouth in 1673, and in 
 1678 was made Master of the Ordnance. In 1682 he was created 
 Baron Dartmouth, and, in the following year, was commissioned 
 a3 admiral of the fleet to demolish Tangier, for which service he 
 received a gratuity of 10,000£. During the reign of James II. 
 Lord Dartmouth continued to stand high in royal favour, and 
 he was placed in command of the fleet sent out to intercept the 
 expedition of William of Orange. In 1691, being suspected of 
 treasonable correspondence with James, he was committed to the 
 Tower, where he died suddenly about three months after his 
 imprisonment. 
 
 William Legge, the only son of the first Lord Dartmouth, was 
 nineteen years old at the death of his father. He also was 
 educated under Dr. Busby at Westminster, and went to King's 
 College, Cambridge, where Dr. George Stanhope, afterwards Vicar 
 of Lewisham and Dean of Canterbury, was his tutor. On the 
 accession of Queen Anne he was sworn a privy councillor, in 
 1710 became Secretary of State, a year later Earl of Dartmouth, 
 and in 1713 Keeper of the Privy Seal. He died on the 15th 
 December 1750, and was succeeded by his grandson, his son 
 Lord Lewisham having died on 29 Sept. 1732, aged 30. 
 
 The following anecdote of Queen Anne is taken from the same 
 manuscript: — 
 
 " Queen Anne a little before she died (old the Karl ot Dartmouth that 
 she never had bought a jewel for her own use in her whole life, and of 
 all the vanities in the world looked upon them as the greatest ; hut 
 thought they were proper for presents, because a great value in a small 
 compass. The Earl of Oxford brought Mr. Pitt's groat diamond to 
 Queen Anne, and told her several gentlemen of the House of Commons 
 said it was pity it should go out of the kingdom, and had a mind to 
 move in their House to have it presented to Her Majesty. She desired 
 he would stop the motion, for she should be very sorry to see the 
 people's money thrown away upon such a bauble for her, and told the 
 Earl of Dartmouth she thought it was a much greater pity that Orcen- 
 wich Hospital was not finished." 
 
 Among the documents of the Restoration period of which 
 copies or abstracts are given in Mr. Hewlett's report may be 
 named : — friendly letters of Prince Rupert to Colonel William 
 Legge in 160 1 when on a mission to Vienna, and of the Duke 
 of Ormonde to the same, giving glimpses of the difficulties of hjfl 
 
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 Irish government ; two or three ships' journals including that of 
 the Royal Katherine, when commanded by Captain George 
 Legge, afterwards first Lord Dartmouth, in the naval engage- 
 ments with the Dutch fleet under Admirals De Ruyter and Van 
 Tromp in 1673 ; with a letter to the Duke of York describing one 
 of the conflicts at sea ; letters of Lord Vaughau, afterwards Earl 
 of Carbery, and of Lord Culpeper from Jamaica; some papers 
 illustrating the English occupation of Nieuport in Flanders, in 
 1678; and the letters written between 1679 and 1682 by the 
 Duke of York when he was banished the Court. A few extracts 
 from this curious series were printed by Sir John Dalrymple in 
 his Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, and are referred to 
 by Sir James Mackintosh, but it seemed desirable that the oppor- 
 tunity should not be missed of printing the whole of them with- 
 out omission or alteration of any kind, as they afford no slight 
 clue to the character of James II. 
 
 For the history of the English possession of Tangier, the un- 
 fortunate dowry brought to Charles II. by Catherine of Braganza, 
 the materials in this collection are very rich. Passing over a few 
 letters of Colonel Henry Norwood, one of the first governors or 
 commanders of the garrison there, we come, under the date of 
 1678, to an account of the inhabitants and a survey of all the 
 houses and other buildings in the city. To, about the same 
 period may be referred an undated paper headed " An Establish- 
 ment for Tangier," which gives details of the pay and cost of 
 maintenance of the entire garrison, from the governor down- 
 wards, and is otherwise curious as an illustration of the require- 
 ments and expenses of a military establishment in those days. 
 A year or two later in date are many letters addressed from 
 Tangier to Col. George Legge, as one of the chief officers of the 
 Ordnance, which give accounts of many skirmishes with the 
 Moors, and are evidence generally of the very unsatisfactory 
 position which the English garrison and inhabitants occupied 
 owing to their unpleasant neighbours both on sea and land. 
 Notable among these correspondents are Martin Beckmann, after- 
 wards knighted, and still remembered as an engineer and 
 painter of sea pieces, and Colonel Percy Kirke, who was the last 
 governor of the city. As is well known, in 1683 it was resolved 
 by Charles II. to demolish the fortifications and to evacuate the 
 place, and George Legge, recently made Lord Dartmouth, was 
 placed in command of the expedition sent out to Tangier to 
 
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 accomplish those objects. The original instructions of the King 
 to Lord Dartmouth for this expedition are among the numerous 
 other letters and papers bearing upon it. Among the men of 
 note who took part in the affair were Samuel Pepys, Sir, then 
 Captain, Cloudesley Shovel, and Sir John Berry. There is a 
 good letter of George Byng, afterwards Lord Torrington, but 
 at that time a young lieutenant engaged in a difficulty with the 
 Spanish governor of Gibraltar. A few of Pepys's papers con- 
 cerning the Tangier commission have already appeared in print 
 as have also one or two of his letters of later date to which we 
 shall shortly refer ; but they are so little known that it did not 
 appear advisable to break the continuity of the series by passing- 
 such with a brief notice and a reference to the work in which 
 they may be found at length. 
 
 With the exception of two or three letters of Sir Henry Shcre, 
 who was attached to the army sent in pursuit of the Duke of 
 Monmouth, there are few letters of consequence for the reign of 
 James II. until we come to the end of September 1088, when 
 Lord Dartmouth was placed in command of the English fleet 
 sent out to intercept the Dutch under the Prince of Orange. 
 The correspondence of the following three months fills about 1.50 
 pages of the report and is a very important contribution to 
 the history of that most eventful time ; a few of the papers were 
 used by Sir John Dalrymple (whose letter referring to them is 
 printed at the end of Mr. Hewlett's Report), but for reasons 
 given above, all of historical value have been calendared. Lord 
 Dartmouth's most active correspondent at this time was Samuel 
 Pepys, Secretary to the Admiralty, who transmits the King's 
 instructions and the current news almost daily ; there are also 
 many letters in James's own hand, one of which, written on 
 December 10 just before his own flight, refers to the desperate 
 condition of his affairs and to his having been obliged to send 
 away the Queen and the young Prince " to secure them at least, 
 whatsoever becomes of me." As all the public men of the day, 
 including the Prince of Orange, were in communication with 
 Lord Dartmouth at this time, little more need be said of the value 
 of these papers. An important supplement to them is a manusript 
 volume containing copies in Lord Dartmouth's handwriting of 
 letters written by him to the King and to Pepys during the 
 expedition. 
 
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 In 1691, Lord Dartmouth, as already stated, was apprehended 
 for high treason and put into the Tower, where he died. He 
 drew up a curious account of his arrest and examination before 
 the Council, which will be found printed in the report. There 
 are few letters between the date of his death and that of 
 the appointment of his son as Secretary of State in June 
 1710. 
 
 The second Lord Dartmouth was raised to an earldom in 
 September 1711, and promoted to be Lord Privy Seal in 
 1713. His correspondence with his colleagues and others during 
 his official career does not throw much new light on the in- 
 trigues of the later years of Queen Anne's reign, but it will help 
 the historical student to form a picture of the times. Among 
 the papers are many letters of Lord Dartmouth, or copies of 
 them in his hand, to the Queen, giving items of news, proceedings 
 of the Council, and the like, with the Queen's replies written by 
 herself. Two letters of Swift and one of Prior will also attract 
 notice, as well as those from Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, 
 written from the Tower during his imprisonment. After this 
 date, there is little of interest in the papers until we reach the 
 reign of George III., if we except two or three chatty letters 
 of Lord Orrery to Lady Kaye, written from Bath in 1731. 
 
 The second Earl of Dartmouth, grandson of the first Earl, after 
 holding one or two minor offices of State, was appointed Secre- 
 tary for the Colonial Department in August 1 772, and continued 
 in that post until November 1775. The family papers between 
 these dates are rich in material for the history of the struggle 
 for American independence, but it will be sufficient in this 
 Introduction to direct attention to them generally. Lord Dart- 
 mouth's most frequent correspondents at first are Governor 
 Hutchinson of Boston, and Joseph Reed, who writes from Phila- 
 delphia on the state of public feeling in America. When the 
 hostilities begin, Generals Gage and Sir William Howe, Admiral 
 Graves, Governors Carleton, Wentworth, Francklin, and others 
 are among the writers ; some of their letters are addressed to 
 Governor Legge, of Nova Scotia, who as a connexion of Lord 
 Dartmouth's family, and whose own conduct in managing 
 affairs led to an extensive and instructive correspondence forming 
 part of this collection. A long letter of John Wesley protesting 
 
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 against the war is also remarkable. Finally attention may 
 be drawn to the numerous holograph letters of George III. to 
 Lord Dartmouth, commenting on the state of affairs in America 
 and on other subjects. Interspersed with these American 
 papers are some letters of Lord North and other less prominent 
 politicians. 
 
 The succeeding Earl of Dartmouth was President of the Board 
 of Commissioners for Indian affairs ; among his papers are some 
 long and important letters of the Marquess Wellesley and the 
 second Lord Clive. To him also are addressed many holograph 
 letters of members of the Royal family, chiefly in recommenda- 
 tion of persons desiring employment in India or elsewhere. 
 
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 THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 
 THE EARL OF DARTMOUTH. 
 
 Preserved at Patshull House, Wolverhampton. 
 
 1660, June 18. — Paper headed " Reasons desired to be delivered in diSxmouth 
 " Parliament why Sir Richard Onslow of Surrey should be excepted mss. 
 " out of the Act of Indemnity." 
 
 The chief reasons were — he was impeached of high treason at Oxford 
 by the late King ; in July 1642, he went with armed force to Kingston 
 and carried away Sir Thos. Mallett, then judge of assize, to London, 
 where he was committed to the Tower ; in Nov. 1642, with the like 
 armed force he pulled down the King's Powder Mills at Chilworth and 
 carried away the materials for making powder ; when the King went to 
 the Scots, in a speech he compared his Majesty to a hedge hog, saying 
 he had then wrapped himself in his own bristles. &c. 
 
 Letters of Prince Rupert to Col. William Li.<;<;k. 
 
 1661, April U. 
 " Deare Will, 
 
 I have hardly recouvred this sea voyage which was favorable 
 enough as to my health, for after the first dayes offer to Neptune 1 used 
 that ceremony noe more. That which most troblcd us was after wee came 
 in sight of our port a greate storme of raine, the wind esterlv, which 
 lasted a whole night ; on Thursday morning the tide not serving for the 
 mase (Maas ?) we rune into Gore. I can tell you of noe adventures, 
 only one which was to rneete one Master (or Major) Buskins, whoe disir- 
 ing to goe over with me, having seriously not knowne him before, I 
 easily gave way to it. By his discourse I found quickly that the Lord 
 Chanceller was not his freind, and that his cheefest disigne of coming 
 over was to have a letter from my mother and one from me in his 
 behalfe to his Majesty; how this will take effect you may easily 
 imagine. Sir Robert Welsh is heere alsoe, whoes desirs (I find alreddj) 
 are to goe with me to Vienna, which I shall alsoe not allowe. 1 hope 
 Coll. Wheeler hath ben pleased to lett you knowe how that there was left 
 a fier balle in the little closett ; my people tell me since that thev left a 
 little barrell of powder, 1 was very angry with them for it, but I hope it 
 will not be thought a plott. More newsatt pressent you must not expect. 
 This is in hast as you may gesse by writting; I durst not writt in 
 the same hand to our Master, soe faire well deare Will, 1 am yours." 
 A pril 2 1 
 
 1661, jyr tl y 4 • Hague. — u Deare Will, by the last post I wrote to you 
 
 of my arrivall to this place. I was retarded by Mr. Black well's corre- 
 spondent whoe insted of paying the monys upon sight by unecesary delay- 
 kept them, and consequently me and my horses and train, heere tell 
 this post. Pray lett Mr. Blackwcll know this from me and that I could 
 have noe ducatts from the marchant, but was faine to pay almost one 
 in the hundred to have them elsewhere; alle this is contrary to his 
 promis and my dealing with him, which as Mr. Yenniiden can tell you 
 was free enough. In my last I wrote to you of one Major Buskiugs or 
 
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 Earl of Buff kings, he is gone whithout a letter, he may perchance be offended 
 kR ™ss T *' S a ^ ^ut no P e > not knowing the person nor the difference between 
 — ' him and the Lord Chancellor, my freinds will not blame me for it. I 
 put of Sir Rob. Welsh alsoe from going with me into Germany. The 
 Emperor's Resident heere assurs me that mostof the Princes of Germany 
 have consented to send the Emperor ayd against the Turcks, but they 
 desire a Genarall of their owne may comand them and have liberty to 
 come bake att his master's comand. This will be as ill lickt one as the 
 demand some of the Rinish Princes mack to the Hogenmogenden (?) for 
 the restitution of Spesett (Spesshardt ?) and Reinberg. If the Turke 
 were quiet this might prove an ill begining of a correspondence ; these 
 heere I am informeds peake high languige about their herings, which they 
 say shall be maintained with alle the power and force they have. The 
 Prince of Orange is att Cleve, whether I intend with all the speede. 
 
 These inclosed pray deliver, that not directed to our cosen Sea- 
 broucke, and pray remember my service to alle my freinds. The Lord 
 Craven hath not done very well in my mother's buisinesse and my 
 brother's, shee therefore is not very willing he should have the doing 
 of any thing about it till shee her selfe be acquainted. I found the 
 poore woman very much dejected that I could not tell her the time she 
 might expect to be sent for ; pray acquaint the Chancelor with this, and 
 the King with the news I towld you. I almost forgott to tell you a nother 
 story which be pleased to acquainted (sic) the D. of Albemarle with. 
 You have doubtlesse seene a lame 'Polish Prince some time at White- 
 halle with passports a beggin ; this noble soule is taken and in prisoned 
 att Alikmare, hath but twice bin burnt in the bake before this misfor- 
 tune befell him. The Duke, I am sure, will remember him and what 
 my jugement was of the fellow." 
 
 1661, May T 8 g. Cleve. — "Deare Will, I am come thus farr, where I 
 meete with greate alarums and preparations of warr on alle sides, both 
 Turke and Sweds arme. This Elector is in reddinesse, fearing the 
 Sweds' trechary, the Emperor is preparing alsoe for to with stand the 
 Turke, but I am confident if Peace can be made there, as I doubt not 
 it may, since it rests but upon a tribute which is desired from the Tran- 
 sylvanians, the troops will not want employment elsewhere. The 
 Soucke (?) commands now in cheefe, a fellow that rune from the 
 Sweds with a summe of mony. By the next I shall be able to write 
 more of these things then now I can, this I must add that the Hol- 
 landers boast much, awouing openly that if the King doth trouble the 
 Hering fishing they will mantaine it with the sword. I tould some that 
 butter and cheese would doe better. Pray lett the King knowe alle 
 this, as also the Lord Chancelor. I mett heere with on De Rues an 
 Ingenir, the ablest man in his profession that ever I saw, of whoem I 
 had alreddy spoken to the King. If the fortifications of Portchmouth 
 goe on I wish his advice might be taken, for noen fortifys soe well and 
 soe cheap and fast as he ; he hath att present in hand Calkar, a place 
 twoe miles of, of 4 Royall Bastions, out workes his way, and batteries 
 placed which tell you are almost over the moate canot be dismonted, really 
 the finest that ever were made, and all will not cost 8 mUle pounds st. 
 He makes any earth serve for his casemats and uses noe stones to them, 
 he uses no sodds, he rningls his earth somtims with sande, some time 
 with other earth or gravell as he finds occasion, and with beating makes 
 it soe hard that the shaking of the guns can noe waies desorder his 
 batteries. In fine he is a man very extraordinary in all meckaniques 
 and chiquaneur ; he is now going for Denemark to the King there whoe 
 sent for him, in six weeks he will be bake, if it please our King to lett 
 him have the plotte of Portchmouth he will make a disigne which I am 
 confident will please him best of any. Prince Maurice is the surest person 
 
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 to direct the sending it to him, whoe will alsoe give more particularly Earl or 
 his caracter. Pray lett the King knowe that Du Son is alive, rose from DAR ^f s °s^ TH 8 
 the dead, I think. My service to alle our freinds especially those in — ' 
 the Bedchamber. I am your 
 
 most faithful freind. 
 
 I hope you receaved mine I sent you from Hage, it was the 2nd . . . 
 . . inclosed to our cosen Sheabrook (?). 
 
 As I was writing De Rues comes in, whoe beds me assure the 
 King that he will bring people I meene worke bases which shall save 
 the King halfe in halfe of the costs he has a way of working which noen 
 has soe good. Prince Maurice can tell the King more of him. Pray 
 neglect not this man and tell Sir Rob. Murray of him with my remem- 
 brances, alsoe that I mett with Campher woode which smelt of it and had 
 the Campher in it, as alsoe with a distilled pure raine water which 
 disolved gowld (?)." 
 
 1661, Whitsunday [June 2]. Maintz. — " Deare Will, from Cassell I 
 wrote to you, and sent you some considerations a good freind of mine 
 desired mee to send touching Pomerania. I long to heere that you 
 have receaved them. I mett heere a envoye which intended for England 
 sent from the Emperor, he seemes much troubled att the news which he 
 mett with heere of King's marriage with Portegall's King's daughter. I 
 have done what I could to make him goe on but as yett he is not resolved 
 farrther then Brussells ; there he will stay for orders. , To-morrow I 
 leave this place soe directly for Vienna. Since departed etc. &c. (sic). 
 I heere for sertaine that the Queene of Bohemia is gone for England but 
 on what terms I knowe not. Pray doe me the favor to lett me understand 
 the truth of it, for when I left the Hage there was noe such thing in 
 hand. The Elector heere is very civill to me, I delivered the King's 
 letter to him, upon which he assured me to bee assisting in alle things 
 to me ; he alsoe towld me of a foudre (?) of Reihnish wein he sent me, 
 Sir Kellem [Kenelm] Dickby hath the disposall of it, to whoem the 
 whoele cargasone is directed. Pray aske it of him and drink it in remcm- 
 berance of your freinds, soe faire well, I am yours. 
 
 I will not trouble the King by bitts from Vienna, he shall have a full 
 accompt [of] alle his comands." 
 
 1661, June 22. Vienna. — " Dear Will, I have but jus time to tell you 
 that though I have ben heere 8 daies alrcdy the Spanish Embassador 
 has not ben to see me nor noen of the Grand Ministers ; if this be out 
 ofpettorGod knowes what will quickly discover it self. A freind of 
 mine att my coming assured me that there where but tvvoe difficulties 
 which hindred my advancement to the generallship of the horse, the one 
 was my beeing noe Roman, the other that the Marquis of Bade and 
 Generall Feltzengmaister de Souche would take ill if I was advanced 
 before them, and as hee thought both theise small impediments might 
 easily be over come, especialy the first, on whieh he was assured most 
 ded depend e. 
 
 I can see soe small preparations for a warr against the Turke other- 
 waies then for a defenceing one, in which rosting in the sunne and getting 
 the Hungarian Siknesse will be the greatest danger. I have not gott 
 one silable from you, pray faile not to write as oft as you can, soe faire 
 well deare Will. Your faithfull freind. 
 
 I allmost forgott to tell you how that Comtc Lesley's cousin, I forgott 
 his name but I remember that his sister was married to S fc (or S r ) 
 Michel, this man ded me the favor to send over a booke to Counte Leisly 
 intitled the Iron Age in which it speekes most base languiage of me and 
 my actions in England. It is dedicated to Jake Russell, but I am con- 
 fident if honest Jake had reade the booke he would broken the trans- 
 lator's head. Besids what he saies of me, he extols Cromwell act ions and 
 
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 Dartmouth's doth noe ri » nt t0 this or the late King. One Haris translated it, pray 
 mss. inquire after the booke and judge if it was not a Scotch trick to send it. 
 
 The best news I can write is that the Hungarian wine shall not be 
 wanting. I have found a way to send it by Wurtzbourg, and soe it shall 
 goe but 28 leagues by land. By the next I shall be able* to give the 
 King an accompt what the answer was to his letter, as yett there is 
 nonne, the hunting retards much busnesse. Pray remember me kindly 
 to my Lord Chauncelor, tell him must expect a long letter from me the 
 next weeke. My service to our cosen Sheabrough. 
 
 Moubray is the name I forgott." 
 
 1661, July J J. Vienna. 
 
 " Deare Will, 
 
 I did not write to you the last weeke because I intended to see 
 the ishu of some things heere before it. Att last the Marquis De Fuentes 
 late Ambassador for Spaine came to visit R[upert ?], I beleeve the new 
 one prest him to it, well beleving that Rp. [Rupert] else would not have 
 given him the like. The most part of the said Marquis's discourse was 
 of this mariage of Portugall, which extreamly troubles him, he would 
 needs laie alle the fault upon D. Or. and Lord Chanceler whoe he saied 
 intended to bring K. into a warr with Spaine. He complained alsoe that 
 the Baron Batteville did very ill to send Lord Bristoll out of England, 
 when a dogge with a letter tide to his coller would have served to have 
 desired the Princess of Parma, for by this meanes, saied he, one that 
 could have assisted our interest was wanting. He inquired very much 
 how it came that the Lord Chancelor and the Spanish Ambassador Baron 
 Battevile fell out, but Rp. [Rupert I knew nothing of alle this, we could 
 give noe answer. This day Rp. [Rupert] intends to visit the Marquis 
 De Fuentes, if any thing occur betweene them I shall striv to writ it 
 before the post goe ; in the mean time be pleased to knowe that Rp. 
 [Rupert] is but cowldly used by the ministers, they would have him 
 demand the generalship before there is an apparance of a subsistance, 
 nay before what is owing in arreare by the Peace of Munster be made 
 sure unto him, to which Rp. [Rupert] doth noe wais incline, especially 
 since he had the intimation given him that his religion was an obstacle to 
 his advancement in the warr. The Emperor, Emperatrice, and Archduc 
 are extreamly kind to Rp. [Rupert], but none of the Counsellors have 
 done him the honor of a visit ; the reason I beleeve is the mariage above 
 saied. The Turck hath possessed a passe called in Dutch the Iron (?) 
 Port, it was most foolishly over seen by our Commander who lay with 
 6,000 men not farr from it. Monticuculy is posted with the rest of the 
 army consisting about 30,000 neere the Danube. There is no speech 
 yett of a Reichs day, and before there be you may be confident that noe 
 great buisnesse against the Turks can be done, neither doe I find any 
 greate desire in these people to have any assistance from Protestants nor 
 from any but Roman Catholiqes. Pray lett the Lord Chanceler knowe 
 alle this and remember me to him, Duke Ormond, and the rest of our 
 friends. The Hungarian wine is like to be very good this yeare. Faire 
 well, deare Will, I am yours. 
 
 I wrote you word of some wine which was sent to Rp. by El. of 
 Maintz, Kalem Dikeby hath in his hands. Rp. [Rupert] intends you 
 should make use of it, a foudre is the quantity. For God sake if there 
 by any liklyhood of any breach with Spaine, lett us knowe it by times, 
 it concerns us to knowe it, lie assure you. Adieu, 
 
 My service to my cosen." 
 
 1661, August 6, N.S. Vienna. 
 
 "Deare Will, for this time the King will have the longest letter, I am 
 forced to give in a memoriall to the Emperor concerning the monys due to 
 us Brothers by the Peace of Munster, and for my own particular, which 
 payment goeth on but slowly. It is true that monys is comodity in 
 
 
 
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 greate request in this court and scarce enough, but yett rneanes may be earl oj 
 found to satisfy my particular if they please. I must confesse the Emp r ^"fg " n s 
 is kind enough to me, but noe visit yett from the Grand Consellors. — 
 Monticumly marches for Transilvania to-morrow, Soche stay on these 
 frontiers, yett for alle this I doe not beleeve that any warr is intended. 
 Comte Stroci now att Paris has order (as it is saved) to goe to our K. 
 My Service to our Cosen, so faire well, deare Will, &c. 
 
 I could wish the wine you presented to my Lord Chancelor was worth 
 his acceptance. I hope some Hungarian wine I am making provision of 
 will be.' , 
 
 1661, Sept. 4. Vienna. 
 
 " Deare Will, I am not able to write to you of any subject but of one, 
 which I confesse doth troble me in the highest degree, and doth concerne 
 our Master as well as my selfe. The stori is this, the Elector Pallatin hath 
 ben pleased to write to a Prive Consellor of this court in these terms — 
 what King of England's ambassador doth negotiate with the Porte, 
 Elector Palatin knowes not nor what is intended by him against the hows 
 of Austria, Prince Rupert whoe is intimate with King of England and 
 his Privi counsellor can tell (if he please). Alle this is a brotherly trick 
 you'l say, but I thank Good they heere doe little beleeve what he saies, 
 only this, the Pr. Porcia towld me that theire resident gave them notice 
 that the Eng 1 Turkey ambassador doth animate the Turke to falle into 
 Germany ; my reply was that he was rather an ambassador to the 
 English merchants and not the King's, and that I beleeved that hee had 
 noe such orders from our King, and that if any such thing could be layed 
 to his charge his Majesty would not be pleased att itt, well knowing that 
 he rather desired a warr against the Turkesthen to assist or harteu them 
 against any Christian prince. I am now asking leave to see my friends 
 in English againe. Pray lett the Queen my mother knowe alle this as well 
 as the King and Lord Chanceler. By heven I am in such a humor that 
 1 dare not write to any, therefore pray excuse me to alle for not writing 
 this post. 1 received yours in which you write the newes of Holmes' 
 returne. The next post 1 will give Mr. Veninuden thanks my self for the 
 particular intelligence he sent me. Faire well, deare Will, 1 am yours. 
 
 It is complained of that Lord Sandwich ded send to vew the fortifica- 
 tions of Alecante in Spain where he was since his being att Algir. Pray 
 assure our cosin that noen rejoises more att her recouvrey than myself." 
 
 1661, Aug. -j R ff . Vienna. — 14 1 am in noe small paine for our Cosin 
 (Sheabrooke crossed out?) since I heare she hath gott the small poxe, 
 pray God shee falle not into the Frenchifyed Phisians hands, soe lett 
 blodc and dye. What I write to you concerning Pomerania if you 
 remember was with this caution that if you liekt it one should be sent 
 to B. whoem he might inform alle. Times are dangerous especially 
 now, letters arc not safe noe where, therefore pray take heed what yon 
 write, especially of that. Wee have had heere a prayer of 10 bowers 
 long for Monticumly good successe in Transivania. This day Starenberg 
 and hee is to jone. K. hath given in his memorials to Emperor and hath 
 spoke to the Arch Duke and Prince Porcia to assist his interest which 
 both have promised to doe but our President of the Chamber (which is 
 the Exchequer) gives little hopes of getting much more than he has done 
 
 alredy, which is not the six part due not of the whole sume 
 
 due by the peace of Munster, but by a contract made by the late Emperor 
 and 11. since. By the end of this weeck I shall knowe much more of my 
 buisinesse. Wonder not att S r Fr. Dorington, for he perhaps takes ill I 
 made him not my steward judge you if 1 had reason to doe it. I hope to 
 be with you before your next sitting. Faire well, dear Will, I am Yours." 
 
 " For Mr. William Legge, Groom of his Majestie's Bedchamber, at 
 Court." 
 
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 eaei, of f 1661, Sept. 9, N.S. Vienna. — " Deare Will, by the last wrote to you 
 LB ™ss! TH S the kind usage of my brother the Elector to me, as alsoe the good office he 
 — ded the King in this court. I thank God he hath not reched his barbaros 
 intentions. I am now barganing for Hungarie wine, which is the cheefest 
 buisnesse I have heere, the Emperor is gone to Ebersdorf 2 leages of, 
 where he expects my greihounds to course a stagge. The warst news 
 wee heere from Monticumly is, that there is noe cheefe comander but 
 him selfe in heath (sic. health ?), the Turkes retire but threaten to come 
 nex spring with a pusant army. I am afraid that before this harvest 
 passe they may make a plundering cavalliade into Stiria, which if they 
 intend it will hardly he hindered, this is alle news I can tell you att 
 present. Faire well, Deare Will." 
 
 1661, Sept. JJ. . Vienna. 
 " Deare Will, 
 
 23 Aug* 
 
 I receaved yours dated the 2 Sept ' ^ ut y ester( ^ a y* ^ sna ^ never 
 take ill when King or Lord Chanceler mind their greate occasions more 
 then to write, soe that they forgett not me. I am now departing from 
 hence that is to say macking way for it, my goods goe by Ratisbon, soe by 
 land to Wiirtzbourg, and from thence by water the rest of the journey; 
 this course our Hungari wine shall take alsoe, and perhaps gather a 
 kind of Franconi Muscadine wine which will be lickt I beleeve. Pray 
 God the sicknesse of our good Elector hinder not this my disigne. 
 There is a courier come from the army, but what he brings God knows ; 
 if it had ben good news wee should have had it divulged before now. 
 To-morrow I goe to Court to see the Emperor before he goeth to Newstat, 
 which will be on Munday, and returns Saterday following, toward which 
 time I shall be reddy to begin to take my leaves. The Empe tce was 
 sike of a feaver but is recouvred. I am glad that Holmes hath given 
 the King satisfaction, but I would willingly heare what is resolved con- 
 cerning the whole buisnesse ; pray give him thanks for remembring his 
 ould master, the orange flower butter will be very acceptable. Pray 
 remember my service to the General, and tell him that [I] am very glad 
 to heere of his recouvry ; it was before I knew he had been sicke. If my 
 Lord Lindsay be att court the same to him with the dolefull news that 
 poore Royall att this instant is dying, after having ben the cause of the 
 death of many a stagge. By heaven I would rather loose the best horse 
 in my stable." 
 
 1661, Sept. — Vienna. 
 " Deare Will, 
 
 In my last I wrote word how that many general officers are fallen 
 sick, now I must tell that Comte Staremberg is dead since Sporhe, and 
 Marquis of Bade sick still, and as the Impratrice towld me her selfe that 
 Monticumly him selfe is sicke alsoe. Souche that comands those that 
 stay on these frontirs made a Cavaliada into the Turks' dominions, 
 tooke some oxen, few prisnors, shew his teeth and came bake ; if this 
 drawe not the Turkes into these parts the divell is in them. These 
 inclosed will give you more information then I can have time to write 
 att present, only this take with you, the Hungarian wine is marching of 
 the river towards Ratisbon, 4 tonne or 8 pipes which I hope will serve 
 our Court this winter. The later end of this month I begin my journay 
 towards you. Faire well, dear Will. 
 
 My service to Lord Chanceler, Duke of Ormond, and the rest of our 
 friends, especially our cosen Shebr[ough]." 
 
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 1661 '^2' Franckfurt. dJ^. 
 " Deare Will, 
 
 I am not att alle sorry for what happenes att the combatts you 
 mention betweene the Dow r and Mo 88 , God of heaven continue such 
 blessing to them. In my last, I towld of a sea disigne heere in Ger- 
 many, Elector of Brandebourg is the cheefe actor in it ; and now I gott 
 hether I may tell you (under rose) that he alsoe made me write the 
 buisnesse I sent you out of Westphalia. I am afraid I shall not now 
 meete with him, yett shall make alle diligence that way. Lord Chan- 
 cellor's letter I receaved and answered it, I pray God the letter be not 
 lost if by the next post I receive not word from you that you receaved 
 it, I will not faile to write to him againe from Cassell. Pray be pleased 
 to remember his Majesty to give order for the transport of the Hungarien 
 wines from Rotterdam, which in 20 days I hope they will be come thether. 
 Before this come to your hands I hope the Duke of Yorke will have 
 given order for a Fregatte for me, soe that I hope suddainsly to see you. 
 Till then faire well, deare Will." 
 
 1661, Oct. 11. — J. B. to Mr. Waller. 
 
 In regard of the inconveniences received by Sir Hardresse [Waller ?] 
 and Col. Fleetwood by being lodged in an alehouse, they desire Col. 
 Le^ge (who professes a great kindness for them) to solicit the Lieutenant 
 of the Tower for their removal to a house at the disposal of Capt. Marsh, 
 one of Col. Legge's head clerks. If the Lieutenant do not readily 
 incline to it they are willing to give him 20/. per annum, and good 
 security for their true imprisonment. 
 
 1662, June (?) 20. Dublin. The Duke of Ormonde to Col. Legge. 
 " I doubt not of your concernment for the good successe of all the 
 
 King's affaires in what hand soever they bee, and I am confident you 
 wish that parte of them that are counted to my care may thrive under 
 it for my sake. My Lord Chauncellor (with whom you say in yours of 
 the 10th you had discours of the state of this place) was able to tell you 
 I allways doubted the computation sent over by the Lords Justices 
 would not hould, and you have had some proof that I am no ill husband 
 for the King, whatever I am for myself, you know some neare relation;? 
 of my owne that were enough in want could not prcvaile with mee to 
 help them out of the King's purs, though I had warrant for it and the 
 example of my predecessors, and that I am beleeved in that poynt hard 
 harted; and yet all that will not doe the worke. My Lord Tivsurer 
 could not reasonably think wee would make use of our haveing had 
 130,000/. as an argument to get 60,000 more; but if Mr. Secretary 
 Bennett had produced a letter I writ to him at the same tyme that from 
 mee and the Councell went (a copy of which I now send you) there hee 
 would have seene mention made of the 100,000/., and a more naked 
 perhaps then wyse discovery of my stratagem to get the Regiment over, 
 which how necessary it is and how dangerous it may bee to let it fall 
 you are able to speak to. I think the mater will resolve to this 
 question, whether because the Lords Justices and Councell first, and 
 then I were mistaken in our calculation, therefore Ireland shall bee left 
 to shift for itself ; or whether if it bee not able to pay the force neces- 
 sary to keepe it quiet, it bee most councellable to suply the defect out 
 of England or to lessen the army till it may bee suported by Ireland — 
 and these questions with our humble opinion in refferrence to Ireland 
 shall bee as clearly stated over as the mater will beare — then let them 
 send money or reduce the army (for one of them must bee donne) as 
 shall seem most practicable and safe. I shall rest satisfied in the per- 
 formance of my duty in preventing if I can, and if not in bearing the 
 ill accident that may hapen. 
 
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 Earl of > I observe that as wee mentioned not the suplys sent over, so is there 
 LE mss! TH S no notice taken there of the alteration of the booke of rates for excyse 
 — and custom from what it was when it was trans mi ted, by M'hich altera- 
 tion that maine parte of the revenue calculated must faile us in a great 
 proportion, which in so much is an absolution from the undertakeing 
 wee are charged with. To remedy this there will shortly goe hence an 
 Act explanatory of the Act for Customs and Excyse; if they will not let 
 that passe for f eare wee should grow (to rich ?) and yet will have us keepe 
 armys, is it not requireing a tale of bricks, without allowing the straw. 
 
 I am in some doubt my Lord Tresurer may take it ill that I made 
 no aplication by letter to him, I am sure my not doeing it was to give 
 him ease, yet at the same tyme I writ to Sir Philip Warwick but have 
 not had so much as an acknowledgement that hee had received my leter. 
 I desire you would without giveing knowledge of my apprehension dis- 
 cover whether there bee anything of this or not — and so God keep you. 
 
 Let mee or my wife heere at large from you concerning my lord of 
 Chesterfield and all that mater." 
 
 1662, Aug. 5. Tower.— Capt. Geo. Wharton to Col. William Legge, 
 at Alderman Wybrant's in Dublin. 
 
 " I received yours of April 30th (sic) from Dublin last night, which 
 rejoiceth your friends exceedingly as bringing with it the glad tidings 
 of your safe arrival in Ireland ; and the rather for that they so 
 seasonably succeed the false reports here in town. First, of a mischief 
 upon the illustrious person of the Duke of Ormond, and that by a 
 mastiff dog's falling on him (and him only !) in Chester, which 
 endangered his life ; and then that he all his noble retinue were cast 
 away in the storm." 
 
 Last Wednesday the Queen mother came in her coach from Green- 
 wich to Lambeth, where the Duke of York's barge waited for her, and 
 brought her t6 Whitehall. Next day the Royal family were feasted at 
 Putney, by Sir W. Throckmorton. 
 
 The King and Queen are suddenly expected at Whitehall by Thurs- 
 day come se'nnight at furthest. In order to which the Lord Mayor and 
 City companies are trimming their barges, preparing pageants and 
 what not. 
 
 Ordnance^matters. — The Surveyor is gone to fetch his wife from New- 
 castle, and Mr. Clark is not returned as yet from his at Bourne. 
 Yesterday Sir William Compton was at the Gunfield to try an experi- 
 ment of a Granado shot from a demi-canon against a butt, by a little 
 Frenchman who is said to have been recommended for his skill by 
 Prince Rupert, the effect of which was he could not hit the butt, though 
 he shot twice and the shells broke both times as was expected. How- 
 beit, a second essay is intended in another place, but no more there for 
 fear of mischief, which some passengers but narrowly escaped. 
 
 Foreign News — a letter from Sir Thomas Margan relates the Spanish 
 and Portugal armies so near one another that a field battle must needs 
 very suddenly ensue ; but the Exchange news was that the Spaniard 
 declines fighting, in hope that the scorching heat of that climate (so 
 much exceeding ours) will quickly spoil our English courage. " Your 
 brother Col. John Legge, presents his fairest respects to you ; he is 
 gone, I think, this very day for Dunkirk." 
 
 1662, Oct. 14. Tower of London.— Capt. Geo. Wharton to Col. 
 William Legge, at Dublin. 
 
 Business matters. " The only news here (which drowns all other) 
 is the sale of Dunkirk to the French for 700,000 pistoles; most say 'tis 
 gone already, but I hope if the Londoners will but contribute anything 
 like towards the charge of keeping it, 'tis yet retrievable. Howbeit the 
 
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 merchants are all of a flame, and the discontented parties interpret ~ Eam 0F r 
 
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 everything in the worst sense, and to the dishonour ot the King and mss. 
 his Council." Secretary Nicholas (growing old and impotent) is suc- 
 ceeded by Sir Henry Bennet; some talk also of the Lord Treasurer 
 intending the like retirement. 
 
 [1662?] Reports by Col. Legge on the fortifications of London- 
 derry, Carrickfergus, Charlemont, &c. 
 
 1662-3, Jan. 10. Dublin.— Col. Ed. Cooke to Will. Legge, Esq., White- 
 hall. " Dear Sweet- William." Has returned from his Christmas gambols 
 on the " Curroe of Kildare," as hawking, hunting, coursing, and horse 
 racing, to his Irish tribunal. At the Castle all well, Lady Ossory has 
 dropt down a slender daughter. Mr. Ogilby gets money apace, and his 
 actors reputation ; though nothing but the conspiracy of foul weather 
 and good company can betray the writer to see the inside of his new- 
 mended theatre. Sends humble service to Legge's lady, his brother 
 and sister Graham, Harry Washington, Dick Lane, and all bedchamber 
 backstair friends. 
 
 1GG3, June 25. Dublin.— The Duke of Ormonde to Col. Legge. " I 
 have yours of the 20th, it made good haste, for it arrived here last night. 
 Present my humble thanks to the good Duke for the liberty hee gives 
 mee. I shall upon no suspition endamage or dishonour any body hee 
 ownes or has lately ownd with his permission (?) As soon as the yong 
 gentleman comes hee shall bee employed and the other displaced. Tell 
 the Duke I am much satisfied with Kawden in the last businesse and in 
 his dilligence since the discovery. 
 
 In return to your advertisements you may know that two considerable 
 things are this day in agitation, the try all of the conspirators here, and the 
 taking up of all fire aimes throughout the kingdom, with all the Scotish 
 sylenced ministers in the North who are a dangerous artillery : what 1 
 shall doe with them I know not, only 1 take it to bee reasonable that if 
 they trouble mee a great deale I may trouble them a little. This goeing 
 by Sir Arthur Forbes (a worthy gentleman) I will not feare to tell you 
 that I finde my Lord Berkley inclines to parte with his place of Presi- 
 dency, and that I have tould Mr. Secretary Bennett that no President 
 were beter then an unable or an absent one. 1 know also that a motion 
 is made from some of Conaght that they will buyout the Presidency 
 and the apurtenances, so an Act may passe for abolishing the office for 
 ever. You know what I have sayd to you concerning that place ; consider 
 how it may bee brought about and let mee know by some trusty mes- 
 senger or in cypher what I am to do towards it to the King or any other. 
 
 Hasten the warlyke acoutrenients of my troupe, and in the meane 
 tyme send mee word what they cost that I may order the payment there. 
 Granger is not yet come, the proper tyme for him to doe the service hee 
 under[ta]kes drawes on. I am yours." 
 
 1G64, Oct. 22. Castle Cornett.— Chr. (son of Lord) Ilatton to Col. 
 William Legge. Reports on the state of (Juernsey as to ammunition, 
 fortifications, &C. 
 
 1661-5. Jan. 18. — Col. Henry Norwood to Col. Legge. 
 1065, May — . — Three or four friendly letters from the Earl of Arran 
 to " Dear Will." 
 
 1665, August, Sept., &c. The Tower. — Capt. Geo. Wharton to Col. 
 William Legge, at the Court, at Oxford. Some letters on ordnance 
 matters, containing a few references to the effect of the Plague in his 
 neighbourhood. 
 
 1664-5, Jan. IS. Tangiers. Col. Henry Norwood to Col. W. Legge. 
 
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 Dartmouth's " Yours of the 9 tb of October came to me by the Dover under whose 
 MSS. convoy you sent us the best provisions of all their kinds that I ever saw 
 to come from your office which I impute solely to your care of this place, 
 and God reward you for it ! " Wishes his (Legge' s) nephew Spragge 
 had come on the occasion. 
 
 M I should .... tell you a long story of my own uneasy kind of life 
 in this place if it were reasonable to use your interest for my removall 
 .... there is no present remedy but patience, which because it is an 
 ingredient I leafen all my meat & drinke withall, you may hope to see 
 me retourne laden with abundance of virtue, a meere saynt." 
 
 1665, Sept, 2. Kilkenny.— The Duke of Ormonde to . " Though 
 
 I have been landed neare 5 weekes I have received few leters out of 
 England and to say truth have sent as few thither. - . . . 
 
 When I tell you the Exchequer is empty and the people most dismally 
 poore, I shall not neede to tell you that all things are in a terible dis- 
 order. The short is the English Acts inhibiting the transportation of fat 
 catell and our trade with the Western plantations must be repealed as to 
 so much, or haulf the army must bee disbanded, or many must bee sent 
 out of England to maintaine it. Nor will the taxing of those Acts serve 
 the turne (?) till wee have had peace long enough to fall again into our 
 way of trade. I have said this to my Lord Chancellor and to my Lord 
 Arlington, that it may bee added to the computation of the charge of 
 the warr, for it will certainly fall out to bee the case ; and so you may 
 tell the King." 
 
 1665, Oct. 25. Dublin.— The Duke of Ormonde to Col. Legge. 
 " I finde my Lord Arlington as senceible as I could wish him of the con- 
 dition of this kingdome, and I am verily persuaded hee is not the lesse 
 so in my consideration, who must suffer with it and for it, how dilli- 
 gently so ever I shall behave my self in discharge of my duty. I confesse 
 I have known it in a more desperate condition, but never in my life so 
 destitute of mony as it is now ; if it were in the kingdome the mater 
 were the lesse how much the peoplle payd, because it is presently spread 
 amongst them againe, but when it is not above ground, I know not what 
 wee can make of all the subsedys thay shall give us. Our Parliament 
 meetes tomorow, and I think well resolvd to passe the bill and to doe 
 all thay are able for the King, but to bee as sure as I can this will bee 
 a busy time with mee amongst them 
 
 I understand Ballynekill belonging to Ridgeway Earle of Londonderry 
 is to bee sold, it is a fine lordship, a good old title within ten mile of 
 Killkeny and I am tould may bee had cheape." 
 
 1665, Oct. 25.— The Earl of Ossory to Mr. 1 William Legge, at Oxford. 
 
 " Deare Will I hope ere long to have the hapines of seeing 
 
 you in England, the greate bill being that which is all our busines at 
 present, the Parliament meeting on Thursday next. I am glad you have 
 so good wines at Oxford, I hope wee may drinke of them without the 
 inconveniency which befell us upon such an occasion when wee were 
 yong men. Captain Anglesy and his souldiers have had divers 
 encounters with Sir Maurice Eustace and his concerning a possesion of 
 the late Lord Chancellor's house ; the fort was severall times taken and 
 retaken by storme, but in the end the peare overthrew the knight, 
 entring in person with sword and pistole with a fiercenes equaling that 
 of the Bishope of Munster's. This makes all the discourse of Dubblin, 
 if any other happens worth your hearing it shall be told you by your &c, 
 
 [P.S.] My ralliyng my Lord of Anglesy is only to yourself. " 
 
 1665, Oct. 31.— Capt. Geo. Wharton to Col. W m Legge. 
 
 " We have yet many soldiers daily falling sick in the Tower, but 
 
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 sent out to preserve the rest. And (by what I hear and obser/e) I d^jke^ft 1 
 fear this week's bill will not afford so great an abatement of the sick- mss. 
 ness as the last did, very many still falling sick and dropping off un- 
 expectedly, especially such as return fresh out of the country." 
 
 1665, Nov. 16. The same to the same. 
 
 " We had news yesterday on the Exchange of a great defeat given 
 the Dutch by the Bishop of Munster, wherein 3,000 are said to have 
 been slain upon the place, and 1,000 taken prisoners, upon which the 
 
 French succours are returned, re infecta The Bill of Mortality 
 
 I have enclosed, to the end you may see what prospect we have of better 
 health." 
 
 1665, Nov. 18. Dublin. — The Duke of Ormonde to the same. 
 
 " I have yours of the first of the month with an accompt of the Par- 
 liaments being broke up and this kingdom not quite undon at a blow, as 
 it would have bin if that Act had past. It is well wee have time to 
 looke about us before the next assault, and to prepare our defence." 
 
 1666, April 2. — Articles of Peace made and concluded between his 
 Excellency John Lord Bellasyse, Baron of Worlaby, Captain- General of 
 the King's armies in Africa, Vice-admiral of his navy on the coast of 
 Barbary, Governor of Tangiers, &c. on behalf of Charles II., and the 
 most excellent Lord Cidi Hamet el Hader Ben Aly-Guylan, Prince of 
 West Barbary, &c. (Translation.) 
 
 1666, May 5. Dublin. — The Duke of Ormonde to William Legge. 
 
 M I have yours of the 20 of the last and it was wellcome haveing not 
 heard from you of a good whyle before, and as it gave mee good hopes 
 our fleet may beate our enemys, which is the only sure way to get us 
 friends. I doe observe not only a great backwardnes on that syde to 
 releeve us with any thing wee want, but something that lookes iyke a 
 designe to take from us the use of those things God and nature have 
 given us, and indeed there is so generall a discountenance put upon the 
 improvement of this kingdome, as if it were resolved that to keepo it 
 low (?) to the degree of miserable were to keepe it saf. I doubt that 
 maxime is not so politick as the contrary which was that of our fore- 
 fathers, and that it may too late bee found so. They who are of tin- 
 opinion will perhaps opose the seting up of salt pecter workes if wee 
 went about it, yet I would bee glad to bee instructed by you what J may 
 doe in order to it." 
 
 1666, May 50. Carickfergus. — The Duke of Ormonde to Col. 
 William Legjie. 
 
 "Yours of the 22 instant found mee here upon an occasion that will I 
 beleeve have made the more noyse by my comeing, but in such a time as 
 this I doe not thinke any such disaster too litle to bee early looked to. 
 I am not sory I tooke the jurny since it will save mee an other 1 meant 
 to have made this snmer : and that it has given mee good proof of the 
 steadynesse of the Regiment and of the hors (?) I found in my way. If :i 
 garison or two more had taken the same cours as the mutineers expected, 
 and as they had the same reason, I know not where or how the mater 
 would have ended ; but now the hanging of some of these and the paying 
 of the army 6 months of ten will I hope give us quiet as to such maters, 
 till the King shall have considred my representations of the general 
 condition of the kingdome and taken resolutions concerning it. The 
 short is wee must have freedome of trade or constant mony out of 
 England, or the King will have no army or such a one as hee had beter 
 bee without it. This I have sayd over and over, but perhaps thay will 
 not beleeve a man is bald till they see his braines. 
 
 I am gocing this morning to see this castle, and then to Lisvegarnv 
 to bed, thence to Dublin. God send us good newse from sea ; with us 
 
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 lktmouth' tnere nave bin great stormes. The coniunction against us is formidable, 
 LE 3?ss! TH 8 and consequently our negociations abroad unskillfull or unfortunate. 
 — When I come to Dublin you shall heare againe from mee ; in the meane 
 time I pray think of our pouder (?) affaire. Farewell ! " 
 
 1666 (?), June 20. Dublin. — Mary Countess of Arran to her " cousin 
 Will. Legge." Family matters — in postscript " I ritt wonce to you 
 about Captaine Congreve brother who is none of your ordennary 
 souldiers and I desired in my last to you that when thare is a place 
 of preferment void you will put him in — he has a wife and a great maney 
 children 
 
 1666, Aug. 2. Welbeck. — William, Duke of Newcastle to Col. Legge. 
 "Noble Sir, 
 
 I ame borne to trouble you — and this nowe is to desier you to 
 presente my moste humble dewtye and service to his Majestie, and tell 
 him I congratulate with my sole his Majesties late and moste glorius 
 victory over his enemies, which will make all his neyghbor kinges stoope 
 to him — and I praye, Sir, aquainte his Majestie that I have a fine roe- 
 buck, and to knowe wether I shall sende him upp or no ; he was taken att 
 my litle farme in Northumberlande, theye are melencollye neshe pevishe 
 thinges, — beleve mee, Sir, I ame pationatlye 
 
 Your olde and moste faythfull servante 
 
 W. Newcastle." 
 
 1666, Aug. 30. Kilkenny. The Duke of Ormonde to Col. Legge. 
 
 " The last I had from you except that of the 21 instant was of the 
 12 of the last month; if any you have writen betixt those times thay 
 are gon out of the way. I pray God our late good successe at sea and 
 land and the present good posture of our fleete may produce a peace, 
 the only good end of all warr. It will shortly bee a fiter season for a 
 treaty then for fighting, and therefore I hope the French will let us 
 alone, for I am not so confident of our preparations, but that I am 
 glad winter is so neare, which will prove an inconvenient season for 
 French to make warr in this climate. I would bee glad wee could set 
 up pouder workes here that wee bee no more burdensome then of 
 necessity wee must to England ; but I am utterly ignorant in all the 
 ways of that manifacture, yet I will informe my self the best I can by ' 
 the things you have sent over and let you know more of my minde. I 
 know not what the other proiect may come to tell I shall have spoken 
 with the Atturny (?) or received his opinion some other way, which 
 from Munster I will send for." 
 
 1666. Sept. 12. Clonmell. The Duke of Ormonde to Col. Legge. 
 
 " Yours of the 1 1 receivd on the 7 instant though I was at Charleville, 
 my Lord of Orrery's howse. Wee have since had from Plimouth and 
 Main head (?) flying reports of a great victory over the Dutch obtained 
 as thay say on the 3 d of this month, a great fighting day in our Kal- 
 lenders. God send it bee true! In my jurny I have seene excellent 
 militia troopes as far as may bee judged by men and horses, and I have 
 seene admirable places in miserable condition, and that the more 
 
 lamentable that I am not able to repaire them Here are 
 
 many of the antient nobillity in miserable condition, amongst the rest 
 here is a very sad peere calld the Lord of Dunboyne of my name and 
 familly. The place from whence hee derives his title was the gift of 
 one of my auncestors, and so I have recoverd it, but with a purpose to 
 restore it, and the rather if, as hee says hee will, he lets mee have the 
 breedeing of his sonne, a youth of about 13 years old, as I take it. The 
 reason why I tell you this is because if I take him I would have your 
 assistance to place him where hee may bee bred a Protestant and a fit 
 tutor and servant of that religion provided for him, for which I will 
 
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 provide allowance ; and if hee shall come to any thing I would not Dartmouth's 
 wish him beter disposed than to your yonger daughter. Send mee K88. 
 your minde of this designe. I confesse it troubles mee to see men of 
 birth incapable as well by their religion as education of those advan- 
 tages and imployments that would beter become them then many that 
 have them. And so deare Will, farewell." 
 
 [1666?] Sept. 24, Oct. 3 and Oct. 7, and later dates to Dec. 18; 
 Kilkenny and Dublin. Elizabeth, Duchess of Ormonde, and Mary, 
 Countess of Arran, to their cousin Col. Legge. Many friendly letters on 
 family matters. 
 
 Other letters of the Duke of Ormonde in this year refer chiefly to 
 some matrimonial plans in progress within his family. 
 
 1666. Paper endorsed " a list of the Navy," being a list giving the 
 divisions of the Red Squadron and the ships, commanders, and number 
 of men composing the same. 
 
 The like of u the White Squadron, and of the Blew Squadron, and the 
 Fire ships added to the Fleet, as well as the names of 13 ships which 
 came from the Straits with Sir Jeremiah Smith, and of the Merchant 
 ships taken up to serve as men of war." 
 
 1666. Paper headed — "A list of the English Royal Navy commanded 
 by His Highnesse Prince Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle as it wu 
 by them ranged in order of battle in the fights of June, July, and 
 September 166G." 
 
 The Fleet is divided under the following headings : — 
 The Squadron sent westward with the Prince. 
 
 This Squadron consisting of 20 ships and four fire ships, the first ship 
 in the list being the Royal James, Admiral Sir Thomas Allen, the rest of 
 the Fleet remaining with the Duke. 
 
 The Red Squadron consisting of 20 ships and two fire ships, the 
 first ship being the Royal Charles, Admiral Sir John Kempthorne. 
 
 The White Squadron consisting of 22 ships and two fire ships, the 
 first ship being the Prince (burnt), Admiral Sir George Ascough (taken), 
 Commander. 
 
 The Blew Squadron consisting of 17 ships and one fire ship, the fir.-t 
 ship being the George, John Coppin (slain), Commander. 
 The following note is appended to the list. 
 
 Note. — ** His Highnesse the Prince, sayled westward May the 29th 
 with the first Squadron of this Fleet to meet the French, but arriv. <1 
 back again June the 3rd and had his share in the fight with the Dutch 
 which began the 1 st of June and continued till the 4 th at night. Sir 
 Jeremiah Smith, who was designed Admiral of the Blew (in the Fleet 
 left with the Duke), being absent, that charge was vacant all the time 
 of the four dayes engagement. Those ships in the second list marked 
 with a x were not in the fight on the 2oth and 26th July being before 
 disabled by storms or for want of seamen left behind at the Buoy of the 
 Nore. Although in the fifth list no third rates are mentioned vet there 
 were (attending the Flaggs), in the Fleet when it sayled from Sole Bay 
 on the 31st of August, the Sweepstakes, Rochester, Fountain, Richmond, 
 Speedwell, Pembroke and ( rarlatuL" 
 
 The 2nd and 3rd lists of the Blew Squadron, Red Squadron, and the 
 White Squadron follow, and all the lists contain notes against the names 
 of the vessels taken by the Dutch, burnt or sunk, and of the officers 
 taken or killed. 
 
 1666-7, March 14. Mary, Countess of Arran, to her cousin William 
 Legge. F'amily matters. Asks him to raise Mr. Congreve's brother, 
 who is at present one that trails a pike in Capt. Tho. Bennett's com- 
 
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 lrtmout^h's P an ^' wh^h * s quartered at Winchester, where he is to be heard of at 
 mss. H S Mr. Gosling's house, being the sign of the Star. Congreve is a very- 
 honest man, and has been made captain of a castle in Ireland by the Duke. 
 
 1666/7, March 16. Dublin.— The Duke of Ormonde to Col. Legge. 
 
 " My sonne Arran will bee at London perhaps as soone as this letter. 
 His wife growes a lovely person and continues so good, that if I had 
 a hundred children or but one, I could not love any of them better 
 then I doe her. I never saw so much discretion in so few yeares, nor 
 so little of humor or trouble in any of her sex of what agesoever. I 
 know you will be glad to heare it, I am sure I am highly delighted to 
 find it." 
 
 1667, June 1 5 - 5 . Tangiers. — Col. Henry Norwood to Col. Will. Legge. 
 Refers to the expected return of gentle George with prize money. As 
 it is decreed that the care of Tangiers shall no longer be in him, he 
 can most truly say that it has done no other thing in his fortune than 
 to put him upon soliciting the Exchequer for the recovery of his estate 
 laid out in payment of the garrison there. Recommends Lord Middle - 
 ton, the person of honour set apart for this Government, to get money 
 in his purse for the succeeding payment, as well as to satisfy the arrears 
 of the last quarter. They continue to drive a great trade with Tetuan, 
 80 horses and mules being just now under the forts. The principal French 
 merchants in Andalusia choose this place to manage their trade in Spain 
 in preference to Faro. 
 
 1667, August 28. Lich [field ?]. George Legge to his father. 
 
 " Hon d Sir, 
 
 I have found so kinde reception in this place, that I can neither 
 expect nor desire more but that Mr. Archbold seemes troubled at 
 noebodyes coming with me, wherefore he resolves (upon Mr. Vernon's 
 letter and my unckle Graham's both which advise him to it), to come 
 and waite on you himselfe at London ; but the old Ladye is very 
 cautious of her daughter, and seemes fearfull I shall incadge her 
 affections before things are agreede, which truely I doe endeaver as 
 much as in me lyeth though the mother seldome is from us. S r , I have 
 motioned to Mr. Archbold since that both you and him are resolved to 
 doe what you can for us, if that the young lady liked of it, we should 
 goe to church without any farther trouble and serimony on either party ; 
 but he seemed not very willing and replyed that he had no such comition 
 from you, wherfore, Sir, if you will please to mention something of this 
 kinde and excuse his trouble of a journy since I am now heere, and 
 may make an end of it without any farther dispute, you being 
 resolved to see me live as befits your sonne and his daughter. This I 
 hope would take som effect and make an end. Your dutifull sone, 
 G. Legge. 
 
 1667, Dec. 4. Tangiers. — Col, H. Norwood to Col. Legge. 
 
 " You please me to the purpose in the newes of gentle George, he has 
 revenged himselfe of the Fairfax with a witnes. Had Ned Vernon 
 told me these tidings I should have held it for Apochrifa for his sake 
 alone, but gentle George has ever watch'd Ned's countrywoman and 
 made' her gentle too ; yet (raillarie apart), I thinke from my heart the 
 woman has the better on't. God give them both joy ! " 
 
 1668, Aug. 28. The same to the same. 
 
 Refers to Lord Middleton's coming, and to his hopes for leave to 
 come home. 
 
 There are three other letters from Colonel Norwood, dated from 
 Tangiers, Sept. — , Sept. 20, and Nov. 10, in this year. 
 
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 It will not displease you to hear that we are still alive and prosper a Earl op 
 great deal the better that Guyland would see us hanged. You will Dab t ^^ 1r '* 
 have from this gentleman, Mr. Tho. Luke or from Harry Norwood the — 
 
 particular occurrences of this place We have no shot at all 
 
 for the nine pounders, or the six iron 1 faucons.' I have given 130 
 barrels of powder to Guyland and am bestowing daily more on him." 
 Implores sudden assistance. 
 
 MS. Book entitled: — A Journall from the Spitthead, began the 17th 
 of July 16G9, in his Majestie's Ship Resolution, to the Streights. 
 Endorsed — Sir Thomas Allen's Journal. 
 
 An account of the daily transactions of the Fleet under his command, 
 between the 17th July 1669, and the Gth Nov. 1670— when the Fleet 
 returned to Spithead — during an expedition in the Mediterranean 
 against the Algerine pirates. 
 
 Commences ; — 
 
 Resolution. Wee sayled from Plymouth the 22, in company with 
 us the — 
 S* David. Sir John Harman. 
 Mary. Capt, Rob 1 Clarke. 
 Hampshire. Capt Rich. Beach. 
 Bristol I. Capt. Dan u Ileling. 
 Portsmouth. Capt. Will. Coleman. 
 Jersey. Capt. Will. Poole. 
 *Dcp a Ketch. John Ashby. 
 Vic i0 Fircship. Capt. Leonard Harris. 
 Convoys : — 
 
 Mi. Mathews in the Fredrick. 
 
 Mr. Gab 1 Stasy in the f 
 
 Capt. Brown, a Scothe t Flybote. 
 
 One Wilkenson, a small vessell with cariages for Tangier. 
 The following are extracts from tho Journal : — 
 
 Aug. 14. u We spake a Frenchman [who] came out of Mallaga, that 
 the news from Candia was good, they had beaten the Turks out of Fort 
 S l Andrea and killed 10,000 of them in sallies." 
 
 Aug. 17. — Att daylight we saw a sayle ahead, the wind still west we 
 made to him, he was affraide and altered his course, but he seeing noe 
 remedie after 7 low'red his topsayles and stayd for us .... I 
 sent my boate to bring the master aboard to hcare what newes, he came 
 from Marseilles bound for Nantes, laden with oyle and brimstone, he 
 saw no sayles in 5 dayes' passage but shipps att anchor in Alicante 
 Road; he gave us accompt that three of the French Fleet were come to 
 Telloone from Candia who reported they had burnt 7 or 8 of the 
 Algier men of warr and that Monsieur Beauford and Monsieur Bullioun 
 with many brave olhcers were slayne upon sallie to rayse the siege. 
 
 Sept. 5, Sunday. — Began the warre with Algier. Capt. Beach and 
 Mr. Brisbane went ashoare with our last result ... they returned 
 about 3 o'clock and brought a flatt denial] of giving any satisfaction but 
 frivolus pretences to keepe them . . „ 
 
 Sept. 7, Tuesday. — Despatched Capt. Porter in the John Pink for 
 Alicant with a packet to His Royall Highness, one to Mr. Williamson, 
 one to Sir William Godolphin, one to Mr. Blunden, one to Cadis, and 
 one to Legorne, desireing Mr. Blunden to write to all the Ports that 
 wee had begun a warr .... 
 
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 U 249G1. 
 
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 Earl of ( Sept. 9, Thursday — . . . I despatched the ketch to Legorne with 
 DAR MS°s! TH S letters thither, and to Smyrna, Genoa, and a packett to Sir Daniel 
 — ■ Harry to Constantinople with all the transactions betweene His Majestie 
 of Great Britaine and the Pirates of Algiers. 
 
 Sept. 12, Sunday. — About 9 o'clock we saw 10 sayle, which was Sir 
 Edward Sprag and all the reste of our Fleete we expected. 
 
 Sept. 16, Thursday. — Sent to Tunis and Tripoly. 
 
 Nov. 26, Friday [off Algiers]. — I made an excuse to heare newes 
 from towne in sending my boats with a white flag and a letter to the 
 Consull for the exchange of prisoners and the prisoners' letters to the 
 Duan and their friends, but in my answer I found that they had 26 
 sayles of men of warre abroad and had mett with our Newfoundland 
 fleet and done us great dammage to my great griefe, and a letter from 
 Captain Becke who was taken oft Cape Martin laden with fruit, he wrote 
 me alsoe that he had binne with the Aga and found him very high, yet 
 spake as if they were content to treate soe we could come to more 
 moderate tearms, there being severall of the Spaniards released by the 
 Almesny from Spaine. 
 
 1670, March 25, Friday. — . . . About 4 wee gott about Monte- 
 fues, where we saw many men att worke upon a new castle, soe wee all 
 loufFed close into the shoare and spent two houres in battering of itt ; 
 they had as we could see ten gunns mounted, which they plyed quick at 
 first, butt att last now and then a gunne ; we sawe many horse and foot 
 run away ; night coming on wee went into the bay ; they shott our 
 sayles and the Maries and the JS T onsuchs maineyard a third throw. 
 
 1670, March 26, Saturday. — . . . Sent our boate a shoare [to 
 Algiers] with a letter to the Consull to change prisoners. 
 
 March 27, Sunday. — Our boate went ashoare againe to gett off those 
 that could procure their liberty, and the Consull answered that they would 
 not send any off by reason we did not propound any tearmes towards a 
 peace, soe we presently returned a letter to the Consull that they knew 
 our former demands. 
 
 March 28, Munday. — . . . Sent my boate with a letter to see for 
 an answer of my former letter. The Consull writt they had a good 
 mind to make peace but the Duan's stomachs could not submit, and 
 that the Bashaw would goe that day to see if they could find a way to 
 adjust with us, he being much afraid of his new ship. 
 
 April 1, Good Friday. — Fell in within four of their men of warre, 
 but by night they gott away. We fired a whole broadside into the 
 admirall who had a small Red Flag at top masthead. 
 
 June 21, Tuesday. — Wee were att anchor att Tunis about 2 after- 
 noon . . . About 5 saw three ships . . . and made them to 
 be of the French Squadron .... They gott ahead to meett the 
 Marquis Martell who had wayed and gott under sayle with a man of 
 warre, a fireship, and his dartan which had bin a fishing. 
 
 June 22, Wednesday. — My jolly boate came from towne with Mr. 
 Baker from the ConsulPs with fruit and letters wherein was signified 
 the greate kindnesse the King of Tunis and people had for us. . . . 
 Mr. Brisbane with our gentlemen came aboard about 4 o'clock, soe hee 
 and I consulted the matter of arguing with the Marquis by what order 
 he stopt the Tunisine laden with free goods from unlading att Golletta, 
 and soe gave him orders and sent him to him, who upon debate could 
 say he had besieged the port and would lett none goe in, but would 
 show noe order nor give under his hand for what he had done, butt 
 answered several times he was a soldier and could nott write, and next 
 thatt he had many suspitions that they were Jews' goods and an unlaw- 
 
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 full vessell having left his convoy to run to Port Ferene. She having E±bl op 
 alsoe bin a Prise and sold at Tunis, to which he was answered to full Dah jfss" 11 * 
 satisfaction in pointe of law and Articles, and wee having blocked up — 
 Algier did let French ships goe in, as takeing itt to bee a breach of 
 peace to hinder our alies to trade with free goods, hee being convinced 
 and much troubled was profferring that if I would suffer theirs to trade 
 with free goods into Algiers that ours should doe the like. Upon which 
 Mr. Brisbane returned and gave me this accompt, the Consull being then 
 come aboard and all our Captaines well argued the business, and I con- 
 sidering my instructions late come of His Majestic' s pleasure, which made 
 me uncapable of revenge in that matter wee agreed to send him back 
 with the Consull, Captain Hart, and Captain Holmes, to argue over and 
 settle that business, and if he could gett it under his hand, butt that he 
 would not, but ingaged upon his honour that our traders should have 
 free egresse and regresse with free goods and that he would ingage 
 for the whole squadron, and whosoever should come for the winter 
 guard upon that coast, and engaged on my part which given (sic) great 
 satisfaction to the Consull and alsoe to the King and people of Tunis, 
 itt was ten at night before they returned. 
 
 June 23, Thursday. — Sayled from Tunis att night .... the 
 Consull gave me letters to all ports in the Streights to lett them know 
 a free trade was open. 
 
 July 4, Munday. — . . . Resolved that Captain Beach with the Foresight 
 and Nonsuch should cruse about Cape Barter untill the 1 6th when the 
 Bristoll fell in with them and then they were to come together before 
 Algier, and then wee would send to the Consull and putt Mr. Berk ham 
 a shoare to acte the businesse he had for the Kinge of Sweden. 
 
 Aug. 25, Thursday. — Gott to Malaga . . . Saw 4 ships ... I 
 sent in my barge, judgeing them our devision, and soe they were. Captain 
 Beach and other Captains came aboard and gave me accompt of the 
 whole manner of putting the six Turkes men of warre a shoare in the 
 night and burning them, saving above 250 Christians, about 70 English. 
 
 Sept. 23, Friday. — . . Within 3 leagues of the Cape Degatt . . . 
 We saw 7 sayles coining from the westward, the wind westerly, (hey 
 proved Sir Edw. Sprag, the Mary, Advice, Constant, Warwick, Uaur- 
 land, Deptford Ketch, and Rose lireship. 
 
 Oct. 19, Wednesday. — Set sayle from Cadis. 
 
 Nov. 3, Thursday. — We saw Portland and anchored short of St. 
 Hellens. 
 
 Nov. 4. Friday. — About eleven o'clock we waved and plyed upp to 
 the Spitthead where we anchored . . . 
 Nov. 5, Saturday. — Moored before the Docke . 
 Nov. 6, Sunday. — Very ravening wind and ray no all day. 
 
 (End.) 
 
 1G70, Sept. 26. Alicant Road.— Sir Edw. Spragge to Colonel Win, 
 Legge. 
 
 Now that the King and his Royal Highness have been pleased to 
 honour me with the command of this lleet, I humbly beg that you will 
 be a kind and earnest solicitor for me that I may not want whatever is 
 necessary for the Fleet. Hitherto care has not been great. Sir Tho. 
 Allen has not left me a farthing of contingent money for what 
 necessities may happen to us, and the fleet in a very needy condition 
 wanting everything. ... I am very glad to hear that my worthy 
 friend Sir Tho. Chichley is Master of the Ordnance, I am sure you will 
 agree very well and your business will be much better done. . . I 
 intend you from this place by the Joseph Bonadvcnturc some wine for 
 
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 Dartmouth's tne Prince and yourself. Pray be kind to poor Hugh Kelly and his. 
 mss. Molly dear. I am your affectionate nephew, &c. 
 
 Some pots of venison and butter would be very acceptable in the Straits. 
 167 J, Jan. 3. Whitehall. — General Instructions for Capt. Legge, 
 Captain of his Majesty's ship Fairfax, signed by James, Duke of York, 
 and countersigned by M. Wren. (Printed, 16 pp., except the signa- 
 tures, date, &c.) 
 
 167^, Feb. 15. Casum. — Sir Eobert Holmes to Capt. George Legge, 
 commander of the Fairfax. — I have received orders from his Royal 
 Highness to send your ship to Spithead, which I desire you to do with 
 the first opportunity of wind and weather. But fhrst you must take id 
 stores, &c. 
 
 167J, March 9. On board the ship St. Michael. Sir Robert 
 Holmes to Capt. Geo. Legge. Order to cruise in company with the 
 St. Michael between Dunnose and Cape de Hogue, to secure all ships 
 met with belonging to Holland and Hamburgh, and to bring them to 
 the rendezvous at Dunnose. 
 
 167^, March 16. On board the ship Resolution. — Order from the same 
 to the same to have his ship in readiness to sail to St. Margaret Road. 
 
 167 J, March 18. Acknowledgment signed by Capt. Charles Myd- 
 delton of having received from Capt. Geo. Legge, of the Fairfax, the 
 prize taken by him called the Lansman of Amsterdam, Capt. Hildbrand, 
 26 guns, with all standing and running rigging, anchors, cables, 
 hawsers, sails and all other appurtenances to her belonging ; and the 
 hold of the ship not broken open or the goods embezzled. 
 
 167^, March 18 to Sept. 1. — Orders (8) signed by James Duke oi 
 York, Lord High Admiral, and countersigned by M. Wren or Hen. 
 Savile, to Capt. George Legge of the Fairfax. 
 
 167§ , Feb. 6. Whitehall. — Printed instructions for Capt. Legge, of 
 his Majesty's ship Royal Katherine, signed by the Duke of York and 
 Sir John Werden. 
 
 167f, Feb. 11. St. Peter's port in Guernsey. — Lord Hattonto Capt- 
 George Legge, Governor of Portsmouth. Complimentary. Capt. 
 Archer is at work upon drawing a plot of the castle here. 
 
 1673, March to Sept. MS. entitled " A Journall or an account of 
 this summer's expedition in His Majesties Ship the Royal Katherin, 
 beginning the 9 th day of March 1672-3." 
 
 Ends Sept. 28, 1673, and is Endorsed " Journall of H.M.S. Katherine, 
 1672-3. Captain George Legge." 
 
 The following are extracts therefrom : — 
 
 1673, May 15, Thursday. At 8 in the morning there was a 
 Counsell of Warre of all the Commanders in the Fleet. . . 
 
 May 16, Friday. The French Fleet came all and anchored to the 
 Southward of our Fleet, there being about 30 saile of men of warre of 
 them. . . 
 
 May 17, Saturday. The Kinge and the Duke being aboard of the 
 Roy all Charles called a Counsell of Warre of all the Flagge Officers. 
 
 May 18, Sunday. The Kinge and the Duke went aboard the 
 French Admirall this afternoon, the Earle of Ossory received a 
 Comission to be Reare Admirall of the Blew in the S t Michael, and 
 at 8 oclock this evening the Kinge and the Duke went on shore at Rye 
 with all the rest of the nobility. 
 
 May 23, Friday. . . . We sawe the Hollands Fleet there being 
 about 80 saile of them in number, they rideing within the Bankes (of 
 
 Flanders) We with our owne Fleet lay upon the Oister 
 
 jjankes where we lay till Wensday the 28 th . . • . 
 
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 May 28 th Wensday. . . About halfe an houre past 10 oclock we Earluf 
 with the whole Fleet set saile to go to engage the enemy. . . . We Daxtmouxh*! 
 with our Red Squadron steired away E. and by X. in the van towards — ' 
 the north end of the enemyes Fleet which was Trumps Squadron. Is cere 
 one oclock our headmost ships came within shot of the er.emy and then 
 we all haled away N.E. fighting with our larboard tackes aboard till 
 neere 3 oclock then being neere Trumps Vice Admiral 1 I made my 
 signe for our fireship to clap him aboard, but a manne of warre of 
 50 guns comeing between he grapled with him, but sunke by his side, 
 whereupon I immediately sent my boates with men, and tooke the man 
 
 of warre then we fought with our starboard tackes 
 
 aboard till 6 oclock in the evening, and then tacked againe . . . 
 till 8 and then tacked againe . . . till 10 still lighting the enemy, 
 then being darke we left off fighting. . . . Then we continued our 
 course W.N.W. . . . then being 5 oclock in the morning we 
 anchored in 14 fadom water .... upon the oister hankes. Then 
 the enemy bare from us E.S.E. about 4 leagues, the place where we 
 fought was very dangerous for we feared more the looseing of out- 
 strips upon the sands then we did looseing our ships and lives in fight 
 with the enemy. After we were at an anchor I haveing some Dutch 
 prisoners on board, which I had out of the ship our fireship grapled 
 with, I examined them concerning their whole Fleet which engaged us, 
 who gave me the following account of it which I suppose to be true :- — 
 
 De Rutter, Adm ra11 of Holland 
 
 - 560 men 
 
 SO 
 
 guns 
 
 John de Liver, Vice Adm™ 11 
 
 - 5G0 
 
 j> 
 
 82 
 
 u 
 
 John Venes, Reare Adm raU - 
 
 - 550 
 
 11 
 
 76 
 
 ii 
 
 Aaron Venes, Adm m11 to De Rutter - 
 
 - 500 
 
 11 
 
 75 
 
 ii 
 
 Van Trumpe, Adm raU for Amsterdam 
 
 - 560 
 
 11 
 
 84 
 
 ii 
 
 Vulcher Scram, Vice Adm r:l11 
 
 - 550 
 
 11 
 
 86 
 
 ii 
 
 John de Ilawne, Reare Adin™ 11 
 
 - 500 
 
 11 
 
 7G 
 
 ii 
 
 Adrian Banker, Adm raU for Zealand - 
 Cornelius Everson, Vice Adm ra11 
 
 - 4 SO 
 
 11 
 
 71 
 
 ii 
 
 - 4S0 
 
 11 
 
 71 
 
 ii 
 
 John Matteson, Reare Adm r; ' 11 
 
 - 500 
 
 11 
 
 76 
 
 ii 
 
 The name of the ship and Captain that we tooke with the number of 
 menandgunns. The Captain's name Peter Backer. The ship's name The 
 Jupiter of Antusien. The number of men 150. The number of gunns 50. 
 
 There is in the Dutch Fleet of men of warre 75 or 70 saile ; of fire 
 ships 20; one great Dutch ship burned by a French fireship, what 
 dammage else wc have done to them we cannot as vet tell, but we sawe 
 5 ships on fire at 10 oclock at night when we ten fight- and we miss 
 none of our owne onely two fireships that was burned ; there being like- 
 wise 5 of our Commanders killed, viz/, Cap 1 Worthin, Cap 1 Fowles, 
 Cap 1 Finch, Cap 1 Courtney, and Cap' Tempest. 
 
 May the 20 th , 30 th , and 31 st . We lay at an anchor fiting of our 
 shipes with sailes and rigging ready to engage the enemy againe. 
 
 June 4 th , Wensday. The Dutch Fleet set saile and came large away 
 to engage us about one oclock in the afternoonc, then w r c immediately set 
 saile with all our Fleet . . . till 4 oclock in the afternoonc . . 
 and then Van Trumpe and his Squadron leading the van of the Hollands 
 Fleet and Sir Edw. Spragge with his Squadron leading the van of our 
 Fleet, Van Trumpe being about a league upon the weather quarter of 
 Sir Edw. Spragge fires a gun, and Sir Edw. Spragge knowing that our 
 Fleet could no way weather them immediately layes his topsaiics aback 
 to stay for Van Trumpe and his Squadron, who were immediately 
 engaged one with the other. And Do Rutter and all his Squadron bore 
 down upon us and the rest of the Red Squadron, whom we engaged. 
 . . . We engaged with De Rutter and most of his Squadron from 
 
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 btmotjth's ^ * n ^ e a ft ernoone 9 at night, haveing about 30 men killed and 
 R MSS. between 60 and 70 desperately wounded, and all our masts, yards, rig- 
 ging, and sailes disabled, and severall of our gunns and carriages broke 
 and disabled, and likewise all the shot that we had in the ship for the 
 gunns on the two upper deckes spent, and being darke we left off fight. 
 
 June 5, Thursday. . . The Prince called a Counsil of Warre till 
 8 in the morning, we haveing then lost sight of the Flemings. . . 
 
 June 7 th , Saturday. . . I receaved an order from the Prince to go 
 up to Sheereness with the Ship. . . 
 
 June 8 th , Sunday. . . We set saile . . . to go into Sheerness 
 , . . and there anchored at one oclock. 
 
 June 12, Thursday. The Kinge and his Royal Highness came to 
 Shereness to view the Fleet. . 
 
 July 15 th , Tuesday. The Kinge, the Duke, and all the nobility came 
 into the Fleet. 
 
 July 17 th , Thursday. We set saile with the whole Fleet. 
 
 July 21, Monday. . . At 2 in the afternoone we sawe the Dutch 
 Fleet riding at an anchor within the Stone Bankes. . . . 
 
 August 9 th , Saturday. About 4 in the morning there came an 
 Hollands East Indiaman in to the middle of the French Fleet, which 
 was immediately tooke by them as they rid at anchor. 
 
 August 10 th , Sunday. At 8 in the morning we set saile with the 
 
 Fleet .... then we sawe the Hollands Fleet 
 
 till 8 at night, and then the Texill bore E. distance 4 leagues. 
 
 August 11 th , Monday, 8 a.m. The Hollands Fleet haveing the 
 weather gage of us bore downe upon us and immediately engaged us 
 . . . . till noone . . . the wind then being at S.W. so that all 
 the French Squadron got the weather gage of the Hollands Fleet, but 
 little or no dammage to them at all, so that we had all the Hollands 
 Fleet to engage with our Red Squadron, only Van Trumpe and his 
 Squadron which did engage Sir Edward Spragge. At 12 at noone De 
 Rutter and all the Hollands Fleet aforesaid being very neere His High- 
 ness the Prince's stern e we with our ship left our station which was to 
 be ahead of him and fell asterne between him and the enemy, where we 
 lay battering one at another till 3 in the afternoone. : . . And at 
 3 in the afternoone we bore up to meete with Sir Edward Spragge and 
 all his Squadron, w T ho were then at that time engaged with Van Trumpe 
 and all his Squadron . . . And at 6 in the afternoone we came up 
 faire by them which we found had bin very smartly engaged the Hoy all 
 Prince haveing lost all her masts, also severall other of the Blew 
 Squadron much disabled .... the Hollanders being within shot 
 of us all this time. Then from 6 to 8 at night we were very smartly 
 engaged, our masts, yards, rigging, and sailes very much disabled and 
 severall men slaine and wounded .... then being night we left 
 off fight. . . The French Squadron between 6 and 8 at night when 
 we were so deepely engaged lay to windward of all the enemy, and did 
 not beare up within a league or two of them. 
 
 August 13, Wensday. The Generall called a Counsell of Warre, and 
 we lay becalmed. . . 
 
 August 29, Friday. Turned up to the Boy of the Nore and there 
 anchored. . . 
 
 September 9 th , Tuesday. . . . This day the Duke of Lenox his 
 Corps came up in a ship with a black flag at the maintopmast head. . . 
 
 September 10 th , Wensday. Wee received an Order from His High- 
 ness Prince Rupert to sett saile with our Shipp up to Chatham. 
 
 September 28 th . . . Came up to our mooreings just above the 
 New Docke about 1 1 in the forenoone, where shee lyes with safety. 
 
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 1G73, April 22. Clarendon House.— The Duke of Ormonde to Capt. DA JJj"; °* 
 George Legge. Recommends the bearer Mr. Thomas Butler, com- * mss. 
 manded on board his ship, to Captain Legge's favour. 
 
 1673, May 29. [Capt. Geo. Legge ?] to the Duke of York. Friday 
 evening May 23 we came to an anchor in 13 fathom water near the 
 middle of the Oster Bank, Ostend, bearing S. about six, and the body 
 of the Dutch fleet E. & b. N. three leagues distance from us, spreading 
 themselves between the Horn bank and the Raen from the E.N.E. to 
 the E & b. S. We continued here having very much variable winds 
 and thick weather till Wednesday May 28, about 10 o'clock in the 
 forenoon we set sail with the winds at S.W., a gentle gale and stood 
 E. & b. N. with our red squadron in the van towards the North end of 
 the enemies' fleet, which was Tromp's squadron. Near one o'clock our 
 headmost ships came within shot and then ' haled ' away N.E. righting 
 with our larboard tacks aboard as they did, till about 3 o'clock coming 
 in 8 fathom water near the Baniaerd sand we tacked and stood to the 
 southward, fighting with our starboard tacks on board till six in the 
 evening, then tacked again and stood to the northward till 8 o'clock, 
 from which time we fought back to the southward till near 10 at night, 
 and then with little wind steered off W.N.W. till 5 this morning, we 
 came to an anchor in 14 fathom water, Eastcapell bearing off us E. & 
 b. S. southerly G or 7 leagues distance, and the enemy ride now within 
 the sands E.S.E. about 4 leagues from us. We have lust never a ship 
 though they tried all the artilice imaginable to draw us upon the sands, 
 nor do I hear of above three of our lire ships that are spent. The 
 Cambridge, Resolution, and York are so disabled that they must be 
 forced to go up the river to relit. Captains Worden, Courtney, Foules, 
 Finch, and Tempest are all killed, but behaved themselves all like very 
 brave men. Mr. Hambleton hath lost his leg, and Colonel llublethorne 
 is slain. Captain Voiteire in the Katherinc fireship endeavoured to lay 
 Tromp's vice-admiral aboard, but a man of war of 50 guns coming 
 between he grappled with him, but sunk by his side, yet the man of 
 war was afterwards taken, but her rigging, masts, ami sails so much 
 cut, and two foot water in hold our men left her, and most of the 
 Dutch ; so that whether she is sunk or gone baek we know not. One 
 of the French fireships burned a great Duteh ship, and generally all the 
 French behaved themselves very well. What damage the Dutch have 
 received is not known, but we left 5 fireships among them at night. 
 They were in all seventy odd sail of men of war. and above twenty (?) 
 fireships. I believe it will not be long before I shall be able to give your 
 Royal Highness a better account for we are still in sight one of another. 
 I hope they will fight us at sea being not much weaker than we, and 
 expecting more ships daily to come to them; 3 came while we were in 
 fight, but that hole (sic) is too little and the sands too dangerous for us 
 to venture among them again. I received the enclosed account of their 
 fleet from one of the prisoners that was taken in the Jupiter. 
 
 Bundle marked il 1673, July and Aug. The expedition againeJ the 
 Dutch Fleet." 
 
 (1G73 ?), Sept. 23.— William Penn to . 
 
 " The Lords of Carolina want a Lieut-Governor, the Province of 
 Virginia wants a secretary; and for aught 1 know cither of these will 
 answer the Bearer's ambition and merit, for which cause pray please 
 fix on either. T am 
 
 Thy very respectful friend, 
 
 Wm. Penn." 
 
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 btmot? F ' 1673. Printed Pamphlet, entitled " A brief relation of His Majesties 
 iR mss! TH S an( i the French King's forces under my [Prince Rupert's] command with 
 — the Dutch, the 11th of August . 1673, near the Texel," and the MS. 
 of the same. 
 
 1673. Printed Pamphlet entitled " An exact relation of the several 
 engagements and actions of His Majesty's fleet under the command of 
 His Highness Prince Rupert ; and of all circumstances concerning this 
 summer's expedition, Anno 1673." Written by a person in command 
 in the Fleet. 
 
 1674. Printed Pamphlet entitled "A just vindication of the principal 
 officers of His Majesty's Ordnance from the false and scandalous 
 aspersions laid upon them in a printed libel entitled An Exact relation 
 of the several Engagements and Actions of His Majesty's fleet under 
 the command of His Highness Prince Rupert, in the summer's 
 expedition, 1673." 
 
 MS. pamphlet of 19 pages (the last page torn) entitled "A full 
 answer to a trayterous and seditious lybell intituled 4 An exact relation 
 of the severall engagements and actions of His Majesty's fleet under 
 the command of His Highness Prince Rupert, and of all circumstances 
 concerning this somers expedition, Anno 1673.' Pretended to be 
 written by a person in comand in the fleet, but spread abroad and 
 vulgarly called the Prince's full narrative. Published as an antidote 
 against the infectious dissent of rebellion too visibly spreading itselfe 
 all over the Kingdom under the thredbare trick of religion." 
 
 Various MS. accounts of the engagement with the Dutch on 11th 
 August 1673. 
 
 1673. Printed Pamphlet entitled " A relation of the engagement of 
 His Majesty's Fleet with the enemies on the 11th of August 1673, as it 
 has been represented by letters from the several squadrons." Published 
 by Authority. 
 
 1673, July, &c. Miscellaneous Journals of Pilots and other Seamen 
 on board various vessels of the Fleet on the Dutch Expedition, and 
 Plan of the squadrons and of the English and Dutch Fleets. 
 
 MS. notes and papers, and accounts relative to the above Pamphlet 
 on the Summer's Expedition. 
 
 " Sir Edward Spragg, Admiral of the Blew, was drowned, his boat 
 being sunk under him by a shot from the enemy as he was going from 
 the St. George to another ship. 
 
 The defeat of the Dutch was not so great owing to the French Fleet 
 standing off, although signalled." 
 
 [1673 ?] Memoranda in Capt. Geo. Legge's handwriting of the 
 services of his father Col. William Legge and of himself. 
 
 Col. William Legge was before the late war Master of the Armoury. 
 
 In the first Scotch expedition — Lieut.- General of the Artillery and 
 Major to the Earl of Newport, then Master of the Horse (?) 
 
 In the second Scotch expedition — Lieut. -Gen. of the Ordnance, Major 
 to Prince Rupert's regiment of horse, and Colonel of the Firelocks ; and 
 commissioned by the army to bring the address of the army (which you 
 will find more particularly in the trial of the late King). 
 
 In the Rebellion — was in all the battles with the King's own army 
 under Prince Rupert from Edgehill to Naseby, or the last ; governor of 
 Chester ; Lieut.- General of Prince Rupert's army, particularly at Newark 
 and " Massemour " (Marston Moor ?) ; colonel of horse ; sole commander 
 of the Ordnance (my Lord Newport being withdrawn from the King) ; 
 
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 commander-in-chief of all his Majesty's forces in Oxfordshire, Berk- Bam. of 
 shire, Bucks, and one county more, as may appear by the Commission ; ' mss. 
 was groom of the bedchamber to the late King and taken prisoner with — 
 him when he was carried to the Isle of Wight, and then laid close 
 prisoner in Arundel Castle. 
 
 After the war to the time of the King's coming in — kept nine years 
 in several prisons, prisoner in eleven(.«c) and condemned to die by the 
 Parliament for serving the King — com r of the sealed knot and com d 
 with my Lord Bath to Monck, the army, city, committee of safety, 
 before and at the bringing in the King. 
 
 After the King came in — groom of the bedchamber, superintendent of 
 the office of the Ordnance ; lieut. -gen. of the Ordnance ; treasurer of the 
 Ordnance ; lieut. of his majesty's forests Alice Holt and Woolmere in 
 Hampshire. 
 
 I [Geo. Legge] have been — 
 
 In the King's first war with the Dutch and French — in the four 
 days' engagement in the St. James's days (in 1G66) ; captain of the 
 Pembroke in 1667. 
 
 In the second war with the Dutch — in the Smyrna engagement and 
 Solebay, 1672 ; Schonvelt, 4th of June, off the Texell the 11th of Aug. 
 1673; in this war commander of the York, Fairfax, and Royal 
 Katherine ; and in several small engagements in both wars. 
 
 At land — groom of the bedchamber to the Duke of York, master of 
 his horse, governor of Portsmouth, lieut. of the Ordnance, master of the 
 Ordnance, &c. 
 
 1673, 1674, &c. — Many original warrauts of Charles II. to Capt. or 
 Col. George Legge as Governor of Portsmouth. 
 
 1675, May 23. Jamaica. — Lord Vaughan to George Legge, Esq., 
 Governor of Portsmouth. " Though I believe you have scarcely leisure 
 or humour to consider or be concerned for things so remote, yet I waa 
 willing to let you see you have a friend in this world whom not air or 
 climate can change from those professions I always made of respect and 
 
 service to you Since I arrived here I have willed an 
 
 Assembly, the figure of your Parliament in England, and having in 
 three weeks time re-enacted and made 45 laws I fairly parted with them, 
 and now send a transcript of the Laws to Mr. Secretary Coventry for 
 his Majesty's royal confirmation, and do not a little please myself that 
 the Island is like to receive in my government their first fixed and 
 established laws. 1 do not find but the climate, air, and people are 
 agreeable enough to me, but the government not so glorious as was 
 figured in England; however I am resolved to serve his Majesty and 
 the Island in what manner soever I serve myself, and should not have 
 doubted being fully pleased, if his Majesty's stores had not so unluckily 
 miscarried through the folly and madness of Sir H. Morgan being ship- 
 wrecked on the shoals of Isla de Vaca (?). In the Downs 1 gave him 
 orders in writing to keep me company and in no case to be separated 
 from me but by distress of weather; however he, God knows by what 
 fate, coveting to be here before me, wilfully lost me, but afterwards met 
 with Sir It. Strickland who was following our course, being convoy for 
 the Straits fleet, but after six hours sail as soon as he got sea room sailed 
 directly for Isla, whereas we lay by expecting 5 or () day- till divers of 
 Sir Roger's fleet came up with us. I have sent the Commissioners of 
 the Navy the master's (?) journal which confirms all this, besides the 
 discourse Sir Harry made in London, and was wrote some gentlemen 
 here, that he intended to come hither before me .... 
 
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 tmottth's I nave m ade choice of your friend Sir John Griffith to solicite the 
 MSS. Island's affairs in the quality of an agent . . . and send a petition 
 from the Council and Assembly praying his royal highness to interpose 
 with the African Company that we may be plentifully supplied with 
 negroes" .... 
 
 1675, Oct. 15. — Lord Windsor to Col. George Legge. (Two letters.) 
 Sends his proxy to his royal highness, with the assurance that not only 
 his vote but his life shall always be at his master's disposal. 
 
 1675, March 11. Tangier. — The Earl of Inchiquin to Col. George 
 Legge. 
 
 This place having suffered much through the insufficiency of our late 
 chirurgeon, and meeting with one so well qualified as Mr. Grandee for 
 that imployment I entertained him in it, and because the salary in the 
 establishment is so small, being but 4 shillings per diem, I added as 
 much of my own to it, rather than part with him, it being highly important 
 that we have an able man here, which for so small a salary is not to be 
 had ; but our Commissioners, upon my request to them to double that 
 pay, have answered me that if we have not a sufficient person here that 
 will accept of that salary they will send us one. I do therefore make it 
 my request to you to represent to his R. H. the necessity of having a 
 good chirurgeon, and to prevail that the pay of 4 shillings may out of 
 the town revenue be made 8 to Dr. Grandee. 
 
 1677, May 30 and June 19. From The Tower.— Philip Lord Wharton 
 to Col. Geo. Legge. 
 
 Two letters, expressing his deep sense of the great grace and 
 favour show him by his royal highness, and entreating the Duke's help 
 in obtaining his release. 
 
 1677, June 25. Edlington, near Doncaster. — Sir Thomas Wharton 
 to Col. Legge, Tuttle Street. On his brother's behalf. 
 
 1677 [June 30]. — Philip Lord Wharton to Colonel Legge. 
 
 It highly imports him that his matter be brought on foot before the 
 Earl of Salisbury, and if his petition be not such as gives satisfaction to 
 his royal highness begs for a temporary liberty before the sitting of the 
 Houses — enclosed are draft of petition and an extract from the Lords' 
 Journal of 16 Feb. 1676-7 touching the offence of Lord Wharton 
 
 1677, July 1. — Ann Lady Wharton to Colonel Legge. 
 On behalf of her husband — in a postscript she hopes this hot weather 
 will incline his highness to pity the prisoner. 
 
 1677, July 19, 22, 24.— Philip Lord Wharton to Colonel Legge. 
 Other letters on his imprisonment, &c. 
 
 There are also three or four undated letters from him on the same 
 subject ; and one from Goodwin Wharton referring to his father. 
 
 1676, Dec. 19, 21, 23, 26 ; and 1676-7, Jan. 2.— Derby House. 
 
 S. Pepys to Col. George Legge, governor of Portsmouth. Five official 
 letters on Navy and Ordnance matters. In a postscript to the last Pepys 
 writes, after returning Legge " with interest " his kind wish of a Happy 
 New Year — " The surpriseing death of my lady Duras gives a great 
 many of your friends and mine much affliction and disorder ; and truly 
 'tis a calamity much to bee lamented." 
 
 1677, Dec. 14. Flanchford. — Lord Windsor to Mr. George Legge, 
 master of the horse to his Eoyal Highness. " There is a seat in Eeigate 
 church w T hich was set up in the cross aisle for the Lord Monson, and 
 
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 stands between two seats of mine. The Duke is now owner of it, but eabl of 
 
 'tis of no use of his P. H. nor any of his tenants and would much Dartmouth's 
 
 accommode my family and Baron Thurland's. I desire you will speak — ■ 
 to the Duke to give the use of it to the Baron and myself." 
 
 1677, &c. — Papers relating to the Post Office. 
 
 1678, July. — Copy of Orders of the Duke of Monmouth to Col. 
 George Legge, or the Officer in Chief commanding his Majesty's forces 
 in Newport (Nieuport, Flanders). 
 
 1678, July -J- J. Newport. — Orders signed by Colonel George Legge 
 for the better regulation and government of the English soldiers there 
 under his command, against drunkenness, taking goods without paying 
 for them, affronting the religious, going into churches or convents, 
 going without the gates of the city, being out of quarters after the 
 tattoo was beaten, and fighting duels. Death was the penalty in nearly 
 all cases. 
 
 1678, July 22. Newport. — Proceedings at a Council of War. 
 Colonel George Legge, President, Col. Sidney, Lieut. -Col. Halsey, 
 Lieut.-Col. Sunderland, Lieut. -Col. Sackville, Major Windram, Major 
 Carr, Major Hastings. Resolutions regarding the pay and allowances 
 to various officers and men, stores, duties of the chirurgcon, &c. 
 Attached are " Some observations upon the town and government of 
 Newport." 
 
 1678, July 22. Newport. — Col. Legge's warrant to Mr. John Cory, 
 appointed judge advocate to the court, to summon a court martial, 
 Lieut.-Col. Sunderland, President, for the trial of such soldiers as are in 
 confinement. 
 
 1678, July 23. Newport. — Proceedings at a Council of War. 
 Lieut.-Col. Sunderland, President, Major Windrain, Major Carr, Major 
 Hastings, Capt. Howsden, Capt. Lee, Capt. Fitz James, Capt. Askin, 
 Capt. Norshrott, Capt. Scroopc, Capt. Brewer, Capt. Shelly, ('apt. 
 
 Howard . James Ponte, a sergeant under Colonel Legge, convicted 
 
 of speaking mutinous words, was condemned to sit one hour upon a 
 wooden horse with two muskets tied to each leg, afterwards to be sent 
 back to prison until a fit opportunity happen to transport him beyond 
 the seas. Two privates in the same regiment were sentenced to be 
 shot for like offences, and another in Sir John Fenwick's regiment 
 to ride the wooden horse three several days, one hour in each day. 
 
 16*78, Newport. — An account of all the quartet! assigned 
 
 to the regiment of Col. George Legge, showing the streets where, and 
 the persons with whom, each officer lodged. 
 
 1678. Paper headed "An account of the civil inhabitants of the 
 Citty of Tanger, viz*, such as have no relation to, and are independant 
 of the garrison. In the ycarc 1(578." 
 
 ** Free. — The nomber of men, English and Forrayners 
 
 inhabitants - 2o7 
 
 Free. — The nomber of women - - 104 
 
 Y r c J The nomber of male children - - 86 
 
 ' \ The nomber of female children - - 83 
 
 The nomber of male servants - - 40 
 
 The nomber of female serv ants - - 30 
 
 The totall of the people of Tanger - - 600 
 
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 Earl op 1678. " An Abstract oi a Survey and State of Tanger in the year 
 
 Dartmouth's -1**70 » 
 MSS. lbyo. 
 
 This gives the annual value of the houses in the city in the year 1668 
 as 17,701, Pss. 8., while the rack rent at the time of the survey only 
 amounted to 5,418 Pss. 8 (pieces of eight). 
 
 It then gives the number of buildings, their situation and quality, 
 either as inheritances, leases, quarters, King's houses, stores, churches, 
 and into how many hands the whole is divided. It next sets forth who 
 granted the leases, and a description of the leases ; declares how many, 
 and what people inhabit the houses ; enumerates the people of the Mole, 
 in the city, upon the Mole, and at Whitby ; gives the composition of the 
 trained bands and the army, stating that in the city and army there 
 are 2,225 persons ; states the amount of land without the walls and 
 its uses,- and mentions the names of the fifteen forts without the 
 walls. 
 
 N.D. Paper headed " An Establishment for Tangier," and endorsed 
 " The last intended establishment." 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 " The Governor ----- 1,500 
 
 The Minister att 10s. per diem - - - 182 10 
 
 The Physitian att 15s. per diem - - - 273 150 
 
 The Towne Major att 10s. per diem without any 
 
 manner of perquisites or other advantages - 1 82 10 
 Judge Advocate att 8s. per diem - - - 146 
 
 Chyrurgion att 4s. - - - - 73 
 
 Chyrurgion's Mate att 2s. 6d. - - 45 12 
 
 Quarter Master, Provost Marshall and Servants 
 
 att 5s. - - - - - - 91 5 
 
 Commissarys of the Musters att 6s. - - 109 10 
 
 Storekeeper for the Garrison att 3s. 4d. - - 60 16 8 
 
 Engineer att 6s. per diem - 109 10 
 Storekeeper of the ammunition 
 and stores for himself and 
 assistants att 6s. 8d t - 121 13 4 
 
 on the Master^ f faster C<*penter - - 54 
 
 7., ~ , ^, A Fire master att 5s. - - 91 5 
 
 These to depend 
 
 of the Ordinance. 
 
 
 
 A Master Gunner att 3s. - 54 15 
 
 A Gunnsmith att 2s. 6d. - 45 12 
 
 16 Gunners at Is. per diem 
 
 each, besides victualls - 292 
 Two Regiments of Foot each Regiment consisting 
 of 16 companyes, and each company consisting of 
 a Captain att 8s. a day, a Lieutenant att 4s., an 
 Ensigne att 3s., two Serjeants att Is. each besides 
 victualls, three Corporalls and one Drummer at 
 6d. each besides victualls, and 50 private ffootmen 
 att 3d. each besides victualls, which for each 
 company amounts to 574/. 17s. 6c?. per annum, 
 and for the said 32 companies to 18,396 
 
 For the Fielde and StafFe Officers of the said two 
 Regiments, viz*, twoe Colonells att 12s. a day each, 
 tw r o Lieut. -Colonells at 7s. a day each, and two 
 Majors att 5s. a day each, makeing for each 
 Regiment 438/. per annum, and for both - 876 
 
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 Fower Troopes of horse each to consist of a Captain 
 att 14s. a day, a Lieutenant att 10s., a Cornett 
 att 9s. , a Quarter Master att 6s., two Corporalls 
 att Ss. each, one Trumpetter att 2s. Qd. besides 
 victualls, a Farryer at 2s. besides victualls, and 
 25 private horsemen at 2s. each besides victualls, 
 makeing in all for each Troope 1,809/. 15s. 10*/., 
 and for the said fower Troopes - 
 
 For the Hospitall besides the value of the soldier's 
 victualls when sick, added to the hospitall 
 towards maintenance - 
 
 For Coles and Candles - 
 
 For Boatemen, Boates, Intelligence, Messages, 
 Presents, and other Contingencies att Tangier - 
 
 Totall thus farr being 31,544/. 17s. 4d., by paying 
 4s. 9d. with every 4s. Qd. will be defrayed by 
 Twenty nine, &c. 29,884 12 2\ | 
 
 To the Victuallers for victualling 1,91G men att 
 2s. Qd per weeke each, viz 1 , 1,600 Foot soldiers, 
 G4 Sergeants, 90 Corporalls, 32 Drummers, 100 
 Troopers, 4 Trumpetters, 4 Farryers, and 16 
 Gunners - - - - 12,454 
 
 Totall - - - 42,338 12 L>] ; 
 
 Memorandum that the 3d. a day in money, made payable by this, 
 our establishment to each Afoot soldier of our garrison att Tangier, shall 
 be from tyme to tyme paid to the Colouells of each Regiment, out of 
 which they are to furnish the said soldiers with cloathes, shirts, s*hooes, 
 stockens, and other necessary s, the same to bee alhvaies bought in 
 Ireland and noe where else, and that att an easy rates as may bee, and 
 to pay the remainder (if any), in money to the said soldiers. 
 
 Memorandum > foe that Hd. a day out of the 2s. a day made payable 
 by this our establishment to each trooper of our garrison of Tangier 
 shall bee from tyme to tyme paid to such Surveyor as wee shall appoint, 
 to bee by him layd out for provideing such sorts and quantitys of horse 
 meat as are now allowed to each horseman there, and the rerra'neing 1 ('»</. 
 a day shall be from tyme to tyme paid to the respective Captains of 
 Horse, out of which they are to furnish the said troopers with cloathes, 
 bootes, belts, and other necessaryes, the same to bee alhvaies bought in 
 Ireland and noe where else, and that att as easy rates as may bee, and 
 to pay the remainder (if any), in money to the said troopers. And the 
 Lord Lieutenant or other Cheife Governor of Ireland to take care to 
 appoint some fitt persons to supervise the buying of the said cloathes 
 and necessaryes for the soldiers soe as the same may be effectually 
 furnisht good in kind, and att the cheapest rati -." 
 
 167 [5, Feb. 15, Whitehall. — Henry Coventry to George Legge, Esq., 
 governor of Portsmouth. 
 
 Dear Governor, I have (received ?) yours and the enclosed copy to 
 Mr. u Peepes." I went immediately to his Majesty and possessed him 
 as well as I could with your reasons for the electing Sir John Kemp- 
 thorne, and if I wanted any thing 1 doubt not but the D. will perfect it. 
 As for your letter to Mr. " Peepes" I can only say this in short, it was 
 
 s. a . TARL OF 
 
 Dartmouth's 
 MSS. 
 
 7,239 3 4 
 
 700 
 500 
 
 400 
 
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 eael of too witty for a governor, and too plain dealing for a courtier. I shewed 
 DAR MSs! TH ' S Sir Thomas Morgan's letter likewise to his Majesty, but I do not find 
 — much credit given to the reports. Come back a triumphant member 
 and (against ?) Parliament, we shall all pay you great respects. 
 
 1678-9, Feb. 26. — Extract from Journal of Sir Eoger Strickland's pro- 
 ceedings, describing his meeting with seven Turkish ships which were 
 fighting with two Genoese men-of-war. At back is a list of his 
 Majesty's ships in the Straits, eight in all, with nine convoys. 
 
 Letters of James, Duke of York to Colonel George Legge. 
 
 " Brussels, March 28, 1679. 
 
 I receved yours by Graham the night before I came from the Hage, 
 and had not then tyme to write to you, yesterdaj' morning I arrived here, 
 and as I was at diner had yours by Carleton, who rid hard to come 
 hether so sone, which diS informe me of what I must confesse I did not 
 expect, for tho I did beleve the thinge would have been done, yett I did 
 not thinke that way, and I beleve he little thought or expected to have 
 a command of that kind when he advised my being sent away ; and this 
 I hope will convince people that there was no concert bettwene us. I am 
 sure those that thought it, or sayd it, at any tyme, were either very 
 foolish, or malitious to me, to thinke I could have any concert with 
 those who so ever they were that advised, and that without my knowledg, 
 or consent, my being sent out of England. I long to heare by whose 
 means this resolution has been taken, and what effect it will have, I shall 
 be glad if Powel be speaker for I hope he will be my freind, and will 
 further my returne, which you will easily beleve I long for very much, 
 tho I was very kindly used in Holland, and am very civily here, and I 
 hope when so ever it is thought on that my freinds will be as carfull is 
 they can that I may be as free there as I have been, but of this I shall 
 say no more till I here how thing go where you are, upon the alteration 
 you tell me is like to be, which is all I have to say to you now, but that 
 I would have you write to me without ceremony. J." 
 
 1679, April 4, Brussels. — I see so little liklyhood of things going 
 well in England, or of my being sent for back, that I would have you 
 thinke of getting ready some of my horses and coaches, to send over to me, 
 if you thinke I am like to stay any tyme on this side of the water, but not 
 to send them away, till you heare from me againe, it being very troublsome 
 to be here without either, I would say more but have not tyme. 
 
 April 14, Brussels. — Yours by Lewen I receved not till Wensday 
 and wonder how you came to thinke me at the Hage, for I had not 
 sayd I would go thither except my Daughter had been brought to bed, 
 and of that there was no liklyhood, but now I am a going thither upon 
 another account, which is to see hir that has gott a tertian ague, and to 
 endeavor to undeceve those who perswade hir she is yett with Child. I 
 intend to stay but a little there, at least I hope so, for at this time of 
 yeare such distempers usualy last but little, for I am very ciuily used 
 here, and the D. de Villahermosa was with me last night, and seems 
 to be a very good kind of man. I do not find by your last that any 
 thing had been moved concerning me, at least but a little in passing, I 
 wish my freinds would consider well, whether delaying my affaire can 
 be of any advantage to me ; I feare not for the longer people are used to 
 be with out me the harder it will in my mynd to come back, and tho I do 
 not doubt of the continuance of his Majestie's kindnesse to me yett you 
 know there are those about him who would be glad to keepe me from 
 coming back to him, but of this you that are in the place are better 
 
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 judges then I am, when to move any thing concerning me, and there- eael of 
 
 fore I must leave it to your discretion. In the mean tyme it is very ' Dar ™ s ° s utu ^ 
 
 uneasy for me to be without coach and horses here, therfore I — -' 
 
 would have you send ouer by Ostend, Dixey and Hooper with their 
 
 two setts of horses, and the hunting coaches, as also two pads and fower 
 
 of the somer hunters, whereof Windsor and Griffen to be two, and this 
 
 as sone as conveniantly you can, for I would willingly find them here 
 
 by that tyme I come back from the Hage, I thinke you had best have 
 
 them embarke at Dover to be as little as they can upon the sea. Send 
 
 one of the Querrys to and send one of my towne coaches and harnesse, 
 
 but no horses, and that straight to Antwerp, as for your letters direct 
 
 them to the Hage. I have not tyme to say more." 
 
 [1679,] April 25, Hague. — " I receved yours by Morly some days since, 
 and shall not send him back to you till I come from Amsterdam whether 
 I am a going to morrow, and by him shall write my mind about the 
 affairs of my stables. I long to heare what will be the fate of the 
 Lords, and I wonder any of them would employ such a man as Reading, 
 to such a as (sic) Bedlow, for on can never expect good from such kind 
 of men. I do not thinke yett of going to Breda, but intend to returne 
 back to Bruxcelles, the begining of next weeke, and I cannot immagin 
 why it should be thought Catholik would not flock as much to me at 
 Breda, as at Bruxcelles, for God be thanked in this country no body is 
 asked what religion he is of, and I see by some letters, it has been 
 reported, that there was great resort of Catlioliks to me there, which 
 is a very untrue story, for there has hardly any come there, but if they 
 should, what harm were there in it, for if men be driven from their 
 owne country they must go some where and all cannot go into France, 
 but where they find most conveniancy for them selvs, and I believe 
 there were never fewer at Bruxcelles then now, so that they that have 
 raised that report no doubt intended it very malitiously to me ; and I 
 cannot imagin why people should thinke it better for mo to be in a 
 Protestant country then in a Catholike, when they know it will not 
 alter my mind, and besids if they would but consider they might know 
 it is not conveniant for me to be in this country, and Bruxcelles is 
 nearer England, and a place where there can be no ombrage taken by 
 reasonable men, for I cannot be more a Catholike than I am. I could 
 say more on this subject but have not tyme. I am very glad to heare 
 M r Powel is like to be advanced, and truly I beleve he will be tirnie to 
 me for I look on him as a man of honnor, tell Captain Russell he need 
 not yett come but may stay so long as he thinks he may do me any 
 service there. 
 
 Neither the Dutchesse nor my self have receved those letters you 
 mentioned from his Majesty, nor have I had one letter from him since 
 Sir John Werden brought me one." 
 
 [1079,] May 2, Hague. — " 1 receved yesterday yours by Windham and 
 do acquiesse in my freinds opinion in not having any thing mentiond con- 
 cerning me till the Lords tryal be over, tho it be very uneasy not to know 
 on's fate, for you on the place can jugc much better then than any that 
 are at a distance, and as to the Prince of Orange he will be ready to make 
 a turne in to England when his businesse here will give him leave but 
 when that will be is uncertainc, for the towne of Amsterdam givs him 
 much trouble, but now there is hops that that may be accomodated, 
 for M. Valkcnire the Burgemaister was with me when 1 was there, and 
 proiesst to be ready to come to a good understanding with the Prinee, and 
 wos very civile to me, and sayd he would come and speake with the Prince 
 in a few days, but we here do not know what to make of the Earl of 
 
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 Dartmouth's ^ anD y' s coming in, and feare it my yett put things more in disorder, but a 
 mss. few days will explaine that riddel to us. I write constantly to his Majesty, 
 but had none by Windham, will (sic) was a great mortification to me. 
 You are very much in the right concerning Aston and I have written 
 accordingly to Lord Peterborow. I intend to set out to morrow for 
 Bruxcelles, and take Breda in my way to let the Dutchesse see it, I find 
 by yours that people are very much mistaken in their guesses about my 
 not staying at Breda, I assure you no Catholike that came from France, 
 or any other of that perswation have meddled with it any way to give 
 me any advice in it one way or other, and are discreter than those that 
 write such lys from this side of the water, and that by their politiks do 
 me as much harme as my greatest enemys, and do not consider all things 
 as they should, and juge without knowing or considering all the reason 
 of a thinge. I have writen already to you upon this subject, and there- 
 fore shall say no more, but that I am sure if my freinds knew and con- 
 siderd all things they would see I do nothing but what is fitt to be done. 
 As for what you would know, whether I do expect to be recaled from the 
 King alone, or from him by the Parliament, I thinke it would be pro- 
 perest from him, for it was he only by whose command I came away. 
 Tis true if they thinke it was an ill advise given him, why there is no 
 harme in their taking notice of it, so as it be done with that respect as 
 becoms them to him, you may easily beleuve I should very gladly beat 
 home, but would not willingly have an attempt made in Parliament that 
 should faile. I have been so off len interrupted that I hardly know what 
 I say and have not tyme to say more at present not to lett this bearer 
 lose his passage in the pacquet boat." 
 
 [1679,] May 8, Brussels. — At my arrival at this place on Friday last, 
 I meett with the newse of the disolution of the old, and the chusing of a 
 new councelle, which you may easily beleve was a great surprise to every 
 body here, and not only to us English but even to the Spaniards who 
 are as much astonished at it as we are, and tho I was prepared to heare of 
 Lord Shaftsbury's coming to court and being in favor againe yett I did 
 not expect so total a change as I see there is, and could not beleve so 
 many loyall and worthy men should so absolutly be layd a side. I had 
 not yours till the day after I came, this bearer not being able to gett horces 
 to come so fast as the post. As to what you are advised concerning Lord 
 Shaftsbury, I conffesse I cannot bring my self to it to write, as was pro- 
 posed, but if you speake to Lord Townsend as from your self to sound 
 , Lord Shaftsbury, and to represent to him that he beleves it may be in his 
 
 power to be well againe with the Duke, by doing any thing to oblige him, 
 for now that he Lord Shaftesbury being well with the King, the Duke will 
 easily be brought to live well with him, his chief exception to him being 
 upon the King's account. He may remember that the now Earl of Danby, 
 when Tresurer of the Navy was as ill with me as any one could be having 
 been brought into that office whether I would or no, that so sone as I saw 
 and beleved he served hi* Majesty well, I was freinds with him, and a 
 good freind to him to, some thing of this kind may be sayd, but not as 
 from me, either by Lord Townsend, or rather by George Pitts, whom I 
 look on as the stedyer man, and that is more my freend, but you that are 
 upon the place can judge better then I, w T hich of the two are properest 
 to be made use on, or anybody els that may be fitt for it, you may employ 
 in it, if you thinke it fitt, and that you thinke it may do some good, or at 
 least do no harme ; and I assure you I can very willingly forgive, and 
 not only that, but live well with any that have been my greatest enemys, 
 if they behave themselvs as they ought to his Majesty, and will live well 
 with me, but for my begining to write to any of them before they have 
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 bring myself to do it, nor to dissemble so much as to lett them or any eabl .->? 
 others, have any hope I will ever be brought to con forme to the Church Dahmiovm *■ 
 of England, as now establishd, or alter my mind in point of religion from — 
 what it is now. Pray keep the Atturney and Sir F. Wilmington in their 
 good intentions for me, and lett them know how kindly I take their 
 endeavers for me, and thanke Lord Prive Seale from me for what he did 
 about the Duke of Monmouth's pattent, and if he should chance to be 
 put out, and Lord lioberts put in thanke him still, and tell the new one 1 
 hope he will continue as carfull as both he him self and Lord Anglesey 
 had been upon such an occation, for you must know Lord Roberts did 
 do the same thing when the first pattent was past for the Duke of Mon- 
 mouth. I am very sorry to heare you are like to run any danger as to 
 your Government, but I hope his Majestic will not be wroght upon to 
 do so hard a thing to you, and that yours and your father's services will 
 have so much waight, as to hinder yours and my enemys from bringing 
 it to passe. When I wrot last to you from the Ilage by Morley, I was 
 newly come from diner from M. Odyks, and in such a hurry as I hardly 
 knew what I sayd, so that I do not know whether I explaind my self well 
 and I do not know what alteration this great change may make in my 
 affairs, and whether it will delay or bring on my busincsse you on the 
 place can only know and judge when and whieh way to begin it ; in my 
 mind it has happned well for me that these changes were made before 
 my name has been on the stage, and me thinks some of these new men 
 that are now preferd may apeare more for me then they durst do before. 
 I long to have the next letters, to see how these new Councelers will 
 steer their course that one may judge whither they are bound, we know 
 from whence they are come." 
 
 [1679,] May 1G, Brussells. — "I have just receved yours without a 
 date, with his Majestie and Lord Chancellor's speeches, ami long to heare 
 what you will do in your house upon them. I shall not say my thoughts 
 upon them, only I see but little hops of my returnc and therefore would 
 have you send over to me as sone as conveniently you can, my ownc sett of 
 horses I meane Welshes, and the Dutehesses ownc body sett also, with my 
 towne coach for the Dutchesse towne coach that need not be sent, and 
 send me another pad, as also Cob, Cullen, Oxford, Washburne and 
 Tul'ton, and lett them bring some of Hulks Spanial to shcot with all. 
 I was this day abroad for the first tyme on horseback ; I never saw my 
 horses in so good case as they are. I have not tyme to say more, it 
 being very late." 
 
 [Addressed] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1679,] May 19, Brussells. — " I rcceeved yours by Churchill on Tues- 
 day night last, but the English letters which should have been here yester- 
 day are not yett come, and till I have them I shall not answer your last 
 letter, and only tell you I do intend to go to Breda, as sone as conveni- 
 ently I can, since my freinds advise me to it, tho I thinke it signify- 
 little, however, lett the horses I sent for lan I at Ostend, thai they ma\ 
 be as little as may be att sea, by my next I shall be able to say when 
 I shall go to Breda till when direct your letters hither." 
 
 [1679,] May 28, Brussells. — " I receved yesterday at two in the after 
 none, yours of the I 1th by Charleton, who lost DO tyme in coming hether. 
 I could not dispatch him soner then this night having so much t<» mite. I 
 send in myne to Mr. Hyde the two letters my freinds desired with very 
 little alteration, and that but in one of them, and besids that, have writen 
 a letter to his Majesty where I speake very freely to him of all his 
 affairs, and of the Duke of Monmouth, and 1 send you here enclosed the 
 beads of some of them that you may speake with his Majesty upon them 
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 Earl of and enlarge them, for now or never is the tyme to save the monarky. I 
 Dartmouth's thinke it yett in his Majesty power, but if he parts with any thing more he 
 ■ — ' is gone. Be sure to make my complyments to the two Coventrys and all 
 those that spoke for me, in your house ; when you have spoken to his 
 Majesty upon the heads, lettmeknow as sone as you can what he says to 
 them. I thanke you for the pains you take in my businesse, and when 
 in my power you shall see how sensible I am of it. 
 
 [Enclosure with the above.] 
 
 Heads you are to discourse with his Majesty upon, and to enlarge upon 
 them so as to lett him see they are resonable. 
 
 That his Majesty aught not aprehend but that he is strong enough to 
 deele with and punish his enemys if he will but be resolut, and stick to him- 
 self and countenance his friends. The fleett is yett his, urge the con- 
 cequence and advantage of that, the gards and garrisons are also his, 
 except Hull, which might easily be made so. Scotland and Ireland yett 
 his if he continu Lauderdail and Ormond in them, them two kingdoms 
 will make men of estats consider well before they engage against the 
 King. The Prince of Orange has given me all the assurences of his serv- 
 ing his Majesty, what corns from him can give no jealousy as to the 
 Religeon, he knows and is sensible he must sinke and swimme with the 
 King, all these circumstances considered, the hazard will not be so great 
 as some knaves and faint harted men would make him beleve. If he will 
 bestur him self now they are not yett quite prepared, want a head, he must 
 have a care the Duke of Monmouth does not head them, for he is the only 
 dangerous man that can do it, if he does not, no man of quality will 
 dare, therefore, as much as may be to put it out of his power to do 
 harme to shew discountenance to Armstrong and young Garrat, it being 
 of great concerne to me to represent in what a miserable condition his 
 Majesty would be in should he submitt, to make one step more would ruine 
 him without redemption, as letting them put in men into the Fleet, 
 Gards or Garrisons, Irland or Scotland ; that they that would go so far 
 would never thinke themselves safe so long as he were alive, remember 
 Edward 2, Richard 2, and the King my father. 
 
 I have sayd all this in my letter to his Majesty, but you must remind 
 him of it and enlarge upon it. 
 
 [1679,] May 31 Brussells. — Tho it is not very necessary for me to say 
 much to you by this bearer, who can give you an account of what passes 
 here, yett I would not lett him go without a letter from me, to tell you 
 againe how satisfyd I am of the pains you take in my concerns. I have 
 charged this bearer Graham to consult with you how proper it is for 
 him to say anything to his Majesty to the same purpose I directed you in 
 my letter by Carleton, to speake to him of, you will have seen how he 
 receved it, and so can judge whether it be proper to have it repeated or 
 no, I long to heare what past on Monday, what els I have to say I 
 refer to this bearer. 
 
 [Addressed] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1679,] June 7, Brussells. — I receved last night after the post was 
 gone yours by James Walsingham, you see he made good hast tho he had 
 not the language, this gos by Captain Crow of the Kitchen yacht, and so 
 shall write my mind a little freely to you and tell you, that I am very glad to 
 find his Majesty will stick to him self and part with no more. Pray keepe 
 him up to that still, for tho I see his kindnesse to the Duke of Monmouth 
 is so great as may yett do him harme as well as myself, yett that maybe 
 easily prevented so the maine go well. I see his Majesty has been very 
 
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 much misinformed as to some things concerning the Duke of Monmouth e vhl ^ 
 for Lord Chanceler Hyde never went about to put any jealousys into my Dartmouth** 
 head of my nephew. What he did about the patent was only what any 
 man that understood the Law was obliged to, and I do not remember 
 he ever opend his mouth to me of it, and as you \ery well sayd 1 did 
 not live with the Duke of Monmouth after that for many years as if I had 
 had any unkindnesse for him, and till he spake to me himself at Windsor 
 some fiue or six years age, of his having a mind to be Generail, I 
 never took any thing ill of him, nor grew jealous of him, but after what 
 I had sayd to him upon that subject, of my reasons against it, and that 
 I told him then freely he was not to expect my freindship if ever he 
 pretended to it or had it. One cannot wonder if I was against any thing 
 that did encresse his power in military affairs as his being Colonel of 
 the foott Gards would have done, especially when I saw he used all the 
 little arts and artifices, by degrees to compasse his point of being 
 generail, and I am sure if ti3 had had but the least consideration or 
 freindship for me, which I might have very well expected from him, he 
 would never have thought more of being generail, but after all that he 
 has done against me, if he will serve his Majesty as he aught, and that his 
 Majesty lay his command upon me, I am ready to live civily with him, tho 
 I can never trust him; for I thanke Hod I have so much of a Christien, 
 and that obedience for his Majesty as I can freely forgive him and live 
 civily with him. As for Armstrong I hope his Majesty will shew his dis- 
 pleasur to him as he sayd he would, it will be very necessary it should be 
 done, to shew his dislike to what has been done against me. I shall be very 
 impacient to heare what past yesterday, and shall say no more to you 
 now because this will not go so fast as the post. 
 [Addressed] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1G79,] June 11, BniSSells. — On Thursday I ivecved yours by Carle- 
 ton, and last night that by Fautry. I had by the last a very kind letter 
 from his Majesty but no command yett to rcturne, he says he will advi[se 
 with my] best i'reinds about it, and then lett [me hear] from him. I 
 write by this bearer a longle[tter to] his Majoty, 1 presse him to go on 
 vigorously as he has begun, and to shew he will do so, to send for me 
 home. I give him my reasons for that, to which though I have not 
 tyme to tell you are obvious enough, but conclude with an Entire resigna- 
 tion to his will, as to my returning, or staying on this side of the water, 
 and desire that I may have his positive commands in either case. I am 
 cleerly of your mind that the longer he is of sending for me will be both 
 worse for him as well as myself [ ] those who are my freinds 
 
 aught to presse him to do it and aught to represent me to some of these 
 men that are newly come into play as one who haa no animosity against 
 those employed by his Majesty, and that serve him, as Lord Halifax and 
 others, that you think proper to speake to, you sh;dl hcare from me 
 againe by Walsingham who I shall dispatch by the end of the weeke, 
 my letter to his Majesty was so long as it has taken up almost all my tyme 
 and this bearer must stay no longer for feare of missing the paquet at 
 Calais. 
 
 I had not time to write this over againe. 
 [Addressed] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1679,] June 27, Brussells. — I receved yesterday yours by James 
 Graham and intend to dispatch him back to his Majesty by Thursday 
 night, so that now I shall say nothing to you, but that I would have you if 
 possible, be at London when he arrivs there, that he may advise with 
 you about my concerns. 
 
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 Earl of [1679,] July 22, Brussells. — Carleton made great haste nether but 
 BAR ™gjj£ TH ' s what he brought not requiring a speedy answer I have keept him here till 
 — ' now. I am sorry to find that all that I wrot or that you and the rest of my 
 freinds could say to his Majesty did not worke on him, but I do not 
 wonder at it since I see he is resolved to stick to the measurs he has- 
 taken with his new Prive Councelle, who have already begun and will 
 absolutly make him a Duke of Venice, and it is plaine they have great 
 influence on him since he lays so muchwaight, or thinks others may, on 
 what such a villan as Dugdal may say, or the ly which some marchants 
 have made of Sir H. Tichburne, who I am shure could never say such a 
 thing as that, but tis no wonder he fears to stick to me when he will 
 not stick to him self, and letts all go as it will, so he may have a little 
 as present quiat which will not last long. I am very glad you spake to him 
 . you did about Lords Halifax, Essex, and Sunderland, I have long looked 
 on the two first as men that did not love a monarky as it was in England. 
 I once told the first I looked on him as one of the dangerust men I knew 
 which was all the harsh words I remember I ever aayd to him ; for the 
 second I do not thinke I ever sayd any harsh thing to him, I can 
 remember when upon seuerall occations I stood his freind ; and for the 
 last he knows I was always kind to him. There is one thinge troubles 
 me very much and puts od thoughts into my head, it is that all this 
 while his Majesty has never sayd a word nor gone about to make a good 
 understanding bettwene me and the Duke of Monmouth, for tho it is a 
 thing I shall never seek, yett methinks it is what his Majesty might presse, 
 thinke of this and I am sure you may draw concequences from it, which 
 I shall not mention to you, but are obvious enough to any one that con- 
 sideres, and now upon the whole matter, tho one must never dispaire, 
 especially in a country so given to change, yett I look on my condition 
 as very bad, and do not flatter myself with the hops of being sent for in 
 hast, and so am arming my self with as much pacience as I can. and 
 shall, as I have done for these many years, prepare myself for the worst 
 that can happen to me ; and pray once for all never say any thing to me 
 againe of turning Protestant, do not expect it, or flatter your self that I 
 shall ever be it, I never shall, and if occation were I hope God would 
 give me his grace to suffer death for the true Catholike religion, as well 
 as Banishment. What I have done was not hastily, but upon mature 
 consideration, and forseing all and more then has yett happened to me, 
 and did others enquire into the religion as I have done without prejudice 
 prepossession or partial affection they would be of the same mind in 
 point of religion as I am. Lord Peterborow is not yett come, when he dos 
 I shall heare what he will say to me from Lord Danby, but sure Sir H. 
 Goodrick either mistook Lord Danby very much or that Lord did very 
 much misinforme him, for I never thanked him for his being instrumen- 
 tal in my coming away, tis true I did thanke him, but it was for his getting 
 his Majesty to make that declaration he did in Councell concerning the 
 Duke of Monmouth, the very day I came away, but for the other I did not. 
 As for the accounts of the stables they shall be sent you. I thinke now 
 I have answerd the most material points of your letter. 
 
 [1679,] July 25. — Tho I wrot the former part of this letter according 
 to the date on't, I would not seale it up till this day to see what the 
 English letters would bring. Bagott came last night, but neither by him 
 or by the post had I any letters from you. I was very glad at the newse 
 he brought of the disolution of the Parliament, which tho I do not see I 
 can hope to be speedily sent for, yett it must have a good effect as to his 
 Majesty's affairs and in tyme may be to me. It is strange his Majesty has 
 not writen to me, neither in answer to what I wrot by Graham, nor now 
 
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 upon the breaking of the Parliament. I am not used like a brother nor Eakl of 
 
 a friend ; presse to have some marke of displeasure shewd to Armstrong ; Dartmouth s 
 if that be not done I know what I am to expect. I am so tyred with 
 writing I can say no more. 
 
 [1679,] Aug. 11, Brussells. — I received yours by Noll. Nicholas on 
 Wensday morning, by which you see he made great hast. His Majesty's 
 letter to me was truly very kind, and I make no doubt he will continu so, he 
 knows my stedynesse to him, which is not to be shaken, and which I do 
 not doubt but at last will gett the better of my enemys. I am not to 
 expect to be sent for till after the meetting of the Parliament and tryal 
 of the Lords, and till then I shall not presse for it any more, and to help 
 me to beare my banishment with somewhat more pacience, I have 
 desird his Majesty to lett both my Daughters come over hither to me, 
 which I hope will not be refusd me since I intend they should be back at 
 London before the meetting of the Parliament. By the next you shall 
 heare more from me for I have not tyme now. 
 
 (Addressed) For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1679,] Aug. 29, Brussells. — I receved yesterday as I came from 
 hunting yours by Churchill, who you see had a very quick passage. I 
 have now but little tyme to say any thing to you, but that I am very glad 
 to heare his Majesty is so firme to you. 1 have bid Werden write to 
 Sir A. Apsley to furnish Halliard with mony to bring over my fox hounds, 
 lett Hilliard know he should come as sone as he can ; lett him embarke at 
 Dover, and land at Newport, and let the horses he ami the huntsmen 
 use to have come along with them. I now begin to have good sport a 
 stag hunting, and the country looks as if the fox hunting would be very 
 good. 
 
 [Addressed] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1679,1 Octo. 8, 12 at night, Brussells. — I had a quick tho a boisterous 
 passage at sea, and good weather at land, for I arrived at Ostend before 
 none on Fry day, and came hither yesterday evening. I shall be in great 
 impacienc till the turne of this bearer and hope there will be no altera- 
 tion in my concerns, and that what was promist will be made good, it is 
 so late and I so sleepy that I can say no more to you now. I intend to 
 be at the Hage about the end of this weeke. 
 
 [Addressed] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1679,] Nov. 13, Durham. — I receved yours of the 7 at Norton josf as 
 I was a going to take coach for liichmond, and arrived here last night, 
 and was obliged to stay here this day to lett my bagage come up, the 
 wagons not having been able to come through yesterday. I intended to 
 have gone to Newcastel tomorrow, but by reason of a great cold the 
 Dutchesse has gott, and that Newcastel is a better place to stay in on 
 Sunday then Morpeth, and then I shall be able to >re Tinmout h which 
 other wise I should not have been able to have done, and this will not 
 hinder me from being at Edinbttrge on Saturday the 22 j there has 
 falen a good deel of snow yesterday in the evening, and it was a- hard 
 a frost last night as ever I knew and continu-- still very Cold, and it 
 theis northerly winds continu I feare I may be at Edenbnrge before my 
 goods that come by sea. This gos by the post so that I shall say no 
 more. 
 
 [Addressed] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1679,] Nov. 28, Edinburgh. — I receved but this day yours of the 19 by 
 Mr. Leyburne, and have not had tyme to write to you till now since up- 
 coming hither, for what with the great >tore of company is here, and 
 some long letters I have been obliged to write, 1 have not had any 
 
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 Earl of leasur to my self, and truly I have had as hansome a reception here as 
 lK mss. TH 8 I could desire, and have great reason to be satisfy d with it, and realy 
 — am so, I see by yours that this Villan Willoughby dos a great deele of 
 harme, and am of your mind that the more it is examined and enquird 
 into the better for me. I find some here thinke that the rebellious 
 crue in the west of this country are a preparing for another rebellion, 
 for there is laytly come out of Holland hither one Cameron, a minister, 
 who they say is yett a higher flyer then Welsh, he holds feild con- 
 venticles, and promises amies and officers from Holland ; there will be 
 endeavers to take him, but I believe it will be hard to do it. You will I 
 beleve have heard of a dificulty was made by some here about my 
 sitting in councell, I had not tyme to write to you of it till now, and 
 hope before this can come to you that his Majesty will have settled it as 
 I desier, and I beleve that those that made that dificulty, are sorry to 
 have done it, which is all I have now to say to you. 
 [Addressed] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1679,] Nov. 29. — I did not write to you by the last post to lett you 
 know I had receved yours of the 19, resolving to stay till this day that I 
 might heare what had been done by the grand jury in the Citty, as to 
 Lord Shaftsbury, and I find it was not without reason that he gave order 
 to have his house gott ready for him, since they found Ignoramus, which 
 was to be expected from such a jury, and as they did their parts to save 
 their freind, so I hope in God, his Majesty and those he trusts will be as 
 diligent to save the monarky and them selves, and will make use of this 
 oportunity to do it, beleve me, he has it in his hands. I have writen 
 my mind freely to Lord Hyde upon this subject, to whose letter I refer 
 me, having not ty me to say what might be sayd to you upon this subject. 
 Presse vigorus councells and lett people consider, never was a fairer 
 oportunity for the monarky to lay hold on to save, and recover its self; 
 sure now my friends aught to presse for my returne, speake with them 
 about it. As for what you say concerning Newcastel, I thinke it would 
 be very well, if that towne, or some place neare it, that would command 
 the river, might be fortifyd, but of this more another tyme. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1679,] Dec. 4, Edinburgh. — I receved last night yours by Turner and 
 this morning another from you by Calvert, and was very much surprised 
 to find by them the Duke of Monmouth coming to London without his 
 Majesty leave and his refusing to obay his comands, I shall say no more 
 to you now by the post but shall send Calvart back within a day or two, 
 and then shall say more to you, tell Lord Feversham I shall then 
 write to him. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1679,] Dec. 4, Edinburgh. — I have now severall of yours to answer of 
 the 23 and 27 which I thought to have done by the last post, but the 
 councell satt so long as I had not tyme. I am glad, by the first to heare 
 his Majesty calls some people by their right nams, and hope he will do as 
 well as speake, with such kind of cattel that have betrayd him as well 
 as mee. I have had a letter without a name, advising me (as you ad- 
 verticed me I should) to write to Lord Feversham and to make mention 
 of the person you named to me, but I do not desire to begin, after the 
 usage I have had, it being their part to do it, and tho I have writen to 
 him, have taken no notice of any such thing. I am glad to see some 
 others are making way to come of, it is a good signe. and I shall refuse 
 none. I find by yours of the 27 that you had had myne by Crafts, and 
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 propositions have been made by Lord of Essex and others, will awaken of 
 
 his Majesty and make him take such measurs as becoms him, and that Dartmouth's 
 
 speedily, for otherwise it will be to late, and lett people have a care of 3 — ' 
 
 seeming expedients, and cuting of a feather, for neither of them are 
 
 good, especially at this tyme of day. I long very much to heare what 
 
 will become of Lord Stafford, and after his tryal is over I hope no tyme 
 
 will be lost and that his Majesty will take those resolut measurs as may 
 
 save him self and the monarky, which will both be in great danger if 
 
 he lett them sitt any tyme longer, I like very well the proposal of an 
 
 act of general pardon, and shall do my part towards the advancing of 
 
 it when it shall be a proper tyme. 
 
 [1679,] Dec. 6. — I receved on Sonday yours of the 29 of the la>t month, 
 and by it was very glad to find as you will easily beleve, that I am like to 
 be sent for so sone, and truly in point of reason I cannot see why it 
 should not be, being confident nothing could encourage the Loyal party 
 more and per 8 wade them, and all the world, that his Majesty is in earnest, 
 then the sending for me, and lam sure that nothing can be more the 
 real interest of the Ministry and the Duchess of Portsmouth, then to have 
 me with him. I see both by other letters as well as by yours that the Duke 
 of Monmouth continus doing things every day as occation offers its self 
 to exasperat his Majesty against him, sure it must be very great indis- 
 cretion in him or undervaluing to the last degree the government to 
 behave him self as he dos, and if the Duke of Grafton be made Master of 
 the horse the world will be satisfyd his Majesty is still displeased with 
 him, which is but necessary, because people began to thinks he was a com- 
 ing into favor againe. 1 am as sensible as you can desire how much you 
 have sufferd in your privat fortune, by keeping Portsmouth for these 
 last years as you have done, and Churchill has told me how uneasi it 
 has made you in your affairs, and therefore if I be not sent for presently 
 I shall be content you part with it to Lord Noel, he being so very 
 honest a man, and so well principled. After I had writen thus far I 
 receved the letters of the 1st, and by them sre the Duchess of Port>inouth 
 and Lord Hyde and Mr. Seymour had prest againe very earnestly for my 
 being sent for, and give me hops that by this it may be positively 
 resolved, so that till I heare againe I shall say no more. 1 heare tis the 
 Duke of Richmond is Master of the hor?e and Duke of Grafton Colonel of 
 the gards. I see my being to be sent for is talked on publicly at London, 
 for severall people by there (?) last letters have hail it written to them. 
 
 [1679,] Edinburgh. Dec. 8. — T receved Saterday yours by the groome, 
 and am very glad to find by it his Majesty sticks fu me to his resolutions, 
 and am of your mind that, nothing but that can secure him, and am cleerly 
 of our freindsopinion concerning the Citty. I sec the Duke of Monmouth 
 persists in his disobedience, and cannot help having a fancy in my head 
 upon it, which is that he has gott it into his head to drive things if he 
 can to a republike hoping then to make his self their generall and 
 Statholder as the Prince of Orange is in Holland, for I cannot thinke he 
 could have behaved himself so insolently tohisMajoty as be has done had 
 he not had some such thoughts in his head. Things here continue quia! 
 and that these feild conveuticlers may not yett againe be troublesome 
 Lieutenant General Daliel is sent dow ne in to the west to Glasco with some 
 of the troups to keep all thing there quiat. 1 have said what was proper to 
 Mr. Prince, and sure what the Duke of Monmouth has done and what, 
 others of that gang are adoiug will confinne hi> .Majesty in his rcsolu- • 
 tions,for should they bealterd now all were gone, and 1 hope if necessary 
 this will be offten repeated to him, which is all 1 shall say at this tyme 
 
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 Labi of When you send expresses at any tyme, except the businesse required 
 MSS. a very trust messenger, 1 thinke the best, cheepest and quickest way 
 is by a flying packett as they call it here which corns a day soner then 
 any on man can come. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1679,] December 11 . — It is but a dismal prospect of affairs you give me 
 by yours of the 4, which T receved on Thursday night, but to late to answer 
 it then, it is what I may expect, and am prepared to receve it with that 
 resignation which becoms a Christian, there is one part of it which 
 would be more greves to me then all the rest, which is the command 
 some would have his Majesty lay on me, that being the only thing I cannot 
 obey, and I feare it is what my enemys will presse the most. I know 
 they have all along represented to him what prejudice my being of the 
 perswation I am, has done his affairs, and by that means hope to cover 
 their owne faults, and because some of his minesters have downe right 
 be tray d him, and others have taken wrong measurs, must all be layd at 
 my doore, this is hard, and yett harder that therfor I must do a thing 
 against concience, or els be reproched with obstinatly ruining my King, 
 country, and family, I could, if I would, look back a good way, and shew 
 the true ground of all our misfortunes, but that would be to long for a 
 letter, I shall only desire you to remember the condition things were in, 
 but in the begining of last sommer, and whether if affairs had been well 
 managed then, and but those resolutions followed, which they know 
 were taken when I came first from Scotland, if his Majesty had not been 
 in all liklihood still in a good and thriving condition, and I still amongst 
 you, and you know I could not hinder some steps which have been 
 made, nor could I ever suspect both his Majesty and my self could have 
 been betrayd as we have, and now because others have brough[t] things 
 to the passe they are, I must beprest to sacrifyse my concience, and my 
 honnor, and be thought a knave by all the world ; I thanke God as long 
 as I preserve them, I can beare any thing with pacience, and why should 
 not I be as carfull of them both, as well as the old Earl of Dorset was at 
 Edghill for preserving one of them, when being commanded by the King 
 my father, to go and carry the Prince and my self, up the hill, out of 
 the battell, refused to do it, and sayd he would not be though [t] a 
 coward for never a king's sonne in Christendom. You are a man of con- 
 sience, as well as honnor, do but thinke what a base meane thing it 
 would be in me, besids the sin of it, to dissemble, and deny my re- 
 ligion, I have by God's grace never to do so damnable a thing, and lett 
 my freindstake their measurs accordingly, and not deceve themselvs and 
 me, and lett them thinke of other ways then that of saving the monarky, 
 they may yett be found if people will be resolut now is the tyme, for if 
 there be any delay it will be to late. You see all things are a runing on 
 to a common wealth, and if care be not taken the Citty will be irre- 
 coverably lost, and his Majesty authority brought so very low, as not to be 
 recoverd, so that no tyme must be lost by his Majesty, to put a stop to all 
 these destructive proceedings, and there is but one way which is to put 
 an end to this sessions, to stand by him self and his old freinds, which is 
 all I shall say till I heare how it has gone with Lord Staford. 
 
 If Captain Gunnman be not come away pray send me some good tea 
 by him. 
 
 [1679,] Dec. 13. — I find by yours of the 6, which I had on Sonday, and 
 by what I had at the same tyme from Lord Hyde and Mr. Seymour, that 
 after all the hops you had of my being presently sent for, that that is not 
 to be, and concequently new measurs are taken, and both agree from what 
 hand it corns, I never could understand his politiks, and am sure they 
 
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 were never calculated for the meredian of a monarky, and tho he be eael of 
 
 such a hero in a House of Lords, and has a tong which maks him con- DAB ^jgJ THfi 
 
 sidred there, he is lesse then other men out of his sphere, and will I — ' 
 
 doubt run the King into those inconveniances that I feare will be fatal 
 
 to the Crowne, and even to his Lordship to, tho he dos not thinke it. I 
 
 am glad Lord Hyde has found him out, he at least will be no longer 
 
 deceved by him, I confesse I am to seek for the reasons which he has 
 
 used to prevaile with his Majesty not to lett me go to him, and tho he 
 
 says he is for my being sent for when a Parliament is called, I cannot 
 
 help thinking that if that should be, (which yett I hope will not) he would 
 
 then find some other reason to hinder it. I am glad Captain Coply is at 
 
 Hull for I look on him as an honnest man ont [one] that will be my friend. 
 
 Lord Argil's tryal began yesterday, and their forms in the Justice Court 
 
 are so tedious, that they could not make an end of it then, but will as I 
 
 beleve this evening, and have reason to beleve the jury will find the 
 
 bill, and not Ignoramus, and that that Little Lord will be once againe 
 
 at his Majesty's mercy. I have not tyme to write to Mr. Seymour now 
 
 but shall send you a letter for him by the next post. 
 
 Since I wrot this I have had an account that the jury, of which the 
 Marquis of Montrose was Chancelor as they call them here, have found 
 Lord Argile guilty of treason and other crimes, so that now he is abso- 
 lutly in his Majesty's hands. 
 
 [1679,] Edinburgh, Deo. 1 1. — It was not proper for me to answer 
 yours 1 receved some days since by Lewen by the post, it is your groonie 
 I send with these, and shall keep Lewen yett some day before I send him 
 back. I see by your last that Dorislaus complaints make it the more 
 necessary to have the letters sent safe when they have any thinge of 
 concequence in them, but thinke a flying paquett, except in very extra- 
 ordinary occations, are better then messengers, coming faster, and lesse 
 chargable. I am glad to heare of the preparations are making to lodg 
 the troops where you mention for by that tyme this corns to you the 
 prorogation must be declared, to prevent the members coining up to 
 London. When that is over I hope his Majesty will conlinu his resolution 
 of sending for me, by the tyme he resolved when I came away, for by that 
 tyme I shall be prety well instructed with the affairs of this BLingdome, and 
 be ablel hope to shew his Majesty how this country may be both confirmed 
 in their duty to him, and made very usfull for his service, which ma\ In- 
 done as well when I am with his Majesty, nay better, then when I am 
 here, and to begin it and sett it in a good way I must be with his Majesty, 
 for things of this nature cannot well be understood by letter. I live here 
 as cautiously as I can, and am very carfull to give ofTence to none, and 
 to have no partiality's and preach to them laying a side all privat 
 animositys and securing the King his owne way. None shall have reason 
 to complaine of me, and tho some of either party here might have 
 hoped 1 should have shewd my partiality for them, and some of my 
 freinds have been of opinion it had been best for me to have done .-", 
 and by it have secured one side to me, yett I am convinced it was not 
 fitt for me to doit, it being no way good for his Majesty's service which I 
 can make out by many reasons, which would be to long for a U tter. I 
 find the generality of the best men here much troubled at the indul- 
 gence the Duke of Monmouth goft for the Phanatiks here alter they bad 
 been beaten, and say it will encourage them to another rebellion. I am 
 of that opinion, tho I do not thinke it proper to take it from them till 
 they forfltt it againe, which they will certainly do if great care be not 
 taken to prevent their rising in to arms. Be sure to presse my being sent 
 for at the tyme named. I write to Lord Sunderland and Mr. Hyde to the 
 
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 Dartmouth's same P ur P ose > tne soner I know it is the better, that one may have 
 MSS. tyme to prepare for such a winter's journay, and you must have tyme 
 also to do your part towards it where you are, for you know it will be 
 impossible to have so many coaches here as will be necessary. I wrot 
 this in the morning before diner, and then receved yours of the 10th, by 
 which I find the Parliament is to be prorogued till November next, which 
 you may be sure was very pleasing newse to me. I do not at all 
 wonder that some of the councell spake against the doing it, and easily 
 beleve Sir William was one of them, knowing his principles very well. I 
 do aprove very well of the proposal you make of the Dutchesses and my 
 coming by sea, she is of the same mind and had rather be five or six 
 days upon the water then go so tedious a journay againe by land, and then 
 the]winds that are good for the river are faire weather winds, so that I am 
 absolutly for going by sea, and therefore have writen that Gunman, 
 Sanders and the Kitchen may be sent to Leith to be there by that tyme in 
 January, his Majesty would have me come away, for tho I do not desire to 
 sett out hence soner yett £ thinke it will not be proper for me to be 
 away longer from his Majesty and by that tyme I shall have informed my 
 self as well as I can of affairs here, and have a proposall ready for to offer 
 to his Majesty when I wayte on him, I having neither power nor instruc- 
 tions to do any thing els. I have many letters to write and so shall say 
 no more to you now. 
 
 I supose this letter may find you at Portsmouth, and because I do 
 not know what what dificultes may be made for my being sent for, 
 should be glad you could make a step to London to see that settled. 
 
 [1679,] Dec. 25. — I had onThursday yours of th<3 18th, but the Councell 
 satt so very long that night that I had not tyme after it was up to write to 
 you as I intended, nor can I now hinder my self from writing by this 
 post, without staying to see what newse the tomorrow's post will bring 
 us, being out of all pacience, to think the King will give the Commons 
 leave to finish the remonstrance they will make, and were preparing, 
 after the votes and what passed in this house this day sennight. Sure 
 now no more can be expected, and I hope all temporising councells 
 will be laid aside, and resolutions taken and vigorously persud, els his 
 Majesty will be inevitably ruined, and the monarky destroyd, and sure 
 those violent gentilmen will be sent home by that tyme this corns to you, 
 I am sure they aught to be, and I sent for, or els the old Cavalere and 
 truly Loyal men will hardly thinke his Majesty will be in earnest, I beleve 
 my freind will, and aught to presse it but I feare Lord Hallifax will not 
 be for it, tho now one would thinke in reason he should, for he will 
 want me to suport him, and the government, and if great care be not 
 taken of the Citty, there may be great danger from thence, for I know 
 some go about to perswade the Citty to sett up a republike, flattring 
 them that then they will and aught to gouerne the whole nation, and 
 you see it was for no good intent that Bethel would have brought in 
 the Duke of Buckingham to have been a free man of London, now sure is 
 the tyme or never for those who are truly Loyal to the King to per- 
 swade him to stand to him self, and to give him resolut councells, for a 
 little longer all people will be dishartend, and the infection will spread 
 * ouer all his Kingdoms by this day's worke here. You see how easily the 
 
 rabble is perswaded to follow ill example, and that care is taken from 
 where you are to gett any thing done to make a noyse, for this day 
 some of the scolars, and prentices designed to have burnt a pope, and 
 when the regents dissuaded their Scolars from doing it they answerd, 
 why may not we do it here as well as it was done at London. The 
 Magistrats being informed they had entred into a bond to do it, sent 
 
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 this morning and ceased some seven of the Scolars, and the Lord Grenerall ea.hl of 
 
 sent up into the towne two companys that there might be no tumult, Dabtmouth's 
 
 how ever a few of the boys this morning brough[t] up a Pope out of ' 
 
 a by lane into the high street, which some officers seing went toward 
 them, upon which they ran away, having first sett fire to it, and so this 
 days worke ended, which J. beleve will make a great noyse where you 
 are, tho all be very quiet. 
 
 [1679,] Dec. 28. — I receved this day yours of the 23, and now shall say 
 but little to you, being great expectation what these extraordinary pro- 
 cedings in both houses will produce, as for what you wrot about N. 
 Nicholas, though I forgott to answer you as to him I told Churchill of 
 it, by whom you will by this have knowne that I aproued of it. I have 
 not ty me to say more. 
 
 [Endorsed.] For Colonel Legge* 
 
 [1679-80,] Jan. 2. Edinburgh.— I receved yours of the 23 of last 
 month onTusday last,and by it see you then knew nothing of the puting of 
 that till the end of this month, that should have been at the begining of 
 it, the reasons given have not convinced me, but since his Majesty thinks 
 it for his service I must be satisfyd, but I hope it will be put of no 
 more, and if you can be at London before the end of this month to 
 presse his Majesty if need be, that I be not then againe disapointed ; you 
 will easily beleve that those sever orders and proclamations which are 
 latly come out against the poore Catholiks, do give me very much 
 trouble, for that they, nor indeed no Christians deserve such usage, it 
 will have no other effect then to ruine many an honest worthy man that 
 has either, self or father, faithfully served our family, for those that some 
 thinke to please with this will be satisfyd with nothing but the 
 destruction of the monarky, and I am confident you will that that this 
 will not hinder the petitions nor make that kind of people slacken in 
 any manner their rebellious procedings and I know it will do and dos 
 me harm, tho some of my freinds at London beleve the contrary, and 
 have write me word so ; and I cannot help thinking that it was one of the 
 strangest things in the world to lett Somersett house and S* James be 
 searched by the Justice of Peace when so ever they please, as if his 
 Majesty were not as much master there as in Whitehall. I have sayd 
 enough already on this subject, and so shall say no more, of this nor any 
 other. 
 
 [1679-80,] Jan. 5. — I find by yours of the 27th of last month that people 
 take all the pains they can to tax me with severity in this affaire of Lord 
 Argile. Tis not the first wrong of that kind which has been done, as those 
 who are acquainted with the laws of the country knew very well, and he 
 has but to thanke him self for what has happned to him ; and to shew you 
 what wrong is done me, if I had not hindred his being fallen on in 
 Parliament they had brought him there in as ill a condition as to his 
 fortune as he is now. I am glad to heare that his Majesty talks of raising 
 some more men, and of sending for Dumbarton's Regiment and should be 
 glader to heare it were done ; I hope the battaliion of the gards that is at 
 Tanger will be sent for also, and tho the Castel of Chester should not 
 be found to be strong enough to have a magazin there, I hope however 
 it will be garrisond againe, for it would still serve to keepe that country 
 in awe, and to be a place for the loyal party to rendevous at in case of 
 neede. I do agree with you in what you say concerning the Commanders 
 in Chief, and feare that if our councelors have not courage enough to 
 lett me be sent for they will not go through with the worke they have 
 begun. I do not see at all how Lord Argil's having gott away should any 
 
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 way furnish an argument to keepe me here, for all things are very quiet, 
 and like to continu so, aud the government here gett more strength 
 euery day, but what will all that signify, if things do not go well where 
 you are, and so long as Lord Halifax continues in such credit, I can 
 expect no good. I could wish Mr. Seymour were at London, he might 
 do much good. I have writen to him to go thither and have sent the 
 letter to Lord Conway to send to him, I hope the two forraine ministers 
 you named, with the help of Lord Halifax will not whedel us into a war, if 
 they do I know the monarky will be in great danger, and they not the 
 better for it. Since the writing of this I have receved yours of the 31st 
 by which I see you are now master of the Ordinance, of which I wish 
 you joy, and that Lord Noel has Portsmouth, and am glad you have left 
 it in so good hands, and so many sure officers in it, I am glad that his 
 Majesty has sent for Mr. Seymour. I send you here enclosed the letter 
 for him if he be come to towne, you may give it to him, if he be not, lett 
 Lord Conway have it, to send him ; I will by the next post send orders 
 to Sir Allen for to pay Tom Jones, and an order for a pention for 
 Mrs. Hilliard, I have not tyme to say more it being a Councell day. 
 
 [1679-80,] Jan. 6. — I have receved both yours of the 30, and send you 
 herewith an account was given me of the blazing star that you may let M r 
 Flamsted have it, and will speake to Captain Sanders to send the observa- 
 tions he has made of it, if he have not already done it. I am glad to 
 heare Lord Hatton is desirous to have George Littleton with him, I 
 thinke he will do very well there, and N. Nicholas much the fitter for 
 the Lieutenant ColonePs place. Pray presse his Majesty for Min. Eliott, 
 being of your mind that his stay on shoar will do him no good. I cannot 
 immagin why that person should wonder I have not followed the advice 
 was sent me in a letter from an unknowne hand, tho I guesse it was from 
 Mrs. W., T had another to the same purpose this last weeke, but will not 
 follow their directions, for if it be real, why should not you or Lord 
 Feversham be spoken to, and then I can answer, for after the usage I 
 have had, I will not be so meane as to begin, which I see the person 
 that wrot the letters dos design, and I do beleve out of gcod will to me, 
 but I will not follow Mr advice. You will easily beleve how impacient I 
 am to heare what past on Monday, for upon that depends our all, and 
 till then I shall say no more. 
 
 [1679-80,] Jan. 12. — On Tusday I receved yours of the 5 and in it one 
 from Lord Noel to which I shall send you an answer by the next. I am 
 glad to heare Mr. Seymour is come to towne, and that he is of the 
 mind you say he is, I hope he will not be altred by the discources of 
 any there, and make no doubt if he continu firme, his Majesty will take 
 right measurs. Pray do your part to keep Lord Hyde and Mr. Seymour 
 good freinds much depends upon that, I hear that Lord Halifax, and 
 other of the great men have privat conferences with Lord Shaftesbury or 
 some others of that party as Essex and Montegu, and are making faire 
 weather with them, pray enquier into the truth of this, and lett me know 
 it. I shall say nothing to you of Lord Argile till I heare againe from 
 where you are of him, only the ministers in his country have followed his 
 example and none of them have taken the test, by which one may judg 
 what his loyalty is he so much braged on, and by that one may guess 
 what he ment, when he sayd in his explanation, would agree with his 
 loyalty. I have not tyme to say more, none of any kind. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1679-80,] Jan. 13th. — This is only to tell you that I have receved 
 yours by Crafts, he came just as I had dined, by the next you shall heare 
 
 Earl of 
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 from me againe, lett Mr. Hyde know I have had his letter, and that he Dartmouth's 
 shall sone heare from me, in answer to it, I have not tyme to say more MSS - 
 being just come from councell, and the Dutchesse stays for me at Lord 
 Chaocelor's where we are to suppe. 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1679-80,] Edinburgh. Jan. 14. — I receeved some days since yours of 
 the 1, with Wettwang's note in it, and did not write soner to you then, 
 now it being not necessary, and beleve you were surprisd as well as I at 
 the putting of my returne. I hope now it will be no longer delayd and 
 that on the 26th the yachts will be sent away for me, and that all the 
 petitions which I heare are ready to be given to his Majesty will not 
 make him alter his mind for their meetting sooner then in Nouember ; for 
 should he now yeald in any little thing it would spoile all and encourage 
 the factious and seditious to presse on their unreasonable and destructive 
 ends to the monarky, where as if his Majesty continu now firme to his 
 resolutions they will be quite dishartned, and become better subjects, 
 for now nothing but vigorous resolutions and actions can save the 
 monarky, and it may be done yett, therefore pray talke with Lord Sand- 
 with and Mr. Hyde of this, and if it be necessary encourage them to be 
 stedy to the proroguing of the Parliament till November, and for the 
 sending for me on the 26th, for it is high tyme I were with you. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1679-80,] Edinburgh, Jan 14. — I send you here enclosed a letter for 
 Lord Noel, in answer to that you sent me from him. I feare Colonel 
 Wesley is drownd going from hence into Holland in a Dutch ship ; if that 
 be, I thinke it were of concerne that a good man had his regement, for 
 those troups ought to have loyal men to command them, otherwise there 
 can be no good expected from them, but the contrary. This day I had 
 notice from Lannark tha,t on Thursday last at none about forty horse 
 and twenty foot well armed came into that towne and there publikly 
 read a rebelious declaration and fixt it on the Crosse, and then went their 
 ways. I have not read it, but I am told it is much after the purpose of the 
 like declaration was put up after the same manner at Sanquher before I 
 came last hether. Duke Hamilton came and told me of it this morning 
 and shewd me a copy of it, but it was long and so ill a hand I could not 
 read it, he desirs that some of the troups may be sent theether to 
 quarter ; it is his owne towne. Since I wrote this I heard the paper read 
 at Councell, it is a very villanous one, and some troups are ordred 
 thether. Lett not this be used as a reason to keep me here, for it is none, 
 this being nothing but what those rebellious villans have done severall 
 tyms. I have not tyme to say more. 
 
 [1679-80,] Jan. 16. — On Thursday last I wrot a note to you to lett you 
 know I had receved yours of the 9th by Crafts, which with the letter I had 
 from Mr. Hyde, made me resolve to send Churchill, to presse my being 
 sent for, which I looke to be as essencialy necessary for his Majesty ser- 
 vice, as my owne good and satisfaction ; now is the tyme or never, for if 
 I be not called home now, I shall have little hops on't, and must expect 
 sooner or later to be ruind, for absent, my freinds cannot long suport 
 me, and my enemys will be the more encouraged to persecute me. I 
 have instructed him so fully as to this and what concerns me, that I 
 need not say much more to you about it, having charged him at large to 
 discourse and advise with you upon it, his Masjesty must now take bold 
 and resolut councells, and stick to them, and who dars advise him to them 
 without I be with him, to help to suport them ; and beleve me other 
 measurs must be taken, and not departed from, and one would thinke 
 
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 Earl op the measurs of the former ministers should not be followed. You know 
 DAE MSsy TH S some of them did make good projects enough, but their harts failed 
 — them, when it came to it, and I cannot help remembring one thing, 
 which is, that the very same faults Lord Arlington comitted, and the same 
 fearfull seeps he trod, haue been followed by all those who have succeded 
 him, I meane Lord Danby and Lord Sunderland, tho still at their first 
 enterance they found fault with the other's timorousnesse and the wrong 
 measurs he had taken, which to some of them have proved as fatal as 
 to his Majesty, and methinks that they come after them, whosever they be, 
 should not steer the same course, to be lost upon the same rocks but 
 should steer another course, and looke out for another passage, which 
 no doubt may be found, to gett to on's port. I am glad that Portsmouth 
 is yett in your hands, for by yours of the 11th I receved this day, I see 
 there is great liklyhood of disorders, which I shall not feare, tho there 
 should be any, if his Majesty would be but stedy, and how that is to be 
 hoped for, without I be with him I do not know, therefore my being 
 sent for must be prest, and if one cannot gett it for good and all, why 
 not for a few days, but of this Churchill will say more to you, I am sure 
 anybody that is not for my being with his Majesty cannot be throughly 
 my friend. Talke of this to the Doctor, what he says to the King has 
 waight. 
 
 I send you here enclosed a letter for the Doctor, speake to him as 
 sone as you can, and see to gett him to presse his Majesty to send for 
 me to him. 
 
 [1679-80,] Jan. 19.— Yours of the 12th I receved but this night after I 
 came from councell ; it should have been here on Friday morning but I 
 supose the waters being out and the badnesse of the ways made the post 
 so long a coming, and the same reason I beieve is the reason why the 
 Saturday's letters are not yett arrived. I see Mr. Seymour is a true and 
 a bold freind. and lays hold of all opertunitys to serve one, of which I 
 am as sensible as he can desire and as he shall see if ever in my power, 
 but so -long as Lord Halifax is in such creaditl shall not dare flatter my 
 self with the thoughts of being sent for, till it be done. I hope what 
 happened at Lanerck will not have any waight if it should be used as 
 an argument to keep me here, for those impudent rogues disperst so 
 sone as they had done it, and there has been no more newse of them, 
 nor of any of that rebellious tribe since and all things are very quiat, 
 they were but 28 horse and 16 foott. I have not tyme to say more 
 now. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1679-80,] Jan. 23. — I had yours of the 19th by six last night, in which 
 there was two much sayd to answer then by the post. I am glad the Parlia- 
 ment is disolved, but very sorry another is called so sone, since I look 
 upon it as only puting of the evil day for two months, and am of your 
 mind that these temporising and half councells must in a short tyme 
 destroy any govvernment, and much soner ours that already is so weake, 
 that one blow more knocks it dead, and Avhat good can be expected when 
 tis so vissible that nothing but feare made the Parliament be called so sone, 
 and can one expect any alteration in them for the better, I am sure I 
 cannot, only it may make them go more cunningly to worke, and so 
 compasse their designe of ruining the monarky with more ease. 
 Oxford is a better place for their meetting than Westminster at this tyme, 
 but still tis a Pai'liament and the government is weake, and can never 
 recover without some breathing tyme, which it can never have, when 
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 by Churchill will now hardly (?) take place, and that I shall not be sent Eael qV 
 
 for, and I am apt to beleve the last prorogation was made so short by Dartmouth's 
 
 Lord Hallifax, and some others, on purpose it might not be in my power ^2?' 
 
 when I heard of it to give my opinion to his Majesty upon the whole affaire, 
 
 that they might the easier perswade him to have lett that sitt on, or call 
 
 another as he has done, but of this no more till 1 heare how Churchill has 
 
 sped, being still of the same opinion that without I be with his Majesty 
 
 nothing can go well there. I confesse what you say of the message would 
 
 be imposed upon Mr. Hyde to bring me, did some what surprise me, 
 
 for I thought when there was a disolution such a cruel thing would not 
 
 have been prest upon me, tho I thanke God I am prepared to receve it, 
 
 as a suffring Christian ought to do, and with as much constancy as I 
 
 can, and will endeaver to preserve a quiat mind by doing nothing that is 
 
 mene or against my concience, and will still deserve the good opinion 
 
 of my f reinds, and lett them see I am very sensible of their standing by 
 
 me, and know as much as you or any can, of the great obligations I have 
 
 to Mr. Hyde, which he, if ever in my power, shall see, and you may be 
 
 sure I shall take no notice to any body of what you have sayd from him. 
 
 And now I must say that except I be sent for to his Majesty I know I 
 
 must look for all that is designed against me comming to passe, for if I 
 
 and my freinds have not creadit enough to gettme sent for, then I am to 
 
 expect to be used like a minor and to have such a bill as that passe, and 
 
 indeed the last severity against me. I do not wonder that the Bishop 
 
 you mention writing such a book as you speake of, if it be Dr. Barlow, 
 
 as I heare from another hand, he always having had strange opinions, 
 
 but should it be Dr. Gunning I should be surprised, or indeed any one 
 
 that is a true sonne of the Church of England. I am sorry to see Lord 
 
 Hallifax make such excuses and take such pretexts to do what he dos, 
 
 he knowing very well he might have relyd on me, I having given him all 
 
 the assurances of being his f'reind I could do. I shall now say no more 
 
 to your letter, and if Churchill has not yett had his answer and be not 
 
 come away, presse for my being sent for, for except that point can be 
 
 gained, I see I must at last be infallibly ruined, and with me I feare 
 
 will fall the monarky. 
 
 [1679-80,] Jan. 25. — I wrot to you so latly that had it not been for a 
 clause in Cressett's newse letter to me I should not have done it againe 
 till I had heard from you of Churchill's being arrived, he says that tis con- 
 fidently reported, his Majesty has sent a message to me, that except I go 
 to Church, before the meet ting of next Parliament he will past the bill of 
 exclution. This is what he says, and the remarke I make upon it, is, that 
 if any such advice has been given to his Majesto those that have done it, 
 have braged of it, and told it on purpose to do me prejudice, and am very 
 confident such advice has been given him, by the reports being spread 
 abroad ; do you enquire a little in to it. All things are quiat here, and like 
 to continu so if there be no sturs in England. The Phanatiks and party 
 here as they call them are much dejected by the disolution of the 
 Parliament. 
 
 I have ordred Sii Allen to advice with you about giving some thing to 
 Cressett. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1679-80,] Edinburgh Jan. 26. — Before I say any thing els to you lesst 
 I forgett it, I must tell you that Mr. Fantry here, has desired me to write 
 to you in favor of his brother, for whom I spake when I was in England 
 last, that he might be joyned in commission with his father, or that his 
 father might have leave to resign his place up to him, which last it 
 
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 Earl of seems now he desirs, and having spoken already for him I could not 
 DABTjKgJTH's refuse to do it againe now. I am told he has officiated for his father 
 — ' now severall years, and that he understands the place, of which you 
 are the best judg, for if he were not fitt for it, I would not recomend 
 him to you, but if he be, what he desirs seems but reasonable to me, 
 but you are the best judg of it. The letters which should come this day, 
 are not yett arrived, by those which came last post my being to be sent 
 for was much talked on, but I had it not from those I should have 
 heard it, and till I am sent for, shall not beleve it, and I beleve Lord 
 Halifax will do what he can to hinder it, and may chance now to make 
 use of an argument from this country to do it, which is that there is a 
 liklyhood of the Whiggs rising in arms againe, there is such a talke 
 runs about, and I am apt enough to beleve thay have a mind to do it, 
 and are a preparing for it. and seuerall honest gentilmen, both from the 
 ■S. and S.W. parts are of that belef and have sent me word on't, and 
 that they are encouraged to it from England and are made beleve Lord 
 Shaftsbury's association is signed and entered into by most countys of 
 England. These reports are indvstriovsly spread abroad to hasten the 
 party here, and to have them in a readinesse, but I hardly thinke they 
 will rise yett, this not being a good tyme of yeare for them, and that they 
 expect the Parliameut in England to see what that will do, before they 
 stur; however all care is taken that can be, and I beleve that my being 
 sent for would rather hinder it then advance it, for it would take away 
 their hops of any sturs from thence, or assistance either ; and if when I 
 should be away from hence it should happen, I should be more 
 significant and could do more good coming from England then if I had 
 not sturd from hence, and could be here in a weekes tyme after they 
 should be up, for a flying pacquet would bring downe the newse in 
 three days and in five after that I could easily be here, which would be 
 as sone as the forces could be drawne togather. I say all this to you to 
 armeyou with reasons if the noyse of a liklyhood of a rising here should 
 be vsed as an argument to hinder my being sent for. Duke Hamilton is 
 very zealous for the finding out those who were at Lanark, and maks 
 great professions of duty to his Majesty and says that tho he has not 
 taken the test, that he will serve his Majesty as faithfull as those who have. 
 After I had writen this I receved yours of the 19th; and by it see the wind 
 runs round the compas, and that it gos back against the son, which 
 you know is for the most part a signe of fowle weather, however, if it 
 cleere up never so little to the N.W., I shall be willing to ventur to 
 sea, tho it blow hard still. I have been vsed all my life to ruffe weather, 
 and can ply to windward, and you know do not love to beare up. The 
 Councell sat so late that 1 have not tyme to say more now, nor so much 
 as to read over my letter. 
 
 [1679-80,] Edinburgh, Jan. 27. — The expresse you sent made good hast 
 for he arrived here on Sunday before diner, and brought very welcome 
 newse. What past in the city I am sure has rejoyced all honnest men, and 
 I am not at all sorry that the Lord Major shewd him self in his true 
 coulors, for now he is known, and his Majesty's power in the Citty and 
 their loyalty is better seen, by the Major's behaving him self as he did, and 
 I hope it will encourage his Majesty to stand by him self, since he sees 
 there are many thousands that have not bowed their knees to Baal. I shall 
 now expect the yachts with great impaciency and if the wind continu as it 
 is may expect them on Friday or Saturday next very well, and when 
 they are once here, you may easily beleve shall not stay long, so that I 
 shall say little to you now, hoping to be with you so sone, only as to 
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 resolved to take none in it, if it came vacant, and have given that Earl of 
 answer to severall persons of quality that have prest me for it, so that Dartmouth- i 
 if my mind were changed, which it is not, I were tyde up, so that this — ' 
 cannot be done, but I hope it will be in my power to give you greater 
 marks of my kindnesse then that. I am sure you deserve it from me, 
 and * 
 
 [1679-80,] Jan. 29. — I was in hops before this to have had some account 
 from Churchill of what he has done, having by the last post heard of his 
 arrival at London, and had it not been to have writen to you about the 
 yacht, I should have- done it now, and may ; if Gunnman be not come 
 away see to hasten him so sone as you can, and lett me know what the 
 mistery of his being so long a coming has been. All things are quiat 
 here which is all I shall say till I heare what I am like to trust to. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1679-80,] Edinburgh, Jan. 30. — Theexpresse that brought me yours 
 of the 26th rode hard, for he was here by eleven last night. I am glad 
 the Prorogation is so well over and tho it be not for so long a tyme as I 
 thought it would, am not allarumd by it, since I find his Majesty stedy in 
 the maine. To morrow I hope the yachts may be here, tho it has blown 
 very ha[r]d this day since none ; when they are once arrived, I shall lose 
 no tyme in getting on board, for I long to be with you, I intend to send 
 the waggons by sea, it will cost lesse as they tell me and will be soner 
 with you. I have not tyme to say more now. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1679-80,] Edinburgh, Feb. 3.— Yours by the flying packett came 
 hither but on Sonday morning at five, but the which (sic) 1 saw the 
 yachts could not come away soner then Wensday or Thursday last. They 
 are not yett come, nor can I yett expect them this day or two, the wind 
 having been contrary all Saturday and this day. Sonday and Monday, it 
 was good for them, but blew hard ; in the meane tyme I am a getting all 
 things ready to lose no tyme when they arrive. I had before I receved 
 your last, upon the first notice of my being sent for, given directions for 
 the having S* James's prepared for me. I did consider of what you sayd 
 against my being there, but have other reasons that wayd so far with 
 me, as to make me resolve to be there, and therfore continu of the same 
 mind to go to S t James's. When I see you I shall tell you my reasons 
 they being to long for a letter and not proper for to go by the post. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1679-80,] Feb. 10.— I had yours of the 4 th , and till Church corns 
 shall say little to you, who by the letters come this night I see I may 
 expect tomorrow or next day. Pray gett so sone as 'you can, and send it 
 to me, an account of the management and pentions of the Chest at Chat- 
 ham, and speake to Mr. Pepys to send me a copy of his relation of his 
 Majesty escape from Worcester, and tho it should not be quite finished lett 
 me have as much as he has done of it. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 1680, May 6. The Tower. — William Hickman and Sir Christopher 
 Musgrave, Commissioners of the Ordnance, to Col. George Legge, 
 Lieut.-Gen. of the Ordnance. Desire him to take steps for a general 
 survey of the Ordnance, powder, shot, and other stores in Guernsey and 
 Jersey, and to return to them perfect books of accounts thereof. 
 
 U 24961. 
 
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 Dartmouth's 1680 ' 18, Tan g ier - — Fra, Povey to Col. George Legge, 
 
 MSS. Governor of Portsmouth, &c. The several testimonies I have had of 
 your honour's kindness to me obliged me to acquaint your honour of 
 the affairs of Tanger. Your honour knew well the Pleasant fields of 
 Tanger taken in by the famous Teviott. But now I am sorry that I 
 have the reason to acquaint your honour that Charles, Henrietta, and 
 Giles forts are taken and the Pleasant fields sprinkled with the blood 
 of 117 men of Charles fort, the 14th instant. I should have acquainted 
 your honour of the ill -managed sally which was made from Tangier 
 before, but however think it not too late. On the 9th instant Charles 
 fort acquainted the Castle, that by signs given those of Henrietta fort 
 could not hold out 24 hours, the soldiers mutinying, and they likewise 
 feared a mine. His Excellency [Kirke] presently called a Council 
 of War to endeavour the release of the men. A flag of truce was 
 immediately dispatched to the Alcade acquainting him that his Excel- 
 lency would give up the fort if the men might come away bag and 
 baggage. The Alcade answered he did not value stone walls, it was 
 the men he desired, and acquainted the ambassadors he wondered his 
 Excellency lay still and did not endeavour to prevent their intrench- 
 ments and relieve those brave fellows in the forts. Upon return of the flag 
 his Excellency called to Charles fort with the speaking trumpet desiring 
 Captain Tralany and Capt. Senjons [St. John] to acquaint Henrietta fort 
 that his Excellency would do his endeavour to relieve them by sally 
 within a day or two ; but that night the Commander and the soldiers 
 gave it up unknown. The 13th his Excellency was acquainted by 
 Capt. Tralany that the men of their fort would leave that likewise on 
 that day, and begged his Excellency to consider of it. A council of 
 war immediately sat, and it was concluded that the next morning they 
 would sally out with 350 and meet those of Charles fort upon sign 
 given from Charles fort, which was accordingly done, the ' forelone ' 
 consisting of 70 men commanded by Captain Heums of the Lord Dum- 
 barton's regiment, the body by Major Boynton consisting of 200 men 
 with a right and left wing consisting of 80 men. About 7 of the clock 
 in the morning the sign was given, but the men were not commanded to 
 advance, to a general dissatisfaction of all people. The poor men of 
 Charles fort finding no men coming despaired, considering that they 
 could not return because they had demolished the fort ; at last ventured 
 and were upon the enemies' trenches before any man was ordered till 
 they were hotly engaged. The ' forelone ' which had 400 yards to 
 advance run every man, and like brave men beat off the enemies' horse 
 bravely and likewise the foot ; but at last the foot fell in upon those of 
 Charles fort which could not get over the trenches being three and three 
 fathoms deep, and cut them down in a minute. Captain Tralany with 
 117 men was killed and all their heads cut off', and I think every man had 
 a thousand wounds. I never saw such a barbarous sight. Captain Senjons 
 [St. John] though shot through the body got in with about 48 men ; 
 a lieutenant and ensign, 13 men and a little boy were taken prisoners. 
 All this while those brave men of the ' forelone ' killed the Moors, 
 but the body ran away and not above 5 officers stood, he that 
 should failed as formerly. And had not the barriers of the pal- 
 lisadoes been immediately shut, the body had come away and the 
 * forelone ' perished ; but as soon as they saw they could not retreat 
 further, with a great deal of persuasion they advanced and brought 
 off the i forelone,' Four men of the * forelone ' were killed, a lieu- 
 tenant shot through the body but will recover, and several of the body 
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 went to relieve Giles fort and called the men, but the sergeant not eael ov 
 
 understanding would not quit it. But one man went down and swum Dartmouth's 
 
 off, and Sir Boncher Ray's (Wrey's) brother, a volunteer with the — - 
 
 vice-admiral, going too near to save the man, was shot dead, which wa.~ 
 
 all the harm done to the boat. In this engagement we played our 
 
 ordnance and destroyed their horse much ; I likewise played the mortar 
 
 piece upon Charles fort and destroyed them like flies. Here is no 
 
 person that knew how to use it, if I had not undertook it. And I thank 
 
 God I have prospered in my designs. I humbly beg your honour's 
 
 pardon that I have not sent your honour an account of the stores, but 
 
 hope your honour will pardon me by reason of this troublesome time. 
 
 [Many letters in the succeeding months of this year, and at later dates, 
 on the progress of various works at Portsmouth, written by Edw. 
 Clarke, John Duxbury, &c. ; with letters from the Ordnance Office on 
 the same subject.] 
 
 1680, June 25. Tangier. — Major John White to Col. Legge. Capt. 
 Fowler promised to deliver the letter. Is serious and in earnest in 
 representing their condition ; they have neither men nor money to put 
 the town in a posture to resist their powerful enemies, their forts being 
 taken, &c. Though there is a cessation for four months, the enemy 
 have their guards of horse and foot within a carbine's shot of the town 
 walls, and set their sentries upon the hills about so that they can see 
 men walking in the streets. All the advantages are on the enemy's 
 side. Unless a great supply of men is sent before the end of the truce- 
 it will be a hard pull with them. Calls God to witness that he would 
 rather die in defending his king's interest than dispute with death in his 
 bed. Cannot have less than 1,000 horse and 4,000 foot to beat them in 
 the field ; otherwise an ambassador should be sent to treat for peace, 
 and to give them such sum of money in powder and arms for a consider- 
 able space of ground to feed cattle, and where stones can be dug to 
 fortify the town, and make an end of the Mole. This will be a cheaper 
 way than sending armies there. The enemy have all the skill that any 
 Christians have, and the gunners and engineers that the Great Turk 
 had in the taking of Candy. The Argerines will assist them in every- 
 thing to get the town out of English possession, for it is a scourge to 
 them going in and out of the Straits. Writes this that it may be com- 
 municated to his royal highness and to the king, so that a speedy 
 remedy may be ordered against the great storm the Moors are preparing. 
 Sir Palmes Faireborne is very civil to him upon his royal highness' 
 score. 
 
 1680, July 19. Tangier. — Fra. Povey to Col. George Legge, Major- 
 General of the Ordnance in the Tower. After congratulations qn 
 Legge's promotion and some remarks on the defective state of the 
 stores, &c, the writer proceeds : — Major Beckman is very well, but 
 cannot employ himself as yet by reason our cessation obliges us not to 
 fortify within or without. The Alcade is bringing down a considerable 
 army, and it is generally believed that he will break the cessation. The 
 horse that were intended for this place are very much wished for, and I 
 do assure your honour if they do not come our foot will signify 
 nothing. I could wish your honour would send a master gunner for 
 this that is here is a most ignorant sot, and two thirds of the gunners 
 
 are not fit, neither have they warrants for their places Sir 
 
 Palmes Faireburne was pleased to give me a commission to be Captain 
 Controller of the Train and Ordnance of this garrison ; I hope your 
 honour will add something more, in regard it is a place of honour. 
 
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 Eakl of 1680, Sept. 23. Tangier. — Fra. Povey to Col. George Legge. The 
 lB MS& THS instant, arrived here the ships consigned from the Office with 
 
 — stores which came very seasonable, in regard the cessation betwixt the 
 Moors and this place was to be at an end the 13 th instant. I have with 
 great trouble and charge unloaded the most part, and hope yet in 7 or 8 
 days more to discharge them ; but do assure your honour unless your 
 kindness be shewed in helping me with money I can never subsist in 
 this place. I have engaged every body that has money to help me, or 
 otherwise could not have despatched my business. I cannot but 
 acquaint your honour that here is great want of storehouse room, and 
 that this Office is much abused here and no ways respected. I have 
 solicited the Governor often, but can get nothing made fit for receiving 
 arms, which are most unfit for service by reason there is no convenience. 
 And more I could acquaint your honour but hope if there be a peace 
 concluded before Christmas that if your honour will permit I would 
 very gladly come for England to pass my accounts and settle my family ; 
 and I am sure I can save this Office a thousand pounds per annum. All 
 this I humbly present to your honour's better consideration. 
 
 The cessation being expired the Moors withdrew and acquainted us 
 that war was proclaimed against us, and accordingly fired upon us; 
 and the 21st instant the Governor sallied out with 1,500 men, the horse 
 included that were lately sent, and advanced to Pole fort, and was pos- 
 sessed of it without any loss. Immediately Major Beckman, who is a 
 brave man, in four hours time pallisadoed the fort round and the same 
 night 500 men lodged in the fort ; 7 men were killed that night. The 
 22 nd we sallied out again and advanced to the outlines, where the 
 Scotch grenadiers behaved themselves bravely and beat the Moors out, 
 and all the day maintained the ground. The Moors were very brave 
 but were paid off and lost abundance of men. Our loss was not above 
 11 men, some few wounded. I hope your honour may have an 
 account that I have not been idle, but have done my utmost to serve his 
 majesty and our office, and I thank God I had my education from so 
 honourable a people as are employed there. I do assure your honour I 
 have not slept otherwise than upon a soft deal this 3 nights. 
 
 This day we sallied out but the Governor has not thought fit to 
 hazard our men so far as the day before, because the Moors' force 
 increases. But I hope Pole fort is very well secured and all the line 
 from Pole fort to Fountain fort bottom. Here is great want of arms 
 especially firelocks. Sir Palmes Fareburne would not believe but 
 arms were sent now, and has accordingly acquainted the Lords Com- 
 missioners, notwithstanding I shewed him to the contrary 
 
 I do assure your honour that letters are intercepted which I hope your 
 honour will prevent, and had not a particular friend done me this kind- 
 ness I could not have acquainted your honour of proceedings. 
 
 (This letter, it appears by a note on the cover, was forwarded by E. 
 Pilton from Cadiz on 7 Oct. under cover to a Mr. Watts, near the Royal 
 Exchange.) 
 
 1680, Oct. 7. Tangier at the fortress on Pole hill Major Martin 
 
 Beckmann to Col. George Legge. 
 
 I hope to have finished this work about the beginning of the next 
 month ; the upper rampart is now almost cannon proof round, I hope 
 to have some cannon mounted this week.^ I began to sink a counter- 
 mine yesterday morning. The enemy's battery doth very much in- 
 commode the Mole, but the other two batteries have had but small 
 effect on my work. I have no time to make a draught of this siege or 
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 no gunners worth bread, no garrison so neglected. Materials begin to Earl op 
 
 to 70 Dartmouth's 
 
 grow rare. MSS . 
 
 [P.S.]. — We have had about 145 killed and wounded. — 
 [1680,] Nov. 2, Edinburgh. — James Duke of York to Col. George 
 Legge. " I have not yett heard from you, I beleve your being at Ports- 
 mouth has been the occation of it, I heare that yours and Herbert's 
 names have been up in the house of Commons, I hope his Majesty will 
 stick to you both or els he will be in a very ill condition, for if he 
 yeald in that they will not leaue one truly Loyal man about him. You 
 have already heard of the good reception I had here, I assure you it 
 was as much to my satisfaction as I could desire, all things are very 
 quiat here, me thinks that should make his Majesty reflect, and see, that 
 had his ministers there served him with as much faithfullnesse, and 
 boldnesse, as those he has intrusted with his affairs of this country haue 
 here, he would not have so many dificultys to strugle with as he has 
 now, lett me heare oft'ten from you." 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1680,] Nov. 22, Edinburgh. — " You will have seen by myne of the 
 20th, that I sent by the post that I had then receved both yours by the 
 expresses, but had not tyme then to say any thing upon them, which now 
 I shall. As to yours of the 14th, I do cleerly agree with you that if his 
 Ma. do not now stand by him self before any thing further be done, it 
 will be to late to do it afterwards, and I feare he has few or none about 
 him, whom he will harken to, that have Loyalty and courage sufficient to 
 give him good advice, and I see great pains is taken I shal] not be neare 
 him, and I can never do one thing, you and others of my best freinds 
 advice me to, for I should not be an honest man if I did, and what so 
 ever misfortune 1 fall under I will still have the satisfaction to serve 
 God like a Christien and my King like a Loyal subject, and lett my 
 enemys prevaile never so much they can never take from me a quiat 
 mind, tho I will leave nothing undone that a man of honnor can do, to 
 preserve myself, and the monarky, for lett some flatter them selvs as 
 they please, if I fall that falls to, without a miracle. I see you have had 
 some conversations with Mrs. Walle you would do well to continu it, 
 for I do realy beleve hir to be my friend, and tho hir Lady has playd me a 
 dog trick, and is absolutly joynd with the Duke of Monmouth and Lord 
 Shaftsbury, yett your speaking sometyms with Mrs. Walle may be of 
 some use, tho I can never rely on what hir mistress says. I see when 
 one is on the declyning hand some people that one has been always very 
 kind to, are apt to take things ill. I am sure I never gave L d Lumly the 
 least reason to complaine of me, for I never did him a discourtisy, on 
 the contrary shewd him all the countenance I could, and did solicite his 
 concerns when so ever there was occation. I know there are other of his 
 freinds, make the same complaint, but with no reason, and now pray lett 
 those you named to me of the House of Commons as Lord Carleton, Sir R. 
 Grahams, Mr. Finch, Sir Charles Musgrave, and Sir Robert Markham 
 know how sensibly I am of their apearing for me, and that if ever in my 
 power I shall lett them and theirs see it. I do not remember to have ever 
 done the least unkindnesse to the first of them, except he calls my not 
 being satisfyd with his behavior in the long Parliament, as to the King,* 
 and as to Mr. Finch Leonid not help disaproving some things he did in the 
 Admiralty, and thought others more in the right, but never did him an 
 unkindnesse, and if there be other you have not named to me, that did 
 apearefor me, assure them the same thing. You will easily beleve yours 
 of the 16th was very pleasing to me, to find by it, the bill was thrown out of 
 the Lords' house at the very first reading, but it was as bad as a stab with a 
 
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 Eakl of dagger to me to heare, after Lord Halifax had spoke so handsomly for me, 
 LR ™gg IH 5 and managed the whole debate, he should make such a proposition as he 
 — did the nsxt d^y, what shall I say to it. I would willingly not be thought 
 of of not being very sensible of kindnesses done me, and I am as sensible 
 as possible of his doing his part so very well at the rejecting of my bill, 
 but can I or any body thinke him realy my freind, that would haue me 
 banished from his Majesty's presence, for he moved it, so that I am in a 
 strait as to him, and know not almost what to do, and to say the truth what 
 I heare they are agoing on with in the House of Lords, will be of as bad 
 concequence if not worse to me, and much worse for the monarky, then 
 the bill that was thrown out, tho I shall always be as sensible as possible, 
 of the great obligation I have to those that oposed it in your house, and 
 threw it out in ours, (for yett I may call it so) and for all the directions 
 are given to prepare such bills yett 1 hope, the same reason, and con- 
 cerne, they shewd for me and the monarky, in rejecting the bill sent up 
 to them, when they consider well of things, hinder them from giving 
 the Crowne its last blow, and my freinds aught to be now more vigilent 
 then ever, for I well know my enemys will leave no stone unturned to 
 ruine me. As to what you write concerning your self, I meane as to 
 Portsmouth, have a care of your owne privat concerne in it, and see 
 you do not give up your commission and have nothing for it, you have 
 suffred but two much already upon my account and I should be very 
 sorry you should do it in this also. Those two you mentioned had advised 
 you to lodgyour Commission in his Majesty's hands, are your freinds as 
 well as myne, and being on the place can advise better than I, how 
 best to secure your self, and as I have sayd to you in a former letter 
 since you must part with it, it cannot be in better hands than the Duke of 
 Albemarl's, who I am sure willbe always firme to the Crowne, but if his 
 Majesty does not speedily put a stop to the way things are in it will not 
 long [be] in his power any body nay not himself (sic), and if the bill of As- 
 sosiation be such a one as I heare, and passe, I thinke not only his Majesty 
 person will be in great danger, but adieu to the Monarky, I hope his 
 Majesty will be sensible of this, and he should be told it, I shall now say no 
 more, and expect with pacience what will be my fortune, and in what 
 so ever condition I am shall be kind to you and very sensible of your 
 serving me as you do. 
 
 [1680,] Nov. 23. — I keept this bearer till the letters came and by what 
 past in the House of Commons as to Lord Hallifax and other things, hope 
 his Majesty will take speedy and vigorus councells or he is lost. I wrot last 
 night to Lord Hallifax before I heard of the adresse against him, thinking 
 it much better to erre on one hand then the other, you and all homiest 
 men must now encourage hi« Majesty and presse him to stick to himself. 
 
 [1680,] Dec. 14. — I receved yesterday in the forenone yours of the 8th, 
 by this bearer Mr. Feilding, and by the letters which came the day before, 
 by the post, was informed of the Lord Stafford's being condemned, which 
 surprised me, tho I know the malice of some against him and the 
 gouernment, would make them presse it to the utmost, and besids all 
 other considerations, am very sorry his Majesty will be so hard put to it, 
 for I hope he will remember the^continual trouble it was to the King his 
 father, the having concented to the death of the Earl of Strafford, and not 
 have such a burthen on his concience, and on the other hand I know 
 he will be hard prest to signe the warrant, against this unfortunat Lord. 
 I here enclosed send you a letter to his Majesty in which I say some thing 
 upon that subject which in case he be not yett executed I would have 
 you deliver, but if it has been done, I would have you burne it, for I write 
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 of that in i^. I see you have given good advice to his Majesty but what Eakl of 
 will all that signify unlesse he send the Parliament home, for every moment Dar ™s& th s 
 they sitt so much the harder will they make his Majesty saving himself — ' 
 and the monarky, that ought to be presst and done out of hand, all other 
 expedients being but destructiue. As to what you say concerning my 
 self, I wrot so largly to you upon that subject by the last post, that I 
 shall say more is, that besids that in concience I cannot do what you so 
 presse me to, it would not be of that use or advantage to his Majesty as 
 some thinke, for those who are truly Loyall will serve him without any 
 such thing, and for the Shaftburian party, and republicans, they would 
 say it was only a trick, that I had a dispensation, and that I was still 
 a Catholik in my hart, and would go on at the same rate they do, and 
 say that now there was more reason to be affeard of popery than ever, 
 for that that was the reason made me do it. I could enlarge and explaine 
 this but thinke it not necessary the reasons being so obvius, and besids 
 I will never be brought to do it, and therfore am very glad to see by 
 your letter, that the thoughts of his Majesty writing to me upon that sub- 
 ject is layd aside, for should he be once prevailed upon to do it, one 
 might easily guesse what must sone follow after, therfore lett my freinds 
 see to hinder such a letter, and put the thoughts of my complying with 
 them in that point of changing my religion quite out of their heads. As 
 I was a writing I was called out [to] see a blazing star as they call it, 
 it is a light which rises from the west but little above the horizon and 
 points nearest hand as I can gesse deu Est, it seems to the ei to be 
 about half a yard broad, and in length about fifteene yards, its motion is 
 from the S. to the N., and very swift, for within lesse then this houer 
 it has altred at least ten yards, as neare as I can guesse by a marke I 
 took, by the next I will send you a more exact relation of it for I will 
 gett some artist to observe it. 
 
 I have enclosed my letter to his Majesty about Lord Windsor's con- 
 cerns in myne to Secretary Jenkins, and lett that Lord know I [have] 
 writen as he desird." 
 
 1680, Dec. 18. Tangier. — Fra. Poveyto Colonel George Legge. A 
 long letter on his difficulties with Sir Palmes Fairburne in connexion 
 with the stores, &c. It concludes — " nothing of news is stirring more 
 than that Sir James Leshly (Leslie) is arrived, but when he intends 
 to go into the country I cannot learn." 
 
 P.S. — " Here is seen a comet which rises about 6 o'clock whose rays 
 extend 800 leagues upwards, and it was observed that upon her setting 
 fell J in a minute's time. The rising as we see is W.S.W. and the 
 utmost end of the ray leans to the north and to our sight 2 yards 
 broad." 
 
 1680-81, Jan. 3. The fields of Tangier.— Articles of truce for six 
 months concluded between Col. Edward Sackville, commander in chief 
 of his Majesty's city and garrison of Tanger, &c. and the Alcade Cidi 
 Omar Benohadu, captain general and vice king of the adjacent countries, 
 acting on behalf of the King Muly Ismaell. 
 
 1680-81, Jan. 5. [Edinburgh ?].— Colonel John Churchill [to Col. 
 Legge ?]. 
 
 <( Dear Cousen, 
 
 I did 2 postes agoe recive yours of the 27 th of the last month, but as 
 yett I have not recived anny from my Lord Feavershame. I see by yours 
 to the duke that caime this day, that you are now Master of the Ordi- 
 nance; I doe not doute but you are satisfied that T am glade of itt, and 
 
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 Earl op I doe aslmre you that I wish that you may live long to injoye itt, and as 
 LR mss! TH S I wish you as well as anny frend you haA r e, soe I will take the liberty 
 — to tell you that you will not be just to your familly, if you doe not now 
 order your affaires soe as that you may, by living within your selfe, be 
 able in time to cleare your estaites. I will say no more on this subject 
 att present, but when we mett you must expect me to be troblesome 
 if I find you prefer your owne living before your children's good. My 
 Lord of Argille's escaipe makes soe littell alterations here that I hope 
 before now it is where you are looked on as a thing of noe great con- 
 sequence ; for I daire anser, if the king so pleases, the duke will soe 
 order itt that if ther should ever hapen to be anny disturbance in this 
 contry that he nor his familly shall not be able to signefie anny thing. 
 I have maid your complaiment to the dutchess who has comanded me 
 to returne you her thankes, and that she dose belive you are glade she 
 is recovred. Pray present my service to Sir Allen [Apsley ?] and tell 
 him that I have had 2 letters from Etheridge, but that I would not doe 
 in that nor anny thing else what I did not think was agreable to hint 
 and pray lett me know what he says. I am your your affectionate 
 kinsman & faithfull frend & sarvant, J. Churchill. 
 Mr. Churchill is your nife, and your servant." 
 
 1680-1, Jan. 24.— [Sir] H[enry] A[rchbold] to his dear son the 
 honourable Colonel George Legge, London. Business matters. " We 
 are all entering into our new hurry of elections ; many are called, 
 or rather come uncalled, but few will be chosen, and some will not 
 though they be called, as Mr. Finch and Sir H. Littleton who are too wise 
 for us. Sir Charles Wolsely, Ned Vernon offer at it, but I think in vain - y 
 though Sir Charles offers as they say very bountifully. We think Sir 
 Francis Lawly puts in as fairly as any, and it may be as hopefully, except 
 Mr. Biddle domineer. God send us honest and sober men. I suppose 
 you will try the other bout (?) at Portsmouth. God bless you in 
 all your proceedings, and Bab and Will and Mall and Betty etc. with, 
 the old hen and the egg in her belly; so saith her mother and joins in 
 all this with your H. A." 
 
 [1680-1], Feb. 2.— James Duke of York to Col. George Legge. 
 u I had yesterday by the post yours of the 27 th and write now, 
 tho the letters will not go till tomorrow, because I am to go 
 for Sterling early tomorrow morning to see that place, which 
 is the great passe of this country, and intend not to be back till 
 Saturday night. 1 am glad that what I proposed was so well aproved 
 of, I hope the more it is considerd on the more will be liked, but 
 how can any thinge be done if measurs be not taken to put of the 
 Parliament, and by what I heare there are very few that dare presse it, 
 however I hope the reasons are so strange, and unanswerable that they 
 will prevaile, for is it possible for any that wish well to his Majesty 
 and the Monarky, to thinke this new Parliament will be in any better 
 humor then the former, tis true they may proceede with more caution, 
 which will be more dangerous yett, and if one may judge of the rest of 
 England by the North this House of Commons will be worse composed 
 then the former, for they write from thence that most of the honest 
 gentillmen do not intend to stand, so that they will be wanted and 
 worse chosen in their places. I make no doubt, that this and other 
 strong arguments will be used to hinder their sitting, I heare speake of 
 an expedien this Majesty dos intend to propose, which they say he is 
 very fond of as thinking it will quiat and satisfy the Parliament, but 
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 secrecy soire tyrne since, which by the letters came on Sonday I D E R ^ L J 
 had liberty to take notice on ; except it be that, I do not know what it is, ^mss? 11 
 which if it be, I am sure dos not please me, nor will I ever consent to — 
 it. By a letter from a freind of the 27th I was told it was positivly 
 sayd by some of the great leding men of the other side, that they had 
 privatly had assurences, that Lord Hallifax's proposall of a bill of banish- 
 ment should be agreed to, but lett the expedient be what it will, I am 
 sure if they meet, lett what will be thought aow, I shall be ruined, 
 so that my freinds must presse their not meeting. I am sorry to see 
 the cleering the court as well as councell does not go on, for if that 
 slacken, I feare things will not goe on well, for without stedynesse tis 
 impossible. I do not write this post to Mr. Hyde, having no thing 
 to add to this, lett him see it, and Churchill to, if he be yett with you, 
 to whom I do not write in answer to his of the 27 th being^not sure 
 it would find him there. The soner I could know what will be done as to 
 the Parliament is the better, that I may take my measurs accordingly." 
 
 1681, March 29. Court of Mequinez. — Articles of Peace concluded 
 by Sir James Lesly, on behalf of Charles II., and by the Alcade Omar 
 Benhadu, on behalf of the Prince Abonazar Sultan Muly Isinael, &c. 
 Emperor of the kingdoms of Fez, Morocco, Tafelett, &c. 
 
 1681, March 31. — Colonel John Churchill (unsigned) to Colonel 
 Legge. Upbraids him for not writing more frequently. Refers to Mr. 
 Hyde and Noll Nicolas. 
 
 1681, April o. — The same. On Sunday night Mr. Kirk came with 
 his letter. " I doe with all my soull wish we waire againe att London 
 with you, and hope itt will not be long before itt may be thought 
 reasonable. The cluke has writt to the king, acording as Mr. Hyde and 
 you did desier in your letters, which .is all I think is to be done by him 
 att this time." 
 
 1681, March 31. — James, Duke of York to Col. George Legge. " I am 
 very much of your mind in what you say in yours of the 26th, and thinke 
 we are very much beholding to the folly of our enemys. God send the 
 right use be made of it, his Majesty, has it now in his hand to secure him 
 self and to settle the monarky ; he must not only take resolut councells but 
 resolut councelors to, and lay aside your men of expedients, and do some- 
 thing to encourage his old freinds, why should not 1 be sent for, I have 
 mentiond it to Mr. Hyde, advise with him, and the Dr. about it, what he 
 says you know has much waight with his Majesty, nothing but resolution 
 can now do his Majesty good, and that will do it now, and what is for the 
 good of the crowne must be done, and people must be no longer 
 affraide of their shadows. For my part I look on this whole affair of 
 Fitzharris as the hand of God, for you see what was so cunningly designd 
 and layd with so great mallice, and so securly as they thought, and not 
 to be hindred, is turned upon them, and may prove their ruine if the right 
 use be made on't, but I hope it will, which is all I shall say till I heare 
 againe from you. Sure before youhave this the Parliament will be broken." 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1681,] April 2. — I had your[s] by Crafts last night before eleven, and 
 about the same houer the night before, had heard from Frowde, by a flying 
 packett, of the disolution of the Parliament. You. will easily beleve I was 
 very well pleased with the newse on't, it was high tyme to do it, and I 
 hope as his Majesty has shewd so much resolution, and begun so very well, 
 so he will continu, and hold a stedy hand over affairs, and be no longer 
 perswaded, by men of expedients, which are governed more by their 
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 Daetmouth s or feare, and I look upon those sort of men to be as dangerous as 
 MSS. downe right knavs, it being the same thing to be betrayed by some 
 people's fears, or treachery, nothing now can save the King and the 
 Crowne but resolut and stedy procedings, and I feare that unlesse I be 
 sent for, the generality of the world still aprehend a want of stedynesse 
 and not beleve there will be any. I see by yours it was not necessary 
 for me to have sayd this to you, since you are of the same mind and are 
 endeavouring it, it must be prest. I wrote to you on this subject by the 
 last post, that I need say the lesse now, and as my freinds will presse it, 
 so I am sure my open and privat enemys will hinder it if they can, with 
 whom I make no doubt the end of the gallery will joyne, and till 
 Godolphin, and all the rotten sheepe are turned out, it will neare be 
 well, and indeed in my mind I could wish his Majesty would do as God 
 commanded Gideon, which was to send home all such as fearfull or 
 afraide, and then I make no doubt that those which should remaine would 
 do his Majesty's businesse much better, for experience has shewdthat 
 fearfull ministers and irresolut councells have contributed more than any 
 thing els to bring things into the condition they are. I long very much 
 for the arrival of N. Nicholas to know what measurs are taken, and how 
 the Citty have behaved themselvs. You did very well in sending to me 
 as you did from Oxford, for Crafts has informed me of many particulars 
 I was glad to know which a letter could not have done, but when only 
 hearing sone is necessary, a flying packett corns faster and as safe. I am 
 cleerly of your minde as to what you say concerning my satisfying of 
 people that I can forgive, which I hope should be easy enough if they 
 will but remember the whole course of my life. I can but shew it and 
 say it, which I always do, and my freinds must do their part and answer 
 for me, which they may boldly do, as they shall see if I come amongst 
 them, which I feare seme that pretend to be my freinds, may not be so 
 very forward for, and tho they will not speake downe right against it, 
 will find out some argument that may be something plausible, as that my 
 coming so sone might cause some disturbance which was sayd as posi- 
 tively when I was in Flanders, and which needs no other answer but 
 that when I came it did not happen. They may chance to say also, that it 
 is necessary for his Majesty's service I should stay here, to settle things 
 and keep them quiat in this countray, as to this it may be answerd, and 
 that truly, that I can do nothing to the entire settling of this country, 
 till I wayte on his Majesty, having things to propose which require my 
 beeing with him to gett them done, which would be the best way of 
 keeping all things quiat here, and should any disturbance happen I could 
 be sone back here, and should come with more reputation, and signify 
 more coming from thence, then should any suchthinge breake out whilst 
 I am here ; and till the middle of June, they all say here, there is no 
 danger of any such thing, nor it cannot well be, for reasons which are 
 very good but to long to be put in a letter, this is all I shall say now." 
 
 [1681.] April 5. — " I need say the lesse to you having writen so long a 
 letter to M r Hyde, in answer to what Kerke brought me. He came here 
 on Sonday night, and was, as you may easily immagin, troubled, to find by 
 yours which he gave me, as well as by others, and his Majesty's owne letter 
 to me, that I am still to be a banished man from his presence. I am in 
 no way satisfyd with the reasons given for it, and must look on my 
 self as quite ruined, a little soner or later, if I be not sone with his 
 Majesty for, for aught I see, the same reasons will subsist that are given 
 now, as long as there are any about his Majesty that are not my freinds, 
 therefore it behovs you that are my freinds to consult togather and to 
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 to it now. It is late now, so that I have not tyme to say more by this Eabl of 
 bearer, but by the next post shall write againe to you." " DaR ™ss UTI 
 
 1681, April 6. — Lord Windsor to Colonel George Legge. I have re- 
 ceived your kind and friendly letter, do give you a thousand thanks for it, 
 and do much allow of your maxim and rule. I have much followed that 
 opinion and have lived in and about the Court much, and by it have 
 spent considerable sums more than I can now easily bear the weight of, 
 and have by absence from my estate not suffered a little. I confess I 
 am afraid of losing the substance in catching at a shadow, for hitherto 
 that hath been my fate, and my children are so many I dare not venture 
 farther in that kind, unless I had some ground w r ork to begin upon, 
 which I hope will have its rise from your kind intelligence, which place 
 {sic) was in our family from before the conquest and gave us our name 
 and continued in the family to Hen. 8's reign, and then he took that and 
 almost all our land, and gave us abbey land with the title of Windsor. 
 I have written to Mr. Hyde to move the King, and beg you will assist 
 me throughout in the business, as I may own the greatest part of the 
 kindness to you. 
 
 [1681,] April 9. — James, Duke of York, to Col. George Legge. By 
 the last letters which I had from where you are, I find no more likly 
 hood of my being sent for then when you wrot last to me, which I 
 confesse is a great mortification to me, being [perswaded that any delay- 
 will proue fatal to me, for if I be not called home now, how can I 
 expect it when things are once settled and some still about his Majesty 
 who are my declared enemys, who will take advantage of my absence, 
 and find or make new reasons why I must be keep away, and lett it be 
 when it will they will stil find as much fault with it and be as angry 
 at it as if done now, and if people will be affraide of doing what is fitt, 
 because the factions say tis with a designe of introducing of popery, 
 why then Lord have mercy upon us, but I hope the same spirite which 
 broke the Parliament is above such aprehensions, and then I may hope 
 to be sent for, however I rely upon my freinds that they will presse 
 it, therefore speake with M 1 ' Hyde and the D r about it, to both whom 
 I have written to the same purpose and lose no time in what is to be 
 proposed. I am very glad to heare there is to be a Major Geneiall in 
 the Citty ; and that it is to be Sir James Edwards who is a right Loyall 
 man, and that the D r is to be put into the Customs. Things are very 
 quiat here, and the disolution has very much disapointed and confounded 
 all the Phanatiks' designs, so that I am confident there will be no dis- 
 turbance in this country if England keepe quiat. I would say more but 
 it is so late that I have not tyme to do it." 
 
 1681, April 12. — Report on certain works recently completed at 
 Tangiers drawn up by Capt. St. Johns, Capt. Giles, Mr. Areleman, 
 comptroller, Mr. Tessinn, engineer, and Francis Povey, commissioner 
 of ammunition. 
 
 1681, April 29. — Colonel Percy Kirke to Col. Legge. In recom- 
 mendation of Major Poope. Expresses gratitude to his royal highness 
 to whom he dares not presume to write himself ; but if anything extra- 
 ordinary happen he will not fail to give Legge an account of it. 
 
 [1681,] April 17. — James, Duke of York, to Col. George Legge. I 
 had on Thursday last yours of the 9th, by which I see but little hops of 
 being sent for, and am still of the same mind that my freinds will have 
 a hard worke of it, to gett it done, since now they could not prevaile, 
 for the end of the gallery and those that are against it, will find new 
 arguments to keep it of, since they have now been able to do it, 
 
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 Earl of an ^ ^ feare if it be put of till there has been a thorough purge 
 Dartmouth's made, in court, and country, it will not be till the Greek Kal- 
 
 J lends, and me thinks the puling out of Scroggs, the bringing in of 
 
 Pemberton, and the discountenancing of Joans, shewse yett some 
 feare, and that Lord Hallifax has to much creadit, for so long as his 
 timorous councelis take place, and that the end of the gallery continus 
 in such creadit, how can I expect any good, and I look on his project 
 of having me in England, but not at Court as fatal and dangerous to 
 me as any thinge my greatest enemy s can project against me, and besids 
 other reasons, do not aprove of the Dutcheses going to take any waters, 
 so long as she dos not really want them, because it would insensibly 
 bring his project to passe, there being no middle bettwene this place and 
 being with his Majesty. However I am very sensible that you and some 
 of my freinds have done your parts, and I shall be sure not to presse his 
 Majesty till you that are upon the place lett me know it is seasonable. 
 When Crafts went, I mentiond it to him, but very gently, and since have not 
 sayd on word to him of it. I see great pains has been taken by the Duchess 
 of Portsmouth to bring in the Duke of Monmouth. I hope my freind will 
 continu their endeavers to hinder it, for should my enemys compasse 
 them, my businesse were indeed done. Pray lett the Atturney Generall 
 know how sensible I am of his apearing so boldly for me as he has 
 done, particularly in this affaire of the Certiorari. I am sorry to heare 
 Lord Hallifax is coming back to court againe, for I am sure if he has 
 creadit I shall not be sent for, and upon the whole, I have but a very 
 uncomfortable prospect of my affairs, and if once they begin to talke 
 of a Parliament I can expect nothing but ruine, for then expedients will 
 be on foott againe, and the republican party will be so encouraged, 
 that they will ventur at any thing. I need not say more upon this 
 subject, those considerations being so visible and the consequences of 
 them. Things are here very quiat, and I am confident will continu so. 
 I wonder N. Nicholas is not come. 
 
 [1681,] April 24. — I have deferd writing to you and ansuring yours 
 of the 16 in expectation of ISol. Nicholas his arrival, and by a letter 
 I had from Mr. Hyde this day see I cannot expect him these two or 
 three day yett, and till he corns shall say but little, and with out he 
 bring some good newse or some hops at least, I shall have but an 
 unpleasant prospect of my affairs. I see Lord Mack, is in wayting againe, 
 tis a riddle to me to see two put out and he keept in, that certainly 
 deservs much more then they, to have been used after the same manner, 
 and it must needs discourage my freinds verj T much, and I confesse 
 so long as he is so countenanced and the Duchess of Portsmouth in such 
 credit I can expect no great good. All things are very quiat here and are 
 like to continu so whilst they are so with you. I long to heare of 
 Fitzharris and Smith's tryals. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1681,] May 4. — I see by yours and Lord Hyd's letters I had by Nol. 
 Nicholas, how hard a worke you will have to bring about my being sent 
 for, and as both of you have desired, send this bearer Churchill, 
 to assist you in it, and to make the last tryal, for if now with your 
 endeavors, and what I write I gett nothinge but a put of, I must 
 prepare to endure a long banishmBnt, and all the ill concequences 
 which usualy attend such a begining, I have writen at large to Lord Hyde 
 and therefore shall say the lesse to you, besids that I have instructed 
 Churchill as fully as I can, and according to advice, am content to passe 
 my word not to meddle nor trouble his Majesty nor his Ministers with 
 any businesse when I am with him but that of Scotland, and even 
 
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 not with that to if he pleases also. I see by what the Doctor has told Eabl of 
 
 you, that he thinks I have here to foro prest his Majesty to much in Dartmouth's 
 
 businesse and to more then his owne inclinations led him, which is — ' 
 
 a very great mistake, for I can say that I haue neuer proposed 
 
 any of those things which were not stuck to, as the Dutch war, the 
 
 declaration, and other things; for the first I was absolutly against it, 
 
 and then told his Majesty and Ministers, I feared it would run him in 
 
 debt, and concequently put him into the power of the Parliament when 
 
 that was done did my part as became me ; for some of the other things 
 
 I was for them, when proposed by the Ministers, and aproved on 
 
 by his Majesty upon debate, and if puting him in mind and pressing him 
 
 to go on with what was so resolved, and not changing my mind as the 
 
 ministers did, was a fault, I cannot help it, and left of troubling his 
 
 Majesty when I saw it was to no purpose, tho I could not have that 
 
 eonpliancy with with (sic) the ministers to follow their examples when 
 
 they alterd their minds either out of feare, or other reasons, and not I 
 
 am sure upon solid grounds, which has been but to vissible, and tis a 
 
 cruel thing that I must beare all their loode, when I rather was their 
 
 slave then any thing els, so that I feare tis for some other reason, and 
 
 not that which the D r givs, that his Majesty is affraid of having me 
 
 with him, which I shall now sone see, for if after what I have sayd 
 
 in my letter to him, and charged Churchill to assure him, he will 
 
 not send for me, I must take it for granted that it is, as I say, and 
 
 now you and all my freind must make your last effort to gett me 
 
 sent for, for I shall dispare of it if it cannot be now. What els I have to 
 
 say I refer to Churchill. 
 
 I have receved yours of the 29th which givs me more hops then 
 the former did. I shall say no more but that now the Doctor must do his 
 part and presse for my returne. 
 
 1681, May 9. — Lord Windsor to Col. Legge. Begs his help to 
 obtain some favour from the Duke of York ; " it will much discourage 
 me to see lawyers and men of private families advanced before me, 
 who will not stand by him when I will." 
 
 1681, May 14. Tanger. — Copies of a long report, by Major Pope, 
 John Alsmore, controller, Major Bointon, Francis Povey, commissary 
 of the Stores, Bernard Tessin, engineer, on work done at Tangiers and 
 on the cost of quarters there ; and of letters of Colonel Legge and the 
 Ordnance Officers thereon. The names of the owners of houses 
 occupied by the officers, &c, the rent paid for each house, and many 
 other curious particulars are given in the report. 
 
 1681, May 17. Tanger. — Fra. Povey to Col. George Legge. 
 Still complains of the defects in the Ordnance department there and of 
 the gunners, seven of whom among those last sent had been removed by 
 Col. Kirke as incapable of doing duty, u The firemaster is certainly a 
 most ignorant person as to the knowledge of any ingredient except 
 brandy." . . . The Admiral " is now before Argeere and it is 
 hoped that he may force the Argereene to a peace. The Moors as yet 
 continue pretty quiet but sometimes commit hostilities by taking a horse 
 or cattle that break out of our bounds, but restore them for a small 
 consideration. I humbly request your honour's kindness to grant me 
 leave to make a trip for England that so I might settle my family " . 
 
 1681, May 18. Tanger.— Col. P. Kirke to Col. Legge. Has 
 received all the stores and finds them in pretty good condition. The 
 great guns are the worst that ever were in any garrison — the worst 
 
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 Earl of gunners that ever man saw, and the master gunner not fit to command 
 Dartmouth's any thing. Mr. Povey has promised to give a more particular account ; 
 ^E?!t he is a very good man and the only one that minds his business. 
 
 [1681,] May 24. — James Duke of York to Col. George Legge. I have 
 now receved a letter from Lord Hyde since he spake with his Majesty 
 and by it have as little hops of being sent for as ever, and see I can 
 expect no positive answer till next weeke, for that Lord Hallifax was not 
 expected to be at Windsor till this weeke, and when he is there I 
 cannot help thinking he will be as much against my being sent for as 
 any body. I hope you that are upon the place will have mad use of what 
 this villan Fitzharris has sworen against me, toletthis Majesty see what 
 advantage my enemys take against me by my being absent, and how I 
 shall be every day more and more exposed by it to their malice and 
 practices, and am very confident, had I been there, he would never 
 have had the impudence to haue sayd what he has done against me, for 
 I could have easily proved him perjured by undenyable witnesses. All 
 things are very quiat here, and I shall say no more to you till I heare 
 what his Majesty resolutions are after he has spoken with those he trusts ; 
 for if I am not to go up but must stay here, I hope they will lett my 
 daughter come to me, and then I will have more of my horses here. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1681,] May 31. — By that tyme this corns to you, you will know what 
 has been resolved concerning the proposition I made by the last post, 
 which Lord Hyde will have shewd you, and if that dos not take I shall have 
 but little hops of any thinge for my self if ; that dos, I may then hope to 
 have leave to go up for a little tyme, but otherwise not, for by none of 
 my letters, do I see any apearance of being sent for, but upon such an 
 account. I shall say no more upon this till I heare further from 
 you, I shall be very impacient till I heare of what becoms of 
 that villan Fitzharris, who if he be rightly handled will certainly tell 
 the truth, and not be forsworen as I am sure he is in what he has sayd 
 hitherto. I have writen to Lord Hyde as I say I would do in my last to 
 him and sent him a letter to make use on as he finds it convenient. All 
 things are very quiat here and his Majesty's birthday was keept yesterday 
 with great solemnity here. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1681,] June 7. — I hadyours of the 31st of the last so layte on Saturday 
 that I could not possibly answer it then, and by it, as well as other 
 letters see how positive his Majesty and most of his Ministers are against 
 my being sone sent for, and that with no day or tyme apointed is no 
 very pleasing prospect, tho the assurences Lord Hyde gius me of Lord Hali- 
 fax's being my freind, and his being against the calling of a Parliament this 
 next winter, as well as Mr. Seymour, maks me have more hops of good 
 then I have expected this good while. As for what you speake of con- 
 cerning yourself, I cannot immagin, why you may not keep both, it is 
 no way inconsistant, but what is usual, and very proper, and tho the 
 Master of the Ordinance is the more honorable yett I thinke the 
 Governement of Portsmouth is in its self of the greater trust, and more 
 considerable, and if they will have you part with the last, to haue the 
 other, for which I see no reason, nor necessity, they aught to lett you 
 find your account in it at least, but by what you say I feare it will be 
 over before this corns to you, as for what concerns my horses I will 
 stay till Churchill corns back hether before I will send for any more, 
 and shall say no more till I heare againe from you. 
 
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 [1681,] June 11. — This day in theforenone his Majesty letter came to the 
 Councell by a flying packett, for the calling of a Parliament here, on the 
 28th of July, and this afternone I had yours of the 7th by the post, and 
 by it as well as by a letter from Lord Hyde see it was not thought fitt 
 to deliver my letter to his Majesty, and thinke he did well not to give it, 
 since such an interpretation might have been put upon it, though in 
 my owne reason I thinke it necessary for his service, and that with in 
 these two days, some eminent men have proposed it to me and prest me 
 to offer it to his Majesty. I told them I would consider on't, and if they 
 speake to me againe of it will put them of as well as I can, as for my 
 daughter's coming I am still for it for many reasons, and hope before 
 this corns to you, Lord Hyde will haue asked his Majesty leave for her 
 comming as I desired him in myne of Tuesday last, and that she is ready 
 for the voyage. I have not tyme to say more now. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1681,] June 14. — The Proclamation for the calling of the Parliament 
 was this day published here, so that I must begin to prepare for it ; we 
 are to ride to the Parliament therefore I thinke I must have a foott cloth 
 as when we rode at the King's Coronation, but till you heare from me by 
 the next post do not bespeake one, because I am not yett so fully in- 
 structed as I shall be then. If Churchill be yett with you, of which I 
 doubt, he teliing me he was to come away to morrow, in his last, tell 
 him I have no need of my robes, the Commissioner never wearing any, 
 I had by this last post the copy of Fitzharris' inditment you sent me, 
 and was very glad by others to find he was found guilty. By my next I 
 will lett you know what horses I would have you send hither, I have 
 not tyme to say more now, having been all this day very busi. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1681,] June 18. — Since I wrot last to you I have enquired as to my 
 riding to Parliament and find that tho others must have foott clothes, I 
 need not, and that I may use a housse, for the Lord Chancellor told me just 
 now that when he was Commissioner he had a housse and no foot Cloth, 
 therefore send me my housse, which was made for me when I thought of 
 going in Flanders, with a saddle and all things fitted to it, and when my 
 daughter corns send all the foottmen downe hither, and as sone as she 
 setts out, send two coaches and the two setts of coach horses she has 
 with her hither also, that they may be here before the first meetting of 
 the Parliament, and send me downe also one pad and Fetherston, 
 which will serve both for pad and hunter here. Windham has asked me 
 leave to part with his place, and gos up in the yacht to London, and tells 
 me there is a Gentilman one Hollis that is a Cupbearer to his Majesty 
 that would buy it of him ; if he be a gentilman and has the reput of an 
 honest man, I will consent to it, but you must enquire into that. As I 
 had writen thus far, I received yours of the 14th, and had as you see 
 writen to severall of those points [which] are in your letter. I am sorry 
 you must part with Portsmouth. I have not tyme to say more now. 
 
 June 18th [1681]. — This bearer Robert Kiilegrew, who has served some 
 tyme as volontere on borde the King's ships, has desird me to recomend 
 him to go ogaine into the service, but because I do not know how he has 
 behaved himself with those he has served with, I would not recomend 
 him myself to the Admiralty till I knew it, but would haue you enquier 
 after his behavior and ability, and if you have a good caracter of him 
 from Cap. Hamilton or others he has served with, then I w^ould have 
 you in my name recomend him to the Admirality and Mr. Brisban, for 
 if he deservs it, I would be glad to shew a kindnesse to one of that 
 
 Earl o? 
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 Eabl of family he is of ; if his cousin Captain Killegrew were at London may be 
 
 Dartmouth 
 
 MSS. he also could lett you know some tiling of him. 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge 
 
 June 28 [1681]. — If the wind had not been easterly I should not have 
 now writen to you now, for it has been so long so that I beleve the ship 
 with my daughter's good[s] is not yett come out of the river, and that this 
 wind which is likely to last, may keep hir so long there, that if she keeps 
 the coaches there till she embarke, they will not be here tyme enough for 
 the first day of the Parliament, therefore if she be not come away when 
 you receve this, see to order it so, if you can, as that for the tyme she 
 may remaine wind bound, some horses may be borowed for hir to make 
 use on, that the two setts may be sent away to be here tyme enough 
 and speake to my daughter and Lady Hyde about it, and tell them they 
 would do well not to lose the first oportunity of the wind, for the north 
 winds are like [to] governe most this quarter, which is all I shall say till 
 Churchill's arrivall. 
 
 Pray send me the printed sayling and fighting instructions, I am 
 very sorry to heare Captain Kempthorne is killed. 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1681,] June 30. — 1 had yours by Churchill yesterday by whom I 
 have had a full account of all things where you are, and hope this sett of 
 men will not use me as most of their predecesors have done, but of this 
 I have not tyme to say more now. You have done well to send me downe 
 both foott cloth and housse, that I may make use of either, I am glad to 
 be rid of Fisher if all be true that is sayd. I will do what you propose con- 
 cerning Hilliard's mother, and beleve this Hollis will prove a good man, 
 tis a good signe his being desirous to come into my service now. As to 
 your self tis necessary you should stay where you are for I have need of 
 you with Lord Hyde to help him and to look after my concerns there. I 
 know tis not your fault if you do not keep Portsmouth, nor myne 
 neither ; I know no reason why you might not have both. I have writen 
 it to others, but for all that would not have you do your self a prejudise 
 by endeavoring to keep it, if it cannot be done without it. The caution 
 you give me of Mr. G. is good. The Councell satt so long this evening 
 that I have not tyme to say more. 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 1681, June 30. Tangier. — Colonel P. Kirke to Colonel Legge. Begs 
 his favour on behalf of the garrison, which is really so ill-gunned that if 
 there were occasion it would be very hard upon them. The officers 
 that belong to the train are the saddest souls God ever put life into. 
 Their greatest want at present is a master-gunner who should bring 
 with him a mortar piece of eight inches to exercise the gunners. 
 
 1681, July 2. Dublin. — Lord Longford to Colonel George Legge. 
 Congratulates him cn his being Master of the Ordnance. Intends to 
 visit England in August. Could not till now prevail on the Lord 
 Lieutenant to take a general survey of all the stores in Ireland, and his 
 (the writer's) deputy and Mr. Eobinson will shortly begin their pro- 
 gress with that object. 
 
 1681, July 8. Hewell. — Lord Windsor to Colonel George Legge. 
 Thanks for speaking to the King on his behalf. "We have here 
 a great many stories about the evidence against my Lord Shaftes- 
 bury. I would be glad to be able to satisfy my country neighbours 
 of the truth. If you have leisure pray let me know it." 
 
 [1681,] July 5. — James, Duke of York, to Colonel George Legge. I am 
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 light, and that now no more of the innocent shall suffer, God forgive E ujl of 
 those that have been guilty of so much innocent bloud, and make them Dartmouth's 
 sensible of their so great crimes. I hope the right use will be made of 
 Turberville and Haynes, and then I am sure it must turne very much to 
 his Majesty's advantage and the quiat of the Nation. I am glad you have 
 Portsmouth still, and wish his Majesty had but a few more like your self, 
 that considred his service as you do, and ventur as frankly as you do', 
 which I am very confident he will consider as he aught. I am sure I am 
 as sensible of it, as you can desire, and will do my part he may do so to. 
 I am very sorry to heare the Prince of Orange dos opiniater so for Sidney, 
 and is so led away with the flatterys of that party that designe his ruine 
 as well as all the rest of our family, and would only malce him a pro- 
 perty and instrumental to bring their worke to passe, I wrote some 
 tyme since very home to him about Sidney, but have not yett had an 
 answer, and will write as freely to him upon that whole subject and 
 endeaver to open his eis. I should be very glad jour brother Will had 
 the Roabs. I never liked any man's proceding better than that of Mr. 
 Hollis, and lett him know I shall be glad to have him in my service and 
 that he may agree with Windham and send him downe as sone as you 
 can. I have reason to like a man that desirs to be in my service now ; as 
 for Windham's complaint, I do not know of any the least reason he had 
 to complaine of any of his fellow servants, only I know he behaved him- 
 self very foolishly as to some things, and if 1 would have taken notice 
 of things mought have had reason to have been angry. 1 heare Sherif 
 Bethel is accused of some words he has spoken against the King, and 
 that the bill is found against him, if it should amount to any tine or 
 forfiture, speake to his Majesty in tyme that his Cousin my Slin" S by 
 might have it, which would be but resoiiable, Bethel having enjoyd his 
 father's estate for several years. I have not tyme to say more now. 
 
 [1681,] July 12. — I have had yours of the o in which you tell me my 
 Daughter was to sett out as yesterday, but if she be sett out this day 
 tis well enouorb, for women are not very punctual. I am very glad to 
 heare that his Majesty affairs are every day on the mending hand ; sure 
 what has happned of late and Fitzharris' confession must do very much 
 good if the right use be made on't, as I make no doubt it will, since his 
 Majesty dos now trust those who dare be so bold as to be my friends, of 
 which number I am now absolutly persu aded Lord Hallifax is, as for 
 Mr Seymour I have relyd upon him, and found him to be a stedy'friend, 
 and know he will bring in others to be so, by force of reason fortifyd 
 with friendship for me. I would say more, but it having been a councell 
 day, I could not write till after supper, and it is now late, so that what 
 els I have to say I must defer till next post. 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Le 
 [1681,] July 16. — I was indeed surprised with the newse of the Prince 
 of Orange's coming into England, as well as you were, and am of your 
 mind as to the reason of his coming at this tyme. It must be your parts 
 that are upon the place to look well that no harme be done, pray be 
 very much with his Majesty when he is there, to observe what passes, 
 and I thinke if he the Prince be spoken homly to, if his head be 
 not quite wrong turned, his eis will be opened and he [will] see how he 
 has been abused by those who gave him measur of affairs in England. 
 Cargill the great feild preacher was taken two days since, and two 
 others of his tribes with him, and brought to towne yesterday and 
 exammd before the Councell, they all sayd they were bound by the 
 covenant to do what they did, and owned enough to hang them selvs, 
 which I believe they will sone be. 
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 [1681,] July 30. — I had not tyme till now to answer yours which I had 
 by Banks, he coming so just before the meetting of the Parliament, and 
 Hollis came here but yesterday morning, so that till then I did not know 
 you had writen to Lord Roscommon, to performe the cerimonial part 
 for you, and so apointed James Grahams to rid for you, tis true 
 Lord Roscommon sayd some thinge to me of your having writen to him, 
 but he did not expiaine that part to me, so that now I beleve, he 
 is troubled he did not ride, which he should have done had he explained 
 himself to me, and for Grahams he did not thinke of it till I told him I 
 would haue him ride for you that day. I long to heare what the Prince 
 of Orange's arrant has been, and hope his eis will be opend as to our 
 English affairs. You will by the last post haue had an account of the 
 first day's worke in Parliament which went very smoothly, and tho there 
 may be some turbulent people amongst them, yett I make no doubt 
 things will go well, tho some of them may chance to besnfluenced from 
 the seditious party in England. I have had in my particular, as well as 
 his Majesty, a great losse of the Lord Chancelor, and now I shall be 
 obliged to take much more pains my self, I haue beged of his Majesty 
 not to thinke of filling his place till this sessions is ouer, and I hope 
 he will also heare me give him a true caracter of those who pretend 
 to it before he disposes of it. When I have tyme I shall write such a 
 letter as you propose concerning Lord Hallifax. 
 
 [1681 ,] Aug. 14. — I had yesterday yours by Churchill who has informed 
 how affairs are where you are, and told me what my friends advise me 
 to, which I shall follow, and you may be sure I shall do my part to 
 hasten my returne. Things go very well here, yesterday we past two 
 Acts, the first a confirmation of ail the Laws for the security of the Pro- 
 testant religion as now established here by Law, the other an Act for the 
 declaring and asserting the prerogative and succession, a copy of both 
 which I haue caused to be sent to S. Jenkins. To morrow the act will be 
 brought in form the articles for the continuation of the sesse, for five 
 years ; the party will endeaver to bring it downe to three, but I am very 
 confident we shall carry it for five. I have not tyme now to say any 
 thing to you in answer to what you mentiond concerning M. Bentink, 
 nor indeed almost of any thing els, but that Churchill has confirmed me 
 in the good opinion I have of Lord Hallifax, by the account he has 
 given me now of his proceeding in the affaire of the Prince of Orange, 
 as well as in my other concerns, which when so ever I see him he shall 
 find. I could wish Duke Hamilton would lay aside his thoughts of 
 popularity, it would be better for him, for in the end he will do himself 
 no good, and in the meane tyme may be made a property to obstruct his 
 Majesty's service. You shall heare againe from me by the next post. 
 
 [1681,] Aug. 24. — Before I say any thing to you of any thing els I 
 mention Sir Roger Strickland to you, that you would be watchfullfor him, 
 and put the King in mind of him when any occation shall offer, that he 
 may be employd, he hauing now layd long out of command, but I hope 
 now it will not be long before I may solicite for him my selfe, for I have 
 now writen to his Majesty to aske leave for to wayte on him so sone as 
 the Parliament is up, for some few days, which I hope is so reasonable a 
 request, that it will not be denyd me, and realy it is absolutly necessary 
 for the good of his affairs m this Kingdome, where severall very necessary 
 things cannot be settled till I speake with him. I send my letter to his 
 Majesty enclosed to Lord Hyde, to whom I have writen so long a letter 
 upon this subject that I need say no more upon it to you, for when I 
 consider of it I realy cannot find one resonable argument against my 
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 If I have leave to "go up I intend to leave the Dutchesse and my Eael op 
 
 Daughter behind, which they will be very well content with, it. not DAE ™ss tJTH s 
 
 being proper for women to make such a voyage for so short a stay, — 
 
 however it will be necessary another yacht should be sent for I cannot 
 
 have lesse than two, therefore when it is resolved on do you speake to 
 
 his Majesty about it and the soner she is sent away will be the better, 
 
 for I hope by this clay fortnight the Parliament will be very neare an 
 
 end, for by the end of next weeke I hope the acts of publike concerne 
 
 will be past. If Gunnman be out of the way speake that Faisby be 
 
 sent. 
 
 [1681,] Sep. 3. — This is only to tell you that I have had this night yours 
 of the 30th and that Lord Hyde is not yett come. I long to speake with 
 him, and am prepared for the worst, and shall still do the part of a 
 good subject, and have the satisfaction to have done his Majesty and the 
 crowne good service in this Parliament. I wish some where you are 
 would take as much pains and be as stedy and resolut, and then things 
 would go as smothly there as they do here. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1681,] Sep. 11. — Istayd to answer yours of the first which I receved 
 by Lord Hyde, till his return e, and yesterday in the afternone I had j ours 
 by H. Goring, before which I had had notice of Sir John Doncom's em- 
 bassage, which did realy very muchallarum us here, but by what you tell 
 me from the D r and by his Majesty's letter to me by Goring I am somwhat 
 more at ease then I was, tho I must still feare the worst, as long as I am 
 not permitted to returne, and realy what you hint to me in your letter, 
 and what Lord Hallifax in his has more plainly sayd, and has been prest 
 by Lord Hyde, concerning my going to church, has mortifyd me vary 
 much, since I cannot do it, for indeed I see no thing but mine, when 
 such measurs are taken, as produced such a message to me, when there 
 was no reason to beleve I would comply, for any going back or shew of 
 feare in his Majesty or ministers must be the ruine of nil, and I cannot 
 help thinking the world will looke on my not going up now as one of 
 them. I wish they may not, and do what I can here to hinder that belli) 
 all the honest men here are much troubled I do not go up, as Lord Hyde 
 can tell you, and I thinke it so absolutly necessary for his Majesty's 
 service for the settling of this country that I do presse againe for leave 
 to go up. 1 need say no more to you by Lord Hyde who will informe 
 you of all things here, and am sorry to find he thinks his Majesty will 
 never lett you have both the Ordinance and Portsmouth togather, tho 
 I told him I thought it might very well be for you to have both, and 
 debated it with him, but I feare it cannot be, by what he sayd, so that 
 at last I feare you will be put to it to chuse which you will have, I know 
 the Ordinance is more honorable but the governeur of Portsmouth maks 
 a better figur in the world, and will always be more considerd. 
 
 1681, Sept. 12. Berwick. — Colonel John Churchill (unsigned) to 
 Colonel Legge. " Dear cousen, I should make you both excuses and com- 
 plements for the troble you have bene att in sending my wife to me, but 
 I hope itt is not that time of day betwine you and I, for without com- 
 plement as long as I live I will be your frend and sarvant. My Lord 
 Hyde, who is the best man living will give you an acount of all that has 
 passed. You will find that nothing is done in what was soe much de- 
 siered, soe that sooner or laiter we must be all undone. As soone as 
 Lwine (sic) has his papers the duke would have him take the forest (sic) 
 opertunety by sea and com from Scottland. My hart is very foulle, soe 
 that should I writt to you of the sade prospect I feare we have, I should 
 
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 Earl of tiere your patience ; therfor I refere my selfe holly to my Lord Hyde 
 Dartmouth's an( j ashure you that wher ever I am, you and my Lord Hyde have a 
 — ' faithful friend of me." 
 
 [1681,] Sep. 15. James Duke of York to Colonel George Legge. — 
 Yours of the 8th came not so sone to me as you thought it would 
 for it meett Lord Hyde on his way to Barwick, so that I had it not, 
 till Tusday night by Churchill who went thether with him and so came 
 back hether then. As to what you say concerning Portsmouth you will 
 see by my letter which I wrot by Lord Hyde what my opinion is and 
 the more I thinke of it the more I am confirmed in my mynd that you 
 should not part w ith it, especialy since what you wrot to Lord Hyde, 
 and that some people have such a mind to haue you out on't ; as for what 
 you propose concerning Major Nicholas I thinke it very reasonable he 
 should have a Commission of Lieutenant-Governor, if you should part 
 with it which 1 hope you will not. 'Tvvas honnestly done of the Earl 
 of Bath and the Doctor to speake as they did to his Majesty. I hope he 
 will stand to what he sayd to them, I am sure if he dos not he will be 
 ruined as well as I. You did very well to buy the horse you mentiond for 
 I cannot help thinking I shall sone either make use of him for hunting 
 or for his Majesty's service, being apt enough to beleve that if the party 
 cannot obtaine their will of the King, by the means of those fals freinds 
 he has about him, that they will try for a better or a worse another way, 
 for if he stand by him self and his old freinds they have no other game 
 left to play. I long to heare from Lord Hyde after he has been at New- 
 market^ for by what he shall say to me I shall be able to judge what 
 measurs are taken, and I should thinke that what has been done by the 
 Parliament here should hasten people to be vigorus where you are. We 
 have now dispatched not only all his Majesty's concerns but seueral 
 publike acts, for the good of the country, and incouraging of trade 
 and the manufactors, so that there remains little to do, and to-morrow 
 or next day I beleve, I shall put an end to this sessions of Parliament, 
 which you see, for all what was sayd, by some of this country, at London, 
 is like to end very well. 
 
 1681, Sept. 22. Tanger. — Francis Povey to Colonel George Legge. 
 Ordnance matters, &c. Here is lately come into this garrison a Moor 
 which is cousin to the King of Fez for refuge ; his occasion of coming w r as 
 that the king took away his estate, upon which he vowed he would come to 
 the Christians. Some days since the king has demanded him of the 
 governor, but what the result is I cannot give your honour an account 
 of. About 6 days since the James galley commanded by Captain Shovell 
 and the Sapphire by Capt. Hastings cruising west 40 leagues from Cape 
 St. Vincent had after a very hot dispute made themselves master of the 
 Half Moon of Argeire which was very little inferior to the Golden 
 Horse; she had 32 pieces of cannon mounted, what number of men I 
 can not justly say, about 40 English slaves and with one woman. The 
 20th instant about the same place Captain Booth in the Adventure en- 
 gaged the Golden Lion of Argiere and in a short time took her; she 
 is the same dimensions as the Half 31oon, and this day it is reported 
 that he has taken another, but as yet he has brought neither to this 
 place. The account of it we have by Spanish boats which came from 
 Chuchalana {sic) who say Captain Booth carried the tirst into Cadiz. 
 
 1681. Sept. 23. — Acts passed by the Governor, Council, and Assembly 
 of Jamaica. The following are the chief subjects of the Acts — rates of 
 negroes (with reference to the King's order that the African Company 
 supply the Island with 3000 negroes annually at 18/. per head) ; quit 
 rents ; masters of ships to give security; preserving of cattle; regis- 
 
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 tering deeds; foreign coins; confirmation of pious gifts ; encouragin. 
 importation of white servants ; regulating building ; &c, &c. 
 
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 MSS. 
 
 1681, Sept. 28.— Colonel John Churchill to Colonel Legge. Of no 
 importance. 
 
 [1681,] Sep. 30. Edinburgh. James Duke of York to Colonel 
 George Legge. — I have writen so fully to Lord Hyde about some 
 things which I propose should be done here, that I need not repet 
 them to you. I confesse I had no great mind to have made any such 
 proposition by letter, but this being concerning the sessions, which 
 court is to sitt the first of Nouember, I could not delay proposing it, and 
 by this I shall see how, what els I haue to offer, is like to relish, for if 
 his Majesty dos not rely upon my judgment in this, I cannot hope he will 
 barken to me in the rest, and that if he do not aprove of what I have 
 offred, that he will lett that proposal dy, and not lett any body know 1 
 have proposed any such thing to him, for if it be not liked, it would not 
 be well for me it should be knowne. I do not know how it will be aproved 
 of now, but could I have gone up my self I am very confident it would 
 haue been done, but since that could not be I chose rather to do it this 
 way then not at all, how disadvantageous so ever it be. This bearer 
 Banks will tell you that some of the coach horses are dead, so that you 
 would do well to see to gett some to send downe hether to fill up the 
 setts againe, you that are upon the place can best judg when to send 
 them, and whether I may hope to be with you this winter or no. I am 
 almost dosed with writing so long a letter to Lord Hyde, so that I can 
 say no more now. 
 
 [1681,] Octo. 2. — This is only to tell you thatlthiuke after what hap- 
 pened to this bearer Mr. Sheriden in one of the late Parliaments, he aught 
 to be countenanced by all my freinds, and besidsthat I do look on him as 
 one who will lay hold of all- occationsto serve me, and is an honest man. 
 I have now knowne him for above these two years, and have never found 
 him to have made a fals step, and always very zealous for his Majesty's 
 seruice, which is all I shall say now. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1681,] Nov. 1. — On Sonday I had yours of the 25th, and by it see Lord 
 Hyde had told you I did not foigett a conccrne of yours, and you may be 
 sure I shall still shew you what kiudnesse I can, and when Lord Hyde and 
 you thinke it proper for me to mention any thing of that to his Majesty I 
 shall readily do it. I see you know of the proposal has been made to me 
 concerning the Duchess of Portsmouth, and supose before this Lord Hyde 
 will have told you of the answer I made to it, which as I sayd to him 
 aught to satisfy if there be no further designe in it then the securing hir 
 of what she desirs, what you say to me of Harry Savile agrees with 
 what I heard of him from Paris a post or two ago, for there he 
 talked of reconciling his Brother and Lord Shaftsbury, and of the neces- 
 sity of a Parliament's being speedily called at London, and since he Lord 
 Halifax clrivs [drives] on a Parliament tis no wonder he is against my 
 having leave to go up, but I hope he will be disapointed in both. As for 
 Barwikelam absolutly against its being slighted, and insteed of that am 
 for its being repaired, and having a good magazine in it, tis of great con- 
 cequence both as to England and Scotland, for it is a great bridle to the 
 South parts of this Kingdome which are much poysoned by the Phanatiks, 
 and in case of any thing to do in England it would be of great concequence 
 to have arms there to put into the hands of the loyal party that are 
 very numerous in the fower Northern shiers, and a little thing would 
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 Eael of slight it, and would be a very great reproch to the government to do it. I 
 lRT MSS TH S neare tne Duchess of Lauderdale is very angry with me for the remous 
 — ' which haue been made in the sessions, I do not wonder at it for some of 
 them were hir creaturs, and she receved the late regester's pention, and 
 some say went a share with him in the perquisits of his place, and that 
 which vexes hir most is that she sees she can no more squeese this 
 country as she has done for severall years past, and gott very consider- 
 able somms of mony for this country, whilst his Majesty's treasury is run 
 in over (?), and his Castels quite out of repaire, two of them not having 
 one gun mounted in them. D[uke of] Hamilton was here, and is gone 
 back into the country, says he is not yett cleere to take the test, but 
 maks mighty professions of loyalty and readinesse to serue his Majesty 
 if occation be. Lord Argile is here, and has not yett taken it, but by 
 Thursday next he must or lose all his places, which he will be unwilling 
 to do, and now that tis seen it will be stuck to it will go downe with 
 many who seemed to scruple at it. 
 
 [1681,] Nov. 4, Edinburgh. — I had this day yours of the 30th, and am 
 sorry you were not stood by this tyme as well as the last, but sine that was 
 not, I am glad you are to have some thing for it, and that his Majesty was 
 so kind to you, and that the Duke of Albemarle is to have it, sine you 
 were to part with it, for he is true to the Crowne. I have had constant 
 accounts of what has past in both houses, but have yett heard nothing 
 from Mr. Hyde nor any of the ministers. I see the witnesses have new 
 instructions every day, and forsWeare themselvs lustily, as to me I am 
 sure, and I beleve others will every day be prompted to swear new 
 crims against me. I see I must expect the worst, I have not tyme to say 
 more. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1681,] Nov. 5. — On Thursday last I had yours without a date,in which 
 you give me an account Orbistoune being arrived at London and having 
 been with his Majesty and what he says. I knew before of his being sone 
 thether but did not know his businesse. I am glad to heare he is sensible 
 of his errors, and wish he may continu of that mind when he corns 
 here, and that by his actions he may shew the sincerity of his words. I 
 do not thinke Duke Hamilton will prove so bad a subject as he seems 
 to feare, for tho he has not yett taken the test, yett when he went from 
 hence last weeke he made all the imaginable professions of duty and 
 loyalty could be desired, has given up an old house of his to be made 
 garnison of, and says he will serve his Majesty as readily as any body as a 
 commissioner of the exise or in such capacitys as he can exerc[is]e with- 
 out taking the test, and I feare that Lord Arran can be of little use to his 
 Majesty's service, and not do what Orbistoune thinks he can, and besids 
 till Lord Arran has for some tyme given good profs of his sincerity. I 
 thinke he is not to be relyd on, after his having behaved himself as he 
 has done, and keept such company, however some use may be made of 
 him, but truly I do not thinke it fitt for his Majesty's service, he should be 
 now put into his father's places, or indeed at all till one is surer of him, 
 and that he has satisfy ed the world that he has quited the interest and 
 princepals of those [he] used to keep company with at London, for till then 
 it would discourage the truly loyal men to see marks of favor bestowd 
 on such men for only saying a dutyfull word, and may be it is by 
 Dutchesse Hamilton's order he talks now as he dos, hoping by this 
 means to preserve all the offices to hir family and to have as much 
 power in that country tho hir Lord do not take the test, which may be 
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 before the first of January, take it. I do not yett find that many of the Eael or 
 
 people of quality follow Duke Hamilton's example in not taking it, except Dar ™s S uth * 
 
 Lord Argile, for even Lord Southeske who ran along with him in all things — * 
 
 in Parliament has taken it, and I believe except Lord Hadington and Lord 
 
 Castels, or may be one or two more of those who satt in Parliament, 
 
 not any nobel man will scrupel it, it was nothing but an opinion was 
 
 gott in amongst some that it would not be stuck to which made some 
 
 delay the taking of it, but now it gos currantly downe, all the Advocats 
 
 and Lawyers except Sir John Cuningham hauing taken it, and those of 
 
 the ministers who scrupled it, are most of them persuaded by their 
 
 Bishops, and will take it. I do not find that Sir G. Lockhart is so great 
 
 with the Duke or Duchess of Hamilton as he was for he has taken the test 
 
 him self, and did his endeaveurs to perswade Duke Hamilton to take it ; all 
 
 those others you have named, I know are not well affected, and they 
 
 shall be observed but I do not thinke they have any designe at present, 
 
 how ever all care shall be taken to prevent any they may have. I am 
 
 glad to find by yours that M r Seymour is come to you, and continus firme 
 
 for my being sent for, it shows he is truly my freind, and I am sure I 
 
 can look on none to be so that are not for my being sent for. I have not 
 
 tyme to say more, and you will heare from Lord Hyde of Lord Argil's 
 
 having taken the test, and spoild all againe by not taking it yesterday as 
 
 one of the Lords of the Treasury. 
 
 [1681,] Nov. 12. — I had yours of the 5th on Thursday last but none 
 from Lord Arran, as you sayd I should, and till I either heare from him or 
 see him, shall say no more of him, having writen my mynd very freely to 
 you upon his subject. I long very much to know what will become of the 
 great statsman, and shall be of your mind, if after all this stur he gett 
 lose. I heare M. Van Benning presses hard to engage us into a war, but 
 I hope he will not prevaile. I am against a war now as well as I was 
 against the last war with Holland ; then I fortold the danger of it and 
 the inconveniancys it would draw upon his Majesty, which he has found to 
 have proved but to true, and now remember I tell you in all liklyhood 
 it would be the absolut ruine of the monarky, and immediatly destroy 
 our trade ; for the last part on't any man that knows the Sea cannot deny 
 it, and for the other part any man that will but consider must know it 
 to be true also, considering all circomstances, and the present temper of 
 the nation, and lett one but remember how the Dutch made the peace 
 at Nimegen, and before that at Munster, at \_sic, and?] that they are mar- 
 chants, who will do any thing to engrose the trade againe into their hands. 
 I have sayd enough on this subject, and could say much more. I am sorry 
 to find you so melancoly as to youre owne concerns. You know his Majesty 
 is realy pind to you, his ministers are so, at least those of them that are 
 my freinds. 1 am the same to you I ever, was, so that a little soner or 
 later, you will be put at ease, and pray lett me know where any stop is 
 in your concerns that I may do my part to remoue it. As for affairs here 
 all things are very quiat, and people seeme little concerned for Lord 
 Argil's being put into the Castel, and for these many years this country 
 has not been so quiat, nor so free from feild conventicles. I long to heare 
 what will become of Lord Shaftsbury. 
 
 [1681,] Nov. [17 or 18?]. — I had not tyme by the last post to answer 
 yours of the 8th, by reason of the councell's sitting so long that night, and 
 feare the forrain ministers and those who wish not well to the monarky no 
 more then to me haue prevailed so far, as to the calling of a Parliament, 
 by the answer has been made to M. Van Benning' s memorial, for that 
 engages his Majesty more then I could wish he had been, and I feare the 
 prospect of it will do his Majesty affairs no good ; I am sure it will 
 
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 lktmoijth's encoura o e m .Y enemys, to designe things against me. I see you had some 
 MSS. allarum as if there had been some desine upon Portsmouth. I did not 
 — thinke the officer you mentioned had been such a kind of man as you 
 say he is, but this is an age to try men and know them. As to what you 
 say concerning your parting with Portsmouth, if it must be I think 
 Lord Noel a very good man to be in it, but I do not know why you 
 should part with it, if you can keep it. If I be not mistaken I wrot to 
 you upon this subject once before, but if I have not I shall tell you my 
 thoughts upon it The office of Master of the ordnance is I acknowledg 
 the more honorable post, and of more profit, but the governement of 
 Portsmouth is more considerable, and as to the circomstances you are 
 in, and considering the state of affairs, and even your owne privat con- 
 cerne, if I were in your place I had rather have Portsmouth, then the 
 Ordinance, and would not part with the first if I could keep it, for 
 even as to your privat concerne, if my affairs go ill, you can hardly 
 expect to be continud in the Ordinance, for the same reason which 
 will prevail to remove you from the one, will be made use on for the 
 other, and if you can continu as you are, and keep of any alteration in 
 the Ordinance, you may hope if I returne to have both, but after all I 
 have sayd, if they have you part with Portsmouth, there is no remedy, 
 and in that case, Lord Noel is a very good man, and if they do oblige you 
 to it, I shall look on it as a very ill signe as to my self, and shall not 
 expect you will keep the Ordinance long, but of all this you will be 
 better able to take your measurs when the tryals are over. All things 
 are, God be thanked, very quiat here, and like Jx) continu so, some of 
 the ministers have refused to take the test, but for all that it gos downe 
 very well with most people. 
 
 [1681,] Nov. 21. — I had yesterday yours of the 15th, in which you gave 
 me an account of what his Majesty had sayd to Lord Feversham, but how 
 to make that agree with what Lord Hyde say to me ) and the D r , I cannot, 
 for by what Lord Hyde says, I see little hops of being sent for or having 
 leaue to go up, and by what the other writs, it dos not look as if I 
 should be stuck to, for only to be sommond by writ as the D r says, looks 
 as if his Majesty were afraid to call me other ways, and would not stand 
 by me when I was there. Discourse of this with Lord Hyde and the D 1 ' 
 and talke with Mr. Seymour to, and know his opinion what I should do if 
 a Parliament be called, which by all letters I see is like to be sone, and 
 lett you that [are] my freinds consider beforehand wha[t . . torn] to 
 his Majesty concerning me, when that is, and^what I aught to presse him 
 to, it being impossible for me at this distance to know what to say with- 
 out aduice from where you are. 
 
 [1681,] Nov. 22. — You will see by what I have already writen that I did 
 not expect to have had so good newse, and so sone as yours of the 17th 
 brought me, which I receved this morning. I see by it and by Lord 
 Hyde's that t'was Mr. Seymour began first Pray lett him know how- 
 kindly I take it from him, and that I find the advantage of having so 
 bold a freind and so true one as he is, of which I am and always shall 
 be very sensible. I send you here enclosed a letter to him to assure it 
 [torn] self, and pray say as kind things to Lord Feversham from me as 
 I know he deservs from me. I was very glad to find Lord Halifax con- 
 cernd in my being sent for, I had a letter from him, which I have 
 answered. I have not tyme to say more to you now. 
 
 1681. Dec. 10. Tanger.— Colonel P. Kirke to Colonel Legge. The 
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 the gun from the carriage ; and now earl of 
 
 Mr.Povey is gone there is not 2 men in town understands the art of Dae T y[s$ Tn 5 
 
 gunnery. . . . He is a very honest man, so pray dispatch him to us as — ' 
 soon as it lies with your convenience. 
 
 1681. Dec. 17. Dublin Castle. — Duke of Ormonde to Col. Legge. 
 Amongst many persecuted French Protestants come lately over to 
 Dublin is one Lewis Beauvall, from Pochelle. Asks that employment 
 may be found for him in England. 
 
 1681. Dec. 18. Tangier. — Colonel Kirke to Col. Legge. Is informed 
 that the bearer Mr. William Harmond, brother of Cap. Thos. Harmond, 
 is very fit for the post of master gunner at Tanger. 
 
 [1681 ?]. — Petition of the inhabitants of Gosport to Col. Legge, 
 Governor of Portsmouth. 
 
 Complain of the loss of fresh water enjoyed by them before the 
 digging of the works about the said town, and suggest that a traverse 
 wall on the north side of the town would prevent the salt water from 
 intruding upon the springs. Signed by Geo. Rennalls, Christopher 
 Elminstone, and 5 others. 
 
 [1681-2,] Feb. 18, Edin [burgh] .—James Duke of York to Col. Legge. 
 
 I intended to have writen to you by the last post, to lett you know I 
 had yours of the 11th, and one of an older date which I had not answerd, 
 but the councell satt so long, after which I had a meetting with some I trust 
 most about Lord Argil's affaire, which lasted so long as I had not tymeto 
 write, to tell you that I aproved of your not letting my letter be 
 delivred, for the reasons giuen, and hope it will be brought about 
 without it, by what is sayd to me, tho if I be not sent for, before this 
 getts to you, I shall have little hops left of seing London in hast. I should 
 thinke Lord Halifax's behaviour and pressing for a Parliament should 
 lessen his creadit with his Majesty which would be good for me, as well as 
 for his Majesty, for tis impossible things can go well if he be at the head 
 of affairs. As for what you propose concerning Mr. Aldworth I have not 
 given leave to Mr. Holder to sell his place, nor will I lett it be sold, so 
 that at present I need say no more about it, when I shall be at London 
 t'will be tyme enough to consider what to do. Allthinge arequiat here, 
 and tho the phanatiks will hardly rise in this kingdome, as I beleve, tis 
 not for want of will but power. I shall be very impacient for the letters 
 are to come on Tusday next, and hope they will bring some good 
 newse, if not my pacience will be tryd. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 1682, Feb. 25, Edin [burgh] .—I find by yours of the 18th, that you were 
 not altogather in dispare of my being speedily sent for, tho by my other 
 letters I had little hops left of it. I have by this post writen to his 
 Majesty to presse my having leave to way t on him for some few days to 
 give him an account of his affairs here and to receve his orders in some 
 thing which I cannot so well acquaint him with except I be with him, and 
 which is absolutly necessary for his service. I aught to have sayd this 
 before, but was still so fed with the expectation of being sent for, that I 
 thought it would have been done without it, and now I am sure if my 
 letter had been delivred it could have done no harme. I hope this I have 
 now writen may do good, I am sure if it dos not my affairs are in an ill 
 condition. I was very much surprised to find by yours, you are not yett 
 of the councell, for I beleved you were to have been it by your place. 
 Nobody has sayd any thing to me of it but your self, sure no body can be 
 against it, that pretends to be my freind, and I look on it to be a greater 
 injury to me, then it is to you, since tis because you are my servant, 
 
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 Eakl of ( that you are not admitted of it, and not for any other reason. I have not 
 MS°S UTH b ^ m e to say more to you now. 
 — ■ [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 [1681-2,] Feb. 28., Edenburgh. — I send you here enclosed at the desire 
 of the Commissioners of the treasury, a note, concerning tents, that they 
 desire to have made in England, for the use of his Majesty's forces here, 
 for they cannot well gett them made here, tis the Generall gave me the 
 paper, by which you will see the sises they desire them of • pray lett them 
 be gone in hand with as sone as may be. I have orderd Sir A. Apsley to 
 pay you the mony there when you shall call to him for it, lett me know 
 what it will come to, that I may receve the mony here of the Treasury, 
 lett me know in what tyme you thinke they may be done, and, whether 
 you thinke the Kitchen yacht could not bring them all they being but 
 six hundred. Yesterday I had yours by Carleton, and am now in houerly 
 expectation of your brother Will, since you say if I am to be sent for, he 
 is to come with it, and by the letters come this day I find it was resolved 
 I should have leaue to go to Newmarkett to wayte on his Majesty there ; 
 if that be, lett my fox hounds and hunting horses be there to meett me 
 I have given Sir Allen orders concerning M rs Hilliard. The Clevland 
 yacht is not yett arrived, which is all I shall say till I heare certainly 
 whether I am to go or no, when I do I shall send you word whether I 
 shall go by land or sea. 
 
 [Addressed.] For Colonel Legge. 
 
 1681-2. March 10. Tangier.— Colonel P. Kirke to Colonel Legge. 
 On the bad state of the garrison, from want of officers, &c. ; also of a 
 master gunner, a firemaster and an engineer. 
 
 1681-2. March 19.— Ignat. Usher to Colonel Legge. 
 
 Wishes for a commission with his cousin Tyrell, if he gets a ship. 
 
 1682, March 27. Flanchford. — Lord Windsor to Col. George Legge. 
 
 At my return I found myself a father to a son more than I had born 
 when I parted with you, and the ' arrant ' of this letter is to desire you 
 will join with my Lady Halifax and the Bishop of St. David's in making 
 him a Christian. 
 
 1682, April 10. London. — List of subscribers for the new East 
 India Stock. Upwards of 800 names of persons subscribing sums 
 varying between 10,000/. and 200/., the total subscription being set 
 down at 1,300,200/. 
 
 1682, May 10. Welbeck. — Henry, Duke of Newcastle, to Colonel 
 Legge. Acknowledges letters of April 5 and 26. " When I was but eleven 
 years of age I was very much obliged to your father and your uncle Robert 
 who was pleased to be with my father at Newcastle when the first troops 
 was raised for his Majesty in the year '42. I should be a very unworthy 
 body if I was not perfectly your servant. I present my particular thanks 
 to you for your commission to Charles Pratt, which I will send to Capt. 
 BickerstafF by the next post. I very much acknowledge your favour to 
 me that I shall see the survey of what is to be done at Newcastle and Ber- 
 wick before you present it to his Majesty in Council. Your own knowledge 
 and wisdom will direct you better than any persons advice. I shall be 
 sure to write to Newcastle and Berwick that you may be informed of 
 every thing we know. I have two commissions by me to be Governor of 
 Newcastle and the port and the new fort there ; the first commission 
 was in '67, the other in '73." 
 
 1682, June 6 and 13. — Proceedings of court martial held on board 
 his Majesty's yacht Charlotte, concerning the loss of the Gloucester, Sir 
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 by Capt. Christopher Gunman, commander of the Mary yacht. Gunman J^kl op 
 was dismissed from his command, condemned to be imprisoned during AR mss! TI 
 his Majesty's pleasure, and to forfeit a year's pay for the benefit of the — 
 Chest at Chatham. The court was composed of Sir Richard Haddock, 
 president, Captains Hen. Williams, Geo. Churchill, Tho. Alline, Win. 
 Botham, Math. Tennant, Ralph Wren, and George St. Loe. 
 
 " A short and modest account of Capt. G unman's cause " is attached, 
 drawn up by Gunman himself. 
 
 1682, June 14. Tichfield.— Edward Lord Noel to Colonel Legge 
 at his house in the great square in St. James's Fields at London. 
 Describes the sad fate and unhappy end of Major Howston at Portsmouth. 
 The Major, Capt. Cornwallis, and St. John Nicholas did dine with 
 Sir Richard Beach on Monday last at the dock, and had drunk too freely 
 there. Capt. Cornwallis returned to the town about three o'clock, but 
 the other two were walking homewards between seven and eight in the 
 evening, when a quarrel arose and Major Howston was killed on the 
 spot by Lieut. Nicholas, who says he was forced to do it in his own 
 defence. The Major received six wounds, some of which were on his 
 back, so there is good reason to doubt it was not so fair on the Lieu- 
 tenant's part, if a fact of that nature may at any time be called so, which 
 is always a breach of the law. In this case it is found by the coroner's 
 inquest to be wilful murder, and Nicholas is in custody. His Majesty 
 has lost a loyal subject, his garrison at Portsmouth a very good officer, 
 and the writer a friend in whom he did much confide. 
 
 1682, June 15 and 17. Bath.— Col. Sir Edw. Villiers to Colonel 
 Legge. About the repairs to be undertaken at Tynemouth Castle. 
 
 1682, June 21. Welbeck. — Henry, Duke of Newcastle, to Colonel 
 Legge. 
 
 Referring to his previous letter and to matters at Berwick and Tyne- 
 mouth Castle. " I am very glad you intend to make Berwick a place to 
 be defended, but sure now it doth not deserve the name of a garrison, I 
 think forty men could take it with the assistance of the disaffected persons 
 in the town. I am very ready to make a deputy governor if my cousin 
 Wid[drington] be willing, and would have him had a deputation from mo, 
 but he desired to be Lieutenant-governor, and so I desired it of his 
 Majesty for him. I assure you he and my Lord Widdrington has all 
 the profits of governor and of the company, and so I acquainted hi< 
 royal highness when I had the honour to attend him here." 
 
 1682, July 3— The Earl of Carlisle to Colonel Legge. 
 
 I hear you continue to press the king in the affair of Sir G. Fletcher. 
 I did hope what I had writ to you would have satisfied you that it wag 
 both the best and kindest thing both for him and me to let the matter 
 rest at least a while, it being the only way now left to bring this 
 humorous, stubborn gentleman to a right temper again . . . ; but if in 
 the temper he is in you support him to bring me to his beck, you lay a 
 foundation of perpetual enmity betwixt us, for as in the general I am a 
 very easy man to live with, yet in what concerns my honour I cannot 
 be removed. I purpose to wait upon you in London the beginning of 
 winter, and am now going into Yorkshire in ten days, my daughter 
 Preston being there in expectation to see me. 
 
 1682, July 10. Sir George Fletcher to Colonel Legge. 
 
 A long letter about his differences with the Earl of Carlisle and Lord 
 Morpeth. "I was once as much in the favour of these Lords as any in 
 the country, and the first thing that gave any shock to our friendship 
 was the seizing of some Irish cattle which the seizer advising with me 
 
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 Earl of in, he then having a warrant from my Lord Carlisle to seize Irish cattle, 
 lB Mss! TH S to ^ n ^ m m y °P m i° n of the law, and how I thought he ought to demean 
 — himself in the execution of it, I not knowing who was concerned in the 
 cattle, nor if I had should I have given any other advice than I did. 
 But soon after I found the effects of my Lord Morpeth's displeasure, 
 for I was made Sheriff of this county, a place of expense and hazard, 
 turned out of the commission of peace, which troubled me more than 
 the former, though less to my damage, because I thought that must be 
 effected by some ill representation made of me to his Majesty, but by 
 your friendship I had not only the honour to kiss his Majesty's hand, 
 but an opportunity to clear myself from those ill things suggested 
 against me, his Majesty being graciously pleased to give me his pardon, 
 and to say that he remembered my father's suffering and doubted not 
 my loyalty." When Lord Carlisle returned from Jamaica, other disputes 
 arose with him and Lord Morpeth, connected with the Carlisle corpora- 
 tion, the train bands, &c. 
 
 1682, July 12. London. — Lord Longford to Colonel Legge. 
 
 Has news brought him that Sir Jonas Moore has broken his neck by 
 a fall from his horse. Eeminds Legge of his promises in favour of Mr. 
 Loggan, whose modesty will not allow him to make pretensions for 
 Sir Jonas's employment. 
 
 1682, July 17. Portsmouth. Edward Lord Noel to Colonel Legge. 
 
 I received yours of the 11th inst., for which I thank you, and have 
 resolved to follow your advice by making my son Lieutenant-dovernor of 
 
 Gosport, which you say will prevent disputes about precedency 
 
 You will find loyalty so intailed on him, that all the cunning lawyers of 
 the house of Commons, into which I design to bring him the next 
 sessions, will not be able to alter that settlement and change his honest 
 principles I am as much troubled as any one for my lieutenant- 
 governor and his son, who must shortly come to his trial ; but if he 
 escape, I hope his majesty will give me leave to recommend another to 
 his place, and not suffer him to have any command in this garrison. 
 .... I desire you to consider whether this be not a fit season for his 
 majesty to offer some recompense to the corporation of Portsmouth, if 
 they will remove their town-house and market into a back street, and so 
 leave the great street at all times open and clear, which will be a grace 
 to the town and a convenience to the garrison. 
 
 1682, Aug. 7, Aug. 21, Sept. 2, and Sept. 30. Coventry.— Thomas 
 Wood, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. Pour letters referring to those 
 received on behalf of Dr. Ployres, and suggesting that Dr. Eaynes, the 
 Chancellor of Lichfield, should be written to on his account. In some 
 of them the Bishop refers to Lord Alington, constable of the Tower, 
 having ordered him to provide two foot soldiers, instead of one as for- 
 merly, for his estate in Hackney, which is not above 100/. per annum ; 
 and asks Colonel Legge's help in gaining a remission. 
 
 1682, Sept. 14. — Lord Falkland to Colonel Legge. 
 Recommends a gunner for the vacant place in Upnor Castle, who 
 received several wounds in the Dutch wars. 
 
 1682. Sept. 28. Tichfield.— Edward Lord Noel to Colonel Legge. 
 
 The continual importunity of my Lady Campden to have that business 
 of the honour effected doth force me to renew my request to you that it 
 may be despatched with all possible speed ; for when she hears that Mr. 
 Seymour is made an Earl (whereas it was expected by her that my Lord 
 Campden should have been the first Earl, according to his Majesty's 
 promise) you may easily guess how great her rage will be against me, 
 
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 and what prejudice she may do me by alienating my father's affection Eahl of 
 
 from me Dartmouth's 
 
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 1682, Oct. 4. Tichfield.— Edward Lord Noel to Colonel Legge. — 
 On the same subject. 
 
 1682, Oct. 5. Tangier.— Col. P. Kirke to Colonel Legge. 
 
 Still complains of defective ordnance, stores, &c, and of the decayed 
 state of their quarters ; also of his treatment in the matter of bills of 
 exchange drawn by him upon Mr. Creed, Secretary, whom he has 
 the ill fortune not to be able to reckon among his friends. 
 
 " We are now in great expectation to hear how the Morocco ambas- 
 sador will have been received by his Master, and what regard will be 
 had to his English negociation. It is certain that this depends on incre- 
 dible hazards, the capricious humours of a Prince who understands not 
 or rather does not value the credit of an embassy, and the powerful 
 interest of the Governor of Alcazar and many others who conspire to 
 defeat all that has been transacted in England, may make, us very 
 much .suspect the event. A little time will discover how matters will 
 dispose themselves, and you shall receive frequent accounts of all passages 
 here from me." 
 
 1682, Oct. 5. Tangier. — Fra. Povey to Colonel Legge. 
 
 These are humbly to acquaint your Honour that at my arrival at 
 Tanger [on Sept. 26] I gave his Excellency an account of what supplies 
 were sent (Ordnance matters) 
 
 The Moorish ambassador is by this time with the King, but before 
 his going sent the ' Runagade ' with the whole account of the Embassy. 
 Two days since came in here an officer of this garrison from the King 
 who acquaints the Governor that the King is exceedingly satisfied 
 with his ambassador, and was so transported with joy that the King 
 [Charles II.] shoukl present the poor slaves that were in this town that 
 he fell on his face and kissed the ground, declaring that he would 
 continue the peace for ever, and admired that he should find so much 
 charity from any Christian. His nephew Mole Harnett is within a 
 day's journey of the King with a considerable army, so that we expect 
 some great new3 very suddenly. 
 
 1682, Oct. 5. Tangier.— Fra. Povey [to the Ordnance Officers in the 
 Tower] . 
 
 To the same effect as the last. 
 
 1682, Oct. 19. Tangier.— Fra. Povey [to Edw. Sherburne, Esq., or 
 any other Principal Officer of the Ordnance] acknowledging guns and 
 
 stores Here is a most miserable complaint for want of beds, the 
 
 soldiers lying merely on the boards ; as for the Lord Dunbar ton's they 
 have none because the first they had were made of straw, and the rest 
 of the regiments are spoiled by having so many sick men 
 
 P.S. — About 3 days since came in a Turks man-of-war but did not 
 stay, and 4 hours after he engaged with a French merchant ship of good 
 force and after 6 hours hot dispute the French ship surrendered. This 
 afternoon came in here a Tunis man-of-war bringing in 2 prizes taken 
 from the Dutch. 
 
 1682, Oct. 19. Tangier. — Colonel P. Kirke to Colonel Legge. 
 
 Renews his demand for certain stores u You will see in an 
 
 enclosed paper an account of what materials I have bought in Spain for 
 the repair of our quarters, wherein being forced to make use of his 
 Majesty's credit in so indispensable a necessity of his service, I question 
 not but that particular regard will be had in the compliance with the 
 bills I have this day drawn on the Treasury The Morocco am- 
 
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 Eael or } bassador has had the misfortune to incur his Master's displeasure to that 
 R ™ss7 n S d e g r ee, that himself and his comrades were loaded with chains, and what 
 — may be the further effects of the Emperor's indignation we cannot yet 
 conjecture. In the mean time it is a sad change of the scene that the 
 same person who was lately treated with royal honours should now be 
 used beneath the condition of a slave, and affords us a too convincing 
 instance that we are not to set any reliance on our peace with a Prince 
 whose inclinations and humours vary every moment, and that follows 
 the dictates only of an unaccountable caprice." 
 
 1682, Nov. 4. Tangier. — Colonel P. Kirke to Colonel Legge. 
 
 I gave myself the honour to write to you by Capt. Mathews by sea. 
 This goes by the hands of a gentleman 1 send express with a letter 
 from this Emperor to the King my Master. I must by this opportunity 
 let you know that (as I always suspected) the Morocco ambassador's 
 English negociation proves of no effect, this King making use of the 
 pretence that matters between us are so confusedly represented to him, 
 by the opposite factions of the ambassador and the Alcade of Alcazar, to 
 intimate the necessity of some great persons being sent from England 
 to inform him of the true state of things, and with whom he may 
 treat himself and conclude with his own mouth the conditions of our 
 mutual interest. So that now we have in effect no peace to depend on, 
 and we live at present under a certain cessation of arms and at the dis- 
 cretion of each other. When you consider this state of our affairs, and 
 the natures of the people we are to deal withal, you will not admire if I 
 urge with all earnestness the speedy sending all sort of ammunition 
 supplies, since there is no means to prevent my Master's reputation or 
 interest from suffering by the capriciousness of these people, but the 
 putting ourselves into a posture of being redoubted by them ; and of 
 receiving no affronts. It would be very seasonable if upon this emer- 
 gency and conjuncture the Moors might see that we are not abandoned 
 or neglected at home, and his Majesty would be the better able to take 
 his measures on this unexpected reverse of affairs, did our neighbours 
 observe we are preparing ourselves for the worst of events. 
 
 1682, Nov. 4. Tangier. — Era. Povey to Colonel Legge. 
 On the demands of his department. 
 
 1682, Nov. 16. Tangier. — Colonel P. Kirke to Colonel Legge. 
 
 Acknowledges stores received, &c. ; and sends copy of his letter dated 
 on the same day to the Lords of the Committee on the damage done to 
 the town wall, &c. by the late rains. The concluding paragraphs of the 
 last letter run — 
 
 There is scarce anything of more consequence to the preservation of 
 the garrison than water, which however hath been much neglected, many 
 wells having been filled up and springs lost, that I am now endeavouring 
 to retrieve. I have opened about fifty wells and by the help of some 
 ancient Portuguese have found an excellent water-course which had 
 been unknown for many years. They tell me of a book left with my 
 Lord Peterborough that retains an account of the water-courses and 
 many other necessary secrets, which if it were possible to recover would 
 prove of great use to us. 
 
 By the late election of the mayor here there have been some changes 
 and removes of aldermen and those of the common council. Mr. Smith, 
 chosen by the universal votes, I have confirmed and sworn him major 
 of the Corporation. The aldermen are William Stanes, Jenkin Thomas, 
 James Gorman, Nicholas Sandford, Nathaniel Lodington, and John 
 Forgeon. Those of the common council are Richard Sinhouse, Daniel 
 
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 Vansusterfleet, Eobert Cuthbert, Edward Chestone, James Waringe, Earl of 
 Francis Emms, Jacob Henderson, Henry Sparks, Diego Nortus, James AR ™ss< TE 
 Burino, John Samms, and Stephen Vincent. — 
 
 1682, Nov. 30. — A brief of the Controversy depending between the 
 Officers of the Navy and Sir Philip Howard and Co., touching the late 
 invention and practice of sheathing his Majesty's ships with lead. 
 
 1682, Nov. 30 and Dec. 16. Tangier.— Colonel P. Kirke. 
 
 1682, Dec. 19. Welbeck. — Henry, Duke of Newcastle, to Lord 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 Congratulates him on his peerage. 
 
 [1682?]. — Two papers headed. 
 
 Methods observed in his majesty's garrison of Tanger whilst under 
 the command of his Excellency Col. Peircy Kirke. 
 Signs to be observed. 
 
 1682-3, Jan. 11. Tangier. — Colonel P. Kirke to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Congratulations and garrison matters. 
 
 1682-3, Jan. 23. Tangier. — Fra. Povey to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Mr. Nicolson, the courier from England, arrived here about 10 days 
 since and 2 days ago went on his journey to the King of Morocco. 
 Ordnance matters. In conclusion the writer dwells on his own services, 
 and efforts to improve himself in the sciences of gunnery and fortification. 
 
 1682-3, Jan. 25. Tangier. — Colonel P. Kirke to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 I am extremely sorry the Lords of the Committee did not think fit to 
 recruit our horse, for upon my word it is of the greatest consequence. 
 As for a dependence on Spanish succours, it is certain that our misfor- 
 tunes may be too sudden to give us time to expect them - from thence ; 
 nor indeed can we well rely on a nation which loses its own places out 
 of neglect to relieve them. However I do not think we are in so ill a 
 condition that we should fear anything of that kind, though I could wish 
 we were better, and as long as we have so good a garrison we question 
 not to be able to defend ourselves till we hear from England. I hope 
 we shall have occasion of neither, for since the Moors perceive his 
 Majesty and the lords of his Council take care of us, they speak no 
 longer in the high strain they were wont, and the Alcade alarmed with 
 the news that stores, officers, men, ammunition, and money are coiniiii: 
 from England, expresses now an extraordinary complacency and kind- 
 ness, to that degree as I almost persuade myself we shall at length see 
 our Whitehall treaties ratified. I am sure I have applied my greatest 
 study and endeavours for that end, though, I hear, malicious people do 
 surmise that I consider a war, as my interest, and that consequently I 
 promote it ; wherein, I am sure, you will believe they are unjust to me, 
 nor indeed ought I to be suspected of so great weakness of judgment as 
 to have a war in my aim, wherein I can propose no advantage to myself, 
 but must enter upon it (considering our unprovided state) with a certain 
 
 prospect of disgrace As for Mr. Shere's proposals some of them 
 
 are very necessary, and to that degree, that above two months since I 
 have set men to work on the batteries of Peterborough Tower, and have 
 
 finished those batteries whereof I gave your Lordship an account 
 
 (gives other particulars of repairs, &c. accomplished). 
 
 1682-3, Feb. 8, Tangier.— Colonel P. Kirke to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 The Commissioners for inspecting the fortifications have found it of 
 absolute necessity that the outside of York Castle and the walls of Devil 
 Tower (which are falling) be ordered to be repaired with the greatest 
 expedition. A draught of those ruinous parts with an estimate of the 
 charges (621/.) of their repair, is enclosed. 
 
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 Earl of 1682-3, Feb. 11 and Feb. 14. Greenwich.— Sir Phineas Pett to . 
 
 Dartmouth's > . _ . p 
 
 mss. About the repairs ot ships, &c. 
 
 1682-3, Feb. 21. Longleat. — Lord Weymouth. Asks for advice as 
 to how he shall conduct himself towards Mr. Seymour after his disgrace, 
 when the latter comes into that neighbourhood. Is of opinion the best 
 way will be to meet as they used to do, without taking any notice of 
 what is past. 
 
 1682-3, Feb. 22. Tangier.— Colonel P. Kirke to . 
 
 Acquaints him with the works that have been lately completed there,&c. 
 
 1682-3, March 8. Tangier.— Fra. Povey to . 
 
 On Thursday last Sir John Berry arrived in the Henrietta, and on 
 Sunday Sir John Wyborne in the Happy Return from Lisbon, with 
 stores and guns. Reports progress in strengthening the batteries, &c. 
 
 1682-3, March 8. Tangier.— Colonel P. Kirke to . 
 
 Also reports the arrival of Berry and Wyborne, as well as of Captain 
 Priestman, in the Reserve, from the Levant, whom he relieved of live 
 brass cannon which he was transporting to England ; this he hopes will 
 be approved of, a? such cannon are greatly needed for the defence of the 
 place. 
 
 1682-3, March 9. Welbeck. — Henry, Duke of Newcastle, to Lord 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 Your Lordship is a great judge of men as well as mighty able in 
 business, and truly I think Mr. Wallis very fit to serve his Majesty at 
 Berwick, and I wish him so well I present my humble thanks to your 
 lordship for your favours to him .... I humbly acknowledge 
 your great favour to me concerning the fortifications of Berwick, and I 
 am mighty glad your Lordship has it in your thoughts to make it a 
 considerable garrison, for I reckon myself more of Northumberland than 
 of any country, because we were there before the Conquest . . . 
 
 1682-3, March 18. Virginia. — Thomas Lord Culpeper to Lord 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 " I shall first take leave to congratulate your new access of honour, so 
 justly due to your merit and services, and then acquaint you that long 
 before the receipt of your letter I had in effect done what you desired " 
 put another in the place of Mr. Welldon as sheriff. Reports the state of 
 the stores, and the narrow escape of the powder barrels from explosion 
 by a fire in the adjacent woods, thanks to the desperate valour of the 
 sergeant and soldiers. 
 
 " I thank God things have succeeded beyond my hopes, and by mine 
 to Mr. Secretary Jenkins you will receive the beginning of a yet more 
 comfortable account I hope to give by the end of our general court, 
 that is the middle of May. The greatest difficulty I have had hath 
 been to rectify Sir Henry Chichelye's weaknesses, or rather nothing- 
 nesses; but his death on the 5th of February last hath eased this place 
 from all future mal-administrations. Tobacco now bears a good price, 
 and will be of tolerable value all next year, if not longer. I shall in 
 April make an example of some plant cutters now indicted for treason, 
 for terror to others, if their juries find them guilty. The greatest rogue 
 of all was pardoned by Sir Henry on condition to build an useful bridge 
 near his house, for performance whereof his son in law, being one of 
 his Majesty's Council also, and Mr. Beverley were security. The next 
 great rogue was let out on bail. I have issued out a proclamation under 
 the seal of the colony for him to deliver himself up by a (sic) day for 
 trial, and am now sueing the bail ; and Sir Henry pardoned the Lord 
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 which so embarrasses me that the lot of severity will fall on the least Eael op 
 
 guilty or least malicious." Wishes to return to England for a short Dartmouth's 
 
 time to propose certain things of great consequence in the future, which — ' 
 cannot be well understood by letter. 
 
 1683, April 7. Ragley. — Lord Conway to 
 
 ... I shall obey my Lord Rochester's commands and say no 
 more of my cousin Seymour for the present, more than that I see your 
 lordship hath performed the part of a true friend to him . . I think 
 his majesty might very well have made one in our intrigues at Littlecott, 
 for I am sure we discoursed nothing but what I have heard his majesty 
 approve of a hundred times. I shall much rejoice if we have ease this 
 year from foreign parts j I doubt it will not last much longer. I hope 
 Sir Henry Goodrick's narrative will be a justification for the^ commission 
 given to Churchill; his usage hath been barbarous and deserves resent- 
 ment, and if I had ever been advised with on this point, it should have 
 been to more effect than this expedition will ever turn to, for this Sharpe 
 upon whom they rely is the person who lost all by his cowardice and 
 drunkenness. Mr. Blathwayt can give you the whole history of him, 
 I am glad you take care to let the Recorder of Exeter have time to 
 prepare his speech for his majesty's reception there, 
 
 1683, May 17. John, Lord Churchill, to 
 
 " The bearer has bene beging of me that I would signe a paper for 
 her, which she says will doe her good, itt is aboute the busness of 
 Irland " &c. 
 
 1683, May 26. Ragley.— Lord Conway to 
 Chiefly complimentary. 
 
 1683, June 10. Hull.— Earl of Plymouth to 
 
 Complains of a letter received from the Ordnance Office, professedly 
 by Lord Dartmouth's direction, reflecting on the Commissioners for 
 carrying on the fortifications at Hull, viz. himself, Sir Willou^hby 
 Hickman, Sir Robert Hilliard, and Sir John Legard. Thinks neTther 
 his lordship nor Sir Christopher Musgrave can have seeu the letter. 
 
 1683, June 23.— Petition of Edward Conyers, Esq., Keeper of his 
 majesty's stores, with many papers relating to the charges against him 
 of accepting bribes, &c. 
 
 [1683], June 24.— Lord Castleton to 
 
 I have commanded my son Charles to wait upon you. All he begs 
 till he have an employment at sea is that he may be taken into your 
 company of fusileers, and he has promised me faithfully and punctually 
 to observe all the duty of a common soldier ; and I hope his officers will 
 keep him to it. 
 
 1683, June 25. Sandbeck. Lord Castleton to 
 
 My son gives me an account of your lordship's particular kindness 
 towards him, and that he has met with his Captain, and acknowledges 
 ms happiness m serving under the command of so worthy and brave a 
 person .... J 
 
 1683, June 29. Hull.— Earl of Plymouth to 
 
 I have received the 200/. of Mr. Alderman Lambert, which you gave 
 me credit for. He desired me according to their custom to draw a bill 
 upon your lordship. 
 
 1683, June 30. Ragley.— Lord Conway to 
 
 I should have obeyed your lordship's commands without consulting 
 either my own inclinations, or my own reason, if I had not received a 
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 Earl of letter on Monday last from Mr. Secretary Jenkins, of which I have 
 T)AR Ss TJTH S ^ ere enc l° se d a C0 Py tnat vou ma y see there is not one word of desiring 
 — ' iny company, and on the other side there is work cut out for me here, 
 which I am pursuing, and which I think myself obliged to attend, 
 
 I doubt not but all the Wihgs in England, whether in the Court or 
 out of the Court, and all the French pensioners, if any such there be, 
 were in some measure concerned in this plot, and consequently they will 
 endeavour to bring off one another at as cheap a rate as the thing will 
 bear. Some may suffer but the faction shall be kept up for new 
 mischief, which upon this occasion ought to be entirely broken. What 
 good will it do me, or any of my friends, if I were now amongst you 
 preaching of this doctrine ? Your master will not make the less court- 
 ship to that hand which foments it all. Therefore, I hold it best for 
 me to do my duty where I am, and that I shall perform with all zeal 
 and fidelity both to the King and the duke, who possibly may come to 
 be sensible of those that serve them only upon the principles of honour 
 and conscience. If not I shall have the satisfaction of living and dying 
 with an upright heart, and shall not one jot the less study to show 
 myself your, &c. 
 
 1683, June 30. Sandbeck. — Lord Castleton to 
 
 The news of this plot alarms me, especially when I consider the 
 persons that are reported to be in it. 
 ' Tis ingratitude makes all things black. 
 
 Your lordship will pardon me if I beg of you to give the duke my 
 humblest duty and assure his Royal Highness from me, that I will not 
 swerve one syllable from what T promised him at Doncaster. Promises 
 
 once made are past debate I am not ill horsed 
 
 nor armed, and I hope not ill with my neighbours, neither Yorkshire 
 nor Lincolnshire, for I am no pensioner nor plotter. 
 
 Honesty is the wisdom I have gone upon, though it seldom doth a 
 man good. Howe'er there is a something in't that will smell sweet and 
 blossom when we are but dust. 
 
 1683, June. — Capt. Cloudesley Shovel's account of his being forced to 
 salute the Spanish fleet in the bay of Cadiz. 
 
 u Being ordered by Admirall Herbert to saile to Cadiz, and stay there 
 for the arrivall of Leftennant Necolson who was expected to com post 
 every day from England, we being att an anchore in the bay of Cadiz 
 the 23rd of June 1683 before three a clock in the morning severall of 
 the Spanish armado anchored neare us, three of them about seventy 
 gunns a peace, lay within pistall shott of us, and had so placed themselves 
 that we could not cast our ship without being a bord of one of them : 
 they sent a bord me to demand a salute to their generall : and being 
 danyed twice they fired a great gunn, and a vally of small shott, which 
 cutt severale of our runing riggine : the generall's ship not being fitt to 
 come doune, the generall had putt himselfe a bord the Vice- Admirall of 
 the Flanders squadron which ship he had made reedy to assist in our 
 distinction if we offired to fli before we saluted, also the gunns in the 
 town ware made reedy against us. I saw his Majesty's ship and 
 subjects in such unavoydable danger of being destroyed without saluting, 
 thought 'twas better to redeem ship and lives with a salute then to 
 rueing the whole. The man that demanded the salute was Popacheus 
 Leftenr.ant who tould me his orders from his captain was to tell me 
 that if I did not salute by eight a clock he must follow his Generall's 
 orders, which was to destroy both ship and men. We fired seven gunns, 
 but was not answared with any gunn." 
 
 Signed Clou. Shovell. 
 
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 1683, July to September. — Journal of Capt. Cloudesley Shovel, then of Earl of 
 the James galley, of his proceedings from the departure of Admiral ^mss? 11 
 Herbert on the 1st of July till the 29th of September when he joined — 
 Lord Dartmouth in Tangier Eoad. The entries chiefly relate to the 
 condition of the ships and the capture of a Dutch flyboat previously 
 taken by a Sallee privateer and are unimportant ; the following under 
 the date of August 3rd being the only one of interest, 
 
 " We returned for Gibralter whare I found Colonell Kirke's briggen- 
 teen, who was sent by him to give us the joyfull news of the escape of 
 the King and Duke of York from the hands of murdering Presbeterians 
 for which we made great rejoycing, and fired both great gunns and 
 small shott." 
 
 1683, July 2. Whitehall.— Charles II. 
 
 Original instructions to Lord Dartmouth for an expedition to be 
 forthwith made to Tanger, for the demolition of that city, and for the 
 removal of all English subjects, inhabitants there, and of all officers and 
 soldiers there in garrison ; a valuation to be taken of the estates and 
 interests that the proprietors or inhabitants have in their houses and 
 tenements, and reduced to the form of a general certificate to be laid 
 before the king, in order that some reasonable compensation may be 
 made; and particular regard is to be had to the Portuguese and other 
 strangers whose indemnity is provided for by the Treaty between 
 England and Portugal when Tanger passed to the former ; the Portu- 
 guese and strangers with their families, goods, and effects are to be 
 shipped off in the first place, and to be accommodated according to 
 their several conditions and needs, and transported to their native 
 countries, or to such ports as they shall reasonably desire ; such English 
 inhabitants as desire may be transported to any plantations or any place 
 under English dominion, if no great expense is incurred ; the great 
 ends of this expedition to be concealed from the Moors, so that it may 
 come as late as may be to their knowledge ; all imaginable care there- 
 fore to be taken to prevent strangers and English subjects, and above 
 all the Jews, from sending or carrying the news of the intended 
 destruction of the place ; Lord Dartmouth to correspond punctually 
 with one of the principal secretaries so that the king may be informed 
 of his proceedings, &c, &c. (11 pages.) 
 
 [The following undated papers evidently relate to the same expedition.] 
 
 JST.D. Paper endorsed " Instructions." 
 
 "The Powers must be to command all his Majesty's forces in or neer 
 Tangeir both by sea and land during this expedition. 
 
 The instructions must be at your first coming to state every house- 
 keeper's propperty in ^heir houses considering the time they have in 
 them and certifying under your hand a moderate and reasonable vallue 
 to the end his Majesty recompence the loss to such as he shall see it 
 reasonable and necessary so to doe. 
 
 That such of the old Portegeiz inhabitants or other straingers that 
 
 were inhabitants at his Majesty's first having the place delivered into 
 
 his possession be by you payed a valluable consideration for their 
 propperty before they depart from the citty. 
 
 That they and all French, Spanyards, Itallians, or other straingers 
 are by you shiped of (with their famelyes and all their effects) carefully 
 and carryed to their own native countryes or such conveyent place as 
 they shall desire. 
 
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 Earl op That the English and Irish shall be brought carefully home to our 
 MSS. respective Kingdomes with their famelyes and goods, or in case any 
 English shall desire to goe to Ireland or any other place in our 
 dominions that you see them gratifyed according to their request if it 
 be reasonable, and the like to the Irish or any other of our subjects so 
 desiring. 
 
 That before you draw off any of our garrison you see all the inhabi- 
 tants with their wives, familyes, and effects excepting lumber, that our 
 ships may not be unnecessary pestered therewith safely and carefully 
 shiped and provided for their transportation to their propper places. 
 
 That after the inhabitants are safely brought of the old, lame, and 
 sick souldyers and officers belonging to our garrison are by your order 
 carefull shipped aborde our hospitall ships provided and fitted for that 
 purpose. 
 
 That in the next place you take speciall care to ship of our servisable 
 stores of all sorts distributing them into our men of warr or our store 
 ships by you to be provided for that purpose, taking still care to preserve 
 so much ammunition as shall be necessary for the defence of our Officers 
 and souldiers which are as carefully and regularly to be brought of as 
 you can contrive it that in case the Moores should set upon our forces 
 the lives of our subjects may be as much preserved as is possible in this 
 our service, making all necessary cuttings of and other means which 
 you shall advise upon the place for the well making of an orderly 
 retreate. 
 
 You are not to make your retreat till the walls, workes, and houses are 
 fully demolished, and above all things you are to see the Mold is 
 absolutly destroyed as much as possibly lyes in your power and to use 
 your utmost endeavours to make the harbor unusefull for any that shall 
 endeavour to possess this place for the future. 
 
 You are stricktly required not to come off your selfe till you see these 
 our instructions fully executed and perfected." 
 
 A pencil memorandum adds — 
 
 " There must be a generall clause to empower me to doe what ever 
 may be omitted in these instructions if I finde it necessary for the 
 carrying on this service when I am upon the place. 
 
 The instructions must be as a sedule fixed to the powers given me by 
 the great seale. 
 
 The arreares of the garrison must be paid that the inhabitants may 
 have their debts in from the officers and souldyers which they have 
 trusted or at least so farr as theyr pay will answer it before they are 
 forced to part." 
 
 A note written in ink follows. 
 
 " ' Tis proposed that Sir J° Mathewes or Sir Benjamin Bathurst or 
 some eminent marchant may be ordered with me to provide creddit for 
 so much money as shall be found absolutly necessary for this service 
 to be accounted for and taken up in manner and method as shalbe 
 prescribed by the Lords of the Treasury." 
 
 N.D. Paper endorsed " The first proposalls for Tangier. 
 " An order to be sent by Sir John Berry to Colonel Keirrke to banish 
 the Jewes. 
 
 Major Beckman and Nelson to goe away as soone as may be or with 
 one of the Turckye convoyes, to mine the walls of the toune and place 
 Furnoes, with some small cuttings off as if the toune were to be so 
 defended if a close seige should be layed to it hereafter. 
 
 To repair Midleton's line from the Castle to Yorke fort, to carry 
 with them a convenyent quantity of sulpher and mealed powder &c. 
 
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 with fifty of the largest unused granadow shells and twenty setts of Earl op 
 
 , , J , ° ° Dartmouth's 
 
 minors tooles. mss. 
 
 Sir John Berry imediately to return with the battalion of the — 
 gaurds. 
 
 Sir John Wyborne and the other ships to carry the Scotch Regiment 
 for Ireland, and returne back victualed well from thence to Tangeir 
 by the latter end of May, which is proposed to be the time for the 
 randevouze of all his Majesty's ships that can conveniently be there. 
 
 Qy. what ships and of what rates are already designed to be sett out 
 for this summer if this proposall had never beene made, and then to see 
 what addition wilbe needfull, such ships as are added must be large 
 airy ships able to bring away good numbers, but all ships or vessels 
 imployed in this service will come but to small charges being best to be 
 say led theither with no more hands then is just necessary and safe for 
 sayling them. 
 
 The inhabitants are not above a hundred famelyes at most exclusive 
 of the garrison and about 500 in number. These consist of Portageises, 
 French, some few Italians and Spaniards, Irish, English. 
 
 The inheritance of the houses are the King's and the leases not long 
 (as I am informed, but this may be particularly known in Mr. Creed's 
 office) and many of the people concerned live in England and let them 
 to the inhabitants at second hand as my Lady Peterborow, Sir Hugh 
 Chumbly, Norwoode, &c. 
 
 Qy. wheather it will not be necessary for Keirrke to have directions 
 in the meane time to carress the Mores and by all meanes he can to 
 preserve the peace. 
 
 The forces drawn of may be thus provided for — 
 
 The Scotch Regiment in Ireland and likewise the 4 independent 
 companyes that were drawn from thence. 
 
 The batalion of the gaurds in the gaurds heere. 
 
 The 4 indefendent companyes of M n to be broke into the other forces 
 heere in the roome of such as shalbe found defective or marryed men 
 upon a strickt muster. 
 
 The two Tangeire Regiments may be reduced to twenty or twenty- 
 four companyes by which meanes his Majesty's necessary garrisons may 
 be reasonably supplyed and the two regiments of gaurds be intire to 
 attend his Majesty's person. 
 
 The four troopes of hors may be continued heere as troopes of 
 Dragoones theye wilbe verry usefull and less chargable then now theye 
 are at Tangeire. 
 
 All the rest of the charge of Tangeire may be wholly saved and such 
 storekeepers gunners miners and others that belong to the traine (and 
 have proved good men) may be provided for in the Office of the 
 Ordnance heere." 
 
 1683, July 3. — Capt. M. Aylmer's narrative of his meeting with the 
 Spanish fleet, and his being obliged to salute the Admiral, under threats 
 of being sunk. Attached is an account of the discourse between the 
 Spanish Admiral and Lieut. E. Stagings, who was detained on the flag- 
 ship until the salute was given. The Spaniards, it was alleged, had 
 orders to salute the English flag in our channel ; and it was expected 
 that the English would do the same on the coast of Spain. 
 
 1683, July 8. On board the Tiger prize, riding in Tangier road. — 
 Capt. Mathew Aylmer. Describes at greater length the circumstances 
 under which he had to submit to the Spanish fleet. Mr. Killigrew is 
 mentioned as having gone with the lieutenant on board the Admiral's 
 ship. Attached is a Spanish account of the matter, with a translation, 
 
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 !t5outh*b 1683 > Ju1 7 9 ' Eagley.— Lord Conway to Lord Dartmouth. Thought 
 MSS. Lord Rochester would have let him know if his company were required 
 
 in London, but is sorry if he has committed an error in depending 
 
 upon such advertisement. 
 
 " I am very glad I am to congratulate your Lordship's escape from 
 the mischief intended you, what would my Lord Halifax have given to 
 have been in that bead-roll of sacrifices. It would have contributed 
 more to his design than either his marquisship or privy seal, and most 
 loudly would he have magnified himself upon it. I am sure you are not 
 displeased that my cousin Seymour hath shewed his activity at Exeter 
 about those that are concerned in this plot." 
 
 1683, July 10. Whitehall. — Charles II. Original instructions to 
 Sir John Berry, Knight, commander of the Henrietta. In the event of 
 the death, sickness, or other disability of Lord Dartmouth, Berry is to 
 execute all things committed to his lordship upon the sea or relating to 
 the command of the fleet, and to assist Piercy Kirke, Esq., to whom 
 in the event of such disability full authority had been given to carry 
 out the instructions to be performed in the city of T anger and parts 
 adjacent. (4 pp.) 
 
 1683, July 12. — Lord Alington to Lord Dartmouth. About the 
 difficulty of finding lodgings in the Tower for the commissioned 
 officers, the warder's houses, &c. they occupied being wanted for the 
 prisoners lately committed there. 
 
 1683, July 16. Badminton. — Duke of Beaufort to Lord Dartmouth. 
 The garrison of Chepstow has had no powder but 6 barrels, which is 
 the usual allowance for one year, since 1678, and other stores are 
 wanting. In his own hand the Duke adds "The smallness of this 
 garrison in a county as ill affected as any in England, though in as 
 convenient a place as can be thought of, it being upon a port into 
 Wales, and in the centre of my lieutenancy, I hope will now be 
 considered, there being no other place within the sixteen (?) counties 
 I have the honour to be lieutenant of, to secure arms and ammunition in." 
 
 1683, July 19. Tangier. — Colonel P. Kirke to Lord Dartmouth. 
 In commendation of Capt. George Aylmer, who has been recalled from 
 his station there by the Commissioners of the Admiralty. 
 
 1683, July 23.— Lord Belasyse to Lord Dartmouth. In explanation 
 of some matter between Sir John Hotham and himself when appointed 
 governor of Hull after the Restoration, regarding some saddles, &c. 
 alleged to have belonged to the garrison, but to have been appropriated 
 by the deputy lieutenants to the use of the Yorkshire militia, which was 
 the first raised in England in pursuance of the Act of Parliament then 
 newly passed. 
 
 1683, July 27. Whitehall. — Charles II. Additional instructions to 
 Lord Dartmouth for the expedition to Tangier. The Scotch regiment 
 there, instead of being transported to Ireland as previously directed, is 
 to be landed at any port in the west of England that wind and weather 
 will permit. The horses now at Tangier to be transported to the opposite 
 shore of Spain, and there sold to the best advantage ; the proceeds to be 
 given to the true owners in order to remount them in England. 
 
 1683, July 28. Derby House. — Lords of the Admiralty (Lord 
 Brouncker, Sir E. Hales, and Hen. Savile) to the Duke of Grafton, 
 Admiral of the Narrow Seas. Desire him to hold a court martial to 
 try some mutineers on board the Bonadventure, and also the boatswain 
 of the Mary Rose, who is said to have killed a man. 
 
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 1683, July 31. The Saphir.— Captain Antho. Hastings to Lord Da ^l°?u s 
 Dartmouth. Makes various charges against his boatswain, Cornelius MSSL 
 Driscoll, whose petition to Lord Dartmouth is attached. A memorandum 
 at foot records that "at- the instance of Capts. Hastings, Shovel, and 
 Wheeler, my Lord ibrgave this man, and restored him to his command." 
 
 1683, [July ?]. — Petition of Daniel Cooke, boatswain of the Mary 
 Rose. Humbly begs Lord Dartmouth to peruse the appended narrative, 
 attested by Lieut. Richard Byron of the Pearl, and others, of his quarrel 
 at Woolwich with Edw. Williams, foremast-man of the Mary Rose, 
 which led to the death of the latter. 
 
 1683, August 1. — Earl of Rochester to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I could not send to your Lordship by the post last night, because the 
 bills could not be got ready so soon ; for upon my faith I could not have 
 them till the money was first paid here to the merchants that gave them. 
 You will judge then whether it was as easy for me to get 20,000/. as ten 
 laid down, and you may believe me, if I could you should have had the 
 twenty ; and give me leave once more to assure you, that either in your 
 private affairs, that relate only to yourself, or in the public where the 
 King's service is carried on by you, there is nobody that I have more 
 satisfaction in serving than yourself, to whom I wish all manner of 
 success and happiness in all you undertake; and if you knew the 
 many difficulties we are in in relation to money affairs, you would 
 believe me more than you do. I have written to Col. Kirkc a letter 
 to encourage and hearten him and the garrison, which I thought 
 was but necessary. If it were from a greater man it might do some 
 good on such an occasion ; as it is, I hope it will do no harm. I have 
 sent it open to you that you may judge of it, and likewise be master of 
 it, to deliver it or not, as you think best. And now my Lord, let me 
 once more wish you a good voyage and all good fortune in it and a safe 
 return ; and let me assure you that you have not in the world a more 
 faithful and obedient true servant than 
 
 Rochester. 
 
 I am just going to Tunbridge with my wife and shall not return till 
 Saturday. I am fain therefore to leave this pacquet with Mr. Shaw to 
 send to you when Mr. Duncomb brings the other bill to him of 8,500/. 
 When you receive it, be pleased to put it together with the other into 
 Col. Kirke's letter, because they are both payable to him, God bless you, 
 my dear Lord. 
 
 Wednesday morning Aug. the 1st. 
 
 Pray let me have the reeeipt that the bills came to your hand." 
 
 1683, Aug. 2. — Sir Leoline Jenkins to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " We have no manner of news but that lame Charleton is taken and 
 brought in to Oxford. I have letters from Tanger of the 28th June, 
 but no news in them. My Lord of Conway was last night very much 
 on the mending hand. I pray God to bless you. 
 
 L. J." 
 
 1683, Aug. 3. Windsor. — Earl of Sunderland to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " The King has commanded me to signify to your Lordship that he 
 would not have you set sail till you hear again what his Majesty's 
 pleasure is, and that you shall certainly do either Sunday or Monday 
 by an express. I will only tell you now that the occasion of these 
 directions can be of no prejudice, and may be of advantage to your 
 journey and the business you go about ; and that T heartily wish yon 
 all prosperity." 
 
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 ^Eabl of j 1683, Aug. 3. Windsor. — J. Brisbane to Lord Dartmouth. 
 tmouth s gent to g- r ^ j c ] iai . ( j Beach a commission for Lord Dartmouth 
 
 — to be commander in chief of a squadron of his Majesty's ships, with 
 instructions, &c, but before the commission can be given him, his 
 Lordship must repeat and sign the declaration required by Act of 
 Parliament. 
 
 1683, Aug. 4. — Sir Martin Beckmann to Lord Dartmouth. Sugges- 
 tions for the erection of some blinds of deal boards before some works 
 connected with the pier (at Tangiers?) are begun, because "as soon as 
 « the country people should perceive you building on the pier, which 
 " they do not care to have altered in a better form for his Majesty's 
 " service, they would immediately so disturb the masons and bricklayers 
 " that they should not be able to work one stroke." Adds some long 
 remarks on his bad health and desire to serve his Lordship again. 
 
 1683, Aug. 4, &c. — A copy of the Test on parchment, with the original 
 signatures attached of all the officers who received commissions or 
 warrants from Lord Dartmouth in his expedition to Tanger. The date 
 of each signature is attached, and ranges between Aug. 4, 1683, and 
 the end of February in the year following. The number of signatures 
 is about 40. 
 
 1683, Aug. 5. — Earl of Rochester to Lord Dartmouth. 
 - " The King having thought it necessary for his service to send for your 
 
 Lordship to speak once more with you before you go your voyage, I. 
 shall make no answer to your letter at this time, but expect your arrival 
 here, which I suppose you will hasten all that is possible, and bring 
 none of that company back with you that design to go along with you, 
 nor suffer any of them to come if they should desire to, because that 
 may make the preparations slacken at Portsmouth." 
 
 1683, Aug. 5. Windsor. — Sir Leoline Jenkins to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Lord Dartmouth is immediately on receipt of this to take post and 
 repair to Windsor with all the speed he can, to speak with the king 
 once more ; and is to take care that all preparations go forward during 
 his absence. 
 
 1683, Aug. 12. Windsor. — Earl of Nottingham to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " The Tiger will not be ready to sail in less than 14 days, but I have 
 spoken to Lord Rochester to hasten away Major Beckmann by some of 
 the other ships which are all in the Downs. I am as sensible as you 
 can be of some of the indirect practices of some of whom your Lordship 
 has deserved better, .... I wish your lordship a happy voyage, and 
 am not concerned for not knowing your errand, unless by my knowing 
 it I could have been useful to your Lordship." 
 
 1683, Aug. 14. Windsor. — Earl of Sunderland to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " The king has ordered Major Beckman to follow you as soon as may 
 be. I assure you if my opinion is valued by you, you need not apprehend 
 that any malicious enemy can prejudice you with me. I told you I 
 thought myself obliged to have more care of an absent friend than of 
 any other, and I dealt too freely with you in what I said to you at 
 London to deceive you in this particular." 
 
 1683, Aug. 20. — Sir Leoline Jenkins to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 "It is now high time I should acknowledge the honour of yours of the 
 11 th from Portsmouth, for 1 hope that though the wind be still contrary, 
 yet it will at last chop about and bring you to Cadiz before this do arrive 
 
 at that place The king and the duke are in pain (I came from 
 
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 fanatics do still torment themselves that they cannot penetrate your Earl op 
 design. We have news that Captain Aylmer in the Tiger, as well as m^ 11 
 Captain Shovell, hath been forced by the Admiral of the Spanish fleet in 
 the Mediterranean to salute him with 13 guns, to which he returned but 
 three. I am not able to send you by this post what passed at the ren- 
 contre ; only that I was commanded this day to tell the Spanish ambas- 
 sador that his Majesty was in no wise satisfied with the conduct of the 
 Spanish Admiral towards Capt. Aylmer. What accompt or light soever 
 I can get into this business you shall be sure to have, with the regulations 
 (if any be made) touching those salutes." 
 
 1683, Aug. 25. Derby house, — Lords of the Admiralty (Earl of 
 Nottingham, Lord Brouncker, Sir E. Hales, and Hen. Savile). We 
 have ordered Captain Shovell, Commander of the James galley, with 
 the rest of the ships named in the margin [Croam, Tiger prize, 
 Sapphire, and Centurion] to observe such orders as your Lordship 
 shall give him or them during your remaining in those parts. But 
 we do hereby direct and require your Lordship not to divert any of 
 the said ships from the service they are employed on in cruising off 
 Sally upon any occasion whatsoever, unless there shall be absolute 
 necessity for it. 
 
 1683, Aug. 26. — Copy of Admiralty Lords' report on the dispute with 
 the Spanish Admiral. They are of opinion that his Majesty has received 
 apparent wrong, for no salutes have ever been before required in the 
 open seas by or from his Majesty's ships ; and they find no sufficient 
 reason to alter the method of salutes now practised. 
 
 1383, Aug. 27. Derby House. — J. Brisbane to Capt. Cloudesley 
 Shovell, Commander of the James gaily at Tangier. 11 What I have to 
 say in answer to yours of the 13 th of July is, that upon Admiral Her- 
 bert's arrival in England he did acquaint the Lords of the Admiralty 
 with what happened between you and the Spanish ships at Cadiz, and 
 they laid it before his Majesty, who I doubt not will come to some 
 resolutions thereon in few days. In the meantime all I can advise 
 you is his Majesty thinks there is wrong done him, and is not dissatisfied 
 with you. 
 
 Lord Dartmouth is put in command in your parts, and is on his way 
 to Tangier. 
 
 As to what you desire of an order to hang all " runagadoes," especially 
 English ones, I have not had time as yet to communicate to the Lords of 
 the Admiralty, but will let you know their pleasure therein." 
 
 1683, Aug. 28. —A Memorandum by Sir M. Beckmann of what is 
 necessary to go in hand with as soon as my Lord shall arrive at Tangier 
 in order for demolishing of the same, if his Lordship shall so think fit 
 for his Majesty's service — divided under 24 heads. (6 pp.) 
 
 1683, Aug. 30. Whitehall. — Sir Leoline Jenkins to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 "I have nothing to write hence but that we unskillful people in wind 
 and weather are now and then (either when it blows hard or the wind 
 is contrary) in pain for your lordship. The King thought you would be 
 driven in to Plymouth, but now all conclude, not hearing from you, that 
 you are gone by. We hope here that their Majesties have arrived safe 
 and well last night at Winchester, and that the Duke and Duchess will 
 be there this night. The Earl of Pembroke and Sir Charles Wheeler 
 are reported here this day to be dead. The fate of Vienna is not yet 
 known here, but it is much doubted by the account that foreign letters 
 give of it. We have a great alarm nearer home, the French troops, to 
 the number of 40,000, are supposed to be ere this entered into the pays 
 
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 letmofth's ^^ost in Flanders, and the rest of the country pretended to by the 
 mss. French. A brigadier from M. d'Humieres hath denounced (sic) to M. 
 
 de Grana that they were to enter the very next day ; and M. de Croissy 
 having written to the Spanish ambassador now residing at Paris to 
 justify what the French were doing, there is no question but that they 
 are entered by this time. I take leave to send you for your curiosity 
 (not that I have any order to do it) a paper given in to his Majesty by 
 the Admiralty on Sunday last." [See Aug. 26.] 
 
 1683, Aug. and Sept. — A Narrative of extraordinary occurrences 
 during the last cruising of the Dartmouth frigate, by Captain St. Loe. 
 It begins — 
 
 On the 28 th of August we got our guns, water, provisions, and neces- 
 saries on board, and afternoon having received Sir John Wyborne's 
 orders for cruising, went to sea, &c. 
 
 On the 30 th being off Sally, after having spoke with two Frenchmen, 
 we espied and afterwards took the Swan prize (1J pp.) 
 
 1683, Sept. 3 and Sept. 10. — Sir L. Jenkins to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Two letters containing a little court and foreign news. 
 
 1683, Sept. 15. — Minutes of a Council of War held on board the 
 Grafton in Tangier Eoad, the Lord Dartmouth and several commanders 
 present. 
 
 1683, Sept. 16. Tangier. — Colonel Percy Kirke to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " In order to give your Lordship that state of matters between myself 
 and the Alcaid of Alcazar, relating to his Majestie's garrison, as you 
 are pleased to command me in the letter I had the honour to receive 
 yesterday in the evening, it will be necessary that I briefly relate the 
 passages of severall months, and shew your Lordship by what degrees 
 our good correspondence by land seems to have decayed, and his 
 Majestie's affairs have taken that face wherein they appear at present. 
 
 The Alcaid lived in perfect good intelligence with me, from the time 
 of Lieut. Nicholson's last departure for England till about the month 
 of May, when I received some expostulating letters from him about the 
 delay, as he pretended, in my procuring him a quantity of painted glasse 
 from England, and certain lances from Spain : I could give him no 
 account of the first, not having received any from the person to whose 
 care I had recommended it at home, and it was impossible that the 
 latter could arrive here within the time he expected and demanded 
 them. The season then entering wherein I was to prepare my provision 
 of straw for our horses, I resolved to ask the same timely of the Alcaid, 
 for prevention of those difficulties I had experienced in the former two 
 years about this matter, and therefore desired he would give his 
 necessary orders that a certain quantity of straw should be delivered me 
 in its due time, and that he should so dispose that I might depend upon 
 it. He hereupon answered me in very short terms that when I had 
 sent him the glasse and lances I should have the straw I had demanded. 
 I endeavoured to make him comprehend how unreasonable it was, that 
 he should make my delivering to him things, whose procurement was of 
 meer courtesy, a condition of his giving me what he was obliged to by 
 the articles of peace, but he continued inflexible in his deniall to do me 
 reason, and while severall messages passed between us on this subject, 
 Admirall Herbert gave me account that the Moors had recommenced 
 their hostilities at sea, having carried an English vessell into Argiers 
 and that all the Saly Corsairs were then out ; this obliged me to put in 
 execution the commands I had for the delivery of those orders, from the 
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 in my hands, in pursuance whereof he was to make war upon the Moors D J[££;£J H , B 
 by sea. In this juncture I found the Alcaid had stopped all communi- " MS s. 
 cation with the town, not suffering so much as a letter to come in, or 
 any of our people to go out to the country, nor yet permitting those 
 that were already there to return to us. I must confesse this alarmed 
 me, and reflecting on the late unusuall niceties of the Alcaid, I thought 
 I had but too much reason to suspect his good intentions, and judged it 
 might prove of the highest ill consequence to my Master's service, at a 
 time that the Alcaid used me so ill, and that by reason of his interrup- 
 tion of the commerce, I lived so much in the dark to all passages in the 
 country, should I permit the Moors and Jews (who at that time flocked 
 among us) to converse longer with us, and gather exact notices of the 
 most minute transactions in the place. It was for this reason that I 
 resolved to stand more upon my guard, and, since the Alcaid suffered 
 none of my people to go into the country, to use the same method on 
 my part, and suffer no Moors to come into the town, ordering at the 
 same time those that were then here to depart. The Alcaid expressed 
 much resentment hereupon, excusing, however, his shutting up the 
 commerce on pretence of his having been before Larache, a Spanish 
 garrison (though we found afterwards it was to keep from our know- 
 ledge the taking of an English ship by his own fregat), and expostulated 
 with me in high terms both by letters and messages, which produced at 
 length a conference between persons nominated on both sides in order 
 to an accomodation. The Moors demanded a delivery of the whole 
 arrear of powder to be the first step for the renewing our correspon- 
 dence, and we urged that since the Alcaid had been the infractor of 
 the peace, he ought reasonably to make the first advances towards the 
 reestablishment of it; however, we insisted not on that nicety, but 
 declared that whenever the Alcaid would allow us the full advantage of 
 the articles of peace, particularly of that concerning the buying our 
 cattle at the market prices, I was ready to comply with all he could 
 demand of me by virtue of the articles. The Alcaid alleged a continuall 
 custome of our buying the cattle otherwise, and that he could not alter 
 it, though he owned it to be our right. The truth is, I would not have 
 insisted on this extreamity of justice, in a matter which indeed is some- 
 what hard upon the Alcaid, in any other conjuncture, but I was forced 
 to make use of it, to evade the delivery of so great a quantity of powder, 
 at a time that I had reason to believe that the Alcaid might employ it 
 to our prejudice, and which in my humble opinion ought not to be 
 rashly put into his hands. No accomodation having followed these 
 debates, the Alcaid departed for Sale, to give orders there for the 
 transporting by sea a releif of coin to his Master's army, and perceiving 
 some danger threatned by our fregats, and apprehending the impossi- 
 bility of conveying safely those supplies, he imagined he had found out 
 a good expedient by making use of a passeport (which I had given to 
 the master of an English vessell in Sale for a voyage to the Levant) to 
 carry a ship of his own laden with corn for Messa, prevailing likewise 
 with the master to go aboard her, who with severall English seamen 
 that belonged to the other vessell, undertook the voyage, and in their 
 way were taken by the Dartmouth fregat. The first news I heard of 
 this incident was from the Alcaid himself, who writ to me very 
 pressingly that I would order the restitution of the ship and lading, as 
 taken under my seguro. I hereupon acquainted him that the affairs of 
 the sea were not at all within my jurisdiction, that the English captain 
 acted in pursuance of instructions from his proper superiors, which it 
 was not in my power to revoke, and that what he seemed to urge so 
 vehemently concerning my passeport was in effect no argument, since 
 
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 Earl oi? the passe was not made use of for the ship or voyage for which it wa3 
 LE MSsy TH ' 8 designed, but misapplied to an end quite contrary to the intent of it. 
 — ' About this time our fregats made some other successeful operations by 
 sea, and now the Alcaid seemed to make earnest overtures towards an 
 accomodation of all our differences, and particularly those of the sea, 
 whereon though I had no especiall commission to treat, yet I judged it 
 might be of ill consequence to let slip the present opportunity, and for 
 this reason I resolved to make use of a latitude granted me in my patent 
 for Governour to transact with the Alcaid whatsoever might appear for 
 my Master's service relating likewise to those matters. The Alcaid 
 after many tricks and artifices, too tedious to trouble your Lordship 
 withall, which he used without much successe to dispose me to his 
 pleasure, came at length once more into these feilds, where there was 
 an euterview between us, and many professions passed of our good 
 intentions on both sides. This was followed by severall conferences 
 in order to a formall treaty, and the Alcaid having declared to me he 
 had full power to transact all matters, as well relating to the land as 
 sea, I proposed that both those interests should be proceeded on at the 
 same time, and that whereas the present defectivenesse of our land 
 treaty was the occasion of many disputes, it was necessary it should be 
 modelled into a better frame : but after a long discussion of severall 
 points, I found the Alcaid either had not power or was not willing to 
 alter any thing by land, and that in effect he shewed no great inclina- 
 tions to a sea-peace, having proposed only a truce for a few months, or, 
 at furthest, a peace during the term of our present land treaty, whereby 
 I was sufficiently convinced he designed meerly to ease himself in this 
 conjuncture of the disturbance of our fregats. These conferences did in 
 conclusion answer the expectations of neither side, during which the 
 Alcaid prepares an army, hoping his arguments would work more 
 effectually upon me if he could render himself formidable, and it is now 
 near a month since he hath been encamped in these feilds. The opinion 
 of his force neverthelesse hath not yet obliged him to forsake the thoughts 
 of a peace, and even since his army has been in the neighbourhood 
 there have been severall conferences about the renewing our entercourse 
 by land, wherein I have endeavoured to improve the opportunity of 
 doing my Master service, hoping that my receding from the point of 
 buying cattle at the market prices might be an expedient of procuring 
 some other advantages in lieu of it, and to this end I have proposed 
 one of three things should be allowed me instead of that privilege, 
 viz*, either the liberty of digging stone for our mole and houses ; or 
 that our people which go over the bounds be not made captives ; or 
 lastly (which I offered as a means to prevent the frequent desertion of 
 our souldiers) that the Moorish guards should be removed from their 
 present posts to the utmost extent of our ancient limits ; but none of 
 these proposalls have been harkned to by the Alcaid, and matters do 
 still remain in suspense. The Alcaid in the mean time professes he 
 intends nothing as an enemy, and I on my part have sufficiently assured 
 him of my peaceable dispositions, and this being the present state of 
 our affairs between us, I shall only adde one short remark, that the 
 Alcaid having so long used the artifices of threats and promises, without 
 passing to the least attempt, it is evident that he is not in a condition 
 for war, and that consequently this is a fair opportunity of doing his 
 Majestie some considerable service in order to raise a generall peace 
 upon good foundations, which is a work that seems to be reserved for 
 your Lordship's prudence and dexterity, and for which this place I hope 
 will have a perpetuall obligation to you." 
 
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 1683, Sept. 16, &c. — Papers relating to Boniface Gifford who was eablof 
 found on board a Moorish ship captured by the Dartmouth frigate. mss!" 
 
 1683, Sept. 20.— Examination of Capt. St. Loe and his men about 
 the taking of the Swan prize off Sally. 
 
 1683, Sept. 22. — The ship Dover in Tangier bay. 
 
 Capt. Dan. Dering's narrative of his forcing a Sally man ashore. 
 
 1683, Sept. 24. Whitehall.— Sir L. Jenkins to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I pursue you still with my letters tho' I have nothing to say by way 
 of order or otherwise. I told the Duke just now that I was going to 
 write to your Lordship ; he gave nothing in command but gracious 
 remembrances. The victory of the Christians over the Turks was com- 
 plete, tho' not so many Turks slain as was at first reported, but it holds 
 still that all their cannon, baggage, and tents were taken. We have no 
 news of the success of the King of Poland in pursuit of the Turkish 
 horse. All good Christians do bless God most heartily for this victory ; 
 but we have a race of Tekelites (as they call them) that are altogether 
 in their talks and wishes for the prosperity of the Ottoman arms. 'Tis 
 feared by many that the Christians will now fall out among themselves ; 
 but I hope not, at least (sic) wise that we shall not be engaged on either 
 side. Your commission is a great argument for us with all mankind 
 that we should not embark in foreign quarrels." 
 
 1683, Sept. 24. London. — Sir Christopher Musgrave to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. 
 
 " I hope mine from Winchester is come to your hand which gave a 
 large account of his Majesty Duke and Prince viewing of fortifications 
 
 at Portsmouth, and how well they were satisfied with them Mr. 
 
 Savile being in a gay humour opened part of his heart to me, saying 
 your Lordship did maintain the power and authority of the Master of 
 the Ordnance, which was a quality in you very commendable; and 
 therefore you ought not to be offended if others endeavoured to imitate 
 you in their station. That a fleet should be sent to sea, and an admiral 
 made, and the Admiralty understand nothing of it till the admiral's flag 
 was flying, was thing without precedent, but he supposed it was the 
 King's pleasure to have it so, and not to be charged upon you. But 
 meeting you the Tuesday night at the King's supper at Windsor, and 
 asking you if your great seal was in your pocket, you returned this 
 answer " can you credit such idle reports ? " which he thinks was not a 
 return suitable to the long friendship betwixt you, when in 24 hours the 
 flags flying would make it public, for it could not be imagined if you 
 had then owned the thing that he would have interest to prevent it, or 
 if he had, that he would have used it to your prejudice. But so soon as 
 the thing was public he thought it was requisite for your service to have 
 their commission, and therefore out of kindness to you took care that 
 that their commission might be sent ; and understood you did doubt 
 whether you should accept them (sic) which he wondered, considering 
 the power given them by act of Parliament. As to your part I knew 
 nothing of it, but believed you were under an obligation not to discover 
 that affair, and hoped he would so consider it, and not as want of kind- 
 ness ; and doubted not but at your meeting he would be satisfied. He 
 said my Lord Nottingham had moved the Admiralty upon a letter which 
 he received from your Lordship ; they desired to see the letter, which 
 his Lordship did not think fit to shew, which occasioned some debate. 
 He admired you did not regard them as a Board, and they were not to 
 be blamed if that occasioned a resentment. I find he hath a mean 
 opinion of my Lord Nottingham. This I thought fit to acquaint you 
 
 with ; in the close Mr. Savile professed a great service for you 
 
 (Ordnance matters) ". 
 
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 Eael of Your family ar.e very well, and all your friends daily remember you. 
 Dartmouth's My service to Mr. " Peepes " and Sir Will. Booth, and the rest of my 
 — ' friends abroad. 
 
 1683, Sept. 25 [off Cadiz].— On board the ship Montagu. Capt. H. 
 Killigrew to Lord Dartmouth. Gives an account of several affairs at 
 Cadiz. In company with Sir Martin Wescom, the consul there, had 
 waited upon the governor, who received them with much civility. As 
 to Capt. ShovelFs prize found her quite unrigged, without any sails, 
 and but 7 hands on board ; so was forced to send 20 hands on board to 
 rig and fit her — she being a very large vessel of almost 400 tons. 
 
 1683, Sept. 25. Tangier Road. — Sir John Berry to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " The commanders complain much of want of water, and our victualling 
 spends very fast. In the Henrietta I have thrown away 30 butts of 
 stinking beer and ten more defective, with a quantity of stinking cheese. 
 If your lordship thinks fit to send your orders to Sir James Lesley, pro- 
 visions of all sorts may be had at Cadiz, although at a dearer rate than 
 the King's price — Irish beef, Spanish pork, (and rusk if timely bespoke) 
 may be had at any time, and Newfoundland fish very cheap as soon as the 
 fleet arrives." .... 
 
 1683, Sept. 25. Cadiz. — Sir James Leslie to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I have made all diligent enquiry, but can find neither beef, pork, peas, 
 nor fish at present here, but they are daily expected from Ireland and 
 other parts. Have bought a small quantity of bread, rice, butter, and 
 flour, which is all that offers, and am endeavouring to get rusk made 
 here. Shall come on board Capt. Killigrew and give your Excellency 
 an account of what occurs." 
 
 1683, Sept. 26. Tangier.— Orders to Sir John Berry, of the Hen- 
 rietta, signed by Lord Dartmouth, about bringing ashore and disposing 
 of the several battalions of seamen. 
 
 Lord Dartmouth's own battalion, commanded by Sir William Booth, 
 consisting of 200 men, clothed with white and blue striped linen, fitted 
 with muskets, pikes, and pole-axes, with 4 Union flags. 
 
 Sir John Berry's battalion, commanded by [blank], clothed with 
 the clothes Mr. Hewers shall give, with 4 Irish colours. 
 
 Two other battalions, each consisting of 200 men, clothed with such 
 clothes as the Scotch shall furnish. With 8 colours of Col. Trelawny's 
 regiment. 
 
 These four battalions to be commanded by Sir John Berry. 
 
 All the men to be drawn up on the sands to the best advantage as 
 Colonel Kirke shall direct. 
 
 1683, Sept. 30. The ship Happy Return in Tangier Bay. — Sir 
 John Wyborne to Lord Dartmouth. " I have one of Sir John Wetwang's 
 sons to my lieutenant, who is a man that will be often drunk, and when 
 he is so he is very abusive ; but for his father's sake, who was an old 
 officer in His Majesty's service, I have forborne complaining of him. 
 But I see, notwithstanding many promises not to drink any more, he still 
 continues his old course of life, getting himself drunk when I am out 
 
 of the ship I humbly pray your lordship to order me 
 
 another man in his room, and to do with him as you shall think fit. 
 
 1683, Sept. — Captain Shovell's Leasons for his sending home the 
 Crown ship to England. Signed " CJow. Shouell." 
 
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 1683, Oct. 1. Tangier.— Samuel Pepys, [Dr.] Will. Trumbull, and Earl of 
 Fred Basher. _ ^mIs!™' 8 
 
 " Such hath been the universal backwardness we have met with from — 
 the inhabitants of this place (both civil and military) to bring in, and 
 unpreparedness to make good, any of their pretences to propriety in 
 the lands, houses, and tenements within the same, that, notwithstanding 
 your repeated proclamations, and our own hourly attendances upon, 
 and personal labours taken (without intermission) in the despatch of 
 the commands which by your commission you have been pleased to 
 give us in relation thereto, we have not been able to obtain from them 
 (though for their own only benefit) the informations necessary to enable 
 us to finish any report concerning them, that may be satisfactory to 
 your Excellency, ourselves, or them. Nor, from the general remissness 
 which we find in the whole transactions of this people one with another 
 in the business of propriety, are we able certainly to foresee when we 
 shall. 
 
 Nevertheless, forasmuch as we are so far (we think) advanced in 
 this work, as to be now apprized of the whole number of claims, or 
 very near it, which is to be expected from them, so that what remains 
 to be done on their part (and which we continue to press for) is their 
 bringing in answers to such necessary points as they are still defective 
 in, to the enquiries which were so carefully communicated to them by 
 written copies (as your Excellency well knows) from the very first day 
 of your opening to them our commission, we think it seasonable to 
 inform your Excellency that the only practical expedient we can pro- 
 pose is to cause a general view of the lands, houses, and tenements to 
 be taken by some discreet persons, equally chosen by your Excellency, 
 from among the officers and inhabitants of best repute, qualified by 
 length of residence and experience, to make a just and moderate valua- 
 tion by an annual rent of each parcel of land or buildings (old and 
 new) with respect to the peculiar and different conditions of repair and 
 other circumstances they at this present stand under." 
 
 1683, Oct. 6. — Memorials offered by William Hewer, Treasurer for 
 the affairs of Tangier, for Lord Dartmouth's consideration, relating to 
 the financial state of the Corporation, debts of garrison to the town, &c. 
 
 1683, Oct. 7. Dartmouth frigate. — Boniface Gilford to Lord 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 Suggestions for an attack on Sallee, and the destruction of Moorish 
 ships. 
 
 1683, Oct. 8. Whitehall.— Sir L. Jenkins to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " The news we had yesterday from Madrid spoke you to be upon the 
 coast of Gibraltar, which rejoices us very much. I hope when you 
 come home you will find his Majesty in so much the more ease and 
 repose that his great city is governed by his own commissions. Sir 
 William Pritchard acts indeed as lord mayor, but it is by the King's 
 commission which he received in the council, and to[ok] his oath of mayor 
 there on Thursday last. The sheriffs elect (Daniel and Dash wood) act 
 as other sheriffs in the counties, by commission. Mr. Genner is recorder 
 by commission, the 18 honest aldermen have commissions to bo justices 
 of the peace ; and now (as I am writing) they are sitting very gravely 
 at the Quarter Sessions at the Old Bailey, instead of the 8 Whigs that 
 make up the 26 aldermen. There are 8 commoners (such as Buckwith, 
 Newland, Bathurst) chosen by the King to be over the vacant wards, 
 and these 26, besides the commissions of the peace, will have other 
 commissions, as to inspect and administer the city hospitals, the city 
 lands, the court of orphans, &c, so that after all the direful bodings of 
 
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 Earl of the Whigs (though it cannot be denied but in not surrendering but 
 LK MSS UTH ' 8 suffering judgment to be entered up they played the fools yet) honest 
 — ' men, nay all the world, will find and say with the old poet — 
 
 If it please God that with this quiet at home what we hear from 
 Flanders do prove true, that the French troops are withdrawing thence 
 homewards, and there is a stop to the new levies in France, we shall 
 want nothing to complete our happiness but to have your lordship in 
 our embraces here after a successful voyage, which is, I hope, by this 
 time more than half performed." 
 
 1683, Oct. 8. Tangier.— Address of the City of Tangier to Charles II. 
 
 " May it please your Majesty, 
 
 We, the mayor, aldermen, and incorporated inhabitants of your 
 Majesty's city of Tanger, having received from his Excellency George 
 Lord Baron of Dartmouth a declaration of your royal pleasure that this 
 place should be utterly demolished and that we who are the inhabitants 
 should all return to our own homes, do think ourselves bound in duty 
 to express the deep sense we have of your Majesty's most seasonable 
 compassion to us, in rescuing us from our present fears and future 
 calamities, in recalling us from scarcity to plenty, from danger to security, 
 from imprisonment to liberty, and from banishment to our own native 
 country. 
 
 We do all most thankfully acknowledge your Majesty's great justice 
 in taking care of our proprieties as well as of our persous, and for the 
 satisfaction of all our equitable claims, of your Majesty's most liberal 
 indulgence to all strangers that are inhabitants as well as to your natural 
 born subjects, in ordering the transportation and accommodation of both 
 at your own royal expense, and your Majesty's most princely charity in 
 making so particular a provision for the sick and the maimed, aged, and 
 infirm persons. 
 
 We have all for a long time struggled with the many inconveniences, 
 with the wants and terrors of this place, where our persons, our estates, 
 our families, and our very religion have been for many years exposed to 
 the Infidels, and we have endured all this in hopes that one day the 
 place might answer all your Majesty's royal cares and the vast treasure 
 which merely for your subjects' good your Majesty hath spent on it; 
 but our own sad experience hath taught us the quite contrary, and we 
 all utterly despaired of ever seeing it either a secure harbour, or a 
 defensible garrison, or a place of trade, and are extremely satisfied with 
 your Majesty's resolution of demolishing it, lest falling into the hands 
 of the Moors it might prove fatal to the commerce of Europe 
 
 We do therefore into his Excellency's hands most gladly resign our 
 charter, and have humbly petitioned his Excellency to lay that and all 
 our concerns at your Majesty's feet. 
 
 [The following original signatures are attached.] 
 
 Sol occubuit, nox nulla secula est. 
 
 Ben. Ash. 
 
 Ambrose Bonser (?). 
 Jacq 9 Delacarterie. 
 Dom co Aiar ..(?). 
 Ja. Tobin. 
 Charles Hartshorn. 
 T. Bregete. 
 
 W m Smith, mayor. 
 J. Fordemell (?), recorder. 
 Edw. Cheston. 
 Robert Cuthbert. 
 Diego Nartos. 
 Francis Emes. 
 Henry Sparks. 
 James Burino Van Trist. 
 John Sames. 
 
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 Ettienne Vincent. 
 H. Stout (?). 
 William Staines. 
 Jenkin Thomas. 
 Ja. Gorman. 
 
 Nath. Lodington. 
 
 Commis- 
 the pro- 
 
 Robert Tarres (?). 
 Fern do Brisart. 
 T. Roane, Town clerk. 
 Gregory Fysh. 
 E. Grubellie (?). 
 Dorhis de Vaena (?). 
 
 James Whelan. Richard Senhouse. 
 
 Hierosme Faisant. Jean Fargeon. 
 
 A. Sauvin. John Searle. 
 
 Pierre Mousset. W m Carpenter. 
 
 Robt. Inglish. Edward Rothe. 
 
 Nic. Sanford. W. Remusal. 
 
 Daniel Vanseterflett. Manoel Marti i. 
 
 James Waringe. Robert Jones." 
 
 1683, Oct. 10. Town-house in Tangier. — Report of the 
 sioners touching the measures proposed by them for valuing 
 perties in Tangier. The report is addressed to Lord Dartmouth as 
 Governor, and is signed by S. Pepys, Fred. Bacher, and William Trum- 
 bull ; it gives the reasons for valuing the freeholds at 4 years' pur- 
 chase and the leaseholds at from 3 to 1 according to their unexpired 
 terms. 
 
 1683, Oct. 13. — Letter from the same Commissioners to Lord Dart- 
 mouth on the objections raised by the Mayor of Tangier, and the rest 
 of the proprietors to the valuation above mentioned and suggesting a 
 conference before Lord Dartmouth to decide finally on the matter. 
 
 1683, Oct. 10. — William Smith, Mayor of Tangier to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Requests that the underwritten inhabitants, having put themselves in 
 readiness forthwith to embark, may have warrant to depart in the ship 
 Unity, Captain Tucker. 
 
 Mrs. Moloy and family, Mrs. Chappell, &c, Mrs. Senhouse, &c, 
 Mrs. Beverley, &c., Mrs. Thistlethwayte, &c, Mrs. Mustow. 
 
 1683, Oct. 11. Ship Henrietta in the Bay of Cadiz. — Sir John Berry 
 to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Recounts his proceedings at Cadiz. The Hambrough man of war 
 which came out of Plymouth when Lord Dartmouth sailed was burnt 
 last night, by what accident is unknown ; she was all of a light fire 
 fore and aft in a moment, and the fire flaming to the very topmast head. 
 
 1683, Oct. 13. Ship Montagu. — Long Report on the state the Mole 
 at Tangier, by the captains or the ships under Lord Dartmouth's com- 
 mand, with their signatures attached, 26 in number, among them being 
 John Berry, Will. Booth, Clow. Shovell, and G. Rooke. 
 
 1683, Oct. 14. Tangier. — " The most humble Addiesse of the late 
 Governour, the field officers, commandants, and the rest of the officers 
 and souldiers of your Majestie's royall garrison of Tanger." 
 
 "May it please your sacred Majestie, 
 
 His Excellency the Lord Dartmouth, your Majestie's Governour 
 of Tanger, and Captain Generall of all your forces in these parts, having 
 imparted to us your Majestie's resolution of calling away the inhabitants 
 and garrison, and of intirely demolishing this place, we cannot on so 
 extraordinary an occasion but humbly represent to your Majestie that 
 we do not only (as wee are bound in duty) readily acquiesce in, but 
 that we applaud and admire the wisedome of your Majestie's counsells 
 on this important affair. It is a troublesome reflection to consider that 
 those immense summes of money, that have been expended on the Mole 
 and the other walks of this place, as well as in our maintenance, have 
 U 24961. a 
 
 Earl of 
 Dartmouth's 
 MSS. 
 
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 Dartmouth's i n n0 measure answered your Majestie's royall expectations, and we are 
 sufficiently sensible, by a long and near view of the state of Tanger, 
 that though your Majestie should yearly exhaust more treasure (if it 
 were possible) then hitherto you have done, it would yet be with the 
 same unsuccessefulnesse, and despair of rendring either the harbour 
 secure, or the town safe. We humbly conceive, that, regarding the 
 enemy we have now to deal with, which is a wealthy and powerfull 
 Monarch, and who we may reasonably beleive will, some time or other, 
 have no manner of diversion to hinder him from bringing a royall army 
 into these fields, your Majestie could have no means for the preserva- 
 tion of the place, but the taking in and fortifying all those eminencies 
 that overlook and command it, a work which cannot be attempted with 
 any the least prospects of successe, and without which we must neces- 
 sarily be exposed, and become, some time or other, the conquest of a 
 mercilesse and barbarous enemy. All which motives, we are humbly 
 of opinion, have justly determined your Majestie's counsells for the 
 leaving and demolishing a place, so impossible to be maintained, and so 
 uselesse to your service if preserved. We must therefore in the first 
 place beg leave to expresse our humble thankfullnesse that your 
 Majestie hath been pleased to commit the performance of your com- 
 mands here to his Excellencie the Lord Dartmouth, a person by whose 
 hands we receive the testimonies of your royall favour with the utmost 
 satisfaction, and whose conduct and vigilance in this great service is 
 equall to the importance of it. We do next, with all submission, cast 
 ourselves at your Majestie's feet with our most humble thanks for your 
 tender and gracious care of us, and that you have thought fit to recall 
 us to your more immediate service at home, and the necessary defence 
 of your kingdomes, amidst the present just apprehensions occasioned 
 by the late horrid conspiracy, which still threatens your royall person 
 and the disturbance of your government. It is with all the joy that 
 hearts are capable of that we understand your Majestie's regard for us, 
 and that you have thought us worthy the great honour whereunto you 
 have designed us, which as we must acknowledge to be the highest 
 existance of your Majestie's goodnesse and bounty, so it doth exact 
 from us our utmost endeavours to deserve that good opinion your 
 Majestie hath graciously conceived of us ; and we humbly take the 
 liberty to assure your Majestie that no subjects have deeper impressions 
 and a truer sense of their duty than we have, and that we shall never 
 use unworthily those swords your Majestie hath been pleased to put 
 into our hands, but employ them for the preservation and honour of 
 your Majestie's sacred person, and your royall service to the last drop 
 our blood." 
 
 The signatures follow. 
 
 1683, Oct. 14. — Narrative of Capt. Dan. Dering's putting a Sally man- 
 of-war ashore to the southward of that place. 
 
 1683, Oct, 15. Whitehall.— Sir L. Jenkins [with an official letter of 
 same date] to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 There is no news at court that I know of, but there you know some- 
 thing or other is always a brewing. My Lord of Eochester hath got a 
 sprain some weeks ago in his ancle. He confines himself at this time to 
 Twitman to give his leg some rest. The new London magistrates 
 (being 26 quasi aldermen) are all in their gear 3 and the city very quiet. 
 When there is any secret to write I shall give it you under Colonel 
 Kirke's cypher, so you may borrow the key from him. 
 
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 1683, Oct. 18. Tangier. — Capt. Ra. Wrenn to Lord Dartmouth. Earl of 
 
 Complains of the bad state of his ship the Centurion, her masts, &c, DaR mss UT1 
 
 having been much damaged on the return homeward from convoying — 
 the Newfoundland fleet to several of the ports in Spain and Italy. 
 
 1683, Oct. 20. — Henrietta (ship) in Pointall. Sir John Berry to Lord 
 Dartmouth . 
 
 Sends a survey of his ship, which he has been obliged to careen at 
 Cadiz, owing to her leaky state. 
 
 1683, Oct. 21. — "Representation of the Dean and Chapter of the 
 Portuguese church of the royal city of Tanger to the King's sacred 
 Majesty Several signatures attached. 
 
 1683, Oct. 25 — Dec. 15. — Six original warrants of Lord Dartmouth 
 to Charles Firth and William Wallis, storekeepers for the garrison at 
 Tangier, for the issue of provisions, &c. 
 
 1683, Oct. 25. London. — Henry Slingsby to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " 'Tis the fear my letters might not find your Lordship has hindered 
 me from owning all my obligations to you this way. Since you left 
 these parts Sir C. Musgrave, I imagine, gives you an account weekly of 
 what news this country affords. The news is what every one imagines 
 as to your affair, which is still in as great a mist as when you left us, 
 but this is generally believed that those forces at Tanger are to replenish 
 the garrisons in England, the King saying when he was at Portsmouth 
 that we should ere long have men enough there. Lord Feversham 
 advised me to put in for a troop of dragoons, which I was not very for- 
 ward to, except of hoping to be near your Lordship, if you pretend to 
 any command ; and the more because 'tis said (but that's only a flying 
 report) that Lord Churchill is to command them, and the foot by the 
 same uncertain rumour is by Lord Mulgrave. I shall as soon continue 
 as I am than better myself by them." 
 
 1683, Oct. 26. — Henrietta within Pointall. Sir John Berry to Lord 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 After giving particulars of repairs to his ship, adds " I hope I have 
 made the Henrietta now fit to proceed to England. I have Dot had one 
 hour's rest since I came here nor ever met with such a cross piece of 
 work in all my days." 
 
 1683, Nov. 12. Malaga. — James Pendarves to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 About the supply of biscuit to the fleet. 
 
 1683, Nov. 12. Whitehall. — Sir L. Jenkins to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 "Doctor Trumball arrived here upon Saturday the 10th at eleven at 
 night. I carried him immediately to his Majesty, where he had the 
 honour to deliver your letter, and to give a summary account of the 
 state of affairs, and of your successful progress at Tanger. Your two 
 letters of Oct. 5 and Oct. 17 arrived by the hospital ship Unity. These 
 letters and others were read at the Treasury, and Mr. Pearse the 
 chirurgeon had been ordered to go to Gravesend to wait for the Unity 
 and to take into his care all the passengers on board her, that they 
 might see before they landed there was all the regard possible had to 
 the providing for them. They sent likewise for the three persons you 
 recommended, SirWilliam Pritchard, Sir Thomas Fitch, and Mr. Alderman 
 Rich to attend them this afternoon, and Lord Rochester was of opinion 
 the King should be moved to send for my Lord Mayor, and I find him 
 resolved to do all that is possible for these poor people, and for those 
 thai are coming, with that speed and method as to prevent clamour, it 
 being far better to do that with charity and expedition, and with a good 
 grace, since we must sooner or later be forced to do it. 
 
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 Earl op The account your letters contained and that Dr. Trumball gave by 
 
 lE ms°s UTH S word of mouth was perfectly acceptable to the King and the Duke ; and 
 — the reports that your sea captains gave of the Mole, and those of the 
 surveyors on the fortifications were convincing and demonstrative of the 
 necessity for demolishing the place. Dr. Trumball was exceedingly well 
 received by the King and well spoken of by all the Lords." 
 
 1683, Nov. 12. London.— The Duke of York to Lord Dartmouth. 
 " Two days since I had yours by Dr. Trumbull, who has given a very good 
 account of all you had then done, with which his Ma. is very well satisfyd, 
 and tho when you wrot it I see you had some malencony (sic) thoughts, as 
 to you self, yett I do assure you, you need not feare the malice of your 
 enemys, the King as well as my self being so kind to you, that it will not 
 be in their power to do you any prejudice, therefore have not such kind 
 of thoughts, for I will stand by you, I have not tyme to say more, and 
 besids beleve this letter will not find you at Tanger, at least I hope so." 
 
 [Addressed.] " For the Lord Dartmouth." 
 
 1683, Nov. 13. Ship Happy Return in Tanger Bay. — Sir John 
 Wyborne to Lord Dartmouth. " Since your Lordship was pleased to pass 
 by what I complained to you of my lieutenant, it has hardened him in 
 his idleness. He has lain on shore without leave after his duty was over, 
 and been drunk on duty ; and yesterday he and Mr. Mann, one of my 
 volunteers, fought ashore. 1 humbly pray your Lordship to order them 
 to be examined before a court martial for this and other offences," &c. 
 
 1683, Nov. 19. Whitehall. — Sir L. Jenkins to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " To morrow will be a sen'night since Capt. Tucker came with his 
 hospital ship to Gravesend, and Mr. Pearse hath so well executed his 
 orders that there is not one person of the whole hospital come up to 
 complain hither to me, nor no more mention of them than if they were 
 still at Tanger. On Friday I received your letter of the 28th by Mr. 
 Mayor of Tanger. He left the St. David at Portsmouth, and we hear 
 nothing yet of her being come about. But Mr. Mayor had had so full a 
 comfort in kissing the King's hand that nothing could be added to it, 
 especially in that he was pleased to take special notice of his affection 
 and service in the general, and also to assure him that the credit he had 
 given to the hospital at Tanger should be duly answered, and his service 
 not go unrewarded. The King gave orders that none of the Tangerines 
 should be meddled with, much less molested, by the searchers or other 
 officers of the Custom House." 
 
 1683, Nov. 24 Ship Happy Return in Tangier bay. — Sir John 
 Wyborne to Samuel Atkins, secretary to Lord Dartmouth. " I do keep 
 my lieutenant in confinement, and last night I got my volunteer off and 
 have confined him also to his cabin. Captain Thomas Langstorn and 
 Ensign Hill parted them when their swords were drawn." 
 
 1683, Nov. 24. Ship Centurion in Lisbon river. — Capt. Ra. 
 Wrenn to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 "I am detained here longer than I expected by reason of the scarceness 
 of provisions . . . Two or three days since here arrived an Irish 
 vessel with provisions, so that I shall be supplied from her, though at a 
 dear rate, bread being at 23s. 6d. the " kentall." I have sold some of 
 the slaves here, and would gladly dispose of the rest if I could get a 
 reasonable price, but am bid 25 and 30 dollars apiece. I have received 
 a very lusty negro for your lordship, and return your lordship ten 
 thousand thanks for the favour you have been pleased to confer upon 
 me." 
 
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 1683, Nov. 24. Drake frigate in Gibraltar Bay. — Capt.Th. Leighton Earl of 
 . ° Dartmouth's 
 
 to . MSS. 
 
 Gives extracts from his journal since he left Tanger, explaining his — 
 detention in Gibraltar bay, "where I now ride impatiently expecting 
 an opportunity to come for Tanger. I am in my soul sorry and 
 ashamed to have this happen only to me." 
 
 1683, Nov. 26. Whitehall. — Sir L. Jenkins to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " Upon Friday last I had a complaint of 24 persons, passengers in the 
 ship Unity, that were not taken care of as the others were. I waited 
 immediately upon my Lord of Rochester, and he made it appear to me 
 that these poor people were of the Earl of Dunbarton's regiment, and 
 that an officer appointed by his lordship was gone down to take care of 
 them, and that he was furnished with a sum of money to answer their 
 necessities. 1 have heard no more of them, nor a syllable from the first 
 day to this of any one person in the hospital ship, nor of any one per- 
 son in the St. David, Capt. Rooke, Commander, that brought over the 
 mayor and other inhabitants of Tanger ; in so much that I have not set 
 eye upon the mayor since I had- the honour to present him upon his first 
 arrival to his Majesty, much less have I heard anything from the 
 passengers in Capt. Carverth's ship that brought over Dr. Trumbull. 
 Sir Robert Holmes desired me humbly to acquaint the King that he 
 would be glad to receive 3 or 4 companies of the Tanger forces into 
 the Isle of Wight, but his Majesty did not then determine anything 
 upon it. I hope that when we receive more of your guests we shall 
 give your Excellency no worse account of them. You will see by the 
 Gazette of this day that the Duke of Monmouth is returned to court 
 again, and pardoned. All that passed after Council yesterday in the 
 evening was (the print tells you what passed before) that the Duke of 
 Monmouth came afterwards into my office, and that then the sergeant- 
 at-arms, that had him before in custody, was discharged. Then I waited 
 on him (as I had been ordered) to the Duke. His Royal Highness carried 
 himstraight to the King, the King carried him to the Queen, then the Duke 
 brought him back to the Duchess. He was at Court all this morning ; 
 which is all the account I have yet to give. The disaster of the Dutch 
 fleet makes me much more sensibly concerned for your Excellency, and 
 you have my hearty poor prayers." 
 
 1683, Nov. 29. Cadiz. — Capt. Tho. Fowler to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 The weather proves so bad that there is no getting of either bread or 
 powder. Sends letters received from England, and an account of what 
 provisions are at Cadiz. 
 
 1683, Dec. 3. Bay of Cadiz. — Capt. Tho. Fowler to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " All the time I have known Cadiz I never saw so violent a storm, 
 which has lasted 4 or 5 days, and in that time there has been drove and 
 cast away eight nor nine ships/' Account of damage done, and of pro- 
 visions, &c. 
 
 [There are other letters about this date referring to the severe 
 storm.] 
 
 1683, Dec. 3. Lisbon. — Charles Fanshaw to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 I hear the Canons came very well satisfied with your lordship's 
 treatment of them in Tangier, and Captain Wren's kindness to them in 
 their passage. I have let the Portuguese ministers know what care and 
 favours his Majesty showed in his commands concerning them, and 
 with what punctuality your lordship has executed them, which was some- 
 what convenient to divert their ill-humour, for they rail at us horribly for 
 razing the place. I told Capt. Wren also that he might let the Canons 
 know I was ready to do them any service, but the conjunctures of time 
 
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 Earl op y have been such by reason of the Queen's sickness (who I think cannot 
 ^mssT™ S ^ ve l° n g)> tnat tne Ki n g has been wholly retired these three weeks from 
 — public audiences, which has been an hindrance also to Capt. Wren, for 
 the King sent at first to desire him that they and their goods might 
 remain on board for some days. I have furnished him with money for 
 victualling his ship according to the necessity of his Majesty's service 
 and your lordship's desire ; but he complains that things are very dear 
 and hard to be got, for which 1 know no remedy. He tells me lately 
 that he is like to better his market by buying some provisions out of an 
 Irish vessel lately come in, which will also hasten his departure, the 
 flesh being already cured for his purpose. 
 
 1683, Dec. 3 to 1684, April 5. — Papers embodying the resolutions of 
 the Councils of war held on board the Grafton, Lord Dartmouth, 
 President. The Captains taking part in them were — Sir John Berry, 
 Sir William Booth, Killegrew, Ashby, Preistman, Wheler, Geo. Aylmer, 
 Tyrrell^ Dering, Leighton, Sir John Wyborne, Macdonnell, Fowler, 
 Shovell, Wrenn, Botham, George, Fowler, Williams, Gifford, M. Aylmer, 
 Frowde, Hastings, &c. The last Council was held at Spithead. 
 
 1683, Dec. 6. Tangier. — Henry Shere to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Being confined by an irksome malady to his chamber has turned his 
 vacant hours to some account by estimating the labour, &c. necessary 
 for the demolishing of the Mole. First, casting the solid quantity of 
 the Mole into cubic feet, he considers it under these dimensions, viz., 
 the length of the Mole is 1,436 feet, the mean breadth about 110 feet, 
 the mean height, from the top to low water mark about 18 feet, amount- 
 ing in all by cubical computation to 2,843,280 solid feet, which being 
 cast into tons are 167,251 tons. Of this mass 25,000 tons at least is 
 tarrass work so bound in chests, with timber and iron, and so well per- 
 formed, that it is by all people agreed (and indeed is found) more 
 difficult to demolish than so much solid rock. 
 
 He then proceeds to consider the utmost strength and means that 
 the fleet and garrison, &c, can afford towards effecting this great 
 undertaking ; and so the time can be estimated wherein the work may 
 be done, due regard being had to all that might happen through the 
 treachery of a barbarous, jealous, and watchful neighbour encamped 
 with an army almost under the walls of the city. To the work might 
 be assigned daily about 1,000 men of all sorts, of which number 400 
 should be constantly employed in carrying away stone and rubbish, the 
 rest in cutting of stone, tending, filling and the like. Which 400 men 
 will carry away about 800 tons daily ; so that the whole 167,251 should be 
 removed in about 209 days ; but the additional difficulty of demolishing 
 the tarras work (estimated as above at 25,000 tons) by great mines and 
 at least 1,500 small mines, by drills and other more troublesome methods 
 would add at least 25 days to the time above noted. Foul and rainy 
 weather, incident to this season of the year, wherein men cannot work 
 as they ought and for many days together perhaps not at all, is another 
 contingency to be taken into the calculation. 
 
 1683, Dec. 10. Tangier. — Memorandum in Lord Dartmouth's hand- 
 writing on a French paper given in to Mr. Secretary Jenkins to be 
 answered. 
 
 u The French endeavour to set up trade with the Moors both at Sally 
 and Tittuan, having a consul at each place. They encourage them to 
 war against us and assist them with arms and ammunition of all sorts, 
 and apparently endeavour to make themselves masters of the Medi- 
 terranean. Suggestions for the defeat of this object." 
 
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 1683, Dec. 12. Whitehall.— Warrant of Charles II. for the distri- Earl op 
 bution of his forces coming from Tangier to be observed by Lord DaE mss UTI 
 Dartmouth at his return to England. The quarters assigned are — — 
 to the King's Battalion, the troops of horse, and the company of miners, 
 London ; to the Scotch regiment of 16 companies, 8 to Rochester, 6 to 
 Winchester, and 2 to Southampton ; to Col. Kirke's regiment, Pen- 
 dennis and Plymouth ; to Col. Trelawny's regiment, Plymouth. The 
 officers of the Scotch regiment appear by a paper attached to have 
 been. — Sir James Hackett, Lieut.-Col. Major Douglas, and Captains 
 Monroe, Rollo, Lundy, MoncrifFe, Hodge, Carr, White, Douglas, 
 Melvill, Murray, Orquart, Forbess, Lawder, and Barclay. 
 
 1683, Dec. 12. Tangier. — Frederick Bacher (Admiralty judge?) 
 Report of proceedings in the case of the ship St. Anne, commanded by 
 Laurence Bertrand, seized by Capt. Dering and carried into the port of 
 Tanger, where an Admiralty court was held. 
 
 1683, Dec. 13. Whitehall. — William Blathwayt to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Refers to his appointment as Secretary of State, and congratulates 
 Lord Dartmouth on the success of his undertakings. 
 
 1683, Dec. 13, and Dec. 15. Derby house. — Lords of the Admiralty 
 (Lords Nottingham and Brouncker, Tho. Meres, H. Winche and Hen. 
 Savile). Direct Lord Dartmouth as to the manner in which the 
 troops to be brought from Tanger to Plymouth, Portsmouth, and the 
 Isle of Wight shall be transported to Tilbury and Gravesend, and to 
 Newcastle and Hull. 
 
 1683, Dec. Jf . Cadiz —William Hewer (to Samuel Atkins.) " Yours 
 of the 13th inst. met Mr. Pepys and myself at this place, the weather 
 having been such as to have as ill effects towards us in our intended 
 journey as I perceive it has had with you in reference to the Mole, we 
 
 having not been able to make one step from this place I have 
 
 paid the Montagu, Woolwich, and Lark their short allowance money, 
 and have taken care to supply Capt. Killigrew with what money he 
 shall want for buying stores for the use of the fleet. You will receive 
 herewith a bottle of ink and some quills, the best these parts will afford, 
 which pray distribute amongst you with my humble service to Mr. De 
 Pass. 
 
 The post from Madrid brought news of a French man-of-war having 
 destroyed a Spanish man-of-war for not striking. And 3 days since 
 Proclamation was made for discovery of French effects. My service to 
 all my friends, Mr. Pepys returning you his." 
 
 1683, Dec. 15. Ship Montague in the Bay of Cadiz. Captain H. 
 Killigrew. — Concerning ships' stores that he has sent by the Lark 
 according to Lord Dartmouth's orders, and the progress made in repair- 
 ing his own ship. 
 
 1683, Dec. \% . Cadiz. — Copies of letters from Mr. Hewer to the 
 Earl of Rochester and the Officers of the Navy Board, relating to a bill 
 drawn upon them for 2,000/. 
 
 1683, Dec. 18. Ship Happy Return in Tangier Bay. Sir John 
 Wyborne to Lord Dartmouth. — Describes the many accidents befallen 
 his ship before he " cut and went into the Straits " on the 1st inst. 
 
 1683, Dec. 22. Happy Return. — Lieutenant Jos. Wetwang to Lord 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 Is sorry to have any jarring or difference with his commander, and 
 desires to be removed to another ship. Lord Dartmouth has been mis- 
 informed about the business with the volunteer ; is very sensible of his 
 
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 Earl of Lordship's kindness to him on his father's account, and will take care that 
 Dabtmouth's there shall be no more trouble about him, &c. 
 
 — ' 1683, Dec. 29. Terrif.— Geo. Mister to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " On Christmas day I was forced from my anchors out of Tanger road 
 and by the violence of the storm put ashore in Terriff bay above two 
 miles to the westward of the town ; and much ado to preserve the men, 
 and as for her lading nothing saved, neither goods nor provisions for 
 the garrison. The ship's name is the Recovery and I had 140 tons of 
 provisions." 
 
 [1683 ?] Three long papers in Lord Dartmouth's handwriting 
 setting forth various considerations touching Tangiers, and the reasons 
 for its demolition. 
 
 1683. — Paper headed, " A table of the toune as it stood," followed by 
 a list headed, " Tangier demolished," each with letters and numerals 
 apparently referring to plans not now with the papers. 
 
 1683. — " A perticular of all bookes and papers relating to matters of 
 Tanger which respected the care and cognizance of Mr. de Paz, secre- 
 tary to his Excellency the Lord Dartmouth." 
 
 Petitions addressed to Lord Dartmouth as Governor of 
 
 Tangiers. 
 
 Of the late inhabitants, for payment of debts due to them by the 
 garrison. Ten original signatures attached : Wm. Smith, Rich. Sen- 
 house, — Fargeon, Edw. Cheston, Ja. Waringe, C. Bordier, &c. 
 
 John Roderigus, of the kingdom of Portugal, who was captured by 
 the Moors, made his escape to Tanger and served for some time in Col. 
 Trelawny's company. 
 
 John Mings, formerly servant to Sir John Finch, ambassador at 
 Constantinople, then with a merchant at Cadiz, but compelled to leave 
 there with his wife at half an hour's warning, owing to the proclamation 
 that all housekeepers there must at once take up arms upon pain of 
 seven years as a galley slave. 
 
 Solomon Pariente, of the Hebrew nation, represents that he came to 
 Tanger in 1675 from London as interpreter to Lord Inchiquin, and 
 afterwards to Sir Palmes Fairborne, Col. Sackville, and Col. Kirke ; 
 for which services he had received no compensation, and had greatly 
 neglected his own affairs. i( I brought here about two thousand pounds 
 besides my wife's jewels and plate and household goods, insomuch that 
 they called me here the Rich Jew ; and pawned my house, some jewels, 
 and plate, into the mayor's and Mr. Roth's hands; and besides all this 
 I owe money to several persons," &c. 
 
 Certificates of the great value of Pariente's services, signed by Col. 
 Kirke and H. Shere, are attached. The petition is referred, on 28 Oct. 
 1683, to the Hon. Samuel Pepys, Esq. (as are many other petitions) for 
 his examination and report. 
 
 John Eccles, usher and writing master to the school, and gunner. 
 Was appointed seven and a half years ago at a salary of 30/. a year, in 
 succession to Mr. Hughes, the first master there, with a convenient 
 lodging; but for upwards of five years had been obliged to find his own 
 lodging at a total cost of 39/. 3s., for which he desires compensation. 
 
 Other petitions are from Thomas Roberts, apothecary to the garrison ; 
 George Mercer, clerk and schoolmaster ; Robert Inglish, steward of the 
 hospital ; Thomas Paine, a gentleman born, and brought up in the 
 calling of a woollen draper in London, but ruined by the great sickness 
 
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 and fire there, afterwards clerk of the church at Tanger ; Thomas Roane, eakl of 
 clerk of the peace ; John Meagher, apothecary ; John Fargeon, mer- 3:>AR ^s UTH ! 
 chant ; James Gorman, alderman ; &c, &c. — ' 
 
 [Early in 1684 ?]— Lord Dartmouth to Charles II. (draft.) 
 
 " Having obeyed all your Majesty's commands at Tangeire, I thought 
 it my duty io secure the fears of the merchants from what misfortune 
 they apprehended themselves to be liable to, by the desertion of the 
 place, and have therefore directed some ships which are ordered to stay 
 abroad of the best countenance (?) to go immediately before Algiers., 
 Tunis, and Tripoli, and the lighter frigates with Captain Shovell to ply 
 off the Straits' mouth, Sally, and the South Cape, so that I hope those 
 jealousies of the merchants are well prevented, either from the Levant 
 corsairs breaking immediately into a war, or from the Sally ships ; yet 
 I humbly believe it necessary for your Majesty's service to have this 
 cruising squadron recruited and a commander-in-chief at the head of it, 
 as your Majesty shall think best. The Alcade here mightily desires a 
 peace, to which I only lay the consideration of it to your Majesty's own 
 best judgment, for you may do, I believe, with these people according 
 to your own will and pleasure. Finding former directions from your 
 Majesty here for the redeeming of captives, I thought it agreeable to 
 your Majesty's gracious charity and most for your honour to free what 
 could be had at this time, and I have sent them by the Greyhound. 
 The greatest difficulty was to get off Lieut. Wilson, but I thought it 
 not for your Majesty's honour to leave a commissioned officer behind 
 that had behaved himself so very well in your service, and I belie re 
 will do again upon a little encouragement, though at present his mis- 
 fortunes and long captivity seem too much to have dejected him. The 
 forces are brought entire off from the garrison, and are men generally 
 well qualified for any service your Majesty can have for them ; but 
 being tc come to the liberty of English soldiers, I thought it my duty 
 to give very strict orders for the officers to stay with their men and 
 have provided for them with ready money for a month's subsistence, 
 for which time at least I am confident your Majesty will hear of no 
 disorders, being all upon their good behaviours and expecting your 
 Majesty's favour and commands. At my arrival I do not doubt but to 
 free your Majesty from many of the troublesome burgers, which I hope 
 an inconsiderable sum will do, when their titles are thoroughly looked 
 into, and that was the reason I desired Mr. Creede might not have it 
 in his power to embezzle the records. 
 
 1683-4, Jan. -J'-g. St. Lucar. — Samuel Pepys (holograph) to Lord 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 " Your lordship hath (I am sure) hath too many other instances of the 
 ill condition of the weather ever since myleaveing you, that I should bee 
 offering at excuses for my being gott noe further yet then this place, 
 the season haveing beene such (notwithstanding the hopes I have in 
 former letters expressed to your lordship of the contrary) as not in all 
 this time to have given me two dry days together to look out of doores 
 in, till Monday last, when I did immediately sett out for Port St. Mary's, 
 and thence hither, from whence I am goeing (though the weather is 
 becomeing wett againe) towards Sivill, where I will endeavour with all 
 dispatch to run through (as I have done here) what the place will afford 
 mee of entertainment, and returne by Xeres and soe to your lordship. 
 This unfortunatenesse of the season and the losse of time occasioned by 
 it rendering my journy of much lesse satisfaction to mee then you were 
 pleased to designe it should ; though this consideration of the weather 
 
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 does at the same time minde mee of the little service my attendance 
 could have beene of to your lordship at Tangier had I beene still there. 
 
 Extremely afflicted I am for the miscarriage of Mister the victualler, 
 though I trust in God you will finde a sufficiency remayning to answer 
 all your occasions, if the weather would but favour us ; which Grod send, 
 and your lordship a happy issue thereto." 
 
 1683-4, Jan. 7. — Depositions, before Fred. Bacher, of David Breholt, 
 master, and John Honyman, a seaman, of the ship Samuel, of London, 
 as to the manner of their being taken by a Sally man-of-war. 
 
 1683-4, Jan. 10. Tangier.— Capt. Ea. Wrenn. 
 
 " An abstract from my Journal of our proceedings the 27th .and 28th- 
 of October 1683." 
 
 27th. — This day being Saturday, the wind at E., a fresh gale and 
 fair weather, Ave got on board 18 puncheons of fresh water, and at 
 night sailed out of Cadiz bay, being bound for Lisbon. At 8 at night 
 Cadiz town bore E.S.E. about 3 leagues off, we steering away W. b. N. 
 and'W.N.W. all night. 
 
 28. — This day the wind at E. a fresh gale with fair weather at 8 in 
 the morning Cape St. Mary's bore N.N.W. 4 leagues off. At 10 we 
 saw a sail to the westward of us upon a wind standing to the N.-ward, 
 when we came within two leagues of her she bore away, steering 
 between the S.W. and W. with French colours abroad. We gave chace 
 after her, carrying a fresh gale with us, so that we fetched upon her 
 very much. At noon the town of Villa Nova bore N.W. of us about 
 5 leagues off, at one o'clock we came up with her, she putting abroad 
 Sally colours. In clapping her aboard we carried away her bowsprit, 
 foremast, and maintopmast. She proved a Sally man-of-war, having 
 six guns mounted, and two small guns and six pedreras in her hold. 
 There was in all 42 Turks and Moors, Captain and Eenegado [an 
 English gunner] included ; and two English, one Portuguese, and one 
 Sicilian captives. We took her in a tow and sailed into Logos's (?) bay, 
 where we got up a jury foremast and fitted her for the sea. The Captain's 
 name is Ally Eice Washan, the ship's name the Two Lions of Sally. 
 They had taken two English vessels and one Dutch Galliot Hoy. — 
 Ea. Wrenn. 
 
 1683, Jan. 11. Tangier.— Original confession (in Spanish) of Ali 
 Washum Eais, of Tunis, Captain of the Tivo Med Lions, of his 
 capture of an English ship off Cape St. Vincent about the middle of 
 October last — with a translation certified by John Erlisman and John 
 Nevell. 
 
 1683-4, Jan. 20.—" From Tetey won " (Tetuan ?). Edward Payne 
 to Lord Dartmouth. 
 * Most Onered Sir, 
 
 hose praise dose ret downe to the great comfort of hondredes in this 
 Plase, with there famelyes at home. This to aqwant you of my con- 
 dishen, desiring that you wild tacke it into yowre consederation and 
 reeleefe, me being all together un abell to releefe myseelf in this matr, 
 ho shall allwayes be bownd to pray for yow and yowrs. 
 
 On the 8th of October last I was tacken by a seteea that did belong 
 both to Argere and Tetey won being maned with abowt one hendred 
 men and 4 gones aud 26 petereros, I being in a small pinke belonging 
 to London ; came from Newfownland bownd for Allecant, hafing six 
 men and tow gones. It being callme we f owt him five owres laished bord 
 and bord, untill we had tow of owre company killed, and mysellfe and all 
 the rest of owre company wounded We killed him seventen men and 
 
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 Dartmouth's 
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 wownded him 25 men more, but all to no purpos, being so desabeled ; hee Earl of 
 
 tock us of Allmarea bay in the Strayts, hee brought us to Tetey wone ^mss?" 
 
 whare wee ware solid, and it was my forten to be the Kinge's slafe, and — 
 
 was downe in the Masemere about 3 wickes. The Captain that tock us 
 
 hose name is Tige, the same that was a slafe in Tangere and was 
 
 given out for nothing, he went to the camp and interseded with the 
 
 Goferner and got me from him, in expectation that I hafe money to 
 
 redeme his brother, that dos belong to the Grand dewckes galley at 
 
 Leghorn, which T can never dow being in trewth a ferey poore man 
 
 haling a great fameley whitch I know at this time wante bred, and shall 
 
 never be abell to clear mysellfe, motch more to redeme his brother. 
 
 He wild hafe me macke him a promas, but I cannot dow it, knoweing 
 
 my condition to be so lo at home. When thay tocke all the names of 
 
 the English kristenes heer he wild not let my name be given in, but 
 
 tolld the govenar that I had promesed to redeme his brother, but it is 
 
 a great lye, I never did ; but hee s wares that hee will macke me clere 
 
 him if chaines and hardship will dow it, which mackes my condishen 
 
 so meserabell, that except yow dow order my redemshen in this jontuer 
 
 of time, I must expect never to be redemed owt of this plase. My 
 
 hopes is still upon yowr onerabell redemshen. " \_See Jan. 30 post.] 
 
 1683-4, Jan. 21. Ship Henrietta.— -Report on the state of the 
 Mole and Harbour at Tangier, signed by Sir John Berry, H. Killegrew, 
 Sir John Wyborne, Sir Will. Booth, Clow. Shovell, and 16 other 
 Captains of Lord Dartmouth's fleet. (4 pp.) 
 
 1683-4, Jan. 26. Portumna. — Earl of Clanricarde to Lord Dartmouth. 
 On behalf of John Tully, son of an old servant, who has been 
 educated for a seaman, and now seeks employment in the King's service. 
 
 1683-4, Jan. 28. Victualling Office, London. — Sir Richard Haddock, 
 Arthur Sturt, John Parsons, and Nic. Fenn, Commissioners to Lord 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 It is not possible (by reason of the severe frost) to send any provision 
 from hence towards you. Wherefore what bills you shall draw on us 
 for victualling shall be punctually complied with. We have freighted 
 a ship of 400 tons to load with 700 men's victuals for 8 months to be at 
 Lisbon ; but she is and hath been frozen up these five weeks, the frost 
 continuing very severe, as hath been known in the memory of man. 
 
 1683-4 (Jan. ?). — Confession of John Burnet [the Renegado taken 
 in the Sally man-of-war. See ante']. He was captured in the Turkey 
 frigate in company with the Danby about 4 years previously, by six 
 Turkish men-of-war, and was forced to turn Turk ; for which he 
 heartily prays forgiveness, and begs for mercy, that he may have time 
 to repent and become a true and faithful Christian. 
 
 1683-4, Jan. 30. " Prom Tetey won in Barbarey." — Edward Payne 
 and Mathew Basto. Tell the same story as is told in Payne's letter of the 
 20th instant with the addition of the following : " Capt. Smith, master 
 of atendence at W r olledge was one of my oaneres, and Mr. Fownes and 
 Mr. Edgell and Mr. Loder of Dedford were the rest of my oaneres ; all 
 hafing imploye under his Majesty. Paradfender you maye know som 
 of them." 
 
 1683-4, Feb. 3. Seville. — Samuel Pepys (holograph) to Lord 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 " I begg your lordship to believe mee in saying that I never suffered 
 so great a disappointment in any one undertaking through my whole 
 life (wherein I had proposed to my selfe soe particular a satisfaction) as 
 I have and doe in this of my journey to Spayne. Not soe much from 
 
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 Dartmouth' w ^at am * ne weather prevented in the content I hoped it might 
 mss. have beene of to mee, as from my being soe much longer detayned (then 
 was designed) from the service of the King and your lordship at 
 Tangiers. Not that I have the vanity to thinke all I can doe, in any 
 degree soe considerable to either, as your lordship in the excesse of your 
 kindnesse are pleased to write concerning it ; but that (bee it lesse or 
 more) I would have nothing to blame my selfe for, of neglect in that 
 which I desire to acquitt my selfe with soe entire a duty in towards his 
 Majesty, and personall reguard and. affection towards your lordship. 
 Hut such has beene the weather here, that after haveing in six days 
 finishd all that my curiosity aymed at and could performe in this place, 
 I have beene by the heights of the floods kept out of any capacity of 
 quitting it, the ways by land being become wholly unpassable, and the 
 river soe overflowed that (notwithstanding all the endeavors used for 
 preventing it, by calkeing its gates, and damming up all other the 
 inletts into it) one-third part of this citty has beene drowned within the 
 walls, soe as many persons are sayd to have beene famished for want 
 of accesse for provisions to them, nor is there believed to be ten days 
 corne left within it for the whole towne. Nor was it before this 
 morning that your letters of the 11th of January could reach mee, the 
 weather (notwithstanding the many public processions for its amend- 
 ment) continuing still what it has beene ever since my arrival ; and it 
 being now above 18 days that I have had a boate wayteing for a slatch 
 to carry mee downe to St. Lucar. Nor shall a minute bee lost that can 
 yet bee saved in it. And upon this I begg Your lordship to depend, 
 and that (consonant to the order you are pleased to furnish mee with for 
 my conveyance) I will immediately inbarque my selfe from Cadix 
 for Tangier, observing your direction in favour of Captaine Williams. 
 
 Mr. Hewer (who is under the same affliction with mee) presents your 
 lordship with his most humble duty, and does by this post send his 
 letters to Mr. Gardener (according to your commands by Mr. Atkins of 
 the same date) about the cables, powder, and pitch, that noe time may 
 bee lost in its dispatch, if the goods can be found. 
 
 To my former uneasinesses I have not wanted the consideration of 
 the severall diflicultys and distresses your lordship may from the same 
 cause have beene exposed to. But a great deaie thereof is (1 thanke 
 God) removed by the notice your letter gives mee of the advancement 
 of the worke of the Mole and comeing in of the greatest part of your 
 shipps. Nor will I despayre but a little time will finish the rest, and 
 bring thither for your further commands. My Lord, your " &c. 
 
 1683-4, Feb. T ^. Seville.— William Hewer to Samuel Atkins. Partly 
 to the same purport as Pepys' letter above given. " We have not had 
 two days fair weather together since we left Tanger, an affliction that I 
 would not undergo again for the best sight that Spain can show at any 
 time." 
 
 1683-4, Feb. 7. " The Purser's List of the soldiers brought home in 
 the Montague from Tanger." Five sheets of paper containing the 
 names and ranks of the officers and soldiers forming part of that 
 garrison. 
 
 1. Colonel Piercy Kirk's company, consisting of Col. Kirk, Capt. 
 William Berry, James Weyley, Chirurgeon, William Powntney, 
 Marshal, three sergeants, three corporal, two drummers, and 54 men. 
 
 2. Captain Tho. St. John's company consisting of Capt. St. John 
 Lieut. Jenken Thomas, Ensign Staff. Fairburn three sergeants, two 
 corporals, two drummers, and 46 men. 
 
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 3. Sir James Lashleye's company consisting of Major Sir James Dartmouth's 
 Lashly, Lieut. Hen. Withers, Ensign Rodger Ellitt, three sergeants, three MSS . 
 corporals, two drummers, and 35 men (one named Tho. Shakspeare). 
 
 4. Captain Barbour's company, consisting of Capt. Tho. Barbour, 
 Lieut. Richard Lawes, Ensign Simon Duff, three sergeants, three 
 corporals, two drummers, and 37 men. 
 
 5. Capt. Geo. Wingfield's company, consisting of Capt. G. Wingfield, 
 Lieut. James Addams, Ensign Garrt. Fitzjarrald, three sergeants, three 
 corporals, two drummers, and 27 men. 
 
 6. Capt. John Burgis' company, consisting of Capt. Burgis, Lieut. 
 Phill. Maher. Ensign Marten Lester, three sergeants, three corporals, 
 two drummers, and 39 men. 
 
 7. Capt. Charles Wingfield's company, consisting of Capt. C. Wing- 
 field, Lieut. Will. Storton, Ensign Nath. Barber, three sergeants, three 
 corporals, two drummers, and 27 men. 
 
 Thos. Roberts, apothecary, Tho. Pate, victualling agent, and Win, 
 Scott, chirurgeon ; Eliz. Gardner, a sergeant's wife, with her daughters 
 Parthenia and Sabra, and Eliz. Scott, wife of Capt. Scott were also 
 passengers. 
 
 1683-4, Feb. 13. Tangier bay. — Lieut. George Byng to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. 
 
 Describes the circumstances under which his ship was driven over to 
 Gibraltar, where he found Mr. Rooke, who was likewise put in there by 
 bad weather, with another '* barke longa," and ten English seamen. 
 " The pattrone of our boat made a complaint to the Governor of Gibraltar, 
 that the General of Tangier had pressed him and several others in the 
 service of that place, and that he believed Mr. Rooke had killed the 
 Spaniards of his boat, because there came none in her to that place. 
 The Governor immediately sent for Mr. Rooke and after threatening of 
 him, confined him to the Consul's house, and then sent for me. He 
 asked me, with much passion, the reason why the General of Tangier 
 pressed any of the King of Spain's embarcations in his service, and that 
 he did not understand the meaning of such proceedings. I told him 
 they were not pressed, but hired by their own consent, and I did be- 
 lieve to their great advantage. He said they were not satisfied for 
 their service done, nor the damages that happened to their boats, and 
 that he did not know how our General could answer the using of the 
 King of Spain's subjects in that manner. I said I was confident our 
 General would justly answer what he had done; and as to their satis- 
 faction he had agreed with one Peter Lopaz of TerifF, who was chief of 
 them, to pay them for their service, and if any damage should happen 
 unto their boats, to make reparation to their content. As to Mr. 
 Rook's having all English men with him, it was occasioned by bad 
 weather, when the Spaniards were unwilling to go olf, there were put 
 English men in their boats. He said until such time as be was satisfied 
 of our General's sincerity in the usage of those men, he would retain us 
 with him ; but after some consideration he sent for us, and told us we 
 were at liberty to go where we pleased, but that he would detain the 
 boats with him. Then I desired his pass for me and ten men to go by 
 land to Cadiz, which was granted ; and accordingly in three days I 
 arrived there, and from thence took passage in his Majesty's ship 
 Pearl to this place." 
 
 1684, Feb. 14. Gibraltar. — Robert Wilson, Consul, to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Narrates the above dispute with the Governor in briefer terms, but to 
 the same effect. 
 
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 Eakxof ( 1683-4, Feb. 17-Feb. 19. — Copies (translated) of Correspondence of a 
 LK mssY TH 8 friendly nature between the Alcade Ali Benabdala, writing from the 
 — Fields of Tanger, and Lord Dartmouth, writing from the ship Grafton 
 in Tanger Eoad — six letters in all. 
 
 1683-4, Febr. 24. Bay of Bulls.— Sir John Berry, Sir John Wyborne, 
 Tho. Hum. . . . (?), and Tho. Fowler to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " Having received your Lordships commands for the examining Mr. 
 Geo. Byng as to his qualifications to be a Lieutenant, and having called 
 him before us, we find that 'tis near 6 years since he first went to sea, 
 and he has been entrusted by your Lordship lately at Tangier with the 
 charge and command of the Deptford ketch, in the indisposition of Capt. 
 Michell, and Sir John Berry also acquainting us, that according to his 
 observations he behaved himself very well in that command — we do 
 offer it as our opinion, there is no occasion to examine him further or 
 any scruple to be made of his insufficiency now, to perform the office of 
 a lieutenant." 
 
 1683-4, Feb. 24.— Bay of Bulls off Cadiz. 
 
 A List of soldiers and other passengers, male and female, to be trans- 
 ported from Tangiers to England by his Majesty's ship Oxford. 
 
 Capt. Monro's Company. — Capt. Andrew Monro, Lieuts., Robert I 
 Gordon and And. Rotherford, Ensign Rorie Mackenzie, 3 sergeants, 3 
 corporals, 2 drummers, and 33 men. 
 
 Capt. Hollo's Company i himself absent. — Lieut. Math. Smelt, 3 
 sergeants, 3 corporals, 2 drummers, and 30 men. 
 
 Sir James Moray's Company. — Capt. James Moray, Lieut. Andrew 
 Scott, 3 sergeants, 3 corporals, 3 drummers, and 33 men. 
 
 Capt. Berkeley's Company, himself absent. — Lieuts., Geo. Stewart, 
 and Wm. White, Ensign And. Berkeley, 3 sergeants, 3 corporals, 2 
 drummers, and 29 men. 
 
 Capt. Home's Company, himself absent. — Lieut. John Monatt, 
 Ensign John Bonnerman, 3 sergeants, 3 corporals, 2 drummers, and 28 
 men. 
 
 Other Passengers late inhabitants of Tanger. 
 
 Alex. Mackeny, capt. of horse, his sons John and James, Madam 
 Lewis Mackeny, his wife, Mary, Martha, and Penelope, daughters ; 
 Edward Wroth, late alderman ; Capt. B. St. Michell, agent-general for 
 the navy, Samuel Barker and Alex. Oldys, " his Instruments ; " Robert 
 Tarres, late inhabitant ; sergeant's wives and children, &c. &c. 
 
 Total soldiers - - . - 205 
 
 Male inhabitants - - 1 1 
 
 Females - - - - 17 
 
 Total - - - 233 
 
 1683-4, Feb. 29. Gibraltar.— Robert Wilson, Consul, to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. 
 
 Mr. Povie yesterday in my presence delivered this governor your 
 Excellency's letter, at which after perusal he was not a little startled, 
 fell into some passion, but presently endeavoured to salve up the same 
 by declaring his innocency as to the prisoner mentioned, and his 
 integrity to the service of his Majesty ; to all which we patiently gave 
 the old gentleman hearing, as the bearer hereof, Major Berckman, can 
 inform your Excellency. I was glad with all my heart that he is made 
 sensible of his errors, being the best way to deal with these sort of 
 people. 
 
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 1684, March 30. Plymouth. — Lord Dartmouth to Mr. Secretary 
 Jenkins (copy). 
 
 " My passage home has been very tedious and stormy, as the bearer 
 will inform you ; but that 1 might make all the haste that lay in my 
 power, I left Capt. Killegrew with the hired and heavy ships and came 
 myself with the frigates and the ketch with the chief of the forces, that 
 I might have no clog to hinder my dispatch (fearing his Majesty might 
 think the forces long a coming) ; but notwithstanding my endeavours 
 we met with so great a storm off the South Cape, that three of the 
 frigates lost my company, though in good condition, and I hope may be 
 arrived or will arrive very suddenly. The Centurion came with me 
 well into the Chops of the Channel, but in another violent storm the 
 night before last she likewise was missing, though I am confident she 
 is safe, and you may hear of her before me ; but the absence of this last 
 hinders my following the orders I received just now from the hands of 
 Mr. Blathwayte, to bring some forces from this place to the River, and 
 leave one of Colonel Kirke's battalions here, but it so falls out that one 
 part of his regiment being with himself in the Montague (which will be 
 rightly disposed of) the other part is in the Centurion, so that I cannot 
 obey leaving any of that regiment here as yet ; only the company of 
 grenadiers which are with me shall be disposed as directed, and I will 
 bring away one of the Duke's companies, and rectify the rest as soon as 
 the Centurion comes into my company. I will not trouble you with a 
 long narration of the several passages of the voyage, having done it at 
 length to the Lords of the Admiralty, which is enclosed to you as 
 formerly, and I desire what commands are thought fit for me may be 
 sent to Portsmouth." 
 
 1684, March 31. Falmouth, on board the Mermaid.— Captain 
 William GifFord to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Describes the damage done to his ship in a sudden gust ; with great 
 difficulty he had brought the ship into Falmouth. 
 
 1684, April 2. Whitehall. — O. (endorsed Doctor) Wynne to Lord 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 " It is with exceeding joy that I among the rest of your Excellency's 
 servants have received the news of your arrival upon the coast, first by 
 this day's letters, and then by Mr. De Paz, who arrived here this 
 evening about six. Mr. Secretary sends you a letter from my Lord of 
 Rochester and another from himself, with his Majesty's order inclosed 
 in it for your repairing to the King's presence ; tho' I find by what 
 Mr. Secretary writes your Excellency is not expected wish ill you have 
 disposed of all the troublesome varieties of your great charge, or, in 
 plain English, till you have put things and persons into that condition 
 as to prevent clamour, which is in a manner unavoidable, and is as eagerly 
 expected and desired, nay will be promoted by those that wish ill not 
 only to his Majesty's affairs, but to your Excellency in the management 
 of them ..... Mr. Sec. Jenkins had his Majesty's leave to lay down 
 and quit his office in favour of Mr. Grodolphin, his indisposition not 
 permitting him to go on any further in the execution of his function." 
 
 1684, April 2. Whitehall. — Sam. de Paz to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I am extreme sorry that the entire disability of a horse, which made 
 me lose one whole night's riding, together with the badness of the road, 
 was the occasion of my not getting hither before the post. I waited on 
 Mr. Secretary with Capt. Legge, who obtained me the honour of kissing 
 the King's hand, who enquired most affectionately after your Excellency's 
 health, and it was easy to perceive his satisfaction of your good services 
 to him. I also waited on the Duke with your letter ; the particulars of 
 
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 Earl of both Captain Legge is best able to inform you. I put into Lis Majesty's 
 I>AR MSS UTH S nan d a copy of the journal of the destruction of Tanger, which you sent 
 — ' with the express aforesaid." 
 
 1684, April 2. Whitehall.— Charles II. 
 
 Sign manual expressing satisfaction at the result of Lord Dartmouth's 
 expedition to Tanger, and giving him leave to return to the King's pre- 
 sence, as soon as the disposing of the fleet, &c. will permit — with a 
 letter of Sir L. Jenkins transmitting the same. 
 
 1684, April 2. Whitehall. — Earl of Rochester to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 ;t I cannot let your brother go away to meet your lordship without 
 sending this little note along with him to congratulate, as I do very 
 heartily, your happy return to England, where no friend you have can 
 
 be gladder than I am to see you safe It is certainly 
 
 true, and beyond all possibility of doubt, that the King is extremely well 
 satisfied with your lordship, and with your whole conduct in the business 
 committed to you." 
 
 1684, April 3. Pendennis. — Colonel P. Kirke to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I had the honour to receive a letter from your lordship at ray arrival 
 herefrom Plymouth the 31st of March .... I find this castle is 
 as much out of repair as your lordship expected and the house so very 
 much as I am forced to bring my wife to London." 
 
 1684, April 5. Friday night, Westminster. — Samuel Pepys (holo- 
 graph) to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " Deemeing it most for your service, and (at this time especially) most 
 decent, I applyed my selfe (witii Mr. Shere) upon our arrivall here this 
 evening, first to Mr. Secretary Jenkins, who with all the respect and 
 tendernesse possible to bee expressed betweene friend and friend did upon 
 perusing your letter immediately fall upon the same sentiments concern- 
 ing it 3 with those of your lordship's friends mett at my leaveing you, 
 namely, that it ought not to bee communicated to the King or any of 
 the ministers, in the tearmes you had beene pleased to make it run in ; 
 for as much as however reasonable for your lordship it was to choose 
 that stile upon the representations you had received of matters upon your 
 arrivall where you are, hee did assure mee those representations had 
 misledd you, for that hee was not more assured of any thing then of 
 the entirenesse of his Majestie's good will towards your lordship, and 
 unshaken satisfaction in every part of your conduct of the service you 
 are come from. 
 
 To the perticular of the excesse of charge sayd to bee imputed to the 
 (supposed) unnecessary lengthening of your worke, and valued at 
 300,000/., hee told mee hee never heard anybody speake of more than 
 30,000/., even those who would most magnify it. Soe that in that 
 perticular allsoe, report has beene more forward towards your disquiet, 
 then your enemys themselfes have really dared to bee. 
 
 Hee acquainted mee with the contents of his letter to you by Mr. 
 Legg and his advice upon the licence it brought you from the King for 
 your comeing up. Wherein most certainly hee judged with great 
 prudence of what was fitt for your lordship to doe on this occasion. 
 
 Upon my proposeing to him what was in your wishes of haveing the 
 non-arrivall of Nicholson and the Greyhound sup ply 'd by his haveing 
 his despatches (by them) communicated to the King out of copys 
 thereof I had brought with me to that purpose. Hee told mee that 
 even that would but speake some distrust of yourselfe more then was 
 either fitt for you to shew, or in it selfe there was any ground for, as I 
 my selfe (hee sayd) would soone finde upon my first appearance to his 
 Majesty and mention of you and your affayres to him. 
 
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 Which I accordingly found in every article most expressly true. For Earl of 
 wayteing (with Mr. Shere) upon the King (which was my next stepp) DaE mss? TH 
 it is impossible for mee to tell you with what impatience hee heard the — ' 
 least suggestion of any thing that might imply his being ever possessed 
 of ought to the diminution of your faythfullnesse, diligence, or prudence 
 in the execution of any one of his comands in this businesse, or ought 
 that hee could now wish to have beene done therein more to his advan- 
 tage. Soe that (to tell you the truth) there is nothing wherein your 
 Lordship is oweing to any care or skill of mine in' my discharge of the 
 message you sent mee hither upon, the King haveing (I protest to you) 
 prevented mee in allmost every point wherein I thought I might have 
 had occasion given mee of serving your Lordship ; his last word being, 
 that I might assure you that however some persons might bee imperti- 
 nent enough to use a greater liberty of talke elsewhere, none tc this 
 houre had ever taken upon them to say one word to your prejudice to 
 him, adding that hee would never desire on any occasion to have his 
 service better performed then hee had ever had it by the Lord Dart- 
 mouth. 
 
 Many perticulars hee descended to, relateing to the story of your proc- 
 eedings at Tangier, takeing great pleasure in the recounting of them, 
 ending in the Grafton, wherein I referr your Lordship to what will bee 
 better told you of it by Mr. Shere, and of other matters too, which 
 possibly may slipp my present memory, as being just now interrupted 
 somewhat by a message sent mee from my Lady Williams, giveing mee 
 an account of the death of my Lord Brouncker (this night) and calling 
 for my immediate advice in some matters wherein (as executrix) shee 
 has occasion of calling for it from mee, as being by him appointed an 
 overseer of his will in conjunction with my Lord of Yarmouth. 
 
 I had not sooner done with what I had in charge from you towards 
 the King, but in comes the Duke, and thereby an occasion given mee of 
 doeing the same with him. Who after peruseing your letter did in all 
 respects (both as to matter and degree) fall into the same expression of 
 his good will and height of satisfaction in the procedings of your Lord- 
 ship, quite through your whole undertaking, commanding mee (upon 
 my earnest sute that hee would bee would bee (sic) playne with me on 
 this occasion) to bee assured, and to assure you, that noe impression had 
 ever beene made upon him by any man to your prejudice therein, but 
 that on the contrary, though there had not beene wanting some that were 
 foolish enough to question the reason of your soe long stay, hee knew 
 too well your dilligence and judgement even to thinke that either in 
 that or in any other perticular you could fayle of doeing the most and 
 best that the business could beare on behalfe of his Majesty. Hee sayd 
 hee has ever suggested the difficultys j ou had to contend with in the 
 enterprize, descending of his owne accord to severall perticulers, un- 
 necessary here to recount, and abundantly expressive of the favourable 
 noe lesse then just measures hee governed himselfe by, in his judgeing 
 and discoursing of your affayre, enlargeing very express ely (above 
 others) upon what you have had to suffer, upon the score of want of 
 provisions. This being in the King's bedd-chamber it was not proper 
 there to enter into any more perticuler discourse with him relateing to 
 nearer matters, which I shall therefore expect another season for, and 
 that as suddainly as may bee. 
 
 From him wee went to my Lord of Rochester who (to my extra- 
 ordinary surprise as well as pleasure) rather exceded then fall short 
 in any thing I have sayd relateing to the King and Duke's discoverys 
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 Earl of of good will to you ; adding of his owne accord (when I came to mention 
 AB MSsy™' s some °^ tne hardshipps you have had to passe through and perticulerly 
 — that of victualls), that there was not one of them but you your selfe 
 had foreseene and did foretell him of before your goeing, and that hee 
 was most thoroughly convinced that noe man in England could have 
 surmounted them but your selfe. Our discourses with him ended with 
 his takeing notice of the leave sent you to come up, and askeing my 
 opinion when I thought you would bee there. To which when I 
 answered that I questioned whither your Lordship would upon that 
 alone thinke fitt to leave your charge (which I tooke the occasion of 
 saying, in order to your haveing an expresse command to doe it, as 
 believing it in many respects usefull to your Lordship that you should 
 bee here) hee presently replyed, that hee would forthwith speake to 
 the King, and (with his leave) himselfe send you such an expresse 
 signification of the King's pleasure for your comeing. 
 
 This being done I attended my Lady Dartmouth whom I found with 
 your whole family in good health, and her selfe under a degree of 
 fortitude in all these doubts (to say noe more of it) equall to your owne. 
 
 Thus farr I had wrott with a purpose to have sent it away last night, 
 but being willing to perfect it by the addition of what I could learne 
 this morning, I kept it till now, to enable my selfe to tell you that 
 haveing looked up and downe pretty diligently, I am mightily satisfyed 
 that neither Mr. H. nor any body else doe now thinke fitt to talke 
 any thing, whatever they may thinke; the King have all last night 
 made it his publiq talke how well you had acquitted your selfe in this 
 voyage and worke, nor shall any of them want a reply that shall take 
 upon them to say ought to the contrary in my heareing. 
 
 The King is gone to Windsor, and Duke follows on Monday or 
 Tuesday. 
 
 Soe God guard you, and make much of your selfe. I am" &c. 
 Saturday morning. 
 
 [P.S.] " Your Lordship will doe mighty well (I thinke) to have 
 Mr. Phillips's 3rd draught of the Ruines of Tangier from the Town- 
 ward finished against your comeing ; for I observe that the King does 
 much long to see those draughts, wee haveing mentioned them, and 
 the idle malice of your foolish ill-willers haveing insinuated that the 
 work is left not soe perfectly done as wee tell him, and hee is greatly 
 pleased in the assurance that it is. 
 
 Sir Robert Southwell and Sir A. Deane (with a thousand more) 
 kisse your Lordship's hand." 
 
 1684, April 5. Whitehall. — Sir Henry Shere to Lord Dartmouth, 
 The King being gone to Windsor this morning has carried away 
 a great deal of subject matter with him from whence might have been 
 collected further notices touching your Lordship's affairs. I think 
 I omitted in my letter the various interrogatories of my acquaintance 
 at court, some your friends, some trimmers, and others your enemies, 
 but all grievously and scandalously misled by the false and industrious 
 representations of your adversaries ; they have been as zealously 
 undeceived by a faithful narrative of your Lordship's proceedings ; 
 how far to the satisfaction of some and confusion of others you will 
 soon learn. But so much folly and malice together, such unfair as 
 well as unwise practices have been used that all indifferent men see 
 the cheat. The Duchess has been heard to play the champion for you 
 publicly at her table, whilst they would have entertained her at your 
 expense, telling them such ungentlemanlike proceedings are not 
 
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 practised in her country without severe censure. I was to day to find 
 
 out Col. Sackville, who has served your Lordship faithfully and like DaItm^th'i 
 
 a man of honour, where in a coffee house I had the hap to make a ^ 
 
 great many converts, and those not of the smallest sort ; but you will 
 
 soon hear more than I can write." 
 
 1684, April 7. Pendennis.— Colonel Kirke to Lord Dartmouth. 
 " Two days since I received the enclosed letter [missing] from Mr. Fish 
 who has run his fly-boat ashore within 14 miles of this place in Mount's 
 Bay. 1 immediately sent Capt. Killegrew's lieutenant, Mr. Larance, to 
 the place, and wrote to one Justice Bellott. The Justice answers that 
 all the guns and mortar pieces may be saved, but pallisades, muskets, 
 rigging, &c, are mostly embezzled, though the justices and gentlemen 
 of the country are extremely civil and saved what they could ; and the 
 country very kind to the poor people. These came hither last night, 
 the mayor of Falmouth gave them all quarters and money, and this 
 morning I have desired Captain Killegrew to order them on board some 
 of his Majesty's ships here for transportation to Portsmouth. Mr. Fish 
 lies abed and cries instead of saving any of the wreck, and if he would 
 have promised the country people to pay them they would have saved 
 the horses, for they stood but up to the belly in water for six hours ; in 
 short he is a greater beast than any of them, and as the lieutenant tells 
 me knew not where he was, though he met a Dutch vessel that told 
 him how the land bore, and his course was directly upon it, he believed 
 himself upon the coast of France, and so came ashore before he saw it. 
 The lieutenant asked him why he would undertake to command a ship 
 and understand it no better • he said he was sorry for it and was against 
 it himself, but was over persuaded to take it . . . 
 
 The condition of this place is not to be told you till I see you, my 
 men are all landed, 4 companies quartered in the Castle, and 4 at Fal- 
 mouth ; Boy ton (?) is at Plymouth." 
 
 1684, April 8. Whitehall.— Earl of Eochester to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I have just now seen Sir Christ. Musgrave returned from having 
 waited upon you . . . could not but write to assure you of mv service 
 and friendship. The King and Duke are as well satisfied with you as 
 you can wish, and then you need not care if there be any that are not 
 We are preparing money to pay off your fleet." 
 
 1684, April 8. Windsor.— Earl of Sunderland to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Am commanded to let you know that his Majesty is very well satisfied 
 with the care you have taken in obeying his orders ; and would have you 
 make what haste you can to receive his approbation of your services 
 from himself. I am extremely glad of the good success of your voyage. 
 
 1684, April 21.— Captain Ea. Wrenn to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " On Friday, the 29th March, I met a French man of war, Scilly 
 bearing then E.S.E. and distance 12 leagues, I being within shot I fired 
 at him to make him strike ; he immediately fired five guns not striking. 
 I made another shot and then he presently struck his -topsails and bow 
 under my stern. I asked him why he did not strike his topsails when 
 he saw the King of England's colours ; he answered he saluted the 
 King's colours. I answered that was not sufficient he must strike his 
 topsails, and having given him 2 guns, shot and all, I fired 3 more in 
 answer to his five." 
 
 1684, April 22. Paris.— Earl of Arran [James Douglas, son of 
 Duke of Hamilton] to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 "I don't know if this will find you at London, but the experience I 
 have of your kindness has made me adventure giving you the trouble 
 
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 Ea-el of of this upon all hazards. It is to tell you the King of France has done 
 " DaR 'mss 1; ' TH ' S me honour °f making me his own aide-de-campe ; he has named 
 — 3, the Dauphin, the Duke of Grammont, and myself. It is an honour 
 that no stranger ever had but myself, and none of this country but those 
 of the very first rank. It would be too long a story to tell you how I 
 have been used since my being here. I thought to be but a " four- 
 night," and now it is above 3 months since I have been in this country ; 
 and when I came I was only furnished with such necessaries as so short 
 a journey as I intended required, but finding that all our young sparks 
 were coining I thought it would have looked ill in me to have lost the 
 occasion of making this campaign, though I had neither horses nor 
 money, which are two such impediments as might have furnished an 
 excuse relevant enough ; but since I thought my honour was concerned 
 I took the resolution — come on't what would. So I have been en- 
 deavouring all I could to get an equipage on foot, and make the best 
 on't, and to tell the truth I have met with all the encouragement 
 imaginable in this court, so that now I am in as honourable a post as 
 any young man be in, I want only to be able to carry it out a little. I 
 have written to the King and the Duke, who I hope will do something 
 for me at this time, since my honour in so much at stake. The King 
 owes me of my pension as gentleman of his bedchamber 1,000, and if 
 he would add but the least to that I might do well enough for this 
 campaign. You must consider I must have a great many horses, for it 
 is the aide-de-camp that carries the orders over the whole army ; and 
 now if you could but let me have a horse that is fit for a soldier you 
 would oblige me extremely, and I shall pay what price you please when- 
 ever I come into England. For ready money is something scarce at 
 present ; but if you have a good one I would rather give what money 
 you please even now than want one, so I shall order Will Hay. the 
 bearer, my servant, to give you what you please for such a horse as you 
 think will be for my purpose. But whatever you'll do you must do it 
 immediately, for my horses are to part the next minute this comes to 
 my servant's hands. It is natural for me to give you this trouble since 
 from the first time that I have been in the world I have always made 
 you a confident(?) of all my concerns. I hope at least you'll let me hear 
 from you which will infinitely oblige your most affectionate cousin and 
 humble servant." 
 
 1684, April. — A list of the persons that attended the Lord Dartmouth 
 for the expedition at Tangier, chief among them are : — 
 
 Major Beckeman, engineer, from 16 Aug. 1683 to 8 April 1684 — 
 237 days at 13s. 4d. per diem. 
 
 Ensign Phillips, engineer, from 10 Aug. 1683 to 10 April 1684 — 
 245 days at 10s. 
 
 Capt. Leake, master gunner, from 9 July 1683 to 10 April 1684 — 
 277 days at 13s. Ad. 
 
 Capt. Feife, engineer, from 18 July 1683 to 10 April 1684—268 days 
 at 10s. 
 
 Capt. de Eeus, master fireworker, from 18 July 1683 to 10 April 
 1684—268 at 10s. 
 
 Gunners, watermen, &c. 
 
 1684, May 14. — "A schedule of papers presented (by dirrection of 
 his Majesty) to the Bight Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the 
 Treasury, from the Lord Dartmouth, upon the principall matters 
 occurring to him in his late expedition to Tanger, relating to the King's 
 revenue with an humble memoriall of his Lordship's annexed thereto. 
 
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 1. The state and value of the severall houses and lands within the Earl of 
 said city and its jurisdictions surrendered to his Majesty by their Dae J^° s uth ' 8 
 respective proprietors, amounting to about 11,300/., and contained in a — ' 
 report made of the same by persons especially appointed by his Lord- 
 ship for the inquiring into, and the impartiall adjusting thereof between 
 
 his Majesty and them. 
 
 2. A perticular of the severall dwelling-houses and other buildings, 
 within the said city and jurisdiction, belonging to the King, and not 
 comprehended in the aforementioned report. 
 
 3. An accompt of the names, number, quality, and trade of each 
 cittizen or other civill inhabitant of Tanger, with their wives, children, 
 and servants resideing there at his Lordship's arrivall the 17th 
 September 83. 
 
 4. The like of the officers and workmen (with their families) belong- 
 ing to the mole and fortifications, and a particular accompt of the 
 severall buildings upon the mole belonging to his Majesty. 
 
 5. Two draughts, one of the city, the other of the mole of Tanger, 
 distinctly notifying each particular building within and upon the same 
 belonging to his Majesty or any other private proprietor. 
 
 6. An abstract of the muster rolls of the garrison given in by the 
 Commissary thereof, and taken the first of October '83, amounting with 
 the non-commission officers to 3,471 men. 
 
 7. A state of the arreares of pay due to the said garrison, and the 
 summe wherein each military officer thereof stood indebted to any of the 
 inhabitants upon the 30th of September 1683. Contained in a report 
 from persons especially commissionated by his Lordship for prepareing 
 the same ; the said arrears of pay amounting to 56,215/. 5s. 4d., and the 
 debt to the inhabitants to 28,900/. 16s. Id. 
 
 8. A report from Mr. Hewer. Treasurer of the said garrison, con- 
 taining the particulars following — 
 
 1. An accompt of the severall debtors to his Majesty within the said 
 
 place, upon the duties of excise and porteredge, stated to the 
 determination of the said duties, vizt., the 26th of October '83, 
 and amounting to 1,105/. 135. 3d. 
 
 2. The like of debtors to the King for rents stated to Michaelmas '83, 
 
 120/. 19s. 
 
 3. A generall accompt between his Majesty and the said Treasurer 
 
 for his receipts and payments, upon the accompt of the revenue 
 of the said place, between the first of January 1681 and the 19th 
 of November '83, wherein (after the recovery of the debts afore- 
 mentioned) the accomptant will remaine debtor to the King 
 1,060/. 4s. 6d., and to Captain St. John and Captain Collier, 
 181/. 165. 3d. 
 
 4. An accompt of arrears of rent due to his Majesty and discounted 
 
 (by order of the Lords of the Treasury), to severall persons 
 towards payment of his Majesty's debt to them upon the account 
 of quarters adjusted to Michaelmas 1683, 856/. 2s. 8\d. 
 
 5. His Majestie's aforementioned debt for quarters adjusted (after 
 
 such discount) to the same Michaelmas '83, 3,129/. 2s. 9d. 
 
 6. An abstract and accompt of the seven months pay from the first 
 
 of September '81 to the 31st of March '82, issued to the said 
 garrison, according to the respective establishment and muster- 
 rolls ; with an accompt of the money stopt therefrom towards 
 satisfying the aforesaid debt to the inhabitants, the totall of the 
 said seven months pay amounting to 21,793/. 17 s. 4d. 
 
 9. An accompt of his Lordship's proceedings for the secureing to his 
 Majesty what could be recovered of 26,000 ps. f , provided for the redemp- 
 
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 Earl of tion of captives and put (to that effect) into the hands of one Mr. 
 1 UR M«;s TJTH S Thistlethwayte, an officer of the Farmers of Ireland then lately deceased 
 — ' at Tanger ; with the issue of his Lordship's endeavours therein, con- 
 taining the severall papers following, viz., 
 
 1. The report of Mr. John Earlisman, Mr. Hewer, and others com- 
 
 missionated to that purpose, shewing the state of accompts 
 between his Majesty and the said Thistlethwayte in reference 
 to the said 26,000 ps. -§, wherein he appeares debtor to his 
 Majesty in 2,5921. 6s. 3d. 
 
 2. A coppy of his Lordship's warrant to Mr. Hewer authorizeing 
 
 him, to receive from the widdow of the said Thistlethwayte, all 
 such summes of moneys, bookes, accompts and papers belonging 
 to her late husband as were then in her custody. 
 
 3. Duplicate of Mr. Hewer's discharge for the moneys, bookes and 
 
 papers received by him from the said widdow. 
 
 4. Mr. Hewer's report (after his perusall of the said bookes and 
 
 papers) of the state of accompts between the said Thistlethwayte 
 and others. 
 
 5. A copy of a letter from the Lord Dartmouth (at Mr. Hewer's 
 
 instance) to the Recorder of Tanger to examine severall persons 
 upon oath, elateing to Mr. Thistlethwayte's concernes. 
 
 6. The said Recorder's answer thereto, with the depositions of the 
 
 persons so by him examined. 
 
 7. A copy of his Lordship's warrant to Mr. Cuthbert for delivering 
 
 4 casks of hatts (as the proper goods of Mr. Thistlethwayte) to 
 Major Tiffin, for the use of Collonell Trelawny's regiment. 
 
 8. A report from severall persons appointed thereto by his Lordship, 
 
 relateing to some goods brought to Tanger to the value of about 
 900/. supposed to belong to the said Thistlethwayte, with severall 
 depositions relating thereto. 
 
 10. A report from Mr. Hughes, late Minister of Tanger, containing 
 an account. 
 
 1. Of the utensills, vestments, &c, belonging to the church of Charles 
 
 the Martyr there. 
 
 2. Of all moneys due to the said church and poore. 
 
 3. Of the bookes belonging to the public library there. 
 
 4. Of the debts owing by the said church and poore. 
 
 11. A report from the Mayor, Corporation, and others appointed 
 Commissioners for dispensing his Majesty's charity and superviseing 
 the hospitall, touching the state of the said poor and hospitallj the same 
 being accompanied with the following reports, 
 
 1. A copy of his Lordship's letter to them demanding such report. 
 
 2. An accompt current of the hospitall's receipts and issues from the 
 
 1st of October '81 to the 1st of November '82 whereon the King 
 is debtor to severall persons in the summe of 1,324/. 7s. 2d. 
 
 3. A like accompt of the hospitall's receipts and issues from the 
 
 1st November 1682 to the 15th October '83 (made out by three 
 other accompts annexed thereto) on which the King remaines 
 debtor to severall persons in the summe of 861/. 19s. 4d. 
 
 12. Severall reports made to his Lordship by Samuel Pepys, Esq., 
 and Mr. Frederick Bacher, upon petitions referred to them from the 
 Lord Dartmouth, as the foundation of his Lordship's proceedings in 
 answering the same, vizt., 
 
 1. Their report of 26th October '83 relateing to 11 severall cases 
 
 therein mentioned. 
 
 2. The like of the 27th October '83 upon 10 cases more. 
 
 3. The like of the 2nd November containing 10 more. 
 
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 4. The like of the 10th ditto. upon 5 more. 
 
 5. The like of 1st December '83 upon 4 more. DaSwSoth's 
 The following receipt is appended. 
 
 "May the 14th 1684. Eeceived of the Right Honourable the Lord 
 Dartmouth by order of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners 
 ol his Majestie's Treasury the severall papers contained in this 
 Schedule. 
 
 Hen. Guy." 
 
 1684, May 22 and June 3.— Petitions of Henry Slingsby, Esq 
 Master and Worker of the Mint. Concerning arrears of coinage monies 
 charged upon him. 
 
 1684, June 27. Tournay.— Thomas Phillips to Lord Dartmouth. 
 1 have been since my last in a continual motion from place to place 
 alter having seen Luxembourg, and delivered my letter to Mons 
 Vauban. I took all the observations that were needful for me to do in 
 all respects whatever, the trenches being not filled up, neither was there 
 any thing repaired that might hinder my benefit of seeing the whole 
 thing ; but I find the place has been basely defended, and the besieged 
 the most neglectful and the ignorants (sic) people in the world, they 
 having all things done that could be thought on~for their defence and 
 gaining of time to their hands, they having nothing to do but execute 
 the duty of soldiers in preventing "the enemies lodging so very near at 
 first sight, which might have been done with the greatest ease in the 
 world, they having mines in all places whatever where the enemy could 
 possibly post themselves ; but they were so neglectful that the French 
 took the powder out of the very mines that were under the batteries the 
 French had upon them. I have since taken the true proportions of all 
 their artillery, also an exact draught of all the redoubts ; I find those of 
 Luxembourg to better all those that were ever yet done in the world I 
 have also made it my business to court Mons. Vauban for a plan of the 
 siege to send you, he telling me that he had not one done, but he had 
 given one to the Duke of Northumberland, which is with the King by 
 this. I find nothing here that I am any way a stranger to, neither in 
 the attacking or defending of places ; and as for their fortifications and 
 ah their new proportions the draft I once gave with some small addi- 
 tion to be added that the King hath one proposed to me (sic), the world 
 can never mend it, for I find they are now adding only that to all the* 
 fortified towns which should have been done in the beginning, which 
 is_ in detaching the bastions and being well prepared with counter 
 mines. 
 
 From Luxembourg we went to see Crequi's army at Treves, from 
 thence to Metz, and so to all the frontier towns towards Lorraine, &c • 
 after all which I have taken particular observations of all things that 
 can any way be serviceable to us, especially in the affairs of the artillery. 
 The army and fortifications I have seen in most postures but in service' 
 as you will find by my journal at my coming home which now I being 
 returned from the army before Lorraine, a small village, the same which 
 was before Mons in my last letters to you ; and now they talk nothing 
 but of decamping daily, and are going to reinforce the army in Cata- 
 lonia. J 
 
 We met with great danger between Avence and Rockroye going to 
 Luxembourg, our guide being almost killed, and we may thank English 
 horses for our lives. This is all at present, but at my coming home I 
 hope to satisfy your lordship better. Pray present only my service to 
 bir Christopher [Musgrave], and I would write to him, but having so 
 
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 Earl op little a time to stay from you that I will only see Lille, Dunkirk, and 
 1)AR MSS UTH S ^ rave ^ nes > anc * so homeward. If I make any stay it will be at Douai 
 — ' where there is a great foundry of ordnance. The Duke of Grafton 
 came with the convoy this day to Tournay, where I am now going to 
 see the citadel, which is a thing of Vauban's entire finishing, but a 
 different way to what he now uses in the proportion. We have taken 
 up 150/. money (?) of my Lord Preston who tells us of letters from 
 you, but we have not the happiness to have them as yet. There can be 
 nothing in them but I have taken care to give you an account of. Mr. 
 Wharton presents his duty." 
 
 1684, July 1. Chilton.- — Earl of Gainsborough to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Recommends William Adams, of Tichfield, for a gunner's place at 
 Portsmouth. 
 
 1684, July 6. Longleat. — Lord Weymouth to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " My brother informing me that you were pleased to give me one of 
 your Spanish horses I have sent a servant to bring him hither, that 
 your favour may not be worsted by want of care in the conveyance. I 
 see your lordship resolves to keep nothing to yourself but the glory of 
 your voyage, which all your ill-willers will never be able to ravish from 
 you " 
 
 1684, July 8. — Dr. Thomas Ken to Mr. Graham, at Lord Dartmouth's 
 house in St. James's Square. Business matters. " I return you many 
 thanks for your kindness to my poor brother." 
 
 1684, July 15. — Countess of Portland to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " My addresses to your Lordship is on the confidence of your generosity 
 to my deplorable condition. I do not doubt of my Lord Rochester's 
 favour nor has my Lord cause to believe me unkind, that makes so few 
 complaints of my miseries. 
 
 My last quarter was seized on by a creditor after nine months' solici- 
 tation. I am sued by four several debtors (sic) expecting daily my 
 windows broken with the outcries of them. I bear not only the shame 
 of their importunities but also the prejudice of my health, being so 
 wanting as incapable for a journey to the Bath, which the doctors 
 ordered me this two summers back." 
 
 1684, July 22. Ampthill. — Earl of Ailesbury to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Will order such arms as were seized in this county and in Hunting- 
 donshire to be delivered to the persons mentioned to receive them. I 
 was beyond sea last year, when the search for arms was commanded, 
 and what was done was by direction of my deputy lieutenants. There 
 were very few found in either county. 
 
 1684, July 25. [Knowsley], — Earl of Derby to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I have sent a copy of your Lordship's letter to the deputy lieutenants 
 of Cheshire, to put the contents thereof in execution, the arms taken in 
 that county being most considerable. As for those seized in Lanca- 
 shire, they are not many, and therefore they shall be kept in safe custody 
 for the use of the militia." 
 
 1684, Aug. 6. Euston. — Earl of Arlington to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I received your letter, dated June 16, wherein you desire that the 
 arms seized last year in the hands of disaffected person, and not useful 
 .or the militia should be delivered to Mr. Pilkington at Ipswich. The 
 number of them is inconsiderable, and little worth the pains of that 
 person who informed his Majesty otherwise." 
 
 1684, Aug. 10, Sept. 20, Oct. 5, and Oct. 26. Portsmouth.— Tho. 
 Phillips to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 On the progress of the fortifications there. 
 
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 1684, Sept. 13. Dublin. — Duke of Ormonde to Lord Dartmouth. Earl of 
 
 On the state of the army and fortifications in Ireland. " 1 would bee Da,R mss UT1 
 glad your Danish Ingeneer were come that hee might looke upon the — 
 places hee shall be bee directed too, and give us his opinion how they 
 might bee fortified to the degree they are capable of, and shall bee 
 needful with regard to any danger that may reasonably bee apprehended 
 in the age & circumstances wee are in. In order to the disciplining 
 & keeping the army compleate I designe this next sumer to draw it out, 
 if not together yet in as great bodys as I can, and keepe it incamped for 
 some reasonable time ; but for this tents must bee had, since in time of 
 peace wee must not destroy houses, hedges, woods, & plantations to hut 
 withal." 
 
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 1684, Sept. 15. — Lord Castleton to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Thanks Lord Dartmouth for his kindness to his son Charles, u 'twas 
 " your respect that redeemed him from the laziness of youth, and I 
 hope experience may throw him into those affairs as he may not only 
 shew his duty and obedience to his Prince but his great gratitude to 
 your Lordship." 
 
 1684, Sept. 15 st. no. — Viscount Preston to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Introduces the bearers, two Irish merchants, who complain of injustice 
 done them in the French cour t, notwithstanding the writer's attempts to 
 prevent it ; and who have now only recourse to the King's and Duke's 
 protection. 
 
 1634, Sept. 28. — Lord Craven to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Desires that his regiment may be furnished with seventy-two long 
 pikes upon this occasion of the review. 
 
 1684, Sept. 29. Kildare.— Earl of Arran (son of the Duke of 
 Ormonde) to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Desires Lord Dartmouth to present the bearer, Major Billingsly, of 
 the Guards, to kiss His Majesty's hand, he having no acquaintance at 
 Court. 
 
 [1684 ?], Oct. 24.— Earl of Castlehaven to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 M This post I have received the unexpected news of my brother Castle- 
 haven's death, which has not a little surprised me, having received from 
 him a letter dated not above 3 days before of his perfect health. My 
 suit to your Lordship is that you will please to acquaint his Highness 
 to-morrow with it, who I hope will be so obliging as to consider the ill- 
 support I have of this title to me, without his Majesty will be so gracious 
 as to continue to me the same pension in Ireland which my brother had. 
 This I am not able to do myself, not being so well as to stand upon my 
 legs with the gout." 
 
 1684, Nov. 6. — Earl of Plymouth to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 If not supplied by Lord Dartmouth's order with the money he had 
 spoken about before the 11th, he must borrow the amount. Hopes that 
 Sing will get the vacant gunner's place at Hull, as he has officiated 
 there three years without pay. 
 
 1684, November. — Memoranda for Courts to be held at the Trinity 
 House on the 14th of November and the 25th of November. 
 
 Among the memoranda for the 25th of November is a letter from 
 the Captain of the Dartmouth Frigate to Mr. Secretary Pepys about 
 the pilots of the Trinity House at Yarmouth refusing to take charge 
 of His Majesty's ships, against which the following marginal note is 
 placed : — 
 
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 " A letter to be writ to the Mayor of Yarmouth to chide the Pilots 
 and to acquaint them whoever refuse hereafter shall lose his branches ; 
 and to desire his opinion who are fit to be made Pylots of that place 
 if there be a want of any." 
 
 [Note. — In America a pilot's warrant or commission is still called a 
 branch.'] 
 
 [1684 ?] James Duke of York to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Windsor, Monday morning. — " This is only to]tell you, that I intend to 
 be in towne on Wensday, so that if Mr. Pepyes be not well enough to 
 be here by Wensday in the forenone, I would have him stay there, till 
 I can present him on Friday, at Hampton Court, to his Majesty myself ; 
 but if he can be here before I go, it would be better." 
 
 [Addressed.] For the Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 1684-5, Jan. 10. Longleat. — Lord Weymouth to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " Being informed that the city of Lichfield have addressed to your 
 Lordship about their new charter, the entire friendship and respect I 
 bear you oblige me to acquaint you how far I think myself concerned in 
 it. The family of Devereux have for eight successive generations been 
 Eecorders of Lichfield, which was continued to three Dukes of Somerset, 
 as descended from them and owners of Drayton. The only breach in it 
 was made by your brother Fleetwood, when my Lord Danby was so 
 great, which happened just after the death of the Duchess of Somerset, 
 before I came into the country ; and yet the best of the corporation 
 were so civil as to excuse it to me, but when my Lord Danby was im- 
 peached, and consequently they expected the place would be void, the 
 whole corporation voluntarily obliged themselves by a writing under 
 their hands at the meeting of the company to choose me Recorder upon 
 the first vacancy, which Mr. Raulyns, I think, has still in his custody. 
 That they have made an infinitely better and discreeter choice of your 
 Lordship I do most readily acknowledge, though their carriage towards 
 me is not very obliging. This particular I guess your Lordship has not 
 been informed of, and now I have told it you I leave myself to be 
 disposed of as you please." 
 
 1684-5, Feb. 14. Dublin.— Sir William Domville to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. The death of his most incomparable good master his late Royal 
 Majesty has put a stop to most affairs there, suspended all proceedings 
 in law matters, and vacated all commissions of employment. Some 
 applications may be made to stop the renewing of his patent as Attorney 
 General, an office which he has served diligently for nearly 25 years. 
 Begs to be informed what course is being taken to renew his commission 
 and the commissions of the Judges and King's Council in Ireland. 
 
 1684-5, Feb. 26. Dublin. — Tho. Phillips to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Has this minute finished his survey of the city of Dublin and a general 
 draught of the old Bay. Finds it high time to go in hand with some 
 place of strength about here for the better security of the King's friends 
 upon any occasion ; for here is not that true affection that subjects 
 ought to bear one to an other, besides the business of most people here is 
 nothing but getting of money without the least regard to their Prince's 
 service. Gives lengthy suggestions for the strengthening of the city 
 and its surroundings. 
 
 1684-5, March 3. Curraghmore. — The Earl of Tyrone to Lord 
 Dartmouth. Has not been wanting in dutiful sentiments and expressions 
 of sorrow for the "death of the late good and gracious King, and would 
 not be in early attending on his Majesty if it were thought seasonable 
 
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 and inoffensive, although his late prolix sufferings owing to malicious Earl of 
 
 contrivers against him disable him from appearing before his Majesty ^^mss™ 
 
 suitable to the character he has the honour to bear. Begs for advice — 
 how to govern himself so as not to omit any reverence and duty, and 
 yet not to presume any offensive applying himself to the King. 
 
 1684-5, March 6. Dublin. — Lord Lanesborough to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. On behalf of a near kinsman, Mr. Farrell, son of Sir Connell 
 Farrell, who adhered to the late King during his exile. Hopes it will 
 be no objection to him that he is a right Church of England man. 
 
 1684-5, March 14. Portsmouth. — Ri. Ridge, mayor, and others, 
 to Lord Dartmouth. The recordership of Portsmouth is vacant by the 
 voluntary resignation of Sir John Biggs. Humbly request that his 
 Lordship will honour them with the acceptance of the office, or else will 
 appoint such a person as he shall think fit to be the Recorder. 
 
 1684-5, March 15. — Thos. Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, to 
 Lord Dartmouth. Came last night to his beloved retreat at Winchester, 
 and on enquiring about the election found, by Mr. Lestrange's own 
 acknowledgment, that Mr. Morley's interest was very strong and more 
 likely to prevail than Sir John Cloberry's. Had represented privately 
 to Mr. Morley, that it was the King's pleasure that Mr. Lestrange and 
 Mr. Hauses should be chosen, and Mr. Morley had promised to desist, 
 hoping that the King, to whom he had been much misrepresented, 
 would remember it in his favour. 
 
 1684-5, March 20. Hull.— Joseyh Blaydes to the Earl of Plymouth, 
 in " Pickeadilly." On the Hull fortifications, Capt. Copley in command 
 there, with an estimate for repairs, &c. on the jetty. 
 
 1684-5, March 20. — The Duke of Buckingham to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Recommends the bearer, John Smith, as good a groom as any is in 
 England, and one of the first he put into the late King's service in the 
 mews, to his Lordship's favour. 
 
 [Two other similar letters from the Duke, dated March 25 and 
 March 31 in this year, are written on behalf of Mr. Doughty and 
 Richard Smith.] 
 
 1684 (?), March 23. Sandbeck. — Lord Castleton to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. Has sent his son Charles to lie at his Lordship's feet. Begs 
 Lord Dartmouth to dispose of him either as to captain, ship, or to what 
 part of the world he will please to command him. Has great hopes 
 that he will answer expectation in his duty to the King and country. 
 
 [Note.— This letter is dated 1684, but Cf. 1683, June 25, and 1684, 
 Sept. 15.] 
 
 1685, March 31. Portsmouth. — Edw. Archer to the hon. Capt. 
 William Legge, at Lord Dartmouth's. The mayor and council humbly 
 desire to know his Lordship's pleasure about the Recordership. The 
 sessions are always kept there the week after Easter, and it will be 
 necessary to have a Recorder to sit with the mayor and the justices. 
 
 1685, April T \. Lisbon. — Thos. Maynard, for the Factory of 
 Lisbon, to Lord Dartmouth. The factory, being sensible of their duty 
 to accompany their fellow subjects in the congratulation of the King's 
 happy succession to his Crown, have ventured first to submit their 
 address to his Lordship's approbation. 
 
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 Dartmouth's 1685, April 1. Berwick. — Colonel E. Widdrington to Lord Dart- 
 mss. mouth. 
 
 Had received a request signed by about seventy hands to* stand for 
 burgess in Berwick corporation, but the King having obliged Capt. 
 Bickerstaff and Mr. Wallis to join their interest together there, he had 
 declared to several friends that he would not stand. Mr. Wallis had 
 however refused to join with Capt. Bickerstaff, and it was feared Mr. 
 Gray would be chosen for one ; and he had affronted the writer very 
 strangely before all the officers and magistrates of the town. For three 
 or four years Mr. Wallis had continually abetted and assisted the 
 interest of the disaffected in Berwick. The writer had made no effort 
 to be chosen, but his friends had declared they would vote for him 
 whether he would or not ; and so Bickerstaff and he had been freely 
 elected. Hopes his Lordship will not censure him until he has heard 
 more particulars. 
 
 1635, April 1. Kirby. — Lord Haiton to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Lord Grey of Ruthyn who is now at Kirby is surprised with an 
 account he has received from London of my Lord of Kent's claiming 
 the carrying the King's spurs at the Coronation in right of the Barony of 
 Grey of Ruthyn or of that of Hastings. Were there time enough Lord 
 Grey's right to both those baronies as heir general could be be made 
 out, but time being so short all the evidence cannot be produced. Begs 
 the Lords' judgment may be suspended till opportunity has been given 
 to offer full evidence. 
 
 1685, April 3. Skipton Castle.— Earl of Thanet to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Has desired Sir Christopher Musgrave, Sir George Fletcher, and Sir 
 Daniel Fleming to give him their opinions about the fittest men to 
 serve as deputy lieutenants in Cumberland. Hopes that those selected 
 may have the King's approbation at once, the distance from London 
 being so great, and it being necessary that the militia should be got 
 into condition by them before the writer goes up to Parliament. Cum- 
 berland is in no little disorder, and if a militia is anywhere necessary it 
 is certainly there, where they are " often alarrummed by the Borderers 
 whose trade was and ever will be fighting and stealing for their daily 
 bread." The writer's brother and Mr. Musgrave are chosen for 
 Appleby, and most of those parts will send up good men. Has desired 
 his excuses to be made to the King if he cannot attend the Coronation, 
 as he never could stay a month to be well in town without going to 
 Banstead downs ; and hopes to do the King better service in Parliament 
 later by enjoying the good air where he is till the sitting. 
 
 1685, April 15. Guernsey. — The Bailiff and Jurats of Guernsey 
 (C. Andros, R. Desaumares, W. Le Marchant, Daniel De Beauuoir, J. 
 Careye, &c.) to Lord Dartmouth. Request the supply to them of 
 certain things needful to secure the defences of the isle. 
 
 1685, June 10. Exeter. — Duke of Albemarle to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Thinks it necessary that the castle of Exeter should be made fit to 
 receive the arms of the county, which will be considerable when they 
 are all together. Some money was left there by the late King for 
 repairing it ; desires that Major Beckmann or some other engineer may 
 be sent to view the castle, so that the money may not be spent in vain. 
 
 1685, June 16. Titchfield. — Earl of Gainsborough to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. Has raised the militia forces of the county, and hopes that by 
 this time they are all marching to their quarters, and will be ready to 
 
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 assist Dorsetshire if there be occasion. Lest there should be a want of p^J^JJ 
 ammunition desires that an order may be speedily sent to Portsmouth mss. 
 for furnishing them with barrels of powder and shot. 
 
 1685, June 15, Holyrood house. — The Duke of Queensberry to Lord 
 Dartmouth. Has been kept in great hurry by business occasioned by 
 the rebellion, or would have answered letter of 25 May sooner. Major 
 Beckman is gone to Earl Dumbarton at Glasgow about the fort designed 
 at Stirling. The rebels are by the Marquis of Athol put from the High- 
 lands and their fort, ships, arms and ammunition seized by his Majesty's 
 frigates. They are now fallen down the length of Dumbarton with 
 design to possess themselves of the disaffected counties, but Earl Dum- 
 barton may diappoint that project, for he has account of it. Many of 
 the rebels have deserted, and those who remain are in great terror. All 
 this while nothing is heard of the Duke of Monmouth, though both 
 from Holland and England information had come of his resolution to 
 land in Scotland. If he come he will not find them unprovided. 
 
 1685, June 20. Oxford. — The Earl of Abingdon to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Commends his good neighbour Mr. Mildmay to his Lordship's favour. 
 His family has always been loyal, and he is well horsed and well beloved, 
 so that if a commission can be got for him in the new raised troops he 
 will do the King good service. 
 
 1685, June 27. Dublin. — The Earl of Longford to Lord Dartmouth. 
 u Honest Tom Phillips being upon his return to England " he writes in the 
 highest terms of his character and conduct while engaged in Ireland, 
 and of the value of the draughts and observations he has made when 
 surveying there. It is pity his stay was not somewhat longer since he 
 spent it so usefully ; he should have surveyed the whole sea coast of the 
 kingdom, not the chief ports only. Refers to the importance of Cork 
 harbour, and points out that no fortification has hitherto been made to 
 secure it but a very small inconsiderable one at Halbowling which Lord 
 Mountjoy caused in haste to be erected in Queen Elizabeth's time to 
 prevent Don John de Aquila's landing at Cork with his Spaniards. 
 The whole province of Ulster then in arms under Tyrone and Tyrconnell 
 was thus prevented from joining the Spaniards who had possessed them- 
 selves of Kinsale ; and had not Mountjoy defeated their numerous army 
 with a handful of men within two miles of Kinsale it is probable that 
 England would have had now but a little share (if any) in Ireland. 
 They had now a much more dangerous and nearer enemy to the Crown 
 than Spain was in those times ; and he is the more to be apprehended, 
 as his ambition is not less, and his power by sea and land much greater. 
 His malice to our King is equal also to that of Philip II. to Queen 
 Elizabeth. Urges therefore the necessity for protecting such a noble 
 and secure harbour as Cork in case any sinister accident befall our fleet." 
 
 1685, June 27. Welbeck. — Henry, Duke of Newcastle to Lord 
 Dartmouth. On behalf of Mr. Bankes whose father suffered for the 
 Crown, having had a troop of horse in the writer's regiment in '42, and 
 served bravely at the head of it; he was thought to have lost several 
 thousand pounds for his Majesty and was a gentleman of good esteem 
 in Yorkshire. The son too had been an officer eighteen years in the 
 Duke's regiment. 
 
 1685, June 27. Dublin. — Earl of Inchiquin to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Fears that the King gives credit to a report that he is disaffected to his 
 service. Does not make his Majesty a faint offer of service, but does 
 passionately court an opportunity of washing his hands in the blood of 
 
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 Earl of > the King's enemies, at the utmost peril of his life and fortune. Neither 
 lK MSsy TH 8 desires nor needs an employment to live by, but seeks only the honour 
 — of serving the King and shewing his loyalty to him. 
 
 1685, June 28. Bradford [Wilts].— Earl of Feversham to Lord 
 Dartmouth. The provisions and artillery sent to him are well and 
 safely arrived in the Devises. Entreats that some tents may be sent to 
 him with all speed. Cannot write more at large at this time. 
 
 1685, June 29. Hammersmith. — Sir Leoline Jenkins to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. Recommends the bearer Major Stedman for employment. 
 
 1685, June 30. Westbury. — Henry Shere or Sheres to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. Lord Feversharn has found it necessary to leave the heavy 
 cannon and other things at the Devises under a good guard, for the 
 enemies' motions are so very irregular in a very bad and enclosed coun- 
 try that it would be a great impediment to take them. Is toiled to 
 death, and if this lasts 'tis not to be supported ; is made a Secretary of 
 war, governor of carriages, of sick and wounded, a commissary of pro- 
 visions and all besides the peculiar care of his charge in the service. 
 Lord Feversham's very obliging usage of him makes him bear his burden 
 with the least complaint he may. 
 
 1685, July 1. Frome. — Henry Shere to Lord Dartmouth. " We 
 thought to have marched this morning at day breake and accordingly 
 our cannon and appurtenances were drawn out, but new counsels have 
 begotten new measures, and I believe we shall not move till night. This 
 has often been our lot of the artillery to the unspeakable toil and haras- 
 sing of both people and horses, and this we only endure of all the army, 
 but we are bound to suffer it. I sent my quarter master last night for 
 orders to the adjutant general, being lame myself of a bruise and so 
 could not easily wait myself on my Lord Feversham (who I must own 
 is very obliging and makes me useful to him in many matters), where 
 Kirke being by whispered to the adjutant, who, thereupon, told my 
 officer that I must come for orders myself whereupon I meeting him to- 
 day told him he was ill counselled to send me such a message, and that 
 I knew my duty and my post too well to observe orders that I could 
 not justify to my superiors, and that I had given my Lord Feversham 
 an account of the mistake, who allows my reasons ; and that for the 
 time to come I desired he would please to observe that deference for 
 the artillery as was practised in other armies, and was our due. You 
 see what usage we must meet with if we will be patient enough to 
 endure it. I told your Lordnhip Povey had joined us, leaving the heavy 
 cannon at the Devises, and truly in this troublesome country I could 
 wish we had fewer than we have. The tents came very seasonably for 
 unless we encamp the country will be ruined, for we have been hitherto 
 much their greater enemies than the rebels. In plain English I have 
 seen too much violence and wickedness practised to be fond of this 
 trade, and trust we may soon put a period to the business, for what we 
 every day practise among this poor people cannot be supported by any 
 man of the least morality. The enemy lay in Wells last night, where 
 they took a waggon of Kirke's with arms ammunition and money, 
 which he pretends now, he left there because he was forced to lend us 
 his horses for the cannon, which is the greatest falsehood in the world, 
 and therefore, if any such thing be intimated let this be an evidence 
 against it. They marched to day by three o'clock and are come to 
 Glastonbury, and we believe are returning from whence they came or 
 towards Bridgewater. We learn by gentlemen that were prisoners 
 
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 that we did extraordinary execution with our cannon the other day. earl of 
 We write only by slotches (sic) not knowing a quarter of an hour be- Dartmouth's 
 forehand of the occasion, which will be my excuse for that want of ' 
 order that I would otherwise observe in my performance of this duty to 
 your Lordship." J 
 
 1685, July 4. Bristol.— Duke of Beaufort to Lord Dartmouth. Has 
 received commissions signed by his Majesty to raise a regiment of ten 
 companies, and he supposes a hundred to be in each. Expects his 
 officers will have raised the men by the time the arms can reach them 
 at Bristol, where the rendezvous is fixed. 
 
 1685, July 4. From the camp near Summerton. — H. Shere to Lord 
 Dartmouth. " I writ your Lordship last night but the express was 
 gone before we could finish our business in the field, for we march in 
 the rear of the army and are commonly 3 hours later in our quarters 
 than the rest of our neighbours, if they may be called quarters, being 
 
 tor the most part what Mr. K and his < partiallity ' orders Culleford 
 
 (who is his creature) to permit us. Of this I made great complaint 
 to the General, I told him that unless better methods and more regular 
 were used in distributing quarters according to the rank of the respec- 
 tive officers I should be constrained to give up my commission, for that 
 it were better and safer for me to serve him as a volunteer, and take 
 my lot among them than to have a post of so much trust and honour 
 and to consent to be treated against all right and usance of other 
 armies where any rule is observed. He seemed surprised and troubled 
 at my complaint and promises to give strict orders about it. Captain 
 Cog (sic) came just now in having been upon a party within i a mile 
 of Bnclgewater where he fell among their horse and was forced to 
 charge through them; his horse was shot and but little other damage 
 They have broken the bridges and are doing all they can to fortify them- 
 selves there, which to me seems a drawing to an end of the campaign 
 which God grant for the King's sake and our own, for unless some 
 things be amended this life is not long to be supported. I believe we 
 shall not march to-day, we are quartered where there is neither bread^ 
 water, nor scarce any thing to support man or beast. This is the' 
 second night the foot have encamped and we find it much the best way ; 
 all our people of the train likewise encamp between the cannon and the 
 carriages which is very commodious and expedites our march very much 
 My Lord ordered us for expedition to leave our mortar at Bath but 
 now he wishes it here, and I believe we shall send for it to march with 
 us to Bndgewater, where, if the enemy remains (as by his proceeding 
 'tis believed he will) it will be of good use to us. * I write this upon my 
 saddle in the field, and presume to add no more but that I am," &c. 
 
 1685, July 5. Portsmouth.— Major Henry Slingsby to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. On the defects of the garrison there, and the expenses incurred 
 in repairs, &c. 
 
 1685, July 6.— Sir Stephen Fox to Lord Dartmouth. Acquaints him 
 that he shall have no reason to complain of the disorderly leavino- f the 
 lodgings, which her Grace [of Monmouth] wishes she had known who 
 had been to succeed her in, that accommodation might have been made 
 to both parties ; and in 3 days the chimnies shall be repaired. 
 
 Prays his lordship to come to a resolution about the horses, the set of 
 7 are the best English large geldings in this place, and fit for the King's 
 own coach. The farrier offers 250/. for the 7, but the price is 280/. ; 
 the six mules are also in good plight at 20/. a piece, and 3 saddle horses 
 tor a page and servants at 12/. a piece. 
 
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 Eaei of 1685, July 8. Hull. — Kichard Wharton to Lord Dartmouth. Ia an 
 lB MSsy TH S ill state there at present, and likely to be far worse if not speedily sup- 
 — plied with money for defraying the weekly charges. The first three 
 hundred pounds have long since been drawn off, and they have since 
 been supplied by Alderman Mason who denies advancing any more. 
 The men have hitherto been kept at work with fair words and promises, 
 but he knows not what rhetoric to use to them next pay day, therefore 
 hopes his Honour will speedily consider them. The works in general 
 go on well. 
 
 1685, July 8. Wells. — Henry Shere to Lord Dartmouth. Takes 
 for granted thai the war is at an end since the Duke of Monmouth is 
 taken, and asks for speedy orders what to do, whether to march with 
 the army to London or go with the train to Portsmouth. So . . e the 
 provost marshall has unhappily killed Sir John Talbot's son, but they 
 all agree it was in his defence. 
 
 1685, July 8 ("or rather the 9, at two in the morning"). — Wells. 
 Earl of Feversham to Lord Dartmouth. Has not had the time to write 
 so often as he should have done. The bearer, Mr. Eider, will tell him 
 all their doings, a gentleman who has done great services and to whom 
 the writer hopes all kindness will be shown for his sake. Now that 
 there is nothing to be done, hopes that the King will give him leave to 
 come to London as soon as he can, and that he shall be quiet as long 
 as he lives. [On a separate sheet is added] — 
 
 Is very glad that the King has given Lord Dartmouth the Duke of 
 Monmouth's lodgings. Would like those vacated by his Lordship in 
 place of what he has in Somerset house. Should the King think fit to 
 employ him on his return about the troops it would be necessary that 
 he should be lodged in Whitehall. 
 
 1685, July 10. Warminster. — Same to Same. Thanks Lord Dart- 
 mouth for the letter written on the receipt of the news of his good luck, 
 and refers to the great kindness shown to him by the King in his letters 
 since he left London. Hopes soon to receive his Majesty's commands 
 to return there. 
 
 1685, July 10. John Lord Berkeley of Stratton to Lord Dartmouth. 
 As there are some ships fitting out, reminds his Lordship of the King's 
 promise that he should be appointed to one. Has been much longer at 
 sea than his brother was before he had a ship. 
 
 1685, July 13. Bridgewater. — Colonel P. Kirketo Lord Dartmouth. 
 Hopes Lord Feversham has let his Lordship know that the arms last 
 received from Whitehall were all lost at Wells, and that he will be 
 pleased to order where he may receive others. Has taken several 
 broken arms and old ones from the rebels ; desires orders what to do 
 with them as also the tents of Trelaney's regiment and his own. 
 
 1685, July 23. Plymouth. — - Earl of Bath to Lord Dartmouth. 
 His regiment being completed, he, having received the King's orders 
 to draw some of the companies immediately upon duty, requests that 
 the needful arms may be supplied to them. 
 
 1685, Sept. 12. Newhall. —Duke of Albemarle to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Eecommends Sir Thomas Stringer to his Lordship's favour with regard 
 to the present vacancies among the judges, he being the only man of 
 the law for whose preferment the writer's father ever moved the late 
 King. 
 
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 1685-6, Jan. 27. Sir William Smyth to Lord Dartmouth. Earl of 
 
 Has fallen under the displeasure of the Lord Chancellor, who left DAR Mssy Tf 
 him out of the Commission of the peace ; gives his Lordship notice, that — 
 the quiet of the people here may be provided for, it being no ordinary 
 post, the numbers being vast and not one in a thousand as loyal as he 
 ought to be. Cannot tell how he has offended the Lord Chancellor, 
 for in all public and private meetings he has magnified the great service 
 he has performed ; but some persons have complained that they had 
 been injured by the Commissioners of Sewers, of whom he was but one 
 out of 40. Encloses a long paper headed " The Case of Sir Wm. 
 Smyth/' in vindication of the proceedings of the Commissioners, from 
 which the following notes are taken : — 
 
 The Commissioners first sat at Hicks Hall to consider Turnmill 
 Brook sewer, stopped by much filth thrown into it. They next kept 
 sessions in Whitechapel, where they considered the sewer coming from 
 Spitalfields which runs almost four miles before it gets into the Thames 
 through Stepney town and close to the churchway which leads to Step- 
 ney church, and almost all the way open, and brings down a very 
 noisome water, the Walloons and strangers there living much upon 
 cabbage and roots to the great offence of the inhabitants as to health 
 and other ways. To remedy this great nuisance all parties had con- 
 curred with the Commissioners that a sewer should be made to carry 
 the water the shortest way to the Thames and be made close to prevent 
 the stink, and so wide and deep as to serve a great many houses that 
 were then building. Difficulties about this had afterwards been raised 
 about the cost of this new sewer, but Sir William Smyth, his tenants 
 and friends, had no concern any way in it, and could reap no benefit. 
 
 Mr. Pauley, who married Sir William's sister, a loyal person from the 
 beginning of the Rebellion, had carried King Charles a hundred pounds 
 to Oxford, and not being able to live in quiet near Salisbury, sold his 
 estate and came to live in London, where he took a lease of the Liberty 
 and Bailiwick of Stepney of Lady Wentworth, at the rent of 140/. per 
 annum, where during the late tumultuous time he was very active in 
 the King's service, but his enemies had reported that he advanced the 
 fines for the advantage of that bailiwick, which was quite untrue. Like 
 reports recited at considerable length regarding the misuse Sir William 
 Smyth had made of his own property and position, are also refuted. 
 
 The paper concludes with an account of Smyth's life not given from 
 vanity, but for vindication from slander. Was a member of Parliament 
 in 1640, left it, raised a regiment of horse at his own charge, was taken 
 in fight by Cromwell, suffered severe, close, and chargeable imprisonment 
 for a year, was then exchanged, had been wounded almost to death, 
 went into France with the late King from Cornwall, and had, at the 
 risk of being hanged for a spy, returned with a letter and message to 
 Charles I., when prisoner at Hampton Court. Sat in Parliament during 
 the reign of Charles II., and suffered much obloquy there for his opposi- 
 tion to the Exclusion Bill, &c. When the Dutch went to Chatham they 
 destroyed a saltwork of his in the Island of Graine and county of Kent, 
 and took away irons, lead, and other materials, to his damage of upwards 
 of 2,000/. His father, a justice of the peace, was driven from his 
 house for his zealous service to Charles I., and plundered of all he had ; 
 he made his escape to Oxford and died there. His brother was Colonel 
 of horse and killed in a fight at Donington Castle ; and no horse were 
 raised in the county of Bucks but by himself and his brother. 
 
 1685-6, Feb. 8. Dublin Castle. --Henry Earl of Clarendon, Lord 
 Lieutenant of Ireland, to Lord Dartmouth. Thanks for kind offers of 
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 Eael op friendship, which he cordially returns, being old enough to remember the 
 Dartmouth's long attachment between their fathers. Will give constantly an account 
 — of ail ordnance matters in Ireland. Lord Mountjoy goes for England this 
 week, is a man of great worth and honour, and makes it his business to 
 serve the King as he ought do in his station. Muskets, &c. can be made 
 for less money here than is paid in England ; but will write more at large 
 on that subject, as he is sure the Lord Treasurer will be for saving the 
 King's money, especially if the service can be as well performed. 
 
 1686, Feb. 9. Versailles. — Marshal Schomberg to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Thanks him for the favours shewn to the Sieur de Sybourg, a 
 German gentleman of good family. Mr. Savile has informed the writer 
 of the attentions paid to him, and of the hopes held out of employment 
 of the troops under Lord Dartmouth's command. 
 
 1686, May 13. Dublin. — Lord Chancellor Porter to Lord Dart- 
 mouth, 
 
 Is sent hither to a place of great honour and splendour, but of itself 
 not worth 350/ a year in all the perquisites, nor has he a place in his 
 gift. In Sir Maurice Eustace's time the pension was 2,300/,, and he 
 had all the advantage of the Seal in settling the kingdom, by which he 
 gained at least 80,000/. After his death the same pension continued to 
 the Lord Primate for seven or eight years, and afterwards by degrees 
 through the King's necessities, and the piques of Lords Essex and 
 Eadnor against him, was reduced to 1,000/. In the writer's case the 
 King has been pleased to add 500/. to the salary of 1,000/., but the pension 
 does not nearly maintain his necessary expense. Begs Lord Dartmouth 
 to assist him in obtaining some addition. 
 
 1686, May 18. Dublin Castle.— Earl of Clarendon to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. 
 
 Will serve Lord Dartmouth's brother William to the utmost of his 
 power. The latter is not yet come from Kinsale, but is expected that 
 night, and will then make haste into England, where he will be useful 
 to them in Ireland, by giving a truthful account of things there. Com- 
 plains of the great misrepresentation of Irish affairs by prejudiced 
 people, and that the opinion of those in employment there is not asked, 
 though there is no reason to mistrust them. Ordnance matters. 
 
 1686, May 25. Dublin. — Lord Chancellor Porter to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. 
 
 Again refers to the hard circumstances he is in under the great 
 character his Majesty has placed upon him. 
 
 1686, May 26. Dublin Castle.— Earl of Clarendon to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. 
 
 On the supply of arms and stores to Ireland. Could write much on 
 affairs there, but Lord Dartmouth's brother is fully instructed in every- 
 thing relating to the country and people, aud he hopes an opportunity 
 will be given him to tell all. " This country may and will be, with the 
 people in it, as useful to the King as he pleaseth ; and the trade will 
 flourish and increase, and his Majesty will be as rich as he has a mind 
 to, if men are but secure of what they have, and meet with the en- 
 couragement due to their industry. Pray think of us and support us 
 (me in my own particular at least), according as you find us to do our 
 duties ; and have a care you do not make us useful for other people. 
 Your Lc-rdship sees how freely I write to you, as you like this you shall 
 have more. When the camp is over, I hope you will send my friend 
 
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 William back again to me, it will do him good to live a little amongst Earl or 
 us." Dartmouth's 
 
 MSS. 
 
 1686, July 28. Dublin.— Lord Chancellor Porter to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. In favour of the bearer Lieut. Worsopp, who had been turned 
 out of his command after ten years' service. His father, Sir Thomas 
 Worsopp, had served in the King's armies from the beginning of the 
 Rebellion in 1641. Lord Tyrconnell had promised to assist in getting 
 him some other post, but nothing had been done, so the gentleman was 
 resolved to represent his case to the King himself. He was a near 
 kinsman of the writer, but it was his own merit that had gained him 
 the esteem of all honest men there. 
 
 1686, Aug. 18. Newhall.— Duke of Albemarle to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Is concerned with several others in setting out a ship to the West 
 Indies " in hopes of finding a Spanish wrack," but whether found or 
 not they will be no losers, as they are sending out a small cargo to 
 defray the expense in case of a disappointment. If his Lordship pleases 
 to come in there is an eighth part to be disposed of for about 350/. 
 
 1686, Aug. 19. Chapel Izod.— Earl of Clarendon to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. A long letter describing the miserable condition of the fortifi- 
 cations of the chief ports, &c, neglected by former chief governors 
 from the want of money. If 30,000/. or 40,000/. a year could be devoted 
 to the purpose, he might be able in a few years to put them into better 
 order. The lack of arms too is great, though there is room for ten 
 thousand in Dublin Castle, as bad a place as it is, and for fifty thousand 
 in the new Hospital, and they should be as safe in both places as in the 
 Tower of London. 
 
 1686, Sept. 4. Dublin Castle.— Earl of Clarendon to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. Lord Tyrconnell left for England on Sept. 26, and would stop 
 a day or two at Chester to view the stores there designed for Ireland. 
 Has had a letter from the Earl of Clanricarde when he went to take 
 possession of his government of Galway ; the mayor, &c. had petitioned 
 him for the opening a passage through the East citadel into the town. 
 This passage had formerly been the usual way from the country into 
 the citadel, but when the English took the town in the late Rebellion, 
 Cromwell had ordered the gate to be walled up, in order to make the 
 place the more safe against the natives, as the only way to the citadel 
 would then be through the town. Asks his Lordship's opinion on the 
 matter. 
 
 1686-7, Feb. 16. Twickenham.— Earl of Rochester to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. Excuses himself, on account of his wife's weak condition, from 
 waiting upon his Lordship and upon Sir Eliab Hervey. Encloses some- 
 thing from his brother (Lord Clarendon) to the King. 
 
 1686-7, Feb. 26. Chester Castle.— Peter Shakerley to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. Hopes Major Gen. Werden acquainted him with his reception 
 of Lord Tyrconnell, and also how he received Lord Clarendon on 
 Monday last, with 21 guns at his entrance into the town, <vc. Tuesday 
 his Lordship dined with him, Thursday he went for London, the Mar- 
 quis of Worcester's regiment of foot in the garrison being under arms, 
 forming one rank entire from the Deanery (where his Lordship lodged) 
 to the east gate, and the officers saluting ; all the persons in the town 
 ol rank ° r ( l ualit y attending with their coaches, and the High 
 SherirT and many gentlemen of the county on horseback. His Lordship 
 would go by way of Whitchurch, Newport, Lichfield, Coventry, 
 
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 tmocth's Northampton, Dunstable; on Thursday by eleven to St. Albans, dine 
 MSS. there, and after dinner to London. Humbly begs that certain money 
 
 disbursed by him long since may be paid to his agent ; the workmen 
 
 press hard upon him for money long due to them. 
 
 1687, April 12. Dublin Castle. — Earl of Tyrconnell to Lord 
 Dartmouth. Lord Clarendon carried or sent into England the books 
 of the stores, with design, he supposes, to leave him in the dark. Had 
 sent his secretary to Lord Clarendon, who answered that he took it for 
 granted that the books were for himself and not for public use ; but 
 that he would deliver them to Lord Dartmouth, if desired. Asks that 
 the books may be sent to him, as they would be of great use in the 
 King's affairs. 
 
 1687, April 25. Whitehall. Lord Dartmouth to the Earl of Tyr- 
 connell. On ordnance matters in Ireland. Has moved his Majesty 
 again on the matter of Athlone ; Lord Ranelagh seems more tractable 
 than formerly, and will probably soon deliver up the place to his 
 Excellency. 
 
 1687, April 28. Tower. — The order of firing on Blackheath on that 
 day. Sir Martin Beck man's instructions to Mr. Wollfferman and Mr. 
 Nellson as to the discharging of mortar pieces, storm balls, &c. 
 
 1687, April 30. Dublin. — Lord Montjoy to Lord Dartmouth. Asks 
 for certain arms to be suddenly sent, as the Lord Deputy has resolved 
 that a great part of the army of that kingdom shall encamp this 
 summer. 
 
 1687, May 6. Certificate of Captain G. St. Lo that the bearer 
 Nathaniel Bostock, gent, served under his command in the Dartmouth as 
 a volunteer for five years, and constantly applied himself to the study 
 and practice of the art of navigation ; was very diligent, ready and 
 obedient to command : and is fitly qualified and doth well deserve 
 encouragement. 
 
 1687, May 13 and 22. Dublin Castle.— Earl of Tyrconnell to Lord 
 Dartmouth. Two letters chiefly concerning the supply of arms, &c, 
 for the service of Ireland. 
 
 1687, June 1. Portumna. — Earl of Clanricarde to Lord Dartmouth 
 On behalf of the bearer, Jack Gully, a young man well versed in mathe- 
 matics, gunnery, &c. 
 
 1687, June 14. — " Order of the March of the Train of Artillery from 
 .the Tower to Hounslow Heath the 15th June 1687." 
 
 1687, July 4. Windsor. — Lord Dartmouth to Sir Roger Strickland. 
 " As ill a scribe as I am and as little as you know I love writing, yet 
 I cannot cn this occasion omit congratulating with you at this time the 
 honour and extraordinary mark of his Majesty's favour, shewed so par- 
 ticularly to you in sending your so long expected and desired commission 
 for your flag. Not that I think Sir Roger Strickland either needed or can 
 be more esteemed in the world by it And now, Roger, in confi- 
 dence of our old and long continued friendship, I cannot but call to mind 
 the strict alliance and consultations we have had together for the service 
 of our Royal master, when we had more than ordinary reason, to fear at 
 least, how few would stand by his interest, when we thought it might 
 reasonably have needed it most , . . and as a true friend and a faith- 
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 been graciously pleased not only to perform his word with you in sending 
 you this flag at a time which may be prejudicial to his service, it is 
 the least duty we owe him to consider his service and his honour before 
 our own humour; and since you have both the flag and certainty of the 
 pay, after having showed the fleet that you are Vice- Admiral and that 
 the Commanders know it to be your own act, why may you not rrake 
 better use of the King's favour (since it can be no dimunition to you) 
 and, rather than expose the King's honour to foreign nations as well 
 as our own, put your flag sometime in your pocket, that is I mean wear 
 your flagstaff, and either strike or furl your flag, rather than let the 
 Dutch (who know this matter so well) and other nations see two of the 
 King of England's royal flags fly together with six or seven ships. Dear 
 Roger, consider how ridiculous this will be in the eye of the world, and 
 since the King has been pleased to keep (I will not say) a hasty promise 
 for your sake, can you do less for his than of your own accord to en- 
 deavour the preserving of those rules you know he desires to be preserved ; 
 and as a true friend I advise you to preserve, till a convenient number 
 of ships are met together, for your making a true use of the favour and 
 honour is given you . . . The Duke of G-rafton goes from Lisbon 
 to command in the Straits, and you come home to command in the 
 narrow seas, where you cannot fear of a squadron fit to wear your 
 flag » 
 
 Enclosed are copies of Orders relating to Salutes at Sea and the 
 wearing of Flags. 
 
 1687, July 18. At His Majesty's Camp.— J. Moodie to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. 
 
 Defends himself against Mr. Wolferman's charges, and complains of 
 harsh treatment. 
 
 1687, July 23. Park of Artillery. - Colonel Robert St. Clair to Lord 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 Reminds his Lordship that he was promised the immediate command 
 of his (Lord D.'s) regiment, and complains that Major Sooper ignores 
 his authority in many instances which he specifies. 
 
 1687, July 29. Hounslow heath. Tho. Phillips to Lord Dartmouth 
 at Windsor. 
 
 Has taken all the care he can to perform his Majesty's wishes against 
 to-morrow, but such excessive rains have fallen that the trenches are 
 very watery and troublesome to be in for the men's shoes and stockings. 
 It would be better both for the work and the men if matters could be 
 put off till Monday. 
 
 1687, August 2. Pirgo. — Colonel Thomas Cheeke to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. 
 
 Refers to his removal from the office he held under his Lordship, and 
 after asserting his loyalty adds that he came to the Tower in very 
 stormy weather, having many prisoners of moment under his care, some 
 of them his own relations. All his satisfaction is that the King was 
 pleased to tell him he had served the crown honestly and faithfully, and 
 that he is turned out for no base or unworthy action. He has too good 
 manners to ask why he is dismissed ; he submits and is satisfied. 
 
 1687, Aug. 13. Salisbury. — Lord Fitzhardinge to Lord Dartmouth at 
 Windsor. 
 
 Has arranged that the five coaches the King expected to attend him from 
 Tunbridge to Bath shall be at Tunbridge on Thursday the 18th. Lord 
 
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 •tmouth's P embr °fc e ' s > Lord Weymouth's, Col. Wyndham's, Sir Richard Howe's, 
 3iss. and the Dean of Salisbury's. His own cannot have that honour, 
 
 because half his set are at London with his wife, and the rest out at 
 
 grass. 
 
 1687, Aug. — . He well. — Earl of Plymouth to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Desires to know at what time of the day the King will be at Wor- 
 cester that he may pay his duty ; and by which road from Gloucester 
 he will come, through Tewkesbury or across the Severn. 
 
 1687, Aug. 15. Longleat. — Lord Weymouth to Lord Dartmouth. 
 That he might not be wanting in duty or respect to his Majesty, has 
 sent his coach to Salisbury to attend his Lordship's orders. 
 
 1687, Aug. 16 to Sept. 6. — Papers relating to the King's equipage, 
 and the route to be taken during the Royal Progress. 
 
 1687, Aug. 20. Kirby. — Lord Hatton to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 On behalf of a young divine named Tramalier, whose father is King's 
 attorney in Guernsey, who had been under Sir Leoline Jenkins for 
 some time, and after his death entered into orders. He is at present a 
 fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and the writer desires to get him the 
 presentation of Methley living, in Yorkshire, void by the death of one 
 who was chaplain in the Phoenix frigate, in which service he is said to 
 have died ; the living being in the King's immediate disposal. 
 
 1687, Aug. 31. Boston. — Sir Edmund Andros, Governor of New 
 England, to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 On the fortifications, &c. at Boston : with extracts from a letter dated 
 30 March 1687, on the same subject. 
 
 1687, Sept. 6.— Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, to Lord 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 On passing through Bristol had heard a report that the King was 
 going for the West, and would probably pass through Wells. Knows not 
 what measures to take, as he cannot give his Majesty suitable entertain- 
 ment at so short a warning. Beseeches his Lordship to lay his most 
 humble duty at the King's feet, and to assure him that he shall esteem 
 it a very great honour if his Majesty condescends to grace his house, 
 and to endure such an extemporary reception as he can contrive for 
 him. 
 
 1687, Sept. 28. Hull. — Sir Martin Beckmann to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Col. Cornwall's regiment came last night to this town. Finds it im- 
 possible to make the soMiers work for 6d. per diem, without here comes 
 his Majesty's warrant for the same, for they are very unwilling to take 
 10c?. per diem. 
 
 Here hath not been 7 days fair weather in 6 weeks time, which never 
 was known (sic) ; the corn is still in the fields about Barton and "y e 
 vowells." 
 
 1687, Sept. 30. York. — Sir John Reresby to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Has appointed Mr. Bpldock to give an account of the remaining arms, 
 &c. at Clifford's Tower. Wishes that the five small guns which he has 
 mounted at his own charge, 'and planted on the Tower hill, may be 
 sontinued. 
 
 1687, Oct. 15. Holy Island, near Berwick upon Tweed. — William 
 Selby and Gilbert Orde to Lord Dartmouth. As bailiffs of the Cor- 
 
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 poration desire to make his Lordship sensible of the inconveniences Eari»o* 
 sustained by the company of soldiers there quartered, by reason of the Dab Ss^ th 
 poverty and disability of the inhabitants. Ask that twelve beds may — 
 be placed in the Castle, so that the poorer sort of inhabitants may be 
 eased, and the soldiers not forced to lie in that cold place upon straw, 
 very slenderly covered. The Governor there, Capt. Throckmorton, of 
 Col. Oglethorpe's regiment, would have given an account of the 
 business, but the writers supposed themselves more nearly concerned, 
 and took it upon themselves to write to his Lordship. 
 
 1687, Oct. 18. Pet worth. — Duke of Somerset to Lord Dartmouth, 
 Had promised to give the King twenty brace of deer, but the scene of 
 affairs being so extraordinarily changed, and his being turned out in such 
 a manner, and having had so very severe expressions at their parting, he 
 believes it would look like too great a presumption in him now to fulfil 
 the promise ; but shall always submit to his Lordship, who is a far better 
 judge in all matters than he durst pretend to be. 
 
 1687, Oct. 28, Nov. 1, and Nov. 8. Petworth (3 letters).— Same to 
 same. With reference to Lord Dartmouth's reply to the preceding letter, 
 desires that the King may be informed that he has given him some deer 
 for the Holt, &c. 
 
 Many letters about this time from Thos. Phillips and others about the 
 fortifications, &c, of Portsmouth. 
 
 1687, Nov. 27. Barbadoes. — Duke of Albemarle to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Arrived at the Island on Friday last, reports well of the militia and the 
 magazine. The Governor and gentlemen there have behaved very 
 civilly to him. Found in this Road Sir John Narborough with his 
 ships, whom he desired to haste away towards the wreck, whither also 
 many are gone from Jamaica, this island, and Bermudas. Will stay 
 two days at Nevis, and then go to Jamaica. 
 
 1687, Dec. — Notes taken by Mr. Secretary Pepys upon Capt. Ridley's 
 proceedings in his voyage from Gibraltar to cruize off the Burlings and 
 the Rock of Lisbon for the meeting and protecting the ships expected 
 from the Newfoundland Fishery ; and 
 
 Capt. Ridley's answer to Mr. Secretary Pepys. Notes drawn from 
 his letters sent him in the time of his cruizing, from 21st Sept. 1687 to 
 13 Nov. following. 
 
 1687-8, Jan. 4. J amaica. — Duke of Albemarle to Lord Dartmouth. 
 His last letter was from Barbadoes, and this is to acquaint his Lordship 
 that on Dec. 19 they arrived safely in Port Royal harbour, one of the 
 best he ever saw, having taken a view of the fortifications, &c, at Nevis 
 and St. Christopher's on the way. His wife and himself have hitherto 
 met with very little indisposition as to their healths, and are now come 
 to the Spanish town situated in a good healthy air, where they intend 
 chiefly to reside. Has ordered an assembly to be called, and shall use 
 his utmost endeavours for the true service of his Majesty, and the good 
 of the subjects committed to his care. 
 
 1687-8, Jan. 7. Chancery Lane, over against Lincoln's Inn. — Will. 
 Croft to Lord Dartmouth, at Yarmouth. Encloses a letter to his lord- 
 ship from the Duke of Albemarle, and refers to the Duke's splendid and 
 gracious reception at the Barbadoes. Several ships have been at work 
 upon the wreck, and have taken up great quantities ; many skirmishes 
 
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 Earl of amongst them, some killed and some drowned. There is great satis 
 " E MSS JTH ** f act i° n 111 the University of Cambridge that the commission of the 
 — -' Chancellorship has been lodged by the Duke in Lord Dartmouth. Some 
 of the heads of colleges intend to wait upon his Lordship. 
 
 1687-8, Feb. 11. Jamaica. — Duke of Albemarle to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Some sloopmen have reported that they met with three pirates or 
 privateers at sea, who told them they would gladly come in and settle in 
 Jamaica, if the present Governor had power to pardon them, and that 
 about three months hence they would try what could be done. Some 
 who guess at the humour of those sort of men think they will probably 
 surrender themselves to the writer, if by any means they can come to 
 the knowledge that he is able to secure them. Desires his Lord- 
 ship's help in obtaining power from the King to pardon them. The 
 bearer, Col. Beckford, will fully satisfy his lordship that good service 
 may be done by such pardons. 
 
 1687-8, Feb. 16. Gibraltar.— Capt. Hugh Ridley to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. Fears he has misapprehended Secretary Pepys' instruction to 
 keep a proper journal of his proceedings, and gives an account of his 
 recent cruises off the coast of Portugal. 
 
 1687-8, March 8. Jamaica. — Duke of Albemarle to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Has sent herewith the first-fruits of his labour in saltpetre, which is the 
 best he ever saw, he desires it to be tried before the King. Has also 
 found out a good lead mine, and hopes soon to find one of greater value. 
 Yesterday had news that the pirates Yanky and Jacobs had with 84 
 men fallen upon the storehouses in the bottom of the Bay of Honduras, 
 and that three Spanish men of war came and blocked them up, and 
 landed what men they could to join with the country, who made up 
 the number of 700 men, and raised three breast works, which works 
 were attacked by the pirates and by them taken, killing a great number 
 on the spot and routing the rest, they losing only nine men, and Yanky 
 wounded. The pirates are now in the Bay of Honduras recruiting, 
 intending to fall upon the Spanish ships, one Jones, another pirate, 
 having a ship of force, being joined with them. Expects daily to hear 
 from Sir John Narbrough whether Lord Mordaunt with the ships under 
 him has ventured to disturb his fishing or not ; Sir John is in a very 
 good condition to receive them. There are some " Biscaneers " that 
 very much disturb these seas, taking all they meet with, including an 
 English pink, Capt. Quiffin, that sailed from Jamaica for New England, 
 worth with her cargo 15,000/., which they carried to St. Domingo ; 
 and another vessel was carried into St. Jago upon Cuba, but released by 
 the governor there, who used the crew kindly, and paid 400 pieces of 
 eight out of his own pocket which had been embezzled. The Duke and 
 his wife enjoy their healths as well there as in England. 
 
 1688, June 4. Hull. — Lord Langdale to Lord Dartmouth. On his 
 arrival found Sir Martin Beckman and Mr. Pitts had made much greater 
 progress than he expected. The frame of the foundation of the water 
 bastion will be finished in three or four days, then it will rise fast, for 
 there are many hands and good workmen. It has proved very trouble- 
 some to preserve the work from the violence of the tides, which made a 
 breach in the dam, &c. 
 
 1688, June 18. Dublin. — Lord Mountjoy to Lord Dartmouth. Sir 
 Matthew Bridges brought us the happy news of our having a brave 
 Prince of Wales ; it was the best that these nations ever had, and the 
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 his kingdoms prosperous. The birth of a young prince had been too 
 much joy had it not been somewhat abated by the news of the Bishops 
 being sent to the Tower. He prays God the counsels that are now 
 pursued may be really for the King's interests, but they look oddly to 
 such as are remote; but if those men be not to blame their sufferings 
 may be the more easily borne, and the writer hopes the King's subjects 
 will always look upon him as their master and their father. Are pre- 
 paring for a camp on the 1st of next month ; that is not needed to make 
 them poor, however the fear of wanting will never make them do what 
 would be shameful. Has a young son in London who is to live by the 
 sea. Prays his Lordship to help him to some honest captain that will 
 take some care of him. 
 
 1688, June 20. Jamaica. — Duke of Albemarle to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Sends papers showing the difficulties he has had in preserving amity 
 between his Majesty and allies, according to the treaty with the most 
 Christian King, dated 6 Nov. 1686 ; the King's grant to Sir Eobert 
 Holmes, brought by his deputy Mr. Lynch, and the instrument signed 
 by the Commissioners appointed to adjust the American limits of French 
 and English territory, being at variance. Mr. Lynch had sent to the 
 French prisoners and offered to release them all, if they would pay him 
 six pounds a piece (he having before seized upon all he met with of 
 theirs, which came to about 2,000/.) ; there were about 25 of them. 
 
 1688, July 4th, Jamaica. — Duke of Albemarle to Lord Dartmouth. 
 There are some fortifications wanting, which shall be done as soon as 
 the moneys for that use come in. Colonel Molesworth left the Treasury 
 not only very bare, but in debt, insomuch that he (the writer) is 500/. 
 behind hand in his salary ; former governors did not use to be so. When 
 he came there he found a house (such a one as it was) called a King's 
 House, upon which he had laid out since about 200/., and it appears 
 that Sir Thomas Lynch had sold it to my Lord Yaughan ; but he has 
 luckily met with some papers which shew it to be the King's. 
 
 1688, July 30th, York. — Lord Langdale to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Being obliged to attend at the Assizes, he came from Hull on the 
 27th inst., leaving the garrison under Major Fountaine, of Lord Mont- 
 gomery's regiment. The major has been very active in exercising the 
 soldiers, and desires a greater allowance of powder, new pikes, &c. 
 
 1688, Aug. 6th, Jamaica. — Duke of Albemarle to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Has at last overcome the many difficulties met with since his arrival, 
 and during his stay there at least, has no doubt that the King's com- 
 mands will not encounter such opposition as before. The Assembly 
 have not sat sat many days, but have demonstrated their wish to serve 
 their King and country by passing certain Bills now sent for the Eoyal 
 confirmation. Since he has the good fortune to have to do with such 
 good men, he shall not easily part with them, though several who 
 factiously and tumultuously opposed the Government in some of the 
 elections were put into prison until they gave security to appear at the 
 next Grand Court. Expects that some persons (out of their own private 
 interest and no regard to the public good) will be dissatisfied with his 
 proceedings and make a misrepresentation of them. 
 
 1688, Aug. 27th, Kirby. — Lord Hatton to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Is informed by several hands that the King has ordered all governors 
 and other officers to repair forthwith to their respective commands ; 
 though he has not yet received such an order thinks himself obliged to 
 notice the matter owing to his great indisposition, and hopes that his 
 services will be dispensed with till he can recover better health. 
 
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 Dartmouth ' s 1688 ' Au £* 29th ' Edna11 (Eden hall?) Sir Christopher Musgraveto 
 3ISS. " Lord Dartmouth. Prays for and drinks his health daily. Meets with such 
 things in the public news letters as turn his head ; probably it is the 
 effect of his weak country brain, that cannot comprehend the mysteries 
 of state in making Peters [Petre] privy councellor and some instances 
 of that nature. But it may be said these things are above his reach, 
 and considerations not fit for a rustic head. God bless and direct him 
 (Lord Dartmouth) in this uncertain age. They in the country say a 
 good conscience is the greatest blessing, but possibly they are mistaken. 
 
 1688, Sept. 23rd.— Thos. Bishop of Bath and Wells to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. In obedience to the King's pleasure will make what haste he 
 can to the town. Did always think His Majesty would never believe 
 our Church would be disloyal, having given so many undeniable instances 
 to the contrary. The declaration mentioned has not yet been sent 
 down, which he should have been glad to have seen before he left this 
 place, which will be to-morrow,' so that he may reach London on 
 Wednesday night. 
 
 1688, Sept. 25th, Whitehall. — Six press warrants, printed, with 
 original signatures of James II., and countersigned by Pepys, authorising 
 Captain James Montgomery, of the Nonsuch ; Captain Thomas Smith, 
 of the Falcon ; - John Lord Berkeley, of the Montagu; Captain George 
 Eooke, of the Deptford; CaptainMatthew Tennant, of the Tiger; Captain 
 Wolfran Cornwall, of the Dartmouth ; and Captain John Graydon, of the 
 Sandadoe, to impress as many able mariners as they may require to 
 complete their crews. 
 
 1688, Sept. 27th, Whitehall. — Long news letter chiefly on foreign 
 affairs. 
 
 1688, Sept. 28th and Sept. 29th. — Orders to Admiral Lord Dartmouth, 
 signed by James and countersigned by S. Pepys, for ships under Sir 
 Roger Strickland, Vice-Admiral, to join the fleet under Lord Dartmouth, 
 and to forbear searching foreign ships. 
 
 1688, Sept. 29th, Eibston. — Charles Bertie to Lord Dartmouth, at the 
 Cockpit. — Lord Danby, Lord Dumblane, and he are all at Hibston, one 
 of the most charming seats he has yet seen in the north, both in respect 
 of its noble structure and the lovely country about it. What would 
 yet more particularly please his Lordship is that Sir Henry Goodrick is 
 environing his gardens with a kind of fortification, and has already 
 finished 2 bastions, and hopes that when Lord Dartmouth visits the north- 
 ern forts he will please to reckon this among the number. Thus while 
 Lord Danby drinks the sulphur waters, they remember his Lordship's 
 health and the prosperity of his family in most serene Florence (sic), 
 and in a sort of liquor called Walshford ale, which transcends all that 
 was ever named, and is the smoothest and best natured drink in the 
 world, and cannot fail withal to carry an election ; though Sir Harry 
 and his lady are so generally beloved and esteemed that they need no 
 southern artifice to secure the affection and interest of their neighbours 
 to them. Hopes to be in London to receive his commands before the 
 Dolphin takes Philipsburg. Congratulates Sir Christopher Musgrave 
 on the discovery of a rich vein of lead ore, wishes it as rich as the 
 Mountain of Potozi. 
 
 An addition in a different hand (Lady Goodrick's ?) states that word 
 has reached them from their Catholic neighbour, Mr. Middleton, that 
 the Dutch are in Burlington Bay, 
 
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 1688, Sept. 30th. — Ship Resolution riding at the Blackstakes. Captain Earl of 
 
 William Davies to Lord Dartmouth. Want four guns and eight car- DAE ™ S g U - THS 
 
 riages, and all their powder. Have got on board about 90 tuns of beer. — ' 
 The men, in all, soldiers and seamen, nearly 170, very hard at work to 
 get the ship in readiness. 
 
 1688, Sept. 30th. — Duke of Berwick to Lord Dartmouth. Desires that 
 the armour for the officers and troopers of his regiment maybe delivered 
 to Mr. Millington. 
 
 1688, Oct. 1st, Whitehall. — Instructions of James II. to Lord Dart- 
 mouth, couuter signed by S. Pepys. 
 
 1688, Oct. 1st, Woodlands Court. — Edward Seymour to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. Recommends the bearer, his eldest son, " who has been on board 
 the Dragon with his coz Harry Killegrew this two years past, and lately 
 returned from the Straits with Lord Berkeley." Though he designed 
 other ways for his son, the latter's genius leads him wholly to the sea, 
 and he has courage enough to attempt anything but what is ill. 
 
 1688, Oct. 1st, Vale Royal. — Colonel Thomas Cholmondeley to Lord, 
 Dartmouth, Lord High Admiral. In recommendation of a person 
 unnamed, his neighbour, who had spent some years at sea, and whose 
 family had paid dear for their loyalty, and so brought him to seek his 
 fortune. Prays for a right understanding betwixt his Majesty and the 
 Prince of Orange to prevent effusion of blood. 
 
 1688, Oct. 3rd. — Earl of Bath to Lord Dartmouth. After congratula- 
 tions upon the great honour and trust conferred upon his Lordship at 
 this juncture, remarks upon the other new measures now taken in public 
 affairs, so acceptable to all loyal and honest men, and so conducive to 
 the King's service, for whose sake he cannot but wish it had been 
 sooner done. This country he found at his coming down in all the dis- 
 order and confusion imaginable by the late regulations of honest and 
 loyal corporations, and turning out of commission all the chief gentle- 
 men. His Majesty's gracious declaration and letters came therefore 
 very seasonable, and the writer is endeavouring all he can to pacify 
 men's minds, which were so much disturbed with fears and jealousies. 
 Begs to recommend his second sor to Lord Dartmouth's favour ; he has 
 been bred at sea and to the study of navigation. His first voyage was to 
 Guinea with Captain Killegrew, as soon as he returned with his brother 
 Lansdowne out of Hungary from that great campaign ; he has never 
 since that for these 5 years quitted the seas, but has served under several 
 other captains and gone regularly through the method prescribed by his 
 Majesty's rules, and was duly examined before he was honoured with a 
 commission, as Mr. Pepys states. If Parliament meet, his son has 
 credit enough in his country to serve the King in it, as he did in the 
 former. 
 
 1688, Oct. 3rd, London. — Thomas Keightley to Lord Dartmouth. Re- 
 commends the bearer, Mr. Haldanby, who has served in France and been 
 acquainted with land service only, " but chooses rather tc ; ee some of 
 your pranks at sea upon this occasion than to ride a volunteering it 
 along with us poor mortals." 
 
 1688, Oct. 3rd, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " After congratulating you [sic] your safe arrivall at the Fleet, and 
 praying God Almighty to grant success to your undertakeing there ; I 
 am in the first place to acknowledge my receipt of your Lordshipp's 
 dated at 10 last night from the Buoy of the Nore. For answer wherto, 
 
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 Earl of and for your satisfaction in some other points that may occurr to me fit 
 lR Msisy TH S f° r your notice, give me leave to observe to you ; first, that the King 
 — does approve of the enlargement you have proposed to the complement 
 of the Fire Drake* and this evening signed a warrant to the officers of 
 the navy for the raising it to 75 men, and for her being victualled by 
 you accordingly. 
 
 Next, you may please to know, that in order to your service, I have 
 this day had a solemn conference here with a large number of the principall 
 of our Trinity House Brethren, upon the subject wee last discoursed 
 on, of staveing or takeing up and removing the most considerable 
 buoys in the mouth of the river ; as also the furnishing you (if it 
 were possible) with some knowing pilots about the borough Deepes, and 
 lastly upon a proposicon come to my hand but this morning from Captain 
 Langley of Harwich, concerning the demolishing or removeing of the 
 light at that place. Upon all which soe many and weighty considerations 
 arose that I though[t] it very much better for you to receive them from 
 their own mouths then my pen, and therefore have adjusted it with them, 
 that three of their number, namely, Captains Atkinson, Greenhill, and 
 Ayles, will sett out towards you tomorrow morning, with power to putt 
 in execution whatever shall be resolved in any of these particulars, upon 
 a re-debate thereof before your Lordshipp. 
 
 I have at the same time observed to Sir Eichard Haddock the notice 
 you have taken in this letter of the backwardness of one or two of the 
 shipps in the business of their provicons. Who for answer assures me, 
 that all the hast is made, that any cost or dilligence, by night or day, 
 can procure. But that the new undertakeing he and his partners have 
 lately been putt upon, of providing victualls for the garrisons, (which it 
 seemes they are extreamly pressed in) does occasion noe small interruption 
 in what relates to the sea. But our discourse ended in his joyning 
 in what you propose of haveing the ships now fitting forth victualled 
 but for 3 months instead of four, as a thing that will give them a great 
 deal of ease in their action. Accordingly, upon my moveing it this 
 evening to the King, he with the Lords, are most forward in their agree- 
 ing with it, as seeming to wish the ffleet out, though it were but with 
 2 monthes provicon, rather then have it stay but two hours for two 
 months more. 
 
 I persuade myself I need not trouble the officers of the ordnance from 
 hence, with any intimations of what you observe relateing to the wants 
 some shipps are still under in their gunners' stores, as being well assured, 
 that it will be abundantly done by a better hand ; I mean your own. 
 Nor indeed after what has been already done, have them unnecessarily 
 receive any more items of that kind from mine. 
 
 Captain Shovell (who has indeed been a great while prevented, by 
 one impediment or other in his like desires) has by this post taken oppor- 
 tunity of the squadron's being called in to the Nore, to press me for 
 his Majesty's leave for his comeing up to town for a few dayes. But 
 knowing how little the present state of the King's service will bear with 
 the absence of such an officer, and how unfitt (though it were otherwise) 
 it would be for such leave to be granted him in your presence by any- 
 hand your own, I have referred him to your Lordshipp for answer. 
 
 Pray think of sending up Captain Coffin, for in truth nothing but such 
 an officer as I believe he would make will be able I fear to prevent the 
 delays that will be made, under one pretence or other in Commanders 
 getting their shipps down. 
 
 The like I have done to Captain Nevell which I did in the case of 
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 I am sure your Lordshipp will order what is ntt. MSS. 
 
 The King has this night signed a generall order to your Lordshipp 
 to supply the wants of the ffleet as to ammunicon and gunners' stores, 
 without any any new orders from him." 
 
 1688, Oct. 4th, Thursday 5 afternoone. — Samuel Pepys to Lord 
 Dartmouth. (Holograph.) 
 
 " Not doubting but your Lordshipp lias received mine by last night's 
 post in returne to yours of the 2 d instant ; I take this occasion only for 
 the accompanying Captain Cotton, and acknowledging my receiving your 
 expresse of yesterday, which I hope to bee in a condition to give you an 
 answer to, the same way, as soon as I have waited on the King, to whom 
 I am just now goeing, and have beene all this day forwarding at the 
 Navy Office what ever is depending there relating to your Lordshipp. 
 I have desired Captain Cotton to call (as much as the tide will give 
 him leave) upon the shipps in his way doune the river, in order to his 
 enabling himselfe to give your Lordshipp some account of them, wishing 
 that he had time for a day or 2 to scoure the river before his comeing 
 to you. But without your leave I would not stopp him." 
 
 1688, Oct. 4th, Buoy of the Nore. — " An Accompt of his Majesty's 
 fleet now rideing there under the command of the Eight Honorable 
 George Lord Dartmouth, Admirall, with respect to theyr number of men, 
 quantity of provisions and condition of their hulls, rigging &c." 
 
 1688, Oct. 4th, Past midnight. Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 " I have had the honor of yours of yesterday by express, and communi- 
 cated the same to his Majesty, who is not less satisfied in every part of 
 what your Lordshipp is doing, then he is sollicitous for the success of it. 
 he in a particular manner approveing of the order you have taken in 
 sending down Sir Roger Strickland with his shipps to between the Red 
 Sand and Oaze Edge, to followed by the rest as they shall be dispatched ; 
 and in the provision ^ou have made for secureing a ready intelligence 
 of the proceedings of the Holland's ffleet upon the winds becoming 
 favourable to their getting out,, 
 
 Your Lordship I hope has received mine of last night. Since which 
 some of our Brethren of the Trinity house are (as I then said) sett out 
 towards you, soe as I hope they will be waiting on you before the arrivall 
 of this, which the long sitting of the Cabinet has kept me soe late in 
 the dispatch of, that whereas I had well hoped to have wrote you by 
 express, its soonest conveyance will be by the post. 
 
 What the reason is, that you have heard nothing from the ffisher- 
 men I cannot tell, but their Governors pretend to me, upon my sum- 
 moning them this day, (for haveing satisfaccon in it) that they have noe 
 less than six of their ffishing smacks at this very time at work in getting 
 of men for you, and on that consideration obtained proteccons for a small 
 vessell or or two to supply the want of those smacks, for furnishing of 
 the markett here with oysters. I have not failed to press upon them 
 the importance of the service, and have been made to beleive by them, 
 that you may speedily expect to hear of the effects of some of their 
 vessells employed on this errand for you. But how farr they can be relyed 
 upon the Bishop of Chester and Mr. Fanshaw (I doubt) can only tell. 
 
 As to the watermen, I have had the rulers of them also with me to-day, 
 who doe most peremptorily affirme to me, that the whole number of 200 
 have been by them actually appointed, and received ticketts from them, 
 obligeing them to the serving of the King on this occasion ; and not only 
 soe, but have given me a list of everj man's name, with the names of the 
 
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 Earl of ships to which (according to your Lordshipp's designation) the same 
 MSB. were severally appointed, which very list I herewith inclose to your 
 — Lordshipp, in order as much as may be, to your proveing the truth of 
 it ; these rulers being most confident in their asserting that the fellows 
 are really gone and on boord the fleet below, or the shipps that remaine 
 here aloft ; but whether any of those that should be below, may not have 
 been intercepted, or how fair the young men have been tempted to take 
 pay in other ships then those which they had been directed to by the 
 rulers, I find they are not ready to answer for, though I have threatened 
 them with the same treatment that Crispin and Grwinn heretofore had 
 in like case, if I shall understand from your Lordshipp that the men 
 doe not appear in the fleet. 
 
 Captain Cotton is gone away this evening with a line or two of mine to 
 accompany him. I directed him in his way down the river to call upon 
 the shipps he finds remaineing there, and to hasten them away, to the end 
 he may give your Lordshipp a fresh account what you are to expect from 
 them. And truly I doe think it would have been for your service, that 
 he had passed a day or two here to have tumbled them down after you, it 
 grieving me to the heart every day to hear how officers, great and small 
 santer away their time when there is noebody at their backs. As for 
 Cotton's incouragement in the service, I have charged my self with the 
 looking up what was allowed in the like imployment to Captain Perri- 
 man, and the moveing his Majesty that he may have the same. 
 
 I take great notice of what your Lordshipp said to me in your former, 
 touching the want of provitions in some shipps, and that you appre- 
 hended the fleet's dispatch may happen to to be hindred on that score, 
 and therefore have had a solemn meeting this morning with the Com- 
 missioners for the Victualling, at the Navy Board, where (by the way) 
 I did, to my great trouble, find Sir Anthony Deane extremely indisposed, 
 soe as not to be able to stirr out of doors, and poor Mr. Hewer little 
 better, through the un-intermitted succession of business to be dispatched 
 from morning to night, and noebody at present to look after any part of 
 it, but them two. 
 
 I made it my business with the victuallers to observe to them see much 
 of your late letters as concerned their charge, praying them in the first 
 place to enable me at one view to give your Lordshipp a true and generall 
 state of the fleet, by the state of the victualling at this day of every 
 particular shipp, which they promised me I should have, and accordingly 
 is just now come to me, as I send it your Lordshipp inclosed, without 
 being able for want of time to night to look it over soe as to fitt my self 
 for the giveing you any observations of mine upon it. 
 
 And for the other point, which related to their appointing you some 
 able person to doe the part of an Agent in the fleet for them, I have pro- 
 cured them a warrant for [from] the king for their soe doing, and they 
 accordingly have undertaken to send one very speedily to you, and an 
 able man too, if it be he they talked to me of, namely, Mr. Stevenson, the 
 purser of the Soveraigne at Chatham. 
 
 Next, I am to acquaint you, that out of the King's inclination to doe 
 all he conveniently can towards the helping of your manning, he has 
 determined upon supplying you with soe many detachments of soldiers 
 as will amount to 318. Of which 108 or thereabouts was sent down from 
 the Tower wharf towards you in barges this day ; as many will be sent 
 after them from the same place to morrow, 30 more will be shipp'd off 
 for you at Gravesend of my Lord Litchfeild's regiment on Saturday ; and 
 the same day 72 out of the Queen Dowager's, and the Holland Regi- 
 ments from Rochester. Concerning the conveying to you of which latter 
 parcell from Rochester, I have this night by the King's comand wrote 
 
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 to Sir Phineas Pett at Chatham, and concerning another like malter Earl of 
 wherein the King is pleased much to be concerned, namely, the sending AE ?issY TI 
 away another detachment of 100 men, besides officers, but of Collonel — 
 Hales's regiment (at Sittinbourne) to Landguard Fort by the Kitchin 
 yacht, which his Majesty expects shall without faile be ready to take 
 them in at Quinborow on Saturday next. Now, my Lord, that which 
 makes me trouble you with the mention of this last matter is, that if 
 by any accident Sir Phineas Pett should not be able to compass this 
 thing by the Kitchin yacht's being out of the way, or otherwise unable to 
 perform this voyage, your Lordshipp will be pleased to find some 
 effectual way by some of your small vessells to doe it, and bring the 
 like number from Landguard fort into the River of Thames. For your 
 Lordshipp's readyer direction in which I have taken the liberty to inclose 
 to you a copie of my letter by this night's post upon this subject to Sir 
 Phineas Pett praying your [Lordshipp] you will cast your eye over it, in 
 case you shall understand from him, that he is not able to answer the 
 King's comands herein, without your help. 
 
 I have this night provided a press warrant from the King for one M r 
 Benge, recomended to me to that purpose, as from your Lordshipp, by 
 Sir Henry Shere, in hopes of his being able to gather some little supply 
 of men for you out of Sussex. 
 
 All I shall now add, is the acquainting you, that as I hope the Diamond 
 is ere this come from Portsmouth to you, and that the advice will very 
 shortly be soe too ; soe the King, out of his extraordinary desire of your 
 haveing the benefitt of his whole force, has this evening with the advice 
 of my Lords then attending, concluded upon posting away the Plymouth 
 and Dreadnought towards you without delay, though they have but their 
 lowest complement of men aboard ; as thinking it much better, that 
 you should have them soe, then stay for their full manning till the wind 
 change, and they thereby [be] prevented in comeing to you, though they 
 were full manned, which the same wind must necessarily doe, that will 
 serve to bring oat the Dutch. In contemplation therefore of this, his 
 Majesty does by this post send his orders not only to the Governor of 
 Portsmouth to supply each of those ships with thirty men apiece (which 
 by their last musters will raise their number above their lowest com- 
 plement) but to the Comanders thereof themselves to take the first 
 opportunity of comeing away to you after they shall have received 
 those soldiers aboard. Soe that as the wind (thanks be to God) sitts, 
 you may I hope reasonably expect their being in a very like time with 
 you, though not quite in soe good a condition as to men, as for the 
 King's sake and yours I could heartily wish them." 
 
 1688, Oct. 4th, London. — Philip Frowde to Lord Dartmouth. No 
 more news of the Prince of Orange, the wind being contrary. The 
 King having on Tuesday last at the Council or Cabinet Council told 
 the old aldermen that he would restore the Charter of London, for 
 which the bells rang that night and bonfires were made here, and having 
 this day sent my Lord Chancellor to the Guildhall with an instrument 
 under the broad seal by virtue of which he dissolved the present govern- 
 ment of the City, and turned out the Lord Mayor Sir John Eyles and 
 all the new aldermen, when my Lord called in Sir William Pritchard (our 
 friend) to be Lord Mayor, and all the old aldermen to take their places, 
 Sir William Pritchard after six hours disputing the matter (and having 
 urged that he had got a great cold, which was an admirable excuse) 
 absolutely refused to be Lord Mayor : notwithstanding for the credit of 
 the matter my Lord Chancellor offered to be bound to him himself in a 
 judgment of 40,000/. to relieve him to-morrow by getting another to 
 succeed him before he should do any one act. As my Lord Chancellor 
 
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 came into the City he was huzza'd in the streets as his coaches came 
 along, and in the Guildhall, all which I saw ; and it is not hard for 
 your Lordship to guess what a strange alteration this has made, there 
 being now no Lord Mayor nor aldermen. This sure must alter the 
 King's measures extremely, and be mischievous to my Lord Chancellor. 
 " 'Tis hoped this will be patched up by to-morrow night by making 
 another Lord Mayor, but who knows how many may follow their 
 example, for Sir William Turner, Sir Robert Clayton, Sir James Smith, 
 and I think one more but am not sure, went away as approving what 
 Sir William Pritchard did. I shall make no reflections upon this, but 
 leave it to your Lordship, who can do it much better. I pray God 
 bless you and send you safe back again to us with better news than 
 this is.' 7 
 
 1688, Oct. 4th. — Sir Christopher Musgrave, (unsigned) to Philip Mus- 
 grave, St. James Street, London. The Proclamation did not come to his 
 hand for recalling the writs, is heartily sorry for the occasion, but it has 
 eased him of a winter journey, and no small thing will engage him to 
 undertake one, being in a settled and agreeable way, and having sufficiently 
 found how little good words signify, and that a consideration of services 
 takes its date only from the last act ; it is come to a proverb " tell 
 me not what he was, but what he is now " 
 
 1688, Oct. 5th, London. — Sir Poly carpus Wharton to Lord Dartmouth. 
 His necessities compel him to pray his Lordship to imprest him 5 or 600/. 
 in order that he may carry on his contracts. 
 
 1688, Oct. 5th, Chatham Dock. — Sir William Booth and Sir Phineas 
 Pett to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Have this day received his Majesty's commands that a detachment 
 out of Colonel Hales' s regiment now quartered at Sittingbourne (being 
 designed for Landguard Fort) should embark for that place at Queen- 
 borough to morrow without fail. Some of the Prince of Denmark's 
 regiment must also be taken from Landguard Fort into the Thames as 
 high as conveniently may be, in order to be joined to the rest of the 
 regiment at Stepney. Another detachment of 72 men belonging to the 
 Queen Dowager's and Holland's regiments has to be brought from 
 Rochester to join the fleet. Ask his Lordship to spare one of his small 
 frigates to assist in these transports. 
 
 1688, Oct. 5th, Whitehall — King James II. to Lord Dartmouth. " This 
 evening I had an expresse from M. d'Albeville, he came by the way of 
 Calais, and tho' it was but of one day's fressher then the last letters which 
 came by the post it brought more particulars, which Mr. Pepys has copyd 
 out to send you. What is sayd of their intention to come and engage you 
 is very probable, and 'tis as likly that they will send their land forces at 
 the same tyme with some few men of war with them to make their 
 descent. I need not mind you to lose no tyme to gett out from amonge 
 the sands, as fast as you can, and hope that if the wind continue in this 
 corner but two or three days you will haue most of your ships with you. 
 They talk now as if they intended to land in the ile of Thanet ; if that be 
 [so] their designe must be for Chatham. We must expect they will come 
 out with all their forse with the first snatch of wind. Land men come in a 
 pace, and the new leves will be sone completed ; both officers and 
 souldiers are very harty. Lett me know how sone you think to saile, lett 
 Shovel and Skelton know if this war continues they will sone be better 
 mounted after the first brush shall be ouer. 
 
 J. R." 
 
 [Addressed.] For the Lord Dartmouth, 
 
 October 5 th 1688. 
 
 [Endorsed.] Received the 7 th and answered the same day. 
 
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 1688, October 5th, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. Earl of 
 
 " Since mine by last night's post, which I hope is well arrived with you DaB mss UTH 
 as containeing many particulars importing the service you have before — 
 you ; as well Captain Clements, with regard to the watermen, as some 
 others relateing to the fishermen have been with me, the former telling 
 me that in his comeing up the river he found severall parcells of the 
 watermen actually come on board the ships to which they were designed, 
 besides others upon ships to which they were not designed ; and the latter 
 not only averring, but offering to show me receipts for fishermen 
 delivered on board the King's shipps, and as an instance I read one from 
 Jennings, Sir William Booth's lieutenant, under his hand, for fourteene. 
 "Soe that though you had good reason to suspect your being imposed upon 
 by those two companies, yet it is most apparent that a good part at least 
 of the men they have pressed are indeed on board the fleet, though their 
 names nor numbers have been reported to you. 
 
 My Lord, I shall not repeat anything of what I said last night more 
 than that I doe relye upon it, that you may speedily expect to hear of 
 the shipps from Portsmouth. 
 
 Captain Grifford in the Mermaide is arrived from the streights at 
 Plymouth, and by this time I hope advanced in her way to the Downes, 
 where she will be advertised to attend your Lordshipp at the N ore. Not 
 that I can promise m} r self that you will find her in any great condition 
 of service, after haveing been soe long abroad, nevertheless it is some 
 satisfaction, that whatever the shipp is you will have a little addition 
 of men to what you have, and the King a good officer at hand more then 
 he had before. 
 
 It remaines with your Lordshipp to let me know who you will have 
 the contingent money paid to that is to be advanced for the use of the 
 fleet. I did as you desired me propose it to my Lord Faulkland, that he 
 would appoint one, who might receive and pay it, as an instrument of his ; 
 according as has heretofore been determined to be most regular, but I 
 find that my Lord Faulkland is inclined that this person should be of 
 your Lordshipp's nameing; and for that reason I am hindred in getting 
 the contingent money ordered, for want of knowing the hand it is to 
 be paid to. Be pleased therefore in your next to let me know your 
 mind concerning it. 
 
 I have omitted saying anything to your Lordshipp concerning a 
 Chirurgeon-Generall, in regard of M r Pearse's having informed me of 
 his having in some degree discoursed that matter with your Lordshipp, 
 and that that charge would be executed in his absence by the gentleman 
 that is chirurgeon to your own person ; his name I do not remember. 
 
 From what Captain Clements told me, it is to be hoped that most of 
 the shipps in this river, are ere this come down to you, saveing the 
 Rupert and Henrietta in the Hope, and the Swallow and S* Albans at 
 Deptford, the despatch of which last would, I should think, be more in 
 the way of forwarding, had her Comander taken his leave of the Court. 
 
 What I have now to add, is the giveing your Lordshipp some account 
 of our freshest advice from Holland, by letter of the 7 th instant their stile 
 (which was yesterday was se'nnight), though they arrived here but to-day, 
 which is, that as they grow nearer to the time of execution, soe doe they 
 grow more eager and triumphant in their intended undertakeing, and 
 their confidence of its success. But because this advice descends to much 
 more particulars then any wee have yet had, and some of them such 
 as may not be convenient to be exposed in a publick letter, I asked the 
 King's leave to transcribe them, as I now give them you, in a particular 
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 Earl of . paper inclosed,* in the very termes of Mons 1 ' D' Abbeville's own letter 
 LR MSS UTH S to nmi - Whereto referring you, I doe with all my heart remaine, your 
 — Lordshipp's most faithfull and obedient servant. 
 
 In a postscript Mr. Pepys adds, " I herewith trouble your Lordshipp 
 with a comission for one M r Thomas Day recomended by Sir William 
 Jennens for his 2 d lieutenant, and appointed thereto by his Majesty upon 
 condition declared to Sir William Jennens that he shall pass his exami- 
 nation, which I am to pray your Lordshipp to see him doe before you 
 suffer the comission to be delivered to him." 
 
 [1688], Oct. 6th. — Barbara, Lady Dartmouth to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I did feare, my dearest, as it proves, you never intended comeing up, 
 only thought kindly, the expectation of it would make me part easeyer 
 then, but my truble is not less, or doe think that all the preparations will 
 end in nothing, tho' they say the war is declared against France, and lett 
 whoe pleasith fight it out, so we cloe not ; all I cane doe is to pray for you 
 which I faile not insessently, and I have the comfort of the too (sic) Bishops 
 who are very kind to you and me .... I had a gratiouse messege 
 sent me from Lord Chanceler [Jeffreys] of his desires to serve you, or 
 me in your absence, and that if anythinge could be found by your frinds 
 that might be an advantage to you this would be a proper time for it, he 
 
 finding you in so good a condition with his Majesty 
 
 B. D." 
 
 1688, Oct. 6th, Bishopsness. — Holcraft Blood to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Made enquiry on Thursday last upon the works for such men as were 
 proper to serve his majesty at sea, at which they were so alarmed that, 
 by Mr. Richard's advice and Captain Howell's assistance, we drew off 
 33 who were judged to be either able seamen or very proper to serve 
 at sea, and kept them all night on board Captain Howell's ship. All 
 these except 9 were sent the next morning on board his Lordship's ship 
 the Resolution. None fit to serve have been left upon the work, but 
 if any come in they will be sent on board the Cambridge, according to 
 command. 
 
 1688, Oct. 6th, Whitehall.— Earl of Rochester to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Thanks him for a letter at such a time when in the despatch of so 
 much business. No one can wish him better success, &c. Cannot but 
 tell his Lordship that since he went away he has not had the happiness 
 of being once spoken to by the King in any kind, which, after the letter 
 Lord Dartmouth took the pains to send him by an express to New- 
 market, he cannot but think something odd. However he has the 
 same concern and zeal and duty that ever he had for the King's service, 
 which makes him think his heart is very good, wishes his head were 
 so too, but vows this treatment looks as if his Majesty doubted both. 
 
 1688, October 7th, Sunday night. Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to same. 
 
 H This comes at once in returne to yours of the 4 th and 5 th , and will be 
 brought you by Captain Wilshaw, our Master Attendant at Deptford, as 
 the most proper person for supplying the want of a commissioner of the 
 navy, the two only ones of whose number (saveing Sir Anthony Deane, 
 who continues still unable to stirr abroad), being now with you as 
 members of the fleet, who are in any degree qualified to render your 
 Lordshipp any service, in the point for which you now have occasion 
 to call for them, namely, that of overhalling the demands of stores, 
 brought you from the officers of shipps, which your Lordshipp has too 
 much reason to receive with that jealousie you have expressed con- 
 
 * Not now with the letters. 
 
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 cerning them, and would have more, were it fitt to trouble you with an earl op 
 instance, among others, that was brought me very lately. Nor at this Dartmouth's 
 
 time are there soe many Commissioners left, as are necessary and certaine ' 
 
 to be had to make a Board, were it not for their calling up the Commis- 
 sioner at Deptf ord to assist thereat. Nor is Sir Richard Haddock at this 
 time in any better condition for helping of you, in regard of the work he 
 has upon his hand to procure and dispatch away provitions to you, in 
 which the Commissioners for that affaire doe alleadge their being at 
 work, night and day about it, and without Sir Richard Haddock I have 
 a great deal of reason to suspect your disappointments would be yet 
 greater than they be. But the King will immediately have the help 
 of other hands at the Navy Board in addition to them that are now there, 
 according to what you know was some time agoe in proposition ; soe 
 that in a very little time the few of the present numbers that are re- 
 maineing here will be releived, and consequently some to spare to assist 
 you, in your affaires. In the mean time Sir John Berry and Sir William 
 Booth, notwithstanding their sea comands, are noe less Commissioners of 
 the Navy then they were before, and may together with the Commissioner 
 at Chatham be, I hope, as usefull to you, in that capacity. Nevertheless 
 because of their new charges, and the regard which they have neces- 
 sarily to pay thereto, the King is pleased to comand Captain Wilshaw 
 to attend you, then whom by his place noe man can be thought better 
 qualified for judgeing of boatswains demands, and particularly for that 
 which" respects the fireshipps, as haveing had a the fitting of most of 
 them out himself. And concerning which it occurs to me, as upon my 
 mentioning it I beleive it will to your Lordshipp, that the fireships last 
 fitted, were originally proposed by yourself, and designed by the King 
 for the guard of the river only, and not to goe to sea, and were therefore 
 restrained to vessels of very small burthen, and had I beleive upon that 
 consideration a different manner of fitting out, from what they would 
 have Jiad for sea service. 
 
 That nothing might be wanting that might contribute ought to the 
 quickening the victuallers, 1 moved his Majesty to require their attendance 
 on him this night at the Cabinet, where accordingly they were, and were 
 urged with all the fervour that the King could express to the looseing noe 
 time that can possibly be saved in the dispatching away provisions to you ; 
 which they assured the King they laboured in by keeping all hands at work 
 that they can employ, either at their own office or elsewhere, both night 
 and day : and to the King's demanding a plaine account of the condition 
 they were in for furnishing the fleet with what they want of their pro- 
 visions, they made this reply, that those at Portsmouth have their full 
 proportion, so that they will not loose one moment in their repairs hither- 
 ward for any want thereof ; next, that the shipps of Sir Roger Strickland's 
 squadron, were all supplyed in the Downes. And in the third place, that 
 for the ships now fitting forth, they presented the King with an account 
 of their state in writeing, as it stands at this day, a copie of which I here 
 inclose you,* and to which pray be referred, as containeing all the light 
 in this matter that I can gett, or that I believe they can give. This only 
 I have to add, that M r Stevenson tooke his leave of me in his way to 
 your Lordshipp this morning ; and that I doe (from the accounts that 
 have been shown me of it) find that the victualls they have parted with 
 for the land service amount to as much as would have compleatly vic- 
 tualled three of your 3 d rates for two months apiece, and therefore 
 cannot but wish, that some other hands had had the provideing for the 
 land-work elsewhere then out of the Magazines of the Navy. 
 
 * Not now with the letters. 
 
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 Dartmouth's * ^ ave evernn S beseecbed the King to lay bis commands upon his 
 mss. sea-capt&ins, that are still walking in Whitehall, to repaire to their 
 charges, as some of them, to my astonishment, as well as greife to this day 
 doe, and have received his commands to write to them in his name to 
 he gone, which I will not faile to doe. 
 
 I hope your Lordshipp will continue to hold your hand in the giveing 
 way to the desires of others to come up from their ships at such a junc- 
 ture as this, though 1 doe veryly believe that neither of the gentlemen 
 wee have heretofore named on this occasion, doe desire it, but upon con- 
 siderations of importance to them. 
 
 Nor doe I question your haveing very good fruit of your writeing to 
 the office of the ordnance, which makes me spare to say anything more 
 to you on that head. 
 
 Captain Cotton has been with me, and shall have all the furtherance 
 I can give him, in whatever he stands in need of for the rendreing his 
 service usefull to you. 
 
 I shall be glad to hear that all the parcells of soldiers mentioned in my 
 last are arrived with you, as well as the first 72 and 36, and that those 
 designed for Landguard Fort may meet with the conveyance I proposed, 
 his Majesty being very intent upon their being at their post. 
 
 The King very well approves of your choice of the shipps you have 
 appointed to relieve the Deptford and Dartmouth, namely, the Ports- 
 mouth and Lark ; for the former of which, I am by his direction to 
 recomend to your Lordshipp, the proposing some person for a lieutenant, 
 in the roome of M r Killegrew, whom Captain Constable has desired the 
 King to spare him ; soe soon as your Lordshipp shall returne me the 
 name of the person you approve of for it, I'll take care without any 
 trouble to him to send you down his commission. 
 
 I have heard nothing from Portsmouth since my last, wherein I gave 
 you an account of the King's haveing called away those shipps, and 
 assisted them with soldiers to bring them away; but I am in great 
 hopes I shall by the next post hear of their being dispatched. 
 
 The gentlemen of the Trinity-house have been with me, and to-night 
 I have provided and dispatched to them a warrant from the King, 
 enableing and requiring them, with all diligence to apply themselves to 
 the execution of every article of the result of your late conference with 
 them, as being entirely approved of by the King, and the charge of the 
 whole action will be re-imbursed them by him. 
 
 I have also by a speciall letter from myself pressed them to the 
 answering your demand of pilots for the ships mentioned in your list, 
 which M r Hunter has promised me to take great care in. 
 
 Not only myself, but the King has personally spoken with M r Pearse, 
 who as to the number of chirurgeons, and the sufficiency of their chests 
 and medicaments, adjudged upon solemn examinations of them by the 
 Hall, has given his Majesty such an account, as leads the King to 
 hope, that by this time (by the arrivall of some chirurgeons that ho 
 believes could not be with you at the time of your information) the 
 ground of your demands on that head are removed. But as to the 
 necessaries, the allowance thereof haveing, during peace, been retrenched 
 saveing in forreigne voyages, the King has been pleased to determine of 
 haveing the same now revived, and M r Pearse is hard at work in makeing 
 provition for the present fleet accordingly. And when that is done, 
 will be most ready to attend your Lordshipp, if the King will be 
 pleased to spare him. 
 
 I have not failed in observing to the King what you have observed 
 in justice to Lieutenant Ballen and Lieutenant Shenton, and what 
 you note of another kind, but with noe less justice concerning Bucknall. 
 
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 What remaines, my Lord, is the letting you know that the King does earl op 
 dayly find occasions of expressing the entire satisfaction he has in the DAR jj!y UTH ' s 
 
 industry and thoughtfulness he observes through all your proceedings ^ ' 
 
 for the good of his service, wherein I doe most heartily endeavour to 
 render your province as easy to you as I am able, and shall always doe 
 soe." 
 
 Postscript. 
 
 " Two little particulars I have forgot, namely the observing to your 
 Lordshipp (which you will not be angry with me for) that I find in 
 your late list of your fleet, and their numbers of men, that 50 is sett 
 down for your flag, whereas the number appointed by the establish- 
 ment to an Admirall with a union flag at the maine-topp, is but 30, 
 fifty being the number allowed only to the Lord High Admirall of 
 England. 
 
 The other is, that the King had ordered the Foresight's complement 
 to be raised to the highest number by his warrant to the officers of the 
 Navy, before your Lordshipp's mention of it came to me." 
 
 1688, October 7th. — u A particular of the ships and vessells ordered 
 to joyne the Fleet under the command of the Lord Dartmouth, as allso 
 where they now are." [In duplicate.] 
 
 1688, October 8th, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 K I have yours of the 6 th and of yesterday before me, and as well in 
 answer thereto, as in relation to other particulars needful to be mentioned 
 to you, give me leave in the first place to observe that the Mermaide was 
 arrived as far as the Dounes yesterday, and ready with the first wind to- 
 come away to the Nore, as he had then done, but for the wind's being 
 then at the N. West, and by the account I have of her, her condition t 
 doubt is such as will hardly yeild you any better service then by the 
 use you will make of her men. Which though I know it will be a little 
 grievous to Captain Gifford, I mean by his companie's being taken 
 away, and himself laid up, at such a time as this too ; yet I have good 
 reason to beleive his Majesty's opinion of him is such, and his kindness 
 too, as not to let him lye long without another comand, and a better." 
 
 I am extreamly sorry that you have yet no better account of the 
 watermen and fishermen's undertakeing, they haveing by the King's 
 comand been twice or thrice called upon by me, and admonished not 
 to trifle with the King in a service of soe much moment, and still had 
 for answer from the former, that they were sure the whole number of 
 200 were somewhere or other in the fleet, and indeed Captain Clement's 
 report from his own observation in his comeing up from the Nore, 
 went a great way towards confirmeing the same. But, my Lord, the use 
 you tell me you designe to make of the list I sent you of their names at 
 the next muster, will certainly enlighten you in the truth of this matter, 
 and you may be sure the rulers of their company will be called to a 
 strict account for it, in case they shall appear to have mis-informed the 
 King therein : nor was it for want of the method you now propose, that 
 you have yet soe uncertaine an account of these watermen, the Katharine 
 yacht haveing been appointed for that very purpose, to convey to you the 
 whole 200 in a lump, (as she did part of them), but through the idleness 
 of the rulers, in sending them away with ticketts, leaving each man to 
 take his own way of getting down. 
 
 And as to the fishermen, they doe with noe less positiveness assert, 
 that they have 8 or more smacks at work, wholly in pressing of men, 
 and that, though they dare not undertake, for any time certaine, you 
 may depend upon haveing the whole number effectually made good to 
 you. This, my Lord, does not I confess amount to the satisfaction that 
 
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 Eabl or were to be wished, but I shall not let their Governors rest, nor in 
 LB MSS^ TH S particular Mr. Fanshaw (who seems to be their patron) till I have some 
 — account from your Lordshipp of the effects of what they say. 
 
 I have this day taken care for Captain Cotton's being furnished with 
 a boat, the Navy Board haveing upon my letter authorized him to take 
 up one to his own likeing, thereby to render him inexcusable for any 
 neglects or slacknesses that he may be found guilty of in the execution 
 of the trust you have comitted to him. 
 
 The King is soe affected with your complaints of the backwardness of 
 the provisions, that though he had the Commissioners for the Victualling 
 before him but yesterday, upon that very occasion, when he received 
 from them that account of their proceedings, which I sent your Lord- 
 shipp a copie of last night, by Captain Willshaw, yet would not his 
 Majesty be satisfied without summoning them againe to him this evening, 
 when they presented him with a fresh state differing from the other by 
 soe much as they have performed to day of what was then undone. A 
 copie of this I also send to your Lordshipp,* with this only note upon it, 
 (for better explication of their paper) that where against the two first 
 and five last shipps of the list you find the word done, they explained 
 their meaning therein to the King to be that their whole three months 
 provisions are either actually by the shipps sides, or at least shipp'd off 
 into vessels, with orders imediately to be carried down to them. As for 
 the Pendennis, Elizabeth, Swallow, and S* Albans, they have undertaken, 
 that the shipps being ready to receive it, the whole of their dry 
 provisions, and as much of their wett as can possibly be gott ready, shall 
 be on board them by or before Saturday next at the furthest ; and that 
 the remainder of their liquor shall be sent after them ; the only two of 
 the list then remaineing are the Newcastle and Woolwich, who have 
 been soe little a time ordered to be fitted, that though noe degree of 
 dispatch shall be omitted in the setting them out, that they will require 
 a longer day to render them capable of receiving their victualls. 
 
 Which being that state of the victuallers condition, which they have 
 presented to the King, as the truth thereof at this clay, and what (to 
 answer your desire) they declare may be certainly relyd on by you, and 
 haveing thereto added, that by my letter this day from Portsmouth, it 
 appeares that the Pearle sailed from thence towards you on that day, 
 the Richmond on Friday, the Advice yesterday, and that the Dread- 
 nought (whether the men they expect from the westward come to her or 
 noe), should be comeing towards you, to morrow, or Wednesday at the 
 furthest, and the Plymouth sooner, I am to propose to you by the King's 
 direction, by way of enquiry only, and noe otherwise, the considering 
 how farr it may or may not be adviseable for you to goe to sea, (whether 
 the Dutch come out or noe) with the fleet which you shall be able to 
 make upon the comeing to you of the shipps from Portsmouth, and the 
 taking in of the victuals before-mentioned said to be shipped off for the 
 seven shipps named in the victualler's list under the title of 'done,' of 
 which when you shall have considered, it may be of some satisfaction I 
 find to his Majesty, that your present thoughts therein were communicated 
 to him ; though I am againe to observe to you, that his relyance upon 
 your conduct in this whole matter, is soe entire, that he would not be 
 thought by this enquiry to putt the least constraint upon you, in the 
 measures you shall judge fitt to take taken for his service. 
 
 Where your Lordshipp observes, that you haue stopp'd your warrant 
 for Captain Tyrrell's easeing the Foresight of some of the surplusage of 
 
 * Not now with the papers. 
 
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 her provisions, upon the score of their being unfitt for home victualling, _ Earl op 
 
 O' J) A "RT7VTOTTT1 
 
 as haveing been provided for the West Indies, I presume your Lord- mss. 
 shipp meanes only her brandy, which is taken in instead of beer, for the — 
 enablemg her the better to take a full cargoe of dry provisions, foras 
 much as her bread, fle&h, and beer (soe much as she has thereof) are in 
 noe wise different that I know of from our home victualling in those 
 species, then as they are better in each kind, and necessarily made soe 
 for their better keeping. 
 
 Though I doubt not but your last quickning of the officers of the 
 Ordnance will have very good effects, yet I cannot omit to give you Sir 
 Richard Beach's words relateing to the backwardness of the shipps at 
 Portsmouth, and particularly the Dreadnought and Plymouth: viz*, 
 there has (says he) been a great hindrance to the shipps in their despatch 
 by the carridges of the guns not being fitt, but either too narrow, or too 
 wide, nor has the Dreadnought tacles enough for her guns yet, haveing 
 but one tacle to severall guns ; and indeed the same is wrote from other 
 places. 
 
 As soon as ever your letter came to my hand, I wrote to the Navy 
 Board about flaggs for signalls, as also about slopps and bedding for the 
 soldiers. 
 
 I have also provided a warrant signed under the King's own hand for 
 their imediate pressing six vessels of about 70 tons each for the serving 
 you with water. 
 
 You have certainly done advisedly in the use you have made of the 
 hint I gave you touching making yourself accomptable for the con- 
 tingent money of the fleet. His Majesty has approved of it too, and 
 signed his warrant for its being paid to such person as shall be appointed 
 to receive and dispense the same in the fleet by my Lord Faulkland, 
 this method being in all respects the most naturall, as well as otherwise 
 best for the King, and most easy to you. 
 
 I have had the Chirurgeon Gen er all with me againe this day, who 
 shewed me a letter he was then sending away by express to your Lord- 
 shipp relating to the whole of your Lordshipp's notes upon the head 
 of medicaments &c, and is very busie in provideing of necessaries for 
 sick men according to the establishment and practice in the last wan*. 
 And when that is done, and the thinges put up, he is ready to come 
 down with them to you himself, if the King will spare his service here. 
 
 I shall take care, as you now desire, to dispatch away some blank 
 instructions for captains and lieutenants, half a dozen of each, this very 
 night, in company with this, which I believe my freind Collonel Legg 
 your brother will have the trouble of bringing to you. 
 
 Which being all that at present occurs to me, saveing the inclosing to 
 you an extract of a letter communicated this night to the King by 
 my Lord Godolphin, and suitable to what is now wrote by other hands, 
 and particularly by Mons 1 ' D'Abbeville, touching the method of the 
 Dutch fleet's proceeding, as it is now designed, with reference to the 
 designe of first speaking with your fleets, the same being not thought 
 UDusefull to be communicated to you, as agreeing with what you your 
 self have in your letter pre-supposed they would doe. I do with all 
 respect kiss your Lordshipp's hands, and with most hearty prayers for 
 good success to your Lordshipp's endeavours I remaine 
 
 My Lord, your Lordshipp's most humble servant." 
 
 An abstract of the above letter. 
 
 The extract above referred to is dated Amsterdam, Oct. 8, 1688, and 
 is as follows : " 'Tis said Vice Admirall Herbert is gone with about 40 
 Dutch ships to speake the English ffleet in the Downs or where they 
 
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 Earl of > may be and if they will not agree with them in the designe to fight them.. 
 lK ms& ™ 3 The rest of the fleet and forces will not goe forward until next weeke." 
 
 1688, October 8th, Whitehall. — King James II. to Lord Dartmouth. 
 " You will have an account from M r Pepys of what is done about the 
 victuals, and what Sir Richard Haddock and the rest of them sayd to- 
 me this evening, which if so you may be sone ready to saile, with most 
 of your ships, and tho' all that are in the Hope should not be quit ready, 
 consider well whether you should loze the opportunity of this westerly 
 wind, to gett out from amongst the sands, or ventur to have the Dutch 
 come and find you posted some where neare the boye of the Oze edg, 
 amongst the sands, for you must expect they will come out and be 
 looking for you, with the first easterly wind ; and by letters which 
 came this day of their 9th I am informed they will send most of their 
 [men] of war to look you out to engage you, whilst they send their 
 forces to land some were els and 'tis beleved, that it may be northward. 
 I only mention this to you, leaving it to you to do what you shall judge 
 best for my service. I am very glad to find by yours that all the fleett 
 are in so good hart ; I assure you the troups here are so to. I have not 
 tyme to say more being called to supper. 
 
 J. R." 
 
 [Addressed.] For the Lord Dartmouth, October 8 th 1688. 
 [Endorsed.] Received the 11 th , returne made the 12 th . 
 
 1688, October 8th, Port Royal in Jamaica. Captain Thomas Spragg 
 to Lord Dartmouth. Has sent the bearer Captain William Penny to 
 give his Lordship to understand that the Duke of Albemarle departed 
 this world the 6th of this instant about five in the morning. His 
 Lordship's brother, Colonel William Legge, was once inclinable to put 
 in for the government of the island, who the writer is confident would 
 be very acceptable there. 
 
 1688, October 8th, Navy Office. — Navy Commissioners (Lord Falk- 
 land, Sir Anthony Deane, and William Hewer) to Lord Dartmouth. Sir 
 John Berry, and Sir William Booth being ordered to sea there are now 
 only so many commissioners left as will form a board ; they hope therefore 
 his lordship will hold them from attending him in the fleet as he desires. 
 Report on the supply of stores, &c. to the ships. Mr. Beckford, the 
 slopseller, has been written to to furnish the fleet with slops, and Mr. 
 Pearse the chirurgeon-general with necessaries for the sick and wounded. 
 Cannot find that beds for the soldiers were ever supplied by the navy r 
 and therefore presume they either made use of " hamaccoes " like the 
 sailors, or had beds from the Tower. 
 
 1 688, October 8th, Sheerness. — Sir Charles Lyttleton to Lord 
 Dartmouth. Has had neither health nor boat to permit him to wait on 
 his Lordship at the Nore, but has as much will and as much heart as 
 anybody to congratulate him. The King could not have done better for 
 his service and more for the public satisfaction than he has in putting 
 the fleet under his Lordship's command. It is necessary that two smacks 
 and a four-oared boat should be allowed to attend on the garrison at 
 Sheerness, and more men are wanted to sail the yachts. 
 
 1688, October 8th, Pall Mall. — J. Pearse, Surgeon-General, to Lord 
 Dartmouth. Secretary Pepys acquainted him with some complaints 
 made by some of the Commanders for want of their surgeons, medicines, 
 and necessaries ; sends a list of the surgeons and mates that the 
 Governors of the Company and himself have appointed to each ship, all 
 of whom have been despatched with their chests. Upon any complaint 
 of want of medicines, &c. asks his Lordship to direct Mr. Herriot to 
 take a survey and report to the writer. 
 
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 1688, October 8th, 9th, and 10th —Same to same. On the supply of Earl of 
 surgeons, &c. to the fleet (three letters). Dartmouth's 
 
 1688, Oct. 8th, London. — William Vandeveldt de Oude ((he old) to — 
 Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " This serves only to give your Lordship notice that according (sic) 
 my Lord's order I brought laste Friday at my Lord's house the five pieces 
 of pictures, as are known to my Lord, and these (sic) day being Moonday 
 I have pat them in theire golden frames, which are extraordinary curious 
 and preciouse, which I did in the presence of my Lord's brother, to 
 whome it is knowne, and my Lord's brother ordred me to write 
 these few lines to give my Lord notice hereof, which he promised me 
 to take along withim (sic), by reason he went in person to my Lord. 
 Concerneinge the frames I have agreed to pay for each one of them 
 3/, 10s., which, my Lord, otherwise should cost 51. and more, so that the 
 frames come to 171. 10s. Concerneing my art of drawing the pictures, 
 my Lord Berckley payd mee for a piece of foure foote and a halfe twenty 
 pound, and my Lady Barckley, my Lord Barkley's mother, payd mee for 
 a piece five foote long the summe of twentye three pound ; so that in 
 reguard of those as I have made for my Lord, I leave that totally in the 
 generosity and high juste consideration of my Lord himselfe, not doubt- 
 ing of [or, if] me Lord shall take such more favourable consideration in 
 the rate of my art, according my Lord's pictures really are more excellent 
 as they whereof I mention in this present, I haveing in those pictures 
 bestowed my utmost endeavours and my art." 
 
 1688, Oct. 8th, London. — Earl of Feversham to Lord Dartmouth. Is 
 desired to beg of his Lordship that the government of Upnor Castle, 
 the governor being dead, may be given to Captain George Aylmer. 
 
 1688, Oct. 9th, On board the Elizabeth.— Sir John Berry to Lord 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 The Kitchen yacht came this morning with a parcel of very sorry men 
 which he must keep till he can get better. Desires Captain Cotton may 
 be ordered to attend on him till he returns from the hope to press men. 
 Got under sail last tide, but the wind blowing hard and the channel 
 narrow the pilot would not venture to stir out the side (?). 
 
 1688, Oct. 10th, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " My last was of the 8th ins* by Collonel Legg. Since which, my 
 Lord, these only perticulars have occurred. 
 
 The Advice went from Portsmouth upon Sunday last, and by this time 
 I doubt not is with your Lordshipp, together with the jPearle and 
 Mermaid. 
 
 Captain Carter by his of yesterday tells me that he was ready to saile 
 on Sunday night last, but could not, the wind being at W.S.W. and 
 blowing very hard but it coming yesterday when he wrote to the W.N.W. 
 he doubted not to gett out presently to the Spitthead, and from thence 
 goe on with all expedition to joine you at the Nore. 
 
 The Dreadnought allsoe by a letter of the same day from Sir Richard 
 BeacL intended to saile to the Spitthead at the same time or today, if he 
 can by any ineanes make shift to secure his guns under the want he then 
 was of threescore tacles for them. Which may prove very inconvenient 
 as the season and weather is ; but Sir Richard Beach writes me word 
 that he supposes Captain Akarman will make some shifts or other to 
 lash his gunns with ropes rather than waite for tacles. He tells mee also 
 at the same time that the Charles and Henry fireshipp would be ready 
 to saile in a day or two but had not her fireworks yet. 
 
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 EARt op One thing more I am to mention to you out of the same letter but shall 
 LB MSS l TH b chose to doe it in his own words in a paper inclosed whereto for 
 — expedition I must referr you. 
 
 To the latter part of which lam instructed by the King to answer him 
 that he has allready sent some horse thither to obviate the very evill for 
 which this letter calls for them. And for the former part wherein he 
 proposes that some small saileing friggat may be sent out to ply between 
 Dover and France for the carrying the earliest notice to Portsmouth of 
 the approach of the Dutch if they should indeed tend that way, I am 
 comanded (my Lord) to recomend that particular to your Lordshipp, the 
 reason of it seeming to his Majesty very cogent that soe if a friggat may 
 be thought too much to be spared on this errand some small saileing 
 vessell at least may bee appointed to doe the work. 
 
 This night the King has been pleased to determine upon haveing some 
 more 3 d and 4 th rate shipps to have their rigging brought over head at 
 Chatham and Portsmouth and in this river, to be in a greater readiness 
 as a reserve, that may be ready to bee carryed out by the companies of 
 any of these shipps that shall be abroad with you, whose chance it may 
 be to be lamed in case of action. 
 
 How it has come to pass I know not or whether indeed it be soe or 
 not 1 am as little certaine, but soe it is, that the King has understood 
 from Captain Constable that the Albans has four ports on the quarter 
 deck which the establishment has provided noe guns for. Upon which 
 the officers of the ordnance having upon a land occasion been called to 
 attend the King this evening at the cabinett he has directed their being 
 supplyed, and they expect an order in writeing from him for it. But 
 it is a little uneasy with me to beleive that there can have been any such 
 mistake in the establishment. But that (if the fact bee indeed soe) it 
 was done upon some consideration or other that may not now occur. 
 And therefore I thought it fitt for me to make this mention of it to you 
 as thinking it possible that you may recollect, or at least suggest what 
 may have been the true occasion of it. 
 
 I wish with all my heart the fireshipps you are takeing with you to sea 
 of them that your Lordshipp proposed only for the guard of the river 
 and Portsmouth (and therefore were stinted to between 4 score and a 
 hundred tons or there abouts) were on this occasion a little bigger as 
 fearing they will prove too small to be of much service to you. 
 
 Pray, my Lord, let me know the success of your next muster in refference 
 to the watermen, who at this hour remaine very peremptory in under- 
 takeing for your having their full number somewhere or other in the fleet. 
 Nor are the fishermen less possitive in the fleet's having at least three 
 hundred already of their 5 hundred, and not knowing how to disprove 
 them, I am forced to sitt downe by it, till I have some further light 
 given me from the fleet. 
 
 The victuallers seem to be extreamly solicitous in the dispatching of 
 their victualls towards you and not to make any doubt of performing their 
 undertakeing, of which I gave you an account in my last. 
 
 As to slopps and signall colours the Navy officers tell me they have 
 given your lordshipp an account thereof imediately from themselves, such 
 as I hope wilbee to your satisfaction, saveing only as to bedds, which 1 
 doe not in all my time remember any such provision made by the navy 
 if the thing was at all ever done. But souldiers having the same 
 provision made for them as to their lodging which the best seamen have, 
 were (as farr as I have ever heard) well contented with it. 
 
 My Lord, Mr. Pearce the Chyrurgeon Generall having told the King 
 that the necessarys for sick men will be all ready to morrow, I have 
 provided a yacht for the receiving them and sending them downe to 
 
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 your lordshipp ; Mr. Pearce himself e being very willing to attend you Eariof 
 
 along with them if the King shall have noe comands to prevent it. DAB 3sisy TI 
 
 Lastly (my Lord) having great hopes that you will now in very few — ' 
 daies have your fleet about you in some tolerable measure ready to attend 
 you, I pray God with all my heart to give you the fruite of the paines 
 which I am sure you are takeing for it." 
 
 The paper above referred to is an extract from a letter from Sir 
 Richard Beach to Mr. Pepys dated the 6th October 1688 and is as 
 follows : — 
 
 " It is to be feared the Dutch may make their discent here, it being a 
 place where all their shipps and vessells may ride in security all the winter 
 between the Island and the Maine. And I doe think it adviseable that 
 some small saileing frigatt, might ply between Dover and the coast of 
 France, or Dungeness and the French coast, that if in case it should be 
 the Dutche's designe to look this way upon their discovery of them, he 
 might make all the heast possible hither to give us timely notice of 
 their approaching, that we might have some time to putt ourselves into 
 a posture of defence. For if they designe to land here, they may land 
 what number of men they please at Eastny-point with their small vessells 
 and botes, which will come into the channell between the hawse and 
 the Island and at the same time land more in Stokes Bay under comand 
 of their own shipp-gunns, and if they should land at Eastny point, they 
 possess themselves of the dock in an houre or an houre and half's time, 
 and be in safety from the shott of the toune, the long storehouse being 
 between the toune and the dock, and I know no way to prevent it, but 
 with good bodyes of horse and dragoons. I hope your honour will pardon 
 my presumption for the old saying is, a foole's bolt is soone shott." 
 
 An abstract of the above letter. 
 
 1688, Oct. 10th, A paper containing "The present number of the 
 Fleet of the Channel-Guard, with the names of their Commanders and 
 numbers of men." 
 
 1688, Oct. 11th, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I have this morning received, by the hand of Captain Hoskins your 
 Lordshipp's of the 8th, with its postscript of the 9th inst., besides which 
 I have none of yours before me. 
 
 My Lord, the assurances Sir Richard Haddock and the rest of those 
 gentlemen of the victualling of makeing good the last paper I sent you, 
 and explanation thereof contained in my letter that accompanied it have 
 been asserted and repeated by them to the King with soe mucli earnest- 
 ness, and the same inculcated back upon them also, with noe less fer- 
 vour on his Majesty's side, that however that affaire might appear to 
 your Lordshipp at the writeing of this letter, the King does not enter- 
 taine any doubt of its being made effectually good to him and you, 
 though I just now come from reading to him very deliberately every 
 article of your said letter, expressing in severall particulars your 
 observations and apprehensions of the contrary. Nor will I faile, 
 notwithstanding all that is soe promised, to putt them nevertheless in 
 mind of it, by comunicateing to them this very day soe much of the 
 contents of this letter of your Lordshipp's as respects that affaire. 
 
 My Lord, Sir Anthony Deane continues ill, and soe ill as to be driven 
 to keep his bed all day yesterday, and very much worse 1 can assure 
 you he is, from his finding himself soe at this time, when he might 
 be in particular serviceable to you. And 1 am confident he will not 
 loose a minute after he is able to doe it, (which I have hopes will not 
 be long) in his hastning down to you j and indeed considering what 
 
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 Eael of } has laine upon his hand, and his alone for a great while, it is (sic) been 
 LR MSS UTH 8 m y wonder he has held up soe long. But I have by the King's command 
 — dispatched the Bill this noone to the Privy-Seale for the Commission 
 revokeing the present, and recalling the old officers, in addition to the 
 present Commissioners, that is those of them that are continued at the 
 Board. Soe that I doe hope you will very suddenly have with you, with 
 soe much reason, desire ; I mean the assistance of some of that body. 
 
 I am exceeding joyfull at the provition your Lordshipp has made 
 by store shipps and carridge-makers from the Office of the Ordnance to 
 answer entirely the wants of the fleet in relation thereto ; the mentions 
 I have made thereof to you, being purely intended for your service, 
 thinking it a better way of expressing my regard thereto, by handing 
 to you complaints that might be false, then by suggesting, or preventing 
 your knowledge of them, least they should be true. 
 
 I thank you for your information touching the Landguard-Fort men, 
 it being greatly to the King's content. 
 
 The King is alsoe greatly sensible of your circumspection in the 
 disposall of the Leiutenancy of the Portsmouth. 
 
 I observe your advice about gunners that shall in future be appointed 
 to fireships, in relation to their being examined, as to their capacity for 
 it, and will see it executed ; the long disuse of that engine, haveing I 
 doubt, worne out the memory of the methods of using it. 
 
 The last night's post brought you from me an account of what you 
 might expect touching the ships from Portsmouth, the last of which (I 
 mean the Dreadnought) I have great reason to hope may be with you, 
 or at least in ye Dounes, towards you, as soon as this. 
 
 The King does entirely approve of your proposition of turning the 
 Headzenburgh into an hospitall shipp, and [I] shall have orders prepared 
 for his signing this very day for the putting it in execution. 
 
 Since it does soe fall it, that you find a necessity of sending in the 
 Tyger (of whose defect, which proves so unlucky, and unreasonable, I doe 
 not remember any word to have been heretofore mentioned, though it 
 seems the effects of it, has in divers instances appeared) his Majesty 
 does fully concurr with you, in the expediency on all sides (with respect 
 noe less to Captain Tyrwhit himself, then to his own service, and your 
 and Captain Tennant's satisfaction), of their two changeing ships, and 
 therefore if it likes them, as well as it does the King, your Lordshipp 
 has nothing before you, to hinder the imediate execution of it. 
 
 I doe assure you the King is very intent upon the Captaines resorting 
 all to their charges, and extreamly laudable it was in Captain Shovell 
 in makeing soe tender a use of your Lordshipp's favour to him, for to 
 you only he owes it, and to noe desire that I remember of mine, more 
 than a cautious handing to you of his. 
 
 Care will be taken (I doubt not) by the Trinity-house that the fleet 
 have timely notice of what they shall doe in altering or removeing of 
 the buoys and lights. 
 
 What may have been done before the date of the last solemn establish- 
 ment in 1677, about the supernumerary allowance to flags I know not, 
 or what has been done since, either abroad without order, or by order 
 from home, in the time of my absence from the navy ; and I doe firmly 
 beleive it will never appear that 50 men were ever allowed to any flag 
 but the standard, since the date of that establishment, by any order that 
 passed my hand. 
 
 The King is greatly pleased, that the Quaker K ch [Ketch] is likely to 
 be soe soon made serviceable to you, and very fortunate it proves to her 
 Captaine, by giveing him an opportunity of attoneing for his errors 
 
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 abroad, (said to be great both in number and weight) by meriteing on Earl of 
 this occasion some favourable character from your Lordshipp here. DaR mssY TI 
 
 All I have to add is the continuance of my most fervent wishes of all — 
 good events to your Lordshipp, and observing to you, that Mr. Pearse 
 being the bearer hereof, I industriously forbear the troubling you here 
 with any thing on the subject he comes about, and I hope to your satis- 
 faction." 
 
 In a postscript Mr. Pepys adds, 
 
 " I have just now received an answer to a message I lately sent to the 
 company of fishermen, which I thought might not be amiss to comunicate 
 to your Lordshipp by the copie thereof inclosed,* and moreover I have to 
 acquaint you, with my haveing this morning delivered to the Eulers of 
 Watermen's Hall a press-warrant for 200 men more, with very strict cau- 
 tion given them at the same time against sending any of them away as they 
 did before by tickets to particular ships, but to see that they be all putt 
 aboard one vessell that shall be appointed to take them in, and bring 
 them to you, or after you in a lump. I say after you, because I am in 
 good hopes, you may be in a condition of going out to sea, before they 
 may be with you ; in regard that they seem to make great difficulty of 
 being able to find soe many, without sending into the west country for 
 them, and soe doe not pretend to have them in readiness to putt aboard 
 before Tuesday next at the soonest." 
 
 1688, Oct. 11th, Tower. — Sir Edward Hales to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Writes by Mr. Hawkes to wish his Lordship prosperity and success 
 in the great work he has on hand. Sir John Friend parted from him 
 just now, and will be ready when there is occasion. Fears they will want 
 gunners unless Lord Dartmouth's guns make theirs useless. 
 
 [P.S.] Captain Minors is dead or dying. Pray remember to recommend 
 George Aylmer to the King for Upnor Castle. 
 
 1688, Oct. 11th, London. — Sir Anthony Deane to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Recommends the bearer, the son of Sir John Dawes, who has passed 
 the necessary examination, and desires the honour of being Captain 
 ShovelPs lieutenant, which place he hears is now void, or any other 
 place that may be fit. 
 
 1688, Oct. 1 2th, Tower. — Sir Henry Shere to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 His Lordship will conclude that his condition is very unable when he 
 is under the necessity of writing by another hand than his own. God 
 knows it is an affliction by manifold degrees superior to his disease to 
 be disabled in this important occasion from rendering the duty and service 
 required from him. He made another attempt to attend the Board [of 
 Ordnance] yesterday, but had to retire after some stay, so very ill that 
 the doctor ordered him to be bled anew and to take another dose of the 
 Jesuit's powder. Details the steps taken to get the train of artillery, 
 &c. in order, and assures his Lordship that everything is ready to march 
 upon the King's first summons. The Board sits morning and after- 
 noon. Sir Edward (Sherburne) very temperate and very diligent, so 
 that it is hoped he will acquit himself of his promise to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. 
 
 1688, Oct. 13th, On board the Pendennis. — Sir William Booth to Lord 
 Dartmouth. Is just come on board. Prays his Lordship to consider his 
 bad condition, wanting 240 men of his complement, and earnestly begs 
 for help. 
 
 * Not now with the letter. 
 
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 1688, Oct. 14th, The Cambridge at Blackstakes. — Captain John Tyrwhitt. 
 Could not carry out his Lordship's orders to sail forthwith to the buoy 
 of the Nore, the pilot having told him that the wind was so far easterly 
 that he durst not meddle with the ship, but will watch all opportunities 
 to gain a slatch (?) to get out. Has got with much ado half the Tiger's 
 men, and would have brought more yesterday, but they would not part 
 with them till they had got clear of their stores and guns. 
 
 1688, Oct. 14th, Whitehall. — King James II. to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I had last night yours of the 12th by your brother, by which I was 
 glad to find you would be so sone ready to go to sea. I supose the 
 Portsmouth ships will by this be with you, so that except bad weather 
 should oblige you (I meane to ride quiat if the W. winds should continue 
 blowing), there would be no need of your going to the Downs. As for 
 your going over for to shew your self to their ships on the coast off 
 Holland, I thinke you aught to consider well of it before you do it, 
 considering the season of the yeare, and the blowing weather which is to 
 be expected, and may be you might do them a curtisy to oblige them 
 to go into Gore or other their ports, they being exposed I thinke very 
 much as they be now in the sea, and till they have a settled E. wind I 
 should thinke they would hardly ventur out with their land forces. By 
 the last letters from Holland which were of the T 6 g ; tis sayd that Herbert 
 who commands their fleett in cheef, is to look you out and observe 
 your motions, whilst the Prince of Orange having Trump with him with 
 eight men of war is to go with his army to land where he designs doing 
 it ; tho' this is not certain 'tis likly enough. I had ordred before I had 
 yours, six thirds and all the remaining fourth to be fitted, without 
 entring of men. I had the victualers with me this euening, and one of 
 them goes downe along with this bearer, Captain Rooth, to lett you know 
 what they have done. If the winds have been on the coast of Holland 
 as here this day or two, their men of warr which were at the Texel may 
 have gott out, as also the foot which were embarked in the Zuder Sea and 
 joynd their ships before Gore, and the great impacience the Prince of 
 Orang has to come out will make him not lose one moment's tyme to 
 put to sea, and may be with more hast then good speed. The Scots and 
 Irish troups are marching as fast as they can to joyne me. Dorrington 
 with one battalion of the Irish gards was to be as this night at Warwick. 
 Lord Forbus with his regiment was landed some days since and some of 
 the dragoons also. I make no doubt but that good will protect me and 
 prosper my arms both by land and sea. I need say no more to you, 
 being sure you will do what is best for my servis, which you that are on 
 the place are the only judges of, and must governe yourselvs according 
 to the enemys motions and as winde and weather will permitt. 
 
 J. R." 
 
 [Endorsed] October 14 th 1688. 
 Received the 16 th , answered the 17 th . 
 
 [1688,] Oct. 14th, Barbara Lady Dartmouth to Lord Dartmouth. — 
 " I am very glad to heare my dearest deare hart that you are so well and 
 chearfull ; it is all I have in this world to sattisfie my most dejected 
 spiritts, in this mallancoly state I am in, expecting the Duch every 
 moment to take us away, but all that I could freely submitt to, ware you 
 not to beare the brunt of them first. Indeed when I think of that, it is 
 insuportable to me, God Almighty in his infinit mercey deliver me out 
 of it by bringing us togather againe. I have sent Willy to pay his duty 
 to you and if I had anythinge dearer I would send it to you, as I doe 
 my hart and prayers and best wishis for your safety." 
 
 Earl or 
 Dartmouth's 
 MSS. 
 
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 1688, Oct. 14th, at 3 in the morning. On board the Elizabeth in the Earl o? 
 Hope.— Sir John Berry to Lord Dartmouth. DaR MS°S? TI 
 
 Can make no more haste if his life were at stake, for yesterday they — ' 
 were all day in mounting eleven guns on the lower tier ; the carriages 
 are all in an ill condition, not one that will fit, besides many of them 
 doted and rotten and will fall to pieces upon any action. Mr. Musgrave 
 called and had some account of it. Is of opinion that a better set of 
 carriages should be ordered, but that shall not hinder from joining his 
 lordship as soon as he has received the guns and shot. 
 
 1688, Oct. 14th, Dublin. — Herbert Aubrey to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Desires his Lordship's help in putting a younger son into service at sea, 
 as a volunteer under some captain who will take care of him. He 
 should be ashamed that the kingdom should be invaded and no part of 
 his family have a share in the hazard and glory of its defence. 
 
 1688, Oct. 14th, Sunday night. Admiralty Office. — Samuel Pepys to 
 same. 
 
 "Your Lordshipp's of the 11 th haveing referrd mee to a fuller account 
 speedily to follow it, I have both that and another of the 12 now before 
 mee, with a 3 d of the 13 th the two last comeing both to mee this morn- 
 ing, within a very few houres one of another. To all which bee pleased 
 to receive for answer the perticulars following. 
 
 And that which I choose to begin with is, that alone or at least the cheife 
 of what remaines to bee done for the putting an end to the care you 
 principally lye under in reference to the dispatching forth of the fleete, 
 namely the business of its victualling, concerning which soe many papers 
 have been given already and more are like to bee for ought I see, both 
 on one side and tother, without the satisfaction that should arise from them, 
 till some expedient bee found to render them more effectuall. In order 
 to which his Majestie was pleased upon my motion to have the Com- 
 missioners for the victualling before him this evening at the Cabinett, 
 where I read to his Majestie (they present) the memoriall of Mr. Steven- 
 son's which your Lordshipp now sent mee. with your oune notes upon 
 it. To which the said Commissioners by way of reply presented his 
 Majestie with some papers that carried with them such an account of 
 the provisions said to bee now actually shipped off, for supply of your 
 fleete, as could have no other present exception made to it, then that 
 their former papers were in noe degree less cleare, and yet in noe wise 
 (as your Lordshipp observes) made good by the state of provisions, as 
 finde them in fact below. For the removall of which, observing a sugges- 
 tion made by them, that their vessels might possibly not bee - come 
 downe, but may lye lingering on the way, tho' never soe timely despatched 
 by them ; I did for the cleareing all doubts, removeing all excuses, and 
 putting both the King and your Lorshipp at once under a certainety 
 in this matter, humbly move the King that Sir Richard Haddock or 
 some one other of the Commissioners for the victualling might im- 
 mediately depart from hence towards your Lordshipp takeing care in 
 this way to scoure the river of all their victualling vessels that shall bee 
 found any way truanting aloft, while they should bee below, and thereby 
 enable himself e at his arrivall with you, to present you not only with 
 his accounts in paper, but with the only visible evidence of the truth 
 of them, namely, the victuall itselfe spoaken of in those accounts. 
 And this, my Lord, being most readily agreed to, as well by the 
 King as them, M r Fenn was appointed by his Majestie to bee the 
 person that should doe it, the business of their office preyenting Sir 
 John Parsons his comeing, and the opening of the new Commission 
 restoreing the old principal! officers at the Navy Board to morrow morn- 
 
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 Dartmouth's ittg> preventing Sir Richard Haddock. On which considerations (I say) 
 MSS - his Majesty was ledd to direct this to bee done by M r Fenn. Not but 
 that as soon as ever these gentlemen by the opening of their Commis- 
 sion shall bee entered upon their business, I doe not doubt but Sir 
 Richard Haddock or some other of the present Board wil bee spared 
 for it. Sir Anthony Deane continueing soe ill, that I doe not heare hee 
 has been able to goe out of his chamber yet, my business not haveing 
 permitted me to visitt him this 5 daies. Hee is very much bound 
 to your Lordshipp for your kinde wishes on his behalfe, and I'll see 
 hee shall know it ; nor is it a matter of small greife to him I am sure, 
 that he cannot come and see you. 
 
 As for the water boates, I did last night demand and received a 
 written answer from Sir Richard Haddock and Sir John Parsons telling 
 mee that they had hyred six vessels which will carry about 250 tons of 
 water, and has already put caskes on board four of them, hopeing that 
 two of them might bee dispatched full of water as this night, and two 
 more a Monday night, and the remaining two to saile from hence on 
 Tuesday night. 
 
 The King does not wonder to heare the poore smack men complaine 
 of their voyage, considering what the weather has been, but is therefore 
 glad of your findeing some other expedient for supplying their worke in 
 inteligence. 
 
 Nor is your Lordshipp's motion at this time unwelcome to him, for the 
 retrenching all unnecessary charge in entertayning of hyred vessells 
 beyond what the use now requires for which they were 1 st designed. In 
 order to which, if you would think e fitt to consider and give your advice 
 how many and which of them would bee convenient to bee kept to waite 
 on the fleete as tenders, I would presently apply myselfe to the King 
 for his ordering the residue to bee called in and discharged. 
 
 His Majestie upon a very deliberate per u sail of your two papers one 
 of the divisions of your fleete, and the other touching your line of battail, 
 does extreamly approve of the same, comanding mee to tell you soe ; 
 and that as to what you comunicated to him touching your present 
 intentions of proceeding, hee will give you answer thereto himselfe, as 
 haveing wrott it this afternoon to goe by Sir William Villers, and (as 
 farr as I dare judge of it) you will readily concurr with him in the 
 reasons of it. 
 
 If the winde has favoured, I doubt not but the Plymouth is now with 
 you, and I hope the JPearle too, notwithstanding her mischance in 
 strikeing upon the Spell. The Dreadnought also cannot certainly bee 
 farr from you, as I hope to morrow's list from the Downes will show. 
 
 I am very glad the Quaker Ketch is likely to bee of service to you, 
 nor is it the 1 st time by a great many that I have observed a good officer 
 while under command, made but an indifferent commander. 
 
 It may be convenient, that the yacht that brings this with M r Grimes, 
 Sir William Villers & c ., might come up againe as soon as could bee, in 
 order to the bringing doune the new sett of watermen, that will begin to 
 bee imbarqued on Tuesday of the 2 d two hundred, the residue to bee 
 shipped on Thursday. 
 
 I will call upon the Navy Board for the hastening away of the slopps 
 and signall-flaggs, together with the contingent money by the next 
 conveyance, I haveing adjousted the business of the Deputy Treasurer, (at 
 which alone it has stopped for some time) with my Lord Falkland, that 
 is to say, by his being willing to give his deputation to your Secretary 
 M r Bowles, in case M r Bowles accepts of it, as I presume (from your 
 Lordshipp's late letter) hee will ; soe as your Lordshipp will bee wholly 
 freed from any accomptableness in that matter. 
 
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 The truth is, it is great pittv poore Captain Terwhitt should want his Earl of 
 satisfaction his owne way, since it is soe honourable a one, and therefore DAE jfss UTI1 3 
 noe less honorable in you to aide him therein as you propose. — 
 
 Your Lordshipp notes very well, that the laying up of the 2 or 3 
 shipps you mention will unhouse some officers that should not at this 
 time (could it be avoided) bee left on shoare. But (in Grace of God) 
 they will not bee suffered to lye long there. 
 
 I am extreamly glad to finde you at soe much ease as you seem to bee 
 (since Doctor Pearse's comeing doune to you) in the business of medica- 
 ments, and necessary s for sick men. 
 
 His Majestie approves of your sending Captain Shovell to the Gun- 
 fleet, and the cautions you have given him. 
 
 I should bee much more concern'd for the Diamond's misfortune in her 
 anchor, were it not to bee hoped, that the same weather has wrought the 
 same effects in a greater proportion elsewhere. 
 
 His Majestie does at your desire dispence with the Boatswain and 
 Carpenter of the Kingfisher 's executeing their duties on shoare by deputy, 
 to bee approved on by the Commissioners of the yard, for soe long time 
 as they shall bee serveing your Lordshipp at sea. The like hee has done 
 with the Boatswain and Carpenter of the Soveraigne, upon your desire 
 on that behalfe also signyfied to mee by Sir Phineas Pett. 
 
 Hee is well satisfyed also with the account you give of the proceed- 
 ings of the Trinity-House in relation to the buoys. 
 
 The seniority of some Commanders not appeareing soe readily as I 
 could wish, by reason of their haveing their 1 st Comissions given them 
 at sea, it will be a work of a daie's time to supply what is wanting therein. 
 But against the very next I doubt not of being able to send it you. 
 
 You have certainely done exceeding well in garbling as you have done 
 the boatswains' demands of boatswains' stores, as being a point of the last 
 importance to the King, to have that, well done. 
 
 Some other matter I intended to have added but am suddainely called 
 away to the King, and soe must leave them to the next, which I doubt 
 not will follow this to morrow." 
 
 An abstract of the above letter. 
 
 A list of the ships in the divisions commanded by Sir Roger Strickland, 
 Vice- Admiral, Lord Dartmouth, Admiral, and Sir John Berry, Rear- 
 Admiral, respectively, accompanies the preceding. 
 
 1688, Oct, 15th, On board the Pendennis in the Hope. — Sir William 
 Booth to Lord Dartmouth. Was prevented from weighing anchor as he 
 intended by the running away of the pilot sent him by his Lordship ; 
 but shall not fail to morrow to come down to the Nore if another pilot 
 can be got. Never slaved himself so much in all his life, but yet wants 
 several things which he has ordered to follow him. Two of his Lord- 
 ship's fusileers ran away last with the long boat, and several seamen 
 with them, which still heaps more and more sorrow upon him ; has sent 
 out warrants for their apprehension, with assurance of a good reward. 
 Longs to be with his Lordship. 
 
 1688, Oct. 15th, Sir Theo. Oglethorpe to Lord Dartmouth. — Recom- 
 mends the bearer, Mr. Corriton, whom he met on the road to Dover, and 
 who appeared likely to be useful at this conjuncture to his Majesty as a 
 bombardier, he having served at the bombardment of Algiers and at 
 " Jenaway." 
 
 1688, Oct. 15th, On board the Tiger at Chatham. — Captain Matthew 
 Tennant to Lord Dartmouth. Has got his ship ready to fall down to 
 Tillingham to take in guns and powder, but is in great want of men. 
 Begs the help of a tender to get his men together. 
 
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 eael op 1688, Oct. 15th, New York. — Colonel Thomas Dongan to Lord Dart- 
 ^ R >issy TH S mouth. Has clone the King good service in annexing the six nations of 
 — Indians to the Crown that have before been a terror to all our parts in 
 America, and has brought Canada to that pass, notwithstanding the forces 
 which have been sent over, that they will be careful how they disturb the 
 King's subjects here, unless highly pressed to it. One who came from 
 the Governor of Canada to treat with the writer told him that it had 
 cost their master 50,000/. He had incurred charges to the amount of 
 6,400/. only, which he was bound by word and honour to see paid ; 
 being removed from the government without any provision being made 
 for the payment, he was kept in the nature of a prisoner there. During 
 all the trouble had not lost a Christian or had a house burnt ; but in 
 Boston many were killed and taken prisoners, and the trouble not yet 
 suppressed. 
 
 1688, Oct. 15th, Captain Edward Poulson to Lord Dartmouth. — His 
 fireship the Speedwell is very badly manned, thirteen out of the twenty 
 forming his crew being mere striplings and unfit for service. Gives 
 name and description of each person, and desires an exchange. 
 
 A memorandum at foot of the letter in Lord Dartmouth's handwriting 
 directs Sir Roger Strickland to examine this matter. 
 
 1688, Oct. 16th, Twickenham. — Lord Newport to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Begs that his waterman Jeremy Holmes may be excused from service 
 this time. Holmes, whose old father has been in many sea engagements, 
 is his constant carrier to and from London, wears his coat, and without 
 him he cannot well live there. 
 
 1688, Oct. 16 th, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 (i My last was of the 14 th , which this comes to supply in one or two 
 particulars which I was cutt short in by my being suddenly called for to 
 the King before I could quite finish it 3 the first of which, and of what 
 other particulars I have here to mention that have arisen since the de- 
 parture of Collonel Legg with that letter from me yesterday, is, the 
 giveing you here inclosed a list of all the Comanders now serving the 
 King at sea, whether in your fleet, or anywhere else, according to the 
 seniority, in the truest order I can presently collect the same from the 
 books remaining in this office. But at the same time I am from my own 
 experience, upon searches heretofore made on like occasion, to observe 
 to you, that though this may guide you very much, yet it is liable to as 
 many defects as there may be gentlemen in the fleet, whose first com- 
 missions have happned to be granted them by Admiralls or Comanders 
 in Chief at sea. Forasmuch as not thinking the registring of their said 
 commissions could turne to any other use to them, then to the enableing 
 them to receive their pay from the officers of the Navy, they have over- 
 looked the bringing of them to be entred at the office of the High 
 Admirall's Secretary, and thereby bereaft themselves of that meanes of 
 proveing their seniority, when, (as now) the same becomes necessary for 
 them to have. But, my Lord, I doe suppose that none of them have 
 been soe forgetfull of themselves as not to carry along with them their 
 said Commissions, or authentick copies of them, for enableing them at 
 any time to claime their posts ; and therefore doe believe that upon 
 calling for the commission of every man that shall except against the 
 place given him in this list, your Lordshipp will be very well enabled 
 to rectifye the same. If not, 1 know noe other way of doing it. Another 
 difficulty indeed there is, but a difficulty that will (I think) not amount 
 to much, in this matter. However, I will mention it to you, namely, 
 that in this list seniority is given by the date of their commissions where 
 
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 I could come at it, but where that could not be, there I have been forced d^^eouth's 
 
 to doe it by the shipp's booke, giveing only the time of their being mss. 
 
 entered thereon, after their commissions were given them. By which 
 
 meanes a man with a commission of a later date, may be found standing 
 
 there before another of elder date, but of later entry. However, my 
 
 Lord, this value may be justly putt upon it, and soe farr be of use to 
 
 you, that this ought to be thought good, in every particular where by 
 
 better evidence it is not proved bad. And as such, and such only, I 
 
 leave it to your Lordshipp. 
 
 However you seem by your last letters to think that Captain Constable's 
 demand of more guns had been allowed, I did forbear the offering to his 
 Majesty any warrant for the doing it, till I had had a returne from you, as 
 veryly forseeing you would returne me the very same answer you doe ; 
 soe that it neither is, nor is likely to be done without some better reason 
 shewn for it, then yet appeares ; the Navy Board (both late and present) 
 being of the same mind too. 
 
 The King is not I doe assure your Lordshipp without the same thoughts 
 and cares concerning Portsmouth, which he alwayes had, and such as 
 suit with yours,and Sir Richard Beach's. Nor has he wholly forborne 
 the posting some of his forces accordingly. But other places appearing 
 to him more likely for assault then that, and considering it as impossible 
 for him to afford soe much of his force to that place, as would be entirely 
 sufficient to oppose such a strength as is now comeing against us, and 
 at the same time retaine enough to answer his occasions elsewhere that 
 he cannot leave unprovided for, he has been ledd by that necessity to doe 
 as he does, in leaving Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight in the posture 
 they are. 
 
 His Majesty is pleased to give away for the allowing of some seamen 
 to the vessell which the Governor of Sheerness already has, but seems 
 wholly unsatisfied with the other part of his demand as to two smacks, 
 and a six-oar'd boat, as believing that that garrison has as much pro- 
 vision made afloat for it, as the real service of it can require, in which 
 I can assure you I am entirely passive, as not being informed enough 
 either one way or t'other to interpose any advice of mine, either for or 
 against it. 
 
 My last brought you an account of the state of the water-boates, 
 though I hope you will receive a more particular one from M r Fenn, 
 who went away toward you yesterday. 
 
 My Lord, I observe what you say concerning the wants, or at least 
 demands for supplyes of stores, from your shipps of the fleet. But it* can 
 be thought noe new thing to any one that has known the fitting forth of 
 Fleets, soe long as your Lordshipp and my self have done. For I 
 hardly ever remember a shipp that could not find something or other 
 to ask within tenn days after they went out. Nor doe I ever expect 
 to see it otherwise, till Comanders will think fitt to observe their 
 instructions more then they seem to doe, in what respects the fitting of 
 their shipps forth; the consulting of their officers indents, and well 
 examineing of their expences, being the only possible meanes of know- 
 ing what they should want. But in the absence of that your Lord- 
 shipp has done all that the matter can possibly bear in remedy to it, 
 that is to say, in cutting of all superfluities in their demands, and 
 reducing the same as near as may be to nothing but what you con- 
 ceive necessary. In which his Majesty is most sensible of the good 
 service your Lordshipp in an especiall manner does him. 
 
 The Navy Board will themselves (if they have not already) satisfye 
 your Lordshipp about the slopps and signall flaggs by this very con- 
 
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 Earl op veyance, I mean the Navy Yacht, which will bring you the first haule 
 iR MSsy TH S °f tne second 200 watermen, the remainder being to follow them on 
 — Thursday in the Kitchin. 
 
 You will also with this receive from my Lord Faulkland the sume, 
 (namely 1,500/.) appointed for answering your contingencies; my Lord 
 sending down a servant of his along with it, in order to it's being putt 
 into the hands of M r Bowles as his deputy. 
 
 M r Legg your kinsman was lately with me, acquainting me, as from 
 your Lordshipp, that if it might be with my concurrence, you would 
 propose him to discharge the office of Muster-Master of your fleet ; 
 to which without occasioning him any stay, I imediately gave him for 
 answer, that he should be very welcome to me, soe farr as it becomes 
 me to take to my self the interposeing any assent of mine herein, as 
 beleiving that he could not in duty to you. as well as wisdome to 
 himself, faile in the exercise of his utmost dilligence in the discharge 
 of his dutie therein. Soe that upon the first word I shall receive from 
 your Lordshipp in favour of him for this imployment, I will propose it 
 to his Majestie, and not doubt of haveing a warrant to dispatch very 
 soon to you ; for the putting him in execution of the work : the present 
 state of the fleet's manning, rendring it of use to the King that the same 
 should be now done, they that come up from the shipps saying, (and I 
 hope truly), that you are now at pretty good ease in that particular, 
 though I have heard of a very untoward accident lately befallen Sir 
 William Booth, in three score of his men's being run away with his 
 longboat, which I am extreamly sorry for, least the suddeness of your 
 being called to sea (as the wind now sitts) may prevent your haveing 
 him with you ; though I hope the turning over of Captain G-ifford's 
 company to him will give him a very good lift. 
 
 As to the great matter of the victualling ; I cannot offer anything 
 more then what I said in my last, and what will be better understood 
 fromM r Fenn, whom the King has sent down to that very purpose, upon 
 his and his fellow Commissioners declareing to the King at the cabinet 
 on Sunday last, once for all, that the whole was now gone off, that the 
 supplying of }'our whole Ifleet required, some beer only excepted that 
 they said should follow you. 
 
 The King had given the Kingfisher K ch [Ketch] to a Captain Swaine, 
 many yeares agoe a Lieutenant in the King's service, and many yeares 
 before that (as the King was pleased to tell me) his acquaintance at sea, 
 while in exile, wishing that he had a better command now to bestow on 
 him. This prevented my being able to doe what your Lordshipp de- 
 signed in favour of Captain Wild, whom I would with all my heart doe 
 any good oflice to ; and will endeavour it, as soon as ever I shall have 
 opportunity. And now my lord, not knowing whether your stay may 
 give me opportunity of writeing to you, before your leaving the river, 
 I doe most fervently begg of God Almighty to protect and guide you, 
 in your present undertakeing, soe as that you may returne with the 
 success and safety which all good men wish you, both on the King's 
 behalf e, and your own." 
 
 An abstract of the above letter. 
 
 Enclosed is "a list of all his Majestie's Commanders in sea pay, with 
 the date of their first commission as Captains or first entry on the pay 
 booke." The list is dated the 15th of October 1688. 
 
 1688, October 1 7th. Admiralty. — Same to same. 
 " Since mine of yesterday by the Navy Yacht dispatched hence towards 
 your Lordshipp with some waterman (about 60 as they tell me) and 
 
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 contingent mony for the fleet, and herewith leaving nothing of your Earl op 
 Lordshipp's before me unanswered, I have had the honor of yours of the DAR Ms°s rTI 
 15 th , advising of your being gone with the fleet from the Nore to the — 
 Oaze-edge, with a purpose of makeing the best of your way and wind 
 for repareing to the Gunfleet, and towards which Captain Wilford, by 
 one of the same date (but in time probably later then yours) tells me 
 expressly that you were then weighed with the fleet. 
 
 Relying upon which this is directed to you by the way of Harwich, as 
 beliving that to be the much readier conveyance for it to you, the purpose 
 of it being to advertise you, that I am just now come from attending the 
 King, and receiving from him this information brought him by a person 
 of good understanding and full credit with him, who was at Helver-sluce 
 on Sunday last. The purport of which is this ; that the Dutch fleet 
 according to the intelligence you had from your scout boat, confirmed to 
 me last night by advice from Harwich, bought by a person that came 
 over in a packet boat, and I beleive the same that you mention of Sir 
 Roger Strickland's sending, went into Goree the same Sunday, and arrived 
 at Helversluce that evening, very much disordered with the late fowle 
 weather, and particularly M r Herbert's Shipp (the Utrecht, if the King 
 remembers her name right) soe belaboured with the sea, that she had 7 
 foot water in hold, and with some difficulty preserved from foundering. 
 That he saw M r Herbert and Ben ting together upon the key at Helver- 
 sluce on Sunday right ; that M r Herbert was then busie in getting another 
 shipp the Maiden of Dort bought to the side of the Utrecht for the 
 transferring into her the guns, stores, provisions and everything else out 
 of the Utrecht. That the informant does beleive by all that he coold hear 
 or judge, that the shipps thus come in could not be putt into a condition 
 of comeing forth againe till tomorrow or Friday at soonest. That Herbert 
 carried the flagg at the maine topp, namely the Holland's flagg. That 
 they work night and day, Sunday and all, Munday last only excepted, as 
 being a day of solemn fasting and prayer all over the provinces for good 
 success to their undertakeing. Lastly, that (to say nothing of their other 
 known preparations) they doe certainly bring with them an incredible 
 number of coates and other clothing for the men they expect to raise 
 here, and small armes without stint, even to the makeing it a difficulty 
 to buy a hand gun, pistoll or sword in all the country, and are forced 
 to impress even English shipping for want of imbarcations enough to be 
 had of other nations ; and after all this, a vast quantity of lime, to what 
 uses your Lordshipp is much a better judge then my self. 
 
 This, my Lord, I thought fitt for me to give you the earliest advice of I 
 possibly could, that you may want nothing (whether of more or less 
 moment) that might conduce to the enlightnmg you in any degree in the 
 posture of the enemy you have to expect. And this haveing said, as to the 
 maine occasion of this express, I cannot omit to mention a particular or 
 two in answer to your forementioned letter. 
 
 And first, that though I had noe comands at all from the King to men- 
 tion any such thing to you, as declareing himself resolved to putt noe 
 restraints upon you, by any advice of his in a matter where he judges 
 himself soe safe, in his comitteing it entirely to your prudence, yet I 
 cannot (as to my own particular) but think it fitt for me to observe to 
 you, that upon my reading to him that paragraph of your letter that speaks 
 of your purpose of proceeding directly from the Oaze-edge to the Gunfleet, 
 he imediately said to me, I wish that may be soe well as his remaineing 
 where he is at the Oaze-edge, for fear he should be surprized while there 
 by the sudden coming of the Dutch fleet, as being a place he cannot well 
 gett out to sea from, while the wind remaines easterly. But I know my 
 
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 Daetmouth's -^ord Dartmouth will consider all that. My lord, I dare not undertake 
 mss. that I have exactly repeated the King's words, but being as near as I can 
 remember, and sufficient (I suppose) to lead you to judge of the King's 
 thoughtful ness and thoughts herein, I didbeleive it could be of noe injury, 
 if it proved of noe use to you to know them. 
 
 I am very glad the Portsmouth ships are all with yon, and should be 
 much more soe could I have said the same of the rest of the ships that 
 are behind, towards the dispatch whereof noe manner of sollicitude, night 
 or day, shall be wanting in my part, though I must at the same time tell 
 you that, unless there be another's guess spirit putt into some of their 
 Comanders (I mean as to dilligence and concernment for the service, and 
 not makeing of it as a by -business, annexed only as a convenience to their 
 imployments elsewhere), I shall bid good-night to the expectations of any 
 good to the service from them, let you or myself make as much on't as 
 wee please. This I have not failed to observe to the King himself, nor 
 shall faile to repeat it, and repeat it (as I have done) where I have 
 seconds much greater then myself to promote it. But for ought I see 
 gentlemen are got above being jealous of any censure, or else they would 
 not appear to the King every day at Court, complaineing that their shipps 
 are not ready, while nothing is wanting towards making them ready but 
 their own attendance on board, for but for that, I doe not know why your 
 Lordshipp might not have had, or now expect every one of the shipps you 
 have left behind you to be ready to joyne with you in three days, the 
 victuallers being as well provided on their partes, as they declare them- 
 selves to be. 
 
 The officers of the Navy tell me that your Lordshipp haveing yours 
 and Sir Roger Strickland had his before, the naggs for signalls wanting 
 for the Rear-Adniirall are shipt away to him. 
 
 I am very glad of the satisfaction you have and further expect from the 
 Quaker K ch [Ketch] and her Commander he being certainly a most proper 
 man for the use you have found for him (it is the King's own note upon 
 it) though he has made a very extra-ordinary Admirall in his last station. 
 
 Whatever remaines of provisions or ought also to be sent after you. 
 I shall make it my daily work to forward the going of it after you. 
 
 I have said nothing to you (as I remember) since your departure hence, 
 touching a Judge-Advocate, partly from M r Crone's haveing long since 
 to me taken upon him the care and charge of accomodateing that matter 
 with your secretary M r Bowles, to M r Bowles's satisfaction, if it may be 
 with your Lordshipp's, and partly from your being wholly silent to me in 
 that matter, inferring from thence that M r Croone had done accordingly. 
 
 I cannot think of anything more (needfull for me to mention), but that I 
 take it for granted from my not hearing nor seeing of Captain Cotton for 
 divers dayes he is busie upon some services that your Lordshipp has re- 
 quired from him, and which is what I have in especiall manner recomended 
 to him, rather then in spending any of his time unnecessarily in his 
 comeings to me, while he has any orders depending from you. Only 1 
 thought it fitt for me to say this that you may know the true reason of 
 my haveing for some time said nothing to you of him. 
 
 One thing only more I have to close with (besides my repeated good 
 wishes on your behalfe) which is that the new commission of the Navy 
 (as I mentioned in mine of the 14 th ) was opened at that office upon 
 Monday last, and the members thereof that day entredupon the execution 
 of it, which being done I moved his Majesty yesterday for his imediate 
 sending down the present comptroller or surveyor thereof (namely, Sir 
 Richard Haddock or Sir John Tippetts) to you, for the rendring you 
 what service you might stand in need of from them, and had his Majesty's 
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 removed from the Nore to the Oaze-Edge, and from thence weighed for 
 the Grunfleet, which putt a stopp to the present executeing that propo- 
 sition of their being sent to you. It being respited only till you come 
 next in the way of its being usefull to you. 
 
 Nor will Sir Anthony Deane (notwithstanding his and M r Hewer's not 
 being of the present Board) be at all less forward or jealous then he ever 
 was of serving you, whenever his health shall give him leave, which 
 (thankes be to God) is very much bettered from what it was." 
 
 An abstract of the above letter. 
 
 1688, Oct. 17th, Defiance. — Sir John Berry to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 u I have received your Lordshipp's order and the signalls which I am 
 writeing over, and will give them to my division to-night. You shall 
 have the draught of water of each shipp sent to you as fast as I can get 
 it done. There is not any round shott come to the Elizabeth (nor sheet 
 lead), she wants seventy-nine tons of beere and some bread. I have no 
 flaggs to answer signalls, nor pendants ; they have sent me only two blew 
 flaggs, what they meane by that I know not. Wee want one new 
 demy cannon carriage and severall axeltrees, all the spare ones being 
 spent upon those that were broake." 
 
 " Postscript. — Since my writeing the above I have received an account of 
 the draught of water, which I herewith send you, as also what provisions 
 and stores they have on board in each shipp of my division and what 
 smacks attend them, and what number of men on board, and how many 
 allowed." 
 
 Enclosed is " an accompt of the condition of the shipps undermentioned 
 (being in my division) as to their provision stores and draughts of water 
 given by their respective captains." Also "an accompt of what small 
 vessells attend upon the Reare-AdmiralPs division." 
 
 1688, Oct. 17th, Post Office, London.— Philip Frowde to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. This day the King in council ordered all the Charters of 
 England to be restored as they were in the late King's time ; made 
 Lord Derby Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire and Lancashire, so Lord 
 Powis and Lord Mullinax are out. 
 
 1688, Oct. 18th, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " Haveing wrote to you pretty largely yesterday by an express to 
 Harwich, to be sent from thence to you by a vessell to the Gunnneet, 
 and therein answered your last of the 15 th , and gave you the trouble of 
 such other particulars as were then before mee to say anything to your 
 Lordshipp upon, this trouble will be very short ; though I would not suffer 
 the Kitchin yacht, which brings you the remaineing part of the second two 
 hundred watermen, to come away without a word or two for mee : The 
 chief e business of which is to convey to you a *letter of the 16 th from 
 M r Sandxord at Harwich, to M r Frowd here, containeing some further 
 particulars relateing to the Dutch fleet, which I thought fitt to convey to 
 your knowledge, as also to bring you *two letters from M r Withers, Clerk 
 of the Fishermen's Company, giveing me an account of the fishermen 
 sent dovvne to the fleet, by which he would have it be thought that five 
 hundred fifty two men have been supplied the fleet by the Company, 
 besides tho^e who have entred themselves as voluntiers : the truth 
 whereof your Lordshipp wilbe best able to find out (in this case, as well 
 as in the watermen's) when the musters which you have ordered to be 
 made of each shipp' s company shall be returned you, with an account 
 
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 Earl of thereon of the fishermen and watermen sent to and found on board 
 MSS. each shipp by the said respective Companys. 
 
 — In which whatever objections your Lordshipp shall make (and I am 
 
 afraide you'l have reason to make too many) to these papers, or the 
 accounts from the Watermen's Hall, I shall take care to acquaint them 
 with, and see what they have to say for themselves." 
 
 1688, Oct. 19th, Inner Temple, London. — Sir "Richard Heath to 
 Lord Dartmouth. Hears that the Lord Chancellor is to propose to 
 the King four judges to be turned out, but no names are mentioned. 
 Requests his Lordship to write a line or two to the Lord Chancellor or 
 to whom he shall think fit that he (Heath) may be none of them. 
 
 1688, Oct. 20th, Admiralty. — Samuel Fepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " By the Catherine yacht, which arrived at Greenwich very early 
 yesterday morning, I have received the honour of your Lordshipp's of the 
 17 th , tho' it was not sent me hither (through mistake I suppose, orforget- 
 fulness) till to day morning ; but I had the satisfaction last night to see 
 yours to the King, and with great pleasure to observe your Lordshipp's 
 content in the present generall state of your fleet, wherewith his Majesty 
 himself also was pleased to express his no less ease and satisfaction. 
 By the same conveyance, I meane Captain Clements, (who has the King's 
 instructions to continue with you in the fleet, and follow your orders) I 
 come now to acquaint your Lordshipp that I have troubled you with two 
 letters since that of the 16 th , which you acknowledge the receipt of. 
 One dated the 17 th , which was sent by express to Harwich to be from 
 thence sent to you by a vessell to the G-unnfleet, and the other of the 
 day following by the Kitchin yacht, both which are I hope ere this in 
 your hands. 
 
 I am very glad to observe your Lordshipp's satisfaction in the business 
 of the victualling and water-boats for the fleet, by Mr. Fenn's arrivall with 
 the vessells from hence, with whose assistance I doubt not the same will 
 be presently disposed of to the severall shipps in want thereof. 
 
 I have here inclosed you a copie of a letter which I just now received 
 from the Navy Board, in answer to one I wrote them yesterday by Captain 
 Wilshaw, upon his showing mee your Lordshipp's comands to him to 
 repaire to you to the fleet, where I believe you may expect him, if not 
 by this, by the very next occasion, and I doubt not but you will receive 
 satisfaction from him in the business of the stores for the fleet yet behind, 
 nor that your Lordshipp will please to have such reguard to the advice of 
 the Board for his being sent back to his station (where he has so much 
 work upon his hands) as you shall think best for the King's service. 
 
 His Majesty was pleased to show mee your propositions touching your 
 proceeding with the fleet, and to say, that he would himself give you 
 what he thought fitt to observe thereupon, and in the meane time 
 greatly to approve of your purposes to retrench his charge by the take- 
 ing of some of the present tenders, and to command mee to signifie 
 the same to the officers of the Navy, for their takeing care to see them 
 paid off. 
 
 I am sorry to understand that the Navy yacht brought you no more 
 than 55 watermen after the assurances they gave mee of a much greater 
 number haveing been sent by her, hopeing the Kitchin is come to you, 
 who the rulers tell mee bring you above one hundred more, and I shall 
 take care to call upon them to make good yet this second sett of two 
 hundred. 
 
 I have taken care with the officers of the Navy about slopps for your 
 fleetj by the putting them upon serening all the towne, and takeing 
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 sloppseller, and I hope you will very speedily have a good account of that Earl of 
 matter, as well as of the colours for your signalls which I am informed Dartmouth's 
 are on their way to you. — " 
 
 I am very glad your Lordshipp receives any satisfaction in the list I 
 sent you of the Commanders, and desire you to doe me the favour to 
 lett me receive the amendments you shall make therein, (by seeing the 
 Commissions) in order to my rectifying the same in my books. 
 
 I thank your Lordshipp for the informations which your officer 
 received from the masters of the two vessells the same agreeing very 
 much with what his Majesty had received before from Harwich, and 
 which I sent your Lordshipp a particular account of in mine of 
 the 17 th . 
 
 I am very glad to find the Pendennis and Elizabeth come to the fleet, 
 and hope if the present winds continue, they may be followed in a few 
 days by some of the shipps (at least) out of the river, whose dispatch 
 I doe daily solicite from all places, and I hope the 100 watermen which 
 the King has ordered to be imediately putt on board the Sioallow and 
 Woolwich, will render them in condition to saile as soone as ever they 
 gett them on board. 
 
 My Lord, I must pray your Lordshipp, as Master of the Ordnance to 
 forgive me the dischargeing myself of what I cannot but hold my selfe 
 accomptable for to the King in you as Admirall of his fleet, by observing 
 to you, that however matters may be represented to you from the Office, 
 there is not one shipp now behind you, from whose Comander I doe 
 not daily hear of want of gunns, carriages, shot, or something else relate- 
 ing thereto, notwithstanding (as the captains averr) their gunners' dayly 
 attendances for them. And yet I am doubtfull whether, after what I 
 have heretofore noted hereon, and your answers thereto, 1 should have 
 troubled you with any more mention of it, but that upon my attendance 
 this morning at the Cabinet, severall of the Lords there, did of their 
 own accords (without any particular introduction to it) enquire of mee 
 before the King, whether the shipps that should now be with you, had 
 all their gunns and carriages abroad or noe, recomending it to mee to 
 inform myself thoroughly in it, for that their Comanders had declared 
 to them their wants thereof at this day. 
 
 My Lord, the wind now is become such as I presume will carry you 
 to the Gunfleete. Soe that till I hear further, my next letters will come 
 to you by the way of Harwich, where (by the way) the King has, in 
 consideration of the condition he takes his forces (both with you and at 
 land) to bee at this day, thought fitt to stopp the male and to lay an 
 imbargo, to prevent any intimation being given thereof to the Dutch. 
 
 I shall not loose one moment that I can (by any care of mine) save, 
 in the sending after you the 6 shipps that are behinde ; hopeing that 
 you would not want them long, would captaines bee prevayl'd with to 
 make the King's worke theyr owne, which few of them will doe." 
 
 1688, Oct. 20th, Whitehall. King James II. to Lord Dartmouth.—" I 
 was very glad to find by yours which I receued by your brother William 
 that the fleett was in so good hart and so well mand. I see God Almighty 
 continus his protection to me, by bringing the wind Westerly againe, 
 which will giue you an oportunity to gett out, and hinder the enemy from 
 coming ouer, and giue you an oportunity of wayting on them when they 
 shall come out. I grow stronger euery day at land, by the Scots and Irish 
 coming neare the towne, and the forwardnesse of seuerall the new raised 
 regiments of horse and foott, so that in a very few days I shall be much 
 stronger then I now am. I shall dispatch those ships which are in the 
 
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 Eael of riuer as fast after you as I can. I haue not tyme to say more to you 
 DvR MSS JTH ' S uow > be assured I shall always be kind to you and yours. 
 
 J. 
 
 [Addressed.] For the Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 [Endorsed.] October 20 th 1688. Eeceived 21 th , answered 22 th . 
 
 1688, Oct. 23rd, William Penn to Lord Dartmouth. 
 " Noble Friend, 
 
 The bearer has given me a fine occasion to salute thee, which I 
 do with all the friendship and affection imaginable, desiring God to 
 direct and preserve thee with honour and success, if it must come to 
 blood, which I heartily pray it may not be. This person was Colonel 
 Streeter's son ; he serv'd and was wounded at Tanger, a sober and brave 
 young man. I need say no more to thee. Lett William Penn lieutenant 
 of the Bristoll have thy favour, he is an honest true fellow as lives ; he 
 can obey, and is dilligent. 
 
 Yesterday was a great presence at Whithall, the King, Queen 
 Dowager, the Council, the judges, Lord Mayor, and aldermen, the 
 Bishops and Lords about the town, of which the Archbishop of Canter- 
 bury and Bishops of London, Winchester, and Oxford, the Marquess of 
 Hallifax and Lord Nottingham were some, appeared in the council 
 chamber, where the birth of the Prince was clear'd by the ladies of the 
 bedchamber, the women, midwife, nurses, phisitians, and lords present at 
 his birth, to the great content of the company. The Marquess of Hallifax 
 kist the King's hand, this fills all places at present, and so this letter (sic). 
 Last night came an express from Rotterdam, with some difficulty, confirms 
 their comeing, and speaks of additionall forces to the former. One 
 -Greenwood is apprehended for dealing with the King's officers of his 
 army to revolt ; also Wicksteed for such practices, and words against the 
 Lord President, for having a corrispondence with the Prince of Orange ; 
 he is fled with his messenger. Excuse paper and character. Thy 
 brother is just come, and I am leaveing the town, but everywhere am, 
 
 Thy affectionate true friend, 
 
 William Penn." 
 
 1688, Oct. 26th, Whitehall. — King James II. to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I had this day yours of the 24th from the Gunfleett, by which I was 
 very glad to find you were gott thether, and in so good a condition. You 
 will find by Mr. Pepys letter to you the intellegence I haue had of the 
 Prince of Orange hauing sailed out with all his fieett and land souldiers 
 on Friday last ; what damage they receued by the storme of Saturday 
 night last I do not yett know. The expresse who brought the letters 
 tells me he saw some of them on Sunday morning at an ankor of of (sic) 
 Scheuling, and that he heard as he past by Ostend they were on 
 Monday seen still on the coast of Holland. You can best judg by the 
 winds which haue been since, what they can do, and by that, how to 
 gouerne yourself, in such a blowing season as this is, with regard to 
 all things, if what is sayd of their coming out with so smal a quantity 
 of victuals and water be true 'tis next to a madnesse. 'Tis likly before 
 this getts to you, by your scouts or some other way you may haue had 
 some fressher news of them : 'tis so late I can say no more. 
 
 J. R." 
 
 [Addressed.] For the Lord Dartmouth. 
 [Endorsed.] October 26 th 1688. 
 Received the 28 th . Answered 29 th . 
 
 1688, Oct. 26th, Ship Rupert. — Sir William Jennens to Lord Dart- 
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 to wait the Dutch coming to him, but to take the opportunity of a fair Eabl or 
 wind and this light moon and go over to them ; but if his hands are tied Dae ™s°s? TT 
 a securer place than the Gunfleet should be found for the fleet. — ' 
 
 1688, Oct. 26th, Abstract of the numbers of all his Majesty's forces 
 in England. The English forces are estimated at 34,320, the Scots 
 at 2,981, the Irish at 2,816. 
 
 1688, Oct. 26th, A list of the Commanders of the several divisions 
 according to their seniority as they stand in Mr. Pepys's list. Upwards 
 of 50 ships are given with their commanders, arranged under 
 Sir Roger Strickland, Vice- Admiral, Lord Dartmouth, Admiral, and 
 Sir John Berry, Rear- Admiral. 
 
 1688, Oct. 26th, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I have two of your Lordshipp's before me, viz*., of the 19 th and 22 nd , 
 which the incertainty wee have for some time been wholly under, whether 
 to direct our letters to you, (because of your dayly endeavours to be 
 getting to the Gunfleet), has delayed your receiving answers to till now, 
 that wee have good grounds to beleive your being got thither, from 
 advice newly come from Sir John Lanier, of hishaveing discovered you, 
 and your fleet's being under saile hitherward on Wednesday last, from 
 some part of the coast of Essex about St. Osyth's, where he was then 
 viewing the country. 
 
 And in the first place, let me note to you that my last was of the 20 th , 
 by the Katharine yacht, which is now cleaning and fitting her self for her 
 attending you, and will I presume be going toward you to morrow. 
 
 Very glad I am to find the Tyger and Swallow to be come to you, 
 with the St Paul fireshipp. To which by this time I doubt not are added 
 the Charles and Henry and Unity fireshipps from Portsmouth, they 
 being both passed the Downes. 
 
 I doe assure your Lordshipp I doe with the same zeal continue to press 
 the dispatch of the rest that are behind that I would doe for my victualls 
 if I were hungry ; and did it last night to the King at the Cabinet, by 
 observing to him in these very words, that these delays are noe more 
 then must be expected, while gentlemen are allowed to hold ships at sea, 
 in eommendam with troops and companies ashore, at a time when there 
 is an equal necessity for their attendance upon both ; whereto the King 
 was pleased to answer me, by owning the same in reference to the 
 York, as haveing forbid Collonel Delavall to depart hence till he gave 
 him order ; whereas had he been with his shipp all this while, I see 
 noe reason at all why she might not be now with you, plenty of men 
 having for some time been to be had in the west country ; but for 
 Collonel Hastings, he was pleased to tell me he had not for a long time 
 seen him, but depended upon his haveing been for a great while past 
 with his shipp ; but by the King's command for my requireing them 
 peremptorily to resort without delay to their charges, they will be gone 
 both of them to day or to morrow. 
 
 Nor have I been less urgent with relation to the Newcastle, whose 
 Comander did more then once tell me while ashore that he had some 
 matters relateing to his land-charge, to look after there, nevertheless he 
 has now for some days been (and for ought I have heard) continued on 
 board. And this day sent me from the Hope his excuse for his not 
 being gone further towards you, in a letter, whereof I inclose you a copie. 
 Which I think I should not have troubled you with (haveing said soe 
 much, and received soe much from you on that subject) were it not for 
 the satisfying you, that I doe not omit to keep a checque upon the per- 
 
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 Dartmouth's formances of the gunners, and that (as fair as wee may relye upon the 
 mss. Comanders) the complaint soe often made of want of dispatch from 
 the Tower is not chargeable upon any want of dilligence or attendance 
 on their parts. 
 
 I have wrote to the officers of the navy about the colours for signalls 
 yet unsupplyed, and doubt not but you will receive very speedy satis- 
 faction therein. 
 
 I shall expect the effect of the muster your Lordshipp tells me you 
 have ordered to be taken of the watermen and fishermen, and shall take 
 care soe soon as I receive the same, to have the Governors of both those 
 companies called to an account for the execution of the King's warrants 
 to them, with respect as well to quality as number. 
 
 Very glad I am that my report to you about Sir William Booth's mis- 
 chance in the running away of soe many men in his longboate, exceeds 
 the truth of his loss. But the number I mentioned was the number 
 told me by the King himself, upon informations he had received from 
 Comanders of severall of his shipps that came up from the Hope, 
 where Sir William Booth lay. 
 
 I omit not to call frequently upon the officers of the navy for greatning 
 your supply of slopps and bedding, pressing them not to tye themselves to 
 what one slopseller can provide, but to make use of as many more as they 
 can, his Majesty giveing his ready assent, at this sudden juncture, to the 
 late resolution of the councill of warr, for the present dispenceing with the 
 5 th Article of the slopp establishment ; though the same was originally 
 provided upon considerations of very great weight for the benefit both 
 of the King's service, and the seamen themselves, and necessary therefore 
 to be revived as soon as the present exigence is past. 
 
 His Majesty does the like in reference to the other vote of the same 
 councill about adding five men to the present complements of the 
 fireships. 
 
 Upon my continueing to press the Navy Board to send one of their 
 number down to your Lordshipp, I have lately received the inclosed 
 answer thereto. 
 
 The like I doe in reference to another letter I have lately had from 
 them, upon the subject of an irregularity comitted by Captain Tennant, 
 at his bringing away the Tyger againe from Chatham, taking along with 
 him some of the riggers of the yard, and doing it in such a manner as 
 has occasioned some inconveniencies to the service, of much greater 
 moment then the value of soe many men. The truth is, Captain Tennant's 
 zeal in getting his shipp into condition to joyne your Lordshipp againe, 
 was soe laudable, and indeed exemplary for others, (if they would please 
 to take notice of it) and at a juncture wherein his soe doing was of soe 
 much importance to the King, that it would almost have excused the 
 carrying away a preist from the altar, and upon my soe representing it to 
 the King, when I comunicated to him this letter of the Board's, and Sir 
 Phineas Pett's, he was pleased to concurr with me in it ; but at the same 
 time to command my transmitting both the said letters to your Lordshipp 
 for the satisfying you (as he-is sure it will) in the necessity of haveing 
 those yardmen returned to the yard, by the very first opportunity that you 
 can find for it ; it being his express pleasure that it should be done, and his 
 command that I should report it soe to you, grounded upon the conse- 
 quences this action has already drawn, to the prejudice of his service, 
 and must in all likelyhood, both continue and greaten upon it, if these 
 men should not be timelily restored. 
 
 I am to desire your Lordshipp to let me have the names of the Lieu- 
 tenants you have appointed to the Portsmouth in the roome of M r 
 Killegrew and the Dover in that of M r Hayes. 
 
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 It is time I doe acknowledge to your Lordshipp that a Muster-Master Earl of 
 were appointed to the fleet, and that it's not being done lyes at my door, ^mssT™ * 
 your Lordshipp haveing been pleased to decline the bestowing of that — 
 office upon M r Legg, and recommending the choice of it to me. The truth 
 is, my Lord, as there is hardly any one Ministerial! officer appertaining to 
 a fleet, the well performance of whose work may be emproved to better 
 use either to the Admirall or Prince then that of the Muster-Master, soe I 
 must declare to you that in all my (near) thirty yeares service I never 
 saw it, (or not above twice) soe executed, as that either one or the 
 other had the fruit required from it, but has alwayes been made, either 
 a by-work, given for the profit sake to somebody that had other business 
 to doe, and could not, or to some other that for want either of experience, 
 dilligence or interest, either could not, would not, or durst not adventure 
 upon the executeing it with the strictness necessary to render it effectuall. 
 In consideration of which it is that I have been soe slow, and am not yet 
 fully prepared to propose anybody for this imployment. .Not that if 
 ability and authority alone were sufficient I should need to make any 
 hesitation in it, after M r Bowles (by his letter of the 17 th ins*) had 
 offered himself to it. But knowing, by my own experience, what the work 
 . of an Admirall's Secretary is, with a fleet at sea, and confirmed in it by 
 M r Bowles' own proposition of haveing of it conferred on him, with an 
 express condition of being at liberty to performe it by a deputy, I could 
 not with any faithfulness to the King concurr with him in his desire, but 
 am driven (much against my will) to signifye to him my dissent thereto by 
 this conveyance, hoping that neither he nor your Lordshipp will take it in 
 any ill part from me. 
 
 As for my acquiescing in the recomendation which M r Legg gave me 
 ground of expecting on his behalfe for it from your Lordshipp ; though I 
 shall alwayes own more then an indifference for any that come to me 
 soe recomended, yet I wanted not this consideration to incline me to 
 goe further in his case then I could have in most others, namely, that 
 as his dependance upon your Lordshipp's future as well as present favour, 
 would necessarily oblige him to the being found faithfull and diligent in 
 the execution of the first charge you had conferred on him, soe the credit 
 of his relation to your Lordshipp would in an especiall manner support him 
 in the execution of an imployment which in itself is gratef ull to noe body, 
 and least of all to them, in whose power it most lyes to render his work, 
 (and consequently his life,) easy or uneasie to him. And to be plaine, 
 where a Muster-Master has not that support, his service in his imployment, 
 can never availe much ; and where it does not availe one way, it must 
 of course availe the other, in confirmeing the fraudes which he is not at 
 liberty to prevent. 
 
 Which haveing said, and therein opened my whole thoughts to your 
 Lordshipp on this subject, let me pray your Lordshipp to consider once 
 more whether you may not furnish yourself out of the fleet with some 
 body that may be unengaged in other work, and qualified in the other re- 
 spects to doe this work as it ought to be done. For I doe declare to you 
 that 1 doe not know any ashore that I can with satisfaction recomend to you 
 for it. True it is, there is M r Brown at Chatham, now purser of the Prince, 
 bred under old M r Gregory Clerk of the Checque there, a most ingenious 
 active, and experienced man in this affaire. But whether he will accept of 
 it or noe, if offered him, I know not, ncr am I willing to propose it to him, 
 till I know whether your Lordshipp may not please yourself where you 
 are : which I should much rather desire. But if you cannot, and that you 
 would incline to have mee propose it to M r Brown, I will, upon heare- 
 ing from you, imediately doe it, and give you his answer. This is not 
 that I have not had very many applications made to me, and by people 
 
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 that think themselves extreamly fitt for it too, for my recomendations 
 of them, to the King and to your Lordshipp for this imployment ; but I 
 have seen soe much of the evill that has generally attended the slight per- 
 formance heretofore of it, that I had rather the King should pay nothing 
 for it's not being done at all, then pay a great deal for it's being ill done. 
 
 That which remaines, my Lord, is the letting your Lordshipp know 
 that I find I have given noe small offence to some of the gentlemen in 
 the fleet, and particularly Sir William Booth and Captain Skelton in 
 my late list of senioritys, as thinking themselves not only to have great 
 wrong done them, but as done with an intention of doing them wrong. 
 As to the latter suspicion, I take the whole course of my conduct in the 
 place I have the honor of serving the King in, to be proof enough, with- 
 out any other protestations, to justify my unblameableness as to the 
 point of doing any man wrong knowingly. But as to the former I must 
 appeal to my letter which accompanied it to your Lordshipp, whether I 
 did not there expressly provide against your takeing it as a thing 
 given you for infallible, by telling you, that it neither was nor could 
 be, for the reasons (one or more) therein given you ; adding, that as 
 you were to expect errors in it, soe those errors could turne to noe 
 body's prejudice, since there needed noe more then the produceing of the 
 commissions for the doing themselves right against any such mistakes ; 
 and as a further proofe of the simplicity of my intention herein, did 
 since (in a later letter) begg you to lett me have the benefit of knowing 
 the corrections you should make in it, that I might rectifye the same 
 in my bookes. This, my Lord, I thought pardonable in me to give you 
 the trouble of, that as either of those gentlemen or others shall think fitt 
 to discover any dissatisfactions of this kind to you, you may be pleased 
 to doe me the right you shall think needfull in it." 
 
 Enclosed in the above letter are a copy of a letter from the Navy Board 
 dated the 22nd October 1688, signed by Richard Haddock, J. Tippetts, 
 and James Sotherne, forwarding the letter of Sir Phineas Pett, dated the 
 19th of October ; a copy of a letter from the same board dated the 24th of 
 October ; and a copy of a letter from Captain Churchill of the Newcastle^ 
 also dated the 24th of October, complaining of his want of gunners' stores 
 and suitable carriages for his guns. The contents of these are sufficiently 
 referred to in the above letter of M r Pepys. 
 
 1688, Oct. 26th, " A list of the Commanders of the severall divisions 
 according to their seniority, as they stand in M r Pepys's list/' being a 
 copy of the second list of the date of October 15th above-mentioned, 
 with a few unimportant additions. 
 
 1688, Oct. 26th, London. — 0. Wynne to Lord Dartmouth. After re- 
 counting various reports about the Dutch and their intentions refers 
 to the vain brags and assurances they had at the Hague, that Herbert 
 should have undertaken to find ways to prevail with most of his Lord- 
 ship's fleet to revolt to the Prince of Orange, that scout-ships should 
 be sent among the fleet to disperse the declaration, and that the Prince 
 was not to embark till Herbert had given an account of his success in 
 this enterprise. 
 
 1688, Oct. 27th, Papers in Dutch and English giving an account of 
 the Dutch fleet and forces. 
 
 1688, Oct. 27th, Sir William Jennens to Lord Dartmouth. — Cannot 
 forbear giving his advice, although not sought for and he may be not 
 believed capable of giving any. He divides his suggestions under seven 
 heads, and in conclusion remarks that he hopes to hear that said of his 
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 1688, October 27th, Satturday morning about 2 of the clock. Admi- eabl of 
 ralty. — (Duplicate, enclosed in the following letter of the same day, at Dabmuhtth's 
 11 morning.) -— ' 
 
 " The letters whereto the preceding extracts relate came late this night 
 by a messenger express from the Marques De Albeville by the way of 
 Newport, from whence he sett out on Wednesday last. And though the 
 Marquess appears in that of his to the King to have taken care for 
 your haveing a duplicate of the same account forward directly to you 
 wherever the fleet was by the postmaster at Dover as soone as ever his 
 messenger landed there ; yet his Majesty out of his abundant care would 
 not w T holly depend upon that certainty of its comeing to you, but has 
 comanded mee to provide the foregoing extracts of the said letters to be 
 forwarded to you, one copie thereof by express to Harwich, and another 
 by the Katherine yacht the next tide by sea. 
 
 And that your Lordshipp may want no degree of information that could 
 be further had touching the condition of the Dutch fleet after the 
 storme which these letters conclude with telling you of that fleet's haveing 
 mett with on the Satturday night, the King has comanded me to com- 
 municate to you what he has by conference been able to gaine therein 
 from the messenger that brought the packett, viz* : 
 
 That part of the Dutch fleet (but how great a part he cannot say) 
 was seen after the storme off of Scheviling the next morning, viz*, on 
 Sunday morning about 10 of the clock, multitudes of people resorting 
 to the sea side to view it, they being then at anchor, and so he left them 
 there on Sunday when he came away. 
 
 That all that afternoone and Monday and Tuesday there was very little 
 wind stirring. That upon Wednesday, when he was at Antwerp, the 
 wind freshened againe at N.W., and has soe for the most part continued 
 ever since. 
 
 That a vessell that came from the Hollands coast to Newport on 
 Tuesday last says that he left the Hollands fleet in the same place 24 
 houres before, being Monday. 
 
 Which being the case, namely, that such a part of their fleet was in 
 Skeviling Bay upon Monday last, that they went away but with fifteen 
 days' victualls for men and tenn for horse, and that we have not yett heard 
 one word of them from any part of the English coast, the King seems 
 from the best judgement he can make thereof, to think that they must 
 be still upon their owne coast as haveing no notice where their rendez- 
 vous was to be, nor where else it could be as the winds have satt since. 
 And in consequence of that he has sometime this evening seemed to 
 think that it might not be unusefull (should the wind favour it) that the 
 fleet went out to sea towards that coast to try whether any advantage 
 might be taken of them while they lye there. But I find in this as 
 well as in the last case I lately mentioned to you, he is jealous of any 
 councill that should be sent you from hence in regard that you at sea 
 keep better account of the courses of the wind, and more true, then we 
 either doe or can do here, so that he does rather chuse (after having 
 thus acquainted you with all that has come to his knowledge of the 
 present state and proceeding of the Dutch fleet) to leave it intirely to 
 your selfe, to judge and doe what in your prudence shall appear to you 
 most safe and most conduceing to his service. 
 
 Thus farr I was gone when being towards 3 in the morning the King 
 sent me the inclosed letter to your Lordshipp from himselfe with another 
 from the Marquis De Albeville to him which came to his hands since I 
 left him this night at midnight bearing date three days after the storme; 
 
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 Dartmouth's viz* the 2 d of October [mistaken, I believe, for November], in order to 
 MSS j my sending you an extract of that also. Which I doe as follows viz* : 
 
 Extract of a letter from the Marquis De Albeville at the Hague 
 bearing date the 2 d October [I conceive, I say, November], about 4 in 
 the afternoone. 
 
 I sent an express yesterday to your Majesty with the news of the 
 returne of the fleet in some disorder upon these coasts againe occasioned 
 by a crewell storme which happened on Satturday night. 
 
 They will not acknowledge the loss of any of their shipps. 400 horse 
 have been cast overboard, and some dead men. 
 
 The Prince will not stirr from the fleet, yet 'tis generally believed he 
 was here privately yesterday. 
 
 At this instant being about 4 a clock in the afternoone one that I 
 sent to Helversluce is returned and assures mee the Prince is resolved to 
 sett to sea againe this day or to morrow at the furthest, because the 
 wind is turned somewhat favourable. Another that 1 sent assures mee 
 he cannot goe these six or seven days. That he does not find that they 
 lost any of their shipps, but that the little vessells have been much 
 
 disordered. 
 
 The Prince's continueing there is a signe he intends to sea againe out 
 
 of hand. . 
 
 They all acknowledge to have lost many horses, and that there is 
 great murmuring among the seamen and soldiers. 
 
 That some pilotts in their drink speak much of Sole Bay as the place 
 they must land in. 
 
 Those on Herbert's shipp speak of Essex as being sure of that 
 country. 
 
 That fifteen days more or less, nor 2 or 3 months could prejudice 
 their designe. 
 
 This, my Lord, being the whole of what I have either by collection 
 from the letters or his Majesty discourse to comunicate to you by way of 
 information, I leave the same with you, with my most earnest prayers 
 to God Almighty for your happy application of the same. 
 
 My Lord, I have nothing to add as haveing long before the arrival! 
 of this wrote you largely of this day by the way of Harwich by this night's 
 post which this will probably overtake there. I received likewise one 
 this night from your Lordshipp since my last mentioned letter was sent 
 away, and indeed the time of night and the hast of this will not admitt 
 of rny answering of that now, but shall therefore be driven to respite 
 it till the next conveyance, which I hope will very soone be by the 
 Katherine yacht, as I have already said." 
 
 A duplicate of the preceding letter. 
 
 1688, Oct. 27th, Saturday, 11 morning, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys 
 to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " The inclosed is a duplicate of what I dispatched to you this morning 
 between 4 and 5 a clock, by the way of Harwich, and comes by the 
 Katherine yacht, with this only difference that that brought with it a 
 letter from under the King's own hand, which this has notfthe contents 
 of it being, (as he was just now pleased to tell me) only some of his 
 generall and usual caution to your Lordshipp with regard to the present 
 season. 
 
 Nothing has arisen since the aforegoing to administer any further 
 news or advice to you, more than that I just now find by the Kind's 
 discourse with me, and directions for the imediate supplying of the Duke 
 of Grafton with a shallop, that the uuke has his leave to°goe on board 
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 arise at sea, with a promise (if he escapes it alive) to get on shore as Eael of 
 soon as the Dutch can, and be in timely readiness to discharge his duty Dartmouth's 
 to the King there also. ^jj- 
 
 I should now give your Lordshipp answer to yours of the 24 th , which 
 came to me late yesterday by M r Fenn ; but Captain Clements is in soe 
 much hast for the saveing of his tide that I shall not have now time for 
 more than to tell your Lordshipp that the King is perfectly satisfied 
 with what you have done in relation to the cruisers, as also to Captain 
 Frowd's lying in the Slad way, and the Trinity House ketch. 
 
 I have nothing to add neither in relation to the ships that are behind, 
 but that I have pressed the King againe afresh this very morning to 
 press away their Comanders, some of whom are still hankering here, 
 (as I told you in mine yesterday), but the King says they are finally to 
 be gone to day. All that is possible shall be done to hasten away the 
 remainder of the slopps. 
 
 It is matter of very great content to the King, and not at all less to 
 me, to observe your Lordshipp to be soe well satisfied in relation to the 
 victuallers' affaire, who I assure you shall want noe callings upon from 
 me for the dispatching away the residue of the beer, and going on with 
 further preparations for future supplies of provisions suitable to your 
 expence thereof. 
 
 I shall by the very first dispatch away muster-books to your Lord- 
 shipp, as being very glad of your haveing satisfied yourself in the 
 choice of one out of the fleet, begging you to take in good [part the, 
 *] I gave you soe much of [yester]day on that subject. 
 
 His Majesty does approve of your Lordshipp's appointment of M r 
 Dawes upon Captain Shovell's recomendation to the Lieutenancy of his 
 shipp." 
 
 The inclosure referred to in the preceding letter contains the follow- 
 ing extracts with the preceding letter of M r Pepys, of 27th October, 
 about 2 of the clock, Saturday morning. 
 
 " Extract of the Marques De Albeville's letter to the King from the 
 Hague of the 30 th f October 1688 at 10 at night. 
 
 The Prince of Orange sett saile yesterday between 3 and 4 a clock in 
 the afternoone with the whole fleet fifty-two men of war, and about 
 five hundred other vessels great and small. 
 
 His army consists of 18 or 20,000 fighting men besides voluntiers and 
 servants ; he carrys armes for 12,000 horse and 40,000 foot. 
 
 The fleet lost many anchors and cables and rigging by the late 
 stormes. Herbert's shipp who is his owne Vice Admirall, has been 
 opened in the middle and rendered unserviceable for the present by the 
 stormes. Another shipp of 80 gunns was given him. 
 
 The most part of the fleet was seen this morning off of Sciviling 
 and at 9 of the clock in the morning the wiud turned contrary for 
 them and continues so now I write to your Majesty at 9 of the clock at 
 night. 
 
 The provisions have been much endamaged by the stormes and the 
 Prince was so impatient to be gone that he would not stay for some 
 regiments that had been sent for. 
 
 The fleet has now provisions but for 15 days; the horse have water 
 but for 10; 
 
 Shipps will be sent with more fresh water after the fleet. 
 
 * Piece torn out. 
 
 f Note, i.e., the 20th English date. 
 
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 Eael op The Prince went on board a frigat of 28 or 30 gunns at most, and 
 
 DAE S UTH S w * tl1 him Count de Nassow, &c. 
 — ' Tromp refused to goe. 
 
 I have writt by this express to my Lord Dartmouth giveing him this 
 account and desired the postmaster at Dover to send and express with it 
 to the fleet wherever it is. 
 
 A great storme beginns which will certainely disorder the fleet. 
 This evening they have been but 3 or 4 leagues off the coast. They 
 saile northwards. 
 
 This night's storme has certainely dispersed and indamaged the fleet 
 Extract of another letter from the Marques De Albeville bearing date 
 the 31 st to my Lord Sunderland. 
 
 The Dutch fleet (consisting of 52 men-of -warr and makeing up a fleet 
 of above 400 saile great and small) sailed yesterday [mistaken I believe, 
 for Friday] about 2 or 3 in the afternoone, from the Flatts near the Brill 
 with the wind at S.W. by south, and by that time they had been 2 or 3 
 houres at sea the wind came more westerly andhasblowne all this night 
 and morning hard at west, which may probably have done them some 
 damage. 
 
 They pretend to land in Scotland as they most vulgarly give out, but 
 Burlington Bay is the most probable place of landing in their reall 
 intentions. If the wind comes southerly againe they are for the north ; 
 if northerly or north easterly they will be for the west of England and 
 say they are equally provided for both. 
 
 They have above 20pilotts with them, all English, amongst whome is 
 a master pilott of Hull to whome they give a reward of 601. sterling for 
 his conduct of the fleet when they come upon the English coast. 
 
 There is one of their men-of-war stranded, and another disabled upon 
 this coast in their going out." 
 
 1688, Oct. 27th, London. — Philip Frowde to Captain Frederick 
 Frowde, Commander of the Ruby in the Grunfleet. Returning from 
 Cheshunt he went to Whitehall this night where he heard that a courier 
 landed yesterday, with two Flanders mails, who brought news from the 
 Marquis d' Albeville that the Prince of Orange was on board and put to 
 sea on Friday last was seven nights, but was again turned back by a 
 contrary wind as well as by distress of weather, having sustained a 
 very considerable damage in this fleet, with the loss of four hundred 
 horses, which they were forced to throw overboard ; yet notwithstanding 
 he intends for England the next fair wind. Lord Sunderland is dismissed 
 from all his employments, and Lord Preston is made Secretary of 
 State. 
 
 1688, Oct. 28th, Sheerness. — R. Crauford to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Asks his Lordship to grant protections to two poor oyster drudgers of 
 Queenborough, whom no one would press unless out ot design or pre- 
 judice. Robert Sturgion, of the same town, at work under Mr. 
 Richards on the two new lodgments, was pressed on Monday last soon 
 after he left in the evening ; begs he may be sent ashore again. 
 
 1688, Oct. 29th, Past 9 at night. Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to 
 Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I am just now come from attending his Majesiie at the Cabinet, 
 where a letter to his Majesty from Mons r DAlbeville of the same date, but 
 a later hour then the latter of those two, whose extracts were brought 
 you in my last of the 27 th ins* was read, giving him the last of the 
 Marquis's intelligence for that day, an extract of which I have inclosed 
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 telling me that he found noe occasion of saying anything himself to your Earl op 
 
 Lordshipp upon it as being well assured of your haveing all the con- Dabtmuuth's 
 
 siderations before you that can be, upon the subject of this, as well as the — 
 last preceding advices, of your circumspection in useing of the same. 
 
 With which his Majesty ending 1 tooke the liberty to say that, though 
 his Majesty had nothing, I had something to add that I was very sorry 
 for. Upon which (he King asking me what, I told him that after the 
 satisfaction which I had raised to myself from the advice which I hoped 
 to have given your Lordshipp by this post of the good effect of his 
 Majesty's late earnestness in his hastuing away to their duties all the 
 Comanders of the ships now behind, in the nearness I conceived every 
 one of them were in to a condition of repaireing speedily to the fleet, 
 especially the three that are to come from this river, I had found one 
 of them, namely, the Comander of the S l Albans passing his time within 
 this half hour in his Majesty's bedchamber. Upon which the King with 
 some surprize asked me what had brought him up from his shipp. I 
 answered I knew not, nor did he think fitt upon his seeing me there to 
 say anything of it to me, or soe much as take notice of his being where 
 I might not well have expected him. But I added that I tooke it, and 
 still shall take it (to make it at all supportable), that he had his Majesty's 
 leave for it ; though I observed to his Majesty that if leaves of that kind 
 be signified to Comanders by any other hand then mine, while I have 
 the honor of serving him in my post, it would be to noe purpose for me 
 to pretend longer to give him the account I ought, and he expected from 
 me of his fleet. To this his Majesty replied that he had noe leave of 
 his, nor had he seen him, nor knew that he was come up, nor could 
 imagine what has brought him up. I adventured upon this to say that 
 since it was soe that a Comander of such a shipp could at such a 
 juncture as this quitt his shipp in the condition she ought now to be 
 in without the command, or at least the leave of his Admirall or superiour 
 officer, I doe beleive it was more then was ever presumed to be done by 
 my Lord Sandwich, Penn, Lawson, Harman, or my Lord Dartmouth 
 himself, or even by his own self, without the leave of the King, his 
 brother, dureing the whole time of his being High Admirall of England. 
 Whereto the King returning that it was very true as to himself, and 
 beleived it to be noe less soe, as to all the rest I had then named, he was 
 pleased to add that the gentleman indeed was very stout, but that he 
 alwayes feared he would never mind this business as it ought to be, but 
 that my Lord Dartmouth was sollicitous with him that he might have a 
 commission. I answered that it ill agreed with his being now in the 
 bedchamber and my Lord Dartmouth at the Gunfleet expecting an 
 action, wherein such a shipp as that might be of more service and 
 importance to the Crown, then she might expect an opportunity of being 
 againe in 20 yeares to come. 
 
 My Lord, I doe not think my self at liberty to mention anything said 
 in that place on this occasion by any of my Lords. But I think I may 
 be bold to say heie what passed between the King and my self only, 
 especially to your Lordshipp, both as a member of the same Board, and 
 the person next the King the nearest concerned in the matter of it, and 
 that matter it self so publickly scandalous (severall applying themselves 
 to me in the bed-chamber at the same time, to kuow how such a 
 Comander came to be there) that I had fully determined with my self to 
 accost the King upon it in the bed-chamber itself at his comeing out 
 of his closett, had not his late stay there, with the generall officers, urged 
 hirn to pass the chamber in great hast down to the Cabinet. For (in 
 one word) I will have all the world to know that as considerable as it 
 
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 takes the profit of my imployment to be, and indeed by the King's favour 
 it is, it should not, were it ten times greater, purchase my staying in 
 it one day longer then I can see his service thrive as well as I. And 
 that I am sure it never can, from the moment that such a violation as 
 this in the discipline and honor of it, passes uncensured. 
 
 And soe I telling the King the discourse fell, with expressions on his 
 Majesty's side of very great dissatisfaction at the thing, and resolution 
 to take notice of it to the gentleman concerned accordingly. 
 
 My Lord, I have a great deal of reason to ask both yours and my 
 own pardon at such a time as this, for my troubling your Lordshipp and 
 my self, in a matter not soe imediately usef ull to you ; but I must acknow- 
 ledge the unnaturalness of finding a sea-comander soe farr to the 
 westward ashore, whose charge required his being soe much further off 
 upon a different element eastwards, and the King's service bleeding for 
 ought he knew without him, shocked me to a degree that I will not dis- 
 own, nor was his Majesty pleased to disallow, nor will I hope your 
 Lordshipp, whose prosperitv I heartily wish, and whose success I shall, 
 by all the ways I can, (and this among the rest) endeavour to contribute 
 towards." 
 
 The enclosed extract of the Marquis D'Albeville's letter to the King 
 is dated the 2nd November 1688 at midnight, and is as follows, 
 
 " A Eoman Catholick pilot come this night from the fleet, assures me, 
 that he was all day yesterday upon the vessell which carryes my Lord 
 Macclesfield and severall gentlemen of quality and Ferguson, and that 
 after that Macclesfield came from the Prince, he heard him whisper to 
 others, for he understands English very well, that they must steer their 
 course now towards the River Humber, if the wind will permitt it, that 
 river being deep and navigable, and that current very rapid, and a 
 sudden ebb, leaving the shipps adry, and will give a good opportunity 
 to land, besides it's now concluded sayd he, that the farther the Prince 
 landeth from your Majestie's army, he will have greater opportunity of 
 strengthening his own interest, increasing his own army and lessening 
 the King's in his march, for he findeth the King's army and interest 
 do increase at present, and will obtain time to refresh his army, to 
 disperse his manifesto to discuade the people to joine with your Majestie 
 and looketh upon that countrey as disaffected to your Majestie and will 
 come to his assistance, as he is assured of. 
 
 I have employed three of these kind of men, being pilots and fisher- 
 men, but Catholicks, to visit the fleet, which came into Helvote sluce 
 and Goree ; none of them have seen Herbert, and they heard some say 
 he was upon the coast of England, with the squadron of shipps which 
 had the van-guard, and which he commanded ; and that makes the 
 Prince to be in paine, and resolved to set sayle immediately, having 
 seized upon all the hey that could be lighted upon anywhere round 
 about. 
 
 The Prince gave orders this morning that none should absent them- 
 selves from their shipps : the reason he lost a week's time of fair 
 weather, and of a favourable wind, is because the shipps of the Texell 
 had not joyned the fleet, and that he did not find the fleet in that 
 readinesse he expected ; for which Bastiaens is to be disgrac'd if he 
 be not so already. 
 
 The Boores are commanded to bring 1,000 horse to the fleet, for so 
 many dyed and are found unserviceable ; if the wind serves, the Prince 
 will stay for nothing. 
 
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 23rd October 1688, Old Stile. Eael of 
 A ship full of souldiers is certainly lost, and to repaire that loss AK Mssy TJIS 
 Baron de Frise's regiment in garrison at Maestrick is sent for to be — 
 embarked; the report of d'Humieres's marching towards Liege will 
 hinder the parting with such regiments as have been at first before 
 setting sayle desired. 
 
 They would have all perished, if they had not come back, and the 
 Prince himself was in great danger, above 1,000 horse have certainly 
 perished, or are unserviceable." 
 
 1688, Oct. 30th,-— A list of the quarters of his Majesty's forces. 
 
 1688, Oct. 30th, (i.e. Oct. 20th, according to English reckoning). The 
 Hague. — Marquis d'Albeville to Lord Dartmouth. Yesterday between 
 three and four in the afternoon the Prince of Orange with his fleet 
 consisting of 52 men-of-war and about 400 other vessels which carry over 
 20,000 fighting men, besides volunteers and servants, has set sail from 
 
 the Brill and Helvetsluys The Prince embarked in a 
 
 small frigate of 20 or 30 guns, Count de Stynim (?), Monsieur Benting, 
 Count de Solmee, and Monsieur Overkerck do accompany hiin on board 
 the same vessel ; Marshal de Schomberg is embarked upon such 
 another frigate. Burnett is on board the vessel which carries the Prince 
 his steward ; and Farguson is on board the vessel in [which] my Lord 
 Maccenfield and other English are embarked. Your Lordship's very good 
 friend Mr. Herbert is Vice- Admiral, his ship carries 70 or 80 guns. 
 They have provisions but for 15 days, fresh water for the horse but for 
 10 days; in all appearance they sail towards Burlington Bay. One 
 Captain Bontiers undertakes to burn your Lordship's ship, that shall be 
 his sole study and enterprise. 
 
 1688, Nov. 1st, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I would not omit to take the opportunity of the Cleaveland yacht's 
 returne to acknowledge my receipt of your Lordshipp's of the 28 th , with 
 a postscript of the 29 th inst*, as well as that brought by the said yacht of 
 the 30 th , giveing me an account of your being then gone out to sea 
 from the Gunfleet to look out the Dutch fleet, which I pray God to 
 render propitious to his Majesty and the Goverment, and noe less safe 
 and honorable to your self. And this I may say as a good omen of it, 
 that however the affaires of his Majesty's land forces may have advanced 
 (which I am wholly a stranger to), it is imposcible for anything to have 
 proceeded with more satisfaction to his Majesty than the whole business 
 of his fleet has to this hour done under your conduct. 
 
 But it greives me to the heart to see you bereaft of the aid of those 
 3 ships still in the river, which nothing that I know of can possibly 
 excuse your want of, and now that I think two of them, namely, the 
 Woolwich and Newcastle are at length gott into a condition of being 
 gone, the wind is lost that should have carryed them to you, for the third, 
 my last told you too largely my observations concerning her, to the 
 rendring it very hard for me to judge when it is that his Majesty is to 
 expect the benefitt of his care and charge in the encourageing of gentlemen 
 to the applying themselves to the service of the sea, upon account of the 
 qualifications to be hoped for from them superiour to those of the plaine 
 tarpawling; if not at such a pinch as this, wherein the very being, as 
 well as honor of his Crown and Goverment is at stake. 
 
 The King does entirely approve of your appointment and choice of the 
 friggats you nave sent to cruise, as well as of the determination of the 
 council of warr, in reference to the generall proceedings of the fleet ; 
 
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 Earl op not without takeing notice of the short note you gave concerning Sir 
 ' R ms s UTH ' S William Jennens's singularity therein. 
 
 — Nor is it of small satisfaction to his Majesty, in the midle of his 
 
 manifold cares, to find your Lordshipp in your severall letters to himself, 
 as well as those to me, speaking with soe much satisfaction of the con- 
 dition of the fleet, and resolutions of it's comanders. 
 
 The King does impute (as you desire) Captain Tennant's late 
 irregularity in the pressing away of the riggers to his zeal to get himself 
 out to sea, and soe farr excuses it. But is very earnest, as in a thing of 
 mighty moment to his service, that the riggers be discharged. Which 
 since he is out of your Lordshipp's reach to see effected, by his being 
 gone from you, I am comanded by his Majesty to supply it by a letter 
 to him from hence. 
 
 M r Beaumont (whom your Lordshipp has appointed Lieutenant of 
 the Portsmouth) will be hastned to his charge. 
 
 The King has comanded me to conferr (which I shall speedily doe) 
 with the Navy Board, about what you propose touching the re-erecting 
 the yards at Harwich and Sheerness and provideing of a store shipp for 
 the fleet. Of which I hope to give you some good account in my next. 
 
 The King has been all along soe much of your Lordshipp's mind, and 
 though[t] full of it, touching the keeping of trade on foot, at the same 
 time with the filling forth of his own shipps, that from the beginning 
 (as your Lordshipp knows) he tooke care that ships outward bound 
 should not be interrupted in their manning. Nor does the present 
 embargoe extend further than to Holland and Flanders, and that to 
 continue noe longer then he and his ministers shall judge the reason 
 to continue for which they laid it, namely, the preventing of intelli- 
 gence, and the going of vessells over for supplying the present great 
 want of imbarcations, which the Dutch are said at this day to lye under. 
 And for passes and protections, they will cease of course, especially if 
 the ships that shall hereafter be sett out find noe other expedient of 
 manning themselves then those that are now behind in the river are 
 dayly complained of to doe, namely, out of merchant ships outward- 
 bound upon trade, with his Majesty's own hand to protect them against 
 pressing. But how that will consist with what your Lordshipp moves 
 for, in favour of the King's revenue, is easy to foresee. 
 
 Lastly, your care in sending in the Sampson fireshipp to the Gunfleet 
 for preventing any mistakes by the removall of that buoy, and for 
 advertiseing Sheerness of the approach of the Dutch, in case of your 
 Lordshipp's missing them, (which your cruiseing friggats must in all 
 probability prevent) is observed by his Majesty, and very well approved 
 of, as is every other stepp your Lordshipp has hitherto made in this his 
 service." 
 
 In a postscript Mr. Pepys adds, 
 
 " I had omitted to observe to your Lordshipp that according to your 
 last advice touching a Muster Master, and your desire therein about his 
 instructions and muster-booke, I doe herein inclose you a* draught of the 
 instructions for that officer, and by the same conveyance a supply of 
 muster- books for him, sent me from the officers of the Navy, to be 
 recruited with more, as these shall be spent. 
 
 You may please also further to know, that the King has a few days 
 since ordered the Portland to be fitted forth, and given his commission 
 for her to Captain George Aylmer, and I have some reason to beleive 
 
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 the like will be this day done for the Phcenix, to be comanded by Earl of 
 Captain Gifford." DAK MS°s? TH ' 8 
 1688, Nov. 1st, Whitehall. — William Bridges to Lord Dartmouth. — 
 Gives details of his discourse with the King about the state of the 
 fleet, &c. The Lord Chancellor, whom he was to wait on with his 
 Lordship's letter, has been for two or three days, and still is, so ill as not 
 to be spoken with. Had dined with Lady Dartmouth and his Lord- 
 ship's fireside that day ; his son will earnestly expect his return, being 
 made to believe that a diligent regard to his book till then will prevail 
 with his Lordship to take new resolutions somewhat in favour of his 
 inclinations. 
 
 1 688, Nov. 1st, Tower. — Sir Henry Shere to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Expresses his shame and grief at being rendered so incapable of serving 
 his Lordship and the office in so important an occasion ; though he has 
 lost his fever, he cannot say he has yet found his strength. Was re- 
 ceived very graciously by the King last night, and asked if he were in 
 a condition to march with the army ; he assured his Majesty that he 
 was, and accordingly his commission was ordered to be drawn. Mr. 
 Musgrave is very punctual in office affairs. 
 
 1688, Nov. 2nd, Whitehall.— O. Wynne to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Various advices from abroad of the shattered condition of the Dutch 
 fleet. The Marquis D' Albeville says, in his letters of the 26th ult., 
 that their fleet was in such a necessitous and even mutinous condition 
 that the Prince durst not stir ashore, and that it could not be got ready 
 to sail away in 10 or 12 days time ; yet a vessel came into the river 
 yesterday and reported to have sailed several leagues along with the 
 Dutch fleet, which seemed to steer its course northward, though the 
 men-of-war seemed to make more towards the Channel, with a design, 
 perhaps, to find out the King's fleet. Hence an early action between 
 the fleets is expected ; indeed, some people coming from Edmonton 
 and neighbouring places say that the noise of guns was heard all yes- 
 terday and again to-day. The writer has been appointed, owing to 
 recent changes, to be in Mr. Mountsteven's room, concerned in the 
 management of the office with Mr. Bridgeman. 
 
 1688, Nov. 3rd, Past midnight. Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 " Just now, beeing about 11 at night, I have at the same time 
 received an express from the Dounes, and a message from the King, from 
 whom I have been shewn another from Dover, the former bearing date 
 at 11 this morning, and the latter at one this afternoone, both notifying 
 the appearance of the Dutch fleet and its being gone westward. Of which, 
 though it be well to be hoped that by some or other of your scoutes or 
 otherwise your Lordshipp has had soe early advice as that this might 
 have been spared. Yet such is his Majesty's care in the matter, con- 
 sidering the weather wee have had, which may have prevented the 
 intelligence expected from them, that he is pleased to require my 
 imediate sending to you copies of the forementioned papers which 1 
 have here done, leaveing it to your Lordshipp to make the best use you 
 now can thereof, in case it should have been his and your misfortune 
 not to have had earlier notice of their passing by. I left his Majesty 
 just now at my comeing from him in council with his Generall Officers, 
 disposeing of matters for the hastning away his troopes as fast as may 
 be towards Portsmouth. To which place he seemes to be at this 
 present fully persuaded of the Dutch fleet's being directed, the same 
 being not a little surprizeing, after haveing, by a succession of intelligence 
 
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 Earl of f 01 - several! days together been wrought to a strong beleife of their being 
 mss. designed for Scotland, or at least northward, if in England. 
 
 Now that which I have to say more to your Lordshipp is, that the King 
 seemes to be under a great deal of care and apprehension of the con- 
 sequence of his fleet, or any of his shipps being obliged to come into 
 this river while the buoy of the Gunfleet is up, and the vessell droven 
 away by the late fowle weather that was appointed to remaine there to 
 advise shipps of it, as I this day understood it to be by a letter of yes- 
 terday's date from Captain Wilford at Sheerness, an extract of which I 
 also inclose you. Your Lordshipp will be pleased to doe what is in 
 this case to be done for preventing any mischeife therefrom." 
 
 Enclosed in the above letter is the following extract of a letter to 
 Mr. Pepys from Captain Tennant, Commander of the Tiger frigate in 
 the Downs : — 
 
 " Just now I was forced to open my letters againe, by reason wee 
 espie a great fleet on the backside of the Goodwin, not knowing what 
 they are, standing to the westward, but believe they are too many for 
 our fleet." 
 
 Also the following copy of a letter to Mr. Frowd from Mr. Bastick 
 at Dover : — 
 
 " Wee now discerne the Holland's fleet very plaine just off of this 
 place, saileing to the westward. They are about halfe seas over, and 
 are soe thick there is noe telling of them, but 'tis judged above three 
 hundred saile, others say 400 saile; they reach from the westward 
 part of the toun to the South Foreland. We cannot discerne their 
 colours." 
 
 Also the extract of a letter from Captain Wilford, the contents of 
 which are sufficiently stated in Mr. Pepys' letter. 
 
 There is another copy of the above letter with its inclosures. 
 
 1688, Nov. 6th, Admiralty. Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " Though all that know your Lordshipp, and above all the King, is 
 abundantly assured, that noe part of your disappointment in relation to 
 the Dutch fleet can be charged upon any thing with in your power to 
 have prevented ; yet the consequences of it in the said fleet's passing 
 without the least interruption to the port they were bound for with 
 their whole fleet, are too visible, and of too great moment to escape 
 being lamented by all, and very certaine I am, by none more then your 
 selfe. For whose particular information it is, that by the King's especiall 
 command I send this, in order to the giveing your Lordshipp the latest 
 account wee have of the proceedings of the Dutch, which is by a letter 
 from the Custome house officer at Dartmouth, reporting to us their 
 appearing before that place yesterday morning, with an additional 
 information come hither just now from Lyme, to both of which (for 
 saveing time) I choose to referr you, as you find them inclosed. Upon 
 which I have nothing in command to say to your Lordshipp by way 
 of comment, saveing that since it has soe unhappily fallen out, that 
 the Dutch are in all probability at this hour peaceably putting on shore 
 their whole land force, and baggage, soe that there is nothing left 
 within the power of your Lordshipp to obtaine upon them, in reference 
 to the landing-part, and that consequently their men of warr will now 
 be at an entire liberty to receive or attack you, as they shall see fitt, the 
 King doubts not but you will carry in your mind the importance of 
 manageing his fleete under your command in such manner, as may be 
 most effectuall upon the enemy, with the least exposure that may be 
 of his said fleet." 
 
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 Enclosed is the following copy of a letter from Mr. Thomas Bowyer, Earl of t 
 Collector of Customs at Dartmouth, dated November 5 th , at 9 in the DaE msL\ TH ' 
 morning. 
 
 " This morning being very hazey, foggie, and full of raine, cleared 
 up about 9 of the clock, at which time appeared the Dutch fleet con- 
 sisting of about four hundred or 500 saile as neare as we can guess, all 
 standing to the eastward with the wind at W.S.W., a moderate gale. 
 The capital shipps are off of Torbay about four leagues from the shore, 
 the small shipps and flyboats between the Start and Dartmouth, about 
 a league and halfe off. Which is the fullest account to be yet given 
 of them." 
 
 Also the following report of a person from Lyme. 
 
 " He saies that about five of the clock yesterday being the 5 th of 
 November in the afternoone he did himselfe see about one hundred and 
 forty of their shipps and vessells goe to Exmouth, in order (as is be- 
 lieved) to the putting on shore some of their land men and baggage 
 there." 
 
 Accompanying this letter is the following paper headed " Our last 
 Intelligence from the West." 
 
 " Sir Edward Seymour, November 5 tb , from Berry saies, That this 
 after noon there is come into Torbay a great fleet of Dutch and are 
 come to anchor there. 
 
 From the officer of "the Customes at Brixham November 5 th 1688. 
 About three hundred saile of Dutch came just now into Torbay, severall 
 of them landing souldiers there, and the Prince himselfe goeing on 
 shore. The rest of the souldiers and horse will if they can be landed 
 this night, there being about 5 or 600 a shore already and are still 
 landing. 
 
 From Sir Eobert Holms November 5 th at 7 in the evening, confirmed 
 by another at 10 the same night. 
 
 Three Dutch shipps are come to S* Hellens of about 40 guns apeicc, 
 some of whose men whent a shore but staid not long. They told the 
 country people that their fleet was gon to land their men in Lyme bay 
 and after intended to harbour their shipps here, where they designed to 
 have their provisions on faire termes or that they must have them by 
 fowl" 
 
 With this letter is also the following : — 
 
 " From Sir Eobert Holms from South Yarmouth November 6th at 
 two in the morning to my Lord Preston. 
 
 I shall not be able to secure this island, more then the two little 
 forts, and them but for a little time. Part of the Melitia is growne 
 mutinous already, refusing to follow their comanders orders, as I am 
 afraid they will doe everywhere, where his Majesty has occasion to call 
 for them. Yarmouth and Hurst I putt my stress upon, and will defend 
 both to the last. I hope his Majesty will give me some speedie releife. 
 For want of one troop to keep this Militia in awe, this island will 
 be lost without strikeing one stroke for it. God knows how I shall 
 be dealt withall by this Melitia which I have drawne into Yarmouth 
 and Hurst, for want of 100 men to keep them in aw." 
 
 To this Mr. Pepys has added. 
 
 " This I give your Lordshipp for your owne use only, it being what 
 I thought not amisse for your Lordshipp to have for your private 
 knowledge, thought \_sic~\ unfitt for more." 
 
 Two other copies of the above letter and its enclosures, and another 
 copy of the paper of intelligence from the west. 
 
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 Earl of 1688, Nov. 7th. near 4 a clock after noone. Admiralty. Same to 
 Dartmouth's j 
 mss. same. 
 
 — " I have received by the hand of Captain Croft this morning your 
 
 Lordshipp's of the 5th of November from off of Beachy, with another 
 to his Majesty, which he has been pleased to communicate to me of like 
 import. In answer to both of which I might almost refer you to what 
 T sent you by last night's post by way of Portsmouth, in*expectation of 
 your Lordshipp's being possibly soe farr advanced as to give you 
 opportunity of sending into St. Helens for intelligence ; and by Captain 
 Croft's report (who tells me he saw you with the fleet (as near as he 
 could guess) about the length of the Isle of Wight about 5 in the 
 afternoon yesterday) my letter by Jast night's post may come very 
 timelily to your hand. And if it doe soe, youri Lordshipp will find 
 that even before this of yours got hither, the King had been pleased 
 by me to signifye his full satisfaction in beleiving that you had done 
 all that a prudent and careful Admirall could doe for prevention of the 
 disappointment which has hapned to him and his affaires, in your 
 missing of the opportunity of putting a stopp to that speed wherewith 
 the Dutch fleet have succeeded, in getting without interruption to the 
 port they desired. Nor will you want the further content of seeing 
 that your and the councill of warr's determination touching the future 
 proceedings of the fleet, and their cautione against exposeing the same, 
 had his Majesty's concurrence before his knowledge thereof, by my 
 communicateing to you from him the very same cautions and advice, 
 as that which was the very first thought that occurred to him after 
 the notice given him of the Dutch fleet's being now discharged of 
 its care in attending the great traine of small craft they brought from 
 home along with them. 
 
 But notwithstanding what was thus wrote you last night, I am againe 
 comanded by the King to re-assure your Lordshipp of the former part, 
 with yet greater satisfaction from what he now has received from your 
 selfe of your incapacity of doing more in that exigence for his service 
 then you did, considering the place in which you were then hooked, 
 and the wind that then blew to the benefit of the Holland's fleet, and 
 disadvantage of yours. 
 
 Nor is it otherwise with his Majesty in the other matter relateing to 
 your not exposeing of the fleet, under the present difficulties his affaires 
 are reduced to in other respects ; but on the contrary commands me to 
 recommend it to your Lordshipp to putt in execution what himself had 
 soe advised, and you with your councill of warr had of your own accord 
 soe concurred with him in, with these only two further notes which I 
 am comanded to lay before you, (with the same tenderness I have 
 heretofore done others), not by way of injunction to rule your thoughts, 
 but to enlighten them only by laying before you his. And they are 
 these, first, whether you may not think it of use that 2 or three, or 
 what other number you please of your 4th rates be sent into and left 
 in Portsmouth Harbour, not soe much for any particular and certaine 
 benefit that he can foresee they will be of to him in case of the Dutch 
 fleet's comeing either to St. Hellens, or makeing any nearer attempt 
 upon Portsmouth, but from the possibility he judges there is of some 
 occasion or other hapning for the sending forth, or otherwise makeing 
 use of a shipp or more of that rank, which he conceives by the ad- 
 vantage of the night, or otherwise they might be able to answer such 
 an occasion in, notwithstanding the Dutch should have a squadron lying 
 at St. Hellens. The other is, that there seeming nothing (as matters 
 now stand) to remaine soe much the subject of his Majesty's care and 
 
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 yours, as the forementioned safety of his fleet, and that of this river x>^t*ra«> uxi 
 and the Medway, and that as the wind may be, the safety both of one mss. 
 and t'other may be exposed, should you come to lye in the Downes, he 
 offers it to you to consider, whether there be any place now to be 
 chosen as proper, to answer in all probability both these ends, as the 
 Buoy of the Nore. 
 
 This my Lord is what, and the whole of what I have in commission to 
 say to your Lordshipp in reply to your forementioned letters on this un- 
 fortunate occasion ; saveing that I shall take the liberty of adding, as well 
 by way of news, as for confirmeing you in what you have said touching 
 the designe of the Dutch of comeing at first into the river, had they not 
 understood your lying at the Gunfleet, that one of their small pinks, and 
 a fishing boat haveing lost company of their fleet, knew not where 
 better to goe to look it, them by comeing into this river, where they 
 were yesterday- in the evening seized with 24 horse aboard a litle below 
 Holehaven by Captain Hastings ; which by the way lets you see, that 
 your three lagg shipps were yesterday still, where they have soe long 
 been ; but I make noe question but this day's wind will carry them 
 towards you ; 
 
 What remaines, my Lord, is the giveing you the substance of our 
 freshest intelligence from the West ; which I doe, in the paper enclosed,* 
 whereto with all possible respect and good wishes referring your Lord- 
 shipp I remaine, your Lords)) ipp's most faythfull and most humble 
 servant." 
 
 Another copy of the above letter. 
 
 1688, Nov. 7th, On board the Cambridge. — Sir Roger Strickland to 
 Lord Dartmouth. Removed yesterday into this ship, but finds it not 
 only intolerably ill manned but very foul and ill-fitted. Cannot hope 
 to do any service in her, and therefore begs leave to transfer himself, 
 officers, and Mary's crew, to the Kent, now fitting at Chatham. To 
 add to his misfortunes, the Rupert and the Dreadnought are also 
 weakly manned, leaky, &c, none of his division is indeed fit for him to 
 engage in. Till he can remove into the Kent, thinks it advisable to 
 continue in the Mary, she being so very well manned (though crank) 
 (sic). 
 
 1688, Nov. 8th, Deal. — Lieutenant Wm. Wright to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Details his proceedings at Sandwich and Ramsgate in obtaining brim- 
 stone and rosin, and in pressing ships for service. Has found only one 
 pink of about 160 tons, which has been appraised by Mr. Long the 
 carpenter of the Kingfisher and by another carpenter of Ramsgate, but 
 they could not agree as to its value. Is going next day to Dover to 
 take up what ships can be procured there, in obedience to his Lordship's 
 warrant. 
 
 1688, Nov. 8th, i past 11 at night. Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to 
 Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " Your Lordshipp's of yesterday from the Downes came most wel- 
 comely to my hand by Captain Rooth with another to his Majestie 
 about five this afternoone, and this with the more satisfaction in hopes 
 that you by or before the same hour had met with a duplicate (which 
 in prospect of your comeing I directed thither last night) of what I then 
 dispatched to your Lordshipp by the hand of Captain Croft, with 
 another duplicate of it (for sureness sake) to Portsmouth. After which 
 I veryly persuade myself I need not to repeat anything towards the 
 
 * Note. — Probably the paper now with the previous letter. 
 
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 Earl op f confirmeing you in what I then and before had assured you of touching 
 LR MSs! THS tne King's most entire satisfaction in the whole of your Lordshipp's 
 — conduct, both before, in, and since the passing-by of the Dutch fleet, 
 and the impossibility you were then under of preventing it. 
 
 I shall therefore need noe more to mention that doubt, but proceed to 
 tell your Lordshipp, that this being a very busie night with the King, 
 he has commanded Captain Booth, to stay and attend him to morrow, 
 leaving it in the meantime to me by this post to lett you know, that 
 he does in particular approve of what you have done towards the pro- 
 videing of six fireships to be added to what you have from the severall 
 places in the neighbourhood to the Downes. But forasmuch as I am 
 very fearfull of Lieutenant Wright's not being able to find vessells of 
 burthen enough to answer the end of fireships at sea, andj considering 
 of how much less able fireships may be of more than ordinary at this 
 time, I have (without any stop to be made to those your Lordshipp is 
 about) moved the King this night at the cabinet and provided his 
 warrant to the officers of the navy for their imediate takeing up in this 
 river six more, and fitting them in all respects for the sea, which and 
 the others, joyned with those you have, and the Mermaide, (which is 
 under dispatch, but has a great deal of work to be done to her) will I 
 trust put your Lordshipp into a very good condition, both of offending 
 and defending, as under the present juncture you may easily suppose 
 occasions of employing them. 
 
 How farr my hopes prove true in my last night's letter to you in 
 relation to the other two of your absent ships I know not, but to my 
 great surprize I find I was out as to the S* Albans, which notwithstanding 
 the westerly winds that wee have had for two or three day3 past, and 
 more particularly very fresh all yesterday, I find she sailed from Long- 
 reach but this morning. But not to trouble your Lordshipp or my self 
 any more in relation to them after what I have already said I shall 
 only add that it shall be noe fault of mine if a very strict account be 
 not (whenever a proper season shall happen for it) required of the 
 reason of those shipps soe long absence from you. 
 
 My Lord. — It's late, and I have much to doe to night, and therefore I 
 shall begg your excuse for my respiteing the remainder of what I 
 should say further to you in reply to your Lordshipp's till to morrow, 
 only by way of news, the freshest tideings wee have out of the west is 
 of yesterday noone from Exeter which came this night while the King 
 was at the Cabinet, with a letter of great loyalty and duty to the King 
 from the magistrates thereof, and willingness of expressing it as farr 
 as they are able, but with noe hopes of any success from any force of 
 their own (and I think they have none of the King's) against an army, 
 part of which they depended upon haveing (I find) with them last night. 
 The Prince is said to have been on shore ever since Tuesday, and to 
 have lodged that night at Sir William Courtney's house at Powbrocke 
 or some such like name. But the messenger said he heard that Sir 
 William Courtney himself did not see him. The messenger adds that 
 the only man of quality he saw and knew was Sir William Waller ; that 
 the high ways as he went were full of their soldiers, that he did not at 
 his comeing away hear of any persons of condition comeing to them 
 whatever they may doe, but says that their great guns were, as he 
 understood, to be carried to Topsham for their more comodious landing 
 there. God grant a good end to all." 
 
 1688, Nov. 8th, Thursday night. — Same to same. (Holograph.) 
 " Notwithstanding all that I have endeavoured by my letters to doe 
 to prevent it I am yet under some feares of your takeing too much to 
 
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 heart your late misfortune (for soe I must call it) in misseing of the eael of 
 Dutch fleet, and the opportunity you and all the King's friends had pro- Dartmouth's 
 mised themselfes, of your rendering his Majesty some considerable service — " 
 upon them. And this, (my Lord), I am greatly concern'd to remove 
 your doubts in, as thinkeing your present Province too full of occasions 
 for just cases and anxietys to need to bee aggravated by mistaken ones. 
 I did therefore this eveniug after Councell take an opportunity of telling 
 the King what I now say to you, praying him to enable mee from his 
 owne mouth to lett you know the truth of his resentments of his late dis- 
 appointment with respect to your Lordshipp. To which hee was for 
 answer pleased to say that hee would have mee assure you that he is to the 
 last degree satisfy'd that nothing in [the] world could have been done more 
 then you did in that exigence for his service, and that however foolish 
 land-men or ill-wilPd seamen may take the liberty of censuring, nothing 
 is more plaine to him then the impossibility of your serveing him better 
 in this occasion (as circumstances of weather and wind then stood with 
 you) then you did, and therefore would by noe meanes have you give way 
 to any mistrusts of the contrary on his part,- or reguard to the ignorant 
 or unjust censures of others that cannot hurt or lessen you. 
 
 To this effect it was that his Majesty was pleased amply to expresse 
 himselfe to mee in your favour and right, and in a manner that I am sure 
 he was in earnest in, and do beleive will (if hee can gett time) bee con- 
 firm'd to you to morrow under his owne hand. 
 
 Therefore pray be fully at ease in this matter, depending upon't that 
 if I knew the least cause for the contrary I would tell you of it. For 
 soe upon my fayth I would. 
 
 Remember, too, how much worse you were once used even where you 
 were successfull, I mean in the businesse of Tangier ; and (withall) how 
 little you were the worse for it within ten days after. 
 
 Once more therefore, pray bee but at peace with your selfe, and I dare 
 answer for everybody's satisfaction else that you need care for." 
 
 1688, Nov. 9th, Admiralty.— Same to same. 
 
 " You have I hope ere this mine of last night, brought by him that 
 you employed at the same time with Captain Crofts towards Portsmouth. 
 Since which M r Hodder is arrived with his bagg of letters, very welcome 
 to the King, in reference to many of them, but most of all to the papers 
 which you inclosed in mine with your letter to the King for the light it 
 gives him touching the number and order of both their land and sea- 
 forces. The latter of which he has been pleased to comit to me to 
 examine and report to him what I shall find usefull or otherwise observable 
 therein. That which respects the land-army he keepes in his own hand. 
 
 As to the rest which were numerous, they are lodged with my Lord 
 Middleton to be more strictly looked into, after haveing had some of 
 them, whose addresses were most known, opened and read this evening 
 at the Cabinet. 
 
 What (if anything) I shall collect of the maritime part worthy notice 
 I shall communicate to your Lordshipp. 
 
 In the meantime, my Lord, it being reasonable to give M r Hodder your 
 messenger this night's respite, to repose himself, I reserve my generall 
 answers to the points I have now before me from you relateing to the 
 King's service, till to-morrow ; this being principally designed to give 
 cover to the letter I last night promised you, and the King did just now 
 tell me he would make good to you this night from himself, and I be- 
 lieve I shall by and by have, I shall trouble you noe further now, then in 
 telling you, as the latest intelligence wee have this day had from the 
 west, that the people of Exeter did expect the Prince of Orange's 
 
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 Earl op arrivall with them last night : that in prospect of it, Bishop Lamplugh 
 AE MSsy TH S tne place in the morning, there being noe force there to make any 
 — resistance, sending up a letter before him hither full of dutifull and 
 loyall expressions towards the King, and acquainting him with his being on 
 his way to lay himself at his Majesty's feet here : that notwithstanding 
 the near view the Mayor and Magistrates of Exeter had of comeing 
 within the command of the Prince and his army, they had yesterday 
 morning or the evening before seized a man that was listing persons for 
 the Prince's service, and committed him to the goale for high treason." 
 
 In a postscript Mr. Pepys adds — 
 
 " Captain Eooth's journey was soe uneasy to him that I find by the 
 King, he has desired him not to expect his returning to you on 
 horseback, and therefore the King has directed me to find some 
 conveyance for him by water." 
 
 1688, Nov. 9th, The ship Advice. Captain H. Williams to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. — Is informed that the Dreadnought is not fit for sea, and so 
 desires to stay where he is. 
 
 1688, Nov. 9th, Whitehall. — King James II. to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I had last night yours by Captain Rooth, but had not then leasur to 
 answer it, and am fully satisfyd you did all that you could and that no 
 body could worke otherwise than you did. I am sure all knowing sea- 
 men must be of the same mind, and therefore be at ease as to yourself, 
 and consider of the best means of securing the squadron you have with 
 you, and of being in a condition of taking such advantages upon the 
 enemy, which may offer themselves to you. Whilst the winds continue 
 betwene the S. and the W. you must be very carfull of your self if you 
 remaine in the Downs, but where you can be els to be secured from the 
 blowing weather, and to be able to take an advantage of an E. wind I 
 do not well know, nor will I at this distance advise, you on the place 
 being best judg, how to secure your self from bad weather and an enemy. 
 By the newse I had this morning the Prince of Orange could not be 
 soner then last night at Exeter, where the Major and townspeople have 
 hitherto behaved themselves very loyaly, as indeed all the country 
 thereabouts. The traine marches to morrow, the horse and foott gards 
 the begining of next weeke, as well as the Scots and Irish foott. I in- 
 tend to send my owne horses and bagage on tusday next, and to follow 
 myself by the end of the weeke and to leave London well garded. I have 
 not tyme to say more. — J. R. 
 
 I send this by the post and not by Captain Rooth, he desiring to go 
 downe to you by long sea not caring to ride." 
 
 [Addressed.] For the Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 [Endorsed]. November 9th, 1688. 
 
 Received 10th; answered 11th. 
 
 1688, Nov. 10th, Sheerness. — Sir Charles Lyttleton to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. « 
 
 This morning Captain Clement had shewn him the order for the de- 
 livery of the prisoners,* which, though he had no orders to receive nor 
 how to dispose of, he will take into safe custody as soon as the Tower 
 is cleared of some arms and stores ; he will take the " maior " into his 
 own little house, and the lieutenant-governor one or more of them into 
 his. Wishes his Lordship safety and victory, but to consider that since 
 the enemy is already at shore if it be worth while to put the fleet to 
 
 * Officers belonging to the Prince of Orange's regiment (according to endorsement 
 of letter.) 
 
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 the hazard of a battle under so much disadvantage of number and force ; Eaelof 
 by delay he cannot fail to be equal if not superior to them in both. Dae ^s UTH S 
 Hears that the King has thought fit to make a great remove or addition — " 
 to the general officers, is unhappy that the King has forgotten him 
 (Lyttelton) the oldest Colonel in commission in his dominions, and almost 
 in age, and only thinks him useful to continue in a place which is not 
 to be in danger. 
 
 1688, Nov. 10th, Saturday midnight. Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to 
 Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " Mine of last night (wherein was inclosed one from his Majestie) 
 haveing acknowledged my receipt of your Lordshipp's of the 8th current, 
 brought me by M r Hodder, with the bag of letters taken in the Dutch 
 packet-boat : this comes express (by the same hand) to lett your Lord- 
 shipp know, that partly from an apprehension that the said papers, and 
 more especially the list of their fleet (which, with the plan of their 
 campe you sent under your own cover) were not long enough in your 
 hand to make any leisurely reflections thereon, and partly that neither 
 his Majesty nor you might want the benefitt of what, by any observation, 
 I could collect from the same, I have beene endeavouring to make the 
 most exact comparison I can of his Majesty's force now at sea, under 
 your Lordshipp, with that of the Prince, under Admirall Herbert. 
 
 " The result of which, (as containeing somewhat noe less welcome, then 
 surprizeing) I thought it my duty to represent to his Majesty (as I did 
 this evening at the cabinet), showing, that contrary to the impressions 
 that seem to have been universally received touching an inequality 
 between the two fleetes, greatly to the advantage of the Dutch, as 
 superiour both in number and force to yours ; the odds in number is very 
 inconsiderable, and in quality (as much as there is any) appeares to incline 
 to his Majesty's side. And for the credit of the list upon which this com- 
 parison is founded, his Majesty and my Lords doe not find any reason for 
 questioning it, as observing the same (together with the plan of the army) 
 to have been sent under cover of the letter which came together with 
 them from your Lordshipp to me, designed for the use of the Elector 
 of Brandenburgh. 
 
 " Which being soe ; his Majesty has (with the advice of my Lords) 
 comanded me, to give your Lordshipp by express (as I now doe by the 
 hand of M r Hodder) the same account I have now mentioned, they 
 deeming it of very great importance to his Majestie, that your Lordshipp 
 should, without delay have it before you, in order first to your satisfying 
 your self in the validity and justness of my calculations herein; and 
 then that your Lordshipp (upon considering all circumstances) may 
 (according to the fulness of the power lodged in you from his Majesty 
 on that behalf e) proceed to make such use thereof, as you shall conceive 
 most conduceing to his honor and service. 
 
 " What I have to add, my Lord, is, with relation to the vessell wherein 
 these papers were found, and the flyboat taken with the soldiers, touching 
 which, (and what other like vessells may happen to be brought in) you 
 desire to be directed as to their disposall, wherein I am to lett your Lord- 
 shipp know, that you may very soon expect his Majesty's resolution more 
 amply under his own hand ; he haveing been pleased at present to com- 
 mand my signifying to your Lordshipp in the meane time that he would 
 not in any wise have anything done on his part, upon soe small an occa- 
 sion as that of makeing prize of a poor merchant vessell or two, taken up 
 by pressing or hire (as transporters only) (and which in their true value 
 can be to him hardly worth their keeping) that may untimelily give coun- 
 tenance to acts of violence on their side, of much greater prejudice to the 
 
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 letmouth's trade ° f his Ma j est y' s SUD j ects > and his own revenue depending thereon, 
 mss. an( l drawon other consequences, which his Majestie seems most desirous 
 — of avoideing. 
 
 " Postcript : neare one in the morning. 
 
 " My Lord, I am just now come from his Majesty, who after peruseing 
 and approving what I have here wrott, was pleased to bidd mee add for 
 your information, (in case you should thinke of anything that way) that 
 hee has not heard anything of the Dutch fleete's being removed from Tor- 
 bay, where they were at theyr army's descent, more then that some of 
 theyr vessells (with stores and guns) which were at Exmouth, are gone 
 to Topsum. 
 
 " You will finde enclosed a copy of the Dutch list of theyr fleete, with 
 a translation thereof in English, together with another translation of the 
 letter accompanying it and the land-camp ; and my comparison of the 2 
 fleets." 
 
 1688, Nov. 11th, Sunday noone. Admiralty. Same to same. 
 
 (Holograph.) 
 
 " I wrote your Lordshipp between one and 2 this'morning, of which thinke- 
 ing it not necessary to make any repetition, this comes* only to convey to 
 you the enclosed brought to mee this moment by M r Frowd from the King 
 to S t Martin's Church from whence I came to my office to give it passage 
 by expresse, M r Froud telling mee from the King, that hee would have 
 me immediately (without attending him for any direction thereon) send 
 it to your Lordshipp for your information, in order to your doing thereon 
 what you shall see most expedient for his service. And this I doe as he 
 commands, with a prospect of my haveing occasion againe of writeing to 
 you before the day be over. What land-newes wee have you will have 
 from a better hand (I mean M r Froud's) in the enclosed." 
 
 The enclosed letter of Mr. Frowde's to Lord Dartmouth is dated the 
 same day at 12 o'clock from the Admiralty, and is as follows : 
 
 " I am come hither to bring a letter to M r Pepys by the King's 
 command which I just now received from M r Sandford, master of our 
 pacquet boates at Harwich, which letter the King has orderd M r Pepys to 
 send yourLordship, and while he is writing to you I can not but doe so 
 too, and send your Lordship a copy of another letter which I just now re- 
 ceived by expresse from the postmaster of Exeter, who is gone from that 
 toune for feare of being forced to doe something that may endanger him 
 or his estate, he being a rich man. I had an other expresse from him 
 from Exeter yesterday in which he told me that that toune was just then in 
 the possession of the Prince of Orange, and that the Earl of Shrewsbury, 
 the Earl of Macclesfeild, the Lord Wiltshire, M r Herbert and D r Burnet 
 were then in that toune with two troupes of horse consisting of 120." 
 
 The letter of Mr. Sandford above referred to is dated the 10th of 
 November at past 7 at night, from Harwich, and is as follows : 
 
 "These serves only to acquainte you that the pacquett boate 
 John Pascoll, Master, is just come in from Holland with a small male, 
 and noe passengers at all. Hee reports to mee that there are 5,000 land 
 souldiers ready from Rotterdam to saile after their fleet for England 
 under convoye of two menn of warr, [in 25 vessells, added in the 
 margin] and only waites for an oportunity of wind : they generally 
 conclude a conquest of England. This small pacquett is all that I can 
 finde comes over, which I here inclose you." 
 
 The other letter referred to by Mr. Frowde is from Mr. Parsons, 
 dated the 9th of November at two o'clock in the afternoon from Kerton 
 near Exeter, and is as follows : 
 
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 " I am now come to Kerton, seven miles from Exon, not daring to Earl of 
 stay any longer there. They seize all the King's money, and have taken DAR Msis in:H 
 from the Collector of the Excise 300/., and keeps him [in] custody ; I — 
 am also to acquaint you that [they] have seized our males, and have taken 
 out some letters of my Lord of Bathe's and others in Plymouth, and soe 
 deliver'd it againe. I believe they will not let it pass to London. The 
 Prince of Orange comes in this morning, and expects many of the gentry 
 to come into his assistance, but as yet doe not find one man of quality 
 that stirrs, a multitude of the rabble which signifie but little, 1 cannot 
 learne exactly their number, but by all that I can gather, nothing nigh 
 what they boast of, and by the best account not 25,000 in all, but report 
 that they have armes for 60,000 more than what are with them, their 
 artillery are all come to Topsham, and landing as fast as possible, they 
 talke of staying eight or ten dayes at Exon, and truiy beleive they can- 
 not move sooner, for men and horses looke but indifferent and want rest. 
 At the opening some letters which signified his Majestie's preparations 
 gave some damp that appeared in their countenances, and had a private 
 councell. In my soule they are afraid. I must begg pardon for ill 
 writeing, 'tis hast and trouble, soe I hope it will excuse him that is your 
 most humble servant. Postscript. — I sent this morning from Exon M r 
 Builth to give you a verball account, not daring to write. M r Ferguson 
 and Doctor Burnett are very busy, and of the principall Councell." 
 
 To this Mr. Frowde has added, 
 
 " The King told me just now that they are but 14,000, or 15,000 
 men that are landed. I mean the troupes are no more." 
 
 1688, Nov. 11th, Admiralty. — Same to same. 
 
 " I have once already this day about noone wrote to you by express to 
 give cover to a letter from the Master of the Packett at Harwich, and 
 brought me by M r Prowd with express command from the King to send it 
 imediately to your Lordshipp without attending his Majesty for any direc- 
 tions about it, which I accordingly did with an intimation to your Lord- 
 shipp of my expecting to write to you againe before the day was over, as 
 foreseeing it would be fitt for me not to lett that paper lye in your hand 
 as a dead letter, without giveing you some light touching the King's mind 
 concerning it. Accordingly as soon as my express was gone, I attended 
 the King, and againe this evening at the Cabinet, to know what comands 
 (if any) he would give me for your Lordshipp upon it, as well as what 
 force or credit he put upon the same, in order to the use he expected you 
 should make of it. Whereto he was pleased to answer that he had nothing 
 before him, either from M r Frowd or otherwise to guide himself by in the 
 makeing any judgement of the paper, but that a paper of those contents 
 being brought to him by M r Frowd, he thought it proper it should be sent 
 to you, the very originall just as you had it as not knowing but by 
 compareing it with some other intelligence, or by some meanes or other 
 you might be able to judge of the weight of it, better then wee are here, 
 and consequently what use to make of it. And this, my Lord, is the 
 whole of what the King purposed in the command he sent me soe positively 
 by M r Frowd for my imediate dispatching it away to your Lordshipp. 
 
 Soon after my doing of which came your express of yesterday's date, 
 bringing with it severall more papers found in the Brandenburgh-boat, 
 and particularly those of greater moment which you directed under a 
 cover to his Majestie, and particularly that to the Duke of Brandenburgh 
 from the Prince. 
 
 The King is not a little troubled for the ill accident befallen the Cen- 
 turion, and the more in that he takes it to have arisen from such a 
 degree of failure, one way or other, as deserves to be most strictly and 
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 Earl of impartially accompted for to your Lordsliipp on his behalfe, at a court- 
 DAR M*SS JTn 3 mart * a ^ 5 an d that speedily ; comanding me to recomend it to your Lord- 
 — * shipp for its being accordingly done, and the sooner that she may be 
 with the less loss of time brought into the river, to the Buoy of the Nore,- 
 where orders shall meet her, for her proceeding either up the Thames or 
 to Chatham. 
 
 The officers of the Navy are looking out for the six fireships 1 here 
 which I lately mentioned to you, and I hope they will be provided by 
 them with as little expense of time as may be. 
 
 I hope also that Captains Gilford and George Aylmer will be in a litle 
 time with you the former in the Phcenix, and the latter in the Portland ; 
 and that they will not be long unfollowed by Captain Preistman in the 
 Ham]) ton- Court, and Captain Smith in the Tiger-Prize. 
 
 To morrow alsoe the officers of the Navy shall have his Majesty's orders 
 for the fitting forth the Kent and War slight in order to Sir Roger 
 Strickland's haveing one of yours in exchange for the Mary, whose 
 crankness does soe disable her for present service. 
 
 I should have before observed to you (when I mentioned this latter part 
 of the Dutch letters) that the King observes the Master of the packett- 
 boat that had them in, to have done his endeavour to cover as many of 
 the papers as he could in bringing them forth by parcells as he has 
 done, and that it might possibly not be unusefull to make further search 
 and to examine him more strictly, and this the rather for that in one of 
 the French letters of this day's parcell, which I have had the perusal of, I 
 find it expressly said, that f calling him by the terme of the Branden- 
 burgh Caryer) he came along with the Dutch fleet, particularly to see 
 what was to be seen, and to make report of the whole thereof at his returne ; 
 and possibly, my Lord, you may gather yet more light from him then yet 
 you have, touthing the number and force of the Dutch Fleet, either in 
 confirmation or explanation of the list thereof which he was carrying to 
 the Duke of Brandenburgh, and with the plan of the land-army was sent 
 up by your Lordshipp to the King. 
 
 et What I have to add is what indeed slipt out of my memory, or had 
 been said to your Lordshipp two dayes since, namely, that the King does 
 mightily desire to have all the officers of the soldiers that were taken 
 in the flyboat, and which I think are now divided between the 
 Sivalloiv, Tyger, and Bonadventure, sent up into the river, by one of 
 the yachts or some other small vessell, to be brought up as high as the 
 Tower, there to be putt into the custody of Sir Edward Hales, or such as 
 he shall appoint to receive them ; I haveing signified his Majesty's pleasure 
 to Sir Edward Hales herein, at the time it was first determined by the 
 King, though in the multitude of matters I had to despatch, I omitted to 
 doe, what I here doe about it to your Lordshipp ; and therefore am the 
 more earnestly to desire your giveing imecliate directions for its execution 
 now, the King being very intent upon haveing them discoursed with 
 here." 
 
 1688, Nov. 12th, Whitehall. — King James II. to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 "I have received yours of the 11th, and sent to you a Scots seaman, 
 who is just come from the Dutch fleett, and can give you an exact 
 account of theer numbers and qualitys, which agree with the list you 
 intercepted, so that you know what their force is, except any more 
 have gone to them with these E. winds. Mr. Pepys will give you a 
 fuller account of all, and of the aduices I have had out of Holland, by 
 which you will find the Prince of Orange expected a recrut both of ships 
 and land forces, as to what will be best for you to do. I thinke that the 
 boy of the Nore ought not to be so much as thought on, without you 
 
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 were very much overpowerd by the enemy; you best know your owne Earl o-? 
 strength and whether you are in a condition to make use of this esterly Dae ^° ut h's 
 
 wind to attempt any thing upon them, at least I thinke there can be no - 
 
 danger of going to the Spit head, and I should thinke you in more 
 safety there when the winds shall come westerly then in the Downs. 
 T'would be of some reputation even your going but thether, but of 
 much more if you thought yourself strong enough to look out for 
 them. Another convenience you would have, by going to the Spit head, 
 if you are not in a condition to seek them out, which is the conveniancy 
 of soner changing any of your ships that may be defective then in any 
 other place, and as to their coming in upon you there by the Needles, 
 I thinke there can be no danger in that, for the same wind which must 
 bring them in there would carry you out by S* Hellens, and you could 
 work to windward of them as De Ruyter did at Bullen bay, and the 
 same fate, or worse, might happen to them as did to our fleet in that 
 tyme, and should the wind chop about to the S. or S.E. they would be 
 in a very ill condition ; and now that I have sayd this to you I must 
 leave all to your judgment who are on the place, who can judg best 
 what is to be done, and I am sure will do what you thinke best for my 
 seruice ; 'tis late and I have not tyme to say more, t'will be the end of 
 this weeke before I thinke to leave this towne. 
 
 J. R." 
 
 [Endorsed.] November 12^ 1688. 
 Received 13 th , answered the same day. 
 
 J688, Nov. 12th, past 12 at night. Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to 
 Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " My last were two of yesterday's date, dispatched hence towards you, 
 the former about noone, the other about midnight. Since which T have 
 received your Lordshipp's of the same date, with one enclosed to his 
 Majestie, whose contents doe shew that mine of the 10th was not then, 
 arrived with you, though this of your Lordshipp's to me does observe 
 something upon that very head which made up the greatest part of mine, 
 namely, the shortness of the Dutch fleet (as it is described in the account 
 you sent his Majestie with the rest of the Dutch papers) both in number 
 and quality of ships from what wee had all of us, both at sea and on 
 shore been led to reckon it. Concerning which your Lordshipp had on 
 that score sufficient occasion of questioning, whether it might not be 
 the state of that fleet before the last storme, since which more and 
 greater ships may possibly have been added thereto. Whereas his 
 Majesty and my Lords his ministers did (from the manner of its being 
 sent, together with its date, and the place and person from whom it was 
 sent, and above all the person to whom and for whose satisfaction it was 
 wrote), conclude, upon full consideration of it, it ought to be looked 
 upon as an authentick account to be relyed on, of the number and force 
 of the Prince's fleet, as it stood with the Prince at the time of his 
 descent, when it was dated from Torbay, and accordingly it was that by 
 the King's and their command I did in my said letter take care to express 
 to you, for your surer goverment therein, the credit the King and his 
 ministers did give to this account at the same time that they directed my 
 sending you the comparison you had from me in the letter of the force 
 and number of the two fleets. And soe sensible I both then was, and 
 have since been of the importance of my doing all I can to prevent any 
 possibility of being misled from that list to the undervaluing of the 
 Holland's fleet, that I made it my care in my letter to you last night 
 to prompt you to the seeking what additional light you could in the 
 matter from the master of the packett boat, from whom the late papers 
 and that (among the rest) was taken. 
 
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 artmouth's "^ Ut tw ° ev ^ ences nave since hapened greatly to the coroborate- 
 MfcS. b in g tne King's beleive of the present validity of the paper ; one is, a 
 — letter I have this day received from Watts the postmaster at Deale (a 
 copie of which* I inclose) makeing (by the testimony of some vessells 
 come into the Downes from the westward, and passed through the Dutch 
 fleet) the number thereof, I mean the men of warr, the very same in 
 number, within 2 or 3, with that mentioned in this account, the difference 
 also (such as it is) being also on the lower side. The other is, that which 
 the King is above all soe satisfied with, as by this very conveyance to 
 send you the originall thereof, namely, a Scotch man, who has served as 
 a mate in the Dutch fleet for 8 months past, and has now deserted it, 
 and is come from Torbay on purpose to serve his Majesty, both in his 
 person and by his intelligence, which in the maine, as to the point in 
 question, is, that there [their] fleet did not at his leaveing it, exceed 
 in men of warr great and small the number of 44, and those but of 
 moderate force, in very indifferent case as to the bodies of the shipps, 
 meanly manned both as to number and quality of their men, and 
 victualled but for 6 months at the time of their last comeing out. The 
 man seems to be a bred seaman, pretends to have been master of good 
 ships, to have sprung from the same town of trade in Scotland with 
 Captain Michell (whose acquaintance he is, though he has not mett 
 with him in the fleet) and represented to the King by my Lord 
 Melfort as one that deserves beleife. On which score, and for that also 
 of the man himself, is both willing and desirous to serve the King in 
 his fleet, as he has heretofore done, his Majesty has been pleased to 
 putt him into cloaths, and 51. in his purse, and to send him to your 
 Lordshipp, to make the best use you can, both of his service and infor- 
 mation, for the sake of which latter (whatever he may have been in the 
 former) his Majesty conceives his comeing may be of use to you. And 
 soe you may expect him in the company of your last messenger, by 
 whom I send this. 
 
 Next, to the other great point, wherein with much reason you desire 
 satisfaction, I mean in the construction of the orders given you by his 
 Majestie in view of a descent then to be made, and not actually made as 
 it now is ; his Majesty with the advice of all my Lords this night at the 
 Cabinet, have determined upon your being authorised to proceed against 
 this fleet, in the same hostile manner in all respects, now the descent is 
 made, as you were before obliged to doe, had it been your fortune to 
 have mett it at sea, in it's way to the making the said descent. And 
 this I every moment expect to receive his Majesty's warrant in pur- 
 suance of, under his own hand, countersigned by my Lord Middleton, 
 as an act of State. 
 
 For what concernes your disposal of the flyboat and what other litle 
 vessells attending this Holland's fleet as transporters, which are already 
 or may hereafter, fall into your hands, I did in mine of the 10 th inst* 
 give you an account of his Majesty's present resolution therein, and 
 the grounds of it relateing to the preservation of our own commerce, 
 and least that should not be clear enough, I am this night required to 
 express the same more clearly to your Lordshipp that the King would 
 have the said vessels and their own companies forthwith discharged. 
 Which for saveing time your Lordshipp may be pleased to give your 
 present orders in, and I will be accomptable to your Lordshipp, to 
 supply you by the very next conveyance with his Majesty's own orders 
 to you for it ; he haveing been pleased, to doe the same this very night 
 
 * Not now with the letter. 
 
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 here, for the discharging a Flemish Pink that for want of orders, or Eael op 
 not knowing his waj, came stumbling up the river as high as Hole Dartmouth's 
 Haven, and was there seized by Captain Hastings with 30 (says the 
 skipper) with but 24 horses says Captain Hastings. 
 
 And now, my Lord, as to the last particular wherein both in your 
 more particular letter to me (which I very thankfully acknowledge the 
 receipt of) and that to his Majestie, you doe with a great deal of cause 
 desire to receive effectual directions from his Majesty in, or at least a 
 plaine signification of his Majesty's opinion what may, as matters now 
 stand, with respect to both fleetes, and the season of the yeare, be most 
 advisable to be done for his service, in the very next stepps you are 
 now to make, I did humbly move his Majesty to doe what it appeared 
 he was actually doing at my moveing it, namely, give you his mind 
 therein himself under his own hand. And this I expect every moment * 
 to receive from him, to goe to you in this packett ; and doubt not but 
 it will sett you fully at ease in that matter also. 
 
 Orders are also issued out for the speedy fitting of the Kent and 
 Warspite ; as also for refitting the Centurion at Chatham, when you 
 shall send her in, and the Assurance at Sheerness. 
 
 All the furtherance that can, shall be given to your haveing of 
 Captain George Aylmer, and Captain Gifford with you, and the like for 
 the Hampton Court and Tyger-Prize. But how it comes to pass that 
 you have not the logg-shipps yet with you, nor that wee know soe much 
 as where they be, is a thing very extraordinary, and a great fault it will 
 be either in your Lordshipp or me, or both, if as extraordinary an 
 account be not taken of it when it shall be seasonable. 
 
 Just in this place a paper is brought me from Lord Middleton which 
 I here inclose,* containing (as your Lordshipp will easily judge by the 
 whole scope of it) the King's order to you pursuant to the resolution 
 within mentioned, though by the hast that has been made in the dis- 
 patch of it I find it wants being directed in forme to your Lordshipp.. 
 Nor will the time of night (it being now past midnight) admit of my 
 looking after it's being supplied. However, for your present satisfaction, 
 I think it fit for me to send it you as it is, and will charge myself with 
 getting another from the Secretary's Office that shall be perfect. 
 
 Divers particulars there are now that I have to say to your Lordshipp, 
 but I have soe many other matters to dispatch, elsewhere this very night 
 that I shall rather borrow time till anon, then straine to doe them now. . 
 to the omitting the present dispatch of some other things more pressing. 
 This only I must not delay the acquainting your Lordshipp with, 
 namely, that as I have not long since ehewhere mentioned, and your 
 Lordshipp too, has not on your part neither been unmindfull of it, the 
 King is greatly concerned for the doing all that may be towards the 
 present supporting of commerce by preventing any interruptions that 
 may at this juncture happen thereto. In consequence whereof his 
 Majestie by the advice also of my Lords of the Treasury has in his eye, 
 that divers rich shipps may in all probability be within a litle time 
 expected home ; and that on the consideration it might be of benefit 
 to him, as well as to his subjects that some care were taken for their 
 being advised, as they come into the Channel, of the state of matters 
 between the Dutch and us, soe as that they may be cautioned against 
 comeing in the way of the Dutch more than is necessary in their passing- 
 through. To which end the King proposes and has comanded me to 
 signifye the same to your Lordshipp (as £ now doe) that your Lordshipp 
 
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 would appoint someone or more of your small tenders, (which you 
 shall think most proper for it) either themselves to proceed to the 
 westward, and continue soe long as you shall judge convenient for them 
 to stay upon that station, plying between Scilly and Ushant, dilligently 
 looking out for all such his Majesty's subjects ships, and advertiseing 
 them (as before) in such manner as you shall be pleased by an instruction 
 in writeing to direct them ; or in case your Lordshipp shall have reason 
 to think that the same may be better done by vessells to be sett out for 
 this purpose from Plymouth or Falmouth ; that then your Lordshipp 
 will be pleased to send some one vessell directly to Falmouth, (Ply- 
 mouth not being thought safe at this time by reason of the Dutch to be 
 gone into, though it may at any time by night be gone out of) with a 
 discreet person on board directed by your Lordshipp to repaire by land 
 to Plymouth, (or where else he shall be) to my Lord of Bath, notifying 
 the King's desire herein, that his Lordshipp may cause the same to be 
 executed by vessells to be to that purpose fitted forth from either of 
 those ports, or any other on that coast, to the purpose aforesaid. The 
 reasonable charge whereof his Majesty is pleased himself to promise the 
 defraying of. J ' 
 
 1688, Nov. 12th, Whitehall.— Original Order of James II. (counter- 
 signed by Lord Middleton) commanding Lord Dartmouth to attack the 
 Dutch fleet or any part of it when and wherever he shall meet it. 
 
 1688, Nov. 13th, Sheerness. — Sir Charles Lyttleton to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. Captain Clement has this morning brought orders from Mr. 
 Pepys that the prisoners are to be delivered to him (Clement) again. 
 Comments on a proposed transfer of officers and workmen from Chatham 
 dockyard. 
 
 1688, Nov. 13th, Sheerness. — Captain John Clements to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. On the 10th he landed and placed his prisoners with Sir Charles 
 Lyttleton, but had that morning received orders to take them on board 
 again and carry them to Greenwich. 
 
 1688, Nov. 13th, Admiralty.— Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 " Though now for severall dayes together no one has passed without my 
 giveing your Lordshipp the trouble of one or more of my letters, and 
 those none of them short ones ; yet there are severall particulars, which 
 in the multitude of other matters I (upon a review just now made of 
 the whole of what has lately passed between your Lordshipp and me) 
 find to have escaped my mention to you, though not my care of answer- 
 ing in the effects ; as farr at least as lies in my power ; of which be 
 pleased to take these that follow. 
 
 First, I have taken care by M r Hunter to advise the gentlemen of the 
 Trinity House to provide for the imediate relaying of the buoys lately 
 taken up in the mouth of the river. Who tell me that the same will 
 be without delay done. 
 
 Your Lordshipp shall not want as early account as I can give you 
 (and which I hourly expect from the officers of the navy) of their pro- 
 ceedings towards the takeing up of the six fireships last ordered. Nor 
 will your Lordshipp let me want an account of what you find your self 
 able to doe, on the like account where you are ; for this reason among 
 the rest, that by knowing what monie you are like to be called upon for 
 out of your contingencies for the charge thereof, I may be enabled to 
 move his Majestie for it's being supplied you by further summes from 
 hence ; as in one of yours you desire. 
 
 As for those of your old stock of fireships which you desire to have 
 hastned to you, you may please to know, that the Roebuck sailed on 
 
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 Munday, and the Half-Moone and the Charles on Saturday last from Earl of 
 
 Sheerness, as I have understood from Captain Wilford, soe that I doe DaR ms£ TH * 
 
 not know of any remaineing behind but the Sampson, whose condition, — - 
 
 (as well for sayling as otherwise) being judged unfit, and unlikely to be 
 
 made otherwise for the serving you at sea, some of her men were made 
 
 use of, for the manning out of the Roebuck, and she her self will (unless 
 
 you desire otherwise) be kept where she now is for the service of the 
 
 Medway. And for the Mermaide, you know she is come home from 
 
 haveing been long abroad, and brought home for the sake of her defects, 
 
 soe that she has had a great deal of work done to her, for putting her 
 
 into a condition of sea-service againe, besides that of turning her into a 
 
 fireshipp ; but all the dispatch has been made that could be, in the 
 
 doing of it, soe as I am told, she will be out of the carpenter's hands 
 
 this week ; and then I trust you will not long be without her. 
 
 As to what your Lordshipp mentions with very just trouble touching 
 the effects of the late stormy weather, upon some of your ships ; as they 
 come in (such I meane of them as you shall think to require it ; for 
 what can be remedied abroad, I am sure you will have it to be done 
 there) all dispatch will be used for the refitting forth such, whose defects 
 will bear it. As by her survey the King is in hopes the Assurance will ; 
 and possibly also the Centurion, If not ; some ships I hope will be found 
 capable of being made ready in a very little time for their companies to 
 be turned over into. For your more perfect information in which, I 
 think it not bee amiss to give you this short and plaine view of what 
 may be expected on this occasion ; which is, that of the 4 th rates, 
 besides what are abroad at sea, (or now going out to you, namely, the 
 Portland, Tyger-pvize and Phoenix) there are but 3 remaining in the 
 whole navy in harbour, that have received their repaires, namely, the 
 Sweepstakes, Mary gaily and James galley, and those 3 all at Deptford ; 
 the whole number remaineing of that rate in the navy (besides those 
 here undernamed which have been lately sent in) being but 3, and those 
 all of them in dock under repaire, namely, the Happy -Returne and 
 Oxford at Woolwich, and the Kingfisher at Deptford. And for the 5 tb 
 rates, you know wee have none now subsisting, but what are turned into 
 fireships, the Saphire only and the Rose excepted, the former of which 
 is abroad in the Sally squadron and the latter at New England. What 
 therefore your Lordshipp has to expect to be supplied with, besides 
 those three 4 th rates, viz*, the Sweepstakes and the 2 gallies, it must be 
 had out of the 3 ds , for the King will not think of those of higher rank 
 for this season, nor would your Lordshipp I believe be very forward in 
 calling for the new great third rates, soe long as there are any of the 
 lesser remaineing to be had, of which what I have already acquainted 
 you with touching the Hampton- Court' s being appointed for Captain 
 Preistman, and the Kent and the Warspight's (at your late instance) 
 for Sir Roger Strickland, the former at Chatham, and the latter at 
 Portsmouth, there are these further three, that may be next soonest 
 made ready, as haveing been ordered for some time to have their rigging 
 put up, namely, the Dunkirk and Edgar at Portsmouth, and the Suffolk 
 at Chatham ; and if the service shall yet require more, you have the 
 whole remainder of that rate to make your choice out of, saveing the 
 Royall Oake and Monk, which I think are the only two, of that rank 
 now in harbour resting to be repaired. 
 
 Of which the latter has been for some time, and is at this day in 
 hand at Portsmouth. And thus, my Lord, you have a full view before 
 you, of the present posture of the whole navy, for answering of the 
 service his Majesty shall have for the same ; it seeming to me very 
 expedient that your Lordshipp should not want the perfect knowledge 
 
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 thereof, in order to your being the better able to governe your self In 
 your desires and advice on all future occasions relateing to the same 
 
 I take especiall notice, and both am and shall be very mindfull of your 
 demands touching stores, particularly anchors, cables, sayles, and long- 
 boates, by my frequent minding of the officers of the navy therein : your 
 Lordshipp rightly observing, that how considerable soever an enemy the 
 fleet of Holland may be thought to be, the season of the year is a more 
 certain e one, and must therefore be provided against as such ; And I 
 hope I shall not be long without being able to give your Lordshipp some 
 account of the proceedings of the Navy officers relateing thereto. In 
 the mean time let me beseech you to think of the necessity the King is 
 already, and will every day more and more be under, of expecting all 
 wayes of good husbandry in the expense of his stores, by comanders 
 being prevailed with (as much as is possible) to take to heart the 
 lavishness and practises of under officers, in their expendings thereof. 
 For should a formal warr break out (as I think it not possible for it to 
 be long prevented) were the King's purse much fuller then for many 
 reasons I dare take it to be, navall stores will by the scarceness of the 
 market be very soon brought beyond the power of monie presently to 
 procure. 
 
 And on this head, pray be pleased to enquire whether the anchors 
 and cables that were lately left behind by the Bonadventure, Swallow, and 
 Foresight had not buoys left with them, in order to their recovery, to 
 the end the same may be done. 
 
 And for what your Lordshipp found to be the case of the storekeeper 
 at Deale, it is noe more then it has al wayes been in time of peace, not 
 only there, but also at Harwich and Sheerness, with one person only 
 left at some small sallary under the name of storekeeper for the answering 
 any litle accidentall occasion which the officers of the Navy may happen 
 to have of employing one, in the intervall of warr. 
 
 I find that I might have saved the late trouble I gave your Lordshipp 
 about sending up the Dutch officers, Captain Clements haveing given 
 me an account since of his being come with them to Sheerness. From 
 whence I have by command of the King (who is very earnest to have 
 them here) been ledd to direct Captain Clements to bring them up hither, 
 but without any intention of keeping him one hour from attending your 
 Lordshipp againe. 
 
 I should be very glad to hear of the effects of your Lordshipp's enquiries 
 touching the performances of the fishermen's and watermen's companies, 
 I haveing very great reason to doubt that they will be found to have 
 served the King very slightly, but more especially the former. For 
 whereas the watermen doe press for the greatest part very raw young 
 men, unfit yet for your use, yet still they are of their own company ; 
 whereas the fishermen, after all the noise that they have made to the 
 King, and favours they have received from him, upon the score of their 
 capacity and readiness to supply him out of their own fraternity with 
 thousands able to serve him at the seas, they appear to make use of 
 their press warrants in rakeing up from all ends of the town, and the 
 most scandalously, persons of all sortes, but that only which they should 
 be of; namely, fishermen, or at least seamen. And here mentioning 
 of seamen, it gives me occasion of observing Sir Francis Wheeler's 
 double misfortune ; first in the almost looseing of his shipp, and then in 
 the totall desertion of soe many of his men. 
 
 Your Lordshipp observing to me that you kept noe copies of the papers 
 you sent me out of the Dutch packett boat, gives me occasion of telling 
 you that every paper of each parcell has been safely delivered to the 
 King himself, and by his command afterwards into my Lord Middleton's 
 
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 office to M r Bridgeman, in order more especially to the translating for Earl of 
 the King's use those that are in Dutch. The others in French and AB mss." 
 English I had the reading of to his Majesty, and then delivered them — 
 with the rest to M r Bridgeman, saveing some few of more moment 
 which the King thought fitt to keep in his own hand. 
 
 I question not but the King's last night's letter to your Lordshipp 
 will be of great satisfaction, not only to your self, but to those flagg- 
 officers and comandsrs about you, to whom you shall think fitt to com- 
 municate the same. Upon which not knowing what will be the result 
 of your next debates, whether as to your going westward, or staying 
 where the fleet now is, I thought it fitt for me to send your Lord- 
 shipp a copie of a letter from Sir Richard Beach to me, praying the 
 presence of a friggat or two at Portsmouth. 
 
 Captain George Aylmer and Captain Gifford are useing all their 
 dilligence to get to your Lordshipp, and I trust in God (the wind 
 favouring them) it will not be long before you hear of them in the 
 Downes. 
 
 Reguard is had to the length to your provitions, and the victuallers 
 quickned in their provideing of recruites accordingly." 
 
 In a postscript M r Pepys adds, " My last was of yesterday at mid- 
 night, with one to your Lordshipp from the King." 
 
 A list of five ships lately sent in from the fleet follows. 
 
 The copy of the letter from Sir Richard Beach, referred to in the 
 above letter, is dated the 10th of November 1688, and is as follows : — 
 
 " I recommended to your Honour's consideration whether you judge it 
 not fitt that his Majestie would order a man of warr or two for this 
 place with a fireship upon any suddaine occasion to ride at Spitthead, 
 for an enirnie may be forced by bad weather to putt into S* Hellens (as 
 there were 3 the other day (which if wee had had a frigot or two ready, 
 with a fireship we had certainely gain'd or destroy'd them (besides) for 
 gaining intelligence, for sending a convoy, or severali other occasions 
 there may be for a man of warr or two to be there ; and whither or noe 
 (if there should be any sudden occasion offer) the Spragg fireship may 
 be made use off, or whether the Unity fireship or any other may not 
 be sent be sent back hither againe." 
 
 With the above letter is the following copy of a letter from Mr. Watts, 
 the Postmaster of Deal, dated the 11th of November, apparently the 
 one referred to in Mr. Pepys's previous letter. 
 
 " I thought good to give your honour an account that there is two 
 shipps come into the Downes that came from France and Malaga, which 
 mett with the Dutch fleet and comanded the masters of these two 
 shipps on board and kept them three days on board one of the Dutch 
 men of war, and they say that the Dutch men of warr are a cruizeing off 
 a [of] Tar Bay and the small shipps are in and they say there may be 45 
 saile of capitall shipps, and 19 saile of fire shipps. The Lieutenant 
 of the Dutch man of warr told them they was designed for Plymouth. 
 And is what I can advise your honour." 
 
 In a postscript he adds, " They met these Dutch fleet on Thursday 
 last.'' 
 
 On the same sheet of paper with the above is the following " Extract 
 of a letter of the 16 th of November from the Hague to the King from the 
 Marquess De Albeville." 
 
 " On the 10 th the Prince sett sayle, and stayed beyond the banks of 
 Sands till the return of Eullenstyn from some creek or place upon the 
 coasts of England, where he was to meet somebody ; at his returne 
 which was upon Friday towards night, he brought confirmation of what 
 
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 was sent by a French refugie of your Majesty's Guards, that your Majestie 
 had 30,000 men well disciplined, and that were resolved to stick to you ; 
 that your Majestie had given such good orders in all places towards the 
 north, that the Prince could not do better, than land somewhere in 
 the west where your Majesty does not expect him ; that men, nor 
 horses, nor provisions can be wanting in them parts, where men and 
 townes would not faile to declare for him ; that he could land even at 
 Eey [Rye] very well and comodiously free, and open ; that he might 
 make an attempt upon the Isle of Wight, in passing by to Poole haven, 
 where the whole fleet could lay conveniently ; that there was nothing 
 to be feared, since the French King had no shipps at Dunkirk, nor 
 Calais, and that taking his course he could eschew an engagement with 
 your Majesty's fleet; a councill of warr being presently called, where 
 Dickfelt, and Baron de Heebreren first Comissioner for forreigne 
 affaires were present, being yet with the Prince, it was resolved 
 immediately to sett sayle [to sett sayle] towards the west ; all the 
 fisherboats at Scheveling were commanded to sayle the next day towards 
 Dover ; they are come back since. 
 
 Foure regiments more of foott are comanded to be embarked, and 
 sayle afte, to be conducted by some men of warr; the regiments of 
 Cowerdon, of Count Jean de Home, and two others. 
 
 All the men of warr remaineing yett in the sea ports, are a makeing 
 ready, and all the new shipps are ordered to be imediately finished ; 
 those of Amsterdam, as well as such as are in the other provinces." 
 
 1688, Nov. 13th, Whitehall. — Order of James II., countersigned by 
 Pepys, addressed to Admiral Lord Dartmouth, for setting at liberty a 
 certain flyboat, with her master and company, taken by the Foresight 
 with soldiers on board belonging to the Dutch forces ; and to do the 
 like with any other small vessels attending the Hollands fleet as trans- 
 porters which might fall into his hands. 
 
 1688, Nov. 13th. — Certificate of Captain George Churchill and 
 other officers of the ship Newcastle regarding her leaky state. 
 
 1688, Nov. 13th, Ostend. — James Hamilton and Lynch (wine 
 merchants ?) to Francis Rooth. Reports about the Dutch fleet, &c. 
 From Amsterdam they hear that the fleet sailed on the 11th with 
 intention to land about Newcastle (copy sent to Lord Dartmouth). 
 
 1688, Nov. 14th, Whitehall. — Francis Gwyn to Lord Dartmouth. 
 His Majesty having restored all Charters again since the year 1679, 
 notwithstanding their surrenders, this morning a gentleman from 
 Portsmouth was with him to enquire where their Charter was, which 
 was surrendered in Lord Conway's time. He had since looked and found 
 it amongst his old papers, and had informed the gentleman that the 
 town must first address their request to his Lordship for the return of 
 the Charter. 
 
 1688, Nov. 14th, Ship Resolution. — Directions by Lord Dartmouth, 
 in case of separation of the fleet. If the wind be easterly to 
 rendezvous at St. Helen's ; if westerly, Spithead or Plymouth Sound, 
 according to circumstances. 
 
 1688, Nov. 14th, Basingstoke. — Sir Henry Shere to Lord Dartmouth. 
 — His long sickness and sudden departure upon the King's commands 
 to march will excuse him for having written so seldom. They are 
 marched to this place in good order, where they halt a day, and pursue 
 their rout to Salisbury to-morrow. Never did any train of this extent 
 march with less disorder ; they stretch at least 4 miles, are 1,500 horses 
 
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 and 250 carriages, whereof they have not left one behind since they left Earl o* 
 London. Will give his Lordship a faithful and punctual account of all AE Ss UTI 
 occurrences. — 
 
 1688, Nov. 15th, Ship Resolution. — Instructions of Lord Dartmouth 
 to John Lord Berkeley of the ship Montague as to the manner of his 
 attacking the Dutch fleet ; and similar instructions to Captain Frederick 
 Frowd of the ship Ruby. 
 
 1688, Nov. 16th, On board the ship Leyden under sail towards 
 
 Torbay. — H. Cron to . After describing the sailing of 
 
 the Prince's fleet on the 11th inst., and the progress made on the 
 12th and 13th, the writer goes on, " The 14th about 9 o'clock we 
 got sight of the Isle of Wight, the same bearing N.W. and by N. about 
 4 miles off, and after consultation with the Sieur Benting, the Lord 
 Russell, and Admiral Evertsen, and having advised with some English 
 pilots, it was resolved, seeing the easterly wind continued according to 
 wish, to pass by the said island, and continued our course towards the 
 river Exmouth between Portland and the Start, the Lieutenant 
 Admiral General [Herbert] ordering in the mean time the Captain 
 Vander Saan to cruise near the island, and to give notice to such ships 
 
 as might lay behind to follow to Exmouth his Highness 
 
 was resolved to land at the same time at Dartmouth and in Torbay. 
 Towards evening we saw the point of Portland, and drove most of the 
 night following. The 15th in the morning the wind came southerly, 
 being thick weather, about 9 it cleared up ; the Start bore W. and by S. 
 and Torbay N.W. 4 miles from us, his Highness being near the shore 
 stood with the vessels for transportation directly towards Dartmouth, 
 but the wind coming westerly and contrary for our sailing into that bay, 
 his Highness was obliged to pass by it, and to stand with the whole 
 fleet into Torbay, where about noon he came to an anchor, and immedi- 
 ately made the sign to land, which was a red flag under his ordinary 
 flag ; upon which the landing was begun with great diligence and order, 
 the foot landing first, and afterward the artillery and cavalry, the 
 Lieutenant Admiral Herbert being in the mean time under sail without 
 the bay with the men of war and fireships to cover the vessels for 
 transportation against any attack of the enemy, and to secure the troops 
 in their landing. I knew how greatly his Elect Serenity (sic) is concerned 
 in the success of this glorious landing, and yourself who have the 
 ministry under him, and therefore thought it would not be unaccept- 
 able to you that I acquainted you with these few particulars in 
 acknowledgment of the many favours, &c. 
 
 H. Cron." 
 
 " I send you herewith the divisions of the fleet, and the plan how 
 the troops are now on shore." 
 
 [The Leyden, on which this letter was written, was Admiral 
 Herbert's ship.] 
 
 1688, Nov. 16th, Portsmouth. — Thomas Phillips to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Is not a little troubled to be thus long without hearing. Has spoken 
 with several men that have passed the Dutch fleet which are at Torbay, 
 Dartmouth, &c. ; the number of men is uncertain, but their fleet 
 consists of 70 men of war and fire ships, the tenders and flyboats 
 400 sail more. " The Prince landed the train in the river Ex at 
 Toppsom ; when they were drawn up to march abreast of each carriage 
 they reached near f of a mile upon the strand. They were up at the 
 great house by the wood and had like to have burnt it were it not 
 forbidden — two or three persons killed. 
 
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 Earl of t " Near Portsmouth of Dutch ships there have been — first two great 
 DAS mss™ H ' 8 flyboats and a man of war with them which had on board 1,800. They 
 — met with the Fanfan, who drew them into 4 fathom water upon the 
 Horse ; they were very positive their fleet were at Cowes but taking 
 a pilot of the Island of Wight where they were ashore they were 
 informed where their fleet was. They inquired what Papists were in 
 the island and where the King was, and they thought to have landed 
 two boat loads of men ; but seeing there was like to be some opposition 
 by the moving of two companies commanded by Major Knight, they 
 retired on board that boat which was first on shore, paid for what the) 
 eat and drank and made many protestations of friendship. 
 
 On Sunday last came in a Vice- Admiral chasing the Mary yacht, about 
 12 of the clock, and stood for Stokes Bay to discover where their fleet 
 was at Cowes. We shot from the upper stone platform out of one 
 of the two angle guns which reached him and fell very near his stern ; 
 he struck his flag and topsails, saluted and came to an anchor to view 
 the ships and the harbour. He weighed in the evening and went 
 
 to sea Preparations at Portsmouth Dick 
 
 Wharton gone to Plymouth, having orders to put himself in there, but 
 now it is too late. The writer told him to burn his papers and instruc- 
 tions and go towards Bristol, but it is now said that they are in parties 
 as far as Bridgewater, so there is no passage for him that way, and by 
 sea they spread over to the Casquetts that no vessel can pass without 
 examination. Here is a man that dined with Admiral Herbert last 
 week in Torbay who lives very splendidly. Mitchell and Votier (?) are 
 with him, so that if there be no better we need not trouble ourselves, 
 they being not persons of any great design. 
 
 Yesterday in the evening came a letter from the Duke of Berwick's 
 officers from Salisbury giving an account that the Duke's regiment, 
 Lord Cornbury's and Lord St. Albans', were betrayed into the enemy's 
 hands ; very few officers escaped, only Clifford and Litleton who 
 fought their way through. Most of the men proved more loyal than 
 the officers, and come dropping in daily to Salisbury, as they make 
 their escape. The King has ordered all the foot to march towards 
 London again. Sir John Southcott lately come in confirms the report 
 that the Holland troops are near Salisbury — if so we shall be sensible in 
 a short time who will be uppermost in Portsmouth unless more forces 
 be sent; those here are not so welcome as could be wished for the 
 King's sake." 
 
 Wishes Lord Dartmouth near the King, who is now perhaps in want 
 of those capable of serving him. Has daily orders to do things, but no 
 money or assistance. The Queen and Prince are expected, but God 
 grant them a better residence than this will be. 
 
 1688, Nov. 17th, London. — Viscount Preston to Lord Dartmouth. 
 " My dear Lord, 
 
 I have received your Lordship's very kind letter of the loth 
 instant, and was very glad to find by it that you were in good health 
 which I hope God will continue to you. I wish you all the success that 
 may bee in whatsoever you undertake, and I must assure you that not- 
 withstanding the malice of a party at court which already almost 
 wrought our destruction, your Lordship is extremely safe and happy 
 in the King's justice to you, who knowethand hath declared publicly and 
 privately that it was impossible for you to take other measures than you 
 did, when the Dutch passed by you. Hee is this afternoone gone for 
 Windsor, and hath taken the Prince with him in order to leave him at 
 Portsmouth. The Queen stayeth here for some time. God give him 
 
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 good successe, and grant him a safe returne. God of heaven send us a d^mouth' 
 good meeting, and preserve you. You may bee assured that I shall bee mss. 
 watchfull over whatever concernes you, and shall ever remaine, my 
 dear Lord, your Lordship's most affectionate freind and most humble 
 servant." 
 
 16S8, Nov. 17th, Aboard the Resolution under sail off the east end of 
 the Isle of Wight. — Lord Dartmouth to Lord Berkeley. Notwithstand- 
 ing his orders to Lord Berkeley yesterday to go to Portsmouth to refit 
 or change his ship (which ever could be soonest done) he could not 
 part from him without a friendly notice that he was fully purposed to 
 proceed towards Torbay to find out the Dutch fleet, and make such 
 attack upon them as he could judge would be most for his Majesty's 
 honour and service. As he cannot expect Lord Berkeley's company in this 
 action, if the latter goes into Portsmouth, recommends his Lordship's 
 staying with the fleet, if he finds his ship in any tolerable condition 
 for it. 
 
 1688, Nov. 17th, 6 in the evening, from Spithead. — John Lord Berkeley 
 to Lord Dartmouth. Thanks for his friendly advice, which he would 
 have followed had he not got too far within the island. Has now con- 
 sidered that if the Dutch are in Torbay, what action can happen will 
 be to-morrow, and if he can sail to-morrow he will not be able to get 
 thither by night ; and though his masts and bowsprit might stand to carry 
 him there, yet he is not in a condition to lie by or go upon a wind in 
 weather that is likely to happen at this time of year, as the several 
 surveys upon his ship have testified. Thanks his Lordship for his tender 
 consideration of his honour which he believes few that know him would 
 question ; and if they did does not doubt but his Lordship would justify 
 him, knowing that before this unlucky accident no man in the fleet was 
 more ready in all respects than himself. His comfort is, though there 
 are many backbiters in the world, none will say they question his courage 
 to his face, and what otherwise they talk all mankind are liable to. (See 
 Nov. 21, post.) 
 
 1688, Nov. 20th, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " Supposeing the present alteration of weather, and the change of 
 winds may happyly bring you to Portsmouth, since the advices from 
 thence of your being gone to the westward, I send this thither in 
 hopes of meeting you, as well to acknowledge my receipt of the honour 
 of your two last of the 13th and 15th instant, as to bring you answers 
 thereto in such particulars as require the same, or may be otherwise neces- 
 sary for mee, upon other occasions, to say anything to your lordshipp 
 upon. 
 
 And first, as to what you are pleased to mention touching the mag- 
 nifying of our fleet in the list of comparison between that and the Dutch, 
 which I sent you by the King's comand, I pray leave to tell you, that the 
 same was done from the two lists as they appeared then to me, and with 
 an entire submission to any correction which should be thought fitt to be 
 made by your Lordshipp therein, tho' I must needs say, in defence of the 
 paper I sent you, drawne up from the materialls I had putt in my hand 
 to that purpose, that I cannot see wherein the flagg-officers had any 
 reason to complaine of any mistake in that comparison ; for, besides 
 that the shipps which they say were not with the fleet at the time of the 
 comparison was made, did come to it (every shipp, except the Roebuch 
 firesliipp) before your Lordshipp's closeing your letter, I had all the reason 
 in the world from the accounts received of their saileing, to conclude and 
 and depend upon it, that they would be with your fleet before your 
 receiving my letter, as they were, (all but the Roebuck ) in very little 
 
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 Eael of time after. And for the defective shipps which you sett off in the inargine 
 VR MSsY TH S m y° ur Lordshipp' s letter, as I could not foresee that, soe your Lordshipp 
 — finds the comparison to reach only to the number and force of the shipps 
 of each side, without regarding their condition of serviceableness, or un- 
 serviceableness of either, whereof (on our part) your Lordshipp is the 
 only judge, and therefore (as I said before) the whole was submitted to 
 your consideration and judgment. 
 
 His Majesty very well approves of your caution in the discharge of 
 the Brandenburgher, and has comanded mee (according to your desire sig- 
 nifyed by M r Bowles) to deliver up tlie papers which were taken in him, 
 relateing to his private affaires, which I shall be ready to doe, to whom- 
 ever shall demand the same. And I think there is noe others in the 
 latter parcell your Lordshipp sent me in the bagg. 
 
 His Majesty was pleased to approve of the reasons you give for your 
 resolving to forbear sending any friggots to the northward to look after 
 the other shipps, said to be comeing from Holland, by the advices sent 
 you from M r Sandford. Of which I don't know of any late advices that 
 have come to his Majesty. 
 
 The Centurion came up to Chatham last Saturday, and will be brought 
 into the dock the next spring, in order to her being refitted, with all 
 dilligence. Her comander and company are turned over into the Kent, 
 and I doubt not will be ready (with the Hampton- Cow t) to saile to day 
 or to morrow into the Hope, and from thence as soone as they can be 
 manned and fitted (in which I doubt not of the utmost endeavours of the 
 officers of the Navy, as well as their comanders) to your Lordshipp to the 
 Spitthead, or where else you shall bee. 
 
 The officers of the Navy are very busy in looking out for the six 
 fireshipps to be taken up for your fleet here, and I doubt not but to 
 heare of their haveing done the same in a very little time. In the meane 
 while, upon my application to his Majesty for his appointing Comanders 
 for them, I am to lett you know, that he was pleased to comand me to 
 apply myselfe to you for the proposeing such persons in your Fleet, as 
 you think best qualified for those offices, and in your soe doing to dis- 
 tinguish to which your Lordshipp esteems the prefference first due, that 
 if the number appointed shall not be all taken up, those may fare best, 
 who shall be first recomended by you. 
 
 And here I am by his Majestie's comand to mention one Captaine 
 Marshall to your Lordshipp, (who was Lieutenant of the W oolwich in 
 1679, and before that Comander of a small ketch and dogger) and 
 saies he is knowne to your Lordshipp, to whom I have nothing further to 
 say about him, then that I find his Majesty is disposed to bestow some 
 command of this sort upon him, if your Lordshipp shall be satisfyed 
 with his qualifications in all respects for it, and recomend him to his 
 Majestie's favour for such an employment. 
 
 Nor must I pass over this perticular about these fireshipps, without 
 adding, that the officers of the Navy tell me, that the greatest reason 
 of their backwardness in takeing them up, arises from their resolution 
 that they shall all be shipps of larger and better quality then have been 
 usually, (and indeed at any time) bought for fireshipps in the Navy, 
 which they find at this time not very easy to be come at, tho' I hope 
 noe diligence or endeavours have been wanting on their part. 
 
 And this I mention to your Lordshipp with some regard to your being 
 governed by it in your recomending of Comanders to the King for 
 them. 1 bear in remembrance your Lordshipp's caution given me some 
 time since touching the appointing of gunners for fireshipps, and your 
 desires that such as should he hereafter recomended to those offices 
 
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 might be examined by Captaine Leake the Master Gunner of England ; Earl of 
 to whom I lately applyed myselfe in the case of one desired by the DAS Mssy TH 1 
 Captaine of the Mermaid for his shipp, but finding the Captaine gone — 
 to the west with the traine of artillery, I find my selfe obliged to resort 
 to you for your Lordshipp's recomending, and sending up such persons 
 out of the fleet, as you shall think fitt to be putt into those employments 
 in these six shipps, not doubting but his Majesty will be pleased to 
 approve of, and appoint them thereto. 
 
 I observe your Lordshipp's mention only of two fireshipps which you 
 expected from Dover, but I find by a letter from M r Yearns the builder at 
 Dover to the Navy Board, that he had taken up and was fitting four, and 
 accordingly the King's orders have been sent to those gentlemen to 
 furnish him with money to answer the charges of that number, soe as 
 I doubt not but your Lordshipp will receive the addition thereof to your 
 Fleet. Praying you, as you shall think fitt to appoint Comanders or 
 other officers to them, to give me some account thereof, in order to my 
 acquainting his Majesty therewith, and takeing such notice of the same 
 in the Registry of this Office, as may be convenient, both with respect 
 to the King's service, and the rights of the persons. And this (since I 
 have mentioned it) I shall desire your Lordshipp to direct being done in 
 all like cases of your appointing officers of any kind to the shipps of your 
 Fleet. 
 
 The Katherine yacht is arriv'd with the Dutch officers, who are 
 comittedin custody by his Majesty here in towne, and the yacht is under 
 repaire at Deptford with all the dilligence that may bee. 
 
 The Assurance is also in hand at Sheerness, and will be dispatched 
 with the greatest expedition that can be expected from the Officers of 
 the Yard, without the assistance of her Comander, who has been pleased 
 to absent himselfe from the shipp for severall daies, both without the 
 King's leave, and without anybody's knowing where he was, which I 
 neither did nor could forbear to acquaint His Majesty with. 
 
 According to what I promised and charged myselfe with in mine of 
 the 12th I here inclose you his *Majestie's Order, countersigned by my 
 Lord Middleton, directed to your Lordshipp, in the proper termes the 
 former should have been. 
 
 I also herewith send you the King's owne *Orders for your releasing 
 the flyboat which was taken by the Foresight, and for your doeing the 
 like to such other small vessels as may fall into your hands of the like 
 sort. 
 
 I moved his Majesty, upon what you mentioned to me about laying 
 downe the buoys at the river's mouth, who (upon consulting with the 
 Trinity House) finding that noe other inconvenience is likely to attend 
 the keeping them up then the charge of the vessells to lye at their 
 births, was pleased to direct, that they should not be replaced till further 
 order, but that the vessells should continue there to give warning to 
 our friends to avoid any danger therefrom. 
 
 The Roebuck sayled severall daies since from Sheerness, and is I 
 doubt not ere this with you, and the Mermaid will follow as soon as she 
 has received her provisions, gunners' stores, and gott her complement 
 of men. The Portland has laine in Longreach, manned, victualled, and 
 in all respects ready to saile, excepting the want of her guns, ever 
 since yesterday was sevenight. But I hope that hinderance is or will be 
 removed very speedily soe as your Lordshipp may very soon expect her 
 with you, her Comander George Aylmer (whom I leave to make his own 
 
 * Not now with the letter. 
 
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 tmouth* moane to jour Lordshipp, as he has Dot spared to doe to me, about his 
 MSS. want of his guns) haveing been extreamly dilligent in the getting her out, 
 and deserves to have the same allwaies remember'd by your Lordshipp 
 to his advantage, as I know the same will be by the King. I hope this 
 will meet your Lordshipp with your fleet well at the Spithead, soe as I 
 need not trouble you with any account concerning the condition of the 
 Yorke or the other shipps fitting there, all necessary orders haveing 
 been dispatch'd from hence, and the officers excited to use the utmost 
 diligence for their dispatch. 
 
 His Majesty approves very well of your regard to the husbandry of his 
 treasure in your overlooking of the demands made for stores, which is 
 not only of great concernment to him in that respect, but to another yet 
 greater, namely, that it is to be feared 3 if the present action continues 
 or grows upon him, navall comodities will (as I have heretofore 
 observed) be out of the power of money to purchase, at least for some 
 species of them, and for many within any reasonable time, soe as to be 
 of service to him. I observe the account you are pleased to give me of 
 the watermen and fishermen in the fleet, at least in such of the shipps 
 thereof, as you have received any account from about them, and when 
 you shall please to add thereto the like from the other shipps I shall 
 make the best use thereof I can to his Majestie's advantage, both in the 
 chequeing the accounts which shall be brought in by the officers of those 
 Companies, and the calling them to an account for their failures in the 
 complyance with his Majestie's expectations, and their own promises to 
 him in this matter. 
 
 Tho' I don't remember my having said to your Lordshipp (upon my 
 mention to you the receipt of the papers taken in the Branden- 
 burgher) that the list of the Dutch fleet was all that concerned your 
 Lordshipp among those papers, yet in truth it was soe, for there was not 
 one among them besides that, which in any manner related to the business 
 of the sea, or to their or our fleet, the letters being all filled either 
 with the account of their voyage from Holland hither, or relateing to 
 the private matters of the persons who wrote them ; that only excepted 
 which carryed the list of the fleet and plan of the army, which I received 
 at first from your Lordshipp. 
 
 In the advices from Portsmouth of the arrivall of the Mountague, 
 Constant- Warwick, Nonsuch and Unity fireshipp, 1 am very sorry to 
 find nothing yet said [of] the Anthelope, especially considering her 
 circumstances by the springing of the head of her mainmast, and the 
 ill weather she has had to encounter. But I hope our next will 
 bring us a good account of her. 
 
 I thank your Lordshipp for the sentences of the Court Martiall 
 held about the tryall of the Master of the Centurion, and pylott of the 
 S l Albans, and have sent the same to the Navy-Board, and the Trinity 
 House, in order to their takeing care that the King receives the 
 benefitt thereof, according to the intention of the said Court. 
 
 I herewith send your Lordshipp a supply* of instructions for Co- 
 manders and Lieutenants as you desire. 
 
 Your Lordshipp has done very well in takeing care for the recovering 
 of the anchors and cables lost by the S l Albans upon the Goodwin, and 
 those by the other shipps upon the Longsand's Head, and 'tis hoped 
 the same will thereby bee recovered. 
 
 As to what your Lordshipp proposes touching the manning of all the 
 third rates in order to the secureing of men for the fleet if there 
 should be occasion for them in the spring, I did not faile to lay the same 
 
 * Not now with the letter. 
 
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 before his Majesty, who did not seem disposed at present to embarque Earl of 
 himselfe into soe great a charge as the same must unavoidably bring Dar msS ti 
 upon him, at least, till from the event of your voyage to the westward, — 
 he should be brought to a nearer prospect (then he at present is) of 
 what strength his affaires may probably call for to be maintained at 
 sea, both now, and in the ensuing spring. 
 
 His Majesty upon the advice of the officers of the Navy touching the 
 provideing a storeshipp to attend your fleet, and the difficulty, charge 
 and length of time which will attend the takeing up and fitting a 
 Merchant-Man proper for it, has been pleased upon the advice of 
 the officers of the Navy on that behalfe to appoint one of his owne shipps, 
 the Sweepstakes, to be fitted for that service, which is now in hand, and a 
 magazine of stores prepareing to be putt on board her, soe as I hope 
 your Lordshipp may very soon expect her with you. 
 
 I think it fitt for me to acquaint you that upon a prospect of 
 our action at sea being likely to be seated westward, (considering the 
 Dutche's haveing made their descent in those parts), I have by the King's 
 direction taking notice thereof to the officers of the Navy, in order 
 to their makeing such provision of victualls, stores, and other 
 necessaries for the fleet, as may best answer the occasions thereof 
 there ; not doubting but your Lordshipp, upon the same considerations, 
 will be pleased to doe the like for what respects your Office of the 
 Ordnance. Pray let me also observe to you that the Navy Board 
 complaine of the want of masters for the shipps here fitting out to 
 a degree, as to affirme that they are not able to provide them (for 
 the great shipps especially) without assistance from your fleet, and 
 therefore desire it may be recomended to your Lordshipp, to send up such 
 persons as you shall judge qualified to take those charges upon them. 
 
 The like I am to observe to you in relation to pilotts, the Trinity- 
 house declareing that the fleet is so stocked with those sort of people, 
 that there is not one, within their comand here, to take charge of any 
 of the King's shipps, and therefore they, as well as the Navy Board, 
 make it their desire to your Lordshipp, to send some up from the fleet to 
 answer the services here, which it is hoped your Lordshipp may very well 
 doe, considering where you now are, and are likely to bee, not only out 
 of pilott-water, but where they are neither obliged, nor allowed to take 
 any accountableness for or charge of the King's shipps. 
 
 I here inclose your Lordshipp a letter* to Captain Elliott from my Lord 
 Godolphin, at whose motion concerning him, his Majesty was pleased to 
 say, that he had him in his eye and care for advancement in the Navy, 
 and that he had recomended him accordingly to your Lordshipp, and at the 
 same time to comand me, not only to be his remembrancer here, as any 
 opportunity should happen, but to mention him to your Lordshipp, as 
 one whom he is very well disposed to have preferr'd by your Lordshipp 
 in the fleet, as occasion shall happen for it. 
 
 What remains for me to add, is the acquainting you that the King 
 is very well satisfyed with your determinations touching your future pro- 
 ceedings, as they are expressed in your letter to him of the 15 th ins*, and 
 as an instance of it, has thought it unnecessary to signe a warrant, which 
 by his comand and the advice of his ministers had been prepared for his 
 signature in explanation of his last Order to your Lordshipp by my Lord 
 Middleton of the 12 th ; a copie of which, as it was soe prepared *I enclose 
 your Lordshipp. With which and the advertizeing your Lordshipp that 
 his Majesty left this towne on Satturday last for Windsor, and from 
 
 * Not now with the letter. 
 
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 Eael of thence the next day towards Salisbury where he is before this I trust 
 iK MSS UTB 8 * n ^ ot * ver y we ^ arr i ve d> with purpose of remaineing there or there- 
 — abouts in the ordering the affairs of his army untill the service thereof 
 shall remove him thence. I doe with great longings to hear of your 
 Lordshipp and the fleet after the tempestious weather wee have for 
 some daies past had. I kiss your hands and with continued wishes of 
 prosperity to both remaine unfeignedly, my Lord, your most faythfull 
 and obedient servant." 
 
 1688, Nov. 20th. — An account of the defects of his Majesty's ship 
 Rupert — signed by Charles Staggins and Thomas Day, lieutenants and 
 live others — with a certificate at back dated November 27th by Isaac 
 Betts and William Stigant that they do not think her a fit ship for 
 " busking" in the sea. 
 
 1688, Nov. 20th, Plymouth. — Captain George Churchill to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. 
 
 The leakiness of his ship (the Newcastle) forced him on Sunday 
 morning to bear away for this place. The pumps were not able to vent 
 the water as fast as it came in ; about 80 barrels of powder have been 
 " damnified." Has got her into Catt water, and is at work getting the 
 provisions out, in hopes to stop some of her leaks and bring her to 
 Portsmouth. As she is now will not venture his own or his men's lives 
 in her, and it is impossible that she can stay out this winter. Should be 
 glad to receive his Lordship's commands. 
 
 1688, Nov. 21st. — Lord Dartmouth to Lord Berkeley. 
 
 When they parted was not fully resolved to proceed immediately to 
 Torbay, but rather to come to Spithead and pick up the wants the fleet 
 lay under ; but on Saturday morning finding he had 44 or 45 sail of men 
 of war and fireships with him, and the wind at E.S.E., good weather 
 and a settled hard sky, thought after he had been so much urged, it was 
 not fit to neglect the opportunity (which had proved great if the wind 
 had held with moderate weather) but it has pleased God to prevent him. 
 Hopes his Lordship does not take amiss his zealous concern for him ; 
 knows more ships are fitting out, and that there must be more flags, and 
 has all along resolved to bring him among the flags, which the oppor- 
 tunity the writer then hoped for would certainly have put into his 
 power. The bad weather has disordered the Resolution, and he is forced 
 to go into the Edgar. 
 
 1688, Nov. 24th, Spithead. — Lord Berkeley to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 The weather has been so bad since his coming in hither that the pilot 
 would not venture to carry him into the harbour, so that nothing has 
 yet been done to his ship or the Edgar, it will be a month before his 
 now ship can be refitted ; fears that some one else is appointed for her 
 from aloft, but that his Lordship best knows. The Prince of Wales came 
 to Portsmouth last night guarded by the Irish dragoons. It is certain 
 that Lord Cornbury is gone over to the Prince of Orange with his 
 * regiment, and the Duke of Berwick's regiment of horse, and the 
 Duke of St. Alban's, the Lord Colchester and the company that went 
 with him are also with the Prince. The first captain of Sir Edward 
 Hale's regiment is missing and several others, and there is a jealousy of 
 many more of the army. The Lord Lovelace was taken going over but 
 defended himself very well, in which conflict near 20 were killed, among 
 the rest, one Whitlock, formerly a sea lieutenant. My lord had 70 horse 
 with him, most of which got clear. Frank Russell is gone among the 
 rest. The Duke of Berwick's regiment of foot, Sir Edward Hales's and 
 
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 the Irish are here, and the Irish regiment of dragoons which is all the Earl of 
 news except that the King is now with the army. DAR Mssy TH ' 
 
 1688, Nov. 22nd, The Mary at Spithead.— Sir Roger Strickland to 
 Lord Dartmouth. It is no little satisfaction to him to find that, in spite 
 of many applications, no steps have been taken for removing himself 
 and men into the War spite. Thinks the Mary may be as soon got ready 
 as the other. 
 
 1688, Nov. 22nd, London. — Philip Musgrave to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Hearing that his Lordship was forced into Portsmouth by the late 
 storms, and supposing that the damage sustained by the fleet will keep 
 him there some time, has ventured to send this short and melancholy 
 account of our affairs in the Ordnance Office. State of cash need not 
 be sent, for they have not one penny upon any head, and what is worse 
 nothing has been this week allotted them by the Treasury. The state 
 of small arms is very near as low, there being no " snaphance musquets " 
 left but 600 made for Lord Dartmouth's own regiment, notwithstanding 
 that they received all from Bristol. Changing of the matchlocks in the 
 army hath mightily drained them, which could not be prevented ; the 
 gunmakers are not able to fit up the reparable arms or perform their 
 contracts for new, for want of money. The stores for sea service are so 
 exhausted ("as is our credit also ") that the ships already ordered cannot 
 be fitted out without a considerable supply of money. Great complaints 
 are come from Ireland of the arms sent thither from Chester, and not 
 without cause ; those sent from hence are not much better. The Lord 
 Deputy writes to know what station the Italian engineer should be in, 
 and with what allowances. He has been informed that but one engineer 
 is borne upon the Irish establishment, to whom an allowance of 200/. 
 per annum was to be made, and that the Italian was designed for that 
 employment; but nothing will satisfy the Lord Deputy but a letter from 
 Lord Dartmouth himself. 
 
 Relates the disputes between Sir Edward Hales and the Ordnance 
 officers about the mounting of batteries at the Tower. 
 
 1688, Nov. 22nd, Portsmouth dockyard. — Sir Richard Beach to Lord 
 Dartmouth. Concerning the fitting out and repairs of the ships Montagu, 
 Edgar, Warspite, Dunkirk, Lion, fyc, and the supply of stores. Delays 
 have arisen not from want of care and vigilance, but of strength only, 
 the men being much discouraged for want of money. 
 
 1688, Nov. 23rd, Portsmouth dockyard. — Same to same. Relates the 
 measures taken to repair the damage done to the fleet by the late foul 
 weather. 
 
 1688, Nov. 23rd, Kent (ship).— Sir Francis Wheler to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. 
 
 Has received his Maj esty's commission to command the Kent. Returns 
 thanks for his Lordship's kind recommendation. Is now at Black Stakes 
 and will sail to the Hope the first good weather. 
 
 1688, Nov. 24th, Saturday, 12 atnoone. Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys 
 to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 "It is with an extraordinary degree of content, that I have just now 
 received your Lordshipp's of yesterday from the Spithead, both on the 
 score of your personal safety, and that in generall soe great a portion of 
 his Majesty's fleet are returned with you into port, as by their number 
 (tho J their particulars you could not tell me) joyned with those which 
 I have otherwise advice of, give me ground of hopeing that the loss his 
 
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 )> In the Downes. 
 
 In Portland Eoad. 
 
 Earl of Majesty has sustained from the late tempests will prove much more 
 DAR MSS UTH ' S to ^ era ^^ e tnen wee nere nave f° r many dayes laine under an apprehen - 
 — ' sion it would have done. The particulars of which ships that are come 
 in elsewhere within my notice are these, 
 The Henrietta 
 Antelope 
 Bonadventure 
 Crown 
 Lark 
 Guernsey 
 Sally Rose 
 Speedivell 
 Cignet 
 
 Portsmouth At South Yarmouth. 
 Rugby Cowes. 
 
 The loss of the Heldrenbergh and poor Mr. Howell in her I doe very 
 heartily bemoan. 
 
 If the Newcastle be not with you, it is possible the talk yesterday upon 
 the Exchange may be true, where I am told it was said that Captain 
 Churchill was come into Plymouth with a friggat of the King's, but 
 under a mistaken name of the Hampshire for the Newcastle. 
 
 Your Lordshipp has certainly put the dispatch of the refitting of the 
 fleet into the true method by committing the same to Sir Richard 
 Beach, Sir John Berry and Sir William Booth, who are a full Navy 
 Board, noe less empowered, then I am sure they are disposed to give it 
 all the furtherance that the state of the stores there, and with their 
 bretheren here tell me they are sending from hence will admit. To 
 which whatever can be added by any thoughtfulness or industry of 
 mine (you may depend upon it) shall not be wanting. 
 
 What I may have more to say to your Lordshipp upon my communi- 
 cateing this your letter to my Lords with whom his Majesty has, in his 
 absence, left the direction of his affaires, must be respited till the 
 evening, when you shall be sure to have it, and whatever more may 
 occur to me worth your Lordshipp's notice, I hastniug this away to 
 you by express, out of a desire of giveing you the speediest satisfaction 
 I could touching the remainder of your fleet ; doing the like at the 
 same time to the King by express to Salisbury, as well knowing the 
 ease it will be of to him, under his other great cares. To which God 
 give a quick and auspicious end." 
 
 In a postscript Mr. Pepys adds, 
 
 " I have taken this conveyance for sending you the *printed book of 
 Dutch instructions, it easeing me of a care I was under how to find a 
 person here, qualified for the right translation of it, in hopes, your 
 Lordshipp will furnish me with a copie when it shall be done." 
 
 1688, Nov. 24th, Admiralty.*— Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " According to my promise to your Lordshipp in mine by express to 
 you this afternoon e, I have communicated to my Lords of the committee 
 for foreigne affaires, your Lordshipp's to me of yesterday's date, to 
 whom it was matter of great content to find you safely come in, with 
 soe considerable a part of the fleet, as with what I also informed them 
 of from other places, gives them ground of hopeing (as I have said in 
 my former) that tho' the damages sustained by the fleet must be great, 
 the totall miscarriages of ships therein cannot be soe ; 
 
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 As to any advice to be offered you from my Lords on this subject, E arl op 
 partly from the grounds they have of expecting the King back from Dartmouth' 
 Salisbury here within a few dayes, and partly from their considering that Mss < 
 till the ships are putt again e into a condition of service (which will require 
 some time) noe advice can be of any present use in reference to their 
 future disposall, they have thought it best to respite any debates thereon 
 to his Majesty's own comeing hither, when all those matters will have 
 opportunity of being putt together, upon which his Majesty's resolutions 
 will be best taken in relation to the whole of his affaires. 
 
 The only thing therefore I have now to add, is the giveing your 
 Lordshipp the following state of the severall shipps now in fitting forth, 
 viz*. 
 
 3 d Hampton Court - - 1 At Blackstake, going to the Hope 
 
 3 rd Kent - - •/ to take in their gunns & c . 
 
 4 th Portland - - - In the Hope, manned and ready to 
 
 sayle ever since the 10 th instant, 
 waits only for her gunns. 
 
 4* Phenix - Longreach, takeing in her provisions 
 
 and stores. 
 
 4 th Tyger-Prize - - At Deptford, ready to saile to Long- 
 
 reach. 
 
 4 th Assurance - - - At Sheerness, will be ready to saile 
 
 this night. 
 
 f Mermatde - - At Deptford, ready to saile to Long- 
 
 Fireships < reach. 
 
 I Thomas and Elizabeth At Deptford, fitting for a fireshipp. 
 
 Concerning which what I may have further to say to your Lordshipp, 
 as to any particulars of them, you shall have in my next. In the mean 
 time you may please to know, that since my other to you of this day, 
 I find the report therein mentioned touching the Newcastle is true, I 
 haveing received this evening from the King a letter from Captain 
 Churchill to me from Plymouth which his Majesty had opened upon 
 the way at Salisbury." 
 
 1688, Nov. 24th, The Downs.— Captain Edmund Elyott to Lord 
 Dartmouth. Describes how he was driven from the fleet by bad weather. 
 All his stern was staved in by another ship, so that he was very near 
 bidding adieu to this world, but by God's providence has escaped, and 
 is now by Mr. Pepys's order going to Sheerness to be repaired. 
 
 1688, Nov. 24th. — The information of Stephen Matthews, master 
 of the Dove, of London. 
 
 That being homeward bound from Lisbon he met the 6th inst. with a 
 Dutch man-of-war about 5 leagues off the Start, was taken out of his 
 ship and carried before Admiral Herbert, who was at anchor in Torbay. 
 Being asked what letters he had from England he refused to answer, 
 and a lieutenant was sent on board his ship who took away all his 
 papers. Among them was a letter for the Queen Dowager, and 
 two to the King, which he broke open and read, and would not 
 return either those or any other papers but his Amsterdam letters. 
 Admiral Herbert sent also on board his vessel to entice his men into the 
 Prince of Orange's service, and prevailed with three of them to do it. 
 Twenty of their greatest ships had this motto in their ensigns, For the 
 Protestant Religion and Liberty of England. The deponent was 
 detained till the 9th, and forced to sign a paper (copy attached) under- 
 taking to sail straight to Amsterdam. 
 
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 Eaelof 1688, Nov. 26th, 11 at night. Admiralty.— Samuel Pepys to Lord 
 Dartmouth's ^ . ' , ' ° J rj 
 
 MSS. Dartmouth. 
 
 " Haveing nothing new since the two I troubled your Lordshipp with 
 of the 24 th current, this comes by express direction of the King given me 
 this night at the Cabinet-Councill, to apprize you of cne particular 
 aggravation to his many other present difficulties, which he neither had 
 nor could have mett with any intimation of, till his very entrance almost 
 into the town this afternoone, namely, the withdrawing of the Princess of 
 Denmark in the night (last night), without any judgement to be made, 
 otherwise then by a very uncertaine guess at the designe of her soe 
 doing. Now, his Majesty's end in my telling you this being to prevent any 
 wrong impressions that may be made in the fleet concerning this 
 matter (through mis-representations) by your being informed in all thai 
 wee yet know of the truth thereof, I am in short to lett you know, that 
 without the least previous occasion for, or appearance of any discontent 
 in her Highness, she went in her usual manner and time to bed, M rs 
 Danvers (who was in present waiting) lying in the anti-chamber. This 
 morning Sir Benjamin Bathurstat about \ an hour past 7 went up in his 
 usual manner to enquire after the Princess's health, and finding noe body 
 in the fore-rooms, went on to the anti-chamber, where he found M 1 " 
 Danvers dressing her self in order to attend the Princess, as not haveing 
 yet done it; upon which (he just now told the King) he went down to his 
 office, and after haveing been there about i an hour, he heard a sudden 
 out- cry of women, which upon his running-out to satisfye himself in the 
 occasion of, found it to be a universal cry among the ladies, that some 
 or other had carried away the Princess. The history of which, as much 
 thereof as is yet known, is this, that upon M rs Danvers's going in to her 
 Highness's chamber to call her, and receiving noe answer to her call, 
 she opened the bed, and found the Princess gone, and the bed cold, with 
 all her yesterday's cloaths, even to her stockings and shoes left behind ; 
 takeing her passage, as is concluded (by the doores being found but 
 single-locked that way, leading to a stoole-roome) down a pair of small 
 back staires, by which the necessary woman uses to goe in and out for the 
 cleaning of that roome. Now as another branch of this story I must tell 
 you, that orders oomeing last night from the King, that both my Lord 
 Churchill's houses in town and at St. Albans should be imediately 
 seized, and all that was in them, and (as I take it) my Lady Churchill 
 her self, that which relates to his house here at court, was of course to be 
 executed by my Lord Chamberlaine only, who instead of proceeding 
 instantly to the work by way of surprize, for preventing escapes or 
 removalls of any thingee. or persons which might have been of benefit 
 to the King to have seized, suffered himself in complacence to be 
 delayed by the Princess for half an hour by her express desireing of 
 it from him, and had this effect, that my Lady Churchill and Mrs. 
 Berkeley, and the Princess her self are all three gone, but whether 
 together or noe is not certainly known. This only is said, by the 
 centry that was at that time at the guard at the Cockpit-doore next 
 the street, that in the dead of the night, about 2 or 3 a clock, a coach 
 with six horses and one lady in it, came thither, and after very little stay 
 tooke up two ladies more from that door, and soe went away. But 
 whither, noe body undertakes to guess, this that I have told you being 
 the whole of what has yet been discovered of any degree of certainty 
 touching her going, without the least appearance in the world for that 
 which evill disposed people have already made it their business to in- 
 sinuate into the town, and is got into vulgar talk, of her being forced 
 away by the papists, whereas hardly anything can be thought more 
 natural then that the ladies should think it time for them to withdraw 
 
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 as soon as they had received tideings of their husbands haveing done the DA f xmouth's 
 same. But his Majesty has nevertheless thought it not becomeing him to MSS. 
 part with a daughter without some yet more solemn enquiry made into 
 the ground of it, has this night required all the Prince and Princess's 
 servants that had any relation of service upon the person of the 
 Princess, both men and women of every degree, to be imediately 
 found out and confined to their chambers till they have passed a very 
 strict examination by a committee of theCouncill touching their knowledge 
 in any part of the premises, and this in order to his Majesty's acquaint- 
 ing both the Privy Councill and my Lord Mayor and Aldermen of 
 London to morrow with the results of the said examinations. Of 
 which whatever shall arise materiall therein, more than I have been 
 able hear to tell you, you shall not faile to have from me in my next. 
 
 In the mean time I am further by the King's command to observe to 
 you, that he did commit a command of his to be communicated to your 
 Lordshipp by my Lord of Dover, who went yesterday from the King to 
 the Goverment of Portsmouth in the absence of the Duke of Berwick. 
 For the effectual and speedy execution of which command, his Majesty 
 is pleased to be soe much concerned, as to require my imediate pre- 
 pareing for his signature (which I accordingly in great hast did, as you 
 will find by the manner of its writeing) a warrant for supplying to 
 your Lordshipp my Lord of Dover's supposed comission of delivering 
 the message to you which the King sent by him. This warrant I here 
 inclose you, in my own hand, as containeing a matter which will not 
 bear it's being known to more here then was at the debate of it, till wee 
 may be morally sure that noe advice of it from hence by land, could 
 prevent its execution." 
 
 The original warrant (above referred to) is dated Whitehall the 26tli 
 of November 1688, and is as follows, 
 
 " James R 
 
 Our Will and Pleasure is, that you take the first opportunity of winde 
 and weather to send such one of our shipps as you shall thinke the 
 fittest, (with reguard to the prudence and faythfullnesse of her com- 
 mander) to Plimouth, there to seize the person of Captain George 
 Churchill Comandant of our shipp the Newcastle, and him to bring 
 back to you in safe custody ; you makeing provision for the command 
 of our sayd shipp in the absence of the said Captaine Churchill, and foi 
 the safe keepeing of Captain Churchill himselfe when brought to you, 
 until further Order from us for his being otherwise disposed of or 
 discharged." 
 
 1688, Nov. 25th, Andover. — King James II. to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I send this you by the Lord Dover, whom I send to Portsmouth to 
 command in chief there, I am a going back to London my self intend- 
 ing to be there to-morrow and haue ordred all my army to quarter 
 along the riuer, begining at Mario. He will tell you how Lord Churchill 
 and Duke of Grafton are gone ouer to the enemy with some others. I 
 haue charged Lord Dover also to speake with you of my intentions 
 concerning my sonne, and you must follow Lord Dover's directions as 
 to what concerns our sayd sonne, by being assisting to him in what 
 directions I haue giuen him by word of mouth. I haue not tyme to say 
 more. 
 
 James R.'* 
 
 [Endorsed by Lord Dartmouth.] November 2oth, 1688. 
 
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 " These three letters received not till the 2 d of December two 
 by the hands of Lord Dover the other as indorsed in M r Peppy's 
 pacquei. 
 
 The other two being dated the 1 st of December were brought to 
 me soone one after the other on the 3 d in the morning, all 
 these 5 letters were answered on the 3 d of December and de- 
 livered to my Lord Dover and by him sent with a messinger on 
 purpose. Resolved between us both not to doe any thing in 
 carrying away the Prince of Wales till we haue his Majesty's 
 farther order and an answer to my letter." 
 
 1688, Nov. 28th, fyWty fireship, Spithead. — Captain Francis Wivell to 
 Lord Dartmouth. His ship's " rurther " is almost off, and the ship so 
 short that he cannot stow a boat, though but of 7 oars ; he will be 
 forced to bear away for any harbour the first hard gale of wind. 
 Humbly prays his Lordship to order him into Portsmouth harbour, and 
 remove him into a ship fit for service. 
 
 1688, Nov. 28th, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " That I may appear noeless forward to administer any thing to your 
 satisfaction and content, then I have now for a great while been forced to 
 be in handing to you occasions of trouble, I would not omit the advei*- 
 tizeing you by express, that I am just now come from attending the 
 King at his Cabinet, where he has been graciously pleased to declare his 
 royall purpose of calling a Parliament to meet at Westminster as soon 
 as ever the time requisite for issueing of the writts, and the 40 dayes 
 required by law for their returnes will admit, and accordingly has 
 comanded my Lord Chancellour to cause the writs to be forthwith pre- 
 pared and issued for the Parliament's meeting the 15 th of January next. 
 
 But what pitie it is that I could not bring this home, without meeting 
 something to abate some of the pleasure which the foregoing tideings 
 must give all good subjects, M r Frowd stopping me in my way to tell 
 me, that my Lord of Bath had seized Plymouth for the Prince, seizeing 
 many officers and soldiers as prisoners, and confineing even my Lord 
 Huntington himself to his chamber ; 
 
 My Lord, I have this day received your express of the 26th, and have 
 communicated it to the King ; but he not being able all this day (soe 
 many matters of the greatest moment pressing at once upon him) to find 
 time to consider and direct anything relateing to the Navy, and particu- 
 larly to your Lordshipp, and soe finding my self unfurnished with any 
 thing to say to you, upon the principall point therein, I shall respite the 
 whole till to morrow's post ; and indeed I have been these two dayes 
 greatly indisposed with a cough and head-ach, and am soe at this minute, 
 that I am not able to hold up my head longer." 
 
 1688, Nov. 28th, London. — Philip Musgrave to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Since the King's return Colonel Skelton is made Lieutenant of the 
 Tower in the room of Sir Edward Hales. Sorry he must continue the 
 same melancholy account of affairs in the office, everything being now 
 
 at a stand for want of money His Lordship will 
 
 have heard of Prince George and the Duke of Ormonde having quitted 
 the King at Andover, and of the Princess of Denmark's flight from 
 Whitehall. Last night all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal that were 
 in town (Koman Catholics only excepted, who it is thought had private 
 intimalion not to appear) attended his Majesty according to summons. 
 The King gave a short account of the state of his affairs, and required 
 their opinion of what was necessary to be done for his own safety and 
 the securing the succession to his son. Several speeches were made 
 
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 hereupon, and all centred in the speedy calling a Parliament. His Earl of 
 
 Majesty did not determine anything, but thought fit to take night's time ^mss™ 
 
 to consider thereon ; and this morning directions were given for the — * 
 
 issuing writs for the speedy assembling a Parliament, which God grant 
 
 may end in the security of his Majesty's sacred person, and the general 
 
 quiet and satisfaction of all his subjects. It is said that a general pardon 
 
 is to be granted to qualify the nobility and gentry, that are gone over to 
 
 the Prince of Orange or have taken up arms in the several counties, to 
 
 sit in Parliament. The Duke of Albemarle is dead, and James Grahme 
 
 has promised to move the King this night in his Lordship's affair. His 
 
 wife presents her duty, and all his Lordship's family at the Cockpit are 
 
 well. 
 
 1688, Nov. 28th, Portsmouth Dockyard. — Sir Richard Beach to Lord 
 Dartmouth. Reports his proceedings in fitting out or repairing the 
 ships Dreadnought, Dunkirk, Warspite, Mary, &c. 
 
 1688, Nov. 29th, Fireship Speedwell in the port of Poole. — Captain 
 Edward Poulson to Lord Dartmouth. Gives an account of his being 
 driven by bad weather into Poole harbour. In his worst extremity the 
 ship was deserted by the men, whose names and qualities he annexes 
 (16 in all), who took away the only boat and left him with the chirur- 
 geon, carpenter, gunner, and five boys to the mercy of the storm ; they 
 were so unchristianlike that they would not stay to furl the sails, and 
 so he was forced to cut the mainmast by the board to save the ship and 
 their lives ; the mainmast carried away the mizen mast with all the 
 rigging. After riding two days and nights, several times firing guns to 
 no purpose, fair weather set in, and with much assistance was able to 
 reach a place of safety. Encloses a list of vessels and men that helped 
 his ship from St. Alban's [Head] to Studland Bay. 
 
 1688, Nov. 29th, Surgeon- General J. Pearse to Lord Dartmouth. 
 After vain efforts to obtain payment from the late Navy Commissioners 
 and from the Treasury of money advanced by himself for quarters and 
 cure of the sick and wounded, had made bold yesterday morning to tell 
 His Majesty himself that unless he had some speedy supply he should 
 not be able to quarter any more sick men. Notwithstanding all this 
 solicitation is got no farther than to have it ordered at the Treasury 
 that he is to have next week some part of the 700/. due at Michaelmas 
 last. Has made Mr. Secretary Pepys acquainted with his condition, 
 and hopes his Lordship will also recommend the matter to him and to 
 the Treasury, for he cannot make brick without straw, and he is 
 ashamed to show his face to the surgeons of the several ports, to whom 
 he has given his hand and long since promised to pay 700/. 
 
 1688, Nov. 29th, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " Mine of yesterday by express haveing respited to this day (for the 
 reason therein mentioned) my answer to your Lordshipp's of the 26 th ; I 
 now come in the first place to thank you for your list of officers, which I 
 shall cause to be registred according to their respective qualities. 
 
 "I have comunicated to his Majesty your other list of Comanders de- 
 signed by you for fireships, and have his direction to observe the same, and 
 in the order you have sett them down ; which I shall doe, at least as 
 farr as the persons therein-named will accept thereof, which I am told 
 they will not all doe. 
 
 " I shall alsoe remember your advice about haveing the gunners 
 examined by M r Rothwell (during the absence of Captain Leake) for such 
 fireships as shall have their gunners provided here, which I fear will be 
 very few, It being with much difficulty that I have got one for the last. 
 Soe that I doubt the fleet must from hence-forward help us therewith. 
 
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 tmouth's " Yeames of Dover did in a letter which I saw of his to the Navy 
 mss. Board, speak of 4 fireships that he was engaged in the fitting for you 
 — from thence. But I have since heard but of two, and even those two, 
 now they are compleatly fitted for the sea, not able to gett out by 
 reason of the quantity of beach lately thrown in there from the sea. 
 
 " C[aptain] George Aylmer has indeed taken a very great deal of paines 
 in the dispatching out of his shipp, and is now upon his way to the 
 Downes, if a messenger whom I sent away this day by express to that 
 purpose, by the King's command, has not stopt him. When his impe- 
 diments for sayling were removed, your Lordshipp will find in the 
 inclosed copie of his letter to me, giveing me an account thereof. 
 
 " The Suadadoes [Sandados] is safe in the Downes. But if the Mor- 
 daunt be not overlooked in your list, and that indeed she be not with 
 you at Portsmouth, I question what is become of her, for I have had 
 noe notice of her from elsewhere. 
 
 " Your Lordshipp shall not want supplies of instructions for Comanders 
 and lieutenants. 
 
 w You are doing a very good work in getting a strict account of the 
 state of your victualls. Pray be pleased to hasten it. For notwith- 
 standing all my pressing for the provideing of more, the service may 
 meet with disappointment therein if the Commissioners of the Victualling 
 here goe by one reckoning and the men eat by another. 
 
 "Your instructions of the 1st of October were indeed miscalled by 
 whoever called them an Order of Councill ; but I don't remember where 
 it should be that I called 'um eoe, as they went from me to your Lord- 
 shipp, though they were handed to me by an Order of Councill. 
 
 " I doe greatly foresee the inconveniencys the service will be subject 
 to from want of pilots and masters, in case the fleet be not in condition 
 to spare any. 
 
 " It would be an extraordinary peice of skill, and it might very well 
 have had it's success, if indeed the Brandenburgher's papers were shams 
 and the Scotchman a cheat ; for it tooke place with everybody here, 
 whatever it did elsewhere. 
 
 "And now, my Lord, as to the maine point in relation to your next 
 proceeding with the fleet, the safety of which (without expectation of any 
 more action from it for this season) seemes to be the most of his Majesty's 
 present care about it : he has been pleased to give you his advice therein, 
 under his own hand in the enclosed. Whereto referring your Lordshipp as 
 to that particular, I am by his speciall direction given me this evening 
 at the Cabinet to observe to you that forasmuch as (according to what 
 I have just now said) he does not look for any opportunity of enter- 
 prizeing anything new with the fleet this winter, and for that also he 
 lies at this time under many incitements to the preventing of expence, 
 whether in mony or stores, he has not only comanded a stopp to be putt 
 to the Navy Board's proceeding in the buying of any more of the six 
 fireships last ordered to be bought, then they have already contracted for, 
 which is three, but to recomend it to your Lordshipp to be as spareing as 
 may be in the present fitting out to sea any fresh shipps, but instead 
 thereof to incourage as much as may be the refitting of these that have 
 been abroad ; the effects of the weare and teare of a winter (witness this 
 before us) seeming litle less to be apprehended than those ariseing from 
 a sumer's warr. Besides the increase of charge attending the same to 
 the King on many accounts, and the complaints which the officers of 
 the Navy must daily expect (as they now find) from Comanders in relation 
 to their eld shipps, while importunity will procure them new. 
 
 " I am endeavouring all that is possible to hasten out the storeshipp, 
 and am told this day by Sir Richard Haddock that she will now be very 
 
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 soon dispatched, though I do not find from the Commissioners of the Earl o? 
 Navy at Portsmouth, (tu whom you refer me) but that they shall be able DaR mss UTH 
 in the maine to make good the present wants of the fleet from the stores — 
 they have there ; especially if what shall be wanting may be left to be 
 supplyed here to such part of the fleet as your Lordshipp may possibly, 
 upon this letter of the King's, conclude upon haveing brought into the 
 river of Thames, or elsewhere eastward. 
 
 " My Lord, for your part, for which his Majestie refers you to me 
 relateing to the state of his publick affaires, nothing has arose of new 
 since mine last night more than that he has been pleased to determine 
 upon a Proclamation to be presently published concerning the Parliament, 
 with some provition for clearing to the world his intentions and endeavors 
 for secureing the freedome of it, both in its election and sitting. 
 
 u Collonel Kirk is also brought to town this day prisoner, and is con- 
 fined as such with a guard to his own house. 
 
 (t Wee have had no fresher news touching the motion of the Prince of 
 Orange, then that sending his cookes before to prepare it, he dined on 
 Munday or Tuesday last at my Lord of BristolPs house at Sherborne." 
 
 The copy of Captain George Aylmer's letter above referred to is dated 
 the 26th of November 1688 from Portland ; it mentions that, after a 
 delay of sixteen days, his guns had been put on board, and that he intended 
 sailing that afternoon, concluding with a wish to be informed of the 
 position of the fleet. 
 
 1688, Nov. 29th,— The Prince of Orange to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " My Lord, the Protestant religion and the liberties of England being 
 now at stake, I cannot beleiue you will contribute towards the destruction 
 of either. I therefore send you this letter to invite you earnestly tojoyne 
 the fleete vnder your command with mine and to declare as I haue donne 
 in my Declaration for the Religion and Liberties. It wille an act so 
 commendable that it will not only oblidge me for ever to be your friend 
 but even to study which way I may shew my kindnesse to you in the 
 most particular manner. I expect and desire you to consider well of 
 this my proposition and advice and that I may speedely receaue the 
 news of your compliance, which will make me your affectionate friend." 
 
 [Endorsed by Lord Dartmouth] 
 
 November 29th, 1668. The Prince of Orange. 
 December 12th, Received at Spithead, 
 Do. 12th, Answered by Captain Aylmer. 
 
 1688, Nov. 29th, Whitehall. — King James II. to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " You will have an account from Mr. Peypss {sic) of what passes here, 
 and the ill condition my affairs are in on shore, so that I shall say 
 nothing concerning them. I am sorry you have been so woughly {sic) 
 used by the winds at sea ; this is a bad tyme of yeare for any action upon 
 that inconstant element. The preservation of the squadron under your 
 command is of the last consequence, therefore pray consider well which 
 is the best way to do it, and where you thinke 'tis fitt the greatest 
 part of your fleet shall be, it being fitt to leaue some ships at Ports- 
 mouth, either at the Spithead or in the harbore as you shall thinke best, 
 and lett me haue you (sic) opinion speedily upon it, that I may see if I 
 aproue of it. J. R." 
 
 [Addressed.] For the Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 [Endorsed by Lord Dartmouth] 
 November 29th, 1688. 
 
 Received December 2 d in a pacquet from Mr. Peppys. 
 [Seal — Crown supported by cupids and monograms beneath.] 
 
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 1688, Nov. 29th, Whitehall. 
 
 " This is the second letter I write to you upon the subject of my sonne, 
 tho' the other was from Andeuer, as I remember, it will not haue been 
 deliured to you soner then this. That was not giuen to you soner, hoping 
 still things would not haue been so very bad as they are. 'Tis my sonne 
 they aime at and 'tis my sonne I must endeauer to preserue, what so euer 
 becoms of me, therefore I conjure you to assist Lord Dover in getting him 
 sent away in the yachts, as sone as wind and weather will permitt for 
 the first port they can gett to in France, and that with as much secresy 
 as may be, and soe that trusty men may but (sic) put in the yachts that he 
 may be exposed to no other danger but that of the sea, and know I shall 
 look on this as one of the greatest piece of seruice you can do me, 
 
 James R." 
 
 Nov. 30th, '* Since the writing of what is before I haue altred my mind 
 as to the delaying of it a little, as you will see more at large by myne to 
 Lord Dover, to which I refer you, and do againe conjure you to use your 
 utmost endeauors to haue my sonne secured as in the first part of this 
 letter and to haue all things ready when 'tis proper for him to embark as 
 I haue already sayd in myne to Lord Dover. J. R." 
 
 [Addressed.] For the Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 [Endorsed by Lord Dartmouth] 
 November 29 th and 30 th , 1688. 
 Received December 2 d by Lord Dover. 
 
 1688, Dec. 1st, Whitehall ; " nine at night. Mr. Peyps writs the newse 
 to you, so that 'tis is only to tell you I had this morning yours of the 
 28: and 30: and tho' as you say in it, I haue reason to mistrust mankind, 
 yett I assure you tho' all the rest of those about me should betray me, 
 I could neuer suspect you, as you may haue seen by some letters of 
 myne, which I hope will haue been giuen you, before this getts to you. 
 Lett me know by this messenger, when he returns, when you receued 
 them, I shall be very impacient till I know you haue had them, and 
 put those orders in execution. 
 
 J. R." 
 
 [Addressed.] For the Lord Dartmouth. 
 [Endorsed by Lord Dartmouth] 
 
 December 1 st , 1688, 
 
 Received the 3 d by Lord Dover. 
 
 " Tpon the receuing of this you are immediatly to put in execution the 
 orders I haue already giuen you and Lord Dover for the sending away 
 of my sonne, the Prince of Wales. Whitehall, December the first 
 1688. 
 
 James R." 
 
 [Addressed.] For the Lord Dartmouth, 
 [Endorsed by Lord Dartmouth] 
 
 December 1 st , 1688, 
 
 Received 3 d by Lord Dover. 
 [See Lord Dartmouth's memorandum on these letters under date of 
 Nov. 25 ante.~] 
 
 1688, Dec. 1st, 11 at night. Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 " My last was of the 29th, since which I have received both yours of the 
 28th with a postscript to one of them of the 30th of November, and have 
 communicated the same to his Majesty, who is pleased to approve of your 
 makeing the most of the service of the Dreadnought and Mary, and your 
 having yet appointed only the Edgar and Dunkirk to the sea, of the three 
 
 Earl op 
 Dartmouth's 
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 that his Majesty had order' d to be made fitt for the same ; the King being Earl gb 
 (as I by his comand advised you in my last) very unwilling upon the AK ™s°S L . TH 
 considerations therein mention'd, to enter upon any increase of his — 
 present charge at sea at this season of the yeare, that may with any 
 convenience be spared. 
 
 His Majesty himselfe is wittness, and soe are his Ministers here, that 
 I spare no importunity with the Victuallers of the Navy, for good 
 supplies of provisions for you. 
 
 Nor will I faile at the next setting of the Board to move for a further 
 supply of contingent mony. 
 
 I thank you for your additional list of officers made by you since 
 your last, and have directed their being registered accordingly. 
 
 The King does fully concurr with you touching the inexpediency of 
 endeavouring anything now in the Plymouth matter. 
 
 Nor was the first notice I received yesterday by express from Sir Richard 
 Beach, less surprizeing or grievous to mee and the Navy Board, of the 
 stopp put by my Lord, of Dover and seizure made by him of the money 
 and provisions belonging to the Navy, then it was to your Lordshipp in 
 behalfe of the fleet, or Sir Richard Beach in that of the yard. But thanks 
 be to God it is over. For had not the same post brought the news of 
 the discharge thereof that brought that of the seisnre, I feare it would 
 have raised a clamour that would not easily have been laide againe. 
 
 His Majesty takes notice of the provision you have made of cruizers, 
 thinking it very requisite that they be kept to a strict complyance with 
 their orders from your Lordshipp ; and that you will also take into your 
 thoughts whatever else you shall judge adviseable and in your power to 
 doe against any attempts that may be made by the enemy. And this 
 he has comanded me to observe to you the more expressly at this time, 
 in regard of some advice he has this very afternoone received from a 
 hand whose intelligence he has at all times good regard to, that Admirall 
 Herbert has orders to goe to sea, and look out for your fleet. And this the 
 rather, for the sake of some advice I also received this day from Sir Robert 
 Holmes, importing the Holland's fleet being actually at sea, but with some 
 doubt of the way they are bound. An extract of which letter of Sir 
 Robert Holmes relateing to this matter I here inclose you in his own 
 words ; it being the King's desire, you should have the whole of what 
 we can gather touching the motion of the Hollands shipps, for you to 
 make such use thereof as you in your own judgement shall conceive 
 most reasonable. But there is one word more I have from the King by 
 way of intelligence for you ; namely, that he has understood from 
 Plymouth (since the seizure of that place) that they doe expect the 
 comeing in of the Hollands fleet thither to relitt." 
 
 The extract of the letter from Sir Robert Holmes above referred to is 
 dated the 28 th of November from Yarmouth, and is as follows, 
 
 " Now I am to tell you that there is a hoy come into this road this 
 morning, that has been at Topsome ever since the first arrivall of the 
 Dutch Fleet ; the master of her saw their landing and all their trans- 
 actions ever since. He is an intelligible fellow and one that I can give 
 credit to, bred and borne in this towne. Yesterday in the afternoone 
 he sayled out of Topsome, at the same time were all the shipps there 
 prepareing to come out, great many under sayle, and that tyde and the 
 tyde on Munday came out about 100 sayle. They had layd small craft 
 upon the back of the banks all along the river, to keep our lights to 
 sayle by night, by reason the tydes falling out ill to come out by day 
 light. I believe they may be all out before this time, and without doubt 
 will not be long before they sayle, and I doe beleive may stopp here ; 
 otherwise to convey their shipps of carryage as farr as the Downes, and 
 
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 Dartmouth's so * nto tne mou th of the river, they were getting some pylotts for the 
 mss. Eiver Severn, and talkt as if they would send some shipps thither, which 
 I am apt to believe. 
 
 By all that I can gather from this man and others, they were never 
 above 42 sayle of men of warr, and not soe many now. The Fan/an 
 which was sent to the westward to press men was seized by them." 
 
 1688, Dec. 1st, Portsmouth Dockyard. — Sir Richard Beach to Lord 
 Dartmouth. Understood by his Lordship's of the 28th past that Sir 
 William Jennens should proceed in the Dunkirk, but the War spite being 
 a handsomer and bigger ship he had no mind to the Dunkirk, but com- 
 plained of the rottenness of her masts and the weakness of her decks, 
 which he had no reason to do, but that he's always too forward in 
 making complaints. If his lordship will send any body aboard to take a 
 survey, she will be found a fitting ship for the sea. This morning has 
 come his Lordship's order to Sir William Jennens to go in the Warspite. 
 If the Dunkirk be intended to join the fleet, some men must be appointed 
 to finish her rigging, &c. The rainy dirty weather ever since the fleet 
 appeared there has stopped the caulking and shipwright's work. 
 
 1688, Dec. 1st, Office of Ordnance. — Henry Tichborne, Edward Sher- 
 burne, T. Gardiner, and J. Rothwell to Lord Dartmouth. Though not 
 insensible of the great weight of naval affairs resting upon his Lordship, 
 cannot forbear addressing him on behalf of those of the Ordnance, which 
 lately flourished under his particular care and providence, but now is fallen 
 under as many hard distractions as the public. Have received demands for 
 many stores, &c. from the Governor of Tilbury ; and importunate letters 
 from Mr. Phillips, making demands for carrying on various works at Ports- 
 mouth, with which they are altogether unable to comply. A great charge 
 has also been cast upon the office by the necessary defence of Hull garrison, 
 proposed by Sir Martin Beckman, for which the contract amounted to 
 upwards of 5,000/., and of which only 2,150/. has been paid; so that 
 Mr. Fitch, who has finished the most part of his work, is likely to fall 
 under an inevitable ruin unless his Lordship intercede with the Treasury. 
 The great weight of debt upon them, the impoverishment of their best 
 and ablest creditors, merchants and artificers belonging to the office, and 
 the exhaustion of their stores, render them iu capable of furnishing the 
 least part of the land forces or the smallest squadron (nay, ship) of the 
 fleet ; yet they are now called upon to supply a number of ships, and 
 convert six ships bought of merchants into fireships, &c. Request his 
 Lordship to represent the great exigencies of the office to the Treasury. 
 
 1688, Dec. 3rd, London. — Lord Berkeley to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " The ways and horses upon the road are so very bad, and myself so 
 unused to ride that I could not reach this place till this day noon, when 
 the King was at dinner ; after he had dined I kissed his hand and he 
 carried me into the Queen's bedchamber where I read the address, which 
 his Majesty seemed well pleased withal. I also gave him your Lordship's 
 letter, he asked me several questions about the fleet which I satisfied 
 him in ; and being very much tired asked leave to stay here for 2 or 3 
 
 days which was granted me Abundance of people rail at you 
 
 as I am told, but the King continually justifies you. I have not yet 
 seen my Lord of Salisbury. The whole Dutch fleet are at Plymouth, 
 where they were saluted by the citadel at their coming in with above 
 40 guns. Bristol is in the Prince of Orange's hands. The Marquis of 
 Worcester, Earl of Clarendon, Lord Blessington, Captain Heveningham, 
 and several others are lately gone over to the Prince. The Lords of 
 Halifax, Nottingham, and Godolphin are gone to negotiate ; but the 
 
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 trumpeter that was sent before for leave they found drunk asleep at Earl of 
 
 Reading, so that they are forced t o stay there till they have an answer ^^jjgg 7 " 
 
 by another. Pray God send a good end to all these troublesome affairs, ■ — 
 and health and happiness to the King." 
 
 1688, Dec. 3rd, Spithead. — Captain W. Cornewall to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Going ashore to get provisions he saw goods going on board the Mary 
 yacht On enquiry was told they were Lord Dover's and that the 
 Prince of Wales was going ; and he saw several women go on board 
 who were said to belong to him. Thought it his duty to acquaint his 
 Lordship. Sent his coxswain on board to enquire, and they told him 
 they were bound with the Prince to St. Malo as soon as the moon was 
 up ; but the milk and pap were sent for ashore and he believed they 
 would not go that night. It was kept a secret. 
 
 [Another letter of that date from Captain Cornewall gives the same 
 information in slightly different words.] 
 
 1688, Dec. 3rd, Ship Portsmouth. — Certificate of Captain G. St. Lo in 
 favour of Natthaniel Bostock, gentleman, for a lieutenancy, he having 
 served in the quality of a midshipman on the Portsmouth for three 
 months and upwards. 
 
 1688, Dec. 3rd, Ship Cambridge. — Captain John Tyrwhitt to Lord 
 Dartmouth. His Lordship's generous charity, shewn in the interest he 
 made on the writer's behalf with the late King, has kept him from 
 wanting bread, and encourages him to make a further trial of his honour's 
 kindness. Having lost by this late sickness most of his good head of 
 hair, would beg of his Lordship to bestow on him one of his worst short 
 periwigs to keep his head from the cold, and to enable him to come on 
 board and kiss his Lordship's hands and give him humble thanks ; for if 
 periwigs were to be bought here for thirteen pence a piece he were not 
 able to purchase one, having but two sixpences in the whole world. 
 
 1688, Dec. 4th, London. — Francis Gwyn to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Has had no answer to his letter about Portsmouth charter. About 
 ten days ago received a letter from the Corporation upon a supposition 
 that he had heard from his Lordship to whom the matter was referred. 
 Finds they are extremely concerned to have it, for besides other incon- 
 veniences an exemplification under the great seal will cost them a great 
 deal of money, which is the only remedy they have. If Lord Dart- 
 mouth's brother Will does not intend to stand for Portsmouth, and his 
 Lordship thinks the writer fit, shall be glad of his recommendation as a 
 burgess this next parliament. Begs that the project may be forgiven if 
 not approved of, as it arose from a discourse with Harry Slingsby, who 
 thought it very feasible, and is very willing to join with him. 
 
 1688, Dec. 4th, at noon. Ship Deptford E.S.E. 2 L. [? leagues] off 
 the Culver Cliff. — Captain George Rooke to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Being led away in chase of some Dutchmen yesterday afternoon, his 
 Lordship's orders of last night's date came to his hands but just now. Is 
 very sorry for the accident which led him out of the way, but to-night 
 will dispose his own and the other two ships as his Lordship would have 
 him for the service of intercepting the Prince, in which that no vessel 
 may pass undiscovered the boats shall be close under the weather shore. 
 Presumes his Lordship has knowledge of two yachts that came out of 
 the harbour yesterday morning very early. 
 
 1688, Dec. 4th. — Surgeon- General J. Pearse to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Got hither (Portsmouth ?) last night ; intends to spend this day in 
 discharging the old debt at Gosport (with money borrowed on his own 
 
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 Earl of 5 credit), in enlarging the quarters for sick men, and in settling Mr. 
 VR MSS? THS Matson's credit with the butchers, bakers, and brewers, and conse- 
 — ' quently with the landladies. To-morrow will wait on Lord Dartmouth 
 
 for his commands to Windsor, where he judges he shall find "our 
 
 Master." 
 
 1688, Dec. 5th, Portsmouth Dockyard. — Sir Richard Beach to Lord 
 Dartmouth. Has been informed privately that it is intended to put the 
 Prince on board the yacht this night, and to be gone with him, which 
 he thought it his duty to advise his Lordship of, knowing very well what 
 trouble and misery this kingdom may sustain for the future if his escape 
 be not prevented, for he'll prove a second " Perkin Warbeck." Sends 
 the proclamation. 
 
 1688, Dec. 5th, Staines. — Major Thomas Soper to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Heartily sorry to acquaint his Lordship that he has some share in the 
 desertion of officers as well as other regiments, as Seymour, Deaunish, 
 and Lewsy (?). Had spoken to Lord Preston that his Lordship intended 
 the first company that fell in for Kempthorne. Mold had applied and 
 been told of this intention, but nevertheless had made interest with 
 Lord Feversham and Sackfild and had got Seymour's company. Had 
 told Mold of his clandestine base way of proceeding, and hoped his 
 Lordship would interfere ; begged to know his commands. 
 
 1688, Dec. 5th, Whitehall, 9 morning. — King James II. to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. 
 
 " I had not till last night about nine, yours of the 2, which you say was 
 not sent till the 3. I have considered it well, but at present can only 
 say, I am not yett come to any positive resolution with myself in that 
 affaire, and so will have nothing done in it till further order, and that 
 I have thought more on't, heard from my commissioners, and see which 
 way the enemy advances. 
 
 James R. 
 
 You shall heare againe from me tomorrow. 
 
 J. R." 
 
 [Addressed.] For the Lord Dartmouth. 
 T Endorsed] 
 
 December 5 th , 1688. 
 
 Received by Lord Dover the 6 th . 
 
 1688, Dec. 5th, Whitehall, 9 at night. 
 
 " I thinke my sonne is not safe, (as things are now,) where he is, and 
 therefore think it necessary to have him removed from thence as sone 
 as may be. I haue writen to Lady Powis to that purpose ; if the way be 
 open by land, he shall come that way, and I haue sent troups to meett 
 him, and ordred Lord Dover to command them and come up with him. 
 If the Prince of Orange's troups gett bettwene this and Portsmouth then 
 he must come by sea, and in a yacht, and you must send what number of 
 ships you judg sufficient to see him as far as Margate, after which he 
 may come over the flatts, and so up the river without danger. You must 
 be sure to lett him take the first faire wind, for then there can be no 
 danger of Herbert nor his Dutch ships. I must leave the care of ordring 
 this to you. Be sure no oportunity of wind be lost for the reason I have 
 bearer given ; if he corns not up by land, which I had rather he did. 
 this already will tell you all the newse. 
 
 James R." 
 
 [Addressed.] For the Lord Dartmouth. 
 
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 [Endorsed by Lord Dartmouth] Dartmouth' 
 December 5 th , 1688. Mss. 
 Received by M r Leybourne the 6 th , in the evening. 
 Both these letter (sic) were answered the 6 th (and 7 th a post 
 
 script) sent a way by Captain Neagle on the 7 th after Lord 
 
 Dover was gone from Portsmouth with the Prince. 
 
 1688, Dec. 6th, London. — T. Gardiner to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 As to supply of bedding, guns, &c. Mr. Bertie in this convenient 
 leisure is made an ambassador to the Northern Lords, where my Lord 
 Danby is Regent, and dispatching to-morrow upon his Majesty's errand. 
 
 1688, Dec. 7th. Portsmouth Dockyard. — Sir Richard Beach to Lord 
 Dartmouth. " Last night the gates were kept open till four in the morning, 
 and during the time coaches, wagons, and horses went from the town 
 into the country, as is judged towards Chichester, and a great deal of 
 goods carried to the waterside and shipped on board some vessel. They 
 judge it can be nothing but their carrying away the Prince eastward 
 into some creek where some vessels are provided to transport him ; for 
 if they had intended to have carried him to London they need neither 
 be ashamed nor afraid of daylight, but all their works are works of 
 darkness, though God in his great mercy does bring them to light. 
 
 The gates are now shut, and they are resolved to keep them so to 
 keep us from the knowledge of what they have been doing." Suggests 
 that some vessels should be sent to the eastward and to the westward, 
 as it is not known certainly which way the Prince is gone. 
 
 1688, Dec. 7th, Portsmouth. — Sir Edward Scott to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Lord Dover desires his Lordship to know that he had the King's 
 commands to bring the Prince of Wales to London by sea or land, but 
 he thought the most convenient way was by land, so the Prince went 
 home this morning after 5 o'clock. Lord Dover, Lord Powis, my lady 
 governess, and their servants went with him. 
 
 1688, Dec. 9th, Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight. — Sir Robert Holmes 
 to Lord Dartmouth. On Friday he was forced to send his eldest 
 lieutenant to look after some subsistence for his company. The other 
 lieutenant took the opportunity of the foulness of last night to get 
 boats and carry away the most part of his company with a design to 
 surprise Hurst Castle. The officer commanding there, however, would 
 not give them entrance at such an unseasonable time, having by accident 
 espied several men under the wall. 
 
 Is left in this desolate condition having no men to stand by him. The 
 townspeople are ready to declare. Begs his Lordship to send forthwith 
 three or four frigates to ride before this place and Hurst Castle to 
 preserve them from falling into the enemies' hands. If he think fit to 
 send any ships let Jack TirrelPs be one. 
 
 500 of the Prince's dragoons it seems were advanced as far as Ring- 
 wood to countenance this villainous business. 
 
 1688, Dec. 10th, Whitehall.— King James II to Lord Dartmouth. 
 "Things hauing so very bad a prospect I could no longer defer securing the 
 Queene and my sonne, which I hope I haue done, and that by tomorrow 
 by none they will be out of the reach of my enemys. I am at ease now I 
 have sent them away, I haue not heard this clay as I expected from my 
 Com. [? Commissioner] with the Prince of Orange, who I beleue will 
 hardly be preuailed with to stop his march, so that I am in no good 
 condition, nay in as bad a one as is possible. I am sending the Duke 
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 Ear^of^ of Berwick downe to Portsmouth by whom you' shall know my resolu- 
 AR MSsY H tion concerning the fleett under your command, and what resolutions 
 — I haue taken, till when I would not haue you stur from the place 
 where you .are for seueral reasons. 
 
 James R." 
 
 [Addressed.] For the Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 [Endorsed by Lord Dartmouth] 
 December 10 th 1688. 
 " Received the 12 th . 
 
 But no orders brought me by the Duke of Barwick as within 
 mentioned and tho' he be come to towne he tells me the King 
 neither sent my orders by him nor so much as told him at his 
 coming away what he would haue me do." 
 
 1688, Dec. 10th, Whitehall. — King James II. to Lord Dartmouth. 
 "My affairs are, as you know, in so desperat a condition that I haue 
 been obliged to send away the Queene and the Prince, to secure them 
 at least, what so euer becoms of me, that am resolued to ventur all rather 
 than consent to anything in the least prejuditial to the crowne or my 
 concience, and hauing been basely deserted by many officers and souldiers 
 of my troups, and finding such an infection gott amongst very many of 
 those who still continu with me on shore, and that the same poysone is 
 gott amongst the fleett, as you yourself owne to me in some of your 
 letters, I could no longer resolue to expose myself to no purpose to what 
 I might expect from the ambitious Prince of Orange and the assosiated 
 rebellious Lords, and therefore haue resolued to withdraw till this violent 
 storme is ouer, which will be in God's good tyme, and hope that there will 
 still remaine in this land seuen thousand men which will not bow downe 
 the knee to Baal, and keep themselus free from assosiations and such 
 rebellious practices. I know not whether any of the fleett vnder your 
 command are free to continu seruing me ; if they are, their best course 
 will be to go to Irland, where there are still some that will stick to me. 
 If any are free to go order them thither to follow such orders as they 
 shall receue from Lord Tyrconnel. If they will not there is no remedy, 
 and this I may say, neuer any Prince took more care of his sea and land 
 men as I haue done, and been so very ill repay d by them. I haue not 
 tyme to say more being just a going to take horse. James R." 
 
 [Endorsed by Lord Dartmouth] 
 December 10 th , 1688. 
 " Received the 14 th by the common post. Mr. Peppys or whom this 
 was committed to should be answerable for the delay, for this 
 letter came not till after the Councell of warr that sent to the 
 Prince upon the letter from the Lords at Geald-Hall and the 
 quitting of the Roman Catholick Officers." 
 
 1688, Dec. 10th, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " Your Lordshipp's of the 4th ins 1 giveing his Majesty grounds 
 still to expect your opinion in the matter wherein the same was de- 
 manded in his of the 29th of November, has occasioned a longer silence 
 then ordinary till your last of the 6th which arrived here the 8th, gave 
 his Majesty to understand your desires rather of haveing his Majesty's 
 opinion and advice relateing thereto, namely, concerning the disposall 
 of the fleet when the same shall be refitted, which you incourage him 
 to expect by the end of this week, which advice comes inclosed to your 
 Lordshipp under his own hand. Whereto referring you, I shall goe on 
 to such particulars of your Lordshipp's said letters to myself as require 
 answer. 
 
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 " His Majestie very well approves of your Lordsliipps holding your Earl of 
 hand in the ordering only the Warspight and Edgar out to sea of the D " lR Mssy T1 
 three that the [King] had ordered to be got in readiness for it, had — 
 his service and the season required the same, he haveing upon the same 
 principle put a stopp as much as may be to all fruitless encreaseings of 
 charge here also, by directing noe more of the 6 fireships ordered to 
 be presently gone in hand with, to be for the present medled with, then 
 with the officers of the navy have alread[y] actually contracted for. He 
 has likewise determined upon a general! stopp to all further pressings 
 of men for the service of any of the shipps in manning here, or for the 
 use of the fleet, as you will find by his order inclosed to your Lordshipp 
 to that purpose. And to say the truth, by all the dispatch that I can 
 observe made in the manning of the shipps here, even with the help 
 of pressing, it looks to me as if they would not be manned till March; 
 while at the same time the town and Exchange are full of very just 
 clamours of the disorders comittecl in pressing, and the broiles and 
 squables that now begin to be made upon that occasion, to the dis- 
 turbance of the peace and dishonor of the King's service ; some of his 
 officers haveing lately smarted and been disarmed in their extravagant 
 execution of their press-warrants ; besides what the King at the same 
 time suffers in the interruption it gives to commerce, and his revenue 
 depending thereon. Upon my laying before him all which, and what 
 other considerations arose upon a late debate thereon with his Ministers, 
 his Majesty was pleased to resolve upon what I have now mentioned, 
 putting an end to pressing. 
 
 The case of poor Captain Powson is very grevious. But I doubt not, 
 upon his enquiry some of his men that were guilty of great inhumanity 
 towards him will be met w 7 ithall, and receive their reward for it from a 
 court martiall. 
 
 I have not yet heard anything of the death of Captain Sanderson, 
 and very sorry I should be to hear it. But should that come to pass, I 
 have moved the King in behalfe of Captain Collins, and doubt not his 
 haveing the effect he desires of his Majesty favour therein. 
 
 Very glad I am that the two Dover fireships are come to you ; it 
 being from a joynt letter from both their captains that I wrote what I 
 did to your Lordshipp about their being shutt in with the beach there. 
 
 His Majesty upon hearing your last letter read seemed to incline to the 
 haveing the stores taken in the Dutch galliot seized, and taken into his 
 magazines for his own use, ledd thereto by the consideration of the 
 Prince of Orange's being said to have seized upon his revenue in divers 
 of the places into which he is come ; but this being a matter of State his 
 pleasure will be notified therein from one of the Secretarys thereof, as I 
 suppose ; after the invoice of the said stores shall be translated ; to which 
 end the packett of papers you sent me were by his command putt into the 
 hand of my Lord Middleton, un-opened, in the very order they came to 
 me from your Lordshipp. 
 
 I cannot without resorting to the Navy office presently recollect what 
 the sallarys have heretofore been to muster-masters. But as I suppose 
 M r Bowles does not expect beyond what the practise of the Navy has in 
 like cases allowed, soe answering the duty of the office, according to 
 the instructions, he need not apprehend his being denied the utmost 
 incouragement that has been given to any in like case. 
 
 The sooner wee have the account of the fleet's victualling, the sooner 
 both the King and you will have the satisfaction and benefitt expected 
 from it. 
 
 What I have to add is the letting your Lordshipp know (if you have 
 not already been otherwise advertised of it) that the King, having deter- 
 
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 tmouth's mme( * u P on sending Collonel Molesworth back to the Goverment of 
 mss. Jamaica, (now my Lord of Albemarle is gone) he is pleased in the 
 mean while till Collonel Molesworth can be ready to dispatch away 
 some imediate orders for the rectifying of some matters greatly amiss 
 there, and this he intends to doe by the same sloope (Captain Penny 
 Master) which brought the news of the Duke's death ; soe that his 
 Majesty desires she may (if any restraint be now upon her) be left at 
 liberty to be presently refitted for her going away with the said papers 
 from the King accordingly. 
 
 Lastly, for our latest occurrences of publick moment here, which the 
 King at his delivering me his letter, directed me to give you some account 
 of, the principall I have mett with are these, besides those two great 
 ones, which the King has been pleased to tell you himself. 
 
 Dover Castle was seized two days since by some of the rabble of that 
 town ; not headed by any officer that I can hear of, civil or military, 
 but on the contrary as the Mayor of the place writes to my Lord Preston, 
 they were applyed to by the Mayor with endeavours of diss wading them 
 from the attempt. But they persisted, and (in number not above 30) 
 executed it, with success, and they are now masters of it. 
 
 A skirmish happned yesterday somewhere near Redding, between a 
 party of the Prince of Orange's and some Irish Dragoons of the Kings ; 
 with very ill success on the Dragoons' side, with this addition to it, that 
 upon their retreating for shelter to the town of Redding, the people of 
 the new town are said to have shott at them out of their windows. 
 
 Of the two battalions of the King's Scotch Guards (quartered as I 
 take it at Maidenhead) one of them, (Lieutenant Generall Douglas 
 being himself at their head) could not be prevailed with by him to the 
 contrary, but to a man, officers and all, before his very face, abandoned 
 him, and went away, towards the Prince's forces. 
 
 The Roman Catholicks of quality daily betake themselves to flight, 
 my Lord Peterborow being said to have withdrawn yesterday, and my 
 Lord Salisbury last night, late in the night, haveing with difficulty 
 escaped, after having been stopped in the citie, by getting himself out of 
 his coach, and rideing away upon one of his servant's horses ; 
 
 Others, for other reasons, are said to flock away too, men of the Long 
 Gown I meane, whose names till I am more certaine of them I shall 
 not adventure to mention. And of both the Gownes I mean, gospel 
 as well as law, the Bishopp of Chester, as well as M r Attorney Generall 
 for instance. 
 
 God (who only knows what is best) grant a quick and happy issue 
 to that just indignation of his under which we are at this day fallen." 
 In a postscript M r Pepys adds, 
 
 "His Majesty, at your Lordshipp's instance, has been pleased to 
 remove the boatswain you recomended, from the Edgar to the Ossory, 
 and to appoint another to succeed him in the Edgar." 
 
 1688, Dec. 11th, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I wrote your Lordshipp last night by express with one inclosed from 
 the King ; little suspecting from the contents of it (which he was pleased 
 to make me privy to) that I should soe soon have another to follow it, as 
 that which was brought me this morning by one to whom at his departure 
 from Whitehall in the night he gave it, with direction for his putting it 
 into my hand for your Lordshipp, and which I accordingly forwarded 
 imediately to you by another express. Since which I have (with the 
 Secretarys of State and other his Ministers and Officers here) attended 
 (by summons) a councill of Peers Spirituall and Temporall, that upon 
 advice of his Majesty withdrawing, did meet and have continued sitting 
 
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 all this clay at Guild Hall ; where among other their comands, one was Earl of 
 to take the care of forwarding this inclosed order of their Lordshipp's AR mss UTH 
 to you. Which I accordingly doe and with it have this only by way of — 
 news to give you, that I understand the like orders to have been issued 
 by them to my Lord Feversham with regard to the Army. The 
 Lieutenancy of the Tower they have likewise thought fitt to take out 
 of M r Skelton's hand and put it into my Lord Lucas's. They have 
 determin'd too upon a written message from them to the Prince of 
 Orange, and comitted it to four of their number to attend his Highness 
 for the delivery of it, namely, My Lord of Rochester, My Lord of 
 Weymouth, My Lord Culpeper, and my Lord Bishop of Ely, if I 
 remember their names rightly. It was expected too at my being at 
 Guild Hall, that an address would at the same time be prepared and 
 sent from the citty ; the Common Councill being then sitting (as it was 
 said) on that occasion." 
 
 [The following is the order referred to in the above :] 
 1688, Dec. 11th, Guildhall, London. — The Lords Spiritual and 
 Temporal, to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " Whereas His Majesty hath privately this morning withdrawn himself, 
 we the Lords Spiritual and Temporal whose names are subscribed being 
 desirous to prevent the effusion of blood in this juncture, aud con- 
 sidering the Prince of Orangs his fleet is (sic) now on the English coast, 
 may possibly meet with that under your Lordship's command, we do 
 therefore require you to give such necessary orders as you shall think 
 fit for the prevention of all acts of hostility ; and that no inconvenience 
 may happen in the Fleet. We do likewise require you forthwith to 
 remove all the Popish officers out of their respective commands. Dated 
 the 11th of December 1688 at Guild Hall London. 
 
 To the right honorable Crewe. W. Cant, 
 
 the Lord Dartmouth T. Jermyn. Tho. Ebor. 
 
 Admiral of the Fleet. Dorsett. Pembroke. 
 
 Sussex. Thanet. 
 Ailesbury. Berkeley Tho. Culpeper. 
 
 Burlington. Carlisle. North & Grey. 
 
 Weymouth. Rochester. Chandos. 
 
 Vaughan Carbery. Mulgrave. P. Winchester, 
 
 Tho. Petriburg. Ossulstone. Tho. RofFen." 
 
 1688, Dec. 11th. — Anon, (or signature torn off) to S . 
 
 " His highness pleases to dispose of the soldeirs, all things devolving 
 into his hands. The Council have ordered also a general search for 
 arms ia papist houses, and now they are on search for arms in Lord 
 Salisbury's house where are a rabble of above 5,000 gathered together : 
 and now they are at the mass house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, and have 
 pulled out a great deal of the inside, burning it in the fields, and are 
 gone to Brent's house where they do the same. The mob have gotten 
 the chapel bell and now are marching to St. James's, Lord Chancellor, 
 Sir Ed. Hales, Lord C. Justice, Baron Gener (?), Mr. Brent, Burton, 
 and Graham, &c, are all scamper'd; the papists are in a very bad 
 condition. " 
 
 1688, Dec. 11th, at noon. Uxbridge. — Lord Feversham (?) to the 
 Prince of Orange. (Copy unsigned.) " Sir, — Having received this 
 morning a letter from his Majesty with the unfortunate news of his 
 resolution to go out of England, and that he is actually gone, I thought 
 myself obliged being at the head of his army, having received his 
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 Earl of Highness know it, with the advice of the officers here as soon as it was 
 ^3ik°S UTHS possible, to hinder the misfortune of the effusion of blood. I have 
 — sent order already to that purpose to all the troops that are under nay 
 command, which shall be the last order they shall receive from (sic)." 
 
 1688, Dec. 11th, London. — Philip Frowde to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I have but just time to tell that the Queen and the young Prince 
 went away down the river on Sunday night, and this morning his 
 Majesty followed them at two or three of the clock. 'Tis thought they 
 are all gone for France. Mr. Peeters, the Duke of Berwick, Lord 
 Dunbar ton, and my Lord Chancellor are all gone with him, and divers 
 others. All the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in town met at Guildhall 
 to-day, and do so again to-morrow at Whitehall ; they have ordered the 
 King's army to remove out of the Prince of Orange's way to London, 
 that they may not fall out. The Lieutenants General here have ordered 
 the Irish and Papist soldiers in this town to be disbanded, which was 
 done this afternoon. The rabble are now pulling down the mass houses 
 everywhere, and burning the appurtenances, which at this instant make 
 the sky so very red that I can see it out of the rooms here at the 
 Post Office. The Commissioners are this day come back to Whitehall 
 from the Prince of Orange, I was told with fair proposals, but all that 
 is at an end now, the armies will quickly be one, and the Prince of 
 Orange here in a very few days. The Lord Mayor and aldermen have 
 appointed four aldermen and as many commoners to wait on the Prince 
 of Orange, &c. I will now trouble you no further." 
 
 1688, Dec. 11th, London.— [Signature torn off] to (— " Sir." 
 
 " The King went away this morning after the Queen and Prince of 
 Wales for France, supposed, and this day all the considerable Lords in 
 town, Spiritual and Temporal, met at Guild Hall, where was a great 
 council how to manage the affairs of this great city in the King's 
 absence. First they gave out warrants for stopping all Cinque (?) port 
 towns and sent for the keys of the Tower which were immediately 
 delivered up to the Lord Mayor. Skelton is gone and Lord Lucas is 
 appointed by the Council Lieutenant of the Tower. Lord Ranelagh has 
 sent to the Prince of Orange for his commands about paying the army, 
 and several of the chiefest officers have likewise sent to the Prince to 
 know what and how his condition. The Prince is expected here on 
 Thursday next. The papists were ordered by his Majesty before he 
 went to lay down their arms. There happened a skirmish at Reading, 
 and about 50 of the Irish dragoons cut off by a party of the Prince's. 
 I hope all things will ere long settle in their right channel and rest " &c. 
 
 [In another handwriting is added.] 
 
 u My respects makes me send this from a good hand. I have more of the 
 same. Some think the King is at Rochester. Let us pity him but not 
 lose our fleet. Verbum sapienti sat. and send some body as all others did." 
 
 1688, Dec. 11th, Portsmouth — " Deposition of Thomas Hancock, Esq., 
 mayor of Portmouth, before Mr. Hedger, justice of the peace. 
 
 On the 10th inst. about eight at night he, being sent for by Sir Edward 
 Scott the Lieutenant Governor, went with Mr. John Taileurto know his 
 pleasure ; Scott required him to grant warrants to press the town teams 
 for work on the fortifications at Portsmouth. The mayor answered that 
 he was advised he could not do it of his own authority, but if he were 
 commanded so to do by his Majesty or the Master of the Ordnance, he 
 would readily obey. Whereupon the Lieutenant Governor fell into an ex- 
 travagant passion, and called this deponent rogue, villain, and many other 
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 with his fist 10 or 12 times and swore that the Corporation were rebels 
 and that he, Scott, would cut the deponent's throat, which he many times 
 repeated and confirmed with many oaths, and further swore that if the 
 Prince of Orange's army ever appeared before the garrison he would cut 
 the throats of all the Corporation and the deponent's first, &c." 
 
 1688, Dec. 11th, Portsmouth. — Deposition of John Tayleur, to the 
 same effect as the above. 
 
 1688, Dec. 11th, Guildhall, London. — Copy (attested by Francis 
 Gwyn) of the Lords' Order to Lord Dartmouth to prevent all acts of 
 hostility, and to remove all Popish officers from their commands. 
 
 1688, Dec. 12th, [Portsmouth.]— Ellis, Lady Scott to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. Sir Edward does not think this place proper for her to be in 
 at this time, so desires some yacht or other vessel to convey her and 
 hers to her father's family. 
 
 " Your lordship's affectionate kinswoman." 
 
 1688, Dec. 12th, Portsmouth. — Sir Edward Scott to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Has received both letters of this day's date from his Lordship, who will 
 admit that one story is good till another is told. Defends himself from 
 the charge of hindering the storekeeper, &c. ; and from the complaint 
 of Mr. Mayor, whom he suspected of caballing with the officers of the 
 garrison, and u 'tis usual in several countries upon occasion in time of 
 u war to threaten inhabitants to keep them to their duty and allegiance, 
 " tho* at the same time no hurt is intended." 
 
 1688, Dec. 12th, Philip Musgrave (not signed) to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " Since I writ this morning an express came from Faversham giving 
 an account that in a little vessel that came out of Embden (Sir Edward 
 Hales, his island) taken by some boats manned out by the Faversham 
 seamen, his Majesty was also taken, and brought to the Queen's Arms 
 in Faversham, where he still remains, the train bands not permitting to 
 go away till they receive orders from this city, but do not offer any 
 other indignity to him. The Lords have sent a troop of his Guards 
 under the command of my Lord Feversham, as also the Lords Ailes- 
 bury, Middleton, and Yarmouth to attend his Majesty, and to give him 
 entire liberty to go where he pleases, or to come to London. James 
 Grahme is also gone and several of his servants. My Lord Peter- 
 borough is taken near Eamsgate, Father Peters is taken in Kent Street 
 in Southwark, and sent to the Tower, Obadia Walker is likewise 
 secured. The Lords have writ to the Prince of Orange to acquaint 
 herewith, and pitched upon me to carry it, but I declined it." 
 
 " Your Lordship's mother is in so weak a condition that we scarce 
 believe she can live till to-morrow." 
 
 1688, Dec. 12th, Yarmouth, in the Isle of Wight.— Sir Eobert Holmes 
 to Lord Dartmouth. Sent on Sunday an account of his disaster on 
 Saturday night, &c. Is not sorry he has lost those 28 or 30 rogues out 
 of his company, being rid of villains that upon all occasions would have 
 taken an opportunity to do him mischief. Desires instructions about 
 making prizes of Dutch ships ; has written to Court about it, but got no 
 answer. 
 
 1688, Dec. 12th, Resolution at Spithead. — Lord Dartmouth to Samuel 
 Pepys, Esq. (copy). Understanding to his great grief and astonish- 
 ment that his Majesty (whom God preserve) has withdrawn himself, is 
 at a loss how to steer with the fleet, and has sent so trusty a messenger 
 
 Earl of 
 Dartmouth's 
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 Dartmouth's as Captain Mathew Aylmer to be entrusted with his Majesty's direction 
 MSS. thereupon. Begs also that Pepys will take effectual care that the ships 
 are speedily supplied with victuals. 
 
 [On the same sheet is a copy of a like letter to the Earl of Middle- 
 ton."! 
 
 1688, Dec. 12th, Portsmouth Dock. — Sir Eichard Beach to Lord 
 Dartmouth. Expresses the state of alarm in which the town's people 
 are from the threats of Sir Edward Scott and the Irish officers and 
 soldiers in the garrison. Begs his lordship to leave some of his " dis- 
 ablest " ships in the harbour for their assistance, as he not only fears 
 plunder and murder, but also destruction of the storehouses by fire upon 
 the appearance of any of the Prince's forces. 
 
 [1688], Dec. 12th, Barbara, Lady Dartmouth to Lord Dartmouth. — 
 " I knowe my deare hart this juncture of time is very amaseing to every 
 body throughout this nation and must be so pertickelery to you upon all 
 accounts, and more in the discharge of so great a trust as you have in 
 your hands which is now thought to be the nation's since the King is 
 withdrawn ; therefore I desired my Lord Rochester, who I believe is 
 realy your frind, to advise you in this matter, and we send you the paper 
 of the Lords to show you what is don heare, and I hope deare you will 
 be so wise to your selfe and family as to doe what becomes a reasonable 
 man who I am sure is left in the most deploreable condition of any 
 subiect or servant whatsoever. Therfor pray consider it well in your 
 one thoughts, and then no one is better able to judg then yourself e what 
 is fitt to be don to aquit you, for as hetherto, I doe not find the pro- 
 distant interist disatisfied with you, and the other I look upon as quit 
 exterpreted (sic). Lord Chandseler is prisener in the Tower, and the rable 
 ready to pull him to peces before he be brought to public justice. Indeed 
 this town as bin mighty unquiat since the King's departure, by pulling 
 the chapells down and houses of papists and imbassedors, so that every 
 body is in great frights and wish for the Prince of Oringe's coming 
 to quiat things " 
 
 [1688], Dec. 13th. Same to same. " Sence Ben went from hence 
 thare is come a sertin account of the King's be taken in makeing his 
 escape at Fever sham, acompaned only with Sir Edward Hailes, whare he 
 remaines till the Lords that act here whare aquainted, who have o'rderd 
 his guards to be sent to him, and 4 Lords to wait of him to protect him, 
 and give him his liberty to goe or stay, but I refer you to Mr. Musgrave 
 and will only ad I am yours B. D." 
 
 1688, Dec. 12th and Dec. 20th. Spithead. — Lord Dartmouth to the 
 Prince of Orange. 
 
 Copies of two letters promising co-operation of his fleet with the 
 Prince in preservation of order, &c. (See book.) 
 
 1688, Dec. 13th. — Earl of Rochester to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Advises him not to leave the fleet, which will certainly mutiny if he 
 does, and to write to the Peers for further orders. His Lordship will 
 thus avoid all blame, which is a good thing now. 
 
 1688, Dec. 13th. — Earl of Feversham to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Narrates his proceedings on receipt of the King's letter at Uxbridge. 
 Ordered his officers to cause the letter to be read to each regiment, 
 and afterwards thought they were all at liberty to do what they would. 
 He came away for London, where he intends to live quietly as long as 
 he can and take no other employment. 
 
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 1688, Dec. 13th, London. — T. Gardiner to Lord Dartmouth. Begs Ea.rl oj 
 
 his Lordship's interest for himself or his son in the event of changes in DaK ms& T1 
 
 the Ordnance Office. The King when seized with Hales and De — 
 Labaddy proffered 300 guineas to be carried on board some vessel, but 
 the seamen refused thinking them Jesuits. My Lord Chancellor being 
 taken among the Wappingers was the last night brought into the Tower, 
 with such a din of the rabble as the writer never heard before. 
 
 1688, Dec. 13th, Eesolution at Spithead. — Information of Captain 
 Edward Poulson, late Commander of the Speedwell fireship. 
 
 On the morning of the 11th instant, was inveigled into the Antelope 
 Tavern in Poole, and there seized as a prisoner, and at the same time his 
 ship was seized for the Prince of Orange, one Robinson taking com- 
 mand of her. His cabin had been rifled, and all his money taken. 
 Robinson had offered the command back to him, if he would carry the 
 ship to the Prince's fleet at Plymouth ; but he had rejected the offer, 
 saying he would rather beg his bread than accept of any command 
 against the King by whom he was employed and trusted. He privately 
 procured two horses and a guide in the night, and came away to Hurst 
 Castle, thence to Yarmouth to Sir Robert Holmes, thence to Cowes, and 
 so to the fleet, humbly to offer his further service to the Lord Admiral 
 in any station his Lordship shall be pleased to place him. 
 
 1688, Dec. 13th, Whitehall.— Francis Gwyn to Lord Dartmouth. Re- 
 marks on matters pertaining to the King's departure. Infinite blame is 
 laid on Lord Feversham for disbanding his soldiers, who joined and 
 encouraged the rabble in their mischief. 
 
 1688, Dec. 13th, Whitehall.— Sir Henry Shere to Lord Dartmouth. 
 " I am now in the lobby of the Council Chamber, attending the Council 
 of Lords, who are exceedingly pleased with our deportment, both abroad 
 and here in the town ; for your regiment and the train have continued 
 entire when the whole army disbanded, and we marched thiough the 
 City to the Tower, where there was so great a tumult that nobody 
 believed we should have escaped a man of us, in fine (?) we are now 
 safe and have the approbation of our betters, and your regiment sent for 
 me this morning to secure the Lords from the rage of the rabble. God 
 bless you and send you safe hither." .... 
 
 1688, Dec. 13th. — Sir John Berry to Lord Dartmouth. Recommends 
 Captain Clements for the command of the St. Albans. 
 
 1688, Dec. 13th.— Sir Christopher Musgrave to Philip Musgrave, St. 
 James Street, London. 
 
 On Sunday in the afternoon, Sir John Lowtherwith some gentlemen, 
 attended with several of his tenants, went towards Workington, and on 
 Monday seized the arms and some stores which were designed for Ireland, 
 and where they are to be lodged is not known. The gunpowder was 
 gone sometime before to Ireland. I think none laments the removal of 
 Sir Nicholas [Le Fleming ?] 
 
 1688, Dec. 13th, Ship Mary at Spithead.— Sir R. Strickland to Lord 
 Dartmouth. Having some time since made application to his Lordship 
 to quit his commission and having now given it up, begs a speedy dis- 
 charge with the convenience of a yacht to transport him to London. 
 
 1688, Dec. 14th, Ship Warspite. — Sir William Jennens to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. Is desired by the Marquis [de Querian ?] to recommend him for a 
 passport for France, as he hears the King is gone there, and he hopes to 
 get his affair done with the French King by his Majesty's mediation. 
 
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 j | (JjJJ^Jj,,, The Gosport people (having been very much abused by the Irish soldiers) 
 .MBS. " have seized on the Castle, and it is understood the Duke of Berwick will 
 lire them out. They are Protestants, and the writer judges himself 
 obliged if they are ill treated to defend and assist them to his power ; 
 they are in very great trouble and will be more, if the Irish part not 
 before he sails out of the harbour. Saw great companies march on the 
 hill, and they went towards Fareham, but does not think them the 
 Prince's forces. 
 
 1688, Dec. 14th, Portsmouth. — Thomas Hancock to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Is forced to leave his house and is threatened to be < briled.' If the 
 soldiers offer any abuses to the town, has ordered torches to be fired on 
 the Tower. Is going to Sir William Jennens to secure himself. 
 
 " P.S. — The town is in a great fear, and all the shops are shut up, 
 the Irish threatening to do strange things." 
 
 1688, Dec. 15th, House of Lords. — Copy of the Peers' Address to 
 the Prince of Orange, concerning the summoning of a convention or 
 parliament to sit at Westminster on January 22 following. 
 
 1688, Dec. 15th, Dublin. — Dennis Scott to Sir Edward Scott, Deputy- 
 Governor of Portsmouth. Business matters. " There are 20,000 Irish- 
 men in arms here now, which will rendezvous in several places of the 
 kingdom on first of January next. The Lord Deputy is daily signing 
 commissions for the chief of all the tribes in the kingdom to raise more 
 men, so that we shall have 30,000 men by the last of January, and 
 pretty well disciplined by the first of March. Notwithstanding that the 
 Lord Deputy and Council have issued a proclamation to dissuade the 
 English from the apprehension of cutting their throats ; yet they are 
 
 not quite appeased though somewhat calmed The transactions 
 
 of England strike unparallelled astonishment into the hearts of all the 
 Irish." Sir Patrick Frant, Sir Eichard Nagle, Sir Henry Linch, and 
 Colonel Moore send their humble service. Colonel Butler, of Kilcash, is 
 raising a regiment, Walter his son being Lieutenant-Colonel. Lady 
 Butler, of Kilcash, is dead. 
 
 [1688,] Dec. 15th. Barbara, Lady Dartmouth to Lord Dartmouth. — 
 " I am in great destraction you may imagin in all this change of things, 
 and the more that I canot heare from you any way sence all hapened, 
 which makes me conclude that the countrey being in such disorder stopt 
 bothe the Lords' letter to you and all mine, which makes us repeat them, 
 and send the copy of all theares. I am in great consern for feare you 
 should be ignorant of proceedings heare to derect you how to steer. I 
 much hope you will bring in the fleet. I beleive you may not heare of 
 the miserable condition the King ly(es in) at Feversham in the hands 
 of the rable, who will not part with him or suffer any creature to goe 
 neare him ; they say he resolves not to return ; the rable riffled his 
 pockets and took away all from him, Sir Edward Haile's, and Mr. 
 Sheldon, who ware only with him. I never knew so sad a time ; 
 God look upon us in mercy ; it hath pleased God to take away your 
 mother yesterday after a lingering illnes, who is hapy to be out of the 
 
 world , She desired to be carid privatly to 
 
 the Minorits. . . . . 
 
 intirely yours 
 
 B." 
 
 ...... ~" Your brother Will went with his regiment to the Prince 
 
 of Orange upon the first news of the King's absenting, and Sir William 
 Villiers is sent for the Prince. 
 
 [Inside the cover is written] 
 
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 Lord Churchill sent me a complement if he could serve you to the earl of 
 
 prince, I might comand him in your absence. Poor Lord Feversham DAR ™ S g UTHS 
 
 is still under close confinement ; thay say he will be charged with the ' 
 
 murder of the Lord Esex, and God knows what." 
 
 1688, Dec. 1 5th, London.— Philip Musgrave to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Contrary to expectation the King has been prevailed upon to come to 
 London; his coaches and guards are ordered to Dartford, and his 
 lodgings are preparing. 
 
 1688, Dec. 15th, Portsmouth dockyard. — Sir Richard Beach to Lord 
 Dartmouth. Understanding that the " Plmbbs " yacht is bound for 
 Guernsey with Lady Scott, asks that Sir Philip Carterett, his lady and 
 family may be carried to Jersey at the same time, Mr. Secretary Pepys 
 having given orders for their accommodation. The Lord Chancellor 
 was taken in an alley in Wapping and carried to the Lord Mayor, who 
 (Jeffreys ?) cowardly knelt down to kiss his hand, which struck such 
 amazement into the Lord Mayor that he fell into a swoon, and continues 
 very ill. Lord Salisbury was taken by a Captain of the Trainbands, 
 but made his escape. 
 
 All things are in peace and quietness at Gosport, but no people will 
 come to work here until the Irish quit the town, the sayings and orders 
 of the Duke of Berwick being little valued. 
 
 1688, Dec. 16th, Portsmouth. — Duke of Berwick to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " My Lord. 
 
 Since I saw you yesterday I have considered that Southsea 
 Castle, being in the island of Portsmouth, and the dragoones being 
 quartered all upon downe (sic) those parts, it may putt them in fear and 
 apprehensions to have any others, but soldiers of the guarrison of Ports- 
 mouth, be putt into that castle, besides that it will render the people of 
 the island more insolent (as also those of abroad) and it being more 
 immediate under theye of Portsmouth. I have (sic) my letters to my 
 Lord Middelton by Mr. Beckett. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 
 Berwick." 
 
 1688, Dec. 16th, Windsor. — Prince of Orange to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " My Lord, I receaved your letter of the 12th of this instant December, 
 and am glad to finde you continue firme to the Protestant Religion and 
 Liberties of England, and that you resolve to dispose the fleet under 
 your command to those ends ; to which not only the fleet, but the army 
 and the nation in generall have so frankly concurr'd. Neither shall my 
 care of the honour and dignity of this nation be wanting in matters of 
 disputes between the two fleets as you seeme to apprehend ; I therefore 
 send you such orders as are necessary to prevent that, and usef ull to this 
 Kingdome. As to the methods you have taken to purge the fleet from 
 papist officers, I aprove very much of it, and, as to all other matters in 
 general, I shall referr them to the ensuing parliament. I expect your 
 speedy compliance with the orders I send you here inclosed, and when 
 you have brought the fleet to the Boy in the North (sic) I desire to see 
 you that I may have your advice, not onely relating to the fleet, but to 
 the publique in generall. 
 
 I am 
 
 Your affectionate Friend 
 Windesor the 16th Prince d'Orange. 
 
 Decemb. 1688. 
 
 Endorsed by Lord Dartmouth as received at Spithead on the 19th 
 and answered on the 20th under cover to Lord Rochester. 
 
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 £mou?h's 1688 ' Dec - 17th.— Certificate of the Duke of Berwick that Sir Edward 
 mss. Scott, Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth, has laid down his commission 
 upon an order of the Prince of Orange and the Lords; and it is 
 required that he may in no ways be molested by any body. 
 
 1688, Dec. 17th, Whitehall. — Sir Henry Shere to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " The King came through the town last night, and was 
 
 attended through the streets to Whitehall with great shoals of the 
 people and bells ringing. I waited on his Majesty this morning to have 
 directions how we are to proceed at our Board, who told me that he 
 could not tell how to direct me. But just now we are assured the 
 King has declared the Prince of Orange generalissimo by sea and land ; 
 the King desired a guard from his highness telling him he had more 
 assurance of those than his own — sad state of a Prince but yesterday so 
 great. In a word the Prince issues his orders to all the troops already. 
 I am in pain what to say to you at this distance, so many new changes 
 happen in a day. God direct you for the best — I cannot say but that 
 I now wish the King had not come back. We have made no appli- 
 cation to the Prince as yet, though all other officers have, and what we 
 shall do God knows, or what is best in prudence and honesty. I think 
 if your Lordship signified your pleasure in this as well as in other 
 matters relating to the office it may be of some use to you. I perceive 
 your Lordship has sent Captain Aylmer to negociate for you with the 
 Prince; how he may succeed in your service, or what motive your 
 Lordship could have to make choice of him (who is a creature to those 
 whom I should not trust in your interest) I cannot tell, but am most 
 sure I should not have concurred in the choice. I presume, my Lord, 
 your safest method is not to hesitate now, and every step that looks 
 like doubt will be fatal to you — God direct you. Upon Sir Edward 
 Sherburne's removal I presume Mr. Bridges will incline to hope for 
 your Lordship's concurrence in his favour to succeed him, whose cha- 
 racter I need not give your Lordship, or how welcome he would be to the 
 board. I am pressed to a period and remain with unalterable duty," 
 &c. 
 
 P.S. — Your Lordship has won ISir M[artin] Beckman's 10 guineas, 
 who is as good a Protestant as any in the parish, and has received the 
 sacrament." 
 
 1688, Dec. 18th, T. Gardiner to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " Though the Tower where I am in a manner confined cannot yield 
 such an account of affairs, yet we soon partake of what occurs at the 
 other end of the town. The King went from thence to Rochester about 
 12 this day, under a strong guard of the Prince's, refusing Ham house 
 which it seems was offered to him. The Prince came to St. James's 
 about 4, having sent many of his foot through the city aforehand, 
 quartering in the suburbs, 500 whereof come into the Tower to-morrow ; 
 and your Lordship's regiment quartered about Hackney and Mile End. 
 My neighbour left his house yesterday, but Beckman is established (as 
 he thinks) and frequents our church, which is a new religion to him. 
 Poor Jus* Sherburne is willing to return to the devotion he understands, 
 protesting that he knew nothing of the other ; and in this anxiety I 
 have persuaded Dr. Hawkins and another minister to learn of the 
 Archbishop what are the best methods for his reformation. We have 
 had no office this 8 days, there being no money nor no settlement of 
 the Treasury. The rabble has seized upon many of our waggons and 
 stores of the train about Hounslow heath, which wanted horses to 
 bring them home ; and since that they have carried away good part of 
 
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 the King's tent from the chapel, and the Prince's forces deny the Earl of 
 remainder to be brought hither by our messengers . . . ." DAE Btss! TI 
 
 1688, Dec. 19th, Portsmouth. — The Duke of Berwick to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. 
 
 Has this moment received a letter from the King ordering him to 
 deliver up the town as soon as any of the Prince's troops come, which 
 he believes will be to-morrow. Expects a passport from the Prince, 
 the King having been pleased to send unto him for the writer. 
 
 1688, Dec. 19th, Windsor. — The Prince of Orange to Colonel Berkeley. 
 (Copy.) 
 
 Ordering him to repair to Portsmouth to acquaint the commander, 
 officers, and soldiers there that a body of men has been ordered to 
 march there and take possession of the garrison. Quarters are to be 
 appointed for -the several regiments now there, and no danger or ill- 
 usage need be apprehended. The governor and lieutenant-governor 
 will then have leave to go where they desire and to carry with them all 
 things whatsoever belonging to them without any let or molestation. 
 [At foot is a direction, signed by Lord Churchill, to all constables, 
 postmasters, &c. to assist Colonel Berkeley in getting horses to carry him 
 to Portsmouth.] 
 
 1688, Dec. 19th, Deptford. — Captain (afterwards Sir) George Rooke 
 to Lord Dartmouth. His indisposition prevents him from waiting on 
 his Lordship, but he is informed Captain Laton is to be removed from 
 the Mary, and that the candidates for her are Captain Botham, Captain 
 Matthew Aylmore, and Captain Thomas Leighton, amongst whom he 
 humbly begs leave to offer his pretensions to his Lordship's consideration, 
 as being many years an elder captain than either of them. Of his actions in 
 the service his Lordship (sic) is in a great measure a judge, he (Rooke) 
 having served part of his time under his Lordship's command, so he 
 cannot expect so great a hardship from his Lordship's justice, as the 
 preferring of a younger captain over him will appear to the world. He 
 hopes therefore his Lordship will continue his favours to him, rather 
 than detract from them by casting so great a disgrace on that little 
 reputation he has with so much care and pains acquired. 
 
 1688, Dec. 20th, Portsmouth.— The Duke of Berwick to Lord 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 Is just now going away to London, the guards being ready to march 
 into this town. Wonders the Prince has not sent any orders for the 
 regiments that are here, fearing disorders. Desires a pass for his 
 servant Lockyer to go with Captain Hutchens. 
 
 1688, Dec. 20th, [Thursday]. — Ellis, Lady Scott to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Hears his Lordship sails to-morrow, and begs for orders that her party 
 may sail away before the fleet does. 
 
 " Friday night." A second letter complaining of being recalled from 
 her intended voyage. 
 
 " Saturday night, eight o'clock." Hopes that his Lordship is satisfied 
 she has no goods but her own, a strict search having been made, and 
 again begs to be allowed to sail. 
 
 1688, Dec. 20th, Whitehall.— Francis Gwyn to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Is informed Colonel Norton will stand for Petersfield ; his good aunt 
 Lady Wharton has written to Norton to ask him, if he do stand, to join 
 with Lord Dartmouth in recommending the writer for Portsmouth. 
 The Prince of Orange has ordered the summoning of the peers to meet 
 him to-morrow morning at St. James's at ten o'clock ; there are about 
 seventy of them in town. 
 
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 Dartmouth's 1688, Dec. 20th. — Sir Roger Strickland to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 MSS - His heart and eyes are so full of grief and tears that he is unable to 
 
 make the least return for Lord Dartmouth's extraordinary kindness at 
 parting. Is at present but in an ill condition to requite otherwise than 
 with his hearty thanks. 
 
 1688, ;[Dec. 20th ?] Thursday eveniug.— Daniel Sullivan to Lord 
 Dartmouth. The Duke of Grafton's quartermaster brought news that 
 21 companies of the guards under the Duke were to be here [Ports- 
 mouth ?] this night to relieve the garrison, upon which all the regiments 
 were drawn up in the Green, expecting orders every hour, where, when, 
 or with what security to march according to the Prince of Orange's 
 letter, but none came. At last it was agreed to deliver them the pos- 
 session, and the Irish to withdraw to the barracks and without the gates 
 to quarter for this night, and to march to-morrow, but where they know 
 
 not " The Prince was much concerned that the King 
 
 was stopped at Feversham, and that the City [received ?~j him with so 
 much joy and more than him ; in short I have this day seen by good 
 letters that the people begins to grow full of him, and the gentry to 
 come in more and more to the King. The Prince keeps in great 
 grandeur at St. James's, and so high that some Bishops and other 
 gentry are waiting a whole day before he will admit them. They 
 begin to create whispers and mutinies, which I pray Grod to increase." 
 
 1688, December 21st, Rochester. — King James II. to Lord Dartmouth. 
 " At eight at night I send this bearer Mun Eliott to the Downs to see if 
 you be there, and to know if you designe to stay there, or are obliged for 
 want of victuals to come up to the Nore ; 'tis of concerne to me to be 
 informed of it as you will find by what this bearer has to say to you 
 from me, to whom you may giue intire credit, which is all I shall say, till 
 I haue an answer to this. 
 
 (Signed) James, R." 
 
 [Addressed.] For the Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 [Endorsed, by Lord Dartmouth.] December 21. 
 
 * Brought to me by Captain Floyd at Spitthead, but Captain Elliot 
 came not with it nor was it answered but by worde of mouth, by 
 Captain Floyd ; and I sayled immediatly, but the King went 
 away the same night he write this letter so both my hast and 
 Captain Floyde's were in vayne." 
 
 1688, Dec. 21st, The Warspite (ship). — Sir William Jennensto Lord 
 Dartmouth. Expresses sorrow for his very unmannerly conduct, and 
 believes that nothing but his being proclaimed a cheat before so many 
 persons could have forced such an expression as he used from him. 
 Defends himself from the charge of cheating a French Marquis (his 
 prisoner), having treated him with a respect suitable to his quality, not 
 his misfortunes, and asserts that he has always entertained all persons 
 who came on board his ship for shelter with wine and victuals plenty, 
 and it is the first time that ever his table was complained of, for that 
 has been always plentiful when he has made hard shift for money. Is 
 no flatterer or time server, and seeing he is wholly incapacitated from 
 serving his King further he is willing to lay down his commission, if 
 his Lordship thinks the Warspite can be in better hands. 
 
 Attached are (1) certificate of Charles Staggins that the Marquis de 
 Querian had often repeated to him of the great civility of Sir William 
 Jennens to him, and that he kept a very good and plentiful table ; and (2) 
 certificate signed by Charles Staggins, Thomas Day, Richard Norwood, 
 James Bankes, Charles Williams, and Thomas Jaggar, that they con- 
 
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 stantly eat at Sir William Jennens' table, and that there has been plenty eael of 
 
 of fresh provisions every day, insomuch that no person was obliged to eat DAE JJg^ UIH ' 3 
 
 salt, and that only twice in the week any of the King's victuals were — ' 
 
 brought to the table, which they desired for change, not that they were 
 
 compelled for want of fresh ; and for the most part there was strong 
 
 beer for the whole mess, and when Sir William has had a mind to drink 
 
 the ship beer the Marquis had strong. And they further certify that 
 
 Sir William, who was not accustomed to eat of suppers, did provide one 
 
 for the Marquis, which was either cold meat, cold fowl, apple pie, 
 
 bread, cheese, and butter, and sometimes sweetmeats, always with 
 
 strong beer,— to all which they are ready to make oath if thereunto 
 
 called. 
 
 1688, Dec. 21st, The War spite. — Sir William Jennens to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. Has received his Lordship's letter, wherein he is pleased to men- 
 tion that he (Jennens) had made a seeming submission. Is sorry he is 
 mistaken in everything, for the submission he made was very hearty 
 and true, and he is truly sensible for the rashness he then committed 
 but seeing his Lordship thinks fit to send another captain before he can 
 get a convenience to remove, desires he may have leave to part at this 
 place, and although it will be very incommodious to him, chooses rather 
 to undergo that than to have another captain whilst he shall remain on 
 board. 
 
 1688, Dec. 22nd. — Captain George Rooke to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Thanks for the kind offer of the Warspite, but declines on the ground 
 that she is ill-manned, and likely to be paid off. Mr. Bowles tells him 
 his Lordship had promised the Mary, so humbly begs pardon for 
 troubling him in that matter. 
 
 1688, Dec. 24th, London. — William Peny to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 The enclosed * was this day given him by Colonel Beckford of Jamaica, 
 who is now in London. Colonel Moulsworth was ordered governor for 
 that island, and all officers and people of trust there turned out by the 
 Duke of Albemarle were to be restored to their several employments. 
 
 1688, Dec. 25th, St. James's.— The Prince of Orange to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. 
 
 Directs Lord Dartmouth to appoint some of the lesser ships of the 
 Fleet to cruise off the banks of Guernsey, to prevent any French ships 
 from landing there, or on the neighbouring islands, also to appoint some 
 small frigates (not fewer than four) to cruise between Dover and Calais, 
 and between Harwich and the coasts of Holland and Flanders for the 
 better security of the packet boats passing between those places against 
 any insults by the French privateers. 
 
 1688, Dec. 25th, Dublin. — Francis Povey to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Refers to his long service in the Ordnance Office, and the good ser- 
 vices he had the opportunity to do in Tangiers. Though his youthful 
 education and persuasion were nurtured by Sir Edward Sherburne, poor 
 unfortunate gentleman, to believe the Romish faith, yet he never so 
 rashly believed it ; but by the due examination of himself and pious 
 advice of some divines of the Church of England he has embraced the 
 Protestant religion in which he was baptised, and he hopes his future 
 life will embrace the precepts of the Church of England by law esta- 
 blished. Begs Lord Dartmouth's help and favour. 
 
 1688, December 25th, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " His Highness the Prince of Orange's orders to your Lordshipp of 
 
 * Missing. 
 
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 lmmouth'* ^ e * nst ' * ?r0m Windsor (which he was pleased to communicate to 
 L mss. & me upon his first arrival! here) did (as well by thegenerall scope thereof, 
 — as more particularly by the direction in the close of it) give me ground 
 of expecting all the last week (the wind there allsoe favouring it), to 
 have heard of your Lordshipp's arrivall with the Fleet at the Buoy of 
 the Nore ; confirmed therein the more, by Captain Fayeby and Captain 
 Crow, and by Collonell Legg also upon his calling on me for some assist- 
 ance towards the obtaining a passport and a vessell for the enableing 
 him to meet you there. Which putt together, and the Prince's dayly 
 enquiries whether I had heard from you out of the Dounes or not, 
 discouraged me from thinking it of any use to direct any more letters 
 for you to Portsmouth. I had otherwise sooner acquainted you with 
 my having received and comunicated to the King your letter to mee of 
 the 14 th and 15 th together with that enclosed to the Lords Spirituall and 
 Temporall ; his Majesty being then (to the great, but short, content 
 of all his servants), newly returned, and by consequence that Assembly 
 of Peers disolved. 
 
 Since that, the Prince has received your Lordshipp's of the 20 th from 
 the Spitthead, with it the wind is since come about easterly, to the 
 occasioning great care and solicitude here touching the condition of the 
 fleet, with reference to its shortness of provisions, and incapacity either 
 of coming hither to it's supplyes, or having the supplies sent hence to 
 that ; of which Sir Richard Haddock (upon a solemne conference had 
 thereon with him and the rest of the victuallers at the Navy Board 
 yesterday) told me, that there were great quantities of all sortes now 
 actually on board vessells in the river, but unable to be forwarded towards 
 you by reason of the wind. Soe that wee are under the last degree of 
 thoughtfulness what possible way to take to remeclie this. His High- 
 ness having been fully acquainted therewith both by them and mee, 
 and the Lords of the Treasury also (as Sir Richard Haddock tells 
 mee) by him with great complaints at the same time made of his 
 brethren's having not received any of their weekly proportions of 
 money for three weeks past. By the help of which (he tells mee) he 
 should hope to be in a condition of providing from day to day such a 
 quantity of fresh meate out of the country about Portsmouth, as (with 
 the advice he saies he has privately given your Lordshipp about going 
 to short allowance) might make shift to lengthen out the remainder of 
 your sea-provisions till the wind might change, or some other expedient 
 be found out for relieving you. About which the Victuallers of the 
 Navy are to attend the Lords of the Treasury to morrow morning; 
 the effect thereof your Lordshipp shall be very soon informed of, and of 
 whatever can be done under this difficulty. 
 
 His Highness is very sensible of the hint you give him in your 
 letter touching Guernsey, and has given me his comands to prepare an 
 Order signifying his direction thereon to your Lordshipp (agreeable to 
 your own advice), about sending some smaller shipps to cruize off of the 
 bancks of that island. Which T have accordingly done, and presume I 
 may be able to get it signed soe as to send it away to you with this. 
 
 And in the same Order you will have another direction relating to our 
 packett boats, upon complaints from Mr. Frowd of their being now 
 much disturbed by the French Privateers, before which the Prince has 
 determined upon having four small shipps or vessells appointed to that 
 service ; vessells not too bigg, because of their draught of water, for fear 
 of the shoales ; nor yet too small to cope with any of the Privateers, the 
 size his Highness seems to propose being of the force of between 26 and 
 30 guns, leaving it to your Lordshipp to governe your selfe, as you may 
 have understood the quality of the Privateers to be." 
 
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 1688, Dec. 26th, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. d A rtmSuti 
 " Mine by last night's post mentioned an Order I had then prepared AR mss UTI 
 and was in hopes to have gott it signed by the Prince soe as it might — 
 have accompanyed my said letter. But I was prevented in it, his High- 
 ness not signeing it till to-day, soe that I am driven to send it* by 
 express ; with this direction from him to add to your Lordshipp by way of 
 explanation thereof, that he does not meane that the shipps thereby 
 directed to be sent a cruizeing off of Guernsey should be other than 
 part (namely, the smallest) of the fourth rates mentioned in the list he 
 sent you from Windsor, he intending with all the speed he conveniently 
 can to retrench the present extraordinary charge of the Navy as fan* as 
 the state whereto the affairs of J;his Kingdom are now brought will 
 admitt. 
 
 His Highness is also very intent upon having the other article in this 
 order of his about the packet boats speedily putt in execution, and to 
 that end expects as soon as may be to heare what provision you 
 foresee you may make out of your smaller shipps for answering that 
 occasion. 
 
 What I have to add is, the acquainting your Lordshipp that his Highness 
 was pleased to send for me this day to advertize me of your Secretary's 
 being come to towne and comunicated to me your letter to him by his 
 hand, with direction for my sending for him and receiving the account he 
 brings with him of the state of the fleet, in order to my reporting the 
 result thereof to him. Accordingly I did send to look him out and 
 have this evening received the same from him, and shall report it to his 
 Highness to morrow morning to receive his pleasure upon it. In the 
 meane time I am to observe to your Lordshipp upon occasion of your 
 Secretary's mentioning to me your purpose of sending the Phubbs yacht 
 over to Guernsey, that the Prince was pleased this day to hold his hand 
 from signing a warrant I had by his order prepared for the Mary yacht's 
 transporting the Lady Sussex to France saying that he was likely very 
 suddenly to have an occasion of his own to make use of all his yachts 
 and therefore should not let any of them goe abroad on other occasions. 
 Of which I thought it was fitt for me to give you this advice, as believing 
 that I shall speedily have his comand for the PhubVs being brought about, 
 especially too for that by the King's last order neither she nor the Mary 
 were on any score to depart from Portsmouth but by his hand only." 
 
 [1688,] Dec. 26th. — Barbara, Lady Dartmouth to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I do beleive you are uneasey to be ignorant of the afaires 
 
 heare, but I find few heare but what are so, for the Prince is mighty 
 reserved and hard of acces, which doth not take, and no body knows who 
 to aply too or cane find out his favourits. Lord Robert Sperseire 
 [Spencer ?] by all is none and ones himselfe a great stranger to the 
 designes, though he did desert the King after his first # goeing and saw 
 him no more. Lord Preston hith stuck close to that interist and makes 
 no sort of aplycation to the new, nor hath signed to anything but 
 resolves, if he may have leave to retire into the countrey and will medle 
 no more in publick afaires. I beleive he is your frind though not an 
 
 active one, you know that family This day thare was called 
 
 a convention of those comons that sat at Oxford, who concured (you 
 may imagin) with the lords yesterday, of putting the government into 
 the Prince of Orange's hand till the 22 th , and all the revenu, and the 
 poore King not considered or mentioned, the dore shutt upon him as 
 if he had never bin. We heare not what is become of him, none went 
 
 * Not now with the letters. 
 
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 Dartmouth's w ^ ^ m ^ e Duke °^ Bar : [Berwick ?], Labody and one more, 
 mss. and Mr. Sheldon followed. Lord Midleton and Lord Alsbery and 
 Lichfield atended him to the last with great tendernesse." 
 
 1688, Dec. 26th, Portsmouth. — Thomas Hancock, mayor, John Suffield, 
 Nicholas Hedger, Thomas Brouncker, Edward Battine, and 3 others, to 
 Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Were in hopes that the removal of the Irish garrison would not only 
 have secured them against cruelty, &c. but also have freed them from 
 the intolerable burthen and oppression of quartering soldiers upon them, 
 contrary to all law, &c. and to their utter impoverishment. As this 
 oppression still continues they have petitioned his Highness, and now 
 desire his Lordship's influence, that the garrison there may use the 
 barracks which are sufficiently furnished for their accommodation — the 
 soldiers being willing but the officers not suffering them. 
 
 1688, Dec. 26th, Portsmouth. — Colonel Edmond Eeresby to Lord 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 Gives a summary of the condition of the barracks, and of the quarters 
 of the soldiers, &c. at Gosport, Landport, Southsea, &c. concluding 
 " The ill usage of this town is not to be expressed in this paper." 
 
 1688, Dec. 28th, London. — Phineas Bowles to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Eeports his proceedings with the delivery of Lord Dartmouth's letters 
 in town, his interviews with Lord Eochester, Mathew Aylmer, Captain 
 Russell, &c. regarding his Lordship's prospects in the fleet and at the 
 Ordnance office; fears he will meet with disappointment about the 
 former, though Aylmer says that Lord Churchill has already acquainted 
 the Prince how useful a minister in the management of affairs he (Lord 
 Dartmouth) is. Sir William Jennens has complained of his being put out, 
 but he has satisfied Mr. Pepys in that matter. Mr. Seymour is in town. 
 The Prince gives his answer this day to the address of the Lords and 
 Commons (that are in town of any of the Parliament in the late King 
 Charles's time) for taking the government on him till the 22nd of next 
 month. 
 
 1688, Dec. 29th, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 (Copy.) 
 
 " My last was of the 27 th ins*, bringing you his Highness's warrant 
 about the shipps to be sent to cruize off of Guernsey, and some small 
 vessells to guard the packett-boates. Since which upon my reporting to 
 him the papers put by his comand into my hands by your secretary 
 one conteyning the names of the severall shipps of your fleete and the 
 places where they now are, as far as the same then appeared to your 
 Lordship p, the other the state of the fleet's victualling under the hand 
 of the Victuallers' agent only, he has been pleased to require my pressing 
 of the Victuallers of the Navy to use all possible diligence as to the latter 
 in prepareing such sufficient and timely supplys as may preserve the 
 fleete from these distresses which it must otherwise in a very little 
 time fall under, though this account of their agents seems to carry its 
 victualling a few daies further then it was before reckn'd. 
 
 As to the other part relateing to the shipps, which I perfected as to 
 those which you wanted an account of, his Highness has deliberately 
 considered the number, state, and growing charge of the whole, com- 
 pareing the same with what the present service of the kingdome and 
 season of the yeare render expedient to be kept longer abroad, and what, 
 for preventing an unnecessary growth of expence, wast of stores, and 
 wear of the shipps, may be fitt to be laid up, and where. And upon 
 the whole he has in generall concluded upon laying up and paying off 
 
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 all the 3 d rates, and all the larger fourths, and of the lesser fourths and Eael oj 
 shipps and vessells below them all, but what he has determined to keep DAR j{ss^ Ta: E 
 out the remainder of the winter, a list of which I shall send your lordshipp — 
 by my next, my time (it being now late) sufficeing only to give your 
 lordshipp this generall account of the whole, and to convey to you these 
 particular orders following — All of this day's date viz*, 
 
 1 st . That which directs your Lordshipp which of the shipps now 
 with you at the Spitthead his Highness expects your leaveing behind you ; 
 or appointing to such particuler services as will be directed by other 
 orders ; which are moreover to be left behind you in order to their being 
 paid off and laid up in Portsmouth Harbour, and which consequently 
 your Lordshipp is with the first opportunity of wind and weather to bring 
 thence along with you to the Buoy of the Nore. 
 
 The next is, for your Lordshipp's making some provision for the trans- 
 porting of eight foot companies for Guernsey and Jersey, and bringing 
 away others thence. In which your Lordshipp is referr'd to me for 
 some particular advice relateing to the place where they are to be 
 shipp'd, but will not receive it from me I doubt by this night's post, as 
 not haveing yet received the information I every moment expect about it 
 from Mr. Blathwayt. Your Lordshipp may never the less be considering 
 what vessells you will employ therein and appointing of them that soe if 
 the wind should come faire for your comeing away before the souldiers 
 are embarqued you may please to leave them to doe this work and then 
 follow you to the Nore, such being his Highnesse's intention in this 
 case, unless you shall finde it may as well be done by some of the 
 shipps and vessells directed in the foregoing order to be left by you at 
 the Spitthead, or to be laid up. In which case it is his pleasure that 
 that rather bee done soe as you may bring away all with you that are 
 to come to the Buoy of the Nore. But if you conceive that it may be 
 more conveniently performed by some of the small vessells or tenders 
 that are now with the fleet, he is contented that it be soe done, with 
 orders (as before) to follow you to the Nore when that is over. But 
 here, (my Lord), occurs one difficulty that cannot be avoided being putt 
 upon you, if the Victuallers' agent at Portsmouth does not find some 
 meanes to ease you of it, which is, the raising a contribution out of the 
 fleet of provisions for victualling of the soulders. But a few daies' pro- 
 visions will serve the turne, and soe I hope that with the Victuallers help 
 you will without any great inconvenience be able to answer it, especially 
 for that I conceive the number of souldiers to be brought thence are not 
 above halfe of what goe thither. But in this I shall be more perfect in 
 my next upon my hearing from Mr. Blathwayte. 
 
 The 3 d is directed to Captain Sanderson or in his absence to the cheife 
 officer on board the Phubbs yacht for the bringing her about hither which 
 pray be pleased to forward. 
 
 The last containes his Highnesse's pleasure for two of your smallest 
 friggats to be sent into S* George's Channell as high as Chester, there to 
 attend what service he has for them in that sea, but as I said in my 
 last, with relation to Guernsey, soe am I now with respect to this to let 
 you know it to be his Highness' purpose, that both this and that occa- 
 sion is to be answered out of the eighteen shipps and vessells directed in 
 the first of these Orders to be left at Spitthead. In the choice of which 
 your Lordshipp is at your full liberty in refference to the two that are 
 to cruize about Guernsey. And in the other two also for the Irish Sea, 
 saveing that the Prince inclines to have them as small as conveniently 
 may bee, and to that end seems to think that two of the King's old 5 th 
 rates which are now fireshipps may (as it was at first intended they 
 
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 Dartmouth's s ^ ou ^ when the occasion of the service as fireshipps was over) be turned 
 mss. into 5 th rates againe. A worke which a very few daies will dispatch, 
 and therefore I have by the Prince's direction wrote this night to Sir 
 Eichard Beach, that upon your Lordshipp's sending the Dartmouth, 
 Guardland and Pearle into port they be all three imediately reduced to 
 their old state, it being his intention to employ them all upon another 
 worke as 5 th rates (namely, towards the worke lately recomended to you 
 of protecting the packett boats against the privateers,) in case your Lord- 
 shipp should think the business of the Irish Sea might (with reguard 
 to that sea and the season) be as well answere'd by two of the smallest 
 fourth. 
 
 But here I am to observe to your Lordshipp that the reducing of these 
 3 Fireshipps to their old condicon of 5 th rates will require their being 
 furnished againe with their old numbers of gunns and men, wherein 
 your orders for the first as Master of Ordnance,, and for the latter as 
 Admirall, will be necessary ; which pray will you be pleased for the 
 present to issue for saveing of time, depending upon my sending your 
 Lordshipp his Highnesse's Warrant for both by the very next ; the 
 complements of each of the said shipps (least you should not otherwise 
 have them before you) being as follows, viz* : 
 
 Rate. Men. Guns. 
 
 5 Dartmouth - 135 - 32. 
 Guardland - 130 - 30. 
 Pearle - - 130 - 30. 
 
 As for their men, where there are soe many shipps to be paid off, the 
 turning over of such a number cannot be difficult. 
 
 What I have to add upon this head, the shipps for Chester and Ire- 
 land is, that time is a circumstance of great moment therein. Where- 
 fore I am by the Prince's comand to recomend it to you, that you will 
 imediately upon receipt hereof take the whole into your consideration and 
 the time which upon enquiry you shall find the sending in of these three 
 fireshipps into harbour, and the conversion of them there will take up. 
 The result whereof and your determinations upon the same I am to 
 desire your comunicateing hither imediately by express, giving at the 
 same time orders for their being without delay brought into harbour, in 
 order to their being presently gone in hand with, and their works with 
 all possible diligence dispatched, whether you shall designe them west* 
 ward towards Ireland, or eastward towards the Privateers. 
 
 It remains only that by the Prince's comand I observe to your Lord- 
 shipp, what I thought it my duty to observe first to him, that I see 
 severall and hear of more of the Comauders and other officers of the 
 fleet in towne, without any leave that I know of from your Lordshipp 
 there, or his Highness here ; and this at a time when nobody can foresee 
 what occasions may on a suddaine arise for the service of their shipps. 
 His Highness was pleased to direct my takeing notice hereof to you, in 
 order to the knowing who indeed have and who have not your leave 
 for their absence from their charges ; and the provideing some speedy 
 meanes for remydying it." 
 
 1688, Dec. 29th, Portsmouth. — Thomas Hancock, mayor and 4 others 
 to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 There being 150 beds ready in the barracks to entertain the soldiers 
 (and 25 more will be ready by night) they have sent to Colonel Reresby 
 to desire him to send 300 men to quarter in the said beds ; to which 
 the Colonel replied it was not convenient to put any soldiers into the 
 barracks till they are all finished. The writers believe that he is 
 determined to continue them on the inhabitants. 
 
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 1688, Dec. 30th, London. — Philip Musgrave to Lord Dartmouth. dartmo° F 
 Mr. Bowles showed him some memorandums relating to the settle- mss UTI 
 ment of the office of the ordnance and the filling up of the vacancies — 
 caused by removal of Roman Catholics. Not knowing upon what 
 terms his Lordship will be with the Prince at his arrival, it will he 
 fruitless if not prejudicial to go about to make an interest for him. 
 Will wait upon Mr. Seymour to-day or to-morrow morning. When 
 he last wrote had reason to believe his father was secure of the govern- 
 ment of Carlisle ; but since the arrival of the northern lords his hopes 
 are dashed, they seeming to be of opinion that no person that hath not 
 been active in this revolution can deserve to be continued in the em- 
 ployment he is in, much Jess to be invested in a new one, and they will 
 therefore espouse Sir John Lowther's pretentions against Sir Chris- 
 topher Musgrave, Sir John having written to Lord Danby that the 
 surrender was made in malice to him just when he was at the point to 
 have taken it. Lord Danby therefore said it would be great injustice 
 to Sir John to put the government into any other hands. Has sent 
 Charles Bertie to know Lord Dartmouth's sentiments herein. Believes 
 he (Philip Musgrave) ought to have taken the test upon being made 
 Lord Dartmouth's secretary, and has therefore sent down a new significa- 
 tion to be signed, which, upon taking the test, will indemnify him. 
 Asks his lordship to sign and return it by the first safe hand. 
 
 1688, Dec. 31st, Cockpit. — Phineas Bowles to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " Your Lordship judges very rightly of M r Pepys not being pleased 
 with my coming up to the Prince without application to him, and this 
 day he has given me a taste of his displeasure on my desiring to know 
 what orders were gone to your Lordship, telling me that they were sent, 
 and that I bringing nothing to him, he did not think it material to com- 
 municate to me, so that he will have me in the dark in that matter. 
 
 I find him much altered since my being with him the 
 
 first night, but possibly it's more cut of personal dislike to me than to 
 
 your Lordship's proceedings He is pleased to call your 
 
 commissionating Captain Collins for the Phubs yacht a double irre- 
 gularity, first on the score of Captain Sanders being (as he says) still 
 living, and then next of her not being under your Lordship's command. 
 I observed in your Lordship's to him of which you sent me a copy that 
 in place of the paragraph about Captain Collins that your Lordship 
 believed yours the only legal commission could be given at present, 
 which expression I fear would have sounded ill with the Prince. I 
 therefore took upon me to caution Mr. Pepy's to omit that mention to- 
 the Prince ; and sourly he told me it was not necessary, since the 
 vacancy was not, and pray, my Lord, be tender of giving any commis- 
 sions, but recommend as you think fit, which I believe is expected you 
 should do. For the more certain meeting of your Lordship with Mr. 
 Legge, I desired of Mr. Pepys a yacht, but he says it is to no purpose 
 to ask it, the yachts being all kept together, with intention 'tis thought 
 of bringing over the Princess of Orange as soon as can be " 
 
 .1688, (Dec. ?). — The information of the Marquis of Querian against 
 Sir William Jennings. (French, with translation.) 
 
 The Lieutenant Stogins (or Staquins) knows that when Sir William 
 commanded the Jersey and the Rupert he took the pay and money for 
 victuals for several persons that were not on board — the other Lieutenant 
 Mr. Day being "his man," &c. 
 
 The Lieutenant Stogins knows that Lieutenant Day's sister was Sir 
 William's mistress, and that she was brought to bed in Sir William's 
 
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 Earl or cabin, and that he left his legitimate son to run up and down among the 
 R ?f£s. T11 P seamen, and that the said gentlewoman has been always on board all the 
 — while that the fleet was before Chatham, &c, &c. 
 
 1689-90, Jan. 1st, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " I send this with an expectation that the easterly wind that blew 
 resh (with us at least) all yesterday will have brought you back, soe as 
 that this may find you returned to Portsmouth. And in this confidence 
 I also send back thither a packett* of mine directed to your Lordshipp, 
 which upon your being gone Sir Richard Beach has returned me thence, 
 it containing divers particulars, and severall orders relateing thereto 
 from his Highness, which (as your will find in the reading them) would 
 very much require their meeting you there ; and particularly, that which 
 relates to the sending in severall of the great shipps, which (among 
 the rest that are to be laid up) are with the advice of the officers of the 
 Navy directed to be laid up there. For his Highness has, upon great 
 deliberation and time taken in it, determined upon putting in practise 
 what I lately made some mention of to your Lordshipp, in relation to 
 the retrenching the greater part of the present charge of the fleet ; and 
 this not without haveing had laid before him all the considerations that 
 have occurred on one side or other concerning it, and particularly what 
 your Lordshipp offers in your letter to me of the 29 th of the last, which 
 came to my hand yesterday, and has been since communicated to me by 
 his Highness. Who was pleased thereupon to give me this for answer, 
 that the charge of soe great a fleet is too great, and otherwise incon- 
 venient to be unnecessarily borne at this season of the year for soe 
 many months, as the remainder of this winter containes, and therefore 
 thought not Utt to make any alteration in the disposall he had made 
 thereof ; 
 
 I shall not therefore need to mention here any more of the particulars 
 brought you in that packett, but referr you to the packett itself, and 
 the originall papers of his Highness which you will find therein ; praying 
 that you will, upon perusing them, proceed as expeditiously as you can, 
 to the forwarding those partes thereof which you will find new therein, 
 among which his Highness is very intent upon that particular which 
 respects the sending two small friggats to Chester ; and for which I 
 doubt your Lordshipp will now find it necessary to send two of the small 
 4 th rates, in regard of the time which I fear will otherwise be taken 
 up before the service can be answered, in the re-converting some of the 
 ffreshipps to 5 th rates. In which I must entreat your Lordshipp to issue 
 your orders (such as you see fitt) as soon as you can, enableing me by 
 express to communicate the contents thereof to his Highness. 
 
 The like I must desire you to do in reference to the provition to be 
 made for carrying over the eight companies to Guernsey and Jersey, by 
 appointing some of your tenders, or other imbarcations for that work, 
 tho' I find by M r Blathwayt that he is not yet prepared to tell me which 
 of the two ports of Portsmouth, or Hampton, they are to embark at. 
 
 But now, my Lord, there is a fresh matter of like kind, whereof I have 
 received a signification from the Prince of his pleasure but this morning, 
 namely the transporting of 1500 Irish soldiers forthwith, that is to say 
 within three or four days, from Portsmouth to the Isle of Wight, to 
 come under the comand and custody of Sir Robert Holmes. For which 
 service any of the smallest vessels will be sufficient, and soe I hope the 
 execution thereof will give noe interruption to any other of the works 
 your Lordshipp has before you. And for the doing hereof, I shall take 
 care by the next to hand you his Highness's own warrant. 
 
 * Not now with the letter. 
 
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 His Highness does well approve of the shippes your Lordshipp has dJ^Jouth' 
 pitched on for the service of Guernsey and the other islands ; and the MSS. 
 like for those you have appointed to guard the packett-boates, tho' the 
 Portland be one cf them, which is not in the number of the Prince's list 
 of shipps to kept abroad. Forasmuch as she being the next smallest 
 4 th rate to them, and newly fitted out, she may may be of present use 
 without much addition of charge ; and the Prince would not willingly 
 alter the provition you have made for the service, he being soe much 
 concerned for the speedy security of the packett-boates, as to have 
 ordered out for a present shift Sandadoes, and the Guernsey fireshipp 
 to answer that occasion till your shipps come up. 
 
 My Lord, it being not certaine where this will meet with you, I re- 
 spite the saying anything more at this present in reply to your Lord- 
 shipp of the 29 th , then what relates to matters calling for present 
 dispatch ; leaveing the rest to the next, and praying your Lordshipp 
 that whereever this, or the copie thereof, and of the packett and papers 
 inclosed, shall find you will please to give me as early advice thereof as 
 you can. For I have sent duplicates of the whole to meet your Lord- 
 shipp in the Downes, and doe also now send a letter to Sir John Berry 
 herewith, praying him (in your Lordshipp's absence) to open this 
 packett, in order to his doing all that he is able with the remainder of 
 the shipps and vessells left with him, to putt in execution what is thereby 
 required from your Lordshipp." 
 
 1689-90, Jan. 2nd, Admiralty. Same to same. — (Holograph). 
 
 " I thanke you with all my heart for your last, under your owne hand, 
 of the 28 th December, for I must owne it, I thought your usage of mee 
 in the particular you mention somewhat unnaturall, especially at a 
 juncture soe little needeing it from one's friends. But (my Lord) you 
 have done both your selfe and mee right in the trouble you have given 
 yourselfe for my satisfaction about it ; and I assure you, nothing on't 
 shall longer stick with mee, but on the contrary, a desire of rendering 
 your Lordshipp all the faythful services, that (dureing the little 
 remaynder of my abode here) I shall be able to pay yon. 
 
 I send you herewith the Prince's pleasure, in supply of what I wrott 
 you last night both to Portsmouth and the Downes ; in the latter of which 
 I prsesume this will now finde you, and that in a few days more I shall 
 kisse your hands here, where it will bee matter of great content to mee, 
 if I may bee able by any meanes to bee of use to your Lordshipp, though 
 I have given over even the thinkeing on't for my selfe." 
 
 1689-90, Jan. 2nd, 3rd, 4th, & 5th. St. James's.— Prince of Orange. 
 Orders (3 original and 1 copy) for the disposal of the lleet. 
 
 1689-90, Jan. 3rd, London.— Phineas Bowles to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " Mr. Pepys has since my first being with him conceived such a pre- 
 judice to my not being dispatched on purpose to him that he will not by 
 any means communicate to me any orders concerning your Lordship so 
 that I am as much in the dark as he can keep jme .... I am sorry 
 I am not so far enlightened here as to render you acceptable service, 
 but to-morrow morning early Sir Henry Shere, Mr. Musgrave, Colonel 
 Legge, Mr. Bridges and myself intend for Gravesend in order to meet 
 your Lordship at the Nore." . . . 
 
 1689-90, Jan. 3rd, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " By the last night's post I sent your Lordshipp an order from his 
 Highness which I hope has ere this come to your hand iu the Downes, 
 signifying his pleasure to you in reference to your supplying all that 
 
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 tmouth's ma ^ b y y° ur or( iers there, your missing of severall of his Highness's 
 mss. which had the misfortune of comeing some few houres too late to find 
 you at Portsmouth. The purport of which orders I endeavoured as 
 soon as ever I heard of your being finally gone from thence to com- 
 municate to you by sending copies thereof to meet you in the Downes, 
 where I hope they have found you. 
 
 In which when his Highness has said his pleasure relateing thereto, 
 he does (in his orders of last night) direct your Lordshipp with the 
 then remainder of your fleet to repaire to the Buoy of the Nore, there 
 to expect his further instructions in relation to your distributeing of 
 them to the severall places where, by the advice of the Navy Board, 
 they are to be laid up. Wherein haveing issued your necessary orders, 
 he is pleased to invite your Lordshipp to his presence, where I now 
 hope very soon to kiss your hands. 
 
 Which last directions of his to be expected by you at the Buoy of the 
 ' Nore I have this day dispatched the originall of towards your Lord- 
 shipp by the hand of your brother Collonel Legg, who undertakes for the 
 safe and most timely delivery of them to you. 
 
 And forasmuch as notwithstanding your Lordshipp's very reasonable 
 desires on your part, as those of your freinds here, of your looseing noe 
 time in your repaire hither, it may very well fall out, that one letter 
 more from hence may yet find your Lordshipp in the Downes, I thought 
 it not unusefull to send you the inclosed copie as well of the Prince's 
 orders of last night, as those last mentioned of this day's date : in 
 regard that upon compareing the ships left by your Lordshipp at the 
 Spitthead, with the generall designation last made by the Prince, of the 
 places, at wich the ships (which are not to stay abroad) are severally to 
 be laid up, it appeares that three of the fire-shipps designed for the river 
 are left behind, and the same number happen to be brought away that 
 should have been left there. Which being noted, and the unnecessary 
 charge and trouble considered which would attend the carrying the 
 three last back againe thither, and the bringing the three others from 
 hence [thence] hither, his Highness has been pleased to accomodate all 
 by letting them remaine at Portsmouth which are there, and bringing 
 those to be laid up in the river which your Lordshipp has now with 
 you. Soe that your Lordshipp has now nothing to regard in your 
 whole work of distributeing the fleet, but the list sent your Lordshipp 
 this day by your brother, and in this inclosed copie thereof, different in 
 nothing from what was before ordered saveing in these fireships. 
 
 What remaines is my owning with many thankes my receiving this 
 morning your Lordshipp's of the 1 st instant from the Downes, which I 
 comunicated forthwith to his Highness to his full satisfaction, both as to 
 the safety of your arrivall there, and your expectations of receiveing 
 some timely supplyes of provitions from Dover. 
 
 As to Sir John Berry's coming about from Portsmouth with the 
 shipps designed to have accompanied you from thence by his Highness's 
 last orders had they come thither time enough, they will be supplyed 
 with others from the Prince himself here ; 
 
 I troubled your Lordshipp last night with a few lines under my own 
 hand in acknowledgment of the late favour of yours to me." 
 
 A copy of the Prince's order, dated the 3rd of January 1689 at St. 
 James's, and signed " Prince d'Orange," with a list of the ships to be 
 laid up, and a memorandum concerning them, is enclosed in the above 
 letter. 
 
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 1689-90, Jan. 3rd, London. — Philip Frowde to Lord Dartmouth. Earl of 
 
 " The King and Queen are at Paris, all things here are very quiet, the L)AR J I ! || UIH ' S 
 Prince of Orange has out his letters for a convention. Lord Tyrconnell — ' 
 has made Lord Granard and Mr. Macarty lieutenant-generals of the army 
 of Ireland, and Lord Mountjoy major-general ; he is also as much as the 
 thing will bear it fortifying the castle of Dublin, and has sent most of 
 the ammunition out of the stores in thither, and delivered all the arms 
 into Roman Catholic's hands, and has given out commissions for sixteen 
 regiments, some say more. And yet after all this we think (and have 
 reason) all things will end in an amicable way ; 'tis said 7,000 men are 
 to be sent thither, 8,000 men to Holland under Major- General Kirke, 
 as England is obliged to do by treaty. I told the Prince of Orange 
 to-day that your Lordship was in the Downs, and that you were making 
 all the haste you could to the Buoy in the Nore ; he answered you 
 would be quickly there then, the wind being now fair. 
 
 [P.S.] — Lord Churchill is the greatest man next to Marshall 
 Schomberg in the army affairs. Lord Feversham is at liberty." 
 
 1689-90, Jan. 4th. — A declaration of the Protestants of Sligo. Signed 
 by James Barrett. 
 
 1689-90, Jan. 4th, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 M Since the trouble I gave your Lordshipp yesterday by your brother 
 and by the post last night to the Downes with duplicates of his High- 
 nesse's orders to you, I am just now come from attending his Highness, 
 who was pleased to acquaint me that he was come to some fresh resolutions 
 touching your fleet, and therefore comanded me to prepare the enclosed 
 and to send it to you, after he had signed it by express, which I herebj 
 doe to the Nore by the way of Chatham, and pray your Lordshipp to bt 
 referr'd thereto.'' 
 
 The enclosed order, dated the 4th of January 1689, directs Lord Dart- 
 mouth to remain with his whole fleet at the Nore until further order. 
 \_In duplicate.] 
 
 1689-90, Jan. 4th, Admiralty. — Same to same. 
 
 " Tho' I veryly beleive and hope that before this arrives in the Downes 
 you will be well advanced towards, if not fully arrived at the buoy of 
 the Nore, to which place I have just now by express despatched an order 
 newly signed by his Highness ; directing your respiteing the execution 
 of soe much of his late orders to you as relates to your sending in from 
 you any shipps of your fleet that were designed to be presently paid off 
 and laid up. Yet forasmuch as it is not impossible but by the weather or 
 other accident you may still be detained in the Downes, even to the 
 arrivall of this, I thought it fitt for me to send you a # copie of the Prince's 
 said order, as not knowing but it may be of some use to you to be 
 apprized of it before your departure thence. 
 
 What I have to add is, that it is a very great misfortune and what his 
 Highness is much concern'd for and will expect a very strict account to 
 be taken of the occasion of it, I meane that of the Sedgemore's being run 
 aground, and it is feared utterly lost upon the South Foreland." 
 
 1689-90, Jan. 5th, York. — Sir Harry Goodricke to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Expresses the great affliction of his wife and himself at the irrepar- 
 able loss of their dearest mother [Mrs. Legge, the mother of Lord Dart- 
 mouth ?]. 'Tis a great comfort, however, to them both to hear of his 
 Lordship's safe return to London. 
 
 * Not now with the letter. 
 
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 Earl op 1689-90, Jan. 5th, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to same. 
 
 E MSsy TH 8 " I have nothing to trouble you with since what I wrote you yesterday 
 — with the Prince's order for your abideing at the Nore when you come 
 thither, without your sending in any shipps to be paid off, before you 
 have more of his pleasure therein ; saveing that he has been pleased 
 this day to let me know and to require my signifying the same to you 
 that the service for which he lately directed two small friggats to be sent 
 to Chester will admitt noe delay and consequently cannot stay for any of 
 the old 5 th rates being made soe againe from fireshipps ; but that there- 
 fore he does recomend it earnestly to your Lordshipp to pitch upon two 
 of the smallest friggats that you have under your comand for that service 
 and to cruize between the coasts of England and Ireland within that sea. 
 I am therefore to press your Lordshipp to think as soon as you can and give 
 your advice upon that head ; (containing in one of his Highness' late 
 orders of the 29 th of December) that soe the shipps you shall pitch upon 
 may be upon their way for Chester as soon as may be. Had there been any 
 of the small friggats left with Sir John Berry fitt for this service, that had 
 not other pressing worke assigned them, the Prince would rather have 
 chosen for dispatche sake to have answered this service from thence 
 but there being not any, I am comanded to write thus pressingly to 
 you about it ; and for preventing the loss of any time in it, I have sent* 
 two of these, one to the Nore the other to the Downes this post (as I 
 have of late severall times done) for the surer and earlier advertizeing 
 your Lordshipp hereof." 
 
 1689-90, Jan. 6th, Captain William Tollemache to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Reports on the condition of the Sedgmoor ship (Lieutenant Bulkeley's) 
 run aground on the South Foreland in St. Margaret's Bay. 
 
 1689-90, Jan. 7th, The Edgar in the Downs.— Lord Berkeley [to Lord 
 Dartmouth]. On the same subject. 
 
 1689-90, Jan. 8th, Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth. (Holograph.) 
 
 " I repay your Lordshipp my most hearty thankes for your particuler 
 letter of yesterday, and am extremely sorry my generall one (which this 
 accompanys to you) answers not the contents of yours to mee, and the 
 other it enclosed to the Prince. But the truth is, the suddaine and extra- 
 ordinary change of weather wee have had here all this day, did naturally 
 administer to his Highnesse matter for the answer hee was pleased to 
 give to them, and which he gave mee with soe much earnestnesse, and yet 
 with noe sort of disreguard towards your Lordshipp, that I thought it of 
 more moment to you to forbeare presseing it further then I did, then to 
 use more arguments, where I had noe inducements to thinke they would 
 speede ; contenting myselfe with giveing you the very words wherein 
 his answer was couched, which I have done (as neare as ever I can) 
 in my present generall letter aforesayd. To which with most true 
 respect I refer your Lordshipp." 
 
 1689-90, Jan. 8th, Admiralty. — Same to same. 
 
 et I have now before me both your Lordshipp's of the 6 th & 7 th instant 
 the latter comeing to my hand by express this morning, to which (because 
 I know your Lordshipp expects it) I shall first apply my answer though 
 I could wish it more satisfactory to you then I fear it may [be], for soe 
 soon as the Prince (whom I imediately upon the receipt of it, attended 
 with it) had read your Lordshipp's to him, and heard your other to me, 
 he was pleased presently to observe, that your Lordshipp's advice touching 
 the shipps, and desires concerning your self being founded all along upon 
 a supposed continuance of the frost, and N.E. wind then blew, he did 
 believe that the whole of those measures were now at an end, the wind 
 
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 being come about to S.E., and the frost broke, with a great, and con- Earl of 
 
 tinued raine, then just before his eyes as wee stood at one of the garden DaR ms| uth s 
 
 windows ; adding that he therefore thought it would be much better — 
 
 that your Lordshipp should come about (as was before determined) to 
 
 see the fleet safe brought in, and the rather (to give it you in his own 
 
 words) because when you are gone there will be noebody left to head 
 
 it, Sir John Berry being at Portsmouth which haveing said, and concluding 
 
 with a direction that your comeing should be left as it was by your 
 
 last orders, I did not think it would be of any effect in it's self, or 
 
 usefull to you, to appear more pressing then in laying as I had done 
 
 your severall considerations open to him, but thought it best in all 
 
 respects, and the difference in time (as the weather and wind now are) 
 
 being likely to be very little, to lett it fall. 
 
 My Lord, I concurr with you greatly in the defect of our present sea- 
 laws for punishing masters' and pilots' neglects and other officers by which 
 his Majesty's shipps doe soe often miscarry. And if ever it comes in my 
 way to doe ought towards the remedying of it, I am sure I shall. But it 
 must be done in Parliament and how many thinges now before us must 
 have preference given them there to the consideration of any matters 
 soe remote as that at this day is, is hard to judge. 
 
 The Prince receives great satisfaction in the provition you have made 
 for the answering his occasions at Chester, and desires that noe time may 
 be lost in the despatching them away. 
 
 The like he does also very much press in reference to any of the ships 
 that you have designed to cruise m the Narrow, and between Harwich 
 and the Dutch coasts, he haveing at my audience with him this very 
 morning upon occasion of your letter, told me of one of the packett 
 boates very lately seized by a French Privateer with noe less then 4 
 severall mailes in her (there haveing been soe many at once in arrear) 
 and carried into Dunkirk : wherefore if any of them be not yet gone, 
 pray let noe opportunity be lost for their getting out ; and I thank you 
 for your hint about the Nonsuch." 
 
 1689-90, Jan. 9th, The Pendennis. — Sir William Booth to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. 
 
 About the Sedgmoor, giving the opinions of the ship's officers 
 about getting her off and saving the stores. All the seamen but two or 
 three had left her, but he had entreated the chief lieutenant to go to 
 Deal and send the bellman about to let the seamen know they would be 
 well rewarded if they returned and helped to save her. 
 
 1689-90, Jan. 10th, St. James's. — Prince of Orange to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. 
 
 Requiring Lord Dartmouth, as soon as the fleet should be safely 
 brought to the buoy of the Nore, to leave the charge thereof to the next 
 superior officer, and repair to the Prince's presence. 
 
 1689-90, Jan. 10th, Admiralty. — Samuel Pepys to same. 
 
 " Presumeing that this may find your Lordshipp arrived (as this day) at 
 the Nore ; and not knowing but the words of his Highnesse's last orders, 
 directing you to remaine with the whole fleet at the Nore till further 
 order, may upon second thoughts leade your Lordshipp to alter your last 
 intentions and expect some clearer directions from him for your repaireing 
 hither 1 have for easeing you therein as soon as may be provided a 
 fresh warrant on that behalfe from the Prince, and committed it by this 
 post to Sir Phineas Pett at Chatham to hasten downe to you with the 
 least loss of time that may bee." 
 
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 Earl of f 1689-90, Jan. 16th, Admiralty. — Same to same. 
 
 lR mss UTH ' S " Foreseeing that your service of the Katherine yacht will be very 
 — suddenly called for, and not knowing whether she be fully discharged of 
 her attendance upon you, I thought it fitt for me to give your Lordshipp 
 the earliest notice I could of it (the occasion appearing to mee but just 
 now) that you may be pleased to let her be at liberty as soon as you 
 can ; for I am not sure (by what I know of the matter) but her service 
 may be required by the Prince to morrow before next day : it seemeing 
 at present very likely that it will be soe." 
 
 1689, Jan. 18th, Sir Edward Sherburne to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Implores Lord Dartmouth to exert his influence in alleviating his 
 present distressed condition. Is advised by learned counsel that it is 
 the indubitable right of his patent to appoint a deputy to execute his 
 office of Clerk of the Ordnance, Incloses a statement of his case to the 
 effect that the office was granted to him 5th February, 13 Charles I. 
 (1637-8), in reversion after the deaths of Edward Sherburne, Esquire, 
 his father, and John Morrice ; on the deaths of these he entered upon the 
 office, but was sequestered for his loyalty in 1642, and restored to the 
 office by Charles II. About 1673 he took the oaths of allegiance and 
 supremacy according to the Church of England ; and being now of 
 great years of another judgment and persuasion (although not con- 
 victed thereof) hath made Mr. Townesend, a person bred up and 
 knowing in the said office, and a good Protestant, his deputy. The 
 opinion of Henry Pollexfen that he might legally do this is annexed. 
 
 1689-90, Jan. 19th, St. Germains. — King James II. to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " Howsoeuer the Prince of Orange uses me in other things, sure he will 
 not refuse me the common ciuility of letting all my coaches and horses 
 come ouer to me, 'tis but what I did to Prince Georgo when he went from 
 me. I send this bearer Ealf Sheldon to you to bring them away, so 
 sone as a passe can be gott for them from the Prince of Orange, speake 
 for the passe your selfe or to Lord Middleton to haue it solicited, and 
 giue directions to Delatre, to bring ouer him self, or if he be not yett 
 ready to come, to send the best of my guns and pistols over with Sheldon, 
 this bearer, to whom I reffer what els I haue to say. 
 
 James R." 
 
 [Addressed.] For the Lord Dartmouth. 
 [Endorsed.] The King. 
 
 1689-90, Jan. 28th, Chester Castle. — Peter Shakerley, Governor, to 
 the Principal Officers of the Ordnance. Received their order of the 
 1st inst. for the collecting into store all the arms taken by the rabble in 
 the city from Colonel Gage's regiment, and front Colonel Butler's dragoons; 
 and all the arms lent to the citizens upon the alarm of the Irish coming 
 this way. Has done his best to perform their commands, but in vain ; 
 of the arms lent he cannot get back more than half, and of those seized 
 he cannot get one. Has requested the mayor to issue a warrant to 
 search the houses for arms, but he absolutely refuses to do so, or to give 
 any sort of obedience to their honours' order. 
 
 1689, July 9th, Paper headed" M r Pepy's report to the Honorable the 
 Committee appointed to prepare an address about Ireland, and enquire 
 concerning the fleet ; upon the severall heads of their enquiries the 6th 
 instant, touching the force, state, and diposall of the fleet late under 
 the command of the Lord Dartmouth, and the reason of Admirall Herbert's 
 having but 19 ships with him in the fight at Bantry." 
 
 " As to the former of these relating to the Lord Dartmouth's fleet, I 
 conceive the clearest method of satisfying the Committee therein, will 
 
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 be the giving them an account of the said fleet, not only at one, but at Eaklof 
 the three severall periods following viz* r>AR MSS UTH S 
 
 1 st . As it lay with my Lord Dartmouth off of the Longsand Head ' 
 
 upon the 1 st of November, the day of his highness the Prince of Orange's 
 sailing out of Goree. 
 
 2^. As it was left by King James (my late Royall Master) upon 
 the 18 th of December ; the day of his fin all withdrawing. 
 
 3 dJ y. As it stood upon the 20 th of February, the last day of my acting as 
 a Secretary of the Admiralty under his present Majesty, and conse- 
 quently of having any knowledge of the further disposall of that fleet. 
 
 And this I have endeavoured to do by the annexed paper, wherein the 
 Committee will at one view be informed, of the name, rate, and force 
 (both as to men and guns) of every ship and vessell (great and small) 
 belonging to the said fleet at every of those periods, with what thereof 
 were in service in the Bay of Bantry, upon the 1st of May, and what 
 not. 
 
 And in order to the information the Committee further desires, touching 
 those of the said fleet which were not at Bantry; I herewith also 
 present them, with another paper containing an account of the particular 
 place where every ship and vessell, not only of that fleet, but every other 
 (whether abroad or at home in sea-pay) remain' d upon the said last day 
 of my having any knowledge thereof, namely the 20 th of February, 
 humbly referring the Committee from thenceforwards to those whom (in 
 their respective offices) his present Majesty has been pleased to entrust 
 with the care and direction of the same. 
 
 And to them also I am (for the same reason) compelPd to pray the Com- 
 mittee's being referred, for their satisfaction in the remaining part of 
 their enquiries relating to the Earle of Torrington's having no greater 
 share of those ships (or what others lay at the same time out of sea-pay 
 in ordinary, fitted and stored for sea-service) at the Bantry engagement in 
 May; the determination of my worke in February rendring me (as before) 
 wholly unknowing therein." 
 
 Annexed to the above report are the two papers therein mentioned. 
 
 1689, September 28th, Whitehall. — Earl of Nottingham to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. Asks for some information about a shipwright in Denmark, 
 named Sheldon, of great reputation in building bomb vessels, and ships 
 for transporting horses, &c. 
 
 1690-91, February 10th, Lord Dartmouth to the Honorable William 
 Legge, Esquire, at King's College, in Cambridge. On the coming elections 
 for Parliament at the University. So many competitors that Mr. Benett 
 will hardly be chosen. Dr. Brady is an honest man and hopes to find 
 friends. Lord Nottingham is the writer's friend, and if his brother 
 continue to stand, Lord Dartmouth hopes the college will show him their 
 respect. Wishes to hear how the college and the university are in 
 general inclined, and " upon what and whose bottoms they go upon." 
 Will send him some proper books for the study of the globes and instru- 
 ments, but hopes he will not put by his Latin for them, knowing how 
 much he desires his son to be master of that language. 
 
 1690, December. — A thin paper book containing " Copies of some 
 Papers taken with the Lord Preston," a few of them being Jacobite 
 letters of very vague purport ; among the others the most noticeable is a 
 " Paper marked M," which apparently gives expression to the views of 
 James's Protestant adherents in England. It runs thus : — 
 
 « pt France must either oblige or conquer us. If the last he will find 
 few helps here, but a bloodier resistance than ever the Romans, Saxons, 
 or Normans found, it being incredible how unanimous and obstinate 
 
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 Eael of ( that very thought renders the people, so that it may make us a heap of 
 R MSsy TH S ruin, but no nation that can ever help or import any thing to France. 
 — 2 n ®y. If King Lewis desires to oblige us, and make the work easy that 
 
 he may be at leisure to ply the Emperor or Italy, or to have an advan- 
 tageous peace, he must take on° the frightful character we have of him 
 and shew us he has no such design as returning our offended King 
 a conqueror upon us ; but that he can and will be our friend and mediator, 
 upon which terms he will find that many lords and gentlemen will 
 speedily shew themselves to his satisfaction, especially if he make haste 
 and lose no approaching opportunity. 
 
 3rdi y# if ne incline to this sort of sense he must overrule the bigotry 
 of St. G-ermains, and dispose their minds to think of those things that 
 are more likely to gain the nation, for there is one silly thing or 
 other daily done there, that comes to our notice here, which prolongs 
 what they so passionately desire." 
 
 The methods thought upon are these : — 
 
 1 st . To prevent dangerous and foolish intelligence by forbidding in that 
 Court to write any news hither, and that King James only have his 
 correspondents by whom to hear, and speak to people here, since letters 
 so often miscarry, and are filled with nothing but what we should not 
 hear, and what we have are arguments for the most part against the 
 King's restoration. 
 
 2 ndl y. Since there is a great body of Protestants that never defected, 
 and that many (others ?) are returning, and that they are the natural 
 weight and power of these kingdoms, by having the heads, hands, and 
 wealth of their sides, to the odds of at least 200 Protestants to 
 one Catholic, the King may think of nothing short of a Protestant 
 administration, nor of nothing more for the Catholics than a legal 
 liberty of conscience, for much (emulation ?) is against all other nations, 
 to which all private passions and artificial frauds in government must 
 yield or break. He may reign Catholic in devotion, but he must reign 
 Protestant in government. Cromwell could not yet on a broader bottom 
 with a victorious army subsist, or keep what he had got. 
 
 3rdiy # He must give us a model of this at St. Germains by preferring 
 the Protestants that are with him above the Catholics, one being loyal 
 upon less ties of interest ; and to tell the nation here what they are to 
 hope for when he comes. 
 
 4thiy He must give encouragement to lords and gentlemen here to 
 come to him at least 3 or 4 for a standing council, which will make 
 us here think he is in some degree ours again, and that we have a 
 relation to him, and some interest and share in him, by the men of quality 
 of our own religion that are with him. This will incomparably facilitate 
 the matter here, nor will they, when they come, come empty and 
 in their own names, which is still better and will be more satisfactory 
 here. 
 
 5thiy. Xo induce this, English Protestants should be encouraged by an 
 Edict of Liberty from the King of France to have chapels at their own 
 costs, in which to worship God after their respective way, by which 
 that King will make us reflect upon his conduct towards the Huguenots, 
 rather to flow from the hazard he thought himself in by their anti- 
 monarchical and resisting principles, than a desire of persecution. 
 
 6 th V and lastly. All other requisite measures depending upon the 
 acceptance this finds, an answer hereunto is impatiently desired by 
 those that discoursed the King's business to this maturity. 
 
 So ended with an unanimous consent of both Tories and Whigs upon 
 this occasion, that are in a way of closing with his interest. 
 
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 The following extract from a letter superscribed " For Mr. Jackson," Earl of 
 
 intended no doubt for King James, shows the guarded nature of the Dar mss uth ' 
 correspondence copied into this book. — ' 
 
 Dec. 31, 1690. 
 
 " Your adversary has been so hard to his neighbours, that he has 
 disobliged all the old tenants, and a little matter would redeem the 
 whole estate, if you would appear in Westminster Hall yourself. The 
 best counsel have a good opinion of your title, and will readily pursue 
 your instruction ; I only beg you will hasten them to us, and that you 
 will appear as soon as is possible. No time should be lost, and the 
 cause may be brought to a final hearing before the end of Easter 
 term, if it be well solicited. I heartily wish you a happy New 
 Year." 
 
 Book containing a Copy of Documents relating to George Lord 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 1688, September 24th. [Folio 1.] — Copy of His Majesty's com- 
 mission to Lord Dartmouth to be Admiral and Chief Commander of 
 His Majesty's ships in the narrow seas for the present expedition. 
 
 1688, September 24th. [Folio 2.] — Instructions for Lord Dartmouth 
 to call and assemble court-martials. No sentence of death in the 
 narrow seas to be executed without further orders from His Majesty. 
 
 1688, September 28th. [Folio 3.]— Orders to Lord Dartmouth to 
 send the ships to the buoy of the Nore. 
 
 1688, September 29th. — Orders to Lord Dartmouth to forbear the 
 search of foreign ships, etc. 
 
 1688, October 1st. [Folio 4.] — Instructions for Lord Dartmouth 
 with a list of His Majesty's men of war and fire [ships, and of the 
 Channel guard. 
 
 To lead the fleet and have power to direct and dispose thereof on all 
 emergencies as he judges shall conduce most to the King's honour and 
 the security of his dominions. Upon the approach of the Hollands 
 fleet on our coast or making any descent thereon to endeavour the pre- 
 vention thereof by all hostile means. To advise the Secretary of the 
 Admiralty of all proceedings for the King's notice. 
 
 1688, October 1st. [Folio 5.] — The present disposal of all His 
 Majesty's ships in sea pay in the Channel guard containing the stations, 
 the rates, names of ships, commanders, lieutenants, the time in sea pay, 
 the men, and where the ships were at present. 
 
 1688, October 7. [Folio 7.] — Aboard the Resolution at the buoy of 
 the Nore. Copy of Lord Dartmouth's private letter to Mr. Secretary 
 Pepys sent away in a public letter of this date in the following terms. 
 
 M I received the abstract of Marquis D'AlbevilPs letter*, but indeed 
 do not give much credit to his intelligence as not thinkeing their designes 
 can be soe loose as to come to his knowledge or that Margett or 
 Ramsgate is a fit place for their purpose, besides His Majestie may 
 
 * See Dartmouth Papers. — Pepys' letters to Lord Dartmouth of October 5th and 
 October 8th. 
 
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 Earl of quickly know whither they have any magazines or people intending to 
 E)AR MSS UTH S rece i ve them in Tenett as is surmised. But I rather believe their fleet 
 • — ' will endeavour to attacke mee while their army goes to some farther 
 distance, but Margett road lies both open to the sea and for the passage 
 over the flats, and the tides will now be soon lifting, and I have people 
 enough that understand all these sands to [be] well able to take all 
 advantages upon them. As for hallinge the great shipps over to the 
 other side of the river I know it hardly practicable of a sudden nor 
 would it signify much, but you must be sure to be masters of all the 
 small vessells and boates in the river, to have what small shott and men 
 you can gett in them and have the battery s well manned with gunners the 
 ordinary and what watermen you can gett. When I have a little leisure 
 I will ron into the Swaile and see how the fire shipps lie and how they 
 are fitted, but it is impossible they can land that way, but we shall be 
 able to give them some disturbance, nor can they doe it soe quicke 
 but that the King's forces will have time to gett together. Indeed I 
 could wish that the Lord-Lieutenant and Governor of the Cinque 
 Ports had a little more interest to serve the King with, for I fear 
 if anything distastes the country it is them, but the King can judge 
 best what is for his service and wee ought to make the best of a bad 
 markett." 
 
 1688, October 7th. [Folio 7.] — Aboard the Resolution at the buoy of 
 the Nore. Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the King sent away by 
 Colonel Legge. 
 
 " Before I had the honour to receive your Majestie's commands this 
 morning I tooke the confidence to write to your Majestie of the great 
 difficulty I mett with in the despatch of this fleet tho' I feare I 
 shall be forced at last to putt to sea with few shipps and those not in 
 the condition they ought to be, which at this time of the yeare should be 
 regarded as much as possibly the time will permitt. I am very sensible 
 of the great honour and trust your Majestie hath reposed in mee and 1 
 doe not doubt but by the blessing of God to answer what can be reason- 
 ably expected from mee. 
 
 'Tis to bee believed they will make a very considerable force against 
 this Squadron apart from the vessells of their army and a great part of 
 their stress will be upon it, and I heartily wish your Majestie's 
 intelligence were answerable to your need of it at this time for I 
 hardly believe Eamsgate or Margett the likely place for them to 
 land at now,* but rather that they will send their fleet to attacke 
 mee and in the meanetime transport their army farther off which if 
 I once gett sea room I hope to be able to prevent, but if they should 
 come together this way your Majestie's land forces lie pretty nere 
 one another to be able to make a good head, and though your shipps 
 are among the sands they are among our owne sands and I am not 
 without some knoweing men among them for that service soe that 
 we shall be able to take the best advantages, and both by land and 
 sea I hope their vigorous attempt will meet with a like opposition, and 
 I must nedes doe the fleet this justice, that I see nothing among either 
 officers or men but a hearty readiness to serve your Majestie and it will 
 be great pitty if they are not fitted out as they ought to be for soe great 
 a worke. I well knowe our being beaten may prove afatall consequence 
 but I will endeavour and resolve to order it otherwise if possible and 
 to render you the best service of my life. 'T is true people ashoare may 
 
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 thinke amis of prest men but your Majestie knows they were alwayes vJ^^ovti 
 our best men and are so at this time. MSS. 
 
 Sir, I humbly propose to your Majestie that if the victuallers want — 
 provisions as I heare they doe perticulerly bread that we may not stay 
 the provideing or bakeing it in your owne store houses but that all can 
 possibly be brought up of the merchants may be speedily done, and 
 though it may cost a little mure, it will sooner be tumbled downe to us 
 then otherwise. Waterman's Hall can certainly furnish us with a greater 
 number of men then 200 which I cannot yett learne or nere that 
 number are yett come to the fleet or at least to the shipps they were 
 ordered. But pray, Sir, what your Majestie shall please to order them 
 now to send to us I believe they may not be sent by tickets but rather 
 they be putt on board vessells on purpose appointed to receive them 
 and sent away as many together as may be convenient. 
 
 There hath been very bad weather abroad and they must needs have 
 suffered upon the coast of Holland so that as long as the winde con- 
 tinues westerly time is on our side, but I once more beg noe more time 
 may be delayed but all offices and officers pushed on now to more then 
 their ordinary duty, for if the winde change and come faire weather it 
 will be too late to expect farther time." 
 
 1688, October 12th. [Folio 9.] — Aboard the Resolution at the buoy 
 of the Nore. Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the King sent by 
 Colonel Legge on the Katharine yacht. 
 
 " I am infinitely sensible of the great trust your Majestie is pleased to 
 putt in my conduct of this fleet which to the best of my understanding 
 shall be faithfully performed for your service. 
 
 Your Majestie cannot be more desirous to have me from among the 
 sands* then I am impatiently endeavouring to get out, but hitherto more 
 time hath been gained by being here than anywhere I could else have 
 been. There hath been very great storms abroad and 'tis more than 
 probable they have been put in great disorder upon the coast of Holland. 
 One of the smacks now come in gives an account that on Monday last 
 there were but sixteen men of warre seen at the Maes, and that the 
 Admirall shipp had lost her main mast, but I cannot hardly persuade 
 the masters of these smacks to venture any more upon that coast soe 
 that I must now take some other course to have an account from thence, 
 for indeed these small vessels (and some of them are not very well 
 found) are not very proper or very able to endure the bad weather, 
 which [at] this season of the year is to be expected upon that coast, and 
 he farther informes that he thinkes one of our smacks is lost and there 
 is another that he is afraid of. 
 
 Sir, I am pretty well prepared for them if they should come upon me 
 here, tho' I shall not venture that as soon as ever I am fitt to put to sea, 
 which I hope to be now very speedily if the victuals come down this tide 
 as I am promised. 
 
 Those shipps that were in the Hope are now here and are fitting 
 themselves with all the expedition they can. All the officers and agents 
 from the severall offices are at worke makeing the best of what we 
 have and I have strictly examined and cut off all trifleing and extrava- 
 gant demands which any of the commanders have and are apt to make 
 which indeed had been the business of the Commissioners of the Navie, 
 and might much have eased me in this expedition, but since that could 
 not be helped I hope your Majestie hath dispatch'd that most necessary 
 part of your service in adding to their number and regulateing them as 
 
 * See Dartmouth Papers. — King James' letter to Lord Dartmouth of October 8th 
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 Dartmouth's y ou intended. I expect the Kere-Admirall downe with his shipp too- 
 ^ ss - morrow or on Sunday at farthest and the Pendennis will soon follow 
 tho' my chiefe care is to gett ready those I have with me. 
 
 Sir, I hope I am not blameable to gett what I can together for soe 
 great a worke as I have to doe, with an enimy likely to be so much 
 superior to me, and I judge it much more for your service to unite 
 while we have time, then to drop out in parcells with the hazard of 
 being seppe rated, especially knowing my self e here in the best place 
 to doe my business while these windes continue, and be assured, Sir, I 
 will be on sea upon the first alteration, and, Sir, tho' it is your Majestie's 
 great goodness to trust soe great a concerne to me yett I humbly beg 
 leave to lay my thoughts before you that your Majestie may please to 
 judge better and to give me your commands if you please to approve 
 or disprove of my present intentions, which cannot be fin all till I am at 
 sea, and with the humblest submission may alter with the opportunities 
 I may meet, being hard to take any result but as the p ] ace and occasion 
 may offer.* None of the Portsmouth shipps are yett come to me, 
 therefore, at my first goeing out I will look towards the Downes and 
 see what shipps I can gett from thence, and leave directions with those 
 shipps that are to follow to come thither first, where farther orders 
 shall lie ready for them, with what I have with me I intend to keep 
 to sea as much as possibly I can thinking that much safer for this 
 Squadron then to venture being any way imbayed or trusting myself 
 to be set upon in any road, and if it shall be necessary for me to ride 
 at any time in the Downes I will allwayes put to sea upon any easterly 
 winds as soon as I get a reasonable Squadron together. I believe it 
 for your Majestie's honour and service if the weather be anything 
 reasonable, to show myselfe upon their coast as nere as conveniently I can 
 in the daytime, still standing off to get good sea room every night while 
 I shall see it reasonable to stay thereabout. I have discoursed with 
 the ablest men and pylots I have with me particularly, and they are all 
 of opinion that there is no attempting anything in their ports at this 
 time of yeare, but I humbly desire that Captain Rooth may be sent 
 downe to goe with me believing it may be of service to you, and if 
 your Majestie please he may have any shipp when it falls in the fleet or 
 be otherwise disposed of after our returne as your Majestie shall see 
 best for your service. 
 
 I do not doubt but they will endeavour to attacke me with a con- 
 siderable force,* but I am very sensible of the great concerne the preser- 
 vation of this Squadron is to all your affaires, and that they will not 
 venture out with their land forces while I can keep to sea and may be 
 hovering over them. 
 
 Sir, I will not peeke myselfe or be provoked to do any rash thing as 
 I will take care do no dishonourable one or omit any oppertunity that 
 shall justifiably offer for your service. I hope your Majestie will 
 remember your resolution of haveing more shipps made ready to 
 turne over our men into if there should be occasion at our returne, 
 especially a good one for Sir Roger Strickland, the Mary being so very 
 crancke." 
 
 (Postscript.) " Since I writ this Captain Williams has come in with 
 the Advice and putts me in hopes the rest of the Portsmouth shipps will 
 soon follow, if they come to me in time there will be need of calling at 
 the Downes before I go upon the coast of Holland." 
 
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 1688, October 17th. [Folio 11.]— Aboard the Resolution at the DA f£**°, 
 Oaz Edge. Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the King sent by MSS. 
 Colonel Legge on the Katherine yacht. 
 
 " All the Portsmouth shipps that I can yett expect are now come to 
 me, and the Reer-Admirall is this day gone aboard the Elizabeth at the 
 buoy of the Nore. The Pendennis I expect downe to-morrow, and Mr. 
 Fen is with me and every tide the victuallers begin to come more and 
 more. Captain Willshaw promises that cables and sayles shall speedily 
 be with me that he found wanting in the fleet upon his owne survey. 
 Some men came from Waterman's Hall this last tide, and Captain 
 Cotton tells me more are following, so that now we begin to looke in 
 ernest and the fleet are all in as good heart as can be desired and I do 
 not doubt but God will bless your arms and we shall now be in order 
 and fitt for any service your Majestie can command such a Squadron 
 to undertake, and tho' our men are not so good as they will bee, yett 
 they are generally for their number as good as any I ever saw at the 
 first fitting out shipps. Sir, upon the first comeingof the winde easterly 
 I advised with the Flaggs, some old commanders, masters, and pylotts, 
 and placed the shipps here in the best posture of defence and safety 
 we could contrive in this place, which was all we could do, not being 
 fitt for the sea before the winde changed, not that I thinke they (the 
 Dutch) can be much readier for the sea at present then we were after 
 so much rufileing weather upon their coast, and by all the intelligences 
 which I hear they are gone up agaiue. I shall take all the care imagin- 
 able now your fleet is likely to be in soe good a posture to keep it so 
 till I see it absolutely necessary to undertake something for the preser- 
 vation of all that seems to lie at stake, but upon the best advice I can 
 take here we are all now of opinion that upon the first slatch of winde 
 and faire weather we should fall downe to the Gunfleet where, tho'. 
 it be hard roadeing, yett the ground is good and we shall be well 
 found. 
 
 There we shall be ready to cover Harwich as well as the Eiver 
 Thames, be able to go to sea if occasion be, or we can but come up 
 againe at worst. We shall be ready to looke towards the Channell, 
 have very good anchoring between the Kentish Knocke and the North 
 Sands Head, and the Downes allwayes to friend upon bad weather. 
 This, Sir, with the humblest submission to your Majestie's better judge- 
 ment is the present measures I thinke of till anything offers better for 
 your service. I am even now grieved to be hooked here, though I thinke 
 myselfe safe for I would be glad to have more sea room and keep my 
 commanders now they are in good order as much as may be aboard 
 their own shipps and not liable to be caballing one with another, 
 which, lieing idle together they may be apt as Englishmen naturally 
 do to fall iuto, especially being in the way of dayley pamphlets and newes 
 letters. 
 
 Upon the caution your Majestie hath given me I will not venture 
 over on the coast of Holland without I see settled faire weather,* which 
 is not impossible after so much bad, but I thinke our appearance after 
 this great hectoring would make a populous government change their 
 vaunting. The light moones are comeing on and it may be fit at least 
 to see what use they will make of it, but this I shall leave to your 
 Majestie's thoughts, and my brother William tells me Captain Clements 
 in the Katharine yacht is to come againe to me, and indeed both the 
 yachts and captains are of greatest use to guide us both here and on 
 
 * See Dartmouth Papers. — King James' litter to Lord Dartmouth of October 14th. 
 
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 Earl or the coast of Holland this season. Sir, I have writ to Sir Henry Tich- 
 DAB MSgy TH 8 bourne and to the office all the significations and directions I was 
 — capable of thinkeing of, with soe much business as I have here upon 
 my hands, and I humbly desire your Majestie to looke a little into that 
 office when they waite on you, for much of your service both by sea 
 and land depends upon their well ordering and management of their 
 business, and I would not have your Majestie's business faulter or 
 suffer where I am any way es trusted or concerned, and if I may have 
 leave to offer my thoughts it would be much for your service to go to 
 your Admiralty, Navie, Victualling, and Tower Offices at this time when 
 you have any leisure. I believe it may be of service to your Majestie a 
 little to inspect them, and it would satisfie the world of your generall 
 care of all your great concerns, tho' it were but by your appearing. 
 Pardon this presumption for it is only out of my endeavours to study 
 your service which, by the help of God, shall be faithfully continued to 
 my live's end. 
 
 Sir, I humbly take leave to reminde your Majestie of Mr. Bowles, 
 who hath soe long belonged to the Navie. I hope his readiness to 
 serve your Majestie with me at this time will be noe hindrance to his 
 preferment in the Victualling Office, and if your Majestie please to 
 speak with Sir Richard Haddock or any of the victuallers you will, I 
 hope, find him properer and safer for your service then those I heare 
 pretend to it, but this with humblest submission." 
 
 1688, October 22nd. [Folio 13.] — Aboard the Resolution at the 
 Oaze Edge. Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the King sent by Colonel 
 Legge on the Katharine Yacht, Captain Clements. 
 
 " My brother William brought me your Majestie's last night hither 
 tho' I believe your Majestie expected he should finde me at the Gun- 
 fleet where T did not doubt to have been before this for on Saturday 
 the winde about seven a clocke in the morning came about to the 
 westward and kept between the W. and S.W. all day. The Victuallers 
 and Store shipps were that morning aboard both my owne shipp and 
 most of the shipps of the fleet. Between nine and ten I called the 
 Flaggs and Captaines aboard and gave them strict orders to make all 
 the despatch they could possibly. About eleven of the clocke I made 
 the signall for unmoareing, but it was between three and four a clocke 
 before we were ready to put all under sayle when it began to looke a 
 very dirty angry skie, and night comeing on soe fast upon us the pylott 
 and Master thought it much better to secure the fleet againe for that 
 night as we were which we did and truly as it happened much for the 
 best for about ten a clocke at night we had a very storme of winde and 
 tho' we were moar'd and struck all our yards and topmasts yet the Reer 
 Admirall and several shipps drove. 
 
 Yesterday it blew so hard and in such gusts that we did not judge it 
 fit to meddle. About one a clocke this morning the winde came out at 
 and all this morning hath been from N. to N.N.W. and we are again 
 unmoar'd that if the winde favour us one point or two more westerly 
 we are ready to sayle if it be reasonable. 
 
 Sir, I very well know the concerne it is to get out, but the Dutch can 
 make nothing of it as the winde stands and tho' people will be apt to 
 blame me and censure that the fleet is not so ready as really it is yett 
 I hope your Majestie will not believe I give you wrong information 
 especially when it must be soe much to my owne wrong but I do not 
 doubt but by the blessing of God to give you as good an account at least 
 as can be expected tho' I must acquaint your Majestie that on Friday 
 last I had some hints of dissatisfaction in some young men in the fleet, 
 
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 and hearing Mr. Eussell is gone for Holland (if it be so) makes me Earl or 
 much more jealous then of any interest Herbert can have here. I am DaR mss UT3 
 glad Priestman is not among us and I thinke he ought to be a little 
 watched for he sets up for a leading politician. The Duke of Grafton 
 was down here among them a little after my comeing tho' he would not 
 let me know it. My Lord Berkeley I am told is very pert but I have 
 taken him in next shipp to me and shall know more of their tempers in 
 a little time. 
 
 My old friend Sir Roger hath been very indiscreet and his behaviour 
 hath been very disobligeing all this summer which I could not at first 
 believe, but he is sensible himselfe of the generall dislike there is to him. 
 I have given him the best advice I could and will endeavour all I can 
 to support him for there is no time now for doing anything but make 
 all as much of apiece as possibly I can. I look upon most of the Com- 
 manders to be men of honour and will peek them that we are to be 
 steady to yOur service, tho' I feare they have other advices and still 
 thinke all our mischiefes spring directly or indirectly from the old 
 conduit of Whitehall. This I believe your Majestie Andes more of and 
 'tis fitt I should endure my share ; but nothing shall discourage me from 
 doing my utmost wherever I am and by God's help all will be well. 
 We are generally in good heart." 
 
 16S8, October 24th. [Folio 14.]— Aboard the Resolution at the Gun- 
 fleet. " Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the King -sent by Mr. Fen, 
 who on the 2otIi instant in the morning went from the fleet in the 
 Cleaveland Yacht for Harwich whence he was to goe post. 
 
 " I thanke God I am at last got hither with your Majestie's fleet safe 
 and in as good condition for the time as could be expected whatever 
 may be suggested to the contrary and our comeing out not sooner hath 
 been hitherto for the best as I hope all things will do for your advan- 
 tage. I could wish I had more force if the enimy be so strong, as 
 I am told tho'- I believe we are as good a winter Squadron as ever 
 England put to sea at this time of the year and as nothing shall be 
 wanting on my part for your Majestie's service so upon the best enquiry 
 1 can make I apprehend nothing but a readiness in all the Commanders 
 to do their duty to your Majestie. Sir we are now at sea before the 
 Dutch after all their boasting, and 1 must confess I cannot see much 
 sense in their attempt with the hazard of such a fleet and army at 
 the latter end of October and if they can make use of this moon it is 
 as good for us as them. I will observe all the cautions your Majestie 
 hath hinted to me and preserve your fleet entire to the best of my 
 power till it shall be reasonable and necessary to venture it but I am 
 upon an element subject to accidents which you are so good a judge 
 of that I need not implore your favor in if I should be soe unfortunate 
 (which I hope not) as that any should happen to me. I wonder to 
 hear by so many letters etc. of the frights that are ashoare though I 
 thanke God they take noe effects upon us here. We take ourselves to be 
 a tolerably good guard upon the coast and if I may have leave to say 
 so (between your Majestie and I only) your statesmen may take a nap 
 and recover, the women sleep in their beds, and the catle I think need 
 not be drove from the shoare. I doubt not but God will protect his 
 anointed and the King's servant shall not be afraid to serve your 
 Majestie faithfully to the utmost of my power. Mr, Fenn hath taken 
 a great deal of paines to helpe us out on his part and will give your 
 Majestie a perticular account of our victual besides a good supply he 
 assured is making at Dover if we go into the Downes which may be 
 likely to be one part of our winter quarters ; he hath been with us 
 sometime and is able to give your Majestie an account of the condition 
 he leaves the fleet in." 
 
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 Daktmouth s 1688, October 29th. [Folio 15.] — Aboard the Resolution at the Gun- 
 MSS. fleet. Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the King sent to Harwich 
 to go thence by express under cover of Mr. Secretary Pepys. 
 
 " I have received from all hands the account of the Prince of 
 Orange's proceedings which makes me remember your royal brother's 
 story of the Scotch pylott and the wake Councell, for the whole 
 proceeding at this season looks more like the advice of land men or 
 at least men of desperate fortunes then men that knew how to accomplish 
 what they have undertaken, if I may have leave to say soe, as your 
 Majestie was almost too late before you would believe the designe soe 
 as to prepare what was necessary for your owne defence, soe they 
 by their owne delatariness lost their time for this yeare and whatever 
 distracts their measures must gaine time to settle your Majestie's owne 
 alfairs. 
 
 I have sent over three good saileing friggattes and briske men to 
 attend their motion for now both fleets are knowne to be out there is 
 noe longer making use of small vessells or dallying with one another. 
 I thanke God your Majestie's fleet is in very good condition and 
 (considering the whole matter your Majestie hath been so graciously 
 pleased to leave to me) I will endeavour to keep it soe till it is fit to 
 venture for all ; there is noe struggling too much against winde and 
 weather, and if they suffer so much at home there is no sense in 
 meddling w r ith their coast without settled weather for the winde teares 
 and veeres and halls about soe much all this month that your Majestie 
 sees wherever it hath flattered them to venture out it hath returned 
 them backe to their owne loss. 
 
 Tho' this be an open road yett there is many conveniences in it. I 
 thinke we are well posted for security each way but as the moon grows 
 older I believe they will grow sicker of their designe and the growing 
 mad shall not provoke me to follow their example. 
 
 Sir, when the light nights go off unless by some intelligence I see 
 something better to be done I am advised to secure the fleet better 
 in the Downes for it will not be so safe here after the moon is over 
 and there is noe other place unless we goe backe to the Buoy of the 
 Nore which cannot be fitt till we are sure they are laid up first. I hear 
 they wear English colours and talke of treateing with us, but pray, Sir, 
 be assured I will suffer no language to be spoke to them but out of 
 your guns, and by the blessing of God I do not doubt but to render 
 you a good account of the trust your Majestie hath reposed in me." 
 
 1688, October 30th. [Folio 16.] — Aboard the Resolution at the Gun- 
 fleet. Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the King, sent by Mr. 
 Bridges on the Cleaveland Yacht for the river of Thames. 
 
 " Since mine to your Majestie yesterday the w r inde came up last 
 night about nine a clocke to the N., and continued most of the night 
 between the N. and the N.N.E. About four a clocke I gave the * 
 signal for unmoreing, and we are just now under saile with the tide at 
 ebb and the winde at S.S.E., and hope to get clear of the Galleper 
 before night. On Fryday last, the Prince of Orange and Herbert were 
 both seen at Helversluce* soe that they could not be stirring, as the 
 windes have been till last night and this morning ; no doubt they will 
 gett all to sea this day, and I hope by tomorrow to give your Majestie 
 a better account of them. I have my scoutes abroad, and I believe it 
 
 * See Dartmouth Papers. — Pepys' letters to Lord Dartmouth of October 17th 
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 impossible for us to miss such a fleet. God prosper your Majestie, Earl of 
 and send you victory over your enemys. I am sure I will erdeavour AR mssY T1 
 heartily my part towards it. — — 
 
 Mr. Bridges is the bearer of this, and if your Majestie will give him 
 leave is able to give you a full account of all things relating to this 
 Squadron and your service here. I am afraid in this hurry there is 
 want of him in the Ordnance Office, for tho' he was so very unfortunate, 
 yett I am sure next to Sir Christopher Musgrave there is none better 
 able to serve your Majestie or give you account of that office. I 
 heartily wish for your Majestie's service I could prevail to have him 
 restored to your favour, for my owne experience of him I am sure he is 
 able to serve you in severall capacityes." 
 
 1688, November 5th. [Folio 17.] — Aboard the Resolution off Beachy 
 Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the King sent by Captain Crofts? 
 who was despatched express for London, and went by the Kitchen 
 yacht to be sett ashore. 
 
 <{ Since mine to your Majestie on Tuesday last by Mr. Bridges I came 
 that night to an anchor about 6 a clocke, the Naz beareing to W., and 
 Babzy church N W. and by N. with a very fresh gale of winde at 
 due E. 
 
 Besides the three cruisers I had out before I sent out the Sandados 
 to ply to the northward upon the receipt of the abstract from Marquis 
 D'Albevill's,* the Katharine Yacht I ordered to ply off to the eastward and 
 the Kitchen to the southward. The Kingfisher Ketch was likewise sent to 
 Ostend with letters from Captain Rooth, but all this as the winde stood 
 and as it blew so hard availed me nothing, for on Thursday our friggattes 
 that were sent a cruiseing were drove backe and came to an anchor in 
 our offing about a league and a half to windward of us, one of them 
 came in without a foretop-mast, and another wanted his main topmast. 
 It blew so very hard that we were forced to strike all our yards and 
 topmasts, and ridd with two cables and a halfe out, the winde fretting 
 and never varying above one point either way. 
 
 Just at breake of day on Saturday morning we saw thirteen saile 
 about three leagues to windward of us. The three friggattes that lay 
 without us cutt, but could fetch but one fly boate that had lost her rudder ; 
 she was taken by the Foresight and sent into the Downes with the Swallow, 
 who it seems sprung a leake soe that I feare I shall have little good 
 from her. Major Colondsby of Colonel Babbington's regiment with 200 
 men were in the fly boate, and as I am told the common men rejoiced 
 when they were taken, but I doe not finde the officers soe, tho' the 
 Major pretends a great deal. I got already to saile with the fleet on 
 Saturday, but the sea came in so heavy, and the tide fell soe cross that 
 we could not till yesterday morning. We got under saile at 8 a clocke 
 with the wind at E.S.E. a topsaile gale ; about ten Captain Clements 
 came into us with the Katharine yacht which was the first newes we 
 received of the Prince of Orange for the Foresight returned not to us 
 till twelve this afternoon to give an account of the fly boate. We made all 
 the saile possibly we could to the westward, the weather came very faire 
 and the winde continued at E.S.E. a steady gale. By eight at night we 
 got about the South Sands Head, about twelve we got the length of the 
 Ness, and I hailed in with the shoare lest they should be in Rye Bay, 
 but it proved so little winde from twelve a clocke, that when the floud 
 came in we could scarcely stem it, and got noe farther then Beachy by 
 nine this morning, but this ebb I hope we shall make better of it 
 
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 Eakl of Thus I have given your Majestie a true account of all iny proceedings 
 L Mssy TH ' 8 wnicn ar « s °e farre from the vaine hopes I had that I take myselfe for 
 — - the most unfortunate man liveing, tho' I know your Majestie is too just 
 to expect more than winde and weather will permitt. 
 
 Sir, findeing that the Dutch sailed by Dover on Saturday in the 
 afternoon, and that they had a fresh gale all that night, and a faire 
 winde all day yesterday, and such weather for their purpose and soe 
 little for mine to day I am in great apprehensions they will be landed 
 before we fetch them, and if their fleet lie at St. Hellens whilst the rest 
 land in Stokes Bay and Hampton Water their fleet being soe very 
 much superiour as I finde they are both in number and quality, I am 
 at a stand what to doe, for on calling the Flagg Officers and Commanders 
 they unanimously advise me against attackeing the Dutch fleet if all 
 possibility of hindering their landing be over, tho' everybody I assure 
 you, Sir, I thinke are so exasperated at the Prince of Orange's pro- 
 ceedings that I am once more confident they will venture their lives 
 very heartily in your Majestie's service. I consider the success of their 
 landing and beating your only fleet together with the destruction as I 
 may say of the flower of the English fleet or so many of them at least 
 as are here at present. I confess, Sir, the thoughts of this with the 
 consequence it may have in London and all over England checks my 
 inclination of setting upon them without your Majestie's farther orders, 
 but I resolve to endeavour to fall in with the Isle of Wight at breake of 
 day to-morrow morning, and see what advantage it will please God to 
 offer me takeing the caution not to shute too far to the westward in the 
 night, nor to engage your fleet unreasonably, or at least after I see some 
 hopes of doing so.* 
 
 Sir, I send this bearer Captain Crofts at Sir Roger Strickland's desire 
 who answers for his sobriety and diligence ; his understanding and 
 seamanship they say are sufficient, but I extreamly want one with me 
 that your Majestie may have confidence in for me to send you upon all 
 occasions. If your Majestie please to think of such a one. I desire 
 what orders your Majestie shall please to send to me may be despatched 
 to Rye with duplicates to Emsworth or Chichester and the Downes. 
 Sir, just as I was finishing this, Sir Roger Strickland, Sir John Berry, 
 and Captain Davis, came altogether to me and earnestly pressed that I 
 would not proceed to make the Dutch with the whole fleet in considera- 
 tion that the Squadron is at present so weake showing what are now 
 wanting and what I should have with me, which are the Swallow and 
 Tyger in the Downes, the Dover, Foresight, Bonadventure, and Sandados 
 not yet come to us from cruising, since we came into the channell, the 
 Speedwell and Sally Rose fire ships missing, as in all the small craft 
 except one Ketch of the two Yachts besides the Yorke, Woolwich, St . 
 Albans, and Newcastle, so that at present we want twelve. They 
 farther urged that they are doubtfull that upon our appearance their 
 whole fleet would come out to us, and either force us to a disadvan- 
 tageous battle or a disgracefull going from them, so that I have now 
 resolved with them to ply oft* and on, and jogg easily till the scoutes, I 
 have now upon their advice sent to the westward bring me an account 
 of the enimy, and that the shipps asterne (or rather left behinde for the 
 present) come up to me, and that I know your Majestie's pleasure what 
 you would have me to do which I humbly desire may be as soon as is 
 convenient for the case is much different now and from what it would 
 have been if we had been soe happy to have met them before they were 
 discharged of their great convoy. 
 
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 The places I am likely to come to anchor at are the Naze or the Eabl of 
 Dowries, where I believe some of our shipps may be that are missing. DAE J^ < | trTH ' 8 
 I understand the Prince of Orange changed his measures upon his — 
 • last coming aboard when he heard your Majestie's fleet was at the 
 Gunfleet, for before that he intended for the river. Pray God Almighty 
 direct and protect your Majestie, and notwithstanding all this I hope by 
 His blessing yett to be able to render your Majestie good service from 
 this- Squadron as time and oppertunity offers for I am faithfully and 
 heartily devoted to your Majestie to my live's end." 
 
 1688, November 5th. [Folio 20.] — Aboard the Resolution ofTBeachy. 
 
 " Tho' I sent at the same time Mr. Crofts to your Majestie at Sir Roger 
 Strickland's desire, yett I am not so satisfied for the ready despatch of 
 your Majestie's service by him and the way of London but that I thinke 
 it for your service to send this bearer, Dick Carter's groom, who knowes 
 how to cross the countrey and finde out your Majestie's army where I 
 presume this duplicate of what I sent by Mr. Crofts may probably sooner 
 meet your Majesty." 
 
 This in addition to a duplicate of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the 
 King sent away this day by Captain Crofts who is despatched " to finde 
 his Majestie wherever he may be if not at London, and went by the 
 Kitchen yacht to be set ashoare." 
 
 1688, November 7th. [Folio 21.] — Aboard the Resolution anchored 
 in the Downes. Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the King sent 
 express by Captain Rooth from the Fleet. 
 
 " From my last to your Majestie by Mr. Crofts till yesterday at 
 4 o'clock in the afternoon, I had not one breath of winde but lay driving 
 with the tide in hazie weather ; then sprung up a small gale at*S.E. and 
 by E. and from thence varying to the S.S.W. we steered away to the 
 westward till eleven at night, Beachy then bearing N.E. and by E. about 
 eight or nine leagues off. We tacked and stood to the S.E. to get a 
 better offing from the oares, and my endeavours being to backe my 
 scoutes and raise the Isle of Wight by morning if possible. Wherefore 
 about 3 a clocke I tacked againe and stood to the W.N.W. and N.W. 
 till 8 a clocke but there came up a storm at S.W. The Assurance making 
 her signalls of distress, the Mary bearing up not being able to hold it 
 longer, the paunch of my owne foremast sprung and the head of the 
 mast rung. I thought it not [right] for your Majestie's service to 
 strain the fleet farther but bore up for the Downes, and had so great a 
 rune that I arrived here about 5 a clocke this afternoon where I hope 
 quickly to gather the fleet, being the generall randevouz designed upon 
 for seperation. 
 
 Considering your Majestie's service and the state of the fleet as I 
 last represented it to you with regard to the enimy, I immediately 
 despatched Lieutenant Wright to take up six good vessells at Dover etc. 
 to make fire shipps, thinking it the quickest way of despatch to do 
 them here with my owne carpenters and gunners rather then expect the 
 tedious delays from the rivers, and that I may endeavour everyway to 
 render myselfe most serviceable I have sent to Welford to send me out 
 whatever fire shipps are with him anywayes capable of keeping the sea. 
 I hope the three shipps in the river will now have noe longer excuse 
 for comeing to me, and although I cannot yett hope for more men of 
 warre, this will be a good reinforcement of this Squadron soe that I hope 
 yett upon the first easterly winde to be able to do some service, tho' at 
 this time of the yeare I dare promise nothing more, but expect your 
 Majestie's commands and that what strength can will be sent me by 
 
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 earl of degrees, for I understand the Dutch are fitting out more shipps to a 
 >iss. " good number to backe these they have already soe that I perceive 
 they intend to winter with us, but I hope your Majestie will fit out more 
 shipps, that they may not ride Lords of your seas. 
 
 Sir, let my misfortunes at present looke as ill as they are, I hope God 
 will bless me at last to serve you, for I am not conscious to myselfe of 
 any w T rong step I have made unless it be too much assurance of my owne 
 success which I hope your Majestie will rather thinke an error of the 
 right hand in a man of my profession that means soe truly well to 
 endeavour your service. I send this by Captain Rooth who hath constantly 
 been on board me, and I am confident will satisfy your Majestie of my 
 endeavours to serve you tho' I have been hitherto the unhappiest man 
 alive.* I will take all the care I can to hinder their setting on me to 
 any disadvantage here tho' that cannot be yett their business as I 
 believe. 
 
 I am told they have abundance of small field pieces, and I know your 
 Majestie ordered a very small traine, but if I mistake not there are 
 thirty of the bea* small field pieces ready to march at Portsmouth which 
 may now be necessary to be drawne out, but I hope in God they will be 
 disappointed in their measures, and that your subjects will prove loyaller 
 than they expect. Pray God preserve your Majestie." 
 
 1688, November 8th. [Folio 22.] — Aboard the Resolution at the 
 Downes. Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the King sent express by 
 Mr. Hodder from the fleet. 
 
 " Captain Cole in the Pearl met with- a Brandenburg vessel! and brought 
 him to me who with some threates (suspecting him coming from the 
 westward) I found to be an advice boate going backe to Holland from 
 the Prince. The whole packett he was carrying I have sent up by this 
 express to Mr. Pepys for your Majestie, and I believe there are letters 
 will give your Majestie some serviceable intelligence. f I understood 
 very few of the superscriptions and therefore opened only the English 
 letters, among which I found Burnett's letter to his wife makeing some 
 reflections on the behaviour of your Majestie's fleet tho' in the same 
 letter he is pleased to take notice we could not come to them. By the 
 list of their fleet I finde tho' they have nineFlaggs yett they are not soe 
 great a force as they were reported soe that we may yett give them a 
 parting blow if your Majestie pleases and thinke it for your service. I 
 am doing all that I can to putt the fleet in a good posture, and after 
 all my misfortunes am still in hopes to render your Majestie good 
 service. 
 
 By all I can observe in these letters they intend to march directly 
 towards London and depend mightily upon the people's comeing into 
 them, but I hope in God your Majestie's armes will have good success 
 and one good blow may end all for the best, for I believe there are 
 many will be cautious enough, let their wishes be what they will, that 
 will scarcely venture to show it till they see success in the Prince of 
 Orange's side, which God forbid. 
 
 Sir, I hope your Majestie judges of the great torment I am in for not 
 being able to serve you better and to be absent from you at so great a 
 time of need, but by the blessing of God I will render you all the service 
 a poor faithfull servant is capable of wherever you thinke me most capable. 
 
 My task hath been hard and tho' not successfull hitherto yett I hope 
 your Majestie will finde the benefit of my labours at last. Not under- 
 
 * See Dartmouth Papers. — King James' letter to Lord Dartmouth of November 9th. 
 f Ibid. — Pepys' letter to Lord Dartmouth of November ICth. 
 
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 standing either Dutch or French myselfe I have sent your Majestie the 
 whole packet, but if there be anything in them of use to your Majestie's 
 service here I beg you will order them or abstracts to be put in English 
 and sent backe to me for I am too much in the darke at present, but I 
 hope still all will prove for the best at last." 
 
 1682, November 10th. [Folio 23.] — Aboard the Resolution at the 
 Downes. Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the King sent express 
 from Deale at about seven of the clocke at night. 
 
 " Captain Cole examining the cooke of the Brandenburg vessell found 
 that the Captain had throwne some letters into the cableteer, and upon 
 searching found these which I have enclosed to your Majestie believing 
 some of them to be the Prince of Orange's owne hande.* 
 
 I am doing the best I can to put things in the best posture I am able 
 to render this fleet serviceable, but after such stormes as we have had 
 your Majestie is sensible that many wants will be pretended which I am 
 searching into the reallity of and will do the best I can, for it grieves 
 my very heart to thinke of my misfortune and to finde such dayly 
 complaints tho' there is great distinction to be made of men at this 
 time, some being willing rather to hide their defects then thinke of being 
 from your service or out of the way of it at thi3 time, but more are 
 willing to be refitting. Sir, upon a through information I will judge the 
 best I can what I shall be able to do . I know the great trust and care 
 your Majestie is pleased to putt in me, and tho' I am an unfortunate man 
 yett your Majestie shall finde in me a very faithfull servant doing every- 
 thing without regard to anything to your Majestie's preservation and 
 good. Yett, Sir, being sensible of my owne defects and your Majestie's 
 owne better judgement (which is now my only comfort) I humbly 
 desire your Majestie's owne orders and directions at so critticall a 
 time for as I will not be peeked to do any rash thing, soe I am more 
 unwilling to be anywayes backward. 
 
 I have shown Mr. Pepys' letters to the Flagg Officers and we are 
 taking it into consideration of secureing the fleet and offending the 
 enimy's the most we can, but being of so great importance they were 
 desirous to consider better of it and I have given them time to thinke 
 till next letters arrive which I hope will not be long before I receive 
 them." 
 
 1688, November 11th. [Folio. 24.] — Aboard the Resolution in the 
 Downes. 
 
 Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the King sent express by Mr. Cross 
 despatched from aboard 12 of the clocke at night. 
 
 " I received the honour and comfort of your Majestie's this day. It 
 is the greatest happiness of my life that your Majestie is satisfied with 
 my endeavours tho' they have proved soe unlucky hitherto. It is 
 Strang that such mad proceedings should have such Buccess at this time 
 of the yeare but I hope God will bless your Majestie's forces at last. 
 A difficult part I have to deale withall is the weather, but I am like- 
 wise to watch what effect it will have upon them before I can well be 
 able to do anything to the purpose. I this day advised with the Flagg 
 Officers etc., and found it debated by some with great reasons for going 
 to the Buoy of the Nore as the best place of safety and for fitting out a 
 good fleet such as might be able to do your Majestie more effectual 
 service than we can hope for otherwayes ; but some were with this 
 vvinde at N.N.E. (if it holds as it seems very likely to do) for going to 
 
 Earl of 
 Dartmouth'? 
 MSS. 
 
 See Dartmouth Papers. — November 11th. 
 
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 Earl of ( Spithead, and since your Majestie is pleased to say you have soe well 
 R MSsy TH 8 secured London and are getting westward yourselfe I hope it will not 
 — be unreasonable for us (let their force be what it will) to look towards 
 them. It may have a good influence upon the people and yett I may be 
 able to secure this Squadron there I believe better at least then here 
 which are the only places beside the Nore which at best will argue some 
 feare, besides I am unwilling to hooke myselfe soe much within the sands 
 againe. 
 
 When I am at Spithead I shall endeavour to secure myselfe from 
 their comeing in at the Needles with the winde westerly, and they 
 cannot terne in from St. Hellen's but with great disadvantage. If I 
 finde they come up the Channell it will be my business to follow them 
 and watch their comeing into the river if they venture at it. All my 
 apprehension is of the fresh Squadron they are saying to fit out in 
 Holland, which I hope your Majestie hath better intelligence of and 
 will provide for. 'Tis very hard the shipps from the river have not 
 yet joined me but I will still hope for them; it cannot but be expected 
 that at this time of the yeare accidents will happen and some shipps will 
 be shattered, but from Portsmouth I hope we may finde fresh and better 
 shipps to turne into and a supply of our wants may be had, so that I hope 
 care will be taken of our victuals and all things that may be necessary 
 to be expected from thence. 
 
 Sir, I am very sensible of the ill censures and misconstructions are apt 
 to be made of my proceedings but nothing shall weigh soe with me as to 
 hinder my doing whatever is most reasonable and best for your service 
 according to the best of my understanding. 
 
 I most humbly beg your Majestie's own directions (who are best able 
 to judge) how you would have me proceed from time to time as oft as 
 conveniently you can, and more especially that I might have your 
 Majestie's thoughts (if possible) before I stirre from hence, this step 
 being of soe very great importance." 
 
 1688, November 11th. [Folio 25.] — Aboard the Reso hit ion in the 
 Downes. 
 
 Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to Mr. Pepys sent by Mr. Cross, 
 express. 
 
 " I am extreamely sensible of your care and kindness to me in yours of 
 the 8th instant in your owne hand, and this day I received the effect of 
 yours by a letter from His Majestie which hath extreamely eased my very 
 sorrowful heart. You know I have long been hardened to illusage 
 and tho' my Lord Sandwich is often in my thoughts yett I can scarcely 
 forbeare thinking of pushing more then my owne reason would 
 otherwayes prompt me to, for I have good reason to believe the list of 
 their shipps before you was made before the storm that drove them 
 first backe and that their fiaggs changed into bigger or that they had 
 their last supply of shipps, yett I call God to witness noe concerne of 
 myselfe makes mee soe uneasie as the thoughts of the unnaturall usage 
 His Majestie meets with, and all his affairs are anxiously before mee. 
 Pray endeavour to let mine this night to the King be answered effectually 
 as soon as possible, for this step I am going to make is of the greatest 
 consequence. Sir John Berry and Davis seem mightie averse to it, and 
 what has become of the shipps from the river I cannot imagine. I 
 thought to have bettered myselfe by comeing hither, but to my great 
 disappointment I finde my loss in the Montague, Centurion and Assurance 
 greater than any recruit I am likely to have, so that nine and twenty 
 men of warre is all I am likely to depend on and severall of them in noc 
 very good condition. I have great confidence that George Aylmer and 
 
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 Gilford will make good haste to mee ; pray encourage them and what- Earl op 
 ever shipps are fitting to make the best despatch they can. You knowe Dar mss UTH 
 how farre I am victualled and that must be thought on timely ; cables — 
 anchors, sayles and long boates must bf* sent, for this time of the yeare 
 we shall allways be upon the loseing hand and the weather is one of my 
 greatest and constantest enimye I am to expect. 
 
 I have no answer to mine yett from you of the 8th and T would be glad 
 to know what I am to do with any vessels failed [falling] into my hands 
 and how to proceed with all Dutch shipps, for as yett you know I am 
 in the darke my instructions being only if I had met them upon their 
 invading.* Sir, I can never enough acknowledge your share in my 
 sufferings even from Tanger to the Long Sands Head, etc." 
 
 1688, November 12th. [Folio 28.] Court at Whitehall.— Copy of 
 His Majestie's warrant sent by Lord Middleton for attacking the 
 Hollands fleet in a hostile manner when and wheresoever the fleet 
 under Lord Dartmouth's command should meet or finde them. 
 
 1688, November 13th [Folio 26.] Aboard the Resolution in the 
 Downes. 
 
 Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the King sent from Deal by 
 express. 
 
 " I am very happy to finde by your Majestie's of the 12th, which I just 
 now received, that it is your owne opinion that w T e should go westward 
 which I was endeavouring this morning, tho' I had not your Majestie's 
 resolution, but it blew by. gusts so hard that I was not able to get out 
 before the tide was spent and I have advised with the Flaggs who 
 desired me to have patience till tomorrow when I hope we may 
 have good success. Indeed, Sir, I have been in great paine to be gone 
 up since the winde came easterly but we have had so great a storm 
 from Saturday night till this afternoon that it was impossible to weigh 
 without great danger to the fleete, and the winde comeing since noon 
 and blowing so fresh at N.W. is now noe small affliction to the rest I 
 have already endured. As for the enemye's number of shipps and our owne 
 strength being compared we shall consider it noe longer, but I will doe 
 the best of my endeavours to finde them out and give you the best 
 account God will please to bless me with, but the winde is very 
 variable at this time of the yeare and by the coldness of the weather 
 I hope we shall have an easterly winde, at last I hope for moderate 
 weather. As for the shipps Mr. Froud gave the account of I thinke 
 it not reasonable to part any of the fleet to look after them at this 
 time, and if they come westward I hope to meet them myselfe and 
 indeed it is impossible to look all wayes at once with this squadron. 
 I have scouts out and I hope all will not fail me tho' I have had 
 noe better success hitherto. The Scotch seaman your Majestie mentions 
 is not yet come, being an ill horseman as most of us sailors are, but I 
 will take all the care imagineable of him when he comes to me. I 
 hope Captain Rooth gave your Majestie an account that I was re- 
 solved against going to the Buoy of the Nore from the beginning 
 unless I were absolutely forced to it ; tho' I have been much prest to 
 it by some of good judgment yett would never heare of it for the 
 reasons I acquainted your Majestie in my last. Spitthead is much more 
 convenient in all respects but I hope not to be forced to either till I 
 have rendered you better service. Your Majestie sees the misfortune 
 
 See Dartmouth Papers. — Order dated November 13th. 
 
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 Dartmouth's ifi is to me neitner to understand French nor Dutch, but I have now 
 mss. got aboard me an ingenious man, one Dr. Morelby. that I hope will be 
 usefull to me for the future. Sir, I finde your Majestie has resolved 
 to go in person at the end of the weeke. God Almighty preserve and 
 keep you and bless all your undertakings. 
 
 Sir, my afflictions are unconceaveable not to be with you at this 
 time and more to thinke of the great trust that you have put in me and 
 I am able to serve you noe better hitherto, but it is noe easy taske I am 
 sure your Majesty knowes to deale with a winter Squadron which is 
 much a greater taske then the enimy. I know the impertinency my 
 misfortunes are lyable to by ignorant and malicious people about a 
 Court, but my trust is only in God and your Majestie. 
 
 Pray, Sir, be assured I will do all that I am able to serve you heartily, 
 and tho' it is another misfortune that I cannot now hope to hear or 
 receive your Majestie's commands and advice so often as your service 
 may require it, yett I will do all to the best of my understanding, and 
 as I will noe more presume so will not despair of God's blessing in my 
 honest and laborious endeavours." 
 
 1688, November 15th. [Folio 29.] — Aboard the Resolution in the 
 Downes. Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the King sent away from 
 Deal by express. 
 
 " The Scotchman your Majestie was pleased to send me,* I have made 
 very good use of, and give him good creditt with the whole fleet, and 
 T doubt not with God's blessing, better weather and a faire oppertunity 
 yett to give you a good account of all. I have seen this Scotchman 
 myselfe before, and Captain Martin who is my chief e mate knowes him and 
 gives him a good carecter. I wish he had been able to have got from 
 thence before for he pretends to know they designed either for the river 
 or westward and never intended nor ward as was pretended. Upon 
 receiving your Majestie's of the 12th yesterday with the warrant from 
 my Lord Middleton, I acquainted the Flagg officers therewith, and we 
 resolved together as we had done before upon your Majestie's first 
 instructions to seek out the enimy and take any faire advantage we could 
 of them, and now we shall set upon the Dutch fleet wherever we shall 
 happen to meet them, and I had thought the weather being moderate 
 tho' the winde was at N.W. and by N. to have got out from hence and 
 to have anchored while the weather continued faire under Dungeness, 
 but it was thought more adviseable and resolved by all (that in regard 
 we had good scoutes out and the winde so variable in respect to the 
 season of the yeare and the darke nights) for the better safety of the 
 fleet to remaine here till the scoutes give notice of the approach of the 
 enimy (if they should come towards us) and upon the first notice to sayle 
 out upon the North Sands Head to gain sea room for the better 
 encountering them and with the first faire winde to proceed to the west- 
 ward and look them out. 
 
 Sir, it is the griefe of my heart that I have not been able to serve you 
 better and that this letter comes still from this place, but it is now starke 
 calme, and I heartily pray for a faire winde, so I hope in God my next 
 will be able to give you a better account. Mr. Pepys writt to me for the 
 officers that were prisoners, but I gave him an account sometime since 
 that I had sent them to Sir Charles Littleton and I believe if the Major 
 be examined and you can make him honest he is capable of giving as 
 good an account as any man of that post among them. For God's sake, 
 
 * See Dartmouth Papers. — King James' letter to Lord Dartmouth of November 
 1 2th, and Pepys' letter of same date. 
 
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 Sir, let them fitt what shipps they can especially at Portsmouth, and let Dartmouth's 
 
 the guns be gott aboard as soon as they can by the ordinary, for what can " mss. 
 be must be done at this time. 
 
 God Almightie prosper and preserve your Majestic" 
 
 1688, November 22nd. [Folio 31.] — Aboard the Resolution at the 
 Spitthead. Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to his Majestie sent by 
 Mr. Cross to go express to Salisbury. 
 
 " I sayled with your Majestie's fleet from the Dowries on the 16th with 
 the winde at N.E. and faire weather. By eight the next morning the 
 Isle of Wight bore W.N.W. about seven leagues off, at ten a clocke I lay 
 by and sent in the Cleaveland Yacht with orders to the Commissioner 
 to prepare what he could for my returne and to send me out what shipps 
 were at Spitthead with directions to follow me to Torbay, for the windes 
 being at E.S.E., a hard sky and faire weather, I could not judge of a 
 better opportunity, and if it had pleased God to have continued the 
 winde and weather in all probability I could not have failed for I was 
 about 45 men of warre and fire shipps, and if I had gone into Spitthead 
 I knew many wants would be pretended and considerable time delayed, 
 besides for other reasons I thought it best for your Majestie's service to 
 bring the fleet to fight as soon as conveniently I could. About noon the 
 body of the Isle of Wight bore W. & B.N. four or five leagues off. I 
 set sayle with a fresh gale of winde at S.E., at four in the evening the 
 winde came out at S.S.E. and S. and B.E. then we stood to the east- 
 ward to underlay the ebb and gett a better offing, but the winde comeing 
 backe to the S.E. and B.S. we tacked againe about seven at night and 
 stood off S.W. with the tide of floud under our lee. It blew very hard 
 all night, and in the morning the Reer Admiral and severall of 
 the fleet were wanting. I lay atry for sometime and then bore up to 
 get the fleet as much together as possibly I could, but the wind continuing 
 to blow harder and harder to a violent storme, and there being noe 
 ventureing to tack in the night with the fleet we were forced away to 
 the westward and the weather so very thicke in the morning that if the 
 storme had continued but two watches longer we must have been 
 probably put past any port in England, but it pleased God at about 
 9 of the clocke we had less winde veering about to the S. and so to the 
 westward, and at 10 it cleared up, the Start being N.N.E. about six 
 leagues off. I lay by for the fleet, but could not get above twenty-two 
 sayle together. Captain Arthur told me severall shipps had received 
 much damage on Saturday night and the Reer Admirall among the rest, 
 but 1 found him got to St. Hellen's in good condition himselfe, but severall 
 of the fleet much damaged for a violenter storme could not be for the 
 time. I heare of none yett lost but the Helderburg Hospital* which is 
 foundered and but thirteeu men saved. At noon the Start bore N.W. 
 five leagues off, faire weather and a fresh gaile at W.N.W. ; about two 
 we luffed up towards the Bury and I sent the Jersey (who sailes very 
 well) to haul close in who says he was within two miles of Herbert. 
 Upon his appearance they made signall and got up their yards and top- 
 masts and were endeavonring to weigh but did not which I wonder at, 
 my force being so small and faire in sight of them and they to wind- 
 ward. They lay very close together, close under the shoare, he told as 
 he sayth fifty-seven good stout shipps, but their smaller shipps lay farther 
 in that he could not tell them. By this they should have had some re- 
 cruites but your Majestie may see how reasonable my coming upon them 
 
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 Dartmouth's Dac l been if it had pleased God to bless me so that the winde had stood and 
 MSiS - the weather continued faire, but there is noe resisting a storm in the 
 Channell at this time of the yeare, and if I should not have ventured when 
 the winde was faire and the weather promised well I might have been 
 justly blaimed, for if nobody should go to sea when the winde is faire 
 for fear of the winde shifting and a storm comeing down things would 
 hardly ever succeed. 
 
 About 12 that night for feare of overshooting the Isle of Wight I 
 shortened saile and lay by for sometime, but about 2 a clocke it blew 
 very violently againe till morning at S.W. I got in and joined the Reer 
 Admirall with most of the fleet about 1 1 a clocke at St. Helm's, but I 
 believe several shipps that are missing are blowne to the Downes, whither 
 I have writ to Mr. Pepys to send orders for those that are in condition 
 with the first oppert unity to rejoine me here, the rest to refitt in the 
 river as soon as possible, for to my great disappointment Sir Richard 
 Beach tells me there are very few stores for fourth rates which is the 
 greatest part of this fleet. I Avill be sure to take all the care and pains 
 I can to refitt and change such shipps as are necessary (if your Majestie 
 will give me leave) for I am very apprehensive of their passing by me in 
 the night (which is not to be avoided especially when it blows hard) and 
 their going up the river while your Majestie is absent, but of this I will 
 take the best care T can. Their fortune hath been extravagant for their 
 hath been but three faire days since I came to sea and they had two of 
 them to land in while I was becalmed off Beachy, but sure I shall have 
 some luck at last for I will struggle all I can and endure with patience 
 till I can compass that service you expect from me. 
 
 My business now shall be to gett readdie as soon as possible tho' the 
 season of the year is intollerable, sixteen hours night to eight hours day 
 with lea shoares in the Channell is harder workeing then any battle. 
 
 I am sorry to heare any have proved false to your Majestie in the 
 army ; I not only wish, but will be watchful that it may have noe 
 influence here. The Prince of Wales I am told is at Portsmouth, and 
 tomorrow I will venture your Majestie's leave to pay my duty to him 
 tho' it is the first time I have set my foot ashoare since I tooke this 
 charge. It is some comfort to be near a part of you since I cannot be 
 so happy to be at your owne side at this time. God protect you both, 
 and enable me to serve as effectually as I earnestly desire it" 
 
 1 688, November 26th. Court at Whitehall. [Folio 33.]— Order signed 
 by Samuel Pepys to Lord Dartmouth for sending a friggatte to Plymouth 
 for seizing Captain George Churchill, Commander of the Newcastle, and 
 for keeping him as a prisoner till further order.* 
 
 1688, November 28th. [Folio 34.] — Aboard the Resolution at Spitt- 
 head. Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the King, sent by Mr. George 
 Browne express from Portsmouth, who did not go away till the 30th of 
 October at 12 noon. 
 
 " Your Majestie will easily believe with what grief of heart I write this 
 to finde what usage your Majestie hath received, and indeed I finde a 
 great alteration in most people's faces since my comeing in hither not 
 for want of loyaltie in most of your Commanders, but the dayly 
 impressions they receive make them stand amased. For God's sake, 
 Sir, call your great councell and see which way a Parliament may be 
 best called for I feare nothing will give a stopp but that, and if others 
 are the cause it cannot be done it will no longer lie at your door, and if 
 it may be acceptable to you or a reall service you will soon have the 
 
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 thankes and approbation of your whole fleet with assurance of standing D J^jjj °J H . 
 by your Majestie in it, but this your Majestie can best judge of, and I mss. 
 hope you will excuse the thoughts of a faithfull servant for such I have " 
 ever been, and by the blessing of God will persist in it till my live's 
 end. 
 
 I have been endeavouring ever since rny arrivall here to refitt your 
 fleet, and tho' not to be effected according to my desires, yet I hope it 
 will prove serviceable to you and I earnestly beg what orders you have 
 farther for me may be sent when you thinke convenient. Your Majestie 
 knowes my victualling will not last long, but T hope for a month's 
 recruite from hence which we are dayly getting aboard with all the 
 diligence imagineable. 
 
 Sir, I am dayly sensible you have reason to mistrust mankmde but if 
 you should have hard thoughts of me it will breake my heart for I am 
 and will be just to my live's end. 1 am in so great perplexity for you 
 that I am able to say no more." 
 
 1688, November 30th. [Folio 34.] — " Sir, since I wrote the former, 
 which was intended to be sent yesterday morning but my Lord Dover 
 haveing the thoughts of stopping the money for payment of the docke 
 and provisions for the fleet put me in such a consternation that I was not 
 able to know what to say, but being prevailed with to let us have both 
 hath now put an end to that matter and I am againe going on with my 
 business and just now I have received an account from Mr. Pepys that 
 your Majestie hath declared for a Parliament which pray God Almighty 
 send you a good end of."* 
 
 1688, November 28th. [Folio 35.] — Aboard the Resolution at the 
 Spitthead. Copy of Lord Dartmouth's private letter to Mr. Pepys sent 
 by Mr. George Browne express from Portsmouth who did not go away 
 till the 30th of November after 12 at noon. 
 
 " The intelligence and orders accompanying yours of the 26th instant 
 received at 10 of the clocke on Tuesday night by express being such as 
 required some privacie and my very pellicular regrett is the reason I 
 give your answer thereto apart from my generall letter concerning the 
 fleet. I am much surprised at the Princess of Denmark's withdrawing 
 herself,| with the manner of it, and the malitious insinuations (you inform 
 me) of ill disposed people as if she had been forced away by Papists, all 
 which I feare are heavie burthens and great occasions of trouble and 
 disquiett to our master, whom God preserve and direct to such councells 
 and resolutions as may remove or at least aleviate those dismall and 
 most dreadful anguishes of spiritt which I know he must labour under 
 in the present unfortunate conjuncture of his affaires which i pray God 
 grant so happy an issue as may put His Majestie in saftie, his great 
 minde at ease and the whole nation and people out of that ferment and 
 chrysis of dissatisfaction to his Governement which (from the too 
 many nobles and great men ungratefully deserting him) appears to be 
 so universall. 
 
 I have deliberated very thoughtfully on His Majestie's order for 
 seizeing and secureing Captain Churchill at Plymouth, the sending a 
 friggatte on that errand being to run the danger of her being intercepted 
 by the Dutch who (by the last information I gott of them) were cruising 
 off the Start. 
 
 * See Dartmouth Papers. — Pepys' letter to Lord Dartmouth of November 26th. 
 The above letter in the text refers to the letter of November 28th, on folio 34 (see 
 previous page), and is here printed as placed in original. 
 
 f Ibid. — Pepys' letter to Lord Dartmouth of November 20th. 
 
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 4ktmouth's ^ ^ e ^ e * a ^ en mto tk e *r company it is impossible to retrive him, and 
 mss. if lie be revolted it may be reasonably concluded he has prepared his 
 — shipp's company to make a desperate and resolute resistance, so that it 
 will be a hard taske for a single friggate to master him when probably 
 now some of the men may not be so well disposed to it as I could wish. 
 I have therefore resolved to send only the Quaker ketch with orders to 
 Captain Churchill to use his utmost diligence to joiue me, and if he be 
 found at Plymouth out of command and be honest (which is to be 
 doubted) he will on receipt of this order take the first oppertunity of 
 comeing to me, but if he be under command the Commander of the .said 
 ketch shall carry my request to my Lord of Bath with copy of His 
 Majestie's order for seiseing him and send away the shipp if he appre- 
 hends she may be trusted with the company and officers she has, if not 
 to continue there till farther measures and resolutions shall be taken 
 about her. In the meanetime it may not be amis if His Majestie 
 thinketh fitt (and if it be safe to venture it by land) that my Lord Bath 
 have the same directions sent him that way. 
 
 I shall order such vessell as I send if he meet the Dutch fleet and 
 cannot avoid their examination to make away with his despatches 
 (unless he can secure them) and proceed to Plymouth, giveing my Lord 
 Bath a verbal account of the arrand he comes to him on and returne 
 with what despatch he can to me that I may be throwly informed of 
 this matter, a good success and issue whereto and all other His 
 Majestie's affaires are and shall be not only the prayers but most ernest 
 endeavours of etc. 
 
 1688, November 30th. " The letter preceding was intended to be sent 
 you yesterday morning by express, at which time my Lord Dover came 
 aboard me, and having understood from the Commissioners of the navie 
 and officers of the victualling that his Lordship had not only detained 
 the money newly come for paying the yard but countermanded the 
 sending of any provisions to the fleet, which you may be sure must be 
 occasion of great disorder in the docke especially all the worke men and 
 labourers giving over their worke. From which occasion I was led to 
 withold my express till I could give His Majestie by you a good account 
 of an issue being put thereto by my intercessions and reasoning with 
 my Lord Dover, who I persuaded to let all things go on for His 
 Majestie's service as was before directed as well in relation to the money 
 as our provisions comeing off. Last night I received gladly the newes 
 (by your express) of his Majestie's greatest declaration of calling a free 
 Parliament to be held at Westminster the 15th of January next, from 
 which great meeting Cod grant such event as may establish his 
 Majestie with honour and safetie in the sway of his dominions and 
 people with lasting glory and peace. This news I shall communicate 
 to the fleet which I am well assured will receive it cheerfully, the 
 faces of the Commanders being much changed since our comeing in 
 here from the dayly alterations in his Majestie's affaires, but I doubt not 
 to keep them all in good disposition to serve His Majestie like loyall 
 subjects and men of honour which as has been shall be my continuall 
 endeavours. The surprizeing newes you give me of my Lord Bath's 
 seiseing Plymouth for the Prince of Orange* makes me judge it now 
 unnecessary to send the Quaker ketch as I designed, and I do not think 
 it safe to send a single friggate, therefore shall leave this matter as it is 
 unless His Majestie signifie his farther pleasure to the contrary." 
 
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 1688, December 1st. [Folio 37.] Copy of the humble address of Earl of 
 
 George Lord Dartmouth, Admirall of the Fleet and the Commander of Dar ™ss! TI 
 
 the shipps of warr now at the Spitthead, to the King, with the names of — 
 the signatures attached, which was carried by my Lord Berkeley, 
 Captain Hastings, and Captain Thomas Leighton the 2nd. Thanking 
 the King for calling a Parliament. 
 
 1688, December 1st. [Folio 39.] Aboard the Resolution at the 
 Spitthead. Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the King sent by Lord 
 Berkeley. 
 
 "Your Majestie may wonder your men of warre concern themselves 
 so much for peace, but it was unanimously received that there was no 
 delaying the address I have sent away my Lord Berkeley with, and I 
 hope it will be no offence nor disservice to your Majestie, for now if the 
 Prince of Orange doth not desist it will show the world he hath other 
 meanings then are pretended. I am still endeavouring to put the fleet 
 in the best posture I can, and it is no small endeavour I am putt to to 
 make them in good humour, for matters are mightily changed and must 
 be again before it will be fitt to sett upon the Dutch, and it is plane they 
 thinke it not time yett to set upon us, but the best treaties are made 
 with sword in hand so that we must still be upon our guard. My 
 greatest trouble is for your person ; for the rest, time will mend, which 
 pray God may be soon, and that he will give your Majestie His great 
 protection and direction in this most difficult and miserable time." 
 
 1688, December 3rd. [Folio 39.] Aboard the Resolution at Spitt- 
 head. Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the King sent by a messen- 
 ger of Lord Dover's from Portsmouth. 
 
 * Yesterday in the afternoon Lord Dover came aboard me and brought 
 me the letters from your Majestie, one dated at Andover the 25th of 
 November, the other at Whitehall of the 29th, with a postcript of the 
 30th, on the subject of sending away the Prince of Wales,* wherein you 
 were pleased to show thoughts of delaying your intentions therein, and 
 I must confess I was in hopes if your Majestie tooke the least time to 
 consider you would finde soe many undeniable reasons to the contrary 
 as would soon oblige your Majestie to alter your resolutions, and there- 
 fore I forbore showing my Lord Dover the surprise I was at first in, 
 but by his letters dated yesterday from Whitehall (which I received 
 this day soon after another) with the greatest dread and griefe of heart 
 imaginable I understand your Majestie persists in your former 
 intentions and consultations held with my Lord Dover in sending away 
 the Prince and conjure me to be assisting therein. 
 
 I need not tell your Majestie how strict the lawes are, in this matter, 
 nor after so many experiences of my duty and loyaltie to your person 
 lay before you fresh assurances of giveing ready obedience to any 
 commands within my power, but to be guilty of treason to your 
 Majestie and the known lawes of the Kingdome of so high a nature as 
 this, when your Majestie shall farther deliberate on't I most humbly 
 hope you will not exact it from me nor long entertain so much as a 
 thought of doing that which will give your enimys an advantage tho' 
 never so falsely grounded to distrust your son's just right, which you 
 have asserted and manifested to the world (in the matter of his being 
 your real sonne borne of the Queen) by the testimonys of so many 
 apparent witnesses. Pardon me, therefore, Sir, if on my bended knees 
 
 * See Dartmouth Papers for these letters under the dates and the subsequent 
 letters of December 5th and 10th. 
 
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 Earl op I beg of you to apply yourselfe to other councells, for the doing this 
 ^jjgg™' 8 lookes like nothing less then despaire to the degree of not only giving 
 — ' your enimys encouragement, but distrust of your friends and people, 
 
 who I do not despaire but will yett stand by you in the defence and 
 
 right of your lawful successor. 
 
 Your Majestie knowes I have alwayes professed myselfe of the 
 Church of England and I humbly appeal to you if ever I gave you 
 promises of being of any other, and therefore as such and a faithfull 
 servant, subject and councellor, I beg leave to advise you and give you 
 my humble opinion that sending away the Prince of Wales without the 
 consent of the nation is at no time advisable, and therefore the doing it 
 at this time especially, and that to France, being what I dread will be of 
 fatal consequence to your person, crowne, and dignity, and all your 
 people will (too probably) grow so much concerned at this your great 
 mistrust as to throw off their bounden allegiance to you which God 
 forbid, wherefore pray, Sir, consider farther on this weightie point, for 
 can the Prince's being sent to France have other prospect then the 
 entaileing a perpetuall warre upon your nation and posterity, and giving 
 France alwayes a temptation to molest, invade, nay hazard the conquest 
 of England, which 1 hope in God never to see, but that we may have 
 this Prince of your own loines to rule over us. The most I can 
 apprehend your Majestie may be jealous of is his being brought up in 
 the religion of the Church of England and that ought (for His Royal 
 Highnesse's sake especially) to be the prayers of every honest loyall 
 subject. Pardon me, therefore, Sir, that I most earnestly implore you 
 not to make me the unhappy instrument of so apparent mine to your 
 Majestie, and my countrey as an act of this kinde will be, and I hope 
 your Majestie will not suffer it to be done by any other, for I can 
 forsee nothing else from it then the putting in hazard your owne sacred 
 person and the Queene's and making England the most miserable nation 
 in the world. 
 
 Remember I pray, Sir, how prophetically I have foretold you your 
 misfortunes and the courses you might have taken to have avoided them, 
 which I do not mention to reproach you but to putt you in minde of 
 doing it now at last, and for heaven's sake, Sir, as you have made a 
 great step towards reconcilliation by publishing your royall intentions of 
 calling a Parliament treat (if your condition be no better) and that 
 fairly. God in His infinite mercy will perserve you and your royall issue, 
 and the Church of England will defend you in all your just rights and 
 remove the disturbers of your peace, and settle you as great and firme 
 on your throne as any of your predecessors. 
 
 Pardon me, Sir, for being thus free with you, for it proceeds from a 
 sincere heart and concerne for you and yours, and what has past between 
 us on this unfortunate subject shall never be an injury to you by being 
 made knowne from me, and I knowe your goodness is too great to 
 thinke ill of your constant and faithfull servant or to impute to me any 
 disobedience for what I have thus most humbly laid before your 
 Majestie is really and honestly from the utmost and extreame care and 
 concerne I have for yours, the Queene's and Prince his real preservation, 
 for as I will not be instrumental in nor suffer him to be carried into 
 France if by any meanes I can prevent it, so on the other hand I will 
 frankly venture my life in your Majestie's and his defense, and as the 
 last expedient I can at present propose nothing more essentiall to your 
 Majestie's great service then in delivering him safe into your owne 
 royall custody, and the sooner your Majestie gives me order for it it will 
 be the better. 
 
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 Sir, I am afraid if I go from hence the Dutch fleet will soon be here, eaelof 
 and I likewise feare the Prince of Orange's forces may cut between Dar ™° uth ' 8 
 you and Portsmouth, therefore, I desire yourMajestie will give me order — ' 
 for bringing the Prince to you speedily, and that you will please to 
 recollect yourselfe and apply reasonable meanes to prevent what you 
 seem to be under such dreadful apprehensions of. Your Majestie may see 
 in what confusion I am, so that I can say noe more but mydayly prayers 
 to God Almightie to direct and prosper you." 
 
 1688, December 4th. [Folio 42.] — Aboard the Resolution at the 
 Spitthead. Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to Lord Dover, Governor 
 of Portsmouth, in absence of the Duke of Berwick. 
 
 " Notwithstanding what I said to your Lordship yesterday whether by 
 the folly or meanes of Captain Fazly, or by a gentleman of my Lord 
 Powys, or one of the pages of the back staires, or all I knowe not 
 certainely, but I have received intelligence and the fleet was 
 alarumed last night with the endeavours to carry away the Prince of 
 Wales ; for God's sake, my Lord, make noe such rash attempt but accept 
 the King's resolutions upon my faithfull advise sent to him by mine 
 delivered into your Lordship's owne hands to be sent by the messenger 
 his Majestie himselfe appointed, which I hope he will hearken to for it 
 proceeded from a heart that never wavered from him nor his true 
 interest in my owne life nor never will, tho' my misfortunes should 
 continue to grow greater if it be possible then they are now." 
 
 1688, December 6th. [Folio 42.] — Aboard the Resolution at Spitt- 
 head. 
 
 Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the King sent the 7th instant by 
 Captain Neagle who went express. 
 
 " I received your Majestie's, dated at nine in the morning on the 5th 
 instant from my Lord Dover, and just now one by M r Ley bourne of the 
 same daye's date at 9 at night, by both which I am rejoiced to see your 
 Majestie is pleased to receive my poor endeavours to serve you, and I 
 doubt not but you will judge charitably of the sincere sentiments of so 
 faithful a heart to you, and may I never hope to see the face of God if 
 I study any other thoughts then your Majestie's true interest. 
 
 This is a time to try and search the hearts of all that pretend to be 
 your servants and those who have or doe prevaricate with you are the 
 worst of men. 
 
 I am heartily glad your Majestie is sensible that this is noe place of 
 safety for the Prince of Wales at ihis juncture, and as things stand now 
 here and I am ashamed to thinke (tho' I am sure your Majestie can justify 
 it to be none of my fault) that there is not indeed one place of greater 
 strength or this finished nere what it ought to be. I do not hear of 
 any of the Prince of Orange's forces this way, nor do I thinke he can 
 have any pretence for it now you are in treaty with him, and tho' noe 
 caution can be too great in this so very great concerne yett since you 
 have ordered troops to meet the Prince under command of Lord Dover 
 (who I need not say is soe faithful to you), and that some may be 
 spared part of the way from Portsmouth, I cannot but thinke it much 
 the safest way for there cannot be an unsafer season then this for the 
 sea. However, if your Majestie judges otherwayes I will convey the 
 Prince myselfe safe into Margett Road as you have commanded me, and 
 send the yacht up the river,* for noe place can be soe safe for his Royall 
 
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 Earl of Highness as by your owno Royal person and the Queene's nor so satis- 
 
 By your Majestie's of the 29th of last month you are pleased to 
 caution me to thinke of the preservation of this Squadron as of the last 
 consequence to your service, and as my charge increases in it, so shall 
 my care and paines to the last degree, and I believe your Majestie is 
 sensible as the times so my difficulties and troubles multiply upon me. 
 Men are hardly to-day and to-morrow in the same mindes and it is with 
 noe little struggling that I keep things so well for your service as now 
 they are. I did not think seamen would have troubled themselves 
 about Parliaments, but since the Proclamation and that they have 
 addressed them they seem much more satisfyed, and the Prince of Orange 
 will finde things soon alter upon him if he be the hinderance of faire 
 dealeing. 
 
 The fleet here can hardly be ready till the latter end of next weeke, 
 nor do I thinke it adviseable to part this Squadron more then may be 
 absolutely necessary for defence of this harbour, which, if your Majestie 
 approves of it, can scarcely be more usefull then to men of war re that 
 can least endure the sea and the small fire shipps with a good advice 
 boate. Too many seamen will not agree with this garrison, and the late 
 barbarous murther of the boatswaine of the Ossory who was boatswaine 
 of the Gloster when your Majestie was so unfortunately castaway, with 
 the killing and wounding of some others hath so enraged the seamen 
 that 1 am in paine to send boates ashoare even upon the necessary 
 occasions, but I have writt to my Lord Dover and I do not doubt but he 
 will endeavour to bring them to speedy punishment which is absolutely 
 necessary for your present service. 
 
 I am still apprehensive that soon after my departure Herbert will 
 come hither, and therefore I thinke it necessary that what garrison can be 
 spared in this place should be in it, and whither [whether] your Majestie 
 will have the body of the fleet in the Downes or the Buoy of the ISfore, 
 for the present I humbly leave to your Majestie's better judgment. 
 Towards the Parliament sitting the latter doubtless will be best to have 
 your fleet neere you and where it can be best strengthened and of most 
 influence, but of this I am sure your Majestie is best judge and of what 
 service you have most for us which shall be readily obeyed by me. I 
 once more beg your Majestie that in these very mistrustful times it may 
 be in the power of none to make you have the least jealousy of me, 
 for I heartily am and do peeke myselfe to live and die with the caracter 
 of your faithfullest servant. 
 
 The winde hath been easterly these three dayes which hath brought 
 hither some shipps and victualls as Mr. Pepys will inform your 
 Majestie the winde is now at N.E. and settled in likely to continue, so 
 which I believe will make your Majestie conclude of haveing the Prince 
 by land." 
 
 1688, December 7th. Aboard the Resolution at Spitthead at 8 in 
 the morning. 
 
 " This was writt last night, but as I was sending it off to my Lord 
 Dover Captain Neagle came off to me from Sir Edward Scott to let 
 me know my Lord was gone with the Prince of Wales this morning,* in 
 which I thinke his Lordship hath done much for the best. I pray God 
 send His Royal Highness safe into your owne armes. I pray G-od 
 Almightie protect you both, I am sure I will endeavour my part heartily 
 
 Dartmouth's 
 MSS. 
 
 factory to you both. 
 
 * See Dartmouth Papers. — Letter from Sir Edward Scott to Lord Dartmouth of 
 December 7th. 
 
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 towards it. Pray now consider where your Majestic will have the earlof 
 
 fleet be and what further commands you please to send me. This Dartmouth's 
 bearer Captain Neagle is a very good seaman and served formerly with MSS ' 
 Spragg and hath been aboard me all this voyage." 
 
 Pages 45 and 46 are cut out, and the following is a note at the end of 
 page 44 in the handwriting of William the second Baron and first Earl 
 of Dartmouth. 
 
 " The following leaves were cut out by my mother Barbara Baroness 
 of Dartmouth before the book came into my hands. 
 
 (Signed) Dartmouth." 
 
 1688, December 10th. [Folio 47.] Court at Whitehall.— Warrant to 
 forbear from the impressing of seamen and others for the service of the 
 Fleet. 
 
 1688, December 11th. [Folio 47.] At the Guildhall. —Order from 
 the House of Lords assembled at the Guildhall to Lord Dartmouth 
 Admiral of the Fleet. [See Dartmouth Papers under date.] 
 
 1688, December 14th. [Folio 48.] — Aboard the Resolution at 
 Spitthead. Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the Lords Spiritual and 
 Temporal that were assembled at the Guildhall the 11th December 
 1688. 
 
 " Upon your Lordships convening at Guildhall the 11th on his 
 Majestie's private withdrawing himselfe I have received from Mr. 
 Secretary Pepys the subscribed signification of your Lordships' pleasure 
 at that great meeting, where you had resolved (for the preventing the 
 effusion of blood among us at this juncture in consideration of the Prince 
 of Orange's fleet being now on the English coast) that all acts of 
 hostility should cease and all Popish Officers in the fleet be removed 
 out of their respective commands, on which weighty matters as the only 
 meanes under God to preserve the King my master and establish the 
 lawes, properties, and Protestant religion I had deliberated with myselfe 
 (upon the surprisall and unfortunate newes of His Majestie's withdrawing 
 himselfe) before the receipt of your Lordships' and was putting it in 
 execution and it is now actually done, and have likewise (with the 
 unanimous concurrence of the fleet) addressed myselfe (as I see your 
 Lordships have done) to the Prince of Orange for the better effecting 
 and settling of all things that conduce to the King and kingdome's general 
 safety and good, wherein I promise to contribute as farre as is in my 
 power, and therefore humbly referring your Lordships for all further 
 occurrences of the fleet to the particular account thereof, I have with 
 this sent to Mr. Pepys Secretary of the Admiralty. I subscribe 
 myselfe " etc. 
 
 1688, December 14th. [Folio 48.]— Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter 
 to Lord Faversham. 
 
 "I received your Lordship's and cannot wonder at the consternation 
 your Lordship is in, for my owne heart has been allmost breaking. 
 Oh God what could make our master desert his kingdoms and his 
 friends, certainly nobody could be so villainous as to hurt his person ; it 
 cannot be the effect of his owne thoughts but of womanish or timorous 
 councells. God Almighty protect him and direct him to happier measures 
 I am sure his"owne heart cannot meane him better then I do. God in His 
 infinite mercy restore him to his throne with comfort again. For God's 
 sake, my Lord, take some pity of this poor garrison of Portsmouth, tho' 
 they did not at first use me well yet I am grieved at heart for them and 
 
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 Earl op I hope they will finde mercy. They are I think willing to do anything 
 DaR mss UTHS 01 S oe anywhere, poor wretches. For God's sake help them in their 
 — ' deliverance. The Duke of Berwicke I hope will be safe. I have taken 
 the «ame measures with the Prince of Orange that you have done but I 
 doe not thinke of leaving the fleet yett for we are entire yett all but 
 Churchill and it cannot be well for me to do it now. 
 
 God send us a happy meeting and preserve our master to us. I am 
 not able to write more. I and my family are the miserablest creatures 
 His Majestie hath left behind. I am worthy nobody's thoughts, but 
 tho' I am unfortunate yett I am, &c. 
 
 Pray if my regiment stands take care of my officers. Soper will tell 
 you what is justice and the desert of everybody. Just as I was makeing 
 up this I am told his Majestie is in England and you gone to him, pray 
 let me know the truth as soon as possible. Pray God bless and preserve 
 him wherever he is." 
 
 1688, December 15th. [Folio 49.] — Aboard the Resolution at Spitt- 
 head. Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to Lord Rochester. 
 
 " Tho' nothing could binde me more to your Lordship then the friend- 
 ship I have alwayes profest to you and will persist in to the utmost as 
 becomes a man of honour, yett the favour of your opinion and judge- 
 ment especially at this distracted time I must owne does not a little 
 highten the obligation, and I pray your Lordship (who is at the seat of 
 affaires that now call for the most judicious and nice management) will 
 continue me your friendly advises for they are not only grateful to me 
 but the chief est I have to rely on. 
 
 Oh God who could have expected that our great master would have 
 withdrawn himself thus in which misfortunes we must put all our hands 
 (as becomes honest loyal Church of England men) to the re-stablishing 
 him in the Government and resettlement of our holy religion, lawes, and 
 properties, for which glorious ends I doubt not but the Peeres will 
 unanimously apply themselves, and I will concurre therein as becomes 
 my present command of this fleet, which I neither have had any 
 intention of leaving as you kindly cautioned me, and before the receipt 
 of the direction of the Peeres at their meeting at Guildhall on the notice 
 I had received of the King's having withdrawn himselfe I was putting 
 out all Papists from any employments in the fleet and have actually done 
 it as believing it (at this juncture especially) the most essential service I 
 could do my King and countrey, then whose preservation with that of 
 our lawes and religion nothing can be more sacred to me, and for those 
 just ends I have (with the joint concurrence of the fleet) applied myselfe 
 to the Prince of Orange as I finde your Lordship and the Peeres have 
 done* whose dispositions in the settlement of all affairs as well 
 ecclesiastical as civil I am heartily glad do suit so well with those 
 of etc." 
 
 (Postscript). — 
 
 « For your Lordship's perfect knowledge of my proceedings, I here 
 enclose you a copy of a letter from the Prince of Orange to me, and my 
 answer by which your Lordship will be more enlightened in advising 
 me what is fittingest to be done for the King and my countrey's service, 
 and just as I am sending this I hear His Majestie is come backe to you 
 which will still make me more and more beg your advices which I rely 
 upon. God Almightie preserve His Majestie and send it in the hearts 
 of all that are able to advise him to his owne and the relief of his 
 Kingdoms." 
 
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 1688, December 16. [Folio 50.] — Aboard the Resolution at Spitt- earlof 
 
 lioorl DaBTMOUTH'S 
 
 * vui iviss 
 Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the Duke of Berwick Governor — ' 
 of Portsmouth. 
 
 " If your Grace pleases to give me leave to advise you it will conduce 
 much to your safety that Southsea Castle be delivered into the hands of 
 Captain Carter, and that as soon as your Grace considers convenient ; and 
 he shall put noe soldiers on but what belongs to the King and but few 
 of them. 
 
 The Dragoons in the Islaud need have no apprehensions for his 
 comeing which will be rather of safety to them then otherwayes, for he 
 is so well-known (by haveing long the command of that Castle) and 
 beloved in the countrey that his very being in it will extreamely satisfy 
 the people whom as I have allready writt about to be kindly dealt with. 
 I will continue doing that becomes me therein as well in respect to his 
 Majestie's service as the security of his subjects and your Grace par- 
 ticularly. 
 
 And pray, Sir, do not delay giving the orders immediately, I haveing 
 as a favour to you and all under your care and command given account 
 of its being in fact done. I believe this will be a means to aleviate and 
 make all those in the town be well treated whereto I shall contribute as 
 far as is in the power " etc. 
 
 (Postscript). — " Pray, my Lord, be not advised by hot-headed people, 
 for I am sure this advice I give according to my judgment is the 
 best thing you can doe for yourselfe at present." 
 
 1688, December 17th. [Polio 51.] — Aboard the Resolution at the 
 Spitthead. 
 
 Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the Duke of Berwick Governor 
 of Portsmouth. 
 
 u The great care and concerne I am under for your Grace moves me to 
 write you once more about giving speedy directions that Southsea Castle 
 be immediately put in possession of Captain Carter, which at this junc- 
 ture is the most effectual course that can be taken for your preservation 
 and of those under your command in the garrison at Portsmouth. 
 
 Your Grace I hope and those about you do not think I would advise 
 you to anything inconsistent with His Majestie's service or your owne 
 safety, and this as I acquainted you yesterday is the only meanes to put 
 the people of the countrey and neighbourhood out of such apprehensions 
 as may be very prejudicial to you if not removed ; therefore for God's 
 sake, Sir, do not longer give me to believe one thing and be misled to 
 do others when you are from me. You cannot think your delays in this 
 matter is anything correspondent to your applications for good treatment 
 or that that Castle would be of much use to you if you should resolve 
 (which God forbid you should be put to) to stand it out obstinately, and 
 believe me, Sir, when the countrey shall withold provisions from you 
 (which the doeing this will be a great motive to hinder their doeing) 
 your case will be very desperate in few days without so much as fireing 
 a gun to any purpose. Being informed that the inhabitants are under 
 great apprehensions of the day ley threats of unadvised people, I do as a 
 friend admonish your Grace heartily not only to discountenance any 
 such proceedings* but to take effectual care that not the least violence be 
 offered to any even in your worst apprehensions, for anything of that 
 nature being aggravated will embarass you so farre as to put it totally 
 
 * See Dartmouth Papers— Letter from the Duke of Berwick to Lord Dartmouth 
 of December 16th. 
 
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 out of my power to serve you, which pray consider well of, and what I 
 also advise may be speedily done about Southsea Castle, else I have just 
 reason to conclude that my advices intended only for your owne good are 
 so farre rejected that it will not be proper for me to interest myselfe so 
 farre on your behalf aa is the inclination of" etc. 
 
 1688, December 17th. [Folio 52.] — Aboard the Resolution at Spitt- 
 head. Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter to the King sent by a servant 
 of his Lordship that went express, and was under cover to Mr. Philip 
 Musgrave at the Cockpitt, Whitehall. 
 
 " It is impossible for me to express the griefe and anxious cares I 
 am in for your Majestie, and the newes of your withdrawing was the 
 greatest surprise of my life,, for I did humbly hope my dutyfull 
 supplications to your Majestie would with your owne considerate 
 thoughtes have wholly altered your intentions of sending away the 
 Prince of Wales, and did thinke it impossible ever to enter into anybody's 
 thoughts that had the least inclination of duty to your Majestie to give 
 you so pernicious and destructive council as to go away yourself e, and 
 if your Majestie had been drove to such a desperate course (which was 
 morally impossible at least in my thoughts) as to absent yourselfe, Sir, 
 could you have been with more honour and safety then your owne fleet 
 who would always unanimously (I dare say) have protected and defended 
 your sacred person from any violence or unhallowed hands. But this 
 looks like so great mistrust of me that many could witness it hath almost 
 broke my heart. 
 
 Your Majestie knowes what condition you left the fleet in, and me in 
 the most unsupportable calamity of my life what could I do but send to 
 the Prince of Orange when I found the whole nation did,* and receive 
 orders from the Lords which were communicated to the fleet and 
 removed all Roman Catholic Officers. I have had yett noe returne from 
 the Prince of Orange, but I hope all will end in your Majestie's happy 
 re-establishment. Mr. Pepys will acquaint your Majestie with the state 
 of the fleet, and Mr. Vaudry I hope will do me justice of my care of 
 the Duke of Berwicke, garrison and harbour of Portsmouth, with all 
 the great shipps ; but withall my confusion is so great that I am only 
 able to beg God Almighty's protection of your Majestie and to deliver 
 you out of all these troubles which shall not only be the prayers but 
 hearty endeavours of a heart that never studied anything but your real 
 service and will ever do to my unfortunate live's end." 
 
 1688, December 18th. [Folio 53.]— Copy of Lord Dartmouth's letter 
 directed to Colonel Richard Norton at his house at South wark. 
 
 The insolent and indiscreet behaviour of the Irish forces in the 
 garrison of Portsmouth to the degree of not only illtreating the inhabi- 
 tants of the towne but menaceing them with plunder and massacre, in 
 case of the approach of any of the Prince of Orange's forces, in which 
 proceedings Sir Edward Scott hath been very violent not only to the 
 giveing apprehensions to the townes people, but to His Majestie's 
 Officers of the docke, Sir Richard Beach the Commissioner there 
 haveing signified to me their great feares of running the same fate with 
 the townes men, and that on my going hence with the fleet all His 
 Majestie's store-houses and stores would be destroyed by fire, I have 
 therefore sent shipps into the harbour and have secured Grosport and the 
 Burrough Forts, and directed Sir Richard Beach his keeping a good 
 guard in the docks and to have the ordering of all the shipps in the 
 
 Earl of 
 Dartmouth's 
 MSS. 
 
 * See Dartmouth Papers. — Pepys' letter to Lord Dartmouth of December 11th. 
 
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 Port, whose commands I have ordered the Captains to obey for the earlof 
 security of the harbour and the navie. Blockhouse Point is likewise DAR ^g UTH 3 
 
 quitted, and I have soe brought it to pass that Southsea Castle is again ; ' 
 
 in .Dick Carter's hands. I have also persuaded the rash unthinkeing 
 Sir Edward Scott to lay down his commission and he is withdrawn from 
 the town aboard the fleet. The Duke of Berwicke I have kindly 
 advised to what will very decently become him, and I judge will be 
 acceptable to the King and Kingdom, and the whole garrison now 
 being made sensible of their danger, promised to live well with the 
 town, all which I have endeavoured to bring about with noe little care 
 and thoughtfulness for preventing evell of all kind and the shedding of 
 any blood. I confess it was a great vexation to me to see this place in 
 such hands, and I hope for the future it will only be entrusted with 
 people of our owne nation and union, and now since those poor wretches 
 seem to desire nothing but their lives, and I think are willing to go 
 wherever they shall be appointed, I hope they will finde mercy, and 
 bloodshed will be spared, for you noe in six dayes time they may allwayes 
 be reduced to starving if they should forego their promise, and I must 
 confess I do not thinke they will. Provisions growing short in the 
 fleet, 1 am thinkeing of going hence but would not stire without putting 
 all things in this good posture, and I give you this account of it that 
 you may knowe what to doe in the country if these hot headed people 
 should happen to return to us their former insolences and indiscretions, 
 which I must confess I have not the least apprehension of since I have 
 by faire means reduced them into this compass, and that the docke, 
 harbour, navie, and castles are secured and out of their power. 
 
 What farther moves me to go hence is that since His Majestie is 
 returned* I may render him and my countrey the best service in being 
 as nere him, the Lords, and the capital city as conveniently I can, and I 
 hope God will make me an instrument of doing general good to our 
 nation. 
 
 I am sure it was never in my thoughts to do otherwise, and I hope all 
 will end well and that if we must have warre it will be against the 
 French, who are very manifestly the common enimy of our master (who 
 I hope will be now sensible thereof), religion, and countrey, all which 
 God Almighty defend from them. I am sure I will allwayes doe my 
 best towards it." 
 
 . (Postscript.) "Pray excuse me not writing in mine owne hand, being 
 not well and just let blood." 
 
 1689, December 16th. [Folio 58.]— Copy of an order from His 
 Highness the Prince of Orange which Lord Dartmouth received at 
 Spitthead 19th December 1688, by Lieutenant Bing who went with 
 Captain Matthew Aylmer that his Lordship sent to the Prince. 
 
 " It being for the service of the nation we had required you to leave 
 under the command of Sir John Bury Knight the shipps of warre and 
 fire shipps mentioned in the margent at Spitthead in the order to meet 
 you which did direct and require that he be very careful to send from 
 time to time to me more friggattes to cruise on this coast as he shall 
 judge most fitting to prevent any affront that may be comitted by the 
 French or others. You are also to direct him to be very strict not to 
 suffer any vessell to sayle out of Portsmouth Harbour with suspected 
 
 See Dartmouth Papers. — Letter from Sir Henry Shere to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
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 persons aboard. You are to supply the Squadron you leave there out 
 of the fleet what provisions you can with safety to yourselves spare, and 
 soe soon as you have given your necessary orders in these matters you 
 are forthwith winde and weather permitting to sayle with the rest of 
 the shipps of warre fire shipps and tenders not named in this order to 
 the Buoy of the Nore, unless such of the fleet as you shall judge not fitt 
 for the sea, and in that case you are to order them into Portsmouth 
 harbour where they are to stay for farther order from us. 'Tis our 
 pleasure that you immediately send an order to the Commissioners of 
 that place that there be a stop putt and nothing farther done towards 
 the fitting out any shipps or vessells of warre in that harbour of Ports- 
 mouth till our farther pleasure be knowne, and also you are to give a 
 general order to the proper officers of the fleet in those parts that noe 
 more men be listed or entertained on board any of the men of warre 
 fire shipps or tenders, and soe soon as you arrive at the Buoy of the 
 Nore you are to signifie the same to the Secretary of the navie, and for 
 so doing this shall be your warrant. 
 
 Given under my hand and seal the 16th December 1688. 
 
 Prince D'Orange. 
 
 By his Highnesse's command." 
 
 The ships mentioned in the margin are the Elizabeth, St. Albans, 
 Dover, St. David ,*Tiger, Mary, Deptford, Swalloiv, Portsmouth, Bristol, 
 Richmond fire ship, Defyance, Constant Warwicke, Woolwich, Pearl. 
 
 The next pages are torn out, and at the foot of page 56 is the follow- 
 ing note in the handwriting of William the first Earl of Dartmouth. 
 
 " The following leaves were torn out long before this book came into 
 my hands by my mother. When I asked her why she had done it she 
 said she thought that they were better out. I told her I was very sorry 
 she had because I had often heard my father say his journal would 
 allwayes be his justification. 
 
 (Signed) Dartmouth." 
 The remaining pages of the book are unnumbered. 
 
 1688, December 29th. St. James'. — Order signed by the Prince 
 D'Orange, and given at St. James' to Lord Dartmouth, Admiral of the 
 Fleet, to make provision for the transport of soldiers from Portsmouth 
 or Southampton to Guernsey and Jersey,* and to receive troops there 
 lor transport to ports in England. 
 
 1688, December 29th. St. James'. — Order signed by the Priuce 
 D'Orange, to Lord Dartmouth, Admiral of the Fleet, to appoint two 
 frigates to be employed in the St. George's Channel, and be in readiness 
 to proceed to Chester.* 
 
 1688, December 29th. St. James'. — Order signed by the Prince 
 D'Orange to Lord Dartmouth, Admiral of the Fleet, to leave ceitaiu 
 ships at Spithead (a list of which ships is appended to the order), and 
 to repair with the remainder to the Buoy of the Nore.* 
 
 1688-9, January 2nd. St. James'. — Copy order signed by the 
 Prince D'Orange, to Lord Dartmouth, Admiral of the Fleet, to carry 
 into execution the orders of the 29th December last, which had not 
 
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 reached him relative to the disposal of the Fleet, and to repair to the 
 
 1G88-9, January 3rd. St. James'. — Copy order signed by the Prince 
 D'Orange, to Lord Dartmouth, Admiral of the Fleet, relative to the 
 disposal of the fleet and of the 49 ships and other vessels to be laid up 
 and discharged according to previous directions, and enclosing a list of 
 such ships and vessels.* 1 
 
 1688-9, January 4th. St. James'. — Copy order signed by the Prince 
 D'Orange to Lord Dartmouth, Admiral of the Fleet, or in his absence the 
 Commander-in-Chief, to remain with the fleet at the Buoy at the Nore 
 until further orders.* 
 
 1G88-9, January 5th. St. James'. — Copy order signed by the Prince 
 D'Orange to Lord Dartmouth, Admiral of the Fleet, to give orders for 
 the Dartmouth and Guareand fire-ships to repair to Chatham to be re- 
 converted into frigates.* 
 
 1688-9, January 10th. St. James'.— Copy order signed by the 
 Prince D'Orange, to Lord Dartmouth, Admiral of the Fleet, that so 
 soon as the fleet shall be safely brought to the Buoy of the Nore, he do 
 commie the charge and command thereof to the next superior officer, and 
 himself repair to the Prince's presence.! 
 
 1691. Papers relating to the imprisonment and examination 
 of George Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 July 1 1 . — Court at Whitehall. Copy of Warrant for the apprehension 
 of Lord Dartmouth for high treason, directed to Philip Ryley Esq., 
 one of the Serjeants at arms, and signed by the Earl of Nottingham. 
 
 u Memorandums " (in Lord Dartmouth's own hand). 
 
 " Mr. Serjeant Ryley brought this ensuing Warrant to me at the 
 Holt Sonday July the 12th instant about a leven a clocke in the fore- 
 noone 1691. [Here follows a copy of the above warrant.] 
 
 "Mr. Ryley immedyatly after he lighted (bringing only one servant 
 with him) in a verry civele manner being alone with me begun to tell me 
 that he came upon a verry unwelcome messaige, which having beene my 
 former acquaintance he was verry sorry to be the deliver (sic) of, but 
 he was obleidged to obeye the commands were lay'd upon him. I told 
 him he had alwayes beene wellcome to me, and whatever his messaige 
 was, I was ready to receive it, as became me. Then he shewed me the 
 forgoing warrant, which I read and told him I could not imagine why 
 this warrant was graunted, for my Lord Nottingham knew of my being 
 at my owne house that I had acquainted him with my coming downe, 
 and in the Lords' house upon the last Prorougation, at the taking my 
 leave of him, desired to know if he had any commands for me before I 
 went out of town, and that if he had any for me at any time, when ever 
 he sent the least notice to me I would wayt on him in a daye's time ; 
 but since the matter stood thus I was redy to make all the dispatch up I 
 could, and did not doubt but to give full satisfaction when I came to his 
 lordship, for I was well assured I was no way guilty of the crime men- 
 tioned in the warrant He replyed that he did beleevc 
 
 himself there needed no warrant to have brought me to towne. 
 
 * See Dartmouth Papers. — His letters of January 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th. 
 f Ibid. — Letter from Prince D'Orange to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Court as soon as possible.* 
 
 Earl of 
 Dartmouth's 
 MSS. 
 
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 Eaelof > I thanked him for his civility and further added that I was not at all 
 DAR MSsy TH S concerned but for the disturbance it might give my wife and family, and 
 — the noyce it would make if knowne in the country 
 
 I told him that it fell out unluckely to be of a Sonday, and that if I 
 should immediatly post up, that being no day for usuall travelling it 
 would unavoydably be taken notice of in the country, and therefore 
 desired him that he would take no farther notice at present, but dine 
 with me, and talke of the Forrest and Woodes as he used to doe when 
 he came downe annually upon the surveyes (For Mr. Byly is Surveyor- 
 General of all theire Majesties' woodes on this side Trent, as well as one 
 of the Serjant at Amies) this he gentleman-like very franckly did, and 
 after dinner we walked in the gaurden by our selves, and agreed : — 
 
 That he should goe away that afternoone towards London, and that I 
 should meete him the next morning at the King's head in Eggame and 
 from thence we should goe to London togeather as friends in my 
 charr[i]ot ; and after having engaged my paroll of worde and honor to 
 him he went away accordingly. 
 
 When he was gone I tooke no notice of my journy till the post 
 letters came in from Farnham, but after I had received them I pretended 
 earnest buisness at London the next morning (as indeed it was) and 
 gave directions for my charr[i]ot to goe in the evening before toBagshot 
 and resolved early to ride my pads theither, thus every thing being 
 ordered no apprehension was either in my wife, famely or country of my 
 errant, only I trusted my freind T. S. with the knowled[ge] of it, that 
 he might prepare my wife as he found it necessary to prevent any 
 surprize, if she heard any thing in my absence. 
 
 On Monday morning early July 13 th , I left the Holt and called 
 Mr. Ryley at Eghame as had agreed, and came to my house in Arlington 
 Buildings about a levin a clock at noone. After we had cleaned our- 
 selves a litle from the dust in the parler and were againe by our selves, 
 Mr. Ryley desired to goe into my closset to secure my papers, (for I had 
 told him, which should have beene menconed before, that I had no 
 papers or closset at the Holt but a screwtore [escritoir] in the litle 
 parlor which I shewed him all that was in it there, and were only 
 papers relating to the forrest and my estate about it, some fishookes, lines 
 and such other litle convenyencies) ; I immediatly opened the closset 
 doore shewed him every thing and gave him the keye, he double locked 
 the doore, left a servant in the house, and went to my Lord Nottingham 
 to acquaint him of my arrivall and to desire the favor of his Lordship that 
 I might come privately to him, for that I did beleeve I should give that 
 sattisfaction in what could be objected against me, that I might have 
 leave to returne home againe quietly, without making a noyse or being 
 publiquely reproached which was the only thing I was concerned at, or 
 as I beleeved could happen to me in the whole matter. 
 
 About 2 houres after Mr. Ryley returned to me againe, who told me 
 the Queen had ordered a Cabinet Councell to be called, and that I 
 should be sent for in the evening, and that I might come privately the 
 back way that the least notice that could be should be taken of it. 
 Mr. Ryley and I continued at my house by our selves till eight a clock 
 at night, and then hearing nothing from my Lord Nottinghame I 
 desired him to send to the Secretaires Office, to know wheather 1 should 
 be sent for that night or no, it begining to grow late, and that I had 
 come a quick journy almost fasted all day and was not a litle tyred. 
 The messenger returned a litle before 9 a clock, with an account that 
 the Queene came late from Summerset house, but that the Cabinet was 
 met, but both my Lord Nottinghame and Mr. Warr had forgot to send 
 to my house, but sent to Mr. Ryley's whose famely he had kep'd it so 
 
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 secret from, that theyeknew not where he was. We went forthwith in Earl op 
 a hacknye coach to Whitehall, but just as we lighted we met my Lord Dab mssY t1 
 Nottinghame, who told Mr. Ryley that the Lords were just gone, that it — 
 was a mistake in sending to the wrong place, but that I must come 
 againe next morning at nine a clock. I was troubled at this disap- 
 poyntment since the Lords had met, and being desirous to have it over 
 as soone and as privately a I could, and farther in regaurd it was the 
 Flanders post night, since I supposed an account must be returned 
 thither before any thing would be concluded to be farther done with me 
 (as it afterwards proved) ; but there was now no remmedy and so I 
 returned home to bedd this night. 
 
 On Tusday July the 14th Mr. Serjeant Ryley called upon me in the 
 morning and we went togeather privately the back way to my Lord 
 Nottingham's office, where I was let in to the Cabinet Councell roome, 
 and in some time came in my Lord Nottingham with S r J° Bancks, my 
 Lord saluted me as usuall before him and we only talked of indifferent 
 things and newes, S r J° staying with us till the rest of the Lords came, 
 those which were present were 
 
 The Lord President, 
 
 Lord Penbrooke, 
 
 Lord Nottingham, 
 
 Lord Dorset, 
 
 Sir John Lowder. 
 Theye did not take theire places at the borde, but stood about it with 
 theire hats off. 
 
 My Lord President told me they were ordered to send for me, and 
 that they had some questions to aske me, which would require my 
 answer. 
 
 I told the Lords I should be verry redy to give a cleare answer and I 
 hoped a satisfactory one to any thing should be reasonably proposed to 
 me, that I had verry redaly obeyed theire commands in coming up so 
 soone as possibly I could, that I had beene in towne ever since a leven 
 a clock the day before, that I understood theire Lordships met the night 
 before, and that I was extreamly troubled that theye should stay for me, 
 that I hoped theye understood it was no backwardnes or negligence of 
 mine, but the mistake of the messinger, but that I thought my selfe verry 
 unfortunate in the manner I was sent for, that I hoped none of theire 
 Lordships doubted, but that the least note or summons from any of 
 them, should have brought me up as soone and certaine as any warrant 
 what somever. 
 
 Lord President sayed they all beleeved and knew me so well that theye 
 did not question that, but that they did nothing of this kinde but by 
 order, and that such directions must be followed in the usuall formes, 
 which were alwayes observed. 
 
 Then his Lordship was pleased to make a verry generous preamble, 
 That no advantaige was to be taken by this exammination against me, 
 that he hoped nothing would be found, but what theye should now 
 require of me, might as well be for my bennifit heerafter as otherwise, 
 if it should come to a farther examination, for by it I should have some 
 light what was likely to be brought against me, and something farther 
 to the like effect. 
 
 Lord President question : 
 
 Whether I had at any time to any body found faults with the conduct 
 of the French fleete, or of ours or either of them. 
 Answer : 
 
 My Lords I beleeve I have severall times, and to severall persons, 'tis 
 difficult my Lords for a man to be bred to any proffesion and heare it 
 
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 talked of, and not be apt to give his opinion. I doe acknowledg I have 
 often talked, that I thought none of the Adiniralls Torrington, Evertson, 
 or Tourvile did last yeare doe theire duty and I thincke if either side 
 had thoroughly done as theye ought, it had beene much worse for the 
 other. 
 
 Lord President : 
 
 Ay, but have you never say'd it was indiscretion in the French to 
 come so high up the English Channell, and that theye ought not to doe so. 
 Answer : 
 
 My Lords I am sure there is never an old seaman in England thin ekes 
 it, nor did I ever thincke to live to see a French fleete dare come so high 
 up the Channell as Beachy, and this we have talked many times since 
 when we have beene togeather among ourselves, and in other company, 
 but if your Lordships have beene informed that I ever say'd it for theire 
 good or by way that theye should be the better, 'tis falls to the last degree 
 and I hope the whole cource of my life will justefye the contrary. Your 
 Lordships have all knowne me long, and I hope will remember that when 
 I might have made my court as well that way, as others did, I never had 
 a freind man or woman of the French faction in my whole life. 
 
 Lord President : 
 
 My Lord I must aske your Lordship an other question, have you 
 had no commition from the Kiug, King James. 
 Answer : 
 
 My Lords I have many Commissions by me both from King Charles 
 and King James, theye were no crime when I received them, and as 
 theye are of no use now, I do not conceive theye can be any crime now. 
 
 Lord President : 
 
 Ay, but have you received no commission from King James lately. 
 Answer : 
 
 My Lords I have neither received one worde, either in writing or by 
 messaige from him, or sent any to him, since his Majesty sent over 
 Mr. Shelden for his horses and coaches, and he went from hence. My 
 Lords I am a plaine man, and desire to answer plainly, I possitivly protest 
 I have received nothing from him directly or indirectlj^. 
 
 Lord President : 
 
 My Lord recollect your selfe, I told you my Lord before no advantaige 
 should be taken against you upon what you say now, but are you sure you 
 have receved none, this will either be an advantaige or dissadvantige to 
 you to be sure of. 
 
 Answer : 
 
 My Lords I am verry sure I never received any from him since I had 
 my last from him to command at sea heere in this roome. 
 Lord Nottingham : 
 
 My Lord doe you say you have never seene any under his hand. 
 Answer : 
 
 No my Lord upon my worde and honour I have not. 
 Lord Nottingham : 
 
 Was there never any commission or paper offered you to be seene, there 
 is no hurt in having any thing offered to you if you did not receive it, 
 recollect your selfe well wheather ever you refused any such thing that 
 might be offered you ; there is no fault in that. 
 
 Answer : 
 
 My Lord I am not lawier enough to know wheather there be or not, 
 but I have answerd planly and I assure your Lordships I have neither 
 seen nor received any. 
 
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 Lord Nottingham : 
 
 But my Lord you may have had none from the late King but have you 
 never had one or one offered you from the Queen. 
 
 Answer : 
 
 No my Lords never in my life, nor know I what commitions she can 
 graunt, or what theye signiffy, but if shee did doe any such thing, I 
 beleeve she would thincke the least of doing it to me, of any man in 
 England, but I protest I know not what your Lordships means by all 
 this. 
 
 Lord President : 
 
 Has your Lordship had no discource with any body about Portsmouth 
 concerning the weake places about it, how or where it was most lyable 
 to be surprized. 
 
 Answer : 
 
 My Lords I am sorry Portsmouth is no stronger then it is, I am sure 
 I have endeavered to doe what I could to make it better, and if it were 
 carryed on as it was intended, 'tis capable enough of being made strong 
 and I thincke it now past being surprized if there be any care taken of it. 
 My Lords I am an Englishman and what hath beene done to Portsmouth 
 by my means, was truely intended for the defence of England, and I 
 would loose the last drop of blood in my body rather than live to see it 
 in any other hands, if I can help it. 
 
 Lord Nottingham : 
 
 My Lord did you never heare of any designe how it myit (sic) be 
 landed neere or any thing of the weake places about it. 
 
 Answer : 
 
 My Lord I never heard of any such designe till I heard of it at my 
 Lord Preston's tryall, which your Lordships heard as well as I, and I 
 have since read it in the publique printed tryalls. 
 
 Lord Nottingham : 
 
 Have you never discovred about that tryall or any thing of it since 
 that time. 
 
 Answer : 
 
 Yes my Lords I beleeve twenty times, and alwayes declared I thought, 
 it such stuff as my Lord Preston might have picked up in coffye houses, 
 whatt use he thought to make of it to vallue himselfe in France I cannot 
 imagine ; it lookes to me as if it were picked up from several hands, by 
 common discource, and put it all togeather 'tis but stuff. And I hope all 
 your Lordships know me better then to beleeve I would ever consent to 
 the landing of the French in England upon any pretence what some ever. 
 No my Lords I am the last man in England will ever suffer it if I can 
 help it, and will endeaver to defend my country as much as any man in 
 England shall, whenever that shalbe attempted ; but I perceive your Lord- 
 ships may thincke me a weake man, and it is true I am so, but not so weake 
 as to fancy the King of France will conquer England only for King 
 James. No my Lords, if we should be ever so unfortunate he will doe it 
 for himselfe, or at least make us but trybutary, which I hope in God 
 never to live to see, and will endeaver to prevent as much as any of you 
 whomsoever. 
 
 Lord President: 
 
 Ney, any man that can thincke at all can't surely immagine the King 
 of France will doe it for King James, or any body but himselfe. 
 
 Then my Lord President turned to all the Lords and asked them if theye 
 had any more questions to aske me, theye all answered No ; then he told 
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 Earl of them it was late and theye must goe to the Queen before theye could say 
 ■Dartmouth's anv thing more to me. Then I desired theire Lordships that theye would 
 • — ' please to represent me to her Majesty as favorably as I hoped upon theire 
 owne long knowledge of me, theye might thincke I deserved, and to 
 remember that I had both preserved Portsmouth and the whole fleete of 
 England to England, and that theye had neither lost a ship nor a man 
 by my conduct, at a time when it was difficult enough to doe so, and at a 
 time that I was impowred by a leagall commisson to justify e, and 
 might have had temptations enough to do otherways, but that after the 
 King was withdrawne, I could not thincke the fleete under my command 
 belonged to any but my country, to whom I brought it by God's blessing 
 safe home, without making any cappitulations with the then Prince of 
 Orainge, of whom I only desired his protection from my enemys, many 
 of them were then well knowne to be about him, that I had then his 
 prommis to protect me, and I did not doubt but now he was king he 
 would do it, espetially at this time. That what ever I might be falcely 
 accused of, no man was free from falce informations, but that I was in no 
 plott, nor I would be in none, that I was retyred into the country, and 
 what I was doing there, even when theye sent for me, was making my 
 owne observations and what I thought was for the good of my country. 
 
 Lord President : 
 
 Asked me what I meant by that ? 
 Answer : 
 
 Your Lordships may remember a time when theire was to have beene 
 a warr with France formerly, and then Van-Runing brought this Admiral 
 Ebertson andseverallDuch commanders to Derby house where Mr.Peppys 
 by his then Majesty's command summoned Sir Thomas Allyn, Norborow, 
 myselfe andothers,to meete and consult with them about carrying on a warr 
 against France. That I was recollecting what I could of that matter or 
 what elce I could thincke of to be fitt to be done now, for I did doubt 
 the present manaigement was not only very expencful], but in my 
 opinion other methods must be taken to make a good and erTectuall end 
 of this warr. That I did not say this now to palliat any thing that was 
 now brought against me, for I had no apprehension of any thing could 
 befall me, but that I had thoughts of this kinde before I went out of 
 towne and had communicated them to some that could justifye what I 
 intended against the meeting of the Parliment next winter, tho' I did 
 not doubt but there were those that would endeaver to render me 
 useless, as theye had expressed, when it was reported last winter that I 
 was to be imployed, and now I saw the cource was taking to do it effec- 
 tually. And what ever is say' d against me I am certaine cannot be justly 
 say'd, nor anything pretended against me 3 except some foolish discource 
 over a bottle of wine. 
 
 Lord President : 
 And that is foolish. 
 
 Answer : 
 
 And that hath beene no more, then such generall discource as your 
 Lordships some of you may have heard yourselves, and hath beene 
 sometimes argued privately by me on almost every branch in the house 
 of Lords. But I will take up no more of your Lordships' time, hoping 
 you are better sattisfyed with me, I only desire you will make it my 
 humble request to her Majesty that I may have leave to returne home to 
 my owne house in the country, and I wilbe very ready to come up at 
 any time when Her Majesty or any of your Lordships shall please to 
 command me. 
 
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 Lord President directed me to stay till theye had spoke with ;her earl op 
 Majesty and all the Lords being very civell to me went away togeather. Dartmouth's 
 
 I was told that her Majesty went late to chappell, so that I beleeve — ' 
 the Lords could not have oppertunety of speaking till after dinner, for 
 my Lord Nottingham did not returne to me till neere two a clock, and 
 then he came all alone. 
 
 His Lordship told me, 
 
 That the Lords had all verry fairly represented me to her Majesty, that 
 shee herselfe was inclined to shew me what favor shee could, but what 
 was done to me was by his Majesty's possetive directions from abroad. 
 And tho' I might think it hard, yet it could not be helped, and the most 
 favor that could be shewne me was done by her Majesty which was to let 
 me remaine only committed to the custody of the Serjeant at Armes, in 
 the same manner that I was, but there should be no new commitment 
 upon me, nor could I be dischardged till the reporte had been sent over 
 to his Majesty and his pleasure farther knowne upon it. 
 
 I desired to know of his Lordship wheather I should remaine in 
 towne, or wheather I might have leave to goe into the country, where 
 my whole famely was, so that I had neither servants nor any convenience's 
 at my house in the towne. 
 
 Lord Nottingham : 
 
 That is as you and the Serjeant can agree, for you may go any where 
 with him or his Deputy, for he must be answerable for you, that you 
 doe not goe away. 
 
 Answer : 
 
 Wheather the divell should I goe ? thincke what you will of me, I assure 
 you, I had rather stay, tho' I were sure to dye, in England then to goe 
 live in France. 
 
 Lord Nottingham : 
 
 I thincke so of you to myselfe, but there are some formalle tyes we 
 cannot help." 
 
 [Endorsed.] u The first proceedings against me and my exatninacion." 
 Memorandums : 
 
 " After all the exammination was over and my Lord Nottingham had 
 brought me her Majesty's pleasure, as is mencioned in the former memmo- 
 randums, my Lord fell a talking with me of severall things, not as Sec- 
 retary of State, but as old friends and acquaintance long bread togeather, 
 but at last he say'd to me, sure my Lord there must be something in 
 this of the commition, pray had you never any one or any paper from 
 the Queen. 
 
 Answer : 
 
 My Lord, I possitively told you the contrary, and what I say is true, 
 and if you observed I stared at you when you asked me that question 
 before, and could not but wonder what you meant, I thought it a strainge 
 question, and then reflected wheather you did only to goe out of the 
 way, or whether you meant it kindly, but now I see you are in earnest, 
 it is a lye who ever has told it. 
 
 Lord Nottingham : 
 
 'Tis possetively sworne against you, and he must be a strainge fellow 
 then. 
 
 Lord Dartmouth : 
 
 What commition could shee give, or what could one from her signiffye ? 
 there could be none from her. 
 
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 Earl of Lord Nottingham : 
 
 DAE jigg rT11 ' s Neye, tis say'd to be in paper, and indeed it could be no com [mission] 
 — ' from here, but is sworne to be so, with a pronimis to have it confirmed 
 from King James. 
 
 Lord Dartmouth : 
 
 'Tis well layed togeather then, for it seemes to be pretended when King 
 James was in Ireland, and so could not come from him from France, but 
 must be from the Queene. I vow I could not immagine what you 
 meant at first. But I see this is villany, neye I have heard that my 
 Lord Preston had messaiges and a letter sent him into Newgate, that I 
 should suspect his going into France, (which by the way shewis I was 
 not intrusted with the secret) and that I had given the King, King Wil- 
 liam, notice of it, which is as great a lye as can be framed, and all this is 
 like it. I finde I have a fine time of it from all hands ; some would render 
 me usles (as they call it) and others would destroy me. For my owne 
 parte I doe not desire to be thought so considerable, nor am I worth all 
 the trouble theye give themselves. 
 
 Lord Nottingham : 
 
 But sure you saw my Lord Preston when he came to towne. 
 Answer : 
 
 I never knew of his being in towne, till his brother James came and 
 told me my Lord desired to see me at his house. Tho' it seemes since that 
 he had then beene most of his time in towne ; but my Lord I knew 
 nothing of his buisness, nor what brought him up, so that I could not 
 then immagine it a fault, nor could I well refuse to see him, espetially 
 James comming a purpose to me, and it being so neere my owne. 
 
 Lord Nottingham : 
 
 Did you goe along with James pressantly. 
 Answer : 
 
 No, I had some vissitants with me, and as soone as theye were gone, 
 I went to James's house, where I found them at supper. I saw my Lord 
 Preston had beene drincking before, and there passed nothing but generall 
 discourse among us, and I stayed but a little time, for to tell you truely 
 I was not very fond of the company ; besides in that litle time he fell a 
 drinking 3 or 4 great beere glasses of wine. I am confident I did not 
 stay much above a quarter of an hour, and neither knew before that 
 night of his comming to towne, nor then of his going out, when, where 
 or how, and that appeares pritty planely by the manner of his going ; for 
 if I had had a hand in it, I hope you thincke better of me then that it 
 should be mannaiged no better. 
 
 Lord Nottingham : 
 
 Who was there besides my Lord and James ? I don't aske you to pump 
 you, or to make any use of it, but freindly. 
 Answer : 
 
 There was nobody but my Lady Dorchester, and to tell you truely, 
 'twas shee whose company I did not much like, and that made me goe 
 nway so soone. 
 
 [Endorsed.] My Lord Nottingham's and my discource after my exam- 
 mmaoion." 
 
 1698, August and September. — Letters of William, second Marquis 
 o£ Halifax from Acton and London to Lord Dartmouth on private 
 matters. 
 
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 1700, June 28. — Heneage Finch to Lord Dartmouth, at his house d J£5££jj 
 in Leicester Fields, London, referring to Lady Halifax. ^mss?" 
 
 1700, July 16 and July 26. Acton. — Lord Halifax congratulates 
 Lord Dartmouth on his marriage, which happened between these 
 dates. 
 
 1701, Sept. 2. Squirres (or Squerries near Westerham). — Earl of 
 Jersey to Lord Dartmouth. Offers to meet him at Croydon with his 
 coach. 
 
 Another note from the same dated " Sunday at night " runs — '« The 
 Duke of Leeds has been this morning an hour with the King in private, 
 I know not if he will own it to his friends. I shall be in town to- 
 morrow and will endeavour to see you in the evening at your house to 
 tell you what more I know of this interview." 
 
 [1702 ?], March 21. — Viscount Townshend to Lord Dartmouth, 
 Great Russell Street. Was not under any apprehension of being con- 
 voyed to town by a serjeant, yet had the House of Lords taken any 
 notice of so inconsiderable a member being absent from their service, 
 he had fully resolved to have put Lord Dartmouth to the expense of a 
 speech in his defence. Has at this time but a very little inclination to 
 the politics, the pleasures of a country life gaining every day so much 
 upon him. Lord Anglesey and his wife have found the town some 
 amusement, it is as melancholy a story as was ever heard, and by what 
 the writer knows of it his Honour seems to be a very barbarous 
 fellow. 
 
 1702, April 1. Burley. — Earl of Nottingham to his daughter, 
 the Marchioness of Halifax, at Halifax House, St. James's Square. 
 Hears that Mr. Atkinson who married the writer's cousin, Kate 
 Bulkeley, is dying and can't live a week. He has a good living at 
 Kingsthrop near Northampton, which is in the gift of Lord Feversham; 
 wishes it may be given to Dr. Burton. Lady Halifax might get Lord 
 Dartmouth to speak for it. 
 
 1702, May 23. Perry Hall.— Sir H. Gough to Lord Dartmouth, 
 Great Russell Street, London. Hopes to have his Lordship's company 
 at his house, when Sandwell is put into better order. 
 
 1702, June 18. St. James's. — Minute of Privy Council meeting, at 
 which William Lord Dartmouth was sworn a member ; with a copy of 
 the oath taken by him. 
 
 1702, Aug. 14. — Heneage Finch to Lord Dartmouth, at his house in 
 Russell Street, Bloomsbury. Recommends young Mr. Tilson, whose 
 father had held Ditton living, to him as a chaplain. 
 
 1702, Nov. 16. Hinton. — Earl Poulet to [Lord Dartmouth]. Asks 
 his interest in getting Mr. Trafford excused from serving as Sheriff in 
 Norfolk. The writer is nearly interested in the matter, as Trafford 
 married a childless daughter of his sick old grandam, whose blessing he is 
 concerned for. 
 
 1703, June 1. Dublin. — Francis North to Lord Dartmouth. Business 
 matters. The Duke of Ormonde expected there with the first wind ; 
 his coming wished for, as there was nothing but poverty i?i the whole 
 kingdom. 
 
 1703, July 3, Sept. 22, and Nov. 6. Coleshall.— Lord Digby to Lord 
 Dartmouth at his house in Great Russell Street. Recommends him to 
 purchase the estate of their neighbour, Mr. Wyrley, in the manor of 
 Handsworth. 
 
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 irtmouth's 1703, Sept. 5. — Dr. Mossom Wye to Lord Dartmouth. Desires per- 
 saMSS. mission to exchange his living of Kilsoran, presented to him by Lord 
 Dartmouth's father, for another. 
 
 1704, Aug. 8. Whitehall. — Earl of Nottingham to Lord Dartmouth 
 at Lord Guernsey's house at Aylesford. About the guardianship of 
 Lord Dartmouth's nephew. Four mails waiting from Holland. 
 
 1704-5, March 4. Dublin. — Edward Southwell to [Lord Dartmouth]. 
 
 1705, July 25. Hinton. — Earl Poulet congratulates Lord Dart- 
 mouth on the birth of his son. It will be a most sensible pleasure for 
 him to stand godfather with Lady Halifax and Lord Townshend. Com- 
 plaint that the coasting trade is shamefully neglected. It seems the 
 
 A IPs Council is changed without any alteration, as they in the 
 
 country are the first that feel. 
 
 1705, July 25. Rainham. — Lord Townshend to Lord Dartmouth at 
 Queen's .Square, Westminster. I heartily wish your lordship joy of 
 your third son, and am extremely obliged to you for the honour you do 
 me in accepting of my assistance towards the making him a Christian. 
 I am glad to hear you design to dedicate him to the service of the 
 Church, and the more so because there is no danger of its not being 
 triumphant. 
 
 1706, June 29. Burley. — Earl of Nottingham to Lord Dartmouth. 
 In the midst of our triumphs perhaps it will be counted a fault to lament 
 one misfortune in the West Indies. Would much rejoice to hear that 
 some care had been taken to stop the progress of the French there, 
 without which all our islands will be lost. 
 
 1707, April 28. Burley. — Earl of Nottingham to Lord Dartmouth. 
 'Tis said in these parts that Dr. Freeman is to be Bishop of Chester ; a 
 worse could not be thought of. 
 
 1707, July 28. Burley. — Same to same. On his daughter's pro- 
 posed marriage [to the Duke of Roxburgh]. 
 
 1707, August 5 and 7. London. — Duke of Roxburgh to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. Asks what answer has been received from Lord Nottingham, 
 and desires his assistance. 
 
 1707, August 9. Burley. — Earl of Nottingham to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Expresses at some length his hesitation to consent to his daughter's 
 marriage. 
 
 1707, -August 29, Sept. 6, and Sept. 10. Burley. — Same to same at 
 Sandwell. In the last latter Lord Nottingham writes that his wife 
 for his one and twentieth child brought him a girl, and he hopes that 
 his niece [Lady Dartmouth] will not be jealous, notwithstanding one of 
 her own sex has made an example first of christening and then marrying 
 the imp of her love and of the state {sic). 
 
 1707, Oct. 5. Stratton. — Duke of Devonshire to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Complimentary. 
 
 1707, Oct. 22. Squerries. — Earl of Jersey to Lord Dartmouth. His 
 enquiries into the Duke of Roxburgh's character more favourable per- 
 haps than Lord Nottingham would desire. Wishes the latter could be 
 brought to reason about his daughter's marriage. 
 
 1707, Dec. 16. Admiralty. — Hill to Lord Dartmouth. " My 
 Lord, we have got a 4th rate for Capt. Legg, viz., the Tf r ey mouth, a good 
 ship. I am with great passion," &c. 
 
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 1707-8, March 2.— Sir Michael Warton to Lord Dartmouth. Will be 
 glad if the house throws out Mr. Moyser's Register bill. " It cannot be 
 advantageous for this Isle, which, though a place of land rents, is so 
 mixed with trade of the greatest value, that the best computers say we 
 trade yearly for four times as much as the income of the land comes to ; 
 and men being brought by a register to be trusted only for their real 
 value must sink this mighty bulk of trade. This was the opinion of 
 old wise William Pier (sic)." 
 
 1707- 8, March 8. Burley. — Earl of Nottingham to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Prays his support to a bill to mend the way between Stratford and Dun- 
 church. 
 
 1708, Oct. 14. Weymouth [ship], Carlisle Bay, Barbados. — Capt. 
 Thomas Legge to Lord Dartmouth and to the Clerk of the Council. 
 Forwards a representation of the unusual hard treatment he meets with 
 at the hands of Metford Crowe, Governor of Barbadoes. 
 
 1708, Nov. 26. The same. — The same to Lord Dartmouth. Further 
 complaints of the barbarity and tyranny of the Governor. 
 
 1708- 9, Jan. 31. — Earl of Sunderland to Lord Dartmouth. Is informed 
 the enemy intend playing them some trick on the following day at the 
 Committee of the Scrutiny, and that in the house they will endeavour 
 to bring again the question of the Duke of Queensberry's vote. Begs 
 him to summon Lord Guernsey and their friends early to the 
 Committee. 
 
 1709. Feb. 15.— Sir Cleobury Holte to Lord Digby at Mr. Nicho- 
 las's house in old Spring Garden. Asks him to use his influence with 
 Lord Dartmouth to obtain for Mr. Ranshe, the son of a neighbour, 
 a curacy at West Bromwich, Mr. Adenbroke, the minister there being 
 on the point of death. 
 
 1709. May 6. — Antigua. Governor Daniel Parke to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. Sends him a dozen and a half bottles of citron water procured 
 from Barbadoes. Defends himself from certain charges. Captain Legge 
 and he have often drank his lordship's health together. 
 
 1709. May 18. Barbadoes, Secretary's Office. — A. Heene to Lord 
 Dartmouth, During Captain Legge's absence on a cruise at sea, Governoi- 
 Crowe has ordered that depositions shall be taken against him withou; 
 giving any notice to his friends. Lets his Lordship know that he 
 may take his injured innocence under his protection. 
 
 1710. [June ?] — Saturday, 10 o'clock. Duke of Shrewsbury to 
 Lord Dartmouth. The Duke of Somerset and he are very desirous to 
 meet his Lordship that morning at Mr. Harley's house in York 
 Buildings. He is to come in a chair or hackney coach to avoid 
 observations. 
 
 Two other undated letters from the Duke of Shrewsbury evidently 
 refer to the coming appointment of Lord Dartmouth as Secretary of 
 State. 
 
 1710. [June 13 ?]— Tuesday at night. Earl Poulett to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. " Your brother Boyle went to Sunderland for the Seals and 
 is to bring them to the Queen to-morrow morning." His Lordship must 
 await the Queen's commands at home. 
 
 1710. [June 15 ?] — Thursday morning. The Earl of Jersey con- 
 gratulates all mankind and wishes Lord Dartmouth much joy in the 
 choice made of a secretary of state. 
 
 Earl of 
 Dartmouth's 
 MSS. 
 
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 Earl of 1710, June 15. — Court at Kensington. Minute of Council that 
 
 1)AK MSS UTH S William Lord Dartmouth was that day sworn one of the Principal 
 
 — ' Secretaries of State, with copy of oath taken, and note of fees 
 paid (26/.) W 
 
 1710, June 15 to 28. — Congratulatory letters from Lord Eadnor, 
 the Bishop of London (Compton), Lord Nottingham, Sir Roger Mostyn, 
 the Archbishop of York (Sharp), the Marquis of Tweeddale, the 
 Earl of Denbigh, Lord Digby and others. The Archbishop sends a 
 petition from Mary Lamplugh (widow of his predecessor's son), who 
 desires to get her third son, lately from Westminster School, into the 
 Secretary's office. 
 
 1710, June 22. — The Duke of Shrewsbury to Lord Dartmouth. The 
 Lord Mayor thinks he can make a useful discovery of the combination 
 about coals. He is gone to take some depositions and desires to see 
 the Secretary of State at his own house instead of his office, so that the 
 secret may be kept. What the Lord Mayor proposes seems a thing of 
 some nicety. 
 
 1710, June 24. — The same to the same. Is in pain to know 
 whether the Lord Mayor has brought any depositions, or witnesses to 
 be examined. 
 
 1710, June 26. — Newnham Padox. Earl of Denbigh to the same. 
 Solicits for the protection of Abel Roper, and that he may be concerned 
 in writing the Gazette. He is an honest fellow and his relations, who 
 are the writer's neighbours, are so too. If the "place of Trade" be 
 not disposed of, would apply for it himself, if encouraged by Lord Dart- 
 mouth. Had a promise of the Queen's favour, she knowing Lord 
 Marlborough had used him ill in point of the army. 
 
 1710, June 28. — Robert Monckton to the same. Congratulates his 
 lordship, but fears he will be plagued by his own party to spring a 
 mine and blow them [The Commissioners of Trade, of whom Monckton 
 was one] all up. 
 
 1710, Jully (sic) the 3rd. — The Duke of Marlborough to the same. 
 " My Lord, 
 
 I have receiv'd the favour of your Lordship's letter of the 16 past 
 by which you are pleas'd to acquaint me with the honour the Queen has 
 done you in apointing you Secritary of State in the room of Lord Sunder- 
 land you will naturally believe from the relation he beares to me, I can not 
 be without concern for the change, but since Her Majesty has thought it 
 for her service to remove him, I congratulate your Lordship upon the 
 honour she has done you, and pray you will believe I shall be glad of all 
 occasions to assure you of the truth and estime wherewith I am, &c." 
 
 1710, August 9. Squerries. — Earl of Jersey to the same. Postboys, 
 Examiners, &c, are the usual entertainments of the country gentry, but 
 news from a Secretary of State's office is unusual, and he gives thanks 
 for that received this morning. 
 
 1710, August 10. Sir Michael Warton to the same. — " Give me 
 leave to congratulate her Majesty's great grace and bounty to her sub- 
 jects, in the late expulsion of the Sieur Volpone [Grodolphin], it will 
 certainly prove an universal remedy for the spleen and vapours." If 
 her Majesty will dispense this great elixir plentifully to her subjects, 
 the golden age will revive again, and the skies as well as the looks of all 
 her subjects will assume their former brightness. 
 
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 1710, Aug. 14. Gloucestershire. — William Blathwayt to Lord Dart- D J^^ 
 mouth. The Duke of Beaufort, believing the writer from a false print mss. 
 to be one of those who voted against Dr. Sacheverell, is pleased to 
 oppose his election at the Bath. The report is altogether untrue, as by 
 reason of his illness he never once attended any of the debates, much 
 less was in any division on the subject. Has referred his Grace to Lord 
 Dartmouth. Prays to be remembered in any alterations that may be 
 made in the Commission of Trade and Plantations. 
 
 1710, Aug. 21. St. James's Square. — Duke of Beaufort to the same. 
 Sends copy of paper publicly sold at a print shop, next door to Old 
 Man's Coffee-house by Charing Cross, in order that measures may be 
 taken to find out the author. 
 
 1710, Aug. 30. — Earl of Jersey to the same. Thinks himself obliged 
 to state that unless Lord Dorset is put out what the latter has already 
 done will have a very ill effect on the elections in the county [Kent ?J 
 by encouraging the choice of those who are entirely against the Queen's 
 measures. 
 
 The Electress Sophia to Lord Dartmouth. 
 " Monsieur, A Herenhausen le 2 de 7 bre, 1710. 
 
 Comme i'ay apris que la Reyne vous avoit choisis my Lord pour 
 estre un de ses principaux Secretaires d'estat, i'en ay eu beaucoup de 
 ioye, vous aiant touiour regarde comme amis, depuis que ie vous ay veu 
 icy, cela m'a fait recevoir avec tant plus de plaisir Pobligante lettre que 
 vous m'avez escrite et me fait souhaiter la continuation de votre 
 bonheur, si i'y pouvois iamais contribuer par quelque service vous me 
 trouveriez jamais my Lord. 
 
 Vostre tres affectionne a vous servir 
 
 Sophie, Electrice." 
 
 1710, Sept. 6. — Earl of Jersey to the same. Has delayed his 
 
 departure to the country as he wishes for a moment's discourse on 
 
 account of something that fell yesterday in a conversation he had with 
 the two great men of the Treasury relating to himself. 
 
 1710, Sept. 8. Squerries — The same to the same. As to the argu- 
 ment used in their last discourse for delaying the dissolution of parliament 
 there seems so little force in it that he suspects there wants an inclina- 
 tion to dissolve, for the pretended invasion set about by the Whigs can 
 be no reason against it. If it were likely that Mr. Boyle and others 
 would quit the Queen's service on a dissolution, with a view to gain 
 popularity, it would be advisable to disappoint them by dismissing them 
 beforehand. Some impertinent paper has done him the honour with 
 their news to set the parish bells ringing on his account. Prays Lord 
 Dartmouth to issue a warrant that his humble servant, for want of other 
 news, may not be stuffed into a public paper. 
 
 1710, Sept. 11. — Robert Harley to the same. The Queen has 
 directed that the Bishop of Exeter's and his clergy's address shall be 
 inserted in the next Gazette. 
 
 1710, Sept. 15. Bellem. — Lord Galway to the same. Refers to the 
 Consul's memorial about having divine service performed in his house. 
 The Factory had hitherto assembled at the writer's house instead of 
 the Consul's. Has received an account from Gibraltar of the Moors 
 insulting our trade, which would not be if we had any ships in those 
 parts to protect it. The treaty with the Moors ends on Oct. 1, and 
 should be renewed, which he has no power to do. 
 
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 1710, Sept 21. — E. Spraggeto Lord Dartmouth. Begs his Lordship's 
 support of his petition to the Treasury, in consideration of his own 
 long service from his infancy, his father's and brother's blood laid out 
 in the service, and now six small children interceding but for a bare 
 subsistence. 
 
 1710, Sept. 21. Winchester. — Duke of Beaufort to the same. 
 Recommends George Duke, Esq., of Sarson, who has a good estate, 
 to be a deputy lieutenant. 
 
 1710, Sept. 26. Squerries. — Earl of Jersey to the same. Our new 
 managers seemed so much disposed to provide for one who had been 
 so barbarously used by the two late great men that had he been more 
 solicitous it would have shewn a mistrust of their kind intentions ; 
 but the uneasiness of his friends and well wishers who see places 
 disposed of every day and himself only talked of for a place is the true 
 occasion of his troubling Lord Dartmouth. Thinks it morally impossible 
 but that he shall find a suitable provision before these removes are at 
 an end, wishes however that his Lordship would bring the Queen to 
 some declaration in this affair. 
 
 1710, Sept. 28 and Oct. 6. — The same to the same. On the like 
 subject. 
 
 1710, Sept. 28. — The Duke of Leeds to the same. Recommends 
 Abel Roper for the Gazette. He is the writer of the Postboy which 
 informs the world with truths on the side of the Church party, which 
 the Postman, &c, does always conceal or put in false colours. 
 
 1710, Oct. 3. — Lord Dartmouth to the Queen. 
 
 " Madam, 
 
 There are two mails come from Holland this morning and one 
 from Lisbon last night. My Lord G-alway writes word that my 
 Lord Forbes and Capt. Haddock had taken two Genoese ships coming 
 out of Cadiz that had about four millions of Patacks on board. 
 Mr. Lefevre says in his two millions of pieces of 8, and that the 
 Portuguese army consisting of 8,000 foot and 2,300 horse had passed 
 the Guadiana in order to enter Spain. Sir John Norris writes from 
 Barcelona that by the King of Spain's order he was going to embark 
 some troops at Tarragona in order to make an attempt on Valentia. 
 Mr. Cole from Venice says he hears the project of a Treaty between the 
 Princes of Italy is laid aside. Mr. Chetwynd of Genoa says there are 
 great preparations making in Provence for sending forces to Catalonia, 
 which he says he has given Sir John Norris an account of. His brother 
 at Turin says the enemy intend to detach 20 battalions and some 
 squadrons of horse for Spain as soon as the snow falls, which the 
 Germans might prevent if they would take winter quarters in Savoy 9 
 which he cannot believe they will be prevailed upon to do. Mr. Evelyn 
 of the Post Office brought me a letter he received from Ostend which 
 gives an account that five ships were sailed from Dunkirk for Cadiz 
 last week, and thirteen more were fitting out with all expedition. The 
 letters from Rotterdam are full of the great preparations at Dunkirk, 
 and that 6,000 men are marching that way to be embarked for 
 Scotland, &c. 
 
 I am with the greatest submission, &c." 
 
 1710, Oct. o. — H. Compton, Bishop of London, to Lord Dartmouth. 
 On the great disorderliness of several parishes in the Leeward Islands, 
 which discourage and hinder ministers from residing amongst them 
 by pretending to a separate ecclesiastical jurisdiction. 
 
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 1710, Oct. 10. Whitehall. — Lord Dartmouth to the Queen. Earl op 
 
 " Madam, Dab ms°s! TH ' 
 
 This morning arrived a mail from Holland with the enclosed — ' 
 letters for your Majesty. That from the Duke of Modena is only to 
 acquaint your Majesty with the death of the Duchess. 
 
 I received one from the Duke of Marlborough, in which he says by the 
 accounts he has from Dunkirk, there are no preparations worth taking 
 notice of, and that the ill weather has retarded the siege of Aire, but 
 that he hopes in a few days to be master of the town. Dr. Newton 
 writes word the great Prince of Tuscany is very dangerously ill. The 
 rest of the letters have nothing material in them. I have a letter from 
 the Admiralty which gives the same account the Duke of Marlborough 
 does of Dunkirk. My Lord President desired me this morning to 
 acquaint your Majesty that the parties in the case of Mr. Crowe are not 
 ready to be heard to-morrow. I am, with the greatest submission, &c." 
 
 1710, Oct. 11. Coleshall.— Lord Digby to Lord Dartmouth. The 
 Warden of All Souls complains that Mr. Blencowe of that College, being 
 obliged by the Statutes to take orders or quit his fellowship, has found 
 means to prevail with the Queen to interpose in his favour on account of 
 his being employed in her service. Cannot doubt but that the Queen, 
 when she is rightly informed, will leave the Colleges to their own 
 Statutes, especially when she reflects upon what was done ai Magdalen 
 College in her father's time, which has made them all more jealous 
 ever since and apt to be alarmed at the least encroachment of royal 
 power. Lord Dartmouth's father was a generous advocate for that 
 College, which makes the writer the more bold in applying to him 
 in something of a like nature, though in no degree to be compared with 
 that. The whole University is concerned in a precedent of this kind. 
 
 1710, Oct. \\ . Lisbon. — Tho. Leffever to the same. Lord Galway 
 embarked on board the Bedford for home, being much afflicted with 
 the gout, and sailed on the x^th. Gives a long account of the bad state 
 into which King Charles's affairs are getting. The King has but 
 13,000 foot and 6,000 horse, having been forced to leave several detach- 
 ments to keep the communication with Arragon and Catalonia open, he 
 is in a country where there is no money, the Duke of Anjou, and those 
 who followed him having carried it all away, &c. 
 
 1710, Oct. 13. Whitehall.— Lord Dartmouth to the Queen. 
 " Madam, 
 
 As many of the Lords as are in town met this morning at the 
 committee, and in obedience to your Majesty's commands I laid the 
 Papers from my Lord Marlborough before them ; and Sir John Leake 
 and Sir George Bings attended to give their opinions, which they did in 
 writing at the desire of the Lords, of which I have enclosed a copy. . . 
 I am ordered to send the enclosed letter to Duke of Marlborough by an 
 express to Ostend that no more time may be lost if the expedition be 
 found practicable. 
 
 I gave the Lords an account that everything is ready for transporting 
 the recruits for Spain, upon which they ordered me to write to the 
 Admiralty for a convoy, and to the transports to go with all expedition to 
 
 Cork I was ordered last Tuesday to write to my Lord Shannon to 
 
 put the men on board at the Isle of Wight with all expedition, which I ac- 
 cordingly did, and am with the most profound submission, Madam, &c." 
 
 1710, Oct. 13. — Sir Simon Harcourt, Attorney General, to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. Has prepared a new bill for the Lieutenancy of London, in 
 obedience to the Queen's warrant. 
 
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 Eael of 1710, Oct. 15. The Duke of Buckingham to Lord Dartmouth. Is in 
 
 I) \RTAIOXJTn S f» 
 
 MSS. great confusion at his child's excessive illness. The Emperor's envoy states 
 that his master has agreed to send the forces desired, but thinks our 
 consulting the States about it will retard a matter that requires so much 
 haste by their sending to the Prince of Savoy, aud treating farther con- 
 cerning it. 
 
 1710, Oct. 19. Versailles. — Marquis de Torcy to the same. Begs 
 Lord Dartmouth to use his credit in obtaining the release on parole for 
 six or twelve months of the Marquis de Tallard, who has been a prisoner 
 for more than six years, and whose private affairs urgently need his 
 attention, in consequence of the death of his eldest son. 
 
 1710. Oct. 19. Squerries. — Earl of Jersey to the same. Sends a bit 
 of paper which will inform Lord Dartmouth of the success they have had 
 in their county election, notwithstanding the power and zeal of a Lord 
 Warden, and Lord Lieutenant. 
 
 1710, Oct. 23. — Lord Dartmouth to the Queen. " Madam, about 
 12 o'clock I received the mail from Lisbon. I have enclosed an extract 
 of what is most material in the letters which is but a bad account of the 
 posture of affairs in Spain and Portugal, except the Brazil fleets being 
 arrived safe at Lisbon, which has brought a vast quantity of gold and 
 other riches. 
 
 Sir Charles Hedges desired me to acquaint your Majesty that 
 Mr. Thomas Smith the Queen's Proctor is dead, and that it is necessary 
 there should be another before the next court day, which will be on 
 Friday in the next week. He recommends Mr. George Smith, son to 
 the last to succeed, and tells me he spoke to your Majesty formerly about 
 him. I am," &c. 
 
 1710, Oct. 23. — Lord Dartmouth to the Queen. " A post 
 
 came in this morning from Holland. The Paris news is that 32 bat- 
 talions and 22 squadrons are sent from Dauphine to Spain, that the 
 Duke of Noailles is to besiege Gironne, and that King Charles has sent a 
 detachment to besiege Seville, and that the report in France is that 
 Valentia is reduced to King Charles and that he has joined the Portu- 
 guese army. Mr. Chetwynd from Turin says that Marshall Dawns has 
 promised he will keep the field as long as possible. Dr. Newton says 
 the Herbert from Newfoundland is come and brings an account that the 
 English ships in those parts have taken and destroyed above 60 sail of 
 the French, and that the Concordia Privateer had brought into Leghorn 
 a French Privateer of 24 guns. I am," &c. 
 
 1710, Oct. 31. — Lord Dartmouth to the Queen. "Madam, after 
 Mr. St. John left the Committee, I read Mr. Lefevre's letter to them, 
 and upon consideration of the whole state of Affairs in Portugal, as he 
 represented them, the Lords were unanimously of opinion to advise your 
 Majesty, that what supplies and recruits your Majesty shall think fit to 
 send for carrying on the Spanish war, should be sent for the future to 
 Spain itself, there appearing no disposition in the Court of Portugal to 
 encourage your Majesty to apply your assistance that way. And they 
 are of opinion, T should receive your Majesty's commands to acquaint 
 Mr. Stanhope that you have thoughts of sending a reinforcement to 
 Spain, and that he should send your Majesty his opinion, which is the 
 properest place to send them to, in order to the reduction of Spain 
 
 1710, Oct. 31. Dartmouth. — Arthur and Robt. Holdsworth, Tho. 
 Floud, Tho. Newman, Caleb Rockett, and other magistrates, to Lord 
 
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 Dartmouth. Thanking him for his acceptance of the High Stewardship 
 of the Corporation of Dartmouth, which had been vacant since the death 
 of his worthy and good father. 
 
 1710, Nov. 1. — Elizabeth, Queen of Charles [II. of Spain, to Queen 
 Anne. 
 
 " Madame Ma Soeur, les bontes inexprimabies et sans nombre que vous 
 nous aves toujours temoigne ne melaisse point douter que V. M. les ora 
 pour nous dans la presante conjoncture dondepant tout. Le Roy est en 
 Castille avec son armee et tout se montre avantageux pour lui, notre 
 arme fort affoiblie celle de Penemie auxmente journellement, quinsi 
 tout depant dun pront secours, car les troupe que nous avons seront 
 oblige d'aitre sur p'ieds tout Phiver pour se maintenir dans se qui est 
 acqui. Le Roi in'a fort charge de soliciter V. M. en son noms ne 
 pouvant meme ecrire a cause du risque qu'il y a un corps d'enemie nous 
 ayent coupe le passage, je suis entierement persuade que V. M. nous 
 facilitera un pront secours et qu'elle pousera aux bout ce qu'elle a 
 comma nee avec tantele bonte, car il seroit facheux que faute de troupe 
 1'on se veroit oblige de Pacher prise, vous assurant que si Ion terns que 
 je viverris comme aussi le Roi nous ne cesseront de temoigner nos 
 reconnoissances a V. M. particulierement j'embrasserois les occasions 
 avec plaissirs de luy pouvoir montrer combien je suis, &c. 
 
 Elisabet." 
 
 "Barcelone, le 1 de Novembre 1710. 
 
 A La Reyne de La Grand Bretagne Madame Ma Soeur." 
 
 1710, Nov. 7.— The Duke of Marlborough to Lord Dartmouth. 
 " The messenger your Lordship dispatcht to me, having been detain'd 
 at Dover by the contrary winds, did not arrive here til yesterday in the 
 evening with your letter of the 13th of the last month giving an account 
 of the preparations for our intend'd expedition on the sea coast, with 
 the Queen's pleasure on that subject. Your Lordship may beleive it was 
 with the utmost concern I found myself oblig'd, some days ago, to 
 acquaint Mr. Secritary St. John, for Her Majesty's information, with 
 the impossibillity of going on with this design, in order to put a stop to 
 any further expense at present, the weather having been so very un- 
 seasonable, and rendred the roads so excessive bad, as to make it 
 impracticable. I had this expedition the more at heart, as being fully 
 persuad'd nothing could have conduced more to the publick good, nor to 
 Her Majesty's intirest in particular at this juncture, then the successe 
 of it, but since Providence has thought fit to prevent it, we must submit 
 til a more favourable oppertunity offers. In the mean time a particular 
 care shou'd be taken that these stores may be ready when requier'd. 
 Your Lordship will have seen by our dispatches yesterday, by the 
 ordinary post, the state of our siege ; we have continu'd our sapps and 
 advanced our bridges to-night with good success, so that I am hopes 
 three or four days may put an end to this tiresome siege, that the troops 
 may return to winter quarters, which they have very great need of, after 
 so long a campagne and so ill a latter season." 
 
 1710, Nov. 9. Edinburgh. — Earl of Mar to Lord Dartmouth. About 
 Colonel Stewart's negotiations with the French Commissioners for the 
 exchange of prisoners concerning the exchange of the Middletons. Had 
 written more fully to Mr. Harley of the prospect they had of a good 
 election. He and some more countrymen will set off for the meeting of 
 Parliament on Saturday, for whose assistance his lordship will not be 
 the worse ; can adventure to say that all the number will be tight. 
 Regrets that a friend of theirs has joined himself too close with other 
 folks, and wishes he may now give it over, though afraid he will not 
 
 Earl of 
 Dartmouth's 
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 Dartmouth's 1710,Nov.l0. Duke of Marlborough to Lord Dartmouth. Acknowledges 
 MSS. letter of 17th past. Was sorry to see that the troops were embarked 
 from the Isle of Wight, and hopes his letter to Mr. Secretary St. John 
 came in time to prevent their proceeding any further. Despatched an 
 officer yesterday express to give Her Majesty an account of the sur- 
 render of Aire. Now preparing to march to winter quarters. 
 
 1710, Nov. 10. Madrid. — General James Stanhope to the same. 
 Has resolved to send Major- General Wade into England, he being fully 
 informed of all that relates to this war, and his lordship will not be 
 sorry to have such a person upon the spot to answer any questions con- 
 cerning the affairs of Spain, or to explain any doubts that may arise 
 upon the accounts, estimates, &c. transmitted home. Speaks in high 
 terms of Wade's services, especially at Saragossa, and warmly recom- 
 mends him to the Queen's favour. 
 
 1710, Nov. 19. Lord Galway to the same. Is very proud that the Queen 
 is pleased to lay her commands upon him to inform her of the present 
 posture of affairs in Portugal ; and will lay himself at the Queen's feet 
 to-morrow in the evening about six o clock, or at any other time when 
 she shall be pleased to admit him to her presence. 
 
 1710 (or 1711), Nov. 21. Countess of Dorchester to the same. " I 
 received your Lordship's letter at Weybridge which made me so long 
 before I returned you my hearty thankes for having given those orders 
 that will free me of the trouble of my lord's horses, and a rascally groom 
 hectors the whole house and I dare not find fault with him for fear 
 hee should take occasion to go away and leave me unprovided, 
 but as your lordship has this year been so very instrumental in 
 bringing greater folkes out of the vexsation given by saucy servants, 
 you'l not I fancy much vallue yourself upon what you have don for me, 
 how great soever I take the obligation to be." 
 
 1710, Dec. 11. Marquis of Carmarthen to the same. The bearer 
 Francis Povey, a gentleman long honoured with the favour and friend- 
 ship of Lord Dartmouth's father, and of great skill in fortifications and 
 gunnery has been recommended to Lords Craven and Berkeley, two of 
 the proprietors of the Bahama Islands as in every way qualified to serve 
 them in re-fortifying Providence, and in taking the command there. 
 Earnestly requests Lord Dartmouth also to give his recommendation to 
 this deserving but unfortunate gentleman. 
 
 1710, Dec. 13 (received). Palace of Mequines. — The Emperor of 
 Morocco to Queen Anne. One of his cruisers has captured an English 
 ship, wherein were eight Christians and a ladiDg of butter, and salt flesh 
 and fish ; and as there is no English Consul within his dominions to serve 
 as a mediator during the present truce, he has laid an embargo on the 
 ship until he sees what the Queen and her Parliament will direct. 
 
 1710, Dec. 14. Charles Street, St. James's. Lord Galway to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. Is now able to go abroad again, and will be proud to give her 
 Majesty that account of her affairs in Spain and Portugal which he was 
 prevented from doing sooner by this fit of the gout. 
 
 1710, Dec. 21. Barcelona. — Charles III. of Spain to Queen Anne. 
 
 u Madame ma Soeur, Vous aurois apris par le Marquis de Campo et 
 mon ministre le Comte de Sallasch le etat dans le quel ce trouvoit l'armee 
 alliee icy alors que je resolus de partir vers icy avec le conseil de tous 
 les alliez ; apres cela ayant trouve nos generaux impossible de nous 
 maintenir plus long terns en Castiglie ont resoleu de retirer l'armee 
 
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 dans lequel terns le Comte de Staremberg s'at (sic) trovee oblige par Earl of } 
 
 les raisons que vous expliquera plus mon ministre d'engager un afaire Dar ms& TH ° 
 
 general dans le quel le bon Dieu a bien voulu donner a nos armes — 
 
 une nouvelle et complete victoire le 10 me de ce mois, l'ennemi ayant 
 
 laisse sur le camp 6,000 morts et abandonant par une fuite precipiteuse 
 
 toute sa artiglierie. Cette hereuse journee me donne nouvelle occasion 
 
 de felieiter V. M. de tout mon coeur mais de l'autre costez m'est tres 
 
 sensible la perte du S r Stanhope et du corps de troupes de V. M. les- 
 
 quelles une heure devant que nostre armee pouvoit arriver a son secours 
 
 furent obligees a se rendre prisonnieres de guerre apres avoir fait une 
 
 tres vigueureuse defense, cette perte m'est autant plus sensible que je me 
 
 confies tout a fait du zele et bravure de ces troupes et en particulier je 
 
 regret la prison de S r Stanhope qui a tousjours montree tant de zele 
 
 pour le service de la cause commune et je m'estimerai heureux si je 
 
 pouvais contribuer a leur prompt echange sans scrupuler en caracter 
 
 ni sujet qui fus prisonier dans mes mains. 
 
 Nonobstant dons de cette victoire les afaires d'icy ne sont pas si remises 
 qu'eux n'ay besoins d'un grand et prompt secours tant d 'argent que des 
 troupes lequelle j'espere de la bonte maternelle de V. M. Le Comte de 
 Tallasch aussi bien que S r de los Rios porteur de cette lettre vous infor- 
 meront plus de l'estat des afaires d'icy auxquelles je me rapport esperant 
 que V. M. voudra bien achever cet oeuvre si glorieusement commence 
 et me metre en etat de pouvoir concluire cette longue guerre et je 
 suis &e. 
 
 Votre tres afectionee frere 
 " Barcelone ce 21 me Xbre 1710. , Charles." 
 
 A la reyne de la grand bretagne Madame ma Soeur." 
 
 1710-11, Jan. 2. Robert Walpole to the same. 
 
 " I have received your Lordship's letter signifying the Queen's 
 pleasure to dismisse me from my employment of Treasurer of the Navy. 
 
 " As I have allways with the greatest zeal and duty endeavour'd to 
 serve Her Majesty whilst I had the honour to be in Her service, I beg 
 your Lordship to assure Her Majesty that nothing shall ever lessen my 
 duty to Her, but that I shall be allways ready to doe all that is in my 
 power for Her Majestie's service, and retain for ever a most gratefull 
 and dutifull sense of the favours Her Majesty was pleased to confer 
 upon me, whilst I had the honour to receive her commands." 
 
 1710-11, Jan. 8. Lichfield. — John Floyer to the same. Applies on 
 behalf of his son, now 30 years old, who has served as a cornet three 
 campaigns in Flanders under Duke Schomberg, for a captain's commis- 
 sion in one of the new regiments now being raised. His son has been bred 
 up in the church interest and will remain faithful to it. In his low 
 sphere the writer will endeavour to serve the public by publishing his 
 interpretation of the visions in the Revelation by the history of the 
 Roman Empire and by the past Annals of the Church, and there will be 
 some observations to prove that the German Empire with its confede- 
 rates must destroy the Popedom, and after that the Turkish Empire. 
 Begs Lord Dartmouth's leave to mention his name in the dedication 
 
 1710-11, Jan. 23, 25, 26, and 28. St. James's. — Letters of Robert 
 Harley and the Earl of Rochester about the arrangements for the Queen's 
 receiving an Address from Convocation on Saturday the 30th. 
 
 1710-11, Jan. 29. Reigate. — Earl of Shaftesbury to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Has not been able since the winter to stir out of his chamber. Sends 
 a petition that, with the Queen's leave and under her protection, he may 
 
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 Earl of obtain his passage through France early this spring to recover his health 
 BAR MSsy TH S b 7 the onl y means remaining. 
 
 17-fr, Jan. 31. Barcelona. — Charles III. of Spain to Queen Anne. 
 
 " Madame ma Soeur, Ayant icy les afaires changee de quelque terns de 
 face en nostre domage je ne peu m'excuser d'informer V. M. de nostre 
 mauvais etat voyantasteur (sic) avec les peu de forces des alliez qui sont 
 reste sur le point d'estre accablee par les forces des ennemis. La 
 foible guarnison de ma ville de Girone ay ant este contrainte apres une 
 longue et vigueureuse resistance de capituler je me trouve presentement 
 au milieu de deux armees ennemies sans les moyens necessaires d' argent 
 et des troupes de pouvoir arreter les ulterieures operacions que les 
 duques cle Vandome et Noyalles voudront entreprendre dans ce pais, 
 lesquelles ne manqueront pas defaire leur possible afin de me reduire 
 dans la derniere extremite avant que par les secours des troupes et 
 d'argent que j'espere et implore de la bonte maternelle de V. M. je puis 
 garantir cette province de la derniere extremite si prejudiciele aux 
 interets de la cause commune. Mon ministre le Comte de Sallasch aura 
 Phonneur de vous faire un detail plus exacte des afaires d'icy et de vous 
 representer la necessite indispensable qu'il y a de m'assister viguereuse- 
 ment et les plus tost qu'il sera possible tant des troupes comme en 
 particulier des subsides de l'argent, qui nous manquent tout a fait et 
 sont la plus grande cause de nos miseres et de la perte des troupes, pour 
 conserver un pied ferme dans ce continent. Je me rapporte dont sur le 
 dit Comte en assurant Votre Majeste que non obstant le tres mauvaise etat 
 6u je me trouve je me sacrifiere (sic) jusque au dernier point pour le bien 
 de la cause commune et je n'oublieray rien de mon cotez que puisse con- 
 tribuer a la conservacion de ce peu de troupes et pais jusque a ce que 
 les renforces de V. M. et des alliez me tirent hors du present embarras, 
 esperant que la bonte maternelle avec laquelle vous avez tousjours 
 regardee ma personne et les afaires d'Espagne voudra bien aussi a 
 proporcion de la necessite augmenter ces renforts et assistances sans 
 lesquelles je ne scaurois me maintenir long terns dans un pais ou les 
 ennemis sont deja, maitres de tous les places a la reserve de Barcelone et 
 Tarragone. En atendant que j'espere les efets de votre bonte je 
 suis, &c. 
 
 Chakles." 
 
 " Barcelonne ce dernier de Janvier de 1711." 
 
 1710-11, Feb. 11. Westminster. — William Paterson to Lord Dartmouth. 
 Encloses a petition of Robert Cassills, fifteen years a prisoner in New- 
 gate, charged with conspiracy against the late king. Cassills alleges 
 that he has found out during his confinement that long sought for prob- 
 lem the Quadrature of the Circle, and begs that his demonstrations may 
 be referred to Sir Isaac Newton and others. Attached is a certificate 
 dated Sept. 24, 1709, signed by J. Lowthrop and Jos. Raphson (Pro- 
 fessors of the Royal Society), H. Ditton, of Christ Church, London, and 
 James Gregory, at the College in Edinburgh, that they had seen Cassills' 
 demonstrations and could not discover any fallacy therein. 
 
 1710-11, Feb. 17. Lisbon. — Earl of Portmore to the same. Had been 
 under some apprehension concerning the disposition of the Court at 
 Lisbon, but they are now convinced that the late battle was rather 
 to our advantage than otherwise, and are in no way discouraged by the 
 change of our affairs in Spain, though perhaps it may serve them for a 
 handle to demand more subsidies. Their whole management of the war 
 is wrong in the most essential points, &c. 
 
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 1710-11, Feb. 20, 11 at night. Cockpit. — Lord Dartmouth to the Earl of 
 
 Dartmouth's 
 
 i^ueen. _ MSS 
 
 u Madam, I left a letter of revocation with your Majesty to Mr. Moles- — 
 worth as envoy to Genoa; if it should not go by this night's post it may 
 fall out that your Majesty may have two envoys at Genoa both delivering 
 their credentials at once, which would be thought something extra- 
 ordinary there. The Duke of Argyll has explained his demands into a 
 great many more. I shall lay them before your Majesty to-morrow 
 morning, it being too late to trouble your Majesty with them to-night." 
 
 To this the Queen replies in her own hand : — 
 
 "Wensday. 
 
 I am very sory I did not send you Mr. Molsworth's revocation last 
 night, but I hope if you send a messenger with it presently, it may com 
 time enough to overtake the packet. 
 
 I am, 
 
 Your very affectionate freind, 
 
 Anne R." 
 
 1710-11, Mar. 10. — Note in the handwriting of Erasmus Lewis, enclos- 
 ing some French papers about the Marquis de Guiscard — one a statement 
 made at the Hague on 21 March 1709 by Etienne de la Foux. 
 
 1710-11, Mar.15. — Baron Bothmer to Lord Dartmouth. Will not fail to 
 send the Queen's letter to the Duke of Modena to the Count de Bergomi 
 at the Hague. Attached to this is a copy, in Lord Dartmouth's hand, 
 of the letter, which requests an exchange of the prisoners taken at 
 Saragossa and Brihuega. 
 
 1711, Mar. 27. Rotterdam. — Duke of Argyll to the same. Has 
 received the Queen's letter to the King of Spain. Is to begin his 
 journey to-morrow, and will make all haste. 
 
 1711, May 1, ten at night. — Earl of Rochester to the same. Has just 
 received a letter from the Lord Keeper that the J udges will not be 
 ready by to-morrow with their opinions concerning the Address from 
 the Bishops, so there will be no occasion for a Cabinet on that day. 
 [The writer died suddenly on May 2.] 
 
 1711, May 8. — Robert Harley to the same. Regarding the despatch of 
 Mr. Murray, the Duke of Argyll's aide-de-camp, to Spain with new 
 directions to the Duke. " If he does not make haste he will scarce find 
 King Charles at Barcelona." 
 
 A letter from Harley, dated April 27, also refers to the same subject. 
 
 1711, May 8. Lambeth. — The Archbishop of Canterbury (signed 
 " Canterbury") to the same. Though very far from being able to go 
 abroad will take care to communicate to-morrow to the Convocation 
 the Queen's letter and the Judges' opinions, which he has just received. 
 
 1711, June 3. Cane wood. — William Lord Berkeley, of Stratton, to the 
 same. On behalf of Robert Squibb, indicted for an, action whereof he is 
 said to be innocent. The writer has known the gentleman's father for 
 many years as a very honest, well principled man. 
 
 1711, June 6. Somerset House. — Earl of Clarendon to the same. 
 Making an appointment. 
 
 1711, June 16. Whitehall. — Lord Dartmouth to Paul Jodrell. Asks his 
 opinion on the state of the case between some people of Lewisham parish 
 and himself. Refers to the Dean of Canterbury [Dr. Geo. Stanhope] as 
 parson there. 
 
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 Dartmouth's mi) J une 16. Chancery Lane over against Lincoln's Inn Gate. — Paul 
 MSS. Jodrell, replying to the last, makes an appointment to meet Lord and 
 Lady Dartmouth. 
 
 171 1, June 19. Earl of Jersey to Lord Dartmouth. — The sons of Lord 
 Middleton are to be bailed out of the Tower to-morrow by advice of the 
 Attorney- General. Has been asked to be one of their bail, but as they 
 are prisoners of State, thinks he ought not to consent without first 
 acquainting Her Majesty. 
 
 1711, July 6. Cockpit. Lord Dartmouth to the Queen. 
 " Madam, 
 
 There has no foreign Post arrived since I was at Windsor. 
 But this is to acquaint your Majesty that the Duke of Queensberry died 
 this morning at five o'clock. The Lords of the Committee sent for 
 Mr. Montgomery and Mr. Rowe, his under secretaries, and ordered 
 them to deliver your Majesty's seals to me, it not being thought proper 
 that they should be left in the Office, and to seal up all his papers till 
 your Majesty's further pleasure be known. I shall bring the seals with 
 me to-morrow, and am," &c. 
 
 1711, July 25. Whitehall — Earl of Mar to Lord Dartmouth. Introduces 
 his friend Jacob [Tonson ?] for a favour his lordship will know of. Could 
 not refuse the recommendation, as the writer was the innocent occasion 
 of his almost being sent a little too quick down stairs a twelvemonth 
 ago. 
 
 [Swift notes in his journal under July 26 that the two Jacobs Ton- 
 son have lost the printing of the Gazette.] 
 
 1711, Aug. 31 . Glasgow. — The Duke of Montrose to the same. Sends 
 an account of his suit to the Queen on behalf of the Scots Peers, whose 
 case at present, he writes, is not the happiest in the world, 
 
 1711, Sept. 2. Richmond. Hill to the same. Has not been able to 
 
 go so far as London or Windsor since he received the Queen's commands. 
 Prays therefore Lord Dartmouth to consider how impossible it is for him 
 to undertake a journey of 2,000 miles. Upon full examination with 
 himself and his chirurgeons is morally certain he cannot perform the 
 journey [to Spain ?] imposed upon him. He should be proud to die in 
 her Majesty's service, but it would not be for her service to die like a 
 post-horse upon the road, before he had performed his stage. 
 
 1711, Sept. 7. — Dr. Geo. Stanhope to the same. On behalf of Mr. 
 Hugh Totterdale, a lawyer of great eminence in Jamaica, and master of 
 a very considerable fortune in the island, that he may be appointed 
 one of the Council there. 
 
 1711, Sept. 14. — Countess of Dorchester [wife of Lord Portmore] to 
 the same. 
 
 " My lord, as you promist me to give orders to the Admiralty to 
 derect a ship for my Lord's return, I depended upon its being done, so 
 quiatly stayd in the country without asking any questunes tell this 
 moment, and now I am told no ship has been order'd ; how can you 
 forget your friends in so matterial a point ; pardon this litle reproach 
 to the impatiance of a kind wife, and one that is," &c. 
 
 1711, Sept. 26. Cockpit. — The Earl of Dartmouth to the Queen. 
 " Madam, 
 
 I am commanded by the Lords of the Committee to acquaint your 
 Majesty that they have had the Attorney and Solicitor Generals before 
 them this morning upon the disputes between the City of Dublin and the 
 Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, which increase every day, as appears by 
 
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 some remarks the Duke of Ormonde has sent me upon the City's Petition. Earl op 
 It seems to require immediate directions that a stop may be put to it ; DAR J{| ( g 3rTI 
 therefore the Lords agreed that I should send their opinion of what was — 
 proper to be done, that such directions may be despatched to my Lord 
 Lieutenant as soon as possible, if your Majesty thinks fit to approve of 
 them, of which I have enclosed a copy. 
 
 Upon inquiry to-day whether Hallier has naturalised himself according 
 to the Act of Parliament we found he had not, upon which all the Lords 
 were of opinion it was most advisable to send him away, and give him 
 50/. here and 150/. more when he was on the other side of the water. 
 This my Lord Treasurer desired me to receive your Majesty's pleasure 
 upon, for if it be not done speedily he will put it out of your Majesty's 
 power to remove him. 1 am," &c. 
 
 [Enclosed are a copy of the minutes taken, for the Queen's appro- 
 bation.] 
 
 That a private letter be written to the Duke of Ormonde directing him 
 to persuade Alderman Constantine to make his application to the Court 
 of Aldermen and desire them to excuse his serving this time as Mayor, 
 notwithstanding he is the eldest Alderman, which if they will grant he 
 shall be very willing to take that office upon him at another time. 
 
 That my Lord Keeper be desired to write to the Lord Chancellor of 
 Ireland to the same effect. 
 
 That by the same post a public letter be written to the Duke of 
 Ormonde acquainting him that the Queen does approve of His Grace's 
 and the Council's asserting Her Majesty's right in disapproving mayors 
 elected by the Court of Aldermen of the City of Dublin when they think. 
 
 To the above the Queen replies with her own hand, 
 " Sep. the 26. 
 
 I received your letter an hour ago, but it is now soe late I have only 
 time to tell you that I approve of the Lords' advice concerning the dis- 
 pute in Ireland, and of Hallier's being sent away as soon as it is possible. 
 
 I am, your very affectionate freind, 
 
 Anne R." 
 
 1711, Oct. 9. Whitehall The Earl of Dartmouth to the Queen. 
 
 " Madam, 
 
 I received the enclosed letters from Count Gallas, who sends me 
 word he has not been in a condition to attend at Windsor this last fort- 
 night, therefore desires me to deliver them to your Majesty. I hear by 
 other hands he has been able to go to a great many places in that time. 
 
 I received a letter last night from Sir John Norris off the Isle of 
 Wight, where he is at present with the men of war, Turkey ships and 
 others to the number of a hundred and thirty sail, and intends to proceed 
 immediately to the Downs. 
 
 The Duke of Ormonde writes word that the City of Dublin have made 
 choice of Alderman Gore (a very honest gentleman) for Mayor, and that 
 Alderman Constantine has declined standing, as your Majesty directed, 
 which has put an end to that dispute for this time. I am," &c. 
 
 1711, Nov. 16.— Earl of Oxford (Harley) to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Is but just able to make a lame and weary hand thank Lord Dartmouth 
 for his favour yesterday. Hopes the Queen has given him the names for 
 the Commission of Chamberlain of Scotland that he may send it thither 
 express in order to bring up the Peers from thence. The town is full of 
 a disturbance to be to-morrow by a hired mob ; 200/. is collected for it, 
 Duke of Montagu gave 50 guineas towards it. The chariot or machine 
 is in Castle Yard in Drury Lane ; there are several parts in the city 
 where the same is to be acted in miniature. Should not a letter be sent 
 
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 Earl op to the Lord Mayor to take care of the public peace, and also to the Lord 
 Dartmouth's L i e utenant of Middlesex. 
 
 171 1, Nov. 27. Dublin.— Edward Southwell to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 The letter relating to the printing of the two addresses of the Lords 
 arrived too late, and the directions in that affair could not be obeyed. 
 This matter was intended to have come into the House of Commons but 
 by his Grace's direction it was put off there. The House of Lords 
 immediately upon that entered into it. The dissenting ministers here 
 did apply to his Grace, being under concern lest this address might draw 
 on them some orders from her Majesty about their pension ; but his 
 Grace spoke favourably to them. Lieut-Gen. Tngoldsby arrived here on 
 Saturday and his Grace had sailed before now but that the weather has 
 been very tempestuous. 
 
 1711, Dec. 2. Chester.— The Duke of Ormonde to the same. An- 
 nounces his arrival in England. Two days before he left Dublin the 
 Hind frigate sank just as she came into the harbour, but all her men, 
 guns, and rigging were saved. 
 
 1711, Dec. 8. The Hague.— The Earl of Strafford to the same. " My 
 relations to your brother St. John, my master, are so ample that I have 
 nothing to ad but to beg you to see he dose not throw them asside like 
 your Coles {sic). 'Twas a mighty misfortune that five packets were 
 keept on this side for he had such a vollum in folio of my letters that I 
 doubt it has quite distasted him from them, and yet my lord I scribble 
 on, tho' a misfortune happen'd last night to my long relation, it was 
 fain to be copyd over and for the future I shall follow that way for his 
 ease in reading a better hand and my liberty of scratching out what in 
 my former relations I was fain to leave in, tho' I don't like them 1 
 don't know what you think of meat home, but I think 1 have done 
 o-reat matters here to bring the States to consent, tho' but in an 
 awquard maner. 'Tis thought here I pleaded with mony to back me, 
 but God knows 'twas very empty handed, and the conversions Paul 
 made was not more by the dint of holding forth then mine were, for 
 Paul cou'd not be poorer then I am, and have ben since I came over. 
 My marriage sunck all my ready mony and ty'd up all my estate .... 
 My expence at Utrecht will ruin me if I have not good friends to pro- 
 mote my pretentions, that is in case I am design'd to be one of these 
 famous Plenipotentiarys, for one told me for certain Lord Marlborough 
 was to be one, and I to stay here like Pilgarlick or to return home, 
 which I pleased." . „ 
 
 " [P.S.] Put not your trust in Buys for he will deceive you. 
 
 1711 Dec 22.— The Duke of Shrewsbury to the same. Asks if 
 notice had been sent to the Archbishop to prepare the Prayers for the 
 fast 
 
 Also two undated letters from the Duke referring to the intended 
 calling to the upper House of Lords Compton and Bruce. Other letters 
 of this time refer to the wholesale creation of peers at the beginning of 
 1712. 
 
 1711, Dec. 27. Whitehall.— Henry St. John to the same. 
 
 1711 Dec. 28 —Sir Michael War ton to the same. I am surpriz'd at 
 -vour Lo'rdship's letter and am sensible of the great intended honour 
 the Queen wou'd bestow upon me; but my Lord I am old and infirm 
 and doe intreat the favour of you to excuse me; I insist on tins from 
 your freindshipp, for I am positively resolved to take my eas e and be 
 quiett. Pray my Lord putt this affaire by, for I cannot bear the thoughts 
 of itt." 
 
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 1711, Dec. 29. — The same to the same. "I sincerely own your Earl of 
 
 kindnesse tho' really mistaken as to me : I am positively and seriously ^ AR ™s°$ UTlI ' s 
 
 resolv'd against this thing, and am resolv'd not to be conccrn'd in itt ; — 
 therefore pray my Lord stop it totally." 
 
 1711, Dec. 29. — G. Granville [Lord Lansdowne the poet], to the 
 same. Desires that his brother Bernard may be included in his patent 
 of peerage, as he suffers himself so very heavily from a former omission 
 of that kind that he is sufficiently warn'd not to repeat the like neglect. 
 
 1711, Dec. 29. Henby Park. — Lord Bruce (son of the Earl of Ailes- 
 bury) to the same. Is very sensible of the great honour the Queen does 
 him by calling him to the House of Lords and will be in London on 
 the Tuesday following. 
 
 1711, Dec. 30. Ashby. — J. Lord Compton (son of the Earl of North- 
 ampton), writes to the same effect. 
 
 I7y^, Jan. 5. — Sir Christopher Musgrave to the same. There is so 
 much talk of alterations in the Ordnance and other places that he hopes 
 he may be excused desiring any preferment Lord Dartmouth shall 
 think him most capable of serving in. Such a countenance would 
 enable him to recover the interest of his country, and bring him into 
 parliament at Carlisle, where he is informed the election will be made 
 void between Sir James Mountague and Col. Grledhill. 
 
 I7yj, Jan. 10. Windsor. — The Duke of St. Albans to the same. 
 Has always endeavoured to perform his duty to her Majesty, and shall 
 always acquiesce in her pleasure. Has therefore, after eighteen years 
 service in the Band of Pensioners, given directions to Lord Dartmouth's 
 messenger to take his staff which lies in town and deliver it up. For 
 his part he must be contented to stay in the country, and take care of 
 his numerous family. 
 
 1711-12, Feb. 23. Naples. — Earl of Shaftesbury to the same. Com- 
 plimentary. 
 
 1711-12, March 9. — Earl of Oxford to the same. Hopes to attend the 
 House to-morrow, for he cannot think all these meetings of the enemy 
 are designed for no end. Cannot Lord Dartmouth discover if anything 
 be designed by the Whigs ? 
 
 1712, May 14. Epsom. — Lord Guilford to [?]. Intends to be in 
 town to-morrow, time enough to show the respect he always had for the 
 memory of the late King, which can be no otherwise expressed at 
 present than by preferring the interest of his favourites before that of 
 the public. 
 
 1712, [May 29-31.] — Five undated letters from Bridget, Lady Poulett to 
 Lord Dartmouth, refer to the challenge sent by the Duke of Marlborough 
 to Earl Poulett after the latter's insulting speech in the House of Lords. 
 In the first her ladyship begs Lord Dartmouth to order the Guards to 
 be ready upon two noblemen's falling out ; she will listen when Lord 
 Mohun comes, and will send a more speedy and exact account. Her 
 next note runs, "I listend and itt is my Lord Mallbouro that has 
 diallings my Lord by Lord Mohun. Pray lett him be secured immedatly. 
 B. Poulett." 
 
 In a third note headed " Saturday morning," Lady Poulett again urges 
 Lord Dartmouth to send guards and adds " the Treasurer must make itt 
 up with Halifax and Codfrie (sic) that noe more quarills happens one 
 this occasion which I hope you and the Queen will prevent for the 
 present. Pray burn my letters and send the very next gard att hand to. 
 secure my Lord and Lord Mohun." 
 
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 btmouth'" * n a letter dated " Tuesday at night " Earl Poulett himself writes to 
 MSS. " Lord Dartmouth. " I think it would look affected in me if the 
 — Examiner should offer to touch upon the least allusion of the late 
 challenge and therefore as a friend I earnestly beg you would give a 
 caution to Swift," &c. 
 
 1712, June 12. Bromley. — Thos. Sprat, Bishop of Eochester to Lord 
 Dartmouth. Friday June 13, is the day that the writer has kept 
 solemnly for many years in his family as a day of thanksgiving for his 
 deliverance from the villainous plot of Robert Young. If, however, the 
 matter at the House be of such importance that it is necessary for him to 
 attend, he will most certainly be present. 
 
 1712, July 22. Wimbledon. — The Rev. Edward Collins, parson of 
 Wimbledon to the Earl of Dartmouth. Writes on behalf of his brother 
 that he may be confirmed in the Government of St. John's, Newfound- 
 land, his competitor for the post, Captain Gully, being dead and buried. 
 
 1712, Aug. 6. Cockpit. — Earl of Dartmouth to the Queen 
 
 " The town is extreem sickly. My Lord Winchilsea died last Monday, 
 and the Duchess of Leeds with her son and daughter are at the Cockpit 
 to secure themselves from his new Grace, who by their accounts does 
 not much deserve that title." 
 
 1712, Aug. 20. Cockpit. — Earl of Dartmouth to the Queen. 
 " Madam, 
 
 I have enclosed an extract of a letter from Mr. Wich to Lord 
 Bolingbroke, in which is an account of a new Alliance that he thinks 
 there is reason to believe ; and one from Mr. Pulteney, with the Czar's 
 threats, which seems as unlikely. I received a letter from my Lord 
 Bolingbroke dated at Paris the 27th N. S., in which he tells me he 
 was to depart next morning, and hoped to pay his duty to your Majesty 
 at Windsor in eight days. There was a committee this morning, and 
 there is to be another to-morrow. I have enclosed a copy of Baron 
 Tracy's report upon the petition of Robert Husher, who is to be executed 
 
 next Saturday at Kingston, unless your Majesty order otherwise " 
 
 To which the Queen replies : — 
 
 Aug. 21. 
 
 " I have read Baron Tracy's report on the petition of Robert Husher, 
 and do not think him a proper object of mercy. 
 
 I am, 
 
 Your very affectionate freind, 
 Anne R." 
 
 1712, Sept. 25. Whitehall.— The Earl of Dartmouth to the Queen. 
 " Madam, 
 
 The commission for building the 50 churches obliges me to give 
 your Majesty this trouble, the time allowed by Act of Parliament being 
 so near out, that there is a necessity for its passing by immediate 
 Warrant. The Duke of Argyll pretends he stays for a pass, therefore 
 have enclosed one, if your Majesty shall think fit to sign it. I am," &c. 
 
 1712, Oct. 10 and Oct. 13. Earl of Oxford to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 — In the latter he writes, " I intend to kiss your hands on Wednesday 
 at Windsor. I shall bring with me an humble servant of yours (as all of 
 my name ought to be) my cousin Harley, who will give you no dis- 
 agreeable account of Hanover. I hope to have your company that 
 night at supper." 
 
 1712, Nov. 4. Whitehall.— The Earl of Dartmouth to the Queen. " I 
 received last night a letter from Lord Lexington of the 28th Oct. N.S. 
 
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 with the renunciation as agreed to by Spain (in as strong terms as your Earl of 
 Majesty can desire) which I laid before the Committee this morning, ^mss? 11 
 and was directed to draw the enclosed answer, if your Majesty shall — 
 approve of it. My Lord has not sent a copy of his Memorial, but your 
 Majesty will see by the answer what the chief points in dispute are, 
 that of Sicily's going to the heirs male of the House of Savoy is a pre- 
 caution seems necessary to prevent that Island's falling into the hands 
 of France, the Duchess of Bourgogne being the eldest sister. My Lord 
 Steward told me your Majesty ordered the Cabinet should not attend 
 at Windsor till Sunday. I am," &c. 
 
 1712, Nov. 12. Whitehall.— The Earl of Dartmouth to the Queen. 
 " Madam, 
 
 I received a letter from Lord Lexington last night dated the 6th 
 Nov. N.S., to acquaint me the King of Spain had made the Eenuncia- 
 tion the day before with great solemnity, but says he could not give 
 the particulars till next post. The French envoy sent the enclosed 
 account to his Court, which Mr. Torcy transmitted to Lord Treasurer. 
 I am," &c. 
 
 1712, Nov. 17. Earl of Cardigan to the same. — On behalf of his 
 chaplain Mr. Hackett, that he may have the prebend of Canterbury 
 vacant by the death of Dr. Nickson. 
 
 Extracts from Minutes of Privy Council taken by Lord 
 Dartmouth on the Duel between the Duke of Hamilton 
 and Lord Mohun. 
 
 1712, Nov. 18. Cockpit. — Lord Keeper; Lord Chamberlain; Lord 
 Steward ; Lord Strafford ; Lord Bolingbroke ; Lord Treasurer ; Lord 
 President ; Lord Lieutenant ; Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 Mr. Lo, the coroner upon the Inquest taken upon the death of Duke 
 Hamilton and Lord Mohun, called in, and his depositions taken upon 
 that occasion read, the Attorney and Solicitor Generals present. 
 
 Reynolds and Nicholson both say Macartney called to them to bear 
 witness he had done all he could to part them, but saw nothing done by 
 him towards doing of it. 
 
 Sir Robert Rich and Joseph Churchill dined with Lord Mohun and 
 Macartney at the Globe Tavern, and Macartney's man in a green livery 
 waited upon them, which servant came to the " Baniough " (Bagnio), 
 in Long Acre for Macartney's portmantle, and said Lord Mohun was 
 killed and his master would be hanged if he were taken. Rice Williams, 
 a servant of Lord Mohun's, called in, said he waited upon his Lord to a 
 Master in Chancery where his Lord met Duke Hamilton, and heard his 
 Lord say to the Duke upon his saying an old servant of Lord Mohun 
 had neither truth nor honesty in him, his Lord said he had as much cf 
 both in him as his Grace ; and they said more, but he did not hear what. 
 He could not remember who dined with his Lord on Friday at the Globe 
 tavern except Sir Robert Rich, and supped with him at the Queen's 
 Arms except Col. Churchill, the Duke of Richmond, and Gen. Macartney. 
 
 The master of the Queen's Arms says he remembers Lord Mohun, 
 the Duke of Richmond, and no more supped there on Friday, but he 
 went away presently, and does not know anything more of them. 
 
 Mr. Thornhill, lawyer, called in, who was present on Thursday at the 
 Master in Chancery when they fell out, says upon offering to read one 
 Whiteworth's evidence, who had been excused two years before for his 
 age, upon which Duke Hamilton said he did not believe he would speak 
 true, upon which Lord Mohun said as true as his Grace ; that the Duke 
 
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 Earl of came to his chambers on Thursday, and desired him to continue hit 
 
 DARTMOUTH'S care of hig cauge 
 
 — Remington, the coachman that carried Lord Mohun to Hyde Park, 
 
 called in, says he took up Lord M. and Macartney, as he understands 
 since he did not know Macartney then, says the seconds never fought 
 as he saw, and the 2d Lords tell the thinks (sic) the Duke first and 
 several ways (sic). 
 
 Morrice, a groom to Col. Gorge, that was present — he never saw the 
 seconds fight tho' they all four drew at once, and were very nigh the two 
 Lords. He thinks Duke Hamilton was first hurt, Lord Mohun making 
 the first thrust, but Lord Mohun fell first, and Duke Hamilton upon 
 him, and the second took him off; he saw the swords and the Lords 
 were bloody, the others not. The coachman says the same. 
 
 Reynolds, keeper of the lodge, called in — says the seconds stood close 
 by them, but he never saw them fight. Lord Mohun fell into the dell, 
 and the Duke was upon one of his knees upon him, as he thinks, and 
 the seconds stood over them. He says he took Duke Hamilton's sword 
 and the 2 seconds', and one of the seconds' swords was bloody, but he 
 cannot tell which, that one of the swords was a black one. 
 
 Nicholson called in — says all four drew their swords, Lord M. fell first 
 and the Duke upon him, he never saw the seconds fight, he saw them 
 move as the others did, and they were very near the Lords ; that three 
 of the swords were bloody, he took my Lord M.'s from him which he 
 held very fast. 
 
 Harris, drawer at the Queen's Arms, called in — says the company on 
 Friday night were the Duke of Richmond, Sir R. Rich, General Macart- 
 ney, and Col. Joseph Churchill. My Lord Mohun and Sir R. Rich 
 came first, and Sir R. Rich went away before supper. 
 
 Mr. Ferguson, gentleman of the horse to Duke Hamilton, called in — 
 says the Duke told him just before he went out that he was going to 
 vindicate his honour, but charged him not to speak of it, but fetch a 
 surgeon to the Park. He went for Bushire (?) but could not find him, 
 but carried his man, but as soon as he came Lord Mohun was dead, and 
 the Duke dying chid him for crying, and bid him carry him to the lodge, 
 but he told him no circumstances of the quarrel, or who it was with, but 
 ordered him to ask no questions. 
 
 Hipsley, the Duke's porter, called in — says Mr. Macartney called 
 very early on Friday morning ; he said the Duke was gone out, and 
 when he told the Duke he said if he had known it he would have seen 
 him, but must go to Lord Bolingbroke, and if he came again to desire 
 he would stay till he came ; but he refused to stay, but said he would 
 come again, but did not come till 4 in the afternoon, and then he spoke 
 with the Duke ; that Macartney called four times that day ; that George 
 Hill, the Duke's valet de chambre, waited upon him the morning he 
 fought. 
 
 Brown, my Lord Mohun's valet de chambre, called in, said he was in 
 the country with my Lady, and knew nothing of the matter. 
 
 Mr. Ame had nothing to say of his own knowledge, but that Lord 
 Mohun lay at his house and Macartney on Friday night, and that 
 Macartney's man came to his house and said the (white ?) gentleman 
 was killed and his master would be hangpd, and owed him some wages, 
 and therefore he would take his portmantle. 
 
 Mr. Woodward, the surgeon that dressed Mr. Hamilton, called in — 
 he was sent for by a gentleman to the Half Moon in Cheapside. He 
 was cut through the shoe and stocking across the instep on the left foot, 
 but he would not tell his name, that ordered him to meet him at the 
 Rose somewhere, but he never heard of him since. 
 
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 Ordered, that a warrant should be sent for Mrs. Beard, landlady to Earlo? 
 Mr. Macartney, that refuses to come without, and that Mr. Lewis DaR mss UT1 
 should examine her. — ' 
 
 Nov. 21. Cockpit. — Lord Keeper; Lord Treasurer; Lord Lieu- 
 tenant ; Lord Steward ; Lord President ; Lord Bolingbroke ; Lord 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 Colonel Hamilton called in, and the Lord Keeper desired him to give 
 an account of what passed in the duel, and that he might say nothing 
 that could hurt himself desired him to confine himself to the transactions 
 of Saturday and gave him the reasons why. Then Colonel Hamilton was 
 sworn He said the Duke sent a servant to him called Lessly at seven 
 o'clock in the morning to get up and dress himself, and after the Duke 
 came himself and sent word he stayed for him in his own coach below ; 
 but came up soon after and desired him to get ready, which he did 
 immediately. And the Duke put on his shirt for him and hurried him 
 down that he had not his sword with him, which the Duke took notice 
 of, and bid his coachman stop and sent his servant with his keys, and 
 look in such a closet he would find a black sword, which he brought and 
 the Duke laid it upon the fore part of the coach and bid him drive 
 towards Kensington. When he came to Hyde Park he saw a hackney 
 coach upon the right hand, and said those were the gentlemen he must 
 speak with, got out and crossed the ditch and ordered the coach to drive 
 on to Kensington Gate. They went up to the lodge, went through the 
 house and asked the hackney coachman where the gentlemen were whom 
 he brought. He answered they were walking a little further ; and they 
 went on till they met Lord Mohun, whom he never saw before, and 
 Mr. Macartney ; and the Duke cried u My Lord, have I come time 
 enough ?" and Macartney answered " Time enough." Then Lord 
 Mohun jumped the ditch, Macartney after him. The Duke pulled off 
 his cloak, and he and the Duke followed them. The Duke said to 
 Mr. Macartney " Let the event of this be what it will, you are the 
 occasion of it." My Lord Mohun said " My Lord Duke, these two 
 gentlemen shall have nothing to do" ; and Macartney answered the 
 Duke " I had a commission for it". Then Marcartney said " we will 
 take our shares," to which the Duke answered " Here's my friend, he 
 will take his share in my dance." Then they drew and Macartney's 
 sword was out as soon as the Lords and pushed immediately at Mr, 
 Hamilton, who beat down his sword which hurt his leg and then closed 
 with him and secured his sword, and looked back and saw the two 
 Lords upon the ground ; upon which he wrested the sword out of his 
 hand and took both swords with him and went .... to help 
 Duke Hamilton whom he found upon Lord Mohun. Pie laid the two- 
 swords by and laid hold of the Duke with both hands. He heard Lord 
 Mohun say " I am killed " ; and when he had the Duke in his arms he 
 asked him how he was, seeing him all blood. The Duke made no 
 answer, and he saw Macartney with a sword, he can not tell what 
 sword made a push at the Duke. He opened his breast and saw no 
 olood, asked him again how he did ; he answered " I am wounded," 
 upon which he took up his own sword in case Macartney should have 
 made another attempt upon them. He led the Duke to a tree where he 
 sunk down and called for his coach. Then one Mr. Ferguson, a servant 
 of his, whom Mr. Hamilton never saw before, he asked him for his 
 coat, and Ferguson said " I have a surgeon here," and went to fetch 
 him from the house. As soon as he came he opened his coat and found 
 a wound upon his left breast which never bled, tho' it was a large 
 orifice which he took to be the wound given him by Macartney. He 
 
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 iaklop thought when he saw Macartney push at the Duke it had been at him, 
 MSS. b and asked him what he meant, but he made no answer but got away, 
 and then he helped the Duke into the coach. He says he saw a man in 
 a red coat lined with blue whom he sent for the Duke's coach, and gave 
 him some money. There were several people by who all assisted Lord 
 Mohun anci helped him into the coach but took no notice of the Duke 
 but left him alone with him, and nobody came to them till Mr. Ferguson 
 and the surgeon. He says the Duke and Lord Mohun had both 
 their swords in their right hands when he came up to them, and held 
 them very fast. 
 
 Nov. 2U Cockpit. 
 
 Ordered that if Mr. Hamilton surrenders himself to me [Lord Dart- 
 mouth] I should take him in custody of a messenger and keep him till 
 the Lords determine what shall be done with him. 
 
 Nov. 23. Windsor. 
 
 Ordered that Col. Hamilton should be committed to Newgate, and 
 that there should be a Proclamation for apprehending Mr. Macartney. 
 
 Nov. 26. Cockpit. 
 
 Koberfcs, the chairman that saw Mr. Macartney at the Duke of Rich- 
 mond's house yesterday, called in — says he carried Mr. Rowley from 
 Brownlow Street to the Duke's house, and saw Macartney between 12 and 1 
 upon the staircase. A man in the Duke's livery was talking to him, and 
 Macartney's face was towards him. That he told one Mr. Clark, that he 
 met at an ale-house, he had seen him, which man brought him hither to 
 day to give an account of it. 
 
 Mr. Tristran Butler called in — said he heard the chairman say he had 
 seen Mr. Macartney, but he never spoke of it to anybody else ; that his 
 name is not Clarke but Butler. 
 
 Ordered, that a warrant should be drawn for searching the Duke of 
 Richmond's house. 
 
 Ordered, that a letter should be sent to the Duke of Richmond to 
 attend the Lords at the Cockpit immediately upon matters of great con- 
 sequence ; that the Duke of Ormonde should send a party of the foot 
 guards to assist the messengers. 
 
 The Duke of Richmond called in — said he had received a letter from 
 me, but did not know what the meaning of it was. He was told there 
 had been an information upon oath that Mr. Macartney was seen at his 
 house yesterday. He said that he believed was not the only false oath 
 which had been taken on this occasion. He desired to know whether 
 he was to be examined. Lord Keeper told him no, because, he said, if 
 he had he should have refused, tho' he would tell their Lordships Mr. 
 Macartney was not at his house yesterday, but had been the day of the 
 duel, and that he brought him to it, and he had staid till Sunday 
 2 o'clock ; but he hoped he was safe now. The Lords told him they 
 thought themselves obliged to have his house searched, but in civility to 
 him they would not have it done till he was acquainted with it, though 
 they had set a guard upon it before he said all the doors should be open. 
 
 Mr. Lewis ordered to wait upon Lady Newburgh and acquaint her 
 there was no design to give her any disturbance ; and order the house to 
 be searched (sic.) 
 
 1712, Nov. 20. Whitehall. — The Earl of Dartmouth to the Queen. 
 " Madam, 
 
 The postboy from Dunkirk had his horse and mail taken from 
 him last night near Deptford, some of the letters were found this morn- 
 
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 ing in a field with the covers of others. Mr. Drift writes from Paris 
 that the mail had been robbed between Amiens and Abbeville, but most 
 of the letters recovered which came from Spain, and were the same taken 
 here. Lord Bolingbroke will acquaint your Majesty with a letter M. 
 Torcy has sent him, and the Duke of Ormonde has given me three 
 examinations taken before the Lord Chief Justice Cox in Ireland, that 
 mention some ill designs against your Majesty's person they expected 
 should have taken effect upon the 10th of this month, which is the more 
 to be regarded for agreeing with the account from Switzerland. 
 
 I am," &c. 
 
 1712-13. Jan. 29.— The Duchess of Marlborough to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Asks for a pass abroad, that she may go to the Duke. 
 
 1712-13, Mar. 12.— Earl of Radnor to the same. On behalf of Col. 
 Charles Dowglass, who desires to be Governor of one of the Plantations 
 in the West Indies. 
 
 1713, Mar, 25.— R. W. to the Earl of Oxford, York Buildings. Sends 
 printed copy of u scandalous and treasonable paper " called the British 
 Ambassadress's Speech to the French King which is being dispersed by 
 one Robins a shoemaker in Bell Yard near Temple Bar. 
 
 1713, April 4. The Earl of Oxford to the Earl of Dartmouth. Has 
 ordered the Attorney and Solicitor (sic) to come to the Treasury, and 
 the Commissioners of the Customs, on Tuesday next concerning the 
 commerce now upon the Peace. Should be glad if Mr. Moore were 
 allowed to see the treaty which came from Spain, in order to prepare 
 matters relating to the Assiento and Spanish commerce. 
 
 1713, April 22 and May 2. — The Earl of Cardigan again writes on 
 behalf of his chaplain. 
 
 1713, May 4.— The Earl of Oxford to the Earl of Dartmouth. Sends 
 enclosed the Proclamation for the Peace. Desires him to write to the 
 Duke of Ormonde, High Steward of Westminster, to send to his officers 
 to attend the Proclamation at eleven to-morrow at St. James's Gate. 
 Heartily congratulates his Lordship that a war which was proclaimed 
 May 4, 1689, is ended May 4, 1713. 
 
 1713, May 15, Whitehall.— The Earl of Dartmouth to the Queen. 
 " Madam, 
 
 Since I came to the office I have looked in the New Testament 
 and find the verse your Majesty objects to is the 10th, and the Arch- 
 bishop proposes to end with the 9th. The words are " Blessed are the 
 Peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God," which seems 
 a very proper conclusion upon that occasion. I am," &c. 
 
 1713, [June 17 ?]— Wednesday night past eleven. The Earl of Oxford 
 to the Earl of Dartmouth. Is just come home where he meets with cer- 
 tain notice of very rough words passed this day at the trial between Duke 
 of Bucks and Lord Conway ; and is satisfied a challenge is sent to meet 
 to-morrow. It is too late to receive the Queen's particular orders, so 
 prays him to secure both. 
 
 1713, July 8. — The Earl of Dartmouth to the Queen. 
 " Madam, 
 
 My Lord Portland has sent me word that he received his money 
 yesterday of Lord Ashburnham, therefore shall wait upon your Majesty 
 with the commission to-morrow. 1 hear the Bishop of Rochester looks 
 upon it as a great misfortune to him that the Bishop of London did not 
 depart a little sooner. I am," &c. 
 
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 Dartmouth's 
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 1713. July 10. — Jamaica. A. Hamilton to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Has received his Lordship's in favour of Mr. Peter Beckford, but com- 
 plains of the opposition and obstruction he has been giving to the 
 government there. 
 
 1713, July 15.— The Earl of Dartmouth to the Queen. 
 " Madam, 
 
 I humbly beg leave to propose to your Majesty whether it were 
 not better these words were left out. 
 
 " For which I have ventured so much and with so great success, as 
 obliges me to return thanks first to Heaven and next to the affection of 
 my people." 
 
 There seems to me to be no occasion for them. Thanking Heaven 
 is a poetical expression, and I believe never used from the throne before. 
 " Thanks to the affection of my people " is not good English. Besides 
 it will make the speech shorter, which would not be worse ; but if this 
 is not your Majesty's own opinion, I beg it may go no further, and that 
 you will pardon the presumption of him who is with the greatest respect 
 and submission," &c. 
 
 1713, July 20. — Jamaica. John Peeke to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Reminds his Lordship of his kindness, when a Commissioner for Trade, 
 in procuring the writer's promotion to the Council there ; and of their 
 acquaintance at King's College, Cambridge. Congratulates him on his 
 new dignities, and hopes he may be privileged to write to him with 
 some freedom touching the affairs of the Island. 
 
 1713, July 20. Somerset house. — The Earl of Clarendon to the same. 
 Asks what directions have been giving concerning one Corbett who was 
 condemned last sessions. 
 
 1713, July 29. — Lord Berkeley of Stratton to the same. Asks con- 
 cerning the medals given by the Queen, being informed that Lord 
 Dartmouth had his. 
 
 1713, July 30. — Richmond. Same to same. Thanks Lord Dartmouth 
 for the care he had taken of the medal, being afraid of a trick 
 from the under officers of the cofferer. One is inclined to be more 
 suspicious and ill natured as one grows older, but he finds it makes no 
 alteration in the esteem he has long had for his lordship. 
 
 1713, Aug. 1. — The Earl of Cardigan to the same. The living of 
 Southam in Warwickshire now reported vacant by Lord Willoughby's 
 promotion to the Bishopric of Bristol, the writer requests may be given 
 to his chaplain Mr. Hackett, a bachelor of divinity and fellow of Trinity 
 College in that University his Lordship does so much honour to. 
 
 1713, Aug. 5. — Chief Justice Sir Thomas Parker to the same. Gives 
 a state of the case of William Partridge, and is of opinion that he is not 
 a proper object of mercy. Partridge had formerly committed a felony 
 and had been burnt in the hand. Since then he and another had made 
 it their business to steal cows in Essex and sell them in Hertfordshire, 
 for which they were now convicted. 
 
 1713, Aug. 8.— -The Country. Jonathan Swift to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 " My Lord, 
 
 The way I take of shewing my duty and gratitude to those I owe 
 most of both, is by troubling them as seldom as I can. This made me 
 hitherto contradict the violent inclinations I had to write to your 
 Lordship, which now I can resist no longer, especially since I begin to 
 
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 hold up my head after a long disorder it has suffered by the ill life I led Earl of 
 
 and the ill company I kept among you. And I am not altogether in DAR Mssy TH 
 
 jest, for God knows I kept some very ill company every Saturday, — 
 
 worse than any of my neighbouring Justices here ; but I hope that will 
 
 be mended at my return. And now my Lord you are to know that 
 
 I will not obey your commands of waiting on you in Staffordshire in 
 
 my way to London ; neither do I think it seasonable or safe for me to 
 
 be on that side of the Channel while you are on this side the Thames. 
 
 Your Lordship who has the honor to be one of my Brother Cowards (as 
 
 you know who calls four of us) will pardon me if my heart begins to ake 
 
 when I look about at Court and cannot find you. Therefore pray give 
 
 timely warning to Mr. Lewis and me, that he may trot down to Wales, 
 
 and I gallop to Holyhead. But my Lord, we the common People, 
 
 who have the care of your preferment, are resolved not to take away 
 
 the Seals from you, till we have given you another, much more easy 
 
 and honourable, though perhaps not altogether so rich. And I who am 
 
 much older than your Lordship, can assure you, that whenever you 
 
 change your station your enemies will be able to produce very few examples 
 
 in the memory of man, of a Minister who has served with so much honor 
 
 and integrity. My Lord I am preparing my self to come over and 
 
 demand the dinner you ow me, and hope to find your Lordship in your 
 
 Turret at Windsor. In the mean time I desire you to believe that I 
 
 am with the greatest respect and truth, &c. 
 
 J. Swift." 
 
 Another letter, undated, but probably written in January 1713 from 
 the same, runs thus : 
 " My Lord, 
 
 I am writing almost in the dark in my Lady Dutchess of 
 Hamilton's Bedchamber. Her Grace is on one side, and my Lady 
 Oglethorp on the other. The latter commands me to write to your 
 Lordship, and to entreat that you would hasten her daughter's pass, the 
 maid being to go away at two a clock to-day, and her daughter to-morrow 
 with the Dutchess of Shrewsbury. Therefore I desire to use my little 
 credit with your Lordship to do what my Lady Oglethorp desires, that 
 the pass may be signed as soon as possible, by which I find she means by 
 two a clock to-day. 
 
 I am with the greatest respect, &c, 
 
 J. Swift." 
 
 Saturday noon. 
 
 1713, Aug. 13. Court at Windsor. — Order of Council for the Earl of 
 Dartmouth to be Lord Privy Seal. 
 
 1713, Sept. 5. Paris. —Matthew Prior to the Earl of Dartmouth. Will 
 afford Mrs. Anne Jevon (?) all the assistance he can in her claim. 
 Congratulates his Lordship on the great employment her Majesty has 
 been pleased to give him. 
 
 Newsletters from Whitehall to Lord Dartmouth at Sandwell, un- 
 signed, but written by his secretary, Erasmus Lewis. 
 
 1713, Sept. 8. — " I was told at Windsor that Lord Hay made all possible 
 advances, T was going to say submissions but recollected myself in good 
 time. Nothing, however, could prevail with Lord Treasurer to promise 
 him he would give a helping hand to bring him into Parliament. Lord 
 Harley is to be at court this day se'nnight when the compliment is made 
 he will be declared something or other of Newcastle. The Bishop of 
 London is angry that he lost C. P. S., and puts a long dash after his 
 
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 Earl of name, instead of the three capitals. Dr. Smallridge and Lord 
 UAR MS°s! TH ' S Willoughby not pleased. 
 
 Sept. 10. — I was told that Lord Finlater was this morning declared 
 Chancellor of Scotland, and Lord Mar, third Secretary of State. The 
 last I am pretty sure is true, but I am not certain of the first. These 
 things make Lord Bol stare. 
 
 Sept. 12. — Lord Mar expects to be Secretary of State in as full a 
 manner as the Duke of Queensberry was, excepting only that he is not to 
 divide with us, for which the Signet in Scotland will now be a good 
 equivalent, but Lord Bolingbroke and the Secretary understand he is to 
 have the same Commission that he had once before himself when he con- 
 tinued Secretary for some time after the Union. The Duke of Ormonde 
 has received notice that he is to lose his Government of Ireland, and has 
 already acquainted the Lords Justices with it. The Bishop of 
 Rochester's son Mr. Sprat, is to have the Prebend of Westminster. The 
 Dean of St. Patrick's is your humble servant. 
 
 Sept. 15. — The Duke of Shrewsbury declared Lord Lieutenant last Sun- 
 day by the Queen, who expressed herself thus — the Duke of Ormonde 
 having served me in the Government of Ireland the usual time I have 
 thought fit to appoint the Duke of Shrewsbury to succeed him. It is 
 not impossible but the Secretary and Chancellor of Scotland may be 
 unmade again, if so 'twill cost dear, for they must be paid double, part 
 for the place, and part for the dishonour. Sir John Stanley succeeds 
 Mr. Southwell. I was chosen at Lostwithiel without opposition last 
 Wednesday. Lord Harley was to be at Windsor to-day iu Lord 
 Steward's apartment, but sure he won't leave Lady Harriot at Datchet. 
 
 Sept. 17. — Lord Portmore is to be brought in instead of Lord Hay. 
 Some think the Duke of Marlborough will be made Governor of the 
 Netherlands. 
 
 Sept. 19. — The Scots are very angry that Lord Portmore is to be 
 of the number of the elect. They say he is not of their ancient race, 
 and that he was born in Holland and never naturalised. The Bishop 
 of London's letters of revocation will be sent him next post, for it is 
 impossible he and Lord Strafford can be in the same town, much less 
 in the same councils together. 
 
 Sept. 24. — The Scotch paper was printed in view of throwing 
 Mr. Lockhart out of the Parliament. Your Lordship will see the 
 honour done to Lord Bingley's skill in architecture, for the Dutch 
 Gazettes say he is to have the care of seeing Whitehall rebuilt. Lord 
 Dartmouth's kinswoman Lady Lansdowne is come to live at Whitehall 
 with six and thirty servants. 
 
 Sept. 26. — Harry Worseley succeeds Mr. Delaval at Lisbon, but not 
 with the same appointments. The new Lord Lieutenant seems to have 
 formed a scheme for making both parties easy under his Government ; 
 the conclusion of such projects generally is that neither party is pleased. 
 His Grace it is hoped will have better success, the Whigs have already 
 offered to capitulate with him if Lord Chancellor Phipps be recalled, 
 but the Tories say they will sooner part with their new Governor. 
 
 Oct. 1. — I can't tell whom Lord Mar can mean [see his letter 
 
 of Sept. 21] unless it be Lord B , but be it who it will his Lordship 
 
 has not much reason to complain since he is now in the enjoyment of 
 ten thousand pounds a year. There is a Privy Council to day at 
 Windsor about the Irish affairs, but Lord Treasurer is not well eno' 
 
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 to be there. In a post or two I hope to send the Earl of Strafford's eael of 
 letter, but I can't ask Lord Treasurer for it till he is quite well; in Dar ™° s uth ' 3 
 the mean time Lord Strafford will not expect an answer, for he is in — ' 
 retreat and will by no means submit to act by virtue of the old 
 commission wherein the Bishop is named first, though the Bishop is 
 actually recalled, for he insists upon a new commission wherein he 
 alone is named. The last instructions about the Treaty of Commerce 
 with Spain will be sent away to-morrow. I find by all the pamphlets 
 they give up the distinction of Whig and Tory, and bend all their 
 thoughts to make new distinction between the Tories themselves, 
 as Hanover Tory and Pretender's Tory, English Tory and French Tory, 
 for trade or against it," &c. 
 
 1713, Sept. 21/ Stamford.— The Earl of Mar to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 On his way to Scotland for the election. Some of his friends have not 
 shown themselves altogether such, and have not acted so ingenuously by 
 him as he might have expected, but he will have a story to teli Lord 
 Dartmouth about that when he sees him. Lord Bingley is in the country, 
 pulling down the other half of his new house, he supposes, &c. 
 
 1713, Oct. 2.— The Earl of Oxford to the Earl of Dartmouth. Give me 
 leave to tell your Lordship how obliging you are. The Church 
 designed that a wife should be for better for worse, in sickness and 
 in health. I have had experience of your friendship to me in all 
 
 estates , Our friend Lewis asked for Lord Strafford's letter, 
 
 which I have put into his hands. I thought a good while that the best 
 reproof was silence, but since his Excellency will not be contented with 
 that, I have by this post told him I concur with everybody else 
 to think he had better let the dispute alone, if he had been in the right, 
 as he is not, for he must not pretend to oblige the Queen to alter her 
 credentials. We are at last in earnest demolishing Dunkirk, and our 
 young politicians will find by this day's letters from France, that they 
 do not know quite so much as they fancy to themselves. My wife and 
 Lady Henrietta found themselves extremely obliged to Lady Dartmouth 
 at Windsor," &c. 
 
 1713, Oct. 4. Lisbon. Deiavale to the Earl of Dartmouth. . . Has 
 
 never observed any good consequences from her Majesty's great bounty 
 and goodness to the Morocco Ministers, nor any bad from the neglect 
 of them. Cardinash who was the first that came to the Queen had the 
 appointments given to English Envoys, his travelling charges by land 
 and sea, and considerable presents at his departure. The Emperor 
 demanded all this back from him and in the end tormented him very 
 cruelly, took from him his patrimonial estate and left him a beggar. 
 The next that came was Joseph Dias, a slave taken in a Spanish boat, 
 who had a similar allowance and nothing given him when he went away. 
 He pretended to complain of his being imprisoned by the Queen's order 
 on account of the writer's being at Tetuan ; but no account was made of 
 him and he is at his work again. Her Majesty will have a minister from 
 Morocco so long as anything is given, tho' never so small, and no longer. 
 Death has removed two persons of late, which the writer hopes will produce 
 considerable advantage to her Majesty's affairs, Benaisha the Admiral of 
 Salley and the Alcaid of Alcassar. The former was a mortal enemy to the 
 Slaves, especially the English, and was a most particular instance of 
 Moorish ingratitude, being sent home by King Charles II. without ransom, 
 and with very considerable presents. The latter was not naturally our 
 enemy, but the uncertainty of his temper rendered him incapable of 
 
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 Earl of t doing us service. His son who succeeds him is a more practicable 
 
 .DARTMOUTH S 
 
 mss. man. 
 
 17||, Feb. 17. Boston, New England. — Fr Nicholson to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Is now examining Colonel Vetch, late Governor of Anna- 
 polis Royal, charged with arbitrary and illegal proceeding. Sends a copy 
 of his letter of Dec. 14 last, in which he complained that there were sent 
 over to Boston and other places all the traitorous, factious, and ill- 
 natured pamphlets of all sorts, and industriously spread abroad among 
 the people ; and suggested that a good number of loyal prints should be 
 sent over for distribution to undeceive the people. 
 
 1714, April 4.— The Earl of Oxford to the Earl of Dartmouth. « I am 
 heartily concern'd your Lordship could imagine me capable of altering 
 towards your Lordship. You have had your share of the impertinent 
 humor of some people, though I believe at that time I was chiefly aim'd 
 at. I hope before long to have an opportunity to make them know 
 themselves." 
 
 1714, April 6. — George Vernon to the same. — Bequests a recom- 
 mendation to the Lord Treasurer. They are assured in the House of 
 Commons that there will suddenly be many removes made of persons 
 now in employment. Desires a commissionership of Excise. 
 
 1714, April 17. — Lord Digby to the same. The town of Birmingham, 
 being unable to finish their new church, have thoughts of petitioning for 
 the Queen's Bounty ; but cannot think of doing so with applying first to 
 their near neighbour, Lord Dartmouth, for his advice and assistance, 
 which the writer has undertaken on their behalf. 
 
 1714, April 23. Boston. — Fr. Nicholson to the same. Recommends 
 Sir Charles Hobby, the bearer, to Lord Dartmouth's protection ; he 
 commanded one of the New England regiments at the taking of 
 Annapolis Royal. Repeats his charges against Colonel Samuel Vetch, 
 who had scandalously run away from Boston when he should have 
 stayed to make up his accounts, &c. 
 
 1714, Aug. 4. — The Earl of Dartmouth to King George I. 
 « Sir, 
 
 I should not presume to trouble your Majesty with my humble 
 congratulations upon your happy accession to the Crown, if the station 
 I am in by the favour of the late Queen did not make it my duty in 
 particular to assure your Majesty that no subject in your dominions 
 does more sincerely rejoice at the zeal and unanimity that lias been 
 expressed by all sorts of people for securing your Majesty's succession. 
 The little I could contribute upon that occasion has not been wanting, 
 nor shall I ever omit any opportunity to demonstrate that I am with the 
 most profound submission and respect," &c. 
 
 1714, Aug. 5. Arlington Street. — Baron Bothmer to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Acknowledges the above letter. 
 
 1714, Aug. 12.— The Earl of Oxford to the Earl of Dartmouth. " You 
 are so taken up with administering affairs, and attending your Royalty, that 
 I cannot get a moment to converse with my dearest Lord, and thank him 
 for his last favours. I have seriously thought upon our Saturday night's 
 conversation. This day was the first that I could have free discourse 
 with Lord Treasurer. I will not take a step, but in conjunction with your 
 Lordship, Duke of Ormonde, and Lord Treasurer. I have something 
 to propose to your Lordship upon that head, and shall be glad either at 
 the House of Lords or elsewhere to have one quarter of an hour with 
 you. 
 
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 1714, Aug. 18.— -The Earl of Oxford to the Earl of Dartmouth. " It D ^* L ° F , 
 is in Lincoln's Inn Fields where your children will have the honor of AR ms°S UTH S 
 your company, and your humble servant meets you." — 
 
 Attached to this are the following rhymes in Lord Oxford's hand — 
 
 And for those who did conspire 
 
 For to bring in James Esquire 
 
 Now hope to be sav'd by their own Bonfire 
 
 Doctors agree they are never the higher. 
 
 Teste Jonathan. 
 
 1714, [End of August.] — Same to the Same. 
 
 Friday night. 
 
 " My Dearest Lord, 
 
 Your conversation the other evening had that impression which 
 your good sense and kindness ought to make ; the more I turn it in my 
 thoughts the clearer it appears to me, and every reflection I make brings 
 new light to your plan, as accidents and circumstances which hourly 
 come to one's knowledge serve for demonstration. 
 
 It is plain that the following particulars cannot be denied, are, as 
 one may say, self evident. 
 
 1. The King's unacquaintedness, and partial information, (were he a 
 Solomon) cannot make a plan of an established consistent Government 
 or Administration. 
 
 2. Neither party of the two denominations (Whig and Tory) sepa- 
 rately can form any such as is practicable. 
 
 3. Neither have any amongst them credit enough or perhaps sufficient 
 spirit to form such a settlement. 
 
 4. It is therefore plain there must be an understanding formed 
 between those who wish a settlement in England capable of bringing the 
 aforesaid desired end to pass. 
 
 Every body seems to be prepared for it, both sides despair separately, 
 now is the opportunity to strike in and my dear Lord's healing hand 
 must apply the remedy : I can assure you there is a great preparation and 
 disposition everywhere. You see how free I am upon the encourage- 
 ment you gave me, and I have not lost time in cultivating the thoughts 
 your Lordship inspired me with, without any remark or suspicion. But 
 time is precious. 
 
 I asked Mr. Secretary Bromley by chance to dine with me enfamille 
 to morrow being Saturday ; if nothing hinders your Lordship you will 
 oblige by coming, who am entirely yours." 
 
 1714, Sept. 28. — Viscount Townshend to the same. Replies to an 
 application for 645/. arrears due to Lord Dartmouth as Lord Privy 
 Seal, that he has not had an opportunity of mentioning the matter to his 
 brother W alpole. There is not at present any money in the Exchequer 
 applicable to the payment of the Queen's debts, but the amount shall be 
 paid out of the first that comes in. 
 
 1714, Sept. 28. The Hague.— The Earl of Strafford to the same. The 
 King has given him an obliging and favourable reception, and several 
 patient audiences. His Majesty will be torn to pieces for places when he 
 arrives in England, so the writer fears he may be forgotten in the crowtf 
 and hurry, unless some one mentions him. 
 
 1714-5, March 1. Brampton Castle. — The Earl of Oxford to the same. 
 {i I owe to the perfect friendship which your Lordship has honoured me 
 with an account of myself since I saw you in London. The next day I 
 went into Cambridgeshire where 1 stayed until the day before the 
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 Eakl of 5 Coronation, and was preparing to retire to this place, when I was 
 ^ R MSisy TH 6 seized within four days by a most violent stranquary, which was followed 
 — ■ with rheumatic pains in my limbs, and the necessity of removing my 
 Library obliging me to go out too soon, I relapsed, which kept me in 
 London until the latter end of January. I trouble your Lordship with 
 this impertinent account of myself, as the reason I have not sooner 
 troubled you with my letters. Our elections in these parts are over, 
 and all the threats and arts could make no impression in all Hereford- 
 shire. But for Radnorshire and other places as all over it would need 
 a volume as (Fox's) Martyrs to express what has passed. In the county 
 of Radnor two are already dead of their wounds, being set upon coming 
 from the election without the least provocation. I suppose this is 
 pursuant to the worthy advice of Burnet whose book desires that all 
 whom he calls the passive party may be ordered to sell their estates 
 and depart the land ; and I hope this will be esteemed very moderate." 
 
 1715, October 3. Charterhouse. — Dr. John King to the same. Asks his 
 lordship's support in his candidature for the mastership of the Charter- 
 house, vacant by Dr. Burnett's death. Has served (in the office next 
 under him) as Preacher for about 20 years. The master was buried 
 this night. 
 
 There are five or six other letters from Dr. King on the same subject, 
 the last being dated Nov. 10. 
 
 1715, Oct. 15. — Dr. Geo. Stanhope to the same. On behalf of Mr. Harris, 
 Chaplain to the Duke of Argyll, a candidate for the Mastership of the 
 Charterhouse. Mentions Sir Richard Steele as another competitor, who 
 might get Crown influence in his favour. 
 
 1715, Nov. 5 and 6. — Letters from John, Bishop of London, the Earl 
 of Clarendon, and Lord Guilford, recommending Dr. King. 
 
 1716. April 27. Tower.— The Earl of Oxford to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. 
 
 " When I wrote my best your Lordship justly complained of its badness, 
 but now it will need much apology to trouble you with my own writing 
 when 1 can scarce force my hand to hold a pen longer than the writing 
 of four lines at a time. 
 
 But the subject I am going to write on being not fit for any one's 
 hand but my own, I presume upon your Lordship's known friendship 
 to receive my thoughts in so bad a scrawl. I know you would do me 
 any act of friendship and kindness. What I shall mention is not only 
 personal to myself, but it carries with it the concern of common justice 
 due to mankind by the law of humanity, and to Englishmen by the 
 constitution. The credit of the present House of Commons as accusers 
 and prosecutors, the justice of the House of Lords as judges, and the 
 honor of his Majesty, for whose succession I have done so much (as 
 the King knows), and suffered what the world sees. These motives en- 
 courage me to write to your Lordship on this subject, and because I 
 would be glad (if your Lordship have no objection) that my Lord 
 Townshend may be acquainted with what follows, and the rather from 
 your Lordship because you know upon how many particular occasions I 
 exerted myself to hinder severities, and that I occasioned reflections upon 
 myself by interposing to moderate the heat of others. 
 
 All this a preface to let me in to acquaint your Lordship that com- 
 mon fame brings me the report of an Act of Indemnity to be brought 
 in, and that some warm persons design an express exception of me out 
 of it. If this rumour be without any foundation, then I have only your 
 Lordship's pardon to ask for this needless trouble. But should there 
 
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 be any such project I cannot be too quick in using my best endeavours Earl of 
 against that which will have so sudden a passage and must in its nature Dar ™°™h's 
 be an act of condemnation of me to (perhaps) perpetual imprisonment, — 
 and leave me without remedy either for my liberty, or what is the dearest 
 thing to me, my reputation. 
 
 Can it be taken amiss that I do my utmost to ward against such a 
 fatal stroke ? 
 
 After having waited above nine months under an imprisonment 
 attended with severe sickness and exorbitant charges, without giving the 
 least interruption to the affairs of the House of Commons, or hearkening 
 to the insinuation of some who would fain embroil the ministers by my 
 trial — . And when the House of Commons have thought fit to begin 
 so ample an Act for Indemnity for real crimes, must I be condemned 
 unheard by an Act of the Crown (who formerly were the fountain and 
 authors of acts of grace) must this I say be done to me for crimes of 
 the first impression, & unproved ? 
 
 Can the House of Peers, who are my judges, refuse my petition, or 
 refuse to hear me ? Is it agreeable to common justice to punish me by 
 an exception, which is really an Act of Attainder as to my liberty, 
 because my judges and my accusers did not in a year's time think fit 
 to try me. 
 
 Had I put off" my trial, had I absconded, had I tampered with 
 witnesses, were the facts I am accused of such as did relate to any 
 hazard of the State, I ought immediately be brought to answer ; but to 
 be destroyed by a side wind has something wants a parallel. I have a 
 very great stock of patience, but when there appears to be no end of my 
 sufferings, and neither measure nor modesty observed in the undeserved 
 reproaches I am loaded with, I owe it to my self, to my family, and 
 to the liberties of my country as an Englishman, to attempt a vin- 
 dication. 
 
 I was forced out of my country retirement, for which I had prepared 
 my self from the time of the Queen's death, and I have lain quiet here 
 thus long in the assurances of my innocency, in hopes of a proper 
 opportunity to make it clear to the world ; and it will be strange that I 
 should now be forced to defend myself against an unexampled method 
 of confinement. Yet this exception carries something further, for it 
 prejudges my cause (on which issue is joined) unheard; for such an 
 exception in an act of Parliament must not only blacken me to the 
 world in general, but will tend at least to warp the inclinations of my 
 judges ^ hereafter. Having mentioned thus hastily these few con- 
 siderations amongst many others relating to the two Houses, I cannot 
 but take notice that his Majesty, from whom such an act and exception 
 must originally rise is concerned in honor and justice to have this affair 
 truly and. fully stated to him, before he consents to have such hardship 
 attempted. If the King should not think fit to let me have any share in 
 his mercy, I submit, but an exception in my case is a condemnation, a 
 leading the way to a further sentence. 
 
 I will not mention my services to his Majesty and his family. The 
 proofs of them are strong and uncontestable, the King knows them, the 
 world knows them ; a recital of them may be called an exprobation ; 
 and I never aimed at more than under that family to enjoy the common 
 liberties of my country. But on the other hand it will be hard if my 
 zeal for the Protestant succession is to mark me out for a sacrifice ; and 
 though I have never used it as a plea of merit I must be excused if I 
 produce everything I can in my own defence." 
 
 Attached to the above is a short note from the same, dated " Friday 
 night, April 27, 1716," which runs :— 
 
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 " I have sent your Lordship a letter which I entirely commit to your 
 Lordship's disposal when you have perused it. I wrote it in one run of 
 thought, but I was forced to let my weak hand often take breath, to 
 recover strength to go on. 
 
 I have endeavoured to couch it so as to avoid any expression which 
 might give offence. 
 
 I am ever yours, and your whole family's, most devotedly and entirely." 
 
 1716, June 19. London. — Edward Southwell to the same, at Sandwell. 
 " We are like to have a busy week by the closing of the long Sessions, 
 the settling our future government, and his Majesty's great impatience 
 not to lose the present season of the waters. His Royal Highness 
 proposes to be very active and obliging to all mankind, to make some 
 progresses, and to efface those evil impressions which disaffected people 
 have spread to his disadvantage in the country." 
 
 1716, July 5. [Tower.] — The Earl of Oxford to the same. Congra- 
 tulates him on an increase of his family, and thank him for the mark 
 of his friendship in being admitted godfather to his son. 
 
 1716, July 17. (t In the 2 d year of our taking this Castle " [the Tower]. 
 Same to the same. Thinks the Lord of the Nunnery at Cheshunt (Lord 
 Bingley) has forgotten to deliver the above letter, and repeats its con- 
 tents adding " My father was a hearty and sincere servant of your father's, 
 " and sent to offer his service to be his bail. I pray God this new 
 " comer may inherit all the virtues, good fortune, and the longevity of 
 " any of his ancestors." 
 
 1716, Nov. 29. [Tower.] — Same to the Same. "Being afraid 
 that your Lordship should forget there is such a place in the 
 world as London, and fancy that Birmingham in your neighbourhood is 
 the biggest city, (at least) in England, and this is not unlikely, for there 
 are those who determine that Bremen, &c. are better sea ports than any 
 in Britain. To prevent therefore your Lordship being entirely pervaded 
 (to use your own university word) by such a forgetfulness, this is to tell 
 you there is such a place as London, and that even the owner of Ches- 
 hunt Nunnery [Lord Bingley] is retired to London. If your Lordship 
 is inclined to see whether 1 tell you true, you will prevent a summons 
 after the eight of January. What the weather will then prove, the 
 Almanacks for next year not being yet published, I cannot tell. It is 
 certain Partridge's predictions for this month prove true, for there is a 
 book publicly sold containing the most spiteful and abominable 
 characters of some very great men who were in this Government at first, 
 
 and this declare that an undoubted zeal for the Protestant 
 
 succession in some men would not render them otherwise than incom- 
 patible in the Administration and a dead weight against the common 
 interest. 
 
 And now having given your Lordship a quotation of my this day T s 
 reading, I beseech you to believe me," &c. 
 
 " [P.S.] I find amongst my MSS., Robert Legg, Esq., Treasurer of 
 our Gaily s, temp. Henry 8. Have you anything about him at Sandwell ? 
 What I quote is from the original." 
 
 1717, May 9. [Tower.] — The same to same. " If it will be agreeable 
 for your Lordship's affairs Sunday a quarter after twelve the Gates are 
 open, and we may have two hours to go over my petition and the 
 precedents before any one comes." 
 
 17 17,JunelO. [Tower.] — The same to same. " Last night I was surprised 
 with an attempt at a negociation. Your humble servant was categorical 
 
 Earl or 
 
 Dartmouth's 
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 in his answers, and to their grief not to be altered. It is convenient Earl op 
 
 your Lordship should have an account of this at large, either to yourself Dartmouth's 
 
 or to our common friend, by discourse. Wednesday will determine — ' 
 (according to the present system) the liberty of more than one. 
 
 1717, June 11. Tuesday night. [Tower.] — The same to the same. " I 
 found the paper as soon as your Lordship was gone, the words are as 
 follow : — 
 
 " D. thinks it very dangerous for him to meddle or interpose any 
 way whatsoever in this present point ; for the event will be most cer- 
 tainly to make one party his bitter enemies, without making one single 
 friend amongst the others, and so he shall inevitably be crushed between 
 both." 
 
 Pray destroy this. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 I cannot tell what to say more than what we talked this 
 morning. A few days more or less is but a small matter to one who 
 has continued so long a prisoner ; but displeasing my friends is a great 
 matter. Therefore I do entirely refer myself to their j udgment, and I 
 believe it is impossible for them to determine until they talk with one 
 another and feel the temper of the House. 
 
 I desire no better judgment than yours, nor a truer friend than 
 your self." 
 
 1717, Aug. 26 and Nov. 17. — The same to the same. Two friendly and 
 cheerful letters written after his release from the Tower. 
 
 1718, Oct. 27. Westminster. — John, Bishop of London to the same. 
 Recommends one Mr. King, half brother to the worthy Master of the 
 Charterhouse, for a living in the gift of the Governors. 
 
 1718, Nov. 4. Stainborough. — The Earl of Strafford to the same. Also 
 recommends one Doctor King to the Charterhouse living of Norton in 
 Essex. Is plagued, like Lord Dartmouth, to be in town at the opening 
 of the Sessions, but shall continue his resolution of staying at home pour 
 planter des choux. 
 
 1719, June 24, June 26, July 22, July 24, and July 31.— Lord 
 Guernsey writes from Albury describing the illness of his father, the 
 Earl of Aylesford, and his death in the night of July 23. 
 
 [1720. Aug. ?]. Lord Bingley [unsigned] to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 " The fall of the South Sea stock seems to give an opportunity of coming 
 in to advantage, even now when the price is so high, because the stock 
 is still much higher in people's opinions, and opinion is the thing will 
 raise it. Therefore if your Lordship continues in the desire of being an 
 adventurer I believe this is the time of making preparation for it. I 
 told Lady Cardigan yesterday, when I was consulted, that Company had 
 got the philosopher's stone, and any lady that touched her dressing 
 plate silver there it was immediately changed to gold ; besides, that 
 diamonds that are lodged there grow." 
 
 1720, Aug. 23, and Sept. 6. — Henry Weston to the same. About the 
 purchase of South Sea stock. 
 
 1720, Sept. 8, and three undated letters. — Lord Bingley to the same. 
 On the same subject. 
 
 1720, Oct. 1. — Henry Weston to the same. Could he have given any 
 satisfactory account of the South Sea stock he should not have lost the 
 
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 tmouth's pl easuro °f communicating it. The stock fell down on Thursday night 
 MSS. to 170, on Friday morning at the Books was 180, but rose before night 
 to 320. Many of the most eminent Bankers had stopped payment, and 
 there was a still continued run on the Bank. LordBingley thought the 
 danger was over, that the Bank would be able to support herself, and 
 that the ship would be able to go to sea again ; but for the writer's part 
 he might as well have been drowned, as most of his goods had been 
 thrown overboard. Lady Aylesford had once made very considerable 
 profit, but was now under the same circumstances. Colonel Lumley, 
 who bought part of Lord Dartmouth's third subscription, had absconded. 
 There are very few gainers besides the Directors, who are treated like 
 betrayers of their country and insulted wherever they go; Sir John 
 Blunt had narrowly escaped being shot on Tuesday night. The loss 
 would fall chiefly on the persons of quality and estates, and on officers of 
 the army. 
 
 1720, Dec. 10. Cotesmore. — W. Leveson Gower desires Lord Dart- 
 mouth's support of himself as a candidate for Staffordshire. 
 
 1720-1, Jan. 9. London. — Lord Bathurst to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 About Mr. Secretary Craggs' purchase of the lease to a Mr. Allen by 
 Lord and Lady Jersey of the house and grounds at Squerries. 
 
 1720-1, Jan. 9. Cockpit. — J. Craggs writes on the same subject. 
 
 1720- 1, Feb. 18. — Henry Weston to the same. On South Sea stock. 
 Lord Stanhope was buried yesterday in Kent as a General officer, the 
 horse and foot guards attending the procession through the City, with the 
 King's and Prince's and most of the nobility's coaches. It is said Mr. 
 Methuen will succeed Mr. Craggs. The Commons were this day in a 
 Committee on the South Sea Bill. Mr. Walpole moved that a clause 
 might be added that the estates and effects of all the South Sea directors 
 might be confiscated and applied to the repairing the losses of that 
 Company, which was agreed to. 
 
 ] 721-2, Jan. 23. — Earl of Aylesford to the same. Is desired by Lord 
 Dartmouth's friend and fellow traveller Sir Thomas Twysden to beg 
 his lordship to order his steward at Blackheath to speak to the free- 
 holders at I. ewisham to be for him (Twysden) and Sir Edward Knatchbull 
 m the Kent election. The Whigs are fallen out, which gives them 
 greater hopes. As for Parliament affairs, the Tories go on to state 
 questions, and lose them, their number seldom amounting to more 
 than 22. 
 
 1721- 2, Jan. 30. Lewisham. — Dr. George Stanhope to the same. On 
 election matters in Kent, Had sent messages to his friends in Deptford 
 on behalf of Sir Thomas Twysden. 
 
 1721-2, Mar. 2. Orchard Wyndham.— Sir William Wyndham to the 
 same. Is sorry to have been prevented by the perfidiousness of a little 
 fellow in that country from helping Mr. Lewis. 
 
 1722, Mar. 27. — The Earl of Strafford to the same. I wish you joy of 
 disposing so well of Lord Lewisham, who will become a sort of countryman 
 of mine, tho' I doubt the fine place you are making for him will not let him 
 think of inhabiting our northern hills. I have a design on you which is 
 an honour I have had in view at the birth of every child, but as they 
 proved daughters I reserved that honour for my first son, that he may 
 value such a godfather and strive to imitate his great and good qualities. 
 I design the christening to be Thursday sennight. In a day or day I 
 shall be going out of town to assist Charles Leigh in Bedfordshire. 
 
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 1722, Sept. 15. One Black Ball in Lincoln's Inn Fields— The Earl of Eare op 
 Oxford to the same. Has with much trouble brought up his " crazy DaR mss JTH ' 8 
 carkasse " to town. His long and severe sickness prevented his earlier — 
 congratulations on Lord Lewisham's happy marriage. Hopes to have the 
 happiness to embrace Lord Dartmouth in town before the Parliament 
 meets, where they say will be affairs brought on which will make every 
 one's presence necessary. 
 
 1731, Nov. 3. Bath.— The Earl of Orrery to [Lady Kaye]. " At my 
 return from Marston I received the great favour your Ladyship to 
 bestow upon me. Such a kind enquiry after an humble servant does 
 me as much good as the Bath waters and raises my spirits more than all 
 the cordials my physicians have prescribed 
 
 This place begins to thin (tho' I shall not diminish the number till 
 the beginning of January). It has never been very full of the first 
 rank, and tho' our rooms are sometimes so crowded as even to make 
 'em uneasy to breathe in, the group consists of people that neither 
 know nor are known. Lord Peterborough has been here for a few 
 days, but in his journey hither lost all his shirts, so that his Lordship 
 was oblig'd to some of his acquaintance for clean linen during his 
 residence at the Bath. Poor Lord Sussex ended his days here, and what 
 is more extraordinary died a martyr to love, even the unfashionable 
 love of his wife. Such a man, in such an age, would be sainted in 
 any other Church but ours. A duel that has been fought lately, between 
 one Jones a gamester, and one Mr. Price (a gentleman's son but of the 
 same profession too), has put us in great confusion. Price is kill'd, and 
 Jones has made his escape. In the General there has been no high 
 play, and your Ladyship knows that raffles, toyshops, and puppet shows 
 flourish of course. Nash seems dejected and oppressed at heart ; I 
 suppose he has not yet recovered his losses of last year, and the malicious 
 part of us say that his taxes and contributions are much lessened, and 
 that upon his application to his Parliament for a vote of credit the 
 majority was against it. What, Madam, can be more abject than a 
 despised King ? But in my mind, he seems to labour under the uncon- 
 querable distemper of old age, and tho' he attends the balls as usual, his 
 dancing days are over. Among our beauties Lady Bab Mansell (at 
 least according to my poor taste) bears the belle. There are indeed 
 many others who make conspicuous figures at our public breakfasts. 
 Pretty Miss Nanny Stonehouse is a great toast ; she is followed by a 
 knight who seems mightily in love with her, but is afraid to tell her so. 
 He always puts me in mind of the old song, u Once I lov'd a Lady," 
 your Ladyship knows the rest. Miss Pennyfeather has her followers, and 
 Miss Rodd captivates many powder'd beaux. Mrs. Fazakerly is really 
 beautiful, and Mrs. Gardiner is as pretty an idiot as I ever saw. Pardon 
 me> Madam, for calling any of your sex so, but I speak the language of 
 this censorious place, and am like an actor who struts his hour upon the 
 stage, and then is heard no more. I have been thinking of beauties so 
 long, that I had like to have forgot that my wife hopes her compliments 
 will be acceptable to your Ladyship." 
 
 1731, Dec. 22. Bath. — The same to Lady Kaye, New Bond Street, 
 Hanover Buildings. Encloses some verses and adds, " We have likewise 
 a Houghton Tale by Sir W . . Y . . . g, and satires and ianipoons 
 without number, but that is a ware I don't deal in." Had just had a 
 visit from Lord William Beauclerk, who looked so ilJ that he did not 
 know him. 
 
 1731, Dec. 27. Bath. — The same to the same. ". . . . The censures on 
 Mr. P . . (Pope?), are universal and severe; none to take his part, and all 
 
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 Earl op ' out of envy or, you may suppose, judgment, running him down. He has 
 BART mss. TH S wrote t0 ° many things that have afforded me much pleasure, for me to join 
 — in this clamorous throng, nor dare I speak my opinion of so powerful a 
 man, but under your Ladyship's roof in Bond Street. I see he has 
 vindicated himself (or endeavoured at it) in the Daily Journal, I think 
 of last Friday. I hope he'll not be so intimidated as never to write again, 
 for tho J his enemies are powerful in their tongues, they are not so in 
 their pens." 
 
 [Another of Lady Kaye's correspondents, whoso letters are in this 
 collection, was Dr. John Hough, Bishop of Worcester ; but the most 
 important of them were printed in Wilmot's Life of the Bishop, published 
 in 1810.] 
 
 1735, Feb. 23. — Heneage Legge to the Earl of Dartmouth. Is ex- 
 tremely glad to hear the books and pamphlets sent to his father have 
 given satisfaction. The continuation of Rapin's history is by one 
 Falaizeau who lives at the Hague, tho' the fairness with which he repre- 
 sents the facts would give one little reason to have supposed him a 
 Frenchman, or living at the place he does. 
 
 The Suffolk Street Riot has made much noise, but is now pretty well 
 blown over. The persons present were Lord Middlesex, Lord John 
 Murray, Lord Boyne, Lord Harcourt, Sewallis Shirley, Sir James Grey, 
 Mr. Strode, and Mr. Denny; and there is now a copper plate of the Com- 
 pany in that style, which Lord Dartmouth may like to have among his 
 collection at Blackheath. Remarks on the number of housebreakers 
 about, who began in Essex, and are now making attempts in London ; 
 about two hundred lately come out of Ireland who are associated with 
 them, many of whom are dispersed in and about Birmingham. 
 
 1735, Feb. 27. Birmingham. — S. Swynfen to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Thanks him for his goodness to him and his neighbourhood in giving 
 warning of the danger they are in from this new sort of Irish invasion 
 [the housebreakers?]. Is that moment setting out to consult how 
 the storm may be best guarded against. 
 
 ? 1735, Aug. 20. Pynest Green, near Waltham Abbey. — ArthurCollins to 
 the Earl of Dartmouth. Sends an extract from a manuscript of Nicholas 
 Jekyl, of Castle Hedingham, Esq., temp. Jac. I., about Thomas Beau- 
 champ, Earl of Warwick. Jekyl, he writes, intended to have written 
 the antiquities of his county, and was of the Club of Antiquaries with 
 Camden, Selden, Sir Robert Cotton, and others. The writer had in- 
 tended to publish a new Baronage, but after having been at great 
 expense and no little labour had not found a suitable encouragement. 
 
 1739, Oct. 13. London. — Erasmus Lewis to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Sends his hearty congratulations to the family on the marriage of Lady 
 Anne Legge to Sir Lister Holte. 
 
 1739, Oct. 14. Dublin.— Henry Legge to [his father] the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. The Duke of Devonshire has pressed his acceptance of the 
 Secretaryship of Ireland, the holding of which will not interfere with his 
 attendance on Sir Robert [Walpole ?]. If Sir Robert should die he 
 would still have a most kind and generous patron in the Duke. His 
 not residing in Ireland as there is no vacancy in the Irish Parliament 
 will not be at all improper or resented by the country. 
 
 1739, Nov. 5. Portsmouth. — Edward Legge to the same. Has received 
 order to fit out his ship for the West Indies, with the utmost expedition. 
 Four of them are appointed and perhaps more. The conjectures are 
 
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 various upon what service they are determined, but from the people that Earl of 
 are to go h^ believes the voyage is intended for their advantage. AR ms°s UTI 
 
 1739, Nov. 6. Lincoln's Inn. — Heneage Legge to same. On behalf of 
 Mr. Lowth, parson of St. Margaret's, Rochester, a candidate for Lewis- 
 ham vicarage, Mr. Inglis being dead. He found the book mentioned by 
 his Lordship to be as he suspected only a trick of a bookseller's, a 
 specious title to make trash sell. What little pretends to be new is not 
 authentic, and not worth \2d. instead of 12s. It is true Adrian Drift 
 was executor to Mr. Prior, but has himself been dead many years, and 
 all Prior's papers are in the hands of Lord Oxford, who is extremely 
 angry at such an imposition upon the world, tho' the publishers have 
 had the impudence to dedicate the book to him. Shall not think of 
 buying them unless his lordship gives further orders. 
 
 1739-40, Feb. 26. Lincoln's Inn. — The same to the same. Was 
 yesterday at St. James's to kiss the King's hand, having had the honour 
 to be appointed one of His Majesty's counsel, a distinction of some conse- 
 quence in the profession to which he belongs, and a step towards greater 
 preferments. 
 
 1740, May 27. Lincoln's Inn. — The same to the same. Has sent the 
 book desired, but can give no character at all of it, more than that the 
 Lives of the Black Prince and John of Gaunt, if tolerably written, 
 must afford some curiosity, and they come out under a name of good 
 authority in that way, Arthur Collins, who published the late edition of 
 the Peerage. Has likewise sent a book of his own, the papers of Lord 
 Burghley, published from the manuscripts at Hatfield. It was originally 
 designed to come out by subscription, but the person who undertook 
 the work, having since got the living of Hatfield, has laid aside all 
 thoughts of proceeding in that way. Of what value they are cannot 
 pretend to say, but believes they are full as good as any other things of 
 that kind which are published every day, and the world is very fond of. 
 
 1745, Sept. 14. — The Earl of Dartmouth to the Duke of Newcastle. 
 Sends a packet of Jacobite papers addressed to him in error he thinks, 
 as he never in his whole life held any sort of correspondence with the 
 Pretender or his followers. 
 
 1 745, Sept. 21 . Newcastle House. — The Duke of Newcastle returns the 
 papers to Lord Dartmouth, with the King's thanks. They are the same 
 as have been sent to many persons of distinction for two or three years 
 past. 
 
 1745, [December.] Friday night. — Lord North and Guilford to the 
 Earl of Dartmouth. As there came an account this morning that the 
 rebels were at Derby on Wednesday night, and there seems a possibility 
 that the Duke may not be able to intercept them in their way to London, 
 and when the town is left bare of troops by the marching out those who 
 are order'd to canton about Finchley Common, there may be insurrec- 
 tions, asks for directions whether Lord Lewisham and his sisters should 
 remain in town. Is undetermined about his own children, but rather 
 inclined to venture their staying in London. 
 
 1745, [December.] Sunday morning. — The same to the same. As upon 
 the Duke's quick approach to Northampton the march of the Guards to 
 the camp near Finchley has been suspended, and people who had thoughts 
 of moving from hence seem generallv to intend to delay it, the sending 
 of the children to Lord Dartmouth may be delayed for a little time. 
 Cannot yet learn that the Court owns having had any account what is 
 become of the rebels since they were at Derby last Wednesday night. 
 
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 1746, June 30. House of Lords. — Lord Chancellor Hardwicke to the 
 same. Summons to attend the trials of William Earl of Kilmarnock and 
 George Earl of Cromartie for High Treason on Monday, J uly 28. 
 
 1746, Dec. 24. House of Lords. — The same to the same. Summons to 
 attend the trial of Simon Lord Lovat on Wednesday, January 21 next. 
 
 1746-7. Jan. 29. " From my House on the Pavement beyond the King's 
 Road, Grays Inn Lane." — Arthur Collins to the same. Sends an extract 
 from a Register in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury relating to the will 
 of Robert Legge of Great Cotton. Has written an account of all who have 
 been Barons of this Kingdom, more fully than Sir William Dugdale 
 but the work, though much to the honour of the nation is so large and 
 expensive that in these times no bookseller will venture on the printing 
 of it, and the writer's circumstances are so narrow that he cannot be at 
 the charge of it. He may justly say he has found no public spirit 
 remaining, so that he almost despairs of ever having justice done him. 
 
 1746-7, Feb. 6. House of Lords. — Lord Chancellor Hardwicke to the 
 same. Summons to attend the trial of Simon Lord Lovat, on Monday, 
 Feb. 23. 
 
 1746-7, Feb. 17. Powis House. — Same to same. Regrets he cannot 
 accept Lord Dartmouth's proxy, having two proxies already. Rejoices 
 to hear he is better in health. " The other malady comes upon us all 
 faster than we wish, and I only desire to go through it with the same 
 good temper and tranquillity your Lordship does." 
 
 1747, June ? Lincoln's Inn Fields. — Heneage Legge to his father. 
 Acquaints him that the King has been pleased to appoint him a Baron 
 of the Exchequer. " The principal news we have here is a speedy 
 dissolution of the Parliament." 
 
 1751, July 28. Leipzig. William, 2 nd Earl of Dartmouth to the Rev. 
 Dr. Huddesford, Trinity College, Oxford. Describes his travels after 
 leaving Oxford with Mr. (afterwards Lord) North. Spent some days 
 with Lord Carnarvon at Gottingen university, where there were nearly 
 700 students, 12 only being English gentlemen. Their greatest distress 
 was for want of good butter even in Holland. At Hesse Cassel saw our 
 Princess Mary, and were honoured with a seat at the Landgrave's table, 
 — a mighty agreeable court where they used very little ceremony. At 
 the Hague they saw our Princess Royal, and the young lady the 
 Gazettes had already disposed of to the Prince of Wales, only 8 years 
 old, but one of the largest children he ever saw. 
 
 1752, March 3. N.S. Leipzig. — The same to the same. Leipzig as 
 dull a place as possible, and to supply the want of amusement they had 
 taken a trip to Dresden during the last fortnight of the Carnival. Had 
 just heard an account of Sir John Shaw's wedding and of the festivities 
 in Sir Gregory Page's house on Blackheath upon the occasion. 
 
 1752, Aug. 26.— Vienna. The same to the same. Had been present 
 at the christening of an Arch-duchess, and seen the Emperor and all his 
 children, nine in number besides the new-born, all pleasing, many 
 beautiful countenances. Glad to hear the old Town Hall was at last 
 destroyed, and that a new one would soon be in its place, nothing else 
 was wanting to make Oxford perfect, which was already the handsomest 
 town in England. 
 
 1753, Feb. 6. London.— George, Lord Lyttleton to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Sends notes of such places in Italy as young travellers sometimes 
 overlook, and yet are well worthy their attention. Lady Lyttleton 
 adds a postscript. 
 
 Earl or 
 Dartmouth's 
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 1754, Dec. 9. Lyons. — Henry Lyte to the same, New Bond Street, Earl of 
 London. Has arrived at Lyons with Lord Brudenell after having com- Dar mss UTH 3 
 pleted the tour of France. Gives an account of the places worth notice, — 
 especially the sea ports, Mont St. Michel, St. Malo, Rennes, Brest, &c. 
 Near Bordeaux they saw a great number of shepherds walking on stilts 
 4 or 5 feet high with great ease and swiftness ; they could outgo a fast 
 trotting horse. The reason they make use of them is to spy the wolves 
 at a distance. At Toulon they saw nine Calvinists brought in from 
 Nismes to be confined to the galleys for having assembled contrary to 
 law. The Calvinists were numerous all over Languedoc, but harassed, 
 especially in the Cevennes by soldiers that are quartered on them. 
 
 1765, July 8. Grosvenor Square. — The Marquis of Rockingham to 
 the same. He now hopes an administration is formed and desires Lord 
 Dartmouth's presence in London to make choice between two offices. 
 Urges his acceptance of the presidency of the Board of Trade. 
 
 In his reply dated 9 July, a copy of which is preserved, Lord 
 Dartmouth asks time for consideration. 
 
 1765, July 12. Claremont. — The Duke of Newcastle to the same. " I 
 should have given your Lordship a constant account of all the pro- 
 ceedings which had come to my knowledge since His Majesty first 
 declared his firm resolution to part with his ministers, a resolution which 
 I firmly believe was never intimated or suggested to His Majesty either 
 by the Duke of Cumberland, or by any of those, whom His Royal High- 
 ness has since been pleased to consult upon the plan to be formed of a 
 new administration. I must do justice to us all that it was essential in 
 forming an administration that would satisfy the nation, and be able to 
 carry on the business with credit and reputation, to have your Lordship 
 in such rank and station as should be most agreeable to you. The 
 Marquis of Rockingham very wisely would have got your Lordship to 
 himself if he could, in the Treasury." Urges at great length and in 
 very flattering terms, Lord Dartmouth's re-consideration of his refusal 
 to take office. " The Duke of Grafton and my Lord Rockingham are 
 both about your Lordship's age, and if they had not got the better 
 of their own inclination for the sake of the King, and the public, I 
 don't know where the King would have got a Secretary of State, or 
 a Treasury." . . . . "As to myself, my age and other circum- 
 stances have made me long declare both publicly and privately that I 
 could never accept any ministerial office, or office of business; but at the 
 same time whenever His Majesty had an administration composed of 
 those whose attachment to the Protestant Succession in His Majesty's 
 Royal Family, and whose zeal for the religion and liberties of this country 
 never had been and never could be doubted, that administration should 
 have all the assistance in my power, and as the greatest proof of it, I 
 most earnestly hope that your Lordship will be one of them, and accept 
 this very honourable and very important station." 
 
 1765, Dec. 6. New York. — William Smith to the Rev. George 
 Whitfield. As to the prevalent distress in North America and the commo- 
 tions that have taken place with the causes of these, among them being ; 
 the Acts of Trade which have given a monopoly in sugar, molasses, &c. to 
 the West Indian islands, and by putting high duties on foreign produce 
 have prevented America trading with France, Holland, Denmark, &c. : 
 another cause is an Instruction from the Crown relating to appeals which 
 has been taken by Lieut. Governor Colden to mean appeals from the 
 verdicts of juries to the Governor and Council of New York and thence to 
 
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 the King in Council ; a third cause is the Stamp Act which has been the 
 occasion of many tumults and insurrections. 
 
 " This Government cannot carry that Act into execution, none dare 
 vend nor buy any stamps, many insurrections have been occasioned and 
 houses destroyed throughout the Colonies, the stamp offices have either 
 absolutely resigned or suspended the execution of their offices, and we 
 hear that at St. Christopher's and Nevis they have seized and burnt the 
 stamps and the populace will doubtless do the like in North America if 
 they could lay hold of them. In some places they are confined in 
 castles, in New York they were delivered from the fort (to prevent a 
 desperate attempt of the populace) to the Magistracy of the City, who 
 gave security to the Government for the safe custody of them, and are 
 continually under a City Guard in the City Hall, and what will finally 
 
 become of them we cannot tell The populace threaten 
 
 another insurrection, are to meet this afternoon (as is said) upon the 
 common to consult of compulsory methods, which puts the officers of 
 Civil Justice almost to their wits end." 
 
 The Stamp Act, Mr. Smith says, is resented everywhere. The right 
 of the Colonies to tax themselves on the requisition of the Crown, is 
 universally insisted on. 
 
 " There is another matter which has given some concern, but it res- 
 pects only this colony, and relates to the granting of lands. What Sir 
 Henry Moore, who arrived the thirteenth of the last month, will take 
 for passing patents is yet unknown. 
 
 Mr. Colden our late Lieutenant Governor took 121. 10s. upon every 
 thousand acres, the Surveyor General 51. upon every thousand, besides 
 full pay for actual services in the survey and laying out of the lands, the 
 Secretary 4/. per thousand, and the Attorney General 3/. per thousand." 
 
 Congratulates Mr. Whitfield on the acceptance by " so great and 
 good a man as Lord Dartmouth " of the chief seat at the Plantation 
 Board. 
 
 1767, March 6th. Halifax. — Paper headed " Observations on the 
 report made by Lieutenant Marr of the Corps of Engineers to Lieutenant 
 Colonel Dalrymple commanding his Majesty's troops in Nova Scotia re- 
 lating to lands reserved at Halifax for fortifications." Addressed to the 
 Governor and signed by Richard Bulkeley, Secretary, and Charles Morris. 
 
 1767, Mar. 21st. Channel Row, Dorset Court, Westminster. — Copy 
 letter from Richard Stockton to Samuel Smith on American affairs. A 
 very long letter containing Mr. Stockton's scheme for the pacification of 
 Great Britain and her colonies. 
 
 1767, July 10th. Wimbledon.— -Mr. Baron Smythe to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. A chatty letter of no importance. 
 
 1767, Aug. 27th. Bounds.— Mr. Baron Smythe to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. " I am just returned from the circuit and at Maidstone saw your 
 cousin Winchelsea in high spirits, exerting his abilities, which are excel- 
 lent, on the occasion in favour of Mr. Sackville to be our member next 
 election with Sir Brook Bridges instead of Mr. Fairfax. 
 
 " He had been at Canterbury Races the week before where he had intro- 
 duced and recommended him to everybody. 
 
 " When we came to Lewes we found your friend and my cousin the 
 Duke of Newcastle, who is no bad electioneer, doing the same for him 
 in Sussex, and he told me he had engaged all the Kentish freeholders who 
 live in Sussex for Mr. Sackville, from the sea shore to Kent and Surrey, 
 and Mr. Sackville was at Lewes and at a fine entertainment at Mr. 
 Pelham's ; and the Duke of Dorset and he were at the Sussex meeting for 
 
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 naming candidates for Sussex, and all the noblemen and gentlemen we 
 saw in Sussex seemed heartily in his interest. The Duke of Newcastle 
 asked me how your Lordship was inclined to him, I told him I could not 
 tell, but I should take the liberty of writing to your Lordship and recom- 
 mending him to your Lordship's patronage and assistance in the strongest 
 manner I was able, and indeed I can do it with sincerity for I think him a 
 very deserving young man ; and therefore hope your Lordship will give 
 him your interest and support on this occasion. Your Lordship will scarce 
 be in this part of the world the first Monday in October, the day adver- 
 tised for the nomination, but if you could order some of your freeholders 
 to attend on that day to support his nomination it would be of great 
 service to him, as your countenance of him will have great weight. 
 Lord Romney is applying in behalf of his son, but many who wish well 
 to my Lord think it more advisable for him to join with Lord Aylesford 
 and bring in his son at Maidstone without opposition, than to divide the 
 Whig interest in the county and leave Maidstone a prey to any adventurer 
 who will come and corrupt them." 
 
 1768. Feb. 26th. Whitehall.— The Earl of Hillsborough to Deputy 
 Governor Francklin. Forbidding coals to be taken from the island of 
 Breton, and as to the settlement of the island of St. John, instructions 
 for which are stated to have been enclosed. 
 
 The House of Commons has granted to the King 3,895/. Is. lid. for 
 supporting the Civil Establishment of Nova Scotia for the year 1768. 
 
 1768, Sept. 12th. Whitehall.— The Earl of Hillsborough to Governor 
 Lord William Campbell, as to a licence granted by Lord William 
 to certain persons of an exclusive right to dig coals upon Cape 
 Breton to the amount of three thousand chaldrons. It is the King's 
 pleasure that no further licences shall be granted on the expiration of 
 the present one except for the use of the King's troops and garrisons, 
 without his Majesty's special order for that purpose. 
 
 As to the settlement of St. John's Island, the steps taken by Deputy 
 Governor Francklin have the King's highest disapproval, as he has 
 incurred upon the Government a very great expence by forming an 
 Establishment upon that Island, appointing officers, servants, &c. none 
 of which he was authorized to do by the instructions sent him. The 
 contingent fund in the agent's hands which would have been used for 
 the advantage of Nova Scotia has been entirely exhausted by Mr. 
 Francklin's bills on account of the St. John's Island Establishment, and, 
 Lord Hillsborough says, if any more bills come in from him, they will 
 be protested and the loss and damage must fall upon Mr. Francklin 
 himself. 
 
 1768. Nov. 15th. Hanover Square. The Earl of Hillsborough to Lord 
 William Campbell (Private). Requesting his interest to prevail with the 
 Assembly of Nova Scotia to appoint either Mr. George Canning of the 
 Temple or Captain Anthony Wheelock to the office of Provincial Agent 
 for the Province 
 
 1769. Sep. 19th. Penzance. — G. Borlase to the Right Honourable 
 Humphry Morice, Lord Warden of the Stannaries of Cornwall and Devon. 
 Enclosing (the enclosure is not now with the letter) an account of the 
 Revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall. 
 
 1770. February 6th. — Paper endorsed " Extract of a letter to Lord 
 Egmont." It gives an account of what, in the writer's opinion, ought 
 to be done to improve the Province of Nova Scotia so as to render it a 
 protection to the Newfoundland fishery against any sudden surprise, and 
 
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 Earl of a barrier to Canada with its French Roman Catholic inhabitants ; stating 
 LB MS°sy TH S wnat roads ou g nt t0 De made, &c, &c. 
 
 1771, June 20. Lincolnshire. — Case with the opinion of Mr. John 
 
 Maddocks relating to an Escheat in the Manor of Lewisham, Kent, of 
 
 which Lord Dartmouth was Lord. 
 
 1771, Oct. 4. — " Remarks on some parts of Nova Scotia, New^England, 
 and Rhode Island respecting navigation, &c." by Commodore Gambler. 
 
 1771, Dec. 4. Whitehall.— The Earl of Hillsborough to Lord William 
 Campbell (Copy). Stating that the King has laid down a rule that no Go- 
 vernor of a Province can return to England while he continues in Commis- 
 sion. " The advices which have been received of the Duke of Gloucester's 
 recovery from the disorder that put his life in so much danger at Leghorn 
 have given the greatest pleasure to all his Majesty's subjects here, and 
 I beg leave to congratulate you upon so happy an event." 
 
 1772, June 6. Whitehall. The Earl of Hillsborough to Lord 
 William Campbell in answer to an application from Lord William 
 for leave to return to England owing to the state of his health ; regretting 
 that permission cannot be given unless Lord William resigns his commis- 
 sion as Governor of Nova Scotia. 
 
 1772, Oct. 10. Boston, N.E.— Phillis Wheatley to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Enclosing a congratulatory poem from her pen, upon his 
 Lordship's appointment as Secretary of State for North America. 
 
 Begins : 
 
 " Hail ! Happy day ! when smiling like the morn 
 Fair Freedom rose, New England to adorn." 
 
 Ends : 
 
 " Thou like the Prophet, find the bright abode 
 Where dwells thy Sire, the Everlasting God ! " 
 
 There is also an account signed Nathaniel Wheatley dated Oct. 12th> 
 1772, of Phillis Wheatley, who was a slave brought from Africa at the 
 age of eight years. 
 
 1772, Oct. 31. London. — The Earl of Dartmouth to Major Legge 
 (afterwards Governor of Nova Scotia). Lord Dartmouth has received 
 private information that Mr. Stuart, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs 
 in the southern districts of America, is dying, and enquires whether the 
 appointment would suit Major Legge. The salary is 800/. 
 
 1772, Nov. 4. Whitehall.— The Earl of Dartmouth to Lord William 
 Campbell. Enclosing the King's permission to return to England, which 
 is not to be used unless on his arrival Lord William resigns his com- 
 mission. 
 
 1772, Dec. 5. Halifax. — Lord William Campbell to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. As to the disposition of the naval force in America so as to prevent 
 an illicit trade being carried on in Nova Scotia. 
 
 1772, Dec. 9. Whitehall.— The Earl of Dartmouth to Lord William 
 Campbell, Governor of Nova Scotia. Unimportant. 
 
 1773, Jan. 22. Whitehall. Report by the Lords of Trade signed 
 by the Earl of Dartmouth, Lords Greville and Garlies, and Messrs. 
 Soame Jenyns and Bamber Gascoyne, to the Lords of the Committee 
 for Plantation Affairs, upon a proposed formation of a colony on 
 the banks of the River Mississippi. 
 
 1773, Jan. 29. James St., Westminster. — The Honourable Mr. Hay to 
 the Earl of Dartmouth. Unimportant. As to his going to his Govern- 
 ment in the West Tndies by one of His Majesty's ships. 
 
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 1773, Feb. 3. Whitehall.— The Earl of Dartmouth to Lord William earl of 
 Campbell. Tn answer to a letter from Lord William proposing an AR mss UT1 
 augmentation in the Establishment of Nova Scotia on account of roads, — 
 a salary to a magistrate at Canncean, and an allowance to the Treasurer's 
 widow. The proposition shall be laid before the Board of Trade, but 
 Lord Dartmouth fears objections to any scheme for increasing the Parlia* 
 mentary grant. 
 
 1773, Feb. 3. — The Earl of Dartmouth to Major Legge. Promising 
 his influence to Major Legge to secure him some government appoint- 
 ment, and hoping the recommendation of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 
 will secure him the Lieut. Colonelcy of the 57th regiment. 
 
 "It will probably be a satisfaction to you to hear that there are still 
 hopes of Lord Bellamont's recovery ; the ball is not yet extracted, but 
 his fever is abated and there is not at present any alarming symptom. " 
 
 1773, March 17, London. — The Earl of Dartmouth to Major Legge. 
 Offering him the post of Governor, of a new settlement likely to be 
 formed on the Ohio, with a salary of 1,000/. 
 
 1773, March 24. Anonymous letter from a person signing himself in 
 Greek characters " Philanthropos " to the Earl of Dartmouth. On the pre- 
 valent distress among the poor owing to the high price of corn. For this, 
 he blames the large farmers who, although the harvests of 1771 and 1772 
 have been very good, continue to ask 7*. 3c?. a bushel for wheat, and 
 indirectly the landlords for allowing one tenant to absorb several farms. 
 
 1773, April 19. Boston. — Governor Hutchinson to Mr. Pownall. 
 u Private." " Our patriots say that the votes of the town of Boston which 
 they sent to Virginia have produced the resolves of the Assembly there 
 appointing a committee of correspondence, and I have no doubt it is 
 their expectation that a committee for the same purpose will be appointed 
 by most of the other Assemblies upon the Continent. If anything 
 therefore be done by Parliament respecting America, it now seems 
 necessary that it should be general and not confined to particular 
 Colonies, as the same spirit prevails everywhere, though not in like 
 degree. 
 
 I am to meet a new Assembly the 26th May, which I have reason to 
 think will consist of the same persons as the last Assembly and in the 
 same temper. I have sometimes heard it proposed that the Parliament 
 should address his Majesty to appoint three or any other number of 
 persons, of respectable rank and characters to visit the several Colonies, 
 properly authorized and instructed to enquire into their state and to 
 make report, as a preparatory step to measures to be taken by Parlia- 
 ment, and some have been of opinion that a perfect knowledge of their 
 state cannot be so well obtained in any other way. For my part every 
 measure appears to me of such uncertain success whilst the body of the 
 people hold such absurd principles in Government, and all the servants 
 of the Crown are so entirely at their mercy that I am utterly at a loss 
 what to suggest. The leaders boast that they will submit to no regula- 
 tions, and that by united strength they shall be able to oppose them." 
 Governor Hutchinson then relates a conversation he had had with the 
 Speaker of the House of Assembly who had received a letter from Dr. 
 Franklin stating that from a conversation the writer had had with Lord 
 Dartmouth he thought that there was hope that the grievances of the 
 Colonists would be redressed ; in the meantime he advised them to be 
 quiet. " I asked whether the proceedings of the town of Boston and 
 so many other towns, and the countenance shown them by the House 
 [of Assembly] could be thought consistent with this advice ? He 
 
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 Earl of answered that he opposed the town meeting at Boston as not advisable, 
 DAR MSS? TH ' S anc *> besides he had no great expectation, at that time, of such en- 
 
 — couragement 1 told him I saw no chance of 
 
 peace whilst the supremacy of Parliament was denied : he acknowledged 
 there was no line to be drawn, but if Parliament could bind the Colo- 
 nists they were all slaves. This is always the conclusion of the Party, 
 and by this conclusion they strike the minds of the people in general 
 and raise a violent prejudice against all who maintain the supremacy 
 of Parliament." 
 
 1773, April 21. 4 Charles Street. — John Gray to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Enclosing a pamphlet, being a refutation of the answer of the 
 Bostonians to Governor Hutchinson's speech. The writer's intention 
 has been " to pull up the seditious doctrines of the Colonists by the 
 roots in such a manner as to prevent them from sprouting again." 
 
 1773, May 4. London. — The Earl of Dartmouth to Lieutenant 
 Colonel Legge. Informing him that he is to be appointed to the 
 Governorship of Nova Scotia. 
 
 1773, May 5. New York. "Private." Governor Tryon to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Asking Lord Dartmouth's favourable interpretation of 
 the measures he has taken in his Majesty's interest. " His Majesty's 
 instructions and His Majesty's interests are not at all times one and the 
 same thing, and he who in America follows implicitly the letter of the 
 instructions will not best serve the King, and although I am not ignorant 
 that by an implied disobedience to them, I stake the forfeiture of my 
 Government, yet I would rather make that sacrifice than forego any 
 proper opportunity to promote the public concerns of my Eoyal Master. 
 Asks Lord Dartmouth's influence to secure a grant of a regiment and 
 a baronetcy for him as a solid reward of his services. 
 
 1773, May 12. 4 Charles Street.— John Gray to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Asking for the return of his pamphlet forwarded to Lord Dart- 
 mouth on April 21st. 
 
 1773, May 19. London. — The Earl of Dartmouth to Lieutenant- 
 Colonel Legge. As Colonel Legge's appointment to the Governorship of 
 Nova Scotia is just at hand, Lord Dartmouth recommends him to make 
 his preparations for leaving the army. 
 
 1773, June 2. New York. — "Private." Governor Tryon to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. As to the purchase of lands from the Indians. The Governor 
 himself has laid out money in some 40,000 acres. Some of the lands 
 he proposes to settle. 
 
 1773, June 14. — Peter Livius to the Earl of Dartmouth. Requesting 
 his assistance in settling his affairs previous to his departure to New Hamp- 
 shire. Without help from his Lordship he will have nothing to show 
 that he has vindicated his character from the charge of having brought 
 a false accusation (against the Governor of the Colony), and he begs to 
 be allowed a copy of the judgment in his case. 
 
 1773, June 15. — Lord Hyde to the Earl of Dartmouth. Enclosing ac- 
 counts relating to Governor Tryon's expenditure, and the disbursements 
 out of his private fortune, which from June 1764 to May 1773 amounted 
 to 8,986/. 2s. 5\d. 
 
 1773, June 17. Savannah in Georgia. — " Private." Governor Wright to 
 the Earl of Dartmouth, recommending Mr. Tattnell, a Captain of Militia, 
 and' Sir Patrick Houstoun, Eeceiver-General of the Province, for seats in 
 the Council. 
 
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 1773. June 20. Wexford. — George Lehunte to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Asking for a grant of lands in America in recompense for his services in 
 the late war in America under Sir J efFrey Amherst. Ventures to address 
 Lord Dartmouth on the score of his being related to his family through 
 his grandmother, Alice Legge. 
 
 1773, July 2. Antigua. — Valentine Morris to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Particulars respecting the Caribbs inhabiting St. Vincent's, and 
 the means to be employed to bring them to their allegiance to the British 
 Empire. With a duplicate copy. 
 
 1773, J uly 7. London (Copy). Long letter from Dr. Benjamin Franklin, 
 to whom does not appear, possibly to the Provincial Congress. Parlia- 
 ment has been prorogued without any reference to the state of America ; 
 has forwarded the King's answer to the petitions of the Colonists, part 
 of which runs : " That his Majesty has well weighed the subject matter 
 and the expressions contained in those petitions, and that as he will 
 ever attend to the humble petitions of his subjects, and be forward to 
 redress every real grievance, so he is determined to support the 
 Constitution, and resist with firmness every attempt to derogate from 
 the authority of the Supreme Legislature." Dr. Franklin proceeds 
 to consider the question how the Colonists may best procure redress of 
 their grievances, and after stating the waning power of England, 
 weakened by the last war she undertook, with a depleted treasury and a 
 decreasing population, and the growth of the Colonies in population, 
 wealth, and resource, thus continues : " Whenever a war happens our 
 aid will be wished for" [by England], "our friendship desired and 
 cultivated, our goodwill courted. Then is the time to say redress 
 our grievances. You take money from us by force, and now you 
 ask it of voluntary grant. You cannot have it both ways. If you 
 choose to have it without our consent, you must go on taking that 
 way and be content with what you can so obtain. If you would 
 have our free gifts, desist from your compulsive methods, acknow- 
 ledge our rights, and secure the future enjoyment of them.' Our 
 claims will then be attended to, and our complaints regarded." Dr. 
 Franklin advises a declaration to this effect to be drawn up at a Congress 
 of all the Colonies, and a copy thereof presented to the King. This he 
 thinks would bring matters to a crisis. 
 
 The letter continues : " With regard to the sentiments of the people 
 in general here concerning America, I must say that we have among 
 them many friends and wellwishers. The dissenters are all for us, and 
 many of the merchants and manufacturers. There seems to be even 
 among the country gentlemen a general sense of our growing import- 
 ance, a disapprobation of the harsh measures with which we have 
 been treated, and a wish that some means may be found of perfect 
 reconciliation. A few members cf Parliament in both Houses and 
 perhaps some in high office, have in a degree the same ideas ; but 
 none of these seem willing to be active in our favour, lest adversaries 
 should take advantage and charge it upon them as betraying the interests 
 of this nation." 
 
 1773, July 21. Antigua. — Valentine Morris to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 A long letter (with a duplicate) giving further particulars of the con- 
 dition of the Caribbs, and the means proposed for subduing them. 
 
 1773, July 23. Philadelphia. — Joseph Reed to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Offering his services in the purchase of land from the Indians. 
 
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 Daetmouth's 1773, Augusts. — Mr. Pownall to the Earl of Dartmouth. Suggesting 
 that Governor Hutchinson should be recalled to lay before the King the 
 state of his government. 
 
 1773, August 11. — Extract of the minutes of a Cabinet Council relating 
 to a projected settlement by a French trading company on the coast of 
 Africa, in order to carry on the gum trade. 
 
 1773, August 12. — Mr. Pownall to the Earl of Dartmouth. Relating 
 a conversation he had with Lord North, during which it was determined 
 to recall Governor Hutchinson at his own request. 
 
 1773, August 14. Blackheath. — Mr. Pownall to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Enclosing papers for signature, and as to Governor Hutchinson's recall, 
 a letter to Governor O'Hara at Senegal, &c. (not now with the letter). 
 
 1773, Aug. 20. Boston. — Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Asking for an appointment in America for one of his sons. 
 
 1773, Aug. 28. Pensacola. — Governor Chester to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Enclosing copy of a letter from the Governor of New Orleans to 
 Mr. Chester, and copy of his answer thereto ; also copy of a letter from 
 one of the magistrates of West Florida, as to a murder and robbery 
 committed by English subjects, who attacked two Spanish canoes on the 
 Mississippi richly laden, and murdered the crews, consisting of three 
 Frenchmen and two negroes. The murderers are now in custody, and 
 are of the worst class of the people who have flocked to the Mississippi 
 for the past two years. As Mr. Chester foresaw, several of the first 
 settlers on the river were persons who had fled from justice, and he 
 strongly recommends the re-establishment of the posts on the river which 
 were abandoned, and the establishment of courts of justice. 
 
 1773, Aug. 30.— Mr, Pownall to the Earl of Dartmouth. " The French 
 plot for stealing away our gum trade thickens fast. . . . I am informed 
 by one of the principal importers of gum, a Mr. Bradley, that it is 
 certainly true that one vessel is arrived in France from Portendic with 
 gum, and two more are expected, and that this intelligence has given 
 great alarm to the traders here. It is not, however, thought advisable 
 to send out the man of war till a more favourable season, unless the 
 French do upon the declaration of our exclusive claim to Portendic and 
 Arguin, controvert that claim, in which case if I understand Lord 
 Rochford right, a ship of war will be immediately sent with your letter 
 to O'Hara." 
 
 1773, Sept. 22. Whitehall.— Mr. Pownall to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 An unimportant letter, touching on several subjects, including the disso- 
 lution of the Society of Jesus, and its effect upon the members of the 
 Society in Quebec, the state of Boston, the conference of the Dutch 
 Commissaries with the Board of Trade, &c. 
 
 1773, Sept. 26. Brookfield.— The Rev. E. Forbes to Governor 
 Hutchinson. On the state of the Province of Massachusetts. Certain 
 false reports concerning the Governor had been spread, which had the 
 effect of raising the temper of the people to a furious pitch. The pamphlet 
 of Philalethes has now been read, and the storm has abated. " We are at 
 present unhappy, but I verily believe that the leading character of this 
 people is loyalty and goodness, but there is a spirit of enthusiasm prevail- 
 ing at this day in the nations of Europe ; of Asia, as well as in America, and 
 when religion or politics are the subjects it always occasions disturbances 
 and revolutions in church and state, but this spirit having its seat in the 
 passions will soon subside and the people that have been affected with it 
 will reassume their leading characters." 
 
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 1773, October 6. Whitehall. — William Knox to the Earl of Dartmouth, ^Earl 
 As to Governor Tryon's requisition for troops. Adverse to granting it. ^mss™ 
 " In addition to what Mr. Pownall has mentioned, .... exclusive of the — 
 violence and inhumanity of employing the soldiery upon such occasions, 
 I always understood from Lord Hillsborough that the King was par- 
 ticularly averse to the detaching his troops for such purposes, ai> ?t 
 serves to make the army odious to the public." 
 
 1773, Oct. 6. Vanbrugh Fields.— Mr. Pownall to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. The arrival of the New York mail. Riots have occurred in New 
 Hampshire, and Governor Tryon requests troops from the Commander- 
 in-Chief. Mr. Pownall hopes Lord Dartmouth will not countenance 
 such an extravagance "in a case where perhaps it will be found that 
 these rioters, as they are called, will be able to show that they have been 
 treated with the greatest injustice and oppression." 
 
 1773, Oct. 9. Boston. — J. Brenton to Andrew Snape Hammond. 
 Asking for his interest to secure him the post of Attorney General of Nova 
 Scotia. 
 
 1773, Oct. 9. Whitehall.— W. Knox to the Earl of Dartmouth. En- 
 closing two papers giving an account of the alleged destruction of the fort 
 and garrison at Senegal, and proving that the report is false. It was 
 spread by a trading ship coming from thence to enhance the price of a 
 cargo of gum they were carrying. 
 
 1773, Oct. 9. Halifax. — James Burrow to Lord William Campbell. 
 As to a search he had carried on, by Lord William's orders, in Catch 
 Harbour and at Prospect, for evidence of the illicit trading supposed to 
 be done in that locality. The search was unsuccessful, but the writer 
 thinks that his visit will have a good effect. He then proceeds to relate 
 the state of the fishery and inhabitants in the parts he visited, which he 
 considers highly satisfactory and capable of great development. The 
 letter concludes with a plan for a periodical visitation of all the har- 
 bours and fishing stations in the Province ; the appointment of Tide 
 Surveyors, &c. 
 
 1773, Oct 9. Boston. — Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 " Private." A long letter on the state of the Province of Massachusetts, 
 from which the following is an extract : — 
 
 " It must be allowed that the people in general are possessed with a 
 jealousy that it has been the design of the Administration in England to 
 inslave them, as they term it, or to subject their liberties and properties to 
 the arbitrary disposal of a power in which they have not any share, and 
 ones [over] which they cannot, be the excesses what they may, have any 
 control. There are many, however, and more would appear, if they 
 dare, of the most sensible part of the community, who know and declare 
 that these jealousies are groundless, and that they were raised and cul- 
 tivated by artful designing men. The conductors of the people are 
 divided in sentiments. Some of them profess (hat they only aim to 
 remove the innovations since the date of the Stamp Act, or, as they 
 sometimes say, since the expiration of the war, for they are not always 
 the same, and though they don't think Parliament has a just authority,, 
 yet they are willing to acquiesce, seeing it has been so long submitted to. 
 Others declare they will be altogether independent ; they would main- 
 tain an alliance with Great Britain ; each stands in need of the other ; 
 their mutual interest is sufficient to connect them together. Of the first 
 sort the Speaker of the House often declares himself, so does a clergy- 
 man of Boston who has great influence in our political measures, so do 
 some of the Council who have most influence there. Those of the 
 
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 Earl op latter opinion have for their head one of the members for Boston, who 
 DaE MSS UTH S was tne nrst P erson tnat openly an( i m an y publick assembly declared 
 — for a total independency, and who, from a natural obstinancy of temper 
 and from many years practice in politicks, is perhaps as well calculated 
 to excite the people to any extravagance in theory or practice as any 
 person in America. From large defalcations as collector of taxes for 
 the town of Boston and from other defects in pecuniary matters, hi3 
 influence was small until within these 7 years, but since then it has 
 been gradually increasing until he has obtained such an ascendancy as- 
 to direct the town of Boston, the House of Representatives, and conse- 
 quently the Council just as he pleases." The Governor encloses for 
 Lord Dartmouth's perusal the letter from Mr. Forbes, noticed above. 
 
 1773, Oct. 12. — Mr. Pownall to the Earl of Dartmouth. Enclosing a 
 copy of a letter he wrote to the printer of the Daily Advertizer, denying 
 a report which appeared in that newspaper that the garrison at Senegal 
 had been cut off by the natives and the fort entirely destroyed. 
 
 1773, Oct. 12. — Mr. Pownall to the Earl of Dartmouth. Understands 
 that Lord Garlies is by this time Lord Galloway, and that there is another 
 vacancy at the Board of Trade. Asking a line to Lord North to secure 
 him the vacancy. 
 
 1773, Oct. 14, Jamaica Plain. — The Rev. William Gordon to the Earl 
 of Dartmouth. Enclosing a copy of a letter addressed to the Canadian 
 Indians from the French King, which he thinks of sufficient importance 
 to communicate to Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " The salutation of the French King to his former children of the five 
 nations/ 
 
 " My dear children, are you yet alive ; I yet remember you, you 
 especially of the five nations, and am longing to see you. I hear grievous 
 things concerning your circumstances. I am informed that the English 
 have settled all the lands they have made pretensions to by conquest, 
 are coming hard upon you, are building towns even up to your bedside, 
 and are also oppressive in their trade. This, my dear children, was not 
 the conduct of your former father, the French King. When I conquered 
 you, the five nations, I immediately resigned your territories, because it 
 was the land of that part of the world that God had given to you Indians. 
 I own'd nothing in your territories. Wherever I set foot it was upon 
 your loan (sic.) My dear children I resent this treatment that you have 
 received from the English. I am grieved for this cruel usage. Courage 
 my children ; courage my children. Your father is awaking out of his 
 stupor. You know he received a blow from the English, with which 
 he was stunn'd ; but now he revives ; and you remember that at the 
 time before he was quite speechless, he told you that within seven or 
 eight years, he should revive and revenge the cause of his dear children 
 of the five nations. I have now awoke, and am rising and behold, the 
 hatchet is within reach of my hand. Unite your strength, my children, 
 from the north to the south ; be of one mind, in general expectation of 
 seeing your old father within two or three years. He has many ships 
 in readiness and men, and warlike stores without number. By that time 
 near upon eighty ships will be ready to enter Canada and an equal 
 number shall enter the Mississippi for my southern children. Then I 
 expect to see you all ; furnish you for the field and supply all your 
 wants. Your old father salutes you all and longs to see ycu." 
 
 This letter, Mr. G ordon says, is only known to the Sachems and head 
 warriors. It has had a great effect ; " they are expecting a French war, 
 
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 and are ready to co-operate with France in any attempts against the Dartmouth'! 
 English." mss. 
 
 A further letter from Mr. Gordon accompanies the above, explanatory 
 of it and giving further details. Speaking of the disposition of the 
 Indians towards the English he says : " Sir William Johnson has had 
 some account of the affair [of the French King's letter] sent him, but he 
 may not have received it. The Indians are not so well affected to Sir 
 William as formerly. They consider themselves as having been ill used 
 by him ; and I have reason to apprehend, from what I have heard in 
 free conversation with persons of consequence and intelligence at New 
 York, in Connecticut, and the Massachusetts that he has attended more 
 to his own private interests than the good of the State, in the distribution 
 he has made of the Government allowance ; and that w r ere the Indians 
 to understand what sums have been designed for their use, they would 
 wait for and embrace the first opportunity of scalping him. Unless 
 Indian affairs are better managed and some conciliating methods speedily 
 given into, the Indians will be quite alienated from the English and 
 will embrace any future opening to revenge themselves on the publick 
 for the injuries committed upon them by individuals." Sincerely hopes 
 the Government will not suffer Canada to fall into the hands of the 
 French so that the Colonies might be more easily managed. The remedy 
 would be worse, he thinks, than the disease. . . " I would mention 
 to your Lordship .... that Quebec is iu a defenceless state, the 
 guns having been taken from the ramparts and carried off before your 
 Lordship's appointment, so that was France to plan the surprise of it, 
 and unknown to the English to send a fleet against it, Canada would be 
 instantly lost." A Duplicate accompanies each of the above. 
 
 1773, Oct. 19. Boston. — Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. " Private." Enclosing a copy of a most important letter (which is 
 not now enclosed) received by the Speaker of the House of Representatives 
 from the Agent of the House in England. This letter appears to have 
 proposed a General Congress of Representatives from all the Colonies, 
 a proposal shortly afterwards adopted and carried into effect. 
 
 1773, Oct. 20. — Mr. Pownall to the Earl of Dartmouth, as to some 
 Conference about to be held with the Ambassadors from Holland. 
 " MynheerRibautis sick in Zealand and cannot come till his stomach settles 
 a little, Mynheer Graffland is arrived with orders to open the Conferences 
 without his colleague, and I find by Lord Suffolk that everything will be 
 ready on Tuesday for the Board [of Trade]. But I do not think the 
 Board will be ready for the business ; Lord Robert Spencer begs to be 
 excused, Mr. Jenyns can't come, Mr. Eliot certainly won't come, and 
 Mr. Jolliffe has sent no answer." 
 
 1773, Oct. 26. — Copy letter to Lord William Campbell without sig- 
 nature, as to lands in Nova Scotia fit to be reserved by the Crown for the 
 supply of timber and masts. 
 
 1773, Nov. 2. — " Copy of a letter to Thomas and Elisha Hutchinson de- 
 livered at their house in Boston." 
 
 * Messieurs Thomas and Elisha Hutchinson. The Freemen of this 
 Province understand from good authority that there is a consignment of 
 a quantity of tea to your house from the East India Company which is 
 destructive to the happiness of every well wisher to his country, there- 
 fore it is expected that you personally appear at Liberty Tree on Wed- 
 nesday next at 12 o'clock at noonday to make a public resignation of 
 your commission agreeable to a notification of this day for that purpose 
 Fail not upon your peril. O.C" 
 
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 Dartmouth's, 1773. Nov. 4. Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 MSS. Copy extract. Enclosing copies of letters showing the attempts of the 
 rioters to intimidate the consignees of tea from the East India Company. 
 
 1773, Nov. 4. Copy of a printed hand-bill posted up at Boston sum- 
 moning the freemen to meet at Liberty Tree to hear the consignees 
 of tea make a public resignation of their offices as consignees. It ends 
 with the words " Show us the man that dare take down this," and is 
 signed " O.C., Secretary." 
 
 1773. Papers endorsed " Copy of Narrative," being accounts of attacks 
 made by the rioters on the houses of the tea merchants in order to 
 compel them to attend the meeting at Liberty Tree on Nov. 4, which 
 they had all refused to do. The consignees whose houses were attacked 
 were Messrs. Clarke, Hutchinson, Faneuil and Winslow ; and the Com- 
 mittee of freemen comprised Messers. Molineux, Denny and Johonnot and 
 Doctors Joseph Warren and Church. 
 
 1773, Nov. 6. Milton near Boston. Governor Hutchinson to the Earl 
 of Dartmouth. Enclosing further papers on the same subject as the 
 above, viz., A copy of a letter from Messrs. Richard Clarke and Sons, 
 Benjamin Faneuil and Joseph Winslow refusing to comply with the request 
 of the Committee of the Town to resign their commissions; Copy 
 minute of a meeting of the Freeholders of Boston held 5 Nov. 1773 at 
 Faneuil Hall appointing the Hon. John Hancock, Mr. John Pitt, Mr. 
 Samuel Adams, Mr. Samuel Abbot, Dr. Joseph Warren, Mr. William 
 Powell and Mr. Nathaniel Appleton a Committee to request Messrs. 
 Thomas and Elisha Hutchinson to resign their commissions as consignees 
 of tea ; and copy letter undated from Messrs. Hutchinson to Mr Hancock 
 refusing to resign. 
 
 1773, Nov. 6. — Mr. Pownall to the Earl of Dartmouth. Enclosing, a 
 letter from Lord Suffolk with papers as to emigration to America, includ- 
 ing a copy printed notice referring to the advantages of St. John's Island 
 which had been posted up in parts of Scotland and Ireland ; and protests 
 against the increase of emigration which is alleged to be detrimental to 
 the commerce and industries of Great Britain. 
 
 1773, Nov. 14. Halifax, N.S. — Governor Legge to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth with respect to the quitrents due to the Crown from lessees of land 
 in the Province. The difficulty of getting them in. The amount of land 
 granted in the Province at one farthing per acre amounted to 3,344/. 9s., 
 and of this the collector was only able to obtain 112/. 
 
 1773, Nov. 15. Boston. — Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. On the state of the town, and the Governor's efforts to restore 
 order. The Council give him no help, as they sympathise with the people's 
 objects though they allege disapproval of the means. 
 
 1773, Nov. 23. Parliament Street. — James Meyrick to Governor 
 Legge. On business matters, and military gossip in England. Thanks 
 the Governor for two kegs of cod sounds. 
 
 1773, Nov. 23 to Nov. 29. Boston. — Report of debates in the Council 
 between these dates. The matters debated are principally connected 
 with a petition of the consignees of tea from the East India Company, 
 for protection for their persons and property from the violence of the 
 mob ; with the question as to whether the council could form a committee 
 of enquiry into the cause of the riots and present a report thereon to the 
 Governor (a proposal opposed strongly by the Governor himself) ; and 
 whether statements made in the council were to be kept secret from 
 the people of Boston. 
 
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 The debates show strong opposition to the Governor, and sympathy Dartmouth' 
 with the objects of the rioters by a majority of the council. The prin- MSS. 
 cipal speakers appear to have been, Mr. Bowdoin, violently opposed to 
 the Governor, Mr. Pitts, Colonel Otis, Captain Erving on the side of the 
 Governor, Dr. Winthrop and Mr. Danforth. 
 
 1773, Nov. 26. Copy notification printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, 
 from the " select men " of Boston to the inhabitants of the town of a 
 meeting to be held at Faneuil Hall on the 27 Nov., "in order to 
 consult whether further application shall be made to said consignees, or 
 otherwise to act as the town shall think proper at the present dangerous 
 crisis." Tt is signed " by order of the select men, William Cooper, Town 
 Clerk." There is also an account of a meeting held at Boston, when a 
 further application was made to Messrs. Clarke, Faneuil and Hutchinson, 
 the consignees, to resign their commissions, and a copy letter from them 
 to the Honourable J ohn Hancock, refusing the application. 
 
 1773, Dec. 1. Boston. — Long account of the meetings held by the 
 inhabitants of Boston after the first consignment of the tea had arrived in 
 port, proceedings upon the appointment of a watch to see that none 
 was landed, proclamation by Governor Hutchinson, &c. 
 
 1773, Dec. 1. New York. — Governor Tryon to the Earl of Dartmouth." 
 ''Private." As to the repeal of the Act imposing a duty on tea. The 
 dangers it would involve by encouraging illicit trade in geneva, arrack, 
 yarn &c. 
 
 1773, Dec. 1. Whitehall. — The Earl of Dartmouth to Governor Legge. 
 Recommending persons for various vacant offices, &c. 
 
 1773, Dec. 2. Tortola. — Two letters from James Dawson and Robert 
 French to the Earl of Marchmont. Respecting the death of the Governor 
 of the Island, Mr. Home, and containing recommendations for his 
 successor. 
 
 1773, Dec. 2. Boston. — Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 " Private," with a duplicate. Respecting the report of the debates in the 
 Council which he had enclosed in a public despatch. He thinks Lord 
 Dartmouth will see from them " the situation of a Massachusetts Governor, 
 and that he is without the least support in measures for maintaining the 
 authority of the Crown." 
 
 1773, Dec. 2. Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dartmouth. Relating 
 the attacks made by the mob upon the houses of the consignees of tea 
 and enclosing a petition from the consignees to the Governor and 
 Council for protection for themselves and the consignments of tea ; and 
 the minutes of the proceedings of the Council (who declined any advice 
 in the matter) thereupon, containing a long report made by them to the 
 Governor excusing the conduct of the rioters and declining to give any 
 assistance either to the consignees or their consignments. 
 
 1773, Dec. 6. Castle William, Boston Harbour. — (Copy). Lieutenant- 
 Colonel the Honourable A. Leslie to the Secretary at War. Giving 
 accounts of the proceedings of the rioters similar to those in the foregoing 
 papers. 
 
 1773, Dec. 8. Boston. — Admiral Montagu to Philip Stephens, Secretary 
 to the Admiralty. An account of the proceedings of the rioters. The 
 Admiral expresses his readiness to act in aid of the Governor whenever 
 he may be called upon. 
 
 1773, Dec. 13. Halifax, N.S. — Letter unsigned, butwritten by the Gover- 
 nor's desire, to Mr. James Fulton respecting the making of roads in the 
 
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 Province, requiring a report upon the best route for a road from Halifax 
 to Truro which would secure the maximum of safety and the minimum of 
 cost. 
 
 Enclosed in this letter is a paper headed " Reasons why the Governor 
 of Nova Scotia should not have been restricted from passing grants of 
 land to people from the Northern Colonies in America, but to encourage 
 them to settle in this." 
 
 1773. Dec. 14. Boston. — Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. " Private." The appointment of a Committee of correspondence 
 of the towns of Boston, Charlestown, Hoxbury, Brooklyn, Dorchester and 
 Cambridge, which has taken under its direction the affair of the East 
 India tea. The proceedings of this Committee to prevent the landing 
 of the tea, &c. 
 
 1773, Dec. 15. Boston. — Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. (Copy.) The continuance of the disturbances in the town. 
 
 1773, Dec. 17. — Same to same. (Copy.) The destruction of 340 
 chests of tea by the rioters. 
 
 1773, Dec. 17. Boston. — (Copy.) Admiral Montagu to Philip Stephens, 
 Secretary to the Admiralty. Another account of the destruction of the 
 tea in Boston Harbour. " I must also desire you will be pleased to 
 inform their Lordships [of the Admiralty] that during the whole of this 
 transaction neither the Governor, magistrates, owners or the revenue 
 officers of this place ever called for my assistance ; if they had, I could 
 easily have prevented the execution of this plan, but must have en- 
 dangered the lives of many innocent people, by firing upon the town." 
 
 1773, Dec. 17. Castle William. — Lieutenant-Colonel Honourable A. 
 Leslie to the Secretary at War on the same subject. " T had the 
 regiment [the 64th] ready to take their arms had they been called 
 upon. I am informed the Council would not agree to the troops going 
 to town, however it must end in that." 
 
 1773. Paper headed " Wm. Tongue's remarks on the times in New 
 York, 17 December 1773, after a meeting of the Sons of Liberty at the 
 City Hall respecting the tea from Great Britain." 
 
 1773. Paper headed " State of the Province of Nova Scotia with respect 
 to the number of its inhabitants & its produce taken in the year 1773." 
 
 1773. Dec. 18. Boston. — Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. " Private." The destruction of the tea. 
 
 1773, Dec. 20. — Same to same. (Copy.) "There has been no in- 
 telligence relative to the teas. It is generally believed that the teas 
 designed for Philadelphia will not be suffered to go up the river, and the 
 expectation of an union of measures in the three great Colonies of Pen- 
 sylvania, New York, and Massachusetts Bay, has raised a higher spirit 
 here than I have ever seen before." 
 
 1773, Dec.21. Boston. — Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 "Private." The spread of the spirit of disaffection throughout the 
 Province. " At and near Boston the people seem regardless of all con- 
 sequences. I may not presume to propose measures. To enforce the 
 duty appears beyond all comparison more difficult than I ever before 
 imagined. I doubt whether any merchant has given orders for any teas 
 from England next year. Now, it is said is the time for teas from 
 Holland. To concede endangers raising the like spirit in other cases of 
 Parliamentary authority." 
 
 1773, Dec. 22. Tower Hill, London.— A letter from A. L. (Arthur 
 Lee) to whom is not stated, but to one of the leaders of the rebel 
 
 Eael of 
 Dartmouth's 
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 Colonies (probably at Boston), as to the state of affairs in England earl of 
 with reference to America. " I am sorry that a total silence with DAR ^ ( g JTH s 
 respect to the redressing our grievances reigns at Court. The pro- — - 
 fessions of Lord D[artmouth] I own give me very little confidence; 
 he was called upon last sessions of Parliament in the House of Lords 
 by our unalterable friend Lord Shelburne to account for his having 
 done nothing to conciliate the Colonies ; he answered with fair pro- 
 mises; he will be again called upon this session by the same noble 
 Lord. I think he must then speak decisively, as any further evasion 
 will be palpable. It becomes us to be prepared for the worst : to men 
 of such a disposition what happens bad is better borne ; what happens 
 good is doubly acceptable." 
 
 Advocates a Committee of correspondence of all the Colonies to 
 demand a repeal of the Revenue Acts from 1764, with all their perni- 
 cious appendages. This obtained, " it will be enough. In no sense of 
 policy is it our interest to quarrel with this country, if we are not com- 
 pelled to it. If they are obliged to retract from the exercise of their 
 
 assumed power now, when will they be able to renew it ? 
 
 they will be glad to maintain their supremacy without attempting to bind 
 us in all cases whatsoever, and it is surely better for us to submit silently 
 to that degree of subordination, till the gentle course of nature shall 
 bring us to maturity and independence, than by a premature, doubtful, and 
 dangerous struggle to hazard the ruin of the whole British Empire." 
 
 1773. Dec. 22. Philadelphia. — Joseph Reed to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 A long letter relating the whole history of the American revolt, attri- 
 buted by the writer to the fact that the Act of 7th Geo. III. was 
 declared to be for the purpose of raising a revenue in America. On the 
 subject of plans to allay the revolt, the writer says, " I cannot presume 
 to suggest expedients to your Lordship's wisdom and prudence : some 
 proper ones, I doubt not, will occur. Severities have been tried. If it 
 can be thought consistent with the supremacy and dignity of the mother 
 country to relax and adopt lenient measures on this occasion, it would 
 crown your Lordship's administration with unfading honour, to be the 
 instrument of removing this remaining source of civil discord. For 
 notwithstanding any contrary representations, I caanot but be firmly 
 persuaded that the repeal of the whole Act would ensure the future 
 submission of the inhabitants of this part of America to every other 
 Act of the British Parliament now in force." 
 
 1773, Dec. 24. — Same to same. (Copy.) A meeting of the Council has 
 been held, and it has been resolved that the Attorney-General shall be 
 directed to enquire into the matter, and to lay it before the Grand Jury. 
 A copy report of the meeting and of the resolution follows (No. 19). 
 
 1773, Dec. 27. Halifax Yard. — Admiral Arbuthnot to Governor Legge. 
 That it is not in his power to lend him 1,000/. of the money supplied by 
 the Navy board for the dockyard, for the purpose of facilitating the 
 raising of a provincial regiment. 
 
 1 773, Dec. 27. Philadelphia. — Joseph Reed to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Enclosing extracts from a Philadelphia newspaper, and also a written 
 paper giving accounts of the proceedings of the inhabitants of the town 
 on the arrival of the tea ship. These papers state that, on hearing the 
 tea ship had been sighted, the Committee of the town waited upon the 
 consignees of the tea and requested them to resign their commissions. 
 This they did. On the arrival of the ship the captain, Mr. Ayres, was 
 informed by the Committee that he could not discharge his cargo, and 
 that the Committee had determined he should take it back to England. 
 
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 Earl of ( The vessel was supplied with all necessaries, and in two hours time set 
 LR mss? TH S out on her return. This is the substance of the written paper. The 
 — extracts from the newspaper contain, in addition to reports of these 
 proceedings, expresses from Charlestown, New York, and Boston, giving 
 accounts of the tea riots in those places, the proceedings of the Com- 
 mittees, reports of meetings, &c. 
 
 Mr. Reed in his letter says, " As it may be a matter of importance to 
 your Lordship, not only to be made acquainted with the facts, but the 
 circumstances, rank, and character of those who promote this opposition, 
 it would be improper for me to conceal that it has originated and been 
 conducted by some of the principal inhabitants, and I may safely say 
 continued and encouraged by all, as there has not been a single publica- 
 tion nor have I heard one person speak in favour of the measure. Your 
 Lordship will judge from these facts how general and unanimous the 
 opinion is, that no article subject to a duty for the purpose of raising a 
 revenue ought to be received in America. Nor is it confined to this 
 city. Your Lordship will see by the papers herewith that the same 
 opposition is made at New York, Carolina, and Boston, and you may rely 
 upon it that the same idea prevails throughout the country. Any 
 farther attempts to enforce this Act, I am humbly of opinion, will end 
 
 in blood The destruction of the tea at Boston has 
 
 occasioned much speculation in this city, and there is some difference of 
 opinion, but in general their conduct is approved as proceeding from 
 
 necessity If the total repeal of this Act should be 
 
 thought of, it is not possible to frame a stronger argument than what 
 arises from the increase of smuggling, by which there is a regular and 
 sufficient supply of tea, and has been for several years, equal to the 
 demand of this whole country. What a loss must this have been to the 
 mother country ! What an acquisition to a foreign state ! From the 
 first enquiry and computation I have been able to make, the annual con- 
 sumption of this province now amounts to 2,000 chests of tea, the 
 profits of which have been totally lost to England for upwards of five 
 years. At the lowest computation it cannot be less than 100,000/. lost 
 to England from this Province only ; but when other articles are con- 
 sidered which accompany it, who can tell to what amount it may 
 reach ? " 
 
 1773. Dec. 28. New York. — Major- General Haldimand to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. The news of what happened at Boston on the 15th has 
 created such a ferment at New York and Philadelphia that the 
 Governors, General Haldimand writes, will probably choose to have the 
 tea sent back to England. 
 
 1773, December. A few cuttings from American newspapers. 
 
 1774. Jan. 4th. Boston. — Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. (Copy.) One of the tea ships which had been cast ashore off 
 Cape Cod has safely discharged her cargo, and the Governor has ordered 
 it to be stored in the castle. It is not expected that the ships bound for 
 
 * New York and Philadelphia will be allowed to discharge their cargo. 
 
 1774, Jan. 4. Newbern, North Carolina. — Martin Howard, Chief 
 Justice of North Carolina to the Earl of Dartmouth. Enclosing a 
 memorial for increase of salary and emolument. 
 
 1774, Jan. 5. — (Extract.) Major-General Haldimand to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. The tea was sent back to England from Philadelphia by order 
 of the mob as soon as it arrived. It has not yet arrived at New York. 
 " I cannot find that the behaviour of the people of Boston meets with 
 the general approbation even of the people of that Government, some of 
 
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 which seem desirous that their metropolis should be made to pay for it. Earl 
 
 I cannot but think however but that the Dae 5is° 
 
 mercantile interest will prevail and influence a great many parts of that — 
 country to approve their unwarrantable behaviour in the destruction of 
 the property of the East India Company." Enclosing a report of a 
 meeting of the inhabitants, held at Plymouth on the 7th December 1773, 
 approving the proceedings of the inhabitants of Boston and Philadelphia, 
 and declaring the consignees to have forfeited the protection to which 
 every good citizen is entitled ; and also a protest signed by forty of the 
 inhabitants of the same town, protesting against the foregoing report 
 and declaring their loyalty to the King. 
 
 1774, Jan. 6. — Copy of correspondence from December 9th 1773 to 
 January 22nd 1774 between Mr. Meyrick, Governor Legge's English 
 agent, and Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Dilkes and others, respecting money 
 due to Governor Legge for the purchase of his company in the 62nd 
 regiment and for other matters. 
 
 1774, Jan. 6. Boston. — Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 M Private." Enclosing a J ournal of proceedings in Massachusetts Bay 
 relative to the importation of teas on account of the East India Com- 
 pany from November 2nd to December 16th, 1773. 
 
 1774, Jan. 6. 25, North Street, Soho. John Hanson to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. The appointment of a naval officer in the customs at Phila- 
 delphia, and on the question whether the appointments to such offices 
 were vested in the Crown or in Mr. Penn. Enclosing a copy of a letter to 
 Mr. Penn on the subject, and a paper of notes on the same matter. 
 
 1774, Jan. 8. East India House. — P. Michell, Secretary to the Court 
 of Directors of the East India Company, to Governor Legge. The 
 Directors find that their agents at Boston, New York, Philadelphia and 
 South Carolina are in some danger of being interfered with in the exe- 
 cution of their commissions and that some of them are likely to be 
 exposed to the effects of popular indignation. Enclosing under cover to 
 the Governor such instructions to their agents at Halifax as they con- 
 sider necessary for their future guidance. Requesting the Governor to 
 " give such countenance to our said agents as shall be consistent with 
 the dignity of the high office which you hold under the Crown." 
 
 1774, Jan. 12. Newbern, North Carolina. — Governor Martin to the Earl 
 of Dartmouth as io the hardships and sufferings of Mr. Fanning, a Colonel 
 of Militia and a lawyer, which he underwent at the hands of the Colonists 
 for his steady adherence to the Crown and Government. The most 
 disgraceful indignities were offered to his person, and his house and 
 furniture were wrecked at a loss to him of 1,500/. 
 
 1774, Jan. 13. — Copy of an Act of Parliament entitled w An act to 
 discontinue, in such manner, and for such time as are therein mentioned, 
 the landing and discharging, lading or shipping of goods, wares, and mer- 
 chandise at the town and within the harbour of Boston in the Province 
 of Massachusetts Bay in North America." 
 
 1774, Jan. 15. Dublin. — R. Browne to Governor Legge. Asking an 
 appointment in America for his brother, an ensign in the 31st Regiment. 
 
 1774, Jan. 19. — An unaddressed letter from the Duke of Manchester. 
 Respecting an appointment offered to his brother, which being of so 
 small value he cannot accept. 
 
 1774, Jan. 25. Lincoln's Inn Fields. — W. Hey, Chief Justice of Quebec, 
 to the Lord Chancellor. Submitting " A plan for the Administration of 
 the laws in the Province of Canada." 
 
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 Earl op 1774. Jan. 26. — Lord Chancellor Apsley to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 DaR mss UTH S Enclosing a letter from a Mr. Nelme, a copyist, to Lady Apsley, and 
 
 ' requesting Lord Dartmouth to let him go with a proper reprimand for 
 
 his folly. 
 
 N.D. Saturday night. — Same to same. On the same subject. Mr. Nelme 
 " copied the letter he brought for Lady A. from a draught given him by 
 D r Dodd." The letters probably refer to the charge of simony brought 
 against D r Dodd (the " Maccaroni parson ") who, through his wife, 
 offered a sum of money to the Chancellor for a Church living of which 
 he was patron. 
 
 1774, Jan. 28. Boston. — Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Kespecting the tarring and feathering and other bar- 
 barities committed by the mob upon the person of Mr. John Mal- 
 colm, a preventive officer of Falmouth, in Cases Bay, he having rendered 
 himself obnoxious by seizing a vessel for want of a register and other 
 acts. Accompanied by an extract from a letter in the Boston Gazette 
 dated 27th January to the same effect, which also states Mr. Malcolm's 
 life to have been despaired of. Both of these papers were laid before 
 the Houses of Parliament on the 11th March 1774. 
 
 1774, Jan. 30. Leeds. — Richard Browne to whom not stated. Encloses 
 a letter (not now with the papers) by his brother's desire. Thanks 
 his Excellency for favours received from General Gage and Colonel 
 James, and for his countenance when a volunteer under his Excellency's 
 command in America. 
 
 1774, Feb. 2. New York. — Major-General Haldimand to the 
 Earl of Dartmouth. The teaship for New York not yet arrived. 
 " Every thing seems quiet at present, but little matters in the present 
 state of affairs might give new vigour to that spirit of opposition, which 
 is greatly strengthened by the association, and steps taken by the assem- 
 blies of the respective Provinces to proceed with unanimity in opposing 
 the authority of Parliament from extending to the Colonies in North 
 America." 
 
 1774, Feb. 9. Welbeck Street. — William Payne Georges, Agent for the 
 Virgin Islands, to the Earl of Dartmouth. With respect to a petition 
 from the inhabitants of the Islands to the King, requesting Lord 
 Dartmouth's favour for it. 
 
 1774, Feb. 15. Pensacola, — J. Stephenson to Mr. Montfort Browne. 
 As to his settlements along the Mississippi. 
 
 1774, Feb. 17. Boston. — Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. "Private." The proceedings of the people against the Judges 
 of the Superior Courts to prevent a trial of those concerned in the tea riots. 
 Advantage was taken of the weak state of body by which the mind was also 
 affected, of one of the Judges and he was induced, in consequence ot the 
 resolves of the last session, to send a letter to the Speaker expressing his 
 determination to comply with the demand of the House. Having carried 
 this point with one, the others were afraid of increasing the rage of the 
 people against them if they refused to comply with the renewed demand 
 made upon them the present session, and one of them assured me t hat he 
 was constrained to a compliance, merely because his person, his wife, and 
 children, and his property were at the mercy of the populace, from whom 
 there was nothing which he had not to fear. I used every argument in 
 my power to fortify him, but could not prevail, and none but the Chief 
 
 Justice refused to comply Indeed there is no prospect 
 
 of any notice of the late extravagancies in the town of Boston, the grand 
 Jurors for that town being persons who were among the principal pro- 
 
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 moters of the meetings which occasioned the destruction of the tea and DA g£5£ °* 
 were undoubtedly selected to prevent any prosecutions. I see no pros- R Mssy TI 
 pect of persuading the people who disapprove of these proceedings to — 
 support me in my opposition to them, unless they could be sure of pro- 
 tection. They all gave me one and the same answer." The illness of 
 the Lieut. Governor has prevented the Governor availing himself of the 
 leave granted him. 
 
 Sees no prospect of order being restored without the interposition of 
 power from England. " I rather think the anarchy will continually 
 increase until the whole Province is in confusion. I received intelli- 
 gence a few days ago of town meetings held in the County of Berkshire 
 adjoining to the Province of New York to form combinations against 
 the payment of lawyers and sheriffs fees in actions at law, because they 
 thought the established fees by the law of the Province were too high. 
 Success in the opposition to the supreme power over the whole leads 
 the subjects of subordinate powers to conclude they may also shake off 
 such subjection whensoever they are dissatisfied with them." 
 
 1774, Feb. 18, Friday. — James Burrow to Governor Legge. En- 
 closing a return of all the papers and books belonging to the Court of 
 Chancery at Halifax. 
 
 1774, March 2, King's Bench Walk. The Hon. Daines Barrington to 
 Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 " Happening to be the only Vice President last summer in London 
 during the recess of the Royal Society I had the honour to inclose your 
 Lordship a letter from Prince Masserano, in which he informed the 
 Royal Society that the King of Spain had consented to furnish them 
 with the natural productions of South America which they might request, 
 provided his Majesty might receive in return for his own Museum those 
 of the British Colonies. 
 
 Your Lordship after this informed me that you had laid this proposal 
 of exchange before the King who was pleased to approve of this inter- 
 course of science between the two nations, and that when we had 
 prepared the first present on our part, you would take his Majesty's 
 pleasure in what manner it should be transmitted to the King of Spain. 
 
 The Committee of Natural History therefore having now made a 
 collection which is nearly ready for packing, would be happy to receive 
 your Lordship's further directions on this head. 
 
 Give me leave also to take this opportunity of reminding your Lord- 
 ship that the Royal Society will not be able to continue this barter 
 of natural productions unless a proper artist is sent to North America 
 in order to do justice to fresh specimens, who cannot be procured to 
 cross the Atlantic under an allowance of 150/. or rather 200/. per ann. 
 an expence which the finances of the Royal Society are by no means 
 equal to." 
 
 1774, March 5. — Print of "An oration delivered March 5th 1774, at 
 the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston to commemorate the 
 bloody tragedy of the 5th March 1770, by the Hon. John Hancock, 
 Esq." A very inflammatory address of 20 pp. long, delivered atFaneuil 
 Hall, Boston. 
 
 1774, March 7. Saint Augustine. — Governor Tonyn to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Enclosing copies of a letter from Lord Barrington to him 
 and of his answer thereto, relative to a charge for the Garrison Hospital 
 at St. Augustine's which his Lordship proposes shall be placed to the 
 Governor's contingent account. 
 
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 earl of } 1774, March 9. Boston. — Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dart- 
 ^mssT™' 8 moutn - Copy. The first part relates to the attempt of the House and 
 — Council to remove the Chief Justice of the Province by impeachment. 
 
 " Sunday the 6th instant a vessel arrived from London having on 
 board about 30 chests of tea on account of several traders in tea. The 
 next day the vessel was haled to the wharf where the vessels lay which 
 had the East India Company's tea, and in the evening a sufficient number 
 of persons disguised like Indians went on board and destroyed the tea 
 in a short time, and the next morning the vessel was haled to the long 
 wharf, where vessels from London generally unload to take out the rest 
 of her goods. The owners of the tea are very silent, and I think if they 
 could find out who were the immediate actors they would not venture 
 at present to bring any action in the law against them. If they had 
 attempted to land it, it's probable they would have shared in the fate of 
 the consignees of the Company's teas, neither of which have been able 
 to return to the town since they were first banished." 
 
 1774, March 10. Whitehall. — J. Pownall to Governor Legge. 
 " Circular." Enclosing the King's message to the Houses of Parliament, 
 accompanying papers on American alfairs, particularly the riots at 
 Boston and of the resolutions of the Houses thereon. 
 
 1774, March 24. — Letter signed by Henry Newton, Jonathan Binney, 
 and others, to Richard Cumberland. The writers represent the settlers 
 of Nova Scotia, who have sent a petition to the King praying him to 
 remit the quit rents due from them to him for a few years, as they find 
 themselves quite unable to pay it owing to the youth of the Colony, the 
 absence of roads, &c. 
 
 1774, Mar. 25. South Carolina. — Copy of message from the Commons 
 House of Assembly to the Lieutenant-Governor, respecting the rejec- 
 tion of bills passed by them by the Council, and the impossibility of 
 any further business being done, and asking leave to adjourn till 
 August. 
 
 Copy of Lieutenant-Governor Bull's answer adjourning the House 
 till May. 
 
 Copy of resolutions of the House of Assembly relative to the distress 
 under which the public creditors labour for want of payment of their 
 debts, and recommending payment to them of interest. 
 
 1774, March 25. — Colonel Dallingto Mr. Pownall. His return home 
 in the ensuing summer in spite of his deputy's non-arrival. This disobe- 
 dience of orders will be due to the precarious state of his wife's and 
 family's healths. 
 
 1774, March 29. — James Burrows to Governor Legge. Inviting him 
 to a dinner the writer proposes to give on his being admitted a member' 
 (?) of the Council. 
 
 1774, March 30. Boston. — Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Enclosing a copy of a letter from Mr. Lee, Agent of the House of 
 Representatives of Boston in England in the absence of Dr. Franklin. 
 This is probably the letter from "A. L.," dated 22nd December 1773, 
 extracts from which are given above. " The Speaker to whom it 
 was directed having lent it to a gentleman, he copied it, and the same 
 person who furnished me with the copy of the letter which I trans- 
 mitted in October procured this, being in a publick station and thinking 
 himself bound in duty to the King to promote His Majesty's service." 
 
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 1774, April 4. Philadelphia. — Joseph Eeed to the Earl of Dartmouth. earl of 
 I glad to hear that his letters to Lord Dartmouth have proved useful. Dabtmouth's 
 
 Nothing of importance has happened since the departure of the tea — ' 
 ship, but some designs are forming and will be carried into execution 
 unless the Tea Act is repealed. Mentions some grievances. The post 
 office, where the rate of postage for small distances continues the same 
 as in Queen Anne's time. The lowest rate is 8d. currency for a single 
 letter, or about 5d. sterling. " This is become a very heavy tax upon 
 all trade and business and is a real loss to the revenue, as the postage 
 would amount to more than it now does (from the increase of letters) 
 if it was put on a more reasonable footing." 
 
 The bad system of communication between the colonies, the mis- 
 appropriation of the revenues of the Post Office, and the rudeness and 
 incivility of many of its officers are other grievances connected with the 
 postal system. 
 
 Another complaint, mentioned by Mr. Reed, arises from the mode of 
 trying Revenue causes at the Admiralty Courts by deputy judges ap- 
 pointed without the proper supervision of the judges themselves who 
 are in England. "When the Court fixed at this place opened, the 
 judge was a disappointed stamp officer, and every officer in it an under- 
 ling in the Custom House. The Register was a gauger and surveyor, 
 the Marshal , a tide waiter, &c. No measure could have been formed 
 more certain to invite opposition and contempt. These officers are 
 generally interested in the cause depending, so that partly from that reason 
 and partly their incapacity, it is often necessary to procure indifferent 
 persons to do their duty.'' 
 
 1774, April 9. Ashford.— The Rev. Thomas Bliss, Vicar of Ashford, 
 to the Earl of Dartmouth. As to his distressed circumstances. 
 
 1774, April 9. Whitehall. — The Earl of Dartmouth to Governor Gage. 
 The King has appointed Mr. Gage Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief 
 of the province of Massachusetts Bay, and requires him to return at once 
 on board the Lively to his command in North America, with full powers 
 and instructions. An Act of Parliament recently passed will be sent 
 with this letter, for discontinuing the loading and unloading of merchan- 
 dise in Boston Harbour, and the Governor is directed to call a meeting 
 for the purpose of securing the best means to carry the Act into effect. 
 Every care is to be taken to quiet the people by gentle means, the 
 troops over whom the Governor has the command are not to be called 
 out unless absolutely necessary, but in the meantime until a proper 
 submission to the King has been made, Lieut. -General Gage is directed 
 to fix the seat of Government at Salem and to remove thither all the 
 Government offices and business which i3 not fixed by law to be trans- 
 acted at Boston. Lord Dartmouth proceeds to consider what punish- 
 ment should be awarded to the ringleaders of the riots at Boston in 
 November and December 1773, the destroyers of the tea, &c, and says that 
 it has been decided that proceedings shall be taken against them in the 
 Colonial Courts by the Governor, but he is to exercise his discretion as 
 to prosecuting them or not, by the likelihood of a local jury bringing in 
 an impartial verdict ; " if, however, the prejudices of the people should 
 appear to you to be such as would in all probability prevent a convic- 
 tion, however clear and full the evidence might be, in that case it would 
 be better to desist from prosecution, seeing that an ineffectual attempt 
 would only be triumph to the faction and disgraceful to Government." 
 Power is given the Governor to veto the election of any persons to be 
 members of the Council, as are known to him to be opposed to the 
 King's Government. 
 
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 EiLEi of } 1774, April 11. Whitehall.— The Earl of Dartmouth to Governor 
 ^ R MSS\ TH S Gage. " Since my letter to you of the 9th inst. a commission has passed the 
 — Great Seal authorizing you to pardon all offences and to remit all fines and 
 forfeitures without exception." 
 
 1774, April 11. Inner Temple. — Francis Maseres to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Relative to Canadian affairs. The writer has received two letters 
 from Quebec, one from Colonel Christie and the other from Mr. Delisle the 
 Protestant minister at Montreal. Colonel Christie writes " I cannot give 
 you any satisfactory account concerning the state of this Province, which 
 for want of the long expected laws or regulations from home is every 
 day getting into greater confusion." Mr. Maseres' pamphlet in answer 
 to one by Mr. Cugnet is universally admired, and he quotes extracts from 
 letters he has received to show that it is so. He then states his ideas 
 on the subject of the reform of the Canadian laws at some length. 
 
 1774, April 11. Whitehall.— The Earl of Dartmouth to Governor 
 Legge. Recommending the bearer of the despatch, Mr. Monk, for the 
 office of Attorney General of Nova Scotia upon the first vacancy. 
 
 1774, April 13. Covent Garden. — W. Bollen to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Unimportant ; mentions the departure of Governor Gage. 
 
 1774, April 30. Gray's Inn. — Edward Montagu to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Has just heard of the death of Mr. Dalrymple his Majesty's 
 Attorney General in Grenada. Mr. Sharp is thought the most proper 
 person in this island to succeed him. 
 
 Same date. Bloomsbury Square. — Similar letter from Henry Wilmot. 
 
 1774, April. Copy. Statement of account. Masschusetts Bay with 
 Denny s de Bordt. 
 
 1774, May 10. Halifax. — Report from Mr. Burrow to Governor Legge. 
 As to the condition of the Orphan House at Halifax, with estimates for 
 conducting it on a more economical plan. With a duplicate copy. 
 
 1774, May 11. — Mary Countess Dowager Gower to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. As to the Vicarage of Ashford of which she is patron. Mr. Bliss, 
 the present vicar, complains of the smallness of his stipend. Lady Gower 
 promises to make enquiries. 
 
 1774, May 24. Halifax. — Copy letter for signature of Governor Legge. 
 Congratulating General Gage on his appointment as Governor of Mas- 
 sachusetts Bay and promising his cooperation in everything to promote 
 His Majesty's service. 
 
 1774, May 24. — Grey Elliott to the Earl of Dartmouth. As to the case 
 of Mr. Gordon, which he requests may be referred to the Board of Trade. 
 
 1774, May 27. Halifax. — Governor Legge to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 As to the necessity of Law Officers of experience being appointed in the 
 Colonies seeing that the Governors frequently have not sufficient know- 
 ledge of the laws and constitution of Great Britain or the Colonies and 
 need men to whom they can refer cases of difficulty. 
 
 Many such cases have been brought before the writer in which he 
 has not had any assistance from Mr. Nesbitt, the Attorney General, as 
 they were for the most part complaints against him for the misappropria- 
 tion of money. As there was no one else to call upon, Governor Legge 
 was under the necessity of forwarding the papers to Mr. Pownall for the 
 consideration of the Law Officers of the Crown. 
 
 Has heard that Mr. James Monk is to have the reversion of the office 
 of Attorney General of Nova Scotia. Governor Legge thinks he is too 
 young to have acquired sufficient knowledge of law. 
 
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 1774, May 30. Philadelphia. — J oseph Reed to the Earl of Dartmouth. Earl of 
 The state of affairs in America in consequence of the proceedings against DAR Mssy T 
 Boston and Dr. Franklin. Announces himself as one of those " who — 
 cannot admit the right of Parliament to tax America." Has been 
 nominated by his fellow citizens to devise and assist in such measures as 
 will prevent the exercise of this right by Parliament. 
 
 " If the Boston port bill and the other proceedings against that Pro- 
 vince have been founded on a supposition that the other Colonies would 
 leave them to struggle alone, I do assure your Lordship there never was 
 a greater mistake, it is now about three weeks since the advices came, 
 and every Colony from Massachusetts to Virginia, from which we have 
 not time to hear, have signified their resolutions to concur with each 
 other in every measure to relieve Boston from the distresses the Act will 
 bring upon them." 
 
 Mentions meetings of the legislative bodies of New Jersey, Pennsyl- 
 vania, Maryland, Connecticut, to devise measures to support Boston in 
 the struggle. A suggestion has been made to send supplies to that 
 town to relieve distress ; " in less than a month there is little doubt but 
 ship loads of provisions will be sent as presents from every Province on 
 the Continent except Canada and the Floridas." Not one person has 
 advised Boston to submit, and it seems certain that they never will, and 
 if neither Parliament or America will recede the most dreadful conse- 
 quences will ensue. Encloses a petition from the inhabitants of Penn- 
 sylvania to John Penn, Esquire, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of 
 the Province, praying him to call the Assembly as soon as possible, 
 that they may consult how best to relieve the anxieties of the people 
 and restore harmony and peace between the mother country and the 
 Colonies. 
 
 1774, June 2. London. — The Earl of Dartmouth to Governor Legge. 
 Is rejoiced to hear he finds himself so happy in his present position. Is 
 afraid it will be difficult to procure him a grant of 500/. from Parlia- 
 ment for the roads of his Province, but will endeavour to obtain money 
 elsewhere. 
 
 1774, June 3. Whitehall. — The Earl of Dartmouth to Governor Gage. 
 '"Separate and secret." Requesting him to procure copies of two letters, 
 one from Doctor Franklin, dated 7th July 1773, the other from Mr. Arthur 
 Lee, dated* 25th (sic) December 1773, as they are supposed to be of a 
 treasonable nature. 
 
 1774, June 3. Whitehall. — The Earl of Dartmouth to Governor Gage. 
 " Separate." Enclosing the Act for providing quarters for the King's 
 troops in America, which has just received the Royal Assent. 
 
 1774, June 3. Whitehall. — The Earl of Dartmouth to Governor Gage. 
 Enclosing (the enclosures are not now with the letter) two further Acts of 
 Parliament which have received the Royal Assent. " These Acts close 
 the consideration of what relates to the state of your Government, and 
 it is hoped that they will have the good effect to give vigor and activity 
 to civil authority ; to prevent those unwarrantable assemblings of the 
 people for factious purposes, which have been the source of so much 
 mischief ; and to secure an impartial administration of justice in all 
 cases where the authority of this kingdom may be in question." One of 
 the Acts is for the better regulation of the Government of the Province 
 
 * Probably a mistake for 22nd December 1773, the date of the letter given in 
 pages 344-5. 
 
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 iktmouth's °^ Massachusetts Bay, an ^ provides that the Council shall henceforward 
 MSS. be nominated by the King on the recommendation of the Governor and 
 shall no longer be elective. The other Act is for the more impartial 
 administration of justice. Another bill, waiting the Royal Assent, is 
 for making more effectual provision for quartering His Majesty's troops- 
 and is founded on the artifices used in Boston in 1770 to elude the Act 
 of Parliament, when two regiments had been ordered to be quartered 
 there. The remainder of the letter treats of the impeachment of the 
 Chief Justice of the Province by the Council, which the firmness of Mr. 
 Hutchinson avoided, and the death of the French King on the 10th of 
 May 1774, an event which, Lord Dartmouth thinks, may be of great 
 importance in the crisis. Everything depends on what Ministers the 
 young King will choose to put his confidence in. Who these will be, 
 Lord Dartmouth says, is mere conjecture. 
 
 1774, June 10. Philadelphia. — Joseph Reed to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Announces the determination to hold a general Congress of all 
 the Colonies to oppose the Parliamentary claim of taxation and to relieve 
 the distresses of the port of Boston. The first business proposed for 
 them is to draw up what was on a former occasion called a Bill of 
 Rights and it is probable that certain members will take this personally 
 over to Great Britain. Encloses resolutions " unanimously agreed to 
 by 46 of the principal inhabitants of Philadelphia as proper to be pro- 
 posed at the Great Meeting to be held next week, when no doubt they 
 will be agreed to as containing the general sense of the inhabitants of 
 this city. These resolutions propose a subscription to relieve Boston, 
 and a meeting to choose delegates for the Province to attend the Colonial 
 Congress, 
 
 1774, June 15. — Thomas Pitt to the Earl of Dartmouth, asking an 
 audience for Mr. Wharton who has received important news from America. 
 
 1774, June 16. — The case of Colonel Edmund Fanning, private secre- 
 tary to Governor Tryon. 
 
 1774, June 17. London. — Mr. Dennis de Bordt to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Asking for an appointment in America. 
 
 1774, June 26. Grenada. — Governor Leyborne to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Copy Extracts. Enclosing Acts of the Island for establishing 
 law courts and compelling the specific performance of money contracts. 
 (Not now with the letter). 
 
 1774, June 30. Whitehall. — J. Pownall to Governor Legge. Mr. 
 Cumberland's office is not a law office and himself though a very sensible 
 man no lawyer. The Law Officer of the Board of Trade is Mr. Jackson 
 one of the King's Counsel. Encloses Mr. Jackson's observations (not 
 now with the letter) on this letter of the 18th March and the papers 
 enclosed. 
 
 N.D. [1774, June.] — Memorial of Lieutenant Cambel, Engineer, for a 
 grant of 1,200 acres of land on the Mississippi in the province of West 
 Florida to himself and of certain other lands to several persons whom he 
 names. 
 
 N.D. — Draft letter undated and unsigned from theEarl of Dartmouth to 
 Mr. Reed in answer to his of the 30th May. Is a strong friend to America 
 and will remain so until the clearest evidence of contempt or 
 disregard of the mother country shall compel him to withdraw his 
 friendship. Is fully aware of the turn things have taken there, 
 but hopes they will become better. " I will still hope that principles of 
 another nature prevail in the minds of those who are best entitled to 
 
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 the attention and consideration of their fellow subjects, and that a little Earl of 
 time will convince you and all that can think with coolness and temper, DAR Jissy 13 
 that the liberties of America are not so much in danger from anything — 
 that Parliament has done, or is likely to do here, as from the violence 
 and misconduct of America itself." The absurdity of the idea that is 
 held out to the common people, that England wants to enslave America. 
 " What then, is the present case ? The supreme legislature of the whole 
 British Empire has laid a duty (no matter for the present whether it has 
 or has not a right so to do, it is sufficient that we conceive it has) on a 
 certain commodity on its importation into America ; the people of 
 America, at Boston particularly, resist that authority and oppose the 
 execution of the law in a manner clearly treasonable upon the principles 
 of every government upon earth. The mother country very unwilling 
 to proceed to extremities passes laws (indisputably within its power) for 
 the punishment of the most flagrant offenders, for the reformation of 
 abuses, and for the prevention of the like enormities for the future. The 
 question then is, whether these laws are to be submitted to : if the 
 people of America say no, they say in effect that they will no longer be 
 a part of the British Empire ; they change the whole ground of the 
 controversy ; they no longer contend that Parliament has not a right to 
 exact a particular provision, they say that it has no right to consider them 
 at all as within its jurisdiction." If a proper submission is made, America 
 will probably receive all she wants. As to the case of Dr. Franklin, 
 Lord Dartmouth cannot applaud his conduct with relation to Mr. Hutchin- 
 son's letters, and is of opinion that many of those not favourably disposed 
 to Mr. Hutchinson are now ashamed of the clamour raised against him 
 on account of the letters. " I am persuaded the time will come when 
 every body that reads them will be astonished to think they could have 
 been made the ground of a serious accusation against him." 
 
 1774, July 6. Whitehall. — The Earl of Dartmouth to Governor Gage. 
 Is glad to see by the Governor's letters that there is a hope that the tran- 
 quillity of the Province will be restored. With regard to the Boston 
 Port Bill, Lord Dartmouth says that whenever it shall be certified that 
 the East India Company have received compensation from the town of 
 Boston for the loss of the tea, and, by report from the Governor, that the 
 king's duties may be safely collected there, there is no doubt the privi- 
 leges of Boston as a port will be restored. 
 
 1774, July 8. — Statistics of the town of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, as to 
 its inhabitants, number of houses, stores, and shells of houses not re- 
 pairable, as likewise the grass lands near the town. 
 
 1774, July 8. Halifax. — Governor Legge to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 The insufficient communication between Great Britain and Nova 
 Scotia. The Adamant is the only vessel trading between the two, 
 and she makes but two voyages a year. Has heard by a vessel from 
 Portsmouth, New Hampshire, that the trading towns on the Continent 
 of America are entering into combinations not to trade with Great 
 Britain or the Sugar Colonies. 
 
 1774, July 11.— Grey Elliott to the Earl of Dartmouth. Enclosing 
 a petition of Mr. Gordon, a merchant, in Charlestown, South Carolina, 
 to the King in Council, praying redress for the loss of lands bought by 
 him in 1763 in East Florida. 
 
 1774, July 15. Philadelphia. — Printed Postscript Extra to the 
 Pennsylvania Journal of July 23rd, 1774, containing a full account of 
 the proceedings " at a Provincial Meeting of Deputies chosen by the 
 
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 Dartmovih's " several Counties in Pennsylvania held at Philadelphia, July loth, 
 MSS. a 1774 ? an d continued by adjournments from day to day." 
 
 The names of those present for the City and County of Philadelphia 
 and of the other Counties in Pennsylvania are given. The Postscript 
 then proceeds : 
 
 " Agreed that in case of any difference in sentiment the question 
 be determined by the Deputies voting by Counties. The letters from 
 Boston of the 13th May were then read, and a short account given of 
 the steps taken in consequence thereof, and the measures now pursuing 
 in this and the neighbouring provinces ; after which the following 
 Resolves were passed. 
 
 Unan. I. That we acknowledge ourselves and the inhabitants of this 
 Province liege subjects of his Majesty King George the Third to whom 
 we and they owe and will bear true and faithful allegiance. 
 
 Unan. II. That as the idea of an unconstitutional independence on the 
 parent state is utterly abhorrent to our principles, we view the late 
 unhappy differences between Great Britain and the Colonies with the 
 deepest distress and anxiety of mind as fruitless to her, grievous to us, 
 and destructive of the best interests of both. 
 
 Unan. III. That it is therefore our ardent desire that our ancient 
 harmony with the Mother Country should be restored and a perpetual 
 love and union subsist between us on the principles of the constitution 
 and an interchange of good offices without the least infraction of our 
 mutual rights. 
 
 Unan. IY. That the inhabitants of these Colonies are entitled to the 
 same rights and liberties within these Colonies that the subjects born in 
 England are intitled to within that realm. 
 
 Unan. V. That the power assumed by the Parliament of Great Britain 
 to bind the people of these Colonies in all cases whatsoever is uncon- 
 stitutional and therefore the source of all these unhappy differences. 
 
 Unan. VI. That the Act of Parliament for shutting up the Port of 
 Boston is unconstitutional ; oppressive to the inhabitants of that town ; 
 dangerous to the liberties of the British Colonies; and therefore that we 
 consider our brethren at Boston as suffering in the common cause of 
 these Colonies. 
 
 Unan. VII. That the Bill for altering the administration of justice 
 in certain criminal cases within the Province of Massachusetts Bay if 
 passed into an Act of Parliament will be as unconstitutional oppressive 
 and dangerous as the Act above mentioned. 
 
 Unan. VIII. That the Bill for changing the constitution of the Pro- 
 vince of Massachusetts Bay established by Charter and enjoyed since 
 the grant of that Charter if passed into an Act of Parliament will be 
 unconstitutional in its consequences to the American Colonies. 
 
 Unan. IX. That there is an absolute necessity that a Congress of 
 Deputies from the several Colonies be immediately assembled to consult 
 together and form a general plan of conduct to be observed by all the 
 Colonies for the purposes of procuring relief for our suffering brethren, 
 obtaining redress of our grievances, preventing future dissensions, 
 firmly establishing our rights, and restoring harmony between Great 
 Britain and her Colonies on a constitutional foundation. 
 
 Unan. X. That although a suspension of the commerce of this large 
 trading Province with Great Britain would greatly distress multitudes 
 of our industrious inhabitants, yet that sacrifice and a much greater 
 
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 we are ready £0 offer for the preservation of our liberties ; but in tender- Eakl op 
 
 ness to the people of Great Britain as well as of this country, and in Dar 5|ss UT] 
 
 hopes that our just remonstrances will at length reach the ears of our — ' 
 gracious Sovereign, and be no longer treated with contempt by any of 
 our fellow subjects in England, it is our earnest desire that the Con- 
 gress should first try the gentler mode of stating our grievances and 
 making a firm and decent claim of redress. 
 
 XI. Resolved by a great majority, That yet notwithstanding as 
 an unanimity of councils and measures is indispensably necessary for 
 the common welfare, if the Congress shall judge agreements of non- 
 importation and non-exportation expedient, the people of this Province 
 will join with the other principal and neighbouring Colonies in such an 
 association of non- importation from and non-exportation to Great Britain 
 as shall be agreed to at the Congress. 
 
 XII. Resolved by a majority, That, if any proceedings of the Parlia- 
 ment, of which notice shall be received, on this Continent before or at 
 the General Congress shall render it necessary, in the opinion of that 
 Congress, for the Colonics to take farther steps than are mentioned in 
 the eleventh Resolve, in such case the inhabitants of this Province shall 
 adopt such farther steps and do all in their power to carry them into 
 execution. 
 
 Unan. XIII. That the vendors of merchandize of every kind within 
 this Province ought not to take advantage of the Resolves relating to 
 non-importation in this Province or elsewhere ; but that they ought to 
 sell their merchandise which they now have or may hereafter import at 
 the same rates they have been accustomed to do within three months 
 last past. 
 
 Unan. XIV. That the people of this Province will break oif all trade, 
 commerce, and dealing and will have no trade, commerce, or dealing of 
 any kind with any Colony on this Continent or with any city or town 
 in such Colony, or with any individual in any such Colony, city, or 
 town which shall refuse, decline, or neglect to adopt and carry into 
 execution such general plan as shall be agreed to in Congress. 
 
 Unan. XV. That it is the duty of every member of this Committee to 
 promote as much as he can the subscription set on foot in the several 
 counties of this Province for the relief of the distressed inhabitants of 
 Boston. 
 
 Unan. XVI. That this Committee give instructions on the present 
 situation of public affairs to their Representatives who are to meet next 
 week in Assembly and request them to appoint a proper number of 
 persons to attend a Congress of Deputies from the several Colonies at 
 such time and place as may be agreed on to effect one general plan of 
 conduct for attaining the great and important ends mentioned in the 
 ninth resolve. 
 
 That John Dickinson, Dr. William Smith, Joseph Reed, John Kidd, 
 Elisha Price, William Atlee, James Smith, James Wilson, Daniel Broad- 
 head, John Okely and William Scull be appointed to prepare and bring 
 in a draught of Instructions. 
 
 The Committee above-named having brought in a draught of Instruc- 
 tions the same were debated and amended and being agreed to were 
 ordered to be signed by the Chairman. On the 21st the Committee in 
 a body waited on the Assembly then sitting and presented the same." 
 
 The Instructions which are very long are printed at length. 
 
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 Ei-KL of With the papers is also a MS. copy of the Eesolves which differs in 
 Dartmouth s some particulars from those printed in the journal ; the 12th Resolve 
 - — ' being altogether omitted. 
 
 1774, July 18. Philadelphia. — Joseph Reed to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. The project of establishing a new Post Office in opposition to 
 that of the Government has failed. The distress of Boston. Non-im- 
 portation and non-exportation with Great Britain decided on. 
 
 1774, July 26. Philadelphia. — Joseph Reed to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Enclosing the above " Postscript Extra to the Pennsylvania Journal " 
 dated July 23rd. The non-consumption and non-importation agree- 
 ments throughout America against Great Britain : " There are at present 
 great quantities of English cloth and manufactures in the country ; that, 
 and a spirit of frugality which may make it fashionable to wear old 
 cloaths, will I believe induce this Province to go into a non-importation 
 and non-consumption agreement if advised by the Congress ; or if the 
 Deputies who will be sent to Great Britain to endeavour to settle these 
 unhappy disputes should be treated with neglect or contempt. It is at 
 present the sense of the inhabitants of this Province that no measure of 
 opposition to the Mother Country should be adopted until other modes 
 have failed of success. The inclosed paper being the first attempt to 
 draw the line of submission between Great Britain and the Colonies 
 may not be unworthy your Lordship's notice." 
 
 There is a rumour that General Gage has orders to interrupt the 
 Congress as a measure most obnoxious to administration; but for 
 reasons stated in the letter the writer trusts that the Congress will not 
 appear in so obnoxious a light. The General Assembly has resolved 
 that a Congress is necessary for the redress of American grievances ; 
 and seven of their members have been appointed to attend the Congress. 
 The letter concludes " Though I have had some small share in the 
 transactions of this City, I do assure your Lordship it has been with 
 reluctance, and if I could be convinced that a submission to the claims 
 of Parliament to bind America in all cases whatsoever did not virtually 
 and necessarily imply both for myself and my children a surrender of 
 the blessings of liberty I should have bore a testimony against the 
 measures pursued, and I am sure I speak not only my own but the 
 sentiments of many of the most respectable in this City when I say 
 there is nothing they so much lament as these unhappy differences and 
 that they will rejoice to see the old union of affection renewed." 
 
 1774, Aug. 3. Whitehall.— The Earl of Dartmouth to Governor 
 Gage. " It is much to be lamented that the people of Boston should still be 
 capable of being made to believe that the measures they are prevailed 
 upon to adopt are likely to attain the end they propose and to 
 promote the reconciliation and union with this country which they pro- 
 fess to desire. Parliament has already shewn that it expects obedience 
 and due submission to legal authority, and I can have very little insight 
 into the principles of Government, if any relaxation from the spirit of 
 the measures it has taken can be expected till that submission is satisfac- 
 torily obtained." 
 
 1774, Aug. 4. Whitehall. — J. Pownail to Governor Legge recommend- 
 ing Captain Jadis who is anxious to establish himself and his family upon 
 the St. John's River. 
 
 1774, Aug. 9. Parliament Street. — J. Meyrick to Governor Legge. 
 On private business matters and military gossip. " General Gansel died 
 in the Fleet Prison on the 28th of last month after a few days illness, 
 
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 he was very near finishing a settlement of his affairs, and obtaining his Earl of 
 liberty ; Lord Cavan succeeds him as Colonel of the 55th Regiment." AR mss^ TH 
 A duplicate of the letter follows. — 
 
 1774, Aug. 9. Ashford.— The Rev. Thomas Bliss, Vicar of Ashford, 
 to the Earl of Dartmouth. As to his poverty and the smallness of his 
 stipend. 
 
 1774, Aug. 9. — Extracts from a letter from Major McDonald an officer 
 in one of the Virginia Militia regiments to Major Connolly, an officer 
 acting under the Earl of Dunmore at Pittsburgh. (Enclosed in a letter 
 from Thomas Walpole to the Earl of Dartmouth of Oct. 27, q. v.). 
 " On the 2nd instant I and my party attacked the Upper Shawnesse 
 towns ; I destroyed their corn fields, burnt their cabbins, took three 
 scalps and made one prisoner ; I had two men killed and six wounded. 
 Simon Girty being returned from Wheeling to Pittsburgh gives the 
 following information the 11th August 1774. That he met David 
 Owens and twelve men upon Captina, on their return from attacking 
 the upper Shawnesse Towns, where they had been with Major McDonald, 
 who told him that the day before the pilots (Owens being one) had 
 reached Wackitomika ; they came across an Indian coming towards them 
 at whom Owens fired but missed him, then the guides found a horse 
 with some baggage on him. And upon their arrival at Wackitomika, 
 they were informed by a prisoner (afterwards taken) that this Indian 
 was going for bears' oil at some adjacent encampment. That they 
 encamped that night, and the next morning proceeded on their march 
 when three men (pilots or spies) being forward they heard a kind of 
 noise, like a cough on the path before them which alarming them, they 
 saw an Indian coming up towards them on the road, at whom they fired 
 but missed him, advancing a little further they perceived where the 
 Indians had made blinds on the path side to waylay the party who they 
 expected to be coming against them, after proceeding a little further 
 they were fired upon by a party of Indians by which five white men 
 were wounded and two killed ; and one Indian supposed to be a Dela- 
 ware also killed, but how many Indians were wounded is unknown, but 
 they suspected there were some more either killed or wounded. Leaving 
 25 men to guard the wounded, they pursued the Indians into the Snakes' 
 Town, and the advanced party observing an Indian making from the 
 water up the bank, whom they suspecting to be in the preceding 
 battle, fired at and wounded him, the main body then coming to the 
 opposite side of the river to the said town, Joseph Nicholson called over 
 to the Indians and told them that he was one of the six nations ; the 
 Indians reply and asked if he was Simon Girty, Nicholson answered that 
 he was not Simon Grirty, for that he was at Fort Pitt, upon which four 
 of the Indians came over. Major McDonald then gave it out in orders 
 that no white man should attempt to come near them or molest them. 
 A council then commencing between Major MacDonald and these 
 Indians, one of his men fired across the river and killed an Indian. The 
 Indians after receiving orders from Major McDonald to bring over two 
 white women they had prisoners, which they promised to obey, were 
 dismissed, however none of them returned except one Indian an Onondaga 
 but without the prisoners, and him they detained as a prisoner. They 
 then crossed the river and attacked the Snakes' Town, where they found 
 some Indians on whom they fired, killed one, and one of their own men 
 was wounded, last of all they proceeded on through the several upper 
 towns, destroying them all and all the corn they found standing as 
 likewise between three and four hundred bushels of old corn." 
 
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 X>aeimouth's 1 ^" 74 ' Au 8- 10 - Pittsburgh.— Extract of a letter from Colonel 
 mss. ' George Croghan. (Enclosed in the letter of Oct. 27, from Thomas 
 Walpole to the Earl of Dartmouth, q. v.). 
 
 " I was in great hopes that the legislature of Pennsylvania would have 
 fallen on some measures to have treated with the Six Nations and the 
 Delawares who live on the river Ohio, and opposite to that province r 
 But I find they have unfortunately neglected to do it, I much fear the 
 true state of the frontiers has not been laid before them and that they do 
 not sufficiently know who was the cause of the present melancholy 
 situation of these frontiers, for if they had they would certainly have 
 speedily and earnestly represented to the natives their innocence in the 
 bloodshed of their countrymen. The Six Nations and the Delawares, 
 have given the strongest proofs of their desire for peace and have taken 
 great pains to stop the war now finally carrying on between the 
 Virginians and the Shawnesse, but at the same time they observe that 
 they are greatly surprised that whilst their brother Sir William Johnson 
 (in behalf of their Father the Great King) and myself are talking to 
 them of peace, giving them peace belts and assuring them of the friendly 
 disposition of the King's subjects, that at the same time the great man 
 of Virginia is putting guns into his people's hands and sending them 
 to destroy their brothers the Shawnesse and their houses and their corn, 
 &c. I have done, I assure you, everything in my power to maintain the 
 present peace with the Six Nations and the Delawares on the river and 
 at a very large expence to myself — as my house has for several months 
 been continually filled with chiefs and principal warriors, but I cannot any 
 longer support the expence and therefore must plainly tell you that 
 unless I receive some assistance from you in behalf of the proprietors of 
 the new Province I shall be forced to fly from hence — the consequence 
 of which will be the inevitable destruction of hundreds of poor familys, 
 who now stay on the plantations depending on my interest with the Six 
 Nations and Delawares. If the new Colony had been established last year, 
 as the Indians were acquainted and promised by Sir William Johnson 
 by order of the King it would be, the blood of the King's subjects would 
 have been saved, and the present unspeakable distress of thousands of 
 families would not have been fatally experienced as it is by them. Mr. 
 Campbell waits on you with this letter and let me intreat of you to send 
 me immediately by him thirty thousand of white and twenty thousand of 
 black Wampum that I may once more exert my utmost influence with 
 the neighbouring nations to prevent the spreading of a general Indian 
 rupture." 
 
 1774, Aug. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay. — Mr. Brattle 
 to Governor Hutchinson. Mentioning alterations in the consti- 
 tution of the Province which he should rejoice to see effected ; 1st " That 
 petit jurors might be drawn out of the box as formerly ; 2ndly, that no 
 civil officer be displaced but by advice of Council ; . . . 3rdly, that 
 the towns without particular application to the Governor, which will be 
 very troublesome, might at their March meetings have liberty to vote a 
 town tax to defray the charges of the town." 
 
 1774, Aug. 15. Boston. — Admiral Graves to Governor Legge. Hope? 
 that " the gentlemen composing the Congress will, after a dispassionate 
 consideration, judge it entirely for their honour and interest to be 
 reconciled to Great Britain upon her own terms." 
 
 1774, Aug. 25. Grenada. — Ashton Warner Byam to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Thanking his Lordship for his appointment as Solicitor General. 
 
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 1774, Aug. 31. London. — Nathaniel Colver to the Earl of Dartmouth. Earl of 
 As to the distress of patentees and settlers of lands in the Hudson's river Dae mssT T 
 and elsewhere. Enclosing a petition to the King from the Sechem and — 
 Chiefs of the Mohekanuck Tribe complaining of ill usage by the 
 Government of .New York State, and dispossession from their lands 
 therein, and alleging that they served as rangers in the late war in 
 Canada against the French, and are entitled to a grant of lands as a 
 bounty promised them. 
 
 1774, Sep. 2. Boston. — Copy of a letter from Governor Gage to the 
 Earl of Dartmouth. Enclosing nine papers relating to the action of the in- 
 habitants against the members of the Council. ' c Though I saw things 
 were bad when I wrote from Salem, I found them much worse than I ex- 
 pected when I arrived here. Several of the new Councillors who dwell 
 at a distance had fled from their houses and been obliged to seek protec- 
 tion amongst the troops in Boston. In that number were Messrs. Ruggles, 
 Edson, Leonard, and Murray ; and Messrs. Loring and Pepperell are lately 
 come into town. The object of the people was to force them to give 
 up their seats in Council which has taken effect with Mr. Paine who was 
 seized and roughly treated." 
 
 Other members of the Council were treated badly, Mr. Watson, Mr. 
 Willard, who " was grievously maltreated, first in Connecticut where he 
 went on business and every township he passed through in his way home 
 in this Province had previous notice of his approach and [was] ready to 
 insult him, arms were put to his breast with threats of instant death, 
 unless he signed a paper the contents of which he did not knoAv nor 
 regard. He went home after making me that report, but the news is 
 that a large body was marching to his house in Lancaster to force him 
 to some other concessions." Several members have resigned their seats 
 in Council. General Gage proceeds ; " I came here to attend the 
 Superior Court, and in the intention to send a body of troops to Worcester 
 to protect the Courts there, and if wanted, to send parties to the houses of 
 some of the Councillors who dwell in that county ; but finding from 
 undoubted authority that the flames of sedition had spread universally 
 throughout the country beyond conception, the Councillors already drove 
 away, and that no courts could proceed on business, I Avaited the event 
 of the sitting of the Superior Court here on the 30th ultimo. The judges 
 met, but could get neither grand nor petit jury. . . . The Council was 
 of opinion that it was very improper to weaken the troops here by any 
 detachments whatever, as they could not be of any use to the Courts, as 
 no jurors would appear, and by that means defeat their proceedings, and 
 that disturbance being so general and not confined to any particular spots, 
 there was no knowing where to send them to be of use, and would ter- 
 minate only in dividing them in small detachments and tempt numbers to 
 fall upon them : which was reported to be the scheme of the directors of 
 these operations. 
 
 " It was considered that the whole is now at stake, Connecticut, and 
 they add Rhode Islaud, as furious as they are in this Province, and that 
 the first and only step now to take was to secure the friends of govern- 
 ment in Boston, and to reinforce the troops here with as many more as 
 could possibly be collected, and to act as opportunities and exigencies 
 shall offer." The Governor is informed that New York is at present 
 quiet, and mentions several plans he has for the reduction of the 
 rebellion ; his information of the depth of it is from too reliable sources 
 to be doubted. The judges have represented to the Governor the 
 impossibility of carrying on the business of the Courts, and civil 
 government is nearly at an end. Asserts the importance of large re- 
 
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 vrtmout enforcements so that a decisive blow may be struck at once. The 
 iR MS& TH b papers enclosed are a minute of the proceedings of the Council, held Aug. 
 
 31st, J 774 ; several letters from members of the Council to Governor 
 Gage, stating the treatment they have received from the rioters; a 
 letter dated Aug. 28th, 1774, from Daniel Murray to Mr. Councillor 
 Murray, relating an attack made by the mob on the Councillor's house 
 at Eutland, in order to intimidate him from serving on the Council ; and 
 a " Narrative of Mr. Loring one of His Majesty's Council in the Massa- 
 chusetts Bay " to the same effect. 
 
 1774, Sept. 5. Norwich. — Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Enclosing his letters and papers as they " may contain some circum- 
 stances not mentioned in the despatches from the Governor " (? of Boston). 
 .... " Your Lordship will make such use of the letters and papers as 
 you think proper. I should be glad to have the newspaper again on my 
 leturn to London. The enigmatical piece, in imitation of Swift, dis- 
 covers the real sentiments and views of the party in a more full manner 
 than any thing I have before seen in print." 
 
 1774, Sep. 8. Whitehall.— The Earl of Dartmouth to Governor Gage. 
 Much regrets the unconstitutional step taken by the Colonists in sum- 
 moning a Congress of Deputies from the several Colonies, " but 
 I hope their proceedings and resolutions will be such as not to cut off 
 all hope of peace and union with the Mother Country." 
 
 1774, Sep. 19th. Halifax. — Proclamation signed by Governor Legge 
 against meetings and assemblies of the people of Nova Scotia " unwar- 
 ranted by law and called without due authority." 
 
 1774, Sep. 20. — Memorial to the Earl of Dartmouth from Captain 
 George Collier, K.N. The memorialist as commander of a ship was put 
 to great expense having received the King's orders to carry Lord Dun- 
 more and his family out to New York and to bring back from Boston Lady 
 Bernard, wife of Sir Francis Bernard, and her family. He has repeatedly 
 applied to Lord North and Lord Hillsborough to recoup him the money 
 he had to spend (730/.) but they, though admitting the reasonableness 
 of the demand, would not do so. Begs Lord Dartmouth to represent 
 his case to the King and procure him some redress. 
 
 1774, Sep. 25. Philadelphia. — Joseph Eeed to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 A long letter on the state of America now and formerly. Formerly '< no 
 King ever had more loyal subjects, or any country more affectionate 
 Colonists than the Americans were. I, who am but a young man, well 
 remember the former to be always spoken of with a respect approaching 
 adoration, while to be an Englishman was alone a sufficient recom- 
 mendation for any office of respect or civility. But I confess with much 
 concern that these happy days seem passing swiftly away, and unless 
 some plan of accomodation can be speedily formed, the affection of the 
 Colonies will be irrecoverably lost." The Congress met on the first of 
 September and consisted of 52 delegates from all the Colonies from New 
 Hampshire to South Carolina. They opened their meeting with great 
 solemnity and chose the speaker of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 
 their president. Great unanimity of opinion prevails. " But what shall 
 I say to your Lordship of the appearances in this country ; what seemed 
 a little time since to be a spark which with prudence and wisdom might 
 have been extinguished, is now a flame that threatens ruin to both 
 parent and child. The spirit of the people gradually rose, when it 
 might have been expected to decline, till the Quebec Bill added fuel to 
 the fire ; then all those deliberate measures of petitioning previous to 
 
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 any opposition were laid aside as inadequate to the apprehended danger eael of 
 and mischief, and now the people are generally ripe for the execution DAR Mgg; TH s 
 
 of any plan the Congress advises, should it be war itself — — 
 
 A few days ago we were alarmed with a report that 
 
 General Gage had cannonaded the town of Boston : so general a 
 resentment, amounting even to fury, appeared everywhere, that I 
 firmly believe, if it had not been contradicted, thousands would have 
 gone at their own expense to have joined in the revenge. It was 
 difficult to make them doubt the intelligence or delay setting out. . . 
 . . . . The idea of bringing down the Canadians and savages upon 
 the English Colonies, is so inconsistent not only with the mercy, but even 
 the justice and humanity of the Mother Country that I cannot allow 
 myself to think your Lordship would promote the Quebec Bill, or give 
 your suffrage for it with such intentions." 
 
 As to the proceedings of the Congress, the writer understands that 
 they will propose ; " 1 st An immediate non-importation agreement ; 2 nd A 
 non-exportation to Great Britain after a future day not very remote ; 
 3 rd Should these fail by a particular day set. then a non-exportation to 
 Ireland and the West Indies." If these fail Mr. Eeed thinks they will 
 try the last resort, and the result will be " a civil war not to be equalled 
 in history for its importance and fatal consequences." Enclosing 
 No. 2387 of the Pennsylvania Gazette for Sept. 21st 1774, containing the 
 resolutions entered into by the Delegates from the towns and districts in 
 the county of Suffolk and Province of Massachusetts Bay, copy of a letter 
 from a Committee of the Delegates to Governor Gage as to the fortifica- 
 tions being made by him on Boston Neck ; remonstrating against them 
 and the insults offered by the soldiers to persons in the town of Boston ; 
 letter from the select men of Boston to General Gage on the same 
 subject, with his answer, &c. Enclosing also the following paper : 
 
 " Philadelphia. In Congress, Thursday, September 22, 1774. 
 
 Eesolved, 
 
 That the Congress request the merchants and others in the 
 several Colonies, not to send to Great Britain any orders for goods, 
 and to direct the execution of all orders already sent, to be delayed 
 or suspended, until the sense of the Congress, on the means to be 
 taken for the preservation of the liberties of America, is made 
 public." 
 
 1774, Sept. 27. St. James's, " one o'clock Wednesday." — Mr. 
 Fraser to the Earl of Dartmouth. As to secret intelligence which Sir 
 Richard Perrot has relating to America and which he refuses to divulge 
 to any one but the King. 
 
 1774, Sept. 27. Parliament Street. — W. Hey to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Resigning his commission of Chief Justice of Quebec. 
 
 1774, Sep. 27. Bushy Park. — Lord North to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 " I have a prospect of being able to bring your cousin Legge into Parlia- 
 ment, and I should be glad to learn from you tomorrow whether you and he 
 are desirous of it. If I succeed in my negociation the expence will, I 
 believe, not be considerable, and I shall be ready to grant his offices to 
 any trustee whom he shall think proper to name. Mark me well, I do 
 not say that I am absolutely certain of bringing him into Parliament ; 
 I only say that I have hopes of doing so, and that if I succeed at all, 
 I shall succeed at a moderate expence.. It is, however, convenient that 
 I should know Mr. Legge's opinion before I receive an answer to a 
 letter which I sent this morning express into the country." 
 
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 Earl of 1774, Sep. 27. London. — Baron Alvensleben to the Earl of Dart- 
 
 vrtmouth's mouth< As t0 the affair of the " Sieur de Beaufain." What this affair 
 — was, does not appear. 
 
 1774, Sep. 29. 51 St. Paul's Churchyard.— Mr. Clarke to the Earl 
 of Dartmouth. A packet from New England has unexpectedly arrived. 
 Sends Lord Dartmouth the names of the gentlemen who have taken the 
 oaths to qualify them for the Council, with other particulars. 
 
 1774, Sep. 29. Council Office. — Stephen Cottrellto the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Summons for a Council at St. James's on the day following 
 at one o'clock. 
 
 1774, Sep. 30. Lower Grosvenor Street. — Governor Tryon to the 
 Earl of Dartmouth. Enclosing a copy of a letter he wrote to Lord North, 
 requesting that some favour may be shewn to Mr. Fanning, an American 
 gentleman who has made great sacrifices to prove his loyalty to the 
 King. 
 
 1774, Oct. L Lord North to the Earl of Dartmouth. As to the coming 
 election for Bramber. Lord North has no objection to Mr. Thompson's 
 standing with Sir Henry Gough if there is no compromise between 
 Sir Henry and Mr. Thoroton. 
 
 1774, Oct.l. Blackheath. — George Thomson to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Declining to stand for Bramber as he hears a compromise has taken 
 place between one of the old members and Sir Henry Gough. 
 
 1774, Oct. 2. Downing Street.— Lord North to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. As to the candidature of Lord Charles Montagu for Southampton 
 in opposition to Mr. Stanley and Mr. Fleming. Lord North asks Lord 
 Dartmouth to dissuade Lord Charles from opposing the friends of the 
 King's Government in this matter. 
 
 1774, Oct. 2. Same to same* — Upon the same subject. If Lord Dart- 
 mouth can dissuade Lord Charles from standing it will be doing him a 
 great service. "A pensioner setting him against the friends of govern- 
 ment is a phenomenon, of which there are but two or three examples', 
 and those of a very modern date." 
 
 1774, Oct. 3. Southampton. — Lord Charles Montagu to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Is greatly concerned that the part he is taking is objection- 
 able to Lord Dartmouth. Has so far pledged himself to the freemen 
 of Southampton as to make it impossible for him to retire. 
 
 1774, Oct. 5. St. Osyth.— The Earl of Rochford to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. " I confess I do not yet despair of the American business turning 
 out right, for if I understand Gage right, the Bostonian Rebels will not 
 meet with assistance from the other Colonies ; if they do, he will certainly 
 want a much greater force than can well be spared here. I think, in 
 my poor opinion, he has judged properly in keeping all his forces 
 together at Boston, and if practicable, I think the sooner he is 
 reinforced with ships and marines the better." 
 
 1774, Oct. 6. Trentham. — Earl Gower to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 " I am much obliged to you for your early communication of the news from 
 Boston, and, indeed, I think it of a very alarming nature, and big with 
 mischief to the two countries, for I am sure they may too properly be 
 called two now. I think the servants of the Crown who were in town 
 have done wisely to advise his Majesty to give all the support possible 
 to Gene. Gage in this alarming crisis." 
 
 1774, Oct. 6. — .Copy of a Speech of Governor Legge to the General 
 Assembly of Nova Scotia with the addresses of both Houses and the 
 Governor's answers. 
 
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 1774, Oct. 8. 10 Swan Street in the Minories. — Alexander Trescot Earl of 
 to the Earl of Dartmouth. Enclosing a plan for " the better securing AR ™ss! T1 
 his Majesty's customs." — 
 
 1774, Oct. 9. Southampton. — Hans Stanley, one of the Government 
 candidates for Southampton, to the Earl of Dartmouth. As to the can- 
 didature of Lord Charles Montagu for the borough. Enclosing papers on 
 the subject, one being a printed notice to the electors from Lord Charles 
 adverting to the interference of a Cabinet Minister in the election, and 
 the other a statement by Mr. Stanley of how it happened that he divulged 
 the secret of that minister being Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 1774, Oct. 9. Southampton. — Lord Charles Montagu to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Explaining that he felt himself obliged to publish the 
 printed notice (a copy of which he encloses) above alluded to by Mr. 
 Stanley, as Lord Dartmouth had interfered in the election so publicly 
 that Lord Charles's friends desired to know the meaning of the letter 
 sent. 
 
 There is a draft answer from Lord Dartmouth dated October 11. 
 
 1774, Oct. 13. Bath, South Parade.— J. Temple to Mr. Pownall. 
 Expressive of his mortification at being superseded in the Lieut. - 
 Governorship of New Hampshire in America. 
 
 1774, Oct. 13. Bath, South Parade. — Same to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 On the same subject 5 a long letter, stating the hard treatment he has 
 received from Lord North. 
 
 1774. Oct. 17. Whitehall.— The Earl of Dartmouth to Governor Gage. 
 Has received his letters by the Scarborough. They " represent the affairs 
 of the Province to be indeed in a very dangerous and critical situation, 
 and it looks not only as if the people were determined at all events to 
 refuse obedience to the law, but that notwithstanding the assistance of 
 so large a military force sent purposely to support the authority of civil 
 government, they have it still in their power to trample upon it with 
 impunity, and to bid defiance to all control." Lord Dartmouth proceeds 
 to mention the means about to be taken for augmenting the forces in 
 the Province. No regiments can at present be spared, but three guard 
 ships, with 600 men commanded by a field officer are under orders to 
 proceed to Boston immediately. Encloses commissions for several 
 gentlemen to be members of the Council. 
 
 1774, Oct. 17. Whitehall.— The Earl of Dartmouth to Governor Gage 
 " Separate and secret." As to the proceedings of Mr. Lee, a Major on 
 half pay with rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, who is encouraging the enemies 
 of Government at Boston by seditious speeches and writings. It would 
 be desirable if the Governor would take every legal method to prevent 
 his continuing these practices. 
 
 1774, Oct. 17. — A return of the state of the Island of Breton, 
 
 1774. Oct. 19. Whitehall. — The Earl of Dartmouth to Governor Gage. 
 " Secret and confidential." Enclosing papers (not now with the letter) 
 shewing the steps taken to prevent the importation of arms, gunpowder, 
 and other ammunition into America. 
 
 1774, Oct. 20. London. — Baron Alvensleben to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Unimportant. 
 
 1774, Oct. 20. Parsons Green, Middlesex. — William Weston to the Earl 
 of Dartmouth. Enclosing a plan for the cultivation and improvement of 
 America and the West Indies. 
 
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 J)akt5?outh's 0ct - 20th - Southampton Street.— -Stephen Fuller to the Earl of 
 
 MSS. Dartmouth. Reminding his Lordship of the petition of the people of 
 Jamaica for more troops and more ships, particularly the latter. 
 
 1774, Oct. 21. Downing Street. —Lord North to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Enclosing a letter from Thomas Boone, Commissioner of Customs, 
 requesting Lord North and Lord Dartmouth to recommend Josiah 
 Tattnell for appointment to the Treasurership of Georgia. 
 
 1774, Oct. 24. Philadelphia. — Joseph Reed to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 The Congress have agreed upon an address to the King, and have recom- 
 mended another Congress to be held on the 10th May 1775. Encloses an 
 account of some proceedings at Annapolis in Maryland (but no enclosure 
 is now with the letter) which shows to what height the spirit of the 
 people is raised. <f The Americans are certainly determined never to 
 submit to the claims of Parliament, unless compelled by irresistible 
 force, and this submission will never continue longer than the force 
 which produces it. However visionary it may appear at first view to give 
 up the commerce of the whole country, and as the last resource try their 
 strength in arms with so powerful a nation as Great Britain, your Lord- 
 ship may depend on it they will attempt both. Preparations are making 
 by military associations in every part of the country for the last appeal, 
 and every other step taken which indicates the most determined purpose 
 to yield to nothing but necessity. The universal claim of America is to 
 be restored to the state of 1763." 
 
 1774, Oct. 27. Nassau Street, Soho. — Thomas Boone to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Recommends Mr. Tattnell as the successor of Mr. Jones 
 the Treasurer of Georgia. 
 
 1774, Oct. 27. Bushy Park.— -Lord North to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 " The Recorder is to make his report to-morrow to the King, and in the 
 absence of Lord Rochford and Lord Suffolk, it will I believe be your 
 business to attend. One of the Under Secretaries of Lord Suffolk will 
 give you the list of the convicts with the applications that have been 
 made in favour of any of them. As soon as the Recorder has read each 
 report, you will mention to his Majesty if any application has been 
 made for the convict, and when the King has declared his pleasure, you 
 will write opposite to each name, either ' respited ' or * law to take its 
 course ' according to his Majesty's commands. If you are not able to 
 give your attendance at St. James's to-morrow, let me know* early that 
 I may go up to town and officiate in your room. Probably you will be 
 
 there After the Council you are to deliver the list of 
 
 convicts to the Recorder." 
 
 1774, Oct. 27. Lincoln's Inn Fields. — The Hon. Thomas Walpoleto 
 the Earl of Dartmouth. Enclosing papers received from America 
 relating to the rupture with the Indians on the River Ohio. (See under 
 Aug. 9th and 10th above.) 
 
 1774, Oct. 28. Vanbrugh Fields. — Mr. Pownall to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. As to the dispute between Spain and Portugal with reference to 
 their possessions on the Rio de la Plata. " I am sorry to say I think we 
 have taken it up in a way that does not quite consist with that wisdom, 
 spirit, and discretion that I wish should accompany all our measures ; 
 instead of taking it up as the friend and ally of Portugal we ought to 
 have taken it up in the higher character of the friend to mankind in 
 general and to the publick tranquillity, and have insisted that the matter 
 in dispute between them should be referred to the mediation of some 
 indifferent state and this would have been the more ad- 
 
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 visable, as I am convinced that in point of justice the pretensions of D ^J^J 
 Portugal are not to be supported. Surely we departed from our dignity * mss. 
 and from ground of great advantage when we demanded to know of 
 Spain, whether the armament they were fitting out were intended 
 against us. Grimaldi could not be ignorant that we knew their real 
 destination, and from the place we held in the political system of 
 Europe we had a right to demand an explanation of the motives for 
 any armaments (against whatever states they were directed) that might 
 in our judgment have the effect to disturb the peace of Europe." 
 
 1774, Oct. 29. — Draft letter in French from the Earl of Dartmouth 
 to Monsieur Duhamel. Promising to present to the King on the first 
 opportunity the petition which Monsieur Duhamel has handed him from 
 the inhabitants of the Island of Grenada. 
 
 1774, Oct. 31. — The Duke of Manchester to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 In reference to his brother Lord Charles Montagu's candidature for 
 Southampton noticed above. Has heard that Lord Charles is again 
 set out for Southampton to canvass, Mr. Fleming having vacated his 
 seat by acceptance of an employment. The Duke will do his best to 
 prevent his offering himself as a candidate. 
 
 1774, October Session. — Address of the House of Assembly of Nova 
 Scotia to Governor Legge. That they have agreed to a Bill for extending 
 the sittings and terms of the Supreme Court of the Province, to three of 
 the most considerable inland Counties to which there is access by land, 
 expressing a hope that in process of time the state of the Province will 
 admit of roads being made so that the benefits of the Bill may operate 
 throughout the whole Province, and praying the Governor to communi- 
 cate the contents of the Bill to the ministry in England that the King's 
 consent thereto may be obtained. 
 
 1774, Nov. 1. Somerset House. — Thomas Desbrisay to the Earl ot 
 Dartmouth. Requests leave as Lieutenant-Governor to take possession 
 upon his arrival next spring in St. John's of the house in which Mr. 
 Duport the late Chief Justice of St. John's resided. 
 
 1774, Nov. 2. Whitehall. — William Knox to Governor Legge. As to the 
 appointment of Mr. Monk to succeed Mr. Nesbitt (as Attorney- General 
 of Nova Scotia). Unless Mr. Monk can be charged with misbehaviour, 
 Governor Legge cannot pass him by, although he is not approved of, 
 especially as Lord Dartmouth has given him good reason to expect 
 the office. 
 
 1774, Nov. 2. London. — General James Murray to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Recommending Mr. Suckling, late Attorney-General of Quebec, 
 to Lord Dartmouth's favour. 
 
 1774, Nov. 3. Aberdeen. — Lieutenant Robert Hay to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Requesting Lord Dartmouth's favour and patronage for his 
 son Edward Legge Hay and enclosing a petition to the same effect. 
 
 1774, Nov. 5. Bushy Park. — Lord North to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 " Before this year I never received a card of invitation from the Lord 
 Mayor and SherifTs and therefore I never sent a formal excuse, but now 
 I think I must send a card in return to that which I have received, and 
 I have directed Mr. Brummell to write one neither rude, nor more polite 
 than the invitation, and I think that you had better do the same." 
 
 1774, Nov. 6. Philadelphia. — Joseph Reed to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Asking him to use his influence to procure some accommodation from 
 Great Britain to America, and to avert the civil war which will in- 
 
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 Mss. with contemptuous silence. 
 
 1774, Nov. 9. — Lord North to the Earl of Dartmouth. Returning 
 letters announcing the death of the Duke of Athole ; " as to his successor " 
 (as a Representative Peer) " I must talk with Lord Suffolk and with a 
 great personage before I can answer the question." 
 
 The two letters enclosed are : — 
 
 1774, Nov. 6. Edinburgh. Earl of Balcarres to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Requesting Lord Dartmouth's assistance, that he may be returned as a 
 Representative Peer in the room of the Duke of Athole. 
 
 1774, Nov. 7. Cawline Park.-Sir J ames Adolphus Oughton to the Earl 
 of Dartmouth. Giving particulars of the Duke's death, which happened 
 at Lord Cathcart's, requesting Lord Dartmouth to recommend his 
 relative Lord Balcarres at the forthcoming election of a Representative 
 Peer. 
 
 1774, Nov. 12. Cavendish Square. — Viscount Harrington to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Offering suggestions for the reduction of the rebellion in 
 the Colony of Massachusetts. 
 
 1774, Nov. 14. Edinburgh. — Earl of Balcarres to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Thanking him for his good offices at the election of a Representative 
 Peer which were not, however, successful. 
 
 1774, Nov. 15. Halifax. — Report of the Council of Nova Scotia, recom- 
 mending a reduction in the quorum of the House of Assembly from 
 twelve to nine members, an increase of four in the number of members 
 returned by Halifax, power to the House to inflict fines on members who 
 absent themselves without leave from the Speaker and the House, and 
 on other matters. 
 
 1774, Nov. 16. Cawline Park. — Sir James Adolphus Oughton to the 
 Earl of Dartmouth. 
 
 " I have a thousand things to say to you and know not well where to 
 begin. The poor Duke of Athol is first in point of time, and the idea 
 strong on my mind. On the Wednesday he was seized with an apoplectic 
 fit : on' his recovery from it he swallowed (without knowing it and before 
 he could be prevented) a tea cup full of hartshorn, with which they 
 had been rubbing his temples • he instantly bled violently at nose and 
 mouth, and in the intervals of reason complained most of his head and of 
 violent heat, saying nothing could relieve him, but being put up to the 
 chin in the Tay ; he repeatedly said his understanding was gone and he 
 was a dead man, but rejoiced that his son was so soon to be married ; 
 be was watched attentively, but with caution, to prevent his perceiving 
 it, but on Saturday about 8 at night he found means .to slip out of the 
 house and running down to the river plunged in ; all that night he was 
 searched for in vain by the whole town of Dunkeld and the neighbour- 
 hood and the next morning was found eight miles below his house not 
 in the least disfigured ; but all efforts to restore life failed, never man 
 was more justly or more universally lamented. To you, my Lord, who 
 knew him so well it is needless to attempt his character, let it suffice to 
 say that his manly virtues were as diffusive as his benevolence, and 
 thousands felt the happy effects of both. The poor Dutchess and 
 family set out for London on this day. Lord Cathcart and all his 
 family are now with me and begin their journey to town on Monday. 
 The young Duke is to be married as soon as decency will permit, and at 
 the same time Miss Mary Cathcart will be married to Mr. Graham of 
 Balgowan, a young gentleman of very good estate, and a most excellent 
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 And now, my clear lord, how shall I express what I feel for your Earl of t 
 unbounded kindness to me in adopting so warmly the interests of my DaE mss UTH & 
 young Mend, Lord Balcarres. I blush at my own presumption in having — ' 
 requested it, while my joy at every fresh instance of your friendship 
 makes me glad that I did it j he is a well disposed good hearted man, 
 and as sensible as I could wish of your Lordship's goodness to him ; his 
 mother quite in raptures about it, and a whole family made happy by 
 your goodness to me. To your Lordship these things are familiar, but 
 what must my sensations of love and gratitude be ? 
 
 Lord Suffolk's circular letters had given great offence to several of 
 the Peers ; meetings were held, and the Duke of Buccleugh laboured 
 hard with them for two days to bring them to some temper. As he had 
 joined those who asserted the independence of the Peerage on Lord 
 Stair's election he judged it necessary to preface his votes with a decla- 
 ration that he adhered to the same sentiments and voted for the candi- 
 dates out of regard to their personal merits, not from any ministerial 
 influence. The Earl of Home said he thought, unanimity was of 
 peculiar importance at this time to the satisfaction of the King and 
 good of the nation ; that he wished earnestly to see it prevail at that 
 meeting, and therefore voted for all the candidates. The Earl of 
 Haddington objected to ministerial lists and circular letters, asserted 
 the independence of the Peerage and voted for none but Lord Eglinton 
 and Lord Breadalbain, because he had not solicited the ministrv ; Lord 
 Selkirk declaimed with great warmth against ministerial influence, and 
 the insult offered to the Peers in prescribing to them who they should 
 vote for, observed that such treatment was only introduced in the Duke of 
 Grafton's Administrations, had gone on increasing ever siuce, and unless 
 checked might end in dragooning them into obedience to the ministers* 
 dictates ; recapitulated what he had said at Lord Stair's election and the 
 letters he had wrote, which he hoped would have prevented any future 
 affronts of the like nature ; professed the warmest attachment to the 
 King, whom he highly praised, and said that it was out of regard to him, 
 as he was at that time pestered by that infamous fellow Wilkes, the de- 
 testation of every honest man, that they had not laid their grievance before 
 Parliament, but proposed that every Peer present should sign an address ta 
 His Majesty requesting that he would order his ministers no more 
 to insult the Scotch Peerage with their requisitions, which were a mani- 
 fest breach of the Articles of Union. He added, with a degree of agi- 
 tation which affected all his auditors, that the first intimation he had of 
 his brother's death was a letter from Lord Suffolk desiring his vote for 
 Lord Aberdeen. Lord Cathcart replied that both time and place were 
 highly improper for discussions of that nature ; that they were assembled 
 there by the King's order for the sole purpose of choosing their Repre- 
 sentatives in Parliament, and had no legal power to transact any other 
 business. Lord Selkirk then proposed that they should meet at a 
 tavern and draw up an address, though he still insisted that the pre- 
 sent time and place was most proper, aud he neither understood nor 
 valued any prcemunirc he might incur. Lord Dalhousie replied to the 
 same purpose as Lord Cathcart, said he had no objection to meet the 
 Peers anywhere else, and give his own opinion, but could not agree to 
 any debates at that time. Lord Kelly said the same. Lord Selkirk 
 then desired that the time and place should be fixed, and proposed the 
 next day. To this the Duke of Buccleugh objected, said he would go to no 
 such meeting, acknowledged that he had wrote to Lord Suffolk after 
 Lord Stair's election ; that he by no means conceived the affront 
 general to the whole body of the Peers, but merely personal to those 
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 Earl of f who considered themselves as offended by it, which could not possibly be 
 1R MSsy TH S tne case °^ ev eiy Peer who might receive such a letter. This put a 
 — stop to the altercation, and Lord Selkirk voted for Lord Eglinton and 
 Lord Breadalbain only. Lord Aboyne spoke with great calmness and 
 temper in support of the independence of the Peerage which he thought 
 infringed by such circular letters from the minister whose requests 
 might be considered as equivalent to commands. Lord Ellibank spoke 
 for some time to the same purpose with great temper, propriety, and 
 humour, urged most of the arguments contained in the enclosed 
 pamphlet which he published a few days before the election, said he 
 wished to maintain the honour and importance of the Peers, and that 
 they might at least have the power of obliging one another, which under 
 the present mode was impossible, as he appealed to the candidates 
 whether it was to the minister or their brother Peers that they felt 
 themselves indebted for their election. He voted only for Lords Eglin- 
 ton and Breadalbain, Galloway and Irwin. Lord Eglinton having offered 
 himself as a candidate before it could be known that the Administra- 
 tion had any other person in view, twenty Peers having promised voted 
 for him. Lord Cassilis nevertheless carried it by a majority of thir- 
 teen. It was reported this day that several Peers had met to consider 
 of an address. I shall not close this letter till I get some better informa- 
 tion, though I must now hasten to assure my dearest Lord of my most 
 fervent love, gratitude, and affection, in which I am sincerely joined by 
 my whole family. 
 
 The report of the meeting was groundless. A report prevails that 
 Lord Strathmore is dead of an apoplexy. I wished much to have paid 
 my duty to Lady Dartmouth by this post, but am so hurried that it is 
 quite impossible. The enclosed newspaper (not now with the letter) 
 of the Lords' speeches I have just got, and it is pretty just." 
 
 1774, Nov. 17. Whitehall.— Sir Jeffrey Amherst to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Enclosing a letter from Major-General Haldimand (not now with 
 the letter). 
 
 1774, Nov. 20. Stanhope Street. — Viscount Beauchamp to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Recommending Captain Johnson for some civil or military 
 appointment in America not incompatible with his rank in the army. 
 
 1774, Nov. 21. Chapel Stairs, Whitehall.— Colonel T. Howard to the 
 Earl of Dartmouth. Asking for the Lieutenant- Governorship of St. 
 John's, vacant by the death of Major-General Bradstreet. 
 
 1774, Nov. 22. Duke St., Westminster.— The Earl of Suffolk to the 
 Earl of Dartmouth. " I have reflected much on Mr. Gage's conduct, and 
 I am thoroughly persuaded that it is not to be rectifyed by sending a 
 couple of subordinate officers to him. He is too far gone to be recovered. 
 It is therefore much better to supersede him at once. In a case of so 
 much importance nothing should stand in the way of the most wise and 
 expedient measure. Gage should be removed and the fittest person, 
 whoever he is, appointed to succeed him, I think not only in the com- 
 mand of the army but in the government also. It is idle to do things 
 by halves, and never was there a busyness of a more serious nature, 
 that required a more vigorous exertion, and more determined firmness. 
 I submit this as my humble opinion ; at the same time assuring your 
 Lordship that I shall concur in the wiser determination of the Cabinet 
 whatever it is." 
 
 1774, Nov. 23. Wickham.— W. Hey to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 " My letters speak of the Canadians as happy beyond all expression at the 
 thoughts of returning to so much of their old establishment as is re- 
 
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 served under the new Act of Parliament and that they consider it as Dartmouth' 
 the compleatest gratification of their wishes that could possibly he mss. 
 indulged to them." 
 
 1774, Nov. 26. London. — Stephen Fuller to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. As to ordnance stores for Jamaica. 
 
 1774, Nov. 28. St. James's Square.— The Honourable C. F. Greville 
 to the Earl of Dartmouth. Recommending William Grant, Collector of 
 the Customs for Granville Bay in the Granadas, for one of the six Lieu • 
 tenant Governors to be appointed in Canada. 
 
 1774, Nov. 30. Montreal.— Sir Jeffrey Amherst, to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Thanking him for having recommended the King to appoint 
 Colonel Amherst to the Lieutenant-Governorship of St. John's. 
 
 1774, Nov. 30. Russel Street, Bath. — Richard Cumberland to the 
 Earl of Dartmouth. The death of his father has added to the burdens 
 he has to bear, and the loss of his employment at Quebec renders him 
 unable to bear the strain upon his resources. Hopes Lord Dartmouth 
 will be able to find him some new employment. 
 
 1774, Dec. 1. — Minute of a Cabinet meeting at which the Lord Chan- 
 cellor, Lord President, the Earls of Suffolk, Rochford, Dartmouth, and 
 Sandwich, and Lord North were present. " The last despatches from 
 General Gage having been read and considered, Lord D[artmouth] is 
 desired to advise with the Attorney and Solicitor-General whether the 
 acts of the people of the Province of Massachusetts Bay therein stated 
 are overt acts of treason and rebellion, and if they are, to direct them to 
 prepare the draught of a proclamation requiring all persons who have 
 been guilty of the same, except such as shall be therein excepted, to 
 surrender themselves before a certain day, and to declare that such as 
 shall not surrender themselves shall be treated as rebels and traitors." 
 
 1774, Dec. 7. Halifax. — Jonathan Belcher, Chief Justice of Nova 
 Scotia, to Governor Hutchinson in London, to assist him in recovering 
 arrears to the amount of 362/., due to him from the War Office. 
 
 1774, Dec. 9. Council Chamber, Halifax. — Report of the Council 
 respecting a Bill amending the Act for establishing the rate of interest ; 
 requesting the Governor to give his assent thereto. 
 
 1774, Dec. 10. Philadelphia. — Joseph Reed to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 The proceedings of the Committee appointed to carry out the resolutions of 
 the Congress. " Since the first of this month every cargo arriving from 
 Great Britain, Ireland, or the British Islands, has been delivered into 
 the hands of the Committee to be sold or stored as the importer should 
 direct. And so great is the unanimity and prevailing spirit of the 
 inhabitants that no individuals have thought proper to refuse or decline 
 a compliance with this self denying ordinance of the General Congress. 
 But what is of great importance in this Province the Assembly has this 
 day adopted all the measures of the Congress as your Lordship may see 
 by the enclosed Minute of their proceedings." The Minute enclosed is 
 printed and in the following terms : — 
 
 "In Assembly, Saturday, December 10th, 1774 
 The House taking into consideration the report of the Committee 
 appointed to attend the General Congress and the papers therein re- 
 ferred to, Resolved unanimously That this House approve the proceedings 
 and Resolves of the Congress, and do most seriously recommend to the 
 good people of this Province a strict attention to and inviolable ob- 
 servation of the several matters and things contained in this journal of 
 the said Congress." 
 
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 Earl op ' 1774, Dec. 20. — Note endorsed " Mr. Pownall'' probably to the Earl 
 AE MS& TH S °^ Dartmouth. u The American petition came under cover to Dr. 
 — Franklin, but consigned to five gentlemen, viz. the Doctor himself, Mr. 
 
 Burke, Mr. Gartt, Mr. Arthur Lee and Paul Wentworth, to be by 
 them presented to the King attended by as many Americans and 
 merchants as could be prevailed upon to take a part in the business, or 
 to be delivered to your Lordship in order to be presented. The 
 petitioners recommend the first mode, but understand Dr. Franklin 
 adopts the latter. They were to meet to-day at Waghorn's .Coffee 
 house, but Paul Wentworth (from whom I have these particulars) 
 declines acting, and says the Petition is an assertion of all their claims in 
 a very high tone and with very offensive expressions." 
 
 1774, Dec. 24. Philadelphia.— Joseph Reed to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 The Quakers have hitherto acted a passive part in all disputes between 
 Great Britain and America ; but lately the Governor having applied 
 to them to repair the barracks built here for the soldiery, they have 
 for the first time absolutely refused to make any such provision. " A 
 question was moved in the House to provide a quantity of arms and 
 ammunition, but this was overruled rather I believe from the religious, 
 than political principles of a number of the members." 
 
 A provincial convention of Maryland has assessed the Counties of that 
 Province at 10,000/. to procure arms, ammunition &c, they have also 
 formed companies and regiments, and are daily practising the use of 
 arms. Every preparation is being made for a call to arms. Virginia 
 shows the same spirit. Georgia has joined the Congress. 
 
 1774, December. — Memorials of Elihu Hall of Connecticut to Lord 
 North and the Earl of Dartmouth. The memorialist raised a troop of 100 
 men and officers to serve in the expedition against Canada in 1746, and has 
 suffered great losses by having had to advance the pay and subsistence 
 of the troop for more than a year. He prays a lucrative post in the 
 Civil Department in the Plantations, or for the Collectorship of his 
 Majesty's Customs in Connecticut, now vacant. 
 
 N.D. (? 1774).— The Honourable Brownlow North, Bishop of Lichfield 
 and Coventry to his step brother the Earl of Dartmouth. Requesting 
 the appointment of Mr. Baker, now Solicitor-General, to the vacant 
 Attorney- Generalship of Antigua. " As to personal knowledge of the 
 Solicitor himself, I can only say that I remember him at Oxford, u 
 young man of parts, a grievous coxcomb indeed, but he may not be the 
 worse lawyer for that." 
 
 N.D. (? 1774.) — MSS. endorsed " Notes relating to the Virgin 
 Islands," containing statistics of the population, productions, &c. of the 
 Islands. (See Mr. George's letter of Feb. 9th 1774 above). 
 
 N.D. — Paper, unsigned, as to the advantages and disadvantages of the 
 proposal for a new Colony on the banks of the Ohio. 
 
 1775, Jan. 21. — Minute of a Cabinet meeting at tli€> Earl of Sand- 
 wich's house at which were present the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Presi- 
 dent, the Earls of Sandwich, Dartmouth, Suftolk, Rochford, and Lord 
 North ; "Agreed that an address be proposed to the two Houses of Parlia- 
 ment to declare that if the Colonies shall make sufficient and permanent 
 provision for the support of the civil government and administration 
 of justice and for the defence and protection of the said Colonies, and 
 
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 in time of war contribute extraordinary supplies, in a reasonable pro- Earl of 
 portion to what is raised by Great Britain, we will in that case desist Dar Ss PT1 
 from the exercise of the power of taxation, except for commercial — 
 purposes only, and that whenever a proposition of this kind shall be 
 made by any of the Colonies we will enter into the consideration of 
 proper laws for that purpose, and in the meanwhile to entreat his 
 Majesty to take the most effectual methods to enforce due obedience to 
 the laws and authority of the supreme legislature of Great Britain/' 
 
 1775, Jan. 24. Boston. — Admiral Graves to Governor Legge. 
 Relating to an execution served on Lieutenant Knight, commanding the 
 Diligent schooner, for recovery of 60/. 14s. 9d., costs of a suit brought 
 against him for non-payment of duty on the rum used on his ship. 
 
 1775, Jan. 27. Whitehall. — The Earl of Dartmouth to Governor Legge. 
 On the more fair and impartial taxation of the Colonists of Nova Scotia, 
 the proposed addition of members to the House of Assembly, the sale 
 of lands, the prohibition of the taking of coals from the Colony without 
 licence of the Governor, and other general subjects. 
 
 1775, Feb. 13. Halifax. — Governor Legge to Admiral Graves. As to 
 the prosecution of Mr. Knight. The complaint against that gentle- 
 man arose from his having sent to Windsor a barrel of wine and a barrel 
 of rum on board a coaster and not on his own vessel. 
 
 For the duty on these he was prosecuted, and as he did not appear 
 to defend the action, judgment went against him by default. 
 
 The Court has granted an application for a new trial, and if Mr. 
 Knight can show that the wine and rum were stores for his Majesty's 
 service the judgment against him will no doubt be reversed. 
 
 1775, Feb. 14. Philadelphia. — Joseph Reed to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 A long letter on the state of feeling in the Colonies towards the Mother 
 Country. Reports the proceedings of a provincial Convention held at 
 Philadelphia at which the writer was present; he noticed there, " not- 
 withstanding all which has passed, much remains of that old affection 
 to the parent state which distinguished our happier days, that a contest 
 with her is regarded as the greatest possible evil, next to the loss of 
 what we esteem our rights, and that there is a general disposition in a great 
 majority of this Province to a reconciliation upon any terms consistent 
 with those essential rights which we apprehend ought to distinguish an 
 English colonist from those of an arbitrary State." At the Congress, 
 " the King's speech was received with a kind of sullenness, which I 
 can hardly describe, but is strongly expressive of a resolution and spirit 
 not to submit without a struggle, in case no conciliatory measures are 
 adopted by Great Britain. There is scarcely a man in this country, 
 my Lord, in or out of office, not of immediate appointment from 
 England, who does not oppose taxation by the British Parliament. 
 And we are much misinformed if it is not your Lordship's opinion, as 
 well as many others, that it is not expedient to exercise it. Suppose it 
 was made a previous term that full satisfaction should be made for the 
 tea, then declare the inexpediency of taxation, repeal the Boston Acts 
 and the tea duty ; with much deference, I submit it to your Lordship, 
 that such a procedure would create such confidence and excite such 
 gratitude as would dispose the Colonies to concur in any propositions of 
 settling a constitution for America upon reasonable principles, and 
 raising the so much desired revenue ; or if an experiment of this kind 
 is deemed hazardous, I verily believe a submission to all Acts of general 
 superintendency and control as well of trade as otherwise (excluding a 
 revenue) might be relied on." 
 
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 Earl of t The letter concludes thus : — " By what I have said, your Lordship 
 LR 3?Ss! TH ' S will see that my opinion is, that if it can be reconciled to the dignity of the 
 — Mother Country to express a desire of accommodation and the present 
 severities against Boston could be suspended on making satisfaction for 
 the damage done the tea, the Americans may think it their interest and 
 duty to recede in some degree from that line of jurisdiction which 
 has been drawn in the late Congress. But this country will be deluged 
 with blood before it will submit to any other taxation than by their own 
 Assemblies." 
 
 1775, Feb. 16. Parliament Street. — James Meyrick to Governor 
 Legge. The first part on private affairs. The Ministry and Parliament 
 are determined to force the Americans to submission. " General Howe, 
 General Clinton, and General Burgoyne go to Boston, the 17th Light 
 Dragoons, 35th, 49th, and 63rd regiments of foot are ordered to embark 
 at Corke about the middle of next month for that place with drafts and 
 recruits to compleat all the Corps at present under General Gage, the 
 22nd, 40th, 44th and 45th regiments are also under orders to hold 
 themselves ready for embarkation, but whether their destination is the 
 same, I am uncertain. An augmentation is immediately to be made 
 to the regiments of infantry (those stationed abroad excepted) to consist 
 of 10 serjeants, 10 drummers, and 180 privates to each corps, and 20 
 independent companies of invalids are to be formed from out pensioners 
 of Chelsea ; this augmentation was voted yesterday, and an addition of 
 2,000 seamen to the Navy upon Mouday. I hope the Americans will be 
 wise enough to acknowledge the authority of the Parliament of Great 
 Britain, in time to save themselves from ruin." 
 
 1775, Feb. 17. New York.— Eev. John Rodgers to J. T., Esq. 
 As to the feelings of the Americans in the crisis. " His Majesty 
 has not more loyal and dutiful subjects in all his dominions than the 
 Americans ; they love and honour his person and choose to be under 
 his Government ; but they never will submit to the claims of the British 
 Parliament, as having a right to make laws binding them in all cases 
 whatever, as they are not nor can be represented by them. There is 
 a surprizing unanimity on this head in persons of all ranks, denomina- 
 tions, characters, and classes throughout all the Colonies, a few officers of 
 Government and expectants from the Crown excepted. And where 
 there is any difference it is not about the principle but the mode of 
 opposing the claims of Administration with the greatest success, in 
 which indeed all are not so perfectly agreed, though there is no great 
 difference even in that. The Assembly of this Province is the only one 
 on the Continent that has met and not approved the measures of the 
 Continental Congress which you have no doubt seen. They too deter- 
 mine to oppose the present measures of Administration towards us only 
 in a different mode." 
 
 1775, Feb. 18. A long letter unsigned and unaddressed, endorsed, 
 " Thoughts upon American Commerce and resistance." 
 
 1775, Feb. 27. "Nova Scotia. — A list of persons in possession of lands by 
 licence of occupation." Paper so headed signed "Richard Bulkeley." 
 
 1775, Mar. 3. Whitehall— (Circular Duplicate). The Earl of Dartmouth 
 to the Governor of St. John's. Enclosing (though the enclosure is not 
 now with the letter) a resolution of the House of Commons " declaratory 
 of the nature of the indulgence they are ready to show to any of the 
 Colonies that shall make the proposal to which the resolution refers." 
 
 1775, Mar. 3. Whitehall.—" Private." The Earl of Dartmouth to the 
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 referring to the copy resolution that had been sent therein. It is the King's Earl op 
 
 wish that the resolution should not be communicated officially to the pro- ^^J^ 1713 ' 3 
 
 vincial Assemblies, but explained by the Governors of the various — ' 
 Colonies to such persons as may be able by position and connexion to 
 facilitate the measures it points to. 
 
 1775, March 13. Quebec. — (Extract.) Governor Carleton to Lord 
 Dartmouth. The letter from the Continental Congress at Philadelphia to 
 the Canadians has been translated, printed, and disseminated throughout 
 this Province. 
 
 1775, March 15. Charlestown. — Lieutenant-Governor William Bull to 
 the Earl of Dartmouth. Respecting the case of the Rev. Mr. Bullman, 
 Curate of St. Michael's Charlestown, who has been dismissed the parish on 
 account of a sermon he preached on Sunday 12th Aug. 1774, in the course 
 of which he said " We pry into our neighbour's secrets that we may 
 censure and find fault and are exceedingly rash and precipitate in 
 
 passing our judgment in every matter In short it is 
 
 from this unhappy temper that every idle projector who perhaps cannot 
 govern his own household, or pay the debts of his own contracting, 
 presumes he is qualified to dictate how the State should be governed, 
 and to point out means to pay the debts of a nation. Hence too it is, 
 that every silly clown, and every illiterate mechanic will take upon 
 him to censure the conduct of his Prince or Governor, and contribute 
 as much as in him lies, to create and foment those misunderstandings 
 which, being brooded by discontent and diffused through multitudes, 
 come at last to end in schisms in the Church and sedition and rebellion in 
 the State." Enclosing extracts from the sermon, and the proceedings 
 of the vestry of St. Michael's on Mr. Bullman's dismissal. 
 
 1775, March 15. — Memorial of Charles O'Hara, Governor of Senegam- 
 bia, to the King, stating that he_has served in the army on active service 
 twenty-five years, and that his health is much impaired by the climate 
 of Senegambia, praying an appointment to a government in the West 
 Indies. 
 
 1775, April 5. Whitehall.— (" Circular duplicate.") J. Pownall to Go- 
 vernor Legge, sending and requesting publication of an Act recently passed 
 intituled " An Act to restrain the trade and commerce of the Provinces 
 of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire and Colonies of Connecticut 
 and Rhode Island and Providence Plantation .in North America, to 
 Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Islands in the West Indies, and to 
 prohibit such Provinces and Colonies from carrying on any fishery on 
 the banks of Newfoundland or other places therein mentioned, under 
 certain conditions and limitations." 
 
 1775, April 8. Whitehall. — The Earl of Dartmouth to Governor Legge. 
 Relative to an application for a grant of 500 acres of land in the Province 
 of Nova Scotia with a considerable frontage on the River Ristigouche by 
 a Mr. Shoolbred, a merchant. Enclosing a letter from Mr. Shoolbred to 
 the Governor on the subject and a copy of his petition to Lord Dart- 
 mouth. 
 
 1775, April 15. Whitehall. (Circular.)— The Earl of Dartmouth to Go- 
 vernor Legge. Stating his Majesty's pleasure to be that the orders of the 
 Commander-in-Chief of the forces in North America and under him of the 
 Major- Generals and Brigadier- Generals shall be supreme in all cases 
 relative to the operations of the said troops, and be obeyed accordingly. 
 
 1775, April 23. Boston. —General Gage to Governor Legge. Relating 
 to transports ordered to embark from Nova Scotia to Boston. " Hostilitys 
 are commenced here The country are all arming 
 
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 E\rl op against His Majesty's troops, and it is necessary to take every possible 
 1R mss£ TH ' S P recaut i° n to oppose the rebels." 
 
 I775j April 24. Pvesioyi at Boston. — Admiral Graves to Governor 
 Legge. — Requesting the Governor to allow small vessels to come from 
 Nova Scotia with fresh beef, mutton, poultry, vegetables, &c, each vessel to 
 have his Excellency's pass to prevent her being seized as New England 
 property, and directions to proceed straight to Boston. If the inhabi- 
 tants of Nova Scotia are active the Admiral promises them a consider- 
 able profit as full payment will be made for everything. 
 
 1775, April 24. Boston. — General Gage to Governor Legge. All 
 vessels from Nova Scotia coming into Boston with provisions will be 
 protected by Admiral Graves while there and conducted safe out of 
 port. A letter from the Admiral will inform Governor Legge what is 
 required of the masters of the vessels. The fullest publication possible 
 of this letter is requested. 
 
 1775, April 29. Boston. — Same to same. Transmitting an account 
 (which does not now appear) " of an unhappy affair that happened in 
 this Province the 19th inst. between His Majesty's troops and the people 
 of the country, whereby you will see the pitch their leaders have worked 
 them up to, even to commit hostilities upon the King's troops when an 
 opportunity offered." 
 
 1775, May 6. Council Chamber, Halifax. — " An account of deficiencys 
 in the Treasury of Nova Scotia from 25th June 1751 made by the late 
 Treasurer and sundry officers appointed to collect the revenue of the 
 Province." 
 
 Bundle of letters thus described : " Letters received by Joshua 
 Mauger, Esq., from John Butler Esq., of Halifax, Nova Scotia, under 
 several dates from 6th May to 21st July 1775 delivered to John 
 Pownall, Esq., for the perusal of the Right Honourable Lord Dart- 
 mouth, one of his Majesty's Principall Secretarys of State. West- 
 minster 21st September 1775." The bundle contains among other 
 letters the following : — 
 
 1775, May 6. Halifax. (Duplicate.) — J. Butler to Joshua Mauger. A 
 long letter on the state of trade and general affairs of the Province. 
 •" Our Governor conducts himself so ignorantly and oppressively that no 
 good men will come amongst us. Poor Binney is absolutely put in 
 prison in the most cruel and unjustifiable manner, which Collector 
 Newton's letter will fully show you, and I hope you and Mr. Watson 
 will get him relieved. Indeed there is the most horrid scene of perse- 
 cution carrying on that is possible. I wrote you about the audit of 
 public accounts, the characters of the men, &c. Day has lately resigned 
 and James Monk is chose in his room ; so now there is a judge who is to 
 try the cause, a lawyer who is paid for pleading it, and the sheriff who 
 comes in for his fees, and little Burrow the setter on with Bridge, who 
 is a poor tool, so that the Governor could not have chose another such 
 a sett to throw the Province into a flame and ruin its credit; and this 
 
 without the least cause or any order from the King 
 
 Must not omit telling you that Mr. Binney is carressed by the whole 
 gentlemen in town, and the commanding officer of the troops visited 
 him with his officers in a body ; so much is his case pittied that 
 the gaol is crowded, while there is nothing but gloomy darkness and 
 distrust reigns at the Great House, which is entirely neglected except 
 by the sycophants." 
 
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 1775, July 3. Halifax.— Same to same. " You will find that affairs D 
 run very high at Boston : we obtained a dear bought victory on mss. 
 the 17th ult., and I wish a dearer one may not have been obtained 
 before this. I am concerned to say that had the Ministry strengthened 
 the General's hand with 10,000 men, all this blood might have been 
 saved and the affair probably settled before this time. If the rebellion 
 should continue I expect 20 or 30,000 foreign troops out in the spring. 
 Our government affairs go on in the same ridiculous way. The House 
 of Assembly is sitting and finding fault with the Governor's proceedings. 
 A bill passed both Houses yesterday for the relief of Mr. Binney, but 
 God knows whether the Governor will assent to it; as soon as the 
 Session is at an end you shall have a full account of it, and a curious 
 history it will be." 
 
 1775, July 21. Halifax. — Same to same. Ci The House have passed a 
 Bill to release Mr. Binney on paying 180/. and not 800/., and have also 
 passed a Bill for the relief of sundry other persons whom the auditors 
 brought in debt in the most unjust manner. The Governor would not 
 assent to either of those Bills untill the King's pleasure should be known. 
 This shows the cruelty of the man, who if not removed will infallibly 
 ruin the Collony. The Lower House drew up and passed a long 
 catalogue of complaints against him to the King ; this frightened him 
 and made him promise to give up Burrow, which promise he has yesterday 
 broke." 
 
 1775, May 7. Boston. — General Gage to Governor Legge. As to a pro- 
 posal to supply the King's troops at Boston with coal from Cape Breton. 
 
 1775, May 8. Boston. — General Gage to Governor Legge. On the 
 same subject. 
 
 1775, May 11. — Lieutenant William Pirrie to the Earl of Dartmouth, 
 with " Remarks and observations on the importance of an interior survey 
 of the North-west Regions of America " for the execution of which 
 the writer is ready to offer proposals, should Lord Dartmouth think fit. 
 
 1775, May 13. Boston. — General Gage to Governor Legge. Numbers 
 of people are moving to Halifax and other parts of Nova Scotia, many 
 of whom will use every means to debauch the minds of the people. 
 Mentions one, a Mr. Howard, a Presbyterian minister, whom it would 
 be well to secure on the first opportunity. 
 
 1775, May 13. Cambridge (Mass.). (Copy.) — Dr. Joseph Warren to 
 " the gentlemen the select men of the town of Boston." Will not be 
 able to attend the Congress to-day, but on Monday he will lay the 
 letter (this refers apparently to something gone before) before them. " It 
 appears that General Gage supposes there is an impropriety in treating 
 with subjects in arms against their Sovereign. The gentleman mistakes 
 the matter. We have been compelled to take arms for our defence, for 
 the defence of our liberties. We wish the prosperity of the British 
 nation. We love to honour our Sovereign, and now stand ready with 
 our lives and fortunes to maintain the justice of those great constitutional 
 principles by which he holds his Crown. We have no desires incom- 
 patible with the honour and dignity of the King and the welfare of the 
 whole empire ; but as we have now taken arms we mean to have a 
 final settlement of our disputes before we lay them down, and whatever 
 hard names we may be called, conscious of the justness of our cause, we 
 will steadily persevere untill we have freed our country from bondage, 
 or find a refuge from slavery in the arms of death. Major Dunbar, 
 whilst here, will be treated with that decency which is due to a gentle- 
 
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 Earl of man . Du t I think fitl not at all probable that he will be exchanged for any 
 ]Viss. person who may be taken up in Boston, as we conceive that every inhabi- 
 — tant of Boston has, by the agreement made with the select men, a right 
 to come out with his effects, and as we think no future agreement can 
 be more binding than that, we must suppose, if he cannot be liberated 
 and suffered to come out upon the strength of that agreement, it will 
 be trifling in us to expect his reaping any advantage from any future 
 
 treaty I think I should speak the sentiments of 
 
 * nine-tenths of the people between this and Philadelphia if I should say 
 we ought not to pay the least attention to anything that may be offered 
 us from the army under General Gage, or any person belonging to it, 
 untill the terms upon which the people of Boston laid down their arms 
 are punctually complied with." 
 
 1 775, May 24. Boston. — General Gage to Governor Legge. Respect- 
 ing the rebel emissaries from Boston. 
 
 1775, May. London. — Memorial of William Burgess of London, Mer- 
 chant, to the Earl of Dartmouth. Requesting a grant of land from the 
 Government for carrying on a fishery on the coast of Labrador. 
 
 1775, June 5. Boston. — Sir William Howe to Governor Legge. 
 Complimentary. The postscript asks that three or four bear skins may 
 be sent him by the next conveyance from Halifax. 
 
 1775, June 6. Piccadilly. — William Philips to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 The writer has a plan for adjusting the differences between America and 
 England, and begs an interview with Lord Dartmouth to explain it. 
 
 1775, June 7. Boston. — General Gage to Governor Legge. The 
 General much regrets the scarcity of troops in Nova Scotia. The 
 Beaver, Captain Bett, is ordered there and to St. John's, where he 
 hopes to raise a number of men to join the King's Army. These are to 
 be quartered at Halifax, and put under the command of Colonel Gore- 
 ham. He also suggests an attempt to induce the Indians to join. 
 
 1775, June 7. Whitehall— (Original.) The Earl of Dartmouth to 
 Governor Legge. Unimportant. 
 
 1775, June 10. Secretary's Office, Halifax. — (Copy.) Richard Bulkeley 
 to Joseph Winnett and Thomas Williams, Justices of the Peace for the 
 county of Annapolis. Informing them that " one Howard a dissenting 
 teacher, a man of seditious and treasonable practices," has arrived in 
 that county, and requesting them to cause him to be arrested and given 
 in charge to the Provost Marshal, who is to bring him to Halifax ; and 
 letter of same date to Mr. Fenton, Provost Marshal at Annapolis, to 
 the same effect. (See letter from General Gago of 13 May 1775.) 
 
 1775, June 1 1 . London. — Long paper upon the rise and progress of the 
 disputes between Great Britain and America, with suggestions for an 
 accommodation. Unsigned, but marked on the back " L d D — d." 
 
 1775, June 14. Halifax. — " State of the troops now actually in 
 garrison of 65th Regiment." Signed by Francis Marsh, Captain 65th 
 Regiment. 
 
 1775, June 14. Council Chamber. — Address of His Majesty's Council 
 of Nova Scotia to the Governor, Francis Legge Esquire. 
 
 1775, June 14. " In the way to Dublin." — John Wesley to the Earl 
 of Dartmouth protesting against the American war. M All my prejudices 
 
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 are against the Americans, for I am an High Churchman, the son of an pmrtmouth's 
 High Churchman, bred up from my childhood in the highest notions of MSS. 
 passive obedience and non-resistance; and yet in spite of all my 
 rooted prejudice, I cannot avoid thinking (if I think at all) that an 
 oppressed people asked for nothing more than their legal rights and that 
 in the most modest and inoffensive manner which the nature of the 
 thing would allow. 
 
 "But waiving this, waiving all considerations of right and wrong, I 
 ask, is it common sense to use force toward the Americans ?" . . . 
 " They are divided among themselves ? So you are informed by various 
 letters and memorials. So I doubt not was poor Rehoboam informed 
 concerning the ten tribes ! So (nearer our times) was Philip informed 
 concerning the people of the Netherlands ! No, my Lord, they are 
 terribly united : not in the Province of New England only, but down as 
 low as the J erseys and Pennsylvania the bulk of the people are so united 
 that to speak a word in favour of the present English measures would 
 almost endanger a man's life." The writer goes on to speak of the 
 dangers to be apprehended of an attack from abroad on Ireland while 
 all our available resources are engaged in America. 
 
 " ' But we have our militia, our valiant, disciplined militia : these 
 will effectually oppose them, Give me leave, my Lord, to relate a little 
 circumstance of which one then on the spot informed me. In 1716 a large 
 body of the militia were marching toward Preston against the rebels. In 
 a wood which they were marching by a boy happened to discharge his 
 fowling piece. The soldiers gave [up] all for lost and by common consent 
 threw down their arms and ran for life. So much dependence is to be 
 placed on our valorous militia ! " 
 
 Mr. Wesley then draws a parallel between the time at which he is writing 
 and the time of the rebellion between the years 1640 and 1650, the dear- 
 ness of provisions, the depression of trade and the hatred of the poor for 
 the rich all being similar. He concludes, " Upon the whole I am really 
 sometimes afraid that 'this evil is of the Lord.' When I consider (to 
 say nothing of ten thousand other vices shocking to human nature) the 
 astonishing luxury of the rich, and the profaneness of rich and poor, I 
 doubt whether general dissoluteness of manners does not demand a 
 general visitation. Perhaps the decree is already gone forth from the 
 
 Governor of the world But we Englishmen are too 
 
 wise to acknowledge that God has anything to do in the world ! Other- 
 wise should we not seek Him by fasting and prayer before He lets the 
 lifted thunder drop. O my Lord, if your Lordship can do anything, let 
 it not be wanting ! For God's sake, for the sake of the King, of the 
 nation, of your lovely family, remember Rehoboam ! Remember Philip 
 the Second ! Remember King Charles the First ! I am with true regard, 
 my Lord, your Lordship's obedient servant, John Wesley." 
 
 1775, June 19th. Boston. — General Gage to Governor Legge. Respect- 
 ing the raising of a regiment of Highlanders in St. J ohn'sand Nova Scotia, 
 under Lieut.-Col. Maclean. In a postscript the General says : — u On 
 the morning of the 17th inst. we discovered a redoubt the rebels had 
 made on Charlestowu Neck ; General Howe with a number of men got 
 over as fast as possible, attacked the rebels and beat them out of their 
 hold, and entirely off the neck. The particulars I shall give you 
 hereafter." 
 
 1775, June 21. "Camp on the Heights of Charles Town." — Studholme 
 Brownrigg, Ensign 38th Regt., to Lieutenant- General Hodgson. (Copy 
 Extract). "Thel7th inst., about 11 o'clock, under the command of 
 Major- General Howe, we came from Boston to the opposite shore of 
 
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 Eaki of Charles Town, in boats, to attack and take possession of the heights 
 DAR MSS UTH S SUITOun ding &j on which were two redoubts, one a very large and 
 — « ' strong one lately made by the rebels and manned with three thousand 
 men and two pieces of cannon ; three pieces more were very advan- 
 tageously planted behind a fence on a flat to the right of the rear 
 of the redoubt; on our disembarkation the battalions formed in two 
 lines, and the corps of Light Infantry and Grenadiers flanked to the 
 right and left. A strong breastwork ran down the hill from the redoubt, 
 on our right the cannon played and we advanced slowly up the hill. 
 Two frigates that lay to the left of the town of Charles Town kept up 
 a fire on the redoubt, as did a battery of 24 pounders from Copse Hill 
 in Boston, but made no breach in it, as the rampart was very thick. 
 
 When we got within about five or six hundred paces they gave us a 
 very heavy fire of cannon and small arms for about ten minutes which 
 we received without firing a shot, but it being repeated with the greatest 
 vigour w r e were obliged to retreat about twenty paces, but immediately 
 rallied and carried the redoubt by storm. Our loss indeed has been 
 very considerable several officers killed and wounded, about 200 
 privates killed and 400 wounded, but we are a little reconciled to it by 
 being fully convinced that the loss of the rebels is as great if not greater. 
 When the first redoubt was taken, the second, which was about half a 
 mile further, made little or no resistance ; near 100 of the rebels are 
 taken prisoners. We are now encamped and have thrown up a strong 
 entrenchment and two redoubts in our front. It is a pity our numbers 
 would not permit our going on to Cambridge that day, as it is the 
 strongest hold they have in the Province, and where they have almost 
 all their artillery. The town of Charlestown was burnt by carcases 
 from Copse Hill battery during the action. The rebels have now 
 retreated to a hill about two miles from us, where they are entrenching 
 themselves. I have enclosed you the disposition of the troops on that 
 clay as well as I could recollect it, by which you will judge of General 
 Howe's great abilities." 
 
 1775, June 21. "Camp on the heights of Charles Town." — George 
 Clerk to Robert Clerk, Edinburgh. " On the morning of the 17th the 
 rebels were perceived at Avork on these heights, very strong ground oppo- 
 site to Boston, which it was determined immediately to attack and dis- 
 lodge them from thence. We embarked on board boats about 12 at 
 noon. Not having boats for all the troops designed, there were three 
 different embarkations. The first were the Light Infantry of the army 
 and Grenadiers, the first of which I commanded, and the Grenadiers my 
 friend Abercrombie. The whole landed without the least opposition, 
 I was sent immediately forward with four companies of the corps of light 
 infantry within about 400 yards of the works of the enemy, where we 
 lay covered under the bank of the water and other banks extending to 
 our left. About half past three the rest of my corps joined me, by 
 which time I believe the whole had landed, when I received orders 
 to move on and endeavour to get round the flank of the rebels, which 
 I was anxious to effect, but was retarded by fences, but mostly the water 
 which prevented our moving on round the point I wished. At this time 
 a very heavy fire from the enemy continued on us from behind a barri- 
 cade of fence rails, trees, &c, all within 90 yards. By this time the 
 line got orders to move on to attack the works on the left, a small 
 redoubt and lines of earth ; in about half-an-hour they drove the rebels 
 and got possession of their entrenchments. We moved on at the same 
 time driving the runaways and took possession of the extremity and the 
 whole of these heights, very strong ground. They kept firing at us 
 
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 from a small village below all the evening but did little hurt. We Earl op 
 immediately threw up an entrenchment and are now going on com- DAR aJs° s TI11 
 pleating other works on this ground. At the beginning of the attack — 
 Charlestown was set on (ire, and the whole by the day after laid in ashes, 
 part of the terrible effects of a civil war. 
 
 The rebels were very numerous and behaved far beyond any idea I 
 could ever have formed of them. They had about 5,000 men in the field. 
 We not much above 2,000, if so many, but we have paid for our victory 
 lost a great number of our officers, I am told above 80 killed and 
 wounded — a great smash by such miscreants. 
 
 They are fortifying themselves very strongly on heights in our front 
 about a mile and a half. They have drove away all their cattle, &c. 
 so we are no better as to provisions. What will now be done 1 can't 
 say as they seem to be fortifying every hill and determined to dispute 
 every inch of ground with us." 
 
 1775, June 24. London. — Petition of John Moss to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth,requesting some appointment from theGovernment in the Colonies, 
 as a recompense of his services when serving in the army in the late war 
 in America. Mentions Lord Denbigh, Sir Adolphus Oughton, and 
 Surgeon- General Adair as knowing him and being willing to recommend 
 him. 
 
 1775, June 25. Boston. — E. Le Cras to Mr. Le Cras, London. Sends 
 a resolution of the Continental Congress to starve the Navy and Army, 
 " and they will go a great way towards it, if something is not done 
 to prevent it, for nothing can be got but by force, and very little in 
 that way. The southern colonies are determined to support this, and 
 our force will not do to subdue all." 
 
 1775, July 5. London.— Will. Strahan to Doctor Franklin. As to the 
 doctor having been voted by the Assembly of Philadelphia one of their 
 Delegates to the Congress, urging him to use all the influence he 
 possesses to compromise and settle the disputes between the mother 
 country and the American colonies. 
 
 1 775, July 5. London. — H. Cruger to his brother John Harris Cruger. 
 On domestic affairs. Anticipates utter ruin to America from the war 
 which she has brought upon herself. 
 
 1775, July 10. Halifax. — " The deposition of Thomas Flinn, master 
 of the schooner Falmouth packett, taken before me George Deschamps, 
 Esquire, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the county of 
 Halifax," detailing an attack made upon a King's schooner commanded 
 by Captain Moore, by a number of the inhabitants of Machias (Maine), 
 who seized the deponent's ship arrived at Machias from Windsor in the 
 Province of Halifax to load timber, for the purpose of the attack. 
 Captain Moore was severely wounded, and afterwards died. Mentions 
 the names of some of the rebels who led the attack. 
 
 1775, July 14. Boston. — General Gage to Governor Legge. As to 
 obtaining fuel from Nova Scotia and the guarding the military stores at 
 Halifax. u We are still at war here, and things promise rather worse 
 than better ; a staff, sent by the Continental Congress, has lately joyned 
 the rebels. Washington (from Virginia) commands, Lee amongst the 
 Major-Generals, and Horatio Gates, Adjutant-General." 
 
 1775, July 17. Halifax. — W. Tonge to Governor Legge. Answering 
 complaints made against him by the Governor in the discharge of his 
 office of Naval Officer of the Province of Halifax. 
 
 1775, July 17. Halifax. — Jonathan Binney to Joshua Mauger, M.P. 
 Relating his "persecution" by Governor Legge. "I have been con- 
 
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 Dartmouth's fined m g ao1 from 4th Ma y last to tne 14 th tnis instant. The House 
 MSS. and Council passed an Act or Bill for my relief the 4th instant, but 
 Governor Legge delayed giving his assent to it ; the loathsome situation 
 I was in, being confined in gaol with my wife and family obliged me to 
 write the Governor praying his assent to said Bill that I may be 
 released ; his answer was, if I would give sufficient security to the 
 acceptance of the Crown Law Officers for the sums I stand charged 
 with by the Executive, to be payable in six months or when his 
 Majesty's pleasure shall be known in respect of the Bill passed, that then 
 he wouid pass said Bill with a suspensory clause. I was obliged to 
 give security for the whole sums and pay the costs of the Solicitor- 
 General and Provost Marshal amounting to 69/. lis. 4c?." Asks Mr. 
 Manger to use his influence at home to get him a final acquittance of 
 all the persecution, and some of the costs and damages repaid him. 
 
 1775, July 22. Halifax. — The Rev. John Breynton, D.D., to Joshua 
 Manger, M.P. The difficulties which have beset America since the 
 commencement of the war affect Nova Scotia as deeply as any other 
 Colony. 
 
 1775, July 25. Boston. (Copy extract.) — F. Vernon to Messrs. Lane, 
 Son, and Foster. " We the inhabitants that remain here may say we 
 have a being and that is all ; we are restrained from all manner of fresh 
 provisions, and obliged to bear with many insults and abuses both by 
 the army and navy, and even our own country about us has and still is 
 acting with too great severity with us in restraining all natural sub- 
 sistence from us they can, that we may say we are in a more distressing 
 situation than prisoners confined in a close gaol." 
 
 1775, July 26. Boston. (Copy extract.) — Nathaniel Taylor to Messrs. 
 Harrisons and Ansley. " I shall not particularly describe the condition 
 of this town, but if you will please to paint to yourselves a place suffering 
 under the calamities of fire and sword, famine in a degree, and pestilence 
 you will have an idea of our state." 
 
 1775, July 27. Boston. (Copy Extract). — James Anderson to his 
 brother, Andrew Anderson, merchant at Greenock. " The town is 
 very quiet, most of the inhabitants are gone out and will not be allowed 
 to return. The fortifications are amazingly strong, and they are adding 
 to them every day, but indeed we are under no apprehension of their 
 attacking the town, they are not an enemy for such kind of work, their 
 expedition to Charlestown, as we since learnt, was a push to burn the 
 shipping, &c. The ardor and bravery of the troops was remarkable on 
 that day ; but a little more coolness would have given the rebels a 
 complete overthrow. You may remember Charlestown Neck, which is 
 not a stonethrow across, could have been defended by a few guns in 
 lighters, and their retreat effectually cut off." 
 
 1775, July 28. Charlestown Camp. — General Sir William Howe to 
 Governor Legge. Thanking him for four bearskins sent. 
 
 1775, July 29. Boston. — General Gage to Governor Legge. Asking 
 him to procure twenty or thirty ship carpenters, and as many seamen as 
 possible, to go to Quebec by a ship which the Admiral intends to send 
 thither shortly. General Gage has heard the news from Machias. 
 (See the deposition of Thomas Flinn dated 10th July 1775). 
 
 1775, Aug. 2. Halifax. — Copy letter unsigned, but apparently 
 from Governor Legge to Mr. Shoolbred, an English merchant, and 
 a proposed settler in the Province. (See letter of April 8th in this 
 year from Lord Dartmouth to Governor Legge.) He offers him all 
 
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 the assistance possible in preparing a deed of errant of the land he Earl or 
 mi ■ „ 1 r l t> s Dartmouth's 
 
 requires. MSS . 
 
 1775, August 4. Philadelphia. (Copy.) — Thomas Wharton to Samuel 
 "Wharton. Communicating the contents of an express which arrived at 
 Philadelphia on the 3rd instant from General Schuyler. The General 
 is informed that Governor Carleton had but 450 men at his command, 
 u that he had used his utmost influence with the Canadians to join and 
 augment his army so that he might retake Crown Point and Ticon- 
 deroga, which they had positively refused to do, and declared they never 
 would fight against their brethren the Colonists. Seven tribes of 
 Indians headed by that warlike tribe, the Cochnawagas, have also given 
 satisfactory proofs of their determination to remain neuter in this un- 
 natural dispute, and in order to keep their young men from joining 
 Governor Carleton, they have appointed a head man or chief over every 
 tribe, and one chief over the whole body, and retired to their castle. 
 The same express further adds that the Canadians considered the treat- 
 ment they receive from the soldiers in so cruel a light that they have 
 intimated a desire that the Colony troops should take possession of 
 Canada, and I am fearful this will be attempted, because I know a 
 majority of the Congress did give General Schuyler liberty, if he thought 
 prudent, to penetrate that country. This intelligence is known to very 
 few, and I may say has afforded to some of us abundant uneasiness, 
 because it is going from the ground we first put our stand upon, that of 
 a defensive opposition for the preservation of our rights and privileges, 
 and because it will make our settlement more difficult, as the honour and 
 
 property of the nation is concerned 
 
 A letter from T. Mifflin by this day's post, dated at the provincial 
 Camp, says that five deserters had come in that day from General Gage's 
 army, and informs us that the whole of the regulars did not exceed 
 6,500 effective men, that General Gage had resigned the command, and 
 General Howe succeeded thereto, that Gage acted as Governor, that a 
 disagreement subsists among the four chief officers, that two com- 
 panies of the Riflemen were arrived, and were impatient to get to work, 
 but that General Washington would not permit it." 
 
 1775, Aug. 8. Parliament St. — James Meyrick to Governor Legge. 
 The preparations to increase the Royal Army in America. There is a 
 copy of the same letter enclosed. 
 
 1775, Aug. 11. Boston. — General Gage to Governor Legge. The 
 Admiral has been informed of the rebel cruizers mentioned by Mr. 
 Legge, and now has two vessels in the Bay of Fundy, and has ordered 
 another to protect the tiansports waiting there for convoy, and if 
 possible to destroy the pirates. 
 
 1775, Aug. 11. Preston at Boston. — Admiral Graves to Governor 
 Legge. Is satisfied that the rebels are meditating some mischief to 
 Halifax and. other parts in Mr. Legge's Government, and will endeavour 
 to interrupt the navigation to and from the Bay of Fundy. Positive 
 jrders have been given to the Commanders of the St. Lawrence and 
 Hope armed schooners to search for pirates about Annapolis, Machias, 
 and if necessary, Windsor. 
 
 1775, Aug. 19. Boston. — General Gage to Governor Legge. As to 
 proposals for raising a number of ship carpenters and seamen for active 
 service. 
 
 1775, Aug. 20. Boston. — Same to same. Is sorry a misunderstanding 
 has arisen between Governor Legge and Captain Marsh, with regard to 
 the hay on George's Island and the Eastern Battery. The use of the 
 
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 Earl op around round the guns lias always been considered the perquisite of the 
 MSS. officer in command. Enquires it Governor Legge be still in the army ; 
 if not, he requests him not to put Captain Marsh in arrest. 
 
 1775, Aug. 21. — "The present state and condition of the Colonies 
 with respect to iheir Governors and government." Stated on the 
 back to be by Mr. Morris. 
 
 " Massachusetts has rejected the Governor and Council appointed by 
 His Majesty by virtue of an Act of Parliament, have called an Assembly 
 of Representatives and chosen the Council, and appointed the President 
 of Council, with authority of Commander-in-chief. 
 
 " New Hampshire have rejected their Governor, are at present 
 governed by a provincial Congress. 
 
 u Rhode Island and Providence Plantations have a Governor, Council, 
 and Representatives according to their charter all elective. 
 
 " New York have a Committee of safely and provincial Congress. 
 Governor Tryon just arrived, and who is in great favour in general, yet 
 can have at present no authority as Governor. 
 
 "New Jersey, governed by a provincial Congress, the Governor 
 without authority. 
 
 * Philadelphia, governed by a provincial Congress, the Governor of no 
 weight, nor indeed ever was ; this government is by charter wholly 
 popular, having only one branch, to wit, the House of Representatives. 
 
 " Maryland, governed by a provincial Congress. 
 
 " Virginia, governed by a provincial Congress, the authority of 
 Governor and Council set aside, and the Governor retreated on board a 
 King's ship. 
 
 <% North Carolina, governed by a provincial Congress, the Governor 
 and Council of no authority. 
 
 " South Carolina, governed by a provincial Congress, have refused 
 to receive Lord William (Campbell) their present Governor, who has 
 taken refuge in Georgia. 
 
 " Over all the provincial Congresses is one general Continental 
 Congress, who govern in general, and have appointed Generals and 
 all superior officers. This seems to be the design model of American 
 government, and who begin to call themselves the States General of the 
 United Colonies. 
 
 " Canada remains to the Crown. Nova Scotia, with good management, 
 does likewise; but the contagion spreads, and, as in the first instances, 
 the quarrel, begins with the Governor and ends with the Crown. This 
 republican spirit has in America the same effect as bigotry in religion 
 had once in Europe. The House of Representatives is more than one 
 half republicans, and the majority of Council have other measures 
 which will be subservient to that cause. 
 
 " Georgia is divided, one part sides with Royalty, the other with 
 Republicans. 
 
 "Newfoundland are all fishermen, and are now starving for want of 
 bread, and leaving the country ; all government is alike to them, when 
 they have bread, pork, and peas sufficient." 
 
 1775, Aug. 21. — " St. Lawrence and Hope schooners, at Windsor." 
 Lieutenants John Graves and George Dawson to Governor Legge, enclosing 
 an account of a number of disaffected people at Annapolis and Windsor 
 who are quite ready to join the rebels from New England whenever 
 opportunity offer. 
 
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 1775, Aug. 23. Halifax. — Draft letter from Governor Legge to earl of 
 General Gage. Mentioning the above from Lieutenant Graves and Dartmouth's 
 Dawson and stating what he proposes to do to prevent the spread of — ' 
 disaffection. 
 
 1775, Aug. 23. Preston at Boston. — Admiral Graves to Governor 
 Legge. Respecting New York and Philadelphia privateers, which he does 
 not believe are so numerous as Mr. Legge's informants state. It is prob- 
 able that all the Colonies will have cruizeis. Mentions the movements of 
 his Majesty's ships in the vicinity of Nova Scotia. 
 
 1775, Aug. 31. Halifax. — Governor Legge to General Gage. For 
 preventing a descent of the rebels upon the Province, the Admiral has 
 ordered the Scarborough to cruize at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, 
 and two armed schooners and the Senegal are to cruize there also. A 
 company of Light Infantry is to be formed from the Militia in every 
 part of the Province. The great difficulty is with regard to the pay- 
 ment of the Militia, as the resources of the Province are not sufficient. 
 
 1775, August. — " Abstract of the number of families settled in Nova 
 Scotia from a State of that Province taken in August 1775." At the end 
 of the Abstract is this note : " By this estimate there are specified 2,488 
 families in the Province : allowing six to each family, as is the case 
 at Lunenburg, the number of inhabitants is 14,928. By a return from 
 the Secretary's Office in the year 1773 I find them amounting to 17,752." 
 
 1775, Sep. 4. Charlestown Camp, near Boston. — General Sir William 
 Howe to Governor Legge. Thanks him for sending a very fine ox 
 and two sheep which have arrived safely. Governor Legge's volunteer, 
 Proctor, has distinguished himself greatly in a small brush with the 
 rebels, going out with a small party to drive them back. " The situation 
 of the King's troops and that of the rebels is nearly the same as when I 
 had the honor of writing to you last. They are entrenched upon every 
 advantagious spot, and we are so strongly posted here that we wish to 
 tempt them to attack us, which if they do not shortly do, perhaps we 
 may try our fortune against them, but we are so well prepared upon 
 these heights that it would be imprudent to attack them before we give 
 up their coming to us." 
 
 1775, Sep. 4. Boston. — General Gage to Governor Legge. As to the 
 protection of the Province of Nova Scotia from attacks by the New 
 England rebels. 
 
 1775, Sep. 4. Preston at Boston. — Admiral Graves to Governor 
 Legge. Preparations made by sea to prevent attacks by the rebels on 
 Nova Scotia. 
 
 1775, Sep. 5. Boston. — General Gage to Governor Legge. Unim- 
 portant. " The Admiral has now so many vessels in the Bay of Fundy 
 that the rebels from this Province will not have an opportunity to land 
 there." 
 
 1775, Sep. 10. Boston. — General Gage to Governor Legge. " I have 
 certain intelligence from deserters lately come in from the rebels, that 
 about 1,500 men have marched from Cambridge, and it is said are 
 intended to joyn the rebel army on the frontiers of Canada ; but as 
 their route is through Newberry, they may possibly be intended for 
 your Province. I therefore give you this information and hope the 
 force the Admiral has in the Bay of Fundy will be able to frustrate all 
 the designs of the rebels." 
 
 1775, Sep. 11. Boston. — General Gage to Governor Legge. Confirm- 
 atory of the news in the preceding letter, and asking him to send a letter 
 
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 immediately by a trusty Indian to General Carleton, as by going through 
 the woods he would get to him before the rebels can have arrived. 
 
 1775, Sep. 11. Halifax. — Richard Bulkeley, secretary to the Governor, 
 to Governor Legge. Pointing out the consequences attendant on the 
 Governor's leaving Halifax, owing to the peculiar state of the law of 
 the Province of Nova Scotia. 
 
 1775, Sep. 19. Yarmouth. (Copy.) — Colonel Goold to Messrs. Durkee, 
 Crawley, and Cook, magistrates at Yarmouth. Colonel Goold has been 
 appointed by Governor Legge colonel of the militia of Queen's County, 
 and has been instructed to raise a company of 50 privates with a cap- 
 tain and two lieutenants to be called the Light Infantry company, out 
 of such of the inhabitants of the county as are known to be well 
 affected active men. Asking for the assistance of the magistrates to 
 raise the company. 
 
 1775, Sep. 20. — " Return of a Light Infantry company formed at Yar- 
 mouth." The company consists of 48 rank and file, with two lieutenants, 
 David Scott and Benjamin Brown, a captain, Eleazar Hebbard, and 
 commanded by Colonel Arthur Goold. 
 
 1775, Sep. 21. Old Palace Yard.— Mr. Mauger to Mr. Pownall. 
 Enclosing some papers relating to Mr. Binney's case to be laid before 
 Lord Dartmouth. 
 
 1775, Sep. 23. Dublin. — Alexander Duncan to Governor Legge. 
 Respecting arrears of pay due to him. 
 
 1775, Sep. 28. Boston. — General Sir William Howe to Governor Legge. 
 
 The King having required General Gage's presence at home to con- 
 sult him upon the present state of America, I am invested in his absence 
 with the command of the forces in North America on the side of the 
 Atlantic ; General Carleton having the same powers within his Govern- 
 ment and in the back country, and would take the command of the 
 whole were we to meet. Our two Commissions are to command in 
 chief in our respective districts, wherein I shall be happy to render 
 you every service in my power." 
 
 1775, Sep. 29. Boston. — General Gage to Governor Legge. Has lately 
 intercepted a letter from one Edward Pheaton, supposed to be a 
 journeyman printer at Halifax, to Mills and Hicks, printers in Boston, 
 giving an account of everything that is being done in Nova Scotia ; 
 recommends a strict watch of his movements to be kept, as he has the 
 spirit of rebellion strongly in him. Announces' his departure shortly 
 for England, and that he has left the command with General Howe. 
 
 1775, Sep. 30. Boston, (Copy.) — General Gage to Lieutenant- Colonel 
 Gorham, Commandant. Directing him to embark immediately on board a 
 transport provided for Halifax with a number of men of the Royal 
 Fencible Americans and Royal Highland Regiment of Emigrants, and to 
 take command of all His Majesty's forces in Nova Scotia. 
 
 1775, Sep. 30. Boston. — Admiral Graves to Governor Legge. The 
 importation of fresh provisions from Nova Scotia into Boston. Passes 
 have hitherto been freely granted to the inhabitants who have fitted up 
 vessels for the purposes of the trade, but on Mr. Legge's representations 
 no further passes will be issued except for the service of the Army and 
 Navy. 
 
 1775, Oct. 2. Boston. (Copy.) — General Gage to Lieutenant-Colonel 
 Gorham. Has ordered two 'companies of the 14th Regiment under 
 Captain Stanton to accompany him to Halifax in addition to those pre- 
 viously intended for that service. 
 
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 1775, Oct. 2. Boston. — General Howe to Governor Legge. Recom- 
 mending to his favour Lieutenant Barry of the 52nd Regiment, who has 
 been appointed secretary to Lieutenant- Colonel Gorham. 
 
 1775, Oct. 2. Boston. — General Gage to Governor Legge. Stating the 
 forces which Lieutenant- Colonel Gorham will have under his command 
 for the protection of Halifax. 
 
 1775, Oct. 3. Boston. — General Gage to Governor Legge. Announcing 
 his departure for England, and that he has left the command of the 
 forces at Quebec and on the frontier with Major- General Carleton, and 
 those on the Atlantic under Major- General Howe. 
 
 1775, Oct. 7. Halifax. — Deposition of William Humphrey sworn before 
 Charles Morris, J.P., with regard to a woman whom he had sent for 
 from England to be a maid servant to Governor Legge. 
 
 1775, Oct. 16. Whitehall— Copy. The Earl of Suffolk to Governor 
 Legge. Governor Legge' s despatches have been laid before the King 
 to whom the condition and safety of Nova Scotia have now become a 
 matter of great anxiety. These apprehensions have been increased by 
 the news of the revolt at Machias, and it has been thought advisable to 
 send one of the five regiments, j ust embarked from Cork, to Halifax ; the 
 Roebuck, a 40 gun ship, has also sailed three weeks ago for the same place. 
 
 The King's wishes are that a corps of 1,000 men be formed in 
 Nova Scotia and Newfoundland to be commanded by Mr. Legge with 
 the provincial rank of Colonel. The pay and subsistence are to be the 
 same as those of the regular army, and grants of land may, if necessary, 
 be made by Governor Legge to induce people to join. The inhabitants 
 of the townships on the Bay of Fundy to be disarmed ; the fortifications 
 of the harbour to be strengthened by temporary works. The despatch 
 concludes : " I must not omit to observe that His Majesty sees with 
 equal concern and displeasure that, at a time when the situation of public 
 affairs demands that all his servants in Nova Scotia should lay aside 
 every other consideration but that of the most effectual means of uniting 
 their efforts to support the authority of the parent State, and avert the 
 dangers that surround them, the public peace should be disturbed, and 
 his Majesty's service obstructed by ill-humour, anger, and resentments 
 in matters of the most trivial moment respecting merely the domestic 
 economy of the Province." 
 
 1775, Oct. 17. Preston at Boston. — Admiral Graves to Governor 
 Legge. The Admiral will continue a good force in the Bay of Fundy, 
 and ships shall winter at Annapolis and Windsor. Suggests with the 
 object of checking communication between New England and Nova 
 Scotia, that some of the principals in the matter shall be seized and 
 made examples of. 
 
 1775, Oct. 18. Boston. — General Sir William Howe to Governor 
 Legge. Recommends a palisade with block houses, similar to one which 
 Governor Legge has put up for the defence of Halifax dockyard to be 
 erected on Citadel hill for the protection of the town. 
 
 1775, Oct. 21. — Paper headed " State of his Majesty's forces at 
 Halifax," and signed by Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Gorham, command 
 ing officer. 
 
 N.D. (but after 11th October 1775.)— William Black to Governor 
 Legge. Referring to some charges brought against him by Governor 
 Legge. 
 
 1775, Nov. 5. Halifax. — Commodore Arbuthnot to Governor Legge. 
 Announcing his appointment as commander in chief in the absence of a 
 
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 Earl op ^ flag officer. On his arrival he found H.M. ship Somerset, Commodore 
 1E MSsy TH S ^e Cras, under orders to proceed home, but as a report was prevalent 
 — that a considerable force of rebels had marched up the country, the orders 
 have been countermanded for the present until the Admiral's further 
 directions are known. 
 
 1775, Nov. 8. Halifax. (Copy.) — Governor Legge to General Sir 
 William Howe. Enclosing letters received from St. John's Island and 
 three pamphlets addressed to the General Court and Province of Nova 
 Scotia. Captain Stanton of the 14th regiment has been sent to secure 
 the Indians on St. John's Eiver to the support of Government. On the 
 same sheet is a copy of a letter dated from Charlotte Town, St. John's 
 Island, 13th October 1775, from the Governor of the Island to Governor 
 Legge,enclosing copies of despatches from Lieut.-Governor Craraahe,from 
 Lieutenant-Colonel McLean &c, by which will appear " the disagree- 
 able situation General Carleton and the Province under his government 
 are in. Captain Fraser has private letters which inform him the 
 Canadians have absolutely refused to join us, assigning for reason that the 
 English law is taken away from them, and that as the King has broken 
 his word they have a right to do the same ; daring licentiousness has 
 extended itself from North to South." The writer trusts Governor Legge 
 will not be disturbed in his Province ; " a lieutenant belonging to Captain 
 Eraser's company a few days ago returned from the south shore of your 
 Province, where he had been recruiting ; he informed me he met with 
 many snubs and jeers. As to my miniature Government I have not the 
 least cause to suspect any disturbance. I believe all their trouble will 
 be to get something to eat." 
 
 1775, Nov. 8. Boston. — General Sir William Howe to Governor 
 Legge. " An ordnance store ship from England, and a transport with 
 part of the 17th regiment of foot from Ireland arrived this day. 
 
 u They are forerunners of two fleets from Portsmouth and Cork with 
 military stores, provisions, and a reinforcement of five regiments, all 
 which are daily expected." 
 
 1775, Nov. 20. Halifax, Nova Scotia. — Letter unsigned, but from some 
 of the Government officers of the Province of Nova Scotia, to Governor 
 Legge. Complaining of the disloyal conduct of some members of the 
 Government, instancing the Speaker of the House, who " has in a most 
 unequalled manner opposed the measures of Government introduced to 
 the House, not merely by his influence among the members, and upon 
 Committees, but as Speaker has repeatedly insisted on a privilege of 
 being heard in that character, and offered dictatorial opinions from the 
 chair upon Bills and other papers he has been delivering to the House 
 with manifest intention to sway the debate and their judgment. 
 
 " He has upon repeated occasions, where the Governor of this Province 
 has been mentioned, endeavoured to represent your Excellency's con- 
 duct as odious and obnoxious, and made as well direct as ironical asper- 
 sions greatly tending to lessen that respect and confidence due by the 
 community to a Governor of this Province, and which, if estranged from, 
 must undoubtedly at all times, but singularly so at present, be very pre- 
 judicial to His Majesty's service." The Surveyor and Searcher of his 
 Majesty's Customs, and other persons, have united to defeat the measures 
 of Government. The writers strongly recommend that the conduct of 
 the Speaker and his friends may not go unnoticed, and hope this private 
 information will be useful to the Governor. 
 
 1775, Dec. 8. Boston. — General Sir W. Howe to Governor Legge. As 
 to the works in progress for the defence of the town and dockyard, 
 victualling the troops at present in Nova Scotia, &c. A further 
 
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 detachment of six companies of the 65th Regiment under Lieutenant- Earl op 
 Colonel Bruce has been sent off to Halifax to protect the Province. Dartmouth's 
 
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 1775, Dec. 13. New Jerusalem [Maine.] — Deposition of Joshua — ' 
 Snow, taken by G. H. Monk and Richard Wheeler, concerning armed 
 schooners, fitted out by the American Congress to cruize for prizes off 
 the coast of Nova Scotia, and stating that Governor Patterson of 
 St. John's Island was a prisoner on board one of these schooners and 
 " that thirteen thousand men had been embodied by the Congress to 
 subdue Nova Scotia and particularly Halifax, and that they were pre- 
 vented from pursuing their design while the men of war lay in the Bay 
 of Fundy. And that they believed Halifax would have been taken long 
 since had it not been for the small-pox being there which at present 
 deterred the Liberty army." 
 
 1775, Dec. 14. Halifax. — Depositions of William Watson and Chris- 
 topher Cowling as to a resolution of a rebel assembly in New England to 
 send an army of five or six thousand Provincials to attack Nova Scotia. 
 
 1775, Dec. 18. Boston. — General Sir William Howe to Governor Legge. 
 Announcing the despatch of Brigadier- General Massey with the 27th 
 Regiment to Nova Scotia. 
 
 1775, Dec. 19. Preston. Boston. — Admiral Graves to Governor 
 Legge. Thanks him for his letter of Dec. 6, as to the proceedings 
 of rebel schooners, and of a ship fitted out from Philadelphia. 
 
 1775, Dec. 23. Brigadier- General Massey to Governor Legge. As to 
 Mr. Studholme being a captain in Captain Stanton's Corps. 
 
 1775, Dec. 25. Mount Denson. — Lieutenant-Colonel H. Denny 
 Denson to Governor Legge. On various subjects, the small-pox 
 epidemic in Nova Scotia, the Militia law, &c. 
 
 1775, Dec. 25. Halifax. — Recruiting instructions to Captain Studholme 
 of his Majesty's Loyal Regiment of Nova Scotia Volunteers, to raise a 
 company of 4 sergeants, 4 corporals, 2 drummers, and 96 privates 
 to serve in this volunteer regiment. 
 
 In lieu of rank, pay or pension, when the regiment is disbanded, the 
 field officers are to have 5,000 acres of land in the Province ; captains, 
 3,000 acres ; subalterns and staff officers, 2,000 acres ; non-com- 
 missioned officers, 200 acres, and privates 50 acres. While tho 
 regiment is on the establishment the officers and men are to receive the 
 same pay as officers and men of the regiments of infantry. The oath 
 to be taken by each volunteer is subjoined. 
 
 1775, Dec. 26. Halifax. — Governor Legge to Commodore Arbuthnot. 
 Enquiring the reason of his refusal to advance him 1,000/. to facilitate 
 the raising of a regiment of 1,000 men for the service and defence of 
 the Province. 
 
 1775, Dec. 29. Mount Denson. — Lieutenant-Colonel Denson to 
 Governor Legge. Thanking him for having appointed him Lieutenant- 
 Colonel of the Nova Scotia Volunteer Regiment. 
 
 1775, Dec. 29th. Falmouth. — Lieutenant Colonel Denson to Governor 
 Legge. As to recruiting for the Volunteer Regiment about to be raised in 
 Nova Scotia, and the difficulties in the way. " The implacable rancour of 
 the people of this country against His Majesty's Government, &c, is 
 prodigious, consequently there is little probability of our having great 
 success among them." 
 
 Estimate of the charge of maintaining and supporting the Civil 
 Establishment of His Majesty's Colony of Nova Scotia for the year 
 1775. 
 
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 Earl of N. D.(? 1775). Draft letter from the Earl of Dartmouth, to whom does 
 Dartmouth's no t appear, but probably to some person in America, relating to the grow- 
 — ' ing disputes between that Colony and Great Britain. Lord Dartmouth 
 has received a letter from the person addressed by the hands of Doctor 
 F[ranklin] written in the name and by the order of the Lower House of 
 Assembly of the Province of Massachusetts Bay together with two peti- 
 tions to the King. Expresses his great concern at the " unhappy spirit of 
 disunion and dissatisfaction which has lately prevailed in the Province,'* 
 and that the principal cause of this arises from " the Acts of Parliament 
 that have lately passed for raising a revenue in America for the support of 
 civil government there." The answer of the House of Assembly to a 
 recent speech of the Governor appears to Lord Dartmouth " to be a most 
 serious, I had almost said an insuperable, bar to the return of that state 
 of union and tranquillity which I so anxiously wish to see restored to the 
 British Empire. Indeed I must be free to own myself persuaded that 
 till that unhappy bar shall be removed out of the way by the same 
 hands that laid it there, it will be fruitless to wish, it will be in vain 
 to attempt to alleviate the causes of uneasiness in other instances alluded 
 to in your letter, to some of which I flatter myself an easy remedy might 
 otherwise have been applied." Concludes by hoping some means may 
 be found, by the opening of the next session, to remove the hindrance to 
 a general peace in the British Empire which now exists. 
 
 1775. Bundle of minutes of despatches from and to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. The majority are from the Governors and Deputy- 
 Governors of the various Provinces of North America. Many of them 
 are undated, but they all treat of the commencement of the war and are 
 mostly concerned with stating the general temper of the Colonies, and 
 consist of the following : — 
 
 South Carolina. — Despatches undated, from Lieutenant-Governor Bull, 
 describing the feelings of the Colonists and the proceedings of the 
 General Congress at Philadelphia as being adverse to England and 
 favourable to the resolution of the Congress. The 17th of February, 
 " being the day appointed by the Congress for a general fast," he says, 
 in his letter of the 22nd, " had been observed with great strictness 
 throughout the Provinces, several of the clergy had shown a most 
 rigid compliance to the order and suited their pulpit declamations to the 
 temper of the times." 
 
 Attacks by the Colonists on the Armoury and State House, the 
 Magazine, and other Government buildings. 
 
 Georgia. — Despatches from Sir James Wright. Riots by the 
 Colonists, and the feelings of the people distinctly adverse to Great 
 Britain. Robbery at the Government powder mill of 600 pounds of 
 powder; not more than 300 pounds remained for the King's use. Pro* 
 clamations had been issued with a reward for the discovery of the 
 offender, but Sir James had no hopes of success. 
 
 Great excitement was caused amoung the people by the account of 
 the skirmish near Boston; he concludes by requesting troops from 
 England. 
 
 North Carolina.— Despatches from Governor Martin. Deputies have 
 been sent from North Carolina to the Congress in spite of his efforts to 
 delay it. A mob assembled at Newbern, who surrounded the Governor's 
 house and finally burned the fort, which he had been obliged to 
 evacuate ; asks assistance from England. With a small number of 
 troops he could raise an army of about 30,000 natives, and with such a 
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 Colonies and establish order and olbedience everywhere south of Pensyl- _ Earl o? 
 ran - J J Dartmouth's 
 
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 Maryland. — Despatches from Deputy-Governor Eden. The senti- 
 ments of the people distinctly adverse to Great Britain. A quantity of 
 gunpowder and arms have been seized. Lord Dartmouth's letter, 
 enclosing the resolutions of the House of Commons, has been received, 
 but has been unsuccessful in restoring order. 
 
 Pennsylvania, — Despatches from Deputy-Governor Penn. Committees 
 have been appointed by the inhabitants of the City of Philadelphia to 
 see that the agreements entered into by the Congress should be fully 
 complied with. He regrets that there appears a general inclination in 
 the people to adhere to the resolutions of the Congress. He spoke in 
 the Assembly on the subject of Lord Dartmouth's letter and the reso- 
 lution of the House of Commons, and received an answer that the 
 resolution was considered by the Assembly to be unfit for them to 
 adopt, and that they were resolved to adhere to the other associated 
 Colonies, and abide by the determination of the General Congress. 
 20,000 men in the Provinces were already provided with arms and 
 ammunition, and were learning military duties and exercises for the 
 avowed purpose of opposing the parent state. No prospect of a speedy 
 termination of the hostilities commenced in Massachussetts Bay, as 
 military preparations were making in all the old Colonies. . . . Major 
 Skeene, on his arrival at Philadelphia, was taken into custody by order 
 of the City Committee, and it is quite out of Mr. Penn's power to release 
 him in the present state of affairs. 
 
 The General Congress has resolved to raise an army of 15,000 men ; 
 they have likewise ordered two million of dollars in Bills of Credit to be 
 struck for the charges of the war, a part of which are already in circu- 
 lation ; paper Bills of the value of 35,000/. have also been issued. 
 
 Rhode Island. — Despatches of Governor Wanton. The General 
 Assembly of the Colony have passed an Act for raising an army of 
 observation, to consist of 1,500 men. A protest was entered into by 
 himself and the Deputy-Governor against the Act, but to no purpose. 
 
 In a subsequent letter Governor Wanton sent to Lord Dartmouth 
 copies of the several Acts of Assembly passed in their last session for 
 carrying on the war against his Majesty's Government. 
 
 Connecticut. — Despatches from Governor Trumbell. 
 
 Virginia. — Despatches from the Earl of Dunmore. Owing to the hostile 
 temper of the people the Governor has judged it proper to remove 
 some gunpowder from a magazine at Williamsburg, which step had 
 given great umbrage, and the Mayor demanded restitution thereof. 
 The Governor refused to comply, and to check further violence 
 threatened them with liberating the negroes in case they proceeded to 
 any acts of hostility; he requests a small reinforcement of troops and a 
 quantity of arms and ammunition, with which and the assistance of the 
 ships of war he undertakes soon to reduce the factious of the Colony to 
 obedience. 
 
 In a subsequent letter Lord Dunmore states that he has been advised 
 to shut himself up and make a garrison of his house, as he finds the 
 violence of the people increasing. All the Colony was in a state of 
 anarchy ; a party headed by Patrick Henry, a man of desperate circum- 
 stances, extorted from the Receiver General 300/., part of the King's 
 revenue under the pretence of indemnifying the people for the loss of 
 the gunpowder. 
 
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 vrtmouth's * n a ^ es V B,tca ^ Tom ^ord Dartmouth to Lord Dunmore he states that 
 3issY TH he had entrusted 3,000 stand of arms and ammunition in proportion to 
 — Captain Dodsworth to be delivered to Lord Dunmore. 
 
 A_ battalion of Highlanders is to be raised in the Province of North 
 Carolina. 
 
 In a further despatch it appears that Lord Dunmore found it necessary 
 to seek refuge on board His Majesty's ship Fowey and he says that he 
 cannot entertain the most distant hope of accommodation with the 
 Colonists. 
 
 A letter from Lord Dartmouth follows, enclosing the King's License 
 for Lord Dunmore's return to England. 
 
 New Jersey. — Despatches from Governor Francklin. These are all of 
 a similar character to the above and contain apprehensions for the 
 restoration of peace between Great Britain and the Colonies. " He inti- 
 mates in a despatch of the 2 nd August that, in consequence of a 
 declaration of the General Congress, every preparation was making for 
 carrying on the War, and states that it is his opinion that not many 
 persons in the Colonies would draw their swords in support of Parlia- 
 mentary taxation, but is confident numbers would fight to maintain its 
 supremacy." 
 
 New York. — Despatches from Lieutenant-Governor Colden. Has 
 been obliged to apply to Admiral Graves for one of the large ships 
 from Boston as there were only 100 men of the Eoyal Irish regiment 
 in the City. In his letter of the 7 th of June he says that " provincial 
 Congresses and Committees were then established and acting with all the 
 authority of the legal Government ; that the principal objects then 
 before them were the raising an army to oppose the King's troops and 
 erect such fortifications as may serve to keep the command of the 
 country ; that the citizens had taken arms and several companies were 
 formed who had appointed their own officers and were armed and 
 
 clothed in uniform that a body of 2,500 Connecticut 
 
 men were encamped at Greenwich, a place in that Government about 
 40 miles from New York, whose avowed purpose was to keep that 
 Government in awe, and in case of defection, as they call it, to attack 
 the Province." 
 
 In his letter of the 3rd of July the Lieutenant-Governor mentions that 
 the Congress had appointed George Washington Commander-in-Chief of 
 the American Army, Colonel Lee and Philip Schuyler Major- Generals, 
 and Horatio Gates Adjutant- General. 
 
 There are also minutes of a long despatch from Governor Tryon, 
 giving a very gloomy view of the situation. He does not meet with any 
 of the inhabitants of his Province who show the smallest inclination to 
 draw the sword in support of Great Britain. 
 
 Massachusetts Bay. — Very voluminous minutes of despatches from 
 General Gage, dating from the 13th of October 1774 and ending the 
 20th of August 1 775. In his first despatch, he mentions that the Con- 
 gress had entered into a resolve for embodying 15,000 men commanded 
 by four persons, and that these men were to be ready on a moment's 
 warning, and would be maintained by his and the neighbouring Province 
 for the avowed purpose of opposing the law and authority of Great 
 Britain ; that Major-General Haldimand with the 47th Kegiment and 
 three companies of the 18th at New York had joined him and brought 
 with him many useful stores. 
 
 General Gage thinks it impracticable to disarm any of the Provinces, 
 and says that the violence of the people was so great against the 
 " mandamus " councillors that they had been obliged to seek protection 
 
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 amongst the King's troops, but notwithstanding this the General speaks 
 with great confidence of the probability of subduing opposition to 
 Government were a respectable force sent into the field. 
 
 A minute of a long despatch from Lord Dartmouth, dated the 27th 
 of January 1775, then follows, stating the determination of the Govern- 
 ment to reduce the Colonies to obedience. 
 
 There is a minute of a further letter from Lord Dartmouth dated 22nd of 
 February 1775, acquainting General Gage that Parliament had voted an 
 augmentation of the Army, and that he would be further reinforced by 
 four more regiments of Infantry and one of Light Horse which were 
 now preparing to embark, and that Major- Generals Howe, Clinton, and 
 Burgoyne, were ordered for service in America, and would join him in 
 the middle of next month. 
 
 In a despatch dated the 19th of April 1775, General Gage gives an 
 account that, in consequence of having received information that a large 
 quantity of military stores for the avowed purpose of revolution was col- 
 lected at Concord, he sent the Grenadiers and Light Infantry under the 
 command of Colonel Smith to seize and destroy all the said military stores, 
 which service, though vigorously opposed, had been effected under many 
 heavy fires of the rebels, which the troops with great spirit returned ; that 
 on their return they found large bodies of them armed and accoutred, who 
 from all quarters where any cover was to be found kept up a continual 
 heavy firing ; that for their support he had detached Lord Percy with 
 8 companies of the 4th Regiment and the same numbers of the 23rd 
 and Marines, with cannon, who joined at Lexington where a skirmish 
 commenced and continued the whole of their march back to Boston, the 
 troops being fired at from every fence and house, barn, hill, etc. ; but his 
 Lordship kept the enemy off and brought the troops to Boston, though 
 with considerable loss to our army, much greater to the rebels. The 
 General speaks with confidence that the whole country is now in arms, 
 and that several thousands are now assembled about Boston getting up 
 artillery and threatening an attack. 
 
 The General in another letter to Lord Dartmouth dated the 
 13th of May, says that "all the avenues of the town are stopped 
 by large bodies of men who have collected artillery and military stores 
 from the country, and have desired the inhabitants to remove their 
 effects and leave the town." Further despatches from General Gage give 
 accounts of the surprise and attack of the Fort of Ticonderoga, and of 
 the attack on Major Skeene's settlement, and he says that, as the 
 Provinces of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and others, are 
 in open rebellion, a very large force will be requisite to make any im- 
 pression of consequence, and that all the Colonies have refused to supply 
 the troops with articles necessary for further support. In answer to 
 this there is a despatch from Lord Dartmouth giving details of the ex- 
 tensive preparations for war making at home. 
 
 General Gage's despatch of the 25th of June 1775, relates an action 
 with the rebels on the Peninsula of Charles Town ; they having raised 
 a battery there against the town of Boston, Major-General Howe with 
 Brigadier- General Pigot and 2,000 men, landed on the Peninsula, and 
 attacked the rebels. By the fire from Boston in a critical moment 
 Charles Town was set on fire. The Brigadier, however, pursuing his 
 attack carried the redoubt, drove the rebels clear off the Peninsula and 
 took five pieces of cannon. The loss of the rebels has not been as- 
 certained, but must have been very considerable, but our loss, 
 though less in number, was much more material, and notwithstanding 
 
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 Dartmouth's 
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 Eael of our success tfte General thinks that the affair will rather strengthen 
 Dartmouth's than disperse the rebels. 
 MSS 
 
 • — ' Quebec. — Despatches from Governor Carleton. 
 
 These state that a correspondence had been held between Mr. Jeffrey 
 of Boston and Mr. Jonas Clarke Minot of Quebec, the tendency of 
 which was to inflame the minds of the Canadians and to promote a 
 union between them and the other Colonies in their opposition to the 
 measures of the Government ; and that they had succeeded so far in 
 this attempt as to prevail upon the town of Quebec to send them a 
 benefaction for the relief of the poor at Boston, and that several letters 
 of a treasonable nature were in circulation in Canada. 
 
 Further letters of Governor Carleton relating to attempts of emis- 
 saries from Massachusetts Bay to poison the minds of the Canadians 
 and render them adverse to the King's Government ; several copies of 
 letters from the Congress to the Canadians were translated into French 
 and dispersed among the inhabitants. A Mr. Brown, a member of the 
 provincial Committee of Cambridge, arrived at Montreal, and brought 
 a letter addressed to some of the inhabitants, and signed by Thomas 
 Mackay and Warren, the purport of which was to represent the cause of 
 the Americans in the most favourable light, holding up the Acts of the 
 British Legislature as oppressive and unconstitutional, and exhorting the 
 Canadians to join in the common cause, and send Delegates to Philadel- 
 phia ; the rebels have likewise been tampering with the Indians on the 
 upper part of the River St. Lawrence. 
 
 An application was received by Governor Carleton from General Gage 
 requesting that he would send the 7th Regment to Boston as hostilities 
 had commenced in the Province of Massachusetts Bay ; news was received 
 the next day in Quebec that Benedict Arnold had landed a considerable 
 number of men at St. John's, 8 leagues distant from Quebec, that they 
 had surprised the detachment of the 26th Regiment doing duty there, 
 consisting of a Serjeant and ten men, made them prisoners, seized upon 
 the King's sloop Batteaus, and military stores, and a few hours after- 
 wards departed, carrying off the craft, prisoners, and stores they had 
 taken. 
 
 The Governor also received the first information of the rebels being 
 in arms on the Lakes, and of their having under the command of the 
 said Arnold surprised Ticonderoga and Crown Point. 
 
 " Arnold told Captain Hazen that he had received a commission of 
 Colonel from the Congress of Massachussetts for that purpose with the 
 command of 500 men, and that volunteers to the amount of 1,500 followed 
 him, but he would not wait for them." 
 
 Accounts were also brought to the Governor of the rebels having 
 landed at St. John's a second time in the night between the 18th and 
 19th May 1775 ; this party was said to be 300 strong, and 900 more 
 were at the Isle aux Noix ; this second party, however, were not nearly 
 so numerous as at first reported and would most probably have been cut 
 off by a detachment of 100 men from the 26th Regiment under the 
 command of Major Preston had they not been advised of the march of 
 the troops. 
 
 Governor Carleton says that " upon the receipt of this intelligence, 
 the little force they had in the Province was immediately in motion and 
 ordered to assemble at or near St. John's, the noblesse were called upon 
 to collect their inhabitants in order to defend themselves, and the savages 
 of this part likewise had the same orders, but though the gentlemen 
 testified great zeal, neither their entreaties nor example could prevail 
 
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 upon the people. A few of the gentry, consisting principally of the 
 youth residing in Quebec and its neighbourhood formed a small corps of 
 volunteers under the command of Mr. Samuel Mackay and took post at 
 St. John's ; the Indians showed as much backwardness as the Canadian 
 peasantry." The consternation in the town and country he reports to 
 have been very great as they were equally unprepared for attack or 
 defence. He proposes raising a Militia, but there are doubts whether he 
 will be able to effect it. 
 
 Minutes of Despatches of the Earl of Dartmouth shewing that Governor 
 Carleton had received directions to raise 3,000 men to serve as Light 
 Infantry, and that orders had been given for providing arms, ammuni- 
 tion, and clothing for that number, and these articles with four light 
 brass three pounders were accordingly sent by a store ship. 
 
 In a further letter Governor Carleton was directed to raise 3,000 
 more men, and arms, &c, were sent for them. 
 
 In Lord Dartmouth's letter of the 2nd of August the Governor is 
 informed that His Majesty hopes to have an army of 20,000 men in 
 North America next spring, exclusive of Canadians and Indians, and 
 that he may depend upon a reinforcement of regular troops in Canada 
 to be under his entire command. General Gage's return to England is 
 also mentioned, and the devolution of the command of the troops at 
 Boston on General Howe. 
 
 By a letter dated the 8th of September 1775, Mr. Pownall 
 acquainted Governor Carleton that application had been made to the 
 Empress of Russia for 20,000 infantry a very considerable body of 
 which it was hoped might be sent to North America early in the spring, 
 and if the plan of operations for next year be adopted by Major- General 
 Howe, it was probable that the greatest part of the Russians would be 
 sent to Quebec. 
 
 New Hampshire. — Despatches of Governor Wentworth relating the 
 capture of Castle William and Mary by the rebels. In his letter of 
 the 26th of April he speaks of the general disposition of the people of 
 New Hampshire to assist and support the people of Massachussetts Bay, 
 and in his letters of the 17th and 28th of May and 3rd of June men- 
 tions that " a large body of rioters had come to Portsmouth and con- 
 tinued for one night in examining and pledging many of the King's 
 good subjects to swear against Toryism as they call it, and in the 
 morning had marched off with two or three additional companies from that 
 Province on their way to Cambridge. Two or three days after this, 
 Captain Barkley of His Majesty's Ship Scarborough, having seized and 
 sent to Boston two vessels laden with provisions for Portsmouth, the news 
 was immediately spread throughout the country, and large bodies of 
 armed men were put into motion to destroy the King's sloop or drive 
 her out of the harbour." 
 
 Governor Wentworth's despatches also mention an attack on Castle 
 Island by 600 or 700 rebels who stole from the Fortress there 8 pieces of 
 cannon. 
 
 Despatches from the Earl of Dartmouth acquainting Governor Went- 
 worth of the King's firm resolution to make the most vigorous efforts 
 both by sea and land to reduce his rebellious subjects to obedience, and 
 stating what preparations were being made for the purpose. 
 
 There is also a bundle of Minutes of the advices and communications 
 to the Earl of Dartmouth from other ministers of State containing des- 
 
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 Dartmouth's 
 MSS. 
 
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 Earl of ( patches from Lord Barrington as to the embarkation and disposition of the 
 ^ B mssT TH S regiments sent out to reinforce the troops in America ; from the Lords 
 — of the Admiralty with instructions as to the reinforcements of the Navy; 
 
 a report by the Attorney General and Solicitor General upon the charters 
 and commissions to the Governors of the Colonies ; letters from the Secre- 
 tary of the Admiralty sending copies of despatches from Vice-Admiral 
 Graves, etc. ; Letters from the Earl of Sandwich, Mr. Boddington, the 
 Master General of the Ordnance, Mr. Robinson, Sir Jeffrey Amherst, 
 and others on similar subjects. 
 
 A bundle of papers endorsed Minutes of Lord Dartmouth's corres- 
 pondence with the other officers and King's servants ; Minutes headed 
 Plantations, and general circular letters of Lord Dartmouth ; and finally 
 Minutes of letters from and to Lord Dartmouth and the Agents for Indian 
 affairs in America of the year 1775. 
 
 N.D. — (1775). Two drafts of an address from the House of Com- 
 mons to the King on the subject of the late riots in Massachusetts Bay, 
 Rhode Island, and Connecticut : — 
 
 " We can never so far desert the trust that has been reposed in us, 
 as to relinquish any part of the Sovereign authority over all your 
 Majesty's dominions, which by the Constitution is vested in your 
 Majesty and the two Houses of Parliament ; and the conduct of several 
 of the Colonies during the late unfortunate dissensions is alone sufficient 
 to convince us how necessary the power is for the protection of the 
 lives and fortunes of all your Majesty's subjects. We should act with 
 the greatest partiality and injustice if we should allow that any part of 
 your Majesty's dominions ought to be exempted from sharing in the com- 
 mon burdens which are necessary for the safety and welfare of the 
 whole ; and if any of the Colonies had at any time in a proper manner 
 applied to us, and had suggested any mode of contribution which would 
 have answered the ends of Government, according to the principles of 
 the constitution, we should always have been ready to have taken it 
 into our consideration, and to have afforded them every indulgence in 
 our power. We still continue in the same sentiments ; and whenever 
 any of the Colonies shall have made sufficient and permanent pro vision 
 for the support of the Civil Government and administration of justice 
 and for the defence and protection of such Colony ; and shall also have 
 given satisfactory assurance that they will in time of war contribute 
 such reasonable aid as shall in their state and cirumstances be judged 
 to bear a just proportion to what is raised in this country for the general 
 interest and security of the whole ; we shall in that case think the con- 
 tinuance of the laws for raising a revenue in America no longer neces- 
 sary, and will desist in future from the exercise of the power of taxation 
 in such Colony, except for commercial purposes only, and in such case 
 would consent that the produce of such taxes should be carried to the 
 account of the Province in which they are raised. Whenever therefore any 
 of the Colonies shall make a proposition of this nature, or shall be in a 
 disposition to receive it, we shall be ready to enter into the consideration 
 of proper laws for this purpose. In the meantime, we humbly intreat 
 Your Majesty, that you will take the most effectual measures to enforce 
 due obedience to the laws and authority of the Supreme Legislature ; 
 and we assure your Majesty, that it is our fixed resolution, at the 
 hazard of our lives and properties, to stand by your Majesty against 
 all rebellious attempts in support of these just and constitutional 
 measures." 
 
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 N.D. — (? 1775.) Bulky MS. entitled " A proposal for putting the forts Eael o* 
 on the Coast of Africa under the direction of the Lords of Trade and Dartmouth's 
 Plantations." ' 
 
 N.D. (? 1775.)— Memorial of Colonel William Tryon, Governor of 
 New York, and late Governor of North Carolina, to the King, praying 
 his Majesty to reimburse him the sum of 13,000/. which he expended 
 out of his own purse in suppressing insurrections in his Province and in 
 making treaties with the Cherokee Indians, besides the total disburse- 
 ments of the Salaries and Emoluments of both Governments and to 
 compensate him for the total loss of all his money, plate, furniture, and 
 effects which were entirely destroyed by the burning of the Fort House 
 in New York in 1774. 
 
 N.D. (? 1775.) — Memorial (in duplicate) to the Earl of Dartmouth of 
 Major John Campbell, appointed in 1775 Commandant of the Indians 
 and Superintendent and Inspector of Indian affairs in the Province of 
 Quebec in North America, requesting an addition to his salary and an 
 allowance for a deputy. 
 
 N.D. (? 1775). — Petition of Anthony Fiva, formerly of New York, now 
 of Hopewell township, Cheepoty Hill, on the Bay of Fundy, to Governor 
 Legge, stating that he was obliged to quit New York with his wife and 
 family on account of the persecution inflicted on him for his loyalty to 
 the King, and that he is now in Nova Scotia in very indigent circum- 
 stances, praying such relief as Mr. Legge may think fit to afford him 
 pursuant to his proclamation of October 17th, 1775. 
 
 1775. — Petition to Governor Legge from the loyal inhabitants of the 
 towns of Hopewell, Hillsborough, and the river Memramccok, expressive 
 of their continued loyalty to the King and praying relief in the shape of 
 ammunition and food to help them to defend themselves against the 
 rebels. 
 
 1775. — Petition of the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia to the 
 King, praying, that owing to the great scarcity of fuel they may be 
 allowed to take sufficient coal for their needs out of His Majesty's 
 coal mines on the island of Cape Breton. 
 
 1775. — Memorial of the King's Council of the Province of Nova 
 Scotia to Governor Legge, on the same subject as the above. 
 
 1775. — Address of the House of Assembly to Governor Legge on being 
 called together for the Session, stating what measures it is intended to 
 bring forward. 
 
 N.D. ( ? 1775).—" Thoughts on the State of the Colonies " by the Rev. 
 Mr. Vardell. 
 
 N.D. (? 1775). — "List of the counties and towns in each county in 
 the Province of Nova Scotia." 
 
 1775. — Paper docketted " Declamation, W.L.," apparently a prize 
 essay, with the motto " Dictatoris officium reipublicce Romance diutius 
 conservandcB inservitt." 
 
 1776. Jan. 1st. Mount Denson. — Lieutenant Colonel Denson to Go- 
 vernor Legge. Doctor Michael Head has offered his services as Surgeon 
 to the Volunteer Regiment, and also hopes to have a lieutenant's commis- 
 sion as he will engage to raise 40 men. 
 
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 earl of 1776, Jan. 2. Annapolis Royal. — William Shaw to Governor Legge. 
 
 4.RTMOUTH S • 
 
 MSS. Offering himself for a company in Mr. Legge's regiment. 
 
 1776, Jan. 2. Annapolis Royal. — Same to Lieutenant-Colonel Denson. 
 On the same subject, offering himself for a captaincy in the regiment. He 
 thinks a good number of men might be raised with proper encourage- 
 ment in Annapolis. 
 
 1776, Jan. 3. — Colonel Denson to Governor Legge. On matters con- 
 nected with the Governor's regiment. 
 
 1776, Jan. 3. Halifax. — Charles Morris to Governor Legge. "Enclosed 
 you have a duplicate of what I wrote you on the first appearance of the 
 rebels at Cumberland. 
 
 1776, " The fort was invested and Colonel Gorham summoned to surren- 
 der, which being refused they attacked it in the night and were repulsed, 
 upon which they sett fire to ten or a dozen dwelling houses around about 
 with an intent the flames should reach the fort, but without effect, and soon 
 after arrived a detachment from this place and immediately on their 
 arrival they marcht out, defeated and dispersed them. It appears to have 
 been only a number collected by Mr. Eady, Rogers, and others of Cum- 
 berland and those parts joined with some Indians from St. John's River, 
 and some of those inhabitants there together with about 100 Acadians, 
 inhabitants of those districts. I believe it was encouraged by the Con- 
 gress to make a diversion, and if possible to draw off some of the troops 
 from the continent where there own affairs are in very indifferent cir- 
 cumstances. 
 
 " By our latest advices from head-quarters the King's troops had en- 
 tirely conquered all their places of defence about New York, and the 
 continental army were retreated to some mountains about 40 miles from 
 King's Bridge, and since we hear General Howe was marched for Phila- 
 delphia and was arrived at Trentown without any opposition within 
 twenty-four hours march of the city ; that a fleet sailed up the Delaware 
 to join them. We are further informed that General Clinton is arrived 
 at Rhode Island and taken possession there, and proposes marching to 
 Boston where all the capital ships are going. Should those attempts be 
 attended with the wished for success, I apprehend the Americans will 
 soon lament their rashness, for it is said a general uneasiness prevails 
 among them, and they find it almost impossible to raise their new levies. 
 They have issued an edict stopping all their privateers to encrease their 
 land forces. 
 
 " I hope a few days will bring us the news of their success at Boston, 
 the seventh of last month they landed at Rhode Island. This has effec- 
 tually secured us at present, and if successful, hope things will soon come 
 to an issue. The generous and benevolent behaviour of the two command- 
 ing brothers have procured them the highest veneration and respect 
 from the friends and even from the enemies of Government, and I am 
 fully persuaded such generous behaviour will soon procure that peace 
 which is so much wished for and desired." 
 
 1776, Jan. 4. Lunenburg. — John Creighton to Governor Legge. With 
 respect to the rank to be bestowed on him (Mr. Creighton) in Mr. 
 Legge's regiment. 
 
 1776, Jan. 8. Windsor.— The Rev. W. Ellis to Governor Legge. 
 Thanking Mr. Legge for having appointed him Chaplain of his regiment. 
 
 1776, Jan. 12. Halifax. (Circular). — Governor Legge "to the Com- 
 manding Officers of the Militia in the several counties," desiring them to 
 represent to the troops under their command, that under no circum- 
 
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 stances will they ever be called upon for service outside the Province, 
 and that a regiment of loyal Provincials for the additional protection of 
 the Province is about to be formed, the officers and men of which will 
 be maintained on British pay so long as their services are required. 
 
 1776, Jan. 13. Halifax Yard. — Commodore Arbuthnot to Governor 
 Legge and Brigadier- General Massey, As to orders lately received 
 by him to remove the Roebuck and Somerset from the port of Halifax, 
 regretting that it is impossible for him to disregard the orders. 
 
 1776, Jan. 14. Halifax. — Brigadier- General Eyre Massey to Governor 
 Legge. Announcing his intention of making proper defences to the 
 dockyard of Halifax before beginning any new works about the town. 
 
 1776, Jan. 17. Halifax. (Copy). — Governor Legge to Captain George 
 Henry Monk. Is about to proceed upon a recruiting expedition in a district 
 far removed from headquarters. Giving instructions as to bounty 
 money, &c. 
 
 1776, Jan 20. Secretary's Office, Halifax. (Copy). — Richard Bulkeley 
 to John Anderson, at St. John's River. The Governor of Nova 
 Scotia is anxious to have news of the movements of the rebels in 
 Canada, and of any designs they may have upon this Province. Mr. 
 Anderson is requested to furnish it by trusty messengers. 
 
 1776, Jan. 21. Halifax. (Private). — Governor Legge to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Complaining of the efforts of certain officers of his Province 
 to paralyze the Government, and especially of their having spread a rumour 
 that the militia was to be assembled at Halifax, and sent to New England, 
 in consequence of which many regiments refused to assemble, and had 
 not the 27th Regiment arrived at Halifax, serious danger to the Province 
 might have arisen. 
 
 1776, Jan. 21. Halifax. — Governor Legge to James Burrow. Referring 
 to his enemies in the island, the memorials they have sent to Lord 
 Dartmouth, and their desire to overthrow the King's Government, and 
 join the rebel Colonists. 
 
 1776, Jan. 28. Nassau, New Providence. — Montfort Browne to Go- 
 vernor Legge. Has been appointed by his Majesty Captain General of 
 the Bahama Islands, and offers Mr. Legge any civility in his power. Has 
 just heard the news of the death of his brother William Browne, a 
 Captain of the 35th regiment at Boston. 
 
 1776, Jan. 31. Boston. — C. Cuyler to Governor Legge. " We have had 
 an account for some days past by deserters who have come in from 
 Roxborough, and it has also been confirmed by letters from Captain 
 Wallace from Rhode Island, that the rebels have had a trimming at 
 Quebec, and by the inclosed copy taken out of a rebel party received 
 this day by a flag of truce, it leaves no doubt of the certainty." 
 
 1776, Feb. 4. Boston. — General Sir William Howe to Governor Legge. 
 " I am much concerned for the exposed situation of the inhabitants of 
 your Province upon the coast, but the calamities brought on by this 
 rebellion are so general as to make it impossible to afford protection to 
 every small settlement, and if they have not sufficient virtue and 
 courage among themselves to repel the pyratical attempts complained of, 
 it never can be done by such detachments as could be spared from the 
 troops." Thinks it probable the rebels may attack Halifax in the 
 spring. 
 
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 Earl op 5 1776, Feb. 6th. Boston. — Same to same. Proposes to remove some 
 ^MSS? TH ' S 200 families of well-disposed persons from Boston in the spring, and 
 — requests Mr. Legge to inform him how many could be accommodated 
 in Halifax and the neighbourhood. 
 
 1776, Feb. 7. Boston. — James Robertson, Barrack-master General to 
 Brigadier- General Massey, Halifax. The corps raised by Governor Legge 
 cannot be supplied by the Barrack Office with fuel, bedding, utensils, 
 lodgings or lodging money as the supply of these troops does not fall 
 in his province. 
 
 1776, Feb. 7. Windsor, Nova Scotia. — J. Deschamps to Governor 
 Legge. Requesting a commission for his son in the Volunteer Regiment 
 of Militia of which Governor Legge is Colonel. 
 
 1776, Feb. 8. Boston. — David Lawler to Governor Legge. Acknow- 
 ledging gratefully the commission in his corps which the Governor has 
 granted him, but stating that the Commander-in-Chief does not think it 
 proper that he should leave the 10th Regiment. 
 
 1776, Feb. 10. Granville County, Annapolis, N.S. — Lieutenant 
 William Shaw to Governor Legge. Stating that he is disappointed at 
 getting only a lieutenancy in Governor Legge's corps instead of the 
 Captaincy which he imagines to be his due. 
 
 1776, Feb. 14. Windsor County, Halifax. — Lieutenant-Governor 
 Michael Francklin to Governor Legge. Acknowledging the commission 
 appointing him Colonel of a Regiment of Volunteer Militia. 
 
 1776, Feb.21. Parliament Street. — James Meyrick to Governor Legge. 
 The first part on money matters connected with pay to be advanced on 
 his credit for the Volunteer corps in the Province, subsistence, &c. 
 f Provision had been made by Government for clothing 500 men, but 
 as no provision would be made here for pay of officers or men he could 
 not advise me to furnish any part of your order relating to the officers, 
 and thought it right to inform me you were to come to England, and 
 therefore the command of the 500 men, if raised, would devolve upon 
 some other person. 
 
 You will probably receive more information from Major Stanton as 
 he has seen Lord Dartmouth and Lord George Germain. I can only 
 relate what passed between me and Mr. Robinson* and Mr. Pownall 
 
 without knowing the springs that have moved this alteration 
 
 .... A large force will be sent to America to put an end to the 
 rebellion and I hope effectually. Seven regiments are sailed from Cork, 
 nine more go next month from England and Ireland (one of which is 
 Light Dragoons) a detachment of 1,000 men from the Footguards and 
 17,000 Hessians, Brunswickers, &c." 
 
 1776, Feb. 22. Windsor, N.S. — Lieutenant-Governor Francklin to 
 Governor Legge. Reports have come to the writer of disloyal and riotous 
 assemblies in the county of Cumberland, convened by half a dozen evilly 
 disposed persons enemies to the King's Government. Mr. Francklin 
 proposes to go witty a few men as an escort to pacify the people, whom 
 he regards as on the whole well affected, and to dispel the false reports 
 spread by the agitators to discredit the King's Government. With 
 another copy of the same letter. 
 
 1776, Feb. 23. Halifax.— " Return of the officers of his Majesty's 
 provincial regiment of Loyal Nova Scotia Volunteers," with the dates of 
 their commissions. 
 
 * Mr. Robinson, one of the Secretaries to the Treasury Board. 
 
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 1776, Feb. 26. Windsor. — Lieutenant-Governor Francklin to Gover- eaei 
 nor Legge. He will undertake to raise a regiment of 500 volunteers from DAR jJgg TH 8 
 among the inhabitants of Windsor, Newport, Falmouth, Horton, Corn- — ' 
 wallis, and Cobequid. Recommends names for commissions. With 
 another copy. 
 
 1776, Feb. 27. London. (Copy.) — John Shoolbred to Governor Legge. 
 Relative to a grant of land from the Government in Nova Scotia, 
 where he proposes to establish a salmon fishery. Represents to his 
 Excellency the danger of leaving the fisheries on the Ristigouche (where 
 his own is) unprotected in these distracted times. 
 
 1776, Feb. 27. London. — Private. The Earl of Dartmouth to Governor 
 Legge. " As the vessel is about to sail which I understand is to carry out 
 to you the signification of the King's pleasure that you come home to 
 give him an account of the state of the Province under your government, 
 I cannot help troubling you with a few lines to tell you how much 
 pleasure it gives me that you will by that means have an opportunity of 
 answering in person to the malicious complaints that your fidelity and 
 integrity have excited against you." 
 
 1776. Feb. 28. Halifax. (Copy.) — Governor Legge to Lieutenant- 
 Governor Francklin. In answer to one of Mr. Francklin's of the 22 
 February (see above) relative to riotous assemblies in Cumberland and 
 the neighbourhood. With another copy. 
 
 1776, Feb. 28. Halifax. (Copy). — Governor Legge to Lieutenant-Go- 
 vernor Francklin. In answer to his of the 26 February. With regard 
 to Mr. Francklin's proposal to raise a corps of 500 men in the towns of 
 Windsor, Newport, Falmouth, Horton, Cornwallis and Cobequid. 
 Mr. Legge will have great pleasure in conferring the Colonelcy of the 
 regiment on Lieutenant-Governor Francklin. 
 
 1776, March 3. Windsor. — Lieutenant-Governor Francklin to Go- 
 vernor Legge. As to the proposed Cumberland Volunteer Corps of Militia, 
 enclosing a copy of the oath he proposes the volunteers should take, so 
 framed that " every harsh expression is studiously avoided that it might 
 more generally take, although I flatter myself it will be found strong 
 enough to answer the end, and at the same time I apprehend it does not 
 contain any matter that has a tendency to prevent our Militia Laws taking 
 place when it shall be absolutely necessary to call forth this corps on 
 actual service." The danger of making the Militia Act a precedent for 
 raising the new corps is, Mr. Francklin thinks, the great alarm it has 
 caused throughout the Province lest the volunteers should be called away 
 to serve in distant parts of the county and even in other Provinces with 
 the regular army. With another copy of the same letter. 
 
 1776, March 9. — " State of the township and district of Windsor when 
 assembled by the Lieutenant-Governor's direction." The total number of 
 men above 16 years of age appears to be 150, of whom 117 had enrolled 
 or were expected to enrol, themselves in Mr. Francklin's corps of 
 Volunteer Militia. 
 
 Following this is a list of persons recommended by the Lieutenant- 
 Governor for commissions. 
 
 1776, March 10. Windsor. — Lieutenant-Governor Francklin to Go- 
 vernor Legge. On the same subject as the above. The inhabitants of 
 Windsor came forward to enrol themselves with great eagerness, and Mr. 
 Francklin has no doubt of being able to raise two companies, of 50 men 
 each in Windsor. He proposes to proceed to the other towns in the 
 course of the next fortnight. 
 
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 j)amS>u?h's 1776 ' March 16 « Halifax.— Minutes, signed by Richard Bulkeley, of a 
 MSS. Council held at Halifax relative to the above letters of Lieutenant-Governor 
 Frartcklin, approving of his form of oath for the enrolment of volunteers, 
 and directing him to proceed to Cumberland to institute an enquiry 
 into the behaviour and conduct of the inhabitants and to report thereon 
 to the Governor. Power is also given him to apprehend " All persons 
 who on due proof shall be found guilty of any rebellious and treasonable 
 transactions." 
 
 1776, March 17.—" On board H.M.S. Chatham, Boston Harbour " 
 General Howe to Governor Legge. " I have the honor to inform your 
 Excellency that, from a variety of circumstances which Brigadier 
 General Robertson will particularly explain, I have this day evacuated 
 Boston, and that the Army with all the inhabitants who chose to 
 accompany it are embarked and getting ready to proceed to Halifax as 
 soon as possible. The Brigadier, who will assume the command on his 
 arrival, has my orders to make the best preparations circumstances may 
 admit of for the reception of the troops and I flatter myself that on this 
 emergency your Excellency will grant every aid in your power to pro- 
 mote so desirable an end as well as for the convenience of the 
 inhabitants." 
 
 1776, March 19. Windsor.— Lieutenant-Governor Francklin to Governor 
 Legge. Has received from Mr. Bulkeley the minutes of the Council held on 
 March 16th (see above), and hopes to complete the enrolment of men 
 from all the townships he undertook within the week. 
 
 1776, March 20. " King-Road near Boston." — Admiral Molyneux 
 Shuldham* to Governor Legge. Regrets to learn from Mr. Legge his fears 
 that Canada is in the possession of the rebels and that an attack is medi- 
 tated by them on Nova Scotia. " Nothing properly authenticated of the 
 situation of Canada is known here, but the accounts of that country 
 which we have obtained from deserters and similar information have 
 been of a very different nature from that which I have had the honour to 
 receive from you. However, it having been thought expedient to 
 abandon Boston, the troops being embarked, and the transports and 
 other vessels preparing with the utmost expedition to sail for Halifax ac- 
 companied by me with some of Her Majesty's ships under my command, 
 it may not be necessary to enter more particularly into the subject at 
 present, deferring the further consideration of the affair until the fleet 
 and army arrive at Halifax, when in conjunction with General Howe 
 and yourself a proper disposition may be made to protect your Govern- 
 ment from any annoyance. I judge it necessary to inform you that his 
 Majesty's forces here are extremely short of provisions, that so far as 
 may be consistent with your office you may adopt such measures for 
 the procuring subsistence for them as you shall think proper." 
 
 1776, March 20. Halifax. — Brigadier-General Massey to Governor 
 Legge. Sends off a detachment to Cumberland next Sunday. Many 
 irregularities and disorders in Halifax were reported to General Massey 
 yesterday occasioned by some houses near the barracks, one Pedley's 
 house in particular. 
 
 1776, March 25. Dover Street. — Sir Charles Wintringham to Captain 
 Monk. " The civil discord between the parent country and its 
 enraged Colonies now boils over with inexpressible violence, whilst 
 the administration late, too late, convinced of this truth, that " neglecta 
 solent incendia sumere vires" are now preparing to send out a most 
 
 * Afterwards created Lord Shuldham. 
 
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 formidable force. In the meantime their adversaries both within and earl 02 
 without doors, triumph in the ample occasion thus afforded them to Dar JJ§§ ute: s 
 load them with this humiliating but undeniable sarcasm " Que les sots —' 
 font a la Jin, ce que les sages font au commencement" The Ministry 
 environed with incendaries, and accounting all helps as scarce sufficient 
 to quench the conflagration, to Hesse, to Brunswick, to Hanover 
 they run, supplicating, Oh cross the Atlantic every mother's son or 
 that milch cow Brittania is undone .... The Chancellor Lord 
 Bathurst is declared Lord High Steward, so that maugre all the 
 chicanery of the lawyers, the Dutchess of Kingston will be brought to a 
 trial for bigamy. The invidious spleen of the peeresses, not the justice 
 of the peers are her grace's untameable persecutors " 
 
 1776, March 26. Merlin, Annapolis Basin. — Captain W. C. Burnaby 
 to Governor Legge. Applying for a grant of land in Nova Scotia in the 
 terms of the King's proclamation of 7th Oct. 1763, he having served 
 more than two years in the late war ; and enclosing a petition to the 
 same effect. 
 
 1776, March 28. — Agreement between Robert Fletcher of Halifax, 
 Merchant, and Governor Legge for the hire of the schooner Betsy now 
 lying in Halifax harbour for the purpose of conveying men and stores 
 to such places in the province of Nova Scotia as the master of the 
 schooner shall be directed. 
 
 1776, March 31. Halifax. — Brigadier- General Robertson to Governor 
 Legge. Requesting him to find cover for 3,000 men and 200 officers who, 
 under General Howe, may be expected at Halifax in a few days from 
 Boston. The provisions of these troops are nearly exhausted, and 
 General Robertson requests Mr. Legge to use every effort to furnish 
 supplies ; 5,000 head of cattle will be necessary for this service "A 
 number of the most respectable and loyal inhabitants of the Province of 
 Massachusetts have been drove from their dwellings by the rebels, and 
 are come to seek shelter under your protection. I have it in command 
 from the General to acquaint you that he thinks the honour and interest 
 of Government is concerned, and therefore hopes you will give all the 
 assistance and afford all tfhe provision that the occasion, and your own 
 disposition may point out." 
 
 1776, April 1 1 . Halifax. — Resignation of the commission of Lieutenant 
 and Adjutant in the Loyal Nova Scotia Volunteers by Henry Hamilton, 
 and letter from him of the same date, to Captain Barry, informing him of 
 the fact. 
 
 1776, April 16. Halifax.— Governor Legge to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Informing his Lordship of the death of Mr. Belcher, Chief Justice 
 of Nova Scotia. 
 
 1776, April 24. Windsor. — William Ellis to Governor Legge. Has 
 heard that His Majesty has deprived Mr. Legge of his office. The letter 
 expresses Mr. Ellis's sorrow on hearing the news. 
 
 1776, April 26. Windsor. — Same to same. On the same subject. He 
 has found that his information was wrong, and wishes Mr. Legge a good 
 voyage home and a speedy return to the Province. 
 
 1776, April 25. Halifax. — Declaration by Captain Stanton of the pro- 
 ceedings upon his recommendation of Lieutenant Constable for a company 
 in the Loyal Regiment of Nova Scotia Volunteers. 
 
 1776, May 8. Halifax. — Lieutenant J. Solomon to Governor Legge. 
 Has just returned from a recruiting expedition to Yarmouth, Argyle, 
 St. Mary's Bay, Annapolis, Horton, and Windsor, in which he has had 
 
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 xmouth's n0 success - The people in that part of the Province are in a wretched 
 >i*s. condition without many of the necessities of life, and numbers of them 
 leave daily to join the rebel army. 
 
 1776, May 12. — "Return of officers in his Majesty's Provincial Regi- 
 ment of Loyal Nova Scotia Volunteers." 
 
 1776, May 13. Quebec. — Captain James Barten to Governor Legge. " I 
 hope your Excellency will excuse me in communicating to you the great 
 applause your Excellency has obtained from His Excellency General 
 Carleton and all other officers in the garrison by engaging such good 
 men for the service as your Excellency has sent to this Province ; they 
 have the applause to be the best men in the garison, not even for work 
 only, but in defending the garison ; when there was an alarm they was 
 distinguish [ed] to be the first to their alarm post. The 3 1st of December, 
 when those rebels stormed the garison your Excellency's company which 
 
 was called behaved like good soldiers during the engagement 
 
 with the loss of their chief commander Mongomery ; they have opened 
 batterys on all quarters of the town, but to no effect." 
 
 1776, May 15. — Extracts from a Boston and New Hampshire news- 
 paper [name torn off] of Acts of Congress of this date, one of them being 
 " An Act repealing an Act intitled ' An Act for the more effectual 
 securing to his Majesty the allegiance of his subjects in his Colony and 
 Dominion of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation,' and altering the 
 form of commissions, of all writs and processes to the Courts, and of the 
 oaths prescribed by law ; " also a declaration that " Whereas it appears 
 absolutely irreconcileable to reason and good conscience for the people of 
 these Colonies now to take the oaths and affirmations necessary for the 
 support of any government under the Crown of Great Britain ; and it is 
 necessary that the exercise of every kind of authority under the said 
 Crown should be totally suppressed, and all the powers of government 
 exerted under the authority of the people of the Colonies for the 
 preservation of internal peace, virtue, and good order, as well as for the 
 defence of our lives, liberties, and properties against the hostile invasions 
 and cruel depredations of our enemies ; therefore Resolved, that it be 
 recommended to the respective Assemblies and Conventions of the United 
 Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their 
 affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall 
 in the opinion of the representatives of the people best conduce to the 
 happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in 
 general. By Order of the Congress, John Hancock, President." 
 
 1776, May 21 . Halifax. — Charles Morris, Senior, to Governor Legge. 
 Hopes his letter will find his Excellency safe arrived in England. 
 " The Commodore (Arbuthnot) as far as I am acquainted with him 
 appears to be a person of amiable qualifications for the exercise of that 
 important trust reposed in him in this critical conjuncture of affairs, 
 and I believe will make use of erery power to unite and preserve the 
 peace of the Colony." 
 
 1776, May 22. Halifax. — Charles Morris, junior, to Governor Legge. 
 " A day or two after your departure the Lieutenant-Governor sent for me 
 and we had some conversation in regard to your regiment ; he said he 
 should be glad to do anything in his power to promote the success of it, 
 but expressed some doubts in regard to drawing bills for the subsistence 
 of the officers, and said that he would take an opportunity of laying 
 the matter before General Howe, and whatever he advised he should 
 readily comply with. He has since talked with the General on this 
 subject, and this day informed me that General Howe was of opinion 
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 until they shall have raised at least half the men the regiment is to consist xmouth' 
 of. This may be reasonable, but when it is considered that the officers of Mss. 
 this regiment in general have quitted other employments for this, and 
 that they have now no other dependence for their living, it cannot be 
 supposed they can continue in this service in these expensive and 
 distressing times unless subsistence is allowed them, as customary in 
 
 all other recruiting regiments in Her Majesty's service 
 
 Notwithstanding every struggle against you I have not a doubt but you 
 will be able to settle all things to your wishes, and that the ministry 
 will be convinced of your zeal for the true interest of this Colony and 
 his Majesty's service, and that every step you have taken since you 
 first had the command here was with a view of effecting those good 
 purposes." With another copy of the same letter. 
 
 1776, May 23. Halifax. — Captain R. Gibbons to Governor Legge. 
 As to the affairs of the Province since Governor Legge's departure. 
 " The troops begin on Monday next to embark, Gorham's, M'Lean's, 
 the 14th and Marines are to remain in this Province, the privates 
 of the 65th are to be drafted into the other corps. Gorham is to 
 command at Cumberland ; I know not whether any other corps are 
 to stay." 
 
 1776, May 23. Halifax. — Captain Gibbons to Lieutenant-Colonel Den- 
 son. Respecting a memorial of the officers of the Loyal Nova Scotia 
 Volunteers to General Howe. As the memorial contains a charge 
 against Governor Legge of the misapplication of money drawn on the 
 account of the Regiment, Captain Gibbons cannot consent to sign it. 
 
 1776, May 24 Halifax. — Lieutenant-Colonel Denson to whom is not 
 stated, possibly to Governor Legge. Recruits for the Volunteer Regiment 
 of Nova Scotia, the subsistence of the officers, &c. The Lieutenant- 
 Governor asserts that Mr. Legge has overdrawn the account of the 
 Regiments, and makes other charges in which Lieutenant-Colonel Denson 
 sees a resolution to do all the injury possible to the Volunteers. 
 
 1776, June 1. Halifax. — Printed " Extract of a letter from a gentleman 
 in Quebec to his friend in this town dated May 13th brought here by 
 H.M.S. Niger, Captain Talbot, which arrived yesterday," the print 
 is directed to Governor Legge and begins, "Dear Nat.;" it is not 
 signed. "We are still in possession of Quebec, after a siege of near- 
 six months during which time we have suffered much fatigue, as one 
 third of the garrison was always on guard, and those off guard frequently 
 employed in working parties, at night every man off duty obliged to 
 sleep at extra pickets upon a bearskin with his arms by the side of him, 
 every English gentleman in the city has done the duty of a common 
 soldier in the British Militia, sharing fatigue and danger with the lowest 
 person in the garrison. 
 
 On the 14th of November General Arnold made his appearance with 
 about 600 men before the city, and on the 25th General Montgomery 
 arrived with his troops from Montreal ; grown giddy with his success 
 above he expected to carry the city without the formality of a siege 
 and sends a flag to demand it, but General Carleton thought proper to 
 refuse admittance to the flag, which occasioned a most extraordinary letter 
 being shot into town upon an arrow, which letter you have enclosed (a copy 
 of this letter is given below) ; our General has persevered in this conduct 
 the whole winter, acquainting them whenever they sent a flag that unless 
 they meant to implore the King's mercy they must return immediately. 
 From the 9th December to the 31st they kept pelting us with shot and 
 shells, though with little success, on which morning about 5 o'clock, Mr. 
 
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 Earl of Montgomery thought proper to storm the lower town, making two feints 
 AR MS& TH ' S upon the upper town, at Cape Diamond and St. John's Gate. The lower 
 — town is situated under the hill of the upper town and upon the side 
 of the river St. Lawrence, about three quarters of a mile in length, at 
 each end a passage under the hill of the upper town, which were the 
 only ways the rebels could come at it, the front being on the side of 
 the river ; it was agreed that Mr. Montgomery with 750 men should 
 attack the south end of the town, by way of the Pot-ash, -and Arnold 
 the north end with between six or seven hundred more ; they were to 
 meet at the market place about the centre of the lower town, and from 
 thence were to assault the upper town. Arnold's attack was a short 
 time before Mr. Montgomery's ; he was wounded in his approach and 
 carried off, but his party entered the barrier which was defended by 
 two pieces of cannon, without any further opposition than the firing 
 of one gun ; the captain who commanded the post and his whole guard 
 were taken prisoners. A large picket in the lower town and parties 
 sent from the upper checked their progress, until a party ordered out by 
 the General at Palace Gate came upon the back of them, when finding 
 themselves between two fires and their retreat cut off [they] thought 
 proper to surrender themselves prisoners, amounting to 500 privates and 
 32 officers the remainder of the party (except about half a dozen that 
 went off with Arnold) were all killed ; our loss was a brave Lieutenant 
 Anderson, of the Navy, and five other brave fellows killed' and died of 
 their wounds. 
 
 The Pot-ash (at which I happened to be posted) was attacked in a 
 short time after the other ; the place was fortified by a barrier across the 
 road, and 7 small pieces of cannon, 3-pounders, some placed at the barrier, 
 the rest in the Pot-ash house, which was a little advanced of the barrier 
 our guard consisted of a French Captain of militia, and about 30 men, a 
 ship's Captain, by the name of Barnsfare, and 9 seamen for serving the 
 cannon, a corporal and eight of the British Militia. My being urged to 
 accept a commission in the militia, which I refused, I thought would 
 countenance me in usurping the authority of an officer, which I did by 
 encouraging the men before the rebels came on and posting myself at 
 the corner of the Pot-ash, which commanded the best view ; and. when 
 the enemy were advanced within 25 yards of the Pot-ash I gave the 
 order for firing, which was followed by the French ; we kept up our fire 
 about ten minutes, which obliged the rebels to retreat with the loss of 
 their General, his Aid de Camp, Captain McPherson, Captain Chees- 
 man, and two or three others ; we suppose many fell over the bank into 
 the river as they were shot and doubtless they had many wounded. 
 
 The rebels were no sooner retreated than we received an account of 
 Arnold's having forced the post at the Saut de Matilot with the addition 
 of their having got possession of the lower town, which so frightened 
 the French part of our guard that they threw down their arms and 
 ran out of the barrier to make their peace with them as well as they 
 could ; such dastardly scoundrels are the Canadians in general. 
 
 This check kept them quiet for some time, but after a reinforcement 
 arrived they began to be troublesome again, frequently alarming us and 
 obliging us to keep a constant good look out ; the last alarm was the 3rd 
 instant, about nine o'clock in the evening ; when they sent a fire ship up 
 from Orleans, with a design of setting fire to the shipping and the lower 
 town, they lost their chance of succeeding by quitting her too soon, had 
 their fire ship been successful they were to have made an assault for 
 which we were well prepared. On the sixth instant in the morning 
 early we were agreeably surprized with the sight of 3 men-of-war, a 
 
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 50-gun ship, a frigate, and a sloop, with about 170 of the 29th Begiment, Eael op 
 the troops were landed before noon, and at twelve o'clock they, with all DaE mss? TH S 
 the garrison off duty, the whole amounting to 1,000 men, marched out of — * 
 the town upon the plain, with two field pieces and two grashoppers ; 
 notwithstanding the rebels force was near 4,000 they ran off with the 
 utmost precipitation, leaving all their cannon and stores behind ; their 
 fright was so great that officers did not wait for men or men for officers 
 but every one shifted for himself, many of them throwing away their 
 arms that they might run the faster. Thus ended our troublesome, 
 lengthy siege. With 200 Emigrants, 60 Fusiliers, 500 Seamen, 300 
 British Militia, and about 700 French Militia, we have kept the town of 
 Quebec against these scoundrels near 6 months : — I hope after this you 
 will not despair of Great Britain's success. I am much mistaken if the 
 check they have received in this Province don't damp their ardor ; rely 
 upon it, they have lost a great number of men by sickness besides what 
 have died of their wounds and been killed. The arrival of the reinforce- 
 ments has made a total change in the conduct of the Canadians, they are 
 constantly coming into town, bringing their priests with them to 
 apologize for their conduct and offering their service to government. 
 Our present relief is the 29th and 47th regiments but are in expectation 
 of 12 or 15,000 troops the latter end of this month which will penetrate 
 the Colonies by the way of the lakes, and rely upon it there will be no 
 want of Canadians or Indians to join them. I should not be surprised 
 if this summer should make them intirely sick of their dispute with 
 Great Britain ; depend upon it, brother Nat, whenever the King's 
 troops can come at them fairly, they will give them a most horrid 
 beating." 
 
 From the Quebec Gazette, March 21st [published by authority]. "A 
 letter from Mr. Montgomery, sent into town by an old woman the 7th of 
 December a copy whereof was shot in upon an arrow some days after. 
 
 Sir, Holland House, December 6th. 
 
 Notwithstanding the personal illtreatment I have received at 
 your hand, and notwithstanding your cruelty to the unhappy prisoners 
 you have taken, the feelings of humanity induce me to have recourse 
 to this expedient to save you from the destruction which hangs over 
 you. Give me leave, Sir, to assure you I am well acquainted with 
 your situation : — A great extent of works in their nature incapable of 
 defence, manned with a motley crew of sailors, the greatest part our 
 friends, of citizens who wish to see us within their walls, and a few of 
 the worst troops who ever stiled themselves soldiers ; the impossibility 
 of relief and the certain prospect of wanting every necessary of life, 
 should your opponents confine their operations to a simple blockade, 
 point out the absurdity of resistance — such is your situation : — I am at 
 the head of troops, accustomed to success, confident of the righteous- 
 ness of the cause they are engaged in, inured to danger and fatigue, and 
 so highly incensed at your inhumanity, illiberal abuse, and the un- 
 generous means employed to prejudice them in the minds of the 
 Canadians, that it is with difficulty I restrain them till my batteries 
 are ready from insulting your works ; which would afford them the 
 fair opportunity of an ample vengeance and just retaliation. 
 
 Firing upon a flag of truce hitherto unprecedented even among savages 
 prevents my taking the ordinary mode of communicating my sentiments. 
 However, I will at any rate acquit my conscience ; should you persist in 
 an unwarrantable defence, the consequences be on your own head. 
 
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 EaRL of Beware of destroying stores of any kind, public or private, as yon 
 ^mssT™' 8 nave done at Montreal and in the river, if you do, by Heavens, there 
 — will be no mercy shown. 
 
 (Signed) Richard Montgomery, 
 
 Brigadier- General Continental 
 Army. 
 
 Direction upon the cover, 
 
 His Excellency Major- General Carleton, 
 Quebec." 
 
 1776, June 4. Halifax. — Copy letter (by Captain Gibbons) from. 
 General Sir W. Howe to Lieutenant-Governor Arbuthnot. The service 
 to be expected from the Nova Scotia Provincial Regiment is so inconsider- 
 able that General Howe has resolved to reduce the officers in proportion to 
 the number of men raised. A detachment of the corps has been ordered 
 to dig coals at Louisbourg to form an early magazine. 
 
 1776, June 8. Halifax. — Captain Gibbons to Governor Legge as to 
 the above letter of General Howe. Everything now done in the Province 
 seems to be for the purpose of throwing odium upon the Governor and 
 his policy. 
 
 1776, June 14. Halifax. — Captain Gibbons to Governor Legge. A 
 long letter as to the efforts of his enemies to damage the Governor in 
 the eyes of the Ministry and King at home, by discrediting and dis- 
 couraging the Volunteer regiment he formed. The regiment is pro- 
 bably to be broken up, and only two captains, two lieutenants, and two 
 ensigns are in future to receive any subsistence, the others are told they 
 must go into the Recruiting Service without receiving any pay until 
 they have completed their companies. Captain Gibbons forwards a 
 petition to the King from the officers of the corps and he and the 
 petitioners entreat Mr. Legge's services to assist them in their applica- 
 tion, and that he will forward the petition when he has read it to Lord 
 George Germain to lay it before the King. The remainder of the 
 letter is personal. 
 
 1776, June 14. Halifax. — Two copies of a letter from the officers of the 
 Loyal Nova Scotia Volunteers to Governor Legge, enclosing a petition 
 to the King, and begging Mr. Legge's interest in the matter, also of the 
 petition to the King (the original copy being much injured), and a copy 
 letter accompanying the petition to Lord George Germain. The 
 petition sets out the grievances of the officers at some length. 
 
 N.D. — Copy petition from the officers to General Howe on the same 
 subject. 
 
 J 776, June 18. Halifax. — Captain Gibbons to Governor Legge. En- 
 closing the day's orders relating to the Volunteer regiment and its reduc- 
 tion in point of officers. The meeting of the House of Assembly. " James 
 Brenton, I am informed, moved in the House that an address of thanks 
 should be immediately sent to the King for calling your Excellency to 
 England, and declared it was the general voice of the Province. It was 
 opposed by your friends, and alleged that the House could not undertake 
 to say this was the sentiment of all the people, as there were so few 
 members present. However, it was apprehended it would be carried 
 and sent by the first opportunity home. I most sincerely wish your 
 Excellency may effect a total change of men and measures in this 
 Province without which no man of principle would wish to remain in it." 
 
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 1776, Jane 26. Halifax. — William Shaw to Governor Legge. As to Earl of ( 
 the proceedings of the House of Assembly. " The address to the King. DAK MSsy TH * 
 Lords, and Commons which appears on the journals as the unanimous — 
 sense of the House, was carried through in a great hurry, when there was 
 but one country member present. That and the letter from the Speaker 
 which accompanies it, must convince every thinking man of the charac- 
 ter of the composers." 
 
 1776, July 2. Halifax. — Declaration of William Ross, Lieutenant in 
 the Loyal Nova Scotia Volunteer Regiment. 
 
 1776, July 7. Halifax. — Captain Gibbons to Governor Legge. Enclo- 
 sing duplicates of the petitions of the officers of the Volunteer Regiment 
 to the King, and of their letter to Lord George Germain. These enclo- 
 sures are not now with the letter. 
 
 1776, July 7. Halifax. — Lieutenant-Colonel H. D. Denson to Governor 
 Legge. " I think the House of Assembly has by far outdone anything 
 they ever did before ; they have by a vote struck off Binney's debt, and by 
 another next day, the same was done for John Newton, and to make him 
 some amends they have taken six per cent, off the country Collectors and 
 given it to those of Halifax ; they have given the treasurer 200/. per 
 annum, and added 50/. more to Mr. Deschamps' salary for going to 
 Horton and Annapolis, so that instead of lowering the public debt (as they 
 promised the Lieutenant-Governor) they have done everything m their 
 power to increase it ; and he, good man, found not the least fault with 
 them for breach of promise, or any other act of theirs, but on the con- 
 trary thanked them for their unanimity and despatch. 
 
 When he put an end to the Session they proceeded to feasting and 
 joy. Old Speaker said in the joy of his heart, ' We have got a Governor 
 of our own, and we will now do as we used to,' that is, fleece the poor 
 
 Province If you do not come out again or 
 
 some other Governor who has honesty and spirit sufficient to stop this 
 vile faction (who insist upon living at the expence of this unhappy 
 Province as they have hitherto done), we shall be ruined, and our estates 
 burthened with a debt created by them, and annually augmented to sup- 
 port them in luxury and insolence." 
 
 1776, July 8. Halifax. — Captain Gibbons to Governor Legge. As 
 to the affairs of the Volunteers and the proceedings of the House of 
 Assembly under Lieutenant Governor Arbuthnot. The statements made 
 are similar to those in Colonel Den son's letter. 
 
 1776, July 8. Halifax. — Judge Morris to Governor Legge. As to the 
 state of the Province and proceedings of the House of Assembly. 
 
 The writer continues, " The army has sailed from hence about four 
 weeks, but we have not heard where destined, part of the Hessians and 
 the Guards arrived last week and sailed on Saturday for the general 
 rendezvous, they parted with the remainder on the banks of Newfound- 
 land. Canada is in a manner evacuated by the rebels, Montreal is in 
 possession of the English troops and the army in pursuit of their main 
 body consisting of about 6,000 men, and who were retreating to Fort 
 St. John's on the river Sorell as we were informed by the last advices 
 from Canada. The Americans seemed determined in their opposition, but 
 a report has prevailed here that upon the Congress attempting to declare 
 the Provinces independent, great numbers in Philadelphia opposed them, 
 and that many rose in arms. I hope this report has some foundation in 
 truth, it's possible this may be the turning crisis, for it cannot be 
 supposed that independency can be the aim of the Americans in 
 general." 
 
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 Dartmouth's 1776, July 9. — Charles Morris junior to Governor Legge. The suc- 
 cess of the opposition in the Province during the absence of Mr. Legge. 
 
 " I am much concerned to find that the leaders of the opposition by 
 their successes are become irresistible, and nothing can be deemed 
 secure where such people and principles predominate, our only depend- 
 ance is on your friendship, and hope you will have it in your power to 
 prevent our total overthrow, which they seem to exert every nerve to 
 effect both here and at home, and for no other reason but because we 
 
 have endeavoured to support the King's governor in this Colony 
 
 By the last accounts from Quebec the rebels are retreating 
 
 precipitately out of Canada, but in all the other Colonies they seem 
 determined to hold it out to the last, except a number of the Church of 
 England in Philadelphia, who have declared against an independency, 
 
 and we hear the Quakers, and some others, are joining them 
 
 General Howe sailed from this port the 10th of June, but for what part 
 of the continent [is] unknown to us. We are very impatient to hear from 
 him; Lord Howe by this time must have joined him, as he passed this 
 harbour about 14 days ago : it is said Lord Howe brought proposals for 
 an accommodation ; hope we shall have good accounts from them soon, 
 otherwise I fear this summer will not finish the business." 
 
 1776, July 12. Halifax. — Captain Gibbons to Governor Legge. " I have 
 just now procured the journal of the last session of Assembly, and have 
 the honour to inclose it herewith," [it is not now with the letter], " their 
 proceedings are by far more shameful than I had heard or could have 
 conceived. T need make no notes upon them ; they speak sufficiently 
 plain for themselves. I was yesterday told that Shaw had raised his 
 Annapolis company upon paper and had wrote to General Massey." 
 
 1776, July 13. Halifax. — Same to same. " I, yesterday, saw a paper 
 printed by Mills and Hicks, and published the day before containing 
 what were called extracts from some of the continental papers, some of 
 which are most audacious and traitorous proceedings carrying on by the 
 rebels. I have used every means in my power to procure one to transmit 
 to your Excellency, but my endeavours are hitherto fruitless, although I 
 have offered to give a dollar apiece I am credibly in- 
 formed those printers were yesterday called before the Lieutenant-Governor 
 and council as was also a Mr. Hutchinson, a judge and brother to the 
 Governor by whose advice it is said the printers made the publication. 
 He excused himself by saying the printers . had made a mistake in 
 printing those extracts without some notes or introduction which he 
 intended making to them. The further publication is stopped by order of 
 the Lieutenant-Governor and Council. These papers contain a resolution 
 of the General Congress for the total and perpetual independence of the 
 Colonies and separation from Great Britain, and an instrument called 
 an act of the Colony of Rhode Island absolving the people from their 
 allegiance to the King and for ever renouncing him and his authority 
 (in terms too highly criminal for me even to repeat), and all further 
 union and connection with Great Britain and its inhabitants, so that 
 the mask is now wholly thrown off, and total extirpation or indepen- 
 dence the only alternatives offered by the Colonists. 
 
 1776, July 14. Halifax. — Same to same. Sends portions of the paper 
 alluded to in the foregoing letter [these are not now with the letter]. 
 " Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. Councillor Morris tells me, could not deny 
 before the Council his having given his approbation of the publication, 
 and says he is a candidate for the Chief Justice's seat in this Province. 
 I will make no remarks upon this gentleman's conduct, but such as I 
 might will instantly occur to your Excellency.'' 
 
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 1776, July 14. Halifax.— Lieutenant Colonel Denson to Governor 
 Legge. Enclosing one of the papers [not now with the letter] referred to 
 by Captain Gibbons. " I have lately been well assured of a firm and most 
 solemn association entered into by the members of the Cabal to stand 
 their ground against any Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or any of 
 their adherents that may at any time hereafter attempt to prevent them 
 from those benefits, &c, that they have enjoyed so long, and that they 
 ]ook upon as their due, &c, &c." 
 
 1776, July 26. — Two draft letters of this date, one from John Robinson 
 to General Howe, and the other from John Robinson to General Massey, 
 as follows. " Sir, Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of his 
 Majesty's Treasury a memorial of Francis Legge, Esq., Governor of 
 Nova Scotia, relative to a body of men raised by him, for the defence 
 and protection of that Province in pursuance of directions received by 
 him from the Earl of Suffolk, I am commanded by their Lordships to 
 signify to you their desire that your Excellency will subsist the said 
 corps in the same manner as Colonel Maclean's and Colonel Gorham's 
 corps are subsisted. I am, &c." 
 
 " Sir, I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's 
 Treasury to transmit to you for your information the inclosed duplicate 
 of a letter I have this day sent to his Excellency, General Howe, res- 
 pecting the subsistence of the body of men raised in Nova Scotia by 
 Governor Legge for the defence and protection cf that Province. I am, 
 &c." 
 
 A duplicate of the letter to General Howe follows. 
 
 1776, Aug. 13. Kew Lane. — Lord George Germain to Governor Legge. 
 Returning papers with thanks. 
 
 1776, Aug. 16. Sandwell. — The Earl of Dartmouth to Governor Legge. 
 On the subject of his memorial to the King. Is doubtful whether it would 
 be proper for Mr. Legge to appear before the Council or not. " If 
 you prove what you propose that the address was not the unanimous 
 voice of the Assembly, it cannot be denied that it was the voice of a 
 majority, and therefore unless it can clearly be shewn that the whole was 
 the act of an interested faction, which perhaps it would be very difficult 
 to show, though the fact be mistaken, the advice that is grounded upon it 
 by the Lords of Trade will not be disapproved by the Council, and you 
 will remain without redress as to that part of the report. On the other 
 hand, it is so cruel and unjust, to hold you out as the object of general 
 dislike by the people of your government, that I cannot wonder at the 
 eager desire you shew to vindicate yourself from that representation, 
 and therefore if you think that a hearing before the Council will 
 tend in any degree to vindicate your character, though no alteration 
 should be made in the advice given by the Lords of Trade, I cannot 
 dissuade you from delivering in your memorial, for which purpose you 
 have nothing to do, but to carry it to one of the clerks of the Council to 
 
 be laid before the Lord President, which will be done of course 
 
 I am very glad to hear that you was so graciously received at St. 
 James's." 
 
 1776, Aug. 18. Halifax. — Two letters of this date from Lieutenant- 
 Colonel Denson to Governor Legge. As to the affairs of the Governor's 
 Volunteer Regiment. The bill for 200/. has been cashed, and the money will 
 be applied to recruiting for the regiment. The officers are to set off this 
 week to recruit. " There is great murmuring here already ; no dispatch 
 of business in either department, much passion, and a full proof of want 
 of capacity ; nay, a certain homo, said a few days ago, if he had known 
 
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 Dartmouth's ^he government was so troublesome he would not have accepted of 
 
 mss. it The deserters from your Regiment are all at Machias, and 
 
 have an armed vessel ready to carry me off when I return to the county. 
 Captain Gibbons will show you a letter on that head wrote." 
 
 1776, Aug. 21. Halifax. — Same to same. Captain Gibbons expects to 
 sail to-morrow ; " he will let you know the conduct of the two Kings of 
 Brentford, as nothing can equal the thunders of the one, but those of the 
 of the other. Captain Gibbons will show you a letter from Isaac Des- 
 
 champs, Esq re , to me of a very threatening nature Thus 
 
 are we used for our loyalty to our most Gracious Sovereign ; they are 
 spirited up by the Cabal of this town to any excess of villainy in their 
 power. I hope to hear from you soon, and that you are coming out 
 again ; you have more friends here now than at your departure." 
 
 N.I). [1776, August.] — Draft Memorial of Governor Legge to the 
 King in Council as to the Report made by the Lords Commissioners of 
 Trade and Plantations after an inquiry held by them upon Mr. Legge's 
 conduct in office. Reference is made in that report to an address of the 
 Assembly of Nova Scotia, which is said to be the unanimous voice of 
 the Province by the Representatives in general assembly to return the 
 King thanks for recalling him ; but by advices the Memorialist has 
 received, he believes the assertion will be found to be unwarranted in 
 point of fact, and he humbly prays that the Report may not be confirmed 
 by the King until he has been heard before his Majesty in Council. 
 
 N.D. [1776, August]. — Governor Legge to Lord George Germain. 
 Long draft letter on the Report of the Lords of Trade and Plantations in 
 relation to the charges brought against him as Governor of Nova Scotia. 
 Giving a very clear idea of the nature of these charges and of Mr, Legge's 
 refutations of them. " An undeserved severity through the whole of that 
 composition. I relied upon the integrity of my character, and besides 
 I had been brought to think 4 that the report was intended to do me 
 service, and entirely to exculpate and satisfy me.' To that effect as I 
 have been told your Lordship has exprest yourself, and I think you 
 did me the honour of hinting the same in a conversation which I had 
 with your Lordship. What then must have been my surprize when 
 I perused a state of the case which seems to be the deepest wound to a man 
 of honour and sensibility. Your Lordship will allow me to do all that 
 becomes a person in my situation to throw disgrace from my name. 
 My rank in the army has been earned by a long train of service in 
 various parts of the world, and if I assume to myself a character that 
 never knew a stain till lately I hope I may do it without arrogating too 
 much. Labouring as I now do under imputations unjustly thrown 
 upon me at first, and strengthened, as I apprehend with a degree of 
 harshness by the Report, I am sure your Lordship will agree with 
 me that to remain silent would be a mark of insensibility, nay a con- 
 fession of the offences laid to my charge." Mr. Legge hopes to vindi- 
 cate his reputation before the Privy Council. He concludes the report 
 was prepared for signature by an official of the Board, and that the 
 " Art " running through it escaped Lord George, as the tenderness 
 towards him shewn by Lord George does" not appear to have affected 
 the writer of the Report. The writer then proceeds to answer the 
 charges in the Report. The first is, " That the Governor of Nova 
 Scotia neglected and insulted the old servants of Government and so 
 endangered the affections of his Majesty's subjects that unless he had 
 been speedily removed, it was to be apprehended that the Province would 
 have been lost." Mr. Legge then points out the trifling nature of the 
 alleged insults committed by him against the late Chief Justice of 
 
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 Nova Scotia, Mr. Belcher, tlie Secretary of the Province, Mr. Bulkeley, dartmouth>' 
 and the Attorney General. Mr. Nesbit, and points out that there is no MSS - 
 direct evidence of these statements, but that it is all general allega- 
 tion. Mr. Legge continues, *' In the case of neglect the report says, 
 4 it may be as difficult to fix the charge as to refute it.' This, my 
 Lord, I call giving substance to shadows and lending colours to this 
 extraordinary accusation which closes with a strong assertion that 
 L the Province was in danger of being lost.' In answer to this, 
 I presume to say that in the most dangerous crisis, when the whole 
 continent of America was in commotion, I preserved the Pro- 
 vince of Nova Scotia. The times demanded vigour. The measures 
 which I pursued will shew the zeal I felt for his Majesty's Government. 
 I refer on this head to my public and private letters to [the] Ministry, 
 to the Commander-in-Chief, and to the Admirals upon the American 
 Station. My whole conduct is there laid open, and the event is a 
 demonstration that my endeavours were crowned with success. Of the 
 difficulties that surrounded me in this arduous business, no one on this 
 side of the Atlantic can form an idea. Pressed every moment by 
 sudden emergencies, I stood in need of the ablest and best advice. If 
 I met in the counsels of any man in office fluctuation, delay, and uncer- 
 tainty, I knew the danger of losing time, and I went on with ardour. 
 If the writer of the report thinks proper let it be called impatience, but 
 it was an honest impatience. My Lord, it was activity in his Majesty's 
 service. I knew the Province, I was aware of the factions that pre- 
 vailed and were increasing, and the subdivisions of those factions. 
 The spirit of revolt that went abroad in America began to appear in 
 the Province entrusted to my care. I used all possible precautions, and 
 those precautions I am bold to aver prevented the mischief." 
 
 The second charge is " that the Governor disregarded and ill-treated 
 the members of his Majesty's Council, and conducted himself at the 
 Board in so unbecoming a manner as to deny that freedom of debate 
 which alone could give value to their advice." The same instances as 
 were given in support of the charge of insulting in Charge 1 are given 
 in support of Charge 2, but the Report allows " that excepting some 
 trifling irregularities to the Chief Justice, Mr. Belcher, mentioned in 
 the affidavit of Joseph Goreham, Esq., no particular instances are 
 adduced in support of this complaint." Charge 3 is u That the Governor 
 interfered in the Courts of Justice by appearing at trials instituted by 
 his order and overawing and influencing the jury." Mr. Legge admits 
 that he was present at a trial, but asserts that it was with the privity of 
 the Chief Justice trying the cause, and that he went as an ordinary 
 spectator in a private capacity and to watch the character and 
 dispositions of the other spectators" at a time of public danger. 
 Charge 4, that " the Governor abused and discouraged loyal refugees 
 from the rebellious Colonies" is admitted by the report to have no 
 foundation. Mr. Legge then says, "The following paragraph I take the 
 liberty to say is very extraordinary. ' The Governor through the course 
 of his administration has been wanting in that gracious and conciliating 
 deportment which the delicacy of the times and the tempers of men 
 under agitation and alarm more particularly demanded, for want of 
 which his upright intentions became in a great measure fruitless and 
 abortive, and so general a ferment and dissatisfaction spread through 
 the Province that it became necessary to call him home to answer the 
 complaints exhibited against him.' Permit me, my Lord, to ask in what 
 instance have my upright intentions been fruitless and abortive? Is 
 there in the whole of the evidence a single fact upon which this 
 inference bottoms itself? Is it warranted by anything within the 
 
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 Dartmouth's knowledge °f former Ministers in your Lordship's department ? Have 
 MSS. any advices reached the Secretary's office since your Lordship undertook 
 the reins of administration ? If there are any such I presume to call 
 for the production of them. To whom has my conduct been ungracious ? 
 I approved of the suits against public defaulters. I could not take these 
 men to my bosom, but in my behaviour to them I was always guarded. 
 In turbulent times I loved no man who did not love his King and 
 country. The petitions, signed by 24 inhabitants out of 30,000, came 
 from individuals connected by views of interest, by ties of affinity and 
 similitude of manners. The genius of the men is seen in their evidence : 
 they supported one another in proceedings that could not bear the 
 public eye. One petition is signed by 5 persons ; three of them were 
 defaulters. Another petition is signed by nineteen in number ; thirteen 
 of them were in the same predicament, and the remaining six had been 
 some of them justly discharged from the magistracy, and the rest had 
 
 not obtained what they wanted Suits at law 
 
 may be ungracious, and regularity in* the revenues is not favourable to 
 men of certain principles. I did my duty, my Lord, and I was not 
 mean enough to connive at public rapine. My upright intentions were 
 not rendered fruitless. Your Lordship will pardon me for thus averring 
 it. If it be true that a general ferment and dissatisfaction spread 
 through the Province where is the evidence of it ? If my measures 
 
 failed where are the instances ? A 
 
 Governor may be recalled for reasons of state, but it is hard that for the 
 sake of the measure guilt should be thrown upon him. It is hard 
 my Lord that his best intentions should be declared abortive, when in 
 consequence of his conduct the Province was preserved in its duty and 
 obedience to his Majesty's Government.' " Mr. Legge concludes by 
 asking Lord George's permission to present a petition to the King to 
 be heard in reply to the Report, before the Privy Council. 
 
 1776, Sept. 2. Windsor, in Nova Scotia.— The Rev. William Ellis to 
 Governor Legge. Relating his distressed condition and the persecution 
 he suffers from the party now in power in the Province owing to his 
 being a friend of the Governor's. The governing party have deprived 
 him cf the chaplaincy of the Volunteer Regiment which Mr. Legge raised. 
 
 1776, Sept. 5. Halifax. — Lieutenant-Colonel Denson to Governor 
 Legge. Several of the officers of the Volunteers have started on the 
 recruiting expedition. The affairs of the Province do not improve. 
 " The two Brentford K — gs go on from one blunder to another without 
 end ; the town is much diverted by them ; particularly by the peculiar 
 stile of General Orders. They are originals." 
 
 1776, Oct. I. Chamble. — Papers headed '•' Order of Battle " with a key 
 and the following note, "The rebels are about 9 or 10,000 by the best 
 accounts, and the King's troops about 8 to 9,000 ; the rebels have 10 
 or 12 armed vessels from 8 to 16 guns each upon the Lakes. General 
 Carleton was to be on the Lakes 4th October." The Plan shows only 
 the order of \he British Army. 
 
 1776, Nov. 18. Halifax. Judge Morris to Governor Legge. — On the 
 aspect of affairs in the Province. Is informed that the Governor has 
 had a hearing before the Lords of Trade which has terminated greatly 
 in his favour. 
 
 " Our sea coasts have been infested greatly with the rebel privateers 
 and they have destroyed all the small craft from Cape Sables to L'Have 
 [and] terrified all the settlers on the coast that they know not which 
 way to turn themselves for their preservation. They have also destroyed 
 our fishery at Canso and Isle Madam. 
 
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 " And yesterday we had advice that three or four hundred under Earl os 
 the command of Eady have invested Fort Cumberland, and it is reported Dar mss Ui! 
 that 3,000 Americans are soon to follow them ; with this party are — 
 joined the Acadians and Indians, the Americans give 100 dollars 
 to every Indian, provision, pay, and clothing. We are greatly alarmed, 
 and more so as we have not had any advice from Head Quarters this 
 six weeks. What will be our fate is difficult to conjecture, but [we] hope 
 that by some means or other this important Colony will be preserved 
 to His Majesty, though I must confess that at present affairs here have 
 but a gloomy prospect. 
 
 " When I went the circuits, from whence I returned the last of 
 September, I found the people in general well disposed, especially in 
 the county of Cumberland, the Grand Jury openly in court declaring 
 their resolution of maintaining the duty and allegiance to the Crown, 
 their submission to the Authority of Parliament and their determination 
 to the utmost of their lives and fortunes to support these principles, and 
 I found the common people there of the same sentiments ; they attended 
 the court with uncommon zeal and due subordination, and in that temper 
 of mind we left them, 'tis now said they are all in arms. 
 
 " They had a general meeting just before your departure to form an 
 address and thank your Excellency for your just administration and 
 the attention you had paid to their memorial. This has been deemed 
 an unlawful assembly and the principal people pursued and driven out 
 of the country, and being encouraged by the Congress have returned 
 and united all those who were in the same predicament to take up arms 
 and it is difficult to say how it will terminate. I can assure your 
 Excellency that I found the same sentiments among the people of the 
 other countys in regard to your administration notwithstanding the 
 infinite pains to procure different sentiments." With a duplicate of the 
 same letter. 
 
 1776, Nov. 23. Halifax. — Captain Daniel Cunningham to Governor 
 Legge. As to the difficulties that Lieutenant-Governor Arbuthnot has 
 thrown in his way in his recruiting expedition to Newfoundland to pro- 
 cure men to serve in Governor Legge's Volunteer regiment. 
 
 1776, Nov. 24. Halifax. — Charles Morris, junior, to Governor Legge. 
 " I imagine you will have a particular account of the present situation 
 of this Colony from the representations that will be made to the 
 Ministry by the present commanders of the several departments here. But 
 I beg leave to make some observations to you from my own knowledge 
 of our affairs. The privateers have so swarmed upon our coast 
 (notwithstanding the vigilance of the men-of-war) that they have 
 almost destroyed the fishery at Canso, have taken vessels from Chester, 
 Port Medway, Barrington, Yarmouth, and sundry provision vessels 
 sent to Fort Cumberland for the troops there, and others coming out 
 of the Bay with grain and roots for this market, so that the coast is now 
 almost stripped of the small vessels that used to supply us with wood, 
 roots, and other necessaries of life, and we are threatned with a total 
 destruction by the other Colonies, who look upon this place *as a 
 magazine of stores for the Army and Navy and have come to a 
 determination to make an entire conquest of it this winter ; for which 
 purpose a large party is arrived in the Colony and have invested 
 Fort Cumberland, and a much larger party, some say 3,000, are soon 
 to follow them. General Massey has sent a reinforcement who sailed 
 from Windsor last Tuesday, since which we have not received any 
 certain advice from them. We are informed that the inhabitants of 
 St. John's River, Indians and Acadians, and the people of the County 
 
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 Dartmouth's °^ Cumberland have joined, so that they have entire possession of all 
 Mss. the north side, the Bay of Fundy, except the fort at Cumberland which 
 by the last advices was surrounded, in all this distress not a man that 
 Mr. Francklin had inroled would be prevailed on to go to the relief of 
 Cumberland. Now we begin to see the advantage your regiment 
 would have been to us had you not been obstructed in every method 
 taken to raise it." The remainder of the letter is on the affairs of 
 Governor Legge's Volunteer regiment. 
 
 1776, Nov. 26. Halifax. — Lieutenant-Colonel Denson, of the Loyal 
 Nova Scotia Volunteers, to Lord George Germain. Requesting reason- 
 able pay and subsistence for the officers of the regiment while recruiting, 
 and stating some of the difficulties thrown in the way of the service 
 by Lieutenant-Governor Arbuthnot and other enemies of Governor 
 Legge. 
 
 1776, Dec. 7. Halifax. — Lieutenant-Colonel Denson to G overnor Legge. 
 The sufferings of that part of Governor Legge's Volunteer regiment told 
 off to work the coal mines. Nine men have died, and nice more must be 
 discharged unfit for service. A ship surgeon says that most of them 
 must die during the winter owing to a yellow or nervous fever brought 
 nbout by the sulphurous fumes in which the work has to be carried on. 
 Mentions this in the hope that Governor Legge may procure some 
 redress. 
 
 1776, Dec. 27. Halifax. — Joseph Bonnett to Governor Legge. As to 
 his efforts to win over the Indians to the King's side. Had very good 
 success with the Mickmacks, but in the disturbances which have recently 
 taken place in Cumberland some of the Eiver St. John Indians were 
 concerned. Encloses an account of money expended on the expedition, 
 and hopes the Governor will use his interest with Lord George Germain 
 to have it repaid him. 
 
 N.D. Kentish Town, Saturday evening. — James Burrows to 
 Governor Legge. The Nova Scotia letters I have sent inclosed to Lord 
 George and I hope his eyes will open a little relative to that Province 
 . . . I am just returned from Mr. Holland's where that great politician 
 has now found out that Goreham, instead of defeating, has been de- 
 feated, with considerable loss ; owing to the " absence of his engineer, 
 the fewness of his men and the party sent from Halifax losing their 
 way." 
 
 N.D. (? 1776.) — Petition of Governor Legge to the Lords Com- 
 missioners of the Treasury, begging that he may be recouped the 
 expenses he has been put to in coining to England and vindicating 
 himself of the charges brought against him by persons in the Province of 
 Nova Scotia. Enclosing a copy address to him from the House of 
 Assembly of the Province, stating what legislation they have effected for 
 the preservation of the Colony and the money they have voted to his 
 Majesty's use. 
 
 N.D. (? 1776.) — Draft letter, unsigned, from Governor Legge to some 
 person in Halifax about the affairs of his Nova Scotia Volunteer 
 regiment. 
 
 1777, Jan. 15. Admiralty Office. — Philip Stephens to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Has laid before the Lords of the Admiralty Lord Dartmouth's 
 letter requesting the discharge of Thomas Hedges, one of his Lordship's 
 watermen, who has been impressed. Their Lordships ordered the 
 Regulating Captains in town to report upon the matter. Encloses a 
 
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 -copy of the report, and is to acquaint Lord Dartmouth that their d J^mouth' 
 Lordships cannot discharge the man. MSS. 
 Enclosing : 
 
 Jan. 14. King's Head, Tower Hill. — Captain J. Kirke and 
 Captain A. North to Mr. Stephens. As to the impressing of Thomas 
 Hedges, Lord Dartmouth's waterman. 
 
 1777, Feb. 4. London. — Governor Legge to Charles Morris, junior, 
 Halifax. Is sorry to hear that his letters to Mr. Morris, senior, and 
 Oolonel Denson have miscarried. The letter is on the money matters 
 of the Loyal Nova Scotia Volunteers. 
 
 1777, March 18. London. — Governor Legge to Sir William Howe. 
 As to the Loyal Nova Scotia Volunteers, concerning which regiment the 
 Governor has sent in a memorial to Lord George Germain, asking for 
 a grant of money to complete it. This memorial is to be referred to 
 Sir William, and Mr. Legge hopes that he will accede to it. " I can 
 with great certainty say the corps would have been long since com- 
 pleated had it not been for the unjustifyable opposition I met with in 
 the Province, whereby not only the intentions of government were 
 defeated by its pretended friends, but 1 have been put to a most 
 enormous expence to justify a character which now appears blameless, 
 as my Lord George has done me the honour to repeat frequently, but it 
 is hard that an innocent man should be put to the expence of a thousand 
 pounds to prove it." 
 
 1777, April 25. St. James's. — Approbation under Royal Sign Manual of 
 the election of Richard Geast, Steward of the City of Litchfield, in the 
 place of Gryffyd Price, Esq., resigned. 
 
 1777, June 13. Halifax. Judge Morris to Governor Legge. Acknow- 
 ledging the Governor's kindness as shown in a letter from him to 
 Charles Morris, junior, his son. "As for public affairs it is, in my 
 opinion, a critical time. If the rebels have no foreign assistance they 
 must soon surrender ; their distresses are beyond description. I am 
 credibly informed they have lost, according to their own lists, twenty- 
 two thousand and upwards last summer, and now they are forcing 
 their farmers from the plow, the consequence of which will be famine 
 if they hold out another year, but which I think impossible they can 
 do. We don't hear yet of any general action ; our General acts upon 
 the solid principles of old Fabius, which worries and distresses them 
 more than a battle, and some poet may say again * Unus cunctando 
 nobis restituit rem.'' I believe he waits for the troops from Canada." 
 
 1778, Jan. 19. Philadelphia. — Copy letter from Sir William Howe to 
 Governor Legge in answer to Mr. Legge's of March 18th 1777. En- 
 closing the " Plan on which the corps of Loyal Nova Scotia Volunteers 
 are now formed," dated 6th June 1776, regretting that he cannot comply 
 with the Governor's wishes and agre? to the memorial. 
 
 1778, April 14. London. (Copy.) — The Earl of Dartmouth to Major- 
 General Tryon, New York. Recommending Captain Barretti, the bearer 
 of despatches, to General Tryon's favour. On the same sheet is a copy 
 of a letter from Lord George Germain to the same, dated the 12 
 April, to the same effect. 
 
 1778, July 13. New York. — J. Galloway to Ambrose Serle, Esq. 
 " This city has been for several days blocked up by the French Fleet, 
 which lies in a line of battle about three miles without the Hook. 
 
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 ^tmouth's take everything coming in, and we are not a little anxious about 
 
 mss. the safety of the Reasonable, the Centurion, and Renown, which are 
 expected from the eastward. The British Fleet under Viscount Howe 
 lies within the Hook also prepared and in line of battle, intending, as 
 I suppose, to attack the French should they venture in, notwithstanding 
 their superior force in weight of metal, as it is said this may be done 
 with a good prospect of success, because they cannot come in all together, 
 nor can the largest ships come in at all, for want of a sufficient depth 
 of water ; or it is not improbable that Lord Howe is waiting for the 
 expected arrival of Admiral Byron, whom we learn is dispatched after 
 the French Fleet. Could I find any reasonable ground of hope, after 
 such a train of misfortunes which have atiended the British arms, I 
 should expect his arrival soon. But I fear Monsieur D'Estaing has 
 better intelligence of his situation than we, or I think he could not 
 be so imprudent as to stay on this coast, and more especially so near 
 to the Fleet under Lord Howe. I cannot account for an act of so 
 much folly upon any other principle but that of their having a cer- 
 tain knowledge that Byron cannot be soon in these fparts. Because 
 should Byron arrive before their departure, and should the proper 
 measures be taken, and spirit shewn, it seems impossible that they 
 should escape the two British Fleets. 
 
 " What I mentioned to you at Philadelphia has come to pass. That 
 the British Army would suffer more by an immediate march from 
 Philadelphia than by going out to the "Valley Forge and first attacking 
 Washington. I am informed by Officers of the best judgment that the 
 loss on the march by desertion and in the battle was not less than 
 1,000 men. Washington's camp I am certain might have been stormed 
 and taken with a loss much less. That single stroke would have ended 
 the rebellion, if it had been pursued by that wisdom and policy which 
 the present circumstances of America obviously and plainly point out : 
 I mean those of calling on the loyal friends to the Crown to assist in 
 the work, and vigorously pursuing by arms the advantages gained : 
 or it would have obliged the Congress to have treated on any terms. 
 Their Army defeated, their situation would have been desperate not- 
 withstanding the prospect of French assistance. But the abandonment 
 of Philadelphia without an action has given the Congress high spirits 
 and a tone of language becoming the most powerful States. But it is 
 a truth, that the people in general have not caught the infection. 
 Their sentiments of the tyranny of their new masters remain the same 
 as when you left them. They still feel their oppression and cruelties, 
 and reason from their feelings. They yet remember the blessings they 
 enjoyed under a British Government, and wish for a restoration of them. 
 And their resentment against the British for deserting them is suppressed 
 by their miseries and the hopes that it has arisen from the present 
 necessity only and that future exertions will be made for their safety. 
 
 " From certain intelligence I learn that the people of Philadelphia 
 have been in great distress since we left it. Provisions very dear and 
 every article of foreign produce, salt 6 dollars per bushel, brown sugar 
 9s. p. lb., Bohea tea £3, loaf sugar 22s. 6d., continental currency, and 
 every necessary of life in the same proportion. 
 
 " I enclose with this a Connecticut paper. You will find in it a letter 
 
 from G J with an answer not sent. "Upon this letter arriving 
 
 here the advertisement was pasted up at Rivington's corner. They 
 require no animadversions but speak for themselves. 
 
 " Washington has passed the North Biver at King's Ferry. His 
 force at the battle near Middletown, it is now reduced to a certainty 
 
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 was not 9,000 men, about 6,000 regulars, if any of his troops may be Earl of 
 called so, and 3,000 enlisted for a few months only. The latter have ^mss?" 
 left him so that he did not pass over the North river with more than — 
 6,000 men and those very sickly. What his intentions are is uncertain. 
 We have not the intelligence we had at Philadelphia, but it is generally 
 allowed, that when his Corps shall join Gates's now at the White 
 Plains, the whole will not amount to more than 10,000 men, while out- 
 number of British must exceed 20,000 at this place. 
 
 " My estate being confiscated by a Legislative Act I have no means of 
 subsistence left. His Majesty's goodness and justice can alone relieve 
 me from a state of absolute indigence. I am sure I need say no more 
 to you, who know my situation as well as I do myself. 
 
 " I enclose some observations on the conduct of the Army, and where 
 I think it will admit of reformation. It is intended that you should 
 make what prudent use of them you please. If they should be useless 
 burn them. I believe measures will be taken to prevent indiscriminate 
 plunder in future. 
 
 " I have been altogether unsettled since I have been here, and even 
 now write in much interruption and haste as you'l perceive by this 
 scrawl. I have heard from Mrs. G , she remains in her house un- 
 molested. This is some satisfaction to me. Betsey begs her best 
 compliments may be presented to you, and joins me in wishing you and 
 your worthy family every blessing." 
 
 Enclosing a copy of the 64 Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelli- 
 gence," No. 702 for Tuesday July 7th 1778, containing a copy Petition 
 presented to the House of Commons on Feb. 19th 1778 from the 
 gentlemen freeholders and others of the County of Norfolk and City of 
 Norwich protesting against a call made upon the county to raise men 
 and money for supporting the constitutional authority of Great Britain, 
 and praying an enquiry into the true grounds and method of conducting 
 the American War, of which the results have been so disastrous to the 
 Empire. Containing also the proceedings of the American Congress 
 from June 11th to June 17th 1778, upon the embassy of Lord Carlisle, 
 Mr. William Eden, and Governor Johnstone, who had been appointed 
 Commissioners for restoring peace to the Colonies ; among other matters 
 connected with this episode is a long letter from the Commissioners dated 
 at Philadelphia the 9th of June 1778, to Henry Laurens the President of 
 the Congress, stating the terms of the proposed peace and the unanimous 
 answer of the Congress stating the only terms upon which they could 
 agree to a peace ; the recognition by Great Britain of the independence 
 of the States or the withdrawal of the English fleets and armies. There 
 is also news from Philadelphia and Boston, dated June 20th and July 
 2nd 1778. 
 
 N.D. — A Squib. " To be Sold, the British rights in America. Con- 
 sisting, among other Articles, of : — 
 
 " The thirteen Provinces in rebellion which Britain in the ' hour of 
 her insolence ' attempted to subdue ; the reversion of the Government 
 of Quebec, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, East and West Florida ; the 
 territories of the Hudson Bay Company ; a respectable body of troops ; 
 a considerable part of the Eoyal Navy ; and all the Loyal Subjects in 
 America. 
 
 " The British West Indies will be included in the Sale if agreeable. 
 
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 Earl of " Apply to George Johnston* Esquire, who is desirous to conclude a 
 
 DAB MSs! TH ' S P rivate bargain. 
 
 — ' " Conditions of the Sale to be seen in the hands of Henry Lawrance 
 
 Esq., President of the Congress. 
 
 " To make it easy to the purchasers, a seat in Congress will be taken 
 as part payment, the rest in Continental currency. N.B. Discount 
 will be allowed for all the Loyalists who have been murdered since 18th 
 April 1775." 
 
 1778, Sep. 16. John Street, Eathbone Place. — Ambrose Serle to the 
 Earl of Dartmouth. Enclosing a letter from Mr. Galloway for his 
 Lordship's perusal. Has some "observations on the conduct of the 
 army " which are of such a nature that they cannot be sent by the post. 
 
 This is probably the letter of July 13th. See p. 417. 
 
 1779, Aug. 13. — Mr. Wilks to the Earl of Dartmouth. Enclosing a 
 copy letter from Bombay, which he states shall be kept secret until 
 further or official accounts arrive. 
 
 The enclosure is headed " Extract of a letter from Bombay, dated the 
 1.5th January 1779." 
 
 " It is chiefly to inform you that poor Mostyn died on New Year's 
 day in the morning universally regretted ; and that Colonel Cay, and 
 Captain Stewart, have both been killed on the Poonah expedition; 
 poor Stewart was killed on the spot by a cannon ball, Cay mortally 
 wounded by a rocket. Cay returned hither, and I am this instant 
 returned hither (sic), and I am this instant returned from his funeral. In 
 the loss of these two gallant officers, in my opinion the present ex- 
 pedition may suffer considerably. No general action has yet taken 
 place, for Cay and Stewart both fell by distant cannonading ; the former 
 under the first and the latter under (on) the 4th of the month. On the 6th 
 a smart skirmish took place, the enemy were beaten off the field, and 
 Hartley who succeeded to the command of Stewart's select corps, very 
 materially distinguished himself in the action; by our latest advices 
 from Camp dated the 10th, the army was within three hours' march of 
 Poonah, and in great distress for provisions, for the enemy, as they 
 retire before us, burn and destroy every village, and it is said intend 
 burning and destroying Poonah also. Colonel Egerton endeavoured to 
 return to Bombay but was obliged to join the army again ; the enemy 
 having several parties of horse in the Coucan, the direction of the army 
 has been for some time under Colonel Cockburc. Captain Eames set 
 off the day before yesterday for Ponwell in order to clear the Concan 
 and to convey a large quantity of provisions up to the army, so that I 
 believe we have not now 300 fighting men in garrison : the French 
 and Mahrattas I trust, are too much engaged at home to think of 
 molesting us at least for this season, and as the Revenge and Grab are 
 just now at Tellicherry a couple of French frigates if stationed off the 
 harbour might interrupt the whole trade of our settlement. Eames' 
 party consists of about 500 men. 
 
 " We have no certain accounts as yet of Colonel Goddard and the 
 Bengal Brigade neither were the Asia and our East Indiamen arrived at 
 
 * Governor Johnstone. — The squib was probably suggested by a letter 
 written by him while one of the Commissioners for Restoring Peace, to Mr. Laurens, 
 the President of Congress, and printed in the " Connecticut Courant " above men- 
 tioned. The phrase quoted above occurs in the letter ; " If you should follow the 
 example of Britain in the hour of her insolence and send us back without a hearing." 
 
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 Tellicherry the 2nd instant. In short I do not on the whole like the Earl of 
 present appearance of things in general in this quarter and I wish most Dae mss UT1 
 fervently our Poonah expedition may terminate successfully ; not a — 
 partizan of consequence has as yet I hear come over to Ragobah ; what 
 therefore Ragobah is to do when he gets even to Poonah is a business at 
 present above my comprehension. 
 
 " The Madras troops are not yet arrived at Tellicherry in order to 
 undertake the reduction of Mahe. 
 
 " By advices from Malacca dated in August the India ships and the 
 Company's China ships were safe arrived there and intended proceeding 
 in company to Canton. A Bermudas Snow Privateer had been at 
 Molucca, carrying 16 guns and 60 men. 
 
 " The Royal Henry sails tomorrow for Bengal. 
 
 " 15th January 1779 continued, 9 p.m. 
 
 " I would that, my prophetic spirit had deceived me, my dearest 
 
 but who arrived this afternoon from Ponwell, brings an account 
 
 that our army was routed and dispersed by the Mahratta army on the 
 12th instant, that all our guns and ammunition were taken and that 
 almost all our Seapoys had deserted to the enemy before the mis- 
 fortune took place. Lindrum received this information from a Seapoy 
 and a Lascar who escaped the 12th in the evening. As they came away 
 they say (saw) Egerton, Hartley, and Holmes, together in a tent ; the 
 enemy had got possession of the pass that we had on the Graats. I 
 close here for to night, as the Dingey, I hear, does not sail before to- 
 morrow at noon." 
 
 " 16th January 1 779, — a.m. 
 " Nothing further have I heard, unless it be that an Ensign Day has 
 been killed and Major Speath mortally wounded; no letters that I 
 know of having been received from any gentleman belonging to the 
 army ; the foregoing accounts are I hope exaggerated by the fears of 
 the fugitive tellers, something very dreadful however I am convinced 
 must have happened, so much so that I declare to you I am afraid to 
 hazard my suspicions even regarding it. Our army, together consisted' 
 of about 3,500 men, the enemy's it is said of 60,000 horse, judge there- 
 fore what must be the consequence when they charged and broke our 
 line ; and when every one was left to shift for himself : God send us 
 better accounts, but I doubt it most exceedingly. Should the accounts of 
 yesterday prove true we shall then in my opinion have nothing to do 
 but to shut the gates of our town, lock ourselves up, and let the 
 Mahrattas ravage and destroy our Island as seemeth best unto them; 
 Salset and our Northern Purgunnahs will now I fear be again taken 
 from us ; the French influence again rise in Poonah and Goddard have 
 nothing to do, but get to Bombay as well as he can with the Bengal 
 Brigade and assist us in the defence of it. Goddaxd has about 8,000 men 
 with him for whose safety I begin now to be a little uneasy. At this 
 juncture too, much is to be dreaded from the Mahratta fleet. Indeed 
 
 indeed since I have known India I never knew our affairs in 
 
 general wear so gloomy an appearance. 
 
 " 17th January 1779. Sunday 10 a.m. 
 
 " I have this instant received a letter from at Ponwell dated last 
 
 night at 1 1 o'clock from which I extract the following : — " We have had 
 some men come in here this evening who left the army the 13th at night 
 about 7 o'clock ; the accounts they bring are far from being satisfactory, 
 but they all agree that Captain Hartley was wounded in the arm ; he 
 commanded the brigade in front of the enemy ; he lost 3 guns, was 
 
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 Eaulof overpowered and retired to join the main body. Our army retreated to 
 1R ms£ TE S Toolgaum (about 15 coss from Poonah) the 12th about I o'clock in 
 — - the morning. This was the prelude to our loss for the enemy charged at 
 o o'clock that morning, surrounded the flanks of the army and got in 
 between the baggage and the line, the baggage guard was under the 
 command of Captain Gordon but the enemy carried off a great part of 
 it, and a number of bullocks ; they never came to close action ; but 
 came up, gave their fire, and retired to make way for others. Our 
 army and the enemy were engaged the whole of the 13th but not closely, 
 chiefly cannon and rockets. That evening our army was drawn up on 
 the banks of a little river, 2 coss on this side Toolgaum. They had 
 provisions for some days and also some ammunition. Captain Westphal 
 of the artillery was wounded in the thigh ; the other officers' names I 
 cannot find out, as most of the people that have run hither from the 
 army are Lascars. Batterow has deserted from Ragobah and was the 
 cause of having forged letters made out in Holkar's name which caused 
 our army's retreating from Toolgaum ; in this retreat it was that the 
 enemy attacked us ; the enemy have placed a great number of men at 
 Bore Gaat Pass (Frazer's Post) and Frazer arrived here at 9 o'clock last 
 
 night. The enemy have also possession of Campoley, such , is the 
 
 melancholy account of this morning ; not so bad indeed, as was at first 
 suspected but still very, very deplorable ; for surrounded as our army 
 is how they are to get provisions, or how make their retreat good 
 without ammunition, and with the enemy in possession of the Gaat Pass 
 at Condolah I cannot make out. 
 
 " 19th January 1779, Tuesday — p.m. 
 
 " Yesterday afternoon I received a note from Lindrum at Ponwell, 
 dated yesterday morning at 9 o'clock, the purport of which is as follows. 
 There are letters from our camp dated the 14th instant, at Burgaom 
 about one coss on this side of Toolgaum where there is a tank and a 
 river ; Meckon and Day are the only officers killed ; the number of men 
 killed are by no means equal to the former reports, so that I am still in 
 hopes. The enemy's numbers, it is said, exceed a lack (100,000) of men ; 
 there are letters to the Governor now dispatched from the camp. 
 
 " The Governor's letters however from camp contain nothing more I 
 believe than what was mentioned to me, at least he mentioned nothing 
 more ; though I was [with] (sic) him last night for an hour. In this 
 uncertain and desperate situation of things am I obliged to close this 
 letter. No news of Goddard ! No European ships yet arrived upon the 
 coast. 
 
 "Bombay 20th January 1779, Wednesday 4 p.m. 
 " I am very happy the Dingey did not sail last night, as I have this 
 morning learnt, that advices have been received from camp at Condolah 
 that mention some treaty or other to have been entered into with the 
 Ministerialists by Carnac and Egerton : and that Ragobah is gone on 
 to Poonah with Hartley's Brigade ; that our army are encamped at the 
 Condolah Pass and that the yacht sailed a few hours ago to bring over 
 Mr. Carnac. Everything at present here seems mystery and confusion, 
 so much so, that I suspect we have been obliged to submit to the terms 
 of the Ministerialists. When I know more you shall hear from me by 
 the first Dingey. The advices from Condolah are dated the day before 
 yesterday. - 
 
 " A great number of our officers have been wounded." 
 
 1779, Oct. 4. — John Robinson to the Earl of Dartmouth. Enclosing 
 by order of Lord North, " Some minutes relative to East India affairs as 
 
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 heads proper for consideration before the renewal of the charter of 
 the Company which as to its exclusive trade expires in April 1780." 
 
 1779, Oct. 8. London. — J. Pownall to the Earl of Dartmouth. "My 
 sincere regards for both the Browns compel me to say a word or two on the 
 subject of the very unusual, I believe unprecedented, step that has been 
 taken in consequence of the complaints against the Governor, and what- 
 ever may be said about it, the entire revocation of his commission con- 
 vinces me there can be no real intention of restoring him ; permit me 
 also, my Lord, to inform you that Governor Brown cannot now receive a 
 single sixpence of the salary allowed him ; the whole becomes vested in 
 Mr. Maxwell from the date of his commission under the Great Seal. 
 I do not think [the] Office was aware of this consequence of the step they 
 have taken, and therefore I should hope they would upon a proper 
 representation compel Mr. Maxwell to come to some agreement on that 
 head. 
 
 What could have induced our old friend Tryon to countenance or rather 
 command the wanton severitys, to use no harsher expression, of which 
 the innocent inhabitants of Fairfield and Greenfield so loudly complain. 
 I can venture to tell your Lordship, out of the confidence of my private 
 
 correspondence with C n, that he highly disapproves Tryon's conduct 
 
 in this occasion and has called upon him for his reasons at large for such 
 a procedure." 
 
 1779, Oct. 19. — J. Pownall to the Earl of Dartmouth. Has written to 
 Mr. Cumberland as to the removal of Governor Brown. 
 
 N.D. (? Oct. 1779.) — Letter, unsigned, to Richard Cumberland 
 respecting the harsh treatment received by Governor Brown, who has 
 been deprived of his commission until he can refute the charges brought 
 against him, and deprived also in the mean time of all emolument by 
 the appointment of Mr. Maxwell to his post. 
 
 1779, Oct. 29. Excise Office. — J. Pownall to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Enclosing Mr. Cumberland's answer (not now enclosed) to his own as to 
 the removal of Governor Brown. There is no doubt that the Governor's 
 case is prejudged. " Mr. de Grey with whom I have talked upon this 
 subject though he speaks with great asperity of the Governor's conduct 
 seems somewhat aware of the impropriety of the proceeding, declaring 
 at the same time that, had it not been from considerations of wishing to 
 show all possible lenity to the Governor, the charges were of such a 
 nature as must have induced immediate and direct dismissal." 
 
 1779, Nov. 4. St. John's, Newfoundland. — Captain G. H. Monk to 
 Governor Legge. On recruiting matters connected with the Loyal 
 Nova Scotia Volunteer Corps. 
 
 1779, Dec. 10. King St., Covent Garden.— J. T. Lane to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Enclosing a petition and other papers relative to a dispute 
 between the parishes of Olney and Wellingborough. 
 
 1780, Nov. 22. Extracts from the Gazette of the Isles of France 
 and Bourbon relating to Indian affairs. 
 
 II.— 1784 to 1807. 
 
 1784, Nov. 28. Halifax. — Sir Charles Douglas to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Giving notice of his application to be recalled from his 
 command that no time be lost in having application made to his suc- 
 cessor in favour of Mr. Legge, then on board the Ariadne near the 
 mouth of the Bay of Fundy. 
 
 Earl of 
 
 Dartmouth's 
 MSS. 
 
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 Dartmouth's 1785, Feb. 15. — Dr. Parr to the Earl of Dartmouth. Enclosing an 
 MSS » epitaph (which had been approved by the Bishop), in memory of 
 William Legge, the 2nd son of the Earl, who died on the 20th of 
 Octotber 1784. 
 
 1785, Sept. 20. — Tunbridge Wells. Dr. Grieve to Lady Dartmouth. 
 On the properties of Koumiss in consumptive cases. 
 
 1786, June 28. London.— The Earl of Guilford to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. ''Lord North has just wrote me word he is to name the 
 High Steward to the University of Oxford which he intends to offer to 
 your Lordship. 'Tis a very honourable office, I dare say the University 
 will be much pleased with your acceptance of it, and therefore 1 hope I 
 may congratulate them and your Lordship/* 
 
 1786, June 28. Bushy Park. — Lord North to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 " There is just fallen into my disposal an office of great honour and 
 dignity, which, though it is accompanied by no emolument, and I believe 
 by no function whatever, ought, nevertheless, not to be given away 
 lightly and inconsiderately : I mean, the Office of High Steward of the 
 University of Oxford. In my nomination to this vacancy, I must con- 
 sult both the satisfaction of the University, and my own credit, and, as 
 there is no man living better calculated than you are, to answer both 
 these objects, I hope you will permit me to nominate you. Your constant 
 friendship for me renders it quite unnecessary for me to trouble you 
 with any arguments to induce you to consent to a choice, which you will 
 easily perceive must be both very agreeable and highly honourable to 
 me." 
 
 1786, July 6. Lower Grovesnor St. — Lord North to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. " I enclose you a letter I received yesterday from the Vice Chan- 
 cellor of Oxford in which you will see the great satisfaction which your 
 appointment has given to our Alma Mater. I will sign the Letters 
 Patent as soon as I receive them from Dr. Forster, and will give you 
 notice of the receipt of them." 
 
 1786, July 9. — Lord North to the Earl of Dartmouth. Has received the 
 Letters Patent and signed them, will send them to the Vice Chancellor 
 that the Official Seal may be affixed, and will have everything in readiness 
 for his admission by Wednesday night. The letter concludes with 
 family matters. 
 
 1786, July 19. Bushy Park.— Lord North to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 " I am glad to hear the ceremony of admitting our new High Steward of 
 the University is over without having given too much fatigue to our 
 new Officer." Regrets he was not present himself, but fears the visit of 
 a Chancellor, unless upon previous notice, is apt to give more trouble 
 than satisfaction to the University, otherwise he would pay his respects 
 there oftener. Thinks it may be necessary for the High Steward to 
 appoint a Deputy. 
 
 1786, Oct. 28. Downing St.— William Pitt to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Requests his sentiments on Mr. Brown's case. (Draft reply of Lord 
 Dartmouth is annexed.) 
 
 1787, July 10. Antwerp. — Dr. John Ash to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 On general subjects. Mentions the signs of civil commotions visible in 
 that country. 
 
 1787, July and August. — Further letters from the same to the same 
 from Spa. On the mineral properties of the waters and general topics. 
 
 1787, Oct. 4. New Bond Street.— Dr. John Ash to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. " If you maj pay credit and sufficient confidence in the reports of 
 
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 London, war is inevitable, and Mr. Arthur will certainly meet with profes- Dartmouth's 
 sional employment. But Mr. Grenville is not returned, who carried, it is MSS. 
 said, a more peremptory requisition than has ever been sent to the Court 
 of France since the time of Oliver Cromwell." . ..." At Lord Lough- 
 borough's I met with Mr. Edmund Burke, and we had a fine dish of politics, 
 that continued near hours in serving up. He is a wonderful man in 
 abilities and reading, but yet not to depreciate his excellencies, I have 
 met with men who have arranged their acquisitions with greater skill 
 and precision." Also on family and general topics. 
 
 1787, Dec. 1. Admiralty. — Viscount Howe to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 As to Mr. Legge's promotion. 
 
 1788, July 7. London. — Dr. Ash to the Earl of Dartmouth. '< My 
 publication (on the medicinal properties of the Foreign Mineral W aters) 
 will be completed this morning by the final printing the last corrected 
 proof sheet, and I hope to get a copy of it sewed tomorrow to send to 
 your Lordship tomorrow evening." f< The Chancellor after all his 
 bullying has put the Seals to Sir R. Pepper Arden's patent, and for a 
 similitude of conduct has got the name of Emperor Thurlow, like the 
 Emperor Joseph." 
 
 1788, Sept. 7. Spa. — Dr. Ash to the Earl of Dartmouth. On the recep- 
 tion accorded to his book. Is collecting materials for another volume. 
 
 In a letter of 27th June 1788, (of no general interest) Dr. Ash 
 mentions that the 9th of July is the day of his nativity 66 years ago. 
 
 1788, Oct. 4. Berkeley Square. — The Earl of Chatham to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Will be very happy to contribute to the advancement 
 of his Lordship's wishes for his son Mr. Legge. 
 
 1790, Nov. 22. Admiralty.— The Earl of Chatham to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. " It is now with very great satisfaction that I inform 
 your Lordship that upon the Valiant being paid off Mr. Legge will 
 be promoted to be a Master and Commander." 
 
 1785, 1791, 1792. — Correspondence between the Bishop of Win- 
 chester (the Honourable Brownlow North) and his step-brother the 
 Earl of Dartmouth. Relative to the Bishop's trust business and papers 
 relating thereto. 
 
 1795. Letters and papers connected with the settlements on the 
 marriages of Lady Charlotte Legge to Mr. Charles Duncombe (son of C. 
 S. Duncombe, Esq. of Duncombe Park, and afterwards Lord Feversham), 
 and of the Honourable Augustus George Legge with Miss Honora 
 Bagot. 
 
 1800 to 1803 ; 1826 ; 1827.— A collection of letters and papers 
 on Indian affairs during the time of, and subsequent to, the Presidency 
 of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India of George 
 Viscount Lewisham and Earl of Dartmouth on the resignation of the 
 Right Honourable Henry Dundas, created on the 24 th December 1802 
 Baron Duneira and Viscount Melville. 
 
 These papers include a letter dated 22nd February 1801 from Henry 
 Addington to Lord Lewisham informing him it was probable that he 
 would be introduced to the King on the following Tuesday or Wednes- 
 day as President of the India Board, and a draft letter from Lord 
 Lewisham to Lord Wellesley, dated 11th June 1801, announcing his 
 appointment as President of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs 
 of India on the resignation of Mr. Dundas. 
 
 Ihey also comprise either original or copy despatches on most 
 important matters connected with the administration of Indian affairs 
 
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 earl of from and to Marquess Wellesley, Lord Clive, Mr. Addington, Marquess 
 1 AR mss" TH Cornwallis, Henry Dundas, Sir John Macpherson, Lord Hobart, Lord 
 — -' Glenbirvie, Viscount Castlereagh. N. B. Edmonstone, J. Webbe, Major 
 John Malcolm, Henry Gwillim, Benjamin Sullivan, C. F. Greville, 
 Thomas Henchman, Charles Mills, J. Roberts, Jacob Bosanquet, and 
 others, as well as correspondence and papers from and to the Board of 
 the East India Company and the Board of Control on the East Indian 
 trade, on the revenue and charge of the Presidencies of Fort William, 
 Fort George, and Bombay, on the military establishment and other 
 subjects. There are also applications from numerous persons in all 
 ranks of life from the Queen downwards for Writerships, Cadetships, 
 Recommendations to the Governor General, Seats at the Supreme 
 Board, and Directorships. 
 
 The following letters are among the more important. 
 
 1801, Sept. 30. Monghyr. — Letter marked Private, No. (1; from 
 Marquess Wellesley to Viscount Lewisham. 
 
 " My dear Lord, 
 
 The object of this letter is to solicit your Lordship's immediate 
 attention to the request, which I have urged to the Court of Directors, 
 relative to the appointment of a provisional successor to me in this 
 Government. Your Lordship will readily admit the reason and justice 
 of those motives which render me anxious that this great trust should 
 not be exposed to the hazard of devolving into hands, which the Govern- 
 ment at home might not deem equal to sustain such a burthen ; and 
 while I assure your Lordship of my earnest desire to remain at my post 
 (as long as my public obligations and duties shall demand my continu- 
 ance in India, and as long as I shall retain the power of serving the 
 Company and the Nation with any prospect of essential advantage to 
 either) you will not deem me to be too presumptuous, if I claim the 
 indulgence, extended to both my immediate predecessors, of being enabled 
 to deliver over charge of the Government to some person in India, 
 specially approved by the Court of Directors, and appointed to supply 
 my place, in the event of any unforeseen emergency, which might call 
 me to Europe. 
 
 It is not for me to suggest to your Lordship whether the person, 
 to be named in India, should be the same who may be ultimately 
 destined to the permanent administration of this Government, or whether 
 it should be understood, that my provisional successor should merely 
 exercise the Government untill the choice of His Majesty and of the 
 Court of Directors could be fixed on some person in Europe, who might 
 be judged more qualified for the charge. It would still less become me 
 to name any person to your Lordship in any other manner than that 
 which my public duty requires for your information. I understand 
 from report, (although his Lordship has not yet signified his intention 
 to me) that Lord Clive proposes to return to Europe in the approaching 
 * season ; the event of his Lordship's resignation will place the Govern- 
 ment of Fort St. George in the hands of Mr. Petrie. My resignation 
 would place this Government in the hands of Mr. Barlow. 
 
 I can assure your Lordship with perfect confidence that Mr. Barlow 
 is fully qualified for the temporary administration of this Government : 
 the nomination of a Governor General, intended to hold this Govern- 
 ment permanently, might be affected by principles which might exclude 
 any person now in India, with the exception of Lord Clive ; it is not 
 my duty to trouble your Lordship on this part of the question ; my 
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 a provisional successor to me for the temporary exercise of the Govern- earl of 
 ment in the event of my death, absence, or resignation ; and to apprize Dartmouth's 
 you that, in my judgment, you may safely approve the grant of such a — * 
 Commission to Mr. Barlow, the person on whom the Government 
 would now devolve of course, in any of the events supposed. 
 
 In urging these considerations to your Lordship I think it is my 
 further duty to apprize you, that as soon as the provisional appoint- 
 ment shall reach India, I shall consider myself to be at liberty to return 
 to Europe without further notice to the Government at home ; and I 
 must add that I entertain a confident hope of being able to deliver over 
 this charge to my successor without hazard, in the course of the next 
 season, from the month of October 1802 to that of February 1803. 
 The great objects which I am anxious to accomplish previously to my 
 departure are, 
 
 The linal settlement of the Carnatic, already far advanced by the 
 transfer of the Civil and Military Government to the Company under 
 the late treaty. 
 
 The final settlement of Oude, which I trust will be brought to a 
 prosperous issue within the course of a few months. 
 
 The arrangement of our Military Establishments ; 
 
 And, lastly, the general system of our expenditure and resource in 
 India. 
 
 With regard to the Military Establishments, I trust that I shall be 
 able in the course of twelve months to bring the charges of Bengal 
 within the limits proposed in the last plan received from the Court of 
 Directors. It will be utterly impracticable to meet the wishes of the 
 Court in the reductions proposed to be made at Fort St. George and 
 Bombay until affairs shall assume a more settled aspect in the Peninsula ; 
 the reductions proposed in those establishments would compel us 
 instantly to evacuate Mysore and the countries ceded by the Nizam. 
 The execution of the Court's orders in this instance must therefore be 
 suspended ; and your Lordship will hereafter, upon a deliberate com- 
 parison of charge?, of resources, and of demands for military force in 
 the Peninsula of India, exercise your discretion with regard to the 
 proposed reduction of the army at Fort St. George and Bombay. 
 
 I shall anxiously avail myself of every practicable occasion to carry 
 the orders of the Court of Directors respecting those armies into effect, 
 so far as the safety of their Dominions will admit. I have not yet 
 received from Fort St. George the necessary documents on this branch 
 of their affairs ; but I expect in the course of about a month to be 
 enabled to reply fully to the late military letter of the Court of 
 Directors, stating to what extent the plan of the Court has been exe- 
 cuted, or appears to me to be practicable ; and submitting to the 
 Court the instantaneous and inevitable consequences of executing the 
 whole plan in the present crisis. 
 
 Your Lordship will feel the difficulty of my situation ; bound by my 
 public duty, on the one hand, to maintain the security of this Empire 
 in all its parts, and on the other, to pay obedience to orders, issued 
 from an authority which I must ever respect, and to which I am ever 
 ready to submit. But in the instance in question the orders of the 
 Court appear to have been framed previously to the knowledge of the 
 existing disturbances in the Peninsula, and in the Circars, of the late 
 treaty with the Nizam, and of the extent of the force sent to Egypt ; 
 the recent treaty with the Nabob Azeem ud Dowlah in the Carnatic, 
 will also vary many parts of the question. 
 
 It does not become me to dwell on the additional circumstance 
 that the plan has been formed without any reference whatever to 
 
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 Earl of j my opinions, or any latitude to the exercise of my discretion. Jt 
 ^mss UTH S wou ld be presumptuous to expect that the wisdom and experience 
 — which formed that plan should have admitted the possibility of my 
 being enabled to submit any opinion worthy of consideration on the 
 means of maintaining our conquests in the Peninsula, or our acqui- 
 sitions in the Dekan. It would also be improper to weigh in the scale 
 the unanimous sentiment of every military officer acquainted with the 
 state of the possessions in question. I am aware that it will be my 
 ultimate duty to submit to the authority appointed by law to control 
 this Government, even if the commands of that authority should appear 
 to my judgment to be founded in error ; but it is my primary duty 
 respectfully to represent facts which could not have been known, and 
 consequences which could not have been foreseen in the formation of 
 this plan, before I proceed to carry it into execution. If, after full 
 information, my orders should be, even to evacuate all our conquests, 
 for the purpose of increasing the commercial investment of one season, 
 I should not hesitate to obey ; and although I should be anxious to 
 retire from a scene, which could present no object to my view un- 
 connected with sensations of regret and disappointment, I would not 
 retire, untill I had fully obeyed the commands of legitimate authority, 
 and had employed every endeavour to render the act of my obedience 
 as little as possible injurious to the security of this Empire. 
 
 With regard to the Finance, I entertain the strongest hopes of being 
 able to improve its condition considerably in the ensuing season. I 
 have already effected much in Bengal and I hope to effect more in the 
 same quarter. The late acquisition of the Carnatic will certainly im- 
 prove the finances of Fort St. George ; if my other avocations should 
 admit of my absence from Fort William, I propose in the month of 
 January, after my return from my present expedition, to proceed to 
 Fort St. George, and ultimately to Bombay for the express purpose of 
 revising in person the details of those Establishments. 
 
 If a supply of bullion shall be dispatched from England at an early 
 period of the approaching season, and shall arrive in Bengal in the 
 month of July 1802, I have little doubt that all financial difficulties 
 might be settled here within a short period of time. I have the honor 
 to enclose a memorandum on the subject of the means of discharging 
 the debt in India, of which I request your Lordship to furnish a copy 
 to Mr. Dundas and Mr. Scott. Some of the suggestions stated in the 
 memorandum might prove useful. I shall hereafter enter more fully 
 into this subject. Perhaps the most advisable mode of proceeding with 
 respect to the debt would be, to fund a part of it in England, and at the 
 same time to send out bullion to discharge another part in India ; if the 
 debt be taken at 14 or 15 millions, and by the joint effect of funding at 
 home and of exportation of bullion to India, one half of it could be 
 redeemed, it would not be necessary to proceed farther : I am satisfied 
 that the importation even of two millions of bullion into Bengal, applied 
 to the discharge of debt, would entirely restore the financial system 
 of all India. 
 
 Intending to have the honor of writing to your Lordship by the next 
 packet, I shall not at present trouble you further than to assure you 
 that I have the honor to be with great respect and esteem 
 My dear Lord 
 
 Your Faithful and obedient Servant, 
 
 Wellesley. 
 
 In adverting to the subject of finance, I have omitted to mention that 
 I have enclosed two accounts usually transmitted annually to the 
 President of the Board of Control ; I request your Lordship to furnish 
 
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 copies of those accounts to Mr. Dundas, to whom I have transmitted a Dartmouth's 
 copy of this letter, as containing references to some of his former MSS - 
 dispatches addressed to me. 
 
 W. 
 
 I request your Lordship to permit Mr. David Scott to peruse this 
 letter. 
 
 W." 
 
 This letter is in triplicate. No endorsement. 
 
 (The Draft of Viscount Lewisham's reply follows this letter.) 
 
 1801, Oct. 12. Fort St. George. — Letter marked Private from Lord 
 Clive to Viscount Lewisham. 
 
 " My dear Lord, 
 
 It was impossible to consider without regret the dissolution of a 
 Ministry which was so eminently entitled as that of Mr. Pitt to the public 
 confidence and respect; but, in the fortunate arrangements, by which His 
 Majesty has been enabled to meet the actual exigencies produced by that 
 event, I observed with no ordinary satisfaction the nomination of your 
 Lordship to be President of the Board of Commissioners for Indian Affairs, 
 and although this appointment has not yet been formall[y] announced to 
 me, you will not object to the unofficial congratulations of an old friend, 
 nor entertain a doubt of their cordial sincerity. 
 
 The relation of your official situation to that which I have the honor 
 to fill renders it my duty to solicit your attention to the important 
 interests confided to my care, and in the discharge of that duty I 
 have no doubt your Lordship will permit me to place much reliance on 
 your consideration and friendship for me. 
 
 A private despatch which I have recently had the honor of receiving 
 from the Chairman of the Court of Directors, is of that extraordinary 
 nature, as to render it expedient for me to enter into a succinct history 
 of the principles and events of my Government. In the best considera- 
 tion which I can give to the subject, I do not, I trust, deceive myself 
 in the belief that the grounds of my measures and the uniform success 
 which has attended them entitle my Administration to the appro- 
 bation and support of His Majesty's Ministers. In this confidence 
 I do myself the honor of enclosing a copy of my despatch to 
 Mr. Scott, and the near interest I must feel on the events dependent 
 upon that despatch will justify the earnestness with which I recom- 
 mend the subject to your Lordship's liberal consideration. My letter 
 to the Chairman contains an epitome of my Government, and the 
 explanation of the principles on which I have acted renders a farther 
 intrusion on your Lordship's politeness unnecessary. I think it neces- 
 sary, however, to remark that the increasing importance of our Indian 
 Empire, appears to me to require a correspondent portion of the vigi- 
 lance of His Majesty's Ministers. The considerations which now 
 attach to our possession in India are not determinable by the maxims of 
 a commercial policy : the power of the Board of Control is therefore 
 indispensably necessary to the prosperous administration of our Eastern 
 affairs. The beneficial effects already produced by the institution of 
 that Control in the Government of the East India Company contain 
 irresistible evidence of the necessity of continuing and increasing the 
 influence of His Majesty's Ministers in the administration of Indian 
 affairs. Under that influence the Marquis Cornwallis was enabled to 
 establish the foundation of our Eastern Government on those principles 
 of enlarged policy without which it cannot be preserved; principles 
 which have since been the anxious object of Lord Wellesley's care. My 
 
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 Earl of letter to the Chairman is founded on considerations conformable to 
 LR MSsy THS those principles, and therefore speaks a language more suited to the 
 — general maxims of His Majesty's Councils, than to the limited views of 
 a commercial Body. Under this impression I deem it to be my public 
 duty to recommend to your Lordship's serious reflection that part of 
 my despatch to the Chairman which involves the consideration of 
 general principles, now applicable to our Eastern Government. With 
 respect to myself I indulge an expectation that a candid consideration 
 of the principles stated by me to the Court of Directors, and the sup- 
 port of His Majesty's Ministers founded on the uniform success of my 
 Government, will render it unnecessary for me to anticipate the period 
 of time, which I had prescribed for my residence in India ; but if the 
 determination of the questions dependent on my present dispatches 
 should be of such a nature as to require my earlier departure, 1 trust 
 I shall be relieved from all embarassment in adopting that measure, by 
 the appointment of a successor to Fort St. George. 
 
 In directing your Lordship's attention to an embarassment of such 
 a description, it will be consistent with the principles stated in this 
 dispatch to refer you to the consequences produced at former periods 
 of time under a casual succession to the Government of Fort St. 
 George. I have the honor to be with the greatest regard and esteem, 
 My dear Lord, most faithfully yours. 
 
 Clive. 
 
 Lord Viscount Lewisham. 
 Addressed : 
 
 The Eight Honourable 
 Lord Viscount Lewisham, 
 &c. &c. &c. 
 
 London. 
 
 Endorsed : — Clive. — E., 23 Mar." 
 
 1801, November 1. Fort St. George. — Letter marked Private from 
 Lord Clive to Viscount Lewisham. 
 
 " Sir Henry Strachey has not failed to acquaint me with the com- 
 munication which had taken place between himself and your Lordship 
 in April last upon the subject of my advancement to a higher station 
 in India, nor have the favorable sentiments of regard and the opinion 
 of my character expressed by your Lordship upon that occasion failed 
 to recall to my mind early times, and to excite in it a gratification pro- 
 portionable to your kindness. And although the extraordinary nature 
 of the dispatches from the Court of Directors by the Terpsichore, and 
 the unusual interference of that Body in the interior and subordinate 
 arrangements of the executive offices of my Government force me 
 irresistably to relinquish a situation, the arduous dutys of which can 
 never be executed with energy and success unless the person intrusted 
 with the charge has the happiness to possess the full confidence and 
 support of his superiors at home, and the free exercise of selection in 
 the instruments he may deem it expedient to employ in the execution 
 of his measures, yet I flatter myself that I shall still be honored with the 
 continuance of your Lordship's friendship and regard, and that the 
 administration of the affairs of Fort St. George during the time I have 
 resided there, and the state of the country when I shall resign my trust 
 will be such as to entitle me to the approbation of your Lordship and 
 the Board over which you preside. 
 
 My dispatch of the 15th ulto. which I had the honor of transmitting 
 to your Lordship by the Lord Thurlow, when compared with the late 
 
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 orders of the Court of Directors will have prepared your Lordship for Barl of 
 the effects which those orders have produced upon my mind, and your Dartmouth's 
 Lordship 1 have no doubt will have anticipated my early retirement, MSS ' 
 and have taken measures for the appointment of a successor to the 
 important station which I have now the honor to fill. Under ordinary 
 circumstances I should have deemed it to be my duty to have awaited 
 the communication of the pleasure of the Court of Directors respecting 
 my departure and the appointment of my successor ; but to continue 
 to administer the affairs of this Presidency with weakened authority, 
 and under the public impression of the loss of confidence of those 
 under whose orders I am placed would be neither consistent with my 
 principles and reputation nor advantageous to the public welfare. 
 
 I have the honor to enclose for your Lordship's farther information 
 a copy of my letter of this day's date apprizing the Court of Directors 
 of my early intention of relinquishing the Government of Fort 
 St. George." 
 
 Copy. 
 
 " To the Honourable the Court of Directors for the affairs of the Hon- 
 ourable the United Company of Merchants of England trading to 
 the East Indies. 
 
 Gentlemen, Fort St. George, 1st November 1801. 
 
 In a dispatch addressed by me to the Chairman of the Court of 
 Directors on the 15th ult° I had the nonor of stating, with the most 
 explicit precision, the principles on which I considered it to be 
 practicable for me to conduct the affairs of the government of Fort 
 St. George. That dispatch was founded on the intention of the Court 
 of Directors, communicated to me by the Chairman, to adopt resolutions 
 for reversing certain measures of my administration upon the grounds of 
 information conveyed to the Court through private channels of intelli- 
 gence : I have since had the mortification of learning the result of that 
 intention from the correspondence of individual persons ; and the 
 dispatches of the Honourable Court subsequently received by His 
 Majesty's Ship Terpsichore have left no doubt on my mind of the effects 
 intended to be produced by the Honourable Court of Directors. 
 
 Those dispatches contain the orders of the Court for the removal of 
 the principal executive officer of my government, in whom the confidence 
 reposed by me is sufficiently known to the Court : it has also pleased the 
 Court to supply by a direct nomination from itself the vacancy occasioned 
 by that removal in the office of Chief Secretary ; and the Court hag 
 further deemed it necessary to order the appointment of persons under 
 its own nomination to the Board of Revenue, and to one of the principal 
 commercial Presidencies. 
 
 I have the honor of stating in the most respectfull manner to the Hon- 
 ourable Court that this resolution, to interfere in the local government of 
 this Presidency, demonstrates either a material change in the principle 
 of administering the Company's affairs since my acceptance of the 
 Government of Fort St. George, or a direct distrust of my future 
 administration. 
 
 In one case the principle of my compact with the Court of Directors 
 is dissolved ; in the other case the inference is too direct to be stated ; 
 and in both cases the deprivation of the choice of instruments renders 
 the conduct of the Government impracticable upon the principles which 
 I have avowed and stated to your Honourable Court. Although the 
 
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 Earl of impression produced on my mind by this determination of your Honour- 
 LB MSS UTR S a ^ e Court is of the most painfull nature, I have not hesitated to obey the 
 — - dictates of my duty by carrying your orders into immediate execution, 
 as far as the execution of them is immediately practicable ; nor shall I 
 protract the arrangements, which are yet dependent on the arrival of 
 persons appointed to stations by your Honourable Court. Having ac- 
 quitted myself of this part of my duty it now becomes my painfull task to 
 apprize your Honourable Court that I consider the operation of its orders 
 to have suspended the execution of the measures which I had judged 
 to be necessary to the public interests committed to my charge ; upon 
 the same grounds I despair of completing the measures which are now 
 in a train of execution ; and I therefore feel it to be incumbent on my 
 reputation, and conformable to your wishes, that I should pay implicit 
 obedience to the intention of your orders, by relinquishing the Govern- 
 ment of Fort St. George. 
 
 It is my intention to record the reasons which have terminated in this 
 resolution ; in the mean time it is my duty to acquaint your Honourable 
 Court that I have resolved to embark for England on one of the 
 Company's ships, destined to complete their cargoes in the month of 
 January next. 
 
 Under ordinary circumstances I should have deemed it to be proper 
 for me to await the arrival of a successor appointed by your Honourable 
 Court; but it is manifestly impossible for me under your existing 
 orders to administer the affairs of the Company in a manner consistent 
 with my avowed principles ; my continuance therefore to preside in 
 this Government unsupported by the confidence of the Court of Directors 
 would at the same time subject me to an unnatural responsibility, and 
 exhibit the dangerous example of degraded authority and distrusted 
 power. Under this impression I deem the orders of your Honourable 
 Court to be a sufficient indication of your wishes ; and I can have no doubt 
 that the Court is prepared to expect my retirement by the earliest 
 opportunity to be the obvious consequence of their late orders. 
 
 I have the honor to inform your Honourable Court that I have apprized 
 the most Honourable the Governor-General of my determination to relin- 
 quish the Government of Fort St. George, and that I have requested His 
 Excellency to make such provisions, as he may deem expedient for that 
 contingency." 
 
 1802, March 24. Copy of a letter from the Earl of Dartmouth to 
 Mr. Addington. 
 
 " I trouble you with this letter to beg that you will allow 
 ?ne at your leisure to have some conversation with you upon the 
 subject of a private communication I have received from Lord Clive 
 and a paper by which it is accompanied. The contents of this com- 
 munication have confirmed me in an opinion I have long entertained 
 that it is necessary that an effective control should be established over 
 the affairs of India. The Board at which through your favors I pre- 
 side is (I am obliged to say) in its present circumstances and condition 
 totally inefficient for the purposes for which it was originally consti- 
 tuted, and unless it be made an integrant part of Government the 
 smallest evil that can occur (unless my views are entirely incorrect) is 
 that India will become a burthen instead of a resource to this Country. 
 Our Indian possessions are of too high an importance to be administered 
 according to the mercantile views and limited conceptions of a body of 
 merchants, however respectable. 
 
 " I should think myself deficient in gratitude, and unjust to my own 
 feelings of regard to you, and to the warm wishes by which I am 
 
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 actuated for the success of your administration, if I neglected this Earl of 
 opportunity of conveying to you my sentiments with all possible frank- Dart mss. th ' 8 
 ness and sincerity, and directing your attention to a point which I — 
 consider of the utmost importance to the general interests of the 
 Empire. 
 
 " I trust that a small degree of that attention will suffice to convince 
 you that a Cabinet Minister in whom you can place the utmost reliance 
 should be at the head of the Board of Control. India cannot be 
 governed by 24 merchants, controlled by an inefficient and subordinate 
 Board, against whose decisions they may hope for redress by appealing 
 through another channel to the Minister, or even immediately to the 
 Minister himself. If by these few observations (for I purposely avoid 
 encroaching upon your time) I may be able to induce you to turn your 
 mind to the subject I am satisfied. 
 
 " No personal view whatever has influenced me in submitting these 
 observations to your notice. The heavy responsibility and arduous duties 
 annexed to the office such as I have presumed to think it ought to be 
 are sufficient to render it by no means an object of my ambition, were 
 my abilities and experience more adequate to the due discharge of its 
 duties, and certainly if it is to remain as now circumstanced the moment 
 when I can quit with honor to myself and without injury to those 
 interests I wish to promote will be no unpleasant moment to me. It is 
 with reluctance I press upon your time, but till I have seen you and 
 know your views I am utterly incapable of returning an answer either 
 to Lord Wellesley or Lord Clive." 
 
 1802, March 25. Downing Street. — Letter endorsed Private, from 
 H. Addington to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 
 " My dear Lord, 
 
 As I had not a minute's leisure from the time of my receiving 
 your Lordship's letter till midnight, I am sure that you will pardon 
 me for having delayed my answer. I shall be happy to see you at 
 ^ past two o'clock to-morrow, if that time should perfectly suit your 
 convenience. Allow me, however, to take this opportunity of assuring 
 your Lordship that I feel very strongly the manner in which you have 
 done me the honor to express those sentiments towards me which you 
 have uniformly manifested, and that, during the last trying year, tew 
 circumstances have been more gratifying to me than the acquisition of 
 what, I trust, I may venture to call your regard and friendship. 
 
 With dispositions and sentiments perfectly and cordially reciprocal, 
 I am, my dear Lord, 
 
 Sincerely and faithfully yours, 
 
 Henry Addington." 
 
 1802, August 5. Fort William. — Letter marked Private, from 
 Marquess Wellesley to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 
 " My dear Lord, 
 
 My last private letters to your Lordship were dated on the 7th 
 and 8th of June, since which time 1 have had the honour to receive 
 your Lordship's private letters of 2nd and 3rd of February, the latest 
 date of any private communication which has reached me from your 
 Lordship. 
 
 The official dispatches will apprize you of the dates of the dispatches 
 received by the Governor-General in Council from the Court and 
 Committee, as well as of the general state of affairs in India. I have 
 only to add my private assurances that we now enjoy the most promising 
 state of prosperity, together with perfect tranquillity, and with every 
 appearance of security and continued repose. 
 
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 Earl os I am anxious to receive instructions respecting the private trade ; 
 
 1R mss? THS if vour Lordship's commands should not reach me in the course of 
 — another week I must proceed to act upon my own judgment, which will 
 induce me to continue without variation the license granted in the last 
 year to the private merchants, under similar restrictions, conformably to 
 the principles stated in my letter to the Court of Directors of the 
 30th September 1800. I shall hereafter resume the whole subject of 
 the private trade in an official form of discussion, for the purpose of 
 vindicating my conduct and opinions, and I shall then furnish your 
 Lordship with a statement of facts and arguments, which will abundantly 
 satisfy you of the incontrovertible justice of those sentiments in which 
 you have done me the honor to concur with me. 
 
 Your Lordship will have anticipated the painful sensations which I 
 must have experienced in receiving the orders of the Court of the 
 27th of January for the immediate abolition of the College at Fort 
 William. Having endeavoured to explain the various considerations 
 affecting that interesting question in a letter addressed to the Chairman 
 by this dispatch, (No. 1), I shall not trouble your Lordship with any 
 further details on the subject, merely referring you to a copy of my 
 letter to the Chairman now transmitted for your use. I must, however, 
 anxiously request your Lordship to interpose effectually (if it should be 
 necessary) for the restoration of this indispensable institution ; I trust 
 you may be able to persuade the Court to concur with you in early 
 measures for this salutary purpose; at all events it is highly desirable 
 that I should receive orders without delay on a question of such delicacy 
 and importance ; your Lordship will observe that if your orders should 
 be considerably delayed the institution will expire under my order in 
 Council of the 24th of June. I think it proper to apprize your Lord- 
 ship (and I leave it to your discretion to use the information as you may 
 think fit) that if the Court should ultimately abolish this institution it is 
 my fixed and unalterable resolution to propose to Parliament immediately 
 after my return to England a law for the restoration of an establishment, 
 which I know to be absolutely requisite for the good government of these 
 possessions. So convinced am I of the necessity of this institution, 
 that I am determined to devote the remainder of my political life to the 
 object of establishing it, as the greatest benefit which can be imparted to 
 the public service in India, and as the best security which can be pro- 
 vided for the welfare of our native subjects. The East India Company 
 can afford the expense of the institution ; if, however, this proposition be 
 contested on just grounds, the public ought to indemnify the Company 
 for the amount of the charge. Without such a system of discipline and 
 study in the early education of the Civil Service it will be utterly im- 
 possible to maintain our extensive empire in India. 
 
 Your Lordship will have received intelligence of the reductions 
 already effected in the military charges at the several Presidencies, and 
 you will find their nature and amount more particularly detailed in my 
 letters by this dispatch. Whatever can be accomplished with safety, 
 justice, and propriety towards a further reduction of the military 
 charges will be attempted by me during my continuance in India ; and 
 I trust that your Lordship will never suffer any person to hold the 
 station of Governor General on whom you cannot rely for a just 
 . attention to the economy of every branch of the public charges, especi- 
 ally of those in the military department. Peremptory orders from 
 England relative to such details tend to embarrass and degrade the local 
 Government. 
 
 Your Lordship will rejoice with me in the prosperous state of the 
 finances of India exhibited by the accompanying statements. 
 
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 (No. 2.) The regular official accounts will be forwarded in about a Earl op > 
 
 month. I entertain a reasonable hope, that the actual result of the year AR mss? TH ' S 
 
 1802/3 will be more favourable than the estimate. — 1803/4 will certainly — ' 
 prove a year of unexampled prosperity ; every branch of the revenue 
 promises improvement, the civil charges will not be augmented, and 
 the military charges may possibly be diminished. 
 
 I am at a loss to account for the reasons which have so long delayed 
 in England the confirmation of the treaty of the Carnatic. 
 
 Considerable inconvenience and danger has already arisen in con- 
 sequence of this delay. 
 
 Your Lordship has been informed of the death of Ally Hussein ; 
 the Government of Fort St. George appears to have employed every 
 precaution for the preservation of his health ; but he was of a weakly 
 constitution, and I suppose that the removal of the restraints, to which 
 he was subject during the life of Omdut ool Omrah, have enabled him 
 to indulge in those habits of debauchery, which are said to have 
 destroyed him. He appears to have been ill for some months previous 
 to his decease, and to have refused the medical aid offered to him by 
 Lord Clive. A report has been circulated that Ally Hussein has left 
 his wife pregnant ; it is also said that he has bequeathed the Carnatic 
 to one of Omdut ool Omrah's brothers, in whose apartments he latterly 
 resided. Your Lordship will feel the necessity of precluding the 
 mischief of all such rumours. I am concerned to say that the Govern- 
 ment of Fort St. George is at present reduced to an alarming state of 
 inefficiency and disunion, the necessary effect of the late measures 
 adopted by the Court of Directors against Lord Olive's administration. 
 That Government has absolutely escaped from my hands ; nor can I be 
 responsible for its couduct, untill the authority of an adequate Governor 
 of Fort St. George, and my own authority also shall be restored without 
 reservation at that distracted settlement. On this subject I have 
 the honour to transmit an extract of a letter (No. 3) which will afford 
 your Lordship a strange but true picture of the state of Fort St. 
 George. 
 
 I expect hourly your Lordship's approbation of the treaty of Oude. 
 The ceded Provinces continue in a state of perfect tranquillity. My 
 brother Henry expects to be able to conclude a triennial settlement of 
 the Land Revenue in a few weeks, and then proposes to quit the 
 Government, as soon as I can introduce a proper police into the 
 country. 
 
 By a newspaper which has accidentally reached me I perceive with 
 pleasure that the Court of Directors has appointed Mr. Barlow to the 
 provisional succession of the Government General ; although in my 
 letter to the Chairman I have not adverted to the possibility of my 
 continuance in India beyond the month of January 1803, I wish your 
 Lordship to understand, that no change has taken place in my senti- 
 ments since the date of my letters of the 13th March 1802, to your 
 Lordship, and to Mr. Addington ; my intention is to abide by the result 
 of the reference stated in those letters to His Majesty's Ministers. 
 Your Lordship, however, will feel, that the injury which my authority 
 has suffered by the abolition of the College, and by other obvious 
 circumstances in the late dispatches from the Court, must encrease my 
 anxiety to receive the fullest and most unequivocal assurances of support 
 from His Majesty's Ministers, as the only possible security for the 
 due discharge of my functions in this Government. Any want of this 
 support must at once compell me to deliver over my charge to Mr. 
 
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 Dartmouth's Barlow. I have the honor to be with great regard and esteem, my 
 MSS > dear Lord, your most faithful and obedient servant, 
 
 Wellesley. 
 
 Your Lordship may be assured that I will not fail to pay every 
 practicable degree of attention to your recommendations lately received, 
 of which I shall return an acknowledgment by the ship Cornet now 
 under dispatch. I request your Lordship's attention to a copy of a 
 very able letter from Mr. Webbe (No. 4) on the subject of the study of 
 the Oriental languages at Fort St. George. 
 
 W. 
 
 I request your Lordship to furnish my brother, Mr. Pole, Mr. Dundas, 
 and Mr. Pitt and Mr. D. Scott with copies of my letter to the Chairman 
 on the subject of the College. Mr. Addington, I conclude, will see it 
 officially; but I apprehend that the Court may be disposed to bury it 
 in the abyss of Leadenhall Street. I also am anxious that the same 
 persons should see the statements of account now transmitted. I pro- 
 pose to send one copy of them to Mr. Dundas. 
 
 W. 
 
 August 12. 
 
 I enclose the Gazette extraordinary of yesterday, containing the 
 intelligence of the dreadful misfortune which had happened with regard 
 to the Persian Embassy at Bombay ; it is not possible to describe the 
 horror and affliction with which this disaster has filled my mind. I 
 trust, however, that I shall be able to succeed in convincing the Court 
 of Persia that this calamity has arisen from circumstances which the 
 British Government could neither have foreseen nor prevented. For 
 this purpose I have ordered Major John Malcolm, so much distinguished 
 by his successful Embassy to Persia, to proceed to Bombay, under in- 
 structions, which will enable him to apply his knowledge of the temper 
 and manners of the Court of Persia, and his influence with the individuals 
 of that nation to the actual state of affairs on his arrival at Bombay. 
 I also propose to despatch immediately to Bushire, Mr. Lovett, a young 
 gentleman of considerable talents, and intimately acquainted with the 
 Persian language, for the purpose of forwarding the necessary com- 
 munications to his Persian Majesty, and eventually of proceeding to the 
 Court of Persia. 
 
 W." 
 
 A copy of the Calcutta Gazette Extraordinary, of Wednesday, Aug. 
 11th, 1802 is enclosed. 
 
 1803, November 8. Fort William. — Letter marked (Duplicate) and 
 Private, from Marquess Wellesley to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 
 "It is my intention to transmit to his Majesty by the Belle Packet 
 which is now under despatch, a detailed narrative of the late trans- 
 actions which have occurred in the Mahratta Empire, and of the 
 military operations which have been directed against the power and 
 resources of the confederate Mahratta chieftains, Doulut Row Scindiah 
 and the Rajah of Berar with their French officers and artillery. I am 
 extremely anxious however, that no despatch should leave this country, 
 without conveying to his Majesty some authentic information on this 
 interesting topic, and request that your Lordship will have the goodness 
 to submit to his Majesty's notice the enclosed printed copies of the 
 Official Gazettes which have been published under my authority at Fort 
 William since the commencement of hostilities, together with the 
 dutiful expression of my congratulations on the signal success which 
 has distinguished the progress of the British arms in every quarter of 
 India during the present contest." 
 
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 " P.S. — As the communication proposed to be made to bis Majesty Earl of 
 is not of an official nature, it appeared to me tbat your Lordship's high DaE mss^ ti 
 station near his Majesty's person would enable you to make it with pro- — " 
 priety, and I flattered myself that your Lordship would not object to 
 my request on such an occasion. My memorial to his Majesty in a 
 more regular form, containing the details of our glorious success will 
 be transmitted through Mr. Addington, Lord Hobart, or Lord Castle- 
 reagh. 
 
 W." 
 
 1804, March 30. 66, Berwick Street. — Letter endorsed " Mirza 
 Aboo Taleb Khan, in answer to a letter conveying 200/. to him on the 
 part of Government." 
 
 " Mirza Aboo Taleb Khan feels himself highly flattered by the note 
 just received from the President of the Board of Control and is 
 exceedingly sensible of the condescension of the British Government in 
 the proof it contains, of their hospitality to a stranger, whose strongest 
 wish, upon leaving this country, will be to return to it, as the happiest 
 existing. 
 
 His prayers shall ever continue for its prosperity." 
 
 (Impression of seal.) 
 
 1805, September 6. Downing Street. — Lord Mulgrave to the 
 Earl of Dartmouth. Offers him the Embassy at St. Petersburgh. 
 Draft reply declining the offer is annexed. 
 
 1805, November 13. Whitehall. — Lord Hawkesbury to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. To arrange for Lord Nelson's funeral. 
 
 1805, November 14. Lord Chamberlain's Office. — John Hale to the 
 Earl of Dartmouth. On the same subject. 
 
 1806. — Correspondence relating to the arrangements for the trial of 
 Viscount Melville in Westminster Hall, with a copy of precedents on the 
 trials of Elizabeth Duchess of Kingston in 1776 and of Warren Hastings 
 in 1787. 
 
 1806, June 6. — Oath of the Earl of Dartmouth as Lord Chamberlain of 
 His Majesty's Household, and list of fees payable to the Privy Council. 
 
 1806 and 1807. — Letters and papers addressed to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth in his capacity as Lord High Chamberlain by the Treasury and 
 by owners of theatres and the opera house : including letters from Mr. 
 Astley, Mr. Thomas Sheridan, Mr. W. Taylor, Colonel H. F. Greville. 
 
 Also papers relating to the establishment of the Royal Household, 
 and the net salaries thereof, and the Lord Chamberlain's salary. 
 
 Among the papers after 1800 are many family letters and papers 
 both on legal and private matters, pieces of poetry, &c. including a bundle 
 of letters between 1802 and 1822 from the Rev. John Till, of Hayes, to 
 William Viscount Lewishara and Earl of Dartmouth on general subjects, 
 and letters from or to John Wheelock, LL.D., President of Dartmouth 
 College in America (1802), H. Brougham (1820\Sir Vicary Gibbs, 
 Lord Chief Justice (1814), Lord Athenry (1828, on the Athenry Peerage 
 and the Earl of Dartmouth's connection therewith), Robert H. Inglis 
 (1843), and others. 
 
 III.— " Letters of George III. and of Royal Princes and 
 Princesses, &c. 1773-1808." 
 
 1773, April 6. Queen's House, 10 m. past 4 p.m.— The King to 
 the Earl of Dartmouth. Holograph. "Lord Dartmouth, I cannot 
 
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 Earl of return the account of the total reduction of the Charibbs without just 
 iR MSS UTH 8 expressing to you the pleasure I feel at these poor deluded people 
 — having submitted to what enables their being kept on the island, and 
 consequently has removed the idea which though necessity might have 
 approved, would have always been most grievous to my mind." 
 
 1773, July 17. St. James's. — The King to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Holograph. 'Lord Dartmouth, I return the letter you communi- 
 cated sometime since to me ; it contains many very useful lessons 
 to a young man, but I could have wished that the author had put 
 before his young friend the only true insentative (incentive) to a rectitude 
 of conduct, I mean the belief in a Supreme Being and that we are to be 
 rewarded or punished agreably to the lives we lead ; if the first of all 
 duties, that to God, is not known, I fear no other can be expected, and 
 as to the fashionable word honour that never will alone guide a man 
 farther than to preserve appearances. I will not add more for I know I 
 am writing to a true believer, one who shews by his actions that he is 
 not governed by the greatest of tyrants, Fashion." 
 
 1774, Feb. 5. 9.30 a.m. Queen's House. — The King to the 
 Earl of Dartmouth. Holograph. " Lord Dartmouth, No one that 
 claims the common feelings of humanity can read Governor Tryon's 
 letter to Lord Hyde without an ardent wish to alleviate the misfortunes 
 that have befallen him, but when his resignation is attended to that 
 makes his religious sentiments appear in their just light, that it greatly 
 encreases my inclination to be of use to him • I desire you will com- 
 municate his letter to Lord North, and consider whether by the packet 
 some comfort cannot be sent to him in his present very melancholy 
 situation." 
 
 1774, March 7. 8 m. past 11 a.m. Queen's House. — The King 
 to the Earl of Dartmouth. Holograph. Returning messages to the two 
 Houses. Is glad Lord North has waived his opinion as to the Bill 
 for rendering perpetual the mode of deciding controverted elections in 
 deference to the manifest desire of the House of Commons. 
 
 1774, March 10. — m. past 6 p.m. Queen's House. — The King to 
 the Earl of Dartmouth. Holograph. Approves the steps taken by Sir 
 Adolphus Oughton to secure the Chair of Moral Philosophy of 
 Edinburgh University for Dr. Beat tie. The application of Mr. Daines 
 Barrington for a salary for a person to collect Natural History 
 (specimens) for the King of Spain His Majesty thinks unreasonable. (See 
 Mr. Daines Barrington's letter of March 2, 1774, above.) 
 
 1774, March 27. 46 m. past 9 a.m. Queen's House. — The King to the 
 Earl of Dartmouth. Holograph. " Lord Dartmouth, The reason of my de- 
 taining from Friday evening to this morning the box containing Governor 
 Leybourne's letter of the 14th of January with the court martial 
 on Major Maxwell of the 6th Regt. of Foot arose from the delicacy 
 of the nature of the dispute ; the validity of Governor Leybourne's 
 Commission, and of Mr. Morris's as Lieutenant-Governor, are un- 
 doubted, but doubts may very naturally arise of what power Governor 
 Leybourne has to delegate such ample authority to Mr. Sharpe over the 
 military by his own appointment, as of course Lieutenant-Governor 
 Morris is invested with in consequence of my sign manual, therefore 
 previous to any decision on this delicate subject you must examine 
 by what authority Governor Leybourne has appointed a temporary 
 Lieutenant-Governor with such full powers whilst he himself is resident 
 in any of the islands that compose his Government. The warrant to 
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 taking the command over the military : also any instructions from the Earl op 
 Secretary of State to the Governor of the Charibbee Islands relative to Dartmouth's 
 the Military. — ' 
 
 The reason of my wishing to see this maturely examined is that 
 perhaps the honour, life, and commission of officers may be at stake, 
 and therefore ought not to be lightly decided upon." 
 
 1774, April 8. 25 m. past 4 p.m. Queen's House. — The King to the 
 Earl of Dartmouth. Holograph. " I am sorry to find the miserable Crab 
 Island is likely to occasion some unpleasant conversation with the Court 
 of Spain." 
 
 1774, April 9. Queen's House, 46 m. past 4 p.m. — The King to the 
 Earl of Dartmouth. Holograph. " Lord Dartmouth, I am sorry to find 
 by the very able letter you have received from Governor Hutchinson that 
 the minds seem to ferment impossible* (sic) more in his Province than 
 I expected ; I shall take no notice of having seen it. He ought to 
 receive through the hands of Lieutenant-G-eneral Gage an answer to it 
 and some comfortable expressions that may make his mind easy that 
 he is not discarded, and will receive marks of favour." 
 
 1774, Oct. 4. Kew. — The King to the Earl of Dartmouth. Holograph. 
 Very much approves of the steps taken at the Cabinet meeting held 
 on the previous night at Lord North's. Recommends the addition of a 
 couple of regiments of Infantry (the 49th and 63rd), to the Marines to be 
 sent to America. 
 
 1774, Oct. 5. Kew.— The King to the Earl of Dartmouth. Holograph. 
 Congratulating him in his own and the Queen's name upon the safe 
 delivery of Lady Dartmouth of a daughter. 
 
 1774, Oct. 10. Kew.— The King to the Earl of Dartmouth. Holograph. 
 As to a letter received from Mr. Hutchinson. " There is great candour 
 in the dispatch to General Gage, but I should imagine an additional 
 paragraph assuring him that, though the conflict is unpleasant, Great 
 Britain cannot retract, might do good as it [would] give him resolution, 
 and without it I should fear he would think there was some wavering 
 which the present moment I am sure cannot allow to be the case with 
 the most gentle minds." 
 
 1774, Dec. 15. Queen's House. — The King to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Holograph. " Lord Dartmouth, nothing can be more provoking than 
 the conduct of the inhabitants of Massachusetts Bay ; some measures 
 must undoubtedly be adopted after Christmas to curb them, and by 
 degrees bring them to a due obedience to the mother country, but reason 
 not passion must point out the proper measures." 
 
 1775, Feb. 28. Queen's House. — The King to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Holograph. "Lord Dartmouth, I am infinitely happy at the 
 receipt of the very comfortable appearance of temper in the Assembly of 
 New York, which if it continues must greatly tend to bring the other 
 Provinces to their senses : perhaps this account may change the opinion 
 of Governor Tryon, and incline him to look on an immediate return to 
 New York as the surest means of recovering his health, as it would 
 certainly be attended with the return of the Colony to a due sense 
 of deference to her Mother Country." 
 
 1775, May 20. Kew. — The King to the Earl of Dartmouth. Holograph. 
 " Lord Dartmouth, how far the proposal of the Admiralty for with- 
 drawing the sailors and marines from the Block House on the coast 
 
 * Should read "if possible," 
 
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 Earl of f Labrador may be proper in future deserves consideration ; but whilst 
 Dartmouth 8 _ ,. , x- • * • * , . 
 
 MSS. the disturbances continue m America every means must be taken to 
 
 encrease the forces under Lieutenant-General Gage, consequently no 
 
 change can be admitted at present that would occasion the detaching 
 
 men for garrisoning that fort." 
 
 1 775, May 29. 40 m. past 4 p.m. Kew— The King to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Holograph. " Lord Dartmouth, it is not improbable but some 
 detachment sent by Lieutenant-General Gage may not have been strong 
 enough to disperse the Provincials assembled at Concord ; but no great 
 reliance can be given to the manner in which it will undoubtedly be 
 exaggerated in American news papers, or when related by an American 
 trader." 
 
 1775, May 29. 37 m. past 8 p.m. Kew.— The King to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Holograph. " Lord Dartmouth, by the newspaper you have trans- 
 mitted, which undoubtedly was drawn up with the intention of painting 
 the skirmish at Concord in as favourable a light as possible for the 
 insurgents, I am far from thinking the General has reason to be 
 displeased ; the object of sending the detachment was to spike cannons 
 and destroy military stores, this has been effected, but with the loss of 
 an equal number of men on both sides ; the dye is cast. I therefore 
 hope you will not see this in a stronger light than it deserves. As 
 to Mr. Pownall's expression of bad news it shews he is more fit for 
 expediting the directions of others than he would have been for a 
 military department or giving advice where firmness is required." 
 
 1775 ; June 29. — Unaddressed letter from the King, with the above date 
 endorsed upon it. " The King trusts that General Gage, having received 
 before this time a reinforcement of seven regiments of infantry and one 
 of cavalry, which will make the army at Boston amount at least 
 to 8,000 men, will not be within that town, and will have destroyed any 
 works thrown up by the rebells in the neighbourhood of it. 
 
 " If the General on consulting the able Generals sent to his assist- 
 ance, is of opinion that, with the force now under his command he 
 cannot advance farther into the country, he ought to weigh whether the 
 defence of Boston cannot be effected with detaching one of the Generals 
 with a suitable force to retake possession of New York. 
 
 " The General ought to send over his ideas as to the best mode of 
 conducting warlike operations next summer and the force that will be 
 required, for it is impossible to send him any succour early enough to be 
 of utility this season." 
 
 1775, July 17. 2 m. past 1 p.m. Kew. — The King to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Holograph. " Lord Dartmouth, I am much pleased with the des- 
 patches from Lieutenant-General Gage, as they are fuller than any before 
 received from him ; it will be necessary to send an additional number of 
 arms, accoutrements, and cloathing for Canadians ; as the rebels have 
 got Indians to their assistance, we must make use of the same desperate 
 weapons." 
 
 1775, July 17. 30 m. past 5 p.m. Kew. — The King to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Holograph. Asking him to consider whether a larger quantity 
 of arms, accoutrements, and clothing cannot be sent to Canada. Expects 
 a reply when he sees him on Wednesday. 
 
 1775, July 21. Kew. 36 m. past 4 p.m. — The King to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. " Lord Dartmouth, the letter received from Governor Wanton 
 
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 shews what men of sense, and those not entirely guided by their Earl op 
 
 passions, think in America ; the other letters as clearly point the heat DaR mss UTH ' 
 
 of the rest; but the difficulties many of the Colonies will suffer the next — 
 winter, and the force that will act the next campaign will, I trust, 
 bring them to soberer thoughts." 
 
 1776. — Unaddressed letter from the King to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 " My dear Lord, I hope you are too well acquainted with the feelings of 
 my heart to doubt in the least of the pleasure I feel, when I can with 
 propriety save the life of any miserable wretch, but I muse not let myseif 
 from sensations that ought ever to reside in the breast of man, to fall 
 into a most improper evil, the preventing the execution of the laws 
 without some real ground for the interposition of the most agreeable 
 feather of* the Prerogative of the Crown. Burglaries daily encrease, they 
 are the most alarming of all robberies ; these, and highway robberies 
 call at present very strongly for a very exact execution of the laws, and 
 the sending a reprieve within a couple of hours of the time of execution 
 is never done but on some strong appearance of some new point from 
 whence perhaps the innocence of the prisoner can be presumed. I 
 therefore must decline preventing the law to take its course." 
 
 1779, Feb. 6. Queen's House. — The King to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Holograph. As to an anonymous letter received by Lord Dartmouth. 
 " Undoubtedly the unfortunate court martial is big with mischief, and 
 as 1 owne I foresaw will end in nothing but creating that degree of 
 faction in the Fleet which perhaps may never again be eradicated." 
 
 1779, Mar. 22. Queen's House.— The King to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Apprising him of the intended appointment of Lieutenant Leggeof the 
 10th Dragoons, to be Captain Lieutenant of Major- General Manners* 
 Regiment of Light Dragoons. 
 
 1780, April 15. 46 m. past 7 a.m. Queen's House. — The King 
 to the Earl of Dartmouth. " Lord Dartmouth is ever an early man, 
 therefore may with the less impropriety be sent to at an unfashionable 
 hour ; I desire he will therefore as soon as convenient take his walk to 
 this place this morning." 
 
 1780, Dec. 23. Windsor Castle.— The King to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 il Lord Dartmouth will easily conceive that the hour when I take my eldest 
 son out of the hands of his governor must be an arduous one to me ; I 
 see the various rocks that surround every young man in this thoughtless 
 and dissolute century. I therefore have had no views in forming his 
 family but to collect men of good private characters, and have not per- 
 mitted politicks or arrangements to come across me ; I have as much as 
 possible found men not in the height of youth ; one young man would 
 be an exception to my rule, but that I could only make for the son of 
 the excellent man to whom I am writing. I am certain his sons must 
 have been bred up in the school of virtue and decorum, as such I 
 venture to think of your second son Mr. Legge for one of his Grooms 
 of the Bedchamber, that will be an office of trust and some attendance, 
 but I think I shall not be disappointed in my choice ; the Duke of 
 Montagu has told me that it would be agreeable to you, if that is the 
 case I desire he may be in town time enough to be presented on Friday 
 the 29th. George E." 
 
 1781, June 4. St. James's.— The King to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Regrets to hear of his illness. 
 
 1781, Aug. 3. Kew. — The King to the Earl of Dartmouth. Enquiring 
 after his health. 
 
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 Jitmouth's 1781 ' Sept * L Windsor -— Tne Kin g t0 the Earl of Dartmouth. Is 
 mss. glad to hear that the sea air has restored his health. 
 
 1782, Feb. 28. Queen's House.— The King to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Hopes a few days absence from town may complete his 
 recovery. 
 
 1782. March 27. The King to the Earl of Dartmouth. " Lord Dart- 
 mouth, Though I have directed Lord North this morning to acquaint all 
 the Cabinet that they must come and resign their respective offices before 
 the levee this day, as I think it would make an odd medley to see some 
 there kissing hands whilst others are to resign, therefore that I shall if 
 possible be at St. James's before one for that melancholy purpose, 
 I owne I could not let Lord Dartmouth hear this without writing 
 him a few lines to avow how very near he will always be to my heart, 
 and that I have ever esteemed him since I have thoroughly known him 
 in another light than any of his companions in Ministry. 
 
 What days has it pleased the Almighty to place me in when Lord 
 Dartmouth can be a man to be removed but at his own request, but I 
 cannot complain, I adore the will of Providence, and will ever resign 
 obediently to His will. My heart is too full to add more. 
 
 George R." 
 
 1783, March 31. Queen's House.— The King to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Announcing that his son Major Legge has been appointed 
 Lieutenant-Colonel of the 88th Regiment of foot. 
 
 1783, Nov. 14. Queen's House. The King to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 " Lord Dartmouth will, I trust, receive this model in wax of a much loved 
 departed child as a mark of my esteem and affection which the convic- 
 tion of the worth of the hands in which I am placing it inspires. I owne 
 every hour encreases the chasm I feel for want of that dear object, but 
 this is accompanied with the joyful conviction that however strongly 
 my loss weighs upon me, it has secured his happiness. 
 
 George R." 
 
 1783, Nov. 16. Carlton, Sunday night.— The Prince of Wales to the 
 Honourable William Legge. " My dearest Legge, I cannot express to you 
 what I feel at the disagreeable and painful necessity we are under at 
 being separated. 
 
 Indeed, my dearest friend, I was happy to get our parting as expedi- 
 tiously over as possible, but I could not bear the thoughts of your leaving 
 me for so long time, without your knowing what my sentiments were 
 respecting yourself. Believe me, my dear Legge, from the first of my 
 acquaintance with you, you have hourly endeared yourself to me by your 
 engaging and sweet manner which will ever make you beloved and 
 tinguished wherever you go. Greatly should I feel your loss at any time, 
 but most especially at this time as I am also deprived [of] our mutual 
 friend St. Leger, there is no one to whom I could unbosom myself with 
 more satisfaction, or trust the most secret thought of my heart with 
 greater delight than to you. But I should feel much more on the present 
 occasion did I not look forward with, eagerness and impatience to the 
 pleasant moment when we shall meet again, and which I sincerely hope 
 is not far distant. Your kindness, attention, and affection to me upon 
 every occasion demand the warmest and most grateful thanks from me, 
 and beleive me the whole of your conduct throughout the whole time 
 of my acquaintance with you can never be obliterated from my heart. 
 Adieu mon tres cher ami, croyez moi toujours votre tres affectionne ami, 
 
 George P." 
 
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 "P.S. — Pray excuse this blotted and interlined scrawl, 'tis entirely daetmouth' 
 owing to the hurry in which I write to you. I send you inclosed for mss. 
 St. Leger." — 
 
 1801, Sept. 22. Castle Hill Lodge, Middlesex.—" Private." Edward 
 Duke of Kent to the Earl of Dartmouth. Asking a cadetship in the 
 Indian Army for Mr, Watson. 
 
 1801, Sept. 24. Castle Hill Lodge.— The Duke of Kent to the Earl 
 of Dartmouth. Thanking him for procuring the cadetship for Mr. 
 Watson. 
 
 1801, Sept. 29. Castle Hill Lodge.— The Duke of Kent to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. As to the appointment of Mr. Watson to a cadetship in 
 India, and choosing the Bengal Establishment, upon which it is to be 
 granted. 
 
 1801, Nov. 16. Castle Hill Lodge.— The Duke of Kent to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Asking for a cadetship for Mr. Straton, the son of an officer 
 who served for many years under the Duke's command in America. 
 
 1801, Dec. 23. Kensington Palace.— The Duke of Kent to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. As to a young man for whom Lord Dartmouth had failed to 
 obtain a cadetship upon the Duke's recommendation. 
 
 1802, Jan. 23. Kensington Palace.— The Duke of Kent to the Earl 
 of Dartmouth. Asking for a cadetship in Bengal for Mr. Emmerson. 
 
 1802, Feb. 2. 33 Green Street, Park Lane. — The same to the same. 
 On the same subject as the foregoing. 
 
 1802, Dec. 8. Bushy House.— The Duke of Clarence to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Enclosing a petition from the Duke of Cambridge's house- 
 keeper. 
 
 1803, July 14. — Princess Elizabeth to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Asking a post for a young man named Hopkins. 
 
 1803, July 28. St. James's. — The Duke of Cumberland to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. In answer to a letter from him, the subject of which does 
 not transpire. 
 
 1804, May 14. Queen's Palace. — The King to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Holograph. " The King acquaints the Earl of Dartmouth, his much 
 esteemed and truely beloved Lord Chamberlain, that the Marquess of 
 Bath has in the handsomest manner declined accepting the office of Lord 
 Steward ; this enables His Majesty to authorise the Earl of Dartmouth 
 to write to the Earl of Aylesford, to acquaint him that he need not come 
 to town till the Countess of Aylesford * is safely delivered of a twen- 
 tieth child, though the King rather hopes two will be produced, not 
 unfrequent in that branch of the Finch family; indeed, the more the 
 better if like the parents in virtue, honour, and attachment to the 
 true Church and to the King, whose attachment to the Established 
 Church can never end but with his life. 
 
 " George E." 
 
 1805, Feb. 9. Kensington Palace. — The Duke of Kent to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Asking his good offices on behalf of Mrs. Eeynett, the wife 
 of a clergyman. 
 
 * Bath, in original. 
 
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 1805, Feb. 21. Queen's Palace — The King to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Holograph. " The King has roughly drawn up the salaries of the pro- 
 posed establishment for Princess Charlotte to which the salaries of the 
 servants are to be added and such, additional ones as the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth may think absolutely necessary on conversing with Lady de 
 Clifford, of which the King will desire to have a written account when 
 the Earl of Dartmouth has properly digested it ; it will be proper to have 
 a state of the annual expence that has as yet been incurred ; Gray the 
 young Princesses' servant out of livery can probably procure the 
 necessary information. George R." 
 
 Enclosing a list of salaries and appointments. 
 
 1805, April 1. Windsor Castle.— The King to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Holograph. On the question of an application by Lord Aylesford, Lord 
 Steward of the Household, for the right to the boxes under the gallery 
 in S* George's Hall. The boxes were also claimed by the Lord Cham- 
 berlain. His Majesty writes that the right to the boxes is in the Lord 
 Chamberlain. 
 
 1805, April 17. Wednesday. — The Princess of Wales to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Asking him to give the vacant apartments at Hampton 
 Court Palace to " old Mrs. Cholmondly." Signed " CP." 
 
 1805, Aug. 26. Weymouth. — Lord Hawkesbury to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Announcing the death of the Duke of Gloucester, and enclosing 
 an order containing the King's wishes as to the funeral. 
 
 1805, Aug. 29. Weymouth. — The Duke of York to General Culvert. 
 As to the funeral of the Duke of Gloucester at Windsor. Enclosed are 
 letters dated Aug. 26 and 29, 1805, from Lord Hawkesbury to Lord 
 Dartmouth on the same matter. 
 
 1805, Oct. 7. Kensington Palace. — The Duke of Kent to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Recommending his domestic chaplain the Rev. J. 
 Wetherall to succeed Dr. Thompson, the late Palace chaplain. 
 
 1805, Oct. 10. Kensington Palace. — The Duke of Kent to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Thanking him for the appointment of Mr. Wetherall to be 
 Palace chaplain. 
 
 1805, Oct. 14. Kew House. — The Princess Mary to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Asking for his interest to procure the post of organist of Green- 
 wich Chapel for the son of Mr. Relfe late organist, who has just died 
 leaving his family in very distressed circumstances. " I cannot put up this 
 letter before I add, what I am sure will make it more acceptable, that our 
 adored King is in perfect health ; as to his eyes they certainly are not 
 worse than when you saw him at Weymouth, indeed we flatter ourselves 
 some days they are better. His patience and resignation under so severe 
 a calamity is a striking proof of his angellic disposition and a striking 
 lesson to all around him." 
 
 1805 ; Oct. 18. — Princess Mary to the Earl of Dartmouth. Thanking 
 him for granting a request she made him. 
 
 1805, Oct. 24. St. James's. — The Duke of Cambridge to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. Asking him to appoint Mrs. Jane Williams as house 
 keeper to one of the Palaces. 
 
 1806, Dec. 22. — The Princess Sophia to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 Congratulating him upon the approaching marriage of his daughter Lady 
 Louisa Legge with Lord Bagot. 
 
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 1806, Dec. 22. Windsor.— The Duke of Cambridge to the Earl of Dart- Dartmouth's 
 mouth. Congratulating him upon the coming marriage of his daughter. mss. 
 
 1807. Paper endorsed. u fteceipts and expenditure of the Establish- 
 ment of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte from Feb. 1, 1805, 
 to April 6, 1807. " A similar account from April 6th 1808 to April 5th 
 1809. 
 
 1807, May 20. Luton Park. — Louis Philippe Due D'Orleans to the 
 Earl of Dartmouth. " The honour we have of being related to his Majesty 
 makes it a duty for me to inform the King of the death of my broth ei 
 [the Due de Montpensier]. I hope therefore that your Lordship will 
 have the goodness of presenting the inclosed to his Majesty and that the 
 circumstances in Avhich we are at present will be my apology, should I 
 have failed in making this melancoly communication with all the forms of 
 which I am ignorant." 
 
 1807. Queen's House. —Princess Amelia to the Earl of Dartmouth. 
 For a situation for an old servant of the Queen. 
 
 1808, Mar. 9. Downing Street. — Spencer Perceval to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. As to the proposed alterations in the Banquetting room at 
 Whitehall of which the King has expressed his approbation. 
 
 1808. — Princess Amelia to the Earl of Dartmouth. Thanking him 
 for his promise to use his influence to procure an appointment for one 
 Griesbach to be Musician in Ordinary to the King. 
 
 1820. May 6. 64 Jermyn Street. — E. H. Locker to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth. As to some of King George's letters which he wished to 
 publish. 
 
 IV. — Miscellaneous. 
 
 N.D. — Paper headed "An accompt of the charges of the journey 
 from Sandwell to Oxford and of my Lord Lewisham's and Mr. Legge's 
 settling in the University." 
 
 " Coach hire from Warrwick to Oxon, 41. 18s. To Sir Charles Holt's 
 coachman, postilion and groom, 1/. 0s. 6d. At the George on the Tree, 
 6s. At Warwick, 3/. 6s. At Kenton, 5s. 6d. At Banbury, 11. 7s. 
 At Middleton Stony, 6s. To the manciple and servants belonging to 
 Magdalen College, 41. 15s. To the President's man, 21. 2s. Matricu- 
 lation, 8/, 31s. To the Vice Chancellor's man, 1/. Is. Caution money, 
 40/. Instead of a treat in the Hall, 10/. To the University Bell- 
 ringers and Waits, 10s. Given at the Library, Museum, &c, 15s. 6d. 
 Admittance in the Comon Room, 71. 3s. A dozen of wine the first time 
 the gentlemen dined in the Hall, 1/. To the waiters at the High Table, 
 10s. To the sexton and beadle of S* Mary's, to Mr. Holt's man, 
 10s. 6d. To the porter of the College, 2s. 6d. For two night gowns, 
 71. 12s. 6d. For two every day gowns, 18/. Brocade and silk for 
 lining, 51/. 13s. Making the best gowns, buckram, silk, &c, 3/. 5s. 6d. 
 Nine dozen of gold loops, 31. 10s. per doz., 31/. 10s. Upholsterer's bill, 
 14/. 4s. lOr? Fcr two capps, 21. For a bob wigg, 11. Is. For two 
 dozen of bands, 1/. 10s. . . . A journey to Blenheim, 1/. 2s. 6d. 
 Expenses at the Angel Inn, 6/. 10s. 7d. For my lodgings, 15s. . * . 
 The total amount is 241/. 16s. At the end is "The tutor is to have 
 20 guineas a year for each of the gentlemen. The necessary woman 
 four pounds a year for each. The lodgings 20/. a year." The date of 
 the writing is probably the beginning of the last century. 
 
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 Earl of 1686. Franckfurt. Printed fly sheet in German, headed, " Neu und 
 Dar ^s XITH ' s wundersame Erfindung eines Kupfernen Morsels, welcher, vermittels 
 — " des windes, so grosse Bomben wirfft, dass man darein 25 mann vers- 
 tecken und selbige ohne schaden in eine feindliche stadt oder Festung 
 werfen kan, auf die probe gesetzet und erfunden, durch den welt- 
 beruffenen Ingenieur Mustaphato Salicio, der zeit renegaten." The 
 account is illustrated with four woodcuts, showing the men entering the 
 shell, the loading of the gun therewith, filling the shell with air and 
 firing the gun, and the arrival of the shell in the ramparts of the 
 enemy's stronghold showing the inmates emerging. 
 
 [1685-88?] July 8. From the Fleet prison. — H. (endorsed Captain) 
 Wycherley. 
 
 " I am now the most unhappy man living, my wife being lately dead, 
 and I frustrated of all my expectations from her estate unless I can prevail 
 by your lordship's interest with some one in Ireland who has the honour 
 to be employed by your lordship to keep possession for me of an estate 
 in Dublin, of which she has levied fines to my use, so that if I had any 
 friend there I could be sure of I might secure that estate ; but if that 
 be not to be done, I am the most miserable man in the world, and can* 
 not secure myself of a friend in the world, unless your lordship's great 
 generosity and goodness shall take pity on a man eternally lost in the 
 world since frustrated of my only hopes in the world, if your lordship 
 can think of any agent you have in Ireland, perhaps by his means I 
 may prevent my total ruin." 
 
 1704. " A full and impartial relation of the battle fought on the 13th 
 of August 1704 N.S. in the plain of Hochstette between the villages of 
 Pleintheim, Overklauw, and Lutzingen." 
 
 N.D. — Paper endorsed " Narrative concerning Capt. Anson's 
 Squadron, in a letter from Capt. Legge of the Severn" The squadron 
 under Capt. Anson consisted of the Centurion, 60 guns, the Gloucester, 
 50 guns, Severn, 50 guns, Pearl, 40 guns, Wager, 20 guns, Tryal, 
 8 guns. 
 
 1759, March 22. Plaistow.— The Rev. Dr. William Dodd to the 
 Earl of Dartmouth. Upon a report that his Lordship was about to take 
 Holy Orders. 
 
 1772, October 9. Cranston, near Edinburgh. — Sir John Dal- 
 rymple to the Earl of Dartmouth. "The circumstances of King James 
 being advised to seize Lord Dartmouth I found - in King James's 
 Memoirs at Paris, it must have been a trick of the Whigs around him, in 
 order to deprive him of one of his steadiest friends. I observe the expres- 
 sion I have used, and which your Lordship takes notice of, implies a 
 very different thing ; I am vexed at it, but shall set it right in this new 
 edition. 
 
 " The note at the bottom of page 223 about Lord Dartmouth's shift- 
 ing his station from the east of the Galloper contains I have reason 
 
 to believe the very words of King James I did not compare 
 
 the particular words upon that article, but they were copied in his 
 note* as the very words of King James, and I am sure the substance is 
 right. I dare say Lord Dartmouth had very good reasons for the 
 alterations he made, and I shall say so. The circumstance of Lord 
 Dartmouth's agreeing to carry over the young Prince I found in a 
 
 * Principal Gordon of the Scottish College at Paris, who had made some re- 
 searches for Sir J. Dalrymple. 
 
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 manuscript of the Scotch College at Paris, called the Life of King DA ETMouTii'i 
 James, said to have been written by Mr. Caryll, his secretary, in five mss. 
 quarto volumes. 
 
 " I shall be very glad that your Lordship's papers set me right on that 
 head. 
 
 " With regard to Lord Dartmouth's intrigues with St. Germains, the 
 fact is beyond doubt. Lord Hardwicke, who has seen the late Mr. 
 Curtis' extracts from King James's Memoirs and other papers, can I 
 believe satisfy your Lordship that I have done him no injustice in that 
 respect. 
 
 " The circumstance of King William's giving the honours of war to 
 Lord Dartmouth's body I found in Collins' peerage and I fancy also in 
 the Gazette. The thing tallys very well with King William's heroism, 
 for from many papers I have seen he respected most those who were 
 most attached to a master who had obliged them. 
 
 "Lord Hardwicke gave me a manuscript called Memoirs of Lord 
 Torrington, which imputed Lord Dartmouth's submission to the Prince 
 of Orange upon his coming to London to selfish views, but the book 
 (though written by one who seemed to know secrets) not being 
 authenticated, and not believing the imputation, I took no notice of it. 
 
 " I beg your Lordship will honour me with the papers you are so 
 good as to mention as soon as is convenient for you." 
 
 1763, Oct. 7. S. James's. — Royal Proclamation limiting and bounding 
 the Provinces of Quebec, East Florida, West Florida and Grenada, and 
 annexing divers islands to the Governments of Newfoundland and Nova 
 Scotia. 
 
 1781 . — Plan o f Birmingham . 
 
 1783, April 25. — Dr. Johnson to the Earl of Dartmouth. " My Lord, 
 The bearer, Mr. Desmoulins, has persuaded himself that some testimonial 
 from me will be useful to him in his application to your Lordship, and 
 I hope that what I yield merely to his importunity will not be imputed 
 to any vain conceit of my own importance. 
 
 He desires indeed nothing to be said but what is true ; that he is not 
 in difficulties by his own fault ; that he has a brother and sister in great 
 distress, and that if he should by your Lordship's favour now obtain any 
 little employment, he will, I hope, do the business faithfully, and use 
 the income properly. I am, my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient 
 and most humble servant, Sam. Johnson." 
 
 1797, June 6. " Le Pompee at sea." — "An address of the well 
 disposed part of the company of His Majesty's Ship Pompee to their 
 brother seamen and the nation at large." Printed. Relating to a mutiny 
 of part of the crew of the vessel. 
 
 1801, June 1. East India House.—Printed letter from the Executive 
 Committee of the East India Company to the Proprietors of the Stock 
 with reference to the renewal of the charter and the question of whether 
 the Indian trade shall be carried on exclusively by the Company's ships. 
 
 1801, Dec. 1. — Printed paper endorsed " Proposal for the more easy 
 transfer of the Company's debts in India to Great Britain." Relating to 
 the East India Company. 
 
 N.D. (after 1801.) — Bulky paper headed " Remarks on the Indian 
 Expences with an estimate of a peace establishment." 
 
 1802. — Paper endorsed, " Substance of Speech," being notes of the Earl 
 of Dartmouth's reply to the Earl of Suffolk in the House of Lords upon 
 the affairs of the Carnatic. 
 
448 
 
 HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION. 
 
 irtmouth's 1806, March 17. London, — Address signed by Sir Benjamin West, 
 mss. Richard Westall, J. S. Copley, J. Opie, H. Thompson, James Northcote, 
 — William Owen, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Robert Smirke, Joseph Nolle- 
 kens, and Charles Rossi, to the Earl of Dartmouth, President, and the 
 rest of the noblemen and gentlemen of the Honourable Committee of 
 Directors of the British Institution for promoting the Fine Arts in the 
 United Kingdom, requesting that the exhibition of pictures at the 
 British Institution may remain open concurrently with the Roynl 
 Academy, instead of being prematurely closed. 
 
 1806, April 5. Palace Yard. — William Wilberforce to the Earl of Dart- 
 mouth. Asking him to become Vice-President of the Society for 
 supplying the Army and Navy with Bibles and Testaments. 
 
449 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 A. 
 
 Abbeville: 
 
 robbery of mail near; 315. 
 
 M. d\ See Albeville. 
 Abbot, Samuel, of Boston, New England ; 
 342. 
 
 Abercrombie, grenadiers at Charlestown 
 
 under; 380. 
 Aberdeen : 
 
 letter dated at ; 367. 
 
 Earl of (1774), proposed as a repre- 
 sentative peer ; 369. 
 Abingdon, Earl of (1685), letter of; 125. 
 Aboyne, Lord (1774), speech of ; 370. 
 Academy, Royal, address concerning ; 448. 
 Acton, letters dated at ; 292, 293. 
 Adair, Surgeon-General; 381. 
 Adams : 
 
 Samuel, of Boston, New England; 342. 
 William, of Titchfield, a gunner ; 
 120. 
 
 Addams, Lieut. James, at Tangier; 109. 
 Addington, Henry, letters of and to ; 425, 
 
 426, 432, 433. 
 Adenbroke, Mr., curate of West Brom- 
 
 wich; 295. 
 Admiralty, the ; 86, 89, 103, 139, et seq, 
 294. 
 
 See Pepys, Samuel. 
 
 kept in ignorance of the Tangier 
 
 expedition; 93. 
 Advertiser, the Daily ; 340. 
 Africa : 
 
 gum trade in ; 338. 
 
 French trading company in ; 338. 
 
 forts on coast of ; 397. 
 
 Company, the, and the negro traffic ; 
 
 26, 68. 
 
 Age, the Iron, book called ; 5. 
 Aiar Dom co , of Tangier ; 96. 
 Ailesbury, Earl of : 
 
 (1688) ; 229. 
 
 (1684), letter of; 120. 
 
 sent to James II. ; 231. 
 
 with James II.; 242. 
 
 (1711), his son ; 309. 
 
 Aire: 
 
 siege of ; 299. 
 
 surrender of ; 302. 
 Akarman, Captain ; 153. 
 Albemarle, Duke of : 
 
 (1661); 4. 
 
 (1666), list of the navy under ; 15. 
 
 (1680) ; 53. 
 
 (1681) ; 70. 
 letter of; 124. 
 
 (1685-86), letters of ; 128,131. 
 
 (1688), his death; 217, 228. 
 
 as Governor of Jamaica ; 239. 
 Albeville, Marquis d' ; 144, 146, 151, 175. 
 
 extracts from letters of; 176 — 183, 
 passim, 201, 255, 263. 
 Albury, Lord Aylesford's death at ; 325. 
 Alcazar: 
 
 governor of; 77. 
 
 the Alcaid of; 319, 320. 
 
 Col. Kirke's negotiations with ; 
 
 90-92. 
 Aldworth, Mr. ; 73. 
 Algiers; 7. 
 
 pirates, expedition against; 17-19. 
 
 ships of, taken ; 68. 
 
 corsairs; 105. 
 
 bombardment of ; 161. 
 AH Benabdala, the Alcade, his correspon- 
 dence with Lord Dartmouth ; 110. 
 Alicant; 106. 
 
 fortifications of; 7. 
 
 Road; 17. 
 
 letter dated from ; 19. 
 
 Alice Holt forest ; 25. 
 Alikmare ; 4. 
 Alington, Lord : 
 
 constable of the Tower ; 76. 
 
 letter of; 86. 
 Allen : 
 
 Mr., lease to ; 326. 
 
 Sir Thomas ; 290. 
 
 admiral, squadron under ; 15. 
 
 his journal in the Resolution ; 
 
 16-19. 
 
 Spragge's complaint against ; 
 
 19. 
 
 Alline, Capt. Thomas ; 75. 
 Allmarea bay ; 107. 
 Ally Houssein, death of ; 435. 
 Alsmore, John, at Tangier, report by ; 
 61. 
 
 Alvansleben, Baron, letters of ; 364, 365. 
 Ame, Mr., evidence of; 312. 
 
 U 24961. 
 
 F F 
 
450 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Amelia, Princess, daughter of George III., 
 
 letters of ; 445. 
 America : 
 
 annexation of six nations of Indians 
 
 in; 162. 
 trade distresses in ; 331. 
 Stamp Act in, tumults arising from ; 
 332, 339. 
 
 the fight for independence ; 332, et 
 
 seq. 
 
 See under the different States. 
 
 former loyal feeling in ; 362. 
 
 English cloth, &c. in ; 358. 
 
 colonies of, statement of their con- 
 dition ; 384. 
 
 proposal to send Russian infantry to ; 
 395. 
 
 war with, protest from Norfolk 
 
 against; 419. 
 squib on British rights in ; ib. 
 South, natural products of ; 349. 
 Amherst : 
 
 Col., Lieut.-Governor of St. John's; 
 
 371. 
 
 Sir Jeffrey, services under ; 337. 
 
 letters of; 370, 371, 396. 
 
 Amiens, robbery of mail near; 315. 
 Ampthill, letter dated at ; 120. 
 Amsterdam ; 31, 202. 
 
 ship of ; 20. 
 
 the Prince of Orange's troubles with ; 
 31. 
 
 letter dated at ; 151. 
 Andalusia, French merchants in ; 16. 
 Anderson : 
 
 Lieut., killed at Quebec ; 406. 
 
 Andrew, letter to ; 382. 
 
 James, letter of; 382. 
 
 John, of St. John's river, letter to ; 
 399. 
 
 Andover, James II. at; 215, 216, 220, 
 
 275. 
 Andros : 
 
 C, of Guernsey ; 124. 
 Sir Edmund, governor of New Eng- 
 land; 134. 
 Anglesey, Earl of : 
 
 (1665), and Sir M. Eustace ; 12. 
 (1679) ; 33. 
 
 (1702), and his wife ; 293. 
 Anjou,Duke of, Spain plundered by ; 299. 
 Annapolis, or Annapolis Royal : 
 
 governor of ; 320. 
 
 taking of ; ib. 
 
 justices for ; 378. 
 
 pirates about ; 383. 
 
 disaffected people at ; 384. 
 
 ships at ; 387. 
 
 letters dated at ; 398. 
 
 basin; 403. 
 Anne, Princess, afterwards Queen: 
 
 account by Pepys of her withdrawal 
 from James II. 's court ; 214, 273. 
 
 her correspondence with Lord Dart- 
 mouth ; 298-316, passim. 
 
 letters of Charles III. of Spain and 
 his Queen toj 301, 302, 304. 
 
 Anne, Princess, afterwards Queen— cont. 
 
 address from Convocation to ; 303. 
 
 plot in Ireland against; 315. 
 
 her medals ; 316. 
 
 her debts ; 321. 
 Ansley, Harrison and ; 382. 
 Anson, Captain, his squadron ; 446. 
 Antigua : 
 
 letters dated at; 295, 337. 
 
 Solicitor-General of ; 372. 
 Antiquaries, club of; 328. 
 Antwerp ; 31, 175. 
 
 letter dated at ; 424. 
 Appleby, election for ; 124. 
 Appleton, Nathaniel, of Boston, New 
 
 England; 342. 
 Apsley : 
 
 Sir Allen ; 37, 44, 47, 56, 74. 
 
 Lord Chancellor, letters of; 348. 
 
 lady ; ib. 
 
 Aquila, Don John de, threatened landing 
 
 at Cork of; 125. 
 Arbuthnot : 
 
 Admiral, letter of; 345. 
 Commodore, letters of ; 387, 399. 
 
 letter to ; 389. 
 
 his charge in Nova Scotia ; 
 
 404. 
 
 Lieut.-Governor, letter to ; 408. 
 
 and the Volunteers ; 415, 416. 
 
 Archbold, Sir Henry: 
 
 Geo. Legge's courtship of his daughter ; 
 16. 
 
 letter of ; 56. 
 Archer : 
 
 Captain, plot or plan by ; 20. 
 
 Edw., letter of ; 123. 
 Arden, Sir R. Pepper ; 425. 
 Areleman, Mr., at Tangier, report by ; 
 59. 
 
 Arguin, English claim to ; 338. 
 Argyle : 
 
 Nova Scotia ; 403. 
 
 Earl of (1679), trial of; 41. 
 
 his escape ; 43, 56. 
 
 and the test ; 44, 70, 71. 
 
 Duke of (1711) ; 305. 
 
 (1711), letter of ; 305. 
 
 — — » his aide-de-camp ; ib. 
 
 (1712), his pass ; 310. 
 
 (1715), his chaplain ; 322. 
 
 Arlington, Earl of : 
 
 (1665); 12. 
 
 the Duke of York's comments on: 
 46. 
 
 (1684), letter of ; 120. 
 Arms, seizure of ; 120. 
 Armstrong, Sir Thomas, the Duke of 
 York's expressions against ; 34, 35, 37. 
 Army: 
 
 cost of establishment at Tangier ; 28, 
 29. 
 
 the, strength of, in 1688 ; 171. 
 Arnold : 
 
 General, Quebec besieged by ; 405- 
 407. 
 
 Benedict, English troops seized by ; 
 394. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 451 
 
 Arran: 
 
 Earl of (1665), letters of; 11. 
 
 (1681); 70, 71. 
 
 his Countess ; 15. 
 
 son of Duke of Hamilton (1684), 
 
 letter of; 115. 
 
 son of the Duke of Ormonde, 
 
 letter of; 121. 
 Countess of, Mary, letters of; 14, 15. 
 Arthur : 
 
 Captain; 271. 
 Mr. ; 425. 
 Arts, Fine, promotion of; 448. 
 Arundel Castle, William Legge imprisoned 
 in; 25. 
 
 Ascough, Sir George, admiral, squadron 
 
 under; 15. 
 Ash: 
 
 Ben., of Tangier ; 96. 
 
 Dr. John, letters of; 424, 425. 
 
 his work on mineral waters ; 
 
 425. 
 
 Ashhurnham, Lord (1713) ; 315. 
 Ashhy : 
 
 Capt.; 102. 
 
 John; 17. 
 Ashford: 
 
 letter dated at ; 351, 359. 
 
 vicar of, his stipend ; 351, 352, 359. 
 Askin, Captain, at Nieuport ; 27. 
 Assiento, the ; 315. 
 Astley, Mr., letters of ; 438. 
 Athenry, Lord, letter of ; 438. 
 Athlone, Lord Ranelagh at ; 132. 
 Athol : 
 
 Marquis of (1685), and the Scotch 
 rebels ; 125. 
 
 Duke of (1774), death of; 368. 
 
 Duchess of; 368. 
 Atkins, Samuel, secretary to Lord Dart- 
 mouth, letters to ; 100, 103, 108. 
 Atkinson : 
 
 Captain, of the Trinity House ; 140. 
 
 Mr., of Kingsthrop ; 293. 
 Atlee, William, of Pennsylvania ; 357. 
 Aubrey, Herbert, his son; 159, 
 Avence ; 119. 
 
 Ayles, Captain, of the Trinity House ; 140. 
 Aylesford; 294. 
 
 Earl of (1721), letter of ; 326. 
 
 (1767), and the Maidstone elec- 
 tion ; 333. 
 
 and Countess of (1804) ; 444. 
 
 Lady, her South Sea stock ; 326. 
 Aylmer : 
 
 Capt. ; 236. 
 
 Capt. George ; 86, 102, 268. 
 
 and Upnor Castle ; 153, 157. 
 
 of the Portland; 182, 194, 197. 
 
 201, 207,218. 
 
 letter of; 219. 
 
 Capt. Matthew; 102, 232, 237, 
 242, 283. 
 
 obliged to salute the Spanish 
 
 fleet ; 85, 89. 
 — — letter of ; 85. 
 Ayres, Captain, teas brought to Phila- 
 delphia by; 345. 
 
 B. 
 
 B., J., letter of ; 9. 
 
 Babbington, Colonel, part of his regiment 
 
 taken; 263. 
 Babzy Church ; 263. 
 Bacher, Fred. : 
 
 letters of; 95, 97. 
 
 reports by ; 97, 103. 
 
 depositions before ; 106. 
 
 reports on petitions by ; 118, 119. 
 Backer, Peter, Dutch Captain ; 21. 
 Baden : 
 
 Marquis of; 5. 
 
 illness of ; 8. 
 
 Badminton, letter dated at ; 86. 
 Bagot : 
 
 Honora, her marriage; 425. 
 
 Lord (1806), his marriage; 445. 
 Bahama Islands : 
 
 proprietors of ; 302. 
 
 Captain General of ; 399. 
 Baker : 
 
 Mr., in Algiers ; 18. 
 
 Solicitor-General of Antigua; 372. 
 Balcarres, Earl of : 
 
 (1774), letter of ; 368. 
 
 as a representative peer ; ib. 
 
 his character ; 369. 
 Ballen, Lieutenant ; 148. 
 Ballynekill, near Kilkenny, sale of; 12. 
 Banbury; 445. 
 
 Banker, Adrian, Admiral for Zealand ; 21- 
 Bankes : 
 
 Mr., and his son, letter touching; 
 125. 
 
 James, certificate of ; 238. 
 
 Sir John ; 287. 
 Banstead Downs ; 124. 
 Bantry, Bay of, fight in ; 252, 253. 
 Barbadoes : 
 
 letter dated at ; 135. 
 
 the Duke of Albemarle at ; 135. 
 
 Secretary's office ; 295. 
 
 citron water from ; ib. 
 
 Carlisle Bay ; ib. 
 
 complaint against Governor of ; ib. 
 Barbary, West, Prince of, treaty by ; 13. 
 Barber, Ensign Nath, at Tangier ; 109. 
 Barbour, Captain, his company at Tangier; 
 109. 
 
 Barcelona ; 298, 305. 
 
 letters dated at ; 301-304. 
 Barclay, Captain, at Tangier ; 103. 
 Barker, Samuel, at Tangier ; 110. 
 Barkley, Captain, of the Scarborough ; 
 395. 
 
 F F 2 
 
452 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Barlow : 
 
 Dr., book attributed to ; 47. 
 Mr., Lord Wellesley's opinion of ; 
 426, 427. 
 
 provisional Governor General ; ib., 
 435. 
 
 Barnsfare, a ship's Captain ; 406. 
 Barrett, James, of Sligo, declaration 
 
 signed by ; 249. 
 Barretti, Captain ; 417. 
 Barrington : 
 
 Lord (1774), letter of ; 349. 
 
 despatches from ; 396. 
 
 Daines, letters of; 349, 439. 
 
 Nova Scotia; 415. 
 Barry : 
 
 Lieut., Secretary to Col. Gorham; 387. 
 
 Captain, of the Nova Scotia 
 volunteers; 403. 
 Barter, Cape ; 19. 
 Barton : 
 
 Capt. James, letter of ; 404. 
 
 on Humber ; 134. 
 Basingstoke, letter dated at ; 202. 
 Bastiaens, Dutch admiral; 180. 
 Bastick, Mr., of Dover, letter of; 184. 
 Basto, Mathew ; 107. 
 Bath ; 120, 127. 
 
 letters dated at ; 75, 327. 
 
 James II. at ; 133. 
 
 election at ; 297. 
 
 account of society at ; 327. 
 
 Russell Street ; 371. 
 
 South Parade ; 365. 
 
 Lord, commissioner to General 
 Mo nek; 25. 
 
 Earl of (1681) ; 68. 
 
 (1685), letter of; 128. 
 
 (1688), letter of ; 139. 
 
 his second son ; ib. 
 
 • (1688), his letters seized ; 193. 
 
 - instructions to ; 198, 274. 
 
 Plymouth seized by; 216, 274. 
 
 Marquis of (1804) ; 444. 
 Bath and Wells, Bishop of : 
 
 (1685-88), letters of; 123, 134, 138. 
 See Ken, Dr. Thomas. 
 Bathurst : 
 
 commoner of the city ; 95. 
 
 Sir Benjamin ; 84, 214. 
 
 Lord (1721), letter of ; 326. 
 
 (1776), Lord High Steward; 
 
 403. 
 
 Batterow, — , his desertion from Bagobah ; 
 422. 
 
 Batteville, Baron ; 6. 
 
 Battine, Edward, of Portsmouth, letter of ; 
 
 242. 
 Beach : 
 
 Capt.Richard,in the expedition against 
 
 Algiers; 17, 19. 
 Sir Richard ; 88, 151, 153, 163, 221. 
 . letters of; 155, 201, 211, 217, 
 
 222, 224, 225, 232, 235. 
 
 on the Navy Board; 212. 
 
 * instructions to ; 244. 
 
 * packet returned by ; 246. 
 
 . at Portsmouth ; 282. 
 
 Beachy Head ; 186, 263, 265. 
 Beard, Mrs., landlady ; 313. 
 Beattie, Dr. ; 439. 
 
 Beauchamp, Viscount (1774), letter of; 
 370. 
 
 Beauclerk, Lord William, at Bath; 327. 
 Beaufain, Sieur de, affair of; 364. 
 Beauford, Mons., slain ; 17. 
 Beaufort, Duke of : 
 
 (1683), letter of; 86. 
 
 (1685), letter of ; 127. 
 
 (1710); 297. 
 
 letter of; 298. 
 Beaumont, Lieutenant of the Portsmouth ; 
 182. 
 
 Beauvall, Lewis, of Rochelle ; 73. 
 Becke, Captain, his ship taken ; 18. 
 Beckett, Mr. ; 235. 
 Beckford : 
 
 Colonel; 136. 
 
 of Jamaica ; 239. 
 
 Mr., slopseller ; 152. 
 
 Peter, in Jamaica ; 316. 
 Beckmann, Major, afterwards Sir Martin, 
 at Tangiers ; 51. 
 
 his preparations against theMoors ; 52. 
 
 letters of ; 52, 88, 124, 134. 
 
 walls of Tangier to be mined by ; 84. 
 
 memorandum by ; 89. 
 
 pay due to ; 116. 
 
 at Glasgow ; 125. 
 
 instructions by ; 132. 
 
 his progress on Hull fortifications ; 
 136, 222. 
 
 and the Hull fortifications ; 222. 
 
 sacrament taken by ; 236. 
 
 his new religion ; ib. 
 Bedfordshire : 
 
 arms seized in ; 120. 
 
 election in ; 326. 
 Bedloe, the informer ; 31. 
 Belcher, Jonathan, Chief Justice of Nova 
 Scotia ; 413. 
 
 letter of; 371. 
 
 his death ; 403. 
 Bellamont, Lord (1773), his wound ; 335. 
 Bellasis or Belasyse, Lord, John (1666), 
 Governor of Tangier, treaty by ; 13. 
 
 (1683), letter of; 86. 
 Bellem, letter dated at ; 297. 
 Bellott, Justice, of Cornwall ; 115. 
 Benaisha, admiral of Sallee ; 319. 
 Benett, Mr., candidate for Cambridge 
 
 University; 253. 
 Benge, Mr. ; 143. 
 Bennett : 
 
 Sir Henry, secretary of state ; 9, 10, 
 11. 
 
 Capt. Tho., his company at Win- 
 chester ; 15. 
 Bentinck, M. ; 66. 
 
 at Helvoetsluys ; 165. 
 
 with the Prince of Orange ; 181, 203. 
 Berar, Rajah of ; 437. 
 Bergomi, Count de, at the Hague ; 305. 
 Berkeley : 
 
 Captain, his company at Tangier ; 
 110. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 453 
 
 Berkeley — cont. 
 
 Colonel, ordered to Portsmouth ; 237. 
 Lord (1663), President of Connaught; 
 11. 
 
 and Lady, their payments for 
 
 Vande veldt's pictures ; 153. 
 
 of Stratton (1685), John, letter of; 
 128. 
 
 Lord (1688) ; 275. 
 
 in the Straits ; 139. 
 
 ' very pert '; 261. 
 
 of the Montagu; 138. 
 
 instructions to ; 203. 
 
 letters to and of; 205, 210, 222. 
 
 his interview with James II ; 
 
 222. 
 
 (1689), letter of; 250. 
 
 William, of Stratton (1710); 
 
 302. 
 
 letter of; 305. 
 
 (1713), letters of; 316. 
 
 Earl of (1688) ; 229. 
 Mrs., her flight with Princess Anne ; 
 214. 
 
 Ensign And., at Tangier ; 110. 
 Berk ham, Mr., in Algiers ; 19. 
 Berkshire county, New England, meetings 
 
 in; 349. 
 Bermudas; 135. 
 
 Bernard, Sir Francis, his wife and family 
 
 brought from Boston ; 362. 
 Berry : 
 
 Sir Edward Seymour at ; 185. 
 Sir John ; 99, 102, 250, 251. 
 
 letters of; 94, 97, 153, 159, 
 
 167,233. 
 
 loss of his ship, the Gloucester ; 
 
 74, 75. 
 
 at Tangier ; 80. 
 
 instructions concerning Tangier 
 
 to ; 84, 85, 86. 
 - orders to ; 94. 
 
 his battalion of seamen ; ib. 
 
 reports by ; 97, 107. 
 
 certificate by ; 110. 
 
 as Navy Commissioner ; 147, 
 
 152, 212. 
 
 his division ; 161, 171. 
 
 instructions to ; 247, 248. 
 
 his advice ; 264, 268. 
 
 ships placed under ; 283. 
 
 Capt. William, at Tangier; 108. 
 Bertie : 
 
 Mr., his mission ; 225. 
 
 Charles ; 245. 
 
 letter of; 138. 
 
 Bertrand, Laurence, commander of the St. 
 
 Anne; 103. 
 Berwick : 
 
 letters dated at ; 67, 124. 
 
 election for; 124. 
 
 fortifications of ; 69, 80. 
 
 survey at ; 74, 75. 
 
 garrison at ; 135. 
 
 Duke of; 215. 
 
 Berwick — cont. 
 
 Duke of (1688), letters of; 139, 235, 
 237. 
 
 certificate of ; 236. 
 
 his regiment at Salisbury ; 204. 
 
 his regiment gone over to the 
 
 Prince ; 210. 
 
 sent to Portsmouth ; 226. 
 
 his withdrawal ; 230. 
 
 and Gosport ; 234, 235. 
 
 with James II. ; 242. 
 
 letters to ; 281. 
 
 at Portsmouth ; 280-283. 
 
 Bethell : 
 
 Slingsby ; 42, 65. 
 
 Sheriff; 65. 
 Bett, Captain, of the Beaver; 378. 
 Betts, Isaac, certificate by ; 210. 
 Beverley : 
 
 Mr., in Virginia ; 80. 
 
 Mrs., of Tangier; 97. 
 Bickerstaff : 
 
 Captain ; 74. 
 
 candidate for Berwick ; 124. 
 
 Biddle, Mr. ; 56. 
 
 Biggs, Sir John, recorder of Portsmouth ; 
 123. 
 
 Billingsley, Major, of the Guards ; 121. 
 Bingley, Lord : 
 
 (1713), his skill in architecture ; 318. 
 
 in the country ; 319. 
 
 and South Sea stock ; 325, 326. 
 
 letters of; 325. 
 
 his Cheshunt nunnery ; 324. 
 Binney, Jonathan, of Halifax, Nova 
 Scotia : 
 
 letter of; 350. 
 
 his imprisonment; 376, 377, 381. 
 382. 
 
 letter of ; 381. 
 
 papers concerning; 386. 
 
 his debt ; 409. 
 Birmingham : 
 
 new church at ; 320. 
 
 letter dated at ; 328. 
 
 housebreakers about ; ib. 
 
 plan of ; 447. 
 Bishops ness, letter dated at ; 146. 
 Black, William, letter of; 387. 
 Blackheath; 328. 
 
 Vanbrugh Fields ; 338, 339, 364, 366. 
 
 firing on ; 132. 
 
 Lord Dartmouth's property at ; 326. 
 
 Sir G. Page's house at ; 330. 
 Blathwayte : 
 
 Mr. ; 81, 111,243, 246. 
 
 William, letter of; 297. 
 
 his election ; ib. 
 
 Blackwell, Mr. ; 3. 
 
 Blaydes, Joseph, letter of ; 123. 
 
 Blencowe, Mi., his fellowship at Alt 
 
 Souls; 299. 
 Blenheim : 
 
 or Hochstette, battle of; 446. 
 
 co. Oxford, journey to ; 446. 
 Blessington, Lord (1688), joins the 
 Prince of Orange ; 222. 
 
454 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Bliss, Rev., Thomas : 
 
 of Ashford, letters of; 351, 359. 
 
 his stipend; 352. 
 Blood, Holcraft, letter of; 146. 
 Blunden, Mr. ; 17. 
 
 Blunt, Sir John, South Sea director ; 326. 
 Boddington, Mr., letters of ; 396. 
 Bohemia, Queen of, in England ; 4, 6. 
 Boldock, Mr., at York ; 134. 
 Bolingbroke, Lord ; 310. 
 at Paris ; ib. 
 
 (1712) , at the Privy Council; 311, 
 313. 
 
 (1713) , and the new appointments; 
 318. 
 
 M. Torcy and; 315. 
 Bollen, W., letter of; 352. 
 Bombay : 
 
 letter from; 420-422. 
 
 army reductions in ; 427. 
 
 Persian embassy at ; 436. 
 Bonnerman, Ensign John, at Tangier ; 
 110. 
 
 Bonnett, Joseph, letter of ; 416. 
 Bonser, Ambrose, of Tangier ; 96. 
 Bontiers, Captain, with the Dutch fleet ; 
 181. 
 
 Boone, Thomas, letters of; 366. 
 Booth: 
 
 Captain, his capture of an Algiers 
 ship ; 68. 
 
 Sir William ; 102. 
 
 ■ letters of; 144, 157, 161,251. 
 
 in the Tangier expedition ; 94. 
 
 his battalion of seamen ; 94. 
 
 reports by ; 97, 107. 
 
 his lieutenant; 145. 
 
 as Navy Commissioner; 147, 
 
 152, 212. 
 
 his men run away ; 164, 172. 
 
 Pepys and ; 174. 
 
 Bordeaux, shepherds on stilts near; 331. 
 Bordier, C., petition of ; 104. 
 Bordt, Dennys de; 352. 
 
 application from ; 354. 
 Borlase, G., letter of; 333. 
 Bosanquet, Jacob, letters of; 426. 
 Bostock : 
 
 Nathaniel, testimonial concerning ; 
 132. 
 
 his lieutenant's certificate ; 223. 
 
 Boston, New England : 
 
 letters dated at ; 320, 334-350, 360, 
 
 373-389, 399, 400. 
 fortifications of ; 134. 
 seditious pamphlets circulated about ; 
 320. 
 
 consignments of tea to, disturbances 
 
 concerning ; 341, et seq. 
 Liberty Tree at ; 341, 342. 
 attack on houses of tea merchants in ; 
 
 342. 
 
 debates in Assembly ; 342, 343. 
 Faneuil Hall ; 342, 343. 
 
 meeting of freeholders in ; ib. 
 
 — — oration delivered at ; 349. 
 
 Boston, New England — cont. 
 
 East India's Co's. agent at ; 347. 
 Gazette; 348. 
 
 House of Representatives, their agent 
 
 in England ; 350. 
 riots, instructions to General Gage 
 
 concerning ; 351. 
 reported cannonading of ; 363. 
 rebels at ; 364. 
 
 supported by the other provinces ; 
 
 353, 354. 
 quartering regiments in ; 354. 
 ill-usage of Council at; 361. 
 troops embarked for; 374. 
 hostilities begun at; 375, et seq. 
 select men at, address to ; 377. 
 defence and sufferings of ; 382. 
 continual fighting round ; 393. 
 General Clinton marching on ; 398. 
 distresses of inhabitants ; 399. 
 proposed removal of families from ; 
 
 400. 
 
 evacuation of; 402. 
 
 King's Road near ; ib. 
 
 governor of, Hutchinson, his letters $ 
 
 335-350, 362. 
 Milton near ; 342. 
 
 Harbour, Castle William ; 343, 344. 
 
 tea thrown into ; 344, 346. 
 
 Act concerning; 347, 351, 353, 
 
 355. 
 
 Neck, fortifications made od ; 363. 
 
 Copse Hill in; 380. 
 Botham : 
 
 Captain ; 102, 237. 
 
 Capt. William ; 75. 
 Bothmer, Baron, letters of ; 305, 320. 
 Bounds, letter dated at ; 332. 
 Bourne, Mr. Clark at ; 10. 
 Bowdoin, Mr., of Boston, New England ; 
 343. 
 
 Bowles, Mr., or Phineas, secretary to Lord 
 Dartmouth; 160, 164, 166, 173, 
 206, 227, 239, 245, 260. 
 letters of; 242, 245, 247. 
 Pepys' displeasure with ; 245, 247. 
 Bowyer, Thomas, collector at Dartmouth ; 
 185. 
 
 Boyle, Mr. ; 295, 297. 
 Boyne, Lord (1735) ; 328. 
 Boynton, Major, at Tangier ; 50. 
 
 report by ; 61. 
 Bradford, Wilts, letter dated at; 126. 
 Bradley, Mr., gum importer ; 338. 
 Bradstreet, Major-Gen., Lieut.-Governor 
 
 of St. John's ; 370. 
 Brady, Dr., candidate for Cambridge 
 
 University ; 253. 
 Bramber, election at ; 364. 
 Brampton Castle, letter dated at; 321. 
 Branch, or pilot's warrant ; 122. 
 Brandenburgh : 
 
 Elector of; 9. 
 
 Duke of ; 193, 194. 
 Brattle, Mr., letter of; 360. 
 Brazil, fleets from ; 300. 
 Breadalbane, Earl of (1774) ; 369, 370. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 455 
 
 Breda; 31,32, 33. 
 Bregete, T., of Tangier; 96. 
 Breholt, David, deposition of; 106. 
 Brent, Mr., his house attacked ; 229. 
 
 flight of; ib. 
 Brentford, the two Kings of; 412, 414. 
 Brenton : 
 
 J., letter of ; 339. 
 
 James, his motion against Governor 
 Legge ; 408. 
 Brest; 331. 
 Breton: 
 
 Island; 333. 
 
 return concerning ; 365. 
 
 Cape, coal from; 333, 377, 397. 
 Brewer, Captain, at Nieuport ; 27. 
 Breynton, Rev. John, letter of ; 382. 
 Bridge, — , in Nova Scotia ; 376. 
 Bridgeman, Mr. ; 183, 201. 
 Bridges : 
 
 Mr.; 262, 263. 
 
 recommendation of ; 236. 
 
 atGravesend; 247. 
 
 Sir Brook, candidate for Kent ; 332. 
 
 Sir Matthew; 136. 
 
 William, letter of ; 183. 
 Bridgewater ; 204. 
 
 Monmouth's army at ; 126, 127. 
 
 letter dated at ; 128. 
 Brihuega, prisoners at ; 305. 
 Brill, the; 178, 181. 
 Brisart, Fern^ , of Tangier ; 97. 
 Brisbane : 
 
 Mr., in Algiers; 17, 18. 
 
 J., of the Admiralty ; 63. 
 
 letters of ; 88, 89. 
 
 Bristol; 134, 204, 211. 
 
 letter dated at; 127. 
 
 rendezvous at ; ib. 
 
 and the Prince of Orange ; 222. 
 
 Bishop of (1713), Lord Willoiighby ; 
 316, 317. 
 
 Earl of (1688), at Sherborne ; 219. 
 
 — — (1661), his mission ; 6. 
 Brixham : 
 
 the Dutch fleet seen off; 185. 
 
 the Prince of Orange lands at ; ib. 
 Broadhead, Daniel, of Pennsylvania ; 357. 
 Bromley : 
 
 letter dated at ; 310. 
 
 secretary; 321. 
 Bromwich, West, curacy at ; 295. 
 Brookfield, Mass., letter dated at ; 338. 
 Brooklyn, New England ; 344. 
 Brougham, Henry, letter of; 438. 
 Brouncker : 
 
 Lord, at the Admiralty ; 86, 89, 103. 
 
 his death and will ; 113. 
 
 Thomas, of Portsmouth, letter of; 
 242. 
 
 Brown, Browne : 
 
 — , valet to Lord Mohun ; 312. 
 Captain; 17. 
 
 Governor, complaints against ; 423. 
 
 his removal ; ib. 
 
 Mr., purser; 173. 
 
 Brown, Browne — cont. 
 
 his mission to Montreal ; 394. 
 
 Lieut. Benjamin ; 386. 
 
 George ; 272, 273. 
 
 Montfort, letter to ; 348. 
 
 letter of ; 399. 
 
 R., letter of; 347. 
 
 Richard, letter of; 348. 
 
 Capt. William, his death ; 399. 
 Brownrigg, Studholme, letter of ; 379. 
 Bruce: 
 
 Lord (1711); 308. 
 
 letter of; 309. 
 
 Lieut.-Colonel, detachment under ; 
 389. 
 
 Brudenell, Lord (1754), in France ; 331. 
 Brussels; 5. 
 
 the Duke of York at; 30-37. 
 Buccleuch, Duke of (1774), and the 
 
 Scotch peers ; 369, 
 Buckingham, Duke of : 
 
 (1679) ; 42. 
 
 (1685), letters of; 123. 
 
 (1710), letter of ; 300. 
 
 (1713), Lord Conway and ; 315. 
 Bucknall, — ; 148. 
 Buck with, commoner of the city ; 95. 
 Builth, Mr. ; 193. 
 Bulkeley: 
 
 Lieut., his ship aground; 249-251. 
 
 Kate; 293. 
 
 Richard, secretary in Nova Scotia ; 
 332, 413. 
 
 letters of; 378, 386, 399. 
 
 paper signed by ; 374. 
 
 minutes signed by ; 402. 
 
 Bull, William, Lieut.-Governor of South 
 Carolina ; 350. 
 letter of; 375. 
 his despatches ; 390. 
 Bullioun, Mons., slain ; 17. 
 Bullman, Mr., curate at Charlestown, his 
 
 dismissal; 375. 
 Bulls, Bay of, letter dated from ; 1 10. 
 Burgess, William, memorial of ; 378. 
 Burghley, Lord, publication of his papers ; 
 329. 
 
 Burgis, Capt. John, his company at 
 
 Tangier ; 109. 
 Burgoyne, General: 
 
 sent to Boston ; 374. 
 
 ordered to America ; 393. 
 Burgundy, Duchess of, and Sicily ; 311. 
 Burke, Edmund : 
 
 petition consigned to ; 372. 
 
 his powers of conversation ; 425. 
 Burino van trist, James, of Tangier ; 96. 
 Burino, James, of Tangier ; 79. 
 Burley, letters dated at ; 293, 294, 295. 
 Burlington : 
 
 Bay, the Dutch reported in ; 138. 
 
 expected landing of Dutch in ; 
 
 178, 181, 
 
 Earl of (1688); 229. 
 Burnaby, Capt. W. C, application of; 
 403. 
 
456 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Burnet: 
 
 Dr., afterwards Bishop, at Exeter ; 
 192, 193. 
 
 intercepted letter of; 266. 
 
 his book ; 322. 
 
 John, confession of; 107. 
 
 Dr. Thomas, Master of the Charter- 
 house ; 322. 
 Burrow or Burrows: 
 
 little, in Nova Scotia; 376. 
 
 James, letters of ; 339, 349, 350, 416. 
 
 report from ; 352. 
 
 letter to ; 399. 
 
 Burton : 
 
 — , flight of; 229. 
 
 Dr., 293. 
 Bushy House, letter dated at ; 443. 
 Bushy Park, letters dated at; 363, 366, 
 
 367, 424. 
 Buskins, Master or Major; 3. 
 Butler: 
 
 Colonel, of Kilcash ; 234. 
 
 his son Walter ; ib. 
 
 his dragoons at Chester ; 252. 
 
 Lady, death of ; 234. 
 
 John, of Halifax, N. Scotia, letters 
 of ; 376, 377. 
 
 Thomas; 23. 
 
 Tristan, evidence of ; 314. 
 Buys, Mons. ; 308. 
 
 Byam, Ashton Warner, letter of ; 360. 
 Byng: 
 
 Lieut. George, his interview with the 
 Governor of Gibraltar ; 109. 
 
 certificate concerning ; 110. 
 
 order brought by ; 283. 
 
 Sir George, at the Council ; 299. 
 Byron : 
 
 Admiral, sent after the French fleet ; 
 418. 
 
 Lieut. Richard, of the Pearl ; 87. 
 
 c. 
 
 Cadiz; 17, 19, 52, 68, 88, 89, 99, 104, 
 109, 110. 
 
 letter dated at ; 103. 
 
 affairs at ; 94. 
 
 consul at ; ib. 
 
 provisions at; 94, 101. 
 
 French expedition to ; 298. 
 
 ships taken off; 298. 
 
 Bay; 97, 101, 103, 106. 
 
 the Spanish fleet in ; 82. 
 
 violent storm in ; 101. 
 
 Caen Wood, Highgate, letter dated at ; 
 305. 
 
 Calais ; 202, 239. 
 
 Calkar, near Cleve ; 4. 
 Calvinists, French, punishment of ; 331. 
 Cambel, Mons., engineer, memorial of ; 354. 
 Cambridge : 
 
 King's College ; 253, 316. 
 
 Trinity College; 316. 
 
 University, Chancellor of; 136. 
 
 election for; 253. 
 
 Massachusetts ; 344. 
 
 letters dated at ; 360, 377. 
 
 rebels at ; 385. 
 
 Duke of (1802); 443. 
 
 (1805) letters of; 445. 
 Cameron, a minister, his conventicles ; 38. 
 Campbell : 
 
 Mr. ; 360. 
 
 Major John, memorial of; 397. 
 Lord William, letter of ; 334. 
 
 his wish to leave Nova Scotia; 
 
 334. 
 
 letters to; 333, 334, 335, 339, 
 
 341. 
 
 licence by ; 333. 
 
 governor of South Carolina ; 
 
 384. 
 Campden : 
 
 Lord (1682), his earldom ; 76. 
 
 Lady ; ib. 
 Camphor wood ; 5. 
 Campo, Marquis de ; 302. 
 Campoley, seizure of; 422. 
 Canada : 
 
 reduction of; 162. 
 
 Indians of, Louis XV. and ; 340. 
 
 Sir William Johnson and ; 341. 
 
 plan for administration of ; 347. 
 
 affairs of; 352. 
 
 satisfaction in ; 370. 
 
 lieutenant governors for ; 371. 
 
 expedition in 1 746 against ; 372. 
 
 reported dissatisfaction in ; 383. 
 
 loyalty of; 384. 
 
 the frontiers threatened ; 385. 
 
 attempts to raise rebellion in ; 394. 
 
 evacuated by the rebels ; 409, 410. 
 Candia; 17. 
 
 Cannceau, Nova Scotia ; 335. 
 Canning, George, of the Temple; 333. 
 Canso, fishery at; 414, 415. 
 Canterbury: 
 
 prebend at ; 311. 
 
 Prerogative Court of ; 330. 
 
 races; 332. 
 
 Archbishop of (1688) ; 170. 
 
 (1688) ; 229. 
 
 (1711), letter of; 305. 
 
 Dean of, Dr. Stanhope ; 305. 
 Canton, ships bound for; 421. 
 Carbery, Earl of (1688) ; 229. 
 Cardigan : 
 
 Earl of (1712-13), letters of; 31 J, 
 315, 316. 
 
 his chaplain ; ib. 
 
 Lady; 325. 
 Cardinash, envoy from Morocco ; 319. 
 Careye, J., of Guernsey ; 124. 
 Cargill, the field preacher ; 65. 
 
JNDEX. 
 
 457 
 
 Carleton : 
 
 or Charleton,— ; 30, 33, 34, 35,36, 74. 
 Lord ; 53. 
 
 General or Governor, letter of; 375. 
 
 the Indians and ; 383. 
 
 the extent of his command ; 
 
 386, 387. 
 
 -p — disagreeable situation of ; 388. 
 
 his despatches from Quebec ; 394. 
 
 his defence of Quebec ; 405-407. 
 
 Gen. Montgomery's letter to ; 
 
 407, 408. 
 Carlisle : 
 
 corporation; 76. 
 government of; 245. 
 election at; 309. 
 Earl of (1682), letter of ; 75. 
 
 his daughter ; ib. 
 
 (1688) ; 229. 
 
 (1788), commissioner to 
 
 America ; 419. 
 Carmarthen, Marquis of (1710), letter of; 
 302. 
 
 Carnac, Mr., treaty by ; 422. 
 Carnarvon, Lord (1751), at Gottingen; 330. 
 Carnatic, the, settlement of ; 427, 428, 447. 
 Carolina: 
 
 Lieut-Governor of ; 23. 
 
 tea riots in ; 346. 
 
 North, governor of, Martin ; 347. 
 
 despatches from Governor Martin 
 
 in ; 390. 
 
 Highlanders raised in ; 392. 
 
 and South, state of government ; 384. 
 
 South, East Tndia Co.'s agent in ; 347. 
 
 disputes between the Assembly 
 
 and the Council ; 350. 
 
 despatches of Lieut.-Governor 
 
 Bull from ; 390. 
 Carpenter, William, of Tangier ; 97. 
 Carr: 
 
 Captain, at Tangier; 103. 
 
 Major, at Nieuport ; 27. 
 Carrickfergus: 
 
 fortifications of ; 11. 
 
 letter dated at ; 13. 
 
 mutiny at ; ib. 
 Carter : 
 
 Captain ; 153. 
 
 Captain Bichard, and Southsea Castle ; 
 281, 283. 
 
 Dick, his groom ; 265. 
 Carverth, Captain, his ship ; 101. 
 Caryll, secretary to James II. ; 447. 
 Cassel, Prince Bupert at ; 5, 9. 
 Cassilis, Lord: 
 
 and the Test ; 71. 
 
 (1774), a representative peer; 370. 
 Cassilis, Eobert, his petition ; 304. 
 Castle Cornett, letter dated at ; 11. 
 Castle Hedingham ; 328. 
 Castlehaven, Earl of, letter of ; 121. 
 Castlereagh, Viscount, letters of ; 426. 
 Castleton, Lord: 
 
 letters of; 81, 82, 121, 123. 
 
 his son Charles ; ib. 
 Casum. letter dated at ; 20. 
 Catalonia ; 298, 299 : 
 
 Catalonia, army in ; 119. 
 Cathcart : 
 
 Lord (1774) ; 368. 
 
 speech of; 369. 
 
 Mary, her marriage ; 368. 
 Catt water ; 210. 
 
 Cavan, Lord (1774), Colonel ; 359. 
 Cawline Park, letters dated at; 368. 
 Cay, Colonel, killed on the Poonah expe- 
 dition ; 420. 
 Cevennes, the, Calvinists in; 331. 
 Chamble, papers dated at; 414. 
 Chandos, Lord (1688) ; 229. 
 Chapelizod, letter dated at ; 131. 
 Chappell, Mrs., of Tangier ; 97. 
 Charlemont, fortifications of ; 11. 
 Charles I. : 
 
 at Oxford ; 3. 
 
 Onslow's sayings against ; ib. 
 William Legge's services to ; 24, 25. 
 services rendered to ; 129. 
 at Hampton Court ; ib. 
 Charles II. : 
 
 Prince Eupert's references to; 3-9. 
 his marriage ; 5, 6. 
 
 feeling at Vienna against ; 6. 
 
 and his Queen, at Whitehall ; 10. 
 on board the Royal Charles ; 20. 
 warrants of ; 25. 
 
 the relations of the Prince of Orange 
 
 to ; 34, 39. 
 his escape from Worcester, Pepys's 
 
 relation of ; 49. 
 and the Moorish king ; 77, 78. 
 Iris instructions to Lord Dartmouth 
 
 on the Tangier expedition ; 83. 
 his escape from the plot ; 83. 
 his additional instructions to Lord 
 
 Dartmouth ; 86. 
 his instructions to Sir John Berry ; 86. 
 at Winchester ; 89. 
 at Portsmouth ; 93. 
 at Portsmouth ; 99. 
 his kindness to the people from 
 
 Tangier; 99, 100. 
 warrant of ; 103. 
 
 his letter approving of Lord Dart- 
 mouth's services ; 112. 
 
 Pepys's interview with, concerning 
 the Tangier expedition ; 113. 
 
 his death ; 122. 
 
 his treatment of his brother. See 
 York, Duke of, James, letters of. 
 Charles III., of Spain : 
 
 bad state of his affairs ; 299. 
 
 letter of his Queen, Elizabeth ; 300. 
 
 his letters to Queen Anne; 302, 
 304. 
 
 Charlestown, Charleston, New England ; 
 344, 346. 
 
 letter dated at : 375. 
 
 merchant of ; 355. 
 
 camp near, letters from ; 379, 385. 
 
 descriptions of battle near ; 380, 
 
 381. 
 burning of ; ib. 
 action with rebels near ; 393. 
 Neck; 382. 
 
458 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Charleston — cont. 
 
 Neck, attack on rebels at ; 379. 
 
 St. Michael, curate of ; 375. 
 Charleton, lame ; 87. 
 Charleville ; 14. 
 
 Charlotte, Princess, cost of her establish- 
 ment ; 444, 445. 
 Chatham; 22, 142, 143, 154, 161, 187, 
 197, 198, 199, 206 3 251. 
 the Dutch at ; 129. 
 Clerk of the Checque at ; 173. 
 Dock, letter dated at ; 144. 
 Earl of (1788), letters of; 425. 
 Cheeke, Col. Thomas, letter of ; 133. 
 Cheepoty Hill, on Fundy Bay ; 397. 
 Cheesman, Captain, killed at Quebec; 
 406. 
 
 Chelsea pensioners ; 374. 
 Chepstow garrison, want of stores in ; 
 86. 
 
 Cherokee Indians ; 397. 
 Cheshire, arms seized in ; 120. 
 Cheshunt; 178. 
 
 the nunnery at ; 324. 
 Chester; 131. 
 
 letter dated at ; 308. 
 
 the Duke of Ormonde in ; 10. 
 
 reception of Lords Tyrconnell and 
 Clarendon at; 131. 
 
 frigates to be sent to; 243, 244, 
 246, 250, 251, 284. 
 
 governor of, William Legge ; 24. 
 
 mayor of, complaint against ; 252. 
 
 Castle, letters dated at ; 131, 252. 
 
 arms collected into ; 252. 
 
 garrison in ; 43. 
 
 deanery of ; 131. 
 
 Bishop of (1688) ; 141. 
 
 (1688), his desertion of James 
 
 II. ; 228. 
 
 (1707); 294. 
 
 Nova Scotia ; 415. 
 
 Governor of Pensacola, letter of ; 
 338. 
 
 Chesterfield, Earl of (1661) ; 10. 
 Chestone, Edward, of Tangier ; 79, 96. 
 
 petition of; 104. 
 Chetwynd, Mr. : 
 
 at Genoa ; 298. 
 
 at Turin ; 300. 
 Chicheley, Sir Henry : 
 
 in Virginia ; 80. 
 
 his misrule and death there ; ib. 
 Chichester; 225,264. 
 Chichley, Sir Tho., Master of the 
 
 Ordnance ; 19. 
 Chilton, letter dated at ; 120. 
 Chilworth, powder mills at ; 3. 
 Chirurgeons or Surgeons for the fleet; 
 
 145, 148, 151, 152, 153. 
 Cholmley, Sir Hugh, his house at 
 
 Tangier ; 85. 
 Cholmondeley, Col. Thomas, letter of ; 
 
 139. 
 
 Cholmondly, Mrs. ; 444. 
 Christie, Colonel, at Quebec ; 352. 
 Chuchalana ; 68. 
 
 Church, Dr. of Boston, New England ; 342. 
 Churches, building of ; 310. 
 Churchill : 
 
 Captain, of the Newcastle ; 174. 
 Captain George ; 75. 
 
 letter of; 210. 
 
 certificate of ; 202. 
 
 in Plymouth ; 212, 213, 215. 
 
 warrant for his arrest ; 215. 
 
 order for apprehension of ; 
 
 272, 273, 274. 
 Col. John, afterwards Lord, and 
 
 Duke of Marlborough ; 33, 37, 43- 
 
 64 passim. 
 
 letters of; 55, 57, 67, 69, 81. 
 
 dragoons under ; 99. 
 
 (1688), his houses seized ; 214. 
 
 his desertion of James II. ; 
 
 215. 
 
 his influence with the Prince of 
 
 Orange; 235, 242, 249. 
 
 directions signed by ; 237. 
 
 See Marlborough, Duke of. 
 
 Col. Joseph, concerned in the 
 
 Hamilton and Mohun duel; 311, 
 
 312. 
 
 Lady, afterwards Duchess of 
 Marlborough, her flight with 
 Princess Anne ; 214. 
 Circle, the, quadrature of ; 304. 
 Clanricarde, Earl of : 
 letter of; 107. 
 
 (1686) , his government of Galway • 
 131. 
 
 (1687) , letter of; 132. 
 Claremont, letter dated at ; 33 1 . 
 Clarence, Duke of (1801), letter of; 443. 
 Clarendon : 
 
 Lord Chancellor (1661), Prince 
 Rupert's references to ; 3-9. 
 
 Earl of (1686), Lord Lieut, of Ireland, 
 letters of; 129-132. 
 
 (1711), letter of; 305. 
 
 (1713), letters of ; 316, 322. 
 
 his reception at Chester ; 131. 
 
 books removed from Dublin by ; 
 
 132. 
 
 (1688), joins the Prince of 
 
 Orange ; 222. 
 Clarke ; 
 
 Mr ; 314. 
 
 Edward, letters of; 51, 364. 
 Richard, Boston tea merchant ; 342, 
 343. 
 
 Capt. Robert ; 17. 
 Clayton, Sir Robert, alderman of London ; 
 144. 
 
 Clement or Clements, Captain John : 
 
 149, 168, 177, 259,260, 263. 
 
 Dutch prisoners in charge of; 198, 
 200. 
 
 letter of; 198. 
 
 seamen pressed by ; i45. 
 
 recommendation of ; 233. 
 Clerk : 
 
 George, letter of ; 380. 
 
 infantry at Charleston under ; ib. 
 
 Robert, letter to ; 381. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 459 
 
 Cleve : 
 
 Prince of Orange at ; 4. 
 
 Prince Rupert at ; ib. 
 
 Elector of, Sweden and ; ib. 
 Clifford : 
 
 an officer, his escape ; 204. 
 
 Lady de ; 444. 
 Clinton, General : 
 
 sent to Boston ; 374. 
 
 ordered to America ; 393. 
 
 at Rhode Island ; 398. 
 Clive, Lord (1801) : 
 
 his return to Europe ; 426. 
 
 letters of; 429, 430. 
 Clobury, Sir John, candidate for Win- 
 chester ; 123. 
 Clonmell, letter dated at ; 14. 
 Cohequid, Nova Scotia, volunteers in ; 
 401. 
 
 Cochnawaga Indians ; 383. 
 Cockburn, Colonel, his command in India ; 
 420. 
 
 Cod, Cape ; 346. 
 
 Coffin, Captain ; 140. 
 
 Cog (?), Captain ; 127. 
 
 Colchester, Lord (1688), gone over to the 
 
 Prince of Orange ; 210. 
 Golden, Lieut. Governor of New York ; 
 331, 332. 
 
 his despatches ; 392. 
 Cole : 
 
 Mr., at Venice ; 298. 
 
 Captain, vessel taken by; 266, 267. 
 Coleman, Capt. William ; 17. 
 Coleshall, letters dated at ; 293, 299. 
 Collier : 
 
 Captain, payment due to ; 117. 
 
 Capt. George, memorial by ; 362. 
 Collins : 
 
 Captain; 227. 
 
 — his commission ; 245. 
 Arthur, letters of ; 328, 330. 
 
 his new Baronage ; 328, 329, 
 
 330. 
 
 Rev. Edw., letter of; 310. 
 
 — his brother ; ib. 
 Colondsby, Major, taken prisoner ; 263. 
 Colver, Nathaniel, letter of ; 361. 
 Compton : 
 
 Lord (1711) ; 308. 
 
 letter of; 309. 
 
 Sir William, of the Ordnance ; 1 0. 
 Concord : 
 
 seizure of military stores at ; 393. 
 
 assembly at ; 440. 
 Condolah : 
 
 Gaat Pass at ; 422. 
 
 camp at ; ib. 
 Congreve, Captain, his brother; 14, 15. 
 Connaught, presidency of; 11. 
 Connecticut : 
 
 its support to Boston ; 353. 
 
 customs' collector in ; 372. 
 
 restraint of trade ; 375. 
 
 despatches from ; 391. 
 
 Courant, contents of ; 419. 
 Connolly, Major, letter to ; 359. 
 
 Constable, Captain ; 148, 154, 163. 
 Constantine, Alderman, of Dublin ; 307. 
 Constantinople ; 18. 
 
 English ambassador at ; 104. 
 Conventicles ; 38. 
 Conway, Lord : 
 
 (1680) ; 44, 202. 
 
 letters of; 81, 86. 
 
 his health ; 87. 
 
 (1713), the Duke of Buckingham 
 and; 315. 
 Conyers, Edward, petition of; 81. 
 
 charges against ; ib. 
 Cook, — , magistrate of Yarmouth, Nova 
 
 Scotia; 386. 
 Cooke : 
 
 Daniel, boatswain, petition of ; 87. 
 
 Col. Ed., letter of ; 11. 
 Copley, Captain, at Hull ; 41, 123. 
 
 J. S., the artist ; 448. 
 Coppin. George, Commander, squadron 
 
 under ; 15. 
 Corbett, one ; 316. 
 Cork : 
 
 harbour, fortification of ; 125. 
 transports at; 299. 
 
 troops embarked at; 374, 387, 388, 
 400. 
 
 Corn, high price of ; 335. 
 Cornbury, Lord : 
 
 (1688), his regiment; 204. 
 
 gone over to the Prince of Orange ; 
 210. 
 
 Cornewall, Capt. W., letters of; 223. 
 Cornwall : 
 
 Duchy of; 333. 
 
 Colonel, his regiment at Hull ; 134. 
 Capt. Wolfran, of the Dartmouth; 
 138. 
 
 Cornwallis : 
 
 Captain, at Portsmouth; 75. 
 Marquis, his government of India ; 
 429. 
 
 letters of; 426. 
 
 Nova Scotia, volunteers in ; 401. 
 Corriton, a bombardier ; 161. 
 Cory, John, Judge Advocate at Nieuport ; 
 27. 
 
 Cotesmore, letter dated at ; 326. 
 Cotton, Captain; 148, 153, 166, 259. 
 
 Pepys's directions to; 141, 142. 
 Cottrell, Stephen, letter of ; 364. 
 Coucan, the, English army in ; 420. 
 Council minutes on duel between the Duke 
 of Hamilton and Lord Mohun ; 311-314. 
 Courtney: 
 
 Captain, killed; 21, 23. 
 
 Sir William, and the Prince of 
 Orange; 188. 
 Coventry; 131. 
 
 Henry, letter of ; 29. 
 Cowerdon, — , his regiment ; 202. 
 Cowes; 212, 233. 
 
 Dutch fleet said to be at ; 204. 
 Cox, Chief Justice, examinations before ; 
 315. 
 
 Craggs, Secretary, purchase by ; 326. 
 letter of ; ib. 
 
460 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Cramahe, Lieut. Governor ; 388. 
 Cranstoun, near Edinburgh ; 446. 
 Crauford, R., letter of ; 178. 
 Craven, Lord : 
 
 (1661),Queen Henrietta Maria and ; 4. 
 
 (1684), letter of; 121. 
 
 (1710) ; 302. 
 Crawley, magistrate of Yarmouth, Nova 
 
 Scotia ; 386. 
 Creed, Mr., secretary ; 77. 
 
 his office; 85. 
 
 and the Tangier records ; 105. 
 Creighton, John, letter of ; 398. 
 Crequi, his army at Treves ; 119. 
 Cressett, his news letter ; 47. 
 Crewe, Lord (1688) ; 229. 
 Croft or Crofts : 
 
 Captain; 186, 187, 189, 263, 264, 
 265. 
 
 Will., letter of; 135. 
 Croghan, Col. George, letter of ; 360. 
 Croissy, M. de ; 90. 
 
 Cromartie, Earl of (1746), trial of ; 330. 
 Cromwell, Oliver; 129, 425. 
 
 extolled in a book ; 5. 
 
 at Galway ; 131. 
 Cron, H., letter of ; 203. 
 Crone or Croone, Mr. ; 166. 
 Cross, Mr.; 267, 268, 271. 
 Crow, Captain ; 240. 
 
 of the Kitchen yacht ; 34. 
 Crowe: 
 
 Mr., case of; 299. 
 
 Metford, governor of Barbados ; 
 295. 
 Croydon ; 293. 
 Cruger : 
 
 H., letter of; 381. 
 
 John Harris ; ib. 
 Cugnet, Mr., his pamphlet ; 352. 
 Cullefoid, — , Col. Kirke's "creature"; 
 
 127. 
 Culpeper, Lord : 
 
 (1683), Thomas, his letter from 
 Virginia; 80. 
 
 (1688); 229. 
 Culver Cliff; 223. 
 Culvert, General, letter to ; 444. 
 Cumberland : 
 
 choice of deputy-lieutenants in; 124. 
 
 militia in ; ib. 
 
 America, attack on the fort at ; 398. 
 
 riotous assemblies in ; 400, 401. 
 
 militia raised in ; 401. 
 
 expressions of loyalty in ; 415. 
 
 Fort, investment of ; 415. 
 
 seizure of provisions sent 
 
 to ; ib. 
 
 Duke of (1745), and the rebels; 329. 
 
 (1802), letter of; 443. 
 
 Mr., his office ; 354. 
 Richard, letter of ; 371. 
 
 , and the removal of Governor 
 
 Brown ; 423. 
 
 letter to ; 350. 
 
 Cunningham : 
 
 Capt. Daniel, letter of; 415. 
 Sir John, and the Test; 71. 
 
 Curragh, the, sports on ; 11. 
 Curraghmore, letter dated at ; 122. 
 Cuthbert: 
 
 Mr., warrant to ; 118. 
 
 Robert, of Tangier ; 79, 96. 
 Cuyler, C, letter of; 399. 
 
 D. 
 
 D'Albeville. See Albeville, d\ 
 Dalhousie, Lord (1774), speech of ; 369. 
 Dalling, Colonel, letter of ; 350. 
 Dalrymple : 
 
 Mr., Attorney-General in Grenada ; 
 352. 
 
 Lieut.-Col., Commander in Nova 
 Scotia; 332. 
 
 Sir John, letter of; 446. 
 Daly el, General, at Glasgow ; 39. 
 Danby, Earl of; 32, 36, 46. 
 
 his impeachment ; 122. 
 
 (1688), at Ribston ; 138. 
 
 (1688), in the North ; 225. 
 
 and the government of Carlisle ; 
 245. 
 
 Danforth, Dr., of Boston, New England ; 
 343. 
 
 Daniel, sheriff of London ; 95. 
 Danube, the, the Turks' operations about ; 
 5, 7, 8. 
 
 Danvers, Mrs., in attendance on the Prin- 
 cess Anne ; 214. 
 Dartford; 235. 
 Dartmouth : 
 
 Dutch fleet seen off; 184, 185, 203. 
 magistrates of, and the High Steward- 
 ship ; 300, 301. 
 Lord, first. See Legge, George. 
 
 at a Council of War ; 90. 
 
 warrants of ; 99. 
 
 his battalion of seamen ; 94. 
 
 his secretary Atkins; 100. 
 
 petitions to ; 104. 
 
 his report on Tangier to 
 
 Charles II. ; 105. 
 
 letter of; 111. 
 
 Pepys's criticism of his letter 
 
 about Tangier ; 112. 
 
 opinions of Charles II., and 
 
 others on his services at Tangier ; 
 113, 114. 
 
 schedule of Tangier papers 
 
 received from ; 116-119. 
 reports on Tangier petitions 
 
 to; 118, 119. 
 
 in St. James's Square ; 120. 
 
 Monmouth's lodgings given to ; 
 
 128. 
 
 letters of; 132, 231, 232. 
 
 in command of the expedition 
 
 against the Prince of Orange ; 138, 
 
 et seq. 
 
 his son William ; 158. 
 
 his son's studies ; 183. 
 
 death of his mother ; 234, 249. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 461 
 
 Dartmouth — cont. 
 
 Lord (cont.), letter of; 253. 
 
 Pepys's report on his fleet ; 253. 
 
 copies of his letters to James II. 
 
 and others ; 255-283. 
 book of documents relating to 
 
 his expedition ; 255-285. 
 i commission to (168) ; 255. 
 
 instructions, &c. to ; ib. 
 
 papers relating to his imprison- 
 ment; 285-292. 
 Sir J. Dalrymple's comments 
 
 on ; 446, 447. 
 second, afterwards first Earl of, 
 
 letters of ; 292, et seq. 
 
 his marriage ; 293. 
 
 letters to ; 292-330. 
 
 sworn of the Privy Council ; 293. 
 
 (1710), appointed Secretary of 
 
 State ; 295, 296. 
 his letters to Queen Anne ; 298- 
 
 316 passim. 
 High Steward of Dartmouth ; 
 
 301. 
 
 made Lord Privy Seal ; 317. 
 
 (1714), arrears due to ; 321. 
 
 (1745), letter of ; 329. 
 
 Earl of, second, William, letters of ; 
 330. 
 
 (1765), urged to take office; 
 
 331. 
 
 at the Plantation Board ; 332. 
 
 Secretary for the Colonies ; 
 
 334. 
 
 letters of and to ; 334, et seq. 
 
 (1790), his son in the navy; 425. 
 
 President of East India Board, 
 
 his correspondence ; 425-437. 
 (1786), elected High Steward of 
 
 Oxford; 424. 
 (1779-83), appointments of his 
 
 sons ; 441, 442. 
 
 removed from office; 442. 
 
 C1806), as Lord Chamberlain; 
 
 437, 438. 
 Lady, Barbara (1684) ; 114. 
 
 letters of; 146,158,232, 234, 241. 
 
 and family ; 183. 
 
 leaves of book cut out by ; 279, 
 
 284. 
 
 College in America; 438. 
 Dashwood, sheriff of London ; 95. 
 Datchet; 318. 
 Daun, Marshal ; 300. 
 Davies, Capt. William, letter of; 139. 
 Davis, Captain, his advice ; 264, 268. 
 Dawes: 
 
 appointed Lieutenant to Captain 
 Shovell; 177. 
 
 Sir John, hia son ; 157. 
 Dawson : 
 
 Lieut. George, letter of ; 384. 
 
 James, letter of ; 343. 
 Day: 
 
 — , of Halifax; 376. 
 
 Ensign, killed in the Mahratta war ; 
 
 421, 422. 
 Thomas, commission for ; 146. 
 
 Day — cont. 
 
 Lieut. Thomas, report by; 210. 
 
 certificate of ; 238. 
 
 scandal about his sister; 245. 
 
 Deal ; 251, 267, 269,270. 
 
 letter dated at ; 187. 
 
 postmaster at ; 196, 201. 
 
 storekeeper at ; 200. 
 Deane, Sir Anthony: 
 
 Commissioner of the Navy ; 114,146, 
 152, 155, 167. 
 
 letter of; 157. 
 
 of the Victualling Board ; 142. 
 Deaunish, — , officer, his desertion ; 224. 
 De Beauuoir, Daniel, of Guernsey ; 124. 
 De Fuentes, Marquis, Spanish Am- 
 bassador; 6. 
 Degatt, Cape; 19. 
 
 Delacarterie, Jacques, of Tangier; 96. 
 
 Delatre, — ; 252. 
 
 Delaval: 
 
 Colonel ; 171. 
 
 Mr., at Lisbon ; 318. 
 
 letter of; 319. 
 
 Delaware Indians, on the Ohio ; 360. 
 Delisle, Mr., minister at Montreal ; 352. 
 Denbigh, Earl of : 
 
 (1710), letters of; 296. 
 
 (1775) ; 381. 
 Denmark: 
 
 King of (1661) ; 4. 
 
 Prince of, George, his regiment ; 144. 
 Denny, Mr. ; 328. 
 
 freeman of Boston, New England ; 
 342. 
 
 Denson, Lieut.-Col. H. Denny, letters of ; 
 
 389, 397, 398, 405, 409-416 passim. 
 De Paz, Mr., or Samuel, Secretary to Lord 
 Dartmouth; 103, 111. 
 
 letter of; 111. 
 Deptford; 107, 145-147, 207, 213. 
 
 letter dated at ; 237. 
 
 ships at ; 199. 
 
 robbery near ; 314. 
 
 voters in ; 326. 
 Derby : 
 
 rebels at ; 329. 
 
 Earl of (1688), Lord Lieut, of 
 Cheshire and Lancashire ; 167. 
 Dering, Captain Dan., or Captain; 102. 
 letter of ; 93. 
 narrative of ; 98. 
 ship seized by ; 103. 
 De Rues, an engineer, Prince Rupert's 
 
 account of ; 4. 
 De Ruyter, Admiral, engagements with ; 
 21, 22. 
 
 Desaumares, R., of Guernsey ; 124. 
 Desbrisay, Thomas, letter of ; 367. 
 
 Lieut. Governor of St. John's ; ib. 
 Deschamps : „ 
 
 Mr , his salary ; 409. 
 
 George, justice for Halifax, Nova 
 Scotia; 381. 
 
 Isaac, letter of ; 400. 
 
 his threatening letter; 412. 
 
 Desmoulins, Mr. ; 447. 
 
 D'Estaing, M., French fleet under ; 418. 
 
<JG2 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Devereux family, the, and Lichfield ; 
 
 122. 
 Devizes; 126. 
 Devonshire, Duke of : 
 
 (1707), letter of; 294. 
 
 (1739), Lord Lieut, of Ireland ; 328. 
 Dias, Joseph, envoy from Morocco ; 319. 
 Dickfelt, M. ; 202. 
 
 Dickinson, John, of Pennsylvania ; 357. 
 Digby : 
 
 Sir Kenelm ; 5, 6. 
 
 Lord (1703), letters of; 293. 
 
 (1709), letter to ; 295. 
 
 (1710), letter of; 299. 
 
 (1714), letter of; 320. 
 
 Dilkes, Mr ; 347. 
 Ditton : 
 
 living; 293. 
 
 H., certificate by ; 304. 
 Dodd: 
 
 Dr., charge of simony against ; 348. 
 
 Dr. William, letter of ; 446. 
 Dodsworth, Captain ; 392. 
 Domville, Sir William, letter of; 122. 
 Doncaster; 82. 
 
 Dongan, Col. Thomas, letter of ; 162. 
 Donington Castle, fight at; 129. 
 Dorchester : 
 
 Countess of, letters of ; 302, 306. 
 
 at James Graham's house; 292. 
 
 New England ; 344. 
 Dorington, Sir Fr., Prince Rupert and ; 
 7. 
 
 Dorrington, his Irish battalion ; 158. 
 Dorset : 
 
 Earl of, at the battle of Edgehill ; 40. 
 
 (1688) ; 229. 
 
 — — present at Lord Dartmouth's 
 
 examination ; 287. 
 (1710), and the Kent elections ; 
 
 297. 
 
 Duke of (1767), and the Sussex 
 election ; 332, 333. 
 Douay, foundry of ordnance at; 120. 
 Doughty, Mr.; 123. 
 Douglas : 
 
 Captain or Major, at Tangier ; 103. 
 
 Sir Charles, letter of; 423. 
 Dover; 154, 155, 183, 187, 202, 239, 248, 
 261, 264, 265, 301. 
 
 postmaster at ; 175, 178. 
 
 ship builder at; 207, 218. 
 
 Castle, seizure of ; 228. 
 
 mayor of ; ib. 
 
 Earl of (1688), at Portsmouth; 215, 
 220, 223, 224, 225. 
 
 . at Portsmouth ; 273-277. 
 
 his seizure of money and. pro- 
 visions ; 221. 
 Dowglass, Col. Charles: 315. 
 Drayton, owners of; 122. 
 Dresden, the Carnival at; 330. 
 Drift : 
 
 Mr., at Paris : 315. 
 
 Adrian, executor to Prior ; 329. 
 Driscoll, Cornelius, boatswain ; 87. 
 
 Dublin; 9. 
 
 letters dated at; 9-16, 64, 73, 121, 
 122, 123, 129-132, 136, 159, 234, 
 239, 293, 294, 308, 328, 347, 386. 
 
 trial of conspirators in ; 11. 
 
 dispute about the Lord Chancellor's 
 house at; 12. 
 
 French Protestants in ; 73. 
 
 survey of; 122. 
 
 disputes between Lord Lieutenant 
 
 and city ; 306, 307. 
 Castle; 11. 
 
 room for arms in ; 131. 
 
 1 fortifying of ; 249. 
 
 theatre at ; 11. 
 
 Bay, survey of ; 122. 
 Duff, Ensign Simon, at Tangier ; 109. 
 Dugdale : 
 
 the informer ; 36. 
 
 Sir William, his Baronage ; 330. 
 Duhamel, Mons., letter to ; 367. 
 Duke, George, of Sarson ; 298. 
 Dumbarton, Lord: 
 
 his regiment ; 43. 
 
 his regiment at Tangier ; 50, 77. 
 
 his regiment ; 101. 
 
 (1685); 125. 
 
 his withdrawal ; 230. 
 Dumbartonshire, the rebels in ; 125. 
 Dumblane, Lord (1688), atftibston ; 138. 
 Dunbar, Major, prisoner at Cambridge, 
 
 Massachusetts ; 377. 
 Dunboyne, Earl of : 
 
 (1666), his sad condition ; 14. 
 
 the Duke of Ormonde's kindness to ; 
 ib. 
 
 Duncan, Alexander, letter of; 386. 
 D unchurch, road from ; 295. 
 Duncombe : 
 Mr. ; 87. 
 
 C, his marriage ; 425. 
 
 Sir John ; 67. 
 Dundas, Henry, President of East India 
 
 Board; 425, 426. 
 Dungeness ; 155. 
 Dunkeld; 368. 
 Dunkirk; 202, 251. 
 
 its sale to France ; 10. 
 
 fortifications; 120. 
 
 preparations at ; 298, 299. 
 
 robbery of mail from ; 314. 
 
 demolition of ; 319. 
 Dunmore, Earl of : 
 
 (1774), in command at Pittsburgh ; 
 359. 
 
 his passage to New York ; 362. 
 
 his despatches from Virginia; 391. 
 
 demonstration by colonists against; 
 391, 392. 
 Dunnose; 20. 
 Dunstable; 132. 
 
 Duport, Mr., Chief Justice of St. John's ; 
 367. 
 
 Duras, Lady, death of; 26. 
 Durham, the Duke of York at ; 37. 
 Durkee, — , magistrate of Yarmouth, Nova 
 
 Scotia; 386. 
 Duxbury, John, letters of; 51. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 463 
 
 E. 
 
 Eady, Mr., of Cumberland ; 398. 
 
 rebels under ; 415. 
 Ealing, Castle Hill Lodge ; 443. 
 Eames, Captain, his command in India ; 
 420. 
 
 Eastny Point; 155. 
 Ebersdorf, stag hunting at; 8. 
 Ebertson, Dutch Admiral ; 290. 
 Eccles, John, schoolmaster at Tangier ; 
 
 104. 
 Eden : 
 
 Hall, letter dated at ; 138. 
 
 Deputy Governor, his despatches 
 
 from Marylan d ; 391. 
 William, Commissioner to America ; 
 
 419. 
 
 Edgehill, battle of; 24, 40. 
 Edgell, Mr., shipowner ; 107. 
 Edinburgh : 
 
 the Duke of York at ; 37-49, 53-74. 
 
 letters dated at ; 301, 368. 
 
 demonstrations against papists in ; 42, 
 43. 
 
 Holyrood house ; 125. 
 College in ; 304. 
 
 University, chair of Moral Philosophy 
 in; 439. 
 Edlington, near Doncaster ; 26. 
 Edmonstone, N.B., letters of; 426. 
 Edmonton, guns heard at ; 183. 
 Edson, councillor at Boston ; 361. 
 Edwards, Sir James ; 59. 
 Egerton, Colonel, his command in India ; 
 420, 421. 
 treaty by ; 422. 
 Egham, King's Head at ; 286. 
 Eglinton, Earl of (1774) ; 369, 370. 
 Egmont, Lord (1770), extract from letter 
 to; 333. 
 
 Elizabeth, Princess, daughter of George 
 
 III., letter of; 443. 
 Ellibank, Lord (1774), speech of; 370. 
 Elliott, Eliot : 
 
 Captain, letter of; 209. 
 
 Mr., at the Board of Trade ; 341. 
 
 Mun.-, 44. 
 
 Captain Mun ; 238. 
 
 Grey, letters of ; 352, 355. 
 Ellis, Rev. William, letters of ; 398, 403, 
 414. 
 
 Ellitt, Ensign Rodger ; 109. 
 Elminstone, Christopher, of Gosport ; 73. 
 Elyott, Capt. Edmund, letter of; 213. 
 Embden, James II. sails from; 231. 
 Ernes, Francis, of Tangier ; 96. 
 Emmerson, Mr., his cadetship ; 443. 
 Emms, Francis, of Tangier; 79. 
 Emsworth ; 264. 
 Epsom, letter dated at ; 309. 
 Erlisman, John, translation by ; 106. 
 Erving, Captain, of Boston, New England ; 
 343. 
 
 Essex : 
 
 expected landing of the Dutch in ; 
 176. 
 
 housebreakers in ; 328. 
 Earl of, the Duke of York's opinion 
 of; 36. 
 
 Lord Lieut, of Ireland ; 130. 
 
 Eustace, Sir Maurice, and Lord Anglesey ; 
 12. 
 
 Lord Chancellor of Ireland ; 130. 
 Euston, letter dated at ; 120. 
 Evelyn, Mr., of the Post Office ; 298. 
 Everson or Evertsen, Cornelius, Dutch 
 admiral, 21. 
 
 with the Prince of Orange ; 203. 
 Examiner, the, journal ; 310. 
 Exe, the river ; 203. 
 Exeter; 86. 
 
 recorder of; 81. 
 
 letter dated at ; 124. 
 
 castle ; ib. 
 
 the Prince of Orange at ; 188-193, 
 
 passim. 
 postmaster of; 192. 
 Kerton near; 192. 
 Bishop of (1688) ; 190. 
 (1710), his address; 297. 
 Exmouth, the Dutch fleet near ; 185, 192, 
 203. 
 
 Eyles, Sir John, Lord Mayor, turned out ; 
 143. 
 
 F. 
 
 Fairburne : 
 
 Sir Palmes, at Tangier ; 51, 52, 55, 
 104. 
 
 Ensign Staff., at Tangier; 108. 
 Fairfax, Mr., member for Kent ; 332. 
 Faisant, Hierosme, of Tangier ; 97. 
 Falaizeau, his continuation of Rapin ; 328. 
 Falkland, Lord : 
 
 (1682), letter of; 76. 
 
 (1688), Commissioner of the Navy ; 
 145, 151, 152, 160, 164. 
 Falmouth ; 198. 
 
 ship brought into ; 111. 
 
 troops quartered in ; 115. 
 
 mayor of; 115- 
 
 in Caaes Bay ; 348. 
 
 Nova Scotia ; 389. 
 
 volunteers in ; 401. 
 
 Faneuil, Benjamin, Boston tea merchant ; 
 
 342, 343. 
 Fanning : 
 
 Mr., his bad treatment in North Caro- 
 lina; 347. 
 
 an American loyalist ; 364. 
 
 Col. Edmund, secretary to Governor 
 Tryon; 354. 
 
.464 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Fanshaw : 
 
 Mr.; 141, 150. 
 
 Charles, letter of; 101. 
 Fantry, Mr. ; 47. 
 Fareham, troops near ; 234. 
 Fargeon : 
 
 — , petition of ; 104. 
 
 Jean, of Tangier '; 97. 
 
 John, merchant at Tangier; 105. 
 Farnham ; 286. 
 Faro, trade at ; 16. 
 Farrell, Sir Connell, his son ; 123. 
 Faversham : 
 
 Queen's Arms in ; 231. 
 
 James II. taken near; 231-233. 
 Fayeby, Captain ; 240. 
 Fazakerly, Mrs., at Bath ; 327. 
 Fazly, Captain; 277. 
 Feife, Captain, pay due to ; 116. 
 Feilding, Mr. ; 54*. 
 
 Fenn, Nic, commissioner of victualling ; 
 
 107, 159, 160, 163, 168, 177, 259, 261. 
 Fenton, Mr., at Annapolis ; 378. 
 Fenwick, Sir John, his regiment at Nieu- 
 
 port; 27. 
 Ferguson : 
 
 — , with the Prince of Orange ; 180, 
 181. 
 
 Mr., servant of the Duke of Hamil- 
 ton ; 312-314. 
 Feversham, Earl of; 38, 44, 55, 72, 99. 
 letters of; 128, 153, 232. 
 letter to ; 279. 
 
 (1685), in command against the Duke 
 
 of Monmouth; 126. 
 letters of ; ib. 
 
 his letter to the Prince of Orange ; 
 229. 
 
 sent to James II. ; 231. 
 blamed for disbanding his soldiers ; 
 233. 
 
 under confinement ; 235. 
 
 liberated; 249. 
 
 liviDg in his gift ; 293. 
 
 C. Duncombe afterwar ds ; 425. 
 
 Fez: 
 
 kingdom of; 57. 
 king of ; 68. 
 Finch : 
 
 Captain, killed; 21, 23. 
 Mr. ; 53, 56. 
 
 Heneage, letters of; 293. 
 Sir John, his servant; 104. 
 Finchley Common, camp on ; 329. 
 Finlater, Lord (1713), Chancellor of Scot- 
 land ; 318. 
 Fire ships, operations of; 21, 23. 
 Firth, Charles, storekeeper at Tangier; 
 99. 
 
 Fish, Mr., his fly-boat lost in Mount's Bay ; 
 115. 
 
 Fishermen, impressment of; 141, 145, 149, 
 
 154, 157, 167, 172, 200. 
 Fitch: 
 
 Mr., his work at Hull ; 222. 
 Sir Thomas; 99. 
 
 Fitzhardinge, Lord (1687), letter of; 133. 
 Fitzharris : 
 
 trial of; 57, 60, 62, 63. 
 
 his confession ; 65. 
 FitzJames, Captain, at Nieuport ; 27. 
 Fitzjarrald, Ensign Garret, at Tangier ; 
 109. 
 
 Fiva, Anthony, American loyalist, peti- 
 tion of ; 397. 
 Flamsteed, the astronomer ; 44 . 
 Flanchford, letters dated at ; 26, 74. 
 Flanders : 
 
 the French in ; 90. 
 
 French troops in ; 96. 
 Fleetwood: 
 
 — , brother of Lord Dartmouth ; 122. 
 
 Col., a prisoner ; 9. 
 Fleming : 
 
 Sir Daniel; 124. 
 
 Mr., candidate for Southampton ; 364, 
 367. 
 Fletcher : 
 
 Sir George ; 124. 
 
 his disputes with Lords Carlisle 
 
 and Morpeth ; 75. 
 
 Robert, his schooner Betsy ; 403. 
 Flinn, Thomas, deposition of; 381. 
 Florida, West, murder in ; 338. 
 Floud, Thomas, of Dartmouth ; 300. 
 Floyd, Captain ; 238. 
 Floyer, John : 
 
 letter of ; 303. 
 
 his son ; ib. 
 
 publication by ; ib. 
 Floyres, Dr., letters concerning ; 76. 
 Forbes : 
 
 Lord (1688), his regiment ; 158. 
 
 (1710), ships taken by; 298. 
 
 Captain, at Tangier ; 103. 
 
 Mr., his letter ; 340. 
 
 Sir Arthur ; 11. 
 Fordemell, J., recorder of Tangier ; 96. 
 Foreland, South ; 249, 250. 
 Forgeon, John, alderman of Tangier ; 78. 
 Fountaine, Major, Hull garrison under; 
 137. 
 
 Foux, Etienne de la ; 305. 
 Fowler : 
 
 Captain ; 51, 102. 
 
 Thomas, letters of; 101. 
 
 certificate by ; 110. 
 
 Fowles, or Foules, Captain, killed ; 21, 
 23. 
 
 Fownes, Mr., shipowner ; 107. 
 Fox, Sir Stephen, letter of; 127. 
 France : 
 
 ships of, off Algiers ; 17, 18. 
 
 fleet of, Charles II.'s visit to ; 20. 
 
 — — its part in the Dutch engage- 
 ments ; 20-23. 
 
 trade of the Moors with ; 102. 
 
 privateers of ; 239, 240. 
 
 attitude towards England and James 
 II. of; 253, 254. 
 
 in the West Indies ; 294. 
 
 her claim on Savoy ; 311. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 465 
 
 Francklin, Deputy Governor Michael : 
 letter to; 333. 
 
 the King's disapproval of ; ib. 
 his despatches from New Jersey ; 
 392. 
 
 letters of, &c. ; 400, 401, 402. 
 Frankfort : 
 
 Prince Rupert at ; 8, 9. 
 
 paper dated at ; 446. 
 Franklin, Dr. Benj. : 
 
 his interview with Lord Dartmouth ; 
 335. 
 
 letters of; 337, 353. 
 agent for Boston ; 350. 
 proceedings against; 353. 
 and Governor Hutchinson's letters ; 
 355. 
 
 petition sent to ; 372. 
 
 delegate to the Congress ; ib. 
 
 letter to; 381. 
 Frant, Sir Patrick ; 234. 
 Fraser: 
 
 Captain, his company ; 388. 
 
 Mr., letter of; 363. 
 Freeman, Dr., to he a bishop ; 294. 
 French, Robert, letter of; 343. 
 Friend, Sir John ; 157. 
 Frise, Baron de, his regiment ; 181. 
 Frome, letter dated at ; 125. 
 Frowd, Frowde : 
 
 Captain; 102, 269. 
 
 in the Slad way ; 177. 
 
 Frederick, letter to ; 178. 
 
 of the Ruby ; 203. 
 
 Philip ; 216. 
 
 letter to ; 184. 
 
 letters of; 143, 167, 178, 192, 
 
 193, 230, 249. 
 Fuller, Stephen, letters of; 366, 371. 
 Fulton, James, letter to ; 343. 
 Fundy, Bay of; 383, 385, 387, 389, 416, 
 423. 
 
 Hopewell on ; 397. 
 Fysh, Gregory, of Tangier ; 97. 
 
 G. 
 
 Gage : 
 
 Colonel, his regiment at Chester ; 
 
 252. 
 General; 348. 
 
 Governor of Massachusetts, 
 
 letters to ; 351-365, passim. 
 
 his removal advocated ; 370. 
 
 his despatches ; 371. 
 
 letters of ; 375-387, passim. 
 
 strength of his army ; 383. 
 
 his resignation ; ib. 
 
 his return to England ; 386, 
 
 387. 
 
 his despatches from Massachu- 
 setts Bay; 392, 393. 
 
 U 24961. 
 
 Gage -cont. 
 
 General, his return to England ; 395. 
 
 George III.'s letters concerning ; 
 
 439-441. 
 Gainsborough, Earl of : 
 
 (1684) , letter of; 120. 
 
 (1685) , letter of; 124. 
 Gallas, Count, excuses by ; 307. 
 Galloway : 
 
 Earl of (1773); 340. 
 
 (1774) ; 370. 
 
 J., letter of; 417, 420. 
 Galway : 
 
 petition for opening a passage through ; 
 131. 
 
 Lord, letters of; 297, 302. 
 
 news from ; 298. 
 
 embarks for England ; 299. 
 
 Gambier, Commodore, remarks by ; 334. 
 Gansel, General, his death ; 358. 
 Gardener, Mr. ; 108. 
 Gardiner : 
 
 T., letters of; 222, 225, 233, 236. 
 
 Mrs., at Bath ; 327. 
 Gardner, Eliz., and* her daughters Parth- 
 
 enia and Sabra ; 109. 
 Garlies, Lord : 
 
 (1773), report by; 334. 
 
 at the Board of Trade ; 340. 
 Garrat, young ; 34. 
 
 Gartt, Mr., petition consigned to ; 372. 
 Gascoyne, Bamber, report by ; 334. 
 Gates : 
 
 General, joined with Washington ; 
 419. 
 
 Horatio, adjutant-general at Boston ; 
 381, 392. 
 Gazette, the ; 296, 297, 298. 
 Geast, Richard, elected steward of Lich- 
 field ; 417. 
 Genoa; 18, 298. 
 
 ships of, and the Turks ; 30. 
 
 English envoy to ; 305. 
 George : 
 
 Captain; 102. 
 
 Prince, of Denmark, his desertion of 
 James II. ; 216. 
 George I., letter to ; 320. 
 George III., his letters to the Earl of 
 Dartmouth (1773-1805); 438-444. 
 
 letters of his children ; 442-445. 
 
 George's Island ; 383. 
 
 Georges, William Payne, letter of; 348, 
 
 372. 
 Georgia : 
 
 treasurer ship of; 366. 
 and the Congress; 372. 
 state of government in ; 384. 
 despatches from Sir James Wright 
 
 in; 390. 
 riots in ; 390. 
 Germain, Lord George ; 400, 408, 409. 
 letters of; 411, 417. 
 Governor Legge's defence addressed 
 
 t3; 412-414. 
 letter to ; 416. 
 Germany, and the Turks ; 4. 
 
 G G 
 
466. 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Gibbons, Capt. R. : 
 
 letters of; 405, 408, 410. 
 
 his departure for England ; 412. 
 Gibbs, Sir Vicary, letter of; 438. 
 Gibraltar ; 83, 95, 135. 
 
 letter dated at ; 136. 
 
 English consul at; 109, 110. 
 
 Spanish governor of, his treatment of 
 Capt. Rooke and Lieut. Byng ; 109, 
 110. 
 
 the Moors at ; 297. 
 Bay; 101. 
 Gifford: 
 
 Captain; 102, 164, 269. 
 
 of the Mermaid ; 145, 149. 
 
 of the Phoenix; 183, 194, 197, 
 
 201. 
 
 Boniface, on a Moorish ship ; 93. 
 
 suggestions by ; 95. 
 
 Capt. William, letter of ; 111. 
 Giles, Captain, at Tangier, report by ; 
 59. 
 
 Gironne, siege of ; 300. 
 
 Girty, Simon, at Wheeling ; 359. 
 
 Glasgow; 125. 
 
 letter dated at ; 306. 
 
 conventicles at ; 39. 
 Glastonbury, Monmouth's army at ; 126. 
 Gledhill, Colonel, his election at Carlisle ; 
 309. 
 
 Glenbirvie, Lord, letters of; 426. 
 Gloucester : 
 
 James II. at; 134. 
 
 Duke of (1771), his recovery ; 334. 
 
 (1805), his death ; 444. 
 
 funeral of ; ib. 
 
 Goddard, Colonel, and the Bengal bri- 
 gade ; 420,421. 
 Godolphin : 
 
 Lord (1688); 151. 
 
 (1688), letter to ; 209. 
 
 and the Prince of Orange ; 222. 
 
 the Duke of York's remarks on ; 
 
 58. 
 
 Mr., succeeds Jenkins as secretary ; 
 111. 
 
 Sir William; 17. 
 Goodricke : 
 
 Sir H., and Lord Danby ; 36. 
 
 Sir Henry, his narrative ; 81. 
 
 - — - his seat at Ribston ; 138. 
 
 Sir Harry, letter of ; 249. 
 Go old, Colonel Arthur, letter of; 386. 
 
 militia under ; 386. 
 Gordon : 
 
 Captain, his command in India; 
 422. 
 
 Mr., his case ; 352. 
 
 his petition ; 355. 
 
 Lieut. Robert, at Tangier ; 110. 
 Rev. William, letter of; 340. 
 
 Gore; 158. 
 
 Prince Rupert at ; 3. 
 
 Alderman, of Dublin; 307. 
 Goree; 165, 180, 181, 253. 
 Goreham, Joseph, his affidavit; 413. 
 Gorge, Col., his groom ; 312. 
 
 Gorham or Goreham, Colonel: 
 
 troops under ; 378, 387. 
 
 directions to ; 386. 
 
 his secretary ; 387. 
 
 his defence of Cumberland fort ; 398. 
 
 in command at Cumberland ; 405. 
 
 his alleged defeat ; 416. 
 Goring, H. ; 67. 
 
 Gorman, James, alderman of Tangier; 
 
 78, 97, 105. 
 Gosling, Mr., of Winchester ; 16. 
 Gosport; 223. 
 
 inhabitants, petition of ; 73. 
 
 Lieut. Governor of ; 76. 
 
 castle seized ; 234. 
 
 quietness at ; 235. 
 
 barracks at ; 242. 
 
 security of; 282. 
 Gottingen University ; 330. 
 Gough, Sir Henry, candidate for Brani- 
 
 ber; 364. 
 Gower: 
 
 W. Leveson, candidate for Stafford- 
 shire; 326. 
 Earl (1774), letter of; 364. 
 Countess Dowager, letter of ; 352. 
 Graffland, Mynheer, Dutch ambassador ; 
 
 341. 
 Grafton : 
 
 Duke of (1679) ; 39. 
 
 (1683) , admiral, instructions to ; 86. 
 
 (1684) , at Tournay ; 120. 
 
 (1687) , in the Straits; 133. 
 
 (1688) , a volunteer in the fleet ; 176. 
 his desertion of James II. ; 215. 
 
 his quarter-master ; 238. 
 with the fleet ; 261. 
 (1765) ; 331. 
 
 (1774), his administration ; 369. 
 Graham, Grahme: 
 
 uncle to Geo. Legge ; 11, 16, 30. 
 — , flight of; 229. 
 Mr. ; 120. 
 
 ■ of Balgowan, his marriage ; 
 
 368, 
 
 James ; 35, 66, 217, 231, 292. 
 
 Sir R. ; 53. 
 Graine, island of, saltwork in ; 129. 
 Grammont, Duke of ; 116. 
 Grana, M. de ; 90. 
 
 Granard, Lord (1689), Lieut. General in 
 
 Ireland; 249. 
 Grandee, Mr., chirurgeon at Tangier ; 
 
 26. 
 
 Granger, — ; 11. 
 
 Grant, William, collector of customs ; 
 
 371. 
 Granville : 
 
 co. Annapolis, letter dated at ; 400. 
 Bay, in the Granadas; 371. 
 G., made Lord Lansdowne, letter of ; 
 309. 
 
 his brother Bernard ; ib. 
 Gravelines, fortifications at ; 120. 
 Graves : 
 
 Admiral, letters of; 360, 373, 376, 
 383-389. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 467 
 
 Graves— cont 
 
 Admiral, letter to ; 373. 
 
 Lieut, John, letter of; 384. 
 Gravesend ; 99, 100, 103, 142, 247. 
 Gray: 
 
 Mr., candidate for Berwick ; 124. 
 John, letters of ; 336. 
 Graydon, Capt. John, of the Sandadoe ; 
 138. 
 
 Greenhill, Captaiu, of the Trinity House ; 
 140. 
 
 Greenock, merchant at ; 382. 
 Greenwich; 10, 168, 198. 
 
 letter dated at ; 80. 
 
 hospital, organist at ; 444, 445. 
 
 Connecticut, camp at ; 392. 
 Greenwood, one, apprehended ; 170. 
 Gregory : 
 
 Mr., Clerk of the Checque at Chat- 
 ham ; 173. 
 Ja., of the College in Edinburgh; 
 304. 
 Grenada: 
 
 letters dated at; 354, 360. 
 petition from ; 367. 
 Grenville, Mr., his mission to France ; 
 
 425. 
 Greville : 
 
 Lord (1773), report by ; 334. 
 Hon. C. F., letters of ; 371, 426. 
 Col. H. F., letters of; 438. 
 Grey : 
 
 of Ruthyn, Lord (1685) his dispute 
 with the Earl of Kent ; 124. 
 
 Mr. de ; 423. 
 
 Sir James ; 328. 
 Griesbach, a musician ; 445. 
 Grieve, Dr., letter of ; 424. 
 Griffith, Sir John ; 26. 
 Grimaldi, Spanish minister ; 367. 
 Grimes, Mr. ; 160. 
 Grubellie, E., of Tangier; 97. 
 Guadiana, the river ; 298. 
 Guernsey; 235. 
 
 fortifications of ; 11. 
 
 St. Peter's port ; 20. 
 
 ordnance stores in ; 49. 
 
 bailiff, &c. of, letter of ; 124. 
 
 defence of; ib. 
 
 King's attorney in ; 134. 
 
 preparations against landing of 
 French in ; 239-243. 
 
 soldiers sent to ; 284. 
 
 Lord, at Aylesford ; 294. 
 
 (1709); 295. 
 
 (1719), letters of; 325. 
 
 Guilford, Lord : 
 
 (1712), letter of ; 309. 
 
 (1715), letter of; 322. 
 
 (1786), letter of ; 424. 
 Guiscard, Marquis de, papers about ; 
 
 305. 
 Gully: 
 
 Captain, death of ; 310. 
 
 Jack, letter on behalf of ; 132. 
 Gum trade in Africa ; 338. 
 
 Gunman, Capt. Christopher; 40, 42, 49 > 
 67. 
 
 court-martial on ; 74, 75. 
 Gunnery experiments ; 10. 
 Gunning, Dr., book attributed to ; 47. 
 Guy, Henry, of the Treasury, receipt by 
 119. 
 
 Guyland, — , at Tangier ; 17. 
 Gwillim, Henry, letters of ; 426. 
 Gwyn, Francis : 
 
 letters of; 202, 233, 237. 
 
 attestation by ; 231. 
 
 candidate for Portsmouth ; 237. 
 
 H. 
 
 Hackett : 
 
 Mr., chaplain ; 311, 316. 
 
 Sir James, at Tangier ; 103. 
 Hackney ; 236. 
 
 Bishop Wood's estate in ; 76. 
 Haddington, Lord: 
 
 and the test ; 71. 
 
 (1774) ; 369. 
 Haddock : 
 
 Captain, ships taken by ; 298. 
 
 Sir Richard, president of a court- 
 martial ; 75. 
 
 letter of; 107. 
 
 at the Victualling Office, &c. ; 
 
 140, 147, 152, 155, 159, 160, 166, 
 174, 2 J 8, 240, 260. 
 Hague, the : 
 
 letters dated at ; 3, 31, 176, 181, 201, 
 305, 308, 321. 
 
 Prince Rupert at ; 3. 
 
 the Duke of York at ; 31. 
 
 Princess Royal at ; 330. 
 Halbowling, fortification of ; 125. 
 Haldanby, Mr. ; 139. 
 Haldimand, Major-General : 
 
 letters of ; 346, 348, 370. 
 joined with General Gage ; 392. 
 Hale, John, letter of; 437. 
 Hales : 
 
 Colonel, his regiment ; 143, 144. 
 Sir Edward, at the Admiralty; 86* 
 89. 
 
 letter of; 157. 
 
 at the Tower ; 194. 
 
 desertion of his captain ; 210. 
 
 and the Tower batteries ; 211. 
 
 turned out of the Tow.er ; 216. 
 
 his flight ; 229. 
 
 his island; 231. 
 
 taken with James II. ; 232, 
 
 233, 234. 
 Halifax : 
 
 Nova Scotia, letters dated at ; 332, 
 339, 342, 343, 352, 368, 371, 373, 
 376-389, passim, 398-416, 423. 
 
 fortifications of ; 332. 
 
 road making in ; 343. 
 
 G G 2 
 
.468 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Halifax — cont. 
 
 Nova Scotia, Yard ; 345. 
 
 East India Co.'s agent at ; 347. 
 
 Court of Chancery at ; 349. 
 
 Orphan House at; 352. 
 
 proclamation at ; 362. 
 
 dockyard, defence of ; 387. 
 
 Citadel hill ; ib. 
 
 expected attack on ; 399. 
 
 removal of families from Boston 
 
 to; 400. 
 
 defences of ; 399. 
 
 militia at ; 399, 400. 
 
 disorders in ; 402. 
 
 Pedley's house in ; ib. 
 
 House of Assembly, proceedings 
 
 of; 408-410. 
 
 Governor of. See Legge. 
 
 Viscount, afterwards Marquis of, Lord 
 
 Shaftesbury and ; 69. 
 - — Lord Conway's comments on; 
 
 86. 
 
 the Duke of York's references 
 
 to ; 35-73, passim. 
 
 (1688) ; 170. 
 
 and the Prince of Orange ; 
 
 222. 
 
 second, William, letters of ; 
 
 292, 293. 
 Lady (1682), a godmother ; 74. 
 
 (1700) ; 293. 
 
 (1702), letter to ; ib. 
 
 (1705), a godmother ; 294. 
 
 Hall, Elihu, of Connecticut, memorials of ; 
 372. 
 
 Hallier, — , sent out of the country ; 307. 
 Halsey, Lieut.- Colonel, at Nieuport ; 27. 
 Ham House, offered to James II. ; 236. 
 Hambleton, Mr., wounded ; 23. 
 Hamburgh ships, to be secured ; 20. 
 Hamilton : 
 
 Captain; 63. 
 
 Colonel, concerned in the Hamilton 
 
 and Mohun duel ; 312-3 U. 
 A., letter of; 316. 
 
 Henry, his commission in Nova Scotia 
 Volunteers; 403. 
 
 James, letter of; 202. 
 
 Duke of (1680, &c.) ; 45, 48, 66. 
 
 and the test; 70, 71. 
 
 his loyalty ; ib. 
 
 (1712), his duel with Lord 
 
 Mohun; 311-314. 
 
 Duchess of; 70, 317. 
 Hammersmith, letter dated at; 126. 
 Hammond, Andrew Snape, letter to ; 339. 
 Hampshire, militia in ; 124, 125. 
 Hampton Court: 
 
 Charles I. at ; 129. 
 
 apartments in ; 444. 
 Hancock : 
 
 John, of Boston, New England ; 342, 
 343. 
 
 > oration by; 349. 
 
 President of Congress ; 404. 
 
 Thomas, mayor of Portsmouth, depo- 
 sition of; 230. 
 letters of; 234, 242, 244. 
 
 Handsworth, estate in ; 293. 
 Hanover ; 310. 
 Hanson, John, letter of ; 347. 
 Harcourt : 
 
 Lord (1735) ; 328. 
 
 Sir Simon, letter of ; 299. 
 Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor, letters of ; 
 
 330. 
 Harley : 
 
 Robert, his house in York buildings ; 
 295. 
 
 letters of; 297, 303, 305. 
 
 See Oxford, Earl of. 
 
 Lord (1713) ; 317, 318. 
 
 Lady Harriot ; 318. 
 
 Henrietta ; 319. 
 
 Harman : 
 
 Admiral; 179. 
 
 Sir John ; 17. 
 Harm on d : 
 
 William, a gunner ; 73. 
 
 Capt. Thomas ; 73. 
 Harris : 
 
 — , book translated by ; 6. 
 a drawer ; 312. 
 
 Mr., chaplain ; 322. 
 
 Capt. Leonard ; 17. 
 Harrison and Ansley, Messrs., letter to ; 
 382. 
 
 Harry, Sir Daniel ; 17. 
 
 Hart, Captain, in Algiers ; 19, 
 
 Hartley, Captain : 
 
 his command in India ; 420. 
 wounded ; 421. 
 Hartshorn, Charles, of Tangier ; 96. 
 Harwich; 165, 167, 168, 169, 175, 176, 
 182, 192, 200, 239,251, 259,261, 
 262. 
 
 sea light at ; 140. 
 Hastings : 
 
 barony of ; 124. 
 Captain ; 102, 187, 275. 
 
 ■ his capture of an Algiers ship ; 
 
 68. 
 
 his ship ; 176. 
 
 ship seized by ; 197. 
 
 Anthony, his boatswain ; 87. 
 
 Colonel; 171. 
 
 Major, at Nieuport ; 27. 
 
 Warren, his trial ; 437. 
 Hatfield, Herts : 
 
 publication of manuscripts at ; 329. 
 
 living at ; ib. 
 Hatton : 
 
 Lord (1673), letter of; 20. 
 
 (1680) ; 44. 
 
 (1685), letters of; 124, 134, 
 
 137. 
 
 Chr., letter of; 11. 
 Hauses, Mr., candidate for Winchester ; 
 123. 
 
 Hawkes, Mr. ; 157. 
 
 Hawkesbury, Lord (1805), letters of ; 437, 
 4 44. 
 
 Hawkins, Dr. ; 236. 
 
 Hawley, Lord ; 48. 
 
 Hawne, John de, Dutch admiral; 21. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 469 
 
 Hay: 
 
 Hon. Mr., letter of; 334. 
 
 Lieut. Robert, letter of; 367. 
 
 his son Edward Legge ; ib. 
 
 Will., servant to Lord Arran ; 116. 
 Hayes, Lieut, of the Dover ; 172. 
 Haynes, informer ; 65. 
 Hazen, Captain ; 394. 
 Head, Dr. Michael ; 397. 
 Heath, Sir Richard, letter of; 168. 
 Hebbard, Eleazar ; 386. 
 Hedger : 
 
 Mr., justice at Portsmouth ; 230. 
 
 Nicholas, of Portsmouth, letter of ; 
 242. 
 Hedges : 
 
 Sir Charles ; 300. 
 
 Thomas, waterman, impressment of ; 
 416, 417. 
 Heebreren, Baron de ; 202. 
 Heene, A., letter of ; 295. 
 Heling, Capt. Daniel ; 17. 
 Helversluce or Helvoetsluys ; 165, 176, 
 
 180, 262. 
 Henby Park, letter dated at ; 309. 
 Henchman, Thomas, letters of ; 426. 
 Henderson, Jacob, of Tangier; 79. 
 Henrietta Maria, Queen, her journey to 
 
 Whitehall; 9. 
 Henry, Patrick, a Virginian rebel ; 391. 
 Herbert, Admiral ; 82, 83, 89, 90. 
 
 in command of the Dutch fleet ; 151, 
 158, 165, 174, 180, 181, 191, 203, 
 221, 224, 261, 262, 278. 
 
 his ship disabled ; 177. 
 
 in Torbay ; 204, 213. 
 
 letters opened by ; 213. 
 
 in the fight at Bantry ; 252, 253. 
 Herefordshire, elections in ; 322. 
 Herrenhausen, letter dated at; 297. 
 Herring fishery, the, the Dutch and ; 4. 
 Herriot, Mr. ; 152. 
 Hervey, Sir Eliab ; 131. 
 Hesse Cassel, Princess Mary at ; 330. 
 Heveningham, Captain, joins the Prince 
 
 of Orange; 222. 
 Hewell, letters dated at; 64, 134. 
 Hewer, William ; 94. 
 
 Treasurer for Tangier, memorials 
 by; 95. 
 
 letters of; 103, 108. 
 
 in Seville ; 108. 
 
 his report on Tangier accounts, &c. ; 
 117. 
 
 on Mr. Thistlethwayte's affairs ; 
 
 118. 
 
 illness of ; 142. 
 
 Commissioner of the Navy; 152, 
 167. 
 
 Hey, W., Chief Justice of Quebec, letters 
 of ; 347, 363, 370. 
 resigns his office ; 363. 
 Hickman : 
 
 William, Ordnance Commissioner ; 
 49. 
 
 Sir Willoughby, Commissioner; 81. 
 
 Hicks, Mills and, Boston printers ; 386. 
 Hildbrand, Captain, of the Lansmun ; 20. 
 Hill: 
 
 Ensign ; 100. 
 
 George, valet; 312. 
 
 [Richard?] letters of; 306. 
 Hilliard: 
 
 Mrs.; 74. 
 
 Sir Robert, Commissioner ; 81. 
 Hillsborough: 
 
 Nova Scotia, petition from : 397. 
 
 Earl of (1687), letters of; 333, 334. 
 
 (1774) ; 362. 
 
 Hinton, letters dated at ; 293, 294. 
 Hipsley, — , porter ; 312. 
 Hobart, Lord, letters of; 426. 
 Hobby, Sir Charles ; 320. 
 Hochstette or Blenheim, battle of ; 446. 
 Hodder, Mr., messenger ; 189, 191, 266. 
 Hodge, Captain, at Tangier; 103. 
 Hodgson, General, letter to; 379. 
 Hogemogenden, the, or Dutchmen ; 4. 
 Hogue, Cape de ; 20. 
 Holder, Mr., his place ; 73. 
 Holdsworth, Arthur and Robert, of Dart- 
 mouth ; 300. 
 Holland: 
 
 and the herring fishery ; 4. 
 
 naval engagements with ; 14, 15, 20- 
 24. 
 
 ships of, to be secured ; 20. 
 
 list of admirals of; 21. 
 
 the Duke of York in ; 31, 32. 
 
 prizes taken from ; 77. 
 
 feeling in, about the Prince of 
 
 Orange's expedition ; 145. 
 movements of the Prince of Orange's 
 
 fleet from ; 165, 170, 174, 175, 177. 
 
 178, 180, 203, 204. 
 losses in the fleet ; 176. 
 fleet damaged by storm ; 176, 178. 
 its reported shattered condition ; 
 
 183. 
 
 gone westward ; ib. 
 
 seen off Dover, Dartmouth, and 
 
 Lyme ; 184, 185. 
 
 in Torbay ; 185. 
 
 ships of, seized ; 187. 
 
 comparison of, with Lord Dart- 
 mouth's fleet ; 191-196, passim. 
 
 Lord Dartmouth's operations 
 
 against ; 255, et seq. 
 
 damage done to ; 257. 
 
 mails from ; 298, 299, 300. 
 
 butter in ; 330. 
 
 ambassadors from ; 34 K 
 
 Mr. ; 416. 
 Hollis, — , cup bearer ; 63, 64. 
 Holmes : 
 
 — ; 7,8. 
 
 Captain, in Algiers ; 19. 
 Jeremy, waterman ; 162. 
 Sir Robert; letters and orders of; 20. 
 
 governor of the Isle of Wight • 
 
 101. 
 
 ■ grant to ; 137. 
 
 letters of ; 185, 221, 225, 231. 
 
470 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Holmes — cont. 
 
 Sir Robert, desertions from ; 225, 231. 
 
 at Yarmouth, I.W. ; 233. 
 
 Irish soldiers sent to ; 246. 
 
 Holt: 
 
 the, Lord Dartmouth's house at ; 285, 
 286. 
 
 Sir Charles, his servants ; 445. 
 Holte: 
 
 Sir Cleobury ; 295. 
 
 Sir Lister, his marriage ; 328. 
 Holyhead ; 317. 
 
 Holy Island, near Berwick, letter from ; 
 
 134. 
 Home : 
 
 Captain, his company at Tangier ; 
 110. 
 
 Governor of Tortola, his death ; 343. 
 
 Count Jean de, his regiment ; 202. 
 
 Earl of (1774); 369. 
 Honduras, Bay of, pirates in ; 136. 
 Honyman, John, deposition of ; 106. 
 Hopewell : 
 
 on Eundy hay ; 397. 
 
 petition from ; ib. 
 Horses: 
 
 belonging to the Duke of York ; 31, 
 
 33, '37. 
 prices of ; 127. 
 Horton, Nova Scotia ; 403. 
 
 volunteers in ; 401. 
 Hoskins, Captain ; 155. 
 Hotham, Sir John/Lord Belasyse and; 
 86. 
 
 Hough, Dr. John, his letters ; 328. 
 Hounslow Heath ; 236. 
 
 order of march to ; 132. 
 letter dated at ; 133. 
 Houstoun, Sir Patrick, Receiver-General of 
 
 Georgia; 336. 
 Howard : 
 
 Captain, at Nieuport ; 27. 
 Mr., Presbyterian minister from Bos- 
 ton ; 377, 378. 
 Martin, Chief Justice of North 
 
 Carolina; 346. 
 Sir Philip, his invention for sheathing 
 
 ships ; 79. 
 Colonel T., letter of; 370. 
 
 Howe : 
 
 Lord; 410. 
 
 (17 7 8), British fleet under; 418. 
 
 . (1787), letter of; 425. 
 
 Sir Richard, his coach ; 134. 
 General, or Sir William, sent to 
 
 Boston; 374. 
 letters of; 378, 382. 385-402, 
 
 408, 417. 
 
 letters to ; 388, 411, 417. 
 
 attack led by ; 379, 380. 
 
 succeeds Gage in command ; 
 
 383, 395. 
 
 ordered to America ; 393. 
 
 his victory at Charleston ; 393. 
 
 his march on Philadelphia ; 398. 
 
 — — provision for his troops at 
 
 Halifax ; 403. 
 
 Howe — cont. 
 
 General, memorial to ; 405. 
 
 sailed from Halifax ; 410. 
 
 Howell: 
 
 Captain ; 146. 
 
 Mr.; 212. 
 Howsden, Captain at Nieuport ; 27. 
 Howston, Major, killed at Portsmouth ; 75. 
 Hublethorne, Colonel, killed ; 23. 
 Huddesford, Dr., letters to ; 330. 
 Hudson's river, distress of settlers about ; 
 
 361. 
 Hughes : 
 
 Mr., schoolmaster at Tangier ; 104. 
 
 minister of Tangier ; 118. 
 
 Hull : 
 
 letters dated at; 81, 123, 128, 134, 
 136. 
 
 garrison ; 34, 41. 
 
 works at ; 222. 
 
 commissioners for fortifications at ; 
 81. 
 
 Governor of ; 86. 
 gunner at ; 121. 
 progress of works at; 128. 
 fortifications at ; 134,136. 
 master pilot of, with the Dutch fleet ; 
 178. 
 
 Humber, the, the Dutch fleet steering for ; 
 180. 
 
 Hume, Captain, at Tangier ; 50. 
 Humieres, M. d' ; 90. 
 
 his march to Liege ; 181. 
 Humphrey, William, deposition of ; 387. 
 Hungarian sickness ; 5. 
 
 wine ; 5, 6, 7, 8. 
 Hungary, campaign in ; 139. 
 Hunter, Mr. ; 148, 198. 
 Huntingdon, Lord, confined at Plymouth ; 
 216. 
 
 Huntingdonshire, arms seized in ; 120. 
 Hurst Castle ; 233. 
 
 defence of ; 185. 
 
 attempt to surprize ; 225. 
 Husher, Robert, his petition ; 310. 
 Hutchens, Captain ; 237. 
 Hutchinson : 
 
 Boston tea merchant ; 342, 343. 
 
 Governor of Boston, letters of ; 338- 
 350, passim, 362. 
 
 suggested recall of; 338. 
 
 Dr. Franklin's conduct regard- 
 ing his letters; 355. 
 
 letters to; 360, 371. 
 
 charge against his brother ; 410. 
 
 George III.'s letter concerning ; 
 
 439. 
 
 Thomas and Elisha, of Boston, letter 
 to; 341. 
 
 minute concerning ; 342. 
 
 Hyde: 
 
 Lord, the Duke of York and ; 38, 39, 
 40, 41, 60-72, passim. 
 
 (1773), letter of; 336. 
 
 Lady; 64. 
 
 Mr., the Duke of York's references to ; 
 33, 45, 47, 57-60, 70. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 471 
 
 Isla de Vaca ; 25. 
 
 Islay, Lord (1713), his submissions; 317, 
 318. 
 
 Italy, Princes of, treaty among ; 298. 
 
 I. 
 
 Inchiquin, Earl of : 
 
 (1675), letter of; 26. 
 
 Governor of Tangier ; 104. 
 
 (1685), letter of; 125. 
 
 his reported disaffection ; ib. 
 India, East : 
 
 subscribers for stock ; 74, 447. 
 
 Company, tea consigned to Boston by ; 
 341, 342. 
 
 tea importation by ; 347. 
 
 renewal of charter ; 423. 
 
 the Mahratta ^ar in ; 420-422. 
 
 affairs of (1800-1803) ; 425-437. 
 Indians, American : 
 
 skirmishes with ; 359. 
 
 English relations with ; 360. 
 Indies, West : 
 
 ship fitted out for ; 131. 
 
 the French in ; 294. 
 
 plantations in ; 315. 
 
 monopoly given to ; 331. 
 Inglis : 
 
 Mr., vicar of Lewisham ; 329. 
 
 Robert H., letter of ; 438. 
 Inglish, Robert, of Tangier; 97. 
 
 at Tangier hospital ; 104. 
 Ingoldsby, Lieut.-Gen., at Dublin ; 308. 
 Ipswich ; 120. 
 Ireland : 
 
 north of, Scottish ministers in ; 11. 
 
 the Duke of Ormonde's letters re- 
 ferring to ; 9-15. 
 
 transportation of cattle from, pro- 
 hibited; 12. 
 
 seizure of cattle from ; 75, 76. * 
 
 state of army and fortifications in 
 (1684) ; 121. 
 
 Attorney-General for ; 122. 
 
 merchants of, their treatment in 
 France; 121. 
 
 fortifications in ; 1 25. 
 
 threatened by Spain ; ib. 
 
 Lord Chancellors of, their emolu- 
 ments; 130. 
 
 Lord Clarendon's opinion of ; 130. 
 
 neglect of fortifications in ; 131. 
 
 army of, to be encamped ; 132. 
 
 bad state of armaments in; 211. 
 
 state of, in 1688 ; 234. 
 
 committee concerning ; 252. 
 
 Tyrconnell's preparations in ; 249. 
 
 poverty of; 293. 
 
 Lord Chancellor of ; 307. 
 
 Lord Lieut, of, Ormonde removed and 
 Shrewsbury appointed ; 318. 
 
 housebreakers from ; 328. 
 
 Secretaryship of ; ib. 
 
 Lord Lieut, of, Devonshire ; ib. 
 Irwin, Lord (1774) ; 370. 
 
 J. 
 
 Jacobite papers ; 329. 
 Jacobs, a pirate ; 136. 
 Jackson, Mr. : 
 
 of the Board of Trade, his observa- 
 tions ; 354. 
 
 name for James II. ; 255. 
 Jadis, Captain ; 358. 
 Jaggar, Thomas, certificate of; 238. 
 Jamaica; 135. 
 
 letters dated at; 25, 135-137, 152, 
 316. 
 
 Assembly of; 25. 
 
 Acts passed by ; 68. 
 
 Lord Carlisle in ; 76. 
 government of ; 239. 
 the Council in ; 306. 
 Duke of Albemarle in ; 135-137. 
 
 , death of; 152. 
 
 petition from ; 366. 
 ordnance stores for ; 371. 
 Port Royal; 152. 
 James, Colonel ; 348. 
 James II. : 
 
 his letters to Lord Dartmouth ; 144, 
 
 152, 158, 169. 
 letters of; 170, 190, 194, 219, 220, 
 
 224-226, 252. 
 letters of Lord Dartmouth to ; 282. 
 orders by ; 198, 202. 
 his coronation, dispute between Lords 
 
 Grey and Kent concerning ; 124. 
 his progress in the West ; 133, 134. 
 birth of his son ; 136. 
 and the Bishops ; 137. 
 evidence touching the birth of his 
 
 son ; 170. 
 his interviews with Pepys respecting 
 
 Lord Dartmouth's operations. See 
 
 Pepys, S., letters of, passim. 
 press warrants signed by ; 138. 
 his instructions to Lord Dartmouth ; 
 
 138, 139. 
 
 his restoration of the charters ; 167. 
 at Salisbury; 210, 212, 213, 271. 
 at Andover; 215, 216, 220. 
 his summons of the Peers ; 216. 
 his purpose of calling a Parliament ; 
 
 216, 217. 
 his son ; 204, 205. 
 
 his son at Portsmouth ; 210, 272, 275. 
 his son's removal; 216, 220,223,224. 
 his interview with Lord Berkeley ; 
 222. 
 
 further desertions from ; 228. 
 
472 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 James II. — cant. 
 
 his flight from London ; 228, 229. 
 his capture near Faversham; 231-233. 
 his treatment at Faversham ; 234. 
 at Rochester ; 236, 238. 
 his return to London ; 235, 236. 
 his submission to the Prince of 
 
 Orange ; 236. 
 his most faithful followers ; 242. 
 in Paris ; 249. 
 
 his coaches and horses ; 252. 
 views of his Protestant followers ; 
 253, 254. 
 
 his declaration for a free parliament ; 
 272-275. 
 
 Lord Dartmouth's reasons against 
 removal of his son ; 275-278. 
 
 and Magdalen College ; 299. 
 
 Sir J. Dalrymple's comments on ; 446. 
 Jeffrey, Mr., of Boston ; 394. 
 Jeffreys, Lord Chancellor : 
 
 and the London Corporation ; 143. 
 
 his reception in the City ; 144. 
 
 his message to Lady Dartmouth ; 146. 
 
 proposes to turn out four judges ; 168. 
 
 illness of; 183. 
 
 his flight ; 229, 230. 
 
 imprisoned ; 232, 233. 
 
 his capture ; 235. 
 Jekyl, Nicholas, manuscript of ; 328. 
 Jenkins, Sir Leoline, secretary : 
 
 letters of ; 87-101, passim, 126. 
 
 letter to ; 111. 
 
 resignation of ; ib. 
 Jennens, Sir William ; 146. 
 
 letters of; 170, 174, 233, 238, 239. 
 
 his conduct ; 182. 
 
 his ship ; 222. 
 
 charges against; 238, 239, 245, 246. 
 
 complaint by ; 242. 
 Jenner or Gener, Baron, his flight ; 229. 
 Jenner, Mr., Recorder of London ; 95. 
 Jennings, Lieut., to Sir W. Booth ; 145. 
 Jenyns, Soame : 
 
 report by ; 334. 
 
 at the Board of Trade ; 341. 
 Jermyn, Lord (1688) ; 229. 
 Jersey ; 235. 
 
 ordnance stores in ; 49. 
 
 foot soldiers to be transported to ; 
 243, 246. 
 
 soldiers sent to ; 284. 
 
 Lord and Lady (1721), their house at 
 Squerries ; 326. 
 
 Earl of (1701-1710), letters of; 293- 
 300. 
 
 Jerusalem, New, deposition taken at ; 389. 
 Jesuits: 
 
 Powder; 157. 
 
 in Quebec ; 338. 
 Jevon, Anne, her claim ; 317. 
 Jews in Tangier ; 83, 84. 
 Jodrell, Paul : 
 
 letter to ; 305. 
 
 letter of ; 306. 
 Johnson : 
 
 Captain; 370. 
 
 Dr. Samuel, letter of ; 447. 
 
 Johnson— cunt. 
 
 Sir William, and the Canadian Indians: 
 341. 
 
 charges against ; ib. 
 
 — — and the Delaware Indians; 360. 
 Johnstone, Governor George, Commis- 
 sioner to America ; 419, 420, note. 
 Johonnot, freeman of Boston, New Eng- 
 land ; 342. 
 Jolliffe, Mr., at the Board of Trade ; 341. 
 Jones : 
 
 a pirate ; 136. 
 
 a gamester at Bath; 327, 
 
 judge; 60. 
 
 Robert, of Tangier; 97. 
 Tom ; 44. 
 
 K. 
 
 Kaye, Lady, letters to ; 327, 328. 
 Xeightley, Thomas, letter of; 139. 
 Kelly: 
 
 Lord (1774); 369. 
 
 Hugh, and his Molly ; 20. 
 Kempthorne : 
 
 company for ; 224. 
 
 Captain ; 64. 
 
 Sir John, Admiral, squadron under ; 
 15. 
 
 election of ; 29. 
 
 Ken, Dr. Thomas : 
 letter of; 120. 
 his brother ; ib. 
 
 Bishop of Bath and Wells, letters of ; 
 123, 134, 138. 
 Kensington : 
 
 court at ; 296. 
 Gate; 313. 
 
 Palace, letters dated at ; 443, 444. 
 Kent: 
 
 elections in ; 297, 300, 326, 332. 
 Earl of (1685), his dispute with Lord 
 
 Grey of Ruthyn ; 124. 
 Duke of (1801, &c.) letters of; 443, 
 
 444. 
 
 Kentish Knock; 259. 
 
 Kentish Town, letter dated at ; 416. 
 
 Kenton ; 445. 
 
 Kew : 
 
 letters dated at ; 439-442. 
 
 House, letter dated at ; 444. 
 
 Lane, letter dated at ; 411. 
 Kidd, John, of Pennsylvania ; 357. 
 Kildare, letter dated at ; 121. 
 Kilkenny, letters dated at ; 12, 14. 
 Killegrew, or Killigrew : 
 
 Captain or Capt. Henry ; 64, 94, 102, 
 103, 115. 
 
 letters of; 94, 103. 
 
 report by ; 107. 
 
 left at Tangier; 111. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 473 
 
 Killegrew, or Killigrew — cont. 
 
 Captain, his lieutenant; 115. 
 
 his voyage to Guinea ; 139. 
 
 Harry ; 139. 
 
 Mr., on board a Spanish ship ; 85. 
 
 lieutenant; 148. 
 
 Lieut., of the Portsmouth ; 172. 
 
 Rob., volunteer in the Navy ; 63. 
 Kilmarnock, Earl of (1746), trial of; 330. 
 Kilsoran, living of ; 294. 
 King : 
 
 Mr., recommendations of; 325. 
 
 Dr. John, and the Mastership of the 
 Charterhouse ; 322. 
 Kingsthorpe, living of; 293. 
 Kingston ; 3. 
 
 execution at ; 310. 
 
 Duchess of, her trial ; 403, 437. 
 Kinsale; 130. 
 
 taken by the Spaniards ; 125. 
 Kirby, letters dated at ; 124, 134, 137. 
 Kirke : 
 
 Captain J., report by ; 417. 
 
 Col. Percy, Governor of Tangier, 
 letters of; 59, 61, 64. 
 
 letters of; 72-80, passim 86, 90. 
 
 letters of; 112, 115, 128. 
 
 order to ; 84. 
 
 instructions to ; 86. 
 
 his cipher ; 98. 
 
 his regiment at Pendennis ; 103. 
 
 certificate by ; 104. 
 
 list of his company at Tangier ; 
 
 108. 
 
 disposal of his battalions ; 111. 
 
 with Lord Feversham against 
 
 Monmouth; 126. 
 
 taken prisoner ; 219. 
 
 Major-General, troops sent to Hol- 
 land under ; 249. 
 Knatchbull, Sir Edward, candidate for 
 
 Kent; 326. 
 Knight : 
 
 Lieut., execution served on ; 373. 
 judgment against ; ib. 
 Major, companies under; 204. 
 Knox, William, letters of; 339, 367. 
 Koumiss, properties of; 424. 
 
 L. 
 
 Labrador, fishery on coast of; 378. 
 Lambert, Alderman, of Hull ; 81. 
 Lambeth ; 10. 
 
 letter dated at ; 305. 
 Lamplugh : 
 
 Bishop of Exeter; 190. 
 
 Mary, her son ; 296. 
 Lanark, rebellious declaration at ; 45, 46, 
 48. 
 
 Lancashire, arms seized in ; 120. 
 Lancaster, New England ; 361. 
 
 Landguard Fort ; 143, 144, 148, 156. 
 Landport, barracks at ; 242. 
 Lane : 
 
 Dick; U. 
 
 J. T., letter of ; 423. 
 and Foster, Messrs., letter to ; 382. 
 Lanesborough, Lord (1685), letter of ; 
 123. 
 
 Langdale, Lord (1688), letters of; 136, 
 137. 
 
 Langley, Captain, of Harwich ; 140. 
 Langstorn, Capt. Thomas ; 100, 
 Languedoc, Calvinists in ; 331. 
 Lanier, Sir John ; 171. 
 Lansdowne : 
 
 Lord, G. Granville made ; 309. 
 
 Lady, at Whitehall ; 318. 
 Larache, a Spanish garrison ; 91. 
 Larance, Lieut., under Capt. Killegrew ; 
 115. 
 
 Lashley (Leslie ?), Sir James, his com- 
 
 pany at Tangier ; 109. 
 Laton, Captain, of the Mary ; 237. 
 Lauderdale, Duke of : 
 in Scotland ; 34. 
 
 his anger with the Duke of York ; 
 70. 
 
 Laurens, Henry, President of American 
 
 Congress ; 419, 420. 
 Lawder, Captain, at Tangier ; 103. 
 Lawes, Lieut. Richard, at Tangier ; 1 09. 
 Lawler, David, letter of ; 400. 
 Lawley, Sir Francis, candidate for parlia- 
 ment ; 56. 
 Lawrence, Sir Thomas ; 448. 
 Lawson, Admiral ; 179. 
 Lead, ships sheathed with ; 79. 
 Leake : 
 
 Captain, pay due to ; 116. 
 
 Captain, master gunner; 206, 217. 
 
 Sir John, at the Council ; 299. 
 Le Cras : 
 
 Commodore, of the Somerset ; 388. 
 
 E., letter of; 381. 
 Lee : 
 
 Captain, at Nieuport ; 27. 
 Major, his proceedings at Boston ; 
 365. 
 
 Mr., agent for Boston ; 350. 
 
 Arthur, letters of ; 344, 353. 
 
 petition consigned to ; 372. 
 
 Major-General; 381,392. 
 Leeds : 
 
 letter dated at ; 348. 
 
 Duke of, William III. and ; 293. 
 
 (1710), letter of ; 298. 
 
 Leeward Islands, parish ministers in ; 
 298. 
 
 Leffever or Lefevre, Thomas : 
 
 letter of ; 299, 300. 
 
 news from ; 298. 
 Le Fleming, Sir Nicholas ; 233. 
 Legard, Sir John, Commissioner ; 81. 
 Legge : 
 
 Captain ; 111, 112. 
 
 ship for ; 294. 
 
 of the Severn; 446. 
 
474 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Legge — cont. 
 
 Mr., proposed muster master of the 
 
 fleet; 164. 
 Alice; 337. 
 
 Lady Anne, her marriage $ 328. 
 Augustus George, his marriage ; 425. 
 Lady Charlotte, her marriage ; ib. 
 Edward, letter of; 328. 
 Major Francis, afterwards Governor, 
 
 letters to ; 334, 335. 
 appointments offered to ; 334, 
 
 335. 
 
 appointed Governor of Nova 
 
 Scotia; 336. 
 
 letters of and to ; 345-389, pas- 
 sim, 397-417, 423. 
 
 his agent ; 347. 
 
 money due to ; ib. 
 
 proclamation by ; 362. 
 
 speech of ; 364. 
 
 his alleged oppressions ; 376, 
 
 377. 
 
 his alleged persecution of Bin- 
 
 ney ; 381, 382. 
 
 his maid servant ; 387. 
 
 petitions, &c. to ; 397. 
 
 his departure for England ; 403- 
 
 405. 
 
 attempts to cast odium upon ; 
 
 408, et seg. 
 
 memorial by ; 411, 412, 417. 
 
 his reply to the charges against 
 
 him; 412-414. 
 
 his petition for expenses ; 416. 
 
 Sir C. Douglas and; 423. 
 
 George, afterwards first Lord Dart- 
 mouth, gentle ; 16. 
 
 summary of his services ; 25. 
 
 letter of; 16. 
 
 Captain,' in command of the 
 
 Fairfax; 20. 
 
 Governor of Portsmouth ; 20. 
 
 his journal when commanding 
 
 the Royal Katherine ; 20-22. 
 
 Colonel, letter of; 23, 
 
 letters to ; 23, 25, et seq. 
 
 his command in Nieuport, Flan- 
 ders ; 27. 
 
 raised to the peerage ; 79. See 
 
 Dartmouth, Lord. 
 
 Heneage, letters of ; 328-330. 
 
 appointed King's Counsel; 329. 
 
 made a Baron of the Exche- 
 quer ; 330. 
 
 Henry, letter of; 328. 
 
 Col. John; 10. 
 
 Lady Louisa, her marriage ; 445. 
 Robert ; 74. 
 
 temp. Hen. 8; 324. 
 
 of Great Cotton, his will ; 330. 
 
 Capt. Thomas, of the Weymouth, 
 letter of ; 295. 
 
 in Antigua ; 295. 
 
 depositions against ; ib. 
 
 Col. William, letters to ; 3-19. 
 ■ summarj- of his services ; 24. 
 
 Legge — cont. 
 
 Capt. or Col. William, brother of 
 first Lord Dartmouth; 74, 123, 
 151, 153, 162, 169, 173, 234, 240, 
 245, 247, 248, 256, 257, 259, 260. 
 
 in Ireland ; 130. 
 
 and the government of Ja- 
 maica ; 152. 
 
 candidate for Portsmouth ; 223. 
 
 son of first Lord Dartmouth, 
 
 letter to ; 253. 
 
 his studies ; ib. 
 
 son of the second Earl, epitaph 
 
 on; 424. 
 
 (1783), letter to ; 442. 
 
 Leghorn; 17, 300. 
 
 the Duke's galley at ; 107. 
 the Duke of Gloucester at ; 334. 
 Lehunte, George, letter of ; 337. 
 Leigh, Charles, candidate for Bedford- 
 shire ; 326. 
 Leighton : 
 
 Capt.; 102. 
 
 Capt. Thomas ; 237, 275. 
 
 letter of; 101. 
 
 Leipzig, letters from the Earl of Dartmouth 
 
 at; 330. 
 Leith; 42. 
 
 Le Marchant, W., of Guernsey ; 124. 
 Lenox, Duke of (1673) ; 22. 
 Leonard, councillor at Boston; 361. 
 Lesley, Count, his cousin ; 5. 
 Leslie : 
 
 Col. the Hon. A., letters of: 343, 
 344. 
 
 Sir James, at Tangier ; 55. 
 
 peace concluded by ; 56. 
 
 at Cadiz ; 94. 
 
 letter of ; ib. 
 
 Lester, Ensign Marten, at Tangier ; 109. 
 Lestrange, Mr., candidate for Winchester ; 
 123. 
 
 Levant, the, corsairs from ; 105. 
 Lewen, — ; 30. 
 Lewes, electioneering at ; 332. 
 Lewis, Erasmus ; 313, 314. 
 
 note by ; 305. 
 
 Swift and; 317. 
 
 news letters from ; 317, 319. 
 
 candidate for Somerset ; 326, 
 
 letter of ; 328. 
 Lewisham : 
 
 letter dated at ; 326. 
 
 freeholders at ; 326. 
 
 vicarage, candidate for; 329. 
 
 manor, escheat in ; 334. 
 
 and Lord Dartmouth ; 305. 
 
 Lord (1722), his marriage ; 326,327. 
 
 (1745), and his sisters ; 329. 
 
 Lewsy (?), — , officer, his desertion ; 224. 
 Lexington : 
 
 skirmish at ; 393. 
 
 Lord, letters of ; 310,311. 
 Leyborne, Governor of Grenada : 
 
 letter of ; 354. 
 
 letter of George III. concerning ; 439. 
 Leybourne or Leyburne, Mr.; 37, 225, 
 277/ 
 
INDEX. 
 
 475 
 
 Lichfield; 131. 
 
 letters dated at ; 16, 303. 
 Chancellor of; 76. 
 new charter to ; 122. 
 recorders of, letter about ; ib. 
 Lord (1688), his regiment ; 142. 
 
 with James II. ; 242. 
 
 and Coventry, Bishop of, Wood, letters 
 of; 76. 
 
 (1774), North, letter of; 
 
 372. 
 
 Lille fortifications ; 120. 
 Linch, Sir Henry ; 234. 
 Lindsey, Lord (1661) ; 8. 
 Lisbon; 213. 
 
 letters dated at ; 101, 299, 304. 
 
 English Factory at ; 123. 
 
 the Rock of ; 135. 
 
 mails from ; 298, 300. 
 
 Brazil fleets at ; 300. 
 
 English representatives at ; 318, 319. 
 
 river; 100. 
 Lisvegarny ; 13. 
 Littlecott, gathering at ; 81. 
 Littleton : 
 
 an officer, his escape ; 204. 
 
 George; 44. 
 
 SirH. ; 56. 
 See Lyttleton. 
 Liver, John de, Dutch Vice- Admiral ; 21. 
 Livius, Peter, letter of; 336. 
 Lo, Mr., Coroner ; 311. 
 Locker, E. H., letter of; 445. 
 Lockhart : 
 
 Mr.; 318. 
 
 Sir G., and the Test; 71. 
 Lockyer, — , servant ; 237. 
 Loder, Mr., of Deptford ; 107. 
 Lodington, Nathaniel, alderman of Tan- 
 gier ; 78, 97. 
 Loggan, Mr., recommendation of; 76. 
 London : 
 
 Arlington Buildings ; 286. 
 
 Arlington Street ; 320. 
 
 Berkeley Square ; 425. 
 
 Berwick Street ; 437. 
 
 Bloomsbury; 293. 
 
 Square ; 352. 
 
 new Bond Street; 327, 328, 331, 424. 
 
 Brownlow Street; 314. 
 
 Cavendish Square ; 368. 
 
 Chancery Lane ; 135, 306. 
 
 Channel Row, Westminster ; 332. 
 
 Charing Cross, Old Man's Coffee 
 House; 297. 
 
 Charles Street ; 336. 
 
 Charterhouse, the Mastership of ; 322, 
 325. 
 
 Cheapside, Half Moon in ; 312. 
 
 Christ Church ; 304. 
 
 Clarendon House ; 23. 
 
 Cockpit; 138, 214, 217, 245, 282, 
 
 305, 306, 310, 311, 313, 314, 326. 
 Covent Garden ; 352. 
 Derby House ; 26, 86, 89, 103, 290. 
 Dorset Court, Westminster ; 332. 
 Dover Street ; 402. 
 
 London — cont. 
 
 Downing Street ; 364, 366, 424, 433, 
 
 437, 445. 
 Drury Lane, Castle Yard in ; 307. 
 Duke Street, Westminster; 370. 
 East India House ; 347 . 
 Fishermen's Company ; 167. 
 Fleet Prison ; 358, 446. 
 Globe Tavern ; 311. 
 Gray's Inn ; 352. 
 
 Lane, King's Road ; 330. 
 
 Green Street, Park Lane ; 443. 
 Grosvenor Square ; 331. 
 Lincoln's Inn ; 135, 329. 
 Lincoln's Inn Fields; 321, 330, 347, 
 
 366. 
 
 burning of mass house in ; 229. 
 
 One Black Ball in ; 327. 
 
 Lincoln's Inn Gate ; 306. 
 Long Acre, the Bagnio in ; 311. 
 Lower Grosvenor Street ; 364, 424. 
 Guildhall, meeting of Peers in ; 228- 
 230. 
 
 documents dated at ; 229, 279. 
 
 Hanover Buildings ; 327. 
 
 Hanover Square ; 333. 
 
 Hicks Hall ; 129. 
 
 Hyde Park, duel in ; 312-314. 
 
 Inner Temple ; 168, 352. 
 
 James Street, Westminster ; 334. 
 
 Jermyn Street ; 445. 
 
 John Street, Rathbone Place ; 420. 
 
 King's Bench Walk ; 349. 
 
 King Street, Covent Garden ; 423. 
 
 Leicester Fields ; 293. 
 
 Minories Church ; 234, 
 
 Minories, Swan Street ; 365. 
 
 Newcastle House ; 329. 
 
 Newgate, prisoner in ; 304. 
 
 Old Palace Yard; 386. 
 
 Palace Yard ; 448. 
 
 Pall Mall, letter dated at ; 152. 
 
 Parliament Street ; 342, 358, 363, 
 
 374, 383, 400. 
 Piccadilly ; 123, 378. 
 Post Office ; 167, 230. 
 Queen's Arms ; 311,312. 
 Queen's Square, Westminster ; 294. 
 Royal Exchange ; 52. 
 Great Russell Street ; 293. 
 St. James's, Charles Street ; 302. 
 
 , letters dated at ; 303, 363, 417. 
 
 , Prince of Orange at ; 236, et seq. 
 
 St. James's Gate, proclamation at; 
 
 315. 
 
 St. James's Square ; 75, 120, 297, 
 371. 
 
 , Halifax House ; 293. 
 
 St. James's Street ; 144, 233. 
 St. Martin's Church; 192. 
 St. Paul's Churchyard ; 364. 
 Soho, Nassau Street ; 366. 
 
 , North Street ; 347. 
 
 Somerset House ; 286, 305, 316, 367. 
 
 , searched; 43. 
 
 , Lord Feversham's lodgings in ; 
 
 128. 
 
 Southampton Street ; 366. 
 
.476 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 London — cont. 
 
 Spitalfields, sewer from ; 129. 
 Old Spring Garden ; 295. 
 Stanhope Street ; 370 
 Suffolk Street, riot in ; 328. 
 Temple Bar, Bell Yard ; 315. 
 Tothill or Tuttle Street, Col. Legge's 
 
 house in ; 26. 
 Tower, prisoners in ; 9. 
 letters dated at ; 10, 11, 26, 49, 
 
 132, 157, 183, 322, 324, 325. 
 
 lieutenant of ; 9. 
 
 the plague near ; 11, 13. 
 
 Constable of ; 76. 
 
 lodgings for prisoners in ; 86. 
 
 Dutch prisoners in ; 194. 
 
 batteries at ; 211. 
 
 keys of; 230. 
 
 • change of lieutenants ; ib. 
 
 Hill ; 344. 
 
 King's Head; 417. 
 
 wharf; 142. 
 
 Trinity House ; 148. 
 
 courts held at ; 121, 122. 
 
 assistance to Lord Dartmouth's 
 
 expedition from ; 140,141. 
 
 buoys to be relaid by ; 198, 207. 
 
 Turnmill Brook ; 129. 
 Victualling Office ; 107. 
 Waghorn's Coffee house ; 372. 
 Watermen's Hall ; 157, 168, 257, 259. 
 Welbeck Street; 348. 
 Westminster, High Steward of ; 315. 
 Westminster school ; 296. 
 Whitechapel; 129. 
 Whitehall; 10. 
 
 documents dated at ; 19, 29, 89, 
 
 95-114, 132, 138, 144, 146, 152, 170, 
 183, 190, 202, 219, 220, 224-226, 
 233, 236, 237, 253, 272, 294, 299, 
 305-310, 317, 333, 334, 335, 339, 
 343, 350-378, passim, 387, 437. 
 
 Lord Dartmouth's lodgings in ; 
 
 128. 
 
 rebuilding of ; 318. 
 
 Chapel Stairs ; 370. 
 
 Banqueting room at ; 445. 
 
 York Buildings; 295, 315. 
 merchants, and the sale of Dunkirk ; 
 10. 
 
 city companies, their barges ; 10. 
 
 new magistrates of ; 98. 
 
 lord mayor, &c. of, commissions of 
 
 Charles II. to ; 95. 
 sheriffs and recorders of ; ib. 
 charter restored to (1688) ; 143. 
 lord mayor, &c. turned out ; ib. 
 lord mayor of; 296. 
 
 and Lord Jeffreys ; 235. 
 
 (1774), his invitation to Lord 
 
 North; 367. 
 burning of mass houses in ; 230. 
 chapels and houses pulled down ; 232. 
 lieutenancy of ; 299. 
 threatened disturbance in ; 307. 
 Bishop of (1688) ; 170. 
 
 (1710), letters of; 296, 298. 
 
 his death (1713) ; 315. 
 
 London — cont. 
 
 Bishop of, John Robinson, letters of; 
 322, 325. 
 
 and the Privy Seal ; 317. 
 
 Lord Strafford and; 318, 
 
 319. 
 Londonderry: 
 
 fortifications of; 11. 
 Earl of (1665), his estate of Ballyne- 
 kill; 12. 
 Long, Mr., carpenter ; 187. 
 Longford, Earl of, letters of; 64, 76, 125. 
 Longleat, letters dated at ; 80, 120, 122, 
 134. 
 
 Longsand Head ; 253. 
 
 Lopaz, Peter, of Teriff ; 109. 
 
 Lords, House of, summonses from ; 330. 
 
 Loring : 
 
 councillor at Boston; 361. 
 narrative of; 362. 
 Lorraine, army before ; 119. 
 Lostwithiel, election at ; 318. 
 Loughborough, Lord (1787), Edmund 
 
 Burke at his house ; 425. 
 Louis XIV., Lord Arran made his aide-de- 
 camp ; 116. 
 Louis XV.: 
 
 his letter to the Canadian Indians; 
 
 340. 
 his death ; 354. 
 Louis Philippe, Duke of Orleans, letter of ; 
 445. 
 
 Louisbourg, Nova Scotia : 
 
 statistics concerning ; 355. 
 coals at ; 408. 
 Lo vat, Lord, Simon (1746), trial of; 330. 
 Lovelace, Lord (1688), gone over to the 
 
 Prince ; 210. 
 Lovett, Mr., his mission to Persia ; 436. 
 Lowth, Mr., of St. Margaret's, Rochester ; 
 329. 
 
 Lowther, Sir J ohn : 
 
 his proceedings at Workington ; 233. 
 and the government of Carlisle ; 245. 
 present at Lord Dartmouth's exam- 
 ination; 287. 
 Lowthrop, J. certificate by ; 304. 
 Lucas, Lord, Lieutenant of the Tower ; 
 230. 
 
 Luke, Thomas ; 1 7. 
 Lumley : 
 
 Lord (1680), the Duke of York and ; 
 53. 
 
 Colonel, absconding of ; 326. 
 Lundy, Captain, at Tangier ; 103. 
 Lunenburg : 
 
 families in ; 385. 
 
 letter dated at ; 398. 
 Luton Park, letter dated at ; 445. 
 Luxembourg, report on fortifications at ; 
 119. 
 
 Lyme Regis, Dutch fleet seen off ; 184, 
 
 185. 
 Lynch : 
 
 — , letter of; 202. 
 
 Mr., and the French prisoners ; 137. 
 Sir Thomas, in Jamaica ; 137. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 477 
 
 Lyons, letter dated at ; 331. 
 Lyte, Henry, letter of ; ib. 
 Lyttleton : 
 
 Sir Charles, letters of; 152, 190, 198. 
 
 prisoners sent to ; 270. 
 
 Lord (1753), George, letter of; 330. 
 
 Lady ; ib. 
 
 See Littleton. 
 
 M. 
 
 Maas, the ; 3. 
 
 Macartney, General, his connexion with 
 the duel between Hamilton and Mohun ; 
 311-314. 
 
 Macarty, Lieut. General, in Ireland ; 249. 
 Macclesfield, Earl of : 
 
 (1688) with the Prince of Orange; 
 
 180, 181. 
 at Exeter; 192. 
 Macdonnell, Captain ; ] 02. 
 McDonald, Major, extract from letter of ; 
 359. 
 
 Machias, in Maine : 
 
 ship attacked by inhabitants of; 381, 
 382. 
 
 pirates about ; 383. 
 revolt in ; 387. 
 deserters at ; 412. 
 Mackay : 
 
 Thomas; 394. 
 
 Samuel, volunteers under ; 395. 
 Mackeny : 
 
 Alex., captain of horse ; 110. 
 
 his sons and daughters ; ib. 
 
 Madam Lewis ; ib. 
 Mackenzie, Ensign Boric, at Tangier ; 
 110. 
 
 Maclean, Lieut.- Col. ; 388, 405. 
 
 Highlanders under ; 379. 
 McPhereon, Captain, killed at Quebec ; 
 406. 
 
 Macpherson, Sir John, letters of; 426. 
 Maddocks, John, opinion by ; 334. 
 Madrid, letter dated at ; 302. 
 Maestricht, garrison at ; 181. 
 Mahe, reduction of; 421. 
 Maher, Lieut. Phill., at Tangier ; 109. 
 Mahratta war, the ; 420-422. 
 Maidenhead, desertion of guards quartered 
 
 at; 228. 
 Maidstone : 
 
 assizes ; 332. 
 
 election at ; 333. 
 Malacca, Indian ships at; 421. 
 Malaga; 17, 19, 201. 
 
 letter dated at ; 99. 
 Malcolm : 
 
 John, a preventive officer, tarred and 
 feathered; 348. 
 
 Major John, letters of; 426. 
 
 his mission to Persia ; 436. 
 
 Mallett, Sir Thomas, seizure of ; 3. 
 Manchester, Duke of : 
 
 (1774), letters of; 347, 367. 
 
 his brother. See Montagu, Lord 
 Charles. 
 Manger, Joshua, letter of; 386. 
 
 letters to; 376, 377, 381, 382, 
 Mann, Mr., a volunteer ; 100. 
 Manners, Major-General ; 441. 
 Mansell, Lady Bab, at Bath ; 327. 
 Mar, Earl of : 
 
 (1710) , letter of; 301. 
 
 (1711) , letter of; 306. 
 
 (1713), Secretary of State; 318, 319. 
 
 letter of; 319. 
 Marchmont, Earl of (1773), letter to ; 343. 
 Margan, Sir Thomas; 10. 
 Margate ; 224, 255, 256. 
 
 road ; 256, 277. 
 Markham. Sir Robert ; 53. 
 Marlborough : 
 
 Duke of, letter of; 296. 
 
 and Lord Denbigh ; 296. 
 
 (1710), news from ; 299. 
 
 instructions to ; 299. 
 
 letters of; 301, 302. 
 
 his challenge to Lord Poulett ; 
 
 309. 
 
 See Churchill, John. 
 Duchess of, letter of; 315. 
 Marr, Lieut., observations on his report ; 
 
 332. 
 Marseilles ; 17. 
 Marsh : 
 
 Captain ; 9. 
 
 Capt. Francis, statement by ; 378. 
 
 Governor Legge and ; 383. 
 
 Marshall, Captain ; 206. 
 Marston, Lord Orrery at ; 327. 
 Marteil, Marquis, ships under ; 18. 
 Martii, Manoel, of Tangiers ; 97. 
 Martin : 
 
 Cape ; 18. 
 
 Captain ; 270. 
 
 Governor, his despatches from North 
 Carolina ; 390. 
 Mary, Princess, daughter of George III 
 
 letters of; 444, 445. 
 Maryland : 
 
 its support to Boston ; 353. 
 
 preparations for resistance in ; 372. 
 
 Deputy Governor of, letter to ; 374. 
 
 state of government in ; 384. 
 
 despatches from Deputy Governor 
 Eden in; 391. 
 Maseres, Francis, letter of; 352. 
 
 his pamphlet ; ib. 
 Mason, Alderman, of Hull ; ] 28. 
 Massachusetts : 
 
 state of ; 338. 
 
 constitution of, proposed alteration^ 
 
 in; 360. 
 state of government in ; 384. 
 Gazette ; 343. 
 Bay, proceedings in ; 347. 
 ■ Act for government of; 354. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Massachusetts — cont. 
 
 Bay, people of, to be treated as r ebels ; 
 371. 
 
 restraint of trade ; 375. 
 
 General Gage's despatches from ; 
 
 392,393. 
 
 inhabitants of, George III.'s 
 
 comment on ; 440. 
 Masserano, Prince ; 349. 
 Massey, General Eyre : 
 
 sent to Nova Scotia ; 389. 
 
 letters of ; 389, 399, 402. 
 
 letters to ; 400, 411. 
 
 reinforcement by ; 415. 
 Mathews : 
 
 Captain ; 78. 
 
 Mr.; 17. 
 
 Sir Jo.; 84. 
 Matson, Mr. ; 224. 
 Matteson, John, Dutch admiral ; 21. 
 Matthews, Stephen, information of; 213. 
 Maurice, Prince ; 4. 
 Maxwell : 
 
 Major, court-martial on ; 439. 
 
 Mr., his commission ; 423. 
 Mayence : 
 
 Prince Eupert at ; 5. 
 
 Elector of; 5, 6. 
 Maynard, Thomas, of the Lisbon Factory ; 
 123. 
 
 Meagher, John, apothecary at Tangier; 
 105. 
 
 Medway, the ; 187, 199. 
 
 Port, Nova Scotia; 415. 
 Melfort, Lord (1688) ; 196. 
 Melvill, Captain, at Tangier ; 103. 
 Melville, Viscount, his trial; 437. 
 Memramcook, Nova Scotia, petition from ; 
 397. 
 
 Mecminez, court of, peace concluded at ; 
 57. 
 
 Palace of, letter dated at ; 302. 
 Mercer, George, schoolmaster at Tan- 
 gier ; 104. 
 Meres, Thomas, at the Admiralty ; 103. 
 Messa, corn for ; 91. 
 Methley living, Yorkshire ; 134. 
 Methuen, Mr., secretary ; 326. 
 Metz; 119. 
 
 Meyrick, James, letters of; 342, 358, 
 374, 383, 400. 
 
 agent to Governor Legge ; 347. 
 Michell : 
 
 Captain; 196. 
 
 of the Deptford; 110. 
 
 P., Secretary of the East India Com- 
 pany, letter of ; 347. 
 Mi ckmack Indians ; 416. 
 Middlesex : 
 
 lord lieutenant of; 308. 
 
 Lord (1735) ; 328. 
 Middleton : 
 
 Lord (1667), Governor of Tangier ; 
 16. 
 
 (1688); 189, 196, 197,198,200, 
 
 252. 
 
 sent to James II.; 231. 
 
 Middleton — cont. 
 
 Lord, with James II. ; 242. 
 
 warrant sent by ; 269, 270. 
 
 letter to ; 232. 
 
 (1710), his sons prisoners ; 301, 
 
 306. 
 
 Mr.; 138. 
 
 Stony; 446. 
 Middletown, battle near, American forces 
 
 at; 418. 
 Mifflin, T., letter of ; 383. 
 Mildmay, Mr. ; 125. 
 Mile End ; 236. 
 Millington, Mr.; 139. 
 Mills : 
 
 Charles, letters of; 426. 
 
 and Hicks, Boston printers ; 386, 410. 
 Mings, John, petition of ; 104. 
 Minors, Captain ; 157. 
 Minot, Jonas C, of Quebec ; 394. 
 Mint, the, petitions concerning; 119. 
 Mississippi, the : 
 
 proposed colony on ; 334. 
 
 murder of Spanish crews on ; 338. 
 
 settlements on ; 348. 
 
 land on ; 354. 
 Mister : 
 
 George, letter of ; 104. 
 
 the victualler ; 106. 
 Mitchell, — , with Admiral Herbert ; 204. 
 Modena : 
 
 Duke of, Queen Anne's letter to; 305. 
 
 Duchess of, death of ; 299. 
 Mohekanuck tribe, ill usage of ; 361. 
 Mohun, Lord : 
 
 challenge to Lord Poulett brought 
 by; 309. 
 
 (1712), his duel with the Duke of 
 Hamilton; 311-314. 
 Mold, — , officer ; 224. 
 Molesworth : 
 
 Colonel, in Jamaica ; 137. 
 
 Governor of Jamaica ; 228. 
 
 Mr., at Genoa ; 305. 
 Molineux, freeman of Boston, New Eng- 
 land ; 342. 
 Moloy, Mrs., of Tangier ; 97. 
 Molyneux, Lord (1688) ; 167. 
 Monatt, Lieut. John, at Tangier ; 110. 
 Monck, General, commissioners to ; 25. 
 Monckton, Bobert, letter of ; 296. 
 Moncriffe, Captain, at Tangier ; 103. 
 Monghyr, letter dated at ; 426. 
 Monk : 
 
 Capt. George Henry, letter to ; 399. 
 
 deposition by ; 389. 
 
 letter to ; 402. 
 
 letter of; 423. 
 
 James, recommended as Attorney- 
 General of Nova Scotia ; 352, 367. 
 
 appointment of; 376. 
 
 Monmouth : 
 
 Duke of, orders of ; 27. 
 
 the Duke of York's references 
 
 to ; 33, et seq. 
 
 the Duchess of Portsmouth and ; 
 
 60. 
 
 (1683), his return to court j 101. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 479 
 
 Monmouth — cont. 
 
 Duke of (1685), his expected landing 
 in Scotland ; 125. 
 
 expedition against ; 126-128. 
 
 his capture; 128. 
 
 Duchess of; 127. 
 Monroe, Captain, at Tangier; 103, 110. 
 Mons, army before ; 119. 
 Monson, Lord (1677), his seat in Reigate 
 
 church ; 26, 27. 
 Mont St. Michel; 331. 
 Montagu : 
 
 Duke of (1711), subscription by; 
 307. 
 
 (1780) ; 442. 
 
 Admiral, letters of; 343, 344. 
 
 Edward, letter of ; 352. 
 
 Lord Charles, candidate for South- 
 ampton ; 364, 365, 367. 
 
 letters of ; ib. 
 
 printed notice by ; 365. 
 
 Sir James, his election at Carlisle ; 
 309. 
 Montecuculi : 
 
 a general in Transylvania ; 5, 6, 7. 
 
 illness of; 8. 
 Montefues, fortifications at ; 18. 
 Montgomery : 
 
 Capt. James, of the Nonsuch ; 138. 
 
 Lord (1688), his regiment; 137. 
 
 Mr.; 347. 
 
 under secretary to the Duke of 
 
 Queensberry; 306. 
 General Richard, commander of 
 
 rebels; 404. 
 
 Quebec besieged by ; 405-407. 
 
 his letter to General Carleton ; 
 
 407, 408. 
 
 Montpensier, Due de, his death ; 445. 
 Montreal : 
 
 letter dated at ; 371. 
 
 attempts to raise rebellion in ; 394. 
 
 General Montgomery at ; 405. 
 
 recovered by the English troops; 
 409. 
 Montrose : 
 
 Marquis of (1679); 41. 
 
 Duke of (1711), letter of; 306. 
 Moodie, J., letter of; 133. 
 Moore : 
 
 Captain, his schooner attacked ; 381. 
 
 death of ; ib. 
 
 Colonel; 234, 
 Mr.; 315. 
 
 Sir Henry, Lieut. Governor of New 
 York; 332. 
 
 Sir Jonas, death of; 76. 
 Moors, the : 
 
 fights at Tangier with ; 50, 51, 52. 
 
 attacks by ; 61. 
 
 at Gibraltar; 297. 
 Moray, Sir James, his company at Tan- 
 gier ; 110. 
 Mordaunt, Lord (1688); 136. 
 Morelby, Dr., interpreter ; "270. 
 Morgan : 
 
 Sir H., shipwrecked ; 25. 
 
 Sir Thomas, his letter ; 30. 
 
 f Morice, Humphry, Lord Warden of the 
 Stannaries, letter to ; 333. 
 Morley, Mr., candidate for Winchester ; 
 123. 
 
 Morly, — ; 31, 33. 
 Morocco ; 
 
 kingdom of; 57. 
 
 ambassador in England ; 77, 78. 
 
 King of, English mission to ; 79. 
 
 envoys from, treatment of ; 319. 
 
 Emperor of (1710), letter of; 302. 
 Morpeth; 37. 
 
 Lord, his dispute with Sir Geo. 
 Fletcher; 75, 76. 
 Morrice : 
 
 — , groom ; 312. 
 
 John; 252. 
 Morris : 
 
 Charles, judge in Nova Scotia, paper 
 
 signed by ; 332. 
 
 deposition before ; 387. 
 
 letters of; 398, 404, 409, 414, 
 
 417. 
 
 junior, letters of ; 404, 410, 415, 
 
 417. 
 
 Lieut. Governor, his commission ; 
 439. 
 
 Mr., statement on American Colonies 
 by; 384. 
 Moss, John, petition of; 381. 
 Mostyn : 
 
 — , his death in India ; 420. 
 Sir Roger, letter of ; 296. 
 Moulsworth, Colonel, governor of Jamaica ; 
 239. 
 
 Mount Denson, letters dated at ; 389, 
 397. 
 
 Mountjoy, Lord : 
 
 (temp. Eliz.), fortification by ; 125. 
 (1686), his services in Ireland ; 130. 
 
 (1688) , letter of; 136. 
 
 (1689) , major-general; 249. 
 Mount's Bay ; 115. 
 Mountstevens, Mr. ; 183. 
 Mousset, Pierre, of Tangier ; 97. 
 Moyser, Mr., his Register Bill ; 295. 
 Mulgrave, Earl of : 
 
 (1683), troop under; 99. 
 
 (1688) ; 229. 
 
 (1805), letter of; 437. 
 Munster : 
 
 peace of ; 6, 7. 
 
 Bishop of (1665) ; 12. 
 
 defeat of the Dutch by ; 13. 
 
 Murray : 
 
 Captain, at Tangier ; 103. 
 
 Mr., aide-de-camp ; 305. 
 
 councillor at Boston; 361. 
 
 attack on his house ; 362. 
 
 Daniel, letter of ; 362. 
 
 General James, letter of ; 367. 
 
 Lord John ; 328. 
 Musgrave : 
 
 Sir Christopher, Ordnance Commis- 
 sioner ; 49, 53, 81, 99, 115, 119, 
 124, 263. 
 
 letters of; 93, 138, 144, 233, 
 
 309. 
 
480 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Musgrave — cont. 
 
 Sir Christopher, his discovery of lead 
 ore ; 138. 
 
 and the government of Carlisle ; 
 
 245. 
 
 Philip, letters of; 211, 216, 231, 235; 
 245. 
 
 letters to ; 144, 233, 282. 
 
 member for Appleby ; 124. 
 
 at the Ordnance Office ; 159, 
 
 183. 
 
 at Gravesend ; 247. 
 
 Mustow, Mrs., of Tangier ; 97. 
 Myddelton, Capt. Charles, receipt of prize 
 
 by; 20. 
 Mysore, evacuation of ; 427. 
 
 N. 
 
 Nagle, Sir Richard ; 234. 
 Nantes ; 17. 
 
 Naples, letter dated at ; 309. 
 Narborough, Sir John ; 290. 
 
 his ships about Barbadoes ; 135, 136. 
 Nartos, Diego, of Tangier ; 96. 
 Naseby, battle of ; 24. 
 Nash, Beau, his losses at Bath ; 327. 
 Nassau : 
 
 Count of, with the Prince of Orange ; 
 178. 
 
 New Providence, letter dated at ; 
 399. 
 
 Navy: 
 
 the, lists of, in 1666; 15. 
 
 ships sheathed with lead ; 79. 
 
 Commissioners of ; 152. 
 See Ships. 
 Neagle, Captain; 225, 277, 278, 279. 
 Negroes, traffic in ; 26, 68, 100. 
 Nellson, Mr., instructions to ; 132. 
 Nelme, a copyist, letters concerning ; 348. 
 Nelson : 
 
 Major, at Tangier ; 84. 
 
 Lord, his funeral ; 437. 
 Nesbitt, Attorney-General in Nova Scotia ; 
 
 352, 367, 413. 
 Neustadt; 7. 
 Nevell : 
 
 Captain, of the Elizabeth ; 140. 
 
 John, translation by ; 106. 
 Nevis, West Indies : 
 
 the Duke of Albemarle at; 135. 
 
 tumults in ; 332. 
 Newark, Prince Rupert at ; 24. 
 Newberry, New England ; 385. 
 Newburgh, Lady; 314. 
 Newburn, North Carolina ; 346, 347. 
 
 riot at ; 390. 
 Newcastle- on=Tyne 
 
 the Duke of York at; 37. 
 
 troops raised for Charles I. at ; 74. 
 
 governor of; ib. 
 
 Newcastle, Duke of : 
 
 (1666), William, letter of; 14. 
 
 (1682), Henry, letters of; 74, 75, 79, 
 80, 125. 
 
 (1745), letters of and to ; 329. 
 
 (1765), letter of; 331. 
 
 (1767), electioneering at Lewes ; 332, 
 333. 
 Newfoundland : 
 
 fish; 94. 
 
 convoy from ; 99. 
 
 fisheries; 135, 333, 375. 
 
 French ships destroyed off ; 300. 
 
 government of ; 310. 
 
 state of fishermen ; 384. 
 
 government in ; ib. 
 
 recruiting in ; 415. 
 Newhall, Essex, letters dated at ; 128, 
 131. 
 
 New Hampshire : 
 
 riots in ; 339. 
 
 Lieut. Governor of ; 365. 
 
 restraint of trade ; 375. 
 
 state of government in ; 384. 
 
 despatches of Governor Wentworth 
 from; 395. 
 
 successes of the rebels in ; ib. 
 New Jersey : 
 
 its support to Boston ; 353. 
 
 state of government in ; 384. 
 
 despatches of Governor Francklin 
 from ; 392. 
 Newland, commoner of the City ; 95. 
 Newman, Tho., of Dartmouth; 300. 
 Newmarket ; 68, 74, 146. 
 Newnham Padox, letter dated at ; 296. 
 New Orleans, Governor of ; 338. 
 Newport : 
 
 Shropshire; 131. 
 
 Nova Scotia, volunteers in ; 401. 
 
 Earl of ; 24. 
 
 Lord (1688), letter of; 162. 
 Newton : 
 
 Collector; 376. 
 
 Dr., news from ; 299, 300. 
 
 Henry, letter of; 350. 
 
 John, his debt ; 409. 
 New York : 
 
 letters dated at ; 162, 331, 336, 343, 
 346, 348, 374, 417. 
 
 state of feeling at ; 374. 
 
 blocked up by the French ; 417. 
 
 Governor, &c. of; 331, 332. 
 
 rioters confined at ; 332. 
 
 Governor of, Tryon, his letters ; 336. 
 
 meeting of the Sons of Liberty at; 
 344. 
 
 tea riots at ; 346. 
 
 East India Co.'s agent at; 347. 
 
 the rebels at; 361. 
 
 state of government in ; 384. 
 
 privateers of ; 385. 
 
 despatches of Lieut.-Governor Colden 
 
 from; 392. 
 Fort House, burning of; 397. 
 the royal forces about ; 398. 
 George III.'s letter on proceedings 
 
 in ; 440. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 481 
 
 Nicholas : 
 
 Major; 68. 
 
 Secretary, retirement of; 11. 
 Mr., his house in Spring Garden ; 
 295. 
 
 Noll; 37, 43, 44, 57, 58, 60. 
 Lieut. St. John, Major Howston 
 killed by; 75. 
 •Nicholson : 
 
 — , witness of the Hamilton and 
 
 Mohun duel; 311, 312. 
 Lieut. ; 82. 
 Fr., letters of; 320. 
 Joseph, and the Indians ; 359. 
 Nickson, Dr., prebendary of Canterbury ; 
 311. 
 
 Nicolson, Mr., courier to Tangier ; 79. 
 Nieuport, Flanders : 
 
 English occupation of; 27. 
 
 punishments of soldiers at ; ib. 
 Nimeguen, peace of ; 71. 
 Nismes, Calvinists at ; 331. 
 Noailles, Duke of; 300, 304. 
 Noel, Lord : 
 
 and the government of Portsmouth ; 
 44, 72. 
 
 (1682), Edward, letters of; 75, 76, 
 77. 
 
 his son; 76. 
 Norfolk : 
 
 sheriff of; 293. 
 
 protest against the American war 
 from ; 419. 
 Norris, Sir John : 
 
 at Barcelona ; 298. 
 
 off the Isle of Wight ; 307. 
 Norshrott, Captain, at Nieuport ; 27. 
 North : 
 
 and Grey, Lord (1688) ; 229. 
 and Guilford, Lord (1745), letters of; 
 329. 
 
 Mr., afterwards Lord, Earl of Dart- 
 mouth's travels with ; 330. 
 
 Lord (1773), and Governor Hutchin- 
 son; 338. 
 
 (1774); 362. 
 
 letters of; 363-368, 424. 
 
 his invitation from the Lord 
 
 Mayor; 367. 
 
 at a Cabinet meeting ; 371, 372. 
 
 George III.'s references to ; 
 
 438. 
 
 Capt. A., report by ; 417. 
 
 Brownlow, Bishop of Lichfield; 372. 
 
 Fra., letter of; 293. 
 Northampton ; 132. 
 
 Duke of Cumberland at ; 329. 
 Northumberland, Duke of (1684), Vauban 
 
 and; 119. 
 Norton : 
 
 Essex, living of ; 325. 
 
 Colonel, candidate for Petersfield ; 
 237. 
 
 Col. Richard, letter to ; 282. 
 Nortus, Diego, of Tangier ; 79. 
 Norwich, letter dated at ; 362. 
 U 24961. 
 
 Norwood : 
 
 Col. Henry, letters of: 11, 15, 16. 
 
 his house at Tangier ; 85. 
 
 Richard, certificate of ; 238. 
 Nottingham, Earl of ; 
 
 (1683), letters of; 88, 89. 
 
 at the Admiraltv ; 93, 103. 
 
 (1688) ; 170. 
 
 and the Prince of Orange ; 222. 
 
 (1689) , letter of; 253. 
 his brother ; ib. 
 
 (1691), warrant signed by ; 285. 
 his examination of Lord Dartmouth ; 
 
 286-292. 
 (1702), letters of; 293, 294, 295. 
 his daughter's marriage ; 294. 
 his twenty-first child ; ib. 
 Nova Scotia : 
 
 cost of civil establishment ; 333. 
 Assembly of ; ib. 
 remarks on ; 334. 
 illicit trade in ; 334, 339. 
 establishment, proposed increase of; 
 335. 
 
 Col. Legge made Governor of; 336. 
 Attorney-General of; 339,352, 367. 
 lands reserved in ; 341. 
 state of the province in 1773 ; 344. 
 petition from ; 350. 
 communications with ; 355. 
 proclamation against meetings in; 
 362. 
 
 General Assembly of ; 364. 
 House of Assembly, address from ; 
 367. 
 
 recommendations of the Council ; 
 368. 
 
 Chief Justice of ; 371,403. 
 
 taxation of; 373. 
 
 land owners in ; 374. 
 
 grants of land in ; 375, 401, 403. 
 
 deficiency in Treasury ; 376. 
 
 address from Council ; 378. 
 
 recruiting in; 378, 379,385,389, 399, 
 
 403, et seq. 
 volunteers ; 403-423, passim. 
 Governor Legge's reply to the charges 
 
 against himself ; 412-414. 
 privateers off ; 414, 415. 
 loyalty of; 384. 
 families settled in ; 385. 
 directions for its safety ; 387. 
 complaints of disloyalty in ; 388. 
 petitions concerning; 397. 
 cost of establishment ; 389. 
 armed cruisers off; 389. 
 return of officers in the volunteers ; 
 
 400. 
 
 wretched condition of some parts ; 
 404. 
 
 H H 
 
482 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 O. 
 
 Oaze Edge; 141, 152, 165, 167,259. 
 Odyk, M., at the Hague ; 33. 
 Ogilby, Mr., his theatre at Dublin ; 11. 
 Oglethorpe : 
 
 Colonel, his regiment ; 135. 
 
 Lady; 317. 
 
 ■ her daughter ; ib. 
 
 Sir Theo., letter of; 161. 
 O'Hara : 
 
 Governor; 33S. 
 
 Charles, Governor of Senegambia, 
 memorial of ; 375. 
 Ohio, the : 
 
 new settlement on ; 335. 
 
 Indians on ; 360, 366. 
 
 new colony on; 372. 
 Okely, John, of Pennsylvania ; 357. 
 Oldys. Alex., at Tangier ; 110. 
 Olney parish ; 423. 
 Omdut ool Omrah ; 435. 
 Onslow, Sir Richard, charges against ; 3. 
 Opie, J., the artist ; 448. 
 Orange, Prince of : 
 
 (1661), at Cleve; 4. 
 
 (1679), his troubles with Amsterdam ; 
 31. 
 
 his assurances to the Duke of York ; 
 34. 
 
 Charles II. and ; 34, 39. 
 
 Algernon Sidney and ; 65. 
 
 in England ; 65, 66. 
 
 rumours concerning ; 158. 
 
 his sailing from Holland ; 170. 
 
 his preparations with the Dutch fleet ; 
 
 176, 180. 
 sets sail ; 177, 181. 
 strength of his fleet and army ; ib. 
 his reception in Devonshire ; 188. 
 at Exeter; 189, 190, 192, 193. 
 sailing of his fleet ; 203. 
 regiments gone over to ; 210. 
 his letters to Lord Dartmouth ; 219, 
 
 235, 239. 
 at Sherborne; 219. 
 additions to his followers ; 222. 
 negotiations with ; ib. 
 Lord Feversham's letter to ; 229. 
 expected in London ; 230. 
 the Peers' address to ; 234. 
 James II.'s submission to ; 236. 
 Peers summoned by ; 237. 
 his state at St. James's ; 238. 
 order by; 237. 
 
 his instructions to S. Pepys for Lord 
 
 Dartmouth ; 240, et seq. 
 reserved and hard of access ; 241. 
 at Helvoetsluys ; 262. 
 orders signed by ; 247, 2M, 283- 
 
 285. 
 
 Princess of ; 245. 
 Orbistoune, — ; 70. 
 
 Orchard Wyndham, letter dated at ; 326. 
 Orde, Gilbert, letter of; 134. 
 
 Ordnance Office : 
 
 letters, &c. concerning ; 10, 49. 
 
 bankrupt state of; 211, 216, 222. 
 Ormonde, Duke of : 
 
 (1661) , Spanish opinion of ; 6. 
 (1661, &c), letters of; 9-16, 23, 73. 
 
 (1662) , in Chester ; 9. 
 
 (1684), his son Lord Arran ; 121. 
 (1684), letter of; 121. 
 (1703) ; 293. 
 (1711) ; 307. 
 letters to ; ib. 
 
 (1713), High Steward of Westmin- 
 ster; 315. 
 his desertion of James II. ; 216. 
 his proceedings at Dublin ; 308. 
 in Chester; ib. 
 letter of ; ib. 
 
 government of Ireland taken from ; 
 318. 
 
 Duchess of, Elizabeth, letters of; 15. 
 Orquart, Captain, at Tangier; 103. 
 Orrery, Earl of : 
 
 (1666), his house at Charleville ; 14, 
 
 (1731), letters of; 327. 
 Ossory : 
 
 Earl of, (1665), letter of; 12. 
 
 (1673) rear-admiral ; 20. 
 
 Lady, confinement of ; 11. 
 Ossulstone, Lord (1688); 229. 
 Ostend; 31, 33, 37, 170, 263, 299. 
 
 Oster bank off; 20, 23. 
 
 letter dated at ; 202. 
 Otis, Colonel, of Boston, New England ; 
 343. 
 
 Oude, settlement of; 427, 435. 
 Oughton, Sir James A. ; 381, 438. 
 
 letters of; 368. 
 Overkerck, M., with the Prince of Orange ; 
 181. 
 
 Owen, William, artist ; 448. 
 
 Owens, David, attack on Indians by ; 359. 
 
 Oxford; 87. 
 
 court at ; 11, 12. 
 
 letter dated at ; 125. 
 
 Charles I. at ; 129. 
 
 convention of old parliament of ; 241. 
 
 old Town Hall ; 330. 
 
 cost of a journey to ; 445, 446. 
 
 University, High Steward of ; 424. 
 
 expenses at ; 446. 
 
 All SouJs College, fellowship at; 299. 
 
 Jesus College ; 134. 
 
 Magdalen College, James II. and; 
 299. 
 
 expenses at ; 446. 
 
 St. Mary's ; 446. 
 Trinity College; 330. 
 Bishop of (1688) ; 170. 
 Earl of, Harley (1711), letter of; 
 307. 
 
 letter of; 309. 
 
 (1712), letter of; 310. 
 
 his cousin, from Hanover ; ib. 
 
 (1713), letters of ; 315. 
 
 and Lord Islay; 317. 
 
 -letters of; 319-325. 
 
 rhymes by ; 321. 
 
INDEX 
 
 483 
 
 Oxford— cont. 
 
 Earl of, illness of; 322. 
 
 (1722), letter of ; 327. 
 
 (1739), and Prior's papers ; 329. 
 
 P. 
 
 Page, Sir Gregory, his house at Black- 
 heath; 330. 
 Paine : 
 
 Mr., councillor at Boston ; 361. 
 Thomas, clerk at Tangier church ; 
 104. 
 
 Palatine, Elector, and the court at Vienna ; 
 7. 
 
 Pariente, Solomon, petition of ; 104. 
 Paris, letters dated at ; 115, 317. 
 
 Scotch College at ; 447. 
 Parke, Daniel, Governor of Antigua, letter 
 of; 295. 
 
 Parker, Sir Thomas, Chief Justice, letter 
 
 of; 316. 
 Parma, Princess of ; 5. 
 Parr, Dr., epitaph by ; 424. 
 Parsons : 
 
 Mr., postmaster of Exeter, letter of ; 
 192, 193. 
 
 John, Commissioner of Victualling ; 
 107. 
 
 Sir John; 159, 160. 
 
 Green, letter dated at ; 365. 
 Partridge : 
 
 his predictions ; 324. 
 
 William, cattle stealer ; 316. 
 Pascoll, John, master of pacquett boat ; 
 192. 
 
 Pate, Thomas, at Tangier ; 109. 
 Patterson : 
 
 William, letter of; 304. 
 governor of St. John's Island ; 389. 
 Pauley, Mr., his estate near Salisbury ; 
 129. 
 at Stepney ; ib. 
 Payne, Edward, a captive, letters of ; 106, 
 107. 
 
 Paz or Pass. See De Paz. 
 Pearse : 
 
 J., chirurgeon general ; 99, 100, 145, 
 
 148, 151, 152, 154, 155, 157, 161. 
 letters of; 148-161, passim, 152, 153, 
 217, 223. 
 Peeke, John, letter of; 316. 
 Pelham, Mr., at Lewes ; 332. 
 Pemberton, Chief Justice, appointment of ; 
 60. 
 
 Pembroke, Earl of (1683), death of; 89. 
 
 (1687) , his coach; 134. 
 
 (1688) ; 229. 
 
 present at Lord Dartmouth's examina- 
 tion ; 287. 
 Pendarves, James, letter of; 99. 
 Pendennis, letter dated at ; 112, 115. 
 
 Castle, state of; 112. 
 
 — - troops quartered in ; 115. 
 
 Penn : 
 
 Admiral ; 179. 
 
 John, governor of Pennsylvania, 
 
 petition to ; 353. 
 William, letter of ; 169. 
 Lieut. William, of the Bristol ; 170. 
 Mr. (1774), and Philadelphia; 347. 
 Deputy Governor, his despatches from 
 Pennsylvania; 391. 
 Pennsylvania : 
 
 its support to Boston ; 353. 
 petition from ; ib. 
 
 despatches from Deputy Governor 
 Penn in ; 391. 
 
 Journal, extract from ; 355-358. 
 
 Gazette, extracts from ; 363. 
 Penny : 
 
 Captain; 228. 
 
 Captain William ; 152. 
 Pennyfeather, Miss, at Bath ; 327. 
 Pensacola, letters dated at ; 338, 348. 
 Peny, William, letter of; 239. 
 Penzance, letter dated at ; 333. 
 Pepperell, councillor at Boston ; 361. 
 Pepys, Samuel ; 29. 
 
 letters of; 26, 95, 97, 105, 107, 112, 
 121. 
 
 reports by; 97, 252, 253. 
 
 petitions referred to ; 104. 
 
 press warrants signed by ; 138. 
 
 his relation of Charles II.'s escape 
 from Worcester ; 49. 
 
 or " Peepes," with the Tangier expe- 
 dition; 94. 
 
 in Spain ; 103, 105, 107. 
 
 letters of; 105, 107. 
 
 his interview with Charles II. con- 
 cerning Lord Dartmouth ; 113. 
 
 reports on petitions by ; 118, 119. 
 
 instruction to ; 122. 
 
 his notes on Capt. Ridley's proceed- 
 ings ; 135. 
 
 his letters and instructions to Lord 
 Dartmouth ; 139-252. 
 
 his list of commanders ; 174. 
 
 his displeasure with Lord Dartmouth's 
 secretary ; 245, 247. 
 
 his retirement from office ; 253. 
 Perceval, Spencer, letter of ; 445. 
 Percy, Lord (1775), in command at Lex- 
 ington ; 393. 
 Periwigs; 223. 
 Perriman, Captain ; 142. 
 Perrot, Sir Richard ; 363. 
 Perry Hall, letters dated at ; 293. 
 Persia, Major Malcolm's mission to ; 436. 
 Peterborough : 
 
 Earl of (1679); 32, 36. 
 
 book left with ; 78. 
 
 (1688), his flight; 228. 
 
 taken near Ramsgate ; 231. 
 
 (1731), at Bath ; 327. 
 
 Lady, her house at Tangier ; 85. 
 
 Bishop of (1688); 229. 
 Petersfield, candidate for ; 237. 
 
 H H 2 
 
484 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Petre, Father : 
 
 a privy councillor ; 138. 
 
 or Peeters, his flight ; 230. 
 
 capture of; 231. 
 Petrie, Mr., Governor of Fort St. George ; 
 426. 
 
 Pett, Sir Phineas ; 161, 251. 
 
 letters of; 80, 174. 
 
 instructions to ; 143, 144. 
 Petworth, letters dated at ; 135. 
 Pheaton, Edward, printer ; 386. 
 Philadelphia : 
 
 letters dated at; 337, 345, 351, 353, 
 354, 358, 362, 366, 367, 371-373, 
 383, 417. 
 
 teas consigned to ; 344, 345. 
 
 customs at ; 347. 
 
 East India Co.'s agent at ; ib. 
 
 postal grievances in ; 351. 
 
 proposed Congress at ; 354. 
 
 meeting at, proceedings at ; 355 -358. 
 
 proposed new Post Office at ; 358. 
 
 Congress at : 362, 363, 366, 371, 390, 
 391. 
 
 letter from ; 375. 
 
 provincial Convention at ; 373. 
 
 Assembly of, Dr. Franklin and; 381. 
 
 state of government in ; 384. 
 
 privateers of ; 385. 
 
 General Howe's march on ; 398. 
 
 the rebels in ; 410. 
 
 Quakers of ; ib. 
 
 great distress in ; 418. 
 
 cost of provisions ; ib. 
 
 losses of British forces on march 
 from; 418. 
 Philalethes, pamphlet by ; 338. 
 Philanthropos, letter signed ; 335. 
 PhiUips : 
 
 Ensign, pay due to ; 116. 
 
 Thomas, his report on fortifications at 
 Luxembourg, &c. ; 119, 120. 
 
 "honest Tom," his high charac- 
 ter ; 125. 
 
 letters of; 120, 122, 133, 135, 
 
 203. 
 
 his works at Portsmouth ; 222. 
 
 his draught of the ruins of 
 
 Tangier; 114. 
 
 William, letter of ; 378. 
 Phipps, Lord Chancellor of Ireland ; 318. 
 Pictures by Vandeveldt, prices of ; 153. 
 Pier, Wm. (?) ; 295. 
 Pierie, Lieut. William, letter of; 377. 
 Pigot, Brigadier-General, in the fight at 
 
 Charlestown; 393. 
 Pilkington, Mr., at Ipswich ; 120. 
 Pilton, E., at Cadiz ; 52. 
 Pirgo, letter dated at ; 133. 
 Pitt : 
 
 John, of Boston, New England ; 342. 
 Thomas, letter of; 354. 
 William (1786), letter of; 424. 
 
 dissolution of his ministry ; 429. 
 
 Pitts : 
 
 Mr., at Hull; 136. 
 
 of Boston, New England ; 343. 
 
 George; 32. 
 
 Pittsburgh, skirmishing with Indians 
 near ; 359. 
 
 letter dated at ; 360. 
 Plaistow, letter dated at ; 446. 
 Plymouth; 89, 198, 204, 221. 
 
 letters dated at ; 111,128,210. 
 
 Tangiers troops sent to ; 103. 
 
 seized by Lord Bath ; 216. 
 
 Dutch fleet at ; 222. 
 
 seized for the Prince of Orange ; 274. 
 
 Sound; 202. 
 
 New England, meeting at; 347. 
 
 Earl of, letters of ; 81, 121, 134. 
 Pointall; 99. 
 Poland : 
 
 a lame Prince from ; 4. 
 
 King of, and the Turks ; 93. 
 Pomerania ; 5, 7. 
 
 Ponte, James, sergeant at Nieuport, 
 
 punishment of ; 27. 
 Ponwell; 420. 
 
 English army loutednear; 421. 
 Poole : 
 
 Haven; 202. 
 
 port of ; 217. 
 
 Antelope Tavern ; 233. 
 
 Capt. William ; 17. 
 Poonah expedition ; 420-422. 
 Popacheus, Lieutenant in Spanish fleet; 82. 
 Pope : 
 
 Alexander, censures on ; 327, 328. 
 
 or Poope, Major ; 59, 61. 
 Porcia, Prince, at Vienna ; 7. 
 Portendic, English claim to ; 338. 
 Porter : 
 
 Captain, of the John pink ; 1 7. 
 
 Lord Chancellor of Ireland, letters 
 of; 130, 131. 
 Portland : 
 
 Point ; 203 
 
 letter dated at; 219. 
 
 Road; 212. 
 
 Lord (1713) ; 315. 
 
 Countess of (1684), letter of; 120. 
 
 her creditors ; ib. 
 
 Portmore, Lord : 
 
 his wife, the Countess of Dorchester ; 
 306. 
 
 (1711), letter of; 304. 
 (1713), opposition in Scotland to; 
 318. 
 
 Portsmouth ; 148-153, 199, 201, 219,222, 
 268. 
 
 letters dated at ; 76, 123, 127, 203, 
 211, 217, 224, 225, 232-236, 242, 
 244, 328. 
 
 plan of ; 4. 
 
 fortifications, &c. of; 4, 120, 135, 
 230. 
 
 governor of, Geo. Legge, afterwards 
 Lord Dartmouth; 20, 25, 26, 29, 
 44, 46, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 72, 143. 
 
 Charles II. at ; 93, 99. 
 
 progress of works at; 51. 
 
 military quarrel at ; 75. 
 
 recordership of ; 123. 
 
 defeats of garrison; 127. 
 
 the great street in ; 76. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 485 
 
 Portsmouth — cont. 
 gunners at ; 120. 
 expected attack on ; 163. 
 troops hastened to ; 183. 
 expected Dutch attack on ; 186. 
 charter for ; 202. 
 Dutch ships near ; 204. 
 works at ; 222. 
 charter for ; 223. 
 election at ; ib. 
 
 James II.'s son at; 223-225, 272, 
 
 275, 277. 
 the gates kept open ; 225. 
 mayor of, deposition by ; 230. 
 alarm in; 232, 234. 
 Col. Berkeley's instructions touching ; 
 
 237. 
 election at ; ib. 
 Irish garrison at ; 242. 
 soldiers quartered on inhabitants ; 
 
 244. 
 
 ships from ; 258, 259. 
 field pieces at ; 266. 
 garrison ; 279, 281, 282. 
 Duke of Berwick at ; 281, 282. 
 defence of; 289, 290. 
 troops embarked at ; 388. 
 New Hampshire ; 355. 
 
 rioters at ; 395. 
 
 Duchess of; 39, 60. 
 Portugal : 
 
 King of (1661), his daughter's mar- 
 riage ; 5, 6. 
 and Spain, armies of ; 10. 
 
 dispute between ; 366. 
 
 inhabitants of, in Tangier ; 83. 
 army of, entering Spain ; 298. 
 English assistance to ; 300. 
 Portumna, letters dated at ; 107, 132. 
 Post Office, the, papers concerning; 27. 
 Postboy, the, Abel Roper and ; 298. 
 Poulett : 
 
 Earl, letters of; 293-295, 310. 
 
 the Duke of Marlborough's 
 
 challenge to ; 309. 
 Lady, Bridget, letters of; 309. 
 Poulson, or Powson : 
 
 Capt. Edward, letters of; 162, 217. 
 
 his ship deserted; 217, 227. 
 
 his ship seized; 233. 
 
 Povey, Francis : 
 
 letters from Tangier of; 50,51,52, 
 
 61, 68, 77-80, 239. 
 reports by; 59, 61. 
 Kirke's character of; 62. 
 in England ; 72, 73. 
 his return to Tangier ; 77. 
 at Gibraltar ; 1 10. 
 
 in the expedition against Monmouth ; 
 126. 
 
 his becoming Protestant ; 239. 
 Lord Carmarthen's recommendation 
 of; 302. 
 
 Powbrocke (?), Sir W. Courtney's house 
 
 at; 188. 
 Powell : 
 
 Mr., 30,31. 
 
 Powell : 
 
 William, of Boston, New England ; 
 342. 
 Powis : 
 
 Lord (1688) ; 167, 277. 
 
 (1688), with the young Prince ; 
 
 225. 
 
 Lady, and the young Prince of Wales ; 
 224. 
 Pownall : 
 
 Mr., or John ; 400. 
 
 letters of; 338-342, 350, 354, 
 
 358,366, 375, 423. 
 
 letters to ; 350, 365, 386. 
 
 letters delivered to ; 376, 377. 
 
 Powntney, William, at Tangier ; 108. 
 Powson. See Poulson. 
 Pratt, Charles ; 74. 
 Preistman : 
 
 Captain; 102. 
 
 of the Hampton Court; 194, 
 
 199. 
 
 Presbyterians, murdering ; 83. 
 Preston : 
 
 rebels at ; 379. 
 
 Lord (1684) ; 120. 
 
 letters of; 121, 204. 
 
 (1688), Secretary of State; 178, 
 
 224, 228. 
 
 his desire for retirement ; 241. 
 
 papers taken with ; 253-255. 
 
 his trial ; 289. 
 
 his brother James ; 292. 
 
 Lady Dorchester and ; 292. 
 
 Major, detachment under ; 394. 
 Price: 
 
 Elisba, of Pennsylvania ; 357. 
 GryfTyd, late Steward of Lichfield; 
 417. 
 
 Mr., killed in a duel ; 327. 
 Prices, illustrations of ; 446. 
 Priestman, Captain: 
 
 at Tangier ; 80. 
 
 " a leading politician " ; 261. 
 Prince, Mr.; 39. 
 Prior, Matthew: 
 
 letter of; 317. 
 
 his executor; 329. 
 
 publication of his papers ; ib. 
 Pritchard : 
 
 Sir William ; 99. 
 
 as Lord Mayor ; 95. 
 
 his refusal to be Lord Mayor : 
 
 143. 
 
 Proctor, a volunteer ; 385. 
 Prospect, Nova Scotia ; 339. 
 Providence : 
 
 Island, fortification of; 302. 
 
 plantations, restraint of trade ; 375. 
 
 state of government in ; 384. 
 
 Pulteney, Mr., letter of ; 310. 
 Putney, the Royal family at ; 10. 
 
486 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Q. 
 
 Quakers, in America ; 372. 
 Quebec ; 447. 
 
 Jesuits in ; 338. 
 
 Chief Justice of, W. Hey ; 347, 363. 
 defenceless state of ; 341. 
 affairs at ; 352. 
 
 Bill, the feeling against ; 362, 363. 
 Attorney General of ; 367. 
 Richard Cumberland at; 371. 
 letter dated at; 375. 
 Gen. Carleton commanding at ; 387. 
 despatches from Governor Carleton 
 at; 394. 
 
 proposal to send Russian troops to ; 
 395. 
 
 corps of volunteers formed about; 
 ib. 
 
 superintendent of Indian affairs in; 
 397. 
 
 rebels beaten at ; 399. 
 
 Nova Scotians distinguished at; 404. 
 
 account of its siege in 1776 ; 405-407. 
 
 St. John's Gate ; 406. 
 
 the Pot-ash ; ib. 
 
 Saut de Matilot ; ib. 
 Queenborough ; 144. 
 
 oyster drudgers of , 178. 
 Queensberry, Duke of : 
 
 (1685) letter of; 125. 
 
 (1709) his vote ; 295. 
 
 (1711), his death ; 306. 
 
 as Secretary of State for Scotland ; 
 318. 
 
 Querian, Marquis de : 
 passport for ; 233. 
 
 Sir Wm. Jennens' alleged treatment 
 
 of; 238, 239. 
 his information against Sir W. Jen- 
 nens ; 245. 
 Quiffin, Captain, his pink taken ; 136. 
 
 Radnor, Earl of : 
 
 Lord Lieut, of Ireland; 130. 
 
 (1710), letter of; 296. 
 
 (1713), letter of; 315. 
 Radnorshire, elections in ; 322. 
 Ragley, letters dated at ; 81, 86. 
 Ragobah, and the Poonah expedition ; 421, 
 422. 
 
 Ramsgate ; 187, 231, 255, 256. 
 Ranelagh, Lord : 
 
 (1687) , at Athlone; 132. 
 
 (1688) ; 230. 
 
 Ranshe, Mr., curacy for ; 295. 
 Raphsou, Jos., certificate by ; 304. 
 Rapin's History, continuation of ; 328. 
 Ratisbon; 8. 
 
 Raulyns, Mr., of Lichfield ; 122. 
 Rawden, — ; 11. 
 
 Raynes, Dr., Chancellor of Lichfield ; 76. 
 Raynham, Norfolk, letter dated at ; 294. 
 Reading; 223. 
 
 skirmish near ; 228,230. 
 
 treatment of Irish dragoons at ; ib. 
 
 — ; 31. 
 Rebellion of 1745 ; 329. 
 Reed, Joseph : 
 
 of Philadelphia, letters of; 337, 345, 
 346, 351-354, 358, 362, 366, 367, 
 371-373. 
 
 instructions prepared by ; 357. 
 Register Bill, the ; 295. 
 Reigate : 
 
 letter dated at ; 303. 
 
 church, Lord Monson's seat in; 26, 
 27. 
 
 Reinberg; 4. 
 
 Relfe, Mr., organist at Greenwich Hospi- 
 tal ; 445. 
 Remington, — , coachman ; 312. 
 Remusal, W., of Tangier ; 97. 
 Renegadoes ; 106, 107. 
 Rennalls, George, of Gosport ; 73. 
 Rennes; 331. 
 Reresby : 
 
 Col. Edmond, letter of; 242. 
 
 complaint against ; 244. 
 
 Sir John, letter of; 134. 
 Reus, Captain de, pay due to ; 116. 
 Reynett, Mrs. ; 444. 
 
 Reynolds, — , witness of the Hamilton and 
 
 Mohun duel; 311, 312. 
 Rhine wine ; 5. 
 Rhode Island : 
 
 remarks on ; 334. 
 restraint of trade ; 375. 
 state of government in ; 384 . 
 despatches from Governor Wanton 
 in; 391. 
 
 Ribaut, Mynheer, Dutch ambassador ; 341. 
 Ribston, Yorkshire, letter dated at; 138. 
 Rich : 
 
 Alderman ; 99. 
 
 Sir Robert, concerned in the Hamiltoa 
 and Mohun duel; 311, 312. 
 Richards, Mr. ; 146, 178. 
 Richmond : 
 
 Surrey ; 37. 
 
 letter dated at ; 306, 316. 
 
 Duke of (1679) ; 39. 
 
 (1712), his connexion with the 
 
 Hamilton and Mohun duel; 311- 
 
 314. 
 
 Rider, Mr., with the expedition against 
 
 Monmouth; 128. 
 Ridge, Ri., mayor of Portsmouth ; 123. 
 Ridley, Captain Hugh, his cruize off the 
 
 Burlings; 135, 136. 
 Ringwood, Prince of Orange's troops near : 
 
 225. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 487 
 
 Rio de la Plata ; 366. 
 Ristigouche : 
 
 the river ; 375. 
 
 fisheries on; 401. 
 Roane, Thomas, town clerk of Tangier ; 
 
 97, 105. 
 Roberts : 
 
 Lord (1679); 33. 
 
 a chairman ; 314. 
 
 J., letters of; 426. 
 
 Thomas, apothecary at Tangier; 
 104, 109. 
 Robertson : 
 
 General ; 402. 
 
 letter of; 403. 
 
 James, barrack master, letter of; 
 400. 
 
 Robins, a shoemaker; 315. 
 Robinson : 
 
 — , ship seized by ; 233. 
 
 Mr., surveyor of stores ; 64. 
 
 letters of ; 396. 
 
 Secretary to the Treasury ; 400. 
 
 John, letters of; 411, 422. 
 Rochelle ; 73. 
 Rochester : 
 
 Scotch troops at ; 103. 
 
 soldiers sent from ; 142, 144. 
 
 James IT. at ; 230, 236. 
 
 St. Margaret's ; 329. 
 
 Earl of, Hyde (1683) ; 81, 86. 
 
 (1683), letters of; 87, 88. 
 
 (1683), at Twickenham; 98. 
 
 letter to ; 103. 
 
 (1684), letters of; 112, 115. 
 
 his opinion of Lord Dartmouth's 
 
 services at Tangier ; 113, 114. 
 
 (1687), letter of; 131. 
 
 (1688), letter of; 146. 
 
 out of favour with James II. ; 
 
 ib. 
 
 (1688) ; 229, 232, 235, 242. 
 
 letter of; 232. 
 
 letter to ; 280. 
 
 (1711), letters of; 303, 305. 
 
 Bishop of (1688); 229. 
 
 (1712), Sprat, letter of ; 310. 
 
 (1713) ; 315. 
 
 Rochford : 
 
 Earl of (1774\ letter of ; 364. 
 
 (1774) ; 366. 
 
 at Cabinet meetings ; 371, 372. 
 
 Rockett, Caleb, of Dartmouth ; 300. 
 Rockingham, Marquis of (1765), letter of ; 
 331. 
 
 Rockroye; 119. 
 Rodd, Miss, at Bath ; 327. 
 Roderigus, John, petition of ; 104. 
 Rodgers, Rev. John, letter of; 374. 
 Rogers, — , of Cumberland ; 398. 
 Rollo, Captain, at Tangier ; 103, 110. 
 Romney, Lord (1767), and his son; 333. 
 Rooke, Capt. George : 
 
 report signed by ; 97. 
 
 of the St. David; 101. 
 
 of the Deptford ; 138. 
 
 Rooke, Capt. George — cont. 
 letters of; 223, 237, 239. 
 sent to intercept the young Prince; 
 223. 
 
 his treatment by the Governor of 
 Gibraltar; 109. 
 
 Rooth : 
 
 Captain; 158, 187, 188, 190, 258, 
 263, 265, 266, 269. 
 
 Francis, letter to ; 202. 
 Roper, Abel, and the Gazette ; 296, 298. 
 Roscommon, Lord (1681) ; 66. 
 Ross, William, Lieutenant of Nova Scotia 
 
 Volunteers ; 409. 
 Rossi, Charles ; 448. 
 Roth, Mr., of Tangier; 104. 
 Rothe, Edward, of Tangier ; 97. 
 Rotherford, Lieut. And., at Tangier; 
 
 110. 
 Rothwell : 
 
 Mr., gunner; 217, 
 
 J., letter of ; 222. 
 Rotterdam; 8. 
 
 soldiers ready at ; 192. 
 
 news from ; 298. 
 
 letter dated at ; 305. 
 Rowe, Mr., under secretary to the Duke 
 
 of Queensberry ; 306. 
 Rowley, Mr. ; 314. 
 Roxborough, deserters from ; 399. 
 Roxburgh, Duke of : 
 
 (1707), letter of ; 294. 
 
 his marriage ; ib. 
 Roxbury, New England ; 344. 
 Ruggles, councillor at Boston ; 361. 
 Rupert, Prince : 
 
 his letters to Col. W. Legge ; 3-9. 
 
 his chemical tastes ; 3, 5. 
 
 attacked in a book ; 5. 
 
 French gunner recommended by ; 10. 
 
 his fight with the Dutch ; 15. 
 
 list of the navy under ; 15. 
 
 in command against the Dutch ; 22, 
 24. 
 
 Wm. Legge's services with, in the 
 Civil Wars ; 24. 
 Russell : 
 
 Captain ; 31, 242. 
 
 Lord (1688), with the Prince of 
 
 Orange; 203. 
 Frank, deserts to the Prince of 
 
 Orange; 210. 
 Jack, book dedicated to ; 5. 
 Mr., gone to Holland ; 261. 
 Russia : 
 
 Czar of (1712), his threats ; 310. 
 infantry from, to be sent to Quebec; 
 395. 
 
 Rutland, America ; 362. 
 Rye ; 202, 264. 
 
 Charles II. landed at ; 20. 
 
 Bay; 263. 
 
 Ryley, Philip, sergeant-at-arms, sent to 
 arrest Lord Dartmouth ; 285-287. 
 
488 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 s. 
 
 Sables, Cape, privateers off; 414. 
 Sachem Indians ; 340. 
 Sacheverell, Dr. ; 297. 
 Sackfild (Sackville?) ; 224. 
 Sackville : 
 
 Lieut.-Col., at Nieuport ; 27. 
 
 Mr., candidate for Kent ; 332. 
 
 at Lewes ; ib. 
 
 Col. Edward, commander at Tan- 
 gier; 55, 104. 
 
 a defender of Lord Dartmouth ; 
 
 115. 
 
 St. Alban's ; 132. 
 
 Lord Churchill's house at ; 214. 
 Head; 217. 
 
 Lord (1680), his regiment; 204. 
 
 Duke of, his regiment gone over to 
 the Prince ; 210. 
 
 (1712), letter of; 309. 
 
 in the Band of Pensioners ; ib. 
 
 St. Andrea, Fort ; 17. 
 Saint Augustine : 
 
 letter dated at; 349. 
 
 Garrison Hospital at ; ib. 
 St. Christopher's : 
 
 the Duke of Albemarle at ; 135. 
 
 tumults in ; 332. 
 St. Clair, Col. Robert, letter of: 133. 
 St. David's, Bishop of (1682) ;' 74. 
 St. Domingo ; 136. 
 
 St. George, Fort, government of ; 426- 
 436, passim. 
 
 proposed reductions at ; 427. 
 St. George's Channel ; 243. 
 St. Germain, James II. at ; 252, 254. 
 St. Helens, the Dutch fleet off; 185, 186, 
 
 195, 201, 202, 264, 268. 271, 272. 
 St. Jago upon Cuba ; 136. 
 St. John : 
 
 Henry, secretary ; 300-302. 
 
 letter of ; 308. 
 
 Captain Thomas, at Tangier ; 50. 
 
 shot ; ib. 
 
 report by ; 59. 
 
 his company at Tangier ; 108. 
 
 payment due to ; 1 17. 
 
 St. John's : 
 
 Newfoundland ; 423. 
 
 Island; 333. 
 
 emigration to ; 342. 
 
 Governor of, letter of ; 388. 
 
 letter to; 374. 
 
 Charlotte Town ; 388. 
 
 Chief Justice of; 367. 
 
 recruiting in ; 378, 379. 
 
 English regiment surprised at ; 394. 
 
 volunteers posted at; 395. 
 
 Lieut. Governor of ; 367. 
 
 Gen. Bradstreet ; 370. 
 
 Col. Amherst; 371. 
 
 Fort, on the Sorell ; 409. 
 
 St. John's — cont. 
 River; 358. 
 
 Indians on ; 388, 398, 415, 416. 
 
 St. Lawrence River, Indians on ; 394. 
 
 St. Leger, — , attached to the Prince of 
 
 Wales; 443. 
 St. Loe, Captain George ; 75. 
 
 on the Dartmouth frigate ; 90. 
 
 examination of; 93. 
 
 certificates of ; 132,223. 
 St. Lucar, letter dated at ; 105. 
 St. Malo ; 223, 331. 
 St. Margaret's Bay ; 250. 
 St. Mary's, Port ; 105. 
 St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia ; 403. 
 St. Michell, Capt. B., at Tangier ; 110. 
 St. Osyth's; 171. 
 
 letter dated at ; 364. 
 St. Petersburgh, embassy to ; 437. 
 St. Vincent, Cape ; 106. 
 St. Vincent's, Caribbs inhabiting ; 337. 
 Salem : 
 
 Massachusetts ; 361. 
 
 seat of government at ; 351. 
 Salisbury: 
 
 estate near; 129. 
 
 letter dated at ; 133. 
 
 march of James II.'s forces to ; 202. 
 
 Berwick's regiment at ; 204. 
 
 Dutch troops near ; ib. 
 
 James II. at ; 210, 212, 213, 271. 
 
 Dean- of, his coach ; 134. 
 
 Earl of (1677) ; 26. 
 
 (1688) ; 222. 
 
 (1688) his flight; 228. 
 
 his house searched ; 229. 
 
 capture and escape of ; 235. 
 
 Sallasch, Comte de ; 302, 304. 
 Sally, Sallee : 
 
 privateer ; 83. 
 
 suggested attack on ; 95. 
 
 man-of-war ; 98. 
 
 French consul at ; 102. 
 
 cruisers off; 90, 91, 93. 
 
 pirates ; 105. 
 
 man-of-war; 106. 
 
 Capt. Wrenn's capture of; 106. 
 
 Admiral of; 319. 
 Samms, John, of Tangier ; 79. 
 Sandbeck, letters dated at; 81, 82, 123. 
 Sanders, Captain ; 44. 
 Sanderson, Captain : 
 
 reported death of ; 227. 
 
 order to ; 243. 
 
 and the Phubbs yacht; 245. 
 Sandford : 
 
 Mr., of Harwich ; 167, 206. 
 
 letter of; 192. 
 
 Nicholas, alderman of Tangier ; 78. 
 Sandwell, Lord Dartmouth's seat; 317, 
 
 324, 411, 445* 
 Sandwich; 187. 
 
 Earl of (1661), in Algiers and Spain ; 7. 
 
 as admiral ; 179. 
 
 at a Cabinet meeting ; 371. 
 
 (1775), meeting at his house; 
 
 372. 
 
 letters of; 396. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 489 
 
 Sanford, Nic, of Tangier ; 97. 
 Sanquhar, rebellious declaration at ; 45. 
 Saragossa : 
 
 Major Gen. Wade at ; 302. 
 
 prisoners at ; 305. 
 Sauvin, A., of Tangier ; 97. 
 Savannah, in Georgia, letter dated at ; 
 
 336. 
 Savile, Henry : 
 
 orders signed by ; 20. 
 
 at Paris ; 69, 130. 
 
 at the Admiralty ; 86, 89, 103. 
 
 in a gay humour ; 93. 
 Savoy; 298. 
 
 its claim on Sicily ; 311. 
 Scheveling; 170, 175, 177, 202. 
 
 Bay; 175. 
 Schomberg : 
 
 Marshal; 249. 
 
 letter of ; 130. 
 
 with the Prince of Orange ; 181. 
 
 or Duke of, in Flanders ; 303. 
 Schonvelt, engagement in ; 25. 
 Schuyler : 
 
 General, his operations ; 383. 
 
 Philip, apDointed Major - General ; 
 392. 
 Scilly; 198. 
 Scotland : 
 
 first and second expeditions to ; 24. 
 
 the Duke of York in ; 39, et seq. 
 
 parliament in, the Duke of York at ; 
 63. 
 
 the rebellion in (1685) ; 125. 
 French troops embarked for (1710) ; 
 298. 
 
 pretended landing of Dutch in ; 178. 
 peers of ; 306, 307. 
 Chamberlain of ; 307. 
 Lord Portmore and ; 318. 
 new Chancellor and Secretary for ; 
 318. 
 
 election of representative peers ; 368- 
 370. 
 
 Scott : 
 
 Captain, his wife Elizabeth ; 109. 
 Lieut. Andrew, at Tangier; 110. 
 Lieut. David; 386. 
 David, on the Indian Board ; 428, 
 
 429, 436. 
 Dennis, letter of ; 234. 
 Sir Edward, letters of; 225, 231. 
 
 letter to ; 234. 
 
 Lieut. -Govern or of Portsmouth, 
 
 charges against ; 225, 230-232, 
 
 282, 283. 
 
 resignation of his commission ; 
 
 236. 
 
 Lady, Ellis, letters of ; 231, 237. 
 
 sent to Guernsey ; 235, 237. 
 
 William, chirurgeon, at Tangier ; 
 109. 
 
 Scram, Vulcher, Dutch admiral ; 21. 
 Scroggs, Chief Justice, put out ; 60. 
 Scroope, Captain, at Nieuport ; 27. 
 Scull, William, of Pennsylvania ; 357. 
 Seabroucke, or Sheabrough, — , cousin (?) 
 of Prince Rupert ; 4-8. 
 
 Seamen, impressment of; 172, 178, 182, 
 
 200, 227, 257, 279. 
 Searle, John, of Tangier ; 97. 
 Selby, William, letter of; 134. 
 Selkirk, Lord (1774), speeches of; 369. 
 Senegal; 338. 
 
 fort and garrison at ; 339, 340. 
 Senegambia, Governor of, C. O'Hara ; 
 
 375. 
 Senhouse : 
 
 Richard, of Tangier ; 97. 
 
 petition of; 104. 
 
 Mrs., of Tangier ; 97. 
 Serle, Ambrose, letter to ; 417. 
 
 letter of ; 420. 
 Severn, the river ; 222. 
 Seville : 
 
 Pepysat; 105, 107, 108. 
 
 siege of; 300. 
 Sewers, Commissioners of, proceedings 
 
 of; 129. 
 Seymour : 
 
 Captain, his desertion ; 224. 
 
 • his company ; ib. 
 
 Mr.; 39,40, 41, 44, 46, 62, 65, 71, 
 72, 242, 245. 
 
 his earldom ; 76. 
 
 his disgrace ; 80, 81. 
 
 at Exeter; 86. 
 
 Edward, letter of ; 139. 
 
 his son ; ib. 
 
 Sir Edward, Dutch fleet seen at Berry 
 by; 185. 
 Shaftesbury, Earl of : 
 
 (1679), restored to favour ; 32. 
 trial of; 38. 
 
 Lord Halifax and ; 44, 69. 
 country reports concerning ; 64. 
 third (1711), letter of; 303. 
 his bad health ; 303, 304. 
 (1712), letter of; 309. 
 Shakerley, Peter, letter of; 131. 
 
 governor of Chester, letter of; 
 252. 
 
 Shakspeare, Thomas, a soldier ; 109. 
 Shannon, Lord (1710) ; 299. 
 Sharp : 
 
 John, Archbishop of York, letter of ; 
 296. 
 
 Mr., Attorney-General in Grenada ; 
 352. 
 
 Sharpe, Mr., and Governor Leybournc ; 
 
 439. 
 Shaw : 
 
 Mr. ; 87. 
 
 Sir John, his wedding ; 330. 
 Lieut. William, letter of ; 400. 
 William, letters of; 398, 409. 
 Shawness, Upper, towns of, attack on ; 
 359. 
 
 Sheerness ; 182, 184, 197, 199, 200, 207, 
 213. 
 
 letters dated at; 152, 178, 190, 198. 
 garrison at ; 152. 
 governor of ; 163. 
 Dutch prisoners at ; 190. 
 
490 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Shelburne, Lord, a friend to the colonies ; 
 
 345. 
 Sheldon : 
 
 a shipwright ; 253. 
 
 Mr., or Kalph, with James II. ; 234, 
 242, 252. 
 Shelley, Captain, at Nieuport ; 27. 
 Shenton, Lieutenant ; 148. 
 Sherborne, Lord Bristol's house at; 219. 
 Sherburne : 
 
 Sir Edward, of the Ordnance Office ; 
 77, 157. 
 
 letters of; 222. 
 
 removal of; 236. 
 
 E. Povey's training under • 239. 
 
 his distressed condition ; 252. 
 
 his father Edward ; ib. 
 
 Shere : 
 
 Mr., afterwards Sir Henry, his pro- 
 posals; 79. 
 
 — — his estimate of labour for de- 
 molishing the Mole ; 102. 
 
 certificate of ; 104. 
 
 Pepys and; 112, 113. 
 
 — recommendation by ; 143. 
 
 letters of; 114, 126, 128, 157, 
 
 183, 202, 233, 236. 
 
 ■ his illness ; 157. 
 
 atGravesend; 247. 
 
 Sheridan, Thomas, letters of ; 438. 
 Sheriden, Mr. ; 69. 
 Ships, names of : 
 
 Adamant; 355. 
 
 Advice; 19, 150, 153, 190. 
 
 Antelope; 208, 212. 
 
 Ariadne; 423. 
 
 Asia; 420. 
 
 Assurance; 197, 199, 207, 213, 265, 
 
 268. 
 Balteaus ; 394. 
 Beaver; 378. 
 Bedford; 299. 
 Betsy ; 403. 
 
 Bonadventure ; 86, 194, 200, 212, 
 264. 
 
 Bristol; 17, 19. 170, 284. 
 Cambridge; 23, 146, 158, 187, 223. 
 Centurion; 99, 100, 111, 193, 197, 
 
 199, 206, 208, 268, 418, 446. 
 Charles; 199. 
 
 Charles and Henry fireship ; 153, 
 171. 
 
 Charlotte yacht ; 74. 
 Chatham; 402. 
 Cignet; 212. 
 
 Cleveland yacht ; 74, 181, 261, 262, 
 271. 
 
 Concordia privateer ; 300. 
 Constant; 19, 208, 284. 
 Crown; 89, 212. 
 Danby; 107. 
 
 Dartmouth; 90, 95, 121, 138, 148, 
 
 244, 285. 
 Defiance; 167, 284. 
 Deptford; 138, 148, 223, 284. 
 Deptford ketch ; 17, 19, 110. 
 Diamond; 143, 161. 
 
 Ships, names oi—cont. 
 Diligent; 373. 
 Dove; 213. 
 
 Dover ; 11, 93, 172, 264, 284. 
 Dragon; 139. 
 Drake frigate ; 101. 
 Dreadnought; 143, 150, 151, 156,160, 
 
 187, 190, 217, 220, 
 Dunkirk; 199, 211, 217, 220, 222. 
 Edgar; 199, 210, 211, 220, 227, 228, 
 
 250. 
 
 Elizabeth; 141, 150, 153, 159, 167, 
 
 169, 259, 284. 
 Fairfax; 16, 19, 20, 25, 138. 
 Falmouth packet ; 381. 
 Fanfan ; 204, 222. 
 
 Foresight; 19, 148, 150, 200, 202, 
 
 263, 264. 
 Fountain; 15. 
 Foivey ; 392. 
 Frederick ; 17. 
 Garland; 15, 19. 
 George; 15. 
 
 Gloucester, loss of ; 74, 278. 
 Gloucester ; 446. 
 Grab; 420. 
 
 Grafton; 90, 102, 110, 113. 
 Greyhound; 105. 
 Guardland ; 244. 
 Guernsey ; 212. 
 Guernsey fireship ; 247. 
 Half Moon of Algiers ; 68. 
 Half Moon; 199.. 
 Hambrough man of-war burnt ; 97. 
 Hampshire ; 1 7, 2 1 2 . 
 Hampton Court ; 194, 197, 206, 213. 
 Happy Return; 80, 94, 100, 103, 
 199. 
 
 Headzenburgh hospital ship ; 156. 
 Helderburg Hospital; 271. 
 Heldrenbergh, loss of ; 212. 
 Henrietta; 80, 94, 97, 107, 145, 212. 
 Herbert; 300. 
 Hind frigate sunk ; 308. 
 Hope; 383, 384. 
 James ; 68. 
 
 James galley ; 83, 89, 199. 
 Jersey; 17, 245, 271. 
 Joseph Bonadventure ; 19. 
 Jupiter y capture of; 21, 23. 
 Katherine yacht; 149, 168, 171, 175, 
 
 176, 207, 252, 257, 259, 260, 263. 
 Kent; 187, 194, 197, 199,206,211, 
 
 213. 
 
 Kingfisher ; 161, 164, 187, 263. 
 Kitchen yacht; 74, 143, 153, 164, 
 
 167, 168, 263, 265. 
 Lansman, of Amsterdam ; 20. 
 Lark; 103, 148, 212. 
 Leyden ; 203. 
 Lion; 211. 
 Lively ; 351. 
 Lord Thurlow ; 430. 
 Maiden of Dort ; 165. 
 Mary; 17, 18, 19, 194,204,211,217, 
 
 220, 233, 237, 239, 258, 265, 284. 
 Mary yacht; 75, 223. 
 Mary galley ; 199. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 491 
 
 Ships, names of — cont. 
 Mary Rose; 86, 87. 
 Merlin ; 403. 
 
 Mermaid; 111, 145, 149, 153,188, 
 
 199, 207,213. 
 Monk; 199. 
 
 Montagu; 94,97, 103, 108,111, 138, 
 
 203, 208, 211, 268. 
 Mor daunt; 218. 
 
 Newcastle; 150, 171, 174, 181, 202, 
 
 210, 212, 213, 215, 264, 272. 
 Niger; 405. 
 
 Nonsuch; 18, 19, 138, 208, 251. 
 Ossory ; 228. 
 
 boatswain of, murdered ; 278. 
 
 Oxford; 110, 199. 
 
 Pearl; 87, 150, 153, 160, 244, 266, 
 446. 
 
 Pembroke ; 15, 25. 
 
 Pendennis; 150, 157, 161, 169, 251, 
 258, 259. 
 
 Phoenix frigate ; 134, 183, 194, 199, 
 213. 
 
 Phubbs yacht ; 235, 241, 243, 245. 
 Plymouth; 143, 150, 151, 160. 
 Pompce, mutiny on ; 447. 
 Portland; 182, 194, 199, 207, 213, 
 247. 
 
 Portsmouth; 17, 148, 172, 182, 212, 
 
 223, 284. 
 Preston ; 376, 383, 385-389. 
 Prince; 15, 173. 
 Quaker ketch ; 156, 160, 274. 
 Reasonable; 418. 
 Recovery, loss of ; 104. 
 Renown; 418, 
 Reserve; 80. 
 Resolution ; 20. 
 
 journal of ; 17-19. 
 
 disabled; 23. 
 
 Lord Dartmouth's flagship ; 
 
 139-283, passim. 
 Revenge ; 420. 
 Richmond ; 15, 150, 284. 
 Rochester; 15. 
 
 Roebuck; 198, 199, 205, 207, 387. 
 Rose fireship ; 19, 199. 
 Royal Charles; 15, 20. 
 Royal Henry ; 421. 
 Royal James ; 15. 
 
 Royal Katherine, journal of; 20-22. 
 
 Royal Oak ; 199. 
 
 Royal Prince, disabled ; 22. 
 
 Ruby; 178, 203, 212. 
 
 Rupert; 145, 170, 187, 245. 
 
 report on her defects ; 210. 
 
 St. Alban's; 145, 150, 154, 188, 208, 
 
 233, 264, 284. 
 complaint against commander 
 
 of; 179. 
 St. Anne; 103. 
 St. David; 17, 100, 101, 284. 
 St. George; 24. 
 St. Lawrence; 383, 384. 
 St. Michael; 20. 
 St. Paul fireship ; 171. 
 Sally Rose ; 212, 264. 
 Sampson fireship ; 182, 199. 
 
 Ships, names of — cont. 
 Samuel; 106. 
 
 Sandados ; 138, 218, 263, 264. 
 
 Sapphire; 68, 87, 88, 199. 
 
 Scarborough ; 365, 385, 395. 
 
 Sedgemoor, aground ; 249, 250, 251. 
 
 Senegal; 385. 
 
 Severn ; 446. 
 
 Somerset; 388. 
 
 Sovereign; 142, 161. 
 
 Speedwell fireship ; 15, 162, 212, 217, 
 
 233, 264. 
 Spragg fireship ; 201. 
 Suadadoes ; 247. 
 Suffolk; 199. 
 
 Swallow; 145, 150, 169, 171, 194, 
 
 200, 263, 264, 284. 
 Sweepstakes ; 15, 199, 209. 
 Terpsichore; 430,431. 
 - Thomas and Elizabeth ; 213. 
 
 Tiger; 138, 156, 158, 161, 171, 172, 
 
 184, 264, 284. 
 
 prize ; 85, 89, 194, 197, 199, 213 . 
 
 Trial; 446. 
 
 Two Lions, of Sally ; 106. 
 Unity ; 97, 99, 100. 
 Unity fireship ; 171, 201, 208, 216. 
 Utrecht, Admiral Herbert's; 165. 
 Wager; 446. 
 
 Warspite; 194, 197, 199, 211, 217, 
 
 222, 227, 233, 238, 239. 
 Warwick; 19, 208, 284. 
 Weymouth ; 294, 295. 
 Woohvich; 103, 150, 169, 181, 206, 
 
 264, 284. 
 York, disabled ; 23. 
 York; 25, 171. 208, 264. 
 Shirley, Sewallis ; 328. 
 Shoolbred : 
 
 John ; letter of; 401. 
 
 his petition for grant of land in 
 
 Nova Scotia; 375. 
 
 letter to ; 382. 
 
 Shovell : 
 
 Captain, afterwards Sir Cloudesley ; 
 
 87, 102, 144, 161. 
 his capture of an Algiers ship ; 
 
 68. 
 
 forced to salute the Spanish 
 
 fleet; 82, 89. 
 his journal in the James galley ; 
 
 83. 
 
 letter to ; 89. 
 
 his prize ; 94. 
 
 his sending the Crown ship 
 
 home ; 94. 
 
 reports by ; 97, 107. 
 
 left in the Mediterranean ; 105. 
 
 his leave of absence ; 140. 
 
 his lieutenant ; 157. 
 
 Shrewsbury : 
 
 Earl of, at Exeter (1688) ; 192. 
 
 Duke of (1710), letters of; 295, 296. 
 
 (1711), letters of; 308. 
 
 (1713), Lord Lieutenant of Ire- 
 land ; 318. 
 
 Duchess of; 317. 
 
492 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Shuldham, Admiral Molyneux, letter of ; 
 402. 
 
 Sicily, claims of France and Savoy on ; 
 
 311. 
 Sidney : 
 
 Colonel, at Nieuport ; 27. 
 Algernon, the Prince of Orange and ; 
 65. 
 
 Sing, — , gunner at Hull ; 121. 
 Sinhouse, Richard, of Tangier ; 78. 
 Sittingbourne, troops at ; 143, 144. 
 Skeene, Major : 
 
 in custody ; 391. 
 
 attack on his settlement ; 393. 
 Skelton : 
 
 Captain; 144. 
 
 Pepys and ; 174. 
 
 Colonel, Lieutenant of the Tower; 
 216. 
 
 turned out ; 230. 
 
 Skipton Castle, letter dated at ; 124. 
 Sligo Protestants, declaration of ; 249. 
 Slingsby : 
 
 Henry, letter of; 99. 
 
 r of the Mint, petitions of; 119. 
 
 Harry, candidate for Portsmouth ; 
 223. 
 
 Major Henry, letter of ; 127. 
 Smallridge, Dr.; 318. 
 Smelt, Lieut. Math., at Tangier ; 110. 
 Smirke, Robert ; 448. 
 Smith : 
 
 Captain, of Woolwich ; 107. 
 
 of the Tiger prize ; 194. 
 
 Colonel, his seizure of stores at Con- 
 cord ; 393. 
 Sir James, alderman of London ; 144. 
 James, of Pennsylvania ; 357. 
 Sir Jeremiah, convoy under ; 15. 
 John, groom ; 123. 
 Richard; 123. 
 Samuel, letter to ; 332. 
 Capt. Thomas, of the Falcon; 138. 
 Thomas, Queen's Proctor ; 300. 
 
 his son George ; ib. 
 
 William, mayor of Tangier ; 78, 96. 
 letter of; 97. 
 
 his reception by Charles II. ; 100. 
 
 petition of; 104. 
 
 Dr. William, of Pennsylvania ; 357. 
 
 William, letter of; 331. 
 Smyrna ; 18. 
 
 engagement ; 25. 
 Smyth : 
 
 Sir William, letter of; 129. 
 
 his treatment by Jeffreys ; ib. 
 
 account of his life and services ; 
 
 ib. 
 
 Smythe, Baron, letters of ; 332. 
 Snakes' Town, attack on ; 359. 
 Snow; Joshua, deposition of ; 389. 
 Society, the Royal, the King of Spain's 
 
 gift to ; 349. 
 Soldiers, punishments of ; 27. 
 Sole Bay; 15. 
 
 engagement in ; 25. 
 
 expected landing of the Dutch in ; 
 176. 
 
 Solmee, Count de, with the Prince of 
 
 Orange; 181. 
 Solomon, Lieut. J., letter of ; 403. 
 Somerset : 
 
 Duke of (1687), letters of; 135. 
 
 his treatment by James I. ; ib. 
 
 (1710) ; 295. 
 
 Dukes of, recorders of Lichfield ; 122. 
 
 Duchess of, her death ; 122. 
 Sooper, Major, complaint against ; 133. 
 Soper, Major Thomas, letter of ; 224. 
 Sophia : 
 
 Electress, letter of; 297. 
 
 Princess, daughter of George III., 
 letter of ; 445. 
 Sorell, the river ; 409. 
 Sotherne, James, of the Navy Board; 
 174. 
 
 Souche, General de, on the Danube; 4, 
 6, 7, 8. 
 
 Southam, co. Warwick, living of; 316. 
 Southampton : 
 
 Scotch troops at; 103. 
 
 Water; 264. 
 
 election at ; 364, 365, 367. 
 
 letters dated at ; 364, 365. 
 Southcott, Sir John ; 204. 
 Southesk, Lord, Test taken by ; 71. 
 Southsea : 
 
 barracks at; 242. 
 
 Castle, the dragoons in ; 235. 
 
 delivery of; 281-283. 
 
 South Sea Stock, losses in ; 325, 326. 
 Southwark, Kent Street; 231. 
 Southwell : 
 
 Edward, letters of; 294, 308, 324. 
 
 under secretary ; 318. 
 
 Sir Robert; 114. 
 Spa, letters from ; 424, 425. 
 Spain : 
 
 ambassador from, at Vienna, and 
 
 Prince Rupert ; 5, 6. 
 feeling against England in ; ib. 
 and Portugal, armies of ; 10. 
 fleet of, Capt. Shovell forced to 
 
 salute ; 82. 
 — English ships obliged to salute ; 
 
 85, 89. 
 
 Admiralty report on ; 89. 
 
 Tangier horses to be sold in ; 86. 
 
 Samuel Pepys in ; 105. 
 
 Ireland threatened by ; 125. 
 
 Portuguese army invading; 298. 
 
 English recruits for ; 299, 300. 
 
 bad state of its affairs ; ib. 
 
 French troops sent to ; 300. 
 
 King of, his renunciation ; 311 
 
 treaty of commerce with ; 319. 
 
 King of (1774), his gift to the Roy.il 
 Society ; 349, 439. 
 
 and Portugal, dispute between ; 366. 
 Sparks, Henry, of Tangier; 79, 96. 
 Speath, Major, wounded in the Mahratta 
 
 war ; 421. 
 Spencer, Lord Robert ; 241. 
 
 at the Board of Trade ; 34 1 . 
 Spesshardt ; 4, 
 
INDEX. 
 
 493 
 
 Spithead ; 17, 19, 20, 102, 153, 195, 201- 
 
 248, 268-284, passim. 
 Spragg, Spragge : 
 
 nephew of Col. Legge ; 11. 
 
 Sir Edward ; 18. 
 
 letter of; 19. 
 
 in command of the fleet ; 19. 
 
 his engagements with Van 
 
 Tromp ; 21, 22. 
 
 drowned ; 24. 
 
 appeal from his son ; 298. 
 
 Capt. Thomas, letter of; 152. 
 Sprat, Thomas, Bishop of Rochester, letter 
 of; 310. 
 
 plot against ; ib. 
 Squerries, near Westerham : 
 
 letters dated at ; 293-300, passim. . 
 
 purchase of lease ; 326. 
 Squib on British rights in America; 419. 
 Squibb, Robert, letter concerning; 305. 
 Stafford, Viscount, trial of; 39, 40, 54. 
 Staggins, Lieut. Charles : 
 
 report by ; 210. 
 
 certificates of ; 238. 
 
 and Sir W. Jennens ; 245. 
 Stagings, Lieut. E., detained on a Spanish 
 ship ; 85. 
 
 Stainborough, co. York, letter dated at; 325. 
 Staines : 
 
 letter dated at ; 224. 
 
 William, of Tangier ; 97. 
 Stair, Lord, his election as a representative 
 
 peer; 369. 
 Stamford, letter dated at ; 319. 
 Stanes, William, alderman of Tangier ; 78. 
 Stanhope : 
 
 Dr. George, letters of ; 306, 322, 326. 
 
 at Lewisham ; 305. 
 
 Mr., in Spain ; 300. 
 
 General James, letter of; 302. 
 
 taken prisoner ; 303. 
 
 Lord (1721), his funeral ; 326. 
 Stanley : 
 
 Haus, candidate for Southampton ; 
 364, 365. 
 
 letter of ; 365. 
 
 Sir John, under Secretary ; 318. 
 Stanton : 
 
 Captain, companies under ; 386. 
 
 on St. John's River ; 388. 
 
 declaration by ; 403. 
 
 Major; 400. 
 Star, a blazing ; 44. 
 Staremberg : 
 
 Comte de ; 303. 
 
 General ; 7. 
 
 death of; 8. 
 
 Start Point, the Dutch fleet off; 185, 203. 
 
 Stasy, Gabriel ; 1 7. 
 
 Stedman, Major ; 126. 
 
 Steele, Sir Richard, and the Charterhouse 
 
 mastership ; 322. 
 Stephens, Philip, Secretary to the Admi- 
 ralty, letters to ; 343, 344. 
 
 letter of; 416. 
 
 report to ; 417. 
 Stephenson, J., letter of; 348. 
 Stepney : 
 
 church; 129. 
 
 Stepney — cont. 
 
 the Walloons at ; 129. 
 
 lease of Liberty of; ib. 
 
 troops at ; 144. 
 Stevenson, Mr. : 
 
 purser ; 142, 147. 
 
 his memorial ; 159. 
 Stewart : 
 
 Captain, killed on the Poonah expedi- 
 tion ; 420. 
 
 Colonel, negotiations by; 301. 
 
 Lieut. George, at Tangier ; 1 10. 
 Stigant, William, certificate by; 210. 
 Stirling; 56. 
 
 fort at; 125. 
 Stockton, Richard, his scheme for pacify- 
 ing the Colonies ; 332. 
 Stokes Bay ; 155, 204, 264. 
 Stonehouse, Nanny, at Bath ; 327. 
 Storton, Lieut. Will., at Tangier ; 109. 
 Stout, H., of Tangier ; 97. 
 Strachey, Sir Henry, at Fort St. George ; 
 430. 
 
 Strafford, Earl of : 
 
 (1711) , letter of; 308. 
 
 (1712) , at the Privy Council*; 311. 
 
 (1713) , the Bishop of London and; 
 318, 319. 
 
 (1714) , letter of; 321. 
 (1718), letter of; 325. 
 (1722), letter of; 326. 
 
 Strahan, Will., letter of; 381. 
 Stratford-upon-Avon ; 295. 
 Strathmore, Lord (1774), reported death 
 of; 370. 
 
 Straton, Mr., his cadetship ; 443. 
 Stratton, letter dated at ; 294. 
 Streeter, Colonel, his son; 170. 
 Strickland, Sir Roger : 
 
 his fleet for Jamaica ; 25. 
 
 extract from journal of ; 30. 
 
 the Duke of York's recommendation 
 of; 66. 
 
 ships under, to join Lord Dartmouth ; 
 138. 
 
 his squadron; 141, 147, 161, 171. 
 letter to; 132. 
 
 advice about his flag ; 132, 133. 
 
 direction to ; 162. , 
 
 his signal flags ; 166. 
 
 letters of; 187, 211, 233, 238. 
 
 his application to quit his commis- 
 sion ; 233. 
 
 ships under; 194, 199. 
 
 his crank ship ; 258. 
 
 indiscreet and unpopular ; 261. 
 
 advice by ; 264. 
 Stringer, Sir Thomas ; 128. 
 Stroci, Comte, envoy to England; 7. 
 Strode, Mr. ; 328. 
 
 Stuart, Mr., superintendent of Indian 
 
 affairs in America ; 334. 
 Studholme, Captain ; 389. 
 
 instructions to ; ib. 
 Studland Bay; 217. 
 
 Sturgion, Robert, of Queenborough ; 178. 
 Sturt, Arthur, Commissioner of Victual- 
 ling ; 107. 
 
494 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Stynim (?), Count de, with the Prince of 
 
 Orange; 181. 
 Styria, the Turks in ; 8. 
 Suckling, Mr., Attorney - General of 
 
 Quebec; 367. 
 Suffield, John, of Portsmouth, letter of ; 
 
 242. 
 Suffolk : 
 
 county, America ; 363. 
 
 Earl of (1773); 341. 
 
 Lord, letter of; 342. 
 
 Earl of (1774) ; 366, 368. 
 
 letter of; 370. 
 
 indignation of Scotch peers 
 
 against; 369. 
 
 - at Cabinet meetings ; 371, 372. 
 
 (1775), letter of; 387. 
 
 (1802), speech of; 447. 
 
 Sullivan : 
 
 Benjamin, letters of ; 426. 
 
 Daniel, letter of; 238. 
 Summerton, camp near ; 127. 
 Sunderland : 
 
 Earl of ; 36, 41, 46. 
 
 (1683), letters of; 87, 88. 
 
 "(1684), letter of; 115. 
 
 (1688), letter to; 178. 
 
 (1709), letter of; 295. 
 
 dismissed; 178. 
 
 seals resigned by; 295. 
 
 Lieut.-Col., at Nieuport ; 27. 
 Surgeons for the fleet ; 217. 
 Sussex : 
 
 electioneering in ; 332, 333. 
 
 Earl of (1688) ; 229. 
 
 (1731), death of; 327. 
 
 Lady (1688) ; 241. 
 Swaine, Captain ; 164. 
 Swale, the river ; 256. 
 Sweden : 
 
 Elector of Cleve and ; 4. 
 
 King of (1670); 19. 
 Swift, Jonathan ; 321. 
 
 letters of; 316, 317. 
 
 paper in imitation of ; 362. 
 Swynfen, S., letter of; 328. 
 Sybourg, Sieur de ; 130. 
 
 T. 
 
 Talbot : 
 
 Captain of the Niger ; 405. 
 
 Sir John, his son killed ; 128. 
 Tallard, Marquis de, his release on parole ; 
 300. 
 
 Tarragona, English troops at ; 298. 
 Tarres, Robert, of Tangier ; 97, 110. 
 Tarring and feathering at Boston ; 348. 
 Tattnell : 
 
 Captain of Militia in Georgia ; 336. 
 
 Josiah; 366. 
 Tayleur, John, of Portsmouth ; 230. 
 
 deposition by; 231. 
 
 Taylor . 
 
 Nathaniel, letter of ; 382. 
 W., letters of; 438. 
 Tea, the consignments to America of, 
 
 riots, &c. concerning ; 341, et seq. 
 Tangier or Tanger : 
 
 letters dated at ; 11, 15, 16, 26, 50, 
 51, 52, 55, 61, 64, 68, 72, 73, 74, 
 77, 78-80, 86, 90, 99, 102. 
 treaty made at ; 12. 
 carriages for ; 17. 
 chirurgeon at ; 26. 
 account of civil inhabitants ; 27. 
 survey of houses, &c. in ; 28. 
 cost of military establishment; 28, 
 29. 
 
 capture of Charles, Henrietta, and 
 
 Giles forts ; 50. 
 account of fight with the Moors ; ib. 
 serious condition of garrison; 51. 
 threatened attack on ; ib. 
 renewal of the Moors' hostilities ; 52. 
 Pole Fort and Fountain Fort ; ib. 
 comet seen at ; 55. 
 articles of truce made at ; ib. 
 peace concluded at ; 57. 
 reports on works at; 59, 61. 
 incompetent gunners there; 61, 64, 
 
 73. 
 
 naval fights off; 68. 
 want of stores and beds at ; 77. 
 wells opened at ; 78. 
 names of mayor and corporation ; 78, 
 79. 
 
 arrival of men and stores ; 79. 
 Peterborough Tower ; ib. 
 York Castle and Devil Tower ; 79, 84. 
 instructions to Lord Dartmouth for 
 
 demolition and evacuation of ; 83, 
 
 84. 
 
 removal of inhabitants ; ib. 
 J ews in ; ib. 
 
 disposal of forces departing from"; 85, 
 86. 
 
 instructions to Sir John Berry and Col. 
 Kirke touching ; 86. 
 
 additional instructions to Lord Dart- 
 mouth ; ib. 
 
 works on the pier at ; 88. 
 
 negotiations with the Ale aid of 
 Alcazar; 90. 
 
 battalions of seamen at ; 94. 
 
 valuation of property at ; 95, 97. 
 
 address to Charles II. from ; 96. 
 
 Town house in ; 97. 
 
 report on the Mole ; ib. 
 
 address of late Governor and officers 
 of; 97, 98. 
 
 Portuguese church of; 99, 101. 
 
 storekeepers at ; 99. 
 
 arrival of inhabitants in England; 99, 
 100, 101. 
 
 labour of demolishing the Mole ; 102. 
 distribution of forces from ; 103. 
 books and papers relating to ; 104. 
 petitions of inhabitants ; 104, 105. 
 interpreter, schoolmaster, &c. at ; ib. 
 clerk of the church ; 105. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 495 
 
 Tangier or Tanger — cont. 
 
 report on Mole and harbour at ; 107. 
 
 lists of officers, soldiers, and inhabi- 
 tants brought home from ; 108-1 10. 
 
 opinions of Lord Dartmouth's man- 
 agement of expedition ; 1 12-114. 
 
 Phillips's draught of the ruins ; 114, 
 
 pay of engineers, &c. at ; 116. 
 
 schedule of papers concerning the 
 expedition; 116-119. 
 
 church goods belonging to ; 118. 
 Tellicherry : 
 
 English ships near ; 420. 
 
 Madras troops at ; 421. 
 Telloone; 17. 
 
 Tempest, Captain, killed ; 21, 23. 
 Temple, J., Lieut. -Governor of New Hamp- 
 shire, letters of ; 365. 
 Tennant, Capt. Matthew ; 75, 156. 
 
 letters of; 161, 184. 
 
 of the Tiger; 138. 
 
 complaint against ; 172, 182. 
 
 Pepys's excuses for ; 172. 
 Teriff; 109. 
 
 Terrif, letter dated at ; 104. 
 Tessinn, Bernard, engineer at Tangier ; 
 59, 61. 
 
 Test, the, signatures of Tangier officers 
 
 to; 88. 
 Tetuan; 319. 
 
 letters dated at ; 106, 107. 
 
 trade of Tangier with ; 16. 
 
 French consul at ; 102. 
 Teviot, Earl of : 
 
 (1669), letter of ; 16. 
 
 at Tangier ; 50. 
 Tewkesbury ; 134. 
 Texel : 
 
 the; 158, 180. 
 
 engagement off; 24, 25. 
 Thames, the; 259, 261. 
 Thanet : 
 
 Isle of; 144. 
 
 Earl of (1685), letter of; 124. 
 
 (1688) ; 229. 
 
 Thistlethwayte : 
 
 Mr., his death at Tangier ; 118. 
 
 state of his accounts ; ib. 
 
 Mrs., of Tangier; 97. 
 Thomas, Jenkin, alderman of Tangier; 
 
 78, 97, 108. 
 Thompson : 
 
 Dr., chaplain at Kensington Palace ; 
 444. 
 
 or Thomson, George, candidate for 
 Bramber; 364. 
 
 letter of ; ib. 
 
 H., artist ; 448. 
 Thornhill, Mr., witness; 311. 
 Thoroton. Mr., candidate for Bramber; 
 
 364. 
 Throckmorton : 
 
 Captain, at Berwick ; 134. 
 Sir W., at Putney ; 10. 
 Thurland, Baron, and Reigate church ; 27. 
 Thurlow, Lord Chancellor, styled Em- 
 peror ; 425. 
 
 Tichborne : 
 
 Sir Henry, the Duke of York, and; 36. 
 
 of the Ordnance Office ; 260. 
 
 letter of; 222. 
 
 Tichfield, letters dated at; 75, 76, 77", 124. 
 Ticonderoga fort, attack on ; 393. 
 Tiffin, Major; 118. 
 Tilbury; 103. 
 
 Governor of ; 222. 
 Till, Rev. John, of Hayes, letters of ; 438. 
 Tillingham ; 161. 
 Tilson, Mr., a chaplain ; 293. 
 Tippetts, Sir John, of the Navy Board ; 
 
 166, 174. 
 Tirrell, Jack ; 225. 
 Tobacco, Virginia ; 80. 
 Tobin, Ja., of Tangier; 96. 
 Tollemache, Capt. William, letter of ; 250. 
 Tonge : 
 
 W., letter of ; 381. 
 
 complaints against ; ib. 
 Tongue, William, remarks by ; 344. 
 Tonson, Jacob, recommendation of; 306. 
 Tonyn, Governor, letter of; 349. 
 Toolgaum,English army retreated to ; 422. 
 Topsham ; 188, 192, 193, 203, 221. 
 Torbay, the Dutch fleet in; 185, 192, 195, 
 
 203, 205, 213. 
 Torcy, Marquis de ; 311. 
 
 letters of; 300, 315. 
 Tories, the, distinctions among ; 319. 
 Torrington, Earl of (1689) ; 253. 
 
 Memoirs of ; 447. 
 Tortola : 
 
 letter dated at ; 343. 
 
 Governor of ; ib. 
 Totterdale, Hugh, a lawyer in Jamaica ; 
 306. 
 
 Toulon, Calvinists at; 331. 
 Tournay : 
 
 letter dated at ; 119. 
 
 Vauban's citadel at ; 120. 
 Townesend, Mr., deputy of Sir Edw. Sher- 
 burne; 252. 
 Townshend : 
 
 Lord (1679) ; 32. 
 
 Viscount, a godfather; 294. 
 
 (1702), letter of; 293. 
 
 (1705), letter of ; 294. 
 
 (1714), letter of ; 321. 
 
 Tracy, Baron, report by ; 310. 
 Trafford, Mr., of Norfolk ; 293. 
 Tramalier, — , fellow of Jesus College, Ox- 
 ford ; 134. 
 Transylvania ; 4, 7. 
 Trelawny : 
 
 Captain, at Tangier ; 50. 
 
 killed; ib. 
 
 Col., his regiment ; 94, 103, 104, 118, 
 128. 
 
 Trentham, letter dated at ; 364. 
 Trentown, General Howe at; 398. 
 Trescot, Alexander, letter of ; 365. 
 Treves, Marquis Crequi's army at ; 119. 
 Tripoli ; 18, 105. 
 
 Trumbell, Governor, his despatches from 
 Connecticut : 391. 
 
496 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Trumbull, Dr. William : 
 
 letters of; 95, 97. 
 
 report by ; 97. 
 
 in England ; 99, 1 00, 
 Truro, Nova Scotia; 344. 
 Tryon, Col. "William, Governor of New 
 York : 
 
 letters of ; 336, 343, 364. 
 
 his expenditure ; 336. 
 
 in great favour ; 384. 
 
 his requisition for troops ; 339. 
 
 his secretary ; 354. 
 
 disloyalty of his Province ; 392. 
 
 memorial of; 397. 
 
 letter to; 417. 
 
 complaints against ; 423. 
 
 his letter to Lord Hyde ; 438. 
 
 his return to New York ; 440. 
 Tucker, Captain, of the Unity ; 97, 100. 
 Tufton, Mr., member for Appleby; 124. 
 Tully, John, seaman ; 107. 
 Tunbridge; 87. 
 
 James II. at ; 133. 
 
 Wells, letter dated at ; 424. 
 Tunis; 18, 19, 105. 
 
 King of; 18, 19. 
 
 man-of-war, prizes taken by; 77. 
 Turberville, informer ; 65. 
 Turin; 298. 
 Turks, the : 
 
 Princes of Germany and ; 3. 
 
 success gained by ; 5, 6. 
 
 retreat of ; 8. 
 
 alleged negotiations of England with ; 
 6. 
 
 beaten out of Fort St. Andrea; 17. 
 their ships burnt at Algiers ; 19. 
 encounter of their ships with the 
 
 Genoese ; 30. 
 victory over ; 93. 
 Turner, Sir William, alderman of London ; 
 144. 
 
 Tuscany, Prince of (1710), illness of; 
 299. 
 
 Tweeddale, Marquis of (1710) ; 296. 
 Twickenham ; 98. 
 
 letters dated at; 131, 162. 
 Twysden, Sir Thomas, candidate for Kent ; 
 326. 
 
 Tynemouth; 37. 
 
 Castle, repairs at ; 75. 
 Tyrconnell, Earl of : 
 
 (temp. Eliz.), rebellion under ; 125. 
 
 (1686) , his reception at Chester; 131. 
 in England ; ib. 
 
 Lord Lieut, of Ireland ; 226, 234. 
 
 (1687) , letters of and to ; 132. 
 his preparations in Ireland ; 249. 
 
 Tyrell, — ; 74. 
 Tyrone, Earl of : 
 
 (temp. Eliz.), rebellion under ; 125. 
 
 (1685), letter of ; 122. 
 Tyrrell, Captain ; 102, 150. 
 Tyrwhitt, Captain John ; 156, 161. 
 
 letters of; 158,223. 
 
 u. 
 
 Ulster, in arms under Tyrone ; 125. 
 Upnor Castle; 76. 
 
 Governor of; 153, 157. 
 Ushant; 198. 
 
 Usher, Ignat., letter of ; 74. 
 Utrecht, Lord Strafford at ; 308. 
 Uxbridge : 
 
 letter dated at ; 229. 
 
 Lord Feversham's army at ; 229, 232. 
 
 V. 
 
 Vaena, Dorhis de, of Tangier ; 97. 
 Valentia : 
 
 attempt on ; 298. 
 
 reduction of ; 300. 
 Vale Koyal, letter dated at ; 139. 
 Valkenire, M., burgomaster of Amster- 
 dam ; 31. 
 
 Van Benning, or Venbenning, M., his 
 
 memorial; 71. 
 Vanbrugh Fields (Blackheath?) ; 339, 
 
 366. 
 
 Vander Saan, Captain ; 203. 
 Vandeveldt de Oude (the Old) : 
 
 William, letter of; 153. 
 
 prices of his pictures ; ib.. 
 Van Runing ; 290. 
 
 Vanseterflett, Daniel, of Tangier ; 97. 
 Vansusterfleet, Daniel, of Tangier ; 79. 
 Van Tromp, Admiral : 
 
 engagements with ; 20-23, 
 and the Prince of Orange's expedi- 
 tion; 158, 178. 
 Vardell, Rev. Mr., Thoughts on the 
 
 Colonies by; 397. 
 Vauban, Mons., account of his fortifica- 
 tions ; 119, 120. 
 Vaudry, Mr. ; 282. 
 Vaughan, Lord : 
 
 (1675), letter of; 25. 
 Governor of Jamaica ; 137. 
 Vendome, Due de ; 304. 
 Venes, John and Aaron, Dutch admirals 
 21. 
 
 Venice; 298. 
 Vermiiden, Mr. ; 3, 6. 
 Vernon : 
 
 George, letter of ; 320. 
 
 Mr., or Ned; 16. 
 
 candidate for parliament ; 56. 
 
 Versailles, letters dated at ; 130, 300. 
 Vetch, Colonel Samuel, charges against ; 
 320. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 497 
 
 Victualling, Commissioners for: 147, 150, 
 152, 154, 159, 164, 177, 218, 221, 240, 
 242, 243, 260. 
 Vienna : 
 
 Prince Rupert's mission to ; 3-9. 
 
 letters dated at ; 5-8. 
 
 the Earl of Dartmouth at ; 330. 
 
 christening of an Archduchess ; ib. 
 Villahermosa, Duke of ; 30. 
 Villa Nova; 106. 
 Villiers : 
 
 Col. Sir Edward, letter of ; 75. 
 
 Sir William; 160. 
 Vincent : 
 
 Ettienne, of Tangier; 97. 
 
 Stephen, of Tangier ; 79. 
 Virgin Islands : 
 
 agent for ; 348. 
 
 petition from ; ib. 
 
 statistics concerning ; 372. 
 Virginia : 
 
 secretary in ; 23. 
 
 Lord Culpeper's letter from ; 80. 
 
 Sir H. Chicheley's misgovernment 
 of; 80. 
 
 Assembly at ; 335. 
 
 its support to Boston ; 353. 
 
 militia in ; 359. 
 
 House of Burgesses ; 362. 
 
 preparations in ; 372. 
 
 state of government in ; 384. 
 
 Lord Dunmore's despatches from; 
 391. 
 
 in a state of anarchy ; ib. 
 Voiteire, Captain, of the Katherine, fire- 
 ship ; 23. 
 
 Votier, — , with Admiral Herbert ; 204. 
 
 w. 
 
 W., E., letter of; 315. 
 Wackitomika ; 359. 
 
 Wade, Major-Gen., his services in Spain ; 
 
 302. 
 Wales : 
 
 Prince of (1751), his future bride; 
 330. 
 
 (1783) letter of; 442. 
 
 Princess of (1805), letter of; 444. 
 Walker, Obadiah, taken prisoner ; 231. 
 Wallace, Captain, at Rhode Island ; 399. 
 Walle, Mrs.; 53. 
 Waller : 
 
 Mr., letter to ; 9. 
 
 Sir Hardress, a prisoner ; ib. 
 
 Sir William; 189. 
 Wallis : 
 
 Mr., recommendation of ; 80. 
 
 candidate for Berwick ; 124. 
 
 U 24961. 
 
 Wallis — cont. 
 
 William, storekeeper at Tangier; 
 99. 
 
 Walloons, the, at Stepney ; 129. 
 Walpole ; 
 
 Sir Robert, letter of ; 303. 
 
 dismissed from office ; ib. 
 
 his motion on the South Sea 
 
 directors; 326. 
 
 his brother Townshend; 321. 
 
 Henry Legge and; 328. 
 
 Thomas, his letter; 359, 360, 366. 
 Walshford ale; 138. 
 Walsingham, James ; 34, 35. 
 Waltham Abbey, Pynest Green near ; 
 328. 
 
 Wanton, Governor; 441. 
 
 his despatches from Rhode Island ; 
 391. 
 Wapping : 
 
 Jeffreys taken in ; 233, 235. 
 Warbeck, Perkin • 224. 
 Waringe, James, of Tangier ; 79, 97. 
 
 petition of; 104. 
 Warminster, letter dated at ; 128. 
 Warr, Mr., and Lord Nottingham ; 286. 
 Warren, Dr. Joseph : 
 
 of Boston, New England ; 342. 
 
 of Cambridge, Mass., letter of ; 377. 
 Warton, Sir Michael : 
 
 letters of; 295,296,308, 309. 
 
 refuses a peerage ; 308, 309. 
 Warwick; 445. 
 
 Sir Philip ; 9. 
 
 Earl of, Beauchamp ; 328. 
 Washan, Ali Rice : 
 
 captain of a Sally man-of-war ; 106. 
 
 confession of ; ib. 
 Washington : 
 
 General George ; 381, 383. 
 
 commander-in-chief ; 392. 
 
 his camp near Philadelphia ; 
 
 418. 
 
 his forces at Middletown ; 418. 
 
 Harry; 10. 
 Watermen, impressment of ; 141, 145, 149, 
 
 154, 157, 172, 200, 257, 259. 
 Watson, Mr. : 
 
 councillor at Boston ; 361. 
 
 his cadetship ; 443. 
 Watts, Mr. j 52. 
 
 postmaster at Deal ; 196, 201. 
 Webbe, J., letters of ; 426. 
 Welbeck; 13. 
 
 letters dated at ; 74, 75, 79, 80, 125. 
 Welford, — ; 265. 
 
 Welldon, Mr., sheriff in Virginia ; 80. 
 Wellesley, Marquis, letters of ; 426, 434, 
 436. 
 
 Wellingborough parish ; 423. 
 Wells ; 134. 
 
 Monmouth's army at ; 126. 
 
 letters dated at ; 128. 
 Welsh : 
 
 Sir Robert ; 3, 4. 
 
 — , his horses ; 33. 
 Wentworth : 
 
 Lady, her Liberty of Stepney ; 129. 
 
 I I 
 
498 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Wentworth — cont. 
 
 General, his despatches from New 
 Hampshire ; 395. 
 
 Paul, petition consigned to ; 372. 
 Werden : 
 
 Major-General ; 131. 
 
 Sir John; 31, 37. 
 
 instructions signed by ; 20. 
 
 Wesley : 
 
 Colonel, reported drowned ; 45. 
 
 John, letter of; 378, 379. 
 West, Sir Benjamin ; 448. 
 Westall, Richard ; ib. 
 Westbury, letter dated at ; 126. 
 Westcombe, Sir Martin, consul at Cadiz ; 
 
 94. 
 Weston : 
 
 Henry, letters of ; 325, 326. 
 
 William, letter of; 365. 
 Westphal, Captain, wounded in India; 422. 
 Wetherall, Rev. J. ; 444. 
 Wetwang : 
 
 Sir John, complaint against his son ; 
 94, 100, 103. 
 
 Lieut. Jos., letter of ; 103. 
 Wexford, letter dated at ; 337. 
 Weybridge; 302. 
 
 Weyley, James, chirurgeon, at Tangier ; 
 
 108. 
 Weymouth : 
 
 letters dated at ; 444 
 George III. at ; 445. 
 Lord (1683-87), letters of; 80, 120, 
 122, 134. 
 
 (1687), his coach ; 134. 
 
 (1688); 229. 
 
 Wharton : 
 
 Lord (1677), Philip, in the Tower, 
 
 letters of ; 26. 
 Lady; 237. 
 
 Ann, letter of ; 26. 
 
 Mr., at Tournay ; 120. 
 
 his news from America ; 354. 
 
 Dick, at Plymouth ; 204. 
 Capt. George, letters of; 9-12. 
 Goodwin ; 26. 
 
 Sir Poly carpus, letter of; 144. 
 
 Richard, letter of; 128. 
 
 Samuel, letter to ; 383. 
 
 Thomas, letter of ; ib. 
 
 Sir Thomas, letter of; 26. 
 Wheat, high price of ; 335. 
 Wheatley : 
 
 Nathaniel, account by ; 334. 
 
 Phillis, letter and poem by ; ib. 
 
 an African slave ; ib. 
 
 Wheeler : 
 
 Captain ; 87, 102. 
 
 Colonel ; 3. 
 
 Sir Charles, death of ; 89. 
 
 Sir Francis, letter of; 211. 
 
 his misfortune ; 200. 
 
 Richard, deposition by ; 389. 
 Wheeling, America ; 359. 
 Wheelock : 
 
 Captain Anthony ; 333. 
 
 John, President of Dartmouth Col- 
 lege ; 438. 
 
 Whelan, James, of Tangier ; 97. 
 Whitchurch; 131. 
 White : 
 
 Captain, at Tangier"; 103. 
 
 Major John, letter of; 51. 
 
 Lieut. William, at Tangier ; 110. 
 Whiteworth, his evidence ; 311. 
 Whitfield, Rev. George, letter to ; 331. 
 Whitlock, Lieut., killed; 210. 
 Wich, Mr., letter of; 310. 
 Wickham, letter dated at ; 370. 
 Wicksteed, apprehended ; 170. 
 Widdrington : 
 
 Lord, at Berwick ; 75. 
 
 Colonel R., letter of; 124. 
 
 candidate for Berwick ; ib. 
 
 Wight, Isle of, Dutch fleet off; 202-205, 
 264, 265, 271, 272, 299, 302, 307. 
 
 Charles I. in ; 25. 
 
 mutiny of the militia in ; 185. 
 
 Irish soldiers transported to ; 246. 
 Wilberforce, William, letter of; 448. 
 Wild, Captain ; 164. 
 Wilford, Captain ; 165 199. 
 
 his letter; 184. 
 Wilkenson, one ; 17. 
 Wilkes, John ; 369. 
 Wilks, Mr., letter of ; 420. 
 Willard, Mr., councillor at Boston ; 361. 
 William, Fort ; 426, 428, 434, 436. 
 
 college at ; 434. 
 William and Mary, Castle, in New Hamp- 
 shire ; 395. 
 William, Rice, servant of Lord Mohun ; 3 1 1 . 
 William III., his honours to Lord Dart- 
 mouth; 447. 
 Williams ; 
 
 Lady, executrix of Lord Brouncker's 
 will; 113. 
 
 Captain; 102, 108, 258. 
 
 Charles, certificate of ; 238. 
 
 Edward, killed ; 87. 
 
 Capt. H., letter of; 190. 
 
 Capt. Hen. ; 75. 
 
 Jane; 445. 
 
 Thomas, of Annapolis, letter to ; 378. 
 Williamsburg, magazine at; 391. 
 Williamson, Mr. ; 17. 
 Willoughby, Lord (1713), Bishop of 
 
 Bristol; 316. 
 Wilshaw, Captain, of Deptford ; 146, 147, 
 
 150, 168, 259. 
 Wilson : 
 
 Lieut., captive among the Moors ; 105. 
 
 James, of Pennsylvania ; 357. 
 
 Robert, Consul at Gibraltar; 109. 
 
 letters of; 109, 110. 
 
 Wiltshire, Lord (1688), at Exeter ; 192. 
 Wimbledon, letters dated at ; 310, 332. 
 
 minister of; 310. 
 Winche, H., at the Admiralty ; 103. 
 Winchelsea, Earl of (1767) ; 332. 
 Winchester : 
 
 letter dated at ; 298. 
 
 the Star at; 16. 
 
 Charles II. at; 89. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 499 
 
 Winchester — cont. 
 
 Scotch troops at ; 103. 
 
 election at ; 123. 
 
 Bishop of (1688) ; 170, 229. 
 
 North (1785, &c), letters of; 
 
 425. 
 
 Windham, — ; 31, 32. 
 
 sale of his place ; 63. 
 Windram, Major, at Nieuport ; 27. 
 Windsor; 122. 
 
 letters dated at; 87, 88, 115, 132, 
 235, 237, 309, 442. 
 
 ministers at ; 310,311. 
 
 Castle, St. George's Hall in ; 444. 
 
 Lord, letters of; 26, 59, 61, 64, 74. 
 
 (1680); 54, 55. 
 
 Nova Scotia; 373, 381. 
 
 letters dated at; 398-402, 414. 
 
 pirates about ; 383. 
 
 disaffected people at ; 384. 
 
 ships at; 387. 
 
 state of township ; 401. 
 
 volunteers in; 401. 
 
 Wingfield : 
 
 Capt. Charles, his company at Tan- 
 gier; 109. 
 
 Capt. George, his company at Tan- 
 gier; ib. 
 
 Winnett, Joseph of Annapolis, letter to ; 
 378. 
 
 Winnington, Sir F., the Duke of York and ; 
 33. 
 
 Winslow, Joseph, Boston tea merchant; 
 342. 
 
 Winthrop, Dr., of Boston, New England ; 
 343. 
 
 Wintringham, Sir Charles, letter of ; 402. 
 Withers : 
 
 Mr., clerk of the Fishermen's Com- 
 pany ; 167. 
 Lieut. Hen., at Tangier ; 109. 
 Wivell, Capt. Francis, letter of; 216. 
 Wolferman, Mr., charges by ; 133. 
 Wollfferman, Mr., instructions to; 132. 
 Wolseley, Sir Ch., candidate for parlia- 
 ment ; 56. 
 
 Wood, Thomas, Bishop of Lichfield, 
 
 letters of; 76. 
 Woodlands Court, letter dated at ; 139. 
 Woodward, Mr., surgeon; 312. 
 Woolmer Forest ; 25. 
 Woolwich ; 107. 
 
 quarrel at ; 87. 
 
 ships at; 199. 
 Worcester : 
 
 battle of, Charles II.'s escape after ; 
 49. 
 
 James II. at; 134. 
 
 New England ; 361. 
 
 Bishop of, Dr. Hough, his letters ; 328. 
 
 (1687), his regiment at Chester ; 
 
 131. 
 
 Marquis of (1688), joins the Prince of 
 Orange; 222. 
 Workington, seizure of arms at ; 233. 
 Worseley, Harry, at Lisbon ; 318. 
 Worsopp, Sir Thomas, and his son, their 
 services ; 131. 
 
 Worthin or Worden, Captain, killed ; 21, 
 
 23. 
 Wrenn : 
 
 M., instructions signed by ; 19, 20. 
 Capt. Ralph ; 75, 102. 
 letter of; 99. 
 
 and the Portuguese Canons ; 
 
 101. 
 
 his ship at Lisbon ; 102. 
 
 journal of his proceedings ; 106. 
 
 his encounter with a French 
 
 man-of-war; 115. 
 Wrey, Sir Bourchier, his brother shot at 
 
 Tangier ; 51. 
 Wright : 
 
 — , Governor of Georgia, letter of ; 336. 
 Sir James, his despatches from 
 
 Georgia ; 390. 
 Lieut. William, letter of ; 187. 
 
 his search for ships ; 187, 188. 
 
 sent to Dover ; 265. 
 
 Wroth, Edward, alderman of Tangier; 
 110. 
 
 Wurtzburg; 6, 8. 
 Wyborne, Sir John ; 102. 
 
 at Tangier ; 80. 
 
 instructions to ; 85. 
 
 orders by ; 90. 
 
 letters of; 94, 100, 103. 
 
 report by ; 107. 
 
 certificate by ; 110. 
 Wybrant, Alderman, of Dublin ; 10. 
 Wycherley, Capt. W., letter of ; 446. 
 Wye, Dr. Mossom, letter of; 294. 
 Wyndham : 
 
 Col., his coach ; 134. 
 
 Sir William, letter of ; 326. 
 Wynne, Dr. O., letters of; 111, 174. 
 Wyrley, Mr., his estate at Handsworth ; 
 293. 
 
 X. 
 
 Xeres, Pepys at ; 105. 
 
 Y. 
 
 Yanky, a pirate; 136. 
 Yarmouth : 
 
 Great, Trinity House at ; 121. 
 
 pilots at; 122. 
 
 Isle of Wight ; 233. 
 
 Sir Robert Holmes at ; 185. 
 
 letters dated at ; 221, 225, 231. 
 
 desertion of troops from ; 225. 
 
 Earl of (1684), Lord Brouncker's 
 executor; 113. 
 
 sent to James II.; 23 1 . 
 
 South; 212. 
 
 Nova Scotia; 403, 415. 
 
 infantry raised in; 386. 
 
500 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Yearns, Mr., ship builder at Dover ; 207, 
 
 218. 
 York: 
 
 arms and guns at ; 134. 
 letters dated at ; 134, 137, 249. 
 Clifford's Tower; 134. 
 Archbishop of (1688); 229. 
 
 (1710); 296. 
 
 Duke of, James (1661) ; 8. 
 
 his letters to Col. George 
 
 Legge, afterwards Lord Dart- 
 mouth ; 30-49, 53-74, 100, 122. 
 
 letter to ; 23. 
 
 his barge ; 9. 
 
 instructions, &c. signed by ; 19, 
 
 20. 
 
 on board the Koyal Charles ; 20. 
 
 his seat in Eeigate Church ; 27. 
 
 his daughter at the Hague ; 30. 
 
 his behaviour to Lord Danby ; 
 
 32. 
 
 his riding to the Scottish parlia- 
 ment; 63. 
 — — his daughter; 63, 64, 65, 67. 
 — — at Winchester ; 89. 
 — James, at Portsmouth ; 93. 
 
 York — cont. 
 
 Duke of, his opinion of Lord Dart- 
 mouth's services at Tangier; 113. 
 See James II. 
 
 (1805), letter of; 444. 
 
 Duchess of; 31, 32, 33, 37, 42, 45, 
 60, 67. 
 
 — <— defends Lord Dartmouth ; 114. 
 Yorkshire militia, the first raised in 
 
 England; 86. 
 Young : 
 
 Robert, his plot against Bishop 
 
 Sprat; 310. 
 Sir William, a Houghton Tale by; 
 
 327. 
 
 z. 
 
 Zealand; 341. 
 
 admiral for; 21. 
 Zuyder sea ; 158. * 
 
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